The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-01-17


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| Gently renewed 20 Ada. Okla, anc
proprietor of the Brown grocery store
died there last night
Thomas X. Brown, prominent
Shawnee citizen, dr. pped dead early
yesterday morning OF heart. disease
| ne was sitting IN Il chair at his
nome. talking to his wife, when the
end came. He WAS 6S gears old
A requi' 'tion was honored by GOV.
| Cluce from tae governor CT Missis-
sipp for A. c Thomas, wanted in
Sunflower county on a charge # en-
bezzlement Thomas has been locat-
ed at Perkins. He is said TO have
| taken $500 whicl had belonged to
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Oklahoma Ci.y safe experts are net
pleased with the statement that state
Treasurer Dunlop was forced TO have
safe with an cbstreperous time
lock opened. A statement was made
by ono of the local safe company's
employees to the effect they were NOT
called upon and had they been the
strong box would have been opened
by local talent.
Burglars attempted to blow the
safe Of the f. B. Wilson Lumber CO.,
Tat Ada, last night, but tailed owing
to the crude instrument and methods
used. They only succeeded in prying
open the outer door of the safe and
tried to bore out the locks OF the
inner door with an ordinary Bit but
failed in tie ATTEMPT.
A largely attended mas, meeting
was neld at MoAlester last night to
aid IN the passage of the Carter bill
through tne senate providing for the
immediate sale of the surface .of the
Choctaw and Chickashaw holdings.
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and Senator Owen mas promised to
substitute ii for his bill in the SEN
ate
G. Il. Schwartz. CORNER caiet Of the
Bartlesville fire department, who held
the Office from November (, 1907,
until ousted recently by the city
commissioners, has brought suit to
regain possession of the office from
his successor, Fran. Brown 1t is
understood that Schwartz is backed
by the state firemen's association,
which wishes to make this a test
case. cortending that a man can not
be displaced as chief Of a fire Gepart
ment as long as he is doing the worn
in satisfactory manner
Fl. G. Eastman, former business
manager OF the Oklahoma City Times
and recently named postmaster to
succeed e. e. Brown at Oklahoma |
City, took Charge of the office yester-
day Brown had been in the office |
for eight years, and was an applicant |
fer reappontment. Prior to taking |
the position Brown was associated |
with his brother in publication Of the
oklahoma City Times-Journal, which |
was subsequently absorbed by a com |
pany headed by Omer X Be@edict. |
and changed to the Times, winch ex
lists today in the afternoon field
The Democratic Central Committee |
of Comanche county passed a reso-
mticn opposed to sending any public |
official, either elective or appointiye |
in tle state of Oklahoma, as a dele |
gate to the democratic national con |
vention TO be held in Baltimore, |
June %, 1912 They assign as a rea-
son that under our form of govern |
ment a public official is public |
servant, and when he lays aside his |
official duty to engage in attending |
and controlling political conventions |
which have fer their purpose NOM |
inationo and election of other public |
servants it is an attempt to step |
from the portion Of servant of the
people to that of matser.
Rosa H. and Rhoda. 16. daughters
of j. w. Davis. the man held in the
Muskogee county Jail on a charge of
assaulting his own daugh-
ters. were brought to Muskogee from
Porum and taken in charge by the
county. The father was given a pre-
limnary nearing before a justice OF |
the peace at Porum and bound over
under $4,000 bond. The Oldest
daughter Lizzie. is ODE married
SOM to a young farmer With the
father in Jail charged with an awful
crime. this left the two younger
destitute and without friends The
Davises had been living in a tent and
recently came to this county from
Arkansas The girls are ignorant and
simple minded. with no education
whatever They are healthy and fine
loal;inp Girls and the county officials |