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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-07-27
BOOST PECAN PRODUCTION.
Rapidly becoming Most Important
Minor Crop In State.

OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla. July
26.---A federal census OF pecan trees
shows that pecans are rapidly be-
coming one OF the most important
minor crops In the state. II. III.
Schultz. federal crop reported for
Oklahoma. says
There are 10000 pecan trees In
the state. from which more than o.
900 tons OF nuts were harvested and
marketed last year. he uotes the
census as showing. This does not
include the nuts picked by private
persons for their own use or re-
tnincd on farms, He estimated that
approximately 100000 was OBJ
tained by Oklahoma farmers from
tho pecan crop last year.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-07-27
ARDMoRE ELECTION ASKED.
Vote on Charter Amendment Is
Approved by Attorney General.
ON Petition

OKLAHOMA CITY. July ga
charter amendment may be submit
ted by the city commissioners OF
Ardmoro to the people In special
election, Attorney General Freezing
ruled today II will not be neces-
sary for the city to walt until the
general election to vote on the mana e
Rerial form Of government, It was
held.
Request for an opinion In the mat
ter was signed by 3ll members Of the
Ardmore city commission.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-07-27
Rs~umc English Relations.

MEXICO CITY. July 24--Felix
Pnlavicini, Mexican envoy to Great
Britain. France, l'elgium and Italy
has notified his foreign office that
England will resume relations with
Mexico after the presidential cleo
tion next September. excelsior says
today
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-07-27
TULSA DAILY WORLD, TUESDAY JULY 27 1920

order 10 pilIage and plumber with n
greater degree Of security, is indl-
Gated by advices received here to-
night by agents OF the department
OF Justice.
Francisco villa with 100 men IN
at Cuatro Cionegas. about 125 miles
below Sabinas, the same advices
atated
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-07-27

Now electric locomotives adopted
by the Swiss government for IFS
railways develop 1000 horsepower at
a speed of 40 kilometers an hour
and can attain speed OF 60
kilonneters
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-07-27

A Norwegian steamship company
has been experimenting with peat
as fuel In its vessels with faih sue
n.aa
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-07-27

Fuel invented by an English
scientist II made Of household re-
fuse. including ashes. paper and
vegetable waste. powdered and com
bines with old tar and pitch for
brluuets
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-10-01

fixed from twenty years to lie
term in prison.
Bristol-The Southwest Virginia
Medical society's third anhua! cor
vention. which opened here Wednes-
day, closed yesterday. Those max
inc addresses Yesterday were: Dr.. +.
H. Henderson, Of Marion; Or. ?. S.
Smith. Abingdon; Dr.. W. ". Chaffin,
Pulaski: DR.. J. A. No01in. East Rad
ford: Dr.. R. +. ThornhilI. Pulaski;
DR.. w. II. Rbble, Wytheville; DR.. }.
0. Boyd. Roanoke; DR.. A. ?. Jones.
Roanoke, and DR.. r. f. CHIMNEY, Of
East Radford.
Newport News-C. J. slaight, for
mer postmaster at Stafford, Va,
Yesterday surrendered himself to the
United States marshall and is en-
route to Atlanta to begin serving a
sentence of eighteen months in the
Federal prison. He was recently
convicted of embezzling postotfice
funds amounting to $4,000, but was
given few weeks to wind up his
personal business affairs before be-
ginning his sentence.
Newport News-The United States
shipping board training ship Mime
sofa. which was a sister ship to the
unfortunate Eastland, the vessel
sunk some time ago at Chicago with
great loss Of life. has been sent to
the "boneyard.'
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-10-01
SPECIAL MENTION

Another shipment Snow Flake
Fancy Patent Flour just arrived, II
ID. sack S5c; "a 10. sack s1.6O; bar
rel s13.25. Guaranteed finest patent
flour. Makes beautiful biscuits, rolls
and light bread. Try one sack. use one
baking. if not perfectly satisfactory
we will refund entire purchase price.
ALEX ANDRIA CASH GROCERY
+. B. Howard. Prop.
We are sole distributors for this flour
234-1c
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-10-01

years old, an September IS. near
Bristol. The jury in the Sullivan
county circuit court at Blountville,
Tenn, emphasized mitigating cir
cumstances,s and the sentence was
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-10-01
pTRJJC SALE

On Monday, October 4th, 1920, at
100 o'clock a. NJ. l villa as admins
traitor of T. Morgan Moore, deceased,
sell at public auction at Dmcan's
garage. 125, 131 North Pitt street,
the following described property, to-
wit: One Ford Automobile.
ROBT. H. cox,
Terms, Cash City Sergeant.
234-3c
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-10-01

the chamber Of commerce to make an
address here.
Bristol-Pat Hyatt. former sold
ier, was found guilty yesterday of
the murder Of Lee Wampler, 90
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-10-01
VIRGINIA NEWS

sLynchburg lotto Kahn, New York
banker, has accepted the. invitation of
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
There Are No Indian Princesses" Saws Mrs. Crok
Her Life Story Told on the Witness
Stand In the Hearing I at
Palm Beach

line, and Maysville. Ark, was the
postoffice from which the Edmund
son family was served. Grove was
the town on the Indian Territory
side nearest the Edmundson place.
Mrs. Croker exhibited a photograph
of the house in which her family
lived and in which she was born.
Shown in the picture are her father
and mother and one of her two sis
ters.
In what is now the adjoin-
ing County of Cherokee is located
Tahlequah, the capital of the Cher
okee Nation and seat of the semi
nary maintained out Of tribal funds
for the education of the young wom-
en- of the nation. At the age of
fourteen Bula Croker began in this
school the four-year course, which
she completed with her graduation
in 1902. On the wall of the Crokers'
house, the Wigwam at Palm Beach
is the framed diploma issued to her
in that year, signed in regular fash
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
MIR. AND MRS. RICH
4'A ARD CROKER ont for
a acalk on Fifth Auenue

about a week later. I personally
know Mrs. Croker to be very good
hearted woman, who always had
smile and glad hand for all of her
friends. Hoping to hear from you
and Mrs. Croker. remain, cordially
yours, BORIS GOLDREYER."
And here Mrs. Croker said, wis
clipping from, The New York Eve
ming Mail, of Tuesday, March 25,
1913, soon after I went to that city
from the Wilson inaugural, with the
story referred to in the letter. The
article is headed, Pretty Cherokee
Heiress Writes Poetry, Wants to
Vote and Be an Actress l was no
more responsible for the reference
to me as an Indian princess than
as Cherokee heiress.'
Her Parentage
Mrs. Croker was born Febru-
ary II, 1884, in that part of the
then Indian Territory which has
since been made Delaware County.
Oklahoma, with the town Of Iay
as the county seat Some years af-
ter the Civil War the remnants of
the tribe of Delaware Indians
brought head rights" with the Cher
okees and were removed to that
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
The Einstein Theory Explained for Laymen
Continued from preceding page

Continued from preceding page
ciple, and the exact calculation OF
its consequences, is far too intricate
a matter for me to speak of here.
The results, however, are not diff
fcult to understand. The principal
ones are these:
/. A ray OF light passing near
gravitation body like the sun will
not travel in a straight line, but
will be DETECTED slightly downward
toward the gravitating body, much
as very rapidly moving proiectile
would be deviated
Calculation shows that the amount
of deviation would be quite too small
to measure for ray Of light that
has passed near the moon or planets,
but that for light that has passed
near the sun the deviation reaches
nearly two seconds of arc, which the
modern astronomer, accustomed to
accurate measurements, considers a
large and very easily measurable
quantity.
2. Newton law Of gravitaton, on
Einstein's principle, appears to be
only an approximation to the true
law, but an exceeding good approx
mation-so much so that among all
the intricate motions Of the planets
there is but a single case in which
the introduction Of the new law in
stead of Newton's principle pro-
duces perceptibly different conse-
quences.
We all know the planets are NOV
ing in elliptical orbits about the sun
and that the line joining the sun to
the nearest point of the orbit has a
certain definite position
On Newtons theory this line
would remain permanently fixed in
space always in the same direction
If it were not for the fact that
the orbits Of the planets are slight
ly but continually modified by their
mutual attraction. These Influences,
or so-called perturbations, can, how
ever, be accurately calculated and
allowed for, so that they need not
worry us here.
On the Einssein hypothesis this
line to the nearest point in the orbit,
or the perihelion, should not remain
6Yed h,ts ahopId v,cva alowlv for
ward in the direction in which the
planet 10 moving around tho sun.
The rate OF It's motion can be cal
culated from the theory when the
distance and period Of tho pianet
are known. To this effect are added
the influences Of the attraction Of
the other planets as before.
1t has been known for some thirty
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

the course of hundreds of years that
they have now practically common
ancestry. But l never claimed to be
an Indian princess. To what extent
| was advertised as such l do not
know. I was referred to by my girl
friends at the school in Boston as
the 'princess.' I did not analyze it
to learn just what was in their minds.
Origin of the Title
"But I think the explanation of
the use Of the term in New York is
simple. The phrase was invented by
newspaper writer's. Here is letter
dated April 5, 1920, addressed to Mr..
Croker from Boris Goldreyer, who
describes himself in the letter"
This is the letter, written on the
letterhead of "The Times Square Ad-
vertising Service, 1893 Broadway,
New York.:
"Mr. Richard Croker, the Wigwam,
Palm Beach, Fla.
Dear Sir: l am very much sur
prised to read attacks that have
been made on you and Mrs. Croker
Il personally have known Mrs.
Croker (nee Edmundson) for the last
eight years, and became acquainted
with her one afternoon after she had
seen a Hippodrome show and was
talking about it at the dinner table
My fiancee, who is now my wife,
started in to talk to her, and from
that time on we became very
friendly, and we were all in one an
others company constantly going to
see different plays. At that time |
was the assistant press representa-
tive for the New York Hippodrorc
and was the first one to tip q special
writer for The New York Evening
Mail Miss Zoe Beckley) that there
was real Indian princess living in
New York. The story was published
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
Was School Principal

To perfect herself for teaching.
Bula Edmundson went to Chicago
and took summer school course
in the University Of Chicago. On
her return she taught mathematics
for five years in the institution from
which she was graduated. During
the school year of 1908 she was
principal of the Sequoyah public
schools, with eight teachers under
her direction.
All this is attested in the fifty
athdavlts that have been read into
the record, with the statements Of
ex-Governors of Oklahoma, Con-
gressmen and judges of the Okla
homa Supreme Court, who attended
exercises at the Cherokee Seminary
for Young Women and there met
Bula Edmundson and heard her in
recltatlons, songs and lectures.
The instruction in the customs
Of her people she had heard from
her mother-together with that In
dian philosophy to which she has re-
ferred-and the legends of the Cher
okees she had listened to in the
words Of the full bloods created in
her desire to make these legends
and customs known to larger audi
ences. For three years she was a
student in the school Of expression
at Boston, conducted by Samuel
Silas Curry. Curry's affidavit as to
her conduct and character reposes
each day of the hearing in the big
pile of papers filed in the case. He
affirms her good behavior and her
industry.
She went back to the old Indian
Territory division of Oklahoma in
1911 or 1912-the writer's notes are
not clear on the date-after three
years spent in Boston. In 1912 she
conducted a studio in Muskogee
Okla. Interest in the suffrage
movement had been aroused during
her stay in Boston. The success OF
the Democratic party in 1912 added
to her interest in politics. Her uncle
was a member Of Congress, and in
the spring of 1913 she closed the
Muskogee studio and joined a party
of Oklahoma people, men and wom-
en-, in trip to Washington to attend
the first inaugural of President
Wilson. She rode in, the suffrage
parade, clothed in the Cherokee In
dian costume. To go on to New York
and continue her studies in music
was one of the reasons for closing
the Muskogee studio. so to New
York she went from Washington.
To New York
Arrived in New York, she regis
tered at the Martha Washington
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
Is an Indian

Is All lnOldn
In consequence Of her grand
fathers marriage to an Indian wom-
an and his adoption into the ina
tion" or tribe, Bula Edmundson was
an Indian and Cherokee even if
her mother had been a non citizen.
But her mother was an Indian, an
enrolled Cherokee of one-eighth In
dian blood. Bula Croker is enrolled
as sixteenth. She says, however,
that the assignment of degree of
blood was in many cases arbitrary,
as the degree of blood in nowise
affected tribal rights. The Indian
ancestry of Mrs. Croker On her
mothers side is not questioned any
more.
There was brought up, however,
the validity of the statement that
Mrs. Croker is an Indian princess. 3"
81 never claimed to be an Indian
princess. Such claim from me
would be absurd, for no one knows
better than l that titles of that kind
have not been in use among the
Cherokees for many generations.
There was an Indian princess in
the time Of De Soto's travel of dis
covery into the Cherokee country in
the sixteenth century, when the
queen then sovereign of the Chero-
KEGS was captured in Georgia.
"All Cherokees are kinfolks," Mrs.
Croker tried to explain to the at
torney who was cross-examning her.
"The Cherokees do not marry out of
their tribe, except to marry whites.
There are only a few distinct fami-
lies These have so intermarried in
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

To New York
Arrived in New York, she regis
tered at the Martha Washington
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
Things Still Unexplained


The positions of the lines in the
spectrum can indeed be measured
very accurately. But there are
variety of influences at work on the
suns surface, which may shift the
positions Of these lines, such as the
pressure in the suns atmosphere, ac-
tual motion of this atmosphere and
possibly host of other things, so
that different lines of the same ele-
ment are shifted by different
amounts, and in spite of years of
investigation of this exceedingly
complex problem it is not possible
yet to explain all the things that
have been observed.
1t is, therefore, still uncertain
whether, after these other causes
are allowed for, it would be found
that the lines in the suns spectrum
were shifted or not. It seems prob
able, however, that Einsteins the
ory could be modified in such a man.
ner as to account for the other ef-
fects already observed without de-
manding the existence of this one.
Hence this can hardly be called at
the present time a failure of the
Einstein theory
The mathematical expression of
this last portion Of Einstein's theory
is the part which is so intricate and
difficult.
Mathematicians whose minds are
saturated with conceptions with
which the layman is utterly unfa-
miliar find that these mathemati teal
expressions may be Ito them at
leastl most simply described in
terms of space Of four dimensions,
or even Of five dimensions in certa IN
cases.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
MRS. RICHARD CROKER achen she Uos Miss Buln Ben-
A'A ton Edmu1dson

territory from Kansas. The word
Delaware thus became incorporated
into Cherokee affairs. Jay was the
rame of prominent Cherokee. Her
birthplace was near the Arkansas
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

the conclusion of the war, English
astronomers rose to the occasion and
sent two expeditions, one to Brazil
and the other to an island of the
African coast, equipped with photo
graphic instruments of high power
and especially suited for the work.
BY extraordinary good fortune the
weather was clear enough at both
stations to allow the obtaining of
valuable results.
Every precaution was taken to se-
cure accuracy. For example, after
the eclipse the telescope was left in
place for nearly two months so that
the same stars might be photo
graphed upon dark sky, after the
sun had moved out Of the way, to
obtain plates showing their ordinary
positions to use for comparison with
the eclipse plates.
As Einstein Predicted
The photographs were brought to
England and measured with the
greatest care, and the result indi-
Gates that the apparent shift of the
stars due to the deviation of the
light is unquestionably present and
is Of very nearly, if not exactly, the
amount predicted by Einstein, the
difference between the observed and
calculated amounts being hardly
greater than the very small error
which is still inherent, even in these
precise observations.
The observers, Professor Edding-
ton, Of Cambridge, and DR.. Crom-
melin, Of the Greenwich Observa-
tory, are men of the highest stand
ing, and their results prove beyond
doubt the reality of the predicted
effect.
The older form of the theory of
relativity was based upon the result
of very precise observations, but
upon negative results-upon the
failure to find things which ought
to have been found, and easily
found, provided that the older the
cries had been correct.
But the new extension of the
theory is based upon positive re-
sults-the presence of an effect, in
the case of the planet Mercury,
which, though long known, baff1ed
all explanation, and in the case of
the eclipse observations, upon the
presence Of an unquestionable and
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

very remarkable influence, whose ex-
lstence no one anticipated or mag
ined until it was predicted by the
theory.
1t therefore appears to be very
strongly established.
1t is true that the original form
of Einstein's theory also predicted
that the position Of the lines cf any
element, such as iron, in the solar
spectrum should be slightly different
from those produced by the same ele-
ment in the laboratory. At the pres
ent time it is very hard to say
whether this effect has been observed
or not.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

ion and carefully preserved ever
since her receipt of it.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
The Ex- ammany Boss Wife De-
clares Press Agents Gave
Her the Title
no SAY that Mrs. Richard
Croker, Indian wife Of the
i former chief of Tammany, is

Croker, Indian wife OF the
former chief of Tammany, is
no}onger a princess would
be incorrect. The proper way to
put it is that she never was a prin-
cess. Moreover, she does not know
where Churchill's is.
Both Of these statements are her
own under oath. They were made
By her as witness in the trial in
Palm Beach of the family squabble
over whether Richard Croker is COM
petent to manage his own affairs.
One of the ways Croker's children
have adopted to prove their fathers
incompetence has been to seek to dis
credit his wife, and now that she
has the opportunity to defend her
self in court Mrs. Croker welcomes
the chance.
Far from being ashamed of ho1
Indian blood. Mrs. Croker glories IN
it, but when it comes to the claim Of
royalty, that is an entirely different
matter.
No Such Titles Now
n never claimed to be an Indian
princess" she said. "Such a claim
from me would be absurd, for no one
knows better than l that titles of
that kind have not been in use
among the Cherokees< for many
generations"
She does not deny, however, that
the title was conferred on her for
publicity purposes. 81 think the ex-
PLANTATION of the use of the term in
New York is simple" she said. "The
phrase was invented by newspaper
writer's"
When it came to the question of
Churchill's, Mrs. Croker said:
at has been said that | was a
cabaret entertainer and made my
debut at Churchill's, and that l was
in the chorus of the Hippodrome.
was never in Churchill's in my life.
! see the place advertised in New
York papers, but I do not even know
where it is located. From the time
Of my return to New York until
our marriage was engaged in Civ
ing concerts and recitals in that
city"
1t is in conversation rather than
on the witness stand that Mrs.
Croker best tells the story of her
life. AS related in answers to the
questions of the attorneys it is frag-
mentary and disconnected and
touches only or chiefly upon those
points raised in the bill of complaint.
The nature of the legal proceeding
forbids the presentation of some of
the most human documents and some
Of the most interesting statements.
At her home, the Wigwam, three
miles south of Palm Beach, within
sound of the surf beating on the
sand, with records and other data
at hand, Mrs. Croker talked freely
Of every incident of her life and sup
piled details lacking from the court
reporters notes.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
The First Attack

First he tried to attack me
through my mothers family" Mrs.
Croker said, beginning her nara
tive-she referred to her stepson,
Richard Croker jr., whose manage
ment of his fathers interests under
power Of attorney is claimed as the
cause Of the legal fight in which
father and son are engaged. The
senior Mr.. Croker has referred to
his son Howard as Richards mes
senger boy; the daughter, who re-
sides in New York (Mrs. Tom
White, supports her brother in the
suits, but it is Richard jr. who is
regarded by Richard Croker and his
wife as the inciter of all the trouble.
Richards wife had told me that
he was looking up my record l
told her was glad of it, for it would
put stop to innuendoes.
"At Richards instigation SANDER
Gus stories were printed about ME in
the New York papers. The stories
were given out after my husband
and sailed for Ireland in June of
last year. In those stories it was
said that was Jewess, that / mis-
represented my race, my ancestry
and my age; that made my debut
at Churchiil's, and that | was q
circus rider at the Hippodrome. l
did not see the papers until after we
got 10 Ireland. The stories we're
what do you newspaper men say?
cold It was month before /
could reply to those slanders. Had
] written denial New York people
would not know what | was talking
about.
My position was a difficult one.
eou5d not speak i'll Of his children
70 nay husband; I had too much love
aDd esteem for him TO add anything
70 Ms distress. And yet these
Charges stood uncontradicted by me
~ that time. Thcse glanders were
oe1ng circulated against me in the
uhsted States when ! was in Ireland.
Her Difficult Position
Il had no wish To bring suits
sEainst any Of Mr.. Croker's chill
aren; Dir. Croker had always been
svsrss 10 suits. And 50 the matter
ysst&d.
u was great relief 70 me when,
Anaily, Richard brought the suit
sSs'.st me and my husband here in