The Lenapah Post (Lenapah, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, September 22, 1916 Page: 2 of 8
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LENEPAH POST
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History
Current Events at
Home and Abroad
European War
Prinoe Frederick William of Hesse
tas been killed at Cara Orman on the
Balkan front Prince William Is a
tiepbew of the kaiser '
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A total of 248 live were lost when
e Italian dreadnaught Leonardo da
iVlnoi which caught fire and blew up
in the harbor of Taranto Italy on
August 2 -
!
I A Russian official statement says
that the Roumanians have evacuated
Turtakal and Berlin announces that
more than 20000 Roumanians were
taken prisoners when Bulgarian and
Oerman troops captured the fortress
More than 100 guns were taken
’
I British press bursau gives the total
Oerman war casualties to the end of
- August as compiled from Oerman of-
ficial lists as follows: Dead 832162
prisoners and missing 399769 wound-
led 2144203 total hors de combat
temporarily or permanently 3376134
The capture of German first-line
trenches over a front of one mile be-
fore Verdun was announced by the
French war office The ground was
w6n in the long contested Bector op-
posite the Meuse between Vaux-Chap-itre
region and the town of Chenois
It is in the Bector where the Germans
most nearly approached a definite
breach In the defenses of thef city
' that the heaviest fighting has been in
progress recently
The French north of Peronne are
ing tenaciously to the salient they
’ have driven into the Oerman line east
of the Bethune-Peronne road near Bou-
havesnes They hold intact too
Bcjuchavsnes and other points along
the line captured In the offensive start-
last week Their capture of a power-
fully organized German trench system
south of LePrles farm near the road
running west from Rancourt to Com-
hles has further jeopardized Combles
Domestic
The national Negro Baptist conven-
tion at Savannah voted to meet next
'year at Muskogee
As a result of swallowing a nickel
peveral days ago John Irwine Wilson
' aged months died at Dallas Tex
' Four men are dead and a score of
others narrowly escaped from a fire
which swept the Salvation Army in-
dustrial building at Detroit Mich
Detroit has a population of 820778
according to the city directory esti-
mate ’ The directory ranks Detrblt
as the fifth largest American city
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The Grand Trunk Railway Company
has granted an increase in wages
from 5 to 8 per cent to 4600 employes
all except the firemen and engineers
Governor 8tuart of Vlrgina has an-
nounced that the monument to Gen-
eral Robert E Lee on the Gettysburg
battlefield will be unveiled May 1917
during the annual reunion of the Unit-
ed Confederate veterans in Washing-
ton Fire completely destroyed the Pa-
cific Coast Company’s liner Congress
two miles off Coos Bay bar Oregon
last night Everyone of the 253 pass-
engers on board and the crew of 174
was landed safely by the dredge Col-
onel P S Mlchle
A meeting of the Industrial Work-
ers of the World at Old Forge near
Bcranton Pa was raided by Sheriff
Ben S Phillips deputies and twenty
state troopers All men in the hall
318 were arrested and taken to the
Lackawanna county jail charged with
riot
The superdreadnaughts Oklahoma
and Pennsylvania recently commis-
sioned returned to Hampton Roads
from Tangier sound Chesapeake
where they have been engaged In tar-
get practice Reports were that the
warships made several hits at 20000
yards the longest range ever attempt-
ed by any ship in the American navy
- Henry Wood a white man of Lake
City Ark who escaped to Canada
after murdering his wife received a
commutation from Governor George
W Hays changing his punishment
from electrocution to life lmprison-
went Governor Hays also commuted
both sentences hanging over Joe Cow-
an convicted of murdering his father-in-law
and Gilllsple Glover a Little
Rock negro who killed his wife to
life Imprisonment
The superdreadnaught Nevada the
newest and most powerful American
warship has completed her final trials
and joined the Atlantia fleet on the
Southern drill grounds for target prac-
tice 1
Fred O Blue West Virginia state
(tax commissioner in a statement
tnade public at Charleston W Va
bays that in the two years the state
firohibltion law has been in effect
here has been a reduction of 50 per
Fent In crime and 75 per cent in
jdrunkenness
Otto Roblsch 31 years Old coin
fessed at Pine Bluff Ark the police
say that he killed George Pambogo
Oklahoma Indian who came there to
see his sweetheart and threw the In-
dlan’s body in the Arkansas river
I
A cloudburst broke Cave creik a
mountain stream north of Phoenix
Ariz out of its banks Several hun-
dred acres of desert and farm lands
were flooded The total loss is esti-
mated at $100000 I
Fire destroyed more than half of an
800-foot pier together with sixty cars
loaded 'with ties and clay at one of
the Lehigh Valley railroad terminals
at Perth Amboy N J It was reported
the property loss would aggregate
$100000 ' '
v
' Suit for $1000000 was filed by
Henry Ford the Detroit manufacturer
against the Chicago Tribune in the
United States district court at Chi-
cago Mr Ford asks for peisonal dam-
ages as compensation for an editorial
printed in the Tribune June 23 which
called Ford an "anarchist”
Stepping out of the shrubbery along
the roadway at Glen’s Run three
miles west of Martin’B Ferry Ohio
two foreigners Bhot and fatally pound-
ed Lee Rankin superintendent of the
Florence mine of the Yougthogheny
Ohio Coal Company took the mine
payroll $12000 from Rankin’s auto-
mobile and escaped Rankin died an
hour after the holdup The money
was found
Foreign
The central span of the world’s
greatest suspension bridge collapsed
and fell into the St Lawrence river at
Quebec with a loss of eleven lives
The same bridge suffered a similar
accident nine years ago with 90
deaths
Official figures on Yukon territory's
first vote on prohibition give the wets
a majority of only three votes for the
entire territory The entire contest
was to abolish the liquor hotel the
only form of saloon now allowed in the
territory The mining districts al-
most without exception voted for pro-
hibition American Consul Garrels at Alexan-
dria Egypt cabled the state depart-
ment that permission had been grant-
ed for passage through the allied
blockade of medical supplies shipped
by New York Jewish societies on the
cruiser Des Moines for relief of Suf-
ferers in Jerusalem
The German authorities have seized
F30000000 whl h had been placed in
the coffers of the Belgian National
bank in consequence of the suspen-
sion of moratorium The newspaper
says the Germans have offered to pay
5 per cent interest and to return the
money two years after the close of the
war
'
In addition to demanding police
power in south Manchuria and inner
Mongolia as one of the terms of the
settlement of the incident at Cheng
Chiatun in eastern Mongolia Japan
also has recently suggested to China
that the employment of Japanese in-
structors in the Chinese military
schools would be highly desirable
The head of the bandit Luis Guitter-
rez known in Mexico as the "enchant-
ed goat” has been sent by Colonel
Buerrostro commanding the Carranza
garrison at Colomo to the governor of
Guadalajara Guitterres long the ter-
ror of the people in the state of Co-
lima was attacked and killed by ran-
chers who had grown tired of his exactions
Washington
Both Japan and Russia have given
the United State formal assurance
that the new Russo-Japanese treaty
does not repeal or effect the treaties of
1907 and 1910 in which those nations
pledged themselves to maintain the
integrity of China and the open door
policy
Cotton of the growth of 1916 ginn-
ed prior to September 1 amounted to
850032 bales counting rounds as half
bales the census bureau announced in
its first ginning report of the season
That compares with 463883 bales laBt
year 480317 In 1914 and 799099 in
19’ 3
President Wilson signed the ship-
ping bill authorizing government or-
ganization of a corporation or corpor-
ations with a capitalization of not more
than $50000000 to buy or leaBe ships
and put them in trade if they cannot
be leased for operations to private
capital
Cotton used during August amount-
ed to 858717 running bales exclusive
of linters and for the year ending
July 31 6397613 bales the census
bureau announced In August a year
ago 464392 bales were used and dur-
ing the year ending July 81 1915 the
quantity was 6697362 bales
President Wilson told Senator Hus-
ting of Wisconsin that his present
plan was to make speeches only be-
fore non-partisan meetings during the
present campaign
Orders were issued by the war de-
partment for the discharge from fed-
eral service as soon as practicable of
twelve national guard regiments com-
prising about 20000 men recently
withdrawn to their home states from
the Mexican border and a number of
smaller organizations of some 1600
eollege and university students
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TEUTONIC INVASION OF ROUflIANIA
In a swift invasion of Roumania that strikes at Bucharest the capital
the Teutonic and Bulgarian armies have captured Turtukai a fortified town
on tlie Danube and the fortress of Dobrlc With the aid of Russian forces the
Roumanians are fighting desperately to turn back the invaders
in
ALLIED DRIVE ON ALL FRONTS
CAUSES CONTINUED GER-
MAN LOS8ES
BRITISH TRY NEW MOTORCAR
With Destructive Effect ' On the
8omme— Bulgars and Teutons
Driven Back On All Sections
of the Balkan Front
London — Smashing the German
line on a front of six miles north of
the Somme in France the British
forces made the most notable ad-
vances since the Anglo-French offen-
sive began July 1 -
i Three towns two woods and the
possession of nearly all the high
ground between Combles and the
Posieres-Bapaume road fell to the
British The British drive Imperils
jCombleB and Thiepval positions at
either end of the British front The
gaining of the high ground north of
Combles gives the British command
pf the approaches to Bapaume
The advance on the northern end
pf the front extended a distance of
wo miles Courcelotte east of Thiep-
jral and north of the Pozieres-
JBapaume road fell into the hands of
General Haig’s men Farther south
jhey took Fleers and the High wood
making secure their position of Gin-
bhy The Bouleaux wood north Of
Combles also was lost to the Ger-
mans French Aid In Movement
Aiding the British in the encircle-
ment of Combles the French have
taken additional trenches north of
Ueprlez farm
South of the river the German
trenches near Berny-En-Santerre were
taken by the French who also cap-
tured 200 prisoners Berlin claims the
repulse of British attacks southeast
of Thiepval and of French efforts be-
tween Rancourt and the Somme The
official statement admits the loss of
Leprlez farm
A new type of armored motor car
which because of its powerful trac-
tion sweeps across trenches and large
shell craters waft introduced by the
British for the first time in launching
the most powerful general attacks
supported by the heaviest volume of
shell fire since that of July 1 when
the grand offensive was started
New Car a Terror
For some days the army had
watched it with interest and curiosity
and sb it moved along in support of
the Infantry In their charges they
cheered it even in the mldHt of shell
fire There has been nothing more
wonderful even in this war than the
spectacle of its advance toward the
German lines It seems to have
played an important part in the sweep
forward which early in the afternoon
had gained the village of Flers
brought the British to the edge of
Martinpulch and the bloody shambles
of High Wood and Devil’s Wood for
which two most determined enemoes
made the hardest struggle in the his-
tory of the British army well behind
the advancing ranks of khaki
Russians Retiring Northward
In the Dobrudja region of Rou-
mania Bucharest admits that the
Russian troops are retiring north-
ward before the advance of the cen-
tral powers Violent fighting is in
progress In Transylvania however
the Roumanian forces are continuing
their progress and have reached the
Aluta river northwest of Kronstadt
Neither Petrograd nor Berlin re-
tort any marked activity on the long
eastern front from Riga to Kapul
Third Line Attacked '
Having gained the whole ridge
from the eastof Thiepval through
Ginchy and all the old German second
line fortifications the British made
their next step a broad stride down
the hill against the newly constructed
German third line As the ceaseless
British artillery fire had not per-
mitted them to dig elaborate dugouts
and other defenses the Germans be-
came more dependent on their artil-
lery for defense They are known to
have in front of the British from
Grand Court to Ginchy 1000 guns' or
150 to the mile Thus still another
record has been made in the volume
of v projectiles thrown by either side
Violent counter attacks were
launched in vain by Crown Prince
Rupprecht of the British and French
forces north and south of the Somme
river as the advance of the allied
forces halted temporarily to consoli-
date the large area' won General
Haig’s forces refused to budge an
inch under terrlfio attacks
400000 Men Engaged
Berlin admits the loss of Courcel-
ette Martinpulch and Flers but de-
clares attacks against Combles were
Ineffective The Germans estimate
that about 400000 men took part in
the Anglo-French drive Berlin says
the British made progress and that
the French assaults south of the
Bomme were repulsed
Bulgarian troop's assisted by Ger-
mans and Turks have regained from
Roumania virtually all of Dobrudja
taken by Roumania during the second
Balkan war Under Field Marshal
von Mackensen the ceniral powers
have driven the Russians and Rou-
manians back to a line running from
north of Silistrla to Mangalla
Roumanians Halted at River
The Roumanian advance in Tran-
sylvania is meeting with stiff resist-
ance from the Austro-German forces
near Fogares twenty miles north of
the frontier Attempts of the Rou-
manians to cross the Alt river were
checked At Hatzeg Roumanian posi-
tions were taken
The entente capitals say the ad-
vance of the French British and Ser-
bians in Macedonia continues success-
fully The most violent fighting is
taking place west of Lake Ostrovo
where the Serbians are said to have
routed the troops of the central pow-
ers The Serbians have advanced
northeast of Fiorina and have cap-
tured thirty-two cannon
West of Lake Ostrovo the Serbians
captured Malkanldza The British
attacked west of the Vardar and also
gained ground
Bulgars Abandon Kastorla
Unofficially it 1b reported the Bul-
garians retreated twelve miles in
front of the entente rush and Athens
reports the abandonment of Kastoria
by the Bulgarians Berlin says en-
tente attacks in the Moglencla sector
and east of the Vardar were repulsed
The Italians have begun a new
drive toward Trlest Lines of Aus-
trian entrenchments east of the Val-
Ion have been taken Rome reportB
together with more than 2100 pris-
oners Vienna while admitting Ital-
ian successes on the Isonzo front de-
clares the first assault Is looked upon
as a failure
Villa Driven From Chihuahua
El Paso— Villa attacked Chihuahua
City with 600 men penetrated part of
the city but was driven out with
heavy losses by the constitutionalist
army The captured Villa followers
were immediately put to death Gen-
eral Thevlno was wounded in an arm
General Thevlno said last week that
scouts who had interviewed ranchers
on Villa’s line of march learned of a
boast by Villa that be would celebrate
the eve of independence day in Chihuahua
NEW GRANDSTAND OKLAHOMA STATE FAIR
A crew of 150 men is working day and night on the new grandstand at the ’
State Fair Grounds Oklahoma City and there Is now no question that it will
be completed before the opening of the fair on September 23
The building Is considerably larger than the old grandstand and Is absolutely
fireproof 4 -
WOULD PREVENT DEBT PAYMENT SANTA FE RY PUNS EXTENSION
injunction 8ought to Protect Indian’s
( Money from Garnishment
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Muskogee — Action to prevent H
T Wright from securing $160 of the
$300 the government recently paid
Elam M Ward a Choctaw Indian was
taken in the federal court by the dis-
trict attorney’s office through Chas
W Miller special assistant Injunc-
tion without notice is asked to pre-
vent Wright from getting the money
out of the First State bank of Idabel
upon a garnishment issued by Justice
Pete Williams White township Me-
Curtain county
Violation of the act of congress
authorizing the recent payment is im-
plied in the petition which is based
upon the provision that money turned
over to an Indian as a per capita fund
under the act of May 18 1916 shall be
exempt from any lien for attorney's
fee or other debt contracted prior to
the passage of the act The govern-
ment attorney alleges Ward received
his $300 and put it in the bank Wright
sued in Justice Williams’ court and
got judgment fo just half the payment
The government alleges the debt was
incurred prior to May IS 1916
The five tribes officials have en-
deavored to put the cash into the In-
dians hand in every case and the re-
cipients have the advantage of con-
gressional insurance against ancient
claims Comparatively few Indians in
McCurtain county have received their
money however due to suspension of
payment on account of illegal lawless-
ness in the county
CONSUMER SUES GAS COMPANY
Wants Damages For Child’s Death
i While Supply Was Off
Ardmore — Charging that his child’s
death was due to the gas supply be-
ing cut off Joe A 4 Robertson of this
city has brought suit for $5275
against the Dundee Petroleum Com-
pany His petition alleges that the
gas was cut off on November 31 1915
and 'remained off twenty-four hours
On November 10 a child was born in
bis home It died five days later
The plaintiff charges that lack of heat
caused the Infant’s death
The company’s answer states that
the gas pipe broke and had to be
mended before the supply could be
resumed Robertson asks $5000 for
the loss of the child $200 for his
wife's illness and $7600 for doctor
bills
Farm Hands In Demand
Oklahoma City— With the passing
Oi summer and Its attendant activities
no let-up in theindustrial life of the
no let-up in the industrial life of the
lions at the state free employment
bureau The demand for laborers of
all kinds has been unprecedented ac-
cording to Superintendent Walden
September already promises to break
all records for the number of laborers
placed in situations The bureau has
sent out 166 men since the first of the
month Farm hands who are looking
for steady employment are much in de-
mand Liquor Seizures Legal
Enid— Seizure of liquor consign-
ments at Keystone Pawnee county
were held to be lawful by Judge Cot-
teral when he denied an injunction
to the Joplin Distributing Company
to restrain Charles Weber Pawnee
county sheriff from making such seiz-
ures Complaints by Superintendent
Wisdom of the Cheyenne Indian
agency at Canton that Indian witness-
es in attendance on federal court were
being sold liquor resulted in the prose-
cution of two boys Percy Hunt and
Willie Cothon before United States
Commissioner Graves
Editors 8crapplng
Lawton — J L Tullis and C E Mil-
ler editor and business manager of
the Comanche County Times publish-
ed in this city have been arrested on
Beven warrants charging criminal li-
bel John N Shepler editor of the
Constitution Miss Charles Crltcher
county clerk and T B Orr county
attorney are the complainants The
day the Informations were filed Tullis
snd Miller had sold the Times to F
E Royer editor of the Apache Review
who expects to conduct a weekly re-
publican paper
New Charge Against Baber
Tulsa — Charged with being an ac-
complice in the murder of John Ken-
nedy slain six months ago at a dance
In the Osage country four miles north4
west of Tulsa William J Baber for-
mer Tulsa chief of polioe who waits
trial in the district court for the el
leged murder of United States Mar-
shals Holmes and Ed Plank was ar-
rested at the Western Association
baceball park by Sheriff James Wool-
ley The srreBt was made on infor-
mation furnished by Osage county officials
Cutoff Line Through Osage County b f
-1918 — Pawhutka Gives Bonus
Oklahoma City — Territory hitherto
Inaccessible to Oklahoma City except
by roundabout methods of transports-
tion will be put in direct touch with
this city when the Atchison Topeka e
Santa Fe railway compdny construct
its proposed cut-off line through
Osage county ' Construction work
would begin within the next few
Months it was learned when a party of
officials from Pawhuska visited the lo-
cal Chamber of Commerce and de-
clared that their city bad already
raised a bonus of $60000 for the road
According to tentative plans the
Santa Fe ' will build its line from
Caney Kan’ through Pawhuska t
Pawnee county seat of Pawnee coun-
ty This road will parallel the line of
the Missouri4 Kansas & Texas but will
run several miles to the west
From Pawnee the present line of
the Santa Fe will be followed to Still-
water whence new tracks will be laid
probably to Pleasant Valley From
there the road to Guthrie and Okla-
homa will again be used At Caney
the Santa Fe has rails direct to Kan-'
sas City
According to information given tha
Chamber of Commerce by the Pavy-
huska officials it Is the plan ot the
Santa Fe to shorten its main line to
the gulf The proposed new construo-i
tion will eliminate 150 miles of rail
which now must be traversed between
Kansas City and Galveston
The understanding of Pawhnska 1
that the new line through Osage coun-
ty must be completed by 1918 which
allows the Santa Fe little more than
year to finish the work
The road through Osage county wilt
tap oil territory practically undevel-
oped because of lack of transportation
facilities Competent oil men declara
that beneath the Osage hills a second
Cushing field is awaiting the drillers
Practically all the territory has been
under lease for years
CATTLE MEN DISCUSSING TICKS
Additional Cattle Dipping Vote For
Johnston County
Tishomingo— The Johnston County
Cattlemen’s Association met here and
discussed matters pertaining to tha
work of tick eradication The asso-
ciation was organized here last June-
and has a membership of about 250
This association has been active
since its organization in procuring the
assistance of the state pad federal au-
thorities in the eradication of the Tex-
as fever tick and its members have
contributed a great deal of time and
money in constructing vats at differ-
ent places in the county
At the August primary election the
voters of the county voted by an over-
whelming majority a levy of one-half
mill of tax for the eradication of the
ticks and the cattlemen and the board
of bounty commissioners have been co-
operating in making preparations for
successfully carrying on the work
Seven county inspectors have been 4
appointed by the board ot county com-
missioners Their duties will be to
make Inspection jf cattle in the coun-
ty and see that all cattle that need
dipping are dipped They are to re-
ceive their Instructions from the state
inspector and make dally reports to-
him and to the federal department
These seven inspectors have filed
bonds for approval and if the bond
are approved by the state officials they
will begin the systematic dipping lit
a very few days
Detective Powell Held for Murder
Tulsa — Detective Thomas Powell of
the Tulsa police department was held
for trial before the Tulsa county su-
perior court under $10000 bond at the
conclusion of his preliminary trial be-
fore a justice of the peace Powell is
charged with murdering W J O’-Con-nell
in the local railroad yards two
weeks ago Powell was found guilty
of first degree murder in the justice
court J W Patton a detective also
charged with participation in the kill-
ing of O’Connell was released upon
the recommendation of the county attorney
Wage Inereaso Is Granted
Muskogee— The increase In wage
demanded by the coal miners of Ok-
lahoma was granted at a meeting of
Oklahoma Coal Operators’ Association
Thirty-seven of the forty-two coal pro?
duoers In the state representing s pro
ductlon of 3800000 tons of coal anj
nualiy or about 06 per cent of all tha
coal mined in the state were present
at the meeting Scale commltteee
were chosen tor the purpose of hand-
ling the wage negotiations The num-
ber of directors was increased from
seven to nine
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