The Weekly Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, October 8, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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VINITA CR.AI6 COUNTY OKLAHOMA. OCTo&ER 6. 1909 2
NUMBER J 7
JURY RECOMMENDS
12 !EAR SEDTESGE
Shlnn Found Guilty of Manslaughter
District Court Hearing John
Pirk Case.
TROUBLE BUY RESULT
' FROM ONE LICENSE
After deliberating for three hours
the Jury In the Shlnu murder case
Wednesday night returned a verdict
finding defendant M. E. Shlnn guilty of
i manslaughter in Uie first degree and
recommending a sentence of twelve
years in the state penitentiary. The
closing argument in this case that has
occupied the attention of the court
'-. daring the fast two days was finished
by County Attorney Brady about nine
o'clock and the case was turned over
to the Jury."
Judge Brown gave the Jury Instruc-
tions to find a verdict upon one of
four cI&bbcb of killing. First; mur-
der In the first degree as charged in
the indictment. Such a verdict to
carry with it the death penalty. Sec-
ond; murder in the second degree
with a life sentence in the ptate pris-
on. Thhfy. manslaughter in the first
degree with a penalty of not less than
four years in the penitentiary and
fourth Justifiable homicide which
would have been equal to an acquittal
as the killing was never denied by the
defendant.
Judge' Brown deferred passing sen-
tence until Saturday morning.
The case of John Parks charged
with shooting Chas. Jeans was called
when the court convened this morn-
ing the' entire forenoon was occu-
pied In selecting a Jury but the panel
waa completed Just before the noon
recesn and the hearing of evidence
began this afternoon.
Three marriage licenses were issued
!from the office of the county Judge
since Tuesday noon. A permit to
wed was granted to Lafatte Newman
jaged 25 and Misa Gertrude Worland
I aged 18 of Centralla late yesterday
Today licenses were issued to Chas.
Logan LogBton aged 22 and Miss Pearl
Hell Illggins aged 18 of Bluejacket
and to Henry Ivan Ward aged 37 and
Mary Alice Eaton 34 of Elk City.
There seems to be some trouble brew-
ing over the license Issued to the
couple from Bluejacket. Tho father
of the girl appeared at the county
court this morning to ascertain if the
applicant for the license had sworn
that the bride was eighteen years old.
The father states she was under age
and may cause some trouble over the
affair.
IE Bill
SO
Q
0 EXONERATE
OFFICIALS
Submits Affidavits From all of Sixteen Women
Prisoners Who Were Confined Here Denying
Any Knowledge of Misdeeds Accorded
Sheriff Ridenhoar's MenSeverely Criti-
cises Oklahoma City Paper for Pub-
lishing Such Report.
MYSTERY SURROUNDS
SHOOTING OF PEASQDY
CUMMINS REPLIES
TO CANHON ATTACK
Iowa Senator. Declares Emphatically
For a Change in Rules Govern-
ing the House.
GUAM'S ACT!
Til! APPROVED
Says He Found That Former Secre-
tary Had Seriously Abused the
Privileges Accorded Him.
Corporation Commissioner J. J. Mc-
Aleater has issued the following state-
ment concerning his position in the
Chapman affair:
An erroneous rumor has been circul-
ated throughout the state. It has been
stated in the press that I had given
lir. W. L. Chapman full authority
und approved of his entire relations
with the public service corporations
operating in the state.
After my interview In the "Oklaho-
man" I further Investigated the Chap-
man affair and I found that Mr. Chap-
man bad seriously abused the privi-
leges accorded him by me.
I found that Chairman Ixjve did
right in suspending him and I there-
fore called for Mr. Chapman's 'rebig-
itation and voted for Mr. E. C. Patton
as his successor.
Mr. Chapman kept the records and
dockets of the commission in an ex-
cellent manner and was a vtry com-
petent and able secretary.
I want the people of the state to
know my petition In this matter.
(Signed) J. J. McALESTER
Commissioner.
FIIL SETTLEOEHT OF
CLEVEliii CUR MUDDLE
By Associated Press.
Cleveland O. Oct. 5. A conference
waa held today to arrange the final
details which will result in the abso-
lute settlement of the local street rail-
way eltuatior which has been blttrely
..Tltatpd .(or eight years and which
hum been a political Issue since It's
inception. The proposed settlement
plans provide a three cent fare with a
cent extra charge for transfer. The
company geta a twenty-five year franchise.
Kuoxville ia. Oct. 7. Taking issue
with Speaker Joseph O. Cannon who
from tho same platform Tuesday ac-
cused him of Joining hands with Bryan
Senator Albert B. Cummins in a
speech yesterday attacked the rules
of tho house of representatives snd
defended the six Iowa Insurgents who
voted against the Payne tariff bill
i Senator Cummins declared emphati
cally for a change In the house rules
whfca will take from tho speaker the
power to namo committees and stated
that ' 'is one issue Is all that is at
stake In the f ubt over the rules lie
assorted that i.o mortal should have
the powf that lies In the hands of
the t.piiker of the house of represen-
tatives under present rules and Inti-
mated that were ho a member of the
house he would have voted against
Cannon for speaker.
Flatly denying Speaker Cannon's as-
swrtlon that Cummins like Bryan is
continually agitating the tariff ques-
tion with a view to securing free trade
the Ben a tor declared his unalterable
opposition to any further general re-
vision. He affirmed his faith in the
protective principle but expressed the
hope that congress would never again
attempt to revise the tariff without
sufficient information to act Intelligent-
ly on all schedules. Referring to the
speaker's criticism of the Iowa insur-
gents Senator Cummins said they vot-
ed against the Payne tariff bill because
they could not conscientiously support
some of its schedules which the
rules prevented thera from amending.
!n explaining how the tariff bill was
passed he said:
"The house had the bill with five
thousand or more Items making duties
that poitivJy concerned the welfare
of every man and woman in the state
of Iowa and yet the representatives
had a chance to vote fur amendments
to paragraphs relating only to hides
oil lumber barley and barley-malt
and to nothing else.
"And that bill was adopted in the
house of representative as a whole
without the slightetit opportunity on
the part of the Individual men to ex-
press an opinion on any one commod-
ity separate from the if-et of the bill
save on these five things I have mon-
tloned. "It waa adopted because they knew !
that if they did not vote for it their
names would be singularly conspicu-
ous by their absence from the list of
house committee appointments.
"It la a farce to call that tariff bill
the deliberate Judgment of the bouse
of representatives. It may be tho
best law In the world but when you
send men down to Washington to rep-
resent the people of Iowa don't you
think they ought to have a right to
express their opinions and their objec-
tions If they have them?"
Outhrle Okla. Oct. 7.- MIkh Kate
Barnard state commissioner of char-
ities and corrections filed her report
on the investigation of tho story print-
ed in an Oklahoma City newspaper
on September 26 giving a purported
interview with Myrtlo McGeo which
related a shocking account of prison
Immorality in the Vinlta branch of
the state penitentiury.
Miss Barnard submits in her report
affidavits signed by all of the sixteen
women Inmates of the Vinlta prison
in which they deny any knowledge of
such happenings us related in the
newspaper but on the contrary every
one of them states that she was kind-
ly treated and commend Sheriff Uideu-
hour of Crulg county for his pulntstak-
Ing efforts In looking after their com-
forts while in the prison at Vinlta re-
citing that during the excessive hot
weather the sheriff frequently took
them for walks in the fresh nlr under
guard.
Miss Barnard says in conclusion in
her report: "In the face of tho evi-
dence secured after a careful exam-
ination Into tho matter It is clear
to me that Sheriff Kidenhour and the
guards at the Vinita prison are not
guilty as charged and should bo free
from public suspicion."
She also takes occasion to severely
criticise the Oklahoma City newspa-
per for printing Buch degrading stories
upon the statement of an exconvict.
EIGHTEEN BODIES
WERE: RECOVERED
Over Seven Hundred Men Were at
Work In Mine When Disaster
Occurred.
By Associated Press.
Ladysmith. B. 0. Oct G. Kighteen
bodies have been recovered from the
extension of the mine of the Welling
ton Colliery company near here
where thirty-two men lout their Uvea
last night us a result of an explosion
of fire damps. Over seven hundred
men were working in the mine and a
number were brought out Unconscious.
Twenty-five of the imprisoned men
were rescued but the rapidly epread-
Ing fire prevented the rescuers from
completing their work. The workers
are making every effort to force fur-
ther entrance Into the two levels af-
fected by the explosion in an effort to
save any who may bo living and to
recover the bodies of the dead before
they are consumed.
The Dead:
The known dead:
M'GUirtE.
TII0MA3 O'CONNKLL.
KOBERT WHITE.
JAMES MOUNEAUX.
D. IRVING.
All the men r-n:ucd ho far hit bad-
ly Injured.
The shock wan terrific. Its cuevt
was confined to the stope wherein it
occurred. All of the men In the other
stopes and levels escaped. Three
levels had not been heard from and
there were more than thirty men In
theHe of whom only a driver and a
trapper had come out. It Is ImposMible
to get at theee levels and It Is feared
that all of the men have perished.
I com
IJUIICIII CASE
National Life Insurance Company's
Attorney Asks That Young Be
Cited For Contempt.
By Associated Press.
Guthrie Okla. Oct. 4
-The final
hearing of the temporary injunction
and restraining order against'Bank
Commissioner Young restraining him
from paying the depositors of the tsus-
pended Columbia Bank & Trust com-
pany of Oklahoma City was continued
by Federal Judge Cotterall today un-
til Thursday next. In the meanwhile
tho restraining order remains In
force.
C. B. Ames repreKentlng the Na-
tional Life Insurance compauy of Chi-
cago (stated to the court today that
it's order was being Ignored in that
Commissioner Young had opened the
bank today and was carrying on the
husinen8. He osked that it citation
for contempt he issued. Judge Cot-
tenil announced that he would con-
nider a contempt citation on submis-
sion of proper affidavits that the order
was being disobeyed. The evidence
on this point will be heard this afternoon.
SENATOR Ou'EII WILL
Balloon l Air Two Days.
Mobile A!. Oct. 7. The balloon
"Centennial" competing In the Lohm
cup race from St. Louis with H. K.
Honeywell and J. W. ToI!an4 aboard
alighted at Silas A!a. nar here after
having been in the air forty t trH hours
and covering four bundr I ft A tighty-
five miles.
No Protection For Liquor Shipments.
By Associated Press .
Muskogee Okla. Oct. 2. At a con-
terence between C. J. Jackson general-
attorney for the Missouri Kansas &
Texas railway and County Attorney
Crump today it was agreed that this
railroad would no longer protect Inter
state liquor shipments from seizure by
Oklahoma officers. Local officers say
they will now search cars and open and
! confiscate all liquor consigned to Muskogee.
ORi!!D JURY MDICTS
DEPUTY JUNG
Oklahoma City Okla. Oct. G. Jake
Armstrong deputy sheriff and five
others were1fc1cted for accepting
grafts by the grand jury here yester-
day afternoon.
Armstrong has ben under arrest
for 6ome time. Others whose names
are not given out are under surveil-
lance. -.
It is said some of the indictments
are for misdemeanors. No elective
county or city officials were Indicted.
CONVICTION OF JOHN R.
WALSH WAS CONFIRMED.
By Associated Prim
Chicago 111. Oct. 5. The verdict cf
the trial court which found John It.
Walsh gnllty of misapplication of the
funds of the Chicago National bnnk
was affirmed by the United States cir
cuit coart of appeals here today.
MVE HOI SOO!
Washington I). 0. Oct. 7.- Senator
Robert L. Owen and wife of MuKko-
gee Okla. returned to Washington
Tuesday after a threw months' sojourn
In Europe. Senator Owen will leave
here for Oklahoma within (the next
ten days. Announcement was made
at the department of Justice today that
assistant attorney general Russell will
continue In the 25000 land suits In
Muskogee for the government. The
administration is sanguine that tho
circuit court of appeals at St. Imis
will Bustaln the government In the
tent case : jw pending there In
which event It Is said that compro-
mises WflKbe. made in the settlement
of tbe ttlflr uit which were dismiss
ed by Judge Campbell.
By Associated Press.
Kansas City Mo. Oct. 7. Grayold
Peabody a Bon of F. II. Peabody a
lawyer at Worcester Mass. died at
the hospital here today aa a result
of a revolver wound. Mystery sur-
rounds the shooting which occurred
In the office of the night watchman
in a building being erected here. The
watchman Bays Peabody shot himself
while handling a revolver while Pea-
body is said to have told an officer
that the watchman shot htm accident
ally.
OF E
HE
6IVEII TO DR. COOK
Peary Arctic Club is Going Over
Proofs Preparatory to Making
Statement to Public.
I
Washington Oct. &. "Tbii is the
home of tho American flag which you
curried to tho North Pole" was the ex-
pression of recognition given Dr. Fred-
erick A. Cook by II. B. F. Macfarlund
president of the district board of com-
missioners in officially welcoming the
explorer at the municipal building yes-
terday in the presence of a crowd that
taxed its capacity.
"President Taft Admiral Dewey
General (ireely and Admiral Schley
and other distinguished residents of
Washington have Individually express-
ed their appreciation of your great
achievement" said tbe commissioner.
"It is fitting that the entire national
capital through Its executive govern-
ment (should give you a hearty wel-
come and cordial congratulations."
Dr. Cook waa given an ovation when
he arrived at the municipal build'n?
and whn he arona to respond ta the
commissioner's tribute he was greeted
with prolonged cheering.
"I fall to find words to suit my ap-
preciation of your kindness" Dr. Cook
said. "I am a man of few words and
I can only say I thank you."
The explorer then Btood In the etu
ter of the room bebide Commissioners
Macfarland and Judaon nnd was given
a hearty handclasp by the hundreds
who passed In line. Not more than
half the crowd fftvfiear Dr. Cook as
ho was compelled to depart for Balti-
more. Baltimore Md. Oct. . Dr. Freder-
ick A. Cook the explorer reached this
city at noon coming from Washington
for his lecture here la.st night. He was
greeted at tno rauroaa station Uy .1
few hundred persons.
After a brief stop at the Hotel Belve-
dere Dr. Cook was taken to the city
hall when in the course of an in-
formal reception he was introduced by
Mayor Mahool to about 1000 m-n wo-
men and children of all cliiKHes.
New York Oct. S. The officers or
the Peary Arctic Club held a meeting
yesterday to formally pans On the proof
of Comamnder Robert K. Peary that ho
has prepared to show that Dr. Cook
did not reach the Pole. TIjm state-
ment will be made public In a few
days.
The following resolution was adopt
ed by the officers of the Arctic Club:
"That the I'eary Arctic Club cordial-
ly welcome home Comamnder Robert
K. Peary C. B. U. g. N. and congratu-
lates him upon the attainment April
6 1909 of the North Pole crowning
years of arduous Arctic work of devo-
tion to ideals and of loyalty to coun-
try and invites him to honor It with
his company at dinner at a date con-
venient to him.
"That the club tenders to tbe offi-
cers scientific Btaff and men of the ex
pedition Its thanks and appreciation
for zealous performance of duty which
with superior discipline and excellent
'team work' resulted in complete suc-
cess." The crew of the Arctic ship Roose-
velt was paid off yemterday end given
transportation home to Newfoundland.
HUSBAND APPEARS
AGAINST MS WIFE
Nephew Who Stole Aunt Givsn Sent-
ence of Four Months in County
Jail.
Kansas City Mo. t) L D Kdwartl
Simpson aged thirty-seven and bts
aunt Airs. Mary Simpson whf -rami!
here from Cleveland O. four'weclw
ago were arraigned In court tfMfry cmj
a warrant charging tlkem . ttllh 9
statutory offense and pleaded rUty
ami wern Hetitenee1 tti fnur mrrfha'ti
the county Jail. s
Hlne Simpson a prosperous real es-
tate man of Cleveland the husband of
Mrs. Simpson appeared ngalnut ttets
pair. He has been tracking Ms wltp
Blnco she deserted hint last month
taking with her their eight year-ora
son.
Charired with stealini' his ii!ir.le
wife Edward Simpson was arreKtfM
yesterday afternoon by the police cm
a state warrant Issued from JdkIIco
Trf'iXes B. Shoemaker's court.
Mrs. Mary Simpson his aunt thn
wife of a wealthy Cincinnati wfrdeEabu
merchant also was arrested.
Simpson the nephew is a iiiualeU
man with a wife nnd four children.
His aunt Is the mother of an 8 year-
old boy whom the alleged nnnways
brought to Kansas City.
According to Hlne Simpson .V wita.
and nephew left Cincinnati fot:? -weelo
ago.' They are said to hav ime di-
rect lo Kansas C(ty. Since th 'r ditiajK
pearunco the husband has hem learn-
ing the' county. Sunday he c'ue ta
Kansas uity mm Detectives !; h Mvt u
and Truman of the police d ;urineat
were put on the case.
Simpson and his nurt wer-- J-.-uitijl
yesterday by the police in a vwinSng.
house at the corner of Seventh aulr
Oak streets. Simpson has b-i wak-
Ine- n llvtrnr Kf.lllntr rut'si fnim ' m-a fr.
house.
The Simpson family U Bald tr- ? tiw
Cincinnati where Htae Slraprcj mxh
wife are leaders in noetety
PLEADS HOT GUILTY
TOfilDERG
lift
Street Car Conduc-tor Who is Ctrtet
With Killing Rufus ConeHa R
fuses to Make StatemeM.
Muskogee Okla. Oct. ii i.Ai-ri
Smalley the street car eonducrtr tvo
shot and killed Rufus Comic?!-! t-riUi
the latter wai a passenger irpt-n X.ht
car .Monday night la being .m.. 6y
the county authorities on a 7 arrant
sworn out against him yestr.Ui fcy
Deputy Sheriff Joe Drpew hkM-pisg
him with murder. 1
Smalley was arraigned in huiirn
Bailey's court yesterday and piild 110.
guilty to the charge and wo it i.id-
Jnin.ar
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ju thiii
'tf4e-
.; Man
NEIGHBOR SUSPECTED
OF FARMER'S MURDER.
By Associated Press.
Netigh ;eb. Oct. 7. A. (i. Kakow.
a farmer living In Willow township
near here was found dead In his past-
ure today with a bullet hole In his
head. It is believed he was murder-
ed. A neighbor with whom he hd
had trocbl Is suspected.
MUSKOGEE BOY EXPELLED
FROM ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY.
ed to Jail to await the pre'
hearing that began before Judf:
this morning at 9 o'clock. .
New developments in the c
lucking as Smalley still deer
make a statement other tLu
he fired the fatal shut in ;
fense.
The grief at the CotmelU h
such yesterday that little bearer
the case could be learned. Mrv. t'4n-
nefla who was prostrated over tft
event and under the care of s yt.yni-
clan refused to make a Matenx nL
From those who talked wiy rr:i.
Connella it was learned that L wit-
nexsed the Khootlng from the!r ?.enu
which is only a short distant f-or
the car line at the point wb tha
tragedy occurred.
Funeral services were fcel.l
day afternoon over the botfy lr
will be shipped to Mrs. Conor !?.u't c!
home at Stonewall far burial Tim
services 'ere held at the CtmrUi
home.
"t
PARADES AND BANQUET
OCCUPY PRESIDENT'S littt.
By Associated Press.
Champaign III. Oct. 1. The council
of administration of tbe University of
Illinois today expelled from the uni-
versity H. D. Fmmert of 'Muskogee
Okla. and Arthur W. Ide of Mineral
111. members of the sophomore class
for the alleged participation in hazing.
By Associated Pres
San Francisco Cal Oct. i. l-r-indent
Taft bef.ui a ptrenuous day
he arrived here this moraluf. t r-j-y
minute of his time will be taitea
with parades reviews reception?? juo-
tor rldeu and brief speeches cu!ni m
Ing with an extended address at a tH'n-
que tonight. .
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