The Afton American (Afton, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 19, 1916 Page: 2 of 8
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ANOTHER CHAPTER IN- THE
CELEBRATED fcA8E OF
T TOMMY ATKIN8
KEWS FROM STATE OFFICES
iMhat the State Official eng Depart
menta Are Doing— Iteme of In-
tereet About the State
Government
Washington — Sec -Lane through
Solicitor Vogelsang filed bis response
to the ruling of the supreme court of
the District of Columbia In the Injunc-
tion suit brought by Charles Page
millionaire oil man and philanthropist
of Tulsa and others to prevent the
secretary from cancelling an allot-
ment certificate and deed to 162 acres
of oil land In the Creek nation issued
to Minnie Atkins Folk of Washington
state as mother and only heir of
Thomas Atkins deceased in which
the secretary claims that Atkins is a
' mythical person
Secretary Lane states tht the re-
cent discovery of original papers In
the office of the commissioner of the
Five Civilized Tribes disclosed that
the delivery of deeds and certificates
were held up Intentionally by- an or-
der of the commissioner Issued In
' 1906 that the records shows the only
Thomas Atkins of the Creek nation
died In 1878 and(tbat no one of that
name existed In April 1899 that It is
within the discretion of the secretary
of the interior to withhold deeds and
certificates as the supreme authority
under an act of congress and treaties
of the government with the Creek na-
tion The case has been set fob -hearing
October 21 Since the Injunction suit
J was started F W Clements former
assistant attorney general! has filed
an intervention on behalf of James A
Ferguson of Fayetteville Ark lessee
for Minnie Atkins who was adjudged
mother and heir of Thomas Atkins de-
ceased by the circuit court of Creek
county This case was appealed and
Is now before the Oklahoma supreme
court
New Depot in Sight at Last
"So far as the corporation commis-
sion Is concerned it will not tolerate
actual work on the construction of the
station being delayed lpnger than De-
cember 1 at-tbe farthest” said Corpor-
ation Commissioner George A Hen-
shaw when plans for the proposed
Oklahoma City Frisco-Rock Island
union passenger station were returned
to the commission bearing the ap-
proval of Mayor Ed Overhqiser and
members of the city commission
It is probable that within the next
day or two tbe commission will issue
its final order directing the building
of the station and that actual work1
will begin ot later than December 1
The commission also will fix the date
at which the station Is to be com-
pleted Pension Claims May Be Paid 8oon
It will be the last of this week be-
fore warrants In payment of the pen-
sion claims approved at the last meet-
ing of the stale pension board will be
ready to mall out to the beneficiaries
according to W D Matthews com-
missioner of charities and correc-
tions The claims are now in the
auditor’s office where the warrants
are being drawn There are 1600
claims altogether
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Recruit Stations In 8tate Closed
Recruiting stations for the national
guard in Oklahoma Arkansas New
Mexico and Arizona were ordered dis-
continued according to advices re-
ceived by Adjutant General Ancel
Earp The stations proved unsuccess-
ful Mr Earp said in explaining a
reason for the discontinuance Okla-
homa has five recruiting points at
Oklahoma City Tulsa ' Enid Mus-
kogee and Lawton The five officers
and fifteen enlisted men who have had
charge of the stations will bo mus-
tered out of the service:
Who May Yota
In order to clear up any confusion
that may exist as to the operation of
tbe registration law the attorney gen-
eral’s office has given an opinion
holding that every voter who partici-
pated in tbe 1914 election is auto-
matically registered If he has moved
to another preolnct he should be given
a transfer The1 attorney general
holds that all those who did not vote
In 1914 and who failed to register this
summer cannot now register or vote
except those who have become quali-
fied voters since July 1 1916
Falr Clears $20000
Approximately $16000 was earned
by tbe Sttae Fair Association during
Its tenth annual exposition Just
closed— the first profit ever made by
the association since its organization
' Total attendnace was in thb neighbor-
hood of 160000 Exact figures on at-
tendance will be made known on No-
vember 14 when a new board of di-
rectors and officers will be elected
At that time a sttaement will be pub-
lished also relative to the associa-
tion’s plans for the eleventh annual
fair
U 8 PAY8 9200000 REFUND
A check fof $200000 was turned
over to the Oklahoma corporation
commission by representatives of the
United State? Express Company
which went out of business some time
ago following Inauguration of federal
parcel post service The money rejF
resents refunds due te shippers of the
state on payments made to the com-
pany during its appeal to the state
supreme court from -the decision of
me corporation commission The
commission reused to allow the com-pany-filgher
rates and its decision
was sustained by the court
The' express company settled its Ok-
lahoma obligations after an agreement
had been reached between its repre-
sentatives and Attorney General Free-
ling The corporation commission
was then notified and a judgment ren-
dered against the company which was
paid within a few minutes by check
The Wells-Fargo owes refunds
amounting to $126000 according to
the contention of the commission and
the American Express Company re-
funds to the extent of $100000 Neither
have liquidated these cln'ms
The last chapter in the famous ex-
press cases was being written when
the corporation commission began S
hearing of the express companies’ re-
quest to be permitted to put into ef-
fect a zone system of rates instead of
the mileage system now used
It was during the caurse of this
hearing that the United States com-
pany came to its decision to pay Its
refunds
Normal Course in 23 High Schools-
Normal training courses of -23 high
schools have been approved and tbe
courses of 36 others have been sub-
mitted and are now under considera-
tion for approval Ticc:rdlng to figures
given out by State Superintendent Wil-
son Those now under consideration
It was stated will be acted tipon be-
for the meelng of the State Teachers’
Association here the latter part of
November
The schools which have applied and
have been approved and the number of
students enrolled in the normal train-
ing work are as follows: Ardmore 14
Blackwell 13 Cbecotah'7 Chlckasha
10 El Reno 21 Elk City 11 Enid 26
Guthrie 13 Hobart 8 Holdenvllle
11 Hugo 16 Lawton 13 McAlester
12 Mangum — Muskogee 22 Okla-
homa City 44 Okmulgee 6 Pryor
13 Shawnee 17 Tulsa 16 Vlnlta 8
Waurlka 7 University Preparatory
school Tonkawa 26 '
There aren tne colleges on the list
awaiting approval including the six
district agricultural schools Tbe
other institutions are Henry Kendall
college Tulsa Phillips university of
Enid and the negro normal training
high school at Muskogee
Zone Express Rats Will Hit 8hlpped
Shippers all over the state are due
to pay much more in express rates if
the corporation commission allows the
companies to charge on a zone basis
Instead of the present mileage system
W V Hardle rpanager of the Okla
homa Traffic Association has spent
practically all of the past month( in
working out a table of comparisons
of the rates under tbe zone system and
the present one A hearing before
the corporation commission is now on
One of the extreme increases which
will go Into effect if the commission
rules favorably to the companies was
cited by Mr Hardle Butter 'and
eggs on the present mileage basis
from Geary Okla to Oklahoma City
are rated at 36 cents a hundred pounds
By the zone system the charge would
be 60 cents The increase' on 25
pounds however would be 'only 2
cents the present rate being 25 cents
The zone system now applies on in-
terstate shipments between Oklahoma
and Kansas and in many other places
the interstate commerce commission
having decided It fair
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Guardsmen Named For Rifle Shoot
’the following members or the na-
tional guard now on the border were
nominated for the rifle team in the
National Rifle Shoot In Jacksonville
October 14 to 16: Major Green cap-
tain Captain Jarboe coach Captain
Gllstrap range officer Lieutenant Pat-
terson spotter Capt Rex Bolend med-
ico Lieutenants Foster Taulbee
Mitchel Uhl and Bennett Sergeants
Walter Denn -Charles Denny Robert
Thompson Fioyd Parker Roy Scott
Postelle John Bradley Walter Creuch
and Meyers Corporal Elvln Nash and
Harlan Cheuvrot
Testimony Revsrses Conviction
Because of irregularities in the in-
net
troduetlon of testimony the criminal
court of appeals reversed the cohvio-
tion jf J H Choate In the district
court of Garvin county on a charge’of
embezzling $146382 from one of his
Indian wards Choate was sentenced
to serve one year in the penitentiary
The 652 state banks in Oklahoma
on September 12 had $6064311908
deposits an Increase ot $8000000
since June 80 according to a consoli-
dated bank statement Issued by J D
Lankford bank commissioner The
statement shows an increase ot
$9000000 in resources Loans and
discounts were $45116374 32 due
from other banks $2097916538 to-
tal resources $7789604616 Capital
stock jras $8464550 surplus $1627-
04256 undivided profits $85920699
due to banks $4620626 81 The aver-
age reserve was 175 per cent
THE ROUMANIAN CAMPAIGN
1— Roumanians are counter-attacking Austro-Hungarians in mountains on
eight bank of River Altul 2— Austrian and German monitors have destroy-
ed pontoon bridges across Danube In rear of Roumanian forces invading
Bulgaria 8— General von Mackensen has ordered withdrawal of Teuton
forces from Roumanian’ fortresses of Turtukal and Slltstrla 4— On south-
ern front In Pobrudja Roumanians are attacking violently along entire
line - '
LATEST ENTRANT JN BIG WAR
OFFERS STUBBORN
RESISTANC -
ALLIES MAKING SMALL GAINS
American Aviator 8hoote Down Hfa
"Fifth Opponent ln Frances-
Desultory Fighting Reported
On All Fronts (
London— Although the Roumanians
in northeast Transylvania continue to'
fall back before the Austro-Germans
from this region all along the battle
line to thealcinity of begova on tbe
Danube they not only are giving bat-
tle to their adversaries but at sev-
eral points by violent counter attacks
have gained an advantage over them
Bucharest admits the retirement of
the Roumanian forces in the Kailman
mountains on tbe northwest front
Further south the infantry of the Teu-
tonic allies was put to flight by their
artillery fire Successes also were
obtained by the Roumanians in tbe
Oituz and Jiul vabeys where violent
attacks were repulsed with heavy cas-
ualties On both sides of the Szurduk
pass the Roumanians continue on the
offensive but Berlin says their at-
tacks have been repelled
North -of this region in the Carpa-
thian mountains the Austro-Germans
have recaptured the height of Cmot-
reo In Volhynia violent fighting has
again 'broken out Here both tfce
Russian and the Teutonic allies claim
successes
Petrograd says that north of Koryt-
nlza tbe Russians captured a German
trench inflicting heavy casualties on
its occupants Along the Stokhod says
Berlin Russian attacks were repulsed
German trenches in the neighbor-
hood of the Stuc and Schwaben re-
doubts In the Thiepval region ot
France have been captured by the
British 'To the east near Gueude-
court the British also have slightly
advanced their line
Berlin admits that the British north
of Thiepval gained a firm hold in the
German trenches and that the French
south ot the Somme have won a foot-
ing in the sugar refinery at Gener-
mont French aeroplanes co-operated most
effectively in the fighting south of the
river Somme Sergeant Lufberry of
New Haven Conn a member of the
Franco-Amerlcan flying corps shot
down his fifth adversary the Paris
statement says during the raid Ihnde
by French aeroplanes on the Hauser
works at Oberndorf
In Macedonia the Serbian troops
have made a further advance along
the left bank of the Cerna river while
the French have cut the railwav line
south of Seres The fighting through-
out this region consists mainly of ar-
tillery duels only Isolated Infantry
attacks having been reported
Still further gains for the Italians
against the Austrians in the Carso re-
gion of the Austro-Itallan theater are
recorded by Rome
Roumanian Minister Dies
Bucharest — Senator Flllpescue
minister of war and leader of 'the
Roumanian conservative party Is
dead He was a supporter of the en-
tente powers
Ten Kitted In Nebraeka Wreck
Elwood Neb— Ten men were killed
and eleven others seriously Injured
when a train on tbe Burlington rail-
road crashed into a freight caboose
n which the men were riding twelve
miles east of here Five other men
standing on the wear platform of the
caboose saw the approaching train
soon enough to Jump to safety One
man In the caboose was thrown clear
of the wreck and escaped injury The
trains in collision were sections of a
regular stock train Lack of light
signals was the cause of the accident
WILSON CONSIDERS U-BtiATS
PRESIDENT ' DISCUSSEt LATEST
GERMAN 8TUNT
May Subject Withdrawal of Subma-
rines From- American Waters In
Line With Previous Policy ' -
Long Branch N J— President Wil-
son and Secretary of State Lansing
discussed in detail at Shadow Lawn
German submarine attacks on mer-
chantmen off the New England coast
As a result It probably will be sug-
gested to the German government that
her submarines should not operate in
close proximity to American shores
the protest of the United States to thf
allied nations on -ihe warship patrol
early In the war forming he basis for
the action ' ' '
While the contcrence was in prog-
ress It was announced in Washington
by Coupselor Polk ot tbe state depart-
ment that the United States had re-
jected the contention of tbe entente
allies that all belligerent submarines
Whether war craft or merchantmen
should be denied access to neutral
waters and neutral ports It also wa-
said that the question of legality of
the German U boat-activity off" the
American coast bad narrowed to the
point whether proper provision bad
been made for the safety ot persons
taken off the destroyed ships and leR
at sea in smdll open boats
It was understood however tbe
president and secretary discussed the
wisdom ot pointing out to Germany
the inadvisability of operating her
submarines in close proximity to the
territorial waters ot the United States
Administration officials took the po-
sition that the transferring of sub-
marine warfare sd close to America’s
shores was fraught with grave danger
because of tbe possibility of mistakes
being made by submarine command-
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MID CHICAGO MAYOR'S OFFICE
8tate'e Attorney Thinks City Execu-
tive May Be Crooked
Chicago— Armed with subpoenas
authorizing search and seizure detect-
ives from state's Attorney Hoyne’s
office conducted a spectacular raid on
the offices ot Mayor Thompson Chief
of Police ftealey and M L C Funk-
houser deputy auperlntendent of po-
lice and" appropriated files of corres-
pondence to determine if vice and
gambling have existed here with tbe
knowledge and consent of tbe city of-
ficiate The raid was the climax of tbe war
between the city hall officiate and tbe
state's attorney Jnjjblch Hoyne has
charged that open gambling flour-
ished saloons were allowed to violate
be Sunday closing ordinance and that
vicious resorts were gaining headway
with the connivance of some local
polltlcans
Hoyne has announced he will seek
he Indictment of the police chief He
efused to say juHt what he expected
0 prove 6y tbe documents seized
Chief Healey objected io-the seizure
of hlz private papers unTil the sub-
poenas had been examined by the
mrporation counsel but later agreed
hat the records sought would be pro-
luced voluntarily Deputy Funk-
souser who formerly was In charge
if alWvice raids surrendered his files
without objection and Mayor Tbomp--on
agreed at once to let the raiders
save what they wanted '
DEMOCRATS GROWING CONFIDENT
iucests In Many Western States Ex-
— pected by Walsh
Chicago — Senator Thomas J
Walsh manager ot western demo
cratlo national headquarters Issued a
statement in which he declared: th
democrats are confident of carrying
Indiana Kentucky Missouri Nebras-
ka Montana Colorado Nevada and
Arltona and have reasonable grounds
to hops for success in Illinois Wiscon-
sin Washington Oregon and Utah
MANY STATES TO CH0O8E NEW
CHIEF EXECUTIVES THIS
- -' YEAR -
CXLY'KSCTH TILL ELECTIC
Disappearance of 5 the Progreaalva
! Party Puta New Alignment up
- To the Vetera at This
Election ‘ - -
" Washington— In thirty-four states a
governor and all or nearly ail -the
elective state officers are to be chosen
in the elections which take place four
weeks from next Tuesday The elec-
tions will differ noticeably from those
of 1912 and 1914 Inasmuch as the dis-
appearance of the progressives as an
organized party leaves the -republicans
and tbe democrats to fight for
tbe state offices as was the case be-
fore the birth ot the so-called thiro
party Tbe prohibition and socialist
parties have named candidates foe the
principal offices in many of the states
and in some 0? the states there are
several minor tickets in the field In
all of tbe states however it is re-
garded as a practical certainty that
the new governors and othetprincipal
officers will be either democrats or re-
publicans Following are the -republican or
democratic candidates for governor
in the thirty-four states where guber-
natorial elections will be held:
Arizon—Republican Tom Camp-
bell democrat George W P Hunt
(incumbent) -
Arkansas— Republican - W a 1 la c e
Townsend democrat Ca H Brough
Colorado— Republican George A
Carlson (Incumbent) democrat Jul-
ius C Gunter - -
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Connecticut— Republican Marcus H
Holcomb (Incumbent) democrat Mor-rte-flBeardsley
Delaware— Republican John G
Townsend democrat Jas S Hughes
Florida — Republican George A Al-
len democrat W V Knott
Idaho— Republican D W ’ Davis
democrat Moses Alexander (incum-
bent) ’
Illinois— Republican Frank Q Low-
den democrat Edward F Dunne (in-
cumbent) -Indiana—
Republican Jas P Good-
rich democrat John A M Adair
Iowa— Republican' W L Harding
democrat E T Meredith
Kansas — Republican Arthur Capper
(Incumbent) democrat' W C Lans-
don Massachusetts— Republican damuel
W McCall (lnctimbent) democrat
Frederick Wa Mansfield s
Michigan— Republican Albert E
Sleeper democrat Edwin F Sweet
Minnesota— Republican John A A
Burnqulest (incumbent) democrat
Cyrus M King -N ’
Missouri— Republican Henry Lamm
democrat Frederick D Gardiner
Montana— Republican Frank J Ed-
wards democrat Samuel V Stewart
(incumbent) ' j - - - - '
1 Nebraska— Republican Abraham Ik
Sutton democrat Keith Neville
New Hampshire— Republican Henry
W Keyes democrat John C Hutch-
ins '
' New Jersey— Republican Walter E
Edge democrat H Otto Wlttpenn -New
Mexico— Republican Holm O-
Bursum democrat E C de Baca
"New York— Republican Charles 8
Whitman (Incumbent) democrat
Samuel S Seabury
North Carolina— Republican Frank
A Linney democrat T Wi-Biekett
North Dakota— Republican Lynn
Frazer democrat D H McArthur
Ohio — Republican Frank B Willis
(Incumbent) democrat Jas M Cox
Rhode Island— Republican R Liv-
ingston Breckman (incumbent) dem-
ocrat Addison P Hunroe
South Carolina— Democrat Richard
t Manning (Incumbent)
South Dakota— Republican Peter
Norbeck democrat F D Morcom
Tennessee— Republican John W
Overall democrat Tom C Rye (In-
cumbent) Texas— Republican R B Creager
democrat James E Ferguson (Incum-
bent) —
Utah— Republican Nephl -Morris
democrat Simon Bamberger
Vermont— Republican Horace F
Graham democrat William B Mayo
Washington — Republican Henry
McBride democrat Ernest Lister (in-
cumbent) -
West Virginia— Republican ' Ira 8
Robinson democrat John J Corn-
well Wisconsin— Republican Emanuel L
Philipp (Incumbeqt) democrat Burt
Williams
' This Is Almost Nswe '
Louisa Ky— The special train carry-
ing Charles E Hughes was stopped by
a broken rail on the point of a 'curve
around a steep embankment of the
Big Sandy river leaving Paintevllle
Tbejrall woe broke'h for a distance
ofleveral Inches the Inside flange
having been knocked entirely away-
Bection hands discovered the break a
few minutes before tbe special was
due and flagged tbe train Only a
few persons aboard tbe special learned
of the cause of tbe delay - -
£!:r:en enr meMTO
seventeen railroads face
NEW 8TRIKE PROBLEM
Eight Hour Day And So An Hour Ad-
- vanee Wanted By The Re-’ '
pair Men - j
Kaunas City Mo— A wage increase
of 8 centh an hour and a demand for"'
the eight-hour day throughout the aid '
allied (crafts of railroad shopmen oC
seventeen western railroads - was' '
agreed upon at a conference of the t
shopmen here The 'crafts prepared
an ultimatum outlining their demands
which will be presented immediately
to tbe railroads employing tbe crafts-’
men - - -1
Tbe findings of tbe conferencewere - -the
result of a recent conference hero -when
the demands of the craftsmen
were refused by the railroads Then -
n demand for a 5 cents an how-increase
was demanded by the shop- s
men The railroad declared 1 their
willingness at that time to allow the "
eight-hour day for all stationary work
but declared a nine-hour schedule was "
necessary for repair on rolling stock '
which would take the men out on tbe ''
line -v- - - -
Officials of the shopmen declared
the ultimatum of the crafts would be
delivered Immediately to the railroads ‘
involved
Oklahoma lines are among the sev-
enteen railroads affected
MORE TIME TO CAPTURE VILLA
Conferees Assert Carranza Will 8tart
New Campaign Against Bandit
Atlantic Clty-kMajor General Tas- '
ker H Bliss assistant chief ot staff
of the United Statea army appeared!
again before the American members
of the Mexlcan-Amerlcan joint com-
mission Later it was Intimated that s
the discussion by tbe Joint commis-
sion of the various schemes for gor-
ier control would not be forced ly the
Americans until a'teuffident time had
elapsed for General Carranza to Bhow
the efficiency ef his latest punitive
expedition relative to which new aa-t
stirances were given the commissions
era by Ambassador-Designate- Arre
dondo through Luis Cabrera chair-1
man of the Mexican commission
Mr Cabrera said bis government!
would begin at once an “lntenBive”f
campaign against Villa The Amerij
cans were told that “thousands of thel
best troops in the country were beingj
taken into Chihuahua and Durango
for an extensive campaign which iti
la expected will become evident short
ly in a series of movements that will
lead either to Villa’s isolation in the
mountains without a force of any size
or to hte destruction’’ r
WOMEN DON'T HAVE TO “0BET'
If Episcopalians Adopt Now Marriage
Ceremony -
SL Louis— Elimination of tbe word
"obey” in the promise of the woman in
the marriage service was recom-'
mended in a minority report of th
joint commission on common prayer
submitted to the house of deputies ot
the Protestant Episcopal general con-
vention here
The bouse of deputies referred back
to the commission on prayer book ail
proposed changes in the marriage cer-
emony in the cateohism and in the
Institution of clergymen ---
These matters cSnnot come before -the
general committee again for three
years The minority report lecom-
mended that the present injunction -beginning
“ifrllt thou obey hluPSnd
serve him” be changed to “Wilt thou
love him comfort vblm honor and
keep hjm in sickness and in health
and forsaking all others keep the
only unto him so long as ye shall
live” - 1
The minority report suggested also
the omission of the words “and with
all my worldly goods I thee endow”
in the service An argument ad-
vanced was that the expression “en-‘
dow” is a relio of old Englteh law un-
der which the dower rights ot women
were guaranteed and that today the
question involved la a civil one to b
taken for granted
It also was proposed (0 expunge th
expression “as Isaac and Rebecca
lived faithfully together" etc and
merely say “living faithfully'' to-
gether” Many regard the reference
to these Biblical personages as out ol
date Others declare there is no rea-
son why Isaao and his wife should be
regarded as models when there were
many other husbands knd wives equal-
ly faithful
Numbers of changes were suggested ’
in tbe majority report Among them
were the shortening of the Ten Com-
mandments as rea&Jn the eommunton
service' the elimination of a specific
prayer for Jews and Turks It being
argued that the present prayer for
Jews and Turks in connection with in-
fidels Is disrespectful and Inaccurate
"because it is clear Mohammedans
are meant Instead of Turks”
Tragedy After Elopment
Paducab Ky— Tbe bodies of Elma
Cope 14 years old and Charles
Brown 24 her brotber-In law were
found In a ravine on the farm of tbe
girl’s father near Glade Ky -The two
eloped to Harrisburg Ark September
5 but were arrested September 9 and
returned to Glade Later they wore
released and Brown was put urujer
bond then the couple disappeared
Tbe condition of the bodies Indicated
death occurred at least six days ago
The glrLJiag been shot three times
and Brown had one bullet wound
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