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In harmony
2a victory.
OKLAHOMA COUN"
Editorial Policy: Abolishr
representation based on countit
delegates selected at primaries.
ment of water power and irrigation facilities.
ucts in lieu of the present state law school.
The Conqueror.
VOL. 17. NO. 7. $1.00 Per Year. Weekly at Oklahoma, Okla
FRIDAY. DECEMBER 7. 1917.
Amos L. Wilson, Editor and Publisher. 14 i-2 N. Harvey
Local News*HK
I classes of men whom the other people of
| the world could not trust. It might
nposslble to admit them to the part
hip i ' - •
THE HOME GUARD.
Hon. E. J. Giddings has been going about the state in the utmost
patriotic spirit, organizing local home guard units in various places
under the federal law. Three weeks ago when it was announced
that such an organization would be perfected in this city there were
upwards of 400 people at the first meeting and enough were ready
to join to insure a full company.
The law is that once organized, the company selects its officers,
whose names are presented with a recommendation from the local
council of defense to the governor and he issues commissions.
O. D. Halsll, a member of the council of defense, who had never
attended a meeting before, appeard there and demanded that ex-
sheriff Binion be selected as the captain. A row started from this,
and Halsell later secured from the governor commissions for Binion
and others to officer the proposed guard.
Those who desired to join mostly had seen military service.
They refused to go on with the organization and say they will not
serve under an inexperienced captain.
Halsell, supposed head of the wholesale and jobbing trust, was
backed up by lawyers representing four or five of the largest corpor-
ations in the state, and at last accounts he was standing pat and so
were the men in opposiion to Binion.
Now, I wonder what is the object of home guards. Are they
corporation pickets, or, are they home defenders and property pro-
tectors ?
No matter how much one may desire to appreciate and love
corporaions, trust systems and money-kings, there are ah. ays things
they do to keep us from it.
GREAT MESSAGE
DECLARES PRESENT BUSI-
NESS OF COUNTRY IS TO
WIN THE WAR
[ to disturb the peace of the world, men or
othe1
st, it
to ti
ship of nations which must henceforth
guarantee the world’s peace.
| The wrongs, the very deep wrongs,
committed in this war, will have to be
righted. That, of course, hut they cannot
I and must not be righted by the commis-
sion of similar wrongs ugainst (iermuny
and her allies. The world will not per-
mit the commission of .similar wrongs as
a means of reparation and settlement.
Statesmen must, by this time, have
ASK DECLARATION ON AUSTRIA
Calls For More 9trlnflent Checks On
Alien Enemies.—Demands Laws
to Curb Profiteering and for
Regulation of Railroads.
CAPITOL HILL AND SECTION.
By G. A. DeWeese
The E. B. had services Sunday led
by Rev. M. O. Harper, of the city,
instead of the pastor who ia still sick,
but is getting better.
Mrs. F. A. Haynes is home from her
summer vacation much enlivened up
by her rest.
Smallpox is howing his ragged imps
and some by his favors have been
quaranteened.
The new Methodist church building
is boing fine it is more like a church
now, since so much work is done.
Our neighbor Vallet os putting pu
three houses which makes our section
look a little more like a city. Now is
your time old maids and widows, to
get a home, for yourself without pay-
ing rent. What do you say?
The people that have been sick are
all much better at the present time,
pie supper, or no pie supper.
News is scarce tnis week of beauti-
ful sunshine, except, “it is a fine day!”
COLLEGE HILL.
Mrs. Cobble, of West C street, en-
tertained relatives from Norman on
Wednesday.
Jim Caldwell, of Blanchard, Okla.,
visited witji his sister, Mrs. Jones,
last week.
Bring those carpet rags to 629 West
C street and get them woven.
Mrs. Stringham of West G street,
Is not so well this week.
Our Sunday School keeps growing.
Last Sunday 217 were present. We
expect to have the new room ready
by next Sunday. Had 11 additions to
the church last Sunday. Someone is
working. Come out and help.
Mrs. Taute returned from Iowa this
week. She was called there by the
illness and death of her mother.
Mrs. May, of East Capitol Hill, vis-
ited with Mrs. Cobble last Tuesday.
All patriotic ladies who wish to sew
for the Red Cross Will meet in the
Scott-Halliburton sewing rooms. All
who go, please sign up under the
Wheeler School Club.
WEST CAPITOL HILL NEWS.
EAST CAPITOL HILL NEWS.
A very interesting society event
was a party given in honor of Miss
Helen Lower of the city, by Mrs. C.
Moore, at her home, 214 East D ave-
nue. High school colors were carried
out in the decoration. The guests
were: Misses Joyce Bryant, Maude
Ackerman, Grace Boughman, Rose
Baughman. Laura Lovejoy, Grace
Blevins. Lillie Blevins, Belle Crandall,
Ethel McBee and Messrs. Harry Up-
more, Orin Cherry, Virgil Togue, Jake
Moore. Andrew Sumner, Lawrence
Crandall, Sidney Dillon, Henry
Schmoldt. Wayne Parkhurst, Clifford
McMahan, Gene VanArsdale. A three-
course luncheon was served and a de-
lightful evening was spent in games
and music.
Fimples have moved from East El-
der to their home, 517 East Pearl
street.
Mrs. Lltteul Los returned from Ne-
osho, Mo., this week.
Mr. J. S. Young, 618 E. Pearl street,
has purchased an Overland car.
Mrs. Nora Davis is ill with pneu-
monia.
Mrs. McLaughlin, of East Sycamore,
has returned from Stroud, Okla.,
where she spent Thanksgiving with
her sister.
Vernon and Earl Strickle had their
tonsils removed Monday. They are
convalescing.
Mr. Clyde Browning, southeast of
Capitol Hill, who was run over with
an automobile, Is improving.
Mrs. Burnett, 617 East Poplar, and
little daughter, Katherine, are visiting
her mother.
Mr. Mullenix, 622 East Poplar, is ill.
Mrs. A. P. Gwartney gave a 6 o’clock
luncheon Sunday evening. Those pres-
ent were: Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland,
Mr. and Mrs. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs.
Stevenson. They all had a nice time.
Mr. Richards has gone to spend the
winter with his daughter at Walton.
Kans.
Reba Baughman and Jaunita Bate-
man are out of school on account of
mumps.
Verna Peck is ill with mumps.
Little Francis Bird, 6 years old, died
Tuesday, November 27th, at the home
of his parents. 545 West A avenue.
Funeral services were held at 3:30
Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Belle Barry, of Britton, visited
Mrs. Ellsworth Lacy Tuesday.
Mrs. Milleren, 25th and S. Harvey
streets, who was visiting her daugh-
ter, who lives at 723 West Twentieth
street, became suddenly ill and was
not expected to live. Friday morning
the crisis was passed and sho is now-
convalescing.
Mrs. C. M. Howe, 231 West Poplar
avenue, who has been visiting rela-
tives in Holdenville, has returned to
her home.
Miss Ruth Helen Milleren is isit-
ing her aunt in Kansas.
A Red Cross meeting was held in
Lee school auditorium Friday, Novem-
ber 23rd. A unit was formed and
Mrs. Leech was elected president and
Mrs. Theo. Feuhner, secretary. Mrs.
Leech resigned and Mrs. Lingenfelter
was elected to the vacancy.
Rev. J. E. Matlock has gone to
Grandfleld where he is conducting a
revival.
Miss Cecil Wright and Miss Fern
Johnson, of 23 West C avenue, gave
a Thanksgiving party November 23rd.
An enjoyable time was reported.
A party of C avenue Methodists at-
tended a box supper given at St.
Luke’s last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Mack Pollard, 225 S.
25th street, are the parents of a baby
girl.
Mr. J. W. Berry, of 2708 S. Harvey,
has gone to Kentucky, where he is
visiting his mother, who Is very ill.
Mr. and Mrs. Edw-in Reeves, 2511
S. Shartel, have a new baby boy.
The Royal Neighbors of America
met at the Odd Fellows hall Tuesday.
Miss Irene Stevens was very ill last
week.
Washington.—A definite statement
to the world of America’s war alms
and of the banic upon which peace
will be considered was made by Pres-
ident Wilson in au address to con-
gress In which he urged immediate
dsolaratlon of a state of war between
the United States and Austria-Hun-
gary—Germany’s vassal and tool. As
to Turkey and Bulgaria—also tools
of the enemy—he counseled delay be-
cause “they not yet stand in the
direct path of our necessary action.’’
To win the war, the president de-
clared In emphatic and ringing tone,
is the immediate and unalterable task
ahead. He urged congress Just be-
ginning Its second war session to
concentrate Itself upon it.
The condensed text of the message
follows:
Gentlemen of the congress:
Eight months have elapsed since I had
the honor of addre* ng you. They have
nee to us. I
been months crowded with events of im-
mense and grave significance to us. I
shall not undertake to detail or even to
•ummarlee these events. The practical
particulars of the part we have played
will be laid before you in reports by the
executive departments. I shall discuss
only our present outlook upon these vast
affairs, our present duties and the imme-
diate means of accomplishing the objects
we shall hold always In view.
I shall not go back to debate the causes
ef the war. The Intolerable wrongs done
and planned against us by the sinister
masters of Germany have long since be-
come too grossly obvious and odious te
every true American to need to be re-
hearsed. But 1 shall ask you to consider
again and with a very grave scrutiny our
objectives and the measures by which we
mean to attain them; for the purpose of
discussion here in this place Is action and
our action n
definite ends.
Our object Is, of eourse. to win the war;
and we shall not slacken or suiter our-
selves to be diverted until it is won. But
learned that the opinion of the world is
everywhere wide awake and fully com-
prehends the 'issues involved.
Comradeship Not Allowed.
German rulers have been able to upset
the peace of tne world only because the
German people were not suffered under
their tutelage to share their comradeship
of the other peoples of the world either
in thought or In purpose. They were not
allowed to have an opinion of their #.vn,
which might be set up as a rule of con-
duct for those who exercised authority
ovef them. But the congress that con-
cludes thla war will feel the full strength
of the tides that run now In the hearts
and consciences of free men everywhere.
The Russian people have been poisoned
by the very same falsehoods that have
kept the German people in the dark and
the poison ha* been administered by the
very same hands. The only possible
antidote is the truth. It cannot be utter-
ed too :dy or too often.
I .inking and am thinking now, of
Austria herself, among the rest, as well
as .Serbia and Poland. Justice and equal-
ity of rights can be had only at a grer •
price. We are seeking permanent, not
temporary, foundations for the peace of
the world and muat seek them candidly
and fearlessly a* always, the right wlil
prove to be the expedient.
War on Austria.
A vary embarrassing obstacle that
stands in our way is that we are at war
with Germany but not with her allies. I,
therefore, very earnestly recommend that
the congress immediately declare the
United States in a state of war with Aus-
tria-Hungary.
Does it seem strange to you that this
should he the conclusion of the argument
I have just addressed to the country? It
is not. It is In fact the Inevitable logic
of what I have said. Austria-Hungary is
ing not her own inlet
in
are and act upon them without •“"♦•ment
for the time being not her own mistress
hut simply th** vassal of the German
ernment. We most face the facts as they
again i
objectives and the measures by wh
:o attain them: for the
place is
our action must move straight toward
we
of
it is worth while asking and answering
the question, when shall we consider the
war won?
I believe that I speak for the people
when I say two things:
Flrat, that tnl* Intolerable thina of
which the masters of Germany nave
y as the German power,
conscience or honor or
capacity for covenanted peace, must be
shown ua the ugly face, this menace of
d 1
the
cler
ed
, if It be not utterly brought
to an end, at least, shut out frofm the
dly
aecond, that when this thing and Its pow-
the t
•whei
in w
we can believe and when those spokes
combined Intrigue and force which we
now see so clearly as the German
a thing without conscience or
capacity for covenanted peace,
crushed and, If It be not utterly brought
to an end, at least, shut out frofm the
friendly intercourse of the nations; and
i, that when this thing and Its pow-
indeed defeated and the time comes
that we can discuss peace—when the Ger-
man people have spokesmen whose word
LEE NOTES.
Many pupils are re-entering school
after having spent a few weeks in the
cotton field.
Shields and Lee schools played a
game of soccer football Friday and in !
spite of the good playing of Shields
the game was won by Lee.
Every Lee teacher enrolled In the
state teachers' convention.
A "cleanliness campaign" is being
conducted at Lee school. When a
pupil is repotred three times for un-
cleanliness or dirty hands and face,
♦ hey will be violently "scrubbed" by
their teacher or the principal. No one
has been reported three times yet and
the per cent of cleanliness is increas-
ing rapidly.
Twenty pupils in Mrs. Simpson's
room have been neither absent nor
tardy this month and ten have been
perfect in spelling.
The 5th-A pupils sent oweflrs to
their teacher. Miss Liela Pickard, who
is ill at Wesley Hospital.
Patrons' Club was held at Lee
school Friday, Nov, 23.
The pupils in Miss Burnham's room
have been writing book reviews on
"A Man Without a Country.”
Million Dollar Brain.
"Old Bostely says he has a million-
dollar brain,” observed the man who
was always picking up Information.
"He's quite right,” answered the oth-
er; "it would cost him fully that much
to find out what's the matter with
it."
men are ready In the name of their peo-
ple to accept the common Judgment of
the natione as to what shall henceforth
be the basis of law and covenant for the
life of the world—we shall be willing to
pay the full price foe peace and pay It
ungrudgingly.
is oe said again that auto^rac,
must first be shown the utter futility of
its claims to power or leadership In the
modern world. It Is Impossible to apply
any standard of Justice so long as such
forces are unchecked and undefeated as
the present masters of Germany com
m&nd. Not until that has been done can
right be set up as arbiter and peace-
maker among the nations.
Win the War! Our Immediate Task.
Let thero be no misunderstanding. Our
present and Immediate task Is to win the
war and nothing shall turn us aside from
it, until it le accomplished. Every power
and resource we possess, whether at men,
of money, or of materials, is being de-
voted and will continue to be devoted
who desire to bring peace about before
that purpose la achieved I counsel to car-
ry their advice elsewhere. We will not
entertain it. We ehall regard this war as
won only when the German people aay to
ue through prcvierly accredited represent-
atives. that they are ready to agree to a
settlement based upon Justice and the
reparation ef the wrongs their rulers have
done. They have done a wrong to Be;
glum which muat be repaired. TI
established a p<
other than thel
hey have
established a power over landa and people
elr own—over the great em.
rla-Hungary, over hitherto
free Balkan states, over Turkey ana wlth-
plro of Auatr
lum which must be re pa
■ti.....
th
In
free Balkan state*, over Turkey ai
In Aala—which muat be relinquished.
The peace we make must remedy that
wrong. It must deliver the once fair
landa and happy peoples of Belgium and
northern France from the Prussian con-
quest and the Prussian menace. Tlut It
must also deliver the peoples of Austria-
Hungary, the peoples of the Balkans and
the peoples of Turkey alike in Europe und
Asia from the Impudent and alien domin-
ion of the Prussian military and com-
mercial autocracy.
We owe it, however, to ourselves to
ay that we do not wish In any way to
Impair or to re-arrange the Austro-Hun
say that we do not wish in any wa
garian empire. It is no affair of ours
what they do with their own life, either
industrially or politically. We do not
purpose or desire to dictate to them In
any way. We only desire to see that their
affairs are left In their own hands. In all
matters, great or small. We shall hope
to secure for the peoples of the Balkan
peninsula and for the people of the Turk-
ish empire the right and opportunity to
make their own lives safe, Aelr own for-
tunes secure against oppression or injus-
tice and trnrr. the dictation of foreign
courts or parties.
And our attitude and purpose with re-
l our attitude and pu: _
jgard to Germany herself are of a like
any
We Intend no wrong against the
German empire, no interferences with her
internal affairs. We should deem either
the one or the other absolutely unjustlfl-
Adds to Phonograph’s Tone.
The intensity of the tone obtained
'rom a phonograph can be varied hy
a recently patc-ted needle mounting
provided with a counterweight to reg-
elate its pressure.
able, absolutely contrary to the principles
we have professed to live by and to hold
most sacred throughout our life as a na-
tion.
The worst that can happen to the det-
riment of the German people is that. If
the war Is over.
Ited
bilious and intriguing manual a interested
In this stern business.
The government of Austria-Hungary is
not acting upon Its own Initiative or In
response tc the wishes and feelings of its
own peoples, but as the Instrument of an-
other nation. We must meet Its foro#
with our own and regard the central pow-
ers as but one. The war can be success-
fully conducted in no other way. The
same logic would lead also to a declara-
tion of war against Turkey and Bulgaria.
They also are the tools of Germany. But
they are mere tools and do not yet vtand
in the direct path of our necessary action.
We shall go wherever the necessities cf
this war carry us but it seems to me that
we should go only where immediate and
practical considerations lead us and not
heed any others.
Other Legislation.
J’he financial and military measures
which must be adopted will suggest
themselves as the war and Its under-
takings develop, but I will take the lib-
erty of proposing to you certain other
acts of legislation which soon nie to
be needed for the support of the r and
for the release of our whole tou.a and
energy.
Legislation should be enacted defining
as a criminal offense every willful viola-
tion of the presidential proclamations re-
lating to alien enemies und providing ap-
propriate punishments. and women as
well as men should be included under the
terms of the acta placing restraint upon
alien enemies.
It is likely that as time goes on there
will be many alien enemies in the deten-
tion
le legislation I have augg'
fine offenders in the penitentiaries and
camps and it wuold he the purpose i
of the legislation I have suggested to con- |
other similar institutions where they
could be made to work as other criminals
do.
Farmers Complain.
Recent experience *ha« convinced me
that the congress must go further in au-
llrnits to
cong
thorlxing the government to set limits to
prices. The law of supply and demand,
I am &orry to say, has been replaced by
the law of unrestrained selfishness. While
uni
we have eliminated profiteering In several
branches of Industry, it still runs impu-
dently rampant In others. The farmers,
for example, complain with a great deal
of Justice, that while the regulation of
food prices restricts their incomes, no
restraints are placed upon the profiteers
in some cases.
It is Imperatively necessary that the
consideration o» the full use of the water-
power of the country and also of the con-
sideration of the systematic and yet eco-
nomical development of the natural re-
sources of the country an are still under
fedei
y res
at t
resell _
legislation is daily becoming more ob-
the control of the
should be immediately resumed and con-
11c
ral government
Burned and con-
structively dealt with at the earliest pos-
sible momen. The pressing need of su^h
legislation is daily becondi
vlous.
The legislation proposed at the last ses-
tlons among our exporters in order to
provide for our foreign trade a more ef-
fective organization and method of co
sion with regard to regulated comblna
3rt<
foreigi
Ive organizf
operation ought, by all means, to be com-
pleted at this session.
Asks One Money Committee.
And I beg that the members of the
house of representatives will permit me
to express the opinion that it will be im-
possible to deal in any but a very waste-
ful and extravagant fashion with the
appropriations of the publlo
monoys which must continue to be made
if the war is properly sustained, unless
the house will consent to return to its
former practice of Initiating and prepar-
ing all appropriation bills through a sin-
gle committee. In order that responsibility
may he centered, expenditures standard-
ized and made uniform and waste and
duplication as much as possible avoided.
Additional legislation may also become
enormous
KAISER'S CATSPAW FORM-
ALLY RECOGNIZED AS A
BELLIGERENT
CONGRESS TOOK QUICK ACTION
Long Series of Minor Act* By Dual
Empire and Alliance With Ger-
many Finally Lead* to
War Declaration.
Washington.—President Wilson haa
asked congress to declare war on
Austria - Hungary Immediately, and
congress, responding with signs of
approval, compiled at once.
The necessary resolution, u..'tnd
by the international law experts of
the state department, was passed by
both houses of congres. . rlday.
The president did not recommend
declaration of war with Turkey and
Bulgaria, Germany's other allies, at
this time.
Declaration of war with Austria-
Hungary Involves very little readjust-
ment of affairs between the United
States and the dual monarchy, be-
cause the state of war which congress
declared has been a (act for many
months.
There have been no such number of
depredations on American lives and
rights by Austrian military forces as
has been the case with Germany, but
Austria, as the willing or unwilling
ally of Germany, gradually has come
Into a position where officials of the
American government have realised
more and more clearly that she must
be Included with Germany as an en-
emy. This was apparent even before
the Teutonic invasion of Italy made
the Austro-Italian front literally a part
of the western front on which Amer-
ican forces are operating.
There has been no outstanding
“overt act" on the part of Austria
against the United 8t».'»•; there have
been rather a series of acts short
of being classed as cause for war.
They go back to the beginning of the
European war.
Long before Former Ambassador
Dumba was uncovered and sent home,
to Vienna, as an instigator of strikes
In American manufacturing plants,
the government had evidence that the
Austrian diplomatic and consular
service was being used in this coun-
try for Germany's warlike purpose.
The secret service found how the Aus-
trian diplomatic code and the offices
of Austrian consuls were being used
for activities Germany conld not carry
on In the United States with her own
officials. In some cases where sub-
marines sank unresisting passenger
llnors with great loss of life, it ap-
peared that the U-boats themselves
were Austrian, but there was little
doubt that the officers and crew were
Germans and that the submerslbles
were acting under German orders.
The most striking case of that sort
was the destruction of the Italian
liner Ancona, In which responsibility
never was definitely established.
The first attack on an American
ship which attracted the attention of
the nation was that upon the Ameri-
can tank steamer ePtrollte. An Aus-
trian submarine fired on the ship,
killing a member of the crew and
forcibly took off supplies while the
master was held as a hostage on the
submarine. Nothing but evasive dip-
lomatic correspondence ever came of
it. The American steamer Schuyklll,
sunk last week, is believed to have
been sent down by an Austrian sub-
marine, but there has been no ade-
quate proof.
German submarines In the Mediter-
ranean have been flying the Austrian
flag and Austrian submarines have
been flying the German flag. Appar
ently commanders of both navies have
been Interchanging flags to prevent
responsibility for lawless acts.
SHADOWS of coming EVENTS.
Nov. 19-Fet,. -.g Agri. and Eng. short
court,*., Stillwater.
Nov. 19-Jan. iz. Dairy school short
course, Httllwnter.
, Dec. 11, state Banners' Association, Ok-
lahoma City.
c,Dec. 11-is, State Poultry Show, Elk
hty.
Do
*ec. 27-29, Poultry Hhow. Enid.
Miami is to have a weather bureau
station Immediately after the first of
December.
Hinton has organized a permanent
war fund committee, which will have
charge of the collection of all money
needed for war purposes.
George Fugate, a Delaware Indian,
26 years old, was killed in an automo-,
bile accident near Bartlesville when
he and another Indian were speeding.
Only ten votes were cast at Madill
against the proposition to vote $65,000
of bonds for waterworks improve-
ment, in a recent election. For the
bonds 255 votes were cast.
The Rev. J. L. Tyner has resigned
the pastorate of the Christian church
»t Walters and accepted a call to the
Christian church of Salida, Col. He
has been at Walters two years.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Rail-
way Company was lined fifty dollars
by the state corporation commission
tor failing to keep the passenger sta-
tion at McAlester In a sanitary con-
dition.
Governor Williams offered a reward
of $200 for the arrest of William Q.
Tudor, who was convicted of horse-
stealing In Texas county and sen-
tenced to ten years in the peniten-
tiary and then broke Jail.
An ordinary eight-pound white tur-
key brought the Mountain Park Red
Cross organization $49.50 when it was
sold at auction five times. The first
four purchasers gave the bird back
to the society for new sales.
After a three-day session, marked by
its patriotic spirit and a heated fight
as to whether to continue as a state
organization, the Oklahoma Educa-
tional association closed Its twelfth
annual convention in Oklahoma City.
Theft of 36,000 pounds of bridge
steel is charged against Kelley F. Gib-
son, bridge contractor, in an indict-
ment just returned by the Rogers
county grand Jury. Grand larceny Is
the accusation mentioned in the indict-
ment.
James Victor, an Afton farmer,
claims the record on returns from
this year’s corn crop. Ho has just
received a check for $4,169.10 in pay-
ment for corn raised on forty acres of
land in the Grand river valley. It was
white corn and sold shelled.
The Rev. A. N. Hall of Waxahaehie,
Texas, has accepted call to the pas-
torate of the First Baptist church of
Muskogeq to succeed the Rev. Robert
Van Meigs, who resigned-to enter the
mining business. Hall was pastor of
j the First Church for several years
i before going to Waxahaehie.
The 1,475 prisoners In the state pen-
itentiary celebrated Thanksgiving
with a big dinner provided by War-
den Sam L. Moriey The menu in-
cluded soup, with crackers, roast beef
[ and brown gravy, mashed potatoes,
j creamed onions, sugar corn, corn
bread, peaches, apple, fruits and cof-
fee
Amos Wills, arrested at Frederick a
few days ago as a deserter for hav-
ing failed to appear when drafted for
military service, has been declared in-
sane by the county exemption board,
and the case haR been certified to Ad-
jutant General Earp for information
as to whether Wills may be dis-
charged from custody.
necessary before the present congress
again adjourns in order to effect the most
efficient co-ordination and operation of
the railway and other transportation svs-
tems of the country; but to that i shall. J
if circumstance* so demand, call the at-
tention of conuresR upon another occa-
sion.
Tf I have overlooked anything that
ought to tie done for the more effective
conduct of the war, your own counsels
will supply the omission. What I nm
Powell Bobo, farmer and stockman,
was shot and killed Thanksgiving day
at Wilburton, following a quarrel with
Tom Lane of Gowen, over a business
I settlement. The shooting occurred at
U. S. ISSUES BLACK LIST ‘'ane’s homa Lan<!' who was arreBt
_. ed by Sheriff Elliott, is in the county
! Jail. Boho was a brother of L. P.
! Bobo, Latimer county representative
I In the state legislature.
South America’* German Firms Paid
to Stir Up Trouble Here.
conduct of the war, your own counsels
n. What I am
hat in the pres-
jur whole atten-
be concentrated
and successful
prosecution of the real task of winning
tho war.
perfectly clear about is that in the pres-
'hole atten-
. -.........„„ _______ one.
on the vigorous, rapid and
the real
ent session of congress our whole
tion and energy should be concr,
igorous, rapid and successful
they should still, after the war Is over,
continue to b: obllred to live under am-
Submarine Crew Surrender* to U. 8.
An Atlantic Fort.—A story of mut-
iny on board a German submarine re-
sulting In the killing of all the officers
and the surrender of the crew to an
American warship was told here by an
enlisted sailor Just returned from
France, According to the story, the
Germans Bald they bad been sent on
two months' service but had been out
three months, and they could stand
It no longer. After they had dis-
posed of the officers a white flag was
hoisted and the men waited until the
American ship ran along side.
Washington.—A blacklist of 1,600
1 Arms In twenty Central and South
American countries, with whom iner-
| chants of the United States are for-
; bidden specifically to do business ex-
| cept under special license, was pro-
I mulgated by the war trade board.
It is officially styled “enemy trad-
! In list” and constitutes the first sec-
| tion of a record which eventually will
Include the names of firms In most of
the countries of the world, Including
the United States Itself.
Latin-America Is dealt with first be-
cause of the large number of German
firms In the southern republcs active
In aiding Germany's cause. Evidence
put before the war trade board has
shown that many of these firms, In-
cluding public utilities companies,
have financed to a large degree, Ger-
man propaganda work In the United
"Itntfls.
More than 9,000 bales of cotton have
been sold at Ada this fall and It con-
tinues to come in at a rate of about
200 bales a day. Cotton men say
there are something like 2,000 bales
yet to be marketed at this place. The
price has been averaging around $175
a bale. This means that the cotton
crop will bring to the farmers of this
Immediate neighborhood not far from
$2,000,000.
With a total production of 317,832,-
180 pounds, nearly 16,000 tons, tor the
flrBt forty-five weeks of 1917, the Mi-
ami lead and zinc district of Oklahoma
Is leading the United States, This to-
tal production la made up of 270,213,-
375 pounds of zinc and 47,619.805
pounds of lead, the former having a
total value of $9,655,049 and the latter
if $2,F"S.282—the grand total sates for
the forty-five weeks amounting t»
412.612,211.
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