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THE SHAWNEE DAILY NEWS-HERALD
Exclusive Associated Presa Report. Largest arcnlatlon In This Section ol Oklahoma
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VOLUME XIX.
Shtwut* DkltyHnald, Vol. . /ConK)ll<Und\
Shawnta Dmllv N«« , Vo. i V,D«o. ■ 1911/
TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1913.
NUMBER 20.
PREACHER'S SON
THE "BEST BABY"
SCORED 99 P.'CT.
liOUKHtl LOl'IK MILLER CARRIES
AWAY HONORS Or RECENT
CONTEST.
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•5- A BEAUTIFUL BUILDING. *
•}• Work on the outside brick 4*
•j. walla ol the Elks building *
started this morning. The
•J. brick are of dark red, vitri- -J*
4- fied, and are laid in black 4-
•|. mortar, which will make a
4- beautiful building. *1*
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MANY OF SCORES
WERE VERY CLOSE
Anna #rinnu* Took First Among
•Mvt Girls, BIlUe Gibson
Seeo«<L
WILL DEDICATE
NEW M.E. CHURCH
HANDSOME BUILDING
SOUTHERN METHODISTS
AT TECUMSEH.
THAW IN TEARS.
Weeps as
Counsel Pleads
Gorernor Felker.
Deadly Battle Between Servians and
Albanians.
Hubert Louis Miller, seventeen
months old son of Rev. and Mrs.
J. tierron Miller, is the "best baby"
in the recent better babies contest,
according to the scores that have
Just keen figured by the commit-
tee. His percent was 99. The near-
est competitor was Anna Drinnan,
who took the girls' prize, with 98%.
Many of the scores were very close.
The Beores were announced at a
meeting in the superior court room
• this afternoon. The winners were
as follows:
Girls.
First, Anna Drinnan, aged 12
months; daughter of Robert L. Drin-
nan, Roek Island conductor, 215
North Bell Btreet. Score, 98%.
Second, Billie June Gibson, aged
8 months; daughter of W. L. Gib-
son, Rock Island conductor, 525
Nortb Douglas. Score, 98 double
plus.
Third, Alice Austin, aged 11
months; daughter of Dr. A. L. Aus-
tin, dentist, 648 North Park street.
Score, 98 plus.
* Fourth, Helen Mercedes Barnes,
aged 11 months; daughter of W. A.
Barnes. Score, 98.
Boys.
First, Robert Ixjuis Miller, aged
17 months; son of Rev. J. Herron
Miller, pastor Kirtet Presbyterian
church, 330 North Beard street.
Score 99 (Highest scoring baby
in the contest.)
Second, Carl Clifford Carleton,
aged 9% months; son of F. S. Car-
leton, deputy city clerk. Score 98.
Third, Chas Yates. aged 11
months; son of Everett Yates, Rock
Island engineer, 228 North Klcka-
poo. Score, 98 minus.
Fourth. Earl Schulte. aged 22
months, son of A. W. Schulte, sales-
man, 118 North Oklahoma. Score
97%.
The Prizes.
All winners were given medals
and certificates by the Woman s
Home Companion, under whose plan
the contest was conducted, and the
first, second and third received 5,
$2.50 and $1 respectively from the
,t Pottawatomie County Medical So-
ciety. Those standing fourth re-
ceived certificates.
Kevcral Addresses.
The meeting in the superior court
room wap held at 3 o'clock. Ad-
ilrftssofl weer made by Mrs. Tarr,
president of the Mothers Club,
whicli conducted the contest; Miss
Norberg, a nurse at the general hos
pital, and several physicians and
specialist?. Dr. T. C. Sanders pre-
sented Ihf premiums.
ONE PULLS OUT OF
BALLOON RACES
1MIUCA WILL HAVE BUT TWO
MPRKSENTATIVES AT PARIS
OCT. IS.
By Associated Press.
Concord, Sept. 23.—Thaw wept as
his counsel pleaded with Governor
Felker not to surrender him to the
New York authorities, at the open-
ing of the extradition proceedings
Thaw seemed <to follow the argu-
ments closely, but his eyes were
blinded by a handkerchief.
200 ARE KILLED.
By Associated Press.
Vienna, Sept. 23.—In a fierce bat
tie between Servians and Albanians,
following an Albanian effort to pen
etrate territory captured by the Ser
vians, two hundred Albanians were
killed and many wonnded.
rived to be present at the dedica-
tion service: Dr. N. I.- Linebaugli,
presiding elder of Holdenville dis-
trict; T. P. Turner, presiding elder
of Durant district; C. L. Brooks,
pastor First Methodist at Ada;
Wade W. Johnson, pastor Asbury
FOR r'lurc^ Ada; T. F. Roberts, pas-
tor at Konawa; A. B. L. Hunapillar,
pastor at Maud; A. M. Daley, pastor
at Antlers; L. R. Jones, pastor at
Stonewall.
Bishop E. D. Mouzon of San An-
gelo, Tex., will dedicate the Metho-
dist church at Tecumseh tonight.
The dedication service will be a
great occasion and one of rejoicing
for J. C. Curry, the pastor of the
church, and his congregation. The
pretty stone structure is a credit
to the town and one of which the
Methodist people should feel justly
proud.
It is expected that a great num-
ber will go over from Shawnee to-
night to the service, as Bishop
Muzon is held in high esteem by
Southern Methodism, being one of
the greatest preachers of that de-
nomination.
The following ministers have ar-
SUP'T WILSON'S
VIEW OF DECISION
IS EQUIVALENT TO SUSTAINING
THE 1912 SCHOOL BOOK
ADOPTIONS.
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Oklahoma City, Sept. 22,—The
supreme court in the decision con-
WEATHEK.
By Associated Press.
New Orleans, Sept. 23.—
Oklahoma: Unsettled, local
rain tonight or Wednesday;
colder tonight in west por-
tion; colder Wednesday.
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Alester, as acting governor in the
WILL BUILD BOAT.
The Idle Hour Gun, Line and
Navigation Corporation propoSe to
construct a boat on the Santa Fe
lake. The boat will bear the sign:
"For your use, but take care of
me," indicating that visitors to the
lake will be free to use the vessel
at their pleasure, as long as they
properly care for the same.
It Is agalnBt the law for a pri-
vate citizen to impersonate a con-
gressman, but it isn't against the
law for a congressman to Imper-
sonate a statesman.
cerning the school book case held (absence of Gov. Cruce from
that the governor's approval of the
the
PENDING HIS TRIAL
SULZER VACATES
GOVERNOR'S CHAIR
ANNOUNCEMENT MADE THIS
MORNING BY HI8 COUNSEL
AT COURT SESSION.
contracts and bonds was essential
to their validity. Concerning this
decision of the court and its effect
state, has approved these bonds.
Under the decision of the criminal
court of appeals In the George
Crump case, the approval of this
upon the schools. Supt. Wilson has,bond by Gov. McAlester is of the
issued the following statement: |samo force and effect aa if it had
"The supreme court has reversed i been approved by Gov. Cruce The
the judgment of the trial court in .supreme court of course decided
the school book case, on the sole this case on the evidence before it
ground that the approval of the
bond by the governor is a pre-
requisite to the existence of a valid
which was that the bond had not
been approved by the governor.
Gov. McAlester's approval having
HAD ACTED UPON
LAWYERS' ADVICE
Judge Culleii Announces That
spondent Should Answer
Charges.
IOl|UIBJU IU w«. vwi.
contract for the furnishing of text |occurred after the trial in the dis-
trict court, the supreme court had
books for the common schools of
the state.
"Since this case was appealed to
the supreme court, Lieut. Gov. Mc-
"Dr/" Ernest Muret, Caught with Father Schmidt,
Who was Charged with Murder, and Girl Witness
LAND LOTTERY IS
OPENED IN MONT.
77# REGISTERED FOB FARMS
IN THE FORT PECK RESER-
YATION.
Bv Associated Press
Kansas City, Sept 23.-The United
Si alee will be represented at the In-
ternational balloon race in Paris
Oct 12 by only two balloons, the
resalt of an announcement by John
Watts, one of three who qualified
in the elimination races, that he
would not go to Paris because of
his inability to secure a suitable
balloon. Ralph Upson of Akron,
Ohio. Watts and H. E. Honeywell of
Kansas City won first, second and
third In the elimination races and
were to have represented America
- against seven other nations.
By Associated Press.
Giascow, Mont., Sept. 23.—Draw
ing for approximately seven thou-
sand claims in the Fort Peck Indian
reservation was begun at noon.
Zlta Friedl, eight year old daughter
of the mayor of this city, and Hazel
Hurd, the twelve year old playmate,
alternatively drew from a pile of
39,779 envelopes representing the
registration.
Samuel A. Crow of Hammond,
Ind., drew number one. Among the
other big winners were John A.
Gilpin of Ft. Scott, Kan., third;
Leo Gordan of Jefferson City, thir-
teen.
Sl'FFS. ARE BUSY.
Burned Mansion With Loss of Four
Hundred Thousand Dollars.
Liverpool, Sept. 23.—Militant suf-
fragettes burned "Seafield House
at Seaforth, causing $400,000 dam
age. They left suffragette literature
on the lawn.
TO REENACT HER
DEATH IN DETAIL
HOW MINISTER'S WIFE DIED TO
BE SHOWN TO JURY AT SEC-
OND INQUEST.
"Dr." Ernest Muret, who was tak-
en by the New York police in con-
nection with the arrest of Father
Schmidt, the Catholic priest, who
has admitted he dismembered the
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body of Anna Aumuller and threw raided the plant In a Harlem flat,
the parts into the Hudson river, found the plates and many bills,
looks so much like the clergyman j Bertha Zech, a servant in the
that the police suspect they are Muret house, was also taken In
brothers. Schmidt, from his prison charge by ihe police, who were
cell in the Tombs, says Muret was anxious to question her. They
concerned with him in a counter- , thought she might have been con-
felting plant in which they manu- eerned, but she was later turned
factured 520 bills. The police, who ' loose.
no official knowledge of Gov. Mc
Alester's action and could decide the
case only on the evidence before It.
"It Is unnecessary for me to say
that as a member of Ihe state board
of education it la my duty and in-
tention to respect the decision of
the criminal court of appeals in Ihe
Crump case and to treat Gov. Mc-
Alester's acts as legal, as the crim-
inal court of appeals has held they
were, unless the supreme court,
when its attention Is officially
called to the fact that Gov. McAles-
ter has approved Ihe bond, shall
refuse to follow the decision of the
other court.
"The decision of the supreme
court assumes that the school book
contracts were awarded by a legal
state board of education, notwith-
standing the attempted removal of
the several members thereof by Gov.
Cruce, and places upon the shoul-
ders of Gov. Cruce alone the sole
responsibility for the unfortunate
condition now confronting the
schools of tho state. As matterB
now stand, unless the decision of
the criminal court of appeals up-
holding the acts of Lieut Gov. Mc-
Alester shall not be folowed by the
supreme court, this controversy has
been settled In favor of the 1912
adoptions so far as the supreme
court has expressed itself In the
opinion handed down today."
By Associated Press.
Albany, Sept 23.—Attorney Her-
lick for Gov. Sulzer announced at
tho outset of today's session of the
high court of impeachment that the
governor, In view of the fact that
the court had refused to dismiss
the proceedings, would cease hence-
forth to exercise the functions of
the executive office until the ter-
mination of the trial
Mr. Herrick said the governor
had been advised that the proceed-
ings were illegal, and for that rea-
oon had declined to loave his office.
Judge Cullen announced It was
"now incumbent upon tho respond-
ent to mako an answer to the
chargcB."
GOLDEN WEDDING.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Meek will give
a dinner Thursday in honor of the
golden wedding anniversary of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Meek,
Mr. Meek's brother and sister-in-
law.
FRENCHMAN WOULD
FLV ACROSS iSEA
Edna. Kas., Sept. 23.—Each min-
ute detail of the manner In which
Mrs. C. B. Littleton, wife of a for-
mer Methodist minister here, came
to her death, supposedly by her own
hands, is to be reneacted at the cor-
oner's inquest Wednesday.
Coroner Wackerle announced that
he had employed two medical ex-
perts to assist him in the investi-
gation. These expertB and the cor-
oner' sjury, the coroner said, will
go to the little parsonage in the
bed room where, according to tes-
timony given at a previous Inquest
the woman's body was found hang-
ing on the wall and there go over
each detail as It was Bald to have
occurred.
Coroner Wackerle wants the ex-
perts to give an opinion to the jury
to whether the woman could
have caused her own death by stran-
gulation as the evidence and verdict
of the first inquest Indicated.
If the evidence at the Inquest ap-
pears to justify it, the coroner said
the body will be exhumed lmmedl
ately and a careful post mortem ex-
amination made.
ROLAND GARROS STARTED ON
600 MILE AIR VOYAGE THIS
MORNING.
By Associated Press.
St. Rapael, France, Sept. 23.—Ro-
land Garros started his flight across
the Mediterrean, six hundred miles
from the French coast to Tunis, at
5:42 this morning.
Arrives at 1:45 p. ni.
By Associated Press.
Bizerta, Tunis, Sept 23.—Carros
landed here at one forty-five this
afternoon.
$50,000 FIRE AT CHANUTE.
By Associated Press.
Chanute, Kas., Sept. 23.—Fire of
unknown origin destroyed the plant
of the Chanute Brick and Tile com-
pany, with a loss of fifty thousand
dollars.
NEW PLAN CUTS
RELIONAL HANKS
G. MACHENHEIMER
GOES TO ILLINOIS
CROWDS TO SEE
KEUTER TRIAL
TULSA WOMAN'S CASE AROUSES
SYMPATHY OF MANY TALES-
MEN; THEY ARE EXCUSED
alleged hired assassin in the Reuter
murder case, who Is serving a life
sentence with Guy Mackenzie, for
the part they played in the killing,
was brought to Tulsa from the pen-
itentiary, and will be put in the
county jail until wanted to testify
for the state at the trial of Mrs.
ANOTHER CUTTING
OF ALFALFA VET
CROP HAS GROWN FROBlttWUS-
LY SINCE THE BBCINT
KAINS.
The alfalfa in the county has
grown prodigiously since the re-
cent rains, and another big cutting
is assured.
Alfalfa has been unusually good
as a money maker this year. Three
good cuttings have already been
made, for which top prices were se-
cured, and the seed crop was un-
usually fine. Many growerB have
made $50 to $100 an acre on their
crop.
SPIRIT MEETING.
Hear Rev. G. H. Brooks of Los
Angeles, Cal., at Carnegie Library,
Sept. 23, 24, 25 and 28 at 7:30 p.
Speaking under oontrol of a
Splrjt, or speaking while In a
Trance, like the apostles spoke.
Messages from spirits to their
friends in the audience at the close
of each lecture. Admission free.
The public is invited. 119-J2-4t
Reuter at Bartlesville
II. H. Carter who has conducted
a drug store in Lockport for more
than 13 years, first as a partner of
Dr. C. H. Bacon, and later alone,
today sold his store to Don G.
Machenheimer of Shawnee, Okla.,
who will continue the business.
Mr. Machenheimer is a druggist , , , j. j. j j j.
of some 18 years' experience, a,*** ** + ** + * + + +
it strikes us that Harry Thaw has
found the cost of living very high
sin#e he left Matteawaa.
Japanese politics is as pictures
quely confusing at times as Japa-
nese art
COMPLETE REVISION OF CUR-
RENCY LAW PROPOSED IN
THE SENATE.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Sept 23.—Complete
revision of the frame work of the
administration currency bill is pro-
posed by Reed, Hitchcock and Brls-
Itow. During the examination of
Samuel Untermyer for the senate
banking committee, Reed advanced
what he called the Hitchcock plan,
which would entirely eliminate from
the proposed system the scheme of
regional reserve banks, and substi-
tute a government issue of currency
individual banks.
COL. BUSBY DEAD.
graduate of the Chicago College of; 4*
Pharmacy, and has ben successful
in business In Shawnee. He says, *1*
however he likes the north better + By Associated Press,
and wants to be near Chicago and j *5* McAlester, Okla., Sept
the great central market. He Is a + 23,-Col. Wm Busby, aged
man in the thlrtleB, of pleasing ap-1 *1- fifty-nine, known as the
pearance and addreBs. Is married,+ "coal king" of Oklahoma
and has two children. + the wealthiest men of
Mr. Seaborg, who has been with |4" the state,, died here, the re-
the store sinec its Inception, will
remain with the new firm.—Joliet
(111.) News, Sept. 20.
suit of a carbunkle.
Bartlesville, Okla., Sept. 23.—As
a crowd that overflowed the court
room listened, counBel for Mrs.
Laura Reuter of Tulsa and the
state's attorneys began the legal
battle over the charge that Mrs.
Reuter conspired with three men
to murder her huBband, a lawyer,
on May 5, 1912.
Forty-four jurors, were examined
searchingly. Twenty-three were ex-
cused because they said they op-
pose the death penalty, which the
state asks, five because they thought
they could not try a woman for
this crime, and five because they
believed the thought of the poison-
er's children might Influence their
verdict.
The first negro ever drawn on a
jury In this county caused a clash
between the lawyers. The state
challenged him and he was ex-
cused becauBe of the "grandfather"
act. He could neither read nor
write. Two prisoners who are serv-
ing life terms for the murder of
Reuter were subpoenaed, Joseph
Baker for the state and Guy Mc-
Kenzle for the defense. These two
men were convicted on the confes-
sion of "Bud" Bellew. Bollew will
be the state's chief witness.
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Baker at Tnlna.
Tulsa, Okla., Sept 23.—Joe Baker,
Shawnee
National Bank
Shawnee, Okla.
■ HIS Bank offers superior service to its
patrons. Its Officers and Directors are
thoroughly familiar with the needs and
requirements of this section of the country, having
been constantly engaged in the hanking business
in this section for nearly twenty years.
We attribute the continual and substantial
growth of the Hank's business to the above facte,
coupled with promptness, accuracy, and the uni-
form courtesy extended to those who deal with us.
OFFICERS
H.^f.llUOHGLAS, President
J. M. AYDELOTTE.LVIcelJPresldeut
JOHNt;w.lpones, Cashier
J. r. BUCK, Assistant Cashier
A. S. McClure. Assistant Cashier
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