Muskogee Times Democrat (Newspaper) - May 5, 1914, Muskogee, Oklahoma Weather Forecast Tonight Wednesday Ths Leading Afternoon Newspaper of Oklahoma YOUR RAILROAD PARE PAW BOTH WAYS IF YOU IN THE BEST MEN'S CLOTHING MARKET IN THE 8OUTHWE8T. TRY IT. VOLUME 125 TUESDAY MAY 5, 1914 HOME OLNEY DECLINES TO HEAD BANK BOARD 75 GIL MEN GOING BACK TO TAMPICO In Formal Letter To President Says He Cannot Accept The Offer To Become Governor Of Federal Reserve Looking For Another New England To Take The Place May Olney has addressed a letter to President Wilson formally the appointment aa governor of the federal reserve board of the new banking May 5.-While officials here declined to discuss the declination by Richard Olney of Boston of the appointment as governor of the federal reserve It Is known that they are in search of another New England man to fill the It was reported as likely that W. P. O. president of the First National bank of has been appointed member of the board from the would be named as Paul M. of New member of & and a student of foreign banking W. P. Q. president First National bank of and one of the leading bankers of the Harry A. vice president and director of the Union company of Chicago and until recently president of the States chamber of Dr. Adolph Casper professor of finance at the of California and now assistant to Lane of the Interior a political economist and writer on economics and These together secretary of the Treasury G. McAdoo arii John SKelton comptroller of the who are have been selected lo composo the federal reserve White House officials declined to say the nominations would be sent to the senate as they were awaiting today further word from Mr. as to his It was feared by persona close to the White House that he would not accept on account of his advanced Mr. Olney had been chosen for governor of the The four other it is all While Mr. Wheeler la a he has had an Intimate connection with the industrial and Commercial Mr. Warburg has toads a lifts long study of German banking methods and knows finance from a first hand connection With the greatest center in the Mr. Harding is regarded as an unusually able man of broad views and remarkable He is looked upon as one of the leading bankers of the Dr. MUler Is a trained economist and long a writer and student of This personnel follows the president's original idea of securing two Warburg and a business Mr. an economist and student of Dr. and a lawyer and business Richard * The declination of Mr. Olney Means the selection of another man who had a combined legal and business Under the ngw currency by the terms of which the president is have due regard for a fair representation of the different industrial and geographical divisions of the not more than of the five members of the federal reserve board can be selected under the law from the same reserve PLANTS Of Dynamite Scattered AH Along The Railroad From Vera Cruz To Mexico City Ready To Touch Off At A Moment's Notice STATE'S Agricultural Board Is Composed Of Five Men Appointed By The Says Supreme Court In Opinion Today May 5 rame from Cruz to the war department today that the Mexican federal troops have mined the railroad tracks fmm Vera Cruz to Mexico City with his present ana n m command or me was learned today that he has more tnat Villa Join the federals in aveng than once hinted in his dispatches that ing the American occupation was de it would be advisable to take such livered to the federal It would be advisable to take such He has now under his command In addition to his the two cruisers and boat fleet of nine accompanied by his arrived here today on steamer from Two days will be spent in when the party will leave for New York by way of 00OOO0OO0O00OOO* CHARGE MEXICAN WOMAN KILLED EIGHT Bulletin from era Cru^ May 5.-A said is killed sight and marines by snipping them in the during the first days of the last night was given into the custody the m i I its ry A had informed army of her whereabouts Upon Which her house and a quantity of She will be tried by a military en of OOOOOOOO OfO O O O O O mm up 0. & 0. At Calvin And The Midland Valley At Withstand The Flood In The Eaty Has A North And South Texas Lines Are Trains may American employed in tne oil fields about sailed for that port today on the steamship If the is to discharge her passengers it will be taken to Vera The oil men said their return necessitated the situation the fields where the oil flowing They said they do not believe they will be molested by the Staff Oklahoma May 5.-Governor Cruce and the overwhelming vote of the people on the state board of agriculture controversy were upheld by the state supreme court in an opinion by Justice Loofbourrow held that the constitutional amendment reducing the board from eleven to five members had been legally By the Governor Grace's four beside President O. TT was by the are confirmed In while the hoard elected by a Institute In 1913, Is left without ground to stand as Is the group of eight men who claiming that they were elected at Stillwater and not certain eight of the The members of the board seated by the supreme are O. T. J. F. F. M. G. A. D. C. CONSUL Silliman Is Missing And State Department Has Reports That He Is Being Held Captive By Mexican Soldiers 6.-Alarmed by unofficial that Acting American Consul K. at San Luis has prisoner of General Mexican federal for two the state department today sent urgent telegrams of Inquiry him addressed to the Brazilian minister In Consul Miller at and Consul Hanna at regular post Wf out he was to San in the present Admiral Badger reports that he Is forming a special squadron under Admiral He did not Indicate what ships would be employed for this The Tacoma and the Des it was would remain under Admiral Mayo at for the It was also reported that thirteen Americans had been detained against their will at In the state of about sixty miles from This information was given to the British consul at by American refugees who said the Mex lean authorities gave as their reason for holding the a desire to aBsure their The British con sul has wired the governor of Puebla requesting their judge FOR JUDICIAL RACE Judge Charles Ha Kg has stripped for the race for district This is advisedly speaking for Judge Bagg who was district Judge for a time by of former Governor C. K. tracks reom vera appointment m tn preparation for the destruction of has stripped his he road In the event that the ht tQ the lean forces attempt a march on the to iover 18m .i k k i j Kee and Wagoner counties In his confirmation has been received of o it- i before the August reports that the San Francisco bridge - r The top and body of the car have been over the railroad had been removed leaving only two seats and a The mines are reported tc * v. big extra gasoline tank above the be located a half mile apart and lean soldiers have been detailed to T* to to Ket Tf ot touch off the fuses should hostilities eventuate rains let up the judge will These preparations and the throwing and ne can ran up of which are daily ter lonfer His Ing the position of the Mexican car eral troops are said to be a j source of worry to General V 1 x Wil and It Is understood that he welcome orders to start for the Mexican capital at Admiral Mayo at has In- May 5.-The an the navy department that ne 8wer of General Francisco Villa to would have no trouble In taking with his present forces and it | offer of federals request from Federal General command of the vered to the federal General Villa refused absolutely to himself or his men with the a torpedo and declared that the Huerta forces had foreign intervention for their own General letter to AT General letter to Villa an- May 6.-Theodore that In addition to obtaining Kv vera Cruz and the port of Salina Cruz the been seized by the United States forces on April it The crest of the disastrous flood In the Canadian which has cost hundreds of thousands Jn monetary damages and perhaps several Is now In the lower stretches of that Karly Tuesday morning a rise began hammering at the piers of the Midland Valley's bridge at but the rise fell short of reaching the girders of the The water had not cut the Midland line at any point at 2 o'clock I A two-foot rise recorded at the city pump station on the Arkansas river banks near Hyde park over day The water is red and cations are that the Arkansas is receiving the benefit of the rise re- 1 ported on the Cimarron Sunday Just how high the water tn the Arkansas will go Js a but it is not ex - J to a dangerous The water was receding early at the Katy's bridge at on the South where Monday night a section of the north approach was washed The rise was sixteen feet at and to cause much when as ly as they came the waters receded a foot or so. Then the fall wan more j Hope for the lives of three of the men washed Into the South Canadian when the Rock Island bridge at Geary collapsed woe abandoned late Monday The missing men are W. Warner and William anil Three other men who were washed Into river was on Katy are Tuesday via Southbound No. 5 left Muskogee at 9:46 a. ml | The only bridge across the Canadian river on a north and south railroad line Texas which was nt for use Tuesday was the fine new structure of the M. O. & G at Calvin Out of the or ten bridges subjected to the hammering of the It was the only one to so successfully withstand the onslaught that traffic was not interrupted for a Rock Island a mile above M. O & G. bridge at was unsafe early and Monday the approaches washed out The main structure was The M. O. & Is handling trains for a number of lines which are over River The built eight months nine feet higher than the Rock Island bridge at and is of the most improved EXPLOSION KILLS May 5.-An explosion this morning at the government of Panama of dynamite resulted in the killing of right Nineteen others were seriously injured The property was The explosion was caused by a brush Are which made its way into the Interior of the Six of the dead and most of wounded are firemen who had been summoned to combat the A man and a woman who were watching the blaze from a distance were torn to The concussion shook In addition to obliterating the the explosion caused considerable property damage In the IN May 5. - Foreign Secretary Grey win asked by Sir John David Unionist in the house of commons today to ask tne American government to abandon Its position for I he removal of General Huerta not cf greater moment that the restoration of peace and the protection of life and Industry in foreign secretary declined declaring that in of the fact that mediation had been undertaken hy Brazil and it could serve no useful purpose for the British government to make separate proposals on Its own account to cither Washington or Mexico SCHOOLYARD'S NEW OFFICERS At the regular monthly business meeting of the board of education Monday the election of for the coming year took B. A. Handle was elected H. M. vice and W. H. Davis re-elected A meeting of the board will be called soon for the purpose of electing teachers for the public schools next BEING Boulder Col May 5 Mrs Horace W. she has received a telegram via that her husband In the state of Vera Is being for ransom VOTERS And Bankers Were In Evidence Around The Grand Jury Room Where The Election Inquisition Is No Report Yet AGED MILLIONAIRE KILLED BY HIS SON WILL U.S. AID VILLA I o THE 8TOLE 0*9HAUGHNE9BY'8 To Become The Ruler Of Is The Want Put Up To President Stone Objects At three o'clock today practically every In the of the ward hart testified before the grand end it though men close to Nicholson committee would he called nett There was no that the Jury was to make anv report and County Disney to divulge about the Investigation except that it probably would be completed by tomorrow An dlr of and bustle outride the grand fury room the second probe of alleged tlon frauds was Many of the precinct voters apparently were in doubt as to Just what was wanted aid appeared astonished as witness after after being in court for a few moments It wan rumored that the were enly being whether anyone In the booth with them when Tate three Ben Kaufman and Jr. all of the American testified In Mr. Nicholson d. es his banking at this Institution and it Is their testimony related to the charge that Nicholson had paid George Merrlman to withdraw tho race for east side Dan campaign manager for and A. E. a closy personal followed the bankers into the Jury Among those who were waiting today to testify were H. also close to and George Others of the principal were that additional information would be sought from County Attorney Disney W G attorney for the league were in close conference with the election statute opened before This led to the belief that the Investigation had developed angle but could be Assistant County Attorney W. W. Cotton is aiding Mr. Disney In the examination of Mr. Robertson being prohibited by law from entering the grand luty May 5.-A resolution calling upon President Wilson for Information as to whether there in any basts for the statement published today that the president may aid Villa to become the next ruler of Mexico was introduced in the senate today by Senator of Rhode The under an objection bv Senator chairman of the foreign relations committee went over until Senator endeavored to have read Into the record biographical sketch of Villa published In a London but Senator Stone cut him off. Senator Lodge promised to read it would like to ask the chairman of the foreign relations said Senator there la any truth in the statement that the state department is preparing a life of Pancho Villa for tho Information of the have seen such a statement In the replied Senator Stonn and closed the Senator Lodge took tho floor later In the day and read the newspaper article He said that is interested in the canal and that the States in turn Is Interested In whoever becomes ruler of Villa Is a candidate for that said the senator The article recited the career of Villa from his birth to the present It portrayed the constitutional general an a of defenseless a a violator of and atrocities for which it said Villa was see it stated that the state department In preparing a of Pancho Villa and I offer these statements for its said Senator MET PREACHER WITH A NO WEDDING Girl Who Poses As Man Second Time And Is Arrested - Doctor Signed Eugenic Certificate May 5.-(Special.)-When Rev. J. M. pastor of the Cor Methodist was called to the near last to perform a wedding he was met by the bride's father armed with a shotgun and told that no wedding would occur in range of the Kemp says he was treated but firmly by the Irate father and the preacher returned to town without tying the HANNA WANTS TO GET INTO McINTOSH COUNTY Miss who has betm attending the Muskogee Business col- * lege returned to her home in Eufaula R both of tha TWO MORE BAILORS 5.-Two of the sailors wounded at the occupation of Vera Cruz died today were Harry fireman and Clarence May 5. living as a man ten Ralph a girl of Spanish was disclosed In her true Identity as a woman by Mamie her girl as whose husband she had 0O3ed. She Is held at headquarters pending a further investigation into her Disclosure came when deserted Mamie White to the of Miss Dorothy whom she married 24 after obtaining a marriage under new statute a eugenic marriage license The issuance of this license promises to make trouble for a Milwaukee doctor The whose name Is signed to the eugenic was one of the leaders in the fight for the eugenic The police refuse to name the If he deceived as to the sex cif the putative so was Miss the bride After a month of married life she says It was not until the police notified her that she aware of the strange story of her Cora and Mamie according to their story to the decided tn Iivo as and wife because who then became known as wanted to earn men's wages The two lived comfortably on their double when the story was was a theater usher and was of stock LORAINE BELMONT'S New May 6. - Belmont today own her separation suit against Raymond son of August the Alimony at tha rate of 1100 a month was Young Belmont is for the Cutler Hammer Both girls are well the girl who had posed as a declined to talk after she had been taken to police It was from the chum that the was bit by bit. Is so long Miss White we have kept the secret so well that at times I almost believe Cora Is a I call her because we agreed that would be all came about because we were discouraged working for woman's We couldn't seem to make Cora had liked to in men's and we always said she made a boy One dav when we had been discussing our future Cora she would be a The suggestion seemed a Joke at But the more we about it. more serious it became Cora finally Insisted that the could be carried I can act like a man and look she and I earn a man's We can remain chump aa we are and my larger wages will May 6. - cit of Hanna Including the territory south to the river and west six miles from the county line have filed a pe with Governor Cruce asking to be transferred from Hughes to tosh Hanna has made al previous efforts to effect the trans fer to LIGHTNING May 6.-During a severe thunder storm about three o'clock lightning struck the govern ment bam In Piatt National killing two valued at The bolt bored a hole straight down through the center of the barn and left the building otherwise Torrents of rain accompanied the RENO HAMLIN IS TURNED LOOSE Reno known was discharged Nsw May Hid not even except former charge at in praying upon American property after the fall of Vara all of the baggage of Mr. and 0'8haiio,hniey waj from tha train Huerta provided for the charge and his party to transport them to Vera Cruz after he hod been handed hie The fermer charge arrived today on the gunboat Yankton and early in the day hs and Mrs. began a shopping tour to their me they arrived with little lees than The party will leave at 9:36 for Between The Standard And The Uncle Sain Oil Companies Has Nothing To Do With The Present Conspiracy Says Judge 8taff Oklahoma May 6.-Any controversy which may have been waged between the Uncle Sam OH Co. and the Standard Co. is not entitled to be aired in the trial of H. H. president of the Uncle Sam company and te charged with conspiracy to defraud the United This was Oie substantia of numerous rulings made by U. S. Judge Tuesday during the opening statement by Albert L. Wilson of Kansas attorney for Tucker and William of in the famous Osage lease Attorney A. L. Sands of Pawhuska made an opening statement for the of the Wilson followed for ths defendants he ' The called lta first witnesses EFFORT To Induce Wilson To Oppose Consolidation Of Local Indian Offices Meets With Frown At White House f Hiram Retired Starch Riddled With Bullets While He Slept At His Slayer Raves And Beata The Door In His Cell And Can Give No Coherent Explanation New May 5.- -In R cell in Brooklyn police Chester who this morning fired seven bullets Into body of his Hiram millionaire starch manufacturer and veteran of the civil killing him talked of the events leading up to the shooting and gave evidences of Insane He said ho shot his fathel when he received a message from George Washington In a he was the best friend my fathel had and he was my best 1 loved him If he were now he could explain the whole matter I really don't know why I shot had made up my before shooting father that as soon as he wti t would turn the automatic pistol upon myself and end my own I fully intended doing that while 1 was firing at my After It was an Impulse came over nie and I decided not kill ' J wish I had carried out my original Before his arraignment In Buryea became violent and beat 0 the doors of his cell with his When Duryea was arraigned he appeared more The examination was postponed until G. Duryea his said the Duryea family had tpr some time that Chester wag mentally unbalanced and had considered to place tn a sanitarium or Chester's mental BaM a was due to For two hs the boy had been constantly engaged on a formula by which he believed tbo manufacture starch bo The tragedy occurred on the at the rear of the Duryea home where both father and son were In the of About 1 o'clock Cheater Duryea flipped from his cot into the where he kept a number of revolvers and shot guns for He selected an automatic and magazine rifle and returned Uw open air Standing a few feet of his sleeping first fired from tied the At outbreak of the Hiram Duryea organised his for John W. V. May efforts to save their positions Superintendent Dana H. Kelsey of Union Agency and of Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes J. George Warren of a member of the board of Indian has appealed to President Wilson to use his influence to prevent the consolidation of the two Indian offices at as is proposed by the Garter amendment which has already passed the house and been agreed to by the senate Indian It Is understood that Mr. visit to the White House was unavailing and that he received absolutely no encouragement from President Aho favors a speedy winding up of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes and who therefore agrees that the consolidation of the two Indian offices at Is a step In the right Senator of a member of the senate committee on Indian who announced sometime ago that he was in favor of the Carter has had a change of heart and is now opposed to It. The opposition to the proposed consolidation of the two offices conies entirely on 1&) COLORADO LEGISLATURE SUPPORTS GOVERNOR as Monday at the conclusion of a hearing before of It i. believed United States Commissioner A. G. the amendment will be in Hamlin was charged as a part of the introducing after he had been i propria lion which la slowly drag arrested following an accident that befell an oil man who was found unconscious beneath the windows of a rooming house operated by The evidence failed to show that Hamlin had a proprietary interest in May the opening of the second day's session of the clal legislature called to consider tbk coal the phase became considerably It admitted bv those who had force drastic action upon the legislators arid against the state that there was little prospect for particular reference to party thw to be almost solidly behind ernor Amnions and speedy the program he had especially the Issuance of bonds for the debt Incurred by the state tn the maintenance of militia In the strike Sons was Labor leadens attempted to havt a speech into the records of the House denouncing the state administration for Its conduct during the but all thought of possible Impeachment proceedings against the governor apparently was SEARCH For Men Who Murdered One And Assaulted Another Little Girl Fruitless Though Several Arrests Are Made May 5.-After a night oj ceaseless search for the man who muri dered little Florence Dove and assault Elizabeth at North republican sources and in spite j late county officers and that several thousand steel workers from the small quantity of whisky found Jn another room In the BURNING SHIP IS A MYSTERY May 6-f-urther details tho burning steamer sighted 3*0 miles south of Capo Race yesterday by the steamer Bremen for New were anxiously awaited in shipping The meagre dispatches sent last night by the wireless and the Sablo Island radio station indicated that it had been Impossible to learn the name of the but that another steamer apparently had heard her calls for Aa the could see no of life on ii was hoped the crew bad been taken off by some other The difficulty of news by wireless concerning the burning snip by the fact that the radio station at Cape which was disabled in a spring billiard King along before the senate Indian The proposed consolidation of the two Indian at I the mills returned to their ' homes early took thelT and the hunt in the hills on both sides Of the river and in the industrial towns i of the Ten men were taken kogee will take place June 30, and the during the but four of them were head of tho consolidated The others will be examined will be named by President All are closely by anl with the consent of the a en - ded for fear of from outside the civil | Efforts are being here to WILL HUERTA STAND have either Commissioner Wright or Superintendent Kelsey named as the | PAT OR QUIT THE JOB superintendent to i the Five Civilize 1 TONY FAUST IS May 5.--Refugees arriving today from Mexico City bearing conflicting reports concerning the May 5 R poses of Provisional President known to his friends as ' j Some say the today after long of the he has agreed to was a son of Anthony E. retire from the er of the widely known Faust Thursday of this week as the date of and until he was Incapacitated by illness had been actively In charge other reports from the capital the He was declared that instead of unsound mind In the probate court in I has determined to play out the 1911. He was VI year He Is fully aware that mediation will Faust became 111 three years ago and mean more even If It does not a trip abroad was but his lead to an amicable adjustment of tho condition became so he wasj difficulty brought back from New and i - placed in a where he I THE USES May 5.--Charles and Cliff Fulton were killed and Samuel was wounded here today when James Oldham ran amuck with a For two efforts had has a been made to have Oldham committed for git Fred E. Fessler petitioned the council this morning for permit to erect street throughout signs are to bear the names of ths streets with advertising below tqs street name and aro to be erected at the intersection of the petition states if the la not less than COO alma Vf wili as 0289
