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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
WILL RESORT
To INITIATIVE
LABOR ORGANIZATIONS WILL
SEEK TO HAVE CERTAIN LAWS
ENACTED.

Oklahoma City, Okla, April 10
Labor organizations probabl. will re-
sort to the initiative and referendum
to get on the statute books laws
which either failed in passage before
the legislature or were vetoed by the
governor. They include the eight.
hour law for women workers fu.l
crews for freight and passenger
trains, hospital bill and workman =
compensation act. The semi month
ly pay bill was the only one on the
labor list signed by Governor Cruec
The eight-hour bill as passed during
the regular session was not accept
able to the organizations, and they
did not ask Tie governor to attach
his signature. He vetoed the act
because it was discriminatory. The
full crew bill for freight trains aad
the hospital bill were also vetoed
The compensation bill did not pass,
but several drafts now are pending
before the legislature. Members Of
labor organizations say they under
stand the governor will not approve
a compensation act with the insur-
ance feature, which is the only char
acter Of the act the unions are in
sisiting upon.
The question of invoking the initia-
tive will be placed before the organ
cations Immediately, and if they vote
in the affirmative petitions will be
put out so the subjects may be sub
mitted to a vote Of the people at the |
special election to be held Aus. 3.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
BARNEY BALDWIN DEAD.
The "Broken Neck Wonder" Dies at
Shawnee, After Fall.

Shawnee, Okla, April 10.-Bernar
Baldwin, known far and wide as
Barney Baldwin, the broken necKed
wonder died Wednesday evening at
the Burt hotel, of injuries received
Wednesday morning by falling down
the stairs at a South Broadway re-
sort.
Baldwin was formerly a frequent
visitor to Shawnee, but had not been
here much for the past three year.i,
He sold medicines, and is also said
to have been employed in the United
States secret service. He was injur-
ed in a railroad wreck at Birmingham
Ala, in 1897, and among other in.
juries suffered a broken neck.
Tie bones failing to knit, his head
was supported by a steel mask, hung
from a metal support attached to iror
braces in his vest. The unusual char
acter of his case, and his stranga
appearance, together with the good 10
o." he always displayed, though he
siisL ed necessarily, made Baldwin
Well Nwn character all over the
country.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
BIGGER OIL FIELD
THAN REPORTED
TULSA OIL MAN PLEASED WITH
ARDMORE FIELD - WILL RE-
TURN HERE SUNDAY.

f. H. Marshall, who came here frcm
Sapulpa and Wei To the oil fields
yesterday with NaICI.elect ". X.
Roberts returned t. Ardmore laSr
nlaHl ana Left fpr the Tulsa fiellg.
He VII Yetur., % .Ndmore Sunda t.
n'ght IIa did 80 state thar he will
become interested in the local field
but prospects are good that he and
his partner, Mr.. Ellis, will place one
or more rigs here. Mr.. Marshall be-
gan operating in the Kansas field,
where he now owns a half hundred
gas wells and from the Kansas field
he came to the Glen Pool fields near
Sapulpa and Tulsa. He has had two
reports made to him of the Ardmore
fields but says he learned more yes
terday from his personal visit than
he CLEANED from both the reports
made him. He states that the pro-
ductiOn here is being minimized by
the reports sent out from the field,
that the five and ten and twenty
five-barrel wells reported are really
much better wells than the reports
indicate. He stated that information
was difficult to obtain lie believes
the oil deposit runs from the south
west to the northeast and in that idea |
he is different from the majority who |
visit the field. However his ideas, |
as well as the ideas of others are all |
problematical. Mr.. Marshall states
that the owners of prospective oil |
lands talked generously enough to
him concerning leases and says the
only danger of hampering develop
ment is the purchase of leases by
hose who do not intend to operate
but who might stand between the
'eal operator and owner. It was very
lear to an observer that Mr.. Marshall
ound a much bigger oil field here
han he expected to find. In connect
on with Ardmore and the growth of
his city he stated that the operator
makes the town and the best of ho-
el facilities should be provided and
lie thinks local capital should be
pent in the field SO that the oil men !
ould know exactly what the field !
reduces. c
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
Died at Home of Dauuhter.

Mrs. N. f. Perry of Gainesville
Texas, aged 63 years, died at the
residence of Newt Whitford, 1901
West Broadway, this morning at Z
O'Clock of pneumonia and heart troG-
BILE Her children, Mrs. Johnnie Col
Inns and Miss Abby Perry of Yoak-
um, Texas Mrs. Callie Williams If
Fort Worth. Texas, Mrs. Lee Will
liams of Mangum, Okla, Misses
Grace and Pink, and Thomas Perry
of Gainesville, Texas, James Perry.
Mrs. Newt Whitford and Mrs. Matte
Petty of Ardmore were all at her
bedside when the end came.
Funeral services will be held at
the residence of Newt Whitford, 1901
West Broadway, by Rev. f. NJ. Mas
ters Of the Broadway Baptist church,
tomorrow afternoon at o'clock, fol
lowed by interment in Rose Hill
cemetery.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
Not Orunk-Just "Soused."

The gentleman who was arraigned
before the judge of the municipal
court Yesterday afternoon and was
granted 4 continuance until the af-
ternoon that he might prove his in
aocence, had his hearing in due form
He succeeded in proving to the per-
feet satisfaction of all concerned that
he was not drunk. That is, that he
was not Just plain, ordinarily drunk.
However, as the evidence tended to
show that he was "soused' in prop
er and approved form, the judge as
sessed a fine of seven-fifty which
he will donate to the good roads
in Carter county.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
Who is A. L. Proctor?

Deputies John CHM and William
Towers nailed shipment consisting
@. five hundred quarts Of Budweisor
and Pabst beer at the offices of one
@. the express companies in this city
Yesterday afternoon. The beer was
lacked in plain cases, marked "house.
hold goods" and addressed TO 4. l..
Proctor, Ardmore, Oklahoma. The
Urge number of these boxes first
attracted the attention Of the sheriffs
officers and Investigation followed
o he beer wes removed to the county
jill and will be disposed of in accord
aucc with the provisions Of the law.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
COVENRM' 7 CLERKS
GET ON UPPERS
WHEN AN EIGHT. HOUR WORK
DAY HAS BEEN SUGGESTED 49,
NOW WORKING SEVEN.

Washington, March lO.-NIurmurs
Of indignation and horror arose IN
the government departments today
when the rumor spread that the cab
met had under consideration plan
to require all government employees
10 work eight hours a day instead Of
seven, as at present The proposal
is understood 10 be that the govern
ment employees shall reach their posts
of duty and get busy at o'clock in
the morning and remain on the JOB
until ! 4'3O in the afternoon being Al
lowed half hour for luncheon in the
middle of the day. At present the
hours are from . until 1870. Pre-
yious to the Roosevelt administra-
ton department employees gave but
six and a half hours of service daily
to the government, reaching their
posts at o'clock and quitting at !.
with a half hour for lunch. When
the extra half hour was added il
aroused great Indignation among tho
employees, If they are now required
to get to work at s there is no tell
ing what might happen
1t is said that the member of the
cabinet who brought forward the
highly unpopular proposal to make |
the employe work eight hours day !
has figured it out that a saving of
a million dollars year can be eff
fected by the plan. But it will be
a real hardship to thousands of clerks
Who have established homes in the
from most of which the
facilities are not OF
he best.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
MEETING Of BOARD
CONFEDERATE HOME
REORGANIZATION WAS EFFECTED
THIS MORNlNG-TAKE DINNER
AT HOME.

The board of trustees of the Con-
federate home met in the office of
the treasurer in this city at 10 o'clock
this morning
The following officers and board
members were present: President of
the board, General ID. NJ. HALEY of
McAlester; Vice President General
John Threadgill of Oklahoma City;
Treasurer George II. Bruce of Ard
more; Secretary Col. r. A. Sneed of
Lawton; ]. wv. Blanton, of Rocky;
n. f. Hancock of Muskogee, and
Mrs. Ruth Clement of Oklahoma City,
board members.
Immediately after going into ses-
sion the matter of reorganization for
ensuing year was taken up and per-
fected by the reelection of the out
going officers.
The plans for the $lS,5OO annex to
the Home building were carefully in
spected, after which the board took
a recess and went out to the Home
where a bountiful repast was served
by superintendent and Mrs. Gait. The
board will remain in session at the |
Home during the greater part of this |
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
Rebels Hold Up Train.

El Paso, Tex, April 11.-Panch-
oyilla, who has taken the field in the
state of Coahuila against the Huerta
government yesterday held up a pa3-
senger train east OF Chihuahua city
and obtain one hundred and fifty bN'8
Of slve. bullion valued at $4,000.
The hold-up occurred at Santa Abella
on the Mexican Northern railway.
The passengers were not molested
nor was there any resistance by the
small federal guard. The bullion was
destined for the state capital from
4 mine in the Guerrero district.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
ENGINEER DEAD:
TWO INJURED
UNION PACIFIC TRAIN DERAILED
IN COLORADO WHEN PLUNGED
INTO SNOWDRIFT.

Cheyenne Welis, Colo, April IL
Thomas Malo, engineer, of Ellis Kan
sas, was killed and Thomas Dostal,
fireman, and E. Thomas, mail clerk
We're injured seriously when east
bound passenger train No. 40 on the
Union Pacific plunged into a snow
drift here and was derailed The
train was pulled by two locomo-
tiyes and was running at a high rate
of speed
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
WILSON URGED TO AGREE TO A
MODIFICATION OF THE TARIFF
SCHEDULE.
WILL HURT BUSINESS
Former Governor Adams Of Colorado
Tells Wilson That Provision for
Free Sugar at End of Three Years
Will lnjure Business.

Washington, ID. c., April 11.-Pre8f
ident Wilson is being urged to agree
to a modification of the tariff sched-
ule on sugar so as to make it dis
cretiOnary with the chief executive
at the end of three years, whether
sugar shall be free.
Former Governor Adams of Colo
RADIO told the president today that
although the sugar industry in Col
orado could stand the reduction to
enc cent per pound as now provided
in the tariff bill, the knowledge that
sugar would be free at the end uf
three years would have a depressI g
effect on the business during the
three year period.
Conferees from Louisiana also held
the same view.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
A Sweet SINGER.

Nine. Bartlett made her initial ap-
Hearance at the Majestic theater III
this city last night and from her
first appearance until the closing
of the house she was listened to by
large and appreciative audiences. Sig
nor Trilli gave the lady a splendid
support, but her own sweet singing
vas the feature of the entire even
ings entertainment. The lady will
be at the Majestic tonight and to-
morrow night, thus affording all
lovers of good vocal music an op-
to hear her.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
Report of Cowies.

Washington, .. G., April 11.-Wil-
liam Wallace CortTe, a seaman. and
John Chase Keslow, first class master
at arms We're the two killed in
fight at Mazatlan, according to Rear
Admiral Cowles' report to the navy
department. Both men were from
California and had excellent records.
Cowles reports that they are not
likely to have been the aggressors in
the street fight.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11

Prof. T. D. Felts, with Miss Margar.
ct Andrews, principal of the Mari
eta High school, and Misses Helen
Keller, Anita Jordan, Sophia lllan
Black and Stella Felts We're visitors
at The Ardmoreite office today With
a crowd OF twenty, composed of men,
ber5 CT the Marietta faculty and stu
dents, they are here en- route 10 Du-
rant to attend the intercollegiate
track meet of Southeastern Oklahoma.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
TORNADO RUINS
VALUABLE TIMBER
TEARS STRIP ONE MILE WIDE
AND SIX MILES LONG IN Nc
CURTAIN COUNTY.

Hugo, Okla, April 1O-News reach
ed here late this evening that the
storm Of Wednesday which prevailed
over this section had developed into
tornado in the northeast section
Of McCurtain county. It is wild
country, thirty miles from i railroad
Timber standing on the property ct
the Choctaw Lumber Company was
blown down in one strip a mile wide
and siv miles long. The damage
is placed at 100000. Herman Dierks.
of The lumber company.
whose home is at Kansas City. No.
has postponed a European trip and
is en- route to look after the loss.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
FATAL WRECK ON
MEXICAN CENTRAL
IN WHICH TWENTY ARE KILLED
AND FORTY ARE INJURED -
FEAR OF REBELS.

City of Mexico, April lO.-Twenty
passengers were killed and forty in
iurcd in a wreck today on the MeXi
can Central Railway near Tula, state
of IIidalgo, because the engineer
yielded to the opportunities of the
passengers.
The engineer, fearing to run into
rebels, was moving cautiously. The
passengers were similarly apprehen-
ty lay in greater speed, induced the
and engineer to consent
20 full speed
The train was ditched on a curve
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
Likes This County.

Walter Hutchinson Of Fort Worth,
Texas, arrived in Ardmore this morn
ing and will remain several days, the
guest of his cousin, Jas IT, Mathers.
Mr. Hutchinson states that he IS
more than fayorably impressed with
both Ardmore and Carter county and
thinks that he may decide to locate
here. He stated this morning that
the Carter county court house was
the finest county building he had
ever seem barring none.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
afternoon

On account of Interruptions I have
not preached the last two sermons
in the series recently announced on
Modern Lessons from Ancient Nara
tiyes, but will do so the next two
Sunday evenings
April 13, p. m-Society and the
Criminal, CThe story of Cain and
AbelD
April %, s p. m.-Great Calamities,
Their Cause and Effects. (The story
of the Flood
You are invited to worship with
us.
CIR. GRAY.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
Eighth Grade Exams.

Dewey McNroy and Miss Jewel
Taylor Of Lone Grove and Clifton
Barnes Of Ardmore are taking the
examination for eighth grade diplomas
before County Superintendent Thurs
ton. Their examinations Will finish
this evening
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
TWO SAILORS WERE FROM THE
CRUISER CALIFORNIA AND HAD
GOOD RECORDS
.COWLES HAS REPORT
Admiral Reports That They Are Not
Likely to Have Been Agsresscrs in
the Fght-Rebels Held Up Pass
enger Train.

Guayma5, Mexico, April 1.-Two
sailors from the cruiser California
were killed and three others wounded
in a stree; fight Wednesday at Ma
zatan, Pacific coast port below
here. Two or three Mexican police
men were wounded in attempting to
arrest the American sailors. Admiral
Cowles is investigating.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11

Joseph Goldsmith will leave here
within a short time for Lima, Ohio.
on business trip and after his re-
turn he will move from Ardmore.
His physician has advised that Mrs
Goldsmith must have a change Of
climate and he will move with his
family to California about the first
of June.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
Death of Mrs. Watson,

Mrs. Matte Watson, wife of David
Watson, died at the home of her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Cox, 81
II. street. northeast, at eight O'Clock
last night. Funeral services will be
conducted at ten o'clock tomorrow
Rev. Lewis of Carter Ave.
VI. f. church officiating Interment
in Rose Hill semetery.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
POPE ABLE To
SIT Up IN CHAIR
EXPRESSES DESIRE TO READ
NEWSPAPERS. BUT PHYSICIANS
WON'T ALLOW IT.

Rome April 11.-Pope Plus was
able to sit up in an arm chair while
his bed was made today. He eX-
pressed desire to read what the
newspapers were saying, that after
what was invented when he was i'll
the first time, he was curious to
see what the newspapers were ca
pable of doing after this relapse.
The vatican physician refused to
permit the pontiff to read where
upon the pope exclaimed, That
shows that they have killed and bur-
led me-"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
DRIVE OUT CLAlRVOYANTS.
Kansas City Will Not Permit Fortune
TeIIers by New Ordinances.

Kansas City, Mo-, April 11.-For.
tune tellers' and clairvoyants must
quit business here within ninety days,
the ordinance having been signed by
the mayor.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
Rock Island Collision.

Eden, Mo, April 11.-Frank Fitz-
simmons, engineer, of st. Louis, was
killed when Rock Island train No
-, westbound, crashed head-on into
switch engine here this mornin9
Both engines were demolished. The
stel mail coach is believed to have
prevented the death of many pas
sengcrs
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
DANCE HALLS BLAMED.
Social Worker Says Dance Halls with
Liquor Cause Downfall! of Many

Chicago, ILL.,, April 1l.-Dance halls
where liquor is sold to girls and
whose friends provided for those
VINO want them" were ascribed as
the cause of the downfall of many
Young women by Mrs. Gertrude Il.
Britton, a social settlement worker,
who testified today before the Illi-
nois vice commission.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
joplin PAPER Quits,

Joplin, Mo, April 1.-THE Joplin
Torning Tribune. established in Oc-
oDer, 1911, suspended publication to-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11
Oil Notes.

d. G. Lacy and l., f. Lee returned
last night from the oil fields They
have Wei on the old Wheeler town
site that is now to the last oil bear
ing sand and can be brought in with
one more days drilling They came
for some repairs to machinery and
their automobile hurried back to the
field. Mr. Marshall visited their well
and he is expecting the Lacy people
to bring in a good well.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-11

Joe Moore has returne from Fox,
and says that the test there has been
abandoned, The casing has been
drawn and the well is being filled up.
The rotary drill which has been in
use at Homer has been replaced by
standard drill which has produced
a delay in the field there. It has
been reported that at a depth of 45O
feet at Homer a production of five
barrels a day was found and the oil
men state that five-barrel wells under
500 feet are good paying propositions
L. F. Lee, from Durant, who is in
terested with Dr. G. Lacy, thinks well
of the field here He is a stockman
who some months ago entered the
Tulsa field and has been very sue
cessful so far as an oil man.
Fourteen oil and gas leases were /.
recorded yesterday in the office of |
the register of deeds. These leases .
cover property about Brock and Wood .
ford.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-11-06
81 KILLED IN A
HEAO-ON CRASH
ONFRENCHROAO
In Addition to Number Kill
ed Outright About Forty
Were Injured When Fast
Express Smashed Into a
Freight Train,
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Melun, France, Nov. 5.-Thirty- TWO
persons were killed and forty injured
when the Marseilies-Par express was
wrecked by collision with a local train
near here late last evening. The
bodies were not all recovered until
this afternoon.
Sixteen bodies-one being that of a
millionaire merchant of Lyons-were
taken during the night from the
burned and spIintered passenger
coaches Of the express. 1t is believed
that several more bodies remain in
the wreckage. There were no Amer
leans among the passengers.
President Raymond Poincare and
Louis Masse, French minister of COM
merce and posts, today paid a visit to
the wreck scene, afterward going to
the hospital where the injured are
being cared for.
The two statesmen subscribed 81, 900
as the nucleus of a fund for the as
sistance Of the families of the vic
Tins.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-11-06
WITNESS USES
LORIMER' SHAME
IN TESTIMON Y
Main Figure In Alienation
Charge on Stand and At
torneys Tell Court That
His Connection With Sen
ator's Case Is Reason for
Attack.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Chicago. Nov. 5.-Clarence s. Funl
today testified in the trial of DAME
Donahoe and Isaac Stiefel. charged
with conspiring to defame him.
Mr.. Funk sketched his early career
until he became general manager .oi
the International Harvester Company
and said thta last May he became
OF La Porte, Ind.
Almost Immediately former Senator
Lorimer and Edward Hines were men,
toned. There was prompt objection
by. defense counsel and arguments
were begun.
During arguments the prosecution
declared point blank its contention
that. Ftlnk's connection with the Lori
neri case was the cause of the attack
on ais character.
81 expect to show said Prosecutor
Bell, that this witness (F'unk) testi-
fed before the investigating commit
tee that Edward Hines solicited &c.,
900 from him in connection with the
election of William Lorimer. We ex-
pect to show that since that time he
has been followed by detectives and
has eceived numeous anonymous let
ters.
"On one occasion he spoke to a de-
tective who was following him and the
man told him he was reporting to Mr..
Hines, who was then in Washington.
This testimony goes to show that the
motive in this case on trial was Funks
testimony in the Lorimer investiga-
ton.
Testimony, that detectives followed
Mr.. Funk and reported to Mr.. Hines in
Washington is out of place here, %.
Judge Pam finally ruled. He permit
ted, however. the witness to repeat
his testimony before the legislative
committee. The jury was recalled and
ank said:
IT testified that l had been ap-
proa ched by Edward Hines in the
Union League club in Chicago with q
request for $4,000 to assist in rei1n-
bursing certain persons not named
who had raised a fund of 100000 to
put Lorimer over.' -
Mr.. Funk testified that he never had
seen Mrs. Henning until she appeared
to testify at this trial. He said that
he had known Hines for several years
and formerly had business dealings
with him. His testimony was not
by cross examination.