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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-08-02

There are two new recruits to our
ranks this month"; Miss Salic Dos
sey Of Okemah and Miss Aura |.
Poet of Muskogec Both are takinc
held of the work nicely and give prom
iso of becoming good nurses.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-08-02

Miss Din spent her two weeks o.
vacation at her home in Hutchinson
Kansas. She is now back at work
with Miss Wilson who has also re
turned from a vacation. and they are
locking after the patients at night.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-08-02
P MYSTICAL AND.
MENTAL FITNESS
IS ARMY SLOGAN
REQI IIRI,S NO pull" TO IN
TER L. 5. ARMY; "EFTiCI-
ENCY FIRST"

Wichita, Kan, Aug. 2. viii il pay
young man 10 enlist in the army
with an ambition to become COM
nissioned officer? am "A years old
md sound in every respect. am an
experienced machinist and make
1925 to $3.50 a month ] want to know
I il takes a pull TO 60 up in the
lrmy If it does / have no congress
nan friends and would have TO give
Ip my ambition Of becoming a soldier
lnder the Stars and Stripes. r.. ],
Albcrtson.
This query came TO the Wichita Re-
'rutng District headquarters and
Captain R. John West answered it as
follows;
IF the young man has a high
school education and any ability
ould almost guarantee him a COM
mission after he has learned the first
hings in the business of being a SOL
der"
Weed 1000 Officers.
At least 1900 officers must be made
a the United States army within the
lext two years to measure up with
he increase in the number of enlist
d men. Where the army's going to
,et them nobody knows.
The most that can be expected from
West Point next year are 40 officers.
lnd the army can furnish not more
han 200. The rest, said the captain,
must be young men from high schools
md colleges. The regulars" will get
heir appointments after the men from
Vest Point and after the regulars"
he available men in the Nationa.
uard will be placed Then the army
must turn to the civilians.
5hrotage of Officers.
A second lieutenant starts at S1,700
year and after five years If he is not
promoted, as he is almost sure to be
view OF the shortage Of officers.
re will receive $3.50. II he Is made
first lieutenant, his first annual sal
ry will amount to $4,000 and after
tho first five years he will be paid
> 200 a year The salary of cap-
in, who serves fifteen years in the
,rmy before he reached that position
unless active service promotes him, is
S3, ,l20 a year and the salary of a
major where twenty years of service
and ability plcacs a soldier, is $4,000
/ year at its maximum. A lieutenant
colonel receives $1,000 year.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-08-02
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Mrs Richardson has gone to hel
home in Lamont to rest and rechper
ate after her operation three weeks
ago.
Miss Suter presldes over the destin
lee Of the Diet Kitchen. It's pretty
warm place these August daya, bn
the diet nurse keeps cheerful and
happy.
Miss Precise and Miss Newman
are spending three months at Or.
Dukes Sanitarium receiving their
training in the nursipg Of mental and
nervous diseases.
A letter from Miss Ford tells us
that she Is well and Is considering a
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-16
FINAL WORD TO MEXICO
REGARDING TROOP WITHDRAWAL

facto government "got off, on the
question of safety at the border and
also the safety of Americans and
other foreigners inside Mexico. Adj
ministration officials said today the
note calls for no answer and that
none is expected.
Move to This Side.
LAREDO, Texas, June 16.-Many
citizens of Nuevo Laredo, the Mexican
town opposite here, have moved to
La Jarfta and Lampasas, as a result
of the excitement following the raid
by Mexican bandits on San lgnacio
early yesterday. American Consul
Garrett moved to the American side.
Leo D. Walker, a Mexican with an
Americanized name, who published
Ell Progreso, a Mexican newspaper,
was escorted to the border by citizens
last night and ordered out of the
country. His editorials abused the
United States.
Search for scattered bandits who
raided San Ignacio, killing three
American soldiers. is still under way
on this side
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-16

COURT ROOM, WAUKEGAN, Ill.,,
June 1S.-The Three Spots" took
their place in the tangled story OF
Marian Lambert's death today along
with the three oaks" the triangle"
! the alibi letters and the tryst as the
| crucial points in the case on which
hinged the fate Of Will Orpet. charged
with Marian's murder.
The spots-tiny circular marks on
Marian Lambert's coat, made by cy-
| anide of potassium-were brought be-
| fore the jury constantly today.
| The defense Of Orpet sought to rub
| the spots out of the evidence today
| to discredit them as conclusive proof
that cyanide spilled from bottle
caused them as Marian drank the acid
in Helms woods last February.
DR.. Ralph j. Webster. chemist, who
brought the spots in the limelight by
his testimony, was cross-examtned led
by the defense today.
He was forced to an admission that
the coat was not brought to him until
May S, months after Marian's death.
The defense sought to infer that any
thing might have happened to Mari
ans coat in the meantime.
| For a minute In his cross-examina-
tion, DR.. Webster raised the hopes Of
the prosecution to the sky. Then he
| shattered it.
A handkerchief, taken from Orpet's
room at Madison, Wis, was intro
duced in evidence.
81 found cyanide in this handker-
chief when l analyzed it," he said.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-16
Everything in the Orpet Case Seems to Run in
Threes as Alleged Murder Trial
Continues.
CYANIDE IS IN EVERY ones BODY
Chemists Who Examined Effects of the Dead
Girl, are Important Witnesses on
Stand Today.

The crowded court room waited ex-,
pectantly.
But" he added, that indicates
nothing. The cyanide was in min
ute quantity and came from Orpet'sl
nostrils or lungs. We all have cyan
fde in our bodies"
Webster said no cyanide was
found in other articles of clothing
taken from Olpet's room. Asked why
Marian's hands were tightly clinched
when her body was found beneath the.
three oaks, Webster said that this
was due to the titantic commissions
when the cyanide killed her. The de-
fense sought vainly to force DR.. Web
ster into an admission that he was
not certain the cyanide that killed
Marion was in liquid form. Ths
chemist, summoning scientific evi-
dence to his aid, said everything in
dicated it was liquid. He could not
be shaken.
William d. McNaIly, chemist in the
Cook county coroner's office. corrob.
Grated DR.. Webster in nearly every
detail. He aided in the analysis OF
Marian's viscera and her clothing.
The poison was in liquid form. His
cross examination was brief. William
Wembam, undertaken, was then called
by the defense for cross examination
regarding the yellow spots in the
snow in Helms woods when Marian's
body was found. Wembam said he
was reasonably sure they were caused
by cyanide though they were hun
dreds of yards from the three caks.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-16
by Perry Arnold, United Press Staff
Cores Dondent

by Perry Arnold, United Press Stafl
Correspondent
ST. LOUIS, Mo-. June 16.-The
complete harmony program for the
democratic program was busted
wide open today. Harmony reached
its climax near midnight when Presi
dent Wilson and Vice President Mar
shall were renominated by acclama'
tion. At o'clock when the resolu-
tions committee was putting the fin.
ishing touches on its report after
twenty-five hours continuous session,
1t was apparent that at least one fight
OF that long grind would be carried
to the floor Of the convention.
This was in relation to woman'r
suffrage. The committee fought out
the equal ballot pledge for hours. IT
defeated. 20 to %, plank for straight
out declaration in favor of q federal
constitutional amendment to give wo-
mas. the. vote. It adopted by Q vote
Of Is tc %, the following statement:
I'VE RECOMMEND the extension u
the franchise to the women OF the
country by the states. upon the same
terms as to men.
This substitute was entirely unsat-
isfactory to the suffrage workers. 1t
was regarded by them as mere sub.
terfuge-a passing Of the buck" to
the states on the matter, which was
Just a lot OF words, meaning nothing
in particular The workers for a
straight out suffrage endorsement
were indignant and openly voiced
their declaration Of Offering from the
floor q substitute which would cont
nit the party to open and complete
accord in q constitutional amendment
granting extension OF ballot.
It was motley crew Of politicians
and statesmen who wound up their
platform building early this morning.
The room on the second floor OF
the Planters hotel, in which they met
was a sight to behold. Its floor was
Uttered with dead and stale cigar
stumps, with paper, matches, and
debris; the air hung heavy in the
bright morning sunlight with the
smell of sweaty bodies and putrid ci-
gar smoke. Members of the resolu.
tons committee themselves were
frazzled-their eyes trimmed with red
from the long tense debate, their
faces lined with deep wrinkles of ex'
haustion and their voices hoarse with
excitement and straining in the con
slant argument and debate. Nobody's s
temper actually broke down. bur
there were some near casualties. Not
since seven o'clock last night had
either the senator from New Hanp-
shire or Montana left the room In
which the committee met. The Ian
guage OF the Mexican plank and OF
that referring to the democratic for
eign policy were also stumbling
blocks with the suffrage resolution.
There may be an open airing of these
differences from the floor of the con
vention when the break comes on
womens suffrage,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-16
Democratic Platform as Adopted
By the Convention This Morning

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 16.-The
democratic party, in national conven-
tion assembled, adopts the following
declaration to the end that the peo-
pie Of the United States may both
realize the achievements wrought by
four years of democratic administra-
tion and be apprised Of the policies to
which the party is committed for the
further conduct Of national affairs.
Record Of Achievement.
We endorse the administration of
Woodrow Wilson. 1t speaks for it
SELF It is the best exposition of
sound democratic policy at home ana
abroad.
We challenge comparison of our
record, our keeping of pledges and
our conservative constitution with
any party at any time.
We found our country hampered
by special interests, a vicious tariff,
obsolete banking laws. an 1nelastic
currency. Our foreign affairs were
dominated by commercial interests
for their selfish ends. The republi-
can party, despite repeated pledges,
was impotent to correct abuses which
IL mad IOSleTSu. OHu6T our
tration, under leadership which has
never faltered, these abuses have
been corrected and our people have
been freed therefrom.
Our archaic banking and currency
system, prolific of panic and disaster
under the republican administration
long the refuge of the money trusts
has been supplanted by the reserve
act, true democratic credit under
government control, already proved a
financial bulwark in q world crisis.
mobilizing our resources, placing
abundant credit at the disposal or
legitimate industry and making a
currency panic impossible.
We have created a federal trade
commission to accommodate the per-
picking questions arising under the
antitrust laws, SO that monopoly may
be strangled at it's birth and legiti-
mate industry encouraged. Fair COM
petition in business is now assured.
We have affected an adjustment
of the tariff, adequate for revenue
under peace conditions and fair to
the consumer and to the producer. We
have adjusted the burdens of taxa
ton so that swollen incomes bear
their equitable share. Our revenues
have been sufficient in times Of world
stress and will largely exceed the ex-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-16
ROTH Nominated BY
ACC[AMAT|ON LAST NIGHT
Wilson and Marshall Named Again by Democ-
racy to be Standard Bearers for
1916 Campaign.
NIGHT SESSION OF THE CONVENTION
Adoption of Platform Today Brings to an End
One of Most Harmonious Meetings
Ever Held.

| Old timers in the democratic ranks
were actually pleased with the split
in the resolutions committee and the
| threatened airing of differences on
the convention floor. They held a
democratic convention wouldn't be
true to life If something didn't result
in row or near row-and the 1916
convention has been entirely too
tame, in their opinion, to live up to
the best traditions of the party.
On Wednesday, IL any democrat
had dared to predict there would bave
been any difference of opinion in the
platform, he would probably have
been laughed down in derision. The
platform was the main thing on which
1t was thought the party was in COM
plete accord. Its skeleton foundation
had been prepared by President Will
SON and 1t was assumed all the reso-
lutions committee would have to do
would be to yarnish it on with choice
language and tack ON some weather
board to make 1t weather proof, but
the carpenters had different ideas as
to the sort of planking to he used and
the row was on. Democracy will have
at least bit of fight on it's hands
when the convention meets at IL
o'clock.
The convention in the nights ses-
sion which adjourned at :2:30 a. m.
today plainly showed it was weary
Of further delay-anxious to finish up
and go home. That feeling was even
more pronounced when the delegates
awoke with sore throats or aching
arms and legs from the over use they
gave such organs and parts on the
last nights outburst of cheering and
noise accorded President Wilson and
his running mate.
Democracy's convention history
with the climax four years ago at
Baltimore has recorded many stirring
night sessions, but seldom any more
picturesque than last nights meeting.
A tremendous crowd took every inch
of space in the great audttoriun-and
remained there until both Wilson and
Marshall had been renominated. Out
side all the city police reserves had
to be called to quell general riot
of disappointed spectators. There was
considerable criticism Of the police
today for their utter refusal to recog-
niZe credentials of committee men,
delegates or newspapermen in the
throng outside. Many with full Gre
dentials were even roughly handled.
Doorkeepers with large circles of ac-
ouaintances had smuggled in their
friends without tickets and they over
flowed everywhere-on press stands,
clinging to the ratings, sitting in the
aisles and perched on window lodges.
Attendance Small Today.
rBy Perry Arnold, United Press Staff
Correspondent
COLISEUM, ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June
16.-Tired, noafse. sleepy-eyed, be-
draggled-but happy-democracy's
leaders met at 11:29 today to an
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-16
Note to Carranza is Ready and
May be Sent to Him
Today.

WASHINGTON, June 16. The Car
rama reply is ready. Development )
reported yesterday regarding fresh
bandit border raids, it was generally
believed, inclined administration Off
cials to the belief that it should be
dispatched Immediately. There was
strong probability it would be sent
today. The latest communication to
CarranZa is said by persons close to
the president and Secretary Lansing,
to be the United States final word in
the matter of withdrawal of the expe-
dition that crossed the border to
hunt down Villa and break up border
banditry.
The note is In no sense an ulti-
matum. it was stated again today. l.
does state plainly and without anv
possibility of misunderstanding. where
this government and Carranza's de-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-16

penses of the current fiscal year.
We have lifted human labor from
the category of commodities and have
secured to the working man the
right of voluntary association for his
protection and welfare. We have
protected the rights of the laborer
against the unwarranted issuance OF
writs Of Injunction and have guaran-
teed to him the right Of trial by jury
in cases Of alleged contempt commit
ted outside Of the presence Of the
court.
We have advanced the parcels post
to genuine efficiency, enlarged the
postal savings system, added ten
thousand rural delivery routes and
extensions, thus reaching two and one
half millions additional people, i'm
proved the postal service in every
branch and for the first time in our
history, placed the postoffice system
on self-supporting basis with actual
surplus in 1913, 1914 and 1915.
Economic Freedom.
The reforms which were most obvi-
ously needed to clear away special
privilege. prevent unfair discrimina-
ton, and release the energies Of men
of all ranks and advantages, have
been effected by recent legislation.
We must now remove, SO far as pos
sible, every remaining element of un-
rest and uncertainty from the path
of the business men of America and
secure for them continued period of
quiet, assured and confident pros
perity.
Tariff
We reaff1rm our belief in the doc
trine of tariff for the .eople, pro-
viding sufficient revenue for the oper-
alton of the government economically,
unreservedly endorse the Underwood
tariff law as truly exemplifying that
doctrine. We recognize tariff rates
are necessarily subject to change to
meet changes in worlds production
and trade. Events of the last two
years have brought about many
momentous changes.
In some instances changes are yet
conjectura1 and wait to be disclosed
particularly in respect to our foreign
trade. Two years of war which has
directly involved most Of the chief
industrial nations of the world and
which has indirectly affected the life
of all nations are bringing about eco
nomical changes more varied and far
reaching than the world has ever be-
fore experienced.
In order to ascertain Just what
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-16
RUSSIA

LONDON, June 16.-With czerno-
Wtz semi-officiaIIy reported captured,
the Russian offensive is now driving
westward toward SfanisIau in an eff
fort to completely cut the Austrian
communications between Lemberq
and all OF the southern points of the
line.
If tho Russians are successful, the
Austrian CzernoWitz army wilt either
have to stand it's ground, or retreat
through the Carpathians and down to
the plains of Hungary. For the Rus
slams to reach and occupy the rich
farming country of the plains would
be serious blow to thc central
powers, now practically dependent on
the coming harvest for enough food
to enable them to continue the war
Reports from Berlin, Petrosrad and
Vienna all make patent that the Aus
=
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-16
T RANCE

PARIS, June 16.-After period OF
infantry inaction of forty-eieht hours.
the Germans launched Violent infan.
try attacks against the Thiaumont
farm-caiiiette woods, sector of the
Verdun front, east bank of the Meuse
last night, says the French official
statenen today. All of the attacks
were repuIsed.
At times the French artillery fire
was SO heavy that Germans were
killed in their trenches before they
were able to flee.
"On the west bank Of the Meuse,"
said the statement, "the Germans
launched seven counter attacks on
tho slope of Dead Mans hill. All o4
these were repulsed, the French i'm
prisonlng 1875 Germans.
ION the east bank toward p. m,
the Germans made powerful offens-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-16
Colonel Roosevelt is Reported
Ready for Conference,
But is Sick.
IBy Carl d. Groat, United Press Staff


IBy Carl d. Groat, United Press STAFF
Correspondent
NEW YORK, June 16.-That
Charles Evans Hughes, republican
presidential candidate will soon have
a conference with !Theo. Roosevelt,
was the strong belief today Of men
identified with the Hughes campaign.
1t followed on the heels OF rumor
emanating from the Roosevelt side OF
the house that the colonel would see
Hughes tonight. In view of the fact,
however, that Roosevelt expects to
stay in town and Hughes will leave
al three o'clock to be away two
days, this is held Inaccurate. Those
responsible for tho news that the men
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-16

! these changes may be, the democratic
! congress is providing for non-parti.
san tariff commission to make impair
tial and thorough study Of every eco
nomic fact that may throw light
either upon our past or upon our
future fiscal policy, with regard to the
imposition of taxes on imports, or
with regard to the changed and chang
ing conditions under which our trade
is carried on. We cordi lilly endorse
this timely proposal and declare our
selves in sympathy with the principle
and purpose of shaping legislation
within that field in accordance with
clearly established facts rather than
in accordance with demands of selfish
interests or upon information provided
largely if not exclusively by them.
Americanism.
The part that the United States will
play in the new day Of international
! relationships which is now upon US,
will depend upon our preparation and
our character. The democratic par.
ty, therefore, recognizes the assertion
and triumph sentiment of the invisi-
bility and coherent strength Of tnu
nation as the supreme issue of this
day in which the whole world faces
the crisis of many fold change 1t
summons all men of whatever origin
or creed who would count themselves
Americans, to join in making clear tc
all the world the unity and conse
quent power of America. This is an
! Issue of patriotism To taint it with
partisanship would be to defile It, In
this day Of test, America must show
itself, not a nation of partisans, but q
| nation Of patriots. There is gathered
here in America the best of the blood
| the industry and the genius of the
whole world, the elements of a great
race and a magnificent society to be
melted into a mighty and splendid ma
ton. Whoever, actuated by the pur-
pose to promote the interest of a
| foreign power in disregard of our own
| country's welfare or to injure this
government in its foreign relations or
cripple or destroy it's industries at
home, and whoever, by arousing preju-
| dices of racial, religious or other
nature, creates discord and strife
among our people so as to obstruct
the wholesome process of uniication,
is faithless to the trust which the
privileges of citizenship repose in
him and disloyal to his country. We
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-16
HE MAY TAKE THE STUMP
IN CAMPAIGN FOR HUGHES

will confer, also are of the opinion
that Roosevelt will take the stump
for Hughes.
Colonel 10 Sick.
NEW YORK, June 16.-Colonel
Roosevelt suffered another coughing
spell during the night and was feel
ing much worse today, it was admit
ted at his hotel today. His condf-
ton is said to have alarmed his fam
lily.
The colonel left the hotel with DIR.
Hubert v. Guile, who had been called
in consultation. and went to the
physician's office for examination.
He shook his head when asked how
he felt and whispered, Il don't know
a thing. boys" when reporters met
him. He finds difficulty in taking
and appeared to be in great pain
Several persons who called for con-
ferences today were turned back at
the hotel. Roosevelt refusing to see
them.
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-16

The Telegraph service Of The
Daily Gate City and Constitu-
ton Democrat is received over
our own leased wire.
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THE WEATHER
Fair. Temperature unchanged.
Local temp p. M. SO; Z a, m.
Sc. saiaai !
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