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Muskogee Times-Democrat from Muskogee, Oklahoma • 1

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mm smr rm-m jimt 1 niin (3 ri 'ijl mm rTrrm rwwrv 111 rr-y mm mum mm enm ia i is -a "a ia ri n- ia t' a iu ri The Last Voyage' Take Our Advice And Put a Want Ad in the T-D It's the Only Way MUbKUbtfc Mtb-ULMULKA Tlie New Serial on Page 6 telegraphic reports by the associ a ted vor see it ix the times-democrat must volume XV muskogee kno February iimhi numrfr ios OHIO'S HIDEOUS GIRL MURDERS A st GENE OF RIOT AFTER A COMIMOIK HIOTl LASIIMJ MORE THAN II IIOl lis At IN WHICH SI rEHINTENDEXT sides Serious Trouble Fenrrd a late hour this afternoon both aro resting on their arms and lOXJ OF 'I'll MUSKOGEE THAI 1 'HS" vf TIOX COMPANY HAD NEVERU IOI5S ItltOK EX GUNS WERE PI Lll'D AND A I'M HER OF EM PliOYES OF THE TRACTION COMPANY AND THE CITY WERF MORE OR LESS lNlt RED THE CITY WON A TEMPORARY VICTOR AT NOON TODAY WHEN OR THE SECOND TIME THE unless the courts grant relief by night serious trouble is anticipated The strenuous times of Monday ana Tuesday morning followed a sensational occurrence in council last night when Aldermen Levy and Alley said that the time had arrived for Muskogee to run Its own affairs or else turn the city over to Mr Long who It is claimed has been arbitrary In everything and absolutely refuses to pay any attention to orders issued by the council or the city engineer The Row Stalls For some time the city has been trying to get th Muskogee Electric Traction company to change its tracks at and Lawrence streets to that the tracks at the curve would run in the roadway and not cut across the sidewalk of both streets as is the case at the present time The city officials demanded that the tracks be changed at the curve at once as both and Lawrence recta are being paved but Long it id claimed merely laughed at the request and under his Instructions STREET CAR TRACKS AT AND LAW REXCE STREETS WERE TORN OCT AND TRAFFIC FOR THE TIME BEING IS PARTIALLY SUSPENDED THE PAST III) HOURS HAS BEEN THE MOST HTREXtOtS ONE IX THE HISTORY FACT THAT NO ONE WAS IS CONSIDERED SOMETHING lSJl''- VfV V- mm-' TDI1V (tK TIIK C1TV AXI) THE OF THE I '1TY AND THE a KILLED From recent phntORrnph of Kliz alicth Kitllinrl latest vietiin of J)aytmi fiend nnd' Kcene of Ilie discovery of her liocly The murderer threw the remains down into a cistern and a week' later the two men shown in the picture fiHii cd out the poor distorted body tlii'o urh lie manhole hehind which they are standing 1 JMlf' Mix ort SNOWING SOME IN DAKOTA Anna Markowitz IS was assault rjONE MAN KILLED DAYTON GIRLS and Killed on the night of 1 0 7 She was seized by an I tun pHving contractors proceedea Feb week aflrr the girl disappeared and discovered the hotly floating on the surface of (he water It was fished out through the manhole through which it had heen dropped and soon identified by th girl's hrolher The girl was fully dressed From the condition of ho remains the police SAYS FAMOUS PSYCHOLOGIST Walerlown blinding snow driven lb- gale lias lied up and about Wutertown by a sixty-all trains in known man whilo walking in a park with her sister and a young man friend Tin: sister ran off to get help When the police arrived the girl lav dead in a thicket Kayton Herewith aro published first pictures of victims and scenes In the Dayton 0 "Jack the StraiiRler" case from photographs received this morning While comparing with the infamous White Chapel murders ot 20 years ago the Dayton girl murders have no parallel in American crime annals Altogether it appears five young today wirn uie laying or concrete leaving the tracks in the old condition Says Stakes Changed Engineer Kinsey claims that the stakes given by the city were changed and tho work was being put in (Continued on page eight) A Northwestern passenger train for St Paul which left here last night is stuck In the drifts between Balaton and Tyler Minn Alienist Clark Analysis Crime Series and Sees Bloody Hand of Degenerate Fiend were unable to decide' how death Hines was arrested and on rirciun-had been inflicted but that there xlanUttl evidence was sentenced lu were no wounds seemed to strengtn-1 me unprisoninont say that frankly been The police now heen they douhl Hines' en the theory that she had strangled The body had guilt women were mysteriously murdered and the police theory is that all were struck down by the same fiendish hand This may or may not be true 7t is a fact Jhowever 1 that five young women of about the wrapped in a piece of gunny sack The police went out to solve this myftery without any definite clew or theory as' to a possible motive The girl was known as of good character On Jan 23 1 909 Mary Forseh- POWERS SIGN AGREEMENT i Dona Gilman 20 was assaulted then strangled to death by a fiend 1 ion the night of Nov 20 1906- Her body was found -to hours later con) i coaled in thicket near her home Aiia Lanlz 13 after an assault was thrown into a vault in the rear of her homo and was there found dead A party was in progress in I the girl's home at the time This have 1 ner 15 was assaulted and choked same age and social condition (h Dayton (X murder mysteries and from circumstances common to the several unsolved crimes I do not hesitate in the belief that they I were all committed by a single Individual afflicted with the lowest order of perversign known to sct- ence It may be possible that Ibis series of crimes results from suggestion one act of one man suggesting the same act to another Hut circumstances identical In each case i point to a single unurderer The i tacts in the Dayton series have i been published broadcast Yet no I similar crimes have occurred else-i where This is an argument for a 1 single murderer (Continued on page eight) to death by some unknown man Her body was found in an old shed The police were completely baffled by this crime i crime occurring in JUUl has never been solved b- fcx Voiau been mysteriously murdered in the Ohio city and there are various tangible circumstances which seem to connect the crimes The police call the supposed murderer "Jack the Strangler" from the fact that all of the girls were apparently killed by the clutch of a monster's hand upon the throat The latest victim was pretty Elizabeth Fulhart a little country girl who went to Dayton to obtain employment The day after her arri Paris Fell 9 Franco and Ger- the moral effect of the establishing many today signed a far-reaching of a broad baBB frlendy relations agreement concerning Morocco thus i banishing the spectre which for bntwen the two nations which ha years has been the cause of strained been separated since the war Of relations between the two counties 1870 The agreement guarantees Of more Importance still perhaps Isi the integrity of Morrocco THE WHITECIIAPEL MURDERS IN LONDON Another series of murders of girls the victims being added to from time time as in Dayton occurred in 1SNX in the Whitechapel or slum district of London These murders wer committed evidently by the one brutal hand and followed each other at brief intervals between April and September of that year The crimes were laid by popular theory to an unknown degenerate referred to as "Jack the Kipper" all the bodies being frightfully mutilated Guilt was fastened upon no one but a strong suspicion exists that a man executed in 1892 at Melbourne for crimes in Australia was "'Jack the Hipper" All the London victims were women of much inferior character to the girls who 'have been slain by a fiend in Davlon all whom seem to have been struck down unawares DIVORCE CASE LEM val she disappeared It is believed that she was lured into a vacant house In the residence district i strangled to death otherwise abused I and dropped into a cistern in the Tear of the dwelling Two workmen happened to open the old cistern a By Dr Cluis If Clark Famous Alienist Former Clinical Director loverntnpnt Insane Hos PISTOL IN MUFF pital Washington anil Memln American Psychological Society St Louis Mo Feb 9 There i was no abatement of interest in the Leinp divorce case when the trial was resumed today Mrs Lemp was again under cross-examination She showed the same poise exhlbit-( ed yesterday Many of her answers were so direct the attorneys for MORE I have read with great interest of WOMAN TRIES TO KILL BETRAYER MURDERED MAN'S FATHER DIES SUDDENLY AR her husband were almost nonplussed Extra bailiffs were required to handle the crowds many of wham were forced to wait In the halls for a chance to enter the court room On re-direct examination Mrs Lemp was questioned further regarding the alleged assault upon her by her husband She asserted that she had not divulged the true cause of the Injuries at the time concealing them from even her father because she was "ashamed of it" New York Feb 9 Concealing a The Chautauqua Bible Study class meets Friday with Mrs Mauae Crawford Regular meeting of the IT Wednesday with Mrs FEDERAL GRAND-n A JURY RETURNS! Kh A revolver in hpr muff Martha lay in wait several hours under the New York Central viaduct in this illy early today and as Ernest 1 Sell wanetiam a grocer was cross-jing thi' street fired three shots at him Inflicting dangerous and per-1 'hops fatal wound:) The police say i that Miss Krichsen told them that Sehwanenaiu had taken her away LORD Rochester Feb 9 Geo Sampson father of Harry Sampson whore wife Georgia A Sampson Wa: arraigned late yesterday charged Willi the murder of her husband was found d'-ad in bed it his home in Palmyra this morning lie was a brother of Mie late Rear Admiral and an important witness for the prosecution of hm daughter-in-law Heath is bellevrd to have resulted Troiii natural causes but possibly hastened bv grief over his sons supposed 1 VJLJl 1JJ WAS HERE from her home and had refused to I marry her On the way to Hi'-' police station the woman swallowed I poison and inav die INDICTMENTS AGAINST TWENTY SIX MEN IN ALLEGED TIMBER FRAUDS THE iMTKI) STATES iKAl PUBLIC BLDG MORE WIND PROMISED Kansas City Mo Feb 9 Fall- zero a drop of 50 degrees in six ing temperature Is reported all over hours Similar falls generally are the southwest today The wind is reported at Concordia Kan where again coming up and promised to challenge the proportions of last Jt is reported 2 below Oklahoma week's storm The temperature in City 12 above Ft Smith Ark 28 Kansas Cilv fell to 5 degrees aboveiand Amaraillo 10 above FALSE ARREST LOCATIONS FIGHT ON Sir Weetman Pearson of London' England generally known as the John Rockefeller of the Hritish empire and a member of the House of Lords was a guest (1r Muskogee for a few hours last evening lie arrived in the city from Tulsa late in the afternoon and left last night for Mexico where he has largo interests including tiie largest pro- SPECTACULAR RESCUES MADE during oil well in the world Mr Pearson when seen in his private car last night said that he was gfeaily iiit'resl-d in the oil tev(ln)iiieiit of Oklahoma and that he will long remember his trip to the Glenn Pool field While the Mexican oil well is a wonderful one from a capacity standpoint Mr Pearson said thai it could not compare with either Oklahoma Ohio or Pennsylvania oil Practically all the oil produced is used for fuel purposes Lord Tearson is r'f 'lie house of Pearson i Son London England This firm is the largest of its kind in Europe and has extensive oil fields in Russia East India and Mexico JVKY MADE ITS I'lXAh KEI'OKTI TO Jl'DGE It C'AMI'KEM THIS! AKIEKXOOX AND WAS DIS-I CHAKfJEI) THE HETOIST TO THE COI KT WAS TO THE EIT'KCT THAT 27 TIU IHELS HAD HEEN FOITXD AND OF THESE 'JO WEKE FOIl (TTTIXG TIMBEIt (IX IX-IHAX' AND JOY I KX LANDS IN THE (THIKTAW CHICKASAW AND SEMINOLE NATION'S THE OTHEH INDICTMENT WAS HE-TIKXED AGAINST A MAX WHJ5 pll-KKSOAATED A GOVERNMENT' OFFICER AFTER THE JIRY HAD MADE ITS REPORT Jl'IXiE CAMIMiELIi AFTER CONFERRING WITH DISTRICT ATTORNEY GREGG7 AXI) THE ATTORNEY FOR THE LIMBER MEN INDICTED FINED THE BOND IN EACH CASK AT STKI THE LIMBER MEN WERE PROSECUTED AT THE INSTANCE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR WHICH DECIDED IX) Pl'T A STOP TO CUTTING OF TIMBER ON INDIAN KAMI THE OFFENDERS HAVE BEEN WARNED FROM TIME TO TIME BUT THEY PAID NO ATTENTION- IO THE WARNING measures of the first legislature The bill locating the girls' school at Chickasha carries an appropriation of $10(1000 and provides that Chickasha shall furnish IfiO acres rf ground for a site Wortman of Claremore made an unsuccessful attempt to stem the utter route of the oppositionists but the sortie was well planned and successfully carried to a termination Wortman succeeded in lodging a motion to reconsider the vote by which the house passed the bill to final Norwich Conn Feb 9 Fire today resulted in the destruction of a ixisiness building and the burning out of the upper stories of three others The loss is $3iiOOUt Many spectacular rescues were made sheriff from Texas arrived and said ho was not tho man wanted He says he is a married man and the head of a family that he was not allowed to communicate with his friends while in jail that he was confin' in an unsanitary filthy and uncomfortable cell with negroes and foreigners and subjected to great pain and humiliation for all of which he believes he should be given a verdict for $10000 Slnff Speiial) Guthrie Ok Feb In a sudden and in expected sortie the lower late yesterday opened the battle over the local ion of public institutions and passed to engrossment and third reading the bill by Glover and Iretnn locat ing tho Oklahoma Industrial Institute anil CoL lege lor Girls at Chickasha The matter of public buildings was then allowed to rest the location at Chickasha being -the test by the advocates of immediate location of public buildings of the temper of the house Several minor bills were passed and bills introduce! by Price and Maxey respectively repealing il graduaied land tax and inheritance tax indicate that there will be made an attempt to I repeal man? the special tax Alleging false arrest and impris- onment "for twenty-seven hours without legal process and without justification in law" as cause of ac-1 tion Arthur White whose occupation is that of a barber by Robertson Kcan liohannan his attor- neys filed suit in the district court' today for the recovery of $10000 damageb against Sheriff Ram-1 sey and his bondsmen White alleges that he was arrested December 24 by Deputy Joe De-Pew on a charge of murder alleged to have been committed in Texas of which crime he was innocent and that he was held in jail until a' SENATOR BLOWN AGAINST TREE Lincoln Neb Feb 9 State Senator Klein of Beatrice was painfully injured while on his way to the senate chamber this morning He was blown ayuinst a tree on the srate houe grounds his forehead and bodv being bruised BLANCHE WALSH STILL VERY ILL Kansas City Mo Feb Tho condition of Blanche Walsh the actress who is ill in this city was unchanged this morning 44444444444 THE WEATHER Tonight and Wednesday fair warmer Wednesday Washington Feb 9 The comptroller of the currency today issued a call for a statement of the condition of national banks on the eliwe of business Fridav February 5th vr.

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