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i WICHITA WEEKLY TIMES, WICHATA FALLS, TEXAS, JAN. sth, 1912..
NO NEW TRIAL
Events That Made H:st00 1011 OILMAN DIES NO NEW TRIAL
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• SUDDENLY FOR FLETCHER
Jan. 1.—In an attempt to arrest sev
eral alleged anarchists in London, 1909
police and soldiers took active part.
Jan. 3.—The United States Supreme
Court dismissed the Government's
Panama Canel libel suit against ths
New York World.
Jan: 7.—Reciprocity negotiations be-
tween the United States and Canada
renewed at Washington, D. C
Jan. 8.—The electric and telephone
plant at Santiago. Chile, is destroyed
by fire, the loss amounting to $2,,000,-
000.
Jan. 11.—The Chinese National As-
sembly is dissolved.
Jan. 14.—The State Department an-
bounces that complete agreement with
Canada over the fisheries question has
been reached.
Jan. 17.—A madman in the French
Chamber fires two shots at Premier
Briand, one of them striking M. Mir-
man, Director of Public Relief.
2 Jan. 14.—Twenty-four Japanese an'
archists, one of them a woman, are
condemned to death for conspiracy to
kill the Crown Prince.
Apr. 1.—The Spanish cabinet under
Premier Canalajas resigns offer a de-
bate upon the Ferrer controversy, Caa-
alejas to form a new cabinet.
Apr. 3.—The U. 8. Supreme Court
holds that under, the Hepburn act the
railroads must be actually independ-
ent of the coal compaines.
Apr. 4.—The Sixty second Congress
meets in special session. k
Apr. 4.—Ratifications of the Japan-
Oso-American commercial treaty are
exchanged at Tokyo.
Apr. 5.—-A surplus of $30,000,000 is
I shown at the close of the Canadian Bo-
cal year.
Apr. 11.—The passage by the French
Senate of a measure abolishing terri-
torial delimitations for the production
of champagne leads to serious riots of
the wine-growers in the department
of Marne and elsewhere.
Apr. 14.—The resignation of David
Jayne Hill as ambassador to Germany
is announced at Washington.
new cabinet.
June 30 —Cardinal Gibbons cele-
brates the fiftieth anniversary of his
ordination to the priesthood and his
twenty-fifth anniversary as Cardinal.
July 3.—The British seamen’s strike
ends with a partial victory for the
strikers
July 6.—The Attorney General be-
gins an action against the Lehigh Val-
ley Railroad to separate the business
of coal mining from railroading.
Jan. 30.—The Commissioners of the
United States and Canada reach a
reciprocity agreement.
Jan. 20.—Andrew Carnegie makes an
additional gift of $910,000,000 to the
Carnegie Institute at Washington, D.
Apr. 16.—The $50,000,000 loan to
China, participated in by /American.
British, French and German bankers,
is signed at Peking
Apr. 21.—The House passed the Ca-
nadian Reciprocity bill by a vote of 266
to 89. *
July 7.—A treaty abolishing pelagic
sealing is signed st Washington by
representatives of the United States,
Greet Britain, Russia mid Japan.
July 13.—Edward, eldest son of
King George, is invested as Prince of
Wales at Carnarvon Castle, Wales.
July 14.—Great Britain and Japan
sign a new treaty of alliance, to last
ten years.
July 21.—The Brooklyn Rapid Tran-
sit Company is awarded the new sub-
way system of New York City, com-
prising 87 miles of underground and
elevated lines to cost $$235,000,000.
July 22.—The U. 8. Senate passes
the Canadian Reciprocity bill, without
amendment
Sept. 27.—First election .In Sweden
under universal suffrage shows great
gains by Socialists
, Sept. 29.—War is declared by Italy
against Turkey and hostilities in Tri-
poli begin
Sept. 29.—The Turkish cabine under
Hakki Bay resigns
Oct. 1—The first election in Mexico
under the new regime results in the
choice of Francisco 1. Madero, Jr.,
leader of the revolution, as President.
Oct.' 2.—President von Hellen, of the
Finnish High Court of Justice, is shot
dead by a shop clerk at Abo, who im-
mediately kills himself.
, Oct. 6.-The Liberal ministry in Can-
ada, under Sir Wilfred Laurier, resigns
and Robert L. Borden, the Conserva-
L. SOLINSKY FOUND DEAD IN HIS
ROOM AT TERMINAY HOTEL
SUNDAY NIGHT.
HIS DEATH WAS SUDDEN
FORMER CHARLIE, TEXAS, MAN
SENTENCED TO HANG ON
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23.
APPEAL NOTICE IS FILED
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RECEIPTS BREAK
ALL RECORDS
DECEMBER RECEIPTS AT LOCAL
POSTOFFICE LARGER THAN
ANY MONTH IN HISTORY
OF OFFICE.
6000 RECORD FOR YEAR
Apr. 22.—The McNamara brothers
and Ortie MeManigal are arrested,
dharged with responsibility for the
dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times
building, in October, 1910.
— „ Apr. 27.—A serious revolutionary out-
3 membership in the French Academy of breax at Canton, chma.:
Sciences. Apr. 30.—Fire destroys about one-
Jan. 26.—The reciprocity agreement third of the city of Bangor, Me., ren-
/ between the United States and Canada dering thousands homeless and causing
is submitted to the legislative bodies a property loss of more than $2,500,-
of both countries. 000.
Jan. 30.—The House passes the billMay 3.--Five members of the Ohio
ereating 4 permanent tariff board. General Assembly are indicted on the
Feb. 1-The Governor of Ispahan, charge of soliciting bribes.
Persia, and his nephew shot by a Rus- May 4.—The Congress of Interna-
, tional Law, at Madrid, confirms the
Feb. 1—An explosion of many tons right to use serial craft in war.
et dynamite and black powder at theMay 5.—-Ratifications of the Anglo-
Central Railroad of New Jersey freight Japanese commercial treaty are ex-
terminal kills thirty workmen and changed at Tokyo.
causes enormous damage to property. May 6.—Three thousand women pa-
_ Feb. 4. The centenary of Horace rade in New York City in furtherance
Greeley’s birth is celebrated. of the cause of woman suffrage.
Feb. 4.—The Persian Minister of Ft- May 8.—The Chinese Grand Council
mance killed by Armenians in the is abolished by imperial edict and a
streets of Teheran ‘constitutional cabinet of ten members
. Feb S King George formally opens substituted.
the British Parliament. May 9.—The Supreme Court of Aus-
.Feb. 9.-The voters of Arizona rat- trie decides that Archduke John, who
ffy the proposed Constitution by a disappeared twenty years ago, is dead,
lerge majority. . May 11.—Franciseo Madero. Jr. n
Feb. 10. It is announced in Wash. claims himself provisional president of
inston that W. Morgan Shuster would Mexico and appoints a ministry.
be appointed treasurer-general of Per- May 15.—A lockout of 40,000 work-
eia to reorganize its finances. men is declared at Copenhagen by the
Feb. 11. The grand jury investigate employers’ federation, efforts to settle
iss vote-selling in Scioto County, Ohio, the difficulty having failed.
a returns indictments against forty-one I May 21.—Henri M. Berteaux, French
persons. , Minister of War, and Premier Monis
Feb. 14—The House, by a vote of I are struck by an aeroplane at Issy-les-
221 to 98. passes the Canadian Reci-Moulineaux; the former is killed and
proity bill, the latter severely injured.
Feb. 24.—Briand cabinet In France May 21.—A treaty of peace is sign-
reeigne,and is succeeded by one form- ed at Juares between the Mexican
ed ME Monis. (government and the insurgents.
Feb. 25. U. 8 Senate ratifies the May 25.-Porfirio Diaz resigns his
treats of commerce and naviga- office as President of Mexico and
don with Japan. Francisco Leon de la Barra is chosen
Mars 7.—President Taft order provisional President.
troane to the Mexican border. May 29.—The U. S. Supreme Court
A.ecretary ot the interior, decides that the American Tobacco
Einsenreslens, and Walter Fisher of Company is a combination in violation
Oaroi le appointed his successor. or the Sherman law, and orders its dis-
ocommone sie eaca ir.praous: solution. .
President Taft's Anglo-American ...June 2.—The first American stock;
tration scheme. Atchison common, is quoted on the
Mar. 19.—France adopts Greenwich Paris Bourse.
time. June 7.—A severe earthquake felt
Mar. 11.—The trial of the Camorra throughout Mexico causes the lose of
leaders begins at Viterbo, Italy. (1200 lives.
Mar. 19.—The United States Su-l June 12,—The sixth Congress of the
preme Court upholds the constitution- International Woman • Suffrage Alli-
ality of the Corporation Tax law. ance begins at Stockholm.
.ar 21 The tercentenary of the June 13.—W. Morgan Shuster, the
authorized version of the Bible is cele- American financier. Is placed In (
brated throughout England. Itrol of Persia’s finances
MAT. 24. The members of the Mexi. %.
ean cabinet hand their resicniesos in June 14.—Twenty thousand seamen
President pine" their resignations to go on strike at London, Li verpool, and
Mar. 26.—A fire in a shirtwaist fac other British and North Sea ports, de-
tory in New York causes the MAC manding an increase in wages.
of 1415 person., k the death June 17.—The $50,000,000 3 percent
w.r Zt u : Panama Canal bonds issue is heavily
urovre 38. The Spanish cabinet ap-oversubscribed.
41ne rurne proposed measure regulat- June 19.—The first Constituent As-
S. sou associations, sembly of Portugau is opened.
cil The Japanese Privy Coun- , June 19.—President and Mrs. Taft
the Unites he commercial treaty with celebrated their silver wedding anni.
after a dessinx New, York legislature, gune 22— King George V. and Queen
rustice msock of ten weeks, elects Mary are crowned in Westminster Ab-
the U.S aunses M. Depew (Rep.) in] June 23.—The Monis ministry in
- P N_____France resignsand J. Caillaux forms a
4
Jan. 21.—The voters of New Mexico
ratify the proposed State Constitution.
Jan. 28.—Mme. Curie defeated for
July 22.—The voters of Texas de-
clare against statewide prohibition by
a majority of 6000 out of 462,000 votes.
July 23.—Fire devastates two square
miles of the Stamboul district of Con-
stantinople, destroying more than 5000
houses.---
/ July 29.—Continued obstruction to
the Reciprocity bill at Ottawa leads to
a decision to dissolve Parliament and
hold a general election.
live leader, accepts the premiership.
Oct 10.—At a special election in Cal
ifornia an Amendment to the State con-
stitution granting the suffrage to wo-
men is carried by a slight majority.
Oct. 10.—An up-rising in Hu-Peh
Province, China, assumes serious pro-
portions, the revolutionists capturing
the capital, Wu-Chang.
Oct. 11.—Earl Gray retires as Gov-
emnor-General of Canada.
Oct 13.—The Duke of Connaught
takes the oath as Governor-General of
Canada.
Oct 14x-Yuan Shin-kai, former Grand
Councillor and commander-in-chief of
the Chinese army and navy who was
dismissed several years ago, is recall-
.OR RED NOVInXACFFOX ALMuPeh
Oct. 14.—President Taft breaks
ground for the Panama Pacific Expo-
sition at San Francisco.
.1 Oct. 26.—The U. 8. Government
July 29.—The Canadian Parliament brings suit in the U. 8. Circuit Court
is dissolved and a general election set
for Sept. 21.
July 81.—The Russian minister to
Persia moves to force the resignation
of the American Treasurer-General,
W. M. Shuster.
Aug. 1.—Postal savings banks are
opened in New York, Chicago and Bos-
ton.
Aug. 3.—New arbitration treaties
with Great Britain and France, prac-
tically unlimited in their scope, are
signed at Washington. *
Aug. 4.—It is reported from Berlin
that an agreement has been reached,
involving the trading of colonial pos-
sessions, in dispute between France
and Germany ever Morocco.
Aug. 8.—The U. S. Senate passes the
Statehood bill with an amendment re-
quiring Arizona to vote again on the
recall of judges.
. Aug. 10—The Veto bill, unamended,
is accepted by the House of Lords, by
a vote of 131 to 114, more than
at Trenton to dissolve the United
States Seel Corporation, as a combina-
tion in restraint of trade.
Oct 26.—The throne yields to the
National Assembly of China and dis.
misses Sheng Hsuan-Huai, the Minister
of Posts and Communications.
Oct 29.—The Swiss elections result
in the choice of 110 Radicals, 44 Con-
servatives, • Socialists, and 7 Inde-
pendents.
Nov. 6.—The revolutionists from a
cabinet at Shankgai.
Nov. 7.—The Chinese revolutionists
capture Foo Chow.
Nov. 8.—Arthur X. Balfour resigns
the leadership of the Opposition in the
British Parliament.
November 10.—Carnegie gives $25.-
000,000 to the recently incorporated
Carnegie Corporation of New York, for
the purpose of taking over and carry-
ing on his philanthropic work.
COMPENSATION
FOR EMPLOYES
POSTAL OFFICIAL WOULD ENACT.
LAW COVERING INJURIES
SUSTAINED IN DUTY.
CITY DELIVERY SERVICE
Report Says Coot in the Cities, In-
cluding Collection Expenses, Was
Nearly $33,000,000.
' Washington, D. C., Jan. 1.—The OB*
actment of a law torcompensate all
postal" employes, including the letter
Hearriers, for injuries sustained in the
‘line of duty, but not attributable te
their own negligence, is urged in the
annual report of C. P. Grandfield,
First Assistant Postmaster General,
submitted to' Postmaster General
Hitchcock yesterday.
There were in operation June M
T last, 59,237 postoffices of all classes
. % in the United States. The postal city
’ delivery service is new in operation
x in 1,641 cities, serving more than‘46,
♦ 000,000 people, and An the 49,998
rural routes 20,000,000 people receive
mail. This leaves a considerable por-
tion of the American people, most of
whom reside in towns and villages,
the report declares, “without say
form of free delivery service, and un-
Appopiexy Believed to Have Been the
Cause—Deceased Prominent in
South Texas.
L. Bouinsky, manager of the Wichi-
ta Falls Oli and Gas Company and a
prominent oil operator from Beau-
mont, where he had lived for thirty
years was found dead In his room at
the Terminal Hotel at about 7:30
o’clock Sunday night. Mr. Solinsky
had not been feeling well for several
days and became worse yesterday af-
ternoon and at about 4 o'clock was
assisted to bed. Later when an at-
tendant went to his room to see it
any service could be rendered Mr.
Solinsky was found lifeless. Dr.
Everett Jones was immediately call-
ed, but all efforts to revive signs of
life failed.
Death is believed to have resulted
from appoplexy... -,
The body was removed to E. G.
Hill's undertaking parlors and pre-
pared for shipment to Beaumont,
where it was taken for burial this af-
ternoon.
Mr. Solinsky was about sixty-
sight years of age and was one of the
prominent oil operators In South
Texas. He came here several months
ago and organized the Wichita Falls
Oil and Gas Company 'which leased
the Avis ranch nine miles east o.
town where a derrick has been erect-
ed and the arrival of machinery ship-
ped from Beaumont is being awaited
before drilling operations start
He was a Russian-Jew and exempli-
filed the rugged strength of character
and the inegrity of that race. Six sons
and one daughter survive. One of his
sons, Harry, had coins to Wichita
Falls to assist his father and was in
the city at the time of his death.
Another son, S. Solinsky is secretary
of the Merchants Association at Beau-
mont. The others are prominent in
1 Nov. 11.—King George and Queen
I Mary sail from Portsmouth, England, business in South Texas,
for the Durbar at Delhi, India. --------------
peers refusing to vote.
Aug. 17.—A general strike is declar.
ed on all British railways.
Aug. 21.—Most of the striking Brit- White Howe after an absence of 87
ish railway employees return to work, days.
Aug. 22.—The special session of the
Sixty-second Congress adjourns sine
die. -
Aug. 22.—“Monna Lisa.” Leonardo
da Vinein ’s famous painting is stolen
from the Louvre.
Aug. 24.—Manoel de Arrive is elect-, ______- ________________.____
ed first President' of Portugal by the the twelfth Canadian Parliament.
Constituent Assembly.
Aug. 24.—The dock strike et Liver-
pool comes to an end and 668,000 men
return to work.
Aug. 26.- Andre Jaeger-Schmidt ar-
riving in Paris, completes a voyage
around the world is 99 days, 19 hours,
and 43 minutes.
Nov. 12.—President Taft reaches the
Nov. 16.—Mr. Shuster, Persia's
American financial agent, refuses to
recede from his'.position and Russia
orders troops to* Persia.
Nov. 16.—Switzerland experiences
the worst earthquake. in fifty years.
Nov. 16.—-Duke of Connaught opens
COMPULSORY INSURANCE
FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYES
New Law Effective in Mssachusetts
Nov. 19.—Ramon Caceres, president
Provides Retirement Pay for —
State Employe.'
Boston, Mass., Jan.' 1.—The first re-
tirement system for State employes
to be established In this country was
put into effect in Massachusetts to
Sept. 1.—Serious rioting occurs
throughout France during demonstra-
tions against the high prices of food-
stuffs.
Sept. 11.—Mount Etna is in violent
eruption, which makes more than 20,-
000 persons homeless.
Sept 14—Premier Stolypin, of Rus-
con- sia, is shot and fatally wounded by a
Jewish Socialist named Bogroff during
a theatrical performance at Kiev.
. Sept. 15.—President Taft starts from
his summer home at Beverly, Mass., on
a 13,000-mile trip through the West
Sept 21.—The general election in
Canada resulted in the defeat of the
Liberals favoring reciprocity with the
United States and the election of a
Conservative and Nationalist govern-
ment by a majority of 37.
Sept. 23.—M. Kokovtsov, Minister of
Finance in the Stolypin cabinet, as-
sumes the premiership of Russia. -
Sept. 2G.—The French battleship
Liberte is blown to pieces by explos-
ions in her magazines. 235 of the crew
lose their their lives.
by which the department can relieve
this inequality.” , .
of Santo Domingo, assassinated
Nov. 29.--The revolutionary troops
enter the city of Nanking
Dec. 1.—The McNamara brothers, on .
trial in Los Angeles on charees grow. day. The now system, which was cre
Ing out of the dynamiting of the Times
building, plead guilty.
Dec. 4.—The regular session of the
Sixty-second Congress convenes.
Dec. 6.—Ten Chicago meat packers
placed on trial on charges of violating
the criminal provisions of the Sher
man anti-trust law.
Dec. 6.—Prince Chun, the regent and
father of the Chinese emperor, abdi-
cates his place as guardian of the
throne.
ated by an act of the 1 gislature last
year, is not in reality pension sys-
tem. but a plan for compulsory assist-
ed insurance for public employes.
Heretofore State pensions have been
paid only to special classes, such as
teachers, policemen and firemen. It
is now undertaken to grant retirement
payments to practically every person
on the pay roll of the Commonwealth,
whether employed In the direct ser-
vice of the State or the metropolitan
Dec. 13.—King George V. and his vice of the State or me metropolis**
consort, ‘Queen Mary, proclaimed em- district service, who regularly siver
peror and empress of India at Delhi.
Dec. 14.—Louis Ferrer elected Pres-
ident of the Swiss Confederation.
his whole time to that service. Cer
Dec. 19.—British Parliament adopts
the national insurance bill providing
for compulsory insurance against sick-
ness and unemployment of the work-
ing classes. i
Dec. 20.-Congress ratifies the Pres-
ident's action In notifying Russia of
the termination of the treaty of 1832
Dec. 22.—Emilio Estrada, president
of the Republic of Ecuador, died at
Guayaquil. LU
tain high officials are excluded, such
as the governor under special acts.
The retirement fund is made up in
part of State contributions, with as
sessments upon the employes amount
lug to not less than 1 and not more
than 5 per cent of their wages, as the
. RAINFALL FOR YEAR ANTIS FALL OUT OVER
The cost of free delivery in cities, . Tad
WAS 19.68 INCHES
Including collection expenses, was
nearly $33,000,000, or more than 19
per cent of the gross revenue of the
city delivery offices. .
Mr. Grandfield calls special atten-
tion to the fact that during the last
fiscal year “the gross revenue of the
department more than equaled the
expenditures and the postal service 4a
now self-sustaining fog the first time
since 1883.” ,
"In two years,” he ‘adds, “the
enormous deficit of $17,500,000 has
been turned into a surplus." The
gross revenues for the year amounted
to $237,879,824, the expenditures to
$237,648,927, leaving a surplus of
$219,118 after deducting $11,799 ac-
count of loss of postal funds by fire
and burglary. .
The operation of the law which pro-
video for the promotion automatically
of clerks in postoffices has brought
about a condition, says Mr. Grandfield
that ought to be remedied immediate
Ty since there are now 387 offices
where the salary of the assistant
postmaster is actually less than that
of the clerks under him.
. “The amount of Sunday work has
been reduced fully 50 per cent,” he
ys
The report recommends an appro-
priation of $10,000 to “reward postal
employes who offer to the department
devices or processes that prove of
it urges also, pensions for superan-
LOCAL OPTION BILL
Heavy rains in December helped 6
.the rainfall record in Wichita Falls
and prevented the year's record trom
being the lowest ever recorded here.
During the first thirty days of Decem- =.
ber the precipitation was 6.10 inches _______...,,______..__...
one of the heaviest records either by cause the bill drawn recently by the
the weather bureau at Abilene or at
Lawton where accurate records have
been kept for many years by govern-
ment observers. The total for this
year excepting today has been 19.68
which in several Inches more than the
dryest year’s record at Lawton of
Abilene, the only two places with
which a comparison can be made. At
Abilene a record as low as fifteen
inches has been recorded but the
. years below twenty .Inches are very
rare. What made conditions so bad
in this section this year was ths
fact that the preceding year had been
almost as dry as this one. The
weather records show that the wet
and dry years come in cycles of two
or three dry years followed by five or. In Amarillo Cou
six years of more precipitation so ----------
that based on the weather records
there is a resonable expectation that
the next few years will be wet ones.
The preciptiation by months during
1911 was as follows: January, 0.24:
February, 1.83: March 0.25; April,
3.86; May, 0.19: June 0.29; July, 4.60;
August, 1.87; September, 0.75: Octo-
ber, 0.43; November, 0.621 December,
6.10. *
Recently Drawn In* Oklahoma
Doesn’t Suit Brewers, H
le Said.
By United Press. ,
Oklahoma City, Okla., Dec. 30.—Be-
State Local Option Association does
not provide a minimum penalty for
violation of the law and does not
suit the brewers in other respects
another local option organisation is
being formed to prepare and submit
another bill that, will provide for roe
repeal of the prohibition ordinance of
legislation. The new organisation
will be effected early in the year,
and the election probably will" be
held in August. An effort probably
win be made to have the Governor
can a. special session earlier in or-
der that-candidates for office may not
become involved in the prohibition
fight. 1 ,
it of Civil Appeals.
By United Press 1
Amarillo, Texas, Dec. 30.—Preced-
Ings in the Court for Civil Appeals of
the Seventh District today were: -
Affirmed: Trustees c.______
cothe Independent School District vs
R. L. Dudney; dismissed. T. A.
Young, et al vs. R. L. Dudney
Of the Chilli-
Plans are being made to build an
interstate highway from Tahoka to
Roswell, N. M. The road has been
Aldredge Lumber Company has let completed part of the way, and the
contracts for a new mill to be erect- 4
ed at Aldredge at a cost of $400,000.
intervening counties are preparing for
bond issues.
Defense Has Ninety Days In Which to
File Their Case With Higher
Court.:
Lawton Star-Sunday.
Sentence or death was Saturday at
ternoon passed upon Jesse Pletcher
convicted of the murder of Jerne Bar
loe, by Judge J. T Johnson. The date
of the execution was set for Friday
February 23. 1912, between the hours
of 8 and id a. ut. Notice of appea
was given by attorneys for the defense
and 90 days was granted in which ti
file in case made. Fletcher s only
hope lies with the court of appeals 01
the governor of the state, for commuta
tiou. Sentence was pronounced in the
following terms'
“It la therefore ordered, adjudgel
decreed and sentenced by the cour
that the defendant Jesse Fletcher is
guilty of the crime of murder as chars
ed in the amended information in‘thir
cause and as found by said jury and
that the said Jesse Fletcher for sair
crime by him committed be execute,
and hanged by the neck until he Ir
dead, dead, dead, and may God have
mercy on his soul; and be shall be
hanged between the hours of 8 and 10
o’clock a. m., of Friday, the 23rd daf
of February, 1912."
Arguments for a new hearing were
heard by the court and denied. The
defense in presenting their motor
placed Mrs. Shields upon the stand
the jury and bailiffs having been as
signed quarters at her hotel. She tes
tiffs.I that a portion of her hotel was
set aside for the use of the jury, the
seven rooms were occupied, all open?
ing into a common hall. That tw<
iuryment slept in each room, one car
rying a key to the same. The defense
argues this a separation of the jure
and that it would have been an ears
matter for jurymen to leave the room
Attention was also called to the far"
that one of the jurymen, Laughlir, he
expressed the opinion, before being
called for service sa a juryman the
“the old devil ought to be hanger
The juryman had admitted when exam
ined aa to qualifications that He *
no opinion but that he could try €
case impartially.
All the jurymen had been surm:
ed by the state but none were, plan
on the stand. The state introduce
no-evidence. /
“There aint no use saying anvth'
so I’ve got nothing to say,” said Ir
Fletcherewhen asked by the o
whether or not he had arthing to
why sentence should not be pronon
ed unep Fim Fletcher stood stral-h
wtih hands in pockets, while sen ten
was pronounced. He still seems u.
concerned. ,
NEGRO LYNCHED: * /
BLACKS WARNED TO
. KEEP. OFF STREET
tv Associated Press .
Muskogee, Okla., Jan. 1.—Followi
he lynching of Wilburn Turner, f
the murder of George Cason and t
issault on Mrs. Cason, negroes hav
been warned to keep off the streets
Muldrow, where the lynching occurred
and out of Sallisaw, the county sea
administrative board, beaded by the There has been no demonstratic
State treasurer, shall determine. The whatever since the lynching. No e
funds are to be placed at interest orts have been made thus far to
with a semi-annual compounding, and
when a person retires the amount that
the fund will yield is equaled by a con-
tribution from the State. The, total
of the annuity or pension is not to
exceed half of the wages pad at the
time of retirement but it shall in no
case be less han $200. Employes may
retire at the age of sixty, and they
must retire st seventy. Employee who
have served continuously for thirty-
five years may retire or be retired re-
gardless of age. . /
WILL NOT APPOINT AMERICAN.
Persian Government Declines to Ap-
point One of Shuster's Assistants
to Treasury Generalship.
Teheran, Dec. 31.—The Persian Gov-
rnment has declined to appoint F. E
Cairos, one of W. Morgan Shuster's
American assistants, to the post of
Treasurer General, from which office
Mr. Shuster was recently ousted. It
is believed that this is due to the hos-
tility'of Russia to the appointment of
an American.
It was announced last night that a
committee, composed of - M. Monard,
the Belgian ex-Director of Customs-in
Persia, and three Persians, would un-
dertake the treasury generalship. As,
however, one of the Persians selected
has refused to accept, the project of
a commission is temporarily in abey-
ance. ‘ I 1 .
A 5000 sere tract of land located in
Crane, Upton and Crockett counties,
is to be divided into forty and eighty:
acre farms, irrigated and colonized by
northern farmers. :
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T. R. James & Sons of Fort Worth,
termine who was in the mob th
lynched the negro.
The woman victim of the negro wi
not seriously injured. The murderr
man will be burled today.
Before the mob got Turner he wrot
a letter to his wife, saying: " has
tone wrong, am going to die befor
night. 1 want you to meet me in hea
en, and do not want you ever to man:
again.” * ‘
The letter was addressed to Mre
Wilbur Turner at Eufaula.
Total Receipts for December Were
$4071.79; For the Year $18,237. '
■ Six Years Record.
A ga n or sixteen percent in res el; th
it the postoftice in December, 1911,
over the corresponding, month in 1910
hows that Mienitn Falls has more
than held her own despite the two
years of drouth, for everywhere the
bostal receipts are taken as an index,
to business conditions.
Not only was there a gain in re-
cepits for the last month of the year
but the receipts for the wh le year
how a substantial increase over the e
preceding year, the gain for the year
being over three thousand dollars.
The receipts for the year total $38,-
137.50 compared with $$75,078.59 In
1910. The December receipts In 1911
were $4,071.79 compared with $3,505.20
"n 7910, a gain of 500 59 or more xhan’T.
sixteen per cent. The recepits last
month were not only larger than De-
ember a year ago but were the great- r
st for any month in the history of •
he postoffice.
Annual postal receipts since 1906
ire a. good Index to the growth,of the
city and show a steady increase They
a follows: 1906 $11,508; 1907 $1G,-
728; 1908 $21437;1 1909 $28,891; 1910
15.098; 1911 $38,237. -
The receipts by months in 1907 were
January 339C5.59; Feburary $2725 96;
March $2984.52; April $3125.74; May
$3361.34; June 2626.82; July $308013:e
August 2838.90; September $3061.91;
October $3420.92: November $2873.81:
December $4071.79.
NEW YEAR’S GREETING *
‘ FROM “MAN IN IRONS".
eader of Holy Ghost Soceity Extends
Compliments of Season t News.,
paper Men.
*. SH 1-> * • .
Portland, Me., Jan. I.—Subscribing \
a r. s’ and
. meet ss "a man
sending a lint about
is eelings al-
er serving ten d 38 eI his ten year
sentence in the federal prison at
Atlanta, Rev. Frank—W. Bantord,of-
the Holy Ghost anc, U. S. Beeiety,
has written to a Portland ‘newspat er
man, extending the compliments of
the season to representatives of the
press, -
The letter reads “Jus a lite to
wish the compliments if the seas n
usefulness and prosperity to repre-
tentative of pres: In my native State
through him that lo ed us and gave
himself for us. From the man in
rons.”
P.
“FRANK W SANFORD
. It may interest you w.rnow.
‘ am full of filth and hope and your
ge and good cheer. The death of-
Christ was not in veip, I assure ou."
VILL REMOVE
UNIFORMED POLICE
They Will No Longer Be Stefirred in
White House—Action Taken at.
. Burleson’s Instance.
AtPra 1
Washington, D. C., Jan. 1 — All of
he juniformed po licet u on duty in
the White House and executive of
fices are to be removed: The change.
s said to be due to a protest from
Representative Burleson, a member of Ry
the House committee on appropria-
tions. who thought the policemen
were needed on street duty. Prest. ,
dent Taft at once called the matter
to the attention of the district com .
missioners with a statement that so
far as he was concerned the police-
men could be removed from the Wh‘te ,
House at any time the ‘local authori- / ‘
THROW OUT THE LINE 9 ties saw fit.
sp-RRIm wwAt Wo ^ ..,*... 'IFESARLLROTNGNMATWALAO
Give the Kidneys Help and Many Wich
Ha Faile People Will Be Happier.
"Throw Out the Life Line”—
The kidneys need help.
They're overworked—can't get the
poison filtered out of the blood.
They're getting worse
Will you help them?
Doan’s Kidney Pills
thousands of kidney sufferers bar!
from the verge of desp dr.
C. 8. Alexander, 404 Michigan St .
Wichita Falls, Texas, says: “I tool
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ago and thanks to their curative pow
ers, I have since been Ik good health
I had headaches and diszy spells an’
backache bothered me most of the
time. My eyes were affected and !
knew that my suffering was all causer
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relief until 1 began taking Doan’s Kid
ney Pills and I am glad to say that '
found them most effective. At the
present lime I am en joying good-
health.”
For sale by all dealers. Price BP
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name’—Doan’s—and city
take no other.
every minute
have brought
Michigan St
says: “I tool
curative pow
PROGRESSIVE POW WOW
W BUCKEYE STATE
ly Associated Press * 7
Columbus, O., Jan. 1.—Nearly 200
delegates’ from various parts of the
State are gathered here for the first
conference of the Republican “Pro-
gressives" to deliberate over the
choice of a man for the Republican
presidential nomination.
arrangements have been made all
over North Texas and Oklahoma to
oncentrate hides and wool in Forte
Worth for direct shipment from there
to the tanneries.
The Thompson-Breece Co., of Wap-
ikoneta, Ohio, has submitted a propo-
sition to the citizens of Brownsville
to erect an auto plow factory“in that
filed an amendment changing its name
to the James-Miekle-Schow Company --j— ---------
and increasing Ms capital stock from A copper smelter has just bean com -
$200,000 to $400,000, L , pletedat El Paso at a cost of $400,000. a full car of cotton raised on
TA * 4 ustey .
A Crosby county farmer 1
shipped to the Galveston war
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