Muskogee Times-Democrat from Muskogee, Oklahoma • Page 1

VOLUME XyiII-No 218 MUSKOGEE OKLAHOMA, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 19, 1912 PRICE FIVE cmr LOAN SHARK VICTIMS FLOCK TO THE fudge Allen and County Attorney's Offices are Crowded With Those Who are Being Some Pathetic Cases are Being Revealed by Those Who Came to Tell Their Story Judge R. C. Allen and Assistant County Attonney Molony representing Mr. held the first court of its kind history of Oklahoma Monday. This was loan shark day In Muskogee, county and Judge Allen and Mr.

Molony operated as a legal tribunal in behalf of the unfortunates who have fallen Into the meshes of the shairks. From the hour that the Times-JBemocrat of Saturday appeared op the streets and the public announcement was made that the loan sharks were to be driven out of the city both Judge Allen and County Attorney Disney were besieged with unfortunate borrowers who were looking i for relief. Some Pitiful Stories, Some of the tales told were so pitiful that Judge Allen who Is to preside nt the criminal term of cr.urt which opens on Sept. 2, advised Mr. Disney not to consider any tions filed in which a chattel loan man was the complaining witness, but on the other hand when an attempt was made, to use th county to collect a dishonest debt to cause the arrest of the money lender.

Post Office as a Booze Distributing System Under a Parcels Post Law Why I'm in Politics 12 Hours a Day (Continued on page 6, column 6.) THIEVES Man Boxes and End Homes Loots Ice Robs West MRS. J. BORDEN HARRIMAN. WHAT MRS. J.

BORDEN HARRIMAN MILLIONAIRE SOCIETY WOMAN, MEANS BY DESERTING "400" TO BATTLE FOR WILSON. man of mature mind controls at least one or two votes." "How "By her indirect influence. Her practical and high-minded discussion of the Issues at" stake, looking afc thwn. as men alone never came to took at the MORAL, great weight with the voters, who, under her guidance suddenly see things from a new and better view- (By Harry Burton.) New York. Aug.

Harriman, pet of New York's "400" and wife of a great millionaire, has come out of her luxurious country home on Long Island to spend twnlve hours a day in a hot office organizing 'point. the women of this country into a na- "Women can do a great deal to cre- tional Woodrow Wilson association. ale a public sentiment for Wilson, in I went up into this small, breezeless 'addition to just controlling one or two office to ask Mrs. Harriman WHY. home votes.

They can form Wilson "Because, said Mrs. Harriman, in iC iubs and bring speakers in his behalf her quick, decisive way, "I feel that before the voters of their home town, the time has come when women have'They can buy the Wilson penny more to do in world than just to stamps we are going to sell and paste around a bridge tabl a or a sewing these everywhere. Besides advertts- besket. I feel that we must get outto.ing our candidate, they will help sup- make world better; to help level (port campaign expenses, olass barriers and to create a world "But the greatest thing the women in which everyone ehall have a fairj can U8t to TALK, TALK, TALK chance," i Wilson everywhere. I am a great are surprised that a so- (Hover in the thought-currents that roll called society should of all ov9r a nation They sweep everything A number- of.

thefts have been' reported from different parts of the west side In the past week or more. Tho police have not been notified in any of these instances. Last Saturday night one west side family had provisioned the ice box for the Sunday dinner. Fruit and vegetables and frying chickens awaited the morrow's feast in the box. When the family visited the Ice box Sunday morning It was stripped bare.

Nothing except a cakp of Ice had been left by the hungry burglar. Nothing else about the house had been disturbed. At the home of J. D. Benedict on Elgin avenue this week a room rug had been rolled up and left on the back porch one night.

Next morning the rug was missing and has not been 'ound. persons, be undertaking the organlz- before them. It was euch The boldest burglar vsited th home tng of the womfl Wilson-Marshall our rent, sent up from th of R. Baugh at Thirteenth and (association. I don't look upon it ln! ona of people, Elgin this week but was surprised The passage of the pacels post bill may revolutionize the distribution of liquor and particularly of whiskey In Oklahoma.

have hard enough time fighting the bootleggers, express and railroad companies," said a postofflce official Monday," but now the government, through the parcels post, tomes in and proves itself first aid to the Injured and knocks our good sky high." The certainty of a parcels post bill at this session of congress has opened up a wide field for the whiskey companies, JACK ROSE STORY PRECINCT MEETINGS. Precinct meetings will be held In Muskogee county Wednesday at which delegates to a county convention will be elected. Chairman O'Hare is nnxlous that democrats par- tlclpatp tn these meetings and assist In naming the delegates. The caucuses In ward three. precinct two will be held In Rlgfn park nt two p.

in wurd four, precinct two It will be held nt Ml North Twelfth precinct four In the garage at and Firth street at two p. m. Court and with the almost certainty of escaping detection they are making hay 1 street. piithi p. i.

and In ward four while the sun shines. It has been brought to the attention of the postoffice department that the hlskey men have figured on the par. col? post system as their great asset in prohibition territory; and they figure that it will no longer be necessary for the farmer 'o come to town to secure his contraband goods. The whiskey people are flooding Oklahoma with traveling men who are taking orders for whiskey, the same to be delivered by the S. Government, under the parcels post system.

Under the new law packages weighing as high as ten pounds can be carried and the ordinary man can get pretty well stewed with ten pounds of whiskey. The men taking the orders give good guarantees and they simply notify the prospective customer where to mail the cash, either Chicago, St. Louis or Kansas City, and the booze will follow by return mall. It means increased work for the letter carriers and the R. F.

BRIDGE Across Grand River Will be Opened for Traffic Wednesday, M. O. Officials Say. LAWYERS TO NAME JUDGE Wagoner, Aug. has been made by the Missouri Valiey Bridge company contractors that th Missouri, Oklahoma Qulf bridge over the Grand river- will be ready for trains to pass men will be over Wednesday, August 21.

The grad- Oklahoma City. Aug. of a superior judge in Logan county has been put up to the lawyers In the county, and unless they decide that It will be too long before lh legislature can transfer the pending cases to the district court, there will be no one named to succeed the late Judge S. S. Lawrence.

Governor Cruee said Saturday that he would decline to make any appointment unless the new judge should agree to re. sign as soon as he had disposed of all the cases on the docket when he took office. INDIAN Appropriation Bill De feated in the Senate by Clause Proposing Moving Fort Sill Indians CONFIRM swamped but when a man wants hlsji ng ust about completed from morning nip he wants It, and he has no rand river to Miami and as soon as th crossing is accomplished on Grand river, the steel gangs will begin laying objections to the letter carrier officiating as the bartender. The postoffice inspectors are at work from this end. The steel 1 8 already In Muskogee today, following the trail jlald forty miles south of Falrland and of the whiskey men.

and they are anti-: stations have been established with clpating a ifvely campaign. As the agents i charge at Sapa, Bernice and whiskey sent by mall does not have to Sallna. An agency ha also been es- be labeled or billed the inspetors are' tablished at Grand River bridge on working at a great disadvantage. this end, called Yonkers. It is contem- it I plated that through trains will be THE AX TO ON THE POLICE Muskogee to Falrland 1.

A traffic agreement n.ui mc Frisco will doubtless be made as soon aa the roadbed Is in condition to stand the heavy trains. The axe is going to fall on the police force, perhaps Tuesday. Commissioner Boen" announced Monday that he was going to trim down his fexpenses, arid -tbej. will'be the first to feel the keen edge. There are now three desk sergeants who work eight hours each.

One of these will be lopped off, and the two that remains will be put on twelve hour shifts each. Three Inside jailers or guards now work eight hours each. One will be discharged and two will hav to do twelve hours each. "This will be a saving of $2700 a year," said Mr. Boen today.

"I may deride later on to do away with the guards altogether and make them walk a beat The patrolmen and plain clothes men will all work eight hours each. In this manner I can cut down the expense and at the same time come within the eight hour law." THE BIG Noise in Auto Racing Will Be at the Muskogee Fair Grounds Records he, was had secured any way before ooty. Mrs. Baugh was sitting by the window of her bedroom on the upper floor of the house at 4 o'clork In the afternoon, rocking the baby. Her Older daughter, Rebecca, was In the room with her, and the two were very quiet while the baby fell asleep.

Looking out of the window Mrs. Baugh saw a bicycle In the back yard and thought that her son. Robart, had come home to surprise them She heard the down stairs door open softly and stealthy footsteps through the. lower floor of the house and whispered to her daughter that Robert was trying to surprise them. The footsteps came softly upstairs and through tho hall and the door of Mrs.

Rough's room was pushed open, Mrs. Baugh and her young daughter looked up, expeotlng to see Robert Baugh standing In the doorway and It would he dfflcult to say who was most surprised, Mrs. Baugh and Miss Rebecca or the strange man who stood In the door, at a loss to explain his presence. The would-be burglar hesitated a minute and then stammered that he wanted to ssk where Georgetown avenue was. As much irprlsed as he Mrs.

Bnugh told him, him go down stairs, mount his Wheel and ride away. Tt was only the man had gone that It occurred to Mrs he was probably a thief who hy tho quiet of the house, thought that no one was at home. The man Was tall and well dressed. He was a white man, and Mrs. Baugh says that he was neither drunk nor Insane.

He wss merely trying get the opportunity tn rob the house. BAY DOCTORS SHOULD BE BETTER WRITERS thought minds of that nominated that way at all. We should all mt Baltimore, fighting for the common IT IS" THE WORK OF THE GOOD progress of mankind. OF THIS NATION TO "And so I consider that all women. CREATE THIS THOUGHT Ct'R- rich or poor should take upon them- RENT.

The voter, under Its Influence, selves In these days when thought is win do the rest for us. And if we advancing, to help In the general I work rightly they always will until purging of our public life. time comes when we can help our- "Wlthout a doubt, nearly every wo- eives with our own votes!" VICE AND CRIME ORRFRS AT CAPITAL 151 Loot and Dismantle the Store of H. Malone, at Flood of Trouble Oklahoma City, Aug. Cruce expressed himself Saturday as satisfied, after a personal i tour, that bootlegging and gambling were just prevalent In Oklahoma City as all previous reports to htm indicated.

He was convinced, too, he said, that Stats Enforcement Officer Caudlll was absolutely unable, unaided as the Jaw compels him to be, to do anything toward suppression of the existing vice, unless assisted by the city and county authorities In a sincere effort. There were three comments that the governor had to offer on the situation; That Oklahoma City was hurting herself with the state at large by the evident lax enforcement of the Baugh thut law: that bootleggers and gamblers misled to be serving sentences In the county jail, were only eonstrue- lively Imprisoned, but in reality plying their vocation as before and that many of the better equipped establishments had, promlnnnt among the art displays on the walls, pictures of a well known candidate for office In tho recent primary. Governor Cruca made a personal visit to a dozen alleged joints Friday night In company with J. Caudlll. state enforcement officer, and 3, Jones, a local officer, He began not far from the Santa depot and READY TO Begin Work on the Grand River Dam as Soon as Details are Brown in Town Muskogee la to see in action a half- dozen of the world's greatest speed creations and four celebrated automobile drivers next Saturday at the fair grounds.

Arrangements were made this morning for the famous racing machines and daredevils to stop over in the city on their way north to the big Elgin road race. All the cars and drivers come from Galveston where they have been tak- Waahington, Aug. a fight in the senate today over the Indian appropriation bill, the bill was defeated. The bill carried an Item of 1200,000 to transfer the Indian prisoners from Fort Sill, to the Mescalero, N. Indian agency, and provide them with Senators Fall and Catron of New Mexico, and Smith of Arizona opposed the project.

Senator Fall declared many descendants of families massacred by Gerontmo lived near the agency. The New Mexican senators predicted outbreaks between the Indians and white settlers If the band! were allowed to become free settlers In New Mexico. Gambler Who Knows Facts in Rosenthal der Arrives in New by District Attorney New York, Schepps came back to Broadway today ready with a corroborating tho confession of "Bald charging Police Lieutenant Becker with atlgatlng the murder of the gambler Herman Rosenthal. For two hours Schepps and District Acarner Whitman were In conference on a New. York Central train speeding from Albany; and when the reached New York Mr.

Whitman "Schepps has done all that we of him. He has corroborated; 8 the most important part of Rose's confession." New York's peace authorities ed when Schepps arrived. Two tectives from police headquarters, A daring they were acting under to seise Scheppg before hot, left the train, but Mr. Whitman quick to announce that his office waal In command and the police were held-, off. Schepps wag taken to the Wesei Side police court by a detective from! the district attorney 's office and held a prisoner on a technical chargo'l of vagrancy, as a material witaettaf along with Rose, Vallon and refused to say word about his conference MRi Whitman.

To all inquiries he gave aj grinning response that they "Just had'? a sociable chat." f1 I As for fear of" eance, he. grinned again and back his straw hat as Indicative of, his uncdncern. 1 Of the authorities, Mr. Whitman. alon knows what part.

played In the Rosenthal Say," when urged WIFE, DESERTER IN LAWt Oklahoma City, Aug. Governor Cruce, after a hearing, honored requisition for James E. Mathews, sought by th Illinois authorities on a charge of abandoning his wife and five minor children at Nash-, vllle, that state. Mathews had resisted extradition on the ground that he had been granted a divorce In St, Louis less than a month ago. The accused man came to Guthrie a peach buyer, employed' by' a St.

Louis firm, and was arrested more a week ago. The first messages sent to Nashville by theXluthrie authorities were unanswered, and Mathews was released. On th arrival of Sheriff Vogelpohl a few days later with requisition' papers, he was to tell of, associations, "do you 'think rm to squeal on a pair' Bernard -3o Schepps. Issued thlf: statement:" SchepjBipie fcxaSWrutUJI come Were on whatever aid can 'InPtt murderers of While he does not repreaent lhe hifh- est type of citizenship, yefelw.Ja antkft of Intellectual Sam Brown his son and W. H.

Rosecrans arrived in the city today noon and nave been in conference wUtt otticers of the Muskogee Water Power company since. we are here to begin' work Just as iB row ing part in the world's championship beach meet. The star of the bunch Is arrested, but released on bond and Im Louis L-isbrow, generally regarded in mediately filed a suit for 120,000 the speed pastime as the "world's rac- aga n)rt VogelpohU 'alleging false, ing monarch." arrest The idea in coming to Muskogee Is not a money making proposition, but to endeavor to Lower the world's half- mile track marks. Dlsbrow already holds the world's five and ten mile dtft course and he wants the half mile and mile recoria, both held by Barney Oldfteld and made at Toledo, Ohio, two years ago. Oldfleld was the first great driver to look the Muskogee track over.

He sent his manager, A. Sloan, here Just after the Muskogee track was built to see It and arrange for a race meeting in order that he might go after the records that Dlsbrow now holds. Sloan Is the present manager of and it was due to his IL Malone the McLain man who was arrested for mlsaegnatlon and who after spending two weeks In Jail was released on bond Is still having his troubles. Prior to his arrest Malone hod been engaged In the at general mercantile business at Lain, and as a result soon as the Water Fower company is iready," said Mr. Rosecrans.

The party came direct from New York City where they have been for the lost wteit completing the financing of the work. We had very little trouble making our arrangements lor all our associates agree that it is a good proposition," said Mr. Rosecrans. A meeting of the stockholders of tho Muskogee Water Power company will be held in the of floes of the Muskogee Industrial company on Lombard street 9 o'clock Tuesday morning, and all Mc stockholders are expected to bo of the finon- It is expected that from now on the clal depression his credit became Im- WQfk wU go tnrougn tn hurry paired and Htuart was appoint atMj -oon tnM computed the ed receiver for his store. He then iactumJ wor on the construction of thgiiasteet time ever credited to it was went to Arkansas City and had Just wU be i Ur.

Brown said that employment when he was b- wanted to be moving the work arrested, Sunday his store at Mc- days at the least. Lain was broken Into and according to the Information received by Sheriff Wlsener It was completely dis- A franchise will be asked tor by the I power company, and tMg will delay the construction knowledge of the fast track tn Muskogee that the bunch of stars will come here and compete, Sloan offered to lay a wager with the Fair association this morning that the world's record would be beaten by Dlsbrow. He went to the track and Inspected It to see what steps would be necessary In fixing up the turns and arrange to take the necessary pre. cautions tn accident. The great 300 horsepower Fiat racer known as the Jay-Eye-Bee will be one of the cars entered In the meet At Galveston last week this machine lowered the beach record six seconds, covering the mile in 81.11 seconds.

It Is claimed that the machine will du close to three miles a minute. The WANTED Five More Autos to Take Some Poor Kids Out to the Hyde Park Picnic Tuesday for at least thirty mantled. Not satisfied with taking a i u8jyi but no troubls la anticipated In large quantity of goods ths thieves netting this through, Aug. IB, destroyed other property. Deputy Sheriff Harger and Mr, Malone left for McLoln Monday In an automobile, "Wit" Rupert, assltant chief nt tectives on Muskogee secret sorr i tell you," said Mr, Rosecrans, "the people have Just begun to realise what great plant we can build there, didn't think at first that It a They made at Dayton, Florida, where It traveled two miles In 57 seconds.

Since then It has been Improved In many ways And much faster. The car that Dlsbrow will send after the world's mark here Is the Simplex Zip, holder of seven world's dirt track marks. The only records that It does not hold a half mile track are the half and mile figures and Muskogee speed fans may see It acquire these two records nest Sat- Shot and ProbaDiy VJKUUSJ? I Wounded torney in New York vice fores, has gone to his ranch near 'worked ii'irih and west, At the tjnn in hand writing of physicians elusion of the evening's work the gov DhaSnggtoUf will be urged before was satisfied, he that the Cimarron, to take a vocation, md pharmacists win urg prolBO were well organised, Bupert has been the Sixtieth annual convention ttio aesui'Utiluii Were dark, with American Pharmaceutical which opened here today, A Hon suggesting regulating as means and. well patronlswl, Jr lealhl" writing and recording of i nothing Indicate (hat ntintis will be Introduced, Ww happened easept presence of "SBS ik. union In III health for a forthV word" had been passed down the month or more and eecured a leave of resolu- li.e and the Joints usually most active absence until the Muekogee lair starts.

3, niirna no.reel detective, has nary, nickname, Shades of Old Nlok uinounted to very much, but they see rday. now that It Is a big proposition," is i The other drivers are all well known very proud of the work dun 0 to date, 'm the auto world. Joe Nlkrent una very sanguine for the future California, holder of seven the Grand dam A trip of Muskogee bbuslness men to Fort Gibson ie planned for one day this week and a meeting will be held with the business men of that town of world 's speed marks and driver of the famous Case Bullet and Heinle tllbrecht, the German pilot who came to this country hut a abort time ago, are two of the best known spaed demons who are for a better undemanding of the entered In the Blgtn will plans by all, Vor is really more of stop off here on their way from Kort atbson project than to give Dlsbrow to Mt4 Brown. 'I Won't five ownere of autos come to the aid of the poor children of the city and loan the use of their cars for a short tune Tuesday afternoon, just long enough to take the kiddies) to Hyde park for a picnic and to bring them back to town when the picnic fun. Is overT Eight auto loads of children hare been invited to' that picnic.

And only three autos have been offered 'go far. Just think how dreadful it would he If part of those youngsters went tn those three autos to plcnio and the others had to stay at home because there wasn't room enough to take them all. They have been thinking and talking of nothing but that picnic for a whole week. Why, next to Christmas and the Ptourth of July it Is going to be the greatest event of the year for them. Most of them have never seen Hyde park.

Not half a dosen of the lot have ever had an auto ride. Tou, Mr, Auto Owner, who ride every day cannot realise what joy Juet that one auto ride will bring to those kiddles' hearts. Won't you help them to that afternoon of pleasure? It will take so little of your time: It won't hurt the ear and will bo a bright memory of the happiness you helped along In your heart far many a day Just csll Miss Hunter, 'phone this very minute and tell her you will take a few of those youngsters to Hyde park Tuesday afternoon. Iowa has in eleven-year-old mother. But let us hope that Iowa Isn't proud of her "heathen New York.

Vaeh. district of, (Btaten oftwf'' down in his private office Staple-' 1 ton today by it rounds and probably The woman probably pad A 2a tl Entering the prosecutor'a conversation, then remarked "had present revolver and fired three otV which 'took effect One bpJIofcrefcrr I tered the prosecutor's breast another passed through his liver and the third lodged. In right, les. Mrs. Kdmunda wag she could get away from Ing.

She told the police hatf, been arguing with Itf, he hod struck ber. She alwaya rled a revolver, she teot her from her enemies. Mr. Facb hag wifo Md WILL SELL SOME Washington, Aug. 1 passed a bill Of the Interior to sell under such as be may determine tho land and tlw -I' j' ber In Oklahoma belonging to' tho Civilised There are 10J0O acres)' of the land which, with the timber, expected to bring upwards of Tim land to be sold under pagsed today has become quite In Oklahoma and was responsible 1 Investigation.

It sixteen rtiong in the aoutheastem port Choctaw nation In, the vicinity of kobama and la considered the beef per land in At tho Urns) 1 Umber lands of tho OtrtUmA tftftpfj were measured and appraisedttissogrt teen wero "mlgood- lwr and it APprsJsment was mads that take was discovered. It theft late to include them In the orbjlnnl'l authorising the at Umber;" and It necessary to bill to provide for the sale. Henry, BbACK. nuus. om BUS?.