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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-24
Italian Ambassador Hands Copy of
Declaration to Austro-Hun-
garian Premier and Prepares
to Leave Vienna
ITALIANS OF "UNREDEEMED
PROVINCES" HELD ELIGIBLE
100000 Troops Go to Front at Once and
100000 Are Ordered to Colors
Within a Month
1TALYS DECLARATION OF WAR
AND GERMANY'S QUICK RETORT

Special Gable Despatch
10
Foreign Minister, o. war;:
20,
The
the undersigned
Declaration has been
imperial
her Of alliance
imperial and royal Government
THE Government the King firmly
disposal for safeguarding Italian
which impose for the fuhment national
His Majesty the King declares that considers himself
n a
his Exceiency placed this very
will be obliged his Exceency he will
handed to him. AVARNA"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-24
ATTACK RENEWED.
NOrthcltnc Insists Kitchener Sent
WRONG shells 10 Front.

LONDON, May ~ (Monday). The
Daily MAJ reiterates this morning In
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-24
BILLIONS FOR TRIBUTE.

The fate OF Z nation that was not prepared.
Read how the conqueror wrung 6illions
from the country in THE fNVA.
SION OF AMERICA" in
the SUN next Sunday.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05
RENEWAL OF
LEASES In
PROGRESS

Work, preliminary to actual drilling
on the Pate Jones place at the Alberta
well is now being done. and. according
to Mr.. Jones, many of the farmers
are renewing leases with the new com
pany, which will take out charter
next week, or as soon thereafter as
possible, under the name of the Wash
ita Oil and Gas company.
Mr. Jones stated that it was the in
tention Of the new company to procure
about 1000 acres of leases in and
around the site of the Alberta well
and to accept the old company's prop
osition to turn the drilling outfit and
the hole to the depth of about 1000
feet in as part OF the new company
1t will doubtless be soma days be-
fore actual drilling will start, but from
every indication the organization work
is progressing rapidly and no trouble
in getting the required leases or plac-
ing the stock is expected.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05
PREPARING
FOR WHEAT
H ARVEST
Chickasha Mill Builds Big Storage
Implement Houses Sell Binders
and Twine- Prospects
Generally Good

Despite tine fact that some rumors
are heard regarding black and red
rust, army worm, wet weather and
other things said to be deterimenta
to the wheat crop, big preparations
are under way for the harvest of the
crop that will start, it is estimated
within the next ten days, and it is con
fidently believed that the yield will
prove surprise to many who have
predicted shortage.
Now under construction at the
Chickasha Milling company are four
mammoth tanks for wheat storage, the
capacity to be about 100000 bushels
The tanks are to be constructed of re-
inforced concrete and the contract
calls for their completion before July
first.
Excavation for the tanks is already
started, the steel and other materials
are already ON the ground and the
work is under way. Cement for the
job has not arrived. but advices are
to the effect that it will be received
within the next few days and the
work will be rushed through to COM
pletion by the time the threshing is
under way
All implement dealers in the city are
unloading binders, binding twine and
other accessories to the wheat harvest.
They are not only unloading the har-
vest material, but are selling it. Sew
eral binders have been set up and
taken to the fields and are now await
ing the ripening of the grain. Others
have been contracted for and uIu
ready to be taken to the fields. Bind
ing twine has been purchased by the
thousand pounds and the question pro
pounded by the farmers when they are
in the city is, have the dealers plenty
Of twine and repairs parts an hand
that the harvest may proceed without
interruption when once started, and
not will the crop be good or bad
yield?
That there is some black rust in the
fields is certain. Men who have inves-
tigated state that several fields Win
touches of rust have been located, but
that they are the exception rather than
the rule. In the wheat belt around
Pocasset examination have been made
and it is stated that while several
patches of rust were found, the gen
eral run of the fields was good and
evidences Of at least a normal yield
were strong.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05
Special Music at the
Methodist Church

A special musical program will be
rendered by the choir at the Methodist
church Sunday evening. The singers
have been rehearsing for sevxeral
weeks and the service promises to be
one of great interest. The following
numbers compose the program:
"The Day is Gently Sinking
Ira B. Wilson.
By the Choir.
LEAD On. Oh King" Ira B. Wilson
ne Mems Chorus, 16 Voices.
"The Lord Reigneth" w. Lermsn
Choir.
THE Lord Is My Strength
Alfred Wooler
Solo by Bernard Baird.
'1nflammatus" 80 Rossini-Rockwell
Solso by Miss Elsie Decker and
Chorus.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05
MEXICO IS
SCENE OF
RIO TIN G
By United Press.

Washington. June 5.--With serious
bread rioting i'm several Mexican cit
les reported, the Red Cross has re
doubled its efforts to expedite the re-
lief work.
There has so far been practically no
progress made toward getting the
chieftains to agree to a conference on
the international government proposal
American consuls and consular
agents throughout Mexico Friday were
instructed by telegraph to send to the
state department full reports ON pres
ent conditions in the territory under
their observation. These reports, COW
ering every section and all factional
jurisdictions, will facilitate the work
Of the American Red Cross in relieving
Mexico's starving civilian population
and at the same time aid the govern
ment in developing the next step in its
policy toward the contending military
elements.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05
PEEKE IS
LANDED IN
CO.RASTILE

Hodge Bailey, sheriff, returned yes
terday evening from Hobart in charge
of Jess Peeke, negro, said to be inn
plicated in the fight here last Friday
night. in which mix-up Bob Day, negro,
was stabbed. The officer went after
Jess Smith, but when he arrived he
found that, while the man he wanted
had been corralled, his name was Jess
Peeke.
The sheriff stated that he was in
formed by men in Hobart that Peeke
and Bert Wilson, who, it is claimed
actually did the stabbing, were seen to
get off the train in Hobart, Friday
evening. Wilson has SO far eluded the
officers. Peeke claims to know moth
ing Of the affair, denies that he went
TO Hobart with Wilson and says that
he does not know where Wilson went
after leaving Chickasha.
A search is being made for Wilson,
but the lack OF a minute description
of him offers some handicap. While
the officers believe that Peeke had
no part in the actual stabbing of Day,
they have evidence that he was in the
fight, struck several times at Day with
a knife and missed.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05
BURCS GET
GOOD FEED
AT GROCERY
Score oD Spencer's Store Second
Time Within Less than Two
Weeks - Leave No Trace
for SIeuths

Although lightning is said not to
strike twice in the same place, it has
been proven that burglars do, and
Spencer's grocery store, which was
burglarized and over $4,000 worth of
notes taken just ten nights ago, was
again broken into last night.
When Mrs. Spencer came to town
shortly before Z o'clock this morning
and opened the store She found the
usually orderly room topsy turvy and
looking as though an eating party had
been in session half the night Half
opened cans were on the floor and the
counters were covered with foodstuffs,
partly eaten. Mrs. Spencers first
idea was that some hungry persons
had helped themselves to square
meal but later she decided that the
eating stunt was possibly a blind, as
there was evidence that very little Of
the scattered stuff had been consum-
ed and much taken from the store.
1t has been impossible to estimate
the loss, as everything in the store
was disturbed and as yet it is not
known how much is missing. But it
is certain that the thieves had miscel-
laneous tastes, for they helped them.
selves to everything from cigars to
toothpicks.
The burglars made their entrance
through back window, breaking the
glass away and crawling in, and then
finding a hammer and prying up the
same window to carry out their loot
They went through safe which was
unlocked but which had nothing of
value in it, and they kindly closed it
and locked it.
The sheriff and chief of police were
both notified this morning, but as yet
no clues have been discovered,
Tracks of a buggy which pulled out
from behind the store after last nights
rain, were found, but there is no GER
tainty that it belonged to the burglars
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05
PREPARING FOR
Big AIR RAIDS
Italians are Advancing = French
Best Germans at Souchez-- Ter
rifle Struggle in Moonlight
---Germans Shelled Out
By United Press.

BY United Press.
London, June 5.-The kaiser is strik-
ing mighty blows on the eastern and
western fronts and the sea war zone.
in which latter section 10 vessels were
destroyed by the Germans in the past
As hours.
The Teutons have launched pow
erful offensive against the British in
the Ypres region. German submarines
are combing tke war zone and ter
rifle offensive is evident in Galicia,
Russian Courland, southwestern Po-
land and north of Arras.
The Germans are also evidently pre-
pairing for big air raids on London
and Paris. The kaiser apparently
thinks that the advantageous time has
arrived to deliver lightning strokes,
inasmuch as Germany's food is report
ed running low and that both Russia
and England are admittedly up against
a shortage of munitions.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05

whispered that he had formerly tray
eled with Ringing in Jap act Of bar
rel Juggling with the feet. This rumor
was further substantiated yesterday
when in going after a ball back OF
short, Mr.. Kilgore forgot exactly where
he was. Probably it was the loud
cheering of the multitude that prompt.
ed the belief that he was back under
the big top" Anyhow, he suddenly
assumed the position of Jap juggler
and tried to catch the ball with his
feet. He missed.
srs-ing, with his red stockings, req
cap and sandy mustache, hardened the
minds eye back to the good old days
of baseball and reminded one of the
Palmiest days of Pop Arson or Billy
Sunday. Several men on each team
showed strong symptoms of having
once upon time known something
about the great game of baseball. Also
many of them seem to have retained a
goodly amount of said knowledge.
When 1t was all over everyone re-
allied that they had had one of the
most enjoyable hours experienced in
many moons, that they had yelled
themselves hoarse, they were as hun
cry as harvest hand and that it was
all quite worth while.
We'll. AL the Republicans can win
is a ball game" Albert Thompson was
heard to humble as hel eft the park.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05
ANSWER IS
READY FOR
GERMANY
BY United Press.

BY United Press.
Washington, June 5.-President Will
son approved the complete draft of the
note to Germany before going auto
ing. The note was sent to Bryan for
his signature. Bryan approved the
document and it was turned over TO
the code experts.
The note will be forwarded prob
ably late tonight and will not be made
public until It is positively known that
1t is in the hands of the German for
eign office. Premature publication in
London of the last note was the cause
for this ruling.
The American answer to Germany
is leaving no loophole for quibbling.
II has not yet been coded but will
probably be ready to dispatch tonight
or early tomorrow.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05
"LuTHER BURBANK DAY."


San Francisco, June 5.-''Luther Bur
bank Day" attracted thousands to the
Panama-Pacific exposition today.
Every visitor was given. as souvenir,
samples Of seeds guaranteed to pro-
duce several varieties of Burbank's s
famous freak plants. Giant cherries,
plumeots and thornless berries are
among the marvels Burbank's seeds
are expected to sprout
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05
SUSPECT SIGNAL
SENT TO ZEPPELIN
Phantom Flashes Searchlisht,
Streaking Sky With Strange Arcs
German Spies are Scented
Surprise Schemes Fail
BY United Press.

BY United Press.
London, May 25.-(By mail to New
York -England's newest war mystery
is the "will-o- -the-wisp" of the British
East Coast.
Cleverest sleuths of the nation are
today searching for mysterious grey
motor car "D-4832'--that nightly races
along peaceful East Anglia highways
Internationally piercing the upper dark
ness with flashes of light that tell mill
itary secrets to the enemy submarines
lowering off the coast.
The mystery rivals the most thrill
ing of war time dramas with the eli
max yet to come.
Occupants of peaceful farm houses
and villagers of the quaint old Englisn
seacoast towns are waiting for the gov
ernment to solve the mystery that is
the talk of the countryside. Nightly
they have seen the powerful car dash
madly past, huddled figure bent low
ove. the wheel. Some say he wears
uniform of British military officer
while others are not so sure. All OF
them have seen the piercing rays Of
the motors searchlights perform
strange antics on the sky. A dozen
times they spread alarm by phone In
the direction the mysterious visitor is
travelling, but as many times he has
eluded them.
1t is only at night that the "phan-
tom" thunders along the east coast
roads. At daybreak he disappears
seemingly into air until another night.
On the night of the last Zeppelin raid
over Suffolk and Essex the phantom"
was out. Carrying binding white
light, the villagers say, he dashed over
hill and dale, plainly plotting the Yep
pelin over its course. a. hundred per-
sons swear to this. One caught the
number of the grey mystery-"D- D-4S32"
but no car with that number is regis
tered.
Guards are now posted along all
the principal east coast roads. Here
the phantom" has ceased his nightly
visits. But off in the distance, on other
roads, these guards have seen the
streaks of light that pierce the sky
and have heard the faint distant rum
Bile of the racing motor.
The country folk say 1t Is uncanny
and the government sleuths are begin
ming to think so too.
Belief, however, that German spies
are actually at work on the east coast
is strengthened by an incident near
the sea coast at Sheeringham. This
time it was not the mysterious auto
but two men intercepted by boy scouts
in the act of signalling from cliff
with a lantern. Menaced by !. re-
volver in the hand of one of the men
all but one of the scouts withdrew.
The one that remained was later found
gsgged with his own handkerchief and
unconscious near the scene Of the in
cident Revived. the scout suffered
hysteria but described the men, de-
claring they spoke in foreign tone.
Residents of the cliff coast of Essex
have reported that almost nightly sig
nails have been observed at more iso-
lated points. Reported attempts 30 sur
prise the signallers have failed.
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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05
French Capture Teutons.
By United Press.

by 7OUTItU FTtSS.
Paris, June 5.-"Eye-witness' re
ports say that the French buried 5000
Germans and captured 5000 more in
the Souchez fighting. The French
Smelling was so incessant that the Ger
mans could not dig graves for the
dead Many bodies piled in the sugar
mill cellar tell of the horrible hand-to-
hand struggle in the moonlight with
the Germans shelled out at dawn.
1t is officially claimed in reports
from headquarters that the German
Souchez attacks have been success
fully repulsed.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05
ITALY WILL BE 4
BIG HORSE PURCHASER.
BY United Press.

By United Press.
Lincoln, Neb., June Information
received by Nebraska horse buyers
Indicate that Italy will be heavy pur-
chaser Of horses throughout the middle
western states in the near future.
Orders are said already to have been
received for tested and inspected ami.
mails for such consignment. The re-
cent reported order of 10000 mules to
be purchased throughout this section
and assembled in Nebraska for assign
ment to European ports, is apparently
being filled. as shipments are being
made just as soon as several carloads
are on hand
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05
hlr Raid on Britons.
By United Press.

By United Press.
London, June 5-Zeppelins raided
the east and southeast British coast
over night. The admiralty admitted
that some casualties resulted, but it
was not stated to what extent. The
first report does not give the location
of the towns.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05
FIND az INDICTMENTS.
By United Press.

Corpus Christi. Tex, June 5.-The
federal grand jury today returned AZ
indictments for alleged irregularities
In the Nueches county election Coun-
ty Judge Timon, City Attorney Saw
age, U. S. Commissioner Southgate.
Tax Assessor Bluntzer and Chief of
Police Fowler were included in the
indictments.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05
Italians in Big aBttIe.
By UnItea rress.

Rome, June 5.--The battle Of Rover
to has begun. The Italian Alpinists
and Bersagliers are advancing on the
town while the big guns from a great
height are pouring shells into the city.
The second Italian army's van guard
is less than eight miles from the city.
General Cadorna reports the heaviest
losses in the fighting on the Monterno
slopes
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05
Say Roumania Won't Enter.

By United Press.
Berlin. June 5.-Private reports re-
ceived here state that the efforts of
the allies to induce Roumania and Bull
garia to enter the war have failed. 1t
is claimed that the negotiations of
Roumania to get territory from Russia
have been broken off
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05

MYSTERIOUS MESSAGES
WARNING TO AMERICANS.
BY United Press.

BY United Press
Z London. June 5.--Zeppelins
: attempted raid on London
but are reported to have been
driven off before they could ap-
) rroach close enough to do dam
age. Americans living in
LONDON were warned by mys-
; terious telephone messages,
; which told them to be ready to
; fight fires and to stay inside
the houses during the evening.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05

London, June 5.-For some time it
has been reported that the French
were slowly diving the Germans from
strong positions north of Arras and
were, in the words of an officer just
returned from the front. punching a
hole in the German line" To stop this
movement and also to relieve their
troops who, according to the British;
accounts. we're suffering very severely
from British attacks. and through their
own counter-attacks, the Germans
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05
PUBLIC SCHOOLS AS A
PEDAGoGIc LABORATORY.
BY United Press.

BY United Press.
Hays City. Kan, June 5.-The entire
school system of this city has been
turned over to the Kansas State nor
NAL school to use as ''pedagogic la
boratory." Among the innovations in
stalled are a free dental clinic, free
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05

medical inspection, social center, com
munity music, Fairgrounds and ath-
letics.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05
Temporarily Occupied" Is Admission
BY United Press.

Berlin, June 5.-The war office ad-
mits that the French have ''temporar-
lily occupied" the ruins of the Sou
cheze sugar mill. 1t is claimed here
also, that the Germans are making
rapid progress south of Przemysl to-
ward point twenty miles distant.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05

scontinued on rage Three,
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-09-28
CROP ROTATION
URGED FOR BOYS
Members Of Corn Clubs Are
Asked To Cooperate With
Department

With " T.c~ a. earichinR the sol'
OF the state, the corn club agents.
hessrs Z + Browne and A. X Rob
eftSon. have begun campaign
through the corn clubs 10 establish a
permanent system Of crop rotation.
The Work Will lie carried on directly
under the supervision OF the corn
club men. and Will - available 10
every boy in the STATE who desires to
Joln the corn clubs The campaign
mas already begun. and 70 the present
uate fiVe hundred boys have been en-
rolled as members
Alr. I. r. Browne, who is agent IN
charge OF the work says that tho
SOIL OF North Carolina is not execution
ally fertile. and that il Will be n num-
Der Of years before the fertility can be
put on basis which VIII make agrl-
culture what il should be- ON ac-
count OF the high price charged for
commercial fertilizers, it is impossi-
bic to make the States farming land
1ertlle III the course OF n few years
but a gradual Improvement can be
| made by the system or crop rotation
which the corn club agents are ad-
Tocotlng. which. if followed out, will in
! the course of a decade put the soil Of
| North Carolina on much better basis
ol lPlItIIlN.
The plan which Mr.. Browne IS urg-
| Ing the boys to adopt is 20 get a
system Of crop rotations scheme from
| the West Raleigh Office and select
from them one which will prove the
best suited TO the boys particular
county. Rotation schemes have been
figured out for a number Of counties
and for many sections Of the State.
but in some Instances rotations for
particular communities may have to
be figured out by the boys them
selves. number Of boys in each
community Will be urged to try out
different systems and that one which
proves most suited to the community y
will probably be adopted. In this
way it is believed the soil fertility
of the State can be raised in the course
of ten or fifteen years
Each boy will work in Co-operatior
with the office at West Raleigh. TIL,
father Of the boy Will be asked tC
sign an agreement to let the boy
have whatever he makes on the piec,
Of land on which the rotation is to b'
praCtiCed.