The Black Dispatch (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Ed. 1 Friday, April 5, 1918 Page: 3 of 8
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program and was provided to The Gateway to Oklahoma History by the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
THE BLACK DISPATCH
NEW REGIMENT OF
NATIONAL GUARD
The war department ha* author-
lead th« raising of an Oklahoma
national guard regiment to full war
strength and Governor Wllllama
hae oommleeloned Col- H. W. Pen-
tecost to organize the unit
The regiment will eonelet of
twelve infantry line companies, a
supply company, maohlne gun com-
pany and headquarters company.
Each company will consist of 250
msn, 3,780 in all. The regiment
will be federalized eoon after the
organization and will be available
for foreign or home duty. Only
Oklahoma officers and men will be
In the regiment and membere of
home guards will be given the pref-
erence at to enlistment.
Three miners were killed and four
•erlously Injured In the Merrill mine
near St. Louis.
Jack Trsux, a hardware merchant
with Interests In Beaver, Okla., and
Hansford, Texas, was killed in an au-
tomobile accident twelve miles south
of Guymon.
William 3. Hamilton, pastor of the
Claremore Christian Church, has been
honored with the presidency of the
Ministerial Alliance of the First Okla
homa district.
The entire town of Wirt in Carter
County, familiarly known as "Rag-
town," was threatened In a flre which
consumed the greater portion of the
business district.
Oklahoma's quota for the third Lib-
erty loan will be near $25,000,000, ac-
cording to figures based on the an-
nouncement of a $3,000,000,000 loan
for the nation announced by \V. G. Mc-
Adoo, secretary of the treasury. This
Is approximately the minimum quota
of the state for the second loan.
Legislation to prohibit use on In-
dian reservations of "peyote," siad to
be a habit-forming Intoxicant and
used In tribal ceremonies, was strick-
en from the Indian appropriation bill
in the senate without discussion on a
{point of order by Senator Owen of
Oklahoma, who has Indian ancestors.
Louis Baldwin, an Osage County
farmer, was killed instantly, Mrs
Baldwin received wounds from which
ishe died and William Toothaker, their
(neighbor, is in a Bartlesville hospital,
Hinder guard, facing a charge of double
murder as results of & gun fight which
occurred in the rood between the two
homes.
William Farley, a German tympa
ihlzer living In Picher, was compelled
iby Irate citizens to kiss a soldier's
ishoulders four times and salute him
jten minutes. Farley had reviled the
jflag and the soldier's uniform. After
ibelng compelled to kiss the soldier's
{uniform and salute him he was
'brought to Miami and placed in Jail.
An order for the Immediate Induc-
tion into the army of Cash M. Gay,
jthe "boy sheriff" of Sequoyah County,
■was received by the state adjutant
general's office from Provost Marshal
eneral Crowder. It marked the close
lot a spectacular fight on the part of
day to keep out of the army, in which
ibe went to every source of exemption.
Senator Robert L. Owen Is to tdUr
Oklahoma for the third Liberty loan.
Mre. ClarA A. McBride, only daugh-
ter of Rev. J. 8. Murow, oldest Indian
missionary In Oklahoma, died last
week at Atoka. Mrs. McBride was
prominent in church and club work
and has served as grand matron and
grand secretary of the Order of the
Eastern Star.
It is all over with "Muskogee" and
aow there hangs in a refrigerator at
Packington, Oklahoma City, the oar
cass of the highest-priced bullock ever
aold anywhere. It was farewell to the
biggest animal money maker the Red
Cross has ever had to deal with.
Weighing 1,830 pounds when it went
over the scales the last time this big
Angus husky dressed 69.8 per cent,
and it's the highest yield of beet an
individual steer has ever made in Ok-
lahoma. The carcass is to be sent to
General Pershing.
Personal income, corporation and
-excess profit taxes will exceed five
times the amount ever collected in the
state before and are expected to reach
approximately $30,000,000 according to
an estimate made by Hubert L. Bolen,
collector of internal revenue for Okla-
homa. Last year there was between
$4,000,000 and $5,000,000 collected from
the same taxes in the state. The per-
sonal Income tax alone this year will
probably exceed $20,000,000, while the
corporation and excess profit taxes are
expected to reach around the $10,-
000,000 figure.
Ten automobile loads of "Knights of
Liberty," the secret organization
which sprang into prominence at
Tulsa several months ago, appeared in
Jackson County, seventeen miles
northeast of Altus, took O. F. West-
brook. disloyalist, to a secluded spot,
forced him to kiss the American flag
and take an oath of eternal allegiance
and then administered a black-snake
whip sad a coat of tar and feathers
and bade him leave the country In
twenty-four hours. Westbrook left
with several hours to spare, turning
all of his property ovsr to frisnds.
Bonds for the new $40,000 school
building at Stroud sold at auotloa
brought a premium of $1,600.
John Bradford of Checotah, charged
with oirculatng copies of "The Fin-
ished Mystery," was brought to Mue-
kogse and lodged in the federal Jail.
Fire of unknown origin caused a
loss of $26,000 at Clinton when nearly
all the machinery of the Clinton Cot-
ton Oil Seed Mill was detroyed.
Oklahoma food administration force*
are engaged in a survey of the stocks
of flour in the hands of mills, whole-
salers, retailers and consumers In the
state.
A Poland China sow sold at public
auction at Red Oak for $1,010. The
sow was purchased by a St. Joseph,
Mo., breeder. Forty hogs were sold
at an average of $395 each.
The proposition to bond the Okmul-
gee city school district for $100,001
for a new school building and othef
improvements was carried by a vot«
of 170 to 33 against.
Congressmen Carter, McClintic and
Hastings of Oklahoma have been In
vited by Congressman Scott Ferris, at
chairman of the Democratic congres-
sional campaign committee, to go to
Wisconsin and fight LaFollette and
disloyalty In the Wisconsin senatorial
campaign. It is probable Carter will
accept the invitation while McClintie
and Hastings are undecided.
County Attorney J. F. Griffith closed
a German Lutheran school at Lon«
Wolf and sent the thirty-seven chil-
dren to their homes, with instructions
to their parents to comply at once
with the compulsory education law
and enroll them in the public schools
of their several districts. The school
building did not fly the American flag,
and, since the United States has been
at war, has been running with the
blinds partly drawn, and loyal people
in that community have been insisting
that the school be closed.
HOSPITAL IN VENICE DESTROYED BY THE GERMANS
Here Is nn example of the Hun's utter disregard of humanity and decency In the prosecution of the war. The
photograph shows (he Interior of St. John's hospital In Venice after It had been bombed by German aviators.
HAMBURGER FOR JACKIES
STATEHOUSE BREVITIES
About 85,000 persons have been vac-
cinated as a result of the recent drive
of the state board of health againBt
smollpox
Governor Williams is planning tc
take a trip to Washington soon, Thii
will be his most extended trip in more
than a year.
The school land commission hai
voted to invest $300,000 now in the
state home ownership fund in the
third Liberty loan issue.
Governor Williams has authorized
Attorney General Freeling to conduct
an investigation of the activities oi
bootleggers and gamblers in Ottawa
County. Numerous complants have
reached the governor's office recently
In regard to conditions in the lead
and zinc mining district.
The injunction suit brought by At
torney General Freeling at the In-
stance of Governor Williams to pre>
vent the re-leaslng of the Marland oil
and gas leases by the state school land
commission under the preference right
yesterday, Is set for hearing on April
30 in the district court of Oklahoma
County.
The plan of Governor Wllllama to
have 3,000 Oklahoma men transferred
from the depot brigade at Camp Travie
to the 179th brigade stationed there,
has been approved by Provost Marsha)
General E. H. Crowder. If the plan
is carried out Oklahoma will have a
brigade of 12,000 men at full war
strength made up of selected men
taken from this state.
Jeannette Collar, chief clerk to Gov-
ernor Williams, has resigned her posi-
tion, effective April 1, to enter wai
work. She will leave for Washington
early in April and hopes to be as-
signed to service in France. Miss
Collar has been the governor's clerk
all during his administration. She
was Journal clerk of the sixth legls
lature and has been connected with
nearly every legislature since state-
hood.
Attorney General 3. P. Freeling has
been asked by County Farm Agent C.
C. Stinson of Jefferson county for an
interpretation of the law relating to
the disposition of funds voted for free
fair purposes by the county commis-
sioners, the point Involved being
whether the $30 per township men
tioned in the law relates to expenses
for transporting exhibits to county
fairs. If that is the law, Mr. Stinson
hopee to have at least $100 for each
township to use in paying premiums
at township fairs this year. The com-
missioners are asked to make a levy
of one-fourth mill which would pro-
vide $3,000 for fair purposes this year.
Governor Williams granted commu-
tations of sentence to Guy Huber and
Frank Nash, convicted in Kiowa
County In 1913 on charges of murder.
The two were given life sentences.
The governor commuted the sentence
of each to ten years and on their good
records the men will be released In
about six months. Paroles were given
by the governor to Clyde Campen and
John W. Moore, convicted on charges
■ of horse stealing. These men as-
jslsted the state In convictions obtain-
ed In a number of horse stealing
HOW GERMANS TORTURE PRISONERS
OFFICIAL FOOD NEWS OF
FE0ERAL FOOD ADMIN-
ISTRATION
FLOYD I. MILLER
Public Informstlon Director
Norman, Oklahoma
EMPLOYEES TO FARM
THE RIGHT-OF-WAYS
Kvery railroad train in Oklahoma
may run through gardens of growing
vegetables this summer.
It Is planned to hAve the employees
of the railroads utilize the vast areas
bounding tho railroad tracks to In-
crease the food Bupply. Every tillable
foot In Oklahoma along these tracks
will be used to grow food that will
help to defeat the kaiser.
Lust season several roads tried out
this plan on a small scale and found
that a great quantity of vegetables
jiud grains were grown. One company
furnished Its employees with seed po-
tatoes, and 28,000 bushels were pro>
liuced.
{.•w xiy Pliuto byf&T - ...
Newspaper Unlot
Under the instruction of un expert
chef nt the cooking school for naval
recruits in New York the boys are
learning the art of concocting the deli-
cacies of the kitchen. These lads huve
tempting hamburger steak.
How Motors Helped Out Allies.
Several times during the war mo-
tor-driven vehicles have dramatical-
ly saved the day for the allies.
Hordes of London motorbusses car-
ried the "Tommies" to and from the
battlefields In the early, nnxlous days
of the war. The swift transportation
by taxi of the army defending
Paris helped to win the victory of
the Marne. Thousnnds of motors
rushed the Pollus to the saving of
Verdun. Now comes the victory at
Gaza, In which tanks plnyed a promi-
nent part and of which It wns long
nco written, In the Book of Judges,
that, though the tribe of Judah took
the city, it could not drive out Iti6
Inhabitants of the valley because they
hnd "chariots of Iron." Thanks to
these modern "iron chariots," the
"tanks," the odds have at last favored
the Invaders. The "Philistines" have
been cleared out by the onslaught of
the "tanks" on the sands, and the at-
tack of the monitors on the shores, of
Gaia.
The lower picture was taken by n French prisoner of war In tho German
prison camp at Sennelnger bei Paderliorn In November, 1914. It was brought
out. newed in the lining of his coat, by W. J. Prendergast, n private In the
Dublin Fusiliers, captured in the retreat from Mons, who Is shown In the upper
photograph. Prendergast was educated at the public schools of New York and
Chicago, and has returned to this country, having been exchanged and hon-
orably discharged from the British army because of his wounds. Of the pit
ture he says: "The two men tied to the pole are British prisoners of war, who
committed no offense whatever, but were put there for fighting against the
Germans. The wooden shoes which they wear were given to nil prisoners and
their own shoes taken off them. The men at the pole are tied up with their
soup put in front of tln-m nnd left for 48 hours nt a time In rnln, snow and hall
and without food. I have been tied to thnt very pole for 48 hours myself."
FLOUR CONSUMPTION
MUST BE REDUCED
The United States Food Administra-
tion has issued a statement calling
upon patriots to reduce their con-
sumption of wheat flour to six poundi
per person per month.
This urgent call la made because oi
the necessity of supplying our sol-
diers and our allies and to keep aome
wheat for home consumption until
harvest comes. Unless this advice l
heeded a practical shortage of all
wheat flour will result before harvest
LET POTATOES SAVE WHEAT
At this time the supply of wheat li
limited. We must save more wheat.
Irish potatoes Is the great bread
substitute. Save wheat. Let the spudi
do it for you.
Tho Irish spud has tided the Irish
over many a famine. This tuber hai
kept the kaiser's army well fed by
releasing the wheat back of the line.
We must make the spud a welcome
member on our dally menu.
The naval and military forces of
Kngland have been asked to save all
bones from meats used, as are all
Kngllsh housewives. This Is to meet
the huge demand for explosives. The
bones are collected and deposited at
a central point where they are put
through a process which extracts all
the grease.
WAR TIME^RECIPES
Hopping John.
For this reclpo use two cups of
beans and one cup of rice; boll the
two separately until both are nearly
done; turn the two together, season
with a tablespoon of fat, a pinch of
pepper and a tablespoon of salt, and
complete the cooking.
Plain Barley Cake.
One-fourth cup fat, ■% cup gluecoae,
1 egg, well beaten. 2-3 cup milk or
water. 2 cups barley flour, 3 teaspoons
baking powder, 1-8 teaspoon salt, 1
cup raisins. Cream the fat, add the
glucose and cream together. Add
beaten egg and milk. Add the sifted
dry Ingredients and the raisins. Pour
into a shallow greased pan and bake
about 20 minutes.
GERMAN BALLOON OBSERVER AND HIS GUN
Claims Improvement in Violin.
A patent recently granted to an Illi-
nois inventor covers a radical depnrt-
ure in the design of the violin, the
body of which is cylindrical in shape
nnd much more compact than the old-
time Instrument. The souud post
and bass-bar in a modified form are
necessarily retained. The Instrument
Is provided with a chhi rest so shaped
as to be extended laterally while In
use and of folding against the instru-
ment when not in use. The appear-
ance of the violin Is most extraor-
dinary, but it Is said that the quality
and volume of tone Is the equal of
that found In hand-made violins of
conventional construction. The pe-
culiar form Involves a simplification
In the mode of manufacture nnd ad-
mits of Instruments being made almost
wholly by machinery, while still pos-
sessing excellent tone quality.
"Only the Echo Answered."
"I know what I am." petulantly ex-
claimed a dusky young Nashville belle
in answer to an extended and caustic
reprimand from her mother, who had
bw>n provoked by the daughter's fla-
grant defiance of certain social con-
ventions.
"I knows what yo'ahm," was the
squelching rejoinder. "But what ohm
jro' when yo' ahm?"
i
J
Pinto Bean Loaf.
One pint tfold (cooked) Pinto beans,
1 egg, well beaten, 1 cup bread
crumbB, 1 tablespoon finely chopped
onion, 2 tablespoonfuls tomato soup.
Salt and pepper to taste. Combine In-
gredients and shapo Into loaf and
bake 25 minutes.
Potato Pattlee.
One and one-half cups boiled pota-
toes, 2 tablespoons grated cheese, 9
tp.beUpoons thick meat gravy, 1V4 tea-
spoons onion juice, salt and pepper.
Mix all together, place In greased ran*
kins and heat In the oven.
ever a French battleplane spies a captive German observation bal-
loon urslir does his beet to riddle It with machines Bre. The constant
destr Un^of their sausage balloons has compelled the Germans to provide
theiron w,l\er8 with machlae guns to protect themselves from attack. This
mott,te Se(>>i photograph shows a German observer In the gondola of hU
«anii'°c£r>r f\on with his gun read/ for action.
Corn Meal Wafflee.
One-half cup corn meal.
One-half cup wheat flour.
One-half teaspoon soda.
One teaspoon salt.
One cup sour milk.
Two well-beaten eggs.
One cup boiled rice.
One tablespoon melted fat.
Sift together the flour, soda and
safi. Add the other Ingredients in the
order given and beat thoroughly. This
serves six people.
FOOD NOTES
An Englishman failed to thatch hi*
wheat stacks and he was fined $100.
It doesn't matter who started the
war. Uncle Sam will finish it.
"Reduce and Produce" Is the new
food slogan.
Rabbits and Rats and Roosters are
in bad with Hoover.
The second helping Is getting to ba
bad form.
There's lota of money to go round
but bacon, beef and wheat can't make
the circuit.
The Germans took 2.000,000 bead of
cattle out of France. They took even
more hogs. That's why France needa
more meat.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Dunjee, Roscoe. The Black Dispatch (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Ed. 1 Friday, April 5, 1918, newspaper, April 5, 1918; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc152074/m1/3/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.