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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-11-11
PACKER LEAVES
LARGE ESTATE
relegram by United Press.

TNI~s5I 1II1 y OIIlVVu O7s'
Chicago, Nov. 1.-THE will of the
packer, Edward Morris, was filed to-
day The estate is estimated at from
twenty to thirty. millions. The will
cent of the Observation-Disclosures
gives the widow outright 26 2-3 per
cent of the entire estate and 3 l3 per
cent is placed in trust for her.
Sixty per cent. exclusive of specific
requests, is divided equally to be held
in trust fos the four children The
beQuests give s2600OO to various char
tiles.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-11-11
SNOW SIX
FEET DEEP
TeIegram By unlted Press.

Telegram by United Press.
Cleveland, Nov li-With the deep
snow. local traffic on all lines Of rail-
ways is tied up and wires are still
down. Tsains are crawling up to the
ci,y.
The food supply is nearly exhausted
IN the residence section and wholesale
grocers are unable to deliver
The snow is banked six feet deep in
some downtown streets. Business is
paralyzed and the damage is estimated
at a million dollars.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-11-11
ExAMINE 1AE cAILo,s THRoAr.

Parents should examine the throats
Of their children every day" said DR..
E. L. Dawson. city physician. In
case any trouble is apparent the fam
lily physician should be called promptly
and the child should be kept out OF
school until the nature of the trouble
is fully disclosed. If parents will dc
this it may save us from an epidemic.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-11-11

Port Huron. Nov ia steamer,
floating bottom up. this afternoon was
practically identified as the Z. A. S.
Clark, $50 foot steel freighter, owned
by Capt. John Mitchell of Cleveland
The identification is not positive The
gessel carried twenty men and was
sailed by Capt. John Low.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-11-11
nELEeArEs ro FEDERATION.

Mrs. R. E. Davenport and Mrs R. K.
Wootten expect to leave today for
Tulsa to attend the meeting of the
state Federation of Women's clubs.
They are delegates from sorosis club
Of this city.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-11-11
TRACK FoREMEN MEET.
Telegram Dy unlIed Press.

New York, Nov. 11.-Delegates from
every section of the country gathered
here today at the opening of the annual
convention Of the Order of Railway
Track Foremen of America. The con
yention will remain in session through
out tomorrow.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-11-11
Approval of Wilson
Mexico Policy by
Europe Indicated

Page called At the foreign office this
afternoon and conferred with the for
eign office secretary on Mexico.
In his speech Monday night Premier
Asquith said in part:
Our interests in Mexico" said the
premier, "call for yigilant care. Mex
leo is stil in the throes Of a civil war,
but there never was and never has
been any question OF political interyen-
ton by Great Britain in the domestic
concerns Of Mexico or in the central
or South American states.
1T is no part Of our duty to prevent
revolutions or control civil wars The
utmost we can do is to give what pro
lection is possible on this coast to
British subjects and property There
have been rumors that after the Unit
ed States had adopted line Of their
own in regard to Mexico We took a
line calculated deliberately to thwart
America. There is not vestige Of
foundation for such a rumor."
Telegram Dy United Press
Washington. Nov. 1.-THE removal
OF the embargo on arms was consider
ed by the president and cabinet today
It was learned that the resident will
fContinued or Page Two.)
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-11-11
FIRED" FOR PEEPiNc
AT JEsSlE's CLOTHES.

Telegram by United Press.
Washington. Nov il.-Be-
cause she "peeped" at Miss Jes-
sic Wilson's wedding clothes,
contrary TO orders, a White
House maid is reported to have
been dismissed.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-11-11
FIVE SUSPECTS HELD.

ItIeETdW Uy IHIt1u KIooo.
Waisenberg, Colo-N Nov. 11.-Five
strikers were held today as suspects
IN the killing OF four mine guards near
Lavata Saturday.
The men confessed, according to a
statement made today by Major Town
send.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-11-11
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THREE ARE scALDED AND
BUILDING WRECKED.

Telegram by United Press.
Indiana Harbor, Ind, Nov. II.
Three persons were scalded
to death and the building Of the
Inland Steel Co. was wrecked
today by the expl sion Of a
steam pipe.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-11-11
RETAILERS MEET.

The Merchants Association
will meet tonight at their head
quarters. 1t is earnestly desir-
ed that members and all other
merchants be present. The re
funding of railroad fares to out
side shoppers viii be consid-
cred. Earl Barton. Secretary.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1913-11-07
Lessons of the Milan Anti>Alcohol Congress

Alcohol Congress having closed its
sessions in this city, the time is at
hand to take some account of stock
in its results and in its achievements.
Twenty eight years ago, devoted,
scholarly and energetic woman, Char
lotte A. Gray, began to promote the
idea of the biennial gatherings which
have developed into what is now
known as these biennial congresses
She nursed it in its infancy. She
poured out her time, her strength and
her life into the scheme and it now
stands as a monument to her devo-
ton and to her activity. 1t is we'll
said that it stands as her monument
because she passed over the river to
the other side during the past year.
But like John Brown, her soul still
marches on.
In the beginning, the gatherings
were merely assembled to discuss the
"abuse" of alcohol but the study of
the "abuse" soon led to the conclusion
that drinking the stuff was an "abuse"
and the congress came to be known as
the International Congress against
Alcohol" But while this is true, it is
also true that the doors were by no
means closed to those who believed
in the moderate use of alcohol and
these were properly admitted to the
counsels on precisely the same foot
ing as the ardent Prohibitionist like
myself.
And this very policy bore abundant
fruit for the discussions from year to
year led the moderates into becoming
abstainers and even Prohibitionists. A
marked example of this is DR.. John
Censor, of Berlin, the head and lead
ing spirit of the German organization
of moderates gathered into the society
against the misuse of alcohol and
which has much strength in the Kais-
er's domain. Prof. Gonser not only
became a total abstainer but he is in
real danger of becoming a Prohibition
list. II want to come to America and
study your laws. | may yet become
converted by doing So" he said to
me. 1t is immensely to the credit of
himself and his associates that he
confines his efforts to urging heavy
drinkers to become moderates and
never makes the mistake of urging
.abstainers to become moderates And
he has set the example of teetotalism
to his moderate friends in his own
life.
Some Landmarks of the Reform.
Purely through the natural advance
in the reform, the advocates of mod
Grafton have become vastly in the
minority This has come to pass
simply through the earnest study that
the habitues of the congresses have
given to the question from year to
wear. Those who insisted mon ,1rp-
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1913-11-07

ing into the reform of one of the
greatest social and religious powers
of the whole world. The Catholic church
on account of its great size and
varied interests as we'll as on account
of its history and traditions moves ex-
ceedingly slow in respect to matters
of social progress, and its great &C
tivity in the Milan congress therefore
becomes epochal as we'll as significant.
A Broad Gauge Reform.
The curse of alcohol is so universal,
showing itself in so many ways and
developing in SO many places and
under such diverse circumstances that
it of necessity must be combatted in
many different ways.
The members of the congress were
all broad between the eyes and could
see this fact. They were big men who
could welcome as a friend and an ally
any man who was earnestly trying to
combat the evil no matter what his
methods were and no matter at what
point lay his attack And so the mod
crates, the Gothenburgers, the disin-
terested management men, the high
license men and the Prohibitonists
fraternized on equal terms, differing
among themselves, arguing among
themselves, studying, comparing
notes, all earnestly seeking solution
of the colossal burden of the Age.
The man of small calibre, suffocated
in his own Importance and worship
ing his own shadow, impugning the
motives of reformers who did not
agree with him was not present. He
knew it all and there was therefore
no use of his coming to the congress.
1t is another significant fact that
the congress was held in a wine coun-
try where light wines are drunk in
large quantities, and where certain
American wine bibbers insist that
there is no temperance question be-
cause of the free use of wine. The
Italian government, practically the
whole ministry of which was on the
honorary committee of the congress,
and under the auspices of which the
congress was held, would be glad to
know that it was all mistake and that
there was no temperance question in
Italy. The five or six hundred Italian
mobiles, priests, doctors, economists,
lawyers and scholars who participated
in the congress with their voice, their
money and their time would be glad
to know that it was all hallucination
and that after ALL there is no temper
ance problem in Italy
Three-fourths of the speakers and
the members of the congress came
from Italy, France, Germany, Austria
and Switzerland, the very countries
where there is supposed to be no
temperance question on account of the
widesOread use of wine and beer IT
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1913-11-07
by William E. Johnson, in New Republic.]

quantities. So persistently did she
label in this direction that she aroused
the general suspicion that she was
working in the interests of the wine
growers. Failing to get her paper
before the congress, she tried to get
in resolution to the same effect but
was compelled to subside because of
the sheer opposition of the delegates
who would not listen to her. Her
treatment was very significant as
marking the progress of the reform
from its primitive days.
Those interested in pushing such
schemes as the Gothenburg plan, dis
interested management and kindred
nostrums as a cure for the evils of
alcohol met with similar fate. These
cohorts were led by DR.. Eggers,
splendid, scholarly German, keen
debater and one of the most powerful
men on the floor of the congress. He
dragged out the skeleton at every op-
portunity and was always ready to
leap to his feet with an answer when
ever his pet ideas were attacked and
they were assaulted again and again.
Yet while these things were de-
Tended and promoted by master
mind, one of the very best advocates
on the floor of the congress, they
made no Roadway against the over
whelming sentiment of the body DIR.
Eggers was always respectfully heard
but a wooden man with his eyes shut
could see that he got nowhere. The
delegates we're all thoroughly con-
WINGED that it was the drink that made
man drunk and that the effect of
liquor was the same no matter whetll-
er it was sold by a deacon or a horse
thief.
Another phenomenon that apparent
ly marks an epoch in the reform was
the attitude of the Catholic church.
The congress being held in Catholic
country, the attitude of the church
became matter of prime interest
and Importance. The situation was
complicated by the peculiar relation
ship existing between the Vatican and
the Quirinal. Because of this strained
relationship, and because the congress
was held under the invitation and
under the guidance of the Italian gov
eminent, the church could not be ex-
pected to take any official action re-
garding the congress.
Yet there was plenty of unofficial
cooperation and support. The Arch
bishop of Milan entertained the Cath
olic delegates at his palace and priv
ately commended their work Cardinal
Ferrari, who is unofficially slated as
the next Pope, celebrated a special
High Mass for the Catholic delegates
and gave their work special blessing.
More than score of priests were
prominent OarticiOatOrs in the CONGRESS
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-14
RETAINING POWER On THE SEA

If the present'rate of shipbuilding in Ameri-
can yards continues, it seems likely that the
"decadence of Uncle Sans merchant marine
and ''seas over which no American flag floats
will take their place on the shelf along with a
good many other outworn phrases of the Fourth
of July orator and the ship subsidy proponent.
According to an estimate made by the depart
ment of commerce on April 6, American ship
yards are showing great increase n construc-
ton work. And it is significant to note how
much of this increase is in deep-sea tonnage,
Little growth is shown in the Great Lakes shi0-
building, but on the Atlantic coast the Yards are
nerce department report, the output of Ameri-
can shipyards during the current fiscal year will
be greater than in any previous four years and
equal to the average annual output for any Sc
ries of active years of construction, the depart
ment of commerce estimates. II"
The years construction will reach 100000
tons. During the first nine months this fiscal
year, Lii merchant vessels, totaling 260,265
tons, have been registered, compared with 1.051
vessels, and Isl ,341 tons the same period last
year AS the spring and early summer is the
time of greatest activity in shipbuilding, it is
figured there will he 100000 tonnage before
July l. Steel steamers aggregated 151 ,507 tons
against 75,5O7 tons last year.
Shipbuilding on the Great Lakes shows little
change, but the total output on the Atlantic sea-
board has increased from 64,522 tons to 161 ,061
tons. Wooden sailing vessels show a decrease
and form only a small fraction, 1871 tons, OF
the total for the country.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-14
EDITOR

sion and public utilities devotng the r attention
to giving cheap and efficient service, not to
fighting a rival concern. In case of such fights
the public suffers
recent editorial article in the Saturday
Evening Pest sets forth this principle admir-
ably under the heading Of Natural Monopo
lie:
I "Twenty-fivc years ago American cities still
believed in competing public utilities. 1t was
thought desirable for Il city TO have two or three
gas and electric-light and even street-car com
panies, on the theory that competition among
them would keep prices down. Nobody nova
days believes in competition in those things, and
advocates of competition universal regula-
tor seek to except certain things from the gen
eral rule by calling them natural monopoIies'-
IA phrase which means mainly that the waste of
competition and the benefit of concentration
have been indisputably proved by experience in
this particular field.
practically the whole country of late years
has come TO regard railroad transportation as
another natural monopoly. Everybody knows
that for years there has been no competition
among railroads as to rates, which are fixed at
"a uniform schedule by agreement ~mOng the
roads This is contrary to law as the supreme
court has so far interpreted the Sherman act !;
but no one seeks to prevent it because everyone
REALIZES that actual rate competition among the
reads would be q calamity. The government it
self though attacking industrial combinations
right and left, makes no attempt to force the
railroads into rate competition. It seeks merely
to see that the rates which have been agreed
upon shall be reasonable, and with that the pub
lie is content Both jas to railroads and public
utilities, combination and cooperation are uni
yersalIy regarded as natural and beneficial.
at is only in manufacturing and merchan-
dising that concentration is regarded as unnat-
ural and baneful; but in those fields, as Presi-
dent Van Hise, of Wisconsin University, has
pointed out with much detail, competition, in
fact, is breaking down, Our pure-food laws, for
example, are an abandonment of the old theory
that competition among manufacturers will Sc
cure to the consumer the best possible goods at
the lowest possible price.
Every one will presently realize that combi-
nation and cooperation may be as useful and
natural elsewhere as in gas-manufacturing cleo
trio lighting and railrOading
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-14

These stations, with four . or FIVE
MorgauS from the Morgan horse farm
AMI six Thoroughbreds presented to
the government, will be available for
public service during the season Of
1918, making a tosal of at least A
stations. Local wishes will be re-
spected and the breed of the stallion
placed in a community will be that
which is most generally preferred by
that community, Accordingly. the
Morgans will stand in Vermont and
New Hampshire, the TAoroughbreds
mainly in Virginia, the Saddle horses
and StandardEreds mainly in West
Virginia, .>entucky and Tennessee,
Furthermore, every effort is to be
made to- avoid competing with pri.
vately owned stations, and horses
will not be placed in communities
which are already we'll supplied.
These horses will lie available for
public service on liberal terms. The
owners of sound mares, with square
trotting gait, may breed such mares
free of charge provided they give the
government an option on the foal
during the year it is 3 years of age
at $3.50. However, the government
will not hold the breeder of foal
to his option il he wishes to be re
leased, but will allow him to cancel
the option at any time by paying the
service fee. This fee will be SIS fol
mature stations, and less for those
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-14

under five years OF age. In buying
the colts, the war department has
agreed to purchase both mares and
geldfngs No service fee will be
charged unless the owner elects to
cancel his option. IL the government
buys the colt, no fee is charged; II
the colt is offered TO the government
and purchase refused, no fee Is
charged
On account of the provision for
free service, the government believes
that the mares bred should be suit
able for the purpose, and therefore Il
will be necessary to breed only those
which arc free from the following un.
soundnesses: Bone SPAWN, ring
hone, side bone. heayes, s.ringhalt,
lameness of any kind. roaring. period
ic ophthalmia, and blindness, partial
or complete Mares must also be
free from manifest faults of conform
alton, such as CURLY hooks; pacing
mares viii not be bred. Approved
mares will be given a certificate OF
registration in the Remount Brood
Mare Register OF the Agricultural
Department.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-14
FOR AINAHAU

We are glad to see that some of the house
members whose position as to the acceptance Of
Ainahau has not been clear are now coming for
ward and declaring themselves in favor of Sc
curing for the public this splendid gift Of the
late Gov. Cleghorn. There is lobbying against
the bill now in the house, but in the face of the
strong sentiment awakened for the acceptance
of the magnificent park, the lobbyists will be
largely driven to cover.
In this connection the Star Bulletin is glad to
be able to present the following statement 1t is
Straightforward, pubiic-spirited and emphatic:
sowing to the publicity given the Ieirs of the
Cleghorn estate, the undersigned wish to state
emphatically that we are heartily in favor of the
acceptance of Ainahau by the territory
"(Signed) p. T. CLEGHoRN,
fs"W. A. CLEGHoRN,
"F. G. CLEGHoRN."
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-14
cAsE-HUNTER NUPTIALS.

Miss Ethel Maude Hunter, of Sc
attic, became the bride OF Robert
Sherman Case last Saturday morning
in ST. Clements church, Makiki, Rev.
w. S. Short of Maui performing the
ceremony. Miss Edith Edgerly acted
as bridesmaid while Louis Reeves
was best man. Canon Osborne of st.
Clements gave the bride away. The
young couple left on the Mauna kca
for Hiio Saturday afternoon, whore
the bridegroom is employed in the
Volcano stables.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-14
A GOOD UTILITIES COMMISSION in SIGHT

A public utilities commission-a commission
that is neither joke nor a burdens in sight
The two bills just introduced in house and
senate and written largely by Governor Frear
furnish the solution for puzzIing problem, the
problem of getting a commission armed with
enough powers to make its work effective and
not weighed down with duties and hampered
with red tape and intricate responsibilities until
it is unwieldy and financial load for the terri
tory to carry.
The latest bill does away with the greatest
Weaknesses of the Baldwin bill and is much sim
pier and more effective than the Rice or Metz
ger measures. 1t provides commission one of
whose members will be the well-paid public ser
vice expert, and the other two members will be if
desirable officials of the territory. The expenses
of the commission will not be paid by the terri
tory but by the imposition of fee on the public
service corporations so slight that Individually
it is hardly more than nominal but in the aggre
gate will provide about $4,000 year revenue
The commission, if the bill and some proposed
amendments pass, will have real instead of myth
ical jurisdiction over public service corpora
tons. 1t can inquire into complaints; it will
be financially equipped to make thorough inves-
LEGATIONS of corporations and to recommend i'm
provements, extensions or changes in rates. 1t
will have some power of rate regulation. AT the
same time, the work of the commission will not
interfere with the federal laws governing these
territorial franchises.
In fact, the bill looks like good compromise.
The Star Bulletin repeats that the Baldwin bill
is ineffective and the Rice and Metzger bills are
unwieldy. Neither of the two latter, it seems
certain, could pass the house at this session any
way.
There is no reason why the latest form of bill,
which gives the commission teeth and claws and
does not hang milestone around its neck,
should not pass. Some slight amendments will
probably be necessary but we should say, after
comparatively short examination of the meas
ure, that it is well worth passing.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Cleveland Per-
kins announce the engagement of
their daughter Feroline and Capt.
Robert R. Wallach, 10th Cavalry; u.
S. A. No date for the wedding has
been set. s.: -. r..