Oklahoma State Register (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 28, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 26, 1918 Page: 2 of 8
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OKLAHOMA STATE REGISTER
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HdOUi.H UK MADK FOR
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Omjtfcoum City. Okla IW 0
(St «5l).—Nothing should br allowed
'• intr'fccv with or ok*ciire the pur
oi the Bureau for returning sol-
diera, sai ,ra and war workers to pro-
fide *« rk for discharged men. Local
•immunities are charged with thi.
Saty suid local and district councils
•: dofcuhc are iinportuued by the
Counail
evry aid to agencies who seek to pro
vide such employment. These men
shoald meet with the least resistance
possible in procuring all necossary in-
formation that will promote their wel-
fare until they are securoly settled.
The following procedure is suggest-
ed for local councils by the Council ,iaso
of National Defense and contained in nml)l
a letter issued ti* county councils by .
the Oklahoma Stat« Council of IX
tense;
1. See every local agency which
serves returning soldier*, sailors and
find out Just where it is located. Just
what it will do for the returning per-
son. and just what questions should
be askod each person to determine
| J. B Gray, murder, life.
Carfc* County.
Charley Lewis, manslaughter; fifty
years.
.lake Sharp, murder; Ave year«.
Cherokee County.
James Morgan, arson; five years.
Uach Hair, attempt to kill; twenty
one yearn.
Jeff Hallow, murder; life.
Choctaw County.
— I I). U. Wilson, Choctaw county, man-
*'■ ♦•Kaviag I'ower ol' CVoantrj Great daughter; life.
aa«l Rnptoyment Should Be Bari Hice, murder; life.
1'rompt. I Haskell County.
George Blcdsaw, manslaughter; thir-
OkWJiOBaa City, Okla., Dec. 26.— years.
ttfjn* lai —^Suggestions of a threaten ! Douglas Chesier, larceny of doines-
mg conditions come to Oklahoma ; Uc animals; Ave years.
Stato Council of Defense from j "Marshall Hobson, larceny of douirs-
the l ulled States Department of l^a-' tic animals; Ave years.
bur. A steady decrease in demand tor ! Hisaw. murder; life.
\lbwt VorthceH, Leffaa eovuty, bur.
glary; two year*.
Isaac O. Penn, Greer county, rape;
sentenced to five years.
■Kd Still, Sequoyah county, larceny;
of domestic animals; five years.
-Major Moore, Grady county, assault
with dangerous weapon; three years.
Harney Mayfield, Comanche county,
automobile theft; (two cases); two
y«*ars in each case.
W. H. Graudsen, Creek county, man-
slaughter; ten years.
ter; ten yearsom sh sh rshrdl shrdllm
Joe Glenn, Adair country, crime
against nature; five years.
Christmas KeprieveH.
These reprieves were issued, effect-
ive December 29, and expiring January
HUNGER DRAWS THE MAP
McCurtain County.
John McFarland, murder; life.
T. W. Kveridgo, murder; life.
II. P. Hackworth, embezzlement
labor and a corresponding: increase in
supply i* contained in weekly wires
National Defense to loud ,froul national employment agencies
all over th e country. Only with the
co-operation of all employers can the,flve y«ars.
plans if the government to supply Muskogee County.
returning soldiers and sailors with Allen, murder; life,
employment be carried out. All con- W,u« H. Wainwright, embezzlement;
trai tors for war materials should no- , fourteen years.
'edural employment agencies In i,e, Brown, assault and attempt to
hey expoct to lay off men and all len years.
yers should seek these agencies i'honsus Smith, murder; life,
in need of help. , Oklahoma County.
Young, abduction and robbery;
yea rs.
Hall, murder; life,
Ellison larceny of domestic
live years.
F. Fulcher. abduction and rob-
twenty years.
il P. Mingle, murder; life.
vrence Kimber, murder; life,
n Myers, larceny of domestic ani-
five years.
Joe Ward, grand larceny; ten years.
Roscoe Hoddam, larceny of domestic
i ifr
S IMM R Off Mills VSKKD
10 IIOOSI MKAT SI PCI,Y
eep Cattle and Other Animal*
Railroad Track as Country
Needs Food.
Oklahoma t ity, Okla., Dec.
On
| C. E.
twenty
| Fred
animals
Whether its help is needed. (Special).—Five thousand livestock
2. Consolidate into a single list the , owners in the state are being address-
quesiioiig drawn up by the local agon t.i by the Oklahoma State Council of
cies, together with queries on behalf [Defense *il1i a view to further re.luc-
of federal bodies without wide-spread ing of the slaughter of animals by
mats
local branches (such as the Federal railroad trains. It is estimated that
Board for Vocational Education). Op-[in Oklahoma alone approximately a
posite each question indicate the di-jh;ilf million pounds of meat is render-
rectlons which should be given the re- Ld useless by the killing of livestock in
turning man or woman in case it is ev- | this manner. The nation, the state ll
idea help is needed. council points out, will require a
3. Arrange that the bureau shall go maximum beef and other meat supply •
over tii«' points in this list with every during the coming year and a waste!
applicant of millions of pounds tends to inflict
4 if the Bureau is a busy one, a,a hardship on the public.
competent information clerk should j A successful campaign has been
be provided for the purpose. Volun- waged this year in this direction but
teers will undoubtedly be available for . die loss is still great, the state council
this position in most communities be- adds.
animals; five years.
Pittsburg County
Mose Offctt, murder; life.
Willis Owens, Pittsburg county, mur-
der; life. Tulsu Comity.
John Schuneman, robbery; fifteen
;irs.
eiving stolen
liOTUlt.^OH WILLIAMS KI£Kh S j harci-tough legal battle to save him
t'ffrlli 01- CEMCK.VIl.Utl I * ozi prison vhtli hes sev vrai times
1'KlSOXElt.S been before the appellate courts of the
! state.
Ji Majors Sent L'p for Life; lu All!
3M Men, More than Twenty Per-
t-f«t of the State Prison i'opa-
lalion ith Families o«
Christina*.
Twenty-six life-term murderers and
eighty other convicts sent up for
terms ranging from 1 to 26 years for
man-slaughter, robbery, arson, embez-
zlement, seduction, abduction, assault
and virtually every other offense in
lhe category of crime will walk out of
the penitentiary at McAlester and the
reformatory at Grauite this morning
on Christinas pardons, paroles and re-
prieves granted by Governor Williams.
In addition there are 175 expiration
pardous which will become effective,
making a total of 281 prisoners who
will say goodbye to prison life and re-
turn to their homes and families.
Expiration pardons are not in a
strict sense an extension of clemency.
They are given a short time before the
expiration of the sentence as a re-
ward for good behavior. In this group,
however, is in included all expiration
pardons which would become effective
during January.
Paroles > umber Ml.
The pardon, paroles and reprieves
granted by the governor, Governor
Williams, total 10€. Of this number
eighty-one are paroles, five are full
and complete pardons, fourteen are re-
prieves and there are six commuta-
tions of sentences.
This is the largest number of pris-
oners liberated at one time by any
governor in the history of the state
and it excels by far the record estab-
lished by J. J. McAlester, former lieu-
tenant governor, who became famous
during the few times he acted as gov-
ernor because of his extraordinary len-
iency in meeting out clemency.
One-Filth of Prisoners Out.
The total number released by vir-
tue of executive clemency, and those
who will go on expiration pardons
equals a little more than one-flfth of
flhe jSopulatlou of the penitentiary.
which is a little more than 1,100.
Among those who will be the recip-
ients of clemency is W. Hi. Wain-
wright, fonmer oounty treasurer of
Muskogee county, who was sent to
the penitentiary in 1914 to serve aj
four-teen-year sentence for embezzle-
ing approximately $60,000 of public [>e(1 25 1915
funds while serving his second term as
county treasurer.
Wainwright Widely known.
Waluwright is perhaps t!.e most
widely known, or at least his case is
the to oat widely km wn of the prison
ers. because of big prominence and to*
Every legal effort was resorted to
in behalf of Wainwright to save him
from the penitentiary and since his in-
carceration powerful influences have
been brought to bear in behalf of his
plea for clemency.
His wife and two ohlldren reside at
Musk •&><>.
H« Serves Only Five Years.
Wainwright has served only five
years. By the short route by which
time accumulates with a good prison
record he has served only nine years
of his term. At that,, though, accord-
ing to a notation in his parole record, |murder
he has served a longer sentence al
Charles Kan to:
property; four years.
Washington County.
Vernie Neal, murder; life.
Nettie Drown, murder; life:
Ace Hay, murder; life.
Miscellaneous.
Rcy Munson, Woodward county, bur-
glary; seven years.
Tom Clark, Garvin county, perjury;
ten years.
George Winn, latimer county, mur-
der; life.
John Seegar, McIntosh county, mur-
der; life.
E. W. Williams, Custer county, mur-
der; life.
Tom Gilstrap, Jefferson county, mur-
der; life.
(Milton (Toronto) Drown, Atoka
county .larceny; tan years.
Fred Spencer, Kiowa county, adul-
tery; three years.
A. O. Gill, Pottawatomie county, dis-
posing of mortgaged property; two
years, nine months.
Andy Scribner, Pontotoc county,
life.
ount.
Babe Downer, Creek county, con-
joint robbery; five years.
W. D. January, Cleveland county,
joint robbery; five years. K
murder; life.
Owen Williamson, McCurtatr c
bank robbery; seven years; re
expires March 1, 1919.
S. A Planck, Cnoctaw countv,
der; life.
Major VV sley .Veintosh c
m.-rder; life.
Edmond White. McIntosh c<
manslaughter, ten years.
Ace Foley, Oklahoma counts
ceny of domestic animals. 1
for Hob Wilder.
Oklahoma county, lar
'stic animals; twelv<
Lincoln county; mur
ontotoc
ounty;
Walter Hancock, Osage county, con-
ready than any person that has been'joint robbery; fifteen years.
sent to prison In Oklahoma for era-1 AVm. H. Uolein, Rogers county, rape;
bezzlement since statehood. twenty years
Not one of the life-term murderers j John Taylor, Coal county, murder;
who are liberated, has served as much twenty-five years.
as fifteen years' time, and one or them j Crockett aggs. Pontotoc county,
has served just a little more than a manslaughter; twenty years.
year, or ihe life tenners, Jesse Hall, j Henry Seiglcr, Comanche county,
negro, sent up from Oklahoma count> murder; life.
fourteen years ago tor murdering a : Henry It. Thornhill, Woods county
negro has served the longest time of,rape; seven and one-half years.
ny who are receiving clemency
One Year for .Murder.
Jeff Ballew, con.icted In Cherokee
county for murder and sentenced to
lifo imprisonment, has served only a
little more than a year. He is among
those paroled.
Among the Oklahoma county pris-
oners who will be turned out Is Cecil
A. E. Lyons, Osage county, grand
larceny; four years.
Eugene Lumpkins, Okfuskee county,
manslaughter; four years.
S. A. Wlnsley, Garfield county,
grand larceny; two years.
K. Horn, Sequoyah county, man-
slaughter; twenty years.
Auirustus Crumby, Logan county, ten
Mingle, who wag convicted here in years.
1909 of the murder of Mrs Pearl Pear-1 island Sparks, Sominol ecounty. lar
son. Mingle boarded with Mrs. Pear-jceny of domestic animals; seventeen
son and took her for a ride one fc>un- ' years.
day afternoon to old Delmar Oarden, I Kh(.|| Klioades, logan county, for-
where h,. is alleged to have shot her Very; two and one-half years.
|and robbed her of her jewelry. Law-1 Dave E. Harjo. Hughes countv, for-
rence Kimber, negro, who killed his 'gery; seven years.
sweetheart in a fit of jealousy here | Smith Small wood, Kay county, man-
Keprievt
Dob Wilder,
tiy of dorm
years.
James Hunt,
der; life.
Henry Prentice
murder; life.
Hickman. Willie, Carter county;
manslaughter; twenty-five years.
Israel Dvington. McCurtain county,
reeny of domestic animals; two
years.
Frank Impson, Pushmataha county,
1 reeny; two year s.
W. D. Moore, Oklahoma county,
ireeny of do«mestic animals, five
years.
Communications Issued.
Communication of sentences were
issued as follows:
Charley Lewis, Carter county, man
slaughter; sentenced to fifty years in
the state penitentiary, commuted to
twenty years.
J. F. Fulcher, Oklahoma county,
abduction and robbery, sentenced to
twenty years in the stae penitentiary,
commuted to ten years.
E. Young, Oklahoma county;
abduction and robbery; sentenced to
twenty years in the state penitentiary
commuted to ten years.
Henry Seigler. Comanche county
murder; sentenced to life imprison-
ment in the state penitentiary; com-
muted to fifteen years.
Sale Smith, Bryan county, murder,
sentenced to life imprisonment
the state penitentiary, commuted
twelve years.
Claud Flournay, Tulsa county, sen-
tenced to ten years imprisonment in
the state penitentiary; commuted to
five year8.
Farame Conditions
Food Shortage approchmgl fkm\rx? Poiirt
Serious Rood Shortage
ictenl Present Food Supply
Bui Riturc Senoutf
FTOj] Peoples' Already receiving
American aid
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of Europe today shows i sent of roviTnmont th<
umry in which the fll- ilrsl thoii;.ht \vt
hold threat uf serious , tude to the Commissi!
.difficulties and only a small part which Belgium fur pn M |'\ iU|_
is not rapidly approaching the famine ' millions of her citizens
|P"iBt. With the exception of the j Germany, on tin
• Ukraine only those countries which, not lljjuie in such
^hnve maintained marine commei
have sufficient food supplies to meet j cation that shall lie
jactual needs until next harvest, and j to take thought for thr
even In the Ukraine, with stores nceu-1 (iernnm.v. ilenniin/ pn
'mulated on the farms, there is famine for l:er' own food pro!
:in the large centers of population. i given access to shipping
">lgium and northern France, m I to distribute food to
■well as Serhia, appear on the hunger
•map distinct from the rest of Kurope
(because they stand in a different rela-
tion from the other nations to the peo-
'ple of tlie United States. America lias
for four years maintained the small
I war rations of Belgium and northern
! France and Is already making special
(efforts to care for their increased
lafter-the-wor needs, which, with those
iof Serbia, must he included in this
iplan, are urgent in the extreme ai*l
must have Immediate relief.
The gratitude of the Belgian nation
ifor the help America has extended to
her during the war constitutes the
strongest appeal for us to continue our
pulat
ble centers.
England, France, the Netherlands | e
and Portugal, all of which have been
maintained from American supplies,
have sufficient food to meet Immediate
needs, but their fututre presents seri-
ous difficulties. The same is true of
Spain and the northern neutral coun-
tries—Norway, Sweden and Denmark
—whose ports have been open and who
have been able to draw to some degree
upon foreign supplies.
Most of Russia is already in the
throes of famine, and 40,000,000 people
there are beyond the possibility of
help. Before another spring thou
work there. The moment the (Jerman sands of them inevitably must
armies withdrew from her soil and she This applies as well to Poland ami
was established once more in her own J practically throughout the Ualtic re- villi have l .
tons <
wn r
porleil lust year, wli
by the ties of war
allies.
If w
on tin* hunger
portions i.) Ii
pence for whi
will be threutei
inevitably loll!
happen we will see
Europe repetition i
bade and our flght
means i
20,000,00
1.000 tons pre-
,000 tons «'k-
e were bound
Eur ope tin
fail to lighten the black spots
iinvcr piap or if we allow any
!■> In-come ditrkcr the very
• fought and bfe«l
levolt and anarchy
nine. Should tills
in other parts of
of the Itussian de-
orld |ieace
HIX« OUT, WILI) BELLS.
Ring out. wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
King out, wild bells, and let him die.
'ing out a slowly dyinfc cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
King in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
King out false pride in place and
blood,
The civic slander and the spite
Ring in the common love of good.
INOCULATION STOPS
INFLUENZA, CLAIM
Chicago.—Ninety per cent of the
deaths from influenza and pneumonia
are preventable when a proper vac-1
cine is used, according to an address
by Dr. E. C. Rosenow of Rochester, |
Minn., before the annual meeting of
the American Public Health Associa-
tion.
Surgeon General IJlue. head of the
United States public health service,
also a speaker at the conference, said
that nearly 350,000 deaths occurred
among civilians from September 2,1
1918, to December 1, 1918, from influ !
eiiza and pneumoniv
Dr. Rosenow read flg\re« in inocula- !
tions around Rochester showing that!
[after the third inoculation there were j
1}. . . , t nine cases of influenza per thousand1
Ring in the love of truth and right. onn „ :
„ . # j against 200 per thousand among the
uninoculated and one and eight-tenths j
cases per thousand of pneumonia
against fourteen per thousand among
those not inoculated. Over 20.000,
persons we-e given the three inocula- 1
Ring out all shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free
The larger heart, the kindlier hand
Ring out the darkness of the land.
Ring iu the Christ that is to be.
—Tennyson. In Memoriam.
about seven years ago, is also among
the paroled.
The complete official list of the par-
dons. paroles and reprieves follows
Those <<etting Tardons.
J. R. Barnes. McIntosh county, man-
slaughter; twenty-five years, paroled
Dec. 20, 1917.
Emmet Hales, Pontotoc county, as-
sault to Hill; three years; paroled Sep-
tember 25, 1915.
slaughter; fifteen years; paroled Dec.
20, 1917.
^ \LCrose, McClain county, larceny
of donKtlc animals; six year; paroled
enitentiary.
Paroles From
Parole swere issued
Bryan Count.*.
Ed Cooper, grand larceny; three
▼ears.
W, C. Sorrels, larceuy of domestic
animal**, two years
slaughter; four years.
J. L. Adams, Okmulgee county, man-
slaughter; six years.
John Wauace, Marshall county,
rape; two years.
Oils Grooms. Craig county, murder;
life.
Cyrus Raspberry, Lincoln county,
conjoint robbery; life.
Floyd Brewer, Adair county, mur-
der; five years.
Charles Itashara, Grady county, mur-
der; ten years.
James L. McNeal. Noble county, mur-
der; life.
Edktar Sprlght. Wagoner county,
manslaughter; fourteen years.
Reformatory Paroles.
Parole® from the state reformatory
were:
Ezekiel Geary, Hughes county, grand
larceny; seven years.
GUARANTY FUND CLEAR OF
DEBT.
Hankers in Convention Hear Healthy
Condition Of States Finances.
That the Oklahoma deposit guaran-
ty fund was for the first time in its
history out of debt and in possession
of $lf500,000 worth of the assets of
defunct institutions was announced
to the State Hankers' association, in
annual convention here, by P. C.
Dings of Ardmore, treasurer of the
state banking board.
Charles I* tingle of El Reno was
re-elected president of the associa-
tion; W. F. Barber of lawton was
re-elected as vice president and W.
C. Ernest of Oklahoma City was re-
tions and their caseB were compared
with 61,000 not given the treatment. I
The deaths from influenza and pneu-
monia among those inoculated were
one-tenth those among the un-inocu-1
lated. Dr. Rosenow showed.
This serum Is now being tried out
by Guthrie physicians.—Ed.
MORE FOOD HANS GO INTO
DISCARD.
Washington, Dec. ^^Regulations j
restricting the use of bread, meat and i
sugar, butter and cheese in public,
ating places which have been in ef- !
feet since last October 21, were or-
dered rescinded today by the food ad
ministration, effective the 23rd.
Visions USED RY RUN 4GENTS
LET HTM 1,1 VE
As long as flowers their perfume give.
So long I'd let the kaiser live—
Live and live for a million years,
With nothing to drink but Belgian tears,
With nothing to quench his awful thirst
But the salted brine of a Scotchman's curse.
I would let him live on a dinner each clay.
Served from silver on a golden tray—
Served with things both dainty and sweel—
Served with everything but things to eat
And I'd make him a bed of silken sheen,
With costly linens to lie between,
With covers of down and fillets of lace.
And downy pillows piled in place;
Yet when to this comfort he would yield.
It should stink with rot of the battlefield,
And blood and bones and brains of men
Should cover him. smother him—and then
His pillows should cling with the rotten cloy,
Cloy from the grave of a soldier boy,
And while God's stars their vigils keep.
And whi e the waves the white sands sweep,
He should never, never, never sleep.
And through all the days, through all the years.
There should be an anthem in his ears.
Ringing and singing and never done
Vrom the edge of light to the set of sun,
Moaning and moaning, and moaning wild-
A ravaged French girl's bastard child!
And I would build him a castle by the sea.
As lovely a castle as ever could be;
Then I'd show him a ship from over the sea,
As fine a ship as ever could be,
I Aden with water cold and sweet.
leaden with everything good to eat;
Yet scarce does she touch the silvered sands,
Scarce may he reach his eager hands,
Than a hot and hellish molten shell
Should change his heaven into hell.
And though he'd watch on the wave swept shore.
Our Lusitania would rise no more!
In "No Man's Land'' where the Irish fell,
I'd start the kaiser a private hell;
I'd jab him, stab him, give him gas;
In every wound I'd pour ground glass;
I'd march him out where the brave boy? cbea- -
Out past the lads they crucified.
In the fearful gloom of his living tomb.
There is one thing I'd do before I was through:
I d make him sing, in a stirring manner.
The wonderful words of "The Star Spangled Banner."
Author Unknown
Liithem Ministers Fmployed for I'ro
paganda Lester Tells Committee. ~
Washington.—The story of how en- j by Cftpt. George II Lester of the arany
eiroy propagandist, used German I,u-1 intelligence service. The witness also
, . . , thern pastors to preach love for the continued his testimony of vesterdnv
named secretary Lyman .1 Gray of f.thcr.and and devotion to Us cause. | seeking to show "p«
Onthne was elected treasurer and tried In vain to stir up negroes English and antl-Amcrlcan' pollcles
Th* a a i . . , I ,h° U"lted Staf,S Witb "eP°rts that | of William Randolph Hearst s news-
The wind can do a lot of blowing if Germany won. part of this countrv papers as directed hy William Ilavard
and still hold its Job But you should would be assigned evcluslvely to 1 Hale, Hearst
remember that you arc not the wind.-'them, was told today to the senate lln, aft
Luke Mcliuke.
committee
investigating propaganda 1 Germany
I
correspondent In Ber-
ber breaking off relations with
Army's Health Improves.
• Washington -Health conditions In
the army camps in the United State*
continued to improve during the we* k
ended December f>, a report to the sur-
geon general of fh'e army said. Infln
enza continues to prevail at practi-
cally all large stations. t>«t tfee Its-
page is less vtruleot
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