| Show i iO ZU O BLOOMERS IN OKLAHOMA Gov Ferguson Puts ls His Official Foot Down on Them liE HE SAYs li GO JO CirIs In III Territorial III In 11 Not aseer Not bo ho GuthrIe Okla Jan Thomp Thompson on son Ii D Ferguson of or Oklahoma has haa set net his foot fool on n time the use uso of bloomers by b girls who attend the time tN ter educatIonal Institutions Last month ono one of ottha the thu schools narrowly es os escaped coped u It It la Is 1 Raid said through a L i gRille Kaine of or basketball played by time the young ladies of ot the in bloomers bloomer The Thu matter was brought to tho tile cars ears of at tho the govermor Regarding the bloomer incident Ins he h said Tho The bloomers must go While I Iam Iam am sin In a 11 position to do o so BO I will see nee th t tour our ur Institutions do not countenance such rel I believe belleve in the tile women and the girls getting as much good as there Is II In culture and ana athletic but It Is going too far tar when the young HulicK of tho time territorial schools get out In an aim apparel such uch on a la is laworn worn orn by the Baseball club nn an aggregation that has haR traveled extensively over oer tho the the IJa t Mea season on onIt It Is not right that they should b be bethe bethe the thc subject of ot ridicule The Time girls are not to blame It Is thc tue school and the parents who countenance such things I that are at fault raull It Is an Injustice to I Ithe the young girls I have notified no tilled the heads of or the that there thoro Is to be no more bas baa basketball playing by Ii Oklahomans daugh daughters In bloomers ne Winnie East Liverpool 0 Jan f lends friends i In this city of or the tho late George G Barclay known to time the baseball world as OM Winnie Mercer Mele r and his mother lire are firmly of ot the opinion that Mercer did not commit suicide but was waa murdered After much discussion on tho part of ot e V i Tavis manager of the team ham hamon mi on which Mercer first George Carr of the Washington and an other close dose friends a I telegram was sent ent to tonight night to the chief of ot police of at San Francisco coking asking him to make a II close Investigation Friends declare that the letters given out were not by Mercer who never neer signed himself elt Winnie and amid that the time recent attempt to rob him him of shows that desperate de men w r rafter after him Time The letter to his mother mentions his sisters and he lie had hud none nomie As for tor a n shortage they scout the Idea Iden ns ems he lie had property and als friends by b the hundreds who would woula have lmae backed him hUn for tor nay any amount Ca net l mires Washington Jan Jon secretary of or state has haR supplied Senator Morgan chairman of ot the senate t committee on fIn canals canala a statement stat or 01 ex made malle on account of at the inn I th canal commission It shows that each member of oC the time commission has been allowed compensation nt at the time rate of or it 1000 a n month with traveling ex cx expenses eXpenses added The salaries were fixed In 1899 when the time commission was created at nt the time suggestion of theli preM dent In the cases of Col Cal Peter C 0 Chomes homes and 0 O M Ernst of the tho army the thc allowance Is IR equal to 10 the time difference between their regular salaries and aid 1000 Under this ment meat the aggregate a amount paid to the time nine mime commissioners as salaries up ui to Feb Fb 28 23 1902 amounted to o The Time traveling expenditures of ot the time commis commissioners commissioners at nt that time lime had hall averaged about each ench A 1 Dolls Holla Bobbin n Relict Stolen Rome Home ome Jan Jail line been reported here that the famous The Descent from the Cross CroCS R by Luca luen ella della tins lifts been stolen from the lime church of oC San Severe Florence The Is valued at nt |