The Curtis Courier. (Curtis, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 4, 1905 Page: 2 of 8
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Guthrie. (). T. A uartW wire feuio
**• printed Fred John*<>ii jiid Mias. Eva
Walker from the proarhrr who mar-
ried them \Yedn<-»<kiy near (’<*yl«-. TLe
tuliplr hud ekqied ai.d drove u|j to a
Held where |{ev. Mr. Coal* W.tS plow-
ing
Guthrie, O. T— William Hoover, a
farmer, was adjudged ita.iue at IVrry
and waa t iken to the asylum al Nor-
man He reeently diet fl.UOO out of
the hank »r.d aas c<>ne several day •
He la troubled over religious quea
Uona
Tnlh«, I. T.—Archie Bradley, age 1\
years was killed Wednesday afternn ih
by netting hla clothing taught in ••••-
Volvlng shaft In a l<« al mill. He w • >
beat to death <>u the etouuU and floor
•f (he liiitldlnK He had lived in TuUi
•even weeka, coming from Crowley.
Guthrie, O. T.—C. E. Shernun, a
teacher In the schools of Yukon, was
florae whipped by Mr*. Mary B1 mk
Wedneauay, after he had been acquit-
ted In court, where he waa taken be-
eauae ilte had thrashed her aon ,n
ichool »tie achonl tair er took refugj
in the city hall.
Guihrle, O.T.—John Moaer, an aged
nahi. ni of Norman and a Union veter-
an, died Tuesday is a result of friendly
wrestle with Peter Burke, a Norman
menliant. Mo*er allpped behind Burk
and the 'alter not recognizing Moaer.
threw hint against the walk. Death
was c iused by heart failure.
HD-oud, 0. T.—Lightning Tuesday
night struck George Annln'a ham a
lew miles south of here. The struct-
ere. with stock and machinery, waa
hurned to the ground. The loss was
|1.7t>rt The residence of G. A. Rkuo,
r .st of here, waa also struck by light-
uing. The flatnea were extinguished.
tiulhrle, O. T.—Mercy Alvina Moore,
aged U4 years, a member of the choir,
jvhh-li sang at Lincoln's funeral, diet
Tuesday at Hinton. She was a native
«>t Hartford. Conn., and the widow of
Thomas Moore, who died flfty-oi.e
years ago. Following the battle cf
Pittsburg., she went south ns a Union
nurse, during the civil war and servo!
until Its close
Shawnee, t). T.—L. W. Hines, a hotel
keeper at Maud, thirty miles south of
here, waa shot Tuesday by his stepon,
lain Flynn, aged 18, and died Thursday.
Hines bad I een drinking tor some day a,
and abum-d his wife and stepson, who
were boarding a Katy train to leave
him, when he assaulted the boy.
tiling F*yn went to Kouow.i, where
e gave Himself up.
Guthrie, O. T —Paul F. Cooper, tor-
itnrial banking commissioner, has
nearthed the fact that the Alexander
anting bill repeals the Ballanger
III, although both were passed by the
went legislature and both were slgne-l
y Governor Furguson. The Billlnger
iTi went through first, prohibiting
late banks from changing locations
mhoiit securing new charters; the
ilex.inder bill, whldh afterwards pir.s-
d. allows sucli banks to change lo i-
ions by amending their charters as to
ocatl.m only, but without changelng
apiial stock. The intent of Bulling*
rs bill v.as to prevent l»nk- with
mall cap.fal changing their locations.
Gutlitfe. 0. T — Horace Speed, United
itale s attorney for Oklahoma, holds
hat the recent opinion of the United
Itutes supreme court, molding an alloi-
eii Indian In Kansas may buy Intoxl-
aaftng liquors, does not afTect the allot-
>d Indians of Oklahoma. He main-
tains the decision is based on the .'net
that congress has no jurisdiction to
•\erclso police i>ower relative to sale >f
liquors in a si ite, but adds that It lias
this right in a territory. The law of
|8i»7. therefore, prohibiting the selling
of or giving of whiskey to an Indian,
is still operative In a territory, and it
Continues to he a violation of t.tw to
sell lo an Indian where the *tle is
made In a territory.
Lawton. 0. T.—Deapondent front
mnstantbrooding over the tragic death
>f his brother-tn I w. who recently kt;l-
«<| ills wife, daughter and himself .it
Marshall, A. D. Moody, a prominent
farmer of the Elgin neighborhood, shot
himself through the body Tuesday and
was de id within an hour His eldest
ton. 17 years of age. left his home last
December on account of family troub-
■cs. and this also bore heavily upon the
Bind of the father. Moody was about
t5 years of age. and was the father of
4ve boya.the youngest being about ten
rears of age. His wife died four years
.go He and the boys have been living
>n a homestead near Elgin for three
years. He has a brother living a*
•Hack well and one at Marshall.
"RCV. ARTHUR CONVICTED.
Sentenced to Four Years' Imprisonment
for Forgery.
Paris. Tex—A A. Ai'hur. 77 years
ytars old, pleaded guilty Moudsy to
parsing a forged Instrument. and was
ki i tem ed to four years tu the penlUtn
Usry He came to Paris last summer
and represented himself as a railroad
conductor • The Parts Grocery com
ptny advanced him 12,500 on a 110,000
foiged draft, payable tu H. H Boyd,
one of his aliases. When the forgery
was discovered Plukerton* were pul o.
the case and Arthur was arrested last
December In Hiawatha. Kansas, where
be was living In a comfortable home
and doing evangelical work. He says
lie was born In Illinois and in early lif«
was a geologist.
He came to Texas without requisition
and while in jail claimed to have cured
epileptic prisoner by fasting and
prayer.
At the time of bis arrest Authur was
living at Hiawatba. Kansas, where he
tad purchased property. Ho la well
known In the West, under that name,
ac a preacher and evangelist, end as a
lecturer oa the Holy Land, which be
alleges to have visited. His lecture It
said to be exceptionally floe. About
three yeara ago he lectured at Exeter,
Neb . end so pleased the Christian aon
rib gallon there that he waa engaged at
a pastor. A suspicion toon developed
(bat everything was not right with the
new pastor and he was permitted tc
go Before hla Exeter experience, ut
had preached at Seneca, Kansas, and
ztiier places, aervlng churches of sever
al different denominations.
Later on he turned up in Kansas In
quest of funds for the establishment
of a church in O-.—uoma. but the sus
plcion against him was eo well defined
'.hat. he had poor success.
Conferences of the churches of sev-
eral different denominations discover
ed that Arthur had never been In the
Holy Land; that he had an unsatisfac-
tory record in other particulars. *Bd
that he was not a fit person for the
Christian ministry. The findings were
published In the church papers, and
members were warned against Arthur.
Arthur Is known under the aliases
of H. H. Boyd. A. Larkin B. Simpson,
J. C. Bliss, F. Andrews and 13. E.
Thompson He Is said to be wanted In
several states for forgeries amounting
to possibly 925.000 or 930,000 He Is
raid to have served five yeara in the
lowu penitentiary, and was only last
year released from the Chicago jail,
where he bad been serving sentence for
a similar crime.
THE FLEETS
AREF10HTIN0
NAVAL BATTLE REPORTED IN
PROGRESS IN KAMRANH RAV.
Definite Nevus However, la Lacking-"
Attack Supposed to Havo Boon
Made by the Japanese Scout-
ing Ships.
Laris. April. 23 —A dispatch tn the
Temps, from Saigon, reports heavy fir-
ing off KamranU bay ft la aupporel
• hat Admiral Rojestveniky'a squadron
has engaged Japan**) scout ships.
Saigon. French Cochin China, April
S3.—The complete Russian fleet left
Kamranh bay on April 22. at midday.
At night heavy cannonading was
heard out at sea.
It la supposed the Russian fleet was
engaged with a portion of the Japanese
squadron.
No new* has been received here of
the Russian squadron since It left Kam-
ranh.
The officers and men of the Russion
fleet have expressed themselves as
confident of thetr ability to meet any
situation which may arise.
It waa stated that Admiral Rojest
tent sky la suffering from dysentery.
Before the departure cf the squadron
Vice Admiral Rojeatveusky visited Ad-
miral Jonquleres.
No Russian officer or aallor landed
from the fleet In Kamranh bay. They
had expected Nebog a toff's detachment
of the squadron to arrive at any mo-
ment.
The natives are highly pleased with
the great rise In the price of provisions
ow log to the Russians' visit
Hurley Succeeds Mudge.
Chicago—Vice President Kendricks
appointed James E. Hurley, now gener
al superintendent of the Santa Fe to
bo general manager, to succeed H. U.
Mudge, who goes to the Rock Island as
with the Santa Fe about twenty-five
yetrs. He began at a small station In
Ct ntral Kansas, doing rough work,
such as Is given to boys. From such a
beginning he has done everything on
the line. He was several years In
charge of the New Mexico division, was
made general superintendent of the
coast lines, and then came east as gen
eral superintendent. Ha has always
been known as a phenomenal worker,
a man of quick sound judgment and In-
exhaustible patience and good nature
He brings to his new work a remarka-
ble. practical experience and long as-
sociation with many of me ablest rail-
road men of the country.
It Is not known who will succeed Mr.
Hurley as general superintendent. It
may be thft General Superintendent
I). E Cain will be brought from the
Western grand division .and it may be
that one of the division superintend-
ents on the Eastern grand dvtsion will
be promoted. The necessary changes
will be announced In a few days. Mp.
Hurley takes charge on the departure
of Mr. Mudge. May 1.
London, April 24.—Beyond the re-
port that from Kamranh bay the Rus-
sian second Pacific squadron proceeded
nortward there la no further newa of
any ' kind nor confirmation of the re-
ported firing off Kamranh bay. There
have been rumors recently that a por-
tion of Rojestvenaky’s squadron waa at
Hainan, near the promontory of Lien-
chcu. If these rumors are true It Is
true It la auppoaed the whole aquadron
may assemble there and endeavor In
Chinese waters to continue coaling
and other preparations.
Little attention la paid here to re-
ported movements of Japanese
warships. It Is considered that Vice
Admiral Togo la not likely to lift the
veil of aecrccy, except for the express
purpose of misleading-
St. Petersburg, April 24.—Vice Ad-
miral Rojestvensky coutlnues his pol-
icy of strategic silence and has an-
swered thq admtrality’s message of
last Saturday, pointing out the position
of the French government on neutral
Ity regulations only by putting to sea.
glvtng no Intlmatton of his plans or
destination. Russian naval circles
would not be surprised If It should de-
velop that the squadron had been al
ready two days or more on Its north
ward way when the Instructions were
ccbled to him, and that the admiralty
was aware of this when the message
was sent, asking the admiral to move
outside the three-mile limit if he hap-
pen cd to be In French territorial wa-
ters. A prominent naval officer here
last night called the present stage of
affairs “a game of naval hide and seek’
and declared that the admiralty was
Justified In sending elusive dispatches,
especially as there was reason to be-
lieve that one motive of Japan In pres-
sing the question was the desire to
learn the exact position of Rojestvea-
sky's squadron.
Receiving the marshal of the nobil-
ity of Koetroma recently. Emperor
Nicholas ordered him to communicate
the following message to the nobles;
"My will regarding the convocation
of representatives of the people is un-
swerving. and the minister of the inter-
JOSEPH JEFFERSON IB DEAD.
The End Can** at •: 15 O'clock Sunday
E waning
West Palm Beach. Fla.—Joseph Jef-
ferson the • tn.neui actor, died at his
horn*- "The Reefs.“ at Palm Beach, at
6:15 o'clock Sunday evening. The end
came afier a day of unconsciousness
and after a heroic struggle of days
which had exhausted his vitality. At
his death bed were his wife; his bobs
Charles B. and Frank Jefferson: hla
nurse. Miss Mabel Bingham; Dr R. B
Porter, and hla faithful old servant
Karl Kettler.
The end was not a surprise to hi-
frroily. Ever since hla last slaking
spell, which came after a rainy Thurs
day morning, sad which was followed
by an apparent Improvement until Fri-
day the family has been waiting for the
end. Mr. Jefferson’s condition Satur-
day night grew steadily worse, and the
family, who had retired were summon-
ed from their beds and Dr. Parter waa
called. The patient's condition contin-
ued to grow worse all through Sunday
and the brief bulletins from the bed-
aide contained no words of encourage-
ment
The sickness of Mr. Jefferson which
ended tn hla death waa contracted. It
la believed, while on a recent visit to
hla aon. Charles B. Jefferson, nt Hobe
sound, n few miles above Palm Bench
whore be went to meet his friend, for-
mer President Cleveland. It la believ-
ed that, from n alight Indiscretion In
his eating there he auffered an attack
of indigestion. Since hla return to hla
Lome hla condition grew ateadtl) worse
with alight rallies, until the end.
1 he body of Mr. Jeffctron will be ta-
ken to Buzzard's Bay on a special train
leaving here Monday evening accom-
panied by all the mem'oera of hU fam-
ily who are here. It will reach New
York Wednesday morning and the fam-
ily hope to reach Buzzard’s Bay tha
evening of that day.
Little Sickness on the Isthmus.
Washington.—The March health re-
port of Colonel W. C. Georges, chief
sonltary officer of tha Isthmian canal
aone. received here shows a steady
Improvement In conditions there. There
v ere about 9,000 employes of the com-
mission at the end of the month. The
alck in the hospital numbered 153 and
the total deaths for the month were
only eleven- Thia Is equal to a rate of
fourteen per 1,000. In the thirty days
ended with March 31. there had been
four deaths of yellow fever throughout
the whole Isthmus, of which one was
in Panama. In the previous thirty
days there had been twelve cases.
Each house In Panama City has been
furrgated; a great many of them sev-
eral times.
THEIR SECRETS
OIYEN AW
A OETECTIVE BTENOGRAPHER
MAKES IMPORTANT WITNEBB.
Pits the Private Letters end Tele
graphic Cede ef the Peckers in Evi-
dence—Meet Trust Visibly
Surprised.
Chicago—After playing "detective
stenographer'' la the private off loss of
tLe packing magnates P.r months. Mrs.
Mary I. Mercy, authoress and social
worker, returned to Chicago from Ken
aa* City Monday and delivered to Unit-
ed States District Attorney Morrison
damaging secrets and code letters of
the beef trust heads.
Tremendous excitement reigned la
•He offices of the district attorney wheu
Mrs. Mercy delivered the secret cor-
respondence .every scrap of which the
packers believed to have bean burned
or destroyed.
The letters are said to contain signed
statements of the working! of the "Big
Five" that show how they manipulated
the markets, placing buying and selling
prices at figures to suit their fancy, and
even playing detective on each other
to see that tha fixed rates were not
secretly cut
Aa a stenographer Mrs Mercy work-
ed successively In the Kansas City and
getting close to the office heads and
writing tha confidential and secret cor-
respondence that passed between tha
members of the I rust. She became pos-
sessed of tha secret code which the
‘‘Big Five” used In the!: rate setting
and monopoly making Mftera. She
made herself so useful that ahe hand-
led all the secret and code letters.
Although every one of these confi-
dential messages was marked “Destroy
at once toy burning." Mrs. Marcy as
''woman detective" made carbou cop-
ies of many and kept the original man-
uscripts of the rest. It la declared by
the attaches of the United States dis-
trict attorney’s office that Mrs. Marcy
is the most Important witness of the
Beef trust Investigation.
Mra. Mercy’s evidence Is consider-
ed doubly Important because most of
(he letters are written directly to or
signed by the great millionaire heads
of the packing houses themselves, di-
lect evidence for which no “dummy"
clerk can be held responsible.
Duces tecum subpoenas have been Is
sued by the Federal authorities to
bring stenographers and one or two
clerks, throught whose hands some of
the correspondence is s&ld to have
persed into the court.
Doctors Seeking Fame.
Lincoln. Neb —Led by leeading phys-
icians of the Western country with
hindquarters In Lincoln, a movement
haa begun to secure the selection of
tlu> names of four doctors of medicine
fer the Hall of Fame at New York. In
It la declared has been taken by
the medical profession the country
jver, and an effort will be made to
include the name of one physician to
the list of twenty-six celebntes that
«ill this year be elected for a place
in the hall
Forty-one men and 112 women out
if every million persons born reach
• ago of one hundred years
Lawrence Joints Raided-
Lawrence —The sheriff and police of
I Lawrence made a raid Saturday night
anJ Sunday morning on numerous
joints that have been operating In the
city. Four arrests were made, and a
large amount of contraband stuff waa
inured. ■
ior la devoting all his efforts to its
prompt execution."
Paris, April 23.—The minister of
colonies officially confirms the leport
of the departure of the Russian squad-
ron from Kamarnh bay. The Russian
admiral, previous to hla departure,
called on Admiral Jonquleres. Tho
meeting of the two admirals was most
cordial
A dispatch from Saigon to the Temps
reports that the Russian fleet outstJe
of Kamarnh bay opened a heavy can-
nonading, brobably upon tha Japanese
scouts.
The Russiau transporta Kiel. Jupt
ter. Kniaz Oottschakoff and Kltal are
otlU at Saigon, the dispatch addi.
A dispatch from Saigon atate3 that
Vice Admiral Rojestvensky Is suffering
from dysentery, but otherwise the of-
ficers and men tn the fleet are in the
beet o.' heal'h.
A Runaway Electric Car.
Dubuquev la.—Thomas Moore waa
probably mortally Injured as the result
sens dangerously Injured as the result
of the rupture of a brake chain on an
electric car while descending Hill
stieet Sunday afternoon. The car con-
tained sixteen passengers. It ran
wild for 300 feet, left the track at a
curve and tore the front out of a build-
ing. Moore was standing on a side-
walk and was struck by the car.
breaking hi hip and being Internally
Injured. Mrs. Wflllam Bondleon and
daughter. Ida. were cut and bruised
about the head and body- Frank
Kearney had four ribs broken.
Snow In Colorado.
Denver.—According torepofita com-
ing into local offices of telegraph com-
panies. a heavy storm of rain and snow
has practically stopped telegraphi.
communication to the Pacific coast.
The ztorm reaches from Arizona to
Montana . In Colorado, after raining
for twenty-four hours continuously. It
began to snow Sunday night and In
seme sections a blizzard Is raging. No
reports cf the storm's effect on rail-
road traffic had been received at mid-
night. but serious Interference with
the operation of trains, It Is believed,
must Lave resulted.
Mra. Marcy Is being kept under a
I heavy guard of secret service officials,
and although It Is said that she is reg-
istered at the Victoria hotel under an
I alias, her place of residence Is being
| carefully concealed. She first attract-
ed attention as a writer through her
social settlement studies. Later she
I wrote a series of magazine articles en-
titled “The Letters of a Pork Packer's
Stenographer." Her home Is tn Kansas
City, where she is an active worker
in the bureau of associated charities.
Price Maneion Purchased.
Jefferson City, Mo.—The aupremq
court commission met here Saturday
afternoon and selected the historic
Price property aa the site for the now
supremo court building. The price
paid for the property Is 935.000 and It
la now owned by Mrs- Ada Price, wid-
ow of the late Thomas Lawaon Price.
It Is one of the moat picturesque spots
In the capital city. The Price mansion
was built there sixty-five yeara ago
and haa been used by the Price family
ever since except for a brief time
when It was loaned to the state to be
used for the general assembly. '
Ruth la Hebrew, and means Beauty.
| A VICTORY FOR 'TOM" JOHNSON.
The Fight for a Three-Cent Fare Aide l
by a Cleveland Decision.
Cleveland—Judge Taylor, in the
United States district court, gave an
opinion Monday in an injunction suit
brought by the existing street railway
corporation to prevent the Forest City
railway company, a new concern, in
which Mayor Johnson ia credited with
being interested, from taking posses-
sion of the Central avenue line, tha
franchise for which It waa alleged had
expired. The plaintiff contended that
Its franchises were practically perpet-
ual The court ruled that the franchise
bad already expired The temporary
| injunction asked for to prevent the
new company from taking possession
| waa therefore denied
Mayor Johnson looks upon the decis-
ion as a victory In hls fight against the
street railway company and for three-
tent fare The Forest City company
agreed to carry passengers for three
cents
Man and Wife Burned to Death.
Riley, Kansas.—Herman Pfeil and
hls wife lost their home here Monday
morning, between 2 and 3 o’clock. Both
were old residents of Riley county. Mra.
Pfeil leaves one son. Dr. Samuel Shenk
of McPherson. The origin of the fire is
unknown- It Is supposed to have
started In a little used room. The
house was all aflame when the fire was
discovered and all efforts to awaken
the occupants were unavailing.
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