Muskogee Cimeter

Vol.18 No.6 Proving that prohibition can not be successful in large cities comes news of the indictment of Mayor Gill and other officials in Seattle, the prohibition metropolis, for alleged violation of the liquor laws. And only recently, the American issue, official organ of the Anti-Saloon League, printed a full-length photograph of Gill, on its front page, with a glowing eulogy of him, and a streamer panorama of Seattle. And Major C. B. Bletheen, editor of the Seattle Times, gave interviews to many papers, saying that Seattle's prohibition was a success. The following is also from the Seattle Times, but much later: Swept into a maelstrom of sensational charges as a result of what government officials pronounce one of the most gigantic and far-reaching conspiracies in the history of criminal prosecution in the West, and charged with being the alleged "higher-ups" in a huge combine growing out of Seattle's illicit liquor traffic, Mayor Hiram C. Gill, Police Chief Charles L. Beckingham, former Sheriff Robert T. Hodge, and fourteen others, among them a number of police officers, yesterday afternoon were indicted by the Federal Grand Jury. City Sieuthe Caught. Among others indicted were Meyer M. Peyser, city detective; John Poolman, city detective; James Doom, city detective; Dan J. McLennan, city detective; C. J. Mullen, former patrolman; Logan Billingsley and Fred Billingsley. All these men, with the exception of Mullen, who is charged separately, are made co-defendants in a general conspiracy indictment. These, including Mayor Gill, Chief Beckingham and Mudge, were indicted on three counts each, two charging them with conspiracy to violate Section 238 of the United States Penal Code, the other with plotting to violate the Interstate Commerce law. All of the indictments are for alleged infractions of federal statutes providing for the transportation of intoxicating liquor in interstate commerce, excepting that returned against Mullen. Again—the Dictagraph. Mullen, arrested after it was alleged he was trapped with a government dictagraph, is accused of an attempt to intimidate the Billingleys when they were witnesses awaiting appearance before the grand jury. The Billingleys and Pielow and Praxier were first indicted December 92 and have been at liberty under bond practically since that time. They were charged with conspiracy to violate the federal liquor statutes and later became star witnesses for the government in its sweeping investigation of the alleged whisky ring conspiracy. Bench warrants for the arrest of Mayor Gill, Chief Beckingham and Hodge, the latter twice a candidate for governor, were issued by Judge Jeremiah Neterer, in the United States District Court, immediately following the return of the indictments. Both Mayor Gill and Chief Beckingham, as well as Hodge, are arrested in the indictments to have consigned with the Billingleys, self-confessed whisky ring operators, to ship huge quantities of liquor into Seattle in violation of the federal laws. They are also accused of providing the bootleggers with official and police protection for their liquor shipments and with accepting large sums of the Billingleys' money in payment for their alleged part in the conspiracy. In the heyday of their illicit operations here, the Billingsleys, according to admissions made to the government, did a $200,000 business. Saturday investigation showed them to be practically penniless. As a result of the alleged conspiracy, said to be without a parallel in the United States, Mayor Gill and Chief Beckingham are charged with permitting the Billingsleys to operate without molestation, while many of their rivals felt the force of police eyes. Punishment Severe. The offense charged against the indicted men, upon conviction, is punishable by two years' imprisonment in the federal penitentiary or a fine of $10,000, or both, on each count. Mayor Gill is alleged, in evidence submitted to the grand jury, to have The Muskogee Cimeter. MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY MARCH 10 1917. REAL FIGHT IN THE CITY THAT'S WHERE THE LIQUOR QUESTION WILL BE DECIDED Vermont Paper Points Out That In "Wettest" States, 75 Per Cent of the People Live In Big Towns and Defend the Saloons It is not unlikely that those who are fighting the saloon may be fooled by "signs of victory" in the maps showing dry territory. Putting the saloons out of business isn't a question of merely capturing land areas. White "territory" shown on prohibition maps usually represents farm lands, while black areas represent congested populations. The problem of the saloon is intensely human—it has to do with men and women, and most of those who live in unconquered territory live in cities which do not govern much land area. Only about 20 per cent of the population in dry states live in cities. Whereas in the wettest states in this country about 75 per cent live in the cities. One-fourth of all the people in the United States living in wet territory live in six cities—New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston and Cleveland. One-half the people in licensed territory live in four states—New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and New Jersey. The fight against the saloon had its origin in the country. It was the outgrowth of religious revivals. The farmer of today inherits the hatred of his forefathers for the saloon and he hits the saloon a solar-plexus blow every time he gets a chance. But it's different in the city. The city is the stronghold of the saloon. And those who would destroy the saloon will have to understand that they can't fight the saloon in big industrial towns with an elaborate rural program. It's true that here and there saloons have been closed in some big towns, but usually this has been due to the votes of the country constituency. It is in the industrial city and state that the last big battle on the liquor question will be fought out. And it is here that the opposing forces are arraying themselves. In the last analysis the workingmen of this country will say whether the nation shall go "dry." It is possible that the constitutional amendment for which the anti-saloon forces are fighting will close the saloons of the nation without the consent of the great masses of people living in the great industrial centers. In some respects this would be a misfortune. For however bad an institution the saloon may be in in the minds of the people who have the power to vote it out, there's no doubt that large numbers of men and women in wet territory are perfectly sincere in their conviction that the abolition of the saloon would be a calamity.—Burlington (Vt.) Democrat. FACE DEFICITS Salt Lake will have an economic problem to face when the proposed "dry" law goes into effect, according to figures furnished by License Clerk Charles Lawrence. There are now in this city twelve wholesale liquor houses which pay $4,000 annually each; eight clubs which pay $400 each; 130 salons which pay $1,500 each, and 41 drug stores which pay the city $400 annually each for the privilege of selling bottled goods. These, with the tax imposed on the breweries of the city, will make the loss to the city approximately $235,000 annually.—Salt Lake (Utah) Republican. Governor Risks Life Before Lynch Mob! BARRIS L LWING Governor Stanley of Ken a mob bent on lynching for failure to re'ease a No He said he would give the Governor of Kentucky first, Negro in Kentucky be lyr Governor Stanley of Kentucky risked his life before a mob bent on lynching Circuit Judge Charles Bush for failure to re'euse a Negro prisoner to be lynched. He said he would give the mob 'a chance to lynch the Governor of Kentucky first,' before he would let another Negro in Kentucky be lynched. CHESIRE IS OUT ON BOND OF TWO THOUSAND. Anderson Man Bound Over to Higher Court on Serious Charge. Anderson, Feb. 27.—Magistrate G. H. Geiger has bound over to the court of sessions, Mr. V. B. Cheshire. The preliminary hearing was concluded lately Saturday afternoon. At its conclusion the magistrate state that he would send the case, to the higher court. The next arm of he court of general sessions for this county will be convened on the second Monday in May. Messrs. B. F. Martin of Greenville and G. B. Greene of the firm of Greene and Earle of Anderson appeared for the defendant, while Mr. A. H. Dagnall of Anderson appeared for the prosecutor. Mr. Martin went to Greenville late Saturday night and made application for bail before Judge Mendel L. Smith at chambers. On the showing made Judge Smith named bond in the sum of $2,500. The bond was executed Saturday night and was signed by Messrs. Will McGee and Reeves Chamblee, along with Mr. Cheshire. The warrant for Mr. Cheshire's arrest was issued by Magistrate Gelzer on the 22nd day of February and the affidavit in the warrant alleges that the defendant committed the act during the blank day of December, the girl in the case being nine years of age and under 14 years of age. The indictment is brought under section 143 of the criminal code. The prosecutor in the case is the grandfather of the girl, and the girl now resides with her grandfather in another city in this state. G. V. Cheshire is editor of The Anderson Intelligent, published at Anderson, S. C. The Intelligence is one of the leading Democratic papers published in the state of South Carolina, and has stirred up more strife between the races than all the other papers combined. A few months ago this same editor was arrested in Greenville, S. C. for drunkenness, disorderly conduct and speeding. A line of $50 was imposed upon him for the offense. He believes it at the street car Company of Anderson, should arm their conductors with hickory sticks and beat the negroes off the cars when there is not enough room on the cars for all the white people to sit down. Chickens will come home to roost. It is reported that Thomas Coffey of Boston U. S. A. is among the missing Americans who were on the Laconi when she was sunk by a German submarine. American Negro plays its part in every crisis of our government. Some day America will give her dark loyal citizens equal rights as is given in France to all of her citizens who willingly give their lives for the protection of their country in time of need. America should profit by the example made by France. Loyalty will win out in the end. When you have Backache the liver or kidneys are sure to be out of gear. Try Sanol, it does wonders for the liver, kidneys and bladder. A trial 35c bottle will convince you. Get it at the drug store. 1. Stanley tucky risked his life before Circuit Judge Charles Bush gro prisoner to be lynched. mob 'a chance to lynch the before he would let another lynched. MARQUESS COSE DISMISSED. Charges Aga'inst Negro School Head Not Sustained by the Evidence. Special to The World. Oklahoma City, Feb. 26.—After an all-day hearing today on charges that had been filed against J. M. Marquess, president of the Colored A. & M. college at Langston, that he had misused the funds of the school and lack of discipline, the state board of education unanimously dismissed the charges as not being sustained by the evidence. The board immediately ordered an audit made of the financial and other records of the institution by the state examiner and inspector and a system of accounting established in the institution. A rule that the state board had invoked in the school, that each student should be required to work a certain portion of a day, was revoked and vocational study will be supplied as soon as he school can be equipped for it. A number of the students of the school were at the hearing as witnesses for or against the president. Marquess, testifying for himself, convinced the board that everything mentioned in the charges had been accounted for.—Tulsa World. In the case above referred to the people were represented by Hon. J. Coody Johnson, o. Wewoka. Mr. Johnson handled the case in splendid style and brought out all the facts and in our opinion proved every allegation made in the charges. We make no criticism of the Board of Education, because we believe that after taking all things into consideration that they thought best to be hings sand for a while. The ordering of an audit by the Board is sufficient to show that all is not well at Langston and the revoking of a rule as above shown proves that the position of the people was well taken. We are proud of the young men who testified in this case without fear or favor and told the whole truth and who stood like adamant against the severe cross examination by William Harrison, attorney for Marquess. Marquess had a chance to defend himself but he gives those who heads he chops off no opportunity for de'ense and we are informed that he is using the ax vigorously. Judge Vernor, after a strenuous session of court lasting several days, has appointed Attorney Ed. K. Brook, as guardian for Luther Manuel, the rich Creek freedman, who is said to be worth one-half million. The judge ignored all the nominations and went to the body of the citizenship of our citizenship of our county and made the appointment. He did the best he could under the circumstances. There were so many conflicting interests among the colored people who used their influence upon the minor and his mother that it was impossible for the court to satisfy all these interests and the court proceeded along lines that he thought best. The main thing is to protect the minor and we hope and believe this will be done. The Government, we understand, is satisfied with the appointment and we presume this ends the contest. 100 From Times Demorrit COMING TO MUSKOGEE, OKLA. United Doctors' Specialist will Be at the Torson Hotel, Saturday, March 17, 1917, One Day Only. Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. Remarkable Success of These Talented Physicians in the Treatment of Chronic Diseases. Offer Their Services Free of Charge. The United Doctors, licensed by the State of Oklahoma, for the treatment of deformities and all nervous and chronic diseases of men, women and children, offer to all who call on this visit, consultation, examination and advice free, making no charge whatever except the actual cost of treatment for the purpose of proving that they have at last discovered a system and method of treatments that are reasonably sure and certain in their results. These Doctors are among America's leading stomach and nerve specialists, and are experts in the treatment of chronic diseases of the blood, liver, stomach, intestines, skin, nerves, heart, spleen, kidneys or bladder rheumatism, sciatica, diabetes, bed-wetting, tape worm, leg ulcers, weak lungs, and those afflicted with long standing, deep-seated, chronic disease, that have baffled the skill of other physicians, should not fail to call. Deaths has often been curred in sixty days. According to their system no more operation for appendicitis, gall stones, tumors, goiters, piles, etc., as all cases accepted will be treated without operation or hypodermic injection, as they were among the first in America to earn the name of "Bloodless Surgeons," by doing away with the knife with blood and with all pain in the successful treatment of these dangerous diseases. If you have kidney or bladder troubles bring a two ounce bottle of your urine for chemical analysis and microscope examination. Worn-out and run-down men or women, no matter what your aliment may be, no matter what you have been told, or the experience you have had with other physicians, settle it forever in your mind. If your case is incurable they will tell you so. Consult them upon this visit. It costs you nothing. Remember, this free offer is for this visit only. Married ladies must come with their husbands and minors with their parents. Laboratories, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. S. L. Dudley on South Main Street, is the harness man when you need anything in that line call on him, as he deserves the patronage of all good people. He is a deserving young man, who has lived in the city for a number of years and is making good. Read his ad. It is guaranteed to any woman who will use Sanol Eczema Prescription will find a perfect complexion. It will cure any eruption on the skin. It is a skin Tonic. Sanol Eczema Cure is a house remedy. A trial will convince you. Get it at the drug store. You only need Sanol Eczema Cure to get rid of those Black Heads, Pimples, rough bumpy skin. Leaves skin smooth. Cures any case of Eczema. Is pleasant to use. A trial will convince you. 35c at the drug store. It is always easy to find where the Cimeter stands on any subject. We always make our fight in the open and whole sometimes we may be wrong, yet you always known which way our musket is pointed. Some fellows are cussing us about our stand in the Langham matter but it is plain we have not given any one the double-cross. Is that plain? NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. In the District Court in and for Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma. Willis Griffin, Plaintiff. VS. No. 5509 Ferdy Griffin Defendant Fanny Griffin, Defendant. Said defendant, Fanny Griffin, will take notice that she has been sued in the above named court by the above named plaintiff, for an absolute divorce from her, the said defendant, upon the grounds of extreme cruelty and abandonment, and that she must answer the petition of said plaintiff filed therein on or before the 6th day of April, 1917, or said petition will be taken as true and a judgment for said plaintiff will be rendered accordingly. In Witness Whereof, I have here-unto set my hand as Clerk of said Court and affixed the seal thereof this 21st day of February, 1917. C. H. SHAFFER, (Seal) Court Clerk. By TOM L. FULLER, Deputy. A. G. W. SANGO, Attorney for Plaintiff. Recently we published in these columns an offer of The Youth's Companion and McCall's Magazine, both for a full eyar, for only $2.10, including a McCall Dress Pattern. The high price of paper and ink has obliged McCall's Magazine to raise their subscription price February 1 to 10 cents a copy and 75 cents a year—so that the offer at the above price must be withdrawn. Until March 41 our readers have the privilege of ordering both publications for a full year, including the choice of any 15-cent McCall Dress Pattern, for only $2.10. The amount of reading, information and entertainment contained in the fifty-two issues of The Youth's Companion and the value of twelve monthly fashion numbers of McCall's at $2.10 offer a real bargain to every reader of this paper. This two-at-one price offer includes: The Youths' Companion—52 issues. 2. The Companion Home Calendar for 1917. 3. McCall's Magazine—12 fashion numbers. 4. One 15-cent McCall Dress Pattern—your choice from your first copy of McCall's—if you cend a two-cent stamp with your selection. THE YOUTH'S COMPANION, St. Paul St. Boston, Mass. New Subscriptions Received at this Office. Do you get up at night? Sanol is surely the best for all kidney or bladder troubles. Sanol gives relief in 24 hours from oil backache and bladder troubles. Sanol is a guaranteed remedy. 35c and $1.00a bottle at the drug gstore. The whiskey peddlers should set up and take notice. When a man like Creekmore goes to the pen the little follows should quit the game. The government is in earnest and means to break up the bootlegger. We believe the whiskey traffic should be regulated and every family should have a quantity for personal use, but since the law says no, be believe in obeying the laws and we further believe that placing a tax upon the sale of liquor wo ld put a stop to the bootlegger. Read the advertisements in this paper and patronize those who advertise with us; they deserve your trade. Our subscription is $1.00 per year. Agents wanted. Good commission paid. Write us. Large Trial Bottle of Sanol for 35c. Sanol is a family remedy. Sanol is sold on an absolute guarantee. Remember if it says Sanol it is all right. 35c and $1.00 at the drug store. Discases of Women and Children 228% N. 2nd St. Muskogee, Okla A CASE OF BLOOD POISON. Muskogee, Okla. 2-28-17 In December past I become a victim of a Lacerated Wound of the Face, after having it treated, and pronounced well by a very eminent Physician; in the mean time the great amount of swelling and conjestion continued to exist although it was cured over on the side, suppuration unbearable pain, fever and blood poison set up. Where upon one of my friends called in Dr. J. E. Hart, Jan. 8th, 1917 who by exerting the most srenious efforts through tact and skill battling with that unenomous demon of blood poison has brought me to a soft and permanent cure. Clifford Bryant 567 S. St. Loss and Loss of Appetite 1 general strengthening tonic, LOSS chill TONIC, trivet on head, tonic for loss of appetite, for adults and children. 500 Strange Mixtures Sold. It should be noticed that although there are all these sources of supply in the northern Russian towns, liquor is either troublesome or costly to obtain, or both. The town peasant may obtain only stuf that often poisons the consumer. Few of the villages of Russia are without their illicit liquor brewers or distillers, but their output is so unpleasant to drink and so deleterious that it appeals to only a few of the village's hopeless old drunkkars. When you realize that village liquor in Russia today consists of such beverages as denaturalized alcohol with tobacco and pepper; varnish soaked through bread; and peppered benzine (these drinks were among the discoveries recently made by an official investigation of the Volhynia zemstvo), you hardly wonder that the illicit distillers often have been drummed out of the village by their half poisoned clientele. DIVINE RAPS BILL SUNDAY CINCINNATI EPISCOPAL MINISTER CONDEMNS "SAWDUST CHRISTIANITY" Rev. Guy Shipler Tells Why He Refused to Join With Other Preachers In Tabernacle "Revival" Conducted By Stough, the "Dry" Evangelist—"Mob Psychology" A rap at "Billy" Sunday and his imitators in the "dry" cause is contained in a story from the Cincinnati Times-Star. Rev. Stough, a "dry" evangelist, is conducting a tabernacle revival in Cincinnati. The article says: That the tabernacle type of revival actually has caused a falling off of church membership in the Middle West, was one of the statements made by the Rev. Guy Shliper, rector of the Church of the Epiphany, in a sermon on "Sawdust Christianity," Sunday morning. "Applying the test which the revivalists themselves use, 'By their fruits ye shall know them!' I call attention to the declaration of Bishop T. I. Reese, to the effect that every religious survey in the Middle West shows that sane thinking people do not want a religion of primitive emotion," said the Rev. Dr. Shliper. "Many people support a campaign such as is now being carried on by my brother pastors on Walnut Hills because it gets the crowds. Of course, we should all like to see crowds in our churches, but we should consider what we must give up to get them by the Billy Sunday method. P. T. Barnum got the crowds, but we all know what he said about the great American public after he had succeeded for many years in getting them. Charlie Chaplin would probably all the largest auditorium any night in the week." In the preface to his sermon the Walnut Hills rector stated that his desire was to explain why he had not joined in with the other ministers in the tabernacle revival. "Evangelists," he said, "rely on their mastery of the most primitive mob psychology, which is to make people forget themselves. They preach a doctrine of fear, the first principle of which seems to be that God is a tyrant armed with a big stifch waiting to push us into hell. The greatest objection to the theology of fear is that it lowers the whole tone of life. It keeps numberless sane-thinking people out of the church because they believe that such preaching is representative. Most emphatically it is not. Christ said, 'A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.' I have no faith in the type of Christianity which judges results by the size of erowds and by the number of converts obtained through systematic application of mob psychology. I have no special quarrel with Mr. Stough and do not intend to be drawn into a controversy, but I have felt called on to explain why the Church of the Epiphany has had no part in the campaign." CIGARETTE SMOKING MAY BE MADE CRIME They are going the limit in dry Oklahoma. The prediction that prohibition of liquor would be followed by the prohibition of tobacco, is borne out by this Associated Press dispatch from Oklahoma City: A law under which the smoking of a cigarette in Oklahoma would make the smoker liable to arrest is in prospect. CAN BE FINED FOR SMOKING CIGARETTES IN DRY KANSAS Legislature Passes Bill Making It Offense For Using Them Even In Houses of Citizens-Has Power to Prohibit Use of Coffee, Tea, or Anything "Deleterious" CHILD LABOR & MFG ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE CFO07E Manufacturers who exploit child labor thrive in "dry" states and contribute generously to the cause of prohibition. Most of the members of Congress who voted against the child labor bill voted in favor of national prohibition. Manufacturers who exploit child labor thrive in "dry" states and contribute generously to the cause of prohibition. Most of the members of Congress who voted against the child labor bill voted in favor of national prohibition. When debate on the wisdom or unwisdom of prohibition was reaching its most acute stage throughout the country, those who argued that such a measure would be the entering wedge for all sorts of intolerable restrictions upon personal liberty were derided. When it was suggested that it would be just as reasonable to pass laws enforcing temperance in eating as laws regulating the consumption of intoxicants, they were accused of begging the question. Time seems to be proving that they were right and the other fellows wrong. What Next? What Next? Kansas has had statutory prohibition for many years. This week the Lower House of the Kansas Legislature has passed a bill making it an offense punishable by a fine to smoke a cigarette, A WOMAN SPEAKS To the Editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. One wonders if the American people are going to allow a few hysterical hypocrites to rule them in their homes. The recent law prohibiting shipment of liquor to "dry" states certainly is opposed to the "freedom" America claims. This is one side of the question. But, why has so much liquor been ordered to private homes in dry territory? It is evident that if the state is made entirely dry, so that the would-be reformer can no longer have it in his home, he will relent and we will be surprised by the vote against prohibition. If this is what the court is aiming at, I say go to it and it certainly will only last a short time, because so few really want prohibition they do not count. FROM A WOMAN WHO IS TIRED OF ALL THIS FOOLISHNESS. 'NOTHER IOWA RAID Just a "squib" from the Cedar Rapids (la. Republic, under a Sioux City date line, showing that prohibition is still not prohibiting in Iowa: "In a campaign to make Sioux City 'bone dry,' the police raided the Great Northern railroad freight station Friday night and seized a quantity of liquor consigned a number of residents here. "Chief of Police Horman, who planned the raid, announced that other freight houses would also be raided. The raid followed shortly after Police Judge Iddings, who ruined that the present, law prohibits the importation of liquor into Iowa for private consumption, agreeing with Judge Uttterbach's decision in Des Moines." even in one's own home. The new prohibition is a logical outgrowth of the old one. But this is probably not the end. The state has as much right to forbid cigarettes as it had to forbid liquor. It also has as much right to forbid coffee, tea, soda, pop, hard-boiled eggs, strawberries or oysters whenever the Legislature in its wisdom decides that these things are deleterious to the health of individuals. The prohibition era is a dangerous one in American history. Once the right of such sumptuary legislation is conceded, there is no telling to what length fanatical faddists will carry it. This is the one great weakness in the whole prohibition program and the one which causes thousands of worthy persons who oppose intemperance to condemn prohibition laws.—St. Louis Post Dispatch. THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION Optimism In Dry States. [Macon (Ga.) Telegraph.] There's one comfort, anyway: After the Webb-Kenyon outfit gets through with us a follow can have the headache without being looked upon as a suspicious character. Those who suggest that the allied German peace move was inspired by Mr. Bryan should prove that Mr. Bryan should first prove that Mr. Bryan is inspiring any longer at all. Thought He Meant "Drel." "No, I don't speak German, but I got along pretty well in Berlin without knowing the language." "That so?" "Yes; for instance, one day I wanted a drink and I went into a beer garden and told to the waiter: "Look here, old man, I'm dry! Do you understand? Dry!" And the next minute he came back with three beers." (Luke McLuke, Chincinnati Enquirer.) Our forefathers kicked the lining out of King George because they objected to government without representation and objected to their tea being taxed. But what would they have done if the government which gave them no representation and no vote had prohibited the sale of tea and denied them the use of the beverage? Yet that is just what has happened in the District of Columbia when the Senate passed the Sheppard bill. Are there no Americans left in America? UNMASKED. ```markdown ``` 47 INDICTMENTS RETURNED AT KEOKUK IN ONE DAY Part To Be Paid Now, Balance In Six Months-Defendants Convicted of Maintaining a Nuisance -Attorneys Issue Injunctions Against Property Iowa has had prohibition for nearly a year. The following story from Keokuk (la.) Gate City shows why it is considered the "wettest" state in the union: A record for speed was made in the district court when forty-seven indictments were returned last night at 5 o'clock and today before noon most of the defendants were in court or represented, and their cases were disposed of. The grand jury made a partial report, showing forty-seven indictments and seven cases ignored. The warrants in the cases were served at once and the court room this morning was quite crowded when the cases were called, before Judge Henry Bank. The defendants were indicted on a charge of maintaining a nuisance, which carries with it a fine, on conviction, of $200. They pleaded guilty to the included offense of selling intoxicating liquors contrary to law, which plea was by agreement and accepted by the state. The defendants with the exception of Phillip Nickel and George Salzer were fined $150 and costs, $50 and costs were to be paid at once and the balance to be paid in six months, and if not paid, the mittimus will issue and they will be confined to the county jail until the fine is paid. Salzer was fined $200 and Nickel $200. Permanent injunctions have been agreed upon against the property in several instances, according to the attorneys, and if these are issued and bond given by the property holders to abate the nuisances, then the assessment of a mulet tax of $150 per quarter will not be made against the property. Mr. Steer said the clients represented by Attorneys Ballinger, Timberman and Marshall had practically agreed to the matter. The assessment lists are all made out and will issue against twenty-four property holders in this city in case the injunctions do not issue. NTRODUCING "TOMMY. ATKINS" THE MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF CHINA Here is one of the British soldiers, made famous by Kipling in his "Barrack Room Ballad," receiving his usual "tot" of rum. Inasmuch as the German, the French and the English, who have done practically all of the fighting in the European War, openly indulge in liquor, and as none as victor, the Prohibitionists can not for the life of them use the bin coiff as material for "dry" arguments. THE BEST OF THE WEEK THE FIELD Here is an official photograph taken in the Somme district at the front. The French warriors have liquor at every meal. They are a good-looking bunch of men, and ohl how they CAN fight! No, they do not belong to the Anti-Saloon League. FASTIDIOUS FOLKS And now Prohibitionists, in conference in Chicago, in addition to not liking John Barleycorn, don't approve of the scant garb of the Goddess of Liberty on Uncle Sam's new silver quarters. Frances Beauchamp, secretary of the party's national committee, declares: "There is plenty of room for more clothes on the figure. I do not approve of its nudity." Mrs. Virgil Hinshaw, wife of the national chairman, said the government evidently wished to have the figure "in style by putting so few clothes on her." And we'll bet a big red apple against a last year's bird's nest that not one person in fifty who has received or seen this new coin has even noticed whether it bears the figure of Liberty or of an eagle, or whether Liberty is clothed and in her right mind, dressed for the ballroom, or in the altogether Some folks are so intent upon being shocked that they remind one of the fastidious females who objected to the "ol swimmin' hole" being so near their home, and who continued to object to it after it had been removed a half mile further down stream because they "could still see it—with spy glasses."—Mansfield (O.) News. WEST VIRGINIA MAY VOTE WET The st teme it was made by politiologists, recently, that West Virginia and Iowa already were tired of prohibition. This is borne out by the following dispatch from Wheeling to the Cincinnati Enquirer: Senator B. J. Rosenbloom, of Ohio county, who is at home here during a recess of the Legislature, will ask during this present session that the wet and dry question again be submitted to the people at the next election, two years hence. "The two years of prohibition have been farces, declared the Senator, and I believe the people should have the right to vote on the matter again." Deloy, in an Associated Press dispatch from Charleston is one reason why West Virginia is tired of it: "A bill aimed to stop the importation of intoxicating liquors into the State was today introduced in the West Virginia Senate and House of Delegates. The bill would make it a misdemeanor for any person to bring into the State more than one quart of intoxicating liquor during a period of thirty days. Common carriers knowingly permitting a violation of the act would be liable to a fine of not less than $200. Since West Virginia became a prohibition State, large quantities of liquors have been brought into the State from Maryland and Kentucky, special trains having been run for that purpose on some of the railroads." TEN MILLION MOUTHS ARE FED BY LIQUOR INDUSTRY Prohibition Would Strike the Blow That Would Affect the Jobs of 2,000,000 Workers and Jeopardize the Livelihood of Those Dependent Upon Them MEMBER NATIONAL NECORO PRESS ASSOCIATION The Cimeter is the only Republican paper in the City of Muskogee. Theaily Phoenix is sometimes Republican and sometimes independent but at the present time it claims to be independent, such a changing is not worth three whoops in h—1 to any political party and yet Bixby, its editor, got rich at the Republican pie counter. What base ingratitude. The Quinnies That Does Not Affect The Head because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXA-NA. The Quinnies that does not cause nervousness nor ringing in head. Remember the full name and look for the signature of E. W. GROVE 25s NOTICE BY PUBLICATION In the District Court of Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma: Vioia Brown, Plaintiff. The defentant Harry Brown, will take notice that he has been sued in the above named Court by the plaintiff, Viola Brown, for Divorce for Desertion and that unless he answer the partition of the plaintiff, Viola Brown, on or before the 12th day of March, 1917 the allegations set forth in said petition will be taken as confessed and judgment rendered accordingly In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said District Court this the 23rd day of January, 1917. By Tom L. Fuller, Deputy, Clerk. Geo. W. Parker, Attorney for Plaintiff. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. In the District Court of Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma: No. 5498 H. Foutch Plaintiff, Vs. Neter Foutch Defendant. The defendant Netter Foutch, will take NOTICE that she has been sued in the above named Court by the plaintiff, 11. Foutch, for Divorce, by reason of Desertion and that unless she answer the petition of the plaintiff, H Foutch on or before the 5 day of March, 1917, the allegations set forth in said petition will be taken as confessed and judgment rendered accordingly. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said District Court this the 19 day of January, 1917 C. H. Shaffer, Court Clerk, By Tom L. Fuller Deputy Clerk Geo. W. Parker, Attorney-for Plaintiff. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. In the Superior Court yf Muskogee County, Oklahoma. Phillip Washington Defendant. The defendant, Phillip Washington will take notice that he has been sued in the above named Court by the Plaintiff, Lula Washington for Divorce, and that unless he answer the petition filed by the Plaintiff alleging asseroin and gross neglect of duty on or before the 23rd day of March 1917 the allegations contained in said petition will be taken as true and confessed and judgement rendered accordingly. In Witness Whereof, I have set my hand as Clerk of said Court and affixed the seal thereof, this the 3rd day of February 1917. B. M. Hatton, Attoney—for Plaintiff. Dr. J. E. Hart, Surgeon Diseases og women and Children a specialty. 228 1-2 N. 2nd St. Phone 410 Physician and Surgeon Describes of women and children a specialty Residence 904 Denver, Office 2001-2 S ), 2nd Phones Res 462 Office 401 RUSSIA POOR LACK LIQUOR IF. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch.] PROHIBITION IN CZAR'S LAND IS CLASS LEGISLATION RICH DRINK WINE Bassett Digby, Correspondent of Chicago Daily News, Says Vast Nation Is Far From Being Dry—Peasants Must Drink Dangerous Substitutes For Vodka Russian prohibition is class legislation, according to Bassett Digby, special correspondent of the Chicago Daily News. Before considering the results of prohibition in Russia it is necessary to note that the economic position of the country is extremely complicated. The men of the nation are away at the war; industry and agriculture are "carrying on" as best they can. Exporting is practically at a standstill. The peasant is deprived of his vodka. To begin with, it is a mistake to imagine, as many enthusiastic prohibition advocates abroad apparently imagine, that no drink may be obtained nor drunken men be seen in Russia. Of vodka there is certainly precious little anywhere in the town, except in the cellars of the privileged class — the nobility and high government officials. In the villages there is none. But only dull-witted men and poor men are unable to obtain drink in the towns and cities. In Kiev and the south generally beer and light wines are on sale without restriction. In Moscow, Petrograd and the big northern towns there are six sources of drink. Six Sources of Drink. There are the nobility, the high officials and members of the embassies, who are subject to no restrictions and obtain as much as they like. There are the cellars of citizens who either held heavy stocks before the war or who received a widely circulated tip over wine merchants' telephones just before the prohibition of sale came into force. There are the wounded officers and invalids who easily obtain drink permits from hospital authorities and doctors. There are the French subjects, who for some mysterious reason are given generous wine permits, while no other foreign subjects may receive, merely by statement of their nationality, even a single bottle of wine. STATE TREASURY COMMONWEALTH OF TENNESSEE There are the hotels and big restaurants, nearly every one of which, of any consequence, readily supplies drink—at a price—to clients who dine in a private room and who tip heavily. And then there are the brewers and distillers of strange decoctions of deuturalized alcohol, furniture polish, hops and varnish. TEN MILLION FED BY LIQUOR Prohibition Would Strike the Bl 2,000,000 Workers and Je Those Depend The Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch contained the following article on the magnitude of the liquor industry and the detrimental effect of prohibition: Miniators and others who are fond of preaching the doctrine of prohibition invariably present to their audiences only one side of the question. The man whom, if given a chance, would feel inclined to vote in favor of prohibition or local option has probably taken stock of the situation as it really is. Do you realize, Mr. Voter, that the brewing industry—taking only this branch of the problem—is the sixth in amount of invested capital among the large industries in the United States? Do you know that it represented, alone and by itself, an investment of over $671,000,000 in 1905, according to the Census Pureau—more, of course, in 1912? Do you realize that its annual product represents a value or nearly $375, 000,000 (Census Bureau, 1909); that it employs people at wages superior to all but one or two industries in the country? The Farmers' Share. Do you know that the raw materials worked up in this industry include barley, corn, wheat, hops, coal, oil, brick, iron and steel, lumber and cement—in fact, all building materials, machinery without end? Tennessee has just been made "bone dry." No liquor can be shipped into that state. Finances of Tennessee are in bad condition, as one result of prohibition. In the above cartoon the Commercial Appeal, without editorial comment, pictorially calls attention to this fact. Do you know that the distilleries of Peoria alone consume the equivalent MAY BAR ANARCHISTS FROM UNITED STATES The purpose of the Anti-Saloon League is to crush the liquor industry, which has been recognized as a lawful institution by no less an authority than the United States Supreme Court. With its gangs of professional reformers, the Anti-Saloon League is trying to abolish the liquor business which furnishes the nation and the states with an income of $325,000 each year. Read this dispatch from Washington (D. C.) to the Cincinnati Enquirer: "Final action on the immigration bill was deferred by the senate tonight to permit committee consideration of an amendment proposed by Senator LaFollette, to eliminate persons who advocate or teach destruction of property. A vote on the passage of the bill probably will be reached tomorrow. Senator LaFollette contended that there were other sufficient bars against Anarchists, and that a provision to which he objected would shut the doors of the United States to worthy men from other lands because destruction of property had been incidental to a revolution in which they were concerned." Doesn't the Anti-Saloon League advocate the destruction of property? Doesn't it teach the doctrine of confiscation without compensation? How much money does it contribute toward the upkeep of the United States? Why do people "fall" for it? THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION WHY STOP IT, OF COURSE. [Philadelphia Inquirer.] Hartford, Connecticut, has a research foundation which will investigate the subject of "why men drink." And, having found out, the men who do drink will probably ask with Wetz, "what yuh gonn do about it?" Now a newspaper reports that it is Billy Sunday's intention to retire next July. Billy is too pessimistic. Money always goes fast about Christmas time, but there will still be a good deal of it left next summer. Judging by his past achievements as a mechanician, Mr. Bryan will be able to convert his water wagon concurrently into a steam roller. BUT HE PICKS THE MONEY SPOTS [Detroit Free Press.] Billy Sunday proposes to tackle New York City next. You've got to hand it to Billy—he doesn't pick the easy spots. AND THAT AIN'T NO LIE. Indianapolis Star.1 When Bryan sent his cablegram to Lloyd-George the President must have heaved another sigh as he realized that William no longer is in the Cabinet. MOUTHS ARE UOR INDUSTRY Blow That Would Affect the Jobs of Jeopardize the Livelihood of Dent Upon Them of the entire corn product of the states of Illinois and Iowa as far as it leaves the farms? Do you know that the production and distribution of alcoholic beverages altogether give employment directly to about 1,200,000 people, representing a population of 6,000,000 out of a total population in the United States of $8,000,000? And if we figure those who would be indirectly affected, the number employed would reach about 2,000,000, representing a population of about 10,000,000. Do you realize what these few figures, taken at random, signify? It is not alone the destruction of these trades and the unemployment of the men engaged in them, disastrous though that would be. 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From a casual viewpoint it seems that the newspaper should have the right to run its own business insofar as the running does not conflict with the laws of the land. If it is legal, and the laws say it is, to manufacture beer and liquor, why should it be illegal to advertise the same. Besides, what do the sponsors of the bill offer the newspapers to offset the jobs sustained by depriving them of the advertising revenue. Draws a Parallel Cincinnati Times - Star Tells Why Hub City Voted Wet The Cincinnati (Ohio) Times-Star tells why Boston repudiated the methods of "Billy" Sunday, thus: "Boston has decided in no uncertain manner that it will continue to want down its beans with a chalice of beer. The election of Tuesday, however, he more than the usual significance the annual prohibition plebiscite the laws of Massachusetts inflict on cities. There had been a great " against the trenches of liquor. It w under the leadership of William Sunday, the well-known evangelia For weeks 'Billy' Sunday had been wrestling with the Demon Rum for the edification of great crowds that thron ed his tabernacle and 'hit his trail Under the inspiration of Sunday's sensational methods Boston was to be th first large city to embrace the cause of prohibition without the assistance of an up or down-state rural element. "Boston not only refused to 'hit the trail' of prohibition so fervently pointed out by Mr. Sunday, but it wet" by over 23,000 votes, an increase of 9,000 over the majority or last year. And now they say that effete Boste was really voting on Tuesday again Billy Sunday methods, instead of passing on the question of prohibition. On this theory the Bostonese apparent decided that they did not care for the religion well stirred before taking."