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"LEST WE FORGET"
1113 MORE DAYS OF GORE
TONIGHT CLOUDY;
WARMER THURSDAY
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A Newspaper of Character
FULL LEASED WIRE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARDMORE OKLAHOMA WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 13 1018-
YOL. 25. NO. 131.
EIGHT PAGES TODAY
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are en on
SCOTTISH CDAST
EACH l!OI)Y GIVEN SF.I'AlvATE
Nl'MIiEIt. WHETIIEK IT WAS
IDENTIFIED Oli NOT.
REST IN FIVE TRENCHES
Horn Addresses of All Identified Show
They Come From Many Slates ill
CrJon N umber of Oklabouians and
Teians Are Included.
A Scotch Seaport Feb. 13. Fp
to Tuiwday night 171 victims of the ill-
fated Tuscania had been laid to rest at
different points on lli' Scotch cox' t.
These were divided a follows:
American 131 identified and ";! un-
identified; crow four identified and
three unidentified.
The Associated I'ress correspondent
co-operated with the American army of-
ficers in obtaining these figures which
BO forward to Washington as the most
accurate and complete list obtainable.
The last seventeen of these bodies -recovered
all Americans were buried
this afternoon villagers again coming
many mile in a downpour of rain to
pay their simple tribute to the Amer-
ican dead.
The bodies were brought to the burial
place on one big motor truck which
was followed along the route several
miles long by :i squad of twenty-five
khaki-clad American suvivors and the
village mourners.
One of the villagers carried the Vnion
Jack while an American soldier held
aloft the Stars and Stripes.
At the Graveside.
At the graveside the American sol-
diers sang "The Slar Spangled 1 '.aimer"
followed by the natives singing "(lod
Save the King." The usual military
salute was then fired ending the cere-
mony. Temporary fences have been built
around 'the graves to be replaced by
a permanent enclosure as roon as the
materials c;ui be brought to thes. deso-
late shores. A I'.rilish colonel who has
worked duy and night since the disaster
helping the American bury their dead
announced today that the people of the
nearby countryside had started a public
subscription to erect a permanent mon-
ument to the Americans.
There are eight Americans still here
to ill to leave several of them still
dazed by their experiences. They are
quartered in nearby farmhouses and
village hotels. These men are F. I.
llencfiel E. I. I.ystrom Wilbur '. Nutt
!oyd '.. Hancock E. E. llarphum
Henry Schurting James J. Col well and
F. A. Gocher.
One American officer and fourteen
men still are in a hospital at Glasgow.
List of Identified.
The following is the first complete
list of Americans from the steamer
Tuscania now buried on the Scottish
coast. Each body whether identified
or not was given a number. Thus at
& point where seventy-eight victims
were buried side by side In a long
trench the numbers run from one to
seventy-eight in the following order
T. W. Herman L. :. Ueeder William
C Keown L. Roberts Orville rasper
K. H. Puffy Paul John C. Wood W.
II. Johnson H. E. Page C. P.. West T.
Tuttle Walter Brown Clarence W.
Short H. Stewart fireman member of
crew; Raymond Uutler Wisconsin;
James Logan crew; (1. V. Zimmerman
J. 1-Mwards I'.utte Mont; George 11
Keinhardt Walter Crelline William E
Bennett (1. E. Swanson unidentified
private William P. Moran (!. J. Jen
kins Charles McMillan crew; Kay
mond T. Hurst T. E. Lawson T. E
Davison W. Hardy C. II. P.esner P..
I. Weeks Henry F. Spidel David C.
Renton Julius 1). Wagner William .T
Tragesser Alfio Licari Percy A. Stev-
ens W. W. Wright Harcus P.. Cook
G. N. Pjork. John C. Johnson T. T. St.
Clair Arthur W. Collins CI. Lankcnan
J. C Cheshire Gerald K. drover
Frank Hums. Milton Tully Edwin R.
Tierkey unidentified soldier Philip E.
Lecgan Curtiss illard Wilson uni
dentified member of crew Frederick
Allen W. Raines Homer L. Anderson
Fred M. Linton. J. P. Ctiierney. J. L
Pearce Elmer R. L. Cowan William
T. McMurray Samuel A. Pentecost
Russell F. P.ennett Robert F. Warren
L. W. Ozment William T. Grogs I.
Rims J. F. Haw-ley W. MaSthews
unidentified soldier Samuel P. Riggi
Norman C. Crueller P. A. Agrlen J.
J. P.yrge Fred W. Rudolph Milwaukee
Wis.: unidentified private Hermann
Rupp.
Another Long Grave.
At another point in a long grave are
forty-nine bodies. They are all in cof-
fins and are numbered from one to
forty-nine In the following order:
Unidentified private Jesse M. RholleR
Capt. Leo P. Lebron John Jenkins
wireless operator; James A. Price
Boise; two unidentified privates; Claud
W. Walker Los Angeles; E. O. Peca
George W. Tomlins Ethan Allen White
tinidentifled private Oscar Lee Smith
Winters Edgard E. Burna unidentified
member of crew George Merns uni
dentified private Tula B. Thompson
Dell Walter Leonard Whittington
Sherman Lieut. E. Philip Lightall W
E. Wilson unidentified private Daniel
Trohridge Bryant unidentified prvate
William O Williams Fletcher Odell
Pledeger three unidentified privates
W. E. Bickers unidentified private T.
.T. Buckley .T. R. Bishop two unidenti
fied privates E. F. Young
Gilmore Elgel Percy three unidentified
privates Capt. Philip V. Sherman tin
Identified private unidentified member
of crew three unidentified privates
William Arthur Moore Oris E.
Hutchins.
In Three Trenches.
At a third placp forty-four victims
are buried in three trenches. The
!cntlnued on Page G)
British Diplomacy Is
Denounced in London
London Feb. 13. If anything is needed to emphasize the
diplomatic wisdom of President Wilson's speech The Daily
News says it would e supplied by a contrast between the prin-
ciples laid down in Washington and the "iciples laid down
in Marsailles. It adds:
"From the bankrupt statesmansb" -C. the allied confer-
ence has emerged what is in effect a J jertion of the knockout-blow
doctrine- No declaration ' $r aims is formulated ;
no distinction between the speec' -f of Von Hertling and
Czernin is recognized.
"The keynote of the preside- '.peech is the policy of the
opo-n door; peace is waiting p n as the central powers are
ready. Count Von Hertling .ng balked at the president's
fourteen definite proposals it.'
ciples and substitutes four fundamental propositions which
the chancellor can repudiate
self down a brigand lhe door
"We are accustomed to look
constructive contribution to the
Monday's address to congress
habit."
FOOD SHARK HI
New York Feb 13 -The federal
board here took its most drastic action
thus far when it recommended to ttie
national food administration today that
the food license of ;. I'.aff & Son. Incor-
porated wholesale poultry and egg deal
ers be revoked for the duration of the
war.
The Laff firm purchased eggi from
the Iowa Producing Company at 3S 1-3
cents a dozen last April anil sold some
of them as high us fl cents to jobbers
at a time the government fixed price
was 4G cents according to the local
board's findings.
This is the firm whose former head.
Barnct llaJT was shot and killed a few
years ago by agents of the so-called
poultry trust who he had foughi.
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
TO MEET TONIGHT
There will be an adjourned meeting
of the Young Men's democratic Club of
Carter County at 7:30 o'clock this eve-
ning at the county court room. A good
attendance is urged as it is necessary
that much work be done in preparation
for the entertainment of the Oklahoma
State League of Young Men's Demo
cratic Clubs which will meet here li.
annual convention Feb. 22. All Demo-
crats have been fully advised of the
meeting tonight and aye expected to be
there.
KAISER THREATENS RUMANIA.
Amsterdam Feb 13. The Berlin Tag-
eblatt says that the central powers have
addressed a demand to Rumania to en-
ter peace negotiations aud requested an
answer by the evening. The newspaper
says the demand did not take the form
of an ultimatum with an inherent
threat.
Technical Training for Soldiers.
Washington Feb. 13. To provide for
technical education of men needed par-
ticularly fur the ordnance bureau and
the signal and engineer corps the war
department today announced the crea-
tion of a special committee of army of-
ficers and an advisory board of edu-
cators who will mobilize schools and
colleges behind the army.
COMES UNDER BAN
Vilson s Latest War
Talk Pleases Britons
Iiondon Feb. 13. Great prominence
is given In last evening's newspapers
to the speech made Monday in con-
gress by l'resident Wilson and in their
lengthy comment they compare it with
Emperor William's reply to the burgo-
master of Hamburg in which the em-
peror declared that the victory of Ger-
man arms must be recognized.
The Westminster Gazette after re-
viewing the president's arguments says:
"The kaiser with the glorification of
his army has had his reply. For the
moment at all events he and his chan-
cellor seem to have forgotten the reich-
stag resolutions of six months ago. It
remains to be seen whether those who
passed the resolutions are willing to
revert to the spirit of Prussianism im-
plied In Chancellor Von Hertling's speech
and openly avowed in the kaiser's mes-
sage of yesterday."
Found Different Not.
Commenting on President Wilson's
reference to the address of Count CEer-
nin the Austro-Hungarian foreign min-
ister in which the president found a
"very different note." tho Westminster
Gazette says it remains to be seen
whether Count Czernin will be able to
maintain bis attitude or whether wv will
have a deal with enemies whose stand-
point still is accurately represented by
a kaiser resolved to make the world
submit to the victorious German army.
The Pall Mall Gazette says tho fun-
damental issue between Germany and
the entente allies was never more clear-
ly defined than in tho president's ad-
dress and tho newspaper whole-heartedly
endorses the president's declaration
against a "peace of patches."
Voico of One Tarty.
The Pall Mall Gazette disagrees with
Mr. Wilson that the voice of the Ger-
man chancellor is the voice of but one
party in Germany but adds:
"Happily the president is unambigu-
ous In his declaration that America will
hold to her purpose until the myster-
ious claim that tho Germans stand on
a pedestal of urmed strength above
Wilson goes back to first prin
only at the cost of writing him
still stands open.
to Washington alone for any
diplomacy of the alliance.
will do much to confirm this
ON $15100 BOND
Chicago Feb. lS.-Willinm D. Hiy-
wood international secretary and treas-
urer of the I. W. W. who with 175
other members of the organization was
indicted hy a federal grand jury on a
charge of conspiracy and sedition was
released ill bonds of $15001) yesterday.
Judge l.andis reduced the amount of
the bail from $25000 to $15000 despite.
the protest (f District Attorney Clyne
and Frank N. Nebeker special assist-
ant United States attorney.
In pleading for the release of the I.
V. W. official on bail Attorney George
F. Vamlevor said:
"The freedom of Bill Haywood re-
garded as a hero by his fellow mem-
bers will relieve a certain tension. It
has been felt by various of the I. W.
W. members and sympathizers through-
out the country that justice has not
been done This your honor Ls not in-
tended as a threat."
As soon as released from custody
Haywood went to his office on the west
side.
London Feb. 13. Andrew P.onar l-av
chancellor of the exchequer announced
today in the house of commons that
action would be taken under the de-
fense of the realm act against Col
Keppington the military correspondent
of The Morning Post for an article
which appeared Monday in the Post.
The article complained of was sub
mitted to the censor who refused his
permission to publish it. The article
afterward was published in a different
form without being submitted to the
censor.
SOLDIER INSURANCE roi'lT.AU.
Houston Texas Feb. 13. Although
5.000 men short of war strength unof
ficial figures show that Camp Logan
passed the $300000000 mark in war in
surance when the campaign closed.
the rest of tho world is brought to
naught."
The Globe considers the president's
speech shows there is as yet no hope
of accord between enteno nations and
central powers "and despite the con
ciliatory tone of his address" the news-
paper adds "that fact is obviously as
clear to the president as to ourselves."
Must Come Into Often.
Tho Star which has been a severe
critic of the report of the Versailles of-
ficer cannot reconcile the report with
the president's address. The newspaper
says:
"Wilson speaks in the language of
democracy. The Versailles report Is
written in the jargon of old secret
diplomacy. Secret treaties must be re-
pudiated. Our government must come
Into the open and range itself with
America. If this government has neith-
er the moral courage nor the will power
to break away from the foul past then
let us have a clean government that
will do so. British democracy Is
at one with American democracy in a
determination not to live in a world
governed by intrigue and force."
Paris Editorial Opinion.
Paris Feb. 13. "All the entente al-
lies will approve the laws formulated
In President Wilson's message" says
The Temps in an editorial dealing with
two striking items of news the dec-
laration of peace mado by Leon Trot-
zky. the bolshevik foreign minister
and President Wilson's reply to Count
'Wn Hertling the German imperial
chancellor and Count Czernin the Aus-
trian foreign minister.
"Mr. Wilson's plan is welding to-
gether the economic und territorial
stipulations" the newspaper says. "Im-
pels Germany's directors to accept a
Just peace for they fear a boycott after
the war which would ruin them. Trot-
zky's gesture encourages them to pro-
long their war of conquest through the
possibility of obtaining provisions
through Russia.'
HAYWOOD RELEASED
ENGLISH COLONEL
BE PROSECUTED
WAR ACRE ON EVERY
EAK.M. NEW IDEA OF
(HADY COUNTY YOITII
Chickasha Okla. Feb. 13. Ver-
non Keith a farmer boy who
lives three miles west of Chick-
asha can't go to war for the rea-
son that the examining physi-
cians of the Grady County ex-
emption board disqualified him
fur physical disability but that
does not keep Kritli from doing
his part to help w in the war. lie
Is organizing the farmers of Grady
County on a plan of his own
origin which if successful will
put a "war acre" on every farm
In this county.
Keith's plan is for every farmer
in the county to set aside at least
one acre of his farm to plant
thereon whatever crop he may
choose to give it an especially
good tending and when the crop
is sold to invest the entire pro-
ceeds in war savings stamps.
Keith goes further than this and
Is advocating among the farmers
that they also set aside a call or
pig or both a.s "var stock" and
when sold to spend the entire
proceeds for war savings stamps.
The plan has so far been suc-
cessful and Keith reports that ho
Is enlisting a number of farmers
in the movement.
SALES AGENCIES FOB
Judge Thomas W. Champion chair
man for Carter County in t lie war sav-
ings stamp campaign Is establishing
sales agencie.s at many points throng-n
ut the county. The appointments have
been sent out but before these are made
final they must in all cases be approved
by the postmaster in the respective
towns and cities at which the appointees
reside.
Hanks stores all postolfioes mos. of
the merchants throughout the county
and all the schoolteachers will have tae
stamps for sale when tho list is finally
completed. The following appointments
have been made approved and returned
to Judge Champion:
Ardinore.
K. T. Foster West Main.
Ioo N. London West Main.
Theo Torgerson 303 West Main.
McCharen & Harlan. 225 West Main.
Jackson P.ros.. 317 West Main.
New Stale Hardware and Harness
Company.
'5. D. Kesselring 707 West Main
G. M. Henley. 12fi West Main.
Morehead -Elliott Company A street
and First avenue southwest.
G. A. Ramsey 0 A street southwest.
Consumers Liijit and Power Com
'any 104 West Main.
Chickasaw Lumber Company West
Main.
C. V. Hotchkiss. 7 West Main
Ilomar I rug Company 15 North
Washington.
I'.riarwood Hotel North Washington
S. It. Kress & Co.. West Main.
Thompson it Wilkinson 13 North
Washington
Mrs. Mabel Wilson Randol Hotel.
Tom L. Frame 129 West Main.
II. Levy 7 North Washington.
W. Newman. West Main.
1'rown & Hridgman. 3oo West Main
R. A. Peterson 230 West .Main
E. P.. Luke West Main.
Chickasaw Furniture Company West
Main.
F. W. Woolworth Comiany. 12S West
Main.
W. L. Dilworth. 121 West Main
Pass Furniture and Carpet Company
West Main.
C. G. Squires. 118 West Main.
Fred W. Horn 11S West Main.
Albert Solomon West Main.
Peoples Loan anil Pudding Associa
tion 5 A southwest.
Chickasaw Title Company. 7 A south
west.
J. V. Krueger 11 West Main.
J. R. Duncan 19-25 South Washing
ton.
Charles W. Westerheide
west.
Ringer Drug Company
Main.
15 A south
West
G. C.
Dick
J. M.
N. T.
liOlH
Adams.
Calloway.
Crosly.
P.urk.
Bradford.
J. M. Lamb.
Mrs. Mary V. Marvin.
Jim Carroll.
T. J. Herring.
Kiss Bessie McCharen.
Mrs. Georgia Scott.
Miss I.ina Robinson.
Mark Kirkpatrick Main and Wash
ington.
Oklahoma Oil and Auto Supply Com
pany 200 West Main.
J. C. Moody Whittington Hotel.
.Tames F. Floyd 927 C southeast
John D. Stubbletleld 502 C southeast
F.. E. Denton 519 C southeast.
Tom Cooper.
Jrmes D. Tanner G East Main.
Slaughter Motor Company 110 East
Main.
Downs Paint and Paper Store 100
East Main.
Bivens Corhn & Frensley Main and
Washington.
C. B. Ladd F.ast Main.
Little & Sons 441 K southeast.
First National Bank.
State National Bank.
Exchange National Bank.
Guaranty State Iiank.
W. H. Greer.
Whiteman & Simpson East Main
Woodford.
E. I . Buchanan.
G. B. Akers.
II. L. Lcdbetter.
Milo.
John W. Johnson.
Hcaldlnii.
C. II. McDonald.
M. M. Smith.
Perry Carpenter.
Mike Mikels.
George H. Hall.
A. L. Woodhouse.
W S Rimbey.
Hoxbar.
Pearl Blankensh.
Isaac Blankenshlp.
John T.
to Quit
Chairmanship of G. 0. P
IHLLET1N.
St. Louis Feb. 13. John T. Adams of
Iowa this afternoon announced his with
drawal from the contest lor chairman of
the Republican national committee. Will
II. Hays of Indiana will be placed in
nomination hy .Mr. Adams and his elec-
tion by accLunation probably will fol
low.
St. Louis Feb. 13. There w no ap
parent change over night in the chair
manship situation of the Republican
national committee. Neither John T.
Adams of Iowa nor William Hays of
Indiana seemed assured of a majority.
The committee meets al 1.30 this
afternoon.
Charges of disloyalty to America
against Adams were based largely on a
letter which Senator W. M. ('aider ol
New York produced before the execu
tive committee here yesterday. The
otter was dated in Perlin Aug. 31 P.U-I
iddressed to the editor of the Duhuque
'elei-raph Herald. It said that "a.-
Atneric.i has been Hooded with lying
ind misleading reports from London
iris and St. Pelei-.shurg" the writer
would like to see published in The
le;:raph Herald some articles which
was forwarding. These articles were
the German White Book and "truth
ihout Germany."
"I will make the assertion" the lettci
ontinued "that tin re are no more
icace loving people m the world than
the Germans from the kaiser himselt
to the humblest citbtn and there are
no people wlui have progressed further
in all that Is best in culture ami chill
.at ion.
Hut Germany in recent years ha-
surpasscd all other countries in pros
perity and she has Interfered with tie
ireign commerce of Great Britain.
This is the principal reasons why the
mall war party in England headed hy
the arch hynocrite. Sir Elward Grey
has nursed the anti-German sentincii'i
imollg the 'bloody s li i it' politicians o!
rap.ee and the degenerate aristocrnr
of Russia. This is the reason why Sir
I ward Grey while making a few
plays to the galleries in behalf of peace
was actually woikln.T twenty four hours
i day (o make certain tho outbreak of
hostilities.
'It is now perfectly clear to all of u
who have been living in Germany that
when Russia and France were secretly
planning to make Austria's dctorinina
tion to punish the Serbian assassin'
the occasion for the sudden attack ot
th'f Gorman border these two coiintne.-
were given adequate assurance that
England would support them.
"r hat r ranee has intended to march
r troops through Belgian territory it
order to Hank the right wing of tin
ernian army and that she was to di
with tlie knowledge and approval o:
England is absolutely crtain and tha
Hclgium was a party to the understand
ing is highly probable.
The letter closes with the predictioi
that the German empire would not 1
leslroyed. because "the hostile prepa
rations which have been going on ii
! ranee and Russia for sV'eral years
have been too evident and too threaten
ing for Germany to ignore so they hav
prepared themselves and will sueces-
fully maintain their right to life an
prosperity against the whole gang u
tevilish conspirators who have loreei
the innocent masses of Russia. Franc
and England to light against them."
TENANT FARMERS
MAY GET LOANS
I?
Ill
Washington Feb. 13. Congressman
Pick Morgan of the Eighth Oklahoma
district has introduced a bill proposing
to establish a new system of short
term farm credits designed to aid ten
ant farmers in building up a better sys
tem of production.
The farm loan act of 1910 Mr. .Mor
gan points out provides only for farm
mortgage credit with loans for not less
than five years. "Short term personal
farm credit is even more important to
agriculture and the farmers than long
term loans." Mr. Morgan declares. "It
is the short time loan on which high
rates of inti rest are usually paid. Short
time loans are better suited to credit
needed m purchasing farm implements
fertilizers farm supplies the employ-
ment of labor and the general expense
of making crops. Farm tenants hav
ing no farms to mortgage especially
need a short-time credit system."
London Feb. 13. Accord-
ing to a correspondent of The
Daily News facts are known
which bring the possibility of
a separate peace between Austria-Hungary
and the entente
allies much nearer.
Great reluctance he says is
manifested in Austria toward
the prospect of fighting with
British and American troops
on the western front
FROM GOVERNMENT
ALLEGES AUSTRIA
MAY SOON ASK
SEPARATE PEACE
Adams Forced
His Fight for
REPORT 29 MORE
TUSCANIA TROOPERS
TWO OKI.AIIOMANS AND FIVE
TEXANS AMONG LOT I.EKT
HALIFAX.
Washington Feb. 13. Safety of
wenty -one more troopers who sailed on
the Tuscania was assured todav bv an
uouncement from the war department
y men taken from the ship at Halifax
localise they were ill. The names of
the twenty-one men. who are now re
moved trom the list of missing and
du e the number of unreported to 30-1
How.
Rupert A. Davis Frisco. Texas; Al
M hia:i. Mission Texas; Henry K
u-eshee Hay ward Okla.; William T.
ot'ge Waverly Tenn.; Fred J. Groom
. Horseshoe Rend Iowa; Carl V. Ja
bson City lire.; Jefferson Davis
lies Winlicld. Texas: .less. Robert
Mine Peep Park Wash.: Roderick R.
McDonald R. F. P. No. '. I '.ellingham
Wash.; Jacob W. Martin. "IMS Clinton
ncnue. Fori Worth. Texas; Stephen F
Mead Heed. Ore.; Howard W. Menclev
isakwa Okla.; Erven Miller Anselmn
Neb.; Edward F Parker 40:; W P
treet. Grants Pass Ore.; Theodore Pol
ek. Adkins Texas; Roy K. Powelson
Jill City Ore.; Archie p. Roberts 1257
Laurel avenue. Salem Ore.; George R
togers R. F. p. No. 2 Pallas; JOlvin
I. Stephens Springtii Id Ore.; Riifus W.
'aff. San Saba. Texas; Joe L. Taylor
'OS Avenue C San Antonio. Texas.
(The two Oklahoma men included In
he above were reported three days ago.
md were published in Tho Aidiuorc-
to) Eight More Accounted For.
A Scotch Seaport Feb. 13 The fol-
'owing American soldiers from the
te;iiner Tuscania are ill here uar-
icred in hotels and farm houses:
F. J. Benlleld. E. L. I.ystrom Wilbur
'. Nutt. F.oyd H. Hancock E. E. liar-
ham Henry Schurting James J. Col-
vell F. A. Gocher.
SON OF GEO
FILLS 1000 FEET
DURIHGPLftHE FLIGHT
Fort Worth Texas Feb. 13. Second
Lieutenant Peyton (;. March son of the
icvvly appointed acting chief of staff
f the American army and now on his
vay back to the United States is not
xpected to live through the day fob
owing a 1000-foot fall yesterday in bis
lirplane.
Young- Match was commissioned only
i few days ago by tho American gov
ernment ami would soon have been
cany lor service abroad lie has been
in training with the British and Amerl
an siiuadrons since Sept. 23.
inly twenty years of age.
lb
is
TEXAS MERCHANT
MAY BE REFUSED
FEDERAL FOOD LICENSE
Washington Feb. 13. The food ad
ministration has refused to grant a li
cense to J. L. Gengler ot San Antonio
Texas. Investigation bv the adminis
tration showed that he recently ordered
two carloads of potatoes and when the
market dropped refused the consign-
ment allowing the potatoes to rot.
Gengler is now liable to prosecution
Tor doing business without a license
but no action has been taken pending
lhe recommendation of tho Texas food
administrator.
TO BE NAMED
Oklahoma City Feb. 11. The state
inspector of mines will no longer exer
cise ;iny control oyer the work of In-
specting oil and gas in Oklahoma ac-
cording to an opinion handed clown yes-
terday by the supreme court.
The court's action was taken in &
suit brought by II. H. Itrecne chief
deputy inspector of oil and gas against
K. I'.. Howard state amntor. because
the latter in March 1917 refused to
allow a warrant for payment of salary
to Ilreene on the ground that the state
legislature had transferred the duties
pertaining to the office to the oil and
gas department of the state corporation
commission.
As a result of yesterday's decision
A L. Walker chief of the oil Industrial
department of the commision is expect
ed soon to announce the appointment
of deputies who will take over oil and
gas inspection In the Rtate.
WEATHER FORECAST.
tor Ardmore and Vicinity: Tonight
partly cloudy; warmer Thursday.
Oklahoma: Tonight partly cloudy
and warmer. Thursday cloudy with
colder in northwestern portion.
East Texas: Tonight partly cloudy;
warmer. Thursday generally cloudy
warmer In ortheastern and southwest
ern portions.
west iexas: tonignt lair; warmer
except In southwestern portion. Thurs
day fair; coiler In the PanhaniUe.
Local Temperature
Maximum temperature yestu.oyv
degrees; minimum last nljjht 39.
OIL INSPECTORS
WANT ENGINEERS
FOR H TANKS
AMERICAN ARMY
GOVERNMENT ASKS BROTHER
HOOD CHIEF STONE TO I T 1C-
NISII EXPERTS FOR WOltK.
ALSO NEED 1
American I.womotives Are in "Itottfln"
Condition and Men Aro Overworked
the I Elixir I nion Official lWlares
and He Criticises Managers.
Washington. Feb. 13. The war de-
partment has asked the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers to furnish fifty
engineers for tank service and 1.000
engineers for transportation service in
France. Warren S. Stone grand chief
of the brotherhood today told the rail-
road wage commission he would furnish
the department the names of men avail-
able. Poring the Mexican trouble .Mr.
Stone said the war department also
asked the brotherhood for men who
spoke Spanish and wro competent to
move troop trains. He said he furnish-
ed the names of more than .100.
These facts were given the commis-
sion to show the patriotism of the en-
gineers and the part of they played in a
national emergency.
Never before this winter. In the opin-
ion of Mr. Stone have the- roads ap-
proached! the bad weather season with
so little preparation and with motive
power in such "rotten" condition.
'It looked a.s if the railroads were
trying to run down the condition of the
roads so as to run up overtime and
discredit the eight-hour law" said
Stone. Men working twenty twenty
live nnd even thirty hours at a stretch
he said were physically exhausted and
not responsible for any wreck that
might happen Mr. Stone declared.
"Po you think passengers on these
luxurious trains would sleep so soundly
if they knew the real conditions'.'" be
asked. "Hack of It all ls some ambi-
tious official who wants to make a rec-
ord by hauling a few more tons. The
only remedy ls penalty time and a half
for overtime work."
Stone reported that there was a
shortage of engineers which would ne-
cessitate working the men excessive
hours.
FORRESTER TIL
SET FOR FRIDAY
CKAVENS ALLEN AND DONAIll E
TO FACE (01 KT FOU MI'RDEK
OF HEAIJHON MAN.
Tho case of the State vs. Roy Cra-
vens Joe Allen and .1. G. Donahue ac-
cused of murder Is set for trial Friday
in the district court. It was announced
today that both sides will probably be
ready for trial. It was Indicated by
counsel for Donahue on arraignment
day that severance would be asked for
by him.
The three defendants are charged
with tho shooting and killing of Jack
Forrester at Healdton. on the night of
May 27 1917.
Forrestor was the proprietor of a
motion picture theater at Healdton and
tho cose attracted much attention both
:tt Healdton and here as Forrester hail
formerly resided ami had an extensive
Acquaintance In this city.
As the story was related at the time.
Forrester and his wife had left the pic
ture theater after it closed for the night;
that he was carrying a bag containing
about t'2'i In money and a pistol: on
reaching his home Forrester gave his
wifo the money and pistol to hold while
he unlocked the door and as ho did so
two men leveled pistols on him de-
manded his money and shot him. Death
was instantaneous.
Sheriff Buck Garrett and County At
torney A. J. Hardy wvnt to Healdton
as did many other officers to Investi
gate the case. Two men were arrested
at once as suspects and ono. wanted
In connection with the crime was re-
ported to be in Fort Worth Texas and
officers went there to question him.
Following this there were many ar
rests amounting In all to fourteen but
after sifting all the evidence then ob
tainable one after the other was re-
leased until all had been freed. The
three men now charged with the killing
were amonz the fourteen arrested at
that time.
It was not until last November that
the officers who had been constantly
working on the case made the arrest of
the three men whose trial Is now ap-
proaching. One of them had left here
and gone into the Jack Fork mountains
and it took some time to locate him.
The two who remained In this county
were not arrested until the capture ot
tho one In the Jack Fork mountains
had been effected when Horace Ken-
dall deputy Bhoriff who had been ac-
tive In the case on November 24 1917.
made complaint In Justice Hal M. Can-
non's court charging Roy Cravens
Joe Allen and J. C. Donahue with tho
killing. The prisoners were given a
preliminary hearing before Justice
Cannon Dec. 3 1917 and held to the
district court for trial. Since that time
Allen and Cravens have been In the
Carter County Jail but Donahue has
been at liberty under bond for his ap-
pearance i
A large number of wltnt ises ' have
been summoned for the trial' most of
whom live In Healdton
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