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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-03-27
BLOODY BATTLES FOUGHT
At UJ0k AND LUPK0N
BULGARIA TO ADOPT POLICY
FAVORABLE TO ALLIES,
TT IS THOUGHT
tBy Associated Press.)

Geneva, March Dispatches re-
Iceived today by Swiss newspapers,
emphasize the success of the Russians
in the battle now in progress in the
ICarpathians,
The struggle in the Ujok and Lup-
kow passes on March 23rd were par
ticularly desperate, with heavy losses
for the Austrians. The Austrian at
tacks on the banks of the Biala, be-
tween Cracow and Przemsyl are re-
ported to have been repuIsed with
losses OF eight thousand killed,
wounded and missing. The Russians
are credited with successes all along
the line of battle in Pruth, Tin Galicia
and Bukowina), where they dislodged
the Austrians. Austrians are report
cd to be in full and complete flight.
Cracow is the next point of attack
and the Russian hordes are massing
at that point for general mighty
rush. "On to Cracow' is the battle
cry.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-03-27
OIL AND GAS BOOSTERS
To HOLD MEETING
PROPOSITION OF CONTINUING OR
ABANDONING CARTER TEST
WILL BE DISCUSSED.

The special oil and gas committee
hate been doing some hard work this
week qndeavoring to complete the
work CT raising the full five thousand
dollars needed 10 complete the Car
ter well and will be at work again on
Monday. Those who nave not been
seen should telephone the members
OF the committee what they will do
the committee being composed of l.
/. Beland C. F. Eisenschmidt. Chas.
Olson. W. l. Rhodes and J. b. Fair
field
The committee will make their final
report at meeting OF tie stocbnold-
ers of the Cimarron Valley Gas AMI
Oil Company and all o'her citizens
to be held at the chamber of COM
mOrce Monday evening at soc clock.
Every man interested in the welfare
of the city should attend this meet
ing.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-03-27
W|LDERs' SECURE LEGAL
|. POSSESSION OF CHILD

Attorney Fred Green has returned
from Sapulpa where he had been for
several days trying a case in court
wherein A. c. Brown, grandfather oi
little Mildred Elliott, years old,
aGcrted daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Z.
Ii. Wilder, was trying to secure pos
session Of the child. After two
days trial the court held in favor of
the Wilders and ordered the child
given into their keeping as the duly
authorized guardians and parents ny
law Mr.. and Mrs, Wilder adopted
little Mildred on March 10th. The
parents of The child are dead.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-03-27

70J was recovered from Starr The
other ten bandits are surrounded by
a posse OF more than l50 citizens.
Holdups Were Bold.
The holdups were the boldest ever
recorded.
1t was shortly after 1915 Saturday
morning, when the seven robbers, LED
BY Starr. on whose head is a legis-
tive price of $1,000. rode into this
tranquil town Of 1890 people.
The robbers rode direct to the
stookyar1s where they dismounted
and tied their horses.
No masks were worn
NJ. THE bandits walked to the Stroud
National bank where the gang of eley-
en- divided
Seven entered the First National
bank and four the Stroud National.
Hands Up" Said Starr.
Henry Starr led three men into the
stroud National, Advancing to the
cashiers window, he cried: Every
up' There We're fifteen
people in the bank All we're cover
ed by the three robbers as Starr de-
nanded of the cashier.
Shove out the stuff and be d---d
quick about itw The cashier showed
iout sl,700 in bills which Starr ram
med into his pocket.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-03-27
AUTO COMMITTEE AND
GOOD ROADERs MEET

A committee of the Chamber of
Commerce and hte Guthrie Auto club
are meeting with a committee from
Oklahoma City on the road between
Seward and Waterloo this afternoon
to plan an effective campaign and or
gauized work on that line which will
the worst piece of road on
the north and south highway in the
state.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-03-27

Paris, March a. Both Calais and
Dunkirk were visited by German
monoplanes this morning. but neither
town was damaged. Six bombs were
thrown on Dunkirk and one on
Calais
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-03-27
Bulgaria to Stand With Allies.

bulgaria. 10 Stand with NlIIeS.
Rome, March 27.--Close observers
Of the Balkan situation profess to see
indications OF gradual tendency OF
Bulgaria to adopt a policy favorable
to the allies 1t is believed that Bull
garia hopes to act jointly with italy
and Rumania
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-03-27

Attorney C. A. Erixon is up from
Oklahoma City.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-03-27
|[NRY STARR, BANDIT,
SHOT AND GAP PTURED
|WO NATIONAL BANKS
n Of STROUD ARE HELD UP
FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS TAKEN FROM ONE BANK
AND SEVENTEEN HUNDRED FROM ANOTHER
Sensational FINISH To DARING
OUTLAW GANG At STROUD

TOWN or STROUD. s. MILES EAST or GUTHRIE, STAGES
DRAMATIC WILD WEST sCENE; BANDITS STARR
AND ELLIOTT ARE WOUNDED; PAUL CURRY i6
GROCERS BOY, TO GET $1,000 REWARD; BALANCE
or GANG is SJRsOJ NDED IN A PASTURE
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-03-27
(BuLLETiN.)

Henry, Starr, bandit chief, was shot
IL the right leg. Floyd Elliott, his
raI was shot through the left lung.
The $1,7oo taken rom the Stroud
National bank, was fcuri in Star@'s
hip pocket. The $4,000 taken from First
National bank Is still in possession Of
the ten bandits who are now sur
rounded in pasture two miles east Of
town.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-03-27

Special TO The Daily Leader,
Stroud, okla, March 27l---The mo-
Etorious band Of hank bandits LED Dy
q II cary Starr met its Waterloo at
I1lo:sO O'clock ii this town.
The Starr gang Of desperadoes rode
into town attic o'clock.
There were eleven men in the par
DSty
They held UP the First National
Bank, Of Stroud, and secured $4,000.
Then the stroud National bank was
held up and sl,7O0 taken.
Starr Shot in Leg.
iIn the fusilade OF shots Immediately
following the holdups, Henry Starr
the bandit chieftain was shot in the
leg BY Paul Curry, Stroud hoy. aged
l6, and captured
Floyd Elliott another bandit was
shot through the left lung. The ST.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-03-27

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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-03-27

Hated Psess News i
y Accurate News. lt's
eadcr. IS
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-03-27

Spring Is here. II you
want to Rent use a Want IN |
The Leader.
New-York tribune., 1915-12-18
VILLA FAMILIES
FLEE TO BORDER
Chiefs Reported Ready to
"Eliminate" Leader
and Surrender.
lBy Telegraph 70 III. T,lnnns. I

FL Paso, Tex, Dec. H. Evidence that
q crisis has been reached in Villa affairs
and that Juarez is being abandoned by
Villa was furnished tonight in the
fight from Mexico to the American side
of the families of General Francisco
Villa and of his brother, Colonel Hipo-
Tito Villa. Both families brought sew
eral wagonloads of household effects
Carranza advices say that the Villa
chieftains in conference in Chihuahua
have announced an intention "to elm
mate Francisco Villa forthwith. with a
view &c their own immediate surrender
10 the constitutional government"
Mrs. Luz Villa, known as the first
and legal wife of the Mexican revolu-
tionary leader. arrived in Juarez to-day
with her entire fEmily from Chihuahua
Three days ago she Lad been called to
Chihuahua By General Villa, and her
return in flight and hurried transfer TO
the American side created a sensa-
tion in Juarez. The family Of Colonel
Hipolito Villa fed to the American side
Immediately after mis- return to-day
from a conference with General Villa in
Chihuahua.
General Villa has a wife in Los
Angeles, Cal, and is credited with
having three others in Mexico, but the
wife who came 70 Ell Paso tonight is
the one who is recognized by Mexicans
as the real Mrs. Villa.
Juarez practically has been evacuated
by Villa forces. There are tonight not
more than one hundred Villa soldiers
there, and a train is made up ready TO
take them out. Reports current in
Juarez, which proved to be false, that
Carranza soldiers were camped near
Fort Bliss. caused panic among Nillistas.
Formal demand was made to-day by
General Villa upon the MADEIRA Com
pany, Ltd, for 100000 ransom for Roy
Hoard. acting superintendent of the
company's plant. Hoard. with twenty
nine employees of the MADEIRA Company,
is being held By Villa in Chihuahua.
The ransom has not been paid, and
company officials say it cannot be.
The twenty-nine employees. Villa says,
will be released only when the company
pays claims which Villa asserts he
holds against it in the shape of tribute
levied at MADEIRA.
New-York tribune., 1915-12-18

the power Of the proposed Filipino
Legislature by permitting il TO fix the
qualifications for suffrage. A third
prohibits polySamous marriages, in
spite of the statement by General Nc
Intyre. chief of the Bureau OF lnsular
Affairs. that such prohibition among
the Moros could be enforced only by
the aid of troops.
The measure "a now drawn provides
practically a constitution and bill Of
rights for the islands and takes the
place of the present organic law. IL
destroys the present upper house Of the
Philippine Legislature, which rs COM
posed Of men appointed by the Gov
ernor. majority of whom have usually
been Americans, and substitutes an
elective Senate, thus putting all legis-
lation into the hands Of the Filipinos.
IL gives TO this Legislature all powers
Of legislation not specifically covered
by statutes of Congress, including
taxation and the control of all admin
istration except the Bureau of lnstruc-
tion. The Filipinos also have control
of the vast public lands in the islands
and of tariff legislation, and the Sen
ate must confirm all the Governors ap-
pointments.
A resolution providing for investi-
cation of the Philippine government
and conditions in the archipelago by
special House committee was intro
duced to-day by Representative Miller.
of Minnesota, who visited the islands
recently.
Representative SABBATH, of Illinois.
introduced joint resolution proposing
that all interested maritime powers
guarantee the perpetual naturalization
Of the islands.
New-York tribune., 1915-12-18
WOMAN DECLARED A FIREBUG
Hackensack Jury Finds Mrs. Merrill
Burned Her Own Home.

Hackcnsack, n. j., Dec. 17.-Mrs.
Marion c. Merrill, of Hssbrouck
Heights, who until recently lived in
Montclair, was found guilty this even
ing of arson As the foreman of the
jury pronounced the verdict Mrs. Mer
rill collapsed. She sobbed and wept
bitterly. her two little daughters cling
ing to her dress and crying.
The Jury took four hours to reach
its verdict Lawyer Mackay. one o.
Mrs. Merrill's counsel. moved two OF
the jurymen to tears when he SPOKE
Of the grief it would cause Mrs. Mer-
rill and her daughters TO be separated
during Christmas.
Mrs. Merrill's home was found in
flames late in the afternoon of Sep
tember II, few minutes after she
had left in an automobile for Mont
clair
New-York tribune., 1915-12-18
A Christmas
With No Gifts

no tokens of the day, no remem-
brances from friends, barely
enough food to sustain life, no
Winter clothing, and the con-
slant threat of "dispossess.
Left to themselves. such Will
be this Christmas in some 5000
homes known to us-most OF
them with little children-where
recent death or sickness cause
the distress which Winter now
makes acute.
Will you join us to bring a
little Christmas brightness to these
homesp
Send your glft 20 George Blagden. Treas
urer. Room 2i2. io5 East 22nd street.
NEW YORK ASSOCIATION FOR IN
PROVING TIE CONDITION. Ot TIE
POOR.
Cornelius y. Bliss. Jr President,
New-York tribune., 1915-12-18
.ALDERMAN-ELECT
SEIZED AS BRIBER
c. J. McGillick and Lawyer Ac-
cused of Inducing Man to
Drop Charge.

Charles J. McGllick. Democratic
alderman-elect from the 32d Alder
manic District, and Joseph T.. D'Amico,
a lawyer, with an Office at 1O7 East
127th Street. were indicted yesterday
and arrested on bench warrants charg-
ing bribery. 1t is alleged that by
promise of money they induced Thomas
McNerney. a Harlem contractor. to
withdraw a charge of grand larceny
against two men and a woman, clients
OF D'Amico's, before Magistrate Corri-
gan in the Harlem court.
According to McNerney, he had din
ner with Edoar f. Whalen, a former
policeman: the latter's brother, John
Whalen. and Lillian Wilson in a Har-
lem restaurant week ago last night.
lie had check for $l25 cashed early
in the evening. The party wound up
with a long taxicab ride around the
city. At 9 a. M, McNerney said, the
Whalens and the Wilson woman left
him At Third Avenue and l23d Street
and the chauffeur drove on with him
TO Eighth Avenue and 125th Street, and
McNerney recovered his composure, he
said, he found that all his money,
amounting to about 500. was gone.
The Whalens and the Wilson woman
we're arrested, and a week ago were ar
raigned before Magistrate Corrigan and
held for examination the following
Monday for grand larceny. Early that
morning McNerney telephoned to the
clerk of the court that he had found his
money in one of his overcoat pockets
and wanted to drop the charge. How
ard c. Carter Deputy Assistant Dis
trict Attorney, told McNerney that he
had better go TO court, which McNerney
did.
Carter had long talk with the com
plainant, during which. 1t is alleged,
McNerney finally admitted that he had
been called TO McGillick's saloon, a.
t430 Second Avenue, the night of the
arraignment, and had been induced to
drop. the complaint by McGillick and
D'Amico. who, he alleged, promised TO
re lost if he would tell the court that
taken before the grand jury. When
McGillick and D'AmicO heard o. their
Indictment they went TO the Criminal
Courts Building and surrendered them
selves. Judge Rosalsky, in General
Sessions, admitted both men to bail in
$500.
McGillick defeated Alderman Will
lam Duggan at the last election, but
Alderman Duggan has filed a protest.
The matter is still pending.
New-York tribune., 1915-12-18
IVES WILL SUIT SETTLED
Yale, Chief Beneficiary. Reported to
Have Made Daughters Offer.

Controversy over the will Of General
Brayton Ives, formerly president of the
Stock Exchange and the Metropolitan
Trust Company, has been settled.
General Ives left most OF his estate.
variously estimated at from 81 100000
to S3,000,000, to Yale University. He
made no provision for his wife or his
daughters. Winifred and Frances ex-
planning that he had provided for them
under an agreement Of separation made
between him and his wife. To Mrs
Eunice Maynard, another daughter. ne
left 100000, and to her husband. Wal
ter f. Maynard, $4,000.
The three daughters brought a suit
TO break the will. in which. however.
they were not joined by their mother.
IL is reported that TO settle the contest
the Yale Corporation offered the daugh-
ters 100000 each or liberal annuity.
New-York tribune., 1915-12-18
DEMOCRATS WIN UTICA
Court Declares Smith Elected Mayor
by Majority OF II.

Albany, Dec. flames ID. Smith.
Democrat. was declared elected Mayor
Of Utica at the November election, un-
der a decision handed down to-day by
the Court of Appeals. and John &.
Thomas, Republican candidate. was re-
fused permission to open the voting
machines and have a recount OF the
entire vote.
These decisions were reached in two
cases. The returns showed that
Thomas had received forty-five more
votes than were actually registered on
the machines. this condition being due
TO an error in reading the totals in the
I'd Election District Of the 2d Ward.
After the discovery Of the error Smith
brought an action to compel the Board
of Elections TO correct the returns so
as TO show his own election BY a plu.,
ralty Of u. and this order was iffirmed
by the courts decision to-day.
New-York tribune., 1915-12-18
Henry p. Fletcher New
Ambassador to Mexico

Washington, Dec. 17.-President Will
son sent the name OF Henry p.
Fletcher, Of Pennsylvania. TO the SEN
ate to-day for confirmation as ambas-
sador to Mexico. Mr. Fletcher is at
present ambassador to Chilli. His ap-
pointment to Mexico City means the
resumption of diplomatic relations with
Mexico after a lapse of two years.
Although a Republican, Mr.. Fletcher
New-York tribune., 1915-12-18
SPAIN RECALLS M0NTESS0RI
Has $4,000 Offer TO Install System,
She Sends Word.

Stevens Point. Wis, Dec. IL Nine.
Montessori, explaining she had re-
ceived an offer of s75O,OOO from the
royai government Of Spain to install
her system personally in the primary
schools OF the Kingdom, has advised
John +. Sims, president of the Board
OF Education. she will not be able to
give her advertised course in teaching
here.
She is said 20 be on her way to Spain.
New-York tribune., 1915-12-18
HICKS WINS CONGRESS SEAT
Court Of Appeals Decides Republicans
Plurality Is Ten Votes.

Albany, Dec. 1.-THE Court of Ap
peals to-day decided that Frederick c.
Hicks, a Republican, was elected Rep
resentative in the 1st Congress Dis
trct, in 1914, and that his plurality of
three votes over nathrop Brown, his
Democratic opponent, should be in
creased 20 ten. The decision was hand
ed down on three appeals of Brown for
a recanvass and correction of the vote.
The decision held that while Con
gress was the final judge as 10 VINO
should compose its membership, the
courts of the state had the right to
determine to whom the certificate of
election should be issued. Up to the
present time no certificate has been
granted, and neither contestant has ap-
peared in Congress.
New-York tribune., 1915-12-18
FIRE RECORD.


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10 22O Hudson st uilnoNn. none.
New-York tribune., 1915-12-18
Walter McNab Miller. first auditor, and
Mrs. Petite y. Jacobs, second audito,.
Mrs. Gait Gives Watchwords.


Mrs. Gait. in her speech of accept
auce, imposed three watchwords upo
the women: Don't gossip" Get to-
gether" and Work harder than ev,r."
"Mrs. Hhitehouse made the besi
speech J ever heard when she accepted
her position as the New York Stat,
vice president" she said Her word
were, I'm healthy and I'm willing to
work. Now, | am unhealthy. and I'm
Ured out, but IIl do M best. | de
mand of you in return for my accept
ance that you do not gossip among
yourselves. If you have any complaint
TO make about the conduct Of the as
cociatiOn come 20 me with IL
Mrs. Gait announced that she had re-
signed her position as chairman Of the
New York Woman Suffrage party.
The eruption of Congressional Union
ism. which has been threatening all
week. broke out late in the afternoon
when the efficiency committee appoint
ed TO confer with the Congressional
Unions committee made it's report.
The convention voted to adopt its rec
ommeadgtion that the new board should
seriously consider" getting together
with the Congressional Union on the
matter Of the Washington lobby.
Mrs. Gait, Mrs. Medill Mccormick,
Mrs. Stanley Mccormick, Mrs. Antoi
rettc Funk and Miss Hannah Patter-
son had argued for three hours in the
morning with Miss Alice Paul, Miss
Lucy Burns. Mrs. Lawrence Lewis. Miss
Anna Martin and Mrs. ellison Gard
liner but it all had 70 be thrashed out
again for the benefit OF the conve1-
ton. In a trice the room was in an
uproar. DR.. Shaw dragged her gavel
out from under the roses and whacked
the table hard. Half a dozen women
were on their feet, all demanding the
right to sneak
New-York tribune., 1915-12-18
Committee Reports Bill
Modifying Promise of
independence.
HOUSE LEADERS
FAVOR MEASURE
Power of Island Legislature In
creased and PoIygamous
Marriages Prohibited.
from TIE Tribune Bseau.I ]

Washington. Dec 1.-THE bill prom
ising independence to the Philippines
and granting the Filipinos a greatly in
creased share in the government was
reported in the Senate to-day by a
vote OF 70 in the Philippines Com
mittee. Only Senator Lippitt, OF Rhode
Island, voted against IT, Senators
Clapp and Kenyon voted with the Dem
ocrats. The bill. with a few amend
nlents. is the same that was vigorously
pushed by the administration at the
last session. but died in conference be-
tween the two houses.
The present bill. it is understood
will have the full backing of the ad-
ministration. and the Republicans have
little hope of defeating il. The prin-
cipal fight will be in the Senate, where
the Democrats have a majority of six
teen, and the report of the committee
to-day shows that at least two Repub-
licans will vote with them. The House
leaders are said TO have agreed to ac-
cept the Senate measure unchanged.
The chief change from the Jones bill
of last year lies in TIE preamble, which
promises independence to the islands.
That clause now reads that complete
independence will be granted when, in
the judgment Of the United States, it
will be to the permanent interests of
the people of the Philippine Islands"
instead of when the Filipinos shall
have shown themselves to be fitted
therefor" This change was made to
meet the criticism that the promise of
independence "when fitted therefor
tended TO stir up agitation and discon-
tent in the islands, since the people
could not be expected TO admit that
they were not now fit for self-govern-
ment.
Another important change increases
New-York tribune., 1915-12-18
Liquor Everywhere, but None
TO Drink-MeXicO City's Dirge

Galveston, Dec. 1.-THE sale Of alco-
holic liquors in Mexico City has been
forbidden for ninety days by decree
issued by the governor of the Federal
district. according to advices reaching
the Mexican Consulate here to-day.
The decree was a measure taken to pre-
vent the spread of typhus in the cap
ital.
1t is also reported that Governor Al
yaredo of the State of Yucatan has
issued a decree permanently forbidding
the sale of liquors in that state.
In Jalisco Governor Berlanga's re-
forms include abolition of bull fight
ing. obligatory Sunday rest for labor
ers, reduction of hours Of labor, min
imum wage. regulation of the liquor
traffic and prohibition of gambling.
New-York tribune., 1915-12-18
M'CREERYS' GIVE BONUSES
Employees TO Share $4,000 Christmas
Gift

Arrival of the Wall Street bonus
system in at least one department
store has brought holiday cheer to
thousands OF clerks, cash girls and
other employees. who will profit 10 the
extent of $4,000 this Christmas.
James c. McCreery e. Co. announced
the new Christmas present plan IN
slips that appeared in The envelopes o.
ell employees this week. Under this
arrangement every employe of the
store who has been in the McCreery
service for six months or longer will
receive a cash gift. To members of
the selling department SO each will
be given. Other employees will re-
ceive s..
TIE announcements also called at
tention to the fact that they might aid
themselves and customers by coopera-
ton in service during the rush sea
son.
New-York tribune., 1915-12-18

was selected as the only man in the
diplomatic service whose knowledge OF
the Spanish language and of Latin
American politics is adequate to meet
the peculiar Mexican situation. The
relations with Mexico during the re-
construction period are expected to be
highly delicate.
Mr.. Fletcher has been in the diplo-
matte service since 1902. He has held
his present Office for more than FIVE
years.