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Volume Twenty-one
Chickasha Oklahoma Saturday January 10 1920
Number 9
CfflCKAS
JA
ERUPTIONS If
MEAR VERA CRUZ
Fresh Volcanic Outbursts Reported
. Last Night Threatening Stricken
Districts of Mexico; Thou-
sand's Homeless.
RELIEF WOEK IS MADE
DIFFICULT IN SECTION !
Pack Trains Forced to Make Wide :
Detours; Mexican Officials Fear
Upheavals Have Altered En-
tire Oil Structures.
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By United Press.
Mexico City Jan. 10;--Fresh vol-
canlc outburstn were reported li.ist
night threatening the stricken dlstridt
roul.hwest of Jalap where thousands !
linvo already been killed or render-
ed homeless by the earthquakes and
volcanos.
The volcano of Cofre de Porote
west of Ji.ilap is reported officially
as showing signs of renewed activity
while the crater of San Miguel Is
t;ill belching smoke and lava.
Official advices lend to confirm
C' e report!! that there bus been torn- ;
b'.e less of life aud property in the
tan 1 1. Many hamlets have been com.
peltely demolished and one village
was completely crushed when Hie I
bill on which it was 'built ip radically j
collapsed liberally burying the town !
reports .reaching here slate.
Great chasms h. i.vo been opened
in the earth's surface at various;
.places in the di.strict and many times
it he-.e. chasms are as jnnch as 100 feet
wide rcpoiits state.
The relief work thai lias been start-i
ctl is .being tarried on with a great
ileal of difficulty owing to the fact j
'that the pack train-s which have been I
sent out rare being forced to make i
wide detours on account of the enip-
1! (MIS.
Government officials arc very much
worried over the probublo effect .the
eruptions will have on tho petroleum
industry.
The. department of petroleum 'point--ed
out that the disturbances of the
wist few days bad probably filtered
the entire geological formations of 108K-
itl-.e affected area. This department; "Careful planning of our farming
fears that one serious consequence ; operations tor I'JL'O Is -absolutely nee-
will be tint these eruptions may ren-; csaary. More so than any year I
dor tr.:e great oil field of this section t have ever known. The necessary la-
lalueless. ! lor for the handling of a'l farm crcps
FORCES TAKEN BY REDS
By United Press.
London Jan. 10. The 'bolsheviki
force captured the important town
f Krasnoyarsk with the remn nits
of Kolchak's first second and third
armies according to a dispatch from
Hie Moscow wireless. The prisoners
are said to number more than 00-
RECESS NEW TRIAL
By United Press. 1
Los Angeles Jan. 10. The illness
of a juror forced a recess in the
Iri : of Harry S. New charged with
Hie murder of bis sweetheart. The
defense is ito summarize tie basis for (
U:c pica of insanity Monday.
INJURED IN SMASH-UP
By United Press.
Dallas Jan. 10. S'even were seri-
ously injured and ten other -slightly
liurt when two intcrurban cars c el-
uded head-on. on the Denison line
today.
u. s.
HAS BIGGEST DRY
DOCK IN ALL WORLD
n'"'
By United Press.
Seattle Jan. . 10. A month
Ccrmany bnasted .pt the. largest dry-
dork in the world.
But Bremerton
that distinction.
Wash. now has
A giant shipbuilding drydock the
lar-cst structure of its kind has been Washington. Military rank for
dedicated at the naval station at Bre- American army nurses will be in-
inerton on Puget Sound. eluded in :t'.;e nation's permanent
Launching ot the United States am- military policy soon to be Vecom-
numition ships Pyro and Nitro. con-i mended by the wnate sub-conMuittee
siructed in the dock and the larg- on military affairs. This assurance
est fver built in this yard followed was given to the American Nurses'
the dedicatory exercises. association here by senators who 'jre
The great dock is !"0 feet long . working on the army reorganization
i::n feel wldean d !10 feet deep. bill during the holiday recess.
CROP PROSPECTS
BRIGHT FOR 1920
ES
County Agent Points Out How Con
clitions Favor Bumper Yeild from
j Grady County Farms During
Coming Season.
Despite tin; fact that last year was
ono v.t the best crop years Grady
; county ever saw J. W. Owens coun-
i (y agent In a statement yesterday
j 1920 in Grady pointing to present
I oon.lition.s as indications. He said:
j "The prospects for a crop in 1920
for Grady county were never brisker.
' " 's regrettable that more wheat
' ('Hlw "ot be w' flr u wiu JU
1 "writable crop. Other small grains
' wt !0lpso "'" Planted mm'h (f
ulfi USL 'reage " snouia oe pia.ni
ed for the reason thai row crops are
' slow crops and require a longer pe-
riod of abor to handle. We can not
afford to plant the whole country In !
row crops. I would recommend that
where possible the small grain acre- '
age. t;!:ut is to be seeded this coming
February be divided between .oats
and .barley. I j n : It have a certain .
feeling that this is not. strictly speak-
ing an oat producing section. There-
fore I would not rceoiixiiend all cats. '
Hurley will make if oats do i;nd it
is certainly a more profitable feed
crop than (rats standing next to'
corn or to he exact barley has L" .
per cent of the feeding value of con:.
"Wo will pl..nt lots of corn in 1!I20. J
Every indication points to a corn .
year but the land ought to he se- '.
lectej using be! torn land for corn
and iho higher and tighter lands for
small grains and Kafirs.
"Tho cotton acreage in my esi.inia-
tion will 'be doubled This may be '
logical but. I doubt it. If we. plant
and raise more ci.'llou than wo can '
g.Hher-4t will iu!t be logical. The'
8ino.ll acreage plaited in lUlit has not :
yet been gathered and Hie chances
are mucb col l on. will be seen in the i
fields in March. Certainly the labor
to gather our crops is not in prospect. '
No man can say for a cortai.nlly 'that :
be will be aide to command any more
labor this year 'than in the one just
' will be the governing factor in pro
duction and in harvesting what is
produced. This can 'be regulated
' somewhat in It lie production end of
lL' 1111 "hm s oimiu-uon p sw;
' 'ro in . preparation for the crop to
M Planted. No amount of cultivation
"i'1 iake " fo1- a ;l(-k ' -prepara
tion consequently every one Hhould
use all the time possible in prepar-
ing the seed bed before the crop is
planted.
"This will cu't down cultivation
because the harrow and disc wil cov-
er more land than the cultivator.
"Tho town man should begin now
the prepai-.ition of his garden. The t
H. C. of L. can bo regulated wonder-
fully by a good garden.
"We will have a wonderful crop of
insects dami.'ging to farm and garden '
crops this spring and wlicn the time
rolls around a campaign of eradica-'
tion may be necessary. We can con-
i frol most of ithese insects and the in-
format ion will be available in due .
time.
"Let's all get in behind our agri-
cultural activities this year 'and see
to it. that we do tho job well. Wo
need lo put a more 'finished' product
from the farm just in proportion to
the advance going on all the time in
;.u'ting out a more finished product
from the factory. Our step in eot-
:ton development has deiiTonstralcd
ebb. '5 ml the same holds truo in all
our crops and farm products."
ARMY NURSES WILL
GET MILITARY RANK
PES
I Business Better
In Police Court
I Although the justice machine u!j
J police headquarters llr.ts boon unusual-
ly inactive for the last few days
Mayor Durbiti's court goes on record
I as having melted out tho following
j fines this morning:
i Logan Lewis fined $20 for run-
ning aw:y following an automobile
t
; accident ; Klmer Xeal charged with
! being drunk and disorderly fined
$-0; Celso Cerrato plain drunk pro-
j sented the city with a ten spot and
Lillian Taylor was
moral conduct.
fined $20 for im -
HEAD OF TICKET
Democrats Expect Wilson to Plunge
Into Fight But Not to Extent
of Accepting Nomination;
Bryan an Outcast.
Uy Culled I'ress.
Washington Jan. 10. The selection
of a candidate who is to bead tho
democratic ticket in the campaign of
KCO is 'believed to bo t'.re next prob-
lem of President Wilson.
Now that he has declared in favor
of milking the League of Nations the
big issue i:L the polls this year dem-
ocrats expect him. lo plunge into the
fight but not however to the extent j
of accepting the nomination for a ;
third term as president of die I'nitcd !
States. i
At. t:. 1 resent time Attorney (len-1
era.l A. Mitchell Palmer seems to bo j
tho favorite at the White House al- I
.'.bough tho president is not. expected j
to make up his mind until the cam-
i
paigu is well under way.
Kro-m. indications a.l this tinn- it is
believed that the president will col-
lide with t'.ni Bryan forces at the
democluitie liii'tional convention to.
be held in San Francisco.
Mr. I!ry!:n since bis disagreement
on tho treaty is an outcast as far
as the present democratic officials ;
are concerned.
Thero is persistent gossip to I. he
general e'fert that Bryan may start
his own p.irty.
County Agent Tells
How Snow Big Help
As Soil Fertilizer
Beclaving that the recent snow is .
:'be best tiling for the agricultural 1
interests of Grady county tlrrt lias
happened this winer J. W. Owens
in explaining .the value of snow to
soil said today:
"Good snow means more wheat (
easy preparation for spring crops
the ridding of the soil of many pes-
ky insects and such other tilings
relating to crops ot the next yeor.
"The snow gathers many atmos-:
plieric acids and other properties
needful for plant growth. The most
valuable property gathered from the
atmosphere is nitrogen. Nitrogen
U absolutely nccessury for plant und ;
crop growth and the more of it which
can bo s- torod in the soil tho mora '
fertile the soil becomes. When we
speak of 'soil fertility' many farm-
era refer to It as 'modern nonsense'
hut unless the soil on which and in
which a crop is expected to grow
has been -made accessible to and can
retain these atmospheric acids- which
neutralize and make available suffi-
cient -plant food a crop will not
grow plants will not grow.
"A fertile soil is a Foil with avail-
able plant food and the amount -of
n'ored plant food depends upon the
period of time this soil is broken up
until the crop is p'anled. Snow has
a certain electrical influence upon
the roil not found in a common rain.
This eiecli'eal influence goes into
t.'.;e soil as the snow melts away and
causes a more noticeable chemical
change than takes place after a rain.
When the farmer will learn and ap-
preciate this fact he will do more
fall plowing. Fall plc.wing or early
winter plowing increases yields be-
cause more time is bad for this fer-
tilizing process to go on."
Mrs. Stern Helm left this morning
for Oklahoma Citr.
PRESENT NOW
HASMiNC
AT F C 0 OF
PEACE PACT NOT
S
Marshal Foch in Interview Warns
Possibility of Another Struggle; - j
Says Foolish to Think All
Battles Over.
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! WORLD MUST DRAW ITS j
: LESSON FROM STRUGGLE I
Must Be Lesson of Prudence; If Must;
Fight Best Prepared Will Win I
He Says; First League Meet- j
ing Set for Jan. 16.
ity United Press.
Paris Jan. lo. Tho final ratifica-
; tion of the Versailles peace treaty
ihii afternoon will not forever b inish
war from the weary world Marshal
Koch warned today in an interview
"it would ho foolish to believe that
there will be no .more war merely be-
; cause the nations of (he earth do not
i want to fight" the chief of the allied
armies said. '
"The world must draw II i V o;i
from the struggle which has just been
finished" Marshal Koch continued.
! "It must be a lesson of prudence for
j it has 'been demonstratyd Chat war is
not always 51 voidable. I
I "War can begin upon: the frontiers
of the most pacific people. It per-
' baps begins I ho easiest in such plac
es. If it is true thai it Lilies two
to -begin a fight It. Is ccpialiy true
that the cue who is bes'l prepared for
th:( fight will win it.''
League Meet Jan 16.
liy United i'ress.
Paris Jan. 10. The mi pre me coun-
cil -has set the date for the inaugural
.meeting of the League of Nations as
January lii. The meeting is to lie
called Ito order nt 10:!'" a. m-. Leo
Bourgeois of Franco will preside and.
will deliver an address as well as
Kail Curzon of L'ngland.
LOCAL LODGE TO
INSTALL CHIEFS
OPEN-TO PUBLIC
A joint installation iff officers of
the Knights of Pythias and Pythian
Sisters will be held in the K. P. ball !
on Chickasha avenue Monday even-
ing. January B2th a't eight o'clock.
The instillation ceremonies forthe
Knights of Pythias will be conducted !
by a select team from Kl Reno and 1
will include something unusua in the j
way of installing officers. "What Is j
termed the Flower Installation will
be used. '
Among She high officials of the or-
der to be oresent will be A. O. Ito-
mine grand keeper of records and
seal of riobirt Oklahoma and J. I) j
Carmichael grand chancellor of Ok- !
lahoir.a of this city.
Those in authority state that a
good program is being arranged for '
the evening and that a buffet lunch
will lie served at Vr.e end ot !lhe cere- j
monies.
Not only members of the order are.
invited lo attend but tho Invitation
is extended to the public in general. 1
Marrying Parsons
In Wisconsin Look
To Prosperous Year
By United Press.
Milwaukee Wis.. Jan. in.
Marrying parsons and justices of
the peace arc looking for a pros-
perous year following the advice
of Attorney Gencnl Blaine that
10000 Wisconsin couples should
re-marry.
The advice of the attorney gen-
eral followed the Illinois railing
that marriages contracted there
by persons desiring to avoid tho
laws of their own -state were in-
valid. The marriage laws in Wiscon-
sin are strict lawyers point out
and it is estimated that half the
Wisconsin marriages of the last
two years were made in Illinois.
MEAN ENR IR
Funeral Services
At Home Tomorrow
Mrs. Ethel Thompson age !!0 died
ih 'Ok'i iliom.i t'ity yesterday and was
biiought here last night for burial.
:j Fjhe 4 survived by her mother Mrs.
Jiio. Stanford of this city a little
girl eleven years old two brothers
Hdgar Trice of Lindsay Oklahoma
and Ray Trice of Burklniniett Texas
and a sister Mrs. II. II. Smith of
Chick 'w-lm.
Funeral sorvices will be conducted
at tho home of her mother who lives
at 7()"i Choctaw avenue tomorrow af-
ternoon at ::;!() by Hev. Wiik Den-
ham and internment will follow at
Hose Hill cemetery.
SEAT IN HOUSE
J Socialist Enters Floor While Chap-
lain Is Praying; Pointed Out
That Reason for Exclusion
j That He's Disloyal.
I I!y United Press.
; Washington Jan. 11. Victor I5er-
! gcr of Milwaukee elected on the no-
j cialist ticket to congress end red the
I floor of 'the house this morning who.e
! the chaplain was praying
j lie gave bis coat and hat to a page
land stood with bowed h'Mul until the
! prayer was finished.
; Kxlra guards had been .stationed lit
j all the galleries to prevent any do-
; ministration that might have broken
out. Tin; consideration of the. resolu-
i Hon to exclude Perger began after
'' roll call.
! In offering the resolution Kcpre-
! si niative Dallenger declared that
Herger was not to be excluded bo-
! cause he Is a socialist but because
he was disloyal to the government
I and thus rendered ineligible to a seat
i in the house.
Herger for the second time was do-
nied a scat in the bouse.
.1. Winton Callaliam of Ft. Worth
is exxpected in the city tonight to
attend a family reunion Ito 'be held
at the home of !liis sister Mrs. Edna
T. Wat kins.
To Count Noses of
Chickasha School
Children for 1919
Tho taking of the school census in '
Chickasha city starts Monday accord- j
ing to T. T. Montgomery city super-
intendent of schools.
In this job every person from G to .
21 years of age liaH be listed and ;
it is t'.e desire of the school ofifcial.s ;
to finish the job as soon as possl- '
ble. Mr. Montgomery wants one or
two persons to devote their en!! ire 1
time to this work until it Is com-
plete. Complete information may lie '
had by communicating with liim.
BURGS MAKE FAIR HAUL
FROM DRY GOODS STORE
Between !! o'clock this morning
and daylight burglars forced an en-
trance by breaking a glass door In
the rear of Dullard's dry goods store
on Chickisha avenue and look mer-
chandise and money with an estimat-
ed total value or one thousand dol-
lar. The theft was delected this morn-
ing by employes ot the store who
round many shoes shii'is. coats
dresses and other merchandise miss-
ing and $28.00 in cash gone from the
cash drawer.
It was plain that the burglary was
committed by either a "gentleman"
or "gentlemen" for not only were to-
bacco and cigars strewn over the
floor but every silk shirt in the bouse
bad been tiken.
Officers are working on the case
and clues have been found which are
expected to lead to the arrest of the
guilty person or persons within the
next few hours.
WEAThtR FORECAST 4
4. For Oklahomi.
Tonight and Sunday .partly
cloudy to cloudy.
Local Temperature.
Maximum 33; minimum. 19.
BERBER DENIED
UT
GHIX RICH WINS
OVER ALL STARS
IN HECTIC GAME
Aspirants No Match for C. H. S. Reg-
ulars; Scoring Is Fastest Feature
of Battle; Fouls Numerous;
Score 42 to 27.
The Senior high school basket ball
quintet added one more link to their
unbroken chain of victories Ui'-t night
when they met and defeated to the
tune of 42 Ito 27 an .aggregation of
basketeers made up of local bank
employes who were advertised under
tho title of All-Stars but who now
prefer to be called tho "Hanker
Bunch."
One observer remarked that if was
a fast game and that the fasltest
thing about it was the scoring. While
hi a measure this was true the 'hlgh
school lads had the earmarks of vic-
tory grabbers and In many Instances
(I is payed excellent team work in spite
of It be fact that: their 'line-up had
been interfered with on account cf
the absence of one of their regulars.
The bankers too were full of pep
but lacked the precision Uv.it comes1
only witli practice.
One. of the chief faults of the :
school .squad was their repealed foul-
ing either by holding or taking more
than Iho regulation slep wil.li the j
ball. They gave to their opponents '
not less than eight points on that
score l'it night.
Insofar an lihe goal tossing was'
concerned Gardner 'of the Hankers j
divided honors with Bailey while1
Shockley proved that he .was no no-
vice when it came to throwing the !
inflated sphere through the rings j
Green threw niore goals for the .high J
school thait '.my other player but bis
record was closely seconded by
Fields.
Much more latitude was allowed j
by Referee Clement of t':e Junior
high school than would have been
ordinary in 11 conference ganie. Many
fouls were purposely not called and
the game developed into a rough-and- 1
tumble scramble which at one time '
silvered of the gridiron than the more j
restricted basketball court.
The lino up was as follows: !
Senior High Richardson and Wash-'
burn let!: forward; Fields right for-
ward; Green center; Smith left!
gutrd; Adams right guard.
Bankers Sbocklcy left forward ;
Bailey right forward; Gardner ecu- j
ter; Dempsey left guard; Armour. 1
right guard.
POINCARE FINDS HOUSE
IS REGARDED AS HERO
By United Press.
Paris. Jan. 10. President Poincare ;
has just demonstrated to the satisfac-;
tion of every Frenchman that he is
the greatest man that modern France 1
has produced.
This is not due to the mere fact
that at middle age he has attained 1
every honor which the French nation
has to offer such as being deputy
minister prime minister one of the
"forty immortals" of the French Aca-
demy and president of the republic
but to something far greater.
It is due to the sublime almost in-
credible fact that M. Poincare lias
found a house.
In the present crisis ot flats and
apartments at Paris anyone who
can succeed in landing one is looked
upon by the remainder of the bo.ise
less Parisians as a being endowed
wilh the genius of the gods.
Tn succeeding in finding a house
M. Poincare has incidentally put
France out. of an awful lot ot misery
because it looked very mucb for a
time as though upon President Poin-
care's departure from the Klysee
Palace next month he might either
have to take -a ball bedroom in some
hotel provided he could get one or
else camp out in the Champs Elysees.
Preceding the war Toincare posse-
sessed three homes in France In ad-
dition to b!s right' to occupy the Ely-
sees Palace during his seven years
term as president.
Unfortunately all three of these
houses were within the war zone.
Mrs. Jack Otterson is expected to
rteurn to her ftome in this city to-
morrow from. Tulsa where she has
been confined in a hospital for sev-
eral weeks.
INTEREST SHOWN
IN MFC. MEET
Indications Point to Big Attendance
When Business Organization Gets
Together In First Meeting of
New Year.
BUSINESS MEN EAGER
TO PUSH FOR CHICKASHA
Daily Discussions Ahead of Session
Show Enthusiasm On Up Grade;
Workmen Now Busy Prepar-
ing Room for Meet.
It's to the point now when every
Chickasha business man is asking
every other Chickasha business man
if lie Is going to present when the
curtain is rung up on the luncheon
and smoker to be given by the Cham-
ber of Commerce mxt Wednesday
night al lit) 1-2 Chickasha avenue.
From present indications the big
room wil Hie crowded to capacity as
the event opens. It's to be Informal
and all that sort of thing and an
event where evi ryone piescnt Is lo
forget Ills own business and spend tin
evening In doping out what can be
done to boom the prospects of Chick-
asha. They're Taking To It.
That's the Idea the Chamber of
Coniini rce wanted to get "over" nud
that the members ot tho Chamber ot
Commerce are tuking to tho Idea In
a run can be seen whenever two or
more members get togi ther. "
Straightway they begin telling
each other that "all It. is going to
take now Is one push nil together and
the old town In over the hill."
It's not as If every body bad a pet
Idea that he figures on blinding out.
at the meeting. That's evident from
the fact thai.' bo 1 latiy hnVC the siuno
ideas to the effect that tho organi-
zation should take oil just a tew big
things for the new year and put.
thrm over or "bust" trying. All
these tilings may be learned If you
will just take the trouble to mention
the subject to most any business or
professional man.
Entertainment Slated.
In addition to the transaction of
business and the "feed" there Is to
be a program given. Prof. Ed Weeks
with his male chorus will appear In
several numbers.
Also J. H. Walker of this city Is
scheduled to appear in selections on
the Italian harp. Mr. Walker stated
this inorring that be has sent lo Elk
City for bis instrument and that If
transportation troubles do not Inter-
fere his part of the program will bo
carried out as outlined.
Getting Room Ready.
Workmen are now busy preparing
I he room for the reception of t he
guests. The tables are benig pre-
pared lights put in and everything
shaped up for the event. There will
be four tables each 73 fret long.
The entire schtdule Is to bo a de-
viation from the usual meeting of
business men according to tho plans
of the committee in charge. Morn
than ;!00 guests are expected ; and
from all Indications it Is to be. the
biggest stunt ever staged by the lo-
cal organization.
Body Local Woman
Laid lo Rest Here
The body of Mrs. Laura. K. Wil-
liams aged :;i was received at An-
derson's undertaking parlors last
n igh t.
At tho time of her death Mrs. Wil-
liams was living in Waco Texas. Sho
is tho daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M.
C. Crump cf this city and in addi-
tion to l.er parents she Is survived
by her husband J. D. Williams two
small children Colin and Thclnia.
three brothers J. S. Crump A. B.
Crump and J. B. Crump of this city
and a sister Mrs. M. A. Ladd of Ok-
lahoma City.
Funeral services were conducted
at 10:"0 this morning at the Ander-
son undertaV.i.-'.g parlors by Itcv. Sam.
D. Taylor "pastor of the First Bapti.dt
church here and Hie body was ju-
terred In the Rose Hill cemetery.
Mrs. John Coyle was operated vij
at a IocmI hospital this morning.
NEXT WEDNESDAY
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