The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, April 1, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program and was provided to The Gateway to Oklahoma History by the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
-
/
/s
The Peoples Voice
VOLUME 12.
NORMAN OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1904
NUMBER 38
AN AWFUL TRAGEDY.
.1.
the county jail suffering from nervous
prostration and looking as thought
he might die at any time and Mrs.
Webb was in the care of a physician
at her home. Mr. Webb has been in
i very poor health all winter and was
conlined to his home a great portion
If #[ I
Arrested For Forgery.
j Last Tuesday deputy Sheriff W. T.
Butler arrested south of Noble J. E.
| Brunning charged with torgiiig the
j names of W. E. Craig, J. H. Pile and
John L. Gregg to a $180 note given to
W. J Murphy for a team of horses
which Brunning purchased from Mr.
Murphy's boy about the 23 of this
month. The note was left in the
City National Bank and Brunning
took the team mortgaged them to
Clemmens the harness men for a set
McCa.lt
Has it for
Less.
of his time and only recently had he j of harness and he borrowed a wagon
been able to come down to his store j a)so so we learn which he also mort-
to stay any length of time. There i* j paged. John Lindsay of the bank
some difference of opinion as to how j was a little suspic;0Us of the note and
the difficulty between the two men j seein!r j. h. Pile in Norman last
arose, as no personal enmity between
Merchants of Norman shoots
Down
LEWIS C. KENDALL,
Formerly One of the Lead-
ing
Merchants and Business
Men of Norman.
Mr. Webb is in the county jail ly-
ing at the point of death from illness
and shock and Mr. Kendall is at
home suffering from a bullet wound
in abdomen which is thought will
prove fatal.
Last Tuesday evening about 0:15
o'clock a pistol shot was heard in the
B. L. Webb's dry goods store and on
investigation it was found that L. C
Kendall was suffering from a wonnd
in the abdomen caused by a bullet
fired from a pistol in the hands of
B. L. Webb. Immediately after the
shooting Webb took his little 6 year
old boy by the hand and walked home
where sheriff Barker and assistant
marshal Burch found him shortly after
the shooting. He had locked himself
in the house and threatened to shoot
the officers should they enter; but
Sheriff Barker talked to him and fi-
nally prevailed upon him to open
the door and let him in. He objected
to giving his pistols to the the sher-
iff of which he had two; but the sher-
iff, succeeded in getting them without
any trouble. Webb was then taken
by Sheriff to the Grand Central Hotel
on account of the very delicate con-
ditions of Mr. Webb's health; but
the Sheriff on learning the serious,
character of the wound sustianed by
Mr. Kendall took Mr. Webb to the
county jail and locked him up plac-
ing a strong guard on the jail for the
night. The news of the shootiag soon
spread over Norman and every one
seemed to be shocked and surprised
for Mr. Webb was one of the last
the men was known to exist, and the
whole difficulty seems to have sprung
up over a conversation in which Mr.
Kendall was trying, as a drummer for
a wholesale house, to sell some goods
to Mr. Webb, the latter refusing to
buy and Mr. Kendall expressing him-
self rather freely as to what he
thought of Mr. Webb in a somewhat
personal business way, to which Mr.
Webb took exception and after some
words the two men got to striking at
each other with some small sticks
leading to Mr. Webb pulling a little
double barreled Derringer revolver
and shooting Mr. Kendall as stated
elsewhere in this article. The whole
affair is a very deplorable one and
much to be regretted by everyone.
Mr. Kendall came to Norman from
Nacona, Texas in 1894 purchasing the
"Boston Store" which was conducted
at that time by W. W. Wingate and
from that time until about two years
ago the Boston Store was the largest
dry goods store in Norman and Mr.
Kendall one of the progressive and
live business of Norman, doing the
largest mercantile business in the
city. He was a heavy cotton buyer
and two and three years ago suffered
heavy loss on cotton and he was
forced to turn his stock over to his
creditors and later he engaged in the
grocery business but after conduct-
ing it about one year sold it and
since that time he has been engaged
in no active business but was going
to start on the road as a drummer
salesman. He has a wife and several
small children and a grown son and
daughter. B. L. Webb came to Nor-
man about four years ago from Pecan
Gap, Texas, and opened up a stock of
dry goods in one of the store rooms in
Central block and ever since has
conducted one of the leading dry
goods stores in this city. He was a
man who attended closely to his
own affairs making few if any ac-
quaintances outside of his business
relations and his health was such
that he could not if lie would have
given much time to other than his
own private affairs. He was a man
who seemed to devote all his time
and energy attending to his own busi-
ness and had a reputation of being
close and some what harsh in his re-
quirements of his clerks to hold close-
ly to his rule of business and his ill-
ness seemed to make him morose and
difficult to please even to the extent
of causing some people to deem him
"cranky" or his mind affected by his
illness. He has a wife whose health
is far from being good, and two small
children.
Tuesday morning inquired of him
about the signing of the Brunning
note and this was the first knowledge
Mr. Pile had that his name was on
such a note. Mr. Pile went and saw
Mr. Gregg and found out that he had
not signed such a note. Mr. Pile and
Mr. Gregg immediately swore out a
warrant for the arrest of Brunning
and Sheriff Barker placed it in the
hands of Deputy Sheriff Butler who
immediately left for Noble where he
had saw Brunning working with a
team on a railroad culvert south of
Noble on Monday, and found Brunning
hauling sand arresting him and bring-
ing him with the team to Norman
Tuesday afternoon, placing Brunning
in jail with his brother Herman who
is in jail awaiting trial on the charge
of killing his father-in-law Fred
Grossniclause.
Fruit Killed.
Last Friday the prospects for a
fine crop of fruit iu this county was
very promising; but it is all changed
now. Friday night a storm swept
down from the north running the
mercury down to below the freezing
point and all day Saturday the wind
blew cold from the north freezing
again Saturday night and Sunday it
remained cold freezing again Sunday
night and Monday there was little
if any fruit left. The peaches, plums
and apricots are undoubtedly all
killed and the cherries apples and
other fruit trees which were not in
lull bloom it is feared has also sulier-
ed a like fate though some people
are inclined to hope that the frost
has not played such complete havoc
with her these latter fruit trees. The
loss of the peach crop is a hard blow
not only to the orchardists in this
county but to the people who like to
h^ye their celTitrs stored with cans of
this delightful fruit for winter use.
Saturday many of the knowing ones
predicted that because it was dry and
light of the moon that fruit would
not suffer but since last Monday u e
have not heard anything more from
these fellows.
Big Fire in Oklahoma Oity.
Last Monday morning a big lire
broke out iu the Fair store in Okla-
homa City resulting in damage t o
the stock and building estimated at
$60,000. The loss is fully covered by
insurance. Several people in the
upstair rooms had narrow;escapes.
Anniversary Celebration I 0. 0- F. and
Rebeccas of Oklahoma Territory,
Guthrie O. T. April 26th. Dates
of sale April 25-26 limited for return
April 27th. Round trip rate $2.00.
J. J. Baker, Agt.,
We want to impress on the mind of
the young man that no law ever was
made to save him going to hell if he !
is bent on going there. The young '
man who drinks whiskey may be a j
smart man in many respects but so
far as drinking is concerned he is a
fool. We haven't as much sympathy
as we might have with all this sympa-
thetic talk about the poor drunkard.
If the young fellow understood that
that when he commences to drink
it will mean that he can't get a job
and can't get into respectable so-
ciety, and that if he gets drunk he
will land on the rock pile—if all
these tnings were understood there
wouldn,t be quite so many young
men going to the devil on a fast trot
as there are at present.—Tom Mc-
N eal in Kansas Issue.
OBITUARIES.
Died—At her home
mm
Statehood Bill,
Oklaho.man bureau.
1413 G. St. N. W.
Washington March 22. Republican
members of the sub-committee of the
house territorial committee today
completed the draft of the bill unit-
ing Oklahoma and Indian Territory
into one state to become effective
March 4, 1906.
The bill provides for five congress-
men, assigned to five congressional
districts as fo'lo*•;
First district, Creek, Seminole and
| Cherokee nations.
Second district, Choctaw and Chick-
asaw nations
Third district, Osage reservation,
' •. Kay, Grant, Garfield, Woods, j
Woodward and Beaver counties.
this city
last Saturday evening at 5:35 o'clock
Mary E. beloved wife of W. J.
Jackson. The funeral services were
held at the Baptist church, if which
the deceased was a member, con-
ducted by the pastor Rev. Croxton
Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
The funeral was delayed for a day
by reason of a failure of an only
sister, Mrs. Lottie Harvey of In-
dianapolis to arrive, by missing a
train 6ut of St. Louis. Mrs. Harvey
arrived 011 Wednesday afternoon s
train. An only brother, Albert
Price, of Cedarvale, Kansas, attend-
ed the funeral. Mrs. Jackson was a
christian woman and loved by all
who knew her. Since the death of
her daughter, Mrs. Binford, two
small children fell to her lot to be
c. .1 more than a grandmother to
and in the death of Mrs. Jackson
they are left without a mother for
the second time. Besides a hus-
band to whom she had been a com-
panion for thirty years she leaves a
married daughter and two sons al-
most grown to manhood, to mourn
her death.
Died—At her home in this city
last Wednesday at 12 o'clock Roie
beloved wife of W. H. DeWitt.
Funeral services were held at the
M. E. church conducted by the
pastor Rev. Barnss Thursday after-
noon at 3:30 o'clock. She left a
husband and three small children to
mourn her death.
Died—At her home one mile
south of Norman last Wednesday
morning at 1 o'clock Mannie the
beloved wife of Albert D. Cox. For
a number of years Mrs. Cox's
Fourth district, Payne, Lincoln, I health had not been good and 111
Logan, Kingfisher, Blaine, Dewey, j hope that a change of climate might
Day and Custer counties. | prove of benefit Mr. Cox took his
family and established a residence
land, Canadian, Oklahoma, Washita,
I in the state of Washington for over
and Commanche counties.
thursday morning.
Mr. L. C. Kendall was still living
men to be thought of in Norman who , an(j even seemed some better having
would have serious trouble of such
a character and L. C. Kendall was
equally as free from any =usplcion of
t being in anyway likely to become
mixed up in a shooting affray.
Soon after the shooting doctors
were called to examine wound sus-
I,' t tained by Mr. Kendall and after a
hasty examination by Dr. Capshaw
he expressed himself as fearing the
wound was a fatal one and ordered
Mr. Kendall, convey to his home
where Drs. Capshaw, Lowther and
Burch made a more thorough exami-
nation of wound finding bullet near
recovered from the shock but the doc-
tors while they doubted that he would
ever recover trom the shock still did
not think that there was much chance
for the recovery of their patient.
They thought the bullet had passed j
through stomach, the large intestine
and also a kidney and as a conse-
quence could entertain but ve-iy faint
hopes of recovery.
Mr. Webb was lying on a cot in
the county jail looking more like a
corpse than a living man. His broth
er arrived from Chickasha Wednes-
day afternoon and is looking after
District Court.
Last Monday afternoon Judge Ir-
win arrived in Norman and convened
District Court in the Opera House.
The grand and petit juries were em-
panelled «and instructed in a very
short time and the judge began call-
ing cases. The first case called was
the case of the territory vs Sam Sea-
well and a motion to quash indictment
in one of the cases was withdrawn
and a general demurrer filed and a
plea of not "guilty" entered. The
next case called was Territory vs
Charles 'i'ulley. A plea of guilty was
entered by the defendant and the
court sentenced him to two years
servitude in the Lansing penitentiary
The next case called was Territory vs
Joe Mattox charged with shooting
into Liberty church.
The jury in the Mattox case after
a year returning to their home south
The bill appropriates $;>,000,000 for ' of Norman last fall. Mrs. Cox's
a school fund for the Indian territory, j health continued to fail and she
Terms of the United States district fell asleep in Jesus last Wednesday
morning, The funeral services will
court will be held at Guthrie and
Muskogee. The bill will be reported
to the full sub committe tomorrow
and further considered.
The Foster Boys Again.
Last Tuesday afternoon Bud and
Will Foster again visited Norman
and before the officers discovered
their presence in town Bud was rid-
ing on the side walk in front of the
Commercial Club building Sheriff
Barker and city marshal Ike Sales
made a dash to capture the boys Sher-
iff Barker pullftig Hud off of his horse
near the Carey Lumber >ard and
turning him over to Ike Sales mount-
ed his horse and took after Will who
had run south towards the Miller ad-
dition Sheriff Barker ran up pretty
close to him near Miller's vineyard
skin 011 his back; the bullet having J interests of his brother; having em
entered the abdomen near the navel ; ployed Newell & Jackson, and Dud'ey
passing through the body and con- j to look after defense of his brother,
firming the fears of Dr. Capshaw as Mr. Kendall's two brothers and
to the nature of the wound when he brother-in-law Sam Walker also ar-
lirst examined it hastily. Wednes* rived in Norman and have retained
day morning Mr. Kendall was still Williams & Williams to assist the
alive and B. L. Webb was on a cot in j county attorney in the prosecution
but when he shouted at him to halt
being out eighteen hours returned a i Wolf just lay down in his saddle and
verdict in court eleven of the jurors
favoring conviction and and one fa-
voring acquittal. Judge Irwin dis-
missed the case and released the de-
fendant At noon Tuesday Judge
Irwin adjourned court until Thursday
at 2 o'clock excusing the petit jury
men until that time leaving the
grand jury in session.
Kev. Miles, pastor of the Presby-
terian church in Guthrie, was in Nor-
man this week assisting llev. Alexan-
der in a week's special meeting held
at the Presbyterian church in this
city this week.
be held at the family residence Fri-
day morning at 10 o'clock a. ni.
Conducted by Rev. J. R. Cormack.
A husband and a son and daughter
almost grown to manhood and wo-
manhood are left to mourn the loss
of a kind and affectionate wife and
mother.
J. E. Hicks was in Norman last
Monday and informed us that his
wife was telling him that she wished
she could go to the primaries and
cast a vote for M McGinley for the
nominat on as candidate for register
of deeds and J E. informs us that he
will either have to vote for "Mac" or
or never let his wife find out differ,
ent and he Is rather of the opinion
that there are many other men in
the county who are in a very similar
condition: for their wives have sold
eggs, butter and poultry and pur-
turned to Norman. City marshal! chased groceries foi *0 many years
Sales put Bud in the city Bastile and j from M. McGinley thai they look up-
in a short time the city jail was on j on him as a man who was their friend
fire: but the fireman arrived and put *11 their time of greatest neel when
the fire out and Bud languished in 1 opening up the farms in thip new
jail all night appearing before country and now they think it noth-
put spurs to his p my and after a half
mile chase the Sheriff saw that he
couln not overtake Wolf and re-
Judge Norman Wednesday morning
to answer to two charges of fast rid-
ing and boisterious language and
was fined $."> in one case and $10 in
the other costs and lines amounting
but right that they should show
their appreciation for past favors.
Should the women in this county who
have traded with M. McGinley take
a hand in trying to secure his notni-
to 127 which Bud refused to pay and I nation the other candidates will have
was taken back the city jail. ' -t0 hustle some.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Allan, John S. The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, April 1, 1904, newspaper, April 1, 1904; Norman, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117767/m1/1/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.