The Orlando Clipper (Orlando, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1912 Page: 3 of 8
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As Told in a
Few Words
and Newsy Items
of General InterestCon -
densed to Small Space
WASHINGTON.
President Taft returned to Wash-
ington from Cincinnati where he had
been to attend the funeral of John
Herron, Mrs. Taft's father.
More than $3,000,000 damages was
done to crops in the south last month
by the army worm, according to un-
official estimates of the department
of agriculture.
President Taft has accepted the
resignation of Federal Judge Han-
ford of Seattle tendered while Judge
Hanford's conduct on the bench was
being investigated.
By a vote of 33 to 28 the senate has
hgreed to recede from its Canadian
reciprocity repeal amendment on the
steel bill. This leaves the bill ap-
proved by both houses.
By a rearrangement of assignments
on committees, caused by recent va-
cancies, Senator Robert La Follette
has been made a member of an im-
portant committee on interstate com-
merce.
The adjournment of congress by
August 17 has been definitely fixed
upon by the leaders of both houses.
This definite decision followed the
approving by the senate of the free
passage of American ships through
the Panama canal.
The engineer, fireman and one pas-
senger was killed and between 20 and
30 passengers were injured near Bos-
ton, when a New York, New Haven
& Hartford passenger train left the
track. The engine, baggage car and
two day coaches went over an em-
bankment.
The house has passed the general
'ieflciency appropriation bill. It car-
ries $6,182,838. The bill contains one
item of $150,000 for the fiftieth anni-
versary celebration of the battle of
Gettysburg next July, coupled with
the provision that the state of Penn-
sylvania appropriate at least an equal
amount.
The nomination of Colonel E. Z.
Steever, now in command of the
troops along the Mexican border, to
be a brigadier general of the line
and that of Colonel George Andrews,
attached to the department of the
east at New York, to be adjutant gen-
eral of the army has been sent to
the senate by President Taft.
The old Field bill framed to revise
the patent laws so they will meet the
recent patent monopoly decision of
the supreme court has been reported
to the house. The measce aims to
set aside the decision which insured
to an inventor the right to stipulate
the kind of materials used or sold
in connection with a patented de-
vice.
The impeachment trial of Judge
Robert W. Archbald of the United
States commerce court has been set
by the senate to open December 3,
the second day of the next regular
session of congress. The postpone-
ment of the case came after a long
fight by a number of senators to have
an immediate trial, as desired by the
house.
Senator Dixon of Montana, wn«
elected chairman of the national com-
mittee of the progressive party at a
meeting of the committee at Chicago.
Governor O. B. Colquitt of Texas,
refused to interfere in behalf of Sell-
ars Vines, a negro sentenced to hang
for the murder of Fred Mounger a
pence officer, who was killed last Sep-
tember. The board of pardon advisers
recently recommended commutation
of Vines’ sentence to death.
Since his criticism of bachelor
maids and bachelors, whom he would
relegate to some solitary island, the
Rev. Elmer Heffner of Colorado, has
received 200 appeals for aid in effect-
ing marriages.
The trial of “Kid” McCoy, under ar-
lest in London on the charge of lar-
ceny alleged to have been committed
at Ostend, was brought up again and
remanded for a week, his bail being
renewed.
MURRAY AND THOMPSON TO
CONGRE88MAN AT LARGE RACE
18 VERY CL09E
THIRD PLACE DOUBTFUL
In the First district Bird McGuire
kaH an ever increasing lead over the
progressive J. F. Hickam and in the
| Second district Dick T. Morgan is as-
sured of nomination over Nols Darl-
ing of Oklahoma City.
WEAVER, BRANSON, ROBERTSON 1 lie re,urnB aH they come in only
OR ECHOLS MAY SECURE IT ^ " the lear,B of y,°tt Ferris in the
Carter, Ferris, McGuire and Morgan
Seem Certain of Renomination—
Returns are Coming in Very
Slowly Everywhere
Cumulative evidence piling up be-
fore the grand jury investigating po-
lice blackmail In New York City is
said to involve four or five high po-
lice officials.
A battle between a black snake
about two feet long and a clucking
hen guarding a dozen little chickens,
fought in a dusty road near San-
dusky, Ohio, was won by the hen.
Although he will be 77 years old
in October, Adlai Stevenson, who
was vice president in the second
term of Grover Cleveland, will take
the stump this fall for Wilson and
Marshall.
The right of congress, acting in
the relation of “parens patrise,” to
enact a law giving the secretary of
tlie interior authority to grant right-
of-way over the lands of minor Creek
Indians for pipe lines was sustained
by the supreme court commission in
a recent decision.
Singing “Onward Christian Sol-
diers” and “the battle hymn of the
republic,” the delegates to the first
national convention of the new Pro-
gressive party acclaimed Theodore
Roosevelt of New York as their can-
didate for president and Gov. Hiram
W. Johnson of California, as their
choice for vice president.
Oklahoma City—Incomplete returns
Thursday night from approximately
of the 76 counties of Oklahoma in-
sure the nomination of William H
Murray of Tishomingo and Joe B.’
'I hompson of Pauls Valley, on the
democratic ticket for congressman at-
large, and Claude Weaver of Okla-
homa City, Fred Branson of Musko-
gee, and Leslie Ross of Lawton, are
leading for third place on the ticket
If Weaver is given a large vote in
Oklahoma City, his home, it will al-
most insure his nomination.
Before the returns from the larger
cities were available, Weaver, Wil-
liam Franklin of Madili, and J ’ I) A
Robertson of Chandler, were in the
lead Thursday in this arce. But re-
turns from Muskogee, Pittsburg, Pot-
tawatomie and Logan counties swelled
the votes of Branson and Ross so that
they passed the others.
The incomplete vote in 36 of the 76
counties gives Murray 16,860; Thomp-
son 14,870, weaver 11,114, Branson, 10-
818, Ross 9,244, Franklin 9,452, J. B. A.
Robertson 7,500, and Robert Echols
o,241. Estimates on other counties
indicate that Murray and Thompson
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w. H. MURRAY
Who Led all Candidates for Congress
man at Large in Democratic Primary,
Fourth district, and Charles Carter
in the Fourth district, and the re-
nomination of James Davenport in
the J bird district now appears prob-
able. James Sykes, of Tulsa, is run-
ning well, but Davenport appears to
have the edge in the race.
DOMESTIC
Congressman Samuel W. McCall of
Winchester, Mass., has announced his
candidacy for the United States sen-
ate to succeed Senator Murray Crane.
\ J. McKee, a merchant, was in-
■tnntljr killed in alighting from a
moving train near Franklin, Tenn. He
collided with a telephone pole as he
Jumped from the train and broke his
neck.
foreign.
Once more Cocos, a tiny Island
in the Pacific ocean, is to be visited
by an expedition in search of tl,0
fabulous treasures reported to have
been buried there by pirates.
General Cincinnatus Leconte, pres-
ident of the republic of Haiti, per-
ished in a fire wiiich destroyed the
national palace. It was caused by
an explosion of a powder magazine
attached to the pa'ace.
It is feared that more than one hun-
dred men have lost their lives in the
Lorraine mine at Bochum, Germany,
which was partly wrecked by a fire
damp explosion. Six hundred and fifty
workmen were imperilled by the blast
but the majority escaped.
An aeroplane with a pilot and two
passengers crossed the English chan-
nel from Dover early Sunday morn-
ing. The aeroplane landed at Sliaf-
ford, Kent, but owing to the heavy
wind collided with a tree. The wings
were smashed but the occupants were
not hurt.
Border fighting between the Turks
and guerrila bands of Albanian tribes-
men continues along the Montenegro
frontier. The Turkish frontier troops
who have been strongly reinforced,
again crossed the Montenegrin bord-
er and were again repulsed by the
Montenegrin levies.
Mexican rebels, moving south from
Juarez, have been fighting with the
advance guard of the federal army-
approaching Juarez. It is reported
that the rebel advance on Chihuahua
has been checked. It is also reported
that General Orozco has submitted a
peace proposal to the Madero gov-
ernment.
c , , „ JOE B. THOMPSON
Successful Candidate on Democratic ticket for Congressman at Large.
both are running strong with the oth-
ers divided. Moman Pruiett was given
a large vote in the larger cities, but
(he returns do not place him among
the leaders. The same is true of J. Y.
Callahan in the country precincts all
over northern and western Oklahoma.
Weaxer has shown the greatest
strength in the Fourth and Fifth con-
gressional districts w-here he is well
known. He ran for congress at one
time in the Fifth district against
Scott Ferris, and was defeated by a
very few votes. Robertson is show-
ing up best in the central portions of
the state, and is getting lots of votes
from the remote districts. Branson
will lead in most of the counties in
northeastern Oklahoma, while Frank-
lin is one of the high men in the
southern regions. Echols leads in all
Murray County
Sulphur, Okla.—Twenty precincts
out of twenty-four in Murray county
shows the following vote: For United
States senator, democratic, Owen 749,
Haskell 263; for congressman-at-large
democratic, Adams 74, Adderton 34
Adler 27, Bouldin 17, Bowman 75,
Branson 125, Brown 28, Callaan 28,’
Campbell 27, Carpenter 20, Cummins
30, Echols 105, Eggerman 19, Fields
22, Franklin 285, Gilmer 27, Hays 125,
Goulding 7, Harley 13, Ivey 7, James
7, Murray 399, Niblack 28, Pruiett 154,
Ross 219, Robertson 73, Thompson
262, Weaver 260; for congressman,
fourth district, democratic, Carter
375, Parsons 16, Stanley 88; for con-
gressman, fifth district, democratic,
Ferris 304, Mansell 47; for state sen-
ator, Jordan 422, Tucker 391;
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Lanter, W. L. The Orlando Clipper (Orlando, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1912, newspaper, August 16, 1912; Orlando, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc911333/m1/3/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.