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ARDMORE I. T THURSDAY EVENIN(i AUGUST 22 l!K)7.
NUMBER 77
SENSATIONAL
CHARGE MADE
SENATOR PLATT'8 DECEPTION
TO COVER BANK SMASH.
CAMPED ON SENATORS TRAIL
John Donovan Rich Lumberman Sue
ceeds In Having Grave Opened
Find! Instead of Daker'a Re-
main Wax Figure Purled.
Chicago. III. Auk. 21. Although
"liy order of Senator T. C. Piatt" tlio
remains of 1-a Flora S. linker sup-
Istsed to have been burled In the
cemetery at Dig Ilaplds Mich. were
not to be expOHed to view James
Donovan once a rich lumberman
formerly of 1 tin Kaplds now IIvIiik In
Chicago succeeded today In having
the grave opened and the Ktartllug
declaration now In made that tho
grave had been opened before and
that quick lime and other chemicals
had been used to obliterate the fea-
tures of the body In the casket.
Further It In asserted by Donovan
and Plnkerton detectives that careful
measurement of the coffiu'H contents
uhow them not to have been I laker's
remains. "
They chnrgu nlso that the face In
the coffin was treated with wax to re-
semhle linker's when It wan shipped
to Dig ILiplds and that on the small
piece of Klass through which tho face
could bo dimly seen was pasted this
"Class not bo removed from face"
notice:
"lly order of T. C. Piatt president
of United States Express company
president Tioga Lumber company and
Tioga National bank and founder and
controller of Northern National bank
of Dig Itapldx Mich."
Donovan who lost heavily In the
failure of the Northern National bank
of which linker was cashier has for J
years Insisted that linker was allvo
and that Senator Piatt was a party to
the deception and claimed that linker
under another name now has charge
of certain of Senator Piatt's lumber
Interests and that he sailed for Eu-
rope three days before the date of
his supposed death In New York City
years ago from where the coffin con-
taining the body was shipped to Dig
Ilaplds by the United States Express
company of which Senator Piatt Is
president.
Not the lenst Interesting part of
Donovan's pursuit of Ilaker and his
effort lo show Senator Piatt's alleged
part In the plot Is the declaration
that Ilaker Introduced the aged Sen-
ator to Mao Wood who Is Hulng him
for divorce and also to Carrie Thomp-
son who later becamo Mrs. Piatt
thus complicating Piatt's matrimonial
trouble. Donovan declares that Baker
fled from Big Rapids to Chicago and
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The State
OF OKLAHOMA
Over 270 Different Courses
Seven Distinct Schools
SCHOOL OF APPUEl)
SCIENCE Including Civil
Electrlcnl und Muununleul
Engineering.
COM.EG-E OK AltTS AND
SCIENCES.
SOIIOOI OF FINE AltTS
offering full courses In Vo-
cnlnnd Instrumental Muslo
SOHOOIi OF MINES.
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE.
SCHOOL OF PHAHMACY
PllEPAUATOHY SCHOOL
for those who have not had
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there met Carrie Thompson when she
was a member of the "Mack Crook
company. An Intimate knowledge of
susceptibility suggested to
Men of taking Miss Thump
-"duclng her to Piatt
''aker was last
It Is cU.r
seen In Ilonolu
years after
his supposed death k..d that on ac
count of his knowledge of tho affairs
of the Northern National In the fail
ure of which about $2000000 was In-
volved and which ruined many hun-
dreds of small and large depositors.
8enator Piatt and others were Inter-
ested In having him thought dead.
The plan started Donovan asserts. In
the use of a dummy body a wax face
and a coffin so constructed that those
who attended the funeral from the
residence of O. F Stenrns on South
Stato street Illg ltaplds were easily
deceived.
Now that the body has been ex-
humed Donovan says he will continue
In New York the fight he has wnged
for several years to prove that Ilaker
Is alive and to bring Justice Upoii sev-
eral persons who have directed the
plan of deception. He nill bo assist-
ed by Mrs. Ilaker who although at
tho time of the supisjsed death wns
denied the privilege of kissing the
fnce of her former husbnnd or of see-
ing It exposed to view at the time of
the funeral. Donovan now says posi-
tively that this request wns denied
because the conspirators knew the
body was not linker's
WALKS STREETS TO REST
MAN HAS NOT HAD AN HOUR OF
RESTFUL SLEEP IN FORTY
YEARS.
Pittsburg Pa. Aug. 21. To live
without sleep for only a short tlmo
would kill the average) person but
there Is a man In Pittsburg who has
not known a refreshing sleep for over
forty-one years. This seems almost
Incredible but there are scores of
people who will vouch for the truth of
this strange statement.
The victim of this strange nffllcllon
Is George H. lletset a former hotel
ma nand for ao.u-f time In tho employ
of a phoenix Hrewlng Company. He
Is a prominent Klk and a member ot
Pittsburg lodge No. 11.
Helser has consulted some of the
most eminent specialists on Insomla
In the country nnd they declare that
they cannot nccount for his Inability
to sleep. In speaking of his strange
case Helser said:
"I don't know what sound sleep Is.
I never have had an hour of restful
slumber In the laBt forty-one years
of my forty-seven years of life. It
may seem strange to most people hut
such Is a fact and all my friends nnd
others who have known me for a long
tlmo will vouch for the truth of my
statement. I have gone for months at
a time without even closing nn eye."
Helser oftentimes walks tho streets
all night for rest.
A sure way to take a long Journey
Is to be with somebody you don't
llko.
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DAVID R. BOYD Pres.
AIIMINIKTHATION HAM
NORMAN 0IUH0NU.
STANDARD
INNOCENT
OIL CONCERN ISSUES PHAMPH-
LET WHICH SAY8 SO.
ESPECIALLY TO BIG FINE
Deprecates Public Clamor and As
serts Company Will Look to
Higher Courts for Rescue From
Vindictive Politics.
New York Aug. 21. Tho directors
of tho Standard Oil company today
Issued a pamphlet to Its employes and
stockholders relative to the fine nt
123240000 Imposed on the Standard
OH company of Indiana. The pamph-
let contains n statement from Presi-
dent Moffatt of tho Standard Oil com-
pany and a number of editorials arti-
cles favorable to the company taken
from various American newspapers.
Tho especially noteworthy feature of
the pamphlet Is Its Introductory
statement which Is ns follows:
"Tho directors of tho Standard Oil
company In printing this pamphlet de-
sire to emphasize for the half-million
people directly Interested in Its wel
fare tho assurance that the company is
ah?olutcly Innocent of wrongdoing In
any of the prosecutions lately Insti
tuted against It lu tho federal courts.
Particularly Is this so In tho present
Chicago and Alton case inado no
torious by the sensational fine of I2!l.-
240000 Imposed on the Standard OH
company of Indiana.
"It should be known as widely ns
Iiosslble that this Is no case of re-
bate or discrimination but simply of
tho legality of a freight rate. It
should be known that the verdict was
obtained by the government upon the
most hair-splitting technicalities
aided by tho rigorous exclusion ot
evidence that would have removed all
presumption of guilt.
"If the Judgment In question bo al
lowed to stand the company will be
forced to pay $20000 that Is fifty
times the value of the oil for every
car load carried over the Alton road
during the two years at an open Cc
rate a rate used over three competing
railroads for from ten to fourteen
years. Tho trial Judge refused to al-
low proof that the Cc rate had been
filed by the Chicago and Eastern Il-
linois and wns therefore a 'legal
rate. He refuted to allow proof that
Unseed oil for Instance was carried
at 8c and other bulk commodities as
low as Sc. He Insisted that 18c was
tho only legal rate for oil when no
ono had ever paid It and when It was
authoritatively sworn that it did not
apply to oil.
'Tho case has been taken on ap
peal to tho higher courts to which
wo must look for that calm Judgment
which will rescue the rights ot tho
citizen from the field of public clamor
nnd from tho domain of vindictive
politics."
'So persistent and adroit has been
the warfare waged with all the over-
powering authority of tho federal ad-
ministration against the Standard Oil
company that it has been mnnlfoBtly
dlfflcult to get a fair hearing before
tho public or In a largo portion of tho
press the latter to Its great harm
swayed alike by socialistic outcry
from below tho political pressure
from above.
"Ab a proof of tho latter It may ho
noted that lu tho president's message
of May i 190G attack was made on
tho Standard Oil compnny for tho
purpose of forcing the passage of tho
hill permitting tho nitty on denatured
alcohol a meeting In which tho com-
pany wns not Interested. On May
17 lOOC the Issuo of Commissioner
Onrfleld's report on petroleum trans-
portntlon a tlssuo of old misrepre-
sentations wns timed to Intluenco the
Hepburn rnto bill then before con-
gress. On May 20 1907 while Judge
I-indls had still under consideration
tho Judgment of tho Chicago nnd Al-
ton case. Commissioner Smith's Il-
logical and partisan report on pipe
lines were made public. Tho com-
missioner's second report on petrolo-
um prices and profits a wholly fnlso
deduction from Incomplete facts wns
sent In advnnco to the press tor pub
lication on Aug. G lu the knowlcdgo
that Judge Itndls would pronounce
Judgment In a few days
"Here surely Is eldonce of a cunt'
blnatlon Influencing nil sources of
public opinion.
"What motlvo underlies the cam
paign of defamation? The Standard
Oil company Is carrying on a wld
spread business of great moment to
to tho prosperity of American people
In absolute obedience to the soundest
principles of business and In the
spirit ami letter of the laws. Attacks
Uion It of tho kind described are
nlmed at the nation's Industrial and
mercantile life.
"It Is encouraging amid the fury
of the hour which assails so ninny
cororutlons all organized Industry
and all wealth to know that yenrts
of editors through the country on ex-
amination of the fact have forcibly
and clearly expressed their opinion
that the greatest wrung had been
done to the Standard Oil company.
Following their example. It Is sincere-
ly hoped that tho editors who hnve
panned hasty Judgment upon the com-
pnny will jilso examine the facts and
reach Just conclusions. That our
friends mny know more fully the
truly Independent are upholding right
nnd honesty a few editorials com-
ments nro appended following Mr.
MntTct's public statement on the Al-
ton case. Each will repay reading."
A FINE SAMPLE
FRANK E. LITTLE SHOWS A WELL
FRUITED STALK OF COT-
TON. Frank E. I.lttle who owns a farm
about six miles southeast of tho city
has on exhibition at tho hardware es-
tablishment of J. II. Spraglus & Co.
a stalk ot cotton about two feet high
that wns cut from his farm yesterday
afternoon that contains twenty-one or
two mntured nnd partly matured bolls.
and a large number of forms nnd
blossoms. This stalk was cut at ran
dom In a large field nnd Is only one
the innumerable that Is lu this sec-
tion of the country.
Tho particular field of cotton from
which this stalk wns tnken wns plant-
ed rather late In tho season as Is
tho case with n number of fields of
cotton lu this sectlou ot tho coun
try.
Unless something unforeseen hap
pens tho largest cotton crop that was
ever mado will bo made this year.
Mr. Utile expects to gather at least
a bale to the aero and perhaps more.
WILL MAKE
CONFESSION
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC
BUILDINGS TELLS OF GRAFT.
ON STATE CAPITAL BUILDINGS
Manipulated by High Official to Cover
a Shortage In the State Treas-
ury and Save Name of Unit-
ed States Senator.
By Associated Press.
Jamestown Pa. Aug. 22. James M.
Shumnkor former superintendent of
public buildings nnd grounds ut liar-
rlsburg who was Implicated by tho
reports ot tho capltol Investigating
committee lms declared that ho will
make a full confession ot all ho
knows concerning tho scandal connect
ed with the state buildings. Ho claims
tho manipulation of the fund'- ...is en
glneerod by n high offlclnl of tho state
to cover a shurtngo In tho stnto treas
ury.
He snld: "I nm going on tho witness
stand to tell everything I know.
know there wns graft nnd I know It
wns to cover n treasury shortage and
to snvo tho name of a United States
senator from Pennsylvania now
guess?"
See or Write Us for City and Farm
Loans. Drew A Ramsey. 111 North
Washington Ardmore I. T.
HOW THE
PLAN WORKS
THE USE OF THE COTTON WARE
HOU8E8 EXPLAINED.
A PROTECTION FOR AIL
Partlea rf the South Interested In
Securing a Good Price For
the Cotton
Crop.
The plan of the Southern Cotton
Association lo protect the spinner as
well ns the producer against the spec
ulator nnd bucket shop fiend Is not to
hold all of the crop nt a certain prlc
For such a plan Is an) thing but feasi
ble. The association after having
been organized for several sears and
after having spent considerable mon
ey lu organization Ii.ib held several
meetings with the spinners of the
staple Isith lu this country and lu Eu-
rope and the plan adopted by the as-
portation unfolded to them and
which met with an approval of the
spinner who Is In accord with the
producer as It acts as a protection
for hlin as well as tho farmer. In
stead of enedavoriiig to hold the en
tire crop. It Is the purpose of taking
off tho market that per cent of the
crop that would lu all probability
prove to ho u surplus by a proper
financing tho er cent so as t otake
tho entire surplus from tho market
and store It until a demand Is mado
by tho spinners for that portion that
Is not on the market and sold to
them nt nn agreed price.
While the workings of tho associa
tion Is not understood in this sec
tlou of tho country and for feur that
the business men will get the cotton
association confused with organiza-
tions who endeavor to comer the
crop Mr. Irvln tho memlier of tho
executive committee ot the organiza
tion gave out the following plans of
Its workings ns to how tho merch
ant who advanced the supplies Is
protected as to how tho farmer Is
protected and as lo how the spinner
Is protected.
All over the entire cotton growing
urea the organization has a branch
organization and In every township
In every congressional district two
Agents nre appointed who report to
tho head office the acreage of the
crop in that township ami tho num
ber of bales ginned. The necessary
supply of cotton to furnish the spin-
ners of the world Is estimated und al-
most known. In the early part of
the season tho osslhle per centnge
of surplus Is taken off of the market
and stored lu nwnreliouso and a re
ceipt tnken therefor Tho receipts
tnku Is In the nature of a contract
which states that this cotton Is held
for a specified price and will not ho
marketed.
As nn Illustration say that 1)111
Ilrown and John Jones two farmers
living In a certain neighborhood raise
thirty bales of cotton each nnd It Is
estimated that two hales ot tho thir
ty bales raised will probably be a
surplus per centago. Thoso two
bales nre Liken oft of tho market ear-
ly lu tho season nnd stored In the
warehouse. This receipt Is used ns
collateral at n bnnk or with tho as-
sociation nnd If It Is necessnry to
use money Is secured nnd the farm
er may pay up Ills Indebtedness to
his merchant and save his cotton be
sides. If every farmer lu tho cotton
growing section of tho country does
the same thing then In that event a
million or so bales ot cotton nro off
tho tnnrket nnd no surplus exists Tin;
price remnlns the same. The report'
er of tho association reports tho
number of bales oft tho market to tho
general office which In turn reports
tho existing condition to tho Interni
tloual and national spinners asso-
ciations. Later In the year It may bo found
out that tho looked for surplus does
not exist and us a result contracts
nro mndo with tho spinners for tho
cotton that Is In stomgo which Is sold
for enough to pay tho cost of storing
teh snmo together with Interest on
tho money loaned nnd the Insurance
Tho cotton sold prior to this has
brought enough so as to clear tho
fanner of his Indebtedness without
having to sell his cotton nt six or
seven cents nnd the farmer ami
merchant aro both protected while
the spinner feels safe as well.
Every business mnii In the older
states bankers nnd cotton mill men
are all members of the association
and aro working lu cooperation with
the farmers.
It was this association that brought
out the warehouse plan and should
not more than ten bales be placed lu
the warehouse those ten bales rep-
resent the surplus of Hint section of
the count! y and while It may not
mean much locally taken as a whole
It means much to holding up for the
price of cotton.
Ardmore merchants may now uu
derstand why tho farmers want the
arehoui.o.
Dedicate Great Water Plant.
Ardmorelto Special.
(Jreeley Colo. Aug. 22. Formal
dedication of the new city water
works plant built at a cost of $3r.0;
000 and representing one of tho
greatest engineering featu of Its kind
ever attempted lu tho West was the
principal feature of the annual harv
est day festival here today. The wat
er Is brought to the big distributing
reservoir by means of n pipe Hue
thirty-eight miles long from tho
mountains above Fort Collins.
SIOUX INDIAN SUICIDES
BECAUSE HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW
WOULD NOT SHARE HER
HOME WITH HIM.
lly Associated Press.
Sioux Falls Dak. Aug. 22. Hecause
his mother-in-law would not share her
home with himself and wife Hedshlrt
a Sioux Indian warrior committed
sutcldo here today by shooting him
self. This Is one of a very few In-
stances where a Sioux Indian ever
suicides.
Several Runaways Today.
A series of horse runaways happen
ed In city today alsnit uoo nnud this
afternoon. In ono of the runaways on
C street southeast n lady was thrown
from the buggy and the vehicle bad-
ly smashed.
Tho namo of tho lady could not he
learned but other than sustaining a
few bruises no damago was done.
A team ot mules ran away and
when tho lines broke tho driver Jum-
ed from tho wagon. Tho mules wcro
stopped after having run a distance
nnd Ix'yond smashing tho wagon no
damage was done.
Russia Contracts for Fleet.
Dy Associated Press.
Uimlon Aug. 22. Russia awarded
today to n llrltlsh firm ot ship build-
ers a contract for seven battle ships
cruisers nnd gun boats.
Man and Funds Mining.
lly Associated Press.
Chicago Aug. 22. Tho secretary-
treasurer of tho wagon drivers' union
ono of tho strongost labor organiza
tions In Chicago Is missing and $20000
of tho union's funds nro gono.
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W NEXT WIII-MATINIE 0INL COMPANY OF TWENTY-FIVE PEOPLE
STRIKING
OPERATORS
COMPANIES ANNOUNCE POLICY
FOR FUTURE GUIDANCE.
POSTAL ADOPTS CONTRACT
Must Be Signed by Every Man Union
or Non-Union Seeking Employ-
mentStrike Leaders are
Confident.
Chicago 111. Aug. 21. Eastern
telegraphers who left positions with
the companies two weeks ngo must
make Individual application for rein-
statement before they will bo Liken
lack. Thla policy of tno compnnlos
wns announced today and means not
only that there will bo no union roc-
'ogultlon but that oven a committee
from tho ranks ot tho Htrlkors will
not bo treated with. Tho Postal com-
pany has prepared a form of contract
which every applicant Is required to
sign beforo he Is given employment.
Tho contract applies to all offices ot
tho company throughout tho country.
Tho Wostern Union has not adopted
nny form of contract but aro requir-
ing each operator to make applica-
tion for work ns an Individual. Tho
contract of the Postal reads:
"I hereby ngreo It given employ-
ment by tho Postnl Telegraph nnd
Cnblo Company to render full anil
faithful service nt all times refrain-
lug from nil agitation and Interfer-
ence with tho company's business;
nnd I further agree that I will work
carefully and well with every opera-
tor bo ho union or non-union."
'.'Tho contract means Just what It
says" said Superintendent W. I. Cap-
en of tho fostal today. "Wo do not
caro whet.ier n man belongs to the
union or not but tho company wilt
continue to run tho telegraph busi
ness. Every operator who accepts
employment from this company must
sign a contract. Wo havo no objec-
tions to union men hut wo do ob-
ject to ngltntors and it Is probable
that Homo of tho latter will not ho
given nn opportunity to sign a con-
tract." Mr. Capen said that somo of tho
strikers In tho local offlco returned
to work toda7 and from tho reports
that ho heard from other cities tho
strike was gradually breaking up. "It
Is tiuw a question ho said "of how
long our former employes caro to re-
main Idle. Tho attltudo of tho com-
pnny Is tho snmo ns on the day tho
men quit. Thero will bo no .ompro-
mlslng on our part. Our former em-
ployes must como back as Individuals
or not nt nil."
"Wo nro not asking applicants for
work to sign any contract" said
Superintendent T. P. Cook of tho
Western Union Company "but tboy
must como and mako application for
work Individually Thero will bo no
change In our policy In that direction
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