The Nowata Star (Nowata, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, May 16, 1913 Page: 1 of 8
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_NC\7ATA, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1913.
j — YOLtJME X DAILY AND WEEKLY.
* „ Whats the biggest nuisance in the world?—But what we
really started to tell you about was Elkay’s W.re-cut Liniment-we sell
« tor 50c and absolutely guarantee it to heal up smoothly a barbed wire
cut m the shortest possible time of anything you ever used-money back
ir it doesn t—were behind the guarantee.
Board of “Missourians”
Shown by Sophomores
ALL HOME-PRINT.
NUMBER 21.
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legislature TO AD-
JOURN THURSDAY
The members of the
domestic science class, under the di-
rection of their teacher, Miss Nora
Amaryllis Talbot, entertained the
sophomore the early realization of a high school
building with adequate auditorium
space for assemblages of the students
and patrons on commencement and
.omen cue ana
members of the board of education other occasions. The guests depart
s Kr
e\ent so successful.
The following young ladies
day evening at the high school build-
ing. A menu of eight courses was
prepared and served by the members
of the class. In the absence of W.
A. Chase, president of the board, J.
E. Jones acted as toastmaster. Re-
sponses were made by members of
the board. Well-deserved praise was
tendered Miss Talbot for tire adniir-
members of the class: Lillian Mc-
Cracken, Mary Moore, Mary Belle Co-
ipne, Rose Todd, Vera Carey, Edyth
Tivis, Marjorie Simpson, Mabie May
and Harriett Tyrrell.
The guests were Mr. and Mrs. F.
able work done in the department of W.GaleT Mr aZ\fr/'E B T/'
domestic science. Miss Talbot in Mr. and Mrs C M Pa"k Dr and M^.’
turn expressed her appreciation of
the interest shown by the board in
her department and praised her class
for the success of the banquet. A
prominent member of the board told
D. M. Lawson, Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Jones, Mr. and Mrs P S Powell, Mr,
and Mrs. W. L. Moore, Mr. and Mrs.
Wm- S. Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. p!
H Walter, Misses Maude Oschman
" °r lae uoar(1 told H Waiter, Misses Maude Oschm
the present need and prophesied land Ruth Dean and Alfred Talbot.
POISONING CHARGE
AGAINST WOMAN
Hugo, Okla., May 12.—Mrs. Jacl
Basey, wife of a merchant of Bos-
well, was arrested and brought t>
this city charged with having rpurder.
ed her eight year old step son last
Friday morning by .administering :
dose of strychnine,
It is charged that when the twc
Basey children, twins, started t.
school Friday morning Mrs. Basey
called them back to give them med-
icine, only one of them, a boy taking
it. Immediately upon his arrival at
school a few minutes later he asked
the teacher to allow him to go home
According to the custom of the school
the teacher told him to write his ex-
cuse on the blackboard. As he went
to the blackboard he asked the teach,
er for a drink of water. As he turnec
to hand him the water, the child fell
to the floor and died before anything
could be done for him.
Last March the mother of Jack
Basey died suddenly ill being given
out that she took suddenly ill at mid-
night. About a year ago the ten
year old daughter of Jack Basey
burned to death and the step moth-
er gave it out that she had fallen
backward into the fire and perished
before she could be rescued.
Mrs. Basey is a woman about 45
years of age. She was formerly the
wife of W. H. Attaway, now a mer-
chant of Bennington, who instituted
the divorce proceedings. Sensations
were brought out at the trial and
Sheriff Connell, who was then in of-
fice, had to go to Boswell to take
from her the young daughter of At
taway, whom she was holding.
She was married to Basey about
two years ago.
GOVERNOR ABOLISHES
SOME COUNTY OFFICES
TO BUILD CHURCH IN A DAY
South Coffeyville, Okla., May 13—
The Methodist Episcopal church of
this place expect to build a church
in one day, and have set Tuesday,
May 20 as the day. They have con-
siderable labor promised and are
sending out invitations to all neigh-
boring church to come over on that
day and help them to erect the first
church of the town, They expect to
have it ready to hold a service in the
new church that evening at 8 p. m.
The ladies of the town are prepar-
ing to serve a big free dinner to all
who will come and help on the church,
either with labor or finances.
HELD ON POISONING CHARGE
Walters, Okla., May 12.—Charged
with having administered poison to
Joheph H. Howard, former husband
of Mrs. W. L. Lesney, the latter and
her present husband, W. L. Lesney
were bound over to wait the action
of the district court. Dr. J. M. Steph-
ens, who at the time of Howard’s
death gave out the information that
death resulted from pneumonia, was
also held to await the action of the
court. Howard died March 22, and
April 2 his widow' and Lesney were
married. Testimony developed that
the preliminary hearing tending to
show that Lesney and Mrs. Ho war
had been on intimate terms previous
to Howard’s death.
Oklahoma City, May 13—Appro-
pi rntion measure for eleemosynary
institutions of the state, approximat-
ing $216,428.99 were approved Tues-
day by Governor Cruce. The bills
provide for support and maintenance
for the fiscal years ending June 30
1914, and June 30, 1915. Institution
for the deaf, blind and orphan color-
ed children at Taft, $43,332; colored
agricultural and normal university at
Langston, providing for enlargement
of buildings and the construction of
'^eZT>r\S and sewerafte system,
$<0,000; boys’ training school at
Pauls Valleyy $1,059.22; a firemen’s
pension measure to carry out the
provisions of the statutes relative to
injured municipal employes of $16,-
037.77, and an appropriation of $80,-
000 for the home for the feeble-mind-
ed at Enid.
Governor Cruce also approved
house bill No. 118, by Glasco, entitled
“An act consolidating the office of
county clerk, clerk of the county
court and register of deeds with the
office of district court under the ti-
the of "court clerk and ex-officio, reg-
ister of deeds” and consolidating the
office of county assessor and county
treasurer under the title of “county
treasurer and assessor,” fixing sal-
aries of county officers, providing
for appointment of deputies, defining
the qualifications, limiting the num-
ber and fixing a maximum salary of
such deputies.”
Oklahoma City, May 13—The leg-
islature will recess technically at
least, at noon Thursday, May 15, if
the report of joint conference commit-
tee of the house and senate is adopted
b> both houses. The committee
agreed late Tuesday and signed its
report which will be presented Wed-
nesday.
The confrerees were Pinkham, Tee-
hee and Childers of the house, Rody,
Barefoot and Carpenter of the sen-
ate. The date to reconvene was left
undisturbed, June 16. There is con-
siderable question whether the legis-
lature will be ready to recess Thurs-
day night, even; but the clocks will
be stopped at noon Thursday and all
work after that time will be gratis.
Many of the legislators expect the
last day’s session to run until day-
light Friday morning.
The original intention that the leg-
islature would clean up all legislative
matters now and leave nothing to be
done after the recess but to receive
lepoits of investigating committees
shows some signs of failing. The
congressional redistricting question is
going over on the understanding that
it may be taken up after the recess,
and it is likely that any important un-
finished business left on hand after
Thursday will be taken up and fin-
ished after the recess also.
Estimates as to how long the legis-
lature will be in session after it re-
convenes June 16, vary. Some leg-
islators think only a few days, many
say about two weeks, some think a
month.
VOU CAN’T BET ON
A RACE IN OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma City, May 13— Betting
on horse races in Oklahoma is now
doomed. Governor Cruce Tuesday
approved the senate measure prohib-
iting this form of gambling and the
stringent provisions against violation
will make it next to impossible to
evade the law. The measure, how-
ever, does not carry the emergency
clause and the lovers of ths sport
still have left a short period before
the bill becomes operative, 90 days
after the adjournment of the legisla-
ture.
For violation of the law relating to
conducting places where bets are
allowed am! books are made, those
convicted will be fined from $200 to
$500 and will be ’improsoned not less
than 30 Jays in jail As one-fourth of
the fine will go to the informer, the
law builds around itself a system of
espionage which will make it almost
impossible to violate. Telegraph
companies also are prohibited from
sending messages to pool rooms or
persons who might use the informa-
tion for the purpose of betting.
G A LER’ S
The 5?©*Ct££ Store
THE STORE THAT SETS THE PACE
Trials and Tribulations
of Dusky “Champeen”
It is proposed to prohibit the im-
portation of aigrettes for milinery
ornaments, but there are still some
American song birds that haven’t
been exterminated.
Chicago, May 13.--Jack Johnson,
champion heavyweigh fighter, tonight
was found guilty of violating the fed-
eral white slave law in transporting
Belle Sehreiber from Pittsburg to
Chicago in 1910. Hr was convicted
on all seven counts in the indictment.
The jury returned its verdict after an
hour’s deliberation.
The maximum penalty under the
finding is five years’ imprisonment
or $10,006 fine, or both.
A motion of Assistant District At-
torney Parkin that Johnson be or-
dered confined in the county jail was
overruled by Judge Carpenter and the
negro was released on a bond of ‘TO -
000.
Four ballots were taken by the jury
tonight, the first being four for ac-
quittal and eight for conviction.
1 w o counts of the indictment were
dismissed yesterday at the request of
Judge. Carpenter, who declared that
no good purpose could be served by
ailing unnecessary details of the re-
lations of Johnson and the white
woman.
Lucille Cameron Johnson, his sec-
ond white wife, did not appear in the
court room at any time. Only a
few persons were in court when the
verdict was reached, as a result of
an order of Judge Carpenter that
“scandal fans” be barred from the
hearings.
CUSHING TO HAVE
MAMMOTH REFINERY
High School Graduates
in Spotlight This Week
ENTRE NOUS ENTERTAINED
At the last meeting of the Entre
Nous c.ub it was decided to have
only two more meetings this season;
the club was divided into two sections*
the first half entertaining the other
half with a picnic lunch Tuesday eve-
ning. The feast was spread on the
lawn at the home of Miss Bertha
Dodge, and such a feast as it was.
There was not a single article left out
that it takes to make a picnic a
success, and at 7:00 o’clock the
guests had put in their appearance
anxious to demonstrate just how much
they appreciated the bountiful repast
that was set before them. Every-
thing was perfect from the chicken
sandwiches down to the strawberries
and cream. When the remnants of
the once bountiful repast was cleared
away the guests were escorted to the
Star Theatre for the remainder of the
evening. At the close of the show
the crowd disbanded, the unanimous
decision being that the evening had
been a most delightful one. The next
meeting will be with Aileen Woods,
Tuesday, May 20, and will be the
last meeting of the club this season.
MAHR MUST STAND TRIAL
ON GRAND JURY’S WORD
Oklahoma City, May 13—Dr. J. C.
Mahr will be forced to go to trial
on charges returned against him by
the grand jury for the purpose of re-
moving him from office. Judge Tay-
lor, of the district court, overrruled
Mahr’s petition today to have a part
of the indictment against him strick-
en out and held that Mahr would
have to go to trial on the charges
just as they were returned by the
grand jury.
The class of 1913, the tenth class
to graduate since the start of the No-
wata high school, started its com-
mencement program Tuesday, May
13, with a banquet to the board of
education and will end Friday night
May 30, with the alumni banquet.
For the next two week the “sweet giri
giaduate ’ will have her innings and
in addition to the regular commence-
ment calendar there will be parties
and dinners given in honor of the dif-
ferent members of the class.
Although the tenth class to be
graduated from the local high school
the class of 1913 is only the fourth
to complete the full four year high
school course which Superintendent
P. H. Walter inaugurated when he
took charge of the schools.
The calendar will be as follows-
Tuesday, May 13, 8:00 p. m„ ban-
quet to the board of education
Friday, May 16, 8:00 p. m'„ Jun-
ior-Senior banquet, Campbell hotel.
Sunday, May 25, 8:00 a. m. com-
mencement sermon by Rev. Wm. S.
Hamilton, pastor of the First Christ-
ian church at the First Methodist
church.
Monday, May 26, Farewell Senior-
Faculty banquet, Savoy hotel.
Tuesday-Thursday, May 27-29, fi-
nal examinations.
Tuesday, May 27, 2:00 p. m., Do-
mestic Art exhibit. Room 3 school
building.
Tuesday, May 27 8:00 p. m., class
night, Methodist church.
Wednesday, May 28, p. m. Gradua-
tion night. Commencement address
by George H. Coombs, president First
Christian church, Kansas City.
Friday, May 30, report cards dis-
tributed.
Friday, May 30, 8:00 p. m., Alumni
banquet.
The members of the class are Es-
ther Randall, Marie Evans, Ila Da-
vis, Josephine Titsworth, Edward
1- loyd I.ambright and Fred Earnheart.
Fred Earnheart is valedictorian and
Josephine Titsworth saiutatorian.
Cushing, Okla., May 13—The plant
of the Consumers Refining Co. of
Cushing Okla., is nearing completion.
C. B. Shaffer, who is one of the or-
iginal men in the Cushing oil field,
is the leading promoter of this plant.
The plant consists of six stills with
a capacity of from 2,500 to 3,000
barrels of refined crude per day. The
company also has storage capacity
of 140,000 barrels in tanks ranging
from 1,500 to 55,000 barrels. The
battery of boilers is capable of pro-
ducing 600 horsepower. The loading
lack for twenty-five cars and five
different grades of oil is completed
along both the Katy and the Santa
Fe railroads.
1 he company has an immense res-
ervoir for operation and fire protec-
tion. It held 4,000,000 barrels and
the fire protection system will throw
1,000 barrels per hour. The company
has 125 tank cars built, on which
Will be painted the words “Consum-
ers Refining Co.” in white. This
plant will be the second in operation
in Cushing with the third one under
construction. The Jayne Oil Co. be
gan refining last week.
PRESBYTERIANS AT ATLANTA
Eclipse Shirts
The World’s Best
Shirts, At
$1:22 $1-50 $2:22
Made in all styles — Collar
detached, attached, or with
soft collar and French cuffs
The best of Wash Materials
Now Is a Good Time
to Buy Them, at
Conine & Mayer
“Sell for Less”
Atlanta, Ga., May 14—During the
next two weeks, beginning with to-
morrow, this city will be the meeting
place of Presbyterians from all sec-
tions of the United States, an event
of more than ordinary interest to all
members of the Presbyterian church,
'or the first time in their history the
general assemblies of the Presbyterian
church, north, south, united and asso-
ciated reform will hold their meetings
at the same time and tin the same
place. Four churches and the city au-
ditorium have been put in readiness
for these sessions. The auditorium
will be used especially for mass meet-
ings, which will cover the subjects of
missions, work among colored people
evangelism and Christian education. ’
Committees on union appointed by
the southern and united bodies, will
make their reports, which will later
be submitted to the presbyteries. The
purpose of the common meeting is
not only fellowship, but organic un-
ion of Presbyterians of all America.
In accordance with this general ten-
dency union services have been ar-
ranged for several evenings during
the meetings. The sessions of the
various assemblies will formally open
tomorrow and will continue for ten or
twelve days.
DELIGHTFUL SLUMBER PARTY.
Tuesday evening Mrs. W, A. Davis
entertained a few of the teachers in
a most delightful manner. They
were invited to come to six o’clock
dinner and needless to say they were
prompt to accept, as an invitation to
one of Mrs. Davis’ dinners is a rare
treat, and from the time they en-
tered the house until they were
hustled off to school Wednesday mor-
ning there was not an idle moment.
As is customary at a slumber party,
a little of everything was indulged in
except sleep.^ It is reported that they
actually did'find some time for that
amusement, but frequenters of this
form of entertainment find it hard
to believe. A splendid time is re-
ported and after one night’s rest ev-
eryone would be ready to repeat the
evening, which in itself is the high-
est recommendation that can be given
of the delightful manner in which
they were entertained. The guests
were the Misses Justice, Clarkson,
Stallsmith, McDearman, Tolliver and
Bender.
THREE SEPARATE PARADES
Chattanooga, Tenn., Ma 14—It has
been officially determined that there
shall be three parades instead of one
at the Chattanooga reunion. In fact
there will be four. The Eleventh cav-
alry of the United States army will
give an exhibition parade on the
morning of May 27, the opening day
of the reunion. This is the best cav-
alry regiment in the regular army,
and the spectacle will be one of the
best features of the reunion week.
The sponsors’ parade will start at
4:00 o’clock in the afternoon of the
twenty-seventh. This will be follow-
ed next day, May 28, by the parade of
Sons of Veterans, the parade starting
at 4.00 p. ni. The United Confeder-
ate Veterans’ parade will start at
11:00 o’clock on the morning of May
29. Arrangements have been made
for the accommodation of veterans
who may be too feeble to march in
the parade.* These will be seated in
auto-trucks. It was decided to put
them in auto-trucks because automo-
biles are too fast for a parade. The
trucks will comfortably seat the vet-
erans and will be elaborately decor-
ated. The parade of the veterans
is expected to be a most imposing and
interesting event of the week. “
SHOOT OPENED TUESDAY.
MRS. STROTHER ENTERTAINS
3 he Social Thimble Club were en-
tertained on Tuesday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. Harry Strother. The
afternoon was spent in needle work,
after which a dainty two-course lun-
cheon was served. The club had as
their guests Mrs. Chas. Dodge, Mrs.
Hugh Branson, Mrs. L. T. Strother,
Mrs. Jane Robinson of Tulsa, Mrs.
G. L. Denton, of Muskogee, and Mrs.
I. M. Branson, of Farmland, Ind.
Mrs. Plez Thompson and Mrs. J. A.
Tiliotson will entertain the members
of the club and their husbands at
a lawn party on Tuesday evening.
May 27.
blazers at Annapolis are to be jail-
ed,^ in spite of the long entertained
belief that course of assault and bat-
tery is useful for military and naval
men.
The shoot promoted by the Tthaca
Gun Co. opened Tuesday with six
participants, who made the follow-
ing scores out of a possible 25:
George Shoemaker 22; P. C. Thomp-
son 20; George Shoemaker 20; I). W.
Bohart 12; Chas. Reinhardt 10; F. E.
Corlstran, Oolagah, 5. For the bal-
ance of the week the shooting will
begin at 4:00 p. m., as the wind ear-
lier in the day interferes with the
shooting. Two fine guns and two
silver cups are hung up for the win-
ners and are now on display at the
Farmers Supply Co. There will be
a special program Friday.
WILDCAT DRILLING
Cushing, Okla., May 12— people
here are anxiously waiting develop-
ments in the drilling of wild cat
we 8 to the northwest. The Dunkin
well, in the northwest 13_18_4, six
miles northwest is drilling at 1,800
feet. The Craig well in the south-
west of section 20.18.5, two miles
northwest is drilling at 700 feet
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