The Ringling News (Ringling, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, December 4, 1914 Page: 2 of 8
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THE RINGLING NEWS
ARMIES OF ALLIES
NOWON OFFENSIVE
ALONG THE COAST
Paris and London Assert tha
German Activities Around
Yser and Ypres Have
Been Supressed
SLAV NAVY BLOCKED
artln Says Turks Hava Control of
lack Saa and that Kalaor'o
Navy Hold Battle— Holy
War By tho Sultan
Summary of Events
Official report from Pari and
London aay that tho Allies have
assumed the offeuaive against the
Germans along the Yaer river and
the Ypres canal in the laat few
days This is regarded as a sig-
nificant change
The Germans following a lull last-
ing more than a week made very
heavy aaaaults all along the lines In
tho extreme northwest of France and
in Southwestern Belgium They had
heavy reinforcements and fresh guns
and for a time it appeared that they
would be able to cut the Allies line
and get to the English channel
It was reported from Berlin that the
kaiser had ordeaed his great western
army to get to Calais France by De-
cember 10 and that a raid on the east
coast of England would follow the cap-
ture of Calais That the Allies have
been able to withstand the battering
of the German forces and have even
assumed the offensive probably means
safety for English coast towns for the
winter
British Warship Sunk
The British warship Bulwark has
been blown up In the Medway river
off Sheerness by an explosion in her
magxlne8 Only twelve were saved
out of the crew of 700 or 800 aboard
the Bulwark The explosion Is be-
lieved to have been in an Internal
magazine Whether it was caused by
German agents or was an accident
such as might have occurred In times
of peace has not been ‘determined
British Lose Another Boat
Striking a mine off Grimsby at the
mouth of the Humber river near Hull
the British collier Khartoum was
blown up a report from the British
admiralty announces The crew was
saved but the Khartoum went to the
bottom
To Help England
A brief dispatch from Lisbon says
the Portuguese congress has decided
that Portugal should co-operate with
the Allies The minister of war has
called for a partial mobilization of the
army The treaty by which Portugal
believes It is bound to aid the Allies
was made in 1703 with England and it
provides that "each shall mutually aid
and help the other” in case of attack
French Guns Near Metz
French artillery continue to bom-
bard Arnaville only ten miles from
Metz Germany The development of
an offensive in Lorraine has long
been expected but to what extent it
may be carried was not indicated at
the war office
From north of Verdun and south of
Metz the German line extends in
avldratly a tightening of thn circle
which tho French nro endeavoring to
tfrtv shoot 81 Mlhlcl
Heavy Attack on Allies
The Allies have been attacked la
fop from Ypres to la laseeo A
terrific battle has commenced Tho
Germans have heavy reinforcements
and fresh guns for this renewal of tho
effort to rut through the Allies' Una
It Is sow said tho plaa Is to reach
tho PTonch roost by December 10 Tho
Germans show few signs of being
staggered by their enormous losses
and dispatches from Ilsrlta set forth
that tho German troops are far belter
able to stsod exposure to the cold
thaa are tha allies Tha forces of
Emperor William nro trained and
clothed for Just such an emergency
while the troops of the Allies from
tho south of Francs from Morocco and
from India must necessarily suffer
greatly
CHOKER WEOS INDIAN PRINCESS
FAMOUS POLITICIAN TAKIS OK
LAHOMA GIRL FOB BRIDE
GONZALES SHIES HATMTKEMI8
FOURTEEN OF CREW RESCUEO
IN DESTRUCTION OF BATTLE
SHIF BULWARK
The New Mrs Crektr Is Fifty Years
th dunlsc sf Har Husbands—
Will Live In Ireland
HELD ILLEGAL
THIRD GENERAL" DECLARED HI
IB MEXICO PRESIOENT
Nsw York— Richard W Crohsc
former leader of Tammany Jlnli wu
mnrrisd Thanksgiving to Mian Buis
OEAO LIST WILL EXCEED 700 Benton Edmondson a member of th
Cherokee Indian tribe who lo IS years
FECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS TO
WHITES IS DECLARED UN-TITUTIONAL
Villa's Trsep Train Is Wrecked and
Twenty-five sf Hs Soldiers
Are Killed
HIGH COURT KILLS SLEEPER FULE
Petition of Blocko Denied However
Because of Glaring Impsrfso-
tione In Frsssntlng
Their Cass
lunatam U a loskadl I " r mam wv I UESWVf vT vT llilljl Vl 1 BIIIV1UBII( I
Russian nav?! urlrs for tha rr“° b"’ "ho Jor ?'''? b“ bn tor ipiK” IXl a'nd
t This Is the gist of an official I fourteen of tbs craw of 700 or wy for the Cherokee and who ro- J£2uS only to tb
it Ion mads by the German war survived u electedto congress from “ c0Dt” Goal LI bit
Russian Navy Blockedf
The
present
declaration
office Ths Turkish navy dominates
the Black Sea and tha Sea of Asov
according to tha declaration A bom-
bardment of Odessa Is feared and Rus-
sian shipping companies have removed
their ships from these bodies of water
A blockade of tha harbor of Llbau
places ths control of the Black Sea
in ths hands of tho Germans while
the freezing of the harbor of Archan-
gel In the White Sea severs Russian
communication with ths outside world
German Defeat in Poland
Russia and Germany each claim n
great victory In Poland The Russian
claim la supported however by re-
ports from neutral countries and from
neutral correspondents It is said
that the Slavs have virtually crushed
one of Germany's finest armies in an
engagement staged between the Vis-
tula and Warta rivers In Poland and
have taken about 50000 prisoners
When the full details of the Russian
victory are known declares Lord
Kitchener commander-in-chief of all
the British forces they will furnish n
story that will astonish the world-
describing a blow such as has not
been dealt since the days of Napoleon
Abindon Guns and Transports
The Germans have begun a retreat
along the entire front and In many
places the flight Is a disorderly rout
marked by the abandonment of artil-
lery maxima and transports Berlin
meanwhile Is beginning to talk about
repulsing Russian attacks which Is a
subtle method of announcing that the
German troops are on the defensive
The main Russian force is exclu-
sively engaged against the - Plock
group whose front is cut in halves
Its right half Is surrounded on all
sides and is vainly struggling as In an
iron vise and striving to break through
to the left wing at Lowlcz which in
turn is battling unsuccessfully
A Second Battle Probable
The same dispatches that tell of
Von Hindenburg's reverses however
say that the German reinforcements
were being brought up so that another
great battle Is likely to develop on a
line nearer to the frontier of Posen
where the Germans will have the
same chances of renewing a vigorous
offensive as had the Russians in the
present Instance
General Von Hlndenburg has about
400000 men but If the Petrograd re-
port can be accepted they have been
separated badly cut up and thousands
taken prisoner so these German forces
will require reformation and rest
bis Junior JI Is 73 ysars old and
ahn In S3 tb bridn nnd groom nro nt
Ibn Croker ostata naar Palm Ranch
Fla for thalr honeymoon
Tho wedding took pines nt thn homo
of Nnthnn Straus an old friond ol
Croker’a
Tbs bridn waa given nway by her
saltleahlp Bulwark wan destroyed by I uncle W W llnatlngn of Tahlequah I Oklahoma 'Jim Crow1 law pro-
viso permitting rnlironda to furnish
chair-car accom-
tbe white race was
Oklahoma Tbn bridesmaids wern I unconstitutional but they did not no
Washington— A majority of tb su-
preme court Joined to an opinion that I
Washington— Stats department aS
vices reported that General Pablo
Goa xa lea now nt Pachuca with IOOL
troops had proclaimed himself pro
visional president of Mexico Ila
hitherto had been regarded an loyal
lo Carranza
Goats lea was on of tbn foremost
leaders of tba constitutionalist army
In tba campaign against Huerta
After the Agues Callentea convan
tlon Gonzales disappeared southward
The explosion la believed to have
acctirred la ber forward magatlne
Whether It was caused by accident or
leslgn la a question to be determined
by tho commission which baa been
appalnted to Investigate
In tba opinion of naval men It was
an Internal explosion that put an end
:o the battleship There waa no great
upheaval of water such aa would
have occurred If she bad been tor-
pedoed or struck by a mine Instead
the ablp waa enveloped in smoke and
flaniea and when this had cleared
nothing could be see tut wreckage
floating on the water
Houses seven and eight miles away
were shaken by the explosion and
even before men on shlpa anchored
nearby could reach their own decks
the Bulwark had disappeared The
neighborhood was strewn with an
enormous amount of wreckage while
pieces of the ship were thrown six
or seven miles onto the Essex shore
Considering the size of her navy
Great Britain has been singularly free
from disasters of this character Nev-
ertheless when the French warship
Jena waa destroyed by an Internal
explosion in 1307 all cordite ammuni
tlon was taken from all the British
ships and carefully examined Re-
frigerators were installed in the ships
to keep the powder cool
The Bulwark which was one of the
older battleships cost $5000000
It Is believed here that the explo-
sion of the Bulwark was caused by
the fall and bursting of a twelve-inch
lyddite shell In her magazine
GENERAL CARRANZA IN VERA CRUZ
Places His Capital In Seaport After
Americans Depart
Vera Cruz — General Venustiano
Carranza reached here from Cordoba
His arrival brought thousands of en-
thusiastic citizens into the streets and
when he spoke from the balcony of
the municipal palace he was greeted
with loud cheers The general has
taken up his official duties and from
this city as his temporary capital will
direct the campaign against Generals
Villa and Zapata
wedge into the Verdun-Toul defenses
of the French The two sides of the
wedge are joined in the region of
Chauvonvourt and St Mihiel where
desperate fighting has occurred the
last week It was at Chauvonvourt
that the French suffered heavy losses
through the explosion of German
mines The French have been unable
to drive the Germans from the posi-
tions they now hold in this district
end the movement upon Arnaville is
CAPT BEWTMC DECKER
General Carranza made the trip to
Another Russian army“i7 operating Vera Cruz in the presidential train
along the border of East Prussia and
a third one is pursuing a vigorous
campaign in northern Austria It
was said by military experts that the
purpose of the Austro-German attack
and pursuit of the Russian center was
to draw off the second and third
armies from East Prussia and Galicia
What these lesser Slav forces are do
ing has not been revealed
Veil of Secrecy
The veil of secrecy has been
drawn over the battles between
the Russians and the Austro-German
forces The headquarters of both
armies now are confining themselves
to the briefest statements concerning
the hostilities saying merely that
fighting is In progress
the gayly painted equipment of which
was made famous by Former Presi-
dent Porfirio Diaz He was accom-
panied by Generals Obregon and Al-
varado and Louis Cabrera Jesus
Ureta and other civilians who at
ta'ined national distinction during the
Madero regime Behind General Car-
ranza’s train came troop trains These
soldiers are of a type superior to
those generally seen here and are
reasonably well equipped and dis-
ciplined Beginning east of General Villa’s
territory the Carranza supporters
claim the states of Nuevo Leon and
Tamaullpas and down the gulf coast
of the state of Vera Cruz General
Carranza’s power continued Senor
Miss Frances Fite a censor at Vassar
ho comes from Muekogee Miss
Ethel Broun of Dayton Ohio and
Mist Wlilia Townsend of Memphis
Tcnn Monslgnor Henry A Brann
rector of St Agnea church performed
the ceremony The groom's gift to
the bride was 'a pearl collar Croker
was attended by Thomas F Smith
who has been secretary of Tammany
Ilall for years
A typewritten statement given out
by the bride after the ceremony made
clear a good deal of her life history
which has been reported in many
different ways since knowledge of ber
engagement became known Neither
sbe nor Croker would talk much then
so the newspapers made the best of
It by Interviewing her friends Some
reports expressed doubt if she really
was descended from the Indians
pointing out that she was blonde and
very fair
Others said perhaps she was one
quarter Indian Others proclaimed
her as an Indian princess and her
statement says the latter were cor-
rect for ahe Is known as Princess Se-
quoyah or Ketaw Kaluntuchy among
her tribe Her father the statement
continued was Michael Smith Ed-
mondson a descendant of Rodger De
Montgomery who commanded the
van of the Norman army at the bat-
tle of Hastings and her mother was
Calela Welch who descended from
the famous Chief Sequoyah inventor
of the Cherokee alphabet
"She is proud of her Indian an-
cestry and the Cberokees are proud
of her as a collegto girl lecturer
decree because of imperfections In tba
petition on which tba case reached
tha courts
Tba case was ona In which flva ne-
groes claiming that the entire law
was unconstitutional sought an In-
junction to restrain flva railroads in
Oklahoma from enforcing It The Ok-
lahoma federal courts dismissed the
petition holding the law constitu-
tional The majority of tho court
affirmed the dismissal because the
negroes bad not shown they had ap-
plied to the railroads for accommo-
dations under law or that the rail-
roads had giotlfied them that they
would be refused certain accommo-
dations Disagree on Technicality
The majority through Justice
Hughea stated however that they
could not agree with the lower court
that the proviso as to sleeping dining
and chair cars was constitutional A
minority consisting of Chief Justice
White and Justices Holmes Lamar
and McReynolds concurred merely
In the order of affirmance but ex-
Gen Pablo Gonzalea
with his army and his whereabouts
since had been more or less of a mys-
tery Tba reports which came from
Aguas Callentea threw little light
pressed no view on the constku- upon the lategt compilcatlon In tba
tlonal question
Mexican situation It is not believed
In the opinion by the majority Jus- bere Goniaeg wlth hIg compap
tico Hughes stated that previous de- atIvely BmaU force wllI be ab)e to
Msions that laws for separate coaches
for the two races waa constitutional
were not to be questioned He then
set forth the reasons for the opinion
that the lower court was wrong in
holding the proviso constitutional
"The reasoning is” he said "that
there may not be enough persons of
African descent seeking these accom-
modations to warrant the outlay In
providing them This argument with
respect to the value of the traffic
seems to be without merit It makes
the constitutional right depend upon
the number of persona who may he
discriminated against whereas the es-
sence of the constitutional right is
that it is a personal one Whether
or not special facilities shall be pro-
vided may doubtless be conditioned
upon there being a reasonable demand
therefor but if facilities are provided
substantiality of treatment of persons
traveling under like conditions cannot
be denied
The court gave no intimation as to
whether in a proper case it would
merely hold the ’’luxury” car section
unconstitutional or whether it would
decide that this section being uncon-
stitutional the entire law - must fall
interfere with the forces of Provis-
ional President Guiterrez and General
Villa for the Joint' triumphal entry
Into Mexico City
BUDGET FOR A°MV 1$ INCREASED
Estimates Call for More Than $104-
000000 for Coming Year
Richard Croker
ranch owner and business woman”
the statement said
Croker first saw the girl who be-
came his bride In Kansas City when
'she was nine years old according to
the statement and be later became in-
terested in ber zeal to make her peo-
ple better understood Miss Ed-
mondson got inspiration for her work
from Pocahontas and other Indian
girls she said Sbe told it thus
“I have been inspired by the ex-
ample of Pocahontas who did so much
to make the English people under-
Holy War Proclaimed
The proclamation of a holy war an-
nounced for the first time some ten
days ago has just been published at
Constantinople It is signed by the
sultan and twenty-eight Moslem
priests and calls on the Moslem world
to participate in a holy war against
Great Britain Russia and France
Turks Are Winning Fast
Official reports given out In Con-
stantinople relate the continued suc-
cessful Turkish advance upon Batum
the Russian port on the Black Sea
All the territory between the Turko-
Russian border and the River Chursk
is in Turkish hands while & Turkish
force in the southern part of this ter-
ritory has taken Artwin The Turks
declare that the English losses at
Shatt-el-Arab amounted to 750 dead
and several thousand wounded
Fabela extends - down the coast stand our race Then there was Sac-
Captain Decker commander g
of the U S S Tennessee whose j
launch was fired on by a Turk- g
Ish fort near Smyrna Is here g
shown in full uniform g
Riot in Constantinople
The British embassy In Constanti-
nople has been sacked and the Rus-
sian hospital pillaged and all foreign-
ers have been more or less seriously
abused
May Attack Italy
The Italian government is aware
that Austria is doing its utmost to
induce Turkey to attack Italy but
none the less hesitates to believe the
report that bas just come in from one
of its most reliable agents that com-
across the isthmus of Tehuantepec
and northward from the isthmus
through the state of Jalisco and Mich-
oacan General Dieguez a Carranza
general in Jalisco has reported that
he successfully withstood a heavy at-
tack by General Felipe Angeles In
the states of Puebla and Tlaxoala
where Zapata and the former federal
general Aguilar have been trying to
gain the ascendency the Carranza
troops have gained unquestioned con-
trol according to Senor Fabela Be-
tween this point ana Mexico City
continued the foreign minister the
only serious opposition — and that Is
not regarded by Carranza’s followers
as very serious — is that of Higinio
Aguilar a former federal officer who
controls the districts south of Apizaco
between the main line of the gulf
railway and the city of Puebla
VILLA ENTERS MEXICO CITY
Will
Be Joined By Troops of Presi-
dent Gutierrez
Mexico City — Villa entered the cap-
ital November 30 at the bead of about
25000 troops He arrived during the
afternoon In the suburbs where he re-
mained during the evening receiving
delegations and foreign consuls Villa
mon action of the combined Austro- j wm not enter the capital part of th
Turkish squadron is to be expected j cj(y untn the arrival of rovisional
against Italy at a very early date J resident Gutierrez
cawagea the Bird Woman who pilot-
ed the Lewis and Clark expedition five
thousand miles and made it a success
On the way back in crossing the Mis-
souri ber husband a renegade
Frenchman upset the canoe carrying
the records of the expedition She
dived again until she saved all the
valuable papers and trophies I also
find inspiration in Talabina the Cher-
okee maiden who belped Sam Houston
to free Texas1
And then she turned to Croker who
long was known as the “chief”' ol
Tammany Hall and remarked:
“But it is the dearest ambition to
every Indian girl to win a chief and
I have won the chief of men”
In April the couple will go to the
groom’s home in Ireland where he
has resided for many years since his
retirement from political life in New
York
FRANK FACES ELECTRIC CHAIR
Supreme Court Refuses To Act In His
Case
Washington — Justice Hoi mgs re-
fused to issue a writ to bring the Lee
M Frank Atlanta murder case to tbe
supreme court for review Justice
Lamar previously also bad refused tha
writ Application for review bad pre
viously been refused by Justice La-
mar Frank was convicted of mur
dering Mary Phagan a 15-year-oM
girt employee In hia factor
Washington — Appropriations aggre-
gating $104124512 to carry the army
through the coming year was proposed
in estimates which the war depart-
ment just has completed for submis-
ilon to congress This is an increase
if $3104300 over the total carried by
the army bill for the current year al-
though reductions are made in the al-
lowances for many branches of the
service
A new item of $150000 for purchase
of automatic machine rifles is asked
Altogether $2900000 is sought for am-
munition compared with $3000000
carried in the current law For field
artillery for the organized militia
$2000000 is asked $2100000 having
been appropriated last year For the
manufacture repair and issuance of
arms at the national armories $250
000 is asked as against $450000 last
year -
The signal service would get $700-
000 of which $400000 would be for
the purchase maintenance operation
and repair of airships - Provision
would be made for giving one year’s
additional pay to the beneficiaries of
men killed in the army aviation serv-
ice Other items in the estimates on
which congress will be asked to base
the army bill Include:
Subsistence of the army $10250912
regular supplies for the quartermaster
department $8000000 new barracks
and quarters in tbe United States
proper $2000000 transportation of
the army $10000000 barracks in the
Philippines $400000 clothing and
camp equipment $6900000 an in-
crease of $250000
Villa Has a Wreck t
El Paso — General Villa’s advance
toward Mexico City has been marred '
by a railroad wreck Twenty-five sol-
diers and camp followers were killed
and thirty-seven injured when Villa's
train collided near Tula with a train
of General Manuel Chao The latter
leader was slightly Injured
It was understood in Juares that
Villa would not enter the national
capital until he had been Joined by
Provisional President Gutierrez and
General Zapata This it was pointed
out would prevent any comment on
which leaders first entered the cap-
ital It was denied by Carranza officials
that General Caballero had turned
over his territory on the east coast
to the convention party The Villa
officials followed this with the circu-
lation of a report that Governor San-
chez of Michoacan had Joined the con-
vention government
Condition at Guadalajara which has
been attacked by Villa troops were
not divulged although both sides
claimed victory
American Private Killed On Border
Naco Arlz — Five more persons
were added to the casualties on the
American side in the siege of Naco
Sonora Private Caine of troop B
ninth United States cavalry was shot
in the head and probably fatally-
wounded Four Mexican children
were wounded one seriously
This makes a total of forty-one per-
sons injured on the American side by
stray bullets from Maytorena-Vllla
besieging forces and General Hill’s
Carranza troops entrenched in Ntco
CHICAGO ARBITRATION MEETING
Over 65000 Men and 98 Raitroade Are
Involved
GERMAN FLEET NEAR URUGUAY
Believed Off Plata River Mouth
British Shipping Suspended
Montevideo — Recent reports that
the German fleet is in the South At-
lantic appeared here to have been
confirmed It also is rumored that a
powerful fleet is near by
Scheduled sailings of British steam-
ers from Montevideo and Brazilian
port of Santoa have been suspended
Indefinitely
Chicago — What those at interest
declare is the most momentous abri-
tration case in the history of the
country brought about by the inter-
position of President Wilson is on
here
The case is that of the employers of
ninety-eight western railroads belong-
ing to the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen and their
employers represented fn the pro-
ceedings by the conference committee
of managers which was named for the
purpose by the association of western
railways 1
The arbitration was arranged under
the provisions of the NewJands’ law
Ninety days are allowed to hear the
evidence and ten days additional for '
the delivery of an award
The number of men Involved Is 55
000 and the railroad mileage affected
140000
Wholesale Execution In Arkansas
Little Rock — Eight men four
white and four negroes will pay the
death penalty in the Arkansas elec
trie chair within tne next sixteen
days Neal McLaughlin who will be
executed December 2 will be the first
white man ever sent to the electric
chair in this state although there
have been a number of negroes exe-
cuted since hanging was abolished
two years ago and electrocution sub-
stituted aa a means of capt&l pun-Uhaifcn'
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