Wagoner County Democrat (Wagoner, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 1918 Page: 1 of 8
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PUZLLa ALL THE OFFICIAL COUOTY NEWS
VOL XXII
WAGONER OKLAHOMA THURSDAY FEBRUARY 21 1918
NO 29
SIB CECIL SPRING-RICE DIES
SOME BULL
OKLAHOMA STATE NEWS
AJitorlc&i
Ottawa— 8ir Cacll Spring-Rice for
mar Brltlah ambassador to tha United
States died hara - Lady 8pring-Rio
and hla aon and daughter Batty and
Anthony ware with him Sir Cecil
died peacefully In hla aleep Ha re
tired aftah nearly five years service
as British ambassador to the' United
8tates early last ihonth Jn favor of
Lord Reading
THE MAN WHO FORGOT HE
WAS FRENCH TO PAT
THE PENALTY
CONVICTED ON U S EVIDENCE
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Had Operated Through German Bank-
ers In New York City In Trying
To Bribe Members of
1 ' 'French Government
’ Paris — Without the slightest trem
or Paul Bolo Pasha convicted of high
treason heard Colonel- Voypr presi-
dent ot the court-martial pronounce
sentence ot death upon him amid si-
lence In the courtroom Shaking his
head and shrugging his shoulders
Bolo returned to his cell
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Those who had assembled In the
courtroom retrained from all demon-
stration but the great crowds outside
uttered a terrific roar and cheers of
Approval as word of the sentence
reached theip
Swiftly the news of the coming ex-
ecution of Bolo Pasha spread through-
out the city -
Th court-martial was unanimous In
condemning Bolo It stood for a time
four to three against condemnation ot
Darius Porchers an accountant who
was a co-defendant but finally com
promised six to one on conviction
on the charge of "commerce with the
enemy” carrying a lighter ' sentence
He 'must serve three years
An appeal will be entered id a tech-
nicality but the general trend of com-
ment heard in legal Journalistic and
political circles Is: “With Bolo’s death
Bololsm will die”
Philippe Callienl another co-defend-
- suit who Is under arrest in Italy also
- will be tried -v '
Bolo- Pasha’s activities were of pe-
culiar interest to America because it
was charged that of the funds at his
disposal 11683000 was transferred
from the Deutsche bank In Berlin to
France by way of New York It was
as a result of the discovery of his
manipulation of this fund through the
Hew York hanking houses that the
New York state attorney general was
stble to obtain Information which was
forwarded to M Jusserand the
French ambassador at Washington
and which brought about Bolo’s ar-
rest in Paris
Bolo’s court-martial was one of the
first of the so-called cases of "intel-
ligence with the enemy” and came up
for trial before third court-martial of
parts on February 4 Bolo Pasha was
charged with having capitalized the
company that bought the Paris news-
‘paper le '-Journal with money ob-
tained from the Germans
Bolo Pasha was an instrument ot
German propaganda 6ne of the first
to find exposure in the French inves-
tigations of 1917 and his name has
come to be used as typifying the en-
tire system of “Bololsm” by which
Germany strove to break down the
French morale and instill a desire for
peace by spreading the idea that Ger-
many could not be beaten t
Tried To Bribe Statesmen '
It had been cbarjSjd that Germany
In attempting to bribe French states-
men and leaders and to Influence
French opinion by subsidizing news-
papers in France or founding new
publications to disseminate the spirit
of pacifism or defeat devoted a sum
of money in the neighborhood ot
$2500000 Bolo Pasha himself had
the use of a fund of more than
$1500000
ore equipment for troops
WAR PROJECTS ARE TO COST
$268000000
Government Now Plans New Army
Construction At Beceral
Beattarsd Point
— —
Washington — Many new ' construe
tlon projects for the army including
munition plants - ordnance depots
storage plants port teunlnals hos-
pitals aviation work eaptonments
and housing were disclosed In a state-
ment given the senate military com
mittee by the war department
The work will cost a total of $268-
650000 and while some of the pro-
jects had been announced before In
most cases the location and cost had
not been given
The statement shows that $37000-
000 will be spent In building as gas-
making plant at Gdgewood N J
while forty interior storage -depots to
cost an aggregate of $30000000 are
to be erected at unnamed points
' On aviation work including a new
cantonment the location of which
was not given $46000000 will be ex-
pended Ordnance depots are to be" built oti
the south Atlantic coast and at "some
seapost” at a cost ot $4000000 each
And one on the middle Atlantic coast
at a cost of $6000000- An ammuni-
tion depot at "some seapost” Is to
cost $7500000 and a like sum is to
be expended for an ordnance depot
in central Pennsylvania -s
Hospitals for soldiers suffering from
tuberculosis are to be built at Den-
ver Colo and Ashville N C at a
cost of $500000 each and $12800000
is to be spent on hospitals at thirty-
two army training camps
A division cantonment for the reg-
ular army is to cost $8000000 but its
location was not given ' It may take
the place of the regular army train-
ing camp at Charlotte N C w ’4bis
to be abandoned because of M un-
suitability of the ground
Sight millions will be spent on a
port terminal af Boston and $10000-
00(1 on a similar terminal at Charles-
ton S C ' ’
Two millions are provided for three
powder hag loadlag points at sites
not yet selected
For housing of the shipping hoard
to relieve congestion in shipyard com-
munities the department plans to ex-
pend $35000000 This will represent
a part of the $50000000 for this pur
pose provided In a bill which the
house passed recently In addition to
this $600000 will be expended at New-
port -News Va for housing the negro
stevedore regiment engaged there in
loading vessels Another item ol
$250000 is for a high explosives plant
at Sandy Hook I I ‘
JUDGE THACKER IS DEAD
Had Long Public Career In Texas' and
Oklahoma' -
Oklahoma City— Chas M Thacker
associate Justice of the supreme court
of Oklahoma died suddenly In Wes-
ley hospital of acute gastritis He
had been ill only two days
Judge Thacker had long been prom-
inent In the making of history for Ok-
lahoma coming to the state from
Texas in 1889 and locating at Man-
gum Greer county they a county 10
Texas He was mayor of Mangum
county attorney county Judge and
of the board of regents for territorial
normal schools He was also editor
of the Mangum Star for several years
In 1912 Judge Thacker was appoint-
ed a member of the supreme court
commission under the administration
of Gov Lee Cruce and in 1915 he was
appointed an associate Justice of the
supreme court filling out the unex-
pired term of Judge G A Brown
who died This appointment was
made by Gov R L Williams' In 1916
e was elected to a six-year term ol
the supreme court which would hava
expired in 1922
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Missis’s Last Shorthorn Bull owned by C E Suppes A 8on Tuna Ula
breeder This bull will be pne of the feature attractions at the coming South-
west American Live Stock 8how held in Oklahoma City March 3 to 9
AUSTRIA NOW SEES “FUND-
AMENTAL ELEMENTS”
OF PEACE '
BUT THE KAISER STILL RULES
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President Assures the Dual Monarchy
That America Has Only Just
Begun To Engage In
the War
Washington — President Wilson ad-
dressed congress to clear the atmd-
phere of any confusion resulting from
the recent speeches on peace terms
by the German chancellor and the
Austro-Hungarian foreign minister
and to reiterato that until the mill
tary masters of Germany are ready
to consider peace on principles of Jus-
tice tho United States will continue
the fight It is Just beginning for the
safety of itself and mankind”
In the speech of Count von Hert
ling the German chancellor the pres-
ident found no spproaoh to the path
of peace but rather a proposal to end
the war on German terms and to set
up a league of nations to maintain
the balance of power so established
Count Czernin the Austrian spokes-
man the president said employed a
very friendly tone seemed to see the
fundamental elements ot peace with
clear eye and probably would have
gone much further If it had not been
tor Austria’s alliances and her de-
pendence upon Germany '
Members of congress accepted the
address not as a peace message hut
as a notice to the central powers that
the United States cannot be turned
aside from the object for which It is
fighting and a warning to congress
and the American people that the
task of sendinf'the nation’s fighting
men to tha front must not be Inter-
fered with by equivocal and mislead-
ing utterances ot Teutonic statesmen
The president was warmly received
and cheered as he spoke the leaders
without respect to party afterward ex-
pressed hearty approval of his words
VERNON CASTLE IS KILLED
Famous Dancer Dies While Training
- Army Aviators
Fort worth-7-capt Vernon castle
of the British Royal Flying Corps was
killed in his airplane fifteen miles
west of Fort Worth
Castle was the forty-third air cas-
ualty at Fort Worth since British and
American flying schools were estab-
lished here last fall The large num-
ber of casualties at these fields is said
to he due to the extraordinary amount
of flying done as compared with other
aviation schools
Castle has made over 150 flights
over the German lines and the hero
of many exploits In the war zone
His work had been chiefly on the
Flanders front and covered a period
of nine months He came to Fort
Worth last October along with Lord
Wellesley He was 31 years old
NEGRO IS BURNED BY MOB
— — — 1
No Effort Mad6 to Suppress Plana For
Tennessee Lynching
Nashville — According to reports re-
ceived from Estill Springs a mob of
1500 burned Jim Mcllherron a negro
at a stake there McBherroa had
killed two white men and seriously
wounded another on the streets of
Estill Springs
When the train hearing Mcllher-
ron and the mob arrived speeches
were mide and the crowd was urged
to be orderly but no attempt was
made to suppress the plan for lynching
THE SUBS
London — Nineteen British mer-
chantmen were sunk by mine or sub-
marine In the last week Of these
thirteen were vessels of 1600 tons or
more and six were under that ton-
nage Three fishing vessels also were
sunk
submarines in 1917 was nearly three
times as great as the production in
the United States tffid Great Britain
during that year
This was disclosed by the announce-
ment 'of Andrew Bonar Law chancel-
lor of the exchequer in the British
house of commons that Great Britain
produced only 1163473 tons of ship-
ping last year '
The output In the United States
was 901223 tons making a total com-
bined tonnage of 2064697 while sink-
ings by submarines last year gener-
ally are reckoned at 6000000 tons
While complete figures on construc-
tion in Japan Italy France and other
nations in 1917 are not yet available
officials here do not believe their ag-
gregate equaled the total of the
United States If that is the case
submarine sinkings more than dou-
bled all tonnage produced
American and British officials ex-
pect a very different story in 1918
The United States and Great Britain
are speeding up shipping programs
and naval officials in both countries
have predicted that the submarine
will be curbed this summer
EGG C0MPANYIS TO QUIT
Food Control Takes Action Against
Former Foe of Trust
New York— The federal food board
here took its most drastic action thuB
far when it recommended to the na-
tional food administration that the
food license of B‘ Baft & Son incor-
porated wholesale poultry and egg
dealers1 be revoked for the duration
of the war
The Baff firm purchased eggs from
tho Iowa Producing Company at 38 1-3
cents a dozen last April and sold
some ot them as high as 51 cents to
Jobbers at a time the government
fixed price was 46 cents according to
the local hoard’s finding
This is the firm whose former
head Barnet Baff was shot and killed
a few years ago by agents of the so-
called poultry trust jvhiph he had
fought
EXCESSIVE PROFITS DENIED
Government Had To Waive Red Tape
In Building uamps
Washington — The much attacked
"cost plus profit” system under which
contracts for the national army can-
tonments were built was defended by
Brigadier General Llttell and his
aides who directed the work in tes-
tifying before the senate military
committee’s war inquiry
General Littell declared the plan
had saved the government money
had not given contractors excessive
fees and had speeded completion of
the camps
Reports of exorbitant wages paid
workmen were declared to be exag-
gerated In detailing the work accomplished
in preparing quarters for the war
army General Littell said the sixteen
cantonments had cost $143000000
and tho average fee of contractors at
each camp was from 2 to 3 per cent
f
The Boy 8couta Fund Campaign
closed at Oklahoma City with the to-
tal subscription aggregating $18000
The aecond annual short course for
highway engineers which will be held
at the University of Oklahoma Feb-
ruary 18 to 24
John R Spurler of BIgheart has
answered the call to war and offered
to dispose of his herd of eight buf-
faloes to the state
t
The Confederate veteran’ reunion
which was to have been held in Tul-
sa this year has been postponed un-
til the first year following the war
A verdict of guilty was returned in
United States district court at Mus-
kogee against George Lewis formerly
a banker of Coweta on the charge of
misapplying funds of the bank
Persons who enter all public places
in Miami with the exception of res-
taurants are required to show a cer
tifleate of vaccination against small-
pox There are 17 cases in the town
Mr and Mrs L C Headley o Poe-
na city received a cablegram from
their daughter Miss Mildred Head-
ley Red Cross nurse announcing that
she had arrived safely in France
t One hundred officers and enlisted
men of the Thirty-fifth division Camp
Doniphan received the consistory de-
grees in Scottish Rite Masonry in a
special convocation of the Guthrie val-
ley Neal Sewel special enforcement of-
ficer of Walters has been sentenced
to jail because he refused to divulge
the name of a man concerned in a
charge ot violation of the prohibition
law
W H McCowan of Ringing who
made a snug fortune oui of oil in the
Ringling district recently purchased
of H M Vanderslice at Alex 350
acres of Grady county land for whicn
he 'paid $20000
Hogs worth $10000 have been
smothered tp death in snow drifts and
frozen in recent storm in Harmon
county according to a report of the
county agent Hundreds of chickens
also have been lost in the storm
Henry 8ealt confined in the county
jail at Miami was killed when a
blanket rope on which be was at-
tempting to escape from the jail broke
under his weight and he crashed to
the ground Charles Crow who left
his cell at the same time succeeded
in getting away safely
Patrolman Glen Allison was fatally
wounded at Tulsa following the arrest
of three highwaymen who terrorized
a residence section In a commandeer-
ed taxicab Woody Russell a mem-
ber of the trio who was captured
seized Allison’s revolver and shot him
through the abdomen after fracturing
his skull with the butt of the weapon
Russell made his escape
Mrs Durah Walker wife of S A
Walker well-to-do farmer was placed
in jail at Durant charged with killing
Mrs Ola Heath wife of Lawrence
Heath a neighbor farmer in the
northwest part of Bryan county Mrs
Walker is alleged to have fired five
times with a revolver She is the
mother of three children one an in-
fant Mrs 1 Heath leaves a husband
I and one child
i Congressman Carter’s bill for the
1 sale of the leased and unleased coal
and asphalt deposits underlying ap-
I proxlmately 445000 acres In the
Chickasaw and Choctaw nation was
signed by President Wilson The
secret (y of the interior Is authorized
to establish an office at McAIester
from which to conduct the sales An
appropriation of $50000 is made for
expenses including advertising and
the payment of appraisers
Three men within the draft age
appeared before Federal Judge John
H Cotteral at Guthrie and entered
pleas of guilty to charges of failure
to register in June Eich was sen-
tenced to serve thirty days in the
Logan county jail and to be In-
ducted immediately into the military
service following the serving ot their
sentences The men were David S
Traves and Harry Haggans Woods
county and J E Easley Tillman
county
A new city ordinance orders the
gas eompany to distribute gas in
Oklahoma City just as it comes from
the earth without going through gasoline-extraction
process It fur-
ther orders Immediate installation of
ten registering stations to be located
in as many sections of the city the
pressure at all times Is to be not
tower than four ounces If the com-
'pany refuses to Install the register-
ing stations the city will do so If
the company tails to maintain a pres-
sure of four ounces at each ot the
ten guages tn patrons arre not to
pay for the service
The planting of peanuts as a war
crop lu Pontotoc’ and other south-
eastern counties is being urged by
county agents v
A warning to bootleggers gamb-
lers and other following unlawful oc-
cupations or no occupations has been
issued by business men of Temple
“Mother" Hanks 79-years old wid-
ow of a cousin of Abraham Lincoln
and pioneer resident of northern Ok-
lahoma died at her home at Enid
She was a native of Illinois
Congressman Dick Morgan of the
Eighth Oklahoma district has Intro-
duced a bill proposing to establish a
new system of short term farm cred-
its designed to aid tenant farmers
in building up a better system of pro-
duction The Farmers around Mannsvllle
have organized the Mannville Co-
Operative Peanut and Sorghum Grow-
ers’ Association with a view to help-
ing solve the scarcity of sweeta and
oils through increased production ot
cane and peanuts
The city commissioners of Okmul-
gee have authorized W M Mathews
Dr O A Lambert and W B Pine to
purchase and hold in trust of the
city of Okmulgee the old Creek coun-
cil house which stands In the center
of a block In the heart of the city
The department of the interior is
willing to sell the property for Its ap-
praised value of $65000 if the city
desires to buy It
The referendum petition circulated
by chiropractors for a submission of
the bill aimed at chiropractics passed
by the last legislature was declared
by'J L Lyon secretary of state to
be sufficient Mr Lyon ordered the
chirpcactora’ bill placed on the bal-
lot of the November election It was
announced by Senators Warren K
Snyder and O J Logan who repre-
sent physicians protesting the peti-
tion that an appeal would he taken
from the decision of the secretary ot
state to the supreme court
Willard R Bleakmore a member of
the Oklahoma supreme court commis-
sion was appointed assistant attor-
ney general by Attorney General S
P Freeling to succeed the late W
T Hutchings Judge Bleakmo-e
whose home is at Ardmore formerly
was a member of the supreme court
having been appointed by Governor
Cruce to fill an unexpired term In
1914 In his capacity as assistant at-
torney general Judge Bleakmore will
be attorney for the state school land
commission
i STATEHOUSE BREVITIES !
—
In a decision handed down by the
supreme court in the appeal of the
Rock Island railroad against a judg-
ment of a district court in which Will
Weaver was awarded a verdict of
$14170 it is held that an Interstate
passenger on a railroad has no right
to ride into the state get off a train
at the nearest stop over the line and
get the benefit of the two-cent Okla-
homa rate to cross the state The
Judgment of the lower court was re-
versed The 8tate Corporatten Commission
has ordered demurrage rate sput into
effect on intra-state business to con-
has ordered demurrage rates put into
effect by W G McAdoo director-general
of the railroads The new rate
provides forty-eight hours free time
for loading or unloading of all commo-
dities and a demurrage rate on all
cars after the free time has elapsed
of $3 for each of the first four days
$6 for each of the next three days
and $10 for each succeeding day
Salaries of county clerks will be in-
creased by a decision handed down
by the supreme court in which it is
held that the statute fixing the sal-
aries of county clerks at $2100 la un-
constitutional The decision was made
in the suit of James Beaty court
clerk of Oklahoma county
Texas cottonseed and sweet pota-
toes are to be kept from Oklahoma
under a quarantine according to an-
nouncement by Frank M Gault pres-
ident of the state board of agricul-
ture The quarantine on Texas cot-
tonseed is brought about on account
of the prevalence of the pink boll
worm in certain sections of Texas
and the potato embargo Is occasioned
by the presence of dangerous bugs
The supreme court announced Its
intention ot refusing to order rail-
roads to erect new stations during
the period of the war The decision
was announced in the case of the
SL Louis & San Francisco railroad
company against the state and the
city of Miami being an appeal from
a decision of the state corporatloa
commission requiring the erection of
a new fire-proof passenger station at
MlamL
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