Bixby Bulletin (Bixby, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, May 30, 1913 Page: 4 of 8
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The Bulletin.
R. M. PHILLIPS, Publi.her
RIXBY, - • OKLAHOMA
Good and Newsy Items
of General Interest Con-
densed to Small Space
As Told in a
Few Words
FOREIGN.
The anti-gambling proposition In-
troduced by Plou was rejected by the
French chamber of deputies by a vole
of 331 to 220.
The world's long distance dancing
record is claimed by the Countess
Lamsdorff of Russia, who estimates
that she has covered fifteen thousand
miles on ballroom floors.
The Brazilian government has by
decreo extended until the end of the
current year the preferential treat-
ment of American (lour, cement and
other articles.
An international navy force com-
manded by Vice Admiral Cecil Burney
of the British navy took possession of
the fortress of Scutari. The inter-
national force was escorted into the
city by a Montenegrin guard of honor.
Last week six federal scouts were
sent out to reconnoitor near Nuevo
Laredo. Two of the number were cap-
tured by a small band of Carranza sup-
porters and were hung to telegraph
poles and their bodies riddled with
bullets.
The Nicaraguan government will
take over at an early date the national
railroad, which was transfered to a
group of American bankers last year
to guarantee a loan. The government
has paid off most of the loati and owes
the bankers only $142,000.
The report that John Alamia, an
American citizen, was executed by
Mexican rebels under General Blanco
at Rio Bravo was confirmed. Lieu-
tenant Colonel Daniel Reos Zertuche,
chief surgeon of Blanco's staff, alleged
that evidence was found on Alamia’s
person showing that he was employed
by the Matamoras federuls as a spy.
Manuel Garza Aldape, secretary or
agriculture in the cubinet of President
Huerta of Mexico, failed to appear in
federal court at San Antonio to an-
swer a charge of violating the United
States neutrality laws and his bond
of $1,000 was forfeited. F. Cl. Guze-
man, at one time private secretary to
Emilio Vasquez Gomez, also forfeited
a $1,000 bond by failure to appear.
Juan Didapp, onco in Mexico's diplo-
matic service forfeited a bond of $5UU.
DOMESTIC.
Jockey James Benchotten, injured
during the running of the Linstcud
steeplechase at Pimlico, Baltimore,
died.
showed arpnitic jjtrength
and skill by defeating Harvard and the
University of Pennsylvania in a 1%
mile race down the ('buries river.
Leon Pitts, a member of five motor-
cycle team representing St Louis, col-
lided with another rider and was
killed at the opening of the season
o' the American League of Motorcycle
Racing Clubs at Chicago.
Governor Hunt of Arizona signed
Arizona's new alien bill. It prohibits
any alien, whether of Caucasian or
Mongolian decent, from owning land
in Arizona unless lie has declared ins
Intention of becoming a citizen.
First steps toward reuniting the Re-
publican party, were taken at a con-
ference of Republican United States
senators and other party leaders at
Chicago. The conference decided to
ask the Republican national commit-
tee at its meeting May 24 at Wash-
ington to issue a call for a national
convention this year. To reorganize
the party "along progressive lines."
Dr. Robert M. Russell of Westmin-
ster college, New Wilmington, Fa.,
was unanimously elected moderator ol
the United Presbyterian 'assembly In
session at Atlanta. Dr. Russell suc-
ceeds Dr. Ilfl'gh H. Bell of San Fran-
cisco.
After killing his wife, a hospital
nurse, and wounding his wife's moth-
er, Mrs. W. B. Webber, and the latter’s
daughter, Mrs. Winnie Rowe, George
Hampton, of Globe, Ariz., a miner,
placed the muzzle of a shotgun in his
mouth and blew off till’ top of his
head. v
A memorial to congress was intro-
duced in the Arizona state senate
asking that steps be taken to abro
gate tlie present treaty between the
United States and Japan and nego-
tiate a new treaty which will per-
mit states to enact their own alien
land laws.
A serious forest Are swept Aria-
strong county, Pennsylvania, and in
less than 24 hours burned over an area
four miles long and nearly a mile wide.
Millions of feet of timber were de-
stroyed Two gas wells in the path
of the flames are burning.
One person was rataily injured,
three received injuries which may re-
sult in death and two mo e were hurt
near Columbus, * >., when a taxi rrash-
ed through a fence and hurled them
down a fifteen-foot embankment, at
a sharp turn.
The "arson trust," against which
New York fire authorities have been
waging war, bus been crushed, accord-
ing to Fire Commissioner Johnson,
whose report shows that in the first
four months of this yeur there have
been only 4,410 fires, 1,434 less than
during tlie sumo period of 1912. The
total loss, $2,376,298, is less than half
that for the same period last year.
Cutting of ore prices by independ-
ent iron mining companies is reported.
The prevailing price for Bessemer ore
of 61 per cent is about $4 a ton, sub-
ject to certain conditions such as the
amount of phosphorus. The “inde-
pendent” mines in northern .Minne-
sota and Michigan are said to be mak-
ing contracts at $3.75 because they
were not disposing of their stocks as
rapidly as they wished.
Tlie New Jersey assembly by a
vote of 39 to 15 passed the Egan jury
reform bill after it had been amended
by attaching a state-wide referendum.
The bill provides for the appointment
by the chancellor of the. state of a
jury commissioner in every county
in the state to act in conjunction with
the sheriff in drawing juries. Those
commissioners are to be in opposite
political faith with the sheriff.
The weavers of the Summit mills
who went on strike two months ago
have returned to their looms. They
signed an agreement that they would
have nothing to do with the Industrial
Workers of the World or any other
organization. The strikers were
granted an eight-hour day, increase
ip wages and the right to appoint one
of their number, a committee to ad-
just differences with their employers.
When Harry Evans had been con-
victed of burglary in the municipal
court at Chicago, Garnett Fairfield, a
cabaret singer, his sweetheart, passed
him her handkerchief. Evans extract-
ed an open knife from the hankker-
chief and started to carve his way to
freedom. Detective Boulschulte was
severely cut in the neck and Deputy
Bohnber was stabbed in the breast
before Evans was overpowered. The
girl was arrested.
The first prosecution for violation
of the Sherman anti-trust law, under
the democratic administration, was
brought in the federal court of the
western district of Oklahoma and re-
sulted in a verdict for the government.
It was tlie case of the Hunt?r Milling
company of Wellington, Kansas, and
the Blackwell Mill and Elevator com-
pany of Blackwell, Okla., and Frank
Foltz, of the Blackwell Mill and Ele-
vator company, charged with con-
spiracy to restrain free trade among
the states.
WASHINGTON.
'*■ ** te
Representative A. Mitchell Palmer
of Pennsylvania, caucus chairman of
the house and recognized as the pres-
ident's spokesman in that body, was
made chairman, and Rolls Wells of
St. Louis, treasurer of the democratic
national committee at a meeting in
Washingtgon.
Democratic leaders in the senate
were indorsed in their determination
to refer the Underwood tariff bill to
the finance committee for considera-
tion without public hearings. The
Penrose-LaFollotte amendment direct-
ing that public hearings be held was
defeated by a vote of 41 to 36 and
the motion of Senator Simmons to re-
fer the bill was then passed without
a roll call.
Attempts of the Cincinnati Traction
company to operate street cars re-
sulted in the burning of one and the
desertion of five others, whose crews
were beaten or forced to run to cover.
President Wilson believes nego-
tiations between Japan and the
United States over the alien land
legislation in California are not in
alarming stages but that the inter-
change of views thus far have been
along frank and friendly linos and cal-
culated to remove the appearance of
discrimination against Japanese sub-
jects.
John Mitchell, former president of
the United Mine Workers of America,
has decided to accept a recess appoint-
ment its labor commissioner.
Department of the interior officials
have shown no inclination whatevei
to change their original declaration
that if the state of Oklahoma decides
to tax the $7,000,600 of Indian" money
which was placed in the banks of the
stato a year or so ago to relieve the
financial stringency, they will itnme
diately withdraw the money and placs
it where it w ill not be taxable.
BIG SITPPLY
MEASURES PASS
STATE DEPARTMENT AND UNI-
VERSITY CARED FOR BY
THE SENATE
ANTI-FRAME CLAUSE CUT OUT
Science Hall Building Item in School
Funds Is Eliminated—Other
Important News of the
Legislature
The general appropriation bill, ap-
propriating approximately $1,000,000
for the operating expense of the execu-
tive and judicial departments of the
state government for the next two
years and the bill carrying an appro-
priation of $300,000 for the support
and maintenance of the state univer-
sity at Norman were pased finally by
tlfe senate.
Friends of Lon M. Frame, chairman
of the state board of affairs, who had
blocked the passage of the general ap-
propriation bill won their fight when
they succeeded in having stricken
from the bill the provision barring
Frame from drawing his salary out
of the money appropriated for the
state board of affairs. The motion to
strike the objectionable feature from
the measure was adopted by a vote
of 29 to 7.
The senate committee on appropri-
ations wiped out entirely two import-
ant items from the state university
bill, ono of which was an appropria-
tion for the erection of a new science
hall building and the other for the
Installation of a heating plant. The
bill as pased by the house made an
appropriation of $100,000 for the sci-
ence hall and $50,000 for a heating
plant. Friends of the institution man-
aged to re insert an appropriation of
$30,000 for a heating plant when the
bill was before the senate, but all
efforts to secure a reinstatement of
the apropriation for a science hall was
defeated. A new science hall, It is
said, is badly needed at the Institution
and the house has refused to concur
In the elimination of that item from
the bill.
The bill passed by the senate and
which now goes to a conference makes
an appropriation of $150,000 for the
maintenance fund, $12,000 for repairs,
$30,000 for heating plant and $7,500
for university extension work.
This, together with the money the
Institution will receive from section
13 fund, or the school land fund, will
bring the entire amount up to about
$300,000. If the science hall item is
re-lnserted the total appropriation
probably will be between $300,000 and
$400,000.
Capitol Commissioners Selected
W. B. Anthony, Pat J. Goulding and
Stephen Douglas were selected as the
capitol commission and the capltol
appropriation hill finally passed by
both houses. Their salaries will be
$3,000.
The hill will not become a law until
ninety pays tfiter'sitfe dlfe adjourrnnet.'
of the legislature; that is, ninety days
after the legislature has,finally ad-
journed the special session, which at
the best will not be before the first
of July. The bill, therefore, will not
become operative as a law until Octo-
ber 1, at least.
Part of License for Good Roads
Under a bill finally agreed to by
both houses, 75 cents of each $1.25
henceforth collected for hunting li-
censes in this state will go to the
county road and bridge funds. In the
past $1 of the $1.25 has gone into the
state game protection fund, 25 cents
to tho official selling the license.
The measure is by Durant of Durant
and primarily authorized the sale of
hunting licenses by the assistant fish
and game wardens. They were to be
Issued by tho state game warden In
books of twenty-five licenses each
upon payment of $25. The seller would
get $31.25 for the book, the difference
of $6.25 being his commission.
The senate amended the bill to pro-
vide that 25 cents should go to the
agent selling the license, 25 cents to
the state game protection fund, 75
cents into the road and bridge fund
of tho county in which sold.
As approximately lOO.UOO licenses
are sold ia the state annually, the
good road movement should profit
about $75,000 per annum under the
bill.
Lightning Kills Five
Tulsa.—Five num were Instantly
killed and another fatajly injured
when lightning struck the wagon in
which they were riding one mile
northeast of Collinsville, about
twenty miles north of Tulsa. One
horse was killed, the driver was un-
injured and tho man sitting next to
him had his shoes and socks burned
off.
STATE BANKERS' NEW PRESIDENT
Will S. Guthrie, new president of
the Farmers’ National Bank of Okla-
homa City, who was elected president
of the State Bankers’ Association at
Muskogee last week.
FIFTEEN PERISH
ONLY ONE ESCAPES WITH LIFE;
BODIES BURNED AND
BLACKENED
INVESTIGATION TO BE NAOE
Gas' Drives Rescuers Back; Relief
Man, Overcome by Fumes,
Dies; One Man Hurled
300 Feet
Belle Valley, Ohio.—Burned and
blackened, the bodies of fifteen min-
ers who lost their lives when an explo-
sion of firedamp partially wrecked the
Imperial mine, were brought to the
surface by rescuers working under
the direction of Deputy State'Mine
Inspector Abel Ellwood.
Efficiency Bill is Killed
The house of representatives killed
the general deficiency bill, which orig-
inated in the senate, by the strong
vote of 46 to 29. A motion to recon-
sider was lodged, but the membership
of the house adverse to the principle
of deficiency appropriations, as well
as t& items In the hill at hand, are so
strongly mustered that the chances of
the measure coming through on an-
other roll call are small.
The republican contingent voted
almost solidly against the measure,
due largely to the incorporation of an
Item of $1,200 to pay attorneys who
defended democratic election officials
at Okmulgee, charged with violating
federal statutes in enforcing the
grandfather clause.
The house reconsidered and passed
finally the board of control bill, by
Senators Carpenter and Redwine, cre-
ating a board of control for the state*
penitentiary and reformatory of per-
sons not state officials, reducing the
warden’s salary to $2,500, and making
other important changes. The bill
received 60 votes, with 19 against.
The emergency lost.
The house passed finally Senate
Bill No. 6, by Pugh, Jones and Shaw,
prescribing additional duties of the
treasurer and sheriff and county at-
torney, relative to handling tax war-
rants and collections; Senate Bill No.
156, by Barrett and Memminger, cre-
ating a fireman's relief and pension
fund, and a board to handle It.
Senator McClintic’s bill No. 108, to
allow the city councils or commission-
ers, in cities under 12,000, to appoint
police judges at their option, was kUF
ed, lacking 20 votes of passage. The
regular session passed a bill abolish-
ing the police judge in cities under
12,000, and McClintic’s bill proposed
to amend that new law.
The bill legalizing the Muskogee
tax levy was passed finally.
The senate made considerable pro-
gress in its consideration of the
house bill, making general appropria-
tions for the support and maintenance
of tho legislative, executive and judi-
cial departments of the state govern-
ment for the nevt.two, yefl', s.
Tho state geological survey depart-
ment fared worse than any of the
state departments in the amendments
made to the bill by the senate. Three
items were stricken out entirely and
three others greatly reduced. The
item of $3,980 for office and inciden-
tal expenses; $2,000 for educational
work and one item of $1,000 for print-
ing were eliminated entirely. An-
other appropriation for printing was
reduced from 2,400 to $1,000, the Item
of $4,000 for field work was cut to
$3,000, and the salary for clerks and
stenographers was reduced from $1680
to $1200.
The salary of the bookkeeper In the
state auditor's office was cut from
$1500 to $1200 and in the department
of the state examiner and inspector
the item for four deputies was raised
from $7,200 to $9,000, while the print-
ing item in that department was cut
from $1,000 to $500.
The appropriation for traveling ex-
penses of the commissioner of chari-
ties and corrections was raised from
$500 to $1,000, and a new item added,
providing for the salary of an inspec-
tor in that department at an annual
salary of $1,200. Thegp were the
only changes made in the department
of charities and corrections.
The main fight on the agricultural
appropriations centered on the appro-
priation of $20,000 for tick eradica-
tion. An amendment was proposed
by Senator Sorrells to reduce this
amount to $15,000, and another amend-
ment was offered by Senator Graham,
which would increase it to $25,000.
Both were defeated and the item will
remain at $20,000 unless changed by
the house.
An effort was made to increase the
appropriation or telephone, telegraph,
express, postage and incidental ex-
pense from $2,000 to $5,000, but this
was voted down. Another amend-
ment proposed to increase it to $3,000.
Several attempts were made by res-
cue parties to enter the mine Saturday
night, but the gas had not vanished
sufficiently to enable the rescuers to
reach the bodies until early Sunday
morning. As each body was brought
to the surface, it was identified by
weeping relatives and taken into the
engine room of the mine, where it
was prepared for burial.
Nearly all of the 1,000 inhabitants
of Belle Valley gathered at the mine
entrance soon after the explosion and
stood for hours watching the work of
the rescuers.
Bodies Badly Burned
The bodies were found a mile and
a quarter from the mouth of the mine,
lying faces down and badly burned,
An investigation was at once begun
by officials of the state mining depart-
ment. The Imperial mine is owned
by the O’Gara Mining company, com-
posed principally of Cleveland stock-
holders.
Henry Fairliurst, a member of tho
first rescue party to enter the mine,
was overcome by gas and died soon
after being taken to the surface. Op
ville McCune, a companion, also' oveP
come, will live.
Fairliurst and his party found Roy
Yaeger unconscious soon ofter enter-
ing the mine and placed him in a cart.
Fairhurst went ahead to clear a pas-
sageway and was overcome. The
other members of the party fell down
on their faces and waited a few min-
utes until the gas became lighter.
They then placed Fairhurst’s body in
the cart beside Yaeger and took them
to the surface.
Yaeger, rushed to the Cambridge
hospital, was revived and it is said
he will recover. He was thrown a
distance of 300 feet by the explosion
and was the only man who escaped
from the section of the mine where
the explosion Occurred. Yaeger at-
tributes his escape to the fact that
his thigh was broken. He had to lio
on the floor and was prevented from
rising and inhaling the poison-laden
air. After a few hours he was able
to crawl through the shaft until within
half a mile of the entrance, where he
cdfiapsed.*' * * ' — -
Shot-Firer Killed In McAlester Mine.
McAlester—An explosion occurred
in the Bolen Darnell Coal company’s
mine No. 3, at North McAlester. Fred
Stankle, the shot-firer, the only man
in the mine, was found dead. The
mine was badly damaged by the ex-
plosion, which was caused by a windy
shot.
Stepphen Dudley Field Die*.
Stockbridge, Mass.—Stephen Dud-
ley Field, sometimes called “the father
of the trolley car” and an inventor of
international prominence, died at his
home here, aged 68 years.
Presbyterians Get Together
Atlanta, Ga.—With highest officials
of the northern, southern, united and
associate reform Presbyterian churches
participating, and 1,500 commissioners
of these organizations, representing a
total membership of 2,000,000 people
in attendance, a ten-day session of tho
“Pan-Presbyterian Pentecost” was be-
gun here. A spirit of intense enthusi-
asm marked the gathering which -was
the first in the history of Presbyteri-
anism at 'which-the four leading organ-
izations of the denomination have
Jointly been represented.
Wilson Supports House Tariff Bill
Washington. — President Wilson
came out strongly as the champion of
free wool and free sugar in three
years, as provided for in the tariff
bill recently pased by the house. He
announced emphatically that he was
not considering compromises of any
sort; that he stood squarely behind
the measure as It passed the house
and (hat he regarded it as the duty of
the democratic majority in the senate
to fulfill its platform pledge by enact-
ing the house bill into law.
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