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EL RENO. OKLAHOMA, MONDAY. JAN. 3". 1522 
NUMBER 140
(By United Press) ! 
® MORTUARY •
,,kla. City. Jan. 3ft. Robert Mc\: <j>
lister pleaded guilty in the district s^x^kJkj^k
court here today to participating in
lynching of Jake Brooks, negro; T„n funeral g{ Ada,jne Doerf]er
< 
ithf
packing house strike
negro i
breaker, and
The
five year old daughter of Mr. and
was sentenced to life imprisonment Mrg Frank wag heW ^
He is the seventh member of the af(ernoon an(, interment took plBce
lynching party to enter su( li ,i plea, jn ^ Cathcjlie cemetery. Services
and received the life sentence.
John Harris, ariother alleged mem-
r of the mob, pleaded not guilty,
wli n arraigned in justice court to-
da y.
ILLINOIS COUNTY
HAS SOIL VARIETY
(By CnitfcS Press)
St. Louis, Jan. 30.—There are 24
kinds of soil in Madison county, ill .
according to a soil test made at the
state experimental station at the Unt
versity of Illinois. The maps show
greater part of the land is desir-
able, but 'that sections are badly !i>
need of limestone and phosphate.
The range in fertility is wide. In
one section the soil is entirely sand,
suitable only for watermelons, cante-
loupes and sweet corn.
in the Catholic cemetery.
wore conducted at the cemetyry by
Rev. Father Huber. Death occured
Sunday from scarlet fever.
COME ON IN
WATER FINE
PRICES REDUCED
RECORD IS CLEAR
LISTED SLACKER
After having served his country
faithfully in foreign service during
the late war. the publication by au-
thority of the war department of thb
list of alleged "slackers" in the Dem-
ocrat of"Monday, Jan. 23, was the
first intimation received by Clinton
M. Thompson of Yukon, that the
government records regarding hi~
service were not correct.
Mr. Thompson came to El Reno
this morning and secured a certified
copy of his discharge from County
Clerk Bross and will send all papers
to the war department in an effort
cleared. Mr
<s>
(By United Press)
Berlin. Jan. 30.—The International
Balneologists Congress will meet
here from March 18 to 20. Professor
Dr. Dietrich presiding. An import-
ant scientific exhibition is announc-
ed. For the uninitiated, it might be
Mrs. R. M. Hawkins died today at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lou
Normandin, 507 South Hoff. The
funeral was held this afternoon at 4
I o'clock at the Christian church, and
the body was shipped to Paris, Mo
where interment will take place.
Mrs. Hawkins was born July 30, 18fi2
and was GO years of age at the time
of her death. She had been ill for
several weeks.
to have his record
Thompson's discharge shows that lie
all 85 cent Brunswick records to enjlBtod Qct. 1, at Camp Bowie,
75 cents. They will play on any j rj.oxagj a„,i Was honorably illscharg
phonograph.—Behne's. flc 1 ed on June 10, 1919. Thompson sei
i ved as a private in field hospital 141
WIRE BRIEFS
explained that
bath experts.
"Balneologists" are |
OKLAHOMA CITY MARKETS
Only a few stray offerings showed
up at today's market, and as a result
the market was slow and steady.
Steer top was quoted at $6.25; bulk
i $5.50; heifers $fi,00; cows $4.50.
(By United Press)
Rome, Jan. 30.—The first of the
final three funeral services for the
late Pope, began today in the Sistin...
Chapel.
of the 111th sanitary train. 36th di
vision, and took part in the Meusi
Argonne offensive in October, 1918
Mr. Thompson's discharge is signed
by Capt. Will. E. Lucey, conimandlns
officer of the hospital.
Mr. Thompson can give no reason
, for the discrepency in the goven
| ment records, except that the rec-
Editorial
iiieui ... ..
I ords of the board here list liitn as
Calf receipts 50; steady.
The hog market was sternly with
top of $8.6ft; bulk $8.40 and $8.art.
Amber Found
In Dross Heap
(By United Pressi
Vancouver, B. C. Jan. 3ft.- "VMiat
was considered worthless dross in
the mines of the Coalmont collieries |
.It Nicola, B. C.. has been discovered I
to be pure amber, according to a dis
paten from that part of the country.
The deposit is -aid to be the Jii-1
amber deposit ever found on the
North Anfericm continent. I he dis-
covery is credited to R. S. Oliver, a
field chemist.
Large quantities of the amber ate
said to be in sight.
Miss Alice Robertson is friendlie.
to suffrage now. ' She wants to lie re-
elected to congress. ■ Chattanooga
News.
my United Press)
Berlin, Jan. 30. — Teleplione-tele
grams are being experimented with
by the postoffice authorities in an at
tempt to get a short message and re-
ply between Berlin and Hamburg in
20 minutes. The message can be
given to the operator, who gives it j
t.o an operator in the other city,
who communicates with the ad-
dressee. gets a reply and phones it
back. The experiments started Jan i
1ft, and if successful will be continu- j
ed at a charge of 50 marks per mes- j
sage.
Marlon G. Thompson, and that hi3
name is Clinton Marion Thompson
Now let us nave a congressional
investigation of the alleged Hanging
of the Crane, which probably wa
without warrant in law.—Kansas City
Star.
While the Washington theatre cat-
astrophe is fresh in the minds of the
people of tills city. Hie Democrat
would suggest that the time is op-
portune for a rigid inspection of ev-
ry hall or building in this city where
people gather for dances or other en-
tertainment on other than the firs"
floors. The collapse of the roof of
the Washington theatre was caused
by heavy snowfall, here in El Rem.
such an accident is highly improb-
able. but there are halls in this city
where large crowds congregate, that
should he inspected for the safety of
the public. A floor built to accomo
date but a small crowd may be easily
overtaxed and give way without warn
ing, causing death and injury to
i many.
j We do not say that there are any
I halls or other public buildings In El
! Reno that are in unsafe condition,
but an Inspection in that event would
do no harm and would be a safety
provision. In times of catastrophe-
we are mindful of these precautions,
but we soon forget. Now is the time
(By United P.'ess)
Washington, Jan. 30. The death
I toll, caused by the collapse of the
Knickerbocker theatre roof here Sat-
urday night, one of the greatest
movie theatre catastrophes in the
| history of the country, stood at 114
1 early today. Deaths were reported
hourly from tho various hospitals
throughout the city, where 144 vic-
tims of the disaster, many of whom
are near death, were counted.
The death list is constantly rnonnt
ing. police and rescue workers be-
lieved it would puss 125. E. H.
Sliaughnessy, second assistant post-
master general, ill a critical condi-
tion today from injuries incurred in
tho theatre horror. His legs am
mangled and he is suffering from in-
ternal injuries. Three blood trans-
fusions were made during tho night.
He is not expected to live.
Rescue squads which worked fran-
tically for 36 hours to extricate those
trapped in tho gas hole of the the
atre, believed this morning that all
the dead had been removed. The
search however is still continuing.
Washington. Jan. 30.—When dawp
crept over this stunned city this
„ morning, the night shift of marines
for an inspection of every building j doing rescue work, was relieved MM
Hn the city that Is used for public another was ready to take its place.
:   , i . i. .i MiirrnwP.il
Charles M. Schwab says, .lust
V mile and time- will I"' better
Thai's what we've all been doing so
long that smiling hurts.—Portland
Press Herald.
(By United rress)
Gilliam, Mo„ Jan. 30.—This is the
bluest of blue law towns. Public
dances, pool halls and shooting gal-
lflies have been tabooed. The shim
my. it was said, caused the dance
halls to be closed.
concert
I My United Ftessi
Everything is in roadine for thy
opening entertainment of the W
Ren > Boxing club which will he stae
ed 'omorrow evening at the p.ivil j
Ilo nat the fair grounds.
Sailor Anderson who will oppose,
our own Battling Piedmont, arrive,! ,
in the city yesterday and is working
out at the fire station. He is n good
condition and the local butler may
have to look to his laurels. Pied^
mont, however, has been "sawing |
some wood" himself and is tiaint
down to a fine point. At ,ni> r.i ■
El Reno boxing fan are assure* o
a high class boxing exhibition, as .
A. Barnard and Bob Mallonee who .
are promoting the contest, 'J
guaranteed that the contest must b
first class or it will not be held
Arrangements have been made to
heat the big building and have "
comfortable tomorrow evening
There are plenty of good se.i
available, and a few ringside seats
can still be secured. Mallonee and
Barnard hope to put boxing on a
high plane in El Reno and a good
crowd should encourage
their initial effort
Radio wireless telephone
at high school auditorium.
Do you know that thousands ofj
people nightly are hearing operas in
Chicago concerts in Denver, market
reports from St. Louis,- and many
other features such as sermons, etc
by wireless telephone from thou
sands of miles.
The time is near at hand when
the most remote house will have its
wireless receiving set.
i A complete demonstration of tifj
wireless telephone will be given at |
the hi eli school auditorium Tuesday I
afternoon and night. You will hoar j
music and voice come through spac"
by wireless telephone.
Yesterday afternoon a very pleas-
i Ing musical and vocal recital was
j rendered by the music class of the
I Sacred Heart \eademy. The large
audience attending was indeed en-
couraging, and proved them to be in-
i terested in the participants. The pro
i gram was as follows:
i Camp of Glory: Inst. Trio Evalyn
Meyer, Ruth Bonnin, Ruth Irvin?
' Beautiful Moonlight (Chorus) Voice.
Pupils; Misses Bertha Men/.,;
Grace Hamilton, Ruth Hamilton. |
Colertta Finn, Bernice Ktimp,
Catherine Starffield, Bertha Mer
shik, Ruth Bonnin. Irene Wisei,
Margaret Rasp, Josephine Wisei.
Mary Morton.
i Recitation: "Let Us Smile" Cecil
Finn.
gatherings, and such an inspection
should be undertaken at once by the
city commissioners.
! In the event that a building is
l found to be safe, a notice to that ef-
fect bearing the signatures of the
cit\ commissioners should be poste*.
| in a conspicuous place, and if a bullet
ing is found unsafe, it should lie con
They had picked, shoveled, burrowed
and hauled for m ny weary hours,
practically combing the debris twice,
and shoving great masses of it into
the streets about tlie theatre. Marine
and army officers superintending the
rescue work agreed that the death pit
had given up all Its victims. The
lust live person to be brought from
mir is iuuiiu iiur.ui' . i.   | ■ ..
detuned as to public gatherings until the wreckage, was Shott Montgc
compliance is inadt
provisions.
with the safety
Chicago, Jan. 3ft.—Stockmen sold
over a million more animals at the
, Chicago market in 1921 than in tlr
i previous year, hut received nearly
a qu arter of a billion dollars less for
them, according to M. F. Horine, sta-
tistician of the Union Stock Yards
and Transit company
To be exact, said H,orine in an-
nouncing the annual summary. 16.- ■ Piano larv Clare Haley.
155.315 head brought $427,291,788 last !™J'
vi ar as compared with 15,432,8 .J
head which realized $665,431,233
* Helen •Hamilton.
itation. "The Chicken s Mistake
.,vj • ■ . f Beatrice Briggs
T- !,rpn' 'Told at Twilight." Violin- Miss Cath
orine Stanfield; accompanist, j
Miss Bertha Menz
! Barcarolle. Violin Thurnian Deny.
' Merry Sleighride. P ano Ruth Haley
' j - I Like the Old Doll Best," Song
SHINES AGAIN
C. M. Jacknian of Wichita, Kan,
was the guest of his son, li P. Jack-
man yesterday. Mr. Jackman is a
former resident" of El Reno, and re-
tains some of his business interests
in this city, being vice president of
the Commercial bank, in which insli
tution he is a heavy stockholder. Mr.
Jacknian is secretary treasurer of
the Kansas Milling Co- ot Wichita,
o,„. of the largest milling institutions
in the southwest.
r..,, : ' ' ' '
I unimproved today, he was unconsc,
I ous todav. He has been ill for the
week with heart troubl
'
visiting royalty by wav
twenty one times
Leader.
(By United Press)
( Denver, Jan. 30.— Times aren't
' slack in Denver tire repair shops
I Proprietors of vulcanizing shops have ,
I i new field vulcanizing rubber boots
Instead of throwing away their boots
I when a hole appears, the wearer
i brings them in to the vulcanizing
1 man and in a few minutes a neat
1 patch has been placed over the hole
The boots are then as good as new
SO the owners as well as the repair
ers claim.
Lena Ixiuise
Louise !
Ruth
wo can salu
ing a plowshai
Richmond Nor-
thern in
The wireless telephone
direct from the P"1''11 10
Is now said to he entire >
able, except as to taUn UP
lection. Columbus Dispatch
ermoti
hom
(By United Press)
Tokio, Jan. 30.—The condition ot
Prince Yamagata. aged Japanese
leader who has been ill for several
weeks, grew Worse today and all
hopes' for his recovery have bee,,
abandoned.
(By United Press)
Columbia, Mo., Jan. .10 A cops of
i recent edition of "Divine Comedy,
one of Dante's most famous works,
has been given to the University of
Missouri by Americans of Italian
I,, rent. The book, which is valued
at more than $M0t>Is one ot an ed!
Hon of 350 copies. The identical
On Parade, Piano
Hennessy.
Recitation, "Mother's Way
Welter.
'•Come Back to Erin." Piano
Bonnin.
Recitation, "The Dying Boy" Helen |
Marguerite Hennessy.
Shepherd Hoy. Piano Helen Lyman 1
| Camp March, Piano Alice McFar-
land.
! Recitation, "Ikie and the Porter
John Chamness
(By United Press)
New York, Jan. 3ft. Lillian Lor-
raine, popular Broadway musical
comedy star, after having spent most
of 1921 in a hospital us the result of
a broken neck sustained in an aei I-
dent early in January, lias made a
| sensational "come hack She is now t
appearing in New Yi rk as co-star |
with Joseph Cawtb.orue in
musical comedy, 'The Blm
When Miss Lorraine suffered in-
juries which kept lier nock in a brace
for several months, theatre-goers
aUreed that she would he unable to
return to the. stage. But she fooled
ery. whose story of courage was on
a par with that of the heroes of the
Tit antic, who aid "Women and chil-
dren first."
Badly crushed and mangled, he
cried out to rescue his companion.
Verlniea Murphy, whose body lay be-
side him, and the women and chil-
dren, before they thought of taking
him out. They finally rescued him
and sent him to a hospital where h •
was operated upon, and died later.
Capper Demands
Investigation
pm.
hahbone'S meditations
50Mt LON6-VA.CE FOLKS
PER-NOUNCE I>E.Y5 DONE
<?UIT PE DEE.IL, wen
PE TRUF IS , PE DEB II
wu2. So Fas' he oes
RUNNtD OFF EN LEF
(Hy United Press!
Washington, Jan. 30. Congress to
a new j jay was asked to make i complete
Kitten.' , investigation of the Knickerbocker
theatre disaster in a resolution, intro
duced in the senate by Senator Cap-
per of Kansas •
Intimation that the cause of lb•'
disaster was cheap construction
work on the part of a profiteering
ring of contractors in collusion with
U building Inspectors, was made
Capper in the resolution.
1 loci
by
Amazon Army
A sain Active
(By United Press)
Girard, Kan,. Jan 3ft Women
m ryheis again b am ■ a -live in the
southern Kan as coal fields near
Franklin ' day, according to word re
INVESTORS
We have bonds drawing good rate — --
we nave uo to ut|lur Griffith I
ot interest in amounts of *10 P -Birth ot a
$500. Also some good city loans o
sale.. See me if you wish safe invest
ments for your savings.
J. W. FINCH.
J30 f9
pages of the original are reprodiu
ihroimli photographic plates of
page.
il eel ved
th«
ach
tlOW VV
Nation."
nection with which the . *
so Stirling as to make Hn
nth green with envy Toronk
A western prohibition sleuth
said to have gained his objective im-
posing as a corpse, lie could liaru
ly have hit upon a more effective <U-
guise as a bootlegger s friend. Rich
mond Times Dispatch.
Income tux blanks are now ready,
but the public isn't.—Charleston
News and Courier.
There is hope while th
keep their present ambition to get
.together. Formerly their ambition
was to get separately. - Baltimore
Sun.
FOR SALE two huts cheap.
Wooley, Anstlne Hotel.
J. 1
sip
FOll KENT
Rogers.
5 room house.
(ill \V
tip
(By United FieMi
Houston, jail. 3ft. -Sentences total
ling 130 years were returned in erlm
Inal court here against W. Arlin El
Itins, charged in six cases with roh
bet* of street cars in the last few
months. The charge in each case
is robbery by tirearms.
The most that any car conductOi
last was $50.
Klkins received the verdict laugh
Ingly and jested about his cases. He
acted as his own lawyer. As one
,„rv would leave the court to dellb
, ate, it would ne ■ • the Jury in the
previous i 11 si returning.
The advices said i
and t)0 women, form
marched to the in in
men "to quit. Tin
a bod \
di: persetl
out t
•oublf
wa: -mid.
TY—TEE
Capital City
In Mourning
(By United Press)
Washington, Jan. 30. President
Harding today requeued that all cap-
it
city recovers frotn its pi"'f of tho
Knickerbocker theairi di: a-i-
ADDITIONAL SOCIETY
Mrs
end i
E. E. Sharpi
Okla. City
• spent the week
visiting friends
Miss Margaret and Alice Woods of
the Uuniversity at Norman spent the
i week end with their brother, Merls
Wood
,S> .«>
Mrs Eva Stone entertained with I
dinner Saturday evening in honor oi
Margaret and "Alice Woods of
Mis
Mi
s Gilda GraVs sensational «uc-
at the Rendezvous" New
York's new. t and smartest dance
palace—on Brunswick Record sev-
enty-five cenb -will play on any
phonograph Behne s.
Mrs .lay McGinnis
duties today at the
Co , after a several
with appendicitis.
resumed her
Wattson-Hatch
weeks illness
CooytlgW. 1911 bv MtC'ut. (;.r S "<!le«t*
THE WEATHER
Generally cloudy weather Is the
forecast for tonight and Tuesday
with a cold wave Minimum temper-
ature in the nor:hern part of the
,-tute is expected to lie between two
ii..1 i
,lu, aiutliern pa11 ..f the slat- from
10 to 2fi. Temperature in Kl Reno
I lor 'the 24 hours ending noon today.
! maximum 4"; minimum 21
Norman. Roses and swe
used in the decorations
ed the table at which
four course dinner w-is
ter the dinner th<> gu« -
line party at the Derry
of the evening being
and dancing Tho e
the courtesy were Mi
bert Tompkins. Miss'-
Ireni beeper, Margaret
Margaret Woods, Alice
Uiis Stone
Ray Mallei
t peas wer ■
and centei
a deliciou.i
sis enjoyed a
v, iii. balance
spent in earn*
who enjoyed
and Mrs. 11 n-
Marion Blake
Woodward,
Woods and
Messrs. Merle Woods,
und Luther Gadberry.
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