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HICKA
The Latett Newt ty
Wire Daily from the
U. P. Afsociation.
SUA
VOLUME EIGHTEEN.
DRAF
SECRETARY BAKER SENDS IN HURRY-UP CALL
TWO
OR
m $K $
Need of More Money for Army
Imperative Declares War
Secretary to Congress
House and Senate Conferees Agree on
11 1-2 Billion War Revenue Bill to
Report Friday
Dy United Pre.
Washington, Sept. Secretary or
War Baker toilny submitted to the
senate appr.-iprlution committee nddi
tioiiiil estimates for the army aggre
gating if liST.-J 1 : .(MU.
Tint war secretary explained I hp im
perative need fur the money asked ta
be included In tln seven billion dollar
CHICAGO IS
PROBE SEAT
FOR PLOTS
Federal Grand Jury May Return Indict
ment Against I. W. W. Agitators
Within Week
By United Preen.
Chicago, lllu., Sept. 1'.). Chicago is
to bo tho center of legal proceedings
against the r. W. W.
Evidence- -which was gathered in
Utah and Oregon was delivered to fed
eral authorities here today.
Tho federal grand jury which is con
sidering the evidence is expected to
take u vote on Indictments in a week
or two.
FREDERICK
WILL STOP
SEDITION
By United Press.
Frederick, Okla.. Sepl. lit The oily
council of Frederick last night passed
nn ordinance prohibiting the circula- i
tion of seditious literature advocating
resistance to government war plans
and prohibiting speeches abusing or
prltloizing the work of the government,
This is the first city in America to
fake such action.
NOTICE
Anyone having any money from the
Pale of ice cream cones for Die Red
Cross at the fair is asked to phone Ml.
KERENSKY A PRISONER IN
WINTER PALACE AND ANGRY
MOBS ROAMING STREETS
Russia's Perilous Plight Last Week Told
for First Time B il Provisionals
Now Prep; re for Assembly
t New Russ Government.
Ily United Press.
Ey United Press. , I'etrograd, Sept. 1!). Tho cabinet ori-
Stockholm, Sept. Ill (Copyrighted ) ,sis settled, the Kornilotf revolt ended
At the moment when General Kor- and plans for reorganization of the ar
riiloff's revolt was at its heighth, Rus- my under way, the Russian provision
Ida's peace at-any price fanatics were al government today turned Its oner
in the saddle at Petrograd. Premier ' gies toward preparing for the eonsritu
Keronsky was virtually a prisoner in out assembly which has been called to
Hie winter palace and armed mobs, de- fix Russia's form of government,
lirious with power, roamed the streets. J Active steps are being taken through
I Stories of their wild excesses and Out the nation (o establish voting
growing power and Rusda's perilous 'boards for the selection of candidates.
iLiLT lYMJl i V JUL
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J urgent deficiency bill.
I House and senale conferees on the
eleven and a half billion dollar war
revenue bill agreed today and tlieir re
port will be presented to the senate
and bouse on Friday. It is expected
to be ready for the president' signu
t tire by Saturday.
Loans of Seventy Millions. i
Jy V nlted Press.
Washington, Sept, 111 Loans of fif
ty million dollars to Great Drllain anil
iwemy niinion to I'raneo were an
nounced by the trewmty department
today.
COMMERCE
FACES TIE-UP
DOCKSTRIKE
Settlement of Shipyard Strike Believed
to Be a Mailer of a Couple of Days
All Layer to Quit
fly I! n i ted Press.
New, York, Sept. II). With 3.100 men
employed on the docks of the Interna
tional Mercantile. Marine company al
erady striking, commerce faces a
threatened tieup. Fifty thousand men,
according to union officials ,are ready
lo walk out as a protest against the
i company employing strikebreakers.
Settlement in Sight.
t!y United Pre;j..
Washington, Sept. 10. Tho settle
ment of the San Francisco Hhipyard
strike within two days is indicated by
Holograms to the labor department from
special agents. Leaders on both sides
are now reported to bo ready for an
early sot Moment.
U. C. V. WILL HOLD
BIG RALLY HERE SATURDAY
There will be a big rally of the mom-
! hers of .loo Shelby camp of I. C. V. at
the oily hail on Saturday of this week,
jut which it is earnestly requested that
every member of the Lee Jackson
chapter U. D. (', be present to be taken
into the onnip as members. It is also
iciiucsted that every son of Confeder
ates be present to become members.
Th daughters will serve lunch. Tho
meeting will be called at II o' lock a.
m. Don't fail to be present. Col. Jack
Hale, Commander.
situation last week are now told for the
sr1 time fl0l a neutral port.
A rebel censor was in control at Re-
, trograd.
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WEATHER FORECAST
For Oklahoma.
Tonight and Thursday, gener
ally fair.
Local Temperature.
Mxinium, niliiiniiim,
MUSTER OF NORTHERN GRADY COUNTY
BRAVES AT POSTOFFICE AT 4 O'CLOCK
PUTSTHEM
Provisions Made for Feeding Local Fight
ing Men and Red Cross Girls Will
Furnish Refreshmenis
Chlekasha tomorrow will witness tho
departure of a large contingent of se
lected men for the training camps pre
paratory to entering the world war.
At 4 o'clock this afternoon the
eighty-one men who will represent Gra
dy county in this increment will be of
ficially and rorniaHy ylaet-d in milita
ry service at the pnstoffice, building
when they report to tho exemption,
hoard for duty.
They will then bo dismissed until re-J
treat and roll call at 5:30 o'clock at j
tho same building, whence they will
march to the New Chlekasha hotel
where, supper will be served.
Here lodging will bo furnished such
men who live in Chlekasha but for
whom it is not convenient to spend tho
night at home and other men from out
the city. Men. living in Chlekasha
within an hour's call who desire to do
so will have the privilege of going
home. The hotel accommodations are
all at government expense.
Reveille call will be sounded for the
entire olghty-one at 6:30 o'clock to
morrow morning at the postoffice after
which they will march to breakfast at
the hotel and will bo dismissed till
11:30 o'clock.
At 11:30, roll call will put the men
in a company not to be broken until
the departure of the. train. Dinner at
11:15 tomorrow and the body will
then be intact awaiting the arrival of
the train with the contingents from the
north, due liere at 12:15 p. hi.
The Geronimo hotel will furnish box
lunches for 255 boys who will arrive
on this special train tomorrow. This
will bo served on the lawn. At 1:15
o'clock the boys will leave for the
camps.
From 4 o'clock to this afternoon the
drafted men will be under orders of of
ficers to be appointed after men assem
ble to report.
Gifts for the Boys.
Girts of home made candy and fruit
will be given by the Ned Cross girls to
the Oklahoma recruits as they pass
through Chickasha tomorrow noon, as
well as to the eighty-one Grady coun
ty boys who will join them here. A
table or booth will be erected in front
of the Geronimo and sixteen of Chlek
aslia's most attractive girls will be
there to pass the candies and fruit s in
bapkets.
Mrs. Claud Signton, chairman of the
committee in charge, said the respon-
SPS t0 i,0 call for donations bad been
most generous, that many had offered
to make candy, and others would give
fruit and money. Working on the com
mittee, with Mrs. Siguion are Mrs. Ha--ry
Davis, Mrs. Bonnie Andrews. Miss
Fay Smith and Mrs. F. K. Riddle. It
is estimated that it will take seventy
five pounds of candy and the commit
tee has already i nrrhased two boxes
of oranges and two bunches of bana
nas. All parties having donations of fruit,
candy or money are asked to send iheni
to Red Cross headquarters not Liter
than 10:30 o'clock tomorrow morning,
t-.MICKASHA. OKLAHOMA. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1917
I IRAII
YEARS
First Dig Draft Approaching
350,000 Men Will Be Placed in
Training Camps in Six Days
By tin lied Pi-mis.
Washington, Sept. l'.l. More Amer
ican youths who will down Kaiser Wil
helm began moving to cantonments to
day. Within the next five or six days
the first big draft will be encamped.
UNDER MILITARY CONTROL
305 College Girls
and Other
Clans schedule practice in the Okla
homa College, for Women rtarted this
cflernoon at two o'clock with 305 girls
present and every teacher in her chair.
"Everything is in fine working order
and wo are ready to commence class
work proper at eight o'clock in the
ONLY CHICKASHA FREIGHT
WILL BE HANDLED HERE
'
Adjustment in Sight in Strike of'
No
Negro Freight Handlers But Other
Arrangements are Made
The strike of the Rock L.'and negro
platform laborer continues with no ad
justment in sight, but arrangements
are being made whereby most of the
freight will be handled at other trans
fer points. Chickasha freight only will
be handled here.
WOMEN'S AND
MAY WIN STATE AWARDS
The Home Pemonstration depart-!
ment is a scone of bustling activities
these days and t lie service of Mrs. Net
tie Coryell are in demand in many
places at the same time.
The reorganization of the Girls clubs
at the Alex schools was effected dur
ing her visit to that place. In the fu
ture the girls will operate under two
divisions. Of the high school division
Flora R. Tyson was elected president
and Julia Armstrong, secretary; of the i-number of canned goods exhibits
seventh and eighth grade club Gertrude where she hopes to win honor stor Gra
Asbury is president and Margucrcttu dy county women.
Oorzino is secretary. Meetings will be. j "The displays ae excellent and I
held at Alex once a month, in the af- am confident we will take awards on
ternoon, the first period to be given to ! merit, " said the county home demon
tha high school club and the second to 'strator today.
KEEP LAND
FOR PARK
PURPOSES
Propoij! of Icuncil lo Put Bams and
Material Yards on Tank
Site Opposed
The proposal of the city
enntwil to I
convert part of the littie park
rounding the bin city water tank
in
the south part of town ioio 6 mat
yard and grounds for stables to b
rial
,M
FOR $287,416,000 MORE
OF
WAR
Itelween 27."i,00t and UK), lino men will
go Into hard intense training which
will begin at once.
It la regarded an coilaln that the
men will bo in training until next
Hpring.
in Class
Teachers Present
morning," said President Austin.
Although no tabulated record has
been kept of the girls who applied for
admission to the dormitory, Mr. Austin
says he is sure taht since school closed
last spring, lie bus refused as many as
are now in attendance.-
Thirteen car loads of freight were
sent io El Reno last night for trans-
for there and check clerk J. E. Wat
kins wont to El Reno today to help
Willi the work. Oklahoma City and
other transfer points have boon noti
fied of the Btrike and will assist in
making up the freight oars which
coiner through Chlekasha.
The local officials can not Hay when
any settlement will be made as a gen
eral scarcity of labor makes the situa
tion hard ta handle.
GIRL'S CLUBS
tho seventh and eighth grade girls.
; The meetings will bo held at the home
of Mrs. Murdoek for the purpose of In
struction in cooking.
Mrs. Coryell will attend a meeting
of Hie Friends Women's club tomor
row at Mrs. Wliitsen's home.
On Friday morning Mrs. Coryell will
leave for Oklahoma City, where she
will take lo tho state fair the women's
and girls' baking display and a large
onpied by city teams is meeting with
opposition from prox-rty owners and
others inleresleil In the park move
ment. "With trees growing, this tract of
land affords an ideal :pot for a pretty
little park," said J .1). Buie, "and I
think it should be preserved for that
purpose. With no great expense we
could soon have a beauty spot of
which the city would be proud."
Several other citizens expressed the
I same opinion and one man who owns
propirly in the vl'-init; said he v.--uh!
be willing to make a substantial dona
tion to buy additional ground for the
enlargement of the proposed park..
Charles E. Leslie, one of the drifted
ilioys w ho lias been a chemist in t tie re-
(finery at the Chlekasha Cotton Oil
mill, left last night for Ft. Worth to
vi-.il his father
emits.
before joining the re- t
NEXT SPRIG
1 IL
.
HIS HOLINESS WILL MAKE
NO FURTHER EFFORTTOSTOP
BLOODY BATTLE OF NATIONS
ROBBED OF $C0.
SI Holmes openl last night In Jail
preliminary to his arraignment In
Judge Moore's court lhi-i morning on
I ho. charge of stealing ifiJO In hank
nod's from Clay Hondui ant. Iloiulu
rant was asleep In a looming bouse
when tho alleged theft occurred.
spirited fight
WITH DIVERS;
SHIP SUNK
Rv United Preat.
London, Sept. 111. An armed Ameri
can uteumer wus probably mink by a
German submarine In a spirited fight
southeast of the Shetland Islands ac
cording to a news dispatch today,' The
American steamer arrived as the sub
marine was sinking a schooner and fir
ed on the submarine. Another Mibina
rine came to the rescue and this one
was attacked by a British destroyer
which was attracted to the Bcene by
the sound of firing and wireless calls.
Best Sunday School Convention
Ever Held in Grady County
The Interdenominational Sunday
School convention held at the Chris
tian church yesterday and today is the
best ever held In Grady county,' ac
cording to State Secretary C. II. Nich
ols. About twenty delegates from va
rious points In the county attended and
a foundation was laid for good co-oper
ative work In the Sunday schools.
List of Premiums
at Grady
Following Is a partial list of premi
ums which were awarded last week
at the Grady county free fair:
AGRICULTURAL
Corn.
Iowa Silver Mine Fred Borden,
Rush Springs, first ; S. A. Brooks, Rush
Springs, second; .1. R. Cast, Hush
Springs, third.
Bonne Co. white -Palmer, Chicka
shu, first; J. R. Cast, Hush Springs,
second; F. L. Broauhurst, Tuttle,
third.
Improved Suuiiw- L. V. Morris, Rush
Springs, first; J. It. Ca;;t. Rush Spring-:
second.'
Bloody Butcher J. R. Cast, Rush
Springs, first; L. V. Morris, Rush
Springs, second; V. L. Triple.tr., third.
Gold Mine- L. V. Morris, Rush
Springs, first; J. It. Cast , Rush
Springs, second.
Golden Eagle J. J. Smith, Chicka
sha, first; Fred Borden, Rush Springs,
second.
DEARTH OF TEACHERS FOR
GRADY COUNTY SCHOOLS
Gradv county Is
facing a famine of
proieiiy qualified Uichers especially
lor the village schools.. After having
filled several vacancies a call was
made on County Superintendent M. II.
Shepard this week to supply a primary
poac her at Widen and a seventh and
eighth grade teacher at Alex. Both, of
io ,e must be normal g
The recent draft of el
ruduutes.
j-jbie men for
NUMBER 2?2
FOR ARMY
Allies With American Resources Have
Upper Hand and Can Force Terms
Acceptable to Democracies
Ily United Press.
Washington, Sept. ID. -Pope Bene
dict has mude bin last peace offer ac
cording to official cables received to
day The Vatican believes the great
world wur with Its attending horror
tuuut continue at least two or thre
years longer until the full effect of
America's vast power In fell and either
victory or hopeless deadlock is reach
ed. The United Press is Informed on the
highest authority that the Vatican real
izes that peace or further negotiations
at present are Impossible. America's
reply, supported by all the allies, has
convinced tho Vatican that the allies
want no peace which leaves the Cen
tral Powers under their present rulesi.
The Vatican realizes that the allies,
with America's vast resources,- have
tho upper hand now and fan wring
from the Teutons u peace which will
be acceptable. to democracies. -
I)r. W. S. Corbln, state executive
committeeman, opened the convention
yesterday afternoon with an addiesa
of welcome, and an interesting pro
gram followed. In the evening two
splendid addresses were made by Sec
retary Nichols and Dr. M. U Butler,
j presiding elder of , the Oklahoma Oily
district.
Awarded
County Free Fair
Strawberry J. j. Smith, Chit-kasha,
first.
Long John L. V. Morris, Rush
Springs, first; C- 1'. Barner, Laverty,
second; J. R. Cait, Rush " Spring,
third.
Unspecified corn A. L. Henry, Tut
tle, first ; C. L. Wood, Chickasha, sec
ond ; C. L. Wood, Chlekasha, third. ,
Boone Co. white, So ear sample
Geo. Palmer. Chickasha, first; L. V.
il ontmii, on Paico Two. )
Riotous Negroes
in Houston Must
Face Military
By United Fr&es.
F.1 Paso, Tex., Sept. If. Military
headquarters announced today that the
court martial of one hundred and fifty
six negroe troopers charged with
shooting up the city of Houston would
begin at Fort Bliss Thursday or Fri
day. 'military service is the pailial cause of
the depletion of the raulis oi teacueis
In Grady county schools. Fifteen
young men are subject to draft and of
those six have already gone to the col
ds or will report today for entrain
ment to the training camp.
A number of applicants fur positions
have boon receded but lln-se di) not
-,e:-s the repaired qitaliiicatioiw fur
positions which they sock.