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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-09-16
TODAY IS
MEXICAN
july 9TH
Four Thousand Troops
Guarding the American
Border.
TROUBLE FEARED TODAY
Yesterday Celebration
Day" Passed OFF With
out Trouble.

Brownsville, Sept. 1s.--Mexican In
dependence day dawned along the Rio
Grande and the lower Texas border
with more than 1000 United States
troops under arms. ready for hurry
calls to any section where evidence
was seen of general uprising against
Americans and the United States gov
ernment which rumor. stimulated by
the recent bandit lawlessness, had said
would take place today. Celebration
day passed without untoward Incl
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-09-16
.. 5. MEAT
PRODUCTS
ARETAKEN
British Prize Court Con-
demns Great Part Of Four
Steamer Loads.
FORFEITED TO THE CROWN
Vessels Were Seized In Nov
ember But Trial and
Judgment Delayed.
FORFEITED TO THE CROWN

Chicago, Sept. 16.-The meat
+ caruoes confiseated by Great Brit
ain will be a complete loss to the
/ packers, according to Thomas E.
Wilson, president Of Morris e. Co..
as there were no advance pay.
nnents made on the shipments.
Wilson said he would issue a
statement for the packers late to-
day. +.....
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-09-16
Russians Have Lost
$500, 600 Prisoners
Since May Is Claim

Switzerland number Of Russian prisoners
re II stated that 5000 % 100 ZOO nsehns guns guns
complied Official bulletins issued at Berlin and Vienna
total OF 13s5oo prisoners including
Of OF
sequenty total 10s325o"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-09-16
Rediscount Rate of
AZ Per Cent on I Paper
in Minneapolis Bank

approved
day maturity the Minneapolis bank.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-16
FARMERS
HOLD MUCH
OF WHEAT

That many Grady county farmers
are holding their wheat for raise in
price, is the report that comes from
elevator men. Everyone that has suf-
ficient storage room seems unwilling
to sell now and lose the chance at war
prices which they expect after grain
men have gotten possession of the
bulk of the grain and the farmer has
only good price for his product.
Varying reports are still coming in
as to yields. On the Washita bottoms
west, N. NJ. Driscoll has completed
threshing 240 acres which made only
about ten bushels to the acre. just
a mile or two up the river. Henry
Horn has just completed threshing
1876 acres that made 5000 bushels, or
"a bushels to the acre. J. p. Demp-
sey, living two miles south of Horns
place, threshed out 20 bushels to the
acre.
Reports from other fields give
yields varying almost as much. Grain
men declare it is impossible yet to es-
innate the real average yield for the
county.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-16
OF
PROPERTY
INCREASED

Valuation of property in Grady
county has increased three quarters
OF a million dollars in the past twelve
months, according to a comparison of
the figures taken by the county as
SCISSOR this year with those taken last
The total valuation this year is s17,-
s19,233. Last year it was $l7,094, 1851.
The gain has been $724,7S2. More
than half of this increase has been
in lands and improvements, appraised
at s7,S77,177 this year and at s7,44S,e
81 last year, giving gain of s42S,36e.
City real estate has likewise in
creased in value, according to the
figures County Assessor Joe Dews
has submitted to the state equaliza-
tion board. It has increased from
s5.071,125 in 1914, to $5,293,i50 in
1915. a gain of s222,025.
The smallest gain of all was in the
personal valuation placed at $4,574,-
425. in 1914, and at $4.64S,906 in 1915.
The gain shown was $74,4S1.
This report" says Assessoy Dews.
''has been in the hands of the state
equalization board for about thirty
days. 1t will probably be passed upon
in short time"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-16
STARTS HoSTILITIES
AGAINST MARAuDERS.

Col. E. ]. Hubbard, the auctioneer,
who raises hogs and chickens and
turkeys and fruit, etc, on his farm
place just south of Chickasha, de-
clares his forces are already in the
field carrying on war. They are do
ing it without a formal declaration,
too. The casualties so far have been
four lives. Losses from the depreda-
tions of the enemy before actual state
of war began included number of
yellow legged fryers" and two big
turkey hens.
Dogs from town have been bother
ing him for months, Mr.. Hubbard de
clares. They got away with two tur-
key hens just few days ago. / aving
the little turks without mothers. He
has lost dozeps of chickens through
the same channels. Now he has quit
trying to scare the marauders off and
has begun to use his shotgun. He
says he kills every canine he Einds
carrying Off fryer, and he get four
in two days. Hostilities will continue
Indefinitely If the dogs hold out, the
colonel says
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-16
COAL STRIKE
IS SERIOUS
BY United Press.

BY United Press.
Cardiff. Wales. July 16.-The coal
miners strike which began yesterday
is more serious today, but the execu-
tive council is holding session to de-
termine what can be done
The shortage of coal is already af-
fecting the railroads and industries
in the seaport cities.
All the responsible labor leaders OF
the country are opposed to the strike
and while it is hard TO see how the
government can enforce the penalties
of the munitions act. it is believed the
men will be influenced by the fact that
they are opeposing an act which was
passed for the safety of the country.
Though subject to heavy daily fine
tor striking, and though urged by their
leaders to allow their demands for
higher pay to be arbitrated, the min
ers refused to take up their picks,
thus not only stopping the mines, but
leaving idle the mine railways and
some ships engaged in coal transport.
Theoretically. the government is
empowered to check the strike forth
with. but it is puzzling problem how
the fines. authorized under the muni-
tions measure. are to be enforced.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-16
PAVING CASE
ARGUED BY
ATTORNEYS

Arguments in Chickasha's half mil
lion dollar paving tax case were heard
in the state supreme court at Okla
homa City yesterday afternoon. A
decision as to whether or not the con-
tractors fulfilled their part of the
work and whether or not Chickasha
citizens must stand payments yet to
be made on some seven miles of paw
ing is expected by attorneys in the
case on the first Monday in Septem-
ber.
Arguments were heard by the SUI
preme court yesterday from H. L.
Grigsby, representing the city of
Chickasha, M. ID. Libby of Ell Reno,
representing thu contractors. and
Judge Stewart and .Alger Melton. rep
resenting the citizens of Chickasha.
The printed brief for the case, No
6S72. covers 800 pages. The title is
The City of Chickasha Ct al, plain
tiffs, VS.. Dennis O'Brien ct al, defend
ants in error.
The case involves payments on ali
paving in Chickasha except Chicka-
sha avenue and Kansas avenue, from
the east end to half way between
Fifth and Sixth streets. All is said
to be ten year paving" No more
payment viii be made. it is declared,
if the citizens are able to get the de-
cision in the supreme court and if the
contractors are unable to. carry the
case to the federal courts
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-16
OF
PEACHES TO
BEGIN SOON

Grady county's peach crop will
bring so to 60 cents bushel, says R.
E. Starns of Independence. La, man
ager of the c.slaho oma Fruit and Melon
Growers association, who has been in
Chickasha several days making pre-
liminary plans for the handling of the
fruit and melons of the country.
An immense CROP" is the manner
in which Mr.. Starns speaks of pres
ent prospects for the yield of peaches
in Oklahoma, though he has no defi-
mite figures yet from which to esti-
mate the probable total yield for
Grady county or the region surround
ing it.
w. 7. Bailey of Rush Springs. secre-
tary treasurer of the association, is in
the field now gathering data from
which the estimates can be taken
later on both peaches and melons.
Not only in Oklahoma but also in
the entire south is the peach crop
good, declares the association man
ager. who has just come through the
peach regions of Louisiana and Texas.
Georgia, he says, will ship 5000 cars
this year. Other states will do as we'll
in proportion.
Grady county fruit growers who
have not yet purchased baskets in
which to ship their fruit should pur-
chase them at once, Mr.. Starns says.
The baskets cost ten cents each. They
provide the cheapest method of mar
keting peaches.
Mr.. Starns is now prepared to make
contracts for peaches in any Qran-
tity. Shipping points Will be estab-
lished in all parts of the section and
an attempt made to turn into cash the
heavy yield of fruit
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-16
VERDICT OF
THAIWNJURY \
SUSTAINED
Judge Holds Defendant Sane and
Grants Release on $35,00O
Bond Pending Appeal to
the Higher Court
CROWD CHEERS
The DECISION
Central Figure in Room Calm at
First and then Grows Jubilant;
Opinion Of Experts Dis
regarded
By United Press.

BY United Press.
New York, July 16.-Justice Hend-
rick, before whom Harry Thaw was
tried, this morning announced his de-
cision in the case, upholding the YER
dict of the jury and declaring the de-
fendant sane.
Justice Hendrick stated that he
would at once sign an order revoking
the commitment of Thaw to the Mat
teawan asylum and then would per-
nit his release on a $4,000 bond,
pending an appeal from his decision
to the higher court. He overruled the
objection Of the states attorneys to
granting bond.
Thecourt room was crowded with
spectators when the decision was ren-
dered. Thaw, the central figure in
the scene, took the verdict unconcern-
edly, but when the crowd had flowed
out of the room he became as jubilant
as a boy. He shook hands with the
court attaches, the reporters and many
in the crowd outside.
Thaw said he had no plans for the
future to announce. To one reporter
who asked him concerning reports
that he was going to get on the water
wagon, he replied, 1T is none of your
business.
Thaw's mother at Pittsburg said she
was not surprised by til decision Of
the Judge and jury but sh~ was some
what disappointed by the fact that the
state was going to appeal the case.
In announcing his decision. Judge
Hendrick said he paid no attention to
the testimony of the experts but held
that the signs of Thaw's sanity were
unmistakable.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-16
OHIO HOMES
INUNDATED

By United Press.
Lima, o., July 16-Twenty-two hun
dred homes are under water. two
deaths have already been reported and
many injuries in floods on the Ottawa
river. Incessant rains for several
days have just put small streams out
of their banks and threaten to leave
thousands more without shelter along
the Ottawa river and tributary
streams An extra rise this morning
inundated hundreds more Of homes
that had been considered safe from
the floods.
Rescue parties are already out at
tempting to account for the dozens of
missing persons, many of whom, it
is feared, are drowned.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-16
CUT WEEDS
NOW SAYS
THE MAYOR

Cut your weeds while they are
soft, while the work can be done with
scythe or a moving machine" is
the advice of Mayor o. Coffman to
residents of Chickasha. "A few more
days of warm weather will leave many
patches SO fully matured and so hard
that nothing lighter than a grubbing
hoe will cut them," the mayor said
this morning. Many dollars can be
saved if people will attend to the mat
ter at once while the cost will be
slight"
A moving machine is now az work
on the streets cutting weeds that
properly belong to the city The en-
tire system of city streets will be
cleared Mr. Coffman thinks, within
ten days.
A question bothering some, he says,
is whether or not proerty owners must
cut the weeds in the alleys. Each
one" the mayor says, according TO
the law. is responsible for the weeds
over to the middle of the alley behind
his property. Failure to cut them will
subject the citizen to fine the same
as if they were ON his own lots.
The down town section will soon be
all gone over by the weed inspectors.
From here, they will go out in all d.
rections to see that all unsightly plots
thai harbor disease germs are remov-
ed by property owners.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-16

Petrograd, July 1.-THE Austro
Germans. after being reinforced with
fresh troops, are striking hard blow;
against both wings OF the Russians
along front eight hundred miles
long, extending from the Baltic sea
on the north to Bukowina on the
south.
II is reported that the Cossacks
checked the Germans in the north and
IN the region OF Shavliriga but tina;
the slavs were forced to give ground
to the Austrians in Poland.
The Germans are apparently start.
ing a new offensive movement in Po-
land leaving the campaign in Galicia
TO the Austrians.
The Austro-Germans not only have
captured large number of prisoners
south OF Koino. according TO the re-
port issued by Berlin Thursday, but
have occupied Przasnysz. fortified
town fifty miles north OF Warsaw,
which was taken by Won Hindenburg
In his great drive from East Prussia
last winter but was retaken by the
Russians in their counter offensive.
This claim is partly confirmed by
the Russian official report issued
Wednesday. which stated that the
Russians. In the face OF strong Ger
man forces. withdrew to their second
line OF entertainments.
This move ON the part Of the Ger
mans. has taken the military critics
completely by surprise. 1t was gen
orally supposed that Gen. Won Mack
ensen would. after being strengthen
ed. continue his attempt to reach the
Lublin-Chelm railway. thus forcing the
evacuation of Warsaw. But as in all
their operations. the Germans have
done the unexpected. The new often
sive will probably be general and ex.
tend from the Baltic around the east
Prussian border to the Vistula west
OF Warsaw, for all the Russians troops
in this section must be kept busy to
prevent them from concentrating at
the point where the Germans hope TO
break through
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-16
WOMEN FOR
MINISTRY
BY United Press.

BY United Press- 500 81 aa99R
San Francisco, July 16---Rev. 0lym,
pia Brown. president OF the Federal
Association of Suffragists. in an ad-
dress before their convention here to-
day, declared that girls must be train
ed for the ministry because the men
have fallen down on the jobs.
The speaker said too many of the
men engaged in preaching had been
lured from duty by ping pong and
pink teas. She also asserted that they
we're under the influence of rich men
and fail to attack many evils. which
should be assailed from the pulpit.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-16
CANNON MEETS TEX VERNON.
By United Press.

BY United Press.
Appleton, Wis, July l6,-The APP
pleton Athletic club will stage a dou-
BILE windup of ten-round bouts here
tonight with Gene Cannon of Milwau-
wee and Tex Vernon Of Marinette,
feather weights, as principals. Red
mond came into the limelight by the
whipping of Ad Wolgast at Milwaukee
just before the latter became cham
pion, and it was on him that Ad first
broke an arm. Gannon's battles have
been fought mostly in the east.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-16
BY United Prs

Paris, July 16.--Reports were re-
ceived here today telling OF the re
pulse of the Germans in what may be
the preliminary part of new often
sive campaign in Alsace-Lorraine.
Reports here also claim that the
French recaptured hill In Argonne,
known as the Sister OF Death" Ber-
lin admits some repulses by the
French
Dispatches from Rome state that
the Italian Alpine troops performed
remarkable scaling feats in the Tyro-
lean Alps, driving the enemy out Of
several points.
London reports important Anglo
French gains in west Africa.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-16

SINK SUB
IS REPORT
BY United Press.

BY United Press.
Athens, July 16.-According to re-
liable advices reaching here the Ger
man submarine U-50 was sunk in the
Black sea by Russian warships.
The U-50 was the enormous subma-
rine which travelled from Germany to
the Dardaneles and which is believed
10 have been the vessel which sank
the British battleships Triumph and
Majestic.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-16
Lansing and Diplomat Confer.
BY United Press.

Washington, July 16.--A conference
between Secretary Lansing and Bern
storff. the German ambassador. start
ed today about noon
The object of the conference was
not announced but it is believed that
they are considering the proposal CT
Bernstorff for American mediation
between England Germany on sub
marine warfare.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-16
Not READY
RECOGNIZE
CARRANzA
BY United Press.

Windsor, VT, July 16.-It was learn
ed today that President Wilson does
not intend to recognize Carranza
merely because of his victory in Mexi-
co City
The president plans to wait for fur
ther military or political develop
ments. The next step in the admin
istration's Mexico policy will not be
announced till the German-American
situation is settled
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-16
Peace Move Reported.
BY United Press.

London. July 16.-The Financial
News says today that Germany is
making tentative peace proposals
through the United States on account
OF financial exhaustion.
The Daily Mails correspondent re-
ports that eighty thousand Germans
are leaving AK La Chapelle, appar-
emily for new drive against Calais.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-16
French TrawIer Mined.

By United Press.
Calais, July 16--Ten Of the crew of
the French trawler Nieuport were kill
ed when the vessel was destroyed by
a mine.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-16
MOVIES ARE USED IN
ANTi-FLy CAMPAIGN.
By United Press.

by IHIttu FtsHs
Dallas. Tex, July i6.-Movies have
been called to the aid of the swat-the-
fly compalgn. Several of the city's
larger theaters have been asked by
city authorities to aid the municipal
sanitation campaign by exhibiting
films about flies.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-16
WEATHER FORECAST.
FOR okIahoma.

= - = = = = $$$ $+$t$ >
Thunderstorms this afternoon; gen
orally fair tonight and Saturday;
slightly lower temperature tonight in
east and central portion.
Local Temperature
During the twenty-four hours ending
at a. m.
Maximum ------------ 30
Minimum ------------ "a
WEATHER ELSEWHERE.
Western Union reports received at
s a. M:
Texas.
Heavy rain at Amarillo, 76; rest
clear to cloudy; warm.
Oklahoma.
Generally clear, warm; no rain
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-16

The Methodist choir will render a
special program Sunday evening.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-16
Ausiro- Germans Hitting Hard Blows
at Russians on Long Front;
Cossacks Check EN- in
the North
AN OFFENSIVE In
ALSACE LORRAINE
Paris Claims Repulse Of Teutons
and Capture Of Hill; Alpinists
Perform Great Stunts in
Scaling Heights
BY United Press.

BY United Press.
Berlin. July 16.-According to the
official announcement made here to.
day the Germans are continuing their
drive toward Warsaw, sweeping on
through Przasnyz
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-16

Continued on Page Tgo.)
The Washington herald., 1915-09-01

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.
not openly approve of such a course,
through fear of setting precedent
which in time might be turned against
them.
1t became known yesterday that re-
sponses OF n favorable nature had been
received from all the addresses of the
pan American note not allied to the
Carranza cause. ard that the only re-
sponses still waited for are from Car
rama and a few of his chiefs. The
last of these is known now to have re-
ceived his message. and Secretary
Lansing and his colleagues will not
wait much beyond a ten-day period for
such responses. as little hope is enter
tained that Carranza will be a party to
the conference
With Carranza and his following elmi-
mated the conference will embrace only
the Villa ard Zapata elements. and in all
probability the recognition of any group
or government evolved from such con-
ference would be tantamount to recoS-
milton of Villa and Zapata. unless the
conference should put forward a group
of men which so far has been identified
with no faction or military movement in
Mexico.
Gen. Hugh H. Scott. Chief of Staff. L.
S. A. conferred Yesterday with President
W llSOn ana secretary Lansing lIt re-
suit Of his mission to Gen. Villa at Ell
Paso. Secretary Lansing announced that
Gen. Scott would not return to the border
for the State Department. 1t is under
stood that Gen. Scott reported to the
President the details of his conference
with villa and informed him that he had
found villa anxious for restoration of
peace in Mexico and willing to stand
aside and prevent his friends and fol-
lowers from impeding an early return to
orderly government
Advices to the State Department yes
terday afternoon from the United States
consul at Monterey indicated that a gen.
eral engagement is in progress between
the forces of Villa and Obregon at leo
mole. a small town near Monterey, and
that Monterey itself has not as yet been
alta cke by the Villa forces.
Despite the strongest representations
which this government has been able to
frame in behalf of Francis, the news
paper correspondent imprisoned in Vera
Cruz by Carranza and held without bail,
the constitutionalist chief refuses to per-
nit his prisoner liberty on bail The
State Department yesterday was dis
couraged over the stubborn attitude
adopted by Carranza in this case.
J. P. A.