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NEWS OF THE
SMEJAPITAL
PREPARATIONS BEING MADE TO
ORGANIZE ANOTHER REGI-
MENT OF MILITIA.
OKLAHOMA CITY NEWS EVENTS
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What 4he State Official# and Depart-
ments Are Doing—Items of In-
tercet About the State
GovernmenL
One thousand men are want'd for
the Oklahoma National Guard, Accord- c'mC'V!?.»i
Ing to Adjutant General Earn, who Com*t>che
started work upon organization of a
second regiment.
Actual work was Instituted follow-
ing departure from the state of the
First regiment for the MexIcKn bor-
der. The adjutant general returned
from Fort Sill, where he witnessed
the leaving of the soldiers.
The adjutant general said he would
organize a battery of artillery, four In-
fantry companies, comprising 53? men,
two troops of cavalry, one ambulance
lompauy and one engineer company,
eiaitmg a total of 1,000 men.
The first step the adjutant general
will take Jn this work will bo to ap-
point captains, Whose duty It will be
to organize companies.
The adjutant general said ho prob-
ably would appoint captains wJ'hin the
»ext few days, Just as soon as he
found men capable of doing officers’
Juty.
Output of Grade Schools Complied.
Eight thousand six hundred and
foKy boys and girls were graduated
from Vlie common schools of Okla-
homa Uii syear, according to reports
received by State Superintendent R.
| H. Wilson. Lincoln county led the list
| of counties In the state, with 312 grad-
uates ; Pottawatomie county was sec-
ond with 277 graduates; Caddo, third,
with 245; Grady, fourth, with 238, and
Oklahoma county, fifth, with 220. Mar-
shall county ranked lowest( with only
eight graduates.
Adair ......."•••44
Alfalfa ........1*1
Atoka .......... $2
Beckham ......1*®
Hlalne .........1*1
Bryan ......... *1
Caddo ,, ........*45
Canadian^,.....12®
Carter „ .-,.*7... • 1**
ClieroKe*-4«/f... 39
Choctaw'.... jjt,. ■ 7*
Cimarron .tT... 20
Cleveland .^v.i ■ ■ si
SENATE PASSES NAVY BILL
3IXTEEN CAPITAL SHIPS
THREE-YEAR PROGRAM.
Nation’s Greatest Fleet Proposals;
Hard Fight Is Expected In Con-
ference Committee.
NO CHOICE IN
TEXAS PRIMARY
l-atlmer .........$!
Le Flore ........
Lincoln ........
Logan ............. i
Love ...........
Major
Oj«l  ------ ||
Marahall  ......j^®
48
Mayes
Murray ......
Muskogee ......
McClain .......12- j
McCurtain ..... 1
McIntosh ......
Noble ..........l''»
Nowata
26
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Oklahoma ’.’.".‘.'.MO tee were defeated overwhelmingly and ”;d;y.s‘“”^“c';a^c" pHmary dld not
Okmulgee ..•••■‘Jjj as soon as final passage was an-jchange ti,e leads maintained by For-
COLQUITT AND CULBERSON ARE
CERTAIN OF PLACES IN
Washington.—The naval appropria-    SECOND PRIMARY
tlon bill, with a three-year building
program, Including the immediate con-
struction of four dreadnaughts, four
great battle cruisers and fifty-eight I    -
ather craft, passed tfle senate by a | Large Majority of Counties Favor Sub-
vote of 71 to 8. It carries $315,826,*
M3, or $45,857,588 more than the total
as the measure passed the house.
Many proposals to curtail the enoi»
mous building Increases written to the
measure by the senate naval commit-
LIQUOR ISSUE STILL CLOSE
mission of Prohibition Amend-
ment.—Cyclone Davis
Dropped.
GERMANS 3RD. LIRE PIERCED
ALLIES CONTINUE TO GAIN pN
WESTERN FRONT.
TUNNEL EXPLOSION; 22 DEAD
Before
Dallas.—Complete returns from 237
of the 250 counties In Texas from Sat-
Cralg ..........127
Creek * if.’........HO
Custer ....... .*. .182
Delaware ...... 33
Kills ........... 4S
Dewey .........115
Garfield ........ #■’
Garvin .........146
Grady ..........238
Grant ..........192
(; ree» ..........129
Harmon ........ 73
Harper ......... 33
lln.skcll ........ 67
Hughes    ..126
Jackson ..... 48
Jefferson .,,...103
Johnston ....... Ill
Kay ......■......207
Kingfisher .....113
Kiowa .........113
48
109
183
168
105
211
36
85
61
..... 100
Stephens .......127
Texas ......... *®
'IlMman .......16-
Tulsa .......... "*
Wagoner ...... 71
Washington ... 3d
Woodward ..... 89
Washita .......179
Woods ......... *0
Ottawa ......
pawnee ......
I’ayne .......
Pittsburg ....
Pontotoc .....
Pottawatomie
Pushmataha .
.Huger Mills..
Seminole ....
Sequoyah
Total ..............................8.640
nounced the senate voted to Insist on mer Governor O. B. Colquitt and Sen-
Its amendments and send the bill at
once to conference. The house is ex-
pected to Insist upon Its building pro-
gram and a long struggle is in pros-
pect before an agreement is reached.
Two democrats, Senators Thomas
and Vardanian, and six republicans,
Senators Clapp, Curtis, Gronna, La-
Follette, Norris and Works voted
against the bill, which has had the
support of leaders of both parties dur-
ing the week of debate that preceded
passage.
Absentees Cannot Vote At Primary (
The attorney general’s office held    Largest Ever Proposed,
that qualified voters of the state who    Construction of 157 vessels Including
arc away from home on the day of sixteen capital fighting ships within
the primary election cannot cast their three years at an estimated cost of
vote by 'Wall. The opinion was writ- $588,180,576 Is contemplated in the
ton by Smith C. Matson, assistant at- !
from
stat#
Guard Officers To Recruit.
Six officers of the Oklahoma Na-
tional Guard, on the retired nnd super-j
aumeravy lists, will be nominated by
Governor Williams within t few days
far the position of recrui’.'ng officer for
the regular army.
Authority for this action was given
Adjutant General Ancel Earp in a tel-
egram received from 'he headquarters
of the southern deoartment, Fort Sam
Houston. *
The six nominees will be subject to
physical examination as ordinary re-
cruits. They will work only in the
state of Oklahoma, and will be under
the supervision of Maj. C. N. Barney,
In charge of federal recruiting for the
■tate.
According to the telegram, the state
Is entitled to three recruiting officers
to represent the First regiment, nnfl
one from each of the three separate
units, the hospital corps, troop B cav-
alry, and the regimental Infantry.
Gasoline Probe to Begin July 28th.
The corporation commission’s probe
Into the price of gasoline in Oklahoma
Will be started July 28v The Investi-
gation was brought about by com-
plaint from Attorney General Freeling,
who alleged that a number of com-
panies had entered Into an agreement
to raise gasoline prices throughout tlio
•tate.
The attorney general asks the com-
mission to Issue an order prohibiting
the companies from selling gasoline at
a rate higher than 17 cents a gallon.
Gasoline is selling in Oklahoma City
today at 22 cents, but the price some
time ago was 27 cents a gallon.
The first hearing in connection with
the probe will be conducted In the
commission's room In the Mercantile
building. The Investigation will bo
state wide in its scope.
senate program, the largest ever pro-
posed in congress. Of the total appro-
priations In the bill, $IJ0,726.160 Is
for the first year’s building expendi-
tures.
To Complete Submarines.
Two fleet submarines previously
authorized are to be completed at
once.
Miscellaneous appropriations car-
ried in the bill include:
$11,000,000 for government armor
plant.
$19,485,500 to provide ammunition
for ships I/) be built In the next two
years.
$3,300,000 for batteries for merchant
auxiliaries ($1,600,000 available at
once).
$3,500,000 for aviation.
$1,500,000 for naval experimental
and research laboratories.
$1,411,000 for government projectile:
plant.
$1,270,000 for arming and equipping
♦ he naval militia.
$10,336,915 for maintenance and en
largement of public stations, naval
yards and docks.
$50,226,912 for pay of the navy.
Other Important Features.
Other important features of the
measure would provide for:
peared before the corporation com- I Increasing the enlisted personnel of
mission and asked for an extension of the navy from 45,000 to 74,500, and of
time for beginning work on the depot, j the marine corps from 9,000 to 14,500;
Mr. Klelnsclimldt outlined tentative authorizing the president in time of
plans for the new venture and also ' national emergency to Increase the
submitted drawings for the Frisco- ‘ enlisted strength of the navy to 87,000
torne.v general, upon request
Erett Dunlap, chairman of the
c'ection board.
Matson held that the primary elec-
tion ■was not a general election within
the meaning of the chapter of the law
passed this year, which says that a
qualified elector who Is duly registered
who may be unavoidably absent from
the county in which he Is registered
on the day of the general election may
vote at any such general election in
any precinct In which he may happen
to be, and have his vote mailed into
Ids home county by the precinct reg-
1st; ar.
Chairman Dunlap said that voters
who may be unavoidably absent from
home on the day of the primary elec-
tion could cast their vote and have
same mailed to his home county.
If the ruling of the attorney general
stands as written by Mr. Matson, from
5,000 to 6,000 traveling men in Okla.
homa will not be permitted to vote,
llundieds of other qualified electors,
also, will not be allowo dto vote.
Austrians Give Way Slowly
Russian Drive.—Von Hinden-
burg’s Lines Cut.
London.—The fourth week of the
Somme battle begins well for the en-
tente allies and is expected to be
fruitful of Important developments.
The British have began a new attack
on the whole line from Pozieres to
Gulllemont, and the fact that General
Haig has been able to resume the of-
fensive so soon after the unsuccessful
German counter-attacks of last week
in which very strong German forces
were brought forward, Is regarded as
a good auguer.
The fighting has been of the fiercest
character, the Germans working with
their utmost strength to prevent the
British from advancing to their third
ator C. A. Culberson for the United ]jne positions. But when the last re-
states senatorial nomination. The to- ports left headquarters in France, the
at that time was: Colquitt, 105,000; Australians had firmly established
themselves in Pozieres, in the third
line German defenses, and are report-
ed to have placed themselves astride
the road in the direction of Bapaume,
while at Guillemont and Longueval
fortunes fluctuated, both places chang-
ing hands several times. Fighting is
proceeding with the utmost violence.
According to a reliable estimate, the
British and French together have cap-
tured since July 1 more than 26,000
prisoners and 140 guns.
From the eastern frontier comes the
report of continued Russian successes.
General Kurcpatkin has cut Field
Marshal von Hindenburg’s line at sev-
eral points and, according to an un-
official report, has penetrated a dis-
tance of five rnjles.
' At the other extremity of the long
line the Austrians officially admit their
withdrawal toward the main ridge of
the Carpathians, and the Russians are
within four miles of the Hungarian
frontier, moving toward Maramaros
Seziget.
Except in the Dniester region,
heavy fighting is proceeding along the
whole front. General Sankharff’s
forces are supposed to be working in
the direction of Brody and Sokal.
BODIES BURIED BENEATH
TBHS OF LAKE ERIE.
W \
Exact Cause of Accident In Cleveland
Water Works Crib Not
Determined.
Cleveland.—Federal officials are In
vestigatlng the waterworks tunnel dis
aster which cost twenty-two lives.
All hope that any of the twelve men
trapped in the tunnel are alive hai
been abandoned. Ten bodies, those
of members of /two rescue 'parties
which tried to reach the doomed men,
but themselves succumbed to the dead-
ly gas, are In the morgue. The eight
injured men, also members of the res-
cue parties, Will recover.
Four inevstigations—city, county
state and federal—have been Btarted
to determine the cause of the gas ex-
plosion near the five-mile crib end ol
the tunnel which entombed the twelve
men and released the gas which over-
came the two rescue parties. The lack
of safety devices such as gas helmets
and pulmotors at the crib and shore
ends of the 16,000-foot tunnel also will
be Investigated.
According to the federal Investigat-
ors, the electric wiring in the tunnel
was faulty. They would not venture
an opinion as to the cause of the ex-
plosion, but niost of those concerned
with the disaster declare that one of
the unfortunate twelve workmen prob-
ably jabbed his pick Into a large
pocket of gas which caused the blast.
Others say that a crossed light wire
may have caused the explosion.
u. s. TO BUY THE DANISH ISLANDS
Twenty-Five Million Reported As Pus-
chase Price.
Office Building May House Depot.
A $700,000 seven-story office build-
ing, part of which would be utilized
by the Frisco and rtoctc Island roads
as a passenger station, may be erected
in this city near the present Frisco
station. This was made known when
R. A. Klelnschmidt, Frisco counsel, ap-
Some Counties Pass Loan Limit.
The state school land commission
last week approved farm loans fov
$186,400, and thereby established r*
new record for loans for any single
day In the history of the state. All
of the money loaned on the apprlce-
tions approved will be on farm landc
In Oklahoma. The money will be se-
cured by mortgages on deeded farms.
Secretary G. A. Smith said that the
commission will have to slow down on
loans to several counties In the state
In the Immediate future, owing to the
fact that those counties have over-
drawn their apportionment of the
school land money. The department
'has approximately $7,000,000 loaned
-out on Oklahoma farm lands.
Rock Island station building that was
ordered by the commission. He re-
quested a two months’ delay to per-
mit further negotiations.
If the combination station-office
building Is constructed It will b4
financed by capitalists and the Frisco
will reut the station section.
The attorney, In making his request
for more time, called attention to the
fact that the Frisco Is to be sold under
court orders on July 19 and that the
building project should be left to the
new management.
Flans for the union station called
for an expenditure of $250,000.
Governor Colquitt.
Culberson, 68,000; Dr. S. P. Broks, in
third place, had received 61,848.
The lead in favor of submission of
a constitutional amendment for slate-
wide prohibition was reduced in the
count from 2:17 counties to 1,087.
Amendment Fate In Doubt.
The remainder of the counties to be
heard from cannot, it is said, change
the senatorial result, although the fate
of “submission” will not be known un-
til the last precinct has reported.
The following congressional repre-
sentatives were nominated Saturday
In the sixteen- districts of the state:
First—Eugene Black, renominated.
Second—Congresman Martin Dies
renominated by 1,500.
Third—James Young, no opposition.
Fourth- Sam Rayburn, renominated.
Fifth—Hatton W. Summers, no op-
position.
Sixth—Rufus Hardy, renominated.
I Seventh—A. W. Gregg, renominated.
Eighth—Undecided with four candi-
dates splitting the vote almost evenly.
Ninth—J. J. Mansfield defeated
Congressman Geo. F. Burgess,
i Tenth—J. P. Buchanan, re-elected.
Eleventh—Tom Connally, succeed-
P0ET RILEY DIES VERY SUD0ENLY
Indiana Writer a Victom of Paralysis
at Indianapolis Home.
Indianapolis. — James Whitcomb
Riley died while only Mr. Riley’s
nurse was awake In the poet’s home.
He had asked for a drink of water
and reclined on. his bed again. Miss
dementia Prough, the nurse, resumed
her vigil and, noticing that the poet
seemed not to be resting easily, ap-
proached his bed. Mr. Riley died be-
fore she reached his side. His death
was due to paralysis.
Mr. Riley suffered his first violent
attack of paralysis July 10, 1910.
Washington.—Only determination of
a few minor details remains to com-
plete negotiation of a treaty between
the United States and Denmark pro-
viding fo-r acquisition of the Danish
West Indies by this government at a
purchase price of $25,000,000.
In general terms the treaty is under-
stood to folow one negotiated In 1902
by the two governments but which
lapsed when the Danish parliament
failed to ratify after the United States
senate had acted favorably. It Is said
to contemplate complete American ac-
quisition of the gtoup which lies east
Df Porto Rico and is regarded as of
great strategic military value.
Relinquishment of undefined Ameri-
can claims through right of discovery
tn Greenland, a Danish colony, also is
said to be included.
The treaty of 1902 In common with
ather uncompleted purchase proposals
that have been considered between
the two governments during the last
half century provided that the islands
should not be transferred until their
Inhabitants had voted approval. It Is
presumed the present treaty bears
such a provision, but the possibility
of an unfavorable vote by the islanders
Is considered very remote.
the marine corps to 17,400 men. 1 ing R. L. Henry, who tan for the
with United States senate.
equipment for
and
Enlargement of navy yards ......    . ,    .
construction of capital i Twelfth—James C. Wilson, defeat
Calloway. •
ships and extension of government dry ing Oscar
docks for accommodation of largest
battleships.
Naval Militia Changes.
Reorganization of the naval militia
on a similar basis with the reorganized
national guard.
Thirteenth—Marvin Jones, defeating
J. H. Stevens.    f
Fourteenth—James L. Slayden, no
opposition.
Fifteenth—John N. Garner, no oppo-
sition.
Sixteenth—Thomas L. Bland lead-
Sentence Commuted Forty to Ten Yre.
The criminal court of appeals com-
muted the sentence of C. W. Maddox
ef Cloud Chief from forty years to
ten years in the state penitentiary.
Maddox ta now at McAlester serving
his sentence. He was convlted of the
murder of Templeton Elam, a rancher
near Cloud Chief, following argument
over the grazing of cattle. Judge
Brett was disqualified by virtue of
being Maddox's counsel, and Ills place
on the bench was taken by Judge Col-
lier.
Oklahoma Cars Wrongly Tagged.
An Inspector from the state high-
way department will be sent out to
various parts of the state on August
1, equipped with an officer's commis-
sion and authority to make arrests
for violation of the state motor ve-
hicle law, It was announced. A fine of
$50 for attempt to evade the law will be
assessed.
According to an estimate by the
department there are between 2,00f
and 3,000 motor vehicle owners in tht
stato who have not yet applied for
tags. About 5,000 have not yet re-
ceived tags owing to the fact that the
demand for them lias so far exceeded
the supply.
Hlgway department officials say
the outlying portions of the state con-
tain the greater number of those at-
tempting to operate without tags. On
Organization of naval reserve force ing CongreBsman W. R. Smith by 2,000,
and marine corps reserve.    wltll paso COunty yet to report.
Co-operation of the coast guard- Tjie nominations of Daniel E. Gar-
service with the navy in time of war.. rett of nouston antl Jeff McLemore
Two new cutters for coast guards, j (incumbent) for congressman at large
Twenty per cent bonus to contract- is certain. Garrett succeeds J. H. (Cy-
ors for construction or war craft with- clone) Davis,
in contract time limits.
HERE’S ANOTHER 0RPET CASE
Illinois Youth An Adept In Effecting
Abortions.
FRED BARDE DEES AT GUTHRIE
G. O.
More Aviation Stations.
Increase of aviation stations and ad-1
ditlon to facilities for work of this
service.
After starting out to cut heavily into    Guthrie.—Frederick S. Barde,
the house army bill, the senate recon- years old, correspondent of the Kan- somewhat
P. Press Manager, Newspaper
Man III a Long Time.
Too Many Fires.
Seventy-five per cent of the fire loss
In Oklahoma last year was caused by
carelessness or was of incendiary or-
igin. Fire insurance rates will never
be reduced in Oklahoma until fire
losses are reduced, especially the part
paused by Incendiaries, gasoline and
oil, defective heating apparatus, poor
wiring, rubbish, cigarettes and from
“unknown" causes. The fire loss in
1915 was 18,376,650, or $693,307 more
$han In Uli
the Texas boreder, they say, vehicle
owners procure Texas license tags for [ guns for nation guard $2,000,000
$1.50, pay their ad valorem dues In $6,586,150; armored motor cars $300,-
Texns and then attempt to operate in 000 to $1,000,000; field artillery for na-
Oklahoma. The same Is true along tional guard, $8,000,000 to $14,200,000;
the Kansas bonier where the county ; ammunition for national guard field
license fee Is $5.00.    ’ artillery, $8,000,000 to $14,000,000.
sldered and restored most or me gas pity star since territorial days,
Items.    ' died at his home in Guthrie after an
Decreases of $36,000,000, related to illness of several months. Death was
transportation, subsistence, foreign, due to hardening of the arteries. Be
service pay and emergency estimates' is survived by a wife and three chil-
put into the bill by the house when dren.
the Mexican situation was critical.) Barde was one of the most prom-
Increases Included: For medical sup- lnent newspaper men in Oklahoma,
plies, increase from $2,000,000 to $4.- He has written numerous magazine
500.000; engineers’ equipment, $1,000,-( articles and short stories and achieved
000 to $1,770,000; ordnance stores, $6,- no little fame in 1913 and 1915 by.
000,000 to $11,000,000; automatic ma- publishing reports on Oklahoma fish:
chine guns for regular army, $3,600,-1 and game. He handled the press bu-
000 to $7,725,000; automatic machine 1 reau of the republican state organiza-J
James Whitcomb Riley.
He recovered and seemed to be li
good health until he was stricken «
second time. This stroke caused »
complete paralysis of his right side
47 The severity of the stroke wore awaj
until the poet’s hand
to tion during the 1914 campaign.
seemed the most affected. Mr. Riley’i
determination to battle the lllnest
was shown at that time when he sal
about laboriously to learn to writ®
with his left hand.
Riley was born at Greencastle, Ind.,
and began life as a tramp sign painter.
He began to compose jingles for hit
signs and from that developed into
a poet whose works are known tht
world over.
The poet's philosophy of life and his
manner of expressing It in what it
imagined to be Indiana dialect won
for him years ago a place In the hearts
lie moved to Oklahoma shortly aft- of the public. Of late he had not ap-
er the opening in 1889 and had been peared at public gatherings to any
identified with newspaper work prac- great extent, but in nice weather could
tlcally ever since. He was author
several histories of the state.
Wilson Wants Good Water.
State Superintendent Wilson has j
requested Dr. Duke, state commission- i
er of health, to make an analysis of '
the water supply of each city where a
state educational school is located.
Tills request was made, Mr. Wilson
paid, as a precautionary measure to
li-bure good water when students re-
turn to school this fall. An experience
of tie past, when the commissioner
af health discovered that the water
supriy for one of the institutions was
rnhealthful, caused the supertnten
dent's action.
Hanly Heads the Prohle.
St. I’aul.—J. Frank Hanly. former |
Outlaws At Juarez.
Paso.—General George Bell, Jr.,
be seen on the Rtreets of Indianapolis
in his automobile.
governor of Indiana, was nominated i commanding the El Paso military dis-
for president of the United States on trict, notified General Francisco Gon-
Shots Exchanged On Border,
El Paso.—Fighting has occurred at
the point on the Rio Grande below
El Paso where the outposts of the
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the prohibition ticket and Dr. Ira D. j zales, commandant in Juarez, that his Ninth Massachusetts infantry are sta-
Landrtth of Nashville, Tenn., was reports indicated that six outlaws, Vil- tioned, but without any casualties. Ac-
named for the vice presidency at the
concluding session of the party’s na-
tional convention here. The party
pin (form with only one change in the
draft presented by the resolutions
committee, the Insertion of a plank
declaring In favor of the initiative,
referendum
unanimously.
lists sympathizers have been respon- cording to the official report of the In-
slble for the recent exchanges of shots cldent received by General Bell, the
between the Massachusetts national men on guard said a party on the
guardsmen in this vicinity and Mexl- Mexican side of the boundary opened
cans south of the frontier. These out-' fire upon them, whereupon they re
laws, General Boll’s Information said, turned a smart fire. It was at this
have a rendexvous on "The Island," «' spot, known as the "Island” that a few
and recall, was adopted > bit of Mexican territory a few mileo shots were exchanged across the boi*.
j below El Paso.    bliHb J der last week.
Olney, 111.—Roy Htnterltter, 21 years
old, son of a wealthy farmer, was
sharged with having been responsible
tor the death of Miss Elizabeth Rat-
Sliffe, 17 years old, of Paoli, Ind., by a
joroner’s jury here. Miss Ratcliff©
lied while buggy riding with Hinter-
titer.
The mystery surrounding the death
»f the girl was cleared when the com-
mission of physicians investigating de-
cided that she had suffered from em-
bolism of air In the arteries.
States Attorney Morris produced a
chain of evidence tending to show an
attempt at an Illegal operation had
been made. Hinterliter denies he had
been intimate with the girl.
Physicians say she was about to
become a mother.
Dr. Frank H. Weber, chief of the
medical commission that performed
the autopsy, said a fatality under such
conditions never before had come to
his notice.
An instrument used in illegal opera
tions was found In possession of two
of Htnterliter’s chums. These men
were witnesses at the inquest and told
of boasts by Hinterliter of skill in per
forming illegal operations, especially
the act of “blowing.”
Diphtheria Kills Girl; Father In Jail.
8t. Louis,—A warant charging man
■laughter was issued against John
Bosca, a steel mill worker, whose
eight-year-old daughter died of dlph
therla. It is charged that Bosca, act-
ing in accordance with an old world
superstition smeared the child with
dog grease In the Jbelief that this
would cure her. A physician reported
that the father had refused to allow
him to enter the house. Bosca denied
that he had excluded the physician
from the house and said the physician
failed to come when he was expecting
him after twS or three previous visits.
Trying To Explain the Blacklist.
Washington.—The partial answer
to the state department’s request for
information concerning the blacklist-
ing of American firms by Great Brit-
ain was given informally to Acting
Secretary Polk by Sir Cecil Spring-
Rice, the British ambassador. Sir Cecil
<ald the blacklist was not directed
against neutral trade; it was not in-
tended to affect existing contracts and
that the British government would be
glad to consider the cases of firms de-
tiring to offer proof that they had been
put on the list unjustifiably.
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