Muskogee Times-Democrat from Muskogee, Oklahoma • Page 1

it la MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA, WEDNESDAY EVENING. MAY 22,1912 NOT Boland on the Stand Tells Brouq.ht Charges A gainst Judge Archbald, of the Commerce Happened When He Complained JUDGE WAS Washington, May author of the charges against Judge Robert W. Arehbald, of the court of commerce, today told hie story to the bouse Judiciary committee. This is W. jg.

Boland of Scranton. Efe' began by declaring he had be. come convinced that the coal railroads in Pennsylvania were using Judge "Arehbald and that it was not the exception, but the rule, that Judge Arehbald was willing to serve the railroads. Boland related the history of his fight against alleged discriminations by the railroads: On one occasion he said, C. B.

Loomis, vice president of the Lackawanna railroad, said to him: "You have the Devil's nerve to try to mine coal along your line." Boland referred to tire case in which the Marion Coal company defendant In 1908 In Judge Archbald's court. The witness'said that at about this time he complaint to the inter state 1 commerce commission against the discrimination by the railroads and that immediately "things began to move" in the case against him. "The; "way Judge Arehbald ordered me to go on with this case, convinced me he was not'on the level," said Boland. the Judge and I began to Investigate them," Boland detailed the efforts of At torney eGorge Watson to sell the Mar Ion Coal company to the railroads He declared Judge Arehbald had President Truesdale and Vice President Loomis of the Lackawana, to come to Scranton'to see Watson "Watson told roe," said Boland, "that Truesdale declared at this Is the Judge to do in this case la this In the nature fo a hold-up I refuse to have anything to do with Boland said he asked Watnon why he was asking the railroad $160,000 for the property wb.en his, EW DODGE BY ffffi POOL ROOM The Injunction seclred by the coun ty attorney against the Baltimore pool room stopped the betting on- the races In his city for a while, as the Derby was. one of the occupants of the but they moved to another troom 'across 'the street and have Washington.

May negro rebellion in Cuba has caused the state cflipatch" "I "KaoTTieard: things about Qf warBnlp to the eastern nd of the island to reinforce the small naval forces now there. The gunboat Nashville is not far distant at Santo Domingo City, and the cruiser Montgomery la at Pensacola, within two days' run of Guantanamo, which appears to be the center of the movement, The strengthening of American- naval' force would not necessarily in- dlcate a purpose on the part of the administration to again intervene in Cuba, but it is believed would have a salutary moral effect on who are menacing foreign THE waS Wtnttts to sell "for "Well, we have to Settle with Judge Arehbald," Watson was credited with saying. "I said. 1 thought the Judge helping you through TWO BISHOPS ARE ELECTED ii. Minneapolis, May the election of Dr.

T. S. Henderson of New Tork, and Dr. W. O.

Shepard of Chicago, as bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church on the eleventh bal lot last night, delegates to the general conference declare they do not expest the selection of another of the five bishops yet to be chosen until several ballots have been taken. With the withdrawal of B. Jones, of New Orleans, by voting for whom many delegates expressed the opinion mat the' African churches of the south should have a man of their own race for bishops, it is expected that P. Thlrkelld, president of the Howard university, will obtain a considerable increase. Dr.

Thlrkelld has held his strength since the third ballot, reaching a high point on the eleventh ballot. It is salt that the episcopacy committee finally has' decided Atlanta, Helena, Mont, and Kansas City as places where the Episcopal residences will be established. THE MEMORIAL DAY EXERCISES PLANNED Decoration day services for the G. A. R.

veterans of Muskogee county will this year be held In the city of Muskogee. Formerly it has been the practice to go to the national cemetery at Fort Gibson. Memorial services will be held in the M. be- ThJrteemnT aTTT a. m.

Sunday, May 26. Rev. Stockwell will preach to the old soldiers. On Decoration day. May 30, the members of the G.

A. the W. R. will meet at the car barn at nine a. m.

and March to the city cemetery where they will decorate the graves of the soldier dead. In the afternoon at one of the theaters, the memorial day address will be made. The speaker has not yet been selected. OLD MEDAL FOUND. Byron B.

Sheffield. 702 South Second street. old war medal, that was found 'by'some -boys and turned oyer to him because he was an old soldier. Following the civil war the medal was given to Isaac Coon, company of the Tenth regiment of "Infantry volunteerV of the eommand nf West Virginia, and bears His name. Either Coon or some of his reaves, Josjf is 1 urn opened up again." Mr.

Jones says that he Is now send tag his bets out of the state and con Aiders that there is nothing the state can do him operating this way, as he would only be liable to the United States law, as he is do lng an Interstate business. County Attorney Disney says that If the-court sustains the injunction as asked, that It will only be necessary to get out another against this new place, as he thinks that If the law forbids the place being a direct nuisance it will'do the same In the case of an indirect nuisance. MAT SEND A WARSHIP TO SQUELCH NEGROES Washington, May ad vices to the state department confirm the dispatches that tho negro revolutionary movement In Cuba Is much more alarming and widespread than at first supposed. Foreign property is menaced. Conflicts be tween the rural guards and armed ne gro bands have resulted in the killing of many guards.

The Cuban government is sending troops to the affected zdnes in an attempt to suppress the movement An offielal estimate numbers the revolu at 1,600. A bit of ginger was Injected Into the proceedings of the city council Wednesday when Mr. Beaver, a property owner of the east side served notice on the city that two holes in the street, near Cherokee and Broadway, had to be fixed or he would bring suit against the city for damages. He referred to two catch basins that have no outlet in which stagnant water stands. THE GOVERNMENT WON'T JOIN WITH INDIANS Chicago, May Judge Carpenter decided today he had no authority to direc tthe government to participate In a suit to establish the title of valuable lake front lands in Chicago, which are claujied by representatives of Indian tribes and now occupied by railroads.

The motion was the government Join as a plaintiff with Ottawa, Chippewa and Pottawatomie Indians living in Illinois, Michigan and Indiana to proceed against the Illinois Central, the Michigan Central and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis railway companies for title to the lands. The claim advanced was that strip was outside of the property ceded by the tribes to the government. The land is said to be worth $10,000,000. Counsel for the Indians said that the only course now would be to file separate suits for each member of the tribes.

oooooo AUTOI8T KILLED CHILD AND COMMITTED SUICIDE. Fort Dodge, May senatlonal sequel to the myster- lous disappearance of the two year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh. Marlow, of Lone Rock, Io- wa, was explained today when a man committed suicide here af- ter confessing that he had killed the child by running over it with his automobile The suicide's Identity is not known yet.

ooooooooooooooo TOO OLD TO WORK, TOO HONEST TO STEAL, AND TOO PROUD TO BEG May unidentified man about sixty-five years old shot himself through the head on the university campus this morning as the students were passing Into their classes. He left a note signed, "A stranger from Texas," in which he said he was too old to work, too honest to steal and too proud to beg. His clothing was marked B. 8." and he seemed to have been an Odd Fellow of Belton, Texas, and also a Mason and a Knights of Pythias. He said In his note that he once had been in good circumstances.

JUDGES In Chihuahua Casey Arms As Common Soldiers to Prove Their Loyalty PRICE FIVE ILLLJ i MM I hi nil- TAFT LOSES IN OHIO BUT HARMON Baby Girl is Officially Adopted And Named by Her Native State The little baby daughter of Dr, and Mrs. George F. Brown, of Fulton county, Georgia, has the distinction of having been named and formally the state of her nativity. A resolution naming the baby "Georgia" was passe'! by both houses and formally enrolled- as an aet of the state. Georgia's father is one of the most popular members of the general assembly.

When Georgia was born, house promptly adopted the youngster and sent its aotion to the senate for Concurrence. That body acquiesced. MUNOZ ARRESTED FOR KIDNAPING AMERICANS Orozco's Headquarters, Jlmlnea, May prove their questioned loyalty to the cause of the Mexican rebellion, fourteen prominent men of Chihuahua, two of them Judges of the supreme court, are carrying' rifles as common soldiers in General Orozco's army. When they were charged with complicity in a plot against the of the, rebellion, they denied their Wilt and after they reached here they begged to be allowed to prove their allegiance. to enlist; otherwise, it probable they would have been executed.

The men were charged with plotting to kidnap the secretary-general of the revolution, the governor of the. state, and the chief of arms in Chihuahua, and to attempt to hold the city ot Chihuahua for the federal government while Orozco was absent on his expedition against the federals under General Huerta. In addition to this they were charged with being responsible for the recent bridge burning alorig the line of the Mexican Central. Bl Paso, May Munoz was arrested today by Texas rangers on a warrant charging, JhJm with the kidnaping of Biatt and Convers, two American boys, from Texas soil, over a year ago. The boys were In Madero's re and were areated by authoritis whtlejjjjjfftirning to Bl Paso.

The boys produced evidence to show they on Texas soil and on the United States were ordered, rejjjftsed from the Juarez Jail by of Mexteo. one of the arrested the boys, came the river during the fightfnf DetweefT WBeW FRUIT IN MclNTOSH. Returns are Not plete hut" Roosevelt W.fn Get Two- of the Rule for Democrats Gives Aft to mon OOOOOOOOOOOOOO R0Q8EVELT TALK8. Oyster Bay, N. May "The result in Ohio has settled the contest," declared Roosevelt today.

"I can only WK peat wijat I have already said, X. O'. Infinitely the deliberate i Judgment of the people to. Impulsive Judgment, and in Ohio. we got their deliberate Judgment; and.

as I have said, if I had to make a choice, I would the Impulsive Judgment of the people rather, than thft judgment of the bosses." 1 "Victory in Ohio means that it will be' hopeless to try to beat ui i at Chicago by unseating our dele- gates who represent the popular will: in Washington, Indiana, Ken- tucky and elsewhere, nor wlli it possible for. them win-: by seating delegations from south- ess states lng whatever but, fraud," tied Mr. Koosevelt in a foimal MRS. GEORGE F. BROWN AND HER BABY, LITTLE MISS GEORGIA.

"I have been before two other councils and have received no attention," said Beaver. "I now bave my neck bowed and I am going to stand pat, pay taxes to the amount of $1500 a year, and come as a taxpayer asking for my rights. I don't intend to pay that much taxes Just to be able to walk the streets. Former city officials have fed me promises, like promising candy to a kid, and kept none of them. I am tired of it.

I want these holes filled. They say you have no funds. I want it understood that I have done my share, and will brook no delayed promises. I will sue you if you don't get busy. This is the first time I have appeared before this council and I hope you will do your duty." With this parting shot he turned and walked out the council chamber.

Council decided to flush these catch basins dally until July 1, when some money is available, and then repair the matter permanently. The Cleveland Trinidad company was the lowest bidder for brick paving on Cincinnati street, between Main and Cherokee streets. The bid was accepted and ordered filed until some litigation is cleared up. Harry Plummer, was the second highest bidder. He offered to pave the street with Boynton paving brick for 94,663.

The other company bid $4,201.60. Mayor Miller advised the council that the city printing contract had expired. The city clerk was Wthorlzed to advertise for bids for the city printing for the next six months. asked for permission to build a $500 bungalow house In Spaulding park, and to be given permission to sell ice cream from same. They offered the city the building free of cost after the season closed.

The council did not look with, favor on the proposition. It was to the commissioner of public safety. and Monday and was arrested todaiy. Hi -4 ARRESTED IN COURT ROOM. Poteajti May John Rhodes was arrested in the district jCourt room' here today, charged with'giving perjhred testimony In the of Bprt Home, charged with assault ijwjth intent to kill.

It Is alleged, was In the penitentiary at Little Rack and escaped. He was re-arrested at Whitefield, returning after sompletlng his tt is said that he lame here in searrh of his wife, whom, it understood is now married to another man. Checotah, May fruit and berry crops never promised so well at this time of theJKaMlftnr-aB they do as it IS "possible for them to and present outlook is for about 160 000 bushels in the vicinity of Checotah. The strawberry crop has been a success so far, the'' 'growers claiming that fbey Will clean up off their fields over per acre. and ber jrlea ty is one" the.

counties of Oklahoma if not the KEEP THE MEXICANS OFF FRANK SEERY ARRESTED. Tahlequah. May Seery, proprietor of the Markham hotel, was arrested today following a raid of officers on the hotel. In which was found a half dozen pints of whisky. SeerVj gave bond.

Beery formerly 1'ved in Mhskogee, and it was his wife who a year ago walked from Muskogee to San Francisco. SAYS SIN CAUSED THE BUILDING OP A CITY Louisville, May God wanted to give man a chance, he started him in a garden, but when Cain's crime caled built a declared Rev. Dr. Charles L. Thompson of New Tork to the general assembly at.

the Northern Presbyterian' church In speaking on the report the board mlslons. He was emphasizing the work of the church and coontry life department of the board, the report declaring that the roral regions, once the bulwark of the church, "have become sources of moral peril to the nation." MORGAN CITY UNDER WATER, Morgan City, May the flow) residence section of the city flooded from one end to the other and water six inches deep in four business blocks from water backed up through the drainage canals fromj Grand Lake, the weather bureau at New Orleans today- issued a special flood warning for Morgan City) predicting a further rise of six'inches or more in the river. NOTICE, Tp LAWYERS. AH motions' for new-trial in casBs dnring jlie last term of, the district codrt will beJieard and 1 passed upon MAGAZINE AGENTS Jean H. Etaydenrelch, Arthur Browen and Hugo Smith are in the city Jail charged with working a fake game on the people of the city by selling three magazines for 39c, and collecting the money.

Two of the men were arrested on complaint of a woman, who was solicited to subscribe, and the third called at police station to get them out and he too was placed under arrest. The men are being held until the police department makes a thorough Investigation. Smith this morning wired to Minneapolis, and a few hours later a telegram was received by Chief Joe Depew. from the Arcade Subscription Agency of that the men were authorized agents of this company and should be immediately released. Mr.

Depew will investigate the Arcade agency and send telegrams to the publishers of the magazines to ascer- 'mn whether not thejmen' are an- At Boundary Camp of American Troops, South of Fabens, Texas, May keep Mexicans from using American territory in their battle around Guadalupe, Mexico, Colonel B. Z. Steever of the Fourth U. S. cavalry today ordered two troops of cavalry to follow along the boundary line several miles to the east parallel to any fighting that may occur.

The confusion over the position of Imaginary line nearly caused an international eplfcode yesterday and the American commander Is determined to definitely mark' the boundary by a string of olive drab troopers. The occupation of Guadalupe by the federals is a ruse that was used to culminate In a fight during the day. The withdrawal of a federal column under Major Louis G. Sanchez southward toward the hills allowed the rebels to enter the and the lnsur- rectos will find themselves hemmed In I on the east by two hundrd men and Col. Jose De La Cruz Sanchez, who came up early today from OJlnaga, is expected to attack first He plans to have the federals, who are two miles south, to move in between Guadalupe and Juarez, cutting off retreat to the while the American boundary line "cuts off any northward march.

REFUSES PARDONS ON BIBLICAL AUTHORITY Atlanta, Brown today'turned to the old testament Injunction to Justify his action In refusing to stay execution in the five murder cases appealed to him during his present term of office. tion for the life qf a murderer which Is guilty of death, but be shall surely be put to death. Whopo kllleth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of Verses 30 and 31, Numbers. The governor known the fact that he had sought the Bible commandment to help him regch a conclusion after the prison commission had given out the information that there had'been a failing off of appeals for clemency since the governor's firm stand two cases recently. TAFT SAY? HE CAN WIN.

Washington, May from his Ohio, campaign. President Taft plunged into a busy day at the White house offices. He plans to- leave Thursday for New Jersey to campaign for delegates to who be elected at next Tuesday's The president had no statement to make this morning concerning the results of Ohio primaries. He has The Escaped Convcit, May Be the Man Responsible for Recent Robberies 5 That Walter Jarrett, the convicted train robber, who cut bis, way out And escaped from the city Jail' here about two weeks ago is the leader of 'a gang of men who robbed the Bank of Keystone, at Keystone, Tuesday morning, the belief of federal officers. A few days after Jarrett escaped the postofflce at Big' Cabin was robbed and Tuesday morning the Keystone bank was robbed.

Officers point out that over a year ago the country was infested with bank robbers and a series' of robberies occurred In Kansas. Arkansas and Oklahoma. After Jarrett and" his brother and a pal were placed in the federal Jail here for robbing the Iron, Mountain train, the robbing of small banks ceased. Walter- Jarrett Is the credited leader of a gang of men, and it Is believed that as soon as he escaped the gang at once got together. Some of them may have aided him In gettingout of prison.

Jarrett is said to be an expert In the handling of nitro-glycerine, dynamite and fuse. Should you spill hot fat on the floor or a wooden table, pour cold water up on it at once. It can then be more easily scraped off, had. ltme to 'sink into'the wood. FOUR ARE HELD FOR MURDER BAN AUTO A Tulsa, May Laura Reuter will have to answer to a Jury of twelve men for the killing of her husband which occurred May 6.

After five days preliminary hearing at which considerable damaging testimony was brought out. Justice Stack late Tuesday, afternoon bound Mrs. Reuter, Guy D. McKlnsle, Grover Bellow and Joe Baker over to the district' court, with murder. McKenzte, Bellow and Baker were sent to Jail but Mrs.

Reuter was temporarily released on her own recognizance and. later will be lowed'to give ball. Charles T. Reutjcr was allied at home on the night of May 6th. It was' at first thought that robbery Was the object of the assassins but the state worked on a different theory and the day following the killing McKlnsle who was an Intimate friend the' Reuter family was charged with the crime.

The state claims that McKln- zie was in love with Mrs. Reuter and that he and the woman conspired together to put' the man out of the.way, FREgLIWi TQ. LECTURE. Hon. 8, P.

a known lawyer and platform speaker of the southwest, will deliver a lecture in the Christian temple. Thursday evening. May 23, under the auspices of the Young Bible class. Mr. Freel- ings topic will be of.

Jesus chain of automobile accidents in the last weak, unprecedented In the history ot jthe oitjy has caused the' city county, pffjeers tp declare they will take drestte active 1 Tuesday by- fining Geo. Scptfc who JwaF'arlvihg an: automobile that struck and injured AiuW Falkenberg, years old, 91 The change was; assault with a deadly weapon, a new' ground for the prosecution of automobile" drivers. Mgyor Jtasrlson In a message to the city council, urged a revision of tne city ordinance regulating the speed 'f)t machines. He followed this with a letter to Municipal Judge Olson, prq- teatlng against release of speeders by the; city courts after merely inal fones had been Imposed. Of five persons who were drowned when an automobile plunged Into tho Calumet river a.t Monday morning, the bodies of three have been recovered.

The body. of. Florence Mahoney was taken from the river today. Those of her sister, Annie Mahoney, and John L. Boyd, were recovered Tuesday.

Two other victims, Joseph N. W. Buchanan, a chauffeur, and a man thought to be Charles: Rumlck. a garage employe, are still in the river. Mr.

statement. OQOQOOQOOOOOO Columbus, May plete returns froni Ohio presidential oate that Col, thirty- two of to ihfl republican national President Taft took ten dlsKJgt delegates, or slightly less than of the on Harmon is helleved larget percentage Harmon" is' credited Iwitlt thirty-three district. against seven for' Although President, jmiy ten out- oJr DIXON Practically Demands That Taft Now Get Out of the Presidential Contest Washington. May Dixon, head of the Roosevelt national headquarters today. Issued a statement; practically calling' on President Taft to withdraw from the presidential "Ohio makes the tenth republican stats where the candidacy of Mr, Taft and Col.

Roosevelt has) been'submitted to the republican voters themselves for decision," said Senator, Dixon's statement. bdfasva one In eyery TafJ and his campaign mapagers have fully realized that an adverse verdict in Ohio meant ths death knell of the movement to renominate Mr. Taft. "Realizing the situation, Mr. Taft frajikly stated at Cleveland last Thursday in his speech that 'the result in' Ohio, my heme state, will be the decisive one andf will settle the question of the The republican leaders and the republican voters so Interpret tho Roosevelt land- slJJe "The republican party is bigger than the ambition of any one man.

The one wise, patriotic thing to be done Is for Mr; Taft and managers now to accept unanimous Terdiet of republican primary states and to from the contest. Neither he nor his managers can longer with-, stand the nation-wide movement that Calls for once again to assume tlie leadership of 'republican party. nomination is inevitable im JfuM 8 gates ttf wmi complete indicito that fttth dent Taft has a nearly per to control. This may she Taft managers the large to be coni' A ventlon and probably, will main president's total sixteen. Just tin efwnkrt third of the Ohio delegation of eight which-wifl attend: Chicago Governor Harmon, on the democfatw ic ticket, unlike, CoV Roosevelt, not be forced 'to make 1 a.furt&er for delegates at'Jarge'as the deploy cratlo call specifies that the the presldeaflal preference prJmluty? shall name his ownf wide Amplified returns in the contest show that Senator La FoUrtff polled a heavy, vote in several count ftf and it is possible that, final WSUMJJ will show that he rUn second to Roosevelt In ot where Mr.

Taft dropped dywn, third place the, ticket Governor Harmon said this 0002 "Such a sweepiag-viotofy would be pleasing under 1 I tlons. But. In vierr ot the. varied forces we meet methods resorted 1 am foundly gratified, not so I own account as that of feat would have been taken I pudlatton of our two successive cratic administrations wonM have set us baobrfor years." Adams county, where 1,800 were disfranchised a year ago for sell- lng their gave Colonel Roosevelt a majority of nearly 200. While the returns show that Wilson has carried several of the districts in the state ltdoes not 7 that he will get any votes at national convention.

For yeejrs years the of Ohio haye is 3 and as this is democratia law the nority has nothing to say about 1L' question was decided definitely; at 1004 convention held St Xxmls, thfs convention a Ohio were B. Parker for president but ag I delegates arrived in the etty the Bryan sentiment strong and "when it came -to the vote of the state of wm''i forty-six were- opposed Parker. Tile chairman of tion cast the forty-sbx votes for er and the vote was H. Moore, who is now one ot Senator Bailey, who'irsil ruled that convention Congressional were not wwognwed. if a majority of the state decided to i WmS vote would be so recorded.

Tfcje fmbfC', 'jSJL six votes cart.