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In World.
THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION
Live News Ot
Every Pag*
In Every
Column.
VOLUME XII,—NO 14.
LAWTON. OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, JUNE 18. 1911.
WEEKLY EDITION.
FROM FT. SMITH. AUK.. TO
SILL, FORTY-SEVEN
VEARS AGO.
SEVEN MEN BURNED TO DEATH
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
♦ MILFORD, Mass., June 17.— ♦
Seven men <«"*>.re burned to death ♦
and a score badly burned in ♦
jumping from windows in a fire ♦
▼ early yesterday which swept ♦
, ♦ through the tinder-box boarding ♦
p'p ♦ house of Peter Copalian. ♦
'- ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
got $6.00 per hundred
Had No Corporation Commission
Interfere With the Rate; Plenty
Wild Game Then.
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WAS IT A JOKE.
FAILURE IS
APPARENT
MEDIATORS ON MEXICAN SITU
ATION CANNOT EFFECT
AGREEMENT.
FACULTY NAMED
FOR CAMERON
PRESIDENT SHORT AND MOST
OF FORMER TEACHERS AND
EMPLOYES REAPPOINTED.
BOY IS BURNED
VERY SEVERELY
According to a Cotton county pa-
par, P. H. Jones was sent to the coun-
l0 ty seat to procure a license for a
friend who intended to be married.
| Unsuspecting Pat went to the county
i clerk and secured a hunting license
Lieutenant Governor J. J. McAl-'^ "tan the minister ^rte^to pe^
e Lr who was here yesterday shafc-1 f°rm thc ceremony, a halt had to be
5?hands with the boys and telling i'al,d farrlage "^e Pro-
hem that he is a candidate for presi- j ">«d. Pat plead .nnocence but if we
theminaine is 'itnrp 1 are not mistaken, good natured Pat
dent of the state board ofagnculture ^ ^ & who
recalled to mind the time 47 yean.ago PJ * ^ of , „dea, . for
when he freighted from Ft. Smith,
Ark., to Ft. Sill, with ox teams. 1M>m( '
"1 helped to bring a steam boiler,
saw mill and a store building that had
been built and fitted in St. Louis and
shipped 'knocked down' to Ft. Sill. We
started from Ft. Smith with ox teams
and this freight in the winter 1867.
The weather was bad and we (
bogged down, seems to me now as I j uT GASOLINE ON ANT BED
think of it, about every mile. When ANI) STruCK MATCH TO IT,
we bogged we would string o:it eight j CAUSING EXPLOSION.
to ten yoke of oxen on that old boiler,
and out of the mud it would come, j
• We came by Stonewall and Rush, Garrett, the seven-year-old son of
Soring* and I well remember the Mrs. Bertha Ford, living 52/ C A .re-
game. When we camped boys would.nue, was severely burned Tuesday
the oxen and feed and I would; evening about 5:30.
take my six shooter and go down a> Mrs. Ford heard the screams of her
I j i.pi, around nearly always boy and ran to his lescue. Sh
klllW a turkey. There were thous-j *ueeeeded in exlinEui-hine: the flainea,
.,, d. of them in them 'ley.. You h«ve.|*K wa. alee hunted pa.ntully y
.tiev, put a tew .trip, rt b~ —' J fjfel th.ee P~tlf.r-
s mis-
apprehension is felt
Over Resul's of Reported Break Be-
tween Carranza and Villa; Fear
it Means Anarchy.
aic J — Tk.„
could eat one of your oxen raw. Then
sit down to a meal of broiled young
turkey. Beats these Thanksgiving
turkeys you have now days all hoi-
'" 'Crops are looking mighty fine all
over the state," he said, "and that
reminds me that I used to own a big
farm over by Chickasha many year,
ag* and I sold my oats to the govern-
ment at Ft. Sill. They came to the
farm and bought them at $1 per bus -
el. We had not stock law in those
day? that would control deer and the>
insisted on eating our crops. So we
dug a trench around the held,
me, they didn't pay any attention ^
inches so we had to stand them off.
Farming :■ ose days was like fre g
inn with ox trains, it had its disad-
vantages. One thing about
SjS-g though we didn't have any
corporation commission to both
and we got «6 a hundred from Ft
Smith to Ft. Sill.
"I raised some big wheat crop
farmed since 1
Toured some of the liquid on the ant
'ied and struck a match to set it on
fire. ..
'lne sudden Igniting of the gasoline
*et the child on fire and by the time
his mother put out the flames, the lit-
tle fellow was very badly burned.
Dr. D. A. Myers was summoned ^
ind applied remedies for the relief of ■ ) jw a break
the child and says that there is a
hance for his recovery.
The injuries of Mrs. Ford were also
..ttended to, and while very painful
ire not serious.
Mrs. Ford and child have the sym-
;athy of many friends in their affile-
ion.
di
\'EW GRAIN AND COTTON
BUYING FIRM.
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont., June 17.
—Justice Lamar and Frederick W.
Lehmann, the American delegates to
the mediation conference, went to
Buffalo Tuesday and talked for four
hours with Rafael Zuburan and Luis
Cabrera, personal representatives of
General Catransa. Their purpose was
to find some way to bring the consti-
tutionalists in harmony with the scope
of mediation. The mission was a fail-
ure. S „
Most of the principles here incline
to the view that Friday's session may
be the last. The three mediating
plenipotentiaries virtually have
abandoned hope of solving Mexico's
internal problems.
The Huerta delegates are resolute
in their determinai <n not to accept a
constitutional partisan for the provi-
sional presidency and there appears
no feasible way of keeping all ele-
ments in conference much longer.
Dispatches of the forcible seizure
of the telegraph in Juarez held pre-
viously by the Carranza officials,
created a stir in the mediation colony.
The Hueita delegates said It plainly
showed correctness of their repeat-
ed warnings that a lack of cohesion
in the constitutionalist ranks would
lead to anarchy in the north. The news
served also to confirm suspicions cur-
rent in many quarters here of a
breach between Villa and ( arra i.
Incidentally it Is understood tue
American delegates inquired of Ca-
brera and Zubaran what they thought
of the stories of a split between Villa
and Carranza. The constitutionalist
emissaries said they had confidence in
General Carranza's tact and ability to
smooth out such difficulties.
The gravest apprehension, never
theless, is felt here of what may fol-
low a break between Carranza and
Villa. Should their forces clash, a con
dition of anarchy might ensue which
in all probability would again arouse
t'.e demand for armed intervention by
the United States.
The mediators hold to the opinion
that they have accomplished some
thing in that war between the United
Suites and the Huerta government
was halted by mediation.
Cameron Agricultural school did
well the past year, as it not only had
a most excellent attendance and large
graduating class, but made material
progress in the way of putting out
fruit trees, imporvements of thc cam-
pus and the upbuilding of thc dairy.
Since President Short assumed con-
trol of Cameron, the Institution has
been conducted along advanced and
progressive lines. He has now a
chance to do still better and there is
no doubt but what he will. He has an
excellent faculty and other assistants
to carry on the work expeditiously
and satisfactorily.
The state agricultural board yes-
terday selected thc following faculty
and employes for Cameron school:
R. P. Short, C. W. Mock, Myrtle
Short, Arda Frail*, Helen V. Casey,
M. C. Courtney, Mrs. Jake Wright, E.
J. Smith, 0. C. Whipple, Blanche Ora-
ham, H. Frysinger, Mrs. L. T. W ilk-
L1TTLE MISS FROM LAWTON.
Ia the Ft. Worth Record of the 15th
inst. was a photo picture showing
four-year old Olive Belle Hamon with
her instructor, Brooks Morris, taking
lessons on the violin, in his studio in
that city. Although only four years
old, little Miss Olive will uppear in a
violin recital soon to be given by her
instructor. This bright little girl Is
from Lawton and a daughter of Mr
and Mrs. J. L. Hamon
OSCAR SIMPSON IS
OUT OF THE RACE.
County Attorney Oscar Simpson of
Grady, has withdrawn from the race
for re-election. He says that he will
go back to private practice of law af-
ter hi" term expires and in the mean-
time will be actively engaged in the
prosecution of law violators.
EXERCISES AT
FT. SILL SCHOOL
"HIAWATHA" IN PANTOMIME;
INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITS; PUB
L1C CORDIALLY INVITED.
REPORTED
RUPTURE
BETWEEN CARRANZA AND VIL-
LA AND THAT LATTER WILL
ATTEMPT TO HOLD NORTH.
some doubfits truth
While There is Some Friction it i*
Doubted if the Severance
is Complete.
methodist-v ander-
bilt sever ties
NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 17.—
That the general conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, South, in
session recently at Oklahoma t ity,
has voluntarily terminated its rela-
tions with Vanderbilt university and
voluntarily renounced all rights it ' d
or may have, directly or through any
agencies, to confirm the election of
members of the board of trust of the
university and that it is now the right
and duty of the board of trust to fill
vacancies In its body without request-
ing or receiving the confirmation of
the general conference or any of its
agencies, is the ?'..ise of a resolution
adopted by the board of trust at
meeting here Tuesday,
lightning-strikes
wheat field crew
ALVA, Okla., June 17.--During
JV.lt rain stoyn that visited this
county Monday afternoon, lightning
struck a header and crew on the John
Johnson farm, ten miles south of this
city. The bolt injured three men and
knocked the team of horses flat on the
ground. The men were taken to Daco-
ma, a town fifteen miles southeast of
here, where they received medical at-
tention, and at midnight were re-
' ported as not seriously injured, al-
though badly stunned hom the . hock.
The horses were not seriously injured.
Cre' 1 b^^formyselMn the In- ITl'eJed the Lawton Mill" and Ele-
'""t Tritorv and I don't reckon ator company's elevator. This gives
, v ,;Jwhite men In this impei storage capacity. Branch
the\* a™ ' < farmed as many lKC„cies will be established at towns
VftAs mlny years as I have." j grounding Lawton. Offices will be
""'.'"xmcAIex left today for Altus |had in the First National Bank build-
and" wNl visit the large irrigation in{,
, .nt".V Olustee. 11. P> ™ *°
'rr,r.r
McAlester knd try to Interest farmers
lectin in better paying crop
and safer an,} surer methods^ Ja
always been a progressive fnrme Mmd
wants to be president of the state
board of agriculture because^ he
thinks he can do something tow,, ^
bringing that department uP to
higher standard of efficiency
C. S. Holman a Benedict.
(; S Holman, bookkeeper for the
oil mill, was married June 9, at Italy,
Tex.,
TORREON, Coahuila, June 17.—To
Thc Brown-Robey Grain Company j rojnforce the shattered forces of Gen.
ia; organized at Lawton to buy | cns„,rC(} jn nn assault) on thc
vain and cotton-the former for Zacatecas, Gen. Villa yester-
hlpment in the United States, where ! rderedthenl8ln body of hls
>ver a market can be found and the ( ^ tQ rugh southward with all pos-
atter to foreign ports. This company
[II, Wti" " *• * •
to Miss Mamie Price of Dun-
BRUTAL TURKS
MASSACRE1NG
greeks and whole town is
RAMSACKED; 3,800 PEOPLE |
FLEE.
ATHENS, June 17--A massacre
bv Turks of 100 Greeks, including
priests, old men and children, was re-
lated by Greek refugees from Asia
sible speed.
Villa and his staff left for the
south yesterday. The vanguard of his
army rested at Catinas Monday night,
the railway having been compelted to
that point Monday.
That the rebel casualties in the as-
sault on Zacatecas having been enor-
mous was indicated when the second
trainload of Natera's wounded reach-
ed here yesterday. They bring the
total wounded so far brought from
! the battlefield to 440.
m- laieu uy v" ~ x j „
„ ... of1 Minor arriving in Salonika yesterday,
can, Okla. Miss 1 rice was many 0f them wounded.
Duncan's most popular joung J. j rj-.^ say the massacre occurred in
B„d Mr. Holman is one of Lawton s Phokia, twenty-five miles
most progressive business men They tta jow^ q£ Smyrna.
ived in this city Sunday and were ^ ^ assisted by
the Turkish police, invaded the town
and looted and fired all the buildings.
The bodies of the slain, say the re-
fugees, were thrown into wells.
About 3,800 terror-stricken people
reached Salonika.
Our old friend B. C. Hollum of
as i ivea in ^ . , ,
n'.'t at the depot by a host of friend.
who showered them with riwrand all
the other accessories of a newly.ve:ls
arrival. The will make their home at
713 F Avenue.
HEAVY DETONATIONS.
Ij®st night between 11 and 12 uur ^ - and made this
o'clock, there were heavj^- detenations . FUteher' ^ ^ Hollum has
beard. It has been impossible to asce -| eastern part of the
tain where they were or what was the [been over ^
•odhion for such explosions. .««• 10
mrs. johnson hurt
by falun street
CHICKASHA, Ok.. June 17.-— Mrs.
D. M. Johnson, 628 South Fifth street,
is suffering from a fractured hip as a
result of an accident that occurred
Monday night at the corner of Fifth
and Colorado avenue, when an un-
known auto came so near to running
her down that she fell to tha pave-
ment in an attempt to dodge the ap
proaching car.
POLICE COURT.
Dr. Scheuler was arrested yester
day by Officers Froneburger and
lodged in the city jail charged with
being drunk.
Chuck Lewis and Frank Thomas
were arrested last night by Officer
, Smith charged with disturbing the
! peace and gave bond in the sum of
seven dollars each for their appear-
ance at trial.
May Richards, who runs a rooming
house at 221 C Avenue, was arrested
last night and lodged in the city jail
charged with disturbing the peace.
Later she was turned over to the
county officers, who will have her ex-
amined by the insanity board and
probably sent to Norman.
Ft. Sill Indian School will hold its
closing exercises on Friday night, the
10th, and will be on the lawn In front
of the buildings. "Hiawatha" will be
presented in pantomime. There is no
doubt but what this will be a most in-
teresting entertainment, as that is the
only kind the Ft Sill Indian School
furnishes.
Under the capable direction of Sv
perintendent Brandon the school has
progressed In every particular. In ad-
dition to the training of the mind,
particular attention has been given to
the skill of the hands in different
lines that will make the pupil the
master of some trade.
The industrial exhibits that can be
seen at thc school, are domestic sci-
ence, sewing, laundry, family cooking,
Karden.dairy, engineering and farm-
ing. The exhibits are highly creditable
to the ingenuity and ability of the
pupils and the experience and com-
petency of instruction given.
Supt: Brandon oiys that the public
is cordially invited to attend the pan-
tomime exercises Friday night and
the best accommodations will be ac-
corded the visitors that the circum-
stances will permit.
The following Is the program for
the evening:
Program:
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT.
8:00 p. m.
Music School Band
Song—-"Star of the Summer Night
Chorus
Recitation—"Sing a Song of Sum-
mer Time" Primary Pupils
Recitation Molly Weryevah
Euphonium Solo ..Norton Tahquechi
Recitation r a«iel FuU.®r
DriU Primary Pupils
Folk Dances:
1. Highland Schotische.
2. The Irish Lilt.
Intermediate Grades
gong—"Star of the East"... .Chorus
PANTOMIE „
II-I-A-W-A-T-H-A
Iliawathas' Childhood
Killing of the Red Deer
Hiawatha Visits the Dakotas
Hiawatha's Friends
Hiawatha's Courtship.
The Wedding Fea t
The Game of Hazard
The Ghosts
Death of Minnehaha
Hiawatha's Departure
Song in Indian Language School
Music Seh°o1 Band
EL PASO, Tex., Jure 17.—General
Villa tendered his resignation to Gen-
eral Carranza within thc last week, it
beacme known Tuesday night
To Villa's message the constitution-
alist commander-in-chief replied ask-
ing who would succeed him.
Following this Villa's various mili-
tary chie'' held a conference and
sent a "round robin" to Carranza, de-
claring they would accept none other
than Villa as a leader. The split of
Tuesday resulted.
General Villa Tuesday night order*
ed all commanders of garrisons
throughout the territory he controls
to report at orie at Torreon. This or-
der was accepted ominiously by ob-
servers here. History of the Pascual
Orozco rebelMon against President
Madero was revived.
All of the officials ousted by Villa
Tuesday were appointees of Carran-
za whose civil cabinet h-d taken over
the management of the railroads and
telegraph, and, inc'.ientally the infor-
mation bureau, in accordance with the
prescribed custom In Mexico.
prince prepares to
flee if defeated
START DRILLING AGAIN.
CEMENT, Okla., June 17.—After
a delay of three weeks the well of the
Cement Oil and Gas company was
again started yesterday and according
to statements of officers of the com-
pany, work will continue until a
depth of 2100 feet or more is reached,
or oil or gas is found at a shallower
depth. Drilling was stopped at a depth
of 1670 feet
PUBLIC DEBATE.
Ik Socialism Opposed t® the Church?
VIENNA, June 17.—Heavy fight-
ing at Durazzo yesterday with the
Mussulman rebels within half a mile
cf the palace of Prince William was
reported in dispatches from the Al-
banian capital. These dispatches said
that Prince William, fearing ultimate
defeat of his forces, had made all
preparations to board a vessel of the
international fleet lying off the city
and leave his principality to its fate.
It was barely daylight when the
insurgents attacked. leading his men,
Prince William met thc attack at the
neck of land which forms Durazzo s
landward side, cutting off the penin-
sula on which the city stands from the
besieging force.
Hand-to-hand fighting at the ram-
parts followed. The attacks of the
Mussulmans were desperate.
Rev. A. B. Carpenter, Christian
minister of this city, and Stanley J.
Clark, of Oklahoma City, will publicly
debate the above question next Mon-
day, June 22nd, at 2 o'clock p.m., and
again in the evening at Lawton. They
are both able speakers and thoroughly
in earnest .-d a highly interesting
discussion is anticipated. Both par-
ties have put money in the bank to be
forfeited in case either fails to meet
his opponent
WASHINGTON, D. C., June IT.—
While persons in the confidence of the
constitutionalist agency here express-
ed some lack of confidence in reports
that the military authorities had as-
sumed sweeping control in northern
Mexico, yet it was suggested that
Villa had been forced to act to impose
the censorship that he considered
r^esSary concerning news of the
campaign against Zacatecas.
Constitutionalist agents here had
received no official reports of 'activi-
ties in Juarez, but they reiterated that
It could not be interpreted as indicat-
ing a split between Carranza and Vil-
la. They pointed out that the reported
siezure of the customs house and
treasury at Juarez could have no
significance because they were in the
same building with the telegraph and
information bureau.
It was pointed out that Villa still
controls the northern part of Mexico
since it is under military rule.
joe m'clelland
for state treasurer
From Monday's Daily.
Mr. Joe C. McClelland, the present
slate auditor and one of the best of-
ficials ir. the state, and candidate for
| state treasurer is in the city today
' and will be here tomorrow looking af-
ter his candidacy. Mr. McClelland is
from Grant county and is an old time
citizen and has many friends here. He
is thoroughdly competent for the posi-
tion and has a reputation for follow-
ing the law and discharging his duty
| as laid down In the laws of the state.
initials put on
luktle in 1897
Mr. Vernon Hisle, who possesses a
very unusual keeness of the eye,
found a diamond-back terrapin near
the sulphur well on the Etton pike, on
the farm of Speed Stevenson, Wed-
nesday, and on its breat bone was
carved, in plain figures, 1897, and the
initials E. G. It Is the opinion that the
initials are those of Mr. Ernest Gor-
don, who formerly lived in that sec-
tion, but resides in the west. The ter-
C. C. HAMMONDS HERE.
State Fire Marshal C. C. Hammond
was down to Indiahoma looking after
the recent fire at tha* place, and spent
a part of two days visiting Lawton
friends and renewing old acquaint-
ances. v
VtUII) uul .
rapin was about six inches in diamet-
er, and no doubt has reached the limit
of his growth. Seventeen years has
passed since the date was carved on
the crawler, and no telling how old It
was when this was done, as it is
claimed they live to be over a hundred
years old.—Winchester. (Ky.,) Demo-
crat. . ,
F;. L. Gordon of this county is the
E. G. referred to, and 17 years ago,
when he cut his initials the terrapin
was a very small one, and it was
found within a mile of where it was 17
years ago.
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