Show r I VI WAS AS SENT TO A GOVERNOR Infernal M Machine Intended for jor Oklahoma's Chief Executive Discovered Before Before Be Be- fore It Injures Anyone GUTHRIE Okla 26 That That That Sept an m attempt ai- ai tempt had b been tn made to assassinate Gov GO Frank Frnnk Frantz of OI came to light lIht yesterday when a n supposed bomb wa was ex examined ex- ex The Tho Infernal machine was ic- ic J at the executives executive's office otTIce through the thc malls mall The Tho life lite cf ct Joseph Norris of ot the First Congressional dl- dl and clerk of ot the tha supreme court was wa also endangered langerer as the bomb was uns ad addressed addressed ad- ad dressed In hl his care W W. I F. F United arm army after aCter examining the tho machine machine ma ma- chine declared It to bo be a genuine bomb showing showing- great skill shill In the manufacture The tact that the bomb had been re received received re- re ed ceJ was concealed In order that it might bo be invest investigated gated It was kept soakIng soakIng soak soak- Ing nil all night In a bucket of or water an and l then opened tl b by Deputy ty United States Marshal Madsen and Lieutenant shaw haw United Mates tates arm army and It Is beliet be- be liet Ilo d d to be an e a of neat force torce to blow into atoms a story three rick Irick The package came canto through tile the malls as class oun h matter It bears no marks whatever hato to Lo h lIcato Where i It was IUS mall mailed d or er 1 b by whom hom The explosive Is IB pack packed d I tightly lightly In a rubber cr tube three inches Indies In length lenth with n a brass en cap qu the cud In Inthe Inthe the side of or tl the tube lube I Is n a hole probably used In loading lading it A copper wh who rite c runs through th tha tubes tube's center censer and anu into a bunch of or cotton COLlon which carefully concealed concealed concealed con con- not only tho end of or tube Lulie but the wire ns as well Governor GO l- l Frantz who ho was wa a captain of ot rough riders r In Cuba was the Republican publican nominee In the late election for go governor of or Oklahoma The campaign n was an nn extremely bitter hitter one and the re results results results re- re show tho the race was rinse Io c. c Joseph Norris In whoso whose case car lathe the bomb was teas sent has long been brn a a. Republican leader aJer II hero here rt and Imd one of or tho the enior's go 0 staunchest friends The sender lendel of tho bomb evidently believed that Norris would hand It personally to Frantz who would l lopen open It probably killing both hoth of them It calno carne to Lo the governors governor's office However Howe In his absence as ns he had gone to Enid ells nis Mine home town to vote ote It a was ar r received b by Mrs Irs Otto Bekemeyer the thelo lo governors governor's stenographer who placed It on the desk of Dr Hugh Scott private secretary secretary secre seere- tar tary to the governor go She warned Scott when he camo came In of the peculiar appearance appearance appear appear- ance o of the tho package an and he carefully unwrapped unwrapped unwrapped un un- un- un wrapped It |