The Guthrie Daily Leader. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 38, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 4, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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) The Guthrie Daily Leader.!
POPULAR
HOME PAPT?R
IT'S IN
THE LEADER.
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VOLUME XXXVIII.
GUTHRIE OKLAHOMA THURSDAY JANUARY 4 1912.
PRICE 2c.
NUMBER 1C
HOME
HEAVY STORM
PARALYZES
BOSTON PROFESSOR
DRAWS A PICTURE
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illy Associated Press ) 0
O lloston Jan. 4--l'resident I .em- O
O ua Merlin of Boston university O
0 today described his ideal of O
0 beautiful woman. 0
"There are plenty of younjt O
0 women in Boston university" he o
O said ''who come up to tnj Ideal
O ot what constitutes the real type O
0 of beantv in womanhood. I can-
O not conceive of any woman he-
O Ins considered beautiful w ho O
O does not possess first of all beau- O
O ty of Character or in a word O
O womanliness. 4j
"Higher education is conducive O
O to beauty with higher educa-
O tion goes physical culture along O
O scientific lines a'il contributing O
FURTHER DOWNWARD MOVES'" T:"; . 2
o learns to find beauty and renne- w
0 ment behind w hat might be re- O
O garded at first by other people O
O as an unattractive lace."
Thnoo MunripoH Mon Unnlfinn (Ian o
mi uu iiuiiuiuu muii HMfniiiy uuy O O O o
and Night to Rescue Stalled
WESTERN CATTLE STILL IN
GRASP OF DESTRUC-
TIVE BLIZZARD
TEWPERATURE STILL SHADOWS
Freight Trains
(By Associated Press. )
Kansas City Mo. Jan. 4. With
damage attributable to cold In West
WILL START NO BANK
"No ' have no intention of starting
a new bank in Guthrie at least at
the present time" said .1. W. McNeil
today. Deports from Oklahoma City
were to the effect that Mr. McNoal
had applied to the bank commission
for a state bank charter and that he
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BANK PRESIDENT WAS SHY
em Kansas already at high figure s intended to open a bank at once with
ti.. iu-i CM.tho- .irni U W. Baxter and others
il"nji co Lvua ouu n v i jui.it-.- uiu'
there. The temperature at Dodge
City being tour below the long co'd
period causing great loss to livestock
frozen or starved on ranges. The
branch line west of Great Bend is
blocked and the town of Dighton is
cut off from civilization. A force of
three hundred men are working night
anil day to dig out stalled freight
trains and get provisions to the isolat-
ed natives.
Terre Haute no.. Jan. 4 With
the statement that . H. Taber. presi-
dent of the American State haul; is
short twenty-five thousand dollars
and that the bank has made loans on
worthless securities amounting t"
twenty thousand or more the stato
banking department today closed the
institution.
Retailers' Association
Present Good Results
OF MORALS
i
con
COMMISSIONER LANKFORD
SAYS POLITICS MUST BE
GUT OUT OF POLITICS
pedal to the Daily Leader.
Oklahoma City oua. Jan. t- De-
claring that he had barrel politics in
the management and control of state
seal
Under-sheriff Kirk wood Wll
next week for the building
lows at the couiitv jail Th.
is to be used January Ift for tti
execution of Governor Brown slave;
of Bob Burks near Crescent.
"1 want it over. I want to be jerk
ed. i want no reprieve" cries QoV
ernor Brown.
The negro paces the floor in th
condemned cel'i at the county jail ant
moans pit.eotisly.
'J want to die. Ha ! ha ! ha ! but I'it
MAY CLOSE
IT OD
n asked
The report of the secretary of th
lieiailecs' association touches brief!
on a few of the most important bent
fits derived from then
this year.
fully Cams UP to the expectations of
our Trade Kxtensiou committee and
now that this committee's term will
rganizatlon I soon expire they will recommend to
their successors that either the
Credit bureau Is strong feature.
County organization is perfected.
'rcdit bureau Is extended to all
members of the chamber of commerce
doing a credit business.
Guthrie Retailers' association is five
years old and the second oldest of the
kind in the state.
Trade Extension.
The trade extension committee of
the Retailers' association did good
work this year. They have caused to
be compiled a mailing list oi all rural
free deliveries of lxgan county : this
list has been compiled rum a house to
house canvas made by competent men.
It consists of approximately -1000
names and will be furnished any
member of the chamber of commerce
or Retailers' association upon pay-
ment of their pro-rata of compilation.
Alter securing this list the committee
at once Inaugurated an advertising
ampaign for more trade reaching out
over the entire county and using the
Guthrie Dooster paper as their
medium.
Soecial Sale Day.
a iai sale dav was established
Booster or a medium of a similar
nature be permanent ty established and
yearly contracts made with our mem-
bers for its maintainance.
Credit Bureau Extended.
The merchants of Coyle. Mulhall
and Orlando have affiliated them-
selves with our local bureau under the
name of the Logan County Credit
bureau. This enables an exchange of
information weekly oi all bad credit
customers also furnishes the mer-
chants in our neighboring cities a
Complete weekly list of chatties and
releases filed at our register of deeds
office.
The demand for information from
our credit bureau is growing annually.
banks and that be has set a high BKHMSwln
a and financial standard for state ("
bankers if. D. Lankford state bank n
commissioner addressed the state ""u i
bank examiners and present and for- "ion
iner attaches of the banking depa"t- no 8
meat at a banquet here. ''
"J have been told recently that I "
had set the standard too high" said I mutt
Lank ford "and that few COUjd nieas- "' s
ore up to my requirements .i
candid Opinion it would be a ii:
of impossibility to set too hi
standard in banking. The mere
that a man is a banker should be
sufficient evidence and guarantee D
itself of the very highest sense oil a
honor and integrity but unfortunate-1 1
Ibe Hospital Board
it handed in his resigna-
ed In do some I hue ago
t lieiis of the Methodist
ied i hat he had im in
Kiting his office Wheu
onfereiice of the first
iseopal church met In
lober committees were
esneciallv the hosnilal.
CLAIMS ANGELS
ARE HER GUARDS
NO ATTACK
BY TAFT ON
ROOSEVELT
jCANT UNDERSTANDWHERE
SCURRILOUS REPORTS
COM E FROM
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i.i i O 1 1
ANSWERS LAST CAI.l
0 O 0 o o o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FEDERAL COURT
United States Federal Judge John
. QOtteral ha been busy today
hearing motions ami demurrers
There was three petitions In haul
ruptcy filed today. Wanes and Wll
fetl of Shawnee filed involuntary
liabilities 13049 Win. B. Willed of
the Bams tirm. tiled a sinitle petition
to be adjudicated hi s liabilities
Served Four Terms as Democrat
and One Term as a
Republican
.1 It. MeKnight
Involu ntary ItaJbil
Mrs. Lena Math
( ii-
nia City
i
1811
CHINESE MINISTER
WILL QUIT POST
dent
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i in. i. Word
i no nun h i
)U of Koose-
Republican
! is report-
pressed htm-
reports that
sevelt were
Favorite
.Tail I Th
bers ot the
ton
ink no wii
.b
for China le.nv
secretary in eh
Threatens Rene
(By am
Shanghai 3
I. hi.
4
a I'uioii
nnier ine'mier 01
Hi four terms as a
as a Republican
e here today of
Ixty nitre. He was
the evH war and
f '. olun beers in the
i'U r I le closed his
r In the Bixty-fl sr
i w as clerked asji
MISSOURI SHOOTING AFFRAY!
ly it has not always been so i
homa. Some have debased aj
titUted this high calling an
may yet be sonic Of this c
batiks of Oklahoma but very
Commissioner Lankford Btat
if in any way the criminal I
n ok ia
Card Players and Dancers
Are Strongly Arraigned
We have added liUS names to our files Mating to bankers are
during the year 1911 Of this number should be amended and f
:tbt accounts were filed for collection at. the next session r tin
totaling $(itH!.17. of which (S3 have 'so that it would be a ph
either paid in part or in full amount- isibility in the future to
ing to fl.2bd.l4 which leaves I'::? tin- jtice.
iaid accounts representing $5419.08. "A nanker should not b
t ner cent v'
"lie should be a ban set'
else. In my judgment th
tion of this whole questioi
orous prosecution punll
CASEY GOT HIS MAN
NO EXTRA POLICEMEN
On a percentage bat
of all accounts filed at this office f
the year just ended have been settle
but onlv IS per cent of the total i
not hin.-
een paid. We now
for Saturday of each week a free amount riled has
auctioneer was furnished the farmer have in our flies $5000 names which
fin- the dlsnosa of articles or siock consists ot collections ratings aim ut
he had to sell admission to a picture
show and vaudeville was given the
farmer and several premiums were
awarded on cotton excepting the last
t:iv December Itith. at which time the
conviction of al
ers and under t
the banking dep
liniments ever accept any
These names are all compiled in jam at g he ad. '
hooks In alphabetical order and are
furnished to any member desiring
I them who is in good standing with our
premiums were awarded on the tnree organization. In addition to me hooks
largest loads of people brought to our a vast amount of information is given
.iv this wan a winner and proved over the nhone. In this way many a
the most effective of any inducement
that had been offered to draw people
to Guthrie. Over 550 coupons were
clipped from the Booster .paper and
a torded admittance to the Highland
theatre.
The raftttt of the Hooster paper
bad risk is nipped in the bud and
several hundred dollars are saved our
merchants annualh over the phone or
from the rating book that a person Is
strictly gilt edge it is a great satis-
faction for the merchant to know he
is iclacing his goods with such a cus-
DRUNKEN FATHER SHOOTS HIS
DAUGHTER AND TRIES TO KILL
HER MOTHER AND SISTER
(B.v Associated Press) IS New Year call. He had been drink-
New York Jan. i Her arms clasp-jing -Mrs. Benz declared
ed about her -mother whom she was j Seeing Bertha instead of his wile
trying to protect from her stepfather al the door. Benz became angry. He
Bertha Rainyu aged 14 was shot started to berate the child but site
and killed early today in front of her was not afraid of him and told him
home in Glendale L. L George "lenz if he didn't go away and stop anney-
tne child's stepfather has been ar- ing her mother she would call the
rested on a charge of homicide and i police. Just then .Mrs. liens came to
according to the police has admitted the door. The little nd ran forwarJ
killing the child. and put her arms around the woman.
Benz and his w ife have been sep-1 -I can manage this mother" said
arated more than a year. The mart the girl. "You go inside."
had been out on probation as a re- She had just placed her arms about
suit of charges made againsi him in I her mother's waist -when Benz drew
police court by his wife. a revolver and fired two shots at the
Mrs. Ben? said that she was arous child Moth bullets entered her brain.
ed just before daybreak today by the
ringing of her doorbell and that i r. Richler a well known travel
Bertha had run from the room to t.iie jng man. is stopping at the Royal
door. Mrs. Benz followed the chil i h A mouth ao Mr. Richler
with her 16 years old daughter. Mary iwhile emerging from a bank at Mas-
Outside they found Benz sitting onlogee fell and broke his ieg lirthrt
the porch. He announced that he bad places from which he has never r
come to pay his wife and her family ;overed.
tomer and puts Ii
know that he can
it is needed.
Advertising
The advertisin:
virtually elimlnai
chants. In the pa
INSTALLATION
GUthrie Lodge N
Overseer ios. .v
W. J. Leatherm
Welch; Receive!
V. V. Sleeper
Marv K. Ryan;
Alice M. Welch
lodge are reQues
tFFICERS.
- 2 .00
Bargain Offer
Is Continued
UNTIL
January 10 th
Owing to the inclement
.1 . rr-
weather many r aimers
have been unable to reach
the city in time to ajvail
themselves of the Leader 8
Great Holiday offer.! her- -
fore (he time is extended.
Until Jan. 10 The Leader
LIVES OF MINERS
SAWED BY TELEPHONES
SOONER OVER THE BETTER
SAYS CONFESSEO BANKER
MAN WITH NECK BROKEN SIX
MONTHS AGO RECOVERING AND
EXPECTS TO BE ABLE TO WALK
wt
receive
n e
eji
subscriptions for $2.00.
The regular price is -4.0.
DO IT NOW
Uoltg fine. S.ttl
ii- friends '"Tae
uid g no lictter.
iow my 4 r i t . See
iggled his toes to
is. ttUU life in
SUPREME COURT VENIRE
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Niblack, Leslie G. The Guthrie Daily Leader. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 38, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 4, 1912, newspaper, January 4, 1912; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc618061/m1/1/?q=%22United+States+-+Oklahoma+-+Logan+County+-+Guthrie%22: accessed August 15, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.