. STATE OF OKLAHOMA ON
‘ VERGE OF CIVIL WAR
OVER KLAN ACTIVITIES
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE TAKES HAND IN OKLA
HOMA ROW OVER KU KLUX KLANS AND OR
DERS DOORS OF FEDERAL BUILDINGS CLOS
TO LAWBREAKERS—MILITIA ON GUARD.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—Should members of the
Oklahoma legislature fail to gain entrance to the state
capitol, in an attempt to impeach Governor Walton for his
f fight against the Ku Klux Klan, and try to meet in special
session in any other Federal building, they will find its
doors closed to them by orders of the Federal government.
This decision was reached in respone to Governor Wal
ton’s appeal to President Coolidge to prevent use of Fed
eral buildings in Oklahoma City by the state legislature.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 26.—Military occupation
of the State capitol intended to prevent the convening of.
an extra session of the lower house of the legislature at
noon, was completed at 9:30 o’clock. Guardsmen were
stationed in every corridor, every outside entrance, and in
all driveways in the immediate vicinity.
Thirty-five thousand men in the State have volun
teered to help the governor preserve order and abolish the
Ku Klux Klans.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 26.—President Coolidge
and Attorney General Daugherty will use the Federal
t official forces to prevent any attempt to remove Governor
Walton from office by the state legislator.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 26.—State troops are mar
shalling here to prevent impeachment proceedings by the
lower house of the legislature. The members say they
will not resort to force but will decide upon future proce
dure at a caucus last night. The adjutant general is in
structed to prevent a session at any place in the state.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 26.—Adjutant General B.
H. Markham was ordered by Governor Walton to
use all force of arms necessary to prevent a session of the
lower house of the Oklahoma legislature called for noon
today. All citizens and soldiers between the ages of 21
and 45 were ordered to hold themselves in readiness with
such arms as they possess or can obtain to come to assis
tance of the sovereig nstate of Oklahoma when ordered to
do so by the governor. The troops have been ordered to
shoot to kill, if necessary, to prevent the assembly, the
Governor told newspaper men today.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Sept. 26
Oklahoma rebel legislators were dis
persed by the military at noon yes
terday when they attempted to con
vene in svecial session of the lower
*bouse to seek the impeachment of
Governor Walton.
There was no violence done, as a
curt order from Colonel Key, military
commander of the city not to attempt
to assemble was given them. He also
read an order to them forbidding the
assemblage of any or all members of
the legislature during the present pe
riod of unrest. He ordered the legis
lators to disperse immediately, and
they slowly walked away to their
homes.
f OKLAHOMA CITY, September 27—
CJOahoma rebel legislators were dis
persed by the military when they at
tempted to convene in social session
in the lower house, to seek the im-:
peachment of Governor Walton, grow- j
ing out of the latter’s fight against ^
mob violence and the Ku Klux Klan.
The governor had forbidden the ses
sion on the ground that it could be
called under the Oklahoma constitu
tion only by the Governor, and charg
ed the members seeking to meet, with
domination by the Klan. The governor
4aas held parts of the state under mar
tial law for some time with military
courts investigating floggings and
other violences.
No violence attended the dispersal
of the legislators, who were barred
from the capitol.
WALTON HITS AT ENEMY
OKLAHOMA CITY, September 27—
Regarded here as a “come-back” at
W. B. McBee, for McBee’s efforts to
bring about the impeachment of Gov
ernor Walton by a special session of
the Oklahoma legislator, Walton to*
day stopped work on the million dol^
lar state highway project in Stephen
county, which McBee represents,
pending investigation of the governors
charge that McBee is affiliated with
“the cement trust.”
MAKE NEGRO EAT OWN EAR
OKLAHOMA CITY, September 27—
In support of his fight against the Ku
Klux Klan in Oklahoma, Governor J.
C. Walton today published extracts
from the testimony given to the mil
itary commission by J. H. Smither
man, a negro, in which Smitherman
said a masked band at Tulsa beat him
mercilessly, cut off one of his ears and
then attempted to make him eat it.
“FIERY CROSS” REMOVED
ADA, Okla., September 27—The
“Fiery Cross” over the Ku Klux Klan
headquarters here was torn down by
the sheriff yesterday on orders of the
Governor.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 27.—Mar
tial law will be invoked in another
county, Governor Walton said tonight.
Oklahoma f.nd Creek counties are now
under military rule.
SEATTLE, Sept. 28.—Two thousand
specially bred Oregon sheep, destined
lor Chernakofsky and Unaiaska were
shipped this morning on the freighter
Oduna, consigned to the stock raising
section of the western Pacific stock
raising station of the Aleutian Live
Stock Company and the Western Pa
cific Live Stock Company of Unaiaska
Island where climatic and geological
surveys indicate the land to be ideal
for sheep raising. The stock is the
largest ever shipped to Alaska.
TURKEY DECLARED REPUBLIC
PARIS, Sept. 28.—A Havas dispatch
from Vienna says it is rumored there
that a republic has been formed in
Turkey.
Charge Made that OTjiiim
Is Made in United States
GENEVA, Sept. 22.—The charge
that quantities of morphine and opium
are being manufactured in the United
States and Canada were made at to
day’s session of the League of Na
tions. Swiss delegates protested that
the accusation was not warranted.
CAPTWIMl
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 25.—Captain Ed
vard H. Watson, commander in chief
of the destroyer squadron wrecked oft
Honda, California, testified today be
fore the naval court of inquiry inves
tigating disaster that he himself made
the decision to change the course to
the eastward at 9 o’clock on the night
of the wreck. Captain Watson said he
instructed Lieut. Commander Donald
T. Hunter, commanding officer of the
Delpliy, leading the squadron, to or
der the eastward turn at that time,
estimating that the ships would be
safely south of Point Arguello in a
position to string into Santa Barbara
channel.
NORTHWESTERN TAKES
The steamship Northwestern, sail-1
ing early Sunday morning, took out
a capacity load of passengers, the
train arriving about 11 o’clock having
an extra coach. Those sailing on the
Northwestern were:
For Latouche—Miss Sigurd Jensen,
Tony Sivovitch, Clarence Ulrich, J. S.
Edvehoff, A. Nelson, B. D. Stewart,
John Swanson, Ralph V. Horton, T.
Doyle, Thos. B. Olsen, Robt. Chan- j
quist.E. K. Schalmey.
For Valdez—T. H. Hunt, Ralph B.
Horton, Carl Miller.
For Cordova—Mrs. John Paulson,
G. W. Langer, J. C. Riggle, Max Ivan
off, Miss Grtchen Stutzel, Roy Poloff,
Henry Richard, Mrs. J. D. Sullivan,
E. C. Manderrson, B. A. Reid, J. J.
Chisholm, Julien Hurley, George C.
Hazelett, J. D. Bunton.
For Juneau—Victor Cambas, Harry
Cambas, L. W. Billingsley, A. T. Bil
lingsley, Nancy Billingsley, Mrs. R. H.
Fleser, R. H. Fleser, C. W. Cheatham,
Mrs. A. E. Goetz, Col. James G. Steese.
For Ketchikan—Leonard Laubner,
Owen Goff. ,
For Seattle—H. Collier, Olney Mc
Clung Jack Winzenreid, Louis Bates,
Mrs. W. C. Gagnon and children, Mrs.
J. G. Sheehan, Miss Wilma A. Carl
son, Mrs. Otto Lieman, Clark Abel,
J. B. Mertie, jr., D. V. McFarland, J. A.
Ziebarth, Mrs. Chas. Williams, Thel
ma Williams, O. B. Twedt, C. E. Ol
son, Edkith McQuade, Axel Larsen,
Mamie D. Clark, Mrs. Bessie Larson,
L. P. Byrne, Joe Kemp, Elmer Jack
son, B. Simonson, Mrs. Nellie Moses,
Howard L. Moses, V. P. Adams, Mar
tha Erwin, Alice B. McDermott, Har
old Burgin, A. B. LeBlanc, Frank O.
Shea, George J. Love, Mike Skrivan.
SEATTLE, Sept. 25.—Federal Com
missioner of Education Tigert arrived :
here yesterday in company with Jona
than H. Wagner, new chief of the '
Alaska division of the bureau of edu- 1
cation, who is taking over the office.
Superintendent Lopp, who heads the
Alaska bureau, and who will be sta- '
tioned hereafter at Anchorage will de- !
vote all his time to supervision of
schools, medical service and reindeer
propagation among the natives.
“Readjustment in our Alaskan ser
vice and propagation of the reindeer
among the natives is the first step in
our reorganization for the benefit of
the Indians and Eskimos. We have
never had enough people to carry on
the work, but with Mr. Lopp on the 1
ground and Mr. Wagner in the Seattle
office responsible for the teaching
staff and disbursement of supplies, we
hope to make the most of our meagre
funds at our disposal.”
HATS WILL BE SO LOUD THEY 5
WILL CAUSE A HEADACHE 1
CHICAGO, Sept. 28.—The National
Association of retail clothiers in a
convention here this week voted that 1
men’s fall hats would be so loud they 1
would “make your head ache.” Also *
sox will be of gaudy silk. 1
BRUSSELS, Sept. 24.American 'ieu
tenants Olmstead and Choplaw, pilots
in the United States army haloon
which started with 13 others in the
Gordon Bennett cup race Sunday
were killed when their craft fell at
Nilesterrode, Holland during Ihe night
after being struck by lightning and
falling in flames.
Two Swiss baloonists were burned
to death when their baioon caught
fire over the moll, and a Spanish pilor.
was killed when lightning struck his
baioon.
On orders received from Secretary
Work of the interior department, the
mines at Chickaloon and Eska, which
cost the government over a million
dollars, have been abandoned and the
pumps pulled, owing to the high cost
af mining the coal which is badly
faulted. An expensive coal washer
ivas purchased by Col. Mears among
Dther equipment, now standing rusting
is a monument to some one’s ineffi
ciency.
TURKS ASK FOR
WITHDRAWAL OF
LONDON, Sept. 25.—A dispatch re
ceived here from Constantinople says
the Turkish government has decided
to press for the withdrawal from the
straits of a flotilla of American de
stroyers stationed at Constantinople,
and that the National representative
in Constantinople has made this re
quest to the United States high com
missioner there.
Georges Carpentier Is
After Bout with Gibbons
NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—Tex Rick
ard announced the receipt of a cable
gram yesterday from Georges Carpen
tier, who desires to meet Tommy Gib
bons in a 15-round bout.
Gibbons, who is filling a vaudeville
engagement here said he would be
glad to fight Carpentier.
SEATTLE, Sept. 24.—Major Daniel
Pullen, of Skagway, U. S. Corps of En
gineers, former football and crew ath
lete of the University of Washington,
died yesterday afternoon at Washing
ton, D. C., at the Walter Reed hospi
tal of sleeping sickness, from which
he had been unconscious the past two
weeks. Major Pullen literally slept
himself to death.
Daniel Pullen mcvei to Skagway in
1898, and in 1906 received an appoint
ment to the United States military
academy, being the first youth ap
pointed from Alaska. He was made
captain in 1916; major in 1917, was
commissioned lieutenant colonel in
the tank corps, and sent to France.
He became a colonel in the tank
corps in October, 1918, was honor
ably discharged from the army in
March, 1920, to accept a commission
as major in the corps of engineers.
Pullen was twice decorated for gal
lantry in action. He leaves a widow,
a daughter, and a mother, Mrs. Eliz
abeth Pullen, of the Pullen House, at
Skagway, Alaska,
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BLUO1UT0 TB1FFIC
RENO, Nev.,Sept. 26.—Six inches of
snow in the Sierras is blocking east
bound automobile traffic from Cali
fornia.
Joe Melierin, representing the Im
perial Candy Co., and other firms, ar
rived from the SQUth on the Alaska,
and is interviewing his many custo
mers.
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j California Oil Boom
Is Said to Be Ended
ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. 22.—The
unprecedented oil boom that swept
over California the past year is over,
and from now on there will be a
steady decline in production, S. A.
Gulbertson, Jr., of the Southern Cali
fornia Oil Producers said today be
fore the annual convention of the Na
tional Petroleum Association.
WOMAN TESTIFIES
SEATTLE, Sept. 26.—Testifying in
hex* action for divorce this afternoon
in Judge Hall’s court, Mrs. Frederick
Otto Burckhardt, branded her hus
band, a wealthy Alaska salmon pack
er with being an arsonist, alleging he
had burned his cannery at Chilkoot,
Alaska, in 1919, collecting insurance
of $290,000 on the burned plant. Mrs.
Burckhardt also seeks custody of the
ten-year-old son.
Mrs. Burckhardt testified as fol
lows: “I followed Fred down from
the house to the cannery. He did not
see me or know that I was there. I
watched him go in to the building and
from one end of the cannery to the
other place oil-soaked waste into
boxes along the wall. Then I saw him
start the fire. My husband then came
running into the house and rolled on
the floor, crying out that he was ruin
ed. I told him not to act that way
again before me, because I was onto
who set the cannery afire and he got
up and cursed me and said if I ever
told he would wreck my life.”
Rev. Sidney H. Mormean, pastor of
St. Paul’s Episcopal church and Mr.
Burckliai’dt, came near to blows this
afternoon in the courtroom following
the divine’s testimony that he consid
ered Mrs. Burckhai'dt a good mother
and a fit person to have the custody
of Frederick Otto, junior, over whose
care and custody the father and Mrs.
Burckhardt are fighting.
DEVELOPMENT IIHT
VANCOUVER, Sept. 28.—Govei’nor
Bone, passing through here en route
to Washington said that the late Pres
ident Harding’s death will not halt
Alaskan development along the lines
indicated by the late executives in his
last speeches.
TURKS WILL TAKE OVER
CITY OF CONSTANTINOPLE
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 28—Pre
paration for the formal evacuation by
the Allies have been completed and
the famous Turkish Iron Division is
soon to enter the city.
mi pluses ii
HER HR CASPER,
FIFTY PERSONS B!E
CASPER, Wyo., Sept. 28.—Fifty
passengers, mainly residents of inter
mountain cities, perished when a rail
road bridge collapsed, plunging a Chi
cago, Burlington &. Quincy passenger
train into swollen Coal creek, near
this city last night.
Eight Persons Found Al ve
DENVER, Col., Soph 2?.—A spe
cial dispatch to the Post from Casper,
Wyoming, says one of the submerged
cars of Burlington train No. 3u, which
plunged into Coal creek near Casper
last night, has been pulled from the
stream and eight persons were ;ound
a.ive In it. The dead are mw esti
mated 40 and 50.
DEMPSEY HAS MADE OVER
TWO MILLION AS CHAMPION
OMAHA, Sept. 26.—Jack Dempsey,
who is en route to Salt Lake, was in
terviewed and said that the champion
ship so far has netted him over two
million dollars.
WILL TAKE TWO YEARS TO
EXPLORE KING TUT’S TOMB
LONDON, Sept. 26.—Howard Car
ter, one of the discoverer sof King
Tut’s tomb lecturing here said that
less than a fourth of the contents of
the tomb had been removed and that
the work of exploring the tomb will
take at least two more years.
SEATTLE, Sept. 28.—The Board of
Trustees of the Seattle Yacht Club
this afternoon decided to submit a
plan for holding an international
yachting cruise from Seattle to Alas
ka next June or July.
The club pr0poses to invite Atlan
tic coast, Gulf, Great Lakes, and Ore
gon and California yachtsmen to par
ticipate in the cruise with their
yachts, and at its conclusion to par
ticipate in the International regatta
off Victoria.
GLORIA SWANSON DIVORCED
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26.—The sec
ond divorce of Gloria Swanson, mo
vie star, was granted in the Superior
Court yesterday when her husband
was awarded a decree on a charge ot
desertion.
Money Orders Issued, Seward Drug
Co. 184-tf