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THE SHAWNEE DAILY NEWS - HERALD
REGULAR AFTERNOON ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS, EXCLUSIVE IN POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY.
VOL. XX.
Shawnee Daily Her VJ 16. ("CoBjoluJalrd 1
Shawnee Daily New , Vol. 16 (.Dec. I 191 I J
SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA. TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 27. 1915
NUMBER 195.
FULL FORCE
AT THE SHOPS
III
Word was received lierc from
Chicago today to the effect that a
greatly increased appropriation for
the month of May lias been made
for the Hock Island shops here, and
a« a result a fnli force in all de-
partments will be pat to work the
first of the month.
This will be good news to the
men and to the merchants as well,
as it will mean an old-time Rock
Island payroll for next mouth, at
least.
INFORMATION ON
NEW PENSION LAW
Oklahoma City, April 27.-^Forthe
benefit of county judges and all ap-
plicants for pensions under the
provisions of the ex-confederate
soldiers and sailors' pension bill,
passed by the last legislature. "W?
D. Matthews, commissioner of char-
ities and corrections and ex-officeio
chairman of the pension commis-
sion, has issued the following state-
ment, giving information that will
be of interest and value to all
those interested in the pension bill:
"For the information of the coun-
ty judges and all applicants for a
pension under the act ipassed by the
recent legislature, allowing a pen-
sion tx> all indigent confederate
fcoldiers and sailors and their wid-
ows. <' -
"The law does not take effect un-
til June 22. and not a cent of the
money appropriated is available tur-
til July 1, 1915; so the board has
no funds to secure clerical help, or
to pay for postage stamps, and will
not have until after July 1.
"There are now on file in this
office 1,400 applications for blanks
and other information. The only
#help this office has is the steno-
grapher for the department of
charities and corrections, and it is
entirely impossible for this office
to comply with the requests that
are coming in daily, until we can
get more cleripal help. The chair-
man and his stenographer are
•working eight hours every day in
arranging the applications alpha-
betically, so we can systematize
the business of the pension depart-
ment.
"Every applicant will receive the
same consideratian bj the board at
its meeting the first Monday in
July, whether or not their appli-
cation was the first or the last one
received.
''Section o of the pension bill
reads as follows:
"It shall be the duty of such
pension commissioners to obtain
from the war department, if pos-
sible, a roll or roster of all con-
federate soldiers and sailors, and
to keep a correct record of all ap-
proved claims.
"The law is mandatory and it
matters not how much other evi-
dence the applicant may have
prove "his or her claim, the board
must have the army record, if it
can be obtained, and if not, theti
the proof must be made by two
credible witnesses before the coun-
ty judge. In a letter received this
date from Mr. H. P. McCain, ad
jutant general, at Washington, he
states that the department there
will not furnish this information to
the individual, but only at. the re-
quest of the board of this state.
"Send me your name, letter of
company, number of regiment, stat
from which enlisted, stating wheth-
er infantry, cavalry, or artillery,
and I will send and get your re-
cord and have the proof, if it can
be had by the time the law becom-
es effective."
The Ladies Aid of the First M.
E. Church will give a tea at the
home of Mrs. F. B. Reed, 212 North
Market, Thursday afternoon from
2:30 to o. Friends invited. Silver
offering.
SHAWNEE IS
A MEIER OF
INTERCITY
The Shawnee Baseball Company
is very glad to advise they are a
member of the Inter-City League
and now can assure the patrons
some good classy baseball. At a
meeting in Oklahoma City the lea-
gue was formed with the following
teams: Shawnee, Geary, El Reno,
Yukon, and the Pettee Hardware
team and Iten Biscuit Co., of Ok-
lahoma City. This is going to be
a very fast amateur league, and
Shawnee is going to have to step
to set the pace and be the leaders,
which is of course their idea and
intention.
Geary is the home of a number
of professionals, the two Allen boys
now in the Texas League, another
in the big league, and they are
crazy over the national game. They
support their ball club to the last
ditch and then some. If they need
money and it takes that to have a
successful team, they supply it with
a good word and go to see their
team win. You can figure they will
have a good club.
The town of El Reno is one of
the best amateur ball towns in the
state. They called a mass meeting
with the mayor and prominent men
of the town attending, and unani-
mously voted that a collection be
taken up and a good ball club be
gathered together for El Reno
They take the ball players and get
them jobs and all together see that
their town has a good team and
last, but the most important, they
go to see the games and root for
the home boys from the first pitch-
ed ball to the last man out.
Yukon has the reputation of al-
ways having a good ball club, and
as the Yukon Mill and Elevator Co.
are the backers of the team, you
can rest assured that money and
patronage will not be lacking and
that the Yukon team will be
pennant contender.
The Pettee and Iten Biscuit com-
panies teams will be composed of
the best players in Oklahoma City.
There is a good chance to get two
of the best teams in the state in
the City, and as there will be only
two teams out of there, you can
expect a good game or the home
team to get beat. They are on the
road all of the time and will be
pennant contenders.
Shawnee will have a good team.
We have the nucleus of a good one
and with a few additions it will be
good one. We need a good pitch-
er and have one in view if we can
the support to bring him here.
It costs money to get them here
and we must have the people's sup-
port to have a good team. If Geary,
El Reno and Yukon can have a
good team, Shawnee ought to have
team that could beat the major
leagues, as Shawnee has the best
town, in every way. She can have
good team and if the fans will
get together, organize a rooters'
club, go out to the games, and if
we win, root for us, if we lose,
root for ua the same. Don't criti-,
cize us from the stand as the play-
ers are out there with their hearts
in the game and the unkind words
hurt worse than you can imagine.
A professional ball player's feel-
ings are supposed to be calloused
to t> jibes of the bleachers and
stands, but the amateur does not
face the crowds as often as the
professional, and consequently does
not give the team his best efforts
if ridiculed.
The Shawnee team will be up in
the race for th< flag. Don't fall to
come out, that's what helps th
boys win. It costs them a great
deal of money to get the visitors
in here, and they want to assure
you of a good team in the leagu*
and will do so if the fans will get
together and come out and root.
The opening game will be a good
one. It is with the Yukon team and
we want a good crowd. Come out,
bring your friends and enjoy see-
Telling What He Thought of Williarm Barnes' Politics.
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f,
Underwood & Underwood
Theodore Roosevelt was thorough-
ly at ease when he testified for him-
self in the suit for $50,000 damages
for libel brought against him by
William Barnes, Jr. This photograph
Theoodore Roosevelt on Witness Stand.
shows one of his attitudes while on
the witness stand before Justice An-
drews in the court room at Syra-
cuse. Most of the time he sat back
in his chair with his right leg cross-
ed over the left. At other times he
leaned forward and spoke eagerly.
He talked to the jury directly, often,
and in a most convincing manner.
BOMB WAS SET
FOR TURKISH
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
U ITALY TO ACT? ♦
i ♦ 3y Associated Press. ♦
, ♦ Rome, April 27.—The Ital- ♦
ian ambassadors at Paris, ♦
♦ London, Vienna and Berlin ♦
have been summoned to Rome ♦
for a conference with for- ♦
*• eign Minister Sonnino. A ♦
♦ grave and important decision ♦
♦ by Italy is expected. ♦
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
By Associated Press.
Paris, April 27.—A powerful clock-
work bomb was found hidden in the
ministry of war at Constantinople,
according to a Saloniki dispatch. It
was timed to explode at the hour
the council would be in session.
Meetings of this body arc attended
by Enver Pasha, minister of war;
Field Marshal Von Deroltz; and
General Liman Von Sanders.
An investigation is said to have
disclosed that the bomb was placed
by a sweep who had cleaned a chim-
ney and disappeared.
An official connected with the
ministry was arrested on suspicion
of being an accomplice.
8EXAT0R KENDRICK COMING.
Senator C. B. Kendrick will speak
at the superior court room Wednes-
day evening at 8 o'clock on "Rural
Credits." He will be introduced by
Mayor Stearns.
BURGLARIES ARE
RATHER NUMEROUS
IN SHAWNEE NOW
two Hoists wiiti: e\ti:iu:i)
MONDAY Ml.ill ONE HAN
"SHORT-CHANGED."
ll
WALSH DIGS
ROCKEFELLER
KS . " J
By Associated Press. " +
Chicago, April 27.—"The pub-
lished letters which aroused Rocke-
feller's ire are all admitted by him
to have been written, and correctly
quoted, so that his voluminous
newspaper assertion is In no sense
denial of anything given to the
press by me," said Frank P. Walsh,
chairman of the industrial relations
commission, in reply to Rockefel-
ler's attack. "I am glad to know
that Rockefeller's defense of the
Ludlow massacre is that the two
women and eleven children who met
their deaths upon that awful oc-
casion were not shot, but merely
smothered in a pit, while the bul-
lets from the mine guards of their
camp were flying over the pit.
Entire candor, however, is said to
have moved Rockefeller to add the
additional detai 1 that his mine
guards, in the guise of state mi-
litiamen, burned down the tents and
looted the victims before and after
their deaths."
SUCCESS FOR
IS ADMITTED
A.-*
*** iff
By Associated Press.
London, April 27.—Little Bel-
gium's army once more is in the
midst of a furious struggle. It is
reported to have repulsed three
successive attacks of the Germans
south of Dixmude, in the great bat-
tle now under way in Flanders.
A statement from the Belgian au-
thorities describes the activity yes-
terday along the whole section of
the front held by the Belgians.
London is speculating whether the
fierce German attack is an attempt
to force a way to the English Chan-
nel, or is a feint preparatory to
striking a blow at some other point
on the six hundred mile front. It
Is admitted the Germans already
have gained substantial success
the battle.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.)
Burglaries appear to be on the
Increase in Shawnee. Among the
more recent are two reported this
morning. Residences at 232 South
Lincoln and 600 North Chapman
were entered and valuables and
money taken.
A man reported to the police last ron river. There
night that he had been "short- and on the first
changed" out of $7 in a local room-
ing house.
VSkS \ BOUT F HI ENDS.
John F. Fries of Jasper County,
Mo., is visiting In Shawnee and was
at the News-Herald office this morn-
ing asking about Joe l)*Shazor and
Geo. Manning, old friends, from
whom he would like to receive
word. He understands that they are
in this locality somewhere.
PHIZK FISH STOKT.
Len Fox, formerly well known
local fisherman, tells the prize fish
story, and tells its for the truth.
At Guthrie, where he is working,
he loaned his throw lines to an
ex-policeman for use in tfio Clmar-
were 42 hooks,
working of the
lines the fisherman took off 43
fish,—there being one on each
hook, and two on one of them. The
next visit to the lines netted 37
more fish, making eighty in all.
BIRTHDAY DIN > KB.
Mrs. J. C. Shipley was honored
with a big birthday dinner Sunday,
given by her daughter, Mrs. Ander-
son on West Main.
Mrs. Shipley, who was eighty-
three years old, continues very ac-
tive and enjoys good health. About
fifty enjoyed 'this feast of good
things.
FINED *20 VNI> COSTS.
H. D. Lannom pleaded guilty in
the county court Monday, of dis-
turbing the peace, and was fined
$20 and costs. It is the same case
for which he was sued for dama?
by a woman, who was awarded a
verdict of $250.
THE HEADING ROOM.
FARMERS THE
LOWEST PAID
BUSINESS MEN
By Associated Press.
Muskogee, Okla., April 27.—The
farmer is the lowest paid business
man in the world and his crying
need is efficient organization on
the farm to encourage him to pro-
duce the best and to produce some-
thing all the time, according to
Charles Dillon, of Topeka, Kan.,
dltor of agricultural papers, who
addressed the Southern Commercial
Congress here today.
Mr. Dillon suggested that be-
cause of differences in effective or-
ganization a farmer in Denmark
gets 85 cents out of every dollar
the consumer pays for his produce,
while the American farmer gets
but 45 cents.
Thfe remedy, he said, was to modi-
fy the system of farming so as to
produce more livestock and rela-
tively less hay, grain and cotton
for the market, and to finish and
standardize the products on the
farm, instead of leaving the grad-
ing and refining of products to an
army of people in the cities.
Dr. Eggleston's Address.
Dr. J. D. Eggleston, president of
the Virginia Polytechnic Institute,
told the Congress that ninety-seven
out of every hundred school chil-
dren "go forth into life unable to
apply their so-called education to
the immediate problem of making a
living, the problem that lmmedi
ately confronts them."
"A purely academic course of
study—the kind wo now have—"
said the doctor, "causes the school
to become an active emigration bu-
reau and either depopulates the
community or keeps It at the least
at a stagnant standstill."
Year after year, he declared, edu-
cators with the assent of parents,
force children to go to school and
"acquire arithmetics and adenoids,
history and hobVworm, algebra and
astigmatism, cube root and con-
sumption, Caesar and spinal curva-
ture." •
The speaker said manual train-
ing could be started with "a boy,
a broom^iiidle and a knife" and
that popular co-operation with the
demonstration and extension work
now in the hands of the agricul-
tural colleges would make com-
munities "blossom like the rose."
He urged that every city, town
and village have school systems by
which young and old, men and
women, might not only learn to
read, write and figure, but to im-
prove and perfect themselves in
whatever line of work they choose
for a living.
Governor's Address.
Governor Williams, welcoming the
delegates in behalf of the state of
Oklahoma, said in part:
"To welcome to our doors an or-
ganization whose purpose is 'for a
greater nation through a greater
south' la a pleasure. The south
originally developed through the
power of slavery, in an industrial
sense, was paralyzed on account of
It. Other portions of our country,
on the contrary, were developed
through governmental favor. Fifty
years after the greatest fraticidal
conflict in history, the south offers
an inviting field for development.
This opportunity should be met
with a constructive grasp.
"That this organization should
meet within this new state is ap-
propriate. The great controversies
resulting in the civil war, historical-
ly and geographically, revolve
around this part of the Louisiana
purchase. The Missouri compromise
lino runs across this state, less than
100 miles to the north of us. In
I addition, the Five Civilized Tribes,
E
' ,SE
By Associated Press.
Oklahoma City, April Torren-
tial rains again brought tne streams
of western and southwestern Okla-
homa to flood stages.
There Is a ten foot rise of the
Washita river at Clinton and the
South Canadian at Geary is three
t higher than last week. No loss
of life is reported, but lowlands are
flooded.
The North Canadian fell two
inches between two o'clock Monday
afternoon and 11 o'clock today, and
is now stationary, though a consid-
erable rise is expected shortly.
The Bridgeport bridge of the Rock
Island over the South Canadian
was washed out yesterday, eleven
bents giving way.
The weather bureau says that the
North and South , Canadian rivers
will both rise, but any considerable
floods are not expected, as the rise
will be due to the local heavy rains.
RELATIONS OF
ROOSEVELT WITH
SEN. PLATT SHOWN
LATTER URGED EXEMPTION FOB
GRADE CROSSINGS, GOVERN.
OK SAIB "TOO LATE."
By Associated l'ress.
Syracuse, April 27.—A t#legram
in which former Senator Piatt urged
Roosevelt to sign a bill exempting
from franchise tax grade crossing*
of steam railroads and said that
"Our friends of the New York Cen-
tral and Senator Depew were
anxious," was read at the Barnes-
Roosevelt libel trial. In reply, the
colonel wrote Piatt he had received
the telegram "too late." ,
MUST LET FISH"
GET OVER THEOLO
MILL DAM FREELY
-FISH LADDER" MI ST BE BUILT,
OB DAH WILL BE BLOW* UP
WITH DYNAMITE.
The fish and game warden's of-
fice is said to have notified the
owners of the dam site northeast of
the city that the old mill dam must
be provided with a "fish ladder,"
to allow the fish to get over the
falls, within ten days, or the ar-
tificial part of the dam will be
blown up with dynamite.
In times of high water the fish
easily get over the dam, but in
many seasons there is not high
enough water during the migratory
season to let the fish over. This
is the reason for the action of the
fish and game warden, it is said.
NORTON'S TIME IS
REDUCED FROM
SEVEN TEARS TO
♦ WEATHER FORECAST. ♦
♦ New Orleans, April 27.— ♦
♦ Kor Oklahoma: Tonight and ♦
♦ Wednesday, unsettled.
tho Chorokees from North Carolina
Many people do not know that and Georgia, th. Crocks from Qe.ir-
thcri' Is maintained in our city a gla and Alabama, tho Semlnoles
fren reading room for young men. from Florida, the Choctaws from
This room located over Hodeck- i Alabama, and Mississippi, and the
er's bakery. Is one of the hand-, Chlckasaws from Mississippi, until
somest In the city, and is supplied recently exercised a limited goviirn-
wlth newspapers, other reading mat-jmental jurisdiction over a laree
tor games ;ind writing tables. i part of the territory embraced with- appropriation of the funds
The rooms opened each day In the bounds of this stale and now old American National Hank at
about noon. Is In eaarge of a younc comprise a large part of its citizen- Bartlesville, Okla., of which lie was
I. president. Norton will serve his
(CONTINUED ON POPE FPU It) ! term at Leavenworth penitentiary.
man, and
corned.
WAS CONVICTED OF MISAPPR0.
PKIATIVG Fl MIS OF N'A.
TIONAL link.
By U-oolnleil Press.
Washington, April 27.—The presi-
dent has commuted to a year aud
a day tho seven years sentence of
William L. Norton, convicted of mls-
of the
visitors are always
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