Sapulpa Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 145, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 1918 Page: 1 of 4
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SAPULPA HERALD
MEM3ER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION
An American Newspaper
By Americana
VOLUME IV. NUMB''0 '45
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RIGHTO’Wh.
IS GIVEN TO
FOOD TRAINS
To Relieve Anxiety of
Allies Over Food Pro-
mised By America
McAdoo Slashes Pas-
sengers and Assembles
Provision Trains
**Of t*
S\PULPA. CREEK COUNTY. OKLAHOMA. 1 HI FEB. 21. I9I£
i ® ® ® ® ® $ ®‘
"jUGH TRAIN ®
® _ DAY BETWEEN $
® NEW YORK AND CHICAGO •
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® By United Press. '*
. WASHINGTON. 1 I
® 21.—Throuuh passenger tidin'- ®
. between New York and Cklttl •
® will soon be limited to one last ®
® train each W) a day. »*• *
® officially stated today at ad ®
• ministration offices.
............
EXEMPTION BOARD
ANNOUNCES LAST
OF MtNSELECTEO
nOTARIANS AND WIVES
AT ST. DENNIS TONIGHT
Hotarians and their wives have
been extended an invitation by the
management of the St. Denis theatre
to attend the performance this even
Ing and will attend In a body. Seats
have been reserved for thia boosting
band and their better halves
During the evening the Rotarians
During tne evening u"
Thirifi Six More Men Selecleo wm do u.e.r i*n m b.«.-t
IIIIIIU 01* ITIUIG B16II OblVUIUU ^ f 8inita((a book* to help the
To Ronnd Out Quota 01162
OSAGES GET
OIL HOLDINGS
IN RIVER BED
SENATE WOULD GRANT
WILSON ALL POWERS
Special to Herald.
WASHINGTON, D- C.. Feb. 21
The Senate sub-judiciary committee
voted today to report favorably the
bill empowering President Wilson au-
thority to slah red tape methods in
the war government.
By United Press
WASHINGTON. D- C.. Feb. 21.—
To relb-ve Immediately t’e anility
of England. France and Italy over
America’s failure to d. liver th” f od
they expected. Director General Me
Adoo today assembl’d 431 cars of
provisions at Chicago. Th.ae arc
being made up into trains and will
be stait’d eastward as rapidly as lo-
comotives can be procured to haul
them.
This was the principal reason as-
signed for the curtailment of passen-
ger traffic as the ned of engines
with which to haul foodstuffs W3S
Imperative
BUILDING PERMIT RE-
FUSED OIL COMPANY
To Leave Here Saturday.
Mobilize Tomcifow
.Sammies to enjoy their spare hours
at Liberty theatres at the canton-
ments.
—---—--
SUPERIOR COURT
CONVENES MARCH 4
The Western Oil Slatin’, ''oinpany
will probably not reconstruct their
new oil supply station on the site
formerly occupied by the one recently
destroyed by fire. Although no au-
thentic Information confirming 'hi*
has licen given out it 1b thought that
the company will remove their tanks
to their plant Ju?’ northwesi of the
city.
The company was made acquainted
with the fact that cltl/.en^ had p.e
sented a petition to the cltv asking
that no permit for the rebuilding of
the oil station on the old site r»e
allowed. A building permit was
refused.
That a new home would shortl) be
started by the company was announc-
ed recently, but at the time no state-
ment as to where It would be located
was made public.
An attempt to verify the report
that the company would remove their
oil tanks to their retinery made this
morning, was neither confirmed nor
denied bv company heads
The local exemption l>oard today
announced the names of the 3I» addi-
tional men selected from l he last
C5, examined on oMnday to round out
the last quota of 162 men of the first
draft and wbc will be sent forward
from here Saturday aftern.oc io
Camp Travis where ’hev will herlL
training.
Mobiliza.’ >n of the men will be
under way tomorrow afternoon at
the headquarters of the board !
Those who live outside the city will,
tie quarter--1 in hotels for tn • night. I
Themen will leave here on a special 1
train at 2:15 o’cloct Saturda alter-1
noon.
Following are the last to he select-1
ed lo fill tils quota:
Walter Alhson, Bert Wo .’ds. Fieid-
i ing A. Samp-en, Wlfoid I. Garner,
i Hlvla Wormian, Miller il Swaffer.
Charles M. Jones. W‘"> tn. C Mc-
Goldrick, Charles F. Miller. Ben O.
■ The men will leave here on a special
tain F. Lynch. Saniii°l .. Mann. Fred-
erick H. Klock. Glen B. Salsman
Clarence J Adamson, Will Shirl* y.
Fred Mahan. Waldo R Huycke. War
ren Outcalt, Francis P. Oormley,
George E. Markart. Ira Dubbe !/,
Albert D. Spears. Sali-na F. Sambow,
DeWltt O'Neill. George Bussett. Por-
ter Huchison. Vernon Collins. Grov
Speakman To Tulsa.
Assistant County Attorney Fred
Speaknian returned yesterday after-
noon from Tulsa, where he spent yes-
terday attending to legal business.
He will leave for Tulsa again today
to take up the same matter.
17,6 6 OMEN
LISTED IN SCHOOL
CENSUS FOR 1918
Increase ot 1,996 School Stu-
dents Far Exceeds Expecta-
tions ot City School Heads
Here; Air . ‘ In
ter HfiCXilBon, vrrnoii wiiiup, j*u<
A total of 17,661 school children er ^ Kdgar. Grorer Butcher. Mat loti
for Creek county, an increase of 1.- | Tibbie, Ernest Heald, Hex Davis.
996 over 1917, Is the 1918 final count Henrjr gj0ker, Ralph Ward,
of the county school census tak-rs, I gjnflalr and Wesley Hinson.
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Seventy-five civil and criminal
cases are listed on the docket of
the superior court w hich conv enes
here on March 4. with lion Gaylord R.
Wilcox sitting. The session is ex-
pected to last almost as long as the
last session of ditrict court.
Federal Judge Cotteral
declares Arkansas riv
Bed Oil Case In
Favor of Government.
Reverses State Sup-
reme Court
..........
6 2,500,000 MEN PROM
UNCLE SAMMY'S FIRST
• LINE DRAFT RESERVES •
•
® By United Press. »
•
two and a half million 9
• perfectly fit men will form ®
9 America's first line draft r<- •’
.
0 Cr.
is) nutes than tt.e ft: mate •
...........
LONDON. Feb 21—General Allen
by's forces have advanced to within
four miles of Jericho. It was official-
ly announced today, ejrlcho is four-
1 teen miles from Jerusalem and Is
the Jericho of bible fame
Deputies Are
Mistaken For
Stickup Men
By United Press
GUTHRIE. OKLA, Feo. 21—Fed-
eral Judge C’ottereal today decided In
favor of the government in handing
down a decision in the famous river
bed ml property case involving be
tween t.n and twenty million dol
lars in oil lands.
His decision held t..at all royalties
on oil production In the bprl of the
the Arkansas river should go to
I the Osage Indian tribe, who are
under the guardianship of the gov■
I eminent and enjoins the r.’.uto of
Oklahoma and all lease holder ; from
prospecting for oil.
It was necessary to show that the
Arkansas river was not navigable.
This contradicts the Oklahoma su-
preme court decision within decided
in favor of the ownership.
The state and rninlnr companies
will appeal.
®®®S®@©®
® ALLIED LABORITES
® WANT SAM GOMPERS
$ TO REFUTE STORY
•
By I'nited Pres*.
® LONDON. Feb. 21 Irtkir
9 Henderson, the British labor
at il-1
® lied lahorite.*, today cabled 8-»b •
• .tel the g
® American Federation of Ijvbor.
. 1 . r* 111 .it.on of •
9 statements that ' r n labor •
® believes the recent Isvndon con- ®
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FOUR DOLLARS PEP YEAR
SLAV ARMIES
MOBILIZED TO
BATTLE NUNS
Petrograd Is to Be De-
fended At All Costs.
Americans and Allied
Envoys Prepare T o
Leave the Country In-
vasion is Continuing
John
Every ’md
the hali t
ads the Herald—jet
which was made public today. The
city allowed 2.924 or an increase of
242 pupils for city of Sapulpa
alone.
According to County Suoe intendent
O. S. Hens haw today thia ts one of
the greatest increases the courtj has
aver realized in the number of school
children. The last enumeration
blanks arrived at the county super-
intendent's office yeatarday and with
their coming the final tabulations
were made and announced. It was
expected that a great increase would
be shown, but the actual number ex-
ceeded all expectation.-..
White pupils in the county have
increased in number by l,)0i. there
liavinu been in 1917 only
while this .ear's cen-us reeotds 15,-
621. The greater part of toe In-
increase In school cbi’dren has been
not tty among the w :d was the
sdued an O'tncement today
*11 ere were 1,951 att > s-bool child
re taken itv last yet. k senool ten-
.- - and t«1". we-, listed this year,
an increase of only S9.
TEUTON SPY SYSTEM Q
UNEARTHED IN FRANCE
' The general store at Heyburn,
was robbed last night at seven
o'clock by three m.isked men. The
robbers drove up to the store In an
automobile and one of them ran in
and quickly covered the clerk, helped
himself to 1100 from the cash draw-
er and escaped with his confederates
in the machine.
Word of the robbery was flash'd
lo the sheriff's office and Deputy
Jake Elliott and two other men mo-
tored to .1 point near the Seliram
Glass plant, where they turned their gone to Hot Springs. The session
car across the road as it was report has invited Itev V h Lout ks o
. . ......a « a... this citv to fill the pci,lit ther
REV. LOUCKS WILL PREACH
AT TULSA SUNDAY
Itev. C. W. Kerr of the First Pres-
byterlan church of Tulsa, who is re-
covering irom a serious illness, has
RALPH BLAKE !S
IN FRONT TRENCH;
SAYS IT'S GREAT
Letter. Written Midst Scream-
Stiels by Sapulpa Boy Re
ceiled by Rev, Loucks. Leads
Working Patrol
BU LLTTIN,
By United Press.
BERLIN, FEB. 21.—“PRESS-
ING EASTWARD FROM
DVINSK, PINSK AND ROVNO,
WE CLEARED THE COUNTRY
OF THE ENEMY AND TOOK
PRISONER ONE GENERAL,
SEVERAL DIVISIONAL COM-
MANDERS, 425 OFFICERS AND
8.700 MEN” THE GERMAN
WAR OFFICE DECLAREO
THIS AFTERNOON.
Special to Herald .
PARIS, Feb. 21. A formidable Ger-
man spy organization to create an
Insurrection In Fram e while the
German offensive was in full swing
on the western front was discovered
today in Stetienne, according lo an
announcement. Many arrests have
been made
Subscribe for the HERALD.
ed the rabbets head’J toward
pulpa.
They Intercepted a machine which
I they found to be filled with women
| school teachers en route to Musko-
gee to attend the teachers’ conven-
tion. The pedagogues were badly-
frightened. as they thought the of-
ficers were hold-ups
In the exci’ement Miss Florence
Parsons, teacher of district school
No. 6. Just west of the city, threw
away her diamond ring valued at
$125, rather than hove It taken by
the supposed hold-tips The ring was
found after a lonu search.
No trace has been found of the trio
of robbers.
Special to Herald.
LONDON, Feb 21. German de-
tachements near Vitebsk distributed
proclamation* declaring resistance to
Germany would prove futile and that
German forces are preparing to oc-
cupy Petrograd. a dispatch said to-
day.
this city to fill the pclplt there In
his absence. In turn. Acting Presi-
dent McMtirtrie of Henry Kendall col-
legt will occupy the pulpit of the
Presbyterian church here on Sun-
day morning.
In McMurtrie’s boyhood back In
Indiana, Itev. I.oucks wag frequently
entertained while holding meetings
in the old Bethany church near
Rockville. Hia father was one of
the leading business men of Indiana
and the son is a most worthy suc-
cessor in his profession. The people
are urged to hear Dr. McMurtrie, as
he Is a highly educated and Interest-
ing speaker. There will be no even-
| ing service.
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‘MAS [ ER SPY' MAY
BE'>AN ORDINARY
WHISKY PEDDLER
a
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Discomccrt,nS - rather •
It appears that A D Martin, sop-, salesman
posed master spy whose trunk fell a mistak
Into the hands of Sheriff Vtoofter
yesterday, is not going to have much
trouble In proving an alibi.
At least he's not if Roy Stafford,
owner of the Oklahoman. Oklahoma
City's largest newspaper, the police
department of the capital, several in-
fluential attorneys there and lastly,
(District Judge Conn Lynn of Tulsa,
can have their way.
Certainly there had been
-but the snerlff ordered j
the Oklahoma City police to hold |
him.
Then came a call from Roy Staf-
ford the capital city Journalist Cer-
tainly he knew Mr. Martin and had
known him for years. A prominent
contractor, politician and a real pow-
er down that way and all that sort
of thing. The sheriff was obdurate.
He'd found evidence of law violation
I
NOT SETTING IT QUTT6
E
PONT RAN'
ANYTHING
today
f
N*o sooner had the word gem out ! and he meant to get hold of
YOU Ring AAV JDooW Ben ?
that the trunk with the plans for
airships, battleships and army can-
tonments. tmether with a case of
Oscar Pepper whiskey had fallen Into
the hands of officials and that Mar-
tin was wanted until the sheriff waa
deluged with calls from every direc-
tion
The police at Oklahoma City in-
formed the sheriff that A D Martin
was a prominent politician and a con-
tractor who had been engaged in
building army camps and canton-
ments for the government They al-o
added that he was a retail whisky
Martin.
County Attorney Karl Foster was
in Oklahoma CKy, on his way to
Ardmore and Martin's friends pre-
vailed upon him to call up the sheriff
and ask for particulars. Then Judge
Conn Lynn of Tulsa got on the wire
and pleaded for Martin He finally
said he'd have him here by Monday
and the sheriff consented to the ar-
rangement.
All of the parties who Interceded
for Martin claimed that the trunk
did not belong to him. Martin did
(Continued on page 4.)
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France, Jan. 25. 1918.
Dear Brother Loucks and Family:
This letter Is. or will be, rather
a peculiar one, for it is being writ-
ten in the front line trenches amidst
bombardment, shells and rifle firs.
I am rather elated to think and
know that I am one of the first
American soldiers in the U. S. army
lo be in the trenches fighting the
Germans. We have a sector of our
own that we took from the French
and I was in the first to go In.
Brother Loucks. war is awful, and
iSherman's words were mild as to
war; but at that, the people in the
United States do not realize the true
facts about this war, and you can't
unless you are over here. In fac t,
this war Is nothing more than a war
of mediaeval history of Crusaders
The Germans are. to speak In plain
terms, barbarians. The Turks of
Turkey are considered civilized along-
side, In comparison to the Gormans
To think of and to know of the many
many German deeds as to the tnno-
cent women, girls and children. I
can't describe them; but they would
shock you and to prove it you can
(Continued on page 4.
iSpecial to Herald.
1’KTROGRAD, Feb. 21—(Delayed)
Russian armies are concentrating
at Vitebsk to halt the Gorman in-
vaders. Commanders of the Russian,
armies on the wh<4# eastern front
have ord* rod demobilization stopped
and the soldiers have been
to defend their country.
By an overwhelming majority the
Boiahewlkl and revolutionary social-
ists in executive committee voted
to defend Petrograd at all costs and
the mobilization of all workers is be-
ing considered. •
Information was flashed to the
Hmolny Institute that if majority so-
cialists do not break with Germany
the independent socialists will start,
civil war.
The Germans have occupied Hap-
salanda and arrested all officials and
members of the soviet. The enemy
is advancing rapidly toward Pskoft
an Important railroad center.
A ust roller man troops are concern
trating along the southwestern front,
while forces of the Ukraine rada are
being whipped together at Brest-
Litovsk under German generals.
Fire Truck Runs Again.
Fire truck No. 3 from the east side
fire department, which has been out
of running order for the past several
weeks, has been completely repair-
today. A test of Us running ablLty
since ilie imporvement was made
yesterday and It is now fully as
good. If not better, than previously
Repairs were made at Central Sta-
tion.
Special to Herald.
AMSTKRPAM. Feb. 21—Germany
will recognize Russia’s "willingness**
to sign the German peace terms only
when a written agreement signed by
l^enine and Trotsky is delivered, ac-
cording to German officials.
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ANNUAL TEACHERS’
MEET AT MUSKOGEE
County Superintendent S. O. Hen-
shaw will leave today for Muskogee,
where he will spend the remainder
of the week in attendance at the
annual gathering of the Oklahoma
State Teachers’ Association, which
will convene there today and which
embraces, in particular, the north-
eastern Oklahoma branch of the as-
sociat ion.
State Superintendent of Public In-
struction R H. Wilson is expected to
be among the prominent speakers of
this year's gathering, together with
several well known educational
>
CURT EDGERTON
IS MUCH BETTER
Curt Kdgerton reported as serious-
ly 111 at Camp Travis, at which camp
he has been in training for some
time. Is now well on the road to re-
covery, according to word received
by friends here yesterday when C. E.
Bdcerton. father of Curt, returned
from Camp Travis, where he went
upon the receipt of the news of his
son’s sickness. For a time young
Mr. Kdgerton was considered In a
very bad condition and his many ac-
quaintances here were great!' re-
lieved when the news of his having
passed safely over the crisis was
sent out.
Although the attack of pneumonia
through which he went was an ex-
traordinary bad case bis physical fit-
ness at the time aided him much in
“ . overcoming the spell and It Is ex-
heads from other states. An excel- fhor,iy be as well
lent program for the annual meet bus JJ ^ ^ hu mother.
been arranged It was learned tod ay | went ,0 ramp Trav|s. will
and many topics not only concern ng ( ^uni <tnpulps within a
school work and Its betterment, but , 1
which have to bear much on the aid j *h,,rt ' me'
which the school have In their power (
to render the country and the govern-
ment at this time will be discussed.
Read the HERALD today, and ev-
ery day.
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