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99. opposmoH KAISER WATCHES RUSSIAN RETREAT BEFORE TEUTONS Slavs Retire to Lines Occupied Year Apo, PETROGRAD IS OPTIMISTIC Kerensky Expects Early End to Disaffections, BERLIN, July 25. The advanre of the Austro-German forces in eastern Galicia continues uninter ruptedly, the war office announres. Taropol has been captured and the Germam the nearing Buctaca. Emperor William watched the German repulse a Russian attack from the plain of the Sereth, between Tarnopol and Trembowla.

The atatement alao reporta the capture of Stanislau and Nadvorna. Heavy artillery is in progress in Rumania, on the front of Field Marahal von Mackensen. Associated Press War Summary. Russia's shaken armies in Galicia are still in retreat, which kids fair not to end until they reach the line occupied hy them last year before General Rrus-iloff hevan his big offensive. Petrograd Not Pessimistic.

Despite the retrograde movement, rnverinp viM'nltv all the front between trie north Galician bonier and the Carpathian foothill, the tone of both of i- cial ami unofficial dispatches from Petrograd is not pessimistic. There is apparent confidence that the disorganization in the ranks, induced by machinations of the extremists and believed to have been largely promoted by German intrigue, will be adequately dealt with and a firm front attain presented to the enemy. Germans Have No Men, The Germans, by their own admission, have not the men to spare to prosecute a sustained offensive on the (Continued on Papa 2, Column 1.) FIRST YEAR'S WAR COST 17 BILLION July 25-Ameri-ci's war bill for the fiscal year will total Senator Smoot told the senate today instead of he estimated yesterday, the increase resulting from an additional for the shipping board, $2,000,000,000 for the allies and deficit in the executive departments. Decision on Local Insurance Schedule Is Expected Today A decision in the new schedule of fire insurance rates submitted to the state insurance board by C. T.

Ingalts, manager of the Oklahoma inspection bureau, probably will be made Lite today. The board has been considering the schedule, which embraces increases in rates of 20 percent, for three days. Three Socialists to Jail for Year CI KVF.LAND, Ohio, July solialist leaders, C. Kuthenberg, local secretary Alfred Wagcnknecht, state secretary, ami Charles Maker of Hamilton, Ohio, state organirer, were sentenced to one year in the workhouse the maximum punishment by law by Federal Judge Wcsienhaver today by hindering selective service registration Hotel at Resort Is Partly Burned NF.W YORK, July" 25-Fire apparatus in manv ong Island towns was rushed to ong Meaih, a fashionable slimmer resort, today, to fight a blare in the milliondollar Hotel Nassau. The flames were confined to the basement and part of the lower floor but spread In the board walk and destroyed a section nl this structure which parallels the bathing beach.

Six U-Boats Now Declared Sunk in Fight British Sailors Say One of Seven Attacking American Fleet Escaped, HALIFAX. N. July 25-Hritish sailors arriving here today, who claim to have been among crews of vessels in the vicinity which convoyed the first American troops to France, say they were informed that German submarines made a concentrated attark and were beaten off with a loss of six U-boats, only one submarine escaping The sailors said they were within three miles of the transports and witnessed heavy firing. CHARLES GUNTER SUCCEEDS OLIVER AS BOARD MEMBER Labor Men to Take Places of Fenton and Ross. diaries V.

Gunter has been selected by Attorney General as a mem ber of the exemption board of district No 2 in Oklahoma City to succeed Oliver, who was removed because be was of draft aee The appointment of Mr Gunter will be made by the president but the recommendation of Gen eral F.arp is tantamount to appointment Recommendations for men to surrec I Fdgar Fenton of Lehigh and Fugene Ross of Mc.Mester, members of appellate boards in the eastern district, who were temovojl by reason of being of draft age. will not be made until the return of Governor Williams, August 1. It is probable that men from the lanks of organized labor will be selected to succeed Ferrton and Ross, since they were appointed by reason of their affiliation with labor. New York Negroes to Protest Riots NF.W YORK. Julv a protest against the recent East St Louis race riot, negro residents of New York have arranged for a demonstration on Saturday to take the form of a silent parade down Fifth avenue It was announced today that more than two thousand negroes had signified their intention to join in the demonstration.

25 Men Lose Lives as Vessel Sinks PARIS, July 25-The naval tender was sunk by a submarine in the eastern Mediterranean on July 12. avs an official report issued last night. Twenty-five men lost their lives. Partly Cloudy, Is Weather Forecast LOCAL FORBCAST Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday) not much change In ttmparatura. ST ATI FORECAST Tonight and Thursday gtntrally fair.

AN8A8 Oeimrally fair, continued warm AltKANSAH AND WKHT TEXAS-(lenerilly fulr. HOURLY TCMPiRATURt if wt wfC All I 'titvrnicxt l. rr tfr a rsr mo "it nding 1 a. m. 1 1 10 7n "1 It i) II mlrlniftht 741 I I a a.

4 i.CSL a. m. 7J rn. If norm 7 if I I 1 a ni SI Rainfall ht during H-hour ntrlnH Inch, TO FOOD STATES RACING TO FILL QUOTAS FOR FIRST ARMY Men Are Summoned for Physical Examinations. military Taws govern Second Draft Considered Improbable This Year.

WASHINGTON'. July 25-The race between states for the honor of being first to fill their quotas under the selective draft bill was on todav in earnest Calling of men for physical exam ination began this morning in several regions. Meanwhile details of the machinery for actually calling accepted men into service and sending them to mobilization camps are being worked out. Claimi of tht Army. Provost Marshal General Crowder already has ruled thit the claim of the army ataches to any registered man as soon as the local selection board has posted him as accepted.

1'rom that time on, unless exempted, he will br subject to miliury law and the articles ot war. appear when called will bring the military forces of the provost marshal-general on in search of the missing man and he will be tried for any violation of regulations before a courtmartiaL This ruling was necessary to enforce prompt compliance of all accepted men with army orders. It appears probable mat accepted men, when the mobilization order for the new army is given, will be first assembled in tneir selection board head quarters. Their distribution among cantonments. General Crowder said today, would be governed by two rules- first, the section of the law requiring that they be assigned, as far as practicable, to duty with troops from their own state, and secondly, the location of the nearest cantonment to reduce the transportation problem as much as possible.

No Second Draft Thii Year. No information has reached General Crowder indicating that there will be (Continued on Pig 1, Column 6.) PATniOTirfAPPEAL EMS OHIO STRIKE CLEVELAND. Ohio, July 25 Patriotic response to the government's representations that war contracts are being hampered seriously, brought an end to the strike of 15,000 Cleveland drop forge workers last night and the men returned to work this morning after having been on strike for nearly a month. Mexican Oil Field Workers on Strike MEXICO CITY July Reneral strike of the workmen employed in the Tampico oil fields began today. It af fects the entire territory and refining plants in that section.

About 15,000 men are employed in the various trade I here lias been no disorder so far, according to reports received by the American embassy, and the government troops have been instructed to give pro tectum to the property of both foreigners and Mexicans. EIGHTY CANADIAN GOAL MINERS ARE KILLED BY BLAST Explosion Takes Tlace in New Brunswick Shaft. HALIFAX. N. S.

July 25 -Eighty workmen were killed lodav in an explosion at No. 0 mine of the Dominion Coal company at New Aterford, arcordtng to advices received from Sydney. Twelve bodies had been te-covered at noon, OKLAHOMA CITY, WEDNESDAY, Pershing and Joffre Review French Battalion at Front i 1 General Peishlng and Marshal Joffre at the Champ At Mara in Paris. PARIS, July 25. Pershing, accompanied by (Iciieral Joffre yesterday visited the I'reiuh front and iivtcwcd incidentally one of the most famous battolions of I'rcnch chasseurs uliich figured in the 14th of July irview in Paris (leneral Prrshiig rxpirssed high admnation of the dash and sui.iiliirss of the men.

TOBACCO MAY GO TO OKLAIIOMANS AT THE FRONT Intensive Campaign for Fund Is Being Planned. Amen! CITY TIMES: Please find enclosed a cheek for It to purrhase four packages of 'smokes' for our Sammies. May God bless and protect them. Yours truly, ft. This is the letter from a traveling man, written on the stationery of a Blackwell hotel, terelved today by the Times, containing sufficient money to purchase four packages of tobacco for American soldiers now preparing for active warfare against the hordes of the kalaer in France.

The fund was swelled today by H. subscription, and by subscriptions of SO cents by Mrs. E. N. Elerlck, 39 East Third street, city, and It from Mrs.

H. I). An intrusive, citywide campaign to raise monev for tobacco for "Our lt.iys in Frame," launched a few davs ago l.v the 'I lines, will be pushed vigotoiHy with the receipt id blanks, advertising matter, posteis, etc rxpertcd from ua tional headquarters of the fund in New Yolk City within the next dav or so. tlktahoma 'it will be turned min one gigantir agency for ibe collection of the fund. Perjons will be rleleitated to have charge of the work in tolmiro sioin, drug stores, department stores, fartmiei, office biiildiniM, restaurants, theaters and other places of amusement, women's (Cte.tlr.ued on Page 2, Column 1.) JULY 25, 1917 BOUSE No Agreement Yet by Mooney Jury SAN FRANCISCO, July 2.5 -The jury in the case of Mrs.

Kena Mooney, wdio was accused of murder in connection with the preparedness-day bomb explosion bne July 2J, I 'Jin, was to begin its thiid il.iv of deliberation today According to court attaches, the prospei gicw that the trial would result in a disagreement. Draft Over, Men Are Anxious to Enlist Jaily 25. An increase in regular armv remitting, due apparently to annouiu i inent of tbr ill alt dtawing, brought acceptances to l.iifi yesterday, the l.ngcst total sin. reg titration 'lay. Russian Women's Battalion Wins First Clash With Foe; Extent of Losses Not Known Veto Butchkareff's 'Command of Death' Behaves in Exemplify Fashion, Gaining Respect of Men Soldiers.

II 1 KOCH AD, Julv 25- Ibe Pus- i -a si woman's battalion, raised by the tw'ce wounded girl officer, Vera Mutch-karrlf, was in action on the front at Ktevo yesterday for ibe first lime. They aie irported to have been successful, although the battalion suffered some losses, the extent of which is not vet kiiimn. The Novoc Vremya, rorre-spondent at the front reports that the MSAFPEARS Hay son Holds Auto License Law Invalid R. I Phillips Is Released; City Unauthorized to Pass Such an Act, Says Judfio. I'isltict Judge llayson today, ordered the release of U.

I I'lullu's, manager the 1'lnllips (I. K. litis, llaggage and Carriage i.niipaiiv, from custody by I lie police I Ins order was issued on a writ of habeas corpus filed by Phillips in uhiili be alleged that be was being illegally restrained by the police. Refused to Pay Fine. Phillips was artrsled last week on a charge of violating a city ordinance providing for the payment of a license tax of $Ji on all automobiles used for public hire In police court he was lined and costs, but refused to pay the fine ami instituted habeas corpus proceedings to secure bis release, ibe ruling' of Judge Haysott today was that the new rilv ordinance placing a tax on vehicles (or public lure is invalid because the constitution does not give the city the right to make surh a lav ml lirriusr it was not nlhoriTil to do so by any act of the legislature, A year agosPhillips was arrested (or failure to pay a pemUga- Iimm laa sn his automobiles, tie was convicted in police court, hut secured his release through habeas rornus proceedings in district court.

The supreme court upheld the decision of the lower court. Following this decision the city draft ed a new ordinance providing for ft license" tax instead of a "piivilcge" It was the new ordinance that Phillips was accused of violating II, S. DIVER A-7 IN PHILIPPINES, VICTIM OF BLAST Five Men Are Dead and Three Are Injured. WASHINGTON, July 25 -An ex-plosion yesterday on the submarine A7, at Cavite, Philippine Islands, killed five men and injured three of the officers and i rew. The Dead.

The dead as reported today in official dispatches are Lieut. Arnold M.urus, machinist's male, first class; II 1 1 I ring gunner's male, second class; () II Hopewell, chief electrician; iniy, tnachin ist's mate, K. A Kuiu. List of Injured. Follow ing ai hi' liiiii ed hief 1 1 ian Sihailin; fireman second (lass, A Jacobs; machinist's male, second class, llixon.

I lie explosion, (roin a preliminary examination, appealed to be due to the ignition of gas within the ship. The cause itf the ignition of the fumes has not been tepoiled. women behaved in exemplary way, gaining the respect of the men soldiers. The "command of death" is the offi cial title of the battalion raised by Madamoiselle Mutt bkareff. It recently left for the front alter a review by Kerensky.

Most of the recruits are from the higher educational academies or secondary schools with a few peasants, factory girls and servants, married women were accepted but none who had ihildren. Most of them are between 18 and 25 years of age, of good physiiue. They wear their hair shott or have their heads entirely shaved 'I he gitls tarry the ravatrv caihine which is five pounds lighter than the regular army rifle. They were dulled under the instruction of a male seigrant of the Kolynsky regiment. I PRICE 2 CENTS MEASURE SENT TO CONFERENCE; NO RECORD VOTE House Disagrees to All Sen- i ato Amendments.

FIRST MEETING TOMORROW '1 Joint Expenditures Committer Probable Feature, WASHINGTON, July 25-The ad ministration food control bill was tent to conference in the house today under a rule without a record vote. OpposU tion which developed yesterday dilip i peared. The house conferees were instructed by the rule only to disagree to senate amendments. An amendment to create; a joint congressional war expenditure! rommittee, disapproved by the presU dent, was presaged by this action, Thi fight against sending the bill to con- ference without separate vote ol tht imennme amendment, to which the president ob "i jects, oegun yesterday by Republican Leader Matin, completely flattened out. Senator Core, chairman nf the Mnatt alrrcultura arranged with Kepresenfatlve Lever for the firit meet- "f' iny of the conferees tomorrow morninf.

TOtlFillM fSUEL0 TO DISTDICT C030T i C. II. Tompkins, charged with oh taming money by false pretense, wat given a preliminary hearing today be- fore Justice of the Peace O. L. Pries He pleaded not guilty and was held tJ the district court under a bond of $1,0001 Tompkins is alleged to have secures! $o00 from J.

VV. Dies of Drumright bff rfsrJresenting that he could secure a par ion lor Jess and Joftn Knight, eon. victed of murder in Oklahoma county ard sentenced to the penitentiary fot life Dies is a friend of II. D. Knight, father of the Imys.

and he secured th money and g.ve it to Tompkins, it li alleged. The pardon was not secures! and Tompkins' arrest followed. Sessions of Irish Convention Opened '-j -in ii July conventiM which is to attempt to reach a solution fthe Irish problem was opened thii i morning at Regent house, Trinitv eol lege. John Redmond, nationalist leader and Joseph Devlin, one of hit promt unit associates, were among the early V-. arrivals.

Protestant and Roman Cath otic clergymen arrived soon afterward, i followed by representatives ol puhlrt orawnirations, trades and labor couneita, There was a noticeable lack of eiithtj siasm among the spectators who gath ered. Joseph Devlin was the only dct egate who was cheered. Drouth Burning Up Kansas Corn TOPEKA. July hat reached the stage where it will be se-riously damaged unless it receive! moisture soon, says the summary of weather and crop conditions in-Kansas for the week ending July 24, issued here toilay by the weather bureau. In the extreme southern counties and a few localities in the northwest corn alreadj has been greatly hurt by the continue! drouth and can make but tittle grain even with favorable weather from now on.

Razvosoff Heads Slav Baltic Fleet PF.TKOCRAD. July Ad-miral Kaivosoff has been appiinte4 coniinander in chief of all the Kusslaai naval lorces in im mii. Ci InnlianP Mara. Vis" Misses Wiila and Marion WiMt 1 s. uiailtltir thfif MHiri.

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