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Vol. 2—No. 237
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.. THURSDAY. MAY 18, 1922
PKICE TWO CENTS
ILLINOIS MINER
LEADERS ASSAIL
JOHN WILKINSON
BITTER
Pennsylvania Repudiates Reactionaries
£*«.«•* ••• *# *****
Oifford Pinchot Carries Banner Into Stronghold of the Old Guard, Defeating Machine Candidate For Governor
Frampton and Van Bittner De-
fend Lewis-Wilkinson Ex-
pulsion of Kansas Miners.
The entire forenoon Thursday wa1*
occupied by speeches deliTered by
"Vice-President Flshnlck, of Illinois
on behalf of the Kansas miners, and
Tan Bitner in support of the Lewis
machine. 4t the hour of taking re-
cess for lunch Van Hltner hart not
concluded. He was to tlnlsli his
speech iu the afternoon and to be
followed by 1>. A. Frampton, national
organizer of Missouri, who will sup-
port l.ewls and M ilkinson.
President Farrington, of Illinois,
will haTe an opportunity to reply to
all the speakers, who In support of
l.ewis and Wilkinson, have attacked
him.
MUSKOGEE, May 18.—"I not only
am not trying to destroy the Mine
Workers' organization but am trying
to keep any one else from destroy-
ing it," said President Frank Far-
rington, of the Illinois district, who
arrived here Wednesday and ad-
dressed the miners convention at the
afternoon sesston.
"1 came here to defend the Kansas
miners whom I believe to be the vic-
tims of the most treacherous betrayal
in the history of not only the Mine
Workers but the entire American la-
bor movement," he said.
Before presenting Farrington to
the convention President Wilkinson
stated that the charge made at a
previous session that Farrington and
the Oklahoma Leader were in a con-
spiracy to over-throw the interna-
tional organization and that he would
so prove from the records.
"I have every respect for Farring-
ton's integrity as a man, for his re-
spect for contracts and his ability.
We only differ as to policy," he said.
Farrington, replying to these re-
marks, said "I do not understand
your position. In one breath you
accuse me of trying to destroy the
organization and in the next breath
you say you have respect for me.
Permit me to say. President Wilkin-
son. that I have no respect for any
man who Is trying to destroy the
Mine Workers' organization. If I
am guilty of that I deserve, not the
respect, but the contempt of every
union man. Now, you'll have
chance to prove that charge if I have
to stay here all summer. Because I
expect to stay until this convention
is over or until you say there is no
more to be said on the subject. There
will be no one coming along after
me and saying I said such and such
a thing after I'm gone as was the
case in the Missouri convention.''
Opposition to Speak.
Although there was frequent ap-
plause during the address of the Illi-
nois chief, the demeanor of the dele
Kitten was more that of intense in
terest.
Van Bittner and D. A. Frampton
will speak Thursday in behalf of
CAPI
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EL
IGHTST
OUIl
SLO
Attorney Claims School Pat-
rons Are Insulted By 'Best j
and Worst' Sallies.
The bitter fight between the South-
west Bell Telephone company and
the druggists and other merchants
of Oklahoma City over the pay tel-
ephone stations opened for the sec-
ond round Thursday morning before
the corporation commission.
The commission room at the Cap-
itol, while not evidencing such a
large crowd as was present Wednes-
day when the first session opened,
was nevertheless well filled.
At noon the commission's secre-
tary declared that it would probably
require most of the day to get in all
of the evidence in the case.
Heated sallies between attornys for
the company and attorneys repre-
senting tho patrons marked Wednes-
day and Thursday morning sessions.
R. J. Benzall. state manager of the
telephone company declared that the j
opposition to the pay stations was
due to the fact that all of the mer-
chants had not as yet established the
pay stations, which resulted in dis-
crimination against those who had.
Attorneys for the subscribers vigor-
ously denied this, contending that it
had hurt their business to deny pat-
rons the use of phones.
Best and Worst.
When S. H. Harris, attorney for
the company, followed the statement
of druggists that "some of the sons
and daughters of the best people in
town used their phones," by asking
if some of the "worst ones as well"
used the phones, it brought a bitter
attack upon HarriB by S. A. Rourke,
who declared Harris had insulted
every patron of the Oklahoma City
schools.
Benzall declared that the average
cost of each phone call was about
1.9 cents, when attorneys for the pat-
rons declared thdt 5 cents was too
much for a few words conversation.
PITTSBURGH. May 18.—Gif-
ford Pinchot had carried the
banner of the progressives into
the very stronghold of the enemy
today.
Returns still being received
from Tuesday's primary election,
indicated that the reaction
against the reactionaries had
swept Pennsylvania, for years
the "property" of the old guard,
Into the hostile colunm. defeat-
ing George E. Alter, "machine
candidate," for the republican
nomination for governor.
Pinchot's lead over the attor-
ney general was steadily increas-
ing as the rural precincts were
heard from, and it was predicted
that his plurality would be be-
tween 15,000 and 20,000 votes
when the final tabulation was
completed.
Alter was the candidate of the
machiue left virtually leaderless
by the death of Boies Penrose,
who "bossed" Pennsylvania for
20 years.
That the results of Tuesday's
election would be far-reaching,
and would strike fear into the
administration at Washington.
was the belief here today. The
repudiation of the old gur.rd was
taken as highly significant, and
a slap at the present national
regime. Coming as it did. in one
of the most conservative states
in the union, political observers
regard the vote as indicative of
decisive upheavals throughout
the United States in coming
elections.
A majority of more than 8,000
votes was registered for Pinchot,
from 7,500 out of 7,934 districts
in the state.
The obi guard had conceded
that Pinchot would run strong in
the rural districts, but counted
on piling up an invlunerable ma-
jority in the cities. There too,
Pinchot showed unexpected fol-
lowing, cutting down the lead of
the reactionaries as it had sel-
dom before been cut. Alters
own backers have admitted that
Pinchot will be the victor.
Senator George Wharton Pep-
per, seeking nomination for the
unexpired term of the late Sen-
ator Penrose, defeated William
J. Burke, congressman at large,
reports indicated.
ALLEGED FRAUDS
1IN HOSPITAL JOB
ARE POINTED OUT
FIRE IS FATAL
'015 BR MORE
WILL SIC HORNETS
ON POSIE THIEVES
Members of the "Rose Pluck-
ers' club" better beware! Indig-
nant citizens living in the Las
Vegas addition are after you and
they swear that when you are
found out Shylock's demand for
a pound of flesh won't be a
comparison of what they will
exact of the club members.
Rose fanciers declare that
there is a well-organized club
of young ladies living in that
part of the city whose chief de-
light and purpose is to make
night raids on the rosebeds,
stripping the choice bushes of
all flowers and promising buds.
It has been found out that the
girl members of the club call
these night exploits "bug hunt-
ing."
Many citizens who have care-
fully tended and watched their
choice flowers only to find them
gone in tho morning, are up in
arms. They are talking barbed
wire entanglements, electric
batteries and one very indignant
fancier who has put out a large
garden of choice roses this
spring declares that he will
-plant" a nest of yellow jackets
or a hive of bees in his garden
unless the practice is stopped.
nos
GUI
MANUEL ELIMINATES
HIS OPPONENTS, TOO?
NEITEUM
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ARGE
JIASSET
Preliminary Court Hearing Set
For Friday.
Phelan Continues War on the
County Bond Issue.
Amended petition charging that the
issue of county hospital bonds was
illegal, was filed in district court
Thursday by J. R. Phelan. The
county commissioners, Ed Butter-
field, B. W. Black, and George Brown.
Martie S. Ryan, county treasurer.
Tom Bodine, county clerk, and
George F. Short, attorney general and
George D. Key. bond buyer, were
named as defendants.
This marked the latest develop-
ment In the war which has waged
over the hospital bonds since they
were first voted.
The amended petition, like the
original, asks that the court declare
the bonds to be illegally issued, and
that the defendants be restrained
from taking further action.
The necessary plurality of three-
fifths of the voters did not declare
in favor of the bonds at the election,
it was said. Of the 9,018 unmutil-1
ated ballots, the petition alleges,
5,330 voted for the bonds, and 3,698
voted against them. If this was the
correct number of unmutilated bal-
lots cast, there must have been at
least 5,409 votes for the issue of the
bonds for the issue to have legally
carried.
A state law requires that three-
fifths of the voters must cast their
ballots in favor of an expenditure of
Has Manuel Herrick, congress-
man and birdman. learned a few-
things from the Oklahoma guber-
natorial elimination contest?
This is the question being
asked in republican political cir-
cles Thursday morning with the
announcement that Wesley J.
Reed, republican candidate for
congress from Manuel's district,
has withdrawn from the race.
The notice of Reed's with-
drawal reached the election
board Thursday morning.
Two other candidates on the
republican ticket still remain to
contest Manuel's seat. They are
M. C. Garber of Enid and Charles
Swindali of Woodward.
Political dopesters are watch-
ing with interest to see if either
of the other candidates opposing
Manuel announce their with-
drawal "in order to keep dow n
inharmony In the party and pre-
sent a solid front after the pri-
maries."
READY FOR SKIDS
NEE'
ST
'T
E! HOME:
Information was on file Thursday
charging Mrs. J. 11. Massey with the
I murder of Richard Keesee. who died
| at Wesley hospital at 3 o'clock Wed-
| nesday afternoon of gunshot wounds,
•'orrest L. Hughes, county attorney,
filed the information.
Keesee was shot over an argument
over the possession of some flowers
! on Mothers' day. His wounds were |
HAGERSTOWN. Md., May 17.—
Western Maryland railroad employes
are iu the seventh week of their
money which is more than the in- strike against the company contract-
come of the county or municipality ing its repair work, which resulted in
during thtfyear in which the bonds lengthening hours and decreasing
are voted. This clearly show-H that j wages. The men involved are the six
the hospital bond issue was illegal, l shop crafts and malutenance-of-way
the plaintiff alleges. i employes, signal men and stationary
He charges that it would cost Ok- fircnien- oilers and shop laborers,
lahoma county $80,000 a year for the The withdrawal of these workers
j will occupy the field alone against
i Walton for the democratic noniina-
Bosses Seek To Put Private | tlon. He alone Is reported to have
surrounded himself with an aura of
j rosy optimism that no storm clouds
can dim.
;Two Wards Destroyed By
| Blaze Starting In Laundry
of Institution.
j ROME, May 18.—Death of more
i than fifteen persons resulted today,
from fire which destroyed two wards
i of the Santo Splrito hospital, on the
[banks of the Tiber river.
The blaze broke out In the laundry
of the famous charitable institution,
which houses altogether, about 5,000
persons. Before rescuers could carry
out the patients in the chronic ward,
which was attacked by the flames,
twelve were suffocated,
Fifteen bodies have been recovered.
The fire caused the electric light
in the building to go out, which made
the work of rescue more difflcul
Calling timbers obstructed the work,
and in one place, the wreckage
in political T.TV CRVe'n PUVe,T1'
cles that O'Bryan is in Oklahoma which temporarily cutoff a number
City to Kot his elimination paper.," ,,r *! ,,n, ,rom *"l t nce.
The elimination of O'Bryan is ex- Officer., nurses and doctors aided
peeted to further bring about "party <h- °r.k Ire-
harmony" In Oklahoma democracy. succeeded in confining the blaze
With O'Bryan out the attempt to .lo ,wo *arilH-
lead either Tom Owen or Bob Wil-'
son to the "skidding ground" is ex-
pected to tax the ingenuity of the po-
liticians.
Predictions are that if one of these
candidates is eliminated it will be
Owen, since he has already sought to
gracefully retire on one or two oc-
casions. Bob Wilson is reported to I
be a "sticker." and present prospects
e that within the next month he New Improvements Will Re-
Tom B. O'Bryan, Haskell Edi-
tor, Is Candidate.
Tom B. O'Bryan. Haskell editor,
and one of the four "uneliminated"
contestants for the democratic guber-
natorial nomination, was in Okla-
homa City Thursday, ostensibly to
speak before the Young People's
Democratic club Thursday noon at
Mack's cafeteria.
But it is rumored in political cir-
TOB
EYSCHOOL
LED
duce Fire Hazards.
Detectives To Work.
maintenance of the hospital.
! Judge Threatens To Cut Down not considered dangerous at first, bul
u:« aiu..,« «a i he grew worse and it was announced
His Allowance.
Wednesday morning that he could
, , I not live.
he International organization and | BarMu'^niUionain^indian" mutTbe Hu*h«" took a dying ",#tem<nt 0t I
HER
, , tinmen. lumiuuHut; luuiau, iiiuhi i «
Harry Fishwick, vice president of he | conten(ie,, ,-!th a mea,ley $2,500 the >ncldent from Keesee.
Illinois district who accompanied 1 h u0,wi,hstanding thp fact (bat Following the shooting, Mrs. Mas-
Farrington. will also be given the | hjs 0„ roy!>ltie, alone are more than sey was arrested but released on
l'00r* $5,000 a month and his interest In '°.n^ ° ,?" .. ' j r
"I did not know I was coming here , . . ... ; with assault with a deadly weapon
"Wife's" Parents Learn Truth
And Tell Authorities.
DES MOINES. May 18. The story
to face charges," said Farrington. "I
came to speak in behalf of the Kan-
sas miners and no duty In my 23
years of official position in the or-
ganization has given me more satis-
faction than that of defending these
men.
"Wilkinson has attempted to throw «.* .*.
suspicion over me before I reached ™™^ and that unless Barnett spent
your convention so my remarks hls Present^ allowance properly, he
would not be received with the ere- wouUI cut u ,lown- . „ „
dence they would have had otherwise, j Attorneys represent,ng Mrs Bar-
is a chance to defend ! "ett declared that even an ine.om-
But all I ask
myself on this floor when attack is
made on me or my official record.
"If John L. Lewis is the national
organization then there Is truth in
Wilkinson's statement, but if
$5,000 a month and his interest in
Liberty bonds is equal to a like, preliminary hearing on thisjof a woman married to a woman, had
' 'harge was to be held Friday. 'come to light today, with a complaint
Sheriff Ben Dancy announced after , by the parents of Mrs. Jeannette
the murder charge was tiled that he Simmons, who discovered that their
would not place Mrs. Massey in jail daughter had wed, not to a man, but
if she was forced to take her young to Miss Irene Gaul.
baby with her. As there are other ; When questioned by authorities,
children in the Massey family, he be ! Miss Gaul declared she could earn
lieved that some arrangements could I better wages when attired as a man.
be made. She wooed and won Mrs. Simmons,
Self-defense is expected to be the 1 in order that an adopted son might
plea of Mrs. J. H. Massey. charged! have the benefit of a mother's at-j
with the murder of Richard Keesee, tentlons while she herself was at I
who died in a local hospital Wednes- j w ork.
day afternoon. j The "wife" didn't find out she had j
Mrs. Massey was out on bond of j been married to a woman, Tor nearly)
This was the decision of Judge | (
Hugh Murray who heard a petition
asking that his allowance be raised
from $2,500 to $3,500 a month. The
judge said that he would not allow
Barnett and his white wife any more
petent Indian should be allowed at
least to spend his income.
Barnett has $1,071,750 of Liberty
bonds. Besides this he has money
out on interest which brings in ap-
oil
has brought chaos to the road bed
and rolling equipment. Represent-
atives of the interstate commerce
commission ordered 45 engines to be
"pulled" because of defective con-
dition.
A remarkable feature of the strike
is the number of men that are
brought to points along the line, and
the rapidity with which they leave
when they find that a strike is on.
The company has agencies all
through the east and middle west,
but despite this campaign the work-
ers' solidarity ras triumphed and
the company lias failed to secure a
competent corpa cf strikebreakers.
I>ast week J^'jvate detectives
SLEUTL
Architect Orders Halt In Work
at Muskogee—Soldier
Committee Called.
"I am going to see that the sol-
diers of Oklahoma arc pretected and
given a hospital according t® the
specifications as agreed to by the
contractor."
This was the declaration of Mau-
rice Jayne, architect of this city,
Thursday, following his demand that
contractors constructing the Sol-
diers' Memorial hospital at Muskogee
stop all work on the building until
the soldiers' relief committee in
harge of the building meet and
check up the work of the contractors.
The contractors are not building
the building according to specifica-
tions." Jayne declared. "They have
two sets ot blue prints on the ground.
While I found that they were not
follow ing the set not approved by the
committee, they were not following
the one upon which they agreed to
build the hospital. They were pur-
suing a policy of constructing the
building on lines between the two
sets of blue prints by putting in
cheaper materials and other things
that would lessen the cost of the
building."
Belief Committee Meeting.
Jayne said that he bad notified the
soldiers' relief committee composed
of H. B. Fell of Ardmore, Horace
Hagan of Tulsa, and Grant Victor of
Alton, and that they would meet
within the next few days to go into
the "whole matter."
Jayne declared that he did not
know what purpose the construction
company had in having a set of speci-
fications far inferior to the plans as
drawn up by the architect but that
"they were away short of the speci-
fications agreed upon by the contrac-
tors."
Jayne declared that a building
built upon these plans would cost
thousands of dollars less than those
contracted for by the committee.
Stops Work.
After making a personal investiga'-
tlon of the work at Muskogee, on
Wednesday, Jayne ordered the con-
struction company to stop work.
The letter addressed to the Akaw-
hattan construction company, "WBTcBP
has the building contract is as fol-
'lows:
"Gentlemen: Under authority
granted the architect to stop work
Detroit Detective Airs
archist Plot."
'An-
McKinley School will be made safe
from the fire hazards pointed out In
the recent report of tho National
Board of Fire Underwriters, by plans
now being made for remodeling that
huildins. according to Mob Psrn a,
commissioner of public safety.
After an inspection of the bu£l/,ling(
Parman will order the doors to be
made to swing outward, and certain
repairs in the wiring, and other min-
or repairs. These in addition to the | when the occasion demands stoppage
installation of cement stairs and ce
ment floors to insure fireproof exits
in case of con flag ration, will remedy
the glaring defects pointed out by
fire underwriters.
PAINTERS SEEK
FIVE DAY WEEK
$10,000, Thursday. She was re-ar-
rested after the charge had been filed
men who loot the bills and do the j proximately *45.000 a year and
1 royalties which bring him in J60.000 j but never placed in jail. Every mem-
ber of the family was to appear at
MEXICAN BANDIT
WAS AN AMERICAN
By Federated PrtSl.
TAMPICO, Mex., May 18.—Govern-
a month, it is declared.
OKLA.NATURAL
DETROIT. May 18. Joseph A.
Pal ma, chief. Detroit district, United
States secret service, aims to be the
rival of William J. Burns for the
honor of being known as "the great
detective." He has told the press
that seven alleged counterfeiters
whom his men have arrested were
Anarchists who were reaping golden
harvests to swell the coffers of their
fellow i ommunists in Russia.
The seven are said to have turned
"fives" into "twenties," and they
were bound together, Palms assures
the public, by an oath which pre-1
oredered by officials to work around j scribed suicide in preference to con-
the shops. The "professional" pride i fesslon. , . #h..t
of the -bulls" was hurt, and 70 t,t | According to the statement pub-; J ,e ,! * *! Il l««if'iP
them quit rather than be class-..! as Ushed in the Detroit News, "The they would call a
ordinary strikebreakers. They d?- seven would often pass their counter- whether or not a lockout will be
clare that their business is not to felt notes in the poorer quarters, declared against the workers who
work but to guard those who work. I where there were aged persons with take the Saturday vacation. The
I defective sight or children of tender painters' action was taken over the
years." It took ten secret service
men a year to arrest the seven men,
after clues were obtained. Palma
said, and one of the seven, who. It is
charged, literally and figuratively
„ . , , /-v ,, , coined money, is said to have lived In
Senator Robert L Owen w,ll make cpnt r00m9 „„ ,,,nt f|lnner,
a speaking tour of the state, arrlv-j
ing in Tulsa Thursday, it has been
of same, I hereby demand complete
stoppage of all labor and materials
being placed in tho structure of the
Soldiers' Memorial hospital, located
at Muskogee, Oklahoma, and under
your contract.
"This cessation will continue in
force until such time as the soldiers'
relief commission may meet and dis-
pose of certain irregularities and un-
necessary plans.
(Signed) "MAURICE JAYNE."
BOSTON, May 18. Union painters j yne declared that while the work
in Boston and vicinity have initiated on building had not progressed
a fight for the five-day week which }ar enough to disclose much discrep-
they lost when they were locked out ;inry jM the construction, he ordered
Jan. 30, 1921. By an overwhelming I the work stopped before tbe skimping
vote of the membership of Locals 11, (,n the construction became alarm*
402, 760, and 938. painters will not
a. report hereafter for the half day on
I Saturday.
' Following the vote to that effect.
N
EY
[URINE CLOSE
SENATOR OWEN
TO SPEAK IN STATE
pleas of the United Building Trades
council officials. The latter claimed plans Considered For Conter-
that the painters were complicating 0HC6 at HagUC.
work are the organizati9n. then th-
charge is as false as any human a >'ear at tlie present rate
could make. | Barnett has just completed a $30,
"I wouldn't have any trouble in "00 home in Muskogee.
the miners' union if I'd get in John
I,. Lewis' bandwagon like Wilkinson.
Dalrymple. Van Bittner and the
others. Everything would be nice
then. But I don't propose to do that. I
I've been in the game too long. I
joined the Knights of Labor in 1886;
when a boy 13 years old and joined j
the U. M. W. of A. as a charter mem- ment troops operating under General
her in 1800. I had a part in building j Gomez, chief. Tampion district, shot
this union and I think John Wilkin- and killed Mont Michel, or Monty ,. .
gon found it already made for him ' Mitchell, an American citizen, at Keesee to Hughes, he s said to have Bi0n. held that the Oklahoma Natural
when he landed on "these shores, 1 ! C ebano, an oil town. 36 miles from | implicated Miss Ethel Massey, 18,1 CouM not select its patrons and must
say that not to discredit him, but to i here, on the road to San l-uis Potosi
mpress on him that I helped to build l^th eiRhl: companions, MlcheJ_helt , |t „ „„„ ran 1nto the | ronnect wlth th
the court house Thursday for ques-
tioning, according to Forrest L.
Hughes, county attorney.
J. Q. A. Harrod, local attorney, has
been engaged by Mrs. Massey as her
attorney. Mrs. Massey declares that
she heard her son and daughetr
quarreling with Keesee when he was connect with the Chickasha Ga
cutting tiif lose? and started out i Hlectrlc company of Chickasha, the
with the gun in her hand. j Oklahoma Natural company filed h
He came toward her with an open notice of appeal to the state supreme
knife, she asserted, and she shot him. rourt. Wednesday.
In the dying statement made by Hughes and Russell of the commis-
on. held that the Oklahom
juld no select its patrons
daughter of the woman made defend- ; connect with the Chickasha company.
i"him that I helped to build I With eight eompanions, Michel held | "nt !""Td<:r H° aa!d' I which had constructed a pipe line to
announced. Hubert L. Bolen. who
has just announced his withdrawal
T a isr O a n n r 1 i <rom tlie race for sovernor, will KO
/ AIxcjU Am i £AL t0 Tulsa where be will confer with
Owen. They will be in Oklahoma
City about the first of next week, it
was said.
Following the order of the corpor-
ation commission made Tuesday in
which the commission ordered the Reports state that Owen will not
Oklahoma Natural Gas company to sponser any certain political candi-
date, but that bis speeches will be
in denunciation of the record made
TO
FACE COURT
Opal
Rexroat Kinney
Loves Husband.
the negotiations in progress between '
themselves and the employers' or- qj.:NOa. May 18.--Plans for the
ganization. Hague conference will be taken up
A sharp increase in building oper- | by nHtions concerned, shortly after
jitions makes the flght of interest in J !h, cio«ing «•! the Genoa parley, it
the whole community and apparent- | W.(K declared here today. The Genoa
ly gives tbe union the upper hand in ,;H scheduled to come to an
the situation. j cnd tomorrow.
Final actions will include consid-
eration ot tbe call for the Hague con-
ference. and the non-aggression pact
to be in effcct during that gathering
Another communication is also to bo
addressed to America, on the subject
nd their de- j ()f ^ Hague meeting.
10.000 CANADIAN MINERS
ARE IN DESPERATION i'
Ten i
by the republican congress.
Owen will spend three or four
weeks in Oklahoma, it was said.
iress on nnu mni > ucipou iu uuuu i —- : .. ,
very thing he so lightly accuses up Manager Watts. Mexican Petrol- , " s awegea
th<
me of trying to destroy. 1 remember e« m
Michel was the leader of Massey home and got the gun with i at a cost of $40,000.
supplying company
when we paid regular assessments to j the "Mexican'
help you fellows down here in your ""'4
brave struggle to organize."
Reiiews Kansas Struggle.
Farrington's review of the Kansas
struggle was not so much oratory
bs concise statements with no quibb-
ling. There was no hesitation or
evasion and he hit straight from the
shoulder.
"There is one big truth which
stands out above all others in the
Kansas situation." he said. "They
say Howat was not fighting the In-
dustrial court law but that he was
fighting the International organiza-
tion.
"Howat is the victim of a huge
bandits who dyna-
which her mother is alleged to have
The company declares that its sup-
mlted a local train running from | shot Keesee. j ply of gas in the Duncan field is giv-
< hroreras to eVra Cruz in January.! Other witnesses will be examined, j ing out and that it would endanger
looting it of 60.000 pesos and killing Hughes said. Only one person was
two Americans and one Mexican la - 1 an eJ'e witness of the shooting, it
borer. This incident had been played j wa8 «*ld.
up by the capitalist press to show al-
leged inability of the Obregon gov-
ernment to cope with lawless native
elements and safeguard American
lives. The recent holdup reveals that
American citizens themselves have
been responsible for some of this
lawlessness.
CONTEST OVER
SIZE OF ARMY
the present supply by
cities to its gas lines.
IRON MINERS GET
SAME WAGE SCALE
HOUSTON, May 1ft. Willing to go
back to face bigamy charges brought
as a result of a previous marriage of
I her husband, Mrs. Opal Rexroat Kin-
ECLECTIC DOCTORS ney. heiress, still professed unbound
OPEN CONVENTION1 fd love for him loda}
urtiv UUI1IUI1MVII Tbe RjrI an(1 hpi. hUfiband Lu(1Ie
Kinney, have been fugitives from her
st of the year.
„ . . , . ago. the father,
Thursday morninu at the Huckins T Rexroactt of Ardmore, charee-l
hotel, with about 150 doctors present. | (ha( Kinll(,v j ,j Kinney, Jack < ozby
and Charles Bryan had conspired to
CALGARY. Alta..
Still thousand coal miner
| pendents in District No. 18. (eastern j jf was understood here today, tbat
I British Columbia and Alberta) U. M i,i0yd George will not represent the
ant. according to | British at the Hague gathering, but
ill delegate the work to two
Convention of
leetic Medical
., , , Kinney, have been fugit
the Oklahoma Ec-; f t]) gjn(.(, lhl, Hr(ll
association opened : Follow,ns ,hPlr
marriaf
The convention will discuss the j
technical questions of their profes*
sion.
Dr. John C. Hubbard will be the
principal speaker.
The association banquet will be
held Thursday night at the Huckins.
Officers will be elected Friday aft-
ernoon^
President E. G. Williamson of thi
district, and the other officials, who
have issued a statement saying that
their members are on strike against
a 50 percent reduction in wages, and
the arrogant attitude of the coal op-
erators In their efforts to create
"open shop" conditions for mine
workers.
"Owing to the extent of the strike,
which affects the whole continent, we
cannot expect much financial assist-
ance from our International organ-
ization." they lay, "hence
every trade un-
in this fight."
UNEMPLOYED PLAY
IRON MOUNTAIN. Mich.. May 17.
No change in wages was made
when the mines of the Oliver Iron
Mining Co. in this city. Norway and PPRMIT PRISONER TO
Stambaugh resumed full time opera- . mamtdAPT
Hons, after being idle since last June r" ULiILL UUIM I nAU I
obtain control of the girl's valuabl
properties, through the marrlase. I j^ced to appeaf't
Her holdings in her o« n name are 10n|st for assistam
declared to be worth nearly a million ;
dolIar - SMITH PAYS FINE IN
Both Mr. and Mrs. Kinney have olVllin rs i o riniu mi
Indian blood. ' AUTO LOTTERY CASE
other representatives of England.
LAWYER FLAYS
BUILDING GRAFT
Bv Federated Press.
! NEW YORK. May 18.—Declaring
that building activities throughout
the country are being slowed up by
! a deliberate curtailment of output by
brick and other material manufactur-
WASHINGTON, May 18. — Dis-
agreement between the house and
senate, on the size of the army, ap-
peared likely today, following ac-
ceptance by a senate appropriations | except for part-time operations in th,
'TWELFTH NIGHT sub-committee, of 140,000 men and last two months. About 1,075 men Sentence of Rockwood Blevlns
LONDON, May 18. It was left l 12,530 officers as a basis. in the district, including 550 at the who pleaded guilty to a whisky
political conspiracy to discredit him principally to labor to celebrate the' The house has already voted in j Chapin mine here, 350 at th-
with the rank and file and eliminate Shakespeare anniversary dramatical- favor of an army of 115,000 men and in Norway and 175 at the Ri
i.(<m na « nnaalh,° nanfiirtflta fnr nfflpA I ^ ^ London. On the site of the Old 11,000 officers. Stambaugh. were given work. The
Globe theater and old George inh. Should the senate adopt the rec- j mines will operate six days a w eek
both in Bouthwark. a company of |ommendations of its appropriations | with night shift*.
strolling players, consisting of unem- j sub-committee, a contest probably Two thousand men are affected by
ployed workers, acted scenes from would ensue, to determine whether; an order Tor full time operatii
Twelfth Night on a lorry, in costume. 1 that standard, or ihe figuies of the: the Gogebic range, where ^
but w ithout scenery house would prevail. I have been workins half time.
PERSHING MAY
RUN FOR SENATE
him as a possible candidate for office I
In the mine workers. And Lew is
had to destroy the Kansas mine
workers in order to do that.
"Certainly the Dean - Reliance;
cases, admitting for the sake of ar- j
Aragon j charge in county court. Wednesday,
•rton in was suspended until July 3 by Judge
VV. R. Taylor, so that Blevins might come
carry out a contract which he is sai'l State
to hold for road
„muel Untermyer, counsel to
the Lockwood committee investigat-
ing housing conditions, has boen
authorized by the committee to draw
a memorandum to congress asking
for emergency legislation which will
# #on , . Ce*c,Co,i nermlt foreign building materials to
Fine of $:o andI costs was assessed Permit 10. k tarltt ba8ed
against Tom Smith, ctarged w th ob- < ^nufacture an,I ad-
talning money under false pretenseh ">e .,,„.re American in-
In police court. Smith naa arrested Justed so .is ' "«
after police had discovered an al-! dusiry reasonable, bt.t not touging,
unani- leeed lottery scheme, in which tick- pro!its.
republicans of eta were sold at *1 each, the pur-; Tl.e.e has been no Prof"
iteerlng than that now going on in
the building material market." Un-
termyer said. He declared prices in
the building material market have
got beyond all control.
ST. LOUIS. Ma;
mously asked by tli
Missouri, it is predicted here that, chaser to have "one chance at a car
General John J. Pershing will be- m an uptown display room."
e candidate for the Unit d Smith admitted tbat.be had no car,
enate from Missouri. j but said he intended to purchase one
R. Clements, republican when all the tickets were. sold. He
(Continued on Page Thret.)
Indsay, un- state chairman, who ha:- just re-'
bisky were turned from Washington gave out j
men ! found at his place on the Ozark trail i this Information after seeing the gen- ,
i three miles south of Luther. jeral there.
According to W. P.
dersherlff, 8 gallons of
less than 21 years old.
ty per cent of the men
but only 1 per ccnt oi
are bald
women.
Experienced oculists say that wo-
men retain their cyc.-UlU unimpaired
many ; cars longer than m«n.
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