Cimarron Valley Clipper (Coyle, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 13, 1913 Page: 4 of 6
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no is who m
tow,vsr by urnfesston ti known to
most people as the builder r< the
great system of railway tunnels ofj
New York city. He was born near
Marietta, Ga., in 1883 and was edu-
cated at the University of Tennessee.
In 1885 he was admitted to the bar.
Brief Sketches of Advisers of the
New President.
BRYAN'S CAREER EPITOMIZED
McAdoo a Famous Tunnel Builder,
McReynolds Skilled In "Trust Bust-
ing,” Garrison a Man of Unusual
Executive Ability, Others Able.
Washington, March* 5.—President
Wilson today sent to the senate
the names of the following as the
members of his cabinet:
Secretary of State -William Jen-
nings Bryan of Nebraska.
congressman from the Tenth district
of Texas and was re-elected to the
Sixty-third eofcgis'ss. He was born in
San Marcos, Tex., in 1863, was edu-
cated at the Agricultural and Me-
chanical College of Texas, Baylor uni-
versity and the University of Texas,
and was admitted to the bar In 1884.
He was assistant city attorney of Aus-
tin for severaltyears before going to
congress, Mrs. Burleson was Miss
Adele Steiner of Austin.
Josephus Daniels.
Josephus Daniels, secretary of the
navy, is the one newspaper man given
place in the cabinet. He has also
been active In politics and is the mem-
ber of the Democratic national com-
mittee for North Carolina. Mr. Dan-
iels was born in 1862 at Washington,
N. C., and began his newspaper ca-
reer at the age of eighteen as editor
of the Wilson (N. C.) Advance. In
1885 he became editor of the Raleigh
State Chronicle, which nine years later
he consolidated with the North Caro
llnlan and the News and Observer.
Franklin K. Lane.
Franklin Knight Dane has been a
member of the interstate commerce
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lane and the University of Wisconsin
£le married Miss,Helen Beall of Austin.
Tex., In 1895.
William C. Redfield.
William Cox Redfield has just com
pleted his first term as a congressman,
but he has been prominent in the poli-
tics of New York for a good many
LINDLEY M. GARRISON,
Secretary of War.
and the same year he married Sarah
Houston Fleming of Chattanooga. He
entered the practice of law in New
York In 1892, and since 1901 has been
interested chiefly in tunnel construc-
tion there. He is president of the
Hudson & Manhattan Railroad com-
pany.
Llndley M. Barrison.
The selection of Liudley M. Garri-
son, vice chancellor of New Jersey, to
be secretary of war Is in lino with
President Wilson's idea that the hold-
er of thut position should be a man
of unusual executive ability. He is a
close friend of Mr. Wilson. Mr. Garri-
son was born in Camden, N. J., No-
vember 28, 1864. He is a son of Rev.
Joseph F. Garrison, an Episcopal
Doings of the Lawmakers
Decision Against Dick.
“We are of the opinion the useful-
ness of R. W. Dick, as warden of
the state penitentiary of McAlester,
has ceased and we believe the best
State Sunday School Convention
An elaborate program, which will
Include addresses by Governor Lee
Cruce and otfier noted speakers, has
been prepared for the twentieth an-
nual state convention of the Okla-
WILLIAM C. REDFIELD,
Secretary of Commerce.
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years. In 1902 and 1903 he was com-
missioner of public works for th«
Borough of Brooklyn. In private life
he is a manufacturer of ventilating
and heating apparatus and engines.
Mr. Redfield was born in 1858 in Al-
interests of the public service would homa Sunday School association,
be subserved by relieving him from
further duty in that responsible posi-
tion,” is the recommendation to the
senate, of the penitentiary probe com-
mittee,, of which Senator W. N. Red-
wine of .McAlester is chairman. The
report was filed and read at length to
j the senate, following which a motion
that the committee’s report be re-
ceived was made and carried.
| 0The committee to investigate War-
| <fen Dick’s management of the state
penitentiary was appointed by the
senate January 7, 1913, and has con-
ducted its hearings both in McAles-
ter and Oklahoma City,
j The committee's report of its iind-
j ings, ia* pari, is as follows:*
On December 29, 1909, a nd on
March 15, 1910, two tracts of land*
consisting of 39 and 2.01 acres, were
deeded to E. 0 Miftion, trustee, who
held the land for the benefit of R. W.
Dick,* warden of • the state peniten-
tiary; A. U. Thomas, cashier of Amer-
ican National bank, McAlester; John
Labosquet, a coal operator of Mc-
Alister, and the trustee himself. The
The purchaser contributed $1,600, and
Dick’s amount was loaned to him by
bany, N. Y., was educated in tlie i associates, Messrs. Million and
schools of that city, and removed to Thomas.
New York In 1877 and to Brooklyn in
1883.
William B. Wilson.
Pennsylvania s representative in the
cabinet is William Baufchop Wilson of
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN,
Secretary of State.
Secretary of the Treasury—William
G McAdoo of Now York
Secretary of War—Lindley M. Gar-
rison of New Jersey.
Attorney General—James C. McRey-
nolds of Tennessee.
Postmaster General—Albert Burle-
son of Texas.
Secretary of the Navy—Josephus
Daniels of North Carolina.
Secretary of the Interior—Franklin
K Lane of California.
Secretary of Agriculture—David A.
Houston of Missouri.
Secretary of Commerce—William
C. Redfield of New York
Secretary of Labor—William B. Wil-
son of Pennsylvania.
With one or two exceptions, these
men have attained considerable na-
tional fame, and all of them are ad-
mittedly able.
Mr. Bryan’s Career.
William J. Bryan has been so much
In the public eye for a good many
JOSEPHUS DANIELS,
Secretary of the Navy.
commission since 1905, and this expe-
rience is believed to have fitted him
for the executive and judicial tasks in
administering the public land laws of
the country. Born in Prince Edward
Island in 1864, he received his educa-
tion In the University of California
and became a lawyer in San Francis-
co. Prior to his designation to the
commission he was a Democratic po- I
littcal leader in California. He was
Democratic candidate for governor, |
being defeated by a narrow- margin (
JAMES C. M’REYNOLpS,
Attorney General.
clergyman. He is a brother of Justice
Charles Q. Garrison of the New Jersey
supreme court. He waB appointed to
the chancery court in June, 1904, and
reappointed by Chancellor Mahlon Ptt-
j ney, now a Justice of the United
States Supreme court, in 1911 for n
term of seven years
James C. McReynolds.
In picking James Clark McReynolds
j for the position of attorney general,
| Mr. Wilson selected a man who has
j had a lot of experience as a “trust
1 buster." He is a native of Elkton, Ky.,
I where he was born in 1862, and a grad-
uate of Vanderbilt university and the
law school of the University of Vlr-
Selling to Guards.
According to the report the com-
pany, after purchasing the land en-
tered into a contract with Dick, as
warden of the penitentiary, whereby
state convicts and state machinery
was to be used in leveling down the
property, on which houses, taken from
j the penitentiary grounds, were moved
an8 Dick then Informed the peniten-
tiary guards they would have to live
close to the penitentiary. The re-
port allege^ that guards who did not
either buy or rent houses from Dick’s
company were soon,, discharged, and
that the property sold to the guards
brought $28,520. The company’s total
outlay for the entire property was
$10,100, and after selling off $28,520
worth of the grounds, the company
still had the most valuable portion of
the property left..
That Warden Dick told the com-
mittee two different stories* concern*
ing a $2,000 check from John M.
Wheeler, agent for the Pauly Jail
Building company of 8t. Louis, which
sold to the penitentiary 300 cells, for
which stile Wheeler received com-
missions totaling $11,475, is alleged.
According to the report Dick first
told the committee the check was
which convenes in Oklahoma City
March 18 to 20 inclusive, and it ia
predicted that 1,200 to 1,600 delegates
from all over the state will attend.
Among those taking a prominent
place in the progarm are W. C.
Pearce of Chicago, associate general
secretary and superintendent *of the
adult division. International Sunday
School Association; Rev. W. J. Wil-
liamson, president Baptist Young
People’s Union of America and pastor*
Third Baptist church, St. I-ouis; Dr.
P II. Welshlraer, pastor of the First
Christian church, Canton Ohio, and
Mrs. Mary Foster liryuer of Chicago, *
elementary specialist of the Interna-
tional Sunday School Association.
PrcdjesBor E O. Excell of Chicago, one
of the world’s greatest leaders of
song, will have charge of the music.
D S WOLFINGER,
Of Hobart, Okla., President of the
State Association.
Reduced Rates Offered.
The railroads have agreed to offer a
very low rate for the round trip, same
being one and one-half fare from all
points in Oklahoma. Tickets will be
on sale March 17 to 19. inclusive, with
return limit midnight March 22.
The state association officers are as
follows: President, D. S. Wolfinger of
Hobart; general secretary, C. H.
Nichols of -Oklahoma city; recording
secretary. Alvin Campbell of Lawton;
vice presidents, J E. Nissley of Guth-
rie, E. A. Pemberton of Kingfisher, D.
Rector of Frederick, S. F. Swinford
of Stillwater, Neil Wimmer of Checo-
from iiis wife’s estate, and Bubse- tah. and H. B. Gllaap of Chandler.
* WILLIAM B. WILSON, #
Secretary of Labor.
Blossburg, named for secretary of la-
bor He was born in Blantyre, Scot-
land, in 1862, and came to this country
in 1870. The next year he • began
working in the Pennsylvania coal
mines, and from early manhood he has
been actively interested in trade union
affairs. For eight years he was in-
ternational secretary-treasurer of the
United Mine Workers of America. He
Is now engaged in farming Mr. Wil-
son has been a member of the last
three congresses, representing the Fif-
teenth district of his state. He is
married and has nine children.
DAVID A. HOUSTON,
Secretary of Agriculture-
subsequently he was the Democratic
caucus candidate for United Staie»
senator.
David F. Houston.
In David Franklin Houston, chan-
cellor of Washington university, St.
Louis, Wilson has a secretary of ag-
riculture who is familiar with the pro-
cesses of advancing scientific farming
STORY LESSON ON ELEPHANT
Animal Intelligence and Faithfulness
Are Recounted for Study by
Man.
The elephant is said to be the most
Intelligent of all animals; certainly
few four-footed creatures have served
man so ably and faithfully. How
courageous and loyal they can be Is
strikingly shown by an incident re-
lated by H. Perry Robinson in his
book “Of Distinguished Anitaals," says
WILLIAM G. M’ADOO,
Secretary of the Treasury.
years that a sketch of his career
seems almost superfluous. Born in
8alem. 111 . in I860, he was graduated
with highest honors from Illinois col-
lege at Jacksonville In 1881 and re-
ceived his master's degree In 1884.
Ip 1883 he wns given the degree of
14- B. by Union College of Law. Chi-
cago. After practicing law in Jack-
sonville and Lincoln, Neb., he served
as a member of the 52nd and 63rd
congresses. Having written the "sil-
ver plank" for the Democratic na-
tional convention of 1896 and made
a sensational speech, he was nomi-
nated for president, but was defeated
by William McKinley Nominated
again In 1900. he was again beaten by
McKinley, and then established the
Commoner and made a tour of the
world. Nominated a third time In
1*08, he was defeated by W. H. Taft.
Mr. Bryan marripd Mary Elisabeth
Baird In 1884. He has done much lec-
turing and written several looks.
McAdoc the Tunnel Builder?
William Gibus McAdoo. though a
ALBERT BURLESON,
Postmaster General.
ginla. From 1903 to 1907 he was as-
sistant attorney general of the United
States. He then returned to private
practice, but has been retained as spe-
cial assistant to the attorney general
In matters relating to the enforce-
ment of the anti trust lawa. Mr. Mc-
Reynolds la unmarried.
Albert 8. Burleson.
Albert Sidney Burleson already has
servtd seven consecutive verms as
and allied questions In this country. Mr h youths Companion.
Houston was president o the Texas „A natjve Mahratta prlncP was en-
Agricultural and Mechanical college a fierct! batUe wUh hi8 Pne-
foi a number of years, and has taught mleB_ and the Btrug(,le ragt.(1 furi0usly
| about the standard-bearing elephant.
At the moment when it was ordered
to halt, 'Its mahout was killed. The
Mahratta forces were borne back, but
still the elephant stood firm, and the
standard continued to fly.
“Accordingly the soldiers of the
prince, unwilling to be outdone In
courage by an elephant, rallied, and In
turn drove the enemy back till the
tide of battle swept past the rooted
elephant and left It, towering colossal
among the slain.
"The fight was won, and then they
would have had the elephant move
from the battlefield, but it waited for
the dead man’s voice. For three days
and nights it remained where it had
been told to remain, and neither bribe
nor treat would move It. Finally they
sent to the home village on the Ner-
budda a hundred miles away, and
fetched the mahout's little son, a
round-eyed, lisping child. Then, at
last, the hero of that victorious day,
remembering that Its master had
sometimes, In a brief absence, dele-
gated his authority to the child, con
fessed Its allegiance and, with shat-
tered battle harness clanging at each
stately stride, swung slowly along the
road behind lbs boy."
FRANKLIN k. LANE,
Secretary of the Interior.
In several other educational Institu-
tions He was born In Monroe, N. C„
In 1866, was educated at South Caro-
lina college and Harvard, and re-
ceived the degree of LL. D. from Tu-
quently testified it was a contribu-
tion to the campaign fund of Lee
The central committee is composed of
the following: 1). I. Johnston, chair-
Cruce when the latter was running man, Oklahoma City; Dr. L. H. Bux-
for governor. ton, Oklahoma City; Homer Filer,
The report further charges that Oklahoma City; Andrew Kingkade,
Dick allows 400 of the 1.350 convicts! Oklahoma City; Rev. W. J. Moore,
tj go about the city, without guard, I Sulphur, and Arthur Whorton, Okla-
and In citizen’s clothes, and that 116 j homa City.
have escaped, of which only fifty- j -£—
seven have been recaptured. The re-J State Bankers Meet
captures cost the state an average of i In conformity with the new banking
$60 each.
Overpayments Alleged.
That the Texas Building company
was overpaid various large sums of
money for work done in connection
with the construction of the peniten-
tiary, under the management of Dick,
is another charge in the report.
The report also charges that a con
as “expenses" $620 within a period
of ten days, and has not cancelled
checks or receipts to show for what
purpose the money was expended.
Teh report also charge? that a con-
tract was let for the erection of a
law, nine slate bankers were chosen
by the executive council of the newly
organized State Bankers’ assoiation,
from which number the governor it
ti choose three members of the stats
banking board. *
The bankers organized, formulated
their plans of activity under the new
law and selected fifteen of their num-
ber to the executive council, which is
vested with the authority to submit
names from which the banking board
arid the bank commissioner are to bs
chosen.
Those who were chosen were: John
J. Gerlach, Woodward; Lee Patrick,
light and power plant at the peniten- j stroud; W. C. Ernest, Hammon; P. J.
tiary to S. E. Dunbar of Muskogee, wikoff, Oklahoma City; A. D. Kennedy
and the testimony showed that John Okmulgee; L. C. Ross, Tahlequah; H.
M. Wheeler, agent for the Paulyv Jial j jyj Spalding, North Enid; J. W. Ches-
Building company, was very active in j ter, Hugo, and W. F. Barber, Lawton,
Dunbar’s behalf. When the contrart Quly two of the men selected as pros-
was let Wheeler told Dunbar $25,0()b ; pectlve members of the banking board
had been appropriated tor building j Were members of the executive coun-
tin' plant affording to the report. t.j], A. Kennedy and L. C. Ross.
Dunbar drew his own plans for the I Officers Selected
plant, and when completed It con-J The officers elected are: G. W.
tained some second-hand machinerj. pjprsol, Oklahoma City, president; A.
and was not worth over $16,000, hc- j p Kennedy, Okmulgee, vice-president;
cording to testimony. !v B. Howard , Arch Anderson, Oklahoma City, secre-
objeeted to the contract Dunbar had tary, an() w c linker, Altus, treuB-
obtained, and finally secured Its can-' urP1. .
collation, and a new contract entered j p0ur appropriation bills for the
into with Dunbar, under which the j maintenanCe of as many state educa-
latter was to receive ten per cent, j tional institutions were passed finally
Edmister Wins in His Contest : by the senate. Three of these were for
The last election contest pending j district agricultural schools and the
In the house against a Republican fourth for the state preparatory school
member of that body was disposed of|at Claremore. The Murray Agricul-
when by a vote of 68 to 9 the report itural school at Tishomingo, the lias-
made by six members of the commit-|kell Agricultural school at Broken Ar-
tee on privileges and elections, recom-jrow and the Helena Agricultural school
mending the dismissal of the contest | each received an appropriation of $14,-
against Representative 8. C. Edmister. \ 600 a year and the preparatory school
Pawnee county, was sustained. at Claremore an even $16,000.
STATE BREVITIES
Many business men of ldabel favor
the preferential primary plan for se-
lecting a postmaster at that place.
Maxlill Is in the midst of a great
building boom Quite a number of
dwellings and business houses are be-
ing erected.
Broken Bow has voted an Issuance
of $80,000 worth of bonds for the pur-
pose of Installing a complete water-
works 8>stem there.
Two Appropriations.
The senate- also finally passed a
bill appropriating $54,000 from the
fund of section 13, for the support
of the Southeastern State normal, and
a bill appropriating $45,800 for the
support of the Wilburton School of
Mines. Debate on this appropriation
brought out the fact that last year
only thirty eight students attended the
school, and ltB highest enrollment
during any one year of its existence
was 55, and that only one person hud
ever graduated Born the Institution.
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