Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 176, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 27, 1918 Page: 1 of 8
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CHICKASHA OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY JULY 27 1010.
NUMBER 17ii
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OFFICERS
RUN DOWN
NEW'PLANT'
Innocent Looking Water Well is
in Keanty Wholesale Liquor
Storage; Ha3 Enormous
Capacity.
HAS BEEN IN USE
BUT EMPTY NOW
Phoney Casing is Wall to Cave;
Door Inserted Half Way
Down; Owner of Outfit
is Sought.
A whiskey "plant" that is absolute-
ly unique as such institutions go was
located yesterday by Deputy Sheriff
Clover who was working out a hot
trail east of the city. The "plant"
was all there but tho whiskey that.
it something else again. It had
vaniahed.
Information filtered into tho office
of County Attorney Simpson to the
effect that a perfectly fine "plant"
could be located by searching a cer
tain section east of the city. The
information was vague but had to do
with a water well. That's about as
far us It went and it remained for
Deputy Glover. armed with a search
warrant to do the rest. He did.
Starting at the edge of town he
gave every well he encountered the
rigid once over. Near" a clump of
e.ltn trees east and a little sotath of
u..: dty the officer spied a well
VJsat in no respect differed from the
others lie had investigated. Cut it
was "vastly different y' know" when
put to the acid test of a careful ex-
amination.' The curbing and platform looked
about like tho curbing and platform
of any. self respecting well. He des-
cended into tho well by means of
cleats nailed to the wooden casing.
As tho officer hammered and knocked
thereabout a hollow sound emlnated
as from a board covered cavern.
Further and more minute investiga-
tion followed and served to locate a
trap door through which with some
caution the officer entered.
What he found may be summed up
in tho report on the "plant" about as
follows: Apparently the well had
been started with a diameter of about
ten feet. Don probably 10 or 12 feet
it narrowed to practically eight feet
leaving a shelf of two feet. Some
six feet or more farther down the
well again' reduced leaving another
shelf of two or more feet.
The casing of the well proper run-
ning from the top of the ground to
the water was of the ordinary size
three or four feet in diameter. Thus
the casing was a cylinder within a
cylinder and a space of several feet
was leftbetween the casing proper
and the real walls of the well. Of-
ficers declared several wagon loads
of whiskey could bo stored therein
and from the evidences it had been
in use.
Although Deputy Glover searched
he failed to locate any "licker" of any
description and the officers are won-
dering now who is the owner of the
"plant". They are satisfied that the
well has been used as a wholesale
storage and a general distributing
pcint.
STRIKERS
NOW WORK
By United P-ess.
London July 27. The munitions
strikers began returning to work to
day. The back-bone of the strike
seems to have been broken as a re
suit of the government's threat to
enforce conscription and put the idle
into the army unless all were back
on their jobs Monday.
The government estimated that
only about 200000 are still out but
' AMERICAN CASUALTIES
Washington July 27. den-
frul Pershing reported 168
casualties today. Sixty-four
'were killed In netion 2ii are
dead from other causes. 00
are wounded severely 14 are
wounded degree undctermin-
ed two are slightly wounded
and two are missing.
The Marine casualty list In-
chides 12 names. One was
killed In .action seven were
wounded severely four are
missing-. Four naval casual-
tics were reported.
FILE FOR
POLICEMEN
POSITIONS
Seven Applicants list Names
With City Officials; Ages
Range from 76 to Un-
der Draft Limit.
Applications for appointment to fill
the eight jobs recently left vacant
by tho resignation of the entire
Chickasha police force began coming
into the office of the mayor and
city clerk yesterday. Seven appli-
cants had been registered for the
places last night. No appointments
had been made today but Mayor Coft-
man. stated this morning that the new
police rcU would probably be made
out at the meeting of the city coun-
cil Monday night.
Present indications poiut to a thor-
ough assortment of men who will
come up for appointment as police-
men. In fad the ago limit of the
seven who had filed this morning
ranges from under voting age to
seventy-six years and their occupa-
tions vary from firefighters to farm-
ers according to a statement issued
this morning from tho city clerk's
effice. Mayor Coffman did not hiut
today at who would be favored for
any appointment.
Yesterday afternoon J. W. Gunn a
local man walked Into the office of
the city clerk and filed his applica-
tion with qualifications for police of-
ficer. Gunn is seventy-six yc;.. old
and wears a long cty bread city
officers state but he declared himself
fully competent to hold down tho
job. The youngest aspirant to enter
the race was a farmer living eight
wiles east of town who had heard
of the vacancies and filed for ap-
pointment. He is not of age.
Following is the complete list of
applicants to noon today: J. W.
Gunn Chickasha; W. J. Preter
Chickasha; J. F. Smith Chickasha; J.
E. Agnew Chickasha; Lindsay Hum-
phrey east of the city; W. M. Wag-
goner Chickasha; and B. J. Elkins
Chickasha.
LIGHTLESS NIGHT
ORDER IN EFFECT
HERE ON MONDAY
According to an order issued by
the United States Fuel administra-
tion the "lightless" nights will be
resumed next Monday and will con-
tinue until further orders. Monday
and Tuesday nights have been desig-
nated as those on which a curtail-
ment of lights will be in effect.
The purpose of the order is to save
fuel by the simple method of saving
electricity. The order affects all
decorative lights such ag non-essential
window ilghts electric signs and
the like. Interior lighting where it
is essential is not affected by the
order.
In the eastern states the order in-
cludes four "1'ghtless" nights a week.
this number is rapidly dwindling. The
government claims that early figures
as to the number striking were ex-1
aggerated.
MOST TERRIFIC BOMBARDMENT OF
WAR RAKES FOE CONCENTRATION
POINTS AND DEPOTS OF SUPPLY
THE WEATHER
For Oklahoma.
Tonight and Sunday gener-
ally fair.
Locl Temperature.
Maximum 101; minimum 71.
Cupid Lands
Two Couples
Lured on by the wiles of Cupid a
Mexican and a man past the three
score year mark procured marriage
licenses at the office of the court
clerk yesterday. The permits are re-
corded as follows: Pedro Juarez
aged 22 Chickasha and E.del'tuia
Rc:;mu aged 20 Chickasha.
If. A. White aged 01 and Mrs.
Avia C. Briscoe aged 50 Chickasha.
SEN. OWEN
TALK HERE
TONIGHT
Tonight at the Methodist church
at S:30 o'clock Senator Robert L.
Owen will upeuk building his talk
around the war America's partici-
pation In it and the why of It all.
Special arrangements have been
made for tho senator's entertainment
while hero.
Judging from the past tho sena-
tor should be greeted by a record
crowd. On former appearances in
Chickasha Mr. Owen drew enormous
crowds to hear his political speech-
es. At this time when tho one
thought of Americans is war the
speech of an authority on the Amer-
ican side of it should be doubly at-
tractive. Senator Owen is engaged in a
speaking tour of the state at the in-
vitation and under the auspices of
the Oklahoma State Council of De-
fense. The local council will have
charge of the Chickasha engage-
ment. DETENTION CAMP
ESCAPES CAUGHT
RETURNED HERE
After rambling at large for almost
a week Grace Sheppard and Ruth
Herbert the two women who escaped
early Monday morning from the d3-
tention camp at the knitting mill
were retaken at Indiahoma Okla.
yesterday and brought back here
this morning.
According to the story which the
women told the county attorney's of-
fice on their return they escaped
from an' upper story of the building
by means of sheets and quilts knotted
together and walked to Ninnekah
Monday tight arrivling there foot-
sore' just in time to uiias.the rly
southbound train. The two then made
their way to Lawton in the hopes
of locating Ruth Herbert's husband
whom they declare was stationed
there. Disappointed in the search for
aid they went to Indiahoma and
were making for the home of a friend
in the country when apprehended and
followed by the city marshal who had
heard of their escape from the insti-
tution here.
The Indiahoma marshal brought the
girls here this morning while he wan
enroute to McAlesler on business.
Hundreds cf Thousands of Shells
Smother Hun Communication
Lines; Guns of All Cali-
bres Cut Loose.
DELUGE OF FIRE IS
HURLED ON TARDENOIS
City Almost in Grasp of Franco-
American Soldiers; Sammies
Locate Monster Gun Em-
placement Near Brecy.
By United Press.
Paris July 27. French and Amer-
ican artillery is subjecting the entire
Spissons-Kheims salient within
which 400000 Germans are concen-
trated to the most terrific bombard-
ment of the war. Hundreds of
thousands of shells of nil calibres
are being hurled upon troop concen-
trations ammunition siipply depots
and lines of communication from tho
battle front to the most rc.r areas.
This deluge of fire and steel is
being directed particularly f t I'ere-en-Tardenois
the imporlnn German
concentration center which is almost j
within the grasp of the Franco- j
American troops. t
Has Many Possibilities. j
Missy sur-Aisne five mil-js cast of j
Soissons is also tinder he.ivy bom- J
bardmeiit and renderi radically j
useless the hf. V!.Ti " '" bridge-
which the Germans have hecn us-i
ing for their north and south traffic.
The crown prince's order com-
manding the armies to stand and '
fight has changed the Soissons- !
Kheims battle front from a German
retreat to ono of the most bitterly
contested engagements of tho war
and' one with more fur renching pos-
sibilities than would have existed
under a general enemy retirement.
Attack Pocket Tip.
By United Press.
Pari.-' July 27. French and Amer-
icans are driving at the southern ex
OKLAHOMA DIVISIONS
READY TAKE PLACES
IN BIG BATTLE LINE
By United Press.
Oklahoma City. July 7. Formal
announcement Oklahoma troops train-
ed at Camp Travis and Bowie Texas
have arrived in France and were on
the point of taking over a sector
of the battle front came today from
Chief of Staff March.
His actual statement was that two
more army corps the fourth and
fifth had been organized in France.
Among the six divisions in the fourth
corps under General Reed is the 90lh
from Camp Travis Oklahoma-Texas
drafted men commanded by General
Bundy includes the 3tth division Ok-
lahoma National guardsmen trained
at Camp Bowie and commanded by
ENTERS PLEA OF
GUILTY; FINED
TEN SIMOLEONS
Yesterday afternoon Dorsey Sum-
stein a German living three miles
northeast of Chickasha appeared be-
fore Justice of the Peace M. E. Bun-
nell on a charge of assault and bat-
tery on the person of Henry Burris
a neighbor and was fined $10 and
costs. Sumstein entered a plea of
guilty to the charges. At the con-
clusion of the hearing the defendant
made complaint against Burris on
tremity of the Soissons-Rheima sal-
ient between Vernuil and Chatlllon-sur-Marno.
They have tightened this
tip of tho pocket until it Is only
eight kilometers wide. French and
Americans bombed the main highway
south of Flsmes and block all traffic
for eleven hours.
French Drive On.
By United Press.
Paris July 27. Further advances
north of tho Marno and Chain pagno
were reported bv the French war of-
fice today. On the right bank of
the Marno the French advanced their
linos to Pert-a-Blnson. In Cham-
pagne local operations south of
Alont Hansnomba enabled the French
to realize an advance of ono kilome-
ter on a front of three kilometers.
Two hundred prisoners were taken
including seven officers.
Locate Bio Gun.
By United Press.
With the American Armies in
France July 27. American troops
who advanced beyond Brecy found
the emplacement formerly occupied
by the German long range gun used
In the bombardment of Paris. Dur-
ing the advance north of the Marne
numerous instances occurred where
Americans captured six or a dozen
Bodies single handed.
This is the first intimation that
Paris was bombarded from a position
so far south.
... Haig Mk Repcr'..
By United Press. ' ' 1
' London July 27. Successful raids
and nrtillery activity in various sec-
tors of the Picardy and Flanders
fronts were reported by Field Mar-
uhiil Haig.'
During the night raiding parties
entered the enem lines in the neigh-
borhood of Saily Laurette Neuvelle
Vitasse Arleux-en-Vasse Arleux-en-Coseile
and Lens and brought hack
several prisoners. Hostile artillery
was active last night between the
Somme and the Ancre. Some artil-
lery activity is reported in the La-
Basse canal sector.
General Smith. Tho organization of
tho divisions into army-corps is taken
to signalize the approaching assump-
tion by forces thus involved of a
definite part in the action at the
front.
Americans In Italy.
By United Press.
Washington July 27. Americans
trained in France have arrivod safely
in Italy according to the announce-
ment given out here today by chief
of staff March. At the same time he
announced the formation of new army
corps in France the Fourth and
Fifth. He stated that the allied lines
In the present offensive had been re-
duced from 74 to 64 miles.
similar grounds and the latter will
be tried later. He is now in the
hospital here.
Warrants were issued yesterday
from the office of Judge Bunnell
for the arrest of Asa Perry who now
lives in Wichita Falls Texas on a
charge of forgery. Perry it is al-
leged wrote a check recently I.' "a-
vor of the II. E. .Vsrks &;y goods
store here for $38.33 and signed to
it the name of J. M. Terrell.
DEATH OF CHILD.
Nellie Graham the three-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James W.
Graham E03 Iowa Avenue died yes-
terday afternoon and the body was
shipped to Bakashe Okla. for burial.
BOND FUNERAL TO-
MORROW Announcement was made to-
day that tho funeral of Ed
Bond of Mlnco who died ear-
ly yesterday morning nt tho .
El liono hospital will be held
at tho family residence in
Mlnco tomorrow afternoon at
3:30 o'clock. Tho services
will 1)0 attended by many
Chickasha people including a
number of local Masonic
lodgo members.
RUSSIAN
THISTLE
IN GRADY
County Agent Locates Patches
Here and is Organizing to
Fight Worst Crop Men-
ace of Country.
Patches of Russian Thistle proba-
bly tho most dangerous weed to agri-
culture in the country ave been lo-
cated in Grady county and farmers
are being liiled up as rapidly as pos-
sible to fight tha menace according
to county agent J. W. Owens who re-
turned yesterday afternoon from
Rush Springs where the nuisance was
discovered. The weed has secured a
held in several parts of the county
Mr. Owms has leaned af'TT u hr.Pty
investigation.
Russian Thistle is practically the
only plant that will cause the quar:
antine of a cqunty in exporting agri-
culture products according to tho
county agent. National laws against
this particular pest compel every dis-
trict in tho United Stales to observe
the boycott once it is discovered. All
hay grains and forago will be tied uu
where they are raised when the weed
Is noticed by United States agricul-
ture authorities Mr. Owens says.
While it Is "not In the power of the
county agent to enforce laws against
the thistle tho U. S. department of
agriculture makes it the duty of farm-
to clean it out.
Samples of the Russian Thistlo
have been brought to the office of
tho farm bureau here and farm of-
ficials are starting a campaign for
the rooting out of tho evil. It grows
in tho form of a Tumblo Weed and is
most prolific. Seeds are scattered
broadcast when the plant is dry and
is blown about by the wind.
School districts aro being organ-
ized around Verden to fight the weed
whore it has been discovered in
greatest quantities.
AREA NOW
THREATENS
OIL WELL
According to information that was
received here today the Area Oil and
Gas company drilling north of Po-
casset in 10-flN-SW is now preparing
to go into smaller casing at a depth
of about 2200 feet.
An oil scout stated this morning
that his report on the well was to
the effect that they were hammering
on the cap rock. and were expecting a
well at about the depth of the For-
tuna sand in the Cement field which
is slightly below 2200. A complete
line of four and a half inch casing
is being hauled to the well and they
will place the entire string before
beginning operations.
Some oil men point out that one
fact that they are going into their
four and a half inch is proof that
they are about "through" in more
way3 than one. Indications for oil
are said to he splendid.
COTTON IN
GRADY CO.
'CARRYS'O
I.' by no Means Fatally Hit by
Dry Weather; Rain Would
Save Nearly all Crops.
GRADY FREE FAIR
EXHIBITS BOONir
County has Good Chance to
First Place at State Meeting
Says County Agent Owens.
That tho cotton of Crady county
has by no means been fatally hit by
the drov.ih Is the opinion of Farm
Agent J. W. Owens who issued a
statement with regard to rumors of a
possible cotton failure which have-
become current of late. A rain In.
side of tho next ten days will sava
practically the entire crop of tha
I county without serious shortage Mr.
; Owens declares.
Duo to reasonably good cultivation
most of the cotton here has stood dry
weather well. Although in soma
places tho plants are shedding tho
lower leaves the outlook . is not
ulurmlng the agent thinks. Upland
cotton In a few patches shows Indica-
tions o' a short yield but in general
ii iL'v'.i of. tlo tti v. in '"'OHt
is anticipated.
Some farmers of the . county have)
expressed a fear that in. case of a
rain in time to save cotton leaves
and squares would Tall from the stalk
until all benefit would be lost. Whore
cotton has held up in good form for
several weeks without rain a break
in the drouth now would not be detri-
mental the farm bureau is convinced.
Greatest damage to Grady cotton
will be found where late crops have
been planted and tho growth cut off
by tho lack of moisture. Much of
tho crop is but little more than two
or three Inches high and has been
stopped in its growth. This will
yield nothing it rain is not forlbcom-
ing Mr. Owens says.
Exhibits for the Grady county free
fair began coming in to the farm
bureau yesterday afternoon. Up to
date farm products which have been
entered caused the farm agent to
make nothing but favorable forecasts
for the fall display here. Sweet
Clover samples have never been bet-
tor in this part of the country and
alfalfa bids high for a prize show
bureau officials declare.
"Grady county never had a better
chance to take first In the stata
fair than this fall" said the farm
agent in discussing the agricultural
outlook yesterday. "Many of the
counties will leave the field of com
petition open to only the eastern
counties. Everything now depends
upon the amount of effort given to-
ward producing a bumper county frea
fair."
Out Again In
Again Record
Of This Man
A year aso today Ed Herring was
sentenced here to serve a term In
the penitentiary on a charge of lar-
ceny. Today in Judge Moore's court
he was sentenced to spend 30 days
in jail and was fined $25 and costs
when he entered a plea of guilty o
a charge of stealing a watch from
a man employed at a local garage.
Herring has been out of the peni-
tentiary' practically three months.
He was here for a time working
some with a railroad gang. When
a complaint was made charging him
with the theft of a watch he was
located in Oklahoma City and ar-
rested. Yesterday Casey Jones went
to the state capital and brought thu
prisoner here.
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