The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 244, Ed. 1 Monday, May 10, 1915 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME II
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA. MONDAY, MAYJ0915
NUMBKS 244
HKS3SS
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dr. It. i WAKUI
PARTY OF NOBLE MEN TAKE HIM
FROM CLEVELAND COUNTY
JAIL EARLY SUNDAY
MORNING AND
HANG HIM
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♦ THE MOST WONDERFUL ♦
♦ STORY EVEB FILMED ♦
The Greatest Film Ever Made ♦
From Story ♦
THE SPOILERS ♦
Rex Beach's Greai Story of ♦
♦ Alaskan Life ♦
♦ To be Shown Here ♦
♦ Wednesday, May 12th ♦
♦ University and Orpheum Theatres ♦
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"White Beauty"
Adv«rf(M</ in hading ma^aiintt
BRUTAL CHIME EXPIATED
NO TRUTH IN REPORT OF PRES-
IDENT'S DEATH
Just received anew
shipment of—
HOOSIEHR KITCHEN
CABINETS
They can still be bought
on those easy terms.
$1.00 down and $1.00
a week.
I. M. JACKSON
. A report was sent broadcast over
1 the United States about 10 o'clock
No Clue to the Executioners, who Act this morning that President Wilson
in a Quiet and Deliberate Man- ! had *!ee,n assassinated, but later it
nt,r l{<vriv Taken to Chi™ v'as declared absolutely false; having
IBOdy 1fakl" l° ^h,C0' absolutely no foundation. It is belief
texas, lor Uurial. ed the report was sent out by some
~ ; stoc.v exchange to further depress
Dr. B. E. Ward, who killed his wife prices. The President is In his usual
at Noble on Tuesday night, May 4th, health, and in no way has he been in
was taken from the Cleveland county danger, Thank Cod.
jail by a number of citizens of Noble j
|and vicinity about 2:30 yesterday! MOTHER'S DAY
; ( Sunday) morning, and hanged to an j
j Elm tree two miles south and half a ! Mother's Day was appropriately
j mile east of Norman. His neck was' seleb rated in Norman, a great number
broken. Ho was strangled to of white and pink carnations being in
j ieath. j evidence. Services at all the churches
About 2 o'clock Deputy Sheriff Cot-' were appropriate to the occasion,
jtrell, who has charge of the jail, was many fine tributes paid to mothers'
j awakened by a knock on the door, and arid womankind.
upon inquiring who was there the an-! Civic Committee Edwards made a
j swer came "Gus Leslie, with a fft'is-1 beautiful display at the foot of the
'oner." Mr. Leslie is a deputy sheriff flag pole, the words "Mother's Day"I
at Noble, and Mr. Cottrell knew he being spelled out with flowers, giving
had been out to serve a warrant, and a beautiful effect. Mrs. E. Levy of
unlocked the door without further|the Levy Green House, furnished the
i question. Half a dozen men with! flowers, which were perfect in form
handkerchiefs over the lower part of; : nd colors. "Old Glory" was fiung to
■ their faces and hats drawn down low j the breeze; for, after love of children
i over their foreheads rushed in and and home, Mothers put love of country
(overpowered him. taking his keys )nd fiag supreme The flag is always
1 from him. While two or three guard- appropriate on "Mother's Day."
ed Mr. Cottrell while he put on his ——
I trousers and shoes, the others unlock-; LAST I) VY TO PAY WATER RENT
ed the doors to the corridor giving en-
: trance to the cells, and went directly, This is the last day f 1 Oth > to pay
to the cell occupied by Ward—evi-! your water rent. Pay it, or don't get
'iently knowing just where to find ! peeved if the water is turned off t,>-
him. | morrow and you ha"e to pay $1.00 to
They found Ward in his undercloth-j pet it put on again. Last Call
i ing and, without waiting for him to!
j put on his clothes, hog-tied and gagged j
I him and carried him to a waiting auto-!
| mobile in front of the jail, which drov (
: off with him followed by two or three
other machines filled with men. The j
only words he was heard to say were;
"Don't hurt me, and I'll go with you.''
J. MARTHA WISE, City Clerk
LEE-HUCK INS HOTEL
Normanites registered Saturday:
Fritz Sherrow, Norman.
Art You Making Your
Refrigerator Pay Dividends
If you don't know how to do so, let us tell you.
There are days at this season of the year, when
there is a glut of perishable food stuffs of one •
kind or another, and prices, for a few hours, are
very much in your favor—when every dollar will
do double duty.
Take Advantage of the Market
Watch for these occasions, and lie prepared to
take advantage of them by keeping your refrige-
ator thoroughly chilled all the time. Not infre-
quently you will be enabled to reduce your food
bill by half for a week, or even longer.
Yes, keep your refrigerator well loaded with
I('h and it will pay you handsome dividends.
NORMAN
Milling, b Grain Company
Phone 33
LIFE INSURANCE
The only thing that has to
be sold and the more you pay
for it the less of it you have.
For explanation talk to
J. R HOLLAND.
—Be here one day sure during this
r, , nil ,, , — , „ ,— ,i sale- We will show you more bargains
Deputy Cottrell was handcuffed and , than ever before. Rucker's
Put.in charge of three of their num- ! —Mr. and Mrs. Steve Hutchin are
ber, who walked him in a southwest-; home from their fa-m near Denver
erly direction, down Jenkins avenue. I Mr. Hutchin tells us the citizens of
At the Eichhorn corner they released the Denver neighborhood had very in-
him and told him to return to town, teresting exercises at the Denver cem-
puttmg his keys in his back pocket eterv vestordav. Th graves were all
j where he could not get to them. He decorated, and excellent addresses
— returned to the Santa Fe depot, where made by J. H. Burrage and Vivian
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•*♦♦♦« ! 'he n,ght operator unlocked the hand- George. This decoration day is an an-
♦ v cuffs and released him. miaj event in that locality
♦ THE TREASON OF ANATOLE ♦ Mr- Cottrell got busy with the tele
Watch for our bier ! A Romance of Love and War « -hone and informed Sheriff Pickard e f The men were dressed in
xvi vui + Featuring ♦ an" within a very short time he ami .. L, i i - j ■ ^
♦ Wm. Welsh and Violet Mercereaw ♦ «"> *heriff a,ld Attorney J™ Dep"ty "ottre l'eould'not identifv
1 (.rigsby were in an automobile on the ^ coula 1101 "'entity ,
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A PLEASING EXHIBITION
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A large number of the ladies of the
city witnessed a very pleasing exhibi- m
tion of dances given by a number of i ♦the University arid Orpheum (the
Miss Fronie Asher's classes, at Davis * old Airrf- ne) Theatres Wed-
"THE SPOILERS"
Rex Beach's Book to be Shown
in Pictures at University
and Orpheum Theatres
"Go ahead," said W. N. Selig
when it was decided to filmize
The Spoilers. "Use what mon-
ey and time are required to
make the supreme American
photo-play. Spare nothing."
The result is shown in the
nine reel drama to be shown at
I trail of the crowd. They trailed them ?.ny cf *h*m- The "!ost .Propitious gan
tlme and hour were
Hall, Saturday afternoon. The fol-
lowing was the program:
Hesitation.
CaBtle Polka, by Jas. Magifire
Canter.
One Step
Dream Waltz.
Vision of Salome, by Miss Asher
Foxtrot.
Classical.
Maxixe, Miss Asher and Edwin Ho-
rour days sale Starting * University Theatre Tonight
♦ south to the Belt corner, two miles' 'i"1? 'lou'' wc,e selected; nearly a
12 .south of town, and from thert east | t„h.e..51M^er'. ®fter a" sus"! & '«<>«*_ ^singly demonstrated by |
Wednesday, May
Lots of Bargains.
RUCKER'S
The "poetry of motion" was certain-
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♦ SAVED BY A SHOWER
♦ Screaming Joker Comedy to be
♦ _ Seen at
♦ University Theatre Tonight
dition.
4 rains in his locality.
♦ - President and Mrs. Brooks will
♦ ♦ hold their last regular "At Home"
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! 12th, from four to ten. A special in-
—Rucker's big Four day sale starts citation has been extended to all the
Wednesday so don't fail to make ar- >(1,i lors of the University who are
rangements to come. I asked to come and meet the faculty
-Mrs. J. W. Burrage is here from
Denver visiting her brothers, Grover Henton visited his sister,
and B.oice Fulkerson. j F. (). Gilbert, in El Reno, yes-
—Wm. Johnson the shoemaker re- t(1!'day and attended the dedication of
ceived the sad news last week of the . e "S"7 Christian church. He says it
death of his father at Anderson, Mo./'? a very fine one, costing something
on April 21st. He was 95 vears of llke *28,000, and great congregations
age. ' (attended the dedicatory services.
—Little Willie Mayes was brought; —Mrs. S. A. Brittain and her
home from the hospital last week, daughters, Miss Lee and Mrs. Gomer
where he had undergone an operation | D. Evans, returned Saturday from
for Abscess. He is getting along San Antonio, Texas, where Miss Lee
nicely. t j graduated from a young ladies' school
—A few Palm Beach suits made on May 7th.
their appearance yesterday, topped off —Parcel Post and Spring Bazaar:
with Panamas, and white spats and Don't forget the date, Saturday, May
hose cn the other end, but the weather 15th. All kinds of lingeria and grad-
isn't quite warm enough yet- They'll nation presents, bungalow aprons,
lie out ir. full force shortly. towels and other useful and fancy ar-
—Mr. and Mrs. R. F Ellir.ger and tides. Also ice cream and cake serv-
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Filson drove up ed Opera house building. South
from Noble yesterday. ; Circle M. E. Church, South. Come.
—Wait for the big four days sale at Ito tJhe bridSe ,lear the San*a Fe raf
Rucker's. Starts Wednesday. i road> where they found the body of
m_ t t u:„i,i. u * | Ward suspended from the limb of an
Oklahoma Ci?v UaS h.r S! trec' "I «-"*
B"rk* " • „
(still warm, but life was extinct. He , attempted just after the
—Manager Ray Berry is certainly was in the same condition as when mu". and, for tJhlee nlf-'hts kept
going to give his patrons a treat Wed- taken from the jail; in his undercloth- K'!enal guards on duty at the jail, but
nesday night. "The Spoilers" is re-1 ing. with feet and arms tied, and gag-1 ,te' < Noble people and to
garded as one of the greatest great ged with a handkerchief tied over his .0J the . faS ','onvmPe,i
pictures of the day, nd created great mouth, and had evidently not been al- , hat no, wollld Ue done alonff that
interest wherever shown. It is one lowed to make any remarks or any ,"!!',, illa 8usPlcl°ns were completely
last statement. The rope had been! tu , i j ^
thrown over the limb and Ward drawn ! ,. ■ a,L- Palt>' considered it an act
up, the other end then being tied to a l an, exP1.at,on> ,an execution,
small bush about fifteen feet distant. , j than lynching, is also evi-
m, , , . , . ... I denced by the fact that no more force
The fresh tracks of automobiles were 11,;ln was necessary was used. Their
, oilowed to the vicinity of Noble, but prisoner was manhandled in no man-
lost on the outskirts of that town. 1 Mer) ancj no verbal or other abuse vis-
Undertaker Henry Meyer was noti-j lied upon him.
fied, and went to the scene of the! While deploring the necessity that
hanging and took the hody down ^eemed to demand such extreme meas-
Ward's feet were within three feet ofjures, the citizens of Noble (as law-
the ground, and it was found he had, abiding a community as there is in the
been strangled to death. When, :late of Oklahoma under ordinary
brought to the undertaking parlors . ir ni istances), are almost a unit iii
picion that anything of the sort was ■ Miss Asher and her young pupils
contemplated had been dismissed from ; among whom are Miss Milinda Gibson,
the minds of the officers, and at 2 Miss Gladyce Balyeat, Walter Berry,
o'clock in the morning, the quietest ] Edwin Hogan, Helo.l Hogan, Isabel
time pf the night. Sheriff Pickard I DeBa. r, Vera Griffin, Adelaide Pax
had thc.ght something of the sort |Jas Maguire. Bessie Clement and
might be attempted just after the Annie Mabel Weir.
BERLIN REJOICES
that is "Worth While
—Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Eubank were
+1 here from the Choctaw City neighbor-
4 hood, Saturday, on a shopping expa-
dition. Mr. Eubanks reports heavy
and townspeople.
the
and prepared for burial there was not
a mark of any kind upon his body,
showing that in no way had he been
manhandled before being executed.
A coroner's jury was empaneled by
Justice of the Peace Linton, who, after
viewing the body, brought in a verdict
that he had come to his death at the
hands of a mob, consisting of some
pproving the work of their fellow
citizens, and there is not one of them
but draws a sigh of relief that Dr.
Ward has been put. where he can do
no farther harm. He had committed
a most cold blooded and brutal mur-
i'er, his victim being a frail and weak-
ly woman, and it was almost a cer-
tainty he would not have to suffer for
London, May 8.—The Exchange
Telegraph company has received to-
day the following telegram from Cop-
enhagen:
"Berlin newspapers print the news «.
of the sinking of the Lusitania in ♦
colossal type and hail the successful <
torpedoing of the ship as a new tri- *
umph for Germany's naval policy. The •
ireneral impression is that England ♦
has got what she deserved." 9
—A stock buyer called at a home ♦
near Pawamo to look over some hogs
t hat were for sale. He inquired of the j ♦
genial housewife where her husband
could be found. "You will find him
out in the hog pen." replied the wife.
"He is the one with the hat on."
—Sheet nrssic of the latest popular
songs of the day at Reed's.
FOR TRADE-
160 ncres 3 1-2 miles east of Noble. 100 acres in
cultivation. Balance pasture, 4 room house, small barn,
fenced and cross fenced. Mortgage $1,600.00, 5 per
cent, 5 years. Want Norman income property for equity.
VINCENT & WEIR
PHONE 30
for a Few
Davs
ten or more men, taking him from the1 except to be placed in an asylum! O ° 3 O *
county jail by force and hanging him from vhich at any time, within •• few1 I TXCQS i
by the neck to the limb of a tree, and '. ears at most, he would obtain release *
that the members of said mob were to There is hardly a person in Noble he
said jurors unknown, "and we further had not threatened, and his release
find that the said H. C. Cottrell and and return to that town was feared by
Claud Pickard, sheriff and jailor re- every citizen. There was, too, but lit -
spectively of said county, are blame- tie condemnation of the act among
less." The jury consisted of I. B. Sale, citizens of Norman at all conversant
W. A. Britt, W. J. Hess, J. F. Jepson, with the facts; for, however much you
G. W. Giles and Tom F. I'oyd. WTit- may condemn lvnch law, there are
nesses examined were Jailor Cottrell case, where it "is almost justifiable, We have a few onion sets that we
Sheriff Pickard and Depute Sheriff where it becomes a righteous judg are selling at !5c gallon or 2 gallons
Barker, the latter s testimony being nuMt for inhuman and brutal mur- for 25e.
a* to the location of the nlace of hanp- dors for which there seems no ade KvumA r buckets 95c each
in?; + w |'luatt- punishment under the law j Hi* fin, juicy lemons "and oranir
The two brothers of Dr. Ward had Wan! \ as a native of Tc;.:is, an 15c a do/en
come from Chico, Texas on hearing enme to Oklahoma some six year, Quart „ ,-ura fin. queen oliv
of the terrible deed pf then- brother. -o. His first wife died under ses- for 2.r>c
and were at the funeral of Mrs. Ward piciou: circumstances at Blue, a littl Pratt's powdered lice killer
at Noble on Fridav, returning to Ok- own near Ardmore. He married the (hen' We have it
lahoma City that evening. They ex- !ndy he killed, Miss Mabel Jeffries, at ' Don't lose vour bahv chick*
peered to come to Norman yesterday Noble on March 80, IMS, against tHe' Pratt's pre-digested chick food
and see their brother, when the news i. ■ r, he entire far iv, . vi.ig ti whit, ,li,-i
I reached them of his death. They came his bad reputation and bad habits. Hi rill i ave them all
down on the 11 o'clock car and lof* -vas a powi ful man ph< dcallv, and as i;„ J>r | ra! . r.-'midie
with the hody of their brother for he !• j en the l ib at the undertaking: • -.thicken food
Chico on the afternoon train. rooms his body was a model of I
A master mind evidently arranged strength and h;s face and contour of
all the details for the execution, for head indicated more than usual intel-
there was not a hitch in it in anv way. ligence. He had secured a larire prac-
Everything was quietly, orderly and tice in and around N'oble, but was los-
deliberately done, every member of !■ 7 it rapid). Tte boy I h: first
j the party seeming to know his I'nti- ar; I, ge has : -,- : . m to the poor
! in the affair. One man did all the farm, none of the relatives . e;"-'tig to
talking at the jail, and his words were care to take charge of him.
nesday, May 12th. Rex Beach's
novel has been reproduced in
a way i• 1 n -sible to anv other
form of t. It is vital from
start to finish. Love, courage,
determination, ambition, de-
ceit, brutality, hand to hand
encounters by desperate men
for desperate measures, cor-
rupt courts and the law of
primal rights in fierce clash,
these are some of the elements
that keep the suspense at hiph
tension from start to finish.
There are nine reels, hundreds
of scenes and thousands of in-
cidents graphically portrayed.
The acting is vigorous, lifelike
and tells a vital American
story in a tremendously vital
way.
"The Spoilers" is a itory na-
tive to the soil of these states.
It is typically American. It
covers a period in the develop-
ment of the Puget Sound coun-
try and Alaska wherein adven-
tures of all sorts, noble and
otherwise struggled with sav-
age tenacity for fortune. It is
now retold in moving picture
form by W. N Selig in nine
reels with a fidelity to detail
that is truly satisfying. The
film drama is intensely inter-
esting.
Nothing like the hand to
hand fight between Glenister
and McNamara has ever heen
shown on the stage before. It
would be impossible in speak-
ing drama. No gladitorial
combat of Ancient Rome was
fiercer or bloodier, and this
struggle has the added virtue
of a true dramatic situation,
the world old struggle between
right and wrong, good and
evil, condensed into the forms
of two characters of the story
who have become familiar
through previous presentations
in the plot. It is the story of
modern American frontier life.
This mnst wonderful picture
is to receive its initial presen-
tation in Norman at both the
Universitj^and Orpheum Thea-
tres for an engagement of one
day, Wednesday, May 12th.
Matinee will be given at 2:30
p. m. at the University Theatre
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1 M \KE a specialty < ' h ng-tii^e Ileal
Estate Loans at per cent simple
interest. E. D. Anderson, 1L East
Main, Norman, Okla. l!8-6t*
gets
Use
and
. You
, a full , .,
and all kinds family fo
pave up th
•a m<
We carrv
U. S.TUBB'S
"The Nice Man to Do Business With"
—Re ready for the \ day's sale
si- ling Wednesday at Rucker's Lots
of bargains and new goods
—The S. F Martin children grieve
sorely over tho death of the old family
horse "Dollie," which ha been in the
enty-one years. She
t on last week.
—Mr. mid Mrs* J. W[* Moom&U are
having their residence 402 Daws
street remodeled and )nod.,rniz6d,
making it f-.l! thre- stov •. i with
i imerous porch Contractor Wm.
Clifton is engine • the v irvjrove-
—Just received a large shipment of
wj'I paper at Fred Reed's
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