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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-15
RED CROSS TO HELP
STRICKEN IN ITALY

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14-An ap-
peal for aid for earthquake sufferers
in Italy and an offer to transmit do.
nations to the Italian Red Cross for
use in the stricken districts was is
sued here tonight by the American
Red Cross. The statement said:
"The press dispatches indicate that
another dreadful calamity has visited
Italy, occasioned by an earthquake.
which is reported to have destroyed
many thousands OF lives and to have
devastated largo city. The mum
Der rendered homeless by the Mes,
sina earthquake in 1908 was upwards
Of fifty thousand, and the American
public responded in relief by raising
through the American Red Cross the
magnificent sum OF approximately
$l,00O.O00 TO assist those stricken
people.
Now there Is another opportunity
for tn charitable people Of the Unit
ed States, whose population includes
many hundreds Of thousands Of Ital-
ians, to help in providing relief for
those rendered homeless and destitute
by this latest catastrophe at AvezZano,
Caserta and other places i'm the earth
quake region.
THE American Red Cross will be
glad to forward funds to the italian
Red Cross for those needing aid i'm
the distressed territory
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-15
NO COTTON LOANS
MADE IN OKLAHOMA
Fund Has Played It's Part ny Re
storing Confidence Among
Farmers
special to The World.

Special 10 The World.
MCSKOGEE, Jan. p4. -- No loans
have been made in oklahoma from
the national cotton Joan fund and
1t is not probable tkat any win be
made, according to- IA. G. Trumbo,
state chairman of the committee.
Trumbo admitted that he had re,
ceived several inquiries regarding the
money. Irwin Blanchard Of Haskell
has 63 bales OF cotton on which he
planned to take loan and A. n.
Driskell OF Rhea has one hundred
bales OF the prodrct on which he
contemplated taking vernment
loan.
"The cotton loan fund has served
its purpose in maintaining conf.
dence," declared Trumbo today THE
price OF cotton has slightly in,
creased and / do not deem 1t neces-
sary To put any of the money loans
out in oklahoma. Texas, Georgia
and other states are sending out lit
erature concerning the cotton loan,
and have good state organization
working Systematically as in okla
homa. II is the general opinion that
the $100.00O,00O forming the class A
certificates and subscribed by north
ern banks viii not be needed"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-15
Oil Belt Railroad From Jen-
nings to Gushing Is a
Great Advantage.
COMPLETE ON MARCH !
General Superintendent of
Frisco Makes Trip With
Tulsa Men.

MTHAT the building of the OIL
w Belt railroad from Jennings,
down into the heart of the Cushing
oil field, means to Tulsa was clearly
shown to a number Of Tulsa people
and prominent officials. of the Frisco
railroad yesterday when they, as
guests Of General Superintendent j.
A. Frates of the Frisco railroad, went
out to Jennings in MIR. Frates' private
car. The party left Tulsa at 1880
o'clock yesterday afternoon and re-
turned last night.
The trip demonstrated beyond a
doubt that the completion of ex-Gov-
ernor c. n. Haskell's new railroad will
make II possible to leave Tulsa and
arrive in Drumright, the southern end
of the oil field. In two hours or less.
To Jennings 1t IL just an hours run
over the A. V. & W. line of the Frisco
and from Jennings 1t is only sixteen
miles to Drumright
Frisco Connection.
Jennings presents an unusual sight
of industry at this time. Haskell5
road begins at Jennings and as the
Continued On Page FourD
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-15
Frisco Connection.
AVIATORS REACH
1000 ALTITUDE

WASHINGTON. Jan. 1.-THE Of
flcial report received here today OF
tho recent aerial reconnaissance sur
vey at San Diego by army fliers In
their annual contest for the army
aviation Eup, shows Captain Dodd
and Lieutenant Fitzgerald. the win>
ming team, reached an altitude OF
four thousand feet and that while
they were observing the invading
enemy, they flew at height of from
twenty-five hundred to three thou
sand feet.
The report shows that only fifty
five minutes were consumed by the
air scouts from the time when they
first observed the enemy" until they
landed at the reporting station.
Lieutenant Henry W. Harms of the
Ninth cavalry, now at Douglass.
Ariz., has been detailed to the army
aviation school at San Diego to take
the course there.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-15
BORROWED MONEY
TO MAKE LOANS

CHICAGO Jan. 14.-Charges that
the Vandalia Railroad company bor-
rowed 100000 from the Merchants
Laclede bank of st. Louis, at per
cent. in order to obllge the Lumaghi
Coal company with a loan OF that
amoNnt at 2 per cent, were made in
the arguments before the federal cir
cult court OF appeals in the govern
ment suit to nulllfy contract be-
tween the two companies.
Condemnation Of a 13-year con-
tract carrying alleged indirect rebates
of $500 a year was sought in the
original complaint. The government
won It's case in the st. Louis district
court
The consideration for the loss. ac-
cording to Charles A. Karch. United
States district attorney from East St..
Louis, was that the coal company was
to give the railroad tonnage that
would bring s50.O0O.OOO IN freight
earnings In the 13 years
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-15
Clark, Bandit, COnteSSeS; James
SpeSS Admits Killing Deputy

CEVEN bank robbers arrested since
- the banks Of Owasso, Terlton.
CARRIER and Vera were looted have
been identified by authorities and an
eighth man is being held as a sus-
pect in connection with the robberies.
The last man. TO be arrested and iden-
titled was Alonzo Clark, alias Buz
Clark. Of 116 South Phoenix avenue,
Tulsa Clark was caught while eat
ing dinner at his sisters home. 315
South Phoenix, by Deputies Tom Hig-
gins, Frank Wolf and Bob Atkins Of
the sherifrs office at noon yesterday
Clark Arrested.
Sheriff James Wooley and Deputy
O. s. Best about 10 o'clock yesterday
morning went to Clark's home with
the intention OF arresting him on sus-
picion, knowing that he was out on
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-15
RIVER HOLDERS MAY
HAVE TO PRODUCE

Special 10 The World
OKLAHOMA CITY. Jan. IA
After two hours discussion OF the oil
conditions relative 20 riyerbed leases
I'm the Cimarron and Arkansas riv-
ers, the school land commission today
indicated that II may Immediately re-
quire the lease holders to proceed
with the production OF oil. II this
Ia not done Il is possible the federal
government may make the same re-
uuirement IL was shown that tho
state was losing a large amount OF
oil daily because tho inability Of the
leasehOlders TO run their oil
Recently the school land commits
sion asked the corporation commits
sion n the latter would permit oil
10 be sold below the 55.cent price
fixed by the commission Permission
at that time would not be given.
Whether or not the commission may
permit a lower price now is not
known, though it is possible the mat
ter may be taken up again.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-15
BY GLENN CONDOR,
staff Correspondent.)

OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 14.-F'ur-
ther radical constitutional amend
ments were proposed by Socialist
members OF the house in resolutions
introduced in that body today. one
Of the resolutions would abolish tho
power of the legislature to amend or
repeal laws adopted by the people
under the initiative and referendum.
Another proposes to deny the SUI
preme court the right to declare such
laws unconstitutional. still another
of the resolutions would take away
the governors power 10 veto Initiated
measures. The Socialist resolution
introduced In the house yesterday by
Senator Wilson and providing that
members OF the legislature receive
only their actual travelling expenses
instead Of mileage at 10 cents a mile
made It's appearance In the lower
branch of the legislature this after
noon.
House bill No. 81, by Hunter OF
Choctaw and Taylor came up for de-
bate today but was finally referred
back to Judiciary committee No.
for revision. The original bill would
prevent the recording OF conveyances
OF lands and tenements wherein tho
grantor has no legal right to convey
hhiHc anu MAKE lile OIltuSe IelOnys
1t would apply to grantor and
grantee alike. This latter feature was
objected to by many members on
the ground that innocent parties
sometimes purchase deeds to prop
erty to which the title is faulty.
Eayors Felony Offcn'c.
Dunn Of PottawatOmie and Hudson
OF Tulsa both offered amendments
which would protect the innocent
purchaser" Hudson explained that
he lived on the east side where the
selling OF bogus deeds and the like
was n curse upon honest people and
that he favored a bill making such
acts felony. but he did not want to
lay anyone who innocently accepts
such deed liable to imprisonment in
tho state pententiary
The bill provides a penalty of from
one to ten years imprisonment
In referring the bill back to COM
mittee, the house. sitting In commit
Continued On Page Three)
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-15
Pardoning Gov. of South
Carolina Retires to
Private Life.
HAS FREED 1,708
STATE CONVICTS
Just Before He Quit Office
He Extended Clemency
to q Men.

~ OLEMBIA, S. c.. Jan. 1i.-Cole
~ l.. Blease today retired as South
Carolinas governor, five days before
his second term of two years would
have ended His resignation, sent to
Secretary Of State McCown, was sup
plemcnted by brief message to the
general assembly informing the mcm-
bcrs that it also was rendered to
them.
Some members of the house of rep
resertatives and senate cheered the
announcement of the governors res
igration. No formal action was nee
cssary. and by direction of the pre-
siding officers in the two houses the
message was received only as infor-
matlCn.
Lieut. GOV. Charles L. Smith was
immediately. sworn in as the states
chief executive to serve out the un-
expired term, Chief Justice Gary Of
the state supreme court administer
ing the oath of office
No previous intlmation Of tho gov
ernors action had been given and no
reason for It was assigned. The pres
ent legislature Is composed chiefly Of
men who are his political opponents,
Rnd it was said that proposals to In
stitute Impeachment proceedings
against him were made at a meeting
OF legislators Tuesday nisht.
Governor elect Richard !. Manning
viii be inaugurated next Tuesday. He
has been political opponent Of Mr..
3lease and defeated Lieutenant Gov
ernor Smith, indorsed by Governor
Blease, for the Democratic nomina-
tion last August. Mr.. Blease at the
time was defeated for the Democratic
nomination for United States senator
by Ellison u. Smith. the incumbent.
The storm" Subsidies.
Governor Blease, some times called
The stormy Petrol OF South Caro-
lima, was accounted one of the most
picturesque figures in American pub
lie life. Original I'm conception and
daring In execution, his administra-
tion has been marked by many un-
usual actions. Numerous grants of
(COufinuod On Page Ten
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-15

Because news from the scene of his
operations has been difficult to obtain
one of the principal military figures in
the great European war has been
making history in huge bundles al
most unknown to the rest of the world.
Heis the Austrian General Kusmanek,
charged with the defense Of the ia
nous Przemysl His defense of the
city near the Russian frontier is al
most unprecedented and Austria
cheers his name as one of its greatest
heroes of the war.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-15
BIDS ON CAPITOL
ARE ALL REJECTED

Special to Tho World.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 14.--Only
three bids on the construction OF the
capitol building were received by the
capitol commission today and they
were turned back unopened To the
bidders. The commissioners, with d
subcommittee Of the senate commit
tee on public buildings and capitol,
met this afternoon to open the bids.
There had been no intention TO let the
contract today, but the bids were to
be referred to the legislature with
some suggestions from the capitol
commission.
The capitol commission and tho
committee from the senate did not
indicate what will be done. but 1t is
certain that other bids will be asked
or some other method employed to re-
ceive bids on the building
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-15
Farmers Are Holding Out
Waiting for the Price
to Reach 50.
BREAD SOON TO GO UP
Great Britain Is Expected
to Enter the Active
Wheat Market.

CHICAGO, Jan. 14.-"EXports to
~ end soon" was the cry that today
sent wheat flying up almost out OF
sight at $l.43'3-S. There was appar-
emily plenty of reason for assertions
that unless the call from Europe
lessened soon, the United States would
have no wheat to ship abroad after
March.
Bakers threw up their hands today,
and declared the battle to maintain
five-cent bread was losing ground.
Flour which formerly sold at retail at
70 cents a sack went today TO the
householder at 80 cents. The dollar
sack was said to be in sight.
Five governments OF Europe were
reported today to be actively in the
wheat market on this side Of the At
lantic in addition to larger number
of individual buyers from foreign
fields than ever before known. The
result was figured to be expectation
at the rate OF 100000 to 100000
bushels a week. so that If continued
not bushel of wheat may be left for
export in April, May or June. the three
months preceding the harvest Of the
first of the new domestic crop.
Farmers Hold out.
While the wheat market here was
today in a blaze of excitement, the
minority of farmers who still own
wheat were said to be in many cases
hanging on for 81 a bushel. Just twice
the general ideal under normal condi-
tions. approximately 25 per cent of
the 1914 crop is estimated by experts
to be still in the hands OF farmers. In
general the men who have sold out
their grain are the renters and those
who needed the money to meet notes
and to pay mortgage interests. Those
who have hung on are the men who
can afford to wait. They are repre-
sented to be picturng the situation
thus:
Russia is bottled up.
Argentina has much smaller crop
than usual.
Canada is short this season.
The crop In India is small
Australia instead of exporting. Is
importing because Of a virtual crop
failure.
German export Of rye to all Scan
dinavlans ceased. and Sweden, Nor
way and Denmark are now buying
here"
+. British Food Short.
The governments which as dis
tinguished from individuals are direct
purchasers I'm the United States are
the Swiss, Greek, Italian, Dutch and
French. SO far the British govern
ment has done nothing as govern
ment, but Great Britain's food supply
Is said here to be down to a sixty-day
basis, and II Great Britain as a gov
ernment should enter the market the
result in the opinion OF Chicago ex-
perts would be hard to foresee.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-15
of Dead Beneath
Wreckage in Score
Of Towns.
ESTIMATE OF DEAD
is NOT POSSIBLE
King Victor Emanuel Is Di-
recting Work of the
Volunteers.

ROME, Jan n Demolished or
partly demolished towns dot that part
of Italy from Naples northward to
Ferrara and CrosswIse the peninsula
from the Tyrrhenian to the Adrlatlo
seas, over which the earthquake OF
Wednesday passed.
Thousands OF dead lie beneath the
mounds OF debris which once we're
dwellings, churches and public insti l.
tutions, which crumbled under the
earth's vibrations.
Not even an estimate of the aggre-
gate fatalities is yet obtainable, as
numerous places still are Isolated. ow-
Ing to the severance Of telegraph, tel
ephonic and railroad communication.
1t Is known, however, that Avezzano o
Is a metropolis and that also in Sora,
some twenty miles to the south
east, u large number of lives were
lost In Ave2zano and vicinity It is
estimated that $1,000 perished and
that the dead in Sora will total 900.
SO far as Is known, about twenty
towns have been absolutely leveled,
while an almost equal number suf-
fered serious damage. In all these
places persons were killed or in
jured.
King Directs Work.
Volunteers worked heroically
throughout the day in the ruins, en-
deavoring ito eXtricate wounded or
rescue the bodies Of the dead. King
Victor Emmanuel himself directed
the work at Avezzano, where the
piteOus appeals OF persons caught be-
meath wreckage could be heard
plainly.
1t is estimated that in Avezzano
1000 persons are buried alive, some
Of them school children in an instl-
tuition which collapsed. only four
soldiers of the garrison Of 400 in the
town escaped when the barracks fell
Sora, with its population Of 10000,
was almost entirely destroyed.
All the municipal and government
authorities perished, Four hundred
and fifty bodies already have been
taken from the ruins there and a
large number Of injured are under
treatment
Trains arriving I'm Rome from the
east are bringing hundreds OF In
Jured into Rome, where they are be-
ing taken to hospitals and private
houses for treatment Surgeons and
nurses are being despatched from all
directions
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-15

$1,000 bond for assisting Bill Inhoff
In holding up the Shackle drug store
last December. on seeing the Off
GERS approaching. Clark ran away.
The officers left word with neighbOrs
to notify the sherlffs office II he re-
turned Before they had reached the
office the message came and the
three deputies that were there an
swered the call and arrested Clark
Clark Identified.
Deputy Sheriff Best was sent to
Pawnee with the prisoner to place
him In tho Jail where Inhoff and the
Spess brothers were confined For
tunately. on the same train was the
sheriff Of Pawnee county with F. r.
Allen and II. S. Allen the two men
who were In the TerltOn bank to have
O check csshed Mt the time OF the
hold-up, and 2. Il. CullisOn. cashier
Continued on Pag9 Ten.)
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-15
pennsyIyania Has Four New Games.

PHIBADELPHIA, Jan. I4.-FOur
new games. Pennsylvania State. Pitts
burgh. Albright and West Virginia,
are on the University OF Pennsylvania
1915 football schedule announced here
today. For the first time in more
than twenty years the Carlisle Indians
do not appear. Other teams dropped
from last years schedule are Gettys-
burg and Swarthmore.
ALI games. with the exception OF
the Dartmouth contest which will be
played In Boston and the match with
the naval academy at Annapolis, will
take place on Franklin field,
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-15
EDITORS DISCUSS
NEWSPAPER LAW"

SEATTLE. Wash. Jan. ID News
pa per law" was the subject Of an ad-
dress delivered today before the State
Newspaper Institute by John II. Perry
Of Seattle. an acknowledged authority
on the subject
Besides the publishers and editors
OF newspapers OF oregon. Montana
and Washington and the $50 students
OF journalism OF the University of
Washington we're In attendance
Perrys address covered the general
range Of newspaper Jurisprudence.
paying particular attention 10 the
right OF privacy" lie also went care
fully into the question OF the attitude
OF the courts to ward the press. The
state newspaper Institute will be IA
session three days
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-15
Reverse of Allies Along the
River Ainse Is Off
cially Admitted.
ALLIED TROOPS LOSE
IN FRONT OF VREGNY
Petrograd Claims Russian
Advances Along Right
Vistula Bank.

A REVERSE of the allies along the
IN river Aisne' in the neighborhood
of scissors is admitted in the latest
French official statement although
the possible effect of the German ad-
vance is officially minimized.
After continuous engagements
which lasted nearly two days, the
Germans forced the French to yield
in front of Vregny, to the east Of
Crouy It is explained by the French
war office that the flooding OF the
river Aisne destroyed several of the
bridges and thus rendered precarlous
the communication Of the troops op-
Grating on the right bank. These
troops were withdrawn, as II was
thought impossible to send rcihforce-
ments to their support
"The success Is partial one for
our adversaries," says the tTench
statement, but will have no influence
ON the operations as whole
William Present
Emperor william himself was pres
ent at these operations which resulted
IN the capture OF several thousand
French prisoners and were continued
throughout January IL and lS.
Petrograd claims the Russian troops
have progressed on the right bank OF
the lower Vistula, where the German
cavalry was repulscd. ON the other
front the fighting is made up largely
of skirmishes and artillery duels.
The general staff Of the Caucasus
army deVotes a statement to the'oper-
ations in Azerbaijan, where, 1t Is ex-
planned, 1t became expedient to re-
group the Russian forces, necessitat-
ing the evacuation of certain places
previously occupied. No important
action took place, only an engagement
bv the Russian advance guard,
British aviators early In the week
dropped bombs on the German posi-
ton i'm Antwerp, according to a Meth
erlands newspaper dispatch. The dam
age done by the bombs has not been
yscertained.
Generals Discharged.
Eighteen Russian generals have
been discharged from important posi-
tons, according to the Hamburg
F'rtudenblatt.
Geneva reports that members of the
Austrian nobility and aristocracy and
Niennesse financlers are depositing
large sums of money in Switzerland
and also giving orders for the pur-
chase Of quantities OF American secur-
tiles.
The American secretary Of state has
acknowledged in a friendly spirit the
receipt of the preliminary reply of the
British government to the American
note protesting against the treatment
accorded neutral commerce by British
warships.
No comment Is made by the secre-
tary. in view Of the fact that It Is
Great Britain's intention to reply later
I'm detail
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-15
VACCINATE PRISON
ERS FEDERAL JAIL
smallpox Breaks Out In jail at Mus
kogec: Bathc All Men
Held.
Special to the World.


MUSkOGEE, Jan. 14.-Federal
Physician Floyd and his assistants be-
gan the work of vaccinating the one
hundred and fifty prisoners quaran-
tined in the federal jail here this
morning to prevent spread of small
pox. Many Of the prisoners will put
nm Strenuous objections before they
will submit to the irritating system Of
inoculation. After the vaccination
is completed all the prisoners will be
thoroughly washed and then removed
to the court room where they will be
given nCw clothing The old clothes
will be burned and the cell rooms
fumigated.
Two new cases were reported yesteT-
dav. H.. Fields of Miami and George
Browse OF Ardmore were the new
cases and the victims were removed
TO the pest house. A strange colnci-
dence developed in the afflictlon Of
Browse and Fields. They are the two
one-eyed men of the jail.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-15
RESIGNATION WAS NO SURPRISE
Count Who Helped Start War Quits
His Position.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-An-
nouncement of the resignation OF
Count Berchtold as Austro-Hungarian
minister for foreign affairs reached
the embassy here today from Vienna.
important personal reasons were said
10 have caused his withdrawal
Officials at the embassy said the
change was not surprise and that
the appointment Of Baron Burian as
foreign minister would not imply a
change OF policy on the part Of the
government