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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-04-23
Oklahoma News
in Washington
(By JOHN w. FLENNER)
Senator Shaw of Tishomingo, Okla.
is Il visitor in Washington.

According to estimates of the de-
partment of agriculture the average
value of unimproved farm lands in
Oklahoma has advanced from $40 in
1915 to $23 an acre, while improved
farm lands have increased from S29
to s31 per acre.
The average value of poor Okla
homa plow lands is now S17 an acre,
while the average for good lands is
1886, or an average for all farm lands
of s27 an acre.
President Wilson has named G. II
Crittenden to succeed Henry w. Kin
nard. deceased. as postmaster at Rush
Springs. and Willard +. Morris to sue
ceed Ellis j. Baxter as postmaster at
Hooker, Okla.
Changes in fourth class Okla homa
postmasters are also announced as
follows:
Reichert, LeFlore county, Mrs. Del
phis McClain, vie S. l.. Britton, re-
signed; Whitesboro, LeF'lore county,
Gordon B. Shahan, vice T. a. Quinn,
resigned.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved an increase in the capital
of the Exchange National bank of
Tulsa from s250,000 to 100000.
Appointments in the rural mail
carrying service in oklahoma are an
nounced as follows:
Clinton, route h, Lawrence Il. Cox;
Dexey. route A, George W. Morgan;
DurhSm, route A, Dexter o. Cloud; ;
Lone Wolf, route 3, Clyde Lee; For
gan. route A, Daniel A. Rowland;
Henryetta. route /. David V. Arm
OF Il rH
Reay; Kellyville. route l, slas A.
Deelen: Laverne. route A. Montrose
NJ. Morrison; Muskogee. route A, Roy
NJ. Rapp (new service), Pryor, route
2, William II. Bell; Shattuck. route 8,
Thomas V. Terbash; Wateva, route /,
Glenn II. Van Noy
While several hearings have been
held on the bill introduced by Con-
gresham Carte. providing for the
sale of the coal and asphalt UNDER
lying the segregated mineral belt of
the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations
the house Indian committee will
probably not favorably report the
measure until the Indian appropria-
ton bill. now in conference, has been
finally disposed of. The coal bill
has already been favorably recon-
mended by the interior department.
Miss Nellie Stapler of Tahlequah,
who has been pursuing studies in New
York city. is the guest of Congress
man and Mrs. w. w. Hastings for a
few days en- route to her home in
oklahoma.
An application for charter for
the National Bank OF Okeene, Okla,
with capital of $4,000, has been
filed with the comptroller of the eur.
rency.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-04-23

Miss Nellie Stapler of Tahlequah,
who has been pursuing studies in New
York city. is the guest of Congress
man and Mrs. w. w. Hastings for a
few days en- route to her home in
Oklahoma.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-04-23
A Good ElAl.

"She gets plenty of invitations to
house parties and the like"
"Yes. she is so homelv that every
girl who sees her wants her to come
and spend a week or two
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-04-23
Faces As Fair As
A Summers Day
Are Possible II Stuart's Calcium
Waters arc Used for Short
Time After Each Meal.

Many people have been heard to
say that they used creams and lotions
for years without effect. yet after five
or six days of Stuarts Calcium
Waters their compilations were per-
fectly clear
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-04-23

They contain no poisonous drug of
any kind. are perfectly harmless and
can be taken with absolute freedom,
and they work almost like magic. Cal
cium Sulphide, their principal in
gredient, is the greatest blood
cleanser known to science.
No matter how bad your skin may
be, Stuarts Calcium Waters will
quickly work wonders with it. It's
quickly work wonders with it. It's
goodby to blackheads. pimples, acne.
boils. rash. eczema and dirty
"filled-up" complexion. You can get
box of Stuart's Calcium Waters at
any drug store at so cents box
and you will be positively delighted
with their wonderful effect.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-04-23

1000 yards fine Bleached Muslin; as good as
Hope. Monday and Tuesday, yard. .... .7%c
$50 pairs of Ladies' silk Hose thrown on the
market and bought by us for spot cash. Mon
day and Tuesday. sec, 48c, 74c, 98c and $1.48
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-29

whom you pretended to think sacfedly
enough to marry, to help you in your
most despicable trick of all?"
Look here" he protested. "That
would be impossible! You're misin-
formed"
Il wish l were, she returned. "Un-
fortunately, it is a matter Of direct
knowledge. You caused Vedder court
to be torn down because l thought it
should be wiped out of existence, and
in the process you cheated Market
Square church out of six million dol
lars!"
He could not have been more
shocked if she had struck him.
"I knew you did not understand" he
kindly reproyed her. Il didn't want
those old buildings. They couldn't
have sold them for the wreckage price.
When you suggested that they should
be torn down, saw it. They were
public menace, and the public was
right with the movement. The con-
demnation price will cover all they
could get from the property from any
source. You see. you don't understand
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Shell never marry him with my
CONSENT" stormed her Uncle Jim
Nor with Miles! The fellows an un-
scrupulous scoundrel! He's made of
cruelty from his toes to his hair! He
stops at nothing! He even robbed
Market Square church Of six million
dollars!"
Calls head suddenly went up in
startled inquiry. She wanted still to
defend Allison; but she dreaded what
was to come.
1--WE wouldn't sell him Vedder court
at his price; 80 he took it from US at
six million less than he originally Of
fered. He did that by a trick. too"
All three women looked up at him in
breathless interest.
HE had the city condemn Vedder
court" went on Sargent. IF he had
condemned it outright for the Munich
pal Transportation company, he would
have had to pay us about the amount
of his original offer; but his own pri-
vate and particular devil put the idea
into his head that the Vedder court
tenements should be torn down any
how, for the good of the public! So
he had the buildings condemned first,
destroying six million dollars worth
of value; then he had the ground con-
demned! Tim German probably got
about million dollars for that hu-
manitarian job!"
A wild fit Of sobblng startled them
all
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Berlin OFFER
IS REJECTED
Proposals in LuSitania Case
Unsatisfactory.
NEW NOTE BY LANSING
Will Make Clear To German Foreign
Office Terms United States In
sists Upon-Has Said
LAST Word.

Washington.-The United States re-
jected the German Governments pro-
posals for settlement of the Lusitania
case. Count Won Bernstorff, the Ger
man Ambassador, was summoned TO
the State Department by Secretary OF
State Lansing and advised of this de-
cisiOn.
Immediately thereafter Secretary
Lansing began preparation of COM
munication to Berlin that will fatty set
forth the terms Of agreement insisted
upon by the United States.
Count Won Bernstorff will be called
to the State Department to confer
with Secretary Lansing before the final
terms of the communication are de-
cided upon. The German Ambassador
will then cable the communication to
Berlin, accompanying the communica-
ton with request to his government
for favorable consideration.
The Lusitania question will hang in
the balance until reply is received
from the German Government.
1t was stated in the most author
tative quarters that the question OF
whether the Lusitania case is to be
settled rests entirely with Berlin. The
United States has said the last word.
Rejection of the German Govern
ment's proposals for settlement Of the
Lusitania case was announced after
President Wilson and his Cabinet had
given the most careful consideration
to them at session lasting more than
two hours.
The point Of disagreement arose
over the language used by Germany in
meeting the demand made in the Lusi-
tania note of July 21 that the Imperial
Government "disavow the wanton act
of it's naval commander in sinking the
Lusitania."
The United States wants an explicit
and not an implied admission of the
illegality of the Lusitania attack.
The United States also wants more
than an offer from Germany to pay
indemnity 1t wants an administration
admission of it's legal obligation to pay
indemnity for American lives lost.
Failure of the Lusitania negotiations
at time when hopes were highest was
distinct disappointment in official
and diplomatic quarters.
Secretary of State Lansing presented
an unusually grave demeanor when
he made an announcement concerning
the Lusitania after his conference with
Count Won Bernstorf. The Ambassa-
doris bearing also was grave as he left
the department.
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business" and his tone was forgiVing.
"I'd have been foolish to pay six mil
lion dollars for something / couldn't
use. You know, Gail, when the build
ing commissioners came to look over
those buildings, they were shocked!
Some of them wouldn't have stood up
another year. 1t was only the political
influence Of Clark and Chisholm and a
few of the other big guns of the con-
gregation, which kept them from being
condemned long ago. You shouldn't
interfere in business. 1t always creates
trouble between man and wife" and
he advanced to put his arm around
her. and soothe her.
The hand with which she warded
him off was effective this time. She
stared at him in wonder. 1t seemed
inconceivable that the moral sense OF
any intelligent man should be SO
blunted.
There's another reason" she told
him, despairing of making him realize
that he had done anything out of the
way. 81 do not love you. l could not"
For just a moment he was checked;
then his jaws set.
THAT is something you must learn.
You have young notions of love,
cleaned from poetry and fiction. You
conceive it to be an ideal stage of ex-
istence, a mysterious something al
most too delicate for perception by the
human senses. l will teach you love,
Gail! Look" and he stretched up his
firm arm, as if in his grip he already
held the reins of the mighty empire he
was hewing out for her. Love is a
thing of strength, Of power, Of desire
which shakes, and burns, and con-
sumes with fever! Do you suppose
that, with such love driving me on,
any objection which you may make
will stop me? No! l set out to at
tain you as the summit of my desire,
the only thing in this world want,
and VIII have!"
Again that great fear of him pos
sessed Gail. She feared many things.
She feared that. in spite of her deter
mination, he would still have her, and
in that possibility alone lay the other
fears so gruesome that she did not
dare see them clearly! She knew that
she must retain absolute control Of
herself
Il shall not discuss the matter any
further" she quietly said, and walking
straight towards the door, passed by
him. quite within tie reach Of his aE9za
without either looking at him or away
from him. Something within his own
strength respected hers, in spite of
him. 'T have said all that 1 have to
say"
so have l." he replied, coming
closer to her as she stood in the door
way, and he gazed down at her with
eyes in which there was insolent de-
termination, and cruelty. 81 have said
that mean to have you, and l will"
Without a word, she went into the
hall. He followed her. and took his
hat.
| mo Dr rONyrxNITTEnN
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FREIGHT CARS UNDER WATER
Novel Idea That Is Declared to Have
Been Given Serious Considera-
tion Recently.

The success of the submarine in the
great war of Europe has suggested to
imaginative minds wonderful possi-
bilities in the use of the submarine
in the business world. 1t is now pro-
posed to have submarine freight
trains, which may be operated at
small expense, and with less danger
from storms at sea.
To Simon. Lake, the well-known sub
marine inventor, belongs this newest
train idea. 1t takes the form of two
or more submersible cars, cigar
shaped. water-tight, fitted with buoy
ancy tanks inside and wheels on the
bottom, and they go bobbing through
the water like corks, to rest on the
bottom or lie on the surface at will.
They have no propelling machine, nor
quarters for crews, and are towed be-
hind a self-propelling submarine,
which operates tam by means Of elec-
uric, air-tube connections.
Should the weather be fine. air
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permanent He has bankrupted host
of men, rifed the pockets Of a million
poor investors; he has demoralized
the entire transportation commerce of
the United States; and he gave no one
the show of a rat in trap!"
isn't that business?" asked Gail,
the red spots beginning to come into
her cheeks.
mot quite!" snapped her Uncle Jim.
Fiction has made that the universal
idea, but there are decent men in busi-
ness. The majority of them are, even
in railroading. Most roads are organ
lied and conducted for the sole pur-
pose of carrying freight and passen-
gers at a profit for the stockholders,
and spectacular stock jobbing deals
are the exception rather than the
rule"
HAS Mr.. Allison been more unfair
than others who have made big con-
solidations?" demanded Gail, again
aware of the severely inquiring eye OF
Aunt Helen.
"Rotten!" replied her uncle, with an
emphasis in which there was much OF
personal feeling. "He has taken tricky
advantage of every unprotected loop
hole. He won from the Inland Pacific,
at the mere cost Of trackage, a pas
sage which the Inland built through
the mountains by brilliant engineering
and at an almost countless cost"
Isn't that accounted clever?" asked
Gail.
$50 is the work of a confidence man
or a wiretapper" was the retort. But
they are sent to Jail just the same.
The Inland created something. 1t built,
with brains and money and force, and
sincere commercial enterprise, line
which won it well-earned supremacy
of the Pacific trade. 1t was entitled to
keep it; yet Allison, by making with
it a tricky contract for the restricted
use of the key to it's supremacy, uses
that very device to destroy it. He has
bankrupted, or will have done so, a
two thousand mile railroad system,
which is of tremendous commercial
value to the country, in order to use a
hundred miles of it's track and remove
it from competition! Allison has Gre
ated nothing. He has only seized, by
stealth, what others have created; He
is not even a commercial highwayman.
He is commercial pickpocket!"
Gail had paled by now.
Tell me one thing" she demanded.
wouldn't any of the railroad men
have employed this trick if they had
been shrewd enough to think of it?"
"a lot of them," was the admission,
after an awkward pause. Does that
make it morally and ethically cor
rect?"
"You may be prejudiced, JIM" inter
polated Aunt Helen, moving closer to
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CHAPTER XXI.

AIlison's Private and Particular Devil.
The free and entirely uncurbed en-
loved an unusual treat. 1t had SEN
sation which did not need to be sup
ported by a hectic imagination or
lurid vocabulary. Vedder court had
been condemned for the use OF the
Municipal Transportation company! A
new eight-track, double-deck tube was
to be constructed through Crescent
island to the mainland!
Grand climax! Through this tube
and into Vedder court, at the plat
forms of the surface and L and sub
way cars, were to come the passenger
trains Of the new Atlantic-Pacific rail-
road. a line three hundred miles short
er than any now stretching between
Broadway and the Golden Gate! Any
reader of the daily press, OF whom
there are several, knows precisely
what the free and entirely uncurbed
did with this bit of simOn-pure infor-
nation. The glittering details began
on the first page, turned on the sec
ond continued on the fourth, jumped
over to the seventh, and finished back
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that way, l don't see why Mr.. Allison
shouldn't receive applause for clever
play"
"You bet I'm prejudiced!" snarled
Sargent, overcoming his WEAKNESS and
pacing up and down the library floor.
He came near playing my road the
same trick he did the Inland Pacific
He secured control of the L. & c., be-
cause IT has a twenty-year contract
for passage over fifty miles of our
track. He'd throw the rest of our line
away like peanut hull, if he had not
promised Gail to protect me. I'm an
object of charity!"
"Oh!" 1t was scarcely audible cry
of pain. Aunt Helen moved closer,
and patted her hand. Gail did not
notice the action.
why did he make you that promise,
Gail?" demanded her uncle, turning on
her suddenly, with a physical motion
so much like her fathers that she was
startled.
"He wants me to marry him." fal-
tered Gail.
Aunt Grace sat down by the other
side of Gail
Have you accepted him, dear?" she
asked.
There was a lump in Calls throat
She could not answer!
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-29
TURN THE CHILDREN LOOSE
Best Way to Develop the Muscles
Both of Boys and Girls Accord
ing to Specialist.

Turn them loose-that is the pest
way to develop the muscles OF boys
and airls. Turn them loose ana lei
them live wild-climb trees Jump
fences. chase squirrels, play with the
dogs, dig in the garden, pick hoWers'
hop. skip and jump. and do all sorts
of things that natural human. animal
wants to do. The trouble is. our boys
and girls are tanned too much we
are all born wild and in the civilizlng
process have to be tanned more or
less Most of us, however, get tanned
TOO much. We become so tame that
We are spoiled.
Don't be afraid of the children get
ting dirty. Dress them for 1t. Girls
should be put into trousers like boy
instead of skirts. Trousers would be
much more modest than the ordinary
dress of girls three years of age
Their skirts generally hardly reach
down to their knees and their legs are
barY; OF If not bare. they are clad
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The Chauffeur q Robber.

No woman would have cared to take
on the job of the earliest chauffeurs
For long before the arrival of the
motor car the chauffeur existed. The
name was applied to bands Of robbers
practicing in the border lands be-
tween France and Germany at the
close of the eighteenth century. They
earned the name (and lived up to it,
by a habit of scorching their victims
feet to expedite the revelation of the
hiding place of his money. RumOr
had it that the bands we're encour-
aged by the exiled royalists of France.
and. at any rate, their determination
was one of Napoleon's first tasks
when he became first consul
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-29

in such a way that they are certainly
not anything like as modestly clothed
as they would be if they had on panta-
looms like the boys-little roustabout
clothes-and just turned loose to play
in the dirt. to make mud pies, to get
down and wallow in the earth.
There is no danger in this. The
soil is clean dirt, so to speak; there
is nothing pernicious in it-Dr. ]. H.
Kellogg, in Good Health.
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POTATO SUPPLY DEPLETED.
Growers Hold Smaller Stocks Than In
Two Previous Years.

Washington. Unusually small
stocks of potatoes remained in the
hands of growers in the important
producing States January 1, compared
with unusually large stocks year ago.
Figures made public by the Depart
ment of Agriculture shows that JAN
uary 1 stocks in 19 Northern States
which produced 66 per cent. of the
crop, were 1O5,345,O0O bushels; 3S per
cent. less than last year and Is per
cent. less than two years ago.
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1t is reasonable to assume that the
number of stars in space having a
temperature so low that their radia-
tions do not affect our eyes or photo
graphic plates is extremely large. That
these invisible stars are far more
numerous than the luminous stars is
suggested by Mr.. F. A. Lindemann.
who attempts, in the Monthly Notices.
a rough calculation of their relative
number, based on the assumption that
new stars (novae) arc due to col
lisions. He concludes that there are
about 1000 times as many dark stars
as bright ones.
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"Freshness" Rebuked.

Mr.. Allen Aynesworth, who is win
ming fresh laurels in the revival OF
Ready Money" has pretty wit. It
is said that Mr.. Aynesworth met, at
the rehearsal Of a new piece. a youth
who was giving himself many airs on
the strength Of his first engagement in
London. These rehearsals are a
beastly fag." the young man was good
enough to observe, "but thank good
ness 1 know my words"
both of themT asked Ayneswnrth.
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pumps on the forward boat connect
ing by air hose to the water ballast
tanks of the trailers, regulate whether
they shall float few feet below the
surface or upon the top. Should an
enemy be sighted. or storm come up,
the air pressure is released, the bal
last tanks filed with water and the
cars quickly sunk out of sight, where
all is serene. 1t is said that some
such device as this is now in opera
ton with the submarines of Europe,
enabling them to go long distances,
with submarine trailers that contain
compartments for fuel, oil, fresh wa
ter, food supplies and ammunition
Wonders of Today" in National
Magazine.
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A Fellow Feeling.

81 observe that the Austrian govern
ment is offering reward for the head
Of Gabrielle d'Annunzio, the Italian
poet" commented Tennyson ]. Daft
81 know how the poor fellow must
feel l once wrote an obituary poem,
in which | referred to the deceased 8
last resting place. and the types made
it roasting place. kansas City
Star.
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FIRST WAR sEAPLANE FOR U 8.
Must Go 80 Miles An Hour and Carry
1000 Pounds.

Marblehead, Mass.-The first war
seaplane purchased by the United
States Navy, declared by the builders
to be the fastest yet constructed for
aeromarine service here or abroad, was
shipped to the trial grounds at Pensa-
cola. Fla. The machine, required by
contract to speed 80 miles an hour in
the air, will carry a 1.OOO-pound load
four hours If the specifications are net.
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KENTUCKY "DRY" BILL LOST.
Referendum On Prohibition Defeated
In Assembly.

Frankfort, Ky.-A bill, which would
submit a Constitutional amendment
providing for Statewide prohibition,
was defeated, 20 to IA, in the upper
house of the General Assembly, where
It originated. Three-fifths of the bond
ed spirits and whiskies in the United
States are in Kentucky warehouses.
according to estimates attributed to
official sources.
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CATHEDRAL DESTROYED.
Berlin Says It Was An Observation
Post.

Berlin.-The Cathedral at Nieuport,
saws the German official statement
issued, has been destroyed by German
artillery fire, as it was offering an ex-
cellent observation post. The Templar
Tower at Nieuport also was destroyed
by shellfire, and for the same reason.
according to the announcement.
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NOT A BIRD OF PEACE.
Audubon Society Says the Dove 10
Very Puunacious.

Washington.-The peace apostles
who carry a dove in their baggage had
better change their symbolical bag
gage. The Audubon Society declared
through Norman McClintock, of Pitts
burgh, ornothologist: "The dove is
not a bird of peace, but one Of the
most pugnacious of feathered fighters.
In fact, the dove fights large part of
his waking hours"
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Number of Dark stars.

ITO BE CON~'NrEDA