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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-12-02
NEGRO LAWYER
NIPS JOHNSON
Court Decides Orville Is Not
an Assistant County Attor-
ney; Cases Are Lost

NWlILE JOHNSON. who has u.
- ken such u prominent part In sup.
pressing hootcpgcr- aud gamblers dur.
ing the present city administration. mo-
longer can assert THAI hr Is an assist.
ant county attorney according to
ruling made by County Judge William
Iwick Thursday morning. william
Henry Harrison lurul negro attorney.
WIS the means " determining whether
or not Johnson was o regularly mp
pointed assistant 10 the county attor
upy.
one Hump Baker negro. was
charged with having transported li1uur
from Arcadia Ia oklahoma city. and
there seemed tu be- u clear ease against
him Harrison, however filed q mo.
tlon to Qunsh the information. ou the
ground that II wns signed hy Johnson
as deputy county attorney when In
truth uud fact he vus mot such nn or
ficrr. johnson took the stand Dhn
ease being tried lu Judge Zvlcks
COURT and sworr that hc was an off
cnlly appointed assistant county attor
ucy. hut Harrison brought County
clerk Cornelius tu the stand. who tc>.
TITLED that Johnson had never been
appointed, that he had never drawn
salary and that John nuMors. Chns
H. Selhy and Sam Hooker were the
only authorized assistants 10 thp
county attorney The statute limiting
assistants 10 three was nlso cited
After hearing the testimony Judge
2wlck cited the opinion Of chief Jus
tlcr DOYLE given In 1913. IN n Ike
cnsc when Sun Hooker was county
attorney. which ruled that Herbert
Icck. although pnid 10y Hooker person
nllv, wns not legally nm us-istant. and
sustained Ilnrrlsun's motion.
Aside from the throwing the cnsc
against Baker ont of court there are
nearly ~ more eases pending. IN which
the lnformntluns are signed hy John.
son. as assistant county attorney.
which under the ruling ~ the court
win have to be- dismissed Johnson
has been acting ns u police ofnctN
without pny. aud alwnys asserted that
hc wns au assistant county attonr,I
when questioned ns to his business and
pnsitlun. n has never been determined
under whose orders he was working.
vr who paid him ior his services.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-12-02
THE MET

r I ur Saunders, known as
u.N. Adams of the wi',.N
...uH a the Met thu s'nF. l''.
.. .. saturday In Ills 'on0g',,, ,
. ...ncrton with 'Ncnl "t 'n.
.... ... Tho Adventure o' j
... N.uusford," ana ms' COL.
.. ...... .rs" IA oup-rrul comedy
vn. .rNtct sings and play.
..... u. action of the pictures
.... .... that this hlI bargain
... .. ... fnr u nickr' "" '''
.M..f nffurd to remain ava.
..... ... Mot \ ng sensational
coming to the Met SnnI'N
.r.nry Reed u ~ h''
r. .. famous play Of the same
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-12-02
SuSrnTrD sur r\DrR ORDERS

NEW luiih nr. o r. T. Wng
nur president uf 1hu American Tran,
Nl'nni'" n"nI"H announced Thursday
h. md ordered 'h. steamer Wmncmru
'" leave ruHw N.ra r1r stamford
Conn. without further delay The
N,nnrhngn h. one ~ tho vessels listed
hy the British government M under
suspicion ~ German ownership Sh,
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-12-02
moLD POULTRY SHOW

no RENO Dec Tuesday ms
ny.u l,Nyd upon u- the opening NJ the
Canadian County Poultry and Pet
Stock show 90 open here next week 4
number N guuIly cash prizes are iu
.WHyl boo the premium list
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-12-02
HORSE SKELETONS FOUND

BERKELEY cant. Dee .. - Re.
mains of sis new species NJ prrhl.
lurlc horses from the miuccuc and plIu.
Gene urrlods have been discovered I'm
California 10y Professor j. g Merriam
of the University ~ California
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-12-02
TO DINORCE RNILROADS

ST. LOUIS Dec. . - Arguments
we're 10 %" continued before three frd
oml circuit Judges here Thursday sit.
ting As lhp district court for Utah In
the rnsc NJ thr government to separate
tRc Central Pacific railway from the
southern Pacific
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-12-02
CONG. HEPBURN IMPROVES

CIARlNnA In, Dee o J,,tl,1
Improvement In the condition of NJ -
Hepburn, former rougrp,.mnn vy. ~,
ported Thursday hv his pI,.irpr \rr
Hepburn. who is 50 wears odd. 4. ,nf
fcrlng from heart dlspU,n
The Times Inns the largest lo.nI rir
cuatlon ~ ANY paper m thn ,lr.
hence the value Of ils clas s.Iflru nJ
Try them.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-12-02
MISS vpD,Ms IN NO DANGER

CWDNGO. Dee % Although the uU
mrr pr the Illness of Miss Jane AL
dam. ural ur llull House, who MA,
taken tu u hospital Tuesday rrmnlr
undetermined urr condition Is uul
nnrmue. according tu the report
TmrlnA W hrr nhyslclnns
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-12-02
FIRE At EMPORIA COLLEGE

INruWlA kuu-, bee Swmr.
HAIL. lhr main building nj the cnlIrau
of lmmru uu- DESTROYED 10y fire r0r.E
Thursday. The loss is estimated U'
NtauUO
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-12-02
REASONABLE ASPIRATION

From u.lrnu lru" Press
u suppose YOU have high ambitions
fur your huyt'
We'll I wouldn't say that exact
.ly. ht ln hone thnt hc won't turn
ont to hn the male assistant to i"
mnlr dancing teacher
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-12-02

\ really dangerous mnu tries o.
avoid trouble; hc has been In II hr
FORE and knows that trouble Is dis
Agreeable
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-12-02
AUDITORIUM--DANC

Every Nighi-llcst People attend
IycNhody', Daucc
pIRkIN ORCHESTRA
The Rest Dance UrChr,ua ia the State
admission lOr aud 2Oc
Checking and Dancing Free
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-12-02

For Fancy Work--a larg" ae-
SOrtmcnt to choose from, l1r
zoe, 25C and soc a length
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-26
SIGNS OF HEROISNf.

one of the admirable attributes of
man is his disposition to render
homage TO valor and true devotion 20
duty. wherever found
The world glories in the feats Of
daring of the heroes Of all time. 1t
thrills when it reads the story of Ho-
ratius the Roman, of the heroes of
Thermopylae, the Alamo, Of John Paul
Jones and the countless others who
have done and dared for their cOun-
trys sake. The race Of the German
commerce raiders, the Eitel Frederick
and the Kron Prinz wilhelm, is run, at
least so far as this war is concerned.
Regardless of where his sympathies
may lie, the unanimous man will
freely agree that the names of the
gallant commanders and crews Of
those vessels should be inscribed high
on the roll of fame. History recounts
no instance of greater daring or more
heroic devotion TO their fatherland.
as they conceived it, than the record
of these men.
It is TO be remembered that the
crews were not fighting men, just sim
pie sailors. The vessels were not
fighting vessels, but merchantmen. 1t
seems incredible that the Sc two YES
sells should have been able to elude
the myriad CT war craft diligently
seeking them for so long and accom-
plish even THE of what they did.
Their story is one of fearless men
doing an unpleasant and unenvious
duty well and nObly; sailors doing
warriors work.
We may not all be in accord with
their motives, nor laud the manner
of their performance, but you know
lots of folks called Paul Jones a pi-
rate
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-26
THE STRIPES.

Atlanta convicts are no longer re-
quired TO wear striped clothing; which
goes to show that Georgia is moving
along in the right direction.
In ancient days, when convicts were
consigned TO the galleys instead of the
land prisons, and made to labor at the
oars in those hell ships, they were
branded on their bare backs with a
red hot iron, and that inerrad1cable
mark of infamy stamped them as
things to be Stunned by man. for ev-
ermOre. The unfortunates so brand
ed became perpetual outcasts, for the
world had no place for the ex-galley
slave.
Thus perfOce they became hopeless
criminals, dangerous things, a con-
slant menace to society. because Of a
mistaken system.
A prison is intended TO reform the
evil doer more than 10 punish him, a
place of moral uplift. Anything
tending 10 degrade or segregate him,
mentally and morally, from the nor
NAL man. must necessarily blunt his
sensibilities, harden him in crime and
make him less receptive To advice and
precept. such treatment of ordinary
convicts has no place in a twentieth
century humanitarian prison. BY
abolishing the striped garb. the
shaver pate and the lock step. rele-
eating them TO the dark ages with the
branding iron, the convict may be
brought TO regard himself as society
does. or should-not as a deadly beast,
but as an erring human for whom
there still exists opportunity for re-
demption.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-26
Seeing America
First
Nv Fred Kelly.
From Diary:
BY Fred Kelly.

From Diary:
One of the best things about a big
exposition, regardless Of how good
an exposition 1t may be, is the ex-
cuse it gives thousands of people to
leave home.
Suppose a man were to go home
from his office some evening and say
to his wife:
''Wen, we're all going TO San Diego
and Los Angeles and San Francisco,
California. Well go out there and see
the country"
His wife, the chances are, would
think him extravagant, or crazy, or
both She would either ignore his
remark entirely or else strike him
gently over the brow with a handy
skillet
But with big exposition going on.
an exposition to celebrate the COM
pletion of the biggest engineering
feat of all time, there is a chance for
patriotic argument. a man can go
TO his wife with the assertion that
they owe it TO their children 20 show
them something that will impress on
their young minds the greatness of a
nation that has the enterprise to dig
Panama canal.
And what can she say to that?
The whole family sets out for the
big fair, puts money in circulation
sees various sights that sets them
thinking, and all is we'll
II is a good deal like going TO at
tend the annual convention OF a secret
order. Every secret order has great
national conventions each year. at
tended by delegates from every place
YOU can think Of They meet and
elect officers for the following year
and decide on their next meeting
place in order that still more dele
gates may get together and do the
same thing all over again. What good
does il all do? None whatever. except
that II gives all the various delegates
an excuse 30 leave home and get a
new shift of ideas in their heads.
Imagine Henry Smith, paperhanger.
sitting down to his supper and re-
marking 10 his wife that he is fixing
TO set out for Los Angeles or Seattle
for the reason that he desires to
see what there is TO see there. | ask
YOU what would befall Henry about
then?
But Henry belongs 10 a lodge. HE
is past exalted sultan of the CRATES.
He comes In from lodge meeting
some night and while taking off his
clothes for bed-his wife being already
in bed and looking at him half-sus-
piciously from the caves Of the cover
lets-he breaks a bit of new 10 her.
Well" he beings, Il came mighty
near getting my foot in II tonight"
Brief pause. What do you suppose
our lodge wanted me 10 do? Huh.
They wanted 70 elect me delegate 70
our national convention away out 10
San Francisco California, next June.
Can you bea, IL? AS II I had nothing
else TO do but travel away out yon-
der 20 California 90 attend a conven-
ton.
What's that? What did tell
them? oh. / explained 20 them that
/ couldn't do H. They've still got me
down, but I've told them they'll have
10 get somebody else. / appreciate
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-26
Make your pennant claims early
while the claiming is good.

IN international warfare the sub
marine is accepted as a legitimate
means Of Offense and defense, but we
don't know how the statutes of the
state OF New York read. We pre-
sumo. however. if Barnes is permitted
TO resort to the German method OF at
tack the colonel cannot be debarred
from using a Zeppelin.
AND the colonel is a great little
bomb thrower.
THERE are a great many draw
backs To matrimony which men and
women put up with for the sake of
harmony and the fulfillment of their
destinies. Chief among them, per-
haps, is the woman with a high pitch
ed voice without a stabilizer. A life
sentence wit hthat kind OF a voice
should entitle a man TO all the best
of 1T in the world to come.
And now the modern business girl
Declares that all goes well,
Since gay deceivers may no more
Their truthless stories tell.
For when he lays in honeyed phrase
The whole world at her feet,
Good SIR says she, pray let me see
Your income tax receipt"
DOMESIIC science must be easy.
The president of Vassar says a woman
can learn it in an hour. But il takes
a woman longer than that to learn to
cook.
Mr.. Taft and Col. Roosevelt met at
a funeral and shook hands. Death,
we observe, is a great leveler.
Evolution OF Spinning.
Sweet Priscilla ever spinning" good
John Alden used to say,
AS he watched the flax thread dane
ing through the spinning wheel
each day;
Lucky John, TO live in those days,
when such spinning was the style,
And & chap could hold the bobbins,
counting every little while,
Had the couple lived, however, in this
age of gasolene,
She'd have limited to go spinning in
a modern red machine.
Chicago News.
WE deny that women are outstrip-
ping men. They are too modest, at
least to do it publicly.
With much of the verse that's going
the rounds,
You can't play it srong and stay with
in bounds.
It's long an quantity, in quality short,
And it's hardly worth printing even
in sport.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-26
HIRAM RUBS TT IN.

Progressive Hiram Johnson has
given progressive California non-par-
tisan state elections, and the standpat
gang is so mad about il that they're
demanding a referendum on it.
But Hiram seems TO have it on
them, politically. morally and every
other way. If -partisanism is a
bad thing. saith Hiram, my party,
which runs the state. thank you, would
be the first and heaviest sufferer,
wouldn't il. And when they can't
answer this, he asks: Aren't your dis
tinguished republican standpatters
well enough known and consequent
tial enough to run for office without
being labelled?
And you can bet that when their
only answer is a yell for the referen-
dunn, which they've cussed up hill
and down for years. Hiram is tickled.
He seems to enjoy making the Spree
ells-Otis "what-is-it" eat dirt out of
his hand It seems TO depend largely
on what is to be referred, when it
comes to liking or not liking the ref
erendum.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-26

1 have just returned from a trip to
the cities of Baltimore, Philadelphia,
New York, the cities that consume
the bulk Of the garden truck pro-
duced in northeastern North Carolina.
on this trip 1 met and talked with
scores of men who will sell the peas
and potatoes we raise this spring and
summer. 1t will be OF interest to
thousands Of readers of my news
papers to know that these produce
commission men are looking forward
to a good business year. And these
fellows are good prophets. They are
in close touch with every part of the
country and with every phase of bus
mess.
These produce dealers tell me that
our farmers may look for fancy prices
for their potatoes thts year. They
give good reasons upon which to base
this expectation. The first reason is.
the potato crop is going to be short
in many sections. Potato growers in
South Carolina and Georgia have put
in only about half their usual crop.
This fact is due to a scracity of money
in those states and the inability Of
their merchants to advance them fer
tilizer.
Heavy SHOWS and frosts have done
great damage as far south as Florida.
The fact that there are vast guam
titles of Irish potatoes in storage,
from last years crop, will not affect
the new potatoes. 1 am told. No
matter how cheap the old potatoes
may be sold the public will want to
new potatoes in season, regardless of
price.
Business everywhere in the north
and east is looking up. The mOneyed
interests of America are no longer
uncertain as to the outcome of the
European war. The big banking in
terests are determined that the al
lies shall win and absolutely cock
sure that they will win. All uncer-
tainty in this direction having vanish
ed the moneyed interests have opened
things up and are going ahead now
TO make big money out of the war.
They are lending money to the allies
and keeping the money in America as
a drawing account for the borrowers.
Instead of calling for the cold cash
the allies Will call for provisions,
clothing, guns, ammunition and ar
NOR. The cash kings are long-sight-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-26
WOMEN AND MEN As BUYERS.

Ii is generally admitted that women
buy closer than men do. They have
a keen sense of values in household
furnishings. clothing, and food sup
plies The family where the woman
does the buying usually lives cheaper
than the home with man as pur-
chaser.
one principal reason for this con-
trast is that women read newspaper
advertising so very closely. While the
men are reading baseball or politics.
the women are after the store news.
They examine IL thoroughly and any
announcement OF special values. bar
gain sales. odd lots. closing out sales.
is studied word for word.
After a woman has looked over the
newspapers and starts down on a
shopping expedition, she knows pref
~ nearly what she wants. She passes
the non-advertising store. feeling that
il il had wanted her trade or had any
thing 10 offer OF special interest. it
would have told the public about It,
She heads for the places that publish
ed special offers believing that a
merchant must know an article had
good value. or he would not have
dared give the publicity 10 ii.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-26
a SUCCESSFUL SETTLEMENT.

We now have. in fun. the story OF
that Dresden affair in Cumberland
bay, and II some professional doesn't
compose an operetta about IT. we will,
which those who know our musical
talent will readily recognize as a hair
raising threat
ON March 2. the German cruiser
Dresden anchored i'm Cumberland bay.
Chile. and asked the Chilean govern
or for permit 10 remain eight days for
repairs.
The Chilean governor hitched up
his sword sash. polished his epau-
lettes and went out 10 the Dresden
with demand that the Germans get
out within "a hours. "Hark TO the
Hghtning," And look at the thunder"
And the governor reports that, "a
hours later. he was painfully surpris-
ed" 10 see the Dresden still there,
there and therel" But what could a
poor governor do, with only a navy OF
four leaky canoes and d crew of i
raised on goats flesh?
Well. that Chilean did his noble
nN1Ar nc UAA UlA AlAo = lclnANAANo dlEcAAAI
fastened his parrot cages securely,
locked his hut door. sailed out to the
Dresden and notified her that she
was informed. And he got another
blow In his larder of painful surprise,
for the Dresden went right on making
repairs, polishing her guns and 9th
erwise getting fit 10 fight. There was
naught for the governor TO do save
10 take his neutrality and information
al rights back 20 MS hut and put poul-
tees on them. which he did.
Two days later, the British cruiser
Glasgow showed up. Again that hard
working, conscientious governor put
on his full regalia and sailed forth,
but he hadn't got a good quarter of an
offing before the Glasgow opened up
on the Dresden with about AZ 4-inch.
los 2-inch, 40 13-inch and 1913 1-inch
guns. or what looked like it, and the
governor skedaddled for shore, where
several mountains seemed to provide
safe breastwOrks, and where he saw
the Dresden sunk, lin painful sur
prise according to his own report of
his feelings.
The latest cablegs-ols. however, re-
port that the governor still waves. To
have ones neutrality and international
rights punctured. sandblistered and
universally busted by both Germans
and British is enough to painfully sur
prise one 20 death. and we are glad
TO announce that not only is that no
BILE Chilean official alive but the
British government has formally ten
dered full and ample apology" We
know it's ample because the British
government says it is.
1t is a pleasing close TO what 9TH
erwise might have been a most en-
barrassing incident. The British gov
eminent got the Dresden and that Chill
lean got an apology that he can east
Is frame and hand down TO his chill
dren.
This threatening incident having
been successfully closed, through di
Ilomacy. bloodless and with high
honor TO all concerned, the world can
now return it's attention TO the more
interesting business of cutting threats.
bombing school houses. blowing up
passengers and other demonstrations
of its high order Of civilization.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-26
THE MEL TING POT
GOMEZ TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.

SOMEBODY asks why a newsboy
shouts 'pypee" instead Of paper"
and 'juvtree" instead of extra. An
answer without words can be obtained
with a little observation Stand on the
corner and see who sells the papers,
the husky voiced boy who yells "py-
pee" or the mild hammered youth who
pronounceS paper" distinctly and
correctly Since Grip" introduced
"pypee" in South Bend the street sales
have doubled. Well, what is there
1t is an adaptation Of modern meth
DDS. which employ the unusual TO at
tract attention.
LAUGH at the jitney bus and the
driver laughs with you.
THERE is no remedy for the intox-
ication Of music except in the lees Of
discord.
LEM RUBBERSIDE'S SACRIFICE.
In Two Reels.
REEL II.
The war is done,
And we have won,
/ shall stay so you can write;
There might just be
Confederacy
Enough to start another fight.
If remain.
Why amt it plain
There won't be no mess TO clean;
Think then of me,
And company 3,
Surely some big fight machine.
In sixty four,
Same village store,
Is filled with merry, laughing sound;
For company 3.
Got back you see,
And have just passed LENS lines
around.
A timid rap,
A tramp mayhap,
But no! it spells great Joy for them;
For in the door,
Back from the war.
Without a bruise or scratch was Lem.
WRIGHT ATEM.
HAVING opened the flood gates of
poesy, why close them against this
from r. S. N:
In the south they have their fish fries,
Something like the barbecues;
In South Bend we have the Melting
Pot,
Expressing peoples views.
Variations from our various ways,
To break the monotony,
OF eating, writing and-we1 say
A sort of mental spree.
AUTOS move round so fast they
seem more numerous than they are,
and yet, the Lord knows. there are
C. N. F.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-26

street predicted the return CT good
times six months in advance Of the
arrived condition.
The jump OF Bethlehem Steel from
30 TO 124 in ten days and of calm and
staid old Santa Re from o. TO 104 and
the general movement of railroad
stocks upward are not due TO present
orders for war material and shipment
there Of but upon what the demands
will be after the war. IN other words,
the financial world is convinced that
1915 will see the end OF the war,
which means such times in the clos
ing months OF this year as were never
before seen, and this country was
never better prepared. financially, to
take full advantage of a boom.