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HASKELL. OK)11i-Into difficult problems that the convention will give. It is the greatest agency for the improvement of educational work in Oklahoma and it is expected that the number in attendance will easily reach 4,000. It is«hoped that school boards everywhere will recognize the great opportunities at hand and ask their teachers to attend.Very low hotel rates are being offered by the hotels of Oklahoma City and a full list of these and prices will be found in the programs.Practically every state in the Cnlon now holds its State Teachers’ Association in November, since it comes at a time when all can attend and when teachers are looking about for better means and ways of improving their work. Kansas, in changing from Christinas time to November, brought the attendance to over 6,000 — twice what it had been, and Michi-ev*i-i11gan brought its enrollment to over 7,000 last November by the same change. Texas has trebled its attendance by this same adjustment to the fall time of meeting.The officers of the association are as follows;J. G. Masters, president. Oklahoma City; E. S. Monroe, vice-president, Muskogee; Hobt. 1. IMlyeu, secretary-treasurer. Enid.GOV. CRUCE REVOKES PARDONSTRIES TO UNDO WORK OF J. J.McALESTER.Prospects of Extended Court Proceedings to Straighten theMuddle.ifn;niini is Id.of'C-■atO'-ndfulto)Stm-inos-st,sry)uridseatvertheigOob-i a ten mt.iForty-four revocation sordcrs, pro- ( posing to nullify as many pardons, paroles and commutations of sentences granted last week by Acting Governor J. J. Me A lest er, were issued by (lovernor Lee Cruee.While (lovernor Cruee was signingthe revocation orders habeas corpusproceedings were instituted in the district court of Pittsburg county by attorneys representing several of the men whom McAlester pardoned or paroled, in an effort to secure their freedom.The orders issued by (lovernorCruee are on the theory that McAles-ter’s pardoning acts were illegal because they did not pass through the prison board of control, and for the further reason that Secretary of State Ben F. Harrison did not attest the pardons or affix the seal of the stateto them.Those prisoners for whom habeas corpus proceedings were instituted are Robert C. Thompson, convicted of murder in Jefferson county and given a life sentence; S. S. Starr, convicted in McIntosh county for larceny andn given six years; J. Orlando Mitchell, convicted in Muskogee county of per-ee-' jury and given 10 years; Nelson Haw-at! kins, convicted of ^murder in Pontotoc county and given forty years (sentence commuted); Walter Flowers, convicted in Bryan county of a statutory offense and given fifteen years; Robert Davis convicted in McIntosh county of larceny and given five years.E. G. McAdams of the law firm of McAdams Haskell, which has been retained to represent a number of the pardoned and paroled men, stated that the very order of Governor Cruee attempting to revoke the pardons was in itself an acknowledgement that the acts of McAlester were official. List( of Proposed Revocations.The list of paroles und commutations of sentences granted by McAlester, which Governor Cruee has attempted to revoke include the following:Mont D. Perkins, United States district court, Lawton, murder; life sentence, pardon.Sam Stewart, district court of Choctaw county, murder; life sentence, pardon.Jonas Jones, district court of Atoka county, murder; life sentence, pardon.Robert C. Thompson, district court of Jefferson county, murder; life sentence, parole.Lincoln Burton, district court of Seminole county, murder; life sentence, pardon.Willard T. Allen. United States district court at Oklahoma City, wife murder; life sentence, parole.C. A. Stewart, district court of Pontotoc county, manslaughter; three , years, pardon.' Bob Terrell, district court of Carter county, manslaughter; four years, pardon.I Nelson Hawkins, district court of Pontotoc county, manslaughter; forty years, pardon.James Hobbs, district court of Garfield county, manslaughter; fortyyears, parole.Roy Peel, district court of Oklahoma county, aiding a suicide, seven years, parole.Walter Flowers, district court of Bryan county, statutory assault; fifteen years, sentence commuted and then pardoned.Ned McDaniel, convicted in the district court of Jackson county on a charge of embezzling public funds, not yet sentenced, pardoned.F. D. Taggart, county court of Oklahoma county, violating prohibitory laws, sentenced to six months in jail and fined $600, pardoned.Arthur Givens, district court of Oklahoma county, obtaining money under false pretense, eighteen months in the penitentiary, pardonedFred Cameron, district court of Oklahoma county, violating prohibitory laws, sentenced to one year in the penitentiary and fined $500; pardonedW. C. Burges, district court of Oklahoma county, obtaining property under false pretense, eighteen months in the penitentiary; pardon.Pony Starr, district court of McIntosh county, larceny, six years; commutation of sentence.Robert Davis, district court of McIntosh county, larceny of domestic ani mals, five years; pardon.Stanley Baker, district court of Wagoner county, larceny of live slock, four years; parole.James Ammerman, county court of Pawnee county, violating prohibitory laws, 108 days in county jail, fined $500; pardoned from jail sentenceJoe Proctor, county court of Oklahoma county, violating prohibitory laws, fined $500 and sentenced to six months in jail; pardon.Joe Proctor, district court of Oklahoma county, violating prohibitory laws, one year in the penitentiary, lined $500; pardon.Roy Paulk, district court of Canadian county, larceny, one year in state* reformatory; pardon.Arthur I)ix, district court of Payne county, violating prohibitory laws, one year; pardon.Charles Overton county court of Tulsa county, violating prohibitorylaws, sixty days in county jail, fined $50; pardon.Webb High, superior court of Oklahoma county, violating prohibitorylaws, two years, fined $5o; pardon.George Woodland, district rourt of Payne county, violating prohibitory laws, sentenced to live years in penitentiary. lined $700; pardon.J. Orlando Mitchell, district court of Muskogee county, perjury tenyears; pardon.Glen Barnhill, district court of Comanche county, larceny of domestic animals, five yeai$; paro:e.Eugene Kile, district court of Payne! county, violating prohibitory laws,Lieut. Gov. J. J. McAlester.lt;Ivm!NoOl on t Kan held llnq notiiVrer mi sicat i Can niai:urei to f forTpretthe191:rmiono,pro;paJithelievK a itaxandlest-winsabprrhobI het.‘ledtheuw ia tnt heshenoI olthet rethe«is) tHi t Von 1CO!Yn \ In nast at IkonThfrcadi1aWtifanasWfncohcaandetrw!ackee,Re-omairdsforhersven-can?ira-ightsentenced to thirty days in jaii and fined $400; pardoned.Frank Cowley, district court of Greer county, assault with intent to kill, two years.W. T. Caple, district court Carter county, criminal assault, ten years.Robert Watson, district court McIntosh county, manslaughter, 20 years.Ace Ray, district court of Washington county, murder, life sentence.J. C. Hampton, district court Bry. an county, manslaughter, 30 years.Grover Phillips, district court Jeffer son county, assault, five years.Walter Faucett, district court ot Tulsa county, manslaughter, fouryears.Jake Lewis, district court Carter county, murder, life imprisonment.Willard T. Allen, Oklahoma countv, wife murder, life imprisonment, sen tence commuted.W. T. Caple, district court of Car ter county, assault with intent to kill, five years.Julius Stumpf, county court Oklaho ma county, violating prohibitory laws, six months imprisonment, fined $500.Carl Oloyd, district court of Mein tosh county, murder, 39 years.IPispiacttrstinwawintcStla-CTdaTUsiiLodge Officers Chosen at Tulsa.Tulsa.—Oklahoma City has been se lected by the grand lodge of Odd Fe! lows in session here, as the place for the holding of the next annual meet ing. S. Swinne, of Guthrie, was elected grand warden.stPsadI1trt7
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Haskell, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Oct 15, 1914
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