Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 75, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 28, 1917 Page: 1 of 8
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CHICKASHA. OKLAHOMA WEDNESDAY MARCH 28 1917.
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WILSON'S WAR MESSAGE
MUST NOTBE TOO GENERAL
NOR TIMIDLY SUGGESTIVE
Leaders Declare Temper of Lawmakers
is Such That They Want to Know
Vliut They are Called For
UNITED STATES IS
"ALREADY AT WAR
AUTHORITIES
CONFISCATE
ANOTHERCAR
"GUILTY"
DECLARES
COUCH JURY
After Being Out Nineteen Hours Jury
Recommends Life Imprisonment for
Slayer of Miss Dunn
FLY THE FLAG FROM EVERY
HOUSETOP THE CITY HALL
AND THE SCHOOL HOUSES
General Taft Says Declaration Will Come Ford Caught Near Pocassel Condemned
IIJ-.l T t 1 J ' . n" n n . n .i r
Tvunin ten nays: rrepareu luuiue in Be sold Bu Boa eeeers tscane
With Larger Auto
JURY VOTES 9 TO 3
FOR DEATH PENALTY
Where are all tho national colors county commissioners ami an early
hidden in Chickasha? Tin. I question j decision Is expected. "I will venture
is being asked by a number ..f promi-'10 H"5' tlut Imf tUrt bowc lu t'llll'ka-
hlia do not own even u Hiuall American
nent citizens who are promoting a 1 . . . .
flat; said one ol llio patriotic band
move tending to hasten tbe general j1JliH ulol.nlllK ..ttml tulB not ns
display or the American flag in Chick-i should be. The ling should bo floated
asha as is done in a number of other! from all the business houses in thctie
cities of similar size. Why is not the times when foremost men of tho nn-j
FOR FIRST TIME IN GREAT
WAR ARMOURED CAR AND
CAVALRY CAPTURE TOWN
With Germans in Mexico
By United Press.
Washington March 28. President
Wilson will have to be positively defi-
nite and specific in detail to get what
fie wants from congress at the coming
epec'al session.
lain is the impression today "on tho
hill." The vast majority of the forty
per cent of new members of congress
pie already here ready for the opflii-
hw ot tho Eopslon Monday and that 's
the way tney feel about it.
Congressmen say if the president
shows any inclination in his "war me-i-feaRe"
to be too general or "timidly
suggestive" of what he wants a wide
difference of opinion will develop re-
sulting in perliaps disastrous r'elay
She real program.
'The leaders among the lawmakers
as well as the men in the ranks mv
Another automobile and 114 quails
of whiskey were condemned in Judge
Moore's cqurt yesterday afternoon the
petition of the county ' attorney for
such confiscation having met with no
opposition. The people who lost this
valuable consignment barely escaped
losing another automobile and sixty
more quarts of whiskey.
The confiscated property was cap-
tured when Sandford and Hudson two
alleged bootleggers of Oklahoma City
were arrested near Pocasset where
their car brok down. The men en-
tered the Pocasset store where
Charles Brock the local deputy sher-
iff Is clerking and phoned to Oklaho-
ma City for a car to help them out
saying they had broken down. Brock
finished his task of sweeping out then
went to breakfast and later started to
ouch Does Not Flinch When1 Verdict is
Read; Question of Verdict Decided on
First Ballot; Will Seek New Trial
Stars and Stripes fluttering In the
breeze from every school building in
the town? Why is tho national em-
blem not unfurled from the roof of the
city hall and the court house is being
asked
The matter has already been broach-
ed to tho mayor and to the board ot
tion declare that wo are already at
war. Every home should show 1U col-
ors m a time like thin."
It N stated that a flag staff is being
procured for the Oklahoma College for
Women and a beautiful emblem will
wave from abovo the administration
building in the near future.
flatly right now that the temper ' of J the spot indicated to investigate. The
congress is such that it wants to be j large new relief automobile was being
told w hy it was called into extraordi- loaded with whiskey when he drove up
nary session and what the president land the driver being suspicious made
his escape with the car leaving Hud-
son and Sandford behind with the bro-
ken machine. '
Homer Hurst an attorney of Okla-
By United Press.
Oklahoma City March 28. John
Couch accused of double murder was
found guilty of the murder of Miss
Nellie Dunn his sister-in-law when
the jnry today brought in a verdict
after nineteen hours deliberation. Life
imprisonment was recommended by
the jury.
The first ballot was taken by the
jury yesterday afternoon and it is said
to have decided the question of the
guilt of the accused. The remainder
ot the time was consumed hi fixing
the penalty. The vote at one time It
is reported1 stood 9 to 3 for the death
sentence.
rfiiifli'o oltnrtiava Jn1 i ol flic
they will file a motion for a new trial. After a hard legal bat'le in which
In case the motion Is dismissed Couch j the bondsmen's case was fought to a
will not face trial on the charge of
TUCKERBOND
CASE GOES
FOR CO.
Judge Davenport Refuses to Set Aside 1
Forfeiture of Bond and Case Will
Be Appealed
TO PROVIDE
SEATS FOR
IICKASHA
COFFMAN
SSUES A
WARNING
Makes Short House-to-House Canvass
Telling Residents to Clean Up
or Put Up
Fiench Confident of American Aid and Sec
tary General Wants to See Ameii.
can Trocps in France
Reservations Already Made for Thirty to
Hear Taft in Oklahoma City To-
morrow Afternoon
wants the members to do about it.
By
Four Regiments Called.
Unitea irons.
Washingon March 28 Four more noma City interested in the Couch
national guard regiments were called faee on trial there did not appear nor
to the colors today. They are the ni(' be file an interplea leaving no one
First West Virginia Seventy-fourth to appeal 'from the decision of Judge
New 'York infantry Second Connecti-' Moore who at 6 o'clock decided to
cut and Second New Jersey infantry. turn the automobile over to the coun-
While realizing the possibilities of ty commissioners who may sell it on
trouble from the Germans gathering! first Monday. The whiskey will be
in Mexico the government is declared
to be adequately prepared to cope with
the situation.
Already at War. '
By United Press.
Dalla.j Tex. March 2S. "The Unit-
ed States is already in the war" de-
clared Former President Taft in an
address here last night
"Within ten days a declaration of
war will he made either by Germany
or ourselves. It cannot be avoided"
he added.
STATE HEALTH INSPECTOR
SEES CARCASSES IN RIVER
State Health Inspector Biewer spent
yesterday in Chickasha and was here
this morning attending to duties with-
in the scope of his office. Yesterday
in company with the city health offi-
cer. Dr. E. L. Dawson the state in:
spector visited the Washita river be-
low the intake for city water purposes
One of the missions of Mayor Cof-
ffiaii in Oklahoma City aside from the
Taft speech is an effort to give local
fishermen the times of their lives in
the next few years. His honor be-
and viewed the carcasses of a number lieves he would be doing a public ser-
spilled by the sheriff.
HERE'S GOOD
TIDINGS FOR
FISHERMEN
Mayor Coffman Will Try to Bring 10000
Finny Members to Stock
City Lakes
murdering Rowland Williams the mu-
sic teacher who was killed on January
19 the same day Miss Dunn met her
death at the Wheeler school. Both
had been shot.
Couch pleaded emotional insanity
which he claimed was brought on by
the atttentions paid by Williams to
his sister-in-law Miss Dunn. Couch
never flinched when the verdict of the
jury was read. He was
and as cold as steel.
POWELL AND TUCKER
HELD FOR SHOOTING
of hogs and cattle which had been
dragged and deposited there.
Sheriff Bailey's office was notified
and the objectionable nuisance will be
removed.
The presence of this dead stock in
the Washita river however will not
affect the city water.
WEATHER FORECAST
"Weather or No."
Beware of secret tips. A man
can lie ust as well in a whisper
as he can out loud. Old Man
Sago.
Kor Oklahoma.
Tonight and Thursday fair
warmer.
Local Temperature.
Maximum 70; minimum 36.
vice should he place 10000 good live
fish at. the disposal of the local devo-
tees of the rod and line and at the
same time would enrich prospective
parks which will be converted into
outing places for the general public.
The mayor will visit the state fish
aril game warden and will try to show
him where Chickasha needs about that
number of members of the finny tribe
to make its population happy and that
the city is willing to pay the costs of
transportation to get them.
If successful he will divide the lot-
between that lt'kc which is being made
on the thirty acrei just acquired near
the waterworks from J-hn Sharp and
which will be converted into a large
public picnic ground for Chickasha
and the lake near the city dumping
ground.
It Is probable that one of these plac-
es will be closed up for a peritwl of
about two years in orde- t j allow the
fi.sh to breed and grow while the oth-
er lake will be at once thrown open to
all comers.
Judge Moore this morning held Ben
Tucker and Buck Powell over to the
district court in the sum of $750 each
in connection with the recent shooting
of Felix Jackson a suspected negro
bootlegger in Two street. The evi
dence showed .that Arthur Reed and
Powell entered the negro's place and
aBked for drinks and Tucker came in
later for a cigar. Then Powell who
carried an automatic pistol reached
for the negro's gun and examined it.
The negro placed the gun under the
counter and started to his home for
whiskey. Returning Powell had the
gun and Reed was asking for it both
men being in the. anto room. The ne-
gro asked that the cartridges be first
removed. Tucker then entered the
ante room and stood in the doorway
saying "Now's the time now's the
time."
When Reed cocked the gun the ne-
gro crouched behind Powell but was
shot by Reed. Then Powell and Tuck-
er escaped but Reed remained to fire
three more bullets at his victim. The
negro' walked across the street and
fainted. Buck Powell then walked
around the house and threw his own
weapon under the building. The
shooting was all done with the negro's
weapons.
finish the application to set aside the
forfeiture of the $1000 bond of John
Tucker the convicted bootlegger was
denied b'y Judge Davenport In the
county court today.
The fight was made and lost by
Dave Hill one of the bondgmen but no
tice was given of appeal to the su-
preme court where the final fight will
indifferent be made.
The question arose as to whether it
remained at the discretion of the court
to set aside forfeiture in a case where
a bondsman delivered the escaped
prisoner as was the case with John
Tucker. The prosecuting attorney de-
clared that only a reasonable excuso
offered for the failure of the defendant
to be present on the day set for trial
is ground for non-forfeit un of his
bond.
Accompanied by his wife Mayor
Coffman left this ttifternoon for Okla-
homa City to attend the slate conven-
tion of' tho Oklahoma branch of the
League to Enforce Peaco which con-
venes there tomorrow afternoon at 2
o'clock and which will bo addressed
by ex-President William Howard Tuft.
Tho mayor has already engaged-thirty
reserved seats for the Chickasha
j delegation but will be on hand to make
provisions for more if necessary. This
evening he will be in the lobby of the
Lee-Huckins hotel to get indications
of any increase in the size of the delegation.
WORRY RETARDS
KAISER'S RECOVERY
By United Tress.
Berne March 28. I'aiser
Wilhelm is suffering from a
mild form of diabetes and is un-
dergoing treatment at Ham-
burg aaccording to wireless
dispatches received here.
The physicians give the as-
surance that with careful treat-
men they can effect a cure but
worry is said to be retarding
the emperor's recovery.
BREWERS AT THE DAT
Hy United Press.
Frederick Okla. March 2S. The
Milwaukee Breewrs will stage an exhi-
bition game combating the local nine
here tomorrow. A traveling carni-
val's band will furnish the noise.
PRESBYTERIANS HOLD BIG MEET
AND PUBLIC CORDIALLY INVITED
Tin cans and wire galore have been
assembled In tho alleys throughout the
city between tho Rock Island railroad
tracks and Tenth street as a result of
the edict issued by Mayor Coffman
and the two wagons will ne buwy for a
day or two gathering those heaps
which havo already been prepared for
them. But that does not mean that
the vigilance of the officers who are
charged with making a ehnn city will
be relaxed in tho slightest degree. On
me contrary lynx-eyed officers will
mako note of all delinquencies and
these lists will be turned Into tno may
or's office for further action.
rearing tne citizens did not quite
got him" on tho cleanup proposition
Mayor Coffman yesterday afternoon
and this morning before his departure
for tho capital city made a house-to-
nou.'io canvass or one or two titreett'
which seemed to present lhe4ie.t pros
pects for a big cleanup impressing
upon the householders the fact that
while ho wants to cart away all non-
inflammable rubbish free of cost all
those who do not take advantage of
this offer will bo brought before tho
eity court and tho full force of the
law will bo invoked against thorn.
Those living between the railroad
track and Tenth streets who have no?
already done so are urged to dump
all the tin cans and wires out In the al
leys.
GERMAN DRIVE AIDS
IN CEMENTING RUSSOS
Germany's Food Dictatcr Admits Possi-
bility cf Error in Calculating Em-
pire's Food bupply
An interesting session of Presbyteri-
ans is scheduled to take .place iu
Chickasha Thursday and Fiiday to
which the general public In cordially
invited. -
The annual meeting of tl'd Women's j
Presbyterial Society of the 1'iei Hytery
of El Reno will be held Oil those days
at the Precbyterian church. The fol-
lowing program will be carried out:
Program.
Thursday Evening 8 O'clock.
Missionary Hymn IS Congregation.
Devotional Rev. Wm. Denham.
Anthem "How Long Oh Lord"
(Fflueser) Chickasha choir.
Address of Welcome Miss Edith
Flagler Chickasha.
Response Mrs. S. V. Fait Anadar-
ko.
Solo selected Miss Huggins.
Address A Woman's Work in Chi-
na Mrs. Ceo. S. Hays; (illustrated by
pageants of Chinese life a Chinese
kindergarten a weird funeral ceremo-
ny and a Chinese wedding.)
Offering.
Benediction.
Informal reception.
Friday Morning 9 O'cfock.
Devotional Mrs. N. A. Yielding Tem-
ple. Business session.
Address Putting our best -Into the
Missionary Work Mrs. Geo. S. Hays.
How can we interest our boys and
girls Mrs. Prica Walters.
Plans for the coming year Mrs. G.
D. Willingham Oklahoma City Synod-
leal president.
Appointment of committees Pres.
Mrs. V. D. Tinkelpaugh EI Reno.
Adjournment.
Luncheon at church.
Friday Afternoon 1:30 O'clock.
Devotional Mrs. It. J. Phlpps El
Reno.
Delegates hour.
Address Th All Round Missionary
Woman. Miss Olinda A. Meeker rep-
resentative of homo board.
Discussion ot live questions led by
Mrs. (J. R. Hume Anadarko.
Reports of committees.
A parting message Mrs. - Willing-ham.
Visit to tho Oklahoma College fori
Women.
Friday Evening 8 O'clock.
Hymn 1D1 "Jesus Shall Roign"
congregation.
Prayer.
Anthem "Send Out Thy Light"
(Gounod) Chickarha choir.
- Reading- "Cindy Chance;" a moun-
tain sketch; Kate W. Hamilton Miss
Ethel C. Gray Chickasha.
Solo selected Mr. O. L. Bingham
Chickasha.
Address The Higher Education of
Mexican Girls Miss Olinda A. Meeker;
(formerly principal of the Allison
James school New Mexico.)
Offering.
Hymn 187 "Ye Christian Heralds"
congregation.
Benediction.
BOUND OVER IN $1009
ON GRAVE CHARGE
Jack Peterson a farm hand working
on the placo ot Jako Mutz near Nini
nekah was arraigned before Judge
Moore on a statutory charge yester-
day afternoon and waiving prelimina
ry examination was bound over to the
district court under a $1000 bond.
Failing to furnish sureties he was sent
to jail.
Peterson it is charged returned to
the Mutz homo drunk about 1 o'clock
Sunday morning in company with two
other farm hands. They were obliged
to pass through the rooms of two lit-
tle girls on their way upstairs. Peter-
son was the last to enter removing his
shoes outside the building. The
screams of ono of the girls brought
tho father to the room and On going
upstairs Peterson was found In his
own bed with his head covered. He
was upbraided by the father at the
time and in the morning Mutz proceed-
ed to belabor the man and serious re-
sults might have followed had not the
farm hand pleaded for his life. He
escaped and was followed by officers
and arrested.
By United Prona.
With the British Army Afield March
28. For the flra time since the fight-
tr. In Belgium at the beginning of tho
war armored curs supported by cav-
alry achieved tho capture of a town.
Tho point taken was tho village of
Boyelles. Armored cars supported ou
tho north and south by cavalry swept
over the German.'.
France Wants Americans.
3y United Pres&.
Paris March 28. "We wish to sea
American troops In France as soon as
possible" declared Secretary General
Jules Cambon lu an Interview granted
to tho American. correspondents today
"Tho public (eels confident of Ameri-
can military aid."
RuEtlans Are Aroused.
By United Presb.
Petrograd. March 28. Tho menace
of tho German drive into Russian ter-
ritory is serving to accelerate tremen
dously tho reorganization ot democrat-
in Russia. The geratest enerev la an-
parent at the war office. Extraordi
nary efforts are being made to ap
prise the troops at the front of exact
conditions with respect to the provis
ional government. .
Food Estimates Too High.
By United Press.
Amsterdam March 28. Germany'!
food dictator Batocki admitted to the
reichatag main committee that there
might be an overestimate of the
amount of Germany's food supplies
according to advices received here.
Batocki is quoted as saying that In-
creased production is "Impossible ow-
ing to the lack of labor and the diffi-
culties of transport." .
t
French Score Again.
By United Press.
Paris March 28. French troops
have captured an important position
in the region of Leilly and Neuville
and have made progress north of Ail-
ette it was officially annohnced.
GUILTY OF FAILING
TO DIP CATTLE
In the. county court yesterday after
noon Tip Graham living near Bailey.
pleaded guilty to failing to dip cattla
and was fined $23 and costs.
FREDERICK HOLDS FIRST
STYLE AND AUTO SHOW
By United Press.
Frederick. Okla. March 2S. Freder-
ick's first style and automobile showr
was opened with a parade of decorated
cars today. The entire town was dec-
orated with the national colors.
Answer to the Question Mark
"The Whirlwind Campaign
(By the Y. W. C. A. Girls.)
Did you ever attempt to make six
huudrcdo dollars in two days? We
intend to raise six hundred dollars
In Just two days and help defray all
necessary expenses of Y. W. C. A. sec-
retary. Wonder if you know what a
Y. W. C. A. secretary and the work
that comes through her can mean to
a school.
W'e shall have to work hard hut
with this six hundred dollars and the
money that will be made from tho ly-
ceum tickets next year we shall meet
all the requirements expected of us
A cordial invitation is extended to more ot them will tell you tomorrow.
the public to attend these meetings. 'Do you reallzo how much it means to tng you.1
us?
Wa can cease to tUuk of finance
v io uur budget is raised and spend
U our time in helping others and
building up the Y. W. C. A in order
that it may carry on its work effec-
tively. This Is a big undertaking and re-
quires a lot of good hard work tr't
and determination and with your as-
sistance and co-operation wa are go-
ing to make the six hundred dollars.
Whatever improves tha school Im-
proves the town. We ask you to loolc
at the proposition from this stand-
point "Help the girls v Ut arc help-
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