The Washington County Sentinel And The Weekly Enterprise (Bartlesville, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, August 23, 1912 Page: 2 of 4
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THB WASHINGTON COUNTY SENTINEL.
Friday, august 1012. M
THE WASHINGTON COUNTY SENTINEL
—AND—
IKE WEEKLY ENTERPRISE
- BY TIIE -
BARTLESVILLE PI BLISIIING CO.
120 >V«***1 Third Street.
Published Every Friday Morning.
Weekly Subscriptions are Payable iu
Advance.
One Year — --------------------1^00
81* Months............. -6®
Entered as Beeond-elnBS Matter
December 30. 1911, at the Postofflcn
at Bartlesville. Okia., under the Act
of March 3, IS?!*.______
Chicago Representative:
Robert E. Douglas, 140S-9 Sieger
Building.
Eastern Representative, W. !>. Ward,
Tribune Bldg., New York.
The above label Is Issued !o the
Bartlesville Enterprise by the Inter-
national Typographical Union, be-
cause the Enterprise employe none
but members of the Typographical
Union In its mechanical department.
Al ta ST S*. I»li.
posted on bulletin boards throughout
the Chinese quarter.
At the offices of the Chinese consul
general and the two Chinese dally
newspapers no news of an attack
upon Doctor Sun had been received
and the report of his death was given
little credence. Cablegrams were hur
riedly dispatched to Pekin, however.
Inquiring about the safety of the lm Tnn Ml
mer revolutionary leader. |yU ml
Hun left Shanghai for Pekin yester-j
day to undertake to save the republic
from a threatened renewal of hoslll• lOlTH E O!
Hies as the result of the execution of j MONTHS
two generals, Chang Chen Wit and
Aeng Wei.
HE LOW. CHARGE
NONE) II IS MP
| Kaffir Corn Will He leading ( rep
Prediction of Farmer.
AGREES ON PRICE’smES,»^“'Ems"";CENaJRE
I Hold Robber Gels the Money Hu m
\\ eakens
HIHTK.W IOIIS OF COUNTY FILE 1
t (HI PI, 11 NT WITH HO 11(0.
IKED
111 HIM*
(.It 1YHII.I.
IN WORK.
ENORMOUS PEACH CHOP
__ i
Hundreds of Ye dug Trees Fall I nder ‘
Weight of Fruit.
Kafir corn will be one of tlie lead-
ilng crops produced in the county, ac-
Icording to the statement of John Kie-
lfur, a prominent farmer residing six l
'miles southeast of Bartlesville. It is
a dry weather crop and (lie drouth j
| and hot. winds do not effect It like ii j
I does Indian corn and other crops. |
I There are good profits, too, in the I
raising of kafir.
! Mr. Keifer lias 100 acres of kafir
planted this year and judging from the
.stales he displayed in Bartlesville to-
day the yield will be large. Last
year he planted a large amount of
—- | Indian coni but the crop was short,
(From Monday’s Daily) j because of the dry weather and other
Charging that Fred < I ray hill, regis- destructive elements. This year lie
Her of deeds is three mouths behind j reduced tin
COUNTY BOARD APPROVE* 01
COST OF ( (It RT HOUSE SITE
APPROXIMATELY §10,000
I,an Prevents Commissioners I Tom
Relieving Situation. Hardships
Sii) Petitioners.
( Ol N | \ UTOItNEY W il l, I’iSS IT-
ON DEEDS INI) YBS I'll ICTS
site at Deyaware and Third Street One
Of Finest in City l.itllc Opposi-
tion Now.
Interest in the building of Wash-
ington county's $ tin,000 court house
FRIDAY,
sue GIVES UP
CHESTER GHAIIAH GIVES I’P TO
OSAGE OFFICERS.
on
HE KILLED
...... _______________________ .... acreage of Indian corn, , .
An enormous peach crop, the larg-j^ ^ wofk um| a8 ;| re- and planted more kafir. Result-hc I™ «‘ve" a" Impetus today when ,he
suit many hardships and embarrass-,will recoup many of his losses ««»-1 °of VT amounV asked by the,
ineiiis are being caused, Jay II. Mul-,talne.d last year. ,
..... , ,, three property owners upon winch the
leu, representing the abstract com- Kafir is good feed lor stock as well . . . ,
, , . i , .....court house site has been selected
panics of the count,y, appeared before as poultry, is the statement ot Mr.
the board of county commissioners 'Keifer. Greater attention is to he
lids morning and asked the board to given to the raising of cattle and potil-
take immediate action in the matter try, Mr. Keifer said, yml for that rea-1
In some form of relief. Mr. Mullen son ii naturally follows tlie acreage |
stated amoug other things that thejof kafir will more than double
abs'ractors were the principal suffer- few years, because there will
Che commissioners took the matjgp'u demand for it.
member | ------------
esi ever known in this
be responsible for the destruction of
many trees. Young pencil trees are
the greatest sufferers. In many parts
of the city they have broken down
under the great weight of fruit, not-
withstanding the fact the trees have
been propped up. *
From various sections of the county
come similar reports. Long before
the fruit reached maturity trees were
braced, but in many eases the props
were not sufficient to restrain the
great weight of fruit. Many young
pencil trees were broken down. The1
apple yield promises to be large and
iu a number of Instances farmers are
propping up their apple trees.
1 Toledo, Ohio, Aug. CO—In a day-
jlight robbery, a thief got $1000 in
I currency and checks from tlie office
of ihe Detroit and Cleveland Naviga-
tion company here today and within a
jfrw minutes sent $100 of the loot hack
| to tlie office.
Willie E. A. Heaton, ticket agent,
!was counting his cash, a stranger
came into the office ami presented a
baggage check belonging to another
perron. He said lie had been sent fpr
the baggage. Being alone, Heaton |
locked the door to the cage where the j
tickets are sold and went to the bag-
gage room. During his absence the
stranger crawled through a small
window in the rage, got the cash and
escaped. Rushing to the man for
for whom he was to get the baggage
he thruct $100 into his hands and told
him to return it to tlie Navigation
company's olllcc. He disappeared.
tSNT. SECRETARY OK IGRIUUL
I I RE CRITICIZED.
E OF EVERGLADES
I'RO.IECr GAVE OITOHTUMTY
roll I’KKSONAL ENRICHMENT.
IIspirit) Report Hints That Secretory
Buys Wauled to Gel Rich Quick.
Most of the afternoon the e-omission
jc-rs were looking over the plans and!
j specifications of several architects i
' who will bid for tin* contract to pro-; --- . 5
pare the plans and specifications for! Oklahoma Development Commission
1 the building. No agreement, was reach
Adopts Ity.l.avvs.
IN INDEPENDENT COLUMN
SHOOTING SATURDAY MORNING
RESULT OF HITTER FEUD.
Accused Murderer In Osage Comity
Ja!L—Admits Deed But Pleads
Self Defense.
r (From Monday's Daily)
Chester Graham, the young Osage
county farmer who last Saturday
morning shotu and killed from ambush
Oscar Seara, aged 35, early thIs morn-
ing walked into PnWhusfth1 frtfrtt the
Osage country where he had been hi
hiding and surrendered to Sheriff
Freas. Graham caused no trouble,
but entered the office of the sheriff
shortly after It had been opened and
told the officers that he wished to
give himself up. He was immediate-
ly placed In the county jail, whore
he will remain In custody uutll his
preliminary hearing, which will bo
held at Pawhuska, August 24.
The shooting of Sears by Graham
was the result of a three months' reud
and bitter feeling between the two
men. The firms of the men aro lo-
cated eight miles west of Copan on
Misaion creek. The farms adjoined
and the trouble Is said to have started
when Graham prohibited Sears from
trespassing on his property. Follow-
ing the command of Graham, some of
bis (Graham’s) cattle wandered Into
Sears’ pasture. This further increas-
ed the enmity between the two men.
Early Saturday morning Sears start-
ed to drive to Caney in a farm wagon.
While on the road he was forced to
cross some property • belonging to
Graham and Graham warned him to
stay off his land. A battle of rocks
then ensued between the men. Sears
returned to his house, secured a Win-
chester rifle and told 'his’ wife to get
Into the wagon. They again started
down the road but had gone but a lit-
tle ways when two eracks of a double
barreled shot-gun resounded a short
distance away, and Sears lunged for-
ward. Graham had riddled his body
with two loads of buck shot, from his
hiding place behind a dumb of bush-
ea not many feet distant. As Sears
fell forward ho reached for his Win-
chefter. One ahot was fired but it
went wild and he dropped from the
wt^on to the ground.
Mrs- Sears reported the killing to
the Oaage county authorities and a
search for Graham was instituted. It
ia supposed that he decided that any
attempt to elude the officers would he
futile so surrendered.
"I shot Oscar Seara,” he confessed
this doming, ‘‘but T Bettete that I was
Justified In the ShT W&frMfid Tlmd
had trouble for some time and if I
had not killed Jilin UtapHevs he would
have taken fcjfE l$x* „ $
It is understood that Graham will
make a hard fight for his freedom and
will enter a plea of self defense.
Sears was buried in Pawhuska to-
day. He had received two serious
wounds, one in the breast and one in
♦he neck. He ls sntvtved by his wife
and a small Child. ***> ’•
Names of Taf( Electors Will lie Plac-
ed There, Says Mill vane.
Chicago, Aug. 20.—Former Uiiiled
ors.
for under advisement, but a
of the board is authority for the state-j
nvent that no relief can be offered as I
the law sots aside a certain sum of j
money for cadi office in the county ■
and that the hiring of extra clerks j
cannot be authorized.
That the late primary election is j ___ '
Ihe Imsis of Ihe present embarrass-, „ ^ WANTED-HERE I ill! W.I.i G-
meei said to exist in the office of the j' ^ rK00K, „ WORK CAPTURED,
register of deeds is generally conceit
erl and no architect will hi' chosen for; -
several days, according to the stale-! Tlie tentative constitution and by-
nient of a member of the board. ' laws of the Oklahoma Development
The proposed court house will be j commission, which is lo be organized
located at Third street and Delaware j here on September 10, have been pre-
avenue in one of the handsomest sec-j paved by Secretary NV. B. Moore pf
Washington, Aug 19—The invesllga
lion of the Department if Agricul-
ture’s connection with the Flordia
Everglade drainage project ended to-
day when the House of Representa-
tives’ committee on expenditures in
the Department of Agriculture sub-
milted to the Louse its findings in
majority and minority reports of its
members.
The conduct of Assistant Secretary
Hays of the agriculture department,
whose relations with former drainage
engineer .T. O. Wright were tlie subject
of especial attention by the committee,
was declared in a majority report
presented by Chairman Moss, Demo-
crat, to have been not in harmony
“with proper slumlords of ■ official
propriety if apt. official rectitude ''
ed by many abstractors. II is charg-
ed that Mr. (irayblll could not ask
for a renomination to his present of-
fice, so several weeks ago entered ihe
0f1 race on the democratic ticket for the
States Senator Chester A. Long
conference with David <>'' E;oant>' assessor. II is freely
I hinted ♦ hat Mr. Graybill, instead of
Joe P. Alundv Is Nppreliemled by ( iiti-
ailiavi Officers.—Eluded Offi-
cers for Year.
liens of the city. One lot is 16,Ox 140 j the Oklahoma City Chamber ol Com-1'|’]R. minority report made by Rep.
feet, and two oilier lots are each 50.x meree, and will be presented for rati- sioan, of Nebraska, Republican, as-
11 lo feet. The court house proper will jfication or amendments when the
: Ijo erected at a cost estimated at $90,-J delegates convene there.
,1’im. Tim balance of the sum voted | The purpose of ihe organization as
for court house purposes will he used j set forth in the tentative by-laws is
>in the purchase of the site and other j “to promote the commercial and econ-
'c ponses. Lots yore purchased from jomic welfare of Oklahoma, the dovel-
the following persons: O. 1). ITuling,lopment of its natural resources, to
who offers hits lots for $5,717.39: (encourage the cultivation of the soil.
of his time cam-
defeated for the
(From Tuesday's Daily)
After eluding the authorities in
(Washington county and getting by of-
ficers in various parts of the United
States for nearly a yepr, .foe I*. Mup-
Kansas held a
W. Mulvane at Republican hnadquar-,
tors today and said Dial if the supreme
court decided against, the Republican jsPcnt a
organization In the fight over the of-j onioning;. He was
««i. -v. - '»"»<■'' ...........<
doctor, rvo.1, o (Wkl. ' „„„ bo. laud who i. ,™n h»r« lo. a,,,™- »
dependent column on the ticket Ho volume or work to charge of chock forging, has been
paid that such an arrangement had (a'K' f r 0 ° , _n.in (.al„ar- Alberta province
ihe handled, they were unable to keep caPtuml 11 1 al"ar-” AIDer a 110 ’
tip with the work, which has resulted (Canada. Ihe arrest was made tlieie
in tlie present, status of affairs, com-ja fp'v days ago by Alfred Fudctj, chief
plained of by the abstractors. There |of the mounted police in the prov iucc
been agreed upon by the Taft leaders.
TRIED TO KDNAP
GIRL KILLED BOY
is no possible way out. of the preseut °f Alberta, flic capture
condition of affairs according to a
| member of the board of county com-
imissioners. What further action is -(he Canadian authorities-,-asking what
the petitioners cannot, "'ey should do with Mund.v.
came to
light, today when Sheriff Jordan of
this county, received a telegram from
‘anticipated by
_ [lie said, but that some other action is
SHOOTING FOLLOWS REFUSAL TO [being considered was admitted by a
MARRY FARMER’S DAUGHTER.
SUN Y.1T SEN IS BILLED.
Frisco's t hinks Excited by Rumor
Death of the Ex-President.
San Francisco, Aug. 20.—Rumors
that Dr. Sun Yat Sen, first provision-
al president of China, had been assas-
sinated in Pekin yesterday by the sold-
h ii ii huii Killed a Yo.iitlu Then Injured
Two Who Tried to Save Girl.
member of one of the leading abstract
firms today.
Several weeks ago Mr. Graybill was
It has since developed that some
difficulty wilt be encountered before
the alleged check forger can bo re-
turned to this city to answer the
charges against him. He refused to
♦ MURDERER KILLS SELF. ♦jaad hired.
♦ Uelloplaine, Aug. 20.—Samuel ♦
♦ W. Wood, who killed James
♦ Thompson and fatally injured
♦ Matt Manahan, (tils morning,
♦ shot himself when overtaken by ♦
♦ a posse this afternoon near the ♦
♦ Owen farm, two miles north of ♦
♦ here He ran from a cornfield <►
♦ into the road and fired three bill- ♦
♦ lets into his breast. He was tak- ♦
♦ en hero where he Is dying. ♦
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
called before the commissioners who j K° without extradition papers, and
objected to the payment of the salary j being ;n Canada at the present time,
of an extra clerk whom Air. Graybill
: 00 0. U’S. FOR
CITY EMPLOYES
SALARY WARRANTS ARE (ASHED
FOB THEIR FACE VALUE
Betleplaine, Has., Aug. 20.—Sam
Wood, a farmer *35 years of age, to-
day shot and killed James Thompson,
aged 16, and fatally injured Matt Man
ahan, aged 50, on Manahan’s farm
near here, while attempting to kid-
nap Kthel Manahan, aged 22. Wood
escaped and Is being pursued by a
Ugsse of Indignaut farmers who threat
eu to lynch him if he Is captured.
Wood is believed to have been iu
love with the girl and when her fath-
er, Matt Manahan refused to allow
their marriage because of his daugh-
ter's age, Wood tried to kidnap Iter.
Clarence Manahan, aged 16, was dan-
N© OpiMixition Heard Nov? to .Com-
mission Form of Government
That the commission form of gov-
ernment is Inst winning over much
of the opposition it met with when
first suggested as v remedy for the
old aldermanlc form of government
in Bartlesville, is shown by the
records of the city clerk's office that
every salary warrant is cashed for its
face value. City employes are not
given I. O. U.’s. As far as the depart-
ments are concerned relative to
the salaries the city is now
on a cash basis. Of course, it would
be impossible to have the city on a
cash basis, according to the statement
gerously injured in making an etfort 0f a member of the city commissioners
to save his father and sister.
BIT DEATH Or RAM WOOD IS
THOUGHT TO BE NEAR.
Kansas Farmer. Who (’ammilled M«
der While Attempting Kidnap-
ping Is Ik Hospital.
because there are certain departments
that must be maintained by a tax
levy
Nineteen months ago Bartlesville
adopted the commission form of gov-
ernment, since which time the city
has been placed upon a financial foot-
ing uanrpassed by any other city in
ihe state.
■ T The city has many municipal im-
provements in the way of tlie construe
iion of a city hall, building ol' pave-
ment, and other civic improvements.
While several cities in the state under
the aldcrmanic form of government
Belle Plainc, Kas„ Aug. 21.—Sam-
uel W. AVood, the farmer who killed
James Thompson and probably fatally jare facing serious financial troubles
injured Matt Manahan and slightly'employes being required to cash
wounded Gaylord Stanahan while at- salary 'warrants ar large discounts.
negotiations between the United
States and the Dominion will have to
be made before the papers can be ob-
tained and Mundy brought to this
city. The local officers are anxious
that ho be arraigned here at the earl-
iest date possible.
Mundy was in Bartlesville about ten
months ago. He was employed here
as a driller. Several chocks were
forged on clothing merchants of Ibis
City, among them Masters and the
Model Clothiers. Other merchants
were also victims of the forging ar-
tist. Mundy was suspected of tlie
deeds. The officers had sufficient
proof they thought, to convict him,
and the Retail Merchants Association
took the matter in hand with the in-
tention of making an example of the
man. However, when Ihe officers
prepared to arrest Mundy he could
not be' found. Since bis disappear-
ance from this city, lie has been traced
to various parts of the United States,
but lie was always heard of a 1 ittlo
too late for bis capture.
Descriptions of him were sent to
different parts of the country, finally
resulting in his apprehension in Can-
ada. Mundy came to Oklahoma sev-
eral years ago, and after a short iimo
was arrested for wife desertion. He
was taken bark to bis family in New
A’ork state, but returned to Bartles-
ville, when he is said to have perpe-
trated several crooked deals.
Smith Lou ii sherry, asks $1,960.39 for
his tut and Rachel Condi!, asks $2,-
t‘,07.03 for her lot. The deeds and
abstracts will be passed upon by the
county attorney. When correctly deliv-
ered the warrants for the purchase of
the siio will be ordered drawn by the
board of county commissioners.
When the site was first decided up-
no after many other sites were con-
sidered by the board. .there was some
sharp opposition and for a time it
was rumored a petition would be pre-
sented to the board asking that it re-
scind its action. However, the marked
opposition has'subsided and there is
a general opinion that the site select-
ed was the best, to be found anywhere
in the city.
Just, when work will start, on tlie
proposed building cannot tie said with
any degree of authority. It is km-"'-’
however, that as soon as ncnotpue.Uon
work actually starts it will progress
rapidly, as tlie county officials and
others are put to considerable time
and needless expenses in the offices
being housed in various buildings
about the city.
immigration, investment of capital,
pfojpoi ion of safe and sane legisla-
tion, and to locate all manufactures,
industries and other enterprises as
will advance the material welfare of
the state."
Membership in the organization is
open to every individual, commercial
organizations and corporations doing
business in the state. The minimum
dues for each individual or organiza-
tion is fixed at $10 per year, the dues
sertod on the oilier band that the "un-
|stable" majority conclusions were
“more of a charge against the mental
capacity and honesty of the committee
members" than again Assistant
Secretary Hays.
The majority report was signed by
Chairman Moss and Representative
Flood, ot Arkansas, and Donghton nf
North Carolina, Democrats. The
minority report was signed by Rep-
resentative Sloan of Nebraska, who
stated that Representative Higgins of
Conneetieute and Hadden of Illinois,
approved it. All are Republicans.
Many features of the Agriculture De-
part meat’s work in connection with
tiie Everglades were attacked by the
Democratic report, which arraigned
the Department as vaseitlating and
payable, in advance and to date from|Engineer Wright as having been
DISTRICT COURT SEPT. 2
Court Docket Largest ill History of
County.
January 1 or July 1 of each year. No
membership will be entitled to more
Than five members or more than five
votes.
The state has been divided into nine
sections and the representative of
each section may ■nnm'' director
w>ie will hoard of direc-
1’ki association for a period of
one year, or until the section which
lie represents names his successor.
Secretary Caldwell of the Bartles-
ville Commercial Club is taking an
active part in Ijic work in this pari
cf the slate. Bartlesville is named In
the northeast section which comprises
the following counties: Ottawa, Dela-
ware, Adair, Cherokee, Mayes, Craig,
Nowata, Washington, Tulsa, Rogers
and Wagoner counties.
BRIOF ms SCO
Wears Blue Silk Dress And a II Inch
Bracelet.
When District Judge It. H. Hudson
convenes a term of court in Washing-
ton county September 2. one of the
largest court dockets in the history of
the comity will have been prepared
and some disposition bo made of each
and every one of the cases.
The criminal cases are not numer-
ous. but there are aluipst. as many as
at any previous term of court. There
is one murder case set for (rial. There
are many civil cases, some of which
sre considered very important. Just,
how long the term will be iu session
cannot be said.
SEEKS TO RETUN
LEASE INTERSSTS
W. S. MORRISON PLAINTIFF IN OIL
LEASE SUIT.
Alleges Verbal Agreement Entities
Him to One-Third Interest in St*
Acre Lease.—Has Good Well.
New York, Aug. 19.—Miss Alpine
Blitch, weight 666 pounds, has been
married in Brooklyn to I-ouis H.
Aiken, weight 135 pounds by Alder-
man Jesse Moore and James Mariyoe,
who weigh 306 pounds each. The
bride, who wore 36 yards of pale bluejC. Rogers
H. S. Morrisou, an oil well contrac-
tor of Bartlesville, is plaintiff in an
action filed in the district court Mon-
day, wherein lie seeks to retain a one-
ihird interest in an oil lease on sec-
tion 31, township 27, range 13, con-
taining 90 acres, which is owned by
Ritla Rogers, and upon which a lease
of the property was obtained from AY.
as guardian. The defeuti-
silk for a dress, and a i4-inch brace-j ants to the action are S. J. Polhumas
A NEW BATTLESHIP
IT MUST NOT COST MORE THAN
$15,666,600.
Appropriation Made for Beginning
Work.—Hill is Acceptable to
House and Senate. ,
Washington* Aug; 10.—(5oiifere.es on
the naval appropriation bill today
agreed to provide one battleship at a
eosl not greater than $15,600,000. An
appropriation of $2,535,069 is to bo
available for beginning work. No
agreement waa reached as to the size
or the armament. The bill as ap-
proved is now, acceptable lo the house
and tlie senate.
The naval bill as agreed to provides
for eight submarines, six torpedo
boats, two colliers and one machine
ship. It was agreed that the new bat-
tleship should be a vessel of standard
size. The question of the armament
was left to the secretary of the navy.
A movement to name the new battle-
ship "Constitution” has been started-
Today is the centennial of the. battle
between the old Constitution and the
Guerriere.
FRAY AGAINST MOSQUITOES
Swarms of the Insects in Wisconsin
Sting a Man to Death
Milwaukee, Aug. 21—The wet sum-
mer has made the mosquito to become
a terror in many parts of the state.
In Appleton where a church college
j flourishes, churches are holding
tempting to kidnap Ethel Manahan (nothing of the kind is heard of here.]
yesterday, is still alive. He has two! One of the greatest opponents to the let. was supplied by the groom with a land Carl Leidecker.
bullets in’bis lungs and one imbedded plan of government recently stated wedding riDg of the size of a napkin According to the petition of the .special prayer services to ask to be
cov^ed^coLiousn^ami'1 hu "a 'o^enro”'ftJiT'old\orm IVg" JlAY’The wedding took place in the al-|r^ent with the defendants for thejoeiae. *2 years old. who disaapeared demned them rather than to have en-
However. this city will always jdermanic committee room of the bor-j drilling of a well to the Bart leaville j yesterday, was touud to ha\e been so.
"familiar terms with real estate pro-
moters and speculators.”
No real criticisms of Secretary
! Wilson was contained in the majority*
report, the burden of criticism being
laid on Assistant Secretary Hays. The
minority report, on the other hand,
acquitted the latter of the charges
that he “despised all restraint and at-
tempted to capitalize his official posi-
tion and draw quick dividend from of-
ficial opportunity.’’
The Everglades investigation arose
through the charges that certain re-
ports prepared by government engine-
ers had been withheld from publica-
tion, with the inference that sttoh
action was in the interest of land
dealers.
Assistant, Soqretray Hays’ connec-
tion with the matter arose through a
private arrangment he made with J.
O. Wright, former drainage engineer,
for tho baiulilng of some drained land
in North Carolina w hich did. not be-
long to the Government.
The majority re-port cited Wright's
admission of his familiarity with real
estate promoters and of accepting
development company slock and fees
while engaged officially in making
surveys to reclaim land, it declared
that while thus engaged as a paid
salesman and an .interested puebaser
ho appeared before tho North Carolina
legislature, as an offic ial of the depart-
ment. of agriculture ostentatiously-to
advise in the framing of drainage
legislation.
He later boasted, the report said, of
securing tlie passage of a special
statute, there uuder which be waa an-
ablod to close a deal. His transac-
tions were denounced by the majority
as repugnant to a high sense of honor
and integrity, which would justify dis-
missal if lie were still in the Govern-
ment service. The report added-that
his transactions were- not brought to
the knowledge of hia superiors.of -the
drainage division.
The majority report citcul testimony
repardiug. frequent conferences of
Assistant Secretary Hays and Kn-
inoer Wright, who lias since becomo
state drainage engineer of Florida,
concerning the purchase and. sale at
a profit of bed of Lake Mattamus-
kec, N. C. Air. Wright, the majority
declared, did not seem to realize the
impropriety of his conduct. In view
of his confidential relations with Mr.
Hays the majority “found it difficult
to escape the conviction that Mr. Hays
was in fall possession of the facts re-
lative to Wright's deals and transac-
tions when they were being negotiat-
and that Hays should have con-
chance to recover. It is believed thatiment.
the princ
Wood will live. He is in a AVelling- j be governed by the present form of
ton hospital without guard. (government is the genera! belief he-
........ ■ ■ - —(cause the people like it.
Which leads this department to tho , —---------- ■ — •— j Coney l
opinion that just because a man does T. It says that Wilson did not read j tion in a museum at the beach
iers of President Yuan Shi Kai caus- (the “heavy" in a ten-twent-thirt mel-jthe Bull Moose platform, it is a qnea- Htr husband is a printer.
"odrama is no reason that he should tion whether anyone besides the tin- j —---
not get his hair cut at least once ev-(fortunate linotype operators and the, There is a man in this tor
to badly mosquito bitten
jeouraged them,
that he could There was no
evidence, however.
rough of Brooklyn and was the result (sand, they agreeing, so he allegW,>^^|
of a six vrar courtship. Mrs. Aiken, give to him a good and sufficient title not see to find his way home. He that Mr. Hays actually received any
who is known as "Beautiful Allir" at, to a oue-third interest in the lease, (died today, an hour after being found, money profits out of any of these
rrison savs he moved a string of I as a result of the bites of the hordes (traasaetiyis. Mr. Hays'office, said the
ed wild excitement iu Chinatown to-
day. They could be traced to no au-
thentic source, but varying accounts
of the reported ©©cassinatiew- were]or not
ix months, whether he needs
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rt. (drilling tools onto the property July (of inserts there.
jo and drilled a well to the Bartles-; -
-ville sand. The well started at a aev- : It only costs eight cents for a hair-jand get-rich-quick schemes.”
ho !entv-five barrel gait. The lease is lo-lcut in London. Probably that is all j -----—-—-
od oil territory and will | that a London hair cut is worth, says I C. H. Moore went to Ramona this
ictive when developed Jan exchange. (morning on oil business.
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