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THE DERRICK. DRUMRIGHT. OKLA
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THE WEEK'S NEWS
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CLARITA STATE BANK IS VISITED
BY ROBBERS, WHO GET
ONLY $353.
OTHER NEWS OF THE NEW STATE
Little Incidents and Accidents That
Go To Make Up a Week's
History of a Great
Commonwealth.
Clarita.—Two unmasked bandits
held up the First State Bank of Clarita
at midday, secured $353, and escaped
after having made H. C. Worley, the
assistant cashier, enter the bank vault.
Worley, the assistant cashier, says
that the tall robber was excited while
in the bank, his hands trembled and
his voice was unsteady. Both men
wore overalls and jumpers, and people
who saw them failed to recognize them
as having been Been in the commun-
ity before the robbery. Clarita Is in
Coal county, Coalgate being the coun-
ty seat.
THE PUBLIC EYE
I
RUSSIANS FALL
TEUTONS CLAIM TO HAVE CAP.
TURED 21,500 PRISONERS
IN GALICIA.
SUVS GET REVENGE IN PERSIA
JAY DWYER IS OFFICAL BOOSTER
State Fair Premium List Is
Ready For Distribution.
Now
Oklahoma City.—Secretary I. S. Ma-
han, of the Oklahoma State Fair and
Exposition, has announced the appoint-
ment of Jay J. Dwyer as advertising
and publicity manager of the fair, for
the current year. Dwyer has been
connected with the advertising staff of
the Okiahoman and the Times, and
left the latter paper for this position.
"Greatly improved business conditions
and a corking good crop outlook indi-
cate a splendid fafr this year, and
planB are being made accordingly," he
Bays. The 1915 premium list is ready
for distribution and a copy may be
secured free on request of the Secre-
tary. The rules and regulations gov-
erning entries in all departments are
contained therein and every prospec-
tive exhibitor should have a copy.
:agar uook, of Oklahoma City, is the
new head of the Royal Arch Masons of
Oklahoma, having been elected Grand
High Priest at the recent Grand Chap-
ter at Oklahoma City.
LAND PAYMENTS ARE POSTPONED
Congressman Ferris Gets Definite lr
formation From Washington.
FREDERICK HEROES GET MEDALS
For Bravery In Rescuing Companions
from Cave-in.
Pittsburgh.—At the spring meeting
of the Carnegie Hero Fund commis-
sion fifty-two acts of heroism, In many
sections of the country, wene recog-
nized. In two cases gold medals were
awarded; in fourteen cases silver,
medals, and in thirty-six, bro::ze
medals.
The awards included the following:
A gold medal to Charles Zollinger,
Frederick, Okla., and Julius Gordon of
Houston, who helped to save Oliver
H. Brewer and Alvah Dean from a
cave-in at Frederick, Okla., October ?8,
1913. Worked for hours, notwithstand-
ing warning from onlookers that they
themselves would be buried by another
cave-in.
Lawton.—In the absence of Con-
gressman Scott Ferris, who recently
departed on a trip to the Hawaiian Is-
lands, his secretary, Cam Campbell,
has received word from the interior
department at Washington to the ef-
fect that the apiication of purchasers
of remnant lands sold at Lawton in
December, 1913, for an extension of
time within which to make payments,
has been approved and the extension
granted.
The application and petitions for the
extension were presented to the de-
partment last December and later de-
nied on the theory that a shortage in
the funds necessary to operate and
maintain the Kiowa Indian hospital
would be apt to occur in case the ex-
tension should be granted. As a re-
sult of this denial those who have been
unable to meet the payment have stood
in constant fear that their entries
would be cancelled and the amount al-
ready paid by them, as the first in-
stallment, forfeited under the regula-
tions governing the sale of the land.
It will be glad tidings for these pur-
chasers to know that the further ef-
forts of Mr. Ferris in their behalf have
resulted in an arrangement whereby
the extension has been granted and un-
der which sufficient funds will be avail-
able for the maintenance and opera-
tion of the hospital.
RAILROADERS GET SMALL RAISE
a Result of Arbitration Boards
Reward.
DIVIDE BANDITS REWARD OF $200
Three Men Split The Sum For Tupelo
Capture.
Tupelo.—Final distribution of the
seward offered for the capture and
conviction of the men who robbed the
Farmers' National bank of this place
has been made. A Check for $200 from
the Ocean Accident and Guaranty
Company of Kansas City, the reward
ottered, was sent here, but pending
claims of four men who thought they
were entitled to the reward it was not
paid over. One of the contestants for
the reward Anally withdrew his claim,
and the money was divided equally be-
tween Henry Oats, John Hall and
Jesse Hayes. Walter C. Long and
James Armstrong had been arrested
and toavlcted of the robbery.
RICH MAI HELD FOR MIRDER
D. V. Monroe of Lindsay, Expected to
8eek Release On Bond.
Oklahoma City.—D. V. Monroe, a
wealthy merchant of Lindsay, was ar-
rested and is being held In the county
jail in connection with the Marguerite
Ellis murder case.
Information was filed against Mon-
roe after a complete Investigation by
the county attorney. Before the mur-
der charge was placed against him he
was charged with shooting the Ellis
girl with intent to kill. His bond on
that charge was $10,000. The shooting
in which Marguerite Ellis lost her life
occurred during the latter part of De-
Chicago.—An arbitration award ad-
vancing to some extent the rates of
pay of 64,000 locomotive engineers,
firemen and hostlers employed on the
14,000 miles of linp of ninety-eight
railroads in the great area of the
United States and Canada bounded on
the east by the Illinois Central and the
Great lakes was signed here.
A dissenting opinion was filed on be-
half of the Brotherhoods of Engine-
men In which the arbitration was
branded as a failure and the Newlands
law under which it was arranged an
inadequate device for settlement of
industrial disputes. The award effec-
tive May 10, and binding for one year
only, was frankly declared as merely
postponing for a twelve-month period,
the actual settlement of the differences
involved.
The railroad members of the board
issued a formal statement criticising
features of the regulations governing
the arbitration and remarking that cer-
tain concessions regarded as intrin-
sically unjust were made for the sake
of preserving peace with the em-
ployees.
Drive Turkish Troops All Out of the
Territory of the Shah.—Ypres
Fighting Still Con-
tinues.
London.—The Russians have at least
a partial revenge for the defeat in.
flicted upon them in Western Galica
by tho Austrians and Germans bf
badly beating the Turks who had in-
vaded Persia. The defeat took place
in a three-days' battle near the frontier
and Petrograd reports that the Rus-
sians inflicted heavy losses on the Ot-
tomans. If the success of the Musco-
vites has been followed up, military
observers declare that Persia now
should be free of her uninvited guests.
This battle, however, was a small
affair when compared with what Ger-
many and Austria claim they have done
to the Russians in Galicia. Their re-
ports state that some thirty thousand
Russians were captured and that
large number of guns were taken.
The Russians lost 21,500 prisoners
to the Germans and the Austrians in
the recent fighting in Western Galicia,
according to an official statement given
out in Berlin.
This Is the engagement In which the
Germans and the Austrians claim
notable victory." In addition to the
men captured, the Teutonic allies took
sixteen pieces of artillery, forty-seven
machine guns and a large quantity of
war material.
The statement sets forth that in th*
German invasion of the Baltic provj
inces of Russia the Germans have cap-
tured more than four thousand re
treating Russians.
Other engagements in Russian Po
land are described as having resulted
favorably to the Germans.
Fighting Confined To Ypres.
In Belgium thus far the fighting
has been confined to the Ypres region,
where the Germans claim to have cap-
tured some villages which the British
say they evacuated in readjusting
lines. Rumors concerning the opera-
tions against the Dardanelles were con-
firmed when the British war office and
admiralty issued reports stating that
the allied forces had taken the offen-
sive on the Gallipoli peninsula and now
ar advancing into the interior.
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES
May 7-10—State Editorial Association
Suthrle.
May 18—Intercollegiate track meet, Ok-
lahoma Cltv.
May 1S-20, County Superintendents" As-
sociation, Oklahoma Cltv.
May Jl-2«—siate Firemen's meeting.
Sapulpa.
Sept. 22-25—Kiamichi Valley Fair. Tali-
hina.
Sept. 25-Oct t— State Fair. Oklahoma
City.
Oct. 6-9. Caddo County fair. Anadarko.
12,047 bales of cotton were shipped
from Wynnewood during the past sea-
Bon.
From the thirteen railroad stations
In Blaine county, 1,909 cars of wheat
were shipped during the year 1914.
Citizens of Drumright subscribed
$25,000 toward the comnletion of tho
Oil Belt Terminal railroad and the
Cushing Trachtion line into Drum-
right.
KlTOfllONAL
SDNMTSOIOOL
Lesson
(By E. O, SELLERS, Acting Director ofl
Sunday School Course, Tile Moody lilblt
Institute, Chicago, III.)
LESSON FOR MAY 9
FRIENDSHIP OF DAVID AND JON.
ATHAN.
LESSON TEXT—I Samuel 20:32-42.
GOLDEN TEXT—A friend lovetli at all
times.—Prov. 17:17,
RESERVE DISTRICTS ARE ALTERED
Show Wagons Lost.
Olustee.—An "overland show" cara-
van, while attempting to cross the Red
river twelve miles south of here, was
overtaken by a sudden onrush of
waters, and lost four wagons, contain-
ing show property. Doors to the wag-
ons containing animals were opened
and the animals released. All the ani-
mals escaped, and with the exception
of one tiger, have been recaptured.
Santa Fe Gett Head.
Drumright.—Announcement Is made
that the Santa Fe Railroad Company
has secured a lease on the Cushing-
Drumright Trsctlon Company road
that is being completed from Cushing
to Drumright. The promoters of the
Cushing-Drumright Traction Company
planned to operate the road as an eleo
trie car line, but the Santa Fe com-
pany will probably use It aa a stean
Most of Southern Oklahoa Attached to
Kansas City District.
Washington.—Three changes in the
lines of federal reserve districts as
they were drawn by the reserve bank
organization committee more than a
year ago were approved by the federal
reserve board.
The board adopted by a unanimous
vote a resolution shifting banks in
southern Oklahoma from the Dallas
to the Kansas City district; banks in
Tyler and Wetzel counties, West Vlr.
ginia, from the Richmond to the Cleve-
land districts, and banks In northern
New Jersey from the Philadelphia to
the New York district. In each of
these cases petitions for changes had
been filed by a majority of the banks
in the communities affected.
The Readjustment.
Number of banks, state and nation-
al, In Oklahoma that were in Dal-
las district 365
Number transferred to Kansas City
district, tate and national 321
Number remaining in Dallas dis-
trict 44
These banks not transferred are lo-
cated In the counties of Marshall,
Bryan, Choctaw, Pushmataha and Mc-
Curtain, and were not included in the
petition filed.
Southern Oklahoma had, until the
new reserve districts were arranged,
practically no business relations with
Dallas. Only five national banks In
southern Oklahoma carried reserve ac-
counts in the Texas city. After the
federal bank was located at Dallas and
nearly half of the national banks in
Oklahoma were compelled under the
new law to carry their reserve ac-
counts there, it was found necessary to
take care of the reserve accounts. That
forced accounts out of Oklahoma City
and Kansas City banks into Texas
banks. Within the past six months
Oklahoma City banks have been grad-
ually losing hank accounts from the
southern portion of the state, but what
they have already lost is small com-
pared with what might have been lost
in the course of a few years If the
Rev. H. M. Gardner, formerly pastor
of the First Presbyterian church at
Desloge, Mo., has accepted the pastor-
ate of the Presbyterian church in
Claremore.
Governor Williams has honored a
requisition for George W. Barlie,
wanted in Westchester county, N. Y.,
on a statutory charge. He has been
located in Okmulgee county.
A jitney bus line with two cars in
operation was started in Chickasha
last week. The first day's business
was good, and the promoters say that
they will add one or two to the service.
Word has been received at Shawnee
that an increased appropriation has
been made for the Rock Island for the
month of May and as a result a full
force of men will be employed in the
shops beginning the first of May.
Henry Starr and Lewis Estes, seri-
ously wounded and captured following
the raid on two banks in Stroud,
March 27, are recovering and will both
be well in a short tie. Starr was shot
in the hip while Estes was wounded in
them neck. Starr is expected to plead
guilty.
Henryetta was chosen by the mem-
bers of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows as the meeting place for the
western Oklahoma division of the or
der for next year, at the close of the
Okmulgee meeUng. William Killius
of Henryetta was chosen president of
the celebration association.
D. V. Monroe, of Lindsay, with his
attorney appeared before Justice of
the Peace at Oklahoma City and
waived the reading of the information
and entered a plea of not guilty of first
degree murder in killing Marguerite
Ellis, who was shot in a resort in this
city during the latter part of Decem-
ber.
The board of Trustees for the Car-
negie library at Frederick has awarded
the building contract to A. II. Krause,
whose bid was $9,200. The building,
complete, with lighting and heating
plants installed and ready for occu-
pancy, will cost $10,000. W. G. How-
land will be superintendent of con-
struction.
The Rock Island shops at Chickasha
R ill put on a full force of men on full
time on May 1. This will give employ-
ment to an additional 300 men. The
•hops have not operated on full time
with a complete force during the past
six months. The force is to be in-
creased in order to get the rolling
equipment in condition to handle the
coming wheat crop.
The calls for harvest hands on tha
state employment bureau are increas-
ing daily. Unemployed men are be-
binning to sense the situation, accord-
ing to J. W. Walden, superintendent
of the labor bureau, and refuse to take
the smaller Jobs, preferring to wait
for tho harvest season when farmers
are willing to pay from $2 to $2.60 a
day for harvest hands.
"Clean-up" day and "Tag day" have
long been fixtures in Sapulpa, but
Mayor Smith has announced that he
Is going to create "Sparrow Day," a
time when all small boys of the city
would be equipped with air rifles and
permitted to wage war on the obnox-
ious birds. The mayor is in favor of
offering a prize to the boy who kills
the largest number of birds.
Governor Williams has re-appointed
Captain C. C. Hammonds state fire
marshall. Hammonds also will be a
member of the new insurance board
which was created by the last legis-
lature. The new board, composed of
W. R. Samuels of Vinita and A. L.
Welch, Insurance commissioner, and
Hammonds organized. Samuels Is
lecretary and will draw $2500 0a year.
Preliminary organization of the
Arkansas River Improvement Associa-
tion. so far composed of the civic or-
ganizations of Tulsa, Muskogee, Fort
Smith and Little Rock, came as the
direct result of a speech at Muskogee
by Senator Joseph E. Ransdell, chair-
man of the river and harbors commit-
tee of the senate, in which he declared
that the Arkansas river was "suseep-
There Is perhaps no narrntive in all
history or literature which so perfect-
ly illustrates the conditions of friend-
ship as this which is before us. Jon-
athan was every inch a man; affection-
ate, sweet and tender, deeply pious
and withal loyal io both duty and
friends. His rights, as the king's son,
he gladly set aside for David, whom he
"loved as his own* soul" (ch. 18:3;
20:17). Jonathan is a great type of
the surrendered life (ch. 23:17).
I. David's Danger, vv. 32-35. Three
times in the previous chapter (vv. 5,
14, 30) we read that David "behaved
himself wisely." "§aul eyed David"
(v. 19) and his jealous anger grew as
he gave vent to his hate. Jonathan's
desires for David drew the anger of
Saul (20:30), but It only put him more
upon his guard and made him more de-
termined, If possible, to save both
David and Saul.
Following David's escape (18:18) he
consulted Jonathan regarding his
safety (20.1-10). They renewed their
covenant and swore fealty to each
other and to those of. their house-
holds (vv. 11-17). It Is a standing re-
buke that Christians treat so lightly
their covenants with the church and
with the world. David was safe at
NaioUi (19:18-24), for each company
sent after him, and Saul himself, were
hindered by the Spirit of Jehavah from
oarrying out Saul's foul designs. This
seeded for the moment to humble
Saul (20:1; Ps. 97:1), Jonathan,
though great and mighty, was not
Strong enough to deliver his friend
from the renewed wrath of bis father.
"Vain is the help of man." "Our help
Is In the Lord." Jonathan showed his
true friendship in that he told the ex-
act state of affairs to David (v. 10).
When Saul became conWnctrti tfmt
Jonathan was taking David's part, he
tried to kill Jonathan and reviled the
mother who bore him (v. 30). In his
loss of self-control Saul allowed David
to escape. Even so, sin overshoots its
mark. The contrast is a dark one to
contemplate.
II. David Delivered, vv. 35-42. Jon-
athan did not revile again (v. 34) when
Insulted and assailed by his father,
and his manifestation of Just angei
(for his mother was reviled) wai
quite different from that of his father.
Any attempt to reconcile Saul to Da>
vid (v. 34) was a useless exposure tc
danger and for Jonathan to be sect
with his friend would Imperil his owr
life. This explains the expedient of
Bhooting arrows In the field. Jonathan
shot his arrows "beyond," 1. e„ David
must go "beyond" and out of the reach
of Saul. David trusted Jonathan's fidel-
ity (v. 23) when the test came, though
Jonathan might have good reason for
playing him false in order to promote
his own Interests.
Dismissing the boy, Jonathan drew
near to David's hiding place, to the
Bouth of the stone Ezel (v. 41 R. V.),
where a most touching parting took
place between these two friends. First
of all David bowed ceremoniously
three times, touching his head to the
ground, perhaps to show his unshaken
loyalty to Jonathan as the king's son.
This was but for a moment; as men of
the East and friends, they rushed to
each other's arms and wept for a long
time. These were the manly tears of
two brave men not afraid to show
their love and emotions. It has been
suggested that Jonathan should have
accompanied David as God's elect
(Heb. 13:13), but we feel that duty
bade him to remain by the side of bis
sin-stricken father.
The Lessons of the Lesson. True
friendship costs. God's love gave to
the world his Son. Jonathan's friend-
ship for David was costly, but was
given gladly, not grudgingly. True
friendship neither forgets duty nor
neglects Its desire towards the object
of Its love. It Is not governed emotion-
ally, yet it disregards all other ties, If
they are wrong. Not even a father or
mother should lead us to wrong a
friend. When David came into power
he remembered the everlasting cove-
nant made with Jonathsn (II Sam.
>:5). Our "Son of David" has made a
similar covenant with us (Acts 16:31;
2:39). True friendship is of slow
growth, but la cot easily killed,
chilled by reverses, nor frozen by sd-
verslty (Prov. 18:24). True friendship
Is unselfish. It gives and does not
seek.
True friendship Is founded upon r
llglon snd the best friend, the Ideal
friend, la Jeans Christ.
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