Muskogee Times-Democrat from Muskogee, Oklahoma • Page 1

Held In New State Fair, Oct. 5-10 Weather Forecast Oklahoma UnsettJed tonight and -fionaay; protJBUjy Bbowefo. The Leading Afteraoon Newspaper of Oklahoma TIMES-DEMOCRAT 4:00 EDIXIONi VOLUME XX MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY EVENING OCTOBER 3, 1914 NUMBER 242 ALLIES ARE BEATING BACK GERMAN ATTACK AT ROYE GERMANiCLAIM TO BE DISLODGING THE FRENCH FROM POSITIONS () iviEUiCAL ASSOCIATION TO MEET IN MUSKOGEE. Into New State Fair Office At Fair Groimds Today, In Preparation For Opening Of Fair Groxmds Scene Of Activity Today As AU Is Put In Readiness For Big Exposition OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Tho OklalioTma ical ''il' moc! In on Tuf.sthiy day and Tiuirsday, 'Iclotx-r il.

and S. The mo-ilnp waw ail- one wi'ok In onier ttiat the niomberp of the awtK'ifLtlon m'srht he In the clfv d'lrlng- the New State fair. F. Ftte. of the asacria- tlon of tho chanpre In the of inect- iMT today.

Three clerka were bii.sy makins entry for ejchlhlts for the New State fair today. of entries cjime In today, entries In all dpi)artments except the baby show clOHiUK at 6 o'clock tthls evening. The New State fair today presented a scene of activity that It almost seemed im thoush the fair on. The secretary 'B office In the ladminlstratlon building was the spot on the ground-s, but exhibitors brlnKlng- In their and bi- icatlngr tnern. were running up flags and drapinjj bunting and banners and everywhvre everybody was hurrying to get the work done so that the gates of the fair open Monday morning the will bo (complete and everytbiiiK in roadinusa to start off with a sw'Ing.

Looking the gnmnd.s one icannot doubt that Mu.skogee It going have a great fair this year. A con- number of livestock entries' are already on the The agrl- exhibit.s will be in tonight. Thavlu's band will arrive from tJkla- homa City either tonight or Sunday morning and the auto drivers who wiil take part in the senaatlotuU auto race.s will spend the week of the fair on the grounds. The exhibits of the boys' corn clubs and the girls' canning clubs of the state will arrive tonight and will be in place by Monday morning. In charge of this work, this Ing that the glrlH' canning club exhibll.s will occupy at least eighty-five feet of epace.

Sixteen countie.s are ed in the glils' exhibit and forty counties In the boys' exhibit. KHCII In the boys' exhibit is repreHented by a team of ten. Kach girl entertci In the canning club exhibit has on di.splay twenty-four Jars of fruit and vegetables. The quality of these exhibirs is unusually high this year and a number of the girls who have their canned product.s In the exhibit will jilaco their exhibits on sale at the close of the fair. Mrs.

J. M. Daily. In charge of the Muskogee county girls' will have a larger exhibit this year than last of better (piality. The Judging of the Muskogee county exhibits will be done at the fair.

QOESTION Raised As To Authenticity Of Deed To Indian's Land Leads To Chargo Of Forgery Against M. Williams, Muskogee Attorney Warrant Issued A warrant was sworn out Saturday for the arrest of M. 1, llliains. well known -Muskogee attorney, ih.irg- Ing hini with forgery in IIK lirst degree. November 1911, Willi.tma Is alleged' to sold a tract of l.ind to A.

furni.shiiig liiin a deii! to the l.inil of William l.uiisford, an Indian allottee who lives near the of nixby Metzgep claims to have iiald sotnething over $t()0 for the deed. Metzger sued Williams for an a('(Nitmting and to of the money A hr paid for the land. It is (barged that the dei is for- ger.v. snd that and the endorsetnent of (he notary is all in the same h.indwriting. the Indian allottee.

Is said to still claim the land and claims to have no 'Knowledge of the transaction Williams and Complaint was filed County Attorney Disney and sworn to by ger. Willianis WIS S.iti.rilav afl- ernoon on trrant io liis- llre W. roort Mr- at one- made bond in s'lni of Cherokee hiaiden Will Recount Old Tribal Legend As Part of Cherokee Day Program A Fair METHODS Of Handling Cotton Situation To Be Discussed By Bankers At Conference In St. Louis. N.

Fink Has Plan Which May Be Presented the 11 I I 1 link, of lo 111. 1 1 ul a I I uli.rll el- Statement! Issued By War Officei Today Conflict In Many Important of Russia, Germany and Austria Still Locked in Struggle In East Appears In Is Panic-Stricken 111 I (t ion lit ('" I III V. llM (- 1 i- I luir- I mill I' I nf I'l ioi. ill .1 HllUlil Mil ck) 1 I ill il' 1 lirri Mul in a r. tl'' 1 1 K' 1 -i 11 i')Ti roiiUi I lion t.i lul Ihir hii 111 1.

-11 I of 1 1 11 1 1 11 'A- o' 111 I uliilti- il bank. lo MINISTERS' ALLIANCE TO REORGANIZE MONDAY K. S. MURCHISON DIED TODAY liltional cotlon. This give ir.Mii"i.l a lae Ion rr lit I (11 1 1 1 n' IIIMo wolll't 1 I ib.ll 11 11 11 rIs 11 1 I a I s.

the ol- in d'n into rid af 111,, 11 le.i At .1 I- til K. S. Murchison, a well known Muskogee lawyer, died at I O'CIIKK this afternoon after a six rnia ks' illness of kidney troubb'. The was rc- to the reel Mb hoi iiiider- taklng rooms wliire it will remain until the funcriU arrangtMiieiits de- citled on. Mr.

Murchlson born In Coronoka. S. Mari 4, ISBl. He liail 1 a Reverend James K. Thompson has' re-aident of MusKogee for a ul called a meeting of all the nilnlstersi years and Is survived bj his wife and In the cit.v to be held at tho children.

Mrs. is ill in church morn-! ('alifornia. The i hildren, all of horn Ing for the ptirpose of re-organlzingi tiut two were with Mr. Munhiaon at KATHKltV.V 11 I I i.U A 1 'llji; DU. F.

H. K1T1-: THIS CITV. WHO Wild, I A I DI l-KCKNDS iiX CHKKMKKI DAY, Till USDAV. )( "I'l AT Till-: STATP; A feature of the tin roki l.iv t'rain at the fair vill 1 a reading of Chi r( ker In- l-'ite of Ta bl-' 111 i li. Mis- I'lle will wear tia Indian iiu' in.

the a( im; plciur. t.tken. Miss l-'ite is the I 'L '-hli-r niubl iit 'h'-i sUte mid a uiere Dr. K. I'lle.

of this city. The readim; that sb- Al here on Chcioliic di. one of the fcat'irt-s -li i hai i.iii ju.i I 'Jims in the durirm tie- p.i.-i siim- iiicr The storv that the lelU 'S an del I'hcri irfiind m- iib'iils that is.al the ('berok'cs tu lla-. i iieil l.o\,-rs' a iMi -r II. on I bp Illinois 11.

ir i hi i i.i li. The -ine of the old 1 hci okccs tor 111 le -ra a ii i-l the "Id- liiic lold II I -M i i uow It pns- .11 Ii.i .1 a 11.1 I l.a m. us I'lle lUloi, a laii-n in of till- Clarcloa- po a-d to laKiii ti al-i-n 'l 11.1 IS la lo- SPECIAL SERVICES FOR PEACE PRAYER SUNDAY will be held at the various (l -iirclH -s of i Siirilav. (ii-iola-r 4 which lit-en I'ft I Hi f'-tr l''a ''i" f-au'li Minister has I n.l .1 minutes, (luring IM.III iiKaniiig "Vt mug ii'es. Willi iir.ners lor return of peace to the uorld.

and i iiiiiiii.er of the mini-it' is will (U- their 'lcci the 111 will take a (()llc(Iioii which will be sent to the "silent --iiI women .111 .1 cl.iMi-i ip tlo w.ir The h'lri II .1 ma luva will be f'liind iiiiai'i- four cf this tho Minister's AlUanie. ile.verend Thompson la vice president of the association and called tho meeting in the time of his death are. A. H. Murchison, of Tahleiiuah; Mrs.

C. K. Taylor, Hartlesville; Mrs. J. C.

Denton, Mus- the of a president, koguc; H. K. Murchison. H. K.

Mur( 1). Koland Martin who has moved Ison. Miirehison's mother, two wa-s formerly pres- 1 sisters and a brother also Burv ivc. The Ident. Tho meeting Monday will be! funeral will probably i.e ludd to reorganize, elect olHcers and to! afternoon but no definilu arraiigi- make plans for the winter.

mcnta iiave been made. A. Luce, 'Who has recently come toi give an address in WILL CUMMINS Bponse to talks of welcoming by otherj ministers. A WILL MUNDY TO WED MISS GLADYS WILSON DIES AT SENECA HOME A quiet wedding that tie celebrated Sunday afternoon at "Sawokla," the suburban home of Miss Alice Rob- i5 in this part of the and toWlllMimdy. Rev.

Joseph an Hulse Christian of the Church of the Assumption -will Falrland, Oct. Rev. T. Cummins, of Seneca, a well known pastor and evangelist of tho Christian ehurkh, died at his home In Seneca 'Wednesday from brain paralysis. Rev.

w.as well known all over northeitstern O'Kjaho- ma, having preached in about every was once paator of the Cliristlan churches at Atton and Adair FREIGHT RATE CASES TO perform the ceremony, which will bo 'Witnessed by a very few friends of the couple. Mr. Munday has been a years and Is a well known and much IBE HEARD IN CHICAGO liked young man. iMsa Wilson is Mlaa Robertson's assistant In the manage- staff Special, inent of her cafeteria and has made' her home with Miss Robertson since her residence here- ANOTHER EFFORT TO RECOVER BIG INTEREST Another effort will be made to re- oover a claim of half a million dollars alleged to he due the eastern Cherokeeg as Interest. When a Judgment was a'warded Robert Owen for one million dollars in 1905, It is claimed that the Indians were to receive interest at five per cent from June 12, 1838, and this Interest waa never paid.

Attorneys A. H. McKennon of McAlester, Frapk Boudlnot and W. W. Cotton of Muskog6e have a contract with the Indians to recover the Interest.

Their claim was presented two years ago wlthoul result. They will now ask permission to Bue for the amount. Oklahoma City, Oct. rwo freight rate cases In which the oKIaliom.i coriioratlon commission Is interested will be tried before an ejcaminer of tho intirsiate lonimerie commuBslon at Chicago Oclbl'er II. Oeorge A.

llenshaw vjill attend tho hearings for the Oktahonaa brord. One case flour rates to Chicago; the ether la a rehearing of certain features of the cattle ahlppln.g Irate casv. affet tltig peddler (ur shlii- ments to southern territory. CHASIN Supposedly Mad Dog On Horseback, Negro Gives The Alarm As Canine Works Way Through Residence I Section Police Slay The Animal () (1 (I (I () () () 1 (I 11) 11 (I I) )ct. 'Hie official this iiftcnuHin tliat tlic violent utiack of (icrmniis at liovtt lias IxM'ii liy tlic allies.

of t(ie I'ol loVs: the Kieinen. Its left wing has been been since yesterday continues without intor- nijition, jhiiticiilaily in the of lioye, we ro- all attacks, although iiiion tliis of tht; front tlie enemy lias been reinforced liy nmv a.ddififHis taken from tho eneniy's center JUS has been previously noted. "Scoiid: I'lion center nothing is to be noted from Klieiius to the region. In the Argonne district the army coq'H (the i of the crown which liati attempted to slip by through tlie woods of has been back toward north of Varennes-La- line. In the Woevre district and tiio lioights of the our progress is always slow but continuous." "in the Helgiaii field the (iennans are lionibarding the front southeast of Place D'Anvers without yet able to produce any considerable effect upon the works.

They Jiave delivered many infantry attacks which have been 1 S(H 1. "In. the field of operations a strong German aniiy of four corjis has taken positions between the frontier of East I'lTiHsia and the River Nitunan. Its left wing has Seen thrown back and Suwalki. At the center the city of haa been taken by the Russians.

On the (rerinaii right wing the struggle continues around Ossovotz, (between Lynck and Bielosto.) "In (ralicia the rear guard of the Aufltriajis has retreated in disordtsr as far as tho Vi.stula. "In Posnia, Serb and Montenegrin columns are advancing Sarajevo." 1 AGGIE MEETING IS OCTOBER (1 9. I rror- tin i ii formal i. sent oul fn.m iikl.ihoma City the il.iti- of llie tiiral meeting .1 by W. I Itcnilcy, to be held ill as Satiird.i.\ '''-lobi-r -I.

'I'll'- (orica il.al' ol Ihc niei-Ung Is I' i((l(ci- p. in the i'ommer(-ial liib rooms. Clvde John.soii, a farm hand, played the I'aul Iti veri' s'llnt to perfection Saturday morning iiiid tho on the eas' side of town did not to shawer thajiks upon him. Harlv In the morning when Was working In the fields near the farm of Hilly Meters north of town a "mad" dog t-ainc dashing road. The "rabid" (-anine WH head- the'darky, vbo no time In i limbing to the roof of a shed.

circling around the shed three or four the animal started foi- the main road. Johnson hurriedly a horse and 'n pursuit. The dog was out of sight when I I () 4 1 I (J MEETING Under Auspices Of The Rotary Club To Be Held At Christian Temple Sunday Afternoon At Which Pleas For Peace Will Be Read Oct. Amsterdam and following statement was givon out at army headquarters the vening of K'tober 2: ''The right wing of the Oennan army in France lias re- renewed effoiis on tlie part of the Fi-ench to outflank it. To the south of Hove the Pronch liave been dislodged from their position.s.

"Tlu! situation on tho center of the battle front remains unchanged. "(rernian troops jwlvancing in the Argonne region have won substantial advance in a southerly direction. of the River troops from Toul un- taiergetic night attacks, but were repulsed. "lii'fore Fort Wavre, St. Catharines and the redoute with their intermediate were assaulted yesterdiiy afternoon at 5 o'clock.

Fort Waelhelm has invested. "The western and important outer epaulement Tennonde fortifications are in our possession. "In the eastern arena of the war advance of forces across the Nienien river agjiinst the Germans jirovince of Suwaiki seems imminent." CONTEST Over Will Of James Campbell, Multi Millionaire Railroad Promoter, Is Filed In St, Louis Court Brother's Children Contestants St. 1 1)1 -1. A suit to break the will niulll-mil- lioiiuir'- railriiad promoter, was filed in lh(- in nil (-oiirt li(-re today by 1 (hil.lr.ii of Jchn 1' Ciunpbell.

of West Virginia, a brother of the St. l-ouis cal'ltalisl. The p' iitioii a that James Camphell Il fi MO liildrcn, although ID hisi will Campbell referred to Koisl c.iiiipbell. who married Rise (J.) London, Oct activity in tho publicity departmonts of tho I'airkham. of SI Douls last week.

German and Austrian army hoadquartoro has furnishod an account of the hi.s daiightei. I remits of current battles differing SO radically from those from the camps of Ih. 1 iitioii nl.so ebarges "'a' their opponents as to render the widely divergent statefnents irreconciliable. to the battle of the onfy a point on which and fuiiire punishment." Mr. Camp -lthe French and German reports agree, and that is that General Von Kluek 'of the Russian in the A pe.ace meeting under the auaplces of the Itolary (lub will held at the Christian temiilc afternoon at; the negro reached the biu Tlie nu-eling will be strictly of foam eight or ten ro''s nim-sectarlan and the program will bo thot the dog had not left the high- fidlows: PLEADED GUILTY.

Grover Ashley, who Uvea In the BANKRUPTCY CASES FILED, The following rcutirB were filed with tj-e clerk of tho Ij'nited States court Saturday: Claudine 1'. H.irrl.s. merchant near Boswell. Okia-. volantary.

A. 1. a nierctiant at Straus, vol'jniary. 1-J. U.

Crites. me-rcluint at Duncan, Involuntary. CRAIG COUNTY COURT. Oct. )- The Webbers Falls neighborhood, pleaded will convene here next way.

said. The animal the iltv on ciist street with the horse-ian close behind. John.son lifted hi.s ok-e in cries of "mad and moihcrs hurried their rhildren Into their homos the dog dashed le. The animal ('lopped its inad f'igh; long enough to bite about six other eanines and one cow. One of Women had presence of mirul to teleiihone the station officers were soon on scene (Jujette by the congregation.

Rotary ('lub and Its Interest In I'eace I'resldent W. Dawson. The of War and of Peace Rotarluji A. tlibson. Vocal seliM lion Harry Schiiltz.

The Raychologie Kffects of MiUtarlBrn and Those of Teaching reace--Kotariau C. H. Fenstermacher. Our Duly to Our Neighbors and the Nations Duty tu the World -Kotariaii bell was Imiiosed upon and ln still going northward, though at a enairs pace, and that he is so powerful by a religious order to leave that General Joffre has been obliged to admit that the German commander his estniK In trust for a medbal Bchooljhas been able to make a French detachment debouching from Arras fall back. The Servians and their Montenegrin allies maintain that they have jevo, the Bosnian capital, almost in their graep- The new army of Emperor Nicholas is on the march and, according to the Petrograd general staff, the Muscovites once more have crossed the German frontier at Szczuozyn and Qrajewo, Russian Poland.

This is conceivably awkward for the German invaders who are said to be retreating from and hospital for the St. slty I'lider the Campbell will the entire estate Is to go to the St. Ivouis uiii- twenty-one years after the death of the widow or of the children; (I. "as i (atest Japanese note. It and occupation of Wel-Hsin, in iirgaret Harrison, Mamie I James (i.

CampbeU Archie W. 1 Chinese government today replied to the It declared again that it considered the Japanese Shan-Tung province, a breach of neutrality and the railroad In Shan-Tung were occupied such action would constitute a further violation. the patrol- The was shot aiid of the anlnmlH which had been bitten Were taken to t-'e citv uoend and killed. olTic ILir A K. eruilty in the district court Saturday to BteaJlnK a yearling steer from Neff, and was sentenced to two state Monday In regular session.

Tho jury win be empaneled Tuesday for a ten days' session. Both criminal and civil dockets are unusually liglit this term. Itotary Quartette. Peroration Mr. I'at Cavin.

I'rayer Uotarlan o. W. Stewart. Id ceH.sl(.nal i Kipling) Mrs. W.

Hak. r. I IK dU-tlon Ki-v. James C. Ihir'K- Afton.

Oct. Special cordially invited Kendrick. president pf the to attend state senate, of Oklahoma CHN. -AIII address the democrat li- voters here next Monday night. He also speaks at Kalrland at 10 o'clock In the morn- lug and at Miami at 8 p.

m. TODAY'S CLEARINGS. The bank clearings for today of l.olH Campbell Murkham. Tin- (if tho will Is also questioned on the ground that it was' the Suwatki district. after it had been The (Slate IS estimated at Peking, China, Oct.

The suit was tiled by the following Japanese note. neplii -w hell jl'pargo James (i. I Ciimpliell and OiMileve Hiiker. I 1 YEOMEN TO ATTEND. Rome, Oct.

London, Oct. dispatch to the Giomale D'ltalia The llrotherhood of Amerioin Vco Sofia, Bulgaria, says that the condition of King Charles of Roumania men have the Invitation of suddenly become worse. The doctors' bulletin today declares that he Heierend James Burkhttrdt to have absolute quiet (n order to safeguard his life. Tv according to the dispatch. ben.v that th, rl 'lb.

are to meet at illness is really a political step, the aim of which is to end the of 1- hall not later than 10.4r, i to have Roumania join forces agamst Germany. and from there will march In a to (-hun-h. corner Fourth and ('ourt streets. All are asked to he present. The sermon will be on the war In Europe.

Venice (by way of Rome and Paris), Cot- 3. report has rqached (Contlnuad-on paea EiahtX.