Beaver County Republican. (Gray, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, June 30, 1916 Page: 2 of 4
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REAVER COUNTY REI'l'RI.ICAN. GRAY. OKLAHOMA.
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(—Colorado 24
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11— Hawaii 10
It—Idaho II
11— Illinois 7K
14—Indiana jj
tt— Iowa 34
H— Kama* jg
17—Kentucky a
II—Ixtuialana 11
1 — Maine 15
10—Maryland 26
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24—Mississippi lj
K—Missouri U
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17—Nebraska 11
18—Nevada (a)
10—New Hampahlre 14
10—New Jersey 45
SI-New Mexico 1
12- New York 211
U—North Carolina 41
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•—Ohio M
•—Oklahoma 21
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— lthode Iatand 13
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41—South Dakota 10
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43—Texas 36
44—Utah I
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44—Virginia 26
47— Washington 12
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HOW THE UNITED STATES AND
MEXICAN ARMIES LINE UP
ALONG BORDER.
douglas 2,500
Jolumbus 2,500
£1 Paso 3,500
Rio Grande 1,500
•reeldlo 1.000
.■redo 10.000
Irownavllle 9,000
tan Antonio 4,500
IN MEXICO.
Namiquipa 3,500
Babrlcora 1,500
San Miguel 500
Madera 500
Qalena 1,000
Caaaa Grandee 3.000
Corralitoa 1,500
Aacenaion 500
good ; infantry, excellent, food and fair
by companies.
New Hampshire—Medical depart-
ment, fair; cavalry, fair; field artil-
lery, good; coast artillery, poor; In-
fantry, excellent and very good.
New Jersey—Medical department,
very good; cavalry, good; artillery,
very good ; Infantry, fair to good.
New Mexico—Medical department,
good; artillery, excellent; Infantry,
very good and good.
THE CALL TO ARMS
Tbe inllltla of all the atatea were
called to the colors In ths following
statement addressed to the governors
of the various states by Secretary of
War Baker:
"Having in view the possibility of
further uggression upon the territory
of the United States and the necessity
for the proper protection of that fron-
tier, the president hus thought proper
to exercise the authority vented in him
by the Constitution and the Inws and
cull out the orgunized militia and the
Nutionul Guard necessary for thut pur-
pose.
"1 am In consequence. Instructed by
the president to call Into the service
of the United States through you. the
following units of the organized mili-
tia and the Nutioual Guard of the state
of which the president
directs shall be assembled at the state
mobilization point (or at tbe
place to be designated to you by tbe
commanding general, eastern depurt-
Total 34,500
These men are stretched along a
front of 1,800 miles. This makes tha
line average nineteen men to the mile.
Total 12,000
Thesa men are stretched along a
front of 250 miles. This makes the
line average forty-eight men to the
mile.
Organized National Guard of the United States (mobilized) 145,000
AGAINST THIS FORCE CARRANZA HAS
In 8onora under Calles 12,000
In Chihuahua facing Pershing's front 40.000
At other points along border 15,000
Total 67,000
Condition of the National
Guard in the Various
States.
According to the latest war depart-
ment records, the condition of the Na-
tional Guard Is as follows::
Alabama—Medical department, good ;
field artillery, poor; Infuntry, fair and
good.
Arizona—Medical department, good ;
Infantry, fair and good.
Arkansas—First Infantry Companies
B, D, F and K, poor; others good or
very good. Second Infantry Compa-
nies O and K, poor; others good or
fair.
California — Medical department,
food; cavalry, fair; field artillery, very
good; coast artillery, good and fair;
Infantry, fair or poor by company.
Colorado—Medical department, good;
corps of enflneera, fair; cavalry, good ;
field artillery, poor; Infantry, good and
poor by companies.
Connecticut — Medical department,
very good; cavalry, good and excel-
lent; field artillery, very food; coast
artillery, go«>d aud very good by com-
panies ; Infantry, excellent and very
food.
District of Columbia—Medical de-
partment, excellent; signal corpa, fair;
infantry, fair, good and excellent by
companies.
Florida—Infantry, very good and
food.
Georfia—Medical department fair;
Infantry, fair and poor by companies;
cavalry, food; field artillery, very
food; coast artillery, good and poor
by companies.
Hawaii—Medlcul department, very
good; infuntry, good and fair by com-
panies.
Idaho—Infantry very good and good.
Illinois—Medical department, very
food; engineer corps, fair; cavalry, ex-
cellent and very good; field artillery,
very good and food; Infantry, very
food and fair by companies; Seventh
and Eighth Infuntry, Chicago, excelleut
and very good.
Indiana—Medical department, fair;
field artillery, fair; Infuntry. giK d and
very good by companies.
Iowa—Medical department, fair;
field artillery, good; Infuntry, fair
ond very good by companies.
Kansas- Medlcul department, very
food; field artillery, fair; infantry,
very goo<l and good by companies.
Kentucky — Medical department,
fair; lufuntry, fair and good to ex
cedent by companies.
Louisiana — Medical department,
very food; cuvnlry. good; field artil-
lery, fulr; Infantry, good, fair and
poor 'by companies.
Maine—Medlcul department, fair;
coast artillery corps, fulr and good; In-
fantry. giH>d.
Maryland—Medical department, very
food; infuntry, very g4>od aud fair by
companies.
Massachusetts—Medical department,
excellent; cavalry, very good; field ar-
tillery, excellent; coast artillery, good
and very good; Infantry, good aud
very good by font pun I es.
Michigan -t Medical department,
poor; engineers' corps, fair; signal
corps, good; cavalry, food; field artil-
lery, poor; Infantry, good und very
good.
Minnesota — Medical department,
fair; field artillery, very good; In-
fantry, good and very good by com-
panies.
Mississippi — Medlcul department,
poor; infuntry, fair and poor by
companies.
Missouri—Medical department, good:
cavalry, very good; artillery, excel-
lent; Infantry, very good and fair by
companies.
Montana—Medical department very
good; Infantry, excellent and good.
Nebraska—Medical department, very
Brig. Gen. A. L. Mills.
mcnt), for muster Into the service of
the United Stntes.
"Organizations to be accepted Into
the federal service should have the
minimum peace strength now pre-
scribed for organized militia. The
maximum strength at which organiza-
tions will be accepted and to which
they should be raised as sootf as pos-
sible Is prescribed In section No. X,
"Tables of Organization," United
States Army.
"In case any regiment, battalion at
squadron, now recognized as such, con-
tains an Insufficient number of organi-
zations to enable it to conform at mus-
ter to regular army organization ta-
bles, the organizations necessary to
complete such units may be moved to
mobilization camp and there Inspected
under orders of the department com-
mander to determine fitness for recog-
nition as orgunlzed by the war depnrt'
went.
"Circular 1 . division of mllltla af-
fairs, UM4, prescribes the organiza-
tions desired from each state as part
of the local tactlcnl division, and oily
these organizations will be uccep:ed
into service."
PRECIPITATION FOR MAT. 191$
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EVENTS LEADING TO MEXICAN CRISIS
The following brief chronology con-
stitutes the highlights lu the politi-
cal hlntory of Mexico, starting with
the Mudero revolution ugulust Presi-
dent Porfirio Dint, November IS. 1W10.
culminating Id the present crisis, as
follows:
1110.
NOV. 23—Francisco I. Madero pro-
claims himself provisional president,
and two days later Diaz resigns,
sailing wttb Ills fuiully for Kurope
May SI.
1912.
OCT. IB—Second revolution started un-
der General Felix l>luz. Two weeks
later he Is captured by federal
troops aud uprising upimreutly
crushed.
1913.
FKB. 21—Third revolution takes place
and Vlctnrlano Huerta proclaimed
provisional president. Gustavo Ma-
dero executeil.
FKB. 21—Fourth revolution, this time
against lluerta. started by Currun-
Mi. governor of Couhuiln.
OCT. 14—lluerta proclaims himself
dictator and abrogates constitution.
1914.
Al'ltll. H Paymaster and seven sailors
arrest«sl in Tamplco by Mi-xlcan sol-
dier*. Though released a few hours
later. Hear Admiral Mayo <leiunndc4l
an apology punishment of the Mex-
ican officer in charge anil a salute
of twenty-one guns. Tins was the
Al'ltll. 21 1'nlted Slates marines oc-
cupy custom house at Vera Cruz
and take charge of city
JUNK -4—Peace protocol signed by
"A It t" mediators al Niagara Falls,
< hitnrlo.
JU1.Y Ifi—General Huerta resigns us
provisional president
AI'G. 14- Tamilian, by agreement with
General Ohrcgon ami General Itur-
bide mimed provisional president
to succeed Francesco Carbajal. who
held otttce one month after lluerta's
resignation.
NOV. II—The outbreak of hostilities
0 til inch
The average precipitation for the State of Oklahoma for the month of May
was 2.13 Inches Considering the Htate as a whole, the rainfall was lighter than
In any preceding May in the past 15 years. There was enough rain In the eastern
and south-central counties to keep the soli moist and crops made normal growth.
The rainfall was rxpectlonally light in the north-central and western counties and
the drought was becoming acute over the best grain growing sections at the close
of the month.
STATE-WIDE
NEWS EVENTS
WAGONER HIGH SCHOOL TEACH-
ER IS ACQUITTED OF KILLING
EDGAR WATTS.
TIBBETS HEADS ENDEAVOR UNION
UHER KEWS OF THE NEW STATE
Llttls Incidents and Accidents hat Go
To Make Up a Week's History
of a Great Common-
wealth.
Muskogee.—The Jury In the case of
Corley P. McDarment, charged with
the murder of Edgar Watts, Wagoner
high school student, returned a ver-
dict of not guilty.
Edgar Watts, with Clark Mobs and
Dick Jones, students, who, during the
trial Just closed admitted they did
many things to deviT their instructor,
were sent to the basement for pun-
ishment the morning of February 9.
Professor McDarment followed for a
conference with the 5oys regarding
discipline. At i;oon he rushed from
the conference where shots have been
heard, crying out:
"They tried to murder me In there."
Watts was dead and Moss shot
through the head. The latter recov-
ered and was the state's star witness
against "McDarmenL
The jury took only two ballots; the
first stood 10 to 2 for acquittal and
the second was a verdict.
Norman Man Elected By Convention
At Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City.—The state Chris-
Hon Endeavor union on the closing
day of Its-convention elected the fol-
lowing new officers:
President, F. L. Tibbets of Norman;
vice-president, Miss Lillian Dyer of
Alva; corresponding secretary, Her-
man Garst of Oklahoma City , record-
ing secretary, Miss Athie E. Sale of
Enid; treasurer, William Zeigler of
Enid; pastoral counselor. Rev. H. E.
Shiffier of Muskogee; junior super-
intendent. Miss Gladys King of Okla-
homa City; Intermediate superintend-
ent, Kenneth Morell of Oklahoma
City; press superintendent. Harvey
Ferguson of Oklahoma City; mission-
ary and Tenth legion. Miss Ethel
Hawley of Guthrie; prison superin-
tendent, Arthur Tanner of Alva; quiet
hour and efbngeHcal, Miss Mary
Iiogers of Medford.
IS YOUR
STOMACH
IN A BAD
CONDITION ?
H
TRY
OSTETTER'S
Stomach Bitters
IT IS FOR
INDIGESTION
BILIOUSNESS
MALARIA, FEVER
AND AQUE
Willie's Conundrum.
"Pn, why is an Ice wagon like a
fish?"
"Don't know, my son, why?"
"Because it has scales on it"
For proud flesh use Hanford's Bal-
sam of Myrrh. Adv.
Terribly Hard.
"We'll have hard luck in this place."
"Why so?"
"Nothing but soft drinks."
HOW TO TREAT DANDRUFF
Itching 8calp and Falling Hair With
Cuticura. Trial Free.
BIG BANK CLEARINGS AT TULSA
Nearly $4,000,000 Changes Hands In
One Week.
between Carranza and Villa tahes
place.
1915.
JAN. 8 to MARCH b— Sporadic fight-
ing between Villa and Carranza
forces.
MARCH 9—Secretary of State Bryar
warns Americans to leave Mexico.
Two days later John McManui
murdered by Zapatistas In Mexiok
City.
ALIO. 8—First big fight between Mex-
icans and American ranchers tafcei
place In Cameron County, Texan--
American soil.
SEPT. 17.—Six Carranza soldiers
killed In fight with Amerlcun sol-
diers near Donna, Texas.
Oct. 10—United Suites formallly rec-
ognizes Carranza de facto govern-
ment. Wild Jubilation In Mexico
City.
NOV. 2d -Three American soldiers
wounded In fight with mnraudlng
Mexican trwps near Nogalea, Aria.
Forty Mexicans killed.
1916.
JAM. 1—Villa iitrocitles against Amer-
icans become dally.
JAN. IS—Fifty Americans massacred
by Vlillstns near Chihuahua City.
JAN. 13—Fight between American
troops and Mexican soMlcrs near
Fort Hancock, fifty-three miles east
of El Paso.
JAN. 17--\ ilia orders bis troops to
shoot all Americans on sight.
JAN 28- Eight Americans hanged by
Villa's orders at Carnejutla, Mexico.
FEB. 18—ortielal report innde to Sec-
retary of State Lansing disclosed
that total American murders In Mex-
ico numbered 14d in three years.
MARCH I Sporadic raids by Vlillstns
ncros* border become almost daily
MARCH l —Columbus raid by 1..VK)
Mexican rebels under Villa. Seven-
teen Americans sinin.
MARCH III—Ahum Iran troops under
command of Colooul Dodd enter Mex-
ico as vutiguard of Oeneral Pt «-
siting's punitive expedition.
GAME PRESERVE IS ORGANIZED
Oklahoma City Sportsmen To Raise
Their Own Quail.
Alva.—A party of Oklahoma sports-
men, headed by James R. Cottingham,
general attorney of the Santa Fe rail-
road, and R. E. Stafford, has taken a
lease on the ranch of Ben Hennessey,
in northern Blaine countv ior use as a
private game reserve.
Hennessey was formerly secretary
of the Oklahoma state board of agri-
culture and following his retirement
from offlee engaged in the ranching
business In the canyons north of Wt-
tonga. He has accumulated several
thousand acres of land which are al-
ready well stocked with quail.
It Is the intention of the new asso-
ciation to build up a private hunt-
ing preserve and supplement the game
already there by extensive propaga-
tion.
Tulsa.—Clearings in the banks of
Tulsa for the week ending June 14
showed a decrease of almost $1,000,000
from last week but still maintained a
mark that probably will not be equaled
by the banks of any other city in the
state, both in volume and in percent-
age of Increase over the clearings of
the corresponding week-last year.
During the past six days the busi-
ness transacted has amounted to $3,*
945,136, whereas the volume of clear-
ings last week showed business rtan-
sa<ctions of almost $5,000,000. The
clearings for the corresponding week
in 1915, however, were but $1,633,831,
or a gain for the week of the present
year of 141.4 per cent.
Ban On Soap Box Oratory.
Chickasha.—Mayor Coffman has is-
sued a decree that in the future no
one will be allowed to stop on Chick-
asha avenue, the main street of the
town, for the purpose of making
speeches on religious or political
questions. In the past, speakers of all
kinds have been making Chickasha
avenue the principal point from which
views of all kinds were aired at all
times of the day, stopping traffic to a
great extent, but the mayor now de-
clares this is a thing of the past and
will not be tolerated in the future.
On retiring touch spots of dandruff
and itching with Cuticura Ointment.
Next morning shampoo with Cuticura
Soap and hot water. A clean, healthy
scalp means good hair and freedom, in
most cases, from dandruff, itching,
burning, crustings and scalings.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L*
Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv.
Diggers of Anthracite.
In nn article In World's Work on
the situation In the anthracite coal
regions Guy W. McConnell explains
thnt during recent years the old type
of conl miner from Great Britain nnd
Germany has disappeared out of the
mines nnd that, "driven Into their
plnces by the extreme and peculiar
hardships of laboring down under the
crust of the earth, have come hordes
upon hordes of racial types more
physically fit to fight off the rheuma-
tism lurking in the 'dog hole' of a
wet chnruber and less susceptible to
the prevalent miner's asthma and
germs of tuberculosis. These are the
peasantry of southeastern Europe,
Russia and Poland. They are the
mnk and file of the anthracite field
where general conditions lwive grown
steadily worse," said President White
of the United Mine Workers of Amer-
ica the other day. "Owing to the In-
crease of 17 per cent In the cost of
living during the last few years, many
of our men are In debt to the land-
lord nnd Installment houses, their chil-
dren. In order to keep alive and stay
In school, subsisting on oatmeal three
times a day. Families are frequently
forced to live three and four In one
house."
Owen For President In 1920.
St. Louis.—Senator Owen of Okla-
homa will be a candidate for the dem-
ocratic nomination as president in
1920. unless unforeseen circumstances
make impossible the presentation of
his name. Announcement to this ef-
fect was made by Morton Rutherford,
chairman of the Oklahoma delegation,
as he formally issued a statement to
the effect that Oklahoa would not pre-
sent his name as a candidate for the
vice presidency to succeed Thomas
! R. Marshall.
Old Romance Revived.
Alva —Rev. C. B. Parkhurst, former
representative from Alfalfa county in
the state legislature, now a minister
at Amorita, has married Mrs. Mary J.
Knowles. In East St. Louis, after a
separation of forty seven years. They
were engaged to be married in 1869
but the engagement was annulled and
they moved to different parts of the
United States. They married other
sweethearts and raised families but
both have become widowed through
death of the respective husband and
wife.
Aged Woman Murdered.
Enid Mrs. Mary Giles, aged 84,
was found dead at her residence three
miles from town where she had lived
by herself for some time. A bullet
wound In her chin and another in her
throat which were evidently fired at
a short range cauved her death. Slier*
iff Hume's investigation Indicated that
It was a case of mt:rder, not suicide,
a* there was no revolver found any-
where about the house. Robbery was
apparently the lhotlve although noth-
ing appeared to he disturbed; the
house being In food order.
Two Thousand Men To Harvest.
Oklahoma City—Two thousand men
are needed in the northwest part of
the state to harvest the wheat crop,
according to a telephone message to
the state labor department from Labor
Commissioner W. G. Asbton, who ia
in the wheat belt personally looking
after the situation. The four employ-
ment bureaus have been notified to
send harvest hands to that section to
supply the demands.
Fair Crops In Rogers County.
Claremore.—The recent heavy rains
are retarding the work of the farmers
in the section of Rogers county to a
great extent. Wheat, while the acre-
age is comparatively small, owing to
freezing during the cold winter
months, is stooling out and promises
a yield of from eight to fifteen bushels
per acre, and will be of fairly good
quality.
Biggest Gasser At Choteau.
Choteau.—The largest gas well In
the state is that of the Grand River
Gas Company, in the northeast corner
of the northeast quarter of the south-
west quarter of the northeast quarter
of section 19 20-19. It Is only 307 feet
deep and making 70,000,000 feet.
Accounted For.
"There Is a lot of fret work In this
new house."
"No wonder, with such a nagging
disposition as she has."
Her Last Cook.
Mistress—My last cook shed teara
on the slightest provocation.
Maid—Did she spot It, mum?
Chance To Be An Admiral.
Oklahoma City.—Senator T. P.
Gore invites young inen from 16 to
21 years old who ei-ek to enter the
Annnpolls Naval Academy to notify
him. They will be a lowed to compete
for appointment es alternates.
Million Dollar Oil Fire.
. Cleveland—Lightning set fire to five
55,000 barrel oil tanks belonging to
the Gypsy OH Company near here,
causing an estimated loss of a half a
million dollars.
A Sensible
Thing To Do
When the drug, caffeine—
the active principle in coffee
— shows in headache, ner-
vousness, insomnia, bilious-
ness, jumpy heart, and so on,
the sensible thing to do is
to quit the coffee.
It's easy, having at hand the
delicious pure food-drink
Instant
Posfcum
It is made from wheat
roasted with a bit of whole-
some molasses and is free
from any harmful substance.
Thousands who prefer to
protect their health, use
rostum with comfort and
delight.
Made in the cup—instantly
■—with hot water. Conven-
ient, nourishing, satisfying.
" There's a Reason n
for
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