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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-03-06
College Students in
Role Of Ministries

i requires soursge OF the highest
order to conquer great arversity This
was Witnessed March 5 in the dreamy,
sawny darky maidena out az the Okla
homa College Tor Women. They were
the members Of the Utopia Literary
society and the play was, Al G. Fields
Minstre4 The eartain was drawn
back two two dlsky lads, who skipped
TO the old time dusky music. revealing
the cast.
Ccpld they play rag.time? Wen,
yes. and dance it, too Their jokes
were the cream Of the minstrel, rem.
dered IN chic American style, and
George Washington Snow was well
rendered by a dusky maiden, whom all
know but alas. not even guess
could be made as 10 her identity
Then came a iig by a lad that beat
the real thing to re blush any time,
ending act first with great applause.
Act second revealed the company.
some efoss-legssd, others being in
darky pose, sad and weird, prepara.
tory for something. From somewhere
came music. and from their throats
rolled the dreamy suwanee River, The
contrast between their faces and the
melody Of the Anglo-Saxon race was
humorous
While the members Of the company
we're preparing for act three, came a
specially. when I Take You Home
Tonight. rendered BY a yellow maiden
reminding the audience Of the days
OF our courtship.
Act third opened with a male quar-
tet think Of the nerve Of i0, in "0ld
Black Joe This was a classic rendi
tion and it painted the neglected OLD
time servant rs never before
Then came he famous eake.walk
These girls dressed as boys were sim
ply "killin,' in their familiar love
making, mixed with a hop, skip and 1
jump. and occasionally o stolen kiss
Quickly came another change and be
fore the audience was the matronl,
old black nanny and her picka
niny in that nosl wonderful piec,
"Lullaasn Before the crowd agaii
was dusky maiden full Of youth tbu
not Of beauty. and she rendered "An
gelina Johnson Her grace Of voiel
and body was admirable This maidei
was hardly gone when another ap
peared in RUFUS Rastus johnson
Brown" Next was a double jig, AM
il YOU wish to see something good cal
these girls 10 show YOU
Then the cast appears IN the gran
finale Dixie and never can wor
picture do justice to the song Of tn
southland. IA Visitor
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-03-06
NARROWING
TALE TOLD BY
MRS. MADERO

Fort Worth, March GA dispatch
from Brownsville says
Mrs Emilio Madero, who passed
through here last night declared Fran
cisco Madero was killed two DAYS be-
fore the officials and Ambassador
Wilson announced it and that be was
tortured by knife cuts. Afterwards,
she says. he was put to death in a
horrible manner, being tortured after
the manner Of the inqulsitlon IN the
oIden days She says Gen Huefta an
peared ga the streets tossing money
10 the ponn1ace to naEifX them.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-03-06
THAW REMAINS
In THE ASYLUM
Telegram by Unned Press.

Telegram by UnEed Press.
New York, March ST. Harry X.
Thaw's latest attempt to secure free
dom from the Mattewan asylum for the
criminal insane failed today
The Thaw family refused to allow a
jury to hear evidence because the state
intended to allow the whole scandal Of
charges that Thaw had attempted to
bribe attendants and officials at tile
asylum to come before the court.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-03-06
STATE OF
SONORA
SECEDES
Revolt Against the Mexican Gov
rnment---Huerta Prepares to
Crush RebeIs---American
Troops Ready
Telegram by United Press.

Telegram by United Press.
Douglas. Ariz, March G.-The Me-
derista rebellion in north Mexico was
given new impetus today when cour-
iers were sent out from the Hermo-
sillo notifying all towns in the state OF
Sonora that the state congress had
formally seeded from the republic and
would defend itself against Huerta.
The richest and most populous state
in the nation is now really at war
with the Mexico City government.
kilograms received from Mexico
City say that Huerta has appointed
Manuel Mazcaranas provisional gov
ernor Of Sonora, with orders to pro
coed to Hermosillo and subdue the up.
rising there. Messages from Hermo.
silo say that Gen. Obrigon has been
appointed commander Of the consutu-
tionalists in rebellion against the Mex.
leo City government
The Maderistas continue mobinza.
ton Of troops at colonia Moreios be-
low this point Rebels camped ten
miles to the south declare they will
make an attack on Aqua Prieta, the
Mexican border town opposite Doug
las. This was brought here late We'd
nesday by courier from the rebel
camp where fifty Maderistas under
Generals samaniege and Cordoya ave
located. Desertions have depleted the
Aqua Prieta garrison to 100 men and
Gen. Oieda finds 1t impossible to get
help from the interior.
! In all zoo men and machine guns oil
the ninth United states cavalry who
have had brushes with Mexican troops
over the line. are stretched along tht
border today BY order Of the war dc
partment, a guard 81 The negro troop
ers has been placed at the Douglas
water plant. fhis was requested b.
the local residents Nearly all OF th'
Mexican population here are symps
thizers with the new Maderistas.
Col Guilfoyle has receive dorder
from Washington only to return th
fire Of Mexicans over the line whicl
will be necessary to protest. American
lives and to keep the patron unde
cover.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-03-06
County Jail Now
In New Quarters

All work on the Grady county jail
is complete and the prisoners have
been installed in their new quarters
for some days IN the basement of the
court house building. The entire base
ment is now occupied by the sheriffs
office, the jury room, the jailers quar-
ters, the cages for the prisoners and
the jail kitchen The arrangement
seems very much more convenient
than the old quarters, that separated
the sherlffs office from the Jail build
ing. The old federal cage has been
installed in the new quarters and is
being used as a woman's department
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-03-06

President Wilson Woods appoint
ment by Taft TO serve four years ex-
pifes in one year and fire months,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-03-06
= %#@#%@44+#&#+ -
= WEATHER FORECAST.

+ Tonight, fair and warmer
+ Friday, fair.
++44**44s+ +@4$%@s :
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-03-06

Hermosillo, Mexico. March g.. Re-
pudiation Of Huerta's provisional ma
tional government was made officially
here at a special meeting OF tho So
nora state congress which also issued
a general call to arms for an people
of the state to prevent any intrusion
of Huerta soldiers.
Any attempt to bring government
troops into Sonora will be resented,
was the message sent by the state au
thorities here 10 the party in power
Continued on Pare Three.l
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-03-06
Woo Remalns ChleI.

Major General Wood. for the pres
ent. will remain as chief Of staff Of the
army through IN otder issued today By
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-03-06
TRADES COUNCIL MEETING.

The regular meeting Of the Chieka-
sha Trades Council will be held at
Union Labor hall this evening and the
presence Of every member is earnestly
requested by the officers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16
SANTA FE NOTES.

George Nelson of the Santa Fe pump
ing station at Argentine is in the COM
Mr. Nelson's condition is considered
grave.
T Carney, passenger agent for the
Union Pacific railroad with headquarters
in Kansas City, is visiting Santa Fe
friends here for few days.
T. e. Prout, general secretary of the r.
r. Y. NJ. c. A, will return tomorrow from
Cincinnati. o., where he has been attend
ing the convention of Y. NJ. c. A men.
Ed Merchant. travelling passenger agent
for the Canadian Pacific. was calling on
Santa Fe friends here yesterday.
r. w. Foster of the auditor of disburse-
ments' office expects to leave the first of
of next month for vacation trip to Cali
fornia, to be gone several weeks.
F. R. Bradfield of the freight auditors
office will spend Sunday with relatives
and friends in Usage City
Mrs. Ed Ash. wife of Engineer Ed Ash,
was called to Oklahoma City last night by
the serious illness of her nephew. Harry
railroad accident yesterday Mr. Coch-
rane was formerly caller at the santa Fe
among railroad people. His condition is
considered quite grave.
w. H. Lessman, machinist in the shops
here, expects to leave the first of next
month for an extended visit with rela-
tives and friends in California.
switchman John Nelson. Mrs Nelson
and their daughter, Mrs George Fleming,
will leave this evening for Houston, Tex,
where they will attend the grand lodge
convention or the >. u. OF N A
Conductor Jesse Howes, Mrs. Howes and
their son Harry returned today from
Leavenworth, where they attended the
wedding of Miss Esther Stockton, daugh-
ter of Conductor and Mrs r. Stockton.
to John T Schalker.
Mrs. William Simpson, Mrs. William
Gilpin, Mrs. c. E. Edwards, Mrs. Sher-
man Helms, Mrs. Joe Harris, Mrs. John
HOMELAND, Mrs. Thos WEIGH, Mrs L. F..
Day. wives of engineers of Argentine'
came this morning to attend the twenty
third anniversary of Division No 9S G. l.
A. to the B. of L. E. which divisions are
celebrating at the home of Mrs. G. H.
Wood all day today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16
BEAT HIM To IT.
Kansas City Woman Tried to jump in
Kaw After Husbands Threat,

Kansas City, May 16-Five hun
dred days in Jail and a fine of $500
was today assessed against Adolph
Carlson, Kansas City, Kan, grocer
for shooting at officers who attempt
ed to arrest him for selling liquor and
because he had, according to his wife,
threatened to drown her
A motorist restrained Mrs Carlson
as she was about to jump into the
Kansas river.
''I thought I would beat him to his
threat" said Mrs. Carlson at the po-
lice station.
She told the officers her husband
was selling liquor at his store and sew
eral men were sent to the place While
tney were searching for the liquor,
Carlson fired two shots at them.
Judge Brady heard the whole story
in municipal court this morning and
in addition to filming and sentencing
carlson, incidentally assessed a $25
fine against Mrs Carlson for disturb
ing the peace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16
HUNT new LAND
Arrangements Completed for
Croker Expedition.
Professor Tanquary of n. s. A.
C. in Explorers.

New York, May 16.-After many
setbacks the Croker land expedition
has completed arrangements for de-
parture from this city on July 8. under
command of DR.. Donald B. Macmil-
Ian in the ship Diana Croker. This
land is supposed large island or con-
tinent which was seen from a distance
by Rear Admiral Peary in 1906.
Doctor Macmillan hopes to learn
definitely whether Crocker land is real
ly an arctic continent, an island or
only an illusion. The principal mem
berS of his party, according to in
formation today, will be Maurice c.
Tanquary, zoologist of the State Agri-
cultural college at Manhattan, Kan.
w. Elmer Ekblow, botanist and
zoologist, and Ensign Fitzhugh Green,
L. S. N, physicist and engineer.
Carrying a crew of % in addition to
scientists members of the expedition,
the Diana will sail for Greenland to
obtain Eskimo dog teams and supplies
and probably spend three or four years
in the arctic.
Flagler bay, on the west side of
Kane basin, will be made the winter
quarters. This is about fifty miles
from Cape Sabine, where eighteen
members of Lieutenant Greely's party
died of starvation and cold before the
relief ships reached them.
A large wireless plant, which will be
ment, will be set up for communica-
ton to Cape WolstenhoIme, in Hudson
bay, 1000 miles away, where the
Canadian government is completing a
wireless station and will relay all
MESA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16
I0DAY'S MARKET REP1RT,

Chicago, May 16.-WHEAT-wheat adj
Vanceo today in prospects of small Rus
sian shipments and reports of frost dam
age in the Volga region. Strength of feed
grams acted as an offset to fine weather
here; opening prices were UNCHANGED TO
9sc up. July started at SSc to SSMMSsLc,
unchanged TO 3s@Ac higher and rose to
S89s98S1ac
Assertions that the sight-draft contro-
versy which has hindered exports would
be settled in "A hours caused an upturn.
The close was steady with July 6sc net
higher at $3.50.
CORN-Corn advanced on account of
expected decrease of local stocks. July,
which opened shade to nc up at $3.50
552zc to 555sc, rose to 561s056zc-
Not much reaction took place. The
close was steady at SEC for July, ssc above
last night.
OATS-Scantiness of the rains in IlIi-
nois and Indiana made oats shorts rush
to cover. July started a sixteenth to Sac
higher at 355sc to 36c, and assembled to
36kc.
VISIONS-Provisions eased off be-
cause demand was only scattered. First
transactions varied from last nights level
to 21ac down, with July as follows: Pork,
$1955: lard, $1,000; ribs, s11.121z
RYE-No. 2, 62Q63c.
BARLEY-47@S7c
TIMOTHY-$2S 5dS. So.
CLOvER-Market nominal.
PORK-S19.75.
IAARD-$11. 021ad11.o5.
RIBs$11. 50@12.00.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16
help BLIND BABES
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson Asked to
Design Charity Coin.
Sale for Support of All UnfOr-
Inmates in e. s.

New York, May 16.-Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson, wife of the president, has been
asked by the International Sunshine
society, which is holding its fifteenth
annual convention here, to design a
special coin, the proceeds from the
sale of which. should go to help sup
port and educate all of the blind ba-
bies in the United States.
The idea originated with Queen AL
exandra and her daughter Maud, who
designed a baby coin for children in
Denmark The bit of copper which is
worth intrinsically only half a cent, is
coined at the royal mint.
Delegates from nearly every state
in the Union are present at the con-
vention. The report of Mrs. Cynthia
Westover Alden, president of the so
ciety, points out that seven states have
passed laws providing for the care and
education of the baby blind. Thest
are Pennsylvania. New York. New
Jersey, North and South Dakota, Ari-
IONA and Rhode Island.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16
LOOK HERE, BOYS.
You Are Invited to Attend Game
Saturday-Free to 12-Year-OIds.

All boys who are not more than II
years old are invited to be the guests
of the Topeka baseball club saturday
afternoon. These boys will be admit
ted free and will be given seat in
the north bleachers. All children who
are accom- panied by their parents will
be admitted free to the grandstand.
The Omaha team will be the attrac-
ton and the boys are invited to turn
out and witness the contest. This in
vitation was decided on at a meeting
of the club officers this morning. The
management realizes that the boys en-
joy the game and they will give them
an opportunity to witness contest
between the two best teams on the
circuit.
The officers may decide to inaugu-
rate this scheme for every Saturday
during the season. They have ar
ranged two afternoons of each week
for the ladies and now have prepared
warm reception for the boys who
will be red hot fans in future years.
The game will be called at $3.50,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16
"WHISKERY' new YORK
Barber Strike Affecting $4,000 Men
Has Not Been Settled.

New York, May 16.-The BARRIERS
strike continues into its fifth day to-
day with the men who are out busy
trying to bring the shaving and hair
cutting industry to a standstill.
Posing as ordinary patrons, the strik-
ers individually invade the hotel shops
and while submitting to 20 cent shave
they quietly sought to spread their
cause" Fifteen arrests were made
as a result of various disorders charg-
ed against the strikers and their sym
pathizers, yet which included a pitched
battle with the police in front of the
Hoffman House where a large plate
glass window was broken.
Alos Genaro, a young barber arrest
ed as a leader, was sentenced in the
night court, to six months in the work
house and another striker to 90 days.
Magistrate Cornell in sentencing
Genaro scored the Industrial Workers
of the World which he said should
be driven out of every decent city 1t
is claimed by the strikers that 1900
BARRIERS have Joined their ranks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16
USE "DISEASE" LETTER
Spook Trust Methods Exposed in
Chicago.

Chicago. May 16.-"Contagion' let
tiers used by clairvoyants in keeping
their victims away from the offices
where they had been fleeced were
shown to the Cook county grand jury
yesterday. They form part of the evil
dence the states attorney has gathered
for his prosecution of the "spook trust
The letters purported to be written
by the secretary of the professor
and informed the recipients that the
professor had just contracted a con-
tagious disease. They stated that as
the professor was solicitous for the
welfare of his Clients and did not
wish them to be exposed to the disease
by a visit to the study it was sug
gested that they remain away until
notice was received he had recovered.
Persons who had given the clairvoyants
from $3.50 to 81 $50 after waiting a rea-
sonable time, started out to call on
the clairvoyant and found that he had
moved several weeks previously. States
Attorney Hoyne asserted the ''conta-
gion letter. was used generally by
clairvoyants in Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16
NO REFEREE CHOSEN.
Principals and Promoters Unable to
Agree for WiIlard-Smith Fight.

San Francisco, May 16.-The question
of a referee for the Jess Willard-G Gun
boat Smith fight next Tuesday evening
is still hanging fire. Managers Jones
and Buckley held two hours confer
ence with Promoter Coffroth and at
its conclusion it WAS announced that
the impresarios had failed to reach
an agreement. A second meeting has
been called for today when it is eX
pected the third man in the ring will be
selected.
Coffroth and Buckley are holding out
for Jim Griffin, while Tom Jones is
opposed to the red headed arbiter.
Jones bases his objections on the de-
cisions handed down in AID Wolgast
fight with Willie Ritchie for the light
weight championship and his brace of
battles with Harlem Tommy Murphy.
Willard and Smith both went through
their usual training programs today.
Willard, in an effort to dispose of
portion of the three extra pounds that
have been giving him some trouble,
put on little extra steam in his ring
work and his sparring partners were
more than glad to call it a job after
the giant Kansan had mauled them
through ten rounds of milling. Willard
announced his weight 23215 pounds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16
PECK AS A FRIEND
Everybody in Kansas Knows
Hero of Old.
Orator and Student Celebrates
10th Birthday.

Chicago. May 16.-Thursday was the
SEVENTEEN birthday of George Record
Peck, lawyer, orator, litterateur, stud
ent of literature and botanist. At three
score years and ten he is still the
apostle of 1.-The kingdom of light and
mental and spiritual decay is as far
from him today as in the '70s when he
was the friend Of every man in Kan
saS
The consulting counsel of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad
has left his summer home at Ocono-
1nowoc to celebrate his birthday with
his friends in Chicago. knowing his
priceless flowers, shrubs and trees will
await his return and paternal care.
Gardiner Lathrop, general solicitor of
the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe sys-
tenn a friend and associate in the old
days, grew reminiscent.
Mr.. Peck has rare, magnetic per-
sonality and CHARM he said He was
larger in Kansas affairs than any 9TH
er man in the state. Every man on
the Santa Fe system, from a section
hand to the president, called him
friend. Blacklisted men went to him
to intercede with the powers, and he
always did it If their records were
clean of dishonesty. He staked friends
in adversely, with recklessness, and he
would be a far richer man today if
he had not. His orations were master
pieces and his writings as great"
Mr.. Peck was born in Steuben coun-
ty, New York. but he grew up in Wis
consin. He had entered Milton college
in that state when Abraham Lincoln
called for troops, and he responded,
rising from private to captain in the
First Wisconsin heavy artillery and
the Thirty-first Wisconsin infantry.
Practiced Law in Topeka.
On his return from the war Mr..
Peck studied law, and was admitted
to the bar in Wisconsin. He went to
Kansas and practiced at Independence
and Topeka and was appointed United
States district attorney by President
Grant and reappointed by President
Hayes. In 1893 he came to Chicago
as general solicitor of the Santa Fe
system. He had, however, been Civ
en- that post in 1881. In 1895 he was
made general counsel of the Milwaukee
lines, which he relinquished in 1911. |
Mr.. Peck is one of the few men who |
have rejected a United States senator
ship. He declined an appointment in
1892 to fill the unexpired term of the |
late Senator Plumb of Kansas.
In the days of Populism in the Sun |
flower state, Mr.. Peck was in Topeka, !
a bulwark for the forces of conservat- |
ISM In the legislative deadlock in |
Llewellyn's administration !
approached a condition of open |
One night. with state troops
in the streets and the legislative halls !
in a state of siege, Peck got Llewel1yn |
into a cab and they took a long ride |
together. Peck pointed out the dan |
gers of the situation with such pa
triotic earnestness that Llewellyn was
won to a more moderate view and the |
with saving the commonwealth from |
Mr.. Peck was president of the
American Bar association in 1905-06. |
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16
SLIM men ARE CRANKS
So Says Trained Nurse Who. Found
Marriage Unhappy.

men, for they're cranky SO times out
of every 100,'' is the warning given by
Mrs. Blanche Mae Chandler of Revere,
the professional nurse, who said yes
terday that earning ones own living
was far easier task than being a
wife. Mrs. Chandler is being sued for
divorce.
Never marry" she said, until you
are certain that the man you intend
choosing has perfect poise. both mem
tally and physically. Stout women
should never marry slim men.
Couples engaging in marriage should
understand each other and be forth
fed with knowledge of the classics,
politics, etc, so that they may hold
intelligent discussions on topics of the
daV.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-16
LOVE IN TORPEDO.
Brakeman Threw Explosive Note to
Sweetheart.

Des Moines, May 16.-The Rock
Island railway is not liable for the in
jury of Miss Elma Johnson of johnson
county, which resulted when a brake
man in their employ delivered a love
message weighted with signal tor
pedo to her last summer. The Iowa
supreme court has so decided. From
the court record it appears that as
Miss Johnson's home was near the
railroad it became the brakeman's
habit to throw personal notes from the
train on which he was passing. One
day he desired to send a message to
the girl and a signal torpedo was the
handiest weight he could find. A sis
ter of Miss johnson carried the tor
pedo weighted message to her, but in
some manner she dropped it and was
hurt in the explosion.
The court in its opinion today said:
Like other departments of govern
ment the courts are progressing along
some lines. But it will be some time
before the courts can hold that a mere
act of courtship can be deemed refer
able to the commands of the en-
pIoyer.''
The verdict of the lower court in
favor of the railroad company was af-
Sirmed.