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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-05

HI L. Grigsby leaves tomorrow for
Alex, where he will visit friends.
Get your harness and harness re-
pairing Of Wadsworth & White. 5-7-tf
!. w. Fitch, a farmer from west OF
the city. was here on business today.
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Spirella Corsetieres. Mrs. Savage and
Mrs. Adams. Phone 422. C-2-6t
Dr. U. G. Boone is in Chicago taking
a postgraduate operative course. He
will be gone several weeks.
Coming Kozy Sunday. Lockhart Sis
ters' Trio. GAIT
Clyde Simpson leaves tomorrow for
Enid, where he has accepted position
with the Rock Island.
Famous Kellogg strawberry plants
for sale by Mrs. z, D. Yeaton. CAST
Sell Pursley, former county commits
sioner of Rush Springs, is business
visitor in the city today.
Man! c Lockhart Trio Kozy Sunday,
sure. 6-4-2t
Mr.. and Mrs. w w. Boone of De
Leon, Tex, are spending the summer
at the home of DR.. U. c. Boone
Report social items to telephone 74o.
All news for publication In Saturdays
paper must pc received before noon
Friday. 12-28-tf
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Hawn and family
will leave the first of the week for an
extended visit in TT. Worth.
See the pleasing Mother Goose play
at the high school auditorium. Thurs.
day night, June TO- Benefit Sans
Souci scholarship. 6-4-3t
Roy Tinsley, Sid Hatley and Mark
Pace of Mangum were Chickasha Wis
itors Yesterday
Report social items to telephone 745.
All news for publication in Saturdays
paper must be received before noon
Friday. 12-2S-tf
Miss Wanda Goetting of Kansas Cifv
arrived in Chickasha last night for an
extended visit with relatives and
friends.
The ladies' of the First Baptist
church will serve a chicken dinner in
the building formerly occupied by the
Public Drug store, Monday, June Z,
1915. Prices rs cents, 6-4-2tl
w. II. Vanderbilt of Anadarko is
his wife, who is i'll al the
home of Mrs. r. B. Streeter.
The ladies of the First Baptist
church will serve chicken dinner In
.he building formerly occupied by the
Public Drug store, Monday, June Z,
1915. Prices 25 cents. GAIT
Mr.. and Mrs. Avery Rouse will spend
Sunday in Blanchard the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Justin Minter.
Ladies, II you want your Palm
Beach suits to hold their color and
shape do not allow them to be thrown
n the wash tub. We take pains in
Try cleaning them. Hamiltons.
6-s-2t
Mrs. Lee Olive and son Gardner
vent to Oklahoma City yesterday for
/ weeks visit with Mrs. Olives
mother.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
BOOSTERS SELECT DATES
Northern Minnesota Development So
ciety to Meet at Hibbing In June
and Bemidii in December.

Hibbing. The 1916 meetings Of
the Northern Minnesota Development
association will be held at Hibbing
June and and at Bemidji Dec. Z
and g. The places for holding the
meetings were selected at Bemidji
and the executive committee selected
the dates.
President c. R. Middleton of Bau-
dette has appointed the committee on
rural credits to continue the work
which the committee of which he was
the chairman began and reported upon
at the Bemidji meeting. l.. B. Arnold
of Duluth is the new chairman of the
committee and A. G. Wedge of Be-
midi replaces Fred B. Myers of Du-
luth. DR.. E. Dana Durand of the Uni
versity of Minnesota continues as a
member of the committee.
President Middleton has reappointed
the committee on agriculture, consist
ing of Otto l. Berg, superintendent Of
the North Central Experiment station
at Grand Rapids, chairman; d. B. Jew
ell of International Falls, Mark ].
Thompson of Duluth, B. M. Gile of Be-
midi, w. M. Dunton of Bagley, w. P.
Stapleton of Akeley and A. j. Gafke
of Brainerd.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
ITALIANS ARE NEAR SALONIKI
Troops Land at AvIona, Cross Noun
tains and Reach Greek From
tier, Athens Reports.

London, Dec 28.-Italian troops
landed at Avlona have crossed the
Albanian mountains and reached the
Greek frontier in Southern Albania.
the Athens correspondent: of the Tele-
graph reports. They are within 100
miles of Saloniki
Serbia has turned over to Italy 30,
900 Austrian prisoners, who are be-
ing interned in Sardinia, being ac-
companied there by Serbian officers.
The British steamer Hadley, 1,172
tons, has been sunk by submarine.
Her crew was rescued.
The big British liner Arlanza, 1904
tons, was sunk off the Russian port
of Archangel, probably by floating
mine.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
DENIES ALLEGED CONFESSION
Mysterious T. O'connor Declares
Story Regarding Murder of Dr..
Egge Is Without Foundation.

Winona. = The mysterious Thos.
O'Connor, alleged to have confessed
the murder of DR.. T. S. Egge of Moor
head, Mimi, for which crime Frank
H. Ketcham is serving life term at
Saltwater, appeared here with a posi-
tive and absolute denial of the story
furnished by w. H. Miller of Dres-
bach, Winona county. Miller wrote
Judge G.. A. Nye of Moorhead, one of
the attorneys for Ketcham in the MUIR
der trial, declaring that he had been
told by O'Connor that the latter had
killed Doctor Egge. An investigation
has been started and the inquiry is
now being conducted through the Of
fee of the attorney general, Lyndon
A. Smith. Miller declared he and
O'Connor were prisoners together in
the Caledonia jail three years ago,
when the confession was made by the
Houston man.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
ROADS GET RATE INCREASES
Western Railways Allowed to Advance
Freight Charges by Second
!. c. c. Decision.

Washington, Dec. 27. = Railroads
west of the Mississippi river were
given material increases in freight
rates by the interstate commerce
commission in a second decision in
the so-called western advance rate
cases.
Important increases granted in
cluded carload rates on agricultural
implements except to points in Louisi-
ana, carload rates on canned goods
and carload rates on boots and shoes
and leather between Missouri manu-
featuring points and points west. In
creases on many miscellaneous items
were allowed, but some others were
held to be unjustified. The record in
the case does not disclose how much
additional revenue the carriers will
obtain.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
PEAT FIELDS IN MINNESOTA
Soon, According to Report of
Federal Bureau.

Washington. = The peat fields of
Minnesota will soon be utilized, ac-
cording to Director Van H. Manning
in the annual report of the bureau Of
mines, for the fiscal year, ending June
80, 1915. That the Minnesota peat
fields possess great potential wealth
has already been recognized. James
]. Hill is reported to have conducted
an investigation of the subject and
employed experts to go thoroughly
into the matter. The results of the
Hill investigations are not known, but
Mr.. Manning says the possibilities for
great development are there.
The peat, according to Mr.. Manning,
may be used not only for fuel pur-
poses, but valuable by-products may
be obtained from it.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
VESSEL SLATED u S MARSHAL
crookston Man Picked by Fred g..
Lynch to Succeed Grimshaw-
Ryan as Chief Deputy.

st. Paul, Dec. j29.-Joseph A. wes-
sci of Crookston. Mimi, former men,
ber of the state game and fish commits
sion, is slated to succeed William H.
Grimshaw of Minneapolis as United
States marshal for the district of Min
nesota, and Alderman John Ryan of
Minneapolis will be recommended Sor
appointment as his chief deputy, as
the result of a conference held by Fred
B. Lynch and A. L. Sorter in st. Paul.
The naming of Joe" Vessel, one of
the best known travelling men in the
state, ends a scramble that began soon
after Woodrow Wilson took office.
Harvey Grimmer, executive clerk un,
der the late Governor Johnson, G. A.
Quist Of Minneapolis, and C. F. Tay-
lor, former mayor of Mankato, as well
as Mr.. Ryan are understood to have
been considered.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
BARRED BY RESERVE BOARD
Public Office Holders Are Made Inellg-
Ible as Officers or Direc-
tors of Banks.

Washington, Dec. 27.-Public office
holders and members of political party
committees are made ineligible for
election as officers or directors of fed
eral reserve banks by resolution
adopted unanimously by the Federal
Reserve Board.
The resolution, which was offered by
Secretary McAdoo, also informs
member banks of the reserve system
that in the opinion Of the board such
persons henceforth should not act as
officials or directors of the reserve
banks.
The action of the board is understood
to have been taken without extended
discussion, the resolution being offered
during the election of Class G directors
of reserve banks, task that was not
completed when the session ended.
Later it was said that the action was
not aimed particularly at any candidate
or any director or officer now serv-
ing.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
CASHIER CAPTURES BANDITS
Oklahoma Official, After Being Bound,
Intercepts and Shoots Robbers
and Receivers $4,000.

Grant, Okla, Dec. 28.-After having
been thrown into the bank vault with
his hands tied by two youths who
robbed the Bank of Grant of $4,000,
Cashier Webb slipped out of his bonds,
intercepted the bandits before they
got out of town, and shot and badly
wounded both of them when they re-
fused to surrender.
The robbers, whose names the sher-
ifs officers gave as Claude Jones, 90,
and Arthur Mcfarland, II, were TAX
en- to Jail at Hugo. Physicians said
Jones probably would die.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
CLAPP ACT is HELD ILLEGAL
Law Permitting indians to Sell Lands
Attacked In Suit Involving Land
Worth Millions.

Minneapolis, Minn.-Titles to land
worth at least $15,000,000 and compris-
ing practically the entire White Earth
Indian reservation in Minnesota are in
volved in a test case before Judge
Page Morris in the federal district
court.
Changing it's tactics in the White
Earth land litigation, which has been
pending for years, the government has
attacked the constitutionality of the
Clapp act Of 1906, which permitted
mixed blood Indians to sell their lands.
Should the courts hold the Clapp act
unconstitutional every deed made by
Indian owners of land, including those
made by mixed bloods would be inval-
i'd.
Would InvaIidate All Sales.
Such a decision would mean that
the 1,500 suits now pending involving
titles to land and in which the govern
ment claims that full bloods illegally
alienated their lands, would be drop
ped, for not only would the deeds in
volved in these suits be illegal, but all
transfers including those made by
mixed bloods would be invalid.
Thousands of Indians and thousands
of white settlers on the reservation are
vitally interested in the decision of the
case. Judge Morris declares the case
to be of vital Importance and intimated
that the final word will come from the
United States supreme court. He says
that he will make his decision in Jan.
uary.
The latest chapter in the history OF
the White Earth Indian land litigation
is of particular interest at this time
because the department of justice is
considering the removal from office OF
Charles c. Daniels, brother of secre.
tary Of the navy, who has been in
charge of the governments White
Earth litigation for the last 18 months
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
PLAN TO HONOR
U BENEFACT0RS
MINNESOTA Department OF AG-
RIcULTURE TO ACKNOWLEDGE
SERVICES RENDERED STATE.
TO PRESENT TESTIMONIALS S
Officials Prepare Certificates Bearing
Seal of University to Be Conferred
on Last Day of Farmers and
Home-Makers' Week.

st. Paul. = The University of Min
nesota, through it's department of ag-
riculture, is planning to confer honors
upon men who have been of signal
service to Minnesota's agriculture and
rural life. The first of such honors
will be conferred on the last day of
Farmers and Home-Makers' Week,
University Farm, st. Paul, January
3-8, 1916. The four men to receive
them will be:
Men Who Will Receive Honors.
Oren c. Gregg of Lynd. Minnesota,
for his work in developing the farm
ers' Institutes of Minnesota. Alanson
Winslow Latham of Minneapolis, for
his successful promotion and organi-
zation of the horticulture interests of
the state. William Gates LeDuc of
Hastings, as pioneer promoter of
agriculture and administrator of ag-
ricultural research and education.
Charles G.. Patten of Charles City,
Iowa, as pioneer breeder of fruits.
Certificates Attractively Printed.
The testimonials presented to these
men will consist of attractively print
ed certificates, bearing the seal of the
university and the signatures of the
president of the board Of regents, the
president of the university, and the
dean of the department of agriculture.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
Indian Army Leaves France.

London, Dec. 2S.-Tha departure of
the Indian army from France for IAN
other field of action" was the most
important feature Of the days news
so far as the British public is con-
cerned. Whether the new field of ac-
ton is Egypt or Mesopotamia is not
announced. In both these theaters
there already are considerable bodies
OF Indian troops.
1t is assumed that the place OF the
Indians in France has teen filled by
drafts from the new armies raised on
the soil Of the United Kingdom.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
FARM SHOW AT CROOKSTON
Fifth Annual Exhibition to Be Held
Feb. 7-12-Record Crowds Ex-
pected-Program Completed.

Crookston. = The work of complet-
ing details for the program of the fifth
annual farm crops show to be held at
the armory in Crookston, Feb. to IL
inclusive, has been practically CON-
pleted, although few of the speakers
cannot be announced definitely. Sew
eral important associations will hold
their annual meetings here during the
same week, thus assuring the biggest
crowds that ever have attended. A
premium list and program soon will
be issued. Prizes to be offered aggre-
gate between $4,000 and $4,000 in
value.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
All Cars to Stop 5 Minutes.

Minneapolis, Dec. 27.-All activities
on the 440 miles of line of the Twin
City Rapid Transit company will
cease for five minutes this afternoon
out of respect to the memory of C. G..
Goodrich, late president Of the COM
pany, during his funeral. For the
five minutes all cars will be stopped
wherever they may be, as will all
work, outdoor and indoor, from track
to offices. The general Office build
ings Of the company in both Mime
apolis and st. Paul have been draped.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
Allege Miscarriage of Justice.

Plainview. = A petition is being
circulated among citizens asking the
attorney general to come to Plainview
to investigate the alleged miscarriage
of justice in the prosecution of state
cases. A murder case in the summer
was so poorly prosecuted, it is de-
clared, that the defendant was acquit-
ted. At the fall term Of court 1t is
charged that an aggravated criminal
case was so poorly presented by the
prosecuting attorney that the grand
jury found no cause for action.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
FOOD RIOTS OCCUR IN VIENNA
Mob Armed With Pitchforks Attacks
Palace of Archduke Stephen
of Austria.

London, Dec. 2S. - An Amsterdam
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
company says that according to re-
ports in Vienna the palace of Arch
duke Stephen of Austria was attacked
by mob armed with pitchforks and
axes as protest against the squan-
dering of food on an elaborate enter.
tainment.
The police dispersed the rioters, but
q number of stones crashed through
the windows, damaging several pic.
lures.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
Labor Legislation Body Meets.

Washington, Dec. %. = The Ninth
annual convention of the American
Association for Labor Legislation
opened in the Shoreham hotel today
The main topics are the La Toilette
law for the protection of American
seamen, the New York industrial
commiss ion, health insurance for
wage ea,ners, and the progress made
throughc 1T America in industrial by.
giene in relation to dangerous trades,
child labor, protection for female wage
sarners ami factory sanitation.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
Sporting

Representatives of the Federal,
American and National leagues signed
an agreement at Cincinnati which
eliminated the third circuit from the
baseball map of the country. Charles
H. Weeghman, president of the
Whales, acquired the Cubs. Joe Tinker
will be manager. Phil Ball purchased
the Browns.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
Wilson's Attaehe Visited Diax.

That Ambassador Wilson had been
given information of the conspiracy to
put Madero to death is the general
belief In Mexico" said Mr.. Turner
III he returned to Mexico today he
would be Jailed as an accomplice in
the murder, am firmly convinced
While he was representing the Unit
ed States before a Mexican govern
ment recognized by us, he was in con-
slant communication with revolution
lists. l was prisoner of Felix Diaz,
a rebel against Madero, for two weeks
prior to the killing of the president
and know that during that time VIII.
sons military attache made four visits
to Diaz.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
Miners to Work All Winter.

Elba. = In place of the usual win.
ter decrease or shutdown, there will
Elba, Corsica and Belgrade mines the
first of next week, according to an
announcement recently made by W..
P. Chinn, superintendent of these
properties. Work in all sections Of
the Minnesota iron country is increas-
ing. Figures given out by r. j. Mitch
ell, Eveleth district superintendent of
the Oliver Mining company, show that
more men are empioyed now than in
the summer.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
Sand Suffocates Two Workmen.

Lyle. = Two workmen met death
here in a cave-in of quicksand in a
sewer ditch in which they were work
ing. The dangerous part of the work
was supposedly finished when the two
men were sent TO the bottom of the
excavation. The slide covered both
with sand and desperate efforts of the
co-workers to uncover them failed to
save their lives. The dead are Mike
Leelich of st. Paul and Frank Fahey
of Chicago.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
RarrssxilIa Jail Empty.

GAINESVILLE, MINI. The most
striking record of non-arrests in
this city's history, was revealed by
records covering the period from Nov.
20 to Dec. 20, during which there was
not a single arrest in Barnesville.
During the 80 days previous to Nov.
20 there were 79 arrests in Barnes
vile.
The period Of non-arrests covers
the first 80 days since the saloons
were voted out, and the previous 30
days covers the record Of the last
days of the saloon.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
Foreign

The preliminary draft of Austria's
reply to thessecond American note
contains the suggestion that important
points in dispute regarding the steam
ship Ancona's sinking be submitted
to an arbitration tribunal say reports
received in Berlin from Vienna.
Three hundred women employed in
the powder factory at Muenster. West
phalia. were killed in an explosion at
the plant. according to advices to the
Amsterdam Telegraf, forwarded by
Reuters correspondent
Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain of
New York, who withdrew from the
Ford peace expedition at Stockholm.
presented at a public meeting of the
delegates long statement of her rea-
sons for doing so and for believing the
project was doomed to failure.
DIR. Frederick A. Cook, an American
explorer who went to India in June to
ascend the Himalaya mountains and
was detained in India for five weeks
as a German spy. is making his way
across Siberia, intending to return to
New York.
The Persian cabinet has falisn, says
dispatch from Teheran. The shah
has named Prince Firmano Firma as
premier to organize new cabinet.
A dispatch to the National Tidende
of Copenhagen from Christiania say
that Henry Ford left Christiania Sc.
cretly for Bergen, where he expected
to board the Norwegian-American line
steamer Bergenhus to return to the
United States. Mr.. Ford's doctor or
dered him to rest his tired and over
worked nerves. The remainder OF the
expedition left for Stockholm.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
Decrease in ~ 8. ships.

Washington, Dec. 2S.-Although the
number. of merchant ships under the
American flag decreased during the
fiscal year ending with last June, the
tonnage of the merchant marine show
ed a record breaking increase, accord
ing to the annual report of the COM
missioner or navigation, just made
public. On June 80, 1914, 26,943 YES
sells having total gross tonnage of
7,928,6S8 were under American reg
istry. A yeer later the number hac
decreased to 26.701, but the aggre
gate tonnage was 8.389.429.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
Says WILSON KNEW OF PLOT
J. X. TURNER ENDORSES CHARGE
AGAINST FORMER ENVOY.
Writer on Mexican Conditions Gen.
vInced Ambassador Had ForeknowI-
edge of Maderos Murder.

Minneapolis, Dec. 29.-The conten.
ton OF John Lind, expressed recently
before a church audience in Mime
apolis, that Henry Lane Wilson, for
mer ambassador to Mexico, had fore
knowledge of the plot to murder Ma
dero, Is upheld by ]. Kenneth Turner,
writer on conditions in the repub-
lie, who is i'm Minneapolis. Wilson de.
sired that the country be annexed to
the United States or that a strong
dictator of the type of Porfirio Diaz be
established in power, Mr.. Turner
says.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
Purse of s2.5oo for Old Soldier.

St. Paul. = One of the biggest
Christmas presents given In st. Paul
was hung on a tree in the home of
Captain Josias r. King, who is said
to have been the first man to enlist
in the Northern army for the Civil
war 1t was purse Of $1,000 made up
by 100 longstanding residents of the
city and former members of the Pho
neer guards.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
Urge U. S. Border Extension.

Phoenix, Ariz, Dec. 27.-Announce-
ment has been made here Of a move
ment to bring about change in the
boundary line between the United
States and Mexico by extending the
present line directly west along the
31st parallel from the 111th meridian
so as to take in the northern part of
the Gulf of California and part of Lower
California. Commercial organizations
of Phoenix and other Arizona cities
have sent kilograms to officials, urging
their support of the movement.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
s1a5,ooo Christmas Gift for winona.

Winona = With a princely Christ
mas gift, Santa Claus filled Winona's
stocking. 1t was in the form of three
deeds which conveyed to the munich
pality property aggregating in value
$125,000, the most magnificent and
substantial present Winona ever has
received, although exceptionally for
tunate in that respect
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
Murdered In Texas; Buried.

Crookston. - The body Of A. E.
Schraeder, who was shot and killed at
Schraeder, Texas, while writing let
ter to his rother in Crookston, was
buried here. He owned a big ranch.
There is said to be no clue as to who
fired the shot through his bedroom
window.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
Mexican Revolt

Friends of Gen. Rafael Egula Lis
have been informed that he. with all
his staff officers, has been executed at
Cuautia, Mex, by order Of Emiliano
Zapata. The order was fulfilled pub
licly by Zapatista.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
Raise for Naval Employees.

Washington, Dec. ga majority Of
the $4,000 employees in government
navy yards, shops and stations will
receive increases in pay beginning
Jan. 1, Secretary Daniels announced.
The Ely miner., 1915-12-31
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