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VOL. I—NO. 18.
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mileywllf. oxiA.. wim august i m.
FR1CE: ONC DOLLAR PER YEAR
( . oven to one. : :l proper-ill' lo i~,,v n _ _
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lii C.y electors at the polls. Tho I
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THREE BANKS ARC ROBBED
Holdup Men Vic!t Wheatland, Miller,
ton and Jenks.
Oklahoma C
Moro than fitly
shorts were fired during a running run
battie near Alsuma on tIio Broken Ar-
ji)\ - i uh-si ^highway between possemen
.* nd (ho lour bandits who hold up and
robbed the Hank oi Jenks, at Jenks,
twelve milo:; sou lb oi Tulsa, escaping
v .ib ail oi the bank's available funds;
According lo the story told by Ii. Ii.
Johnson, cashier, the automobile
slopped in I '-onI oi' the bank, thm
driver remaining in his seat, while tho
oilier three men entered the bank and
pulling revolver, ordered himself and
I'. I.. Johnson, bookke -per, lo hold up
their hands, while one oi the bandits
'.■•pi Ihcu covered the other two de-
ilibeialeij ran« K ked .he vault, taking
(between $3,000 and
falling o! darkiie ■
hope that the ollic
.capturing the bandit will be dispelled
it is likely ti- men will continue or
jillto the Osage hill
lind it a comparatively easy mattei
avoid detection.
I he Millerton Stale Hank was
robbed ol' $2,600. President H. K,
Kubb and Cashier flurrow Powell
were counting up the
when t lie bandits walk
lahoma
I lost deci lie vote on tiie a men linen's
was that defeating I he propo :,l to
l ive the city eommi sion: rs power to
levy a maximum lax of 21,(. cent." a
iquare yard on ail street paving al-
ready laid or to be laid in the future.
Large tnrollment n Summer Schools.
Oklahoma City, (enrollment in llio
rl summer schools belli.- conducted at
liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuniiiiiiuiuii^ Slatc unlv. .. A ieJcoa.:
lege Mid I he various normal schools
is a little above S.009, recti:dins to
retorts received by Slats Superin-
tendent It. II. Wilson f on the head?
o! the \arious institutions. The c-n-
• oilment at each of the scliools 1- as
follows: Cniversity. 1,5! A. and M.,
r75; Central Normal, 1,020; Fast Cm-
I nil Normal, 900; Southwestern Nav-
ina!, !,;-..'!ii; Northeastern Normal,'KHZ;
Northw. :en, 5S9; Phillips, 150.
THE HEm OF SEVEN
DAV3 AH LANDS
PEA03 KOT.GS.
-lilhough t' e question of Thrace was
t r.s'1 !i . ire t.-<> supreme coum 11 thero
f-: ic.ic! little |.l'ospc? l of an linniodi-
i.te cattlemeat i agardtag inu hounds,-
rit c-r Bulgari i i.i (his region. becr.u •
of the ue rrtainty that e^i. ts as to th
Pcriti' a if tho ra -n-Kites lor ti;
Ii \eriur.cat of terri'oriea in the No..
East.
SMTEWiSS BREVITIES
1.000. With ilnj was announced
J. W. Bridges, formerly In the fed-
eral government seivice as field man
in the war garden propaganda, has
been named supervisor of agricultural
work by the state board of vocational
education and training. Appointment
ot Miss Mabel Pol lei* of Texas, as
supervisor of home economics also
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The ali-lHr oian government of Ad; I
rnira! Kolchak is preparing to niuvo
from Omsk to Irkutsk, Siberia, and the j
i :sra!e of th-' Kolchak army is h-jcom-[
ing so bad that tllere is little hope j
Oi it regaining tho territory recently!
lost, to the Boiu'isvild, according to dis-
patches rccoived in Paris.
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I lie Russian political commission in
i aris has advised the peace confer,
race commission, wJRch is considering
disposing of the Stdtr.enbergen arehi
I olago which lies in 'i e Artie Ocean
between Franz -Josef I.and and Green,
land, that the Russia;.s are willing i^
have Spitzbergen given to Norway.
In ihis ;:on.- ihey searched every per-
ron whom they met for weapons. No
cue could pass in or out without mi.i-
tary permission.
DOMESTIC.
W iia his Curtiss triplano bucking a
100mile wind in a temperature 2", de-
grees boiuw zero, lJolan Rolilfs ( Umbe l
"11,700 feci at Mineola, N. V„ the other
day, siiattering all American altitude
leeord.
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Oovernment t-antrol of telegraph
i r.nd telephone properties has ended.
1 Orders fop tiner return to private
owners were issued by Postmaster
j General Burleson as required under
a resolution adopted by congress and
, signed by President Wilson ten days
i ago.
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Shoes sold in the spring will bring
' higher prices than those now pro-
vailing but relief may be expected la to
1 in 1920, according to a statement i-
sued by the National Hoot and She?
Manufacturers' Association.
The (.ernianv National Assen >lv at
Weimar has approved the new (i, nnan
constitution by a \ote of 262 to 7T..
Konstantin l'ehrenbaeh, president of
the assembly, formally declared the
constitution adopted.
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All American soldiers excepting
: hent eight thousand who will remain
on the t'.hino indefinitely will lie out
of Oerman. by August 20, according
t > the latest instructions from general
headqu; i'e;s which aie being carried
rut by i !n> officer, oi' the Coblcnx area.
believed any
.lay have of
will
to
The state Sank guaranty fund is in
better shape al present than for
year, according to a report oi the
condition of the fund made by the
state banking department. The vo- !
port shows a cash balance of .*97,000 I
villi not a single outstanding vat rani.
This is the first time this condition j
has existed in the fund since it re !
celved the severe jolt following the
day's receipt^ Columbia Trust Cor.!pair lailun irne
1 in, lining tho years ago.
laea up again.-,! the wall. Alter secur- ' Despite the holding of the Okla-
nim the money, the men escaped ou homa supreme courl in the Chickasha
"V,,'!'s" , . , , , i case that only the capital stock of a
I lie third bank robbed th.- same bank that is invested in the real cs-
^•"land, in Oklahoma! late it occupies and the amount in
coun.y i/iiere S2 Son was secured vested in state public building bonds
I "in ihe Harni' i s State Hank. is exempt from taxation, many dis-
Desplte the stimulus of a $1,00(1 re- trict judges over the stale a-e' hold-
A decree appeared in tho Pronea
Official Journal givng effect to the
I plan of Joseph J. I!. K. N'oulens. the
| new minister of previsions, fixing
! prices for current articles of food and
I drink. A commission is to be ap-
pointed in each department to make
list of normal prices each week.
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General Uenikine, the iiusslan com-
mander, has gained an im • rtant vic-
tory over the Bolshevik! and captured
With quiet restored to tlu race riot 1,10 t< \vn of Kamishin, on the Volga.
ro"e ia Chicago and investigations j 1'ivn thousand Bc-lsheviki, nine guns
into the causes of the outbreak he- ■'11,1 Inrgo quantities of muUrisl were
tween the whites and negroes \.-e!l un- ' also taken.
der way, attention <>f state and city '1-
olliclal i is now centered on seeking a I 1'>0 recent Biitisli Vi-tory loan
'•j oliition of the racial problem and tlio ! subscriptions amounted to 767,800,000
1 devising oi a plan to provent such di--' pounds, ii was announced recently in
I the house of commons, by J. Austen
j Cliamhorlain, chancellor of the ex-
1 i hequer.
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Plans for div's'on of the territory
formerly ceiaprisins German Kast Af-
rbancos.
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Milling properties near Nave, in tho
Couer d'Alene section of Idaho, were
threatened b, firest flies reeentlv.
Juiei s i
the mint
i the district were called from
l.o light the flames that were
ward offered bj the slate through a
proclamation issued by Governor Hob-
e (son for the apprehension, dead or
alive, of the robbers who robbed the
,bank at Wheatland, Millerton am?
nk.. none ol tlu.' bandits have been
c.otuied.
I he iew.ird i- oliercd foi- each ban-
dit killed or convicted.
BROTHER'S DEATH SECRET
The Amerioen pr::'--> ronfcrenca
delegation is not repreccnted in tin)
negotiations which Allied officials iro
conducting at Budapest with a\io-.v to i u .. .
iiio o -t-hi,- b«eepi,ig through the tnube
uie ebtiiDlionment cf a new ^overi^,
meut in Hnrgary. A '1' +
,i. ri et ial treaty with Prance,
The peace treaty with German, ha* j j',™"American aid to
be presented to the foreign nffair'Unr,rmS .T repe lng any
c-omnnttee of the Polish assembly by Atd *iU"' by (,firman-v-
i'rond.-r C;.d'>rev.ski, 'i;h a recony
nendation tor it; ratiS^ation, a War-
saw dispatch announces. In present-
• ■ig the decuaie-it, the premier loM
H e c linnittce that Poland should bo
happy over the terms it contains.
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A disposition in Franco to delay
final action on ratification cf the Ger-
man peace treaty until the United
Britton Boy
Killed
Tryin-| To Evade Draft
At Kiowa in 1917.
Kiowa. Although being a witness
lo the killing of his brother in a fight
.here more than two years ago. James
W. Klsinger. of Britton, had kept tho
secret from his father until this week,
according lo M. Kisinper, Ihe father,
who came here to aid in the prosecu-
tion ol the supposed murderers.
The two brothers left home in 1917
in order that I ho younger boy might
evade the draft, according lo Mr. Kls-
inger, and traveled through tho coun-
try in a wagon. The jouir or brother,
Joseph, 18 years old, was killed on
September 13 in a light with W.
Sliouse and O. J. Denny, farmers near
here, according to the account of the
older brother. At this time they were
going under assumed names an I did
not claim any relationship. The old-
er brother returned home and was lat-
er drafted into the army lie did not
tell the father of the death of the
younger boy.
ing that Ihe position of (he capital
stock of banks that is invested in lib-
erty bonds is non taxable, according
general's department.
s". M. Smith, c rvicied in the dis-
191-1 on a charge of murder and sen-
tenced to thirty years imprisonment
in tho p- nitentiary, was paroled by
Governor Robertson. Smith was con-
victed of the murder of Bessie Brown.
Smith had lived with her for number
of years during.which time he lost his bei>
fortune amounting lo $25,000. Then ers.
ho decided to return to his wife and
family. The woman warned him thai
e'ul first time she saw him in company
with his wife or family she would kiij
him. When tiiev m t on tlie streetel
of Muskogee, Smith shot her.
COTTON IN GOOD CO.MDITiON
Growing Condition Or, July 23th
Figured at 75 Per Cent.
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SHOOTING.
Ardmore Man
FOLLOWS ROW
Is Dying and Neighbor
Is Held.
Ardmore. Following an altercation
which started from -tho ownership of
"breachy" catlle, Ira Caldwell, a weal-
thy farmer, 50 years old, shot and
probably fatally wounded ^William
Ainsworth, 35 years old, a neighbor.
Caldwell and Ainsworth had previous-
ly quarreled over I his matter, and
meeting near l.one Grove, ten miles
west of Ardmore, the quarrel was re-
newed.
' After a short exchange of bitter
epithets Caldwell drew a pistol and'
Fliot Ainsworth five times.
The wounded man was hurried to
tin Ardmore hospital where his eondi-
I ion is considered serious. Caldwell
Is held without bail pending the re-
sult of Ainsworth's wounds. Both
men have J'ainilies.
Oklahoma City Kills Bends.
llklfhow. (''■"• ■ B" liS£ '1. c:.i- s
Oklahoma City. The cotton crop in
Oklahoma shows i nine material im- j
provcmenl during the pa..t month, ac-j
< ordinr to 11]:; r ;,o t is sued jointly by ,
the l"rii< -I 8.ales department of ngri-
cultuic and tho stale board of agrieul j
tun. showing Ihe giowing condition
oi the crop to be 73 on July 25, as
compared with til per ccnl., June 25. '
r.nd 05 per cent, en May 25. On the
ha.* of the estimated planted acre-
age, 2.15(1,000, Ihe condition figure of
75 per cent, deteimined from all avail-
rble sources of in formal Ion forecasts |
;• crop of approximately 771,000 equiv- I
■-.lent 500 pound bales. Th.- total 1910 j
production will be above or below this j
forecast according as weather condi- I
lions, rainfall, insect damage and I
Other growing conditions remain favor-
able or unfavorable.
The crop as a whole si ill continues
.Hales senate ac! on Ihe Franco-Amer-
ican military treaty was indicated bv
those in touch with the situation to
represent the majority view of the
chamber of deputies' peace treaty
committee.
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The inter allied supreme reuti'-il has
decided to appoint a permanent com-
mission to co-ordinate and interpret
the German peace treaty. The com-
mission will be composed of five meiii-
lc-|ucscntiiig the five great pow-
The coinmiss on will have its
headquarters in Paris but is enn ow-
ered to convene e' -ewhere if neces-
sary. It will sit after ratification of
the treaty.
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Austria has been granted seven >id
ditional days for consideration of tho
peace terms. August G, will be the
final day on wi ah the Austria repr«'
sentati'.e: may tubr-ii! inquiries. T'li.-t
'•so decided upon by the supremo
council recently.
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WASHINGTON.
The peak p ant, in the high cost of
iixing agitation, which has been surg-
ing in on tho Nation's capital for days,
was reached with lira antic and impell-
ing force v>h"'i I'r -.id nt Wilscji sen'
a hasly summons to the House cf Rep-,
rr ■rnteiives, which intended to ad-
jcuru for a month's rcrees, to ror^r.in
in session and cc sider new an;l ex-
tremely important legl-eation he had
to present.
has l.c a sent to i -s senate by Prcsi-
| dent Wilson. In hi ; message urging
| pr.imt- e -i "t-inporafy auppleiueni"
to the treat;, villi Germany and the
j league cf nations covenant.
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Uoy Ems: :,; n of Crouton, la., re-
j centiv ccn ieti ■! of murdering his
mother, escaped tecently from guards
who were taking him to the Ringgold
j ( ounty jail at. Mount Ayr, and com
rica include gi.iug Belgium a mandate
for (lie liuanda and Fiuudl districts,
recording to a telegram from Brussels.
The balance of the former German
colony, it is dec h i ed, will be under
British control.
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I-rank D. Poll., ihe American un-
der-lecrctary of state, wlip will take
the place ; f ,*>?u. t:,r> Lansing at the
peai e coin.*. ..cc. lia.i anived in Paris.
I'oii; '..ill attend the meetings of
the council of five.
milted suicide by bunging himself un
d(
i:oat
highway bridge,
for a rope.
He used his
Fitter:
ployees
v. ages i
i tlious:
went .
2' all,.
nd street rail
n strike for
' o.rn'tleh
the surfac" and
1 liicayo. The «-
tenii t t-i run
pended on steam
other vehicles to
business.
ay em-
higher
tying up
s ems • f
-va ted
-.life ma Is no at-
an i v, or'.ers de-
* !v. ii, s, motors and
ch their places of
eOUTIIWEOT.
.Slreet ear senise vhich was re-
sumed in Muskogee, Okla., on July 17
following ,« strike lasting seven week*!
• as again discontinued when the car-
i ion declared a naw strike. Failure of
the company to observo seniority rights
rs provided in a < ontract formulated
recent I: I,- an arbltra i.ic.i board is giv-
en as the re s-n.
MATION WiDE TIE-UP
THREATENED
Men Ask 85 Cents An Hour for
chinists and P0 Cents for
He I re r.
IS
Ma.
into, varying from 7 lo as much as
Uti days in some sections, or fair aver-"* No relief from
i:ge of about 14 days on account of
the cool, wet spring rr. 1 the necessity
for heavy replanting in most every
lection ol the stale. !-'h nds were very
t neven. cultivation r.nd chopping was
: relayed, hence tho crop is consider-
j rbly spotted, and some abandonment
l as lo be taken into consideration
I ince the acreage estimate on June 25.
The harvesting of such an unusual
j "small grain crop" under trying
weather conditions, together with the
j scarcity and high pi lies for labor
| caused some neglect in cultivating
| and working out the cotton crop in
the southern and southwestern, see
tions.
More than a thous ri i America us are
threatened with less of millions of dol-
lars in Investments by a new agrarian ;
law enacted by the congress of So- !
nor;'. Mexico, at the direct tn-.«>ructions
it Governor ('niles. Several American
companies have- already filed com-
plaints with the State Department.
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prrsnit high pri<* ;
is , forecast in the federal reiervo
, board's monthly review of business
| conditions which note) that July saw
■ iie-reases in many lines. "In general."
j ihe review said, "there D a disposition
| to accept present prices levels."
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Governmental machinery has boon
' set in motion in response to demands
from tho public that seme official ao-
! tic-n be taken lo relieve Ihe high cos1
; cf living. Prices, as they affect the
average citizen, has assumed first
1 place in interest in the capital.
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Hal Flanuery of Joplin, Mo., is
e'ead and four other men are in the
hospital rs a icsu t of a $50,000 tiro
that followed an explosion cf gasoline
at the t'osden refinery at Tulsa, Okla.
recently. The men were leading a cai
when sparks frcm a locomotive fell
isto I ho sir \ int.
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Cs.pi. M. Pii-iua, payr.i-.iter for the
Mexican federal army r.ii the borde:.
v;h.) anived at Marfa, Texas., on his
way to Ojinaga, ('hihu,ihu\, reported
that ho had been robbed of $20,00 i
; old, which, he claimed he was taking
to Ojinaga to pay the troops.
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Notice his been received by the
11 Paso ( hanibe ■ (f Commerce from
the Jusrez Chamber of Ccnunerce stat-
ing that the Mexican body "does not
i approve cf the attitude ot the El Paso
i Chamber of Ccnunerce in Interfering
in political affairs, especially those
relating to Mexico.
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Mnj. A. D. Donnelly, former brig-
rdier general of the (i'Jih brigade, n:,th
divisloi-, and former nljutant general
ef Missouri, was killed and his wife
and son. Arthur, and Mrs. R. K. Gruner
were injured in all automobile acci-
dent near Blue liidge, Pa„ according to
messages received at St. Louis.
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FOREIGN.
Dr. Kail Rentier. Austrian chancel-
'or and head of the Austrian peace
I he state troops in hi-sago estaby. ?-.e-e£a-!pn a' G.trmain lecentl? de-
brut three mile i~ri!ed categorleally, the published re-
ports, t,bat, the. ;Austrian *«fij Mict Is
llshed a barred zonc
square embraeing most of the
«.y<lpntjal district y tj]5 j^outlj
Chi'-,1-0. Mo-e than 250,000 railway
shops 1 en ol the t ountry are idle as a
result o the Iriko called by th" fed
leral lailway shoimen's union, leaders
01 the organization said, with the
spike spreading : nd no indication of
an immediate seltlcment in sight.
The men are out to remain on striko
until their demands for S5 cents an
hour for machlni. - a and CO cents for
helpers are - rant d.
No men will be i amoved from llio
wrecking c.r • .:t;- Saundeis said,
: nd no violence - dl he tolerated.
I r.ic.n cor.f.uit"-' a e louring the
rallwcy systems ro see that the striko
orders arc carrk ! o :t. while hundreds
of to'egrams ar l.oing sent oui. Vir-
tually every is.il J in th" country Is
affected.
Secretary Eai.n '•
showed tho (olio
Southeastern
Chicago, Ivlilv.o 1
out at Chicago.
Chicago, Thirli:
out to Chicago, a t
Chirp.; o Junet v •
Wijlinsl;, all ou
Chicago & iao
and Danville, 50<i.
Roc k Island, all •
street, Chicago, .-
Elgin, Joliet &, I
Indiana-Harbor 1
• Chicago Belt, r,-
Chicago ,'1 j'so ■
3,000: Boone, Iowa.
III., 150; C >d 1 '
Dead wood, S. D. -i
all out.
Chicar.o AH011
Chesapeake & Ohio, all oat at Hunt
ing I on, W. Vh.
Ann Arbo-, 6,010,
Nickel Plate, (.hiof o all out
Pennsylvania Bines, Chicago
AHoon.i, 30,000.
Norfolk & Wcsie 11, 10,000.
Northwestern loads, 7,000.
Wheeling 1 nd I,al e Erie, 0,010.
Great Northern, Superior, Wis.,
out.
Ncu^ ork Central, Chicago sll out
excc^t car repairmen.
Italy After Big Loan.
Rome, i; !s iepo.'od here that an
appeal has been ne-de to American
jvak't s -for l.OOO.ee.i "i.i ijrc.
s : aid his advices
: results:
, 36,000 men out.
e & St. Paul, all
>
n ... Quincy, nil
olnts wired,
railways, all o t.
Decetnr, ill.
n Illinois, Dolton
1 rt Forty-seven h
Sills, 111.
'.ern, 2,600.
', 500.
■ ostein. Chicago,
"0; South Pekln,
ove, Iowa, 150;
:t: Antlgo, W is.,
•'.Ot'O.
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