The Norman Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 20, 1916 Page: 4 of 12
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THE NORMAN TRANSCRIPT
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1—In the fighting between the Russians and the Turks In the Trans-
caucaaus region the Turks claim the defeat of the Slav forces between
Lake Van and Lake Urumiah In Persia. 2—The Russian official state-
ment declares that attempts Qf Turks to resume the offensive In twc
regions broke down. In the region of Lake Toriiim In Persia Turkish
attacks were beaten back with heavy losses, while southeast of Hamadan
the BUltan'B troops were rebulsed and driven back Into the mountains.
WILLTALK ON PREPAREDNESS
PRESIDENT PLANS EXTENDED
SPEAKING TOUR.
BLOCKS VILLA'S LATEST AT-
TEMPT TO INVOLVE
UNITED STATES.
NO TRIAL FOR MURDERERS
Constitutionalists Pursuing Bandits
Who Captured and Assassi-
nated Seventeen
Americans.
Laredo, Texas.—Any citizen has a
right to shoot those bandits who par-
ticipated in the massacre of the Amer-
ican men at Cusihuiriachic last week,
according to an order issued by Gen-
eral Venustiano Carranza at Quere-
taro before the head of the de facto
government moved his headquarters to
Celaya.
The first chief said the bandits
would be followed by government
troops and that those participating in
the massacre were without the pale
of the law. The act of a citizen kill-
ing any of the participants would be
considered an act of patriotism, he
said.
"If the bandits should cross the
American border, I trust the American
authorities will capture them immedi-
ately and return them to Mexico for
execution," Carranza is quoted as say-
ing.
Rodriguez Captured.
El Paso.—A dispatch anouncing the
capture of General Jose Rodriguez was
given out by the Mexican consulate. It
indicates that Marquez, foreman of the
Babricora ranch, had joined the Car-
ranza army. General Jose Rodriguez
■was charged in first reports with re-
sponsibility for the massacre of the
Americans at Santa Ysabel. Reports
of Mexicans on the train, however,
charged General Reyna, Colonel Pablo
Lopez and General Beltran with the
•personal direction of the bandits.
Deductions from events in Chihua-
hua, wired by local representatives ti)
the state department are believed to
have stated that it appeared that Gen-
eral Villa iB personally back of any
organized campaign to wipe out Amer-
icans in Chihuahua state for the pur-
pose of revenge and-to bring interven-
tion.
DYNAMITER GETS LIFE TERM
Destroyer of Los Angeles Times Has
Until January 24 for Appeal.
Los Angeles.—Mathew A. Schmidt,
convicted of murder two weeks ago in
connection with the dynamiting of the
Times building five years ago, was
sentenced Wednesday to life imprison
ment in the San Quentin prison.
The case of David Caplan another
alleged accomplice of the McNamaras
also was deferred until January 24 to
tie set for trial.
Will Not Be Deterred In His Campaign
By Bryan and the
Pacifists.
Washington.—President Wilson Is
planning to assume personal leader-
ship in the fight for a stronger army
and navy. So many reports have
reached him of confusion over the
issue before congress and of the un-
certainty of the outcome that he has
determined not only to go before the
country in public addresses but to con-
fer further into the subejct with lead-
ers of the house and senate.
Representative Hay and Represen-
tative Padgett, chairman of the house
military and naval committees, have
informed Mr. Wilson that It will be
from six weeks to two months before
j the committees will be ready to report
j army and navy appropriation bills.
I While this work is going on he pro-
poses to do his utmost to solidify sen-
timent among the people and members
| of congress in favor of the plans drawn
j up by the war and navy departments.
Friends of the president represent
| him as being undeterred by the open
j opposition of Former Secretary of
State W. J. Bryan and other pacifists.
He is stld to be firmly of the opinion
that the program prepared by Secre-
taries Garrison and Daniels is the best
which can be offered at this time.
Plans for the speaking trips will be
prepared as quickly as possible. If
necessary the president may change
the White House social prograip
CAPITAL NEWS
SPECIAL SESSION OF THE LEGIS-
LATURE BEGINS THIRTY DAY8
OF HARD WORK.
OKLAHOMA CITY NEWS EVENTS
What the State Officials and Depart-
ments Are Doing—Items of In-
terest About the State
Gove-nment.
County Division Project Delayed.
j Final action by Governor Williams
| on the petition, asking that he call
j a special election to vote on the ques>
j Hon of detaching a portion of Creek
j county and adding it to Pawnee county
will not be taken until after adjourn-
ment of the forthcoming extra sessioe
of the legislature. Following a hear-
ing before, on the protest filed against
the petition, the governor allowed fif-
teen days in which attorneys are tc
file briefs and Btated that he would
be too busy with the legislature to
hold another hearing until after the
law-making body adjourns, "which
will not be more than twenty-five or
thirty days," the governor said.
In the meantime attorneys on both
sides will try to reach an agreement
whereby the law questions involved in
the controversy will be submitted on
an agreed statement of facts to the
supreme court for determination. The
governor agreed to this, saying he
Oklahoma City.—Formalities, pre-
liminaries and caucuses will occupy
:he attention of members of both
aranches of the legislature, which con- wouid waive jurisdiction, but he had
vened in extraordinary session Mon-1 KOme of tj,e attorneys expressed doubt
lay morning, for several days, accord- ag (0 whether the supreme court would
,ng to practically complete plans assume jurisdiction, even though the
*HTeed upon by legislative leaders. { governor waived his jurisdiction.
The actual work of the session, in-1 If the supreme court will assume
eluding the introduction of bills, will jurisdiction it probably will pave the
not be reached probably until next; way f°r an early adjudication of the
No bills, it is understood, will question.
week
be presented until after reeeipt of the
governor's message.
Deaths have occurred in the mem-
The land proposed to be detached
from Creek county is a portion of that
out of which it is proposed to create
| the new county of .Shaffer. Shortly
bershlp of both the senate and the j after this petition was filed a counter
nours since the last regular session.; petition was presented to the gover-
Those who died are Senator A. C. Bee- j nor, asking the calling of an election
man of Cherokee and Representative j to vote on the question of Shaffer coun-
ts. O. McCance of Woodward. Both'ty. The hearing was on the original
houses met, transacted no business I request to vote on the detachment of
and adjourned for a short period out I " Portion of Creek coullty and add 11 t0
af respect to the memory of their •ihjad ' awnee county-
members. The adjournment was pre-j 11 waa found thRt a number of those
who signed the original petition latei
:eded by the adoption of resolutons
lof respect.
Both houses were called to order by
'.heir presiding officers at 9 o'clock
Monday morning, whicn was the time
specified for the convening of the ses-
sion by the governor in his call. The
senate came to order on the call of
Lieutenant Governor Ed Trapp and
the house was called to order by
Speaker A. McCrory of Rngling, Jeffer-
son county.
ANOTHER SUBMARINE DISASTER
U. S. Vessel Blows Up While In Dry
Dock at New York.
New York.—Four men were killed
and ten others injured, five of them
dangerously, in an explosion which oc-
curred on the submarine E-2 while
I the craft was undergoing repairs in
j dry dock at the New York navy yard.
! One of the men killed was an enlisted
| electrician and the other three civilian
' workers. At least three of the ten
j now in hospitals are not expected to
live.
| Although the detonation was terrific
j inside the submarine, the outside
i shows none of the effects of the ex-
I plosion, the second fatal accident of
its kind in the history of the United
States navj'. The apparatus was badly
shattered but so tight was the vessel's
shell that there was no means of es-
J cape for gas which accumulated and
| it was more than an hour after the
blast before the work of recovering
| the bodies could be completed,
i What caused the explosion has not
' been definitely decided.
Ford Peace Party Still Scrapping.
The Hague—While preparing for the
proposed departure to Stockholm,
where it is intended to begin Sessions
in an attempt to bring about the termi-
nation of the war, the Ford permanent
peace board was threatened with dis-
ruption by the refusal of all the mem-
bers to proceed on the trip to Stock-
holm. Of the five American members
of the board only Dr. Charles F. Aked
has announced bis willingness to go
to Stockholm. Mrs. Joseph Fels says
she Is going to England on business.
Travel Costs More; Interstate Rate Up
If a man wanted to buy a ticket from
Oklahoma City to Kansas City last
Saturday morning he could get it for
$8.55, but if he waited until one or
more minutes past 12 he had to pay
$1.10 more, or $9.65. And the higher
rate is here to stay, because the in-
terstate commission ruled on Decem-
ber 7 that railroad rates from points in
Oklahoma to Kansas, Missouri, Ten-
nessee and almost every state west of
the Mississippi might be advanced on
January 15.
Rates from ©klahojna to Texas and
from Oklahoma to Arkansas are not
affected by the commission's order.
Every railroad In Oklahoma City ex-
cept the Fort Smith & Western had
the new interstate rates posted Satur-
day.
The new rate to Memphis is $2.74
higher than the old, to St Louis 85
cents higher, to Wichita 43 cents
higher, to Chicago $1.80 higher and to
Joplin, Mo., 52 cents higher.
By the shortest route Kansas City is
844 miles from Oklahoma City. On
that basis the $9.65 is nearly 3 cents a
mile.
Twelve Pass Pharmacy Examination.
Twelve out of a class of twenty-nine
who took the examination before the
state pharmacy board for certificates
as registered pharmacists passed the
examination according to the list of
successful applicants made public by
Walter R. Jarrett, secretary of the
board. The board was in session near
asked to have their names withdrawn
and signed the counter petition, ask
ing for the creation of Shaffer county
The hearing was devoted largely to
the question of whether the signers ol
the original petition had this right. It
all who desire to are permitted to with'
draw names, it is said, it will leave
fewer signatures on the original peti
tion than are required by law. This
is one of the questions of law to be
determined. Other questions raised b>
the protestants have to do with the
form of the petition and procedure in
cident to its circulation.
WIRT. OIL 101
!,00 PERSONS ARE DEPRIVED OF
SHELTER; EXPLOSION
STARTS FIRE.
DRUNKEN MEN ADD TERROR
Tax Returns Are Now Being Made.
Returns on the personal income tax,
the emergency or war tax and the cor
poration tax which is collected in Okla
homa by Hubert L. Bolen, collector oi
internal revenue, are coming in nicely
according to Mr. Bolen. Clerks who
have been working overtime mailing
out return cards completed their work.
The corporation tax Is about twice
that of the personal income tax in Ok
lahoma according to figures for last
year. The corporation tax in 191E
amounted to $273,203.26, while the in
come tax from individuals amounted
to $133,(>85.76. The total federal ta>
collection in this state in 1915 amount
ed to $728,040.61. The total tax froir
the sale of adhesive stamps for all
legal papers, perfumery, drugs, etc.
amounted to $197,688.13. The war, oi
emergency tax, exclusive of the
amounted to $53,021.11. The balance
of the grand total of federal tax was
made up by licenses from retail liquoi
dealers, stamps on tobacco, cigarettes,
playing cards, etc.
Over a Million In Depositories.
A total of $1,073,714.77 was in the
official state depository at the close oi
the last calendar year on December
31, according to a report compiled by
State Treasurer W. L. Alexander.
The official depository, created by
an act of the fifth legislature in reg
ular session last January, became op-
erative about six months ago. The
money in the depository is distributed
Shooting Occurs While the Flames De-
vour Buildings; Total Loss
Will Probably Reach
$90,000.
Wirt.—What there was of the busi-
ness section of Wirt, familiarly known
in oil circles at Ragtown, has been al-
most entirely destroyed by flames.
Six blocks of stories, hotels, rooming
houses and nondescript places of busi-
ness are in ruins.
Over the ruins burning oil pools
spread sheets of light that depicted in
the background gaunt stricken faces
and shivering forms of 1,200 men,
women and children, who went supper-
less and with scant covering, faced the
bitter cold of the night. In a little
pressing establishment at 11 o'clock in
the morning a gasoline explosion set
the town on fire. The conflagration
spread unchecked and unhindered.
The loss is estimated at $90,000. The
building loss alone is half that. All
buildings were of frame construction
and arranged along a narrow street for
a distance of three blocks. The build-
ings succumbed to mad flames fanned
by a north wind while furious men
sought to disgorge them of their con-
tents.
Disorder Grows.
The streets and alleys are a conglom
erate mass of merchandise and per-
sonal property. Disorder grew as the
flames spread. Fighting men despaired
of efforts to save the town. Hard-
faced men worked and cursed and
drank liquor. One man was shot dul
ing the fire. Officers rushed to the
scene from Ardmore, Wilson and Ring-
ling. Among the officers were William
Grace, special enforcement officer,
who had been assigned to the oil field;
Deputy United States Marshal High-
night of Ardmore and Sheriff James
Bilfle of Waurika.
Dr. T. F. Brewer of Ringling placed
an order in Ardmore for 501) tents and
1,000 loaves of bread.
Scores have gone to Ringling for
food and shelter. A few eating houses
are left but the small cottages are not
equal to housing 1,000 homeless peo-
ple.
The telephone office was among the
buildings destroyed and wire connec-
tion has been severed.
The state conservation office occu-
pied by A. L. Walker was burned.
Armed men are guarding their goods
in the alleys.
The principal losses were sustained
by the Wirt Oil Company; the Fager-
quist Hardware Company; C. A. Wil-
liams, general merchandise; the Said
Dry Goods Company; C. H. McDonald;
the Dr. Muller drug store; the World
theater and the Jennings theater.
BEALL AND GUINN ARE PARDONED
Blaine County Election Officials Had
No Criminal Intent.
y three days It was stated by' Mr. ln x iarge number 0( bankg throughout
Jarrett that the board is now well o*- the statP anJ drawR thre(? cen(
ganized and that its work is progres- lntoregt whjch ad(]ed tQ h
sing along lines which will accomplish
a great deal. General compliance, he
says, is being made by stores all over
the state with the state pharmacy law,
due to the activity of the present
board.
The successful applicants in the ex-
amination were: Henley V. Bayne, Ok-
lahoma City; Harry R. Brown, Nor-
man; David C. Butler, Lenora, Kan.;
G. D. Doyle, Campbell, Neb.; M. A.
Ennis, Sapulpa; S. B. Helms, Fort Tow-
son; S. C. Lee, Grant City, Mo.; J. B.
Matthews, Walter; Roy I. Preston, Ho-
bart; J. O. Reiter, Byron; Wm. H.
Scudder, Chelsea, and C. H. Stilwell,
I Hinton.
| $1,124,910.15 to Run State Quarter.
It cost $1,124,910.15 to maintain the
Btate government and the various state
! institutions, including expenditures in
new buildings and equipment, during
the last quarter of the fiscal year. Dur-
ing the preceding quarter a total of
$1,085,441.82 was spent. The increase
is due, the report shows, to payments
on the state capitol, other new build-
ings and improvements of did ones.
The slate departments were conducted
during the last quarter $62,259.82
cheaper than the preceding quarter.
Reward Offered For Bushwhacker.
Governor Williams issued a procla-
mation offering on behalf of the state
a reward of $200 for the arrest of the
I person who attempted to assassinate
j County Attorney A. L. Bullock of Pon-
totoc county on the morning of Jaiiu-
I ary 4. The attempt to take Bullock's
life is believed to tfc a part of a series
of depredations committed against
Pontotoc county officials by persons
who were displeased with the stand
taken by the officials in tick eradica-
tion work in that county.
The deposits are protected by se-
curities given Mr. Alexander by tne
banks, amounting to $1,248,489.94.
At the close of the year there was a
total of $2,212,807.26 on hand in the
fund of the commissioners of the land
office and $293,953.45 in the permanent
common school fund, making a total
of $2,506,730.71, according to figures
given in another report of Mr. Alex-
ander.
Compensation Granted Mill Worker.
The state industrial commission
awarded Charles D. Gunn compensa
tion at the rate of $10 a week for thirty-
five weeks for the loss of a finger in a
small planing mill at El Reno where
he was employe*!. Gunn lost his finger
on a planer and his employer objected
to payment of compensation, setting
up the claim that Gunn did not make
use of safety appliances attached to
the machinery. The commission, hi
an opinion by Chairman A. A. Mc-
Donald, held that the safety appli-
ances were not up to regulation of the
state labor depertment for the reason
that they were stationary instead of
automatic, and that Gunn was entitled
to the compensation.
State Department Receipts $72,000.
Secretary of State Lyon in his report
shows that the total receipts of his
office aggregated $72,295.77, as com-
pared with $62,256.11 for 1914, showing
a sain for the year 1915 of $9,037. The
items of the 1915 report are: Charters
issued, $61,023.64; notarial commis-
sions, $3,974; certified copies, $731.30;
requisition fees, $347.50; seals, $1,331;
recording, $1,519; appointment of
agents, $188; codos, $2,542.55; trade-
marks, $34; executive commissions,
$81; bonds filed, $473; interest on de-
posits $48.78.
Washington.—Frank Guinn and J. J.
Beall, two Oklahoma farmers who as
election officials were convicted in the
federal courts of intimidating negroes
and preventing them from voting un-
der the grandfather clause of the Okla-
homa constitution were pardoned by
President Wilson.
Just after the supreme court held
the grandfather clause unconstitu-
tional President Wilson granted the
two men a respite which would have
xplred February 6. The pardons were
said to be based on the assumption
that state officials evidently held the
grandfather clause valid and the two
election offlciajs in enforcing it acted
in good faith.
Official nonce will be given the dis-
trict attorney to note on the record of
the district court tbe action of the
president and pardon warrants will be
issued immediately to the convicted
men. The findings of the attorney
general are that the record shows no
criminal intent on the part of the elec-
tion officers. They served in their first
election under the grandfather clause.
Glass of Hot Water
Before Breakfast
a Splendid Habit
Open sluices of the system each
morning and wash away the
poisonous, stagnant matter.
Those of us who are accustomed to
feel dull and heavy when we arise;
splitting headache, stufTy from a cold,
foul tongue, nasty breath, acid stom-
ach, lame back, can, Instead, both
look and feel as fresh as a daisy always
by washing tbe poisons and toxins
from the body with phosphated hot
water each morning.
We should drink, before breakfast,
a glass of real hot water with a tea-
spoonful of limestone phosphate in
it to flush from the stomach, liver,
kidneys and ten yards of bowels the
previous day's indigestible waste, sour
bile and poisonous toxins; thus cleans-
ing, sweetening and purifying the en-
tire alimentary canal before putting
more food Into the Btomach.
The action of limestone phosphate
and hot water on an empty stomach
is wonderfully invigorating. It cleans
out all the sour fermentations, gases,
waste and acidity and gives one a
splendid appetite for breakfast and it
is said to be but a little while until
the roses begin to appear ln the
cheeks. A quarter pound of lime-
stone phosphate will coBt very little at
your druggist or from the store, but
Is sufficient to make anyone who is
bothered with biliousness, constipa-
tion, stomach trouble or rheumatism
a real enthusiast on the subject of In-
ternal sanitation. Try it and you are
assured that you will look better and
feel better In every way shortly.—
Adv.
If a man was hurt every time he l
scared he would never live to reach
three score and ten.
IS
EVEB, SKII
Look, Mother! If tongue it
coated, give "California
Syrup of Figs."
Children love this "fruit laxative,"
and nothing else cleanses the tender
stomach, liver and bowels so nicely.
A child simply will not stop playing
to empty the bowels, and the result ii
they become tightly clogged with
waste, liver gets sluggish, stomach
■ours, then your little one becomes
crosB, half-sick, feverish, don't eat,
sleep or act naturally, breath is bad,
■ystem full of cold, has sore throat,
stomach-ache or diarrhoea. Listen,
Mother! See if tongue is coated, then
give a teaspoonful of "California
Syrup of Pigs," and in a few hours all
the constipated waste, sour bile anil
undigested food passes out of the sys-
tem, and you have a well child again.
Millions of mothers give "California
Syrup of Figs" because it is perfectly
harmless; children love it, and It nev-
er fails to act on the stomach, liver
and bowels,
Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle
of "California Syrup of Figs," which
has full directions for bableB, children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
printed on the bottle. Adv.
His Natural Tendency.
"Dobbins, the big promoter, Is going
to spend tbe summer vacation at Gi-
braltar."
"I thought he couldn't be easy, even
in his rest, away from some big bluff."
SALTS IF BACKACHY OR
KIDNEYS TROUBLE YOU
Carranza Blamed.
Washington.—Evidence collected at
EI Paso by state department agents in-
dicates that Carranza authorities at
Chihuahua assured C. P. Watson, head
of the party of Americans killed near
Santa Ysabel, that no escort was
necessary. In that opinion, many of
the Americans agreed, although they
had suggested to the authorities ad-
visability of sending troops with the
party. The advices further stated that,
the Carranza immigration authorities
in Jaurez gave a general passport for
the whole Watson party.
Gore Proposes Neutral Zone.
Washington.—Establishment of a
neutral zone in northern Mexico to be
policed jointly by the governments of
Mexico and the United States, unless
Mexican disorder is speedily con-
trolled, is proposed in a resolution in-
troduced by Senator Gore. It would
authorize the president to enter into
an agreement with General Carranza
to use troops to restore order and make
life secure in that portion of Mexico
adjacent to the United States.
Eat Less Meat If Your Kidneys Aren't
Acting Right or If Back Hurts or
Bladder Bothers You.
When you -wake up with backaohi
and dull misery In the kidney region
it generally means you have been eat-
ing too much meat, says a well-known
authority. Meat forms uric acid which
overworks the kidneys in their effort
to filter It from the blood and they be-
come sort of paralyzed and loggy.
When your kidneys get sluggish and
clog you must relieve them like you
relieve your bowels; removing all the
body's urinous waste, else you have
backache, sick headache, dizzy spells;
your stomach sours, tongue is coated,
and when the weather is bad you have
rheumatic twinges. The urine is
cloudy, full of sediment, channels oft-
en get sore, water scalds and you are
obliged to seek relief two or three
times during the night.
Either consult a good, reliable physi-
cian at onco or get from your pharma-
cist about four ounces of Jad Salts;
take a tablespoonful in a glass of
water before breakfast for a few days
and your kidneys will then act fine.
This famous salts is made from the
acid of grapes and lemon juice, com-
bined with lithia, and has been used
fdr generations to clean and stimulate
sluggish kidneys, also to neutralize
acids la the urine so it no longer irri-
tates, thus ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts Is a life saver for regular
meat, eaters. It Is inexpensive, cannot
injure and makes a delightful, effer-
vescent lithia-water drink.—Adv.
No Boss.
He—You always seem so self-pos-
sessed.
She—Yes; I don't believe ln getting
married.
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