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The exportation of raw cotton from
the United Kingdom haa been prohib-
ited.
The Chineae government haa defi-
nitely refused some of the most im
oortant demands made by Japan.
The Italian ambassadors at Paris, I New York,
London, Vienna and Berlin have been charged in their refusal to book cer-
lummoned to Rome to confer with tain acts and attractions offered them
Minister 8ononino.    by the plaintiffs.
The German auxiliary cruiser Kron-1 A non<ommlul verdlct
William Hale Thompson, mayor of
Chicago, plans to raise a $10,000,000
public playgrounds fund, it was an-
nounced.    V
Seven Italian workmen were killed
and eleven injured by a premature ex-
plosion of dynamite at the New Ken-
stco dam at White Plains. N. Y.
Frederick Farwell, 18 yetrs old, a
motorcycle racer, who crashed into a
fence after winning a five-mile race at
Sacramento, died from his injuries.
The supreme court of Missouri over-
ruled the motion for a rehearing of the
case in which five packing firms were
fined $25,000 each on a charge of vio-
lating the state anti-trust lawe.
The leading vaudeville hooking
agencies of the United States are
made defendants in two Sherman law
suits for $600,000 damages filed at
in which conspiracy is
prins Wilhelm was towed to Norfolk
navq yard and interned there to await
the close of the war.
DJavld Bey, the Turkish minister of
finance, has returned to Constantln-
aople after having arranged in Berlin
(or a new Turkish loan.
A Petrogard dispatch to the Times
says that another internal loan of
$500,000,000 will be issued within a
fortnight and that its success is as-
sured.
The French armored cruiser Leon
Gambetta has been torpedoed by an
Autrian submarine. The vessel dis-
placed 12,416 tons and carried from
700 to 800 officers and men, 600 of
whom Were lost.
Captain Scott, commanding a Nor-
wegian steamer used by the Belgian I with the most serious labor situation
relief commission, reports the ~pres- in years. The addition of 12,000 bridge
ence in the North Sea of a German I aad structural Iron workers, the list of
fleet, numbering not less than sixty- union workingmen on strike or locked
eight vessels, all tola.    out was swelled to 32,200. The strike
The Gallipoli peninsula gradually I G{ the iron workers forced idleness on
is being cut off from the rest of Turk-1 several thousand others in allied
ish Tharce. It is impossible now for trades, bringing the number of idle be-
was rend-
ered by the coroner’s Jury which inves-
tigated the death of Peter Glennon,
the ranch foreman, killed in a battle
with Rev. Paul Reinfels of Paloma, 111.,
an Invalid Catholic priest and the lat-
ter’s nurse, Mrs. Clara Sherrer, in a
cabin near Palm Springs, California.
The Rockefeller foundation war re-
lief commission made public a report
on destitution and disease in Serbia
in which it is stated that on March
10 probably from 25,000 to 30,000 per-
sons were suffering from typhus in
Serbia and that this and other epi-
demics were “swiftly enveloping the
entire nation." The report was trans-
mitted from Berlin.
May first was ushered Into Chicago
HEWS OF THE
STATE CAPITAL
PISH LAW HARO ONE TO ENFORCE
ACCORDING TO
NOBLE.
OKLAHOMA CITY HEWS EVENTS
What the State Officials and Depart-
, manta Ara Doing.—Itema of In
tercet About tea State
Govern most.
the Turks to pass from one shore to
the other. The main forces are be-
tween Callinoli and Maidos.
Will Crooks, labor leader in the
house of commons, declares in a news-
paper interview that there is less
drinking in England than before the
war and that Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer Lloyd-George was mistaken in
the statements he made regarding the
subject.
Telegraphing from Amsterdam, the
correspondent of the Exchange Tele-
graph Company say’s Emperor William
and Prince Henry of Prussia, his
brother, were at Antwerp the 'end of
last week and inspected the harbor
cause of strikes and lockouts up to
125,000.
Seven man, including John L. Cas-
per, a distiller of Kansas City, were
arrested by federal authorities at Fort
Smith, Ark., charged with running or
being implicated in the operation of
an illicit still in the' heart of Fort
Smith. One saloon, the distillery and
a warehouse where the alleged con-
traband liquor was stored, were seized
and more than one hundred barrels of
whisky confiscated.
Tom Brooks, the negro slayer of R.
Lee Day and Pleas Hawkins, was
taken from the custody of Deputy
fortifications and submarine yards. Sheriffs who were bringign him to
They then returned to Luxembourg
Field Marshal Sir John French, com-
mander-in-chief of the British forces
on the continent, announces the con-
clusion of another German attempt to
break through the allied lines around
Ypres and along the Yser canal whloh
brought about one of the most san-
guinary battles of the war. This, how-.    ....    . . . ,
ever, only brings to an end the flrst annual meeting at Houston voted to to-
phase of the battle, for the allies have ««“• tb« capita! stock from $30,000,-
yet to win back the ground which H to $37,000,000. The new issue is
they tost in the great German sweep. ft *'    at par and *6,°00,000 wui be
For this purpose they are now deliver- a»“«ed tba VT*a?at, stockholders
i-ig counter-attacks against the Qer- while $1,000,000 will be issued to such
man lines. Only at one place, Steen- employees as desire to purchase it on
strate, have the Germans managed to a basis of their 1914 salaries. The pro-
keep their footing on the western bank «>eds will be used in extensions and
of the canal, while to the north of I in improvements, at least $4,000,000
Memphis for preliminary trial and
hanged from the trestle of a railroad
bridge. Brooks killed the two men
and wounded a deputy sheriff when
they went to his cabin near Sumer-
ville, Tenn., a week ago to serve a
warrant on him.
The Texas Company stockholders in
Ypres the positions remain much as
they were, the allies making no claims
to an advance there and the Germans
reporting that all the British attacks
have been repulsed.
to be expended in Texas.
DOMESTIC
W A SHI NOTON
Secretary Redfield reported to Presi-
dent Wilson that for the last week the
favorable balance of trade for the
United States was $23,323,204, the
largest for the last five weeks.
During February and March there
were $37,254 applications for employ-
Oklahoma City.—
While there are a few scattering
compaints of dynamiting fish coming
Into the office of George Noble, state
game and fish warden, they are of a
general nature and In no instance has
the information been specific enough
to run down a law violator in this re-
kpecL It is indeed hard to secure im
formation for offences of this kind, be-
cause more than likely one man is in
ho position to tell on the other.
With the streams and small lakes
full of fish at this time of year there
hre comparatively few compaints of
Seining fish unlawfully, although it is
believed it is being done in some sec-
tions. To what extent is another hard
jthlng to say. As for seining, however,
the water is yet too cold and this per-
haps is keeping many from the risk,
even though they would otherwise be
reasonably safe from exposure.
Where Seining Is Permissible.
In some of the streams of the state
seining is permitted, with a limited
sized mesh. These are the Arkansas,
Cimarron, South Canadian, North
Fork of Red river, South Fork of Mu-Jr
dy Boggy, Muddy Boggy, Clear Boggy,
Poteau and the Kiamichi.
Information coming to the state game
warden’s office shows an abundance
of fish. This is probably due to the
fact that rivers have had more water
the past winter than other seasons re-
cently and the fish have come from the
mountains.
Reports have come that some dyna*
mlting has been done in the Washita
river, but like in other cases not suf-
ficient information can be secured up-
on which to base a prosecution and
the offenders, if any, have gone unre-
strained. It Is the opinion, however,
that In McCurtain county the game
laws have been violated more than any
other county in the state. The entire
county is mountainous, and many of
the people living there depend more
or less on what game they get for their
living. In the hunting seasons, when
sportsmen come there from other sec-
tions, or from other states, it seems an
easy matter to find opportunity to
evade the law in regard to bag limit on
game.
Found Carcasses of Deer.
Many attempts have been made in
that county to secure information for
prosecution, but in almost every in-
stance nothing came of it. Under the
present law the assistant game war-
den who secures a conviction gets
fifty per cent of the fine, together with
fees usually charged by a sheriff,
wardens recently spent two weeks in
the woods in the effort to run some
offenders down, but that he returned
to town unable to trace any unlawful
act directly. He found parts of two
carcasses of two bucks and one doe
in the woods.
Plve-Cent Refund Made: Overcharge.
One of the smallest, t foot the smell*
est refund of excessive express charg-
es that has been made by the corpora-
tion commission was completed when
It mailed to the A. E. Selby Company
of Neiagony, Okla., a check from the
Wells Fargo Express Company for 1
cents.
About a month ago the company re-
ceived a package by express from Paw-
husks. The package was sent collect
and when the Selby Company paid for
it the express company charged SO
cents. The company made a com-
plaint to the corporation commission
and upon investigation of the tariffs it
was found the express company had
charged S cents too much, the rate
from Pawhuska to Neiagony being 25
cents.
Approximately 25 cents was spent
in postage by the corporation commis-
sibn and the express company in the
correspondence that was necessary
to adjust the complaint Under a new
law the commission collects 10 per
cent commission on refunds from the
company making the refund, but the
commission will not demand It in this
case. It is explained that it would
cost at least 10 or 15 cents in postage
to get the commission, which would
amount fo about halt a cent.
Senator Duncan U .Fletcher, of Flor-
ida, was reelected president of the
Southern Commercial Congress.
The Tucker, the newest and one of I ment and inquiries for help received
the largest torpedo boat destroyers at the various headquarters of the fed-
built for the United States navy was eral employment bureau throughout
launched at the yards of the Fore Riven the country.
Ship Building Co., at Quincy, Mass. Robert T. Lincoln, chairman of the
' Two more bodies of victims of the board of directors of the Pullman Corn-
recent Austin flood were found last pany, frankly told the United States
week one in the Colorado river near commission on industrial relations that
the Montropolls bridge and the other he believed the system of paying sleep-
300 miles or more down stream, near ing car porters should be changed and
Columbus. Texas.    that wages of Pullman car conductors
. .    .__. . , should be increased.
Demanding higher pay and an eight-
hour day hod carriers and building The fedefal reserve board’s payroll
laborers at Pittsburg Joined the strik- now in full force is $157,800. The
ing bricklayers, Virtually tying up op- board is operated as a department of
erations in the building trade in the the comptroller of the currency. The
Pittsburgh district    staff in addition to the seven member^
.. _    „    of the board, so far comprises fifty*
Opening of traffic on the g^t lakes le perBOMi The average salary of
has started a record-breaking m Lji employes, exclusive of the board
ment of    and Its personal staff, who get a total
terio, during four days-of last week.
The will of the late meat packer and
grain man, John Cudahy, filed for pro-
roll is $1,766 a year.
bate at Chicago, leaves the entire es-
tate to the widow and four children.
The bulk of the property is to be held
In trust for seven years, when all of
the heirs except John P. Cudahy of
Kansas City may take It over. The
latter is to receive only the income
from his share In quarterly install-
ments. Counsel for the testator esti-
mated the value of the estate at
$1,500,000.
Protest against proposed advance in
freight rates on live stock from the
west and southwest were heard at 0hl-
cago by Edgar Watkins, special exam-
iner for the Interstate commerce com-
mission In the western commodity rate
hearing.
Phillip T. White, the $6,000-a-year
manager of the Masury Pam Com-
pany in Brooklyn, on trial as the
leader of a band of highwaymen, who
held up his employers’ bank mes-
sengers and robbed them of $3,000
nearly a year ago, rose from his chair
in the courtroom and plead guilty,
PORBIGN
Jack Mayes of San Francisco
IDE WEEK’S HEWS
IN OKLAHOMA
CLARITA STATE BANK IB VISITED
BY ROBBERS, WHO GET
ONLY $363.
Ilia HEWS IF TIE KW STATE
Usury Point Defined.
In an opinion by Commissioner Rit-
teahouse of the supreme court com-
mission, Division No. 3, usury is de-
fined as that portion of a charge In
excess of the legal rate of Interest
and it is further held in the opinion
that when the lender pays on demand
such usury the latter is then exempt
from forfeiture in any subsequent pro-
ceeding that might be brought. The
case is that of A. J. and Etta Miller
vs. the Oklahoma State Bank of Altus.
Complaint waB made that the bank
had charged a rate of interest that
amounted to usury. Demand was
made for that portion of the charge
calculated to constitute usury and this
amount was refunded, in the Butt,
however, it was sought to collect the
usury together with the Interest at the
legal rate. This it was held could not
ae done, as the legal rate of interest
was legitimate, and where the lender
agreed to and did refund the amount
complained of as usury he was en-
titled to the amount of the legal rate.
Little Incidents and Accidents That
On To Maks Up a Week’s
History of a Great
Commonwealth.
Clarita.—Two unmasked bandits
held up the First State Bank of Clarita
at midday, secured $353, and escaped
after having made H. C. Worley, the
assistant cashier, enter the bank vaulL
Worley, the assistant cashier, says
thm the tall robber was excited while
in the bank, his hands trembled and
his voice was unsteady. Both men
wore overalls and Jumpers, and people
who saw them failed to recognise them
as having been seen in the commun-
ity before the robbery. Clarita is in
Coal county, Coalgate being the coun-
ty seat.
JAY DWYER IS 0FFICAL BOOSTER
LARD PAYMERTS ARE P0STP0REI
j Congressman Ferris Gets Definite In-
formation From Washington.
for distribution and a copy may
Norman Phone Co. Is Given Orders.
An order was Issued by the corpora-
tion commission directing the Nor-
man Telephone Company to make the
necessary Improvements and changes
in Its equipment to give better service
to its patrons. A number of the sub-
scribers of the company filed a com-
plaint with the commission some time
ago, alleging bad service and an In-
vestigation made by the commission
showed the poor service was due to
Pittsburgh.—At the spring meeting resulted in an arrangement whereby
i of the Carnegie Hero Fund commls-1 the extension has been granted ana
sur— .<... |
nlzed. In two cases gold medals were|tion ‘of the hospital,
awarded; in fourteen cases silver,    —... ——— .
medals, and in thirty-six, bronze | RAILROADERS BET SMALL RAISE
medals.
The awards Included the following: |a a Result of Arbitration Beards
A gold medal to Charles Zollinger,    Reward. #
Frederick, Okla., and Julius Gordon of    “““’
save Oliver    Chicago.—An arbitration award ad*
The company also is directed in the
order to charge the same rate for a
desk telephone that it does for a wall
telephone. It was alleged the com-
pany demanded a higher rate for a
desk phone than for one that is used
on a wall. The cost to the company of
the maintenance and operation of the
phone does not Justify a higher rate
for one than for the other, according
to the commission.
Paid Over Million In Life Insurance
Insurance Commissioner Welch
preparing his annual report covering
the business of insurance companies
in the state for the year 1914. The to-
tal amount of business written by life
insurance companies in the state for
1914 was $41,612,110.59; premiums
paid $4,786,915.06; claims paid, $1,094,-
277.37; pollclei, 45,770. The total life
Insurance in force in the state is $152,-
480,196.72. In fraternal insurance the
amount of business written for 1914
was $25,732,565; received from mem-
bers, $1,557,454.82; claims paid, $934,-
378.49. In miscellaneous insurance,
which includes accident, bonds, etc.,
premiums received amounted to $1,-
160,788.81. and losses paid were $743,-
581.43.
Governor’s Office Moved.
Governor Robert L. Williams, ac-
companied by his private secretary,
A. N. Leecraft, has returned from Mus-
kogee, where the governor delivered
the opening address of the Southern
Commercial congress.
The governor resumed his duties in
his new office on the third floor of the
Mercantile building, Instead of in the
Patterson building, the board of affairs
having arranged to put the executive
offices In that building.
State Fair Premium List I. Now    ^ ab,eQCfl of Con.
Ready For Dietributlon.    Igressman Scott Ferris, who recently
departed on a trip to the Hawaiian Is-
Oklahoma City.—Secretary I. S. Ma- hands, his secretary, Cam Campbell,
han, of the Oklahoma State Fair and has received word from the interioM
Exposition, has announced the appoint- department at Washington to the ef*
ment of Jay J. Dwyer as advertising feet that the aptlcatlon of purchasers
and publicity manager of the fair, for 0f remnant lands sold at Lawton in
the current year.. Dwyer has been December, $913, for an extension of
connected with the advertising staff of time within which to make payments,
the Oklahoman and the Times, and has been approved and the extension
left the latter paper for this position, granted.    ,
“Greatly improved business conditions The appncation and petitions for the
and a corking good crop outlook indl-1 extension were presented to the de-
cate a splendid fair this year, ^»nd partment last December and later de-
plans are being made accordingly,” he Lled on tbe theory that a shortage
says. The 1915 premium list is ready Lba funds necessary
maintain
Kiowa Indian hospital
secured free on request of the Secre- would be apt to occur in case the ex*
tary. The rules and regulations 8°*- tension should be granted. As a re*
erntng entries in all departments are Bult Qf thlg denJai those who have been
contained therein and every prospec- ,!wama t0 meet the payment have stood
tive exhibitor should have a copy. |ln conBtant fear that their entries
would be cancelled and the amount al«
FREDERICK HEROES RET MEDALS Iready pald by tbem> aa the flPBt la<
rRtDtNIUR DltBUM BE I    bailment, forfeited under the regula-
_    . tlons governing the sale of the land.
For Bravery In Rescuing Companions u wU1 be #lad Udlngs for these pur-
from Cave-In.    chasers to know that the further ef-
forts of Mr. Ferris in their behalf have
Houston, who helped to---------,    -------- .
H Brewer and Alvah Dean from a vanning to some extent the rates oi
cave-ln at Frederick, Okla., October 28, pay of 64,000 locomotive engineers,
1913 Worked for hours, notwithstand- firemen and hostlers employed on tne
Ing warning from onlookers that they 14.000 miles of line of ninety-eight
...... * >.«.«>“°u”r «
the east by the Illinois Central and the
DIVIDE BARDITS REWARD OF $210 rTiitSiITopiS?i^ied on be-
half of the Brotherhoods of Engine-
Three Men Spilt The Sum For Tupelo men in which the arbitration was
branded as a failure and the Newlands
I law under which it was arranged an
.inadequate device for settlement of
Tupelo.—Final distribution of the tnduatrial disputes. The award effec-
Capture.
killed at Agues Callentes in making a
test flight of one of the aeroplanes
purchased for the Villa army, accord
ing to a telegram from J. 8. Berger ol!
Chicago, who is manager of the Villa
aerial corps. Mayes was flying at the
rate of sixty miles an hour when his
biplane struck a building, crushing the
aviator’s head and shoulders. The
body is being shipped to the border.
Work on the construction of the first
section of the government’s Alaska
railroad has been started at Ship
Creek. The first spike was driven
ashore by Martha White, the first
white child born at Cook inlet.
As the results of two fires at_ Van-
couver, B. C., on the Granvllleltreet
bridge, all the bridges of the city
were guarded, since the fires are said
to be of incendiary origin. ^Incen-
diaries are believed to have set fire
to bridges here last week, causing ap-
&:
Appraisers Buffer Reduction In Salary.
By an order ef the school land com-
passion salaries of farm loan apprais-
ers which would under the old law
have remained at $1,800 until July,
have been cut to $1,500, or the same
as thqpe provided for appraisers of
school land under the law passed by
the last legislature. There are five
of the old appraisers working now and
their new schedule of pay will become
effective May L_
Prepares Election Forms.
Attorney General 8. P. Freeling has
prepared and turned over to the state
board of education the forms to be
used in all school districts in calling
and conducting special elections for
the purpose of voting on the question
of increasing the school tax levy, as
provided by aa set of the last legis-
lature.
Confederate Pensions In October.
First quarterly payment of pensions
under the provisions of the new ex-
confederate soldiers and sailors’ pen-
sion bill can not be made until Octo-
ber 1, 1915, according to an opinion
that has been given by the attorney
general’s office to W. D. Matthews,
commissioner of charities and torrec
tlons, and ex-officio chairman of the
board of pension commissioners vhich
which has charge of the administra-
tion of the pension law. There are
about 1400 applicants tor the pen-
r$u»s.
• '
_________ reward offered for the capture and tlve May 10 and binding for one year
uuk^o ...    _______0. The work conviction of the men who robbed the oll|yt waB frankly declared as merely
of moving the fixtures and furniture Farmers’ National bank of this place I p^t^nlng for a twelve-month period,
in the office In the school building has been made. A dheck ftor $200 from the actuai settlement of the differences
formerly occupied by the governor was the Ocean Accident and Guaranty jnTOiTBd.
completed in his absence. The fixtures Company of Kansas City, the reward The railroad members of the board
<„ the office of the secretory of state ottered, was sent here, but pending I Is8ued a formal statement criticising
also have been moved from the school claims of four men who thought they featurea ot the regulations governing
building. The moving has been com- were entitled to the reward It was ®ot tbe arbitration and remarking that cer*
.pleted and all state offices formerly paid over. One of the contestants for conceBB|ons regarded as intrin-
in the old high school are established the reward finally withdrew his claim, Ljcauy unjust were made for the sake
and the money was divided equally be- ^ preBarving peace with the
tween Henry Oats, John Hall •»* DloyBBB.
Jesse Hayes. Walter C. Long and*    -;-
James Armstrong had been arrested I    ghow Wagons Loot
and Convicted of the rebbery.    j oiustee.—An “overland show" cara-
In their new quarters.
Long Dry Bummer Coming
No social benevolent of fretunal
clubs or organisations of Oklahoma
City, will be permitted to keep bever-
ages in their club rooms, if the sale ot
such beverages is prohibited by law-in
Oklahoma.
Just how many persons in Oklahoma
City belong to organization which have
a social side that is featured by a social
glass is not known, but the various or-
ganisations probably can boast ot a
consolidated membership well beyond
the 2,000 mark.
Heretofore the Oklahoma statutes
have been quite liberally construed
by some of the courts, one court having
van, while attempting to cross the Red
IKS MM SEU FN MHO    ~
D. V. Monroe of Lindsay, Expected 10j^g^ho^pro^erty^DM^to’the wag-
geek Release On Bond. |ona containing animals were opened
and the animals released. All the anl*
Oklahoma City.—D. V. Monroe, almals escaped, and with the exception
wealthy merchant of Lindsay, was ar-|of one tiger, have been recaptured,
rested and is being held in the county    ~ ~ - .    “ .
Jail in connection with the Marguerite    Bante Fe Gets
EUls murder case.    Drumright—Announcement la made
might have malt beverages without was ®bar*®dJ!,tb J^ ^Vbond Cushlng-Drumrlght Traction Company
violattpg the law.    girl with Intent to MIL His bond on    operate thB ^ aB an eiec
John Embry, the new County Attor* that charge was WMM0- ThellneVbut the Santa Fe com-
n*y baa *b>olute,y p“‘-the ,kl-on I Sc^5 JUSTS totter*part*of Do* P»y w«l probably ure it a. a steam
comber in a local sporting house. I railroad.
town, not only for drinking, but for
g«mhHn| and public prostitution.
Cut Out Loan Commissions.
Hereafter applicants for farm loans
Many Odd Fsllowe Attend Meeting.
Lawton.—Between two and three
Double Tragedy In Chief's Home. ______
^ w .. a    , | Wagoner.—Firing two shots in rapid I hundred delegates registered at the
from the school land department must I    ,    ,    ,    pn..a I •iBhth annual meeting of the South-
-*■“ -,hw *" M1 zzxp “    .rs:
mott, aged 19, who-had accompanied 1 BjXtll anniTersary of the founding of
him here as his wile. The tragedy was Lhe order. Officers elected:    Bruce
enacted at the residence of the chief Thomas of Cache, president; L. C.
of police, 8. H, Townsend, during the Morris of Walter, vice president; Dr.
absence ot the Townsend family at q, g. Lowes of Lawton, secretary:
Muskogee. The woman was a domes- Mrs. Lucy Easton of
tfo in tho fftBUZs _    ] treasurer.
affidavit that they are not to
pay any commission for the securing
of the loan they seek, according to a
resolution adopted by the school land
commission at its meeting last week.
The report has been current in the
past that attorneys have been paid
commissions for securing loans for
lessees of school lands, and this the
commission desires to discourage, as it
is not necessary to pay anyone a fee
in the matter.