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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-22
OWEN ATTACKs
SUP RENE COURT
DECLARES fF Has RENDERED
CONGRESS- p0WEgs4sass AND
ENTnRGsaD MONOPOLY.
SAYS LAWS ARE NULL|FIEO
The Oklahoma Senator Rlames This
Condition for the High Cost OF
Lising--sass Congress Is
ipasaIyxesi.

OKLAHOMA CITY. Ian. %. The
United States supreme coust, having
made congress powerIess and l1ay-
ing enthroned MONOPOLY vas bIaEl-
ed for the high cost Of living by SEN
ator Oven. who is in Oklahoma seek
ing support of his resolution attack
ing the supreme court.
aEsx ering letter from Mrs. r. j.
Bonne'l, president Of the Oklahoma
City housewives league. Senator
Owen said.
Congress has been paraiyzed and
has lost heart. Congress is no long
er the means through which the peo-
pie may lind remedy. and cannot
be held responsible by the people.
This explains the high cost of living.
The remedy is to take this power
out II court whose training and
affiliation has made 1t possible to
nullify laws of congress and 10 en-
throne monopoly. When this pow
er is res ored to congress sovereig gn-
" will asain be vested in the people
and their iaw-making bodies. .
Senator Owens resolution now be-
fore congress seeks ia unaeat a fed
efal .tHdge who declared unconsti-
tutioaal an act passed by congress.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-22

as counsellor associated with me in
the final determination OF eur obli-
CATION and to disclose 10 yon without
reserve the thought and purpose that
has been taking form in my mind In
regard to the duty OF your govern
ment. come to YOU to-day when
bclieyt 1t to be necessary To lay
afresil on IA new plan the foundation
OF peace among nations. | come be-
lesing that the people of the United
States art to play no small part in
that great enterprise
The president declares these to
be American principles and policies
and that he could stand for no
other. He declared for explicit
assurance regarding peace, which
without victory. s'sictory.'' he de-
ci;,red .'would he peace forced on
the loser--a victor's terms imposed
on the vanquished.
The president explained that it
Was inconceisabie that America
should play no part in the great
enterprise of peace. .'owing," he
said, ITO the fact that this govern
nent did not wish to withhold
services. he felt that the people were
called upon to state the conditions
under which they would feel free
To render assistance towards peace"
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-22
WbHsHIPs MAY ACT IS
MERCHANTMEN CONVOY
SUCH A PLAN FOR PROTECTION
OF ALLIED SHIPPING BE-
ING DISCJ sSED.

RIO JANEIRO, Jan. 22-The al
lied steamship agents were today dis
cussing plans for a convey for allied
merchantmen across the sea. This
kind of project would call for a
point oG rendezvous in Europe and
South America. In event the allied
mercantmen should adopt such 4
scheme it is probable the ships would
assemble at Lisbon and at Pernam-
buco in South America and on spec
flied dates would sail under protec-
ton OF war ships ali the way across
the Atlantic.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-22
BOY WITH NARROWING
STORY HAS DISAPPEARED.
LAD WHO SAID PARENTS WE'RE
KILLED BY MEXICAN RAN
DTS CANNOT BE FOUND.

DALLAS. Texas. Jan. 22.-Alhert
Conroe has disappeared taking with
him his narrowing tale OF being or
phanaged by Mexican bandits and
walking eoo miles on his way 10
Elgin. H., where he claimed to have
relatives.
Henry l.. Crate. secretary OF the
Y. NJ. C. A.. at whose house he was
staying since he appeared in the city.
admitted today that Conroe disap-
peared Saturday night and further
that he had serious doubts regard
ing the truthfulness OF the boy's
story.
The police believe Conroe ran away
frolr home and they are looking for
him.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-22
SLIGHT RECEss|Ohs N
STOCK EXCHANGE PRICES
STOCKS SLUMrED As RESULT
OF WILSON'S ADDRESS
To SENATE

NEW YORK. ain. 22.~-The an
nouneement that President Wilson
would address the senate this af-
ternoon On foreign relations caused
small recession or prices on the
stock exchange today.
The Dow-Jones news ticker, whose
editor testified during the note leak
probe at Washington. said:
incidentally this report was car
nied on the street before it made its
appearance on the news tiekers.'
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-22
COTTON GROWERS TOLD
TO HOLD THEIR STAPLE
CONGRESSMAN HEFlEY CHARC-
les A CONSPIRACY EXISTS
To pEPRESS PRICES.

WAHSINGToN. Jan. 22.-After
conference with Senator Smith of
South Carolina. in which the cotton
situation was discussed, Congress
man Hefley OF Alabama advised
cotton growers. TO their surprise. to
bold their cotton for higher prices.
Many kilograms charging conspiracy
to depress prices have been received
in Washington
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-22
WOULD PREVENT ROADS
FROM SELLING COAL
GONERNOR FERGUSON URGES
PASSAGE OF LAW PREVENT
ING CONFISCATION.

AUSTIN, Texas. Jan. 22.-Gover-
nor Ferguson today sent a special
message to the legislature urging
the passage of a bill prohibiting rail-
roads from confiscating coal ship
ments in order that repetition of
the practice Of the Texas a Pacific
and Orient might be prevented on
account Of the coal shortage,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-22
PORT ARTHUR SIS'TTEs
FROM A GAS sHt}s.~ SGE,

PORT ARTHUR. Texas, January
Arthur WAS without gas
today as a result OF an explosion in
the gas plant last night, Many fac
tories were forced to shut down.
Many Port Arthur citizens who
used gas for fuel were forced to
eat cold canned goods for break
fast.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-22
PRISON SHIP CAPTAIN
IN TROUBLE WITH CREW
MUTlNY IN PART OF CREW INDI-
CATED by REPORT FROM
AMERICAN CONSUL.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 22.-That
the captain of the steamer Hudson
Maru. the vessel which brought
many of the German raiders victims
to Pernambuco, is having trouble
With his crew was the report reach
Ing the state department today from
Consul Stewart at Pernambaco.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-22

TIE man VIC doesn't form an
aetiye little commercial club"
within himself finally becomes a
whistling station of the Railroad of
Life.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-22
MARINE KILLED
ONE IS WOUNDED
UNITED STATES MARINES AND
sANTO DOMINICAN BANDITS
IN BATTLE.
Engagement Occurred Saturday il
Marcoris-Report Made
to the Navy De-
naftment.

WASHINGTON. Jan. co.-Priyafe
Olson of the Fiffieth United states
marine company was instantly killed
ana Corporal Wilson OF the Fifty-sec-
ond company was slightly wounded
in an engagement Saturday between
american marines and SaGto Domini-
can bandits in Aiarcoris, according to
a navy department message today.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-01-22
WILSON SPEAKS FOR
LIBERTY Of NATIONS
. . 80 . = = . = . . 4
WILSON TO ADDRESS 9Ht,
SENATE THIS AFTERNOON

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.
President Wilson viii address
the senate on the subject OF
foreign relations at O'Clock !
this afternoon. Senator Pittlnan !
announced today.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-16
KERENSKY BEGS ARMY
TO STOP SQUABBL|NG
Urges Cessation of Politics and
Union to Restore Strength
Against Enemy.

PETROGRAD. Sept. lb.-Premier
kerensky in an order of the day to
the army and fleet after stating that
General Kornilofrs revolt disorgan-
lied the operations at the front, orders
the soldiers TO cease all political dis
putes in tho army, which must do ev-
erything in It's power to restore its
fighting force.
The premier instructs the soldiers TO
stop arresting their comrades. the
right to do which belongs only to the
judicial authorities. not to remove
their commanders from their posts
and not to form voluntary detach-
ments on the pretext OF fighting the
counter-revolutionar movement.
The order OF the day concludes with
the assurance that the army. which
showed its complete fidelity and trust
In the provisional government during
the recent troubles. Will realize that
the country can be saved only by the
establishment of army discipline
and by the close union Of all the ele-
ments.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-16
PRISONERS TORTURED
CRUELTY BY GERMANS
Starvation, Inhuman Punish
ments and Overwork Prac-
ticed on Helpless.

WASHINGTON, Sept 15.-Another
chapter Is added to the story of the
tortrres of German prison camps by a
kusslan soldier who escaped by tun-
neling with knife under the cleo
trically- charged fence along the Ant
werp- -Rosendaal line.
Brutal treatment and poor and in
sufficient food have cost Germany the
labor of thousands of prisoners, he
says. The daily rations for a prisoner,
he ceported, consisted of a small
amount uf bread and turnip soup, the
soup enriched occasionally by a bit
of horse meat
Stern and implacable methods were
used to compel prisoners to work. In
gerious tortIres that ended only short
of death were inflicted on some. while
others were shot outright Punish
nents varied from enforced standing
at attention for n day at a time, with
out food tC beatings with rifle butts
AMI TO hours of suspension in the a,r
with ropes being tied to wrists while
prisoners hands were held behind the
bodies, the result being to throw the
Weight on the urnaturally twisted
muscles or the arms and shoulders.
Such methods in his own battalion,
once two thousand strong. had reduced
1t to $50 at the time he escaped.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-16
y. IN. Y. a. WIN TARGET
FOR AUSTRIAN GUNNERS
Francis Sayre in Party Hit
When Shell EXplodes
Nearby.

PARIS. Sept. 15-Francis Il. Sayre.
President Wilson's son-in law, has just
returned here from trip To the
Italian front with other American and
British officials of the Y. NJ. G. A..
after having escaped Il six-inch shell
by only forty feet.
The party was motoring up hill
along the lsonzo valley on September
and Austrian observers sighted the
Y. NJ. C.. A. men as they alighted when
the cars stopped at bend in the
road. Five shells were fired by the
Austrian batteries, believed to be com
posed OF six inch guns.
The first two shells fell four hun
dred feet beyond the party The next
two were hundred feet short. The
fifth burst within forty feet OF where
the party stood. All the members of
the group were covered with dirt an
pelted with the stones thrown up by
explosions. As speedily as possible
they were hurried into the cars by the
Italian officers cscorting them ana
driven out OF the danger zone.
Three days later while they were
climbing a mountain in the Trentno
the aerial tramway cables became
tangled and the party was left SuS-
pended over chasm for n half hour
before the tangle could be straight
ened out.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-16
INTERNATIONAL PLOT
TOUCHES KING CASE
Mysterious Letter Insinuates
Anti-American League
Sought Money.

CHICAGO, Sept. 15.-I.ocal federa'
authorities investigating circumstances
connected with the death near Con-
cord. n. c., of Mrs. Maude A. King,
received today a letter containing a
fairly substantial Tip" that n coterIo
OF international swindlers was In
volved in the case.
The letter. II was said, set forth
that the writer had been connecieu
with some sort OF industrial league"
but quit when he discovered II was
made up of men Interested In getting
money for anti-American propaganda.
There were several specific instances
connecting the League" with Mrs.
Kings affairs in the letter, according;
TO information.
Just what evidence the federal au-
thorities place in the letter was not
disclosed. lnasmuch as 1t mentioned
two places where the league" had
quarters It was thot that some sort OF
raid might follow
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-16
ATTEMPT TO SMUGGLE
OUT GOLD FRUSTRATED
Secret Service Men Discover
$4,000 Secreted in Span
ish Steamer.

A GULF PORT, Sept. 15.-Custom-
officers today boarded Spanish
steamer here shortly before the ves-
sci was scheduled to depart for n
European port and seized $4,000 in
gold secreted in a barrel of salt porn
that formed a part of the ships stores.
An investigation conducted by the
federal district attorney was followed
by the arrest of three members of the
ships crew charged with violating
President Wilson'S proclamation "a
September 10. prohibiting the export
alton of gold save under license.
Officials were at first inclined to
the belief that the gold bears some
relation to reports that Germany has
received gold through communication
OF her submarines with neutral ships.
Following the investigation, comment
was withheld.
While officials were inclined ~
await further developments before
making public details of the investi-
cation, it is understood the money was
obtained by the ships cook from To-
cal bank.
The cook presented and cashed a
draft for the full amount on bank
In Havana. The individual giving the
draft Is a Spaniard it was said. Bank
officials here declined to make a
statement of the transaction.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-16
C0NFEREES CLASH ON
WAR TAX PROVISIONS
House Members Insist on Levy
Against Manufacturers
Gross Sales.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.-Con-
ferees on the war Ia bill clashed to-
day over senate eliminations from the
measure OF the manufacturers' gross
sales taxes and others totalling about
$7O.OOO,OOO and compromise by
which half this amount will be raised
from these sources finally resulted.
House conferees led by Democratic
Leader Kitchin declined to agree to
the senate proposal to strike out the
b per cent manufactures tax provided
In the house bill The compromise
agreement is understood to have re-
stored tax OF somewhat less than
this amount on musical instruments
and jewelry and revision OF the auto
mobile section, with increases OF
per cent on the gross sale taxes of
patent medicine, cosmetics, perfumery
and other toilet articles is probable
The compromise section is being
drafted for presentation to the COM
mittee next week and II is expected
that 1t will be adopted as drawn.
On other senate changes the con-
ferees did not fare so well. The amuse-
nent tax reduced by the senate from
S6000o,0 900 to S19,000,000 aroused
much discussion and final vote on
IL probably will not be reached 70.
several days.
Approximately two thirds OF the bill
had been disposed of when adjourn
ment was taken tonight and 1t was ex-
pected that a report would be ready
next Thursday for presentation to
both houses The excess profits tax
and postal rates sections will be the
last considered.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-16
Rainbow Division Eager to Embark for the Other Side
Tulsa's Ambuancers Hale Hearty and Rearing to Go

Inspection; therefore everyone is will
ing.
Eats Good.
The eating Is good, much better
than what we had at Fort Sill. There
also are amusements. And thousands
of visitors come to the camp daily tho
they are given the run of the camp
only on certain days. We have los
OF music. good and otherwise. Ever
night there Is an exodus TO Hemp
stead. Freeport and Garden city. all
within a radius OF four miles of the
camp. Occasionally there are trips
to New York city and most of the
ambulance men have had their look
way between the sound and the ocean,
25 miles from New York city.
An aero training school being To-
Gated near by, there is almost con-
stantly n flock of airplanes sailing
over the camp. Few OF them maze
any pretense at cutting up capers IN
the air for they are mostly students
with tho idea OF safety first" upper
most In their minds. They fly low
over the tents and then they sail high
er. sometimes attaining "A height OF
five thousand feet.
As for the ambulancers-they are
all hale and hearty. There have been
only two deaths among our whole di-
vision TO date, both from natural
causes. Those who watched us drill,
part in uniform. part in civilian tog-
gerry. Mt the Tulsa fairgrounds, would
not recognize us now. We look real
militaristic. We feel fine. our appe-
tites are good and we have nothing OF
which we could complain except the
delay. Everybody is anxious to be on
their way
In his first engagement OF the war.
Harvey. the company bulldog mascot
has come off victorious His oppon-
ent was the mascot OF the Tennessee
ambulance company Plymouth
Rock rooster, foraged by them on the
Mexican border last winter.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-16
LEON A. DALI0US HIGH
BABY AT TULSA SHOW
He Scores 99:5 Per Cent; Sew
eral Others Give Him Close
Race; Cards Tuesday.

Leon Alexander Dalious is the most
nearly perfect baby in Tulsa. That is,
If there are any more nearly perfect
than Leon, they failed to make them
selves known to the examining ply
sicians who served the baby show last
week.
Leon Is 9s.5 per cent perfect and
the minus half a per cent Is due to a
trlfle too much height and little
too much weight. A small baby at
birth, Che weighed six and half
pounds), Leon was breast fed until he
was six months old, when he was put
on modified milk. He is now 23
months old and being fed on light
foods three times a day.
The baby having the next highest
score was Sidney Cockrell, jr., 10
months old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Sid
ney Cockrell of 316 West Seventh
street He scored 90 per cent perfect.
The third baby. scoring 9S.5 per
; cent was Eleln Schwarzberg Of 402
South Norfolk. Ellen Is eleven months
old.
Joseph C. Greenig. jr.. Of AIS South
Kenosha, scored 9S.3. Joseph is nine
teen months old.
Vivian Lee Batchelder, the fourth in
point of perfection scored 9s per cent.
She is six months old.
Frankling Gettinger of 229 East
Eighteenth street, also scored 9S per
cent. Franklin was born thirteen
months ago
Mothers OF babies examined at the
baby show may obtain their score by
calling at the offices Of A. M. Welch,
humane officer at the county court
house on Tuesday.
The highest scoring baby will get n
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-16
BY JAMES A. BRILL.
(World's Staff Correspondent With
Ambulancers.)

WITH THE RAINBOW DIVISION.
CAMP MILLS. L. l., Sept. 15.-We're
all together at last, this Forty-second
division. AS Lieutenant Perry might
have reported two infantry brigades,
ono artillery brigade. one engineer
regiment, one headquarters troop, a
signal corps, an ammunition train, q
supply train, machine gun battalion,
four hospital units and four ambu-
lance units. The arrival of the first
ambulance company from Michigan
last Thursday afternoon completed
the Rainbow division. And we are
all anxious to go on; on over to
France. We are going soon. Just how
soon none of us know, but we know
1t Is not far distant, close enough to
warrant the assertion that by tho
time the folks at home are carving
the turkey on Thanksgiving day we
will have become thoroly resigned to
the war rations all OF the entente SOL
diers share on the battle front, for we
up"
Out there at the fairgrounds at
Tulsa where our ambulance company
vase mobilized and put thru it's first
drill with the engineers we thot our
hundred and half was quite a
bunch. 1t looked 1t then. Down at
Fort S.ll. where he went for equip
ment. we found some five thousand
others an enormous body of fighters.
so II seemed. Now we are a unit OF
the Forty-second division. mere
speck in the camp OF twenty thousand
men; and when one stops to think
that there are a hundred divisions
formed or forming he gets some idea
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-16

not only of Individual insignificence,
but of the wonderful force Uncle sam
coon will have at the heels of the
kaiser.
The boys Of the Forty-Second are
supposo to be the pick of the nation
al guard, assembled from 81 states.
While appreciating the compliment
and thankful for the honor of being
selected as the first to go over there,
the whole bunch realizes that there
are hundreds of thousands of others
Just as good as they. but they are
determined that no other division shall
serve with, greater distinction. To
live up to their reputation, to set an
example for the others who are to
follow, the men of the Forty Second
are plunging into their training work
with an eagerness that Is bringing re-
suits. Even tho they should embark
within fortnight the men of the
division will have laid a firm founda-
ton for the more intensive training
which they will receive after they
reach France.
Taking Long Hikes.
While the territory around Camp
Mills Is limited, preventing extensive
operations. for Camp Mills is only n
place for mobilization while waiting
for ships, nevertheless we are man.
aging to do considerable maneuvcring.
We have been on three hikes al
ready, eight miles out md eight miles
hack. II Is remarkable what this and
the other things are doing for the
boys. all of whom are bronzed, erect
In their carriage and becoming hard
ened of muscle. Some of 1t IL little
short of Intensive" yet there are no
shirkers. The word has been passed
around that there Is to be another
physical examination before we sail
and the weaklings eliminated. There
IS not n Stacker In the bunch, everyone
is eager to go and they will be disap-
pointed lads who fail to pass the final
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-16
Kaiser Places Price
on First American
/. Either Dead or Alive

BRITISH HEADQUARTERS
IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM,
Sept. 15.-German military au-
thorities on the western front
have shown concern about the
the imminence of the American
army's entry into the fighting
by offering rewards for the cap
ture OF the first American pris-
oners. The general commanding
the eleventh reserve division re-
Gently put the price of 400
marks on the first American
soldiers brought dead or alive
into his lines.
I'VE are supposed to have had
Americans opposite us for some
time now and two divisions of
Portuguese on our right. The
man who brings in the first
American dead or alive to head
quarters has been promised the
iron cro IS of the first-class. 400
marks and fourteen days leave"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-16
Springfield Strike Ends;
5000 Men Return to Work

SPRINGFIELD. H., Sept. 15.-The
sympathetic strike which called eight
thousand men from their duties here
during the week, is over. Coal min
ers, watchmakers. and many other
workers. will return to their tasks on
Monday. BARRIERS. butchers and gro
GERS returned today.
The settlement was reached at a
meeting OF these men and strikers
with Governor Lowden this afternoon.
II was agreed that the union men may
hold n peaceful parade tomorrow and
that Sheriff Wheeler shall dismiss the
special deputies employed since the
strike began two months ago.
The latter strike Is not affected by
the settlement
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-16
AvERTS AlRPLANE ACCIDENT
Engine Fails Student Aviator Who
Makes Practice Flight.

CAMP DONIPHAN. FORT SILL.
Okla sept. IA second accident In
the aviation school was averted today
by skiliful maneuvering when the en-
gine stalled on one Of the student
aviators in u practice flight this after
noon. Both tho pilot and observer
were badly shaken but were otherwise
uninjured. The machine was slightly
damaged. The number of machines
flying each day has increased and the
aviation field is not large enough for
all. Flights are made over Lawton
and the buildings on the military res
ervation.