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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-12-11
First Execution
Since War n 1847

WASHINGTON. Dec. 1.-THE hang
inc OF thirteen negro TROOPERS for com
pllicty in the Houston riot was I'm.
known to practically all officials Of the
war department until il was an
nounced at Fort Sam Houston.
Were the country at peace the eNecu-
tionS would have required the approval
of the president In time OF war, how
ever, such authority Is decentralted
and placed with responsible command
crS
First Since Mexican War.
No such wholesale execution in the
army has occurred within the memory
OF the present generation The last OF
lis kind was the execution OF members
Of the so.caIed "St. patricks battalion"
by Gen Winfield Scott during the
Mexican war OF lA7 Members OF the
battalion deserted Joined the Mexican
forces. later made their homes in
Mexico, marrying native women and
many Of their dcscendents now are
found there
A large number Of them were exc.
cuted by General Scott at the battle oi
Chapultepec and their last glimpse VI
life was the sight Of the American FLAG
breaking out to the breeze as Scots
lepions Normed the ramparts
Swiftneu Amazing.
The swift manner in which the Hous-
Ton rioters were tried and executed,
without much publicly, was the sub
ject OF remark today al the war de
parimcnt The last incident involving
rioting among negro troops. was the
Brownsville affair, as the result uf
which President Roosevelt Wmmarily
dismissed whole battalion from the
army
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-12-11
Fifty-Elsht Of So Blacks
Found Guilty Of Completely
in Mutihy in Houston Last
August,
THEY DIED AT SUNRISE
Court-MartiaI Verdict Given
Monday and Sentence Car
RED Out by Army Within
"a Hours,

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec H.
Thirteen OF the negroes OF the Twenty.
fourth infantry, U. 5. A., found guilty
OF completely In the riot and ru,ipy
at Houston on Aug a. were hanged
on the military reservation at Fort
Sam Houston at 7 IA o'clock this morn-
ing Announcement Of the carrying out
OF The sentence was made at head.
quarters OF the southern department.
at ga. m.
Only arrty Officers and Sheriff John
lobln OF Bcxar county, were present
when the sentence was carried out by
the soldiers from the post. No news.
paapermen or civilian spectators were
allowed, the time and place Of exeeu-
ton having been kept secret.
Get Life Ssntsacs.
VI the siSty-three men tried by tho
same eourtmartial, tQrty-one we're sen-
fenced to life imprisonment. One man
was sentenced to dishouorable dis.
charge from the army. forfeiture OF ali
pay and allowances and TO be confined
a hard labor Tor two and q half years
Three were sentenced to dishonorable
discharge from tho army, deprived Of
all pay and allowances, and he con-
fined at hard labor for two years. Five
were acquitted.
Who They Wsrs
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26

There are certain districts in other
states, however, which have no means
of preventing this misuse. Among
these other districts are Wall street,
New York city, and the District OF
Columbia.
The names and addresses of the
Governors of these different states
are as follows:
S. ]. Cats, Tallahassee, Florida
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26
PLAN RAIDS

Federal revenue agents In Cleve-
land, Ohio, are planning raids on
caches of liquor in that city and vi
cinity. Liquor dealers who hope to
evade the increased revenue payments
are believed to have concealed large
quantities of distilled spirits. OF
course every one of these dealers has
a model license, and, under the law
of Ohio, is "a man of good charac-
ter"
Internal Revenue Agent Collier re-
ported discovery in an outbuilding of
several barrels of whisky, said to
have been secreted by a downtown
liquor dealer. The booze was seized.
If the saloonkeeper in question
failed to inventory this seized liquor
he faces fine of 81 900, two years in
the federal prison and loss of his
booze. Internal Revenue Collector
Weiss has announced that 100 inspec-
tors are preparing to conduct raids on
secret stores of liquor.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26
TEACAERS ARE HELPING
Will Participate in Campaign to Make
Chicago Dry; Bryan Will Be
Principal Speaker

The school teachers. of. Chicago
have been invited to participate in the
campaign to make Chicago dry. A
mass meeting of teachers has been
arranged by the Dry Chicago Fedora
ton, to be held October 80. Principal
Franklin W. Johnson, of the Univer-
sity High School, will preside. The
petition calling for the vote is being
circulated in all parts of the city. The
wards have been divided into districts,
over which have been placed more
than 400 leaders.
Hon. William Jennings Bryan will
donate two days service to the dry
campaign, November 20 and Fl. On
the evening of the goth a mass meet
ing will be held in Medina Temple,
with Mr.. Bryan as the principal speak
or. On the 2lst, complimentary
luncheon will be given Mr.. Bryan in
the red room OF the Hotel La Sale,
and on the evening of that date two
meetings will be held in St. Jarlath's
and Maternity halls.
Rev. Father John Webster Melody,
ID. d., will preside and Rev. Father
McNamee and Philip Yarrow will rep
resent the Federation on the program
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26

ment. A man does not have to
be run over by a drunken chauf-
feur more than twice before he
learns that no mans personal
liberty includes the right to in
jure another one.
They used to say that the law
could not be enforced. The Webb
Kenyon law, recently sustained by
the United States Supreme Court,
makes the enforcement of state
laws possible. The federal gov
eminent has been taken out of
partnership with the bootlegger
and brought into partnership with
the state. 1t used to be argued
that we could not afford to give
up the money derived from the
internal revenue license and from
saloon license. Russia was will
ing to surrender a revenue of
$450,000,000 rather than permit
the sale of vodka, and the first
thing that sober Russia did was
to drive the Gar into exile and
declare for a republican form of
government. Our government is
strong enough to authorize any
one day loan of billions of dol
lars-such nation does not need
to sell its soul to the liquor traffic
in exchange for few hundred
millions of revenue.
If one is not driven to support
Prohibition by economic argu-
ments, he ought to be susceptible
to an unanswerable moral argu-
ment, namely, that no citizen can
afford to go into partnership with
the saloon and share moral re-
sponsibility for what the saloon
does. The saloon cannot exist
without votes; therefore, the man
who votes for the saloon is guilty
equally with the saloonkeeper for
the evils which the saloon is
known to bring: the alienation of
the husband, the brutalizing of the
father, the impoverishing of the
family, and the ruin of young
women as we'll as young men.
These are the fruits of the saloon
the saloon must, as long as it
exists, remain menace to the
home and all that is high and
holy. | hope. more, | feel conf
dent, that Ohio will improve this
opportunity to abolish the saloon
and put herself in line with the
states that have enlisted in the
war against alcohol, mans great
est enemy.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26

who told OF conditions at the pier
and at Gravesend Bay while he
was employed there. as a guard.
He described one party when at a
late hour at night, Russian COM
mission employee took a party Of
men and women on board a NUM-
ton ship at Gravesend Bay with
out passes. Since this was di-
rect violation of the orders given
the watchmen, Unlock, said he
protested to the volunteer host.
ooh, these people are all right"
the man who was leading the
party aboard is quoted as replying.
Later, he said, he saw the man
showing the ships papers to one
member of the party. He added
the man who had been in charge
of the party was seen later TAX
ing 40 bars of aluminium from the
ship in a launch that had been held
in readiness for the departure.
This aluminium, he said, was de-
scribed as surplus" and it had to
be removed as such, when he
questioned the man once more.
Other affidavits indicated that
. liquor was taken upon the NUM-
ton ships tied up at Pier 6 and at
Gravesend Bay in wholesale guam
titles, not only to supply the wants
OF the participants in the midnight
and early morning revels, but to
be shipped to Russia and snug
gled into that country.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26
w. B. Wheeler, Counsel

There has been much comment in
the press upon the cases constituting
the bone dry law in West Virginia
and Virginia.
A colored man bought liquor in Cat
lettsburg,, went to the adjoining state
and was arrested for transporting liq-
uor in interstate commerce. An agreed
statement of facts were presented
showing that he got the liquor for
his own use and was taking it into the
state for his own use. The Court
held this was not violation of the
Federal Bone Dry Act. An attempt
was made to take the case to the Su-
preiile Court, but the Department of
Justice properly ruled that when
criminal case is decided upon the
merits of the evidence, the Supreme
Court would not take the jurisdiction
to reverse it even if the lower court
was wrong. In criminal cases if the
evidence is submitted to the court or
jury and it is held that the defendant
is not guilty this is the end Of the
case. If, however, a question Of law
is involved, as for instance, the over
ruling of a demur to the Indictment,
then the Federal Government can
carry the case to the upper courts
upon that question OF law. This will
be done at once and the Court OF Last
Resort will sooner or later be called
upon to construe the so-called Bone
Dry Law.
The Department of Justice has al
ready rendered an opinion upon this
as follows:
The ReeG Amendment makes it
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26
BRYAN WRITES TO OHIO VOTERS

Following is copy of letter sen
by William ]. Bryan to the voters o
Ohio, urging them to abolish the sa
loon at the coming election:
My Dear Sir:
The voters of Ohio will be
called upon at the coming cleo
ton to decide very important
question, namely, whether the
saloon shall be permitted to cx-
list. The question to be decided
today is entirely different from
the question at issue when a vote
expressed merely personal opin-
ion or preference. Today the sa-
loon is an outlaw, a fugitive from
justice. A majority of the Amer
lean people live in dry territory
and are represented at Washing
ton by Senators and members
who vote for Prohibition. Ma
tional Prohibition is only ques-
ton of few years, each state
victory fastening the final tri-
umph. The party that espouses
the cause of the liquor interests
is not only doomed to defeat, but
to disgrace, and the voter who
takes the side of the saloon
against the home casts a vote
which can not be excused now,
and for which he will have to
apologize later
We have long understood the
evils OF intemperance as those
evils that manifest themselves in
time of peace. To this informa-
ton is added the knowledge that
we have gained during this war
knowledge which proves alco-
hol even more deadly in war than
in peace. Nineteen years ago the
canteen was permitted III the
United States army, and in the
war with spain each Colonel de-
cided whether there should be
saloon in his camp. A few years
afterwards Congress drove the
canteen from the army and made
it unlawful for any commanding
officer to permit the sale OF liq-
uor in his camp. A few years
ago alcohol was driven from the
navy, and within a few months
it has been made unlawful for
anyone anywhere to sell intoxi-
eating liquor to a man in uniform.
The old arguments made in
favor of the saloon have been
demolished. The automobile rout-
ed the personal liberty argu-
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26
September 8, 1916.
Dear M adam:

September 8, 1916
Dear Madam:
Governor Cappcr has just forwarded
to me your letter of the first of Sep
TENDER, and appended thereto is a
large advertisement of the Michigan
Home Rule League, which is consid-
cradle of libel on the state of Kan
sas
| observe that the advertisement
makes a statement that on the first
day of January, 1916, Kansas was
$4,000,000 in debt On the first day
of January, 1916, Kansas didn't owe
one cent. l observe also that it states
that the average savings per person
in Kansas was $23o61. / do not
know, of course, where this organiza-
ton has compiled figures of this kind.
However, there are but IS savings
banks in the state of Kansas, and
the savings can in no wise be footed
up on any such basis. Instead, the
average savings per person in Kansas
is more than 81 800 and the per capita
wealth of the state, on the basis of
property assessed for taxation, is ST.
62o.61.
There is a statement to the effect
that Michigan had in her state treas
ury $12,750,000, but it is strangely
reticent relative to the balance in the
state treasury of Kansas, which is
more than $200OO,0OO Also it says
nothing about the fact that the state
tax rate of Kansas is $l.20, while that
of Michigan is $340, which ought to
effectively answer the argument that
Kansas has lost in revenue very con-
siderably by reason of the lack of
saloon licenses. Granting that this is
true--and it is-Kansas has certainly
profted materially in that her tax
rate is but little more than one-third
as much as that of Michigan. | might
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26
BONE DRY LAW
for Anti-Saloon League

a federal offense to "cause intoxi-
eating liquors to be transported in
interstate commerce, except for
scientific, sacramento, medicinal,
and mechanical purposes, into any
state or territory the laws of
which states or territory prohibit
the manufacture or sale therein of
intoxicating liquors for beverage
purposes" although the state law
may not prohibit such importation
or may specially permit the i'm
portation of Intoxicating liquors
in designated quantities. (See Sd
Cong. Rec. Part 4, PIP. 3330-3336
and 3793-3806.
Every form of transportation is
forbidden, whether by common
carrier, by private conveyance, in
baggage. or on the person. In
connection with the Prohibition
against the carriage OF liquor on
the person, your attention is
called td the case of United States
x.-chax4x f22s u S. SIS, 532-5s3>.
The carrier or shipper may be
prosecuted in any district from,
through or into which the liquor
is transp orted. (Armour Packing
Company V. United States, 200
U. S. So, United States v. Free
man, 23o U. S. 117).
The first question which will doubt
ess come before the Court of Last Re
tort is whether an individual can buy
liquor for his own use and transport i
~ means of an interstate carrier or
lis person into dry state.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26

wQTTEpCf Stories. poems motion picture pIoss
w NAAG LNC! etc, wanted. National Literary
Bureau, AZ, Hannibal. Biissour-
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26
CHARGE ONE MORE ITEM TO THE KAISER

Use of liquor to get Russian secret
is one of the many things charged o
Me debit side of the German ledge
The New York Tribune prints tn
following:
Midnight orgies in which strong
drink and the wiles OF women
We'd with each other in loosening
the tongues of Russian munition
transportation officials here were
described today as the probable
cause of the leakage of valuable
military information to Germany.
Explosions on board ships and
the successful execution OF Ger
man plots are directly traceable to
all-night sessions on board Rus
sian ships tied up at pier No. o,
Brooklyn, according to numerous
afidavits placed in the hands OF
Russian Investigators i'll New
York. One official resigned from
4. the service of the Russian gov
eminent here in order to call at
tention to the situation, he said,
backing up his assertions with the
sworn statements of other EN-
ployes al the pier who were in a
position to know OF the irregulari-
ties he pictured.
The affidavits call particular at
tention to the fact that strangers
both men and women-found no
difficulty in getting aboard NUM-
ton ships during the night with
out passes. Whether among
these unnamed individuals who
paid many visits to the ships were
spies is question that Russian in
yestigators still are seeking to an
swer.
These disclosures deal with the
general subject OF transportation
of Russian munitions-one of the
two phases of the investigation
Russians are conducting in this
country. The other phase, which
was described in articles published
in the Tribune this week, has to
do with alleged irregularities in
the inspection and acceptance of
munitions here.
Could Stand 1t No Longer
T. Arber, former assistant to
the Russian commercial attache,
in charge of the transportation OF
munitions from the harbor of New
York, resigned last June. He ex-
planned he no longer could toler-
ate conditions at the pier. AS a
result of his many pleas for an in
vestigation, Lieut. Boris Brazol,
criminal prosecutor for the Rus
sian Supply Commission, was or
dered to make search for facts
concerning activities at the pier.
On September IS, according to a
receipt in the hands of Arber, IL
affidavits were turned over to the
lieutenant in which various al
legged irregularities there were
described.
/, Among these afiidavits was one
made by John Unlock, now pri-
yate in Company L, 18th Infantry,
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26

From a survey made of the differ
ent states in the United States it
would seem that the following states
have no means of preventing the mis-
use of the American flag for adver-
Using purposes on a whisky joint;
Florida. Montana.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26

$1,000 PER MAN PER CoUNTY-strango
invention startles world--agents amazed. Ten
inexperienced men divide $4,000. Korstad
a farmer, did $4,000 in ID days. Schleicher.
minister, Sl95 first IL hours. $1,000 cold
cash made, paid, banked by Stoneman in 80
days; 900 to date. A hot or cold running
water bath equipment for any home at only
$3.50. Selfheatng. No plumbing water
works required. Investigate. Exclusive sale
Credit given. Send no money. Write letter
or postal today. ALLEN MFG. CO.. 500
Allen Bldg. Toledo. Ohio.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26
A crime PREVENTION survey
BY Joe Beatty Burt

F. Q. Lowden, Springfield, Illinois.
]. P. Goodrich, indianapolis, In
diana.
A. o. Stanley, Frankfort, Kentucky.
F. D. Gardner Jefferson City, Mis-
souri,.
S. V. Stewart, Helena, Montana.
E. D. Boyle, Carson City, Nevada.
w. E. Edge, Trenton, New Jersey.
E, {. DcBaca, Santa Fe, New Mex
leo.
NJ. G. Brumbaugh, Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania.
S. Bamberger, Salt Lake City Utah.
E. L. Philip, Madison. Wisconsin.
J. B. Kendrick, Cheyenne, Wy
oming.
Eight of these Governors are DEM
ocrats, and FIVE are Republicans
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26
SWAPS UNIFORM; BUYS BOOZE

After exchanging his soldiers uni
form for civilian clothes in order to
obtain whisky, Private John Heaton,
stationed st Camp Mills, N. Y, was
arrested while treating his uniformed
companions. He was jailed and held
for trial
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26
KANSAS IS NOT DEBT RIDDEN STATE

Michigan Home Rule circulated beou
the
which challenged the following letter from
Ake of
financially embarrassed with
and pentenary population getting
American
official splendid
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26

add in passing that practically all of
the $20,000,000 balance in the treasury
of the state of Kansas has been Gre
ated since the enactment of the pro-
hibitory law.
The statements made in this adver-
tisement are in line with all other pub
lished statements that I have ever
witnessed at the hands of the liquor
interests, and it does not surprise me
in the least that such interests should
operate along this line in the state of
Michigan. Every Kansan that knows
the truth will readily testify to the
good that has come to our common
wealth and that remains with US I'M
der a righteous reign of modern civ
ilization; and Kansas, in very great
majority, looks forward to and very
confidently expects that within the
next 10 years the United States will
be dry
This letter is not written by a Pro-
hibition crank, but by business man
who at the present time holds politi
cal office, but who in no sense is
politician and aspires to no future po-
litical preferment. His private bust
ness is banking and he has had am
pie opportunity to observe, both in
cities and country towns, the bene6-
cial results of the Prohibition law in
its strict enforcement
Very truly yours,
(Signed) EARL AKERS,
State Treasurer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-10
Many Fruits and
Vegetables Are
No,D in Market

brief survey Of the local market
IN fruits and vegetables has much to
encourage the housewife in these days
OF the high cost of living Cherries, tho
now few, have been good. and selling
at from sl.25 to s1.40 the half bushel
basket. Canteloupes from the Imperial
valley, California, are now coming in
IN good quantities, and are selling
Tor as low as 10 cents. watermelons
from Hampstead, Tex, are appearing
on the market, and should be plentiful
within the next few days, and at rea :
sonable prices. Peaches, while short, arc
already on sale, and not high In price,
considering the quality. There are few
raspberries. and these are rapidly a:s-
appearing.
wax and green beans are plentiful
and cheap, selling for 12h to is cents
pound, and should be canned and put
away for future use. Peas are selling
for 10 cents and are of fine quality.
There is plenty of rhubarb, which sells
Tor cents a pound, and Is one of the
cheapest things that the housewife can
put up. New beets. carrots and turnips
are selling for cents bunch, and
cauliflower is on the market at Is and
20 cents head. Texas onions are plen
tiful and cheap.
The unusual increase in the number
or gardens has tended to decrease the
cost or early vegetables, and the wise
housewife will take advantage Of pres
ent conditions not alone to add tn her
oaiiy supply for table use but preserve
Tor future use, when the supply will be
short and prices high.