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STATE-WIDE
NEWS^ EVENTS
OKLAHOMA CROP SHRINKAGE
OFFSET BY GAIN IN
£ SALE PRICES.
BROTHERS FI6HT OVER A GIRL
[ Porters Leave Church and Struggle In
Woods: One Dead. Other Arrested
NEWS OF THE NEW STATE
Little Incidents and Accidents hat Go
Te Make Up a Week'a History
of a Great Common-
wealth.
Oklahoma City.—Although the U. B.
gvernment's estimate of crops .In Okl.t-
homa shows a general shrinkage, the
etate's-decreaBe 1b In proper ratio wiih
other states, and la offset by prevailing
high prices which equalize values. The
summary Issued last week by the bu
reau of crop estimates and transmitted
through the local weather bureau
shows the following conditions in Ok-
lahoma:
Corn—August 1 forecast, 73,600,000
bushels; production last year (final es-
timate), 123,900.000 bushels'
All Wheat—August 1 forecast, 25,-
600,000 bushels; production last year
(Anal estimate), 36,640,000 bushels.
Oats—August 1 forecast, 15,300,000
bushels; production last year (final es-
timate), 37,800,000 bushels.
Potatoes—August 1 forecast, 2,140,.
000 bushels; production last year
(final estimate), 2,975,000 bushels.
Sweet Potatoes—August 1 forecast,
645,000 bushels; production last year
(final estimate), 690,000 bushelB.
Hay—August 1 forecast, 680,000
tons; production last year (final esti-
mate), 1,068,000 tons.
Pasture—August 1 condition 80,
compared with the ten-year average
of 77. /
Apples—August 1 forecast, 401,000
barrels; production last year (final
estimate), 780,000 barrels.
Peaches—August 1 forecast 237,000
bushels; production last year (final
estimate), 2.408,000 bushels.
Cotton—July 25 forecast, 1,020,000
bales; production last year (census.,
639,626 bales.
Kafir Corn—August 1 condition 75,
compared with ten-year average of 82
Prices of Products.
The first price given below Is the
average on August 1 this year, and
the second the average on August 1
Iait year:
Oklahoma—Wheat, $1.05 and $1.03
per bushel. Corn, 69c and 77c. Oats,
40c and 37c. Potatoes, 87c and 69c.
Hay. $6.50 and $6.60 per ton. Cotton,
11.9c and 8.0c per pound. Eggs, 15c
and 12c per docen.
United States—Wheat,' $1.07 and
$1.06 per bushel. Corn, 79.4c and
78.9c. Oats, 40.2c and 46.4c. Pota-
toes, 96.4c and 56..3c. Hay, $10.70 and
11.02 per ton. Cotton, 12.6c and 8.1c
per pound. Eggs, 20.7c and 17.0c per
docen.
Ringling—Emmett and John Porter,
sons of a well-to-do rancher near beiA
left a church service to fight a duel
over Miss Katherlne Fowler, with
whom both were in love but who had
been unable to choose between them.
John was almost decapitated by Em-
mett's knife, after which he was hor-
rlbly cut In the abdomen. Emmett
Porter has been arrested on a charge
of murder and U confined in the coun-
ty jail.
The young men attended church to-
gether, sitting side by side. Toward
the middle of the service, however,
they left the building and went to a
nearby wood where they agreed to
settle their differences with knlves.
They fought for more than half an
hour without either inflicting serious
injury upon his adversary, but at an
opportune moment Emmett sent the
long blade of his knife Into John's j
throat and another movement almost
severed his head from hiB body.
When John failed to make his ap-
pearance «.t the Porter home Inquiries
were made of Emmett, whose conduct
was such that a search was instituted,
John's body was found a short dis.
tance from the edge of the wood.
U PROPOSES
STRIK
SETTLEMENT
PRE8IOENT FAVORS ADOPTION
OF THE EIGHT-HOUR
WORKING DAY.
NOW II? TO THE RAILROADS
ALL REA0T FOR 010 STRIKE
WILL BE
MANAGED FROM
YORK CITY.
GREER COUNTY HAS A MYSTERY
Body of Farmer Found On Porch:
Head Crushed With Axe.
Sapulpa.—At daylight last Satur-
day the body of John Harris was
found lying on the porch of his farm
borne, four miles from Sapulpa. His
head had been crushed with an axe,
which was found covered with blood
a short distance from the body.
Fletcher Jackson, a negro farm
hand, who had slept In the HarrlB
home during the night, said that he
found the body when he arose to go
about his work. A coroner's inquest
failed to develop any clue tending t»
establish the identity of the murderer.
Harris .came to Creek county from
Texas and is alleged to have always
slept with a loaded revolver close at
hand. He bad been heard to speak of
enemies he had in Texas.
FRED D. PARSONS DIES A HERO
Oklahoma City Man Rescues Boy
Then Drowns.
BANDITS LOOT CROWDER BANK
Negro rind White Man Secure $1,100;
, Horse Captured.
Crowder.—In a running fight In the
hills west of Crowder officers captured
the horse that had been ridden by a
negro bandit wMo, with a white com-
panion, robbed the Hank of Crowder.
The robbers, unmasked, entered th-J
bank at l.o'clock In the afternoon and
at the point of revolvers forced Cash-
ier George Mills and E. T. Bradley,
assistant bank examiner, to enter the
vault, then took all the money at hand,
$1,100, and escaped. Bird Box, a bank
customer, entered while the robbery
was In progress. He was forced to
sit down In a corner, hands up, anrl
watch the looting operations. Melvin
Cornish of McAlester, a member of the
state banking .board, is president of
the looted bank. He said that the $500
standing reward offered by the stati
board would be* paid without delay
should the robbers be captured, dead
or alive. The Iosb was covered by In-
surance.
OIL FLOW NEAR CEMENT. 0KLA.
Fifty-Barrel Wildcat Well Reported Ir
Caddo County.
Anadarko —An oil flow estimated at
fifty barrels dally Is reported to have
been encountered on the Jennie ICunz-
muller farm, In section 36-6-19, nine
miles southeast of Anadarko and
about two miles west of Cement. Ac-
cording to the driller, the oil was en-
countered at a depth of 685 feet.
When brought In the bailer to the sur-
face and ignited, the flames burned
several feet above the bailer. The
water is being cased off and the well
will be deepened.
News of the oil strike was followed
by Intense excitement In Anadarko.
Nearly all available land between Ana-
darko and Cement has been under
lease for several months and the leas-
ing has extended east of Cement Into
Grady county. One dry well has been
drilled east of Cement. Cement Is
about fifty miles southwest of Okla-
homa City, Is about the same distance
northeast of the Lawton field and
northwest o'fr the Stephens county field
and is In Caddo county.
-
Oklahoma City.—Frederick D. Par-
sons of Oklahoma City, who was
drowned In the Washita river near
Wayne, went to his death a hero. It
was In Ms effort to save the life of a
child who was drowning that death j
came.
Parsons, his wife and Miss Blanche
Coate of Wayne, with whom the Pai-
sons were visiting, walked from tho
Coates home to th'e Washita river to
fish. As they approached the stream
Parsons beard cries and saw a boy
striving to get out of deep water. Par-
sons plunged into the water, twelve
feet deep, and pushed the lad to the
shore. He could not swim and was
too exhausted to (>ull himself out.
Following the tragedy, announce-
ment was made of the marriage of
Mr. Parsons and Miss Laura Ankley,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rimer O.
Ankley, on June 10. The wedding had
been kept secret.
Will Try Sheep Raising.
Braman.—Aaron Biorbower, one of
the prominent farmers of this section
has Just received a large shipment of
sheep and will place them on hlc
ranch southwest of Braman, his Inten-
tion being to fatten the sheep from a
number of forage crops and waste ma-
terial around the ranch. This is Bler-
bower's first experiment In this class
cf stock and he is the pioneer in this
this section with sheep. If these prove
a success a number of other farmers
In Kay county will next season Import
• larfce number of sheep.
Magnolia Files Corsicana Deed.
Ardmore.- A deed transferring to
the Magnolia Petroleum Company all
the property owned by the Corsicana
Company In Carter county has Just
been recorded here. The deed recites
that the purchase price was $6,750,000,
and the Instrument evidently (com-
pletes a transaction that had its be-
ginning several months ago when the
Magnolia Company succeeded to the
business of the Corsicana Petroleum
Company and that the Magnolia Pipe
Line Company. One of the-revenue
stamps on the deed Is for $1,000 and
another for $500. "
Fatal Day For Negroes.
Tulsa.—One negro is dead antfr two
others are seriously injured as a re-
sult of di cultles in and around Tulsa
last Sunday. Ed Neeley, negro dearon
in a churche here, shot Walter McOee
after an argument whlfh arose over
the taking of the church collection.
George Ryan, negro, was found dead at
Jenks with a bullet .n nis brain. Tom
\ Hoffor, another negro, was stabbed in
n light with knives at Mohawk.
Ferris To Manage Campaign.
Washington —Administration forces
offered Scott Ferris the ehairmanship
of the Wilson national campaign bu*
rSuu at Chicago. After consulting the
Oklahoma delegation and the demo-
cratic central committee of Oklahoma
and securing their approval, FerrU
made formal acceptance of the assign*
ment with the understanding that h«i
wotfld devote at least two weeks' per.
sonal work to the campaign In Okl«<
homa. He will leavo Washington at
once to assume his new duties in th«
Chicago beadquartera.
Minor Differences To Be Settled By
An Arbitration Commission, If
the President's Plan
Is Accepted.
■ Washington—President Wilson laid
his plan for averting the threatened i
railway strike before the employes' j
committee of 640, and having found j
the managers' committee adamant to
his proposals that they accept the
eight-hour day, he appealed to the
railroad presidents and asked them to
come to the White House for a con-
ference.
There Is every Indication that if
the railroad presidents sustain their
managers, President Wilson will ap-
peal finally to the financial powers
which control* the roads, for it is his
purpose to deal with the ultimate au-
thority before he gives up
President's Plan In Outline Only.
An eight-hour day as the basis for
computing wages.
Regular pay at the eight-hour day
rate for overtime. t
To refer all other collateral issuer!
to 'a small committee to be created
by congress on which the employes,
the railroads and the public would be
represented.
Acceptance of the proposal by the
employes was forecasted by expres-
sions of their leaders after they left
the president's conference. One of
tliem declared "the men would be fools
not to accept It."
The attitude of the railroad presi-
dents is not so clear. No one can say
what will be the effect of an appeal
such as a president, speaking in the
name of the welfare of a nation, can
make. But from such information
as can be gathered it appears that the
railroad presidents, if the managers'
committee understands them, are un-
alterably opposed to conceding the
eight-hour day or anything else out ot
hand, but are quite ready to arbitrate
everything in almost any form upon
which the employes and the committee
may agree.
Railway Head* May Not Accept.
The railroad presidents, it is under-
stood, Justify their stand upon the
broad ground of maintaining the prin- ]
ciple of arbitration which if saprlficed j
in this instance, they intend to tell the i
president, will be destroyed as a factor !
in the settlement of industrial dis- i
putes.
If the railroad presidents persist in i
that view and are supported by the j
financial powers only the future can I
tell the outcome.
With the growing seriousness of the |
situation congress began paying more
real attention to the crisis and there
were many indications of intervention,
to prevent a nation-wide tie-up.
The general expectation is that the
railroad officials after seeing the presi-
dent will ask that they be given sev-
eral days, perhaps a week or more,
to consider their course.
While the^-ailroad presidents would
not make any predictions until thev
familiarized themselves with the situ-
ation here, there was more than one
indication that it would take a strong
appeal to induce them to reverse tho
attitude that has been taken by their
representatives of the managers' com-
mittee.
Two plans are being considered for
the make up of the proposed com-
mittee in race the president's plan la
accepted. 'The first provides for the
appointment of all three members, if
that should be the size of the commis-
sion, by the president, and the other
for selection of one of the members
by him, and of the other two by the
railroad employers and employes, re-
spectively.
The plan as presented by the presi-
dent to the employes was couched In
general terms and did not go Into de
talis.
It is proposed that the commission
be given power to summon witnessei
and examine books in order to arrlv-
at the true cost of the proposed plan
to the railroads. Suggestions have
been made that the commission bo
made permanent.
The president declared he believed
in the principle of the eight-hour day.
and that he thought the greater part
of the people of the United States held
i similar view. He also sought t >
impress on the men that he knew whu
It meant to Work for a living. H.>
-aid he had learned early In life tha
trials of "making both ends meet."
Regarding tho collateral Issues, tho
oresident admitted he was at a losa
lo say how they should be settled.
Scores 8ee Woman Slay Another.
Maryvllle, Mo.—While scores of
travelers at the Burlington station
loked on, Mrs. Q. A. Gilmore, 45 years
old, wile of a local livery proprietor,
tire«^ four shots at Mrs. Ella Shlpps,
also of Maryvllle. All the bullets took
effect. Mrs. Slilpps died a few min-
utes later. Mrs. Gilmore handed her
revolver to n bystander, walked to
the sheriff's office and surrendered.
Mrs. Bhlpps was 43 years old and di-
vorced. Mrs. Gilmore recently filed
suit for divorce. Jealousy Is said to
have prompted tha shooting.
Railroad Men Claim They Can Stop
Every Trajn In tho Country
In Very Short Time.
New York.—If President Wilson
fails to persuade thfe' railroad men and
ihelr employers to settle their dlffeV
ences and a general strike is called, It
will be directed from headquarters in
this city.
At brotherhood headquarters it was
«aid all preparations have been mado
for putting Into effect a strike that
will -stop every train, passenger and
freight on the 225 railroad systems of
the United States. The critical state
of affairs was indicated by the anxiety
displayed in every big industry which
will be crippled by the failure of trans-
portation.
Authorities here declared while tire
national labor laws give the president
BIG "WAI
E
"BOND
S URGED
.0
MAJORITY MEMBERS 6F SENATE
FINANCE COMMITTEE SAY
$130,000,000 NEEDED.
OWEN HAS FI8HT ON HANDS
Oklahoma Senator Trying To Force
Action On Corrupt Practice* Bill
Before Agreeing to Adjourn-
, ment of Congress.
Washington.—A bond issue of $130,"
000,000 to meet extraordinary govern-
ment expenditures due to the Mexican
situation was unexpectedly recom-
mended to congress by majority mem-
bers of the senate finance committee
with the concurrence of the treasury
no right to interfere officially, the | tment.
broad police powers
vested in him The bond ,ssue ls urged 'n the re-
give him authority to put soldiers on ! port °' t'le finance committee filed In
the trains and even to declare mar- the 8enate Jn the *25,000.000 revenue
tial law If he believes the peril of the bU1 ,n Edition to the proposed issue
situation calls for such drastic meas-
ures.
Attention was called to last national
railroad strike In 1894 when President
Cleveland used the regular army to
guard locomotives and cars.
The tension in business circles hero
acute danger of a national calamity.
An aggregate of financial loBses, run-
ning perhaps into hundreds of mil-
lions, labor idleness and food priva-
tion are some of the possibilities
which a strike presents. It is to be
remembered, business men said, that
there Is scarcely a factory of any im-
portance which does not depend on a
railroad for its products. A strike, for
instance, ^wlll mean that the steel
mills of Pittsburg will be cut off froai
and the revenue bill, the finance com
mittee asserts that further appropria-
tions of $86,000,000 wjll be necessary
to defray the expenses of operations In
the Mexican emergency if conditions
on the border continue as they are
now after December 31, 1916. T!v*
$130,000,000 to be provided by the pro-
posed bond issue, the report says, will
meet Mexican expenditures only until
the end of This calendar year.
Accompanying the finance commit
tee majority's report submitted by
Senator Simmons was a general state-
ment from the treasury department
estimating disbursements for the fis-
cal year 1917 at $1,126,234,000 and re-
ceipts $762,000,000.
In its analysis of the revenue bill
their ore supplies In Michigan and revised by the senate committee,
Wisconsin, the automobile industries! the treasury department estimates
of Michigan from supplies of steel j that the annual reveuue to be derived
from Pittsburgh; the cotton mills of! will be: From income tax, $109,600,000;
New England from their cloth froLi ( inheritance tax, $20,000,000 for 1917
New England, antf every Industry ev- (after law ls In full force approxi-
erywhere will be cut off from coal to mately $65,000,000); munitions manu-
feed their furnaces and dynamos. | facturerg. tax> $40,000,000; mlscel-
Of more immediate seriousness ianeous, including beer, liquors, stamp
would be the question of food supply.! ^ et *35,500,000, a total of $205.-
The large communities which receive |
the bulk of their food from long dis-1 '
tances will be forced to rely tin what Administration senate leaders con-
products can be brought In by wagon, | fronted by the determination of Sen
automobile, trolley or vessel. j ator Owen to press his corrupt prac-
The suspension of the country's ex- tlces bill at this session of congress
ports, the congestion of imports at | made an agreement with the repuh-
coast cities, the stranding of hundreds 1 leans which they believe will clear a
of thousands of travelers and summer
resort visitors far from their homes—
these are other possibilities which the
strike situation presents, to say noth-
ing of its effect on the railroads them-
selves and their employes.
Twenty Billions Involved.
way for passage of the shipping and
revenue bills now temporarily blocked.
It was agreed that Senator Owen
might move to take up his bill at any
time and that enough democrats would
vote with the republicans against the
, motion to defeat it, thus postponing
The total capitalization of the rail- j action on the Gwen bill until next ees-
roads in the country amounts to more Blon
than twenty billion dollars and their I e gerved to ren{nv
gross revenue has been estimated at I " v . .
more than $4,000,000,000 on the basis hope for an early adjournment of coa-
of recent reports. j Kress when advocates of the immigra-
The latest estimates available show tion bill injected a new disturbing
that the railways operate 251,984 miles feature. Senator. Borah, in the course
of lines and transport annually 1,033,- j of a speech on the shipping bill, re-
679,680 passengers. The passenger j ferred to the need for immediate fm-
cars have been computed at 61,700 and migration legislation and the resulting
other cars at 2,393,808.
OR. JOHN 0. MURPHY IS DEAD
Noted Surgeon a Victim of the Munde-
lein Banquet.
discussion reevaled evidence of an-
other democratic revolt. Senator
Hardwick announced it was the inten-
tion of Chairman Smith of the immi-
gration committee to call up the meas-
ure before adjournment and Senator
ABhtrrst, another democrat, said he
hoped such a motion would be made
soon and that he would not be bound
by the democratic caucus, which voted
ALLIED ADVANCE CONTINUES
RUSSIANS TAKE NEW POSITIONS
IN HUNGARY.
Mackinac Island, Mich.—Dr. John B.
Murphy of Chicago, one of the world's
most renowned surgeons, died sud
denly at a hotel while on a summer | to delay the measure until December,
outing. An attack of heart disease
was the immediate cause of death. NE6R0 ADMITS MURDER OF THREE
Dr. Mtn-phy had been in poor healtn 1
for several months and some had as- £x c<m Wound#d .nd ja„, Ex.
cribed his condition to the poisoned '
French Preoa the Germane Bick Fur*
ther in the Somme Region On
the Western Front.
London.—The Russia is, after a con
siderable period oP inactivity In -the:
Carpathians, are moving aggre38ivelyr
against the Teutonic forces therej
Following the taking of Jablonitza,
one oy-the chief gateways to Hungary,,
they have captured a series of heights;
west of Vorhokhta and Arzemoy. Po-
trograd reports an Austrian retire-
ment to the west in this region
The movement ts_ considered as
tending more effectively to protect the
left flank, of the Russian armies mov-
ing northwestward in the Sfanislau-
Haflcz region in (their advance on
Lemberg.
Russian capture of prisoners from
June 4, when General Brussiloff Inau-
gurated his offensive, to Aug. 12, are
ocially reported by Petrograd to havi»
totaled' more than 358,000.
Further advances for the Italians la
their campaign against the Austrian^
east arid southeast of Gorizla were an-
nounced by the Italian war office.
Austrian trenches along the slopes of
the Carso plateau and in the neigh-
borhood of San Caterina and San
Marco east of Gorizla have been taken*
the announcement states.
After scoring Important gains along
a front of nearly three miles in the
Somme region both north and south
of the river the French are busily con-
solidating the newly won ground mak-
ing preparations for the expected Ger-
man counter strike. No such attack
developed last night, <but the Pari3
bulletin reports Intense artillery ac-
tivity north of Maurepas, where the
French, In conjunction with the Brit-
ish, effected their most telling ad-
vance. capturing more than three-
quarters of a mile of trenches.
The French and British striking
with terrific force in three direction's
on the $omme front, have stormed
nearly three miles of German
trenches, driving forward at points to
a depth of 300 to 5«0 yards.
The most important gains were
made by the British and French troops
striking north from the point where
the allied lines meet. Maurepas and
Clery, two of the most important
points held by the Germans In this
sector, have been (tanked on both
sides, according to the official state-
ment Issued by Paris. The road haa
also been reached between Maurepas
and Guillemont, the latter town being
the immediate objective of the British.
This advance if maintained brings the
allies directly In front of the large
railroad town of Combles.
South of the Somme the French
Btormed German trenches over a
length of about three-quarters of a
mile, driving forward in a southerly
direction from Belloy-en-Santerre.
Paris reports that a considerable num-
ber of prisoners were taken In these
operations.
For the first time In many days no
Important action is reported from the
Russian front and the same dearth of
news prevails in regard to the Italian
operations.
The most interesting item of news
regarding the Italian advance against
Trieste is contained in a news dis-
patch from Milan, which says that
German troops are to be employed in
the defense of the big Austrian port.
1 Indications of Important activity in
[ the Balkans are increasing. A Bulga-
rian official statement reports two at-
tacks by entente forced in the region,
of Lake Doiran, but declares each wai
repulsed.
soup partakew at the banquet given
to Archbishop Kfundeleln at the Uni-
versity club, Chicago, last winter. His
wife wag wt{h him at the time of his
death.
The famous surgeon, who recently
presses Regret There Was Not "More
Lake Charles, La.—llelaire Carrlere,
former convict and slayer of Sheriff
Swords of St. Landry parish, made a
statement to District Attorney Ed-
was knl'glUedljy ^ope *Bene"<rictlor"lil'i, wards o7 Calcasiu parish In which he
researches in surgery, was only 58 admitted he had Iklled three persona
years old. He first came into Inter-j during the past yew and expressed
national fame through his specializing regret that 1>e had not made (be total
In intestinal disorders, and invented tour. Besides Sheriff Swords, Carrier#
what was known as the Murphy but- said he killed Dai*d Pierce a negro
ton, making possible operations which : near Jennings, La., in self-defense and
theretofore had been deemed Impossi- shot and killed an. 18-year-old negro in
ble. He was credited by many with the Mallet section of St. Landry par-
being the first surgeon to perform op- Ish because he had learned the boy
, eratlons for appendicitis, such cases had been promised $25 if he would
previously having been diagnosed as reveal his hiding place, after he had
; quick consumption or other Intestinal escaped from the Jennings Jail. The
I dlsortlers. Of late years Dr. Murphv latter killing, Carrlere said, occurred
had turned hfs attention to Joint dis- three weeks before he shot Swords,
eases, which he treated by the serum Discussing the killing of Swords, Car-
method, having followed the sugges- Here expressed regret but admitted he
lion that rheumatism and other sim- was sorry he had not killed the two
liar disorders were due to pus centers negroes accompanying Swords Instead
In, tTie body.
1 Break All Records.
Appropriations
Washington—The importance of
of only wounding them.
Carrlere was capiured near Elton
by Sheriff Reld of Calcasieu'parish
and five deputies. Carrlere, for whom
the $200,000,000 revenue bill on whlcii
senate democrats devoted many hours authorities have been looking since
of deliberation in caucus, is being Im- killed Sheriff Swords a month ago
pressed upon leaders by the fact that near Opelousas, was surprised at an
appropriations of the session now abandoned saw mill by the posse and
nearlng completion have broken all j w)len he attempted to escape received
records. With tho passage this week a Rj,arge of buckshot through the
of the $60,000,000 ship purchase bill iung8> flred from Sheriff field's gun.
and probable approval by the house j At the cRiCaslu parish Jail, where Car-
of the senate's gigantic naval bill, the | rlere {R being held, it was Btated the
appropriations of the sixty-fourth pr|HOner would not recover. Carrlere
congress will have exceeded the pre- Bent for a pr|est to whom be mad*
vtous high record by at least a half. flnaj confession.
billion dollars. '
MORE TROOPS TO THE BORDER
Remaining Units of the Militia to b»
Moved.
Washington—All the national guard
units included in President Wilson's
call*of June 18 not yet on the Mex-
ican border were ordered there by tn»
war department.
Between 20,000 and 25,000 additional
troops will thus be added to the bor-
der forces. National guard forces
there will number approximately 125,-
000 and the total of all troops on the
border or in Mexico will be 175,000.
Secretary Baker made a formal an-
nouncement that th» troop movement
had nothing whatever to do with the
Mexican situation as such, and was
solely to relieve thousands of troops
now held In mobilization camps 'only
because tliey lacked a few recruits to
bring units up to fixed minimum
strength.
New York Plague Worse.
New York—Mrs. Frank Copeland
Page, daughter In-law of Walter Hlne?
Page. Untied States ambassador to
Great Britain, died of Infantile paraly-
sis at her summer home In South Gar-
den City, L. I. Health department of-
ficials announced that last week was
the high record week for the disease
since the epidemic developed. Cases
reported were 1,108 as against 1,117
last week and 91» the third week. In
the list of new cases and deaths made
publie a total of 6,140 cases were
shown, with 1,871 deaths.
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Wileman, Herbert. Mangum Weekly Star. (Mangum, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 17, 1916, newspaper, August 17, 1916; Mangum, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc285039/m1/2/: accessed March 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.