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WATSON AND WELCH
RESULT OF ELECTION
Easter Sunday, 1915, was probably
one of the most dreary Easters Mr.
and Mrs. A. P. Watson and family
ever experienced, for on Saturday by
a two-thirds vote of the Oklahoma
senate, he was pronounced guilty of
high crimes and misdemeanors and
removed from his high position as
member of the state board of corpor-
ation commissioners; a position he has
held since statehood and to which he
was re-elected at the last election for
a four years term. He was found
guilty by one vote over the two-
thirds on two charges, one of, having
borrowed §1000 from a Chickasha
cotton gin man, and the other of hav-
ing borrowed a like sum from John
Ringling, of the Ringling railroad—
both transactions smacking of corrup-
tion and malfeasance. The scenes in
the senate chamber when the vote
was taken were most distressing. The
aged defendant's white head went
down upon the table and the tears
coursed down his long flowing white
whiskers, while his daughter fainted
and had to be carried from the cham-
ber by her brothers. Much sympathy
is expressed for him; extravagance of
his family, it is thought, having
brought him to this dire predicament.
Although in receipt of $4,000 per an-
num for the past six years or more
he was chronically "hard up," bor-
rowing here, there and everywhere,
and leaves the office something like
§5,000 in debt with little to show for
it. He has been a familiar figure
about the Lee Huckins, his long white
whiskers and bushy head of long
white hair making him especially
noticeable. And he has been just as
good a corporation commissioner as
his associates on that board.
This (Monday) afternoon, the Sen-
ate takes us the impeachment case of
A. L. Welch, Insurance commissioner,
who lives at Purcell and was also re-
elected to a four year term last No-
vember. In some respects his case
resembles that of Watson, except that
he is charged with receiving money
direct for decisions involving insur-
ance companies. It is believed he, al-
so, will be found guilty and removed
from office.
It if said that it is remarkable how
merous state officials have "got
cy" lately, paying their obligations
ai.J taking up their notes, or arrang-
ing to do so. Many of them, it is de-
clared, are in a good deal the same
sort of a boat as Watson.
One result of elections yesterday in
the big cities was the tremendous vote
polled by the Republican candidates,
in some places surpassing even the
most sanguine hopes of the Republi-
can leaders. This was especially so
in St. Louis, where the entire Repub-
lican ticket was elected, and in Chi-
cago, where the Republican candidate
for Mayor had 130,000 or more ma-
jority. Political dopsters say it indi-
cates a sure return to national Re-
publicanism in 1916.
In Oklahoma City, Ed Overholsej-,
Republican, was elected mayor by a
majority of 327 over W. D. Gault, but
Mike Donnelly, Democrat, defeated
Bob Parman, Republican, for commis-
sioner of finance by 260 majority, and
Dr. J. G. Street, Democrat, was elect-
ed commissioner of public property
over H. G. Eastman, Republican and
ex-Postmaster, by a majority of 521.
Mr. Donnelly is an old Norman boy,
and a host of friends here rejoice in
his success.
P. P. Duffy was re-elected mayor of
El Reno over T. F. Hensley.
Frank Stearns is again mayor of
Shawnee, defeating Harry C. Myers,
Democrat, by 110.
Chickasha elected O. Kauffman,
Democrat, for mayor, by 452 majority
over A. Haight, Republican. The en-
tire Democratic ticket was elected.
At Anadarko, W. H. Castle was
i elected mayor by 102 majority, and
carried the most of the Republican
ticket with him.
NOTES OF INTEREST
One, two or three British or neutral
vessels per day is the toll being taken
by the German submarines these
days, but with very few exceptions
the vessels are small ones, and Eng-
land declares she can stand similar
losses indefinitely, for new vessels are
being launched every day. The sail-
ings from British ports yesterday
were something like 3,000 vessels, and
the submarines got but two, the Ford-
land, loaded with iron ore, and the
Agatha, a small fishing vessel.
—Wall paper at Lindsay's.
A fire destroyed the old Arlington,
a bootlegging joint just east of the
Lee-Huckins hotel, on Monday night
about 9 o'clock. It was a notorious re-
j sort for gambling, drinking and other
criminalities.
SO HOME CAN BE MADE AT-
TRACTIVE
Good taste and common sense in
judgment and selection of practical
things pertaining to household prob-
lems is the purpose for which the De-
partment of Domestic Art of the
University of Oklahoma is striving.
Suitable courses are offered by the
department which embrace costume
designing,' interior decorations of the
home, practical home planning and a
course in the appreciation of art. To
dress herself and her children attrac-
tively but economically and to make
her home comfortable and beautiful
may well be the part of a liberal edu-
cation for any woman. For this rea-
son the young ladies of the Universi-
ty of Oklahoma are taught that bril-
liant colors for grown-ups are an in-
dication of bad taste; that modest
tapestries harmonize most readily
with modest homes, etc. Various
types of dwellings from the most
primative to the most modern along
with the inside decorations for the
well appointment of the interior are
made the subject of special study by
the young ladies of the University.
One hundred and sixteen men, rang-
ing in prominence from Mayor down
to chambermaids in saloons, will re-
ceive sentences in the federal court
at Indianapolis today for corruption
in the Terre Haute, Ind., elections.
Headed by Don M. Roberts, the mayor
and boss of the city, a Democrat, they
carried things with a high hand.
After all, Amos Ewing will not be
a school land appraiser. The Attor-
ney General has given an opinion that
no member of a legislature can be ap-
pointed to an office he assisted in
creating. This lets out Ewing and
Carpenter, both of whom were mem-
bers of the late legislature that creat-
ed the offices.
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From Wednesday's Daily.
—Call for the new Jitney, we have
one for you. Rucker's.
—Rev. E. O. Whitwell was a visitor
to Oklahoma City today .
Said to Be Great Bitterness Between
Germans and Turks—German
Officers Leaving the
Country.
—Dr. D. R. Boyd has returned to
Albuquerque, leaving here Saturday.
—If you will see the new Jitney
pump at Rucker's you will buy it.
—Miss Hendrix, who was visiting
her sister, Mrs. Kahoe in this city, re-
turned today to her home in Hart,
Okla.
—Mr. and Mrs. N. II. Bowling and
pretty little daughter, Miss Maurine,
arrived from New York city today on
a visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
W. Bowling, and other relatives.
—Mr. and Mrs. Jess Carmon and
baby were up in their big Cadillac
last week from Pauls Valley visiting
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Car-
mon, of Route 4.
—J. D. Pierson returned from Hen-
nessey last night and tells us he has
sold his farm near Canute, Okla., for
$4,500. This is the land he secured
from G. I. Lee, and he feels he made
a good deal.
—Cut-out borders and new patterns
of paper at Lindsay's.
—Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Cornelius have
purchased the Mrs. Sajah E. Hedden
property on East Comanche, corner
South from the Geo. Giles home, and
will fix it up for a home. Aaron Mc-
Daniel made the trade. Considera-
tion, $1,750.
—The National Loan and Invest-
ment company is now on the market
for some gilt-edge loans in Norman.
See the local manager, C. M. Keiger.
—Plans are being made for a box
supper at the Falls school house for
the purpose of helping to get a new
organ for the church and Sunday
school. Everyone invited to come and
bring a box. Saturday night, April
10th.
-—Night Watch Mayes took in J.
E. Yates near the standpipe Monday
night about 10 o'clock. He was drunk
and had been bothering the residents
of that locality, one of his "stunts be-
ing to throw a bottle of whisky
through a window, scattering the
glass over a woman and child. Mayes
turned him over to the county, and
charges of house breaking will be
preferred against him.
—In county court yesterday Judge
Wolf disqualified himself to sit in
judgment in the case of the City of
Norman against Charlie Havill, be-
cause he had formerly been Havill's
attorney. Judge Gresham was chos-
en to try the case. Tom Mayfield,
representing Havill secured a contin-
uation of the case to the next term
owing to the absence of Dr. Mc-
Laughlin who wrote he had a number
of critical cases and could not come
to testify in Havill's behalf. Havill
claimed the doctor as a very material
witness, and Judge Gresham, taking
all the circumstances into considera-
tion, thought a continuation was jus-
tifiable. Havill's case was an appeal
from the city court which found him
guilty of intoxication.
BILLIE BURKE IN "JERRY"
In "The Amazon," one of the plays
in which Miss Billie Burke appeared
last season, she wore riding breeches
and a gymnasium costume; in "Jerry"
the comedy in which she will be seen
at the Overholser Theatre, Oklahoma
City, on Friday and Saturday, matinee
and night, April 9th nd 10th she wears
riding breeches and pink pajamas.
That is just one of the differences be-
tween the two plays. Of course, there
are others.
"The Amazon," for instance, was
English and twenty years old; "Jerry"
is American and up-to-the-minute—in
fact the heroine, whom Miss Burke
impersonates, is described as "a girl
an hour ahead of time." The pink pa-
jamas are only an incident in the
play, but a very striking incident—
something the audience remembers all
the way home and afterward. Miss
Burke also wears several pretty girl-
ish frocks that the women will re-
member even longer than the pajamas.
Catherine Chisholm Cushing, who
wrote "Kitty MacKay," is the author
of "Jerry." She wrote it expressly for
Miss Burke who has frequently ex-1
pressed a desire to play an American
girl on the stage—being an American
girl herself off the stage.
The scenes of the piece are laid in a
suburb of Philadelphia and the hero-
ine is a Chicago girl. How she cap-
tures a slow-going Philadelphian for
a husband by the swiftest sort of
methods provides the plot which is i
full of laughter provoking situations
while the dialog is of the very wittiest. J
The title role fits Miss Burke, they i
say, as well as her pajamas?—no, as
her riding breeches. Pajamas are not
intended to fit precisely.
A special cable from Constanza,
Roumania, to the Dallas News under
date of March 24th says:
"News from a reliable source in
Constantinople, reaching here today,
tells of a bitter struggle between the
peace party and the war party in the
Turkish capital.
"The former is composed of anti-
German officers of the army and
navy and those Turkish statesmen
who since the beginning of the con-
flict have never ceased to deplore
what they regard as the political
crime that permitted Turkey to be
used as a catspaw of Germany.
"The war party consists of the mil-
itant Young Turks, headed by Enver
Pasha and their German military ad-
visers. Enver is favorable to the
continuance of the war against the
allies.
"The peace party demand immedi-
ate capitulation, realizing how hope-
less is the struggle. So far as Turkey
is concerned, they argue that if Turk-
ey yields now the allies, and especial-
ly England, may be merciful and that
some of the dwindling Turkish Em-
pire may yet be saved from the
melting pot.
"So, while the allied fleet is pound-
ing the forts of the Dardanelles, the
rival political factions in the capital
are waging a sharp struggle for the
mastery. The feud may culminate in
revolution and bloodshed.
"The Military League, which gath-
ered under the banner of the foes of
Enver and his Committee of Union
and Progress, has been resuscitated
and its secret propaganda, which aims
at freeing Turkey at once from the
Geman and Y'oung Turk incubus, has
gained many adherents and split the
army in twain.
"There were stirring scenes at a re-
cent meeting of the Turkish cabinet,
when a majority believed it best to
sue for peace on best terms possible.
Gen. Liman Von Sanders, in command
of the German troops, heard what
was going on and rushed into the
meeting with a file of German sol-
diers, declaring he would arrest every
one of them and shoot any one who
offered to sue for peace. He bludg-
eoned the Government into submission
to his will, insisting on resistance so
long as the Dardanelles were not forc-
ed. He turned a deaf ear to the plead-
ings of the peace advocates that Turk-
ey had already made an honorable de-
fense and that it had already cost so
many Turkish lives and that the fall
of the Dardanelles was simply a ques-
tion of time, whether it takes place
tomorrow or two weeks hence.
"Many German officers, in view of
the threatening attitude of their
Turkish subordinates, are resigning
and leaving the country. Captain
Paul Enders, for two years on the
staff of the First Turkish Army, left
last week for Germany with his wife
and childen. He frankly stated that
the reign of German officers in Turk-
ey had ended, and that he feared mob
violence. Popular indignation against
Germans was growing so fast that he
felt concerned for the safety of his
wife and family, and he said he would
feel relieved when he found himself
on the other side of the Turkish fron-
tier. He added: "The Turks, both of-
ficers and men, have become brutally
insolent of late toward their German
instructors."
Who Stole the Ashleigli
Diamonds ?
Macdougal the
Butler is suspected;
Leonora the
maid is ac-
cused; there
is a mysteri-
ous murder.
Where
A suspect is seen with a Black Box. What is in it?
From London to East Africa, to New York City, to
California—mystery, intrigue, murder. Ghostly hands from
the unknown snatch a costly necklace from—where?
Who is the man ape? Ah! there's the secret—a deep,
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THIS NEWSPAPER
A LESSON IN THRIFT
CIVIC SIFTINGS
Some people'have a way of telling
their own story by the work that they
do. A home does not consist of a house
with four square corners, neither is it
the mansion tall that guides us back
to the spot where it stands. It is
"Home, Sweet Home" that fills our
heart and mind. It may be the gar-
den that mother kept; it may be the
flowers that she grew that calls us
back in dreams and wakeful hours.
Every home in Norman casts its shad-
ow upon the lives of some one in com-
ing years. What kind of a home shall
it be?
Over on West Main street lives our
village blacksmith, that pounds the
iron with golden glow, and Peter
Schader has a pretty home and loves
the flowers that grow around the open
door, and that reminds me of Long-
VUow's beautiful poem entitled "The
Village Blacksmith."
"And the children coming home from
school
Look in at the open door.
They love to see the flaming forge,
And hear the bellows roar,
And catch the burning sparks that fly
Like chaff from the threshing floor."
L. J. EDWARDS,
Chairman Civic Committee.
—"The Maccabees," the Order that's
right—Are you a Member?
—Notice: Parties who have mules
and horses on the Mercer place, three
miles northwest of Norman are noti-
fied by H. T. Barrett to take them off
at once as he has the land leased for
this year.
The thrifty German rendered even
more thrifty by the fear of food
i shortage because of the war, is even
j advocating the discontinuance of the
I practice of starching shirts, on the
1 ground that valuable food might be
I prepared from the starch that is now
j used in this way. An Associated
! Press message from Berlin says:
"The current issue of the Tageszeit-
ung urges male patriots to cease the
use of Boiled Shirt,' on the ground
| that the use of great quantities of
starch in laundering the stiff bosom-
ed shirt requires the conversion of a
considerable quantity of material that
might otherwise be used for food."
This is of course extreme, but on the
other hand, the United States still of-
fers perhaps the worst example of
reckless waste in all the world.
One of the Belgian delegates who
called on President Wilson recently
was greatly astonished at what he
saw in this country of the reckless use
of our opportunities. He said:
"On our ride to Chicago we saw
hundreds of miles of fertile lands
lying fallow. We saw orchards and
fields with ungathered products rot-
ting on the ground. We saw miles of
young trees being destroyed by fires
started by engine sparks and left to
burn unnoticed. Everywhere the farms
and residences were divided by wood-
en fences that contained enough lum-
ber to build the homes of an empire.
"The waste of America is not con-
fined to materials. Never can a
European believe the magnitude of
wasted labor in America unless he
visits the cities. Hundreds of thous-
ands of men, whose energy might be
applied to production, remain in en-
forced idleness.
"In the country wasted lands; in the
cities, wasted men. On the trees and
plants, ungathered food; in the cen-
ters of population, hungry people.
Those are the economic elements of
American life. Why do not the states-
men here address themselves to bring-
ing about an adjustment that will cure j
these evils?
"If any country in Europe had such
bounteous natural wealth, such limit-
less land area fit for cultivation, and
such unused labor energy, it would be
quickly transformed into prosperity
beyond dreams. Why in Belgium even
our dogs work. Every city lot is cul-
tivated and most of our garden truck
is raised on less ground that Ameri-
cans waste in unused back yards."
The United States should learn
| thrift and conservation of resources
now in times of peace and not wait for
the hardships of a great war to bring
the lesson home.—Dallas News.
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