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OKLAHOMA.
PWEM'V.SIXT 11 YEAH. SO. J.
Oklahoma State Register
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1916.
CAMP KITCHENS USED IN MEXICAN DESERT
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Tulsa Republican Convention ITWM '• WADE NAMEI)
OPPOSITION TO WERKH'li ITIO
How German Sunk Passenger
Steamers-War Conditions
Berlin, Arpil. 12.—(By wireless to to the present whether the attack on
Sayville.)—The German reply to the this steamer, which, according to the
Anerican note concerning the damag- given description, occured on March
ing or sinking of five steamships con- 27 in the latitude of YVaterford is at-
tains the statement that the steamers tri'butable to a Gorman submarine.
Englishman' Eagle Point, Manchester The statement regarding the time and
Engineer and Berwindvale were des- place of the incident gives no sutfl-
troyed by German submarines. Evi- cient basis for investigation.
dencv is presented to show that these "Fourth: The British Steamer Eagle
vess'is were torpedoed legally In ac- Point: This steamer in the forenoon
cordance with t.he rules of war. The of March 28 -was called upon to halt
following is the text of the G^rma.i by a German submarine thrbugh sig-
note on the Sussex, dated April 10: nal and shctf. She lowered two boats
"T'.ie undersigned has the honor to and the crew took their places. After
inform your excellency, Ambassador the commandant convinced himself
Gerard, in response to communicat- that the boats had gotten clear of the
ions of the twenty-ninth and thirtieth steamer, he sank the steamer.
ultimo and the third instant regard- "FifthTihe French steamer Sussex:
ing t!ie steamers Sussex, Manchester Ascertainment of the fact whether the
Engine r, Englishman, Berwindale and channel steamer Sussex was damaged
Eagle Point that the mentioned cases, by a German 'Submarine was rendered
in accordance with our notes of the extremely difficult because no exact
thirietii an dthirty-first ultimo and the details of time- place and attendant
four and fifth instant thave been sub- circumstances of the sinking were
jected to careful investigation by the known and also because it was im-
admiral staff of the navy, which' has possible to obtain a picture of the ship
led to the following results: before April 6. Consequently the in-
"First: The English steamer Ber- vestigation had to be extended to all
windvale: A steamer which was pos- actions undertaken on the day in ques-
sibly the Berwindvale was encounter- tion—<Maroh 24—in the channel re-
ed on the evening of Marnh 16 in sight gion between Folkestone and Dieppe.
of Bull Rock light on the Irish coast "In this region on March 24 a long
by a German submarine. The steamer black craft without a flag, having a
as soon as she noticed the submarine, gray funnel, sinali\ igrafy forward
which was running unsubmerged, works and two high masts was en-
turned and steamer away. She was countered about the middle of the
ordered to stop by a warning shot. She English channel 'by a German sub-
paid no attentioti, however, to this marine. The commander reached the
warning, but extinguished all lights definite conclusion that it was a war
and attempted to escape. The ves- vessel, and, indeed, a mine layer of
sel was then fired u-pqji and halted the recently built Arabic class. He
and without further orders lowered was led to that conviction by the fol-
6everal boats. After the crew entered lowing facts: First, by the plain, un-
the boats and received enough time to broken decks of the ©hip; second, the
row away, the ship was sunk. form of the stern- sloping downward
.Name \ot Established. an(l backward like a war vessel; third,
"The name of this steamer was not was Panted like a war vessel;
established; It cannot be stated with foiirth, the high speed developed,
assurance even with the help of the al>out eighteen knots; fifth, the cir-
details which were furnished by the cunisfanc>Ps that the vessel did not
American embassy tJie above describ- keeP a course northward of the light
ed incident concerns the steamer Ber- bu°ys between Dungeness and Beaohy
windvale. Since- however, the steamer ^ead. which, according to the fre-
sunk like the Berwindvale was a tank Quen* (and unvarying observations of
steamer the identity of the ships may German submarines, is about the
be assumed. In this case, however, courae of commercial vessels, but kept
in the middle of
course about in the direction
Leharve. i a8 temporary chairman to serve dur-
Consequently he attacked the vessel ing the session, and congressional
at 3:55 in the afternoon- middle Euro-1 booms were sprung for him and Bert
pean time, one and one-half sea miles, Chandler of Vinita. Several speeeches
°ast of Bull Rock (Bullock) bank, the j were made in their interest. The con-
submarine'being submerged. The tor- vention was called to order by John
oedo struck and caned such a violent Jl. 'Simmons- mayor-elect of Tulsa on
explosion in the forward part of the | the republican ticket, who presided
while the temporary chairman was'selected five delegates to the national
, elected. R. W. Kellough of Tulsa and j convention, one of whom from each
The particularly violent explosion member of a local bar association,! district was a delegate at large and
warrants the certain conclusion thtft was elected to serve as district chair- each district selected a presidental
great amounts of 'munitions were man during the ensuing year. The two
'( 011?'nued on Page Eight) j delegates elected were instructed to
wuiui'vl' i.l. . . i recognize no candidate except Mc-
FB1BI VE DE( LAKES JOB KOOSE- ( AMI-AION TO BETTEB FAB.M COX- Grew for
PIA "i SERVICE ABOVE
FABT\ Vt .ri'KS, PKIF.XO
1 OF SC. LAND I,ESSES
PER YE All
Mexicans Still Killing Ameri-
cans and Villa Not Caught
San Diego, Cal., April 12.—Several color to this location of the bandit
Americans have been killed or wound- . liief, is the fact that (.'unuto Reyes, ac
ed hi bandit raids In the vicinity of j the head of a large number of men,
Guaymas t?onora, according to a naval was reported from Torreon a week '
radio message received here today.! ago to be traveling north in the di-
Taie message was forwarded to the rectlon of Sierra .Mojada. It was the
navy department at Washington and j belief at toe time In Torreon that
resulted In an order to the cruiser I Villa's notorious ally was on his way
Denver, now at San Bias, state of to Join the brigand chief, if It proves
Tepic to steam for the Sonora sea-' true, Villa hats completely evaded the
port and Investigate. j American troops who have been driv-
News Accepted \s Aiitheulc. "'B 80""1 ft an amazing speed and
well' today reported from the most
reliable sources, to be well south of
Parral and very close to the Duranyo
, iborder.
east of Jiminez, destroying many .
thousands of dollars worth of Ameri-L 1 MoJadu ,s 140 nilIes east of
can property and looting the town of * nearest point at which Americai
everything of value.
This news, which may prove to be 1 known a|
of the highest importance, as it is be-
E1 Paso, April 12.—A band of Vil-
listas- numbering several hundred
have sacked Sierra Mojada, five miles
I troops are known to be.
| It is on the eastern side of a vast
the Bolson Mapitnl
, ..... . -"id south of another drearv water-
li^ved possible Villa himself was ]eaB J' *aier
First Congressional District Delegates
.Recognise only McGraw.
Tulsa, Okla., Ajjril 11.—Supporters
of James McGraw of Ponca City, can-
didate for republican National com-
mitteeman, controlled the First dis-
trict republican convention here Tues-
day.
Xot a dissenting vote was cast
0 AlONAL CO.M.MfTTBK PLACE.
Marlow Man Nominated In State Con-
vention by Ben F. Lafayette Who
Promotes Harmony of
Gatherings
Oklahoma City, April 11.—Without
a dissenting vote or the necessity of
even a roll call, Oklahoma democrats,
1,500 delegates strong- in convention
in Oklahoma City Tuesday, elected
Tom L. Wade of Marlow as national
SHERMAN CARRIES ILLINOIS PHI-
M A KY.
Slate Goes Through Wltli Few Votes
For Colonel; Wilson loop posed.
•hicago, April 11.—At tihe presidential
waste called Bolson De Los Li-
| panes. lta only connection with the
u i . . > west is by the Mexican Northern rall-
of the largest American mining con- roa(j
cerns in Mexico, and is accepted by
among the riad ers, was received here
today by the representatives of one1
ilong which Uie Villistas ad-
• . , vanced, burning bridges, destrovinir
him as authentic Tie ibandit* made telegraph lines and teariug
their attack on the town on April "
They came from Escalon,
the
tracks as far as #they were a'bel.
, a 1,111' 1)11 Little credence is given reports here
point on the .Mexican national railroad froI11 oiloa^ thnt v«nQ , *
l'"'I ,, . . , ironi ujinagd that Villa plans to turn
preference primary in Illinois Tuesday, s x y 3liles soulhw°81 Jiminez and north and at(ompt a raid Qn Pre8ldio
Senator ©lierman. republican, and " 011 a" ®q"al southwest of jt jg ,believed far more probable
President Wilson ;had it all their own j t ° / W,av 10 th® th®t the bandit, if he Is at Sierra Mo-
against the men put forth by this comitteeman, selected forty-one dele-
the statement made that the Berwind-
vale was torpedoed without warning
would conflict with the facts.
"second: The British steamer Eng-
lishman: This steamer on March 24
was called upo nto halt by a German
submarine through two warning shots
about twenty miles west of Islay (He-
brides). The vessel proceeded, how-
ever, without heeding the warning and
was therefore forced by the sub-
marine by artillery fire to halt.
"Third: The British steamer Man-
chester Engineer: It is impossible to
establish^ through the investigation up
faction and harmony was so complete
that the gathering was made uninter-
esting. The convention was held in
Convention Hall and 158 delegates
representing the ten counties in the
district were present.
Dr. G. W. Shutton of Cleveland was
named as presidentl elector for uhe
district, while Eugene Lorton and
Grant Victor of Afton were elected
delegates to the national convention,
the channel on a [ which is to be held in Chicago. Eug-
of ene B. Law son of Nowata was selected
ship that the entire forward part was
torn away to the bridge.
gates to the national convention, in-
dorsed Senator Robert U Owens for
vice resident, gave unreserved indors-
ment to both state and national ad-
ministrations and instructed the state's
delegation to vote for the renomina-
tion of President Woodrow Wilson.
The forty-one delegates will cast the
state's twenty votes in the St. Louis
convention
The gathering of democrats will go
on record as the largest held in the
state, so far as attendance is concern-
ed. There were approximately 1,500
accredited delegates present- perhaps
2,000 more democrats were among the
visitors who crowded the Auditorium,
the convention meeting place.
The convention elected forty-one
delegates to the national democratic
convention, which will be held in St.
Louis in June, and ten presidental
electors. Each congressional district
VELT.
.New York's Leading Republican Jour-
nal Will Deliver Editorially For
Teddy's Nomination por
Presidency at Chicago.
New York, April 12.—The New York
Tribune, for scores of years a leading
Republican journal, will declare edito-
rially tomorrow for the nomination of
Theodore Roosevelt for the presidency
by the Republican convention.
Two Conventions Choose
national committeeman.
There was not a contrary vote to this
policy throughout the session, and at
the close of the gathering the Mc-
Graw men declared that their man
was elected without further contest.
The delegates claim twelve of the
The first series of a campaign 0f'twenty votes that wil1 lbe balloted by
CONDITIONS.
Meetings to lie Held at Several Towns
in i<ogan County Next Week.
community meetings for the better-
ment of farm conditions by organiza-
tion and cooperation among farmers
along the lines being promoted by the
1' S. Department of Agriculture will
be held in Ixjgan County next week
under the direction of the District
and County Agent. The meetings will
be at Seward, Monday evening April
Delegates To Chicago "„ « „„
north and one mile west of Mulhall.
delegates from Oklahoma at the na-
tional convention.
ZUII Ml'LHALL'S DAUGHTER
CALLED BY DEATH.
Harris and McGinn Did not Meet !n
the same Hull and Contests
ili Follow.
Two conventions were held here on
Tuesday by delegates to the republi-
can conventio in the Fifth congres-
sional district. The two conventions
were the outgrowth of the contest
waged by James McGraw of Ponca
CTity and James Harris of Wagoner,
each seeking to be elected republican
national committeeman from Okla-
homa. There was no bolting con-
vention, the two factions organizing
separate conventions immediately
following the decision of the con-
gressional district committee, which
divided over rhe question of which of
the contesting delegations from Okla-
homa county was entitled to be seat-
ed in the convention. Four members
(Continued on P*s# Eight).
(Mulhall, Okla.- April 11.—Mrs. J. C.
Wo lfdied here Monday evening at
the ranch owned by her father, Col.
P easant ,Valley . Zarh Mu]hali_ Mrs. Wolf was 33
years old. Pneumonia caused her
Tuesday evening the istb ,„d In the f T j10™ T" rei""ed °"
operahouse a, Cpyie, Wednesday eve ' ! T ' "= ! " Ca,ho"°
ning the 19th , schools In St. Louis. Sihe attended
c A. MeNabb, district agent ren |the <'0nVent of Vlattatlon and *' s
resenting ih« 11 a n agent, lep- graduated in Music from the Sacred
rlculture^ will d If of ag" Heart convent in St. Louis, leaving
■ ■culture, will deliver an address at
eaph place on the work and aims of
the department in the farm extension
work and upon live stock and general
farm development. County Agent Mc-
i'heeters will also speak at each place
dn the work he aims to do In this
county and there will be local speak-
ers at each place and possible othe
from the outside. Every business man,
every farmer and every citizen within
reach of these meetings should attend
school flnaly In her nineteenth year.
As a singer iMrs. Wolf never ap-
peared In public as a professionl
singer, but gained considerable fame
as a singer in benefit performance. A
playwright visited the ranch here and
worte a play, "The Texas Steer",
elector.
The convention proper elected two
presidental electors, and added the
name of Ben F. Lafayette of Checotah
to the list of delegates-at-large. The
delegates and electors selected by the
congressional districts, and the elec-
tors chosen by the convention, follow:
Delegates-at-Large.
First—Dr. Howard Weber, Washing-
ton county.
Second—S. M. Rutherford Muskogee.
Third—J. Roy Williams, Pittsburg.
Fourth—Congressman William H.
Murray, Johnston.
Fifth—'Roy E. Stafford, Oklahoma.
Sixth—Congressman Scott Ferris-
Commanche. ,
Seventh—Frank Randsell, Ellis.
Eighth—G. 'J. Dick, Harper.
Ben F. Lafeyette of Checota,
elected by the unanimous actio)
convention.
Delegates l y Districts,
way, as all other names had to ibe
written in the ballots.
Roger C. Sullivan retained control
of the democratic political machinery
in the state ond wrested control of
Cook county (Chicago) committee
from the Sabath-Harrison faction.
Former Governor Deneen apparent-
ly retained his strength down state,
but mayor Thompson captured sixteen
and Deneen fourteen of the city's
thirty-five wards.
One thousand and twelve precints
out of 2,168 in Chicago gave Wilson
43,396 votes, while forty-three woters
wrote in the name of Champ Clark.
Sherman in the same precincts re-
ceived 32,670 votes. Roosevelts name
was written in by 4,960 persons;
Hughes by 301; Root by 63.
A surprise came from Thirty-first
ward- wMr. Deneen's home baliwick,
where he was defeated.
A state supreme court decision
some time ago held that women could
not vote for delegates to the national
convention nor for ward committee-
men.
latter place tbfcy sa«ked
town of Corrilo.
the
small jada, Jlas chosen that desolate and al-
most inaccessible spot for the eoncen-
TJie belief that Villa himself may be' tration of his forces and those of Ca-
directlng the operations of the ban- nuto Weyes, Kith the Intention of
dlte is supported by a report received
today from OJinaga station that Col-
onel Rlojas, the commander there> had
information that Villa had doubled in
his tracks and was 200 miles south-
west of that town.
sweeping down in force on Torreon
af the American troops are withdraw
from Mexico.
Numerous reports from Mexican
sources agree that Villa Is convinced
the soldiers of the United States will
OJinaga is directly across the border soon be recalled and then he will be
from Presidio. Texas, and about 150 able to rally all the antl-Carranzlsta
miles nortJi of Sierra Mojada. factions In northern Mexico to his
Another circumstance that gives' standard.
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REPUBLICANS ON
HOARDS.
Oklahoma City, April 12.—Every re-
publican county committee in the state
which has not already done so will im-
mediately submit to their respective
county election boards, the names, of
three republicans for the jKJsltions of
inspector, judge, and clerk respecti-
vely on each precinct election board,
if .the suggestions contained in a let-
ter sent out to Republican Countv
A airman by State Chairman Arthur
Geissler are followed. The Republi-
cans are planning the most aggressive
campaign ever engaged in in this
state acording to their leaders, and as
one of the preliminary steps to this
campaign they will insist upon their
right under the law to name at least
one member of each precinct election
board.
Mr. Geissler's letter calls attention
to the fact that the statute provides
that the Republican committee may
submit as many as five names for ev-
ery precinct and it is his suggestion
the that at least three names be submit-
ted for each precinct with the re-
quest that the county election board
around a .character MBossle Brander."
rs j said to have been Mrs. Wolf.
j Mrs. Wolf led the anarch In the ln-
( augural ball at the time Roosevelt be-
and participate in the beginning of I "m^re,'dent- Mr W°,f wa« know"
this movomint to put Ix>gan County1 n!T, J'Z .f" Agn°8
in the front rank and bring more' "eld Cadd°: W' D' Turner- Comanche,
prosperity to every resident of the ^rial
county.
First Clyde Bollman, Rogers county; appoint the first named as Inspector,
iharles T. Abbott, Tulsa; A. W. Bur- the second named as judge and the
ley,. Osage; C. B. Markham. Mayes. | thlrd as c!erk whlle jt i8 ex,)ectpd
Second-W. L. Curtis Sequoyah; J.1 that but one republican will be nam-
W. Zevely, Muskogee; Joe Whittenden, I ed. the republicans will In this way
kmulgee, \\. L. ( rittenden. (have named a man for each position
Third—A. H. Ferguson, Bryan, W. and under the law at nno tho .
A Goforth McCurtain- T F lea9t °ne of the candidate, let us keep in mind only the
A. Goforth, McCurtain, T. F. Memin- TOen RO recommended must be named. fact that Americanism is the great
isaue before It. Present conditions
ANOTHER BIG M IN FOR T. R.
New York, April 9.—Robert C. Moi
ris, international lawyer, vice-presi-
dent of the Union league Club, of
which Elihu Root is president, three
vears chairman of the Republican
county committee, ex-president of th*
Republican Club and a supporter of
Taft In 1912, has come out for Theo-
dore Roosevelt as a candidate of the
Republican party this year.
Mr. Morris in a statement to the
New York Times today, declared that
the only issues of the forthcoming
campaign will be America's foreign
policy and the true meaning of the
words "Americanism" fend "patriot-
ism." He declared that If the two can-
didates to be considered seriously.
Justice Hughes, while an ideal leader
in the campaign to be waged on do-
mestic issues, had been unable to an-
nounce his position^ on the burning
questions that had arisen since the
war.
Theodore Roosevelt, he said, had
made his position clear and was the
logical candidate of the Republican
party.
Mr. Morris's statement says in part:
"For the first time since we became
a nation, foreign policy, the position
which the United State is to occupy in
years if Roosevelt had been President
with a man like FliJju Root as Secre-
tary of State?"
CIMARRON VALLEY CREAMERY CO.
STARTS IN GUTHRIE.
John Dean, proprietor of the Empire
Cotton Oil Mill and A. J. Dary, for
seven years agent of the Concordia
Creamery Co. of Kansas, have formed
the Cimarron Valley Creamery Co., for
the purpose of making butter in this
city. They have rented the warehouse
No. 315 West Noble, formerly occu-
pied by Nisslev Creamery. They will
buy all the cream of the surrounding
country, having no- limit as to region
drawn from, and will make Guthrie a
center for a new industry.
Mr. A. J. Dary has been the agent
for the Continental Creamery Co. of
Mount Hope and Topeka, Kansas, for
four years, with headquarters in Guth-
rie. His district was northern Okla-
homa and Southern Kansas. He is
well acquainted with the, trade and the
territory. He is a man of experience
in the business and tremendous energy
and will sifcceed. Mr. Dean lived in
northern Oklahoma before coming to
Guthrie, is a large capitalist and a man
of business experience and would not
go into a thing he did not think had
a large future. Guthrie is fortunate in
the new world which is now forming, [ having two such men start a new in
the true meaning to be attached to the dustry.
hackneyed word, 'Americanism,' the in -1
ner signification of hte still more hack-
neyed word, 'patriotism.' the ideas that
will figure in the approaching cam-
paign.
"We have fancied that we were l'
great, powerful and independent hov-
erignty. We now find that this is not
the case. An independent nation is
one that can make other nations, even
the most powerful, respect its rights.
We have demonstrated that we cannot
do this.
Now in considering Roosevelt as a
ranch.
on the ranch Wednesday and
wag in the family vault on the
so recommended must be named,
ger, Atoka; S. C. Boswell, Choctaw. |'Phis Insures a republican of the partys
Fourth—-J. Ross Bailey. Hughes; J. choice being placed upon the board.
L. Norman, Okfuswee; J. J. Clark, The republicans expect to insist up-
Johnston; O. E. Abernathy, Pottowa- on their right to name tlielr own rep-
tomp' j resentatlve, according to Mr. Oeissler
Fifth—Dr. J. (W. Duke. Logan; Ira and In his letter he says: "The State
Mitchell, Garvin; J. E. O'Xeii, Oklaho- Election Hoard has assured me that
ma: Ben F. Williams- Cleveland. [every county election bpard will be
Sixth—Dr. W. R. Kelley, Blaine; C. expected to heed the recommendation
<\ Hudson, Grady; J. A. Campbell, made, in the premises, by the local
Republican committee. If your county
Seventh—J. A. Carr, Tillman; J. C.
Hendrix, Beckham; O. H. Thurmond.
Custer; S. B. Garrett, Jackson.
justiry In submitting to this test and
this test alone.
"Some may say that his American-
ism Is blatant, braggart and a con-
stant Incentive to trouble. His ad-
ministration confronted several situa-
tions that, In less intelligent hands,
would have become 'crises," and per-
haps led to war. But Mr. Roosevelt
^ . .. .handled them so skillfully that few
•lee ion board should fall to do this. r0tt1lTOd thplr Heriousnoss ^
.. Woodward, jone doubt that 0|lr hl(tory would haTC
been very different in the last two
URGES I>R. HIGH SCOTT FOR
POST.
Washington—Governor V. M. Ix>cke
of the Choctow Nation wants Dr Hugh
Ccott of Oklahoma placed In charge
of the Choctaw Sanitarium, located in
Talihina, and maintained by tribal
funds. Scott is o First Lieutenant in
the eMdical Corps of the United States
Army and stationed with the Eight
Cavalary on the border. He is Major
In the Medical Corps of the Oklahoma
National Guard ond was private sec-
retary to Frank Frantz, the last Ter-
ritorial Governor of Oklahoma.
let me know."
8ANT1 EE'S LARGE CONSIGNMENT
OF TIES.
The Santa Fe railroad has stored In
Its west side yards one of the largest
stocks of creosoted ties ever assembled
In the Southwest to be distributed
over its various lines centering at
Guthrie, there being 200,000 ties now
In the yards and another 100,000 yet o
arrive. A photographer made a pho-
tograph of the yards and men handling
ties on Wednesday to be used in the
literature of the company.
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