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The Nowata Star
VOLUME VIII.
DAILY AND WEEKLY.
NOWATA, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1912.
ALL HOME-rRINT.
NUMBER 20.
DETECTIVfJPEAKS
Destroys Any Suspicion That Arrest
of Jeffries Was Due to
Politics.
Detective C. W. Tobie, manager
of 'the Burns agency in Kansas City,
who was one of the principal inves-
tigators in the Goheen murder case,
has given out a statement which for-
ever Mtt the report that H. O. Jef-
fries was arrested for political re-
venge. Tobie is a man with a big
repotatum and his statement must
necessarily be credited, owing to his
disinterestedness in Nowata politics.
Mr. Tobie’s statement follows:
“On my arrival in Nowata, so
far as ideas or theories were
concerned at that particular time,
J was perfectly dormant and
suscept;ble to any theory or idea
which might present itself to
furnish a clue to the solution of
this most atrocious crime. The in-
vestigation was made with an un-
biased and unprejudiced mind, and the
information as received was sub-
mitted to the county attorney and
those interested with him in the
prosecution.
A* that particular time no liuxught
of politics had entered the case.
However, since that time politics has
cropped out in some degree, notably
in the columns of the Advertiser. I
do not believe personally that Mr.
Thraves would have made so serious
a charge against any man for polit-
ical reasons.
“In the work of a detective the
rules of elimination and deduction
must be followed; if a party be sus-
pected, then it is the work of the
detective to tear down this suspi-
cion and build up an alibi. If this
can be done, the suspect in question
may be eliminated, as facts will
stand out pre-eminently in the road-
way and must be reckoned with. This
is the condition at the present time
in the Goheen murder case. There
are facts which cannot be covered up
and circumstances which point con-
clusively to the man under 'arrest.
. “There is evidence in the hands of
the prosecuting attorney and his as-
sociate counsel which has not been
d:vul*ed. What use they will make
of this can only remain to be seen.
The staff of the Advertiser were
very kind to both myself and Mr.
O’Leary, of the Hays agency, and we
were praised by both Mr. Long and
Mr. Jeffries on our fairness and
ciean-cut way of doing business.
However, after Mr. Jeffries was held
to the action of the criminal court we
were assailed through the columns
of this same payer with having
caused the holding nf Mr. Jeffries
through influence brought to bear on
the examining magistrate. We can-
not understand the change of de-
meanor of the Advertiser’s force and
presume that had we said there was
no case against Mr. Jeffries we would
have been lauded in the columns of
this paper instead of being censured.
STARTED TASK THURSDAY
All of Nowata Solicited as It Church
Preferences Thursday — Many
Have But Don’t Uae ’Em.
The 16 solicitors for the taking of
the church census started out Thurs-
day morning on their almost thank-
less task of finding out what church
evet-y man, woman and child in No-
wata prefers. The town has been di
vided into four districts and the so-
licitors travel in pairs. The ques-
tions asked are few and simple, and
WAS NOUBDUCTED
Muskogee Phoenix Story of Tuesday
That Peggy Sandera Was Ab-
ducted Is Denied.
no one is taking ary offence at their! " " X m ™ ,
being too personal. I 7" 7 TSt U‘'beheVable lot
, * talsehoods the author clams that
A peculiar circumstance that the T„,. , . ., :
.. ....... thraves, tobie, the detective, and
solictors are-running into ,s that of Pnink Hm ^ justke of the J
there being many people m town deliberately took the Gohecn „P ^
ROTTENUES
Nowats Correspondent Fills Yellow
Journal With Falsehoods No
Decent Paper Would Accept.
The Tulsa Daily Democrat of Sun-
day, May 6, printed a story that for rnoemx tnere appeared a story to the
by a Nowata correspondent that for I effect that Peggy Sanders, a half-
pure, unadulterated, spiteful junk is j blood Cherokee, ward of Sam F. Wil-
a masterpiece. Only a paper on thej kinson, of this city, was abducted
from the Nazereth Institute of that
city, is denied here by Mr. Wilkinson.
The Phoenix stated that a man by the
In Tuesday morning's Muskogee
Phoenix there appeared a story to the
low standard of the Tulsa Democrat
would accept such piffle and only the
Tulsa Democrat would be so absurd
----* “v • u mot a mail ujr uic
as to think anyone would believe it. j name of Wm. P. Harris, accompanied
*f“” , . by a woman whom he said ,was his
whose preferences lie in the direction
of one of the local churches, but who
admit that they do not go to church,
more on account of laziness than for
any other reason. The solicitors are
doing some good work along the lines
of getting these people to promise
that they will attend next Sunday
and see if they cannot get back in-
to the best habit they ever broke in
their lives.
The town is being gone over thor-
oughly and none will escape the
questioning of the solicitors. All who
have been seen, so fnr, are answer-
ing the questions willingly and freely,
and the church people are gathering
some interesting data that will be
of great help to them in future cam-
paigns.
as the opportunity to get revenge on
Jeffries lor standing up for Taft and
wife, showed What the sisters at the
school thought were forged papers of
authority from Mr. Wilkinson and
took tlje girl away from the school.
Mr. Wilkinson stated, in an inter-
view oh Wednesday, that Mr. Harris
“ w '' uf1 ■' cuiicounj) vlicit .in i xldills
being in line for the postmastership. I had fill authority to take the girl
Imagine, now, this naughty accusa- j away from that school and take her
tion by the author. Oh, Maud, it's to another school, or to the home of
a joke and still, it harms the comraun- her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs.
ity. ihe article in the Democrat in Jno. Bowles, at Baron, Okla. The
ROADS GIVnROllBLt EDUCATION BOARD MEETS
Reports from Various Parts of County
Show Bad Conditions—Beyond
Steel Bridge the Worst,
School Officials Installed on Monday
Night—Three New Teachers—
Powell Made President.
The county commissioners have re-
ceived requests from nearly every The board cf education met Monday
every section of the county to make mpht in the FiVst National Bank and
the township boards get busy and put tbe re-elected members were sworn in
the roads in shape after the recent ^or coming year. They are D.
terrific season of rain falls. The' M. Lawson, P. S. Powell, J. E. Jones
commissioners,are up against a hard arid Tien Dowell. The old members
proposition. There is practically no:Wb° were held over are Fred Galer,
money in the township .rensuries and i “• B. Ber.der, W. A. Chase and Dr.
the road overseers complain that they' S-'dderth.
cannot get the farmers to contribute i Al‘ tne present Ltc.'.’.y of the school
labor owing to corn planting requir-! 'ver- re-elected, but there are sev-
ing all their time. j oral v.ho will not return. Misses
The road to Alluwe is perhaps jn C-rif':', Ercever and Bearing and Mrs.
worse condition than any other. On ! " 'r.a.-.s have notified the board that
Monday Overseer Krouse, of Nowata
township, wil have th'*ee or four slios
at work making fills and leveling
approaches. His work, however, can
only extend to the river, but beyond
one place says:
girl, he states, was also anxious to
BY WAY OF CORRECTION.
“Too soon came t^he opportunity in leave that school,
the form of murder. These gentle-! Mr. Harris is a candidate for the
men, in their wildest tirades against office of county judge of Adair county
H. 0. Jeffries, never dreamed of such and the Phoenix did him an injustice
a serious charge, but, at hand, easy in publishing the story without fully
to use. They used it. A county pros- investigating the matter. Mr. Wil-
ecutor, smarting under the lash of an kinson states that, or, account of bus-
able editors scorn, was an easy ally, iness reasons, he was unable to go
A detective with education in the after the girl himself, and that her
rules of elimination was an easy em- aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Bowles,
ploje. A country justice with scru- of Baron, with whom the girl had
pita against possible criticism for do- lived most of her life, would have
ing duty was the easiest of all. gone after her had the creeks been
The crash came. And so County in such a condition that it would have
I rosecutor Thraves, believing in the been possible to get to Muskogee by
promises of the very politicians who the time the girl wanted to leave that
In the Daily Star of Wednesday
there appeared a statement from Sam
Wilkinson to the effect that Judgej • o o o o o o o o o o o o o o oo o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
? infnntioiw, 11 iL- I a
FALSE REPORTS FLOOD COUNTRY.
Gilluly knew of his intentions all thelo
time of removing Pegpie Sanders o
from the school at Muskogee. Mr. t>
Wilkinson has asked the Star to eor-]o Newspapers all over the country are printing stories in con-
ec a f a as» e says» **|° radian with the Goheen murder case that are basically false and
1171 °b™Uli, t0, hlm ,7* tht„re; 0 * an enormous damage to this city and county. The press
porter misunderstood him. What
Mr. Wilkinson said of the matter, he
said, was to the effect that Judge
Gilluly did not know of what he had
done with the girl unt;l he (Mr. Wil-
kinson) returned Wednesday morn-
ing from the fishing trip on which he
had been gone for some days. past.
been flooded with statements that H. 0. Jeffries was arrested be-
cause of political revenge. Someone is responsible for these lies,
but no one can be found to take the responsibility for the reports.
Everyone in the community knows that W. V. Thraves, county
attorney, is merely doing his duty. In a fair preliminary trial
enough evidence waB brought against Jeffries to bind him over.
Whoie, then, can political revenue ertei into the prosecution ?
TlIj ---- lbe Person who is sending out these reports is the basest kind of
tha f 7,7 been apprised of o a traitor to his community. He makes money out of each wire,
the fact of the girl » alleged d.sap- o hut does irreparable damage to the city. There is enough sensa-
p arance from the school by the de- o tion on the story to make it profitable to the correspondent with-
o out muck-raking. He should be ferreted out and held up to the
o community as another Benedict Arnold,
o
partment at Muskogee, but it was not
until Wednesday morning that. Mr.
Wilkinson told him of the matter, and
obtained his approval of his action.
JAIL MAN HERE
■ hey will r.ct bo back next fall. Miss
Pattie Brannon, c.f Arkansas, sister
of .V Elizabeth Brannon, of No-
wata, .i.rtcj to fill one of the
"r.czr.cics.
the Steel Bridge in Armstrong town-1 Two r--'ccs were created last
ship are the almost impassable points. I Kr-d “C'-ple elected to fill them.
Jim Boyd is overseer there and he Alfred T.uty., the well-known ath-
should see that something is done at lc'°> w“‘* bseo.T.e physical director at
once. A stone arch was put in just tbo ''-S ’ s~wol, and Miss Blunk, of
beyend the river a few weeks ago ^ Marshall, 11!., will become secretary
and the approaches have never been l a"d !!brari9n.
made. Still further on some trees The off cers cf the hoard for the
were blasted from the edge of a! 0!lsuir-E year were elected Monday
small pond and the holes were never' n*Kht. P. S. Powell was made pres-
filled up. These preparations were. 'den^ W. A. Chase vice president, and
made for “Everyman’s Road Day,’ and M. Lawson secretary,
have never been touched since that Tb“
work day was postponed from time to
time. In case it is impossible to make
adequate fills immediatey, a road
circling the bad spots should be
00000000 0 0 0 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
are wmqging a man in his presence,
may go to congress afte railroading
to the gallows an innocent man—may
- — an innocent man—may
Representative of Pauiy Jail Co. Here.*’0 t0 C01lSress—witli a cloud upon his
... . „... _ soul.”
Did anyone ever before read such
Figuring With County Commis-
sioners for the New Jail.
M. D. Casey, ui Oklahoma City,
ELKS TO MUSKOGEE.
C. F. Comstock, exalted ruler of the
Nowata Elk lodge, and E. J. Ray-
mond, local secretary, left Thursday
for Muskogee to attend fhe annual
state convention of the clan. Many
other local Elks left Thursday night
for the big meeting, but the two of-
ficial delegates were due a day
ahead of them. This year’s gather-
ing at Muskogee will be a tremen-
dous affair and will last for three
days. The Nowata lodge wil put in
its bid for the convention two years
hence and hopes to land it.
filterings from an insane mind? Can
anyone ever believe a word of what
representative of the ^
“ _ e_ .77. 7’ C°:’ 18 ,n lb ..,n“7_,!VaS.elther.an '7 °r else matter. Below is a verbatim1
city, Mr. Wilkinson says that the
aunt and uncle were fully cognizant
of his intention to remove the girl to
another school, and fully concurred in
the move.
The girl was taken out of that
school and put in another much better
school, Mr. Wilkinson says, and the
county judge, Wm. F. Gilluly, fully
The meets.-.;; r.djourned to May 20.
MRS. SMITH ANNOUNCES.
_ r Mrs. Gallic Smith, formerly assist*
rented. The farmers, haulers and oil £,lt to County Superintendent Jappa
men are calling for something to be MaBon> announces her candidacy for
done. It is up to the township *he superintendent's position in this
boards. j issue. Mrs. Smith is a Democrat in
---- | politics. She has taught school for
RUNAWAY. I many ycars and is experienced along
all educational tines. Below she
As Mrs. Robert Wright and Mrs 7. a*8/ statemen‘ of her Platform.
Charles Herson were going across the , * ? ul)rn the suggestion and
prairie west of town Wendesday t \ ' Tb,rJof my friends of
evening their team became fright- ^11 the^osltion e/fSnUy^
red1 s r ^
out from under control and turned ^ to the^ff “ C8ndi'
the buggy over in the di?-h sni'lino- * , ‘ . / f,f,.CC of county supmn-
the ladies out on the ground.’ Neither to’^the v-'sh’V^hlTnllCt‘°n’ subJe<;t
one was injured to any extent. Price ma;.j h;; ,nV ' 6 pri;
Jones, who happened to see them just1 ’
before the spill, went on horseback SDOn-ibili ■' , ., .he dl!tles and re-
sfter the runaway team, but did not1 f °f "f, °fflC° are num*
vet to them in rime to stop them be- hTL a"d„fr^ueotly very arduous,
fore they had overturned the buggy „ rJ' Pr. 'Catl':'" to the vvork and ex-
He took the ladies and the buggy £utl.ve ^dity these conflicts maybe
| home. 3 | el™lnated to a great measure.
“Many of you remember my serv-
ing as assistant from November 21
1911, to Mach 27, 1912. My time and’
attention were devoted to the work,
and I became familiar with the duties
NORMAL IN JUNE
OIL UMGAIN
Prairie Oii & Gas Co. Raises Price
of Crude Oil to Sixty-Six
Cents.
The Praire Oil & Gas Co boosted
the price of crude oil two cents higher
Tuesday .morning, making the present
market offer 66 cents. The other
companies will meet the price im-
mediately. This is a continuation of
the policy announced by the P. 0.
& G. officials a year and a half ago,
that as the supply decreased the
price of crude oil would proportion-
ately increase. Almost automatically
each month has seen that company
add two cents to the price. In the
past 18 months the price has risen
28 cents, or, in other words, has
nearly doubled. The steady climb
that the market has taken has
brought confidence to the operators
that better days are assured and
much “wild-catting” has already been
started.
the city figuring with .the county com-
missioners for the purchase of the
new jail for the county building.
He has a small model with him
that certainly makes the jail, as made
by the Pauiy people, look thoroughly
efficient. It is of tool-proof steel,
and one that it would be practically
impossible for a bunrh of prisoners,
no matter how many, to overpower
the jailer, and get out. The doors
are either of the hinge or sliding
type. The model shows both kinds.
A1 doors are controlled irom the out-
side by the jailer. The control is by
levers. One can open all or one
door, as one pleases, without so much
as stepping inside the cell rooms.
There is one lever, that works on a
series of notches, each notch corres-
ponding to a certain door. Pull this
lever to the notch corresponding to
the door you waijt to open, pull an-
other lever, and that door slides
open. Pull the control over to another
he willingly accepted malicious lies.
Do W. V. Thraves or Frank Hill
have to defend themselves against
this putrid attempt to switch the is-
sue ? If Jeffries is innocent, why
not let a jury decide the matter? Is
tljere any profit to be gained for
Jeffries by muck-raking and damning
the county officials who do their
duty?
This insulting article ends up:
“Thraves in his vindictiveness dur-
ing his argument quoted from the
decalogue, and, reciting a passage
from the Holy Scriptures, cried out
for vengeance. Vengeance, he said,
was what he wanted. The prating,
praying creature, with the words from
Holy Writ in his mouth, cried out for
vengeance. He did not repeat an-
other portion of that law handed down
from Mount Sinai, received by Moses
from the Creator himself, amid the
slxrGr, by..s
(ins n„t Tna-.. . During .his period 1 made out,
° F da" balanced and recorded, without in-
The sixth annual Normal Institute wate" counJv °f 7
for students who desire to become tendent, Mr R H Wilson 77'
teachers will be held in Nowata from fiscal ’yea ending Tune 30 19„9
une 3 to June 28. A large number This is the most laboJou repo t ^
andTTot? 7<lentYS eXpeCted any exacted of the county superb
and the hotels have made accommo- tendent as it nenessitot,/ P
dations to take care of the visitor, j and exac ness andTL
There were nearly 300 teachers at through which’ the state ?d‘Um
the 1911 meeting and fully that many | portioned to the vmtus s hoo’dTs.'
are expected this year. A splendid j tricts. ' dl8'
win wrice to let you 20rPs of instructors has been retained] “1 have been enimred in i
know that I am getting along alright,jby County Superintendent Jappa Mas.; work the greater nart of
but, Mr. Wilkinson, I want to quiJon' and >t should prove a big drawing1 since my graduation at the riT 7°
here and go up to Nowata and stay —T Besides Prof. Walters, the Female ScmYTofTahoThTr
awhile with Aunt Gussie Wolfe. I, conductor, there is Wm. S. Hamilton j lahoma, :'n 1896 In 1808 r ’ °k‘
do not want to be here the 9th of]and Miss Nora A. Talbot, of Nowata.1 ployed as ore of the teacheYof tUm
May, for that old man my land js| Lmcoln Edwards, of Lenapah, and institution. hiS
leased to might be here. He was here ] Miss Mabel MacNees. of Muskogee. I “I solicit vnnr
some time ago. The Sisters told me! Tho Iatter is a specialist in primary political support in this Undertaking
not to tell you he was here. The Sis-jwork- and if I am elected I shall dn m f*
ters want me to go up to Kansas City | Teachers coming to the Normal w-'ll most to give you official ' Ut"
copy of a letter from Peggy Sanders,
under date of April 26, which is self-
explanatory;
“Muskogee, Okla.,
Nazareth Inst.
Mr. Sam'] Wilkinson.
Dear Sir—I will write to let you
UF". 1 uu tne control over to another w,'icn saw, ’inou shalt not
notch, further out on the row, and j bear fa,"e witness against thy neigh-
pull the operating lever, and all slide bor-’ with that commandment in his
.in, eiraiur mmseii, amid the "h»iii»™, uu nor asx tn
thunder and lightning upon that lofty I JudKc> for I know he would say “No.
mount, which said, ‘Thou shalt not J00 Please let me go up there or to
open. Then, to lock the whole thing,
there is another notch. When the
lever is off any particular door, it
drops a machine steel bar down
through the door jamb, which engages
a catch on the edge of the door. It is
a jail that would take more than an
expert to get out of.
Numbered among a "large list of
jails these people have put iq is the
jail at McAlester, one of 640 cells.
The jail that is being figured on here
is one of 12 cells for men, two for
women and two for juvenile pris-
oners.
Miss Georgia Feighner, who has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. C. D.
Erlewine, left Wednesday for her
home in Marion, Ind.
mind, this pious creature should cry
out to his maker upon his knees:
“Lord, have mercy upon me and in-
cline mine heart to obey this law.’”
And the Tulsa Democrat printed it.
It does not deserve the name of a
newspaper. It is a scandal-monger.
But worst of all is the Nowata cor-
respondent. He is a traitor to the
community.
the 10th of May, but I am not. j **e afforded many opportunities for
Mr. Wilkinson, I want to come up: "l,blic entertainments and lectures,
there this week or next anyway, but .ne ^ese ,s a short course on par-
I do not want to see any of Old Bill’s! I,amentary law by Mrs Longan, of
folks. Mr. Wilkinson, do not ask the kansas the well-known author
and lecturer. Another is a lecture by
Byron W. King, one of America’s
leading piatform orators.
This summer school is becoming
MRS. WICKIZER TO PREACH.
On next Sunday Mrs. D. A. Wiek-
izer, of Tulsa, a preacher of national
reputation, will occupy the pulpit at
the Christian church morning, after-
noon and evening. She will deliver
the Mother’s Day sermon in the morn-
ing.
Baron, either, for I am going to quit
here before the 9th of May. You
please let the Sisters know. Tell them
to let me go. And let me know, too.
Now, Mr. Wilkinson, please let me go
and send me $10 to go on. Be sure
and let me go this week or next, sure,
for I am tired of staying here. Mr.
Wilkinson, now you must let me quit
here before the 9th of May.
This is mailed by a friend. I will
close by asking you to let me quit
school. Yours truly,
PEGGIE SANDERS.”
more and more popular each year,
and this season should be by far the
best of all.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
-'here was.a license issued Tuesday -.....t,i ——
morning, but the interested parties Democratic clubs.
W. R. Dawson returned Tuesday
evening from Kansas City. He re-
ports Mrs. Dawson as doing very
well. It will be remembered that Mrs.
Dawson was rushed to Kansas City
last week and operated on for ap-
pendicitis.
asked that it be kept out of the pa-
pers. However they did not say that
you are forbidden a guess as to who
they are.
This license was issued Monday:
F. L. Rose, 24..............Watova.
Miss Golda M. Williams, 23..Nowata
Very respectfully,
(MRS.) CALLIE SMITH.
LOOK TO ORGANIZATION
Democratic Meeting Thursday Night
Took fa.eps Looking Toward a
Full County Organization.
The first meeting of the Democratic
Club since its first inception, several
weeks ago, was held Thursday, May
2, under the leadership of C. H. Arm-
string, state organizer for the state
There
was a
goodly number out, and a great deal
of busi-.e33 was transacted.
By-laws and constitution were
adopted and a committee apointed to
organize each precinct in the county.
SPECIAL.
Mr. and Mis. C. D. Erlewine enter-
jtainec! fhe Hon. II. F. Gilliam Wcd-
.iKsilr.v right at a dinner party. Mr.
| Gilliam i3 the state superintendent of
Nice Sanitary Ice Water Pitcher Bible s-hecl department of tha
with cover and six glasses f«-r SOc. Oklah.xu Christian Missionay
Wright’s Notion Store. It ciety.
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