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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-23
NOMINATION TO BE CONSIDERED
Wilson'S Selection Of Mexican Ambas-
sator Probably Will BE Approved.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-Henry
Prather Fletcher's nomination as am
bassador to Mexico will be considered
tomorrow by the foreign relations
committee of the senate. Adminis-
tration senators think report rec
ommending confirmation will be voted
promptly. Although Republicans Of
the committee are not satisfied with
the presidents recent report on the
circumstances leading up to the rec
ognition of the CarranZa de facto gov
ernment, several of them believe it
would be unwise to delay longer send
ing diplomatic representative to
Mexico to care for American inter-
ests.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-23
DEMOCRATS LOSE MORE VOTES

That the recent action of the legislature in passing bin
that oil
the administration and the Democratic whole
asking for fair play for the he
League of n
Maloy and the Tulsa crowd eered
they of
fell line marched up
down the other, cheering the while.
The resolution that with dsapproval of the
Democrats of Oklahoma follows:
Whereas the production of oil
stana industries of the of Oklahoma
state
And whereas it is doctrine Of democracy and principle
Of the American that
shall before the law be
And whereas the legislature unwisey
the of
just and burdensome
towit three
in the state board of equalization the
the OF three
Now, therefore, be Mems Demo
cratic League Oklahoma
Democrats citizens the
that plainly discrmnates of
state and places that industry its
Of the burden of We
honest
gross production bill 50 to bring the to at least two
the state board OF the urgent necessity of making
that when such an investigation made said board
the
and should be reduced go
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-23
KILLED IN REBELLION.
Mutiny at Cairo Results In Fatalities
and Many Hurt.

BERLIN, Feb. 22.-(By wireless to
Sayville.) Reports from Cairo Of IA
rebellion that recently occurred
among the reserves there, are printed
under the date of February 10 in the
Italian paper LOrdine," says the
Overseas News agency. THE reports
state that 30 persons were killed and
40 wounded
During the mutiny, it is declared,
British major shot an Arab who
would not allow his shop to be
searched.
According to the advces there
were ten executions I'm Cairo during
January"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-23
Lawmakers and Democratic
Riot Originators Quit
the Legislature.
COST WAS ONLY $4,000
Just Five Times the Sum
Conservative Bob Said
1t Would.

NKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 22.-After
~ having finished its work last
night and adjournment was ready to
would be impossible for the enrolling
force of the legislature to complete
the bills for signature and the Off
cials of both houses with few MEM
bers remained this morning and put
the finishing touches To the measures
The work on the registration bill
could not be completed and that bill
was finally signed today.
Members IF the two houses packed
their things today and went home.
Many had gone on Monday
Just how much good the legisla-
ture had accomplished during the
special session that will cost the tax
payers about $4,000 caused some
speculation among members today
before leaving for their homes. 1t is
not denied that the session was called
for the passage of election laws to
offset the effect of the supreme
courts decision on the grandfather
clause, and Cor a usury law, as an
nounced.
The registration law as it Is finally
written is believed to approach some
fairness. II is not nearly the vicious
thing it was before the amendments
were put on it in the house yesterday.
But ii is still a source of some ex-
pense on the people that is not
needed. Registration officers will
still receive and 3 cents head for
registrations. and this was not neces-
sary. The appointment of the spe-
cial registration officers was not
necessary, at any rate, according to
the opinions Of many who have
studied the Jaw.
Vote of the People.
The grandfather clause will be
submitted to the people at a special
election, to be held on the same date
as the primary election. This will
make it so that it will require only
Continued on Page Three.)
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-23
Must Keen King Away

BERLIN, Feb. 22.-By wireless TO
Sayville. to the Russian
newspaper Birsheviya Vydeomosti,
says the Overseas News agency, "the
diplomatists OF the entente powers
have concluded an investigation into
the request for peace made by King
Nicholas OF Montenegro to Austria
Hungary.
THE entente has decided that King
Nicholas must reside at place far
removed from Montenegro until the
end Of the war; also that he must
abstain from all political activity and
expression Of political opinion and
give up all attempts to communicate
with Prince MrkO or other Montene-
grin personalities
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-23
CAMDEN BANK VICTIM
OF \ HOLIDAY ROBBER

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. ga
robber gained admittance to the
Camden Park State bank late to-
day, locked the cashier and
carpenter in the vault and es-
capped with 500. The bank VAS
closed because Of the ioliday.
Several weeks ago the same bank
was held up and robbed 10y
three bandits.
The robber tapped or the
front window, motioning the
cashier to the door. When the
door was opened the robber drew
a gun and ordered both men into
the vault where they remained
until the carpenter. discovering a
chisel in his pocket. pried at the
mechanism until the lock was
loosened and the bolts drawn.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-23
PROTESTANTS DIDN'T ARRIVE
Boston Delegation to Protest Against
Brandcis

WASHINGTON. Feb. 22.-Attorn-
eys for Boston Protestants against
confirmation of Louis ID. Brandeis as
an associate justice of the supreme
court failed to appear today when
the senate subcommittee met to con-
tinue its Investigation of the nomina-
ton. and the hearing was adjourned
until tomorrow.
Austen G. Fox. representing the
protestants. told the committee last
Friday that he would provide today
a summary Of the charges he expect
ed to prove and q list Of witnesses he
wanted examined.
The committee today summoned
several witnesses to testify Thursday
and Friday.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-23
Lansing Names Committee.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-Secre-
tary Lansing. in his capacity as head
of the governing board of the Pan
American union, has appointed the
diplomatic representatives here of
Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela and Pan
anna as committee to study the pro-
prosed plan for department of edu-
cation under the direction of the
union. The committee will report at
the next meeting of the board.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-23
Continued on Page Three.)
French Steamer Delay, Sailing.

NEW YORK, Feb. 22.-The sailing
of the French line steamship Es-
pagne, which had been postponed
from today Jntil tomorrow, has been
put off until Friday.
Officials of the line said today that
the postpon ament had no connection
with WARNINGS received by passengers
not to sail by the Espagne, in view
of the contemplated renewal of Ger
man submarine activities"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-23
AMERICAN AMBASSADOR F.NILS
While Skating and Left Collar Bone
Is Broken.

BERLIN, Fez. 22 (by wireless to
Sayville )-James w. Gerard, the
American ambassador, fell yesterday
while at Partenkirchen, Bavaria, and
broke his left collar bone. He re-
turned to Berlin today in care OF the
naval attache Of the embassy and
Surgeon Carl Ohnesord.
Ambassador Gerard went to Par
tenkirchen on Friday for brief out
ing.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-23
France Taxes War Profits.

PARIS, Feb. 22.-The chamber of
deputies today passed the bill taxing
war profits. The measure remains
effective year after the cessation
of hostilities and applies to all who
have profited by the war the regular
furnishers Of war supplies not being
excepted.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-23
Millionaire Banker Dies

PUEBLO. Colo. Feb 22.-Mahlon
D. Thatcher, pioneer and millionaire
banker. died here today. aged 76. His
estate is estimated to be worth be-
tween $10,000.0O0 and s20.000,000.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-23
DuIna In Session.

PETROGRAD, Feb. 20. via London.
6:1S p. m.-The new session of tho
duma was opened today Emperor
Nicholas addressed the deputies, the
president Of the duma replying.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-23
PROSPERITY TALK

There were hundreds Of young
Democrats here yesterday from all
parts Of the state. and today there
will be hundreds more Despite this
building progressed, and it will
progress today. too.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-23
WEATHER REPORT

FORECAST-0k Oklahoma: Wednes.
day fair: warmer in west portion;
Thursday fair.
TULSA. Feb. 22.-rhe temperature
Maximum 73. minimum 53 North
wiGds and clear Precipitation II
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-23

Continued on Page Ten.)
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-12-30

"This speaker referred his hearers
to paragraphs in the report where it
was stated that: degradation is not
an inherent racial defect, but the
joint product of ignorance and neglect.
The same things poison human life,
the same things build it up, whatever
the color of the tabernacle in which it
lives. The social creed Of the Federal
Council is as applicable to Southern
Negroes as to Northern immigrants.
Equal rights and complete justice for
all men in all relations of life, the
protection of family, the fullest posi-
BILE development of every child, the
safe guarding of women. the abate-
ment and prevention of poverty, pro-
lection from the wastes of the liquor
traffic, the conservation of health. -
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-12-30
DEATH OF MRS. CLARA STUDY.
MTRE

1t was exclusively announced IN
these columns last week that Mrs.
Clara Studymire, AS E. 92nd street,
chairman of the Board of Directors of
the Phyllis Wheatley Home, active
and prominent member of Grace Pres
byterian Church, would in the near
future undergo an operation at Provi-
dent Hospital, but instead of beeom-
ing patient at that hospital, on
Saturday morning, she was operated
on at the Hahnemann Hospital, 2s14
Ellis avenue and the first operation
not being successful, she had to under
90 the second one which resulted in
her death right on the operating table.
Funeral services were held over her
remains Tuesday afternoon from her
late home. Interment at lakewood
Cemetery. Rev. Moses NJ. Jackson
officiated.
Mrs. Studymire leaves husband, a
SON eighteen years old who had arrived
home from school just in time to en-
brace her before she expired, other
relatives and hosts Of friends to lament
her untimely death.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-12-30
NATIONAL NEWS NOTES.
Brief Bits of News and Comment On
Men and Women.
POWER OF THE SOUTHERN
VOTER.

Washington, d. C.-In shaping ma
tional legislation one vote in Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi, South Carolina, or Nir-
ginia is worth as much as five votes
cast IN Connecticut, New Jersey, Ohio,
Michigan, Iowa, New Mexico or Idaho.
The eight southern states enumerated
east a total of l1,l99 votes for the
election of members to sit in the Sixty
fourth Congress. This makes an
average of 7,745 votes to each district,
the entire number of districts return
ing Ga Democrats, one Republican and
one Progressive.
For the seven northern States men,
toned, the total vote at the same time
was 1851 ,402, or an average of 39,2O3
votes for each district, returning %
Republicans and 16 Democrats. Thus
slightly over half million southern
voters have &c spokesman in the House
of Representatives, whereas it required
more than two and a half million
northern voters to secure equal repre-
sentation. The inequality in voting
power is the outcome of course, of a
basis of total population forming the
several southern Congressional districts
where the Negro is counted in, but his
vote excluded. How long must this in
equality continue! Are the North and
the Republican party to supinely sub
nit Indefinitely to this condition OF
affairs?
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-12-30
HEADS MEMORIAL SOCIETY.

Washington, Special.-Congressman
Isaac R. Sherwood, of Ohio, has been
elected president of the Booker T..
Washington Memorial Association, to
which plans have just been presented
for the construction of a memorial to
the Tuskegee educator in this city to
cost 100000, General Sherwood was
elected at a meeting held Friday of
last week in the Union Savings Bank
Building.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-12-30
DANISH RULER RATIFIES WEST
INDIES SALE TO u. s.
Puts o. Z. to Treaty Following Ac-
ceptance of American Offer by Both
Houses of Parliament.
Alderman of the Second Ward.

Copenhagen.-King Christian in the
cabinet council has ratified the treaty
providing for the sale of the Danish
West Indies to the United States.
This follows the passage by both
houses of the Danish parliament of the
bill for the ratification of the treaty.
The exchange of the ratification instru-
ments will take place in Washington,
probably towards the end of January
The Danish acceptance will be dis
patched on the steamer Helig Olav on
Jan. IL.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-12-30
New York's Great Bridges.

The five giant spans Of steel, VINCE
like gargantuan fingers, Gluten ue
two sides of East river, binding New
York and Brooklyn together cO''
Americas metropolis half as muen y
the Panama canal cost the fedeial
government. Three of them. says w
National Geographic Magazine ~,
suspended from cables the wires " ',
which, If placed end to end "Ou :,
more than twice girdle the cartn' i.
placed side by side these hve sl'.,
structures would provide roadWa! =
wide as the Washington monulien,
high, and if placed end to emu Nv, ",
would make a great bridge over -
miles long. Ian.
Across the Brooklyn bridge ai0.'
125,OOO surface cars travel ever! w. wv,
ty-four hours, with other Veni'O-
traffic in proportion.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-12-30
A Bridge Party In Jau,n

A Bridge Party In jap IN.
1t wasn't long after We landed befr,
we saw the japanese woman, the TN
that old Japan creates. She and sOms
others were having a bridge partv
Sounds inviting, but it wasn't AhOnt
twenty of them were driving piles tr
q new bridge. The sun was Scorchin,
the timbers enormous and the man
overseer was abusing them. For
weren't they only women? Without
education and with old Japan's idea Of
women crushing them down. they deem
ed themselves pretty fortunate to have
even such work and the princely sun
Of 10 cents day.
No, it isn't enough for old Japan that
the women should have a baby ever
year. They must work, work like men
and animals. In NikkO we could see
from a distance a long line Of bowed
figures climbing the steep bank Of The
river Daiya, and ON coming nearer We
saw that they were old, old women,
wrinkled and gray, carrying barrels
not baskets, but barrels of stone from
the river bed to the road. Such is tha
reverence for age in Japan.-Jean Prie
in World Outlook.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-12-30
Alaska.

Alaska is an outlying possession
Seward bought it of Russia in 1861 ta,
S7,2OO,OOO. He and it became NJ
tional joke for that generation, and eE.
cept for Stewards icebOX" 1t attractS
but little attention. Having more thn
half million square miles in area, !
is more than ten times larger than any
state east of the Mississippi and cor
tains mountain systems, valleys md
mighty rivers. Switzerland could b
lost around the base of Mount MeKh
ley. 1t is only since KlOndike dap
that Alaska has at all been taken sen
ously, and even from that date the Oe
velopment has come slowly. But AIS
ka has only been scratched. Alaska y
the biggest prize in the Pacific OceaA
its material possibilities are illimitaOs
and we are permitting it to stand Ut
terly unprotected when with only
little care on our part 1t could be msG
MISUNDERSTANDING.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-12-30
WHISKEY SUPERSEDING BEER
AS A BEVERAGE.

New York, n. Y.-The New York
Globe points out that whiskey drink
ing is superseding beer drinking under
the new excise regulations of a num-
Der of the states. This means that
hard drinking is taking the place of
light drinking of beers and light
wines.
The New York Globe says:
"Since July l, 1915, prohibitory
laws have gone into legal effect in six
States. vet approximately 100000
more gallons of whiskey have been
consumed so far during this fiscal year
than ever before during a similar
period. Coincidentally there has been
decrease of 100000 gallons in the
consumption of beer. These cold fig
ures, furnished by the Internal Reve-
nue. Bureau. sufficiently show that pro-
hibition does not prohibit. 1t may
lessen the saloon evil, but it does not
diminish the use of strong liquors. On
the contrary, it tends to lead to the
increase of the use of spirituous and
a decrease of the use of malt bever,
ages. The lesson is startling in its
impressiveness. The assumption of
those who support prohibitory laws is
destroyed. Prohibitionists think they
are diminishing the drink evil, but ex'
cept in exceptional communities they
are intensifying it.
"Good motives are behind the pro-
hibition movement. It enjoys the sup
port of a vast body of good citizens
But they are not getting what they
seek. The method they employ is
fatally defective. The results are not
what they anticipate. The statistics
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-12-30
TAKES CoLoRED WIFE.

Doylestown, N. j., Specialize
candidates for matrimony who have
appeared in the license Office at the
Court House here have oceasioned so
much comment as Nicholas Mueller. a
Newtown insurance broker, 81 years
old and White, and Miss LOttie B.
Taylor, aged 81, full-blooded Colored
American. Miss Taylor gave her oeeu-
patton as dressmaker. Her father is
a prosperous farmer in Columbus,
Ohio.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-12-30
THE NEGRO FELLOWSHIP
LEAGUE.

The Negro Fellowship League in
vites you and your friends to join in
celebrating the 53rd Anniversary OF
the taking effect of the Emancipation
Proclamation Sunday, Dec. 31st, 1916,
at 8 P. NJ, at Bethel A. NJ. E. Church,
3Oth and Dearborn SITS. Congressman
VIM. E. Mason, will show that Chas. E
Hughes, has been elected President OF
the United States; Atty. E. ]. Mar
shall, will speak on the "2nd Emanci'
patton" Music arranged by Prof
Edw. j. Morris.
Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett,
President.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-12-30
JOHN r. HAWKINS.
Stirs Church Council at st. Louis
Fearlessly Tells Why Colored Men
are Leaving the South.

Addressing himself to a part of a
report made to the Church Council re-
Gently held in st. Louis and of which
Bishop Wilbur p Thirkield, former
president of Howard University, was
one of the signers, John R. Hawkins,
LIB, financial secretary of the A.
NJ. Z. Church, stirred the convention
and made the blood of manly men
tingle as he poured forth in words of
simple truth, the cause of the Negro
leaving the south. The particular part
of the paragraph which he answered
was:
"There is also among the Negroes
an increasing distrust of the White
race and a growing contempt for its
religion and its sense of justice-feel'
ings which are breeding a new spirit
of antagonism and aggression"
The st. Louis Globe Democrat under
deep headlines quoted the following
from his address:
"Strong expressions, perhaps the
strongest of the sessions Of the Coun
ell were made by John R Hawkins
financial secretary of the A. NJ. z
Church, on the cause of the Negroe
growing distrust of the south.
"He declares that members of hil
race were leaving the south by hun
dreds of thousands. If you travel OF
the train you will see them. They SIT
with bated breath; they are afraid II
tell you why. Conditions have become
intolerable. The whole problem rests
with the white men who have contro
of the government and the railroads
and municipalities. If you want tt
settle it right, go back to your homes
and confer with a few Negroes, wht
will tell you the truth, if it be guaran
teed that they wont be run away from
their homes. They love their homes
but life as it is is not worth the living
there.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-12-30
scHUMANN-HEINK GIVES $50.

San Francisco, Speeial.-Madame
Schumann- Heink who has been filling
an engagement here, presented Mrs.
George Dorsey with a check for $50
to be used for the benefit of the poor
Colored children for a Christmas tree.
Madame Heink announced that she
would give half of the proceeds of an
entertainment to the poor children of
this city and Mrs. Dorsey was the only
Colored woman to be present.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-12-30
ALDERMAN OSCAR DE PRIEST
DEMANDS A RETRACTION FROM
THE DAILY NEWS.

The following letter speaks for it
self:
December Goth, 1916.
Mr.. C.. Dennis,
Editor, The Chicago Daily News.
Chicago, Ill.
Dear Sir:
On Saturday December 23rd, 1916,
there appeared in the issue of "The
Chicago Daily News" of that date an
article dealing with gambling in what
your paper called "the Black Belt. !"
In the course of the article this state
ment is printed: '"3512 South State
Street, second floor, run by "Sport"
Mcfarland His is syndicate game,
but he once was arrested. Alderman
De Priest appeared with him before
Judge Barasa on that OCCASION
The statement that 1 appeared with
Mcfarland before Judge Barasa is
absolutely false.
In common with other Aldermen, on
the occasion of the inauguration of
Judge Barasa at the 35th Street Sta
ton, l visited the Court Room of
Judge Barasa to extend congratula-
tions. This was the occasion of my
presence in Judge Barasa's Court on
that afternoon. If Mcfarland s case
was on the call that day 1 did not
know it.
Connecting my name in the manner
above quoted, is therefore manifestly
unfair, and L herewith demand that a
retraction of the aforesaid published
statement be made and that equal
prominence be given the retraction as
was given the article in question.
Very truly yours,
OSCAR DE PRIEST,
Alderman of the Second Ward.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-12-30

Junius B. Wood in his ipto,...
article in the Daily News last g..
day evening, on the leading co,.~,
gamblers in this city went on "a ..'
that the Hon. Mr.. Bernard " h..
who has for some years eonduet0a :,
annual essay contests and verv ,,.1
fully presides over the best vOuDo n,
ored men and women in this eitv :,
can shout Amen! as loud as the L.
est church member in town. wbor :.
spirit moves him, is "the head -,
front of one of the social clubs Ios,..,
upstairs at the northeast eorna, :,
Forest avenue and East S5th ss,.,.
where all kinds of gambling is q "a
prominent feature and soma -.
that the billiard tables are eOro,,,
with white oil cloth so that the bor,
or the old time gamblers will bara =,
trouble in rolling the bones. at II,
same time shouting in loud vO;.,
while passing, four eleven fortv.fo,
seven come eleven.