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Musi koecc
THE ONLY NEWSPAPER IN
EASTERN OKLAHOMA WITH FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE REPORT
NUMBER 196
rENTH TBAB
MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1911
FLOW Of REM
DOES NOT Wi\
ME)
I ♦ CRUOK WILL > "TEND
I* THE MUP' v£E FAIR ♦
♦ Governor** will be a vtol- ^
City Budget Will Probably be
Cut to the
Core.
NINE MILLS FOB MUSKOGEE
Commissioners and Assistant
City Attorney Argue For
Budget Before Excise
Board.
V uovoriio-:
♦ tor at tlv .skogee State Kalr. ♦
♦ The gr.ct a. In acknowledging ♦
♦ the .0* A ot th6 p08a t0 th® I
♦ pr'jN* races sent him by the ♦
{. i ^ .erclal olub and the Mm- ♦
-o Jockey club,' regretted that ♦
press of business prevented him ♦
$ from attending the race meeting ♦
♦ now going on but said that he ♦
♦ would make It a special point ♦
<> to close up his offloe and pay ▼
♦ Muskogee his first official visit ♦
♦ during the State Fair. ♦
•> <• ♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
She Was Willing
To Work but There
Were no Bloomers
King Manuel, Who Plans to Regain
Portugal's 7hrone, and His Guests
According to a rumor which was
preslstent throughout the lobbies of
the court house yesterday. Muskogee 8
tax levy will be less than sixteen mills.
According to this same rumer. the
city's levy will be lower than it has
ever been before.—In fact it will be
the lowest of any city In the United
States, considering the population.
All levies except the one for the
city have been determined upon ana
they aggregate nearly nine mill's. It
seems to be the Impression now that
the levy will be sixteen mills or un-
der and this would leave a levy of
seven mills for the city. The city
asked for ten mills.
The excise board met in the county
court house yesterday, Judge Thos.
Leahy acting as presiding officer. All
the city commissioners and assistant
clt v attorney Davis appeared before
the board and all except Commissioner
Kennedy made taks favoring the
adoption of the tax budget already
prepared by the city.
Commissioner Gulick presented to
the board a full and complete ex-
planation of the sum required for
streets and bridges. Mr. Gultck said
that of the ISO.OOO and over required
by his department, $2 4,000 was nec-
essary for salaries, $3,000 for sprink-
ling and approximately $0,000 for new
equipment.
"It is absolutely necessary that my
department be given $55,308 for main-
tenance and then we also need some
money for the fire department, said
Commissioner Cook, head of the
partmnt of safty.
I,. If. Holmes, of the park board,
declared that he should be given at
least $2 0,000 to take care of tli
parks or It would be Impossible for
board to properly perform Its duties.
He explained that the board had fig-
ured on paving the walks in and ^rlv®"
ways In some of the parks and that if
this was done there would be no
money left for equipment or Improve-
ments if he was not given the amount
—
IOLA, Km, Aug. 9.—D. B. D.
BmslUer, Judge of the municipal court
here, was defeated today In his efforts
to enforce his Judgment that Mrs.
l£lla lleeie, a city prisoner convicted
of a vicious offense, should don
bloomers and Join the men members
of the ohatn gang and work on the
streets,
There were three reasons for tills
Plr t, tho Judge wa unable to find ■
a pair of bloomers in the town; sec-
ond his order was defied and an-
nulled by Commissioner Q. C. Glynn,
and third, the people here apparently-
had no sympathy with the drastic sen-
tence inflicted upon the woman.
Mrs. Reese, however, was perfectly
willing to suffer the penalty prescrib-
ed for har alleged wrongdoing, and
for a brief time today It ueemed that
•he would actually wield a shovel,
broom or other Implement of street
toll. Unable to find the sort of attire
ordered by Judge Bmeltzer, the Jailor
delivered Mrs. Reese to the foreman
of the street department, dressed In
WASHINGTON, Aug. George W. j h#r ugual clolhing. When Commls-
Perklns, director of the United States : sion Qiynn heard of tho Jailor's ac-
Steel Corporation, and former part- ■ t|oni he ordered the foreman to re-
ner of J. P. Morgan and company, turn her to Jail at once, which lie did.
was not ordered before the bar of DUe Respect for Court.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Friends the house today by the house commit-j "I have all due respect for ^ the
, u Tf-muv, onrt French arbitration tee on inquiry Into the affairs of the : oourt," said the commissioner, " but
of the British and I steel corporation. Also he will not be. | the c,0urt is not running the street de-
After a heated executive session of i partment. 1 will not permit a wo-
the committee today, in which was | man prisoner to do such work. It Is
discussed the refusal, on advice of disgrace even to suggest such a
10 PEACE TREATIES
Necessary to Amend Some Fea-
tures to Secure Favcr-
ablp Report.
George W. Perkins Not Sum-
moned as Witness In
Steel Probe.
NOT SPREAD ON RECORDS
"Not With a Degree of Volum-
inousness" Declares Mr.
Littleton During
Hearing.
treaties In the senate have reached
the conclusion that It will be neces-
sary to amend the conventions In or-
der to get favorable action upon
them. This conclusion Is the re-
sult of the consideration of the docu-
ments 1 y the senate committee on for-
eign relations, which has taken them
up in vigorous fashion.
After two prolonged sittings the
committee adjourned late today
meet again Saturday. Both meetings
were devoted to the consideration of
the documents on their merits, the
first In company with Secretary Knox
and the second by the members them-
selves without the secretary's aid.
No effort was made to have the
treaties reported, and it became ex-
tremely doubtful to some of the
friends of the administration whether
such a course would be wise at the
present time, owing to objections to
gome features of the agreement as
they now appear. Especial objection
was made at both sittings to the pro-
visions submitting questions of differ-
ence to the Joint high commission of
Inquiry, but fault also was found with
the provision In the French treaty-
authorizing ratification by that gov-
ernment In accordance with the pro-
cedure required by the laws of France
and with the condition In the British
treaty that matters affecting depend-
encies of Great Britain shall be sub-
mitted to the governments of such
dependencies. It was thought that the
latter clause might lead to undesir-
able complications, while It w^~ feared
that the former might necessitate a
change in the method of proceedings"
In this country. Despite all these ob-
jections It became evident, however,
that the power conferred upon the
Joint commission is the only real ob-
not'a'prtvate corporation in the city or 8tacle to early action. Several sena-
rn.Vntrv with a capitalisation of thirty , tors expressed unalterable opposition
non dollars or more which did not to this provision, and more than one
In excess of $300,000 a year for suggestion was made that the para-
spend in ' I graph should be eliminated or at least
running exp ■ i t rlal|y mod'fled. No motion was
Notwithstanding all this now mu * _ . h , lf th , d with the understanuing mai mere-
- Si £SSjKS sass
counsel, of Mr. Perkins to answer a
suggestive line of questions regarding
contributions of corporations to cam-
paign funds, the committee reached
an understanding whereby all threats
were waived.
At the outset, the committee in ex-
ecutive session was induced by Rep-
resentative Littleton to reconsider the
action ' f yesterday In which the chair
was sustained in ordering that the
witness answer questions as to his
personal compalgn contributions.
A Campaign Contribution.
After this was done, a plan was
agreed upon as to Just what questions
repardlng campaign contributions
should be asked and It was under-
stood that Richard Llndabury, coun-
sel for the steel corporation would de-
clare that he knew of one contribu-
tion of $10,000 made by that corpora-
tion to a campaign fund In 1904. This
he afterwards stated before the com-
mittee, and, thereupon, the political
phase of the iaqulry apparently was
dropped.
When the executive session of the
committee was ended, Mr. Perkins was
called for by Chairman Stanley. Rep-
resentative Littleton, upon the arrival
of Mr. Perkins, began a statement, re-
lating how he had been absent on the
previous day when Mr. Perkins had
been asked to what extent he had
made contributions to campaign funds
after he became connected with the "Man Overboard
steel corporation.
"Upon the admissibility of this evi-
dence," said Mr. Littleton, "a vote
was taken and t was held to be legal
to ask such questions. I have exam-
ined thoroughly the resolution of this
house under which this committee is
appointed and after much discussion
and consideration, I have made up my
inlnd that any question to any wit-
ness as to his personal campaign con-
tributions are not admissible. Under
this resolution, unless it can be shown
that such contributions were made
with the understanding that there-
thing."
"I am willing to obey the order of
the court." said Mr*. Reese after she
was returned to Jail, "if he says so,
I'll put on bloomers and go to work
on the streets. But 1 believe I would
be the last woman that would ever
do so, as well as the first. 1 believe
that the people would not stand such
a thing."
And the Court Talks.
When Judge Sineltzer learned that
hlB orders had not been obey, he said
emphatically that Mrs. Reese must go
to work.
"I am a little doubtful whether I
can compel her to work if she does
not want to," be said, "but 1 have tills
alternative to enforce my decree;
while she is In Jail she Is not paying
anything on her find, but she Is get-
ting into debt and Increasing the costs
all the time. If she does not work
she will stay in Jail until sh® con-
cludes to obey the court.
"The city commissioners are not
running this court. They cannot re-
lease Mrs. Reese, though they may
give me trouble In putting her to
work. If she tries to do what is
exacted of her I will be Inclined to be
lenient with her. If she doesn't want
an indeterminate sentence she must
get out and work."
Was Only a ■ Tool
Box In Distress
'Hurry please and come out to
Seventeenth and Court street right
away there's been a man thrown out
of an automobile" came excitedly
over the wire to police station last
night In a feminine voice and In
rapid succession thereafter came five
other calls on the same matter. The
time was about 8:30.
mm
EX QUEEN
AMERICAN ACTOR
TURNED TO DEATH
IN LQNOON FIRE
Jamison Lee Finney Only Vic-
tim of Carlton Hotel
Blaze.
IN HIS BATH ROOM
Many American Guests Have
Exciting Experiences Before
Their Escape is
Affected.
be no doubt but that the city budget
will be cut to the core. The exc sc
board seems to believe that the city
can do with loss money and they want
the budget at not what the city can
spend but what it is necessary for
them to spend.
The county levy is already determin-
ed upon and has been Plaoed at O
mills, th school levy at a little less
than four mills and the state levy will
t,e In the neighborhood of 3-4 of a
mill This makes about nine mills
of the levy already determined upon
and If. as Is the general sentiment now
the lew is placed at sixteen mills only
seven mills will be left forthe city.
t MOKE MVSKOGEK ADVERTISING.
of this . rltlclsm will be brought to the I Representative Bartlett of Georgia
president's attention and some sona- also a democrat Is reported to havo
tors will urge the cancellation of the stood by Mr. Littleton In the execu te
committee In his view of the situation.
provision.
At the afternoon session, a sugges-
tion of the morning meeting that the
whole question should be postponed
until December took the shape of a
motion to that effect. It was made
by Senator Clarke of Arkansas, but
was withdrawn upon a general expres-
sion of opposition. In this connec-
tion, the friends of the treaties re-
ceived the greatest encouragement
that was given them during the day.
Following Mr. Littleton's statement,
Chairman Stanley declared It was well
known that campaign contributions
"that were not spread on the records
with any degree of voluminousness"
were made by corporations.
"I wish to say that I am as un-
alterable In my opinion relating to
some questions as is the chairman In
his. I do not object to questions as
to campaign contributions for the steel
LONDON', Aug. AH Indications point to strong European su
ex-King Manuel of PorVftgafln his announced plan to attempt to regain the
throne from which he was deposed. Kaiser Wilhelm called on him in Lon-
don where he has been cordially received by British royalty, and the photo
herewith shows him with King Alfonso of Spain, who recently visited Man-
uel and his mother, the former Queen Amelle Britain, Kpnln and Ger-
many art quietly supporting Manuel In his ambition, according to reports
here.
IRE QUIET BEST
FOAJfE PIUS
He is Removed to Third Floor
of Vatican and Condition
is Easier.
HIS BROTHER?
Philip Marino Given Twenty-
four Hours to Produce
Child's Body.
CHICAGO, Aug. 9.—Inspector Re-
vere, who" has been conducting the
search for six years old Angelo Marino,
LONDON, Aug. 9.—Jamison Lee
Finney, the American actor, perished
tonight In a ftra which destroyed a
part of the Carlton hotel, where he
was a guest. None of the hotel staff
members Is Mlusfhg. The tire was dis-
covered in tho bath room adjoining
Mr. Finney's room on the tlfth floor
of the annex. Flitwey'a face was so
badly eharreil that the features were
unrecognizable. Apparently Mr. Fin-
ney had gone into tho bath room to
bathe before dressing and was as-
phyxluted. The body was removed to
the morgue later In the evening.
This death was the only one result-
ing from the rtro, which, however, was
attended by exciting scenes and con-
siderable Ions to the building through
fire and water.
A large number of American guests
escaped from the hotel but lost their
baggage.
The Carlton li one of London's most
fashionable resorts, and many Amer-
icans are among Its guests. Of the
two hundred persons stopping at the
hotel when the tire started, many
were from tho United States, and
while all had narrow escapes, none
except Finney, suffered any Injuries.
The Ore burned for two and a half
hours but was confined mainly to that
end of the hotel adjoining His Majes-
nnbrt" for I1*'11 theater and the fifth and sixth
floors, which were gutted. I'art of
the roof also was destroyed. Only
the hardest, work by firemen saved the
hotel and theater.
Most Onniitge by Wutcr.
Lines of hose were dragged up all
the stairways and tons of water were
poured Into the upper rooms. Dam-
age from water Is greater than that
done by the fire. Most of the Interior
of the building w as thoroughly soaked.
The managers suy the hotel Is not
badly damaged and will resume busi-
ness immediately.
The alarm was sounded at seven
o'clock while most of the guests were
dressing for dinner. The blare started
from the elevator shaft from the
fusing of an electric wire and roared
so threateningly that the people pour-
ed out ' ito the streets leaving all their
baggsge. Men In their underclothes
with overcoats over them, and women
half dressed, their hair hanging down
their backs, fled the building.
Firemen arrived quickly and ran up
their ladder* and rescued a number
of servants who, from the upper win-
dows, were shrieking to the excited
crowds below for help. They also
The
ROME, Aug. 9.—Pope Plus early
Policeman Mark Mlnter was hastllS' j tonight enjoyed several hours of lest
dispatched oi. his motorcycle and L ^ room on the third floor of -
when he arrived on the scene fount Vatican tu which he was moved the chMd's 20 year old brother. 24 carried out two Invalid guests.
_i„ „ „«rtv of automoblllst Just the \atuan, to wnicn ne was inovtu general alarm sent out said:
Hn* to leave It seems that h today from his small bed chamber on hours in which to produce the m g Carlton hotel Is well
preparing to leave, u j ' ,)OV nn nHln ot beina locked ut> as a I ... „ ..
party of Joyriders weft havjng " the fourth floor.
good time last night and Just as they moro m,ac|0us and
passed Seventeenth /ourt.treeU to have revUd the Pope.
residents, were hor^,f,®d tof m full When doctors Petaccl and Marchlti-
appeared to be a human form ran
from th car. The telephone calls fol-
lowed but on Investigation It appeared
that the 'form" was only a tool box
which the rapid speeding of the ma-
chine had loosened. No fatalities.
inui wan K1VI-H UICIII UUI'Ue ' " . , , .
Many members of the committee ex- corporation, but I do object to any in-
pressed themselves as friendly to the qulry Into the practice of the New
. . I * I r,.m,,arv flft to
In a recent Issue of the real Estate
News, of Chicago, one of the largest
papers of Its kind in the world, thers
appears over a column devoted to
Muskogee and her progress The
article was solicited by the publishers ,tent,
from the local Commercial club and
was printed without cost.
general proposition Involved In the
treaties, and some went so far as to
say that with a few changes it might
be possible to get favorable action
during the present session, especially
if it should be prolonged to any ex-
Event
Extraordinary!
Glenn Curtiss'
BIPLANE
Gives
3 FLIGHTS O
DAILY J
at the
SECOND ANNUAL
Muskogee Fair
October 9 to 14
M. 0. AND G. AUDITOR
Louis Thornton Will be Suc-
ceeded by His Chief
Clerk.
Louis Thornton, general auditor and
assistant manager of the M. O. and
G. railroad with headquarters at Mus-
kogee, resigned his position with the
road yesterday, the resignation to
take effect August 15.
Mr. Thornton has been with the O.
and G. for several years. It Is under-
stood that he will retire from busi-
ness altogether. II. W. Ross, now
chief clerk In his office, and who came
her* from Cincinnati about t
year, will take the posltlo made vu
eunt by Mr. Thornton's resignation.
York Life Insurance company as to
campaign contributions.
"In 1904 the United States Steel
Corporation contributed $10,000 to a
political campaign, whether for a state
or national campaign I do not remem-
ber. I will look up the records of this
and of any other contributions ana
submit them to the committee. This
contribution Mr. Perkins knows noth-
ing about."
"Then that obviates the necessity of
further questions In thai rteard,"
said Representative Beal'.
Several questions along that line
fo'iowed, to which Mr. Perkins re-
plied that he never ha.I expectations
of lelmbursements from anybody am.
tnere the campaign ccntributlon In-
qnhy was ruptly -.ndrJ.
During the noon rec-wt. representa-
tives Stanley. Sterling onrt Ll "eUn
cal'od on President Tuft ut the white
house and gained his j. .MBl *l"i for
the expert of tho .<•• i.n.mlttoc to
huve a.'cess to hi Informal' n. as jet
t made public, l.'".i:vd t'<®
bureau ot corp •••.ition* rtuftvcPni
fc- ■ (1 corporutl>n.
♦ - the wkatiier. ❖
I <•
<> WASHINGTON, Aug. 9—Okla
Q homa: Fair and conlnued warm ♦
■fr Thursday; Friday fair, not quite ♦
♦ so warm.
♦ *
* * * * * * * * *
BEFOREJMR
Senate Investigation Committee
Adjourns Until Chicago
Meeting.
WASH1NTGON, Aug. 9 —After con-
cluding the testimony today of formor
state Senator D. W. Holstlaw, ac-
cused bribe taker In the Lorlmer elec-
tion, the senate Lorlmer committee
took a month's recess, The commit-
tee will convene In Chicago October
10, Instead of In Washington.
What Is regarded as the ground
work of the Inquiry has been com-
pleted. Tho evidence to bo heard
henceforward, It Is expected, will be
either In substantiation or In refuta-
tion of testimony now in the hundi
of the committee. Lee O'Nell Browne,
State's Attorney Wayman of Cook
county; State's Attorney Burke, of
Sangamon county, John BroderKk and
Robert J. William will be Important
witnesses when the committee re-
sumes Its sessions.
A. T. Brown, traveling passenger
agent for the Burlington, was In the
city yesterday on business for his
road.
fava visited His Holiness In the early
evening his temperature was 101. but
at midnight, after he had perspired
profusely, It fell below 100. The pauia
In the knee also diminished auu 1:1s
Holiness was able to obtain some re-
freshing sleep.
The efforts of the physicians now
will be toward restoring fully the
strength of the Pope, fearing thst
otherwise there may be a fresh com
plication of the throat and bronchial
trouble.
Eight years ago today great throngs
gathered at the Vatican to greet end
venerate the newly elected pontiff at
the moment of his coronation. To-
day, however, owing to tho Illness ot
the Pope, only a few of the cardinals
members of the diplomatic c jrps, and
members of society wore present In
the Slstlne chaf>el where a mass iw
said In honor of the anniversary.
Prostrate on his bed of sickness, the
Pope Is reported to have said thai
though absent, he was there In spirit
Hl'SINKSS COLLEGE PAPEIt.
The Muskogee Business college has
Just Issued an eight page paper which
they will make a monthly feature of
the Institution. A generous amount of
space Is given to the Commercial club
and many good cuts of Muskogee are
Included. The paper will be sent out
all over the country and will un-
doubtedly be a good advertisement for
Muskogee. 10,000 copies were printed
as a starter.
. . . , , . n I 1 IIO VKI HVil UV.W. w "W>. alight
boy on pain of being locked up as a !d ^ ^ d tc be dan.
kidnaper. I .,
Events of the last 241 hours together , ^ broUKM & great fQrce Qf appM.
with the ease with which the alleged | from au the stations within a
blackhand kidnapers ha.e conveyed^ q{ thj.e#
letters to the Marino family, in spite ( mQgt of th
of rigid Police l'neH> have caused the j p the flr(> wftg done_ waD
police to believe the kidnaping of. ^ tQ ,ervBnt,. qua^
little Angelo was the result of a fam- ,7 ^ ,v,„ .i.
lly disagreement. While they have
not charged the elder brother with |
being a party to the crime, they be-
lieve he knows who has the boy and
where he Is hidden.
Philip Is said to have been the only
one who knew cf his father's savings
of a little ver $1,000. The elder boy
had been employed for a number of
years In a printing establishment and
his father allowed htm only 1 a week
of his salary, the result of which has
been continued quarreling between the
pair. This, and the changed attitude
of Mr. and Mrs. Marino toward the
police, resulted In the son's being
cross-examined today.
The mo er of the missing boy, who
until today has done all she could *o
help the police Investigation, today-
locked the door upon detectives and
refused to permit them to enter her
residence.
KPAVL1MNU BETTER.
ters. Comparatively few of the guests
lost their baggage. Tho salvage cor*
removed trunks and bags and piled
hem In the streets.
Thousands cf persons afoot and In
motor cars filled the adj <lnlng streets
iind watched the fire. The Ha.vmar-
ket—across the street from the hotel
-was compe'Ied to cancel Its per-
formance on account of the fire. His
Majesty's theater is closed.
Many American's There.
Many Americans who had been stay-
(Conttnued on Var Blght.l
THAT NEW DAILY AG \IN.
Otis B. Weaver, who It Is rumored
Is preparing to launch a new demo-
cratic daily here, was In the city yes-
terday and stated that he was here
to perfect plans for his paper which
he says may be running by the first of
October.
II. B. Spaulding, president of the
Commercial club, who has been quite
ill at his residence for some time, was
reported to be Improving yesterday
and will probably be back at his of-
fice In a week or two.
Ml SIUK.I i: \ (;<!(>!> CITY.
William Turner, formerly of Liver
pool, England, and more recently of
Oklahoma City, has moved to Musko-
gee and will shortly open a cotton
buying house here, under tho firm
name W. Turner and company. Mr,
Turner has been In the cotton Intsl-
nesB In Liverpool and in Oklahoma
City. He says that Muskogee looks
llko the best city in Oklahoma to
him. «• — - A
$28,000
for
PREMIUMS
and RACES
The list of horses
entered at the
Muskogee Fair
October 9 to 14
is the largest received
by any member of the
Great Western, Kansas
and Oklahoma and
Kansas Grand Circuits.
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