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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-14
GREAT FIRE SWEEPS
STANDARD OIL PLANT
IN LONG ISLAND CITY
FIFTY TANKS ABIiZE AFTER
ONE ENPLODES; LOSS Runs
INTO THE MILLIONS

New York, Sept, lathe Stone and
Fleming works ofthe Standard Oil
Company, covering 20 acres in Long
Island City, tonight were wrapped in
flames which. after causing damage cs.
timated to reach into the millions
swept on despite the efforts Of "A dozen
tireboats and nearly [ wo.score engine
companies to check them Many
thousand gallons of oil were consumed
The blaze started shortly after p
m, following an explosion in one of
the tanks, believed to vahebe cen
the tanks, believed to have been caused
by spontaneous combustion
during the afternoon failed, and to.
ward sunset anxiety began to be cflt
for the Plat works Of the Standard Oil
Company, on the opposite bank of
Newton creek. on which the stone
and Fleming plant is located. Lumber
yards in the vicinity and plants in
which large quantities of alcohol ana
naptha are store so were threat.
encd. More than score of persons
were tramplcd VI - foot when a back
drausht, sweopin : flames hundreds
of feet into the ; caused the crowd
of many thous 5 gathered on the
opposite shore -. le creek, to flee to
safety. n
AS the flam : pread from tank to
tank, until ocli 80 were ahla2c,
there We're - al explosions which
caused unca' 5 to spread among
spectators ring more serious
burst, they d scampcr away, only
to retrun 10 y and watch the flames
sweep onw;
Each tan ntaincd many thousand
gallons of hen the fire started, but
plant employees soon put into opera
tion an emergency underground pipe
system and began drawing off the oil
to other Standard Oil plants in the vi.
cinity. Blazing oil ovcrflowed how.
ever, from some tanks and ran along
the ground spreading destruction.
Some spread along the surface of the
creek, but soon burned itself out
SO intense was the heat that occu-
pants of factories near the works and
families in tenant houses a short dis.
tance away fled some carrying be
longings.
Shortly before 10 o'clock the flames
spread to the main building of the
Columbia Company's plant. ON the
same side of the creek as the Stone
and Fleming works, and the alcohol
there murned with a roar. Blazing
oil also spread across the creek. threat
enng the Platt works.
Three men on one fireboat were re
ported killed.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-14
oil Barge Still Missing

Tampa. Fla, Sept l3- Nothing has
been heard Of the Monongahola, an oil
barge with n crew Of ~ men, which
broke loose from the Lgonicr. an oil
tanker which had the barge in tow.
September .. The Ligonier was 20
miles Off the Dry Tortugas and local
agents Of the Gulf Refining Company
think the Monongahela may have been
blown into the gulf stream.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-14
Key West Declines Md

Jacksonville. Fla, Sept 13.-Kcy
West today declined outside aid to al-
leviato any suffering resulting from the
hurricane which swept the island city
several days ago. A telegram from vii
liam r. Warren, chairman Of the Key
West chapter Of the American Red
Cross, said accounts Of the storm dam
age to Key West have been greatly cx-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-14
CARDINAL MERCER TO BE
GIVEN BRONZE BAS RELIEF

New York, Sept. 13.-Cardinal Mer-
cler of Belgium will be present at the
anniversary mass which will be cele-
brated next Wednesday morning at st,
Patricks cathedral for the late Car
dinal Farley
New York's italian colony will pre-
sent Cardinal Mercier when he visits
this city that day with a bronze cast
of Onorio Ruotolo's bas-relief, Bel
gium, 1914.1S-and Jesus Wept." The
bas relief shows Christ with head turn
ed aside weeping at a procession Of
Belgian widows and orphans who pass
by him.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-14
Caillau X Taken to Hospital

Paris, Sept. 13.-Joseph Caillaux, for
mer premier. who has been in prison for
more than year charged with having
had reasonable dealings with the en-
emy, was transferred to a private hos
pital at Neuilly this morning This fol
lows a statement by his counsel that
his health was so bad a sto cause ankle.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-14

New York. Sept 19.--Pal Moore, the
American bantamweight, whose two
bouts with Jimmy Wilde, the Eng
lish flyweight. aroused international
attention lately arrived here today
from England. Moore will remain in
this country for about six weeks, dur
ing which period he will box several
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-14
ASKS III PEOPLE
HAVE FORGOTTEN TERRIBLE
COSTS OF THE GREAT WAR

Tacoma, Wash. Sept 13.-Reading
to II Tacoma audience today a part
of his address to congress asking a
declaration of war with Germany,
President Wilson declared the purpose
there outlined was not yet fulfilled and
would not be until the treaty was rati-
fled.
Pointing out that he had asked in
that address for a complete freedom
! from autocracy and guarantees for lib
&erty everywhere, he said that was the
Tprogram which had been adopted with
out respect to party and which it was
now proposed in some quarters to aban-
don. When he asked whether the
people wanted it abandoned, there
were shouts Of Not no.! and cheers
from the crowd. L was the first of
two addresses to bc delivered by the
President in Washington during the
day. Il night meeting being scheduled
at Seattle.
Before hc went to the armory the
president was driven to the Stadium,
where a cheering mass Of humanity
including many school children, wei
tOIiltu lllllls w III - ''''NNiilta ''Nt'''''N'
of 10000 the Stadium was packed ev-
cept for small spaces at the ends OF
the horseshoe, and thousands more
thronged the steps and terraces above.
I'm brief address at the Stadium,
Mr.. Wilson said he was grateful that
the children had come out to see be-
cause he felt the decisions being made
now affected the children more than
those of the present generation. There
was continual roar of cheering after
he finished speaking and until his
party had circled out Of the Stadium
ON the way to the Armory.
Al the Armory, which was packed
Mr.. Wilson was introduced by n. Il.
Ccffman, president of the Washing
ton state branch of the League to En-
force Peace.
Giving the cost of the war on both
sides at $lS6,OOO, 100000 and the cost
TO the United States as $1,000 900 600
an hour for two years, he said that
was the cost in money of saving civ
ilization. In addition, he continued,
there We're 1850, 200 battle deaths
kThesc we're terrible facts" he de-
clared and he had come out to the
people to see whether they hod forgot
ten them.
Country Has Not Forgotten
"The tountry has not forgotten
he added, "and it will never permit any
man vino stands in the way OF the
fulfillment of our pledges to forget the
sorrowful day when he made the at
tempt"
The remedy for all of this proposed as
n fulfllment of the nations promises
asserted Mr. Wilson. was the League
of Nations, which alone permanently
could overthrow autocracy and quiet
disorder. \ new kind Of disorderly
autocracy was growing up, he said, IN
such movement as that which had
overturned Russia.
Il am an enemy of the rulersf'I OF
any minority, however constituted he
oontinued. "NIinorities often have
been right but they cease TO be right
when they use disorderly means.
The league, asserted Mr.. Wilson,
was an almost complete insurance"
aagainst war, adding that "even if it
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-14
Rumanians Still Loot Hungary

Paris, Sept, 13.--Advices of further
requisitioning in Hungary by RumanisH
troops were received today by the SUI
preme council. On September 10, thdl
reports stated, the Rumanians requisiH
toned n ,425 pairs of shoes from the ORR
phan asylum in Budapest. or thes6
the great bulk We're shipped to Ruiz
mania. Many other cases of alleged
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-14

were only a 10 per cent insurance" it
would he worth while.
The labor section of the treaty also
was praised by the president, who said
it had been made by men with hearts
under their Jackets and in the inter
ests OF humane and just labor condi-
tions
Party passion" the president said,
had been aroused by the treaty dis
cussion. although the Fundamental
principles of the document had come
years ago from republican statesmen.
He asked his audience to forget that
he had anything to do with the con
summation of those principles and to
overlook that there would be an elcc.
tion in 1920,
On his first return from Paris, Mr..
Wilson went on, ne received certain
suggestions from the senate foreign
relations committee, which came for
the most part from the republican side
Of the committee. Returning to the
peace conference, he said, he had So
cured the acceptance of every one Of
these suggestions.
Reads Riot Act to Part:SanS
81 say things" he continued, 'be-
cause | want to read the riot act to
anybody who tries to introduce poll
tics into this thing. There is some
thing so much greater than being a
republican or a democrat that those
names ought never to be mentioned in
connection with it. That is being an
American, and the way to be an Am
erican is to fulfill the pledges we have
made"
The crowd cheered this declaration
and there was more applause when Mr.
Wilson went ON to tell of the work of
Former President Taft and former At
torney-General Wickersham for the
league.
Mr.. Wilson said he was deeply touch
ed by the interest Of mothers and of
children in the hope of world peace
Saying many Of the children had hailed
him along the way as woody" the
president digressed to remark that he
had no objection to that if il were
applied "as name and not as de-
scription."
Every woman with child declared
the president will line in fear
plan for world peace fails.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-14
Gompers Blarnes Curtis

New York, Sept. 13.--Samuel Com
pers, president of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor, placed the entire blame
for the Boston police strike on Police
Commissioner Edwin Curtis in a state
ment issued here tonight.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-14
MAN AND TWO WON EN-
ACQUITTED ON CHARGE
Of WOODRUFF MURDER

Olathe, Kan, sept 13.-Emmctt l..
Thomas, Mrs. Blanche Brown and Mrs.
Margaret Love, charged with the mur.
der Of Herbert G. Woodruff, were ac.
quilted by jury here at noon today.
Six ballots were taken during the five
and one.half hours dcliberation, the
first showing seven to for acquittal, it
was said.
The murder charge grew out Of the
killing several weeks ago Of Woodruff
when the party Of four had made an
automobile trip into an unfrcqucnted
part Of Johnson county. Kansas. ada
cent to Kansas City. All three Of the
defendants maintained the shooting was
done by negro, who forced one Of the
women to take vauablcs from Wood
ruffs pocket.
The case went to the jury late ycstcr-
day. All three defendants were in court
all forenoon awaiting the jury's verdict.
Thomas, who has been at liberty on bail.
sat with his wife. The two women, who
had not been able to obtain bonds, dis
played nervouSenss as they wanted. Mrs.
Brown sat with her husband, who has
been with her throughout the trial, al.
though they We're not living together
at the time the charge was filed. Mrs
Love held her young son. She tainted
when the verdict was read, and the
child would have fallen to the floor if
Mrs Loves mother had not caught it,
4 ftpr n1iotIrumpnt of court the three
defendants walked across the room and
shook hands with County Prosecutor
G. w. Gorusch.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-14
Weather Forecast

|N Oklahoma: Sunday increasing
lcloudiness, Monday probably rain.
East Texas: Sunday partly cloudy
lin north, rain in south portion;
1trong easterly to northerly winds
N southeast portion, probably gales
on coast; Monday, probably rain.
West Texas: Sunday and Monday
e1oudy, except probably rains in north
portion Monday.
Local Temperature.
Maximum, Saturday, "a degrees;
fIIi1Imum Friday night, 50 degrees.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-14
Mnn and Wnmnn Shot

A woman and a man were shot at tho
corner of Boylslon and fremont streets
this morning during an attempt Of the
state guard TO make loitorers move on.
The man was killed ana the woman
wounded in the knee. The man had en-
gagged in an argument with one of the
state guards who was trying to clear
toh street entrance to the subway. The
state guard with fixed bayonets diA
pcrsed the quickly gathering crowd
James McCourt, bystander. was acs
cdentally shot in the ankle during aH
attack ON volunteer policeman in thu
South End district this morning. Rob-
ert p. Nolan, the volunteer, fired th9
shot. Two me nwerc arrested charged
with assault.
The sympathetic action Of Sc police
men Of the Metropolitan Park force
who refused to serve in Boston Wednesl
day night lost some OF it's strength with
the return to duty of 26 of the officers
and thei acceptance of assignments to-
duty in the city. y
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-14

On a lonely road just outside the linn
its of Kansas City, early Sunday morn
ing, July q, Herbert G. Woodruff. a
Kansas City garage owner, was mur-
dered
, The first that was known of the death
was when, perhaps an hour later, Err
appeared in Rosedale, Kan, and told
the police that he and Woodruff. on
their way to answer n service call, had
gotten lost and were held up by negro
highwayman. Woodruff, he declared,
had been shot.
After search OF the vicinity where
Woodruff's body was found later, the
police established another theory of the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-14
STRIKING BOSTON
P OIL ICE POSITIONS
DECLARED VACANT
POLICE COMMISSIONER AND GOV
ERNOR EEGNl MEN NS nE.
SiIKTENS, NNT STRIKERS
N EN- VOTED TO RETURN
Wanted 90 Hcsumc lobe aud Await ic.
ton of Labor Conference called hy
President Wilson tor October 6.-Gcn.
cral sympathy strike Still a possibil
iN--lIm Nillcd, Woman Wounded,
Yesterday.

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,N--Nan killed Woman Wounded.
Yesterday
Uostou Sept l3. roljcc Commission.
or curtis today announced that the
posJa deserted by striking policemen
Voro vacant and tht ho would proceed
to uu thrm Commissioner curtis thw
afternoon dcymcd Do cout.r with labor
leaders in,ludmg President Ncunis or
the striking uo'comou8 uuiou
Govcruor Coolidge announced u "a toll
rrrm thja afternoon to President Com.
pcr4 or tine American Federation or Ia.
hcr that hg would support Commissions
c' tSutis u the mtjcra action declaring
vur1uJ tine places of striking police of
Occrt
Attorney Gonowl Nruco WNwan is
prun'rug for Commwslouor Curtw ana
opujou ON tnc legal points involved In
tine .trl,o of policemen. and II is cN-
pyy'pl to determine whether the aulv
crt will hc permitted to rtun TO tho
c,tyH employ
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-14
SAVING WITH A SPECIFIC
PURPOSE

Did you ever think of a Savings Ac.
count as a special reserve fund TO meet,
for instance, your annual or semi'an-
nual life insurance premium?
Many of our depositors find this an
ideal plan.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-25
|ENATE OCCUPIED ON PEACE PACT
|smocrats Expect Committee Report This Week.-Witnes- eos to Testify on Treaty and
 Packer Bills.

|woshington, Aug. 24.-The peace .saty promises to hold the spotlight l Congress again this week, with a
 Issibility that before the week is
 .er the report of the foreign rela-
 0ns committee may bring the ques-
 or of ratification into the open enate.
 Although Chairman Lodge declines
 make any prediction as to when the Rmmittee will report, Democratic
 embers said today they had an un- brstanding with the republicans
 at action would be taken this week
 possible. Some of the members fought unlooked-for delay might re- Rlt. however, from the committees Rcision yesterday to request addi-
 pnal information from President 1ilson.
 ] Tomorrow the committee will re- hme for a day it's open hearings, but ! ost of the week is expected to be kvoted to discussion of amendments } the treaty.
 Debate on the treaty also is to con- hue in the Senate, Senators Nugent,
 emocrat, Idaho; Kirby, Democrat, |rkansas, and Owen, Democrat, Okla pma, having given notice they would peak.
 The Franco-American treaty will bme before the Senate judiciary bmmittee tomorrow in connection |ith consideration of sub-commit- (e report holding the treaty to be no |olation of the United States consti- btion.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-25
POLICE FIND MANY
 VALUABLES IN RAID

Kansas City, Mo-, Aug. 24.-Act- ing upon information from local police of Wichita Falls, Texas, the local au- thorities tonigt raided at cottage in a residence district and found motor car tires, boots, shoes and other ar ticles valued at more than $1,O0O. The goods, it was stated, are believed to have been stolen from Wichita Falls store. A motor car also was found at a garage adjoining the cottage. The Wichita Falls police obtained their information about the goods, it was announced, from a man who is being held there for the theft of motor car.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-25
LEAVES BANDIT CHASE
Troops Ordered Out When the Trail Grows C old. - Jesus Renteria Report Killed by Machine Gun Fire.

Maria, Tex, Aug. 24.-Toops were ordered out of Mexico tonight.
 The order withdrawing the Amer ican punitive expedition which cross ed the border last Tuesday morning in search of bandits who held two Amer ican aviators for ransom, was an- nounced by Col. George T. Langhorne at 4:30 this afternoon.
 The troops are marching out of Mexico tonight, Col. Lankhorne stat ed. The first troops is expected to reach Ruidosa late tonight.
 Col. Langhorne said the American forces will resume their station to- morrow along the Rio Grande.
 The decision to withdraw the troops resulted from failure to pick up "hot trails" today because of rainstorms in the mountains.
 Lieut.. Harold G. Peterson and Lieut.. Paul H. Davis, the American aviators whose capture by bandits was the immediate cause for sending American troops across the line, ar rived at Royce Flying Field at 4:35 p. m. They crossed to Mexico with the punitive expedition Tuesday.
 Jesus Renteria, the bandit leader, was shot and killed by Lieut.. R. H. Cooper when bandits fired on Coop CTS machine, according to state ment by Lieut.. Peterson on his ar rival here tonight.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-25

Elizabeth, Ruth Ada and Robert Lee Gee, children of Dr. R. l.. Gee, of Hugo, Okla, returned yesterday to their home after two weeks visit in the city with relatives. They were accompanied to Hope by Mrs. w. w. Rice.
 Floyd Powell, who has position as bookkeeper with Track Rudolph Hard ware Company, at Philadelphia, spent yesterday in Prescott with home folks
 Mrs. H. V. Scott underwent on oper- ation for appendicitis at the Park Sanitarium and is resting nicely this afternoon.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-25
FOR MISSING AVIATORS FUOR PLANES SEARCH

San Diego, Calif., Aug. 24.-Four military airplanes left Rockwell Field today for aerial reconnaissance Lower California as far south as San Felipe, at the head of the Gulf of California in search of Lieutenants Frederick B. Warehouse and Cecil H. Connolly, who have bee missing since Wednesday afternoon.
 No word has been received at Rockwell Field regarding the fate of the army aviators who were last seen Wednesday near Jacumba, Calf. while on border patrol duty.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-25
The Weather

Misses Ruth and Maud Hyle, of Saratoga, who have been visiting in the city for two weeks with w. A. Newth and family returned home yesterday accompanied by Miss Ruby Newth who will visit at Saratoga.
 After spending his furlough of 20 days in Prescott with relatives and friends, Corporal Robert c. Harrell left this morning for Camp Ogle- thorpe, where he expects to receive his permanent discharge from the marines.
 Jess Hayes, of Okolona, owner of large black land farms in Clark coun- ty, is having a beautiful $8,000 resi- dence erected on the vacant lot next to Wren Scott's and as soon as it is completed Mir. Hayes and family will move to Prescott to make this their home.
 A REAL FARM HOME-240a, 4 miles south of Prescott on main public highway, 14a in cultivation, 20a Ber- muda pasture, watered by overfowing well, sandy loam soil and 5Oc extra fertile creek bottom. 20a fenced and cross fenced with wire, nice 7 room house, fine we'll with gasoline engine and large tank for water works. Large two-story barn, three tenant houses, fine 1Oc orchard, white neighborhood, near school and church. Price $35.0O per acre. Moore 6 Martin. 13d3w2
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-25
SUBSCRIBE $6O,OOO TO REUNION
 FUND IN ATLANTA FOR VETS

Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 24.-The fund of $60,000 for entertainment of the Confederate veterans at their ennual reunion here, October 7-10, has been oversubscribed, it was announced to- night. The campaign was closed to- day with the sale on almost every street corner of thousands of small Confederate flags and pictures of General Lee.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-25
TART PROBE ON SALE
 OF TEXAS OIL STOCKS

Washington, Aug. 24. -Investiga- |pns of some fifty complaints of the Rle of "wild cat" oil stocks in Texas
 l fields save been started by the ederal trade commission. The com lission announced today that it had ent two of its Investigators into the egion with instructions to make a earching inquiry into cases, com |aints of which are lodged with the Pmmission by concerns interested in De legitimate development of the leld.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-25
Too Much Study.

Crabshaw-Why do you wish to leave school and go to work when you're so young?
 Willie-It's this way, dad. School is going to be tough place for the next few years. We'll have new map of Europe to study. and if we fall down on it the teacher is likely to give us the constitution of the league of nations to learn by heart.-Life.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-25
UNITED STATES BEATS
 ENGLAND IN CONTEST

Caldwell, N. J., Aug. 24.-The United States defeated England here today in the first outdoor internat- ional small bore rifle match ever held, the Americans compiling a total of 7,617 points today to the 7,523 made by their opponents on their own range in England several days ago, but kept a secret until today.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-25

That "all in" feeling so common in pt weather is not due to heat alone, ut to an unhealthy condition in the yer, stomach and bowels. To pre- ent spell of sickness take Prickly Ash Bitters. Men find it excellent as system cleanser and regulator. Price
 t.zo per bottle. Hesterly Drug Store, lpecial Agents. go d
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-25

Charles F. Clyne, United States dis trict attorney of Chicago, 1t the White House executive offices just after a conference with the president regard ing the suits which the government will bring against the packers.
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-25

Wanted-500 men women and children to haul to the Camp Ground. Will Mitchell-phone 136 or 260. d6
The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-25

Insure your home against winter weather - Paint Up. Prescott Hardware Company.
The Delta independent., 1919-04-11

The fcke stock promoters don't sell
mess district, but the widow, orphan,
school teacher element furnishes an
unlimited market.