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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28
BECKER WANTS
A NEW TRIAL
THE PETITION BASES THE MO-
TION FOR A NEW TRIAL ON
FOUR GROUNDS.

New York, May 2S.-Joseph A.
Shay, counsel for Lieutenant Charles
Becker, convicted police official, has
completed plans and arguments look
ing toward a new trial. These he
presents today before Supreme Court
Justice Gerard, who it is believed will
refer the case to Justice Goff. who
presided at the trial of Becker for
inspiring the murder OF Herman
Rosenthal, the gambler.
An affidavit by Becker makes up a
large part of the petition OF lou
pages. 1t states that public clamor,
newspaper headlines and the Curran
aldermanic committees investigation
played a part in the conviction. May
or Gaynor comes in for special men
ton because of kis statement before
the Curran committee to the effect
that Becker was the head and front
of police grating.
The mayor of New York City,
Becker says, referring to the mayors
testimony, made a vicious attack on
me, and asserted that l was the head
and front of graft in the police de-
partment." He adds that the press
made "glaring use" of the mayors
The petition bases the motion for
a new trial on four grounds; that
new evidence has been discovered;
that the jurymen were separated
without leave of the court; that the
ends of justice would be furthered by
a new trial. All except the second
are customary and technical. Tie
second point refers to Samuel l.
Haas. one of the jurors, who was
allowed to go home and visit den
list.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28

Ralph Wisner, with the Western
Union Telegraph company in Dallas,
vas here today on a lrief visit with
his friend Oscar Deveny Of the State
National bank. lie was en- route
home from Shawnee, where he had
been visiting VITA his parents, Mr..
arI Mrs. E. d. Haight.
+ C. Glenn has ret irncd fro m Il
business trip 10 Madil..
The city commissioners met in
called session at the city hall this
afternoon.
County Commissioner Bud Young
WAS in the city this morning from
Berwyn.
R. l.. Allen, justice of the peace
of Graham township, came In from
Fox this morning.
Deputy Sheriff Fred Williams re-
turned from Whitesboro, Tex, yes
yesterday evening.
A. ]. Harris, a farmer Of the east
ern portion of the county, came In
from Provence this morning.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28
NEW CONTRACTS
WILL Be AWARDED
BOARD OF EDUCATION WILL RE.
sclNo ADOPTION OF THE PAST
YEAR.

Oklahoma City. May 27.-By unan :
imous vote the state board of edu-
cation today agreed 20 make new
adoption of text books for the com
mon schools, and to rescind the
purported adoption made by the for
mer board on July 29, 1912. AS
soon as the board attempts to carry
out its plans it will be met by AN
injunction suit to be instituted by
the winners in the last July adop-
ton. The suit will be based upon
the theory that what the board
did was legal, and will question
the governors authority to remove
members Of the board except for
cause and in the regular manner,
which is through judicial pro-
ceding. 1t will also be set out that
vested right has attached under
the contracts, and that considerable
expense has been incurred in at
tempting to comply with a legal
contract.
The boards resolution today rec
ognizes the validity of the old
boards work done on Saturday,
July q, which includes the adoption
Of registers for rural and urban
schools, the grade cards and spell
ers. There is no question but that
the old board was then legally in
existence All other books and par
aphernalia were adopted by the
board on Monday morning about the
time the governor served notice that
he had removed four members,
which broke a quorum, and these
adoptions are the ones to be sup
planted by the proposed new adop-
tion. The board has a supplement
al opinion from Attorney General
West constituting what the board did
on the Saturday before removal OF
the four members as being legal,
but renewed his suggestion that a
new adoption be made.
The board has not indicated wheth-
er the books of the 1908 contract
will be extended for another five
years, or whether the new adoption
will be along other lines. At one
time a motion was before the board
to extend the old adoption for one
year. Tomorrow a committee of the
board members will present rules AMI
regulations under which the new
adoption is to be considered
The board approved the employ
ment of DIR. J. W. Scroggs, presi- |
dent of the Kingfisher College, and
DR.. A. C. Scott of Oklahoma City, .
former president Of the A. & NJ
College, to be in charge q the state
extension work. The fac
ulties of the Weatherford Normal, the
State School for the Blind and the
Normal were approved by
The board as recommended by heads
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28
Woman Released.

Mrs. Jones, alias a number o.
other names, who was arrested in
Whitesboro, Texas a few days age
and returned to this county on the
charge of beating a board bill, was
arraigned before Judge Freeman this
afternoon. The woman has two chill
dren with her. both littll girls, one
aged four and the other eight years
After hearing the evidence the judge
ordered her release.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28
Released on Bond.

James Fletcher of Fox. who has
BEEN confined in the Carter county
jail for some weeks, charged with
Iape, was arraigned before Judge
Freeman of the county court this
afternoon. Fle;@her waived prelim-
mary and was bound over to await
the action of the district court in
the sum OF $500. He furnished the
required bond and was released dur
ing the course OF the afternoon.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28
TRIP To
'TREASURE|SLAND"
WOMEN HEAD THE EXPEDITION
BACKED BY BRITISH CAPITAL
lists TO ISLE OF COcoS.

San Francisco, Cal, May a.
Failure of another expedition sent
in quest of a legendary $1S,000,000
treasure cache on Cocos Island, II
the South seas, has been recorded
with the arrival here of the British
steamship Melmore.
These tabled mines. according to a
dying saildt, were buried on Cocos
by officials OF the Peruvian church
early in the last century. Mrs. Barry
Till and Miss Davis, English women,
were told by the sailor on his death
bed of the location of the cache.
The women succeeded in interesting
British capitalists, and the Melmore
was purchased for the expedition.
Mrs. Till and Miss Davis accompa-
MED the party and directed opera
tions of the fortune hunters.
After many weary months of labor
with pick and shovel. the searchers
gave up their quest and started
homeward. The Melmore put in at
Panama, where the two women and
others OF the party left the vessel
to proceed homeward by the mosc
direct route. Within the last fifty
years half dozen expeditions
equipped with ample funds, have
been dispatched to search for the
gold
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28
Old Soldiers May Fish.

The board of city commissioners
at their meeting last night, endorsed
a resolution which will grant per-
init to all old soldiers residing with
ing the city limits to fish in the
city lake free of charge. This res
olution applies to both those who
are inmates of the Confederate
Home and those who live in the city
1t also embraces the ones who wore
the gray and the ones who wore
the blue. Attorney !. r. Mason in
troduced the resolution.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28
PUTTING ON WAR PAINT.
w. S. Wolverton Wants to Be Um-
pire-Taiaferro' Chicken Dinner.

w. 5. Wolverton registered a kick
this morning with the promoters Of
the Baptist Methodist baseball art
lists. He said he did not want to
serve as coacher, that he thought he
could pile up lot more scores for his
team if he were allowed to umpire
the game. Choc Price put on his
Indian war paint He says he has
been chosen the official umpire and
he did not intend for Mr.. Drew and
Judge Harreld to take his job away
from him. This game is to be play
ed between the Baracca classes OF
the Methodist and Baptist Sunday
schools and will be called promptly
at o'clock Thursday evening at the
baseball park on b street southwest.
Since the Baptists were defeated by
th1 Campbellites a week ago they
are determined that their team shall
be victorious this time viii Prater,
president of the Baptist class wired
today to Rev. George w. Truett of
Dallas to get some players from that
city and the Rev. Mr. Truett re
sponded by promising as many real
baseball athletes as the local Bap-
lists need to take the Methodists to
cleaning. Uncle viii Taliferro says
if the Metkodists get beat that he
will set up fried chicken dinner to
the Baptists
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28
SUPPORT DENIED
TO FOUR WIVES
AGED MAN IN CHICAGO SAID TO
HAVE FOUR WIVES AND TWEN-
TY-NlNE CHILDREN

Chicago, ILL.,, May 2S.-Petitions
asking that George Fear, aged 65, be
compelled to support his twenty
nine children, filed by four women
who claimed to be his wives, were
dismissed in the county court today
when Fear told Mrs. Josephine Law e
renee, the Investigator, that he had
shipped all the women back to Salt
Lake City, from whence he and they
had come.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28
WILL RESUME BANKING INQUIRY
House Committee Will Hear Wit.
nesses Today in Oklahoma City.

Oklahoma City. May 26.-Four
members Of the house general in
vestigating committee convened in
the speakers office today to resume
work on the state banking depart
ment. No evidence was taken, but
Representative Hill of MoAlester the
committees vice chairman, issued
process for several witnesses to ap.
pear tomorrow. Speaker Maxey will
arrive tomorrow morning, as will 9th
er members of the committee. Those
here today were Messrs. Hill of Pitts.
burg, Mcclure, Mitchell and Pink
ham. The committees session will
be executive.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28
Farmers Very Busy.

v. A. Niblack, who is suffering
from a sprained knee, is spending the
day in town from his farm near Hort
bar. Mr.. Niblack says things are
busy on the farm. Potatoes are be-
ing planted, cotton needs attention
and oat and atlanta harvest is on.
All crops look we'll. The small grain
crop is already made and it Is d
good one. Prospects for corn and
cotton are very good.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28
On to Denver.

The contemplated booster trip to
Denver to attend the National Press
association convention, which is pro-
posed as an auto trip from Oklahoma
to Denver, is rapidly being worked
up and at present looks as though
Ardmore will have a representation
in the party. This will certainly be
a great advertising proposition for
our city and county, and Ardmore
should have someone there by all
means.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28
ALL WANT GRAHAM.
Has Revolutionized Farming in Car
ter County.

e''''''S
ter County.
District Agent A. G. Graham, after
the end of the fiscal year, will be
assigned to either Love or Carter
county instead of having both or
the counties and a new agent Will
be put in the field down here. Each
of these counties are asking the
state agent to place Mr.. Graham
with it and which will win out Is
not known. Mr.. Graham has been
here four years, he has revolution
lied farming in Carter county and
is held in the highest regard by
farmers, bankers and merchants.
Carte county would not like to as
sun selfish attitude but we would
like ave Mr.. Graham remain here
as age 'tural agent.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28
ASK FOR DISSOLUTION.

Washington, d. c., May 2S.-Attor-
ney General McReynolds has decided
to contend that the Southern Pacific
must give up the Central Pacific In
the pending dissolution of the Unioi
Pacific merger and will bring sui,
under the Sherman law to accom-
plish this end, if the dissolution
plan fails to include it.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28
e Joe Goldsmith,
3 NTH and family

Joe GS NTH and family will
leave hereS- hight for Berkeley, Cal
It is his = ution to make some
CITY in that Nte his home. Mrs,
Goldsmith is poor health ana
he hopes she Z IL be relieved OF
her illness by living on the coast
Mr.. and Mrs. Goldsmith have lived
here for several years. He has
been engaged in the business OF
mining asphalt and manufactur-
ing it into paints and varnishes. He
is coed business man and has
plenty of means to retire If nee
essary from active business. Ard
more will miss these good people.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28
Or. N. Morgan to BartIesville.

DR.. NJ. Morgan, the optometrist who
has been practicing his profession in
Ardmore for several months. has
removed form Ardmore and will be
located in Bartlesville in the fu-
ture. DR.. Morgan is a master Of
his profession and has many warm
friends here who wish him the most
successful success In his new home.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28
POSTMASTER Of
MEMPHIS INDICTED
CHARGED WITH SOLICITING
CAMPAIGN FUNDS IN NINE
TEEN TEN.

Memphis, Tenn, May 2S.-Lee w.
Dutrow, postmaster Of Memphis for
twelve years. was indicted by q fed
eral grand Jury here on the chargs
of soliciting campaign funds In 1910.
l. was stated that similar charges
AGAINST former United States SEMI
tor Newell Sanders and Henry o.
True. leader of the republicans OF
West Tennessee. were ignored.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28
MEMORIAL DAY.

Notice to Members Of Bradford Pos,
No. SIS, G. A. r.
All members OF the post and
friends are earnestly invited to meet
at United States marskal's office on
Friday. May 30, at 10 a. m. and 60
from there to the cemetery to strew
flowers on the graves of departed
comrades. Bring all the flowers you
can.
]. r. KENT, Commander.
R. HERR, Adjutant.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28
Notice ,Rebekahs.

Owing to, the school exercises
which are being held this week, the
regular meeting of the Rebekahs Of
Thursday night will be deferred un-
til next week. By order
SALLIE LEE, n. G..
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28
Missouri Veteran Dead.

Bethany, Mo-. May 2S.-Henry
Cadle, aged 81, prominent nationally
and state secretary of the Sons Of
the Revolution. is dead here.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28
Attention Eagles.

Regular meeting Wednesday night
at 8 o'clock. All Eagles are request
ed to be present.
.. A PURCELL.
Worthy President.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28

OF those institutions. Eight teach.
ers were released from weatherford.
owing 20 a reduction in the appro.
priation made recently.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28
WITH THE SICK.

Joe Pate is able to be up again
after a weeks illness.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28

Mrs. \. w. Churchman is improy
ing from an attack of fever.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-05-28

Mrs. ]. A. Newman of south Ard
more is reported as improved today
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-12-25
UNION MUST PAY PENALTY
VERDICT OF $252.13o AGAINST
HATTERs is AFFIRMED.
Boycott Converted Firms Profits
From $4,000 in 1901 to Loss
of $4,000 in a Year.

New York-The United States
court of appeals decided the fa-
nous Danbury hatters' case in favor
of ID. +. Loewe & Co., the plaintiffs,
and against the United Hatters of
North America. The court affirmed a
judgment in favor of Loewe 4 Co.
and against the hatters' organization
for S252,l3O.
With interests and costs, the judg.
ment now amounts TO $272,00 At
the first trial, held in 1909. the plain
tiffs obtained a judgment for 1892 ,240.
Sustaining the second judgment,
Judge Coke declared it was no longer
debatable, that the antitrust act is
applicable to such combinations or in
dividuals."
The court held 1t had been clearly
established the plaintiffs were en-
gagged in an interstate business, and
that the defendants are members OF
q trades union, and affiliated with the
| American Federation of Labor, lone
of the objects of the latter organiza,
tion being to assist its members In
any 'justifiable boycott and with
financial help in the event of strike
or Lockout"
The plaintiffs assert that this meas.
use converted profit of S27 1000 in
1901 into losses ranging from $4,000
in 1902 to $4,000 in 1904"
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-12-25
WILL DISSOLVE To
AVOID TRUST SUIT
A. r. Ct. OFFICIALS SUBMIT TO
McREYNoLDS VOLUNTARY
PLAN FOR SEPARATION.
BOOMS INDEPENDENT LINES
Stock in Western Union viii Be Sold
and Toll Lines Placed at Service
Of All-company Promises to
Cease Monopoly.

Washington, d. C.-Attorney Gen
eral McReynolds made public details
of an agreement for the reorganiza-
tioon of the American Telephone and
Telegraph company, the telephone
trust" which will prevent litigation
to dissolve that corporation under the
antitrust act, and under which COM
petitive conditions will be restored
telephone service of the entire coun.
try, and the combine will dispose of
its holdings in the Western Union
Telegraph company The reorganiza.
ton plan originated with the com.
pany, although 1t followed many re.
ports that suit against it might be
filed.
1t was regarded by department of
justice officials as the most striking
indication offered in a decade that
"hig business" has come to the con.
clusion that 1t is better 70 follow the
Sherman law than fight 1t.
The plan met not only the approval
OF the attorney general and his chief
trust buster" G. c. Todd, and Off
cials of the subsidiaries of the com
blne. but was heartily approved by
President Wilson. In a letter to Nc
Reynolds, the president expressed his
admiration for the attitude of the tele-
phone company and his conviction
that such conduct on the part of bust
ness men meant building up of bust.
ness on sound and permanent lines.
Coming on the heels of the an
ouncement that Postmaster General
Burleson is seriously interested in
government ownership of telephone
lines, the action OF the department
OF justice took an added significance
and some officials went so far as to
express the opinion that It indicated
legislation to acquire the country's
telephone business would not be
pressed by the administration at the
present session.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-12-25
STATE HAS WON
HOLLOW VICTORY
DECISION FAVORABLE TO STATE
APPARENTLY, But is HELD
UP UNTIL JAN. TO-
SUITS MAY NOTBE BROUGHT
Railroad Officials Say That Proceed
ings Filed IN Attempt 10 Re.
cover overeharges VIII Con.
stitue Contempt

Kansas City, Mo.-Almost stimuli.
taneously with the fling at jefferson
City of suit for $4,000, 600 against
the Missouri Pacific railroad by John
7. Barker, for alleged overcharges
made by the road while the 2-cent fare
and maximum freight rate laws were
enjoined. Judge Smith Mcpherson in
the federal court in Kansas City made
a new order suspending until Jan. 10
the DEGREES he had ordered at the
morning session Of the court.
The order left the Missouri rate
cases in a more complex legal tangle
than ever.
BY this order, the railroad lawyers
say, the bringing Of any and all suits
against the, railroad is stopped until
the motion is heard. and further claim
that any suit filed at present will make
the litigant stand in contempt OF
court.
Barker, however, says that he will
continue to file suits and press claims
for settlement despite the madified de-
Cision.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-12-25
AMPLE ROOM IN WHITE HOUSE
Five Additional Guest Rooms Added to
Executive Mansion for Visitors
to Presidents Family.

Washington, ID. C.-To prevent
recurrence of one of the most en-
barrassing incidents that ever befell
the wife of a president of the United
States-that which occurred during
the Taft administration, VIXEN Mrs.
Taft invited Col. and Mrs. Gothals TO
the White House as Christmas guests
and had to rescind the invitation and
send them to a hotel because of in
sufficient commodations-flve addi-
tional guests rooms have been added
to the executive mansion.
Heretofore the limited number of
bedrooms has restricted the number Of
guests to two or three. This winter,
Mrs. Wilson will be enabled to invite
her friends to visit her without fear
Of embarrassment.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-12-25
THROWS SELF UNDER TRAIN
Henry |. Nowian Of Peoria Reads in
Newspaper Of Charges Of Forgery
and Kills Himself.

Peoria, Ill-To escape trial on
the charge of forgery, Henry l..
Nowlan, an attorney of this city and
counsel for several Illinois defendants
in the trial Of the dynamite conspiracy
cases in indianapolis, committed sui
eide by throwing himself in front of a
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy train in
Galva.
Nowlan was on his way to this city
from Kansas City, when he read in 4
Peoria newspaper Of the issuance Of a
warrant for his arrest charging him
with forging the name Of w. w. Winn,
a Stark county farmer, to a note for
$4,000 which Nowlan put up as col
lateral 10 secure a loan from the Dime
Savings and Trust company.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-12-25
FOURTH TRIAL FOR DR.. HYDE
Prosecutor Announces Another Ef.
fort viii Be Made to Convict
Alleged Swope Slayer.

Kansas City, Mo.-Dr. b. Clark
Hyde will be tried a fourth time
on charge of numbering Col. Thos.
II. Swope, according to an announce
ment from the office OF Floyd Jacobs,
county prosecutor
When the third Hyde trial ended
last fall in a disagreement by the
jury Jan. 6 next was set as the date
for opening the fourth trial. The
county prosecutor found difficulty in
arranging to cover the great expense
of the last trial and for a time it was
understood a fourth trial was mat
ter of doubt
The county court gave definite as
surance it would pay the cost of a
fourth trial.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-12-25
D, s.-OWNEO WIRES URGED
GOVERNMENT UTILITY CONTROL
PROVEN SUCCESS.
eurleson Says II is to Be Regretted
U. S. Rellnquished First Teie-
graph TO Private Enterprise.

Washington, ID. CA sweeping
declaration in favor of the principle
Of government ownership of telephone
and telegraph lines and an assertion
that the postal service now is self
supporting for the first time. since
1888, are features of the annual report
of Postmaster General Burleson, trans
mitted to congress.
Concerning the acquisition Of telo-
phone and telegraph lines, Postmas-
ter General Burleson says that the
government has demonstrated its ca
pacity TO conduct public utilities. and,
from his present information, he is
inclined clearly to the taking over by
the postoffice department of the tele-
graph lines and possibly, also, OF the
telephone lines. Discussing that the
postmaster General says;
"A study OF the constitutional pur-
poses of the postal establishment leads
to the conviction that the postoffice
department should have control over
all means of the communication OF
Intelligence. The first telegraph line
in this country was maintained and
operated as a part of the postal serv-
ice. and it is to be regretted that con-
gress saw fit to relinquish this facility
to private enterprise. The monopo-
listic nature of the telegraph business
makes it of vital Importance to the
people that it be conducted by unset
fish interests, and this can he accom-
plished only through government own
ership"
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-12-25
rs BODIES TAKEN FROM MINE
Be Buried in Same Cemetery With
Those Of 1896 Disaster.

Newcastle. Colo.-Bodies of 25
to 81 men killed in the explosion
had been removed from the workings
of the Vulcan mine of the Rocky Noun.
tain Fuel company. Three more bod
les had been found in the rooms OF
the west entry.
New arrivals from surrounding and
distant camps took the places of those
who had toiled all night. Work will
continue until all bodies are found.
Tentative plans were made for
general funeral at which the victims
of the disaster would be buried in the
same cemetery where relatives of vic.
Tins Of the explosion in 1896 still 20
to mourn for loved ones.