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Vol. 2—No. 294
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA., MONDAY, JULY 24, 192'.'
mCE TWO GEM'S I
Chinese Woman Would
Emancipate Sex.
CHAO
WHITE TD OBEY
INDUSTRIAL
PENDING TIL
Mrs. L. Chao, a graduate J ^
lumbia University, photographed
vhile en route to ho** native and.
Issues Warning to Labor That
They Must Not Expect
Force to Win.
I
| EMPORIA. Kan.. July 24.—Under !
1 bond on a charge of violation of the '
Kansas Industrial court act, William j
I Allen White, publisher of the Em- I
porta Gazette, has removed the yel-
j low placard from the window of his
| newspaper office expressing sym-
pathy with the railway strikers.
White said be was not backing out.
I but removed the placard because he j
I believed a citizen should obey the
; law while the case is pending.
Me still expressed his belief that
the law as it has been interpreted
by Governor Allen was a violation of
inciples of free speech and free
WIN 35 SEATS
Old Guard Routed By Cana- j
dian 'Nonpartisan League';
Control Parliament.
Special to leader.
FARGO. N. D.. July 24. - Manitoba.
< anada. has gone Non-Partisan
League. Pinal returns on the vote
in the big Canadian province held
July 18, show a sweeping Farmer-
Labor victory.
The Liberal government went to
ihe electors for a vote of confidence
and were badly defeated.
The militant farmers of Manitobu
rallied under the standard of the
"United Farmers."
Observers in North Dakota, of this
sweeping fanners' victory across the
line, see in It a continuance of the
rising tide of progressive victories in
the United States.
Manitoba has now lined up with
Iowa and North Dakota and put the eil rilllIf. mm .
old guard to route. The United | Yokohama Harbor, where this pic- ^ *°!h<l ^°nCRn
Farmers have sent 35 members to j ture wag ma(k. ur,; (hao aypeured | ®rat® .li,s erfo,t? to have tbe law re-
the provincial parliament. This gives jn knickerbockers m-i. gol! W.ery. ! pe!l.f, .
the progressives a majority in the a novel <jress for (h«. Orient, ^he will. arrant was served on W hite Sat-
provincial law-making body as there however, introduce the latest things ,,ri>J>' afternoon. He Immediately
are 52 seats in it. in women's wear to her coumryworn- ma"e hond of $500 to appear at the
Manitoba borders on North Dakota en, marking another tep in the "earing in the fall term of court,
and Minnesota. emancipation of the women of the "Hindered Train Operation."
I Orient. j The warrant charged that White
["hindered, delayed, Interfered with
I anil suspended operation of trains of
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
railroad."
The Kansas editor issued a state-
ment to labor after his arrest, stress-
j ing the importance of a fight against
unfair wages and working conditions
waged without force.
" Force will win nothing. But the
Capshaw and Butterfield In n«lila,of "<=« "iterance through ire.
I Till- |speech and a free press are funda-
Lively I HIS. i mental. IP these rights are lost, la- i
j bor can never win. This action or j
The County Commissioners' race is the administrative officers of the gov- I
beginning to take on the proportions ! crnment requires a test In the courts,
of a real battle, especially In the ces- We are going to have the test and
ond and third districts. | while this case ts pending aUict ob-
Cominissioners Ed Butterfield and j servance of what the constituted au-
A. W. Capshaw fui thorltles cons th( la* is the only
tor, Fred Parkinson, would likely be i fly in their encounters at precinct j hope for labor."
held up pending a grand Jury Inves meetings. Friends of Tom Grey are S|lls |_a|„)r noan| lllfulr
ligation, was the declaration Monday j busy onlookers counting casualties j „M prote8t was ener„el|c' and
at the office of the state examiner. in the Butterfleld-Capshaw contro- | se(Jms th(, on| Be|f.respectlll thl
The grand jury, for the purpose versy and presenting their candidate , fQr & , d0 wh , f f
I ' fort populttr 5UI,1,ort' , „ „ „ But the difference In opinion about
In a recent meeting Butteifield I Wis(ion) of suppressing the funda-
charged ( apshaw with bolting the raeI1taj rights of American citizen- i
Democratic nominees In the last city | ghlp whlle the courtR are t , t()
election. Capshaw vigorously denied „e, at thc truth and ,he r, h, sh
this accusation and offered *100 to ,lot prevent me nor d
any one who would prove it. ! from upholdlng his hands and giving
Whereupon Butterfield appears i him the earnest support which loy-
with a statement signed by Mark ajty requires.
Kesler and Ollie Wilson, Democratic, <The Idea of adjudicating Indus-i
candidates, who were defeated in the j lr|al disputes ls rll.hL The ittborlnK
city election as follows: ; man in th(. end w,„ lose |f he re
May Concern; ! to force. The living wage for the
This is to say hat we are reliably ; unskllle(1 laborer ls ,he , ,
COAL CONFISCATED
BY ROADS; HARDING
LETS STRIKE DRIFT
THE LEAGUE
NEEDS HELP
RAILROAD OFFICIALS AS STRIKE-
BREAKERS
eralls
RAILROAD
™J]JS HDT BUTTLE FOR
El Reno School Bond Scandal
Still Brewing.
That the report on the El Reno
school bond scandal in which is in-
volved the trading of $214,000 worth
of El Reno school bonds for an equal
amount of Old Colony Petroleum
company bonds, which ls to be made
soon by state examiner and inspec-
These officers and clerks of the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail-
road are doing duty as .shopmen and car cleaners during the strike of
the shopmen. The photograph was made in the Chicago yards, where
the "workmen" are shown eating in a Pullman diner their "three squares"
a day from a bill of fare fit for a king.
investigating the school bond
scandal as well as the transactions
of the defunct Commercial bank of
El Reno, was to have been impan-
eled Monday
It is declared that the county at-
torney will be assigned in the matter
by an attorney from the attorney
general's office.
The school board has not been
able to realize anything on the oil
bonds and has not the funds in the
treasury with which to fill the hole
excavated for the building or move
an old building which was moved
into the street when work on the
school building started. The district
has voted its limit and has no other
methods for raising money.
nformed that during he campaign which wa aijjud(catlon must /
in the month of April, 1921 a Mr A. ; The Kan8as c0 has
W Capshaw, who was registered as )c, „ the 1
a Democrat, did, in the general elec- ; . .. . .
tlon of that year openly work for the j ' ." I . a"S ° .?
Republican candidates In thc general , . ... ' roversy with
election. This was repeatedly re- h<- h°pmen. this strike would never
MYSTERY HERE
Epidemic of Mystery Murders
Baffles Police.
ported from his precinct in Capitol
Hill at that time and we were sur-
prised that he should do so.
"Very Respectfully,
(Signed) "MARK KESLER. f
"I subscribe to the above senti-
ments and received the same reports.
(Signed) "OLLIE S. WILSON.'
John Abernathy, Haskell Snider.
George Larimore and F. L. O'Reilly
are also out after the Third District
Commissionersbip.
In the Second distrit, George R.
Brown, present commissioner, is be-
ing hotly pushed by W. N. Murphy,
union electrician and fanner, anil j
Is the body of an unidentified man,
that was found in the lake at Belle
Isle, the body that was once thought
to be the body of Guy Wetherbee?
During Wetherbee's disappearance,
there wt f, much excitement caused 1 • Highley. Ed Sheldon is als
by the announcement that a body ia* har(1- The nomination is
submerged In the lake at Belle Isle! up- with supporters of Murphy and ! 1 ,f° ,"ot anything wrong in
had been relt by a swimmer. The I H1fthley doing thc most campaign- ,th<; display of these signs and I do
lake was dragged but no body was 1 lnfi' j no Bee ow ie> can In anyway in
found. Late Saturday afternoon
have occurred.
! "But that water has gone under j
j the bridge. The shopmen are out
I in a Just cause but in an ill-timed |
.strike. The cause of labor can win
only with public sentiment behind it.
and to revert to brute force now j
; would be a disastrous mistake."
Arkansas City Mayor
Disagrees With Allen.
I ARKANSAS CITY. Kan., July IM.— ;
Business houses in this city will not
be ordered to take down the window
i Placards expressing sympathy with
fight- |,he railroad strikers, if Mayor George |
McIntosh has anything to do with it. i
body was repotted to the police to ^ePu^"can' represented by
j Black, two Democrats are in the con-
I test: W. H. Erwin and Ed Richards.
! The former is constable In the jus-
a c
| not see how they can in anyv
First district heretofore terfere wlth the operation of trains,'
nent park. Officers went to the scene
rescued the body, which
tice court of Walter Benson, while
Richards is a farmer.
taken to Street & Draper, under-
takers where it was viewed by several !
people who thought they might iden iDnMrtnr r, nrhrri
tify It. but to no avail. The bod; ARDMORE, EL RENO
was not marked by any signs of vio-
lence but the face was unrecogniza-
ble through discoloration and decom-
position on account of the length of i
time it had been iq the water. The
question of identity is still unsolved.
TO HEAR WALTON
mayor declared and furthermore |
he insists that he has no authority to
order the placards withdrawn.
When asked about the matter by
E. C. Harvey, a representative from
Governor Allen's office, the mayor
told Harvey that he would issue no
order to remove the signs from the |
windows.
McIntosh was formerly an engineer |
on the Santa Fe and was elected I
mayor on a labor ticket a few month:
LET'S THINK OF OKLAHOMA '
Sunday morning the Daily Oklahoman mid that the
putting over of the wild and visionary schemes of the
farmers of North Dakota had cost the state, in round num-
bers, S19,000,000.
That was llic amount of the bond issues which the
legislature and the people authorized, thc sale of the
greater portion of which was canceled when Governor
Frazier, Attorney General Lemke and Labor Commis-
sioner Hagen were recalled.
Monday morning the Oklahoman said state bonds
were valueless in North Dakota, that not a single guar-
anteed six per cent bond could be sold, and that postoffice
money orders and express money orders became the me-
dium of exchange in North Dakota when the crash came
and the Hank of North Dakota closed its doors.
The truth is, and thc Oklahoman knoits it—but delib-
erately, wantonly and maliciously lies about it—that sev-
eral hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of these bonds
were sold at par and the rest were contracted at par, and
the Okalioman knows that the difficulty encountered in
selling these bonds was due to the boycott of the money
trust, organized and instituted by the repudiated, but pow-
erful Independent Voters' League, which had been or-
ganized, also on a nonpartisan plan, to defeat the irill of
the people.
The Daily Oklahoman knows very well that the Hank
of North Dakota has NEVER AT ANY TIME CLOSED
ITS DOORS, but is still doing a prosperous business in
spite of all the underhanded and malevolent conspiracies
which Dig Business, from time to time, have organized
against it. They did succeed in breaking the Scandinavian
Dank, a bank organized by individual members of the
League, and this by a series of dastardly plots, too long
and intricate to relate, but the Dank of North Dakota, the
state bank, not only never closed its doors, but is pros-
pering and making money for the state and saving mil-
lions of dollars for borrowers, by compelling the private
banks of the state io compete with it, thus affording the
people an opportunity to secure money without paying
usurious rates for it.
Hut let's think of Oklahoma, perfectly governed and
faultlessly free Oklahoma, a state untainted with the ma-
lign influences (?) of the League, a state which has been
ruled by the political banks, by the railroads, the insur-
ance companies, thc grain and cotton thieves and specu-
lators—ruled according to the will of the Daily Oklaho-
man—a state whose people are doomed and damned to
(Continued on Pnge Five)
Farmers' Union Give More Aid
To Strikers — Corporation
Commission Will Probe
Road Action—Hooper Talks
of Separate Road Agree-
ments.
More of ihe farmers of the state
l are rallying to the support of the
striking railway workers, by offering
1 free of cost, farm produce to help
j tide the strikers over their period of
j inactivity. The Oklahoma Leader re-
ceived Monday pledges support
i from several farmers, and an offer
I of a truck load of food from a local
Farmers' union at Stroud.
The letter to the Leader from the
Stroud farmers follows:
I "At regular meeting of Old Stroud
' local. 307, Farmers' union, July 21,
it was voted unanimously that the
members of the union would deliver
at the Farmers' I'nion exchange free
i a truck load of farm produce in
Stroud. Oklahoma, ami a committee
appointed to take charge of the de-
livery.
"We hereby express our sympathy
to the rail workers and miners in
their struggle to maintain a decent
living. Organized farmers know that
the strike is being waged for all the
classes of working people, and that
the struggle of the railroad workers
and the miners is the struggle of the
farmer.
"The Oklahoma Daily Leader will
please notify the striking brothers
that we will load this truck at our
exchange any day they will send it
here. We ask that the proper cre-
dentials be sent to our manager at
the Farmers' store to insure us that
the produce reaches the proper des-
tination.
Signed, "G. M. Mills, E. W. Black,
A. Mendenhall."
From Sayre Also.
From Sayre comes a resolution ex-
pressing sympathy with the strikers,
and pledging help in any way possi-
ble.
"Resolved, that we, the Farmers'
Union of Plainview local extend our
sympathy to the railroad strikers,
and we further pledge our support in
any way that we can. We also extend
the same to all of the striking min-
ers as well, for we know their fight
is our fight. J. S. Windham, Lee
Meeks."
In Kansas, merchants as well as
farmers are helping the shopmen, as
reports show. At Parsons, one of the
most important rail centers of that
state, merchants were especially ac-
tive an official report from the un-
ion headquarters shows.
"The merchants are unloading
provisions at our headquarters to-
day," the report reads, "such as cab-
bage, beans, and other vegetables,
I and one merchant donated 25 sacks
I of flour, another corn meal. In fact,
j our headquarters looks more like a
I store than strike headquarters."
U. S. Will Let Rail
I Situation Drift.
I WASHINGTON, July 24 President
Harding apparently will continue for
I some time his strike policy of doing
nothing, was the concensus of opin-
ion here todaj. Nothing resulted
from the long conference with rail
1 executives and Ben Hooper, chair-
I man of the I". S. railway labor board.
All that Hooper woulld say follow-
i ing the parley was that the labor
board would do nothing more at
I present. Hooper has returned to
Chicago.
I Separate peace efforts were being
' made by the Baltimore & Ohio at
| Baltimore, while Southern roads
j which have suffered greatly from the
strike, were asking for arbirtation.
I Violence had diminished, it ap-
peared, from thc few reports rc-
I ceived. All over the country the
j shopmen were standing solidly.
| Their leaders declare the only thing
j which can possibly lose this strike
When Ihe Leader started this little
schetue to give those who had been
neglected and had had no opportunity
to contribute to Mr. Walton's cam-
paign fund, a chance to come in and
he counted, there were those nho
were inclined to poke tun al it, es«
peclalh when it got only the
second da*.
Now, however, since it amounts to
$182, the grin appears on the opposite
corner of Mr. Scoffer's mouth, lie
realizes that this small sum will paj
the postage on LVJ(M) pieces of liter-
ature- LViUO bullets every one of
them steel jacketed and explosive,
carrying death and confusion Into the
camp of thc cncuiv liars.
It is just seven days now until the
<•01 jumps, and we can use ever so
much more moiiev. In the last hours
the committees will he pretty sure to
strain their credit to the limit and
lllere will be '.ill" t< pa\. PIMUMi
therefore, don't quit sending money.
Kvory cent you chii send will he
spent carefully and economically. The
following* sums lmvV been received
since our last Issuet
J. N. W illis, (•rauite
I,. W. Ilosklns, city
F. \\. Chapman, city .
J. I.. I hoate, Coalgate.
Frank Merrill, \very..
.1. F. Italic, Marland .
V. |l. Hunt, Marland..
Ilr. .1. W . I.auek, city
II. Hendricks, Bristow.
.lerry klos, Fletcher .
W. F. Met/., Hasting
OP
.$ 1.0(1
I.Oil
Lou
1.00
;,.oo
1.00
1.00
LOO
h. I.. Fitzgerald, Woodward -.00
Jake Kohison, Ardmore— L00
T. W. I.ytton, Ardmore. .. 1.00
It. I.. Gregory, Wilson. .. L00
Previously acknowledged. 111.50
FREIGHT CUTS
Commission Grants Delay Till
August 5.
Sweeping reductions in freight .
rates on grain and h'«y Ircm po nts
in Oklahoma to points in 1 exas, j
granted by the Interstate ' nmmurce
Commission June I ind trnule ef -
fective Monday, July 2A, have been
postponed until Augu.n !>, it was an-
nounced by th« ratj division of <-oi-
poration commission Monday.
In making the announcement, it
was declared that the extension of
time was agreed upon when the rail-
roada asked for 80 «lay under tne
complaint that ihey could not com-
plete the tariffs by July 24 Ihe
commission refused to grant th • 30
days stay, but agreed to compromise
on 15 days.
The new rates tor :'l typical h «uls
for districts less than j00 miles i'roui
Oklahoma points to Texas pmnts, on
grain, will be reduce 1 41.4 per cent
and on hay 32.6 per c^nt.
For 21 representative Oklahoma
points of origin, such Worodward,
Elk City, Chickasha, Oklahoma < ity,
Muskogee and other cities to repre-
sentative points in Texas, such ai
Dallas and Fort Wortn, thc .nt< on
grain will be reduce! 24.3 and on
hay 24.7 per cent.
From Oklahoma points to the
south Texas group. sncluding San
Antonio. Houston. V.'aco an i Calves-
ton. the rate on <raln vill he reduced
14.7 per cent and hay 20.4 per cent.
While the commission points out
that some grain shipments to Texas
points will be made before i..e rates
are effective, it leel i s that the bulk
of shipments will ( >me «ftei Hit-
rates are effective, thereby giving
Oklahoma shippers • advantage of
the lower rates.
IS IT DEM
Open Shop Operations Fail
Few Places Where Trial
Is Made.
WA8HINGTON July 54 (onfall
I
' >•''■■■• t;, ! \ it,. HuOVpf
' ' 11 "'Ml MnSMtmJ
coal It thc .strike Is prolonged, b
gan today.
1 "al rationing similar to that
ar ' >' ' ■ to be i iannadl
Protection of public utilities.
I
duatries against a shortage
|
hope to aooompliah.
' I
commerce commission would issuJ
an order declaring a national em«|
gency.
Meanwhile, the attempts of the op|
erators to resume production in <
tain sectioni under t he open shod
I
Enough strikebreakers to produce aif
appreciable amount of coal could no|
be found.
England has been asked t<. helflL
The entire output of many Engliatfl
mines has been contracted for, it iij
understood.
If all these measures fail, reports!
from authoritative sources state thai
the government m ly sel an operl
I
and direction will come first, how-f
ever, the reports declare.
I
being d« signated. Those sectionJ
which will need fuel first this tall
will re< • hipments. ShlM
111- nts III <■(>,iI lia\ e hf n ::i\ m pri-l
"i ity o\er all "tin r classes of freight!
New I In gland a nd the north* • I n 111
receive the first available coal.
H< port i of i fighting in Penal
sylvania, where some operators are
11 y ing to op< n the mines without un-|
Ion labor, was reported here.
Gompers Scores Weak
Government Policy.
By LAURENCE TODD.
Federated Tress Staff Ci>rrenpondent. •
WASHINGTON. July 24. Clinging
d< perat< ly to i he hope that the rail-l
road companies and the coal operJ
le their Wtll
I
ut Hardinip
drifted into the fourth week of theT
rail paralysis without an idea foil
effective governmental intervention^
l|
strike had been rejected because
gave no assurance of peace.
m|
Bible acts of the Railroad Labo
Board, and his apparent dictation c
these acts, had deepened the bitter-
ness of a million railroad workers.
llis appeal to armed force In tin
coal-producing states had brought!
solution!
I
firm refusal of co-operation from|
others.
"Follow Reasonable Example
With the nation's fears of a coal|
famine definitely confirmed by gov-
|
eration of Labor sent r<> Mr. nard-
in- the obvious suggestion that he
do what Roosevelt did in the I90ll
anthracite strike call upon the op-j
erators and miners to ^'-t together
in 'in ••< t conference and settle their
I
I
organized railroad workers.
I
ti.in exc ept thi one logical, neces-r
|
in a letter t<> Harding. "Thc govern-
ment has threatened a great deal. It
I
• 'in ut the public. It has not|
I. •••; \ aNmit eonferenc
ind it has had little or nothing tel
■ I
Labor calls upon the uovernment to
talk about conference between em-
ployers and workers, both in the coal
industry and in the railroad shop
^adine
rnor.
Carter county .s in
I monster demonstrate
The police hold to the theory of .ill- I walUM, wll'fsplak'In 'nim,
1 nti « , I day night, and indications
This is the third mysterous death
reported in past few days. The first
was the mysterious slaying of Martin
"Humpy" Sumpter, who was shot to
death by several unknown assailants.
The motive In the case is still un-
known. The second was the shooting
to death of Victor Hutcheson by
three men suspected to be hl-jackers
but later thought to be men who had
carefully planned the death of
Hutcheson for some unknown reason.
rhaaa men are still at large and
again the county and city offers COMMISSIONERS
are baffled. And now the finding of V/flTF ROY UnMP
an unidentified man in a lake at an v u i c DU I nuiVID
amusement park is the latest of the
trio of unsolved death*. 1 h* ™unt>' ,"5h001 r'"
boys advocated by welfare
| tions was voted by counts
LIST OF CANDIDATES
OF LEAGUE ON PAGE 2
hut
the huge crowds which i.ave • ha ac- j
terized other Walton iemonetrauon'; In answer to many questions coin-
will be on hand. I ing to the Leader as to the names
El Reno supporters of Walton ar*1 of candidates endorsed by the farm-
also planning on a big rec vt'on to j er-labor reconstruction league, the
the farmer-labor candidate on Tues- i Leader has decided to run the com-
day night, July 25. plete tickets for the various dis-
Walton will spaaa at El Reno at '
Debs Would Ban Clubs
And Guns From Prisons
(Edit
p. m. Reports from B^l Reno e that
farmers from all over Canadian
county will be in town to dA-ell the
Walton crowds.
trlcts. In today's issue on page 2
will be found the state ticket. On
succeeding dates will be run other ih« ,
lists of candidates for various dls- j «i * P
tricts. j <flebr
Cut these out and use them August
I Of Kugena V. Helm' stm
' "TN8IDH PRISON WALL
llahed in the Oklahoma I
ependent
nrganiza-
commlf
1st.
Over 400.001
being sent oti
rious county
state
lists of candidate:
L separately to th<
miuute men ov
are
r the
The motives are unknown to the
Su'mpte"waH"knifed^up^'oHedly^y4an Iiievvernrn\,1ierf'nth'"fl' (* "1 T vets t0 discuss
trr^rtovt'' ,hrh'; bxrr not i^^;f:^ hh county politics
■evengc Smne
>t !>"n Gingrich whs found In Hell'e ■ ,h. t™.". t,m>win l Officers of th. Ok'nhoma i'Uy I rwl
Isle lake. The Identity of his slayer " re nf <"•' \ ..ran „r,.
was never disclosed.
meet
SHANGHAI. A report here says I purpose,
that the Portuguese shot 170 Chi-
nese and wounded 100 others to j Common
atone for the recent
Macao.
disorders in proved t
1 miles in
ality. The commissioners did not run attendance at the
|agree to guarantee the maximum half, ing Tuesday night ... ,,,
i mill levy allowed by law for this discussing the various oun'v candi-
dates seeking nomination In the pri-
i _ marles August 1. Tne meefng wlil
bouse flies have been be held In Stagehan Is L'a I - .-m t o
migrate as much as six Grand and Robinson vice! ,i *
11 - ia
Ky EUGENE V. DEBS
(Five Times Candidate for President)
During nearly three years I was
in Atlanta federal prison a number
of convicts spoke to me from lime to
time of their desire and intention to
escape if possible from the prison.
I invariably and emphatically ad
vised them against It. knowing as I
did. what lay in store for them as
the fruit of such rashness. I also
advised the men to keep within the
rules and conduct themselves as de-
cently as possible in tfle interest of
their own protection and well-being
against the cruel prison regime In
general and the brutality of some of
the guards In particular.
It should b< conceded here 'hat
prison coaditious generally
'are today far better than they
, at any time before in history.
truth of this is more ap
we consider the state o
and its inmates in this country \
century and more ago. To realizi
what a foul
the prison
vere prison has in the
The things undergone so
parent when hut there are a«d
f the prison be covered before
es, If it ever do
the
very nature of
ie improvement,
-.tret'dies yet to
the prison be-
s, an Institution
reclamation and rchahiiita-
nideous institution tion of erring and iinfortiinale men
at that time, one and women,
needs onlj to read th. irnces nf Mc- The general publli know, practi
Masters' "History of the People or tally nothlnt about the prison and
Hi. I nlte.l Stan dealing with appears to !«■ Ilttl" concerned about
prison life during the colonial period. h,,w It Is managed and how prisoner
At that time men w.-re still Im- ,ue treated Not until the average
prisoned for debt, and the prison man finds hlmseir behind steel bars
onsisted of an abandoned iIhpk hp rmlire how indifferent he
etim
hole
ined
i abandoned
eh men and has
id in which sho
ay in filth ,-er
been to a problem
vhieh he
hai
felt hi
Capital punishn
ipeakable torture
\\ \Kill N >10111
I'll \N Mil I I t.I
IMIMIlt I \N I
rill s||| VI.
r who were thrown
\ holet- and doomed
shocking death for
peaklufc. In the progress of society* the1
of pollth
of its ini
i but
Indee
Either Culberson or Ferguson
Will Oppose Mask.
DALLAS. Texas, July 24 That
the Ku Klux Klan lost in the pri-
mary election became evident today
as returns came from outlying sec-
tions of the state. More than 250.-;
000 votes had been polled by candi-
dates opposing the klan, while the
two klan candidates for the U. S.
senate had polled only 110,000.
Earle B. Mayfield, klan candidate,
lead the field with 1)5,000 votes, with
James E. Ferguson, impeached gov-
ernor and pronounced anti-klan can-
didate following with 70,000. Three
other anti-klan candidates, includ-
ing Senator Charles A f'ulberson.
were next with 40,000 to 60,000 votes
to their credit
It is predicted that the anti-klan
candidate who received the most
votes will easily win over Mayfield
in the "run-off" primaries, as the
Ku Klux Klan is the big issue of
the campaign. Either Culberson
Ferguson will represent the ar
pea red.
In the race for governor. Fred
Rogers, farm-labor candidate, w
Neff 1! 0,000.
It was reported that the Ku Kl
Klan was more successful in I
aboutl
i |
lion of Pr< sident Roosevelt in
thracite strike. There is no paf-i
el. The Colonel told the operators
i into confer*nee with the un-
|
i • • • t" I'm 'lent Hai
ig ha not told the mine owner!
into
lonfe
i tin
Imported Coal Could
Be Sold at Low Price.
NEW YORK, July L'4 American
interests, have placed orders in Lon-
don for 30,000 tons of coal, t'> be
i !" 'I i" >«Tk '11 New Eng-
|
'.j to have a rn\. d i New Ellg-
I
I
IJ; Hi h e. .ti oi lie .„!!h I -di "A 111
,i.| ' i n.i i \uien. .in mines he
dov 9
■ -pi ■ i i 11 ion , ha r: .
PROVISIONALS
W1N^IN^S0UTH\
1)1 BLIN. July 24. Continued auc-
! Free State|
that 'Ik
\ • •• men of
l.d in the
I
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