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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-05-10

meeting and election of officers on Mon
day evening. May II. at S o'clock. Inter-
esting reports Of officers and chairmen Of
committees will be read and an attractive
musical program has been arranged.
Miss Gertrude Won n. Hardenbergh. of
Seattle, Wash, is the guest of Miss
Keim, of 1913 T street northwest, and
will remain in the city until June. Miss
Harriette Keim was Miss Hardenbergh's
guest in Seattle last June, en- route to
Manila, P. l., having just returned to
the United States.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Rothschild are spend
Pa.
Mrs. John A Logan. president Of the
board OF lady managers of the Garfield
National Memorial Hospital, and the
ladies of the board have sent out invita-
tons for the annual old-fashioned Vir-
ginia fried chicken dinner to be held
for the benefit OF the Garfield National
Memorial Hospital at Great Falls, Va.
Saturday afternoon. May O.
Garfield Special leaves terminus at
Thirty-sixth and NJ streets northwest at
$50 D. m. Tickets, s. each. may be Sc
cured from the members of the board. or
Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker, secretary. 2523
Thirteenth street northwest
Mrs. T. C. Hall. of Detroit Mich, Is
at Hotel Powhatan for a short stay.
A dispatch from Berlin. under date
of May :, says: For the first time on
record the Kaiser acted as godfather
for an American child. The baby is the
daughter of Lieut.. Commander Walter r.
Gherardi. naval attache of the American
Embassy at Berlin, and Mrs. Gherardi.
Capt. Won Buelow acted as the repre-
sentative of the Kaiser. who sent the
baby a handsome silver cup. Mrs Cher
ardi acted as Sodmother. The infant l.
the great-grandniece of the historian.
George Bancroft, and she was christ
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Copyright By Thanksgiving.

more to remain the entire summer. Mrs.
Coblenza will join her daughter, Mrs.
DR. petre in Budapest. and. accom-
panied by her. will go to Italy.
The Chevy Chase Club was. as usual
the favorite meeting place last night for
small dinner parties, all of the hosts
and their guests remaining for the
dance. Among those entertaining were
Miss Adams, who had a dozen guests:
Mrs. Chamberlain, Miss Fitch, Mrs. WILL
lam NJ. Bailey, Mrs. Merrideth, Mrs.
Frailey. Col Whipple. and Mr.. Ford
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-05-10
Musicale at Playhouse

The Playhouse was the scene Of a very
delightful musical yesterday afternoon,
when Mrs. John Bassett Moore invited
her guests to hear John Dalton Baker
sing. Mrs. Moore was assisted in re-
ceiving by her daughters, the Misses
Moore: Miss Harriet Hawkins Miss
Alice Whiting. Miss Rebecca Wilmer.
and Miss Helen Ernst and Mrs. Freder-
lex Atherton were at the tea table.
Mr.. Nat Whitman, of Baltimore. spent
a few days in town during the week.
The entertainment arranged and pre-
scented by Mrs. Christian Hemmick, THE
Mystery of the East" was given Friday
afternoon and evening at 1926 Rhode
Island avenue, Mrs. Hemmick's former
residence, for the benefit of the Neigh
borhood House.
There were several box parties. includ-
ing Col and Mrs. Robert Thompson, who
entertained Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Pell.
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Pell. Mrs. Ed
wards. Capt. Boyd and Commander
Burstyn; Mrs. Charles Houghton enter
tained Lady tombstone, Miss Morgan.
Miss Wise. Miss Emo and Mr.. Caldwell:
Mr.. and Mrs. Hennen Jennings enter
tained at a box party, as did the Duke
and Duchess de Richlieu, and Mrs. John
Jay White.
Among others present were Mrs. Trav-
er. Miss Traver. DR.. and Mrs. Alfred
Hopkins, Mr.. and Mrs Archibald Hop
kins, Dr. and Mrs. Fremont Smith, the
Misses Sedgely, Mr.. and Mrs. Perry
johnson. Father Hemmick, Mr.. and Mrs.
Monroe Hopkins, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Cleveland Perkins, George Oakley Tot
ten. Gen. and Mrs. George Barnett. Capt.
and Mrs. Theodore Baldwin, Mrs. I. T.
Mann. Mrs. John Magruder, Miss Ma
gruder, Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Henry, Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Wilson.
Mrs. c. H. Jones. of New York City,
II at the Powhatan.
Mrs. John 1. Cox. Of q First street
northwest, has returned from a visit to
Philadelphia, where she was entertained
at the home of her cousin. Mrs. Walter
g. Duncan. of Chestnut Hill.
The Sisterhood of the Washington He
brew CONGREGATION win bold Its annual
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Mrs. John I. Cox, Of q First street
northwest, has returned from a visit to
Philadelphia, where she was entertained
at the home of her cousin. Mrs. Walter
G. Duncan. of Chestnut Hill.
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Mrs. c. H. Jones, Of New York City,
II at the Powhatan.
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The Sisterhood of the Washington He
brew CONGREGATION win hold its annual
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Mr. and Mrs. S. Rothschild are spend
ing ten days at the Cascade. Pen Mar,
Pa
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Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Oppenheimer ana
Mrs. Bertha Coblenza. all OF this city,
sailed on Nay G. for EurunA yta Balfi,
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CONTINUED on PAGE TWO.
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Miss Genevieve Clark, daughter of the
Speaker and Mrs. Champ Clark, has re-
turned to Washington from Summit
Point, w. Va, where she was the
guest Of Miss Imogen Thomson.
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Mr.. and Mrs. l. Neuman, Mr.. and Mrs.
:. Oppenheimer. and Mr.. and Mrs. A.
koenigsberger, all Of this city. spent q
week.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Francis King Carey en-
tertained Informally at dinner Friday
evening at their residence in Baltimore
In honor of Mrs. J. Borden Hartman.
who spoke there yesterday, at the WON.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-05-10

Mr.. Nat Whitman, of Baltimore. spent
a few days in town during the week.
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Btr. Mark Hamburger has returned to
mis- home in Baltimore from short visit
to friends in town.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-29
Opinion on Size Of AaaIe Board.

The constitutional amendment
adopted at the August election in
1918, reducing the size Of the board
Of agriculture from eleven to five
members, supercedes the statutory
provisions in the Harris-Day code
which provides for the selection of
eleven board members at the annual
meeting Of the farmers institute each
year, according to an opinion which
has been given by Assistant Attorney
General s. |. McElhoes to President
G. T. Bryan of the board of agricul.
ture.
In his written opinion to President
Bryan, McElhoes says:
Section IL of this article is a sec
ton providing for an election. The SUI
preme court by recent decision has
held that the amendment to the con-
stitution submitted August 5, 1913,
was legally submitted and adopted
and is now a part Of the constitution.
Section II, even if IT should h.
held to be In force at this time, is in
consistent with this amendment and
since the amendment controls, it is
my opinion that no state institute
should be held solely for the purpose
of electing members of the board of
agriculture as no election of such
members is to be held at this time"
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-29
Railroads Pay Taxes.

The steam railroads, express and
Pullman companies paid taxes in Ok
lahoma for the present fiscal year
amounting to $3.339, O3O.27, according
to an official report which has been
compiled by Fred Parkinson, state ex-
aminer and inspector, and filed with
Governor Cruce.
OF the total amount of taxes paid
by the foregoing corporations, $685.
1891 goes to the state for the sup
port Of county government, $780,
1882 to the various townships, for
township government; S233,114.4O to
the various cities and towns Of the
state for the support of municipal gov
eminent; while $1,217,253.99 goes to
the various school districts for main
tenance of the common schools.
The st. Louis and San Francisco
Railway company is probably the
heaviest taxpayer in the state paying
on an assessed valuation of SCI, 333, 070
while the Rock Island railway stands
second, with an assessed valuation of
S4S,031,S45. The total assessed valu-
alton Of the steam railroads, express
and Pullman companies in Oklahoma
Is $199,S55, 1893.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-29
Paroles Given to Two.

On the theory that he was only
technically guilty and was mentally
irresponsible at the time he gave tes-
timony in the district court which con-
flicted with previous evidence at the
preliminary, Andy Miller was given a
parole by Governor Cruce from the
penitentiary where he had been SEN
fenced to ten years imprisonment in
June, 1918, from Cherokee county. ].
B. King, attorney for Miller, stated
to the prison board which recommend
ed the parole, that he believed Miller
was insane when the perjury was
committed and desired to enter that
plea, but was restrained by the wishes
of relatives of the convicted man.
Lafayette Homer, fullblood Choc
taw Indian, sentenced November 30
1912, from Atoka county to serve five
years for arson, was paroled by Gov
ernor Cruce upon recommendation Of
the prison board.
Attorney for Homer claimed to the
prison board that the Indian confess
ed to having burned one of his owr
houses in order to get rid of an unde
sirable tenant who was living in II
and that he pleaded guilty under 6
promise from officers who arrested
him that he would be given but siz
months in jail.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-29
Towns Want New Depots.

A numoer or complaints asking for
new depots came to the corporation
commission last week.
A. D. Lee and number of other
farmers living in the vicinity of Ira
Der, in Ottawa county, asked that the
M. X. & T. railway be required to
build depot at that point The com
plant states that there Is now no
structure of any kind to protect trav-
elers from inclement weather.
/. H. Nakdimen, prominent banker
OF the east side of the state. takes the
lead in petition asking the commits
sion to require the Iron Mountain
railway to build a new depot at Fort
Gibson. Citizens of the town COM
plain that the present depot was built
about 25 years ago and is entirely in
adequate. They first took the matter
up with the railway company attempt
ing to secure the Improvement with
out the assistance OF the corporation
commission.
The city of Woodward officially
filed complaint with the commission
asking that the Santa Fe railway be
required to build a new depot there
It is claimed that the present struc-
ture will accommodate only about
forty persons and that since the COM
pletion OF the Wichita Falls and
Northwestern railway the depot can
not take care Of all the patrons Of the
Santa Fe,
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-29
NOT A SOOTHING APOLOGY
6obby's WelI-Meant Effort Probably
Made Indignant Private Soldier
Nader Than Ever.

Colonel Blank had little boy FIVE
years old, and little Bobby had often
heard the men In his fathers regi-
ment spoken of as Colonel Blanks
men" So he said to one of them:
my father owns you"
The soldier was very angry, you
little imp!" he exclaimed. What
are you talking about? Nobody owns
me-"
Bobby's mother heard about 1t, and
was much distressed. Calling the lit
tie boy to her, she said:
Bobby, you were wrong when you
said your father owns his men, and
want you to tell the soldier that you
are sorry for what you said"
Running to overtake the private,
the little boy exclaimed breathlessly:
I'm sorry my father owns you'll"
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-29
What He Feared,

1t was during very violent thun-
derstorm, in which the lightning flashes
were particularly vivid, terrifying and
frequent.
do not be afraid, Tommie," said his
mother, "our Father in heaven holds
the lightning in his hands"
Eyes, l know he does, mother, but
then, you see, lightning is so quick
and slippery that am afraid he might
let some of it get away from him when
he don't mean to-"
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-29

washing LOu.
The general slackening Of tension
in. the Mexican situation resulted in
the consideration of plans at the Navy
Department which included the with
drawal OF part OF the fleet now on
the east coast of Mexico.
+ + r
A convention between the United
States and practically all the nations
of Europe for the purpose of sup
pressing traffic in obscene publica-
tons, particularly postcards, has been
ratified by the Senate.
+ r r
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has denied petition for a re-
hearing Of the Industrial railway
cases recently passed upon by the
commission.
A story Of absolute domination in
affairs Of the New Haven railroad
system by the late ]. Pierpont Nor
gan of the spending of millions in
awed and ignorant silence at the
command of the altpowerful finan-
cial ruler-was told to the interstate
commerce commission by Charles s.
Mellen, former president Of the New
Haven. 1t was the most extraordinary
chapter yeet unfolded in the commits
sions inquiry into the alleged exploit
tation of the great New England rail
road and disappearance of fortunes
from the treasury through acquisition
at extravagant prices of subsidiary
properties.
+ + +
The court of claims, In a test case
decision blasted the hopes Of mail
carrying railroads for the collection
of large sums based on the claims
that the governments mail weighing
system results in underpayment to
the roads The court, in an opinion
by Justice Campbell, dismissed the
petition of the Chicago & Alton Rail-
road for $4,000.
+ + +
President Wilson told the American
commissioners before they left for the
mediation conference at Niagara Falls,
Ontario, that the United States gov
eminent regards the settlement of the
Mexican problem in definite form
as prerequisite to the withdrawal of
the American forces from Vera Cruz
+ + +
With the canal tolls exemption con-
troversy nearing a vote, sentiment In
the senate is growing in favor of an
effort to substitute for the pending
bill a resolution which would provide
for the submission of the dispute be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain to an international tribunal.
+ r. +
A proposed increase in the freight
rates on lumber in car loads from
points in Louisiana to st. Louis, Cairo,
ILL.,, and other transfer points, averag-
ing about two cents hundred pounds,
has been suspended by the Interstate
Commerce Commission until Septem-
Der 10,
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-29
ONerWorked.

The papers are publishing stories of
DR.. Weir Mitchell. This is one of the
best of them:
One day a patient came into his
office and found him closing large
bundle Of letters. "All designations
from committees or boards" he said,
gleefully. I'm going to get off all
them / have told my wife that when
! die l want her to put on my tomb
stone, Committed to the gravel"
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-29
SolIars Is ParoIed.

Riley Sollars, who had been sen.
fenced from Lincoln county to five
years Imprisonment for criminal as.
sault was given parole by Governor
Cruce. 1t was claimed in a letter
written by II. W. Oliver to the board
of prison control that Sollars was
prosecuted partially as a result Of
malice because his father enforced
the Grandfather" clause. He had
not been in the penitentiary. Another
parole was issued by Governor Cruce
to George Brown of Washington coun.
ty, serving a four-year term for man
slaughter.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-29
Domestic Items.

Marking a new era in the relations
of the nations of the Western hemi-
sphere delegates from the United
States, Mexico and three South Amer
lean republics formally opened the
mediation conference at Niagara Falls
which they hope will bring peace to
Mexico.
+ r +
Five persons we're killed near Ashe-
vile, twenty miles south Of Columbus,
o., when Scioto Valley traction car
struck motor car at crossing.
+ + +
Trapped by fire while asleep, Mrs.
Rebecca Coltz, "a years old, her son
Morris, years old, and her daughter
Lottie, years old, persisted in st.
Louis.
+ r r
Two masked men forced the cashier
of the Bank of Millerton, Ok, to give
them all the money in the vault, about
$4,000, and after marching the bank
official and several other men out Of
the building, escaped on horseback to
the hills. Posses are in pursuit.
r r r
Churches began to fill in all the
small towns north and west of Esca-
naba, Mich, with residents offering
up prayers for a heavy rain to stop
the forest fires, which have destroyed
two villages and done thousands OF
dollars damage.
+ + +
Organized labor has served notice
on the judiciary committee of the
house that if any antitrust bills are
passed they must include not merely
indirect exemption of labor unions
and farmers oranges, but specific
exemption of all acts" Of such or
CARNATIONS.
Three men were injured, one prob
ably fatally, by the explosion of a
steambox in the engine room of the
naval training ship Intrepid at the
Mare Island Navy Yard, san Fran
CISCO
+ I +
A hail and rain storm washed out
several miles of track of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad and of
the Denver & Rio Grande Railway,
IA miles south of Colorado Springs.
Two passenger trains scheduled to
leave for Kansas City were stalled
here.
+ l. =
Railroad traffic in the Texas Pan.
handls, Southeastern Colorado and
Northeastern New Mexico was nearly
at standstill because of floods. With
in the last two weeks ten inches OF
rain has fallen in that section.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-29
Miss Fithen Best spelIer

After the election of officers at the
fourth annual convention of the Coun-
ty Superintendent association, med
ais were given to the winners of the
state championship spelling contest,
as the closing feature of the meeting.
Margie Fithen, aged 10, of district
No. 224, Woodward county, won the
state contest In competition with for.
ty-eight entrants, and was presented
with a gold medal designating her
champion speller of the state OF
Oklahoma"
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-29
Confederate Home Annex Accepted

Contederate Home ANNEX Accepted.
The state confederate home board
met here and accepted the confeder-
ate home annex which has just been
completed 1t will be occupied at
once. The building is a three-story
structure fireproof and equipped with
all modern conveniences. 1t has
twenty rooms and will be equipped as
the hospital department Of the home.
Members here are General Haley of
McAlester, DR.. John Threadgill of Ok.
lahoma City, Colonel R. E. Sneed of
Sulphur, George Henry Bruce of Ard.
more and N. F. Hancock of Muskogee.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-29
M,er!ne MUST Face other CHARGES

w D''HS "uSt TaSe OtHeT NndT9eS
When released from the state peni.
Tertiary last week after having served
year minus good time credit, viii
R. McBrine, former warrant clerk In
the office of State Auditor NJ. f.
Trap, was re-arrested by Sheriff
John Mahoney of Logan county, He
was taken back to Guthrie to face
charges in connection with state war
rant frauds that were pending against
him in Logan county when he was
convicted in the Oklahoma county
courts. McBrine was out on bond
when convicted.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-29
Duncan Resigns as Member Of Board.

NJ. H. Duncan of Pauls Valley, has
sent his resignation to Governor Cruce
as a member of the state board Of
education. He has not definitely an.
nounced his future plans. Mr. Duncan
was holding his position on the board
by virtue OF a recess appointment
from Governor Cruce. His name was
sent to the senate of the last legisla-
ture for confirmation, but the senate
adjourned without taking action, it
was stated, and he was reappointed
by the governor soon after adjourn
ment of the legislature.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-29

Her Only Chance.
81 understand that Miss Antique is
engaged"
"Hypnotism%
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-29
Tubereular Cows Killed by Official

Tubercular Cows Killed by Official.
Action of city authorities in con-
demning fourteen head of cows in a
local dairy after subjecting them to
the tuberculin test for tuberculosis,
was upheld by the post mortem exam.
inatlon of the carcasses after the ami
mails had been slaughtered at the
stock yards.
The fourteen cows we're slaughter
ed in the presence federal inspec-
tors, local authorities and nearly a
hundred interested dairymen and milk
consumers. Thirteen of the carcaSses
were condemned as unfit for food and
were destroyed. One carcass showed
insufficient tubercular LESSONS to cause
condemnation. All of them had react
ed to the tuberculin test.
The slaughter test was declared by
City Veterinarian Robnett to be a
successful demonstration of the value
of the rigid dairy inspection conduct
ed by the city authorities. Dairy men
and milk consumers present, who had
been doubtful Of the value of the work
became convinced they asserted, that
rigid, scientific inspection of diaries
is necessary to the protection of the
public.
The animals slaughtered were sold
by a breeder in Illinois to a local
dairyman. The local man purchased
twenty-five head. They were deliver
ed here in january this year.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-29
Its Kind.

Doctor, my trouble is wholly ath
letic."
What do you mean?"
I've got jumping toothache."
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-29
After Thought.

Sonny-Pa, what is rear guard?
PA patch on the seat of boys
trousers.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-29
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES
sAAnows oE coMlNo EvENrs.

SHADOWS OF COMING EVENI5'
May 2e-27--ozark Trails Good Roads
Commission, Tulsa.
May 27-Annual Santa Fe picnic, Guth-
rie
June 1O-i2-Christian Endeavor conven'
ton, Enid.
July s-Aug. l-cotton school. still
water.
July 9-McIntosh- Hughes annexation
election.
Sept. S-9-10-Caddo county fair, Binger
Sept. S-10-Photographer convention
Oklahoma City.
Sept. 22-oct. 3, ls14--state Fair, okla
homa City
Oct. 7-17-Dry Farming Congress-
Wichita.
october-southern Commercial Con-
Eress. Muskogee.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-29

Five persons we're killed near Ashe-
vile, twenty miles south of Columbus,
o., when a Scioto Valley traction car
struck a motor car at a crossing.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-29

Railroad traffic in the Texas Pan
handle, Southeastern Colorado and
Northeastern New Mexico was nearly
at standstill because of floods. With
in the last two weeks ten inches OF
rain has fallen in that section.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-29


The electric chair, which Oklahoma
has not yet installed will be cheated
of victim on May %, the date set
for the electrocution of John Corn
tassel Of Stillwell, who was sentenced
to death from Adair county on March
10, 1914, for murder Governor Cruce
committed the death sentence to life
Imprisonment in pursuance Of his pol
icy of not permitting legal executions
inOklahoma.
Corntassel on the night Of the muir
der had attended party at the home
of Ben Knight. AEer some time Corn
tassel and Charlotte Knight quarreled
over some matter unknown to the
rest. The girl had left the house with
a number of others who had been at
tending the party and were in the
woods nearby when Corntassel ap-
preached armed with a rife, and shot
the girl through the head, killing her
almost instantly