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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-04-26
ten EMPLOYEES
ARE DISCHARGED
BY LAND BOARD
Meeting Of State Commission
Lasts Ten Minutes,
MCKINNEY IS SECRETARY
Payroll Reduced $4,000 a
Year; Probe to Continue,

The big drive" Of the four members
OF the state school land commission
who voted last week TO declare all po.
sitionS in the department vacant lasted
less than ten minutes today.
In that time the force OF the depart
ment was reduced by ten employees. The
total payroll thus Topped off IS approx
ima,ely $4,000 year
Mckinney Secretary.
A N Mckinney who has served as
assistant secretary OF the department,
was made secretary, succeeding George
A. Smith OF Chandler, who has held
the place for the past two years. .
Besides Smith, the employees cllmi-
mated were s. A. Todd, bookkeeper
George f. Clark. J A. West, w. ID.
Wilson. appraisers, Horace Wilson,
chief clerk of the sales division, K. NJ
Gilmore. bookkeeper, Mollie L,eben-
helm, stenographer; Emma Bond
stenographer w. {. Hall auctoneer.
Lucas Promoted.
The changes made in addition to the
elevation OF Mckinney were the pro-
motion OF Cam Gait to chief clerk OF
the farm loan division; Frank B. Lucas
from .bookkcepct in the lease division
10 Chief clerk IN the sales division, w
+ Quick, from clerk to the assistant
in the oil and gas division to superln-
tcndcnt OF sales
In the present departmental totce
there will be only one new face, ,ha, OF
+ d. Auld, Mangum, who was employed
as bokkcepcr. The list OF employees
eliminated included eleven, bu, the
resignation OF NJ Young, appraiser
was given before the action of last
week.
Smith Out May /.
Secretary Smith will remain until
May |. In the. communication to the
governor and the commissioners sent
fCootiousd nh Pare Tvol
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-04-26
Shawnee Youths
to Reform School

SHAWNEE. Okla Apul %
Ralph and linn Hobbs, IA year old ho,s
of McAle'ter. have pleaded guilty ~
burglari'ing Rock Island watchrNan',
shanty here and will be sent to the
PaaulS Valley training school iot ono
year They are said ,n have com,
OF good families and moyemnl is on
foot looking to their parole.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-04-26
Food Shortage
Would Decrease
Pneumonia Cases

CHICAGO, April ~ A food short.
ipc in Chicago would he blessing in
disguise IN decreasing pneumonia. &C
cordng to John u Robertson health
commissioner Twenty six persons
died Of pneumonia in Chicago ycster-
DAY aud 1871 IN the las, week accord
ing to reports of the health depart,
ment In the opinion Of Doctor Rob
crtson. the largest factor to the con.
tracing Of pneumonia is ovetcating and
Q food shortage would pn long wa,
toward curbing the disease.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-04-26
More Attacks Avoided.

III, report also shows that more YES.
sells were successful m avoiding at
tack. the figure, being -. as against
". the previous high figure during any
week Tho arrivals and departures Of
steamers from British ports average
fairly well with those Of the precrd.
INC wrrks
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-04-26
HUNDRED GERMAN
A|RMEN .||'|' BROUGHT
DOWN At ARRAS
British DiSorganize Enemy in
FOur-Day Battle,
BY ROBERT 7. SMALL,
Staff Correspondent of the Associated
Press

BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE, April 2h-Therc has been
comparative lull IN the fighting east OF
ArraS in the last twenty four hours, the
German counter attack, IN the effort
10 retake the positions captured by the
British IN Mondays push having worn
themselves out Aitcr each oi these az
tacking waves had been thrown back
the British managed TO creep forward
still further.
Respite for German Airmen.
Heavily overcast skies are giving the
German airmcn bret respite from
British aerial attacks, enabling them
to make efforts to rcotganlIe their
badly damaged SQuadronS Tor IN four
days fighting the British have ac-
counted for nearly lOO enemy machines
The British a,rmcn are praying ior
continuance oi clear weather as their
worrying tactics had provoked the
Germans into heavy fighting but clouds
gathered yesterday aud today. also the
skies were overcast In consequence
the a,rplane hunt was restricted
Kite Balloons Timed.
Owing To The heavy inroad, made hS
the Brush aitmen. the German Kite
balloon, are extremely tlml these DAY,
U ontInnrd on PAGE Tyol
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-04-26
Stages Smallest
Woman Is Dead

NEW YORK, April 2o.-Sylvia
Willes, better known as Princess Vic
toria" and the Midget Mclba." who
died here Yesterday was said to he
the smalles, woman on the stage She
weighed nineteen and three quarter
pounds and was twenty-five and one.
half inches tall She was born in Mel.
bourne, Australia. nineteen years ago
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-04-26
Strike in Germany
Affected 25O,0OO

WASHINGTON. April n -Reporu
10 the state department, through ON.
tial channels tell oi strike II 30.
ON labofefs IN Berlin While ihs
name oi m, official who gav, tive IN.
formation Is withheld. The departures
says the incident ,ho~, the growth "A
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-04-26
Warmer Tonight Is
Weather Forecast

LOCAL FORECAST - Unsettled and
peners''y cloudy weather tonIoh, sps
Friday. Probably somewhat wsfm.r',o'
rlVht,
TAre toetcAsr-ronloh, and r,l.
DAY unsettled, probably showers In north
portion. Warmer. tonight In west 90,
ton, warmer Fsldsy IN sas, portIor
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-04-26
Negro Slayer of Oklahoma Rancher
Guarded TO Prevent Mob Violence

oKMllGEE
o is in /, county
threats o mob
to by rouso ambw
tel after tn shooting
The a l. Game an Cupw uc cpaurn
e1 a. in
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-04-26

Continued on Page TwoJ
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-16
In the Oil Fields
office 5000 j. A. McKeever Res. 3577.R
OIL MARKET QUOTATIONS..
WOULD SETTLE DISPUTE
BETWEEN DEPARTMENTS

The following bill introduced in the
legislature by Senators Tucker, Board
ana Thomas and Shores of. the house
IS designed TO end the dispute between
the state corporation commission anG
me mine inspectors office as to who
mas jurisdiction in enforcing the con-
servation laws Under this bin the
sole authority Is given to the corpoi .
alton commission. The bill follows:
An act providing for the creation of
.n on and gas department under the
Jurisdiction Of the corporation COM
mission. authorizing the corporation
commission to appoint chief oil and
gas conservation agent, and confer
ring exclusive jurisdiction on the cor
poration commission in reference &c
The conservation Of oil and gas. and
the inspection of gasoline and oil, the
product OF crude petroleum and re-
pcaling all acts or parts Of acts in CON
flct Herewith.
BE II enacted by the people OF the
state of oklahoma:
Section !. The corporation commii>
sion is hereby empowered and author
, i%ed TO create and establish an OF! and
gas department under the jurisdiction
and supervision of the CORPORATION
commisS ion, and is hereby authoriZeL
TO appoint, with the approval and con-
sent of the governor, chief oil anv
gas conservation agent who shall have
charge of the oil and gas department
herein authorized.
Sec ,. All authority and duties now
conferred upon the corporation COM.
mission or other departments of the
state department in reference to tns
conservation OF oil and gas and the
drilling and operating oil and gas well
ana the construction and regulation of
oil and gas pipe lines are hereby con-
ferred exclusively upon the corpora
tion commission.
Sec. 3. The corporation commission
Is hereby authorized to prescribe rules
and regulations for the plugging of all
abandoned oil and gas wells. The
same shall be plugged under the di
rection and supervision Of the con-
servation agents of the corporation
commission as may he prescribed by
the corporation commission. All or.
ders ard regulations in reference 10
plugging wells shall be made otter
general hearing as now prescribed by
law for the PRONUNCIATION Of orders by
the corporation commission.
Sec I. Jurisd ction is hereby con-
ferred upon the corporation commits.
sion to inspect all oils and liquids. the
product OF petroleum or other bi-
luminous substances or into which the
product OF petroleum enters, by what
ever name called. which may or can
be used for illuminating. heating or
power purposes manufactured in TINS
state or brought into II, before the
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-16
pAN.AMERIoAN REFINING COMPANY.

Tulsa, Oklahoma.
TO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE PAN.
AMERICAN REFINING COMPANY AND
ALI. OTHERS. CONCERNED;
You are hereby notified that . special
meeting Of the stockholders OF the said Com.
pany has been called to be held at the office
Of the Company In the Mayo Building, Tulss
Oklahoma, on the 27th day Of January, 1917,
OF 10 o'clock, A. NJ. to consid r the increase OF
the capital stock Of the Cmpany by the
amout OF Three Million Dollars ($3.000,.
OoO. .0O), or such smaller amount as may
then be determined upon. the allotment and
sale Of o portion thereof to the present stock
holders and the authorization OF the sale OF
tho remainder thereof, together with such
other aad further matters as may be pre-.
sentcd In connection with said proposals OF
as may lawfully come before said meeting
Dated. December 9Th. 1915
J. NJ. BURK
President
r 7. PARKHuRsT.
Secretary.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-16
Carroll Oil
Marketing
Company
Announce

THEY ARE EQUIPPED TO HANDLE ALL OIL
PRODUCTS AND ARE PREPARED TO BUY
AND SELL IN ANY QUANTITY BOTH FOR
THEIR OWN ACCOUNT AND FOR GUS
TONER'S
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-16
Oil Stocks
standard Oil Subsidiaries.

Furnished by Strandberg McGreevy & Co
members Of the New York stock exchange
922 Baltimore avenue, Kansas City, Mo-:
ct,ud,ra M c,h.,ai,rt.,'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-25

man with a possible alias and pre-
sumably fugitive from justice.
Cant something be done, Smith =?
You've had experience in these
things; your talk shows it. Have we
got to stand still and be shot to
pieces?"
THE necessity remains to be dem
onstrated. But you will be shot to
pieces, to a dead moral certainty, if
YOU don't put somebody on deck with
the necessary brains, and do it quick
ly," said Smith with frank bluntness.
Hold on" protested the engineer
Every man to his trade. When ] said
that we had nobody but the neigh
bors and our friends in the company
/ didn't mean to give the impression
that they were either dolts or chuck
leheads. AS a matter of fact, we have
pretty level-headed bunch of men
in Timanyoni Ditch-though I'll ad-
NIT that some of them are nervous
enough, just now. to want to get out
on almost any terms. What l meant
to say was that they don't happen to
be up in all the crooks and turnings
of the high-finance buccaneers"
(To Be Continued)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-25

the world about that" said the one
who had been called in as an expert.
What | can't understand is why
some of you didn't size the situation
up long ago-before it got into its
present desperate shape. You are at
the beginning of the end now
They've caught you with an empty
treasury, and these stock sales YOU
speak of prove that they have al
ready begun to swallow you by lit
ties. Timanyoni common suppose
you haven't any preferred-at thirty
nine is an excellent gamble for any
group of men who can see their way
clear to buying the control. With an
eager market for the water-and
they can sell the water to you people,
even If they don't put their own
Escalante propect through the
stock can be pushed to par and be-
yond, as it will be after you folks
are all safely frozen out. More than
that, they can charge you enough for
the water you've got to have, to
finance the Escalante scheme and pay
al the bills; and their investment, at
the present market, will be only thir-
ty-nine cents in the dollar. It's neat
little play"
Williams was by this time far past
remembering that his adviser was a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-25
By McMQnuS

II they hadn't always been reIegated
TO the butter and eggs side of the
| industry. And the prospect. of be.
coming a real hand" on one of the
great, modern farms with their vast
fields OF wheat and corn, and the com.
plicated and fascinating machines II
use on them, is enough to give am
woman with the love of the greai
| outdoors in her a thrill.
Woman is practical creature, very
| On the farm as elsewhere. she II
| going to wear the garments best suit.
ed to the work she has in hand. Many
OF the Englishwomen are blowing
planting and harvesting their crops IL
breeches; and Mother Grundy, under
the stress of hunger, is throwing ne
| fits at the spectacle. In time of war
when the nations feel the necessity
of utilizing all their resources, nc
one is bothering much about that ole
catch phrase. "the silent influence OF
woman" With a possible shortage
OF food staring us in the face, the
price OF onions and potatoes above
rubies, and other commodities taking
to themselves the wings OF the dove
the freside gives precedence to the
farm.
There are those who assert thai
this use of breeches for sport and OF
| overalls for farm work is but tha
! harbinger of what we may expect
in correct dress for women in the
near future. I would not be regarded
as reactionary- 1t is purely for aes-
thetic reasons that L express a doubt
whether so sweeping a change of
fashion would succeed in materially
frightening the corner where we are.
Skirts may be an outworn badge of
sex, as some of the modern writers
insist; but the do cover multitude
of shins.
Remembering this, one feels inclin-
ed to take the other side of the fence,
and echo to our threatened draperie.
Lear's plea to Cordelia: stay lit
tIepp
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-25
The Honeymoon House
Bv HAZEL DALE

followed everything that Janet was
saying with intense interest.
"Of course, ] thought 1T would
put him to fight. but, instead, he
simply stepped up TO me and said
in a crisp tone of voice:
"'You just come with me, young
lady. You're too young to be out
alone at this time of night Wen
see what they say at the Night
speak to men in the street.
Janet stopped for about a min
ute. Really, Karen, when l think
of last night it seems just like a
nightmare, all of it. Could you be-
lieve thing like that would happen
to anyone like me?'
well, of course, for n minute /
was terrified, but then / began to be
indignant, and i kept getting an
grier every minute. But / did man
age to think. l saw that he was an
officer all right, and l knew that if
went along peaceably there wouldn't
be a fuss, so l asked him to let go
of my arm, and | went with him. u
Karen's eyes were filled with hor-
ror. You let him take you to Night
Court?"
The Night Court to Karen was a
place too horribly unspeakable to
mention. She shivered at the
thought of it. 1t meant a place OF
utter degradation, the shame OF
which a girl never recovered.
You see, ] know Miss Brown
down there" Janet explained. "She
is a great friend of Jarvis and the
most wonderful woman l know.
Well, when we got down to the place,
/ let the man get me inside, and
then l said to him quietly
Would you mind taking me right
to Miss Brown? l think you are
going to regret this evenings epi-
sode more than you can say
Janet, l don't see how you did
it. l should have tainted away on
the spot"
Il didn't know I could do it my
self, until realized I was in a tight
place. You should have seen that
mans face when Miss Brown put
her arms around me. Why, he just
wilted away; he looked frightened
to death. Miss Brown came home
with me in a taxi, and Jarvis was
home when we got there, and Karen
he cried, 1t was awful, everything
was awful, and l feel like the. most
effeminate of women. l don't think
/ shall ever venture out alone after
dark again as long as l live. It's the
most horrible blow to my pride. ]
don't feel a bit like an independent
woman now"
(To be continued)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-25

brothers, and when it comes to air
planning, there is no difference be-
tween them at all.
The necessities OF war are creating
new standards, a new outlook, prac-
tically n new era. The woman with
the hoe, If not exactly at our door,
is certainly in our backyard. There
is no time for the discussion of dis
tinctions of sex. The need of the mo-
ment Is results. The work has to be
done as rapidly and efficiently as pos
sible: it is quite immaterial whether
men or women do 1t. AS for the
clothes worn during the accomplish
ment of these tasks, all any one asks
is that they shan't impede or retard
the worker.
The smock and the short skirt have
been popular for amateur gardening
sort of preliminary or preparatory
step toward the overalls. which will
be almost a necessity for real farm
work.
Did you ever weed in your garden,
and prune and plant and fuss about
happily with a trowel and a pair of
scissors and a watering-pot, and not
come into the house later with your
skirt a sight? | never did. That
pesky skirt positively dabbles itself
in the wet soil. You shovel earth all
over it. The watering-pot upsets
itself upon it, and you rise up from
your labors in a shocking mess.
Women will simply flock to join
the great agricultural army of the
coming summer. In fact, they are
already doing so. Few occupations
make so strong an appeal to them;
for women are born gardeners. They
love nothing so much as watching
and tending growing things and
coaXing them to grow faster and
flower more abundantly. It's the fol-
lowing out of the maternal instinct.
/ know some women landowners who
manage their own farms very sue
cessfully, and there would be a lot
more devotng themselves to the soil
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-25
BY Hazel Dale

BY Hazel Dale
| After Karen Mikal's affair with
Dick she felt as though the world
Running into the Honeymoon House
one afternoon to confide her happi-
ness, she found Janet with a wet
cloth fastened over her head lying
down in the big studio.
1t was so unusual to find Janet
| like this that Karen Immediately eX-
claimed about it. Janet, who had
answered the knock at the door her
self, answered with return of her
old spirit.
I've had a real adventure, my
dear, and l feel quelled and subdued
and very much the woman to-day"
Tell me about it," Karen answer
| ed eagerly, deciding to wait to tell
about her own happiness.
But first / want to tell you that
Jarvis and ] know all about YOU"
Janet said, hugging Karen delight
edly. Dick has been here, and he
told us all about tat least, all
about the fact that you are going
to be famous as a great actress. He
didn't tell us much about yourselves,
but such a change in Dick I have
never seen. He seems to have lost
all of his arrogance"
Karen blushed delightedly. but
I did want to tell 1t first myself"
she mourned. And I could have
managed it, too. If 1t had not been
for the fact that I have been so
busy arranging for the play and get
ting my part and finishing up some
work for Mr.. John Armstrong, and,
oh, doing something every minute,
Janet. But tell me about yourself"
We'll, nv dear. it's thing l never
dreamed of happening. If another
girl had ever told me about it
should have thought 1t far-fetched.
You know what l think about inde-
pendence and so forth. Well, last
night, Jarvis was out on an assign
ment, and / was lonely, so Neva
Hart and l went to a play, On the
way home after l had left Neva u
man began to follow me. OF course
I was annoyed. you know how any
woman feels under the circum-
stances.
II knew. too, that 1t wouldn't be
very pleasant to be followed into
the apartment, so after he had fol-
lowed me for two blocks l stopped
suddenly, and turned around to look
at him. He just stared at me. and |
said, See here. are you following
me?"
Karen was too much absorbed to
even put in a question, she simply
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-25
ssThe InSider''
By Virginia Terhune Van de Water

wants had made the house look as if
it had been lived in for a month.
! To be sure, the entire building had
| been opened, cleaned and set to
rights by the wife of the farmer
whose cottage was within the Hill
crest grounds. But Mrs. Gore and
her assistants had unpacked table
| linen and silver and had added to
the place the homelike touch that
| only those who live in q house can
| give to it.
I paused at the foot of the stairs
as l came down, and looked about
me and into the open door of the
dining room, noting the beauty of
all the appointments. AS l stood
thus, 1 heard my name spoken soft
| ly. Turning, L saw my employer
the huge hall.
Come here" he said. Il have
/ som ething to show YOU"
The back door and veranda were
! like those at the front of the house,
| but at the back the honeysucklcs
and rambling roses ran riot as they
| did not at the more heavily shaded
front of the building.
II just want you to see how love-
! ly this is, and to smell it," Mr.. Nor
ton said as L Joined him. Come on
outside"
l followed him out upon the We
randa, and together we stood and
! looked and listened, drinking in the
| beauty of the early evening.
The sun had set and the whole
world was bathed in a soft pink
after-glow. The air was sweet
with flower-scents; the brook rip
! pied musically only a short dis
| tance from where we stood; from a
| In Of cd ~
the house a robin whistled, then
was still.
"Ahn' I sighed, ecstatically, ''How
| heavenly 1t all isl"
You like it 2" he asked. He was
standing close to me and 1 answered
: frankly:
He Takes Her Hand
"Of course ! like it. You must
know that, Mr.. Norton"
"I must know it," he said, gravely.
Dear child-please try to feel that
this is home"
Indeed / SHALL" l rejoined, try
| ing to speak in matter of fact
! tone and starting toward the door.
But he detained me by taking my
hand.
II wanted just a minute alone
here" he said, "to wish you the
happiest summer of your life. 1t
promises to be a happy one for me,
my dear. because you are here"
"Oh-thank you!" I acknowledged
| the words with a laugh that would
not sound as natural as l wished.
II am sure everybody must be happy
at Hillcrest."
"I have not always been happy
| here" he muttered as he dropped
my hand. But" with a gesture
that was actually defiant, 'I mean
to be happy this summer-or know
| the reason why"
II hope you may be-" I said sin
cerely.
"I will be il" but he got no
| farther. For at that moment Tom
| came around the corner of the
| house.
"Oh. here you are!" he exclaimed.
Miss Dart. come out on the front
lawn and see the new moon. If you
| look at it over your right shoulder
you will have good luck for the
rest of the month"
| Good" l CALCULATED Show 1t
| to me immediately
BY the time Tom and l had looked
at the new moon and returned to
the house dinner had been an
nounced, and Mrs. Gore and Mr..
Norton were awaiting us in the din
ingroom with Grace, who had been
allowed to sit up for dinner on this,
the first evening at Hillcrest.
ITO BE Continued).