Muskogee Times-Democrat from Muskogee, Oklahoma • Page 1

4i. 1'i 'y -v il and 'day. unsettled. EDITION VOLUME 183 MUSKOGEE OKLAHOMA. TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 9, 1912 GIRE Minnie Simpson Found, BABY DROWNS IN a Farm A JAR OF MILK, Carmen.

July pe- cullnr and fatal accident befell the family of Frank De'vereaux 'O when seven months' old baby fell Into jar of milk and was drowned. Two older children had 0 been left at the house by Mrs. at Near Keefton and 'Warrants Issued for Two Boys Who Took Her A way- No Prosecution If IShelSiarriedOrie of Them Warrants were sworn out Tuesday for the arrest of two farmer boys live in the vicinity of Keefton, charging them with kidnapping Minnie the 15-year-old girl who dis.v appeared Sunday night from her home, 324 East Broadway. The warrants were sworn to by Mrs. M.

E. Winters, the girl's mother, before Justice Bailey and th 8 two men are expected to be this afternoon. It Tuesday that the girl' had-' carefully prepared to' leave'hom and that instead', Of 'one horseman being waiting for-her, there! were two, one being th soh Of a well known Keefton farmer on the place. Both horse were used- in faking the girl away from Muskogee, she being shifted from one animal to the other as the animals became tired. The two boys and the Simpson girl arrived at the farm liouse shortly after ten o'clock Sunday night and it is understood the boy told his father that he and the gltl came In on a train.

Mrs. Winters -was notified Tuesday, morning girl wa at the farm house near Kenton and at once had the warrant issued. Both the young men bear good reputations and it was understood today, that there would be no prosecution If the boy responsible for the leaving home will marry her. BAIL IS DENIED 0. JEFFRIES 8peoial.) Oklahoma City, July Editor H.

O. JeHMva pt NoWAla, wall deMSd criminal court 4 Judge Futv- thffii finding that the weight" of clr- cumatanoial evidence a strong presumption that Jeffries was guilty Murdering Irene Goheen, his advertising solicitor, April 8. Jeffries was charged with the murder a few days after he had been ap- I pointed postmaster by President Taft. The court compared the general i phases of the case to that of C. L.

also of Nowata, who was denied ball a few weeks ago on a charge of the murder of his sweet heart, Elsie Adams, sixteen years old. The Adams girl was drugged and (burned to death, and found to have (been fn a delicate condition. KATY BUYS BIG DALLAS BLDG. Dallas, July The M. K.

T. Railway company has purchased an eight-story building at the corner of Market and Commerce streets In Dallas, for the exclusive use of the railroad. The building was not quite completed. It will cost 1400,000. The building win be occupied September 1 for the general offices of Katy lines in Texas.

The Simpson building was started last spring and by contract was built for the use of the Katy, of four floors with option for entire lease with the road's option to buy same. The lease was for a preiod of twenty-five years. Negotiations have been under way at different times for the ownership of the property, but It was not until yesterday evening that the deal was put through. Mr. Webb, who made the official an company is traveling is entirely different from an ordinary passenger car as far as the liability of the rallrnail company is concerned, according in ODevereaux while sh went to.theO the of thp Oklahoma barnyard.

The baby was on the th( casp ftf Harry IIom( nno porch where cans of milk jaKa nat the Santa Fp had been The baby Home was the owner O-left by itself for a few fecial in which his theatrical and when the mother 'company was travelog. Th car was she found the child -jN 0 in the Jar of ooooooooooooooo ARE KILLING RATS TO AVOID BUBONIC, PLAQUE. Mobile. July steamer Signe of the JViunson line, came into her pier today CW ill Which from the quarantine station I Kort Morgan in the lower bay, Company Travels on and is loading c-Hrgo moored six JO feet away from the wharf with Different BBS IS HI the use of steep skids and watch- I men from the health hoard close Common LiOaCneS hy to prevent any possible Infec- tion of bubonic plague. AH lines I leading from the vessel to the A special car In which a theatrical pier have been treated with tar STORY OF THE DEATH OF MRS.

J. P. ATKINS PRICE FIVE CENTS ooo 6 ooo xMON sidetracked at Tecumseh while the company played there and shortly after it was placed on a side track it was removed by the railroad company without the consent of the owner to another place in the railroad yards, where it was destroyed by fire. Suit was brought to recover for the logs of property, but the court held that the railroad companv was not responsible in the case as a common carrier, and even in moving the car It did not assume thh reSibonslhiliry. and big discs are being used to prevent rats coming ashore.

Two steamers and a schooner from Cuba ports fumiKiited at riuarantine station last nlcht with the sulphur treatment and three to four hundred dead ratB were hrmight forth. The city authorities today started a campaign aealnst rats ami will pay a bounty of five cents for every rat killed with- In the vicinity of the docks. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OKMULGEE MAN TRIES SUICIDE Colonists in Mexico Organize and Will Fight Before They Will KBARBER'S WIFE Robbed by Rebels International complications threatened today by the determined attitude of Mormon Colonists at Colonia Morelos and Colonia Oaxaca, sixty-five and sevefity-five miles southeast of here, respectively, who have refused to contribute provisions and horses to rebel bands now invading the state of 'Well armed and supplied with ammunition, 360 men of the Mormon set- tlementd were prepared to fight the rebels If necessary in protecting themselves against devastations of property. General commander of the federal forces in this section, today was at Clenegas, twenty miles northwest of Colonia Morelos, but said to be to attack the rebels as his troops, mostly recruits, have not yet been mobollzed for action. It is feared the rebels may 1 consider themselves justified in fighting the Mormons if' they persist "in denying them provisions and mounts.

Appeals protective measures have gone forth from the Mormon colonies to Washington. KILLS HERSELF Juares. July Pascual catlon about the Mormon situation early today with his son, who was at Enclnlllae, 184 miles south of here. General Oroico Is reported' to have ordered a. continuance of his announced policy of earlier lays In the revolution that foreigners should not be molested.

It was stated on good authority that General Oroaco would leave Encinillas during the day, arriving In Juarez late In the afternoon. It Is feared the rebels will attack the Mormons near Morelos before the latter can be organized for defense. Washington. July Smoot today called the attention of the state department to he repored danger by Mexican rebels upon the Mormon colony at Colonia Diaz. The United States- consul at Chihuahua has been ordered to make an Investigation.

According to advices today. William Adams, a Mormon was reported killed by rebels, was really killed by a Mexican cIvlMan with whom he had had a dispute. The state department will Insist upon prosecution of his murderer. GUARDS On Duty but Six Prisoners Dig Through Two Brick Walls and Make Their Ecsape REQUEST For President Taft to Withdraw From Race Merely a Move on Part of Progressives Okmulgee, July Delirious with a high fever, Wil- 1 llam Hanks, a local carpenter and 'contractor, attempted to take his own life here last night. Hanks had been 111 for several days.

Yesterday he came In from the park and Securing a revolver, went to his room and placing the muzzle of the gun to his I temple, fired. The wound is probably 'not fatal. The family, a wife and three grown children, 1 think Hanks was crazed by fever and did not realize what he was doing. He has been able to talk some and tnslsts that his mind was wandering when he fired the bullet, Okmulgee. July Clyde Haynes.

the wife of A barber at-Preston, suicide yesterday afternoon hy taking carbolic acid. She was dead within thirty minutes after she swallowed the acid. Mrs. Haynes came to Okmulgee yesterday and purchased the deadly drug at a local drug store. She re- Washington, July todays developed the fact that what was pro- Claimed yesterday as a general nationwide movement to circulate petitions among the voters asking President Talt to retire as head of the republican party, had thus far been confined to a number of well known progressives of the house.

The reported support of conservative turned to home on an afternoon republicans, it was admitted today train and there swallowed the drug What caused her to take her own life Is not known. Mr. and Mrs. Haynes moved to Preston from Kansas City about a year ago. Levied on Corporations as Gross Revenue by the State is the Court probably will not be forthcoming.

No agreement was reached by the progressives to take up the petition plan and it was rumored that lack of general support was responsible for the delay. A draft of a petition to be signed by members or the house was shown yesterday to Representatives Davis and Llndburgh of Minnesota; Reese. Murdock and Toung of Kansas; Warburton of Washington: and several others. They did not agree upon its terms and thus far none have signed it. EDUCATORS RIGGING UP A STEAM ROLLER ABSTRACT MEN MEETING HERE A number of the abstractors.

from this part of the state met In Muskogee today to arrange for the state convention that is to be held at Sulphur in August. This afternoon the'visitors were giverratr atrttr ride "over rmr "cttyi and tonight a meeting will be held at the Commercial club. D. A. Kline will talk on "Abstracting from a Lawyer's Viewpoint;" J.

Boyd, of Sapulpa, on "The Viewpoint of the Abstractor," and J. M. Bradford, of Pearson and Taft, on "From the Viewpoint of the Loan Man." Those attending the meeting are Alex S. Foreman, Salll- saw; J. A.

Boyd, Sapulpa; John H. keeper, Stilwell; M. G. Cox, Grove; Oren Richardson, Haskell; Robt. M.

Nichols, Sapulpa; S. A. Duling. Okemah; D. F.

Dial, Pryor; N. D. Tarleton, Vinlta; W. H. Martin, Stilwell; Chas.

Haley, Tulsa; W. S. Bailey, Tulsa; W. H. Trapp, Miami; T.

J. Harrison, Pryor; L. F. Dotson, Tahlequah; Roy Franks, Wagoner. l- BOYS LOCKED UP FOR BREAKING WINDOWS The Oklahoma gross revenue law passed by the legislature May, 1910, Is constitutional as far as intra state corporations are concerned and the decision of the supreme court of the United States in the Wells-Fargo Express company case does not apply in the taxing of corporations doing business In Oklahoma.

This in substance Is the decision of Judge R. B. Campbell In the United States circuit court in the suit brought by the Oklahoma and Gulf Railway company against John A. Harrison, sheriff of i Pittsburg county, to enjoin, the sheriff from levying on the property of the plaintiff and selling the same for failure t6 pay the Oklahoma two per cent gross revenue tax. When the 1 suit was filed the court granted a 1 temporary Injunction but this is now i dissolved and the suit dismissed.

appeal was taken to the supreme court of the United States by the plaintiff Tuesday and bond given i'l the sum of $25,000. in the opinion of the court the right of the state of Oklahoma to Impose a revenue tax on corporations such as oil, gas and coal companies dating business in the state cannot be questioned, and the fact that these corporations have been organized un- Chlcago, July fight of the progressives for control of the National Education association overshadowed the interest In educational subjects on the program for discussion at the opening of the second day's work of the organization's fiftieth annual convention. The final test of strength between th two factions Is scheduled for this afternoon before the board of directors. It was believed that It would be decided whether the directorate will attempt to bar from the annual meeting all but active members of at least thirty days' standing. If the ruling Is made It will be a blow to several thousand members who have been enrolled less than thirty days.

The proposal to so limit the voting power was made by Secretary Irwin Shepard and It a majority of the directors have considered It favorably. It was expected that Secretary Shepard wrtuld present It In the form of a resolution. With E. T. Fairchlld of Kansas, and Miss Grace Strachan of New York, as the leading candidates for president, there was talk of a "dark horse" candidate.

This, together with th fight on Secretary Shepard. waged principal, ly by Mrs. Ella Flagg Young of Chicago, and Carroll G. Pease, the president, caused much caucusslng. The children of the Chicago ele-, Imentary schools were to open the While two guards and a night Jailor were on duty at the Muskogee county nouncsment of the trade, said It is the bastlle Monday night six men made a Intention of the railroad company to clean getaway, and to say that Sheriff make the Katy general office building Wisener is mad Is putting it m.ldly.

one of the most modernly arranged ln 0 f. dar mftke thelr pe the men seven floors, all of which, sav? the. ound wuhlch street eKicee, will be used by the com- 1 to en th 'Kbt. and this an I would land them In the store room. In this connection, Mr.

Webb said Then they had to dig through a brick on September 1 would be Installed, In outside wall, but this they apparent- the new office building a system (hat ly did suuecssfuly, for they would prove an with ref- am6ng the missing this morning and phone InTortni der the laws of other states and that session with a fnorus and the they have a contract with the Indians hlBh 8( were to be discussed. or the government according to which they ar forced to pay royalties, does TO 8ELL GAIETY LEASE. not give them a vested right which would prohibit the state from levying The rroperty of the Gaiety Amuse- an equitable tax. ment company will he gold on July Judge Campbell held that the de. in Ht nt order to that ef- the V.

8. supreme court lu feet being entered MondH.v by the the Wells-Fargo case did not decide referee In bankruptcy. A meeting of the case at bar. In the Wells-Fargo he creditors will be held immediate- case the highest court In the land I i following the sale. There are sev- held that the state of Oklahoma could erA prospective purchasers for the on bureau- bow they had made their escape.lallor onfra We will be to answer calls day and night with a view furnishing Information In every manner pertaining to train service, times, stop-overs, and as to the whereabouts of officials.

The private telephone exchange will be within talking distance of telegraph wires; that span the entire mileage of Katy system. The Katy building has 10,000 square yards of floor space, exclusive of the room to be rented to the ground floor. It has its own refrigeration plant, steam heat, electric Mfbts and" a 3.300- foot artesian well from which water wilt i be pumped to all Parts of the building. KILLED SELF AND CHILDREN. Westchester.

July ent from illness, Mrs, Florence Boyd, aged 41 years, killed herself and, two children, May, aged 7 years, and Nobis, at their home with illuminating gas. Mrs, VloUery and Guard O'Brien and another man who were 'supposed to be on duty were unable to satisfactory explanation to the sheriff as to how the men could get out without their knowledge. The men who escaped are; Amos Brown, August nice, Ell 'Vest, Fred Vann, William Bradley and Frank Smith With the exception of Smith, who Is held for burglary, the men were confined for offenses. Fred Vann who 1 escaped, Is considered curiosity for no Jail has yet been built In this part of the country that he has not escaped from. The old cjty jail was easy for him.

his escapes' from that Institution being too numerous to mention. He Also got away from the new city and federal Jail and he has the nerve to tell the officers that' ha will, jail the first opportun- lltjrr of has escaped from dattnttwt lnstitirtUjns not Impose a gross revenue tax on a corporation engaged In interstate Commerce business. This did not mean said Judge Campbell, that the entire law was unconstitutional and It was specifically held that that portion of the law taxing coal and oil companies was constitutional. Considerable stress was laid by the ment for the payment of eeraln roy altles and It was contended that for the state to Impose an additional burden wai a law Impairing the obligation of and this was clearly unconstitutional, Judge Campbell said that he did not take that view of the case. As the plaint- Iff In the cose mines und ships more than one million tons of coal your the effect of the decision Is manifest.

It means that the state can levy tuxus on all the big coal and oil companies In the state and that millions In taxes will be collected annually. ARREST WA1 A M. O. 4k Q. officials say tfiat a mis.

take was made in having a warrant Issued for the arrest of a negro named Jcpipn, who was accused of stealing bridge It developed that Jepson took the timbers they given to of OOTOPbalnt leasp on the Gaiety theater nnd it Is understood that If certain Interests can secure the property the building will be remodeled and the plaea converted Into a high class theater. Outsiders who book high class Independent attractions are to be here and bid on the property. Locked in a cell ln the Muskogiee county detention home, charged with the malicious destruction or proeprty, are three young boys, who were arrested by the pollcft Tuesday morning school. The boys have confessed to the and it is understood that a dozen or so more boys will be caught and locked up within a day or so. The young prisoners are Tobe Swelt- xer, 12; Travis Reed, 12, and Sam Prather, 10 years old.

For the past month or so boys have been throwing stones at houses, and breaking wlndowsv In ttie Whlttler school there are window panes broken and It will take quite a sum of money to replace them. In certain parts of the building the vandals have even- cut the screens. The school board has made many attempts to catch these bad boys, and finally It offered a reward. It was tipped off a few nights ago that the boys threw stones at the windows late ln the evening, so Monday morning Frank Leonard, a member of the board, and several officers visited the Whlttler school, but the boys did not show up. They go a tip, however, as to who they were, and Tuesday the patrol went to Roblson's and Midland additions, where four boys were picked up.

One was allowed to remain at home with his mother and three were locked up. The boys were arrest, ed while at their homes. Some of them were very brave at first, but finally admitted that they were the hoys wanted, and told Just- how may windows each had broken. They also gave the officers the names of other boys who had been breaking windows. The boys when arrested were taken to police station in tile patrol and then turned over to the county, Just how long Judge Leahy will keep 1 the boys locekd up Is unknown.

The judge said this afternoon that he had not decided, but Intimated that they have to remain in Jail six months or a year. For a second offense, he Is permitted to deal with them more severely. Hp has It In his power. If he so de- slders. to send ever yone of the boys to the state reform school.

MR. AND MRSTJ. Mrs. Atkins, at the time this picture was assistant teacher ln an Indian school at Wetumka, Her husband, was then- principal of the school. It was at this time that a romantic courtship started that culminated In their marriage.

Mrs. Atkins' death at Lamar; Jast Friday, Is now being investigated by the authorities. Refuses to Pay Twice for Building vA, -from Told to a Jury This Afternoon By the Physicians Who Conducted Examina" tion Say the Wound. Could Habe Been Self-Inflicted Would Have Been Difficult An Inquest by a Muskogee Jury the purpose of determining the causer of the death of Mrs. Isabel Atktask who was burled Sunday add whosa body was exhumed the following dajr Is being held this afternoon Justice Bailey In the Street-Elcholta! undertaking establishment lowing Muskogee men are, the Inquest and will be called upoJa to' -render the D.

MeCfttftir, Emmert and W. Tt Wisdom yTBo 'f opinion of all the witnesses was. effect that came to her death as the result gun shot wound, but whether the wound waa self fg T1 Datable question. Drs. H.

O. Rogers and jhayd conducted the nation testified that the bullet ed the left and inches below the nipple, that ed to the left ln passing body, completely severed the and passed out of the back below; 4 right There were powder 1 marks oh the bretlst the pout dt entry indicating that the gun was held close to the body, but there no big wound to Indicate that the .8 fled the been aelf fllcted and that ttthU, the cage! the gun was held in the right haii The iudktfi losls that he-hltd'treated her i this disease, tie had been informedX: v-iii, that on. the morning of the shoatWffl monthly financial statement mMi a A city's last month, was presented to the city coiiricll Tuesday by the Legal Record and promptly turned down, Mr. Kennedy made dis-J allow the claim on the grpuhds the council had hot authorized the early hbur, fully, dressed. her what she was doing and aha said, "Nothing." He went back to and' ahef he got he ifound his mjsalpa, Mr.

U. council bad. not (Mami wife, according Record to pubUsh the but oUnAilw MA the Record had published the am theOionse the top ment anyway, and now brought In a hlgh mU condlUwTM? bill and expected JMrt. 'Atkliig-wd 4he pfafle where -HarV The statement was Published In the bod fotand wn 4t Mttt Times-Democrat, so that the tax (BU8 lc on tn the ppMott'of the jihy siLlans so payers could see the financial condl tloii of the city 1 The Record's rep; resenjative ana claimedKthVAfflurtk 'was ell him because the couftcif Am awarded: veloped that no contract had been signed, although legal notices haye been published In" the Record. Mr.

Kennedy further brought out the fact that the city should not pay twice 'for the work, and the statement was published ln a paper of general-circulation merely to get It before the people. When Mr. Kennedy's motion waa put, all voted yes except Gullck and McCusker. After it was disposed of, McCusker wanted to recall the bill and have It referred to the legal department. "It has 'been disposed of, and there Is no legal question up." said Mr.

Kennedy. An effort was made to renew discussion, and the mayor ordered the bis Paper the and; gaVe a by Drs. noyd-and exam "atioA Wf three houre and waa cleric to proceed with the reading of report; of their findings and, MAN CRAZY AND NUDE FOUND B7 ROADSIDE steamship Jamaican, arriving at Boca Orande yesterday afternoon, broke all records the run between Panama and the United States, consuming 103 hours on the voyage, which was made through a choppy sea. The steamer left Colon Wednesday. BIO BUSINESS ON SANTA PE.

Bartlesvllle, July (Special.) the report given out by the Bartlesvllle office of the amount of business and gross earnings of the Santo Fo railroad during the month of May, another chapter has been written In the prosperity serial of Oklahoma and the The books show the beet Increase of the year In the matter of gross earnings. The amount $430,628 in excess of the May earnings of last year, while a decrease of 1280,668 was made In the nperatlnfrexpanses. The May Increase In operating Income of over was largest of the year, and all in moat JOT Okmulgee. Okls July" The people In the neighborhood of what Is known as the been frightened for several days past by what they term a wild man roaming In that section. Yesterday afternoon In response to a phone call Deputy Sheriff Hhamblin went out and found the man.

He was lying by the roadside perfectly nude. A bundle of ragged clothing.was at his side. The man Is evidently demented end was placed In a local hospital. He says that his name Is Cunningham and that bis) parents live In His'mind wanders however and no lucid statement has been secured from him. PRIESTLEY CASE POSTPONED.

Washington, July The contest between James A. Harris and Oeorau Priestley for chairman of the republican national committee from Oklahoma will be taken up at the meeting of the committee In New York on Jphy If. It.wM tfl- be incbrporated ln the court as to the cauee of the post mortem' the- body, diecji' evidence of powder would indicate that the which the fatal shot wgg; held in close proximity to the at the time of the shooting. the other bills. Another unusual claim was filed with the council when D.

L. Young that the council pay 20 for damages to one of hts houses on er street. His letter said that while Walter Johnson was water superintendent, He had three times asked Mr. Johnson to torn the water off at his house for the reason that the house was vacant. This, Young said, was not done, as a result his water pipes froze and bursted.

and It cost him $26.20 to have same tng an Investigation, repaired. The matter was Commissioner McCusker, tenants from his other houses, was the complaint made by Lee Edwards, guardian for Viola Edwards, He asked that the city remove the pest house from hie property, 1 block 27(1, declaring thai, the same was a detriment to the neighborhood, Referred to Mr. The carpenters union 1072, sent a letter to council, endorsing the municipal building plan, and asked that the council submit the proposition to a vote of the people, Referred "to committee of the whole. A petition askjng for paying lAvo Oak, Lawrence and Manitoba and signed by over sixty-one per cent of owner?" wag placed upon Its first reading. The property owners of Walnut street filed a protest against paving that street.

-i A building permit Was Issued the ojty Mondgy to Myrta who hgs begun the erectlofi of There wag considerable Tuesday aa to why the body burled in the firat ptaoe, After" It came known that death was, caugedv hy a gun. shot wound, and theft toll of mm New York, July continued today, At perature wag 90. There deaths and dosen 13 Boston, July eral prostrations from hAd reported In Sogton up to The thermometer rAgiateMfl 'I greeer 7 Philadelphia, the death of city up to p. m. mkf dlreetly reeponglhlg, persomi.