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THE CHOCTAW HERALD.
VOLUME X
LATE NEWS BY WIRE
FROM THE BIG WAR
hugo, oklahoma, thursday, august 26, 1915
NUMBER TWO
By United Press.
BERLIN, Aug. 25.—General von j
Hindenburg is today closing in on Vil-1
na, a^d the capture of thjj'city and |
fort may be expected within the next I
few days.
The Russians are again retreating, j (United Press Staff Correspondent.)
after making a failure with counter- ; NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—Organized
* Grodno and Bielostok are expected ! J8"®1?11, ^8JtS «ye glued to the
to faJl soon, forcing the Russians to !k not~hole' The knot-hole is about the PRESS COMMENT ON THE PIC-
TEN-CENT BASEBALL
BY GEORGE R. HOLMES.
PKMTE
By United Press.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—Secre-
tary of State Lansing today confirm-
ed the proposal that the United States
establish a Haitein protectorate, to
"help Haiteins to avoid the exploita •
tion by professional revolutionists,
who have destroyed enterprise and
are incitihg the populace."
The United States senate must ap-
prove this action of the secretary be-
fore it can be enforced. The Haitein
reply has not been received.
make a final stand at Brestlivosk. 11'ze of a dime and in the Federal's
I fence. O. B. is mightily interested in
By United Press. knowing how many ten-cent baseball
ATHENS, Aug. 25.—Two allied fans there are in these United States,
cruisers have penetrated the Darda-1 Ever since Jim Gilmore kicked his
nelles and have bombarded the Turk-1 entire collection of hats into the ring,
ish batteries at Kastanea with con-! O. B.'s clockers have been working
siderable effect. | diligently in the various Federal
It is reported that a British sub ! yards. Why should O. U. De so very
marine has sunk four sloops carrying' much interested? It has not been so
Turkich troops to Gallipoli. ! very many moons ago since Ban John-
Heavy fighting has been resumed at I son was tuning up his basso for the
Krithit, Ari and in the Burnu region. I Fed's funeral dirge.
. i The reason is apparent—O. B. has
By United Press.
TI RE PLAY "THE BLINDNESS
OF VIRTUE."
In The Blindness of Virtue the mor-
al lesson taught is powerful and one
that should be productive of great
good to parents and to boys and girls.
The manner in which the story is told
in these pictures carefully avoids all
coarseness and there is nothing to of-
fend good taste, or anyone of the
most delicate susceptibilities Mov-
ing Picture World.
The Blindness of Virtue is treated
, * i.-> tiypui cut, \j. o. lias , ..— ' vuc in ucaicu
I come to the realization that something' delicately from every standpoint. No
BERLIN, Aug. 25.—The admiralty! is the matter with baseball, and there
denies the Russian claims that the [ are enough good business heads in O.
battle cruiser Moltke, two cruisers and^B.'s ranks to want to find out what it
eight torpedo boats were sunk in theTVSo it is going to see if Dr. Gil-
Gulf of Riga in the fighting ' fi, eMLs properly diagnosed the case.
Sunday. The admiralty' «ry« W"HHiore's diagnosis being that
"German warships"' ; -neirear old public is tired'of paying
are probably the old vessels sunk by | big prices to see games.
the Germans themselves at the en- That, however, raises a question in
trance of tile gulf to bottle up the; the minds of a lot of baseball men as
Russian squadron. I to what the Johnson-Tener combine
The German losses, as officially re-j will do if it ultimately finds tffat the
ported, are one torpedo boat sunk and I Feds are right. With high salaries,
two damaged. ' I high running expenses, hgh cost of
The report that the Germans at- equipment and various high depart -
tempted to land troops is pronounced! ments of the business end of baseball,!
false. | can O. B. exhibit its wares to the fans j
at a dime- a throw? A careful canvas
By United Press
LONDON, Aug
scene at all injurious to one's finer
sensibilities is pictured, although the
story is just as comprehensive and
just as vital under these existing con-
ditions.—Motion Picture News.
The Blindness of Virtue is truly or-
iginal in thought and idea. It is a pic-
ture in which there is not the slightest
trace of any ill taste or unpleasant
suggestion. It is not a sermon, but
it presents a solution whereby "
By United Press.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—Ambas-
sador Page at London has today cab-
led the state department that the
government has issued its proclama-
tion placing raw cotton and linters
cotton and yarn on the list of contra-
band. This is the first official confirm-
ation of the British action in the mat-
ter.
The state department says the pend-
ing "cotton note" contains two specif-
ic grounds for protest. The fii^t ob-
jection is, that the contraband order
of the allies and the complaint re-
ported is, that it is reported that it is
the British intention to make shippers
prove that cotton consigned to neutral
ports is not ultimately intended for
Germany. Relative to this first point,
emphasis is laid hard on both the
shippers and the growers, and the ut-
ter lack of necessity for such action,
which will effect the neutral com-
merce of this country. On the second'
objection, it is held that all legal
principles have been contradicted and
that England will be enabled to seize
vessel* without the slightest pretext
and to hold them indefinitely.
MIDCONTINENT GETS TWO
CENT RATE REDUCTION
By United Press.
WASHINGTON, August 25. —The
interstate commerce commission to-
day ordered an average cut of two
cents in the rate on petroleum and its
by-products from Kansas and Okla-
homa, and grouped all the mid-con-
tinent field points, in respect to the
rates to the Mississippi river and be-
yound. It also prescribed reasonable
maximum rates on low grade pro-
ducts from mid-continent points to
St. Louis and Chicago. The commis-
sion announced that it found the rules
and rates governing packing house
and other products in peddler cars
throughout the southwest.
questions of life are unfolded in
wholesome manner. The film version
is superior to the play.—The Chicago
Herald.
BELIEVED WAR VICTIM.
By United Press.
GARY, IND., Aug. 25.—The police
believe that Rev. Edmund Kayser,
who was shot to death here last night,
is a victim of the many Russians who
are working in the big plant here. The
minister has openly championed Ger-
many, in her fight in Europe, and had
the publicly denounced the allies.
The little son of Mr. and Mrs. W.
E. Schooler is very ill today with ma-
larial fever.
.. 25.—Russian areo-
planes bombarded Constantinople last
Monday, killing and wounding 41 peo-
ple.
of oninions outside the ranks of either
of tne warring factions reveals few
JOIN ALLIES TODAY
who think it can. That is, unless
- something is cut—either the players'
I salaries or the magnates* divvy. There
_ !are a 'ot of baseball clubs losing kale ,
P4RK i « a* u ! this year with the two-hits minimum. By United Press.
PARIS, Aug. 26.—A I rench aviator, Close to one thousand fans would LONDON Aue 25 —ThP renlv
- 3 h trEnsp0rt in the ! have to crowd into the Detroit park I the proposals that Serbia c^e Bui
He British We ^ Macedonian territory to ob-
JSLSS* W 108 ^£bb'' for ^the partripS t
°f trenche8' eausf Tyrus gets paid at the rate of the war is expicted tobeframed b
I nearly one hundred dollar* riiom I .
AMERICANS GARRY
HALF A MILLION
By United Press.
LAREDO. TEXAS, Aug. 25. -
Twenty-five Americana have arrived
herejjn a special train carrying half
By United Press.
EL PASO, TEXAS, Aug. 25.—Gen.
Madero's Villaista army of 10,000 men
met and defeated the Carranzaista
army around Monterey, driving them
to Nuevo Leon, the capital. A thou-
sand Carranzaistas were killed and
the wounded fill the Monterey hos-
pitals.
Lieut. Smyth of English _ ,
. ' ot crawled on, only to be confronted sud-
Armv Rpare I harmon I ifo! dnely a small stream which was
nllUj Dcdlb tfldrmea LIlC too deep to wade. Across it lay the
j direct fine to safety. The ordinary
BY WILBUR S. FORREST. P13"' und" 3,uch circumstances, would
((LON^ON^eS( By "Mail^to rNePOnYork) I an>d on tafil riew JftS
G^m^hToTh Laudh* ^S&hT V St TtoVSS
th«. mnnr^' i u t *1< wh'ch was just fordable.
the manner in which his almost fanat-, Across this thev strutted with
tht W their valuable bu^len ^f ^ a "ew
patches from >'*ds they we!"e amongst their friends
FoUowed by Sen volunteer- jSeS'dSf'wl?1 SS
Sepoys of his regiment, which held a bullet holes '""tea witn
reserve trench May 17 near Ferme Du | For his braverv I ipnt^nanf
nevS'vrith^deDeratef^ Jour I was awarded the Victoria Cross and
ney with deperately needed ammuni- each, of tne bravo win, i,;™
tion for comrades who had taken a; Indian Distinguished Service Medal
'llie men in the regiment believe
that Lieutenant Smyth bears a charm-
ed life for he has had his cap blown
off by shells five times, has had bul-
lets through his clothes, and lately
while lighting a cigarette, the match
INDIANS.
it)- "ere on a special train carryi
in a million dollars bullion. t]
hey are
nrK. ~n'h,?,XJTXiu-T'I 'T I ",e "ar, ,ls expectea to be framed by from Mexico City, and say that con-
AndSam'cSSfarfministers fa Central Mexico greatly
*>re88' 'And Sam Crawford, Bobby \leach, | session at Niihtndav
BERLIN, Aug:. 25.—Gen. McKenzen j Jean Dubus, George Dauss, Ownie ' *
has penetrated the advanced post- Bush and a dozen other players are
getting good salaries.
On the same basis, 300,000 fans
would have to pass through the turn-
siles at the Polo Grounds in a season
| disturbed.
tions of Brestlitovsk at Dobbynka,
one of the chief outposts.
ONE ON THE JUSTICE.
women in kansas.
Over in Kansas, where they strive
to please, the women ought to have
Billy Boyett tells .hi, &. fc.'ffiffi.SfcjLfiS £ SB? Sfe
E^eese. This morning a man en-: posed to be drawing down $30,000 foi l alienable right, says the New York
tered the office of the justice and ask-, his labors with the Giants. And Iron I Telegraph
ed if Mr. DeWeese was m Mr Boy-, Man Mathewson, Larr>- Doyle, Fred t Here are some of the things a
ett pointed him out, and the obliging, Merk'.e and Hans I.obert are not work-i woman of the Sunflower state may
^ .,JCeJJ-UITpe(l:'iP a_n_d,a'^ed wh.at heling for their health. legally do: 6 y
j enormous cattle shipments
BY J. A. RICKART.
(Written for the United Press.)
KANSAS CITY.—While it is not
unusual for live stock from California
and other far western states to find
outlet at Kansas City, the large num-
bers of shipments of cattle and sheep
that have been sent from Pacific
hated™* —
man asked him if he was the same consideration. Cy Falkenbur? is pull- legal process or legislative act year 18 causinf? considerable
was the same man. "I just wanted
to see what you charged for marrying
folks?" he said. The law provides a
fee of $3," said Mr. DeWeese. "Well,
you owe me $2," said the visitor. "In
January, 1913, I came here and you
married me; I handed you a $5 bill
and you stuck it in your pocket and
aaid thank you.'" Mr Boyett left
about that time and does not know
how the matter was settled
NOTICE—U. D. C.
The local branch of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy are re-
quested and urged to attend the meet-
ing at the city hall Saturday after-
noon at two o'clock. General Wynn
of Kansas City will be present and
deliver an address. Everybody in-
vited.
wales has another strike
By United Press.
CARDIFF. Aug. 25.—A thousand
miners are today on strike at Haford.
They claim that the agreement under
which they recently returned to work
has been violated. Two hundred thou-
sand more may quit for the same rea-
son, and if there is another general
strike it will again cripple the British
shipping and hinder the production of
munitions of war.
and so do Hal Chase. Lee Magee and a
score of other big men In the third
league outfit.
The Feds have not made any money
this year. Jim Gilmore says the don't
expect to—that the Federal League
backers do not care to as they are in
baseball for sport. Mr. Gilmore, un-
doubtedly. is trying to kid himself.
It has been suggested by O. B. ad-
herents that the Feds' 10-cent ante is
the dying gurgle of the third circuit—
that it is the last frenzied sputter to
get out with their skins whole. Thus
gets a laugh from the other side of the
fence.
The real reason isn't apparent to
those on the outside.
the foolish quest.
(By Walt Mason.)
"we are waiting."
By United Press.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 25— All that
government officials will say today
regarding the Arabic case is. "We are
waiting," and they expect this to be
the case for a week or two.
Secretary Larising will not state
whether he will answer the German
request that the United States sus-
pend judgment, pending the official
German report. Other officials have
said nothing to the answer except
"o. It."
NEWSPAPER MAN DIES.
By United Press.
CLEBURNE, TEXAS, Aug. 26.—
Col. f. B. Baillio, former president
of the National Editorial Association,
died at his home here today
Old Billy Bubble is hunting trouble,
he is always in a sweat; he wants to
borrow a bunch of sorrow—an easy
thing to get. If things are pleasant
enough at present, he knows that
grief is in store; if days are sunny, he
will bet good money that torrents
soon will pour. If things are hum-
ming, old Bill is up-coming, with pro-
phecies of gloom: "There will be a
panic." he says, "titanic, and that will
end the boom." When crops are grow-
ing, and men are crowing o'er prom-
ise of big yields, "The hail will hit
! em," says Bill, "and srit 'em or cy-
clones sweep the fields." Old Billy
tires us when he desires us to hearken
to his rede, for foolish whining and
vain repining are not what people
need. Thy are not spoiling to go a-
toiling in mines where gloom is dug;
they had rather tarry with chaps who
carry the cheerful type of mug. The
doleful speaker, the trouble seeker.
Becomes a public pest: if you are
searching where trouble's perching,
forsake the foolish quest.
I POR SALE—19 Runner Ducks, 50c) gv ITnite<I Press
leach, $7.50 for the iot J. C GAR- VFW YORK Am t tw
ROTr -,11 r. ^. • Aug. 25.—Who wants
nwi i. on so. t,. ht., Higo. wltd3t-25 to be official watch winder for the
her name and give up his family name
—if she does not like it.
Can keep her maiden name and her
husband can keep his.
Can retain her maiden name for
business transactions and use her hus
band's name for social affairs.
If wife does not like either her own
or husband's family name they can
change to a name that does suit.
A woman can wear men's clothing
without any restriction except that
she must not pose as a man.
She can vote at every election.
She can hold any office in the state
and run for congress.
As Kansas probably puts it, a wom-
an there can do almost anything a
man can. That's so. The men's cloth-
ing provision even permits her to
scratch a match as some men do. Only
thing she seems debarred from is
"posing as a man," which is impossi-
ble, of course, for most of them, at
least.
balkan league formed.
By United Press.
LONDON, Aug. 25—The London
Press is very optomistic todav The
Ixjndon Telegraph says the "Balkan
League will be formed or constructed,
furnishing the allies with a million
fresh troops Diplomats, however,
are not sharing the optimism of the
press.
another treaty signed.
By United Press.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 25—On ac-
count of the declaration of war be
tween Italy and Turkey. President
Wilson this morning signed a neutral-
ity treaty with both the belligerent
countries.
who wants to be a~watch
winder:
E. L. Long and little son of Wel-
l.ngton, Kans.. are visiting the family
of Judge r E. Rowells.
Dr. Reed and family and R L.
Weddington and family have returned
from a ten days fishing trip in the
mountains. They report fine sport and
plenty of it.
fall style girl? Girl models in the
American Retail Jeweler's convention
here are wearing knee watches. But
none but jewelers can get into the
convention
flee
Old papers for saU at The News of- The Now^ office° lOfT'sheets'^good miles with only two stops for
1 •-•arbon for $1 00 feed.
market, four trains from California,
four trains from Montana, two from
Idaho and one each from Washington,
Oregon and Nevada. Besides, there
has been more than 60,000 sheep and
lambs sent from Arizona, heavy ship-
ments of sheep and lambs from Cali-
fornia and Wyoming, and large ship-
ments of cattle and sheep from every
intermediate state, especially from
Texas. More than 100 car loads of
Texas cattle have been offered in a
single day at Kansas City this sum-
mer on several occasions.
The last week in July one train of
34 cars of cattle was received from
Nevada and other train loads from
Imperial, California.
The great capacity of the packing
plants at Kansas City makes it the
second largest slaughtering point in
the world.
The packers needed large amounts
of beef this summer to fill war con-
tracts, and took the big Western cat-
tle readily. Practically all the cattle
sent from the far away points were
big beef steers, weighing around 1200
pounds each, or more, and they sold
at $8 to $8.90 per hundred pounds.
Irrigation in the west is producing
large crops of barley, alfalfa and oth-
er feeds, which are best disposed of by
feeding to cattle and sheep hence
the increased offer of live stock from
those sections.
Railroads ire alive to the import-
ance of giving good service on these
long shipments, in order that the
shrinkage in weight may be as light
as possible. Early in July a shipment
of 25 car loads of cattle from Imper-
ial, California, made the ron of 1595
miles to Kansas City with only two
stops for feed, the actual running
time being 81 hours. On July 19th a
train of 18 cars of steers from Phoe-
nix, Arizona, arrived in Kansas City,
having made the run of more than
portion of an enemy trench but who
faced annihilation from an impending
reinforced attack.
Telling that with the break of day
it was ascertained that the German
section of this forward trench was „
ES&tejr*to a,-"" ~ - 5
The situation was desperate. It l
was resolved to attempt to relieve it |
by sending up a bombing party from1
the reserve trenches. The nature of _
this undertaking may be guaged fromi (Leslie's Weekly.)
the fact that two attempts had beenl Why should there be, at this late
made by the Highland Light Infantry > day, after hundreds of years of med-
and both had failed; the officers w'dling and muddling, such a thing am
command being killed and the parties; an Indian problem in this country?
having suffered very severely. ; This is the question which one almost
However, the position was critical, j despairingly asks when reminded of
and Lieutenant Smyth, a young offi-1 the fact that there are many red men
cer who, in spite of his years—only I still special wards of the Government,
numbering twenty-one—had already I Brig. Gen. R. A. Pratt, U. S. A.,
been brought to notice for his gallan-1 known to fame as the founder of the
try, was ordered to take command of j Carlisle Indian School and for nearly
the party. fifty years of active interest in the
\ olunteers were called for and were: welfare of American Indians, gives
immediately forthcoming. The alac-1 the answer that there should' be no
rity with which the demand was re- such problem. General Pratt believes
sponded to speak volumes for the j in abolishing the reservations and
spirit of the regiment, for each man allowing the Indians now restrained
felt sure he was proceeding to almost! there, supplied with rations, papuer-
certain death. j ized and deprived of incentive to self-
Lieutenant Smyth and his little par-1 support, to merge into the general
ty started at 2 p. m. to cover the 250! body of citizenship and to stand on the
yards which intervened between them! same footing as white men and black
and our_ trench, taking with them two men. To confirm the soundness of
boxes of 96 bombs.
The only possible shelter from the
frightful fire which met the party as
soon as they were over the parapet,
was an old broken down trench which
at the best of times was hardly knee
deep, but now in places was filled a'-
most to the top with the dead bodies
of Highland Light Infantry, Worces-
ter and Germans.
Dropping over our parpet they
wriggled their way through the mud.
this view, he indicates that the pro-
gress made by the black race in this
country is far greater than that made
by the copper-colored one, although
the latter, in his estimation, is natur-
ally the more capable of the two. Gen.
Pratt explains that the colored man
has been forced into free contact with
modern civilization, while the Indian
has been compelled to keep away from
it. The wrong system to which they
have been subjected has prevented the
pulling and pushm? the boxes with j Indians from developing as they real-
them. until they reached the scanty: ly should, has cost the Government a
shelter of the oUT trench, where they • total so far of over $500,000,000 and
commenced the progress which for [imposed on it a present outlav of
sheer horrors can seldom have been] more than $10,000,000. To say nothing
suppassed. , , , , 1 of the injustice which has been done
^liopes had been attached to the| to the Indians, the graft and scandal
front of the boxes. By means of these1 too often involved in the existing sys-
the men in front palled the boxes | tem should long ago have impelled
along over and through the dead bod-
ies while those in the rear pushed
with all their might, the whole party
lying flat.
At any moment the bombs might
explode.
The whole ground was hissing with
the deluge of rifle and machine gun
fire, while the air above them was
white wtih the puffs of shrapnel.
To the anxious watchers in the rear
it seemed impossible that a single
man should win through.
After they had accomplished a
mere twenty yards of their deadly
journey. Sepoy Fatteh Singh rolled
over wounded, followed in the "ext
80 yards by Sepoy Sach Singh. Uj-
agar Singh and Sunder Singh.
This only left Smyth and six men
to get the two boxes along. Under
ordinary circumstances four men
were required to handle a box fo
bombs. However, these were super
men. and the thought of their com-
rades in dire necessity ahead of them
put fresh heart into mem. They
crawled on and on, until just before
they reached the end of the trench, the
party had dwindled to two. Lieutenant
Smyth and Sepoy Lai Singh. Of the
remainder of the band of heroes, two
of the Sepoys had been killed and
three wounded.
The second box of bombs had to be
abandoned, and to haul even one box
along in the face of such difficulty
appeared an impossible task.
Still pulling and hauling, Smyth
and Laf Singh emerged wriggling
painfully along into the open where
thev were met with an increased blast
of fire.
Miraculously surviving this.
Congress to effect a change in the
line of General Pratt's suggestion*
Let the next Congress earnestly con-
sider this matter
x
items of interest.
In the ten months since the begin-
ning of the war seven vessels flying
the American flag have entered the
port of Lisbon with miscellaneous
cargoes, five steamers and two sailing
ships. Previous to August 1, 19lf,
only one vessel of American register
entered this port in fifteen years and
that was in 1908.
Honduras is at present an almost
undeveloped country. The only high-
way in the country that can be used
by automobiles is the road leading
from San Lorenzo, on the Pacific side
of the country, to Tegucigalpa. All
the other means of inland communica-
tion are narrow mountainous roads or
trails, most of which cannot be tra-
versed by any kind of vehicle.
The sum spent for newspaper ad-
vertising in the United States is
$250,000,000. This is 40 per cent of
all advertising and more than four
times as much as in the second largest
medium g
An airship continually patrols over
the kaiser's capital It is a fashion-
able fad in Berlin to take a flight in
the patroling Zeppelin
One French motion picture manu-
facturing company turns out about
2,000 miles of finished film'? each
they | working day.
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