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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-02-16

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF
ExECUTRIX.
STATE OF IOWA, Delaware County,
IS.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That
the undersigned has been duly ap-
pointed and qualified as Executrix of
the estate of John E. Hugh, late of
Delaware County, deceased. All per-
sons indebted to said Estate are
requested to make immediate pay
ment and those having claims against
the same will present them, duly au-
thenticated, to the undersigned for
allowance. JANE HUGH.
Dated January goth, 1916.
E. B. STILES,
Attorney for Estate. 5-3Wks
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-02-16
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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-02-16

Or. c. N. MORGAN
VET PRIMARY SURGEON. Hospital
on Delaware Street. Calls answer
ef' day or night. Phone IA.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-03
DEPUTY Is
APPOINTED

Court Clerk Newman this morning
announced the appointment of Miss
Adola Zinn as chief deputy in his of
flee. succeeding Mrs. Edna T. Wat
kins who has severed her connection
with the office after a number Of
years service. The appointment OF
Miss Zinn, Mr. Newman stated this
morning. is a temporary one.
Mrs. Watkins stated this morning
that she had no plans as to the bust
ness she might engage in at the pres
ent and said that it was possible she
would devote her entire time to her
candidacy for the court clerkship
nomination.
Miss Zinn is an experienced stem
ographer and an adept in the routine
work Of the office She has served
for the past several months as assist
ane to County Superintendent Shep-
ard.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-03
PURSUERS
AREELUDED
BY BANDIT
Slipped Collar and CrawIed Under Fence
is Comment Of Funston; Troops Hin
dered in Search by False
Information

By United Press.
San Antonio, Tex, April 3.-"It is
my belief that Villa has slipped the
collar and crawled under the fence. -
This was Gen. Funstons comment to-
day on the progress of the Mexican
man hunt.
The American troops are said to be
greatly hampered in the search by
false information given by Mexicans
1T is believed that the American col
umns are near Chihuahua today but
there was no report from Pershing
and no definite news from other
sources.
The roads south of Casas Grandes
are reported to be much improved
Five powerful automobiles are being
used as couriers between Ell Vale and
the extreme front. Twenty Apache
scouts, the greatest trailers in the
world, will 60 to the front next week
to track the outlaw
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-03
OF
CO. BOARD
IS OPENED

The board Of county commissioners
met in regular monthly session this
morning with all board members pres
ent ]. A. Corzine, commissioner pre-
siding.
Following the filing, auditing and
approval of the reports of the county
officers for the month of March the
matter of moving the county road
bridge on the ten acre line on Sec g.,
township 6, range 6, west, to a point
22O yards north and on the line be-
tween sections 9 and A, township g.,
range 6, west. was called for hearing
and the report of the county engineer
filed
This matter is the final of the long
drawn out Lucille road controversy
The Lucille road matter was settled
at the last meeting of the commission
ers. with the exception of this portion,
and the road ordered opened The en-
gineer's report, filed this morning.
states that the cost of moving and re-
building the bridge will be $780, that
Dave Hill win expect the county to
pay him at the rate of SOS per acre for
right-o-way on the section line and
that he would also demand that his
fences be moved and repaired along
the said section line at the expense of
the county.
Action upon the matter was passed
until this afternoon.
On motion it vas resolved that the
county road bridge between sections
20 and 80, township s, range 6, west.
be moved to the section line between
sections II and 70, township z, range
g. west The expense of moving this
bridge to be betrayed by d. T. Brown,
G. H. Young and J. T. Ray, the county
to furnish a supervisor to rebuild the
bridge
NJ. J. Smedley reported to the board
that McAfee had forbidden him
moving the separate school house IN
district No. 80, sold to him by the
county commissioners some time
since. 1t was agreed that the county
attorney and Commissioner Bryant
should see Mr McAfee in the matter.
Mrs. Ward, of 712 Chickasha avenue,
before the board and asked
for aid from the county. Matter pass
cd to a later date of the present meet
ing.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-03
Is
ELECTION
DAY INCITY

Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 4, will be
the date of the city election. Chick
asha has one alderman to elect from
each of the four wards. The Demo
STa:s and Socialists each have a tick
ct in the field. The Democratic can
didates are Hayes. Cavett, Lorensen
and Nea, each running to succeed
himself.
In addition to the election of alder
man from the four wards, the people
will vote upon the proposition of
whether or not the city of Chickasha
shall incur an indebtedness of $4,000
for the purpose of motorizing and
adding to the equipment of the Chick
asha fire department.
There will not be bond PROPOSE
ton before the people, as many are
alleged to believe. The fire equip
ment, should the proposition carry,
will be purchased on the open account
plan and funds will be available from
the supply fund to meet the payments
as they fall due,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-03

tee to the people of Oklahoma, honest
and efficient public officers and an
economic and business like admins
tration of public affairs.
2. We endorse the state admins
tration under the honest, fearless and
able leads, Governor R. l.. Williams.
We commend the administration and
its several departments for the eff
cient and conscientious administra-
ton of the states affairs, the fearless
and just enforcement of the laws, and
the able and constructive legislation
enacted.
3. We endorse the Democratic par
ty in its efforts to require corporate
wealth and public service interests to
acknowledge and obey the laws of this
state, compel every class of property
Continued on Page Two.)
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-03
PAYS FINE EoR LARCENY

Esker McAlister. who was fined S25
and costs a month ago in Judge 0av-
enport's court on charges of petit lar
ceny in having, according to the
charges of the state. stolen one ham
and one shoulder of hog meat from
Jake Mutz. of Ninnekah. appeared be
for the court this morning and paid
the fine and costs amounting to to-
tai of s4z.25. The defendant has been
out upon stay bond since the date Of
his trial.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-03
Germans Worried About crops,

Germans Worried About cropsy
BY United Press.
The Hague. April S.-Germans are
worrying already concerning the COM
ing harvest. Newspapers from the
Kaisers side of the frontier lay much
stress on the fact that relief from
present semi-famine conditions is
more important than even the greatest
military gains.
The anxious tone of this comment
strongly suggests that the press puts
little faith in the official attribution
OF 1858 comparatively unsatisfactory
showing to bad weather.
As a matter of fact, it is asserted,
the area of land under cultivation ac-
tually decreased and it is denied that
in any case was cultivation as inten-
sive as it should have been.
For one things, it is said that so
large a proportion OF agricultural la
borers We're drafted into the army
that work was left to inexperienced
hands. The government is cautiously
urged to consider that the Importance
of a good crop this year is sufficient
to warrant even the temporary re-
lease of men from military duty il
they are needed on the farms.
A shortage of draft cattle is COM
planned of and last year, it is stated,
the supply of seed and fertilizer was
adversely affected by the strain on
the railroads.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-03
DAUGHTER
OF WILSON,
is WINNER
Margaret Brings Opponents into Line
Just Like Papa in Fight With Mem
bers Of Conservative Wash
ingtOn School Board
by United Press.

| by United Press.
Washington, April S---President
Wilson's daughter Miss Margaret
Wilson. is showing Washington today
that her father is not the only mem
Der Of the White House family gifted
with powers to bring congressman
and such into line.
Miss Wilson for scnic months has
been engaged in battle Of politics
with Washingtoz's Board of Educa-
ton, a conservative institution ap-
pointed by courts and not responsible
to the people. Her battle is about to
come to a successful conclusion in the
House, where Representative Johnson
of Kentucky has introduced a bill in
tended to bring the board into line,
broaden the schools field Of useful
ness and add another scalp to the al.
ready large Wilson collection.
Miss Wilson have advanced ideas
about a city She believes school
houses may be used to advantage by
grown folks as community centers,
civic forums ard such. The people
We're in favor of it, all along.
Finally, Representative Crosser Of
Ohio introduced a bill providing that
school houses might be used as civic
centers. Senator Hollis sponsored the
bill in the Senate Permission was
granted for mothers and fathers to
meet at the schools to discuss school
affairs. politics, war. and if they want
ed to- fashions. Citizens associations,
of which there are about seventy-five,
also made use of them.
In the Grover Cleveland school. one
of the first to take advantage of the
law, the people decided to meet on
Sunday afternoons. The Board of Ed
ucation didn't see il that way. Ii
there were to be any meetings, the
board said, 1.-THE Board-would say
when they were to be held.
Miss Wilson went right up and saw
the congressman about it. She didn't
have to go any farther than Johnson
OF Kentucky, chairman OF the District
committee.
Early in March C19i6) the Board of
Education walked up to find that Con-
gress was by way of passing bin
which said that ten schools. in given
sections, should be named as commu-
ntiy forums.
Further, the hill said specifically
that the people in the sections, if they
wanted to organize. could go right
ahead. Whey they were organized,
the bill went on, they were to name
the time and place OF meeting. The
Board OF Education, left to hold the
sack, was told it was made response
BILE for the plan, and that its duty lay
in seeing that nothing went wrong
with the plan.
All the Board has to do is Jump right
up and say, "Yes. sir when a proper
ly-organized section voices a desire to
meet at the schoolhouse. The bill it
self looks innocent enough. 1t says,
in parenthesis. that it was introduced
"by request"
Col. Jack Hale of Naples was among
4ha xieitors in tha eitv todav
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-03
By United Press

~ NAANC0 4 ANoo.
El Paso. Tex, April 3.-It is feared
this morning that Villa has eluded his
American pursuers.
Unless the bandit leader is located
soon the search in the territory about
Guerrero will be abandoned and the
Parral district to the south will be in
vaded. It is considered quite likely
that he is headed in that direction
where he has many sympathizers.
That Villa was seriously wounded as
reported by official Carranza sources
is beginning to be doubted Wild ru-
mors of lack of Carranza cooperation
in the chase are officially discredited.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-03
TRINITY RIVER
AT HIGH STAGE
BY United Press.

BY United Press.
Dallas. Tex, April 3.-The weather
bureau announced that the Trinity
river would reach the forty foot stage
today and then begin to fall.
Katy trains today on the Denton
branch are detouring over the Texas
and Pacific on account. of flooded
tracks.
Hundreds of residents of west Dsl
las and the Trinity river bottoms were
driven from their homes Sunday and
last night.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-03
JAP ship
HITS ROCK
By United Press.

9y United Press.
Toxic, April 3.-According to re-
ports reaching here today the Japan
ese steamer Wakatsu Maru struck a
rock and sank off the coast near Nag
asaki.
While the details OF the disaster are
not known. it is indicated that the loss
Of life was seventy-six passengers and
twenty members Of the crew.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-03
peserters from carranz.l

Ply United. Press.
Washington, April semi-official
advices today state that many of the
Villistas wounded in the fight Wednes-
day were deserters from the command
of Col. Cano's Carranzistas Officials.
however. see no significance in these
reports. believing that the men were
only individual desertions to the forces
of Villa.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-03

WORKING
ON ROADS

| A pretty little legal battle is on deck
ready for the rising OF the curtain this
afternoon, when it will be decided
whether or not certain prisoners fined
in the city courts and turned over to
the county. will work the county roads.
The prisoners. Dan Kelly, Tennessee
Red" and Baby Slim" have seen a
lawyer and state that they feel sure
they cannot be made to join the ranks
of the common herd who are at pres
ent working on certain roads of the
county under the supervision Of MIN
Wyatt, foreman in charge
"They are a bad lot" said Mayor
Coffman this morning, and should be
made to work out their fines. Kelley
has only recently been released from
the penal institution at cenent. 'Ofl
course. il the prisoners vim out and
the court holds that they cannot be
sent to the county roads, they will
work the streets or get mighty hun
CRY. If they refuse to work the streets
they will have chance to fatten on
bread three times a day, mixed with
all the water their little hearts may
desire"
Oscar Simpson, who has been seen
by the prisoners, stated that the law
was very clearly construed to mean
that prisoners might be turned over
to the county by the city and that
might be worked upon the county
roads provided they, the prisoners, did
not enter objections to working. but
that in event they did object, the
county had no authority to work them.
1t was stated at the Jail this morn
ing that the wagon would be in from
the convict camp, thirteen miles east
of Chickasha on the Chickasha-Tabler
road, this afternoon and that, anless
enioined. the officers would probably
escort the three obstreperous ones to
the camp.
Dan Kelley was fined S25 Saturday
afternoon in Mayor Coffman's court
for fighting; Tennessee Red" was
fined Friday in the sum of s25 on vag
charges and has a prior fine Of $50
hanging over him; Baby slim" an
Ethiopian of lilly of the valley habits
was also jolted on Friday in the sum
of SIS on vag charges.
Chas. Crisp. fined $50 for fighting.
on Saturday afternoon. has paid his
fine and been released from custory |
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-03

RoAp GANG GUSHING WORK

MIN Wyatt, who has charge Of the
county convict gang in camp on West
Winter creek, was in Chickasha today.
Mr. Wyatt stated that the gang has
been pushing the work of grubbing
on the Chickasha-Tabler road and
that as soon as the ground dries from
the recent rains, the graders may be
started
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-03
CEMENT BOY REPORTED
pESERTER ERoM ARMY

The United States war department
is sending out descriptive circulars
afking the apprehension of Keeuer K.
Melton, private of the first class, hos.
pital corps. alleged to have deserted
from Fort D. A. RUSSELL Wyoming.
Melton enlisted August II, 1911. and
gave his place Of residence. at the
time of enlistment, ac Cement. Okla.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-03
Offensive is Checked,

BY United Press.
Paris, April S.-The German often.
sive with twenty thousand troops, aim
ing to surround Fort Vaux, was halt
ed by a French counter attack, it was
reported today. 1t is claimed that the
French gained ground in the Cailetta
woods southeast of Fort Douamont.
On the west bank of the Meuse the
Germans bombarded Haucourt and
Esnes, with the French guns replying
from Hill No. 314 304
1t is reported that Dunkirk was raid
ed by Zeppelin, eight bombs being
dropped, killing two persons and injur-
ing four.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-03
SITUATION
DESCRIBED
AS SERIOUS
Dy United Press.

Uy United Press.
Washington, April S.-The receipt
Of additional news in the form of an
affidavit today strengthened the belief
of administration officials that Ger
man submarine was responsible for
recent attacks on vessels carrying
Americans.
The situation is again described as
very serious. The cabinet will meet
tomorrow to take up and consider the
additional proofs that have been sub
mitted. 1t is thought possible that
Germany's attitude will then be
known.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-03
Another Liner is Sunk.

By United Press.
London, April 3.-The Holt liner
Achilles is merely reported as sunk
without warming, in the official state,
ment issued today.
1t Is believed that four members Of
the crew were drowned, Sixty-three
are known to lrave, been rescued,
1t is also reported that the unarmed
Glasgow steamer Perth was sunk with
the loss of six lives.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-03
By United Press.

By United Press.
London, April Following the
third Zeppelin raid within seventy-two
hours, with casualties reaching total
OF three hundred, a wave of indigna-
tion over the killing of non-combat
ants has swept England
The members of the crew of the
Zeppelin that was captured Saturday
are denounced as baby killers" and
the government is being urged to
make an example of them.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-03
SUFFER HARDSHIPS
in ANTARCTIC WATERS
By United Press.

by United Press.
Port Chalmers, New Zealand, April
3.-The Aurora. an auxiliary ship of
the Shaekleton Antarctic expedition.
returned here after undergoing terri
bic hardships in Ross sea.
The ship drifted rudderless for ten
months. The provisions of the men
were exhausted and they were COM
PEELED to subsist upon seal and pen
guin flesh.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-03
Early RepIy Expected.
By United Press.

BY United Press.
Washington, April Ambassador
Gerard cabled to the state department
today that he anticipated an early re-
ply from Germany to the request of
the United States. government for in
formation regarding the sinking Of the
Sussex and other vessels.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-03
Third Zeppelin Raid in Sessnty-Two Hours
Causes Wave Of Indignation to Sweep
England; Invaders Denounced
as Baby Killers
FRENCH CLAIM ATTACK
ON Fl. VAUX is HALTED
Germans BOmbarding on West Bank Of
Meuse with French Guns Replying;
Two More Steamers
are Sunk
BY United Press.

BY United Press
London, April 3,--It was officially
announced today that three children
we're killed ana two women aud four
children injured in last nights Zeppe-
lin raid on the Scottish coast.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-03

Col. Jack Hale Of Naples was among
the visitors in the city today,
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