Muskogee Times-Democrat from Muskogee, Oklahoma • Page 1

WEATHER and Sunday' lair. i CITY EDITION VOLUME 54 MUSKOGEE OKLAHOMA, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS BADLY BURNED 4 BY BOYS AS A TARGET London, Feb. Gainsbor Otigh portrait was used as a target by I youthful archers," was the statement tnade yesterday by' an attorney In accounting for some marks of restoration on "a pic to re, the possession of Which is now the subject of a law- BUit. The portrait was recently sold at Christies Recounting the personality of the portrait the lawyer said that it had Itung on tlje walls of a rectory and tliat the two sons of th rector armed With'bows and arrows, had used it as a target for a shooting match.

The face was the bull's eye. One archer made an "inner" piecing for the ladies neck. James Purcell Tells How He and His Associates Were Held Up by New York Police for Revelation of the Graft System Coming Swiftly Now New York, Feb. Commissioner Waldo today took up the lead opened by the aldermanic investigation of police graft and began inquiring Into charges made by James Purcell. a veteran gambler, against four captains now on the force.

The persons Purcell charged with receiving tribute for protecting his gambling establishments are Patrick Gray. Chas. Murphy, the Tammany leader, and Captains Martens, Maude and Cochrane. Others he mentioned no longer are on the force- K. H.

LuW nesday. issued Thursday, Guilty Friday to Pen Same Funds of Baak of Which He Was President New Feb. even two dead, some retired, some on the New York police force, were branded as grafters or tweens the recital ot James Purcell, a veteran gambler who told the aldermanic Investigating committee how. he and his assistants had given up $60,000 protection money In seventeen years. His story was the most important told to the commit- Ilea conditions following the murder' lot Herman Rosenthal shot down he squealed.

There was no session of the alder- nanic committee today, and it was not made known whether Purcell I 'ould be recalled to the stand on tonday. Interest centered largely at police headquarters though It was not believed that Commissioner Waldi vould suspend any of those mentioned Purcell until he had confirmed the nth of the charges an independent Investigation, kThe aldermanic committee Is work- hand with the district at- frney's office and as the police de- rtment and the district attorney at daggers -point neither is nc- the word or co-operating the other In any way. Monday Captain Thomas Walsh, recently confessed grafting implicated Inspector is to go before the grand Jury tell his story. Both he and Swee- are now under suspension, fter the Walsh evidence is present- will tell his tale to Bd jury and a big batch of indlct- ts is expected within ten days. Iby R.

II. Lusk, president of the First National bank of Wilburton which was recently closed arrived in Muskogee Friday afternoon on the Flyer. He was accompanied by his -attorney-and- gage as if he take an extended journey. Five hours later he left Muskogee but this time he was accompanied" by U. S.

Marshal S. G. Victor and today he is a prisoner In the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, where he will remain for the next five Lusk's -indictment, arrest sentence and committment were surrounded with the greatest mystery and but few federal attaches knew that he had appeared in court and entered a plea of guilty. was indicted by the federal grand Jury, which made a partial report Wednesday, of isapproprlating the funds Of the First National bank of WUburton while was an officer of that institution. He Is a son-in-law of Col.

Busby, one of the wealthiest and most prominent citizens of Pittsburg county and it was hoped ait one time that criminal prosecution would be avoided. After the bank was closed LuSk admitted that lost some money in speculations but his friends and relatives made these losses good and the bank was reorganized. I District Attorney Gregg took a different view of the matter and the bank failure was one of the first matters brought to the attention of the grand Jury and an indictment was immediately returned. The warrant to arrest was turned over to Marshal Victor Thursday and Lusk was notified to appear in courts Word was sent back that Mr. Lusk would come to Muskogee on the first train and enter a plea of guilty.

True to his promise he left his home in WUburton Friday morning, spent part of the day in McAlester winding up his business affairs and when the Flyer pulled in from the south it as a passenger for Muskpgee. The word had been quietly tipped off that Lusk was to appear in court late in the afternoon and a few minutes after five "hanker ppt In appearance. After Judge Campbell ascended the bench the case was called and, Lusk waived the reading of the indictment and entered a plea of guilty. A sentence of five years was imposed by the court and within a few minutes after Mr. Lusk had entered the court room he was under sentence.

Mr. Lusk was not placed in Jail while here but was cared for by Marshal Victor. The marshal and his prisoner took the eleven o'clock train out of Muskogee and this morning Mr. Lusk arrived in Leavenworth and started the serving of his five year sentence. With his Santa body flamrag like a blow-torch, Finley Keeth, fifteen years' old, employed by the Muskogee Cleaning company, 214 East Broadway, cried "out for help about- lev cl( Saturday morning, af- ter he had gone to a gas stove to warm with F.

Simpsofi In the cleaning establishment, saw the boy's plight, and by wrapping hlm. heavy probably saved his life. Keeth is now at home wlh his family in the Denver apartments, and is painfully, though probably not seriously, burned. The lad had just come from the company's cleaning plant, half a block distant, where he had been working In gasoline. His hands and clothing must have been saturated, for when he extended his hands over the fire, flames burst from a half dozen spots on hla arms and body.

Mr. Finley grabbed some clothing, and wrapped the goods about the boy's arms. Failing to ex-' tinguish the flames, he picked up a whole armful'of clothes from the rack, and a small rug, and literally smothered the fire. The boy was then taken to a drug store, where his burns were, dressed, and then was escorted to hli home, -o TECUMSEH WON COUNTY Teoumseh, Feb. Complete returns, though unofficial, show Shawnee to have received 107 votes less than the 60 per cent, required to remove the cftunty seat from Tecumseh, even conceding that a two- thirds majority was not needed at the election Wednesday.

The vote as counted stood, Shawnee, 4022; seh 2860. ACTRESS From McAJester Went to Memphis and Is Found In a Room With Her Skull Crushed-She May Die DELAPP RELEASED. Jess DeLapp. the janitor of the. Muskogee High school, who confessed to stealing from the students of the school, was released from the cltv Jail yesterday afternoon.

Because DeLapp had a wife and young babv depending on him for support, the members of the school board refused to prosecute. Memphis, Feb. woman believed to be Rosa Welts, actress, who came here from McAlester, Oklahoma, to join a theatrical comnany, wasjfound dying in a room at a local, hotel today. woman's skull was crushed ana she is now at the city hospital in a critical condition. Evidence in the room points to a desperate" struggle.

Tha police are searching for a man who registered at the hotel last night as J. K. Martin, and who said he was a cotton classer Of Memphis. £qj such person is known here. COUNTY OFFICES ptlng rn MEN CALM Itf THE FACE OF DANGER bw York.

Feb. men set bxample of remarkable calmness erday, when fifty of them, all tless, felt Jheir way quietly down the upper floors of an Institution Thirty-fifth street while the bulld- tras afire, lie men were weaving baskets and brooms when some of them Srops of water pattering down up- lem. here must be a fire," cried one. automatic sprinklers are work- 1 smell smoke. There is a fire," Jmed others.

And with little ado 'felt their way to the stairs and phed calmly down to the street, nen arrived a minutes later extinguished a small blaze which started the automatic sprinklers fwhlch was caught so quickly that little damage. HASKELL NEW8 SOLD, skell, Feb. L. Pen- st has sold the Haskell News F. Tillman.

The new owner been connected with the paper about a year. The News is one Sthe best country weeklies publUjh- the Indian Ageat at Pawhuska, To be Transferred to Fort Not Yet Named Word has been received from Washington that James A. Carroll, who succeeded Hugh Pltzer as Osage Indian agent at Pawhuska, at his own request, has been transferred to the agency at Fort Apache, Arizona, and that he will give up th Pawhuska office at the close of this month. Mr. Carroll's successor at Pawhuska has not been named, for the place to say the least is far from being a desirable one and it is difficult to get a man to carry the burden of a fight between th conflicting oil interests.

Affairs in the Osage' country had reached a crisis in' 1912 and Secretary Fisher personally requested Mr. Carroll to consent to a transfer from New Mexico to Pawhuska. The secretary la satisfied that Mr. Carroll performed his work well in Pawhuska and his request for a transfer will be agreed FLOWERS JURY STILL OUT. Wagoner, Feb.

Jury in the Gene Flowers murder case had failed to come to an agreement late this afternoon and a disagreement is possible. The jury retired Friday night but no balloting was done until this morning. "Stop? Do You Believe in Signs? It may Interest you to know th-t a lawyer received $10,000 for these thru took. Listen." The railroad irhich paid this sum for three words prevented mapy accidents and jfsaved thousands of dollars. This warning was placed at every-.

rossroad and made people, stop, look, and listen before crossing tracks. There are many Stop, Look, and Listen signs today that should Btir people to caution. Among these are the signs by which you nay identify the pure from the adulterated, wool from shoddy, gold jfrom tinsel, and the genuine from the imitation. It will payydu to stop, look, and listen every day to the advertisements in The Tinges-Democrat. Close and constant reading of Che advertisements will direct you in purchasing the.

most Reliable goods it. is possible to obtain. (Copyright. X912, by J. P.

Fallon.) (Staff Special.) Oklahoma City, harmonizing the various theories: of office consolidation were introduced in the house this afternoon by Carr of Muskogee, for the committee on county offices. They were prepared by a joint sub-committee of Representatives Carr and Mitchell and Senators Franklin and Mcintosh, as substitutes for a score of pending measures. One bill abolishes township offices, conferring duties on county commissioners. Another abolishes the county assessor, conferring his duties on the county treasurer, effective January, 1915. A third consolidates register of deeds, county court, county clerk and clerk of district court in counties under consolidating register of deeds with ty clerk in counties from 20,000 to 45,000, effective Jan, 1915.

A fourth permits one assistant county attorney in counties from 35,000 to 45,000 and as many as allowed by commissioners in larger counties. The fifth fixes salaries for county assessors prior to 1915, ranging, from $1,800 to $3,000 based on population. Under call of th4 house, Senator Garrett secured adoption of the emergency clause on his bill locating the blind school at Fort Gibson and appropriating $85,000 for buildings. The vote was thirty-one to four. Cutting the proposed tax fr6m three to one-half of one per cent, the house committee reported favorably Saturday afteriSbon on a bill levying, a gross production tax on oil.

Wright of Oklahoma and Senator Wilson introduced a bill, which is opposed by east side oil interests, YEAR OF THE BIG SNEEZE Chicago, 111., Feb. year of grace may pass into history as the year of the big sneeze taking rank with the "year of the big wind." Precisely at 10:30 o'clock this forenoon there was a chorug of sneez on the first floor of the wholesale house of Peter Van Schaack and Sons company on West Lake street. At 10.32 th wave of sneezes spread over the second flor until presently 125 ployes. Ker-Chewlng explosively rushed into the street. Explanation of the outburst was found in th fact 225 bags of BUI- phur Were nflr in the basement.

Crowds attracted by the fire engines, rushed to th scene but retired, sneezing. The fumes spread to adjoining buildings and their occupants emerged from the street red nosed, red eyed and sneezing. Firemen rushd into' the basement but quickly retreated sneezing and dragging twelve of their numner wno had been overcome by the fumes. So pungent were the fumes that only one stream of water could be applied to the fire. NINETY Mile Ride in a Motor Gar on Bitter Cold Night by Fiancee to Reach Lover Before He Died Hutchinson, Feb.

a ntnfety mile night ride in a'motor car, Miss Evanne Lad tad, nearly frozen, arrived in Hutchinson today to be at the bedside of Claude her affianced husband, mortally 111 er. She had missed train connections and, made the. trip overland despite the intense cold. She' found Chesbro barely conscious. He died an hour later.

Miss Laotaa and Chesbro were to have been married in June. CheBbro, although only twenty-four years old, had served four, years in the army, a part of that.time as. acting assistant paymaster In the Panama canal zone. Be came home sick from three SENATORIAL PALAVER SOMEWHAT CURTAILED (Staff Special.) Oklahoma City, Feb. senate sitting as a legislative body Friday frowned on any attempt to chanse Its rules as an impeachment court so as to give members of the court the priv- 11 re of talking or explaining their votes in the Journal.

The rules as adopted by the senate and enforced strictly by Justice Hayes of tire supreme court, presiding, bar discussion of motions, except iii executive session, and several senators who were hesitant about voting on a proposition Thursday, sought to make the ruieB more liberal in, that -t tioh. The senate met Friday principally to consider that question. Senator Campbell R'issell said he Was glad the rules cut off the "senatorial palaver," and Senator Garrett declared he had er enjoyed anything so much as seeing the rules enforced by Justice Hayes. ATTACK She is Dying a Lingering Death From Tuberculosis and the Doctors ho Might Save Her are Letting Her Die Just Because of a "Scientific" Quarrel (By W. G.

Shepherd.) LITTLE MARTHA SEEWALDfc THE DOCT'ORS ARB ALLOWING TO WASTE AWAY WITH TUBERCULAR SORES ON HER RIGHT WHOM DR FRIEDMAN IS SAID TO HAVE CURED, WERE EFFECTED Judge Fairer L. McCain today received from Governor Cruce his commission as judge of MusKogee county. The commission wad dated February 7. and according to Its term Judge McCain will hold office until January, lfllfi. unlens Iho oftico abolished or he resigns.

The appoint, ment of Judge McCain is practically the first intimation received in Muskogee that the supreme court when It handed down its decision a few days TWO NEGROES STOLE A G0W On the Fortress of Scutari by Montenegrin and Servian Armies Led hv Kintr He a trail VlonArmieSLea Dyeing judge8 (he HUper or court barn.for of a mUe and Nicholas in Person When Goo. Prlndle, Who lives two miles south of town, went to hla barn this morping he discovered that a fine milch cow lu.d disappeared during the the in well as the clerks should hnvo been 'he weeds he found, the hide and head elected in November. 1912, and where'' 0 the cow hlit the beef had dlsap- ho election was held it was up to the Peared. A posse.was organized head- pnnrnniTTA governor to till the -acahcy. The er- 1 ed by Al Todd with the Bayes Detec- FEB A rPiJcDji i TT ENEGRO fect of thP decision was not ascer-! Agency bloodhounds and at noon THE cOMBiNPn, tained until the opinion'was reu after a lpng run H.

J. and Emanuel AND senviAN ADMICO then there was consternation in Hardy two regroes were apprehended. OPENED ON TH? TiiBKiau the different counties where superior The negroes confessed that they had FORTRESS OF SCUTARl ax in courts nav Deen created. The situa- broken into the barn and After slaugh- O'CLOCK THIS MORN IN ft KINT tlon ln Muslt eo county wax brought! terlng the cow had taken the fresh NICHOLA8 OF MONTENEGRO IS to attention of Governor Cruce anJ meat to Muskogee and sold it to a PERSONALLY DIRECTING OPERA without any; hesitancy he named Judge Becond street butcher. They are now TIONS.

"McCain as his own successor and in the county jail and say they are signed his commission Friday. It is! ready to go to the penitentiary The allied Montenegrin and Servian artillery did effective work, silencing a Turkish battery on Muzelim Hill. The infantry followed up tho bombardment by storming the hill at the point of the- bayonet, driving the Turks out of their, works and capturing the position; sA was attempted by the Turkish troops south of Scutari, but was ineffective. Two Ottoman ships were sunk on Lake Scutari. 8taff Correspondence.

Berlin, Feb. 've been seeing at clOBe science, )f Which Berlin is the world's and it Isn't a pretty sight. It seems to me that "science," thou the 1 kindest human thing we know, is also the most heartless. Here's a true story of a Httl girl In Berlin, who Is feeling the cruel power of science, her mother, Mrs. George Seewald, told it to me: "My two children, Marthsj and George, both got tuberculosis.

It appeared in Martha when she was 4L years old. Now she is and she has" had tuberculosis of the bone and flesh for four years. When little George was 4 years old the disease appeared In the glands of his throat. The doctor could do nothing for them. "Dr.

August a famous phy- sician, had charee ot tnelr cases. One tlm Dr. Bier left the city for a while and Dr. Friedmann came to the 1 lc and gave George an Injection of his new medicine for tuberculosis. WITHIN TWO MONTHS GEORGE, WAS QUITE WELL, and there was.

only a clean healed scar on his neck where ther used to be a running sore. "When Dr. Bier came back to Ber-', lin he Haw what had happened to George, and he wrote a letter to Dr. Fribdmann, asking him to give the medicine to Martha also. "Befora doing so Dr.

went to talk to Dr. Bier about Mar- tha's case. I don't know what they'-: said to each other, but Dr. Friedmann told" 1 Dr. Bier said to him, very haughtily, YQU give the little, girl your medicine, and If you don 't cure her, I "Then Dr.

Friedmann answered, win not the ym i say YOU can cure and went? away. i i "And aver since then ths two I hsv been between them- vietves, and' Martha i a flatting worse' i all time." I went- to; IwrBier tnyselt and 4 BO Dr. Friedhiahh, elxnut IMflluUVf Dr. Bier said simply, "I will not mlt that if Dr. Friedmann cures Martha, his medicine is a cure for.

tuberculosis: Even tf FIFTY patients, un-; der Dr. Friedmann, recovered from tuberculosis, that would not be scientific proof that he had found a tuberculosis oiii Dr. said to. me: "It is. too bad, but I.will not treat little- girl until Dr.

Bier sends we a writ-. ten statement. over his own ture, that he cannot cure her. Bier is the chief obstacle to the progress of my remedy, and he must be removed." "But suppose the Uttle girt I said to Friedmann. i.i "It is Dr.

Bier's he replied. Martha's right arm is -slowly- eaten away by tuheroulosjs. She plays and goes tp school and not suffer much pain; 'but' -she Isl! doomed to a living the; quarrel between the two scientists is soon ended. Martha is a tiny Utile hit of humanity, caught between tWQ mill, tones of guinea ih its laboratory, dying of disease; dog, being cut to pieces alive by, One Httle girl being consumed by does she matter in the great war that" science is making against disease? The few must suffer for of the millions. That is their View.

No science in the making is not a nretty sicrht. understood that Governor will not be so willing ln some of the other counties and If the bill providing for the abolishing of tho superior courts ln all counties except Oklahoma and Muskogee does not piiss, It Is expected that the governor will not reappoint number of the judiys who have been legislatued cut of office as a result of the decision of the Oklahoma supreme court. Birdie Duke Disappeared But She's Married Nolo Birdie Duke, the eighteen year old daughter of A. W. Duke, a confectioner on South Second street, who was reported" mysteriously missing yesterday afternoon, was, not kidnapped as her father but eloped with Ferd Scherln, the owner of a racket store at Vian.

and the couple was married In Salllsaw yesterday. Duke reported to the Muskogee police last 'evening that his daughter had mysteriously disappeared, and the police searched for her until this morning. The 'father said' the girl had no sweetheart, but father did not know. The tip was glYen out this morning that the girl had eloped. Happy Mamie SeitB, the fat woman, who has a 22 Broadway, and who showed in Salllsaw and Vlari, when she heard of the girl's disappearance said.

"I'm wise, I'm wise. Why young Ferd Scherln at "Vian was perfectly dippy about her. Anybody with a pair of good eyes could tell that. Sh had the dips, too. Sure, everybody around the show.got wise;" J.

O. Seit said that Scherln had been in Muskogee for several days. "He showed me a roll of bills that wo.uld clog a hay "baler. He said he was going to enlist In the army, and had the papers in his pocket. These were not a.jnarrl- age license, believe f.

Mr. Duke teatnttt Of elopement mother of Ferd Scherin He was advised that the couple had gone to Salllsaw and were married. Duke said that he has sitic learned that Scherln had been in Muskogee for several days, and that the girl would slip off and meet him in the Midland Valley waiting room where they held court. Duke did not tear his havr and swear vengeance. He was not an Irate father.

Is ready to forgiv them and make the best of it, and has sent word to his daughter to write him ail about it. "While Ferd Is a young man of excellent habits, and he and his mother have some property and money besides a good little store, I was opposed to Birdie marrying anyone. She Is a frail little thing, her health is not good, arid I don't think she should married. "But then they are married, and I am going; to make the best, of It." Duke has considerable property ln May field, and has spent lavishly on his daughter. In fact, he has gratified her every whim.

He believed that she would never marry while be lived, for she had told nim so many times. Only a week or so ago she asked him if he would oppose her marriage to a man who had property, some money, and no bad habits. He told her he would so planned to elope wjih young Scherln. The girl met Scherln when her father opened a candy stand in Vian in the Bchwrin store and remained there several weeks before coming- to Bread" House Cost the City AYER8 BEATS I. D.

CO. In the suit brought by the MUBko- gee Industrial Development company against C. C. Avars' t'o recover on a subscription note $300, Special Judge Maxey who tried the case today decided in favor of Mr. Avers and against the plaintiff company.

The decision of the' court 'only affects the stockholders who failed to pay anything on their subscriptions. The case will be appealed by the Muskogee Industrial Development company. A BUSY WEEK FOR SCOUTS An entire re-districting "and paroling of the boy scouts in Muskogee will be effected next week, and culminating in a big scout meeting on Friday night, the week will be fuil of work for C. H. Fenstermacher, scout commissioner, and his assistants.

The mdvlng of boys from one part of the to another, and from one school to- another; necessitates the filling of the vacant places In the various patrols. New companies and groups under separate scout masters will be created, and promotions in the ranks made for the coming season of scout activity. On Friday night, every scout in the city Is expected to be present at ihfi meeting. Lantern slides Illustrating scout work will be shown, and then the following scout pins will be awarded: Four first class, twelve second class, and six tenJerfoot pins. The plans for the work And play of Muskogee's many boy scouts ulurtajr the entire year of m.

formulatsA The "ginger bread" house at Hyde park, constructed by the city at a coat of approximately $15,000, is finished, and Commissioner McCuskW this morning recommended that the, final estimate be allowed. The proposition, was voted down, Gulick and voting fcr the and Boon, Kennedy and Miller voting against It The mayor announced that he voted against It because he wants to take a look at it before It Is finally paid for. The "ginger bread" bouse is said to be a fine structure, one that would- be a credit to the civic center of any large city. It is 88x50 feet, built of gun-metal burned brick with white stone trimmings. It is so pretentious and has so much fancy work the workmen dubbed it the bread house." The "castlo" is to be used as a chemical house, for lime and iron, any Fngb Shults say? it la enough to the purple of a town of 120,000 people.

A commissioner said today tha house looked like it had been built for Gould- Sheppard. McC Turned Down. Commissioner McCusker asked ell for permission to line of the boilers with brick at the pump station, and do the work by day labor. McCusker did-not know what. It, would cost, but; thought, from IS00 to 1600; would be enough.

When Commissioner Qullck niede a.motion to allow McCusker to go ahead, limiting him to $800, McCusker balked. He wanted full sway to spend as much as he thought necessary. On a vote Mo- Cusker was turned down and Instructed to bring; in an estimate tar the city to pass upon. Pig Lead Some Cheap sr. McCusker has given up tluit UttHt habit of buylne pig lead a hundred.