The Hartshorne Sun. (Hartshorne, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 7, 1914 Page: 1 of 8
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0V! . Hlttrolcal 8ocl«ty.
DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS AND HOME PEOPLE
f
ESTABLISHED 1895.
hartshorne oklahoma, thursday, may 7, 1914.
number 19.
FOREI
Hummel and McHugh absent, and
Mayor Robertson in the chair.
Minutes of March 27th were rend
and approved as read.
Moved and seconded to allow the
following bills and draw warrants
on their respective funds for same.
Motion carried:
John, Robertson $ 20.00
COUNT! C1IP5 VAT FOR CATTLE
"youth of state should not
be sent against such
men."
DENVER, May 2.—Responsibility
for the fatal battle of Ludlow, Mon-
day, April 20, was placed on the
Greeks of the strikers' colony at
Ludlow by the military board com-
prising Judge Advocate Major E.
J. Boughton, Captains W. C. Hanks
and Philip S. Van Cise, of the Colo-
rado National Guard, appointed by
Adjutant General Chase with instruc-
tions to report all incidents of the
battle preceding and subsequent.
The officers examined !:11 officers
and prisoners, "as many as \iossbile
of the soldiers, deputies, mine .juards
and townspeople of Ludlow and near-
by coal camps." They made efforts
to obtain testimony of strikers with-
out success.
The board found that the "remote"
cause of this, "as well as all other
battles lies with the coal operators,
who established in an American in-
dustrial community a numerous class
of ignorant, lawless and savage south
European peasants. The underlying
cause was the presence near Ludlow
in daily contact of three discordant
elements—strikers, soldiers and mine
guards—all armed and fostering an
increasing deadly hatred which soon-
er or later was bound to find some
such expression. The immediate
c;>use of the battle was an attack
on the soldiers by Greek inhabitants
of the tent colony who misinterpret-
ed a movement of troops on a neigh-
boring hill."
Concerning Louis Tikas, the Greek
leader who was killed in the battle,
the report says:
"Louis Tikas, James Filer and an
unknown striker were taken prison-
ers. Lieutenant Linderfelt swung his
Springfield rifle, breaking the stock
over the head of Tikas."
This incident followed a heated
controversy between the officer and
the Greek. The report continues:
"An attempt to hang Tikas went
so far that a rope was produced and
thrown over a telephone pole.
"This lynching was prevented by
Lieutenant Linderfelt, who turned
Tikas over to a non-commissioned of-
ficer whom he directed to be respon-
sible for his life. Shortly afterwards
all three prisoners were killed by
gun-shot wounds. The only bullet
found in Tikas' body was of a kind
not used by the soldiers, although
the wounds of the two others might
have been made by Springfield rifle
bullets of the uniformed men."
Relative to the suffocation and
burning of two women and eleven
Children in the tent colony, the re-
port says: "Eleven children and
two women were smothered to death
in a small pit under one of the tents.
None of them was hit by a bullet.
The construction of the pit made it
a death trap, and its inmates probab-
ly died from suffocation before the
tents were burned,"
The report states that the colony
was looted by participants and spec-
tators of the battle, and adds:
"Only one person was killed or
wounded in the colony by a gun shot.
Frank Snyder, a 12-year-cld boy, was
shot in tile head. His father stated
that evening that his boy was shot
in th forehead while facing the ar-
royo from which the strikers
came, Thu colony was nott swept
by machine guns."
The board recommended that
general court martial be appointed to
try all officers ami enlisted men par-
ticipating in the ill treatment and
killing of prsoners and the burning
and looting of thu tent colony; that
the legislature establish a perman-
ent state constabulary so that vhe
young men of our national guard may
be relieved from enlisting in riot
duty with a people numbering among
them ferocious foreigners whose sav-
agery wan found exemplified In the
killing of Major Lester while under
Red Cross protection and the maim-
ing of Privates Martin, Hockersmith
nnd Chaves."
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W. S. Sanders
Laurel Miller
F. A. Hummel
Owen McHugh
W. W. Sames
Ixiuis Rothbaum
! A. W. Lawrence
<T. M. Vaughn
| Mathew Swain
J. R. Woods
J. R. Berry
Robert Harper
Austin Bryant
J. E. Layden
Perry Bros
Oren Nelgon
L. F. Wieneke
V. S. Griffin
D. H. Brown
C. B. Hulsey
Hartshorne Sun
Joe Johnson
Indianola I., L. and P. Co... 1
Moved and seconded that the city
clerk be instructed t,o turn over to
L. F. Wieneke the amount collected
from water consumers on Chickasaw
avenue for building pipe line. Mo-
tion carried.
The old council adjourned and the
new council reconvened with the fol-
lowing councilmen present: F. B.
Pitchford, Louis Rothbaum, W. W.
Sames, W. S. Sanders, J. K. Sills,
T. M. Vaughn, Owen McHugh and
F. A. Hummel being absent.
Regular moved and seconded to
elect W. W. Sames chairman of the
ouncil, motion carried.
The mayor appointed the following
standing committees for the ensu-
ing year:
Finance Committee—Louis. Roth-
baum, F. A. Hummel and W. W.
Sames.
Water Works Committee—W. W.
Sames. F. B. Pitchford and Owen
McHugh. '
Street and Alley Committee—W. W
Sames, F. B. Pitchford, Owen Mc-
Hugh and W. S. Sanders.
Ordinance Committee—F. A. Hum-
mel, W. S. Sanders and F. B. Pitch-
ford.
Police Committee—F. B. Pitchford,
Owen McHugh and J. H. Sills.
Sanitary Committee—W. W. Sanies.
W. S. Sanders and Owen McHugh.
Cemetery Committee—W. S. Sand-
ers, Louis Rothbaum and J. H. Sills.
Property Committee—Owen Mc-
Hugh, F. B. Pitchford and J. H.
Sills.
Fire Committee—W. S. Sanders.
F. A. Hummel and W. W. Sanies.
Purchasing Committee—F. B. Pitch-
ford, F. A. Hummel and J. H. Sills.
took twelve innings to de-
cide high school game
with mcalester.
In a closely contested twelve-in-
ning game at League park. Thursday
afternoon, the Hartshorne high
school defeated -McAhster high with
a score of 0 to 5 and, with the
winning of that game, won also
the scholastic baseball champion-
ship of Pittsburg county.
Earlier in the season, .lie Harts-
horne youngsters defea, d McAlester
jon their own grounds, with the
same score. It required eleven in-
nings to decide the first contest.
In the earlier part of Thursday's
game, McAlester held a safe lead
over the visitors, but several cost-
ly errors in the sixth tied up the
score and it was not until the first
half of the twelfth that, the tie Was
broken. Hartshorne at that time
pushing over what proved to be the
winning run. M<'.\lester was un-
able to negotiate the circuit in the
last half.—McAlesteer News-Capital.
c. w. dawley ranch boasts
first; care of livestock
demonstrated.
C. \V Hawley of McAlester, who
owns a 2,500-acre ranch near Harts-
horne, boosts the first efficient din-
ping vat to be installed in Pittsburg
county. \ thoroughly equipped vat,
standard size, to protect livestock
against tie Texas fever tick, has just
been installed for Mr. Hawley by l>r.
W. 1,. Iliatt, with the department of
agriculture, at Claremore.
Following the installatl'i of the
vat, Saturday afternoon, Dr. Hiatt,
assisted by John White, farm dem-
onstrator, dipped seventy-five head of
cattle and demonstrated methods of
vaccination of calves for black leg
and pigs for cholera.
The Hawley ranch, which is 'wo
miles south of Hartshorne, is in
charge of II. F. Jeffers and is rapidly
becoming one of the most modern
livestock farms in eastern Oklahoma.
—McAlester News-Capital.
OKLA-TOKA OIL
STRIKES OIL—MAYBE SO
SEASON OPENING 1ST DOW
LAKE WITH GOOD FEATURES
Word from Kiowa is to the effect
that the Okla-toka Oil and Gas com-
pany, drilling on the T. H. Bell allot-
ment four miles west of Kiowa, 17-
3-13, have made a real oil strike.
At just what depth or in what quan-
tity, however, nobody in authority
to give actual information is willing
to tell. Under instructions from the
company managers, drillers have
plugged the well and refuse to give
out information.
First rumors were to the effect that
it was a gusher, with oil flowing out
the top of the hole. That was later
denied from authoritative source but
a number of visitors at the well Sun-
day declare that oil, hauled from
the well in waste buckets, is flow-
ing out from the plugged hole a dis-
tance of a hundred yards or more.
The sand was struck sometime
Saturday, presumably at a depth of
1,200 feet. To keep actual informa-
tion from spreading, however, the
drills were operated the rest of the
day only when no outsiders were
present and, late Saturday evening,
the well was plugged.
VILLA REFUSES TO
JOIN WITH IAS
SAYS HUERTA PROVOKED AMER-
ICAN INTERVENTION TO
SERVE HIS OWN ENDS.
Torreon, May 5.—The answer of
Villa to the request of General. Maas
in command at Saltillo that Villa
join federals in avenging American
cccupation of Vera Cruz was deliv-
ered to federal messengers. Villa
refused absolutely to ally himself or
men with the federals and declared
Huertaistas had provoked fornlgn
intervention for their own ends.
ELECT SCHOOL TEACHERS.
At a meeting of the Board of Edu-
cation Monday afternoon, the full
corps of present teachers with the
exception of three, who did not make
application, waB re-elected. Follow-
ing did not apply: Misses Clara
and Renna Arnold and Miss Tydfil
Richards.
New teacherB elected were: Miss
Edith Richards and Miss Bessie Dav-
enport, the latter being from Fay-
etteville, Ark. Teacher for music
and domestic scicnce is left open
to be filled later.
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
Council met In regular session
Monday night with the following
councilmen present: Lawrence, Roth-
baum, Bames, Miller and Vaughn.
SPECIAL MOTHERS'
SERVICES.
DAY
The Sun Is requested to announce
that there will be a special Moth-
ers' Day Service at the Southern
Methodist church Sunday morning
You are Invited to come.
j. l. denton for county
weigher.
In this issue of The Sun appears
the announcement of John L. Denton
who aspires to the office of Public
Weigher of Pittsburg county. Mr.
Denton is a resident of Ashland,
where he has resided for the past
14 years, engaged in farming. He
was born and raised in this section,
having first saw the light .33 years
ago on Denton creek in what is
now Latimer county, ar.d comes of a
steady, industrious farmer parentage.
He is a man of family, is not an
office seekers, as this is his first
aspiraton for any public office, and
is confident of his ability to dis-
charge the duties of the office !n
a manner that will be acceptable to
the public. A fair and impartial
consideration of his claims is re-
spectfully solicited.
The Choctaw Railway and Light-
ing company has purchased five new
steel boats to lie used on How Lake
during the summer season, and it is
expected that, unless held up by de-
layed railway traffic, they will ar-
livc in time for the spring opening
of the park next Sunday. The boats
are of the non-sinkable type, built
with largo air compartments and
of the latest design of construc-
tion.
TUe gasoline launch is being re-
paired and will soon be in first-class
shape for service. There is lots of
water in the lake now and boating
promises to be finer tha,n ever.
A number of special attractions
are being arranged for the op ning
day at the nark and special oar ser-
vice will be furnished. The attrac-
tions include hand concert, theatri-
cal performance at night, and a big
free attraction entitled, "the slide
for life," a feature of the afternoon's
water sports.
The park is this week being re-
paired and placed in first class •• )n-
dition for the big opening and, be-
fore: Sunday, till the usual ••onces-
sionE will be open for patronage.
The extra car service will include
outgoing and return cars for the
theatrical performance Sunday night.
nowledging to her the debt you can
never pay.
"If she be not with you and yet
be living, write her a letter that will
bring to her the glad tiding that the
lessons she taught you, the precepts
she gave you are yet remembered
and bearing fruit.
"if she be gone, today renew the
vows you made her ere she went to
sleep, and, renewing them, go forth
to live a better life and show your-
self to be a worthy son or daughter
of a sainted mother.
"Through this proclamation, my
appeal goes to every man and every
woman and every boy and eveiy
girl in Oklahoma to join hands,
earts and voices in paying homage
and showing veneration to mother.
'Wherefore, 1, Lee Cruce, govern-
or of the state of Oklahoma, by vir-
tue of the authority invested in me
by law, do hereby proclaim Sunday,
May 10, 11(14, to be Mothers' Day
and ask that all the people of this
state, without regard to race or
creed, whether in prosperity or in
adversity, in joy or in sorrow, in
honor or dishonor, do in some man-
ner make manifest to the world your
appreciation of and obligation to
your mother, and that those who can
wear a carnation, which has been
designated as the emblem i'or Moth-
era' day.
"In witness whereof, 1 have here-
unto set my hand and caused the
great seal of the state of Oklahoma
to be hereunto affixed on this the
29th day of April, in the year of our
Lord 1914, and of the independence
of the United States of America
the 138th,
"LEE CRUCE,
"Governor of the State of Okla-
homa.
"Attest: Benjamin F. Harrison, Sec
retary of State."
CANADA SCENE OF
PEACE CONFERENCE
TO START MAY 18
mediators to receive u. S.
and huerta envoys at
niagara falls.
TEN FACTS ABOUT HOG CHOLERA
WILL sanders' repair shop.
Will Sanders has opened a repair
shop in the rear end of the building
occupied by Mack, The Tailor, where
he will be prepared to do all kinds
of harness, shoe and bicycle repair-
ing, and to manufacture saddles, har-
ness and anything in the saddlery
and harness line, and informs The
Sun that he will shortly install a
first class equipment in order 'o
handle all classes of repair work
expeditiously and well. Will Sanders,
as most people in this vicinity
know, understands his business well.
Your patronage is solicited'. Adv.
MOTHERS' DAY PROGRAM.
The Sun Is requested to announce
that an elaborate program iB ar-
ranged for at the Christian church
on Mothers' Day, between the hourB
of 11 and 12. A cordial invitation is
extended to all. Rev. S. S. Offutt
will preach at night. His subject
will be "A Vital Question."
GOVERNOR CRUCE ISSUES
MOTHER'S DAY PROCLAMATION
Governor Cruce Saturday issued
the following proclamation, naming
May 10 as "Mothers' Day," and urg-
ing every one, irrespective of sta-
tion or condition in life, to wear a
carnation in honor of the "best
mother in the world."
"In recent years a movement has
been inaugurated that has become
national in its character, having for
its purpose the observance of uome
stated day in which t<> l>"y tribute
to American motherhood.
"Sacrtd in its purpose and hal-
lowing the deepest, broadest, and
most steadfast love, it is fitting that
the day thus set apart should be the
day hi st by the Creator of all things.
"It is likewise fitting that this
movement should have had its incep-
tion in a country where the influence
of mothers has been such a power-
ful factor for good. The men who
have wrought most and best in this
country's welfare, no matter in what
avenue of life they have toiled, are
the men who owe most of Inspiration,
encouragement and direction to the
guiding hand and good influence of
their mothers.
"She is the one steadfast friend
which neither life nor death, joy
nor sorrow, hope nor fear, trial nor
defeat, can alter. Her charity shields
you from the forces of hatred and
malice; her excuses turn aside your
faults and failures, and her love, like
a goiden cord, stretches through the
years, drawing you tenderly back
from the paths of waywardness and
sin into the haven of rest and joy.
"If she bo with you, go to her
this day, set apart to her glorifica-
tion, and gladden her heart by }ok-
Thg following list of "Ten Things
to Remember About Hog Cholera'
was prepared by Dr. L. L. Lewis
of tho department of veterinary medi
cine at Oklahoma A. and M. College
Stillwater:
1. There is in Oklahoma no disease
of hogs that spreads from farm to
farm as an epidemic except hog
cholera.
. The types of the disea-se and
symptoms arc not the same in all
outbreaks. In mild outbreaks one
half of the hogs may recover, and
those that die may linger for two
or three weeks, while in severe out
breaks practically all die in a week
after showing sickness.
3. The actual cause of hog cholera
is not known, but it is known that
the cause, whatever it may be, may
be carried from farm to farm by
stock, by people on their clothing,
by crows, buzzards, hogs, etc., and
by running water.
4. That an infected farm should
be quarantined and the owner should
stay away from his neighbors' farms,
and that every one should stay away
from an infected farm.
5. That there are a great many
so-called hog cholera cures, but they
do not seem to be worth very much.
6. That vaccination is a means of
preventing hog cholera and that the
immunity produced by the use of
serum will last for a few weeks.
7. That hogs that recover from
cholera, or that have gone through
an outbreak of the disease, are very
valuable for breeding purposes, as
they are immune to the disease.
8. That hogs well cared for and
free- from parasitic troubles are less
likely to contract cholera than hogs
kept in unsanitary surroundings.
9. When cholera first appears in
a community not only the hogs of
the infected herd should be vaccinat-
ed, but all hogs surrounding farms
should be treated. This will place a
barrier against the most common
way the disease spreads.
10. There are a lot of things to
be learned about hog cholera and
its control, but if good use is made
of what is known, there will be few-
er losses from this cause.
WASHINGTON, May 5.—Secretary
Bryan announced Tuesday night that
the three South American mediat-
ors in the Mexican difficulty would
meet at Niagara Falls, Canada, May
8th, to receive representatives of
parties to the controversy.
Mr. Bryan said:
"The mediators have not influenc-
ed the different parties a.id that
Niagara Falls, Canada, has been
selected as the place where the
mediators will confer with represen-
tatives of the different parties inter-
ested in the mediation and that the
18th of May has been fixed as tho
date for the conference to begin."
WASHINGTON, May 5.—Develop-
ments in the Mexican situation to-
day were divided between the diplo-
matic and the military status.
The South American mediators con-
tinued their session throughout the
day and for the first time it be-
came authoritatively known from
them that they considered the wholo
rajige of Mexican affairs as proper-
ly embraced in their work. The re-
ply to Carranza hud made thiB clear
and while eliminating him from the
mediation for the time being, it still
left the door open to him to come
into the proceedings later.
At the war department it became
clear that no advance at Vera Cruz
was intended unless to repel attack.
But it was known that a definite
course of action had been outlined
in the event of a resumption of
hostilities at Vera Cruz and the ex-
tension of the campaign toward Mexi-
co City. In that event Major Gen-
eral Wood will be in supreme com-
mand with General Funston directing
the advance beyond Vera Cruz and
General Charles J. Bailey of the
coast artillery assuming command of
the base at Vera Cruz. Tills ar-
rangement, however, is wholly iu the
line of preparedness and signifies
no present purpose of being pi ■
operation.
drilling FOR OIL NORTHEAST
OF HARTSHORNE.
The Wheeler interests are drilling
a test hole 8 miles northeast of
Hartshorne in section 8 &-18. This is
one of the best rigs in the state.
The hole is down 600 feet now and
the company is prepared to go 4,000
feet if necessary.
Those Slit Skirts Again.
"Don't you think that the present
style in women's skirts is rather
humorous?"
"Simply side-splitting."
FLOODS SWEEPTHE
ENTIRE COUNTRY
The state of Oklahoma from one
side to the other has suffered more
or less during the past week from
floods and high waters. The great-
est damage doubtless has been done
along the Canadian river, where
many railroad bridges have been
swept away and thousands of acres
of land inundated, many homes des-
troyed and growing crops washed
away.
Train service has been greatly
hampered. No mail was received
here from Oklahoma City and Mus-
kogee for two days, owing to the
washout on the Canadian, the main
spans across the river being held
down by coal trains.
During the past two days the M.
K. & T. has been detouring her
trains over the Rock Island and
have had to go around by way of
Ardmore to reach here.
Conditions however, are showing
marked improvement. The waters
are receding and regular train ser-
vice has been resumed.
RUNAWAY—OCCUPANTS INJURED
Tab Ford's team ran away Thurs-
day evening last, near Sulphur,
throwing out the occupants, Mrs.
Ford and her three children and
another lady occupant, and demolish-
ed the buggy. Mrs. Ford sustain-
ed a dislocation of the hip and all
the others were more or less severe-
ly skinned and bruised, but strang"
to relate, none seriously. Drs.
Carlock and Sames were called to
dress the wounds.
TRAIN OF TROOPERS.
A troop of federal soldiers from At-
lanta. bound for Colorado, to do duty
In the strike region, was detained
at Haileyville Monday and Tuesday
owing to flood conditions.
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