Muskogee Times-Democrat from Muskogee, Oklahoma • Page 1

-vyOLUME 124 MUSKOGEE OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 1. 1913 PRICE FIVE CENTS HE'S SOME JAP This Awbassador WhoWrites Hot Notes To Us At Fat, Bright-Eyed, Jovial STARTS ON VOYAGE Boston. May Ome. one of the few women 'X rpCra the country. Is ready to put to sea with her centufy old schooner, Hiram.

All hands. Includ- Irfg First Mate James Orne, the skipper's huabaha ana cabin girls. Mary and Jane Cfrne, have sigrned afticles Iqf coasting trips, which uually In carrj-ing lumber some Maine port to New York, and roturnlpg with coal. The wintered In the Mystic river baslnfbut with a coat of paint, new standing rigging and new patches on some of the sails, she was haulel into the stream today. She will get under way with the doughty sltlpT )er the wheel as soon as the wind hauls to the westward.

FISCAL Systeni Of Uncle Sam Relative To Deposits Of Goyerntnent Funds Re Must Pay Interest (Staff Oklahoma City, May state capital matter Is before the house today and a real hot time Is promised. The matter comes up on a committee substitute bill which provides for a direct appropriation from the slate amounting to a halt million this in addition to the amount furnished by Oklahoma City and the money to be derived from the lot sale. This would mean a million and a half dollar capitol. Coupled with this matter is the Matthews recommendation with the state to purchase the Miller building of this city and use temporary quarters. The Miller building would serve ail necessary purposes, and supply a suf- llclent amount of office space for the state excepting that used by the courts.

Bond, of Claremore, is leading the fight for the million and "half dollar building and charges that the schemo to purchase the Miller building is in reality to delay the settlement of the capitol question. Chairman Matthews frankly admits this to be true and declares that he does not believe this tlio time to appropriate a million and half dollars for capitol purposes. Governor Cruce recommended that Section 18 of the coal miners' bill, the section providing for under-cutting be referred to the people but the legal advisory reports today that this cannot be done under the law. The house late yesterday evenlnj; pased to final roll call the bill by Mr. Wyand which abolishes township government in Muskogee and Pittsburg counties In the senate today.

Senator Graham and Harlan secured an adoption of resolution calling upon the board of education and the state board of agriculture to reduce the salaries of President Connell of the A. M. col- TAKE A HAND IN 'INDIAN oo oo oo PRESIDENT WILSON'S LATEST YARN. By Oliver P. Newman.

Washiim 'tcin. D. 1. WllBotl's have long i-li-il ut that jiart of his naluro which makes him a tiai il-thiiiUlnK. eariicHt man.

of purposo at one moment and a ii'ki ti'llliiu: I'onipanion apparently without a care the next. Thev it to Ma Si -oich-Irish ancestry. Apparently he does, tix), Iri what he said it him.self recently. "Tli.T,. is 'lhinK in ine," he said, "that takes the strain off my Hootch and gives me moments of delightful Japan As A Foe Not To Be Sneezed A Says Capt, Green War Means Bitter Contest cm NDA.

(By Oliver P. Newman.) Staff Special lVee President Broo 'KS, of the state; Wajhington, D. April univl to $5,000 per annum each, talks with equal fluency in English, It Washington. X). May fis- 'l-cal systcti )t the United States gov- deposits of federal funds in National banks was revolutionized to: day by Secretary McAdoo of the treasury deiwirtment with an an- nouncemenl 'tbat all government depositaries whether active or inactive, would be required to pay interest at the rate or two per cent per annum beginning June 1.

upon deposits of the governmept. i Slmultaniabusly this" acflon lectetary authorized an Immediate Increase of In government deposits In the national banks, making the totar $62,649,964 from which the federal treasury will earn, under the new interest order. annually. There are indications that Secretary McAdoo intends to release Still more surplus money from the treasui vaults and place it In general clrculution through increased deposits with the national banks. In a tonight he jjaia: "With the banks paying interest on government deposits.

the secretary may be justified in keeping larger balances in the national banks, by increasing the volume of money In circulation and to that extent reducing the amount locked up in the treasury." Mr. McAdoo also announced a radical change in the character of securities which the treasury department would accept for go.vcrnment deposits. Instead of requiring the national bankg secure treasun- deposits exclusively with United States Or provisional bonds, they will hp, allowed in future lo secure seventy per cent with government bonds and the remaining thirty per cent with high clasp state, city and county bonds ac- 1 fleptablp to the secretary of the treasury, to be taken ns security at 75 per cent of their market value, but not to exceed par. That is the first time in history that the treasury department has called upon the banks to pay Interest on What are known as active deposits or accepted, except in periods of financial stress security other than government bonds. POLICE TO HOUND SUFFRAGETTES ECts $6,500 and Brooks Freinch, German or Japanese.

He plays billiards by the hour on th- university Connell now $7,500 The Tax Amendment. The senate Is discussing Senator Campbell Russell's proposed amend- i too. up-to-date billiard table in his street home in a good gam- too. to me He runs his own motor car knowing The amendment under the intricacies of the clutch, he jn proposes to exempt from taxa-' carbureter, high and low speed, the machinerv and live stock usei magneto and the other mysteries ot ment taxes, eration tlon all machinery and In farming and manufacturing and all the gasoline buggy notes, mortgages ad accounts Except. He shows veteran Englishmen tricks the exemption on livestock shall not never dreamed of at bridge- apply to more than one horse or mule, whlat or jnaateand caJf, ana.i sow and pigs to each' twenty acres of land.

THE TI8DELL LECTURES. School Athletic League Meet To WOMAN DENIES BOY IS HER SON are TV I The lectures by Prof. Tisdol! Julius Caesar on Friday nieht. 2nd. and Mamlet on May 3rd.

afternoon, at Congregational church. -He writes, He tells a good story, delights every one who meets him by his Ijrilllant. "Keenly Intelligent cimversatlon, and Is at every minute in everj' circumstance the personification of courtesy. Who? The Viscount Chinda (pronounced like it's spelled), upon whom (Continued on 1.) London, May The determined atand which the government appears to have taken against suffragtte militancy, beglnriing with its raid yesterday on the headquarters of the Social Political union with tthe arrest of six leaders, is mildly but generally crnimended by the London The Standard calls It "the doom the militant suffragette" and be- clleves that, althougrh the movement may cause some small annoyance even after the loss of the leaders, the, rank ifind file can do nothing effective. It attempt will probably be made re-establish the Wohien's Social If ftnd Political.

union elsewhere prob- Ably another name. If so, the must make another raid and "Continue the jprocefs the whole i of mlUtancy 1B shattered. To the mlytants on the run is the wafcito extinguish their ac- 'tjvlty. of militancy which "baB have any real connec- vote, lost the sympathy I the grgal mass of suffragists, -lot survlvsi the destruction of Us or- The tiiMy Mall also declares edl- )mat the authorities are taking he right course. -k DEATH OF MRS.

Mrs- J. formerly ja resl- flent of this city, and sister L. li, Moore and Mrs W. J. BUrka of Jtfuskogee.

died. Wednesday noon In 'Kansas City ftfter a short lUneas. The win be brought to Muskogee on jthe Katy Slyer, arriving here IPrlday TJie body win be taken dl- t'from tbe train to Green Hill 9ervicea All preparations have been made for the staging Friday afternoon at the Fair grounds of the annual spring athletic meet of the Public School Athletic league. Superintendent of City Schools Edwin S. Monroe believes that over thousand people will witness the track meet and folk dances.

In four hundred pupils Of the city schools will participate. Committees of school men and local citizens have prepared the Fair grrounds for the event. The running events will he held- on the track in front of the grandstand; the jump events In the enclosure just In front of the grandstand; while the Folk and Highland Fling dances by thp girls will be given on the band platform. In plain view of every onlooker. Central high school orchestra will furnish the music for the dances.

The Muskogee Electric Traction company has made to have six or eight cars in service on the Fair grounds line, and there will be no difficulty in transporting any size crowd that may turn out. The genferal interest being taken In athletic work in the schools, and the co-operation of the parents with the school euthorities in fostering physical edu- catlony insures an immense crowd to see the games and dances. Admission is absolutely free. The program will begin exactly at two o'clock, and the judges Jvill be assigned to separate classes, so that manv events will be run off at the same time. This will be the first public exhibition of the athletic work being done in the city schools, and the pupils have been so well coached b.v C.

H. Fenstermacher, director for the boys, and Miss Bernice Veltch. director for the girls, that a creditable showing will certainly be made. Every pupil will be numbered, and score cards giving names and numbers of participants will be distributed. The winners will be announced as soon as each event Is finished.

Bulletin Opelousas I.a., May Anderson, mother of Hruce Anderson, who W. C. Walters the tinker, says is the child taken from him at Columbia. and claimed by Mr. and Mrs.

C. P. of this place to be their kidnaped son failed today to Identify the boy as her son. When the woman was taken before the boy believed to be the IJnnbar child, she declared: "He's not mine." AVI Of Many Of Dollars Per Year In Muskogee County If Cruce Signs County Bill (Staff Special.) Oklahoma City, May the event that Oov. Cruce signs the county office consolidation 'bill which after passing both houses was submitted to the governor Wednesday, Muskogee county will make the biggest saving of any county in the state for the deputies in that county are the best paid.

By the provisions of the bill the office of register of deeds and county clerk are consolidated and this In lt.self means a saving of $3,000 per year. There are now eleven deputies and clerks in these two offices who rerelve $12,720 a year while under the new law the number of clerks will not exceed six and the combined, salaries will not exceed $7,000. Tbe bftlces of clerk of the superior Hlstrlct clerk and clerk of the coUnty court are consolidated and this 'tSeans a saving of $1,500. Then the number of deputies are reduced to eight whereas fifteen are now employed. These deputies now receive about $16,000 per annum and in clerk hire alone tne saving will exceed $6 ,000.

The enaotment of the consolidation law is a sad blow to the clerks who had out their lightning rods. The new law goes Into effect on Jan. 1. 1915, and the officials under it will Capt. W.

A. Green believes that It there should bp war with Japan it would be a real fight. He says: army experts admit that Japan posscKses snfflcletit transport to carry 2r.0.000 fully equipped men ut mie time, with provisions for six months." navy ig romblned In one great fleet, and Japan 's first move, necessarily a (luiik one. would be to transport part of its army of to 1 ,000,000 men to some point in United States possessions which would aim a fatal lilow at this coun- trj'. The Jap.s move very secretly, and by avoiding the regular ship channels, could approach within 48 l.oura of our Pacific coast with slight chance of discovery.

"Two courses would be open to Japan: one, to attack our possessions In the Philippines and the Hawaiian Islands, or. to proceed by way of unfrequented ocean channels to the Pacific coast, where our force of men would be powerless to stop a landing. Any naval force of ours Ih the Pacific at this time would be powerless before the Japanese fleet. We would have to grant, therefore, that Japan could land at least onp big tirmy at some point before the United States could stop the troop movem'ent. "The fortifications at Manila, P.

and at Pearl Harbor Hawaii, would defend these points from an attaok- Irw. arm jr-- or, iTlw.Se-t wo. fsrtia cations are practically impregnable. Pearl Harbor defends Honolulu, so that the oniy two big ports In the Pacific which arp. intermediate points between Japan and this country could not be taken by the Japs.

They would therefore probably choose the course to Invade the Paclf'c coast states of this country. "In that case, thp resultant moves would probabl.v be as follows: Japan- would land 250,000 men on the Pacific A CADDIES EXPERIENCE WITH A HIGHBALL. Wilmington, May Rodnoy Warren, a 12 year old caddie who heard players at the Wilmington country club discussing "highballs" yesterday gathered the Idea that the drink was in some wav connected with the golf ball. He cut open one of the balls and found It filled with a liquid which ho drank. A stomach pump saved his life.

The doctor found the liquid In the ball was highly impregnated arsenic. with Bronough and Reed Claim A Conspiracy Against Against The Officers Are Will Lay The Entire Situation Before The Washington Officials Hugo, May city Is in the throes of Intense excitement over the arrest of V. BroQotigh and Bd L' Reed, two prominent real estate dealers of this city, who are charged' with a conspiracy to poison Etlls Wood and numerous threats are in the air. While the friends of Bronough and Reed are claiming that they are the vlctoma of a conspiracy the best people of Cnoctaw county are backing both the federal and- state authorities In their efforts to unearth the numerous frauds which have been perpetrated here, and to explain the mysterious deaths of Indians In Chpctaw and Mc- Curtaln counties. It Is claimed that the land grafters operated in these two counties almost exclusively.

The government has been at wprk on; the case for nearly two years after It became known that Indians were dyintf suddenly and that they had made wlUSj with land grafters In nearly every instance the beneficarles of their estates. The preliminary of Bronough and Reed was set for hearing Justice Winchester but dfndants demanded a change of venue.and tice Oakes wilt preside at the which Is to take place SVlday. Realizing that the case Is one of tlonal importance County Attorney (Continued on pags 8. column Katy Yards Now Look Reaular OtyTermnals NEW OKLAHOMA POSTMASTERS (Continued on pane ooli'mn WORLD Peace Will Never Come Says German Prince In A New Book Wliicn Was Issued Today OF TRAINMEN New York. May conference committee ot managers of eastern 'railroads declined today to grant requests made b.v their condU9torB and trjiinmeo for higher The committee in a reply sent to the Order of Railway Conductors and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen says that the present rates of wages are liberal and in many cases excessive and that the request for an Increase Is declined.

STORE CLERKS ON A STRIKE President Wilson ha.s sent the nominations of the following Oklahoma postmasters to the senate today for confirmation: W. P. Madden, Cheyenne; T. H. Huubard, Cordell; Samuel R.

Staton, Cushlng; F. Parker Davis. MISS WILSON'S DRIVER FINED New York, May Wm. J. Greenwood, a taxicab driver was fined $5 today for driving Miss Margaret Wilson, the president's daughter and her escort up Broadway at a speed of 2-i miles an hour.

The policeman who appeared against Greenwood said that when he stopped the taxicab yesterday evening Greenwood told him that his passengers were the president's and Boyd Fisher member of the Social Center and that they were hurrying to a hotel to pick up a professor who had to. catch a train for Princeton. The policeman let the car proceed after summoning the chauffeur to court today. Mr. Fisher was in court today and paid Greenwood's flne to insora the most teuing effect on LAW TO REMEDY THE TAX LEVY A legislative enactment with tflc emergency clause attached Is to remedy the tax situation in Muskogee county is the opinion of County Attorney Disney who returned to Muskogee from Oklahoma City this morning.

While in Oklahoma C'ity Mr. Disney conferred with Governor Cruce and Representative Wlixey, Wyand and Carr on the Muskogee situation and it was agreed that it was necessary for I the legislature to pass an emergency law Axing the tax levy foj; Muskogee county for the year 1912-1913. Mr. Disney was busily engaged today in formulating the necessary bill and it will be sent to Oklahoma City tonight. It is understood that the legislature fWlll take a recess on May 8 and for this reason It'will be necessary to have the bill Introduced and passed within the coming week.

he elected November, 1914. As Clerks Toomer and Shaffer and Register of Deeds Eberle and County Clerk Looper have all had at least two terms and none of them are to be candidg.tes in 1914. they are not wor- r.vlng much. The house late Wednesday afternoon passed another congressional re- dlstrictlng bill which it is expected will meet with the approval of Gov. Cruce and if It gets through the senate it will become a law.

The Second district is made up of Muskosee. Wagoner. Okmulgee, Mcintosh, Sequoyah, and Plftsburir counties and with Representative Hill of Pittsburg and Speaker Maxey of Muskogee already being groomed as candidates it looks as If one of the big fights next will be In Second district. NOT GUILTY OF MURDER Dallas, May Woods, who soht and killed his son-in-law, Hargis Kincaid, here last February was today declared not guilty of murder and set free by a jury. Woods 'Killed his son-in-law because he asserted he had placed Mrs.

Kincaid, the defendant's daughter in places of ill- repute. ber. THE L. W. SILVER CUP.

The sliver cup which the Lafferty- Walker Clothing company will give to the three-times winner of the pennant In the Ward Schools Baseball league will be put on display tomorrow in the company's store. The cup will be awarded at the end of the season next week, and will be given into tho custody pennapt Thinning school. 51ie Iliennfiitt WILSON MAKES APPOINTMENTS Washington. D. May by President Wlison today Included: ('ommlssloner of corporations, Jos.

E. Davles. of Wisconsin. Assistant comptroller of the treasury, Walter W. Warwick of Ohio.

Collector of customs for district of Jacksonville, John W. Martin. Surveyor of customs for port of Louisville, Warner S. Kincaid. U.

S. marshal, district of Mexico, Andrew H. Hudspeth. Receiver of public moneys at Lead viUe. Mrs.

Annie G. Rogers, of Colorado. i J. C. Manfleld, of 1024 Columbus, has been confined to his home since Monday by a slight Illness.

It's quality; Berlin, May Prince Frederick William in writing tho preface to a book on "Germany in arms" published today, of which he is reputed to be the author exhll)its himself, the future German emperor aa an unbeliever In the poasiblUty of ever war. He declares that diplomacy may delay and occasionally avert confiicfi but the sword will remain the final a end. In another passage he says: "Only with the support of our good sword can we maintain that place tho situation which is due to us but which is not willingly accorded to us." The author points out Germany's unfortunate geographical position and warns iiis countrymen that the German army and inavy must be kept continually at the highest point of effi- clenc.v. says that increasing commercialism and the desire for riches threaten to destroy the old ideais. "since for the undisturbed earning t-f iponey one needs" peace at any price." History shows that "the nations in which commercial interests have decided their policy havev ended ingloriously.

He appeals to all Germans to be ready to sacriflco their blood and their possessions and continues: Then the world may be full of devils arrayed in arms against us but we shall conquer," Buffalo. May 2,500 department store employes, involving every store of the kind In Buffalo, went on a stri 'Ke this morning for Increased wages and shorter hours. Employes of hardware and live and ten cent stores participated in the strike. The demand Is for a minimum wage of $8 for women cleeks and for drivers and chauffeurs of $18 per week. Th ployes also demand an eight hour work day, Saturday half holiday with full The first train nariie of the "Muskogee K.

T. was received at tha'i new, iteleerraph office lii thei.KBty^ north yards'at 12:05 mldiUghtj day. Within twenty four heavy freight trains bad "tied up" In) i the local yards, and the ment of the Kitty's division here after several discontinuance, completer morning, MSiy Katy yards here presented the appear-ir; ance of a big city- terminal. -Thweb are now six switch engines plying in the local yards; from to twenty-flve big up" here all the time: and more a hundred and fifty more tralniqew and yard employes now call Muskogeer- their home. The new yara office been lished 1800 feet north of tbe crossing.

aTrdmastet P. W. Grace and his force, together car repair department and other' de portments. have jtaken' offices' temporary building; completed day. The telegraph office with operators was moved from Wagoner to this point, and is now dispatchlngt orders for freight trains.

Passenger train orders will still be issued at tlta' diapatcher's office in the old Katy freight house building, on Broadwfiy at the track. Alono- wth the fofCe moved "Brownie," Wagoner yard mascot. Brownie, is a great admirer passenger trains and trainmen, and Ip the future, will share honors witht "Shorty," the locals yard mascot. In -iff DRIVING The Tariff Steadily Through The House Despite The Opposition Of Sectiooal Interests NEGRO MURDERER MAKES ESCAPE Augusta, May 1. hiding all night In the swamps, Richard Henry Austin the negro who yesterday killed two white men and wounded four of.

a posse pursuing him for an attempted assault upon a young white woman slipped past his pursuers this morning and escaped. Fires were built on the outer edge of the swamp and were kept going by negroes in the vicinity. Austin walked out of the swamp unobserved and mingled with them until some one recognized his voice when he made a break for another swamp. It is believed he Is hiding only a few miles from tyhere he made his first stand yesterday and shot to death Franic Bowers and B. H.

Bdenfield. wounded dotngiwetl.ex-' Washington. D. C. May the legislative machinery running s'noothly and rapidly, tho house toda.v reached the first of the big rough places in the democratic tariff bill, the sugar schedule.

Representative Underwood at the throttle, drove the democratic majority steadily ahead, disposing of the last paragraph of the metal statistics and going through the lumber and wood schedule without allowing an amendment. A fight to restore the dutiable list shingles which the bill placed on the free list, provoked a wealth of oratory particularly from representatives from the north Pacific coast states. When the sugar schedule was reached It became apparent that more oratory. In large volume, was clamoring to be let loose and Representative Un. derwood found his declaration that he Intended to put the screws amended tf.

allow two hours' debate on the sugar schedule and all amendmenta to It. Representative Broussard of Louisiana representing the democrats who oppose the sugar provision of the bill joined the republicans in the tile battle to alter the committee rules. will meet the affections of men. The remodeling of ttie Katy atattoti and depot Into a modem, terminal and office building will commence in few days and, by the end of this month, official announcement will made of the officials who wiU'taaVe their headouarters here. About twelve of the Katy'g Wg new Mikado type freight engines will be delivered here about the tenth of month for service south of Muskogee on the Choctaw division.

Thesn en-' glnes have a tractive power of pounds, and a rating as a "63 per cent engine," as against a rating of 41 per cent for those now in TEACH SCHOOL KIDS TO MILK Plalnfleid, N. May, that boys and girts shotUd haVe a practical education aside from the ordinary studies taught In the school room. Superintendent A. B. Vissler of the North Plainfield public school' is planning to include in the school curriculum the art of milking cows, pouU try raising and vegetab'o gardening; Mr.

Vissler has taken the matter up with the board of education and thf: plan has the approval of its The course will be started on a smal)- scale at first. SAPULPA BANKERS INDICTED 13 TIMES -Si-4! The Housewives leasue, iPrtday, aftirnpwB ftt SM at thpCont' Sapulpa, May Thirteen ments by the grand Jury under, i Judge Hatohett Were returned against Bates B. and Birch for alleged Irregular bankiaff. are stiriln for faUwrj, tfl.