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21 BILLION
FIRST YEAR
CONGRESS PREPARES TO
ADD TWO BILLIONS TO
EXISTING BUDGET
PRESIDENT FIXES COAL PRICES
OKLAHOMA COAL $3.05 AT
THE MINE.
Administrator to Be Named and Re-
tail Sale Price to
Be Fixed.
! Washington — Bituminous coal
| prices were fixed by President Wil-
j ^n fo.- every mine in the United
j States. The nejrt step iu coal control,
i White House announcement said,
Bulk of Great Sum Will Be Raised By "rlU be t0 fix th° Ptlc« "e charged
by middlemen and retailers.
SEVEN BILLIONS TO ALLIES
Bond and Certificate Issue, Ac-
cording to M'cAdoo'a
Plans.
f
Washington.—Two .billion, dollars
tnay be added to the total of bonds uo
be authorized at the present seslon
of congress, making a total of approx-
imately twenty-one billion dollars
available to the government uunug
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918.
Democratic Leader Kltchin said
that estimates submited to him by
the treasury department made it ap-
pear that the additional authorization
probably would be necessary.
Present Indications, according to
Mr. Kitchin, are that nineteen billion
dollars will meet the expense of the
fiscal year, but it is thought best to
have a two billion margin for emer-
gencies.
"It now seems probable," he said,
that the total amount of money need
ed for the fiscal year will be about
nineteen billions This estimate cov-
ers about seven billion dollars lor
loans to the allies, three billion of
which already has been provided;
$1,300,000,000 for current expenses ex
elusive of war, leaving about ten bil-
lion for war expenses. Included in
the war estimate la $176,000,000 for
the new insurance bill and one
billion dollars for the shipping board."
How It Will Be Raised.
The twenty-one billion dollars would
be raised as follows:
Bonds for allied loanB, seven bil-
lions; pending revenue, two billions;
war certificates four billions; bonds
for domestic purposes already author,
ized, two billions, proposed new bonds,
two billions, war savings certificates,
two billions and regular revenue,
$1,300,000,000.
Approximately eleven billion dollars
of the foregoing amounts are included
in the bond and certificate bill which
the ways and means committee began
to consider. The bill would authorize
seven billion dollars for allied loans,
three billion to be used in refunding
3^4 per cent bonds already authorized,
two billions in war certificates and
two billions in war savings certifi-
cates. It also contains an authoriza-
tion provision for two billions in wai
certificates and would provide for tak.
over other previously authorized
bond* in the following amounts: Pan-
ama canal $225,000,000; naval con-
struction $150,000,000; Mexican bor
der control. Banish West Indies and
Alaska railway, $100,000,000; three
per cent, Panama canal bonds Issued
in 1916, $63,945,460.
No attempt will be made, Mr. Kit-
chin believes to add the newly sug
gested two billion dollar isue to the
bill now before the committee. It will
coke as a separate measure, if at all.
Several members indicated that
they would oppose Secretary McAdoo'n
plan of taxing the bonds after he ap-
pears before the committee to explain
the measure. There was no indica-
tion however, of opposition to the gen
eral terms of the bill, and both demo-
cratic and lepublican committeemen
are expected to support It, once It
reaches the floor.
I
Prices for Oklahoma coal at the
mines, as fixed by President Wilson,
are lower than the prevailing prices,
which are given approximately:
Old New
Price Price
Hun of mine, a ton $3.75 $3.05
Prepared slz- 2.25 3.30
Screenings 2.50 2.80
Prices were set on cost of produc-
tion estimates furnished by the feder-
al trade commission after months of
exhaustive investigation. The coun-
try is divided into twenty-nine dis-
tricts and every producer in a dis-
trict will market his output at the
same price.
The president is expected to ap-
point soon a c-ial admistrator who
will be given entire control of the coal
Industry. Rumor named President H.
A. Garfield of Williams college as the
man. Mr. Gadfield now heads a com-
mittee appointed by the president to
fix a government price for wheat. The
wheat committee probably will be dis-
solved September 1.
The prices announced for run ,of
mine coal in the large producing
districts average slightly more than
$2. In a few districts they are below
that figur& and in western territory
they are higher. Washington is high-
est with $3.2b.
The action was taken as an indi-
cation that the president has aban-
doned a plan originally considered
which called for government requisi-
tioning of the output of all mines with
the government Belling the product to
the public. This procedure was strong-
ly recommended by the federal trade
commission and up until now it
had been believed It would be the
THE WAR
With the dominating height of
Monte Santo securely in their pos-
session the Italians are continuing
their drive of the Austrians eastward
over the Bainsizza plateau, notwith-
standing the violent resistance the
enemy is offering with Infantry, ma-
chine guns and light artillery. Here,
also on the Carso front in proximity
to the sea, where the battle again has
assumed terrific proportions, the Ital-
ian airmen are still lending wonderful
aid to General Cadorna's drive, drop-
ping bombs and using their machine
guns with telling efTect on troops con-
centrated behind the line.
Daily the number of prisoners
taken by the Italians—both officers
and men—is mounting, the latest re-
port showing that 600 officers and 23,-
000 men have definitely been made
non-combatants for the remainder of
the war. In addition, the capture of
war stores by the Italians has been
enormous, including guns of all cali-
bers and arms, ammunition, horses
and motor tractors. From the sup
ply depots abandoned by the enemy
in his flight, the Italians now are en-
abled to replenish their troops fight-
ing in the difficult country.
On both sides of the river Meuse in
the Verdun sector the French troops
continue their gains against the
forces of the German crown prince,
on the right bank having captured
positions over a front of two and a
half miles to a depth of two-thirds of
a mile, taking the Fosses and Beau
mont wood and reaching the environs
of the village of Beaumont, and on
the left bank having driven their ad-
vanced posts to the outskirts of Beth-
eincourt and along the banks of the
Forges rivulet
British troops made an advance of
half a mile along a mile front last of
Margicourt, north of St. Quentin,
storming and capturing strong points
at Cologne and Malakoff farm, accord-
ing to the official report from British
headquarters in France.
The Germans in counter attacks
have endeavored to retrieve lost
ground on the height of the Meuse,
but each time met with repulse and
heavy losses.
The Russo-Roumanian armies re-
SEVENTEEN KILLED BY BLACKS,
PARTY OF WILD NEGROES
GOES ON RAMPAGE
City Placed Under Martial Law After
More than a Dozen Were Killed
and Many Hurt.
program adopted.
The president's order apparently I spectively around Vladlmir-Volynski
makes no provision for a pooling ar- j an<i in the Rumanian theater are
rangement which had been suggested j keeping up their strong resistance
under which mines would have been | against the Germans and the Aus-
paid for their output on a basis of | trians and Germanfi Near Vladimir-
cost of production plus a percentage Volynski German attacks have been
of profit. Under this plan all coal
in a district would have been sold
at the same rate but the mines would
have received compensation based
solely on coBts.
The plan adopted, officials admitted
will work hardships on a great many
of the Bmaller mines and may force
some to close down. This. It is
claimed, however, will not reduce the
total coal output, as miners released
from the small mines will go to the
large ones and more cars can be sup-
plied to mines of large producing ca
pacity.
Anthracite Prices Fixed
Washington,—Prices of antraclte
coal were fixed in a statement by Pres-
ident Wilson and Harry Garfield, presi
dent of Williams colege, was named
cial administrator.
The antracite prices, effective Sep-
tember 1, range from $4 to $5 a ton
(2,440 pounds) f. o. b. mines. Jobbers
are allowed to add a profit of not more
than 20 cents a ton for deliveries oast
of Buffalo and of not more than 30
cents west of Buffalo.
repulsed, while near on the Russian
front attempts by the Teutonic allies
to advance again were frustrated.
PUTS ON STRICT EMBARGO.
Strict Supervision To Be Exercised
Over All Exports.
Washington.—President Wilson lias
tightened the government's control of
exports by isauiag an order forbidding
SENDING MAIL TO SOLDIERS
How Letters for the Boys in the Army
Camps Should Be Addressed
M'MILLAN PARTY IS BACK.
Peary's
'Croacker Land" Again
nounced a Hoax.
Sydney, N. S.—Donald B. McMil-
lan's Arctic exprolation expedition
arrived here on the relief steamer
Neptune after four years spent in the
polar regions.
McMillan, who was one of Rear
Admiral Peary's lieutenants on his
successful dash for the north pole,
confirmed previous dispatches from
him that there was no Crocker land,
such as had been reported by Peary.
Peary's mistake was due to a mirage
so real that the McMillan party had
been deceived by it for four days, he
said.
While McMillan did not deny that
he had made some discoveries, he
was reticent concerning them, saying
he was uiffler orders to report to the
Museum of Natural History, in New
York. j First ..
The explorers left North Sydney in J Second
July, 1913, on the steamer Diana, but j Third .
were wrecked on Borges Point, on the i Fourth
Labrador coast Nothing daunted, i Fifth
Houston.—Seventeen white men. ci-
vilians, police officers and Texas na
t'onal guardsmen, were killed, and
more than a score of persons, men,
women and children, were wounded,
in an outbreak here of negro soldiers
of the Twenty-fourth United States
infantry, stationed here to act
guards during the construction of
Camp Logan, at which the Illinois
National guard will train. It is not
known how many negroes are dead.
Capt. J. W. Mattes, Battery A, Sec-
ond Illinois field artillery, was among
the dead, being killed when he tried
to remonstrate with the negro sol-
diers wno were running rampant, fir-
ing their guns.
1 he outbreak is supposed to have
originated in a difficulty which two
negro soldiers had with police officers
who arrested them for disturbing the
peace and sent them to the police
station early in the afternoon. The
firing began when an ambulance
started through the section occupied
by the negro soldiers. They stopped
the ambulance and, firing a volley,
riddled it. It was this volley that
wounded a 16-year old 'white girl
standing in her father's store.
Police reserves were sent out and
were met by the negroes. Civilians
went to the assistance of the police of-
ficers and firing continued for an hour
and a half.
There were several Texas guarJs-
men here ready to entrain for their
training'camp, but theyhad no guns.
A battery of the coast artillery was
rushed to Houston in motor trucks.
The city was placed under martial
law by proclamation of Governor Fer-
guson.
According to the best information
available, the trouble started when five
city detectwes went to the end of a
car line in an automobile, to make ar
rests of negroes who were disturbing
the peace. The officers were standing
under an electric light when a volley
of shots were fired at them, wounding
one officer. His companions then lay
flat on the ground, one of them return-
ing the fire in the dark. They were
forced to return to the city, and the
wounded man was placed In a hos-
pital.
On returning to the police station
the officers gave the alarm apd addi-
tional detachments of police were sent
to the neighborhood of the camp. Civi-
lians made raids on hardware stores,
securing guns and ammunition, and
went in automobiles to the disturbed
area.
NEWS OF THE
STATE CAPITAL
PREFERENCE RIGHT IN MAR-
LAND LEASES HOLDS
FOR PRESENT
THE SUBS
NEWS FROM STATE OFFICES
What the State Officials and Depart
ments Are Doing—Items of In-
terest About the State
Government.
An opinion from Guy F. Nelson,
assistant attorney general, haB
thrown the E. W. Marland leases and
the preference right contention back
to the Btatus it held before a proposal
was made to submit the constitution-
ality of the law to the supreme court
In an agreed statement of facts.
According to Mr. Nelson, it will be
Impossible to make an agreed state-
ment of facts at this time in a way
that the constitutionality of the pref-
erence right leases can be brought be-
fore the supreme court. He says that
any action taken at this time is pre-
mature and would not bring the re-
sult desired by the school land com-
missioners.
Secretary of State Lyon, acting up-
on Mr. Nelson's opinion, announced
that he would favor the commission
proceeding to advertise the E. W.
Marland leases under the preference
right clause. He intimated that he
would not try further to have a test
suit brought.
Other school land commissioners,
except Governor Williams, probably
will agree- with Mr. Lyon to go ahead
with the preference right agreement.
This probably will be productive of
the suit that is needed to question the
constitutionality of the preference
right, as in this event Governor Will-
iams probably would file, through the
attorney genteral's office, an injunc-
tion suit to prevent the property being
advertised.
London.—The number
merchantmen sunk by
or mnies in the last
only slightly larger than the previous
week when a considerable falling off
was noted. According to the official
statement fifteen vessels of more than
1.600 tons were sunk and three vessels
of less than 1,600 tons, in addition to
two fishing vessels.
More than Less than Fishing
Month. 1,600 tons. 1.600 tons. Boats.
the shipment of any goods to Euro- | livery of their mail and give the boys
pean neutral countries except under j the best service possible, the post of-
fice officials instruct their correspond-
ents, if they know in advance the com-
pany and regiment to which the sol
dier is assigned, to address mail ac-
cording to this sample:
PRIVATE JOHN JONES,
A Company, First Infantry,
Camp Dodge, Iowa
If the company and regiment are
not known, the mail should be ad-
dressed thus:
PRIVATE JOHN JONES,
of Minnesota,
Camp Dodge, Iowa.
When all troops are organized the
mail for each man will be distributed
direct to his company and regiment.
Washington,—Before long several | they returned to St. Johns, N F
thousand young men will be In the ! were transferred to the steamer Eric
various cantonment camps of the Na- which landed the party at their base,
tional army, and their relatives and Etah, August 20.
other friends will wish to write to |
them. In order to expedite the d
Week.
license and by extending the lists for
which licenses is required. It in-
cludes cotton, all meats, sugar and
most of America's other export com-
modities. Gold bullion wa also add-
ed.
In a statement accompanying his
proclamation the president said that
one of the first intentions of the gov-
ernment will be to see that no Ameri-
can products are made the "occasion
of benefit to the enemy, either direct-
ly or indirectly." Officials interpreted
the order as forecasting a vigorous
use of the export control as a war
> weapon, and a policy of the strictest
ration of countries contiguous to Ger
many.
Exports to Germany and her allies
also are formally prohibited by the
president's order and this is under-
stood to mean that the exports control
is about to supersede the British sys-
tem of giving letters of assurance for
American cargoes. Up to now there
has been nothing except the British
blockade to prevent the shipment of
American goods to Germany.
1,400-Mile Trolley Rides Posible.
Terra Haute, Ind.—A link of a few
miles of traction railroad Is to be
built from iRdge farm, just over the
state line in Illinois, to Cinton, Ind.,
which will make it possible to travel
by trolley from St lyiuis, Mo., to
Bkowhegan, Maine, abr-\t 1,400 miles.
Cattle Worth $16.?* In Chicago.
Chicago—Choice b eves sold at the
liuilt from Ridge- fa ti, just over the
I igh C-" t tor catt « on the hoof in
Ibis market
847 Deported I. W. W. Drafted.
Tuscon, Ariz.,—Approximately 847
of the men deported from Blshee, Ariz.,
July 12 last, now camped at Columbus,
N M
FERGUSON IS SUSPENDED
Official Will Go to Trial In Impeach-
ment Proceedings.
Austin.—James E. Ferguson was
suspended from the office of governor
of Texas when the board of nine man-
agers, named by the house of repre-
sentatives, -presented to the senate
twenty one articles of impeachment,
charging official misconduct.
W. P. Hobby, lieutenant governor,
automatically succeeded to the gov-
ernorship, pending disposition of the
charges in the senate.
The twenty-one articles of impeach-
ment include the following:
That Mr. Ferguson persistently re-
fused the reveal the source of "ques-
tionable" loans aggregating $156,500,
thus placing himself in contempt of
Total
62
28
40
. .92
39
30
. 96
49
30
. 55
19
13
64
19
26
. 74
10
3
h 15
3
2
489
167
145
Tax Delinquents Cited.
Petitions to have seventeen promi-
nent Tulsa and Muskogee county men
appear in district court and make a
Statement of their incomes for the
past year bo that they might be
assessed an Income tax were filed In
district court last week by E. B. How-
ard, state auditor.
The petitions state that the men had
been notified to appear before the
state auditor and declare their in-
comes, but that the men had failed
to answer the summons. The penalty
for failure to declare incomes is a
fine of $100, the petition states, up
to March 1, and $5 a day after March
1.
The following men were cited to ap-
pear in the district court of Oklahoma
county: Robert Oglesby, I. D. Pllcher,
J. Carl Smith, R H. Shaw, O. L. Chan-
cellor, T. T. Curtis, L. A. Campbell, J.
B Foster, Frank Gillarist, R S. Ayres,
Walter Brown, J. L Cavenaugh, T. P.
Melvin, J. H. Simmons, W. F. Stahl,
C. G. Tibbens and Wood Hurp
Want Higher Rates for Coal.
Five railroads filed an application
with the state corporation commis-
sion for an inciease of 15 cents a ton
in the intra-sta e rates on coal and
coke.
The railroads which have combined
to make the application are the Chi-
cago, Rock Island & Pacific, the Mis-
souri, Kansas & Texas, Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe, Gulf, California &
Santa Fe and the Frisco. No date for
the hearing of the application Has
been set by the commission.
Oklahoma Quota Ready.
Oklahoma will have one-tbird of Its
Quota ready for service under the se-
lective draft September 5, Adjutant
General Ancel Earp was advised by
the war department that he could cer-
tify ail of the men from one district
If necessary.
Earp had notified the war depart-
ment that Oklahoma would be at least
three days late in furnishing the first
third of its quota. He was then under
the impression that each of the three
appellate districts of Oklahoma
would have to furnish its third.
The telegram from the war depart-
ment explained that this would not be
necessary, just so each of the districts
furnished its proportionate share of
the total.
As a result of the new turn of af-
fairs, Earp says there is no doubt that
the number of men asked to be ready-
by September 5 will be available.
The Muskogee district, which is far
advanced with its work, will furnish
the greater part of the men, and the
Tulsa and Oklahoma City districts
will be used to fill In what Muskogee
lacks. Then in the second and third
quotas the Tulsa and Oklahoma City
boards will have to be ready to fur-
nish the greater part of the men.
"Every man who has not received a
notice of discharge from his local
board must hold himself in readiness
for instant service," said General
Earp. "They should get their affairs
in shape to leave at once, for the call
may come at any time, and they may
not have more than twenty-four hours
in which to report."
Bids Exceed Appropriation.
The increased cost, of building ma-
terial was reected in bids for the ad-
ministration of the state school for
the blind which were opened by the'
staate board of affairs. The lowest
bid on the construction of the build-
ing according to specifications laid
down by the board of affairs wa
$4,000 more than the appropriation
made by the legislature.
The contract for the construction
work was awarded to the L. F. Lee
Construction Company of Oklahoma
City, the lowest bidder, for $50,000,
after $4,000 had been trimmed from
he specificaions. The legislaure ap-
propriated $50 000 for the structure.
A contract for the completion of th&
science building of the Oklahoma uni-
versity at Norman was awarded to.
the Holmboe Construction Company
of Oklahoma City for $18,890.
Defense Council Needs Funds.
The state council of defense needs-
$40,000 with which to carry on sit-
work and raising of this money has
been delegated to county councils, an
amount having been apportioned to-
each. The amount asked of each
county ranges from $100 for some or
those in the western part of the state
to $2,000 of Oklahoma and Tulsa
counties. Subscriptions to the fund
will be asked with the explanation
that the government will recommend,
to the next legislature that it appro-
priate money to reimburse them.
Books Not Appreciated.
A request that county suerintendents
make use of literature and instruction
books furnished by the state has been
made in letters sent out by the state
board of education. Copies of school
laws, the biennial report and a guide
to better schools have been sent to
all of the county superintendents.
According to R. H. Wilson, state su-
perintendent, several instances have
been found in which county superin-
tendents did not even unwrap the
bundles but turned them over to
ladies' aid societies as old paper.
j that the present rate is non-compen
! sating and confiscatory. The fact
j that the intra state rate is less than
An Atlantic Port.—The big Stand- the inter-state rate fixed by the in-
ard Oil tank steamer Campana, whose [ terstate commerce commission is set
captain and five of her navy gunners forth in the petition and this, it is
were taken prisoners by a Gerjnan j held, is a discrimination against ship-
submarine on August 5, surrendered to I pers outside of the state.
the U-boat, but only because she had |
Let Contracts For Two Buildings.
The state board of affairs has let
the contract to L. F. Lee, Oklahoma
City, for the construction of the ad-
ministration building for the state
school for the blind, at Muskogee. Th«
price is $47,500. The appropriation
It is the contention of the railroads | for the building was $50,000. The
board also let the contract to the
Holmboe Construction Co. for the com-
pletion of the chemistry building at
the state university, for $18,500. The
building had been erected but was
never completed because of Insufficient
funds.
not another shot to fire. -The Cam-
pana's ammunition after firing 180
shots, became exhausted. This was
the story told by J. H. Bruce, third
Wild Game Birds To Be Protected.
George A. Smith, state game and
flsh warden, Is lying plans for the
propagation of wild game birds in
mate of the Campana who with sixty I oklahoma on a scale that he believes
other members of the Campana's crew
and eight gunners arrived here on a
French steamship. The battle began
at 5 a m„ and was waged for four
hours at a range of between 7,300 and
7,500 vards.
will result in the production of mil-
lions of pounds of food and thus at
the same time perform an economic
and patriotic duty.
The establishment of four or more
game preserves in the next year is
the aim of Mr. Smith. Governor Will-
The U-boat fired 400 shots, only two
of which hit the mark. The Campana j |anis is deeply interested in the propa-
nevertheiess was out-ranged by the nation of game birds, and is lending
the house; that he misappropriated ' 'w" KUns- one four-inch, the other two- , the department assistance In its work.
$5,600 of state money and converted inch with which the submarine was Among the birds which will be prop-
were drafted into the national it to his own use; that he abused the armf'(I- Thp ,Iboat nlso was '« y agated are the common quail, native
army, the district exemption board | power of veto and violated the con- speedy as the American vessel. | to oklahoma; the ring-neck pheasant
here announced, the action being stitution when he vetoed practically Passengers on board the liner said Mexican blue quail. California quail
taken on the certificate of the Cochise the entire appropriations for main- thfi German U-boat shortly after its Erid mountain and valley quail Wild
county board that the men had failed \ tenance of Texas university for the at,ack °n Campana, was sunk by a j turkeys, partridges, prairie chickens
to appear before It.
Whiskey Distilling Stops Sept. 8.
Washington —Eleven o'clock on the
night of Saturday, September 8. is the
time fixed by the food administration
when all processes in the production
in the United States of distilled spir-
its for beverage purposes must stop.
i next two years.
Million Every Hour.
Washington—war expenditures of
1 the United States, including allied
loans, have mounted during August to
more than $24,000,000 every twenty-
four hours. The figures, ininus $100,-
000,000 just loaned to Russia, are
contained in the latest treasury state
French patrol boat.
House Democrats Asked to Speed up
Washington,—All house democrats I
were summoned back for August 29 |
under plans to dispose of all business
in the house before September 10.
Go-Between is Guilty.
New York.—A verdict of guilty was
ment. Two-thirds of the great sum I found against Kalman Grueher, go be-
Is represented by advances to the j tween for Dr. S. J. Bernfeld and Louis
Houston.—Complete returns from J allies. The United States has been Cherey, members of exemption
sixty four out of sixty nine precincts ' spending daily during August, for its board No. 99, who pleaded guilty to
receiving bribes for granting exempt-
ions. He was sentenced to two years
in the Atlanta penitentiary.
*nd some varieties of the grouse
family also will be propagated.
Houston Stays Wet.
in Harris county including the city of j own needs, an average of $8,088,652.
Houston, give the wets a majority of J The allies have been receiving a daily
2,626. I allowance of $16,375,000.
Double Jurisdiction Over Dodger*
By the action of federal authorities
at Enid the question of who will make
the investigations regarding false
statements on exemption claims arose.
Dewitt Bolton has been arrested for
making claims which the government
asserts are not supported by facts.
He is said to have claimed exemption
on the ground that relatives are de-
pendent upon him. Federal authori-
ties here assert that the state govern-
ments are empowered to act in prose-
cuting such cases, but imposters are'
going to be checked up both ways.
Rains Favorable to Boll Weevil.
The boll weevil has put in his ap-
pearance in cotton fields in many-
parts of the state, according to re-
ports of county agents to the state de-
partment of agriculture. The insect
has appeared in the wake of the re-
cent heavy rains.
Coal Rate Hearing Set for October.
The date for the hearing of the ap-
plication of Oklahoma railroads for
an Increase in coal rates was set for
October 11 by the state corporation
commission. The foads are asking for
aa increase of 15 cents a ton.
No Papers to France.
Postmasters have received instruc-
tions from Washington to consign all
newspapers to the waste basket that
are sent to the postoffice bearing a
one-cent stamp under the impression
that the papers will be sent to soldiers
in France. The instructions received J
yesterday state specifically that only Legislator Resigns,
magazines viill be carried under the | Representative Fletcher Riley of
plan. During the last two weeks many I Lawton has resigned as a member of
newspapers throughout the United | legislature in order to accept a
States have been flooding the postal fommisslon in the United States army,
lorvice w ith the restamped newspapers | wns or>e of the young members of
for France. 1 the Sixth legislature
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Burke, J. J. The Norman Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 28, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 30, 1917, newspaper, August 30, 1917; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc139427/m1/4/: accessed May 26, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.