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THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION
VOLUME XIII—NO 12.
LAWTON, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1911.
WEEKLY EDITION
Live News Oa
Every Pag*
In Every
Column
OUTRAGED : *<;™:|0NLY THE small SUM OF
Tuc ♦ 1!yL^DONuDepr38o.-The de-> S10,000 THE NEWS WANTS
I J1* I I I ■fl struction of hnttlf>shin Rulwnrk ♦ • v*wi #"V mm w w — —
IS CHARGE AGAINST TURKS IN
TERRITORY THROUGH WHICH
THEY MOVE.
By the United Press.
LONDON, Dec. 30.—The de- ♦
struction of battleship Bulwark ♦
is officially called an accident. ♦
The inquest is completed. A ver- ♦
♦ die t i>f accidental death from ♦ ,.\ suit was filed last night against month, while tfiey are acquiring and
spontaneous combustion of ♦, the Constitution Company and John managing another newspaper prop-
smu eless powder in one of the , N. Sliepler, its editor and manager by erty, and trying to put the Constitu-
• magazines causing the explo- ♦ ; the News-Republican Company, a tion out of business.
OUT OF THE CONSTITUTION
BIU BATTLE IMMINENT.' • ftlll CCD IT WT
: * :UirrcKtlNI
OPINIONS
LOSSES VERY HEAVY
In the Battles Between Ku-sians and
Austro-Germnna; Former A^ain
on Offensive.
♦ sion.
♦ ♦ ♦
By the United Press.
♦ LAREDO, Dec. 30.—A big ♦
♦ battle is imminent at Hipolita. ♦
♦ The Carranzasta garrison at ♦
Monterey has gone to reinforce ♦
♦ the troops opposing Villa's ad- ♦!
♦ vance. The people are fleeing ♦ HELD IN ENGLAND AS TO
♦ from Monterey. ♦, I'ftOTEST OF UNITED
* I STATES.
THE
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
♦ corporation, the animate oeing con- We appreciate the compliment they '
♦ nected with said company is not re- paid the Constitution in their peti-
ess« /^.hIinc . _! g er m a n influences
I the Comanche Light and Power Com- stitution has, and they might have
pany does manage said paper, taken care of their case in theirj
asking damages in the sum of $10,- newspaper and defended themselves,
> MO. if they felt aggrieved. We never i
Young Short, aged 61 years, who j .Judging from our own business we drei med that real newspaper people
Renewed u 1 keen "v'ng *n I'awton i ;nce the | knew that it was hard sledding in a would get peeved over any little'
C au' i nis in '°Pen'n?' d'ed suddenly Tuesday even- J financial way for the News and the plessantries passed in a newspaper,
SUDDEN DEATH OF
A PIONEER CITIZEN
RESUMED IN POLAND
In Washington are Considered Mostly
j Responsible for the Position of
This Country.
By the United Preps.
LONDON, Dec. 30.
cesses by Russians in Caucasus in , .. . „
niMnt i ; 4 . : "Ur aboul 8 o clock. He leaves five
iJltink region and important move-1 ,ui.^ ,, . ,
ments around Warsaw, which presage ^lldre", ^ ^ S^p,ey' IM,rs'
the driving back of the Austro-GerJ^ T° Sh°rt' Lukc'
man forces beyond the frontier, were1 V. ee' a
reported today from Petrograd. I „ , rt d'®d the past 8Ummer
The Turks are declared to have a tCr " Un?cmS il,ne3S- Her husband
niasacred the native population in the ,Ve^ ^evoated to her and since
territory through which they have death has not been llke the same
i • j i« man.
reen moving, and a-^o to have out-. ou . * . , ,
rased ano .u,Ur«I women and s„u!nt^ ®hort * frlend. tou the
Vienna '-nied the Petrograd claims ' 7^" "e condu<,ted ■ roo™ne house
that Austrian armies had been routed "t.>218 D a/enue' ?h°re h,s /enei"
but admitted they hn<- -„ichdr«*n in °Sity /'equently bestowed upon
the face of superior numbers. |tb°"e U"ab,e to secuie M and board'
Heavy losses are admitted. ! JShort was taken suddenly iU
The Russians are resuming the >'este'day evening and lay down on
siege of Cracow. |the bed' Hls son Tom summoned a
| physician but before he arrived Mr.
I Short was dead.
j The St. Clair undertaking company
[took charge of the remains and the
CTflP WAR MUNITIONS funeral wi" take place at 10:30,
fcJIvI VViai\ mum Ituna Thursday morning from ixsidence of
i Earnest Cease, 913 Fifth street, con-
By the United Press. jducted by Rev T j Irwin The Con.
\Y ASHINCiTON, D. C., Dec. 30. stitution joins the many friends in its
Urging favorable report on the reso- ' condolence.
lution to prohibit the export of war ■
munitions, Representative Wolimer, STOLE COLT'S SIX
of Iowa, called the United States a 1 SHOOTER AT MARCH BROS,
partner in the "greatest crime -gainst j Some onc smashed one of the ho'w
civilization in all history." windows of March Bros, store' last
Tf Americas sloped furnishing! night and gtole a Colt's army size six \
munitions the war would stop in .nine- j 8hooter Two „uns and othcr tWnf,
t3 days, he chimed. were within.reach but not molested, j
j This is rather a bold robbery on a 1
WANTS UNITED STATES
Phor.-; your subcrii tion
Con*-tituion. Number 7fi.
deficit that was 4)eing made up was and the rushing into court with
quite large, but we !™.uly expected damage suit surprised us, but we
a "squawk" so soon from a paper ought not have been surprised, if we
that has carried such a bold headline h d thought about the custom of
for weeks across the first pas?e which the e people and the way they try to
reads "The largest daily circulation in put things over.
Comanche County guaranteed to j That the Constitution overlooked
'News' advertisers," which statement many things that might have been
we challenged by publishing our own noticed, and that we had none but
circulation rid post office weights the kindliest feeling tow?rd the own-
and asked the News to do the same, ers and managers of the News is
vilr.ch they failed to dc. j evidenced by the fact that only a few
N'u\\, ready we can not afford to days ago, an order was placed with
contribute $10,000 now to the News the light and power company for
management and are sorry that they work by the Constitution.
asked it just at this time. Neither is A proper answer will lie filed i;i
the Constitution going to sit still due time, and the case will develop a
and permit a public service corpora-' number of very interesting things,
tion newspaper to ruin the business I A complaint from the Corporation
of this paper. f Commission is already in town
C. C. Black, attorney, manager of against the Comanche Light and
the News and attorney for the Co- j Power company, which will soon be
inanche Light and Power company ! certified to and filed with the Cor-
took the trouble to write & former poration Commission asking for re-
i mploye of the Constitution, asking lief of the people of Lawton on exces-
for information, but that was not f've lighting and power rates, which
necessary at all. If the Judge had are among the highest here of almost
come over aaross the street and ask- any town in the state. A hearing date
<-<! us, we would have cheerfully fur- will be determined and an effort
nished him all the information he de- made to regulate the high rates here
sired, or invited him in and to see for and this will deprive the Comanche
himself . There is nothing mysterious j Light and Power Company of some of
fibout the Constitution office. It is an their surplus revenue that they are
-pen book to every man, woman and , exploiting arjd promoting newspapers
ohild in the county, including the w';H, and will redound to the benefit
managers uf the Comanche Light and of every man, woman and child in
By the United Press.
BERLIN, DEC. 30.—Fighting has i
been resumed in Poland and Russin I
cavalry driven back towards HilljBy the_ United Press.
K"llen- | LONDON, Dec. 80.—The public is
~ „ much interested in a special meeting
train at' k" I ' ' V "°'—Tlu> the British cabinet called tftday to
trains attacked in force along the.: ..
. whole of the Hersegovina front Mon iconslder the United States protest
day, but everywhere were repulsed. ^Kainst a right of search and seizure
I Aeroplanes bombed Montenegrin now in force by the allied warships on
camp at Gratove without results. 'the high seas.
'-ngland is sharply divided into
jt\. j factions. Officialdom accepts tho
protest in a friendly manner. Un-
J official comment attributes Jt to Ger-
I man influences in Washington.
I Even officialdom is disposed to deny
OF GERMANS IS CLAIM OF ithat America'export trade has been
FRENCH; LATTER REOCCbl'IED ;seriously harmed by the British.
STRATEGIC POSITIONS. jMany lines of business have increased
1300 per cent.
By the United Press. ( False manifests have been admitted
BERLIN, Dec. 30.—The war office ! hy President Wilson, is declared to
admitted that St. George was evacu-! justify England's insistence on tho
ated, after a surprise attack by the al-1 right of search
lies, but claimed an attempt to retake
was in progress.
SILENCED THE
HEAVY ARTILLERY
I-. the ' well lighted and usi> l!y thronged I>ower Company whom we love, also, 1 Lawton.
thoroughfare until late at night. i uecaose we pay them for electric! The fight is only just begun for the
I Juice from $20.00 to ?30.00 each | people of Lawton.
By the United Press.
PARIS, Dec. 30.—There is artillery
fighting on the French righ wing and
upper Alsace.
The French silenced the heavy
German artillery in the vicinity of
Aspach.
The Germans are subjecting the al-
lies at St. George to a continuous
bombardment.
The French have reoccupied every
important strategic position on Barle-
By the United Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. 30.—A flat denial
is made that meat packages destined
for warring nations also contained |
copper and other contraband, was
made here by the packers who sent
the shipments from Chicago, which
are valued at more than five million
dollars and had been seized by British
ships.
IS THERE AN ORGANIZED GANG OF
HORSE THIEVES OPERATING HERE?
NEGRO WOMAN SLASHED.
the National Cash Register Co.
CHICKASHA, Okla., Dec. 30.— Isome of the jewelry taken at the same
That there is a line of horse thieves ;time.
and co-workers from Texarkana ! It was thought the jewelry that the
through Oklahoma and western Texas Grady county officials first got a clue.
to the New Mexico line, was the state ;9g i0 the identity of the men. On the'
rnent made yesterday by Searce Haw- „iKht they stole the horses they hired j
kins to John C. Lewis, sheriff oi a man to take them to a point in the j
Grady county, in the county jail at | south end of Grady county. They left :
Sulphur, following Hawkins' arrest | the rig at a school house, saying to |
near Ashdown, Ark., charged with a the man that they desired to surprise 1
■ong tiing of tliiefs. ^>r. Lewis la jH friend in that neighborhood, and I
turned last night from Sulphur. |would not thereforc drive up to hi-:
"I believe some of the gang turned . house in the buggy.
nle in,'' said Hawkins. "If I knew j The next night they called upon an j
they did, I would tell you things that (other acquaintance in that vicinity. By The United Press,
would surprise you. Right in your | leaving several articles of jewelry as
own town there are men that we can . "Christmas presents." The trail was
turn 'wet' horses to and they will struck there.
handle them for us. If I knew they
I). F. Leggitt, of Hobart, Okla., I
who is th-' southwestern representa- j
tive for the National Cash Register ( Lee Tillery, colored, has given bond
company was in Lawton today calling for $200.00, on charge of slashing
on local trade. This is tho first trip with a knife a woman wjth whom hp
Mr. Leggitt has made to Lawtdn for waB on friendly u>rms. Thp knife
two years, as ,t is just recently that bla(le broke off th„ wound which
he has accepted his old position with was ^lade in the fleshy part of (he
thigh.
TROUBLE
PROBABLE
SAN ANTONIO, DEC. 30. —
STATE RANGERS AT OAK VILE,
ARE MAINTAINING ORDER A"
The men were in Chickasha at the THE TRIAL OF FREDERICK SAN-
ROBBERS
GET BOOTY
By the United Press.
SAN ANTONIO, DEC. 30.—TWO
MASKED BANDITS ROBBED THE
PASSENGERS OF TWO SLEEPERS
ON SOUTHERN PACIFIC WEST
LOST—A black folding pocket book,
, — .. — containing $45 in bills and some sil-
Aeie-Paschendalc road after desper-j ver. A liberal reward for return to
ate bayonet charges. this office. 12-28dlt-wltp
SOME SUGGESTIONS AS TO HYGIENE
IN SCHOOLS AND ON THE FARM
By the United Press. I cities for the proper construction and
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Amazing maintenance of school buildings and
unsanitary conditions in rural schools | the regular medical inspection of
disclosed in investigation by the school children .School hygiene has a
United States Public Health Service | great economical value in that it
in Eastern Tennessee and Northern serves to prevent the spread of dis-
Georgia will result in a nation wide ! ease and makes the children now in
campaign for improved hygiene in ; the schools healthier members of tho
the country school houses, it is an- (community and of the country at
nounced. • ; large."
Examination of nearly 25,000 per-
sons, mostly schol children, and many
school buildings, showed among many
Advice to housewives to buy chick-
ens undrawn and with their heads and
uaiiuie vnem ior us. 11 i mic hicj . me men were in vnichasna :u ine I Mr, TK1AL, Or FREDERICK SAN- ,m SUl I HaKIN PACIFIC WEST
had double crossed me, I would turn !last first Monday sale and were then'cHEZ, CHARGED WITH MURDER BOUND TRAIN NO. 9, 115 MILES
whole line in." I riding two sorrel horses. Thev disnos- OF J 411.ER HPVBV invxnv /w I WEST OF HERE EARLY THIS
whole line in." riding two sorrel horses. They dispos OF JAILER HENRY HINTON ON
Since December 9 the sheriff's force jed of the animals but to whom is not DECEMBER 20.
of this county have been on the trail i known. Hawkins admitted that he i
of Hawkins and John Smith who, on'disposed of the horses at that time. I h"e "l> ™"'°rs. an |°
that night stole two horses from Jim J but would tell the sheriff nothing ™ by the Mexican population in
Foster, near Alex. While the officers juiore. It is believed the animals were j ^ ak ountry to liberate San-
of the various counties through which j stolen, but tho fact cannot as yet be ,ch"'
they passed have been hot on their .proved. The whites are thoroughly prepared
trail, it was not until they crossed the ] We went into Arkansas with nine 'or any trouble.
line into Arkansas that their definite ! head of stock, said Hawkins. W here
whereabouts could be located. This is the other horse you took in Grady
was effected through the sale of two
mules that they had stolen near Rob-
ertson, Garvin county, and which all
offivTs had been warned to watch for
officers had been warned to watch
for. The mules were sold in De-
Queene, Ark. The officers at that
place picked up the trail and by using
the rural telephone lines, located the (
men. A possee was formed, the men j
surprised and arrested without r°-
sistance, though they were armed
with automatics.
When caught they were riding one
of the horses stolen from Jim Foster
in Grady county and a black horse
which they had taken on the night of
December 12, in Murray county. They
were using the saddles and blankets
taken at Mill Creek, Johnson county,
about a week before they made the
raid on the barn of Jim Fosters. On
their feet wore the shop mnde boots
stolen at Lindsay on the same night
they took the horses from Grady
county. Also on their persons was
Sanchez was held here last niirhl.
He promised to plead guilty.
booty,
after
I WEST OF
MORNING.
They escaped with the
amount unknown, at StofTord
signalliy for a stop.
The State Kamrers are heading a
pursuing posse through a rough
country.
The robbers covered the porter and
forced him to arouse the passengers
singly.
TO SUBSCRIBERS
county?" asked Sheriff Lewis,
"I turned him over to a pal of mine
in Murray county,'" replied Hawkins.
"He was a good horse all right, but
he was lots of trouble. Ever)* time I
got on him he pitched. The night 11
got him near Alex. i led him out and All subscribers who are behind on their subscriptions one
saddled him in the lane When I got year or more> either on thg dai] Qr weekl ar requested to pay
<*• Statements are being mailed to all who are'behind and?
Mr. Lewis. j ?romPt settlements are requested. Under the postal regula-
i won t tell you that now i il tell tions a credit of more than one year on subscriptions is strictly
you later, for by that time "«y pal urohibited. Again, blank paper and printers must be paid
will not have him. You could ce; h m and there is but one way to handle a newspaper account and
today if I told vou now, and yen ..... ..... J . . v " auu
mi,hi catch him on tho ho«*e. jf hat is, to settle it once regularly each year.
you did it would go hard with him Any enors in accounts will be corrected. If there is any
it is understood the m<-*re willin family in the county who are unable to pay for a paper and
to plead guilty to the charge of steal- who want it, and will make the same known at this office it
[2X°™£ 23 Si S -HI be taken care of. A prompt remittance of settlement will
take them in charge. Smith * as want t <? appreciated.
ed in Sulphur for breaUi g jail there Wishing all a prosperous New Year.
Sincerely,
JNO. N. SHEPLER, Editor and Manager.
more than a year ag\V He was at that
time under half a doten bootlegging
charges.
other unhealthful conditions, soil pol-.feet still on is given by the United
lution contributing to hook worm ' States Department in a bulletin just
infection. Large numbers of school issued.
children examined were suffering j An undrawn chicken, its says,
from trachoma, a dangerous contagi- shows its lacks of freshness or its
ous eye disease, which, if not treated unfitness for food much more clearly
in time, impairs or ever, destroys vi- than does a fully dressed bird. A
sion. Also many phyisical and mental crarty poultry dresser can easily re-
defect* weer observed, most of which move certain significant signs of
the health service physicians said staleness, the department warns,
could be corrected by improved hygi- j When the feet of a chicken are re-
ene and early treatment, but which moved the housewife loses one of the
if neglected will cause needless suf-' easiest methods of telling the age or
fering and hardship in later life. J the bird. Young chickens have
The investigators found little or smo°th, clean feet and shanks. Old
no attention given to sanitation in the b'rds ^ave r°ush scaly legs and but-
construction of the largest number of tons or spurs. The head of a chicken
school buildings visited. Either in lo- that is not fresh will show a greenish
cation, heatins, lighting, or ventila- color be'ow the bill, sunken eyes, and
tion, seating of pupils, location of a darkening or discoloration on the
blackboards, or sanitary conveniences "eek. all of which indicate decay.
they were found wholly inadequate'
daneerou.rV6ral reSPeCtS positive,y NOTICE SCHOOL LAND LESSEES.
Drinking water for the children Our next regular meeting , Satur-
was found to be often derived from day, January 2, 1915, 1:30 p. m., at
shallow wells, or unprotected springs the Chamber of Commerce. Business
which may cause the sperad of dis- ot great importance to every lessee,
ease. Open water buckets and com- y°ur interest at stake. I have just re-
it .. . turned from our state executive board
mon tin dippers were used extensive- meetinf, haVtJ something to tell you
ly in the schools examined. , that will be greatly to your interest
"The necessity of extending to to learn. Now, don't fail to be present,
rural schools the same sanitary ad- CRABTREE,^ President.
vantages now enjoyed by urban
schools in therefore obvious," said the
health service in a statement just is^
sued. "This neglect of sanitary pre-
cautions observed in rural communi-
tiesin undoubtedly due to lack of san-
itary knowledge. Instructing the peo-
ple in the value of sanitation will na-
measures such as are now in force in
turally serve to make them adopt
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