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The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1916-12-09
EAGUE ADDRESSES COL.P.HCALLAHAN


Press Defense League Points Out to Colonel Callahan
That to Join With Them In Demand for Investigation of
Political Romanism May Remove Cause of So-caIed
Religious Prejudice Which Causes Him and His Col
leagues So Much Alarm and Anxiety
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1916-12-09

dice gives you, | have no doubt that your al
vocacy Of the passage Of the Resolution, IL added
to the arguments We shall be able to present, will
be amply sufficient to secure the desired action
by congress Immediately.
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1916-12-09

THE following letter was mailed to Col.
y Callahan, head Of the knights Of Column
D. bus so-called Committee on Religious
Prejudice, on November 25, 1916, by Hon.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-08-15

at the present moment, President Will
son said In a letter received by Presi-
dent Charles f. Weed of the Boston
Chamber of Commerce, yesterday Tho
communication, dated August II, fol-
lows
MY Dear Mr.. Weed:
ALLOW me 10 acknowledge tho rerelpA
OF your telegram Of August conveying
TO me the vote OF the Boston ChaIhber
OF Commerce recommending that tho
interstate commercd Commission be in
structed by congress y "a acquire tho
facts In the pending railroad contro-
verEy
You need not doubt that tho full i'm
portance and gravity ~ the now ncuts
controversy between the RAILWAYS and
the'r employees has been n constant sub
)ect of thought and conference with me,
or that | have bcon trying to mike surs
mat no means Of assisting n settlement
was overlooked
There Ia no compulsion Of law avail
able by which We could obllgc either
party TO the controversy 20 await tho
finding of an inquiry by the Interstate
commerce commission and Il seems 10
me mat such an inquiry is not n remedy
for the moment
As | write conferences are In progrc-,
In ew York city between both partIe,
10 the controversy and the federal
board ~ mediation and conciaton. and
am hourly awaiting n report from
those conferences before determining
what Is ms duty
Sincerely yours,
WOODROW WI SON"
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-08-15
Governor Dunno
1nspects Troops

3. SAN hNT0Nr0 Aug. l5--Gov I'd
ward i. Dunno, of Illinois, arrived
here last night on an inspection tour
of the Illinois national guard at Fort
sam Houston and along the border
The governor said his trip to Texas is
Sosely in the interest OF the national
RuardSmcn from his state and that hc
wants to see them and study them in
actual army life and tit for service.
He attended a review of the first bri-
gade arranged BY Brigadier General
Hall, saying that he did not want any
special program nor impose any extra
work OF hardships on the militiamen
He plans an automobile trip today 10
review three regiments OF the Illinois
infantry on the second leg OF their
thir,y-mile hike from here TO New
Braunfels, where they will encamp for
week
An officers Of the Illinois troops
called upon the governor tonight and
Governor Ferguson of Texas sent q
message that he would come over from
Austin today and have a chat with
Governor Dunno. The two governors
are old.,ime friends
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-08-15

for fifty yards on each side OF the
murdered man Jimmy would iain
have been swept with 1t, but a heavy
hand compressed his arm and detained
him
The sergeant gave swift orders TO
rvChst policeman slip off to the sta
uoa We want the division surgeon
and an ambulance. They'll let the
criminal investigation people know
Now, sullivan, what do you know
about this2"
The constable addressed straightencd
himself up 81 was patrolling the
bridge about five minutes ago" he
sand 81 passed him" he nodded to
the dead man "Hc wa, walking slow
Is i' the south side. didn't pay much
attention A little farther ON ! passed
Tins chap" he indicated jimmie but
didn't pay any particular attention !
had just reached the other end when
heard a shot ran back and found
the first man being supported hy the
other, who was searching him. There
were no other persons ON the bridge to
Twr,c. mouth o,.red vjd. H..
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IN. osyc,t -s1v md ,borsh hs '6s 6o /
h'irn tlat methods OF that KIND were
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-08-15
REVENUE BILL
GIVEN SENATE
Measure Expected to Yield
S250,0O0,O0O Approved
BY Caucus.

WASHINGTON, Aug. lS--The re
yiSed administration revenue bill,
which Is expected TO yield S2S00O00O0
annually, was ready today for submiS-
sion to the senate. II was finally ap.
proved by senate democrats in caucus
last night as amended by the finance
committee
The bill probably will be taken up by
the senate tomorrow and considered ~
soon as the government shipping bill is
disposed OF Feature, oi the revised
measure are surtaN on incomes, in
heritance tax, 10 percent net profit
tax on war munitions, a percent
licenses tax, liquor taxes and miscel-
laneous taxes The measure retains the
house provision for a non partisan tar
NJ commission, provides for tariff on
coal tar dye',uifS and medicinal de.
rivat,ve' and increases the taxes ON
wines over the house bill
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-08-15
Continued from ycsterday1

Continued from yesterday
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came s,rr,cr,ng ,,nlr.sly along
sweeney did nr, SEEM =, rerogn,5c
limm,, and Iimnir lil ro, wish to
attract attrr,inn yc, Out nj ,hc cor-
rcr ~ M. c,c. he .,v Cw,crr, lean
abscn,ly or the Iran r,I and ca1e
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-08-15

United States for the purpose Of re
Sirainlng any part OF the commerce OF
the United States
Tariff Is Hughes Remedy.
"Why that is piece oi legislation
that would be about as available as that
piece oi paper in my hari IN s'f"-' r.
protecting the American people in tins
economic war
Now there was a remedy, a counter
valling duty which was proposed, but
our friend, were so strong to their ira
ditions Of tariff for revenue only that
they would have none OF il
81 am de,lrous that this matter Of
tariff should he attended TO without
abuse do not propose simply because
! am candidate for office to seek Of
flee under false pretenSeS am can
didate and a good republican, but u
! am elected | shall to the best OF my
ability endcavor TO see that principle
applied for the public good and not for
private gain
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-08-15
OKLAHOMA MINERS
PRESENT DEMANDS

FORT WORTH Texas, Aug Is
Representative, of the coal miners OF
district a. comprising Arkansas, Okla
homa and Texas, resumed their confer
ence at a local hotel Monday and
finally presented their demand, for a
new wage scale for the next two year,
go representatives Of the operators. The
conference is being presided over by
John Wilkinson oi McNles,er, presi-
den, OF di,tic, u acting as chair
man, and " 7 Nance manager oi
the Rclknap Coal company. acting As
secretary The demands are identical
with those OF the miners OF the
southwest which have been agreed to
70 far
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-08-15

There are bears who roller skate and
ride bicycle - somctiaultng parrot,
and ooeRatoo, who dance the tango and
ride the brse-the horse hallerina. In
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-08-15
Candidate Says Democratic
Promise to Protect Trade
Is Worthless.
DEMOS UNEQUAL TO TASK
Proposed Remedy Is UninteI
IiglbIe, Adds Republican
Nominee.

CpDEANrr,
=, '''' N"S H-'h'fIeS +
Hughes last nSht told an audience i'm
Npokanc'S stadium that fine cr,,,s,J
dem,rr,,i. ,cc,,l,,;.o,..:.
inc oi ,Yrcign r,J. ,'', 'NI'',, .nr i, uu'nP'
tr. alto, ba ,,.,..' ,'.','' N,".I' 'n ',lN ooun-
per ON which !, v,,s n.,,,,'., ..;, M.''' ''e pa
This piece II lcp,J,,i,rr NJ.
HAgu,, ,au. would he ,Lnr, as ali
able as the piece oi .naner I b,ij ;r ,r,,
hand, in effect i'm pro,c,,,,c ,L., A,,,m, A. mp
lean people I'm thr eroo,rl- w.,, H.,
will come when pcare come ;, E",,o,. ,,,', y,
T,h r.. d.. ''"''I'.
q, - 90" 'o ''E9nuc'
"' ,uSN', read synopsis Of tho
proposed legislation The democrati,
.' '' ne 'a'd, was not equal 10 the
,''N 'i protecting American industries
hN mfiil
ii, III yog want to see what they are
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-08-15
Cholera In Japan.

NAGASAKt, Aug. l5.--An outbreak
of cholera here has resulted In for,y-
eight deaths. One hundred and nins
cases have so far been recorded
A dispatch from Yokohoma on Aug.
uSt Is stated that there were fifty-,w,
cases of cholera in that por, and lha,
Toxic had declared quarantine
against the city.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-08-15
BABY ELEPHANT
ITO YEARS OLD,
GRAND MARSHAL
PaChyderm Leads Way From
Train to Show Grounds;
Knows the Way.
HUNDREDS UP EARLY TO
WATCH CANVAS GO UP
Barnum & Bailey's Great Cir
Gus Here for Two Per-
fOrmanCeS.


Babe, llO.year-old N"unR>''t M'lh .
Barnum and Bailey elephants, Ium. /
bercd down the gangway from one oi
the elephant cars TINS morning upon
the arrival ot the circus with the grace
Of a paperhanger reaching rear seat
In a crowded trolley car, bch'nd icr
swayed more 'h"h a score oI o'h't ,I', .
phanS' Keepers stood by ana watched
them o.,
Let's see It Babe knows the way .
they SAID.
"Srk- srk .ph aoww-w-umph rum
peted the gareaniuan creature as Nhc
went stepping It on up the street Dld
babe know the way Z You lnN' net Nonr
last litney she did Nhe mt the tran tel
the show grounds with all the readiness
OF beagle upon the trall OF rabbit
Babes Prc'oclouNncNs can be eN
planned by lhe tact that She has been m
Oklahoma CITY before and the pacW,,
derm that couldnt remember the tran
IRON the railroad yards TO me nay P'Ie
IN the mcnagcue tent would be a pIaln
unmlugated bonchead. hnt give Babe
credit.
Ignorant Cockatoo.
There was totEaioo IN the circus
ZOO no years old, named Lucy, and
Lucy had to be Gagged and hauled TO me
grounds Ages considered Babe did
pretty well lor IIo-ycar-o'd young
Ner
The circus arrived early TINS morning
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-08-15
Ladies Souvenir
Dance Tonight

All ladies attending the Auditorium to.
nisht will receive nice. useful and
valuable souvenir. Classiest and best
lAaalnG people Ass sltsndinx.--,Ad~
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-08-15
INQUIRY BY |. c. c.
INTO THREATENED
STRIKE NOT PROPER

BOSTON, Aug IS An inquiry BY
the interstate commerce commission
into the threatened railroad strike
would not bo a remedy iog tho crisis
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-08-15

William S, Carter, president OF the
Brotherhood OF Locomotive iiremen
was once q Texas cowboN
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-26
chicaao's City Planning.

Chicago, the premier American city
In city-planning work, is about to In
wade the world Of the movies"
1t is going to show other municipali.
ties how to make themselves more at.
tractive, healthful and prosperous and
as an object lesson will display views
of present-day and future Chicago to
millions of people throughout the Unit
ed States, Canada and Europe.
To satisfy demands made by more
than hundred American cities which
are watching Chicago's planning eff
forts, the Chicago plan commission has
arranged to have the entire Chicago
plan put in film form.
The national, state, county and city
officials In Chicago, members of the
Commercial club, members of the plan
commission and the officers and direc-
tors of the leading civic. social and
commercial organizations, industrial
clubs, real estate board and wOmen's
clubs are TO be visualized.
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-26
TALES OF HOTEL REPORTERS
They Were FaneifuI and Readable in
Good Old Days When the lmagl-
nation Had Free Rein.

If a man physician named DR.. John
Jones marry a woman physician named
DIR. Mary Smith, how shall they regis
ter when they go on their bridal tour?
Shall they register as "Dr. John Jones
and wife," or as "Dr. John Jones and
DIR. Mary Jones'? Shall they call them
selves "Dr. and Mrs. John JONES'" or
'Drs. John and Mary Jones'?
All, for the old days when 'hotel re-
porters used TO give Chicago silly-sea-
son problems like this one, which is
now thrown into the New York news
papers, says the Chicago Post.
Those were great times, my masters.
The ''hotel reporters" never had enough
to do. Their superiors knew IT, but
they knew that the fact would stimu-
late the imagination. 1t did. Every
afternoon the bored reporters would
gather, with no news and nothing to
write. Inevitably, they would make
up" something-this was before the
day when people began to say frame
up"
They would have "Mr. Zero" of Med
icine Hat PACED on the hottest day of
the year. They would pull the old one
about the bellboy who called "Mr.
Smith" in crowded lobby and had
eighty-five men spring up and answer
'Here." They would spin interviews
with strange people who just happened
to drop into town and drop out again
before the city editor or any rival news
paper could check up on them. Charles
Dillingham;, the theatrical man, was a
hotel reporter. So was Joseph Medill
Patterson. So were eddie" Westlake
and many others.
The work they did was Just plain
foOlery, like the sublimely unimportant
question of how Doctor Jones and wife
should register. We don't doubt that
Dillingham; and his generation printed
that same query. 1t is too bad that
this innocent humor is gone from the
papers. 1t never did anybody any
harm. 1t offended but the strictest Of
truthtellers.
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-26
FIRE PREVENTION PAYS WELL
and Reduces Depreciation
Repairs Cost Little.

If the walls and roof of the house
are of fire-resiStant material fully 60
per cent of the fire hazard is overcome,
says the writer of an article on Com
mon Sense Home Building" which is
published in the June issue of Con-
struction. In the interior it is not nee
essary to eliminate wood from the fin
fishing. There is no objection to trim
on doors and even the floors above the
first may be of wood.
The basement should, by all means,
be cut off from the rest of the house
by masonry floor, protected stairway
and fireproof doors connecting with
the first floor. Partitions should be of
fjre-resistive material in order to check
the rapid spread of flames. In other
words, think of fire as it really is and
use common sense in the construction
of the house.
In DlOst localities a house of this
type is credited with a noticeable re-
duction in insurance cost. Naturally,
too, the cost of maintenance is re-
duced, painting and repairs are not
necessary. Another saving factor is
the rnatter of depreciation. A frame
house with wood shingles, built as they
are today, will depreciate just three
times as quickly as a masonry house
with a common-sense roof.
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-26

the Tollman case. II required some
weeks to find her. When she was To-
Gated it was found that Tollman was
not with her. He had been there ur
til the night before. They had quar-
relied and he had gone away. The
cause of their quarrel was the fact that
Tollman had no money. She had cast
him off as a dead husk. She did not
know his whereabouts.
In practically every case of other
wise well-executed crime these devel-
ops some element OF unexpected folly
the criminal does some one thing
that seems, from what would be sup
posed to be his standpoint, inexeusably
stupid. Gard was therefore not sur
prised when 1t developed that Toll
man had not so much as a thousand
dollars out of all he had taken from
the bank. He had made no provision
for the time which he must have
known would inevitably come when he
should be detected. This, however,
was not the browning folly from a
criminal standpoint. Despite the dash
and cunning and the determination he
had evinced in his lootings, he lost his
nerve when his woman threw him out.
He purchased, with the proceeds of
pawned jewelry, a ticket TO Balm
bridge, Mass, went there, and gave
himself up to the police. His nerve
was broken.
The theory of find the woman" was
ted In. hn Of I,n frI nf hn
offenders, John r. Mansfield, the Bos-
ton gambler. The apartment of Mrs.
Siddons where the faro game was,
upon occasion, set up, and the woman
herself, who was suspected of being
particularly intimate with Mansfield,
were watched. The watch was not eff
fective, however, for the woman dis
appeared with no one seeing her.
The janitor at the apartment house
reported that in going she had taken a
particularly heavy trunk. Special
Agent Stephens undertook to follow
that trunk. He canvassed half the
expressmen of Boston before he found
the man who had taken the trunk
away. This man stated that he had
taken 1t to the Back Bay station at a
certain time, and that it had been
weighed and found to be in excess of
the baggage a passenger might carry
free Of charge. This singled it out
from the mass Of trunks. The ex-
pressman remembered that it weighed
| 225 pounds. and that the baggageman
had marked it for 60 cents excess.
According TO the rate book this would
have been the excess charge for that
weight to New York. The trunk was
thus located with sufficient definite
ness that its number was procured.
In New York 1t was found that the
excess trunk had been sent on to
North Philadelphia with the charge G.
| o. ID. Here the record showed that
the trunk had been called for by a
Mrs. Price, living at an address on
Broad street, and the agent remem-
bered that she had been accompanied
by man. At this address Mr.. and
Mrs. Price were found to be living.
Special Agent Stephens watched the
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-26
BAY RUM FROM WEST INDIES
Only Real Genuine Extract Made From
Trees That Are Cultivated Only
on Danish Islands.

After 80 years of negotiations, and
at a cost of S25,O00,O00, the United
States is on the threshold of achieving
the ownership of the source of all
genuine bay rum.
II is true that we are not buying
the Danish West Indies primarily be-
cause they are the group made famous
by the refreshing toilet preparation
nevertheless the American people will
feel more cat home" in calling the is
lands ours when they recall that If it
weren't for ST. Thomas st. John and
st. Croix. freshly shaved faces would
be unsoothed by the universally popu-
lar product of distilled leaves.
The bay tree Of glory is the Taurus
nobilis. while the bay Of rum has the
caustic name of myrica acris. The Pc
culiar species of aromatic bay which
supplies the distinctive ingredient Of
bay rum is closely allied in appear
ance to several other varieties of bay
growing on ST. John and st. Croix.
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-26

with whom Walls was known to have
been friendly, and who had a part in
the activities of the faro gang. This
woman's correspondence was watched,
and it was soon discovered that she
was sending letters to and receiving
letters from a man in Detroit, Mich.
Tracings of the mans handwriting
were made as the letters came through
tho post Office, and when compared
with that of Walls, the resemblance
was convincing.
The writer OF these letters gave his
address as lock box. A special agent
went to Detroit, but the box had been
given up. Two months later more let
tiers came to the same woman from
Grand Junction, Colo, and also from
lock box. The postmaster was able
to describe the man holding the box
and the description suited Walls. But
he moved again before detective got
there to identify and arrest him.
There was a chase of six months on
such clues, always through the same
woman, but Walls was still at large.
Eventually there appeared among
death notices in New York the name
of Edward T. Walls. Subsequently
Mrs. Walls went from her boarding
house in Boston and took charge of
the body. Suspecting that this might
be a trick to throw them off their
guard, the special agents took every
precaution to identify the body. Event
ually they were convinced that the
man they had pursued so diligently
was dead. The case was closed.
The three principals in this case,
Tollman. Kelliner and Mansfield,
were given Is. Is and 10 years re-
spectively. After their conviction
both Tollman and Kelliner talked
freely TO Billy Gard of the whole case
and threw some interesting sidelights
upon it. Kelliner told particularly Of
the inception of the plans of the faro
gang. He said it came into being at
Atlantic City where he and Mansfield
and Walls happened to be spending a
week end. Kelliner at that time al
ready had a line on Tollman and 9TH
er possible victims were deemed
ready for the plucking.
With these prospective victims in
mind the faro gang was organized.
Money had to be raised for the fitting
up Of the establishment in Twenty
eighth street. which was only used
when victims were in tow. This alone
cost $4,000. Then there was the nee
essary expense money of the members
OF the gang while they were develop
ing their victim. There must be cash
in the bank to be won when those vic
Tins made their first appearance. AL
together It was business that had
to be capitalized for somethi- g like
$4,000 before IL could begin opera
tions. But, as It afterwards turned
out, it was a profitable investment If
viewed from the standpoint of Toll
man alone; and there were other vic
Tins.