The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 101, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1915 Page: 1 of 8
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DAILY EDITION
CARRIES UNITED PRESS SERVICE—HOI OFF THE WIRE
ME XV—NO. 101.
IRR CAS
TRIED-GET JURY
3:40 THURSDAY AFTER
NON TRIAL8EGENS-MANY
WITNESSES EXAMINED
r 80 jurors summoned before 12 qualify
-may,finish the trial this week.
Carr home. Mrs. Georise Calvin, a
neishbor of the defendant, testified
. I. PITMAN, hRANK I'ET- ♦ that she saw Luts have Carr down on
S. JOHN LODUS, JOHN ♦ j the ground)
heating him; later she
I LE. H. J. GRAHAM. J. B. * | saw Lu(z drawing a bucket of water
LTON, H. O. BEASLEY, J. ♦ flonl n,e well, and soon after heard
(U.K. J. I. I'ARK, K, L f,!U1. shots fired. *
MES, E. B. GREGORY, ♦
VS. ICE. ♦
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
LAWTON, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER :t, 1915.
MYSTERY
SURROUNDS
DEPARTURE
MARKESON
PROPERTY
SOLD HIGH
I Ruby Thurinans said that she saw
Carr, standing about two feet from
(Continued On Page Four.)
BASKET BALL
AT FORT SILL
FRIDAY NIGHT
j Unusual mystery surrounds the de
parture of Mrs. Jessie Hunter, wife
of J. G. Hunter, principal of the Fax-
on schools, who leff her home at Fax-
on some time last week, while her
husband was attending the Teachers
association in Oklahoma City.
Mrs. Hunter was a teacher in the |
Faxon school and drew her salary he-1
fore leaving.The matter has been kept
secret for a week, as detectives and
officers have been working on case,
and so far have not been aide to Ret
any information, as Mrs. Hunter can-
not be found or any trace of her.
She has been in ill health for some
time, and it may be that she has wan-
d< red away,although her suit case and
clothes ate missing from her home.
Attorney Lewis Hunter, brother of
Prof. Hunter, when interviewed said
that there had never been any domes-
tic trouble and that the husband had
no idea where his wife had gone. All
he knew was that he came home from
(' he Teachers' Association and she
I was gone. •
Mrs. Hunter was only 22 years old
and is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.
C. Hollingsworth, who live near Law-
ton.
Prof. Hunter is almost distracted
with worry over her disapparanee.
wandering window of his-
tory again on its wav
The property of the late Mike
Markeson was sold Wednesday after-
noon, Dec. 1, at public auction and
Frank Spencer reports the result a ' ,'rue s bride. Henry \ II banished it
follows- I10 Waltham Abbey, away from. Lon-
don, because it suggested unpleasant
Old Monarch property, lots 24 and ; memories. After the Dissolution, it
j25, block 44, was sold to M. E. Car- j passed to the Earl of Sussex, father
(United Press Correspondence.)
LONDON, Nov. 2.—(By Mail.)
Pried from its fastenings for the first 1
time since 17ns, the wandering East
window of St. Margaret's, the little
church fronting Westminister Abbey,.
has wandered to quarters safer from
Zeppelins. The window was oriviuallv '
presented by burcesses of Dordrecht I
to Henry VII for his chapel in West-1
n.i.iiater Abbey. It contains the n .r-
traits uf the King and Oueen, their ._ _
el Jet son. Prince Arthur and the ^ ol- hhkoh defense
belonged to new minis-
ter of war.
DEFENSE
OF PARIS
DESCRIBED
gallieni capable
t a jury has been secured in
tt Carr case, wherein Carr is
d with the murder of Frank
n July 16, 1915. The court has
From Tuesday afternoon until
i,.; afternoon getting a jury,
i-re than eighty men were ex- ■
It has been one of the Hard-t .
:*• - in the history of 4-he j This evening, at the^Post Gymnasi- (
iih Judicial district to get-4his^um, Fdrrt Sftl, there will be a basket
i ball game between the Fort Sill team
iand the Cameron Aggies. This i the i aw/tfln flarpfntfr
of the jurors knew too njuch l irU game of basket ball that has beet, L"fi 1 UI1 UHnrLll I Lll
:i'-tual facts, Others wer laved this year and it is expected t-
ti to capital punishment and al- j 'JC a ®©od one. Both teams have been
the regular pa,.el was 'noticing very hard and are prepared
| to battle for the large score.
: and two special venires, is-j \0 ,ioubt many will go out from1 Manr>' 1!- Warren died yesterday
etore the required twelve men , Lawton, and a large delegation is go- nftei noon at the Southwestern Ilr,.
:>e secured. ,At 3:40 p., m„ i >K from Cameron, so that a good l.jtal and was brought this morning to
ay the above twelve men were j aMured' The ad" i the St. Clair Undertaking Parlors
i:i by Deputy Court Clerk j J I where he was prepared for burial. Mr.
Murphy and almost immediate- j Mrs. L. M. George of Sterling, was barren was born in Missouri, June
taking of testimony was eom-jir the city this morning shopping and i "*■ 1867. He was by trade a car-
son for $1150. This is considered an!of the unfortunate wife of Henry!
extra good sale, considering that itiVI1, Anne Boleyn- 11 wa laler Pos'
was a force,I sale, and is a good indi-! "®"fed ndD P™*™* " .turn by the He is a Product of the French Colon-
4. . , 'Duke of Buckingham, (teneral Monk, ie^—Will Seek Their
CS u a«'un and her real an(j Squire Conyers, the latter selling I Intelligence.
estate values are coming back. ! it to the committee of Parliament,
The Markeson residence located at I who repaired St. Margarets in 175s. By Henry Wood
915 Fourth street, lot 5, block 4 Beal remained for the Zeppelins to drag, (United Press Staff Correspondent.)
Heights, was sold to N. T. Gilbert;'1 fr°m iU reatin,f P'aCe °' 157 yearB'I 1>ARIS' N,,v' 3—<BV Mail.)-En-
and Ellen Gilbert for $1000. This also
• . ... ' Rev. J. W. Sims and family
is considered a good price at this time I
vear j spending the day and evening
Medicine Park, enjoying the fishing'Kave * K°od «* mple of it on Septem
ergetic simplicity is the dominating
are characteristic of General Gailieni,
at (France's new Minister of War; and he
IjOts 1 to 8, I,lock 40, Woods addi-
tion was sodi to E. L. Bohan for
*816.00.
baby's Hand smashed
by car window.
and hunting.
E. D. Enders, paymaster at Fort
tier ,'ird, 1014, when he found himself
suddenly entrusted with the defense
of Paris upon that crucial day.
The government had fled to Bor-
; Sill, left today for Chackasha, where ,deaux before the onrush of the Teu-
he will get an eight cylinder
mobile, and drive it home.
While Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Jarnigan
were enroute to their home at Chat-
tanooga, on the Rock Island yesterday ■
afternoon going to Carnegie, Okla., I
Mr. Jarnigan in raising a car window i
let it drop. It fell on the baby's hand,.
badly smashing it. As soon as they j
arrived in the city a physician waf
called and the wound was dressed.
COMANCHE CO.
POULTRY SHOW
BEGINS DEC. 9.
buried friday
I ..ttendiil: to business interests.
- late is represented by County
•y T. B. Orr, assisted by as-
county attorney, J. A. Diffen-
and Judge Charlton of Bar-
i Cham Jones ilted the at-
that the court would expect to
he Carr case this week, and
f'<>ld night sessions to accom-
lat end. However it is doubtful
it can be finished in that
ty Attorney Orr made a brief
statement to the jury in
ie said the state would prove
ank Lutz was killed 180
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. White of Letitia,
spent the day in the city shopping
Mr. White made this office a pleasan,
Okla., who was one of thejca"' ilnd renewed for the C onstitution
in the Reuter case at Tulsa, j
Henderson, chief counsel for J ■" fj |" I |f"l/r (t/fC" '
• i ablj tssisted by At-! DCLICVC 111 L
W. C. Stevens and John)
. all three of whom have had j
deal of practice in such cases.
Henderson's name was unin- j
r.iiy omitted from yesterday's: Billu- "Single" Clifford :,:i.| hi-
Merry Minstrel Maids entertained an
unusually appreciative audience last
night, when they made thei'- initia'
appearance at the Metropolitan thea-
tre in "Watch Your Step." There was
no plot to the play and none wa? need-
ed, but it Was light, musical, clever
and full of many catchy lines—and
they played the kind of music that ap-
pealed to the audience.
The Weston Trio, playing cello, vio-
lin and piano, are decidedly musical,
being repeatedly encored. The Lu-
vernes Orchestra, one of the best la-
dies' orchestras ever heard in Lawton,
)m corner of the Carr were extra good.
while running, and that de- Nick Glynn, the black face come-
had gone to the house with a (,'(l his share to entertain, and
water with which to admin- h<Lclevcl " wi" make yoM laugh
. , whether you want to or not. All the
the defendant, who met him dancin(f was new and extremoly
gun. tertaining.
day afternoon Mrs. Dwight II. Altogether, this i- an extra iiuality
; -ti fled as to meeting Mr. and C°^7' T,h.ey„W'" be St'c'n ' ,ni,"ht
in Believe Me, a play which is al-
ways popular.
penter and was one of Lawton's well
known citizens and had a host of
friends. The deceased leaves relatives
in Missouri, who were expected to
arrive for the funeral, which was
held this afternoon at the Christian
church at three o'clock
Wagner.
Olds- .tonic hordes. Gailieni must defend the
city. He felt that his first duty was to
j tell the Parisians of the situat ion be-
1 fore them. He summoned a famous
historian on his staff to prepare the
j proclamation. What the historian
wrote, had it ever been published,
probably would have gone down as a
notable literary contribution to the
war.
Gailieni glanced at the long, high
sounding phrases, thanked the his-
torian, handed him his page and pick-
ing up a pen, wrote:
The Comanche County Poultry 'To The Inhabitants And The Army-
Show, for which great preparations of Paris: The members of the gov-
Cnn uiioniiiATAi' are being m*d« will beheld on De- eminent ti the Republic have left
lUn WASHINGTON Utr",ei 9- 10 uml 11 in lhe buildW ''ari8 to Kive u new impulse to the Na-
at 410 I) Avenue, in the building j1'"""' defence. I have received the or-
P , . . . , , ! -ler to defend Paris against the in-
formerly occupied by the Owl Drug ;
vader. That order I will carry out to
store. A great interest is being taken th, very end_. Ga„ieni . That phraae>
in (his, and many are getting their 'to the very end"—jus.|ua au bout,
fowls crated and ready for exhibition, j put heart into the Parisians. It is the
All, who can, should bring in their jmost famous phrase the war has giv-
en France.
texas special leaves
By the United Press.
DALLAS,' Texas, Dec. 8.—Seventy-
Texas democrats leave today for
Washington, on a specia' train, to
l iirg the National convention here
Tiie Lone Star
train.
fia^ floats over the
I.irds as valuable prizes are offered.
J. N. Black, who live on route
two out ot Elgin, was a business
visitor in the city yesterday. He call-
ed and renewed for the Constitution.
by Rev
the cotton market
TDNIRHT fil'MFT tells college
lumuin fii sviti girls to raise
New York.
Yesterday's
Close
Dec 12.20
! Jan 12.30
! Mbrch 12.60
May 12.79
New Orleans
Yesterday's
Close
ter (iieen, newspaper man, tells .Rad |le(. n
clilfe college girls, to raise babies for ,
uar preparedness.
babies for war
By the United Press.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 3.—Wal-
j A short time later Gailieni com-
imandered all the taxicalis in Paris and
| rushed 20,000 troops in them to the_
. Marne, rich! at the time and place to
'change impending defeat into victory.
I Gailieni is a product of the French
colonies. Much has been said against
[the French colonial policy, but these
'colonies have produced some of the
most brilliant French generals of the
present war. In addition to Gailieni
there is Joifre, Roques and Gouraud.
In Madagascar the simple Gaili-
eni developed hs military, organzing
and administrative ability. "Leave
with each person the impression that
he has created that which he has ex-
... .... , , . , |ecuted,'' was the foundation principle
pointed to solicit membership for the; ,. ,. , ,, . ,., ,
of his success there. He is unlike the
All visitors will be more than re
paid for visiting this show, and re-
member the dates.
OVER 200
MEMBERS
The committees, who have hejn ap- j
Today'j
Close
12.25
12.36
12.C5 I'Uisiness Men: League arc meeting j modern (tenersl who makes himselt
12.8-1 jwilh unusually good success as they feared, in that he makes himself
| have over two hundred at the present | loved.
Today's j time, with indications of making it at ! As Miniater "f War. Gailieni has an
Close, least three hundred by nex, Wednes advantage in his profound knowledge
12.16
HLACKHAND BOMB EX-
PLODES IN TENEMENT
By the United Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. 3.—A score of per-
sons were injured slightly, when a
blackburn! bomb exploded in the hall
way of a three story tenement.
12.28
12.57
12.78
middling
12.50. Sales 200.
New York spots, steady, middling
12.45. Sales 600.
12.24
March 12.53
May 12.75
Galveston spots, steady,
day night.
of Germany. Years ago he saw the
German world movement and equip-
Everyone is getting behind the var- ped himself to come with the present
ious committees, and soon Lawton (Continued On Page Three.)
will have another live commercial
body.
♦ WEATHER REPOBT •
New Orleans spots, easy, middling, o «
oklahoma live
stock market
12.00. Sales 710.
♦ Tonight and
♦ and warmer.
Saturday
fair ♦
♦
it/ us they drove up to the
tra Special—Christmas Turkeys
WILL PAY FOR NO. 1 TURKEYS L'l'/je A LB. DEC. 1ST
TO DEC. 8.
W. D. Wright Produce Co.
New Localiiin, New Home, By IJock Island Slock 1 arils.
WtOS, OKLA. PHONE 30G.
Rings O
We place a very
attractive line ol' j
these goods at thf
disposal of Christ-
mas shoppers. It I
has never been
our privilege to
offer a more
beautiful and '
pleasing line of
Rings at a scale of prices affording
such perfect satisfaction to the pur-
chaser. We are proud of our stock
and pleased to show it. Please call
today and inspect our beautiful holi-
day stock. I'll be pleased if you do; ]
I'll be sorry if you don't.
♦ PRESCRIPTIONS ♦
♦ Did You Say, ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
♦ "WE FILL 'EM" ♦ * WAR NEWS OF ONE ♦
♦ Phones 1100-1101. Night 667. ♦,* < hristians fled
#4 4 when a holy war was proclaim
Because its our BUSINESS
LAWTON DRUG STORE.
YEAR AGO TODAY. ♦
♦
from Turkey ♦
♦
CATTLE.
Cows and Heifers—
Good to choice feeders . .$6.25@(5.50
Medium to good 5.75(§H>.25
Good to choice stock calves 7.50(5)8.00
Good to choice light yrlgs. 6.35@7.00
Medium to good yearlings .5.75@6.25
Common
Stock heifers
Stock bulls
Stock cows
CLIFFORD, THE JEWELER
that gives green trading -tamps,
at 229 C
WANTED
Horses and Mules
from 5 to 10 years
old, 15 to 16 hands
high.
C. S. THOMAS
225 F at. Lawton
. . .5.00(«'5.2o
B.00©7.25
.. . 4. >0(ti)5.o0
. 6.45(0.6.50
. .6.40(0,6.45
♦ ed. Seven million Belgians were ♦ HOGS.
♦ dependent upon America for ♦ uest butchers
j ♦ food. London said copper con ♦ Medium to sood
♦ cealed on cotton ships caused the ♦ Good heivies 6.40<®6.50
♦ holding up of American ship- ♦ Light butcher mix 6.35@HI.45
♦ pinj?. ♦ Common mix .6.10@6.25
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ piKS 5.00@5.50
Window Glass
At A; L. Lund's Paint and Wall Paper Store
411 D AVENUE TELEPHONE 194
►♦♦♦♦♦♦
make Law
. in South- ♦
•taost. ♦
♦♦♦♦♦♦
LY EDITION.
SED
AD
i ACIIO HAD
V, PLANS
II.
her Ship* are
Guiet
attempt to
al revolution
romptly sup-
mpiisonod.
«er, Chacho,
her wai ships
ously planned,
ment arsenal,
d.
d battle guns of
•trained on the
to sink her. The
rendered.
i
AST WEEK,
iVING RAPIDLY.
ittle girl, who was
imp fire last week,
*ly at the AssOci-
eadquarters, and
cheer her up.
klaho.na City, is
id wife, Mr. and
iChe.
i the city today
interests. Mr.
ness at India-
ire
vening
it church of
lecture
Hon. Clar-
3outh Bend,
auditorium
<er of the
the Mother
ind will de-
of the state of Oklahoma for a
i. All persons interested in said
are notified to be present. SAM
VIMPLE, Applicant. 11-10 Imo
•arole.
ausc
keep a bottle of Chamneriatn s couis„ curBj 0||J Sar(]| other Remtd|«s Won't cute.
Remedy in the house and use it as Yhetwrst eases, no matter of how long standing,
directed. It always aave my boy re- «re cured br the wondtrhil, old reliable Dr.
, l'orter's Antiseptic HealiQtr Oil. It relieves
lief '' Obtainable everywhere. i i>ain and Heaia at tbe ue time 2Sc. 50c. t.o>
this lecture
invited.
1NESS
ORE
ight 667. ♦
♦ ♦♦♦
$13 ♦
..$13 «
. . $2:S ♦
317 3rd. ♦
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