The Calumet Chieftain. (Calumet, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, September 3, 1915 Page: 2 of 8
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CALUMET. OK LA. CHIEFTAIN
Good and Newsy Items
of General Interest Con-
densed to Small Space
As Told in a
Few Words
WAR AT A GLANCE.
Italy has declared war on Turkey
and Is sending a force to co-operate
with the allied armies on the Gallopoli
peninsula.
• ♦ *
General Sam Hughes, commander of
the Canadian troops, was knighted dur-
ing an audience with King George in
Buckingham palace.
* • •
A rumor is current in Athens that
Turkey has threatened to sign a sep-
irate peace with the allies unless Ger-
nany declares war on Italy.
* * *
Bombardment of the outskirts of
Constantinople by a Russian aeroplane
iquadron resulting in the death or
Injury of forty-one persons, is an-
lounced in a dispatch from Athens.
V f
Recent operations on the Gallipoli
peninsula have enabled the BrRish
troopB to extend materially the area
In their porsesslon and to connect
(heir lines along a front of more than
twelve miles, according to an official
statement.
*
Martial law will be abolished every-
where In France, outside of the zone
of military activity after September 1.
This Is interpreted as a sign of confi-
dence In official circles that the in-
terior administration of France will
not be disturbed again by military op-
erations.
• * *
Eugene Gilbert, the French ovlator
ivho was obliged to land in Switzerland
on June 27, through an accident to his
motor after bombarding the Zeppelin
iheds at Frledrichshafen and was in-
terned near St. Gothard, lias escaped.
He arrived in Paris and reported for
tervlce at the French ministry of war.
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In the first German-Russian naval
battle, which occurred in the Gulf of
lliga last week, the Germans lost the
dreadnaught Moltke. three cruisers
iind seven torpedo boats. The defeat
Is considered as saving Petrograd from
further menace as the fleet was en-
deavoring to land troops to support the
land forces.
♦ «
The Germans in full possession of
the entlro Brest-Litovsk line have re-
sumed the offensive In tne Baltic prov-
inces and are pressing the Russians
both in the districts southeast of Mitau
and to the east of Kovno, in an effort
to reach the main line of railway
which passes through Vilna and
Dvinsk to I'etrograd.
DOMESTIC
About twenty people were drowned
and many summer homes destroyed,
when the Meramec river at St. Louis
flooded.
* * •
Nueces county, Texas, farmers de-
clared there will be great loss to the
cotton crop unless 3,000 pickers can be
obtained immediately. A call is to be
sent throughout east Texas.
* *
Rev. Edmund Kayser, pastor of St.
James' Evangelical Lutheran church
of Tolleston, Ind., was shot and killed
in his home by several persons who
bound his body with cord and left it
in a nearby lot.
* • •
A statue of Joan of Arc to be erect-
ed on Riverside Drive, New York, will
rest upon a pedestal made from the
stones of her prison at Rouen, France.
The cost of the monument will be
about $25,000 and has Been raised by
private subscription.
_ • • •
I' rench army officers at Philadelphia
have began examining 41,000 horses
purchased for war service. The entire
contract will involve more than $7,000,
000. The animals are being shipped
there at the rate of more than a thou-
sand a day from various parts of the
country.
• * *
Evidently laboring under the im-
pression that he had been slighted as
regards a parish assignment. L. M.
Leaches, a priest, shot tne Right Rev-
erend Patrick Heffron, bishop of the
Winona, Minn., diocese of the Roman
Catholic church, as the prelate was
celebrating mass, He will recover.
♦ ♦ •
From Newport, Searcy and George-
town, Aril., where camps for flood
refugees have been established, came
upepals for aid. It is estimated that
1,000 families who lived on farms in
the lowlands have been driven into
these towns and are absolutely desti-
tute. In addition, 4,000 residents of
Newport are unable to enter their
homes because of flooa waters and are
living in camps.
The National Tube Company of M
Keesport, Pa., will build a new plain
at Wheeling, W. Va., at a cost of
$6,000,000.
• •
The keel of the battleship California
will be laid in the New York navy
yard September 10. The California
will be the first fighting craft in any
navy to be equipped with electric en-
gines for her own power. About 12 -
000,000 pounds of steel are ready to be
used in the building of the bhip.
• * •
A revolver duel between a conduc-
tor of the Cairo-St. Louis Interurban
Railway and a passenger, who had
been carried past his destination, re-
sulted In the death of the passenger
and the probable fatal wounding of
the conductor. The duel was fought
on the railway platform at Cairo, 111.
FOREIGN
General Carranza has
capital to Mexico City.
moved his
The new Greek cabinet was definite-
ly formed and took the oath of office
in the presence of an immense crowd
which enthusiastically cheered M. Ven-
izelos, the premier.
• * •
The authorities at Milan withdrew
1,800 licenses to sell alcoholic drinkB,
increasing a campaign against alco-
holism. Many bars, inns, saloons and
refreshment houses have closed.
• * *
Every traveler leaving Franca
hereafter will be required to declare
the amount of funds in coin in his
possession. If more than 50 francs, he
will be compelled to exchange the ex-
cess for paper moeny.
• • •
A message from Hamburg states
that a company called the "Sweden-
America line" is being formed to carry
on passenger trade between New York
and Swedish ports with German ships
now idle in American ports. Dele-
gates or the new concern are nego-
tiating with German companies for the
purchase of ships, it is said. The cap-
ital of the new concern is given as
$2,500,000. The Norwegian-Bergenske
Steamship Company, also has appro-
priated $856 000 to purchase German
steamships in America, it is stated.
WASHINGTON
President Wilson issued a procla-
mation giving notice of the neutrality
of the United States in the war be-
tween Italy and Turkey.
• • •
Prompt ratification of the proposed
American protectorate treaty by the
llaitien parliament was forecasted in
dispatches to the stare (department
from Charge Davis at fort Au Prince.
* * ♦
Only two Americans were lost when
the Arabic was sunk by a German
submarine, and the total death list was
about 60. Failure on the part of Ger-
many to properly account for the trag-
edy will probably mean that Ambas-
sador von Bernstorl'f will be given his
passports.
•
While still awaiting a reply from
General Carranza to the Pan-American
appeal for a peace conference in Mex-
ico the state department issued a
statement denying that the United
States government had ever consid-
ered "any paricular man for provis-
ional president of Mexico."
The public health service, in an-
nouncing a tremendous increase in the
number of persons submitting to anti-
typhoid vaccination, declared that it
was estimated that in 1915 the total
number of immunized persons in the
United States would reach 300,000,
compared with 100,000 last year.
Count von Bernstorff, the German
ambassador, communicated to the
state department instructions from his
government expressing regret and
sympathy if Americans lost their lives
in the sinking of the liner Arabic
and asking that the United States
delay taking a definite stand in regard
to the affair until Germany could be
heard from.
• • *
Secretary Lane has approved new
rules and regulations to govern the
releasing of the Osage oil and gas
lands. It is understood the 4,800 acre
limitation is practically eliminated ex-
cept In case of the Barnsdale Oil Com-
pany and where production averages
25 barrels per well per day on quarter
section units.
B * • •
Germany's intuition to offer full
satisfaction to the United States for
the sluking of the liner Arabic with
a loss of two American lives was com-
municated formally to the state depart-
ment by Count Von Hernstoiff, the
German ambassador on instructions
from the Berlin foreign office. The
ambassador road to Secretary Lansing
a memorandum outlining the position
of his government. It promised that if
it was found that the Arabic was at-
tacked without warning the Imperial
government not only would promptly
disavow the acl, hur would give the
Unltej Slates "full satisfaction." Thi
it is well known « ou:d have to Include
reparation for th i Am>rionn* ic-t -•
assurance* that ,*iKb traeedie^ wo..Id
not be repeated.
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STATE CAPITAL HAPPENINGS
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LOST SUBMARINE RAISED AFTER
FIVE MONTHS BY USE OF
PONTOONS.
NOW IN HONOLULU HARBOR
Ship With 22 Bodies Sunk Without
Warning on March 2, and 5
All On Board Were
Lost.
To an Oklahoma City man, Dorset
Carter, belongs the distinction of be-
ing awarded one of the largest coal
contracts ever granted by a railroad
in Oklahoma. Mr. Varter has just
closed a deal with the Katy Railroad
Company, whereby he agrees to pro-
duce and load onto cars 800 tons of
coal a day for a period of several
T'onolulu.—The United States sub-
marine F-4, submerged outside the
harbor here since March 25 last, was
refloated and towed to the quarantine
station in Honolulu Day.
Although the F-4 has been brought
into the harbor the wreck Is still sub-
merged to a depth of six feet. Noth-
ing has been divulged by the naval
officials regarding conditions, if
known inside the vessel.
The F-4, commanded by Lieut. Al-
fred L. Ede and with a crew of
twenty-one men, went to the bottom
off the harbor of Honolulu March 25,
1915, during the maneuvers of the
"F" squadron. She was located two
days later and Diver John Agraz of
the navy descended 215 feet, estab-
lishing a new world's record in an
effort to facilitate the work of bring-
ing her to the surface.
Her crew it was eald might have
been alive at this time but attempts
at rescue failed and on March 30 Rear
Admiral C. R. T. Moore, commanding
the Honolulu naval station reported
that the F-4 lay in 260 feet of water
and would have to be raised by pon.
toons.
Secretary Daniels announced that
the boat would be raised at any cost
In order to determine the cause of
the accident and diving apparatus and
divers were sent out, leaving San
Francisco April 6 on the cruiser Mary>
land.
Much Wealth In Oklahoma.
Hubert L. Bolen, collector of inter,
nal revenue, stat/d that of the twenty
states west of the Mississippi river
only four paid the federal government
more individual income tax than Okla-
homa, which states are as follows:
Iowa, Missouri, Texas and California.
Of the southern states Oklahoma
years | paid more taxes ttf&n either of the fol-
This vast amount of coal will be „
stripped in the vicinity of Lehigh. I Nor h Carolina South Carolina,
and the machinery is now being in-J Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida
stalled for the great shovel which will r an. as.
uncover the ground above the coal. Oklahoma paid more individual in-
This shovel is the largest one in the | come tftx than Kansas and Arkansas
United States, having a boom arm of ,0ff,h®r-
90 feet, being able to clear a radius ^,r- Bolen also stated that from pres-
of nearly 100 feet. The capacity of ent indications caused by good crops
the shovel is seven cubic yards, equiv- and tl)e advance price in oil, he ex-
alent to seven ordinary wagon loads. Pects the income tax to Increase more
... , , than 50 Per cent this year in Okla-
Mr. Carter declares that the Okla- *
homa.
The individual income tax collected
homa surface coal fields are the finest
in the United States. Extensive bor- .
ings in the Lehigh field have shown yCar amoun,ed
2 NEGROES ARE BURNED AT STAKE
Mob at Sulphur Springs, Texas, Re-
veges Death of Deputy Sheriff.
Sulphur Springs, Texas.—In a fight
with an armed posse near here, Joe
Richmond was shot and killed and his
brother, King Richmond, both negroes,
was seriously wounded, and later the
body of the dead negro was burned
at the stake with his wounded brother
in Buford park in Sulphur Springs.
The negroes had shot and killed Dep-
uty Sheriff Nathan A. Flippen and
probably wounded Sheriff J. B. But-
ler.
Sheriff Butler and Deputy Flippen
had started to arrest King Richmond,
at a negro settlement nine miles south
of here, on a minor charge when sud-
denly anl unexpectedly both negroes
opened fire killing Flippen instantly.
Butler sustained several bullet
wounds after which the negroes beat
him over the head and his condition
is precarious.
The news spread rapidly and within
a short time hundreds of armed men
were scouring the country, searching
for the Richmond negroes. They were
surrounded in a wood and in a fight
witli a posse, Joe Richmond was killed
and his brother seriously wounded.
None of the members of the posse
were hurt.
more than a million and a half tons
which is easily accessible. The land
which will be operated by Mr. Carter
is five miles from Lehigh, and com-
prises a strip three miles and a half
long. A railroad has been run to the
field from Lehigh. The dip of the
veins is slight, and the coal can be
stripped for a distance of 600 feet
from a surface showing. At this dis-
tance the coal will lie at a depth of
50 feet, which is the maximum depth
which Mr. Carter will attempt to reach
with his great shovel. Ordinary sur-
face coal is not stripped below a
depth of twenty feet. It is estimated
that it will take six years, at the rate
of 800 tons a day, to exhaust the vis-
ible supply on the government land.
Oklahoma Is Discovered.
Oklahoma is just being discovered
by a lot of people. One of the greatest
advertising agencies in America lias
within a fortnight come alive, as it
were, to the importance of Oklahoma
as a merchandising field for national
advertisers. The government's crop
reports, and other indutsrial statistics,
awakened this firm. It sent its bright
young men out, and they discovered
the state. The result is this firm
is, to use the vernacular, playing Okla-
homa both ways to win.
Here are some figures: The daily
oil production of Oklahoma at the
present time is approximately 290,000
barrels. The prevailing price at the
moment (though it may be higher to-
morrow, and is certain *o De higher
before another twelve months; pos-
sibly double the price of today), is
75 cents a barrel, or a total daily in-
come from oil of $217,500, which
foots about $79,000,000 for the year.
The ten-year average for agricul-
tural products in Oklahoma is about
$120,000,000 per annum. This year ag-
ricultural products will far exceed
this. The federal government credits
the state with a large increase in yield
of all of the products of the farm,
and the prevailing market quotations
are much above the ten-year average.
A conservative estimate, therefore, of
the total valuation of farm products
for the year 1915 would be about
$150,000,000.
The market value of the coal out-
put for the year will total in round
numbers $10,000,000.
POWDER MILLS ARE BLOWN UP
Were Working On Big Contracts For
Europe.
Acton, Mass.—With a shock that
was left within a radius of forty
miles the glazing mill of the American
Powder Co., which, since the outbreak
of the European war, has been work-
ing to its capacity, blew up. So far as
known nobody was killed.
The police of this town and May- j
nard expressed the belief that the ex-
plosion had been caused with intent
to cripple the plant.
An official of the company pointed
out that the glazing mill, where the '
powder enters upon its last stages of
manufacture, is the only part of the
plant whose loss at this time woul
stop the output. Provision is made
for the occasional explosions that oc-
cur by having duplicate parts of mach
Inery in readiness but the only other
glazing mills In the plant here was
destroyed by lightning a little more
than a month ago.
Reduces Childrens Penalty.
An order was issued by the corpor-
ation commission prohibiting railroads
operating in the state from charging
a penalty of more than one-half cent
per mile for children who board pas-
senger trains without purchasing tick-
ets at stations.
Some time ago the commission is-
sued an order revoking the so-called
"show ticket" rule of the
Factory Planned For Penitentiary.
Plans and specifications have been
completed by the state board of affairs
for the erection of a factory building
on the state penitentiary grounds at
McAlester. The building wll be three
stories high, 200 by 80 feet in dimen-
sions and will be built of brick anS
concrete and will be nre-proof through-
out.
When the building has been com-
pleted business enterprises will be in-
stalled in the building to furnish em-
ployment to convicts in the prison.
Several different propositions it is an-
nounced, are under consideration by
the board and some definite action will
be taken just as the structure is com-
pleted, it was stated.
The brick to be usefl m the construc-
tion of the building will be made by
convicts. Ground ill be broken and
the work on the building will start
within a short time, it was announced.
Must Set Out Counts In $1,000 a Day.
In a ruling made by Judge John W.
Hayson in the Oklahoma county dis-
trict court it was held that where
judgment is asked for at the rate of
$1,000 a day for the renting of prop-
erty wherein an illegal business is
carried on, it is the duty of the county
attorney to make a separate count in
the petition for eacn violation.
The question came up in the P. M.
Holmes case, Holmes having been sued
by the county attorney for $300,000,
as the owner of a building at the rear
of the Lee-Huckins hotel where it
was claimed that an unlawful business
was in progress for 300 days, from
June 6, 1914, to April 6 1915.
Before the case can go to trial un-
der Judge Hayson's decision it will
be necessary for the county attorney's
oiTce to set out 300 separate and dis-
tinct counts in the bill.
which required passengers to show
their tickets before boarding a train
and at the same time gave tho roads
permission to charge a penalty of 1
cent a mile from the point of boarding
tho train to destination in ail cases
where the passenger failed to supply
himself with a ticket.
Under this ruling the carriers have
been charging a penalty 0f 1 cent on
children who ride at half fare. The
order of the commission directs that
the former ruling of the commission
shall be construed to mean that the
penalty for children riding on half
fare shall be only one-half cent per
ntfile. v
No Open Season For Doves.
There is no open season in Okla-
homa for the killing of any kind of
doves, according to a ruling of the
attorney general and which has been
concurred in by State Game and Fish
Warden John Chenoweth. During the
past few weeks numerous inquiries
have reached the department concern-
ing the season on doves. "This depart-
ment has had numerous inquiries as
to the killing of doves," said Mr. Chen-
oweth. "We have advised each and
all calls there was no open season on
doves and in each instance tried to
provide the inquiring one with a copy
of the state game laws, but this did
not satisfy all and we still had many
requests pleading with us to ask for
an opinion from the attorney general
carriers an(* we ^ave an opinion from the at-
Two Killed In Delaware.
Wilmington, Del.—Two workmen
were instantly killed and considerablo
damage was done to property by an
explosion of two black powder mills j
of the DuPont Powder Company In
the Upper Ilagley yards, near here. |
The cause of the explosion has not
heen determined but officials say it
probably was due to a Bpark or to gril
in the powder.
Big Bond For Capitol Contractors.
A local bonding agency has just ex-
ecuted a bond of $1,263,500, the largest
by the way ever executed in the state
for James Stewart & Co., the firm
which will erect the new capitol The
premium on the bond amounted to
$12,535. This is considered quite a
rain over tho first bond which the
game company executed a few veir,
«o for $250 and only g0es ,T, Tow
Progress which |„ belt,,- |n
° "homa City.
torney general's office which we think
is sufficient."
Gas Conservation Order.
After weeks of consideration of a
great mass of evidence largely of a
technical nature, the corporation com-
mission issued an order promulgating
certain rules ana regulations govern-
ing the production or natural gas in
Oklahoma, and which are designed to
curtail the present enormous waste
and conserve the supply. The order
is issued in pursuance of authority
conferred upon the commission by an
act of the last legislature, known as
the gas conservation law. A compan-
ion law to the oil conservation law.
New Bridge Over Canadian.
The contract for the new steel sus-
pension bridge over the South Cana-
dian river south of the city, near what
is known as Smith's crossing, will be
let soon. It is understood that the
contracting company has agreed to
absorb three-fourths of the stock. The
new bridge will be 552 feet long and is ,
to be of the steel suspension type
w'hich is considered the cheapest and
best bridge now being built. The
spans will be of considerable height in
order to clear high water.
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