The Aline Chronoscope. (Aline, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, August 3, 1917 Page: 2 of 9
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THE CHRONOSCOPE ALINE OKLAHOMA
HEREMTHERE
WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF
PARAGRAPHS
DRAFT QUOTA BY COUNTIES
roumlei iiatlnj mor thin one exemption board dia-
trlct: Caddo county— Division No 1 Cd Ittvialon
No 5 91 Creek county— Ulrlalon No 1 1116 Dl-
tlalon No 9 19S Grady county— Ulrlalon No I
1S2 Dlrlalon No 8 110 Muskogee county— 1)1-
Ttaion No 1 71 Dliiilon No 8 97 Oklahoma
county— Wrbdon No 1 101: Division No 8 70
Oklahoma City — Division No li fll Dlrlalon No 3
133 Division No 8 108 flttskurg county— Di-
vision No 1 189 Division No 3 171
LIGHTNING FIRES OIL TANK
Flatting Stream Through Drumrlght
Causes Damage of $167500
Drumright— Several houses were
destroyed and 2000 people were driven
from their homes when an oil tank
was struck by lightning during a
shower here The tank exploded and
55000 barrels of oil rushed down Tiger
gulch through the heart of the resi-
dence section in a flaming torrent
Buildings along the street were ignited
"by the burning oil and the whole city
was clouded in darkness by smoke
Hundreds of men with spades hur-
riedly threw dirt dams across the
gulch to keep the flood of burning oil
from flowing through the business dis-
trict and the fire department was
called out to keep down the spread
of the flames among the homes
The tank which was located on a
hill in the outskirts of the city was
the property of the International Oil
Company The loss is estimated at
$167500 Three other tanks of oil
owned by tho Prairie Pipe Line Com-
pany located near Oilton were de-
stroyed by lightning involving a loss
of $500000
DEAD 5 DAYS APPOINTED
Negro Who Killed Himself Listed In
the Officers’ Reresre
Muskogee— Five days after he com-
mitted suicide because he believed he
had been denied admission to the
training camp for negro officers W
Scott Browne local negro attorney
was placed on the rolls of the camp
at Des Moines Iowa A telegram from
the adjutant general’s office stated
that Browne would be admitted into
the camp If ne deBired to begin this
late
The Seed Wheat Problem
Stillwater— Eight Oklahoma coun-
ties will require 300000 bushels more
seed wheat than those counties have
produced this season according to
facts revealed in a survey of the seed
wheat situation of the state All indi-
cations point to a recordbreaking
acreage of wheat to be sown this fall
The task of supplying seed wheat
where needed is a gigantic undertak-
nig and has been delegated by the
state council of defense to a sub-committee
State Will Stop Raids On Cattle
Vinita— W V Hausenfluck man-
ager of Bull Hollow ranch at FanBas
In Delaware county has appealed to
President F M Gault of the state
board of agriculture for assistance
in stopping night raids on his cattle
More than hundred shots were fired
Into one of the ranch herds one night
last week and nine of the animals
killed Mr Hausenfluck charges the
shooting to cattle raisers who resent
the entry of outsiders into a territory
which heretofore has been "free
mg a”
LUMBER COMPANY IS SUED
Freeling Ties Up 176000 Acres of
Land For Back Taxes
Mabel—’ Temporary restraining or-
der to prevent disposition of 176000
acreB of land in McCurtaln county
forfeiture of charter ana dissolution
of the Homebuilders Lumber Com-
pany together with $87140 penalty fot
alleged failure tt pay a state license
tax are asked in a suit filed in dis-
trict court here by Attorney General
Freeling for the state of Oklahoma
The suit is brought on tne technical
ground that ths company has not
paid a state license tax since the first
year after issuance of its charter'
The ljomebuilders Company accord-
ing to the petition also haB been
made defendant in a suit for $3750(1
advalorem taxes In McCurtaln county
The company has paid no license
tax since that which became auto-
matically paid for one year on issu-
ance of state charter Penalty of $100
per day is asked until March 29 1917
when the law was altered to provide
a penalty of $10 per day The original
tax penalties and other items total
$87140 Temporary injunction to pre-
vent disposition of the land pending
settlement of the suit also is asked
The suit according to Attorney Gen-
eral Freeling will serve to clear the
title to 175000 acres of land part of
which either is owned outrtgnt by the
defendants or on which they had pur-
chased standing timber With theiff
present status undisturbed Mr Free-
ling said preparation of an abstract
of title on many of the iracts would
almost equal the value of the land itself
SANTA FE BUILD NEW LINE
Sixty-Two Miles of Track To Go
Through Heart of Osage Land
Oklahoma City— Contract for a
branch line of the Santa Fe through
the heart of the Osage nation has been
awarded to Maney Brothers railroad
contractors of this city The line
will run -from Owens to Fairfax a dis-
tance of sixty-two miles with ter-
minals three miles from Fairfax It
will go through Pawhuska
Five hundred teams and 2500 men
will be engaged in the work which
will be sublet to team outfits It will
continue all the winter and will begin
within ten days at different points It
will be finished In July 1918
James R Cottingham state counsel
for the Santa Fe railway said that
the grade will be first class comparing
with the best of the company's lines
It will connect that territory with Ok-
lahoma City at this end and Kansas
City and Chicago at the other bn a di-
rest route For the present it will
mean no change in the routing of lines
Mr Cottingham said it eventually will
mean a change In the routing of some
trains through Arkansas City
The building of the road means the
moving of three and one half millions
cubic yards of material
Indan’s Property Exempt From Tax
Judge John S Cotteral handed down
a decision in the United States dis-
trict court making permanent a tern-
porary injunction againBt the Osage
county treasurer enjoining him from
collecting taxes on two lots and a
house in Pawhuska owned by Charley
Panther an Osage Indian The prop-
erty was bought by the Indian with
tribal funds with the consent of the
secretary of the Interior and the deed
contained a restricting clause prohib-
iting the Indian from selling the property
Hello Hello Okmulgee
Okmulgee is figuratively "up on its
ear” on account of its- telephone serv-
ice and last week filed with the state
corporation commission a petition for
a reduction in rates The petition de-
clares that patrons of the telephone
company only want to pay a rate in
keeping with the class of service they
receive That the hello girls are in-
solent particularly to women that
they often ring the wrong number and
frequently declare a line busy when
such is not the case -are among the
things complained against in the petition
Second Death Sentence
McAlester — For the second time and
for the same offense to a certain ex-
tent it is believed John Henry Pray-
ter negro is facing the death penalty
by verdict of an Oklahoma jury
Prayter was convicted in the district
court here for the murder of Charlie
Ross a fellow convict June 27 last
but in assessing the death penalty
it Is believed that the jury looked
back to the year 1911 when Prayter
killed W H Archer a white man In
Oklahoma City and voted a delayed
penalty for that murder
Pipe Line Men Out On Strike
Tulsa — Nearly 4000 men employed
on the Prairie pipe line now under
construction from Cushing to St
Louis are on strike The line is be-
ing built from Cushing through Okla-
homa by way of Chelsea Terlton
Cleveland Vera Hallett and Skia-
took Members of organized labor
deny that there is any 1- W W in-
fluence in the strike They are de-
manding a raise from $300 to $400
a day Hundreds of men have been
brought here to break the strike at
Sklatook where the trouble started
War News
Siam has declared that a state of
war exists with Germany and Austria
according to a Reuter dispatch from
Bangkok Nine steamers aggregating
19000 tons have been seized The ob-
ject of Slam’s declaration is "to up-
hold the sanctity of International
rights against nations showing con-
tempt for the principles of humanity
and respect for small states" :
44
The Germans continued their furi-
ous assaults on the Aisne front bring-
ing up fresh troops A late official
statement says the attacks were
broken up by the French who inflict-
ed great losses upon them The Ger-
mans also attacked on the Verdun
front hut gained no success
4 4 4
A Russian official war statement:
"East of Brzezany — Austro-German
troops occupied a portion of our first
line trenches Tho enemy’s effort to
attack south of Brzezany was repelled
West of Halicz detachments occupy-
ing Bludniki retired The enemy oc-
cupied the place An effort to win
back this village was unsuccessful"
4 4 4
1 — Members of the Harvard university regiment digging trenches for practice at Fresh Pond Mass 2— John
D Ryan copper magnate who has been made director general of military relief in the Red Cross 3 — One of thf
big French 75's on he west front atmit to be fired 4 — Design for a proposed medul to be awnrded American sol-
diers who distinguish themselves In France according to the bill Introduced in congress by Representative
O’Shaunessy of Rhode Island the medals would be made from two cannon presented to the United States by
Lafayette
BRITISH TRANSPORT TORPEDOED AND ON THE ROCKS
Tills remarkable photograph shows a British transport on the rocks after being torpedoed by a German subma-
rine in the eastern Mediterranean The vessel wus run on the rocks in an effort to beach her The men can be-seen
sliding down the ropes hanging from the vessel
BISBEE ARMING AGAINST THE I W W
Citizens of Bisbee gathering under arms to deport the members of the I V W who were fomenting strikes
in the Arizona copper mines
MONTENEGRIN KING AT BRITISH FRONT
TYPE OF GERMAN PRISONER
The king of Montenegro photographed during a recent visit to the British
front in Belgium while an aviator was showing LUa his airplane
Characteristic photograph of a Gen
man prisoner taken by the British in a
recent drive He looks happy and re-
lieved but some of them are decidedly
sullen
Recovery of some trench elements
that remained in German possession
after th recent attack on the French
lines south of St Quentin is announced
in a recent statement by the war of-
fice 4 4 4
"Recently the enemy again attacked
our positions south of Lombaertzyde
under cover of a heavy bombardment
to which our artillery replied vigor-
ously His troops succeeded in reach-
ing our line only on a small part of
the front attacked and those who en-
tered our trenches were at once
driven out by our counter attack"
says a British statement
The Germans in East Glaicia have
penetrated the Russian positions
near Zlocfioff on a wide front ac-i
cording to a supplementary official
communication issued by the Berlin
war office
4 -4 4
Full and interesting details of the
organization of the German formations:
known as "stosstruppen” or "shock
units” indicate that the German army
at the front is now divided into super-
ior and inferior grades of soldiers
4 4 4
The transport service of the United
States army in France is successfully
meeting the great task of importing
supplies for the troops The im-t
mediate needs include locomotive
bridge material bathing and ventilat-
ing apparatus and electric generating
and refrigerating plants
4 4 4
Washington
The administration food control bill
virtually rewritten after five weeks’
bitter contest was passed by the Sen-
ate 81 to 6 Conferees from House
and Senate will begin work at once
and leaders are hopeful the measure-
may be in the president’s hands In ten
days
4 4 4
With less than an hour's debate the
Senate passed the great Aircraft Pro-
duction bill appropriating 640 million
dollars to build airplanes for war
against the Germans The House hav-
ing already passed the measure it
now goes to the President for his sig-
nature 1
4 4 4-
Reorganization oi the Atlantic fleet
has been ordered by Secretary Dan-
iels to meet new problems resulting
from expansion of the force to almost
twice its normal size for war service
Details of the steps taken are with-
held for military reasons
4t 4t
President Wilson has issued par-
dons for the sixteen suffragists serv-
ing 60-day sentences in the work-
house at Occoquan Va for picketing
in front of the White House Secre-
tary Tumulty said the pardon must
speak for itself and that the White
Hose would have no statement to
make
4 4 4
Governor Harrington has issued a
poclamation requiring every unem-
ployed able bodied man between 18
and 50 years old In Maryland to regis-
ter name address age and other need-
ed information by August 20 The
governor declared those who do not
fight- Bhall work
4- 4
Domestic
Plans for large hospitals for Fort
Riley and all of the sixteen canton-
ments have been completed by the
office 'of the surgeon general and the
work will be commenced by the can-
tonment division of the quartermaster
department and rushed to completion
' before troops are called under the se-
lective draft
4 4 4-
There is no present Intention to re-
scind or modify rules recently adopt-
ed fixing maximum prices at which
wheat and corn may be dealt in on
the board of trade for future delivery
or by grade alone in store This state-
ment was made by J T Griffin pres-
ident of the Chicago Board of Trade
4 4 4
Plans by which the Ignited Stntes-
wlll relieve Great Britain of the task
of rationing the European neutral
countries have about reached comple-
tion according to a Washington state-
J Jnent
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Pendergraft, W. L. The Aline Chronoscope. (Aline, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, August 3, 1917, newspaper, August 3, 1917; Aline, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1744414/m1/2/?q=j+w+gardner&rotate=270: accessed July 1, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.