The Guthrie Daily Leader. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 80, Ed. 1, Saturday, October 3, 1903 Page: 1 of 8
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The Guthrie Daily Leader
THE ONLY EVENINQ ASSOCIATED PFIEM PAPER IN OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.
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GUTHRIE OKLAHOMA SATURDAY OCTOBER 8 1008
VOLUME 22
EIQHT PAQE8
EIGHT PAGEO.
NUMBER 80
Hitchcock Barely
Missed
Condemnation
Resolution to Place Him Under Ban
of the Methodist Church
A resolution condemning Secretary
Hitchcock of tho interior department
lor using tho private car of a promi-
nent St. Loula browor on tho secre-
tary's recont visit to Oklahoma and
Indian territory produced a commo-
tion In tho Methodist Lay contoronco
last evening; and so strong was tho
fueling in favor of tho rosolutlon that
its adoption was only provontod by a
biuart trick In adjourning tho confer-
ence sine dlo while the resolution was
pending.
When the report of the committee
on resolutions containing a clause
past fire one of the members moved
that the convention adjourn sine die.
This passed before those who favored
the motion scoring Hitchcock realUed
what it meant and the resolution thUB
failed of passage
The Resolutions.
Be it resolved by the lay conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church of
Oklahoma that our delegates to tho
general conferenco oi tho MethodlBst
Hptsoopal church to be held at Los
Angelos Calirornlo in May 1904 be
and they are hereby instructed to pro-
sent to the general conference the ini
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Miss Bryan
!V
Adds Another Wrin-
kle to the Matri-
monial Game
i
eondeinang the saloon and favoring portance and growing necessity of re-
constitutional prohibition was adopted
a motion condemning Secretary Hitch-
rook was brought before the conven-
tion Mrs. Catherine E. Ferguson of
'handler arose a'ld offered as an
amendment to the resolution that
Secretary Hitchcock be condemned for
the exnmplo be set as a public official
in coming to Oklahoma in an Anheus-
erBusch oar in distributing boor to
the business mon of Hobart am? in low-
ering the dignity of hltf office by
stooping to advertiso a brand of beer.
Considerable applause greoted the
motion and as the chairman ropeated
it and asked if tho dolegatos woie
ready for tho question some ono sug-
gested that tho rosolutlon bo reduced
o writing While this was bolpg pro-
nared one of the delogatos arose and
spoke agnisnt the resolution. He
seemed to have a small following but
there were many murmurs or disap-
proval while he spoke. lu his speech
lie said that there was not sufficient
evidence to warrant the resolution.
storing to the great southwest an
Episcopal residence of which we were
deprived at the last general confer-
ence. Resolved further that our delegates
to the general conference he instruct-
ed to vote against any change In para
graph 34S of our book of discipline
wh'cli refers to dancing theatre go
ing and card playing.
Resolved further that we desire to
go on record as being opposed to ths
saloon under uny method or plan and
to oxpresa In unmlstakablo terms our
favor of constitutional prohibition.
Resolved further that our delegatos
to tho general conference bo Instruct-
ed to use tholr lniluonco In consojldat-
By Associated Proas.)
Lincoln Neb. Oct. 3. Preparations
for the marriage of Miss Ruth Bryan
and William Homer Leavltt at Fair-
view the oountry home of the Bryant
tonight are completed. There will be
one hundred guests and the affair will
be decidedly Informal and simple.
Miss Bryan will meet the guests at
the .door. She refuBOs to march to
the place whoro sho is to stand while
the ceremony Is being performed and
at tho proper time will simply tuke
her place at Loavitt's side. Dr. Hunt
lngton chancellor of tho Nebraska
Wesleyan university will bo the offM
Atlng minister. Telegrams and gifts
from many leading politicians ull over
the country arrived yosterday and to-
day. The only relative of the groom
who '111 attend the wedding Is his
mot. r Mrs. A. L. Leavltt of Newport.
Mr. Bryan has cancelled many lecture
and political engagements on account
of his daughter's marriage and will
barely have time to make a short stop
in Ohio while on his way to New York
where he .will take a steamer for his
European trip. He will leave tomor-
row night for Ohio.
Ironworkers' jl'Sszzz..0 3fTisu
Stdod in Terror ot
!5am Parks' Ready
Fists
IUt
plaTi
By Associated Press
Kansas City Mo. Oct. 3. At this
Morning's session of Brl ;- and Iran
Werkers the Buchanan crowd won a
l)01tit which they assert will aid Uiem
materially tn re-electing President
Bjrjhanan. This was a decision to oo ti
the election on the Australian
of balloting it was asserted af-
tor the convention by a Buchanan ad-
herent that many delegates who are
favorable to Buchanan and would vote
fo him on secret ballot feared to vote
for lftm openly because of a future
fight that they might expect from
Samuel Parks'nnd his followers. This
assertion Mr. Parks said later was
ridiculous. "We want an open fight"
declared he. In the convention the
Parks delegates headed by Assembly
man Richard Butler of New Vork City
argued for an open ballot. President
Buchanan's followers spoke for the
Australian system and carriel their
point Anally although only by a small
margin.
cooler showers Sunday.
Atrocious Crime
Committed by Boys
Revolting Story of Youthful Lust
and Depravity
Secretary Wenner's
School Land Report
The monthly report of the torn-
torial school lanu office made by Secre-
tary Wonner to wovonior Ferguson
Secretary Grimes and Supt Baxtet
yaetarday for the month of Saptombor
shows the total receipts of' the office
lug the book concern fdr tha?ohurck.
and the church periodicals 'ami Ihero-
by " minimise the coat of conducting ' for the month to hare been $107641.03
said concerns and issuing said publl-1 to be divided among the different
cations. funds as follows:
Resolved further that we as mem- Common school fund $61694.35.
bers of the lay conference of the Okla- Common school Indemnity fund
homa conference extend our heatty $1740.20.
"Guideless Wonder"
for Race Meet
L .D. Fossett secretary of the Driv-
ing association has returned from
Wtohlta where he attended the carni
val and Incidentally secured "Cute"
Ihe "guideless wonder" for the race
meet hero next week. "Cute" lias a
record of 2:M 3 4 and will prove a
valuable addition to the strong list of
attractions for the carnival. Four or
fire oars of horses which were at the
races at Wichita this week will arrive
tomorrow tor the Guthrie races.
SpootBl to Dolly Loader.
Perry Okla. Oct. 8. Probably the
most atrocious murder ever perpe
trated In Oklahoma was committed
Thursday ovenlng at about 0 o'clock
at a point one and a half miles south
of Day a postofflce fourteen miles
southeast ot this city. The victim was
the thirteen-year-old daughter of Nick
Prokash. n Bohemian farmer and the
murderers were the sons of two nelgU-
Twring farmers. The boys Izey Rogers
and Ed Maloy.aged respectively 17
and 11 first ravished the girl and
then when she refused to promise
not to tell of their crime they cuosed
her when she tiled to run awuy
caught her and cut her throat from ear
to ear.
The girl Mary Prokash had lieen
sent on an errand to the home of n
neighbor named Katz living about a
mile from her father's home. On her
return sho took a cut oft loading
through some woods In which Rogers
and Maloy wore hunting. Ed Maloy
caught and ravished nor and then tho
two together killed her. cutting her
throat with a pocket knife. Returning
to tholr homes they washed tho blood
from tholr olotlioj and inndo no ef-
fort to conceal the crime
The girl's father alarmed at her
tardy arrival started out to find her
nnd discovered hor dead body within
an hour of the time of the commis-
sion of the crime. A coroner's inquest
wns held and a verdict returned that
the girl nit t her death at the hands of
parties unknown.
Suspicion pointed strongly towards
the two bos. however and they wore
finally arrested by Sheilff John Mc
Uehce and Deputies Joe Clinton and
Vande enter. On the way to Perry
Rogers confessed to the crime which
had been quite positively proved be
cause of the flnuu? o t oiooiiy
clothing he had worn. u& hi
feiwlon also Implicated Frank Qulnnes
son of a Pnyno oounty farmer. Maloy
and Quttmee have been placed In tho
county jail at Stillwater.
As tho crlmo was committed In
Payne county tho caso will como up
for hearing nt Stillwater.
Mrs Ferguson then arose and said appreciation of the welcome that has !
that she had the affidavit of a minister
who sat on the opposite side of the
table from Hitchcock that the lat-
ter drank a bottle of boer and then re-
marked to those present that Anheuser-Busch
"undoubtedly has the best
brew of beer In the country."
Speeches w ere then made the tenor of
which were that Secretary Hitchcock
should be rebuked for his action and
the illustration used by one ot the
speakers of Christ driving the men out
of the temple brought forth many ex-
pressions of "good" and "Amen."
The delogatos wero on tholr foot
yelling "question" when a mossengor
came to tho Baptist church whoro the
convention was being hold with a
message from Bishop Walden that tho
ministerial conferenco was waiting
for the laymen at tho Methodist
church. Arangomonts had previously
been made for a joint mooting at Ave
o'clock and as it was then ten minutes
been given to us and the Christian fel
lowship shown by the cltlsens of Guth-
rie In entertaining us so royally.
Resolved further that we feel our-
College funu $17938.07.
Public buildings fund $17734 11.
Oreer county section 13. $1142 23.
Greer county section 33 $1391.3 1.
The total expenses of tie depart-
vslous funds.
The receipts from transfers was
$260 Accounts from the various
Guthrie is the true ' funds were paid to the territorial
selves under lasting obligations to our ment for the month vre $3.210 32
Biator churches who have so willingly which was apportioned among the
opened their houses of worship for our
accommodation and feel that such
demonstrations on the part of our sis
ter churches In
Christian spirit.
The voting to elect the lay delegates
to the genoral conference to be held
at Los Angeles was close nnd Inter-
esting and four ballots wero required
beforo the final choloe was made. On
the third ballot David W. Eastman of
Enid was oleoted as ono of tho dole-
gatesand the alternates woro choson.
They aro: Dolegato Albort F. Rankin
of Perkins; alternates Catherine B.
Ferguson of Chandlor and George S.
Greon of. Guthrie.
(Continued on page 6.)
Greater New York's
Political Muddle
President Dustin
i sir Words
Frightful Havoc
Follows
Explosion
i
(By Associated P"us.)
Peoria II. Oct. 3. A catastrophe
oocurred at the plant of the Corning
Distilling company in the extreme
south end of the city at o'clock this
morning when one of the Immense
cookers In the main building exploded
with a deafening report killing sev-
eral of the omplo-es maiming more
and oomplately wrecking that portion
of the distillery. Fortunately the
wreckage did not take fire and Are- was dead liavlng been instantly killed.
Doesn't Look Much
Like Hard Times
wall of the four story structure a difl'
tance of 250 feet The entire north
wall of the distillery was blown down
and the south and east walls were also
badly damaged. Wreokage Is distrib-
uted all over the neighborhood. The
distillery' management estimates the
loss at fully $75000. Thousands ot
people gathered at the scene to help with what promises to be the greates:
In the work of rescue. James Mc-
Manus. an employe of the cooker room
was first removed from the wreck. He
New York Oct. 3 Action looking
toward the elimination of Edward M.
Grout and Charles Fornes from the
municipal ticket was taken by the
Citizens' Union and Republican organ-
izations Calls were Usued for the re-
assembling of the conventions or
those bodies on Wednesday of next
week the purpose being to declare
vacant the nominations of the gentle-
men named above for the office res-
pectively of comptroller and president
of the board of aldermen. Claiming
that this action oan not be legally
taken. Messrs. Grout and Fornes' will
appeal to the courts for an order that
their names must be printed on the
official ballot in the Rtpullean and
Citizens' Union columns. Their con-
tention is that the functions of Uie
delegate to the two conventions termi-
nated with the adjournment of the
bodies to which they were chosen and
that they can not be revived by the
aoU of committees such as la pro-
posed. Th Greater New York Democracy
at the head ot which is John C Shee
han has practically broken away from
the fusion movement. on the repre-
sentations that behind fusion then'
was a movement to Republicanlze. tht
city administration.
The efforts to secure the reoomina-
tlon ot Jacob C Cantor Democrat as
president ot the board of Manhattan
was the reason for the break which
(By Associated Press.) " " '" "" -"-'
Chicago. III. Oct 3.-The railroads B delegates from the Greater New
. t.o ntli xAinitrv i fan In fnrtt ! rK uIBOcrm.jr
treasurer during the month as follows
Common school fund 6459 1.35.
Common school Indemnity fund
? 708.00.
College fund. $17200.00.
Public buildings fund $17200.00.
Greer county seeUon IS. $SO0.00.
Greer county; section 33 $00.00.
Total $43460.08.
On tho firfit day of October there
was a balance on hand In the funds
as follows:
Common school fund $64824.03.
Commonrchool Indemnity fund $3-
7U.46.
College fund $300.23.
Publle buildings fund $84.67.
Greer county section li $810.20.
Oreer count? section 31. $1050.34.
Total. $6080.98.
n accordance with Uie rules of the
department the balances on hand
were on the first day of the month
turned over to the territorial treasurer.
oar shortage la their history. Despite n.co-.vi. ...... ......
the fact that most liberal orders for runout leaving a scar . ..
new equipment tare been given by The name Witch Ka.l U applied to
many saives uui ueniua mu
all railroads during Uie last twelve
n immnrttntaiv assisted the distil- Jams O'Keefe was still alive when re- months fhey now find themselvee un
lery employee who had oscaped in' moved. He was badly burned by j able to accept all the traffic taat Is
the rescue of their less fortunate f el-' scalding steam and soon died. Nell ( offered
iw .-rUtnBn Thfc cooker Is a steel Powell assistant engineer of the
contrivance about twenty feet In dla- cooker room was dead when taken out.
Judge Speer of Ft. Smith Is much
'f wiont tn
there is
meter and eighty feet in length used George Schaaffer ft boy died on the (impressed with Guthrie. 'I
..u u noiio r i nnunmut wv tn tlia boanital. He was Baalded . say." said the judge "that
a vaoum was formed and when the all over his body. An unknown man more substantial tone and permanency
steam was turned on to cook today's Is In an unconscious condition and to Guthrie than one usually finds in a
mash tho explosion followed The dying The searoh for the bodies u' place five times as large in the east
cooker was hurled through the north attended with the utmost difficulty. ' I am much pleased."
Hazel Salve Is the oni WitcL Hazel
Salve made that contains th pur un-
adulterated witch base!. If any other
Witch Hazel Salve Is offered you It Is
a counterfeit E C DeWItt Invented
Witch Hazel Salve and DeWltt's Witih
Hazel Salve is the beet sale In the
world for outs burns bruhtee teuer
or blind bleeding. Itching and protrud-
ing piles.
Sold by J N Wallace.
An enthusiastic reception was ac-
corded to the visiting railway oltteial
and their guewts from Ft. Smith last
evening in the city council chamber
There was the customary flow of talk.
Mayor Barnes Introducing a number of
speakers. President A. C. Dustlu ot
the Ft. Smith and Western said In
part:
This Is my fourth visit to Guthrie
and it Is the pteaaantest one of them
all because I came to Guthrie this
time on the Ft Smith nnd Western.
Our coming here three yenrs ago was
not hemlded. It was at that time thai
it was decided that a line ghould be
built from Ft Smith to Guthrie. We
ha.ve built a one-half of one pur cent
grade railroad and have now completed
216 miles of track laying. We are not
through railroad building hut we are
not now prepared to announce any ex-
tensions The Ft. Smith and Western
has no affiliation with any road in the
United States It is independent The
stock is pooled so that It can not be
Isold except by the unanimous consent
of the five stockholders. It means a
reat thing to this city the coming
of the Ft Smith and Western I be-
lieve Guthrie will be one of the larg-
i -a cltieH in the southwest There is
no reason why it can not be a rlty or
75.000 or 100 ooti population
"The 21: Hilled of the Ft Smith and
WeHt-rn cronnes twelve different roads.
with all of wtii'l e have the most
irlendl relation We also connect
lth h veil liuuk lines three of
nkich carry the products to the Gulf
of Mexico We saw as early as March
17 ihat it would be Imposxlble fr us
to reach here on time 1 came here
and conferred with Hie Commercial
tlub lirectors regarding the extension
of the time It was b the iinai.linous
vote of the board that we were grant-
ed sixty days additional time. 1 told
them of the proposition we had recelv
ed from another Oklahoma town to
to live a portion of our time in cmh
rle. We are identified with tho cnya
interests. The Ft. Smith an.l V. '
em propdabs tp tbat Cuthrtt t-
not discriminated against Our fr mbi
agents are already hfr nnd will nn
mence hoIIcIUhk our business lmru
dlately "
Judge Reed of Ft ritniih. said
"I am delighted to meet the people
ot Guthrie. I am surprised at i'h
mnuy modern bulldlngn here Thr.
are evidences of prosperity Ft. Smith
people are glad to be able to come to
Guthrie."
President Canlft of the Nickel PhUo
road said.
"I am surprised at tho develop
ment that has taken placo hero In
three yoara. I wish to thank tho peo
pie here for the many oourteslos ex
tended up upon our visit."
Mr. Frank Wordell of Boston -"From
the time our party entered In
dlan territory until we arrived ir
Guthrie it was one continual round of
surprise at the wonderful growth her.
You have civic pride here beyond com
parlson This city lmprt-es me iu
every degree of pronperit
Scott Robert sun of Ft Hroith
Smith is very glad t. connect i"
Qutbrle The Ft Smith and Wi-t n
road is the greatest road we has
there '
(i T Speer of Ft Smith -"The im
pie of Ft Hmllh extend a reetniK '
Guthrie upon this the completion f
the Ft Smith and Wen in road I i
Commercial club of Ft Kinith
soon extend an invitation to ttu "0
merclal club and citizen of Guilm.
visit the city "
J J Malioney general wanajt i
the Ft Smith and Wentt rn also up
of the advantages of th. arquislitoi '
the road to Guthrie
Judgw Dele- "1 he Fr Smith ar '
Western road is tho key to th '
at ton W are all now working -build
a tity here " Judge Dale r t
taxe up the ties and rails and divert red to the many industries coming hr
them to that city they offered us
praetieally double that which Jiad been
subscribed here. The extension was
granted We have come here and are
now a part of Guthrie We are going
and of the completion ot the uir
tq.Js here.
Mear. Horace Speed and F II
Greer closed the speechroaklng of the
evening.
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