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1j VOLUME TWENTY-ONE HOME EDITION ARDMORE, OKLA., MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1915. 4:00 P.M. NUMBER 76. 1 HI CAR Tilt BELGIANS LABOR CONDITIONS IN ENGLAND SUCH THAT THERE IS NO WORK FOR STRANDED BELGIANS. THEY MUST BE FED Qovwumint to Feed Belgians Italy Approve Stand of United State in Protesting Against Interference with Commerce. TWO NEGROES LYNCHED. Two Blacks Taken from Jail at We tumka, Ala, and Lynched. MontKomery, AJa., Jan. 4. Two negroes, charged with implication in the murdor of R. A. Stillwell, a prominent farmer, were taken from the Wetumka Jail this morning, and lynched. Militia in automobiles are now searching for the lynchers. The Wetumka Jailer was orerpowerad and bound in a ehair. IF 1 SEARCH FOR DIAMOND. Loudon. Jan. 4. Ijioor conditions throughout England are sue jji" there is not work euotign r " . than one In ten of the one hundreu and sixty thousand Belgians now stranded in England. Apparently the government oon btgain caring for them. Dallas, Tex., Jan. 4. The diamond valued nt ten thousand dollars which was stolen from a Jewelry store win dow here Saturday evening in still missing. The police are discussing the advisability of an X-ray examina tion of the stomach of Jimmy Wil liams, the 17-year-old youth who broke the window, running away with several thousand dollars' worth of other Jewelry, which was recovered Immediately. T 0 THE RUSSIAN All must Italy Gives Approval. Rome, Jan. 4. The Rome newspa pers publish statements to the effect that Italy has adhered to the note of protest which the United States gov eminent has sent to the I'.ritish gov ernment. As a matter of fact, the Italian government has already made representations to Great Britain re garding the treatment of the merchant vessels and the stoppage of raw ma terials which Italy sought to import. The Glornale d'ltnlia, referring to this, says: "The Italian government has been obliged to echo many complaints from commercial and industrial classes against the attempt of the belliger ents practically to ainul the rights of neutral states." It expresses the belief that explana tions will be offered and the situa tion ameliorated. N0TB0NES0F TMIS1G NEW GIRLS tlYlNMlluL 5 AND EXITS A T Capture of Another Carpathian Pass by Russian Troops Opens the Way for Passage of Large Russian Army Into Hungary Reports of the Russians, Germans and Turks are at Variance Russians Claim to have Bayoneted Several Hundred Hermans who Attempt ed to Cross the Ilzura River German Trenches Near Raw a Taken by the Russians Russians also Claim Important Victory Over the Turks near Sara, Kanysh Paris Claims that French Made Further Progress in Town of Steinbach, Capturing Church and Cemetery in Hand to Hand Struggles There. LONDON, Jan. 4. The statements of the Russians, Germans and Turks today are utterly irreconcilable. The truth probably is that both the Turks and Russians are inflicting sharp losses in the Caucasus fighting. If the Russian claim of the capture of another Carpathian pass is true, it probably means the first serious invasion of Hungary by any large number of troops. COURT HOUSE NEW AND OLD OFFICERS EX CHANGE PLACES TODAY. ROU TINE Work of offices is un interrupted BY CHANGE. EXPERTS DECLARE THAT BONES FOUND NEAR SAN ANTONIO " ARE THOSE OF PERSONS DEAD FIVE TO TEN YEARS." San Antonio, Tex., Jan. 4. The bones found near here Saturday night have been in the sack in which they were discovered fdr five to ten years, according to Dr. Oeo. R. Dah!el of Divine. Tex., who ex amined tbom. At first sensational . reports were spread that they were the bones of tlie two Nelms sisters. Pashiel said they are probably the bones of a Mexican and his wife, who were murdered eleven year ag. GIRL POISONED IN A PRINTING SHOP Chhgo, Jan. 3. Miss Mary Sheets, a printer, who alleges she contract ed lead oisonlng at the cases, was awarded a verdict today of $10,000 in her suit against the International Harvester company. The - case is eaid to be the first in which lead poisoning in printing shops has been proven. Miss Sheets testified that after two years as a type distributor In the harvester company's printing plant, he became ill of lead poison ing. The evidence showed she is now a partial paralytic. More than fifty printers testified, a large num ber of them saying they never heard of lead poisoning resulting from work in a printing planL There was a transformation scene at the county court house this morn ing whon the newly elected county of ficers assumed the duties of office and the retiring incumbents gracefully re signed to the will of the sovereign people as expressed at the polls last November. Owing to the consolidation of sever al offices by the legislature, the change was not so great as it other wise might have been. The district Judge does not enter his office until one week from today, and the follow ing county officials had the oath of of fice administered to them by Judge Freeman this afternoon: County Judge-elect T. W. Champion; clerk of the courts F. S. Haynie; county clerk, Shelton Tyre; county attorney, A. J. Hardy; county treasur er John Yell; county superintendent of public Instruction, I M. Thurston; county assessor, R. S. Hendon; sher iff, Buck Garrett; and James R. Talia ferro, G. W. Young and George Ev ans, county commissioners from the three commissioners districts. The following appointees have been announced by some of the heads of department: Clerk of the courts, Miss Ijena Glenn, S. M. Parker and W. A. Martin; assistant county attorney, W. F. Howman; county clerk's office, B. V. Duke, W. F. Cessess and Adam Alexander; county treasurer, Coley Wallace, Miss Fencher; county. super intendent's office. Miss Veannus Holt; count? assessor, J. T. Taylor, T. P. Arnold, E. h. Russell, W. M. Kirkpat rlck, Will Oakman and M. Duffing ton. Sheriff arrett has not made the appointments of his deputies yet. German Attempts Repulsed. PETROGRAD, Jan. 4. The Russian staff an nounces more unsuccessful attempts of the Germans to cross the Bzura river and advance on Warsaw. Saturday night the Russians discovered the Ger mans crossing the Bzura. Without making a sound, the Russians allowed the crossing to finish and then sur rounded the Germans charging them from all sides with bayonets. Several hundred were killed and more cap tured. The Germans also suffered enormous losses in the repulse from their attack on the Russian trenches near Bolimow. The Russians captured the German trenches near Rawa and two thousand Austriaiis were captured at Uzick Pass in the Carpathians. A great battle with the Turks is now being fought near Sara, Kamysh. The Russians say they have so far captured five thousand Turks in this battle, also forty of ficers and several guns. DALLAS BREAD LINE Ardmore Visitors to Texas See the Ef fects of War in this Country. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Sarchet and their two children have returned from n vacation trip of ten days til Dallas. Mr. Sarchet says Dallas ftp pears very lively In a business way although ninny people there are out of employment. The grocers in that city give away each night the bread left over from the day's sales, and he fift what is called the bread line of ine and women and children lined u nt these stores to get the breud. Dal las has done some good work durin the winter to care for the unemployed but with that many of them are forcml to live upon very little food. A Family Reunion. Dr. .!. H. Dudley of Marysville Tex., and M. S. Dudley of Apach Ok'.n., are in the city visiting wit their mother. Mrs. J. ('. Dudley and there sister, Mrs. J. F. Easley, at 11 .North Washington street. They will he here two or three days and Dr. Dudley will make a professional trip to Wilson while he is in the stnt TT VILLA SENDS TUP S NORTH T NAC 0 Still Fighting in Steinbach PARIS, Jan. 4. More fighting in the Alsatian vil lage of Steinbach is reported, according to a French of ficial statement issued today. The French claim tn havp captured the church and cemeterv in hand-to-h and striitr- gles there. Elsewhere on the front the cannonadi but there have been few infantry attacks. ' Germans Admit French Victory. BERLIN, Jan. 4. -The cauture of the vilLi ,f Steinbach by the French was officially admitted today At the same time the French cautured the heiVht i,lar outside Steinbach, but the Germans recaptured these. BAD START MADE Przemyel Ready to Fall I-emberg, Galiclu, Jan. 4 It is re ported here that pestilence Is spread ing through the city and the garrison of Przemysl, which is almost without provisions. Ineffectual sorjies con tinue from the besieged city. French Aviators Active London, Jan 4. Amsterdam dis patches says that French aviators Sat urday droppeil several bombs near Meuse, untenable., are proceeding slowly. They have made some ad vance jn Alsace, but has suffered a repulse to the northeast of Ste Mane-hould. In the east the Germans have cap Hired the important Russian osition at Rorjimow, but elsewhere they have beeU unable to make headway against the Russians, who, as de fenders of well fortified , are aided by the wet weather and EIGHT THOUSAND CAVALRY AND ARTILLERY WILL ENGAGE THE CARRANZA FORCES AT NACO AND OTHER POINTS. El Paso. Tex., Jan. .1. In addition to the campaigns against the Cnr ranza forces on the east and west seaboards, 8,000 Villa troops, cavalry and artillery, are on their way to the northern border. It was said with authority thoy were being sent to engage the Carranza forcs at Naco, Sonora, and those of Ynez Salazar in Chihuahua state.' General Juan Cabral commands the troops. He is a Sonora leader and a close friends of Governor Maytor ena. It was learned definitely Sun day that Edunrdo Iturbide has cross ed the American border and was in hiding. Toe reasons for the secrecy concerning his whereabouts were not learned. The last of the Sonora delegation to the national convention of Villa and Zapata chiefs arr'ved here Sun day and will start Monday for MexT co City, headed by Col. Alberto Plna Pre dispatches from Mexico City appear to have been greatly censored and delayed. YEGGMAN POSING A8 CRIPPLE PENCIL VENDOR Santa Fe Freight Wreck Occurred as New Year Came In. The Santa Fe has had a bad start for the New Year on Its operations in I Rains Retard Fighting. Oklahoma. The wreck which occurred Jan. 4 The extremely south of Dougherty in which thirteen rain' 'ason. the worst Europe has curs were fliteheri nrenrrorl 1ut o Xperienced ill Brussels, damaging the Conelin shed ' y maas' wn,cn utiiin o......i i man movements. onriii ri nuns. Peace Rumors in Circulation. New York, Jan. 3. Peace rumors originating in Rome were circulated on the stock exchange here today. They caused prices to advance, but there was no apparent ground for them. the Carpathians into Hungary, while the Austrian retreat In Kukowlna is described by the Russians as a rout. The Turks have crossed the Rus- years. causing Moods sian border in the Cmini.n. n,i . in the river valleys of the continent J cording to their own account, have as well as those of England .has j defeated the Russian garrison at Ar prevented any operations on a large ! dahan. They are. however, displav scale on the western battle front and ! i,,g anxiety for their remaining pos has seriously interfered with those J essions in Europe bv feverishly for. in "1H ast ikying the whole coast line. What There have been heavy artillery they fear is not disclosed, for it is track, but fortunately no one on the! 7R:"rP'mIlt8 fr'" Uw M'a U """ considered hardly possible for the train received so much as a scratch. I'" ""s ana occasional at-allies to land a sufficient force to ...i., i...- inquiry or me opposing prove a menace to them. It is pos armies which, when not repulsed. sibe they anticipate, an invasion have added a few yards to the terri- from another source, tory in possession of the attacking! Indications point to the possibility force, but have always proved costly of the Balkan states, which are now adventures. neutral, taking a hand in the war. I ne t rench have gained a little ground between Albert and Hoye, Just north of the point where the minutes after the New Year had been ushered in. The conductor on the 111-f.-Ued freight said yesterday that lie left Dougherty Jurt as the clock struck 12. and in ten minutes after that time I his cars were tumbling over. There was a loss of freight and a loss of Tulsa, Olila., Jan. 3. "Cherokee Blackie." an old-time yeggnian, with bottle of nitroglycerine, a good supply of cut fuse and caps, was arrested bore Thursday night, posing as a cripple, pretending to be mak ing a living by selling pencils and shoestrings, the whole stock of which he. displayed in his hat. A local detective remembered tak ing his picture and Bertillon meas urements twelve years ago in Kan sas City and accordingly searched him, The old "yegg" had two per fectly good legs and no use for the crutches be carried. His arrest was kept secret until Friday night, hop ing that he might expose his con federates, but the detectives learned nothing "after putting hm through a sweat." Although he has served several terms in the penitentiary and was in possession of safe-blowing parapher nalia, officers stated that he would likely be released for lack of a elm V ue to place against him. OF SIX HE ADVANCE OF ONE DOLLAR PER BALE AT NEW ORLEANS, RE SULT OF N. Y. STRENGTH. Wheat Broke All High Records Sine War Today, May Reaching S1.32 3-4, Due to Shutting Out Argen tine Competition. New Orleans, I., Jan. 4. Cotton advanced one dollar a bale on th futures market today on account of the strength of the New York and Liverpool markets. The New York advance, while not so great, made new high records for that exchange, July selling there at S.41. The rise extended to one dollar and a-half, making the greatest single cot ton advance since the exchange re opened. A heavy booking of export cotton seemed one of tho muln fac tors of the advance. Wheat's High Record. Chicago, 111., Jan. 4. Wheat today broke all high records dince th war, May reaching 1.32 3-4 per bush el. The shutting out of Areentlne. competition by the high freight rats was the principal cause. Stock Exchange Opens. Ixnulon, Jan. 4. The stock ex change ' hero reopened today with severe restrictions on trading. The exchange has been closed since July 3. The trading opened very light. Several members who are now sol diers, appeared upon the floor In their uniforms. There was no throw ing ove- of American securities 3 I (A IT E ffiffl EXPORT DEMAND IS GOOD. SIX TEEN THOUSAND TONS PASS ING THROUGH HERE TO GALVESTON. The railway companies are baud- ng a vast amount of freight at this time. Cotton shipments are very eavy. The export market for wheat has opened up, and large shipments of wheat are goiug to Galveston for xport. 8,000 tons of wheat were in Shawnee yesterday en route to Gal- eston and an equal amount was on s way to that city and will reach there the early part of the week. These shipments! ndleate a heavy mand for American goods and also indicate that shipping is not being in jured with on the high soas. BURIED UNDER WALL. Baptist Church Services. The Broadway Baptist church Vis no pastor at this time, and Rev. Mr. Sparks of Texarkana preached for that congregation yesterday. He is a young minister who as visiting in the city. The congregation was de lighted at the sermon. Rev. Carroll Smith of Temple. Tex will preach for these people at the Wednesday night service. line turn eastward and to the east of Rheims and southwest of Verdun, where the attempt to make the German-positions at St. MihieL on the Howard M.u?grove, nephew of Mrs. T. P. Hasty and Miss Abbot, is quite sick. Don't worry; a want ad will help you. Result-getters the Wast Ads. naaaaaaaaaaaana? Three Men Killed at Jennings, La., By Falling Wall. Jennings, 1., Jan. 4 Three wen were killed thia morning when they wero burled beneath a brick wall, which thoy were razing. The wall fell prematurely. ADVANCE IN OIL. a a Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 4. The a principal grades of crude oil a advanced five cents per bar- a rel today. This was the first a advance since Aug. 20. a I a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a n Don't worry; a want ad will help you. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa WEATHER FORECAST New Orleans, La., Jan. 4. The weather forecast for Ok lahoma for tonight and Tues day is generally cloudy: cold er Tuesday in the western portion. a a a a a a a a a a caaaaaanaaaaaaaa