Chickasha Daily Express. (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. FIFTEEN, No. 36, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 11, 1914 Page: 1 of 8
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ALL THE LQCAL SEWS
AEWS Bii WIRE DAILY
FROM VSITED PRESS
ASSOCIATION
EVERY DAY M THE
DAILY EXPRESS
NUMBER 36.
VOLUME FIFTEEN.
CHICKASHA OKLAHOMA WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 11 1914.
Da
Chickasha
PRESS
BOTH SIDES
SAY READY
FOR TRIAL
Case of Mn. Minnie Bonds Against
Senator Asking for $50000
Damages is Started at
Oklahoma City
POLITICAL FRAME-UP
. DECLARES GORE
Assault and Defamation of Charac-
ter Contention of Plaint ff
Character of Both Parties
to Be Attacked
Telegram by I'uiled Press.
Oklahoma City Feb. II.-"Let down
tlie bars" laid Senator Gore Just be-
fore Mrs. Minnie E. Bond's S.")0t)0
damage buit against the blind senator
v. ia beguu in the district court hers
tlliH morning.
'Tin ready for them. They nay they
can prove damaging things against uny
character but before they get through
1 will prove that the suit 1m a frame-up;
to luin.my political future" added the
neuator.
Iloth sides announced ready for
trial when the case was called before
Judge Clark this morning.
The political eminent cropped out
early In the examination of proepvC-!
tlve Jurors.
Attorney (lidding in staling the na-
ture of the cane In his opening state-
ment characterized it as au "actioa
ior damages for alleged Indecent as
bank and attempt to rape."
lOuih juror was asked his politics
whether the prestige of Gore In the
hemite would Influence him In favor
of the senator and -whether deriie
tebtiniouy given by party leaders in
Oklahoma would prejudice him.
Mrs. Honda petition alleges not
only assault but defamation of charac-
tir. allowing the presentation of tes-
timony attacking the characters of
both parties. Depositions attacking
the character of both will be Intro-
duced. Questions put to Jurors by the
defense indicated that they will con-
ti nd that Gore is an Innocent victim
of a political plot.
Vac tentative Jury was selected dur-
ing the forenoon. The alleged assault
uii Mrs. Ifond by Senator Core oc-
curred In a room in the Windsor hotel
In Washington occupied by James
Jacobs former .Democratic national
committeeman from Oklaroma. Ja-
cobs Klrby FtUpatrick. the latter be-
Ins title uttornry for the state land
department and Tliaddcus Roberta a
local lawyer were cye-w itncsM'S to
the Incident on which the mit is
based.
The defense will contend that Ja-
ci.hs nlotted to nlace Gore in a com
promising position.
Attorneys appearing in behalf of the
senator are John M. Young of Law ton
Moniau Pruitt Stuart and Cnice; Led
better Stuart and Hell of Oklahoma
City and K. L. Rogers of Little Kock.
Ark. The latter was formerly attor-
ney general of Arkansas and at pres-
ei.f Is county attorney of Pulaski
county of which Little Hock is the
county seut.
While referring to the delations
taken by the plaintiff in Chlco Texas.
Attorney Young said that he doubted
if they would be admitted as evidence
' but in the event they were other de-
positions on the same subject would
be admitted for the purpose of con-
tradicting the Chlco Texas deposi-
tions. Attorney Hons N. Llllard Is attorney
of record for Mrs. Bond and says thai
he will have associated with him as
attorneys. Hen. E. Williams of Nor-
man. S. M. Rutherford of Muskogee.
W. P. Strait of Marlton. Ark. and E.
J. C.iddings of Oklahoma City. Attor-
ney Strait was once a precepr of
Mrs. Bond!
TO DRILL AT BROMIDE.
Wilson Okla. Feb. 11. Robert Gal-
breath Democratic national commit
teeman and one of the heaxiest pro
ducers in the Tvli-a field is putting in
two strings of tools at Bromide near
Wapanucka. and will drill for oil in
that locality. A rig is being built also
near Pontotoc in Johnson county on
Ihe Jameson ranch.
BIG DERRICK IS
BEING REPAIRED
Within a lew days the big hoisting
derrick at the federal building will be
repaired a:id the stone work will com-
mence. Since it fell some days ago
the stone work has stopped. How-
ever the steel work ig being rushed
and preparations are being made to
pour the concrete for the first rioui
a lilt).
Two missive beams of the derrick
were so bent that It was necessary to
replace them which together with
other repair work has taken some
time. The derrick will be in operation
early next week.
The steel work now in progress is
ia the basement or preparatory to
placing the first floor and is practi-
cally all in place. A. James super-
eriutendent of the work stated this
morning that he expected to get every-
thing in readiness for the pouring of
the first concrete slab next week.
BANKER IS
SOON TO BE
ARRAIGNED
Telegram by United Press.
Memphis Keb. 11. President Haine
of the defunct Mercantile bank will
be arraigned in court Thursday on in-
dictments returned by the grand jury.
It is believed that he will plead guilty
and accept sentence.
The grand jury will probably sum-
mon all the directors and officers of
the bank when it re-opens the investi-
gation Krida;".
Italue's indictment was announced
keverul liimrs lifter me Khclbv count v
4.r i..... i..... ii.:
aff.urs of the Mercantile bank which
closed its doora Monday with a short-
age in Its accounts salt to aggregate
more than a million dollars.
News of the Indictment was receiv-
ed by the accused banker as the nat-
ural course of events. Raine was
placed in a cell at the county Jail Mon-
day after pleading guilty to a warrant
charging embezzlement.
"I have told my beard of directors
the whole truth Bnd have nothing fur-
ther to say of my dealings with the
bank" he is quoted as saying to a
friend who visited him.
"I am getting my lesson. 1 hope it
will be a warning to others."
IS REFUSED
BY COBURN
Telegram by luited Press.
Topcka Kan. Feb. II. F. D. Co-
burn secretary of the state board of
agriculture refused an offer of the
nomination for governor on the Pro-
gressive ticket all his expenses and
the work of the campaign to be borne
by others.
This is the second time Coburu has
refused to be a candidate for governor
and once refused to be United tSates
senator when the appointment for au
unexpired term was tendered to him.
SENTENCE
SCHMIDT
Telegram by United Press.
New York Feb. 11. Hans Schmidt
was sentenced to the electric chair
during the week beginning March 23
Schmidt received his sentence with
no show of emotion. Motions for
new- trial and stay of sentence were
denied and the defendant was immcdi
ately taken to Sing Sing.
WELL KNOWN MAN DIES.
F. C. Finerty well known in Chick
asha as a loan man died in Oklahoma
City this morning. The news came
In a telegram to J. A. Julian who was
formerly employed by Mr. Fineity.
The deceased was about .'5 years of
age.
SHE DID!
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(Copyright.)
Blue Hair Green Hair Purple Hair
Vice District in
Capital on the
BY BURTON K. STANDISH.
(Written for the United Press.)
Washington Feb. it. The national
capital's vice district Is on' the move.
The new Kenyon "iniunction and
abatement" law will forever remove
tl'l sew er'spot in the city Hccaus
Washington is the first large caster
lty to adopt this "Iowa Idea" the op
ration of the new statute will be
watched with interest all over the
country.
The Kenyon measure in brief pro-
ides that any citizen may obtain an
Injunction against use of any property
in the district for immoral purposes
on show ing that the property Is thus
used. Iowa cities adopted such a law
half a dozen years ago and have suc
ceeded in ridding their environs oi
the segregated vice district.
Washington's "red light" section has
been notorious for years. Up until
ten years ago the entire vice section
was quartered in half a dozen streets
directly off Pennsylvania avenue and
bounded by Twelfth D. E and Fif-
teenth streets. Police recognized the
boundaries of this quarter kept track
of Its denizens and preserved order
there.
Indeed It had long been the boast
of the Washington police department
that Washington's tenderloin was "the
safest plaie in the city and that
boast was not baseless. It was a rare
occasion for any of the unfortunates to
be taken Into court a.id arrests of
habitues of the houses or of casual
visitors were far from frequent.
The Washington tenderloin has been
senii-offieially recognized and rigidly
restricted on the theory that it meant
that the residential sections would be
keit absuluely "clean" and they have
been up to the present time with
mighty few exceptions. I
It was also proved by the police
that this semi-official recognition and
segregation meant that Washington's
streets by day or night were absolutely
free of street walkers. The women of
the segregated district were known
and registered as such and they knew
that "street walking'' would mean
exile from Washington.
Persons who have openly or secret-
ly opposed the Kenyon measure have
prophesied that stamping out of the
tenderloin will mean that Washing-
tons' residential sections will suffer
as a result; that if some of the women
that are chased out of the tenderloin
do not spread to other tactions others
will come into the city and manage to
live as they do In New York Philadel
phia and other cities where such un
fortunates conduct small "establish
ments in good neighborhoods.
A vice crusade in 1 904 forced a more
restricted quarter for the vice section
and a second "City of the Living
Dead" sprang into being in the south
east section of the city a scant three
blocks from the capitol building.
Tbe older vice area was within a
ston'e throw of the postoffice building
Any Color of Hair to Match Gown
the
ove
and the treasury department and with-
in sight of the White House Wash-
iii.iiton monument and the department
of agriculture. The new red light dis-
trict did not supplant the old the
nolice crusade suddenly dying for
some obscure "reason.
The passage of the Kejiyou measure
through the senate and house marked
the end of ten years' fight by civic
reformers. Their pleas that the na-
tion's capital known as one of the
"cleanest" cities in the world should
permit organized vice to foster and
grow in a part of tliecity set aside foj
it had hitherto gone unheeded.
One other thing which It Is expect-
ed that the Kenyon measure will ac
complish is to make public the exact
owners of property In the "red light"
district.
Veiled charges that powerful local
scurces have prevented its 'cleaning
up" because certain prominent indi-
viduals ov ned houses rented out to
prostitutes have heretofore been
heard. The Kenyon law is expected
to force appearance in court of the
actual owners of the premises against
which an injunction is sought as well
as of the tenants. That the law will
result in a general clean-up is declared
by proponents who point out that the
measure not only provides for a per-
manent injunction against use of such
property for immoral purposes but
also permits the condemnation and
sale of all fixtures and furniture in
such houses.
WHEAT NOT
DAMAGED
According to the best information
obtainable at this time the fear that
was manifested for the wheat crop
during the cold days just past is
withal groundless nd the crop is in
splendid condition.
It was feared that during the zero
weather the wheat roots would be
frozen and the crop badly damaged
without the presence of a blanket of
snow on the field. However such con-
ditions have not resulted. The ex-
tremely cold weather was of short
duration and the fact that the wheat
is matted to a certain extent on he
ground afofrded some protection to
the ro.-tc.
While the wheat is a little yellow in
spots this condition is thought to be
of little importance as with warmer
weather again growth w ill agaiu com
mence and the yellow tinge will dis-
apear. The "cold snap" is thought to
be more of a help than otherwise as
it checks the premature ghowth at
this time of year that might result ir.
disaster later in the season.
M
Fashion's Edict New Item.
OPERATORS .
BLAMED BY
INFERENCE
Federal Investigator Finds Western
Federation of Miners Works
Lawfully Probe Conl in-
ued by Congressmen
Telegram by United Press.
Washington Feb. II. The investi-
gator appointed by the federal com-
mission on industrial relations today
reported that the Western Federation
of MineT ooerates lawfully and by in-
ference bla'ined the Michigan troubles
on the operators who refused to re
cognize the federation.
Telegram by United Press.
Hancock Mich. Feb. .11. lleloie
the congressional investigating com
committee today witnesses continued
their recital of conditions in the cop-
per field which lead up to t tie strike
ol tlie miners. .
Thomas president of the Ahmeek
local cf the Western Federation of
Miners related how in his experience
as a miner he once had been compell
ed to go from the Cliff mine in w inte
with his clothes wet to cut up timber
for use below.
"1 think that's an outrage" Repre-
sentative Casey exclaimed. "Is there
no state law to protect miners from
such Inhuman conditions?"
Angus W. Kerr of counsel for the
federation to whom the question was
directed replied that there was no
such law.
Olaf Iiergh a miner told tlie com-
mittee that a mine captain in South
Kearsarge mine had cheated him out
of $"J by changing the measurements
on iock ne tiau taKen out Decause lie
had told him he was going to quit.
"Have you no way to rectify these
deplorable conditions?" Representative
Casey asked.
The witness replied that the mine
captains word is final llergh said
he opiiosed the one-man drill now used
in tlie mines because it was danger-
ous for one man to operate it. He
said his brother had been injured for
life when one of these machines fell
on his back.
Charles K. Hietalla district secre-
tary of the federation told the inves
tigators he had be'n discharged from
Quincy mine in IS'10 because he was
a federation member. Hietalla said
federation officers had tried to per-
suade tlie miners not to go put until
all other means of getting their de-
mands had been exhausted.
O. N. Hilton .senior counsel for the
federation read into the record let-
ters and telegrams exchanged between
officers here and lu Denver for the
purpose of showing as he said that
President Mover and Vice President
Mahoney were not responsible for the
st like.
)ISTR!f.T COURT
CONVENES AGAIN
District court reconvened this moili-
ng and the case of J. E. Lucas vs. W.
2. King went to bat again. The jury
md witnesses dismissed last week
vhen Judge Hailey was called to Wau-
ika reported to the court this moili-
ng. It is almost impossible to tell
heu the present case will te c6m-
deted. It is a replevin action iuvolv-
ng a number of horses and mules and
vent to trial last week. The session
f the court will continue.
MEW SUITS IN DISTRICT COURT.
W. L. Nettles vs. J. W. Fields action
n replevin. lien Franklin W. W.
Jartholomew.
J. R. Abercroinbie vs. A. L. Molierly
ibstract of judgment $r.i!i.."J. liure-
oot & Carmichiiel.
COLD AGAIN
UP NORTH
I'elegram by United Press.
' Chicago Feb. 11. The renewal
of
ero temperature in the middle west
.as predicted today.
Devils Lake N. D. reported 32 be-
ow zero this morning and Duluth 'JS
below zero.
From 10 dio.'S below to 4 above
A'as forecasted for the 'middle west
oday
SALUTE IS
IGNORED
I'elegram by United Press.
New Oilachs Feb. 11. "-The two
'orts here ignored the salute of the
Mexican gunboat aragoso when it
watt arriving (his morning.
"The Huerta government Is not re-
.ognized by the United States" was
the explanation given by Major Klep-
hert division commander.
The Mexican commander protested
to Washington in behaif of HuerU.
TWO LOST
ON A BOAT
Telegram by United Press.
" New Orleans Feb. 11. Cup!. Wil-
liam Harry aged tl" of the s'eamboat
(.em perished with Edward Comeaux
son of the bout's owner after he pilot-
ed the burning vessel to the short en-
abling nineteen persons aboard to es-
cape. Four negroes were drowned. Capt.
Harry was a pal of Mark Twain when
the latter was employed on river
steamers.
CONCESSIONS TO
STREET CAR MEN
Telegram by United Press.
Indianapolis Iiid. Feb. 11. The
public service commission of Indiana-
today reported its findings as arbiters
between tlie IndianaKIis Traction
Terminal Co. and its employes.
The findings granted the employes
several concessions including a slight
increase in wages and shorter hours
for runs.
. . . . 1
Counsel for the mining companie
wanted to know how many members
the federation had in the copper coun-
try the day before the strike began.
Hietalla gave the number as SnoO and
asserted that !o per cent of them
worked underground. The w itness was
asked to furnish the committee with
the number of men receiving strike
benefits now. Hietalla said he could
not do so as lie had sent his books U
Denver to be audited.
Hietalla said the federation was
distributing about S:9HK) weekly in
money and store orders among its
members here.
DRILLERS
ENCOUNTER
OBSTACLES
Lindsay People are Compelled to
Wait for Casing -Well Has
Reached Depth of Over
1000 Feet
PLUGGING AWAY
ON JONES PLACE
Drilling at Depth of 400 Feei with
Little Trouble -Hall Returns
from Mounds with Good
News
During the past several days wink
with tlie Chickasha oilers has been
progressing iu spasms Bonie are clos-
ed dow n temporarily while others are
making as much progress as is ex-
pected. The Lindsay people were shut down
yesterday on account of a shortage
on casing. Their policy is to carry
the casing down with the well to pre-
vent caving. They set a quantity of
casing yesterday afternoon however
and drilling was expeete dto start to-
day. They have reached a depth of
1030 feet aud the well is cased to a
depth of louO feet. The formation
they have reached is a chocolate co.1- '
ored gravel that Is very susceptible to
caving.
Conditions have not changed partic-
ularly at the Alberta well on the
Jones farm except that they are still
plugging away with comparatively lit-
tle trouble experienced and ha' e
reached- depth of something oor
4oo feet. The formation has been from
time to time quite rocky and in at
least one instance they have been
compelled to drill through Bolid rock.
The drillers at the Cement well are
still marking time aud saying things
about the railroad company blamed
with the delay in their shipment of
casing. Standing in the well is some
tiOO feet of water with a quantity of
gas bubbling and boiling up through
It the rumble of which may be heard
100 feet or more from the mouth of
the well. IteportB from there state
that the flow of gas Is getting strong-
er as the days pass and the drillers are
anxious to get the water cased off and
proceed with the drilling into what
they believe to be a splendid strata of
gas sand. The casing is expected to
arrive today at Cement and within the
near future work will undoubtedly be
resumed.
F. C Hall returned today from
Mounds Okla.. and brings what is
considered to be good news to tho
Chickasha stockholders in the Garland
on company. "It was thought that
the well No. 4 of the Garland com-
ps.iy would be brought in yesterday"
said Mr. Hall "but owing to a delay
it will not come until today. I could
not wsi't to see it. I saw a well
brought in yesterday just .;e0 feet
south of the Garland No. 4 and it was
the prettiest thing I ever saw. Oil
shot ao feet over the top of the der-
rick. It is about a 75 barrel well and
absolutely proves the south part of our
leases. Garland No. 4 will be brought
in today. The other wells are pump-
ing day and night. Only a matter of
a mile or so away are wells ou the old
Glenn Pool that have been pumping
t'aere for 14 years."
MARRIAGE LICENSE.
P.ut one marriage license was issued
at the office of the county judge this
morning: Robert Tims aged 2o. Rush
Springs and Miss Nannie Cary aged
.'0. Rush Springs.
WEATHER FORECAST.
fair
For Oklahoma:
Tonight fair;
and warmer.
Thursday
Temperaturs Yesterday.
Recorded by the local U.
weather bureau observer:
Maximum .
Minimum . 25
S.
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