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FAUE FOrR.
RENFREW'S RECORD. ALVA. ORLA. FRIDAY. AUGUST X. 1W13.
RENFREW’S RECORD.
Published Every iriuay.
j. P. RENFREW. Editor and Pub
STANLEY SPURRIER. Manager.
Terms of Subscription
(In Advance)
One year ................. Jl.t'O
Sir Months ...............
OM.KIt CAPTURE l>.
passed
Senate. A few days GARFIELD COUNTY LEAI4S
WITH 800 SILOS.
By Victor H. Schaffelmayer.
Entered at the postoffloe at Alva,
Oklahoma, as second-class matter
TELEPHONE 157.
Hon. W. A. Durant, ex-speaker of
the Oklahoma legislature, has been
named as an additional member of
the Oklahoma Panama Exposition
commission and he has accepted.
Mr. Durant will chiefly look after
the arrangement of the Indian ex-
hibit. which will and should be a
prominent feature of the Oklahoma
exhibit. Mr. Durant is one of the
leading representatives of his race.
He was sergeant-at-arms of the con-
stitutional convention, and has been
a member of and served in every
session of the lower house since
statehood. Mr. Durant was speaker
one session and was at the same
time speaker of the Choctaw tribal
legislature.
and Senator Ashurst then branded j
after the lobby investigation began
McMurrav. On June McMurray
before the Senate Indian affairs
to collect on many of his contracts. with 600 silos, and nearly all’of
It now is believed this surrender ( tj,em erected within the last year,
was made to avoid an investigation j Garfle,d countv> Oklahoma, is build-
of his methods bv the Senate lobby
investigating Committee and with j if 200 morf. Garfield county
the hope that the contract proposi- probably leads all the state in the
Hardesty, Blackburn, tion would be removed as an issue nUniber of silos on farms and al-
Bowers, and others, who were rein- from the Senatorial fight next year
Special to Enid Eagle in Alva Pio-
neer. August 6, 189.6.
At about 10 o'clock Sunday
morning the daring outlaw Dick
Yeager was captured about six
j miles southeast of the town of Sher-
idan, after being hotly pursued for
about three weeks by a posse of
farmers from Woods county. Messrs.
Bogardus,
GOSPEL MEN ORGANIZE.
FEDERATION OF LAYMEN
FORMED HERE SUNDAY.
Next Meeting Mill Re Held In M'i-
chitu—Rally in (lierrvvaie
Mae a Grand SBCCessw
A Number of Con-
versions.
[special Sale
forced b> a strong force from Sher- It is futher believed that if McMur- ^ Farmpr8 &re we„ }.atisfied wlfh
iff Thralls of Garfield county. Just ray could get a Senator more
east of M'aukomis. on Saturday friendly to his contracts which ’ f r expPr ni n a
night M'hen Thralls' men met have been termed a grab pure and prosperous as a result of feeding sit-
theni their horses were worn out. simple, he then would renew his af?e to eattle and other livestock,
but they bravely followed up and fight for collection,
were in at the capture.
Y’eager was so closely pursued Cotton statistic collectors for
that he gave up his horse and cart several counties have been chosen
and took to the woods on foot but by Senator Gore thev being; Fred
soon got another horse close to a A. Speakman. Lincoln County; Ed lerBlale rarlIlt,,_ man, *a.u.»
cornfield where he was secreted. Ludwlck, Canadian and Kingfisher whprp the sl]o had brought afflu-
They immediately surrounded the Counties: YV. H. Coyle, 1-osan 1 —
field and Jailer Poak and Deputy Boyle, Caddo, County; John K
Sheriff M'oods, with a Mr Smith Miller, Custer and Miller counties
commenced exploring the rornfield and Thos. McGee, Osage County.
Poak and Smith were the first to
see Y’eager and called to him to Representative Joe B. Thomp-
throw up his hands.hut they giought son is continuing his fight for the
that instead of doing so he reached ouster of postmaster at Oklahoma
for his winchester or revolver, and City, Norman. Guthrie, Pauls
they immediately fiwed, both bul- Valley, M vnnewood. Sulphur. Mr.
lets taking effect in the right hip Thompson bases his attack on the
not half an Inch from one another, present Incumbents on the ground
Yeager cried out. “For God’s sake that their ouster is necessary on
don't kill me", and rolled over, i political ground If nothing else.
Woods, Poak and Smith then dfs- Representative Claude Weaver is
armed him and immediately the pos-1 Oklahoma City declaring that East-
se came in from all directions, i man Is an efficient officer and there
Sheriff Thralls brought hi* prisoner are no grounds for such actiotn.
to Hennessey and took thp train--
most every type of silo is represent-
Lleutenant Governor McAlester
reproaehes Governor Cruee for his
lack of courtesy in not telling him
that he was going out of the state
on a visit. That certainly looks dis-
courteous on Governor Crime's part,
but it mus; have been an oversight.
Hut for this oversight the good
There are more silos in the viein-
' ity of Enid than near any other city
! in Oklahoma. The writer spent
i some time in that section and with
W. I. Drummond, editor of the In-
terstate Farmer, visited many farms
ence to its owner. For ten miles or
more on each side of the road trav-
eled by the party, silos were visible
in every direction. Their pointed
roofs peered above the tallest trees,
their ample proportions dominated
the landscape and their glistening
sides beckoned from awar and her-
alded the new era of agriculture for
Oklahoma, in which the farmer con-
From the Cherryvale Daily Re-
publican, Aug. 4, 1913:
Gospel teams of four states met
in Cherryvale Sunday afternoon
formed a federation. Officers were
elected and YVichita was chosen as
the next meeting place. The exact
date of the meeting has not ben fix-
ed. This was the first rally of gos-
pel teams ever held and was quite
a success.
Six members of the Tom Blodgett
team arrived in Cherryvale Satur-
day evening and front the time they
reached town there was something
doing until 11 o'clock Sunday night
when the biggest meeting of all ad-
journed. The services started with
a street meeting at the Globe corner
Saturday evening at 7:30. Sunday
morning services xvere held at the
M. E. and Presbyterian churches,
G. K. M'ithers and A. B. Moore be-
ing at the latter and a number ot
ON
SOAP
Beginning
Wednesday,
August 20th
and
Continuing One Week
We will give 1000 votes
with every 10c cake or 3000
votes with 3 cakes at 25c.
for Enid. Sunday evening, lodging
his man in jail, well guarded.
Yeager was seen shortly after hisj
arrival by an Eagle representative
in the Enid Jail, w here his wounds; er
DEAD DESPERADO.
(Continued from page 1.)
and Black were eating supper.
____ iv> _____ ______D__ ___ „ ....... ..... ...... i at best hazardous.
Colonel would have had several ;:,re being attended to by Dr. Cham- When they came out they were or-j 0»e of tho strongest silo advo-
cates in the Southwest is J. H. Jack-
_________________ ______ _____ _____ son. famous the country over as a
and could also have pardoned sever- ter bullet holes very close to oik guns. The pos . opened fire a; 1 , breeder of pure-bred Percheron
and Shorthorn
verts previous waste into dividends, visiting gospel workers at the Me-
There are at least a dohen silos in thodist church.
the immediate outskirts of Enid ; jn the afternon at 3 o'clock was
and two or three are within the cor- held the gospel 'team's institute
porate limits of the city. Farmers and at this time the federation was
who had none talked of building a organized. A couple of hours was
silo this summer, and those who had ,iPVoted to telling of effective me-
silos talked of erecting more. Ex- ! (hods of soul winning and the con-
perience has taught these men that ference was enjoyed by'all who par-
tite silo is the best friend of the ticipated. The following were the
farmer and that without one. farm- officers elected: President, Horn-
ins -n a conntrv of variable rainfall er Caldwell. Wichita:Vice-president,
and uncertain climatic conditions, is A Hamilton, YY’aynoka, Okla.;
Colonel would have rimi several are beine attennen to n\ nr. v num- x\ neu mej < ■ “
hours more time in which he might pion. He is badly shot in the right dered to throw
have reinstated the old school board, bip, there being two ugly winches of course the
up their hands, hut
reached for their
al hundred long time termers in the
penitentiary, thus relieving the
state of needless expense.
--o-
Attorney General West holds that
the book contracts entered into by
the old board of education are of
no effect, as in his opinion the de-
posed board was an illegal body.
Taking that ground he holds that
i he acting governor’s signature
would not legalize the contracts.
The Attorney General also agrees
with Governor Cruee and will not
drop the school book suits now be-
ing considered by the supreme
court.
another, the bullets being still in j shot Black through the head, then
liis lioilv. He is also wounded in Yeager ran into the cornfield, w^iile
his right side from his fight of last ; the posse sent Winchester balls a -
week, lie refused to say anything, jer him as rapidly as possible. The
(only “I guess you’ve got me boys.’ body of Black was lying where it
Yeager said to city Marshall fP]l and Justice of the Peace
Pratt, who was one of the posse. Humphrey was summoned and pro-
“You are an officer and I want to)Ceeded to hold an inquest. The ver-
go with you; I don’t want these jt-r was aecording to the
people to get me,” meaning the jars stated above. Black being iden
o —
The Chandler Tribune last week
had an excellent half page cut of
the oUlcers of the Oklahoma Nation-
. 1 Guard in camp at Camp Garrison,
chandler, Oklahoma. Prominent
•mong the officers in the group are
• 'aptnin Frank Wyatt and Lieuten-
ants Gus Hadwtger and W. E. Rloat
of Co. I, of Alva.
horses and Jersey
cattle. Every head of stock on the
Jackson farm is registered and
there are several prize-winning stal- !
lions, one of them, Albany II, being ,
valued at $2,500, Mr. Jackson
says both corn and kaffir silage are
frtie feed for horses. Twice a day
Secretary-treasurer, \Y. AY. Good-
win, Cherryvale. The officers elec-
ted are to act as the executive com-
mittee of the erganiz.ation to draft
a constitution and by-laws to be
submitted at the next meeting.,
which will be in about a year in
Wichita.
The afternon cession was led W.
E. Spencer, leader of the Cherry-
vale team. The meeting opened
with a song by Prof. Boatright's
quartette of Iola. Addresses were
ON
STOCK FOOD
Buy your Stock and Poul-
try Remedies from us. For
a short time we will give
I 500 votes on each 25c pack-
age or 6000 votes on a Dollar
package. This includes Con-
dition Powders, Lice Kilters,
Gall Cures, Healing Powders,
Worm Powders, Roup and
Cholera and Co.ic Cures,
Cow Ease, and Fly Shy and
other Remedies to drive Flies
from Stock.
MONFORT’S
farmers who had so hotly pursued
him from M’oods county * * *
Today lie acknowledged to the
county attorney and others that he
was Zip Wyatt, alias Yeager, ami
would be glad to see his father who
lives in Logan county. * * »
He is about six feet in height,
spare built and not at all bad look-
u,r tme teen lur uoist--. i »quartette of Iola. Addresses w ere
partlcu- he fills long troughs wiih silage and made Holm>r Caldwell. Wichita, K1"f'
IP- iflPTl- loft? tVio hnrcDS put nil thPV Want. * . * i. _
Rich, Arthur Shannon, S. G. Clark,
John Geads. T. N. Shannon, Dr. I.
O. Irwin, Dr. YV, S. Cady, Mrs. W.
S. Cady, Rev. H. E. McClain, Mrs.
R. E. McClain, Charles Long, Mrs.
Charles Long, E. D. Mikesell, Geo.
tified by three men. Black's right
heel shows where he was shot on
May 26, in a skirmish with the offi-
cers. Ho also had a sore scalp
wound above the left temple, where
lie was shot a xveek or two ago.
Yeager or Black shot a man named
Al Richardson through the should-
er on Saturday morning, in the
Same as from an Aeroplane.
Nearly 100 years ago Thomas
Hood wrote “Major Brown" a hum-
orous poem which described the
sensations of a man in a balloon as cartridge he used
ing. He has a pair of piercing black neighborhood where the light occur-
eyes and is burnt much from ex- red. The men who brought in the
posure'. * * * Whore Yeager'body Df Black say that nearly every
will be tried need not worry anyone j able bodied man south of the Cim-
niuch, for he will most likely go i ;lrron river was after Y’eager and
before the highest tribunal before :irP determined to get hitn. Black
many suns set. The men who werej had nothing on his person by which
in the fight last week with Y’eager hp could be identified. Copies of
and Black, near Alva, have just re- tw0 ballads, a picture and $1.50 in
turned from burying Black, who silver being all that his pockets con-
was killed In that fight and one of tained. He was photographed and
them recognized Y’eager, and had a buried here at the expense of the
conversation with him about the! county, on Saturday morning. Sher-
shot that Y’eager got in the right jff McGrath returned on Sunday
breast. The man that fired the\ night from the scene of the fight,
shot explained to Y’eager what kind and pnder Sheriff Hadwiger and U.
of a gun he had and what sized s Marshals Chas. Highshew and
Y’eager recalled'_] ;v. Noah returned Monday. They
had been hot on the trail for a week
____ ........ .....- - j and were only an hour behind Hil
' ini pride in having eluded his pur-j dreth an,i his posse when they kill-
all of the incidents connected with
the fight, and seemed to take espeo-
follows:
Till mounting furlongs, now some
dozens,
And looking down he pants, j specs at that time. He said to the
lets the horses eat all they want
He is careful to see to it that there
is no waste and strikes an average
ration for every head. His 15 work
horses were kept in fine condition
all xvinter and had nothing hut sil-
age and wheat straw for roughness
and no corn.
Mr. Jackson's silo is a Dps Moines
stave silo of 140 tons capacity, and
post $350. It has given complete
satisfaction.—The Southwest Trail.
whose subject was the origin of the
Blodgett team, and by L. V. 1 nca-
pher, Moline YV. \V. Starr. Alva,
Oklahoma. J. S. Kirby. Parsons,
Grant Bilbee, Iola, R. S. Grjggs,
Parsons. Mr. Wallace, Joplin, L. A.
Hamilton, Waynoka, Okla., and C.
C. Stanley. Wichita. Mr. Stanley’s
subject was. “The Future of Gos-
pel Teams."
The climax to a most successful
day came in the evening when there
j assembled in the lawn of the M. E.
Railroad Clause Amendmed, Aggie church for the outdoor serxice .i
. i congregation of people variously es-
lioai-d Ousted and Mining . ‘
Section Repealed. tim.itei
CORBIN CITY: J. M. Bond.
BARTLESVILLE, OKLA: O. E.
Vandergrift and wife, Jewel \ran-
dergrift, R. H. Stewart.
OMAHA, NEBR: J. R. Beard.
ALYA, OKLA: W. YV. Starr.
WAYNOKA, OKLA.: L. A. Ham-
ilton.
CARTHAGE. MO. E. Dayton Brown
JOPLIN, MO. Mr. YVallace.
NEW SALOON LAW.
One Effective Today in Ohio Puts
2,00 Out of Business.
Columbus, O., Aug. 1.—The
between fiften hundred
.and two thousand people. This ----------
... meeting was in charge of C. C. I Greenlund liquor license law signed
incomplete re urns recene > j gjan]ey 0f the Blodgett team and by Governor Cox to become effec-
The Oklahoman up to o c oc speakers were of that team, tive today, inaugurates state control
Wednesday morning from thirty-six stan]ey Caldwell, E. of liquor licenses. Besides provid-
of the sexen y-seven coiiri es n ,R Adams. George Hunter. Valen- jng strict regulations of the liquor
ahpma, n ica e . . withers, A. B. Morre and business, the law by reason of its
state questions submitted in the constitutional requirements, limit-
special election Tuesday w«re glv~\rrdn*
en a favorable vote and every one1 There were a number of conver- ing saloons to one for etc* .00 pop-
adopted. The amendment to the fa- sions. AH who attended received ulation, puts a least 2,000 saloons
mous article ix, section 9, of the an inspiration for greater service in the state out of bustness,
state constitution, known as the and the laymen's movement, yet in
To see his mother, sister cousins,
And uncles look like ants.
man that told hitn he fired the shot,
“By G—, you fellows aimed to kill
me. didn't you? Rut you didn’t aim
right, as the bullet glanced off a
tree ami lodged in my breast, hut
not very deep.”
READY FOR
WORK?
No matter what your
requirements, we can
supply you with work
clothes to fit t1 e occa-
sion.
Don’t forget this store
sells more shoes than
any other store in Alva.
We’ve got ’em for any
occasion.
TANNERBROS.D.G.GO.
West Side
ALVA
Kuhn’s Washington Meekly News
Letter.
i senator Gore says:
I "Accuracy, reliability, coupled
; with keen insight into Oklahoma
and national affair haracterlze the; _____ utnrv nf th
news report sent out from YY asli-
ington by Mr. Oliver Kuhn corres-
pondent for the Daily Oklahoman.
He lias demonstrated from time to j
(line, lie favors no special privileg-
es interests or set of men and that I
he is fearless in the treatment of i
news events.”
Signed—“T. P. Gore." j
ed Black. They followed Yeager
and found a revolver he had lost,
also xvent to the house of a physi-
cian who had dressed a wound in
the side for Y’eager. xvhere he was
shot at the time Black was killed
and placed the Doctor under arrest.
Sheriff McGrath says there is no
doubt about the identity of Rlack,
furthermore he was identified in
Alva on Saturday morning hv three
men from near the Ciniijrron river.
The report of Yeager’s capture is
paper.
The sensational story of the chase,
the killing of Black and the capture
of Y’eager would fill five columns of
this paper, but as our county is now-
rid of these desperate characters,
let us not forget that the exasperat-
ed farmers are largely responsible
for it. and we congratulate them
for their nerve and good work with-
out the hope of reward.
railroad clause, appears to have, its infancy, was given such an im-
been adopted by a vote of more than petus as it never had received.
GOSPEL TEAM CALL.
The Iola workers are all good
two to one, and great actrvity —.
railroad construction work in the singers and they favored the after-
state during the coming year is con-j noon and evening meetings with a
fidently predicted as a result of the
election.
The Tabulated Returns.
The returns as tabulated by The
Oklahoman from thirty-six coun-
ties show the following:
State question No. 46, amending two solos in the evening,
article ix. section 9. of the const!-! Following are the names of dele-
The Alva Gospel Team is called
to meet in the basement of the
Methodist church Friday evening at
number of quartets. The congre- eight o’clock. Every' Christian man
gational singing at the Sunday invited. YY’. YY’. Starr, Pres.
evening meeting was led by Mrs. -
Barber, of Wichita. Mrs. Barber Strayed, one sorrel mare pony
is chorister of the First Baptist wi(b left hind hoof crooked, please
church of her city. She also sang notify L. T. Taylor, Dacoma, Okla.
On the Square
Monfort Bldtf.
El
That YY’. H. McMurray the McAl-
ester lobbyist in YV ingtou Is lay-
ing bis lines to i ko his presence
felt In the next i u 'Hal race In
Oklahoma, in order that he may
obtain the election of a United
Slates Senator xvbo u more in sym-
pathy with bis e Toe to grab off
t iny thousands of dollars con-
i' ets with the Indians of Okla-
homa, Is apparent. McMurray Is
home times slick v lien he Is not
found out. More of-<-n he is. Sen-
ator Ashurst said be could carry a
bundle of eels up fairs without
dropping a oen. T1 : ' J once when
his methods were d -closed. His
fine hand already !<-■ ^een in the
They Hnve No Seed With YVlilch to
Plant Their Fields.
“Many of the farmers In YY’estern
Kansas will not have money this
year to purchase seed wheat for
their fall sowing,” said a traveling
man at a local hotel today. "Many
petitions have been sent to Govern-
or Hodges asking him to call a
special session of the legislature to
provide seed wheat tor these west-
ern counties."
In all the counties west of Ford
and Ness the wheat was almost a to-
tal failure. The grasshoppers ate
up all the corn nnd later crops.
tution: Y’es, 12,480; no, 4,040.
State question No. 47, repealing
section 18. of the state mining code:
Yes, 1 4.821: no, 4633.
State question No. .77, amending
constitution to provide that taxes
levied fo“ maintenance of common
schools on pronertv of public cor-
porations operating in more than
one county shall he paid into com-
mon school fund and distributed as
a part of that fund: Yes. s. >42:
no. 3,300.
State question No. 38, amending
state constitution relating to town-
ship government: Y’es, 7.877; no
4,363.
State question No. 60, relating to
club up and down tlie ci-'y
board tif agriculture: Y’es, 1 0,202;
On Mav the 27th, : enn'or Cummins j Many of these farmers lost their
asked for an InvestieaiIon and on horses In the plague last year and
May the 29th his resolution was1 they are In hard straits.
Cut out this Coupon; it is Worth
100 Votes
on the Piano at
Monjort s
Drug and Book Store
gates to the reunion:
YVTCHITA: F. YV. Oliver. C. C.
Stanley. Geo. K. YY ithers. Geo.
Hnnler. E. E. Adams, M. M. Y’alen-
tine, Homer Caldwell, A. B. Moore.
Mrs. Barbour.
MOLINE: E. A. Chaffin. L. Y’.
T’nrapher. T A. Persinger, Mr. Coe
Rev. J. H. Sutton.
ALTOONA: G. YV. Young, J. YV.
Browning.
THAYER: Rev. H. YV. Todd. Mrs
YVatthall, Mrs. Stout. Mrs. Collins
Geo. Gelwix, YV. A. Miller. M. S
Powell, J. O. Trottler. Geo. Naylir
I. A. Alleman. YV. A. YVathall, Dr
Ci. Coffman. J. A. Smith. Noise Pow
nail, YY*. S. Gelwix, Roy YY’althall
Win. Collins, J. A. Stout, Harry
Alleman.
lOIJt: Prof. A. L. Boatright.
Grant Billbe. Dr. O. L. Garling-
house. Earl Johnson, YY'n’i. Moore.
MORTIMER- J. 0. Carrier.
OSWEGO: J O. Y’eager.
INDEPENDENCE: J. H. Tayler,
P. s. Moore, H. T. Gray.
PARSONS: George Pfaff. E. C.
Savage. Mrs. E. C. Savage, Law-
rence Anderson, Ben Anderson, R.
S. Griggs qnd daughter, Mrs. R. S.
Griggs, L. S. Goodwin, J. S. Kirby,
1/ Cary, C. 0. Tagree.
FREDONIA: YV. G. Fink, Arthur
Now is
Colorado Time
There the cool sdoyv tem-
pered breezes and dry air
mean comfort impossible
here. In Colorado you’ll
have cool nights and re-
freshing sleep, to say noth-
ing of the days pleasure.
You can get away from
the hot weather very easily,
comfortably, and economi-
cally by taking one of the
Santa Fe’s convenient Col-
orado trains. Only $20.75
for a round trip ticket from
here.
Call for Colorado litera-
ture and let me tell you
about our Colorado excur-
sions and service.
C. S CLEMINGS
Agent
Alvi, OKU.
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