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SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 23, 1909.
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KRESS AGAINST
WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC
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Burlington, Iowa, Oct. 23 —The an-
nual session of the National Purity
Congress, which convened at Bur-
lington this week, Is chiefly con-
cerned with the abolition of the white
slave traffic. The congress, after lis-
tening to a forceful address by Clif-
ford G. Roe. former assistant state's
attorney of Chicago, adopted the fol-
lowing resolutions presented by Er-
nest F. Ball of Chicago:
"The National Purity Congress, in
session at Burlington, Iowa, hereby
records its great gratification at the
present activity of national and state
authorities against the loathsome, ter-
rible commerce In girls, known as the
white slave traffic.
"We urge upon all citizens of the
nation, especially upon the officers of
the government, sworn protectors of
the people, to take necessary meas-
ures to end the traffic In girls, the
worst disgrace to civilization."
Mr. Roe declared parental negli-
gence In the education of daughters,
tlirtlng, undue ambition to live well,
i and beggarly wages paid girls In
] large stores are responsible for the
population of the red light districts
President Steadwell of La Crosse sa' i
that publicity is necessary In the
fight. The growth of the organization
into Mexico and Canada had made
change of the name of the organiza-
tion necessary, and It was voted to
'call It the American Purity Federa-
tion.
P. J. Conway of Denver, president
of the Retail Clerks' International
Union, charged low wages as the
greatest incentive to Immoral lives
among girls in department Btores.
signed by the American consul from
where the hides are shipped will be
required on all hides except hard sun-
dried and arsenic-cured hides from
the countries of Europe, Asia, Africa
and South America- The regulations
provide the methods of disinfection
by sulphur dioxide with a 5 per cent
solution of carbolic acid, except where
anthrax Is prevalent. The hides of
meat cattle other than sun-dried and
arsenic-cured, the product of the coun-
tries named, will require disinfection
as provided in the regulations when
ever shipped via the sports of any
other country, "and all hides other
than sun-dried and arsenic-cured," the
product of any country not named
above, If trans-shipped and actually
landed at port In any of the countries
named, must be disinfeoted in the
manner indicated.
A CHIP OFF
THEOLOBLOCK
Rath Bryan Leavitt on a
Lecturing Tour Filling
Dad's Dates.
GOES TO GERMANY SOON
"THE GREAT DIVIDE."
Famous Western American Drama
Will Be At Becker.
GROSS REVENUE ACT
MUSTSTAKD TEST
Railroads Will Contest be-
fore Paying Their Tax-
es Due State
WILL REFER LAW TO WEST
DENOUNCED Of STATE
OF GROUP 4
Tulsa, Okla., Oct. 23 —With but one
dissenting vote, the members of group
4 of the state bankers' section, rep-
resenting sixty banks in the eastern
part of the state, denounced the
state banking board for its methods
in dealing with the affairs of the
Columbia Bank & Trust Co. of Okla-
homa City, at a meeting here. They
also demanded that the state bank ex
amlner issue a statement regarding
the condition of the bank. The guar
anty law was declared a failure.
Resolutions were adopted recom-
mending that the state banking board,
as It now exists, be abolished; that
the guaranty fund be redeposlted with
tho banks from which It originated
and no Interest be paid on the money
eo deposited; that the expense • of
maintaining the guaranty law be met
by the state, and that when a bank
liquidates It shall have the right to
take over as assets the unused ratio
of the guaranty fund contributed by
the tank.
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Sweeping Reforms Order-
ed by Treasury Depart-
ment to save stosk
CONSULS NOTIFIED
Washington, D. C., Oct. 23. Sweep-
ing reforms designed both to facilitate
importations of all hides of meat cat-
tle and to safeguard notice stock by
requiring certificates of disinfection
signed by American consuls have been
instituted by the treasury department.
The new regulations Instruct customs
officials to treat hides of meat cattle
shipped to the United States without
disinfection as improper shipments
and to refuse entrance to them, in
eluding calf skins and cuttings and
glue stock. This Includes product of
I meat catUe shipped from England.
Ireland, the Channel Islands and the
countries of North America, includ
Ing Mexico, except where such en-
tries have been sun-dried or other
wise disinfected. Exception is also
made in the case of abbatolr hides
from Sweden, Norway. Australia and
Great Britain and hides taken from
J American cattle killed In lairages In
Great Britain.
The disinfection of such hides in
this country or their storage In gen
eral warehouses will not be permitted
hereafter. The passage of diseased
hides through the country or their
storage with other goods will tend to
the dissemination of cattle diseases
in the United States.
The regulations provide that cer-
tificates of inspection must be shown
on entry. Secretary Wilson notified
the treasury department that Great
Britain, Ireland and North America,
including Mexico, are so free from
contagious or infectious diseases of
animals that cattle therefrom may be
imported without danger to livestock
in the United States and that hides
of meat cattle might be Imported
from ail parts of the world under
proper sanitary regulations. The de-
partment accordingly has suspended
the prohibition in the new tariff law
against meat cattle and their hides,
providing, however, for the necessary
sanitary regulations as to the cattle
and the treasury department as to
hides. Certificates of disinfection
Guthrie, Okla., Oct. 23.—Reports
have been received by the state au-
ditor from the Wichita Falls & North-
western railroad, showing that the
gross amount of business done for
the fiscal year ended June 30, last,
was $111,508.23. Of this $23,909.60
was intrastate and $87,658.54 was in-
terstate.
The St. Louis, El Reno & Western
reports $76,585.29, of which $48,292.17
was intrastate and $28,293.12 was In
terstate.
The Fort Smith & Western, which
Is a continuation of the last named
line east from Guthrie, did business
to the extent of $641,448.62, of which
$334,625.12 was intrastate and $306,-
823.50 was Interstate.
None of the companies reporting
has made payments of one-half of I
per cent, which Is the tax on gross
revenue, and while figures upon which
the state claims each Is liable are
given, the companies say theri Is
some question as to the law being
constitutional.
It Is probable the state auditor
will refer the law to the attorney
general for an opinion to determln"
on what portion of the business re
ported the state may collect unde>-
the Anthony law. The Texas law was
declared invalid for the reason, the
court held, it attempted to tax earn-
ings upon commerce moving Inter-
state. In the case of the Pacific Ex-
press Company against Selbert, state
auditor of Missouri, 146, United
States report, the court defined the
term 'state business" to be business
or service done between points with-
in the state or business originating
and ending at stations situated in the
state. It is understood railroad com-
panies will test the Oklahoma gross
revenue act before paying the taxes.
Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 23. In a
tailored gown and a long, close-fitting
gray covert cloth coat and a turban
hat, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt, daugh-
ter of William Jennings Bryan, spent
seevral hours in Kansas City th*3
other day on her way from Omahi
to Great Bend and other towns in
western Kansas, wnere she will fill
lecture dates In the place of her
father, who was unable to go.
Mrs. Leavitt came to Kansas City
from Omaha, where she was the ma-
tron of honor Tuesday evening las'
at the marriage of Miss Lorraine
Comstock, a college friend, to H. C.
Evarts of that place. In Kansas City
she dined with friends on Ewim;
avenue, Sheffield.
"It seemed strange to me to fill
dates that father was unable to fill
this summer," said Mrs. Leavitt at
the Union depot yesterday afternoon,
but so far I have been getting along
fine. Even father has complimented
me on my work and you know that
means a great deal. My talks, I
know, are not as interesting as
father's, but the people have appre
elated them and that means a great
deal to me.
'Later I will lecture In the unlver
slty extension work. I have bookings
for these lectures which will keep me
busy until December; I will then go
home to Lincoln, and with my two
children depart for Germany, where I
will spend the winter studying lan-
guages. Father and sister will come
over in May, and we will all return
together."
Henry Miller, the distinguished ac-
tor-manager, will bring "Tho Great
Divide," which ha3 won recognition
as the "long awaited great American
play," to the Becker Theater Friday,
Oct. 29. The coming of this famous
drama, which has recently been pre
sented at the Princess and Daly
Theaters In New York for over five
hundred performances, has for some
time been held by our play-lovers as
a bright spot In the indefinite theat-
rical future, and this positive an- Carnegie has offered to give 450 acres
nouncement of the date of the en
gagement will be greeted with pleas-
ure. "The Great Divide" has added
much to the celebrity of Mr. Miller
as a producing manager and brough'
from dramatic obscurity into perma
nent renown an author who will have
to be reckoned with from now on In
the American drama.
William Vaughn Moody had already
been established as this country's
Andrew
Harrisburg, Pa., Oct.
SAPULPA BOND ISSUE.
of land at Cresson, Cambria County
to the state for an additional sani-
tarium for the free treatment of tu-
berculosis patients. The land Is 2,400
feet above the sea on the main line
of the Pennsylvania railroad, ninety-
nine miles east of Pittsburg, and pos-
sesses exceptional qualifications for
tho work. The only condition to ,hlK'al)out cqually divided politically and
offer Is that the sta'e will promptly i R T Goidsb0rough, R. W. Tener,
SaT>uli>a, Okla., Oct. 23.—An election
held here to decide as to tho Issue a#
$315,000 bonds for a new water sjfc-
tem and to adopt a new charter for
tho commission form of government
carried by a large majority. The men
I selected to frame the new charter are
Cotton Llnter Batting, extra fine,
new crop product, 6c pound. Choc
taw Cotton Oil Company, 220 S
Broadway. l"'u
THE "Pllir
CHEWED OP BILL
Government requested to
redeem by a Mnsouri
farmer
leading younger poet, and through
his occupancy of the chair of En-
glish In the University of Chicago,
his several publications relating
the language have long been quoted
as an authority upon English lltera
ture.
But until Mr. Miller produced "The
Great Divide" even Mr. Moody's best
'friends never suspected that the bril-
liant young poet could write a play
whlchwould be not only the most
successful of its time from a pecun-
iary standpoint, but which would also
be declared by leading critics to "set
a new mark in American drama.
New York's verdict has been that
original, dominant and fascinating as
Mr. Moody's play Is, the author Is
under an overwhelming debt to Mr
Miller for the superb and Illuminating
way in which he developed its artis
tic possibilities, and to his superb
company for their remarkable por-
trayal of the difficult characters.
"The Great' Divide" could eaBlly
have been ruined by less sympathetic
presentation than wag given under
the painstaking direction of Mr. Mil-
tor. The play is in three acts, the
first two being represented as takin;
place In Arizona and the third in
Massachusetts.
In a way, the drama Is a conflict
between the spirit of the East and
the spirit of the West. An Eastern
woman, weighted down by genera-
tions of tradition and conventionality.
Is strangely wooed and still more
strangely won by a Western man un-
fettered by custom and Ignorant of
restraint of mind or action. Thf.
mating of these opposite natures pro-
vokes great storm and stress and|
raises many Intensely Interesting and
highly dramatic situations. One must
erect and undertake to maintain
sanitorlum. The offer probably will
bo accepted, the last legislature hav-
ing appropriated $2,000,000 for anti-
tuberculosis work.
P. B. Franco, R. B. Thompson, W. C.
Hoover, Wade S. Stanfleld, D. A. Mo-
Dougal, Frank smith, Edward A. Mat-
toon and E. B. Hughes.
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Washington, D. C.. Oct. 23.—Post
master General Hitchcock has been
requested by a Missourian to make
good the loss of a five-dollar bill
which was chewed up by tho MIs-
sourian's "young pup dog."
In the communication received at
the postofflce department was an af-
fidavit setting out the facts of the
destruction of the bill together with
four small pieces of the bill, which
the puppy had neglected to consume
The affidavit sets forth that on
Sept. 6 the puppy in some manner ac-
quired the five-dollar bill and chewed
and swallowed most of It before no
tice was taken of the action.
David P. Coots, a private in Com-
pany C was fined $10 and costs in
Justice McKenzie's court for failure
to return to the armory his uniform
This was the minimum penalty under
the statute. The fine was remitted
during good behavior.
The case against Martin Daugherty,
charged with stealing cotton, was dis-
missed In the tame court, It appear-
ing the cotton was taken from Daugh
erty's land on which the lease had
not been approved by the government,
making It no good, Daugherty being
an Indian.
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Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 23—Sus
pected of the murder of Mrs. W. M
McCook, mother of James McCook,
head warden at the state convict
farm in Lincoln County, Will John
son, a trusty, was brought to this
city to avoid mob violence. Mrs. Mc-
Cook was found dead near the stock-
ade. She had been strangled to
death with a whip.
The jury in the case of Crist vs.
the M., K. & T. Railway Co. brough'
In a verdict yesierday for the defend
ant This Is said to be the first over-
flow case that ever went to a Jury
In Oklahoma in which tho defendant
railroad won out.
This morning the case of Duncan
vs. the M., K. & T. went to trial In
tho Superior Court. The plaintiff
wants damages for being put off the
train some months ago. It seems
that he by mistake took the wrong
train and was forcibly ejected.
Upon application for a writ of
habeas corpus being filed for S. 1!
Clark, held in Jail at Earlboro with-
iiginy uinmauv oiiuu.,uuo,    out a warrant, the court issued the
lee this masterful exposition of Amer- order t0 the sheriff to have Clark be-
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lean manhood and womanhood
portrayed in this really great play to
understand adequately how the
storms are weathered and the prob-
lem selved.
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Durant, Okla., Oct. 23.—At Sterrett
Okla., James Watt, a young farmer
and R. O. Burrauge were given a
preliminary hearing on a charge of
enticing a child from home. Early
Wednesday morning Watts, with Miss
Vada Houston, aged 15, while her
mother was In Texas visiting and her
stepfather absent from the farm, hunt
ing, departed before breakfast and
were married at Denison. Burrauge
drove their carriage. Returning late
in the afternoon, the men were ar-
rested.
The girl was returned to her home
and the young men released later on
bond. The groom has employed able
counsel and will fight for possession
of his young wife.
fore him at 4:30 this afternoon. It
Is understood that the county attor
ney will not oppose the issuance o!
the writ.
Charles A. Huber Becks to enjoin
the sheriff from offering for sale bis
stock of hardware at Tecumseh for
taxes, on the grounds that he pur-
chased the stock With the understand-
ing that all taxes had been paid.
Josle Kelly seeks divorce from Clif
ton Kelly, on the grounds of cruelty
The case of Bentley vs. Chapman
et al. has been transferred from tho
District Court.
Charles M. Parker seeks legal sepa-
ration from Ruth M. Parker, his wife,
on statutory grounds.
Mike Slekel sues the Rock iBland
for $179.19 damages, for alleged fail-
ure of the company to provide him
cars for the shipment of cattle on
the day promised. The petition al-
leges that he had to drive the cattle
fifteen miles and wait for cars from
Oct. 26 to Nov. 3, 1908, incurring an
expense In the sum asked for.
The bootleggers and the wholesale
liquor men are keeping the lawyers
and courts busy these days bearing
Injunction proceedings against the en
foroeraent officials throughout the
state. Statewide prohibition is being
tested along the Injunction plan and
may prove beneficial to the attorneys
who get in on the ground floor, if not
to the state.
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and I recommend It to be the best
for teachers. Reasonable prlcet
kidney, bladder and rheumatism me.1I
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treatment for $1. Shawnee Drug
Store, Main and Broadway. •
With natural gas now secured, why
should we not proceed to secure nat
ural water power, which would be so
easy to get from the Canadian by the
aid of a dam and canal?
Logan County delinquent tax list
fills over nine columns In the State
Register this week.
Guthrie, Okla., Oct. 23—Secretary
of State Bill Cross was whirled about
town yesterday afternoon In the mo-
tor car owned by J. M. Brooks and
driven by his son Phillip, and for
two hours was compelled to respond
to sympathetic messages of congratu-
lations which were showered upon
him by admiring friends. It was the
first tlmo Col. Cross had appeared In
public since he was confined to tho
house, about two months ago, with
a serious illness, and he declared
he was feeling much improved. His
looks bore out his statement,
Learning that tho secretary was
sufficiently improved to stand th«
strain of a visit to town, Gov. S. F.
Price, accompanied by Mr. Brooks
and his son, drove to the home of
W. H. Merten, In West Guthrie,
where Col. Cross is staying, and re-
turned with him to the state house.
His arrival in front of the state build-
ing was the signal for a friendly dem-
onstration which is accorded few of-
ficials. Employes of the school land
department were the first to stir-
round the car and congratulate him
upon his convalescence These were
soon joined by all of the state offi
clals than in their offices and by de-
partment members. Then the at-
taches of the school land department
presented the secretary with a huge
bouquet of American beauties. For
a moment tho secretary seemed over-
whelmed by the evidences of friendly
sympathy which rained upon him, but
recovering his usual poise, stood up
in the car and responded to tho pres
entatlon with feeling.
Leaving the state houBe, Mr. Cross
was driven about town and called
upon numerous friends. Later, h<-
returned to tho Merten home, whero
he said that if he continued to feel
as well as he did yesterday he would
soon feel strong enough to resume
his official duties.
THE NEWS S MONTHS FOR  1.0C.