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VOL. 14.—No. 273.
SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1909.
NEWS WANT ADS PAY WELL.
lUNE WILL
EVER Eli
SILK THIEVES
Entered Madden & Jarrell store thro
skylight early Sunday night-
Secured $1,000 worth of goods
—much is recovered
A. bold robbery was pulled off by Thirty-seven pieces are still missing.
professional thieves between 7 and 9
o'clock Sunday ni?bt in the Madden
& Jarrell store Entrance to the
building was effected through a sky-
light via a knotted rope and eighty-
two pieces of silk were removed. The
men were so closely pressed by of-
ficers, however, that they dropped two
Bloodhounds on Trail
When the chase proved fruitless,
Deputy Sheriff McCrary's blood-
hounds were put on the trail, and
followed it to the vicinity of the
Santa Fe viaduct. Here they were
called off
Loss $400 to $500.
Mr. Jarrell this morning placed the
McAlester, Okla., Oct. 4.—By post-
poning her wedding two years, Myrtlo
Robertson will get both the man or
J her choice and a legacy which was tjj
be denied her if she married Edward
Christian.
Mrs. Hattie Williams of Ashland, a
grandmother of Miss Robertson, dieu
Sept. 7 and her will was filed for pro-
bate Saturday. She devised a small
estate to relatives, but to Miss Rob-
ertson she bequeathed a one-half In-
terest in a good piece of real estate
in the town of Stuart, one-half of all
her household goods and the sum ot
$500, but makes this proviso:
"If the said Myrtle Robertson shall
marry one Edward Christian, then the
above shall not be given to her, bui
instead she shall have $1 cash and
the balance of thu property shall re-
vert," etc.
Word comes from the home of the
young people that they will wait two
years to marry and as, under the law
the estate must be settled within that tail of the comet will sweep across
time, the young woman will get both this plane lustead of clearing It. Tha
the estate and the man of her choice, earth and comet will meet on the
same pl«no but not on the same path
Newman has the cheapest Hue of
gas stoves in the city. 125 N. Bell.
Everyone would be benefitted by
taking Foley's Orlno Laxative for con-
stipation, stomach and liver troubles,
as it sweetens the stomach and
breath, gently stimulates the liver and
regulates the bowels and Is much su-
perior to pills and ordinary laxatives.
Sold by all drugslste. •
THE HAILY
COMET WILL
E
There wifl be a distance at the
nearest point of thirteen miles be-
tween the two. Mr. Seagraves said
the earth would not be endangered,
but that it will be swept by "star
dust," similar to the display of June
30, 1861, when the tall of the comet,
of 1801 caused some apprehension
among the superstitious shortly after
the beginning of the Civil War.
BAPTIST'S CALL
10 REV. JESTER
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Providence, R. I., Oct. 4.—Frank A.
Seagrave, the Providence astornomer,
whose calculations relative to Hal-
ley's comet have attracted worldwide
attention, announces that the correc-
tion of a slight error in his calcula-
tions has developed the discovery that
May 19, 1910, the comet will reach
the same plane as the earth In his
orbit.
in ftpprnTrn Masons will be in charge of the tx-
  ercises to beirin at 5o'clock P. M.
The call of the Baptist Church of
this city, extended some time ago to
Rev. Jester, President of Blackwell
College, at Blackwell, Okla., has been
finally accepted, lie will remove to
Shawnee shortly to take up his duties
here.
MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TAILORING
A SPECIALTY.
Ladles' new work a specialty and
executed by competent workmen
Cleaning, repairing and pressing at
reasonable prices. Mr. and Mrs. Nick
It Is thereby determined that the Kroeger, at Johnson & Dickson's, 4
suitcases full, comprising forty-five loss at between $400 and $500, be-
pleces, in the coal shed in the rear sides a small sum taken from the
of the Independent cotton gin, near cash drawer. He figures that he was
the Rock Island tracks. Bloodhound3 right on the heels of the thieves when
were put on the trail and followed the he entered the store. "I'll let the
thieves to the Santa Fe viaduct, but public guess whether I was scared or
they -made good their escape. | not," he remarked.
Between Seven and Nine. | Were Professionals.
T'ae time of the robbery is fixed All the signs left by the thieves ln-
by the fact that Mr. Jarrell, manager dlcatn that they were professionals,
of the store, was In the place at 7 The work was done with great neat-
o'cloch, and Raw nothing wrong, but ness and must have been aecom-
when he returned about 9 o'clock he pllshed with great speed, though
discovered the robbery. there were no evidences of hurry
Entered Through Skylight aside from the leaning of the rope.
The thieves mounted the roof by There Is said to be a good chance of
trwlng up the stairway by the Shaw- the men being apprehended. One Is
bob Notional Bank and thence described as being tail and slim and
through a window. The skylight was the other short and rather heavy set.
neatly removed, without breaking, j a Lucky Chance.
showing the men to be experts. Withj Had n>t Mr. Jarrell entered the
the knotted rope they easily let them- store at he time he did. it is more
selves down into the store, and pull- than likely that all the silks in the
Ing out the silk, removed the wrap- store would have been removed by
pings and packed It luto suitcases the thieves and that they would have
taken from the store. They either made a safe getaway with the entire
left the rope Intending to make an- i0tt as they could not be detected
other trip, or else left too hastily to from the outside owing to the posi-
remove It. The eighty-two nieces re- tion In which they were working,
moved are valued at about $1,000. : Entered Metropolitan Office.
Closely Pressed by Officers. \ peculiar circumstance about the
As (toon as the alarm was given of- case Is the fact that the Metropolitan
fleers at once took up the pursuit Engineering & Construction Co.'s ot-
nf the thieves, of whom they ob- floe, one window of which is very
talned a fairly good description. The cioso to tne skylight, appears to have
chase was down into the east yards been entered. The bars across the
of the Rock Island, and must have transom lnsldo of one of the doors
been close, as two of the cases were had been partially removed. The
"ditched" in the rear of the cotton doors of a cabinet had also been
gin. One contained twenty-four pieces sprung open. Nothing was missed,
of the silk and the other twenty-one. however  ___
be^in at 5
■-Episcopal church corner stone
The corner Btone of PVawnee's tically all of the material ia already
handsome new high school building, on 111 ground, and a tori a of fifty
now in course of construction ana m  ,1 are on the job,, fi. Lisle &
well under w.iy, will be laid with *-0, Oklahoma Cjty are. the gen-
Masonic oeremonles at 4 o'clock p.
eral contractors.
Ti e Building,
m. Wednesday, Oct. C. The Masonic; Th(, Wg„ whoo, wilt be
fraternity will be In charge of all the tw0 8torl(!S hjgh wlth a ground ,„vc,
ceremonies ar.d there will bo no fur- basement. There will fo'c about tbirty-
ther exercises. live class ro'ouis, au auditorium that
The Corner Stone. 'will seat 900 persons, ' a gymnasium
Inscribed upon the corner atone w .1 4„ -by 70 feel wkh a twenty-two foot
be the names of the members of the cemngi ,howcr baths', etc Tb. *yl«
school board, the Masonta emblem the building is Corlnihlau, u. , the
the names of the architect and ?en m4ln entrance will Ho plain but mas-
eral contractor, and the superlnten Blve The contract price of the
dent of schools, with the date the |ng j8 $Ci8,250.
stone Is laid. Inside the stone will Episcopal Corner Stone,
be miscellaneous records, including T1„, 'wtf)ne of tht, new
copies of newspapers, the course of ,.0|)al church at the corner of Qroad-
study with the roll of teacbers; the way an(j ffiphlaDrt, just tibree . hort
proclamation calling the bond elec- i)|ocj<3 wont «tff the high school jiild-
tlon, etc. will be laid &b*ut 5 o'clock Wed-
j Building Well Under Way. nesday evening. jUst foli;wtn£ fhn
The new building is now well un ceremonies at the hi^h school bi/ilA-
jder way. The brick work is estl Bi«hop Brooke will*be in charg#
j mated to be one-fourth done and one anfj goInQf the ministers of the ritjr
course of 6tone has b^en laid. Prac- will also participate.
Messrs. Edwards and Hargrave, prospects of immediate construction by Dewitt Smith, formerly with the
who have been in the East with their *s ODe *>etween Tulsa and Sapul- Chesapeake & Ohio. The steam duin
Shawnee-Oklahoma City lnterurban pa' ^ way uf TaIU*tt' a "ew ™anu' my now operating between Miami and
^ i*v. facturing town. A $35,000 forfeit has t^e mining camps north of that city
proposition, have returned w m s been put up for tbo construction ot wU) be changed to an electric line at
flattering reports as to the success that line, and J. Robert Burnham, en-1 once Two new steel motor care have
of their trip. They assert that they gineer In charge of construction, has been bought for Immediate shipment,
met with great encouragement and about finished the permanent surveys. I Grading work has been commenced
that there is practically no doubt but, The line is to be built by the Mid- Qn a nt,w line to the northeast from
that the money to build the road will; Continent Traction & Power Co., re-, oklahoma City, which is expected
be forthcoming.
The promoters of the line are ex-
perienced lnterurban builders and
good solid business men, who are not
wont to advertise a proposition until
they are sure what they are about.
They have little to say concerning
what they have accomplished, but It
Is understood that they have done
even better than they expected.
STATE
CAUL EDITOR
SUMMED REFDRE
cently Incorporated with $100,000 cap-j eventually to run to Shawnee, gen-
ital, whose charter contemplated the ator H. B. Hurst of Holdenville, who
construction of an lnterurban clear
through frcm Miami to Shawnee. The
Tulsa-Sapulpa line will be the first
link.
If the road ever does get as far
north as Miami 1t will give Oklahoma
direct connections with the mining
I district of southeastern Kansas and
The interurban proposition will be' southwestern Missouri, where all of
in shape before long, it Is said, to be
put before the publ!c fully.
Other Propositions.
Guthrie, Okla., Oct. 4.—lnterurban
propositions are again becoming num-
erous in Oklahoma, and several of
them look like the real thing. The
line which seems to have the best
the important towns are now con-
nected by trolley lines. James E.
Dunn of Oklahoma City, in connection
IS
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was a member of the last Legisla-
ture, is the principal promoter of the
new line. Associated with him is Al-
fred Hare of Tecumseh, owner of the
Shawnee-Tecumseh lnterurban line.
O. O. Ayers Is receiving much en
couragement for his I^awton-Chlcka-
sfca-Ardmoro line from towns along
the route. People at Ardmore and
Chickasha aro especially sanguine In
regard to the building of a line be-
tween those- towns. Rnld people are
with representatives of Joplln and also very nopeful in regard to the line
Miami mining interests, has closed to connect Enid with other towns to
a deal for an electric line between the north and south, which is pro-
Joplin and Miami, connecting the lead moted by G. P. McMahon of Cleve-
and zinc fields of Oklahoma with land, Ohio, and W. 8 Whlttlnghill
those of Missouri. It will be financed of Enid.
Guthrie, Okla., Oct. 4.—Following'
the filing ol a suit by a Chicago con-
cern and a Missouri man in the fed-
eral Court here late Saturday even-
ing, Dennis T. Flynn, of the law firm
of Flynn & Ames of Oklahoma City,
was granted a temporary restraining
order against the Columbia Bank &
Trust Co. by Federal Judge John H.
Cotteral.
The order was made returnable be-
fore Judge Cotteral in the United
States District Court today. The or
der restrains the bank's officials and
Commissioi.er Young from paying out
NEW PATTEN
Oklahoma City. Okla., Oct. 4.—Un-
der instructions from Gov. Haskell
subpoenas were Issued from Frank H.
Greer, editor, and others connected
with the publication of the Guthrie
State Capital, to amwur before the
special grand Jury of Oklahoma Coun- _ probably closed
ty and give that body their sources.'
of information upon which certain Oeht to Wirt, fur flrnnlsse, farben^
stories having reference to the affairs | tapeten tind fensterglas Ninth and
of the Columbia Bank & Trust Co.' Broadway. 2r> lm
have been published In that paper re-
cently.
Mr. Greer's managing editor was in
Oklahoma City this morning, and it
is understood that he was before the
grand jury for some time.
It Is thought that the incident Is J
SAID TO BE FOR PURPOSE
BUYING HEAVILY FOLLOWING
GOVERNMENT REPORT.
accepted as true in cotton circles, j
caused a great deal of protest atnon^
the followers of the Patten pool in
New York who had bought a large
amount of cotton on Mr. Patten's pub-
lic prediction that cotton would sell
at 17 cents or 18 cents. It drew forth
! a denial from the Chicago man that
j he had sold a single bale of his hold-
OF Ings. His reappearance in the mar-
ket has completely upset the calcula-
tions of the traders, who thought they
now had the market completely under
control
DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY
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where regardless of what happens It will be perfectly safe. The J
Depositors' Guarantee Fund Is back of every one of our depositors, ♦
with Its guarantee of safety *
$1.00 OPENS AN ACCOUNT.
New York, Oct. 1,—The cotton mar-
ket was excited over a report that
James A. Patten, the Chicago wheat
B'MNK OF COMMERCE
SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA
;
ADVERTISING COPY.
Any Intelligent person may earn a
operator, who recently made big prof- sood Income corresponding for news
its In a bull movement on the New papers; experience unnecessary. Bend
York Cotton Exchange, had a new stamp for full particulars. ICmptr>
pool to buy 100,000 bales of cotton to Press Byndlcate. Mlddleport. N. Y. 14
day Immediately after the publication i
of the government crop report, which i Tell some deserving Rheumatic Buf-
wlll be made public at noon. It fs ferer that there Is yet on Blmple way
said that Mr. flatten has distributed to certain relief Get Dr. SIioop's
orders to his brokers to buy cotton book on Rheumatism and a free trial
whether or not the government fls- test. This pook will make it entirely
ures are bullish, and this Is the fea-j clear how Rheumatic pains are quick-
turd of tho report that Is causing ly killed by Dr. Shoop's Rheumatic
i the most consternation among the Remedy liquid or tablets. Send no
I professional traders, who have been , money. The test Is free. Surprise
! particularly aggressive since the rtf- some disheartened sufferer by first
port bee nine current earlier In the getting for him the book from Dr
•Week that IMtton bnd sold all his cot- flhoop, Racine. Wl . Sold by Wallace
ton. Tliis story, which was generally , Mann
SHERIFF SLAYER
ft FULL
he is paying some depositors to r-C^ 
exclusion of the others.
CITE FOR CONTEMPT
Oklahoma City, Okla., Oct. 4.—
When the matter of the receivership
for the Columbia llank & Trust Cm
caaue up in court t&is morning, Attor-
ney Ames for the petitioners tiled
papers citing the bank conriciasiuuer
I lor contempt of court, claiming that
he was continuing to pay out money.
'Attorney Ledbetter for the slate
: banking board was not ready to ar-
gue the matter, and it was left open,
with the understand lug that f some-
thing is not done before, that it coma
any of the funds of the bank or trans up for hl.arinK Thuraday m, cUj.
acting any business whatever In con
nectlon therewith pending final hear
| ing of the writ.
The petition in the suit asks for i
temporary restraining order and a re-
ceiver for the Oklahoma bank now in
[charge of the state bank commis-
sioner, A. M. Young.
The plaintiffs are the National fn
surance Company of Chicago, which
company 1 olds certificate of deposit
May Dismiss.
This afternoon It is said that Ames
is willing to dismiss all the pioceed-
Ings if the National Life claim of $25,-
000 is paid, which it is asserted will
be done. The other claim is for
money deposited by Missouri parties
who came to this city to get behind
Norton and help him reorganize the
bank, and they assert that if Norton
is again put in charge of the bank's
in the Involved bank for $25,000, ami „ ... . . Kit. th ,9
, affairs it Is all they ask, but that if
Oklahoma City, Okla., Occt. 4.—
When returned to Oklahoma City by
the son of the man he murdered, Alf
Hunter, alias Kingsbury, a negro,
confessed to the slaying of Siherlff
George W. Garrison at Hitchcock.
Okla., on June 28, 1908, and askel
that he be hanged on his thirtieth
birthday, which Is Oct. 19.
In order to prevent mob violence
Hunter was removed from the train
before reaching Hitchcock, and was
later taken by automobile to Wa-
tonga, Okla.
G. C. Smith of Springfield, Mo
posltor to the extent of $70,500.
The petition states that the Colum-
bia Bank & Trust Co. Is insolvent;
that Bank Commissioner Young has
refused to pay their claims and thiit
he Is to be deposed they desire to
withdraw the money.
An amicable settlement is expected
soon, as Gov. Haskell is Bald to be
willing to pay the $25,000 to th* in-
surance company
T Oil
For indignation and nil 4tomact
trouble take Koley't Orlno l^sxatUt
as It stimulate* the stomach and Mv
<*r and regulate* the bowels snd wll
positively care habitual constipation
Sold by nil druggist* *
Know That There Is a New
ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP
At 207 F-« t Main ft
Where evprythintf is run by {electric power Tin* whop is
| just a« modern as the Up to Dato Shoe Shop, both owned
• and operated by me Treated at 4 West Main St. and 207 •
! Bast Main St.
Jame& M. Van Tress, Prop* " j