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TWENTY-FIRST )'E Alt
No. 28
GUTHRIE, OKLA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1J12
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Make-(Jp of Oklahoma Fourth Legislature
Democrats will have a Good
Working Majority
Oklahoma City, Ok., Nov. 18.—Demo
rats will have a good working major-
ity in both branches ot the Fourth
legislature, more than enough to pass
emergency measures, and oil joint bal
lot have forty-four more than a ma-
jority. The House of Representati-
ves of the Third legislature with 109
members was 83 democrats and 26
republicans. This years with 99 mem
hers the democratic strength is 80,
"with 19 republicans. Fifteen demo-
. rats and six republicans who served
in the last house were re-elected. Two
of the members served in former
state legislatures and four democrat-
ic and three republicans of the last
House were defeated for re-election.
Juite a number were defeated in the
primary election last August. H. O.
Tenor of Shawnee and W. S. Dearing
if Thomas, members of the Fouth
legislature were members of the Con-
stitutional convention.
In the Senate Democrats have 36
ind republicans 8, a gain of five for
he former. But two members of the
hird senate were re-elected both be-
ing democrats and two Republicans
ind no democrats were defeated for
re-election. One senator-elect served
in a former senate and two demo-
crats and one republican woli served
in the House two years ago have been
levated to the Senate. But twenty-
five senators were elected, twenty-two
being to fill regular places, two being
special on account of resignations and
one for the purpose of contesting a
seat held by a republican who during
he interim took a government job. In
he last Senate there were thirty-one
Democrats and Thirteen Republicans.
'. W. Board of Okemah and E. G. Sor-
rells of Milton were also members of
he Constitutional convention. Sen-
ator Sorrels has the longest continu-
ous legislative record in Oklahoma,
having been a member of the conven-
tion and the Senate since Statehood.
The following is a list of the mem-
bers of the Fourth legislature which
Tneets on Jan. 7.
I'lie Senate.
First District—George D. A.vcock,
Texhoma, democrat (contested by J.
H. Langston, Guymon, republican.)
Second District—R. E. Echols, Elk
City,, democrat: E. I>. Mitchell. Chey-
enne, democrat.
Third District —W. A. Briggs. Wood
ward ward, republican.
Fourth District J. L. Carpenter, Man
yum democrat.
Fifth District—Guy P. Horton, Altus
lemocrat.
Sixth District—James U Austin,
New Cordell, democrat: .1. V. Mc('Unt-
ie. Snyder, democrat.
Seventh District—J. W. McCully,
Helena, Republican.
Eighth District—Eugene Watrous
Knid, republican.
Ninth District—William D. Dutton,
'^oraker, republican: J. E. Curran, of
Blackwell, republican.
Tenth District George A. Waters,
Sr'awnee, democrat.
Eleventh District Joseph J. Jones.
■Sapulpa, republican.
Twelfth District—John H. Burford,
Guthrie, republican.
Thirteenth District—Charles F. Bar-
rett, Shawnee, democrat; C. L. Ed-
'.iionson, Chandler, democrat.
Fourteenth District—Ben F. Wilson.
Yukon, Democrat; T. F. McMechan,
Oklahoma City, democrat.
Fifteenth District—George W. Bare-
foot, Chickasha democrat; John D.
Pugh, Anadarko, democrat.
Sixteenth District-—E. J. Warner,
Watonga, republican.
Seventeenth District—F. W. Ander-
son, Waurika, democrat: J. Elmer
Thomas, Comanche, democrat.
Eighteenth District—C. B. Kendrick
Ardmore, Democrat; Fred E. Tucker.
Ardmore, democrat.
Nineteenth District—J. B. Thomp-
son, Pauls Valley, democrat; lien
Franklin, Purcell, democrat.
Twentieth District T. F. Memmin-
srer, Atoka, democrat; J. T. McIntosh.
Durant, democrat.
Twenty-First District—E. T. Sor-
rells, Milton, democrat.
Twenty-Second District—C. W.
Hoard, Okemah, democrat.
Twenty-Third District—Reuben M.
Roddie. Ada, democrat.
Twenty-Fourth District—W. ('. Mc-
Alister, Hugo, democrat.
Twenty-fifth district—D. N. Red wine
McAlester, democrat.
Twenty-sixth District—C. C. Shaw,
Mill Creek, democrat.
Twenty-Seventh District—Campbell
Russell, Warner, democrat; Sid Gar-
rett, Fort Gibson, Democrat.
Twenty-Eighth District—M. S. Blas-
pingame, Sallisaw, democrat.
Twenty-ninth District—E. C. Harliu,
Welch, democrat.
Thirtieth District—George W. Fields
Jr., Grove, Democrat.
Thirty-first District—A. F. Vande-
venter, Bartlesville, democrat.
Thirty-Second District—James Sutli
erlin, Wagoner, democrat.
Thirty-third District—Gid Graham
Catoosa, democrat.
The House.
Adair—T. U Rider. Stilwell, dem.
Alfalfa -Charles B. Parkhurst, R. F.
D. No. 1, Cherokee, rep.
Atoka—I. U Cook, Atoka, dem.
Beckham—11. V. Joseph, Doxey,
dem.
Blaine—George Jamison, Watonga
rep.
Bryan—W. A. Durant, Durant dem.
R R. Halsell. Calera, dem.
Canadian—R. J. Thompson, Yukon,
dem.
Carter -U. T. Rexroat, Ardmore,
dem.
Caddo—H. N. Christian, lookeba
dem; Theodore Pruett, Anadarko, ih.n
Cherokee—Houston B. Tehee, Tan-
lequah, Dem. .
Choctaw—Thomas W. Hunter. Hugo
dem.
Cleveland—N. E. Sharp, of Norman
dem.
Coal—George T. Searcey, Coalgate,
dem.
Comanche—J. Roy Williams, law-
ton, dem.: J. M llaynes, Lawton, dem.
Craig—Peter Cayne, Estella, dem.
Creek —H. H. Sherman, Mannford,
rep.'
| Custer—W. S. Dearing, Thomas
dem.
j Cimarron and Texas—W. I,. Roberts
Texhoma, dem.
Delaware—Le Howe, Grove, dem.;
| Dewey—Howell Smith, Putnam,
dem Ellis—F. P. Rose, Catesby, rep.
I Grady T. J. Brown. Tuttle, dem.:
A. S. Riddle, Chickasha, dem.
Grant—J. E. lemon. Nash, dem.
Garvin—W. B. M. .Mitchell,1 Pauls
Valley, dem.; Joe A. Edwards, Strat-
ford. dem.
Greer—O. I.. Cummings, Granite
dem.
Garfield—C. C. Childers. Covington,
dem.; George M. Dizney, Enid rep.
Harmon—H. U Russell, Reed, dem.
Harper and eBaver—R. B. Ruther-
ford, Gates, dem.
Haskell—H. M. Moore, Kinta, dem.
Hughes—J. B. Griggs, Yeager, dem.
Jackson—R. J. Morgan. Blair, dem.
Jefferson—A. McCrorey Cornish,
dem.
Johnston—Andrew Allen Veatch.
Mill Creek, dem. ~
Kay—C. I,. Pinkhain, Newkirk, dem.
W. C. Baum, Kaw rep.
Kiowa—leonard IJ. lewis, Hobart,
dem.
Kingfisher—George h. King, King-
fisher, rep.
le Flore-j. U Spongier, Poteau,
dem.: T. G. Mc.Mahan. Milton, dem.
Latimer—Cliff V. Peery, Wilburton
dem.
legan—Walter H. Matthews, Mul-
hall. dem.. Frank McGuire, Guthrie,
rep.
jeve—W. H. Brooks. Marietta, dem.
Lincoln—John B. Charles, Stroud,
rep.: Fred B. Hoyt. Chandler, rep.
McClain—E. E. Glasco, Purcell, dem
McIntosh—R. H. Berry, Checotah,
dem.
McCurtain—Tom G. Taylor, Idabel,
dem: Sam Davis. Eagletown dem.
Majors—W. T. Ruby, Idabella rep.
Marshall— C. H. Thomas. Willis,
dem.
Mayes—Gideon Morgan. Tip, dem.
Murray—Charles II. Emanuel, Sul-
phur, dem.
Muskogee—J. II. Maxey, Muskogee,
dem.: William O. Carr, Muskogee dem.
Voble—E. T. Testerman. Morrison.
R. F. D. No. 1, rep.
Nowata—C. A. Chase, Nowata, dem.
Osage Charles B. Peters, Hominy,
dem; M. B. Prentiss. Fairfax, rep.
Okmulgee—J. J. Deanor, Okmulgee,
rep.
Oklahoma—Hugh A. Randall, Har-
rah. R. F. D., No. 2. dem.; Hubert L
Boeln. Oklahoma City dem; John H.
Wright, Oklahoma City, dem.; D. B.
Welty, Oklahoma City dem; C. H. De
Ford Jones City, rep.
Okfuskee—George I). Harvison, Oke-
mah, dem.; W. H. Case, Paden, dem.
Ottawa—J. S. Mabon. Miami, rep.
Pawnee—Stanley C. Ermister, Cleve
land, rep.
Payne—J. W. Reece, Stillwater, dem.
Pittsburg—S. F. Whitman, Harts-
horne, dem.; Robert I. Bond, McAles-
ter, dem.; E. P. Hill, McAlester, dem,
Pontotoc—John P. Crawford, Ada
dem.
Pottowatomle Harvey H. Smith,
Shawnee, dem.; James T. Farrell, Tec-
umseh, dem; H. O. Tenor, Shawnee,
deni*
Pushmataha—Stump Ashby, Antlers,
dem.
Roger Mills—Thomas Joyner, Demp-
sey, dem.
Rogers—Archibald Bond, Claremore
dem.
Seminole—W. A. Bishop, Seminole
dem.
Swanson—W. G. Woodward, Snyder
dem.
Sequoyah W. L. Curtis. Sallisaw,
dem.
Stephens —O. M. Morris, Duncan,
dem.
Tillman—Harry B. Cordell. Mani-
tou* dem.
Tulsa—W. B. Williams. Broken Ar-
row, dem.; Frank Z. Curry, Tulsa, dem
Wagoner—John O. Baker, postofflce
Broken Arrow dem.
Washita—C. C. Hill. Rocky, dem.
Washington—R. F. Stilwell, Bartles-
ville. dem.
Woods—W. H. Olmstead, Waynoka
rep.
Woodward—E. G. Vossburg, Wood-
ward, rep.
vkin marks kscu'k iiv window
on train.
Norman. Okla., Is Word was
received at the county attorney's of-
fice here this afternoon that Oliver
Akin, Oklahoma legislator, author of
the Akin bill, and alleged bad check
artist, escaped from a train window
near Amarillo. Texas last night, while
being brought from i-os Angeles by
Cleveland county Sheriff Ike Sale.
As the train was drawing near
Amarillo Akin asked permission from
the sheriff to go into the toilet com-
partment of the car in which the
sheriff and prisoner were riding,
".'hen he failed to return Sale found
the door to the compartment was
locked. When the porter unlocked
it. Akin was gone and the snip!
window of the compartment wos
open..
A late report here Is that Altip
had been caught In New Mexico
Akin (eft Oklahoma three weeks
go after cashing many bad checks
among merchants of the Cleveland
county towns. Norman and Noble
Mrs. Akin accompanied him.
A warrant for his arrest was- se-
cured by the Holland Mercantile Co.
requisition was granted by Governor
'"nice and Sheriff Sal went to Ixis
Aneelos where the legislator had
been had been heard from.
Crowds expecting the return of
.Akin and Sale have collected at the
last few Santa Fe south-bound trains
anxious for a sight of the once-lend-
ing Cleveland eoiinty citizen now
turned fugitive from justice.
Mrs Akin was accompanying her
husband on bis p turn and stopped
at liOtie Wolf Oklahoma.
>lcMti> I: ( ASK l\ PONTICS
-IUMMI Ti RKS AT *#)ASTIR SCR-
rendered to skkyivns.
Sultan's .Host Important Portress in
Macedonia has Capitulated Vfter
Several Bays ot' llanl lighting.
Belgrade, Nov. 18. -The Turkish
fortress of Monastir surrendered this
iiternoon to the Servian troops.
• ■"ifty thousand Turkish soldiers and
three Generals laid down their arms.
Monastir virtually had been sur-
rounded by* Servian troops for sever-
al days while Greek troops coining
from the south had cut off the Tur-
kish line of retreat to Ochrida. On
Saturday the Servian troops, after des
perate fighting throughout the day
and nigiit. captured two important
heights commanding the city. They
then advanced through the morasses
upon the inner fortifications, which
surrendered today.
Monastir is the headquarters of
i lie Sixth Turkish Army Corps, com-
manded by Fethi Pasha, but many
other Turkish troops, fleeing from
surrounding towns which had been
captured by the Servians, concen-
trated there. Djavid Pasha, the com-
mander of the Seventh Turkish Army
Corps, went there with many of his
soldiers after the fall of I'skup to
the Servians.
It was thought that the Turkish
troops would be able to stand a
lengthy siege in Monastir, but it is
evident that the army was totally dis
organized and lacked provisions.
al leges false arrest
Steve Winsley. alias Jones and
Walton, a Bartlesville negro, has filed
suit in the district court against W.
N. Bunis, a West Harrison pawn-
broker for talse arrest and imprison-
ment. He asks $2,000 damages
through Attorneys Chappell and Hep-
burne. Winsley was arrested on
Bunis' complaint on a charge of pas-
sing a forged check on him. When
Winsley's trial was ended, last Tliurs
day the jury failed to convict, as
Winsley had proved an alibi. A desk
sergeant and police officer came
from Bartlesville to swear that Win-
sley was in their custody at Bartles-
ville at the time he was supposed
to be in Guthrie and passing forged
check.
MiKEXZIE IS GI'AKDED AS HIS
MOTHER IMKS.
Tulsa, Okla.. Nov. 20.—With her
son Guy D. McKenzle sentenced to
life imprisonment for the murder of
("has. T. Reuter, guarded by armed
officers at her bedside. Mrs. Ievina
J. McKenzle. 67/ died here last night
Her death is attributed to grief caus-
ed from her son's conviction.
Mrs. McKenzle proved a tragic fig-
ure at her son's trial last month and
since his conviction her strength
had failed rapidly until Sunday the
end was known to be near at hand,
and the transportation of McKenzle
and his co-conspirator Joe Baker to
the McAlester penitentiary, due Mon-
day, was postponed in order that Mc-
Kenzie could be at his mother's bed-
side.
One son besides the prisoner and
one daughter survive the deceased
woman. After the funeral McKenzle
and Baker will be taken to the peni-
tentiary to begin their life sentences.
NOT (U'lLTY is GOIIKEN VERDICT
Claremore, Okla . Nov. 20.—Not
guilty was the verdict today In the
Goheen murder case, In which Editor
H. 0. Jeffries of the Nowata Adver-
tiser. was charged with killing his
advertising solicitor, Irene Goheen.
The jury in the case went out
at 2:30 yesterday and the first bal-
lot stood 10 to 2 for acquittal. The
count stood thus until midnight last
night. When court convened again
today the jury reported as not hav-
ing reached a decision, was sent out
again, and returned in about an
hour with the acquittal decision.
Jeffries sat with his wife as the
jury foreman made his report. Mrs
Jeffries embraced her husband and
both thanked the jurymen.
v grain the Ex-Wurrniit Clerk IMsup
pears Gin, ( race take a hand and
the Case i non ««id In lutie lie
come a Factor in (lie next Guber-
natorial R ce.
Oklahoma City, Nov. 20.. Staff spec-
ial to the Muskogee Times-Democrat
—Will li. McBrine, alleged conl'essei
defaulter from the State of Oklahotn;
Is no longer in Guthrie whitiier lit
came ten days ago prepared to makt
restitution by pleading guilty and
turning state's evidence against his
accomplices.
Where McBrine is constitutes an-
other of the series of mysteries con-
nected with bis whole case and tin
purpose of his removal from Guthrie
sini unotmT mystery. Attornej
General West, with his custouiar)
reticence, professed Tuesda\ to know
nothing of the former warrant clerks
whereabouts.
It, has developed since Mcllrine's
return to Oklahoma Irotn New York
that a definite plan is being worked
out by the men believed to have been
accomplices with him, either to dis-
courage Governor Cruce in his ef-
forts to expose the entire case, or to
persuade the governor to call At-
torney General West off and drop
the charges, except as they affect
McBrine, liitnseif.
Stories, apparently inspired by men
tearing the outcome of the investiga-
ion, have been circulated widely
in the last week, charging that the
stale's attorney was combining the
.McBrine case with the campaign for
the governorship which it is -sus-
pected he will make at the end of
the Cruce administration.
Friends of Governor Cruce have
been urged to use their influence to
prevent him from lending his assis-
tance to West in ferreting out the
unknown features of the McBrine
case. These friends, it is known,
have been lined up on the theory
that it is dangerous political medi-
cine to mix and likely to result in
too great strength for West, In the
event that arrests and convictions of
prominent deftulters are secured.
In substantiation of the theory that
the higher-ups'' involved were eager
10 have McBrine placed under arrest
to get him out of Attorney General
West's direct control it developed
Tuesday that efforts had been made
to press the cases filed in Oklahoma
county, by State Auditor leo Meyer
charging McBrine with forgery. Simi-
lar warrants were filed ill legan
county also and while McBrine has
not been actually under arrest, it was
the plan to have the legan county
warrant served on him, should any
other^authorities seek to take him in
to custody.
The Oklahoma county authorities
last week, asked Sheriff Bart Mur-
phy of legan County for information
regarding McBrine's whereabouts
stating that warrants against the
man were pending here. Following
this. Attorney General West, at Gov
ernor Cruce's direction, instructed
Sheriff Jack Spain and County At-
torney Siim Hooker, to take no ac-
tion in the local cases and not to at-
tempt to serve the warrants sworn
out by Meyer.
Baptist Translation of Bible Made to Con-
form to Modern thought Eliminates
Many Obsolete Beliefs.
K.Y-SIT.TA N'S DAl'GHTER DIS-
(iItACED, A Sl'UiDE.
Princess Zekie, ller Husband with the
Turkish Army, Kill* Herself.
St. Petersburg. Nov. 16.—According
to a Russian correspondent who is at
Constantinople Zekie, the oldest
daughter of Abdul Hamld the former
Turkish Sultan, and who was very
patriotic was overcome with dispair
on account of her country's disasters
aud dramatically committed suicide in
the garden of her magniHcent palace
at Abusheir.
Her husband was Xoureddin Pasha
a general of a division of the aruiy
and a son of the famous Osinan Pasha
Ghazi, "the victorious." He was
fighting under Nazim Pasha, the Turk
isn Minister of War, who although
he declared to the Sultan thai In
would die on the battleile.d raUit i
than return in defeat has been over-
whelmed with defeat and is now ad-
visin gthe Turkish Ministers to aban-
don the war.
As the news of the successive Turk
ish defeats come in Princess Zekie
became morose and refused to con-
verse with her friends. After the de-
feat -of the Turks at Lule Burgas be-
came known in the Ottoman capital
the Princess determined to commit
suicide. She built a funeral pyre
with her own hands and decorated it
with flowers and priceless tapestries.
The servants were very anxious ov-
er their mistress' behaviour but they
did not dare to interfere. The Prin-
cess spent a long time in her apart-
ments in silent prayer. Finally she
came out her hair flowing and at-
tired in a long garment ascend*! the
pyre and then applied fire to It.
She was burned to death while the
servants stood around lamenting but
with characteristic Turkish fatalism
did not attempt to prevent the sadden
ed woman from taking her own life.
Afterward a letter from Princess
Zekie to her husband was found in
which she declared that she could
not survive the ruin of her people
and cursed the beaten army for its
loss of the ancient valor. The let
ter closes with a prayer to Allah not
to permit the complete destruction of
the Ottoman nation.
ntiaueipnia. Nov. 19.—The new im-
proved bible recently published by
the American Baptist Publication so-
rlety will eventually rid pulpit pray-
i of sixteentn century diction, ac-
cording to Dr. C. Kingsley Rowland.
. cretary >1 the soclcly.
"The solicit').* who have prepared
the translation for the Baptis Bible"
aid Dr. lli.wliiid, "have alined, so tar
as it was consistent with strict in-
erpretation of 'he thought, to elimi-
uite obsolete K!iznbeth..n words and
to replace them with those in gener-
al modern use. The substitution of
the monosyllables, 'love,' and lead"
for the archaic forms loveth' and
leadeth' marks but one instance
where the English of the King Jam-
s version has given way to that in
ttrrency today.
"It is my belief that the new edi-
tion will eventually eliminate anti-
H'.ated language from modern pulpit
supplication. Prayer has, always been
modeled after Biblical expression of
thought and a change in the former
I believe, will follow the change in
the latteh"
Solve the Whale Issue.
With its modern phraseology and
new verbal clothing designed to give
the Word popular presentation, the
Baptist Bible has aroused tnuch com-
ment in the world of thought and re-
ligion. Since its appearance a few
days ago thousands long familiar
with the King James version of the
Douwy Catholic Bible have been busy
comparing the new translation with
the older editions. fl
The story of the whale and the
prophet has for years been a bone of
contention among Christians argu-
mentatively inclined, and lias been re-
sponsible for the backsliding of many
doubting Thomases." Men of science
have long admitted that whales, at
least modern whales, would choke
to death on a loaf of bread and there-
fore, when deliberating upon the ab-
normal esophagus credited to Jonah's
whale, have been forced to accept
with , consideration the murmurs ot
the incredulous.
The Baptist Bible, however, has
solved the issue. It has substituted
the indefinite "great fish" for the
specific "whale" as a nearer inter-
pretation of the ancient Hebrew.
( Images in Commandments.
in the effort to give the new edi-
tion greater lucidity ot expression
not even the ten commandments havt
escaped "Love thy God is replac.ei
by "Jehovad thy God," and still mart
startling alterations have been made
in the working of the second law.
The great commandment defining
man's duty to God reads as follows
in the translation prepared for King
James:
"Thou shalt not make unto thet
tiny graven Image, or any likeness o.
anything that is in heaven above o
that is in the earth beneath, or thai
is in ttic water under the earth; thou
shalt not bow down to them nor serve
them; for 1 the Ixird thy God am a
jealous God, visiting the iniquity of
the fathers upon the children unto the
third and fourth generation of them
that hate me. and showing mercy un-
to thousands of them that love me
and keep my commandments."
The same passage in the Baptist
edition reads as follows:
"Thou shalt not make to thee a
carved image or any likeness of what
is in the heavens above, or of what is
a the earth beneath, or of what is
ill the waters beneath the earth; thou
shalt not bow thyself down to them
nor serve them; for I Jehovah thy
God am a jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon sons, up-
1N-
ou the third generation and u. on the
fourth generation of them tint hate
me, and showing mercy to the thous-
andth generation of them that love
Includes Countless Numbers.
Thus the obsolete 'graven" is re-
j me and keep my commandments."
| Thus the obsolete "graven" is re-
] placed with "carved" by the Baptist
i scholars in dealing with the above
; commandment. The Iniquity of the
I fathers is visited upon "sons" in the
j Baptist translation instead of upon
| the "children" as in the King James
l version.
j The most apparent change, however
is the substitution of "showing mercy
j to the thousandth generation" for of
| "showing mercy unto thousands."
1 Dr, Rowland pointed out that "the
thousandth generation" is a more
comprehensive expression for divine
love, and, extending over ages of
\ lime, includes in its meaning count-
less numbers more than a thousand.
"Adam" anil "live" Eliminated.
Genesis, with its outline of Christ-
ian cosmogony has also suffered
some change. Iti the Baptist Bible
the name of Adam does not appear.
The father of the human race is call-
ed the "man," which is the old lie-
brew meaning of Adam "Eve" becotn
es the "woman" since the Hebrew in-
terpretation of Eve was simply wo-
man.
The sixteenth chapter of Luke eli-
minates the word "hell" as the name
of subterrestrial realms and replaces
it with "under world." The verse
affected by the change now reads:
And 1 also say to thee that thou
art PeterJ and on this rock I will
build my church; and the gates of
the underworld shall not prevail
against it.
All the portions of the Bible which
are written in poetry are printed in
their verse form. The Psalms again
appear in a form approximating the
indent Hebrew with the divided line
iccentuating the antiphonal effect.
New Version of the Lord's Prayer.
The lerd's Prayer as presented in
the Douay edition follows:
"Our Father who art in heaven, hal-
lowed be thy name. Thy kingdom
come. Thy will be done on earth as
it is in heaven. Give us this day our
iupersubstantial bread. And forgive
is our debts as we also forgive our
iebtoi'8. And lead us not into temp-
ation. But deliver us from evil.
\inen."
The Improved edition of the Bap-
ists gives the lerd's Prayer in this
manner:
"Our Father who art in heaven, hal-
owed be thy name. Thy kingdom
■otne. Thy will be done as In lieav-
n so on earth. Give us this day our
laily bread. And forgive us our debts
is we also have forgiven our debtors,
ind bring us not into temptation, but
deliver us from the evil one."
Oil lluptisut of John.
An Innovation In the Baptist Bable
is an attempt to make clear the man-
ner of Christ's baptism by John.
Whenever tile word "baptize" is used
its equivalent "immerse," is set be-
side in parentheses. The thirteenth
verse of the third chapter of Matt-
hew, which describes Christ's baptism
In the waters of Jordan, now reads:
"Then comes Jesus from Galilee to
the Jordan to John to be baptized
i (immersed) by him."
The Baptist Ilible is based upon ths
j highest modern scholarship, unfetter-
ed by traditions or schools of theo-
logical thought. The sole object ot
the translators was fidelity to the
text of the original Hebrew.
SALE OK COAL LAND HELD I
DEFINITELY.
Muskogee, Okla., Nov. 18.—The half
million acres of the surface of the
segregated coal lands will lie idle an-
other year, and the towns in the coal
belt will suffer accordingly, as a re-
sult of the resignation of Earl McGo-
>van, Arthur Edgington and J. J. Boles
the appraisers appointed by the gov
eminent t > put a valuation oil tin-
laud.
wnat action will be taken by the de-
partment of the interior which has
supervision over the matter is prob-
lematical, but one fact protrudes that
is more important than any otliei to
the towns in the coal belt and that
is that It will now be imposslbl • to
reappraise, advertise and soil the land
in time for farmers to put it under
cultivation next year. A strong or-
ganization had been formed by a
federation of coal belt towns to ad-
vertise this land extensively so that
there would be purchasers for all of
of when the sale was made. These
towns have been handicapped lor
years because of the surrounding
iatid could not be placed under culti
vatlon and Improved. It is obvious
that the miscarriage of the appraise-
ment will mean another year's delay
so far as crops are concerned for it
it will be too late to sell the land
thiB year and it is impossible to get
farmers to come in and buy except In
the fall of the year.
The resignation of the appraisers
was made just fourteen days beforo
the time allowed for them to com-
plete their work had expired. Their
position wns created by congression-
al act, their pay and a time fixed. It
would be impossible to get three men
who could finish the appraisement)
even if the president were to name
three more appraisers. The resignar
utions were made direct to the presi-
dent and Joseph Howell who was
sent here to conduct the investigation
left for Washington Saturday to pre-
sent the resignations to Mr. Taft. The
resignations will be a part of his of-
ficial report and it remains to be
jeen what action the president will
take.
It is understood that Inspector
l.inneti who was sent to Oklahoma to
checK up the appraisers when stories
became current that inside Informa-
tion 'of the appraismeut was leaking
out had in his possession duplicate
copies of the reports of the appraise-
ment on some of the most valuable
tracts of land that had been furnish-
ed influential political and financial
friends of the appraisers that had
been furnished at or before these
reports were made to the govern-
ment. it is also charged that on
these tracts the appraisement was far
oeiow what It should have been while
on other and tnuch less valuable
tracts the appraisement was too high.
Whether an entirely new appraise-
ment will be ordered, or whether the
work of the ex-appraisers will be us-
ed as a basts for completing the work
remains to be determined. Some of
the appraisements already made and
officially reported were rejected by
the department of the interior which
gives ground for the belief that an
entire new appraisement will be or-
dered.
motorcycle tax levied
The City Commissioners have pass-
ed an ordinance to tax motorcycles
together with a license fee of $l.f.0.
An attempt failed to increase the tax
on automobiles.
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Golobie, John. Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 21, 1912, newspaper, November 21, 1912; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc88453/m1/1/: accessed April 22, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.