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OKLAHOMA CITY
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The Daily Transcript
Carrying the Full United Press Telegraphic Report.
VOLUME VI.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1918.
NUMBER
WAS IT A BONAFIDE
ATTEMPT AT LYNCHING?
Holden Brought From Altus Sunday
!N j{ht, and an Abortive Attempt to
Ljnch Him Made at 3 O'Clock Mon-
day Morning—Seems to Have Been
a Frameup by Holden's Friends—
Holden a Desperate Character.
How An American
Captain Died at Post
PAPER PEACE SIGNED
BY RUSSIA-GERMANY
By FRED S. FERGUSON,
(United l'ress Staff Correspondent)
With the American Army in By United Press.
France. Mareh 3.—"Steady, boys, Ba~le, Switzerland, March 4.—
Though they outnumber us ten to Peace between Germany and Russia
one. we can lick 'em," were the last was ,slKnetl at fiv.ep- m" Sun<iay. «"
Russia-German Peace
No Permanent Value
By J. W. T. MASON,,
(Written for The United Press)
M. C. BOGLE BUYS
FINE HERD HOLSTEINS
Conditions in War
Zone to Be Told
Oklahoma City, March 4,—The big-
gest war conference ever held in Ok-
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The more one Ihinks about
it, the more unreasonable it
appears that the attempt to
lynch Holden «as a real "at-
tempt." It appears very un-
reasonable that only three or
four men would make such at
attempt against such a known
desperate character, or that
only two men should go into
the jail in an endeavor to take
him out. Seems "fishy*1 any-
way you look at it. The Tran-
script is told, too, that two or
three strangers came in from
Oklahoma City on the last in-
terurban car Sunday night,
who have not been seen since
although strict search has been
made for them.
ti* "ij* "ifr
words of the first West Pointer to cordinK to an official statement from
<lie fighting Germany. Berl,n "<*ived here today.
The story of this captain's death!
,j, | was told to the United Press by four j
By JOSEPH SHAPLEN,
• iuu. , (Copyright 1918 by The United
.3.! Sammies who were in his company! Press.)
j and were with him when he fell. These Petrograd, March 3.—(Noon)) The
men are from Green Bay, Wis., Minot,; American, British and French con-
! N. Dak., and two from Chicago. ! su's have arrived in Moscow from
The captain left his dugout whenKieff. it was announced here today.
1 ❖ •*!* t| v
Following his preliminary exami-
nation at Altus on Saturday on the
charge of killing a deputy marshal,
where he was field without bail to
answer the charge, Charles HoWtr
was brought fi®m that place to Nor-
man <ro Sunday., arriving here at 6
o'clock p. m., in charge of Deputy
Sheriff Ben Clay of Cleveland coun-
ty and Sheriff Home of Altus. He
was brought here to be tried for the
murder of Deputy Sheriff Granr
Fulkerson, which is to be called in the
district court on Tuesday. There was
a large crowd at the interurban de-
pot when he arrived, and Holden -and
the officers were distinctly anxious,
no trouble was experienced and
t'l? prisoner was rushed to the Cleve-
land oounty jail. Holden was un-
shaven and unkept and present*.? a
"hard" appesrui.ee.
Th « (Monday) morning an attempt
to IjTH'h the prisoner was made, or
maybe it was a frame-up by hiB
friends to make it appear that sucli
an attempt was made, with an idea
of getting a change of venue. The of-
ficers have gr&we doubts that it was
a bonafide attempt at lynching by
Holden's enemies. Jailor Pledger
tells the following story of the oc-
currence.
"I was dozing on my cot in the of-
fice of the jail about 3 o'clock, when
I heard a rattling at the front door.
I was expecting Deputy Sheriff Ben
Clay to come in with a prisoner, and
asked: 'Is that you, Ben V The an-
the Germans started their laid on the
American trenches early Friday
morning. He ran through a fierce bar-
rage until he got in the midst of his
men on a strong point. As he spoke
his last words, he leveled his revol-
ver at the coming Boches. A shell
burst nearby. He fell dead without a
sound. This captain led a fighting
company. Many of its men bear fa-
miliar names. The boy from Minot,
N. Dak., told of the Americans first
encounter with the enemy in a stand-
up battle. He spoke in an Irish
: brougue so thick it could be cut with
a knife.
"It was a merry scrap ami well
worth having," he said. "We had been
expecting it and had a party waiting
for Fritz. His barrage was pretty
rough. It mussed things up constd-
•erable. But it was not for cur captain
to lose his head. He was as cool as If
going on leave. For a time our pla-
toon was nearly surrounded. It was
hot work. The Dutch were behind us
and in front of us.
"But it was not for us to backup.
We well knew what our rifles were
for and we used them to beat the
Dutch. Our captain was a gallant of-
iicer and he died like a re; i fighting
man."
Ihe Green Bay lad was beside the
captain when he fell and told of his
last order. Then the Chicago men
chimed in, relating why they thought
the raid was coming.
"There was apparently an advance
celebration in the German trenches
I. night before the attack,"s pid one
"We could hear the hand playing back
of the German lines and they were
noi^y all night long. Our patrols
heard the Boches shout 'come on
over., Americans,' and then, 'We're
coming over, Americans.'
"We had no orders to go over but j worse will be their own economic sit-
there was a hot reception awaiting uation.
Petrograd is dazed today, following
the action of the Russian peace dele-
gation at Brest-Litovsk in signing
the German-dictated peace.
The city is like a man with arms
raised to strike, suspended in midair
—still angry, but uncertain.
The Russian delegation wired:
"The Russian delegation declared
its refusal Saturday to discuss the
proposed peace terms, in view of con-
tinuation of the war despite renewal
of the peace conference."
The demand to cease the German
offensive has been denied.
"Even with pea^e signed at Brest-
Litovsk, the war will continue." Agri-
culture Commissioner Kalegayeff told
the United Press today.
"The sporadic, revolutionary war—
already begun in and through Russia
—will not end.
"The county is unable to conduct
real war against Germany, but a
partisan life or death struggle is pos-
sible against the German junkers and
white guards. It will be a civil and
class war, similar to that in Finland.
"I am convinced the German army,
as such, will not participate. Only the
German counter-revolutionists and
White Guards are now fighting. We
can handle them.
"The provinces occupied by the
Germans are breadless. The Germans
must feed the Russian population in
occupied territory, as well as its owr
army.
"If the Germans occupy Petrograd
they must feed three million inhabi-
tants They'll need bread—and won't
get it.
"This is equally true of Ukraine—
therefore military victories will sim-
ply tighten the noose around the Ger-
man imperialists neck. The more
starving territories they occupy, the
New York, March 4.-Acceptance; The following from the Plymouth hahoma( in fact in the Southwest wU,
by the new Russian delegates at (Wis.) Reporter indicates that our open jn oklahoma City March 10 utt-
Brest-Litovsk of Germany's imper- fellow citizen and famous Holstein (,er thp direction of the StaU, Council
ialistic peace terms means that the] man. M. C. Bogle, is continuing his of Defense, continuing through March,
former war of the Russian revolution- activities along the line of securing n am) ,2 War workers in every line
ists against the Romanoffs is now the linest and largest herd of Hoi- of actjvjty am, from every Qf
concentrated against the Hohenzol- steins in Oklahoma. This one hundred thc 8tate wi„ be summoned to atteo<1
Ierns" 4heiUVv!" 7''ta"'ly be a greatjjddi- j Speakers of national reputation will
t.on to his Cleveland county holdings. | deliver addresses plans for future
He expects to arrive with them to
It is impossible for the signatures
to the peace documetn to be accepted
as having any permanent value. The
only way the Germans can hold the
terms to be operative is by maintain-
ing a large army in Russia.
The Russians are the more astute
and experienced revolutionists in the
world. Their long years of constant
conflict with czarism taught them
how best to attack an autocracy
which through military strength is
able, for the time being, to exert ruth-
less power. The signing of the Brest-
Litovsk treaty is the work of the
most extreme class of Russian revo-
lutionists. This is the most signifi-
cant fact about it. The treaty of peace
is unquestionably no more than a
czar bad to engage in many such
subtilities before they finally succeed-
ed. Blindness to the fact by conser-
vative diplomats and a refusal of the
allies to recognize that the Russian
revolutionists are struggling as best
they can for democracy would result
ii the most serious diplomatic blund-
er of the war.
Russia needs sympathy ami moral
support now to a greater extent than
ever before. If the western democra-
cies adopt a sullen mood and fail to
do all they can to help the slavs, the
fluttering flame of democracy in the
east might even go out.
the Germans on our side.
The men, tired and dirty after
their turn in the trenches, stopped by
the stiffest fight to date, remained
very cheerful. They are ready for an-
other whirl at the .enemy. They sat
"If the Germans destroy the soviet
revolutionary government they must
conquer the workers and peasants of
all Russia. They can't do this.
"Therefore, peace cannot be real-
ized. The civil war against the Ger-
ontinued.
—The Missionary Society of the I
M. E. Church, South will meet to- j
morrow afternoon at three o'clock in
swer was 'Yes,' and 1 opened the ] slum, bread and coffee,
door. As I swung it open a gun was
placed at my breast and the order
came: 'Hands up,' and my hands went
up and they backed me into the office
where they took my gun and the jail
keys from me. There were only four
of them, all with handkerchiefs over
the lower part of their faces, which
caused them to speak in muffled
tones, so that if ever I heard their
voices I could not now distinguish
them, lhere may have been others
outside, but if so I did not see them.
"Getting my keys, two of them
guarded me while the other two open-
front door of the jail proper
secured entrance into the corri-
dor. Holden was the only prisoner in
the jail, and when he heard them com-
nig he had presence of mind enough
to turn off the lights, making it very
dark in the jail. Th6 men probably
had a flash light with them, but I did
not see it. After getting admission to
the corridor, they examined the cells
in a circle in their rest billet on a dry j man ruling classes wil be
spot protruding from a sea of mud | Under the circumstances the treaty
and ankle deep water, stowing away was simply an ultimatum supported
I by armed outrage.
By JOSEPH SHAPLEN,
Copyright 1918 by The United
Press.
Petrograd, March 3.—The
peace treaty with Germany,
signed at Brest-Litovsk this
afternoon, is now regarded as
onl' t "scrap of paper."
The highest enthusiasm for
fighting is prevalent through-
out Petrograd.
The Petrograd Pan-executive
council has called an extraordi-
nary session of soldiers, peas-
ants and cossacks for Moscow,
March 12, to decide whether to
accept or reject peace.
As a result of the German
advance, this conference may
decide to tear up the treaty
and declare a "holy war."
The movement to reunite all
democratic parties for the pur-
pose of fighting defensively
to the last is growing.
future
. fr. „ .work will be outlined. It is expected
night (Monday) or tomorrow. The Re- Ll,. . , ...
J that the conference not only will
P°:r sayS' • . ., _ 'arouse intense interest, but will'alsc.
The news that the Plymouth Can-|result jn increased efficiency.
The speakers at this conference-
ning Company have disposed of their
large herds at private sale will be a
disappointment to many who have al-
ways taken advantage of their annual
spring sale to get the cream of She-
beygan county cows.
"It has been the practice each fall
for the past seven years for the com-
pany and its manager, F. W. Traxler,
to be represented at all public auc-
tions held where farms have changed
ownership or tenants, ahd there buy,
regardless of price, all the best cows
that are due to freshen in February,
March and April. Their sales each
spring have brought buyers here from
all parts of the country for they have
established a reputation for assemb-
ling the best herds of grade Holsteins
offered to the public in Sheboygan
county and their herds this year were,
if possible, better and higher priced
than any previous ones.
"By buying up cows each fall the
company not only finds a means of
disposing of the large quantity of pea
ensilage, a by-product of their plant,
but enables them to furnish steady
employment for their men.
"Their manager, F. W. Traxler, had
just returned from the National Can-
ners Convention at Boston and was
preparing to list the herds for their
annual sale when he met Mr. Bogle
of Norman, Oklahoma, who asked him
to name a price on a certain number
of cows he would select from the dif-
ferent herds. This younj,' Oklahoman,
while he took his meals at the hotel,
lived in the barns during his stay here.
He put on oveialls, milked the cows,
weighed their milk and studied their
records. As a result he is shipping
from hei* to Oklahoma over one hun-
dred head of the finest Holstein cows
v. and heifers that have cve ' been ship-
* ped out of Sheboygan county and hi?
••' [state is to be congratulated in getting
v j such a fine addition to its herds."
"The Russian delegation, while
Fine Rain Sunday signing the treaty without discussion,
j considers its duty openly to tell the
e lains are beginning to come. 1 truth to the workmen and peasants
Saturday night and Sunday morning j 0f Russia, bringing before their judg-
a three-fourths of an inch rain fell,jment all that actually occurred ai „
gi eatly benefiting everything. signing of peace Sunday."
Remarkable rumors regarding the
details of the treaty fill the city. One
declares it provides for German occu-
] pation of Petrograd, pending estab-
j lishment of a government to its own
| liking—at least a government able
Foster-Wingate
BULLETIN
Tokio, March 4.—David R.
1'rancis, American ambassador to
Russia, will move the American
embassy to Vladivostok, accord-
ing to a dispatch from that city
lo the Jiji Shimpo received today,
i he dispatch quotes a radio re-
ceived from Viscount Uchida, Jap-
anese ambassador.
will be Secretary of Agriculture
Houston; Roscoe Mitchell, of Wash-
ington, who has just returned from
the war zone, and Lieut. Paul Peri-
gord of the French army, already well
known to Oklahoma audiences. There
will also be separate conferences of'
County Councils of Defense, Food Ad-
ministration speakers. Four Minute
Men, Red Cross leaders, Liberty Loan
committees, leaders of the Women's
Councils, War Savings committees
and other war workers. At these con-
ferences plans will be made for more
extensive and intensive effort.
In addition to the speakers at the-
war conferences the State Food Ad-
ministration has arranged for two
teams of splendid speakers to tour
the state and present to Oklahoma
audiences the real needs of the gov-
ernment. The members of these teams
have just returned from investigating
conditions in the war zone. The teams
are: E Team—Roscoe Mitchell, Sher-
man Davis, a prominent attorney and
speaker, and Miss Elizabeth Kelley,
also a well known speaker; F Team—
Everett Colby, of New York, J. S.
Ilandley, of Chicago, and Miss Cora
E. Binzel, of University of Wiscon-
sin, all eloquent speakers with a real
piessage to deliver,
charge of the Social Service program.
March closes the first quarter of the
year, and both conftence and local
treasurers are anxious to square their
books at close of each quarter during
the year so please keep this in mind
and help them. The weather is ideal
and we trust the full membership
may be preseint.—Mrs. S. J. Smith.
Sec.
—Best seed barley, $2.40 per bushel
at J. G. Williams grocery.
to adjust the treaty's working out. M.
Krivoshein, Kerensy's secretary of
agriculture, is mentioned in this con-
nection.
The treaty's reported provision for
surrender of the Caucasus district to
A marriage of more than usual in-
terest was solemnized on Sunday,
March 3, 1918, at the home of the
bride on South Miller avenue, uniting
representatives of two of Norman's
most prominent families, those of
Mrs. W. VV. Wingate and Mr. and
Mrs. E. A. Foster. It was the mar-
riage of Mr. Dewey F. Foster and
Miss Ruth W. Wingate, which was
solemnized at 4 o'clock p. m., with
Rev. Theo. Gayer officiating, in the | Pearl Kent,
presence of the families of the con- man.
Marriage Licenses
The following licenses have been
issued since the last report:
Dewey F. Foster, 20, and Miss Ruth
Wingate, 19, both of Norman.
C. C. Ragsdale, 21, and Miss Leona
George, 19, both of Route 6, Norman.
Ed Newkirk, 21, of Kiowa, Kas..
and Miss Nancy E. Burkhardt, 21, of
Lexington.
L. L. Proek, 23, and Miss Katie
both of Route 6 N01-
tracting parties and a few intimate j Odel McCarley 20, and Miss Mol-
| friends. Mr. and Mrs. Ed H. Burke j lie Russell, 19, both of Norman, R. 6.
rI urkey contrary to the treaty of Ber-j acted as best man and bridesmaid.' Curtis Williams, 33, of Oklahoma
lin, cannot be made permanent until
ratified by an international congress.
Reactionaries at Pskoff are report-
j ed to be seeking an agreement with
| Germany for the formation of a new
| Russian government, which would or-
to
until they found the one occupied by I getting any trace of them."
Holden, in the back part of the jail. I Holden is said to be the principal I ganize "white guards" to fight the j them all through life
They tried to open the door, but the j m the murder of Grover Fulkerson,1 allies—Germany lending troops to
key got jammed and they could not which occurred some months ago near j fight the Soviets. Some of these same
the southeast corner of the Boyd sec- j reactionaries were involved in an in-
tion, southwest of the city, while 1 trigue for a separate peace with Ger-
transpoiting liquor. Holden was out on I many before the revolution.
door, but 1 refused, and they went $10,000 bond and recently while on The American consul at Kieff is
back into the jail and fired three or j another transporting trip, killed the Douglas Jenkins. The consul at Mos-
four shots into the cell, after which I deputy sheriff at Altus. He is re- i cow is Dewitt C. Poole. It would ap-
they left without making any further' garded as a desperate character. : pear that all American representa-
attempt to get him. They were very j Attorney Mooman Pruitt, one of lives in the affected parts of Russia
After the ceremony the happy couple j City, and Miss Laura Fauble, 26, of
left for Oklahoma City and Tuttle on j Shawnee.
a short wedding trip, expecting to be I Floyd Huggins, 21, and Miss Maud
b&ck about Wednesday. They took I Bingham, 19, both of Moore.
with them the best wishes of a large j —
circle of friends, which will follow \ "iYle and GrOtt"
woik it. Then they came back into
the office and demanded that I come
into the jail with them and open the
much excited, and I really was more the ablest and highest-priced crimi- j are moving to places of safety,
afraid of their guns going off unin-1 nal lawyers of Oklahoma CJity, is
tentionally than of any of their' counsel for Holden and Jay, whose
threats to shoot. | trial is set for tomorrow. The very
"As soon as they left, I went to fact that these men are able to hire
Holden's cell to find if he was sti'l ! such attorneys as Pruitt indicates
^..'ive, and found him suffering from what powerful backing they have
a slight wound in his posterior,
slight that it amounted to nothing
and does not seem to inconvenience
him in any way. I then gave the
alarm, but the would-be lynchers, if
such they were, had made their geta-
way £.nd we have not succeeded in
Sunday Got His Bit
Washington, March 4.—Billy Sun-
day has closed his eight weeks of
devil trouncing here. He leaves be-
'n hind 16,838 Washingtonions who hit
the trail and takes with him $16,332
in a personal fund from those who ap-
their nefarious work
There are very grave doubts wheth
er this "attempt" was a real one or preciated his drive
not. It seems strange that an "at
tempt" would be made ,by such 1
small number against such a desper
ate character.
The groom is a fine stalwart young j />'}' I nited I'ress.
man, of most excellent habits and fine ! Amsterdam, March 4.—"The Ger-
business abilities. He is at present' man sword wielded by our great army
assistant manager of the Carey,Lom- j leaders, has brought peace in Russia,"
bard & Young lumber yard at Wyn- the kaiser wired Chancellor Hertling,
newood, but will probably make his according to dispatches received here
home in Norman in the near future. ! today.
The bride is connected with the Nor-
man schools, and will retain her po-
sition until the end of the school
year. She is a most charming young
lady and as good as she is charming.
Both bride and groom have grown to
womanhood and manhood in our city,
and few have more earnest and de-
voted friends.
The Transcript-Enterprise extends
its best wishes.
i "We feel deep gratitude to God, who
( has been with us. The prideful deeds
1 of my army and the tenacious per-
I severance of my people are sources of
special satisfaction. German blood and
German kultur have been saved.
"I wish to express my warmest
thanks for your faithful, strong co-
operation and great work."
After a patriotic address in Balti-
more today, he will rest at Winona
Lake, Indiana, preparatory to open-
1 ing up on Chicago next Sunday.
—Miss Gertrude Vinez has gone to
Wagoner, Okla., to visit her sister
\nother shipment .of Canada silk and from there expects to go to Ne-
ilresses at Morrison's.
—Albert Symcox is here from Cor- ;
dell visiting his mother, north of thc
city, lie is doing well at Cordell.
brasKa to visit other relatives. Her
Norman friends trust she will have a
pleasant visit.
—New spring shoes at Morrison's. I
Weather For Week
Forecast for the >veek beginning
Sunday, March 3, 1918. ^
West Gulf States: The weather for
the week will be fair without any de-
cided temperature changes.
Upper Mississippi and lower Mis-
souri Valleys: The weather will be
fair; somewhat colder Tuesday and
Wednesday with nearly seasonable
temperatures thereafter.
Southern Rocky Mountain and
Plateau Regions: The weather will be
fair without any decided temperature
changes.
HARRY C. FRANKENFIELD.
Forecaster.
Situation Tensions
By WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMMS
(United Press Staff Correspondents
With the British Armies in France,
March 4.— Events are speeding up on
the west front.
Bellowing artillery; quarrelsome,
snappiilg machine guns; jostling pa-
trols and wild, dashing raiders have
all increased their activity in the past
48 hours. There have been a dozen
raids on this front alone in the past
36 hours—some important enough
almost to be called attacks.
Field Marshal Hindenburg is prob-
ing and testing everywhere, losing
heavily in each raid. Apparently he is
unworried at the loss of fifty or sixty
men if the remnant fetches back one
or two samples of the British troops
opposite.
The Germans are imitating the
British methods of raiding. But they
lack the latter's dash and cunning—
the first requisites of raiders.
For instance, in a raid against he
Australians in Flanders, 200 Ger-
mans and nine officers rehearsed fre-
quently for many days. Yet they left
^1 dead on the British wires, includ
ing the commander and also lout
some prisoners.
In a raid in the Polygon wood reg-
ion, five Germans reached the Brit-
ish line. Three of these were killed
and two taken prisoner.
The raids, while unimportant in
themselves, demonstrate a tensioning
of the situation.
There is considerable enemy shel-
ling west of Lens, in the Scrape and
Cambrai regions. A furious wind has;
blown away a snowstorm and a thaw
has followe.! it. The wind is raw and
penetrating.
Washington, March 4.—The Rus-
sians are blowing up bridges 011 the
Siberian railway near Chica, accord-
ing to rumors forwarded to the state
department today by Chairman Ste-
vens of the American railway com-
mission to Russia, now at Yokohama.
New spring shoes at Morrison's.
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