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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-03
I'VE Are Lost" the Prussian - .nv C r." ~" w.
Staggered at NeIUs of Anie, i.....y pc

French officers Vainly informed the
prisoner that American soldiers have
landed In France and England; that
n division OF American troops was pre-
pairing for service at the front and that
the United States was arming millions
of men.
Those are only adroit maneuvers
designed to keep up the spirits of the
com mbatants," replied the prisoner.
The French officer then said;
I'VE will convince you; you shall be
conducted before General Pershing.
communicative chief of the American
eNpeditionary forces In France now
here on the Verdun front. You can
question him and you will learn wheth-
er II is the German people or us who
are being deceived by those who
govern"
When the escort came to conduct
the prisoners before General PershinS
big tears rolled down his cheeks and
he remarked sadly:
"Since that is the case, 1t is all over.
We are lost"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-03
Ferguson Impeachment
Trial 10 Start TOddy

AUSTIN, Texas Sept 2.--1he stage
was set tonight for opening tomorrow
IN the Texas state senate Of the inn
peachment trial Of James r.. Tergu-
son. based on charges preferred
against hin, as governor. by Speakt r
Of the House +. O. Fuller, alleging of
sicial misconduct. Pending the final
outcome OF lhe senate proc eedings.
Mr.. Ferguson stands suspended IS
81 vernon of the state.
There are 81 articles of inpcaoh-
ment, and a week or possibly more Is
expected to elapse before final action
Is had.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-03
BOUND FOR BERLIN
SAY AMBULANCERS
Thousands Greet Tulsa's Por-
ton of Rainbow Division
on Way to France.
ALL GET WELl-FILlED BOXES
Two-Hour Stopover in This
City Is Occasion of I'M
pressive Ceremony.

Tulsa last night held her sons at
arms length and bid them, as they
continue their way to France to sue
cor the wounded and dying, to u.
Americans; then Tulsa pressed tneso
same sons to her breast and as sons,
brothers, sweethears and pals. prayed
with them that they might be spared;
counseled with them in matters OF
love, friendship and business. Tulsa
was giving of her blood that blood
might be spared giving Of her man
hood that manhood might be free.
Ambulance company No. 3. sanitary
train III. Forty-second division,
passed thru this city last night on its
way to Mineola, l.. l., where already
preparations are being made for em-
barkation to France. The members
of the unit, 167 strong. are Tulsa meE
and as such were greeted by morv
than seven thousand persons who met
them at the Frisco station when tneir
special of eight coaches rolled into
the yards at $40 o'clock.
For an hour and half the boys
were "home" again. They were given
visit with loved ones, to bid, perhaps,
a last farewell to those they were
leaving in answer to their countrys
call to stamp forever from this earth
the crushing, grinding power of Prus-
sianism.
Train Late.
The train arrived late, having been
scheduled TO arrive at o'clock in the
afternoon. The delay. according to
railroad attaches, was due to a wreck
OF a freight train near Hepburn sid
ing, five miles east Of Bristow. This
pecessitated the detouring Of the am
balances special around by way of
HCloenville.
At o'clock the railway station
platform was crowded 10 overflow,
and as the evening grew this crowd
was swelled by hundreds of relatives
and friends of the ambulancers until
the station parking, the adjacent
streets and even the roofs of build
with those who had gathered to well
come the soldiers and to pay them a
GodsUeed on their way to France.
When the train finally did pull into
the station the crowds gathered so
close to the coaches in which the
men were riding that 1t was several
moments before they could find room
on the station platform to form In
company front and be arranged for
the short parade which was held thru
the principal downtown streets. But
little effort was made by the police
to assist the officers Of the company
In clearing the platform for this pur-
pose. Policeman No. 16 was notice
ably slew in lending his aid fer this
purpose.
Parade Rec, ives OvatiOns.
After the men finally had been
paraded thru the downtown streets.
meeting with continuous ovation at
every block from the thousands who
lined the sidewalks and streets them
selves, the men were returned to the
CONTINUED on PAGE THREE
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-03
Italian Band Plays
Concert Thru Rain
of Shot and Shell

ROME, Sept arthur Toscanini,
noted Italian conductor, for many
years up to 1915 musical director at
the Metropolitan Opera House in New
York. has been decorated by the Ital-
ian government for great bravery un-
der fire. Signor Toscanini. the ac-
counts disclose, kept his military band
playing during the battle of Monte
Santo. the soldiers storming the posi-
tions Of the enemy to the strains OF
this martial music.
In the midst of the fighting and at
q time when the Austrian barragc
fire was at its height, he led his band
to one of the advanced positions.
where, sheltered only by q huge rock
he conducted concert which did not
stop until word had been brought to
him that the Italian soldiers had
taken the trenches Of the AustrianA
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-03
SCHOOL OF MINES AT
WILBURTON WILL OPEN
Despite Gubernatorial Veto,
Scholastic Year Will Start
This Month.

The oklahoma School of Mines ana
Mctallurgy, at Wilburton, Will open
for the scholastic year in the third
week of this month. Such was the
statement last night b. Lynn clover.
president of the institution which was
supposed t. have died by gubernator-
iol vote of It's Appropriation. but
which Is apparently still much alive.
Mr.. Glover, who was in Tulsa last
night, said that his campaign 70
finance the school by 81 description has
been successful and that II fun term
with the same size faculty as last year
Is assured. He will remain in the
field until the last OF the year, in the
effort to attain the goal set at = 5000.
Tho miners themselves Will contrib
ute $4,000 of the fund, and the state
federation of labor, following the en-
dorsement Of the plan by the eNecu-
tive committee in August, is piepar
ing to secure part of the fund. Tulsa
oil men have made liberal contribu
tons, the only one announced being
that of II. II. Rogers. This was $1,000.
The seventh legislature will be
asked TO appropriate money to reim-
burse the donors to this fund, In
view of the disposition of the sixth
legislature to keep the school going,
Mr.. Glover has no doubt that such APP
preparation will be made.
The faculty OF the Wilburton school
will consist of seven members, the
same as last year. Four OF these have
been named They are c. Il. Baker,
John Livingstone. A. C. Gates and H.
V. Swain.
Despite the inroads made by the
war on the student population of the
state. MI. Glover predicts the largest
enrolment In the history OF the
phool
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-03
Swiss Fight Epidemic.

GENEVA. Sept. 2.-The Swiss SAN
itary authorities Mt Basel and along
the German frontier are taking meas
ures to prevent dysentery. typhoid and
scarletina which prevail in Rhine
towns, from entering Switzerland. All
travellers coming from Germany are
required to undergo medical examin-
alton and neutrals crossing the from
tier into Germany from Switzerland
are warned to take precautions. The
epidemics are said to be due to in
sufficient nournishment The from
tier is virtually closed at Easel.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-03
MINIMUM SHIPMENTS FOR
COTTON Is ESTABLISHED
No Less Than 65 Bales a Car Is Order;
MO,cmt mt of Government
Supplies the Reason.

NEW YORK, Sept. Am order
prohibiting the shipping of cotton in
quantities less than 65 bales car and
requiring as many more to be added
as the size of the car Will permit, has
been issued by the railroad war
board, 1t was announced here tonight.
Notice has been sent to buyers OF
cotton with request that they place
orders on a basis Of not less than 60
bales or multiplee thereof.
The movement of the cotton crop
which Is scheduled to begin this fall
at q time when "a combination OF
government and commercial business
will be bringing tremendous pressure
to bear upon the railroads" was given
as tho reason for the order In state
ment issued by Fairfax Harrison.
chairman OF the board.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-03
German Forces Knocking at
Gates of Riga Both by Sea
and by Land.
ENEMY ONLY II MILES AWAY
Much Coveted City Controls
Entrance to the Gulf of
Finland.
By The Associated Press

The Germans are knocking, virtu-
ally at the gates OF Riga and with the
Russians apparently unable to with
stand their advance.
The great port and arsenal on the
Baltic and the head of the railway line
running to Petrosrad Is beset on three
sides by the enemy. on the west
In the Lake Babit region. on the
southwest near Mitau and on tho
southeast along the eastern bank OF
tho Dvina river. a scant 10 miles
distant from city.
In the latter region the Germans
after n heavy bombardment won tho
Kull bridgehead, famed as the scene
of many sanguinary encounters. and
crossel the Dvina river Thence they
shaped their course northward along
tho waterway toward Riga, with the
Russians counterattacking but unable
to hold them.
New Offensive Launched.
Some twenty miles southwest OF
from Mitau to the seaport the Ger
mans have begun a new offensive.
Here big battle Is I'm progress, but
in whose favor IL is going has not
yet been made evident by the Russian
and German official communications.
Neither is anything contained in them
concerning the operations near Lake
Babit whore the Germans were last
reported standing. about twelve miles
west of Riga.
Preparation evidently was made last
week in raids by airplanes on war
ships and military works in the Gulf
OF Riga and by the maneuvers OF
German torpedo boat destroyers, sub
marines and mine sweeping trawlers
in adjacent waters for the new Of
fensive against Riga, but whether the
attack is being carried out synchron-
ously by sea has not become APP
parent.
Strategic Point.
While the capture OF Riga would be
of great strategic value to tho Ger
mans in controlling the entrance To
the Gulf of Finland. at the head oi
which stand Petrograd, II would not
necessarily place the capital IN
jeopardy for 1t lies overland three
hundred miles as the crow flies from
Riga and $50 miles by rail.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-03
Kent Suffers Bombing
by German Air Raiders

LONDON, Sept. "A German air
RAID on the coast tonight was an
nounccd by the official bureau.
Bombs were dropped rs the airplanes
crossed east Kent.
Press dispatches from the southeast
coast report only one airplane en-
gagged in the raid. Do details are re-
ported The number of injured is
said to be from two to five, none of
them seriously hurt. Six bombs were
dropped and the raid lasted only few
minutes. The nigh. was brilliantly
clear, with a full moon.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-03
MEALS FOR 100000 MEN
PASS OVER SINGLE TABLE
One I'm Subsistence Division Which
Serves Troops of Southern
DeDaItmeut

SAN ANTONIO. Texas, Sept. a.
Meals for 10000 men are being o.,
dered over one table in San Antonio.
The table is one in the subsistence di-
vision of the quartermaster's depart
ment at Fort Sam Houston, over
which passes all orders for purchase
OF food supplies for the southern de-
partment, with tho exception of Dem
ing, n. NJ. The food for the men at
Camp Travis and the troops stationed
along the Rio Grande. is also ordered
over this desk.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-03
Help For Mcat Producer.

WASHINGTON, Sept. Food Ad-
ministrator Hoover has enlisted the
aid OF the federal reserve board In a
campaign to increase the meat sup
ply Of the country Mr.. Hoover has
asked the board to help the farmers
by suggesting that banks lond them
money at not moro than per cent
interest--as compared with the loyal
rate OF per cent or more-and the
board has transmitted the request, thru
the federal reserve banks. to the
bankers Of the districts concerned.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-03
LOuisianan Stays Wife,
Then Turns Gun on Self

BATON ROUGE. Sept. 2.-Howell
James Thompson. n watchman en-
ployed by an oil company here, today
shot and killed his wife and. turning
the weapon on himself, inflicted a
wound which physicians said probably
would cause his death. A letter found
in Thompson's pocket Indicated that
the couple had quarreled.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-03
H0NORED
BY TULSA TODAY
Festivities Will Be Ushered in
by Mammoth Parade This
Morning.
ADJUSTMENTS COME LATER
Speaking at Owen Park, Two
Baseball Games and Box
ing at Ball Park.
ADJUSTMENTS COME LATER
TOday's Program

10 a. m.-OrganiZed labor pa
rade.
IL o'clock-Rarbecue and fish
fry at owen park.
1880 p. IN. to $3.50 p. m.-Band
concert at owen park.
p. m.-Ball game, Associa-
ton park, Tulsa VS.. Ardmore.
$3.50 p. m.-Speeches at owen
park by Edgar Fenton and f.. B.
Howard.
4:30 p. Unpopular contests
owen park.
$3.50 p. m.-World's bantam
weight championship boxing
contest, Pete Herman VS.. Nate
Jackson, baseball park.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-03
Germans Thr0lD Poisoned
Candy to Rheims Children

PLYMOUTH. Mass, Sept. Ger
man .airmen. flying by night over
French town near Rheims, recently
dropped poisoned candy, causing the
death of many children who ate it.
according to a letter from Brownlee
b. Gauld, a former Harvard university
student, who now is driving an ambu-
lance on the westren front. The letter
also states that the Germans are CON
tinually shelling hospitals"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-03
Vienna Bombed BY FiUe
Daring Italian AUiatOrs

TURIN, Sept. 2.-F'ive Italian avia-
tors have returned from a successful
front the machines passed over the
Australian lines unobserved and flew
straight to the Austrian capital, where
the aviators dropped pamphlets in
forming the people Of the city Of the
great Italian victory.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-03

The final word given out last night
Labor day preparations was that the
program will more than meet ex-
pectations.
With every arrangement competed
well in advance, there have developed
no eleventh. hour mishaps. The ron.'
mittee is confident that fully three
thousand labor unionists will be IN
the parade. which starts from Eighth
street on Main promptly at 10 o'clock.
Fcnton VIII Speak.
Edgar Fenton, president of the
federation of labor, will arrive early
this morning. Mr.. Fenton's address,
his first in this city since the fedora
tion convention a year ago, is eagerly
looked forward to. T.. B. Howard,
state auditor, who still holds n caiu
in the typographical union, has peen
here for the past two days. He will
speak following Fenton.
The feature program to be given at
owen park late this afternoon cUh-
tains all the events which usually
make up the amusements for sucn
events-and then some
Take for instance the fat mans
race. Probably at no time In the
history of this city has there been
assembled such an aggregation OF cor
pulency as will toe the mark for this
event. All entries have been kept a
iealously guarded secret and several.
surprises are promised. The dark
horse who finishes first gets hat ana
the runner-up gets dollar.
Other Contests.
The other events are the girls race,
open to misses between IL and Is
years of age; the boys 50-yard oasn,
the sack race, which is free for all;
the three-fegged race, potato race,
tug of-war with eight men to the
team. pole climbing contest, pie-eat-
ing contest, milk drinking contest
rope climbing contest for men and the
nail driving contest for women. In
the latter event membership in the
carpenters union is not q dualifica-
tion for entry,
Practically all stores will be closed
during the day, and business activity
will be nil. County and city offices
will be closed all day.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-03
Genera, Korn,Ioff to Stick.

PETROGRAD. Sept. 2.-In an Off
cial statement made to the newspapers
today vice-Premier Nebrasoff denies
all reports that there was In contem-
plation a movement to supersede Gen.
eral Korniloff. commander-inc chief of
the Russian army.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-03

crackers With every bowl Of beer. He com.
municated with his boss and the free lunch
was established. As the years sauntered on
the free lunch Doomed and expanded until
IL become regular table d hote dinner.
But, those golden days have passed on and
the free lunch is being abolished 80 rapidly
that the only place person can obtain
meal that will come within the classification
OF free lunch is whom he steps out to .
friends house to eat.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-03
FREE LUNCH.


Free lunch, be II un.
derstood. is an age old
institution. However,
not until they had
chased the red skins
from the rock.rbbed
coast OF Maine down
into the northern edge
OF Oklahoma and the
lawmakers Of that sec
tion OF the country
known as the New Eng
land states began Is
suing licenses for the
operation OF rum
shops did the free
lunch become a public
utility. In the early
summer o progressive
bartender racked his
brain for q means OF
increasing business. At
length he thot OF sers.
iny free cheese and
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-03
GOSH

Over at Enid a father, for the fourth
time in four years, returned victor
over his son. The contest Of skill and
endurance was wrestling. Nothing
strange in that. The father should
have won-he's the oldest
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-03
THE WEATHER

TULSA, Sept 2-Temperatures:
Maximum 97, minimum 63 south
winds party coludy
OKLAHOMA FORECAST; Monday
and Tuesday unsettled, probably local
showers.
The Washington herald., 1917-01-13

settled. with probably no~s in Northeru and Can
trsl and rAn In Southern States cast Of the Miass
Sppi River on Saturday. followed By generally fair
weather Sunday, except that win probably
continue In the North Atlantic ststea
The tempersturs win rse Saturday throughout the
Eastern States
The Washington herald., 1917-01-13
FRESH FROM TRENCHES,
WILL TELL war TALES
Jean A. Picard Also Will Have Exhibit
at Willard Today.

But few months after being in the
trenches In France, Jean A. Picard is In
this country on a private mission. which
has for its object closer understand
Ing Of the people of France and the
United States with view to further ce-
menting and making permanent the ira
ditional friendship which has always ex-
listed between the two races.
Mr.. Picard is stopping at the New Will
lard and has issued Invitations for an ex-
hibit of French war documents. posters,
trench newspapers. photographs, and
books, to be held at the Willard today
from 2 to 6 o'clock. Mr.. Picard will de-
liver a lecture at the Church Of the
Covenant tomorrow at $50 o'clock
Mr. Picard was In this country when
the European war began, but at once re-
turned to France and Joined the colors.
participating in many Of the great battles
on the French front, and 1T was while he
was in the trenches that he gathered to-
gether the collection which will be on
exhibit at the Willard tomorrow.
For some months Mr.. Picard served
In Alsace, side by side with q section OF
the American Ambulance now stationed
at saloniki. and was working close by
Richard Hail. of Ann Arbor. Mich. and
Dartmouth College, when that volunteer
In the cause of France was killed by a
she'll
The Washington herald., 1917-01-13

on the premises Of hsr fathers home, the
Bishop Potter dwelling At Eirhty-ntnth
street and Riversie Drive
The Washington herald., 1917-01-13
LOCAL TEMPERATURE

Midnight, Is; = N. 10; Z . m, u; = m,
Is; o. M, Is; 10 g. m, %; Il noon, 2; D. H. a.
: p m, d; p m, D; p m. q; 10 D. m, Is.
Highest, q; lowest, L.
Relative hunidity-s m. IS; p m, 80; 9
p. m, %. Rainfall Is p m to Q .. m1, o. Hours
Of sunshine, a6; per cent Of possible sunshina 100
remperatue same dats ha yar-Hishe&, q;
lowest 81
The Washington herald., 1917-01-13
1000 MEN WANTED
BY FRIEDLANDER'S,
AIS ninth STREET

More than . tho6sand men are want
ed at once to share in one of the
greatest value-giving events this city
has ever witnessed. Friedlander Broth
ers, 42s Ninth street northwest, have
placed on sale over a thousand pairs
Of fine. up-to-date trousers at slash
ing prices.
The values are positively wonderful.
In many instances the cloth alone is
worth more today than the price sof
the trousers. They are exceptional
values and the range or weaves, pat
terms and fabrics Is SO large that II
is possible to match most any coat.
At s1.s6 it is possible to choose from
30s pairs of trousers, of all sizes.
Trousers. the value of which you can
tell ut a glance.
At s2.Ss you can pick from 1e4 pairs
Of high-grade trousers
I At sass there are 271 pairs of plain.
striped and mixed-pattern trousers.
At $3.45 there are sos pairs to select
from.
No matter. which Of these prices you
pay. you'll get the best value to be
found in all Washington.
Join the army of value-getters; get
in on" this extraordinary offer. Don't
forget the place-FItedlander Broth
arS "a Ninth strssk aexthvssk<SAAv.
The Washington herald., 1917-01-13

A SCOOP which 10 also . scale hss been
invented by q man IN Mobile. Ala
The Washington herald., 1917-01-13
SURPLUS REVENUES MAY
co FOR CLERK RAISES

Joseph II. Hurley, president of the Dis
trict branch OF the Federal Employees
Union, yesterday submitted to Senator
Hoke Smith, of Georgia. a plan by which
the employees of the District government
may secure increases in salary without
Involving additional taxation.
In substance. Hurley declared that the
money was now in the Treasury of the
United States as surplus revenues Of the
District About s2.00o.00 was raised last
year over and above the money needed
for the maintenance and improvement of
the District
Hurley declared that In the opinion Of
the auditor and the corporation counsel
this money could be applied to increases
and cited as a precedent the use of such
money for the District parks and play
grounds.
The Washington herald., 1917-01-13
DEATHS REPORTED,
WHITE

Louisa O. Whitaker, Go yssr LII oreeon ave, NV
Joseph II. Pase 70. 81 d St ne.
Ellen Bosrdman Lane Snow, ~ $50 Biltmors It
william d Hall. 50 lSa Monroe t. ne.
Patrick McLarney. %. IT Q St NJ.
Marie s. Bowman. q, 5621 COLORADO ave- NV.
John T. Tursy, 70. Houss Boat near AnaIostsr
lsland.
Map A. Hines. l month SIS Chatham Oourts
COLORED.
Sarah Bowman, q years sl3 18th It. NV.
Enora Mack, 8. Freedmen's Hospital
Henrietta Brooks. 8, FIeedmeo's HospitL
Hazel L. Carter, / month, West Fort Steyena
The Washington herald., 1917-01-13
BIRTHS REPORTED.
WHrTE

WHITE
Louis o. md Bertha o. Well. boy.
Armour NJ. and Nettie AcCay. boy.
Edrdse o. and Irva M. McConchia, girl
Walter W. and May n. Gallagher. girl
James +. and Annie a Eatia etri
Raymond Il and MarJ H. Dsnisls. girl
Harry and Kate Cutting. giri.
John y. and Edith n Carroll. boy.
OOLORED.
Georss and Doruthy Scott. bog.
william and Henrietta Robsrtsou, bos-
Robert and Ruth outlav. Erl
John K md Hattie AcNanw. girl
John L. and Hsriau Holmes, boy.
The Washington herald., 1917-01-13
WEATHER CONDITIONS.

District Of Columbia and vtryinia-OvGcsst and
warmer, with probably snow rsin Saturday. Sun
day clearing and COLDER fresh putheaR wiDdA
Maylsnd-ov1oN and warmer. With probably
snow Saturday. sunday clearing and colder; fresh
southeast winds
The indications are that the weather will be un-