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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-02-22
GOOD RAIN
RECORDED

That man you saw strolling up the
street this morning with cigar stick
ing out Of his face at five-minutes-
to-six angle and a smile on his face
that would make the one that won t
come off look like the map of a con-
demned convict, was a wheat grower.
The answer? It is simple and can be
told in one word-rainl
Though it has been strung out over
two or three days and nights. the rain
as a whole has been what some would
call "hum-dinger.' The total rain
fall up to s o'clock this morning was
1.29 inches and was divided into three
sections, as follows: Friday night l2
inches, Saturday AZ inches and sun
day night rs inches.
While the wheat was not considered
to be exactly suffering for want of
rain, it was known fact that the
ground was getting a little dry, and
sort of worried look, the kind that is
generally worn by a doubtful candi-
date just before election, was plaintly
to be seen on the countenance of the
wheat growers, That look has been
washed entirely away now, however,
and there is nothing left but the afore-
mentioned smile as an assurance that
with the moisture in the ground the
wheat crop is good for weeks and
months without another drop of moist
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-02-22
CAVALRY TO
COPE WITH
RED SKINS
Battle Fought and Three Indians
and one White Man Killed
Murderer Take Refuge
Among Renegades
By United Press.

By United Press
Cortez. Colo, Feb. 22-Ihree troops
of cavalry, it is reported, have been
ordered to proceed overland to the
storm-swept desert in southeastern Utah
where whites and Indians are engaged
in a battle like the conflicts of froatier
days.
According to advices received here,
three Indians and one white man have
been killed in the clash and six Indians
have been captured
Posses from half a dozen towns are
said to be enroute to reinforce United
States Marshall Nebeker, who set out
to capture an Indian who is wanted for
murder, but whose force became en-
gagged with the entire strength Of the
renegade Piutes among whom the al
legged murderer took refuge.
1t is estimated that three hundred
Indians are engaged in the hostilities.
One Indian girl was caught between
firing lines and killed.
The Indians around Navajo Springs
have disappeared and it is feared that
they are organizing to take the war
path.
The Piute Indians moved their
squaws and horses behind fortified po-
sitions and announced that they would
fight to the death.
An attempt to rescue the six Indian
prisoners was repulsed, it is reported,
one white being killed.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-02-22
Ms. MOrean's Pupils
to Appear in Recital

An entertainment that promises to
be of great interest will be the recital
in which the pupils of Mrs. "a. B. Nor
gan, teacher of expression, will appear
at the X. p hall for the benefit Of the
Woodman drill team. The program
to be given Wednesday evening at s
o'clock will be as follows:
Part One.
A Modern Washington -.Lincoln
Charles Hill Johns.
Lettla Giorgio Washeenton- DAILY
Mrs. Morgan.
Music --------- High School Quartet
Grace Weaver, Lucille Westfall,
Hazel Owsley, Matte Hart.
Things Inside - ANONYMOUS
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-02-22
Sinking Of Steamer Evelyn Not Vio-
lation Of American Warning
Embassies are Ordered to
Investigate
DESTRUCTION NOT
In DEATH ZONE
Owners Of Vessel Can Go to Civil
Courts for Relief Reported
Austria Starts Blockade
in the Adriatic
By United Press.

BY United Press.
Washington, Feb 22.-Official an.
nouncement was made today that there
VIII be no reply at present to England
IN regard to the flag situation or to
Germany as to the war zone matter.
The state department ordered the
American embassies to investigate the
sinking of the Evelyn. The decision
to send no additional notes at present
is not final. The action of the admin
lstration is not fully decided but it
probably will not risk weakening it's
original notes by further parleys.
Germany will not be held to "strict
accountability" for the destruction of
the American steamer Evelyn off Box
rum island. The owners of the vessel
can sue in the civil courts if they can
prove that the Germans placed the
mine
The destruction of the Evelyn did
not transgress the American warning
note against the death zone. The
vessel apparently hit a mine and
wasn't torpedoed, There is no law
against the placing of ordinary mines.
The destruction of the vessel was out
side the death zone.'
According to advices from Berlin
yesterday, the American steamer Eve
lyn, from New York, January 29. with
cotton for Bremen. struck mine off
Borkum Island in the North Sea Sat
urday and sank. The captain sand
twenty-seven members of the crew
we're saved The nationality of the
mine is unknown
The Evelyn is the first American
vessel to meet disaster as a result of
the sea warfare of the European ma
tions. She did not sink within the
war zone included in the German ad-
miralty's decree of February A. which
went into effect last Thursday. Bor-
kun Island lies directly off the Ger
man coast at the mouth of the Ems
river, and is German territory
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-02-22
divine SARAH"
is UNDAUNTED
BY OPERATION

BY United Press.
Bordeaux, France Feb 22.--Sarah
Bernhardt, the famous French actress,
underwent a surgical operation, her
right leg being amputated at the knee.
she bore the ordeal remarkably we'll
despite her advanced age.
AS soon as | can be fitted with an
artificial leg / shall resume my en-
gagements," said she. stage work is
my life"
Unless complications set in, it is
expected tha the recovery of The pa
tient will be rapid.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-02-22
AEROPLANES DROP
BOMBS OVER ESSEX
British Call it Growing Joke" =
Little Damage = Rumored
Transport and Steamer
Sunk by Submarine
By United Press.

= O-%'NNN 4 Coos
Berlin, Feb. 22.-seven Russian gen.
erals and one hundred thousand men
are enroute to German prison camps
as result of Marshall Won linden
ourgs victory and the pursuit of the
defeated Russians is ended, it is an
nounced here.
The Russians are reported to be
making stand around Augustowa.
MINOR engagements have marked the
last days fighting in Flanders and
france and the attempted French Of
fensive in the vosges has been repuls-
ed, according to the announcement
made here.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-02-22
BY WARL r. Won wlEeANp.

tStaff Correspondent of United Press (,
Grand Army Headquarters of Won
Hlndenburg, Feb. 90, via Berlin and
The Hague, February 22.-The Rus
sian reverse in the east iMazurian lake
region is hourly becoming more pro-
nounced- Already it bids fair to be
the record defeat of the war.
More than 10000 Russians have been
made prisoners and 10000 more of the
czar's troops are surrounded
The German officials praise the Rus
slams for their bravery and skill in
saving most Of their artillery.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-02-22
Report Is Confirmed.
BY United Press.

BY United Press.
New York, Feb 22--No confirma-
ton of the report that British trans
port and the accompanying steamer
were sunk by German submarine was
obtainable this morning.
Queries in RECORD to the report sent
to the London bureau of the United
Press were not answered, the British
censor permitting nothing in regard
to the report to be cabed to the United
States.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-02-22
Air Raid in EnoIand.
BY United Press.

BY United Press.
London, Feb. pa raid made by
two German aeroplanes over Essex
towns last night is characterized by
the British as the browning joke of
the war"
The aviators dropped six bombs.
Only one house in Colchester was
slightly damaged.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-02-22
Neutrals Must Soon Act.

By United Press.
Rome, Feb. 22.-The time is rapidly
approaching when neutrals must do
mand that the war end, the pope de-
clared today through Cardinal Gas
pari. his secretary of state.
The cardinal stated that when the
neutral powers judge that the moment
has arrived for them to demand peace,
the pope will be most happy to ex-
change views with them on the sub
ject
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-02-22
IOWA LUMsERMEN MEET.
By United Press.

BY United Press.
Cedar Rapids, Feb. 22.-Hundreds
Of lumber and coal dealers from Iowa
Minnesota, Nebraska and adjoining
states were here today to attend the
annual convention of the Central Iowa
Retail Lumbermans convention. F.
A. Good Of Cowles, Neb., will speak
tonight.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-02-22

Poebe Heffner.
Pillow Fight -------------- Ellsworth
Austin Russell.
When Pa Shaved orr His Whiskers-
.t4v Walter Stuart.
Part Two.
Vocal Solo --------------- Selected
Miss Garfield.
An Elevator Love Story Lillian Bell
Doris Gowdy.
Lewis Rand from Lewis Rand
Johnston
Zella Stoddard.
Piano Solo Polonaise by Paderewski
Miss Laura Julien.
Talking Things Over-----Anonymous
Jewel Stine.
My Missing Spectacles (monologue)
Pemberton
Mrs Claude Kicker
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-02-22
death Zone" in Adriatic.
By United Press.

By United Press.
Paris, Feb. 22.-'The Austrian admir-
atty has ordered the Austrian fleet to
sink every merchantmen in the Adri-
attic, according to a Geneva dispatch.
It is stated that Austria thus hopes
to establish death zone" in the
Adriatic like Germanys around Eng
land.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-02-22
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TooAys OLDEST STORY.



st. Paul, Mimi, Feb. 22.-In
order successfully to sue a man
for the alienation of your wife's
affections, you must have a
wife.
That is the verdict of a court
here, in the case of AdoIph
Nordquist, suing j. w. Allen
for the alienation of the affec-
tions of Anna Hansen, whom
Allen claimed as his wife.
Anna said not, and the jury
took her word for it.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-02-22
KANSAS DEMOCRATS BANQUET

By United Press.
Topeka, Kan, Feb. 22.-Kansas De
mocracy will banquet here tonight in
observance Of Washington's birthday.
Plans for 1916 will be discussed.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-02-22
WEATHER FORECAST.

For Oklahoma.

Tonight and Tuesday, colder, prob
ably rain or snow.
Local Temperature.
During the .twenty-four hours ending
at 2 a m,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
FULLER AND TROTTER Acoulr-
TED ON "BIRTH OF A NATION"
Especially


Boston, Mass, May 4, 1915. The
trials OF Rev. Aaron w. Fuller and
Editor VIM. Monroe Trotter, Secre-
tary OF the National independent
Equal Rights League, on the charges
or melting a riot and disturbing the
peace in the fight against Tom Dixon's
birth of Nation" photo-play closed
thls afternoon after four days trial.
Both men were acquitted and Judge
John u. Bracket, son of the EQUAL
Rights Champion Ex-Gov. J. @. A.
Bracket, declared from the bench
mat the two persons responsible for
the near-rior were the policemen in
plain clothes, Dennis Harrington, who
punched Mr.. Trotter in the Jaw. and
especially the ticket-seller, Mr.. Shee.
nan, who drew the color line on
tickets.
Judge Bracket denounced in severe
terms the color discrimination in SELL
ing to white people when they stopped
selling tickets at the approach of
number of colored people in the lobby.
He said this was contrary to the ennai
rights law of Massachusetts and was
entirely wrong. He praised the COL
ored people as good citizens, said they
were entitled to justice and equality.
he criticized Mr.. Trotter for not
leading the people away even though
their rights were being denied. He
praised the conduct of the large color
ed audiences present at the trials.
Editor Trotter was found guilty of
assault upon an officer, fined and an.
pealed the case, as he is innocent,
Rev. Fuller and Mr.. Trotter were
shoWered with congratulations.
+. P. Benjamin and G. G. Morgan
were their attorneys.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
REFUSES TO BE INsULTED!
Even in the Name of Christianity-A
Young Man Shows Manhood and
independence When a Y. M. C.
A. Conference Draws a
Color-Line.
cleveland Gazette.)

cleveland Gazette.)
Louisville, Ky.-Despite the fact
that he had been invited and urged
to attend Y. M. c.. A. conference of
employed men of that organization.
Mr.. Theodore Pettyjohn, physical d.
rector of the Colored branch, was
asked into the Kitchen when the call
for dinner was sounded. Following
his guide from the main dining room,
prepared for the other conferees, back
to the kitchen, Mr.. Pettyjohn politely
informed the lady that he would not
eat. He turned his back on the VIC
tuals prepared for him and walked out.
He then looked up the gentleman who
had insisted on his being at the con-
ference and told him few things.
The gentleman tried to defend him.
self by telling Mr.. Pettyjohn that he
ought to want to eat with his own
people and that Booker T. Washing
ton ate in kitchens. Mr.. Pettyjohn,
seeing that the Christian" could not
understand the principle Of the mat
ter, left the conference and walked
i've miles on an empty stomach
When he reached the city limits he
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22

black, but he remembers that one of
his ancestors was probably a plumed
grandee of Old Spain. You may scott
at his ideas, you may laugh at his
faith, you may curse at the 'lazy
Greasers," and through it all he may
smile, treat you with respect and po-
likeness and greet you with express
sions of the greatest pleasure, but in
his heart he despises you for an ill.,
bred yankee pig" and thanks God
that he is of Spanish blood.
On the other hand treat the Latin
American with courtesy, praise the
buildings and industry of his town,
admire his beautiful women, visit his
places Of interest, and speak his Ian
guage and you may command respect,
admiration and true friendship and
every entertainment and comfort will
be yours"
THE APPEAL has printed number
Of editorials along this line showing
that Americans have lost millions of
dollars through their jimcrow methods
and it is great satisfaction to have
this view upheld by great authority
thoroughly familiar with conditions.
Race prejudice is an expensive
proposition for those who indulge in
il.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
SATURDAY, MAY %, 1915.
DIsHoNoRING CHRlsTs NAME.

The Chicago papers say that the
HOLY NAME DRAMATIC SOCIETY
of the IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
CHURCH, under the direction of
REVEREND G. F. DONOVAN, gave an
old time minstrel show at the PARISH
HALL, 1416 Wieland street.
Think of so called Christians black.
ening their faces and pulling off some
old time lies about colored people who
gorge themselves with watermelon
and appropriate chickens belonging to
others, thus spreading the seeds of
racial prejudice through false impress
sions of American citizens of darker
hue. Could anything be more disgust
ing or further removed from true
Christianity?
If that is the best that the HOLY
NAME SOCIETY OF THE IMMACU-
LATE CONCEPTION CHURCH can do
to further the cause of Christ, they
ought to change the name of the soci-
ETY. and the church as they have no
right to use Christ's Holy Name for
such Infamous purposes.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
"WHY AMERICANS FAIL"

1t is notorious fact that in spite of
Pan-American congresses, long-winded
editorials in American newspapers.
etcetera, the United States is far be-
hind Germany, Great Britain, France
and Spain so far as trade in Latin
America is concerned.
A book by A. Wyatt Verrill on
South and Central American Trade
Conditions of Today" recently issued
by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, has
this to say under the heading, "Why
Americans Fall"
Race Or religious prejudice, con.
descension, discourtesy or bluff have
no place in Spanish America. The
Latin-American is a gentleman first,
last and all the time. He has never
acquired our habit of being a gentle
man in private life and a boor in
business and he expects others to be
as courteous as himself and if they
are not he judges them accordingly.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22

A writer in Liberty" published
quarterly in Washington, D. G., under
the caption, "The Inalianable Rights
OF Man." presents some incontrovert-
able facts, VIZ: Governments were
ordained to protect the natural rights
OF men and not to deprive any man
of his rights. = IAN upright,
honest citizen should enjoy equal
rights with every other citizen, ire
spective Of numbers, creed, or color,
before the law of the land Equality
OF rights is the first of rights, and in
the sight of the law there should be
no respecter of persons, whether he
be king or pope, nobleman or peasant,
rich or poor, Christian, Jew, or infidel,
red white or black. The right of
choice is divine, and every man should
be protected in it's free exercise so
long as the exercise of his choice does
not Interfere with the equal rights of
MS neighbor.'' If all the people
thought as does the writer of the ar
ticle and lived up to his ideals then
this might to be justly called the
Land of the Free
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
acHRlsTIAN UNITY PERILEp.n

=
DR.. John R. Mott, general secre-
tary for foreign work Of the Y. M. C.
A. is fearful that christian unity.
whatever that is, will be periled by
the present war.
In recent address at Los Angeles,
he said:
Christian unity will be manned
hopelessly by this great war. In every
country taking part in the great con,
flict I heard it called ..holy war.
Christianity will be affected for a.
least two generations and the Y. M,
c. A. and similar bodies in America
must lead in the redemption"
The Christianity of every country i.
Europe is superior to the Christianit,
G? of the Y. M. c. A. in America
the principal mission of which SEEM
to be to mock Christ by drawing tn.
color line and DR.. Mott will only maxi
bad condition worse if he continues
to try to introduce the America.
brand of Christianity into Europe.
Every style of outrage which ha.
been perpetrated in Europe was frs
enacted by American Christians in tn,
United States. If Europe is to be re
deemed by American Y. M. G. A
Christianity, God help it!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
CENSUS SEGREGATION,

Negroes in the United States" is
the title of pamphlet just issued by
the United States Census Bureau. The
title is misleading, for there are only
473 real Africans in the United States.
according to the. Census, that is Ne.
groes born in Africa.
The United States assumes that a.
group of about 100000 people are
Negroes and proceeds to so classify
them. More than ninety-nine per cent
OF the persons so classified were born
In America of American parents, and
their parents were Americans and so
on back for ten generations.
If a man whose ancestors for many
generations is not an American, who
is entitled to the name? If a white
man can become an American in two
generations, why should person of
any other color born in this country
fail to "arrive'' in the same space of
time?
The name Negro" applied to a
group of citizens in this country is in.
accurate, because it does not include
forty or fifty million other Americans
who have more or less Negro blood.
The expression pure race" is amyth
so all great writer's on racial questions
agree. ......
The mixing of bloods in this country
has gone so far that it is impossible
so does the writer.
determine with any degree of accu.
racy who has Negro blood and who
has not, and for the Government to
select about 100000 people and say
that they are Negroes" and by that
act to aid in making them a separate
treatment in church and state, is to
perpetrate great wrong.
There is no reason why a Democra.
cy should attempt to classify it's cit
liens by their blood All persons
born in this country should be con-
sidered Americans without any pre-.
fixes or suffixes.
If the Government contention that
every person with a drop of Negro
blood is Negro, then the Census
figures are false. Instead of about
100000, there are really nearer co.
100000 or in other words, the majority
of Americans are Negroes, and AMER
ICA IS NOW A NEGRO NATION.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
PRoTEcTIcE LEAGUE

An organization known as the Col
ored Protective League of Colorado
has been formed in that state, with
the following Objects:
1. The lessening of racial preju-
dice.
2. The material advancement of
Colored people.
3. Legal redress for Colored per-
sons who are prosecuted.
4. A local bureau of information.
5. The study of local social and
economic conditions.
s. Efforts to gain a square deal
from the press.
Z. Efforts to lessen racial discrimi-
nation and to secure all civil and DO.
lltlcal rights to Colored citizens.
That is good program and THE
APPEAL wishes the organization sue.
cess.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22
A MINSTREL MAYOR.

Mayor Harry P. Pearsons of Evan
ston will be interlocutor at a minstrel
show, according to the Chicago pa
pers. The affair will be pulled off at
the Neigborhood Club Of North Evan
ston, May 20 and 81, and will be for
the benefit of the Neighborhood Club
libraries, which are installed in the
city.
The descent of Evanston has been
swift. It was started when jim
crow Y. M. C. A. was opened about
year ago. Then came the attempted
segregation of two colored postof1ce
clerks and postofice employees ban
quet and now the mayor of the city
so far forgets the dignity Of his Office
that he has decided to blacken his
face and make fun of one group of
school libraries. And the affair is to
be staged in LINCOLN SCHOOL,!
The colored citizens of Evanston
ought to protest at once against the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-22

God that most of the money that sup,
ports this association comes from
colored hands. A still larger proper
ton must come, and we must not only
support, but control, this and similar
organizations and hold them unwaver.
ingly to our objects, our aims and our
ideals.
with such organizations and with
all the progress that they can point
to let us never be satisfied with mere
progress so long as we fall so far
short of reasonable accomplishment
of our desires. Remember that we
are despised today by millions of peo-
pie not because we suffer, but because
we suffer like dumb, driven cattle,
With even smile on our faces. To
what other race could it happen on
Gods green earth that one of it's great.
est leaders here in New York before
assembled thousands could congratu-
late his people because only fifty-tw,
colored men and women have in one
short year been, hanged and shot and
burned by mobs If that can give TO-.
100000 people satisfaction, in Gods
name what will it take to make them
fight?
LAS for me and those that think
with me, so long as one black man in
the United States is illegally punished
or unjustly treated or has the door of
opportunity closed in his face we will
protest and complain and protest
again whether the world wants to hear
US or not. We may not gain our ends
We may not in our days realize our
ideals. But the program 1 lay before
you is not only reasonable and lust,
but it Is program Of peace and pa
thence, and in laying it down I face
the awful fact that in this as in all
great causes, if peace and patience
cannot win, then war and struggle
must. In any case there can be no de-
SPAR, there can be no surrender, there
can be no defeat as long as colored
man draws breath in America"