The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-12-11
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Members OF the Oklahoma corpor-
alton commission are drafting a D.li
FOR congressional enactment. when
would make al difierences Of railway
traffic managers, at Which trsnsppIJ
taticn charutohrS5iixed or traitiS
agreement entered into, open to tIlS
public. -f..s KID y
1aree young hoys, naf finding
enough excitement to suit them at
Owassog left home and made their
way Ia Tulsa. where the police pick
ed them up and sent them Oack where
they belonged. in time to eat their
Thanksgiving dinner With the home
folks.
Bud Walker. alias James, neg o
was hanged 10 a telephone pole and
his body riddled with bullets, at Man
ford. Greek county. Sunday morning.
With his brother, Bob Walker. he had
held up, shot and killed Fred Evans
and wounded Rolf Johnson at Man
fcrd Saturday afternoon.
Thirty-six hours after Frank Hunt
er attempted TO pass forged check
for $500 at the Shawnee Nations al
bank and attempted TO escape amid
a stream OF bullets from the bank
teller's gun. he pleaded guilty to forg
cry in the second degree, was sentenc-
ed 10 serve one year in the peniteni-
AIRY, and was en- his way'to McAlest-
er.
In an address TO the Mems dinner
club in Oklahoma City. Dean ] C..
Monett. acting president of the Uni
versity of Oklahoma. declared he lie
lieves the interests of higher educa-
tion would be better subseryed II the
two university preparatory schools,
the six district agricultural colleges
and all except one OF the state norm
al schools were abolished
Coe G. Champion, carpenter and
truck farmer, who lived on a ten
acre tract which he owned five and
OnssArff miles northeast of Oklaho-
ma city committed suicide by shoot
ing himself in the breast with a shot
gun Friday morning. He had
Bright's disease, and several times
had been heard to remark that ne
feared he would lose his mind md
kill himself.
The state boards of agriculture and
education as such, will take no ac-
tive part in the campaign on the Akin
Initiated bill designed to eliminate
IA institutions from the states edu-
cational system. Tie members of
both boards, however, as individuals
will oppose the bill. there being pos-
sibly one or two exceptions to this.
II was denied at the board OF agri
culture Friday that any campaign
OF education would be attempted there
In behalf of the district agricultural
schools whose abolition is sought BIZ
the Dill. Secretary iIennessey said
that the individual board members
would take positions on the bill and
that be would be glad TO go any
where at any time to speak and work
against the measure. because he be-
lieyed 1t wrong. The ooard OF agri-
culture has no particular interest in
the normal schools which Ii Is nro-
posed TO discontinue, but certainly is
not going To lend any assistance to
any measure that would injure the
SIX secondary agricultural schools.
On the other hand, the board Of ed
ncation is very much interested in
tine normals and care not a whit for
the secondary agricultural schools
which are entirely within the iuris-
diction of the board OF agriculture.
Representative Akin has called a
conference OF men interested in his
Oiii, to meet at the e-Huckins no.
tel on the afternoon of Saturday. De-
ember 16, Plans for organizing the
state in favor of the measure win be
discussed at that time.