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INITED STATES TO HURRY TROOPS TO CHINA
)KLAHOJMANS ASK T-M CONGRESS FOR A BETTER ARKANSAS RIVER
gENTH YEAR
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MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 1911
NUMBER 281
fONSMESGEI
LAW yo ABOLISH
RClLE OF REASON
FILLMIM FELOi'slffllPES
INSTEAD Of FINES
F0HTHE"IRJSI5"
Jountv Officials and the Police
"Worked Up" Over Of-
ficers' Tactics.
KCEPT URGE CASH BONDS
Women Sign Statements Re-
vealing Peculiar Practices—
Bonds Always Cover Amount
of Fines and Costs.
SThat constables working under the
HItiHdiction of the justice courts have
■epeatodly invaded resorts in the
i rth end restricted district and ln-
ormlng the proprietors that they and
ijery woman In their houses were
Ifcder arrest charged with vagrancy,
aken from the women cash bonds
UNCLE SAM GOES TO
COURT FOR A WAGON
Democrats Have Orafted Bill
to Replace the Sher-
man Law.
A'TRUST IS AT UST DEFINED
And the Definition is Sweeping
in Its Character—Bill Will
Beyond All Doubt Be-
come a Law.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 15.—"Felons
ftM'ii i rum me uiuv >• ~-
(fieri amounting to over $100 is tiie stripes" as a punishment for
"trust
garden of several statements signed
•y these women last night.
After their "arriests." In the justice
0';rts next morning these women
,re almost invariably round guilty and
inert, the justice and the "arresting"
instable getting a large share as
'osts Tht records of the justice
ourt.4 show that at times these worn-
II have been fined only a dollar or
o over the costs of tho procedure, of
he cijatft the Justice receiving *2 76
Kd the officer a ltlce amount,
for "Profane language."
Acoordlng to the statements signed
jpi night one woman was told by n
jfrLlce ot the peace that it would be
tttor for her If she entered a plea
.f guilty and another was placed tin-
ier "arrest" charged with using pro-
language*. The woman In the
ion-t in which this "arrest" was made
ire authority for tlic statement that
;his woman was awakened In bed to
t>e told that she was under arrest on
tha charge.
Maggie Miller tells of a raid made
ipor. her place by constables on the
fourteenth of this month at which
time the officers took her personal
Bheek for *125 and her word for *2 5
more. The men attempted to explain
at that time, Maggie Miller says, w V
tj^ey did not have a warrant.
VIrene Imnald declares that on the
Ifteenth of this month she was "ar
Anted" aa a "vag" but when she told
{to officers that she would fight the
the charge was changed to one
of disturbing the peace. Cm that day
tbo McDonald woman and one othoi
la her house were arrested. Two days
Before, she declares, she and four
Eiier women were "arrested" by two
different constables to whom she paid
fcr..C0 in cash apiece for each of the
lv* before tho officers left her house,
•he monej was for bond cn the charge
■T vagrancy, she stays.
For Fine and fCnsls.
* Two other ,roprletoi|l declare thai
0„ th>< thirteenth of this month they
Ld the women In their houses were
irrested charged with vagrancy but
Kiat they made their bohds l>etore the
Istlees. In each case the bond was
fir, no. Such bonds would enable the
I,urt t« fine each woman $10 an.l
Cave $r> GO for costs. $2.7G for the
justice and $27E for the arresting
Sonatablo.
I The house of Willie Moore was
nosed yesterday and her several won-
In scattered to the four winds. The
Iromen and the police give the tails
Cf the constables as the reason. The
Lllce would be glad U pc the place
fclosort were It not thatfWarly every
i>ne of the women ham taken their
Lbode In the uptown rttplng houses,
r The proceedure Is pfc ps within
kh law but county offlqiM brand It as
Irregular. The practlvdUf the arrest-
ing officer accepting cM$ bonds has
Leon stopped In city PoUtt circles and
f, ■. _ i ai .m/lnJ I nrri st 111 list
The United States govern-
ment filed suit yesterday In the
Federal court to recover a wag-
on for one of its wards. The
wagon Is only valued at seventy
dollars, but tho government
gays It belongs to Harry Craw-
fish. a Quapaw Indian, and not
to M. S. Pierce, O. M. Harvey
an order Is asked for its re-
turn.
T NI CONGRESS ID
"EIHJT RIVER
Want the Arkansas Improved
and the Snags
Removed.
i Will SECURE CONGRESS 01
o to M. s. fierce, m. "" ♦ i j
❖ and s. m. moss, the men aiieg- •> | No Opposition Had Devenped
ed to now have possession, and ❖ _ .
* to Trumbo for the Presi-
dency—Governor Haskell
Wires His Regrets.
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
ORDERS TROOPS TO CHINA
Peaceful Residents of China
Flee From Homes for Safety
OEGOlPREtlY
SMI TEACHER
TO "TftR PARTY"
criminals" In the United Status,
end "commercial piracy under be-
nevolent 'rules of reason" " arc pro-
posed In a bill amending the Sher
man anti-trust law drafted by Repre-
sentative Henry of Texas, to be In-
troduced In the house upon the open-
ing of congress next month. Its In-
troduction probably will mean
passage In the house. I
At Ijist! A Trust Defined.
The bill specifically defines Just
what constitutes a trust, legislates
from the present statute, tho "rule of
reason" as Interpreted by the supreme
court In the Standard OH and To-
bacco decisions, and provides
punishment for violation of the law
imprisonment from two to ten years.
It will be referred to the judiciary
committee for deliberation.
Representative Henry, who has
been conferring with Representative
Clayton of Alabama, chairman of the
judiciary committee, and other demo-
cratic leaders, completed the draft of
the proposeu changes in the mum-
discussed statute today. In explain-
ing his bill. Representative Henry de-
clared that actual Imprisonment of
great Industrial offenders was es-
sential to a cure for the trust evil ana
that a law to be rigid, must be ne-
cessity, define a trust to leave no
room for controversy.
Aootlsheft tho "Rule of Reason."
"My bill." said Mr. Henry, "nulll-
fys the alternations written Into the
Sherman antl-trust act by the un-
warranted and purely legislative de-
cision of the supreme court In the
Standard Oil and Tobacco trust cases
of last spring.
"That Is. the bill legislates the rule
of reason' out of the law and It tte
fines specifically what a trust Is so
that there can bo no room for con-
troversy. It makes the violation of
this law a felony with Imprisonment
for not less than two years no more
than ten years. I
llclicaillng n little Too Severe.
"Fines and dissolutions seem to be
child's play for the trust magnates.
Felons' stripes, where the violation Is
knowingly or wilfully done will prove
a potential remedy for these flagrant
acta of commercial outlaws. The
Chinese antl-trust law provided:
"Those who Interrupt commerce are
to be beheaded." To behead such of
fenders In our country would be en-
tirely too extreme, but the compro-
mise with a penitentiary sentence and
a felons stripes ,4* a punishment Is
mild and should 'be administered to
trust criminals In ;tj e United States.
"My bill justlfr ^exempts members
of organisations ®T associations form-
ed not for proft||ni>d without capital
stock and also Mrlcultural products
11.... .......1- ! .1 lh!d li 111,11 a nf iHu first.
KAN8AS CITY, Nov. 16.—The Ok-
lahoma delegations which numbers
on© hundred today presented to tn«,
resolutions committee of the Trans-
Mississippi congress a resolution ask-
ing for an appropriation for the M1-
kansas liver.
The Oklahomans want the snags re-
moved and the river put In better
shape, so that it can be navigated.
This is all the delegation Is asking ti.
tho congress and It stands an oxe
lent chance of getting an "O. K." on
Its plans.
Joy was manifested when the con-
gress today adopted a plan of per-
manent organisation with a perman-
ent headquarters which wl.t work the
yoar around. TiaiB is one of the things
that the Oklahomans wanted. A
member of thr delegation explained
that tho young progressive business
men of the state saw In such a per-
manent bureau, more manufacturing
Intercuts coming west from the east-
ern territory and much immigration
into the new part of the nation.
No opposition has yet appeared
against the candidacy of A. C. Trum-
bo for president of the congress and
leaders believe he will be elected
without opposition. Mr. Trumbo re-
Barbcr Confesses His Part in
"Tarring" Miss Mary
Chamberlain.
RECEIVED $2J0B HIS PARI
Everett Clark, Wealthy and
Influential, Holds Center of
the Stage—Sympathy
Not All for Girl.
LINCOLN CENTER, Ka&. Nov. 16.
- An admission of guilt In the "tar
party" case came today. Edward
Rlcord, a barber, admitted he decoy-
ed Miss Mary Chamberlain, . school
teache, to the point near Shady Bend
where she was "tarred" on August 7.
He went before Judge Glover and en-
tered a plea of guilty. Sentence was
suspended until after the trial of the
other accused men.
Rlcord had been In jail for the last wired him that everything was getting
three months awaiting action on an I along nicely and while the delegation
OF m TREATY
To Join With Other Powers in
Policing the
Railroads.
NO FORMAL REQUEST YET
Transport Sherman Ready to
Convey a Regiment of
Trcops From Manila to
Chin Wing Tao.
PRKIN, Nov IK.—Tho outside world will hever know the full extent
iDuosition. Air. irumiio <e- the suffering caused by the presenr revolution. Peaceful peasants, men
. . ocir' r land women who have to work'hard for a bare existance, who know noth-
««wh0 ta!.n.um, * •>««.,«* ho-
of St. LiOuls bankers were In Muskogee
looking over his lnterurban line with
a view to purchasing it and tnat
therefore, the governor would not
come to the congress unless his pres-
ence was badly needed. Trumbo
appeal from a justice court sentence
of one year for complicity In the at-
xack on Miss Chamberlain. He was
the first man arrested In connection
with tire "tar party" case It Is alleg-
ed he received 16 for his part In
the affair. I
Invited Her to a Dance.
According to Miss Camberlaln, she
accompanied Rlcord on the night of are: Thomas P
the attack under the Impression thai Justice Thomas II.
would like to have the governor ther^,
he might be excused.
For Next Year's Convention.
The active candidates for next
year's meeting are: Salt Lake City
and Seattle, with Dee Moines fighting
for a look-In. The Oklahoma dele-
gation Is Inclined to favor Seattle.
Prominent In the delegation
Smith, former
Owen, II. B.
tweenthe waring forces and have hr.d to leave their homes and flee for
the'r lives. Some of the massacres have been described In press reports, but
these tales of butchery, horrible as they are, do not tell the full story. From
all provinces come storites of the flight of residents who hope only to ,',ret
under the protection of the armed forces that will guarantee them safety.
LEW GHOGIAWSSRACE FRICTION HI
PSS5 RESOLUTIONS TlCJip
Chief Locke Does Not Attend i Negro Preached Desired to Sit
UIO ttllftl lV Uliuci V1IC "• r - I V - — —
he was taking her to a dance. Rlcord Spaulding, president of tho Muskogee
expects leniency as the result of his
confession.
Attorneys for both sides In the case
spent the greater part of today col-
Meetinq of Tribes-
men.
MCALESTER, Okla., Nov. 15.—
(Special)—A mass meeting cf Choc-
taws held here today was attended by separate table when a banquet In con-
ti,... ...uv. ♦ v.. f > n 11 il rolli/lnn fur-
Commercial club; Clarence B. Doug
las. Dr. D. M. Haley of McAlester,
who has been made chairman of the
B|.e..v u>° — —- i*1*16 delegation, W. T. Hunt of Mc-
lectlng witnesses and evidence to be Alester, who represents Oklahoma on
used tomorrow when the application the resolutions committee of the con-
fer a change of venue of Everett O. I gress, and Dorset P. Carter of Pur-
Clark, accused of leading the attack sell. J
> n Miss Chamberlain comes up for | "Oklahoma Is being well advertised
hearing. Clark contends a prejudice, by its delegations'' said President -- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ tp )n.
exists against him In this county. Trumbo tonight, 'All the delegations, to „„ aomethlnK at the
Newnpaiier Stories Figure. j in the state, most ot whom are ln | C(imlng 80g8l0n.
Many witnesses ar& to be called the eastern part, are passing out
at the Table With the
White Pecple.
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Nov. 16.—Six
negroes sitting by themselves
nearly three hundred representative
members of the tribe.
The meeting had been called by a
number of Influential men In favor
of having the tribal affairs wound
IIUI'K miivuihuu.
„„„ or live stock In tUi hands of the pro-
|>eon stopped In ctty PfllE- . mv.t duc>r 0r raiser, ♦■he first exemption
jell people placed ti < «I labor was Wienfled ln the orlg-
2b,, brought to hcadqunrlfctt.
S The city police bertdjl|irandlng tile
jactfl of the constables aftiripardonable
Ideotare that their condff* Is dlrvlng
tho women from the restricted distilct
Jto the uptown rooming houses. In
, fact since the constables have been
pursuing those lactlos the police flnU
themxelve* confronted with a second
j district almost ln the business heart of
the olty where -the women will not
• obey the police rulings a* there Is no
ttno^nttTe to do o.
as to labor was'^jiended In the orig-
inal legislation abM the second as to
agricultural prodit^a and live stock li
found In somo st^ie laws. These ex-
emptions are right and should be
made."
What a Trust la.
Tho proposed bill amenna the first
three sections of the Sherman act,
leaving ai they are, sections four to
eight Inclusive and adding two new
sections. Section one Is amended to
<Pontlnuad oo fas* tea.)
IP OOUO €** V «-" ■'« II !". • b. b' I— -a
tomorrow. Among them are several literature boosting their towns. The
newspaper men. The defense asserts delegates are getting to know that
that ti.Aiiy newspaper reports of the Oklahoma Is a place where things
affair were highly colored and this are done.
tended to prejudice the public against They're Roosting Strong.
"Mark. It Is further charged that ] "We're going to get that boost for
Prosecutor McCanless forced Edward the Arkansas river, too, because the
Rlcord to give a reporter an inter- river folks are * unit here for the
view, bringing the prisoner from tn*.. things the other river people want.
Jail late at .light for that purpocw. Champ Clark and Congressman Bor-
By a recent decision by the Kansas land are boosting the Missouri. Oov-
supreme court It was held that a man, ernor Burke of North Dakota Is
who has formed an opinion in a case boosting for the upper Missouri and
from reading newspaper report*, Is we are boosting for our own stream,
not necessarily disqualified to sit on a . The river boosters are unltod and
jury, | I we'll win." The Oklahoma delegates
Sentiment ln the case is not wholly have not held a caucus since the con-
wlth Miss Chamberlain. Friends of ventlon opened. It has not been ne-
Clark and the eight other defendants oessary. Oklahoma Is getting all she
have been active ln creating sympathy j wants In the congress."
for the accused men. A message from T. P. Gore, United
Interest In the case centers about j states senator, was read tnis morn-
Clark. who Is wealthy and Influential. ing> it was as follows: "Sorry not
Clark Is quoted as having said he will to be present to sa> a word ln behalf
spend his entire fortune If necessary
to avoid Imprisonment.
Col. Warwick C. White of the North
Muskogee Realty and Industrial com-
pany. la ln Washington on a business
mission.
of good roads. They are Lie chlei
commercial need of the times, tn
want of them 1s the shame of our
civilisation. These h'ghways feed tne
railways and the waterways. They
(Continued on Page Two)
The movement was opposed by
Governor Victor Locks and other of-
ficials In the tribal government and
the governor did not attend tlio meet-
ing. It was soon discovered that the
sentiment of those present was large-
ly with the men calling tho meeting.
The meeting lastod all day and late
this evening the resolutions
ported by the committee were adopt-
ed as reported with the exception of
the section providing for the abolish
ment of the tribal government.
Chief's Salary Lowered, However.
This was so amended as to do away
with all the officials but the princi-
pal chief, his duties to be limited to
the signing of deeds and his salary
redueed from fifty-four hundred to
six hundred dollars per annum. The
resolutions favor the sale of the sur-
face of the segregated coal lands, the
sale of remaining unallotted lands In
tracts to suit the purchaser, the
abolishment of the Indian schools
and the sale of the school and other
I public buildings, the sale of the coal
lands as soon as market conditions
justify It and the payment per capita
of all money duo the tribe not later
than January 1, IBIS.
Representative W. F. SempU of
nectlon with tho men and religion for-
ward movement was given at the Y.
M. C. A. building, looked rather
strange to other delegates,, who saw
Indications of race discrimination.
The notion gained belief when thoy
saw a negro preacher tako a seat
among tho white men while the other
negroes gestured violently for him to
sit with them. He half rose, turned to
his brethren, sat down again scowl-
ing, and then rose once more. A few
stage whispers passed and he took his
seat at the negroe's table.
A few minutes later he gut up to
talk and the tenor of his remarks were
"there are no black seals In heaven."
Then there were more violent motions
from the negroes 'table for hlrij to
take a new tack. Still he hinted at dls-
|crimination until, heeding the mur-
Imurs of the other negroes, he turned
about and changed his address Into a
plea for the cooperation of white peo-
ple In religious work among negroes.
The Rev. George J. Fox said his
race had not been discriminated
against: that he had made a special
request for a separate table prior to
tho banquet, as he thought tho men
of his congregation would feel more at
home at a table of their own.
•> *
« THE WE THFiL ♦
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<> WASHINGTON, Nov. 1# — ❖
«> (OjUkcaHti—Oklahoma: Fair <>
<> Thursday and Friday. ❖
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. — The
state department ha practically de-
cided to send a regiment of tro. p
Trorn Manila to Chin Wing Tao !n
China, oh .ut 260 miles from Pekln.
Tnn p'irprse Is to perform an inter-
national cuty in keeping op.n 'he line
between Pekln and the south.
It was suld at tho state department
that request for the Iroops has not
yet been made on the wav depart-
ment, but It was momentarily expoet-
The officials wore cartful to
mako ft appear that the despatch of
these troops to China would be abso-
lutely without any political meaning
and the movement wus not to be con-
strued as intervention.
The (government's Privilege.
Under the treaty which terminated
the Boxer troubles, tho United States
with other powers, was given the priv-
ilege of maintaining a military force
along the railway between I'ekln and
the sea to guard against such an
event as the siege of the legations (lin-
ing the Boxer uprising.
Beyond tho maintenance of a
marine guards of 100 men (only
recently and temporarily Increased to
200) the United States has never avail-
ed Itself of this permission and It
has fallen to the lot of other nation*
principally Great Britain, France and
Japan to maintain small garrisons
along the line of the toad from Tlea
Tsln to Pekin. It Is felt It Is now
Incumbcnt upon the United States to
perform its part of this duty, hence
the decision to employ troops to sup-
plement the marine guard.
No Military Demonstration.
The fact that the force to be des-
patched will be limited to one regi-
ment Is declarod In ltseif an .Indi-
cation that there Is no intention on
the part of the United States govern-
ment of Indulging In any large mili-
tary demonstration In China or of
taking sides In the present «reat
struggle for supremacy between tht
Imperial force* and the revolutionary
party, and It Is al&o declared that iv
designs upon Chinese territory ar#
entertained. t
The main consideration that
prompted tho state department to act
is said to be the fact that the porta
of the gulf of Pechlll are closed by
Ico about this time every year and It
nlll be necessary to land the troops
now H they are to be employed at all
during the winter ln China.
As Tien Tsln lies forty miles up the
river from the gulf and la thus certain
to bo cut off from water communi-
cation by Ice early In the season, tha
American regiment probably will be
landed at the port of t'hln Wing Tao,
which Is said to be rarely Ice bound.
This post Is on the railroad which
passes through Tien Tsln coming from
kin and Is about 250 miles from the
Chinese capital. It is also about one
hundred miles southeast of Jehol,
which place probably uuuld be rhoscn
as a refuge by the Chinese Imperial
family In case the dynasty Is ever
thrown by the r volutlonarles.
Troop Ship In Reaillness.
The transport Sherman Is lying In
Manila harbor, having been detained
there at the suggestion of the stata
department. She could land a regi-
ment at Chlng Wing Taft* within fou*
(Continued on Fu^ti Three)
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