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OKLAHOMA CITT ^
HI5 i'OWf AL SOCIETY
The Daily Transcript
Carrying the Full United Press Telegraphic Heport
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, \\ KI'NKSn W. I'KBRl" AIIV 27. I'.'l,
VOLUME V. __ 1 1 •
Germans Visit Gas F right fulness on the American Soldiers
Patriotic Meeting;
War Activities
PRUSSIANS WORKING
HARD TO INSPIRE HER
SOLDIERS FOR DRIVE
Phillip Gibbs, war correspondent of
the New York Times and Dallas News
with headquarters in France, in a Worman peopie realized what a most ]
copyright cable to those papers undei - (i meeting it was to be. .
<latc of Feb. 18th, writes interestingly J"1"' were not there certainly !
of the contemplated drive of the Ger- , migseil sonlething Qf benefit and in-;
m the west front. Pait ot mslterest prom start to finish it was
in no f a1 1 nura • ii : J_< onojiy mj
ided and I' '^ty
There was an excellent audience at
the Christian church on Tuesday night
on the occasion of the Patriotic Meet- |
ing, but not near as large as it should 1
have been. The church should have j
been crowded to its very doors, and!
we are sure it would have been had
bulletin
By FRED S. FERGUSON
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
\v:<h <h American Army in Prance, leb. it.—hixij-
Many of the
Patterson Not
Placed On Stand
MAYBE RUSSIA
WILL FIGHT ON
-Rebuttal
witnesses \
011 Five'others were killed in the gas attack.
hospital cases include artillerymen, who were overcome bv
fumes from jjas shells.
With
" I France,
the
Feb.
American
\rmv in I toward the Boches after having seen not
rtrlu" .... l.,_ ..1-r of vie- stai
' By I 'nitcd Press.
Oklahoma City, Feb. 27.
to testimony of defense , ,
started with the opening of today s j
trial of Orban Patterson, local attor- German command advancing toward
1 ney, for the murder of Samuel Wil- capjtal, informed that the Rus-
liams, Purcell banker, in this city Sep- ■ g.,ing hU(| accepted peace, queried
tember 28th, lust. their representatives at Brest-Litiovsk.
With the abrupt ending of the de- . t.ame back "the advance
fense yesterday afternoon when ey , nn]gt continue."
sprung the bip surprise of the timi in i Germans evidently are deter
placing the defcndant jin tne j mined t(( occ.upy Petrograd and are
By JOSEPH SI1APLEN,
(l iiiii-,I l'rwi Staff Correspondent)
Petrograd, Feb. 26.—(Night) flu
killed and
mans on
article is as follows: , Hlters?success; something doing every mm- . A jcar soldiers were
War Correspondents Headquarteis ; i. .nffprin., terrible agonies, sent
18.—At any raomen Dean j g Buchanan presided and , itais today in the first Ger-
' , the t«g*«ort to end stated the object of the meeting, ) ^ k (m the AmeriCan see-
's last desperate effort to ena ^ # gettin(C together of the man
nrepar- people to discuss all the war act.vi- ^ were the .casualties up to the
in France, Feb. — r f (lp uean «j. o. nutiianoii y
now we may see the beginning of the ^ ()bject o{ the
enemy s last desperate effort to ena
offensive which he has beenprepar- heart and soul in all of ' hour'of^abling this dispatch,
ing for months is imminent. In my re- (hpm ,.America Was sung by the hour 01 caoiii.K .
"America" was sung
and Rev. Wickizer opened |
The first victims
ncluded boys
Pennsylvania
cent' messages I have described the audjence an(, Kev. wicKizer o^"™ I from Massachusetts, . ,
waiting attitude of the nuietude the proceedings with prayer, after , North Carolina, Indiana, Kentucky,
in this time of comparative quietude the ma]e quartett, Messrs, John I ^roi.na,
along the lines and the uncanny sense wjU Keeb]e) A k. Thomas
one has had of a portentous secret > jiinshaw, sang a beautiful
hidden behind the silence of the ene- ami . . Roy Qittinger then
my's trenches. Tliey are not idle over . e f((1. the County Council of De-
there, those field-gray men. They are j£nse outljnjnK the work it was doing
beinir urged on to hurried labor which expected to do, followed by Prof.
of their higher ' l lwi) for the Red Cross and
K Pvof " W. Bridges and Prof
The struggles of vie- stand', a jury verdict was made pos- j ^iso seeking to cut off the capital
20.—(Delayed)— Five W ^ « sil^the end of ^w^ ,
r> r- j^gpatc)iedC toward
these American boys, gasped a"' 0f the state's testimony is expected ^ )ff it was semiofficially announc-
struggled for every breath. while the ^ oorninue untjl Thursday afternoon today. A number of armored cars
attendants, in charge of a captain, Kpi,:nnjnl£ of arguments to jury will | _ Moscow has sent seven-
worked tirelessly. Among the doctors
was one from Waco, Texas, and one indication's the lawyer's fate 1,V'X"™„ P«7 Vitebsk. 300 miles
being urged
is part of the secret
command, and these men rroI ,,, „.
every trench they dig is a pathway j ^ varivieet for the gardening
to a battle which will soak the ground ' ition All these made most in-
diuniiUf iiti 1
New Jersey, Tennessee, Rhode Island,
Ohio, New York, Washington and
Arkansas. ,
The attack came suddenly eaily
this morning after aa all day ram.
The clouds had parted and the moon
was shining brightly in the trenches.
Stillness prevailed.
from Milford, Penn. I wju be
Every effort to relieve the sufferers 1 gaturday.
was resorted today. Blood letting and j
the giving of oxygen were tried.
Every breath was a groan. The Amer-,
icans eager drawing in of the Cjod-
given air sounded like bellows, so j
nearly were the lungs closed.
As the sufferings became worse, J
the mens hands were outstretched as
, to continue until Thursday aftemoon. UK,av A number of armored
' Beginning of arguments to jury will , incliulc(|. Moscow has sent se
., begin immediately and according to thousand troops to Bologn
present indicati^^nd's of tweTve' men > small town near Vitebsk, 300 .
jrday.
MASON'S ANALYSIS
dis-
of
lllllt^il J V.W llic IlltllO ■ _ |
Suddenly there was a huge Il^e| though they were drowning. 1 heir
to a battle wmcn wmawa ^ nrnn0sition —
with their blood before many days P y talks, giving their auditors
are past, and that every new gunpit tn take home with them
they build is one stage further to new (
something to take home
I and think about.
west of Moscow and the same d:
tance south of Petrogiad).
The battle for possession
Pskoff, which continued through the
night, ended in a Russian victory
— I The Russians have succeeded in re
Bv I W T. MASON, moving most of the vast store iaf sup
(Written for the United Press) plies there (valued at four humlrec.
New York Feb. 27.—The increas- million rubles) into the interior
ir resistance by the Prussians The commissariat has admitted tht
'nlnK'-«l ne\1'! against the German attempt to cap- Reval (capital of Eathonia, situated
from the German trenches as the, fing,ers distended, they stiffened, ^ petrograd, whether immediately on an arm of the Gulf of
minewerfers were discharged. Ih there was a sudden foaming at the, sfuj (>r not is re-establishing a miles west of Petrograd) , P
ss sssa.T^s
secret of the other. Each ing— the addiess ot . gM Ames narrowly escaped death through as :feclinK of hatred for the enemy, but I ratl>s fan js necessary as a final in seven versts (4.0- miles) an
this great this -ector alone during the fust . Tht, ^as victims were in a hospital pBkoff, reported today in United tept that attitude and the
tack. ,, 'vecentlv repeatedly bombed. Doctors1 p Petroirrad dispatches, is very suei) , ,h
When the gas came! over the m declared that the final act they might, irnportanti not so much because ot enthusiasm for the defieE!e f js a
endeavored to adjust their gas ma .. he Huns would be an air th )ue 0f the munitions, but be- revolution grows homiy. 'h ,
Those who were not quick enough « the gassed I ^use the presence of real military constant stream of armed men ,eav
were soon gasping for b«ath 'These ram on P out> | uow the revolutionary ,ing for the front. Two hundred thou,
were carried to a hospital A child R t 1 a-(t'2 o'clock Tuesday I.J:' 1 and Proletariats have enrolled.
could not look "ore helpless than Brtwe n es wer„ h«rled, hitherto, during the German ad- The staff at Luga (100 miles south
these Americans. Their huge .enema j ^ Minewerfers. There were l;.vo
raised and lowered tie covers s attacks, in which about 7!"> chlorine i efforts to save anyimnK. "•*"' . i'''i'" ;f th, . ila(i rem-
f°r breath' AS difficult and and phosgene gas shells, accompanied^ has been, complete. ^Pskoff | lmlt _«« Gemans
er s eyes i— .
activity. The German gunners have a ■ SDeakers in (J
"hate" against the Britis.i balloons i thorout;hw imbuecl with the righteous-
and try to shoot them downwithlog o{ America's cause in this great
range guns, because in the baslcet and {or an hour or more
below them are two pairs of watchful auditors spellbound as he
noting the activity of their £em thg frightful ess of the
t. ? i nnt>t\ tn yet l
eyes
long
trains behind the lines and a y "10^e" p^usslans and the need to get into
ment on the roads. Mill more do they ^ with all our heart and soul
i.ate the British airmen, who every r|80Urces. He predicted
uay for ™""" ;last have beeu
flying ov
ting new
many days past have beei, « ytter struggle, but had no doubt
,-cr the enemy's lines, of the final outcome, for it wa-. a war
battle positions, photogiaph th forces 0f good and those
ntw SWJU it. ml" 2f
"f- * —r:„ j (;0,I would allow the evil to win.
ng the German air sirens, when- one (){ America's wars had
and ammunition (lump:
German air squ_
work of reconnoissance ''
and
for free
a sue
grew louder and more uunwuu uv explosives were
5™; 'sSS ariv -
an oxygen
Hitherto, , ,
vances the Russians have made no 0f l'eti'o:;rad v.- - - ,.p
chlorine i tn save anvthing. Disorganwa- railroad wired they would be a ^
been complete. The Pskoff | halt the Germans it ttfc.y
thrown. 1 incident reveals that the spirit of I f0rcements. These were st
ere first visi. | is vanishing and the. Russians | lately.ea(fel.ly joining the
tank to the side of one b)p ' ^en the entire battery for mine- j ^'recovering^"some of their morale
simultaneously.^TliB |suppUes!
air
chines have
been brought down in flames.
enemy has been desperately
anxious to find out the intentions and
strength of the British at certain
sli ai cwmihi i •••■ . -f -rPV!,c her civil wai; was
points "of the 'i"e a"('. j|^^te"JP^e'l ^ ^gtrike the shackled of slavery from
„B Borisoff (80 miles
as were stored in the Pskoff area. I wcst 0f Orsha and 38 milesi north_of.
Transportation difficulties have given Minsk) the Germans advanceil towanl
the greatest trouble to the Bolsheviki 0rsha. Russian forces made a sort e
civil regime; but the military leaders j and beat the Germans back 18 miles
the
there dom, and everyone had been _
ithat a" men are born free ami equal; THe Boches introduced the found to have b.
The enemy has „„;i her war o^ ^^ ^as or ^e^om^ Lras terror to the world. Its first use "f}lile ro"ckets were sent UP-1 of th'e' revolution are showing a new | out from the city.
jsLirvisst""*
formation. The British rai^dsw ^ ^ ■ war was for tta fwedom ^ ,.very American to view the hospital the^enure k comin;; ^ r®~^estion but that the a<-| began an orderly evacuation.
Jre? thathesbehind the silence of thewhole world from the where lay '^vctims the beforc a barrage of gas projectiles tiJ for(.e at Von Hindenburg s dis-1 Germans seeking to occupy
mmm , E
wh0 revealed^muc^y ^ that | any material tenrf ^ territo but toeaa.. Wort came ^.at^hirt^ - ^ u8ed time fuses. !force to the danger point. If a strong ;ments of Ukrainian prisoners at Rov-
to attack them j Ul/,CI"C" n ^—*■ n,n wnr<i
Vile
live force at von numtnuui^ • , uuihb"" - -;. e
nos:il Tor the capture of Petrograd Ujg^ where the first mobilization fot
is comparitively very small. If he the defense of Petrograd occurre<
onward, he lengthens the were thrown back. , .
■ras and St. Quen-! forjreedom ^ thi8.
all" that the word im- tional we^enroute^o^the hospUals.^ "7—d;i^n-to" this ' attack, an ^im-1 Sy^eto take place near J,
At the field hospital where
'first twenty victims of German
wanted to
the enemy is preparing
heavilv between Arias - niiefl. in cuuu«« i v0.,qv ,.IDl
r^pes^hatr^ tinned during the day.
as portant village wa
times
gassed three ; petrograd the German detachments
luring the night. The gas con- mj^ht be cut to pieces or compelled to
'engage in a disastrous retreat.
(in Volhynia).
ditions are favorable.
The German higher command
and
StSStS. ™ 1 BS IJSKTE? ass T ~ *•";?>> j
condition be£n crU8hed, but "ot i lapped J territoryi in 186(5/he stif- ai(fn in Oklahoma are realizing that I
and i'
indemnities for her kings
never for the benefit of the
the way of greater freedom.
Royal Bengal Tiger J
-As-
The Governorship
Oklahyma City, Ok., ^eb.
spirit that has
kiUed after "the strikes, the attitud,• « ii
of Austria, the Rowing pressure |lg?1 she took_toU o^the bloodand it is expee
against"'thYs*"la "t great gamlble with money^
• " •'
^ijssr^s&'s
, order to gain some
showy success and silence the cr> niocracv i"ual *•« , ,,
the people by an advertisement of moc ^ ^ ,d._
victory 1 . „| The resolution against c
To inspire the German^peop^e ^ introducedlbsJforv. D. . g
weeks
to make announcements,
cted that the next few |
will witness many campaign
, pressure of | led Austr _
«nd lands of 1* rancev _ vvecivo n«u ...v...— ^
brutal and bloodthirsty of (|eclarations. While candidates have
as her ravages of Belgium, | untj, forty days before the primary
she has put Russia under t c.iectjon to make up their minds if
a sop to her autocracy, thgy wj|] Ket in the race there is no
spurring on
strike soon
and now
withhaelhope"ofworld domination, as" toWeaVly they might make j
This cannot and will not succeed.^ De-, thejr bjd for pubiiC preference.
mocracy must and will win.
and free-
The gubernatorial race on the Dem-1
•cratic ticket is probably closed as to
bulletin
Bv I'liilril Press. .
London. Feb. 27.—An American
destroyer brought in survivors "!
the hospital ship Qlenart t astle,
which was sunk in Bristol channel
yesterday, the British admirably
announced today. T ... "|f„hts
castle was outbound with lights
burning and had no patients
aboard. Eight boats with survn-
ors are still adrift.
A Good Meeting
PROBE GOVERNMENT
EXPENDITURES
Bv L. C. MARTIN,
Petrograd, Feb. 25.—(Delayed)—
"Despite our readiness to sign a Ger-
man , eace of usurpation, enemy de-
tachments continue to advance," the
executive council's press proclaimed
today. .• , .
"The German imperialists do not
desire peace, but the strangling of
the workmen and peasants revolution.
Brave, heroic, pitiless, obstinate re-
sistance becomes the revolution ?
27.—
! Wa-hington, D. C., Feb.
Congress is worried about money anjl
j wants what many legislators c
j "Occupation of Reval and Pskotf
ill Sand even Petrograd, which is still
cannot decide the revolu-
hoW o™ little wM. longer nd «n.n,'n,o«.l . It «
th- -Pi"'.' r,, l. f.™™ ?h..'on. «.,y .. w,„ «
breweries ; "and'idates.'There will probably be no
Wwkizer others mentioned than those who i
ets forth | ,)aV(, aireadv been talked for the .ast!
j-criminal waste" eliminated from tbr fiont" fatt"'shoui'(l "the threat toward
iW"rBfmon""'for''"victory, but not <m-' Mos"cow
cent for waste," is the slogan a sena ( musl tjefend every position,
tor suggested today while this 8^ ; intelp0Se all obstacles in the road to
ment has been reflected in notn i .. . , u^mnt.ro « • <?
suppress
them, so that me m..
make this last throw in the game, fa ^
war is tx) i
The Worn ana* Committee of the es \ number of senators today _ 1• *>■ -\tl
t Monday af-, notjce that they will urge the 1 etrograd.
tation and locomotive anil
them"so that the military leaders may
-
among neutrals and in the
al months.
make this lasv un«« -•■ - =■ , hout
tastic stories are being spread about
*- ls and in the Uerman
nethods of attack which
inlre'Lccess: Bogey stories are
concocted and put in c reulation. The
German soldier, as well a the Uer
h... h„n ind
i? ?s besides the use of 180,000 cai.
est mated that the grain now nouncement. He <1
the manufacture of beer would furnish gaid that R.
4,200!000 loaves of breadn daily, bread . . .
be-
Superintendent, might try .
, ' i i— Uoo nftf allowed his
Both
of them have """"""'"^d t0°
often by promise^
out some new tricks. As ioiil, 1 ^ . uesmca lm*
l')14 tliey were told the war would be . transportation of the sup] •
ijn tney . , —tumn fell. | This meeting was, the first of
of
Wilson, State
try for the
S3: S? i'rf" a
for ;
decisive way.
Council of Defense met ----- .
t r A Rohort on I ternoon, Feb. 25th, at the ion > appr0priations committee to ,
J. B. A. Robertson, I ^ £ A Foster in spite of the ^ strictest ec onomy on government)
Alexander, | t'here was an excellent atten- vy.e8U1 while Senator King proposes
out-of-town ladies jntroduce a bill standardizing sal-
[ aries. Senator Gallinger declares i
- the work were_dis- j some nlen are drawing $6,000 yearly!
! cussed. It was decided that the chair- j „.overnment salaries who could not
man of each department, the Pre_si- | earn $1,500 elsewhere.
dent and secretary of the B ederation : The HoR is]an(| investigation, with
of Farm Womens' clubs, and the of- disclosuves of enormous sums
ficers of the Womens Committee , nt; printing of huge quantities of
should be a special council to meet, use]egs documents at government ex-
the fourth Monday in each month to se and many kindred matters,
and make reports ot
Attempt To Wreck
Troop Train
JAPAN READY TQ ACT
Feb 27.— Japan
i«,™ wgf i™;;;; 5 lL: St 3 S !<• ' • fs]b"*'" "
u.. Incf , r..' , r .1 VIV Sir-ntt 1 ♦ iir c cnrpftfl
SaWK i n"1 .
thTlast snellthatwill hoW^the Ger-1 thp monlenr^V .
n the ?M^VSr!2i"5i5S
The arJJlJ who went through the the tales spread among them are false fulfjll her obligations to the allies in
inspire Men who went tnrc> ^ ^ ^ ^1^ ^ themse,ves that they the Orient. .
bath of blood of the easily i qre creditable The" are a nation with 1 There was a growing feeling 1
horrors of Flanders ^ which they bloodshot eyes and high temperature dinlomatic quarters that the situatio
discuss plans
work assigned to them. I
Dr VanVleet was present and help-
ed to make plans for the garden con-
tests being put on by this coniml"";
A report of the work up to date.
have worried legislators—and stirred
The Ardmorite of Tuesday gives
the following account of what is re-
garded as a deliberate attempt to
wreck the special troop train bound
for Camp Travis on Monday, lhe
Cleveland county boys were passen-
gers on this train. The Ardmorite
• What is believed to have been an
effort to wreck the troop train which
2- passed through Ardmore at 6 o clock
iv! last night, bound for Camp Travis..
•1 - . 0 |n the derail-
| San Antonio, resulted
them. . . .
"The government virtually de
mands the people sacrifice and buy
sUnnps," one^senator sM^ | ^t^^gMTtrain.a mile and 1
^erinto'beating'the11^kaiwr'and0 not j o'clock Firemen W. O
poes into , ' £ ,„v,„ in I K,,m ia in a samtariui-
believed, is not seriously
of Gainsville at 10:30i
Brown of Cle-
to enrich a lot of" persons who, m1 burn is in a^ sanitarium at Gainsville,
was read. Mrs. Bigirers reported that
the Farm Womens' club gave each
s informed that boy that left Cleveland coun \ orl private life, are t . i, , Fnoinper J A ueuarmo an
japan is' aware of the seriousness of Monday a comfort bag. making a total ^ ab,ui ,0 b« conten: with much huU^ Engine^ ^ ,iw .,
are drugged , ty,e Siberian situation, in view of the 0f some sixty bat,. . < ]css than Uncle Sam P'l1 j 'j„d J ('ie}nun were not injured.
- ' " PB.e and German given to the boys. Both houses today coi.tumed griml , leburr^ w ^ pe freigt
forced by their limit-1 but, it is
J. A. DeGarmo and
of fever buoved up by artificial stimu-
face"* so" they have been trained to hopes fail, will be a fearful one.
this new
their officers have
them tJjat they can roll up the
lines.
I believe that 1
si aught fails as the „Ss ofgreat armies, the, power
are convinced it drive )icd puns, and above
man officers v,ill be slau(rhter behind those guns may
iresn m uw tVii« m<
duped as to the ease
are expected to smash our e enses. t' "t^e' last' 0U"nCe of resistance
The old methods of attack ynlha pre lants to ^ (lfc.spalr that eats into
liminary bombardmentt0 ^ jr arts xiie reaction, if their
terrors which they al® trained to hopes fail, will be a fearful one. By
they have been traineo 10 popes ia , goodne8g they will
ts SS&xrsas St
blows that will be struck against the 1 .
f the first wild on- French will fail-if the courage of v
f British armies men and the farthrf men^ read.-j ^
all, the spirit j ❖
defend the .
sf'™ih6
for a cessation of this sacrince. cosi. \
situation
is" growing so serious that Japanese
intervention will be needed.
WEATHER
Charge Extortion
Oklahoma City, Feb. 27.-Two
sneeial investigators, representing the
state food administration and the
state agricultural board, will continue
investigations into the high feed
ing away at two of^the^most ^P'^ i trai,^No'."24"reached the point where
Northbound
measures The house was on train No. 24 re;
last tan of the railroad control the accident occurred auout, iwo n ur
t"g ;trtedhoen ThT war«nance cot bounf'troop'^irain3 had'''passed that
ting started on the war nnun The )OCOmotive was overturned
poration measure. Tvfa.sachusettK and several cars derailed.
investigations into me iuk« fpol.. . - hv the senate manil- over tne ran uum .
prices said to be charged farmers, it vestu.a m.^n^; ; : f wl)U.il he is i been drawn or passed that point be
was announced following closing of fact..rers commmt , fore the wreckers removed the spikes
a favor-
Norman and Vicinity: Cold-
er, cloudy and unsettled weath-
er' tonight and Thursday with
probable rain or snow. Min-
imum temperature tonight
to 36 degrees.
SO
of course, not known. It is believed
by railway and state officials who are
fc.ws-i'riaH a£S|S
. ® ® 1 1 . no ic L-tinum
| hearings conducted by federal agents a member. expe(.t9
■|anThehespfedal in™gato? will work able reply from the judiciary_comm.t
• for sixty days and longer if
•! under compensation of the Oklahoma
Millers' association.
Stockmen and farmers
unpleasantly sur-
I the hearings to he made testified to P^^d- DeBpite stones of compr^ Ag far a i? known
,he extortionate prices being charged m ses ithat ™ ^ (.ot dfad |here> n0 0ne is under suspicion,
for cattle feed. D1,, 1 H
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