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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
MORE THAN HALF
NJ L LID N 81 c n.
FRANK PETITIONS.
EXPERT SAYS FRANK Is
NOT THE AUTHOR OF
"MURDER NOTES"

Atlanta. Ga, May a. -- Nearly a
half million names have been filed
with Gov. station Of Georgia, praying
that the death sentence of Leo NJ.
Frank be changed to life imprison-
ment The governor and the pardon
board began deliberations on the
matter today
Many prominent men and women
Of the United States have written
personal appeals for the condemned
man Public opinion in the state of
Georgia has changed materially dur
ing the past fl " months and the feel
ing here now is that the chief ex-
ecutive Of the state will vote TO
commute the sentence,
Twenty -four governors, many leg
islators and two supreme justices
have asked that the death senten< e
be not invoked
Albert S Osborne, a handwriting
expert, submitted a report to Gov
ernor Slaton today, expressing belief
that Leo NJ Frank had nothing to do
with the murder notes. which play
ed an important part in his trial In
his original report Osborn had stated
the notes might have been written
at the suggestion of or with the col
lusion of Frank
After subsequent study. however.
Osborne declared his conviction that
James Conley the negro who testl-
ried he wrote the notes at Franks
dictation, did not have intelligent
assistance" in preparing the notes.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
GUTHRIE BOY AND GIRL
a{5l Arrested IN TEXAS

Herb CLANCY and Grace Warner,
former Guthrie people are being held
at Amarillo, Texas, on a wire from
Sheriff Sherwood, charging them with
removing mortgaged property from the
state m The warrant was sworn ont By
+. II. knauss. .esUknA tf
Grace Warner is alleged to have
purchased a musical instrument, val
ued at 500 from Knauss. She prom
ised to pay for it in weekly Install
ments; a mortgage was placed on the
instrument. After paying two Install
ments the article was shipped to
Texas. 1t is charged in the com
plant that CLANCY made the ship
ment and then followed with the girl.
Deputy Sheriff Ed Robertson left to-
day for Amarillo to bring the couple
back. r
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
GUTHRIE HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENT PLAY TONIGHT

Tonight at the Guthrie Theatre
the student association OF Guthrie
High School will put on its annual
school play at the last of the com
mencement exercises being held this
week. The play Is lively three act
college comedy dealing with plot to
throw Phil Thompson, the star foot
ball. player of Huntingdon College out
of the big game. The theft of an ex-
animation paper by Fred Wood. who
falsely osuses Thompson to get him
out OF the game. then plays himsels
and turns traitor to his team, throw
ing the game to Wooster for large
sum OF money. the heroism of Th0tnp-
son in reseling his enemy from a
burning building. and the confession
OF Wood and happy ending in the
third act make a play of more than
usual interest A couple of pretty
romances and a gcod line of comedy
are woven in to make it still more
attractive.
The G. H. S. play is worthy enter
prise and town people should come
out and support it. Seats are selling
for IS, so and rs cents.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
D. N. j. TRUSTEES
AN n j Al
SESSION IN CITY
CONSIDER FINANCES OF IN
STITUTION; DIPLOMAS TO
Is GRADUATES

With the graduating exercises of
the college and special departments
Friday morning at 1880 at the First
Methodist church, the fourth annual
commencement of the Methodist uni
versity will come to a brilliant close
and the college year to a successful
termination.
On morning trains the trustees be-
gan arriving for their annual meet
ing, which was held in the University
building beginning at 1920 o'clock.
The Rev. II. 3. Collins, president of
the board, presided over the sessions,
and matters were taken up relative to
the financial policy of the university
and the status of the property ques-
tion at present, partial announcement
regarding which will be made at the
exercises Friday morning. AT twelve
o'clock, noon, banquet was served
by the Domestic Science department
to the visiting trustees. the faculty,
and the seniors and alumni of the
university, in the gymnasium, where
covers were laid for 60. After the
bountiful banquet a session of visit
ing and college festivity was the order
of the day, and a fresh bond of in
terest between the various groups of
University folks was created.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
AERIAL
WARF ARE
OIL WELL ACTIVITIES
TO BEGIN AGAIN
LESS THAN $1,000 NECESSARY
NOW TO COMPLETE The
CARTER TEST WELL

The oil game in Logan, long IN d
comatose condition has been revived
and activities on the Carter Well wili
he resumed next week. This was
decided at a rousing meeting held by
citizens and members of the Cimar'
ron Valley Oil Company yesterday
President Jack Horner, appointed a
new committee to collect the neces-
sarv money to complete the test. The
committee already has $1,000 pledged.
The amount necessary is $4,000. The
membership of the new committee
consists of the following business
men: b. Il. Coughlan, chairman; II.
T. Swearingen, w. ]. Dibbens, ia
Walton, Maurice ORourke, Chas.
Seely. w. H. Rhoades, Chas. F. Els
enschmidt.
"Cne of the best geologists in the
county has examined the ground and
the log of the Garter well and pro-
uounced The showing exceptionally
good for a big producer said Bert
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27

operations against the Dardanelles.
In the latter part of April the Triumph
bmobarded the Turkish trenches on the
western end of The Gallipoli peninsula
and afterward went into the Darda-
nelles to search the trench from
different angle. Here she came under
the fire of Turkish howitzer battery
on the Asiatic Shore, which dropped
sixteen shells around her and threw
three missiles on board. The battle
ship silenced the Turkish battery be-
fore retiring. A few days later, while
landing operations were proceeding,
The Triumph, with other warships, in
addition to covering the landing bonn
barded the forts in the Dardanelles to
prevent reinforcements reaching the
Turks from the sea of Maramora. The
Triumph was credited in the official
reports with having set fire to the
town of Maidos during this lombard
ment.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
6 KILLED; 60 INJURED
i'm OKLAHOMA TORNADO
.F|NANC|[Rs PLAN
BIG SHIP COMPANY
AN-AMERlCAN CONFERENCE NOW
IN SESSION MAY ESTABLISH
GIGANTIC CORPORATION

Washington, May 27.--Conferences
between representatives of the fin
ancial and business interests of the
United States and delegates from
South and Central America, attend.
ing the pan American financial con-
ference, We're continued today in an
effort to bring about a clear under
standing of the desires and needs OF
the southern republics.
The committee on transportation
which has under consideration what
many OF the delegates regard as the
most important question which the
conference has faced entrusted lts
work to a sub committee which Is not
expected to report until Friday
There We're rumors that there might
result from the conference gigantic
steamship corporation backed by all
he interested countries, to insure
'apid, regular and safe transportation
between north and south America.
Talk was revived among govern
nent officials of the possibility of
,hange in the federal reserve law
which would penmlt a combination of
'anks which are members of the fed
raj reserve system to establish
arge bank in South or Central Amer
ca, which in turn could find many
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
{ D HENRI Is
NJ | s SIN c FROM
0|LTON OFFICE
FORMER LOGAN COUNTY AS
SCISSOR NOT HEARD FROM
SINCE MONADY
6uIletin:
Friends of Ed Henry at Oilton be-
Iieve he has either been drowned or
sIugged.

Ed B. Henry, former assessor of
Logan county and until recently a
resident OF Guthrie, is missing and
lis friends fear he has either met
with foul play or was drowned in the
flood waters Of the Cimarron river
Monday morning he started from
'Oilton. where he has charge of the
Coyle Companys office, for Jennings.
He arrived in Jennings and transact
ed business and collected some mon
ey. The heavy rains of Monday
caused a rise in the Cimarron river
and put several bridges out OF com
mission Train service was tempor-
arily suspended at that point and
Henry, it is said, decided to make
the trip from Jennings to Oilton. a
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
FINE ARTS RECITAL
TONIGHT At 0. NJ. j.

The Fine Arts recital of o. M. u
at the First M. Il. church tonight
promises to be one of much interest
being the only occasion OF the year
when all departments are represented
Besides individual numbers in piano
voice. violin and elocution, the
juvenile orchestra of twelve children
and the university orchestra OF
twenty-five players will perform
Program win begin at S:l5. Admis
sion free. fs 9iitft'" +'f' ''~
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
TALIHINA, CHECOTAH, STgt,-
LER, ANTLERs AND PO-
TEAU IN PATH OF I
FIERCE BLOW t!s
MILLION DOLLARS 4
IN PROPERTY DAMAGE
REPORTS or DISTRESS FROM
STlGLER; CLOuD-BuRST
AT POTEAU; WIRES
ARE DOWN ,s
(By Associated Press.l

FT. SMITH, MAY ~ six PER-
SONS ARE REPORTED DEAD, TWO
AT TALllilNA, OKLA. AND FOUR
AT cHECoTAH, AS THE RESULT
OF A STORM WHICH SWEPT ov-
Err WESTERN ARKANSAS AND
EASTERN OKLAHOMA LAST
NIGHT.
Reports from AntIers, say that six
ty were injured at Talihina.
Wire and rail communication is
scant
Details are few,
The property damage is reported
near a million dollars
A cloudburst is reported at Poteau.
Okla
Reports of distress come from Stig-
Ter, Olaa which was struck by tor
nado. I
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27

Tallhina. May 27-Capt. W. A.
Welch, confederate veteran, was kill
ed and five persons injured in tor
nado at Talihina Wednesday after
noon Eight business houses and
twelve residences were destros ed
and several other buildings consldef"
ably damaged. The monetary loss is
placed at about $4,000
Catherine Leming years, was
crushed to death in the storm. The
child was returning home from rur-
al school when caught in the storm.
Oil Tanks Burn. fh-
Two oil tanks near Ponca Cityrone
near Gushing, and two near Terlton,
together with their contents were de-
stroyed as the result of being struck
by lightning.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
BOOSTER CLUB BAND
WILL GIVE CONCERT

The Booster Club band viii give n
concert on Friday evening at the Fed
eral building. 1t is intended that
concert be given every Tuesday
evening and when necessary to post
pone for any cause it will be given on
Friday evening. Your attendance at
these public concerts will be appreci-
ated by the band boys.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
FRUIT GROWERS Or COUNTY,
To MEET SATURDAY.

The Fruit Growers association will
meet at the chamber Of commerce
Saturday afternoon at 1880 promptly,
to consider and finally pass upon
plans of reorganization and market
ing. Every member should be on
hand and all fruit growers who de-
sire to market their crops profitably
and in a buslnessllke manner should
come out and join.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
RYNDAM AND
cuNEO IN PORT


New York, May n. The liner Ryn-
dam is safe in port here with her pas
sengers and crew once more aboard
The Cuneo is also in Her bow is
smashed and her plates erumpled, but
the machinery is undamaged.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
Pelieewoman Is Appointed.

Oklahoma City now has a police
woman. Mayor OverhoIzer has ap-
pointed Miss Elsie Tratchel as hu-
name officer, having transferred her
from the position OF police matron.
The duties of humane officer have
been performed in the past by man.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
KATY WRECK; GUTHRIE !.
NAN IS INJURED

A. C. Wyatt of Guthrie, and 10
other passengers were injured wed
nesday when a passenger train on the
KATY out of Oklahoma City for Kansas
City was ditched four miles west OF
Cushing. None of those injured will
die. Wyatt received injuries to his
back. The wreck was caused by the
heavy rains softening the road bed.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
CLOSING EXERCISES ST.
hARY's PAROCH|AL SCHOOLS

The closing exercises of st. Marys
Parochial School were held this
morning at 9;2Q O'Clock. The pro-
gram follows: Had
salutatory ..... Willard Kennedy
Come Back Sweet May ..........
............. Choral Glass
Flag Drill and March ......... Boys
Finger plays kindergarten Pupils
Ribbon Fantasies -. Young Ladies
Swedish Singing games 'e Little Girls
Birds of Passage -. Choral Glass
The Childrens Frolic Junior Girls
Pantomine-Home. Sweet Home...
..........Ni Nine Young Ladies
Solo ............ Frances Hefber
Reading-Unseen Yet Seen ......
......... High School Girls
Hymn of Thanksgiving ..... School
Good-bye ........ Mary 'Coyle Gray
Recitations by Sidney Hemstreet,
of Arerore. Stella Louise Beland and
Helen Knebel. ,,,.t-.s sss
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
OVERLAND AUTO
MAN DISAPPEARS
Special to Daily Leader.

Special to Daily Leader.
Enid. Okla. May 27.--F'red Botkin,
who has been the authorized agent for
the Overland Auto Co. with head
quarters in Enid. has disappeared and
he is charged with embezzling funds
to the extinct of S2.e92. by the Carhart
Motor Co. of Oklahoma city.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
MONTREAL STEAMER
is ToRPEDoEo

cARDILL, WALES, MAY 27.-THE
STEAMER MoRWENNA, FROM
MONTREAL WAS ToRPEDoED BY
A GERMAN SUBMARINE WEDNES-
DAY, ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY
MILES WEST OF ST. AIMS HEAD.
ALL BUT ONE OF THE CREW
WERE SAVED.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
Heavy Rainfall In Kansas.

Topeka. Kan, May 27.-~All Kansas
streams are booming following the
rains OF the last twenty four hours.
The Wild night of wind and rain, il.
Topeka. contributed several inches OF
water to the May record The heag-
lest downpour through the state was
at Horton, where four inches OF wat
er fell. 4se >
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
POSTAL CLERKS or STATE
MEET HERE MONDAY.

The state association OF post offis<
clerks will meet in Guthrie next Mon
day About a hundred delegates rep
resenting all of the principal cities
and towns OF the state will be pres
ent
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
French Airships Bombard
Powder Factories.


Paris, May 27-The French aerial
squadron, composed of eighteen aero
planes, each carrying one hundred
and ten pound projectiles, this morn
ing bombarded the chemical factory
at Ludwigshafen. on the Rhine, OPP
posite Mannheim, one Of the most i'm
portant manufactures of war eXplos-
ives in Germany.
Fire broke out in several buildings.
The avlators were in the air six
hours and covered two hundred and
forty miles.
1t was the French reply to the Ger
man attempts to lombard Paris with
aeroplanes.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27

nho Triumph, which was commanded
by Captain Maurice Il, Fitzmaurice
was vessel of 1885 tons and of
12,500 horse power. Her crew OF of
ficers and men in times of peace mum,
bered about 700 men. The vessel car
ried four 10.inch. fourteen 75-inch
guns and fourteen 4-pounders and six
6-pounders. In addition she carried
two 1S-inch torpedo tubes. The Tri-
umph was 436 feet long and had a
speed Of about 20 knots.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
zEPPEL|Ns make
ENGLISH RAIDS
ALLIES AEROPLANES IN
TURN, DROP BOMBS in
OSTEND, KILLING so,
INJURING MANY

AMSTERDAM, MAY 27.-FiFTY
SOLDIERS, PASSENGERS ON A
STREET CAR IN OSTEND, WERE
KILLED BYIA BOMB FROM AN
ALLIES AERoPLANE. THE RAIL
ROAD STATION AND HARBOR
WERE DAMAGED.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
KILLING FRosTS IN
ATLANTIC STATES
(By Associated Press.l

Washington, d. c.. May 27.-Kill-
ing frosts in the lake region and the
Middle Atlantic states broke the May
records.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
Bridges Out at Tulsa.

Tulsa, May 27.-The tail end OF
tornado struck here last night Two
dams and many bridges have gone
out. Train traffic Is delayed
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27

The battleship Triumph was built
at Barrow in 1912 for the Chilean gov
eminent, but was purchased by Great
Britain in 1913 Since the present war
broke out, the Triumph has been in
operation in both far eastern and
European waters. AS flagship Of the
British Asiatic squadron she partici-
pated in the bombardment of the Ger
man base of Using Tau, China, last
October.
Early in the present year she began
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
e.,,,. on csrInthian Frontier.

Geneva, May 27.-The Italians at
tackled several points along the forty
mile Carinthian frontier.
Battle between Italians and Aus
triaps is raging around Ploken and
west of the Pratdil Pass in Austria.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27
BURSTING Bombs Illuminated Town.

Bursting Bombs Illuminated Town.
South End, England, May 27.-An-
other Zeppelin raid was made here
last night
One woman was killed and many
persons injured.
It is believed that six airships were
in the raid. Ht
The ayiators dropped incendiary
bombs which burst illuminating the
entire town The material damage
was slight,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27

LEADER WANTS BRING RESULTS
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27

DANISH STEAMER TORPEDoED
SOUTH SHIELDS, ENGLAND,
MAY 27.-THE DANISH STEAMER,
GETTY" WAS ToRPEDoED TO
$ DAY BY A GERMAN SUBMARINE
-INaTHE NORTH SEA. 1e
THE CREW WAS SAVED ii29ns
In War Field.
London, May 27-Epitome of the
war in general:
Eastern Campaign gn-Austro-Germans
resume offensive and claim advances
Western Campaign-Germans admit
small British success.
Southern Campaign meet
with no serious opposition; Italians
near Trieste.
Submarines American steamer
- Nebraskan, damaged by plunger OF
inine-probably mine; Danish steamer
Betty" torpedoed.
Dardanelles - British battieshlI
,Triplnph is sunk. s6B I A.
skyAAerial warfare grows fierce
italians Nearing Austrian Sea Port.
Geneva May 27+A strong Italian
tadyance. guard today crossed Tho
1ssnzaa Siyer after a sharp fight witt
anSAastHan force and arrived before
the town of Monfalcone, thirty miles
from the Austrian seaport of Trieste
The first of the Austrian wounded
are arriving at the latter port.
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Continued on Fage Two)
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-27

Does the boy care for
business9 Why not a Busi-
ness College Course. SchoI-
arships at Leader Office.
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-12-09
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE.

Whereas on the 18th day of March,
1915 H. G.. Edney executed to the I'M
dersigned that mortgage which is Of
record IN Book A at Page 154 of the
Records of Mortgages for Henderson
county to secure four notes in the sum
OF $5O0.00; And whereas default has
been made in the payment of the notes,
now, therefore, by virtUre of the pow
er contained in said mortgage and for
the purpose OF satisfying said noL>
interest, cost and expenses, the IN
dersigned will on Monday, December,
9th, 1915 at II o'clock Nj at the court
house door in HendersonVille, North
Carolina offer for sale to the hlgne.
bidder for cash the lands conveyed by
said mortgage which are bounded and
described as follows. viz:
That property in the township OF
Blue Ridge, Henderson County, North
Carolina, beginning on a stone in the
center, of the Ridge road and runs n.
10 Z. 8 poles to a stone in center OF
said road; thence S. so E. IA poles to
church and l.. l.. Merchants corner ::
thence S. II E. Is poles to a stone in
l.. l.. Merchants line; thence S.. 20 w.
s poles to a stone; thence N. rs w. so
poles to the beginning, containing one
and one half acres more or less.
This the Gath day of November, 1915
Mortgages.
BY Smith, Shipman & Bridges,
Their Attorneys. 12-2-4tc
Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-12-09
3 THEM SPEND ~

There seems yet to no
perity in the country W. sumo Pros.
mlllionaare recently gave . mat a
costing $S57.15 a plate. Tb q dinner
not seem probable-does rs does
possible, for instance, to tbo Seem
Garner who tolls ten honr11 me Wage,
ceiYes the miserable ]stinand and re-
one dollar and a half. II tbo VI say
Garner who receives five ING Wage
plunks a day to know tbot SnlniEs
needs Toll sixty seven days to nar must
a httle dlnner-Well, it strikes p pa Tor
he paid about seven dollars and Us that
cents more than it was worth ufteen
The man who reaches down
depths of his breecnerloon NV Nv The
and fishes UP a beer check tockets
AID a dried potato, which. he nIckei
to charm the rheumatism wears
necessity cry out against t5i.. T rS Of
Waste-this reckless ex~trayara ~nIoa
the preposterous idea of pavinoo o4ce~
hundred and ifty-seven donaSSu ulFee
fifteen cents 70 rome dinnon AM
breakfast to be on within ten bonn"V
The spell-binding politician WIZ ooiS'
So W IN nn{ ~
out in the court house s0raro se&
where or other and warm I'm 't|e'
pitch that his e~el1uloid collar thru.
ems to explode because of snontano"el'
combustion, will point out IN .-on
dangers that threaten the nation ~ .lS
men riot in such luxury and nav
d single meal more than he h9r ~:
ed in his natural life time, "I4-
But when you 20 look uaor l.
man who jGggIes with his TiIlio VIZ
with as much reckIessness as c3i1don1s
blow soap bubbles and he wants. I'll
know: What shall do with nv wno1+s "
It | hoard it [ am counted . mioa.
II give it to charity I am criticszn3
and abused. If l enter the CONN.,
cja1 field and do big things 7 am "
d1cted for being a consDiritor-mmsr =.
can't [ buy a few plates Of SOM and NY
in my friends to eat a meal with m ro9
What did it cost-only a few hundred
dollars, and they to him are less tbsu
a few cents the old lady receives in
change for her eggs which she hos
taken to market. ""'
All in this world of woe is nv com
parison-it must be so-and when ,
man with a million gives a feast II
cost well up in the hundreds or il il
commonplace. a
We are not inclined to criticfsn tho
millionaire, ecept we think his al.
yertisfng agent in giving out the ravs
should have called it $3.50 in rann5
numbers. To have figured it down n
$35I.15 looks like there vas n I'm
coming to the waiters-and that :
cinchy.-EVerything.