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The World’s History
the past Week Told
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Mexico
The mines in the states nf Sonora,
Mexico, Michoacim and Hidalgo, have
resumed work, having received sup-
pllea of explosives since Hie ban on
their shipment was raised.
• • •
Twelve persons were killed Instant-
ly and twenty-two were injured in u
wreck of a northbound train in Ihe Na-
tional Lines at Morales, Mexico, forty
mites north of Molnterey, Mexico,
• * *
Applications for release from service
>f guardsmen with persons dependent
an them are now pouring into army
headquarters at the rate of 1,500 a
week. Several hundred already have
been released.
* « •
Four negro soldiers, members of the
(eighth Illinois .national guard, were
shot by a squad nf the guard that hud
come'to the rescue of a white man the
soldiers were attacking near the mil-
itia camp. None were seriously in-
jured, all the bullets striking below
the waist.
Reports received at the Cnrrnnza
headquarters in Juarez are all to the
effect that the Villa army has broken
up into small hands and lied to the
European war
The village of Pozleres has been
completely captured by thu Hellish.
Six civilians have been executed by
the Gormans at Ghent, charged with
“wur trearon.”
• so
A fine of five million marks lias been
Imposed upon the city of lirussels fot
celebrating Hit- Belgian nation festival
* * •
Italian troops may he sent to till
western front to aid the British,
French and Ruslans In the big drlv«
that Is under way against the Gen
mans from Hie North Sea to Hwltzep
land.
s • •
That Russia has been promised pos-
session of both sides of the Darda
nelles Is stated categorically in a sum-
mary of the proceedings of Hie army
and navy committee of the Duma as
published in the Pelrograd newspaper
ltussky Sloyo.
• * •
Another vote of credit will he asked
for next week, the premier Informed
Hie British house of commons. It will
lie the eleventh voin since Ihe out-
NEWS OF THE
STATE CAPITAL
INCOME TAX TABLE PUTS OKLA-
HOMA HIGH IN RANK OF
WEALTH SHOWING.
OKLAHOMA CITY NEWS EVENTS
What the State Officials and Depart-
ment* Are Doing—Items of In-
terest About the 8tate
Government
Regiment Lacks Ambulance Corps,
A second call to arms was issued
by the adjutant general department.
Five officers and seventy-nine men are
needed for an ambulance company
which will be organized at once and
sent to the border.
"If the organization receives the
propert encouragement,” Adjutant
j General Karp said, "the men will be
sent lo Fort Sill immediately, where
I they will be mustered In and equipped.
Then they will be sent to the border.
The war department will furnish mo-
tor apparatus Just as soon as the com-
pany is mustered in.”
The war department requires that
the captain of an ambulance company
must tie experienced in military mat-
lerH. Four lieutenants must be physi-
cians, but sergeunts and privates can
qualify without special knowledge of
Oklahoma City.- Verification of the
statement made recently that Okla-
homa would lead all the states In per-
centage of increase on Income tax pay- 8urgery or med,c,ne’
ments Was furnished by Hubert L.
Bolen, collector of internal revenue. Is
the figures which were compiled by
Mr. Bolen from official reports, Hie
State Gets Large Fee.
Increases In the capital stock of the
two Condon oil and gus companies of
gain over last year was 267 per cent. I Oklahoma boosted the receipts of the
This li more than 100 per cent more office of the secretary of state to $(>,-
broak of the war and”probably will" be | th“ _a“y otl!fr diatrict’ 930’ which is the largeflt amount tak'
for $1,500,000,000, the same amount as
t'»e last. one. This will bring up the
total for the war (o $13,410,000,000.
• • •
Premier Asquith usked llie house of
For the collection year which closed en 1,1 >n il single day since Ihe first of
June 31, Okluhoma paid $51,104.26 the ypar-
more than Kansas, Nebraska, Arizona1 1 je capital stock of Cosden & Com
and Arkansas combined, it was pre- pany was increased from $4,200,000 to
. ... dieted some time ago by Mr. Bolen $7,000,000 and the capital stock of the
commons for a vote of credit of £450,- [,bat KanHHH would pay more corpora-1 Cosden Oil and Gas Company was in-
000,000. This vote is Ihe largest asked lion ,ax ,ban Oklahoma, but when all creased from $8,500,000 to $12,500,000.
by the government since the beginning ,,lie ieturns were in it was found that Headquarters of both companies are
Oklahoma had exceeded the Sunflower 'maintained at Tulsa,
state in the matter of corporation tax
by $27,400. Arkansas was left far be-
hind in the matter of corporation tax
CHUTES HAVOC OF MILLIONS
“ROPERTY DAMAGE IN JERSEY
CITY CATASTROPHE WILL
REACH TWENTY-FIVE
MILLIONS.
13 MONSTER WAREHOUSES
BLOWN UP AND BURNED
Five Eastern States Feel the Quake.
—In New York City Millions
of Window Are Smashed and
People Thrown From
Their Beds.
Total property damage from the ex-
plosion is estimated by the officials
at very least, as 25 millions.
The explosion was felt in five stales,
New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania,
Connecticut and Maryland.
The first source of the series of aw-
ful blasts was the Lehigh Valley rail-
way storehouse at Black Tom Point,
New Jersey. Five carloads of muni-
tions for the allies blew up at 2:02
a. m. Sunday. Followed by this were
other explosions and fire, raging be-
tween Jersey City and Bayonne.
Some minutes after the first explo-
sion, the National Storage freight cars
carrying munitions for the allies blew
up. Seven million damage is the esti-
mated loss from this blast alone.
Barge Ablaze, Hits Ellis Island.
of the war and will bring the total
vote this year to X 1,050,000,000, and
the total since the begining of the
war to ,C2,832,000 (approximately $14,-
160,000,000.)
* * *
Freedom to enter the United States,
once denied, was granted to Cipriano
Durango mountains. The officers there Castro, former president of Venzuela,
say they believe ihe danger of the and his wife by order of Secretary
Villa parly again becoming a power
has passed.
Domestic
This is the second time the capital
stock of the two companies has been
increased since the first of the year,
by $.!tJ,00(). Oklahoma increased her i peea paid by these companies alone
corporation income tax 49
over last year.
Fourteen states paid more income
tax than Oklahoma. They were: Cali-
fornia, Connecticut, llinois, Maryland,
per cent Hjnce January 1 amount to approxi-
mately $20,000.
Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,
Free Employment Men Confer.
W. G. Ashton, commissioner of la-
January 1 of this year.
* » •
The progressive party of Indiana, In
convention at Indianapolis, adopted a
platform and nominated u complete
Itate ticket.
* * *
Seven employes of the Hercules
Powder Company wore killed instant-
ly at Kenvll, N. J., In an explosion at
the plant’s "dry" house.
* * *
Combined exports and Imports of Ihe
port of New York for the year ending
June 30 amounted to $2,169,000,000, ac-
cording to the annual report of the
chamber of commerce,
* * *
Dodge, owned by Weber and Ward
and ridden by F. Murphy, won the
American Derby, the $10,000 race with
which thoroughbred horce racing was
re-introduced to Chicagoans.
* * *
Twenty-two men are dead and half
a dozen others dying as the result of
■n explosion of gas In a waterworks
tunnel five miles from shore under-
neath Lake Erie, near Cleveland.
* * *
John Daniels, a farmer living near
Mineral Wells, Texas, shot and killed
his wife and then fired, a load from a
shotgun into his own body, resulting
In instant death. No reason for the
tragedy is known.
• * •
Based on threshing returns from
several counties of the stale, J. C.
Moliler, secretary of the Kansas state
board of agriculture, predicted that
the state yield of wheat may exceed
liis June estimate of 90,000,000 bush-
els.
• • •
William Black, a 16-year-old negro,
whose capital offense against a 6 year-
old while child in Green county, North
Carolina, last March, resulted in the
lynching of his father. Joseph Black,
was electrocuted in the penitentiary
St Raleigh.
• • •
After Tom Hanley, former Hot
'Springs saloonist, had signed an
agreement to suppress racing, enforce
anti gambling and liquor laws. Gov. G.
W. Hays of Arkansas appointed him
sheriff of Garland county to succeed
C. C. Webb, who was slain in a gun
battle with an insane inan last week.
* « •
Lewis Dodd, who was tried at Bur-
nett, Texas, charged with the robbery
of the First National Bank of Marble
Falls and the killing of Bookkeeper
Robert Heinatz, last fall, was found
guilty. The Jury assessed the punish-
ment at ninety-nine years in the pen-
itentiary.
• • •
Wilson of the labor department, who ________________, ________..............
overruled the special board of immi- Missouri, New Jersey, New York, I tx>r» held a conference with the men
gration officials at New York deny- Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wis-j *n cbarf5e °f the four free emplo> ment
ing them admission. Under the secre- I consin. This places Oklahoma flf. bureaus last week, and mapped out a
tary’s ruling the Caslros are free to teenth nmoqg tlie forty-eight Btates, j camPa*Bn for the next yea -. A new
go to Porto Rico as they had planned where in 1915 she was twenty-eighth. 8yslem *or *be "ork waa Pllt *n*G
is Hie only southern state that;e®ecb wb*cb bring into closer
Slates. | paid more income tax than Oklahoma. toucb "1e 'Afferent bureaus and make
The personal income tax collected in i0r ,be betterment of the servece.
the various districts for 1915 and 1916 Xbe business done by this branch of
was as follows
Reckless automobile driving has, , . , „
killed 136 persons in Chicago since to rema,n indcflnitply in the United i Texas
S. S. McClure, the American publish-
er, who was detained for some time
by the British authorities on Ids ar-
rival at Liverpool on the American
liner Philadelphia, must return to the
United States on board the same ves-
sel, in the meanwhile sojourning at tin
unnamed watering place inland "for
his health," according to a statement
made by high government officials.
The British home office declined to
grant a permit for Mr. McClure to
stay in England.
Alabama and Mi»*l*alppi $ 110,207 97
Arkansas ............... 88, 177.00
Cull font la and Nevada.... 1.271,747.42
Colorado nnd Wyoming.. 238,984.42
Connecticut and Rhode
$ 177.410 1ft
44.278.7p
1,493,389.02
80 i. 102.37
Foreign
Sir William Ramsay, eminent as g
chemist, died at London.
* * *
On behalf of Count Boni De Castel-
iane, his attorney in the suit before
the Holy See for the annulment of his
marriage with Anna Gould has pre-
sented to the pope evidence which, ac-
cording to the attorney, will prove
that Miss Gould married Count De
Castellano with the intention of di-
vorcing him if she later became dis-
satisfied with the marriage bond.
This, according to Catholic law, is suf-
ficient to annul a Catholic marriage,
the attorney says.
Washington
The canal zone population Is 31,018
said a consular report received giving
a census Just taken by the police and
fire division. American residents
number 14,876.
* * *
Official announcement was made at
(lie White House that negotiations vir-
tually have been completed for the
purchase of Danish West Indies by
the United States from Denmark for
$25,000,000.
• • •
Representatives of three big Amer-
ican banking houses informed Acting
Secretary Polk that they were willing
to advance $30,000,000 desired by
China to rehabilitate the finances of
the republic.
• • •
The army appropriation bill, carry
ing a total of $312,000,000, was passed
by the senate with a record vote.
Just before its passage the senate
adopted an amendment providing $2,
000,000 for relief of dependent fam-
ilies of enlisted men in the national
guard service in the Mexican emer
gency. Dependent families would be
given not more than $50 a month in
the discretion of the secretary of war
• * •
The war department announced that
Ixlaitil ....
1.081,344.63
2,132,866.89
I lorlrta .....
121.368.22
123.5011.80
Beorgli ......
119,983.61
199.516.4fl
Illinois .......
5,166.689.91
Indiana ......
....
345.653.92
410.320.06
Iowa ......a..
264.315 64
277.098.45
Kansas ......
94.975 59
130.308.47
Kfitdlckv ....
163.191.91
165.112.75
Uiul.lan* ...........
Maryland, Delaware
and
209,813.20
290.341.35
1 Ratrlrt of Columbia .
1.154.546.31
2.741.781.7*
MaMnclitiMtts
2.683.084.53
4.103.873.81
1.876.743.8*
Minnesota -...
581.949.32
866.557.90
'Msnoui’l .....
934.139.02
1.206.728. AT
Montana. Idaho
and Utah.
120.727 71
2t5.728.0l
Nebraska . .
New Hampshire,
Maine
and
128,735.25
100,206.31
Vermont
302.546.57
556,570.31
New Jersey ....
......
1,278.169.92
2.910.300.13
fu.52a.a3
30.28fl.»n;
175.912 67
58.534
2,404.870 83
480.415.08
118,487.88
6,812.204.23
76.25U.01
207.318.37
672.456.10
New Mexico nnd Arizona.. 87.902 65
New York ................17.417.,137.62
North I'arollna ........... 123,553.96
North Dakota and Month
Dakota ................ 41.227,20
Ohio .................... 1.489.401.11
Oklahoma ............... 133.685.76
Oregon ..A............... 121.305.87
rennaylrantn ........... 4.642.557.08
Smith farolina ........... 43,369.72
Tennessee ............... 165.904 45
Texan ................... 425.631.57
Virginia ................ 197.550.27
Washington and Alaska... 198.579.39
West Virginia ............ 130.188.47
Wisconsin ............... 272.476.01)
Counties Asked To Retire Bonds.
A plan has been worked out by the
commissioners of the land office for co-
operation from counties where state
money has been invested in bonds in
the general plan of the school land de-
partment for placing cheap money in
the hands of the farmers.
Approximately $500,000 is now in-
vested in county bonds and circular
the commissioner’s work during the
past year was very successful, and as
a result of the meeting, still better
results are hoped tor during the next
year. Plans were outlined with the
purpose in view of being of greater
service in supplying hands for regular
farm work and also for the harvest
work for the different crops in the
state.
Penalty On War Taxes July 31.
Unless 1,000 Oklahoma tobacco deal
ers, 300 druggists and physicians and
100 theater owners pay their war tas
to Hubert L. Bolen, collector of in
(ernal revenue for the district of Ok
lahoma, before July 31, a penalty ol
50 per cent will be attached.
Warning (o these delinquents was
issued by Mr. Bolen. He stated, how
ever, that the tax was coming in more
rapidly than last year and he believed
38^632 ij fewer penalties would be exacted that
219.167.13
132.064.15
559.948,98
before.
Taxes from pool Hall owners will be
smaller this year than ever before
owing to the passage of a state law in
1915, under which pool halls in cer-
tain districts and small towns are not
allowed to operate.
School Census Completed.
Blackwell. — Superintendent A.
New York, Sunday, July 30—Known
Jead 3. Property loss at least 25 mil-1
rulon.
The above are the ous.anding facts!,, 0n,e «hellda“^ ba,'f®
resulting from the great blast of the I * . by . nd’ ablafe,’ bltnE11,a Is,]and;
Black Tom Point munitions storage. explosion which followed struck
the outskirts of rlersev Citv' down emi8ran,s- huddled on the is-
.1™, LOB. "..ultlng from ,1,1, cxplc
sion is estimated at a million. Re-
moval of terrified emigrants was be-
gun immediately.
Two cars of shrapnel near the scene
of the National Storage Company ex-
plosion were surrounded by flames,
shortly after the blast, and became
unapproachable, terrorizing all within
view with fear of another impending
disaster.
From New York, toward the Jersey
side, there began to appear a dull
glow that grew brighter as the fire
which followed the Black Tom ex-
plosion grew. The Black Tom district
is near Communipaw, a part of Jersey
City.
While various estimates of dead and
injured are made, no actually definite
conclusion can be reached i yet.
Hospitals throughout the whole affect-
ed district, Jersey City, Brooklyn and
New York were being crowded with
injured. By daybreak over 100 had
been cared for.
The first explosion, which was fol-
lowed by others, was at 2:08 Sunday
morning.
As for the actual origin of the first
explosion, and as to whether this was
the cause of the other explosions fol-
lowing, all is speculative. Charges
and counter charges are heard. Plot
rumors are circulating widely, involv-
ing lurid theories of other disasters
to come.
New York’s first thought when the
initial blast came was ‘earthquake.”
Jersey City, Lower Manhattan and
Brooklyn were the thickly populated
regions bearing the chief brunt ol
the major explosions. New York’s
skyline literally rocked, and from the
lofty stories of her skyscrapers fell
glass, shattered to bits. Streets for
blocks were carpeted with broken
glass and small debris.
Partial panic In which even some
of the city’s police joined as prin-
cipals followed the initial shock. Into
the streets swarmed men, women and
children. Hysterics over the mystery
the storage quake, as well as from
the actual shock, spread to vastly in-
creased degree as minor blasts were
heard, following the initial one.
Lovett of the city schol system has
letters are being sent out by Secre- <;ompIetei1 a census of the school chil
tary George A. Smith to the officials
of these counties, asking that if pos-
sible the bonds be paid before matur-
ity so that the money can iramedately
dren jn the city at the present time
and it shows that there are one-third
more children in Blackwell now tliar
in January, when the regular census
become available for use by the farm- was ,akpn- At that time there wer6
ers. Most of the counties, it is be-
lieved, have enough money in their <
927 school children and a population
of 3,400. Now there are almost 1.40C
sinking funds to retire their bonds '‘,cb°o1 children, and working from
thus aiding the farmers and at (hjjtbls- the Population of Blackwell at
same time stop interest payments. ;be Pre8ent time is between 5,000 and
Applications for loans from the per- \ f’-MO-
manent school fund now exceed the
amount of cash on hand and it is for
that reason that the co-operation of
teh counties has been requested.
Lawyer Wins Fee In Gore Suit.
An echo of the $50,000 damage suit
Full Cotton Crop Expected.
John M. White< district agent foi
the Farmers' Co-operative Demonstra
tion Association, stationed at McAles
ter, has reported to the state board oi
of Mrs. Minnie Bond against United a8*"iculture that a full cotton crop is
States Senator Thomas P. Gore for al- expected in eastern Oklahoma, where
leged attack was heard In supreme <be p'ant *s showing a splendid
court when the decision of the district s,and- Only <>ne more rain is .need
court of Oklahoma county giving Ross ed 'n lbat secHon to produce a glor-
near
which rocked the world’s most con-
gested district as if a giant earth-
quake had come.
Panic throughout New York City,
Brooklyn, Jersey City, and all tHie
thickly populated region for miles
around followed.
The first official statement from
high authorities of the Lehigh Valley
Railway Company, in whose muni-
tions storage cars at Black Tom Point
the great explosions occurred says:
"Thirteen brick storage warehouses
out of twenty-four owned and oper-
ated by ihe National Storage Company
and six piers owned by the storage
company and leased to i'.ie Lehigh
Valley Railroad Company were de-
stroyed. ,
“Several other warehouses were
badly damaged. Minor damage was
done to the Lehigh Valley grain ele-
vator. also. As far as can be ascer-
tained, 85 loaded cars were destroyed,
according to evidence secured by rail-
road officials.
"Fire started at 1:05 Sunday morn-
ing in a barge belonging to an inde-
pendent towing company. The barge
had been moored alongside the rail-
road company’s docks, expressly
against orders.
"M. T. Henley, night general yard-
master of the New York division, eL-
high Valley, was on the pier when the
fire started.
Removal of Cars.
"Henley’s first thought was to re
move loaded cars from the danger
zone. He says that when he reached
the end of the pier the barge was
burning fiercely, and the fire was be-
ginning to communicate to some other
cars nearby. Two long cuts of freight
cars were successfully removed from
the danger zone before the fire en-
gulfed the balance.
“As yet it has not been definitely
determined just what the money loss
will be. One item, 40,000 tons of raw
sugar, valued at approvimately $3,400,-
000, is known to be lost as part of the
warehouse disaster.
"No explosives were stored in the
warehouses, only in cars. These were
loaded with shrapnel, which would
not have been a source of danger but
for the outside fire.
“Other cars destroyed were loaded
principally with borax and salt.
Scene of the explosion and fire is in
no way adjacent to the main pas-
senger or freight terminals of the Le-
high Valley either on the New York
or New Jersey side.”
This railroad company statement,
the first to emanate from the source
at which the disaster started, ignores
the matter of human loss and the ques-
tion of original cause for the explo-
sions and tlie fire which resulted so
disastrously.
Lilian! judgment ngainst S. P. Render
for $1,325 as an attorney’s fee was
affirmed.
ious cotton condition. There is some
trouble in the boll weevil district, Mr
White reported, but the weevil is not
Lillard represented Mrs. Bond and spreading and is not expected to
it would call to the colors w'ithiu a
Suit for $2,500,000 against John T. few days the regular army reserve
Milliken, St. Ixmis oil man and eight consisting of between i.oOO and 5.00C
Oklahoma oil corporations, was instl- men who have served in the army in
tuted in the circuit court at St. Louis order to hasten organization of new
by M. S. I. Sherwood and C. Mathews, units provided by the army reorganl
brokers, of Kansas City. The suit is zation act. Those who will be affected
for commissions the brokers say are by the order are enlisted men whe
due them fn the transfer recetly of oil have been furloughed into the reserves
properties in a deal which involved since Nov. 1, 1915, after having beer
$16,000,000. in active service for three years
* * * ...
J Frank Hanly former governor of The senate unanimouslv confirmee
Indiana, was nominated for president . , . T
nf thn TTnito.i th« nomination of John H. Clarke ot
he alleged payment of his fee was
guaranteed through a verbal contract
with Render. When the case was fin-
ished Render refused to pay.
On appeal to the supreme court at-
any more damage than last year,
much.
Pamphlet Mailing To Be Investigated
Upon instruction from the gover-
torneys for Render for the first time nor. State Examiner and Inspector
set out the allegation that if the con- Parkinson has started an investigation
tent ion of Lillard was correct the of the work of the secretary of state’s
agreement came within the statute of office in connection with the mailing
frauds and the contract was of no out of the publicity pamphlets contain-
ing arguments on proposed amend-
Because the question was not raised ments to the constitution. It is un-
in the trial court the supreme court dersfood the investigation will extend
refused to pass upon it. to every phase of the work.
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Candidate Forces Name On Ballot.
Upon application by Dr. T. B. Sat-
State Rescinds Tax Order.
The assessed valuation of Oklahoma
by ^he nalloLf p'o'hlbition" MnienUon Cleve,and as assoclatlJ of the "“"v’relurnfd b/ tbe
at St. Paul. supreme court to succeed Former Jus
tlce Hughes.
The body of Mrs. J. J. Hoops, 30,!
*lfe of a farmer, living near Lan Great Britain’s partial reply to the
raster, Texas, was found in a corn American note, protecting against in
held aaar her Lome Bruise* on the terference with neutral mails, is re
%ody indicated! sh* h»4 "been beaten gurded by officials as unsatisfacior
1e AeatA with a club. A Begroi has principally because it deals with spe
Wn jrresrtod ot) suepidoB ol mvxlaz cifle cases iast*u4 vt tha principle!
lodged in >aji at Pall**,... .
^i»v^ve4.
lahoma county, District Judge Old-'county assessor was accepted finally
field isued a writ of mandamus, com- by the state board of equalization,
polling the county election board to Several weeks ago the board ordered
place Satterfield’s name on the ballot an increase of $1,000,000, but on re-
fer the August 1 primary election, quest of the county excise board this
The board ruled that there was no order was rescinded and the original
such office as coroner and. in accord- valuation of approximately $8S,000.000
ance with that ruling, refused to place accepted. All members of the board
candidates for coroner on the ticket, voted to accept the original figures ex-
The attorney general held no such cept Governor Williams and State Ex-
office existed in the state. ) aminer and Inspector Parkinson.
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Panic Scenes In Buildings.
Scenes of panis on the streets wrere
preceded by similar scenes in resi
dences, big hotels and office build-
ings. where people frantically sought
exit.
City hospital authorities were faced
with a big problem, when terror
among patients resulted, after the
great explosion many sick were
thrown to the floors of New York,
New Jersey and Brooklyn hospitals.
Elevated, surface and even subway
trains were shaken and many panes
of glass shattered. Panic around sub-
way entrances was one predominating
cbaracteristis of the scene In New
York and Brooklyn.
Extent of (he force of the explosion
was emphasized by reports coming
coming from five states, telling that
the shock had been felt. Many Penn-
sylvania cities and towns tell of feel-
ing the quake distinctly.
The first cut-off of communication
noticed following the first explosion,
was that phone wires of the New Y’ork
Telephone Company, leading to the
Jersey side, were out of commission.
In Brooklyn, where the force of the
explosion was even more severe than
in New York proper, panic in the res-
idence districts produced a weird
scene. Inhabitants in their, night-
clothes thronged the streets hyster-
ical with fear. Each succeeding min-
ute the explosions increased the ter-
ror and the street crowds.
So strong was the force of the first
b’ast. that even persons in those parts
FORAGE IS UP TO AVERAGE.
State Is Compiling Estimates on
rieus Fodder Crops In State.
Oklahlma City.—W. B. Hamlin, stat-
istician for the state department ot
agriculture, is now engaged in com-
piling forage crops estimates. The
figures will be given out shortly.
It is known that the acreage is less
than that of last year. In the March
crop report the kafir corn acreage was
estimated at 13 per cent less than in
1915, felerita 30 per cent less, mile
maize, 27 per cent less. It is likely,
however, that with the forthcoming es-
timates these figures will be in-
creased, abandoned oats and wheat
acreages having been planted to fod
der crops.
The production, it is expected, will
run about the same as that last year,
In proportion to acreage. The kafir
corn acreage last year was 503,000
and milo maize 216,000. The kafir
corn is a pretty good drouth-resisting
plant and hasn’t been much affected
by the dry weather.
The announcement concerning the
sorghum acreage will, it is anticipated,
prove a surprise, being much larger
than is generally believed. The 1915
average was 260,000.
Probably Was.
A North of Ireland orator in a Scot-
tish county constituency sought to in-
gratiate himself with his audience at
the outset thus: "Gentlmen, I am an
Irishman. T am proud to be an Irish-
man, but I am not ashamed to admit
that I have a drop of Scotch in me."
And for fully a inute he could not
undestand what the uproar was about.
Outlaws At Juarez.
El Paso.—General George Bell, Jr.,
commanding the El Paso military dis-
trict, notified General Francisco Gon-
zales, commandant in Juarez, that his
reports indicated that six outlaws, Vil-
lista sympathizers have been respon-
sible for the recent exchanges of shots
between the Massachusetts national
guardsmen in this vicinity and Mexi-
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_ cans south of the frontier. These out-
of Brooklyn and New York City proper! laws. General Bell’s information said,
most remote from the actual Black have a rendezvous on “Th« Island," a
Tom Island scene were thrown fro« bit o< Mexican >uifU<ry & lew vil&&
heir beds. •' | ktWu £1
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