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THE ORIENTAL PROGRESS
OKX.MS BgAVKH, KIH I'nlt
FOiTfEI BRITISH
AN INDgPKNDENT NEWSPAPER DgVOTKD TO TH« INTEREST OF BLAIR AND JACKSON COUNTY
III,till. OKLAHOMA. Till IISIUV. .11 XU II. IIHtl
THE WEEK'S NEWS
VOL |«. Xu. |
Three English Battle Cruisers, Three
Armored Cruisers and Eight Des-
troyers Sent to the Bottom
• • Cent*
Oklahoma fug Final cab
kMwtam rtpiomuufn nt railroads
aad alaia oft car* lookias toward a
oompromua at pending freight and
pa«>*as*r rata UtigeUoa have twaa
hole la rapljr to overtures mad# bf
Iba railroads the state faaa. subait<»4
• a proposition oa which It would be
wtuiaa to compromise Although ao
■laiatoeat as to the asters of the pro-
l F»ed compromise aaraemeat would
he wade by state oftoers. It la uaden
stood It provides for the laaosuretioa
'fa paaeeossr rata of Ifc cent* a
A*Me Incidents and Accidents bat Os ®U* *•* dlJm^ai of the case attach-
Nacf of oarfiilo county
NAKIO OV OlVAhTATINO
WINO ANO HAIL.
I1KR SEWS OF IK KW STATE
To Make Up a Week's History
ef a Onset
wealth.
Germans Are Victors In History's Great-
est Naval Battle—Teuton Losses In-
clude Three Cruisers and Several
Small Torpedo Boat Destroyers
London.—Picking Its way from Its
base In the Kiel canal, the German
high sea fleet emerged Into the North
tea. and off the coast of Jutland en-
gaged the Brltieh fleet throughout the
afternoon and night in what probably
was the greatset naval battle in his-
tory so far as tonnage engaged and
tonnage destroyed Is concerned.
Admitted Losses.
When the battle ended Great Britain
had lost the battle cruisers Queen
Mary, Indefatigable and Invincible,
the cruisers Defence, Black Prince
and Warrior and eight torpedo boat
destroyers, while tin- German battle-
ship Poramern had been sent to the
bottom by a torpedo and the cruiser
Westfalen sunk by the British gun-
fire. In addition several German tor-
pedo craft were missing and the small
Previous English Losses.
Prior to this battle Great Britain
had lost during the course of the war
ten battleships, eleven cruisers and
various smaller craft. Germany had
lost eighteen cruisers, nineteen auxil-
iary cruisers, chiefly converted pas-
senger liners, and numerous smaller
vessels.
Since the beginning of the war Brit-
ish cruisers and destroyers have pa-
trolled <lAy and night the approaches
to the German fleets base in the bay
formed by the mouths of the Elbe and
the Weser, protected by the mighty
fortifications of Wllhelmshaven on the
south, on the north by the supposedly
Impregnable defenses of the Kiel
canal and guarded by the outlying is-
land of Helgoland. Until the engage-
roent that has Just occurred, however,
j **• freight rates as promulgated bp
-h# corporation Qommls.loa Those
*ho have kept 4oee watch oo the
progress of the rata case sxpreeseo
- belief that the compromise would ho
Enid.—Tsrrtflo high winds accom- •®*cttd »t U»e confereaoe. The reeaot
pnnied in sums pieces by hall and tenement of (he rate trial la fad-
rein swept over approximately half of ,fl^ toori. It is understood, was great-
Garfield county cutting off telegraphic ,0 *Uow time In which to work ont
communication of several of the 4 compromise agreement. If the corn-
town* in their path. At rairtaonl,
twenty miles east of Enid, two per-
sons were injured and seven build-
ings were wrecked.
Probably half of the 170,000 acres
proimte Is brought about It Is likely
that tha case in federal court will be
dismissed, and tha corporation com
m las lea requested to Issue an order
pnttleg whatever passenger rats Is
of wheat In the county was injured **reed upon In effect. The case la
by hail. The large slse of the hail '•* court is an application by the
stones was reported to hare caused rai,roo<1 companies for an fbjunotion
cruiser Frauenlob had last been seen no German fleet has put forth in force
badly listed and was believed to have j to necessitate the giving of the alarm
gone to the bottom. These losses have j to the British main fleet that its foe
all been admitted by Great Britain j was coming out to give battie.
and Germany. The Germans also lost! „ ... .
a submarine and two Zeppelins. nt'Sh Rendezvo“* Secret.
Great Britain admits the loss of bat-' The rendezvous of the British battle
tie cruisers and cruisers with a ton- fl.®et.bas been a 8ecret- but is gener-
much suffering ^mong small livg-
•t°ck. The extent of the property
loss cannot yet be estimated.
At Fairmont the Injured were:
Mrs. McClain, broken arm, and Roy
Wilkie, a boy, bruised by flying debris.
Four residences, two grocery stores
and a grain elevator were wrecked.
The Santa Fe and Frisco railroad sta-
tions were unroofed. A church and a
barn were partially wrecked. Farm
houses in the vicinity were damaged
and loss among livestock, was re-
ported. Telegraph wires from Enid
to Fairmont and to Dougias, south-
east of this city, were broken.
In Enid the auditorium building
was unroofed, telephone wires were
broken, trees were uprooted and hun-
dreds of dollars’ worth of window
panes were broken.
restraining the commission from en-
forcing the conetitutional rate of I
cents a mile.
Normal Will Have 1,000.
eatherford.—Southwestern 8tate
Normal school opened the first week
of its summer term with the largest
enrollment in the history of the
school. More than 700 students have
already been classified and a further
enrollment of 300 Is expected. Nine
counties are represented in their reg-
ular institute work and each county
has sent from one to two additional
instructors, so that the summer fao
ullty is larger by fifteen than the reg-
ular raculty. A number of promlneui
lecturers who will appear before the
teachers during the term have been
secured. Dr. H. Curtis, recreation and
playground expert, will be here two
dxys and give a number of talks and
two demonxtrations on the play-
ground. He Is to be followed by Dr.
NATIONAL OATMIRINO OPINIO
FORMALLY IN CITY OF
Chicago.
M0WD FILLS THE COLISEUM
••Alter Harding of Ohio Is Clsctss
Tampe-ary Chairman and Deliv-
ers the Keynote Speech—
Committees Are Named.
Chicago. Jnne 7.—The Republic*!
party opened Its great quadrennial
show—-the national convention—to
lay before a capacity house. Despite
the fact that the proceedings of thl
first session wore to be only prelim-
inary formalities, the people flocked
to the Coliseum by the thousand and
poured through the many entrances
In solid streams for hours. When
Charles D Hilles. chairman of the na
tlonal committee, arose at eleven
o'clock and took up the gavel to cal
the convention to order there was not
one vacant seat in the Immense struc
ture.
FRENCH TRENCHES AT LC MORI
HOMME—TWO MILK FRONT—
captured av Germans.
(MUMS NOLO THEIR OWH
Vlcleue Plghllng Bsfore Fortress}
Paris Admits Less of These Hun-
dred Meters Northwest ef
Cumlsrss.
London.—French position on a front
of approximately two miles sxtendlns
Cel. Mosby, famous guerrlla leader,] from the southern ridge of Le Mori
died last week at Washington.
AUSTRIAN TROOPS CHECKED
ITALIANS HOLD BACK TEUTON
FORCES ANO INFLICT LOSSES.
Trenches Near Cumieree Captured By
Germane After Battle of Great
Intensity.
It was a fine setting for an Im
portant event. The Coliseum whs dec-
orated as never before, with flags and <
bunting draping the girders and gal | *°utbe™ Tyrol continue the theaters
lerles and covering all bare spots on
London.—Tha Verden region and
Homme to the Cumlcrea village
northwest of Verdun have been cao
lured by the Germans, according ta
the latest official communication from
Barlln. In adltlon the Teutons again
have pressed forward In the Thlan-
moot region northeast of Verdun and
added to their line In the eastern part
of IL
These gains made during rlclotu
fighting have been In part admitted
by Paris, which has reported the loss
of 300 meterd of advanced trenches
northwest of Cumieres and the retire-
ment from similar positions to tha
where the most sanguinary battles are1 south of the road between Bethlncourt
taking place. While the Italians are | *nd Cumiereqt. Berlin says the Ger
holding back the Austrians from fur-jmans captured 1,313 prisoners, includ-
ther advances and inflicting heavy iin* *e*eral staff officers,
losses on them In counter attacks in Afround Le Mort Homme and Cum-
Tyrol, their German allies hare been1 a violent bombardment Is still
working force of 35 men. were grouped able to make another gain in the cap-, Kn progress but there has been a
many members of the diplomatic ture of about 300 meters of French' dimunition in Intensity of the lire of
the end walls. Up In a gallery at the
south end of the hall a brass band
was pouring forth patriotic and popu
lar airs. Back of the speaker's ros
trum. where sat Mr. Hilles and his
corps who had come on from Wash- j trenches northwest of the village of
ington, and the distinguished guests Cumieres on the left bank of the Meuse
of the convention, among them all 11 v- near Verdun.
nage of 114.810.
Casualties Are Heavy.
The losses to the British side, esti-
mated at nearly 5,000, were about half
those of the Germans, if the latest re-
ports on the number of German war-
m
ADMIRAL VON CAPELLE,
Head of the German Navy.
ships lost are confirmed. In the Brit-
ish casualty list are included Captain
Prowse and the entire complement of
the battle cruiser Queen Mary, which
probably had been 900 and 950 men
on board. Rear Admiral Horace Hood
was lost with the battle cruiser Invin-
cible.
From the advices thus far made pub-
lic It would appear that the greatest
naval battle In history has taken
place. Apparently the battle was not
fought to a point to determine mas-
tery of the seas for the loss will not
Impair the strength of either fleet to
a vital extent.
The scene of battie was In the east-
ern waters of the North sea. Skag-
erak is an arm of the North sea be-
tween Norway and Denmark. It is ap-
parent the battle was fought off the
coast of Denmark. From there to
Helgoland, the main German base In
the North sea la about 104 miles.
ally believed to have been in the Ork-
ney islands, north of Scotland.
The long months of watchful wait-
Ihg by the British, however, were
broken into by two naval engagements
in which comparatively small squad
rons of German warships were in-
volved, and in both of which the Brit-
ish were victorious. One was on Au-
gust 18, 1914, and the other on Jan-
uary 24, 1915.
The Queen Mary and the Indefatig-
able were batle cruisers of 27,000 and
18,750 tons displacement, respectively,
The Queen Mary was completed in
1913. She carried eight 13-5-inch
guns.
The Indefatigable was 578 feet long
and was equipped with eight 12-inch
guns. Both carried complements of
between 900 and 50. The Queen Mary
cost about $10,000,000 while the Inde-
fatigable cost about 18,000,000.
Drcadnaught Marlborough.
The British dreadnaught Marl-
borugh was built at Davenport In
1914, displaced 25,000 tons, was 620
feet long and carried ten 13-5Mnch
guns, twelve 6-inch guns and a num-
ber of smaller arms. ,
The Invincible was laid down In
1907. She displaced 17,250 tons and
her normal complement was 731. She
carried a main battery of eight 12-
inch guns.
The Defence was built in 1907, dis-
placed 14,600 tons and ordinarily’ car-
ried 755 men. Her length was 525
feet and her largest guns were four
of 9.2 inches.
The Black Prince was built in 1904,
displaced 13,550 tons and carried 704
men. She was 480 feet long and her
principal armament was six 9-2 and
ten 6-inch gtins.
The German batleshlp Pommern
displaced 12.997 tons. She was 398
feet long, was bujlt In 1907 at a cost
of about 16,000,000. She carried 729
officers and men. Her main armament
consisted of four 11-inch guns.
Registration Act Invalid.
Oklahoma City.—District Judge Old-
field held that the new registration ___
law which was passed by the extra- David Starr~Jordan."whowiu"visit the
ordinary session of the Fifth legisla- school for the first time. On June 1?
tUre’ uncon8titutional on the a seven-day Chautauqua is to begin
i T n CODfliCt Wlth r More than peope will furnish
republican form of government. In the program for that week One of
Onfield ? Wh h°ding’ JUdge thG m0St notable a«ractlons will be
Oldfield issued an injunction against the performance of Israel Zangwill's
Okahoma county officers, restraining drama, “The Melting Pot,” by a New
them from paying out any money on York company,
printing bills incurred in the enforce-
ment of the registration law In this
county. He aso enjoined them from
creating any bills against the county.
Judge Oldfield did not enjoin County
Ardmore Convocation Ended.
Ardmore.—The convocation of tha
Episcopal church for the diocese of
law, but they cannot create any ex-
pense to the county in so doing.
Registrar H. G. Oliver, nor any of the wes*ern Oklahoma has adjourned,
precinct registrars from enforcing the ^*8bops Francis K. Brooke of Okla-
homa City and Theodore Payne Thui-
ston of the eastern Oklahoma diocese
were In attendance. The convocation
changed the time for future meetings
to September instead of May, the next
to be in 1917 in Okahoma
City. Rev. J. M. Pettit of El Reno
was elected secretary of C. J. Shep-
hard of Pawnee treasured. The dele-
gates to the general convention of the
church were Rev. John Caughey and
C. O. Bunn. The women’s auxiliary
was In session in conjunction with
the convocation. Mrs. T. H. Dwyer of
Chickasha presiding. The auxiliary
elected Mrs. T. H. Dwyer and Mrs.
H. H. Sayre delegates to the
convention In St. Louts.
May Receipts a Fifth More.
Oklahoma City.—Postal receipts at
the local office In May, 1916, will ex-
ceed those of May, 1915, by 22 per
cent, and the income for the first five
month of the year will exceed that
of the corresponding period in 1915 by
nearly 20 per cent. Assistant Post-
master John Graham estimated the
month’s receipts at $45,260. The cor-
responding month a year ago showed
income of but $36,872.22, making an In-
crease of $8,387.78. THe average
monthly increase for the past yeai
has been 19 per cent.
Pittsburg County For Cotton.
McAIester.—Profiting by the lesson
cf high prices which was taught last
season, the farmers of Pittsburg coun-
ty have gone back to cotton, at least
they have gone back to the extent ot
Increasing the acreage approximately
50 per cent over last season; but they
are still holding £n to the theory of
diversification, which was Instilled
into them thoroughly for the first
time, late in the season of 1914.
general
Hog Prices Going Up.
Shaking Dice For Cigars Must Stop
Bartlesville.—Hereafter, when Bart-
lesville smokers want, a cigar, they
must walk Into a cigar store, pay the
price and move on. There will be no
more shaking dice with pretty cigar
girls, or taking a chance on a punch
board. Judge Henry Hudson of the
district court has ordered punch
boards and dice games out of Bartles-
ville, declaring they are a form of
gambling.
Faculty Members Named.
Claremore.—The members for the
Oklahoma City.-Grady county biff 191617 fannltv V* ♦ ™r “e
5\o£tta * JL7_.lned b-v thG 8tat6' have besn chosen.
tlon located in Claremore and main-
. largest««„*,«, w*J
by one man to this market and nrob T ™ „___w* _
above $9.50 a cwt. anywhere tn the
ST. '"Dr
In the lot and they averaged 208 Romig, Misses Buchanan
JJ'»STS.“£-5S2th™ R~d- “•
London Is Satisfied.
London. — Captain William Hall,
chief of the intelligence division of
the admiralty, authorized the Associ-
ated Press to say:
“The report of the loss of the Marl-
borough and Warsprite Is absolutely
untrue. Both of these dreadnaughts
are safe in the harbor.
“The German report that the entire
British battle fleet was engaged Is
equally untrue. A portion of the Brit-
ish fleet much inferior to the total
battle fleet of the Germans, engaged
that fleet and drove It back into lu
harbor. The British control the North
drove grossed $15,000.
Thacker, Blanche Lobsltz, Jessie
Stone and Mrs. Brown, Librarian.
Cotton Acreage Increased.
Duncan.—From a slight decreai
last year, the cotton acreage in 8t»
Salesman Charged With Rsbbery.
Boswell.—Ernest Neeley, charged
S2 hTt T'1”*' ro“r “N'ut « per cut *1 <j» um.
j. taken to time, the other crops have not been
kXV ll n**,eCt*<1- *nd *• given pref.
Neeley isi alleged to have taken the erence. There Is a noticeable Increase
currency from a mall sack tn the post- in alfalfa acreage over 1015 and ow-
V*1,,ant Du',n* th* ®onU»; H»g to the splendid growth it has made
March m meene entered the post and th, heavy stands shown
oflee building and extracted from
la an
T. “Om a parts of the county. It will doubtless
mail sack a package containing $3,000 he given tapetus next year.
in currec.ry, ,n transit from a Texas com acreage
hank to the Bank ct Grant
has beea
Broom
greatly in.
ing ex-chairman of Republican na-
tional conventions. To the right and
le't of these were placed the members
of the national committee and theii
guests.
In the body of the hall, directly In
front of the speaker’s stand, were the
991 delegates gathered about their
state standards, and back of them 991
alternates. Just below the rostrum
and on both sides of it were the 425
working newspaper men, and in the
galleries all around the hall were the
thousands of spectators who had been
fortunate to obtain admission tickets.
Mr. Hilles was heartily applauded
when he stood before the throng,
gavel In hand. He spoke but briefly
In calling the great gathering to or-
der. and called on Rev. John Timothy
Stone, pastor of the Fourth Presbyter-
ian church of Chicago, to deliver the
invocation. Dr. Stone's eloquent and
impressive prayer was followed by
the reading of the call for the con-
vention by James B. Reynolds of Mas-
sachusetts, secretary of the national
committee.
Mr. Hilles then called for nomina-
tions for temporary chairman. Of
course the selection of United States
Senator Charles Warren Harding ol
Ohio for* that position had been all
settled long ago and his election by
unanimous rote was only a formality
Senator Harding is an imposing figure,
and as he accepted the gavel from the
hands of Mr. Hilles he was enthusias-
tically cheered.
Chairman Harding's Address.
Chairman Harding launched at once
into his “keynote” speech, and did nto
belie his reputation for eloquence and
deftness of phrase. He began with a
warm plea for harmony in the party
ranke, coupled with the confident as
portion that such har&ony already was
an assured fact. With unctuous sen-
tences he skillfully oiTed the way foi
the smooth return of those who left
the party four years ago to follow tht
Bull Moose standard.
As might have been expected, Mr
Harding early in BTs address took uj
the subject of national defense. His
utterances on this topic were reason-
ably emphatic and in line with thi
preparedness sentiment that has bee*
spreading over the land. Our national
unselfishness has been proved sine*
the great war broke out, he said, and
our national weakness Is defense re
vealed. The/ foreign policy of th«
Democratic administration, both In re
lation to Europe and in tfc irfatter ol
Mexico, was dealt with In a few caus
tic sentences, and the plan to “tum
loose” the Philippines also was vigor
ously scored.
The speaker devoted some attention
to the need, from a Republican point
of view, for a protective tariff, and
then turned to the topic of American
ism. Here he once more let Ms el»
quence have full play, and his cal] fot
loyalty, devotion and love for the
United States on the part of eevry one
of Its citizens was answered by a roai
of cheers.
Routine Business Transacted.
“Verily. lt j, good to be an Ameri
can And we may rejoice to be Re
publicans.” he concluded
The sectors east and west of Fort
Douaumont, northeast of Verdun, have
witnessed still another violent artil-
lery duel but no Infantry attacks were
launched. The artillery of both sides
has been busy along the remainder of
the front in France and Belgium.
In Tyrol the Austrians In the Lagat
ina valley and south of the Posina to®
rent threw heavy assaults against the
Italian positions but the Italians re-
pulsed the attackers with considerable
losses. On the Aslago plateau the men
of two batteries which were surround-
ed on Monte Mosciag by the Austrians
were relieved by an Italian regiment
and their guns brought safely away.
Except for a report from Petrograd
that the Germans have repeatedly
bombarded the railway line east of
Riga, no operation of moment has
taken place on the Russian front.
Minor successes have been obtained
by the Russians over the Turks in the
Rivandouaa region of the Caucasus
front.
The situations in the Balkans Indi-
cates important developments in the
near future. Athens advices report
the breaking out of serious trouble in
the Greek capitol after it became
known here that Bulgarian forces had
invaded Macedonia. The Bulgarians
now on Greek soil are estimated to
number 25.000. It is feared Greece is
on the verge of a revolution.
the big guns northeast of Verdun.
The Austrians have begun anothei
attack against the Italians along the
upper reaches of the Astico river;
on the Austro-Italian border. South
of Posnla, Austrians prepared foi
their offensive with a bombardment
but, according to Rome, the Italians,
after a desperate struggle against ths
Austrian Infantry, retained their posi-
tions. In the Lagarina valley on the
Pasubio sector and In the Sugana val-
ley at Ospedaletto the Austrians are
heavily bombarding the Italian posi-
tions.
On the Russian front the Germans
essayed an offensive northeast of Au-
gustinhof but were driven back te
their trenches by the Russians. The
Austrians In Galacia met with a mo-
mentary success near Gliadki, driving
the Russians from a position and cap-
turing It. The Russians, however, in
a counter attack recaptured the post
RUSSIAN PRISONERS DYING FAST
Exposure and Lack of Sanitation and
Fopd Kill 17,000 Austrians.
SENATE PASSES WATERWAY BILL
Substitute Reducing Appropriation De-
feated by Single Vote,
Washington.—The senate passed the
rivers and harbors appropriation bill
carrying approximately $43,000,000, by
a vote of 35 to 32 after adding many
amendments. The tbill will now go to
a conference of the two houses. The
fight against it, begun by Senator Ken-
yon of Iowa and Senator Sherman of
Illinois, gained strength until a final
effort to displace it with a substitute
appropriating a lump sum of $30,000,-
000 was defeated by only one vote.
Senators Ashurst, Gore, Hollis, Hust-
Vienna.—Seventeen thousand Aus-
tro-Hungarian prisoners out of about
80,000 confined in the camps at Oren-
burg, eastern Russia, have died owing
to the absence of good sanitary meas-
ures, bad food, lack of clothing and
exposure to the cold, according to re-
port number 5879 of the American em-
bassy at Petrograd.
This report evidently Is by an at-
tache of the Petrograd embassy who
recently made a tour of inspection of
the Russian camps in which prisoners
of war from Austria-Hungary and Ger.
many are being held. It charges the
government of Orenburg camp with
having misappropriated large sums ot
money and of paving no attention to
the complaints of the prisoners.
Several months ago the Austro-
Hungarian government asked the
American government to Inquire into
the state of affairs prevailing in the
Russian prison camps in which Austro*
Hungarians had been confined. To the
Associated Press correspondent a
high government official stated at that
time the Austro-Hungarian govern*
ings, Lane, Newlands, Pittman, Pome- ^
rene. Taggart, Thomas and Thompson,! ment ^as a,raid to let the truth be-
all democrats, voted with the republi- C°me Jnown “d that It still hoped
cans to send the bill back to the com-! i5at the r*P°rts had come t«
mittee. Nine democratic senators V,enna were Kreatl3r exaggerated,
voted against the bill. They were:
Ashurst. Gore, Hollis, Hustings. New-
lands, Pomerene, Shaforth. Taggart
Irish Homs Rule Plan a Success.
sative votes bat could not transfer
their pairs. Seven republicans voted
tor the bill.
The bill as it passed the house car-
ried approximately $40,000,000. Chief
the
cially successful thus far and It is not
impossible that Mr. LIoyd-Georgo will
be able soon to give the house of corns
uons some preliminary statement
foreshadowing a basis of agreement
among the senate additions were ap- between the Irish parties. “The UU
propriations for the harbors of Los star and nationalist representatives,*
**** correspondent, actually hav.
conferred together and reaahed a
Cal., and Duluth and Superior on t-«at
Superior.
An appropriation for $200,000 for
deepening East river. New Tork. was
the only one project inserted In the
Mil by the senate
president and
sition very close to an agreement Al-
though the details may take some
time to work out. the preliminary an-
----nonneement which Mr I.lord-Georye
It was urged by the hopes to make will probah’y be com-
, ofJh* MTT enough to afford ares’ relief to
j to provide a channel for battleships the
I to the oevy yard at Brooklyn j moi
■ben of the bouse of com*
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