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THE SHAWNEE DAHY NEWS-HERA* D
Exclusive Associated Press Report, Largest Circulation In This Section ol Oklahoma
VOL. XVI
Shawnee Daily Hi raid, Vol. 16 /Con olidated\
Shawnee Daily Newa, Vol. 16 V Dec. t, 1911 /
SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA,
MONDAY, MAY 20, 1912
EVENING EDITION. EKiHT PAGES.
NUMBER 256.
FATHER SEEKS
RECOVERY OF
LITTLE OIRL
HABEAS CORPUS ACTION
BROUGHT IN THE SUPERIOR
COURT BY T. O. FREEMAN.
CHILD 3 YEARS OLD
Foster Parents Do Not Want to
Give Her Up—Given to Them
By Her Mother.
The law has been invoked by T.
O. Freeman of McIntosh county
in his effort to secure possession
of his three years old daughter,
Mandina. His application for i
writ of habeas corpus is being
heard in the superior court before
Judge Abernathy this afternoon
The child is now in the custody of
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Wright, to
whom she was given by hei
mother.
Mother and Father Parted.
The parents of the child are
parted, the mother, Mrs. Minnie
Freeman, coming to Shawnee with
the child after their separation. She
secured work here, but becoming ill
was unable to longer care for the
little one, and advertised for a
home for the child. Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar Wright answered the appeal,
and the child was given them.
Father Acts.
The father lately learned of the
little girl having been given to the
Wrights, and took steps to get her
sway from them. The habeas cor-
pus suit in the superior court fol-
lowed.
LARIMER'S ELECTION
NOT DUE TO MONEY?
MAJORITY OF COMMITTEE SAY
POLITICAL CONDITIONS ARE
RESPONSIBLE.
By Associated Press.
Washington, May 20.—Taken al-
together the testimony in the Lori-
irer investigation indicates that
the senator's election was the re-
sult of political conditions and not
attributable to the corrupt use of
money, in substance said the re-
port of the majority of the Lori
mer investigating committee sub
mitted today.
In setting forth why Lorimer
should retain his seat in senate re-
port says in part that Senator
Holstlaw is said to have been paid
$2,500 to vote for Lorimer and
the report denounces him as fol-
lows:
"Everything connected with the
evidence given by Holstlaw indi
cates that his love of money is a
consuming passion that dominate?
his judgment, deadens his consci-
ence and destroys his regard for
truth."
Minority Report.
A minority report presented say6:
' The second Lorimer investigation
conclusively established that at lea«t
"SO COMPROMISE," SAYS
THEODORE, "EXCEPT MYSELF.'
By Associated Press.
Cambridge, Ohio, May 20—Rooso
velt served notice today that 1.
would resist any compromise at the
republican national convention
"There can be no compromise," he
paid. "Some of our opponents ar<;
siying thatneither Taft nor I should
be nominated. I'll name the com-
promise candidate; he will be me."
FIRST BALL
STRIKE IS
DETROIT TEAM AT LAST HOUR
AGREED TO PLAT TOMORROW
WITHOUT COBB.
By Associated Press.
Philadelphia, May 20.—The base-
ball strike was ended today whoi
the Detroit players agreed to play
Washington tomorrow without Cobb
RICHISON SEEMS
NOW RECONCILED
HE SPENT LAST NIGHT SING-
ING HYMNS AND READING
SCRIPTURE.
By Associated Press.
Boston, Mass., May 20.—After
spending most of the night singing
hymns and reading scripture with
Chaplain Stebbins, Clarence V. T.
Rlcheson, slayer of Avis Unnell,
seemed reconciled and Js courage-
ously facing the future.
Repeadtedly he sang his favorite
hymn, "Sometime We'll Under
stand."
"I'll be ready when you want me,
warden," he said.
No relatives will console him in
the last hour.
LEAVES FORTUNE TO A MARINE.
Bnt Beneficiary Must Serve Out His
Term and Another,
Fargo, N. D., May 20—A fortune
of $77,000 and a North Dakotr.
homestead prevented Clarence Mon
tague Copeland from leaving service
with the United States marines.
Copeland received word today of the
death of an uncle, John Copeland,
who willed him his fortune on the
condition that he remain in the ser-
vice the remainder of his present
enlistment, and then immediately re-
cnlist. Copeland says that he is de-
lighted to comply with the provisions
of his uncle's will, saying that he
would rather be in the service tha.i
out of it.
"To my nephew, this bequest !s
made, that he may not spend the
savings of a lifetime in riotous 11"-
ing and that he may continue It
the service of his country," reads a
• revision of the will.
The magnificent dresses are true
to the period, and the solid Bcenery
gives an impression of reality that
has never been equalled.
tin of the votes caBt for Lorimer
were corrupt, and that hi6 election
therefore was invalid."
The Lorimer case Is thus laid be
fore the senate for final action.
THE STATE NATIONAL BANK
SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA
Capital and Surplus
$125,000.00
WILLARD JOHNSTON", I'rcst W. J. BARNETT, Asst. Cash.
HBO. E. McKINNIS, Vice Prcst €. M. CADE, Cashier
F. II. REED, Active Vice Prest
BO! 10 LIVE
MURPHY MASSEY PROVES POOR
MARKSMAN WITH HIMSELF
AS HIS TARGET.
"Call a doctor. I've shot myself,"
cried Murphy Massey, aged 23, as
he rushed into the Donahue black-
smith shop on South Philadelphia
late Saturday afternoon. The am-
bulance was called and he was re
moved to the Municipal hospital.
An examination showed that a bul-
let had passed through his right
side, in the region of the liver.
Physicians say that he will recover.
Was in Hard Luck.
Massey, who was commonly
known as "Slim," had been in hard
luck recently. He had formerly
been employed as a cab driver, but
had not worked for some time.
Saturday morning he "soaked" a
suit of clothes for a revolver, hav-
ing evidently planned suicide at
that time. It is not known why
he delayed his self destruction. He
was in the rear of Donahue's East
Main street property when he at-
tempted suicide.
Relatives in Texas.
Relatives of the boy, two broth
ers, live on a farm near Burling-
ton, Tex. He also has a step-
mother at Stratford, Okla. His
father is said to have been a sui-
cide.
Massey's explanation of the deed
was that he was In hard luck and
didn't feel like he wanted to live
longer. He has now changed his
mind, however, and has expressed
a desire to recover.
Divorce Granted.
In the superior court Saturday
a divorce was granted Hugh Blaine
Hull from his wife, Gladys Helen
Hull, desertion being roe grounds
alleged. The divorce petition
filed Friday afternoon.
Thos. J. Day seeks a divorce
from his wife, Willie E. Day, charg-
ing gross neglect of wifely duty.
METHODIST BAN
ON AMUSEMENTS
STILL REMAINS
THE CONFERENCE REFUSES TO
STRIKE Oi l SECTIONS OB-
JECTED TO.
Minneapolis, May 20—The Metho-
dist conference Saturday voted not <o
accept the minority report of the
committee of church discipline pro-
viding for striking out the paragraph
ot the discipline which prohibits
dancing and kindred amusements.
The majority report favoring the re-
tention of the paragraph was adopted.
Missionary Report.
By Associated Press.
Minneapolis, May 20—The report of
the Temperance Society, presented by
Dr. Clarence True Wilson of Chicago,
reviewed in detail the work of that
organization and pointed out that
300,000 young people had been in-
duced by its efforts to sign the total
abstinence pledge since the last
meeting of the general conference.
More than 100 public meetings in the
interest of temperance were held and
P.flOO books on the subject were cir-
culated in the churches. The society
rendered valuable assistance in the
campaigns for prohibition in Oklaho-
ma, Florida, Oregon, Missouri, Texas
Maine, West Virginia and other
states.
Durant Man Commissioned.
Durant, Okla., May 20—Attorney
W. L. Boner has been commissioned
secretary of the Bryan county elec-
tion board to succeed George Har-
rison, who resigned to enter the race
for the democratic nomination for
county treasurer. Mr. Boner 1b a
rrominent democrat and was former
ly mayor of Durant.
W. S. MYERS, SPECIAL AUDITOR
FOR TlIE BROTHERHOOD OF
AMERICAN YEOMEN, WILL MEET
WITH THE SHAWNEE HOMESTEAD
MONDAY EVENING, MAY 90, AT
CHRISNEY HALL.
* WEATHER FORECAST.
•
* By Associated Press.
* Oklahoma: Unsettled, show-
* ers tonight or Tuesday.
AIMED 10 DE-
LATEST NOVELTY BOGUS EN
GRAVING OF TRADING
STAMPS.
Special to News-Herald.
Chicago, May 20.—The federal
government has found new kinds of
counterfeiting to deal with, counter-
feiting on a wholesale scale that
eclipses the best efforts of green
goods men in their best days. The
arrest In Chicago of three men and
the seizure in New York of a print-
ing plant where millions of bogus
green trading stamps had been
made and the confiscation of 1,500,-
000 bogus stamps has led to the
further discovery that a wholesale
business in counterfeiting, labels
for famous brands of things also
has been done.
Plant Discovered.
The printing plant discovered at
192 Delancey street in New York
city included a wagon load of
plates and dies as well as a full
equipment of machinery. There
also was an enormous quantity of
counterfeit stamps and labels on
hand and three printers were ar-
rested for complicity in the busi-
ness for which Samuel Rosenbaum,
Bernard Chapman and Nathan
Hockman were arrested In Chicago
during April, indicted and recently
placed under $5,000 ball awaiting
extradition. After their indictment
the three Chicago men went to New
York but were so successfully
shadowed that the plant where the
stamps were printed was located.
This materially advanced the case
againBt them. Harold J. Hirst, New
York representative of Sperry &
Hutchinson Co. had charge of the
investigation and came to Chicago
to get the Indictment.
Country-Wide Plan.
"These arrests and seizures will
nip in the bud a country-wide plan
to defraud merchants and house-
wives, we think," said Vincent .1.
Walsh, attorney for the trading
stamp company. "The fact that
these trading stamps are used In
more than 600 cities in the United
States gave the counterfeiters a
wide field of operation. The cost
of making the stamps after the
counterfeit dies were made was
practically nothing. The counter
feits are so well done that it re-
quires a powerful magnifying glass
to detect them.
"In some cities there are trading
stamp brokers who make a busi-
ness of buying up unfilled books,
removing the stamps and selling
them at a discount to merchants.
This practice makes it possible for
counterfeiters to find a market for
their bogus stamps, as all mer-
chants have not been in the habit
of inquiring as carefully into the
past history of the stamps that are
offered to them as hereafter they
will."
Have Worked Long.
The business of making counter-
felt labels and trade marks has
been going on for some time It Is
r.ow believed, from evidence ob-
tained when the New York print-
ing plant was raided. A regularly
organized gang of very clever
crooks appear to have carried on
these operations.
Not long ago the distributors of
an imported ale were startled to
discover that the sales of their pro-
duct in the United States apparent-
ly had been falling off materially
but they discovered also that more
of the ale bearing their labels was
being sold than ever before. Now
is it known that a gang had been
counterfeiting the label, bottle and
cork and selling a domestic ale for
the Imported. The plant was raid-
ed and some of the gang were sent
to prison.
A good apple crop must be a
great joy to the worm family.
MYSTERY IN
YOUNG NEGRO COUPLE WOUND-
ED BY WHITE MAN LATE
SUNDAY NIGHT.
Another mysterious shooting, sim-
ilar in some respects to several
tragedies of the past, occurred late
Sunday night when Anna Hopson
and Louis Epperson, colored, were
shot by an unknown white man.
They were sitting beneath a tree
on the west side of Beard street,
just across the river, when the
shooting occurred. The woman was
shot through the middle of the
back, and Epperson through the
leg. It is not thought the Hopson
woman will recover.
Others Near By.
Waneta Hamilton and Mike Baker,
also young negroes, were a short
distance from the others, in a bug-
gy when the shooting occurred. All
four had driven to the place in tLe
buggy, which was stopped beneath
a tree, Epperson and the Hopson
woman getting out. They were seat-
ed side by side on the ground when
some person suddenly appeared be-
hind them and opened fire. They
declare that they saw their assail-
ant and he was a white man.
Taken to Hospital.
Mike Baker notified the officers
of the shooting, and the negroes
were removed to the colored ward
of the Municipal hospital. The wo-
man is shot squarely in the middle
of the back, in the region of the
kidneys. The bullet has not been
located.
Similar to Others.
One point of similarity between
this case and others heretofore, is
that the person who fired the shots
did not speak a word, but appar-
ently slipped up behind the couple
and began shooting before they
knew of his presence.
The police and county attorney
are working on the case, and some
developments are expected before
night.
Warrants were issued this after-
noon for two in connection with the
case.
POSTOFFICE
CLERKS MEET
IN SHAWNEE
INTERESTING PROUKAM FOB CON-
VENTIOX HAS BEEN PRE-
PARED BY COMMITTEE.
The following is the interesting
program prepared for the third an-
nual convention of the Oklahoma
branch of the United National Asso-
ciation of Post Office Clerks, to be
held in Shawnee, May 30:
Convention called to order at 10:3o
a. m.
Welcome Address, Mayor F. P.
Steam 8.
Response, L. Heymann, Guthrie.
Invocation, Rev. J. M. Clark.
Address by Postmaster C. M. Cade,
Jr.
Routine Business.
Dinner at 12:00 m.
Convention calied to order at 1:30
p. m.
Regular Business.
Adjourn at 4:30 p. m.
Auto Ride.
HARRY C. COLLINS,
WM. J. WILSON,
H. J. MOYLE,
Committee.
WOMAN'S HUH A MURDER CLEW.
Body of a Sun Franciscan Found in
a Room With Feminine Apparel.
San Francisco, May 20—The body
oi Isaac Cohen, a well-to-do tailor,
rjlssing since Monday night, whoa
he strolled out of his hotel after
dinner, was found in a vacant housa
today. A bullet wound in his abdo-
men, his clenched fists and soiled
clothes indicated he had been mur-
dered after a struggle. Several
strands of a woman's brown hair
veer found on his coat. A woman's
blood stained handkerchief, a pair
of woman's gray gloves and a piece
of fur tippet weer found in the
room.
FORCE RETIREMENT
OF AGED BISHOPS
Methodist Delegates Vote to Super-
anuate Neely, Moore and Warren
Minneapolis, May 20.—Amid i
solemn hush prevailing over tin
delegates and visitors, who filled
the auditorium, Secretary J. H.
Hingeley read the report of the
teller and Bishops David H. Moore,
Henry W. Warren and Thomas B.
Neoly were declared retired by
Bishop William A. Quayle, presid-
ing, yesterday afternoon at the
general session of '.he quadrennial
Methodist Episcopal conference at
Minneapolis.
There were no cheers, there was
no applause, there was nothiug that
gave even a hint of the bitter fight
waged over the question of their
superannuation, which had rent the
morning session and widened con-
siderably the breach between the
old warriors of Methodism, led by
Dr. J. M. Buckley, and the new pro-
gressive faction of which Dr. James
R. Day, chancellor of Syracuse uni-
versity, is one of the* leaders.
SERIOUS CUTTING
OFFRAY SUNDAY
FHAXH MAXEY AMI .1. \\. BADG-
ERS FOUGHT WITH PITCH-
FORK AK!> KNIFE.
As a result of a fight Sunday over
1.11 alleged debt, J. W. Rodgers aged
60 years, is at the municipal hos-
pital suffering from a great gash in
hie abdomen, and Frank Maxey is
under bond charged with the cutting.
Maxey ie nursing a wound in his
band caused by a pitchfork.
Maxey asserts that Rodgers at-
tacked him with the pitchfork, but
that ho providentially warded off
the blow with his hand, and pro-
tected himself from further attack
\ ith his knife.
Rodgers' condition is believed to
b:> serious.
FIVE DROWN IN
CALUMET RIVER
SPEEDING AUTO PLUNGE C
THROUGH OPEN BRIDGE IN
CHICAGO.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, May 20.—Five persons
three men and two women were
drowned when an automobile, going
at the rate of thirty miles an hour,
plunged into the Calmuet River, at
ninety-second street bridge. The
bridge had been swung to allow a
boat to pass.
Were Joy Riding.
Investigation showed that the car
v. as owned by Mrs. C. F. Spaulding
of Chicago, and was driven by her
chauffeur, John Buchanan, who with
out her permission, took two boys
nnd two girls, friends, out riding.
One woman's body was recovered.
Stigler Given Death Sentence.
Lawton, Okla., May 20—Henry A.
Seigler was found guilty of murder-
ing W. A. Stanford, a rival claim
owner, in the district court Satur-
day. The death penalty was assessed.
( nly Seigler and one or two of his
counsel were present when the ver-
dict was read. Counsel for Seigler
announced that motion for a new-
trial would be filed and if this mo-
tion is denied appeal will be taken.
Until the practical Joke has been
eliminated, people shouldn't brag
too much on our well known civil-
ization.
Herbert Francis, manager of the
Francis Typesetting Co. of Oklaho-
ma City, is in the city today on busi-
ness.
Bert Neeman and C. C. Young re-
turned from a three days' fishing
trip last Saturday evening.
* A ITTO LINE TO PR AGUE.. *
* Beginning Saturday, May 18, *
* from Norwood Hotel to Prague *
* on Monday, Wednesday and *
* Saturday of each week. *
* E. P. COX. •
r :-ipin
PRESIDENT TAFT'S 'ANDIDACY
AT PRESENT IN A DANGER-
OUS CONDITION.
OHIO'S CRITICAL POINT
Taft Needs Only M Votes to (Jive
Him majority While Roosevelt
Needs 160.
New York, May 20—The Herald
says: Mr. Taft's candidacy in a dan-
gerous position. Theodore Roosevelt
making great gains. Ohio •till the
key to the situation. That is the
status of the republican presidential
battle, twenty-eight days before the
national convention, with all but 124
of the 1,078 delegates elected and
both the president and Mr. Roosevelt
making final personal appeals to the
voters of Ohio for support at tha
important and perhaps vital primary
contest to be held in the Buckeye
State Tuesday.
(Mark Is (ialnlng.
Champ Clark still well in> the lead
in the cdmocratlc contest and rapidly
gaining on all the other nominees.
Gov. Woodrow Wilson second and in
the midst of an apparent slump and
Oscar W. Underwood Just about hold-
ing his own. That describes the slt-
uatlon In the democratic battle.
These statements are inspired by
tbe Impartial country-wide poll of the
situation which tho Herald has col-
ducted with the aid of trained corre-
spondents in every office, every one
ol whom has been repeatedly warnod
r.aglnst letting personal feeling t>r
bias enter into his judgment.
The Ohio struggle.
The great struggle among the re-
publicans Is to come in Ohio cn
Tuesday with the last great combat—
providing the Buckeye battle does
not settle the whole matter—to fol-
low in New Jersey, where, May 28,
twenty-eight delegates will be elected
at a presidential preferential pri-
mary. In Ohio the contest will l.e
icry sharp and the delegation of for-
ty-elght will be pretty well split up.
No one will volunteer a definite
prophecy as to what will be the final
line-up. Careful inquiry shows that
President Taft Is opposed largely by
workingmen and farmers and that
the business interests principally a-e
with htm.
Mr. Roosevelt appears especially
strong with the wage-earners. Po-
liticians decline to predict seriously.
A direct primary is a new thing in
Ohio and the politicians say they will
be surprised at nothing.
Taft Needs Ohio.
On paper it would appear that the
President is assured of victory, pro-
viding he makes a fair showing in
(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE.)
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