The Searchlight (Guthrie, Okla.), No. 539, Ed. 1 Friday, August 21, 1908 Page: 4 of 16
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Hi THE SEARCHLIGHT
brothers Quarrel-
Mukwonago, Wis.. Aug. 18. The
bones of Mrs. Jessie Rust, wife of
William Rust, a wealthy resident of
Muskogee, Okla., were exhumed Mon-
day morning at the farm of Charles
Rust, three miles north of this til-
lage, taken from the rude dry goods
box in which they rested and were
lebured in the village cemetery.
When this was accomplished, the
bitter fight between the two brothers,
Charles end William Rust, over the
final resting place of the latter s wife
wil probably be at an end.
fiy ordei of Judge Armin of the
Waukesha municipal court, W. C.
Trost, th evilage undertaker and Fred
Striker, the grave digger conducted
ttie exnumption and an attempt was
made to identify the body by the wed-
ding ring given by William Rust to
his wife and which was burled with
ter. Eecause of the objection of
Charles Rust, his brother William
was not present when his wife's
grave on the farm was opened. Fol-
lowing a search for the wedding ring
the remains were immediately placed
in a cottin purchased by Charles Rust
and brought to the village cemetery
here for interment, where a grave
Has prepared today.
. The trouble which resulted In the
body of Mrs. Rust being buried for
the thid time is of long standing and
appears to have originated over the
custody o« William Rust's son. Mrs
Rust died eighteen years ago and
Ler body »as interred in the village
cemetery. Her husband, William
Kust, lett here and married again in
Oklahomi. Some years ago the body
w as exhumed. The coffin had rotted
away and the skeleton was placed in
a dry goods box and reinterred on the
fa>-m of Charles Rust. William Rust
ecidentaly heard of the removal of his
w'fe's oody and on his recent arrival
here demanded that his brother re-
turn it to, its original burial place.
This Charles Rust refused to do.
William Rust in consequence applied
to the district attorney at Waukesha
foi a warrant on a charge of unlaw-
fully removing a dead body. The
matter wae> adjusted in court at Wau-
Kebha when Charles Rust agreed to
comply with his brothers request.
jury had been discharged the authori-
ties claimed to have discovered addi-
t?on evidence of murder, and the two
raen were arrested. One oT the wit-
nesses before the coroner's jury hafl
testified to hearing Love say that he
feared oeing robbed, and to hearing
a gun shot a short time later in the
direction that Love went when leav-
ing the witness's tent.
SEIZES TWO CARLOADS OF BEER
FOUND DEAD IN A TRUNK.
Camden, X. J., August 19.— The
body of a man securely tied in an old
truiik after having been shot and
strangled was found by picknickers
near Belmawyr in the lower part of
Camden county this morning.
A party of Camden men and their
wives had gone down to spend the day
picknicking. As lunchtime approached,
water was needed for lemonade, and
Charles Meyers started for a little ra-
vine about 400 fpet from the road
where there was a cool stTeam
He was surprised to linft part in the
water an old trunk tied with heavy
ropes. He called to Daniel Yarrow and
the two men eyed the find.
"Wonder what's in it?" asked Mey-
ers.
"Open it and see," replied Yarrow.
The men cut the ropes and lifted
the 1U. in the trunk was what was left
of the body of a man, doubled so that
the feet touched the chin. Ropes had
been tied about parts of the body and
some straw had been packed in around
it.
That the body has been in the trnuk
for months was indicated bji its condi-
tion, as little save the skeleton was
left, but the clothing showed that the
Special to Daily Leader.
Nowata, Okla., Aug. 19.—Roger Rog-
ers and Willis McCain have been
place dunder arrest, charged with the
murder of Simon Love, a Delaware In-
dian, w*iose dead body was found near
the Iron Mountain railroad track near
here last Friday. Love's left shoulder
was lacerated and both legs were cut
off. The dead body was found on the
railroad • embankment, with his feet
vithin ihree feet of the ties.
An inquest was held, and the Jury
decided that Love came to his death
by belhgr struck by a train. After the
Acting under the direction of the
Logan county court Robert E. Lozier,
superintendent of the state agency,
broke the seals on two freight cars in
the M. K. and T. yards this morning
and ordered his men to take the 19G
barrels of Minnehaha brand of beer
they contained and place them in the
storage vault at the agency head-
quarters, which was done. The beer
is the two car loads which arrived
here yesterday from Tulsa and which
was confiscated there two weeks ago
by the sheriff of Tulsa county and the
state agency officers. After the seiz-
ure the state agency, through its at-
torneys, went into the county court
there and gave legal notice of the
seizure-5&s pprovided by law, in order
to give the owners a chance to claim
the booze. No one put in an appear-
ance and the court declared the beer
confiscated booze and ordered it turn-
ed over to the state agency.
The beer arrived here late yester-
day afternoon and upon its arrival
delivery was refused Mr. Lozier 'by the
local agent of the "Katy," who stated
that he had a wire from Flynn and
Ames, of Oklahoma City, who were
representing the Huston Ice, Brewery
and storage company, the shippers.
Mr. Lozier demanded the beer again
this morning and the agent again re-
fused, stating that he was acting un-
der orders frofh Clifford Jackson, of
Muskogee, general solicitor for the
road in Oklahoma.
'After they saw that* I was deter-
mined to take the beer from the cars,
ani after I had broken the lock, the
agent said that Mr. Jackson had wired
to let the agency have the goods" said
Mr. Lozier this afternoon when speak-
ing of the incident.
P "I've got the $2,000 worth of beer in
my cellar now and I would like to see
Flynn and Ames, or any brewery,
take it Vway from r e. If the agent
comes on me for breaking into the car
we will have him prosecuted for hold-
ing up a state shipment and refusing
to deliver to the state Its own proper-
e?."
nor is to approve the charter if it
shall not be in conflict with the con-
stitution and laws of the state, and
in performance of this duty hastily
and" ill-considered action, if erroneous,
would throw upon the taxpayers of
the city expensive and burdensome
litigation, besides retarding and pre-
venting municipal development.
It is highly important to Tulsa
and her citizens that the utmost cau-
tion be used in passing upon the
question as to whether or not the
charter adopted is in harmony with
the constitution and laws of the state.
Hasty action often loses instead of
saves time, and the Tulsa charter is
receiving careful instead of hasty
consideration.
C. X. HASKELL,"
Governor.
Monday he started (or Toledo, thence
to Cleveland, Buffalo, Syracuse and
then New York. He expects to ar-
rive in Gotham in ten days.
OEMJ. STATE CONVENTION.
ABOUT NEW CITY CHARTERS
(Tulsa Democrat.)
In answer to a telpelione message
to the governor from citizens of Tul-
sa and to various inquiries concern-
ing the charter, the following com-
munication was received by the edi-
tor this morning. There Is no busier
man anywhere than Governor Has-
kell. No governor of any state
gives mare energy and attention to
affairs of state. The charter will
receive the attention it deserves and
that as soon as could be reasonably
expected. The letter follows and is
self-explanatory:
"The election on the adoption of the
Tulsa charter was held July 3rd.
The certificate of the city, clerk of
the vote cast bears date "f July
15th. and the certified copy of the
charter with the certificate of the
vote cast was presented to the gov-
ernor about July 20th.
The proposed charter is a volumi-
nous document of one hundred and
forty-three typewritten pages.
A proper consideration of its vari-
ous provisions involves the determin-
ation cf many very grave and im-
portant questions.
It is the first charter submitted to
the governor for approval under Ar-
ticle XVIII of the constitution, and
the determination of many of the
questions involved will afford pre-
cedent for future action when the
special charters for Oklahoma City,
Shawnee and other cities are present-
ed for consideration.
The duty imposed upon the gover-
The state Democratic convention
will be held at Tulsa, Thursday, Sep-
tember first.
At this convention a platform will
be made and the primary nominations
ratified.
In all counties which failed to select
delegates in the primaries, the coun-
ty central committees will select the
delegates.
This action was taken at the Dem-
ocratic state committee meeting at
the Brooks opera house yesterday
evening.
The committee also decided on an
executive and an advisory committee.
Two selections will be made, two
from each county for these commit-
tees. The chairman was empowered
to make the selections on the recom-
mendations of candidates for congress
and state offices.
Chairman Thompson will announce
these committees sometime this week.
The selection of treasurer and other
necessary officials was left to the exe-
cutive committee.
In the contest for state convention
there were two candidates: Wood-
ward received 23 votes and Tulsa 33.
Judge David Jia^um eloquently pre-
sented the claims of Woodward.
Chairman Thompson said today, that
the members of the executive com-
mittee for the Second congressional
district will be Oscar Hralsell, of Ok-
lahoma City and John J. Gerlach, ol
Woodward.
Chief Justice Williams said today
that state officials could not act on
the executive committee.
The matter of the location of head
quarters yill be left to the executive
committee. Guthrie and Shawnee are
the only candidates. Shawnee offers
$2,000 in cash rooms rent free and
rooms and board for chairman and
secretary. Guthrie offers rooms rent
free. Guthrie should have the head-
quarters this year and it behooves
citizens to get busy.
SPECTACULAR FAILURE-
Pittsburg, Aug. 19.—Lying on
iTeecliwood boulevard, at the edge of
a precipice, the unconscious body of
a good-looldng young woman was
found last night by Congressman
James Francis Burke, and several
friends. Standing near by, quivering
in every limb, was a riderless horst*
and it was at first supposed that the
young woman, who was dressed in
a riding habit, had met with an acci-
dent. .
She was hurriedly lifted into the
automc/bile in which the party was
riding and a record run was made
to the country club. There, on the
table in the dining room, Dr. J. II.
Williamson, who was among the
guests gathered for a banquet,
worked over the girl for two hour9
before he brought her hack to con-
sciousness. Society men and women
in evening dress, acted as nurses,
and several of them had their clothes
spattered with blood, which streamed
from several wounds on the girl's
head.
From a note found in her dress It
was learned that the girl was Miss
Elizabeth Russell, aged 24 years,
daughter of J. W. Russell, of Home-
stead. From this note, which was
addressed to her mother, and also
from her rambling talk, it was learn-
ed that the girl had attempted sui-
cide.
She had selected a remarkable way
to end her life. Seating herself in
the saddle, astride her favorite rid
ing horse, Miss Russell had whipped
the animal into a mad gallop. Then
at the edge cf a precipice she had
plunged head foremost from the gal-
loping horse. Instead of going over
the precipice, however, she struck
with her head against a stone wall.
She sustained several terrible cuts,
and her skull is fractured, but prompt
work on the part of the banqueters
at the Country club unquestionably
saved her life.
The only motive known for Miss
Russell attempting the deed was that
she had quarreled with her mother
yesterday afternoon.
Oklahoman Makes Motor Trip to
Gotham.
(From the Ohio State Journal.),
To go on an automobile tour to
see the country is a common enough
thing nowadays; to go scooting down
the country lanes for the sake o£
raising a dust, killing chickens and
spending a pleasant week or two is
another one, but here is a man who
ha& gone on a buzz cart overland trip
becalse he is afraid if he leaves his
machine at home all his neighbors
r-nd friends will ride tTIe tires oft be
fore he gets back from his vacation
Both man and automobile arrived in
Columbus Wednesday all the way
from Tulsa, Okla.
The man's name is Edward C- Ryan
He is president of a large Oklahoma
oil company and secretary of the new
oil line running to the coast from 'No
v ata, Okla. ,to New Orleans. He ft
on his way to New York to consclt R.
E. Mooney, millionaire oil operator.
Mr. Ryan is accompanied by H. M.
Hockheimer of Wheeling, W. Va.
He started on his trip to New York
a week ago Thursday morning, and
during the time out has been on the
road every day, with two nights
thrown in for good measure. Not a
mishap of any kind lias befallen him.
The two car loads of beer which
were confiscated by the sheriff of Tul-
sa county at Tulsa a few days ago.
arrived here last night and the 196
barrels of the stuff will be spilled as
soon as the force of men can find
time to pour it into the sewer. It is
no uncommon thing now to see beer
and whiskey being poured into the
sewer at the state agency headquar-
ters.
The school land commission held a
busy session yesterday afternoon.
The resignation of Seth K. Cordon,
of the auditing department, was ac-
cepted. The department is to be re-
organized and the force reduced. Mr.
Cordon's successor wfll be named
probably tomorrow. The board adop-
ted a form to be used for repprts in
the reanpraisment of the school lands
which will be made under the direc-
tion of Secretary Marr within a short
time under the provisions of the
Durant bill passed by the legislature.
Seventy-five applications are on file
with the board for positions as coun-
ty appraisers. Under the provisions
of the bill three appraisers are to be
appointed) for each county containing
school land, of~which there are thirty-
four, making a total of 102 appraisers
to be appointed.
The appraisers are to go in groups
and appraise the different quarter
sections in their respective counties.
Two of the appraisers must be
farmers. A committee of three was
appointed -to investigate the applica-
tions on file and to report at a meet-
ing to be held this evening or early
tomorrow morning. The compensa-
tion of the appraisers will bo $100 a
month and expenses and the jobs will
probably last until the first of De-
cember.
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