Cherokee County Democrat (Tahlequah, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 7, 1915 Page: 2 of 8
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600 BRITAINS PERISH WHEN
SUBMARINE SINKS BATTLESHIP
LONDON, Jail. —The Daily
Chronicle states that survivors of
the battleship Formidable report
that the vessel vas torpedoed both
fore and aft early Friday morning;
and sank almost immediately.
The Chronicle's flrixham's cor-
respondent, who is authority for the
above, says the captain of the
Trawler Providence, which rescued
seventy survivors who had escaped j
from the battleship in .? cutter,
states that other Ashing boats were
close at hand. The captain ex-
presses the belief that other sur-
vivors have been rescued and taken
to Dartmouth. He saw no other
boats belonging to the Formidable,
however.
LONDON, Jan. 2.—The German
war of attrition found another Brit-
ish victim yesterday an.1 robbed the
British navy by sinking the fifteen-
year-old, but still useful battleship
Formidable, of the same class as
the battleship Bulwark, blown up a
few weeks ago off Sheerness.
Apparently the loss of life on
board the Formidable has been very
heavy as only 150 members of her
crew of 750 are known to have been
saved. The officials, however, hold
out hope that others may have been
picked up.
and northern portions of the state
have traded their stocks, said to
total :it least $1,000,000, to indi-
viduals who will hold them pend-
ing the outcome of the appeal to the
supreme court of the United States
against the recent refusal of the
federal tribunal at Los Angeles to
■ rant, an injunction staying the exe-
cution of the prohibition amend-
ment.
SLAVKR SKT I'ltKE BY Jl'HV.
FORT SMITH, Ark., Jan. 2.—
Fred Tolbert, charged with the mur-
der of Robert L. Fads, a Little Rock
cotton buyer, here on December 8,
was acquitted by a jury Thursday.
A demonstration in court following
the verdict was quickly quelled by
Judge Paul Little. Tolbert pleaded
the unwritten law.
In charging the jury, Judge Little
declared there is no unwritten law,
but that every man had a right to
defend his Kome, even against one
who attempted to commit a felony.
MR AT LOWER DESPITE WAR.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. — Al-
though the European war has
enormously increased the volume o{
food products exported by the United
States in the last few months, the
level of prices of meat animals in
this country has declined as com-
pared with prices a year ago.
An official tabulation of prices
issued Thursday by the department
of agriculture showed that on No-
vember 15 the average price of meat
animals, including hogs, cattle,
sheep and chickens, was $6.80 per
hundred pounds, a decrease of just
14 cents a hundred from the prices
which prevailed November 15 last
year.
The list shows that during the
month. October 15 to November 15,
1914, the prices paid producers for
meat animals decreased 4.9 per cent
against an average decline for the
same period for the last four years
of 4 per cent.
DIED.
(From Saturday's Daily Arrow)
Martin, the three month's old in-
fant son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Kisner died at the family home on
Fast Downing street early this morn
ing of pneumonia. The funeral will
be conducted at the home by Dr. D.
E. Ganibrell of the Baptist church
tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock.
The bereaved family have the sym-
pathy of all.
ARIZONA SALOONS CLOSE CP.
SAVN GERMAN'S OPPOSE WAR.
LONDON, Jan. 2.—Carl Llebk
necht, the socialist member of tin
German reichstag, who attracted
considerable attention early in De-
cember by being the only member of
the reichstag who voted against a
new war credit has sent a new year's
message to British socialists, in
which he calls upon the workers ol'
the world to unite in a war against
the war.
This communication '3 published
in a newspaper called the j^abor
Leader. Mr. Liebknecht declares
that the masses everywhere loath
(his war, and lie says that among
German workers there is a much
greater degree of opposition to it
than generally has been supposed.
DWAMITING FISH IN
VICINITY OF GREENLEAI
Reports from Greenleaf neighbor
hood uay that some unscruplous
persons are dynamiting fish in the
river near there. It is hinted that
the ones most engaged in the
practice hold official positions and
an effort will be made to land the
culprits and give them the full bene-
fit of the law If the practice is con-
tinued. Better cut it out boys and
content yourselves with a gig or
hook and line.
SAN DIEGO'S FAIR OPENS.
SAN DIEGO, Cal., Jan. 2.—The
I'an-American-California exposition,
San Diego's twelve-month celebra-
tion of the completion of the Pana-
ma canal, was opened at midnight
Thursday night when President Wil-
son in Washington pressed an elec-
tric button that turned on the lights
in the buildings and grounds.
Preceding the formal opening was
the dedication at a music pavilion
and mammoth organ presented to
the exposition and the city by John
D. Spreckels. William McAdoo, sec-
retary of the treasury, represented
President Wilson In the night's cere-
monies.
GENERAL VILLA ROWS
TO PRESIDENT GI TI Eli REX
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—General
Villa, in a telegram dated Thursday
night in Mexico City to his agency
here, denies he has questioned the
amnesty proclamations of General
Gutierrez.
"I obey and respect the orders
of President Gutierrez," Villa tele-
graphed. "I am his subordinate."
MARRIED
PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 2.—Ari-
zona's constitutional prohibition
amendment, characterized as the
most drastic in the country, went in-
to effect at midnight Thursday night.
More than 300 saloons and ten
wholesale liquor establishments went
out of business. One brewery also
closed and the only remaining one
will manufacture "2 per cent" or
' near beer."
Many of the saloons affected were
located in cities and towns on the
border. These merely moved across
the street into Mexico, where they
had already prepared quarters. A
number of saloon men in the central
tFrom Saturday's Daily Arrow)
Dr. D. E. Gambrell of the Baptist
church yesterday performed his
1,717 wedding when Jie united in
marriage Charlie Self and Miss
llodner Smith, both of Eldon. Miss
Smith Is the teacher in the Eldon
school while Mr. Self is one of the
promising young farmers of that
section.
The Arrow joins in wishing the
newlyweds a life of continued hap-
piness and prosperity.
XO I . S. GREETING TO WOlll.O.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—New-
Year's greetings from the United
States to all the world did not circle
1 he globe Thursday night, as has
been the custom for many years, be-
cause of the land telegraph arid
cable systems are in a disorganized
condition because of the European
war. The navy department by pre-
arrangement formerly Hashed the
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Congress observed New Year'B
day. but both houses declined to
take a longer holiday than one day.
owi'ifa to press of business. The
house adjourned Thursday night un-
til Saturday noon when debate will
be resumed on the Indian appropria-
tion bill. The senate recessed until
11 o'clock Saturday, when the im-
migration bill came up.
SKVKN DIE IX WRECK.
LONDON, Jan. I!.—Seven perdons
were killed and many others in-
jured in a train collision yesterday
morning 011 the Grent Eastern rail-
way near llford, fh« miles from
London. Some of the railroad cars
were reduced to splinters. The
victims of the accident are mostly
city clerks.
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l.\ WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. — New
Year's day in the national capital
was unusually quiet.
Because of the formal state of
.nourning -*ince the death of Mrs
Wilson, there was 110 reception at
the White House. The annual
"diplomatic breakfast" by the secre-
tary of state was abandoned because
of the war and man/ other time
honored ceremonials were omitted
for the same reason.
In official and diplomatic circles
the day was observed with ex-
changes of greetings. Both houses
of congress had adjourned over un
til Saturday.
President Wilson began the year
by rising at 3 o'clock to push an
electric button that opened the San
Diego, Cal., exposi' on at midnight,
Pacific co^iit time. He spent the
day quietly at the White House.
ABOMS1I DUTY ON
FLOUR TO BELGIANS
BRl'SSIiLS, Belgium, via Amster-
dam, Dec. 31.—The German ad-
ministration, to render less difficult
the maintenance of the civil popu-
lation, has abolished the duty on
Hour made from grain imported by
the American commission for relief
of Belgium. This duty was the same
as that imposed in normal times and
was added to the arbitrary price of
flour.
SHUMWAYS PLEASE
A SMALL AUDIENCE
(Prom Saturday's Daily Arrow)
The Shumway Male Quartet which
gave an entertainment at the Pres-
byterian church Thursday evening
was one of the best aggregation of
singers that has ever visited this
city and while the audience was
small the quartet did not cut any
part of their program but responded
to the hearty encores as though the
church auditorium was packed. An
effort was made to have them return
for an engagement at the Sequoyah
tonight where they were assured of
a packed house as Thursday night's
program was deserving of, but a
telegram last evening from Ft. Gib-
son where they appeared last night,
stated that the date had been filled
by their advance man and it would
be Impossible for them to return.
Shpnld the Shumways visit Tahle-
quah in the future it is more than
likely a crowded house will greet
them.
FLAGSHIP SI NK BV
MINE Oil TORPEDO
LONDON, Jan. 2.—The British
battleship Formidable was sunk
yesterday morning in the British
channel by eitehr a mine or a sub-
marine, according to an announce-
ment given out by the official in-
formation bureau.
The text of the bureau's state-
ment follows:
"The battleship Formidable was
sunk yesterday morning in the chan-
nel, but whether by a mine or a
submarine is not yet certain.
"Seventy-one survivors bave been
picked up by a British light cruiser
and it is possible that others may
have been rescued by other vessels."
The British battleship Formidable
had a displacement of 15,000 tons.
She was 4 30 feet long and carried
a complement of 750 men. She was
heavily armored and carried four
12-inch guns, twelve 6-inch guns
and sixteen 12-pounders. She was
provided also with four submerged
torpedo tubes.
A CAPITOL WORKMAN.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 2.—They
tell this about a newly-elected mem-
ber of the supreme court. Summers
Hardy, of Madill.
The garrulous barber found time
for certain personal inquiries be-
tween his tactful suggestions that
hair-cuts, shampoos, shines and
singes might be secured as well as
shaves.
Said the barber to the man in
the chair:
"Where do you live?"
"I'd like to live here, but. I m
having a hard time finding a house."!
"Did you come up to work on the
new capitol?"
"No, I came up to take 'Bob'
Williams' place on the supreme,
court."
II. B. THE MAY
SUCCEED PARKER
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—It is
understood hefe in official circles
that the man to be chosen to suc-
ceed Gabe E. Parker as register of
the treasury, is to be an Indian.
It is known that several Indians
have been suggested for the place,
and that this is meeting with gen-
eral favor. One of the men men-
tioned for the place is Houston B:
Teehee of Tahlequah. Teehee is an
educated Cherokee and represents
a fine type of citizenship. He is
well known in Oklahoma, having
served as a member of the Okla-
homa legislature.
Mr. Teehee has many friends, not
only in his home county, but all
over the state, who would be great-
ly pleased to see him recogp'"< d by
the national administration. Should
Mr. Teehee be the selection he has
the ability to fill the position to the
credit of the department as well as
to those who since the suggestion of
bis name are urging his appoint-
ment.
DEATH IN NEW YEAR'S RESOLVE
he threw his tobacco into the fire.
Friday night the wife discovered
Kuight hiding behind a rain barrel.
He was smoking. At the supper
table she laughingly made the re-
mark: . . ..
"I knew you didn't love me well
enough to quit smoking."
Saturday morning Knight was
found dead in his barn. He had
shot himself with a revolver.
PRISON FOR KIDNAPPER.
BOZEMAN, Mont., Jan. 4.—Owen
Smith, found guilty two weeks ago
of kidnaping Martin Harkins and
deporting him in the troubles of
the miners' uiiion in Butte last Au-
gust, was sentenced to eighteen
months in the state prison by
Judge Law Saturday.
The last of the cases transferred
to Bozeman from Butte and grow-
ing out of the labor troubles there,
was brought to trial Saturday when
Thomas Ketallick, charged with the
theft of money and valuables from
the dynamited safe of the miners'
union, faced a jury.
PRODUCE COMPANY MOVES.
The McCoy Produce company has
moved from their old location to
two doors south and in the future
will occupy the room recently vo-
cated by the Brandon second hand
store.
SAPULPA, Okla., Jan. 4.—Her- COINED (II MILLION LAST YEAR.
shel Knight, a farmer who lived
near Morris, promised his wife New WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. — Th<t
Year's Eve that he would never;".
smoke again.
"There's nothing that I wouldn't
do for you," Knight told his wife as
1 'ted States, in the calendar year
ending December 31 last, coined
money valued at $61,750,161.72 in
154,850,157 pieces.
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Monuments. Prices reasonable.
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