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IS EMBARRASSED
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Senate's Action in Rejecting
Brings No Relief to State
Institutions.
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I Oklahoma City, Dec. 13. The sen-
ate'8 action in rejecting both state
board3 of education did not bring im
j mediate relief to the state institutions
i as is revealed in correspondence pass
i v'S between Attorny General West and
aiate Superintendent U. II. Hsoin
made public today.
The state superintendent told the
attorney general that pay claims of
.500 employes were held up, as the
result of his instructions to the state
Auditor and the board of affairs fol
lowing the board muddle, notwith
standing the claims had been ap
proved by the state superintendent as
hairman of the board.
Tho attorney general informed the
state superintendent that such was a
II aatural result of the case filed by the
W old linnrl mnmWi in iht nirlnlinmn
county district court and the decision
rendered by the court. A niodifica
f tioa of the decree, the attorney gen
J era lsays, was suggested whereby all
I claims could have been paid, but as
it stands, the board is without a
quorum and can not act. He added
11 that there is no provision ia law for
the educational board, such as there
is for the board o fagriculture. that
Kin the absence of other members the
1 president may act for the board. The
only alternative, the law officer ex
plained. Is for the governor to name
. a new board.
wi State Superintendent Wilson quickly
h sent a reply to the attorney general's
i communication denying that he (the
j attorney general) at any time request-
ed of him a modification of the dis-
I trict court's opinion. Superintendent
Wilson says that prior to appointment
V ot the old educational board, he, as
J president of the board, approved salary
claims, which act met with approval
of the board of aftairs; upon them
the state auditor issued warrants and
Hint the situation is no different now.
; old board directed by resolution
hat the president should approve the
claims In the board's name, and at no
time, the superintendent says, has a
board meeting been held for such form
ality. When asked about the controversy
cnight, Governor Cruce said he had
not given tne matter or new appoint-
monts a thought, but probably would
.. -ach it in a few days. When selec
tions are made, he says, it will be
I without regard to wnat any otner cie
iartment of state thinks about it.
? To an inquiry ironi tne state ixmrci
of affairs, whether it should allow a
requisition of the state school of mines
I for fuel, tbe attorney general said that
while there was no longer a state
Voard of education, and no regular
vav to get claims before the board of
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.inairs, reu tape suouiu u uiiit;ni;u
with i;i cases of this kind and supplies
purchased by the board of affairs.
TWp M-nt tilk .limine tho dav that.
tlie members of the old board of edu
ction considering themselves in of-
ice, notwithstanding the senate's ac,"""; .
. . .. . . . ed and prevented by a superior force.,
. in tho spriiitp lv the srovprnor for con-
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ijirmatlon. Superintendent Wilson said
'onigiit the old board members prob
't.blr would confer with their attor-
that noint. and he added, the
, hoard would follow the lawyers'
..advice. i
ON JAY WAR
Okla., Dec. 12. Jay tonight
Rtill awaitiner thp battle between
Mile snerins pobsu uuu u.e
. l . 1 4 1,,. ,...-! fl'rttll '
'.Old Jay for the possession of the
'court house. Over half the sheriffs
force have deserted and he now has
Jess than a dozen men while the
raiders have swelled their number to
hit least a hundred.
y" All roads leading to Jay are guarded
tonight by members of the Old Jay,
ictlon and practically no news can
by the sentinels.
pllDGE
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PITCHFORD
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fjf Grove,
h The tow nis quiet and it is believed 40 rooms above. This building is to act for the whole board, in the opin
'?:at the mob has completely intimi- practically lire-proof and will be a de- ion of Attorney General West, who ad-
IL.tci ihw sheriff's men
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f-j decrees 1 Ke iove l-eners.
Qiiirove, Okla., Dec. 12. Declaring
.ivf iW'tima Iml." Ike lOVe ier.-
7( I.I L WU"
'ii rs " the citizens ot uici jay louigi't
ir'still' are holding the fort, figuratively
ef ml in fact. "
i' Uunrp nf Governor Cruce to send
3 Istate troops to take care of the situa-
F lion at the county seat 01 vuair is
1 -ircarded here as an admission that
tl liw cannot be enforced at the
vo'wn ol juj.
W rrPP nf tliP suoreme court in
the mandamus suit against the county
(officials can not be enforced except
by aid of the state militia, as the
'county officials are neutral and are
prevented from executing the court's
;order by a mob of fifty armed men.
jln the mob are men trained in the use
of fi'tarms, and they are in possession 1
'of bald-shooting rifles, which they
! freely display. '
some of the officials are still with
jthe records ia their offices, but prac-!
(tically no business is going on.
The pitched battle that was sched- i
uled to take place this morning did I
not transpire, for the reason that Sher
iff Bud Thoniason could not secure a
sufficient number of possemen to ren
der probable the successful carrying
out of his purpose of securing the
records and carrying out the orders of
the court and the county commission-
IB-
Citizens Fear to Serve.
The sheriff still is seeking deputies,
but only a few men can be secured,
Private individuals, realizing that to
carry out the court's order means ;
bloodshed, and possibly death, shirk
the duty.
The holding up and assaulting of
Enforcement Officer Sherdon served to
indicate the desperate determination
of the mob that controls the court
house at Old Jay.
The situation is more critical than rival towns of New Jay and Old Jay
any other an the history of the state. J will compromise and let a board of
County Judge W. C. Hall, in a state- arbitration settle the controversy for
ment given out this evening, said: the county seat of Delaware county,
"The majority of the residents of this Oklahoma. Jay Washburn and Wil
county governor of Oklahoma to send nam Creekmore, owners of the rival
state troops to save bloodshed and townsites, are negating this plan,
restore order." That is the way peo-'xhe trouble Is over who shall be the
pie here are viewing the situation, tl arbiter!.
is not believed that bloodshed can be, Conditions Exaggerated,
avoided if the records are removed un-j Oklahoma City, Dec. 12. Hardly
less it is done under the protection of one-tenth of what has been said in
the state militia. regard to conditions in Jay, the coun-
Judge Pitchford's Statement. -ty seat of Delaware county, are true,
Still well, Okla., Dec. 12. District ( so Governor Cruce was told by W. H.
Judge John H. Pitchford, in a message Doherty, a banker at Grove, by long
to the Associated Press today, con-j distance telephone this morning. Mr.
firmed the report sent out last night Doherty said several people had gone
that he appealed to Governor Cruce .through the county seat saying they
to send troops to Delaware county, had been sent there by the Oklahoma
where factions from the towns of Old supreme" court to remove the records,
and New Joy are said to be on the I The people replied this would not be
verge of a serious clash because of a permitted. Not twenty-five people in
dispute over the recognition of the .the county, Mr. Doherty added, wanted
county seat. the records transferred from Old to
Judge Pitchford today gave out the New Jay and the only chance for a
following signed statement in regard clash would be, lie said, if such a thing
to the beginning of the county seat. was attempted.
war: Governor Cruce said he would not
"The trouble at Jay is the result of order Adjutant General Canton to Jay
a light over the location of the court until there was an outbreak and reiter
house. The place selected by a ma- ated the reasons given in his telegram
jority of the voters of the county was
a plat of ten acres in the center of
the county. After the election the
county commissioners contracted with
one Creekmore for a building in an
addition to the original ten acres and
the county officers moved into the
Creekmore building.
When the Governor Acted.
"The governor ordered the adjutant
general to remove the records of all
county oilicors to a building on the
original ten acres, which order was
duly executed. Mandamus proceed -
iugs were brought before nte to com-(of
pel the officers to move back to the
Creekmore building. -
"The writ was denied, an appeal was
taken to the supreme court, my de -
cision was reversed and the mandate
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iVL lu.w su"'c ,w"7, oou"
W1L wl""ia-uul"s u,e
to remove to the Creekmore building.
"The officers reported that in their
Thereupon an order was directed to
the sheriff of Delaware county to exe
cute the orders an dto call to his as
sistance T HOUSE
WILL BE MOVED
' i After the identification of the body
it was learned that the sheriff of Wag
County Leases Buffington-Harris Biuld- oner county had a warrant for Gray
ing For Five Years.
Yesterday the county commissioners
. , j f flve
qr the Bufflngton.IIarris buUd.
.
imimuni . on wln l3nirv
the first, 1513, at which time all the
county offices will be moved from the
present location at the comer of Wil-
gon and Canadian.
Tho lower floor of the north room
wij ue itted up t-or a court room and
the county offices will occupy about
rid.il imnrovement on the nresent
r,.ioi-lnro
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nauiv luuuuios.uua juuivlw.u
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was the guest of V. M. Malone over
Sunday.
A house belonging to Tom llannon
in the extreme west part of town was
uvouujtu uf ..k ...
night
The llames were beyond con-
troi ueiore me aiarui was miueu m
ure the alarm was turned in
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and the building and its contents were
a total loss, it was msurea lor iour
hundred dollars.
ALL IS QUIET
III
Governor Cruce Will Not Order Out
Militia Unless Outbreak Occurs
Arbitration Proposed.
Jay, Ok!a., Dec. 13. Quiet prevails
in both Old and New Joy. The New
Jay officers say they will not make
an effort to move the county records
from the old town of Jay until the
excitement has cooled. A hundred
men sworn in as deputies are guard
ing the old court house and the rec
ords. All the county officers were
open agaii this afternoon. When the
excitement was highest yesterday all
but three of the county officers locked
their offices and left the court house,
sheriff Thomason, in charge of tho
New Joy town deputies, still believes
the records will be moved before the
new board of commissioners is sworn
jn next month.
Arbitration Proposed.
Fort Smith, Ark., Dec. 12. Informa
tion reached here tonight that the
o Judge Pitchford.
SOME APACHES TO STAY.
Prisoners of War Prefer Freedom at
Fort Sill to Old Home in New
Mexico.
Washington, Dec. 12. Plans have
been made for the final disposition of
Jthe famous Geronimo band of Apache
j Indians held as military prisouers at
' Fort Sill, Okla. Acting Commissioner
Indian Affairs Abbott accorded
them the right to choose whether to
remain at Fort Sill or go to their old
home and fighting ground in Mescalero
' section of New Mexico. Eighty-six of
them elected to stay at Fort Sill and
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' ,emaiuuei Ul U1 lwu
ue locaieu on permanent nomes in
Xew Mexico' as soon as a needed $75,-
000 appropriation for the expense is
uiiuin.
.,JUST AHEAD OF THE SHERIFF.'
Warrant Was Out for Oklahoman Who
Leaped to Death From Bridge.
Muskogee, Okla., Dec. 12. It devel
oped today that E. E. Gray, who com
mitted suicide at Fort Gibson yester
day by jumping off the Iron Mountain
railway bridge into Qrand river, was
"just ahead of the sheriff."
charging that he was short in his ac
counts as guardian of a number of
grandchildren. The amount of the
shortage is variously reported at from
to $17,000.
OKLAHOMA NEWS IN BRIEF.
The annual convention of the Bryan
County Farmers' Institute will be held
in Durant, December 18. Delegates
to the state convention, which meets
at Stillwater on January 1.", will be
elected.
The president of the state board of
agriculture is veated with authority
vispd tho. state auditor that claims an-
7ii"-iil lu- Viini cVmiiM ha nllnwpd if
-
otherwise regular,
Auticipatig oil or gas will be found
Uu wiu n
return a handsome revenue to the city
of Tulsa, the commission has decided
to lease a part of the land occupied
by the city water plant for oil and
ea
The trial of Mrs. Laura M. Reuter,
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joinny cnargeu mui cut- mumu ul
her husband, Charles T. Reuter, for
yvnicn crime two men, uuy u. ;uac-
kenzie and Joe Baker, are under life
907 F1IC HOW
BROUGHT
T
Henry Allen Explains the Mcney
Trust's Power and How It
Rules the Nation.
(By Henry J. Allen.) ,
Washington, Dec. 12. When out of
a clear financial sky one Sunday night 1
in 1907 word flashed that the banks
would pay out no money the next day
we heard all about the money trust.
When on Tuesday morning we went
humbly and obediently into the bank
to dray the $j i.i currency which was
the maximum limitation the banker
had assumed to set upon what we
could have from our own money, he
talked to us about Wall Street, the
money center, and the need of moving
it further west. If we remember cor
rectly some indignant western bank
ers declared that we would move it
west to where a few speculative mem
bers of the money trust could not tie
up all the cash and bring on a money
panic, with all its attendant tragedies,
in the very high tide of prosperous
times.
The ordinary depositor came out of
the depressing episode with a mem
ory of clearing house certificates, of
vague terms like elasticity of the cur
rency and also a lixed animosity to
ward the money trust, concerning the
definite existence of which he had few
rational ideas. He intended to look
it up some day and get an intelligent
idea of what it was all about.
Then He Called it "Politics."
Then tho banker resumed his nor
mal habit of honoring individual
checks and in the time even the over
draft was performing again its mel
ancholy functions with no more than
its customary reluctance. Normal
times having returned, the ordinary
business man lost interest in the
mOLey trust and when he heard it
mentioned he called it nolitics. When
it was talked about by the progres
sives in the last campaign he remem
bered that the standpatters hod warn
ed hi rnthat ambitious demagogues
were always trying to make political
capital by attacking the rich.
Yet the money trust has been doing
business at the old stand ever since
the bankers' panic just as it did be
fore. The disclosures of the congres
sional investigation now going on
promise to ho sufiiciently sensational
to reawaken even the interest of the
ordinary business man in the money
trust.
Five Men Control 400 Millions.
The testimony already has shown.
that 400 million dollars of bank funds
in New York are absolutely controlled
by five men. These men, led by Mor
gan, dominate the New York clear
ing house committee. Water Frew of
the New York Cora Exchange Bank,
chairman of the celaring house com
mittee, after skillfully dodging for two
hours, finally admitted that the 1907
panic, precipitated by the failure of
the Knickerbocker Trust company,
was caused by the refusal o fthe Na
tional Bank of Commerce to clear for
Knickerbocker Trust company. Mr.
Frew admitted that the Knickerbocker
Trust company would have been
cleared if it had belonged to the New
York Clearing Association, that it was
solvent and afterwards paid all its
debts and had a good sized reserve.
lie admitted that the safety of the
business community would have been
better cared for if the Knickerbocker
Trust company had been a member
of the clearing association and that
it properly was entitled to member
ship, but that it had not been admitted
because, to quote the only reason Mr.
Frew gave, "it had been thought best
to limit the number of Institutions in
the association."
Throughout the daj', while Mr. Frew-
dodged from one subterfuge 10 an
other, he was obliged to make many
admissions and the sum total of all of
them is that the New York Clearing
House committee has autocratic pow
ers in tho money world of New York.
which means the real money center of
the country.
How Wall Street Attracts Cash.
Mr. Untermeyer succeeded in making
Mr. Frew admit that in the fall of the
year, when money is needed through
out the country to move crops,, the
price of call money in Wall Street, the
only open money market, in the coun
try, is bid up in order that cash may
be attracted to Wall Street for specula
tive purposes.
Mr. Frew testified reluctantly that
on November 1 of this year, when call
money was at 8 per cent, the ninety
four out of town correspondents of
the Corn Exchange Bank had a bal
ance of $2,044,000 on deposit with that
bank, while on June 1 last, when
money was not in demand throughout
the country, these banks had nearly
a million dollars less om deposit.
sentence, has been set for the janu -
arv term of the superior court at Tulsa
Her counsel, however, will again, press
the motion for change of venue.
A Beautiful Entrance.
Horsey Hall "and Chas. Plannkuche
today completed the Christmas arches
at the entrance of the Sanders Wright
store and they, with the beautiful win
dow displays of Christmas gifts at
tract the attention of crowds at all
hours. The arcings are built on wood
en frames and are covered over with
'rtHlar and th(1 O(hor pl;vnt8 anJ oolors
,of Yuletide season and nre arranged
! wiUi a number of colored electric!
lights that will cause it to appear even
more beautiful by night than by day. !
This store has without question the,
tinst window display and the best ar-
ranged stock of goods that has ever
been seen in this city or northeastern
Oklahoma.
WHITE SLAVER
Permitted to Transport Her to Kansas
Town, Went to Joplin Against
Her Entreaties.
Jopliu, Mo., Dec. 14. J. C. Young,
who recently came to Joplin from Ot
tawa county, Oklahoma, was arrested
SHAKE CHARTER'
IS ARRESTED AS
yesterday on a charge of violating thoiture and a politician with a state-wide
whlte slave act b h"& Mrs. Mary
Newell, 14 years old, into the state for
immoral purposes. He denied thegaid .-and have had lt nreWer has
charge when arraigned last night be- lost hig job Miss Brylee declared
fore United States Commission K. F,
Y.eyton. In default of $2,500 bond he
was committed to the city Jail, pend -
Ing trial December 21. !ft positioa on a Btat0 board.
Young and the Newell girl .withj ..Ie thmks he wln become United
Nellie Williams, 35 years old, and his glatea marshal under the new admin-
-.6-year-old daughter, came here in a
movers wagon. Mrs. Newell says her
rather, A. .7. JJarr, who lives seven
Uli,cs northwest of Miami, consented
1 lct lier so to Chetopa, Kans., where
she has relatives, in Young's wagon.
instead of going to Chetopa, she said,
Young drove to Baxter Springs, then
to Galena and from there to Joplin.
It was early last week when she left
home, and when her parents learned
she had not been taken to Chetopa
they began a search for her.
Sheriff C. D. Carman of Ottawa coun
ty came here from Miami Thursday
night, and with the assistance of the
police located the four, camped on
Joplin creek, north of the city, yester
day afternoon. They were taken to
police headquarters and questioned.
jTlie girl said Young had refused to
Uow her to return home. The Wil-
liams woman verified her story
Exhibits Sankes and Eagle.
The campers were poorly provi
sioned and were living in squalor. Be-
sides a covered wagon and three
-horses, a box of snakes and a caged
eaglo were found In the camp. These,
were used by Young to give shows in
country school houses, while travel
ing from place to place.
After Young's arraignment last
night the two women were placed in
jail in default of $200 bond each, being
held as witnesses for the government
against the prisoner. Young's daugh
ter will be cared for in Joplin.
,Separated From Wife.
Tho Williams woman says Blie met
Young in Cassville, Mo., about three
months ago, and had since been travel
ing with him. She says he promised
to marry her as soon as he obtained
a divorce from his wife, from whom
he has been separated some time.
Although only 11 years old now, the
Newell girl was married several
months ago. She said she had not
been living with her husband for some
time.
BT TULSA OFFICER
He
Was Smuggling Two Loads
Whisky Into Town.
of
Tulsa, Okla., Dec. 13. Trouble be
tween bootleggers and state enforce
ment officers was resumed here today
when Walter Allison, while attempting
to smuggle two wagons of whisky and
beer into Tulsa, was shot and serious
ly injured by Special Officer F. H.
W. Ward. Allison is in a hospital and
Ward is being held by the police.
Accounts of the trouble differ wide
ly. Ward claims that Allison resisted
and showed fight, while the wounded
man asserts that he already had been
disarmed when the shooting occurred.
An eye-witness to the affair agrees
with Allison.
It was reported this afternoon that
.the life of one enforcement officer had
ben threatened by friends or Aamson.
Whether there is any truth to this is
not known.
BOOT E SHOT
1 REVENGE OAS
BEEN SWEET" SAKS
MISS DOT BRILEE
"Brewer Has Lost His Job," She
Exults; "I Sleep m Peace." Her
Fight Has Only Begun.
Muskogee, Okla., Dec. 14. "Oh, I
have had my reveuge. And it has been
sweet Indeed. Yes, I have had my re
venge a thousand times over. When
I sleep now I dream wonderful and
pleasant dreams and awake with a
light heart. During the first stages
of this trouble I lost ten pounds, but
now I have gained more than twenty.
My revenge is sweet and it is com
plete but my light has only half be
gun." Throwing back her head to laugh
at her light heartedness yet, with her
eyes flashing fire, Miss "Dot" Brylee,
deposed teacher of music at the Con
nors State Agricultural school at War
ner, tho young woman who began the
famous Bryloe-Brewer-Talbot sensa
tion, yesterday told of the fight she is
making to clear her name and to ran
to earth the man whom she says she
hates and despises, 0. A. Brewer, a
member o fthe state board of agricul-
reputation.
,r bega1 my Jlght for revenge," she
that she made her affidavit, the one
that causod tlie trouble, because she
!.u,u 4w nMWn Eh.,i,i nt
deration," she said, "but we have seen
U) tbat My tamjiy personally know
President-elect Wilson and we have
written to him about, Brewer. He may
as well give up any hope be may carry-
Uiat he get tho appointment for
ho has not ono cijance ja a thousand."
Miss Brylee gave many new details,
of experiences she alleges she had
with O. A. Brewer and Guy Talbot
the "mysterious Judge Sherwood." For
four years Brewer had sought her,
urging her to accept a position In the
state schools, she declared, and she
finally accepted. Then the break came
between them, and she was ordered to
Tishomingo, then discharged, she said,
and her dismissal was then counter
manded and she was ordered to go to
Warner. There she taught until re
cently discharged.
Miss Bryleo brought with her two
petitions, each with a story back of
it. One petition was signed by eigh
teen pupils, who declared they had
signed a previous one, opposing Miss
Brylee, under misrepresentation. Ac
cording to Miss Brylee the petition
opposing her was written by a mem
ber of the faculty and only a portion
of it was read to the pupils. , The reso
lution signed by eighteen' students, In
tended to correct the first Is as fol
lows :
We, the undersigned students of the
, Connors State School of Agriculture,
of Warner, wish to correct the erron
eous impression given by our resolu
tion printed In the Phoenix of the 5th
inst.
We o:ily meant to correct the state
ment which appeared in the Times
Democrat of the 3rd inst., which
stated that the student body was in
riot and turmoil and not create the im
pression that we do not respect Miss
Brylee, for we hold Miss Brylee in
the highest esteem and regard her as
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ione ol our best leaeners.
! Vh ask that this statement be giv-
jen space in your paper in order that
people will know we only intended to
correct the statement about rioting
and turmoil.
(Signed): John Bossier, Margaret
Russell, Carrie Dryden, Myrtle Nuck
olls, Frank Van Allen, Dennis House,
John Addy, Ora Scott, Henry Thomp
son, Hazel Beckett, Mattie Dodson,
Lee Nuckolls, Willie House, Rachael
E. Fields, Clarence Pope, Lee Wray,
Ada Fields, A. F. Stigall.
Miss Bryleo also brought with her
a petition signed by students and citi
zens of Warner to G. T. Bryan, pres
ident of the state board of agriculture
asking that Miss Brylee be reinstated.
The resolution is as fol'ows:
Hon. G. T. Bryan, President.
State Board of Agriculture
Oklahoma City.
We, the undersigned patrons aud
students of the Connors State School
of Agriculture resiveetfully urge that
you reinstate Miss "Dot" Brylee as
teacher of music (common school and
piano music) in the school unti lthe
new board of regents assumes its du
ties. Miss Brylee has proven herself an
efficient teacher and is very much in
terested in her work and we think it
will be for tbe advancement of the
students and the welfare- of the school
for her to be reinstated.