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The Next Novel-a-
Week in The News-
T-ll- of a hoy, who, ahanitd and bewildered, deride* there
Bravery and u Fair Fight
»ir ft»da htMMtf gwaailM*. And
■** ••tr mwllm but dlacracod by tbo daatb of bla father
“The Coming Back of Laurence Averii”
who eon Id not faee tbo roralta of fraudulent bualnee. traaeactlone,
By
trying, anil oinks to the lowest of the low; then he ronies bark
make it well worth every one* reading. The story is related in
Maurice
Drake
While essentially a tuan’a book. Ita balanced iireaentatlon <hn.. .*i__ , ,
rlchlv dramatic wav teem, with ,h^K." 11 of .tbo*«V Ihlnga which
human
I Starts Monday—
p Ends Saturday
maacnllne ealatenee—Leeo
go to make up
every sentence.
WBATHER: FAIR, WITH NO DECIDED TEMPERATURE CHANGE.
HOMS
VOL. i®, NO. 127.
The Oklahoma News
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OKLAHOMA CITY. OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25. 1916.
GERMANY TOSTORY Of POLICE TORTURE is"
YIELD, WORD
FROM LONDON
TOLD BY WOMAN, WITNESS
/,tf\Va"hlntton**'P. h 9- I ?pnt 'vi,8on today was unmoved
uaahlngton, Feb. 2...—Imnie-lfrom his policy toward Germany
!Vat'dy,.aIter Ih(‘,W‘ate convened j by the argument of speaket’
this afternoon. Senator Gore in-
troduced his hill to make it al-
lenal for Americans to travel on
armed vessels in time of war and
bis resolution warning Ameri-
cans to slay off such vessels.
Senator Jones introduced a res-
olution asking the president not
'.<■ break ofl diplomatic relations
•vith any country if he could
avoid war with honor.
After a two hours session, the
cabinet this afternoon declared
itself solidly behind President
N ilson's determination not to
concede to the demand that
Americans be warned to avoiu
tinned merchantmen. 1
I hi United Press.
London, Feb. 25. „„
firmed Amsterdam dispatch today
repotted that Germany in reply
to the latest American represen-
tations, asks the United States
to define offensive armaments.
It stated that the reply now
enroute to Washington, should
JfJe delivered within IS hours.
Official circles here accept the
report as an indication that Ger-
many does not want to break
with America and is preparing
to yield.
The German foreign office, ac-
cording to Amsterdam, asks the
l nited States to specify what
size gun the Washington govern-
ment deems necessary for defen-
sive purposes.
Would Force Definition.
In this manner, Gecnany
hopes to force lrom the State
department an exact definition of
the armament that may prdve
embarrassing to owners of bel-
ligeient ships which ha ce been
entering American ports with
guns of comparatively large
caliber.
» It is believed too that Ger-
™1lany hopes in this manner to
prolong the negotiations until the
excitement in both countries over
the new crisis has died down.
Clark and Congressmen Kitchin
and Flood.
After nearly an hour’s con-
ference, the president and the
house leaders were still in dis-
agreement on the question of
warning Americans to stay off
armed merchantmen.
The upshot of the inference
was that no action was to be
taken by congress tod*y at least,
and discussion of theWJore reso-
lution. in the senate scheduled
for today was put off.
House in Favor.
The president informed the
leaders that he would not budge
from his plan of insisting that
An uncon-iGerniany recoKn*ze every Ameri-
. can fight. Speaker Clark told
the president that the sentiment
of the house was overwhelmingly
in favor of the warning reso-
lution.
Clark ad vised the president
*hat no action be taken at pres-
ent and it is not believed that
the house will evolve a decision
before next week.
Speaker Clark said later that
it was rumored the Germans
would postpone their threatened
submarine program until the
middle of March or April 1.
He said that If this proved
true, he thought the whole mat-
ter as far as the house was con-
cerned, would remain in statu
quo.
A steadier market than Thurs-
day with a small rise in the quo-
tations on May wheat was re-
ported from the local board of
trade Friday.
At The Rear Entrance!
/*»/ United Press.
Washington, Fob. 25—Presi-
Thursday’s drop of seven cents,
coming as the result of threaten-
ed complications in the diplo-
matic relations with Germany-
caused considerable flurry in the
grain market. May wheat closed
Thursday night at $1.17%.
The quotation Friday- was
$1.18*4. Cotton dropped sixteen
points Thursday, and fell off six
points more Friday.
OR PAVING-ITS
PAID. ANYWAY
A story of long police brutality t lions W. D. Matthews In his in.
toward helpless victims w ill be! veatlgatlonu. Tills was learned
part of the testimony of Mrs. Iat J.h“ <ourf house Friday.
.Stella Langstine, fitter for theja lf^o«raph“r°to" tllo'1 JaU
Parisian, in the state’s third-1 hear the degree stories' ** and
I he alleged degree tactics
Mike Donnelly, commissioner
of finance, finely won his fight
to make the Oklahoma Railway
company pay an occupation tax
for the use of the streets when
he received a check Friday for
$3144.15 from (he North Cana-
dian Valley Railway company.
The North Canadian company
is the branch of the Oklahoma
Railway company that purchased
the Patterson lines several years
ago.
The railway company agreed
several months ago to pay for
the paving on North Harvey-st,
which had been torn out by the
Putterf-on lines, in lieu of an
occupation tax.
Attorney John Shartel at the
time said that the name "tax”
was obnoxious to him. Donnelly
agreed because he said the city-
had no legal authority to make
the company pay for the re-
paving.
"I don’t care what the com-
pany called it just so the city 1"*“ _
got the money," Donnelly said | has beenT". P°T »P'r B0B-‘?r
Friday. "However, the company j ^m,v tn t h " ‘nt° lnaen'
paid the money on the agree- 8U,.1U£ ^ 'ho dungeon,
ment that no occupation tax or- ''” b‘!ard tb e P"Hcemi.n
dinance would be passed by the! ®*°ot at tbe ,0y ih®, S,h”r/,ay’l
commissioners this fiscal year." ', /? sa~, youth lo<J back to
Donnelly s*id the check boy "as a ™°8tut!>°
ceived Friday, .would .be consul-1 ™akvi°^ f C0,'!dn havo:
ered as payment of the company n 1 v ry ' ' lf be bad Kottcnj
occupation tax until May 1. Ho , y,„. , .
did not know what action would L, *,ot R * mon*hs aP° a dope
be taken after that to compel! fie?d got a,way from th,! offlcer3
the company to pay a tax. an<1 et,ca,u‘d (i"wn the alley. He
degree probe which will start
before W. I). Matthews, commis-
sioner of charities and correc-
tions. Saturday.
Innumerable instances of slug-
ging drunk men, whipping dope
fiends, and brutal handling of
other prisoners are told by Mrs.
I.aiigstlne, whose -work in the
rear of the Parisian Is Just across
the alley from the police station.
Mrs. Langstine’s story is cor-
roborated. sho says, by three
other workers in the Parisian,
all of whom have been subpoe-
naed for the state’s hearing.
These are Mrs. L. Kitzinger, Mrs.
Morton and Mrs. Lillian Wallace.
Here is the story of Mrs. Lang-
stine told when seen by a News
reporter:
"We are glad to testify in this
case because we hope il will do
away with the sickening bru-
tality which has made our lives
miserable because we have been
helpless to do anything for the
unfortunates we havo seen per-
secuted just across the alley.
Heard < 'tabbing and Cries.
"Many a night we have gone
home too sick to eat, Just lie-
cause of the sickening thud of
the policemen's club or the help-
wsr^.i-ssa'arjs
Chi r of 'ihoo,in* Police
tliicf Nichols, has been sub-
ocnaeu The stenographer ia
the case hn» also been summoned.
UP TO COURT NOW.
OVERHOLSER DECLARES
• ,!.tH..n<nv UP to tl*« court to
decide. was Mayor Overholser’s
comment Friday on the third dJ
gtie charges against three of hia
police officers.
wmlf„V,ey are fo"nd *uilty the*
''HI of coure remain off th*
[0.™e. If ,hev are exonerated they
D an ,rt(;in:!a,ed.a,ul P«"> "alary
tot all the time they were under
suspension.’’ r
EMBRY’S EVIDENCE IS
NEARLY COMPLETED
degree hearing"^ The three^io-
llce officers March 9. the date
Frlida<y°Unty J^^Erabiy
The county attorney had prac-
tically all his evidence prepared
Thursday? fUt'd the lnformaUon»
Gore-Bryan Line- Up Seen;
Owen Now Close to Wilson
>»« »«* <■»
Oklahoma, and Owen the big Ok- Ail this has changed now
lahonjan at the white house, is a How far the blind senator has
new shaping of political affairs drifted from the Wilson noint of
seen by Oklahomans familiar with View was vividly illustrated Thu-*-
the present situation at Washing-j day and Friday in Gore’s insist-
, , ance that the senate consider hjs
j. , 0 thin8'y are known defin-; resolution warning Americans off
iy‘ o J . | armed merchantmen. The admin-
dent Senator fore aJ|d the presi- Istration is strictly and without
dent have split on ihe questions equivocation, against just exactly
rnrTT bf paC fiCiSm' wi,h what ,h<1 Gore resolution calls for
Gore taking the Bryan view. Just what effect the new lineup
2. There is no senator who at Washington will have on poli-
now enjoys closer relations with ties in Oklahoma is exceedingly
the president than Owen. problematical now ^
During the president’s first : Up to date the outlook is for a
campaign, it was stated with some delegation to St. Louis instructed
dftniteness that \\ iison doubted for Wilson without opposition
noimoTi'ty’,.becaUSe °f cer-1 Proposed planks in the democratic
, lain political incidents. I-or two national platform mav result in a
wears, it was considered that if split between the Gore-Rrvan and
differed Kn “itttwtaiSrt? arraT'o^'The plrty "workers" m ,,i0n**Pr di‘
white house was interested, what, this‘state. 1 ? workers in rectories for March delivery would
™kezerunm pursuit Woman, 76, is Nearing
Her Eighteenth Birthday;
Taffy-Man a Twenty-Niner
Sy L nited Press,
Petrograd, Feb. 25.—Severe
blizzards are hindering the pur-
suit of Turks fleeing from Erze-
rum, according to Tiflis dis-
patches. The Russian right wing,
however, is making rapid pro-
gress toward Rizeh, east of
Trebizond.
In Persia, the Russians have
dislodged the Turks from forti-
fied positions at Bideswith and
the Sakhne mountain passes.
SIX TONiTwhite
PAPER ARE USED
BOND ISSUE TO
BE SUBMITTED
DO YOU CARE 1
HELP UCHTENA
TRAGIC BURDEN?
A borne four miles north
was caught and as they led him
back we could see that his mouth
was swelled flml and blood was
spurting from his ears. We
wanted to send him something
to eat, but the officer told us I «
he couldn’t eal anything because Britton is sad today,
he was loo sick. I The uadness is mingled with
Moan* from Dungeon. worried thoughts for the future.
"At another time we could: The bottle is that of Robert
hear officers browbeating a dope;1 Downs. ,\ mother and seven
i fiend who was accused of steal- h’hlldren mourn the loss of the
ling a suitcase. He refused to husband and father who was
I confess and they beat him over ,kilb'!! in his work on the capitol
I the head. For three days after-
Piled one on top of the other,
the 15,000 Pioneer telephone di- stance.
MEXICAN PAY CAR IS
ROBBED; ARREST MEN
Jtif United Press.
Laredo, Feb. 25.—The pay-
in sister and several yard employes
VACCINATION OVER,
ADVICE TO STUDENTS
-- •
With instructions to students
to keep their vaccination wounds
— ----- ------- •. ... i I,, n* ip
2 aS “ preventative of infec
today on suspicion of complicity , 1 on' Dr- H. H. Cloudman Friday
in the robbery of 70,000 pe.-oj | morning finished his work of
from a pay car there last night. I protecting the school against a
The car was broken open and j spread of the small-pox.
blocks j Cloudman said that 435 had
been vaccinated at the high
- , school and estimated that 250
PDATFCT at crivimr "'oro h"a ,ak**n treatment from
rKOTEST AT SEIZURE family physicians.
--- . ... ...*■> u. v.tVIl
the safe carried several
«<l "jimmied.”
OF SHIP IN PACIFIC
t nited Press.
Washington, Feb. 26. — The
rtate department entered protest
fdiiay against England’s seizure
V the vessel China in the Pa-
efic several ilajs ago.
INTERNS HEAR WAR’S
i SPEEDERS’ CREDIT TO
make a stack 625 feet high, or
nearly seven times higher than
the Pioneer building.
Amazing growth of the Pio-
neer is shown in a table com-
plied by A. \V. Bogenschutz, of
the advertising department. in ■ "Editor. The News:
October, 1203, the directory list- f "I am one
ed only 885 subscribers, in 36
pages.
"The Little Taffy Man;" a
woman near 76 years old who
has only had 18 birthdays; and
another who, as a child, used to
cry because her mother wouldn't
say her birthday was on Feb.
28, are added the list of
"Twenty-Nine rs.”
The letters telling how It
.seems to have a birthday only!
once in four years were sent to
The News.
•M. C. Isaacs, "The Little Taffy
Man,” was born oil Feb 29
1884.
"1 didn't think people ever
took an interest in the 29th day
of February, only such fellow's I
as nivself," he wrote.
"A genuine birthday to me has
been a rare occasion, since it
does not occur every four years'
as it is supposed to. For in-
in 19 00 the Year'1
was omitted and of course I
was sorely disappointed.
"1 am very grateful
so
A sewer bond Issue will be
submitted to tne voters when the
water bond issue is up.”
This was announced Friday by
- — - Commissioner of Public Finance
had a birthday.” Mike Donnelly. The plan is to
Mrs. Susan Darrow, 76, of Wa-1 assemble the sewage into one
tonga, writes: main line and dump it in tliej
"Next Tuesday will be my river se '
eighteenth birthday and I will the city
be 76 years old. The sewage now empties tit
"It seems rather novel to think ,w<' places, one between Capitol
of being quite so old and yet Hill and the city proper and the
having so few birthdays, ' "
building yesterday.
A pathetic incident occurring
to von ! ^f-v rnited Press.
for being so' tlioOghtfiil as’ tof’aris> Feb- 25.—The war of-
cail attention to tile 'Twentv-Nln-i ;.lce aun°uneod today that the
ers.** j German offensive in the Verdun
Cried When Child. j showed signs of slackening.
Mrs. \V. A. Crissmore of
West Grand-av. writes:
914
ward we could hear tiis moans. .. --------------.....c. wwim-mg
and each day an officer would!:. niKb.( before the day of the
go down and beat him somaj ;f“ ,s recalled by friends of
more. The lliird day we sent a ■ *’ .u' l'arted man. Downs, as
boy over to see what was tho, ,n.‘s 1'‘IH ol the hod-carriers’
matter, and they were carrying, u,l|on, was presiding over a union
the dope fiend upstairs. He was j lll”,.ulng'
almost mangled. They beat him!, , want to b8 miKhty care-
ray river several miles aou'thw'est "of f aKa'n 'H'stairs and he finally' to
vii’i tlu> city. | said the suitcase was some placej,,,,, ' K. V.1 throw us
111 mu.. *:-------- —-..... -I under a sidewalk. out of work,” he said. "I find
Long a Matter of Comment. i f .1,y . bardl to„ support my
Jim auu me cuy proper amt me i u has not been uncommon \|Pn ••.„ . . , .
-_______________ other at the east end of Grand. ''or everyone along the alley to' ,v c.dh" e,| f i th . ^
I feel that there is something “Tile conditions are frightful '"tick their heads out of the will- or lt)(, unfortunate „ * “Jl, .
else in this fact of birthdays on Hie Capitol Hill road." D n- 'lows at the sound of brutality-. j,is ,|,,afh The toe-., t i
every four years. Tile fact that nelly said. "In the summer time in the police station. People1 ,.0„ne|| last nivlU voiunteereH
i have had hut 17 birthdays the stench there is almost un- would go by the station and hear toward funeral expenses and in’
aids some in the feeling 1 enjoy hearable. I have often seen peo-.Hte heatings, and would ask, 'why ; struct,-,! further collection of
—that I am young, aitho past.ple on the street cars get death-: don't somebody investigate?’ l!u: nionev front virion* affiliated
the middle age mark.” | 1 y sick when passing the sew-! it always seemed that Ihe poor unions.
age hole between the city proper j unfortunates had no friends to' The" News believes this to be
ud Capiiol Hill." ! a,’,.,.'vvl ,0'u . , .. ' one of the most pathetic tragedies
Ihe proposed sewage bond is- We have called detectives1 in tie history of Oklahoma City
sue will approximate $20o,000. j over to ask them what was go-1 The New* Will be glad to re-
I WATFB RnNiTlggl tr on„ in 'l'" ,rooJns ’!,is,a“ s acknowledge, and turn over
” I t.f\ tSwfXLI I jMJl j vvlir*i«‘ tin* fniiid of ji In h1 ng to frndos council authorities anv
READY IN 30 DAYS li*wir«l, and they vvoui i fontribuUnns that Oklahoma City-
- say, ‘Oli, ju.-t some dope fiend a ns may fare to make toward
The proposed million and a; getting smart.’ They always fell lightening the burden of sorrow
half dollar water bond issue will back on the dope fiend whom «nd forthcoming struggle tliat has
be ready to submit in days. | they seemed to think deserved i Glen the jot of the Downs fam-
This was the report at the city [almost anything the police could* My.
hall Friday. do to him. —-----
Only a few minor details are j |»|ain Clotheg Men.
— ”• u.u. acuiuft. | to be worked out before the full “Patrolmen don’t do
nifh? O'" I det.ail8 arr anno,,.n,r<L (much as plain clothe- men
GERMANS SLACKEN
FORCE 0 F OFFENSIVE
whose birthday fails on Feb.
! I must sav that
of the members .os’fL ’'‘^hinT fKanlzing new member of the commit!-, v id; K„on a.*kitlg lor r-v .m-l prom
pos.tions behind Beaumont and has been probing fire conditions, ;v.„K anylhing only i: th.- of
th«' proposed : ficers will stop beating them.”
_>y.
say that I felt disan b,>'^bts eaat of Champ-) here, has O. K.wl
.pointed when as a child i hoean neu'1"e> south of Orncs, in the plan.
The March, 1916 issue, which 1 to realize that I ha. a birthday ex|T,a,lon ,,f a rtnowal of Teu- ----
w.l, be delivered next week. I only once in four years and one t0nic at,!;a,,l,ii MADE HER HOME HIS WILSON BOYS’ ILLNESS
OOu^auLcriber^and T'toLl1^' ‘?!*ht J ........ /v.~ SAYS DIVORCE SUIT IS CAUSE OF DELAY
r" dn<1 a lola‘ Of, think that I never had a birth- H»rMn Hah »- ai # j -
white8 nam r °w8‘ « S,X of | dav- as I did not receive anv villages 'including ebanm ! H* in®iat'd on ba“kinK in »«•" The serious condition of I^iren
Print thf l.su. requlred Lo t presents or birthday cakes as did vill. , five miles north of Ver’! '“a8b,?e , 0f ,h‘'r 'n,h‘*r s Wd-on. w ho-,, be.,, nr bv j :
The .n .n k in ! my little friends who had a birth- dun. have been l.km bv t !n P'f bls »><« re,„Red ,n Bh- ib-r,I ,!•••.
The gain in subscribers over dav even year raKrn b> 11,0 table Hire t no s a da* Gem .... . . ,
---— ■ 1 •-t • ■' dr- -town pnnee French prisoners IA. EHs worth asserted lnadlvorc,i ,f m nd ,,g aga.n
G \l\I\fj WEIGHT |\
M.IYOll'S JOB, |S orrt
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
: ■ or Ed
hair h.
poitn.
’ took the
weighed
a need the
a gain
Th.
upr
BE GOOD NO MN6n eJS.’wfiSf 'Sri; K
in that length of time, Bogen-ivain. She would not. I felt
Several speeders who have f?,d Fnda>- . some times like the last leaf on
fail.-] to pay police court fines *tat,on for ten per- the tree that »a, unseen and
are due for arrest. A courtesy m , ?* .k d KOtMl' and °" ^rgotten.
.i!,hj b“!,ls ,he Ttoneer ha* had "Birthdays se..In j,,*t a
a development for a citv with merubrance from God—bright in
extended to speeders is not toj
compel them to put tip appear-
TO BE OVER APRIL 15 'bond! a^ ^,^1 1
- t° give them time to pay their they told L that H
sz, fLir’s^si ss x ess. ms*
an h.ii.. faded ’e> p;.i the cm.r. cl«rk | B.igensch
order- v rr ~ .en
rrd
/•
United Prrtm.
.NAgshingtcn.
in i-nmmnnd
Jr-c
tbM in Ati»e
r
ived word f
t*i«
**ar will be
Feb 2:
t b.n
port- have and
.Tom home t,i.,t »• t-
over April la..the d'linquent ones.
stances In
Baltimore us happy.
life's
span to mak.
said.
I thing a man think.
' cues into hit. *pe.
■ telephone installed.'
J usually invite my friends i
to enjoy an evening of refresh-! /»„ /,
ments and games and let them • (,;«
know that i still ha*, a blrfhda, mat
•■*<n 'he i ,-at, v
onr.4* :n ‘our vort*-. ai»i 1 am.ord*:
not tkt the o d ccaud wi^o litter n,* Lt.
PORTUGUESE WKF
IH GERMAN SHIRS
Kfcht G#r*
petition again.st Ralph Kits worth
The- wife said she married
when o*iIy 1*>. She asserted
cruelty.
GERMAN RAIDER BUSY
OFF AMERICAN COAST
ftv t mtrd /Vf»*
T^n^rifesF, Canary !
2 The Orman aj>
^er Moewe was engagi
inc British romvnen.
' three members
niarl*’ It nfees-i
preliminary or
stealing a $ 1 ‘
when the cave
Justice of P«*ac
M J. Hell r
von The cav
to Feb.
contini
* «iy
erne father
tc>ii w«»|ght
the day
igning for
res tel! an fa-
■' abo.it the
the fe a apoks
! ■ ;
lie carried a
at times de-
ids Feb
LUNG CASE CHARGES
TO BE INVESTIGATED
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