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GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY; JANUAHY 22, 1915.

PRICE 2c

NUMBER 1C

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THE WHEAT

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Cold Steel Given, as Allies and Ger

mans Clash in Racing Snow

and Sleet Storm

WOUNDED FREEZE TO DEATH

IN' TRENCHES. UNAIDED

Airship Raiders Now Declare dto Be

Zeppelins of Latest Type; Can

non and Men Captured

By Allies

(By Associated Tress Cable.)

Paris, Jan. 22. The .official : communication issued today

admits the loss by th French of one hundred and fifty yards of

trendies southeast of St.. Mihiel.- This ground had been pre

viously gained from the (ieruiahs by the French. .

Northwest of Pont-a-Moussohs, in the forest of LePretre,

the Germans have also recaptured a portion of the trenches

taken by the French on January 20th.

In Belgium the Germans yesterday bombarded Nieuport

with a fairticgrce. of violence . Iu Alsace, infantry frghting it

the region of Hartinaiin and Weilerkopf, is described as going

on With great ferocity.. The struggle in this region has reach

ed the hand to hand stage. .

The allies wirly this mbrimig drove a corps of (iermans at

the point of bayonets. The struggle is bloody aud is charac

terized as the hardest fought battle of the war in the western

theatre. - r 1

The French and allies have slightly 'the best of it so far and

last night captured cannon and men to a considerable number.

The cold is intense and many wddiers, wounded in battle freeze

to death, without attention in the. trenches. Biting sleet is fall

ing as the battle rages on, ,

ZEPPELINS liAIDED' ENGLAND; LATEST TYPE.

. .' Copenhagen, Jan. 22. Messages from Berlin declare the

airships which raided England on the night of Jauuary 19th,

were Zeppelines of the latest tjpe. They went forth from a

secret base on the German frontier, carrying a full complement;

of men, heavy guns and ammunition. .

BRITISH STEAMER TORPEDOED., '

London, Jan. 22. It was officially announced today that

the British steamer Durward was torpedoed by a Oerman sub

marine. The crew was saved. V ' K

Berlin, Jan. 22. The Germans have halted the French ad

vance, designed to cut off communication with the important

fortress of Metz, in Lorraine, and isolate the German forces in

the St. Mihiel region. The official statement says the French

lost heavily In an attack near Pon-a-Mausson.

LQ6AN GQUNTY GIRLS AGAIN

SCORE IN CANNING CONTEST

Logan county girls have again

cored in the government canning

club contests. At the short course

at the a! & M. college last weeta the

two girls from each county who

Scored highest In the county con

testa -were In attendance as gtieBts

of the state with all expenses paid

and state canning contest was held j

- In Ik... rrlrl. n U'MrlS ttl6

logan county reesentaUves, 5Iiss

(Lillle Hockaday and Miss Nannie

Coon carried off both the first and

second prizes.

.TO APPOINT DENVER ,

MAN BISHOP

Rome, Jan. 22. Among the

bishops who will be appointed

Tope Benedict at the consistory

wnicn IS lo oe neiu vn in uit

Very. Reverend John J. Brown, now

rector of the. College of Jesuits t

Denver, Colo , as bishop of El ri so.

Teas.

YOUNG MEN JOJUSH THINGS

A determined effort is to te made

to popularize the Chamber of Com

merce for a special member

ship class with, full iprivileges of the

organization having been provided

for clerks, bookkeepers, stenograph

ers, mechanics, laboring men and

otlier citizens, not conducting a- busi

ness or practicing a profossionj with

dues of 60 ents a month. All men

included in these classes and especi

ally tha younger men of the city are

urged to at once send in their appit-(

cation for membership by letter

Xihone or call on the secretary or any (

other member becoming a memoer m

time to farticipato in the election (

next week and help plan and carry,

out the work of the new year.

POSTAL BUSINESS RESUMED

Washington. Jan. 22. stal mon

ey order transactions with European

countries, suspendsd at the outbreak

of. the war, have been resumed with

Ihn Av.anllnn nP n1tiiTn find' A ' 1 S -

tria, the latter not including Hun-J

gary.

CAPITOL

CONTRACTS

ARE LET

GOVERNOR A N D LEGIS

LATURE APPROVE ACCEP.

.. TANCE OF LOW BIDS

Special to The .Daily Leader.

Oklahoma City, Jan. 22. It accsme

certain that work on the capital will

nroeress without da'ay when it was

announced by r. B. Anthony, mtrn-

ier of 'the state capitol commission,

hat contracts have been let by tlu.

bod for all the. materials that will

go

into the basement of tie building.

The total amount of the contincls

let is 179,426, and they em:b:.33 .ill

the material that will go into the

partitions of t'ae basement and fuj

basement of the capitol that avo not

yet completed.

The Capital Steel and iTron com

pany of this city gecured thR co'U'act

for reinforced "steel amountia; to

$3,516

(Continued on Hage Six.)

ZERO WEATHER IS

Cold Wave Hits Oklahoma Last

Night; Heavy Snow Prom

ised For State

(By Associated Press.)

Kansas City, Jan. 22. Snow, a

cortpanied by a cold north wind, now(

falling in Kansas, western .Missouri,

southern iN'cbraska will 'last twenty

four hours. The snow so far rnsts

in depth from three to six inches.

Temperatures average is five to sev

en degrees above zero.

Oklahoma and southern Kansas is

in the grip of the coldest weather of

the winter.

Zero weather Is promised for Sat

urday and Sunday.

The we?ther bureau at Washington

says: ''Cold wave; below zero; tem

perature will fall 3l degrees during

next thirty-six hours."

Another warning wired from Wash

ington in addition - to i-'u? usual

weather forcast is this:

'IHsavy nnow indicated Friday for

Oklahoma and Southeastern Kansas."

Both weather "bulletins were com

piled for a district embracing west

ern states of which Kansas is one.

When the cold wave warning reach

ed Guthrie last night the temperature

was down to 17. That was nine

x'clock. ,

This morning It reg'stered i. The

advance agent of the blizzard is hore.

ThU lt 'nun nf the most remaru-

able holographs of the war. It

shows 01 of the dominant forces

v. men nave macie mis ..roi.ea..

crnflict one ot the most terrible of

hiBtorv. FatieiiB Is what soldiers of

nil Bidea ' have complained about.

Men ': fight- for days and nights at

a time without a chance to sleC'P,

e:;cept the few hours they may steal

in tha trenches while bullets ny the same way. it was taien uurinn

above them. While little actual J a battle at iDarkehmen on the An

vork is done, at night the men can ; 'gc rann river .

STEAMER

SEVENTY-S1X PASSENGERS

AND CREW SAVED BY

HASTY .ACTION

(By Associated Press )

Baltimore, Jan. '22. Ssventy-yix

passengers, and a crew of thirty -four

were rescued from the burning decks

of the Chesapeake Bay st samer

Maryland, which caught fire off Ma

gothy river and burned lo the water's

edge today.

The rescue was due to the speedy

run of two -boats of the Chesapeake

company who were cruising nearby

and were attracted 'by the blazing

craft. They took off the frightened

passengers. iSo far as is known there

were no lives lost and no one severe

ly injured, although many of the pas

sengers lost all of their personal ef

fects. lAmong the injured are Wm. II.

MJller of Downs, Kansas and Be-;j H.

Tucker, lead n hie operator of Mis

souri. UNUSED FOOD WAS

DISTRIBUTED 10 NEEDY i

.More than 100 families were recipi

ents of good things to eat this week,

through the efforts of Chairman Jack

Langston of the board of county

commissioners and the ladies of the

Eastern Star. It has been the cus

tom for several years past for t!ie

Temple management to feed the vis

iting Masons. All left over food has,

in the past been dumped out. This

time it was arranged jn baskets aud

distributed to needy families over

tho city. More than 100 well filled

baskets were distributed.

NEBRASKA JURIST DEAD.

Lincoln, Neb.. Jan. 22. Chief Jus

tice Conrad Hollenbeck of the Ne

braska Supreme Court died h?re tj

day of heart disease after a brief ill -heS3.

Justice Ilollenbeck had ben

in office only two weeks.

MARYLAND

DESTROYED

not leave the trenches for fear of

""": :

:'auy at an limes lor uiuiif. m uas

I .been said that half the French sol

.,,era ,ive ,n a haze eIa,we they

are dea(j tired, and Englishmen re-

turning wounded have said the

fatigue was absolutely impossible to

(iescribe.

This holograph shows the Ger

j mans on the Russian border suffer

SELL BOOZE

1 1 .... .

TO LO"

60 TO JAIL

FEDERAL COURT GRINDING

OUT CONVICTIONS IN IN

TRODUCING CASES

After being out for more than 21

hours a jury in federal court failed

to agree in the case of the United

States against Bill Hunter. Huntir

was indicted Nov. 14, 11914, by the

federal grand jury sitting here. The

charge is disposing of intoxicating

liquors to Osage Indians over in

Osage county. He lives near Paw

' huska. The evidence as to his guilt

was not entirely clear

J. Jluttcrfleld and Fnd Hail,

charged with introducing, were found

guilty. Pat Malloy,"well known

Tnlsa attorney, made an eloquent

appeal for the men( but the evidence

Introduced by Judge Herod tor tho

government was rather convincing

and the jury returned a verdict after

(Continued on Page Slx.1

M LIU COMPANY WILL

BENEFIT THE TOWN

'Indications are that within the next

week or ten days Guthrie will be

ready to take advantage of the offer

of Adjutant General Canton to or

ganize a company of state militia in

this city as the movement Is receiv

ing encouragement on all sides and

the number of young men volunteer

ing to enlist is very gratifying. The

organization of a company in Guth

rie will be ot benefit to th' city,

keeping it on the map as ofie of the

progressive towns of the state and

putting it in llnj for future sessions

of the officers school of Instruction

as well as a possible future encamp

ment. .Guthrie and locality has been

surveyed, mapped and platted by en

gineers of the army at an expense

of several thousand dollars and thus

has an advantage over oth?r points

for the location of the ramp or school,

which helps advertise the city as well

as brings many hundreds of dollars

here.

I

MVSTERY

III DEATH

WIFE OF WEALTHY KANSAS

FARMER SHOT DOWN

BY UNKNOWN

Altoona, Kan., Jan. 22. Mrs. A. E-

Ryan, wife of a wealthy fanner liv

ing three' miles southeast of here,

was mysteriously shot and killed in

tho bath room of her home last

night. The shot was fired through a

window and the officers have no

ciew.

Mrs. Ryan has not been living with

her husband for somg time and trial

for divorce was to have come up at

tredonia today. Several children

survive.

Edward Ryan, husband of the

slain Xeodesha woman, is being de

tainod by the authorities at Fredonia,

pending an investigation of the

shooting. He was found in Neodesba

this morning. He refused to make a

statement when told of the killing.

Mrs. Ryan was the mother ot

thirteen children having eight by a

former husband, when she married

Ryan. Most of the children were in

the bouse last night when the

mother was killed. One of ttii

smaller children was in the 'baW

room within a few feet of the

woman when the fell.

BP UP

FOUR KILLED AND NINE

INJURED; WAS MAKING

INITIAL TRIP

On Board U. S. S. San Diego. La

ras, Mex. Jan. 22. Four men were

killed and nine seriously injured yos

terday afternoon on board th. ara:-

: ored cruiser, San Piego, when the

; boiler tube blew out after a sieam-

, ing trial of four hours had been i om-

'Fleted. Ths dead. Oscar J, W'yatt,

ElCentre, Calif.; Ambus J. Hardee.

Joplin. Mo.; Wm. F. Elliott, Brooklyn;

Clifford A. Western. Davenport, Ca!

All wera fireir.en. ammediately after j

the accident the cruiser left for Gauy

mas. The'SanDiego is the flagship

of the Pacific fleet

ARMORED

CRUISER

UNCLES, SAM TO INVESTI-

GATE THE HIGH PRICE

OF FLOUR

SEEK CORNERS IN MARKETS; ' .

WAR DOESN'T JUSTIFY PRICE

it lo 6s Ciiesp In Spite of

Export Increase, Grocers Sat

rrnnf In In)

uuibiiiiiigni IU BUI

Washington, D. C, Jan .22 Attor

ney General Gregory today began

active preparations in the depart

ment of justice invetigation to dis

cover the causa of the recent rise in

the price of wheat and Hour.' ' '

The department of agriculture and

commerce were tailed upon; for- all

triorniaAfon. relating : to wiheat and

flour production in the last two

years and for data on the export and

import of these articles.

It became known last night that

the principal effort to discover

whether there is any corner or pool

Operating on the wheat market will

be made in Chicago and Minneapolis;

The United States district attorneys

In these two cities have iheen ln

structed to look into this iphaBe of

the matter in conformity with Presi

dent Wilson's recent letter to " Mr,

Gregory.

Grocers, Protest.

Tha department today received a.

copy of a resolution adpoted at a re

cent meeting in Chicago of the exec

utive board of the National Associa

tion of Retail Grocers.

The resolution statos that the re

cent rise in wheat iprices threatens

to hring about a rise in the price of

bread. )It points out that the 114

wheat crop was one ot the largest

ever harvested in the United States,

adding that "It is claimed that wheat

held at present in the United States

is of sufficient quantity to matoe the

present high prices unwarranted, not,

withstanding the unprecedented de- '

mand for export."

The grocers demand that the gov- ;

ernment inquire into the true causes

of this condition with the view of

placing the responsibility."

To Get Federal Figures.

From the department of agricul

ture ,Mr. Gregory eitpects to .obtain.

information showing the wheat In the

hands of the farmers and in ele

vators and the flour in the "hands Ct

milers for the last two calendar?

years. From the commerce depart

ment he ei-vpects figures showing

whi-nt and flour exported and Im

ported in the same period.

PRAISE NEUTRALITY. v

Chicago, Jan. 22. In its closing ses

sion here today the Union of Ameri

can dlebrew Congregations adopted a

resolution endorsing President Wil

son's attitude on the European war.

THE WEATHER

(Copyrlfbt. br UcClur Syadltt.)

What Government Freatr Report

Via Ophelia

(By Associated Press.)

New Orleans, La. Jan. 22. Tonight

fair, colder. Cold wave in emtrems

east portion. Saturday fair, not so

cold in north portion.

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