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THE SHAWNEE DAILY NEWS-HERALD
REGULAR AFTERNOOH ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS, EXCLUSIVE IK POTTAWATOMIE 001 Ti
KKI DAY EVENING, JUNE 23,1916
SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA.
NUMBER 3'20.
DEPORT ON BATTLE CLAIMS
ATTACK m NOT PROVOKED
By Associated Press.
Washington, June 23.—Secretary Baker,
this afternoon made public Pershing s report
cn the Carrizal Battle based on talk with men
engaged. He indicated the attack was un-
provoked, but gave no list of casualties.
Secretary Baker Orders All Available
Militia to Border When Ready, Without
Awaiting General State Mobilization
PACIFIC PLANNING FOR
CONFERENCES 10 PREVENT
UNITED STATES- MEXICO WAR
By Associated Press. I Nebraska Ordered to Border.
Washington, June 23.—Sec. Baker By Associated ires".
issued orders to all army department Lincoln, Nebr., June 23. The
commanders l«> send to the border all j braska guard lias been ordered to the
the militia available immediately upon border, Governor Moorehead an-
oririuiization, without waiting tor the nounced. He received word from Sec.
completion of mobilization in the sep-1 Baker to send them south as somi aa
states. possible to points Gen. Funston will
Commanders arc requested to noti- designate. It Is expected twelvei hun-
tien. Funston when each unit com- dred men will mave in a few days,
lien. Funston will
pleles Its muster.
indicate wbere he wishes the forces
tent, without further instructions.
Missouri Entrains.
By Associated l'ress.
Nevada, Mo., June 23.—The
souri troops begin entraining tonight.
The first unit probably will be the
signal corps, and the artillery prob-
ity Associated l'ress.
Washington, June 2S.-Thc prelim-
inary report of lien. Pershing on the
Carrizal fight was taken to the White
House by Sec. Baker. It is only pre-
liminary, and wou't be made public.
See. Baker denied rumors of u plan
for an Immediate call for volunteers.
He said there had been no additional
troop orders issued.
PREPARED FOR TROUBLE.
By Associated Press.
Jit Paso, June 28.—American guns
command the situation at every im-
portant border point. Held artillery
has been mounted in the larger com-
munities, while machine gnu detach-
meiits have been stationed in the
Hiualler towns. Tile authorities an-
nounced that every preparation has
been made.
HAY tlM.ES RESOLUTION.
By Associated Press.
Washington, June 28.—Immediate
action on liis resolution authorizing I ably wm follow at once.
the president to draft into the federal j
service guardsmen willing to take the Oklahoma Guard.
oath under the new law, was urged oklahoma City, June 23 —
in the house by Chairman Hay. He j Washington, D. C., June
also offered an amendment declaring j A(ij Gen p m. Canton,
an emergency for such draft now ex-; oklahoma City.
ists, instead of leaving the question to 0ur wal. department plans are based
from the commander of the Mexican
garrison their permission to pass
through the town.
Gen Felix Gomez sent back word
by the guide that the Americans
might pass through If they would con-
sent to a parley. Without waiting for
the commander of the America force
reply, General Gomez, accompanied
by an aide appeared and the Amer-
ican officer rode forward to talk with
'* Mexicans' Actions Menacing.
While they were talking, the men
\n tor^naVoyTln such' ,,o„" is nlnolutely accessary to me
manner that there appeared danger! It"  Huj gmeI1(llI1(,Ilt wll8 adopted
1 think we are de-
claring war here," said Madden of
the
ready retarded mobilization was i
caused by the war department's in-
sistence upon Chandler.
Detail Starts to Chandler.
Preliminary work on making the
camp at Chandler would be started
this morning b ya detail from Chan-
dler's Company B, General Canton
said last night. The camp will be
situated on school land, half a mile
south of the rifle range.
Contracts with railroads for trans-
porting troops to the camp will be
Mis-1 made today by the adjutant general's
' office. Five days' food supplies, con-
tracted for in this city when encamp-
ment here was ordered earlier In the
week, will be shipped to the new site.
Future subsistence supplies will be
ordered from St. Louis.
Fort Sill Miirclilson's Choice,
detail of medical officers was in
the president.
EMERGENCY EXISTS.
Questioned by republicans, Mr. Hay
said he did not contemplate a state
of war, but the mere fact of the in-
on mobilization at Chandler, as long
standing choice of state.
Too late to change, following tele
gram repeated for your information
Commanding General,
DECISIVE ACTION
PLANNED IN EVENT
OF HOSTILITIES
lly Associated Press.
Washington, June 23.—One fact
stood out at the close of a day of
many developments in the Mexican
crisis. Apparently both the United
States government and the de facto
authorities of Mexico hope to treat
the clash at Carrizal as an incident
aggravating gravely strained rela-
Chandler yesterday at the direction ot lions, but not of itself likely to pre-
Governor Williams and General Can- clpitate general hostilities.
strnctions in the resolution handed j "Southern Department,
him by the war department snows I «port gam Houston, Texas:
"that in the president s opinion an «Suppliea now en route to Chandler,
emergency does rxittf. and the resoiu-1 change Can be made at this time."
 el * ° MTTiIiS.
-After
Lans-
Fear Losses Were Heavy,
lly Associated Tress.
San Antonio, June 23. tear
casualties of Americans at Carrizal
were terrifically heavy is expressed
by officers here. They point out that
if twelve were killed, probably forty
were wounded.
Situation Unchanged.
By Associated Press.
Washington, D. C., June 23.
a two hours cabinet meet, Sec
ing said there was no change in the
situation. '
Arredondo personally informed rep-
resentatives of South and Central
American nations that the Carranza
troops in Chihuahua were under or-
ders not to attack the American
troops unless the Americans assumed
the aggressive.
Chairman Stone of the senate mill
tarv committee visited Sec. Lansing.
He said congress would do nothing
that might interfere with negotia-
tions.
of the American force being sur-l The
sounded. One of the men who had ] unanimously,
been holding the horses of the Amer-
ican officer and the man who had rid-
den forward with him said the Amei-
ican officer appeared to protest
against the positions General Gomez
troops were taking. A few minutes
later General Gomez rode off toward
one end of the Mexican line and im-
mediately after the Mexicans began
the attack, sweeping the American
line with a machine gun.
It was not until then, according to
the stragglers, that the American
commander gave orders for
both
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Panic Seized Negroes.
By Associated Press.
Chiuhuahua City, Mex., June 2 .
That the flight of negro soldiers de-
tailed to hold the horses of some of
those who went forward to parley
with General Gomez, leaving those
afoot to their fate was responsible tor
seventeen negro troopers of the Tenth
cavalry being taken prisoners by the
Mexicans, was the story told here to-
day by Lem H. Spillsbury. a Mormon
scout employed by Gen. J. J. Persh-
ing and who was taken prisoners
along with the troopers.
Officer Killed First Aolley.
Spillsbury and the other prisoners
were brought to Chihuahua City to-
day. Spillsbury said that Capt. Chas
T. Boyd of Co. C, commanded the
Americans and with Lieut. Henry K.
Adair, was among the killed.
Captain Morey of Co. K, and Lieu-
tenant Adair fell wounded ,the latter
mortally, at the first volley, accord-
ing to Salisbury's story. At the same
lime the negroes holding the horses
fled with the mounts. The scout saM
he counted eleven negro dead and
that there probably were others.
Attack Unprovoked,
llv Associated l'rcss.
San Antonio, Tex., June 23.--Strag-
glers from the Tenth cavalry detach-
ment that was In the fight at Carrizal
arrived at General Pershing s head
ciuarters today and told him that the
fighting began with an unprovoked
attack on the Americans at the con
elusion of a parluey with the Mexican
commander. Oen^al Pershing trans-
mitted this story to Gene al F inston
who immediately referred it to the
war department.
The men were unable to tell any
thing relative to the casualties or even
the latter phases of the engagement.
They retreated during the fight, be-
came separated from tl^eir commands,
making their way hack to the Amer-
ican lines.
Approach ( arri/al.
Two troops of the Tenth cavalry,
companies S. commanded by Capt.
Charles T. Boyd, and K, commanded
by Capt. Louts Morey. composed the
detachment that advanced within a
mile of Carrizal at 7 a tm.. ■June 21.
They had stopped at Ojo I)e Canto Do-
mingo on the previous night, resum-
ing their march towards the east at
o'clock the next morning.
From their position in front of Car-
rizal the commander of the detach-
ment, believed by General Pershing to
have been Captain Boyd, since he was
senior in rank to Captain Morey, sent
forward a Mexican guide to secure
troops to dismount and return the|
fire. _ ,
To Obey Orders.
In announcing this afternoon in
Chihuahua City a story of the battle
which he said Scott Spillsburg told
him. Gen. Jacino Trevino, command-
er of the military district of the
northeast, announced that any time
and at any place the American troops
move other than toward the border he
will comply to the letter with his su-
perior's orders and will attack them,
Gen. Felix Gomez did at Carrizal.
Mexican authorities asserted today
that the prisoners had been well
treated en route to Chihuahua,
General Trevino says he received
some days ago an acknowledgment
from General Pershing that he had re-
ceived General Trevino's warning not
to move east, south or west. Since
that time four negroes other than
tl*>se taken at Carrizal have
captured and also an American.
iillinois, before the house.
Mobilization In Kansas.
By Associated Press.
Junction City, Kan., June 23. The
mobilization of the guard will be
completed this afternoon. Two regi-
ments will be ready to move to the
border at once, according to Major
Haun, assistant adjutant general. All
the companies are up to the minimum
strength. Adjutant General Martin
will organize new companies.
ton to study sanitary conditions at
the camp site, which were reported to
be unsuited to proper safeguarding of
the soldiers' health. The detail con-
sisted of Maj. Floyd J. Bolend, Capt.
Lewis E. Inman and Lieut. Frank B.
Sorgatz of the Oklahoma City field
hospital.
Lieut. W. G. Murchison, U. S. A., In-
spector of militia, telegraphed to the
MILLS. I headquarters ol the southern depart-
b&nafsmBBE£-
??. W t^ r«rttr.|0^«a ^camp.te, Lieutenant
other unforeseen contingency arrives.
General Canton at once began prep-
arations to have the militia encamp
at Chandler the earliest possible mo-
ment. Still further delay in the al-
Murchison recommended that Port
Sill be chosen, pointing out that its
water supply and target range are
good and that ground for instruction
and maneuvers is ample.
So far as th6 Washington adminis-
tration is concerned no final ctecision
can be reached until President Wil-
son has received a report on the fight
from American army officers. All in-
formation so far has come from Mex-
ican sources.
Would S*rike Hard.
Callers who saw the president got
the impression that ho is determined
that if, despite all efforts to prevent
it, war with Mexico should come, the
action of the United States would be
prompt and on a scale of consider-
able magnitude. It would not be a
war of conquest but Mr. Wilson is said
to be prepared if necessary to use
the maximum available military
strngth of the nation for a short de-
cisive campaign to re-establish order
and a stable government in Mexico
as well as permanently to inSure pro-
tection of the American border from
outlaw forays.
llv Associated Press.
New York, June 23.—The movement
to call a conference of American and
Mexican citizens at El Paso in an
effort to avoid war was announced
today by the American Union Against
Militarism. After an all night ses-
sion. the executivo committee sent
telegrams to Bryan, David Starr Jor-
dan and Frank P. Walsh at Kansas
City, urging them to proceed to El
Paso. Similar messages were sent to
Mexicans.
It is announced the "A. B. C." am-
bassadors have been asked to press
mediation, and endeavor to influence
Carranza against war.
FUNERAL OF J. STEWART.
The funeral services of J. Stewart
who died at the Santa Fe hospital at
Topeka Wednesday after a long ill-
ness, will be held at the home, 210
North Philadelphia street, Sunday af-
ternoon at 3 o'clock. Members of the
W. O. W. and M. W. A. to both of
which he belonged, will attend in a
body. Mr. Wilson had been employed
by the Santa Fe for seven years. He
loaves his wife, two sons, Howard and
Harold, and one daughter, Mrs. Edna
Wilson.
WHAT DOES HUGHES
STAND FOR, WHAT
QUALIFICATIONS?
been
MUCH INTEREST ENTERTAINING
CHASE
HORSE THIEVES
ACROSS
By Associated Press.
Columbus, N. M., June 23.—Unof-
ficial reports say Mexicans crossed to
the American side near Hachita, steal-
ing a number of horses. American
troops, it is reported immediately gave
chase and crossed into Mexico after
them.
FIERCE FIGHTING
CONTINUES ON
THE VERDUN FRONT
lly Associated Press.
Paris, June 22.—The Germans
launched heavv attacks in the Cham-
paign region today. Three violent as
saults were repulsed after severe
fighting with grenades and bayonets
it is announced the Germans again
attacked Hill 304 on the Verdun front,
and there was lively fighting around
Dead Man's Hill.
Miss Helen Knowles returned from
Chicago Thursday morning where she
has been attending the American
Conservatory of Music. Miss Helen
ts a graduate from the teachers' de-
partment in pipe organ, piano and
theory; having completed the two-
years' work In one year. She receiv-
ed special honorable mention. She
will spend the summer at her home
on North Beard street.
IN HIGHWAY MEET
HERE ON TUESDAY
Much interest is being manifested
in the highway meeting to be held in
Shawnee Tuesday evening, June 27.
At that time Mr. I. J. Kirker, organ-
izer of the Old Trails Assn., National
Highway Assn. and Oklahoma High-
way Assn., will be here, and he ex-
pects to bring with him several hun-
dred good roads boosters from Lin-
coln and other counties north.
The meeting Tuesday night will be
merely preliminary to a bigger meet-
ing later to select a name for the
Kansas City-Dallas road, and lay
plans also for the Little Rock-Ama-
rillo road.
Further details of the plans for the
meeting will be published later. A
large attendance from surrounding
towns is expected.
RIVER IS FALLING
VERY SLOWLY NOW
GREEK PLEASED
AT CHAUTAUQUA
SEEKING SOURCE
OF LOCAL SUPPLY
OF NARCOTICS
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Grand
This Evening.
Thaviu's Band.
Tonight.
Thaviu's Band and
Opera Singers.
Saturday Afternoon.
Alfred Hiles Bergen and Ethel
Hinton.
Saturday Jiight.
Mr. Bergen and Gov. R. B..
Glenn.
The North Canadian is falling more
slowly today, the level of the water
being this afternoon only about i
inches below what it was at 6 o clock
this morning. Thursday and Thurs-
day night it fell a total of about U
inches, making a fall of 13 inches
from high water mark.
It is reported here that another
rise is coming, having reached Mc-
Loud today.
Mr. Roosevelt may search with
magnifying glass, but he will find no
pussy-foot tracks around the 8t.
Louis platform.
At Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City, June 23—With
three-foot drop in Wheeler I ark, a
six-inch decline at the overflow waters
the withdrawal of the overflow waters
altogether from South Robinson av-
enue and Exchange avenue flood
conditions took an optimistic
Thursday. . th
•At the rate the water fell in the
park Thursday it will all he gone by
the first of next week, provided the
sewers are not stopped up and will
take care of the draining of the low
spots," said Joe H. Patterson, park
commissioner, Thursday night.
Patterson started Thursday to re-
move the animals from the scaffold-
ing on which they have lived for ten
days to the high dry places. He says
all of them will he "back on earth
before Saturday.
Plans are being considered by the
park hoard for the raising of the
Western avenue levee five feet, and
a two-foot raise In the levee on the
south side of the park.
Alexander and Mammaux, score 1
to 0. That is the way the scoreboard
read a few days ago.
Aroused by the apparent increase
in the use of drugs in Shawnee, the
city physician and the police
casting about seeking the source of
the supply. Cocaine is the most com
inon drug used, bat it is also known
that opium smoking Is more or less
prevalent, while morphine and uvea
chloral are used hypodermically.
It has been learned that there is
an apparently inexhaustible supply of
the drugs procurable, though at times
there is a local stringency. As high
as $2 per gram is said to be paid in
some instances. There is hardly a
physician in the city who has not
been approached at one time or an-
other by one of the habitues and
begged for "dope." One such victim
of the habit begged for "just one
shot ' to tide him over. "One shot
wouldn't do you any good," urged the
doctor. "It would only last you half
an hour or so and then you would be
worse off than ever.' "Yes," he re-
joined, '.but there will be plenty after
the 11 o'clock train gets in." Like
all the other "hop heads,' he refused
to tell the source of his supply
The situation is said to be getting
really serious here, and every effort
given at 10:30. It consisted of a pre-1 wiu be ma(ie to break up the traffic
lude by Bellino and an entertainment'
by Noah Bellharz. .
This afternoon Thaviu's band is
giving a concert, and this evening a
band concert will be followed by a
program by the Grand Opera singers. I
The attendance here is much above j
the average, the Chautauqua manage-
ment declares, though there are but ]
few single admissions, nearly all hav- (
nrrir— — n *
many of the; a probable shortage of milk
Julius Caesar Mayphe, the Greek
lecturer and entertainer, pleased
large crowd at the Chautauqua Thurs-
day night. Especially were the chil
dren delighted with his droll mimicry
and impersonations, while the older
people were instructed by his lecture.
His program occupied two hours and
a half, during a greater part of fhich
time the big tent was ringing with
laughter. He was followed by Bel-
lino, who did all kinds of stunts with
his accordeon.
This morning the program to have
been given Thursday evening
IBy J. C. Hemphill)
Washington, June 23.—Mr. Hughes
is a capable lawyer and a very good
man. His whole career has been hon-
orable. He made an excellent record
on the United States supreme bench
and when he was governor of New
York he displayed fair executive
ability. There is nothing that can
I be said truthfully against his per-
sonal character, and, if by any re-
| mote chance he should be elected
president he would doubtless fill the
office creditably if he could get away
from his political party which, in
truth ,is "the sum of all villanies.''
The cheap things that have been
said about his wiskers do not count.
Moses the great lawgiver who led hia
people In the wilderness is represent-
ed in all the pictures in the old fam-
ily Bibles as wearing a chin attach-
ment of immense length and exceed-
ing whiteness; but, Moses, it will be
remembered, did not get out of the
wilderness, and "no man knoweth of
his sepulchre unto this day.' There
are a good many Scriptural passages
that might be twisted into direct ref-
erences to the Republican candidate
I for president; but he is a man of the
present day and a person of passing
importance at least.
He did not seek the nomination, but
like Caesar's wife he protested too
much, and whispering probably to
Wickersham "I will ne'er consent"—
consented. And that is how it all hap-
pened, so that Mr. Hughes must be
treated on his merits, not as a law-
yer of good ability or as a judge of
high repute, but as a politician and
the candidate of the most discredited
...j party in the history of this long-suf-
18911, the output of this product in-) t'ering country for the highest office
creased to 880,780 hales in 1915. The | in the gift of its people.
1915 linter product even exceeded
COTTON CROP OF
1915 IS REPORTED
Special to News-Herald.
Washington, June 23.—A bulletin
on cotton production in the United
States, Just issued by Director Sam.
L. Rogers, of the Bureau of the Cen-
sus, Department of Commerce, and
prepared under the supervision ■ of
Mr. William M. Steuart, chief statis-
tician In eliargt of the inquiry, shows
the American cotton crop of 1915—
11,191,820 equivalent 500-pound bales
—to have been the smallest since
1909. The tables contained In this
publication will be reprinted in the
annual cotton bulletin, to be pub-
lished about Oct. 1, which will also
include more detailed figures as to
production, together with data in re
gard to consumption, imports, ex-
ports ,and stocks of cotton.
The crop of 1915 fell below that of
the preceding year hy nearly 5,000,000
bales, or more than 30 per cent. The
production in every state showed a
decrease, the greatest proportionally
being in Oklahoma, where the crop
of 1915 was only a trifle more than
half as large as that of 1914.
The increase in the production of
linters during recent years is note-
worthy. Starting at 114,544 bales in
GERMANS RAISE
GOATS FOR MILK
^enar0rfivilsCkh°a'vlngatto 'find' resting Xter'tTe minister of agriculture al-
nlacesonthe ground. Each evening ready is taking steps looking; to.the
there is too great an attendance for rearing during the coming summe^
places on the ground
there is t-_ „
the number of seats provided
as many milch goats as _
agriculture chambers and organiza
tions all over Prussia are urged to
MrsA":umm Ames oMBas"'Twelfth get'into touch with goat breeding as-
street has been entertaining as a fam- Hociations everywhere with the J
iiy reunTon the past week of her chil- of Influencing individuals In the right
dren who have come from east and direction. ... .
west and south to be present. Premiums for raising goats will In
Miss Grace Ames assisted her moth-: all probability be offered. K''^ m
in entertaining as did Mr. and Mrs. kets in the cities at which a
a P GriKK* t nee Miss Elizabeth sold to butchers will not be held as
Ames) who have a pretty new home j usual, and arrangement! will be made
in Camp McClellan
The out of town sons and daughters
who came for the reunion were B. D.
Ames of Philadelphia. W W.
Ames of Newark. N. J.. Mr. and Mrs.
Fred I) Ames of Oakland, Cal., Mrs.
W. H. Curtice of Shawnee, Okla.. and
Mrs. F. M. Shiver of Monett, Mo.
E O. Ames of Omaha, with his two
little children was unable to be pres-
ent The grandchildren attending
the family reunion were thetwochil-
whereby special pastures will
available for the animals. The pub-
lic will be urged to demand goat s
milk as little as possible so that the
summer's "crop" of kids may be so
large as possible.
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Griggs, and
Arthur Walter Griggs of this city.
The visitors leave early in the week
for their homes—Davenport, Iowa
Leader, June, 1916.
that of the preceding year by nearly
24,000 bales, although the cotton crop
of 1915 was very much smaller than
that of 1914. This increase in linter
production is due to some extent to
closer delinting of the seed for the
better separation of the meat from
the hulls, but more especially to the
high prices obtained for the fiber,
which is used extensively in the man-
ufacture of guncotton and smokeless
powder. Many mills now obtain con-
siderably more than 100 pounds of
linters per ton of seed treated, where-
as in earlier years 50 pounds per ton
I was a high yield.
Sea-Island cotton, of which . 91.844
running bales were ginned in 1915,
represented In that year less than 1
per cent of the total cotton produced.
All this cotton was grown In Georgia,
possible. The Florida, and South Carolina, the first-
named state producing 57,572 bales,
or more than three-fifths of the total.
Although cotton Is grown In 18
j states, the combined product of four
—Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, and
Alabama—represented nearly two-
thirds of the total crop of 1915.
Texas alone produced 3,227,840
hales, or more than one-fourth of the
total crop of 1915. The next great-
est production was that of Georgia.
1,908,673 hales, or more than one-
sixth of the total. Other states pro-
ducing large crops were South Caro-
lina. with 1,133,919 bales; Alabama
1.020.839 bales; Mississippi, 953,965
bales; Arkansas, 816,002 bales; North
Carolina, 699,494 bales, and Oklaho-
ma, 639,626 bales.
The leading cotton county in
spect to number of bales ginned from
the growth of 1915 Is Ellis county,
Texas, which reported 117,337 bales
What does lie know about politics?
For more than five years he has de-
voted all his time and thought to the
interpretation of the law. He has not
taken any part in the discussion of
any of the questions of administration
and statesmanship that have en-
grossed the attention of those ap-
pointed to make and administer the
laws. He has been a mere looker on
in the strictest judicial sense and so
far as the public knows he has utter-
ly eschewed all sectional and partisan
politics If Wickersham and others
of the potential figures in the Hughes
movement had let him alone lie would
probably have spent the remainder of
his years of active service on the
bench.
What Mr. Hughes represents can-
not be learned from anything that he
has said. His telegram to the Repub-
lican convention saying that he ac-
cepted its nomination for president is
the only chart by which he can be
fairly judged. He stands "for the firm
and unflinching maintenance of ail
the rights of American citizens on
land and sea.' In this respect he
does not differ in any way from all
other good American citizens. Es-
pecially does he not differ from Mr.
Wilson whom he is trying to succeed
as president, and is only fair to say
that Mr. Wilson "got there fust with
the most men." Bless the Judges
sanltarv soul, that is precisely what
Mr Wilson has been saying and do-
ing for the last three years.
Mr Hughes Is not quite himselr,
(Continued on Page Eight.)
The only other county to report more
than 100,000 bales was Bolivar coun-
ty. Miss., in which the ginninga
amounted to 102,838 bales. .