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OKLAHOMA cut. OlvLA.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1922
PRICE TWO CENTS
IT OVER
Municipal Store BUTCHERSWIL
Idea Spreading
SKE HOT
In connection with the strike
TIFFIN, Ohio. Jan. 26.—(By U. P.)
—When Mayor Adolph Unger of Tit-
01
SHE
of the packing house workers. Senator Ladd's Money Bill Is! Un, started the first municipally
interesting stories are cominu j Cited to ShOW Need for . owned, municipally conducted store
to the front how these work- Rjoht ConprCSSHlCn. in ^e country be didn't realize the
urs live. Not only those Oil ideg would be immediately taken up
strike, but those now at WOlK.^ Non-partisan league members in! by representative communities in
Here we read of the burning j Oklahoma are co-operating with the [ America.
Of a "one room ' shack With a ! Farmer-Labor Reconstruction league Yet that is exactly what happened,
"tin root in "Sancltown, one antj arrangements have been made Today he received a letter from
oi the products of the packing have them affiliate and receive
industry in Oklahoma City. representation at the league ronven-
• • ♦
What sanitary conditions can
prevail in the home of these
workers, who are forced to live
on the outskirts of civilization,
on a wage not sufficient to keep
body and soul together? How
often has such a worker an
opportunity to take a bath?
How can he attend to personal
cleanliness and sanitation
when the packers condemn him
to live on a basis unfit for hu-
man beings? And yet the
packers do not hesitate to en-
trust the handling of the na-
tion's meat products to men
and women living under such
conditions.
I ery truck will be placed in commis-
If ever there was need for
the Public Health Service to
Senator Ladd's bill, No. 2064, is I
Intended to establish an honest
money system where the medium of
exchange will give equal benefits to
every American citizen and wherein
the credit of the government shall
be used for the benefit of all the
people instead of banking corpora-
tions; to reduce the rate of inter-
est of loans, encourage agriculture,
the ownership of homes, and for
other purposes. Copies of the bill
... . * . ,, may be obtained by writing to Sen-
protect the meat supply of the ator Ladd at -Washington.
nation, it is now. We do not L. N. Shelden, editor of the Farm
Birmingham, Ala., requesting infor- ^ t.
mation on the Tiffin municipal store j Jn." One has been delivering direct
tion. to be held at Shawnee, Feb. 23. ™ ^\Jir?LV^nZlvTP ! trom th<" "re hous<' hca,lq,""'U'rs for
down the food profiteers. i .u. iojS three davs
it was announced today, by George Letters were received from Den- iaBl. ™
Wilson, state manager of the Farm-' ver. several Pacific coast cities and! .nf fr Vnmtntn«i8«tnre
er-I^bor league. from the east, I'nger declared. 7"'C'Pa " . wlth tho
a , I . "411 these cities plan municipal; When I have finished with tho
Splendid progress is being raad« L0res •• he said ! bread prices. I shall force reductions
in organization, he declared. Afte'r forclng down meat prices i in Mher food products, until all are
The Reconstruction League, in its | from 20 to 60 per cent. Unger struck I returned to a reasonable price level."
campaign to elect suitable repre-
sentatives to congress, points to a
bill introduced by Senator E. F.
Ladd, as evidence of the need of
the right sort of congressmen.
a snag in his attempt to bring down
bread prices.
• But,' ne said today, -unless the Sovernment Abandons Work-
grocers and bakers capitulate by grs Consented tO Ar-
Saturday wo shall drive them out of . .. . . ...
business. bit-ation in War Time. Doubts Desire of Open Shop-
1 oa'/ for Ti °cen ts!' "cng e r's^rnu nlcVpal Kred Kemp, secretary of the local! PerS ]0r InipartialPlOSe-
store in the fire station, run by city butcher workers' union, declared ClltOP—WOP t TlGICl.
firemen, sells for 10 cents a loaf, Wednesday that a strike vote will be ,
"and we clear a good pro it he^ said.. uken h(.re T|mrsday offtclal I10tk.c I "The commi.tee from the Chamber
Today the second municipal deliv- of Commerce which ssked the gov-
Preliminary Waived By
Eighth Alleged Lyncher;
Hughes Scores C. of
Reward To
Families?
Witness Claims
Soldiers Were
Bound, Clubbed
has been received from national
headquarters, he said.
The vote is to determine
ernor to displace me as prosecutor j
in all cuses affecting union labor. I
. praised uie for imparitality and falr-
or not the men wish to continue with ne8R in handling the parking strike
vhethe
cases," said Forrest Hughes, county |
attorney," and then indicated that J
that kind of a
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.— (By U.
P.)—Additional charges of American
soldiers being wrongfully beaten to
, death in the A. E. F. were again
speak of the "immunity" from ®*"-Labor league paper in Oklahoma, before the senate investigating com-
disease of the animals that tire dnec™ ^he'UL^Tf'lhu; "J1"60 as hearln«8 "" /><* Wataon
■slaughtered. We have meat measure would go a long way to-1 char«<'8 were resumed today
inspectors for this purpose, ward bringing normal conditions to | „d,ri>ct ch:iI'£e J°®
What we need now is inspec- tr,(' farmers of Oklahoma and of the! IH' negro, o Orange, N. .1.,
; 11011 ,, , "ccu ,r 10 inopcv .. rn11ntrv .,lt llQ _ shot down a colored private named
tors that would enforce a *™r.e country. buJ he sees no hope
j j i i i« j of the passage of the bill by the
standard of cleanliness and a present congress.
standard of living amon? hu-1 There are not enough men there,
man animals, the packinghouse of the type «f Senator Ladd, and of
workers, that would permit lh.®,ty£e of ,the n.ienr wll° it >s hoped
,1,.i;_, ■ l,w"' be elected from Oklahoma,
them to li\e in homes and leai through the activities of the Farmer-
Labor league, he declares.
the strike now In progress,
The letter from Dennis Lane, na
tional secretary ot the union, stated they dldn t want
that word had been received notify- P™Th°ey "declared that they didn't
ing the butcher workmen that there WR,lt anyonc m local politics (o
was no further hope of government |,an()iH these cases." said Hughes.
Intervention In the strike. j ,lont propose to forfeit any
In spite of the fact that during the power KjVen me by 18,000 people in
war the workers accepted govern- tll|s rnunty and If the governor
ment intervention and for patriotic W(ulU ln this power from me
reasons alone, took a wage much be- ln individual cases he will have to
low what they could have exacted „xerc|KP his authority under the
in those times of scarce labor, the Rtalll jn |,ach case.'
packers have refused consistently to Hughes indicated that It was not
(arbitrate tho disputed wage slash.' imparitality that the committee
The government has abandoned the wante(i in this case. What they
workers in favor of Ihc packers' ef- u was partiality to the Cham-
forts to restore jungle conditions in h(1|. of commerce In all industrial
I the Industry. I ,.uses.
The government promises to use
NEXT PONTIFF?
their families in sanitary ar.d
healthy surroundings, instead
of in "Sandtown."
The packers of America do j
not hesitate to endanger the \
health of the entire public in |
their announced policy to run |
the packing business as "their;
business," without interference Jesuit Order Said To Be As-
frorn the workers of the nidus-1 sisting Spaniard,
try who insist on a living wage.
Is it not the public's business I ROME, Jan. 25.—(By u. P.)—Ef-
to know that the workers pre- forts 10 choose a pope from outside
paring our food products have w Italtan ™r,l'nal hav('
r 0 -- - ^ - nepn nut tindpr w#v the Popolo Ro-
William Patterson who "talked back"
to him was made by Henry Gentry,
colored, ex-doughboy of Lawrence,
Kansas.
Major Phillips was never tried for
tho shooting, the witness said.
Gentry, who served with a mili-
tary police company, told a startling
story of soldier prisoners being
beaten by guards.
"It was common practice where I
was." he declared, "for the guards to i death sentence
t-trip prisoners, tie their hands above j eral Pershing-
their heads and beat them into in- j influence to prevent dlscrlmina-
sensiblllty with knotted ropes and j flon ^y the packers against union
clubs. They were hauled nway to j men „hould the strike be called oft
the hospital and some of them we
never saw again. I don't know
whether they died or not.'
Testimony of a previous witness
that nine negro soldiers wero k I lie
by military police and the bodies
taken to the American hospital at
Chatteroux, France, was denied to-
day by three New York physicians
who were officers at the hospital,
Two of the police officers who
arrested men implicated in the
lynching of Jake Hrooks will not
tight for their share of the re-
wards offered if tho money is
given to the families of BrookK
and the convicted men, they said
< Wednesday.
These were Joe Uiyton and
John W. Tipton, police detec-
tives, now entitled to one-ninth
« f the $H500 offered, and in ensr
J. V, Harris is connected with
the case, to two-ninths.
Police officers arrested four of
those accused, throe of whom
have already been sentenced to
the state penitentiary for life.
Lee Whitley was arrested Jan-
uary 20 by Lay ton and Tipton,
and Uken before Chief of Police
Clark. He was on the verge of
confeHsIng when Col. B. H.
Markham of the national guard.
j,'ot wind of the fact that police
had Whitley, and came and got
him.
J. V. Harris was arrested later
, BITTER FIGHTS
AT FMIM PARLEY
(Continued on l'atfe Three)
FINGER PRINTS
and who said that the bodies did not Ford Project, St
come there Cana| parm B|oc at ISSUe.
Lieut. Col. James P. Barney of the
regular army, testified in refutation! WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. (By I".
of the charges by a previous witness] p v Powerful forces were at work
that any private in the 90th (col- tfjday to prev,.nt the agricultural
ored) regiment w as hanged illegally. | oonfCrence from going on record in
The man in question. Barney said., favor of Henry Ford s Muscle Shoals
was tried by court martial and the!0ffer; st. Lawrence canalization
approved by Gen- project, and the farm bloc.
Following a conference with a
committee from the Chamber of
Commerce, which is sponsoring the
open-shop movement, Governor Rob-
ertson Wednesday ordered George F.
Short, assistant attorney general, to
lead in the prosecution of cases hav-
ing their origin In Packingtown.
Hughes has been praised by all
for his fairness in the handling of
the cases, showing himself to be ab-
.solutelj impartial. j ~~
The explanation or the sovernor , 0onfeSSj0n AidS State ill Mail
I nwrpnrp was "that the docket was sd crow tied
in the district court that Hughes j
could not handle these cases satis-
factorily,"
TO TEL
TILE
Robbery Case.
Prosecution of the live men held
Hughes declared late Tuesday thai In connection with the robbery of a
ere was no friction between him- Santa Ke mall train ^ will depend
lelf r«.r<""th7governor. "al'though ru- largely upon the testimony of ilnger
thouse were to thin " * " ""'j1 *<""<■ -
day by B. L. lislnger, federal at-
Fertillzer and other big interests
are opposing Ford; New York, New
Kngland and other Atlantic coust
states are fighting the St. Lawrence
project and administration forces
are laboring aeuinst the farm bloc.
Bitter Flffht oil Canal.
The American Farm Bureau Fed
n -A X- n 1- r A L . . A 1 -I- I m i eratlon IB leading the fight in favor
Penitentiary Quarantine Re- Arbuckle Not to Take Stand I Qr the Muscle shoals ami st. i
mors at the cour
II was said that the open-shoppers j to™„e5'v„
were not by any means satisfied with
I)r. Carleton Simons, of the New
the
JAILS ARE TRIAL NEARS
CONGESTED CONCLUSION
- , ... *•York City iKillce department, was to .
impartial manner in wl '^ arrive soon to give his testimony. '
Oscar Smith To Be Arraigneq
Before Phelps—Has Con-
fessed Dancy Says.
Oscar Smith, eighth man arrest
in connection with the lynching
i ike Brooks, waived preliminary
1 hearing Wednesday afternoon
rU I < HUI-I
without bond by Judge T. P. Don!
lull, justice of the peace. Snutlf
would be brought before a dlstrlc
Judge Wednesday afternoon
Forrest Hugheel
county attorney, predicted. Smitlf
mpU te confession. ac|
Iln to Sheriff Ben Dancy.
Smith wa arrested in Mart, TexaJ
i <' his wife i.-. but he waived exL
( prelimioarm
ii' wo an unwilling «pecl
tatoi m ill. lynching, he old Dane#
blamed tiii
two net m. ,,i the party for thl
action.
lit- . .dared that the first intentioil
of the men wn ^ « hip Brooks. uu|
that it was said by some member <
part} Hi t they would be arl
r< sted If they w hipped him so thejf
mii-hi ii- well lynch him "and
done with It."
The live prisoners who eonfet>se<|
were given life senl
i the <ountj jail await|
in 'in' lifting i r the smallpox quar
I
i :imel
I
two i'1 ■•'.>i old boys, confessed amf
■ need Tuesday morning
and the negroes, Nathan Butler i
Itobert Allen. In the afternoon. '
two negroet and Whitley wer^
union members.
J. N'. Harris and Robert AlcAllisI
t<' other a lleged members of th|
lynching party, were to ! «■ arraignei
Wednesday before T. F. Donnell, ,
tlce of the peue -. They declare i
they will fight their cases.
Anothi i alleged member ot' thl
oughl
11 Arkansas, 1 >an( > said, a warren!
haa Issued for hie arrest, it y
o.
i as : i i. f J been put^under way
a wage sufficient to live under ma,,,, fitatid today.
8anitary conditions The The paper brings forward promln-
unions are insisting 011 t-hfs. ent'y the possibility that a German
But the Chamber of Commerce "my t' s<!n to s"eceed the late
- . ., . .. , Benedict.
°t0Ul i Kl'P'lt, City IS lined tip Tfie Popolo Romano article aroused
With the packers in enforcing particular interest because the same
upon the men and women of paper hart previously denied all re-
the packing industry a wage
that condemns them to live in
hovels on the outskirts of the
city, dragging them lower and |
lower in the scale of civiliza-
tion.
ports Ibat any campaign to choose
other than on Italian for the Vatican
were being made.
Jesuits Assist Spaniard,
'ardlnal Merry Del Val, papal sec-
retary of state under Pope Pius X is
j directing the campaign to break the
tradition of choosing an Italian
. , . V , , i Merr>r 1)01 Val- Jl Spaniard, is one
And all this IS done under of the candidates for the papacy,
the pretext of "Americaniza-! The (arr>inai is being assisted, the
tion," on the part of "open J<,sult or,ler
t tt n i which kept in the background durinc
shoppers, ' some of whom are Benedict's pontificate because of ,ho
respectable deacons in Oklll- ■ latter's conciliatory policy. The Jes-
homa City churches. These ult • Oeneral Llochowsjiy, it is stated,
open shoppers would not con- ls canvass>lps all cardinals as they
sent to live on I in I "P.I F1 tln> ?rrlve ,'n R""ie for the late pope's
sent to ll\e Oil iJUUBUi tile funeral, and later for the meetlnK of
wage the packers are offering, the sacred college to select a new
They would not live n "Sand- pope^ This has been set for Febru-
town." They would not permit jary 2- ..
their children to associate with other "n'*n '"l"''
... ■ . ■ „ j i >"ner Italian papers also show the
the children laised in Sand-1 most intense interest in Benedict's
town. The only time they have ! successor and the role that the ear-
any love and respect for their I d'nals outside Italy are likely to play
sponsible—Seek Relief.
Immediate steps to relieve the
crowded condition of the Oklahoma
county jail, filled with prisoners who
cannot be taken to the state peni-
tentiary because of the quarantine
to guard against smallpox, were to
be taken Wednesday afternoon, Dr.
A. R. Lewis, state health commis-
sioner, announced Wednesday.
Jailers and sheriffs all over the
state are protesting, he said, but de-
clared that one of the worst crowd-
ed is the Oklahoma county jail.
Lewis' plan, he said, is to send to
the penitentiary all those prisoners
who have been in jail as much as
15 to 20 days. They would be thor-
oughly cleaned and disinfected be-
fore being Bent, he said, and vacci-
nated.
Several of the men in the jail have
life sentences. Luther Bishop, jailer,
declared.
The smallpox situation is im-
proved in the state as a whole, al-
though there are occasional out-
breaks. Pottawatomie county may
be quarantined, Dr. Lewis said.
This Time Says Report.
Hughes was handling the cases.
I). Halsell, a prominent member of
the Chamber of Commerce, beaded
the committee which caused the sov-
ernor to take this action.
INFLUENZA
THRtAfENS
will testify regarding the.
use of /i drug which it is aliened
was administered in a cigaret given 1
to the man who was guarding the
stolen finger prints.
The sensatiton of the trial Tues-1
day was the confession of Henry |
rence projects. The farmer repre-1
sentatlves stand as a unit in favor ,
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25.—(Hy ,f0f thfc three iH8Ue„ the bitterest Umieinn
U. P.)—A speedy conclusion of tho battle jS on the canalization pro- Ql'. Copeland DiameS HOllSiny he learned thii
case of Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle is ject. This is being fought out in ^itiiatinn FOP DrinClGP.
. «. - • „ - .(mriullnn commit . vJltuailwll w J
looked for with the report today
N10W YORK. Jan. 25. (By I
There have been fifty-one deaths
/from pneumonia, eight from acute
Mashore, and the dismissal ...
charges against him. He turned and l*wyw* w
government witness. He testified
that in wa- in the plot to rob . .
train but refused to lake part when Prove that tlwy ^Wllty befw
rtain man
"Curley" Duncan, a taxi driver)
was implicated In the confession
Smith, Tuesdaj night, according ti
ild that ill
vith the party for a bile, t > u |
had ii"nl i<> with his car, and niif
joined them afterward.
\ confei en< - oi union official!
held Tuesday witi
McAllister and Harris. They <
dared that the men will have
the union will defend them.
brothers in Sandtown is when
they can help them in their
endeavors to work on the
American plan for ybody
they please, at as low wages as
they please, and as long hours
as they please.
# + *
How short-sighted these men
are. Here they are helping to
dig the grave of the workers
by forcing them to take lower
wages, to work longer hours.
And what do they accomplish?
They reduce the purchasing
power of the workers. They
make less business for their
stores. On the reduced wage
the worker must live on less
groceries, on less clothing, on
less amusements, on less vic-
trolas, on less rent, and as a
result we have less business in
In making the choice
Many papers, however, discussed
the belief that a German is likely to
be chosen.
GOOD FIRE FIGHTING
OIL CITY. Tex.. Jan. 25.—When
your store is threatened by flre,
move it.
Fire yesterday destroyed the bak-
ery owned by Sam Rumbach. Next
door was a grocery store.
that Arbuckle's attorneys liav
cided not to put him on the stand
in his own defense.
All of his testimony at the first
trial has already been read to the
jury by the prosecution.
The prosecution admittedly ob-
tained permission to read Arbuckle's
testimony at the first trial to the
present jury in order to reduce the
effect that his personality or man-
ner of testifying might have, should
he take the stand.
Today's sesion of Arbuckle's trial
opened with a demand by the state
that all of the evidence given late
yesterday by Kate Brennan, chani
the water transportation committe
of which J. R. Howard, president of]
the American Farm Bureau Federa-
tion. is chairman.
May Break Away
to take part.
Sensational testimony was expect-
ed to be unfolded Wednesday with
some of the most important wit-
nesses to take the stand.
Congressman Peter G,
New York, is a member. Ten E:
'is leading the eastern opposition in ^wf"t5"J0Ul
I the St. Lawrence project.
It is understood that some of the
eastern bodies of the farm bureau
are supporting Ten Eyck and threat-
en to break away if the committee
endorses the project.
Resistance from the east is due
to the fear that a huge slice of the
ocean going business will be lost.
Open Tennessee Rlfcr.
Howard's organization, the Na-
Peu Eyck. i bronchitis and one from Influenza in
Greater New York during the last
hours the health de-
partmen announced today.
There were 302 cases of pneumo-
nia anti Influenza reported
health department within ti
period.
NEW YORK FINANCIER
DIES OF INJURIES
NEW YORK, Jan.
bermaid. state leading witness, be tional Farmers' Union, and other
stricken out on the grounds that , farm organizations, favor Ford's
Miss Brennan once had been con- i Muscle Shoals offer because they be-
flned to an asylum for the Insane. Ueve he is the only one who thus
i ing situation for the
the disease.
Another possible division in the ! lifted the building and carried it to i
sacred college between the cardinals ! safety.
favoring Benedict's policy of recon- ' —
dilation with Italy and those led by i
.Merry Del Val. who are against this
policy and favor a restoration of the
temporal power of papacy is also!
being discussed.
While the discussion of Benedict's '
successor w ent on, undiminished t
multitudes today continued to pay j
their homage to the dead pope.
At o'clock today a large crowd
assembled outside St. Peter's await-
ing opening of the doors. The body
will be on view until 3:30 today.
The college fixed the time for the
pope's funeral tomorrow at 3:30 p |
m. it was officially announced.
IS RES
health authorities in the last twen-
Mlss Brennan's testimony consti- ! far has shown a sincere desire and ty-four hour.-, while pby slu.ins rt -
tuted the main attack by the defense the capacity to open up the power ports were expec en to a< < o i <•
on the state's finger-print evidence. 1 possibilities of the Tennessee river tal today.
She testified she had cleaned thor- I and the vast wealth locked up in Doctor < ope land blames e
oughly the doors of Arbuckle's the Tennessee mountains.
apartment In the St. Francis hotel "Operation of the nitrate plants.
after the Labor day party and that I providing cheap fertilizer would
she could not have left finger-prints | merely be the first step in the re-
of Arbuckle and Miss Rappe on the ; generation of the south," Howard
door or hairpins and a half-dozen J said.
hairs on the floor. ! Today's session included addresses
by Governor John M. Parker. Ix)ii-
isiana; G. Harold Powell, I.or An-
geles; William M. Wagner, < hlcago;
Carl Williams, Oklahoma City; Rob-
ert McDougal, Chicago, and J. M.
Anderson, St. Paul.
r. p.) a.
ame Barton Hepburn. .New York finan-
cier, and chairman of the board of
the Chase National bank, died at 4
NEW YORK. Jan. 2.".. With New a. m. today
York facing the possibility of an in-I Hepburn's death followed injuries
fluenxa epidemic, Health Commis- sustained when be was hit by a pas-
sloner Royal S. Copeland today re- sengor bus on Fifth avenue a few
newed his warning to the public to days ago.
take all precautions. He was a director in Sears Roe-
More than 225 cases of the flu and [buck, Studebaker corporation. Co-
pneumonia were reported to the j iumt>ia Trust, New York Life Insur-
nce company and several other
orporations.
IT WORKS—SOMETIMES
BOYS MUST WAIT
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 25—(By
U. P.)—America's champion girls'
the City. W e have fewer basketball team, the Clark Munies of
stores. We have more strife, Cleveland, today decided that there
more dissatisfaction, more more hefux for thcm un"
empty store buildings and ™.'" Tmuch tin,,
more vacant houses. For ail we haven't time for dates any more,"
these, thank the Oklahoma City paid one of the girls who issued the
Chamber of Commerce. | order.
HER SIDE OF THE CASE
DUTY'S CALL
v . CHICAGO. Jan. 25—"No girl whose
IJDWARDSVILLE, 111.. Jan. 25.- j entire time has been monopolized by
Circuit Clerk Simon Kellerman had I one man should be forced to return
a barber wipe the lather from his | such a trivial reward for misspent
face so he could administer an oath time as a $300 engagement ring,"
ior a new trial to Mrs. Marie Math-1 Alice Carstens declared in appealing
eHH, whose husband obtained a di-ja jury verdict which ordered her4o
\9jxm. 1 return the rin&
Grand Jury Reports on Okmul-
gee Bank Transaction.
OKMULGEE. Okla.. Jan. 25.—The
state banking department today was
prevented from disposir,, of assets
of the defunct Bank of Commerce.
Okmulgee, under a restraining order
issued by Superior Judge Christo-
pher.
The court issued the order after
the grand jury had returned a re-
port charging that the state bank-
ing department, which had charge
Firemen CAVE MAN THREW
HER FROM WINDOW
Mollie Bradbury, who lives on
West Fourth street, was nursing a
sprained back Wednesday which she
received Tuesday night when, in the
course of an altercation with a man.
she was thrown from a second story
window, according to Policeman Carl
Brough.
The woman was pushed out of the
window by a man, with whom she
was quarreling, officers declared.
She refused to prosecute him, how-
ever.
The woman was taken to the hos-
pital, but was removed later.
BAINEQ
CUTS SEEKING
TO HOLD RIGHTS
hous-
prevalencc of —
l HRI< HSV1LLE, Ohio, Jan. :
Philip Falkenhoff, although 84 y
WASHINGTON. Jan. 2.'.. <By I". „](| battled with a thug who
P.) A large Increase in number of tempted to rob him ana saved pa
influenza cases in various parts of his valuables.
the United States was reported by
the public health bureau here today.
Or. A. R. Lewis, state health com-
missioner, declared Wednesday that
there was no Influenza in Oklahoma.
or at least that no cases bad come
to the attention of the health depart-
npfeut.
He said that ho feared that it
might come to the state, and that
there were no funds with which lo
fight it without declaring an eraer-
FORD WANTS TO
MORTGAGE ROAl
\\ \SHINGTON, .Ian, 25. H«ft|
railroad, the Detroit, TolMH
and 1 ronton, today applb d to thl
I
1,000 worth "I
|
gold bonds.
The f ii ltd ? rom thi ue are t<|
b< used '<< reimburse the road'I
trea ui j for expenditures made bcl
' u . . i: I ; • I . .Hid July 1. lftJll
fm additions and betterments to tbi
road, Including additional ti i mini I
facilities.
WANTED: A NEW JOB
BURLINGTON, Jan. 25. Thomal
W. Smith, a teacher, thought
high school show needed jazz.
funny, the supervisors agreed, an<|
dismissed Smith.
I
■ • nd '•.iru '< Penn's relw |
.;irni\al hen- In April, accordin*
|
consul today.
ARRAIGN BAKER
IN LOVE MURDER
Negotiations To Be Begun To
Retain Overtime Basis.
CHICAGO. Jan. 25.- Shop craft
employes of the railroads today
started direct negotiations w ith their
employers following the decision by
the United States railroad labor ,f,e8J
board eliminating time and one-half
P%?owfngrtamen,eetlt.B extending | >«' w thllt h" shot Burn
over a period of several days, h
Arraignment of Earl Baker,
charged with the murder oi Thomas
J. Burns, was to be held before W.
P. Hawkins, justice of the peace,
Wednesday, according to Forrest
county attorney.
Baker Is alleged to have conf« ssed
to police officers after he Rave him-
He said that he shot Bu
his
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f the phop craftH' unions Instructed
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of the assets of Bank of com- May Be game Who Staged
merce since its failure has permit- 3 . ,, ,,
ted the transfer recently of $396,000 HurlDlirt HOId-Up.
of the bank's assets to the Guaranty
c,tate bank or its agents. STILLWELL, Okla., Jan. 2f .—Two
The Guaranty bank was merged unmasked men entered the Farmers'
with the Bank of Commerce Janu- j state bank at Parkhill. near here,
ary 3, 1921. The latter bank closed today, forced <" ashler T. L. Ballenger
its doors November 2 last j into the vault at the point of re-
The grand jury report further volvers and escaped on horseback
charged that f'harles G. Zaton, dep- with approximately $500 in currency.
uty state bank examiner, refused i a sheriff's posse is in pursuit.
permission to prospective purchas- This is the second bank robbery
era to examine the bank's assets and I in Cherokee county within a week,
as a result they sold for less than , last Friday the First National bank J Western Golf association
n third of their value. J of Hurlburt being robbed of $2,800. | Announcement to this effect ha
The grand jury is continuing its Authorities believe the same men I been made by Albert It. Gate*, presi
ldent oi liit organization.
PUBLIC LINKS FAVORED
CHICAGO, Jan. 25. Public golf
links are to be furthered by the
ot the cavft
fobbed both btoka.
because Burns bad broken uj
home, and had been too intimate with ,
hi.* wife, It Is said.
This is one of the two sensational I
alleged "triangle"' Cases which re- j
1 suited in a killing within the past j
! two weeks.
TREASURY FACES DEFICIT
WASHINGTON. Jan. 26.—The fed-
eral treasury is facing a $300,000,-
000 deficit in the next two years.
In these circumstances, Secretary
i of the Treasury Mellon warns,
economy is essential and "any sol-
■ dier bonus payment bill will mer .
I increase* la Uic ,"
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