The Nowata Star (Nowata, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, December 1, 1916 Page: 1 of 8
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NOWATA OKLAHOMA FRIDAY DECEMBER 1 1916
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El Paso Nov 29 — The state of
Chihuahua thy most important In
Northern Mexico ia now dominated
by the bandit Pancho Villa The Mex-
ican defacto officials at Jaares hare
announced that Chihuahua City fell
into the hands of the Villistas Mon-
day ''‘
General Trevino the Carranslsta
commander of Chihuahua is fleeing
to the south and bis army has been
split and routed It is stated that
General Trevino's cavalry force of
700 men suffered severe losses as it
left the city 1
It is doubted here if Villa can hold
-Chihuahua City as it is expected that
the defacto forces will soon be sum-'
ed north and south for a simultaneous
attach General Gonsales who left
Juarea yesterday with reinforce-
ments for General Trevino has re-
itarned to -Jusrvx with a number of
Camasistas who mads their escape
' through Villa’s Unas The loss of
Chihuahua ia a severe blqw to Car-
rente's prestige in Northern Mexico
But it la believed here that Villa will
soon be routed v
Thera is the gravest anxiety here
for the safety of the six Americans
and other foreigners In Chihuahua
The state department is now demand-
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By nited Press -
Ciudad Juares Mexico Nov 29 —
Another instance of the uncanny mil-
itary genuis and trickery of Villa
that has gained for him the name
“the fox -of the Bierras” ia being told
' today by refugees from the south '
On the night of his attack upon
Chihuahua he utilized a bold trick
-to enable his men to enter the city
undetected Learning through spies
that thousands of reinforcements had
arrived from Monterey and had been
put upon guard duty he evolved this
strategem When he arrived in the
outskirts he sent forward small de-
tails of his own men with instruc-
tions to relieve the Carranzistas on
outpost duty They marched up gave
i the password and an officer inform-
ed the guard he had been detailed to
relieve them Deluded into the be-
lief the newcomers Were members of
- the garrison the outposts marched
away leaving Villa’s own men to
( “guard” the town
It was Villa who first put into prae-
- ties the idea of driving herds of eat-
rtle over ground believed to be plant-
" ‘ed with mines Since it has been
picked up by commanders in the Eu-
ropean war He also used herds of
cattle as living barricades when at-
tacking entrenched positions His
men would drive hundreds of cattle
up before the trenches using them as
cover
Mrs A B Bandall returned this
morning from Winfield where she
had been spending a week with her
suss who have been attending school
la that city
BANDITS ROB
' KANSAS BANK
By United Press
Hazelton Kans Nov j29— The
Hazeiton State Bank of this city
-was robbed by four masked bandits
this morning who blew the safe and
-escaped with about $12000 After
robbing the bank the yeggmen bound
and gagged two men operators in the
'local telephone office whom they
placed in the automobile and took
with them to prevent the giving of
:an alarm which mieht result in the
-capture of the bandits
INCREASE IN
PRICE OF OIL
The Prairie Pipeline Co gave the
oil producers of Nowata and the Mid-
Continent field something to be
thankful for on Thanksgiving Day
by raising the pries of oil this morn-
ing l6 cents which shoved the mar-
ket to $1 per barrel
The price increase of this morning
was the first since August 29 when
oil touched the low mark of 90c per
barrel The 90c price was reached
by a series of mid-summer drops
which took off 65 cents from the
price in a little over one month -On
July 2S the price of Mid-Continent
crude was $155 July 24
there Was a 10 cant cut bringing the
price down to $145 There follow-
ed a 19 cent cut on July 29 anoth-
er of the same amount August 1
making the price on that date $126
The Brice remained at that figure un-
til August 7 when another 10 cents
cut was announced making the price
$116 This price was maintained for
five days when the price went to
$106 per barrel on ' - AUgtfst 12
Three days later August V1 5 there
eras another slump of 10 cents mak
ing the price 96e The final drop
came "on August’ 26 when the 90c
price was established This' price
prevailed for the last three months
The alump in ’the price of oil this
summer was disastrous for the oil
business in this county Practically
all of the drilling stopped and many
rigs were moved out of the county
Nowata oil men have been looking
for an increase in the price of crude
for several weeks so the news of the
10 cent raise was not unexpected
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POULTRY SHOW
OPENED TODAY
- The Annual Nowata County Poul-
try Show opened this morning with
appropriate crowing and clucking as
the crates of fancy poultry were tak-
en to the Exhibition Hall and placed
in ' position- Superintendent A
Bailey and his assistants first placed
the birds which had been sapped in
for exhibition ' I
There was fancy poultry from
Wichita Erie Colony Kimball and
Coffeyville Kans as well as Okmul-
gee Claremore and Muskogee The
Coffeyville poultry fanciers shipped
50 birds to the show and the major-
ity of them were prize winners at
the Montgomery county fair show
The birds of the Nowata county
fanciers were being placed ‘this after-
noon and by night it is expected that
there will be 850 birds In the coops
It is certain that there has never
been as mdeh valuable poultry gath-
ered together in this county before
The Nowata show is getting a rep-
utation as being one of the exhibi-
tions where a blue ribbon or first
prize is of value to the professional
breeder of poultry The show held
here is one of the best in the state
in the quality of the birds shown
The show is free to all and every
Nows tan should avail himself of the
opportunity of inspecting the finest
poultry in tl$s section
J E French who has his drilling
rig on the Ed Marrs eighty six miles
north of town struck oil at a depth
of about 150 feet says the Centralis
Standard It is the best looking pros-
1 pect for oil that has been found here
It is estimated to be good for at least
'three barrels a "day now and may
prove a good one when shot ' '
Have the “Higher
the Drd
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Muskogee Nov 28-— It is rum
ored that at least one prominent Ok-
lahoma citizen a respected citizen
of Tulsa may be enmeshed in thf
government drag net before the fed-
eral authorities lay all their cards
on the table in the “booze trustf
conspiracy investigation which has
already resulted in several arse ltd
and the Indictment of two scores of
citizens charged with evading the
federal liquor law as applicable td
eastern Oklahoma according to th$
Times-Democrat in an article pub-
lished in their last editionfuesday
The government ia probing deep-
er and deeper into the alleged con-
spiracy whereby members of the
“bootlegger’s trust” and federal of
fleers are said to have plotted to perl
mit the easy introduction of liquor
into eastern Oklahoma especially the
counties of Tulsa Washington am)
Nowata For years Tulsa and Bart-
lesville have been veritable baais in
eastern Oklahoma desert Sopi
months ago the United States attor-
ney's office in cooperation with the
United States marshal’s force quiet-
ly began an investigation intothe al-
leged operations of the o-c8ejl
"booze trust” in Oklahoma The
department of justice wgs appealed
to with the result that a flock" of
secret service men was dispatched
in Oklahoma to work in connection
with the federal authorities at Mu
kogee and they are still on ths job
When the news first leaked quj
that the federal grand jury sittln
Chickaaha bad returned wholesale in-
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PAY DP AND -GET
XMAS MONEY
While the Landis Christmas Sav-
ing Club for 1916 of the Commercial
National Bank closed Monday with
the last payment Cashier Axley stat-
ed this morning that the bank had
decided to hold the club open for the
balance of this week This ia done
in order to allow those who joined
and failed to make the weekly pay-
ments an' opportunity to pay up and
receive a full check next week
The checks will be made out and
mailed to the members just as fbst
as possible and by December 16 the
1916 club members will be paid off
and arrangements made for the 1917
club which starts on December 18
You'll Be Thankful "
You Bought a Maxwell
The Common Sense Car
It’s just a matter of simple common sense for you to make sure that
you get a car which will give you entire satisfaction
You are investing a large amount of money — even a low priced car
represents value sufficient to justify careful thinking before you buy
Just to be able to travel is no feature of merit in a motor car today
It should be convenient comfortable and good looking as well It
should be a real car — built carefully conscientiously without waste
or extravagance
And furthermore you should make sure that the car you buy repre-
sents full value for your money This is a business matter — you
should not let prejudice or sentiment enter into it Make the car
you buy stand on its own merits
These statements explain what we mean by “common sense” in buy-
ing motor cars
Wp say that the Maxwell is a common sense car because t is of high
quality complete offers every convenience and eomfort is good
looking — and because it sells at a price which makes the value aston-
ishing The kind of a car you should buy — at ths price you should ppy—
that’s common sense — that’s Maxwell!
' East Side Garage
T G WILLIAMS Prop
LIVERY SERVICE
Completely
Equipped
'Ups” Escaped
et of Uncle Sam?
dictments against Oklahomans charg-
ed with entering into a conspiracy
to evade the drastic liquor laws
in force here there was a general
scattering of prominent citizens of
Bartlesville Tulsa and other north-
eastern Oklahoma cities for un-
known destinations So far there
have been but seven arrests in con-
nection with the alleged gigantic
booze trust” conspiracy It is
rumored that tife higher-ups in-
dicted by )he Chickaaha grand jury
will probably endeavor to hide out
until after the January term of the
federal court at Muskogee is ended
but that they may beat it back and
face the music before the federal
court sessions begin at Vinita in
March or at Tulsa in April It is
the belief of the federal authorities
that several of the men wanted in
connection with the booze conspir-
acy would prefer taking their chances
with Vinita or Tulsa juries rather
than those to be empanelled at Mus-
kogee It is rumored that a man once
prominently connected with the
"boose trust” in Oklahoma has mads
proposition to the federal authori-
ties to tell all he knows of the inside
working of the bootleggers' organi-
sation and has promised to implicate
prominent persons whose names
heretofore have in jot way been con-
nected with the “trust” if he can
exact an 'offer of immunity for a
certain- resident of Tulsa who was
up in a former booip con-
piracy case which has not as yet
been definitely disposed of - ’
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M’DANIEL ON
WITNESS STAND
By United Press
St Joseph Mo Nov 29— Oscar
McDaniel the county prosecutor who
is on trial charged with the murder
of his wife took the witness stahd
in his own behalf this morning Cool
and unshaken the defendant told his
story of what occurred the night of
the murder He testified that he was
called away on the night of the mur-
der by a telephone call and later re-
turned to find his wife in her bed-
room with her head beaten to a pulp
J W Bridges of Tulsa was here
Tuesday attending to business mat-
ters Phone 166
SUB SITUATION -CAUSE
FOR WORRY
CLINE FREED OF
MURDER CHARGE
Coffeyville Nov 29— Dave Cline
is not guilty of the murder of Mary
Glass The jury returned its verdict
at 8:80 o’clock Tuesday evening
after having been out since short-
ly after 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon
An hour of that time was taken out
for supper
It is said that the jury had no trou-
ble in arriving at a verdict despite ths
fact that it consumed considerable
time before announcing the verdict
It was generally believed that the
jury would not be out longer than a
half hour The court instructed it
to return a verdict of first degree
murder on second degree manslaugh-
ter or acquittal '
The verdict meets with the ap-
proval of the people generally as at
no time has then been any evidence
that would justify a jury in return-
ing a verdict other than “not guilty”
The state’s case was sreak from the
beginning while the defense put up
a strong case' A
DAIRY EXPERT HERE
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T W Moseley of Stillwater was
in the city Tuesday Mr Moseley ia
one of the dairy experts of the A A
M College He came to thie county
to help tome of the fanners make
plans for new dairy barns and to
give them bints upon up-to-date me-
thod in the dairying busineai Mr
Moseley said that from present pros-
pects Nowata county will in a com-
paratively short time be one of ths
best dairying counties in the stats
QUAIL SEASON
OPENS THURSDAY
Nowata county nlmrods who have
with difficulty controlled themselves
pending the dawning of December 1
upon which date they contemplated
donning regulation bunting toggery
stepping out into the field and blaz-
ing away at the flitting quail as they
soared toward the high heavens will
without doubt be overjoyed to learn
that according to the interpretation
of the new state law regulating the
hunting season there will be 27 hunt-
ing days iii the open season on qnsil
instead of 26 and that the season
will be opened Thanksgiving day
It was announced Monday that the
game warden is construing the law as
it is written “from November 30 to
January 1” holding that the first
date mentioned is included in the
season while the last date is exclud-
ed r
Hunters according to the Interpre-
tation may kill quail on the last day
of November Whether this was an
oversight of the lawmakers or whe-
ther they intended to allow another
day is not known
While the law does not prohibit the
killing of quail on Sunday there is
another law prohibiting the shooting
of firearms on the Sabbath so there
will be little consolation for the man
who is unable to his himself to ths
fields on a weekday
LAST OF CERMAN DOLLS
J A Wright of the Wright Notion
Store received a shipment of German
dolls Tuesday which he bought over
a year ago and which are not now ob-
tainable in the market The English
blockade of the Cerman ports has
cut off the supply of German dolls
and toys
By United Press
Washington Nov 29 — hi fi cations
of German guilt In the torpedoing el
the Marina with the lorn of sin Am-
erican lives coupled with the sinklag
of the apparently innocent A Ms it
can steamer Chemung served to no- -centuate
the uneasiness in official
circles over Germav-American sn
marine relations
It is believtd here that Germany
will admit its guilt in the sinking ed
the Marina with the loss of Ameri-
can life The sinking of the Cheam
ung is not expected to produce a
crisis and a monetary settlement wil
probably be made
i
Will Plaea
By United !
London Nov 29 — Whether the
submarine which sank the
steamer Chemung while
was flying the stars end i
German or Austrian will prshakly be
ascertain td when the official itfeih
are rseejved by Ambassador Fag
from ths Americas seeeal at Yalaa-
cia Spain !
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Not LswsS Flag
By United rreas - u
Paris Nov 29— (Cosseted) — A’
Madrid dispatch by wiralil announ-
ce th arrival ntMMWWAofJb
erew of the American steamer Che-
mung torpedoed in by n Gen-
man submarine ’ The commander
gave the crew only n few minutes te-
abandon the veaMl not ' ‘allpwisy
them evert to take their money ail ‘
papers '
The submarine towed the Uleboehi
in which the crew were placed te
within five mile of the coast when
it abandoned them
The Chemung went down with the
stars and stripes floating at her meet -
A lively incident preceded the sink-
ing of ths vessel The German com- -mander
gave orders that the Ameri-
can flag should hs lowered and Ger-
man soldiers prepared to pnt them
into effect They met with stubborn
resistance on the part of the Ameri-
can Captain Duffy and his crew wh
refused to haul down the colors say-
ing that if the ship had to hs sunk It
would be with the flag flying'"
Captain Duffy maintained hi
ground and so rapidly were th prep-
erations to sink the Chemung mads
that further discussion about the flag
ceased and after th captain and crew
had been taken aboard the submarine
torpedo end three shells sent
against tha side of the American ship
put her to the bottom
Although angry at the action of th
German commander Captain Duffy
and' hi men had some measure of
satisfaction in seeing the flag at the
masthead as the waves finally on-
gulfed their ship Tha Chemung was
registered at New York and carried
a crew of twenty-four They found n
place in two lifebouats and after a
time on the open sea were picked up
by a Spanish steamer which took
them to Valencia Captain Duffy has
mde a long report of the incident to
the American consul at Valencia
John R Putnam
JELLICOE HEADS
BRITISH ARMY
By United Press -London
Nov 29 — It was announc-
ed in the house of common that Sir
John Jellicoe had been selected as
first sea lord of the admiralty and
that Admiral Beatty hae been named
as commander of the grand fleet
Admiral Beatty age 46 years is tha
youngest man who has ever command-
ed England’s fleet His wife ia an
American woman -
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Norton, J. T. The Nowata Star (Nowata, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, December 1, 1916, newspaper, December 1, 1916; Nowata, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1712750/m1/1/?q=music: accessed July 1, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.