Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-20
City NEWS

NJ EAGLESTON, United states
government engineer is here from
Panama, where he has been assisting
In the work of huildlnV the great
Panama canal.
THE TULSA STREET Railway
company yesterday started unloading
new steel on Main street probably in
preparation for some double track on
that busy thoroughfsrc.
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IN \ FREIGHT CAR mix-up in
the Midland Valley yards yesterday,
cattle car turned directly in front Of
the passenger depot After some lit
tie trouble the track was cleared.
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John r. Burns, c. A. Sanderson and
G s. Avery are all in Chicago, on
business affecting the International
Dry Farming congress. They win re-
turn in the course Of two or three
days
WORK WAS started yesterday on
Nam, between Todrth and Fifth, on
modern three-htOry business block.
100 by 1870 feet IN dimensions. The
structure is TO be occupied next Oc-
toher.
MISS GAYLE PtTTUs the smiling
and popular chief clerk in County At
torney MGlloys office is on the sick
list. She expressed the hope yester-
day that she would be back at work
again today.
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lENRN LEE, a farm youth, was
arrested at Red Fork yesterday and
brought to Tulsa on a charge of point
ING fire arms, He was arraigned in
nominal hond.
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CAPTAIN II. b. HICKS. the Com
manch' Indian globe trotter and
preacher is in Tulsa for a few days
visit He spoke to a crowd on the
streets last night al the Salvation
Army open ri" meeting.
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YITH A VIEW to locating some
where in Oklahoma, l.. j. Threlkeld,
IN attorney of Smithland, Ky, was in
Tulsa yesterday lie Is an old friend
of soN eral Kenuc1ians in the city and
is likely to make this his future home,
II is said.
ROBERT MOODY formerly of the
Commercial National bank Of Titus
,,f Nj 4.
Moody. vice president Of the Prairie
vi and Gas company, has accepted the
position OF teller Of the Exchange Ma
tional bank Of Tulsa and enters upon
the discharge ofNis duties today
AN IMMENSE CROWD stood spell
huunG at Second and Main last night
while an old circus trapcze performer,
trotted gaily back and forth on a
slender wire that reached from the
top OF the Roswell building to the
fourth floor Of the Firs Naional bank
bHnding His foats We're "thril'ers'
ii every sense OF the word. The free
act was staged by a local theatre.
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THE PRELIMINARY hearing OF
Art Meadows. charged with the muir
der Of his wife, Anna Meadows, who
was shot and fatally wounded in n
local resort few weeks ago, will start
in Justice Stacks court Wednesday
morning at s o'clock Meadows claims
the shooting was accidental and has
the dying statement OF his wife to
prove the contention. The county at
torney's office insists the shooting was
2remeditated.
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THE FIRST of four heavy damage
suits, growing out of a gas main cN-
plosion at Wagner last winter that
totally destroyed a grocery store, was
called yesterday in the district court.
Miller and Wagner. who owend the
damaged place Of business. are suing
tho Caney River Gas company. The
case probably will he ended about
noon today Morton Rutherford and
c r. Rogers are attorneys for the
plainuff while Aby and Tucker and
Charles Watts represent the dofand-
nnt.
ED CROSSLAND. deputy county at
torucy, has received word that his
father, Samuel II. Crossland. has
practically no opposition for the ap-
pointment as United tSates attorney
FOR the western district Of Kentucky.
The elder Grassland is IA prominent
figure in Kentucky. For many years
ne was commonwealth attorney for
the first congress onal district He
once ran against Ollie James for con-