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Chi
CKASHA OAli:
All the Local News Every
Day in The Dally Express.
New By Wire Daily From
United Press Association.
RESS
VOLUME 8IXTEEN.
GENERATE
"PEP" FOR
BIG GAME
High fchool Students Getting Up
Heavy Load of Steam for Grid-
iron Chsh with Chrokee
Monday '
ASKING MERCHANTS
TO CLOSE STORES
Battle Begins at 4 P. M. and Town
is Called on to Mobilize;
Rousing Chapel Session
is Held
"I have figured on the thing closely
and I can nee that we have about as
good a team but no better one than
Cherokee. That being the case we
will have to have something more than
our team to bent them and that some
thing la "pep."
So declared Dewey Luster one of
the doughty warriors of the C. II. S.
high school football team as he stood
cm the platform at chapel exercises
yesterday before his fellow-students
with a flaming red tin and eyes that
flashed the "pep" which punctuated
the words which he spoke.
"Cherokee Is a little town Juiit a
kind of wide place In the road but
they have a football team that beat
Norman. I don't see anything for us
to do hut scare those farmem to
death" continued the orator "and we
want all of you to Tje there to help ns.
Tt takr-s 'pep' to do it. Thoy have It
at Norman and all the other big school
towns. We are getting up a lot of it
among the students here and I believe
they are getting some of it down town.
We are going to ask the merchants to
close their stores at 4 o'clock Monday
so that everybody can sea the game
and help ns win a victory for Chicka-
rha. We don't know whether they
will do it or not but we are going to
Bfk them and hope they will."
Such was the concluding speech at
n chapel session which was marked by
n marvelous outpouring of school
fplrlt and considerable eloquence.
Pealed upon the stage were such not-
ables as Supterintendent Ramey Rev.
K. II. Tels who although a pacificist
is not averse to the kind of warfare
practiced on the gridiron. Jonas Cook
President J. 0. Mayes of the board of
education and standing out as the he-
loes of tho occasion Coach Reeds end
the team conquerors in every battle
except one this season.
Caplain Shook of the team had ex-
hibited a horseshoe which he found
on the way to the station before the
departure of the train for Shawnee
last week. He had carried it with
him and the hoys had hung It up in
Ihcir room at the hotel In Shawnee
ns a token of good luck. Now It is
all diked out in the class colors and
will be preserved in tho archives of
(lie schoo! as a previous heirloom
Norman Duncan who followed Cap-
lain Shook on the platform declared
the historic horse shoe would be
handed down to Captain Shock's
grandchildren as a reminder of the
prowess of the team of 1915. Rousing
cheers and class yells greeted the
young orator3 who with perfect self-
possesnion and with apt and forceful
language plead their great cause.
Preceding the speeches of the stu-
dents Superintendent Ramey .Mr.
Cook and Mr. Mayes made good talks
full of inspiration tor the students.
"Wo have one of the best high schools
and one of the best football teams in
the state" saild Mr. Ramey. "Our
boys are winning fame for Chickasha
tnd we are proud of them. We hope
the people of the town will give them
their hearty support in the game Mon-
day.' Mr. Cook used a lead pencil as the
text of his sermon drawing some les-
sons which urged the young people to
make their conduct square with the
highest standards. Mr Mayes spoke
particularly of the new high school
paper "The Booster" of which he
said he was very proud and he re-
iterated advice which he had given to
the students on a previous occasion
telling them that they could make the
Chlckasha high school just what they
wanted it to be. There was another
speech b'U the report of it 1h sup-
pressed by request. It is sufficient to
state that the speaker pulled the big-
gest bonchead ever sprung on an inno
cent and unsuspecting audience and
received a chorus of merry ha-ha's
that will likely last him a lifetime.
Chickasha will be in line for the
state championship if the team wins
over Cherokee. Dr. Cloudman of Ok-
lahoma City will act as referee in the
game and Mr. Wyatt coach at the
Alva normal will be umpire.
INSPECTION
STARTED BY
TIRE CHIEF
"You had better look to your ruh
bish piles and see that your flues are
all O. K. and your stoves removed not
less than eighteen inches from the
wooden partitions."
So spoke Fire Chief Cattia this
morning. And the cause of the chief's
remark is the starting out of the boys
on their regular fall and winter tour
of inspection of the residences and
business houses of the city.
Members from each fire station
started out this morning on this In
spection trip and will comb the city in
the interests of "safety first" as with
a fine tooth comb in the matter of
hunting out and causing the removul
of all fire dangers. This inspection
will include an examination of; all
wirings a search for any gag leaks
search for accumulated rubblBli
piles an inspection of flues and fur
naces and in ascertaining if all wood
and coal stoves may be set the proper
distance not less than eighteen
Inches from any and all board parti
tions.
The annual inspection of premises
began in 1912 and has been repeated
annually since. Chief Oattis states
that the present inspection is showing
that all errors reported at previous
inspections hae been corrected and
Mates that thin Js one of the reasons
why ChickashaB fire losses have In
come so light. The chief spoKe in
eulogistic terms of the manner in
which the residents of the city have
co-operated with the fire department
n the matter of fire prevention.
The preeent inspection Chief Oattis
stated will probably continue for sev-
eral weeks as every residence every
business house every factory every
building of every kind in the city will
be thoroughly gone over and in-
spected. '
SENTIENT
IS STIRRED
By T'nited Press.
DALLAS Texas Nov. 11. The
gruesome termination of the execution
of O A. Myers who was decapitated
when he was hanged at Fort Worth
yesterday may result in a statewide
campaign for the abolition of capital
punishment in Texas.
The initial step was taken today
when Miss Elizabeth Raker secretary
of the Dallas branch of the. State Hu-
mane society began the preparation
of an appeal to twenty-one local
branches of the organization to de-
mand a change in the law at the next
session of the legislature.
WILL CLOSE FOR
FOOTBALL GAME
The following merchants of the city
have already agreed to close up their
places of business Monday November
15 from 3 to 5 o'clock p. m. so that
they and their employes may attend
the football game between Chickasha
and Cherokee for the state champion-
ship. These merchants have agreed
to close providing all in the same line
of business close. So far all the dry
goods and clothing merchants and the
drug stores have agreed to close.
Others not on the list belor are yet
to tie seen. 1 1
Clothing dry goods and shoes The
Hub The Globe Morgan & Gribi The
Fair Mark's People's Dullard's The
Famous The Leader Hunter's Boot-
trie Moore's Enterprise The Eagle.
Drug stores Brownson's The Owl
The Wren The -Palace.
Hardware stores Chalfant's Buie
& Wallaca and Wadsworth & White.
Confectionery Roddy's Candy
Kitchen and Andrew's.
The complete and final list of all
who close will be published tomorrow.
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These i ayuiastcra of the German army have arrived in a town in Galicia and halted In front of a castle whore
he soldiers will receive their pay. Statistics show the kaiser's men send back home from the front every month
between sixty and seventy million marks.
DECLARES
ROAD LAW
DEFECTIVE
Robinson Says New Act or Radical
Amendment is Needed; Com-
missioners Tied Under
Present System
In speaking of the calling together
of the commissioners of the several
counties of the stale by the state high-
way commissioner a few days Com-
missioner James Robinson of the
Chlckasha district of Grady county
btated this morning that the object of
the meeting was that all commission-
ers might get together in a general
plan w hich would lead to the .better-
ment of road conditions in their re-
spective counties and to a better un-
derstanding of the present road law
by which the commissioners are gov-
are handicapped by the existing law.
Mr. Robinson stated that the object
of the meeting was all right but that
practically nothing could or would be
done in the matter of sue"' ssful road
building in Oklahoma .is long as the
commissioners of the various counties
of the state.
Mr. Robinson said that the present
road law was inoperative and ineffec-
tive to a great extent on account of
the manner in which it tied the hands
and restricted the actions of the com-
missioners' and practically turned
everything over to the civil engineer?
or highway surveyors. He said that
the present road law amounted to
practically a one-man law in each and
every county In the state; that it took
practically all the powers away from
the three commissioners of a county
and vested those powers absolutely in
the hands of the highway engineer of
that counly; that the commissioners
were powerless under the provisions
of the present law to act save as the
engineer might dictates; that the law
became thereby ineffective and Inoper-
ative; that tho "red tape" of such a
law necessitated the burdening of the
taxpayers with unnecessary overhead
expenses which were a drain upon
the road funds and that the taxes
which should go toward working and
making passable and better the roads
were to a greater or less degree de-
flected into unremunerative channels;
that a large part of the money which
should be used in digging ditches and
building culverts and grading down
hills and filling In low places would
be used in the defra: ment of the un-
necessary overhead tipenses under
the present road law while the roads
upon which this money should be
used and upon which it would be sup-
posed to be expended would become
but little better after the expenditure
had been made.
Mr. Robinson stated in rather em
phatic terms that it was up to the
members of the state legislature
house members and senators to either
repeal tho present law and enact a
new law in Its lieu or to so amend
the present law that it - will become
CHICKASHA OKLAHOMA THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11 1915.
PAY DAY IN THE GERMAN ARMY ."l
a road law which will give the people
of all the counties of the state good
roads a law which will be a road law j
in fact and not "an engineer's law."
He said that he thought the members
of the general assembly should the
legislature be called in extraordinary
session this winter as it now seems
it will be would so amend this law
that It wi'l no longer remain a one
man's ar.d an Inoperative law or that
they would repeal the present law
altogether and enact an entirely new
law governing the working the creat-
ing and. the ruaintainanee iof high-
ways. AMERICANS
DECORATED
BY KAISER
By t'nited Press.
BERLIN Nov. 11. It was au-
: minced today that Mrs. James Ger-
ard wife of the American ambassador
here had ibeen decorated with Red
A ross medals of the first and second
class by the kaiser.
This is paid to have been the first
time that the kaiser has ever given
a decoration of the first-class to a j
woman not of royal blood. 1
The kaiser also awarded second and
third class medals to Rev. S. Barclay
of Cobham Va. and John B. Jackson
of New Jersey both active in investi-
gating prison camps.
BIG PLANT
DESTROYED
By I'nited Press.
TRENTON N. J. Nov. 11. A mys-
terious fire destroyed the wire rope
plant of John A. Roebling & Sons in
which supplies for the allies have
been manufactured.
Tho damage is estimated at a mil-
lion dollars. This was the third fire
within twenty-four hours causing loss
to plants engaged In the manufacture
of munitions of war for the allies.
M'ADOO TO SPEAK.
By t'nited Press.
NEW YORK Nov. 11. Treasury
Secretary William O. McAdoo tomor-
row will tell the annual convention of
the American Academy of Political
Science what congress must do to in-
sure the success of an American Mer-
cantile marine.
WAIVED PRELIMINARY
H. A. Smith charged with maintain-
ing premises upon which liquors have
been sold or given away wate ar-
raigned in the county court yesterday
afternoon and waived preliminary.
Bond was fixed given and approved
and the defendant released pending
the action of the district court.
HEAVY TOLL
TAKEN BY
TWISTER
Reports of Lives Lost at Great
Bend Vary from Four to Twelve;
Property Loss Placed at
Half Million
By United Press..
GREAT BEND Kan. Nov. 11.
Twelve persons are known to he dead
several are missing and scores injured
as results of the tornado which swept
the southeast section of this city last
night. Property loss is placed at half
a million.
The city light and water plants
three big flour mills the Santa Fe
depot and fifty residences were
wrecked. A thousand sheep that were
being fed in the stock pens were
killed.
The fire broke out in one of the
mills and soon spread to several dwel-
lings adding to the havoc of the wind.
The tornado was accompanied by a
j heavy rain which prevented the flames
from doing greater damage. Phy
sicians from neighboring towns are
aiding the injured.
Report Only Four Lost.
By t'nited Press.
KANSAS CITY Nov. 11. Informa-
tion was received today over shaky
telephone wires to the effect that only
lour lives are known to have been
lost in the Great Bend tornado. The
list of injured was estimated at sixty.
Dispatches from many points in cen-
tral and western Kansas indicate that
the storm spent its main force at
Great Bend.
Gale on Atlantic Coast.
By t'nited Press.
WASHINGTON Nov. 11. Three
coast guard cutters are en route to
relieve vessels that are in serious dis-
tress In a gale on the North Atlantic
coast.
GOOD GRAIN CROPS IN THE
NORGE NEIGHBORHOOD
George Thomas of Norge manager
of the elevator and owner of the grist
mill at that place -was In Chlckaslia
this morning and reported that the
grain crop in the neighborhood of
Norge was well up to the average this
fall.
EVENTS IN THE WAR
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY.
The
which
check.
Six
great battle of Ypres
marked a Teutonic
was at its height
thousand Austrians in-
Serbia were cut to
vading
pieces.
Turks
forts.
took the El-Arisa
DR. WILKINS IS PRESIDENT OF
SOUTHERN MEDIC ASSOCIATION.
P.y United Press.
i DALLAS Nox. It. Dr. Robert Wil-
kins Jr. of Charleston S. C was
elected president of the Southern
Medical association at today's session.
Atlanta was selected as the place for
the next convention.
FED. COURT
IS WINDING
UP WORK
It is thought Judge Campbell of the
United States district court will com-
I plete the trial of the equtiy docket
this afternoon. This will clear up the
docket for the present term and leave
the report of the grand Jury as the
only remaining business for the
I court's attention.
Possibly the grand Jury will report
tomorrow morning and ask for dis
charge from further duty.
All prisoners confined in the Grady
county jail by order of Judge Camp
bell except the two who were sen
tenced to this jail will be transferred
possibly the latter part of the present
week. Two will go to Ardmore to
serve out their sentences in the Carter
county Jail and the remainder will be
sent to Muskogee.
The prisoners who have been sen-
tenced to the federal penitentiary at
Leavenworth Kan. hut who have ap-
pealed from the findings of this court
will be removed to the Muskogee jail
there to be held pending the time re-
quired to complete their appeal or
until they give bond.
BUTLER IS PROMOTED.
Okmulgee Democrat: The Rev. M.
L. Butler arrived in the city from Ard-
more last evening and will be the
guest of his daughter Mrs. R. H. Eli-
son. Mr. Butler has been promoted
by the recent M. E. conference and is
now on the educational commission of
the state. As we understand his plans
are somewtiatnmdetermined but he
is considering Muskogee as a resi-
dence for his family. His work will
take him over the state and it is his
desire to have Mrs. Butler and daugh-
ters at some place easy of access by
train so that he can be at home as
much as possible. Mr. Butler's
friends here are pleased at his pro-
motion in his chosen work.
GIRL HELD
FOR KILLING
By United Press.
CORSICANA Texas Nov. 11. Miss
Alma Morgan who shot Allen Godley
Tuesday while in the district court
oom here when he declined to admit
that he was her betrayer was re-
arrested this morning on a charge of
murder as a result of Godley's death
last night.
Misa Morgan's bond was raised
from one thousand to fifteen hundred
dollars and it was furnished by neigh
bors of the family.
MISS BUNTING
MAKES BIG HIT
Theater lovers of Chickasha were
well repaid in the play at the Sugg
last evening. The house was crowded
to its utmost capacity standing room
even being at a premium with the late
comers.
Miss Emma Bunting the little ac-
tress who has charmed and thrilled
audiences in the metropolitan cities of
the United States was at her best in
"Yosemite" and with touching pathos
she enacted the role of the simple
country maiden of the wilds of
America's wildest sections who hav-
ing won the heart of an English gen-
tleman and returned with him to hi3
ancestral home only to run away
broken-hearted on account of the
manner iii which his 'people humiliate
her with her simple minded ways. She
I layed the role with a heart-touching
simplicity the role of the girl who
was willing to sacrifice even her own
love for the man she loved.
That the acting was all that the
most exacting critic could desire was
evidenced by the fact that in addition
to sying her audience from the mo-
NUMBER 298.
TOTAL OF 27
AMERICAN
LIVES LOST
According to Official Reports to
State Department but Rome
Advices Give Eleven ; Only
One Native Born
SCENE OF HORROR
WHEN SHIP SUNK
Stories Conflict But Majority Agree
Liner Attempted to Escape
When Ordered to Stop
by Submarine
By United Press.
ROME Nov. 11. The "Socleta
Italia" says only eleven Americans
were aboard the liner Ancona when
it was sunk by a submarine and that
only one of these .Mrs. Ceclle Greil
was a native born American.
The other Americans were Italians
who had becomes naturalized accord-
ing to this authority.
The latest reports indicate that one
hundred and seventy-six persons per-
ished when the liner went down.
Two correspondents cabled from the
coast of Tunis that the Ancona
stopped immediately when ordered to
do so by the submarine commander
and that the vessel was sunk before
the passengers were given no time to
escape.
The majority of the reports how-
ever agree that the liner took to
flight and hove to only when the sub-
marine overhauled here and fired
shrapnel into her deck.
Cable dispatches pictured scenes of
horror when the liner sank off the
coast of Sardinia Monday afternoon.
Italian survivors said the submarine
circled the Ancona as she listed
firing shrapnel at the lifeboats killing
woman an many children. '
Dozens leaped into the water from
the decks of the vessel and others
were drowned when lifeboats cap-
sized. Women and children were
sucked into the whirlpool that en
gulfed the liner.
27 Americans Lost
By United Press.
WASHINGTON Nov 11. Twenty-
seven Americans were lost on the An-
cona according to official dispatches
received by the state department.
The official report said three hun
dred and forty-seven of the four hun-
dred and ninety-six passengers on
board the liner were saved.
MUNICIPAL CONCERTC.
By United Press.
PORTLAND Me. Nov. 11. The
first twenty high-class municipal sub-
scription concerts scheduled for this
city season is to be given here to
night. The city runs the whole show
for the citizens. Tl;a program in-
cludes Schumann-Heink Boston Sym-
phony Hulia Culp and eighteen
others.
ASKS FOR GRADY CORN
FOR RED RIVER FAIR.
The secretary of the Grady County
Commercial and Farm bureau has re-
ceived a communication from the sec-
retary of the chamber of commerce of
Sherman Texas requesting several
ears of Grady county corn to be placed
on exhibition at the coming Red River
Valley fair.
WEATHER FORECAST.
For Oklahoma.
Tonight fair colder vith frost.
Friday fair.
Local Temperature.
During the twenty-four hours ending
at 8 o'clock a. m.:
Maximum "9
Minimum 49
Rain .17 inch.
ment the curtain rose on the first
scene of the first act until it dropped
en closing tableau the little actress
seemingly at will could move her
audience to tears as she Impressed
upon them through her strong person-
ality the realism of the events ot the
play.
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