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PORKER BILL IS

PASSED BY THE

LOWER HOUSE

'A Final Effort to Reduce

I ' Total of 40,000,000 to

$20,000,000 Failed

MAY HAVE ROCKY

ROAD IN SENATE

Entire Appropriation Ex

cept for $700,000 Item Is

for Uiver Improvcnmet.

WASHINOTOX, April 11. Tho

anmml river and harliora jt

proprlailon bill carrying 40,000,OUO

paHietl the house- today by a

vote of 210 to 133 with every Item as

agreed on In ominlttee unehanped.

Scores of amendments to cut down

Items urged bv renresentatlven who

charged that the bill was a "pork

barrel" measure, were rejected during

the two week's debate. Jurt before

the final vote an effort led by He

publiciin header Mann to reduce the

total to $20,000. 000. failed, two hun

dred to 149. ,

The entire appropriation except for

a $700,000 Item to deepen tho ap

prouches to the I'.iooklyn navy yard is

for continuing work on Improvement

projects alreadv authorized and un

der wav. The single new project was

urged liv President Wilson and Secre

tary Ounlels as part of the prepared

ness program. Tho Mil now goes to

the i-enate, where Inftt year's measure

was killed bv a filibuster and a lump

appropriation of $30,000,000 substi

tuted to be apportioned among exist

ing projects by the secretary of war.

Among tha larger appropriations

""ilHslwilpnl river f 8, 000. 000; New

York harbor, $2,356,000; upper Hud

son river, $1,250,000; Delaware river

$2,765,000; Inland waterway Norfolk

to l'caiifort $1,000,000; Ohio river

$5,509,000; Missouri river $1,750,000:

Columbia river $1,5(10,000; Tennessee

liver $944,000; St. Mary's river,

Michigan, $S00,000 and Chicago har

bor. $714,300.

Chicago harbor $714,300; Ouach

lui river, Arkansas and Ijoulsiana,

$499 0O0; TlrasMs river. Texas. $390,

0C0; Trinity river. Texas. $300,000;

Calveston harbor, $325,000.

XII'l'ONKSK X K V S II V It K A V

V. of M. Senior Lands I'lnrc on

American I'apci In Japan.

Ppcrial to The World.

PAUTLKSVII.LK. Okla., April 11.

Kalph H. Turner of Burtlrsvllle,

bc tiler In the ncbool of Journalism

and student editor of the University

Mi!-sourian at Colombia, .Mo., is to

locate in Toklo. Japan, Immediately

after he graduates early In June. lie

will snil from San Francisco June 10.

Mr. Turner will work on inn au-

vtrtiscr. an Knjlith paper published

In Tol'.lo. Turner will probably have

charge of a news bureau wtiien tne

Advertiser has Just established. In

fstaljllshin;; this news bureau, pat

terned after the Associated Press, the

Advertiser expects to give the world

a greater news service from that sec

tion of tho far east.

Turner has signed a three-year

contract to work In Japan.

Onions Make Best Crop.

Spfflal to Thu World.

OKLAHOMA CITY, April 11.

Miss Anna Lee Dichl, county woman

farm agent of Okfuskee county, pro

duced 125 bushels of onions from one

eiuarter acre of ground, and thus she

realized better profit from this smnll

piece of land then from any other

crop. Miss Plehl has been experi

menting with various crops on her

farm since being commissioned as

county demonstration agent for

women, and her experience with the

onion crop Is the best yet. The ex

rcr.re in cultivating and gatnerlng

her crop of onions was small.

INDIANS BALK OVER

LEASING OIL LANDS

Secretary Lane Has Stormy

4. Session With Osages;

1.

Hold Council Today.

W

PASHINQTON, April 11. Storm

warnings have been hoisted by

, - Osage council member refcrlng to

leasing of tribal oil and gas lands and

at times today the meeting of council

' with Secretary Lane was said to hae

been attended with somewhat caloric

words. After wrangling for an hour

or so todav without arriving at any

definite conclusion as to whether tho

council will at this time execute oil

lenses on both the developed and un

developed oil acreago, the meeting

wus adjourned until 3:lo Wednesday

f"ernoon. while members of the

council tonight nro as shy as quails,

enough can be learned .to indicate

that unythlng hut harmony prevailed

at toduy's meeting with the secretary,

Secretary Lane It is understood, in

sists on doing most of the talking and

, 'Continued on Pago Two.)

New York Will Soon Have Two Thousand Miniature

;

Policewomen, Aged 12 to 18 Years, on the East Side

EAST SID& G1&L POhJCZ.

NKW YOIIK. April 11. This eitv

doing active patrol duty in the cast side

The Juvenile women were organized

Protective association Is responsible lor

will be to see that the st reels are kept

that sanitary regulations are enforced in

Twenty-five of the girls have already been sworn in and hne received

cap and cout .similar to those worn by

INSTRUCT TWO FOR

JAMES J. M'GRAW

Harmonious Session of Dis

trict Republican Con

vention Held.

LORTON AND VICTOR

"New Deal" Men Named as

Delegates to National

Convention.

THAT the First congressional dis

trict is absolutely harmonious

and Intent on getting Into the Re

publican column was Indicated yester

day when the district convention

elected two delegates to tho national

convention and instructed them to

support James J. MeCJraw for national

committeeman. 'The roll was called

on each proposition that came before

the convention ar.d there was not a

dissenting vote in a, singlo instance,

It was the first Republican conven

tion held In Oklahoma this year In

which there was an unanimous roll

call vote for the things that J. J. Mc

Uraw has fought for.

Metiraw Spoke

Mr. McGraw himself was called up

on. He mudo one of the longest

speeches of his career.

"Your action today in Instructing

your two delegates to support me,"

he said, "removes the last obstuele

and 1 can say to you without fear of

contradiction that I will be your next

national committeeman."

McGraw explained that a majority

of Oklahoma's delegation to the na-

(Contlnued on Pago Five.)

oKtiWizi: a TitAitKs torxciL.

Dmmiiglit Oil .Men i-t Clmrter From

American Federation of Iabor.

Special to The World.

OKLAHOMA CITY. April 11. The

first organization of the kind In this

section of the west was perfected at

Drumrlght when employes of all

classes In the oil fields united in a

trades council Saturday under a

charter obtained directly from the

headiiuarters of the American Feder

ation of Labor. Kdgar Fenton. presi

dent of the Oklahoma Federation of

Labor, assisted tho men In their or

ganization. Many trades are repre

sented in the Drumriglit oil neius,

but not enough of any one class to

successfully promulgate a separate

union. It was considered the best for

all to organize one general body. This

is the first organization of the kind

for this section of the country, and

the first for many years anywhere.

There are about a hundred and fifty

men in the new labor federation.

LIKE MOTH Kit VSKI TO MAKE.

Were Itisi'iilts Small Member of Better

nrend Club Cooked for Dudtljr.

Special to Tha World.

OKLAHOMA CITY. April 11.

"Papa ate them as fast aa I took

them out." was the answer one small

girl, member of the IJetter Bread club

of Pontotoc county, gave when ques

tioned as to what success she had

after the first lesson in mnklng rolls.

Mrs. Alva Duvall, erganlzer of these

clubs, has more than a hundred girls

in Pontotoc county Interested In the

work of m.iklng better brend, and the

number is increasing rapidly. In ad

dition to studying better bread mak

ing, the girls are Interested In poultry

raising, home canning, gardening and

various other hoisthold arts. The

experience of the girl whoso father

liked rolls Is similar to the testi

monials of tho other members of th

class.

will soon hava two thousand Police gills,

streets.

to supplement the Juvenile malo police, composed of boys. The East Side

the organization. Fach girl will be responsible for one block. Their duties

clean, that chlldien ronduet themselves properly on the thoroughfares, and

the homes, on the Htrcets and in the schools.

the regular elty police, dark blue skirts

j Reduction Is Made

in Crude Fuel Oil

by Standard Oil Co. J

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KANSAS CITY. April 11.

The Standard Oil company an-

nounced here today that the I

I price of crude fuel oil In less

than carload lots would be re- $

I duced from $1.45 a barrel to I

$1.35. J

TRY NEPHEW OF "OLD

ZACK" FOR MURDER

PINE BLUFF, Ark., April 10.

Jurors wero secured today to try

T. S. Bradberry, great grand nephew

of General Zachary Taylor, former

president of the United Slates, for

first degree murder. Bradberry is

charged with having assassinated his

employer, I'. O. Jenkins, wealthy

planter of Sherlll, at the Jenkins

home on the night of December 26

last. Infatuation for his employer's

wife, Mrs. Johnnie Jenkins, will be

ascribed as his motive by the prose

cution. CLANS IGNORE EACH

OTHER AT GUTHRIE

McGraw Is Endorsed by

One Faction While Sec

ond Goes for Harris.

Special to The. World.

GUTHHIE, Okla., April 11. Re

publican delegates from the

Fifth congressional district held two

conventions here today as the result

of a factional fight waged between

supporters of James McGraw of Pon

ca City nd James Harris of Wag

oner, rival candidates for Republican

national committeeman from Okla

homa. No bolting convention was held, the

supporters of the rival candidates or

ganizing separate conventions Imme

diately following the announcement

that the Republican congressional

committee had voted four to three In

favor of sectlng the Harris contesting

delegation from Oklahoma county in

stead of the delegation uuuportlng

James McGraw.

The McGraw delegates . assembled

In the assembly room of a local hotel,

reorganized the McGraw delegation

from Oklahoma county and perfected

an organization.

E. E. Blake of Oklahoma City waa

elected chairman and C. E. Saxon of

Payne county, was elected secretary

of the McGraw convention. The Mc

Graw convention seated the McGraw

delegates from Oklahoma county. The

McOraw convention then named John

It. Harlcy of Payne county and

Charles Moore of McClain county as

delegates to the Republican national

convention, and C. E. Goodwin of

Garvin county and A. C. McDanlol of

Cleveland county, as alternates. Wirt

Randolph of Garvin county was

named presidential elector by the Mc

Graw convention. The Mcdraw con

vention adopted resolutions indorsing

James McGraw as the duly elected

committeeman from Oklahoma, The

McGraw convention was In session

about one hour and was made up of

eighty members.

Mr. K.wlng the) Same.

Reports at a late hour last night

gnve no encouragement as to the con

dition of W. F. Ewlng, who was

stricken by two strokes of apoplexy

Monday. There has been no change

either for the bettor or worse.

He Is conscious and Is able to greet

the friends and relatives who were

allowed admittance to his room. He

Is at his home, (II West Seventh

street.

raniritiir in imo from 12 to IS vears.

their badges and uniforms. They wear

and carry clubs.

DEMOS INSTRUCT

FOR PRES. WILSON

Endorse National and State

Administrations at Okla

homa City Convention.

WADE IS ELECTED

Lafaj'ette of Checotah

Withdraws After Oppo

sition Gains Control.

Special to The. World.

OKLAHOMA CITY. April 11.

y Without a roll call and without

a contest that was not settled outside

the hall, Oklahoma Democrats, In

convention here today, elected dele

gates to the coming national Demo

cratic convention, instructed them to

vote for the renominatlon for presi

dent of Wood row Wilson, chooso Tom

1. M uue of Jlarlow as national com

mittceinan, named Oklahoma's eiuota

of presidential electors and adopted a

platform supporting without re-servo

the national and stato administra

tions. The proceedings throughout were

in complete harmony and adjourn

ment was taken within less than five

hours after the convention was called

to order. A record number of dele

gates, numbering nearly two thou

sand, attended this year's meeting,

showed great enthusiasm and, by

demnonstrations, work;d effectively

to uxpeuue me worK ot tne conven

tion. In addition to commending Presi

dent Wilson's International, Mexican

and Pnn-Amerlcan policies, the con

vention endorsed United Slates Sen

ator Robert L. Owen for any office In

tho gift of the nation, advocated tho

ship purchase, rural credits, non

partisan turlff commission and

Philippine independence bills and

uurged action looking to the safe

guarding of American citizens' rights

under international law and looking

(Continued on Pago Seven.)

PLANS FOR NEW ROAD

TAKE CONCRETE FORM

Cllles in Northwestern Oklahoma

Unite in liffort to Gain

System.

Special to The World.

BAKTLF.SV1LLE, April 11. North

eahtern Oklahoma was never so cer

tain of getting an east, and west rail

road as at present. The movement for

building a line from Nowata, Ok In,,

to Fairfax, oklu., has taken concrete

form and about the next step now is

to close the contract with eastern cap

italists who are ready to finunce tho

building of the road.

Four cities, l!ai iJesbllle, Nowata,

Pawhuska and I'alilux, havo pledged

themselves to give a total bonus of

$00.000 to the company who will

build and equip tho lino. Fairfax has

suplomened the offer of a bonus by

offering free a five-mile stretch of

right-of-way In the western part of

Osage county. Iick Flood, who Is

promoting the road, was here this

week and said he had assurances from

financiers in the east, who believe

the proposition a good one, that they

stund ready to put through the deal.

It is probable a mass meeting will be

held In this city within a short time,

vhen representatives of the eastern

capitalists and from each of the four

cities will -meet and close the deal.

Business men in Bartlesvllle and else

where are united In the belief that if

such a road Is constructed It will,

within a few years, become one of the

most Important freight carrying roads

In the state.

U.S.

iu mm

of Villa to

in 48 Hours Is Report

Bandit Either Dead, as Is Currently Reported, or Is Far

Into South Mexico and Entire Plan of Campaign Must

Be Reorganized.

EXPECT SOME DeTiNITE INFORMATION

Outlaw Force Is Only Handful and Must Be Hunted

Down Like Ordinary Escaped Criminals According to

Carranzista General.

EL l'ASO, April 11. The pursuit of Villa prolmlily will lit!

brought to a (li-finite conclusion within IS hours, nccordin

to information received here today by an American !iiiiiiti con

cern with larfje interests at Tamil and Torreon.

The messages received stated Ihat the report that Villa was

dead was current throughout soul hern Chihuahua and north

ern Duraiifro and while it was still far from confirmed, it was

expected the definite news could be received within the next

few days. There are only two possibilities which are accepted

here as true in the present situation: Either Francisco Villa

is dead and his pursuit is automatically ended, or he is far to

the south in central DuraiiKo. If the latter is true, army of

ficers say that the entire plan of campaign of (leneral Per

shing must be completely reorganized or abandoned altogether.

One officer who has had an active part in the direction of the

plans for the expeditionary torce

CIlUSO NOW I'MI'ICHH.

"If Villa is dead there Is no more

to bo said except to issue an oider for

our soldiers to come bark to the

United States as speedily as possible.

If he is not dead there is very little

reason to doubt Ihat he is by this time

well 'nto the state of Durango. It Is

simply rldl'-ulous to suppose that our

troops can keep on going south Indef

initely with no railroads back 4 them.

They will either have to halt or ar

rangn for the dispatch ef another ex

pedition from some point on the bor

der which will enable them to cut In

behind Villa. 1 urn not a prophet but

the most casual observer should see

that tho existing conditions arc Ini

l OKsiblo of continuance."

Tho report of Villa's death was ac

cepted us highly probable by General

Unrtanl, the Carranza commander at

Casus Grutidcs, who is now in Juarez.

Only One Doctor.

"There Is only ono doctor In the

country where Villa now Is," sanl

General liertaul, "and IT blood sis

oning has set In In Villa's wounded

WASHINGTON DISCUSSES PROBABLE FATE

OF VILLA WHILE WAITING FOR REPORTS

WASHINGTON, April It. Ru

mors from several sources that

Villa died of blood poisoning, and

press dispatches from yucretaro

telling of un announcement hy tho dc

facto government's war department

thut It had reaxon to believe the

bandit chief had been killed In action,

was the occasion of much discussion

here. In some quarters there was a

disposition to credit the reports but

they were without official confirma

tion and both army officers and stato

department officials suggested that

this probably had been put out by

Villa's friends as tt ruse.

At the state and war departments

tonight it was admitted that Villa's

exai t location waj not known and

that absolutely no news regarding

General Pershing's operations had

been received for several duys. The

last state department report regard

ing Villa's whereabouts was that he

was near Parral and headed south,

Kxprcss Hatihfaello l.

Officials expressed great satisfac

tion over the results accomplished by

the use of the Mexican railway in for

Fox of Sierras May

Report Himself as

COLUMBUS, N. M., April 11. The

report that Francisco Villa is

dead of blood poisoning resulting

from the wound ho Is supposed to

have received in the fight with Car

ranza soldiers at Guerrero, was the

chief topic of discussion In Columbus

tonight. There was much specula

tion as to whether the "Fox of tho

Sierras" had not himself spread the

report In an effort to throw his pur

suers off his trail.

Lieutenants H. A. Dargue und E. 8.

Gorrell, who brought the report to

Columbus after a 830-inlle flight from

San Antonio, a short distance above

Satevo, said the natives of southern

Chihuahua placed great faith In it.

Students here of Mexican warfare and

particularly of Villa tactics recalled,

however, that times without number

In previous campaigns the bandit

leader has caused himself to be re

ported wounded In order to mislead

his enemies. These pointed out there

Is a strong possibility that Villa is not

wounded, despite the persistent re

ports to the oontrary. This possibil

ity la .recognized by the military

authorities as It Is supported by the

assertion of the air scouts that thoy

had been tola Villa, in his flight made

on a Jolting Utter carried on the

shoulders of the chosen followers, re

futed inodlcsJ assistance and sent for

g Pursuit

Conclusion

summed up the situation thus:

leg us my Information has it, this doc

tor can do nothing even if he has a

chance. Witnesses who saw Villa told

me his left leg was shattered oy i

lull from bis horse, following his be

ing wounded by a bullet. They said

the log was in bad t'hupc, swollen am!

gangreneniis."

General Itertanl said that Villa had

not more than llfty men with him.

Tho Vllllsta band which our troops

encountered In the Mailera so tion

yehtorday consisted of 2:1 members of

whom It wero taken prisoners. The

survivors, carrying their wounded,

escaped Into the hills."

"Villa's forces consist now of only

a lew handsful," commented liertaul,

"u bo will have to lie huiitci! down

like ordinary escaped criminals."

Apache Seoul on Trail.

The Apache scouts have gone Into

.Mexico I rum Columbus, it wi.s learned

here tonight, led by Peaches, tlio cap

tor of C.eionimo. They Hi luted south

on top of motor trucks. Much Apache

wore sun goggles and a wrist watch.

warding supplies through private

shippers to General. I'erslilng. Two

tralnloads were reported to have left

Juarez recently. Major General Scott,

chief of staff, saiil the transportation

system was much improved and that

tho troops apparently now were being

supplied ti I 1 1 1 1 I .-1 1 1 1 1 y .

General Funslon telegraphed that

"u satisfactory conference'" had been

held by General Pershing wllh Gen

eral llerrera and another wllh Gen

eral Gutierrez.

(iet Reports.

The quartermaster general received

the following dispatch, dated April M.

from General Funston's quartermaster

at Fort Sam Houston:

"Troops being paid ill American

gold and silver shipped from New

Orleans, San Antonio and Kl Paso to

Columbus. Pershing usks for some

funds in Mexican silver for disburse

ments where American money cannot

bo successfully used.

"From thu start practically all

classes of quartermasters' supplies

have been avilalilo for forwarding

from Columbus.

"instructed quartermasters to pro-

(Contlnued on Pugo Two.)

Have Started Death

Ruse, Is One Belief

bundages which ho hound to his body

himself.

That General J. J. Pershing, ex

peditionary commander, who today

wus reported to be removing his

headquarters to hutevo and the ad

vanced detachments of American

troops were "still too busy to report,"

wus indicated in tho luck of news

from the front.

Kxcltement In Columbus, as the re

sult of rumors current yesterday that

the town and the American linn of

communication might be attacked,

had almost completed abated tonight,

the citizens apparently feeling In

creased confidence In their safety. To

further allay fears, Major W. It.

Sample, commandant of the expedi

tionary base, directed that tho heavy

guard and outposts muintuincd lust

night bo maintained.

Ituto Cases May 8.

OKLAHOMA CITY, April 11. He

cause of press of other business,

Judge Youmans of the federal district

court today notified Attorney-General

Frcoling that he would be unable to

resume hearing in the rate cases be

fore May 8 and set thut date us the

time for taking up the cases again.

It hud been set for April 17. Thu attorney-general

hus been busy with

several assistants collecting data to be

used by the state In Presenting its

side of the case.

SUGAR DUTY OF

ONE CENT PER

PUND STICKS

Senate Passes Substitute

for J louse Free Suoar

liepeal Resolution.

EXPECT SHARP TILT

BETWEEN HOUSES

Tariff on Lemons and Other

Citrus Fruits Also Occu

jties Time of Vmy,

WASHINGTON, April 11. The

senate lato today passed its

substitute for the hotiso free sugar

repeul resolution extending tho present

duty or t cent u pound on sugar until

May, 1920. The voto was 40 to 32.

Four Democrats, Sonators lirous

sard, Uunsdull, Newlunds and Lane,

Joined tho ltepubllcans In voting

against the substitute. They fuvor the

flat repeal passed by the house. A

sharp controversy in conference be

tween the two houses Is predicted. An

ticipating that the house would insist

upon its resolution. Senator Simmons,

Senator Stone and Senator Lodge wero

named as the senate conferees.

I'nless a conference agreement Is

reached and approved before May 1

sugar will go on the free list until

such time as the repeal or extension of

tho duty can be mudo effective.

Most of tho tariff discussion today

did not touch upon the sugar issue,

which had been lalked out yesterday,

but was devoted to nn amendment by

Senator Works of California to In

crease the tariff on lemons and other

citrus frultH to 1 cent a pound. This

was defeated by a vote of 44 to 29,

Senator Phelun of California being

the only Democrat to support It.

Senator Phelun doclared seven

counties in California comprised tho

whole lemon producing region In the

I tilted States und thut the reduction

of the duty on lemons had caused a

loss of 1x00,0110 In revenue. He In

sisted that lemons were u luxury, not

a necessity.

Senator Varduman opposed the

Works amendment and said while ho

would vote for the senate substitute

sugar resolution, ho would not give

his assent to the house measure.

"I would not voto to tax uny of tho

necessaries of life for battleships that

aro not needed," he said. "1 have

very little sympathy for the prepared

ness program that seems to bo agreed

upon, but If 1 hud I would not be

willing to pay for It with a tax on

sugar but would raise the money with

a greater Income tax, an Inheritance

tux and a much greater tax on the

luxuries of life."

HOCK ISLAM! MAY K.TKI I.IMJ

Kmiiors Have It Thut System Will

Travel-' Kleh Pontotoc County.

Spoeial to The World.

OKLAHOMA CITV. April 10. Citi

zens of Maxwell. Ilebee, Franks und

Connersvllle, Inland towns of Ponto

toc county, arc Imping thut rumors to

tho effect that the Hock Island will

extend the Asher branch on through

these towns are realized. While no

definite statement has been made by

representatives of tho railroad com

pany concerning tho purported ex

tension, It Is suld the route has been

Investigated, an-l some reports havo It

thut u preliminary survey would he

made In the near future. There is full

i ompensntion for such a move on the

part of the railroad company, ns the

country that would bo traversed Is

some of the richest In the state. It

leads directly south from Asher in

southern Pottawatomie county, which

Is perhaps the best all-round farming

country in the state. Maxwell and

lichee, in Pontotoc county, aro lo

eated In the northern part of the

county, which Is a continuation of tho

rich belt in Pottawatomie cnuntv.

Franks and e'nnr.ersvllle are located

In the southern part of Pontotoc

county In the It!ue river vallev. In

which all kinds of agricultural prod

ucts are raised In plenty.

CITY OFFICIALS AT

MUSKOGEE SWORN IN

Sliakeuj) Takes Place When

New Democratic Nom

inees Assume Duties.

Spfclnl to Tin World.

Ml'SKOGKK. Okla., April 11. J.

F, Wyand, an attorney, today

became mayor of Muskogee, and C. rt.

llendrlx and Earl Smith, took office

as city commissioners. All three ure

Democrats. Mayor Wyand succeeds

Franklin Miller, who was elected by

the council to tnko the pluce made

vacant by the resignation of James 1.

Garrett. In accordance with a pre

arranged program Mayor Wyand. In

addition to assuming the duties of

that office, tikes control of the po

lice department. This was brought

about after much political maneuver

ing, which threatened for a time to

create discord within the partv ranks.

Karl Smith, who hud announced

himself as a cundldato for commis

sioner of public safety, wus ussigned

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