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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-12-20

She: Did you meet any stage rob
bers while you were out west?
lie: Yes. took a couple of
chorus girls out for dlnner.-The
Columbia Jester.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-12-20

There are aid 500 booeggers in Washington but
there than 500 congressman there
columbia Record
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-12-20

enn says Russia afraid give foreigners concessions
OF The trouble is that the foreigners afraid
take thenl-Greenvle Piedmont
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-12-20

"The man that loves and laughs
must sure do wcll."-Pope.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-12-20

Chickasaa Chapter Of DsMolay mssts
every Wednesday at 7:so .. m. 10 the
Masonic Hall.
JOHN DeKINDER. NJ. c.
r. S. HERRINGrON. S.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-12-20

An anxious inquirer wants TO know
whether the corn" merchants are
going to offer any Christmas bar.
gains. We refer him 10 Matt San
key.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-12-20

An vanity OF ynnitics'
How wayward the decrccs OF fate
ars,
How very weak the very wise are.
How very small the very great aro'
--Thackcray.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-12-20

Right here wen make guess
that more than one little boy who Is
confidently expecting Jack to fill
HIS stocking with pic" will be dis
appointed.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-12-20

In the event the college proxy
really does enter. we trust that he
will find tImo between toons TO make
a few appropriate and feeling re
marks about o. G. w.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-12-20

Anyway. the gubernatorIal barbe'
cue isn't going TO be entirely q dry
affair. They are going 10 have
40, 900 gallons OF soup as q starter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-02
Labor Party Is
Losing Seats in
British Elections

London, Nov. 2.-(By A. P.)The
rout of labor was the feature of the
municipal elections in a large num-
Der of boroughs throughout England
yesterday wednesday,. Up to an
carly hour this morning, the returns
were incomplete, but it is significant
that in ten of London's 2S boroughs
the completed returns show that la
Dor lost 149 seats which had pre-
viously been held by laborites. in
some instances their representation
being completely wiped out.
The provincial returns available
are equally significant, indicating the
loss Of more than 16O labor seats in
about eighty boroughs. mostly the
large centers of population. such as
Manchester, Liverpool. Birming-
ham, Derby. Nottingham, Plymouth,
Southampton and Portsmouth.
On the other hand in some places
labor held its own, and even made a
few gains.
The municipal contests in this
country. although nominally con-
cerned with purely municipal issues
not connected with politics. are
existing political feeling and were
watched with intense curiosity as a
possible pointer on labor's chances
in the coming parliamentary cleo
tons
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-02
WESTbR00k HUNTERS RETURN
HOME--|N NO Way CONNECTED
WITH Staying AT RILEY, Me.
THQS. NELSON PAGE
Ex-AMbASSAD0R TO
ITALY, dies IN VA,

Richmond, Va, Nov. Thomas
Nelson Page, former ambassador to
Italy and widely known author, died
at the home Of relatives in Hanover
, county Virginia, today. according to
reports received.
Mr.. Pages death was sudden. The
first intimatiOn Richmond relatives
had of his illness came this morning
when they were called to the planta :
ton where the former ambassador
had gone for rest. The only details
received here was that the end came
at 1.20 p. NJ.
Although he served as American
ambassador at Rome six years, Mr.
Page was best known for his literary
productions, which had made name
Tor him at home and a broad before
President Wilson at the beginning of
his administration asked him to enter
the diplomatic service. He was APP
pointed ambassador to Italy in June,
1913 and served in that capacity until
August, 1919. He was born April %,
1853 in Hanover county.
Mr.. Page attended Washington and
Lee University. In 1874 the degree
of bachelor of laws was conferred on
him by the University of Virginia.
Subsequently the honorary degree of
doctor of laws was conferred on him
| by Washington and Lee, Tulane Uni
vcrsity and William and Mary college
and the degree of doctor of literature
by Yale, Harvard and Washington
and Lee.
in 1856 to Miss Anne Seldom Bruce,
who died in 1883 and in 1898 to Mrs.
Florence T.athrop Field, widow of
Henry Field of Chicago Her death
occurred last year.
Mr.. Page was author of a number
of books on southern life. In 1920 he
produced 1taly and the World War;"
and two years previously wrote in
Italian a Life of Thomas Jefferson
Until recently Mr.. Page had been
making his home in Washington, but
he closed his house there few weeks
ago with the intention Of visiting
relatives in Virginia and other states.
Mr.. Pages service as ambassador
t.. Italy covered a critical period in
American European relations and
more than one of the important dip
lomatic notes passing between the
United States and the allied govern
ments went through his hands.
In the spring of 1919, Ambassador
Page came to Washington to confer
with officials regarding the details of
peace and reconstruction in Europe
and indicated that he would be glad
because of his advancing years to lay
down the official burden he had car
riod throughout the war Shortly
thereafter he left the service of the
government. Most of his time since
has been passed in study and in oc-
casonal writing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-02
Had Been Hunting in Green
vile - Know Nothing of
Blood Stains on Bill Ten
dered in Augusta-Did not
Leave Westbr00k Until Hour
After Killing of Postmaster
Allen

Portland, Me, Nov. 1.-The men
who registered at an Augusta hotel
Friday night and were sought for
questioning in connection with the
murder of Postmaster Arthur L. AL
len, in Riley, following the rendering
by one in payment for his lodging, of
81 bill believed to have been STAIN
Cd with blood, arrived at their homes
in Westbrook late today and were
eliminated from the case.
The men registered at the hotel as
Leland kenncy and Arthur Arbc,
their correct names. The two did
not leave Westbrook until 10 A. NJ,
Friday, which was an hour or more
after the murder. They have been
hunting in Greenyillc and Immediate
ly reported to the Westbrook police
If the 81 bill was stained with 5lood
they knew nothing of it.
Two men seen in Portland Mon
Gay morning who answered the
description of the two who register
cd at Augusta were followed to
Livermore. n. H., by Deputy Sheriff
Philip Wheeler of this city and were
eliminated after questioning. Two
men taken into custody at Bridgton
also were released after questioning
by Sheriff King +. Graham.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-02
New York Governor
Has Ready Reply
on Dry Question

New York, Nov. 1-Secrctary of
State Hughes, a former governor of
; New York state, the principal speak
: er at a largely attended Republican
rally here tonight, declared that the
! administration of Governor Miller in
the last two years has been on OBJ
ject lesson to all other states
Much of his address was devoted
: to high praise of Governor Miller and
an analysis of his administration.
The secretary referred only briefly
, to national politics, and that was to
praise President Hardings efforts to
stop waSteful expenditures.
Governor Miller discussed the
campaign issues briefly and while re-
stating his attitude on the prohibi-
ton question, someone in the audi
ence cried out:
what are you, wet or dry?'
The governor replied I'm this
campaign. sir. there is no fair issue
in this state Of wet or dry. That,
sir, is bunk issue. 1t is a false is
sue put out to deceive the intelligence
of the electorate. If YOU are de-
ceived by it. YOU are not fit to cXer-
else the franchise.
Il refuse, sir, to stultify myself by
accepting a nomination from I; party
whose principles | did not believe in
and I refuse equally to stultify my
self by trying to get votes by hold
ing out the hope that ! will violate
my oath of Office"
The governor praised the national
administration and the new tariff.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-02
Labor Secretary
Wants Saving" Wage
in Place Living" Wage

Portland, Ore, Nov. 1-SecfetarE
of Labor James ]. Davis, in an adj
dress here discussed the recent &C
ton Of the United States Railroad
Labor Board on the question of the
living" wage.
II believe" he said, every man
should be entitled - an eight hour
day and a wage which not only per-
mits him to bring up his children as
:. mans children should be brought
up. but should permit him to put
aside small sums regularly from his
pay envelope to provide him against
emergency and old age
He paid tribute to fraternal organl-
cations of which said he was Il
member of u, all devoted to the pro
motion, of brotherly love. but sound
cd a note of warning against secret
organizations built upon principles OF
intolerance, hatred and prejudice he
departed for Salt Lake City today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-02
Bishops Move Fails
Manchester Strike
Back to Old Status

Manchester, n. H., Nov. with
the rejection of the proposition OF
Bishop George A. Guertin by the
Amoskeag Manufacturing company,
and the acceptance of the terms by
the strikers, comes =, deadlock which
re solves the strike situation into its
original condition that has pre-
vailed for almost 80 weeks.
The Amoskcag company replied to
the bishops proposal that 1t would
he unable to conduct its plant sue
ccssfully unless on a 54-hour a week
schedule. also that it did not propose
t, deprive the workers now in the
mills of their places. The strikers &C
cepted the terms of the bishop, that
they return to wor., under the wage
schedule preceding February 10. on a
51-hour a week basis. The replies
were sent to Bishop Guertin today
and the announcement of the rejec-
ton of the proposal was made by the
New Hampshire prelate later.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-02
Charge Four with
Murder Mil Worker
Body Found in Swamp

Cambridge. Mass, Nov. IA flrc-
arms sales tag issued in Providence.
X. l., led to the Identification of Bru-
no Montegna, mill worker, whose
body was found in swamp near the
Belmont town line early Sunday,
and to the arrest today Of four per-
sons charged with murder. The tag.
found near the body, was one issued
to the purchaser Of firearms in
Rhode Island. duplicate being re-
tanned for the police.
Frank Scopia, of East Boston, an
electrician. was arrested in Boston
today; Anna Montegna, widow of the
slain man, was taken into custody in
Lawrence, with her three-year- odd
daughter. and Michael Gaglione and
Guiseppi Fantasia were arrested in
Providence.
When the body had been identified
by means of the tag, Cambridge po-
lice were Informed that Montegna
had been seen in Providence last
Saturday afternoon with a man who
had long scar on his right cheek.
Scopia. arrested because he had a
similar scar. admitted, police said,
that he had been in Lawrence to-
day.
According to the authorities, Anna
Montcgna had elopcd with Fantasia
some time ago. Caglionc and Scopia
were said to he intimate with Fam
| tasia. Fantasia, it was said, was re-
leased from the Deer Island house
of correction, where he had served a
term for larceny. The police were
working on the theory that Montcgna
was lured from Providence to the
lonely spot where his body was
found, in the hope of meeting his
wife. He was shot through the head
and his body was slashed with knives,
one cut almost severing the head.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-02
BRIEF WIRES OF Days NEWS

I Panama-Ships passing through
the Panama Canal during October
numbered 313, new high record
Washington Various weapons
taken from persons along the Next
can border under the war time and
espionage act are to be sold at auc-
ton at San Antonio, Tex, beginning
Jan. ?.
North Bergin, n J-Frederick
German, steam filter, early today
slot and seriously wounded his wife
and then killed himself
Washington-The Arctic Ocean is
warming up. icebergs are growing
scarcer and in some places the seals
are finding the waters too hot, ac-
cording to a report to the commerce
department, today. :
New York-Gratitude for the trac-
tor unit sent to Russia for recon
struction work by the friends of So
Wet Russia is expressed by Premier
Lenine in a letter received and made
public today by New York hcadquar-
ters of the organization.
Boston, Nov. 1.-The killing by
bandits near Aleoppo last Friday of
Lester G. Wright of Waukesha, Wis.
3 missionary for the American board
of commissioners for foreign mis-
sions, was announced in a cablegram
received by the board today
Boston-Eagle boat 81. ashore in
Vineyard Sound for the past two
weeks, was declared a total loss to-
day.
Pittsburgh-More than 10000
acres of coal land. containing APP
proXimately 10000, 900 tons of btu
minous coal, are involved in a deal
which is in process of negotiation be-
tween Henry Ford and the Wayne
Coal Co, of Pittsburgh.
Secaucus, n. J.-Fire which today
swept over four miles Of marshland
bordering this town and threatened
to reach dwellings here and county
institutions in Laurel Hill, was under
control this afternoon
Patterson, n. beside the body
Of Mrs. Carrie kimball in q gas filled
boarding house room today was
found a note, addressed to the pro-
prietess:
Enclosed is a dollar bill for the
gas I use"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-02
Eastern States Move
to Drive Out Group
Boosting Coal Price

Boston, Nov. 1.-The cooperation OF
the emergency fuel administrators of
New England and of New York state
In an investigation aimed to drive out
Spectators who are offering anthra
cite coal at more than 1925 a ton at
the mines was sought today by James
j. Phelan. Massachusetts administra-
tor. Mr.. Phelan requested the ad-
ministrators to forward to Conrad E.
Spens. federal fuel DISTRIBUTOR, any
evidence of offers o. coal at more
than 1926 at the mines.
The Massachusetts administrator
in letter to Mr.. Spens urged that
steps be taken to deprive producing
agencies supplying spectators with
the coal or the use of cars, and urged
immediate action against the specu-
lators.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-02
Find Typewriter
Sought in Poisoned
Cake Case at Phila.

Philadelphia, Nov. IA typewriter
believed to have been the one used
to address the package of poisoned
cake to Mrs. w. w. Sterrett of De-
Won. which made her violently i'll
and which resulted in the death of
her husband, was thought found in
New Jersey, the authorities working
on the case announced. They would
not indicate in what part of the
state the machine was found. how
ever.
District Attorney w. Butler Win
die. Of Chester county. tonight de-
clared that he would clear up the
whole mystery tomorrow but would
comment no further.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-02
MRS, HALL WTHSTANDS
RAPID FIRE QU|zz|NG IN
EFFORT TO CLEAR SELF
HOLD SUSPECT IN
KIDNAPPING OF
MICHIGAN GIRL

Grand Rapids. Mich, Nov. Hay
mond Eugene Wilson was arrested here
tonight for investigation in connec-
ton with the abduction in Muskcgon
Sunday of 11-year-od Rosalie Shanty,
who was found in the woods Of Manis-
tee county last night in a serious con-
dtion from exposure. Wilson's de-
scription. police said. tailed with that
of the man who enticed the child into
an automobile as she emerged from a
Muskcgon church and drove out of the
city with her against her protests.
MuSkcgon, Mich, Nov. 1.--Suffcring
from exposure, her clothing hanging,
in shreds and her body cut by bram-
bcs, Eosalic Shanty. 11-year-old swim
ming and diving marvel, lies in Sc
rious condition 1T Dublin. Mich. to-
day. while officers of Manistcc county
are securing the district for man
who kidnapped her from her home
here Sunday.
\ physician who is in constant at
tendance ct the bedside of the child
ut the home of Fred Fink. Dublin. is
reported by officers as having said
that the girl had been attacked and
roughly handled Reports received
late today are that the girl has high
fever and that her condition is grow
ing steadily worse.
When found by Joe, Preeski, a
farmer, 81 miles east of Dublin last
night, Rosalic was wet from splashing
through small creek and her body
was bleeding from barbed wire and I'M
derbrush cuts. The girl wore no nat
and no under clothing.
Resale was kidnapped Sunday as
she returned from church, when a man
drove up to her home. declaring he
was the father of one Of the girls lit
tie chums. He asked the childs
mother if Rosalie could come and have
dinner with his daughter. Mrs. Shan
ty is said to have given her consent
with the proviso that Rosalie must {
home before dark.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-02
(By the Associated Press)

| I'Orient. France-The crow of the
French sailing ship Cc~saire has been
| brought into port here, saved from
death by the German merchantmen
( Hugh Stiffness off the island of
! Ushant
! Clcveland-Fifteen persons, men
women and children. left here today
! on special train for New York to De
| deported. Included in the party are
! two men who are convicted Of violat-
ing the Mann slave act and another
who has completed penitentiary sen
! tence for Staying his wife.
Washington-An appeal to "all
Christian people to exert every infiu-
once to secure the impartial enforce
ment of all laws was issued today BY
the Federal Council of Churches OF
Christ in America.
| Sofa-CBy A. P)-Premicr STAN
boulisky of Bulgaria will leave here
Friday to confer with the Rumanian
cabinet at Bucharest and later with
the Jugo-Slay government at Belgrade.
He Will ask both countries not to op-
pose the autonomy OF Thrace for Bull
garias effort to obtain an outlet across
Thrace to the Aegean sea.
Salem. Mass.--Absolute devotion TO
ultra-conservative capitalism. plati-
, tudes and failures are the three con
splcuous achievements to date of the
Republican administration, Senator
David I. Walsh declared in an address
here tonight.
R1f land VI -,
vcntion here today, the Vermont State
Merchants Association adopted a reso-
luton that good roads is the greatest
problem concerning merchants both
from the standpoint of trade and good
of the state.
Cambridge, Mass.-Robert Wheeler
wilson. professor (emcritus) of as
tronomy at Harvard University. died
at his home today. He was a member
OF the staff OF the Argentine National
Observatory before joining the Har-
ward staff in 1875, and subsequently,
served as an assistant astronomer at
Yale, Returning to Harvard he was
an active member of the faculty until
he retired in 1919.
Washing ton-The mixed claims com
mission to adjust American claims
against Germany. arising out of the
war. got preljminaries out of the way
! today and will begin tomorrow the task
of arranging the mass of claims for or
DERBY consideration.
Havre, Mont-Cnless "unexpecfed
developments" occur in the case OF
the shooting here Friday morning Of
tho Pow
Margaret Carleton. no further action
in the case is probable. city and cpun-
ty authorities said today
Boston-A jury in the federal cburt
tonight awarded to Mordka Senator OF
Warsaw. Poland. once known as the
leather king of Russia damages or
$4,000 against the Lynn Storage
Warehouse Company for leather
bought by Senator in 1917 but which
he claimed was never delivered.
Dublin-F'rank Gallagher. editor Of
party. has been arrested and lodged in
Mountjoy prison. He was formerly
editor of the Irish Bulletin.
Victoria, B. C.--British Columbia
cities will receive for the last fiscal
year s1,sOo.ooO asAtheir ships sh arc
of the profit from the sale of liquor
by thep rovince.
Chicago-The hastily organized
committees to save tho Great Lakes
naval training station. has called
daily meetings here as result of
rumorcd decision by the navy de-
partment to abolish the station.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-02
Flat Denial She Was at Phillips
Farm Night Her Husband and
Mrs. Mills were Slain---Avoids
Traps of Observation-Disclosures
to Answer on Character Mrs.
Mills, on Divorce Move and
Where Hall Secured $4,000
Found in Safety Deposit Vault

New Brunswick, n. j., Nov. l.
(By. A. PD-"What comment would
l make? OF course that was not
SO, and that is all
With these words Mrs Frances
Stevens Hall opened today her first
intervicw-an interview planned by
her counsel 50 that She might seek
to eNtricate herself, in the public eye,
from the circumstantial net in Which
the unfolding Of the Hall Mills MUIR
der mystery has cnmeshcd her.
For the first time since She vas
widowed by the Staying Of the hcv.
Edward Wheeler Hall and his choir
leader, Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills,
Mrs. Hall had emerged from the Sc
clusion she has maintained for seven
weeks. meeting small army of
Newspaper writer's in her home, and
subjecting herself to an hours benz
bardment of questions.
At the end she retired as she had
had entered the room, wan but cum-
posed. She had shed no light on the
mystery She had fallen into none
of the traps the cross examiners pre-
pared for her. Hers was a negative
story. 1t ampltied but did not ma
terially alter the statements pre-
|, viously made in her behalf by coun-
sci and friends.
Briefly. it was that DR.. Hall had
started out to his doom. saying he
was going on an errand of mercy, to
discuss with Mrs. Mills a hospital
bill which he was paying with chlrch
funds; that he was slain by person
and for a motive at which she has
not the slightest conjecture; and
that her memory of him is unsuIlled
by the ugly scandal in which his
name has been involved.
1t was half past 2 o'clock when
Timothy n. Pfeiffer, Mrs. Halls law
yer. escorted her into the library of
the Hall home, where the reporters
were waiting.
He introduced her and withdrew.
leaving her alone with her ordeal of
personal publicity, an ordeal from
which she says she had shrunk since
youth. Attired in a gown of black
canton crepe, with a light scar. of
black silk about her shoulders. she
steadied herself in an old fashioned
rocker and let her gray eyes rove
around the strange scene her familiar
library presented.
The background of greenish- gold
wall paper, hung with classical
prints and portraits of ancestors; the
mantel with it's litter Of bric-a hrac
and vases; the antique bookcases. all
these We're familiar enough. But the
rugs had been pulled back; chairs
cluttered the room; and in each chair
sat reporter. There were a score
of men and two women.
At table at her side sat two court
stenographcrs. make transcript
of the interview. The reporters saw
rather plump woman of AZ, pale.
obviously tired, and slightly nervous.
She braced one hand on each arm
Of her rocker and the interview was
on.
Have you any comment to make,
Mrs. Hall?" the spokesman BEGAN,
on that part Of Mrs. Gibson's story
(Mrs. Jane Gibson, the so-called eve
witness of the slaying) in which she
says you were present on the Phillips
farm on the night of September
ZAP"
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