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LAWTON CONSTITUTION
VOLUME XIII—NO. IS.
LAWTON, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1914.
Live News On
Every Page
In Every
Column
WEEKLY EDITION
BATTERY
DESTROYED!
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
IMPORTANT CONFERENCE.
AT CRAONNE BELONGING TO
GERMANS: ALLIES ADVANCE
ON LAON.
♦
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♦
♦ By the United Press.
♦ PARIS, Dec. 2. — President ♦
Poincaire and General Joffre, ♦
visited King George of England ♦ ■
today at General French's head- ♦
♦ quarters. It is denied that the ♦ •
♦ King has returned to England ♦ i
♦ yet. ♦
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
: RUMORS OF MOVES ON THE
^ ^ _ __ ^ _ __ i* By the United Press. ♦ ™ AA&a * kj
POLITICAL ChECKER BOARD [) PI OTIC
night at a meeting of the unem- ♦ i.A \jr mJiuJ a flJli jj|\
ployed in Dallas, the business ♦ !
The shaping of affairs under the ( democratic members of the state
new administration, when Governor board of affairs, who are Samuel
Williams is inaugurated, has begun, I Morley, president of the First
]a„d the moves on the political check-! Nati°nal bank 0f H rt horn«. '
Of Germans at Ypresj Crown Prince
Mav Be Given Command of
Ar*v in West.
By the United Press.
PARIS, Dec. 2.—The Germans'
artillery is hammering away at the
allies positions betwen Ypres and
Arraa.
It is rumored that the Crown Prin:e
of
muy be given supreme command
the army of the west. |MART'S HOME AT AN
The German attacks upon Ypres HOUR THIS MORNING,
trenches were repulsed.
There is a vigorous" offensive by al-
lies toward Laon, which is held by
the Germans.
At Craonne a German battery was
destroyed.
i . . . , , |M. Aydelotte, a oromineht cotton oil
er board are being watched with con- mftn and banker oklahoma City.
; siderable interest, and some of the , In connection with the announcement
| new administration has been decided of these appointments came the state-
J upon, according to newspaper reports ments that both have accepted.
that are sifting out from the capital, j It is rumored that George Smith of
| One of the reports that is of the | Chandler has been selected or re-
' most interest to this section of the commendation to the school land com-
j state, is that one coming through the j inissioners as secretary of that
; Oklahoma City newspaper, that Capt. j board. This will be a deserving ap-
i C. C. Hammonds of Comanche county pointment
ATI A\TA r A nsv 9 |, iwl11 succeed Frank Canton as adjut-1 Senator C. B. Kendrick, it is rum-
' " B-<:int general. This appointment seems lored will go in the attorney general's
jCARHART, SHOT AND K1LEED ; "robab'e- as Congressman Scott Fer- j office as an assistant.
i ris is behind it. and it is likely to l>o I George Noble of Poteau it is —
JAMES P. CALLAWAY IN 1
men of the city today opened a
relief fund to which there has
been quite a generous response.
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
REPULSE THE ATTACKS MISTAKEN
FOR THIEF
GERMANS CUT WAY OUT OP
TRAP NEAR LODZ WITH
HEAVY LOSS.
By the United Press.
By the United Press.
LONDON, Dec. 2.—Win a great '
victory by Christmas—land or sea— j
is popular cry now among the allied
forces.
IT IS CLAIMED
HART MISTOOK
FOR A BURGLAR.
THEY ARE BOTH PROMINENT
CITIZENS AND HAD BEEN THE
BEST OF FRIENDS.
CAR- . the only big appointment that will j ported has been selected as fish and
EARLY < me lhis Th's a'so shatters the ; game warden, and there
. "clean slate slogan' that was so pre- j other rumors but none
; | valent during the campaign. Capt. J sufficiently authentic to
THAT CAR-I Hammonds is a good man for the'
CALLAWAY j adjutant generals place, and we con-
| gratulate him.
There are a number of other appli-
cants for positions
RIOTS ARE
REPORTED
SOAKED WITH BLOOD
I hat Was Frozen on Their UniforMs
Were Russians After Bloodiest
Day's Fighting of War.
arc many
that seem
place any
credence in.
Judge Williams' well known idea of
economy and the saving of expense. Is
the main thing that the people are in
PARIS, Dec. 2.—Every able-bodied j
German in Belgium who can be THAT IS WON BY A WOM AN
spared from garrison duty is on the LONG LAW
firing line betweenYpres and the sea. SUIT
Reports reaching here declare that j 1
during the lull in the fighting of the
last week, Belgian towns back of
the lines were emptied to the last
man that could be spared
maintenance of order.
Comanche j terested in, and they look forward to
j county, so it is rumored. | the general reduction of state expen-
I On Fridav Judge Williams an- ses, and abolition of useless boards
| nounced his selection of the two1 and enforcement of efficiency
TWO NATKWS DETAILED INFORMATION AS 10
DESIRE LAND RECORDS IN TREASURER'S OFFICE
IN
FRANCE'S CROPS
BEING HARVESTED
NEW YORK.—A ter.-year struggle
to get deeds to 4,000,000 acres of
the Mexico, including the shores of Mag-
'dalena bay, one of the finest harbors
on the Pacific coast, was disclosed
| yesterday. The disclosure was mada
by Thomas M. Roulette, lawyer, coun-1
After an exhaustive argument,) Hodge recalled.—Did not examine
lasting from 1:30 to 4 p. m., the court envelopes for daily deposit ! report;
rules that any act may be proven that | County Attorney Orr will you
shows that it was or was not wilful, amine the envelopes to find out.
and that the word wilful must be re-1 Stevens.—We will waive and admit
strictcd to such acts as are done with : as much as possible in order to make
evil intent and without reasonable progress, as this case is costing the
grounds, that the act was lawful and county about $25 per hour.
this will be the courts instructions to I E.,W. Dilling.—Cashier of Fletch-
the jury lor <Sfu;e Back; county depository;
|„„l for Mrs. u* Edw.rd, B.ll. wh. I . ^. ".1"" «*, * W PWta, MM „„
has the deed. i defendant. , daily balance ut rate of 3 per cent;
The land involved included nearly J j Joe Porter has drawn money from
all of Lower California from the Hodge.—Did not find the duplicate: ' form °r drafts; I have
Cordilleras to the gulf, is worth mil-'of deposit ticket; did not find any!. enL' ese ale drafts drawn on me
OLD MEN, WOMEN AND .lions. It runs north and south 400 record of deposits being made other ! "iter, as county treasurer: all
CHILDREN; DOING BEST miles and is from ten J* fourteen than these as I understand the war- ',,u' l% our hank.
THEY CAN. , miles and is from ten to fourteen ! rants on hand; am not sure that I ^ assin recalled.—There was a bal-
miles wide. James Edwards, Mrs. know what they are. ?n<;e °' wari'ants on hand $46,107.98
By the United Press. Rail's father, bought it in 1903 fori Cross Examination—This book s inveslment fund; warants with me.
PARIS. Dec. 1.—People in the war $395,000, less than 10 cents an acre.! Commissioners' Journal offered in I <A<rresd t!,at Casi"n make a list of
*ono °f Northern France are cheerful j Magdalena bay lies in the center of .evidence; Commisioners' Journal page wa,'.rants for each ^nd and that they
and harvesting bumper sugar be^t this great strip of coast, the deeds 309. Objected to. Sustained. I have f0,'." *lere "1's P'ace without ob-
cr"Pa- ; to which convey fishing and otherj never been in office before; had no.
The women boys and old men are water rights. 'exptrince in this office; been in since
working the fields. For years the wisdom of the United Nov. 27, last Friday; the county at-
Tnese eve greatly changed condi- States acquiring this harbor hisjtorney and examiner searched the
tions from ten weeks ago. The people been urged and of late more sharply j drawers for duplicate deposit slips,
By the United Press.
SANTIAGO, CHILE, DEC.
ANTI-GERMAN RIOTS ARE
PORTED AT VALPARAISO
DAY.
CROWDS STONED" THE
MAN CONSULATE.
TROOPS WOUNDED
2—
RE-
TO-
By the United Press.
PETROGRAD, Dec. 2—The Rus-
sians who come in from the battle
front are soaked with blood, which
froze on their uniforms, after th«
bloodiest day's fighting of war last
Friday, when the Sibe.ian troops
stormed the German trenches in Lodi
region.
I The Russians hold Plock today,
GER- wh'ch has been one of the hotly con-
I tested points.
| The Germans cut their way out of
SEVERAL ^raP the vicinity of Lodz, and Low-
j icz, but lost heavily while doing so.
BEFORE ORDER WAS RESTORED, j
The demonstration! parti, c.uwd | ''bErIiN,''ot''^-Northern Po-
by increased fares on street railways |und battles are taking their normal
owned by Germans. 1 course.
It is also alleged that the violations 1 In southern Poland the Russian*
of Chile's neutrality by German war- were repulsed and eighty thousand
rhips caused bad feeling. | unwounded Russian prisoners were
The street cars were stoned and all . taken between Nov. 11th and today.
German buildings attacked. i
BY
ar getting accustomed to war and than ever because of
simply going ahead as best they can. pa„ might obtain it if we didn't. jover north side of vault, could not tell
I Mr. Roulette Is hanging on to the'what they found and discovered; the"
jection. one warrant read in record for
each fund, and total amount of war-
rants of each fund.) Have a
summary of sinking funds for school
districts and for county; this is one I
tories-that Ja looked through filing cases, we lookei ani' verified; offered in evi-
dence; have record of balance on hand
in the various banks at the end of
KILLING NEAR ALTUS.
CARRANZISTAS
CUT RAILROAD
AUTUS, Okla., Dec. 1.—T. M. i
Brantley, a farmer, is under arrest I
hero charged with having shot and
killed J. J. Ferguson Monday after-!
noon, near Altus. Ferguson was a ten- BETWEEN SAN LUIS POTOSI
ant of Brantley's and trouble between AND QUERRETAROU; GUITER-
the two is alleged to have arisen over REX TO ENTER MEXICO CITY.
a division of hay. When killed. Fergu-1 —
son was picking cotton. Brantley is By the United Press.
alleged to have fired the contents of 4 EL PASO, Dec. 2.—Carranzista
double-barrel shotgun into Ferguson's troops cut the railroad between San
breast while the tenant was on his Luis Potosi and Querretarou.
knees gathering cotton.
BULL MOOSERS
ARE TO STICK
i
\T LEAST UNTIL AFTER NEXT
NATIONAL ELECTION, AC-
CORDING TO LEADERS.
! This is a menace to Guiterrez, ths
! provisional president selected by the
convention, who is at Querretarou.
! Villa and Zapata are to march
against Carranza at Vera Cruz im-
mediately.
| They are trying to get the two gun
boats there to repudiat Carranza.
By the United Press.
BROKERS BUMPED
BY DOUBLE TAX.' company
deeds to this land because the Char-j did not find any deposit slips; there ^^em0nth; al:lount offered
irnvniri I niltrnt Tin o nrtociKSIiftr r\f 4ko!«
of Lower California might be a possibility of their finding
i . -• . *. .... | uv a |/vouluii J li'vU , p t ,
owes Mrs. Ball a sum that with inter-j them, but I was there with them; do , ™ss exanilnation.—Do not know
By the United Press.
BOSTON, Dec. 1.—Beginning today ^r- Roulette adds that he un-jsealed; saw DifTendaffer break open
taxpayers of Massachusetts must pay dfcrstands a Japanese syndicate is try-
two additional levies: Federal and
state. The war £ax, of course, goes
into effect and, besides, payments
must be made upon sales or transfers
of stocks.
A peculiar "wrinkle" in the new1
state law is that it does not regard
the sale and transfer of stocks as one
transaction. Instead, a tax is charged
ing to get the land and that, money
or no money, he will not surrender
the deeds without the law's compul-
sion.
The beginning was on a day in 1903
when James Edwards, adventurer,
explorer, promoter, who had an office
next door to Mr. Roulete, walked in
upon his neighbor suddenly, leading
for each operation. On^ hundred ! his young daughter by the hand. Ed-
shares at $100 per value must now ■ wards had been told he had not long
one this morning; did not examine
them; could not tell; I told while ago,
they could not be found; have not
who made it: checked it myself; Mil-
ler gave it to me; Miller the inspector
in the treasurer's office; found exhibit
19 just as correct as I found exhibit
17; have all the depositories before
forgotten my testimony five minutes me> ^ePos'ts made in other
ag0 banks during this time; all balances
Redirect.—I examined several en- ,Were e^e"'<?<' deposits and checks,
velopes and did not find any deposit Hodge recalled.—Have made a
slips. Hodge directed to examine en- c'ose search for duplicate deposit tick-
velopes. ets; have not found any in the daily
CUssin recalled.—Examined these 'ePorts' have made examination of
items indicated as warrants on hand; l'a''J" rePorts filed by treasurer with
do not know what that item means; ®0I^n'y clerk and on daily report of
pay $6 in taxes instead of the nomi- to live. Of this he informed Roulette, j have made a summary of collections 'u'v ^ collections were made on
nal tax of $2 in the past. ! adding that he wished to make a will ;and deposits since July 9th; have ve- °^'ler dates beside July 9th; turn to
I leaving all he had to his girl. rifled that summary and know its same year; collections of oth-
' ''Her in this tin box," the pioneer correct, total collected $437,073,26; er dates besides July 18; treasurer
HFNRY FR IS ;W nt on, "are the deeds and Mexican total deposits, $339,845.44: total collected money on other days than
ULilllll JL1ULLI Itl granti for 4,000,000 acres of land on ,amount warrant bought, $97,287.82; shown in reports; have a list of thos<j
the west coast bought fron^ F'Jor^s, 11 had itemized statement of the num- co"ect'°ns: taxes collected by the
Ilale & Co., for $395,000 and the j ber and amount of warrants bought ,reasurer on days, other than report-
and warrants redeemed and the ed> of same read to jury.
amount of warrants turned over to me 1 ross ^xa,nination. By Stevens,
was $46,107.39; records do not show —Check UP daily reports with tax r<j-
any interest collected: do not show ce'P'S- '''nd all reported on daily re-
any interest credited to any funds; pcrt"
have on hand warrants shown by this Hodge.—All tax receipts check out
statement: $15,815.71 in county sink- on daily report. Omitting each indi-
ing fund. Nov. 21st, 1914: school dis- v'dual receipt, which was called; find
HERE FOR SENTENCE
Henry Seigler" convicted of murder Chartered company of California has
in first degree for killing Wm. A.
St ndford, near Meers, two years ago,
arrived in Lawton Monday evening in
hought it from me, but still owes $31,
000. Whatever happens I don't wnn'.
ynu to let them have thf-se deeds until
charge of Sheriff Nix, who ' brought tb°J 'ff *hat the/ ;sti11 owe"
him from McAlester, where he has ' RouI#ttc accepted the trust and Ed-
•beon in the penitentiary.
Seigler is here to be sentenced by
Judge Johnson, which will not take
place until the present case on trial is
completed.
It is probable that Seigler's sen-
tence will be commuted by Governor
Cruce, if the case is brought to his
attention before his term of office ex-
pires, as no one has yet been permit-
ted to hang legally, since Cruce's in-
auguration.
Mrs. Jake, L. Hamon returned last
evening from a short visit with her
parents at Temple. Her little daugh-
ter, Olive Bell, remained for a longer
visit with her grand parents.
wards died soon afterward. Since then
there has not been a day, says ths
lawyer, when Chartered company of
Lower California or Rome of the men
of it—John E. Blackman, W. F. La-
kin and others—have not been trying
their hardest to get hold of the Ed-
wards' deeds.
"The purpose, I am assured, is to
be able to give title to a Japanese
syndicate," says Mr. Roulette. "Or-
dinarily, were they ever to come for-
ward with the money due. I should
surrender the papers at once, but if
the land is to go to Japan, with the
probability of Japan gaining Mag-
dalena bay as a naval base, I shall
fight my hardest not to give them the
title papery money or no money."
! WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 2.—
Provisional President Gutierrez ac-
By the United Press. | companied by Villa is expected to en-
( II1CAGO, 111., Dec. 2.—Behind ter Mexico City today, according to
closed doors a hundred Bull Moose advices received here this afternoon.
leaders from all parts of the country!
met here today reviewed the Novem-1 Advices contradict the reports of a
ber election and planned the future , break between Villa and Zapata,
course of the party. j Panuca, the center of the oil fields,
'1 he minority favored amalgamat- has been> deserted by Villa, who ap-
ing with the republicans, but 1'erkins, j parently has gone south to concen-
O. K. Davis and others, declared that (trate for the campaign against Car-
the party will continue its organiza- ranza.
tion and have its own ticket in the
field in 1916, despite apparent re-
verses.
Ex-President Roosevelt is unheard
from this afternoon.
PRESIDENT FOR CAMERON.
The state agricultural board has
selected Z. C. Farley, of Geary,
Perkins pooh poohed the dissolution ! President of Cameron College and he
talk.
is expected any day to
duties of the position.
assume the
STATE EXAMINER AND
DEPUTIES ARE HERE
trict sinking fund, $24,157.40; have on my ►port that these receipts a?
not checked them up to see what kind; proven !*• the adding machine that
MILLS SHORT OF COTTON.
By the United Press.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 2.—
Many cotton mills in Denmark and
Sweden are closed because of the State Examiner Fred Parkinson,
scarcity of the raw material, so say Deputies Cahilt and Miller, are
the consular reports. I here this week as witnesses in court,
| aiding in the prosecution of the coun-
! ty officials.
PRFSFHFNT IS RFAHY ! 11 was the state examiner's office
. !that br°uPht ^e matter before
TO WITHDRAW TROOPS !grandjury
the
OWNER IS RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE WATER RENTS.
there are no school district warrants this report; treasurer's daily report.
in list: have not examined them. •'"'y 9> total itemized and corrected ! word.
Cross Examination.—Where did 'nt° "'is report; also miscellaneous
you find the total of warrants bought, receipts are also for that day; and
that is on this statement;state exami- this report shows those items in
ner called the figures to me and 1 detail and the vouchers for these
checked them. amounts were transmitted with th"
Hodge recalled.—I was asked to report for that day; have found no
examine reports; did not examine to reP°rt where vouchers and daily re-
see if deposlte slips were in, only to Port did not tally.
see how many were sealed: do not Dr. Johnstone.—Live in city; am
find any deposit slip for July 9. physician; have gotten warrants from
Cassin recalled.—Have made an clerk's office in last six months; have
examination of the warrants; did not had three warrants cashed at treas-
By the United Press.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. J.—
President Wilson emphasises the as
rertion that he intends to withdraw j By The United Pres3.
United States troops from Colorado; PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 1.—A city
the moment the governor says the ; ordinance, adopted by the vote of th<;
find any school districts warrants.
(Continued On Page Four.)
I people recently, providing for the col-
lie believes that Colorado should i lection of household water rates every
preserve order within its own borders. ! three months, instead of monthly as
heretofore, and making the rates
TEXAS GETS NEW
NORMAL SCHOOL.
By The United Press.
CANYON, Texas, Dec. 1.—Work
chargeable to the premises served,
rather than to the consumer, went in-
to effect today. The change will re-
sult in a large saving to the munici-
began today on a new fireproof state pality in postage, stationery and office
normal school building to replace c«n8 help.
lost by fire last winter. The 1100 stud-
ents will study in temporary quarters
In churches nnd public buildings until
the r.ew structure is comoleted.
If the consumer Tails to pry hh
water rent, the owner of the prenv es
if held responsible under the new sys-
tem.
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