The Calumet Chieftain (Calumet, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 1, 1918 Page: 2 of 9
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THE CALUMET CHIEFTAIN
rllllllllllllllllll IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMllllllllillllllllllllH Seven thousand (elective -ervic*
5 men are to be called to the colors
5 fro Oklahoma In AuguM. Of these
g 2.fill have already been summoned
|! Eight hundred and seventy-one lie-
=§ groes will be called to Camp Dodge,
= Iowa from Oklahoma August 1 to 5
S under the draft call for 50,000 negroes.
= Walter F. Turnbull, assistant United
H Slates district attorney, has closed a
. Semplo of I>urant,
of the Choctaw
_ B nation, to become Choctaw attorney.
Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllli The eleventh annual meeting of the
SHADOWS OF COMiNCi EVENTS, j °>"«homu State Holiness Association
will bo hold in the city park at Black
July 2.S-Autf. 3. Farmers' Congress,
Stillwater.
Sept. 11-13, Atoka County fair. Atoka.
Sept. 17-20,
City.
Kept .12-14, Plal
State
News
~\ ~T I § States district attornej
l\ I /~\ -J- f \ Ci 1 contract with W. F. Ser
/ y = new'y appointed chief i
HERE and THERE
WOKLD NEWS IN BRIEF
PARAGRAPHS
War ftevvs.
Hard fighting . proceeding in all
K
Heckharn County fiilr, Elk I llT charge.
County fair, Waton-
2-14, Caddo County fair. Ana-
Si
well, July 25 to August 4, Rev. K. L.
Selle of Nowata will be the evangeist
Sept
darko.
Hept. 16-18, Canadian County fair,
Reno.
Sept. 12-15, Cart r County fair, Ard-
more.
Sept, 24-28, Choctaw County fair, Hu-
go
10-13 Coniamho County fair,
Lawlon.
Sept. 11-14, Cotton County fair, Wal-
12-14, Custer County fair, Thorn-
9-12, Grady County fair. Chick-
11-14, Greer County fair, Man-
12-14, Haskell County fair, Stlg-
ter«.
Sept.
an.
Sept.
aftha.
Sept.
Runi
•Sept.
ler
Sept. 4-7, Jackson County fair. Altus.
Sept. 12-14, Johnston County fair. Tish-
omingo.
Sept. 11-14, Jefferson County fair,
Kyan.
Sept. 10-14, Kay county fair, Now-
, kirk.
Kept. 13-14, Latimer County fair, Wil-
burton.
Sept. 12-14, l.cFlore County fair, Po-
teau.
Sept. 17-20, I.niian County (Cimarron
valley fair), Guthrie.
Sept. 12-14, ('ountv fair, Mariet-
ta.
Sept. 5-7, Marshall County fair, Madill
Oct. 2-4, Nowata County fair, Nowata.
Sept. 1/-IN, Oklahoma County fair, Ok-
lahoma City.
Sept. 1(1-9, Osage County fair, Paw-
huska.
Sept. 6-20, Pottawatomie County fair
Shawnee.
Sept. 10-13, Stephens County fair. Dun-
can.
Sept. 9-12, Tillman County fair, Fred-
erick.
Sept. 2.r>-28, Wagoner County fair, Wag-
oner.
Sept. 24-28, Washington County fair,
Dewey.
Oct. 22-24. Waukomis Community fair
vv aukomla.
Sept. 17-19, Woods County fair, Da-
coma.
THE ROLL OF HONOR.
Serg. Joseph A. Boyd, Scipio, severe-
ly wounded.
Pvt. Jntnes Othenal, Oklahoma City,
died of wounds.
Pvt. Geo. E. Wall. Asher, killed in
action.
Pvt. Mack Gow, Duncan, killed in
action.
Corp. Merle M. Hutchinson. Bartles-
ville, died of disease.
Pvt. C. D. Wells, Lebanon, died of
accident.
Mr. and Mrs Robert Kasiey of
Hartshorne have ten sons in the army,
lton.
Coal has been found in the "four
mile district" of the Miami lead and
zinc field.
Three Oklahoma City bakeries are
to be closed temporarily, one for six
weeks, because they violated the regu-
lations
Six Oklahoma counties already have
applied for space in the Agricultural
building of the Oklahoma State Fair
and Exposition. Mr. Marlin expects
the agricultural display at the twelfth
annual exposition, at Oklahoma City
from September 21 to 28. lo be among
the best in the history of the state.
Blaine, Garvin, Grady Kiowa, Canad
ian and Oklahoma counties have re-
served space.
Bob Warren, former county attorney
of Choctaw county has begun serving
a federal sentence in the Muskogee
Jail for introducing. Warren was
caught two years ago with an auto
load of boozo brought from Texas for
a lodge banquet at Hugo. He fought
his sentence clear up to an applica-
tion for presidential pardon, without
success and has finally reported at
the Muskogee jail to serve it out.
Mollie A. Miller, 72 years old,
mother of Miller brothers, who operate
the 101 ranch at Ponca City, died last
week. Mrs. Miller came to Oklahoma
in 1871 with her husband. George \V.
Miller, founder of 101 ranch.
Entries for the babies' health con-
ference of the Oklahoma State Fair
should be made earlv. Only 400 chil-
dren may be entered. Children one
ear or more old and less than three
years of age are eligible. They are
entered in three classes: one from
rural districts and towns of less than
1,000 population; another from towns
of more than 1,00 and less than 10,000
population, and the third from towns
of 10,000 population and over.
The Oklahoma delegation in the
house of representatives divided even-
ly on the question of passing the ag-
ricultural bill over the president's ve-
to. The bill had been vetoed because
it raised the price of wheat to $2.4u
a bushel. Voting to pass the bill over
the veto were Representatives Ferris,
McKeown and Morgan. Those voting
against the passage of the bill over
the president's veto were Representa-
tives Carter, Hastings and McClintic.
Jake Barnes and H. W. McCall,
Oklahoma City men, the latter man-
ar' er of tile Liberty theatre, each was
fined $100 and sentenced to sixty days
In the Oklahoma county jail in United
States court at Guthrie, for importing
whiskey.
The purchase of the Oklahoma Na-
tional Life Insurance company of Ok-
lahoma City by the Great Southern
Life Insurance company of Dallas was
announced. The Oklahoma company
has outstanding insurance valued at
$1,500,000, it was announced.
Announcement was made In the of-
fice of the adjutant general that
George Short, Idabel attorney, had
been commissioned by Governor Wil-
liams to he battalion adjutant in the
Third regiment, Oklahoma national
guard.
Charged with making disloyal and
Insulting charges against the United
Stales government and with declaring
that the war was a capitalistic enter-
prise, J. C. Chambers, Gil years old,
rich farmer living near Beggs, was
jai'ed charged with violation of the
espionage law.
sections <ji the lino noui Sols sons to
Rheiins, according to dispatches
reaching London, but alwajs wiili the
Allies on the ofi'n ive and the Ger-
mans fighting <!• sperately to save
what they can before the onrush.
•P -I- *
Franco-American troops, continuin
their advance south of the Ourcq
river, have cro sod the Soissons-< ba-
teau Thierry road between the Oureq
and the C'lignon, General Pershing
reported.
+ + +
Prisoners captured by American
An airplane, which i&nded at the
village of Wauwinet, Nantucket,
brought word that a steamer was in
distress near Great Round Shoals
about five miles oil the eastern end
of the island. The vessel was do-
scribed as in need of immediate as-
si tance, but the nature of her in-
juries was not disclosed.
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The California Supreme Court has
affirmed its preliminary order deny-
ing a new trial to Thoni s J. Mooney,
now at San Quentin State Peniten-
tiary facing a death sentence for par-
ticipation in the Preparedness Hay
bomb explosion there two years ago.
+ -I- *
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has is-
u.'d a statement in which lie declared
that under no circumstances would he
accept tlie Republican nomination for
governor of New York.
* -P +
Maj. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., has
been lightly wounded and taken to a
GROWS SMALLER
THE SITUATION OF CROWN
PRINCE'S ARMY GROWS
MORE DIFFICULT
troops alone in the offensive on the hospital In Paris, according to a cable
BREVITIES j
Commission Allows 'Phone Rate Hike.
The state corporation commission
granted increases, effective Aug. 1,
to telephone companies operating in
Oklahoma towns. The increases were
granted on showings by the companies
that the high cost of materials and In-
creased wages caused them to operate
at a loss.
The Francis Telephone Company at
Allen was allowed new rates of $30
per year for business telephones and
$1S for residence telephones.
The company at Bigheart was grant-
ed an Increase to $30 for business and
$21 a year for residence.
The Loco company was granted an
increase to $24 for business telephones
and $18 for residence telephones.
At Beggs the telephone company is
to receive $30 for business telephones
and $15 for residence telephones.
The Garber Telepliona Company
was granted an increase to $30 for
residence telephones.
In reply to an inquiry from J. M.
Dickerson of Heavener, Attorney Gen-
eral Freeling holds that an elective
officer cannot use a railroad pass, even
though he is counsel for the railroad
and receives the free transportation
as part of consideration for his serv-
ices.
Gov. Williams during the period he
has been in office has granted but ono
full pardon as against twenty-one full
pardons which were granted during
the administration of Governor Lee
Cruce. during the Cruce administra-
tion a total of 2,073 expiration par-
dons were issued. Governor Williams
has granted expiration pardons to
2,136 who had served their terms
The records show that 377 prisoners
were paroled during the Cruce admin-
istration while Governor Williams has
paroled 298. The total discharged dur-
ing the Cruce administration was
2,471, while the total discharged dui
ing the Williams administration i
2,405 or sixty-six less than during the
previous administration.
The state highway department from
January 1 until July 1 had granted
91,700 automobile licenses. During
the same period in 1917 the depart-
ment granted 71,600 licenses for au-
tomobiles. During the entire year in
1917 the highway department granted
a total of 100,200 automobile licenses.
Provost Marshall General Crowder
telegrapher E. H. Gipson, adjutant
general, to induct into service twenty-
five laborers, who are to be sent
August 1 to Kelly Field, San Antonio,
Texas, for duty with the military
aeronautics section of the army. The
same call included also ten motor
mechanics who are to be sent August
1 to Kelly Field.
The state industrial commission in
the fiscal year ending Sept. 1, 1917,
awarded compensation to injured em-
ployes in Oklahoma amounting to
$506,696,58. The report shows that
during the preceding year, the first
twelve months of the commission's
existence, compensation and medical
benefits totaling $200,206.67 were
awarded. The total number of acci-
dents during the year covered by the
report were 15,168 as compared with
Aisne-Marne front in first two days
of drive totaled by actual count 17,-
000, General Pershing reported in his
communique received by the War De-
partment. Capture of 560 guus also
Is announced.
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On the main battle field between
the Aisne and the Maine the Germans
again have been driven back a con-
siderable distance. They have been
pushed back over the Soissons-Cba-
teau Thierry Road at several points
north of the Ourcq.
•I* d* 4*
Notwithstanding the fact thnt the
Germans have thrown large re enforce-
ments into tlie new battle line be-
tween Soi.ssons and the region of Cha-
teau Thierry they nowhere thus far
have been able to stem tiie tide of the
onslaughts the American and French
troops are making against them.
4- * *
In addition to the infliction of ex-
tremely heavy casualties on the
enemy the French and American
forces in the counter drive have taken
more than 17,000 prisoners, including
two colonels with their chiefs of staff,
and in excess of 360 cannon.
d- + +
From the region west of Soissons
to the northwest of Chateau Thierry,
American and French armies have be-
gun a strong offensive against the
Germans which possibly may have a
marked influence on the future of the
world war. All along the twenty-five
"'les the French and American troops
<tve dashed in brilliant fashion across
positions held by the Germans, kill-
ing, wounding or capturing thousands
of the enemy and taking twenty
towns and villages and large quanti-
ties of guns and other war supplies.
•lr + +
A surprise attack has advanced the
Australian line east of Amiens wore
than a third of a mile on a front in
excess of a mile. The German trenches
thus captured are southeast of Yillers-
Bretonneux.
d- d- d-
Washington.
The War Finance Corporation will
message received by his father, Col.
Theodore Roosevelt, from his daugh
ter-ln-law, Mrs. Theodore lloos
velt, Jr.
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Seventeen persons were killed and
thirty other injured, many seriously,
when a Detroit-bound limited passen-
ger car and a west-bound freight car
collided head-on one mile west of
( helsea, Mich., recently.
4- 4- 4*
Twenty thousand workers have
been enrolled in Porto Rico by the
United States employment service and
will be brought to this country at an
early date, a recent announcement
said.
+ I- *
Twenty-six thousand, one hundred
and fifty pages of typewritten record
totaling 5,200,000 words has been com-
pleted in the 1. W. W. trial in the fed- j
erul court at Chicago, according to
figures announced recently.
* -!• +
The bell in the city hall tower at
New York was ordered rung by Mayor
Ilylan for fifteen minutes the other
afternoon in celebration of the vic-
torious American advance on the
French front.
Dut of Tota\ German Losses of About
Two Hundred Thousand, Since
Offensive Began Ten
Uays Ago.
London.—British and French troops
iave advanced to Gueux and Mery
"remecy, in the battle sector just
?est of Rheims.
The new line shows an adance or
ibout ten miles toward Fismes. Thi3
?ain when seen on the map Is of
avident importance, for it greatly
narrows the salient created by the
Germans in their drive of last May.
It no longer is proper to speak of
the pocket as running from Soissons
to Rheims, for the newest advantag3
Df the entente allies has pulled tlio
eastern edge of the pocket eight mile*
to the westward, making Mery Pre-
mecy the marker for the eastern rim.
The mouth of the pocket is now
only twenty-one miles wide and the
whole district between the two sides
is under the range of the entente
?.llied guns.
The French are continuing their
ittacks between the river Ourcq hk!
ihe river Marne. They advanced for
i distance of a mile, capturing the
southern part of Fere forest and the.'
now occupy a farm on the main road
' from Fere-en-Tardcnois to Jaulgonne.
The town of Fere-en-Tardenois is now
vvithin 8,000 yards of the French lines.
On the west side or the pocket
he Franco-American troops hava
| -traightened their line at the expShse
if the Germans, this involving a loss
advance funds through banks in the ....
,r .. | Four persons were killed and fiftv-
Kansas City and Minneapolis
Southwest.
Lieut. Donald H. Charlton of Sul-
phur Springs, O., and Lieut. Ivar Eu-
t- ii c i . v the enemy of about forty square
gene Iinnerholm of Schenectadv, N.
Y„ were instantly killed at Taliaferro "Ides ot territory between Armentieres
Field, Fort Worth, Tex., when (.heir lnd Vincelles. The line in the lower
airplane fell in a spin. western part of the pocket, now runs
d- 4' d- straight southeast from Armentieres,
Two officers belonging to Car- 1 and along this line the Germans have
ruthers Field were killed in a 1,000 heen compelled to give up all the
foot fall in a tail spin recently near little angles and corners which thev
Benbrook, Tex The dead are: Lieut. had been h„:di ont as observation
Robert Yarnall Snyder of 719 College , , .
avenue, Elmira, N. Y„ and Lieut. Olaf P°sU 0r st,onK polnts'
John Tanner of Moorliead, Minn Nerve Center Under Fire.
Both men were instructors. The German military nerve center
* * * at Fere-en-Tardenois, which, as the
A forest fire that has been burning JuncUon 0f several great roads, was
on the northern boundary of the Kla ,
, i, . jr, . 'ne most important storehouse an.l
math Indian Reservation in Rlamatii
county, Okla., has entered the south-
ern portion of the Deschutes National
Forest and threatens great tracts of
standing white pine timber.
<• + +
Dallas,
federal reserve districts to farmers
and cattlemen whose production has
been hindered by drought, it was an-1
nounced by Governor Harding of the j
federal reserve board.
+ + +
The Navy Department announced
recently that three men are known to j
be dead, forty-seven are massing and '
twelve are unaccounted for as the re-
sult of the sinking of the United !
seven were injured when Frisco pas-
distributing point of the Germans, is
now under the cross fire from the
French and American artillery and
must be well night untanable. In
fact, no place in the whole pocket
is a very comfortable position with
the allied long range artillery sweep-
senger train No. 105 left the rails near 'Jack aml fort'i with balloons and
Fickenger, Ark., ten miles south of ^'idanes directing the fire,
the Missouri line, recently. The mail ! Possible evidence of a further with-
and baggage cars rolled into Spring -,rawal by the Germans is seen on the
river below. The accicdent
lieved to have been caused by
cessive speed.
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Foreign.
Twelve representatives of
lje. western flank of the pocket in the
the
States cruiser Sail I liego off the Long United States Congie.-s. who purpose
Island coast. The men unaccounted ; visiting the fighting front, have ar-
for are believed to have been on ■ rived safely at a French port from the
leave. ! United States.
+ + + 4- + *
The entire Austrian cabinet lias re-
fact that the German artillery fire h is
grown much lighter all through this
sector and the guns appear to be fir
ing from greater distances behin 1
the line as if being pulled back to
places of safetv
Provost Marshal General Crowder
has issued an additional school draft
call for 3,400 men, allotted among
twelve states. The men are to be
grammar school graduates and quali-
tied for general military service.
Pointing out+that the slaughter of
broiler turkeys is wasteful, the Food
signed, says an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Copenhagen recently.
Emperor Charles, it is added, has ac-
cepted the resignations of the min-
isters.
4' 4 4*
Railway traffic between the Rhine
towns is greatly disorganized owi
Chandler and Thompson were absent. 9,058 accidents for the previous year.
Administration has appealed to hotels, the niimhi.,- nr i i .. , .,
' Ule nuniDer of wounded arriving daily hae been
from the French front in hospital I
trains. Trains from Germany are ar-
urged not to sell turkeys until they riving at the Swiss front
clubs and restaurants to discontinue
serving broilers. Farmers also were
are matured.
+ +
Domestic.
A German submarine attacked the
late.
tier many hours
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The death of Quentin Roosevelt is
confirmed by a Wolff Bureau message
tug Perth Amboy of the Lehigh Yal- from the front, according to a Berlin
ley Railroad and her four barges dispatch received at Amsterdam The
three miles off Orleans, Mass , on the message adds that voung Roosevelt
southeastern elbow of Cape Cod re-1 was buried with military honors bv
cently. The one-sided battle lasted the Germans.
an hour and a half. The tug was 4- d- -j.
burned to the water's edge by shell Herbert C. Hoover, the American
fire, while the barges Lansford and food controller, arrived In London the
other evening. He was met by Waldorf
No. 766, No. 403 and No. 740 were
sunk by gunfire.
+ + +
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, just be-
fore leaving for Saratoga, N. Y., to at-
tend the Republican state convention,
received a cablegram from General
Pershing in which the American com-
mander expressed the hope that Lieut.
Astor, M. P., representing Premier
Lloyd George, John Robert Clynes,
British food controller, and represen-
tatives of the American embassy.
4* 4* 4*
Five persons were killed when a
German U-boat sank the Cunard liner
Carpathia off the Irish coast. The
Quentin Roosevelt, the colonel's son, thirty-six saloon passengers and twen
reported killed in an aerial battle in ty-one from the steerage are reDorted
te e. may have landed safely. safe and have been landed
Hun Admits Defeat.
Biggest Battle of the War
\\ ith the French Army in France.—
I p to present seventy German divi-
sions have been identified in the pre-
ent fighting zone and the battle there-
fore may be regarded as the biggest
dnce the beginning of the war. Tim
total enemy force in the battle is
approximately 840,000 men.
ihe prisoners taken number more
than 2;>,000 and more than 500 caa-
mg to non and thousands or machine guns
captured.
Of the prisoners 14 percent belong
to the 1919 class showing that nearly
all these boys already have been in-
corporated in fighting units. If a'.l
if them have been utilized they would
orm 17 to 18 percent of the German
strength.
Information received proves that
the 192(1 class which it was intended
to be incorporated in the army of
October, has been ordered into the
units in September. Most of those
of this class are not 18 years old.
Americans Account For 50,000.
With the American Army on the
Marne Front.—The Americans have
Inflicted a loss of 50.000 men on the
enemy, acording to an unofficial est'-
mate. The total estimated enemy
losses in dead and wounded are ap-
polling.
The American and French troops
are never far behind the retreatfn^
forces, and the vicious rear guard
actions are not sufficiently resistant
to enable the Germans to proceed in
the orderly manner nlannel.
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