Muskogee Times-Democrat from Muskogee, Oklahoma • Page 1

RooseveIt And ftroject Themselves ith Deterring Eorce When tile Senators Try To Devise a New Presidential Term And Redistrict A NEW IN ARKANSAS THE SECOND DAEEOW TRIAL IS UNDUE WAY Washington, D. Jan. not belhwe any one would insist that this legislation was aimed ut Column Roosevelt," declared Senator dim- mlns today, in advocating the six year presidential term in amendment in the senate, "bin tt has been very busily urged throughout the United States lately that aiy legislating to make Itooseveit There is no truth. In such atatements and I know they must be abhorrent to Colonel Roaeveilt." The debate centered about the declarations by Senntnr Williams, ilcm- ocrat, that unions surh amendments were adopted- an to Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson eligible for onother term, the friends of Roosevelt ami others might oppose rattftrntlon of tfte constitutional amendment by states. Republican and flemorlrntlr npnotoro who urged that Roosevelt.

Taft and. Wilson nllabe made nllalhlo for one mom elective term, mot oprmNltlnn the progressives and some of thPlr own party month, WashinBton. t). Jan 31 -Nearly a dnsen important amendments and counter proposals were pending before the senate today when It resumed con- of'the Works resolution for a single six year presidential term. These lnc.IO.ded many amendments designed to exempt Wilson.

Taft ana Roosevelt from the effect of a change In the constitution and some amendments no drawn as to expressly hide Colonel from another tor--- li was expected thtv a final vote the resolution am) ul amendments might be reached b- night. At least four of the amendments pending were to restrict a president to two terms to count "a fractlon- of a term" as a full terra. An amendment by Senator Qalltnger proposed four year term with the provision "no person who has hold the offlec by election or discharged ItB powers and duties, or anted as president." should be "eligible to hold the office by elec- ilon more than one! additional term." by Senator Hitch- poeK Was simitar but provided a six year term, without; re -election. An nmendment by Henntor McCumber would restrict a president to two fdtir year terms and provide that any service as president fojr the "mnjor fraction" of a four- year term should count as one term. Senator amendment simv- inr to this would have counted any frnctlon of a term as a full term.

Under any of these nmnndmenft. Colonel Roosevelt ould be lneleglble for re-eleetton. An amendment ny Senator Paynter proposed to extend the six year term to the president In office when the constitutional amendment should be ratified; another by Senator Dixon -proposed expressly rxentpt Presidont-elect Wilson from the restriction of a single term and Washington, Jan. 31. rwurd holder In thn miUurm- TIIIIII ulal yrijodoiil baa In iwn ttlx i liioT inns i In nvii months chosen I'nltoit Htutca Menaturs.

In two weeks bad one man as rep reaentntlve In congress, governor and United States senator-elect. Clov Jo? T. Robinson, senator-elect. Is responsible for the rllmax. The governor's resignation front; congress became effective January 14; the next day he was Inaugurated governor, fourteen days later he was elected the I'nlteil States senate.

Will Be Made to Governor Cruce To Again Veto The State Fair Combine Charged. I Angeles. Jan. eleven days devoted to procuring a mry. th second trial of Clarence S- Harrow, former counsel for th Me- N'aimirn brothers, on Jury bribery growing out of famous Ivnumlto trial finally got under way today Marrow Is alleged to bribed Robert Bain, a sworn Juror 1 the Namara case, through the Instrumentality of Pert Franklin, who was for the MrNumara de fensc but became the chief witness nirninHt narrow In his trial on the of fhaving tried to bribe Lock wood, a McNamnra venireman Haiti Mon after the sensational close of the McNamoro trial, eonfesaril to havimi tiiUi a bribe from Franklin official investigation 0 Judgo Robinson who imposed 9 tho contempt sentence appointed a committee of three attorneys to MB pass upon certain articles written 0 by Matiry during incarceration.

which wore printed In the news- papers The immmittee will de- 9 '-hie whether these articles assail- 9 ed tho court's fSlT 'ft8 of the newspapers to use them O' will also bo considered by the committee. oooo ooeooao ASK NEW Tim IN THE LIBRARY CASE ftey Do Say EMtMrnm Going: Toll Marry World's Prettiest Princess 11 oooooooooooo oooooooooooooooo Mi i.nil Mrs Ferdinand rciiuesi the pleartire of vnur tb. wedding of their daughter I.U7.IC to Mr Eddie Albert Wet tin oooooooooooooooooooooooo Oklahoma city. Jan thul the i'klahiinia county members of the lower house made Only "papier mac-he" fight against the Muskogee fair bill under the terms of an alleged public building combination agreement, representatives who are riot In sympathy with the Maxey-Du rant-Crawford organization planned Thursday to go to Governor Cruco with their tale of woe, The substance of the complaint to governor was to be that the in utlonal town members, Oklahoma 1 ity and Muskogee representatives had Joined, for the purpose of protecting the schools whose abolishment has been threatened, tho Muskogee fair and the state capital appropriation, and that the votes which put one proposition throu-h the house would likewise carry each of tho rest. It was planned to plead with' the governor to veto one and all of the bills for the Institutions mentioned, on the broad around that they wetfe But throush by Virtue -gf an twoert interests.

of course assuming that the senate concurred with the house In its judgment in these par tlcular matters. Members of the senate sntd Thura day that If the senate believed i combination to be controlling the house, the entire honse program of Institutional appropriation would he defeated. It Is Interesting to note In connec tlon with the combination charge that nearly a score of men from Institutional towns voted against the Muskogee fair bllL Judge ilettrnffenrled will hear arguments on motion for new trial in the library hoard Injunction suit Saturday. In the event that the court overrules th-j motion the library trustees will be free to act and there will be nothing HI the to prevent them from buying the twenty-five feet additional ground on Broadway and facing the- library on that street. The premo court having refused to man.

ilumus Judgo deGraffenrled to allow the Ifllng a supersedeas bond, the decision of the court that only a restraining owicr and not an injunction had been amnted wan held binding. The trustees of the library board say thnt th-y can boy tho ground for J2.500 and for the rest of the year and tho Cnmegje library will be under way before summer starts In. The Money That Peter Washington Was Fleeced Out Want Kim Held An Incompetent. Attorney l.eahy and Indian Agent Ivelsey are work trying to discover what became of the thul was paid to Peter Washington the iktaho Indian on Jnn for his Interest In certain land, ljite Thursday afternoon M. A.

Harrison loan agent. K. Padgett former county employe and A. Klaekslone were arrested a Joint warrant charging thorn with forging a check for tl and securing that amount of Washington's money from the Commercial National bank. All llivcsttfc 'atlou by Mr.

Disney today Indicates that the three men are not guilty of the forgery and that they merely signed their names to the cheek us witnesses. It Is understood that Washington was paid tho 9l.o<M in person. The Investigation made by the officials' would indicate that the scheme to rob Washington was framed up be- I (Continued on 8, oolumn (Continued on 6, column -lumLriiinirii i Creeping Toward Watchman Whom Robbern Had Gagged and Bound Made HimDe9perater-Building Bunted. Of Delaware County, Worded Over a Real Estate Deal, Blew His Bratsia Out With a Shotgun. drove, Jan.

was received today of the tragic death of one of Delaware county's prominent farmers. W. H. ol- clasure. having committed suicide by placing tho muzzle of a double-barrel bird tho Chicago.

Jan. For four hours early today Michael Roser, 60 years old. a night watchman, lay bound and Ragged on floor in a north aids'' department store where he had been left by safe blowers and watctnhj flames up from tmoulttertei biankijts, used by tnc thieves to the sound of explosion. Fearful that he would be burned to deatfa Roser made frantic effort to free himself when ho saw tho blankets 'loosened a tie which held his arms, then removed the He phoned an alarm first to the fire department and man to the police; when firemen arrived the interior of the buUding was in flames- and the structure and contents were destroyed with a loss of 878,000. The amfe blowers, four in number, broke Into the shortly attar midnight and according to Roser were only a few minutes blowing open the shotgun, leaded with number 8 In his mouth ana pulling trigger.

It seems Mr. Colclasure for some time had been worrying over his fl nanctal affairs. having recentty bought a. farm for 14,000 and learned it could have been nought for 13.800. Rte friends thought htm --have become mentally deranged, he had told his that he thought best that they should kill themselves and get out of their troubles At the time of the tragedy, Mrs.

an i Colclasure was at a neighbor's home and hearing the shot, she and several or the neighbors Went to the house and found the body of Mr- Colclasure lying on the flonr with spattered over the room. his brains LONDON, JAN. TURK', TO 'THB LEAVE LONDON AT ONCE POR THE TiimCieH CAPITAWfCCOSO. INQ TO A DI8FATCH PROM CONSTANTINOPLE. CONSTANTINOPLE.

JAN, ALL THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE TURKISH ARMY NOW ON FURUOUQH HAVE BEEN ORDERED TO REJOIN THEIR REOI- MENTS WITHIN HOURu. THE MILITARY OOVjrRNOR THE CAPITAL HAS ISSUED EMPHATIC DENIAL OF THE PORTS OF DI88BNTI0NS AMONtt THE TURKISH TROOPS ON TCHATALJA LINES. oeooOyooooa aoo THROUGH SMALL Anderson, 8. 0) Pnrnell a dynamo tender at the Orcgp Mliouls plant of the Su- vnnnnh River Power company, near here, was killed today when 20,000 voitB of electricity passed through his body. Parnell was playfully whirling a piece qf wire over his head when the end of it caught on a.

transmission wire. He was dead before help could reach him. OOOO OO oooo DEATH EEPTJBLIOANS TO TOY AQAJS TO REOSQANIZE Oklahoma City, Jan; State Chairman Arthur Oelseler has called a meeting of republicans in lahoma Clijy on the night of February; Mko Mark Twain In one of his' 0 Uncom ay and stories. J. Bloom, a Denver diamond! dealer says the feport of his death Is can te Oklahoma, very much exa BR In ho(P 1 the protrewlves to of the Raja Yogas of the Western ho have Hemisphere, which appeared In thei bBen Times-Democrat of January 17, last.

It was reporte-l that J. Bloom, tho man who brought the propaganda of the order frorn India to America, had died In Paris. Prance, In 1803. Note Mr. nioom appears and denies that he Is dead and says thai the report was exaggerated.

I am much adverse to being a dead one." wslles Mr. Bloom a let- RULES FOR THE ENGLISH WANT ANi 8-BGU1 PAY London, Inn. Si. A resolution for an eight-hour day for all classes ter to the Times-Democrat. "At this workmen and workwomen was time, It may be pottslble that I am adopted today by the trades union con- dead one, bur I do not like the idea of greas, at which over 2,000,000 British having It spread broadcast throughout worklngmen and women aro reprcsonl- the' country.

I- assure you that I am ot Btlll among the llvlna; and sUII fussing i Notlc.es arc to bp handed In March Denver each day." ih nn nmninvora refusing the de- TRIALS (Staff Spsoial.) GOKPTJiaB. liondon, Jan. A more dlgrdfled and -wedding Invitation titan; thta-la-Jikely to go to Burapoan royai psraonages soon, if; the latest report from court circles is to be believed. "The prince of Wales Is to marry Prtnoess Klltabeth of noumaala. daughter of the crown prince of that little Balkan kingdom, and granddaughter of Carmen Sylvs.

Princess Elisabeth Is pretty, the prettiest princess in Europe and ane! has had royal besux galore over since 1 she has bsen out of short skirts. Her dad. Prince Ferdinand at royal house of Hohensollern.mtiniiringatb broke up two of her most promtalng love affairs, because the- lovora didn't have real thrones in witb Grand Duko Boris of BulgBrlAi and Princess Elisabeth then aafll she'd rnver marry Anybody- If aha couldn't have Boris. But she forgot, and the first thing' her pa. had to do was to chase Prince George of Oreeoa nut of the front door and then the little princess was shipped off to land.

1 The prince of Wales, Edward Albert, met her fell hood over heels In love, pa thought pretty well of prince Kiddle, for he. has the Drltlsh throne to fall back on- for a Approve The Oil Recommended uj tny Fisher And mend An Act Msking It a Felony to Offer a Bribe To a Member Of The Couecil. Pawhuska, Jan. (BpseJaL) a vote of seven to one tba Osage council approved of tary Fisher's plan of ditpoalng of oil and gas leuses In the Osage nation, and at the lirst meeting of the Pred Lookout liouncll confirmation of sale of tho oil and gas leases on acres of land which were offered oa Nov. 11 was approved.

Tho old coun- II led by Chief Bacon Rind declined to confirm this same sale and for and other reasons the entire council was removed from office. The new council not only approved the first: made under the- new but it recommended'that not less Una 100,000 additional acres of oil and land be put on the market at ones i sold to tint highest and btdt tinder the provisions of the sale which was approved today the Osages receive one-sixth royalty on oil a minimum price of 60 cents per barrel, the owner of the iuaf. laoalyag an acreage bonus and In- addition tig: this a graduated ground rental must be paid. Oh the sale which was approved day the Osages received an land bonus of 13.25 par acre or 18S. Practically all the leases sold and: approved are In the vicinity of Arkansas river and some of tha land, Is In proven territory.

One tract 310 acres brought a bonus of per acre or a cash bonus of The Qypay OH company put in high bid on a majority or the Issaws. The new which are aulerod drastic in the wrjhrapw provide that wells must be started on each tract within of: -toe- approval of sale. At today's mnetimr Andrew ley or Ponca City tasv appt-ovnl of tho sain, Mut'every member of the coonell votsd tp stain Srofatary PlsfiM Tha oouneli also adopted requesting congress to pmt-m'Vum. making it fslony tempt to bribe a mambaj. oJiftoW lo ttrlbed.

means that the soon the nwst- tba United Btfetes, Oklahoma City. Jan- of rules to Bovern It while sitting as a court of impeachment, and the con- Are Wented Exttnfie Over Thitradiir. MaasBsnMaia''' want S00 mam to A Mr Bloom says he spent some tlmel ma and all oontrnots with in Paris twelve or fourteen years ago. be terminator at the end of April whea AS nrtktlr nitt. but tt there.

"never occurred to him to die the men will walk out. NAMES CADETS. Washington. Jan. Davenport today appointed Owen J.

Watts, son of Watts, of Wantaner. to tho United Slates lutvai academy at Annapolis, Md. James Craverns Jackson, of Hal 11 saw, has bean named as first alternate. Tho boys will be examined at Muafaogeo April IB, FERTILIZER the T. M.

CONOREM OCT. 21 U. Things You You should know whether the food you buy Is pure, fit to eat, nourishing, body-building, or merely pleasant to taste. You should know that the clothes you buy are in the latest style, that the materials are trustworthy and serviceable, and that the workmanship Is such as to insure lasting shapeliness and beauty, and to Rive you permanent satisfaction. Tou should know that the home furnishings aro artistic serviceable and dependable; that labor-saving utilities are practical and economical and that home comforts and luxuries are worthy of your favorable consideration.

Ton can know these things by reading the advertisements In TmHMtvDftMOCRAT closely and constantly every day. Pat- itmlae the raaTDnaiUs and manufaoturere who find It profitable to Ufa yott information. In order to assist farmers in territory around Muskogee in obtain- Irif-- cheup fertilizer for thetr land, Industrial Commissioner R. W. Hocka- of the K.

T. Friday put i proposition, up to the Muskogee Commercial club which will solve tile fertilizer problem here. By an arrangement with the Katy the Kansas City Riockyarda company has agreed to load for 12.00 a coal car load of manure, and bid it to any farmer ulong the Katy, the car being handled at greatly reduced rate-i. Similar arrangements have been made with, many towns and- communities in Kansas The- for freight and loudlng of car of manure delivered to Muskoicee would amount to aboOt (33, which is a small fraction or the cost of a car of artificial fertiliser. Thef manure will run from thirty-five to forty tons to tho oar.

Any farmer interested in this proposition can secure a cor by application to J. M- Dally, Muskogee county agricultural expert at tho Commercial club rooms, or. to Local Agent Htrawmat. of the Katy. w- persons exchange malty, household goods or scfturities for gnd nwnii awto Owners and dealers Wichita, Jan.

to 2S was today fixed by John Powell, president, as the date of lh meeting of the trans Mississippi commercial congress in this city. The date must confirmed h- Senator Jas. H. Brndy of Idaho, president of the conferees The international dry fnrmliiK congress will be held during thp sjime week at Tulsa. Okla.

BARON ILKBSTIN DEAD. l.otHton Jan Ilkestln a distlnRulshed member of the liberal party In the House of Lrfirds, died to ot the age of seventy-three. Be fore beluK a peer he was well known as 8lr Walter Kostar. He was by profession a and th author of numerous works on medl cine, especially In connection heart disease. I with exteniion up 0, next a aj British throne to fail back on tor a flwt reaueit In gnSwsiatlisa steady job when his pav dies, and tho excursion up princess likes Kddlo, too; also Bddioi O.

to tp Sa likes her, but Bddle's pa Isn't MaeS i on the match, rumor insists. the last spike and nuu The princess is kin to most every! greetings olK flrmation of Qoveruor Cruce's latest family In Kurope, and is towns and cittss sJoitV appointees to tho state board of cdu- Prince of Wales' second cousin, The trip rtext tntn cation were the special order tor the sides being pretty, littlo Elliabeth can rttary irKtu" iinir MiirwiiB'u' senate Friday afternoon. Tho upper: sew, cook, bake, run a typewriter tloally isolated front house aset at 1:30. (writes some fairly good stories: She (reason I ts. looatlon twelve mllss air When tho houao met at 1:00 It was rides, aolfa and flirts better than any the plan to cut the routine short European princess.

work on the multitude of bills She Is eighteen; Eddie Is six months for consideration. older, than Ktlsqheth. go to ready 111 WashtnKtpn. D. Jan.

hundred women from overy section of the- union appeared today before the house- committee on presidential and 'congressional elections to appeal for the passage of the French hill to give the women the right to vole for representatives in congress. Mrs, Clara 13. Colby of Portland, chief, spokesman for the women, pleaded for a (-(institutional amendment prohibiting states from disfranchising ollir.cns on account of sax. Declaring "that the constitution says the representatives shall be chosen by the people of the several states." she asked, "are women people?" Representative Trtnhlo of Georgia, questioned the right of the federal government to establish franchise rights in the states and a vigorous reply from lialvn Lockwood, who declared th'at it was not a speculative question but an established fact thut there was precedent for fedornl uinendment to constitution granting the suffrage Kansas cits. Jan.

face and unsteady of carrtaire, Cari V. Hlg- glna, whoso tllnesa hag stayed tKe progress of the third trial Dr. CIgrke nydo for the murder of Cdlotwl Bwope, since last appeared In thg jury Uoac today. After took at Him Judge isnt htm twclt to Jury, hotel and tnwt the women Like most of other women In the Lojtowoud wearing her hat "I will take off my bat to this committee," she said, it reports out the bill glvinK tho women the right to vote." Raadinc Times-Denwxirat want ads Jtjftt-'xfltfft. slid money into your HECKER UP A mmm K.

licckcr. district passen gcr agent of the M. K. With headqunrters ut Oklahoma City, la apendlmt this week on Katy's lines In eastern Oklahom in the th- tercet or the big agrtoutturat meetinK here on February fc Yesterday Mr. Hecker personalty saw the ftgrfculturitl men of the towns from Welch to Muskogee, and today is working south to Durant.

He says that the business men aro so enthused over the meeting that they win be here in large delegations from each town. Vinlta will have, at least twoutyoflve delegates, "while ail of the other towns are arranging to be represented. Mr, Hecker Is gettfng a line on the number who will be here. In order to provide ample train fact I IU PH to and from Muskoaee on Jay. that DISCUSS SrtOR LOCATION The detaiU of purchasing the jilt for O.

and otbsr business to their more from the railroads, Yet country rich, the most pfosperous, of any In tba state. This will be the wmtaftt of Muskogee business men of the people along Una, and for that reason a party which- wast to Fort Smith must be secured In order to good showing, for thrroUBd trtfTwlii he itwrth baSd, ami wilt o'clock and return at or TiBSv the last wtll toe driven on new Joplta line, and thosei want to of best scenic line of railway should rose no time Ih slanlwr up for the trip up DAWESCASES1 FOR FEB. 28 The suit instituted to the wpreme court of Oklahoma ft B. Dawes of law In this sUta will be was Instrurtsd by on who filed the suit and others involved in controversy, barmtt.t against Mr. sale of the land of Is claimed that had era taken out his majority so- eould be bought WANT Commercial conrsmtlons Friday siisjiltat.