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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-04-26
FLOODS AT FIT. WORTH
Water Pouring Over New Dam and
Launches Are Used to Rescue Ma
roOnod Camping Parties.

FORT WORTH, Tex, April "a
Water is pouring two feet deep over
Fort Worth's new million dollar dam
1t also Is spreading out over Trinity
park and police are getting residents
out Of the lowlsnds. The levees are
safe 80 far, but the authorities are
taking no chances. II Ia believed the
dnm which impounds reservoir for
ten miles back Is safe Engineers who
are here from Ct Louis estimate that
It will stand many times It's present
pressure Launches are being used to-
day to rescue number Of camping
parties marOOned on islands in the
reservoir.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-04-26
MAGGIE BETRAYS SEX
When Judge AYTAins Her For the
Twentieth Time She Pleads, mo
Woman IL Perfect"

Maggie, regular" In the police
court 90 charges Of drunkenness 40
regular that he drunks during the
past rev months amount 10 nearly q
quarter OF a hundred, shufflsd to the
bar Of the Oklahoma City polics
court this morning Drunk again Y
the Judge asked This makes about
the twsntisth time in the last month
doesn't itT The woman leered mp al
'hizzoner" and in a rich breath an
swered, Sure Judge, no woman is per
feet"
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-04-26
FINED FOR SHORT CHANGING
AN OUIOf.TOWN MAN

Sam Graves, negro porter In a bar
Der shop In the Havun hotel, ia
North Robinson, was fined $50 and
costs In municipal court this morning
He was charged with short changing 4
customer The fine was appealed tc
the county. I, r simpson, an out-of
town man, was the complaining wit
ness, Eleven witnesses we're presen
representing both sides Of the case
That Graves switched" a 81 bill fol
u given him was alleged by simp
son
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-04-26
EULA SIMPSON HELD UNDER
BOND PENDING ARRANGEMENT

Bond Of $1,000 vss named BY Unit.
ed States Commissioner rwyford to-
day for Eula Simpson, the is year old
youth charged by federal authorities
with cashing q forged money order for
$40 last week. Simpson win probably
he srraisned before federal Judge Cot.
teral tomorrcw.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-04-26
WILL SOON BE -CITIyEN
LARREY OF OHITON. OK

Larry Rcedy, regular, who was ar
rested Saturday by city police and
held for escaping from the local chain
gang was given a $50 fine by Judge ..
l.. Price this morning. The fine was
suspended during absence, Larry de-.
clared that he has leased lot in OIL
ton, Ok, and intends to leave for there
Immediately where ne will establish
a horse shoeing ''parlor" Larry ID
versatile He has been rated every
thing afrom hand cuff king 10
hero
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-04-26
TEXAS FLOODS
MORE SERIOUS
Streams Out Of Banks and Further
Damage Feared; No Other Bodies
Recovered; Response TO Appeals.

HOUSTON, Texas, April 2B.-Flood
conditions appear 10 he steadily I'm.
tonsifying along the lower reaches of
the translate streams this morning. Re
ports show the Trinity BraEos, Colo.
RADIO, ~. Bernard Guadalupe and other
streams out Of their hanks at many
points with the inundated area stead.
fly extending
Opinions differ as to the outcome.
some believing the present high stages
VIII have passed before the tide from
above arrives and II this Ia the case
damage will not be so large
Farmers are declared to I've well out
Of the lowlands with their stock and
the state has moved Its convlcts from
Brazos county lowlGnds to higher
ground.
Rallv -ys are the heaviest sufferers.
none Of them being able TO maintain
schedules and washouts are multiply.
Ing with bridges being swept away.
Some livestock has been lost but com.
paratively little viewed from the dis.
asters Of 1918 and 1914.
Reports this morning show no add.
tional loss Of life.
AUSTIN, Texas, April % Search
Ing for the missing bodies from the
flood OF last Thursday night was stlll In
In progress today, but additional bodies
have been found since fourteen were
recovered Friday This leaves 1s which
almost certainly perished IN the floods
whose bodies are still unaccounted
for. II Ia believed that some may have
been washed far down the Colorado
river
A reward Of $500 has been Offered
10 the finder OF the body Of younl
George Wilmington, who with A fol
low student was camped on Bee creek
west " the Colorado river dam. nnt
IL believed 10 have drowned IN an Of
fort to swim the creek.
Aid IL Given.
The whole community has respond
ed spontaneously to the appeals for ns
sistance and several thousand dollars
In addition TO supplies and clothing
has been subscribed. movement wa,
started this morning by leading MOI
to place back ON their foundations m,
many houses that we're washed away
Volunteers will also clean the mud on
OF the houses and overhaul the soake,
furniture
Following heavy rains Shual an,
Walter creeks were almost as hlrl
Saturday night and SUNDAY Afternoon
as on Thursdn" night aud many de
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-04-26

al attack on the Dardancles had be-
gun. An army 1t was said had been
disembarked successfully.
LONDON April 70 What semi.
official critics are inclined 10 pro
nounce "the greatest battle Of the
war Is now under way on the User
canal
Official reports are both meagre and
contradictory, but It is believed in
London that the Germans again are
making desperate efforts to break
through to the French channel ports.
Some recrudensence 0f the German
offensive has been Anticipated by the
war experts hut this movement fore
stalllng the long predicted offensive
comes as distinct shock 10 the gen
eral public.
II Is impossible as yet TO get clear
idea Of the extent Of the German
movements hut some dispatches to
London papers describe II as 80 impor.
tant that the Germans are even cred
iNNN Nilh Niihhilk II ltlN hHFNnhl Won
Hlndenburg from the east to conduct
the operations aud Emperor william
himself is reported as proceeding TO
the User front.
CarpathiAn Battle.
In the eastern arena Of hostilities
Some recrudesence ~ the German
the Carpathians compete with the
User for interest.
The gateway into Hungary formed
by the UZsok pass again is becoming
the scene OF sanguinary fighting with
neither side making any great gains.
Warsaw as German objective is
dimmed by the importance Of lesp-
Ing the RnAaiAns Out Of Hungary and
the Germans are reported as with.
| drawing their lines from In front Of
the Polish capital for new conoentra.
tlons along the fronts Of Cracow and
In the Carpathians.
The fairway between England and
Holland Is still being kept clear Of
commercial shipping with the result
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-04-26
THE WEATHER

oklahQuw f9nisht or Tuesday unset
tied, s2Fsn Pm east portion today OF
LouisRna Tonight aud Tuesday, part.
ly cloudy
Arkansas Tonight ana Tuesday, unset.
tied, showers In west portion tonight or
Tuesday
Rat Te1as-ToniEht and Tuesday un
settled, showers 10 northeast and south
west portionc tonight or Tuesday.
West Texas-ToniGht and Tuesday
generally fair.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-04-26

NEW YORK, April %
John Bunny, whose antics as
moving picture comedian h0ve
made millions laugh, died to
day at his home In Brooklyn.
He had been III for about three
weeks Of a complication Of dis.
eases
Members Of his family we're
with him when he died. For
week he apparently had been
improving. A strenuous month
} Of work II Ia believed caused
the breakdown which resulted
In his death.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-04-26
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POLICE CATCH s. o. $. CALL
AND PUT TO THE RESCUE

D s SO.s., translated means
, send one ship" and that's the
D call that Robert Ingram, 1872
West California street sent out
D this morning. the call being
D picked up by the police station.
. The call was at once answered
D and a full crew on tho good
D ship Hope was sent 20 rescue
o Mr. Ingram and his family.
y When the life savers. picked
n from the police depart
o ment, reached the scene thay
D found II necessary 10 procure a
q boat and this they did remov.
d ing Mr. ingram who stated
q that while he feared no further
o damage from the water which
y surrounded his home and at
q times threatened 10 take II, he
o did want TO eat and hence the
y call.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-04-26
PRIVATE NOTES
ENL|VEN TRIAL
Roosevelt Says He Consulted
With "BOss" Plat Regarding
Candidates For Office.

SYRACUSE, n T., April 2oe---A
series Of confidential letters taken
from the files left by the late Thomas
G. Plat while he was representing the
state Of New York In the United
States senate, were read here today
to the jury trying William Barnes
suit for alleged libel against Theodore
Roosevelt.
Some OF the letters we're signed by
Senator Plat while others were sign
ed by Colonel Roosevelt In nearly all
Of them the writer's discussed candi.
dates for office In the state govern
ment, and the former president said
without hesitation that he consulted
freely with Senator Plat about AZ
fairs at Albany, realizing at all times
he was the Republican boss" One
of the letters read at the forenoon
session contained a postscript which
read.
IAN right. change the whole board
of tax assessors"
The letters were brought to syra
ruse 10y the former senator's son and
turned over TO the counsel for Mr.
Barnes
Although the colonel could not say
whether he ever had made II known
10 the public that he was conferring
with Mr.. Plat over appointments, he
denied emphatlcally that such confer
ences constituted invisible govern.
ment."
Actions Visible, He Says.
my actions the witness asserted
were az visible ss they could he"
A stipulation between counsel that
dispositions Of four thousand witnesses
outside the state should have the sam,
effect as II the witness appeared or
the stand first was read into IN,
record. Mr. Wins, Mr. Barnes sttor
ney then put into the record letter.
written by Mr. Barnes TO COlone
Roosevelt and by the colonel to Mr.
Barnes and TO Herbert Parsons.
The letters, dated August 2l, 1903
were nearly identical In contents ant
phraseology In one letter Barnes sale
that should Governor Hughes h,
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-04-26
German Surprise Al User Is
Proving Movement Of Vast
Importance.
ENGLISH PUBLIC IS SHOCKED
Expected General Offensive In
stead OF Vicious Attack BY
German Forces.
81 LLETIN

LONDON April 26-The admiralty
announced this afternoon that gencr-
al attack on the Dardaneles had be-
gun. An army It was said had been
disembarked successfully
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-04-26

A storm disturbance OF considerable
energy il central this morning over Ne.
hraskn and under its Influence heavy 10
excessive rainfall occurred over Oklshoma
during the past twenty -four hours. Pre-
cipitatlon was also general over Colo.
RADIO northern Texas, Kansas, Nebraska
and In the western portion Of Missouri
and lows No precipitation Of conse
Quence occurred In any other sections Of
the country, excepting light showers al
San francisco Cal and PittsbnrEh, Pa
Moderately low temperatures obtain over
the mountain states while they are near
the normal In other districts.
River RuiIetin.
Owing to heavy ana excessive rainfall
In Oklahoma aud n portion OF tho Pan
handle Of Texas, both the North and
South Canadian rivers will rise slowly
south Of nj Reno and Purcell The rls,
depends entirely upon the excessive rain
fan In Oklahoma, and II II believed thai
no serious overflow will occur.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-04-26
BUNNY Is DEAD.

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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-02-19
TOP OF THE LADDER.

An astrologer has already seen tina
the president s grandson is born un
der such a lucky conjunction of th'
planets that he is to be Of the gTea
of the earth, as the astrologer views
it, That view is of the earth earthly
and expresses itself in the words "He
will rise to the top of the ladder
the evident meaning of which is tC
be taken to be that the grandson vii
succeed the grandfather in the White
house.
There has been one such succession
in our history. Benjamin F. Harri-
son of Indiana, a man of very extra
ordinary abilities. far surprising
those of his grandfather, William
Henry Harrison. found himself the
most mercilessly lampooned and carl
catured man in our history, because
of that relationship, being pictured,
almost daily, as a pigmy nearly hid
under a colossal headpiece marked
grandfather hat" A greater in
justice was never done under the sun.
We could wish that the little young
ster now in the White house may
avoid such fate.
Getting to "the top of the ladder"
in our politics might have other ter
rors for him. even if the cartoonists
of that day should not have another
"grandfather's hat" awaiting him
there. For, under our constitution,
when a man reaches the top of the
ladder it is always pulled away from
him sooner or later. Custom demand
ing a certain elevation of life in an
eX-president, he can not again come
down to the ordinary levels of things,
and must continue to hang over the
top of that high wall which he used
the ladder to climb. Looking up now
we can descry two portly forms hang
ing over those embellishments of
fame. If present signs are not mis-
leading, another grandfather will be
added to their number next year Our
history has shown it possible that a
grandson of either of them may reach
the same dizzy height. And it has
also shown it to be likely that, if one
does. he will find another "grand-
fathers hat" ahead of him waiting
to bring as much of undeserved dis
paragement and pain to him as one
once did to Benjamin Harrison
Globe Democrat.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-02-19
THE SPRING ELECTION.

On April 5 the qualified electors of
Dallas will elect four aldermen and
a recorder. While it may be some
what premature The Observer desires
to say that every voter should have
care in selecting its aldermen for the
ensuing term. Too many times there
is little or no choice in candidates for
these positions, the people selecting
what is presented to them, realizing
that the material is not up to the
standard of their ideals. To secure
good aldermen the voters should in
terest themselves before the election
and see that the right kind of men
are in the field. There should be no
attention paid to the politics of these
candidates nor to factional divisions.
We need men in the council who will
vote and act for the city without re-
gard to any pull or clique. We want
men in these positions who can see
farther than their own personal in
terests, or that of their immediate
locality; men who will labor untiring-
ly for the upbuilding of the entire
city. The office should seek the man,
and must if we are to have the best
kind of men. The office seekers need
no urging. The business man must
feel that he has support or else he
will not take the trouble to run.
Dallas is entering upon a new era
of progress, industrially and other
wise; it is casting off its swaddling
garments as a mere village and as
suming more important airs, and the
things to be accomplished in order to
keep pace with neighboring towns
are many. These things cannot be
brought about without effort and sac
rifces on the part Of taxpayers. but
public improvements must be consid-
cred an investment and therefore car
ried on as rapidly as our financial
will permit.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-02-19
NEW PEACE PARTY.

The Women's Peace party is the
name of an organization which has
been started at Washington, backed
by several thousand of the leading
women of this nation. 1t is the aim
of these leaders to make the Women s
Peace party an international organi-
cation. and to use this organization
as an influential and effective agent
in preventing all great wars in flu
ture. Mans efforts for peace have
been a failure for the past 800 years,
says one of the leaders of the new
movement. and it is time for the wo-
men to take u hand To this is add
ed the argument that when the women
of leading nations are organized in
opposition to all war, the men will
have to yield to this influence. With
out the help, support and succor of
the women, in other words, it is held
that the men will not dare start a
war, or be able to continue one, even
if it should get a start.
The logic of this argument is con-
eededly sound, for it goes without say
ing that no war could long continue
without the aid of the women of the
nations engaged. Even the present
great European war would collapse in
a very short time if the women set
their hearts to accomplish this pur-
pose. Nor is it necessarily an idle
fancy TO say that the women-and es-
pecially the intelligent women of lead
ing nations-eannot be brought to this
state Of mind, and induced to JON in
an international organization to make
a success of such a plan. The bur
den of war rests on the women. no
less than on the men, and the eff
fects and results Of war are even
more disastrous in the ease of the wo-
men. Il means much to the women
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-02-19
TAX COLLECTING BILL PASSES
Dates Are April 5 and October 5,
With Easier Penalties.

The compromise bill Of the joint
committee on assessment and taxa.
tion, amending the present law pro
viding for a two-period payment of
taxes, passed the house Wednesday
afternoon. No amendments were tack
ed to it, and though it did not meet
with the absolute approval of all the
members, it encountered no opposi-
ton.
The first payment, provided for by
the bill, is to be made April 5, and the
second, October 5. In the event of
failure to make the first payment, in
terest runs against the amount of that
payment at the rate of one per cent a
month until paid. The second pay
ment is to be made October 5, but it
does not become delinquent until No
vember 5.
Under the present law all taxes be-
come due April 1, but one half may be
paid at that time and in such an event
the penalties are to be collected with
the remaining one-half. Under it al
so an additional interest of 10 per
cent and penalty of one per cent
run against delinquent taxes after the
final date of delinquencies, but under
the bill passed by the house, the pen
atty is changed to five per cent.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-02-19

personally and directly, and also
means much to the unborn genera
tions, in which the women have even
a greater interest than have the men.
For their own protection and the pro-
lection of their homes and families
the women have everything to gain by
uniting their efforts to prevent war.
A worldwide organization of wo-
men in set opposition to war would be
wonderful movement, and would
give promise of far reaching influence
and accomplishments. 1t is true that
men have lamentably failed in all
their efforts to guard against war, and
if the women can do better, "more
strength to their arms"
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-02-19
LAMENT WAR.

One of the industries of this coun.
try that has been hard hit by the
European war is that of fur trappers
Europe is the biggest market for raw
furs, and most of the supply comes
from Canada and the United States.
Millions of wild animal pelts annual
ly are taken in these two countries,
but with the European market at a
standstill. on account of the war,
prices for skins have declined to the
lowest point in many years. Trap
pers are therefore lamenting their
loss. but are hopeful that before the
next trapping season arrives the war
may be ended and their business be
restored to a remunerative basis.
Local trapPers, the same as trap
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-02-19

"Show me municipality in which
there is good newspaper to which
its people are not generously loyal
and l will show you a publisher, bent
with his burden of responsibility and
disappointment, trudging along wear
lily over the hill directly toward the
poorhouse. Show me a municipality
without a newspaper and civic pride
and I will show you community
deader than putty rabbit buried in
the hot embers of Perandihese.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-02-19
Subscription Rates.
SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT.


Now that this government has lait
down certain principles regarding th'
rights of neutrals and neutral ship
ping, as specified in the notes of pro
test dispatched to the governments ot
Great Britain and Germany, it il
pointed out that this nation must bt
ready to defend its position and SEE
that those principles are observed. lr
this respect diplomatic exchanges art
essentially different from a private
and personal controversy, for while
those engaged in the latter may
change and revise their opinions, and
even recede from a position once TAX
en-, an official pronunciamento issued
by government is supposed to be the
result of mature deliberation, and to
establish a line of policy which will
be backed and supported by all of the
resources of the government enunciat-
ing such policy.
In appreciation of this fact, there
has followed a swift realization Of
the possible complications and conse-
quences which may result from the
offiial notes of protest, and while it
is earnestly and sincerely hoped that
nothing disagreeable will be encoun-
tered, no attempt is made to hide the
real seriousness of the situation. AT
ordinary times and under ordinary
conditions there would be little, if
any, difficulty in securing prompt rec
ognition of the justice, fairness and
friendliness of the American conten-
tions respecting neutral shipping and
its rights on the high seas. In this
instance, however, these representa-
tions have necessarily been made
when the governments addressed, and
their representative officials, are
thinking and acting not in customary
and normal channels, but rather in the
spirit of hatred and slaughter. In
other words, these protests have gone
to powers which are perhaps fighting
for their very existence, and that
consequently may be inclined to re-
gard as of little moment any ordinary
interference with their own programs
for self-preservatiOn.
Under the circumstances, therefore,
it is of the highest Importance that
American citizens everywhere unite
in loyal and patriotic support of their
government and administration. Any
show of division or dissensiOn among
the American people will quickly
reach the knowledge of the European
powers, and no doubt in form that
will magnify and distort the real sit
uation. 1t is highly important, there
fore, that the American people pre-
sent united front in support of their
own government, and in support of
the efforts of the national adminiStra-
tion to protect American interests
and rights, without overstepping the
lines Of strict neutrality.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-02-19

pers everywhere, are finding thai this
year they must count on small prof
its. Their skins bring less thai one
half of what they have sold for in
former years, and the trappers are
naturally respondent. However, this
condition cannot last always, and, as
already suggested, the trappers are
looking forward to better times after
the European strife is over.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-02-19
Canned Salmon Day.

Governor Withycombe has issued Q
proclamation calling attention to the
Importance of the salmon industry
and the duty of all patriotic Orego-
mans to encourage the same and set
ting aside Friday, March -, as "can-
ned salmon day." on which day all
Oregonians are requested and urged
"to utilize salmon food on that day
to the fullest degree practicable, and
to urge their neighbors to do like
wise"