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THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION
VOLUME XIII—NO. 2.
LAWTON, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1914.
Live News On
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WEEKLY EDITION.
BATTLE ARRAY ON FRONTIER
Premiums Awarded
Agricultural Display
The following awards of premiums
on farm exhibits, were made by judges
of the agricultural fair exhibit, held
in connection with the 1901'ers cele-
bration.
Best 10 ears of Corn—Entry No.
612, first premium $3.00; No. 379, sec-
ond premium, Oral Tucker, $1.50; No.
62. third premium, G. B. Corwin, $1.
Best 4 stalks Corn—Entry No. 634,
first premium, L. B. Pepper $2.00; No.
490 second premium, J. G. Clopton,
$1.00.
Tallest stalk of Con. try No.
521, first premium, L. T. L. n, v 1.50;
No. 607, second premium, L. B. Pep-
per, 75c.
Best stalk of Cotton—Entry No. 517
first premium, W. L. Holloway, $2.50;
No. 512, second premium, W. R. Odell,
$1.00; No. 531, third premium, J. W.
Hyatt, 75c.
Stalk with largest number of bolls
—Entry No. 530, first premium, J. W.
Hyatt, $2.50; No. 639, second prem-
ium, L. M. Brook*-, $1.00.
Best 10 open bolls cotton—Entry
No. 524, first premium, Osceola A.
Williams, $2.00.
Best 6 stalks Kafir—Entry No. 440,
first piemium, Charles Folk, $3.00;
No. 303, second premium, T. A. Lan-
dall. $1.50,
Best 10 heads Kafir—Entry No. 321,
first premium, T. A. Landall, $2.50;
No. 856, second premium, Thomas
Green. $1.00. ,
Best 6 stalks Milo M<«ize—Entry-
No. 312, first premium, T. A. Landall,
$3.00; No. 644, second premium, B. F.
"VEhister, $1.50.
' *'vS* heads Milo Maize -Entry
J. N 309, first premium, M. S. Simpson,
$b.00; No. 394, second premium, J. T.
m wson, 75c.
H Best 6 stalks Feterita—Entry No.
816, first premium, B. F. Smith, $2.50;
;N . 476, second premium, Clarence
M ler, $1.00.
Best 10 heads Fettrita—Entry No.
®:'., first premium, J. O. Brown, $2.00;
N. 509, second premium, B. S. Eckles,
$1.00; No. 604, third premium, L. B.
Pt >per, 75c.
HBest bundle of Alfalfa—Entry No.
76", first premium, B. F. Carniichael.
$§ >0; No. §14, second premium, B. M.
Ht >oks, $1.50.
^■Best Bale of Alfalfa—Entry No.
4f) ', first premium, J. S. Hanks, $2.00;
N. 494, second premium, A. Sparlin,
H|.' o.
H(Best Bundle of Wheat—Entry No.
40 . first premium, John Folk, $2.00;
Nc. 650, second premium, B. F. Car-
mi 'hael, $1.00.
^Hest Ooe-half Bushel of Wheat—
ifitry No. 510, first premium,
BH;"0; No. 338, second primium, S. D.
Imrquar, $1.50; No. 311, third prem-
iun>, M. S. Simpson, $1.00.
■ Best Bundle of Oats—Entry No.
first premium, Joe W. Folk, $2.00;
N il 649, second premium, B. F. Car-
mifcael, $1.00.
fc Best One-half Bushel of Oats—En-
■ no. 461, first premium, W. T. Er-
$2.00; No. 319, second premium,
'SBb. Farquar. $1.00.
Hfeest Six Stales Standard Broom
Hfn—Entry No. 506, first premium,
K. Carmichael, $2.00; No. 4?7, sec-
premium, Oral Tucker. $1.00.
ist Six Stalks Dwarf Pronm Corn
'try No. 658, first premium, B. F.
Carmichael, $2.00; No. 458, second
premium, Oral Tucker, $1.00.
Best Ten Head Any Variety—Entry
No. 519, first premium, B. F. Carniich-
ael, $2.00; No. 858, second premium,
Thomas Green, $1.00.
Best Bale Broom Corn—Entry No.
894, first premium, B. F. Carmichael,
$5.00; No. 893, second premium,
Thomas Green, $2.00.
Fruits.
Best General Display—Entry No.
631, first premium, Joe Markle, $5.00.
Best Display of Peaches, Apples,
Pears and Grapes—Entry No. 633,
first premium, Joe Markle, total prem-
iums, S7.50; no other entries on above.
Biggest Bunch Grapes—Entry No.
628, first premium, Joe M. ..ie, $1.50;
No. 395, second premium, W. E.
j Parks, 75 cents.
I Best Display of Canned Fruits and
[ Vegetables—Entry No. 609, first
i premium, A. Sparlin, $5.00; No. 653,
second premium, Joe Markle, $2.00.
I Best Display of Vegetables—Entry
Mo. 605, first premium, A. Sparlin,
'$5.00; no other entries.
Biggest Watermelon—Entry No.
457, first premium, B. D. Jolley, $2.00;
No. 497, second premium, S. D. Ran-
kin, $1.00.
Best Display of Cantaloupes—En-
try No. 617, first premium, H. D. Cor-
win, $2.00; No. 618, second premium,
G. C. Gorwin, 50 cents.
j Biggest Muskmelon—Entry No.
,X65, first premium, D. T. Burkett, $1.
j No. 851, second premium, Ed Dugless,
150 cents.
I Biggest Pumpkin—Entry $>Io. §14,
| first premium, Dave Carter, $2.00; No.
1864; second premium, Bob Hamilton,
1 75 cents.
I Biggest Squash—Entry No. 865,
■first premium, Bob Hamilton, $1.00;
! No. 646, B. F. Carmichael, 75 cents,
j Peanuts—Entry No. 620, first
j premium, H. D. Northrop, $2.00; No.
637, second premium, G. M. Brooks, 75
ARMY OFFICERS SAY FRANCE HAS
MOST MODERN ARTILLERY IN WORLD
When the news came that the Kais-
er's Uhlans had been mowed down by
French machine guns in the skirmish
at St. Croix some of the United States
Army officers exclaimed: "I told you
so!"
| The eyes of every artillery officer
| are following the French artillery, on
' which is pinned the hope of France to
i whip the Germans.
Will the French artillery, admitted-
ly the best in the world, wreak ' the
havoc in the German ranks that has
: been predicted ?
j The French since the time of Napol-
eon have socialized in artillery and
;their guns, with their handling, form
I the backbone of the army.
j The guns are manufactured in
! secret, such is the value placed on
'them. The famous Dreyfus affair of
I fifteen years ago grew, in part, out of
| the suspicion that the secret of their
! manufacture had 1 -old to Ger-
| many.
! Friendly as France is to her Rus-
j sian ally, she never has even lent to
I Russia any of her newer models.
I In action the French use the
1 method of indirect firing, which has
! been copied by every other Nation.The
| gun, if possible, is planted behind a
hill, in a ditch or some place where it
is invisible from a distance.
Then the officer in charge of the
men handling the gun uses his glass-
es from the crest of the hill, or other
high place locates the enemy and calls
out the direction and distance.
The gun crew fire a first shot to
breech, preparatory to firing, the cor-
rect distance is punched through fig-
ures stamped on the rim as a conduc-
tor punches a ticket. There are num-
erous time-f \,e marks, so that any de-
sired distance is obtained. The marks
on the rim cause the mechanism auto-
matically to aim the g.in.
According to the claims of th
French artilery ofticers.no enemy,once
seen at a distance of from one to fivfe
miles, tan possibly escape absolute de-
struction.
The gunfire does not strike in the
ranks of the enemy, but is aimed
above them. The shell bursts from
forty to fifty feet from the ground
and releases a shower of small bullets
which plung downward.
No matter how fast the en-mv may
retreat or disperse, so rapid is shell
after shell sent, the enemy caij not
escape. The gun also is constructed so
that in firing it moves sidewise auto-
matically, to the right or left, thus
covering possibly a quarter of a mile
of an enemy's frontage.
| plant the gun in the ground, and after
[ that is settles in position and can fire
as many as forty shells a minute.
Just before the shell reaches the
THROWING KISSES AT
STATUEOF LIBERTY
By the United Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—Throwing
kisses to the Statue of Liberty and
si Hiring "America," 'he refugee
Ar >■ s arrived today froci Hol-
lav ji« Ihc American Liner I'ot.suum,
from war torn Europe.
All had experienced difficulty in
making the ship and many lost every-
thing but the dollies they wore.
ROBERTSON ADMITS HIS
DEFEAT FOR GOVERNOR
i
i cents.
! Largest Sale Butter and Eggs—
■July 1st to Aug. 1.—Entry No. 854,
| amount sold $56.78, first premium,
j.Mrs. Thomas Green, $5.00; No. 882,
(amount sold $46.17, second premium,
Mrs. Mary Matthews, $2.50.
Grand Sweepstake Prizes—Entry
No. 369, first premium, Joe Markle,
$10.00; No. 528, second premium, Ir-
win Hamilton, $r 00.
Prizes For Indian Farmers.
■ Best Ten Ears Corn—Entry No.
jf>97, first premium, Onadah, $2.00; No
1667, second premium, Geo. Pohoxicut,
j $1.00; No. 695, third premium, Hoy-
|Koy-Bitty, 50 cents.
Best Four Stalks Corn—Entry No.
692, first premium, Hoy-Koy-Bitty,
$2.00.
Best Stalk Cotton—Entry No. 687,
first premium, Leslie Tesiki. $2.00.
Fettereta—Entry No. 694, first
'premium, Hoy-Koy-Billy, $2.00; No.
] 663, second premium, Hoto, $1.00.
| Forage Display-—Entry No. 666,
! first premium, Geo. Pohoxicut, $2.00.
B: oom Corn—Entry No. 690, first
premium, Leslie Teriki, $5.00.
Sweepsakes—Entry No. 669, first
premium, Leslie Tesiki, $5.00.
P. G. FULERTON,
REV. E. C. DEYO,
PROF. F. E. SHORT,
FRANK BRANDON,
Judges.
I Special to the Constitution.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 12.—R. L.
Williams has a majority of 2500,
since all the counties have reported.
W. II. Murray is re-elected con-
gressman.
J. V. McCIintic is the successful
nominee for congress In the Seventh
district.
The vote in our congressional dis-
trict, Ferris received 10,780; Glover,
3800.
GERMANS DAWN ATTACK;
SRUSSELS THEIR OBJECT
|v the United Press.
! PARIS, Aug. 12.—It is officially announced that the Ger-
man forces attacked at dawn Tirlemont which is only twenty-
re miles east of Brussels, the latter being the object of their
ttack.
I The engagement is reported as "serious."
J The Germans desire Liege and Brussels in Belgium, as sup-
Bv stations in their invasion of France.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 12.—
Judge Robert L. Williams of Durant,
is the nominee of the democratic
party for governor of Oklahoma, ac-
cording to complete official returns
from seventy-four of the seventy-
seven counties of the state, which had
reported to the state election board
' up to Tuesday night.
The vote stands 34,386 for Wil-
liams, and 33,450 for Robertson, giv-
ing Williams a plurality of 1,936 over
the Chandler man.
Total for Dunlop 12,438
Total for Herring 9,872
Total for Jenings 19,920
Total for West 13,744
Kiowa, Washington and Tulsa
counties are the three which had not
made their returns to the state
' board. The returns from these coun-
' ties, it is believed will make no ma-
terial change in the result shown on
the face of returns from the seventy-
four counties which have reported.
The vote in these counties, it is said,
will increase Williams' plurality to a
little more than 2,000.
Judge Robertson who filed a protest
with the state election board several
days ago against the count in several
counties in the southwestern part of
the state, which gave Williams a
large pluarlity, stated Tuesday r.ight
that so far as he personally was con-
cerned the protest would not be car-
ried out. The protests, he said, were
made in his behalf by his friends and
supporters, and with them rested the
question of whether the protest would
be prosecuted.
"I have gone as far as I can. My
financial condition is in such shape
tfr i I must quit now. If the people of
thw state who supported me care to
protest the nomination of Judge Wil-
liams, they may do so,' said Judge
Robertson Tuesday night.
On the face of returns now in the
hands of the bonrJ and without offi-
cial tabulation, it is possible to tell
the results in several of the contests
for state office.
The nominations which appear cer-
tain are W. L. Alexander of Oklaho-
ma City, for state treasurer; A. P.
Watson of Shawnee, for corporation
commissioner; S. P. Freeling of
Shawnee, for attorney general; Fred
Parkinson of Wagoner, for state ex-
aminer and inspector; Ed Boyle for
: state mine inspector; W. G. Ashton
Ifor state labor commissioner; A. L.
j Welch of Purcell for state insurance
■ commissioner; William D. Matthews
of Wynnewood, for commisioner of
charities and corrections, and R. H.
j Wilson of Chickasha, for state super-
J intendent of public instruction. Clin-
ton M. Allen of Marshall, who oppos-
| ed Wilson for the nomination has con-
! ceded Wilson's nomination.
W. H. L. Campbell apparently has
been defeated by former State Sena-
tor William Franklin for the nomina-
tion for clerk of the supreme court.
Franklin has a lead of about 2,000
over Campbell, with J. O. ' Crawford
third.
Another close contest has developed
in the race for the nomination for
president of the board of agriculture
between Lieutenant Governor J J.
McAlester and Frank M. Gault of
Geary. The returns so far give Gault
a lead of several hundred votes.
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦«♦♦♦♦♦
♦ PRICES ADVANCING. ♦
♦ Prices on all goods and food are ♦
♦ advancing at such alarming rate ♦
♦ that a resoultion has been in- ♦
♦ troduced in congress to have the ♦
♦ department of commerce to in- ♦
♦ vestigate the matter and see if ♦
♦ the increase is not mainly caused ♦
♦ by speculators. ♦
ARE ARMIES OF ENGLAND
FRANCE AND GERMANY
French Army that Evacuated
Mulhausen Holding its New
Place; Kill. Two Aviators
l*y (lie United Press.
PARIS, Aug. 12.—The fighting is still in regress near
Luxemburg.
The Germans are advancing into Belgium by way of Lux-
emburg.
The French war office claims that the French army that
evacuated Mulhausen, is holding its new line near Alsatian
frontier.
The allied Fernch and British rrniy has been placed along-
the German frontier.
The French troops along the entire French frontier are in.
contact with the Germans. At Mangiennes, northeast of Ver-
dun, the Germans attacked the French on Monday evening.
The French, reinforced by reserves, then took the offensive and
repulsed Germans with considerable losses. A German battery
was destroyed by the French artillery fire and another captur-
ed, including three gatling guns and ammunition.
LONDON, Aug. 12.—The general staff has said "Import-
ant events impending." Other information is under censorship.
Two anny aviators were killed by collapse of machine.
Feminine Heroism.
LONDON, Aug. 12. — A news
agency dispatch from Brussels tells a
story of feminine heroism that par-
allels anyth' £ ' history. It says that
the wome; employes of the Belbian
National Anns manufactory at Her-
stal, a suburb of Liege, held the fac-
tory buildng for hours against a Ger-
man assault.
'When the German attack began the
women were alone in the factory with
the exception of a few old men. The
able-bodied men of Liege had rushed
to the defense of the city. The women
determined that the arms factory
should not be taken, armed themselves
with rifles and automatics. With these
weapons they repulsed a charge on the
building by a company of German in-
fantry. This was renewed and the
women again repulsed the foe.
Finally when their ammunition was
exhausted the women used boiling
water and poured on the soldiers in
street below, the Germans fina"y
abandoning the attack for the more'
serious business against the Liege
forts. According to the report, 2,000
Germans were killed, wounded or
scalded.
England Boasts 600,000 in A. ms.
LONDON, Aug. 12.—According to
today's Times, England is now well on
with her mobilization and has be-
tween 50C,000 and 600.000 men under
arms, not counting the National Re-
serve.
"We would, therefore, view the situ-
ation with comaprative equanimity,"
say3 tne Times, "and not be turned
from any masculine resolve by the
threat of an assault by the German
navy."
Two Million Soldiers.
By the United Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—France and
Germany are fully mobilized today
and 2,000,000 men are now face to
face, fully armed, if the plans of the
French and German General Staffs
have been correctly carried out.
German Loss is 31,000.
By the United Press.
BRUSSELS, Aug. 12.—The War
Office in an official bulletin issued
today said that the German losses in
the fighting before Liege up to and in-
cluding Sunday night's attacks on the
forts total 2,000 dead, 20,000 wounded
and 9,000 prisoners.
TO ASSIST AMERICANS
i STRANDED IN EUROPE
By the United Press.
LONDON, Aug. 12.—The commit-
; tee headed by Dr. John Finley, the
! commissioner of education of New
York, has planned to leave for Ger-
many to assist Americans to go via
Holland Under Red Cross auspices.
Little information has been re-
I celved regarding the Americans in
(Termany. but it is supposed that a
large number are destitute.
RUSSIAN FLEET TAKES
MERCHANTMEN VESSELS
By the United Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 12.—The Russian Baltic sea
feet has captured twenty-five merchantmen and now dominates
that sea.
VIENNA, Aug, 12.—It is claimed that the Russian ad-
vance of 500,000 soldiers under Grand Duke Nicholas, has been
checked.
VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 12.—The British Cruiser
Rainbow wirelessed her position off here today, setting at rest
the rumors from San Francisco yesterday that she had been
sunk by a German war ship.
The stuff she threw overboard when cleared for action
caused the rumors.
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