Bixby Bulletin (Bixby, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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The Bixby Bulletin
STUCKEY & PHILLIPS, Pubs.
UIXBY, OKLAHOMA
Canton, O., officials have placed
ban on moving picture exhibits of the
Titanic disaster. It was learned the
pictures were "faked.”
: STATE LOSES SUIT
News of the World
Briefly Told
Most Important Event* ot the Pad Week
Boiled Down for the Busy Reader*
WASHINGTON
Senator Owen's bill for the consoli-
dation of various health departments
under one head is acceptable to
Christian Scientists.
The Smoot bill to consolidate all
national parks and monuments unde,
one “bureau of national parks” has
been reported favorably by the senate
committee on public lands. The
measure has the endorsement of the
interior department and the American
Civic federation.
Washington.—A favorable report
was made to the house by the insular
affairs committee on Representative
Jones’ bill providing for the gradual
taking over of the Filipinos of the
complete independence in 1921. TJie
bill also provides that the United
States before that time will endeavor
to negotiate treaties for the neutral-
ization of the Philippines.
DOMESTIC
The National Retail Grocers, in ses-
sion in Oklahoma City, decided on St.
Louis for their 1913 meeting place.
The senate of the Arizona legisla-
ture defeated woman suffrage by a
vote of li to 7.
•
John W. Denny, was crushed to
death by a falling tree on his farm
near Ilelleview, Ind.
Mrs, E. C. Carter, who was lost on
the Titanic, was a daughter of Thomas
Hughes, author of “Tom Brown’s
School Days."
The Thomas Cusack building,
Omaha, Neb., was destroyed by iire
together with $150,000 worth of auto-
mobiles, and other goods.
Mrs. Adda F. Howie, of Elm Grove,
Wls., was named a member at largo
to the slate board of agriculture. She
is ttie first woman in Wisconsin to re-
ceive such honor.
From Tallulah, La., a sea of muddy
water extends in every direction.
There is no railroad communication
and probably the people of Tallulah
will not see a train again for six or
eight weeks.
Four children of Mrs. Charles
Slack, Rochester, Minn., are dead, the
mother is seriously burned and Fire
Chief John Poisten is painfully in-
jured as the result of a (ire which de-
stroyed ttie Shack home, after a gas-
oline stove had exploded.
Concluding that death was prefer-
able to existence if he had to plow a
rocky cotton field, Ira Bennett, of
Meridian, Miss., 12 years old., took
the lines from his mule, climbed a
tree, tied one end around a limb <nd
the other around his neck. He
jumped and was dead when a younger
brother reached him.
Cleveland, O.—In answer to an
offer of Hi o city to pay a reward of a
cent lor every ten flies delivered at
the city hall, school children of
Clevlar.d arc- “swatting'' the fly wifu
vim and vigor. The crusade will con-
tinue (Or two weeks, when the offer
expire*!. City health authorities be-
lieve that every fly killed at this sea-
son of the year means the absence of
nine flics later Hence the reward.
Articles of incorporation were filed
in Denver by the American Baptist
Tuberculosis association, which plans
to establish free sanitariums in vari-
ous parts of the United States. Funds
for establishing the institutions are
to be raised by the unique plan of as-
sessing each of the 5,000,000 Baptists
in the United States 10 cents each
annually.
Constable John A. Woods, Omaha,
Neb., was shot and instantly killed by
Sebastian Puglisi, a Sicilian, while
serving replevin papers in a suit in-
volving a small amount. Puglisi is at
large.
A large amount of sliverware and
jewelry, part of the $5,000 loot taken
from the home of a Boston millionaire
by burglars nine years ago, has been
unearthed on the grounds of the Mil-
ton academy, Milton, Mass.
An amateur baseball game at Ave-
nue City, Mo., resulted in serious in-
juries to two players. Robert Bar
rows of St. Joseph, fell through a
barb wire fence while running for a
ball and Ills throat, wrist, and right
shoulder were lacerated so that he is
unable to leave his home. Frank
Clark was hit in the temple by a
pitched ball and was unconscious for
twelve hours.
John S. Wood and Charles H. Hyer, i
farmers, were killed by liglitiiThg that
struck a barn near Buffalo, N. Y., I
where they sought shelter from a j
storm.
The Ohio constitutional convention
defeated a proposal to incorporate a
provision for the recall of public of-
ficials in the constitution by a vote of
67 to 45.
William C. Matthews, a negro law-
yer, was sworn in as special assist-
ant United States attorney at Boston.
Matthews is a former Harvard base-
ball and football player.
Jack Johnston, champion pugilist,
was injured severely at Pittsburg, Pa.,
it is believed, when an automobile
truck ran into the rear of his machine.
Several tendons in the champion’s
Back were sprained. Johnson’s vale*
was lightly hurt.
The freight steamer Lena, which
arrived at Portland, Me., was within
thirty miles of the Titanic when the
latter floundered. Had the Lena been
equipped with a wireless, it could
have saved many of the passengers
of the illfated liner.
City authorities of Cleveland, O.,
are offering school children one cent
for every ten flies delivered dead at
the city hall, and a vigorous “swat
Test’’ is under way. The authorities
believe that a “swat in time saves
nine.”
Jonkheer J. G. Reuchlin, managing
director of the Holland-American
steamship line, went down with tha
Titanic. Mr. Reuchlin was coming
to tills country to arrange business
relative to the opening of the Panama
canal.
Upon his return to Lexington, Ky.,
from Milwaukee, John E. Madden, con-
firmed a report of the sale of Belwin
McKinley, 2:011-4, the champion yea
ling trotter of 1911, to H. J. Schles-
singer. Madden says he got $15,000,
just double what the colt brought at
Madison Square garden last Thanks-
giving day. Billy Andrews will cam-
paign him.
An announcement lias been made
of the marriage of Laura Minnie Cor-
nelius the last princess of the Oneida
Indians, to Orin J. Kellogg, a wealthy
citizen of Seymour, Wis., at Stevens
Point, Wis. Mrs. Kellogg is a gradu-
ate of Wellesly college and Stanford
university. She became renowned as
the Indian Joan of Arc. She danced
in the courts of Europe to obtain funds
to aid the red men to a higher civil-
ization.
A northbound Missouri Pacific
freight train jumped the track and
crushed into the depot at Willis, Kas.
Peter Gayaddo and Frank Lopez, rail-
road employes, were buried under the
wreckage. Gayaddo was taken out
dead. Lopez's injuries are fatal. The
depot caught fire, and the locomotive
and eight, cars were burned up.
Police officials in several eastern
cities are searching New York for
Miss Elsie Nicholas, aged 17, of Win-
chester, Va„ a cousin of the .late Sen-
Hundred and Fifth street, New York,
has been missing for four weeks from
the home of her aunt on West One
Hundred and Fifth stret, New York.
Because his father couldn’t pay a
board bill, 6-year-old Wester Baughn
is occupying a cell in the Savannah,
Ga., police station Baughn was ar-
rested on complaint of Mrs. W. H.
Temple. Because his young son had
r.o other place fc, go he was placed in
the same cell with his father.
Killed by a toothpick, John Dolan,
a traveling salesman, died at his home
in Minneapolis, Minn., after nearly a
week of suffering. Mr. Dolan was on
the road, he accidentally swallowed a
toothpick. He thought nothing of it,
hut a week ago was taken ill with
abscess of the stomach.
NO-LEGS ISLAND IS PROPERTY OF
INDIVIDUALS
Chinese residents of Chicago have
contributed $2,000 to the fund of the
Chicago China famine relief commit-
tee. Hong Sling, proprietor of a
Chinese restaurant has had charge
of the work of collecting the money.
A statement was given out that the
general committee of operators and
miners will meet in New York May 2
to receive a sub-committee’s report on
tlie anthracite coal situation comes
the report that an agreement hag
been reached as to wages and hours
of labor. The terms of the sub-com-
mittee’s report will not be made pub-
lic until after the meeting May 2.
Thus 170,000 men who have been idle
since April 1, arc exp*-ted to he at
work by May 10.
FOREIGN
After a battle with the Parisian po-
lice in which he shot and kiled As-
sistant Chief Jouin and seriously in-
jured Inspector Colmar, Leader Bon-
net of the gang of "phantom bandits”
who have already killed 20 people,
leaped from a first story window and
forcing his way through the crowd,
•scaped.
DECISION BY JUDGE POE
GOVERNOR CRUCE DEMURS TO
THE DECISION
Thinks |t Is Only a Mere Incident of
the Journey of the Case Through
All the Courts—Other State
Capital News
Oklahoma City.—In a decision
handed down by Judge L. M. Poe in
the district court at Pawnee the
Arkansas river is held to be not a
navigable stream and the federal and
state claims to ownership of the river
bed is refuted.
The case involved the ownership of
a tract of land in the river bed, cov-
ering an area of 84 acres, known as
the Larry No-Legs island, a^id located
near Ralston.
This decision places the ownership
in W. H. Edmonston, a squatter, and
H. A. Thomas, a Pawnee county home-
steader, who claims a part of the tract
as belonging to his homestead, filed on
when the “Cherokee Strip” was opened
to white settlement in 1893.
Because it is underlaid with rich
oil deposits this tract is estimated in
value at $500,000.
As the decision conflicts with that
recently rendered by Judge Cotteral
of the federal court at Guthrie, a de-
cision by the United States supreme
court will be necessary to finally de-
termine the ownership.
SAND MEN ELATED
Disregarding State's Assumed Owner-
ship They Will Scratch Gravel
Oklahoma City.—Under Judge Poe’s
decision that the Arkansas river is a
non-navigable stream, sand operators
will at once resume work along the
river without reference to the Build-
ers’ Sand and Gravel company, or the
state school land commission, accord-
ing to a Tulsa dispatch. The decision
at Pawnee was on the right to develop
Osage Island for oil and gas. The
state loses its contention that the
stream is navigable.
Judge Poe holds that the rights of
the homesteaders and oil companies
holding leases are valid and subsist-
ing and that riparian rights attach to
ownership of lands adjacent, reaching
to the low water mnrl:
MERELY ONE STEP
Poe Decision Merely Incidental to
Final Ruling, Governor States
Oklahoma City.—Concerning the
decision of Judge Poe at Pawnee in
the “gravel case,” Governor Lee Cruce
failed to discover any thing more than
an incidental opinion handed down
by a lower court judge. He stated
that the decision in no wise, if he is
correct of the suit in that it would
be immediately appealed to the su-
preme court for final adjustment.
“The case will be appealed,” said
the governor, “and the state, pending
■appeal, will exercise the identical
rights which it is now exercising
under the decision of Judge Cotteral
of the federal court, in which the
state was given the ownership of the
river bed. There are several divis-
ions of the controversy and an appeal
is necessary that the higher courts
may definitely decide the whole.”
It appears from_.-Governor Crnce’s
statement that the Poe decision has
no effect one way or the other upon
the contention of the state or the in-
dividual owners, nor will it change,
in the least, any operation of cont-
racts now held by the state or itR
lessees. Apparently, the ruling is
merely a part of a series of formali-
ties by which the decision of the su-
preme court must be secured.
Petition Denied
Oklahoma City.—The court of crim-
inal appeals Tuesday denied zhe peii-
, tion of Bird Gee for a writ of habeas
j corpus. Gee was held under $2,500
! bond in Justice Bartell’s court on a
perjury charge, the information filed
being to the effect that he had sworn
falsely as to the amount of properly
lie owns in muking bond for Mike
O’Brien.
Complaint Filed
Oklahoma City.—Complaint was
filed with tho corporation commission
by citizens of Hamilton, asking that
the Frisco railway be required to
make Hamilton a regular stop for its
early morning trajn southbound and
evening train northbound.
Report of Accident
Oklahoma City.—The corporation
commission has received a report
from the M. K. & T. of an accident
near Noxie in which Amil Walters, a
tresspasser, received injuries of
which he may die. Walters was lying
hy the track, when struck by a spe-
cial engine
ISSUE OF FUNDING
BONDS COMPLETED
State Warrant Indebtedness to Ex-
tent of $2,660,800 To Be
Taken Up'
Oklahoma City.—Final arrange-
ments have been completed at a
meeting of Governor Cruce, State
Treasurer Robert Dunlop, Secretary
of State B. F. Harrison and W. C.
Reeves of the attorney general’s of-
fice for the issue of funding bonds to
take up the state’s warrant indebt-
edness.
The total amount of the outsanding
warrants is $2,660,80b, and the total
interest to July 1, to which time the
warrants will bear the present rate
of interest, amounts to $209,704.62, an
aggregate issue of $2,870,505.41.
The bonds will be dated July 1, 1912
and will bear interest at the rate of
4 percent, payable semi annually. The
warrants now outstanding bear inter-
est at the rate of 6 per cent and a
saving of 2 per cent interest conse-
quently is affected, in addition to dis-
tributing the payment of the deficit
over a long period of time.
The bonds will be in a series of ten
annual payments, the first payment to
be made in twenty-one years and the
last payment in thirty years. Inter-
est on the funding issue and the sink-
ing fund will be taken care of in the
annual state levy.
Henshaw Returned
Oklahoma City.—Corporation Com
missioner George A. Henshaw, has
returned from Washington and Chi-
cago, where he has been for the last
month attending to a number of busi-
ness matters of importance, in which
the commission is interested. Mr.
Henshaw was at Washington'during
the fourteen days’ argument on the
Minnesotta rate case appeal in which
eight states, including Oklahoma have
joined. A brief in the case was sub-
mitted for the Oklahoma commission
by Mr. Henshaw. Other matters at-
tended to on the trip was the hear-
ing on the railway scale question, and
the application for a rehearing on tno
cattle rate order. At Pittsburg, re-
cently, Chairman Prouty, tldl inter-
state commerce commission spoke he-
for the commercial club and spoke of
the work which the commissions of
the various statfls are doing in con-
nection with the interstate commis-
sion, mentioning the Oklahoma body
especially as one of the most pro-
gressive, and one that is “staying
with” the interstate commision on all
rate questions that come up.
Subject to Taxation
Oklahoma Citjy.—Borrowed money
invested in the business of a corpo-
ration as its "moneyed cnpifal” is sub-
ject to taxation as well as other capi-
tal, is the substance of an opinion
rendered by the attorney general's of-
fice to County Attorney J. O. Counts
of Harmon county. The question
came up when the McClure-Naftzger
Lumber Company of Granite prayed
for a certificate of error, contending
that only 68 per cent of its capital is
subject to taxation for the reason that
the remaining 42 per cent is bor-
rowed money. The company, it was
claimed in the petition, has $49,036
borrowed money in its total invest-
ment of $117,117.60. The suggestion
is made by the attorney general’s of-
fice that an answer to the petition
be filed by the county attorney and
in case of an appeal to the supreme
court, a brief will be filed by the
state’s attorney.
In Wrong Pew
Oklahoma City.—At a meeting of
the state board of education last week
architectects were GGlcctcd to draw
plans for the new law building at the
State university, the Pryor-Creek
orphan asylum, and the boys’ reform-
atory at Pauls Valley, but an opinion
was rendered by the attorney gener-
al’s office later, holding that it is the
duty of the state board of affairs and
not the board of education to select
architects. New plans will We asked
by the board of affairs.
Railroad Appeals Case
Oklahoma City.—An appeal was
taken to the supreme court by the
Frisco railroad, alleging error in the
district court of Washita county,
where W. E. Rickey secured judg-
ment for $1,950 damages to 30,000
bushels of oats which Rickey had ffb-
livered to the railroad company at
Rickey for shipment to various
points. Rickey alleged that the com-
pany left the oats out In the rain,
damaging them to the extent of six
and one-half cents a bushel, for which
he sued and secured judgment.
Parole Granted
Oklahoma City.—A parole was
granted by Governor Cruce to Albert
BernRtein of Kingfisher county, sen-
tenced to serve two years in the peni-
tentiary for forging a check for $25,
and securing money and merchandise
on the forged instrument from the
Davis Mercantile company. Bern-
stein pleaded guilty to the charge,
and subsequently paid the money to
the company, which joined with the
county authorities in the request that
ith* man be paroled.
IN CRITICAL CONDITION.
8pokane, Wash., Woman Endures Ter-
rible Buffering.
Mrs. J. A. Schoonmaker, 127 S. Pine
SL, Sfokane, Wash., says: “I grew
bo weak I could scarcely do my house-
work and was often confined to bed.
There was a bearing-
down pain through
my hips and my head
ached as if It would
split. I knew by the
kidney secretions that
my kidneys were in a
terrible condition but
S though I doctored, 1
gradually grew worse,
until In critical condition. It was then
I began using Doan’s Kidney Pills and
was entirely cured. I have not had a
sign of kidney trouble since.”
“When Your Back Is Lame, Remem-
ber the Name—DOAN’S.” 50c all stores
Foster-MIlburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Cause of the Row.
“Mrs. Brown had a dreadful quar-
rel with her husband last night?”
“That so?”
“Yes. She bid eight on a hand that
was good for ten, not thinking Mr.
Brown would overbid her, but he did.
It almost broke up the party.”
Staying at home is a virtue few
people try to cultivate.
Coated tongue, vertigo, constipation are
•11 relieved by Garfield Tea.
Sweethearts are always dear, but
wives are far more expensive.
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