Drumright Evening Derrick (Drumright, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 248, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 1, 1917 Page: 1 of 4
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volume three. number 248.
DRUMRIGHT, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, NOV. 1, 1917
TEN THOUSAND OIL FIELD WORKERS
NEGRO SOLDIERS GOTO
TRIAL FOR RIOTING IN
. HOUSTON, TEX., LAST AUG.
DAILY, 10c PER WEEK. WEEKLY, $1.50 PER year.
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(By Associated Press.)
San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 1.—The
court martial trial of G4 enlisted men
)n the Twenty-fourth infantry charged
with mutiny and murder growing out
<f a riot at Houston '.he night of Aug.
3, began this morning.
Charges including four separate
counts specifying specific violations
tinder the articles ef war a e in-
cluded in the i.ompluints.
Seme of the troops are held at El
Paso for trial on different charges.
Twenty-two persons were killed ir
the riot at Houston when the negro !
troops rail amuck with the white pop- i
ulation.
negro soldiers marched down the
fctreeta of Houston shooting down
every white man, woman and child
with whom they came in contact.
U. S. SOLDIERS
ANXIOUS TO GO
INTO BATTLE
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Nov. 1.—After re.
'•eiving their baptism of fire in the
fights and campaigns incident to the
establishment of good government in
Haiti and Santo Domingo, United
Armed with revolvers the I o, V , "omln -ro' united
iicrs marched ti,,. 8 m;mne Veterans, now irving
THIRTY THOUSAND
GERMAN SOLDIERS
( KILLEDjN BATTLE
Wur Summary
(By Associated Press.)
The French in a successive series of
offensive operations north of the
Aisne in the direction of the Lagoon
Inst week captured 12,000 prisoners.
There has been little infantry fightinp
in this region since
The artillery on both sides has
been active arid th? dual continues.
About thirty airplanes in seven
groups took part la it night in a raid
over London. The machines reached
the heart of that city, an official re-
port says, and dropped several bombs
which did little damage and caused
the death of eight people and the in-
jury of 21.
Berlin announces that the num
ber of prisoners taken in the Italian
offensive has increased to 180,000,
and that the number of guns cap-
tured will exceed 1,500. The Italians
have retreated to Tagliamento river
where the Germans have captured
bridges at Bimenao and Codripo.
Washing.lon has received a special
dispatch stating that 30,000 German
soldiers, including two generals of
the general staff, wore kiled in the
battle on the Baisizza plateau in
Italy.
UNITED STATES
STEAMSHIP IS
SUBMARINED
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in those countries, are straining at
the leash in eagerness to take up
arms with their brothers overseas
Headquarters here has received
many letters from marines in Haiti
equesting their transfer to the bat-
.le front in France.
Peace is now thoroughly estab-
lished in the West Indies republics,
ind the sea-soldiers are tiring of the
-omparative quiet of the various posts
where they are serving.
KANSAS COAL
MINES IDLE ON
ACCOUNT OF STRIKE
(By Associated Press.)
Pittsburg, Kan., Nov. 1.—Twenty-
one Kansas coal mines are idle be
ause of 'a strike among the miners.
Dissatisfaction among the union
members is said to be due t:> the
recent action of the government" in
granting the operators what they
wanted and refusing to give the men
full consideration of their demands.
A conference between the opera-
tors and union members was held at.
Kansas City recently at which it was
proposed that the government take up
-he differences and Settle them.
MEANS INDICTED FOR THE
MURDER OF WEALTHY WIDOW
IN NORT CAROLINA IN AUGUST
(By Associated Press.)
Concord, N. G. Nov. 1.—Gaston
H. Means was indicted here today for
the murder of Mrs. Maude A. King,
wealthy widow, last August.
AMERICAN OFFICERS
TOO EAGER TO GO
TO NO MAN'S LAND
With the American Army in France,
Nov. 1.—Conditions in the sector in
which the Americans are stationed
were normal today. The weather was I
showery and much colder.
For the last two days there has
been considerable aerial observation;!
late yesterday three German planes
flew over the American trenches.
So great is the enthusiasm among
the Americans to go on patrol that
the French commander has ordered
that none of the higher grade officers
perform other than their regular du-
ties. It is the duty of the junior com-
mand officers and the non-commis-
sioned officers to go with patrols but
the officers of higher rank such as
majors were anxious to go out.
The quartermaster now has supplies
for several days within reach of the
American position as a precaution
against any transporation difficulties
with the bases.
% \ WNWXWS WSS
WANTS OKLAHOMA FARM
ERS TO GET GOOD PRICES
GAS STRIKE MAY CAUSE
SUFFERINC IN ARKANSAS
(By Associated Press) X
^ Oklahoma City, Nov. 1.—Gov N
V ernor Williams has ordered the \
* corporation commisison to in* S
^ ti gate the cotton seed price %
N following a private inquiry tend- \
^ ing to reveal that Oklahoma \
^ farmers are receiving six to \
> twelve dollars less per ton than \
^ the farmers of other states. | \
^ If the commission finds tlis \
^ to be true, the governor said, S
^ he will order prosecution of all ^
* cotton gin owners involved in \
Little Rock, Ark., Nov. 1.—Gov-
ernor Brough has sent a telegram ask-
■ nc: Governor Pleasant of Lcu'tina
lo try to prevent the strike of work-
: era in the Caddo gas and oil fields.
Natural gas from the Caddo fi >ld is
the chief fuel of many Arkansas citi?s
including Little Rock, and Governor
ttrough said that widespread suffering
would follow the cutting off of the
supply, as practically no coal is avail-
able It was reported here that the
workers in the Caddo fields would
Tuit it' their demands were not met.
OKLAHOMA AND KANSAS
FIELDS MAY BE INVOLVED
STRIKE LEADERS DECLARE
what he belie
^ to control prici
to be a compact
KEYMEN WIN DEMAND
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Phone No. 90 for job printing.
| ENTERTAINMENT, REFRESH-
MENTS AND D\NCE
To be given by the Legionres and
| Moose lodges Friday night, Novem-
j ber 2, at the Moose hall. Ladies, gents i
I and families are cordially invited.
Chicago, Nov. 1.—Wages were
advanced and hours per day and days
per month were reduced by the board
of arbitration which reported on the
demands made 'by telegraphers of the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific rail-
way system. The road will have to
spend $17,000 additional a month
for wages.
ITALIANS HOLD
AUSTRO-GERMANS;
RUSHING MORE TROOPS
NO MEATLESS DAYS AS
LONG AS RABBITS LAST
Bartlesville, Okla., Nov. 1.—There
will be no "meatless days" in Wash
ington county, nor will there be any
need of people going without meat
in many other counties if they adopt
the plan in force here. Rabbits are
going to take the place of beef and
pork and hunters who have been out
the prairies or along the creek and
river bottoms declare there are
enough rabbts this fall to feed an
army all winter.
They have started rabbit "drives"
in this section. Hunters are bringing
:n large numbers of rabbits that find
ready market at from 15 to 20
cents for an average sized "cotton
ail." but the price will probably go
to 25 cents by Christmas. ".Tack"
rabbits bring a better price.
(By Associated Press.)
italian headquafft'ers,
wednesday, delayed. — as
buletins of general cador-
na, commander-in-cheif of
the italian army, *are com-
ing to light it is indicated
that the italian troops are
thoroughly reorganized
and are holding their lines.
They have the Austro-German ar-
mies held at a distance of seven miles
west of Udine, the former headquar-
ters, a place it was announced the
enemy had occupied two days ago.
British Capture City
(By Associated Press.)
London, Nov. 1.—The city of Ber-
F.heba in Palestine has been captured
by the British, the war office an-
nonnced today."
General Cadorna's retirement be-
fore the invading Austro -Gcrmans
is slackening ;.nd the opposing forces
are at grips at several points between
Udine and the Tagline to where the
Italians will probably make their first
determined stand, according to in-
formation reaching the war office here
today.
While the German blow overpow-
ered and dispersed the Italian forces
along the Isonzo front north of
loriza, General Cardona has held his
armies virtually intact, and reinforce-
ments held within a mile of the vital
point.
Reinforcements are being hurried
to the front in northern Italy, and
'he British and French are bringing
up heavy artillery and troops and
supplies.
(By Associated Press.)
HOUSTON, TKXAS, NOV. 1.
J ACCORDING TO STRIKE LEAD-
ERS HEIiE FULLY TEN THOU-
SAND WORKERS IN SIXTEEN OIL
FIELDS IN TEXAS AND LOUIS-
IANA went out on A stf.:;;;-;
at MIDNIGHT LAST NIGHT
Lenders of the strike declare that
it will spread to Kansas and Okla-
homa and in fact the entire MidCon-
tinent oil field. Kvery union in this
section of the field is said to have
given hearty support to the move-
mcnt.
Every union of the oil workers
quit work at the stipulated time and
went out quietly and no disorders
have been reported.
In the Local Field
Whilee the head officers of the oil!
field workers' union could not be
found here this morning, members in-
dividually of the I. W. W. organiza-1
tion stated that they had been plan- j
ning a strike in this field, and were
only looking for an opportunity to
strike.
All the oil companies in the Drum-
right district reported that they ex-
pected no trouble and no strike; some
of the officials stated, however, that a
strike might be planned without their
knowledge but that no demand* had
been made on the companies they rep-
resented for shorter hours or in-
creased pay.
The men in Texas and Louisiana
who went on strike are demanding
an 8-hour day.
TWENTY-NINE
DRAFT RESiSTERS
Ah!: SENTENCED
(V,y Associated Prei .)
"• K 1 --Conienea was
i lorn who had
ii'"1 • : 1 i ( !' ." i!ty before the
• I Judg.> in tb- Ur.iicd States
district court here.
n, I'. C. Spcnccr and
1 ' !. are regarded
! • " of the disturbances
'' ■ ' " v.-.-s in the federal
penitent;.uy. The rest wore given
from CO days to six yean.
"■' the nri- u. .r;, were committed
to the federal p.. at Leavenworth,
Kan.
NEW YORK'S SUGAR PRICE
New \ork, Nov. 1.—Basic price
fat* sugar delivered in New York City
was fixed at $0.80 duty paid for
■ i i centrifugal" by the interna-
tional sugar committee in conference
here. The committee has under con-
sideration fixing of prices for other
refining points.
WOMAN T. R. EJECTED
IS BURNED TO DEATH
GREAT BRITIAN
GETS $435,000,000
FROM AMERICA
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Nov. 1—A credit of
$435,000,000 was made to Great Brit-
ain today, the treasury department an-
nounced
GERMANS JOKE ABOUT FIRST
AMERICAN OFFICIAL REPORT
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Nov. 1.—The trans-
port Finland was recently torpedoed
while returning to the United States
but was able to return to a foreign
port under its own steam, the navy
department has announced.
No mention of the loss of life is
made in the information brought to
this country.
BOYS SELL CLOTHES
AND JOIN THE NAVY
Enid, Okla., Nov. 1.—Four more
boys, John Bemis, Phillip Dewing,
Weimer Newton and Francis Hoyt,
have left here for Oklahoma City to
enlist inthe navy. So sure were they
that they would pass, they held an
auction sale, jointly, here and dis-
posed of all their civilian clothing to
the highest bidder.
Collars, silk shirts, fall and win-
ter cots and suits, socks, and eveny-
thing that goes *,o make up a young
man's wardrobe, was sold, bringing
quite an attractive sum.
J. B. Kent of Chandler is here for
a few days to take some moving pic-
tures of scenes around the oil fields.
Mr. Kent is one of the best movie men
in the state and will make about four
thousand feet of pictures of different
places around Drumright.
Copenhagen, Nov. 1.—The first of-
ficial report from the American^ ex-
peditionary forces in France is
printed in the German newspapers
without so far being accompanied
with any comment, although occa-
sionally sarcastic emphasis is placed
in the headlines on the reference to
"a quiet sector" of the front.
The American official dispatch is
as a rule not included by the newspa-
pers in the general column of enemy
war reports, most of the journals en-
deavoring to adhere to the fiction that
the United States is not regarded as
a full fledged member of the group
hostile to the central powers.
SPECIAL DEPUTY SHERIFF
SMITH HAS NO RIGHT TO
MAKE ARRESTS, COURT HOLDS
FIRES BLAMED UPON
WORKING CLASS UNION
Wa.-inirton, Nov. 1.—Mrs. Minor
Hull Morris, whose forcible ejection
from th(- White House during Presi-
dent Roosevelt's first term created
an uproar of national proportions,
w t burned to death yesterday in the
rooming house where she lived.
No one knows how it happened.
She was discovered wrapped in flames.
FIRE BABY HAD LUCK
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< hicago, Nov. 1.— Iirr3 Su-an Bas-
ti ll drop) i-:l her fi-ycur-old child from
the second-story of a burning- building
and then jumped herself. The child
fell safely into the arms of persons
hcluw. but the mother's back was
Iroken.
FLOOD OF PENNIES
INDIAN MINOR SEEKS
RECOVERY OF FUNDS
Muskogee, Okla., Nov. 1.—Suit for
approximately $400,000 was filed in
federal court yesterday against Gabe
E. Parker, superintendent -for the
Five Civilized Tribes, W. M. Baker,
cashier of the Indian agency and the
Roxana Petroleum cofeipany by the
administrators of the 4*tate of Maley
Fier, a fullblood Creat Indian ( who
died May 2.
H. B. Catlett and v. F. Haiman,
administators, allege ti at this money
in the hands of the dejMrtment and of
the oil company has not been" turned
ever to them in compliance with an
order of the Okfuskee county court,
tntered when the woman's will was
admitted to probate.
THAT A SPECIAL DEPUTY
SHERIFF HAS NO RIGHT UNDER
THE LAW TO MAKE ARRESTS;
THAT HE HAS ONLY SPECIFIC
DUTIES TO PERFORM, AND THAT
THE SHERIFF WHO ISSUES HIM
A COMMISSION IS RESPONSIBLE
FOR HIS ACTS, ARE POINTS
BROUGHT OUT BV JUDGE FRED
A. WAGONER AND JOHN N. HILL,
ATTORNEYS FOR J. L. DAVIS AND
JESSE KEYS, ARRESTED TUES-
DAY BY J. W. SMITH, A SPECIAL
DEPUTY SHERIFF.
After Judge Wagoner and Attor-
ney Hill had cited the law governing ;
the appointment of special deputy
sheriffs Howard C. Speakman, acting
for the state of Oklahoma, instructed
Justice R. G. Cleme-its, before whom
the case came up for trial, to dismiss
the case against the defendant un-
| der which Smith made the arrest,
I and issue a now warrant and place
il in the hands of Under Sheirff G. C.
Whitehead for service. This was done
:n the ease of Davis and Keys and the
trial set for hearing next Thur-day!
"It is for the protection of the of-
ficers themselves as well as this court
and the public generally that I ^im
raising this question at this time,"
Judge Wagoner declared.
"No officer working for the coun-
ty or state has a right to accept pay
from an individual or campany,"
Judge Wagoner declared. "The law
ixcs their salaries and compensation.
It is their duty under the law to pro-
tect the property of every individual
or company without the payment of
side money. The oi! companies have
•i right to hire men to protect their
property and the sheriff has a right
to issue them a spccial commission
so that they may exercise authority
•]pon the property or leaas specified,
out t'le minute they step from such
property or lease their authority
ceases "
To prove .his contention Judge
Wagoner iook the spocial deputy
sheriff's commission issued to J. W.
Smith and introduced it in court. This
| commission provides that Sm:th is an
j officers only on the lease of the Praiiie
: Oil & Gas company.
"Junkey" Davis and Jo;se Keys
were arncsted on a warrant istxid
out of Justice Clements' court charg-
ing them with grand larceny for the
'heft of pipe to the value of $750.
J. W. Smith served the warrants. The
defendants say he arrested them and
put them in jail instead of taking
Them before the justice to give bond
as the law provides an officer must
do.
"It has come to a time in Drum-
light and Creek county when jobbery
and frameup must cease," Judge
Wagoner declared. "I will assist
every officer and every judge or jus-
tice of the peace in enforcing the law,
I but simply because some officer does
not like a citizen and frames charges
i against him does not signify that that
individual Is guilty. Let's get right
on these matters and practice law as
it Is laid down in the law book3. If
'here is anyone guiity of an offense
be should be prosecuted and con-
victed; if he is innocent it is the duty
of the officials of Creek county to
protect him and see that he is not
harrassed."
Ada, Okla., Nov. 1.—Fires have
occurred so frequently in Ada wnhin
the last ten days that some of the
county officials fear there is a con-
certed action of the Working Class
union in an effort to damage property
in this county. This organiation has
been inactive since the rounding up
last August when several hundred
from Pontotoc, Hughes, Seminole and
other counties in this part of the state
wcr; arrested and placed in prison.
The fires at /.da 1 ve occurred in
■ich a tr.anner that l,hcy could not
all have been accidents, officials say.
Iloncr, Col., Nov. l.—Form -oday
until >~u undetermined time in th«
r'1'" '"> ti' will turn out
I Mm-;.-—0,olO,OGO n (lay
rpL: : j0,0n00 a day
to reliin. .icod causcci by the
war tax bill.
L. C. West, the insuranco man, Is
located in the city, Hall building.
l'hone 107. 199-tf
WASHINGTON HEARS
BOOZE SWAM SONG
WITH MOCK GRIEF
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Washington, Nov. 1.—At midnight'
Inst n:ght the national capittal went i
dry. Amcng theestablishments going!
out of business under the ternlj oi'
the Sheppard prohibition law are
several which served during the his-
otric existence of more than half a
century as familiar meeting places
for prominent political figures of past
generations,
Washington had planned a farewell
.■elebration, and the usual carnival
scenes were enacted as the closing
hour approaches
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Muskogee, Okla., Nov. 1.—Xeno-1
phon Jones, negro boy, who shot and ]
perhaps fatally wounded G. F Mi - j
Intyre, was brought to the county
jail by his father, Wiley Jones, and '
will awatit preliminary examination
en the charge of murder.
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