Independence Daily Reporter from Independence, Kansas • Page 1

Reporter ADS For Result! B6e Reporter DOCS Job Printing State Hrstovlcal Society THE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT IS PUBLISHED EXCLUSIVELY IN THE REPORTER TEN PAGES FRIDAY EVENING INDEPENDENCE, KANSAS DECEMBER 11 1908. TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR NO 83 Reporter Want Ads almost invariably bring results. If you are in need of anything try one. 3 lines 3 times 25c i WAS NO TRUTH IN IT A ROMANCE IN OIL DENIES THE RUMOR CRITIC! HAN KILLED THIS MORNING HE WORE NO CLOTHES ADAM GOD IS TAKEN PRESIDENT CONGRESS RESENTS UTTERANCE OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE IN SESSION. RAZED PENN.

DEPOT IT IS CLAIMED PRESIDENT GAVE WRITTEN ORDER FOR TEARING DOWN OF U. S. PROPERTY AND THE SELLING THEREOF A SUBCOMMITTEE INVESTIGATES THE MATTE I AND PUTS PRESIDENTS AIDE, COL. CHAS. BHOWNELL, ON THE WITNESS STAND.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. Attention was called to-day to the fact that the utterances of the President in regard to the action of Congress in limiting the use of secret service force is not the only action of the exocutiv consid-red objectionable by the members. A subcommittee of the committee on appropriations learned to-day that Col. Chas.

S. Brownoll, military aide to the President and Superintendent of public buildings and grounds, razed the old Pennsylvania, depot, located on the Mall, by a written order of the President. "Do you know of any law on the statute books that authorizes any executive officer to sell any property of the United States of that character of real estate?" inquired chairman Taw-ney, of Minnesota. "No, sir. I called the attention of the higher authorities to that effect, and received an order to tear tho building down," replied the President's aide.

1 The committee is also investigating the right of the country live stock commission, appointee by the President, to use the franking privilege, as it was claimed had been done. CITY AND VICINITY. iTT Marriage Licenses. The following marriage licenses were issued to-day: Frank M. Boyer, age 20, of Independence, to Tressa Collier, age 19, also of this city; Henry Karns, age 21, of Fre-donla, to Daisy M.

Saunders, age 15, of Elk City. Had Hearing. Will Love, one of the Coffeyville robbers who looted a store there a few days ago, pleaded not guilty on a preliminary hearing to-day. Brady, who was caught at the same time, pleaded guilty last Saturday and said Love was guilty, too. Love was bound over.

Gave Himself Up. Gus Hill, of Coffeyville, gave himself up to the sheriff here yesterday afternoon. Hill was wanted on a charge of selling liquor contrary to law and had a suit started against him in the Coffeyville courts by. ex-County Attorney Bucher. Action has now been brought against him in the district court.

Musical Club Concert The Independence Musical club will give a concert tonight at the auditorium and a good program has been prepared. The club deserves to have a full house and it is hoped that the people of the city will appreciate the efforts of the organization in endeavoring to give a good treat and anyone who attends will not begrudge the small admission of thirty-five cents which is to be charged. Besides the chorus numbers the McCray concert band will give several selections and Prof. H. H.

Ryan is scheduled for two violin solos while Frank Devore is on the program for a Euphonium solo. Both men are well known musicians and are worth going a long way to hear. CHAIRMAN MACK, OF DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE, SAYS THERE IS NO TROUBLE THERE. Mack and Secretary Woodson Arc on Good Term Committee Will Probably not Meet for Three Years, Suys tlio Cliuirinun. BUFFALO, N.

Dec. 11. Norman E. Mack, chairman of the Democratic national committee, when asked about the published report that a disagreement had developed between himself and Secretary Woodson, of the committee, said, "There is nothing in it; nothing at all." "Will the Democratic national committee meet soon?" "Unless something now unforsecn arises the committee is not likely to meet for three years," was Mack's reply. HILL IS INAUGURATED.

President of University of Michigan Takes His Scat. COLUMBIA, Dec. 11. Dr. Albert Ross Hill was formally inaugurated bh the president of the University of Missouri here t'oday.

Ex-governor Francis officiated. Governor Folk and Governor-elect Hadley were present. RIVERS AND HARBORS CONGRESS CLOSES. Iiast Session Held To-day Reports Are Presented. WASHINGTON, Dec.

11. At the closing session of the national rivers and harbors congress held to-day, the annual report by the special director, secretary and treasurer were presented. There were a number of brief addresses by various delegates. CITY AN I VICINITY. Was Not True.

A rumor was circulated about town to-day that Weggen, the Parsons ex-policeman and crook, had committed suicide. A telephone message to Parsons proved that the story was a fake. SITE TODAY ACCEPTED GOVERNMENT WILL PUT UP A BUILDING IN THE NEAR FUTURE. Matter of a Site Has Held Off Action For Some Time, but Mayor is Notified That One is Accepted Will Cost $1 1,700. PARSON'S, Dec.

11. Word was received to-day by the mayor here, in a letter from Washington that the federal building site in'thi3 city has been accepted and that matters will now be hurried. This matter has been under consideration by the federal authorities for some time and the outcome has been anxiously awaited in Parsons. The site selected and accepted was at the corner of Main and Seventeenth streets. The building to be erected will cost $14,700.

HOLD SPECIAL MEETING OF COUNCIL TO-NIGHT. City Soloiis Meet Transact Special Business of Importance. -will be a snecial meeting of the city council this evening. The first matter to be taken up win De me canvass of the votes of the city elec tion. The building committee will also re-iMr nri tvm mana now submitted or to be submitted on the "city buildings.

i No other matters "will be consiaereu and the meeting wil very likely be a short one, i v. i 1 The Lord freezes the water, but wo are expected to cut our own ice. tn tne rne youin wno is it the foot the mark usually remains at me iuul. RUMOR THAT OWEN GAS COM PANY HAD SOLD TO STANDARD IS EXPLODED. Government Examination Proves Tliat Owen Company in Oklahoma Jumps Owen Company in Oklahoma Pumps Gas to Caney But Standard Has no Interest.

GUTHRIE, Dec. 11. Charles W. Owen of the Owen gas pipe line who is in Guthrie, denies that there Is any foundation for rumors that his company is supplying Oklahoma gas to the Kansas Natural Gas company, or to any other Kansas consumers, other than those named in his agreement with the state. Upon the day the state was admitted it was reported to Governor Haskell that the Standard Oil company had acquired the Owen line and was building a connection for the purpose of pipeing gas out of the state.

The governor immediately telegraphed the local officers of Washington county to get out an injunction stopping the alleged work. A suit was brought and an injunction secured against piping gas out of the state. Upon investigation, however, it was found that before statehood the Owens company was piping gas from four sections of land in Washington county to several consumers in Caney, and that the company had a vested right to supply those customers until, the contracts expired. These ran from fifteen to twenty years and Attorney West signed an agreement with Owen to per mit the continued exercise of this right until the existing contracts expired. It was stipulated in the contract that the Owen company was to take out a domestic charter which was complied with.

CITY AND VICINITY. Postponed. The hearing of the proprietors of the Model grocery in Coffeyville has been postponed until next Monday on request of the defendants. These men were arretted for violating the pure food law by selling "Frcez-em" pickling salt without stating its in gredicnts on the package. LOCKED INJWN JAIL OKLAHOMA MARSHAL LOOKS ON WINE WHEN RED WITH BAD RESULTS.

Brings Booze to Jail, Where He Has Confined Women Prisoners, aud Pays Fair Charges a Visit Deputy Locks Door. BOSWELL, Dec. 11 Locked in his own jail, held prisoner with two women upon whom he had previously turned the keys Such was the ludicrous predicament in which the marshal of Boswell found himself. Two women, not exactly of the Caesar's wife type, arrived in town. The marshal arrested them and locked them up.

Fearing that the women might get lonesome during the evening hours, the town marshal selected a quartet of his boon companions and proceeded to the jail with several pints of portable ecstacies. The crowd proceeded to have the best time but about 10 o'clock the deputy sheriff thinking of his wife and little ones at home, crept out of the jail and thoughtlessly turned the keys upon the revellers inside. The girls after a while set up a series of howls that brought the neighbors to the jail. The marshal was released and County Attorney Willis from Hugo is looking into the affair. Is Bad Ncw.s Word was received today, that the nine months' old baby of Mr.

and Mrs. Sam Schick, now of Meadsvllle, but formerly of this city, had died. Death came Sunday morning. Dr. Bolard here is an uncle of Mr.

Schick's. Mr. Schick was at one time business manager of the Reporter and has many friends in Independence who sympathize deeply with him in his trouble. Fifty well filled baskets will be dispatched for the good of the poor. There will be enough in each basket to fill the gastronomic regions of a family of five.

The army in its work is enabled to see conditions as they are and have the truly needy ones picked out. This charity is fi. good as the best and should be aldev THE WEATHER. CHICAGO, Dec. 11.

KanC Jair and warmer tonight and Saturday. PITTSHURGERS ATTAIN CONTROL OF RICH TRACT IN OKLAHOMA. Many Influential Interests Had Been After Lenses for Years That Were Finally Won Through Sentiment A Noted Case. CHICAGO, Dec. 11.

Because Lieutenant Franklin R. Kenney, United States Army, formerly of Pittsburg, once saved the life of a man. Pittsburg capitalists, headed by Ernest W. Marland, have acquired by lease the famous 101 ranch at Ponca, which the Standard Oil company and the Santa Fe railroad have been fighting to buy for years because of its immense oil and gas interests. The ranch, which borders the great Indian reservation, comprises more than 100,000 acres.

The greatest gas well in the world is said to have been discovered there recently, just over the border in the Osage nation. George L. Miller, a friend of Governor Haskell has long been the owner of the ranch. For five years he has remained obdurate to the offers of enormous sums of money for the land. Recently Pittsburg people learned that Lieutenant Kenney, now in charge of the South State street army recruiting office here, was a personal friend of Miller and engaged him as their special envoy to Oklahoma.

Kenney obtained a furlough, went to Oklahoma and returned in a week with a lease to the oil, gas and oilier mineral rights. A few years ago Lieutenant Kenney, while stationed in Oklahoma City, became embroiled in a feud in which Miller was a principal figure, and in the midst of a duel in the streets, Kenney, dashing in between the antagonists, destroyed the aim of Miller's enemy, saving Miller's life and himself falling almost fatally wounded. Kenney recovered and came east with the promise of Miller that the army officer could have anything the ranch owner had in the world. The acquisition of the ranch includes options on more 400,000 acres of adjoining territory equally rich in natural wealth. COMMITTEE APPOINTED CONGRESS MAY TAKE ACTION ON PORTION OF PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.

Five Members Are Designated as an Investigating' Committee in a Motion Made To-day by Representative Perkins of New York. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. Representative Perkins of New York to-day introduced a resolution providing for the appointment of a special committee of five members to consider the proper means of dealing with that portion of the President's message which criticises the course of Congress in prohibiting the detail of secret service men to duty outside of their own bureau. CITY AND VICINITY.

Offer Reward The O. E. Woods Lumber company has offered a reward of $10 for the return of the papers stolen from their safe last Saturday night. The documents are valueless to the thief and the company believes it more than possible that they have been thrown away in some alley. Here is a possible chance for some boy with bright eyes to make a small fortune.

The Wonderful Power of Small Things Is shown by the fact that a mushroom cum lift a paving stone. Another striking example is the immediate effect of a three-line advertisement in The Reporter Want Columns. Three lines, three times, 25c. Every town 1ms a leading newspaper which is read by more people than any other paper in the community, and which is looked upon as the 'Old Reliable." That paper always enrries the classified ads. People go to it if they wnnt to buy, sell, exchange or bargain.

IN INDEPENDENCE T1LVT PAPER IS THE REPORTER. The Reporter carries as many classilied ads. as all other pitpei's in Independency and Coffeyville combined. 3 lines, 3 times, 25 cents. PHONE REPORTER NO.

11. TRIED TO BUM RIDE ON SWITCH TRAIN AND FELL UNDER THE WHEELS. VICTIM IS UNKNOWN ACCIDENT OCCURRED IN THE MISSOURI PACIFIC YARDS AT ABOUT SEVEN O'CLOCK WAS A RIG MAN ABOUT 45 OF 50 YEARS OF AGE TOOK SWITCH TRAIN FOR FREIGHT NORTHBOUND BODY WAS SEVERED AND ARM AND HAND CONE A DESCRIP. TION OF THE MAN AND CLOTH ING I'OLLOAVS. An unknown man attempted to steal a ride on a Missouri Pacific switch train in the yards a little after 7 o'clock this morning, evidently thinking it was an outbound freight.

He missed his hold on the iron rungs of the ladder at the end of the car, and fell under the whels. He was killed immediately, two cars and the trucks of another passing over his body and cutting it nearly in two just across the abdomen. The train crew saw the man's attempt to "hop" the car but were unable to do anything toward stopping the train in time. The sheriff's office and the police force were immediately notified and Sheriff Love hastened 'at once to the yards. He took possession of a few papers that were found on.the man but there was nothing to Identify him.

A letter was found with the post mark and the date line torn, off; also a note book with a five-dolar bill pinned inside, nothing, however, that would lead to an Identification. Aside from the cut across the middle of'the 'or teriate man's body, other injuries were inflicted. His right arm was broken Just below the elbow and the bone and hand torn from the rest" of the corpse. The left hand waa also badly mangled. A slight cut was found on the head but the face Is singularly -free from injuries.

The man was evidently hoboing it out of town and was aiming to take a northward course for it was In that direction that the switch engine was-go- ing at the time of the accident. The victim a big man, of about 45 or 50 years of age, weighing probably 180 pounds or more, and would probably have stood nearly six feet. He had medium brown hair, a short moustache of the satua hue and rather bushy eye msnes. He was very heavily dressed, wearing a dark overcoat, a black Stetson hat, quite new, a full suit of a dark salt-and-pepper pattern, a lighter pair of trousers under the black ones, a pair of new shoes and good overshoes of the buckle pattern. He wore a dark shirt with no necktie.

So far none of the officers or others have been able to identify him. The corpse lies at the Walters undertaking parlors. parlors. In a pocket were found tax receipts for three quarter-sections in Grant county, Kansas. ASSOCIATED CHARITIES MEET.

There will he a meeting of the As- sociated Charities Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock, Dec. 14, at the home of Mrs. T. J. Booth.

A full attendance Is requested. ll-2t unr.ssafiT! Almost without exception the many mesages which have been sent to congress by Theodore Roosevelt, during the seven years of his incumbency in the presl- dential office, have been unusual in a variety of particulars. Many of them have been really remark- able because of their radical rec- ommendations for legislation, that is remarkable in this respect because of their having come from from a Republican presi- dent. But none of them have been quite so unusual and re- markable in one regard as is this last regular one which was read today in both branches of the na- tional legislature. It becomes such because of the fact that there is not a word in It on the subject of tariff revision, 'which is really the burning public ques- tion before the people of the United States today and which will far overshadow all other public questions of moment un- til it is disposed of 'in some way by congress a few months Topeka Capital.

jv i JAMES SHARP, "HOLY ROLLER," OF KANSAS CITY, ONCE "CUT UP" IN OKLAHOMA. HE PARADED STREETS LEADER OF RELIGIOUS FANAT-ICK WHO FOUGHT THE POLICE IN KANSAS CITY RECENTLY, ONCE FULLED OFF A STUNT IN OKLAHOMA CITY IN 1004 WITH WIFE AND CHILD HE WALKED IN THE NUDE UNTIL ARRESTED GAVE AWAY A FARM MOKE HISTORY OF THIS THOUiLE-MAKEK. OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 11. James Sharp, the religious fanatic, who figures in the sensational killing affray in Kansas City, first made his appearance in Oklahoma City in March, 1904, when late in the afternoon of a chilly day, Sharp, his wife, their son, a boy of 12, and a young man named Green, who announced himself as Jesus Christ all in the nude, and without even the conventional leaf, paraded Broadway in the immediate neighborhood of the police station.

They were arrested and subjected to inquiry as to their sanity, but were released on promise to leave the country and never to return. In 1906 they returned and established "heaven" on a tract of land near Oklahoma City, owned by a farmer who became one of Sharp's disciples. The farmer's daughter joined the fanatics, as she said, to please her father. Rumor of their wierd and unnatural orgies aroused the countryside and complaints made to the county authorities resulted in the arrest of the leaders of the fanatic colony. Again Sharp and his followers were released upon a promise to leave the country, and they started on an overland migration to join the Holy Rollers of the Northwest.

When first seen in Oklahoma City Sharp claimed to be the Prophet Elijah and was submissive to Green, who enacted the role of Christ. The latter ordered the nude parade to be made as "a warning of the wrath to come," declaring that the city would be destroyed within twenty-four hours after the Edenio performance. Sharp, when last here, related that he was born in a small interior town of and later was for many years a professional pickpocket and gambler on the Mississippi river steamboats. Reforming, he came to Oklahoma when the territory was opened to white settlement and secured a line claim in what is now Woodward county. One bright night he was thrilled by seeing a brilliant shooting star in the eastern sky and interpreted this as a call from on high to "go forth and preach the gospel unto all nations." The next day he gave away his farm and with his wife and baby boy set out upon an everlasting pilgrimage.

Boyer-Colyer Frank M. Boyer and Miss Tressa Colyer were quietly married at the home of Rev. Longston of the Christian church this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The young people are well known hf re and their many friends although expecting the event to take place will be rather surprised to learn of It. Both the young people are well known here.

The groom is employed at the Prairie Oil Gas Co. offices and Miss Colyer is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Colyer of Westminister place. The parents of the groom formerly lived in this city but are now residing in Sa-pulpa.

Mr. and Mrs. Boyer will be at home to their friends at their home on North Fifth street. Governor-elect Stubbs is growing very enthusiastic over the conservation nnnm-ess now being held in AVashing- i ton ana is one ui inc ovi.vc I In attendance at the meeting, uoun a u-ua On November 2. 1908.

the plaintiff was in her room and stepped on the loose end of a board. Her foot went through the carpet that covered the floor and her ankle was badly wrenched, as well as other muscles and portions of her body. Plaintiff alleges that her injury has cost her in doctor bills and medicines, about $500, and that it will cost her $1,000 more before she is through. Her feelings and the permanent injuries, she thinks, should be worth $10,000 and sues for the whole sum of $11,500. RELIGIOUS FANATIC SURRENDERS TO FARMERS-FOUND IN STRAWSTACK.

HE WAS WOUNDED HAD LOST MUCH BLOOD AND OFFERED NO RESISTANCE R. M. HLAIR AND E. P. BARRELL ARE MEN WHO TOOK SHARP PRISONERTHEY WILD GET $100 REWARD WILD BE TAKEN TO KANSAS CITY, WHERE STRONG GUARD WILL BE KEPT'.

After fifty hours' search by the local police and officers of nearby towns, James Sharp, who styles himself "Adam God," was captured near Mon-ticello, Johnson county, Kansas, yesterday. News of Sharp's arrest reached the police yesterday afternoon. A farmer named R. M. Blair and E.

P. Barrett, his hired man, found Sharp hiding in a strawstack, one mile south of Mon-ticello. Sharp admitted that he was the man wanted, surrendered to Bair after a repeating shotgun had been thrown down on him and was later turned over to Sheriff Steed, who came out in a buggy from Olathe after the prisoner. Prom there Sharp will be taken to Kansas City by Cspt. Walter Whitsett and Inspector of Detectives Charles Ryan, who went after him.

The captor of the fanatic tells the following story of the capture: "Just about daylight this morning I saw a man lying but on the road near my house. From what I had read In the papers I at once thought the man was the fanatic. He was lying with his hands in his pockets and did not seem willing to talk. At sight me he struggled to his feet and staggered on down the road toward Olathe. "I was more sure than ever then that he was the right man and decided after a while to follow him.

I called up Olathe and got a full description of the man, and then getting my hired man we took a wagon and started UUli ii. distances -we would scour the fields. "I am Ailnm God." "About 3:30 p. m. Barrett came upon the same man, hands still in his pockets, lying in a straw stack on Frank Goodway's farm.

Barrett had only a 22-caliber rifle, so he made ih attempt to land the fellow, thinking he was better armed. He ran to where I w-as and told me of what he had found." Mr. Bair then told of how he cau-tlonsly approached the straw stack. When he came to where he could get the drop on the fanatic. Mr.

Blair stepped into view and covered him with a repeating shotgun. "Throw up your hands," Blair commanded. "I can't," answered the man feebly. "Then crawl out of there, and that quick, too," was the next command. With his hands still in his pockets, the fanatic placed his elbows on the ground, crawled out and managed to struggle to his feet again.

"Who are you, asked Mr. Blair, his gun-still levelled at the man who paid little notice to it. "I am James Sharp, 'Adam THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. The message read to Congress yesterday may be President Roosevelt's last one to that body. It is not wise to assume now that it is positively his last one, for an executive like Roosevelt will cer- tainly send another if anything comes up that he wants to bring before that body or the general public.

His message set forth the ex- cellent financial condition of the country and also points out the fact that despite the panic that the national have been re- dueed, as have also the taxes in a slight degree. He asks respect for the laws and urges labor to 4 demand legislation, but not ask for privileges not accorded to other classes. He says the per- manent safety of the nation lies in keeping down class feeling and 4 supporting equal rights to all re- gardless of station or Wealth. The message shows him to be a statesman, and will add to his reputation as a master of big problems. Coffeyvllle Journal.

Begins Suit For Big The Salvation Army Is Preparing For Christmas In Strict A $11,500 damage case was started, in the district court today when Jennie M. Edwards filed a petition, alleging damages in that amount against Geo. Francis and others. All parties are from Coffeyvllle. The plaintiff alleges that she was living in a rented room in a house be longing to the defendants, in the city of Coffeyville.

Owing, she claims, to the negligence of the defendants, a number of boards in the floor of her room were loose and the ends inse curely fastened down. The Salvation Army has already started activity along Christmas lines. The lassies are now circulating among the residence districts with a request for aid in preparing a big dinner for the worthy poor on the day of cheer. They report considerable success even this early. A canvass of the business houses and offices will be made later on.

It is the intention of the army to send out baskets filled with uncooked foods and vegetables. Clothes or presents of any sort will of course, also be 'i.