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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-07-30
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6 WILL |
SEPT. 70
ASSIGNMENT OF TEACHERS
WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON
SEPT. 1ST.; VACANCIES

The Guthrie city schools will begin
the 1856 session Monday, Septem-
Der 20, 1915
This date was agreed upon several
years ago and no change has been
made by the present board Septem-
Der goth is the third Monday in the
month. Some teachers were under
the impression that the term began
on the second Monday
Only a few vacancies remain to be
filled in the teaching force The va
cancies occurred largely on account Of
the small salaries paid teachers in the
high school, While all teachers have
been named a number have not yet
signified their intention of accepting
the places.
Miss Fernandes who has been in
charge of the normal and domestic
science department at high school, has
resigned and will be with the state
normal at Tahlequah this year.
Misses Treda Bright, Newell and
(Continned on Page Flvel
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-07-30
NO RESTRICTIONS AGAINST
FISHING IN STATE STREAM

"The fish and game law of the state
does not forbid fishing in rivers such
as the Cimarron. Cottonwood or
Skeleton In the two latter streams,
where the land owner has out signs
No fishing allowed it is a misde-
meanor to fish. All are permitted to
fish with hook and line in the Cimar-
ron. Dynamiting and seining are
contrary to law and is punishable by
fine and Imprisonment Fishing on
private premises is also a misdemean-
or The law does not require a license
to be secured for fishing To hunt it
is necessary to secure state license"
said County Attorney Arthur Swank
today.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-07-30
SUPREME COURT OF
STATE IS ON VACATION

Oklahoma City, July 30.-The SUI
preme court has made an order that
there will be no formal opinion days
during the month of August. The
next opinion day will be Sept. Z. This
is the first formla vacation the court
has taken for several years 1t is
the intention OF the court to meet
during August only in case public
matters make a meeting necessary.
Such meetings will be called by the
chief justice. There are several i'm,
portant public cases pending, and it
is intimated that opinions may be
handed down in some of them before
the September term Many of the
court commissioners will take va
cations during August and several of
the judges Of the commission and the
supreme court proper will remain in
this city during the month
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-07-30
PATRONS OF COLORED
LIBRARY INDIGNANT
DEMAND BETTER SERVICE AND
LESS EXPENSE OR ELlMlNA-
TIoN OF LIBRARY

A large delegation of representa-
tive negroes Of the city, patrons OF
the Excelsior library, called on the
city commissioners TINS morning and
registered protest against the man
ner in which the library was now
being conducted. 1t was the sense
Of the protest, that rather than have
inefficient service the patrons would
dispense with the library entirely
and requested the commissioners to
eliminate from the estimate made to
the county excise board that part that
provided for maintenance of the Ex-
celsior library. The degelation was
Continual nm Page Five
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-07-30
B { CKE R MEETS
d { A 7 H WI 7 H A
SMILE, BRAVELY
THREE SHOCKS NECESSARY;
PRONOUNCED DEAD BY
PHYSICIAN AT $50
PHOTO OF FAITHFUL
WIFE PINNED OVER HEART
Il AM $ CRIFICED TO
(By Associated press)

Ossining, N. Y, July 3O.-Charles
Becker was electrocuted this morning
for completely in the killing Of Her
man Rosenthal, New York gambler.
The former New York police leu
tenant retained his composure and
protested his innocence to the very
last. He went to his death with a
photograph of his wife pinned on his
shirt, over his heart.
Three shocks were given before
the physician pronounced Becker
dead, the last at $3.50 O'Clock.
The condemned man sat up all
night on the edge of his cot, calmly
talking to the deputy warden and
was then led away to his own exc
cution. 1--WE got TO face it he said
with a smile 'and I am going to
meet my fate quietly and without
trouble to any one And he did. He
died bravely and without a tremor
Two priests attended Becker dur
ing the hour before his death, To
the priests he said: = am not guilty.
By deed or conspiracy, or in any 9th
er way for the death of Herman Ros.
am being sacrificed to my
friends. Bear this message to the
world and to my friends. Amen"
In another statement he paid high
tribute to his faithful wife, saying;
q am proud that have been hus-
band to the purest and mobiles wom-
an that ever lived"
The electric shock cut him off
while repeating the prayer; Jesus,
Mary, Joseph have mercy on my
soul"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-07-30
MARINES CONTROL
AFTER SMALL FIGHT

Washington, July 3d. American
marines landed at Port au Price,
Haiti, last night. encountered resist
ance which was overcome without
casualties among the sailors. The
following message from Admiral
caperton was given out at the navy
department late today:
Landing forces established in city
Slight resistance during early part
Of night as advance was being made.
This resistance easily overcome. No
casualties in our forces. Am pro-
ceeding to disarm Haitien soldiers
and civilians today"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-07-30
WIFE DESERTER ARREST
DE WILL WORK ROADS

J. c. Hunt, whom the sheriff's Of
flee has been searching for for more
than a year, was arrested last night
at Bristow and returned to this city.
Hunt is charged with wife desertion
His family is in destitute cireum-
stances and a d4-year-old daughter
is dying of an incurable disease. The
county commissioners and the city
have been taking care of the family
for several months. Hunt will be
given the limit and will be placed on
the county roads to work out his fine
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-07-30
KA|SER'S HOSTS
WREST WARSAW
F ROM RUSSIANS.
ANCIENT POLISH CAPITAL
IN LAST THROES OF
ABANDONMENT
TRENCH WARFARE IN
EAST; ARMIES TO WEsT|
FIGHT FOR WARSAW-PET-
ROGRAD RAILROAD is
NOW BEGUN

London, July 3O.--IWarsaw, Rus
sia's third largest city and the goal
of the German armies In the east
since last October, at last is in the
throes of abandonment.
Germans, in overwhelming num-
bers, are at the gates of the Polish
capital and dispatches say that fur
ther resistance would be unwise.
The fall of the city is expected
hourly. The problem is now to move
the Russian armies intact They
are threatened from the south by the
Austro-Germans and in the north
north where the Germans are aiming
at the WarsawlPetrograd railroad.
This menace, all admit, is eminent
The Warsaw postoffice has already
been removed and the people warned
to remain calm.
Russian troops are reported to be
stripping the city of everything of
military value. German aviators are
lowering over the city.
Plans are being made for trump
hant entrance of the German Emper-'
or with his consort.
With Warsaw captured, 1t is pre-
dicted that the Germans will seek to
force period of trench warfare in
the east and throw large bodies of
troops back west in a drive on Calais
and Paris.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-07-30

Ossinging, N. ", July 30.-The
last hope of former Police Lieuten-
ant Charles Becker, twice convicted
for instigating the murder of Herman
Rosenthal, gambler, died when he
was told early Thursday night that
his wife had failed to move Cover
nor Whitman to commute his SEN
tence to life Imprisonment. This
Mrs. Becker asked of the governor at
conference at Poughqeepsie. Fail
ing in her mission, she motored to
break the news to her husband, but
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-07-30
EXAMS ON
AT EDMOND TODAY

Examinations for those of Logan
county desiring certificates to teach
in the rural schools of the county is
being conducted today at Edmond,
under the supervision of Miss Mar
garet Doolittle, county superintendent.
The examinations began yesterday
and will continue over Saturday
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-07-30
BAND CONCERT TONIGHT.

The usual band concert will be given
this evening at o'clock in front of
the federal building, to which all
citizens are invited.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-07-30
PUBLIC SAFETY TAKES
CHARGE OF PORT AU PRINCE
fBx Associated Press. J.

Washington. July 9O.-ft has am
nounced that a committee Of public
safety has taken over the government
of Portau1Prince. The city has been
disarmed.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-07-30
NEGRO GIRL, II, CHARG-
De WITH CHILD MURDER
CRIME ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN
COMMITTED AT LANGsToN;
GIRL A STUDENT

Rebecca johnson, 17-year-old stu
dent of the Langston university,
charged with the murder of her in
fant illegitimate child was arrested
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-07-30
JUDGEMENT DAY
IS I He NJ { Of
{ Y A N c Ellis 7.
CAMP MEETING GROWING IN
INTEREST; LARGE CROWD
ATTENDS

Great solemnity rested upon the
large audience at the camp meeting
last evening as the Kentucky evan
gelist pictured the final Judgment
from the words: 1T is appointed unto
men once today and after this the
judgment"
"The judgment he declared, "is
proven by three lines Of argument.
First the solemn announcement Of
the same in the Holy Scriptures. Sec-
ond, the faculties of man, especially
the judgment faculty. Third, the di-
vine attribute of eternal justice. The
Bible tells us that God will bring ev-
cry work into judgment with every
secret thing, whether 1t be good or
evil. We must all stand before the
judgment seat of Christ.
paul reasoned with Felix, the Ro-
man governor Of righteousness, tenn
Derance and Judgment to come.
In the seventeenth chapter Of the
Acts as Paul preached in the Areo
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-07-30

the erscuers who TOOK from the hold
more than 1000 dead
In the distance at the right is the
tug Kenosha, which had a line at the
bow of the Eastland to tow her to
Lake Michigan. The captain of the
tug. as he saw the steamship caren-
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-07-30
Mrs. Becker Collapsed.

New York. July 30.-Mrs. chas.
Becker collapsed following her re-
turn from farewell to her husband.
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f~ortlrned on Page EIeht0
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-07-30

Classified want will sell,
trade or rent II. There are
bargains In want section.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-07-30

Classified want will sell,
trade or rent It. There are
bargains In want section.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-07-30

fContinned on Page Flve.l
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-06-15
DARIUS

The neigh of horse made Darius
King of Persia, the six contending
powers for the throne agreeing among
themselves that the one whose horse
should neigh first should possess the
kingdom. This ancient method of
settling disputes among politicians
could be revived with profit today.
If our partisan factions and petty pol
iticials could only settle their dis
putes by the neigh of horse, the
bark of dog or the bray of donkey,
it would be a great blessing and would
give our citizens better opportunity
to pursue the vocations of industry
free from political strife.
Let those who pick political plums
BY raising rows and who flash swords
dripping in the blood of industry un-
derstand that they cannot turn the
public forum into a political arena and
by a clash of personal aspirations
still the hammer and stop the pillow
and that their quarrels must be settled
in the back alleys Of civilization.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-06-15
THEMISTOCLES

When Themistocles was asked by
his host at dinner party to enter.
tain the guests by playing the Lutte, he
replied that he could not play the
fiddle, but that he could make small
town a great city. We have in this
nation many politicians who are good
"fiddlers," but they cannot make a
small town great city. We are over
run with orators who can play upon
the passions of the people, but they
can't put brick and mortar together.
We need builders.
Let those who hunger and thirst for
power understand that the highest
glory of a statesman is to construct,
and that it is better for a man that he
should build public highway than
that he should become Governor of a
state, and that he start pillow than
that he become the author Of law.
The true test of craftsmanship is the
pillow and the hammer, SO let those
who would govern, first build.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-06-15

states have two cent passenger rate
and whatever loss is incurred is recov-
cred through freight revenue. The JUS
tice of such procedure was recently
passed upon by the Supreme Court
Of West Virginia and the decision is
so far-reaching that we have asked
l.. E. Johnson, president of the Nor
folk and Western Railway whose road
contested the case to briefly review
the suit. Mr.. Johnson said in part:
Some ten years ago, passenger
fares were fixed by the legislatures
of a large number of states at two
cents a mile. AS basis for such
economic legislation, no examination
was made of the cost of doing the
business so regulated, nor was any
attention given to the fact whether
such a rate would yield to the rail.
way companies an adequate or any
net return upon the capital invested
in conducting this class of business.
such a law was passed in West
Virginia in 1907. The Norfolk and
Western Railway Company put the
rate into effect and maintained it for
two years. It's accounting during
these two years showed that two
cents mile per passenger barely
paid the out-of-pocket cost and moth
ing was left to pay any return on
capital invested. 1t sought relief from
the courts. Expert accountants for
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-06-15
OUR PUBLIC FORUM
III---JuIius KruttsChnitt
On Financing Railroads

the Legislators and the Commits
sioners
Managing railroad is quite differ
ent from managing government,
where the money is raised by taxa
ton. When the expenditures, fol-
good reasons or otherwise, increase
taxes can be equally increased. The
railroads, while servants of the pub
lie, cannot raise money with such
ease and facility. The railroads must
keep their expenditures within their
incomes because while they have
some control over their expenditures
they have almost no control over their
incomes, their rates being fixed by
public authorities.
There is not a railway manager in
the country today who is not fearful
hat under the press of increasing de-
mands the transportation systems OF
the country will, in few years, break
down, unless the railroads are allowed
to earn larger funds wherewith to
build 1t up. There are vast sections
of the country, especially in the West.
where more railroads are needed and
they cannot be built unless the rail-
ways raise new capital.
People invest money in order to
make money, and they are skeptical
as to whether they can make money
by investing in concerns that are dealt
with stringently and unfairly. Rail-
road securities must be made more
attractive to invite investments, and
in order that they may be made more
attractive, the roads must be allowed
earnings that will enable them to
meet the increased capital charges.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-06-15

have to say. Mr. Kruttschnitt, exec
utive head of the Southern Pacific,
has written an article dealing with
the financing of railroads. He said
in part:
"The financing of a railroad is
function which the people, through
their servants, the Railroad Commits
sioners and the Legislators, have
never attempted, but it is a most i'm
portant problem, especially to Sec
tons of State where new railroads
are needed. The placing of securities
has been left entirely with the pro
moter and owner of railroads.
The immediate determination of
what earnings the railroad shall be
permitted to receive and what bur
dens it shall have put on 1t is in the
hands of other servants of the public
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-06-15
OUR PUBLIC FORUM
|---IntrOduCtOrV

Through the Press Service of Agrl-
culture and Commerce, the master
minds of this nation will be invited
to the public forum and asked to de-
liver a message to civilization. Men
who achieve seldom talk, and men
who talk seldom achieve. There is
no such thing as noisy thinker, and
brevity is always a close companion
to truth.
1t will be a great privilege to stand
by the side of men who can roll in
place the cornerstone of industry; to
associate with men who can look
at the world and see to the bottom
of it; to commune with men who can
hear the roar of civilization a few
centuries away.
Too often we listen to the rabble
element of our day that cries out
against every man who achieves,
Cruelty him." Mankind never has
and probably never will produce a
generation that appreciates the genius
Of it's day. There never will be a
crown without cross, progress with
out sacrifice or an achievement with
out challenge.
This is an age of service, and that
man is greatest who serves the larg-
est number. The present generation
has done more to improve the con-
dition of mankind than any civiliza-
ton since human motives began their
upward flight. The Greeks gave human
life. inspiration, but while her orators
were speaking with the tongues of
angels, her farmers were blowing
with forked sticks; while her phil
osophers were emanc4pating human
thought from bondage. her traffic
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-06-15

moved on two-wheeled carts driven,
and ofttimes drawn, by slaves; while
her artists were painting divine
dreams on canvas, the streets OF
proud Athens were lighted by fire.
brands dipped in tallow.
The genius of past ages sought to
arouse the intellect and stir the soul
but the master minds of today are
seeking to serve. Civilization has as
signed to America the greatest task
of the greatest age, and the greatest
men that ever trod the greatest planet
are solving it. Their achievements
have astounded the whole world and
we challenge every age and nation
to name men or products that can
approach in creative genius. or mas
terful skill in organization, the mar
velous achievements of the tremend.
GUS men of the present day. Edison
can press button and turn light
on multiplied millions of homes; Vail
can take down the receiver and talk
with fifty millions of people; Nc
Cormick's reaper can harvest the
worlds crop, and Fulton's steam en-.
CINE moves the commerce of land
and sea.
The greatest thing a human being
can do is to serve his fellow men !;
Christ did it; Kings decree it, and
wise men teach it. 1t is the glory OF
this practical age that Edison could
find no higher calling than to become
the janitor to civilizations; Vail the
messenger to mankind; Mccormick
the hired hand to agriculture, and
Fulton the teamster to industry, and
blessed is the age that, has such
masters for it's servants.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-06-15
OUR PUBLIC FORUM
ILL.,. e. johnson
On Two.Cent Passenger Rates

both the State and the Railway Com
pany testified that the claims Of the
railroad were sustained by the facts.
Two cents did not pay the cost Of
carrying a passenger a mile. The
State, however, contended that the
railroad was earning enough surplus
on it's state freight business to give a
fair return upon the capital used IN
its passenger as we'll as its freight
business. For the purposes of the
case, the railroad did not deny this,
but held to it's contention that the
State could not segregate its pas
senger business for rate fixing with
out allowing rate that would be
sufficient to pay the cost of doing
business and enough to give some
return upon the capital invested in
doing the business regulated. This
was the issue presented to the Su-
preme Court. Its decision responds
to the judgment of the fair-minded
sentiment of the country. The SUI
preme Court says that, even though
a railroad earns a surplus on a par
ticular commodity by charging rea-
sonable rates, that affords no reason
for compelling it to haul another's
person or property for less than cost.
The surplus from reasonable rate
properly belongs to the railway COM
pany. If the surplus is earned from
an unreasonable rate then that rate
should be reduced. The State may
not even up by requiring the railroad
to carry other traffic for nothing or
for less than cost.
The decision is wholesome one
and demonstrates that the ordinary
rules Of fair dealing apply to railway
companies. The fact that one makes
surplus on his wheat crop would
never be urged as reason for COM
polling him to sell his cotton at less
than cost 1t would not satisfy the
man who wanted bread to be told
that its high price enabled the cotton
manufacturer to get his raw product
for less than cost In this case the
court reaffirmed the homely maxim
that each tub must stand upon its
own bottom"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-06-15
FREE PORTS
BUILDERS Of
COMMERCE
CONGRESS SHOULD GIVE THEM
PREFERENCE IN APPRO.
PRIATlONS.
By Peter Radford.

This nation is now entering upon
an era of marine development. The
wreckage of European commerce has
drifted to our shores and the world
war is making unprecedented de-
mands for the products of farm and
factory. In transportation facilities
on land we lead the world but our port
facilities are inadequate, and our flag
is seldom seen in, foreign ports. If
our government would only divert the
energy we have displayed in conquer
ing the railroads to mastering the
commerce of the sea, foreign bot
tom would be unknown on the oceans
highways.
This article will be confined to a
discussion of our ports for the pro.
ducts of the farm must pass over our
wharfs before reaching the water. We
have in this nation 81 ports, of which
Al are on the Atlantic and 10 are on
the Pacific Coast. The Sixty-second
Congress appropriated over $51, 00O,'
900 for improving our Rivers and
Harbors and private enterprise levies
a toll of approximately $50,000,0OO
annually in wharfage and charges for
which no tangible service is rendered.
The latter item should be lifted off
the backs of the farmer of this ma
ton and this can be done by Congress
directing it's appropriations to ports
that are free where vessels can tie up
to a wharf and discharge her cargo
free of any fee or charge.
A free port is progress. 1t takes
out the unnecessary link in the chain
of transactions in commerce which
has for centuries laid a heavy hand
upon commerce. No movement is sc
heavily laden with results or will
more widely and equally distribute
its benefits as that of free port
and none can be more easily and ef
fectively secured.