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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12

by infantry, which make little or no
difference in the positions of the OPP
posing armies.
The British, accol ding to the
French report, have repulsed a Ger
man attack. The German reports,
owever, allude to this ds a British
Q. ack, and Berlin says it was re-
pLc d with considerable loss. In fact
the =: ench and German reports are
generth contradictory III respect TO
what fiH ing has taker place, but
from the md of them it is evident
that neither side has attempted any
thing Of decisive nature, and it is
believed here that it may be weeks
yet before they dc so.
SO far as the Germans are con-
cerned, military observers assert,
they are bound to carry out their
offensive against the Russians until
there is some decisive engagement
such as the capture of the Lublin.
Chol railway, which, it is asserted,
would have been in thel hands be-
fore now if the Austrians advancing
toward the city had not been driven
back.
Reports from neutral sources are
to the effect that to make good their
efforts against the Russians, the Ger
mans are moving troops which were
intended for the western front to the
east To a certain extent this seems
confirmed by the statement in the
Russian official report that reinforce
ments have reached Archduke Ferdi-
nand and that General Won Macken-
sen also commenced an offensive,
which, however broke down under
the Russian fire.
While the military critics still are
undecided whether the Russians will
make their stand on their present
lines or fall back to the Bug river,
thus abandoning the fortrresses OF
Ivangorod and Warsaw, it is agreed
that the counter-attack which they
have developed has postponed for a
time at least the necessity for any
further retirement.
There is no confirmation of the re
ported Italian victory on the Corso
plateau, but dispatches from Rome
say that Italian troops are making
good progress in their work of cap
turing the mountains around Trieste
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12
WORK BEGINS
ON THE NEW
POST OFFICE
STALKING OUT GROUNDS TODAY
AND WILL BREAK DIRT TOMOR-
ROW MORNING - HOME LABOR
WILL BE USED.

Active work began this morning
on the new federal building which is
to be erected at the corner of Broad
way and Washington streets. The
ground is being staked Off and meas
ured and it is the intention of the
contractors to break dirt tomorrow
morning.
II. C. Dreher president of the Stiles
Construction company of Chicago, who
have the contract, is in the city and
will remain for few days. A. Mes
gard of Holland, Mich, superintend-
ent of construction, is also here, and
will remain until the job is finished,
Mr.. Nesgard will move his family to
the city and his brother will also be
here to act as timekeeper.
All are in consultation with F. L..
Moore, supervising architect for the
government and postmaster c. l..
Byrne.
With the exception of the above, it
is reported that all home labor will
be employed. The announcement
that work has actually begun upon
the new federal building will be hailed
with delight by the citizens of the
city who have waited patiently for
this event. The building will be an
attractive one, ana will add greatly
to the civic beauty of the city.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12
CITY BEGINS
To OC0MP|LE
NEW LAWS
LOT OF DEAD STATUTES TO BE
DROPPED AND THOSE IN EF
Feet PUT IN SYSTEMATIC
FORM.

Tomorrow morning the city attorney
will begin to compile the laws of the
city and codify them ir systematic
form. In doing this work a lot of
obsolete laws will be dropped, and
those under which the city is being
governed at the present time will
enter into the new code.
1t will take some time to do this
work and the city attorney will have
the assistance of some local attorney
in doing this work.
1t has been several years since
anything of this kind has been done
and it becomes necessary. as the
statute is burdened with a lot of or
dinances that are now obsolete.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12
Christian Endeavor Adjourns

Chicago, July 12.-The delegates to
the 25th international conference of
the Christian Endeavor adjourned to-
day after a weeks session. The dele
gates representing 100000 members
in the United States, accomplished
more at this convention than in any
previous one. Universal prayer for
the cessation of the European war
will be recommended to all members.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12

Tiflis, Transcaucasia, July 12.-The
Russians won recent successes in Tur-
kish Armenia and Trans-Caucasia.
Thirty thousand Turks near Lake Van
are hard pressed by the Russians.
The Armenians about Tifis are still
fighting against the kurd massacres.
The Turks gave the kurds forty thou
sand rifles, one hundred and fifty Ar.
menlan volunteers from the United
States have joined their brothers in
fighting the kurds.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12

Washinaton, D. c., July 12-The
German situation is so serious that it
will require lengthy consideration,
high officials here today announced.
Secretary Lansing may not go q
Cornish, after all, to confer with tF@:
president. It is now expected that
Lansing and Wilson will indepe ndent-
Iy prepare memoranda notes.
Lansing is already preparing draft
of the reply to Germany. 1t is believed
that the tone of the new American
notes at present is very emphatic.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12
More Men to Dards nelles.

Manila, July 12.-Reports indicating
that the Russians are sending troops
to the Dardanelles have been received
here. French Cochin-China reports
that all the steamers o. one of the
big transportation companies there
have gone to Vladivostok, to trans
port the Russians, via the Indian
ocean and the SucZ canal
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12

Paris, July 12.-The war office re-
ports heavy fighting throughout last
night along many points oil the French
front. Near Arras, the Germans used
a great quantity of asphyXiating shells
and gained a cemetery and some
trenches at Souchez. Bomb fighting
was frequent. In the Nosges, the
French captured prisoners, when the
Germans exploded a mine and their
subsequent attack failed.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12
GIRL CHARGED WITH FORGERY
Daughter of Arkansas Postmaster is
Held on Federal Warrant

Little Rock, Ark, July 11.-Claudie
Middleton, 16 years old, daughter of 7.
J. Middleton, postmaster at Crab Tree
Van Buren, county was held here to-
day under $500 bond in the federal
court to answer to charges of having
forged seven money orders for $500
with which, it is alleged, she pur.
chased iewelry, wearing apparel and
household furnishings from Chicago
mail order houses.
The father was conducting cam.
paign for a county office and had left
the girl in charge of the office. The
money orders, it was charged, were
torn from the back of the postal or.
der book
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12
Cabbage Head Brings 81

Chickasha, Okla, July LIE. p.
Slaughter, a gardener and dairy man
living in the suburbs of Chickasha,
sold q single cabbage head last week
for $1.O0. 1t weighed 20 pounds. Mr..
Slaughter says he has raised 1000 lbs.
of cabbage from 1900 plants.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12
STEAMERS AOWTHHEAD AND
BARON NAPIER HAVE NOT BEEN
HEARD FROM.
WIRELESS TO BOTH
Letter to New Orleans Newspaper
Said That Bomts Had Been Placed
on Both Vessels, and That They
Would Not Be Heard From Again.

Washington, July 12.-No word has
been received today from the steam
ers HowthheaG or Baron Napier,
on board of which a New Orleans
letter writer claimed he placed bombs.
There have been no developments
in the threat to assassinate the Brit
ish ambassador Sir Cecil Spring
Rice, and j. p. Morgan
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12
American Was Kidnapped.

FL PasO, Tex, July 12.-lt is re-
ported that Castillo PadilI, an Ameri-
can citizen, was kidnapped Saturday
night from his ranch on the American
side and is being held a prisoner in
Juarez. 1t is alleged that two Amer
leans and three Mexicans in auto
mobiles caught and handcuffed him
and carried him away in an automo-
bile.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12
NF1N AMERICAN NOTE BEING
PREPARED IN EMPHATIC TERMS
LANSING MAY NOT GO TO CORNISH BUT HE
AND WILSON MAY INDEPENDENTLY PRE-
PARE DRAFT OF REPLY TO THE LATEST
GERMAN NOTE.

Victory Turks Armenia and TransCau
casThy Lake Van Are Now Hard Pressed
by the Still Battling with the kurds Who
Equipped Arms by Turks-Pars Reports Heavy
Fighting Night Points French FontR
port from Sending from VadVostok
Dardanees Reports that Allied
Ships Fired Two Against Turkish Forts
daneIes Blu No Damage to the Forts
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12
Allies Attack Failed.

Constantinople, July 12.-The Turk
ish war office announces that an al
lied cruiser, protected by four tor
pedo boats, fired Two hundred shells
from the outer end of the Darda-
nelles against the Turkish forts, but
they did no damage.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12
Al JENNINGS
HELD Up IN
LOS ANGELES
FORMER OKLAHOMA OUTLAW
AMONG PASSENGERS ON INTER-
URBAN CAR HELD UP BY TWO
MASKED MEN LAST NIGHT.

Los Angeles, Calf, July 12.-Al Jen-
nings, former Oklahoma bandit, was
among the passengers held up and
robbed last night on an interurban
electric car by two masked men.
The robbers collected a total of two
hundred dollars.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12
SHOT BECAUSE
CALLED WIFE
OLD WOMAN
MRS. MARIE WIELAGE SHOT AND
KILLED HER HUSBAND WHEN
HE CALLED HER AN "oLO
WOMAN"

Quincy, H., Ju'y 12.-Mrs. Marie
Wielage, aged 80, shot and killed her
husband last night becarse he called
her an "old woman" She tried in
erfectually to kill herself afterwards.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12
Berlin Saws, No Change

Berlin, July 12.-The war office an
nounces that the German troops situa-
ton is unchanged in the Galician Po-
land campaign.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12
ENTIRE FAMILY MISSING
Search is Conducted for Henry Will
Iiams. Wife and Five Children

Pittsburg, Kansas, July 11.-Mrs.
ELAN Lane of darlington is conduct
ing a search for Henry Williams of
Gross, his wife and five small children,
who have been missing since the last
of May.
Mrs. Lane is the mother of Mrs.
Williams. The Williams family left
thar home in a wagon to go to
Neosho Mo. Williams mother died a
few weeks ago, but relatives could not
find Williams to notify him. Mrs. Lane
has discovered that the family was
seen at Neosho three weeks ago, She
fears that they have met foul play or
were drowned in the flood waters in
southwestern Missouri. Williams and
his wife are about 40 years old.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12
KNOCKS OUT RACING LAW
Arkansas Supreme Court Holds Saw
yer Bill Unconstitutional

Little Rock, Ark, July 12.-The state
supreme court holds unconstitutional
the Sawyer racing bill, which would
have permitted pari-mutual betting on
horse races.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12
TO VOTE THIS MONTH
Wichita Falls Local Option Election
to Be Held July 81.

Wichita Falls, Tex, July 12.-The
commissioners today fixed July 81 as
the date for the local option election
in Wichita county
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12
Say Sultan is Dead

Paris, July 12.-La Liberte prints a
dispatch claiming that the Turkish
Sultan is dead, and that Young Turks
are suppressing the news.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12
Orozco's Bend Forfeited.

FL Paso, Tex, July 12.-Orozco
failed to appear today to answer the
charges of conspiracy, and his bond
was ordered forfeited.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12

Every wage-earner OF every class
is expected at Iabor Hall Tuesday
night at 7:30.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12
WEATHER FORECAST

New Orleans, La, July l2.-
The weather forecast for Okla
homa for tonight and Tuesday
is generally fair. with contin-
ued warm temperature.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-12

Don't forget the mass meeting at
labor hall Tuesday night at 7:3O.
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-05
ANOTHER WEEK OF
DEVELOPMENT IN DIXIE

BALTIMORE, Md, Sept. 4-Reyiew-
ing the industrial interests of the
South for the week, special reports t.
the Manufacturers Record show that
the recent advances in crude oil have
added $25,OOO,0O0 to the value of oil
in storage tanks in Oklahoma. This
advance has also resulted in greatly
increasing the activity in oil drilling
and in preparations for building more
tank facilities and refineries through
out the oil regions.
About $10,OO0,O00, 900 has now been
made available for the construction of
the proposed Dixie Highway from Gin
cinnati to Louisville, through Chatta
nooga to the South, every county on
the line between Cincinnati and Louis
Vile and Chattanooga having voted in
favor of issuing bonds for the build
ing Of this road, which will connect
up with roads now under construction
in the South, giving a through modern
highway from the far West 10 Miami,
Fla.
A dispatch from Chicago to the Man
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ufacturers Record reports the sale
for the New York subway and elevat-
ed road construction of $4,000 900 feet
of lumber, to be cut by mills located
in Louisiana and Alabama. The same
interests have also sold 100000 rail-
road ties to France, the shipments OF
this lumber and ties to be made
through Gulf ports. In connection
with this it is interesting to know
that cargo of 100000 feet of oak
said to be the largest hardwood cargo
ever loaded in this country has been
shipped from Gulfport to London, and
considerable additional orders hav :
been placed with Southern lumber
men for shipment to the United King
dom.
A company organized at Oklahoma
City, capitalized at $t2,OO0,OOO, pro,
poses to finance and build three hydro
electric plants and at the same time
to build an extensive system of inter
urban railways.
The Standard Oil Co. is spending 81
100000 in charging its refining plant
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-05

perfect, excellent.
DR.. Chambliss stated that in his
opinion we had the best kept COWS of
any county in Southwest Georgia. They
are clean and great care of the COWS
has been taken. Cows intended foe
dairy use appreciate clean surround
ings and being well taken care of, as
well as human being does and the
condition of the animals, show their
appreciation, by the excess milk pro
duced where cows are kept in this
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condition.
Within the past few weeks ali
dairymen have been compelled to
abide by the new state law, which re-
quires them to cool their milk before
starting out on delivery. Many of the
dairymen carry ice in their wagon and
the milk bottles are ice cold when de-
livered. This new idea shows how the
bacteria has been reduced in this re-
port. DR.. Chambliss states this is the
best report ever made in this county.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-05

at Baltimore.
The Chattanooga Gas & Coal Prod
ucts Co. is reported as to build add.
tional coke ovens, and a $4,000 ben
zol plant.
The Savannah Dock G Warehouse
Co., has been Incorporated with $780,,
600 capital stock to build docks and
warehouses.
The Highland Cordage Co., Hickory,
N. c., has been organized with capital
stock of $125,0OO to manufacture cot
ton cordage. The Valley Cotton Mill,
ShelbyVille, Tenn, has been organiz-
ed to build cotton mill. The Falls
Manufacturing Co., Granite Falls, N.
c., is to build cotton mill with 5,00J
spindles, and the Mutual Compress &c
Warehouse Co., of Charleston, organ
lied with 100000 capital stock, pro-
poses to construct cotton storage
warehouses.
The Mid-Continent Refining Co. at
Jennings, Okla, contemplates building
refinery with daily capacity of e.
900 barrels.
The Seaboard Air Line has awarde,,
contracts for new shops at cost for
the buildings of 100000 and has con-
tracted for $27O,,OOO of machinery for
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-05
Scenes Conflict 1000 Years
Ago Mark Fields Of Today

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. g.
With the northwestern battle-theatr,
OF the Turks proclaimed by the war
prophets as that where the decidin!
master strokes in this most titain-likt
OF all struggles are to be delivered,
sketch of this remarkable regions pas
prepared by Harry Griswold Dwigh
for the National Geographic Society i,
of more than usual interest. Here the
course of civilization has been chang
ed and modified several times, anC
here, again today, the attention of tht
world is fixed in the belief that The
future of Europe will once more bt
determined by events about to trans
pire.
In the bulletin just issued by thC
National Geographic Society, Mr.
Dwight tells about 1.-THE Gates to the
Black Sea-: There is something al.
Turing in the very shape and position
of these lakes-the Black Sea and the
Sea of Misunderstanding as they
do the two most historic continents O!
our globe, and communicating with
each other and with the outer seas by
openings that seem miraculous. And
those landlocked waters have been
from earliest times, as they happier
again to be today, the theatre of epi1
events. For us of the West no legends
are older than those of zeus and 10
of Phryxxus and Helle, off tine Trojan
war, of Jason and the Argo, which
commemorate the earlier voyages into
the Great Lakes of the Levant
"Of the two, the Marmora-the Pro-
points, if you prefer to be clasc>sea--
is by far the smaller. Not much moro
than 100 miles long and some forty
miles across at its broadcast part, it l.;
about the same size as Lake Champ
lain. The Marmora has much of the
softness of air, vividness of color and
beauty of scenery that we associate
with Aegean and Ionian Seas. Thread
the narrow slit of the Bosphorus, how
ever, and you pass into an entirely diff
ferent world-sterner, barer, rocker,
colder.
"If the Marmora may be compared
to Lake Champlain, the Black Sea is
about four times the size of our great
est lake. Lake Superior is 412 miles
long by 1877 wide, while the Black Sea
has length of $50 miles and a breadth
of 1856. That there is something dark
and unfriendly about it is more than
a legend. The Bosphorus is 20 miles
long, and at one point of its tortuous
course the hills of Europe and Asia
are in $50 yards of each other The
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-05

Dardanelles is twice as long and near
ly twice as wide, varying frfom 1,400
yards to 5 miles. Its European shore,
Gallipoli peninsula, is the Thracian
Chersonese of the ancients, and it's
steep ridge overlooks the plain o.
Troy on the Asiatic bank ard the
broken foothills of Mt Ida.
While its two historic gateways are
strategically the most important fea :
lures of Marmora, that picturesque
little sea has a character all its own
In any other part of the world it would
long ago have become a place of So
journ for yachtsmen and summerers
so happily is it treated by sun and
wind so amply provided with bays,
capes, islands, mountains, forests, and
glad the heart of the amateur ex-
plorer. AS it is, the Marmora remains
strangely wild for a sea that ha;
known so much of life. More numer-
Gus that the settlements of today are
the ruins of yesterday. About no
body of water in the world, of equal
size, have stood so many stately cities.
1t is almost impossible, indeed, to
give any coherent account of the story
of Marmora, so much history and lie
gend have crowded it's shores"
Writing of the antiquity of the.
straits question, Mr.. Dwight says:
THE true question of the straits arose
as early as the fifth century B. c..
when Alchibiades of Athens counseled
the people of Chrysopolis, the modern
Scutari, at the southeastern extrem-l
ity of the Bosphorus, to take toll o.
passing ships" But the Ottoman reg
ulation of the straits has been far
more jealous than anything attempted
by the ancients.
'The Turks have allowed 10 foreign
men of-war to enter the Marmora," the
writer continues, unless under som
rare and special circumstances; and
not only do they exercise surveillance
over the traffic in the straits, but twic..
during the last four years they have
closed the Dardanelles to navigation of
any kind
cat the moment at which I write the
fleets of France and England are ham
mering at the historic gateway. Thus
the question of the Black Sea, which:
is the ancient question of the straits.
is posed anew, more dramatically than
ever before. Is it for final solution
No solution can be found" concludes
tn writer, which will give to any ma
ton an absolute right of control over
the .Bosphorus and the DardaEelles.'
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-05
GRAND SHOWING FOR SUMTER DIARIES

Very few people know that Sumter
county is ranking high as milk and
butter producer.
The August report of County Health
officer, DR.. j. w. Chambliss, has JUS
been prepared and copy left with the
Americas and Sumter County Chambe
of Commerce.
This report shows that out off Il
diaries inspected, 10 have come was
above the Government and State re
quirements. Three have come as low
as 5000 bacteria which is considered
as the highest type of efficiency II
pure milk. There is but three of the
tests that have simply the the STATE
standard of butter fat, while eleve'
have tests far in excess of the STATE
average.
The state laws require that pure
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-05

milk shall not contain over 100000
bacteria. They also require that all
milk sold for human use, shall contain
at least three and one quarter butte.
fat. Not a single dairy fell this low in
their test, while some went as high as
10 per cent butter fat. This is consid-
cred excellent.
AS a whole our dairies went far IL
excess of the state requirements, Or,
all the inspections and equipment or
facilities for handling milk and butter
and cleanliness of premises, the Aries
Plantation ranks the very highest,
this dairy ranking far above every test
that could be made by DR.. Chambliss.
1t is considered rs per cent perfect
and by the time Of the next inspection
will rank 100 per cent, and yet the
state authorities consider 0,per cent
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