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Second Norman Fire
Disaster Is Facing
Ft Supply Hospital
Ased Frame Buildings House Many Mentally Defective Pa
tient No Fir Escapes on
ger Water Supply Structures Erected by Government
Forty Years Ago to House Military Officers of General
Custer's Staff Two Fires nt Hospital Already Have
Cost Lives of Two Patients.
(EDITOR'S NOTE This U the (list story by lessie W. Hilton on
the Slate Hospital for the Insane t fort Supply She tinted tht intti-
tutim In the Utter part ol January sad February I. bearing credentials
from CoTtinor Robertson. Htr second srtltU will appear tomorrow )
By JESSIE
.i.hlxl. till hr Tb COtln'mm Pu
trliliuut
Conditions which might
recent fire disaster in the state hospital lor me insane ui
Norman where thirty-five inmaies ion meir mm mcav
llnmatea of the Western Oklahoma hospital for the insane
llocated at General Custer's old stamping ground at Fort
Ic l.. irn.A.. kniMinna mnra than foftv VCQTS old are
ouppi. II uuucii uuuiiiimq .... .--- -
( ccupied by more than one hundred patients.
Stoves running night and day are used for supplemental
heating of the old-time cottages; ashes sometimes removed
by attendants are red hot. In one case a fire was just smoth-
ered in time by Dr. C. B. Hill medical superintendent. He
gave the attendant two minutes to make a getaway. That
didn't remedy the future fire probabilities.
These condition! were the first to impress me when I
visited this state Institution on Saturday and Sunday Jan
uary 81. and February 1 with
Robertson and as a member ol
UenverieB are:
Barred windows wou)e1 prevexat agreee el patients
in case of fire; narrow stairways would court disaster for
those descending t lack of fire escape protection on any
of the buildings would make th loss of life -complete.
Two fire have already caused two deaths of in-
mates. Notwithstanding th state continues the policy
of erecting wooden buildings sine the site was ceded
by the government in 1907. Today twenty buildings
stand as a monument of such judgment
"The state has never made an appropriation of a cent
Cor fireproof buildings" says Hill. "When I sought tne
AA nf the board of affairs for fire protection my reply was:
FThe legislature has charge of
patients.' "
County indigents sound in mind but afflicted with
bodily ailments have been "railroaded" into the insti-
tution for th insane it is said by county commissioners
aided by physicians. "Two are still living here Laura
Shapley of Cheyenne Rogers county and George Wit-
tenberg" Hill said to me. "Several have died since I
assumed charge. I have tried to effect their release I
was told by a county judge that 'it would bo vary em-
barrassing for th physician who signed th commitment
papers' but ho promised h would see what could be
done. The patients still live here."
A living stream of ice cold water 98 percent pure
Amines from a watershed the property of the state institution
fits banks are drowsy in a tangled mass of pungent water-
cress. During spring freshets
fried in vain to impound it
Engineering feat.
"Every spring" says he "we have this overflow.
Every summer a drouth. W own the source of an all-year-round
water sudply giving adequate fire protec-
tion but we lack funds to develop it."
I arrived at the Western
sane late on the evening of January 81. Dr. Hill was also a
assenger on the train out of Oklahoma City but I had never
et him. When I left the train
a accosted me. makinr Incruirv
n leaving at the hospital instead of the town of Supply. I
explained that I had business
accompanied me to his office..
There were no sleeping
juests or extra employes so I
nto his home. In the morning I explained my errand to
Dr. Hill. He immediately invited me to make a tour of
he institution.
He took me through every
nsane population are housed.
arge heating stoves. Everywhere. -stoves seemed too hot.
IWe both noticed it
"These natlanti would crowd stverv atnva tn tha limit
f they were not constantly watched." said Dr. Hill. "It's
because it seems like home to
(aid he.
In the smaller white wooden frame cottages where more
nan one hundred patient live occupying every available
Apace upstairs downstairs in halls and almost in closets
bwlnf to their crowded conditions stoves wen red hot
Dr. Hill spoke to attendant asking them to watch more
lowly. He directed lay attention to the barred windows
. Y (Osfttlawt m
the Grounds and Only Mea
W. HILTON
Mulling eomir
Not in rpu' lili l
nnl..mn )
easily repeat doublefold the
a a it I - A
credential. Ironi Uoyernor
tne nmei sian. umr uia-
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the policy of protecting insane
It overflows. Dr. Hill has
but impounding requires an
Oklahoma Hospital for the In
at the hospital Hag station
whether 1 was not mistaken
at the state institution so he
quarters in the Institution for
was taken later in the evening
ward where 475 of the state's
Group after group sat around
sit around an ordinary stove"
Pais t Column )
DEIUDS
ARRIVE FOR
MOTIVE SHOW
Pamphlets Are Scattered
Over City from Miil-Air
MANY AUTOS ARE SOLD
Mnnar.er Opti-vistic That Ex-
hibit Will Be Success.
Two I.Ik lie llaviland iriny plmel
from Pint firld. Fort Sill Travel the
wind and cloudy weather tin mum-
mi! and shortly after I'l oVIo. ' began
making great sweeps and tiriles nver
Oklahoma ( avy as a part id the pro-
grain ol the Automotive show.
The planes were In arrive here e-
terday hut were delayed. On account
ofhe hi(h wind the litera'ure-drop-pi
iifc exploit! in whith they engaged
were not at successiul as lliey have
heen but at that many poster ad-
vertising the nhow and urging a big
attendance (ell in the streets. The
plane (lew at low a a recent ruling
id the war department allow s hut the
wind wai no sirnng Out it earned
much o( the IikM paper outside the
rlty limits befure it touched the
round.
T here was a large erowd in the hall
again thii morning jmt alttr (he doori
opened-at -10 o'clock.
Haua Is Csafldtot
Manager Kay H. Ilaun aid thii
- . ... .. . .
morning wai wnn an anenoance oi
more than J.mo yesterday and with
eversl hundred ttckett sold thii
morning he wa cnn(idfnt of the aucN
cet o( the undertaking. I
"There are itill 37000 ticked to bt
i... . i
oia ii we are to make eipeniei on
the ihow" said Maun "and our only
anxiety now ii to get the people down
here and to A'rp the halt crowded."
The aisles of the hall have all heen
waxed and hereafter dancing will be
permitted from 9 ..Vi or 10 to II o'clock
in the evening The villas lined with
luxurious limousines and roofed with
imilax and many-colored lights make
a marvelous dancing pavilion. Stein-
berg'! orchestra urniihel music (or
the dancing
An improvement in e hall which
will be installed (or thii afternoon'i
vaudeville performance according to
Haun ii s 50-font runway down the
renter aisle of the hall along which
June tllain can walk to do her popular
singing act. Miss niain'i favorite
itunt is to come down and dance
through the audience. I ast night ihe
found it a little crowded. It was in
an effort to give full iway to her tal-
ents that Maun had the nrw runway
conatructed.
. Quartet Appreciated.
The La Salle quartet was one of
the best features of last night's en-
(Cantlnutd tn age t Column 1.)
Mini Bob talk in bout .h
outHTeK auKe a ReiiuTtoN
ah tfwiNe as ie ma i& o'
MAH HOUSI r"uA NOW ON
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LOCAL FOSlICAST-aeuev ina u.
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with prebakiy rsini samawhat lr
ThurMay.
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roaiCAST Tanlght an
Thuraday. oleudy probably rami soldor
iniy rain
oriln
tonlaht in
nennwtat
coldte
Thwroday.
HOUMLY TSM'SRATUSIIa
10 p. m 4!
Ik p. m ii
11 midnight. 4H
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Head of Probers
at Reformatory
' Cat A. A. Watt.
Col. Anderson A. Webb. Haskell
rounty rprr acntativc. headed the in-
vestigating committee which visited
the state reformatory at (Iranite mm
time ago. Jack Marker. Canadian
enmity representative and a memlier
nf Ihe committee dialed in report
maile public yesterday that hr had
been askf.l hy Webb to withhold the
report.
LOCAL SIMMERS
TO INDIANAPOLIS
COUIKIETIS
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NanS 181(1 81 teremODial at
I Tornnla Tnmrm.
' emP'e lOmOfTOW
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Arrangement! for at
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Sttendina the Im
perial council ol the .North American
Mystic ihrine will be made tomorrow
at s ceremonial and smoker st India
temple here. Eight hundred members
of India shrine and their wives are
expected to attend the council which
meets in Indianapolis on June HI 11
and 12.
Approximately fifty novices are to
Ik taken into India temple at the cere-
monial tomorrow. A "Dutch lunch"
and vaudeville attraction from local
housei and the Automotive show will
provide amusement.
The last Imperial council attended
in force hy local shrineri was that
at Buffalo in 1I6. Subsequent meet-
ings were handicapped by govern-
ment control of railroads
The band and patrol of India temple
will probably accompany the delega-
tion of Shrinert to Indianapolis. It
is probable that a special train will
be chartered and that a side-trip will
be made to the Great Lakei or lome
other point before the Shrineri go to
Indianapolia. it was said this morn-
ing by prominent Shrineri.
CITY WILL PROTEST
STATEPAVING BILL
Ilelieving that the protest of 50
percent of the resident! of any dis-
trict is sufficient to prohibit pavin
the city commissioner! will express
to Governor Robertson their disap-
proval of a pending bill providing that
S percent of residents must enter a
protest before psving projects will be
abandoned.
The commissioner! decided at the
regular meeting yesterday afternoon
that if 50 percent of residents of anv
district were against paving it was
sufficient reason to abandon the plan
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Slav Claims Referred to
Committee Over Protests
Of Delegates From Italy
PARIS. Feh. 9.-When the Jugo
Slava claims for territory on the e:t
ern shores of the Adriatic came be
fore the supreme council of the peace
conference it was tentatively decided
that they ihould he referred to the
committee to which' was entrusted the
examination of the Rumanian de-
mands says a Havas report. Heron
Smininn ihe Italian foreign minister
ohlecled to this plsn however declar-
ing (hat treaties dealing with those
territories had been concluded be-
tween Italy. France and Great Britain
in February If IS. He aaid these
treaties Wert still in existence sad
consequently the signatories alone
were quMllied to change them .
This objection was supported by
With A
$101000 TO
FINISH NEW
INSTITUTION
Appropriation to Complete
University Hospital
$200000 ALREADY SPENT
Building May Be Used as
Tubercular Sanitorium
An appropriation of JfHI (110 will he
needed to complete the University hos-
pital on Fast Thirteenth slreet. it was
declared by the members of the senate
committee on appropriations today.
1.100000 Appropriated.
The building was to have lieen com-
pleted for a cost of &UM. and this
nmotint was appropriated by the Sixth
legislature and has hern used. It is
estimated that $75(i) will he neces-
sary for equipment $lH.(Kll (or com-
pleting the building and $ri0U) for tile
and marble work.
There is a movement on foot among
senators to take the hospital away
from the university and establish it as
a state tulercutar hospital
"The hospital now ii a white ele-
phant on the hands of the Mate" said
Senator E. M. Kerr today. It it said
it wautd cost (200.000 a year to main
tain the institution as a university
alter it It completed.
May Be aUrtetrass.
"Some legislator! arfe of the opinion
that the building could be converted
into a tubercular sanitorium so as to
relieve 'the phthisis siluatien in the
state while the sanitona plan is being
pushed" II r. Kerr said.
Several members of the senate ap-
propriations committee have made in-
spections of the building with a view
to recommending that it ho convene I
into a tubercular hospital.
Indian Bill Reported.
WASHINGTON Feb. 1V.-W ith
minor amendments the senate Indian
committee today reported favorably
the annual Indian appropriation bill
appropriating $15500000 an increase
of $840000 over the house bill.
100 Miees Closed.
COPENHAGEN Feb. 19-More
than one hundred coal mines in the
Ruhr district of Westphalia have been
closed owing to a general strike called
by the Spartacans.
LANGST0N MAY GET
$100000 INSTEAD
OF $50000 PLAN
Following publication yesterday
by the Times of an article relating
to conditions in the colored Agri-
cultural and Normal university at
I.angston a special lojiilative
committee consisting of Rorewen-
tatives Ewing Newman Boho and
Hill of Craig county det-ided to
recommend ait appropriation of
$100000 for the inst-tution instead
of $50000 ai originally planned.
It was said by members of she
committee who had visited the in-
stitution that the Times story was
a complete and accurate picture of
conditions as they exist at Langs-
ton. Premier Clemenceau of France but A
J. Ualfour British secretary of state
lor foreign affairs proposed a rom-
promiie which wss adoted. This
stipulated that claims regarding Bul-
garia and Austria-Hungary should be
referred to a special commission while
the Adriatic question should be re-
served. ROME. Tuesday. Feb. 18 -The Ital-
ian preis indignantly condemns the
ites) taken by the luro-Slavs in ak-
Ine thai President Wilson arbitrate
conflicting claims I 'territories slong
the Adriatic. The Enoca says t
"Arbitration is a means for avnid-
tlsoar. not concluding it when it has
alJudji been decided by arms."
Premier's Wound Not Serious;
Would Be Slayer Slav Belief
This "Tiger" Aged
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Georges Clemencean.
Premier Clemenceau today was shot and slmhtlv wounded in the shoulder
bv a man Mieved to be a Russian. I'nur shots missed him. A policeman
standing nearby was blightly wounded. Ihe would-be assassin was placed
under arrest.
Poindexter Would Leave
League Ratification to
Popular Vote of People
STATE SCHOOLS
TO BE REOPENED
BY LEGISLATORS
Wilburton Claremorc and
Tonkawa Arc Affected.
Three secondary slate schools which
were closed hy vetoes of Governor
Williams on appropriation lulls are
certain to be reopened by the seventh
legislature it became apparent today
at a meeting of the senate appropria-
tions committee.
The schools to he reopened are the
state school of mines at Wilburton
state military institute at Clare-
more and state school of commerce
at Tonkawa.
The house alteady has indicated
favorable action on the secondary
schools and the senate appropriations
committee voted today unanimously
to recommend favorable passage of a
blanket bill for the three institutions.
At least two members of the senate
committee are against the reopenine
of the schools hut have agreed not to
oppose the measure on the floor.
Under the present plan the three
schools will be operated as vocational
institutions and will receive federal
aid.
YAQUIS DEFEATED
BY MEXICAN ARMY
NOGAI.F.S AlrFeh. 19 A band
of several hundred Yaqui Indians were
defeated in a battle with ? exican
federal soldiers near Idsbnrregoa.
Sonora. forty mllei south ol here.
Tuesday according to word received
here Six Yaquis were killed by the
soldiers. The Indians broke up into
three parlies
ssai
76 Still Has Teeth
(By Th AMorinted TrrH
WASIIIM.ION. Feh. M In th.-
first prepared address on the league
l nations delivered in the senate since
the constitution of the proposed league
was made public. Senator I'oindexter
of Washington republican todav de-
clared the entrance of the United
Slates into the league would mean a
surrender of American rights privi-
leges and sovereignty the abandon-
ment of the Monroe Doctrine and a
violation of the constitution. The con-
stitution of the league he asserted
was coiiflict ng and indefinite and un-
certain aril the machinerv whi.h
proposes t.i set up "similar to tho
soviet government of Russia."
N'o Mirh colossal burden or en-
tangling alliance was ever le.'ore con-
ceived in the world" the senator said
"Instead nf being an instrument of
peace it is the fertile seed of war
the dragon's teeth from which when
sown armed soldiers will spring."
' He Wants an Election.
Through participating in the draft-
ing of the Irague's constitution Sena-
tor Poindexter declared the United
Mates had heen led to a point where
"nvc are now facing an abyss." If the
senate should ratify the proposed
constitution and sanction the entrance
of the United Stales into a league of
nations without submission of the
question "to the American people in
a political campaign where it shall
have been made Ihe issue and upon
which they will have an opportunity to
render judgment in an election" he
declared "the self-government in
America will have disappeared.
"In adopting or rejecting ths con-
stitution" said Mr. I'oindexter "and
thereby becoming or not becoming a
(Continued an I Column I.)
Co Oa and Moura.
WEIMAR lh"l0.-(Hava!)-Telegrams
of protest against the
signing of the new armistice are
pouring into the national assembly
snd one from Berlin demands ths'
a period of national mourning he
ordered.
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Barber Captures Man Who
Fired Five Shots Only One
of Which Took Effect;
Others May Be Implicated
VIRILITY STANDS SHOCK
French Premier Expected to
Recover From Gun Wound
in His Back'and Shoulder;
Peace Conference Delayed.
'ly Th Aoanelate4 Tress )
LONDON. Feb. 19. Pre-
mier Clemenceau will he up
in a day or so Andrew Bonar
Law government apokenman
announced in the house of
commons today.
LONDON Feb. 19. CoU
ton who shot Premier Clem
enceau ia known as a danger-
oui anarchist according to a
Central News dispatch from
Pari. When questioned Cot-
ton took all responsibility for
the shooting of the premier.
PARIS Feb7l9.Prem.er
Clemenceau was very slightly
wounded in the attack upon
him this morning when he
was struck in the shoulder by
a bullet. The premier was
able to walk to his home.
Professors La brie Gossett
and Cuissiere examined the
wound in Premier Clemen-
ceau's shoulder. According to
their diagnosis the premier
was struck :i the posterior
pert of the right shoulder
blade. The bullet penetrated
without a visceral lesion. The
doctors reported general and
local conditions as perfect.
PARIS Fe"bTl 9. Georges
Clemenceau France's aged
but vigorous premier was
shot at and slightly wounded
this morning as he was enter-
ing his automobile for a drive.
Five shots were fired by the
assassin and it was at first
reported that the premier had
been rounded in the head
It developed later however
that the wounds were in M.
Clemenceau's back and shoul-
der and he apparently is not
dangerously hurt.
llie s'i Hitiiii; took place at 8 5i
itioYloc!; I Hi- nvumng as the premier
-is lesunn ins house in the Kti
I rankliu to f!i 1 1 the war office.
Ihe assassin was an ordinary-look'
ing man dte-rd as a workman. Fiv
shots were fired of which one took
effect in the shoulder. His assailant
was arrested.
Policeman Goursat who was
wounded in (lie right eye although
not seriously by one of the assassin's
shots told a representative of The
Associated Press that Premier Clem-
enceau rushed up to the assassin and
grappled with him.
1 he premier's wound is not regard-
ed as dangerous in itself but it is felt
that there might be serious conse-
quences from it considering the sge
and infirmities of the victim.
At about 11 o'clock this morning"
however it was officially announced
that M Clemenceau ssai not seriously
wounded.
May Bs Russiaa.
It was learned at the city haft (fatt
the assailant nf Premier Uemervreau
was a man named limits Collin 2$
years of age and born st Creil. Tha
man said his home wai m the Mon-
trose qusrter of Psrii. Tha police
however do not believe the pspers ha
possesses belong to him and art In-
clined to think him a Russian.
Policeman Goursat gave his de-
scription of the shooting to The Asso-
ciated Press representstivs in the city
hall where the arrested mal was .
brought. " '
An enormous crowd which observe! V
a respectful silence aMsmfclsg ar J
M. Clemcncesa's resldeete ato 4J j;
occurrence. Wiihla a hi ksT f
Ident Poincsrs arrives! tit Vse sU "
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