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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-07
RAISES CONSIDERABLE SAND
Mebbe the Defendant Was Right
After All; He Was Fined, However.

"Jedge. I paid the rent for the
automobile ride, got out of the ma
chine and then my pOcketbOok was
gone and one of them men right thar
got It." She was q lady Of color who
sailed forth on a mission In a livery
car operated by e. Cross and Il. d.
Smith. also colored. she had lost her
pocketboOk and she was in police
court seeking redress.
However, the redress was not forth
coming. as the best the municipal
tribunal could do was fine the two de-
PENDANTS $40 and instruct the clerk
to call the next case, which he did.
Perhaps not In recent moons have
court fans been treated to such genu-
Inc entertainment as featured the trial
of the municipality against Cross and
Smith. The first witness to occupy
the stand was the complainant herself
She related lengthy story of the af-
fair and related 1t loud enough for
all to hear.
Then after the city had finished
with her the Judge asked the de-
PENDANTS II they wanted to ask her
any questions.
Nav, s-u-h." one Of the defendants
hurriedly replied, II don't want to
talk to that woman at ALL"
But he took the stand, however. in
his own behalf and to the neutral OBJ
server it would appear that there was
considerable logic in his contention
that there wasn't "colored woman
who was going to drop her pocketbook
and tell somebody she would como
back after 1t later"
The plaintiff had testified that she
knew when she dropped the purse and
that she had told the men she would
be back after 1t in minute. The
fact that when searched one of the
men had "a 81 bill that looked Just
like one" she had In her purse at the
time of It's disappearance convinced
the woman that she had the right
parties while the courtroom howled.
In his closing arguments for his
case one of the defendants said:
Judge, that woman most suttinly
raised a terrible lot of sand while we
was coming back to find a policeman
to search us. II I had taken her
pocketbook I shorely would have
handed 1t back. i couldn't have kent
1t with her raising sand like she was".
However, the court deemed II ad-
visable to assess each a fine of $40.
Their action In leaving the car and
separating before the officer arrived
caused the judge to believe they might
possibly have had something TO do
with the disappearance Of the purse
and Its contents Of $6.46.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-07
PLAN MEMORIAL FOR
LATE GRIDIRON STAR

CAMBRIDGE. Mass. Nov. 6.-John
i Penuock OF Syracuse has given
Harvard $4,000 To found the Stanley
Begs Ieunock scholarship" to com
memor2te his son, who was famous
FOOTBALL PLAYER. Ienuock played three
years on the Harvard varsity. IN two
OF which he was chosen for Walter
Camps All-Amorican eleven
While In college, young Pcnnock
roomed with Charley Brickley. who
started his freshman year In football
at the same time PennocS did. The
youns athlete was blown to pieces iu
q chemical explosion last November.
The scholar ship is to be open only to
seniors chemically inclined. las an.
nual income Is $3.50.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-07

Only one defeat has come TO mar
the record OF Bcnnie Owens sooner
gridiron warriors this season and re-
dnccd TO the military phraseoiogy Of
the day, weighed as military occur
rcnccs are weighed, and every atom Of
optimism extracted as the military
auihoritics do over In Europe these
days. IL could well be set down as n
tactical victory for the Oklaho-
mans.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-07
Seek Relatives

Hubert Hudson and Ora ABB
bott Of Decatur. Texas. came to
Tulsa Sunday TO pay a visit to
relatives. Thus far they have
been unable to locate their kin
and unless some word Is obtained
by noon today they are going to
entrain for Texas. During the
past two days the young couple
have been cared for by the po-
lice matron.
When last heard from the
mother of Hudson was named
Mrs. Laura wildly. but She has
married since and her name Is
now unknown to her relation.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-07

Illinois won, its margain was -
10 0, loudly was 1t proclaimed TO all
corners Of the football world, for the
Oklahomans had been feared and they
had been rated as the representative
team Of the southwest, that section Of
the country which the middlewest has
been watching cautiously for years
but II Is known that down deep in
their hearts the Illini realize, tho few
VIII admit II even to themselves. that
they had II narrow escape, that the
men from Oklahoma are dangerous
gridiron rivals
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-07
Draft Runs Marquette Team.

MILWAUKEE, Nov. G-1he seloc-
tive draft is making inroads in the
Marquette university football team
and some Of the stars may be called
at any moment Plantz, left half. and
Shackleton, center. have been ac-
cepted for the aviation corps and
Langhoff right half, has enlisted for
q base hospital Coach Roach. how
ever, hopes to have these players In
saturdays lineup against st. Louis
university.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-07
SEVEN W. A. CLUBS
CLAIM TERRITORY
Ardmore Only Member to Fail
to Deposit Protection Fee
With Farrell.
REORGANIZATION IS OPPOSED
Minority Expected to Fight
Changes in Every League
Effected by Plan.

discussion of the baseball outlook
for Tulsa, which has been stimulated
recently by the approaching meeting
OF the national association at Louis
vile. has opened the question OF
whether the Western association is
extinct or whether 1t still has claim
to the Tulsa territory.
Technically the league Is not extinct
and 1t sull has a legal claim to the
Tulsa territory. Only ono member has
forfeited its claim 10 the protection Of
organized baseball and that is Ard
more. All OF tho others deposited
with Secretary Farrell their protec-
tlon fee as provided In the national
agreement by September.
For Protection of Players.
This protection was secured by
some OF the members OF the league
moro for the sake OF retaining claim
To players whom they hope TO sell
than with the expectation OF seeing
the league held together for another
season. others desire to protect the
territory so that they can hold "A fran
chiso In whatever league their terri
tory should be found after the anuci-
pated reorganization.
McAlester, for instance, does not
expect t. be In the Western associa-
tion even If there should be one next
year, yet Daniels has some pretty fair
baseball players. some Of whom he
might realize on in sales and besides
at the time of posting his protection
money, there was possibility that
he might get something for his fran
chise from some other city that
wanted into the league.
Bound To BE Battle.
From the Western association on
NJ there h bound to be opposition 90
tho plan of roapportioning the cities
now In organized baseball so as to
make more compact and better bal
anCcb circuits. Those which are left
bchind while their former compan-
ions are advanced arc tho ones from
whom the greatest opposition is eX-
pcctod.
Already there have been confer
ences between leaders IN the lnternu-
tional league and the American as
soclation who are planning third
major league. there also have been SC
Cret conferences hetwecn American
association and Western league. be-
tween the president of the Western
league and certain club owners OF the
Western association and Western
league there have been stll further
conferences concerning reorganization
plans Those who kick can not be
blamed for kicking. but after they
discover that their protests are vain
they probably will be sportsmen
enough to accept their defeat I'm the
Interests OF the sport as whole.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-07
Texas Wants More for Coal.

WASFaINGTUN, NOV. 6,-Request
for higher prices for their coal output
was made OF the fuel administration
today by the Texas operators. The
Texas producers want the state divided
into two districts with Wise county
coal selling at higher prices. They
asked considerable increase In both
districts over the present price Of $3.50
allowed for lump coal.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-07
Football Squad Enlists.

BOSTON, Nov. 6.-Aimost the en-
tire football squad Of the Churchill A.
c.. Of Holyoke has enlisted in the
navy 1t was announced at recruiting
headquarters here today. Thirtv-eir
Of the ~ members Of the team alreadv
have signed.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-07

Illinois player In n confession which
could not be suppressed.
'Bennie Owen's Sooners must not
he underestlmated," reads . portion OF
the confession. ANY team is in for
one hell of drubbing If II Is not
coached to keep its eyes and brains
working all the time. We hailed them
~ to 0, but had they had any breaks
the first half there would have been
n different story The score at the
end of the first half was IA TO 0. They
caae back like demons tho second
half, working the bah from their 20
yard line to out 40-yard line on four
consecutive forward passes. II looked
as If they would gain a touchdown on
the next pass, which was n long one
To the end, hut Just before he caught
the BAH. Dutch Stcrnhman slipped be
tween his arms, caught II and made a
wonderful 75-yard run for n touch
down. That is the play that beat
them Had II not been for Sternis
wonderful work | am confident that
the Oklahomans would have scored
then and there and the entire aspect
OF the game would have been changed.
They run nearly everything
from the tandem formation and
use all sorts OF criss-croSse and
delayed passes, but we were Law
ing for that kind OF stuff and
Ems and Rundquist almost killed
their backs on those crlss- s-crosses.
Nearly all of their plays were
fakes and crosses, in fact they
even forward pass from criss-
cross ] never saw such fellows
ms good at catching passes. How
ever, we managed to get away
with several stunts OF paving"
the ball away from them. Rund-
puist took the hall away from
them on our five-yard line and
Charpier puntcd out of danger"
This kind of work probably should
be barred by the code of ethics"
adopted by the rulemakers, altho
strictly within the letter Of the law
II shows that the Illini had to use
every trick OF the trade to beat the
Sooners as also does the following
farther on down:
None of them wear headgears or
shinguards, which gives their oppo-
nents something to work on"
Hetween the lines of this statement
might be read both surprise and ad-
miration at the daring of the Sooners
to go into the fray unprotected as
well as the possibility that this fact
might have been taken advantage OF
To bring about the state OF affairs In
the latter part Of the game indicated
Icy the statement; "and in tho fourth
period we had fairly easy time"
Yes. the Sooncrs can claim n tao
iicai victory, perhaps even mora
triumph.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-07
Street Closed

The New York stock market.
and also the board OF trade at
Chicago were closed yesterday on
account OF II being election day.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-07

Admission that the Sooncrs were
beaten by a stroke Of fortune. that
thov possess the most bewildering
varied attack, that they are unexcelled
for gameness and sportsmanship and
mat they gained the admiration OF
everyone In the north rs made by the
Illinois player In n confession which
could not be suppressed.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-09-20
DRAFT FRAUD IN ST. JOE
High Official and Reputable Physi-
clan Implicated in Conspiracy.

High county officials and reputable
physicians of Buchanan county, Mis-
souri,, at St. Joseph, are implicated in
written confessions. in the hands of
government officials charging con-
spiracy and fraud by the acceptance
of brides in allowing exemption
CLAIMS for those called under the Sc
lective draft law
A United States grand jury has
been called to sit in St. Joseph Mon
day at which time Francis NJ. Wilson,
United States district attorney, will
present evidence which he declares
will unfold a wholesale plot to grant
exemptions by fraud.
The confessions came from men
who paid brides to county official,
and from the official who accepted
the money. Many other similar cases
are being unraveled by Arthur T.
Bagley, agent for the department Of
justice, who obtained the confessions,
and who. with his men, has been
working in St. Joseph for two weeks
untanglng the draft fraud plot.
The frauds, no doubt, will be
greater than any yet uncovered in the
country" Mr.. Wilson said.
The governments attention was
first called to the frauds when the
district exemption board working at
the federal building here considered
the Buchanan county claim for ev-
emption. 1t was found that the ex-
emptions for physical disability ran
IS per cent, while in Kansas City
and other places the disability ex-
emptions ran only Is per cent.
The district board, with the aid OF
Mr.. Bagley, brought to Kansas City
several of the men who had been ex-
empted from Buchanan county be-
cause of physical disability. A ply
stefan here examined them and they
were found physically perfect and
were certified for service.
Then it was the government found
a man who had paid $3.50 to have his
brother exempted. This mans con-
fession sets forth in detail his trans
actions with county official who
worked under higher official.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-09-20
FARM NETS $11,25o DAILY
Shun1way Oil Lease Makes Fortune
for Land Owners.

Tulsa, Ok, Sept. 15.-Towanda
Township in Butler County, Kansas,
easily holds the front of the oil stage
this week. The production of the
east half of Section II, through the
bringing in of the big we'll of the
Empire Gas and Fuel Company, is
now more than forty-five thousand
barrels day.
This brings in 100000 at the pres
ent market price. Of this the farm
owner receives one-eighth, or $II,25o
divided between the heirs of A. J..
Shumway and L. j. and A. c. Corday.
There is not another 3eo-acre farm
in the United States OF similar acre
age which is netting it's owners as
much at this time as the Corday
farm, which comprises 100 acres, be-
ing in the southeast quarter OF Sec
ton II. Nor has there ever been a
similar acreage in the United States
which earned as much either in royal
ty or working interest as this tract.
After the Shumway and Corday
farms comes the Williams and Walk
er eighty acres. where the big Trap
shooter wells are Then the two Or
ban tracts, which are leased by John
Markham and the Carter Oil Com
pany, are turning thousands every
day into the trea sury of the lessons
and the lessees.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-09-20
HOG SUPPLY is DECLINING
Decrease of 8.a Per Cent is One Rea-
son for High Cost of Pork.

Washington, Sept. I3.-One of the
reasons of the high cost of pork is
seen in estimates of the number CT
stock hogs in the United States Sep
TENDER I, announced today by the
Department of Agriculture. They
show a decrease of So per cent COM
pared with the supply year ago.
The number was 6o,218,ooo Septem-
Der I and year ago 65,645,ooo.
Iowa, leading hog state, had 1905
600, a decrease of 10 per cent from =
year ago; Nebraska 4,164,ooo, de-
crease of per cent; Missouri $685.
900, decrease of 10 per cent; Illinois
3,766,ooo, a decrease of 10 per cent;
Indiana 1892 900, decrease of IS per
cent; Ohio, 1861 900, decrease of 6
per cent; Texas 2,583,ooo, a decrease
of 2 oper cent, and Georgia 2,5o7 900,
an increase of 8 per cent. The only
other states to shew increases were
Mississippi, with 4 per cent, and Vir-
ginia with per cent.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-09-20
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

C. C. Kenny to Gordon Howard 7
IS acres section IL Grand River
$500.
Eva w. Dever to F. L. Doane lot
6 block 70 Rich Hill $4,000.
w. H. Long to E. L. Keeling, 30
acres section rs and 26 Deer Creek
81, 10000.
August Johanimier to August
Johanimier jr, 90 acres section II
Hudson $2,6oo.oo.
1. L. Jenkins to c. w. McAninch
lots and lot 10 Amoret $4,000.
w. w. Henry to David Dickey 50
acres section IS Pleasant Gap ST.
10000.
C. L. Merrett to T. H. Cox 80 acres
sections "a and 20 Lone Oak $I.oo.
T. H. Cox to c. L. Merrett lot IL
block II Rich Hill $4,000
E. A. Kaake to L. J. Lane 900
acres section I'd East Boone $1,000.
E. J. Rhoades to Thos. Lindsay 10
acres section IA Walnut $4,000.
T. B. Scott to Joe T. Smith 10
acres section ID Walnut $4,000.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-09-20
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Strikes in Kansas City.

So far this.yea Kansas City has
had whole lot more than it's share
of strikes of one kind and another,
and the business men Of that city are
beginning to have suspicion that
something more than industrial un-
rest has something to do with the
conditions.
1t is said that there are more than
one hundred men in Kansas City
whose business ii is to stir up trouble
among the wor.;ing men sand an eff
fort will be made by associations Of
business men to ascertain just who
is back of the many strikes and walk
outs that has tied up business this
summer.
The first strike of any magnitude
was the car men of the street rail-
way, which was settled by the re-
ceivcrs OF the company recognizing
the union and giving them about al!
that they asked. 1t was this strike
that caused the trouble in the police
department, when a number of police
men refused to ride the cars with the
strikebreakers, and were discharged
from the force by the commission
ers. Last week a delegation from
the labor unions of Kansas City
presented an ultimatum to Governor
Gardner that if he did not remove
Commissioner Ransom. they would
M, him and his administration under
the union labor ban.
About ten days ago the freight
handlers for several OF the railroads,
the employees of the packing houses,
the drivers of the express wagons
and several smaller organizations
went out on strike.
For several days tile city suffered
from milk famine, which was par
ticularly hard on the hospitals and
the young babies. The EMPLOYEES OF
the diaries were not on strike, but
the drivers OF the wagons were in
teriered with by the members of the
transfers union, who tried to force
them to join the union and go on
strike until they had to discontinue
making deliveries, Several other
plants, among which was the Benl.s
bag company, were forced to close
down because ofthe crowds of union
sympathizers which surrounded the
plants and tried to get their employ
ecs to go out.
The packing companies granted
most of the demands of the strikers
and they went back to work. The
express companies put new men on
their wagons and finally got the ex-
press business partly Strengthened
out. The railroads brought in lot
of Mexicans who they put to work
handling the great piles of freight
that had accumulated, and it begins
to look as though business would
soon be back again if trouble did not
break out some where else.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-09-20
Sheep Raising a War Crop Feature

Missouri will do her bit, no doubt
in helping avert a wool and mutton
famine by rallying to the Missouri
State Fair in an effort to encourage
sheep breeding in Missouri on larg-
err scale.
The Nation must have wool for
soldiers blankets. overcoats, socks,
and uniforms. The civil population
must have wooden clothing, too, and
Europe can contribute no wool. rs
its own supply has shrunk 40 per
cent since the war embroiled Europe.
Sheep values in the United States
have increased from $5.17 per head
average Jan. 7, 1916, to STA per
head average Jan. I, 1917. Wool Is
worth 50 cents a pound and rising
in price. Not only are sheep men
being encouraged to show their best
animals for the $842 in cash prizes
offered by the Missouri State Far
board, but they are also being en-
couraged to bring good breeding ami
mails to the state fair to sell during
the week of Sept. 22 to go.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-09-20
A SUICIDE ON VAN HORN
ROAD
H. G. Walton, Insurance Agent
Killed Himself Behind Bill
board.

H. G. Walton, 81 years old, solic-
itor for the Metropolitan Life In
surance Company, committed suicide
early today on Van Horn Road about
a mile east of the Blue River by
shooting himself. The body was
found behind a billboard. At the
home of Mrs. Frank Herman, 1886
Jackson Avenue, where Walton
boarded no reason for the suicide
was known. DR.. ]. S. Snider coroner,
was called.
The foregoing clipping from Satur-
days Kansas City Star, refers to
Herbert Walton, a former we'll
known resident of this county.
He was born in Boone county,
Kentucky, and when young man re.
moved to this county where he lived
until a few years ago. when he went
to Nevada and engaged in the shoe
business. He was active in business
and political circles in Butler and
Bates county. where his many friends
are at a loss for a reason to account
for his rash act.
He is survived by a son, Byron
Walton, of Sedalia, and daughter
Mrs. Joe Dygard, of Ft. Scott, Kan
sas. He is also survived by three
brothers, Claude Walton, Franklin
Kentucky; Paul Walton Of this coun.
u and Leslie Walton. st. Louis.
The body was brought to Butlei
and funeral services, eonduete1 %
Rev. Sherman Moore, were he34 ~
de Chfistian church, Sua1ay efeer'
|pooa It Two O'Clock, and intefq1en1
Ensae 4 Ok HIN osnetesy.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-09-20
ROOT CALLS THEM TRAITOR
Former Secretary Minces No" Words
in Defining Certain Pacifists.

Chicago, Sept. 14.I4n defining the
attitude of citizens toward the con-
duct of the war and incidentally what
constituted being traitor, Eiihu
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-09-20
Mustard Shell Burns Men. Acme of
Hun Frightfulness.
Acme of

Paris, Aug 3o (by mail to New
York, Sept. I4).-The mustard
SHELF is the latest word in German
frightfulness. 1t is a new form OF
gas she'll, devised by the scientific
section of Won Hindenburg's staff
and when it explodes it gives oft
odor of mustard. :.
Gas masks will save soldiers froi:l
breathing the poisonous fumes, but
they cannot protect the men from be-
ing burned. Whenever the mustard
she'll" touches wet skin it inflicts ter
rible burns, such as might be caused
by scalding water.
In their heavy uniforms, weighed
down by knapsacks, blanket rolls
and other impedimenta, soldiers per
spire freely when in action. And
whenever the gas touches their skin.
wet with perspiration, the men were
cruelty burned.
A few "dudes" or unexploded
mustard Shells" were picked mp and
their contents analysed.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-09-20

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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-09-20
Big American Liner Sunuk.

New York, Sept. I4-Forty-three
officers and men of the Atlantic
transport liner Minnehaha are miss-
ing, following the sinking of the ship
by a German submarine, a cable re-
ceived by the international Mercan-
tile Marine stated this afternoon.
The Minnehaha was 1850 tons
and before the war piled regularly
between New York and London. car
rying passengers and freight The
vessel, while under the British flag.
WAS owned by the International Mer.
camille Masine. An American eofnoet