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COPAN LEADER
SENATORS AND OTHERS
LOOKING FOR A FIGHT
WILL FIND IT
defends league of nations
In Boston Speech He Tells Why He
Has Fought for Certain Ideals at
Paris and Will Continue To
Fight for Them At Home.
■Boston. — President Wilson will
fl5ht at ll011le us he has fought
abroad for a league of nations.
Returning from France he had been
on American soil not more than three
hours before he threw down the
gauntlet to those who distrust the
proposed concert of governments
based, he said on the American ideals
which had won the war for justice
and humanity.
Now England gave the president a
rouamg welcome. This city probably
never has seen a greater crowd than
gathered at every point of vantage
along the route from Commonwealth
aw to which the naval cutter Ossipeo
brought his party from the steamer
George Washington, through the
downtown districts and around two
sides of Boston common to
ley Plaza hotel where a
made for luncheon.
Cheered Everywhere.
At every turn the president was
choired, llat in hand he stood in his
motor car throughout the two miles
of the parade except in one block
between Washington and Fremont
streets where because of the narrow
way spectators were not allowed to
congregate.
The national army, the navy the
state guard and the city police in
lines on either side of the
formed a guard of honor for
lK*. di t irce of the drive.
So effective were the arrangements
piece of territory where It is thougni
nooody else will be welcome, they
ask for American soldiers.
And where other soldiers would be
ooked upon with suspicion and per-
imps met with resistance, the Ameri-
can soldier is welcomed with acclaim
Before this war Europe did not be-
lieve in us as she does now. She did
not believe in us throughout the first
three years of the war. She seems
really to have believed that we were
holding off because we thought we
could make more by staying out than
»> going in.
Whole Verdict Reversed.
And all of a sudden, in a short
eighteen months, the whole cerdict is
reversed.
l here can be but one explanation
ror n They saw what we did that
without making a single claim, we
put all our men and all our means
at the disposal of those who were
righting for their homes, in the first
instance, but for a cause, the cause
of human right and justice, and that
we went in, not to support their na-
7th
QMahoma
Legislature
the Cop-
stop was
compromise on the good roads
program before the legislature that
'vill result in carrying through both
Ihe administration $50,000,000 bond is-
lue bill and the plan of Senator J
Elmer Thomas will be reached within
Ihe next few days.
tional claims, but to support tlm'groat I viced "Z bt>e" ad'
cause which they held in common. (he Imsis ft eXpected to ,,e
And when they saw that America * a" aSreement of all fac-
not only held ideals, hut acted ideals 1 '°nii ls *liH:
they were converted to America and I Kir*t. Stripping the resolution
paPtisan,8 of those ideals. | railing for the submission of the road
. peaking with perfect frankness in bond issue of all imriiimn- f
the name of the neonle of the itnuJ I n„J , . lnaclnnery for crea-
States I have uttered us the objects !vork°( 1 co™mls8lorl and carrying on
of thi.i great war ideals and nothing k f bulI(1,nS roads,
but ideals and the war has been won ■ Second. Passage of a law creating
a road commission and establishing
» road fund to meet federal aid.
Third. Submission of the $50,000,-
A fight ■ '3* raised in the senate
on a bill t< appropriate $572,626 as a
deficiency for debts incurred during
the admin stratio .1 of Governor Wil-
liams.
While it was explained that the de-
ficiencies had all been created ac-
cording i law and certified to by the
governor, some -e.nators suggested
that an vestigatV'n should he made
"f the iietns in 'the deficiency bill.
Debate on the bill was brought to a
close by an adjournment which saved
D. I. Davidson, president pro tern,
from having to rule on a point of or-
der against some of the Items in the
bill.
^ Tne point of order was raised by
Senator W. C. McAlister with refer-
ence to a certificate of deficiency for
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Roll of Honor
Killed In Action.
an appropriation of $48,000 for paving I,Arf, K High night,"Ardmore,
and walks around the capitol. ! S’eaton’ 1laat)nsB’
0.„„, „ ... „ _ Died of Disease,
•senator McAlister asserted that a Eergt. Frank Kamra, Lookeba.
deficiency appropriation could not j Mark' a^u^ey^KecAom’ Ft 801
properly be allowed unless the money , V’ ,n- O.^Debo, Delaware,
had been spent.
route
the en-
by that inspiration
And now do you realize that this
confidence we have established
throughout the world imposes a bur-
den upon us—if you choose to call it
a burden.
It is one of those burdens which
any nation ought to be proud to carry.
Any man who resists the present
tides that run in the world will find
himself thrown upon a shore so high
and barren that it will seem as if he
had been separated from his human
kind forever.
The Europe that I left the other
day was full of something that it had
never felt fill its heart so fall before.
And now these ideals have wrought
this new magic, that all the peoples
of Europe are buoyed up and confi-
dent in the spirit of hope, because
they believe that we are at the eve of
a new age in the world when nations
will understand one another, when
nations will support one another in
every just cause, when nations will
unite every moral and every physical
strength to see that the right shall
prevail.
the world, what would
come of
tlu.t not an unpleasant incubrnT o^ | faU ‘A“eriCa- “ thiS junction t0
curred. I jt->
President Wilson was accompanied
It ’he parade and later to
I
do not mean any disrespect to
any other great people when 1
say
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I.’all, where he spoke before 8,000 p ,li“‘ America is the hope of the world;
6,:‘ • by Mrs. Wilson. lie apnea re-1 ! f.nd lf Kl,!® ,loi 8 1101 that hope
Physically fit for what lie declared’a, v1 ?Ie anthlukaLle-
tb" ci nroach'in ■*(,. * ° ■'*t-1 'S1 thrown back upon the
tr' .: , hl ,lfi ^rennous attempt to ; lit lerness of disappointment not only
V • .! *“ "s for while ill but the bitterness of despair. /’
u.-TiCj. nations win be set up as hostile
^ Jmmary of the Speech. I c:i*11Ps ^gain; the men at the peace
'rile president said: C'nfeience will go home with their
I ahve not come to report the pro-1 bcads upon their breasts, knowing that
cerd.ngs or the results of the pro-1 V" y !,ave failed—for they were bid-
cc-tdlngs of the pe ace conference- I ,•?“ .not 10 come hom® from there un-
t.r ' would be premature 11 t..ey did .oinething more than sign
I can sav that I have receiedv I a tleaty of P®upe
ban bond issue at a special election
ns a bare appropriation proposal.
Fourth, in event of the bonds be-
ing voted, machinery created by the
legislative act for building the roads
"ill be used in spending the money.
fifth Should the bonds fail, the
legislative act would stand and with
(he diversion of the gross production
and income taxes, would make it pos-
aible to meet federal aid and proceed
with the building of the roads with-
out bonds.
Sixth. Routes selected for road
building would be included in legis-
lative act and would be followed
whether built out of oond issue or out
of other funds.
I ar>P.v impressions from this confei- 1 . attpose we sign the treaty of peace
impression that while there I and tilat 11 18 the most satisfactory
1 t!'eaty of peace that the confusing ele-
ments of the modern world will afford
and go home and think about our la-
bors; we will know that we have left
written upon the historic table at
Versailles, upon which Vergennes and
Benjamin Franklin wrote their names,
nothing but a modern scrap of paper-
no nation united to defend it, no
American can realize thaUhe* aTenot ! *»r®at/orce8 combined to make it good,
the masters of their people- that thev a° dhS,'rance 8|ve|i to the downtrod-
ar- tie servants nf S^en a"d fwful people of the world
that they will be safe.
t.ro.many differences of judgment
w.,i e there are some divergences of
r lif-ct there is nevertheless a spirit
•y d a common realization of the nece
k;i>' of setting up new standards of
right iir the world
Servants of Their People
Because the men who are in confer-
'1!^! r.e3z(‘ »8 as any
that the spirit of th^ people has
awakened to a new purpose and a new
conception of their power to realize
that purpose and that i.o man daro
go home from that conference and
ri 'Mrt anything less noble than was
expected of it.
It seems as if the settlements of
this war affect, and affect directly
every great, and I sometimes think
f' ! sma'l nation in | world and
no one decision can prudently be
ni.ide which is not properly linked
in with the great series of other de-
cisions which must dccompflny it
And it might he reckoned In with
the final result if the real quality and
character of that is properly io be
judged.
'\hat we are doinK ls t0 hear the
whole case: hear it front the mouths
of the men most interested; hear it
from those who are officiallv commis-
sioned to state it; hear the rival
c alms; hear the claims that affect
new nationalities, that affect
areas of the world, that affect
commercial and economic connections
that have been established by the
great world war through which we
nave gone.
Ami I have been struck by the mod-
erateness of those who have
Rented national claims.
Seek American First.
And In the midst of it all every In-
terest seeks out first of all. when it
reaches Paris, the representatives of
the United States.
Whv
Any man who thinks that America
will take part in giving the world any
such rebuff and disappointment as
that, does not know America.
i invite him to test the sentiments
of the nation.
We sci this up to make men free
and we did not confine your concep-
tion and purpose to America and now
we will make men free.
Her Power Dissipated.
If we did not do that the fame of
America would be gone and all her
powers would be dissipated.
She would have to keep her power
lor those narrow, selfish, provincial
purposes which seem so dear to some
minds that have no sweep beyond the
nearest horizon.
new
new
repre-
I should welcome no sweeter chal-
lenge than that.
I have fighting blood in me and it
is sometimes a delight to let it have
scope, but if it is a challenge on this
occasion it will be an indulgence.
Do you realize how many nations
are going to be set up in the presence
of old and powerful nations in Europe
ami left the***, if left by us, without
* disinterested friend?
, The arrangements of the present
peace cannot stand a generation un-
less they are guaranteed by the united
forces of the civilized world.
When I think of the homes upon
which dull despair would settle were
this great hope disappointed, I should
wish for my part never to have had
America play any part whatever in
Because and T think r 1 this attemPt to emancipate the world.
e most6 won d p r f u l" fact/1n "h 1«tnri"^ g* 1 ** “ “ th-e were any ques-
tion. I have no more doubt of the
verdict of America in this matter than
I have doubt of the blood that is in
me.
And so, my fellow* citizens, I have
come back to report progress, and I
do not believe that the progress is go-
ing to stop short of the goal.
The nations of the world have set
their heads now to do a great thing
and they are not going to slacken
their purpose.
And when I speak of the nations of
the world I do not speak of the gov-
ernments of the world.
I speak of the peoples who consti-
the most wonderful fact In history—
because there is no nation In Europe
that suspects the motives of ihe Unit-
ed States.
Clash In Competition.
But you understand that the na-
tions of Europe have again and again
clashed with one another in competi-
tive interest.
It is impossible for men to forget
those sharp issues that were drawn
betwoen them In limes past.
It Is Impossible for men to believe
that all ambitions have all of a sut!
den been forgone.
They remember territory that was
Boveted; they remember rights that it
was attempted to extort: they retnem-
')**r political ambitions which it was
Utempted to realize and. while thm-
telieve that men have come Into a dif-
'erent temper, they cannot forget
hese things, and so they do not re-
inrt to one another for a dispassion-
ite view of the matters in contro-
rersy.
They resort to the nation which
ms won the envlnhle distinction of
lelng regarded as the friend of man
find.
Whenever it is desired to send a
mall force of soldiers to occupy a
Bad Air Is Killing Senators.
Washington. Appeals for steps to
urify the atmosphere in the senate
hainbor. Senator Owen of Oklahoma,
he believed the poor ventilating
ystem bad contributed greatly to the
lortality among members of the sen-
te. He pointed out that in eleven
1'ar; i irty six members had died
uring efflee while twenty-three others
ad died after retiring and declared
Is belief that their health had been
upalred by impure air in the senate,
think the senate is suffering more
m hot air,” said Senator Thomas
A resolution to authorize acceptance
by the state of the property of the
Bookertoe Agricultural School for
Negro Boys and Girls at Bookertee,
on tiie east side of the state, was in-
troduced in the house by Representa-
tive McNabb of Sequoyah county.
The school was founded by John
G. Leftwich, negro educator and
school promoter, who is present head
of the institution, which is said to
have an average daily attendance of
200 students and from 12 to 18 teach-
ers.
The property consists of ten acres
of ground and the main building three
stories and 80 by 80 feet, valued at
approximately $30,000. The owners
of the property have agreed to do-
nate it to the state for $1, providing
the state will agree to maintain and
operate it as an agricultural and me-
chanical school for the benefit of ne-
gro children.
The hill fathered by the State As-
sociation for the Cure and Prevention
of Tuberculosis, providing for the con-
j slniction of a chain of sanitoria for
j the treatment of infected persons, was
advanced through the house coinmlt-
' fR® whole after being amend-
ed so as to provide for only three
sanitoria, just half the number that
I was asked in the committee bill. The
1 appropriation of $600,000 as provided
in the original bill on the basis of
the construction of six buildings was
j reduced to $300,000. In ail other ma-
I terlal respects the bill was advanced
1 in the same form in which it was re-
ported by the committee.
The house committee’s substitute
j for the Cheatham bill, providing for
the appointment of a code commis-
| sion to codify the statutes of Okla-
i hoiaa in pursuance of the provisions
of the constitution, was passed by the
house of representatives. The bill
provides for the appointment of a
committee of eight members of the
legislature, four to be designated by
the president of the senate and four
by the speaker of the house, to have
charge of the work. They are to be
pail $1 a day for their services, and
| are authorized to employ such addi-
i tional help as necessary.
A bill passed by the senate will re-
| su" in a peculiar situation in that
| a secretary will receive more than
j the executive officer he serves. The
; measure applies to salaries of clerical
help in the office of lieutenant gov-
ernor and the state election board.
It gives the lieutenant governor a sec-
retary at a salary of $1,500 a year.
The salary of the lieutenant governor
is $1,000 a year.
The use of the United States flag
or coat of arms commercially or any
indignity imposed upon the flag Is
made a misdemeanor punishable by
fine and imprisonment by a bill which
passed the senate.
1 he school land commission was
authorized by the senate to extend
; oil and gns lenses on 100,000 acres of
Cimarron county school land to J. S.
Harris and Arthur O’Dell.
The senate killed the graduated
land tax bill passed by the house by
a motion to postpone the measure
indefinitely. The motion carried 19
to 18.
He said the money
apparently had not been spent since
no paving had been done around the
state house.
The workmen’s compensation bill
was passed by the senate by a vote
of 31 to 7. The measure now will go
to the house where it has the support
of tho-house committee on commerce
and labor, which worked with the
senate committee in framing the bill.
1 he chief changes in the present
compensation law which would be
made by the senate bill are:
Increase of the maximum compen-
sation from a range of $5 tv $10
to a range of $8 tod $18.
Reduction of waiting period before
compensation begins from 14 to 7
days.
Injured employee given right to
redress in courts in case not covered
by compensation act.
A resolution asking an investigation
of the state highway department
brought a sharp debate in the senate,
resulting finally in the reference
the resolution to the committee on
roads and highways. Senator \V.
Wallace, who fathered the resolution,
asserted that on the recommendation
of the state highway commissioner
consulting engineers were obtaining
5 per cent of county road bond issues
T he Mabon bill for the creation of
a school of mines at Miami on a forty-
acre tract which the people of that
city propose to donate to the state,
was killed by the house in committee
of the whole when a motion to post-
pone indefinitely further consideration
of the bill was adopted.
A provision in the bill making an
appropriation for the University Hos-
pital at Oklahoma, providing for the
construction of a nurse’s home and
laundry immediately adjacent to the
hospital at a cost of $60,000 was
stricken from the measure by the
house In committee of the whole on
motion of Representative Cheatham
of Creek county. Other items in the
bill, including $51,000 for salaries $2**
000 for general maintenance of the
hospital and $25,000 for the comple-
tion of the present building were
adopted as recommended.
| STATEHQUSE BREVITIES j
The Southwestern Bell Telephone
Co. has been charging extortionate
rates for transmitting private mes-
sages in Oklahoma over their long
distance wires is the charge made in
a petition for a temporary restraining
order and a permanent injunction
filed in the district court by S. P.
Freeling. attorney-general.
The attorney general asserts that
the company last year failed to abide
by the rates fixed by the corporation
commission in an order made on Feb-
ruary 1, 1918. The rates put in effect
by Postmaster General Burleson later
in the >ear permitted the company to
exact further extortionate and unlaw-
ful toll rates and were made without
any study or survey of the property
of the company and without the ap-
proval of the corporation commission,
he declares.
Ginners Opposed To Bills
Resolutions opposing the passage of sisinew',Hmbert
Walter Horton. Maysville.
I-.ee Mnore. Muskogee
1 Jarnes McElroy, Ada.
Nick Schoro, Holdenville.
John Marion Gumm, CJevland.
Wounded In Action.
Capt. Rlcnara .1. .Marshall, Ft. Sill.
Lieut. Wm. I*. Lively, Blackwell.
Lieut Paul K Alderson. Ada
Lieut. James O. Edwards, Eakly.
Lieut. Wm. J. Conway, Enid,
berut. Wm. Flemming, Commerce.
Sergt. George H. Nelson, Granite.
Ferat. LeKoy E. Ormsby, Cleveland.
-SerKt. Grady. C. Ketchum, Hugo.
Sergt. Patrick J. Powers, Wilburton.
Fergt. Hrant W. Morgan, Manchester.
Sergt. I ra L. Harris. Duncan,
bergt. Earl J. Johnson. Pawnee.
Fergt. Delos Harris, Wapanucka.
Fergt. Archie Havhurst, Tryon.
Srgt. Major Jess C. Moore, Savannah.
Sergt. Sidney F. Lee, Stratford.
Sergt. C-eorge H Koberts, Muskogee.
Sergt. Everett C. Lytle. Anderson,
sergt. Robert Floyd Marshall, Tar River.
Sergt. Martin L. Beasley, Milton.
Sergt. Ray Snelson, Ketchum.
Sergt. Ous S. Holmes, Durant.
Sergt. Wm. F. Curbow, Cordell.
Cer,fF- Lteo- W. Springer, Westvilie.
Sergt. Daniel M. Jlauce, Claremore.
Sergt. Robert A. Larson, Bedrock.
Sergt. Dennio Brecheen, Maxwell.
Corp. Wm. H. laittimore, Jenks.
Corpl. Dave Allen. Sentinel.
Corpl. Clyde H. Meeks, Poeasset.
Corp . John Luther Marlin, Collinsville,
c-rp. Ralph E Carter. Guthrie.
Corpl. Charles H. Sways, r-orurn.
Corpl. Robert F.arl Coper, Renowa.
Corp . Carl Prantil. Wilburton.
Corpl. Jesse E. Cleveland. Mustang.
Corpl. Waller Collins Zea, Lawton.
Corpl. James B. Spurlock, Claremore.
Corp . Leroy E. Lonigan, Kiel
Corpl. Maxwell L. Skelton, Henryetta.
Corpl. Preston R. Cooper, Granite
Corpl. Carl L Carter. Velma.
Corpl. Warren W. Harri*. N'ewkirk.
Corp]. Geo. E. Bruce Lone Wolf
Corpl. Floyd W. Soderstrom. Chandler.
Corpl. Sidney C. Smith. Kingfisher.
Corpl. Perry P. Duckworth. Kemp.
( orpl. Jesse E. Summers, Waynoka.
Corpl. Charles M. Taylor. Duncan.
Corpl. Ernest E Whatley, Oklahoma City.
Corpl. Henry P. Ciark, Strong lty.
Corpl. Melvin David Colson, Ardmore.
Corpl. John B. Johnson. Vernon.
Corpl. Ray P. Triplett. Ramona.
Corpl. Ozy Jiles. El Reno.
Corpl. Leroy Johnson, Tallahassee.
Corpl. Omer F’„ Racher, Uncas.
Corpl. F'rank W. James, Purcell.
Corpl. LeRov Dowling, Nowata
Corpl. Geo. F. Ames, Cordell.
Corpl. Clarence B. Drake. Lindsay.
Corpl. Jess D. Powell. Calun.t.
Corpl. Albert E. Powers, Muskogee
Corpl. Henry A. Farley, Bartiesvllie.
Corp . Howard Ar. Farmer. Mountain View
lorpl. John A. Johnson, Comanche.
Corpl. Otto J. Johnson, Arkona.
Corpl. John Lucas, Durant
Corpl. Edward Cleveland Noel. Equlre.
Corpl. Gimmtl D. Roy, Tulsa
Corpl. Clarence R. Loflir. Locust Grove.
Cor])l. John C. Orpin. Vinita.
Cook Ray W. Igyveless, Thomas.
Cook Ottice I^e, Duncan
Coeok Oscar Wlchop, MeLoud.
Mechanic Robert F. Fuller. Mulhall.
Mechanic \\ m. Johnson. Lindsay
Mechanic Fred L. Gerkin, C-arber
Master Engineer John H White, Perry.
John Mm. Frederick. Medferd
- hn, U- Harrington. Stillwater.
Lewis T. Smith, Lawton.
Charles H. Norris, Atoka.
Homer H. Brantley, rolilnsvill*.
M m. B. Fleming, Collinsville.
Oscar M. Harper. MeLand.
M m. Huff, Newalla.
Blakey Marsh. Sallisaw.
Milton J. Roberts, Oklahoma
Lawrence E. Young. Oiton.
Harlan XV. Brown, Stonewall.
Fred Gibson, Poteau
Ernest Neal, Okmuigee.
Roy Culbertson, Hobart.
James Bennett, MadilL
Sidy XV. Bobo. Glover.
Eeal M. Bodenhamer, Enid.
Luke Bond, Keota
Charles S. Corn, Procter.
XX m. XX*. Davis, Bradlev.
S;al‘« XV. Ferguson, Calera.
XX ebb Fulks. XX’eleetka.
Joe St C. Hewit. Guthrie.
XJ m J. Hicks, XX’etumka.
Fred Douglass. XVynnewood.
Cecil T. Rratton, Carmen.
Thos. F. French. Drumright
Laurel Kemp, Lone Wolf.
Theodore F Sltton, XVeatherford.
George M. Hanes, Wagoner.
James A. Hicks, Burnevville
Roseoe X Braswell, Grandfield.
Bertram C. Horner. No. Miami.
Paul HaunsteUi. Bison.
Lounie Smith. Caddo.
James M. Stover. Bromide.
Marion M Williams. Fame.
Herman Morgan. Lawton.
Richard E. Johnston. XVoodford
John A. Rose, Bokchlto
Geo. D. Casto. Enid.
Jos. A. Haggerty, Tulsa
Albert Pike, Hristnu
M’. Hesterler, Mannford.
Robert O. Marshall, Yale.
Wm. Bonds, Berwyn.
Deon L. Bowie. Boley.
Henry C French, Roff.
Jlrgil X. Kinsey. Blaine.
Landreth, Haileyville.
Mlllter T. Robrts, Oil City.
Dewey L. Carson, Jett.
,,.™h c.-. Dodge. Sand Springs.
D- Johnson, Oktaha.
Oat Xoung, Mounds.
Bertie R Dobbs, Buffalo.
•surge T. Harris, Stonewall.
Jerry Johnson. Dover.
/oe Stegall. Ada.
J}m- E. Dial. Kingfisher.
Barry Raul, Tulsa.
LVTI? i Maxwell, Mounds.
Ralph Bunch, Fargo.
Oscar Harrison, Altus.
, 1, Uoysen, Chickasha.
Jodie U .McCarty, Rlngling.
Rex Powelson, Texhoma.
Clue Beaver, Gerdon.
Jesse Pixon, Stllwell.
i ip Hammers, Short.
David Hayes, Eufaula.
Char.e- V. Odom, WOeetka.
Albert h Sager, Tucker.
Harvey L. Drake, Alva.
XX m. M. Harris, Marlow.
Joe P. Jones, Catosoa.
James Moore, Thomas.
Ray C. Lynes, Taloga.
I-evi / Langsford.
John Gonzalis. Stllwell.
f rank p. Stanley, Gray.
tla \ Nichols, Pawhuska.
Hughey R. Ti-er, Maud.
Robert Welch, Sallisaw.
1 ’ Ft. Towson.
ri!h. L-- Johnson, Sparks. ;
J Irvin e- Ayooclc, Pauls X’alley.
, Ir\ m Copeland. McClirtaln.
t E‘l wards. Haekell.
John T McGee, Hanna.
Jams H. Carter. Vian
Carl Fred Gei.ser. Allu’wee.
Harris, Marsden.
wm w ,,V;r;iThoti Ke°kiik Fans.
VV U . H Iderbrand. Mayfield.
T7„Yv- J!’r,es. Terlton.
Hay E. i* tiller. Chester.
Jodie T McCulloch, Vinson.
Dnrcy M. Shockey. Mlnco.
Edgar L Strickland. Hollis.
t.r,*r'k frowning, XJugo.
Alfred \\ Combft, Henrvetta.
H. Giddens, Valliant.
Geo H. Gordon. XVagoner.
Daniel J Mcl-ean, Wagram.
Samuel A. Lepsley, Davis.
Fred Marshall. Cordell.
Oscar Roberts. Tulsa.
Guy Harrison, Stillwell.
Roseoe McFarland. Itidiahoma.
Frank L. Cake, Porum.
n.arenee S. Parsons. Rlngling.
Noah XX flson, Rlngling.
Andrew Fluke, Vesita.
Homer BZlvthe. Ft.
Gibson.
gsby, Christie.
Clem P. Bible, Sapulpa.
Fred J. Grulkev. Sand ;
Jams _Grigsir
_ ^
Claud Reed. Lindsay.
Springs.
James A. Burns, Holdenville.
Martin Anderson, Freedom.
Jesse E Hosea. Colbert.
Grover Pemberton, Cornish.
A- Wyrick, Antlers.
FoUar A. Mason, Caney.
Archer R Patrum, Okmulgee.
Jimmie Bopsdon. Apache
Dewey G A mold. Chandler.
John B. Oritts. Tahlerjuah
Frank Cordv, Pauls X'alley
Edgar E Harris, Roff.
Arthur T. Green. Fort Gibson.
James B. Larkey. Enid,
r™"*, Lee .Marietta.
Fsh’v rj? ,runI- ‘ lkmulgee.
Far! B. Rhodes. Grove.
Otho J. Long, Teoka.
n- MeAbee, steward.
XX alter Lyon. Shawnee.
Hay E Reed. Preston.
Hlram B Booth, I-eflore.
XX Ilford Cooley. Hugo.
Sidney E Henderson. Boise City
James XV. Pickett, Kiefer.
\vaproner John A. Brown, Kaw CItv
John F. Roman. Sapulpa.
ni 5s l'- 0wen. Spiro.
XVimt it?' K-Cant?'*' Haskell,
xx imam Kremeier. Okarche
Fred Cecil, Manltou
Lew.s A Briggers. Ft. Cobb.
Henry* Peffer. Cordell.
Sf7ntt* Uoalgate.
Albert Tate, Jimtown.
Henry Horner. Coleman.
Wmenu-'V^Skipper- Ularleta.
J^|P* K Cantrell. X’lnlta.
Heon Johnson. Gibson.
°*Awirded'' n*n-P'aekhtirn, Coalton.
WiilTam <ilnBul8h"' Servlce Cross.
>vunam H. Swearingen. Fletcher.
County Employment Agents.
The United States Employment
Service, through its field men has ap-
pointed farm labor representatives la
two hundred cities and towns of Ok-
lahoma. It will be the duty of these
representatives to report to the clear-
ing house at Oklahoma City regarding
the supply of farm labor in their com-
munity. Where a shortage is report-
ed, the help will be transferred from
localities reporting a surplus. This
service will he furnished free to the
farmers as well as the workers. Farm-
ers are requested to make their wauls
known to the representative nearest
their home.
Representatives have been appoint-
ed in the following cities and towns:
District No. 1.
Creek: Bristow, J. XV. Riley; Drumright,
H. Cohn; Mounds. G. A. Morris; Sham-
rock, A. A. Seaton; Nowata. Nowata, J.
A. Burns; Osage: Osage, W. H. Fox; Ot-
tawa: Afton, A. H. Dawson; Miami, Jas.
Lawrence: Pawnee: Jennings, Tom J. C.
Fox; Pawnee, Ward Goffy; Rogers: Che!,
sea, J D. Leate.s Claremore, W. H. Lu-
cas; Tulsa: Collinsville, H. E. Hulen.
District No. 2.
Muskogee: Ft. Gibson, C. P. Kagy; Ok-
mulgee: Okmulgee, Ellis Maxey; Beggs, XV*.
L-. Reynolds: Haskell. U. .Mathis, Stig-
V- .inoias; Haskell, .1. it. Mathis, Stig-
ler McIntosh: Checotah. H. L. Wood;
xxagoner: Coweta. Ellis Hammett; Por-
ter, Solus Huggins.
It District No. 3.
Hughes: Atwood, Luther Stallings Mc-
Intosh: Checotah H L. Wood; Paden,
Ray D. Taylor: Pittsburg: Ashland, .1. XX’.
Saimons; Haileyville, Tom NoTey; Haris-
horn, M, L. Thompson; Kiowa, J. Hawley
Kincannon; Krebs, C. B. Peterson; Pitts-
oUr8,- J- E. Allen: Savanna, A. L Zerher;
Selpio, Ray A. Cooper; Sequoyah: Salli-
saw, II. E. McDonald.
District No. 4.
Bryan: Durant, Tom Benson: John-
ston: Tishomingo, Hough Jones; Murray:
Davis, T. H. George; Pontotoc: Ada, A.
L. Fentem; Francis, H. F. Blankenship;
Ror, E. S. Kerr.
District No. S.
Canadian: Okarche, Franz H Loosen;
Union, Miss Montye Kilgore: Yukon. F.
S' MfiKinney; Cleveland: Moore, .1. H
Smith; Norman, R. XX’. Hutto: Garvin:
Elmore City, J. P. Gibson: Katie, Mr.
.Maddox; Lindsay. Mr. A. Holmes; Mays-
ville John Aldridge: Paoli. Leo Rodke;
Stratford. A. T. Snoddy; XVynnewood, E.
L Keys; Lincoln: Chandler, J. XV. Guinn;
Davenport, J. R. Jones; Meeker. O, W.
Logan: Crescent, O. E. Brewster;
i, rl?’ A- T. Ruenting: McClain: Pur-
, * Si Cromwell; Oklahoma: J. F Hold-
win. Edmond; Payne: Cushing. J H. Hel-
Hipley. Austin Goom: Stillwater, Bert
A- fay; Pottawatomie: XX’anettc, John A.
‘ „l: vlemln°le: Seminole, Thos. O. Cris-
well; Wewoka. O. B. X’arnum.
District No. 6.
Alfalfa: Aline. Mr. Stevens; Amorita,
S1■ A- Blanchard; Burlington. Chas. Brede-
hoft: Byron, J, L. Blanchard; Carmen,
Cherokee, L. H. Smith: Dr if t-
E- Harnum; Goltry, A. R. Mos-
ley, Helena, F \\*. Bull; Ingersolb H. R.
i Jet> S- W. Tucker; Lambert, S.
—* ueai.r* -Peaveri J* F, N’ewsome;
Je. e x\. Ball; Blaine: Okeene, F'tto
GroMman; Dewey: Selling, M. E. S. o-
herd, X’ici. Chas. Sanders; Ellis: Fargo, ec.
,Beibr;?k;; GaE- A- w- Kincaid; Shat-
tuck. XX. IL Lattlmer: Garfield: Carrier, B.
A. Lewis: Covington XV. M. Wilson: Doug-
A Adams; Fairmont, J. E. Eger,
nnuf- TiiT?1!)3 .Ebert; Hayward, Jane.-, E.
R.th Hillsdale, Lewis Burns; HunPr, B.
H Perry; Kremlin. Joe Farrell XV uko-
K, ; , J- A Farker: Grant: Clvje I. j.
Hickler: Lamont, XV. W. CM»k; Med ord,
D J XXllson; Nash, Lemon Pros.; ir,-I
Creek. Hunt * Brown: Salt Fork. E O
Rrewer; XVakita, L. P. Scott: Harper:
Buffalo, O. L. Zook: Laverne, Robt. New-
berry; May, O. B. Brown; Rosston, R H.
S2u,:v-Ka*y:rTonkawa- L- c- Bull; Black-
vfv’«Ei,A- Newkirk, J. N Riddle;
Kingfisher: Hennessey. John Leddv: King-
D Brownlee; Logan: Marshall.
Clemons: Major: Palrvlew. Mr.
Hertrhold, NTeno. J. M. Cotton: Rin^’ood,
Wm. _St°ne, Noble: Billings, Henn.’ Mur-
S,:^SS’A‘H Perry. S.K
lflrd:Je?,asVpuymon- R- B. Quinn ’Vo. *
Alva. T. M. Hess: Avard. Ed Rober j; ,'a.
DrOn. J. T*T Hllffsnn* Tloonmn r, ■ i r.
City.
CJaDham; Quinian" E.
B. Million
Caddo
Wocxhircr1 •
fctuai. \V. IL
New Federal Buildings.
Representative Frank Clark of
Florida, chairman o.f the public build-
ings and grounds committee of the
house of representatives reported
the omnibus public buildings bill,
for <nd Pub'*c buildings *-■ n traatt: cement, J
tor the following towns in Oklahoma- Comanche: Elgin, w. W,
Anadarko, for building and site t 4- rm,i WUnxx*h H,o?XOrlA G' P- CaI>'on; Fletcher.
Chandler, for building and o-’n™ Indies 'mHl ,i0: GeJ?ntm°. Qeo. Stabler;
pron, J. H. Hudson; Dacoma,
gate: XVaynoka. J. A.
Mooreland. .M. A. Burdick: Mi
^7i-nl^7n' Fine]- : Supply,
XX oodward. L. B. Collins
District No. 7.
Beckham: Elk Clty J. M. O'Donnell;
Anadarko, C. H. Pratt: Cement, J.
building and site
. xor —
Sapulpa, for
Hobar,;' foV‘'bu;jd,ngUande sile™
VinPuiPafo?U,Ui!din8 a,n<1 r-r : A • CuSe^
Ada.taforf0sltebUUd‘nS and .aita-~ IjMOO Finch. Gra.ly: AlixW
Atoka,
site ____
„ . for site ..
Bartlesville, for site
Clinton, for site _
Duncan, for site
Hugo, for site___I“ITI
Idabel for site____
Mangum, for site
[ Norman, for site
Pauls X'alley, for site___
Ponca City, for site .
Stillwater, for site
I Waurika. for site .11
Okmulgee, authorizing" for
chase of Creek capitol __
Okmulgee, remodeling
pur-
10,000
7..100
1.1,000
5.000
5.000
15.000
5000
6.000
5.000
15.000
7.5000
10.000
5.000
65.000
95.000
rf w-SR Amber, l'^ Hnmngswo'Ah; ’ Brad-'
lc>- H”y C. Smith; Minco, C. E McMa-
han; E1,,>’d Kimble; Greer: ManI
gum: D. R. Dial: Harmon: Gould H H
Reeshe;.ff'J- C- C,amhrill; Louis. L
conShFdfrin^.r,.Ure,r’’ T°m DeSpaln: X’ln-
F ’MEdBV?n^atriS: J‘ackson: Eldorado.
^ Norton-
Waurika JXverrn:4iR>an; C' r- Rtln*en.:
hie 1 p"h E- Alexander: Kiowa: Ho.
batt A. K. Deaver: Lone XVolf, XV H Da-
o. Rr> McKhSey;J4mParne:nt^e: -MarIo">
bills Nos. 239, 283, 294 and 31g“ are
now pending in the legislature, were
adopted by the Oklahoma Cotton Gin-
ners Association in convention at Ok-
lahoma City. The resolutions were
presented to the legislature with the
request that the bills be defeated
The ginners are opposed to bill No.
239. forming a public service commis-
sion, because they claiji such a com-
mission is the first step to govern-
ment ownership and operation, and
will drive elsewhere capital now in-
vested in this state in cotton ginning
and will prevent the entry of new in-
dustries
Hill No. 283. divorcing gins and
mills, and making all gins public util-
ities, is opposed on the claim that it
F^r 5i.^^rra,n?ennlnp8’
aw::*
Sam Hemby, Sawyer.
Geo. p. Craig. Henrvetta.
Harry Bozarth. Custer,
falter P. Gibson.
James D. Haddock. Park HIT!.
Otis Sharp, Mad ill.
Karl Summer, Morris,
m. M. Crisp, Lexington.
JHakgehR^rn^°Ud Chl^-
predHB.'l^rnd"PnnnefiSey-
Har',lnS. Shattuck.
XVlllIam °. Lamb. Lindsay.
5°*>er£ B Pickard. Keefton.
Roy Boyle. Tulsa.
Earl Q Hall. Pleasant X’alley.
Gliver Hlcklln, Cordell.
Robert Keifer. Victor
Loy- Foster. Waurika.'
XVml,rP'\fFi7S7heru' uskcgoe.
xvi ?m u Hughes, Mangum.
XX aljace B. Anders, George.
The T G. NcrwoodT”Frederick* *'v D?Vlfe J’
tute the nations of the world. i a local nr7tion 1 . . . ,
They are in the saddle and they 1 ? TT Z * b°°k
are going to see to it that if their I Dl n ,l rauc" m°difleil form as corn-
present governments do not do their ! parp(' wi,h former proposals upon this
will, some other governments shall. subject, was passed by the house
And the secret Is out and the pres-
ent governments know it.
And, therefore, probing deep in my
heart and trying to see the things that
are right without regard to the things
that may be debated as expedient. I
feel that 1 am interpreting the pur-
pose and the thought of America; and
in loving America I find I have joined
the great majority of my fellow men
throughout the world.
Liberty Loan Five Billions.
Washington—The Victory Liberty
loan to be floated late in April is ex-
pected to be for five billion dollars,
the public ways and means commit-
tee reported in submitting legislation
authorizing sale of short-term notes,
instead of bonds. ,
Asiatic Ruler Is Reported Killed.
liondon. — Hablbullah Khan, Ihe
amir of Afghanistan, was murdered
on February 20.
with comparatively little opposition.
Thp bill leaves the question of free
books optional with the people of
; each school district. It provides that
j the board of education of any school
j district, when petitioned by 25 per
j cent of the people of their district,
; Khali call a special election at which
, the question of furnishing books free
will be voted upon and decided by a
majority vote.
A curb on the power of the gover-
nor to create deficiencies for state de-
partments and institutions after they
have exhausted the appropriations
made by the legislature for their sup-
port, is provided in a bill by Repre-
sentative Harrison which was passed
by the house. The bill .restricts the
amount of deficiencies the governor
may create in any year to $100,000 for
all departments, Institutions and for
all purposes. The measure declares
that deflclenceles authorized in ex-
cess of this amount will be of no ef-
fecL
property acquired in good faith, and
will equally injure the independent
ginner This bill is further opposed
on the grounds that the state has no
right to take over any private indus-
try as a public service utility, and
that the effect will be to cause th=*
fear among other industries that they
may share the same fate.
Bill 294 seeks to pronibit the gin-
ner from buying cotton in the seed.
This bill is opposed by the ginner on
the grounds that it will put a great
handicap upon the farmer, who is al-
ready faced by a doubtful cotton out-
look for the future. The fourth ob
jection is to Bill No. 318, providing
for the formation of a cotton com-
mission. The ginners claim that this
bill will cost the farmer $1.000 000 1
year in fees and will have no com-
pensating benefits to offer to anyone
in the community is where the
are located
William Melton. Fairland.
&a"k E MaJ?h- Stringt jwn.
Harshhcrger. Skede.
Ham Kraker. Kiefer.
E®'! r, Livingston, Sayre.
E. Hay. Norman.
, Kyle. Mead
John E. Fawcett. Perry.
Owens. Muskogee.
William G. Walker. Hugo.
HnrnM Fv* s^'rlmRcher. Texanna.
Harold X. Glover. Sand Spring*.
Mrs. Bob Hutchins, wife of a former
chief of police of Ardmore, has an-
nounced her intention to run for the
office of chief of police in that city.
Six prisoners of the Washington
county jail at Bartlesville sawed the
bars of a window in the main cell
room and escaped by means of a rope
made of blankets.
Okmulgee taxpayers approved a
school bond issue of $215,000 for the
erection and equipment of a new vo-
cational hi^h school building by &
rote of five to one.
Reversing a decision of Judge Har
son in the district court of Oklahoma times* whfle^acSng'as" * ru'Zr hr
county, the supreme court upheld .he, his company at the
gins i
constitutionality of the act of thn 1 n-uK .h/on.'v T. 7"° St’ Mlhiel front
m: T cretin, 1 £ To «
»t the „« attftckeJ t„„ 7„„.„ 5’,"* ™ -e«t.
by EJ Itoyte. | «•'
shortly after its enactment on the
ground that it took nwav certain du
ties conferred upon his department by
the constitution, asserting that It was
his duty to suuervise the oil Industry
in th* state,
ners, a nest of seven machine gun
Huns was flanked and riddled. Bust-
er captured three machine guns sin-
gle handed and escaped with the
slight bayonet yound. Later at Ar-
gonne front he was >adly injured bv
the failing of a tree on his
to the wall as r- suit
of a probe by the state banking com-
mission which developed extreme ir-
regularities in the conduct of the in-
stitution. The bank has been liqui-
dated and the assets turned over, on
sale, to a new concern, the Security
State bank, owned by Tulsa capital-
ists. Suit has been brought by Lo-
gan county against the American
Trust company of New York for $88,-
000 of the county’s funds, deposited
by its treasurer in the dead bank The
trust company made the county treas-
urer’s bond. The state of Oklahoma
ls suing for $3,000 of state funds in-
volved, and brought suit in Independ-
ence, Kan., to get $11,000 of the Lo-
gan county bank’s funds, deposited
there in the Citizen's National bank,
j Criminal proceedings may be taken
against R. J. Conneway, president of
the Logan county bank, for the man-
ner in which the institution’s affairs
were ahndled.
Probably the only Oklahoma soldier
yet to return from France who has
been cited for gallantry in action and j
wears the Croix de Guerre, is Serg- |
eant Christian Voltz, Battery C. 5th !
F. A. of Lawton, who is at the Ft. j
Sill base hospital recovering from gas
and shell shock. Sergeant Voltz was
cited for bravery as a machine gun-
ner at the battle of Cantigny, May 2S
1918. ' '
In the $150,000 damage suit of Dr.
O. F. Border, former mayor of Man-
gum, against the Mangum Electric
Company, and others, a jury in the
district court at Sayre returned
a verdict granting the plaintiff a
judgment of $62,000 The case, which
was tried here on a change of venue
arose during a bond election in Man-
gum during the time Border was serv-
ing as mayor. A municipal light plant
was at issue. It was charged that the
defendants sought to injure Border’s
reputation as a physician by framing
him for an illegal operation.
dera.0' Wyatt; Tipton? XV.' XV. ' Chib
A federal land loan association has
been perfected in Custer countv and
is in readiness to negotiate for loans.
Robbers entered the bank of Oola-
gah and took about $100 in cash and
between $10,000 and $12,000 worth of
Liberty bonds.
Secretary Glass of the treasury de-
partment has named John B Doolin
of Alva as receiver for the First Na-
tional Bank of Hobart.
A Masonic temple at a cost of
$300,000 will be erected in Tulsa this
year, work to commence in the
spring.
early
Seilman Adams is at the point of
death and Barbara Bard is in the
hands of county authorities as a re-
sult of a shooting seven miles north-
west of Bushyhead, Rogers county.
Following a fight arising over pre-
vious difficulties. Bard who has just
come home from the army went to
the home of his father, got a shotgun,
cam back and fired two shots into
Adams’ body, inflicting wounds from
which he may die. Bard then came
to Claremore and gave himself up to
the sheriff.
The appointment of H. O. Valeur of
Muskogee as state architect and en-
gineer to succeed Jewel Hicks of Du-
rant was announced by the state
board of affairs.
It is said that with the shooting of
the two Anthonys at Tahlequah sev-
eral days ago. the number of persons
slain in Cherokee county since the
Admission of Oklahoma to statehood,
totals 125, ofie woman included.
Fire which broke out in the base-
ment of the Norwood hotel at Shaw-
nee virtually destroyed the structure
The building, a five story structure,
was of brick and wood construction
The loss was $26,000.
The battered body of Dr. Thomas
Dicks°n. 50 years old, oil man and
physician of Ramona, was found in a
hotel room at Kansas City. All indi-,
cations showed the physician had
been robbed and beaten to death as
he was preparing to retire.
At a special election at Cement,
called for the purpose of voting on
bonds for an electric light plant to
the amount of $5,000, the light pro-
posal was defeated, but at the same
election, $20,000 for a sewerage svs-
tem and $25,000 for water works car-
ried.
Because of the accidental death of
Groveline Henry, a young Blackwell
girl, during the “peace” celebration
which occurred there on the night of
the premature announcement of the
signing of the armistice, G. A. Henry
the girl’s father, has filed suit in the
district court demanding damages in
the sum of $50,000. The Globe Oil and
Refining Company, whose truck caus-
ed the fatal injury. Chief of Police
Cagle, Patrolman Harris and the tank
building firm of Black, Siva’s and
Bryson are also named aa defend*
ants.
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