The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-12-29
Officials Was Satisfied.

Officials Was Satisfied.
Dr.. J. H. STOPPER, assistant to the
commissioners of charities and cor
pections, was called and testified 10
visits 70 the prison, where conditions
were found as satisfactory as could
have been expected under the conii-
tions existing. In an interview after
he left the stand he said complaints
had come 10 him and Miss Barnard
most Of which We're too trivial to call
for an investigation. He said it must
be remembered that everything al
The prison was in only a temporary
state.
Gus Lubbes Of Muskogee formerly a
deputy warden, who was called by
the complainant, was only on the
stand a short time. Asked as 70 the
food given the prisoners, he said the
first thing Warden Dick did when he
cane into the office was TO increase
the meat ration He furnished a
copy of the list OF food given al each
meal before and after Warden Dick
took charge He said illness and COM
plants came-from the inability Of
the steward TO properly distribute the
food. This was before Banks King
had anything 70 do with the food.
There IS a formidable list of wit
nesses including Ben Lackey, Shaw
nee: W. X. Robinson and wife, Cote
DO: Miss Kate Barnard. Guthrie; l..
VI. Taylor. Perry; c. S. Kerr, Ninita;
George Newmire, Byers; John Creek,
Pittsburg county: Frank Harland and
Panks King. Ardmore.
Answers at Variance.
Senator Roddie said in addition TO
the instructions of the governor and
the action OF the legislature, they had
been asked by a newspaper publisher
20 ask certain questions of certain
witnesses. He did so, and the an
swers did not in any way conform
TO the newspaper stories. He then
ordered Edison Bixby, editor of the
Muskogee Phoenix. to be summoned
as a witness. He will be here Thurs
day.
During the examination of DR.. Love
the following was brought out:
Senator Roddie-You say you un-
derstood that your groceries were 10
be furnished you when you came over
here?
Mr.. Love>Tes. that was my under
standing.
Senator Roddie-You stated -
put in a bill for the house rent, was
that paid?
Mr.. Love-No. sir.
Senator Roddie-lt was rejected?
Mr.. Love-Yes.
Senator Roddie-Did you under
stand it was TO be paid?
Mr.. Love-My understanding was
this. will relate the circumstances
to you. I never asked for this job,
l never asked 10 be appointed ply
sician. I never saw nor heard of Mr..
Dick until I came here. The COVER
nor of Oklahoma wrote me that he
wanted to see me. l went down there
and he wanted me to take charge ol
the medical department of the Okla
homa state prison. said to the gov
ernor. l says: How much is there in
it?" He says, Two thousand dol
lars a year" He says; There viii
be many other things in connection
with the salary, in addition to the
salary that will mount up to some
thing" I says: will I receive the
same privileges that the men at the
asylum do, such as house rent, their
groceries, their furniture, their table
ware, their table linens and all those
things, and a helper to help me-" He
says: That will practically be what
it is" He says besides that: 1T will .
be benefit to the democratic party
says: Under those conditions 7 will .
accept it," and that is why am max
ing these charges, by the Eternal.
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