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XX XI XI xt XX XX tx XI XX XX XX XX XX XX XX 11 XX XX THE WBATHBB REPOBT 1 OKKi'.VST Oklahoma. Fuir TtMa It) mid Wfliu siluy. TULSA, Vv t Tlw Umpartt-aw i Ifaslmnin nlttittnn 19; louth wind ilur. inrnL5P!ir.nr LP Azy'ir TP 1 W Y2. rV YOTS . - . 7 I lllll ZT ; 1 1 i i i) n:i noi-nii it r Among the Want Ads. n good itonofnptai f ill good dam ' nal a"t nani nd tboiv adi an ('Iiutttfli'J pftff f 1 M VOL. XI, NO. 12 ii0 --- TULSA, OKLAHOMA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER I 0 1 TEN PAGE 8 PBICE FIVE CENT! EI6HT STATEStf.M! wi?. F5htl.n.g f"r MARCH B;J SHOT MIX ill BALLOT T ' ypEAYAreAaVictimsofDreadedDiseasell BULLETS BATTLE TODAY Woman Suffrage and Pro hibition Principal Is sues at Stake. FOUR GOVERNORS TO BE ELECTED Campaigns Closed Night. Both Sides ( Last aim ing Success, EIGHT states, New York, Massachu setts, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio and Mississippi, will hold elections today. In four of these states, Massachu setts, Maryland, Kentucky and Missis sippi, governors are to be elected; In nix states, New York, Massachusetts, Mar.- ami, New Jersey, Kentucky and Mississippi, the state legislatures, In whole or in part, arc to be elected and in five states, New York, Massachu setts, Maryland and Pennsylvania and Ohio, important constitutional Issues are to be decided. Republicans Confident, PHILADELPHIA, Nov. I. Al though somewhat overshadeweed the keenly contested mayoralty cam paign in this city and by tights for local offices In some other seotlons "-f the .state, much interest tias been aroused throughout Pennsylvania in the vote on woman suffrage amend nient to the stale constitution at tO Ilioi row s eleetton. The suffragists have conducted a spectacular campaign, Including a tour of every one of the 87 counties with a replica of die Libel ty Bell. Women opposed to the suffrage amendment also have oonducted a Campaign and their leaders tonight predicted the defeat of the measure by 250,000. Leaders uf the suffrage iause, while hopeful of victory, re fuse to make any prediction's as to the vote. Th. Republican leaders expressed confidence that their ticket, headed by Thomas B. Smith, will be success ful with from- 1 0O.oix, to ISSE.000 majority, while Independent leaders deo'are Porter will win by -r.,(n'0. Prohibition ill Stake. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. I. With the issue ef statewide prohibition in the forefr.onl the campaign In Ohio Closed tonlghl With rallies and mass meetings In many cities and towns, Fair weather for election day was promised and prediction was generally made thai o norma v ote will be polled tomorrow despite the fact that no state ticket is to be elected. lioth Bides Confident. BALTIMORE, Nov, 1. The legis lature to be chosen al tomorrow's election in Maryland win be naked to pass upon statewide prohibition. The Antl-8aloon letfgue, led by, nr. Thomas M. Hare, believes that the vigorous campaign for temperance just closed win secure enough votes to insure the enactment of the meas ure, which suffered defeat in the two preceding general assemblies, it pro vides for the submission of the ques tion to the electorate. Woman suf frage also was an Issue although not aggressively pushed and the next legie'ature will be asked to submit the question to the voters. Indications point to a heavy vote tomorrow and many political wls n . res predict a close election, The Ilomocrats are claiming the election of Elmers n C. Harrington, their can didate for gov u nor, ami the entire state ticket and a good working ma jority in the legislature. Ti.c Repub licans express confidence in the elec tion of Ovlngton K. Welbr as gov ernor and look for an Increased rep resentation of their parly in the legts lat ure. on, a,, Bnffrace. BOSTON, Nov. 1, Overshadowing In popular Interest the election of n governor and legislature, is the issue also to he determined at the polls to morrow of whether Massachusetts will enfranchise Its one million aromen cittsens of voting ok?. Credit for the c roused public' seiitl ment Is due to tWO nets of women who have1 conducted the most remarkable campaigns ev er waged in tha state for or against a constitutional amend ment Chjualh the vote on amend mentg falls far below that cast for the head of tha ticket bec ause of In difference or the failure of many vot rs to grasp the Import of the question voted, on the mnttcr of WVntan suffrage, however, it Is gen erally agreed that the vote will ho a heavy one for the women have seen to It that the women were enlight ened on e very phase of the subject. Leaders of both sides await the out Come with serenity. The suffragists declined tonight to give figures on the victory they expect The opposition claimed n majority of one hundred thousand. t i ologMc Editor Mrs CI 'LOONK, Nov. 1, (Hv wireless to Bay Villa.) Or. Josef Neven du Mont, proprietor of the Cologne rjazottp. iled today as the result of an seal- 'lent. He was 69 years old. i bi i .-' . xsneatPBESiBsr r s j i. v - -aer :-r I iavl (j Sfli Mississippi State Board of Health Establishes. Cause of Plaguo; Un S' liiii ""I'isiiin,,-,! linn, ,n I-. I !.-, ni 1 : TIiom Who Took Teal Were Not Allowed .Miiu. moai or aggn COME INTO U. S. Germans Yesterday Occu pied l L'tffUj e ;it. Arse nal 'Town of Serbia. J SERBS INFLICT BIG LOSSES ON TEUTONS U'KHON, Miss announced the r with a pellagra the Itankln stati ml) of expt i Intents lonvlcl farm by !,". Rumania Is I te omine Rest less and 'Talk of Inter vention Is Heard. JSAMUSL Mf CALL In four of the eight states holding elections today, governors wl elected. Those four states are Massachusetts, Maryland. Kentucky Mississippi. The contests in Maryland and Massachusetts promise to close, in t it - latter state Governor David t. Walsh is up for re-elect limning against Samuel w. Mc 'all, the Republican candidate; Nelson Clark, Progressive; William Shaw, Prohibitionist; Walter s. Hutch Ins, ciaiist, ami Peter O'Rourke, Boclallst-Labor. Ovlngton B, Queller is the Republican candidate1 to sucoeed Cover Qoldaborough, Republican, und Ifimerson C. Harrington is running to Democratic ticket. be ami be ion. li. nor t he ntoDEB, mmm .mekican bandit POLITICIAN, DIES DIVULGES PLANS Acute Kidney Trouble Manner of Eliding Muni- Caused Sudden Death at His New York Home. tions and "Escape Rafts1 Told in a Confession. WAS GERMAN EDITOR "GUNS IN GRAVES" Once Mentioned for Vice-Civil -Authorities Believi Presidency; Publisher of Catholic News. iani- Broken dp; Many Are Arrested. Ni:u York, Nov. 1. Herman Kidder, treasurer of the Demo cratic national committee and pub lisher of the New Yorker Siaats Zel tung, died suddenly late today at his home In this city. Kidder's death was kidney trouble in an acute form. lie had been 111 about ten months and for two weeks past his condition had been critical. He was In his sixty-fifth year. Members of his family were sum moned to the bedside late today when it was seen that he could last but lit tle longer, Among a large number of promt rent German-American citizens of the United States Herman Kidder was one of the most conspicuous figures In ttie newspaper publishing business and In politics. llis associates in tile pub lishing business had honored him at no time with tin' preladency of the American Newspaper association and for many years he held high offices in the Associated Press as treasurer (Continued on I'age Two.) THACKER SUCCEEDS LATE JUDGE BROWN B tOWNSVILLE, Texas. Nov. 1. An Interesting sidelight as to the operations of Mexican bandits is said to have been disclosed by a .Mexican arreated Sunday by military authori ties. This Mexican, who is alleged to have been a member of (he band that wracked a train north of Browns ville October 11, took American sol dlers to a point on the bank of the Klo Orande about ten miles above Brownsville and revealed a sunken raft large enough to transport thirty men across the river. The raft w is Weighted down under the water. By Cutting a cord it was release and lame to the surface. The same man also revealed buried 111 the ground near the lank of the river about a dozen rifles. The b id been protected by placing boards on top and beneath them, but when dug l'p were badly rusted. .Some ammuni tion also was found in the same place, reared I 'or Their Lives, This Mexican was arrested by sol diers with anot lo r on the information of third Mexican. They wen. en countered on the road by soldiers who Continued on Page Two.) Governor Williams Names Sucrctwor From smile Town; Thacker's Successor Is m Known. NOT OFFICI M.I.V INFORM! I) Will Special In The World. OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 1. Gov ernor Williams this evening an nounced the appointment of Judge C. H, Thacker of Man gum to sucoeed the lata .lustb-e a. Brown, of the mi preme court. Justice Urown died on Monday of last week suddenly In his office Judge Tha. k r has for some montu been, a mentrber of the su preme court commission. It has cen c one. d d by his friends for several day that Judge Thacker would be appointed to the place, lioth Judge! Brown and Tli.o ker lived at Man gum. Governor Williams has not wild who would succeed Judge Thacker of tha supreme court commission. However, Believe Great itriiaiu soon Recognise Carransa. LONDON. Nov. 1. The British government has not yet be.-n offi cially notified of the recognition of the Carransa government in Mexico by the United States, but It Is ex pected that British acknowledgment will follow Washington's bad. Mean while It Is unlikely that any steps will be taken in regard to the report that General Carranza refuses to recognize the United States as un Intermediary for other powers. A question, the purport of which Is as yet unknown, with regard to General Carranza, Is expected to ho asked in the house of commons to morrow, when the foreign office may givo some detulls of British policy Howard Mexico. IONDON, Nov. 1. til) p, in ) '! lie Germans have occupied Kra guyavats, the arsenal town of Serbia, while their Bulgarian allies arc push ing their way through ihe mountains to Nish. S, i Ina's war capital. Prom all sides the Germans, Aus- trians ami Bulgarians are slowly clos ing in on the Serbian armies, the po sition of which grows graver daily. They are fighting fiercely, however, to save then oOUntT) and have n- flicted such losses ,,n Field Marshal von Mackenaen'S force that he has been compelled to send for reinforce ments and leave the more serious work of invading the eastern and Southern part Of the country to Ihe Bulgarians who have u Je experience lu mountain wart'Jriptlluch as the Serbia tis i re vv ulng. Prom the unction of the Danube and Tlmok rivers In tile northeast to Uskup in the south the Bulgarians are moving westward driving lb" Serbians out of the towns Into the mount. tins, but from UskUp southward the) have been checked as the Serb ians in that territory have been re inforced by the Prench ami British wit'i modern guns and with gunners who gained Valuable experience in Prance and Galllpoll, Rumania Restless, Beyond the forces landed at Salon- ikl, which German estimates place at seventy thousand men, I here Is no news of farther assistance being scnl by the allies to Serbia, Russian transports have been re ported off Varna but the report lacks confirmation, There is, however, evi dence in dispatches from Bucharest that the people of Rumania desire In tervention and that pressure is being brought on the king and cabinet to induce them to join fhe alii' I and per mit a Russian folic to pass through Rumanian t rrltory and attack Bul garia iroin the east. Greece continues her friend ly neutrality. The Germans having failed in two months of almost Incessant attacks to reach Riga and livinsk by various routes are now trying along the rail way which skirls the shores of the gulf of Riga from Tukum anil have, according to their reports, reached a point vvest of schlok, This is a very slight advance and much low ground over which it is difficult to move, In s between them and their objective. Russians on Offensive. In the I iv insk .sector both to the west and southwest of that city I he Russians have begun an offensive, ap parently in anticipation ,,f renewed attacks by the Germans and they are also on the move In the lake district i asi of the Dvinsk-Vllna railway and In Volhynlu and Galleia. The result of these Various battles has not Icon disclosed, if indeed they are concluded. Those at the southern end of the line are doubtless designed to prevent the Germans ami Austrians from scndlm reinforcements to Serbia, in France the battle for the Butte lie Tahure, Which the Germans recap tured from the French, is Still in prog ress without changing the positions of the two armies. There has been some fighting at other points in tin1 West What the attacks on the front have cost Is shown by a report Issued by Field Marshal Sir John Fren, h tonight. He says that the published list of the German casualties disclose that seven German battalions which took part In the LaOOl fight in-' pre sumably a German counter-attack- lost eighty pc r - ent of their strength. DETROIT MAY BUY STREET RAILWAY Vole on Municipal Ownership Transportation Uneai Parehaee Price Not NaaMML of 14,323 the was the daily average circulation of The World for last month fastest growing newspaper In Oklahoma. Our motto "He Who Serves IJest Profits Most." Wise adver tisers can profit most with our service. ONLY MEMBER IN TULSA Or AUDIT BUREAUOFCIRCULATIONS WHO GUARANTEE OUR STATEMENTS. DETROIT. Mich., Nov, 1. Detroit voters will decide tomorrow whether tho city shall immediately lake over tlio owik rshlp and operation of it. street railway system. The citizens having voted in favor of municipal ownership are now to vote on a pur chaso plan agreed upon by tho De troit I lilted railway, which controls all city lines, and by tho city street railway commission. The plan pro vides that the purchase price shall bo determined by the six circuit Judges of this county after tho elec tion Is held, and that the price named Snail bo paid to the company out of the earnings of tho lines during a certain number of years. There has been much concerted opposition to the proposal on the ground that It is a "blank check" proposition, wliil the element favoring It has argued that It Is not only a good business arrangement but provides a way to end a municipal ownership contro versy which has raged In Detroit fov years. .stab s public b, . iltli service The produced bj unba la net d ration The experiment was begun Feforu" an i.".. mi.., with U prisoners, each of whom was promised a pardon if be WOUld Strlctlj follow the did Doc- i..r Goldberg, r prescribed. The diet excluded milk, fnsh lean meat, eggs, peas and beans, a diagnosis con ducted today hv Doctor Goldberger ami four Jackson physicians showed, it was said, that b i of ihe prisoners In the squad have pollagru In a pro not. need form and Hut two others show symptoms uggestlve or ihe ,ils ease, The prisoners who iuve devel oped pellngra Immcdlatclj will be placed under ruratlvi treatment with a balanced ration Governor Brewer todaj Issued par dons to ii members of the pellagra I quad, the t welii b loan h i v inc. been released a few months ago owing to a physical breakdown, in is..uiiig the pardons, the govrr told the pris oners lhe wen' tree to leave the con v ii i farm If t hcj desired, but he urged urn to remain Severn I weeks ami First Day's Rattle at Agua Prieta Sends Volleys Across Border, nursed back to health If lb' I I con victs who won their freedom bj sub- HillflflM ,., l. I I , .1 .1 l,,.f,r..l-'s lest seven were serving life sentences ix foi murder and one or criminal tool leu V e.ll s in i" BUT U. S. SOLDIERS DID NOT OPEN FIRE assault one had ten serve fr manslaughter and others BbOUl five veals each foi nezzienieni. twi I'M, ,l Villistas Beach Wire En tanglemenl ; Fighting Stopped at Dark. AMERICAN SHIP IS VILLA SAYS HE WILL SEIZED BY BRITISH, KILL ALL AMERICANS Steamer lockini Taken Angered at Carranza 8 Rec- Into Halifax and De tained as a Prize, ognition I le Threatens Foreigners. PROTEST IS FILED WILL FIGHT U. S. TOO State Depart! nt Will If Necessary Will Fighl Start an investigation ; Crew All American. NEW Vi IRK, Nov. I A protest against the seizure of the Amer ican steamer HockHng by a British man of war which carried her With a prize crew aboard Into Halifax, was lodged today will' BOCTetar) of Stale Lansing by Richard g. Wagner, pres Ident of the American Trans-Atlantic Steamship company, the HoekingB owners. "just advised that our steamship Hooking, while en route in ballast to Norfolk, 'a , to load coal Tor the Ar gentine, under charter to William It. Grace Co., was captured b a Brll Ish cruiser and is now in Halifax," reads Mr, Wagner's telegram to Sec retary Lansing'. "We know Of no cans, for this sctSUN and ask that you file protest and request the ai- leged reason for the .seizure." Barller In the day Mr Wagner re ceived a telegram from Captain HSibre of the Hocking advising him of tho seizure. Mr. Wagner si nt a reply re questing the captain to n port b) b le graph the exact time and place of the Bot larranza and This Country. (,,,,,! Two.) IMPORTANT SPEECH BY ASQUITH TODAY WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. -After consultation today between Ihe While House and war department il was decided that the orders given to American troops on the border last M iv lo return any fire from Mexi can territory that endangered lives on Hie American lade of the line would be effective in the present situation at Douglas, Should bullets continuously fall Into Vrlsona and Jeopardise the safety of American residents, American troops. Without further reference to Wash ington, are to she ll that faction which in responsible for the firing Into American territory. .Major General Kunston was on his Way i" I lunulas tonight to take per sonal comm. ind of the situation. Prom Alpine, Texas, and Marfa, Texas, today as he Journeyed west ward in relayed to laogetary Garri son i In- following reports on the sit uation: "Following from Colonel Slocum, , i lontinued lU I 'age Two. ) KING GEORGE BACK AFTER SLIGHT HURT DU g las, .riz Nov. 1, What ap peared to ba a general attack on Agua Prieta began at 'i::tu o'clock to- Uigbt when the Villa forces began a heavy firing from all sides and ad vance, I on the town. The firing ceased when the Villa troopa had reached the wire entail glementa on ihe east side of Agua PrlatS and began to dig themselves ill. Meanwhile the L'arran.a garrison was sweeping from all sides of tho town with rifle and machine gun V al leys, guided by seal chllghts. Al though it is believed the volleys Went ever Ihe heads of tho Villa forces, In i is rang out In tho Carranza trenches us every VOllay was find. OlM) ,s, rii,i,sl.v Wounded. Within two hours after the first gun was fired machine gun bullets und shell fragments showered over American territory, seriously wound ing Louis Taylor, u restaurant waiter, and endangering scores of American soldiers in trenches so.'itlt of Ihe United Stales army cauii) 'wo miles east of Doug-'as. Taylor was shot down In front of the l ulled States custom house Vheru more I ha, i seventy machine gun hul lots I'd among a throng of soldier:, and Mexican women and children who were coming across tho line. The hull, t struck him In the middle of the. ba, I, us be turned to run to cover, and bis spine was seriously injured, par- ulyzln i him almost completely', Shells and fragments of shells fell near tho Douglas slaughter house of the city. Gen. Thomas Davis, Commanding the si thousand American troops on duty al the bonier, promptly warned tin commanders of both Mexican fac tious to change the direction or thel In. .mil eitlzcns on the American side were no) sndangered thereafter. on the Mexican side losses could not be ascertained up to nightfall which brought a lull In Ihe combat, but Villa artillery, firing successive salvos, played on the defenses of the Mexicans with tlii' apparent intention of shat tering ihe barbed wire entanglements and exploding the trenches pre pars ton to a rush on the garrison of Gen eral 'alios. fiosses i Heavy, Three houses on the wet side of Agua Prieta were blown up i.v hi:s and, ac' ording to t'nrran -. report, "he man was killed and , .. hi ,.thM Public May Be tat in on Inside To day; Premier's Political Future Depend-, on III-- i lion. LONDON, Nov. i. (8:80 p, m.) There has Inn a notable decrease in the political discussions and the at tacks "il the government in the past few days. Equally noticeable h is laen the growth of optimism regard ing the success of Lord Derby's re cruiting S' ll. Hie Premier Asquith's speech in the house of commons tomorrow, unb s-' expectations are disappointed, will l,r one of the most important events re lating to Great Britain's conduct of the war. Some of me newspapers go so far as to siy the premier s political future depends on how he acquits himself at this eventful moment. LONDON, Nov. 1. (8:30 p. m.) King George, who was injured last week by being thrown from his horse while reviewing troops in the field, returned to Loudon this evening The king arrived at Buckingham palace at 7:no o'clock. Although inn. h fatigued bv the journey, his condition was officially reported as satisfactory. The king reached Victoria station by special train. Great precautions were taken to insure prlvaey, the in 'tir put of Ihe station being closed, The public exit also was oos' , I,,,) the elaborate nature of the measures defeated their purpose as they attracted a large crowd, which lined all tin- approaches to a consid erable distance and loudly cheered when the king's motor ear appeared, followed by several others containing members of his suite. persons wounded, including man. one of Villa's wounded was to noughts for treatment. Twi Were seen to fall when a s slo ll hurst over them. o,, on one of his field pic ,-s, puti gun out of action. wo- i ought . ahert Sold As Slave Ardmore Fire Fatal fo Him Flection Bulletins Tonight rk. 1 " 1 j Mil 1 11 i. 1 . r I'jeeiions win oe aeiQ loaay in wew i" Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky, Mississippi and New Jersey, to elect members ol the Legislature and governors. a in I vote on Drohibition and sufffrasre. The results will be watched with keen interest 00 account of their bearing on the coming national election, The World has arranged to receive detailed returns from all of the states mentioned, over its Associated Preflfl leased wile. The hulletins will be megaphoned from The World building on Fourth street as la.-t as they are received. This service will begin at 7::'() o'clock and the puBlie is cordi ill I it ited to be present. Special to Th World. AJtDMORB, No Turner of St. I,,,is. Mates minister to I. this morning from in the oil tank explos Turner, 7 years ol negro to enter the Ol the United Stat. -to the I. Iberian post born on a plaotatio county, Missouri, an sold on the eourthi Louis for $50. When appointed the rank of In army and oaSfltnodor was his boast that I with King Kd.v u I'ntaln and K many. Turner t negro school in Ottjf In lHtiH. In done much to in i of negroes in 1 1 ST. Louta Mil ii loxvEn ioa .1 Milton rlv I'nited died hfru received In month ago, a the first Uc corps , appointed U) He win , St. Charlca n a boy was steps In St. ter he ha 1 -. nil In the n.ivy. H t friendship U I of Great helm of er I the first m i In Kai "as vears he had condition , e l A rommi ,1 here toda. Coniinitnv ,,f IIHI Named lli: anipain lor I200.000 ST. I.ot IS. of IN w i conduct the . or both of ventiotis foi This com mi buainess t fort to en ; by Nov. n Is to be i tMsBVentlon ur Clat.c ' 1 :tee real national Louis next will canvass f the city in in ,. a fund of I-'1 ,3. Half "f ','' d for the L half for tho I' .u ' .10, mo