The Citizen (LaKemp, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 7, 1916 Page: 2 of 4
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THE LA KEMP CITIZEN
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rfHlidQHXSUUUlliniRy Bread has advanced to 15 cents a j
"' *" * 5 loaf or two for a quarter in Helena,
• a MonL The price had been 10 cents,
{2 three for a quarter.
Current
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The World't History }|
the past Week Told !|
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itiunirmi inn«rimtuii uIUtiliiu i"i 1"j inuia
European War
Antony Jannus of Baltimore, an
American aviator, was killed in the
Russian aero service October 12 last.
The main building of the Texas
School of Mines, a part of the Univer-
sity of Texas, burnel The loss is esti-
mated by Dean 8. H. Worrel to be
tr0,000, including the laboratory equip-
ment of the school and a large num- j
ber of valuable ore specimens.
* • •
The German submersible Deutsch- «
land which arrived at New London, j
Conn., from Bremen after what was
| said to have been an uneventful Toy- |
! age of twenty-one days, has a cargo
; of 750 tons of dyestuffs, medicines
< and chemicals.
I
TROOPS INSTRUCTED TO PRE-
VENT ADVANTAGE AT
ALL COSTS.
The Greek government hag been
notified that Germany intends to
sink without warning all ships carry-
ing supplies to the allies.
• * *
Vaux, the only strong point remain-
FRENCH TAKE FORT VAUX
Honors Still Evenly Divided Between
Contending Forces In The Cam-
paigns in the Bal-
kan.
Mrs. Annie Smith, the only white
woman in the Arkansas penitentiary,
was pardoned by Governor Hays Mrs.
Smith had been in the penitentiary
only three weeks. She was convict-
ed of having killed C. S. Dedford, a
ing in the hands of the Germans in barber, at Nashville, Ark., in Septem-
the immediate vicinity of Verdun, is her, last, and sentenced to serve five
threatened hourly with capture. years. Her busbend was convicted as
• • • accessory and also sentenced to
Fort Vaux, one of the most impor- serve five years.
tant fortifications captured by the ] , •
German crown, prince in his prolonged Paul Stier, sheriff of Queens county, I ^7" ^ T 1I181UI"ge,nis'
drive at Verdun, has been evacuated J New York, was shot and killed and I 0fiVemze'0®' f^5ced lo(J
four policemen and a deputy sheriff
were wounded by Frank Taff. a
by the Germans.
There are indication of the begin-
of a tremendous new Russian
London.—After months of strife be-
tween the adherents of former Pre-
mier Venizelos and the staunch ad-
herents oT King Constantine over the
ijuestions #f Greece's stand inthe war,
revolution of considerable propor-
tions has broken out in the region
southwest of Saloniki.
Only meager details are at hand, but
| these show that 600 insurgents, prob-
ably followers of Venizelos, forced 160
royalists troops to evacuate Katerina,
j pear the Gulf of Saloniki, and re-
squatter. near White
ning Ui a ireiueiiuvu.s new nu^ian Taff kJ], . Ser-eant Fltz„era,d
offensive in Galicia and Poland, says a 1 aftpr „ aioact i- nzgera a
alter d siege of an hour and a half,
in which sheriff, deputy sheriffs, po-
. treated upon Larissa, four miles south-
b one, -before i wegt( in TheSga]V> where they are ex-
dispatch from the Italian capital, re-
ceived by the Wireless Press.
The Teutonic allies in Doburja,
under the command of Field Marshal
van Mac-kensen, have occupied Hir-
sova, on the Danube river, about forty 1 _,« ho -Una.*.,? , ,
, , ... , , „ 'wiii pe allowed to vote under the de-
miles north of the Tcbermavoda-Con 1 ine ae^
stanza line.
licemen and bluejackets from the
United States torpedo boat Henry
tried to capture Taff.
• * •
Iowa troops on the Mexican border
ill be allowed to vote under the tie
cision handed down by Attorney Gen-
eral George Cosson.
. . . j -"'s1 The decision de-
Two ships carrying Americans have ■ c!af_es thal the ,law Passed during the
been sunk by German submarines, was Permitting Iowa soldiers in
and several Americans are reported,1 *\ army to vote still is valid
to have been drowned. The ships a. ,? orce Governor Clark said he
era British steamships Marina and tfPI>v,Di four comm{s8ioners to
Rowanmore. i ?° the bord" and take vote of
$11 lo^a troops. Two democrats an<J
At least eleven outpost steamers and lwo republicans will be ehosen.
two or three torpedo boat destroyers
or Torpedo boats were sunk or dam- r*4-
aged by a German torpedo boat squad- aSllinglOn
ron in the English channel between The treasury department has issued
Folkestone and Bolougne. a warning against a new type of coun-
_ . * * * . . terfeit five-dollar certificate. It Is de-
The French recaptured from the scribed as an unu5,uajly c)ever d
German crown prince in six hours tjon ™
and twenty minutes territory north 1 '• *
of Verdun that it had cost the Ger- The Alaska engineering commit
rnanB five months of the hardest fight- sion, will ask congress for between
ing and a half million men to take $1,000,000 and $11,000,000 for con-
earlier this year. ! struction expenditures on the gov-
' eminent railroad during the fiscal
Hard fighting is again taking place vear
on the Somme front in France between « ♦ •
the pntente allies and the Germans. Demetrios G. Wetaxaa, Greek minis-
British and French near Courcelette ter at London will be appointed inin
and on the Les Boeufs Guedeucourt ister to the United States. He will
front and to the south have been at- replace D. Caclamanos. who has es-
tacking violently. pousod the cause of Former Premiei
- „ .• * • i Venizelos.
Further Russian attacks on the *
troops of Prince Leopold defending The postoffice department is pre
the approaches to Lembe.-g have been pared to accept a proposal submitted
repulsed. It records heavy losses for by Count von Bernstorff. the German
the Russians in heavy attacks on the ambassador, that mails between this
positions recently won by the Ger-; country and Germany be transported
mans along the easterly bank of the in merchant submarines.
Narayvulka. * • •
• . * Great Britain's note In reply to
Captain Boelke, the famous German ' American representations against the
aviator, during an air flight, came into commercial blacklist was received at
collision with another aeroplane and , the state department. It reiterates
was killed, according to a Reuter dis- j the contention for the right to black-
patch from Berlin His machine j list, but offers methods of relief to
landed v Ithin the German lines. Cap-1 Americans in certain circumstances,
tain Boelke had shot down his fortieth j * * *
aeroplane the day before. Treasury officials are considering
• • • whether the intials of the designer
The Roumanian armies have driven of the new dime just put in circula-
back Teutonic forces out of the cam-; tion, shall be eliminated and coinage
pulun* distrit in Northern Roumania. suspended temporarily as was done
annihilating four battalions of the in the case of the original Lincoln
enemy and also have scattered the l-cent piece. On the face of the
enemy in the Jlul region of the Tran- dime the initials of the artist A
sylvania front. Near Jiul the entente Weinman, appear prominently in mom
allies have captured 600 men and a ogram.
large kuallty of war material.
• * *
Count von Roedern, the German inr
perial treasurer, in moving a new
credit of 12,000,000,000 marks, est!
mated that the total expenditure of all Kiven birth to a son
the belligerents has been 250,000,000,- K * * *
000 marks exclusive of goods de- ,#fCar/ - P'*ywr'flhts and authors
stroyed, of which one-third falls to the j" fe/_ financial loss in the bank-
share of Germany and her allies. The. ( ' y ® ,e Pub'ls,lin« house of
monthly German expenditure, Count *>.llingham and Co.
von Roedern stated, has reached about Nineteen . persona—five children
2,187.000,000 marks owing to the ex- eight women and six men, lost their
tension of the fronts into Transylvania 1 lives in the fire which destroyed SL
and Dobrudja. Elizabeth hos pital at Farnham. Queb.
were 218 persons in the hospital.
* * *
u?pe Benedict fcas ent to Cardinal
Mrs. Mary Fairbanks, mother of Gibbons a contribution of 10,000
Charles Warren Fairbanks, died sud francs to head a list of contributions
dently in Indianapolis. in the United States for the assig-
... . , * * * t*nce of the children of Belgium
Shipments of 19,510 carloads of auto-1 • • •
mobiles from American factories in Oc- The British government will turn
tober this year set a new record for over to Chile five American-built sub-
marines as compensation on account
Foreign
The crown princess of Sweden has
! pected to receive reinforcements. The
| troops have received instructions to
| prevent at all cost the advantage of
i the revolutionists.
At some points Important successes
have been obtained, by the French in
[ the regaining of Fort Vaux, northeast
pf Verdun; by the Italians in a further
push forward In the Goritz and Car-
ca setors, through which they are try-
ing to reach Trieste, and by the Ger-
mans in Volhynia, near Witoniez,
where Russian possessions were
formed and captured aad twenty-two
pfficers and 1,508 men were made
prisoners.
The Transylvania theater Is witness-
ing a continuation of the advance of
Jthe Austro-Germans south of the Ro-
^henthurm pass, while in the Jiul val-
ley the Roumanians are continuing
their pursuit of the Teutons. There
still no news concerning the opera-
jbons in Dobrudja, except the state-
ment that the Russo-Roumanian ad-
vance guards are reconnoitering and
(Constanza has been shelled from the
fcea, but without success.
GEN. VILLA FORCES TAKE PARRAL
Bandit Now Only A Hundred Miles
From Chihuahua.
Domestic
that month.
. u o w „ * r,*. of the delay in delivery of dread
John Sebastian Little. 65 years old. naughts which w
fi rmer governor of Arkansas and for
ere contracted for in
England by Chile.
mer congressman from that state, died . • •
at Little Rock Railroad and telegraph communica-
_ .. . , * * * Ho with Chihuahua City from the
Follow,", deliberations which oc iH,rder htve ,nter t(.d ,nJ
copied eight,-four hour., ,h. jory In ,-hlhu>hu, Clty „ |8>|
J',h" ' °P'','"dh °' <> ■ railroad ha, been d«,roved north.
V,. ? r- ^ ,* !"g soulh "d ' the Chihuahua state
. k MI antr-Cathollc lee- capital. All train service between
•t all on Feb 3, 191&
I
of
i-h^il. Texaf.
of V.'i'lirm Fl
.►tit in a vcniiV. of net guilty.
Juarez and Chihuahua City bag been
I annulled.
El Paso.—A message received by
Americans from Chihuahua City re-
ported that Parral, Chihuahua, had
been taken by Villa troops. This
place was given as his objective when
the bandit moved south from Santa
Ysabel.
As far as is known here there are
pnly nine Americans employed at Par-
jral and in the Parral district at the
jpresent time.
Parral is 54 miles southwest of Jim-
dnez, Chihuahua, and 110 miles in a
straight line south of Chihuahua City.
Carranza Consul Eduardo Soriano
Bravo denied that Parral had been
taken. He said General Luis Herrera
had a garrison of 2,000 men in Parral
and said the garrison was well sup-
plied with ammunition, arms and artil-
lery. It has been reported a bush
tattle was waged for the garrison.
STOCKHOLDERS SUE HENRY FORD
Want Earnings Distributed Instead of
Put Back Into Business.
Detroit.—John and Horace Dodge,
automobile manufacturers and stock-
holders in the Ford Motor Co., otv
tained a temporary injunction in cir-
cuit court here restraining Henry Ford
from using the assets of the Ford Mo
tor Company to extend the business as
planned, instead of distributing profits
in dividends.
In their application to the court th«
Dodge brothers allege that increased
labor costs and unstable business con-
ditions coming at the end of the war
make "reckless expenditures of the
company's assets unwise."
AVIATOR MAKES^NEW RECORD
CarSstrom Failed In Continuous Chi-
cago-New York Run, However.
New York.—Victor Carlstrom, flying
in the New York Times mail-carrying
aeroplane, failed in his attempt to fly
from Chicago to New York without a
stop, but broke the American cross-
country, non-stop record when he flew
from Chicago to Erie. Pa., a distance
f 480 miles in 257H minutes. Carls-
trom also broke the speed record for
distance flying, his average time being
about 112 miles an hour
A defective joint in the gasoline
feed connection forced the aviator to
descend at Erie for repairs and a
fresh fuel supply. After resuming
flight he found it impossible to reach
New York before night and came
down at Hammondsport. thus adding
155 mi!< s to his day's flight, making a
total ot about 35
DISASTER OFF IRISH COAST
COLLISION AT SEA CAUSED 8Y
STORM.
I
Death List In Accident Off Irish Coast
Placed at Ninety-One.—Many
bodies Recovered.
Belfast.—The death list as a result
of the disaster of the steamers Con-
nemara and Retriever is now set at
ninety-one. Eighty-two persons lost
their lives on the Connemara and nine
one the Retriever. Sixty-nine bodies
have been recovered. The collision
occurred at 8:30 o'clock in the even-
ing, a mile off the coast. The sole sur-
vivor of the Retriever, James Boyle,
was in the water half an hour cling-
ing to an overturned boat which waa
washed ashore.
The disaster was due directly to a
storm. The incoming Retriever and
the outgoing Connemara were steer-
ing the proper courses to pass each
other in the narrow channel of Green-
ore harbor. The vessels were nearly
abeam when a huge wage struck the
Retriever, laden with coal, altering
her course. Before she could recover
her bow was driven amidships into
the Connemara which immediately
began to settle, turning over five min-
utes later. The Retriever was so se-
verely damaged that she sank in a
guarter of an hour.
The collision was seen from the
shore but the sea was too rough to
permit of assistance being sent. The
boilers of both steamers exploded aft-
er the collision, killing a great num-
ber of the persons on board, as was
made evident by the mutilated bodies
washed ashore. Those on board did
not even have time to obtain life belts,
as none of the dead was found to be
provided with them.
SERMANS HAVE SENSE OF HUMOR
Kaiser Says Poland Is Real, Sure-
Enough Kingdom.
Berlin.—"Polish provinces occupied
by troops of the central powers," says
the Overseas News Agency, "were the
scene of a great and momentous his-
toric event. Germany and Austria-
Hungary, by joint action, proclaimed
Warsaw and Lublin the kingdom of
Poland and re-established the right of
the Polish nation to control its own
destinies, to live an independent na-
tional life and to govern itself by
chosen representatives of the nation.
"Thus the ancient kingdom of Po-
land is now resurrected to new life.
The Poles are freed from Russian op-
pression, no more to be trodden under
the heels of the Cassack. The liberty
that had been destroyed a century ago
on Russian instigation now is re-
stored. The rule of the knout has
been abolished. Poland has been
given back to western civilization."
The manifesto issued at Warsaw
and Lublin decrees that Poland shall
be "a national state with a hereditary
monarchy and constitutional govern-
ment." The exact frontiers of the
kingdom of Poland shall be outlined
later.
I. W. W'S. BATTLE WITH OFFICERS
Serious Engagement Occurs at Ever-
ett, Wash.
Everett, Wash.—At least five were
killed and forty wounded in € pitched
battle at the Everett city wharf be-
tween 250 members of the Industrial
Workers of the World and a posse of
150 citizens headed by Sheriff Don
McRae. Sheriff McRae is among the
seriously wounded. The industrial^
workers came here from Seattle on
the steamer Verona.
The number of casualties aboard
the Verona is not known. After the
shooting, in which about a thousand
shots were exchanged, the Verona
turned around and started back to
Seattle.
• HADOWS OF COMING EVENT®.
Nov. 4—University of Oklanoma v&
University 01 Kansa.x at Lawrence.
Nov. 11—Kingfisher College at Norman.
Nov. 1&—Kansas State Agricultural
College at Norman.
Nov. 25—University of Oklahoma v&
University of Arkansas at Fort Smith.
Nov. 30—Oklahoma A. & M. College at
Oklahoma City.
Dec. 4-8, Alfalfa County Poultry Show,
Cherokee.
Dec. 5-9, Custer County Poultry Show,
Thomas.
March, 1917.—Southwest Live Stock
Show. Oklahoma City.
National Guard Ordered Ready.
Seattle.—Governor Ernest Lister
said that if the situation still was
threatening he would order the na-
tional guard to police Everett. Lieut.
General Thompson ordered all na-
tional guards in Seattle to report im-
mediately for duty and himself left
for Everett to report on the situation.
The steamer Verona, which carried
the Industrial Workers of the World
expedition to Everett returned here
with four dead and twenty injured
on board.
27 LIVES L0STJN MINE DISASTER
Fatal Explosion In Coal Working!
Near Birmingham.
Birmingham—Eighteen negroes and
nine white men entombed in the Bes-
sie mines of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel
and Iron Company twenty miles west
of here are believed to have lost their
lives as the result of an explosion,
caused by gas. Two bodies of un-
identified negroes have been brought
to the surface.
J. D. Benton, a prisoner in the Pon-
totoc county jail cut his throat and
died.
Citizens of Peoria township, Ottawa
county, by a vote of 104 to 46 have de-
cided to issue $19,000 in road bonds.
Lint cotton was sold last week at
Elk City for $18.50 a hundred pounds,
the highest price ever paid in this
Bection.
Seven, prisoners in the Okmulgee
county jail made their escape by saw-
ing the bars and forcing their way
past the jailer.
Young women students at tfce "Uni-
versity of Oklahoma have gone on rec«
ord as favoring a student honor sys-
tem at the state school.
W. A. Newton, formerly cashier of
the First State bank of Rush Springs,
was declared not guilty of embezzling
$7,000 in his trial at Chickasha.
Resumption of Indian payments in
McCurtain county has been ordered.
Payment was discontinued several
weeks ago. Indians are in sore need
of their money.
The controlling interest in the First
National Bank of Commerce has been
acquired by Ross R. Bayless and his
brothers who are in the banking busi
ness in Claremore.
B. C. Butcher sold a bale of cotton
at Mangum for $160.15. It was the
rrop from two acres. The rent was
$40.04. The producer received $60.05
per acre for his labor.
Dr. C. F. Lynch was acquitted at
Hugo of the charge of murdering E. R.
Major, who with his brother, Walter
Major, was shot at Boswell last March.
Dr. Lynch pleaded self-defense.
A site for the proposed Carnegie
library of Miami has been selected
and the board is now in correspond-
ence with Andrew Carnegie for funds
with which to erect the library build-
ing.
Rev. Oscar Ingold of Oklahoma, for
for the past five years state evangelist
for the Christian churches in Okla-
homa has been engaged as pastor of
the Central Christian church at Man-
gum.
Upon demands of an organized dele-
gation of churclimen, Mapor J. I.
Wood refused to call the election for
the suspension of McAlester's "blue
law" in so far as Sunday picture
Bhows are concerned.
J. M. Burton, a farmer living near
King feshe, has more than twenty-four
acres of alfalfa, this year. He has
had three cuttings of hay this season
off the land, and sold Jhe seed for
$526.45.
Two men were arrested at Coffey-
ville, Kan., by authorities on the belief
that they were implicated in the rob-
bery of the First National bank of
Centralia, Okla., October 18, when
about $6,000 was taken.
Failure of a new burglar proof safe,
long overdue, to arrive, cost the Citi-
zens' bank of Hinton $1,000. The
vault was entered by picking out
bricks in the vault wall, the robbers
taking the cash on hand.
Members of the Nowata County
Poultry Association will give their
annual show November 30-31 and De-
cember 1-2. The show will be given
In the county building and 500 birds
are expected to be on exhibition.
Howard Milhol and, an employe at
the El Reno city waterworks plant,
was killed when his coat was caught
in a cog wheel at the plant and he
was jerked into the machinery.
Frisco train No. 431 ran into a herd
of cattle which had esci^ped from the
Johnson pens just east of Chickasha
and injured thirty head so severely
that they had to be killed Most of the
cattle were yearlings and 2-year-olds.
Work has begun at Frederick to
raise funds for erecfiOn of an audi-
torium which will be devoted to the
free use of public meetings of all
kinds. The btfildlng will be 75x125
feet with a seating capacity of rbout
11,500.
LeFlore County had three murders
in two days last week. Patrick Mc-
Namara. 53 years old, a coal miner,
was shot to death on the streets of
Calhoun by Lee Todd, 20 years old. al-
so a miner. Todd claims self defense.
Matthew Brown, a well known ranch-
man, was shot from ambush and killed
while \ding near Poteau. His assas-
sin escaped. The killing followed the
death of James Allen, 20 years old
who was killed under similar circus^
stances near Lequire.
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