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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-02-05

paying SO cents for the oil to others
In this way the Standard has robbed
the Indians out of millions. 1t is
charged that the new council of the
tribe was elected by only 167 votes
out of the entire tribe, all being cast
for the new chief and councilman,
who were known to be IN favor OF
the lease with the Uncle Sam Oil
company.
1t declares that information has
been furnished that since the elec-
tion Secretary Fisher, by threats of
arrest, has intimidated and coerced
tie council to vote to accept the bids
made under his rules and regulations
on $4,000 acres, principally to the
Gypsy Pipe Line company, when
every other pipe line company I'm
dcrstood they would not be permit
ted to bid
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-02-05
AND
CAPITAL BILL
STRENUOUS TIMES ATTEND ITS
ISSUE - COMMITTEE MAY IN
vlTE PROPOSALS.

Believing that some members OF
the committee on capitol buildings
ale contemplating extending a gen
eral invitation to every city in the
state to submit proposals for the
state capitol building, Senator Elmer
Thomas, of lIawton, introduced in
tie senate Tuesday afternoon res
olution calling on that committee
to report to the senate on the bills
now pending before it advertises to
the state that other propositions will
be considered.
Senator Thomas Immediately NOV
ed its adoption and Senator C. F.
Barrett, of Shawnee, chairman of the
capitol building committee and au-
thor Of the resolution to instruct
the attorney general to sue on the
bends of the members of the Okla
homa City Capitol Building company
for an alleged failure to fulfill their
NOIlll dSl WIN Nllt olult, blllClIN W.
posed the adoption of the resolution
and moved to substitute the motion
Of Senaor Thomas by having the res
olution referred to the committee of
which he is chairman.
A debate on the motion disclosing
the fact that there is much feeling
anong some of the senators on the
proposition, waged for more than an
Lour until 1t was terminated by the
senate going into executive session
without a vote being reached, The
matter under consideration at tie eX-
ecutive session, it was stated, did
not concern the capitol question, but
was a continuation of a discussion of
the matter taken up Saturday. The
resolution will retain it's place on
the calendar and may be taken up
some time Wednesday, if it is called
for
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-02-05
Three Propositions.

The committee on capitol buildings
now has three propositions before i.
of vital concern, and the object of
Senator Thomas resolution is to COM
Pei the committee to report on these
before any other action is contem-
plated. One of the measures before
the committee is the resolution by
Senator Thomas F. McMechan pro-
posing that the legislature accept on
behalf of the state that the land and
money donated by Oklahoma City
for capitol purposes, which city the
people of the state have twice select
ell as the state capitol.
Another is the resolution by Barrett
proposing legal proceedings against
members of the capitol company for
an alleged failure to comply with
their contract, and the third is the
hill by Senator Burford, proposing to
locate the capitol at Guthrie until
the permanent building is located in
Oklahoma City.
The committee held meeting
Tuesday morning and it was at that
meeting it developed the idea of
some of the members to invite other
propositions from the different towns.
Senator Barrett declared the pur-
rose of the resolution would tend to
hog tie" members Of the committee
from performing their duties and sta
ted that should the resolution be
some of the members of the
committee would resign Immediately.
Debate on the resolution was heard
by the largest crowd that has yet
filled the galleries of the senate
chamber Unless the resolution is
called up Wednesday it is not prob
able there will be any more develop
ments until the committee reports
on the different measures before it.
-Oklahoman.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-02-05
SERIOUS CHARGES
AGAINST OFFICIALS
DECLARED THAT FISHER AND
WlcKERSHAM ARE TOOLS OF
STANDARD OIL TRUST.

Washington, ID. c., Feb. 4.-Charg
es that Attorney General Wicker
sham has been made a tool of the
STANDARD Oil company and that Secre'
tury Fisher has conducted the affairs
Of the Usage nation in Oklahoma "as
the czar of the Standard Oil com
pany at 26 Broadway would have
conducted them had he been secre'
tarv of the Interior" were filed Mon
day with the house commission on
Indian affairs, on behalf of the Uncle
Sam Oil company, whose leases with
the Indians were tabooed
A. L. Wilson of Kansas City, who
filed the brief, also charges that
since the installation of the new coun'
ell and officials of the Usage nation
Secretary Fisher has used coercion to
obtain ratification of leases with a
subsidiary of the Standard Oil com
p&ny.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-02-05

Il wish you would shout at me, just
the same as you shout at the animals
you are going to kill" said Judge
Moss, at the Carnarvon tWales)
county court. to butcher who was
giving evidence in quiet tones. IF
you we're going to kill an obstreper-
Gus bull you would not whisper like
this" added his honor.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-02-05
VALUABLE INFORMATION.

There's a fund Of informa-
ton to be gained from care
full reading Of the Wants.
What workers are wanted
what property is for sale or
for rent-what needs Of bus
mess and the household
: prompt the call for many es-
sentials-what chances are Of
fered for business deals,
buying, selling, exchanging?-s
all such information is con-
tanned in the Wants.
Manp find 1t we'll worth
while to be posted regarding
the Wants.
Many have turned the
Wants to good account in ad-
vantag geous deals, securing
work. and in many other
ways
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-02-05

Six OF the best union BARRIERS and
you are always next at Tom Rob
er,s' shop
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-02-05
Dr.. Xmas New Discovery.

Soothes irritated throat and lungs,
stops chronic and hacking cough, re-
lieves tickling throat, tastes nice.
Take no other; once used. always
used. Buy it at Ringer Drug Co.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-05
Exercises at Mountain Creek

Mountain Creek, July 4.-tSpecial -
Early this morning the emblematic flags
of both our united country and the SOUTH
ern cross foated together from the
home flagstaff.
At o'clock Maj. c. A. Gum called
camp iii to order and explained to the
veterans and visitors, ''why we cele-
brate."
A quartet of old ladies' wives of vet
erans here, sung several good old-t time
selections. led by S. J. Address. with
Mrs. j. P Snyder of Montgomery as
organist.
Miss Lucy Simpson, daughter of the
Alabama Confederate Home Veterans
was next introduced and recited choice
selections. This little miss is a general
favorite with the oil veterans, and as
she is the youngest of Capt. j. M. Simp-
sons family. is always very much APP
preciated
The Rev. o. w. Greer delivered an
excellent and appropriate address. FIRE.
quently alluding to the southern soldier
of 1861 as we'll as the men who followed
Washington in the days of the revolution.
Mr. Greer's remarks were timely and
well listened to.
Veteran S, j. Address read a poem
written by Father Brennan, applicable
in every stanza to the valor and days
of 1926.
A number of young people of the Bap-
tist chuch favored the audience with
splendid music suitable to the occas sion,
with Mrs. F. j. Snyder of Montgomery
as organist.
Mrs Carrie McMasters was busy all
day in the absence of her father, the
commandant, at Gettysburg, arranging
and looking after details that would lead
to the enjoyment of veterans and visitors
Gen John b. Fuller. one of the exec
utive committee of the home, came up
from Montgomery to mingle and be with
the veterans
Miss Katie Lasseter. the matron. enter
tained some of the visitors at dinner
The day was fittingly observed and en-
loved by all who participated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-05
entertainment AT
SKYSCRAPER TODAY
Enslen and Friends Will
Celebrate Reaching High
est Point of Building

The formalities attending the achieve
ment of reaching the highest point on
the Jefferson County Savings bank new
rs story skyscraper will be held this
afternoon. Although the American flag
foated from the highest point all day
yesterday the exercises in connection
with that stage of the construction Will
not take place until 80 o'clock today.
At that hour e. f. Enslen, president
of the new bank, his father G. F. Ems
len, founder of the banking house of
Enslen, and few friends will observe
the occasion.
The ceremonies this afternoon will be
entirely informal. At the hour named
Mr.. Enslen and few friends, as well
as members OF The Chamber of Com
meree, will gather at the bank building
there to partake of refreshments and
to hear speeches delivered. The cere-
monies are expected to be unusually in
teresting and for that reason arrange
ments are being made to take care of
all who attend.
The celebration of the placing of the
flag on the highest point of sky
scraper has never before been held
here. The christening of building
and the final steel construction have
always been celebrated. However, Mr.
Enslen and his associates propose TO
celebrate the placing of the steel on
the highest point. The remainder of
the steel on the new building Will be
placed during the week
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-05
O'bARR DROWNED IN
QUEENSTOWN LAKE
High School Student Plupges
Into Water-Does Not
Reappear

Luther O'Barr, a High school student,
was drowned at Queenstown Lake yes
terday morning at 1145 o'clock. The ac-
spring freely from rowing in a boat re-
moved his clothes and dived In the lake
about 20 yards from shore The shock
fro mthe cool water is thought to have
caused cramp and almost instantaneous
drowning for the body of o Barr never APP
peared on the surface of the lake follow
ing his plunge in it. The body was re-
covered some time later and brought to
Birmingham in Johns ambulance
O'Barr had gone to the lake yesterday
morning with a number of young people
from Central park on picnic. Queenstown
Lake is situated on the Seaboard railroad
about Is miles from Birmingham. Dur
ing the early hours of the morning oBarr
with several companies rowed about the
lake in small boat until O'Barr stated
that it was too hot to row any more and
he was going to take a swim. His fatal
plunge followed.
Luther OBarr is a well known high
school student, being the cartoonist of
the High School Mirror and also the var
sity first baseman on the baseball team.
He was about Is years of age and a men,
ber of the class of 1915 He was employed
by the Alabama Engraving company dur
ing the summer. His parents
who reside in Odenville were notified of
the death of their son last night and inn
mediately lef1 for Birmingham.
The body will be sent to Odenvlle for
interment this morning by Johns
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-05
CINCINNATI MAN
ON ICE MEMS STRIKE
Says Mayor Hunts Seizure
of Plants Regarded as
Outrage

William c. Hill, a representative OF the
o., spent few hours in Birmingham late
yesterday evening on his way TO Mobile.
He was registered at the Empire hotel.
Mr.. HilI came direct from Cincinnati
and said the situation there caused by
the ice mems strike has humorous, as
well as a serious side He said that the
evening he left the city while standing in
the Union station waiting for the train he
overheard a conversation between two
very old negroes.
How's u commin deas days, SAM
Poly. Alex, vey poly. in fact an
'spects abs protracted de firey-morbus.
You see de iee-man comes round pertty
e'rly in de mon'in' an as h wont let
me hab Tut a dimes wurth. by de time
abs gifts dressed an gifts out on de po en-
hits all gone till hit can't hardly be found.
and ah amt got no cold water & drink
NAH wind pipe gifts plum scorehed
lowing to these extreme situations
said Mr. Hill. Mayor Hunt has seized
TIE eight non-union ice plants and is op-
Grating them that the heat sufferers may
be offered some relief. The plant owners
considered the act an outrage and have
filed protest before the court of COM
mon pleas. Mayor Hunt. however. has
said he will still continue to operate tie
plants on the grounds of a great neces-
sity and the inability of the people to-
get ice unless he does so, until a decision
is handed down by tile court
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-05
Sane Fourth at Montgomery

Montgomery, July Especial -
Montgomery had a sane Fourth of July
The predominating features of the day
were absence of firecrackers and an al
most utter suspension of business
The principal attraction of the
Fourth in the city were the Y. M. c. A.
relay races, the baseball matinee, motor
cycle race and a great many barbe-
cues and picnics. A golf match had
been planned at the Country club Fri
day, but it was postponed indefinitely
owing to the inability to organize the
teams. However, many golfers went on
the links early and played throughout
the day, though there was no spirit Of
rivalry existing as would have been if
the match had been played.
All state, county and municipal Of
fees in Montgomery were closed Of
ficials locked their doors and threw the
keys away. Every businesses house en-
cept drug and cigar stores was shut
up all day. Commercial and freight Of
fees of all the railroads quit work. In
fact everybody who could possibly do
so took Friday as a holiday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-05
HOLD PRELIMINARY
TRIAL OF FORD TODAY
Harris and Huey Also Charged With
kidnapping and Conspiracy-Case
to Come Up Before Abernethy

The preliminary hearing of the charges
against A. II. Ford. president of the Bir-
mingham Railway, Light and Power COM
pany George Harris of the same COM
pany, and T. Fl. Huey, special officer,
who were arrested on warrants charg-
ing them with kidnapping and conspiracy,
will be held this afternoon before Judge
H. b. Abernethy of the court of COM
mon please. The charges grew out of the
alleged deportation of William Welch, an
organizer of the Street Railway Employees
union, who was said to have been taken
from the Empire hotel and escorted out
of town.
Owing to unsettled conditions the trial
has been continued from time to time,
but 1t is understood that it will take
place this afternoon. The hearing will
be held in the rooms of the circuit court
on the second floor of the courthouse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-05

Far, far below moyed tha thin black
lines of ant-lske humans The feud
breath from their sweltering TANKS, the
hum and buzz of their motion the stins-
ing dust from their feet, the hollow shouts
from their throats, came rising ap
through the atmosphere. vague, indistinet
jumbled together In an unrecognizable
wall.
1t was a strange world. foreign city
which the Lone Man saw as he looked
down into to the top of Birmingham. 1t
seemed that suddenly he mad been brought
face TO face with God. He knew at any
rate he was much closer to Something, for
he ro longer felt the ties nor the kinship
for the others of his speeies-those others
down theresa ral below.
AS far as he could see in any direction
except one there vas nothing. When he
looked down he could see the toiling city.
But every other place there was nothing,
Often he had wondered why dog bayed
at the moon. Now he knew. The sun
had set and in the twilight up over the
the moon. Somewhere inside of him his
organs started the composition of that
long, wierd curdliag wall of the lost dog
crying TO the moon. 1t rolled about and
gathered force, but before it passed his
lips, he clutcned ii with the muscles OF
his throat and stcangied it. Civilization
had planted itself too deep in his frame
to he overcome in moment.
Far and wide and near at hand his
apXinnS pN fap1ll.a
clod. some recognizable stone. some
known corner. some intimate particle of
substance, and there was-none. The
faces hurrying along in the deep narrow
street below We're as undistnguishable "a
bricks. Not a human down there did he
| know not street looked familiar, not
a building appeared in the right place, He
could vaguely distinguish the directions
| by the outline of the mountains and he
| figured out that away off their somewhere
to his left was his home.
Home-where wife and babies were
How strange it seemed to him that ther,
were any such things in existence as
wife and babies, The throng below hin
went on without end, without pause with
out incident without turning to one side
| or the other. They seemed to be going
nowhere they seemed to be coming from
nowhere; they seemed to he doing nothing
just seurrying along like half drowned
| rats pouring out water soaked hole. Al
street intersections the throngs divided
| some scooting one way, some another
In and out of the great office building
went the solid lines of humanity. like
the little black ant scurrying into its
anthilI. He could fancy he could see them
rush to the elevator, fly up inside the
building, rush out, in a moment return
down again like a falling plumet and
again to join the endless and ever NOV
ing throng. At times one would slip, a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-05
Holiday in TaIIadega

Taladega. July 4-tSpecial)-A SAFE
and sane Fourth was celebrated Friday.
Merchants closed stores and clerks en-
joyed various outings as taste dictated
The Woodmen spread a mammoth barbe-
cue at nearby resort, the wagonettes
carrying the crowds containing transpar-
ences with the letters '.Wow!'' on the
sides. Various Sunday school teachers
conveyed classes 70 the woods for recrea-
tion. Notable among these excursions
was the outfit of James II. Ivey Esq, an
immense hay wagon draped with flags
and the national cclors. and filed with iG
lean, hungry. jovial kids. prepared to
spend the day IN a washing at the
creek A ball game at 10 a. m. between
Talladega and Anp.ston attracted . large
crowd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-05
A LONE MAN IN THE CLOUDS
by RALPH n. SILVER

street car would bump into another. an
automobile would strike another. they
would fail by the Nayside. little knot
Of other humans would form about them.
up would shoot the white ambulance. the
crowd would scatter and the line pass
on and on as if nothing had happene,
until another would make Just one mis-
step and for moment only tie scene
would he repeated.
The Lone Man could not see the fea-
lures of any one of the faces but well
he knew the hopes, the fears, the am-
bltions. the doubts. the smiles the
frowns that were there. Each one striv-
ing and struggling for something the
others were trying To keep away from
him. one moment he met With sue
cess and the next with defeat and SO
he struggled on and on and an until
finally his turn came 10 make misstep
the white ambulance would shoot up
and he would never join that throng
again Well did the Lone Man know
that In that maddening crowd were
| those who were a success. as success
was known down there They We're
| smiling over the dollars that were
! lingling into their pockets from the
others who were their victims, all un-
suspicious of the terrible void the
enormous pail of lonesomeness that
hung just overhead. unmindful of that
| time when their turn would come TO
make a misstep, the white ambulance
would sooot up and they would pass
! into that void above never 10 return
and see who won back the dollars they
| had had.
For a tooo. tfn1a tho ono NIup Sat
and wondered. lie wondered why, when
| there were just SO many dollars among
| Them. they did not divide them up, Civ
| ing each his equal portion, and then
! all sit down and rest. It seemed so tool
| sh from way up there to see them
| trying to take the dollars from each
other, only so soon to be taken away
| themselves and leave the ones they
| had won for someone else to win back
] II seemed an endless chain of cifcum
stances that had 20 beginning, no mid
die and no end. that Went on and on
and on In a perfect cycle without any
variations. without any change, With
out any--results,
And then through the gathering dusk
he saw the slnmefrig lines of steel shoot
| Ing out from the city in every direction
| aud loosing themselves In the twistings
and turnines of the mountains. They
] were the ties that bound this city 10
! thousands of otherr. just like 1t And IN
every other city there was going on the
same thing: a different throng, but tho
same hnrrying. the same worrying, the
same laughing, the same crying and with
| the same results.
| What fools
Hey. you in a trance" yelled the voice
of the watchman. 81 can't stay here vi.
| yez all night
! And the Lone Newspaper Man, awak-
ened descended rom off the top of the
highest sky.craper building in the south.
went TO the Office and tried to write up
the assignment that had been given him
| BY the city Ed, then joined the throng IN
the streets ond what had been puzzling
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-05
AT THE HOTELS

Rudolph Mitchell of Admission, B. NJ.
Page of Admission and J. L. Patterson
of Enterprise are stopping at the Hill
man.
William Wright of Mobile. G. II.
Harrison OF Montgomery and H. P.
Mann of Tuscaloosa are at the En-
pire. d
]. K. Pittman of Anniston. H. T.
Morrison of Decatur and f. NJ. Grubbs
of Cullman are registered at the Flor
ence.
Frank Simpson of. Cullman. II. [.
Roberts of Atlanta and c. w. Edwards
of Gadsden are guests at the Morris.
F. T. Riddle of Fort Wayne. Il. j.
Cross of Athens and ]. d. Cooper of
Mobile are among those at the Metro
politan.
S. F. Sims of Chicago, Claude Moody
of Blocton and e. A. Russell of Hunts
Vile are stopping at the Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-05
FIVE ARE KILLED IN
RAILROAD WRECK
Scranton Flyer Strikes a
Wagon Containing
Picnic Party

Philadelphia. July Alive persons
were killed and three injured, one prob
ably fatally. tonight when the "Scran-
ton Flyer" on the Pennsylvania and
Reading railroad struck a wagon con-
tanning a picnic party at a railroad
crossing near Quakertown, Pa.
The dead:
Mrs. Jennie Costello, Ga years old
Edwin Kane, three years
Katherine Costello, 10 years.
James Gillick, so years.
James Hannigan, 54 years.
The injured:
Francis Costello, II years fractured
skull and internally injured.
Edward Costello, four years, hurt
about the body and possibly Internally
Frederick Costello, IL years, bruises
and possibly fracture of the skull
The Costello home is in Philadelphia
and the two men live near Quaker
town The party was returning in
wagon from a Fourth of July celebra-
tion.
When news of the accident reached
Quakertown two automobiles were
rushed to the scene. The dead and in :
jured were found buried beneath the
ruins of the wagon.