State Sentinel (Stigler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 11, 1918 Page: 1 of 8
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STATE SENTINEL Established 1906
HASKELL COUNTY LEADER EsUb islied 1000
STIGLER, OKLAHOMA, APRIL 11, 1918
VOLUME 13
NUMBER 9
HASKELL COUNTY 'OVER THE TOP' ™"
a V IIV
MS IS SAFE
LUYALTY FOH THE PRESENT
MCCURTAIN CITIZENS TREAT A
SUSPECT TO "TAR AND
FEATHERS
John Holt, of McCurtain, was j
brought to Stigler Sunday by Deputy
Munn Brown and placed in the |
County Jail pending an investiga-1
tion. Holt claimed that he was I
taken out Saturday and "tared and
feathered" by a bunch of people at
McCurtain, after a committee of the
Third Liberty Loan had came to
him and asked him to subscribe.
Sheriff Folsom, County Attorney
Fannin and County Judge Hudson
went to McCurtain Monday to in-
vestigate Holt's case. It is stated
that the Liberty Loan committee
headed by Doctor McClure, went to
Holt and asked him to subscribe.
Holt stated that he was not able;
that he was sending all his money
to his family at his home in Mena.
It was explained to him that he did
not have to pay all down; and Holt
says that he had made arrangements
to take a loan. The committee left
and in a short time a crowd came to
him and said they wanted him at
town. He was taken to town and
in the street he was forced to kiss
the American flag and swear allegi-
ance to the United States. Follow-
ing this he returned to his office.
Later, so the authorities claim, a
crowd came to the office and told
Holt that they were not through
with him. They made him ride
across the hood of a car and he was
carried through town and on to the
school house where an application
of "tar and feathers" was applied
to him from the waist up.
We was then carried to the depot
and told to leave town. But in-
stead its eems he left the depot and
Deputy Munn Brown, fearing a mob
brought him to Stigler.
Holt is an employe of the Blue
Ridge Coal Company, serving as a
"spotter" or detective. His home
is in Mena, Ark., and he has a fam-
ily. It was learned that he drew
a salary of over $100 a month and
that he was not a subscriber to any
of the Liberty loans or War Savings
Stamps.
Holt will be taken before the fed-
eral authorities at Muskogee.
n
GERMANY TO GIVE UP
SOME RUSSIAN TERRITORY?
MOSCOW, April 9.—The depart-
ment of foreign affairs says that
Germany will evacuate all the terri-
tory captured in the recent advance
as well as some taken before the
Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations.
Thus the Narva and Pskov districts,
the Mohilev government and other
teritory will be restored to Russia.
HICKS, PACIFIST, IS
DRIVEN FBOM ELK CITY
OKLAHOMA CITY, Apri\ 9.—W.
M. Hicks, president of the World
Peace league, was tarred -and feath-
ered at Elk City, Okla., tonight and
ordered to leave the county. Hicks
already Is under federal indictment
on disloyalty charges. He is said
to have been talking against the
third Liberty Loan in a socialist
stronghold not far from Elk City.
JUDGE GREGORY HERE SUNDAY
Judge James T. Gregory, who is
one of the best speakers on the plat-
form will be here Sunday and will
address the people of Stigler at the
Methodist Church in the morning.
Every man, woman and child should
hear this speech. Very seldom do
we have a chance to hear a man of
this kind. Judge Gregory comes
from Louisville, Ky.
Judge Gregory will address the
people of Keota in the auditorium
In the afternon Sunday.
| Facing American, French and
I Britislj troops strongly entrenched
! and well equipped for battle, the j
| German army has for the moment i
given up its direct drive against {
Amiens. "
After utter repulse in his efforts!
to smash straight through his ob-1
jective, the enemy now is attempt-!
ing a new maneuver, which is in- '•
tended to broaden the field of action j
and reduce the menace of a counter i
offensive that would nullify all the
gains made by the Teutons since
March 21.
Reports from the battle line in
Picardy disclose the first stages of
this new German offensive aimed at
either side of the salient in the alli-
ed lines. From Labasse canal in j
the north, to the sectors east of j
Laon, the great artillery forces of |
the enemy are thundering, deepen- j
ing at place to the intensity of the j
drum fire.
The length of this front is ap- j
proximately 120 miles. North of j
Lens, east of Arras, along the new |
front running through Bucquoy to j
Albert, south of Montididier and j
thence eastward past Lassigny and:
Noyon to a point far beyond Chauny!
the Germans are hammering the al-1
lied lines in an attempt to break:
the defenses and prepare them for j
the infantry assault which may be!
expected at any moment.
On the western "elbow" of the j
salient in the allied lines, the Ger-!
mans are forced to- fight uphill, j
Their advance across the lower
ground along the Somme, Ancre,
Avre and Luce rivers has carried
them up to a parapet of hills which
sentinel the road to Amiens. At-
tacks along this natural bulwark
hive netted the enemy only insigni-
ficant gains at a horrible cost.
At points, the German efforts
have gained, but these gains have
resulted only in the formation of
sharp salients which are swept by
rifle and machine gun fire, and tem-
pests of shells, whenever enemy
troops are seen forming for an at-
tack.
There is a wholesome respect in
the German general staff for the al-
lied reserve army, which as yet ap-
pears to have been drawn upon
slightly to meet the Teutonic at-
tacks.
The attack on the French lines
southeast of Chauny is for the pur-
pose of removing a menacing salient
and the gaining of better protection
to the German left flank.
This assault is still going on, and
it has made considerable progress.
The Germans struck through the
lower forest of Coucy and have now
reached a point south of the village
of Folembray. The Berlin official
announcement claims that 2,000
prisoners have been taken.
JUDOE SUMMERS HARDT PLEASES THE PEOPLE IN IIIS SPEECH CCTIIIITP« HE
[HERE AT THE GREAT PATRIOTIC RALLY SATURDAY Cu IIRIAILU Ur
LOAN NOT GIVEN
SPY IS
Last Saturday, the opening day ed the speaker at its close
of the Third Liberty Loan campaign
sale, a crowd of three thousand peo-
ple met in the center of Stigler, lis-
tened to several good patriotic ad-
dresses and then went "over the
top" in the matter of subscribing
Haskell County's quota of the bond
issue by about $50,000.00.
While the parade as programmed
earlier in the week had to be dis-
pensed with on account of mud, the
good weather in the evening allow-
| ed the program to be carried out in
J the streets. One of the largest
I crowds ever assembled in Stigler
! formed on the streets and listened
J to a great introduction speech from
[Attorney Guy A. Curry, which last-
ed several minutes. Mr. Curry
presented Judge Summers Hardy
and Judge Hardy delivered one of
the greatest orations ever listened
to by the people assembled. Judge
Hardy is thoroughly familiar with
the subject of this war, its causes
and the methods that have been us-
ed by the Huns in the war and the
immense crowd listened to every
word of the address with the great-
est attention and roundly applaud-
The Rev. J. C. Curry took charge
of the meeting at the conclusion of
the speech of Judge Hardy, and the
way subscriptions rolled in from
everybody showed that the people
were affected and at last were
awakened to the fact that we are in
a war to the death.
Haskell county's quota of the
bond issue was placed at $144,000,
divide^ as follows: Stigler, $79,-
600; (McCurtain, $20,000; Kinta
$16,400; Keota, $24,800. This ob-
ligation of the towns representing
the districtsi n which they were i
placed were met as follows: Stigler!
$89,000; McCurtain, $30,000; Kin-j
ta. $28,000; Keota, $25,000, rnak-
jing an over-subscription of $48,300 j
the first day of the drive.
J The county has earned and will j
| receive an Honor Flag for having!
j over-subscribed the amount placed I
'on it.
While the amount allotted to this
.county has been raised, anyone who j
[ wishes to subscribe or increase the i
amount he has already subscribed j
| will be taken car of at either of the 1
Stigler banks, or see Chairman Sam
Rose.
I WASHINGTON, April 8—EstI-
mates of daily Liberty loan sub- j
| scriptions will not be given out dur-
ing the campaign by national, dis-
[ trict or local headquarters, under j
instructions issued tonight by Secre-
tary McAdoo.
Instead, the treasury will gather
them from each federal reserve
bank, figures on subscriptions actu-
ally filed with them, together with
I receipts from the initial flv« per
I cent payment, and a tabulation of
these will be made public each day.
J Local committees may compile
similar reports of subscriptions
i turned into local bans and give out
! the results.
This method of supplying infor-
mation of inaccurate estimates
which might not be borne out by ac-
tual subscriptions. Secretary Mc-
Adoo requested newspapers and
Liberty loan committees to observe
the new rule.
Over long distance telephone from
Richmond, Va., where he made his
first Liberty loan speech on a cam-
paign tour, the secretary authorized
this statement:
A. J. ARTWINE ARRESTED NEAR
LAST MONDAY;
TI) PASS
THE IRISH
LONDON, April 9.—It was an-
nounced in the house of commons
tonight that the government had
decided to extend the time for the
discussion of the man power bill un-
til Tuesday of next week. This
was a concession to a request of
Mr. Asquith after a vote had been
taken and the bill had passed its
first reading amid cheers.
CONSCRIPTION ONE STEP
NEARER GREAT BRITAIN
LONDON, April 10.—The house
of commons tonight passed the sec-
ond readingo f the government man
power bill. The vote was 323 to
100.
BELGIAN RELIEF STEAMER
SUNK BY A MINE
AMSTERDAM, April 10.—The
Belgian Relief Steamer Flanders
struck a mine in the free channel
Monday and sank, according to the
Handel8blad. The crew were sav-
ed.
ARRAS AND AMIENS ARB
BEING EVACUATED
PARIS, April 10.—The civilian
population of ArraB, Is being moved
it was announced here today. Sim-
ilar evacuations have tioen made of
other French towns close to the
lines, including Amiens.
LONDON, April 9.—In his speech
Mr. Lloyd-George said that in the
recent great German offensive the
situation at one time was undoub-
tedly critical. "The enemy broke
through between our third and fifth
armies and there was a serious
gap and the situation was retrieved
owing to the magnificient conduct
of our troops," he said. "They re-
tired in good order," he continued,
"and re-established the junction."
He also revealed that General
Gough, in command of the fifth ar-
my, had been relieved of his com-
mand as a result of the retirement.
LONDON, April 9.—David Lloyd-
Georgc, British prime minister, to-
day made the boldest stroke of his
career by coupling home rule for
Ireland with the conscription of
Irishmen.
This unexpected disclosure in an
address by the premier in the
house of commons in presenting the
new conscription bill to parliament
swept aside all interest in the de-
tails of the conscription scheme
which already had been forecast by
the newspapers.
Fear Irish Parties And
British Friends.
Ireland is the only subject talked
of tonight. The only question ask-
ed is how will the Irish parties and
their British sympathizers take to
the new policy.
There was a test of strength in
the house of commons when Joseph
Devlin, nationalist, made a motion
to adjourn. The government then
(Continued on Page Eight)
WASHINGTON, April 8.—Anoth-
er day of lively senate debate on
the sedition bill, which would pun-
ish disloyal utterances and attempts
to hinder the army draft and liber-
ty bond campaigns, resulted in the
adoption of amendments designed to
meet the objection of senators that
the measure might prevent legiti-
mate criticism in the war.
The changes were in the clause
penalizing "disloyal, profane, scur-
rilous, abusive or contemptuous
language" directed at the "form of
government, constitution, flag or
uniforms of the nation, and calcu-
lated to bring them into contempt
or scorn."
Senator Thomas of Colorado of-
fered an amendment to provide any
such acts should be "willful," and
Senator Borah of Idaho proposed to
substitute the word "intended," for
"calculated." There were objec-
tions that convictions would be diffi-
cult to secure under such language.
Senator Hardwick insisted that
millions of people honestly differ on
the cause of the war. Senator
Poindexter retorted that the Geor-
gia senator had not "particularly
supported" the war and cited his op-
position to the draft law.
Senator Sherman of Illinois took
occasion to denounce the recent lyn-
ching of a German at Collinsville,
111., las a "disgrace" and criticised
town officials for failing to protect
the mob's victim. He urged that
language of the bill penalizing "con-
temptuous and scurrilous" criticism
sftould apply to disloyal utterances
only, and said Assistant Secretary of
Labor Post and George Creel, chair-
man of public information, in the
past, had written articles severely
criticising the American form of
government which would be punish-
able under the measure as now
drawn.
Senator Gallinger, the republican
leader, urged that the prohibition
"In order to remove the risk of
j inaccurate information and of over-
! sanguine and misleading estimates
! concerning t.he amount of subscrip-
l tions to the third Liberty loan, no
figures will be given out for some
days and then only figures as to the
actual amount of subscriptions offi-
cially filed with the federal reserve
banks. The danger of relying up-
j on optimistic estimates and unoffi-
cial subscriptions will thus be avoid-
ed.
"This information will be made
public beginning at an early date
when the department will be pre-
pared to give accurate figures. After j
the plan has been developed the j
federal reserve banks will report to j
the treasury department thea mount j
of subscriptions actually filed and i
those reports will be given out daily. |
"The federal reserve banks will i
simultaneously announce the
amount of such subscriptions offi- J
cially filed in their own districts j
and will permit local committees to
announce the amounts of subscrip-1
tions officially filed.
"I ask the co-operation of news-
papers and Liberty loan committees
throughout the country in the poli-
cy above indicated which is of vital
importance to the object we have in
mind, making the Liberty loan an
unqualified success."
Monday of this week one A. J
Artwlne, of German parentage, waa
arrested at Brooken and brought to
Stigler and placed in the County
jail. It was claimed that he was
a German spy. After an investi-
gation it was found that he was not
a subscriber to the Liberty Loan,
War Savings Stamps, or any other
of the war activities, giving as his
reason he was not able. He was
traveling through the country sell-
ing a clothes cleaning preparation.
When arrested he had something
over $7.00 in money. Citizens in
the Brooken became suspicious of
him when he had inquired of them
a certain direction and would go the
opposite.
Artwine acknowledged that while
in Texas he was arrested at a little
town called Turkey, on a charge of
poisoning some drinking water this
fall. He claims that he was later
released after he1 agreed to drink a
quart of the water.
WHISKY CHARGES
FOR TWO I.A WYKRN
NORMAN—GOOGE
(Continued on Pag# Eight)
A secret which had been kept
since last Wednesday, April 3rd,
leaked out this morning when Joe
Norman came to down and purchas-
ed a box of cigars at the Stigler
Drug Store and left instructions to
give them to all his friends. The
reason—he was married.
The ceremony was performed last
Wednesday night at 9:30 by Rev. J.
C. Curry at the home of B. F. Walk-
er where the bride was staying. Mr.
and Mrs. B. F. Walker were the
only ones present.
The bride, Miss Mittie Googe,
(now Mrs. J. L. Norman) has made
Stigler her home for the past year,
being employed as teacher in the
high school, and is one of Stigler's
moat charming young ladies. She
is a cousin of Mrs. B. F. Walker.
The groom, Joe L. Norman, is one
of the most popular young men of
Stigler. He has been associated
with the First State Bank, as assis-
tant cashier, ever since the bank
was originated. He is in the draft
age and is expected to be called in
the next quota that leaves the city.
State Sentinel joins the many
congratulation3 and wishes them a
long, happy and prosperous voyage
over the sea of matrimony.
I Mnman Pniitt and \V. N. Maben Ar-
rested on Train Coming From
Texas.
CHICKASHA, Okla., April 10.—
j Although news dispatches from Ok-
j lahoma City state that Moman Pru-
| iett and Judge W. N. Maben deny
; that they were arrested here on
j Sunday on a charge of transporting
liquor, the hearing of the two law-
yers before United States Commis-
sioner Speake has been set for April
25.
Pruiett and Maben were taken
from a Rock Island train at Wauri-
ka Sunday morning by J. A. Brown
and R. E. Bilby, special officers of
the Indian service. Pruiett, they
said was in possession of twelve
quarts of whisky and Maben six.
They had tickets from Fort Worth
to Oklahoma City.
When they were brought before
United States Commissioner Speake
they waived preliminary hearing
and were bound over under a $1,-
000 bond each. The special offi-
cers turned their prisoners over to
United States Marshal Jim Dillon
after they were brought here.
In relating the story of the arrest
the officers said that they joarded
the train at a point belo>, Waurika
and while passing through the train
they saw Pruiett and Maben in the
Pullman. One of the officers pick-
ed up Pruiett's suit case and was
told to set it down.
The officers also declare they
took revolvers from both Pruiett
and Maben after a struggle.
SUBMARINE MENACE IS
STILL AT LOW LEVEL
LONDON, April 10.—The sinking
of British merchantmen by mines
or submarines last week reached
the next lowest level of any week
since Germany began her intensive
submarine campaign early in the
year 1917. Four vessels *f more
than 1,600 tons, two of less than 1,-
600 tons and two fishing boats were
sent to the bottom.
To lose this conflict with the
kaiser's hosts; to bend the knee in
submission to the will of the Prus-
sian autocracy; to accept peace
terms dictated by thew ar lords of
Germany, would be to trail in the
dust the highest hopes of Democra-
cy. It would mark the Waterloo
of Liberty. It might spell the end.
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