The Searchlight (Guthrie, Okla.), No. 549, Ed. 1 Friday, October 30, 1908 Page: 1 of 16
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IJWhoie Number 511.*
GUTHRIE, OKLA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1908.
Terms: 80 Cts. a Year
TEDDY IS FIFTY YEARSOLD
Washington, D. C., Oct.
-Presi-
dent Theodore Roosevelt is exactly
fifty years old today.
The twenty-6ixth chief executive of
the United States, the most strenuous
individual to occupy the White House
since the birth of the nation, is en-
joying a rare degree of robust health,
as he contemplates the fiftieth mile
stone in his eventful life. The once
sickly youth is in nowise traceable in
the present Roosevelt. He is the
youngest man to enjoy the perquisites
and honor which attach to the high-
est office in the gift of the Amer-
ican people.
It was on October 27, 1858, that
President Roosevelt first saw the
light of day in New York City, which
his Dutch ancestors had helped to
found. His father, Theodore Roose-
velt, was a banker, and distinguished
as a philanthropist. An uncle, Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt, was prominent
as a member of congress, and as a
leader in "reform politics" in New
York; was once minister to The Neth-
erlands. The latter was an enthusi-
astic sportsman, and thus the same
proclivities in the president are easi-
ly accounted for. One of his mater-
nal uncles served in the Confederate
navy and fired the last shot from the
ill-fated Alabama, sunk by the guns
of the Kearsarge, off Cherbourg. His
mother was descended from Archi-
bald Bulloch, member of the Conti
nental congress, and the first Repub
lican governor of Georgia.
The president was prepared for col-
lege in private schools; graduated
from Harvard in 1880; traveled in
Europe, and on his return to New
York began the study of law, which
he soon gave up for politics. In 1881
he was first elected to represent the
Twenty-first New York district in the
legislature and served two terms.
In 1884 he was chairman of the New
York delegation to the Republican
National convention, where he first
advocated Edmonds as a presiden
tial candidate, but finally supported
James G. Blaine. On retiring from
the legislature he bought a ranch in
South Dakota, and for a number of
years spent his summers in hunting
in the far West. In 1886 he was rle-
feated for mayor of New York by
Abram S. Hewitt, Democrat. Prom
1889 to 1895 he was a member of the
United States civil service commis
sion, and from 1895 to 1897 president
of the New York City board of police
commissioners, resigning to become
assistant secretary of the navy. Dur
Ing the Spanish-American war he
served with General Leonard Wood
as a lieutenant colonel of the First
United States_ volunteer cavalry, pop-
ularly known as "Roosevelt's Rough
Riders." He was later promoted to
coloneicy of this regiment, when after
the battle of Santiago, Colonel Wood
was promoted to be brigadier genei al
At the conclusion of the war he re
turned to New York, when he was
nominated by the Republican party
for governor and elected over Au-
gustus Van Wyck, Democrat.
HUSBAND AFRAID Or GUN
Hobart, Okla., Oct. 23.—Just as the(
knife blade was raised within a few
inches of the man's throat, Mrs. Edna
Merrity whipped a 38-calibre revolver . \
from the folds of her dress, pointed £ vV
the weapon at her husband and of-
dered him to drop 'the knife wij.li
which he was about to kill her
"Lend nie your ear for u little while.
CURTIS PEACHED ON MORSE
New York, Oct. 28.—The expected
split between Charles W. Morse, bank
promoter, financier and "ice trust"
organizer, and Alfred H. Curtis, pres-
ident of the National Bank of North
America, both ci whom are under in-
dictment charged jointly with viola-
tion of" the national banking laws,
came with the swearing in of Curtis
as the first witness for the defense
in the triad before Judge Hough in
the United States court here. Be-
fore the beginning of Mr. Curtis' ex-
amination the court had heard argu-
ments on behalf of both defendants
on motions to dismiss the indictments
and had yielded on a few minor points,
dismissing the counts charging con-
spiracy and misappropriation in one
specific instance, but maintaining 55
counts charging over-certification,
making of false reports, misapplica-
tion and the use of funds of depositors
for speculative purposes.
Before calling the former president
of the suspended Bank of North Amer-
ica to the stand, in his own behalf,
former Judge W. M. K. Olcott, Curtis'
attorney, announced that he had per-
suaded his client to "tell all the facts."
"My client hopes," said he, "that his
testimony will not injure any of the
other directors or officers who had to
do with the management of the affairs
of the Bank of North America. It is
not his purpose to point his finger at
any one individual and say 'You did
it, not I.' He will, however, tell the
facts and state things as they really
happened."
Mr. Curtis began his testimony by
relating his early career in the bank-
ing business. He had started at 14 in
the office of a Wall street broker, he
said, graduating ten years later to a
clerkship in the Bank of the State of
New York, the institution subsequent-
ly purchased by Morse and merged
with the Bank of North America.
There he had advanced through the
various grades to the position of
cashier, in which capacity he had ov-
er-certified checks to the amount of
$40,000,000, he declared.
SUPREME COURT WILL DECIDE
The case of 51 Barrels of Beer vs
State of Oklahoma was appealed to
the Supreme court today by the
Rochester Brewing company, owners
of the beer, from the county court cf
Tulsa county. The validity of the
Billups Prohibition bill is attacked in
the suit. In the court below the beer
was ordered turned over to the state
agency.
Ijettie Se»1 Strom, who sued in the
Distriot court cf Pottawatomie county
to recover mfrney on a warrant from
School District No. ?,9 appealed her
case to the Supreme court today. The
amount involved is $65.50.
fender. Merrity dropped the knife in- \
stantly and what might have been a \
horrible tragedy was narrowly avert-
ed.
This dramatic scene was enacted „n
Altus, thirty miles southwest of Ho-
bart yesterday. Merrity was standing
on the station platform as the west-
bound train pulled in. Out of the car
window, appeared his little 4-year-old
boy crying "Papa, Papa." In the
coach sat the om'ther trying in vain
to keep the boy from the window.
Mother and son left the train and en-
tered the station followed by the hus-
band, neither exchanging even a
glance of recognition. As the tired
mother dropped into -the vacant seat,
the husband burst out. into a tirade,
cursing and accusing his wife with in-
fidelity. The wife tried to explain,
but without avail, the husband grow-
ing more abusive. Finally Mrs. Mer-
rity called a bystander at whose ho-
tel she had stopped several weeks, to
corroborate her statements. This re-
quest filled the angered husband with
the fury of a maddened bull, and.
drawing an ugly knife, he made a dive
at his wife's defender, shouting "I'll
kill you." At this instant Mrs. Merrity
quickly drew a brand new revolver
from her dress and aiming it point
blank at her husband she shrieked,
"Drop that knife, John, or I will blow
your brains out." Merrity grew death
ly pale as he looked down the barrel or
the deadly weapon, dropped the knife
and fled unpursued down the station
platform.
Merrity and his wife separated a
few weeks ago, the husband agreeing
to give his wife a divorce providing
that she would give him the custody
of the child. She agreed, but later
npanaged to steal it and get away.
OKMULGEE HAS REFINERY
Okmulgee, Okla., Oct. 28.—The Ok-
mulgee Refining company started up
this week with an initial capacity of
250 barrels. The new company suc-
ceeds the Webster Refining company
which started in to build a plant in
this city last spring, but which was
delayed owing to some differences
among the stockholders. The direct-
ors are now G. W. Mitchell, L. S. Skel-
ton, Dr. O. A. Lambert, J. Watkins and
E. E. Andrews. G. W. Mitchell, a
banker, is president; Dr. O. A. Lam-
bert, secretary and treasurer, and E.
E. Andrews, vice-president and gen-
eral manager.
The plant will manufacture high
grlfte lubricating and illuminating oils
and later on expects to intsall a wax
plant to utilize the large percentage
of wax found in the oils produced in
this vicinity. The company is now
shipping oil from Muskogae.
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