The Texhoma Times (Texhoma, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1916 Page: 2 of 10
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NEWS OF THE
STATE CAPITAL
STREET CAR LINE BARRED
NEW STATE CAPITOL
TRACT.
Echo of MeDarment Case.
' Stat® Superintendent Wilson has
! called a meeting of the state board ,
of education on August 24 to hear
charges which have been preferred
against Prof. A. S. Walker of the Du-
rant Normal and to complete arrange-
ie opening of the seat
AUSTRIANS CAPTURED BY THE RUSSIANS
for t
year.
NEWS FROM STATE OFFICES
What the State Officials and Depart-
ments Are Doing—Item* of In-
terest About the State
Government.
The charges against Professor
Walker were preferred by Jess Watts
of Wagoner, father of the high school
boy who was killed In Wagoner early
last spring. Corley P. MeDarment, a
teacher, was acquitted of the killinz
and it is alleged by Watts that Prof.
Walker was unduly active in behalf of
MeDarment and that he assisted in
raising funds for McDarment's de-
Oklahoma City.—Unlet-3
appeal granted from the
of the capitol commit-ion
Jaboma Railway Company
permitted to run tracxs
At this meeting the board al?o wl'l
make arrangements for temporarily
Ailing the places of three professors
who are now with the national guard,
two of them betng in service on the
•till not be border Xhey are Major jack Alle)>
irough the teacher of economic", and Prof. G. Y.
there is an
recent edict
that the Ok-
owners in the state who are delinquent
with their taxes, according to Mr.
Noble. Last month the collections of
the department amounted to approxi-
mately $15,000.
state capitol ground*, tne chances that Williams of the science department of
senatorial and representative feet will the state university, who are on the
get wet when the legislature con- border, and Frank Wyatt, professor of
venes during the stormy weather of history at the Alva Normal, who has
next January loom up formidably. '),>en commissioner by the war depart-
There now appears no indication that l° recruU a company of militia
this rule will be changed at(„E?id- Th,el,r 'n the 8cho°l8
I will be saved for them, it was stated.
New tracks will be built by the rail-
way company, it was announced last Car§ M(j$t ShQw L|cen#e
week, so the Capitol car line will Automob))e owne„ who of
come closer than a block of the eastlhe regulation license tag, place a card
entrance. General Manager Knox of on the rear of their machines bearing
the company said that the plans have the inscription, "license applied for"
not been worked out, but that new are violating the law and are subject
track will be built. Home action will to arrest, according to a letter from
be taken soon so the construction George B. Noble, highway commls-
work can be finished before any of H,°ner t0 Ma>°r Ed- Overholser of Ok-
the state offices are occupied. la..^a Ci,ty"
There is no reason why any citizen
The ideal plan, certain engineers,^ oklahoma could not have an Okla-
say, would be to extend the steps at homa 1916 tag on his or her car,"
the east entrance to the edge of the reads the letter. "Any applicant for
ground and build a porte cochero so a tag can procure same immediately
the cars could stop in a sheltered upon request. Those operating cars
place. I without tags or displaying, cards, *li-
I cenae applied for,' should be arrestel
Object, to Negro Election Officer., for violating the law. There is no ex-
_t ..... cufle f°r the owners of cars or trucks
The question of the right of negroes nQt hav,ng a]ready procure(1 taga.
to act as precinct election officers U -The constabulary of Oklahoma
presented to the supreme court for de- have sworn to enforce this law as
termination in a case appealed by the well as all others. We earnestly asK
county election board of Okfuskee your co-operation and support in the
county. By an order of the district: enforcement of this law."
court of that county the county elec- There are approximately 10,000 auto
tlon board was required to establish
one or more voting places In Boley,
a small place of which the population
is 90 per cent negroes. The order di-
rects that one or two precincts be es-
tablished and that the election officers
be appointed from among the lnhabi- Wheat On Ground For Lack of Cars.
tants of the place regardless "of race, Although the wheat market has con-
color or former condition of serv'-, tinued high for the past weelc, the
tude." The election board is vigor- movement of Oklahoma grafn has fal-
«u ly resisting the order. j 'en off considerably since the big rise
in prices came. Grain buyers of Ok-
Rh,- «,oanon lahoma City say this is due partly to
Oklahoma a Share $139,000. the fMt ^ ( arg cannot b<> ^ ^
The Oklahoma highway department enough and partly to the belief that
was duly represented at the confer- the wheat Is bound to go very much
ence in Washington on August 16 for higher before winter.
working out plans for handling the . , ,
federal government good roads fund T.he Car "hostage has become very
of $5,000,000, which is to be appor- serl°U" recently. Reports have been
ttoned among the several states of the coat ^al offices that in some
. . * sections of the state buyers have been
union. plHng the gra(n on lhe groun(1 Thu
M. L. Cunningham, state highway i,een done in the Alfalfa county
engineer in the highway department, towns more than any other place,
represented Oklahoma in the confer- KleVators In many towns have shut
rnee. Oklahoma's share of the fund their doors and are refusing to take
In the first distribution will be a little grain except on contract for future
more than $139,000, according to tha delivery
plan of apportionment announced ... ......
It Is estimated that 4,000 more cars
are needed to handle the Oklahoma
It 1. estimated by Mr. Cunningham crop lhan are available now.
that if will be six months before any Th(U the problem of gettlng freight
oars to carry the grain Is more serious
than ever before was the opinion ex-
1 pressed by L. C. Williams of Wichita,
Candidate. File Expenses. Kan. Mr. Williams Is commercial
A total of $6,015 was spent by the agent for a railroad.
Ave candidates for the democratio
nomination for the long term corpora Delegate, to Tax Meeting.
tlon commissioner, according to ex- State Examiner and Inspector Fred
pense accounts filed by the candidates Parkinson and State Auditor E. B.
with the state election board. This Howard, both members of the state
is an average of a little more than board of equalization, are among a list
$1,200 for each candidate. The legal of delegates appointed by Governor
limit Is $1,500. • Williams to represent Oklahoma at
The statements show that J. H. thp ,enth national conference on tax-
Johnston, who finished second, spent «• «">. *'Mch will be held In Indian-
apolis August 28-31.
Other delegates appointed by the
governor are:
Robert W. Burns, Warren K. Sny-
Photograph Just arrived in this country showing an endless Hue of Austrian prisoners captured by the Russians
In their latest great drive. The prisoners under escort are being taken to the interior of Russia to a prison camp.
The line of captured Austrians extend, as far as the eye can see.
SUBMARINE DEUTSCHLAND STARTS FOR HOME
German merchant submarine Deutsehland just as she started from Baltimore on her dash to sea. The
Deutschland Is bound for Bremen with her cargo of rubber, nickel and gold. She will have to evade, the hostile
cruisers that have been waiting for her to leave American waters.
work will be done In this state to be
tald for out of the federal fund.
the most money. His expenses were
$1,497.68. Campbell Russell, who won
the race, spent $1,218.85. Henry Will-
mering spent f 1,460; Ben F. Harrison
$1,154.64, and A. P. Watson, $684.
HEAD OF RUSSIAN STAFF
STARTING
&
<1-
General Belr.leit, head of the Run
sian general staff, photographed iu
France, where he was sent by the czai
to Inspect and review Russian troo{«
now fighting on the Champagne front.
HOW FATAL BOMB WAS MADE
State Convict. Farmed Out.
der, Paul Reiss, Charles Hoopes, Mike.
Donnely, all of Oklahoma City; E. M.
Kerr and Waller Eaton of Muskogee; j
T. W. Neal, Poteau; M. M. Ryan, I
Application for 140 convicts from Spiro; Dr. T. P. Howell, Davis; J. J.
the penitentiary at McAlester to work Smith, Afton; E. J. McBride and W. j
on the "construction of state roads M. Malone, of Vinita, and C. H. Tully, i
were approved last week by the state Eufaula.
highway department, and the state
board of affairs as ex-officio prison
board of control. Of this number fifty
will go to Johnston county, fifty to
LeFlore county and fifty to Kirk town-
ship In McClain county.
Kite bnlloon belonging to the allies about to start on an inspection flight
over the lines of the enemy.
TRYING TO PREVENT RAILWAY STRIKE
Requisition For Printing.
Secretary of State J. L. Lyon mad
formal requisition on the state board to $15.
of affairs for printing the pamphlets month.
78 Widow. Draw Pen.Iona.
Seventy-eight widows In Oklahoma
county are on the pension list and re-
ceive. in the aggregate. $479 a month,
or $5,748 a year. .Tudge Zwlck has
charge of disbursement of the pension
fund for the county. The amount paid
to each widow varies from $5 a month
Only five received $15 a
Only widows whose husbands
containing arguments for and against
the social i:t "fair rlectlon law,"
which will be pubmitted to the voters
In the November election.
are dead, and women whose husbandj
are either Insane or in the peniten-
tiary are eligible to participate in the
pension fund.
8pace For Historical Society.
New quarters for the Oklahoma His-
torical Society will be on the third
floor of the state capitol building.
Practically ten times "s much room
as that now occupied In the Carnegie
oulldlng will be available. This will
allow for the most atractlve disposi-
tion of the large collections. Two tlons hav
hundred bound volumes of Oklahoma year Mr.
State to Examine Levies.
Governor Williams has requested
State ..xamlner and Inspector Fred
Parkinson to examine all levies made
by every county of the state to raise
revenue for the current fiscal year
to see that the constitutional limita-
not been exceeded. Last
Parkinson states that ,tn
newspapers is the latest ailditlon to several countie excessive levies were
the Oklahoma Historical Society's col- made and which had to be validated by
lection. It Is expected that about 500' the extra session of tbe legislature In
volumes more will be placed In the j order to forestall Innumerable law-
'acks this tall. 1 suits.
%
Newton Potter, who, It Is believed
made the bomb that killed seven and
Injured 40 spectators of San Francis
co's preparedness parade, Is here sect
showing how the bomb was welded.
These are the members of the federal board of mediation and conciliation
who have undertaken the attempt to arrange the differences between the rail-
way managers aud the brotherhood, so there shall be no strike. Left to right,
they are Martin A. Knnpp, W. L. Chambers and U. W. Hanger.
It All Depends.
"Kissing," Bald the coy uinld, "shoulti
be strictly confidential."
"But," observed the strenuous younfi
man, "think what wo would have
missed If the discoverer of kissing had
never made It public."
STATE NEWS NOTES jj
SHADOWS Oc COMING EVENTS.
Aug. 21—Oklahoma State Federation
of Labor Convention, at Tulsa.
Aug. 28-31—Jefferson coun'.y fair, Ryan.
Sept. 5-8—Kingfisher county fair. King-
fisher.
Sept. 6-9—McCurtain county fair, Idal* I
Sept. 7—Football, Northwestern Normal
at Norman.
Sept. 7-8 — Woodward county fair.
Mooreland.
Sept. 7-9—Marshall county fair, Madill.
Sept. i-9—Harmon county fair, Hollis.
Sept. &-S—Tillman county fair.
Sept. 11-12—Love county fair. Marietta.
Sept. 11-13—Kiowa county lair. Hobart.
Sept. 11-13—Choktaw county fair, Hugo.
Sept. 12-14—rontotoc county lair.
Sept. 12-14—Custer county tair, Thomas
sept, la-14—Canadian county fair, hJ.
Reno.
Sep. 12-14.—Okfuskee county fair, OK -
mah.
Sep. 12-14.—jonnsion county fair. Tlsn-
mingo.
sep. 12-16— Pittsburg county fair, Mc-
Alester.
Sep. 12-16.—Tuisa county ta.it. Tulsa.
ei. 13-1 j.—&i> an countv iair. Durant
Sep. 13-16.—OKinuiget! county tatr, Ok-
mulgee. „
Sep. 13-16.—.Mayes county ralr. Poor.
Sep. la-Hi — jackson county fair. Alt s.
Sep. 13-16.—Greer county fair Mangum.
8en. 14-13.—McClain county fair.
Sep. 14-16.—Washita county fair.
Sep. 14-16.—Latimer county fair.
Sen. 14-lfi.—Carter county taj. Arfl-
more.
Sep. 14-16.—Garvin county fair, Paula
Valley.
Sep. 14-16.—Sequoyan county fair, Sal-
lisaw.
Sep. 14-ie, —McIntosh county fair. Cbe-
cotaa.
Sep. 14-16 — MssKell countv fair. Stigler.
Sep. 14-16.—Grady county fair. Pocas-
set.
Sep. 16-16.—Coai county fair, Coalgate,
toep. 16-16—Cleveland county fair
Sep. 15-16.—Noble countv fair. Perry.
Sep. 16-18. —Lincoln county fair. Prague.
Sep. 16-19.—Creek county fair. Sapulpa.
Sep. 18-20.—Comanche county fair. Law-
ton.
Sept. 18-20.—Atoka County Fair. Atoka.
Sep. 18-20.—Wagoner county fair. Wag-
oner.
Sep. 18-20—Hughes county fair. Hol-
denville.
Rep. 18-zi.—Ottawa county fair, Miami.
Sep. 18-21.—Pottawatomie county fair.
Shawnee.
Sep. 1S-23.— Grant county fair. Jeffer-
son.
Sept. 19-20—Oklahoma Pranch, Na-
tional League of Third and Fourth Class.
Postmasters, convention, Oklahoma City.
Sep. 19-2:.—oklahoma county fair. Ed-
mond.
Sept 20—21—Oklahoma County Fair,
Oklahoma City.
Sep. 20-22.—Logan county fair. Guthrie
Sen. 20-23 —Craig county fair, \ inita.
Sep. 20-23 —Beckham county fair. Elk
City.
Sep. 20-23.—Rogers county fair, Clare-
more.
Sep. 21-23—North Lincoln County Fair,
Agra.
Sep. 23-3C-—State Fair. Oklahoma City.
Oct. 3-1.—Caddo county fair. Anadarko.
Oct. 3-7.—Washington county fair, Dew-
ey.
Oct. 4-7.—Nowata county fair. Nowata.
Oct, 4-7.—Pawnee county fair, Hallett.
Oct. 10-12.—Stephens county fair, D. i-
cnn.
Oct. 14—Football, Kendall College st
Norman.
Oct. 21—Football, University of Texas,
Dallas State Fair, Dallas.
Oct. 28—Football, University of Missouri
at Norman.
Nov. 1-3,—Garfield County fair. Wau-
komis.
Nov. 4—Football, University of Kansas
at Lawrence.
Nov. 11—Football, Kingfisher College at
Norman.
Nov. 18—Football, Kansas Aggies at
Norman.
Nov. 2ii—Football, University of Arkan-
sas at Fort Smith.
Nov. 30—Football, Oklahoma Aggies at
Oklahoma City.
March. 1^17. - Southwest Live Stock
Show, Oklahoma City.
*. cotton gin at Soper, owned by
Mrs. Mollle E. Perry, was destroyed
by fire of unknown origin. The gin
was valued at $5,00o and the loss Is
only partly covered by insurance.
Two men were injured and a loss oi
$25,000 was caused when fire of an un-
known origin destroyed the plant of
the Sowell Grain and Produce Com-
pany at Ringling. M. E. Easley was
seriously hurt.
While returning from a tent show
at Blackwell Lee Engle and Lewis
Hart, employes at a local smelter,
were killed and Stanley Zauill was in-
jured by a bolt of lightning during
an electrical storm.
When Mrs. Howard Manley of near
Ramona, a bride of three months, re-
ceived a letter from an old sweet-
heart residing in Kansas, saying he
could not live without her and was
coming to take her away. She went
home and shot herself, dying in-
stantly.
Fire destroyed a large hay barn and
its contents belonging to Governor
Williams, and located on the Williams
farm, eight miles north of Durant.
Two hundred and fifty tons of hay,
2,500 bushels of oats, 600 bushels of
corn and some wheat were destroyed.
The loss is partially covered by $1,500
insurance. Origin of the fire has not
been determined.
Notices tacked on the doors of vari-
ous farm homes in the vicinity of War-
ner warning the farmers that if they
do not voluntarily join the working
class union within thirty days thev
will be compelled to join have cause!
much uneasiness among the farmers.
On the back of each notice skull and
cross-bones were drawn. Several
farmers fiSve armed themselves.
Chief of Police Ernest Kell.r of
Drumright was shot and killed; James
W. Rippey, special officer, received a
flesh wound across the face, one rob-
ber suspect was shot through the
shoulder, and he and a companion
were captured as the result of a gun
fight In the Santa Fe railroad yards.
Rippey's wound is of a minor nature,
and local physicians say that the
wounded robber suspect will recover
John Bailey, a prominent Cotton
county farmer, died as a result of
having been shot at Temple, Texas,
\>y a police official. The shooting oc-
occurred on the principal business
street, and followed a quarrel between
th two men.
The Jame. F. Hess family, of Mar
tins Ferry, Ohio, containing twenty
children, is surpassed at Custer by the
Henry Harrell famny, containing
twenty-two children. The twenty-
second child was born May 23. There
have been no twins in the Harrell
family.
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