The Daily Ardmoreite. (Ardmore, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 137, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 16, 1915 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME TWENTY-ONE HOME EDITION
ARDMORE OKLA. TUESDAY MARCH 16 1915.
4:00 P.M.
NUMBER 137.
IRE BATTERIES
ALLIED FLEET
Attacking Warships Sunday Silenced Several Turkish
Field Batteries Above Kumdale at the Entrance to
Dardanelles Petrograd Reports Germans Continue
to Bombard Ossowetz and are Bringing up Batteries
Closer to Fortress but Advantage Everywhere is
Claimed Favorable to the Russians Deep Snow Re-
tards Developments in Carpathians Berlin Claims
German Successes South of Ypres after Three Days
of Fighting Official French Statement Says British
Have Recaptured Steloi with Many Trenches from
Germans Italian Navy Concentrating Near the
Dardanelles.
PARIS March 16. An unoffi 4fAthens report says
that the attacking warships Sunday . e'v Several Tur-
kish field batteries posted above Kumcla Sjhe en-
trance to the Dardanelles.
An official statement says the British army re... p-
tured Steloi with many trenches southwest of that vil-
lage. Southeast of the same point the Germans evacuat-
ed trenches which had been completely destroyed by the
allies' artillery.
In Champagne French progress was made the lat-
ter recapturing many trenches which they lost yesterday.
Germans Bombard Ossowetz
PETROGRAD Mar. 16. An official statement says
the German bombardment of Ossowetz continues with
the enemy bringing some batteries closer to the fortress
because of their ineffectiveness at longer range. The ad-
vantage is constantly with the Russians.
Along the entire Przasnysz front the Russians are
checking the violent German artillery fire.
In the Carpathians the fighting continues but the
troops on both sides are handicapped by the deep snow.
German Successes Claimed.
BERLIN March 16. An official announcement
says: . .
The Germans have captured the English position
near Steloi south of Ypres after three days' fighting.
In the Champagne district several French attacks
were repulsed with heavy losses to the enemy.
North of Beausejour several French trenches were
taken. The engagement begun yesterday in Argonne
continues.
Northeast of Przasnysz the Russians were every-
where repulsed two thousand prisoners being captured.
Italian Navy Concentrating.
GENEVA March 16. A Rome News Dispatch reports
a large portion of the Italian navy concentrating at Ta-
rante southeastern Italy and the nearest point to the
Dardanelles.
Why Greece Avoided War.
Rome March 16. A newspaper in-
terview quotes the Greek foreign
minister as saying that his country-
did not join the allies because the
triple entente failed to give Greece
sufficient guarantees of compensa-
tion. Sultan Remains Obdurate.
Geneva March 16. A news dis-
patch from Dedagatch says the Turk-
ish minister of war is having great
difficulty in persuading the sultan to
transfer tie capital from Constanti-
nople to Konieh in Asia Minor. A
special train is being held in readi-
ness constantly to transport the gov-
ernment funds and archives. If Adri-
anople is evacuated. Turkish troops
are reported concentrated at Constan-
tinople and along the Dardanelles.
Ruisiani are Advancing.
"London March 16. The Russians
are reported to be again advancing In
northwestern Bukowlna. The weath-
er there is very bad.
Barbed Wire Fence Built.
Berne March 16. A ten-foot
barbed wire fence has been built
around the entire German zone of
operations in Alsace and notices
posted that anyone approaching
within sixty feet of the fence will
be shot.
Calling in Russian Reterv'stj.
Seattle Wash. March 16. Russian
reservists in Washington. Oregon
SILENCED BT
AT DARDANELLES
Idaho Montana and Alaska have been
ordered to join their colors by the
Russian consul general here Twenty-five
thousand men are oflected.
They will be taken to Vladivostok
by Russian steamers.
Allied Ships Damaged.
Berlin March 16. A wireless dis-
patch received from Constantinople
says:
"It is seml-officlally stated and
most emphatically the British war-
ships Agamemnon Lord Nelson
Cornwallis Dublin and the French
ships Bouvet Suffren and Saphir all
have been damaged in the Dardanel-
les fighting. The British battleship
Queen Elizabeth has been struck by '
three heavy shells.
"The hospital ship Canada has left !
for Malta with numerous injured."
The Overseas News Agency today
issued the following:
"Constantinople reports eight Brit-
ish warships damaged and a great
number of the allies wounded in the
fighting in the Dardanelles and tak-
en to Malta. There are no enemy
soldiers along the Dardanelles. The
attacks on Smyrna have failed. The
bombardment ceased two days ago.
"According to the Copenhagen Po-
lltiken an Athens dispatch report i i
the loss to the British fleet in t'.ic'1
Dardanelles as two torpedo boat de-
stroyers and three mine sweepers
sunk and foirr battleships disabled
and 700 men of landing parties and
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Negro Kills Woman and Self.
Guthrie Okla. March 13. Cleve-
land May 25 years old a negro
killed Lorena Baker 19 years old at
Oak Grove in eastern Ixgan county
Saturday night May Is alleged to
have tried to kill Joe Burford her
escort but missed him. May's body
was found Sunday in the bushes fif-
ty feet from where the woman was
killed the top of his head being shot
away. Burford ran at the first shot
and has not been found. The girl
had refused May's attentions.
Sunday Bill Modified.
Oklahoma City March 15 With its
fangs all drawn the Sunday closing
bill was advanced to engrossment in
the senate Monday so amended that
it simply confers authority upon
cities and towns to close theaters
and moving picture shows on Sun-
day or to regulate their operation.
In its original form the bill pro-
hibited Sunday theatrical perform-
ances and movies but had not a
ghost of a show to he enacted. The
amended bill puts an absolute pro-
hibition on the Sunday operation of
pool and billiard halls shooting gal-
leries dance halls and boxing or
wrestling matches. i ;
TAX LAW NQW
PROVIDES THAT MORTGAGEE
SHALL BE THE ONE ASSESSED
LESSENS BURDEN OF MORT-
GAGOR. Oklahoma City March 13. The
new mortgage tax law is now in
operation in Oklahoma. It provides
a tax of approximately one-fifth the
former tax and the law specifically
provides that the tax shall be paid
by the mortgagee. It is made a mis-
demeanor for the mortgagee to evade
the payment of the tax by any
scheme arrangement inducement
agreement or devise by an increase
in the rate of interest brokerage
commission or otherwise.
The tax is 10c for each $100 where
the mortgage is for five years or
more. 8c where the mortgage Is for
four years 6c for thre years and
2c for less than two years. This tax
is very low compared with an ad
valorem tax or with the 50c tax that
the law has. heretofore provided.
In view of the fact that mortgages
are not taxable on an ad valorem
basis when they are taxed under this
law it is the belief of the framers
of the law that it will induce money
to seek investment in Oklahoma
mortgages.
The mortgage tax law has oper-
ated in the past to add to the bur-
dens of the mortgagor the money
lenders always evading the tax by
one plan or another. The provisions
of the present law to make the mort-
gagee pay the tax are believed to
be such as to bring the desired re-
sult. SIMPLE FUNERAL SERVICES
FOR MRS. J. D. ROCKEFELLER
Tarrytown N. V. March 13. Fun-
eral services for Mrs. John D. Rocke-
feller were held late Sunday in the
Rockefeller home at Pocantico Hills j
Only members of the family close
friends and employes of the Rocke-1
feller estate attended.
After the services it was announc-
ed that the body of Mrs. Rockefeller
would be placed in the receiving
vault of John D. Archbold in Sleepy
Hollow cemetery here until it is
decided whether the burial shall take
place at Pocantico Hills or in the
family plot in Cleveland.
Mr. Rockefeller Sr. had little
Winthrop Rockefeller his grandson
on his knee during the simple ser-
vices which were conducted by the
Rev. Cornelius Koelfkin of the Fifth
Avenue Baptist church in New York.
The body of Mrs. Rockefeller was
not removed from the mansion Sun-
day afternoon Mr. Rockefeller ex-
pressing a desire to postpone the or-
deal as Ion; as might be.
NEW MORTGAGE
BRITISH ORDER
UNSATISFACTORY
WILSON REFUSES TO DISCUSS
BRITISH ORDER CUTTING OFF
GERMAN TRADE PENDING RE-
CEIPT OF OFFICIAL ORDER.
COTTON WILL SUFFER
President Wilson Indicates that the
Outline of the Order Displeases the
United States and it is Believed
Washington Will Enter Protest.
Washington 1). ('. March 16
President Wilson today refused to dis-
cuss the BrKlsh order shutting off
German trade pending official advices
of the order but indieuted that the
unofficial outline of the order is very
displeasing to the United States.
The discussion by other officials
is taken to indicate that Washington
will protest to England.
Cotton shipments from the south
will particularly suffer by the new or-
der although England has promised
to pay for shipments seized en route
to Germany.
Marine Insurance Higher
New York March 16. Marine in-
surance rates to Frencli and British
ports in the field of operations of
the German submarines were ad
vanced today to almost double those
of last week. This Is attributed main-
ly to the loss of the steamer Indian
Prince with a f 750000 cargo of cot-
ton which is said to have swept away
the profits of war risk Insurance on alii
cotton shipped to England and France
since the war began.
American Plans Destroyed.
Washington D. C March 16. Of-
ficial hopes for an early Improvement
of the commerce of neutral nations
was destroyed by the British order is-
sued yesterday together with the in
formation that England declined to ac-
cept the United States' proposal for
a withdrawal of Germany's submarine
blockade.
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BRITISH STEAMER COMES TO
CHILEAN PORT BRING BRAVE
SURVIVORS OF STAUNCH GER
MAN RAIDER.
Valparaiso Chile March 16. Nine
teen members of the crew of the
cruiser Dresden sunk Sunday off Juan
Fernandez Island by the British war-
ships are missing.
This was disclosed here today by the
arrival of a British steamer with the
survivors of the Dresden some of
whom are wounded.
ELECTION DAY
Election day in this city passed off
quietly with a heavy vote being polled
in every precinct. Up to 1:00 o'lock
this afternoon there had been over
nine hundred votes cast and workers
in every precinct. Up to 1:00 o'clock
every voter to the polls.
The returns will be given out at this
office tonight and telephone calls
will be cheerfully answered after the
result is known.
The returns should all be In by 8:30
o'clock at which time the citizens
will know who will serve them for the
next two years.
No disturbance of any kind was re-
ported from any of the precincts the
counters are keeping up closely with
the count and shortly after the polls
close at seven o'clock the result
should be known.
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Stock Drowned by High Water.
Paris Tex. March 15. J. W. Bry-
an of Boswell Okla. who was In
Paris yesterday said large numbers
of horses and cattle were drowned in
in the forks of Boggy and along
Muddy Boggy the first of the week
by high water. The owners of the
stock paddled about In skiffs and
rounded them up and drove- them o
high ground but there "were some
that could not be managed and oth-
ers that could not be reached. Since
the water has recedea people are
going into the bottom and skinning
the cattle for their hides.
Orange Juice New Weapon.
Sapulpa Okla. March 15. While
Acey Favorite a chef at a downtown
caf was on his way home early
Mqnday morning a man stepped qui
from lwhind a lamp-post and cover-
ing Favorite with a revolver com-
manded him to throw up his hands.
Favorite was eating; an orange and as
he moved his hands up over his head
squirted a stream of juice from the
fruit into thrt eyes of the robber.
The latter dropix-d the revolver and
ran. Favorite hud Just been paid and
had $-10 in his pockets In addition to
a $200 diamond ring which he wore.
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JOSEPH COLLINS OF VALLIANT
SUES FOR $25000 CHARGING
HIS DAUGHTER IS HELD IN
NEGRO WARD.
Oklahoma City March 15. Alleg
ing that his daughter "a woman of
pure Caucasian blood the offspring
of pure Caucaslnn parents" has been
confined in the negro ward of the
Oklahoma state asylum as a negress
Joseph Collins of Valliant Monday
filed suit in the district court against
that lrstitutlon for $25000.
Colling charges that when the
woman Lee Collins was committed
to the asylum last year by the Mc-
Curtain county court the authorities
placed her in the colored ward with-
out consulting him and without his
knowledge. Afterward he received
a letter from the asylum heads
which Is attached to the petition as
an exhibit stating that "the mental
condition of Lee Collins (col.) had
improved." The fact that this letter
was sent through the malls and the
charge of colored blood made public
Collins states has damaged him to
the extent of $25000.
The plaintiff states that such state-
ments charge him with either having
committed a crime against the laws
of the state or else that he has negro
blood in his veins both of which
allegations have Injured himself and
family irreparably. Collins states that
his family is respected in the com-
munity in which he lives and that he
rightfully associates with and Is rec-
ognized as a white man.
BECOME GOVERNORS SAME DAY
Williams of Oklahoma and Henderson
of Alabama Were Schoolmates
Oklahoma City March 15. In hon
oring a requisition for a man charged
with violations of the laws of Ala
bama the other Gay Uovernor Wil-
liams recalled the interesting fact that
the requisition was by Charles Hen-
derson now Governor of Alabama
who was a schoolmate of Governor
Williams and a native of the same
county. They were elected governor
of their respective states the same
day.
The requisition proceeding was the
first official business between them
since they took their offices.
Bitten by Dog Boy Diet.
Tulsa Okla. March 15. Wm. Rec-
tor 5-year-old son of J. H. Rector of
Afton died of hydrophobia at Afton.
The boy was bitten by a dog about
two months ago and this week com-
plained of feeling sick. Hydrophobia
In Its worst form-developed.
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SPANISH PREMIER DECLARES IN-
TERVENTION BY THE UNITED
STATES INEVITABLE.
E OF FOOD
State Department Warns Amerlcuns
to Stay Away From Mexico Fif-
ty Americans Have Arrived In
Tampico.
Paris Marcli 6. Anarchy and
crime in Mexico makes intervention
by the United States inevitable is
a statement credited to thei Spanish
premier in the Petit Journal. He
says Spain will not send a repre-
sentative to Mexico to succeed Min-
ister Caro who was recently expelled.
No Employment in Mexico
Washington March 16. State de-
partment advices say that many Am-
erican citizens continue to arrive in
Mexico despite the seriousness of
the political situation there and the
fact that ono thousand unemployed
Amercans recently returned to the
United States.
Fifty Americans mostly women
aro said to have arrived In Tampico
recently. There are no bread sup-
plies in Tampico because it is im-
possible to get wheat. The depart-
ment again warns Americans not to.
go there. '
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Snipers Fired on Delaware.
Galveston Tex. March 15. Pas-
sengers on the City of Tampico
who arrived today said that Mexican
snipers at Vera Cruz on March 10
fired on the tender of the battleship
Delaware but no one was hurt.
British Steamer Detained.
K Orleans La. March 16. The
British steamer Wyvisbrook reported
that the United States cruiser Des
Moines accompanied her from Cam-
peche to Progreso after the Mexicans
had detained her at Campeche and
took $200000 from her.
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AFTER COURT HAD RULED THAT
THAW COULD NOT BE RETURN-
ED TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LAW-
YERS GOT HABEAS CORPUS.
New York March 16. By a writ of
habeas corpus after the court had
ruled that he could not be returned
to New Hampshire Harry Thaw's
attorneys today saved him from Mat-
teawan.
The writ will be heard Friday.
CREDIT SYSTEM "CRUEL"
Texas Governor Urges Diversification
of Crops at Salvation of South
Dallas Tex. March 16. Governor
Ferguson before the land hearing to-
day testified to instances of "cruelty"
In the south's present credit system
for tenant farmers
He urged diversification of crops
and blamed the system more than
individuals but said it usually pre-
vented tenants becoming land owners.
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Easley, John F. The Daily Ardmoreite. (Ardmore, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 137, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 16, 1915, newspaper, March 16, 1915; Ardmore, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc154175/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.