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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-04
FIVE MORE FIRES KEEP
DEPARTMENT ON THE RUN
-Four Grass Blalcs Are EXtinauishcd
One Residence slightly
Damaged.

Five fire calls. four of them for
gIass fires. were answered between
the hours of 10 o'clock yesterday
morning and o'clock yesterday aft d.
ernoon. No damage was done by any
OF the four grass fires and the fifth,
a small blaze resulting from defec-
tive fluc, burning small hcle in the
roof of residence at 1913 South
Baltimore.
The first run was made to 14l2
South PCrryman, a grass fire being
the cause of the alarm there. The
second call at 19:45 was to 14l2 South
Ellwccd. where another slight grass
blaze was extingulshed. The third was
made at 11:40 o'clock to lG43 South
Baltimore, where the defective flue
fire occurred. This was the most
serious. the flames having gained con-
siderable headway when the depart
ment arrived The damage amounted
to about $50. Another grass fire
called the department to PIG North
Denver at o'clock. Tho last blaze
occurred at the corner of Admiral and
Norfolk streets, a small yard fire
being the occasion of the call.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-04

the burdens Of full citizenship. This
Is true in most cases regardless OF the
education or ability of the Indian. and
the secretary Is of the opinion II
rather retards the independence and
development of the Indian and makes
Of him a drone. whereas were he
thrown on his own responsibility he
would have to work to maintain him
self and eventually become "A better
and more active citizen. This conten-
ton Of the secretary Is borne out by
the Indian Rights association and
many members of both the senate and
the house.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-04
III RADE r S
DOPE

OLD TRADER SAYS WE WILL
HAVE NO WAR WITH GERMANY.
READERS of DOPE WILL REMEM-
IIR THAT OFTEN Old TRADER
HAS SAID TUiT THE GERMAN
WILL PULL UNCLE SAM so FAR
INTO THE WAR As TO MAKE
HIM ONE OF THE DIRECT INTER-
ESTFD PARTIES IN PEACE SET
TLENIFNT. IL GERMANY LOSES
NOW TO HER ENEMIES THE
KAISER ANp HIS MILITARY
LORDS WILL HAVE to STEP DOWN
and OUT and TURN THE GOVERN
MENT OVER to the SOCIALIST
PARTY of GERMANY and STOP
MAKING GUNS and AMMUNITION.
The COMMON WORKING CLASSES
OF ALL NiTIONS ARE BROTHERS
and WOULD NOT KILL EACH
OTHER. But for THEIR RULERS,
WHO COMPEL THEM to go to BAT
TIE the SAME As \ DRIVER OF n
SlN-MJLE TEAM, WHO CRACKS
Ills WIFI and THAT BLACK MULE
MUST PULLthc SAME As the GRAY.
TIE MEN WHO DO the FIGHTING
Rave NOTHING TO DO IN STOP
>PINC THEM. THEY ARE SIMPLY
USED as 50 MUCH MACHINERY
NOTHING MORE. NOTHING LESS.
WHEN the WAR STARTED DOPE
SAID THAT 1T WOULD GO THREE
YEARS AND THEN WE WOULD
HAVE \ WORLD PEACE FOR 100
YEARS PEACE WILL. COME IN
JVNE and OUR UNCLE SAMUEL
WILL DICTNTE MOST ALI THE
TERMS, Of SAME FOR by THAT
TIME so MANY of OUR AMERI-
CAN MEN AND WOMEN AND BA-
ElES Will HAVE GIVEN Up THIS
nFE-EI OOD TO TIE RUTHLESS
HANDS or MiLITNRiSM THAT UN-
Gle SAM Will, BE PAINTED RED.
AND WAR FEATHERS IN HIS
HAIR. UE WILL ARISE TO the
ZENITIt or HIS POWER. HE WILL
NO LONGER BEG. BUT HE WILL
MAKE DEMANDS THAT MUST BE
RESPECTED. NOW, WHEN SUCli
a TIME COMES, OLD TRADER Is
WILLING, READY and REARING
no GO. and WILL BACK WILSON
10 HIS LAST DROP of BLOOD. but
OIp TRADER SAYS THE WAR
CLOUDS SURELY MUST BE \
BLUFF IT SURELY CAN'T HAP
FEN!
Is you TRADE WITH TRADERS
MONEY BACK IL NOT PLEASED.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-04
One-Quarter Royalty Pro
posal Not Favored by Sec
retary of Interior.
THINK OSAGES HAVE PLENTY
Indians Getting Too Much
Money for Own Good Now,
in Officials Opinion.
BY OMER *. BENEDICT.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-The pro-
position of T. \. Barnsdall to lease all
OF the unleased portion of the Usage
nation, comprising more than a mil
lion and a quarter acres, wilt prob
ably meet with the disapproval OF
Secretary Of the Interior Franklin X
Lane, Notwithstanding the fact that
Mr.. Barnsdall has offered one-fourtli
royalty.
The increased royalty docs not APP
peal to the secretary Of the interior
He is Of the opinion that the Usage
Indians already have too much in
come and deductions made in his of
flee from figures show that the Osages
are receiving annually approximately
$4,000 per annum per family, or
practically $1,000 per capita.
In the opinion of the secretary this
IL ample funds for them and he does
not care to increase the amount.
Create Loan Fund.
Mr. Lane would he I'm favor of Gre
ating fund OF the oil and gas roy
altics now going to the Osagcs, and
loan the money or put 1t into per
cent bonds, and make that "A basis
for annual payment. instead of CIV
Ing them the principal. which past
experience has proved, gets away.
Just what is best to do for th'
American Indian has been "A bone Oi
contention of every secretary we have
had, and always has apparently placed
that official in disrepute in the In
dian country. Mr.. Lane believes ~
the policy of granting competency to
the individual Indian just so soon as
he is proved capable of full citizenship
and working to that end he now has
three commissions investigating the
individual cases of thousands Of In
dams one OF these commissions Is
now In the Cheyenne and Arapaho
country, recommending competency
Indians Satisfied.
Mr.. Lane would extend this policy
To cover the Usage Indians as indi-
viduals. but he finds with them, as
he does with others. that the indi-
vidual does not care for citizenship
He is very well satisfied to be the
ward OF the government and to be
free from paying taxes. and bearing
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-04
fIREMEN'S MASnUE BALL
IS AN ASSURED SUCCESS
Prizes Donated by Local Merchants
for Best and Most Unique
Costumes

According TO the prophesies of
Tulsa firemen, the firemens ball.
which Will take place February 6, is
certain to be success. An order of
tickets has already been sold and
printers are getting out another to
supply the demand.
Everyone who is expecting to at
tend the bali is asked to come in
masque and costume. Unmasking will
take place at 10 O'Clock. Merchants
have responded generously in donat-
ing prizes for the best make-ups y
list of the prizes follows:
Best George Washington costume,
$3.50 dress shirt by Renberg Cloth
INK company.
Best Martha Washington costume.
81 umbrella by Wanderers.
Best oriental costume, $50 neck
tie by Model clothing store.
Best character of any type, SO prize
By Hale hardware store.
Pest unique costume, 81 silk petit
coat by Epperson's.
Best German costume, $3.50 hat by
Palace clothiers.
Best German woman, 81 bottle
toilet water by Baker Drug company.
Best lrishman, So collar bag by
Brown & Blazer
Best Irish woman, s. toilet case
by Scott, Halliburton IL Abbott.
Best Jewish character, $l.5O neck-
tie by Il. q O. Gents Furnishing COM
pany.
Best Jewish woman, $3.50 handbag
by Elephant Trunk company.
Best japanese, $3.50 blouse by Seid-
enbach's.
Pest japanese woman. $3.50 kodak
album 10y Allen x Thede.
Best Indian. $3.50 Gun safety razor
10y Quaker drug store.
Best Indian woman, So blouse 10y
Hunt company.
Best cowboy, 81 umbrella by Globe
clothing store.
Best cowgirl character, 50 dancing
pumps by Burk brothers.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-04
The IIarbingcr,

A number of travelling mon were
waiting for "A train az "a station On 9,
certain one-horse railroad in northern
Iowa, says the Pathfinder a lady
who was waiting for the same train
evidently with some anxiety. APP
preached one Of the men and asked II
he thought the train ever would come,
The gallant knight Of the grip walked
to the door and looked up the track
She'll be along pretty soon," he
said chcerfullv when he came bacS.
Il see the engineers dog coming"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-04
SOCIALISTS CHARGE
FRAUD IN ELECTION
Secretary of State Organiza-
ton Says That Results
Were Transposed.
Special to The World

Special to The World
OKLAHOMA CITY Feb. 3.--That
false returns were made in many pre-
cincts thruout the state is the charge
made by il. NJ. Sinclair. secretary OF
the Socialist state organization, today
I'm q petition he filed in the district
court asking for a statewide recount
OF the ballots cast on the fair cleo
ton law"
An instance is cited in McCurtain
county where. 1t Is alleged, the count
In one precinct as given by the state
election board was 6 for and ~
against, when tho reverse Is true. The
petition H. directed against the state
and each county election board. II
is claimed by Sinclair that the fair
election law got $4,000 out Of Pa
eco votes cast, and that it was car
riCd
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-04

World Washington Bureau tRigg' Building
WASHINGTON. Feb. 3.-Indinn APP
preparation bill went TO conference
today. but as oklahoma was not re-
ported. no light was shed on the fate
Of the 5000 per capita Choctaw
Chickasaw payment. further than the
fact that the conferrees are divided
IT will be reported Monday afternoon
II Is now thot representatives Nor
ton of North Dakota was appointed
one Of the confcrrces in place OF
Campbell, who is on the leak investi-
cation
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-04
GIVEN TEM.YEAR SENTENCE
FOR ROBBlNG BREAD WAGON
McNlcster Man Convicted second
Time on Charge of Highway
Robbery

Special to The World
McALESTER, Feb. 3.--For the
second time for the same offense. a
district court jury this afternoon re.
turned a verdict conylc,ing Tom
herndon Of highway robbery com
mitted September 2, 1913. and fixing
the same penalty as before. ten years
in prison llerndon robbed "A bread
wagon. relieving the driver OF S35.
Following his conviction In October,
1913, he was granted new trial.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-04

World Washing gt0n Bureau tRigp, Buiding)
WASHINGTON. Feb. 3.--The First
National bank of Kusa and the First
National bank Of Oilton have made
application to the comptroller of cur
rcncy for charters each with capital
stock Cf $4,000
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-04
$3.50 Spring Blouses

In georgette and crepe de chine georgetes in apple
green with white collars and vests; crepe de chine in
soft grays, tans and chartreuse; made on tailored
lines Iii Priced $3.50
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-04
NEW POTATOES Sc PER WINK
Aurora shocked. hut Not in Haste to
Purchase.

AURORA. Ill, Feb. 3.-New potn-
toes came into the market here today.
They are on exhibit at several stores,
price SO bushel. Large numbers of
people looked them over. They
couldn't believe their eyes Nobody
ever saw anything like Sc potatoes be-
fore. Even the old settler who always
goes one better by barking back TO
wonders of other eras was squelchod.
The potatoes seemed to wink entic'
ingly from their dozen eyes or more,
but grocers report the sales were few.
Marked Down Stuff.
Dressed to the nines," the old saw
states.
Really one might say
"She is dressed to the S,9S's'
AS things go today.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-04
Spring Styles In Coats

The favored models in spring coats of velour and
poiret tws in threequarter lengths with loose
ripple backs, others in beed effects Patch pockets
with the large cape collars again in evidence Colors
light shades of green, tan, gray, black and white
checks, well novelty mixtures. GC0 TO &Sn
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-04
Shawnee Men Busy,

World Washington Bureau (Rigg' Building
WAS1INGTON. Feb. 3-W. p
Hickey of Shawnee is in Washington
looking after his home town interests
IT. reference to a federal building j.
F. F'ite jr, Muskogce. is here.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-02-04
Handsome Spring Suits

Late expressions in array of Fashions favorite
styles in gaberdnes, serges velours poret twls and
mixtures. Shades of chartreuse, Belgian blue apple
green, TAM asparagus green gray checks of blue and
black, green and black white and black Skirts made
circular and full at back belts and buttons both cup
and saddle pockets Coats are short; very few will
reach below the turn of the hip Few models Of loose
circular type, belted and with short cox TO Cox
line across the front .............. Wv WV
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-11
Safety First, Caruso S
Idea on Leaving n. Y
Tenor and Lifesaving Suit Off
For Buenos Ayres
"a shall not go TO Italy this year

81 shall not go TO Italy this year
Having delivered himself Of tins de
cision. Enrico Caruso yesterday board
cd the only neutral liner sailing for
South American ports, placed life.
saving suit Of special make within easy
reach ard kissed fifty admiring friends
goodby- on both checks
II there were any preparedness or
safety first precautions which the IA
nous Metropolitan tenor overlooked
Observant well w.shers could not think
OF them. The vessel Of his choice was
the Saga. which flies the Swedish flag
U-boats so far have spared Swedish
boats. and. besides. no raiders have
been reported recently off the South
American coast Nevertheless. his two
Wallets carefully laid out the latest
thing IN lifcsavug suits in the spe-
ciai suite which he had had converted
from three large staterooms. while he
eagerly scanned the latest dispatches
to see If Argentina bad yet entered
the war.
"No, snail lot 90 b Italy" he said,
smiling. "and when in South America
shall he thinking only cf the day
when ! shall start back for New York.
1t would be-" he added "far more
pleasant TO stay RICH, here in New
York"
Before ne departed Miss Anna Case,
tn American soprano, presented him
with tricolor bouquet made from the
flowers she received the night before,
when she sang before Marshal Joiire
at the Frick home. His statcroom was
piled high with flowers. There was
one floral horseshoe five feet high. He
will disembark at Santos, Brazil. and
take a smaller steamer for Buenos
Ayres.
Nine. Maria Barricntos. the Spanish
coloratura soprano. also sailed on the
Saga. 10 sing at seventeen perform
ances in Buenos Ayrcs and then to
cross 10 Spain for fifteen more per
formances before returning here for
the winter season.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-11
u. S. Takes Step
To Prevent Big
Coal Mine Strike
kilograms from Washing
ton Ask Operators and Men
to Meet Mediators

Johnstown. Pa. May TO- The United
States government. through Secretary
of Labor Wilson. late to-day took steps
to avert a strike of nearly $4,000 btu
mious coal miners in the Central Penn
sylvania field. \ telegram was received
by both the Miners and the operators
asking that they send committees TO
Washington to confer with Department
of Labor mediators in an attempt to
compromise their differences. Com
mittees were named tonight and left
Immediately.
The executive committee Of the Cen
tral Pennsylvania Operators Associa-
ton and the policy committee Of the
United Mine Workers of America. Dis
trict No >, were in session at Clear
field when the offer of mediation from
Secretary Wilson arrived. Ii Is said
by both miners and operators that the
success of Federal mediators is the
only means of averting a strike that
will tie up the entire coal output OF the
field. The miners rejected wage scale
agreement drafted by a joint commit
tee in Philadelphia recently and ask
that their original demand OF 30 ID
per cent wage increase be granted.
More than 300 miners at South Fork.
near here, who struck Tuesday 70 en-
force their demand, returned 70 work
to-day after notices had been posted
above all mines. appealing TO the patri-
otism of the men. The notices read:
This mine is now operated by spe-
cial request of the United States gov
eminent. Railroad companies will de
liver daily the necessary number OF
cars to load tonnage for government
nurnoSe."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-11
Io-day's Programme
In the Sunday Revival

II A. m. 10 D. m-Ten-cent luncheon for
business women in the Brick Church. } itth
Avenue and Thirty-seventh Street. Meet
ings every half hour from 1870 until
las.
I 80 a. m. TO 10 p. m. Meeting for en-
ployes of Montgomery Ward < Co., INLAY
and Bovine Streets. Brooklyn.
70 noon Business mems meeting in the John
Street Methodist Church. 81 John Street
- noon-Open air and shop meetings at -
Twelfth Avenue and Fifty-hfth Street, 60
Tenth Avenue and Twelfth Street 80
Broome and Lafayette Streets. ~ Duane
and Hudson Streets. 90 Proctor 4 Gamble
Manufacturing Company. Port Ivory. Sta
ten Island, 90 J. b. King Il Co.. New
Brighton, Staten Island. 90 American
Linoleum Manufacturing Company. Staten
Island
High School girls. First Morrisania Con-
grcgationsl Church. Forest Avenue and
East l66th Street. The Bronx
, p. M Service in the Tabernacle. Sermon
By Billy Sunday.
3 p. M Bible study class on the Tabernacle
choir platform.
5 30 p. Meeting for girls OF P. 5. IS.
Bronx Y W. c. A., 329 East 10th Street.
8 p. m. Mrs. William Asher. of the sunday
party, will speak at a meeting in the Eity
Hospital. Backwell's Island.
80 p. M Service in the Tabernacle. Ssr-
mon by Billy Sunday.
S D. m. Bible study class. Alexander Avcrue
Baptist Church. at lilst Street. The
Bronx.
s p. m.-Bible study class. Broadway Bdp-
fist Church. at l0ith Street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-11
Women S
Societies Unite
For War Relief
Clearing House Formed to Co.
ordinate Varied
Activities

All the women's war relief commit
tees voted yesterday. at meeting held
in the New Amsterdam Theatre, TO
unite in central Woman's Exchange.
Mrs. John Hays Hammond, Of the Mill
tia of Mercy, was hostess.
Harmony, coo perSion and efficiency
will be the slogan of the war relief
clearing house. which will include al
most 1000 organizations and, in con-
Junction with the Mayors Committee
Of Women on National Defence. will
have headquarters at 512 Fifth Avenue.
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, chairman of
the Woman's Committee of the Ma
tional Defence League. made a plea to
forget everything except your coun-
try's call, that the world may know the
women soldiers are as gallant as the
men soldiers Sighting for democracy.
Until the war ends we are the home
guard. We arc to furnish the enthu-
siasm, patriotism and calm. and in ad-
ditiOn We are to economize."
Mrs. William Grant Brown. president
of the State Federation of Women's
Clubs, was appointed CHAIRMAN of the
New York State branch of the Council
of National Defence. Fire Commits
sicner AdamsCn, representing the
Mayor; cambridge Colby and Judge
William II. WaGhams made speeches.
Among the club and committee rep
rcsentatives who spoke were Mrs. John
Francis Yawger. president of the City
Federation of Women's Clubs; Mrs.
Mary Hatch Willard, Miss Alice Car
penter. Service School of the Navy
League; Mrs. James Cushman, Y. W.
G. A.; Mrs. Ella Boole. W. c. T. T.;
Mrs. Norman de R. Whitehouse, Mrs.
+. p. Whiting, National Special Aid
Society; Miss Mary Garrett Hay, Grace
Strachan. Mrs. Charles s. Whitman. Mrs.
John Purroy Mitchell, Lord and Lady
Aberdeen. Mrs. Simon Baruch. Miss
Rachel Crothers, Mrs. +. R. Stettinius,
Miss Gertrude Rooinson-Smith and
Daniel Frohman.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-11
What Is Going on To-Day

} ne admission 70 the American Museum - Nat
trsl H.foD. the New York Geological PARK. The
40 tuftlault Park Museum. the Amcric an
Museum Of Safety and the Aquarium
= ",i'rinon ~ the New York osteogathic Society
Hotel Aston a IA.
Luncheon " the Association Of the Bar n the CITY
" Ne" York aud the New York County Laayers'
Association for VI Rene yivani. Of The French
Commission. Hotel Biltmore. noOu
Luncheon and meeting u the SAVINGS Bank Asso-
Iauon - the state u New York. Waldorf
Meeting u the Century Theatre club. Hotel Aston.
y
icrptioa FOR students of University q California
!giulng American Field Ambulance Corps IN
France. k!iz Carlton. afternoon. dinner. Waldorf
Astoria 2. No.
4 the National Girls Scouts. tower.
Metropolitan Life Building. J Madison Avenue
80 on
Meeting q the womeps Section q ,hs Nav Le.Eue
Hotel Asior. J.. nj.
Lecture Or school children hy Thomas G. Hull on
Tie Three - Finger. Food and Fiies." Amer
.-an Museum Of Natural H!story p m
j. .uer for Dartmouth American Ambulance Corps
Hotel McAipin. 30 p M.
u DISCUSSION on National Prohibition - War
Measure" 20 meeting ~ the Nafionsl Institu;e
% sofal Sciences. Academy u Medicine. II West
Addresses - Mss Mar Dreler Robert Bruere and
A'ri, hillquii on lnduiirih Standards IN war
Tine. o. mass meeting under the auspices 90, the
Junior Board u the ConWmeu' League u New
lork 'iiy auditorium. Washington living High
School. ~ p M
A tfc-s ~ Professor Wilbur e. Abbott On The
Evacuation - New York by the British. at meet
~ N ule Nes York Genealogical and Blogrs phlcal
soeiety. 20 NssI fifsy sixhIA street. $40 n II.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-11
Plot to Kill Menocal
And u. S. Minister
Bomb Set to Explode When
Cuban President and Envoy
Were Together in Palace

Havana. May 10.-An attempt which
was to have been made last night TO
assassinatc President i;enocal Of Cuba
by means OF bvnb explosion was
foilcd and nine arrests were made be
fore the conspirators could carry out
thor plan.
II is officially stated that the bomb
was timed so as to explode when the
American minister. William Gonzalez,
was in the palace with the President.
The Cuban authorities for some
time had been investigating "A report
ed plot 10 make a new attempt against
the life Of President Menocsl by Ger
tain disgruntled clements Of the re,
cent abOrtive rebellion.
The Investigators learned that the
attempt was 20 be carried out last
night The alleged plan was to place
a bomb Immediately below the Prcsi-
dents private apartments in the pal
ace.
The plottcrs. according 10 the Off
cialS. negotiated with a sergeant Of
the Cuban army who was to execute
the plan. This sergeant agreed 20 the
ylot IN order TO learn the detail, and
made an appointment 20 meet the plot
tors yesterday TO receive the bomb. At
the appointed spot the bomb was de-
lvered 20 tho sergeant. who immcdi-
atcly turned II over 20 the Presidents
aid