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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-06-06

Myrtle Lodge No. 107, X. of P.
meets tonight. Election of officers.
All members be present.
w. r. PRESNELL, c. c.
w. T. SALISBURY, K. of R. < S.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-06-06
DRAMATIC SCENE
AT BIGBIE TRIAL
lCnntinncd from pa

(AOnlIlluCu liOhi PaSN -
man and that this was the first yea'
he had not put in a crop. She sait
he was away from home much o
the time and that his mind hat
never been right since Christmas
Dav. when he learned OF Audrey
condition. She said Pike had been
keeping company with Audrey Tor
wear and half and that she never
went with any other man. She SAID
there never was more devoted
father and this blow had made him
crazy. She exclaimed: He was
wild, wild, crazy, | tell you" at
times arising from her chair IN her
distress. Then, again. during a
squabbel among the attorneys. she
credit out: He was such a de-
voted father. ! don't care what you
object to, he was crazy She told
OF occurrences about the home TO
show that his memory was failing
and that he did not know what he
was doing at times.
Mrs. Bigbie on Stand.
Mrs. Charles Bigbie was called TO
the stand. She said she and her
husband have been married 70
wears; that they have had nine chill
dren and have four boys and four
girls living; that her husband IS IS
or 54 years OF age. She also told OF
his failing TO put in crop this year,
OF his disturbed state OF mind, and
that he was in nothing like his nor
nal condition. She said he seemed
foolish about Audrey and when he
heard of her condition he said death
could not be worse. She told OF
Pike and his engagement TO Au-
drey and his putting of the time for
the wedding. She said her husband
had never been the same man since
Christmas day. She told of his fail
ing memory and said his mind was
deranged. Pike. she said. had left
the country and that he was arrest
ed several months later. She did |
not know if that was the first time !
her husband had seen him since he
went away last winter. Her huS- I
band was home when the child was
born. the witness stated. and said .
that he walked the floor and was
almost crazy; that he no longer
slept we'll at night and would not
Eat. She told about him being AZ
Brock Sunday and coming home
and then going out again in the
car. She did not know OF any guns
about the house except a shotgun.
Walter Edwards. the man the de-
tense named in cross-examination
Of the states witnesses yesterday as
one who saw a pair OF "knucks' ly-
ing beside the body of Pike, and 4
which Pixies sister. they alleged.
was called. He was a
jrother-in-law of Bigbie and was
he fourth man in the car SUNDAY
when Bigbie and his sons went TO +,
he depot. where the killing oc-
-urred. lie told Of Bigbie coming
10 his house IN Brock Sunday and
aking dinner there and he and his
wife returning With him to Lone
Grove. He said Bigbie was not in
MS right mind and that he suggest
ID that they 60 out for a ride. He
old of the shooting. much as other /:
Sitnesses did. with the exception
hat he did not see Roy Bigbie have
| gun and he insisted that Pike kept ;
lis right hand in his pocket all the
ime and that when he Vas lying on
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-06-06

They have three children, but de-
spite that fact when told of the
needs of the Red Cross, the suffer
ing of the small children, of the
women and the scores of other ways
in which the money would aid in
giving help to those "over there"
Mt. Darling said, II consider it
great privilege to give this money"
Photographed with Mr.. Darling
is Robert S. Gillian, president of
the Carter County Council of De-
fense, and w. ]. Cassidy, cashier of
the War Savings Bank.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-06-06
Humble Gets Strong Flow Of Gas.

The Humble, in section IS 2s3w,
went into a gas sand at $50 feet yes
serday, having an estimated pressure
OF $4,000, 900 cubic feet, feet in the
sand. This location is about two
miles west Of the Kirk gasser in
81 2s3w, and one mile east Of the
Empire drilling in "a 2s3w, where
an oil sand was found at ,l2o feet.
Up to the present time no failure
has been reported in the Fox field
unless the Prairie test in section 8
2s5w can be so classed, and that hole
although deeper drilled than other
tests, has encountered nothing to
absolutely condemn it. There is ev-
cry indication that big pool will yet
be opened up somewhere in the ter
ritory outlined by the Wildcat i'm
wells in section Is 2S2w, the Kirk
in section 81 and the several shall
low wells in sections l3 and "a 2S4w
This development, as above noted,
with the Humble and Empire tests
in sections "a and 3s 2s3w. sur
rounds on three sides vast amount
of acreage in which considerable !
drilling has been done with practi-
rally no failure as yet.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-06-06

LOST between 62l n. Washington
and Henley's store, one Hudson
Seal belt for coat. Return to
Ardmoreite office for reward.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-06-06
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

FOR RENT - One sleeping room,
also two nice housekeeping
rooms. 202 North Washington.
Phone go. 6-3t
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-06-06
All Three Bigbies Armed.

William Cook was the next wit
ness and he corroborated all that
Miss Pike and Bryant Ballew had
told OF the details of the trouble.
He saidallthree of the Bigbies had
guns and had them in their hands
when he and VIII Pike came TO the
depot. He saw Bigbie and his sons
get out Of the car when Pike was
about forty feet from the car; that
he vas beside Pike when the elder
Bigbie came up and told him To get
aside and then begin to talk to Pike;
that Bigbie pointed the gun in his
(Pikc's) face. His story OF the
shooting was the same as related BY
the others. On cross-examina:ion
he said he was IS wears old and mar
ried and was not keeping company
with Miss Pike. His gun was at
home and he had none on him. lie
said he told Bigbie not TO hit Pike;
that the Bigbie BOYS. with their guns
in their hands. were yelling to all TO
stand back. He said Edwards sad
nothing about "knucks": that Big
bic did not tell him to pick up the
"knuoks." He admitted he had been
convicted Of an offense at Durant.
Joseph Seedman of Lone Grove,
sectich foreman. but acting for the
agent at the depot Sunday. said he
saw Pike. Cook. Ballew, Mrs. Bal
lev aad Miss Pike coming toward
the drpot: that l.. Jones said, "L5ok !
out OF the window" and he SAW
Charles Bigbie with his hand point
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-06-06

The Nicholson test in section "a
2nlw, near Wynnewood, is running
the 6-inch casing, below 500 feet.
Arthur Dale OF Healdton has been
appointed conservation officer OF
the oil and gas bureau of the cor
poration commission, succeeding
Jake X. Mildren. resigned. MIR.
Dales district includes the Heald-
ton and Fox fields and Cotton and
Stephens counties.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-06-06

A report from the Ranger, Tex
As, field states that the T. & p. Co.
has another gusher in the Duncan
No. !, one-half mile south of the
discovery well. The Duncan is re-
ported flowing at a rate estimated
better than 1000 barrels daily with
the sand penetrated 5 feet. The
depth OF the sand is 1874 feet.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-06-06

The attention OF this department
has been called to an error in the
report OF locations and rigs in the
Duncan field as published in this
column a few days ago. The error
occurred in the location of the
Walker Valley in section ? 5s9w, and
should have been reported as the
Walker Creek Oil and Gas Com
pany in that section, not the Walk
er Valley,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
The Farmers Viewpoint
(Pennsylvania Farmerl

The amendment authorizing the
$50,000,000 bond issue for road
building in this state passed by an
overwhelming majority at the recent
election. All classes want good roads.
No class needs them more or can
benefit more from them than can
the farmers. With the advent of the
automobiles and motor trucks, we'll
built roads are as potent in the in
dustrial development of the state as
are the railroads. There has been an
honest difference of opinion on the
best way of financing road building,
A large conservative class of voters
has believed that the state is wealthy
enough, with little wiser handling
of it's funds, to build roads from cur
rent income, leaving only the main
tenance of such roads to future gem
erations. These voters defeated the
bond amendment four years ago,
with the hope that a serious effort
would be made to build roads from
direct taxation. The reversal in the
last election does not necessarily in
dicate a change of opinion on the
basic principle, but the experience
of the past four years has shown
that 1t Is hopeless to expect the leg
islators to economic on their pet
expenditures for the sake of good
roads or other needed improve
ments. The amendment was adopted
because we need the roads. not nec-
essarily because. bonding is thought
to be the wisest plan of financing.
The incoming Governor has long
been a good road advocate. He spon-
sored the bill creating the present
Highway Department. He will have
the means and the opportunity to
put the state in the front rank in
quality and mileage OF Its roads.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
Don't Desert the Troops
$4,000
By BRIGGS

Even should the German mission
now speeding to receive the word of
Foch result in an immediate cessa-
tion of hostilities, the need for a
large oversubscription to the United
War Work Campaign fund would
1t would be increased, says the New
York Tribune.
That was the message DIR. John
r. Mott, director general of the cam
paign, drove home again and again
to the group of prominent persons
who gathered in the home of John
ID. Rockefeller, Jr., yesterday after
noon in an informal pre-campaign
meeting.
DR.. Mott dwelt at length upon the
time that must elapse before the
overseas troops can hope to return
to this country.
To provide recreation for the long
period the seven organizations asso-
ciated in the drive, DIR. Mott an
nounced, have prepared an elabor-
ate program. ts..
Hopes to Double Quota
1--WE have asked for $40, 500, ,000,"
said he, but 1 am here this after
noon to ask.you to increase that by
80 per cent. For large as the ori-
ginal sum asked may seem, it would
only provide our soldiers and sailors
with an individual allotment of eight
cents day for period of one year.
And we're going to do much more
than simply look after our own
soldiers, sailors and Marines"
Women of the various organiza-
tions, here and abroad, he explained,
must be provided for. Arrange
ments, too, have been made to give
aid to FRENCH, Italian and colonial
forces, and extensive corps are to be
dispatched on educational errands.
Two thousand professors and
teachers have already been sent
overseas" said DR.. Mott, "but for
eign educators have asked us to send
1000 more. A thousand women are
working over there Within the
month, we want to double that num-
ber. We need $5,00O,000 to supply
the American soldier alone with text
books. We need 100000 more
for reference books"
Money must also be :, raised, he
said to send preachers of all denom-
nations and lecturers whose mission
il will be to carry the message of
hope and valor needed to prepare
the troops for civilian tasks in the
new era. a."-Exchange.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
A SUGGESTION FOR US
PHILADELPHIA is preparing for
r a great community Thanksgiv-

- PHILADELPHIA is preparing for
- a great community Thanksgiv-
ing service on the morning of
Thanksgiving Day. This service is
being arranged under the direction
of the Council of National Defense
of that city and the program of eX-
ercises will embrace union services
at thirty eight different places at the
same hour. All churches will be
asked to hold their services not
earlier than II o'clock so as not to
interfere with the community cele-
bration. No parades will be included.
This is precisely in line with the
thought of many in Harrisburg and
it is not too late to arrange for a
great union Thanksgiving service
which will further cement the good
feeling of the various religious bodies
and harmonic, let us hope, for all
the years to come, some of the con-
fictlng thought that has hindered
the development of the best in re-
ligion.
Might 1t not be we'll for the local
Committee on National Defense to
take the lead in this matter and ar
range for a proper religious Thanks
giving service on the day set apart
by the President and the Governor?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
WITH THE "Y"

What do you @ build when you build
A home-roof under a foreign sky!
A little house by the side of the road
Where q brother eases his pressing
load
Where still the Good Samaritan
May come and be a friend to man!
Where lonesome lad, in a woman's
eyes,
Can see his mothers face arisel
Where chap can write what he
longs to say
To true-blue girl In the u. s. A.!
Where there are a hundred brands
of joy
To welcome and cheer home-slck
boy!
Where caste is banished, and sect is
gone
But the Ten Commandments thun-
der on!
Where Youth gains manhood to
deny
The ceaseless lure of the Loreieil
Where America spans the seas to
dwell
With her knightiy men on the rim Of
hell!
A hut that fathers love has founded!
A place that mothers love has
bounded
A spot by sweetheart's love sur
rounded a
A taste OF home for hearts that
sigh
1t Is this you build when you build
Daniel Henderson,.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
THE SOLDIER VOTE

IT ought to be thoroughly under
stood that there is no scandal
Il connected in any way with the
taking of the soldier and sailor vote
this year and that the reports of un-
due activity of election commission
ers in getting votes for local favo-
rites in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh,
which were rife in the Capitol last
wear. have not been heard. The Gov
ernor is expressly authorized to
name as many commissioners as
needed to take the votes of the Key
stone State men in military service.
It is a matter for the judgment of
the Governor and If the War Depart
ment had not barred the Common
wealth from sending commissioners
to France there would have been
many more named and the deficit
of $4,000, which it is said Is threat
ened because of the number of men
sent and the distances they were di-
rected to cover, would be small In
comparison with what might have
been.
The position taken was that every
Pennsylvania had a right to vote.
1t was sound. Men of all parties
agreed to that and even Democrats,
eager to elect congressman, ap-
proved it. The number and places
were matters for exercise of judg-
ment when the reports of soldiers
came in. Because some soldiers had
gone from camps or posts or sta
tions before the commissioners got
there, or that many Pennsylvanians
refused to be interested in voting,
are matters to be regretted. The
State is required to name commits
siers where there are soldiers to
vote and IL some Of them did not
obey the instructions so carefully
given at the State Department and
bIundered 1t is also regrettable. But
that Ia all there is to 1t. The whole
proposition is one of judgment on
one side and personality on the
other.
And it may be stated that the COM
missioners are getting ten cents a
mile by footruie and nothing else.
Side trips and hack hire do not fig
urs. Neither DO meals or sleeping
car berths. Its ten cent a mile
by direct route. And that's not hard
to ascertain
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Below is a copy of a letter which
appeared in the Williamsport, Pa.'
Gazette and Bulletin of March d,
1914, written by a. NJ. Fahrenstock'
of Muncy, Pa, and which bears upon
the matter that will be canvassed In
your city tomorrow, namely the
making navigable of the Susque-
hanna river. / am not an engineer,
and am not competent to pass upon
the practicability of Mr.. Fahren-
stocks plan; nor is he an engineer.
He is a mere layman as to such pro-
jects, a tailor by trade, a mute, edu-
Gated in a Philadelphia institution;
but his article shows that the un-
technical man thinks along the same
practical lines on which technically
trained minds are thinking. Here
is the letter:
Gazette and Bulletin
The Susquehanna river can posi-
lively be made navigable from the
Chesapeake bay to Lake Erie. The
United States and state governments
should take charge of 1t. A canal
can be constructed in the river. How
can il be done? 1t is a simple plan.
A concrete dixie or wall is to be built
in the river fifty or one hundred feet
from the shore. The dixie is just high
enough to enable any kind of steamer
or boat to navigate in the canal. The
dikes need not stretch all the way,
froE. end to end, but the dikes are
to be built in some places where water
is now or there are rifles. Locks,
such as Williamsport, Muncy, Lewis
burg and Shamokin dams, should be
repaired so that the places will be
deep enough to allow boats to navi-
gate. No dikes or walls are needed
in such places. The proposed canal
needs no new bridges over 1t. The
public and railroad river bridges are
very high. In order to go under some
of these bridges, the boat can be low
cred by means of locks. The dixie
will not add any danger of high
floods. Creeks and small streams
empty into the canal. If they (such
streams) are high on account of
rains, they will go over the dixie into
the river. The water in the canal
will be better than that in the river.
More fish will be found in the canal
by reason of open ends TO deep
places.
A canal should be dug from Clear
field to Lake Erie through some
small streams up there.
Soft coal, lumber, grain, ore, cat
tie, ETC., would be hauled through
to Chesapeake bay from Lake Erie.
OF course the people at first do not
realize it, but If they give study to
it, they will begin to think of pos
sible navigation. Does the proposed
canal have to cut through a rock
mountain like Culebra cut?,
This suggestion gives an opportun-
ity to the public to study.
Can any better suggestion be found
than this proposed plan?
The old canal boatmen, old raft
pilots and businessmen, 1t is believed,
approve OF this proposed canal.
A. M. FAHRENSTOCK.
Muncy, Pa, March 3, 1914.
In face of our part as Americans
in damming spell it with two ms or
otherwise, as you please) the Hun
deluge, 1t would seem to be an easy
task in comparison to make our great
Pennsylvania river navigable.
c. V. HARTzELL.
Muncy, Pa, Nov. IS, 1918.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20

Germany knows that we are far
from being such q nation of money
getters, and that the moral stamina
or this nation manifested itself to
her final undoing.
Needless and Indifferent to the
real nature of other peoples, blind
ed by its own conception of human
and national motives, the German
military caste ruthlessly defied and
sought to set at naught the laws of
Christian morality. In its insane
lust for power she ignored this
great Christian force, soon to be ar
rayed against her. Germany blum
dered when, despite all the dictates
OF humanity and all the conventions
OF civilized warfare, she heartlessly
sank the Luaitania. 1t was the
wanton cruelty of that deed which
eventually brought the United States
into the war against her, and so 1t
was the deed which eventually. was
destined to bring about her down
fall"
Mr.. Root said that when Ger
many sought to remove Russia
from the long list of her enemies,
she decided to bring about her
downfall by sending propagandists
by the thousands into that nation,
preaching the. doctrines of socialism
and anarchy to the peasants and
workmen, while at the same timn
she showed her perf1dy by rigidly
suppressing such teachings within
her own domain. In the end, he
said, those very teachings, unleosed
in Russia, swept over Germany and
proved the undoing of those who
had set them free. since they
brought about the downfall of the
Kaiser. ".t
The German government" he
concluded, deceived it's own peo-
pie, kept from them the real cause
of the war and boasted to them of
victories that never happened. Thus
the German people, sacrificing and
submissive. were Kept satisfied. But
in the end everv violation of the
law brought its own punish
ment to them. That punishment
came swiftly when once the base
purposes that actuated the Kaiser
and his military advisers were re-
vealed.
America Was Awakened
"Self-governmen changes the
nature of people. and not only in
creases their power and strength
for war, but teaches them restraint.
So the American people. after liv-
ing for decades immersed In COM
mercial affairs. with wealth, free
dom and ease. had grown strong
and had preserved the heroic ideals
fpon which the nation was found
ed. When awakened, they again
girded themselves to fight for free
dom and independence, and in the
end with moral force conquered
and liberty was vindicated."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20

the city would be about as appropri-
ate as constructing d bathroom In
the middle OF ones parior IN the
"eldef days OF art" II was thought
appropriate to erect structures Of
thls type On the extreme rears Of
baekyards. and. except In few
Chinese cities and in some anti
quated towns of Europe, there has
been no effort to stick them under
the very noses of the people, as 1t
were, and 1t has been considered
good form even in those free and
easy communities to spend hundreds
of thousands of dollars upon them
and give them places OF honor in
the municipality.
OF course, II councilmen are de-
termined to clutter up the center OF
the Square with a building Of this
kind there is no means of restrain
ing them, although it might be re-
garded as passing strange that they
should decline to "encumber" Ito
use the word of a councilman at
that time) the heart of the city with
a statue of John Harris, the founder.
and now find it possible to fill 1t up
with a building large enough to
crowd automobile, wagon, street car
and pedestrian traffic to an uncom-
Portable, IL not dangerous. degree.
Public comfort stations are unques-
tionably an urgent necessity, and
there should be two or three of them
rather than only one, and two or
three modest, under-the-curb sta
tions could be erected for fraction
of the cost of the proposed big
building in Market Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20

With the returning of thousands OF
men from the service of their country.
the Importance of immediate public
work programs is emphasized. Many
things have been stopped in Harris
burg during the period of the war; but
the Chamber of Commerce and all the
civic bodies should now get busy in
formulating plans for furthering pub
lie improvement projects. OF course.
the State will go ahead with the Capt.
tol Park plans and the construction
of the monumental viaduct at State
street. Incidentally. the municipal au-
thorities should also get into action
so that the city may cooperate with
the State in every way and likewise
provide for employment of the men
who will be idle unless there is i'm
mediate attention given to public and
private work that will open avenues
of employment without delay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-20
LABOR NOTES


Brick and clay workers at Ben
davis, Mo, have organized.
orders of Railroad photographers
has $4,000 members.
Toronto (Canada) shin carpenters
ask so cents an hour.
Policemen at Montreal. Canada,
have formed a union.
Detroit (Mlch.) sign writer's ask
81 a day.
Job printing pressmen at Ottawa.
Canada. Ohave received an increase
in pay.
Coal miners in the Fairmount (w.
Val district secured union recog-
milton.
Statistics show q marked decrease
Of pauperism in ireland.
sts Paul, Mimi, has a union of fur
workers composed Of women.
stogiemakers at Wheeling, w. Va.
have been granted increased wages.
York (Pa.) cigarmakers ask an In
crease OF 81 a thousand.
shopmen on the Atchison. Topeka.
and Santa Fe have organized sys-
tenn federation.