The Tahlequah Arrow (Tahlequah, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 270, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 30, 1910 Page: 1 of 8
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THE TAHLEQUAH ARROW
TWENTY THIRD YEAR
TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY. JUJfE ;n mo.
NO RETRIAL
NUMBER 270
FOR HYDE
Kansas City, Mo., Jane 80.— Dr. R.
C. Hyde, con vici ed of poisining Col.
Thomas H. Swope, the millionaire phi-
lanthropist, was denied a new trial by
Judge Ralph S. Latshaw of (he crimi-
nal court here this morning.
The prisoner's attorne.v Hied a mo-
tion for an arrest of judgment.
Qualls Items.
Farmers are bus\ cleaning out their
crops this week.
Quite a number of people from this '
neighborhood are in Tahlequah this1
week, attending the payment.
Win. Parnell and family visited L. |
Duun and family of White Oak last '
Sunday.
Mrs. Hereford got overheated last
Wednesday while hoeing corn and
fainted, but is recovering now.
Mr. Wilson entertained the souug
folks of this place last Friday night, by
giving a candy breaking and dance.
All had an enjoyable time.
The talk for a while was that our
post office would be discontinued, but
late reports tell us we can have a daily
mail if we try for it.
Politics has ceased for a spell since
the payment began. Wish it would
continue, perhaps there would be more
work and less politics.
Last Sunday and Monday were the
hottest davs we have had, but a nice
shower later on cooled things off.
Every way you look, you can see a
candidate coming.
EMIGRANT
CHECKS CASHED
Frep of charge when jit-
sen ted by tlfe original payee
First State Bank
DICK TERRY IS SHOT
W. (
TAHLEQUAH, OKLA.
HOLT, Ciwliier L. C. ROSS, Presides!
Down by the Cashier
of the Bank of
Kansas.
AN UNARMED VICTIM
Cash Pratt Deliberately fires Three
Shots into the Body of Dick
Terry and Runs---Terry is
Dying—His Slayer
in Jail.
POOR PICKING
FOR GRAFTERS
PASSENGER AIR
SHIP WRECKED
Dusselcorf, .Tune ISO.—Count Zeppe-
lin's passenger airship Deutschland, the
highest developed of all the famous
aeronauts' models, lies tonight ou top
of Ihe Lentobnrglan forest, pierced with
pine tree steins, a mass of deflated silk
and twisted aluminum.
The thirty-three persons aboard the
airship when it rested on the pines after
a wild contest with a storm, escaped
uninjured, climbing down from the
wreck on a rope ladder lo the tree tops.
A roblH>r> of the boldest kind was
sprung yesterday on Grant Smoke a
native Cherokee who drew his check,
together with one for (Sensing Ham-
mer, a minor 5 years old for whom
Smoke is the guardian. After getting
the check * Smoke went on a shopping
tour, spending all bnt about nineteen
dollars of his money. Then he met a
man named Burns who proceeded to
enquire into his business Suioke told
him of his guardianship check, when
Burns asked liim to let him see it to
ascertain whether or not it was good.
Suioke complied and after examing it
Burn's folded it up and put it into his
own pocket and walked away. Smoke
was so tdkeu back by the episode that
he let the man go before reporting it to
the police. Burns was apprehended a
short time affer and lodged in jail.
The graft er an<| all others engaged
ii obtaining money falsely bad beti< r
take to the tall limber as Tahlequah
is a poor place for a man not engaged
in a legitimate business to opeiate.
Try it. Its Great. Greenland.
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WEATHER)
Tonight and Tomor-
row Partly cloudy
Thelast number that
was called today was
2942.
PHOENIX SAYS
WE'RE GRAFTERS
The Statement Should
Kill That Paper in
Tahlequah.
The safety, self-filling Fountain Pen. Fills
itself, cannot leak. Absolutely guaranteed.
Sold and demonstrated by
Cherokee Drug Company
, .mm.
Toerrlrr1}
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YOU CAN NEVER TELL
V/HAT WILL HAPPEN
Plan To Have ^OME
Money In Th e Bank
Copyright 190^, t C ' un.r'ii Co.—.>o. b
First National BanR
Talhequah, OKla.
Capital - - 5o,ooo.oo
Surplus ■ ■ 5o,ooo.oo
OFFICERS
W. W. HASTINGS, President D. 0. SCOTT, Cashier
D. W. WILSON, Vice President J. ROB'T WYLY, Asst. Cashier
An article appearing in the Musko-
gee Phoenix of the 29th giving out the
statement that Mr. Kelsey of the Indian
A'jency, came over here and stopped
certain parties from collecting what is
justly due them.
Any person that knows Mf. Kelsey
will never accuse him of butting in
where he does not belong, Mr. Kelsev
is a gentleman who at lends strictly to
his own business and lets others take
care of theirs, therefore his worth was re-
cognized by the Government officials
and he was appointed as a democrat to
fill the high responsible office of United
States Indian superintendent by a
republican administration, and he has
made a capable official. The payment
now being made is ent irely under the
jurisdiction of the Court of Claims and
the able and efficient man they have
selected to fulfill their decree can and
will take care of all necessities the case
requires without any advertisement
from the above paper or its special
alburn haired correspondent who does
not speak of his own learning but what
is reported to have occured, and talk
about grafting the poor Indian, let uie
tell you something about this grafting
business, if you will take the records
of both towns, Muskogee and Tahlequah
and you can find one grafter in Tahle-
quah I will prove that there have been
100 in Muskogee, the writer was in
Muskogee when graft was rife, and was
the order of the day, from top to bot
tom, this and an excelent class of jaw
bone made Muskogee the City that it is,
but a great uiany of the makers if th<>
think baclr, way down into the recesses
of their own hearts they unit' bow
their heads in swill lo avoid looking
good Indian citizens and some freedtnen
iu the face, there is some of it over here,
you can not quell avaricious people, but
whatever thVre is over here came after
Muskogee graft was in full bloom and
it is only fair to presume that tliey
learned how it was done and took a
hand in the game. It is conscientous-
ly said that less graft has been seen
here in one year ,than has been seen, by
At 6:10 this morning Dick Ter-
ry was shot and mortally wounded
by Cash Pratt, cashier of the Bank
of Kansas.
I On a cot in the Petersou-Duck worth
hospital lies Dick Terry. His face is
pinched and drawn and through ashen
lips his breath comes in pitiful gasps.
Over his heart a bullet hole and two
others iu his left breast toll a story
that will probably end iu his death and
the trial for life or freedom of a young
man who has just began lo ascend the
path of life and responsibility. On ac-
count of the act, hearts will nearly
burst wit ti grief and homes be shroudei\
in mourning.
The shooting took place at the collec-
tion booths back of I he capitol building.
Enrly as was the hour quite a number
of pe -ple were in the immediate vicini-
ty . The stories of the shooting as far
as can lie learned from those who wii-
nessed it do not vary to any great ex-
tent.
Caleb Wright, the janitor of tho
capitol. was an eye witness to the trage-
dy. Mr. Wright does not care to go
into minute details, but the gist of his
talk is that Terr\ passed liiui as he
walked np through the line of bool hs,
with the salutation of "Good morning. "
At that time Cash Pratt, cashier of the
bank of Kansas, was standing in the
bank booth at the telephone. As Terr;
drew near be (1'rati) drew a 15 calibre
automatic revolver and opened fire.
The shots rang out iu rapid succes-
sion, and Terry sank to the ground.
After firing three shots Pratt ran out
of the booth and across the grounds for
about fifteen yards, when he hail-
ed and resting his revolver against a
post fired two more shots. He then
rau oui of the grounds and across the
street into the Sutton drug store, where
he remained a iniuut j, t hen'came out
and gavs himself up to an officer and
was taken to jail.
A number of people ran to Terry as
soon as he fell. When they reached
him he was lying on his back. His first
request was that he be raised to a
silting position. After this was done,
he said:
' 'Hoys, I guess I am done for. I wish
I could see my bov before I go.*'
McCartcr was the fir«t officer on the
-«^'ue and under his A'rection the vic-
tim was made us comfortable as pos-
sible. Dr. Peterson arrived soon after
and Terry was moved to the Peterson-
Duckworth hospital and au examin-
ation made of tho wounds which were
as above stated. All three of the bul-
lets passed through the chest cavity.
The one iu the left breast entered just
above the nipple ami passed directly
over the heart.
Tltere is scarcely an\ hope of Terry
recovering as either of the wounds are
of a fatal nature.
Terry was apparently unarmed and
defenseless when shot as no sign of a
weapon was found on him.
Just before noon Prosecuting At-
torney J. C. Coursey took Terry's ante-
mortem statement and it is said in
have been that the shootiug was done
without au atom of provocation.
Tlfe trouble originated in the town
of Kansas, twenty-five miles northeas
of Tahlequah, and was in no way con-
nected with the payment. It seems
that Terry ran a pool and billiard hall
at that place and a Kansas City firm
held a mortgage upon the tables. When
the mortgage become due the Bink of
Kansas was instructed to foreclose and
the matter naturally fell upon Cash
Pratt, the cashier, who instituted fore-
closure proceedings. It is said thai
Terry became incensed at the actions
of the cashier aud a mutual ill feeling
I resulted.
Au Arrow reporter attempted to in-
teiview Pratt at Ihe jail but undei'ad-
vice of his attorney tho prisoner refused
to talk. He was very pale and excited
when seeu. He is a sou of C. L. Prall,
a highly respecied farmer ot near Kan-
sas, The father arrived hero abont
noon. Voting Pratt is 39 years old and
unmarried.
Dick Terry is of middle age. For
several years he served as deputy U S.
marshal, and during Ihe YVyckliff
trouble at the lime Marshal Gilstrap
was killed Terry was shot through the
shoulder.
The shooting is deeply regretted by
all our citizeus, not only for the sadden-
ing risuits thai will follow, but on ac-
count of the large number of strangers
in our city who may receive a bad im-
pression of our peaceful and lieautiful
little city.
one who knows, in Muskogee in ono
hour.
A man from Muskogee was heard to
remark yesterday that as far as he
could see. he was not going to try to
see any of his people for collections
here; that from appearances, everything
was going on splendidly and orderly
and he could get his mouey in Musko-
gee just as well and bettor lhan he
could here in Tahlequah, bin the writer
will venture to say that if the payment
had been made in Muskogee, that poor
Indian would not have enough left, in
one hour after he got his warrant, to
flag a bread wagon. I would veniure
one year of niv life against a ray of
moonlight that in fifteen minutes he
would be lifted on the wings of dope or
somti liiug equally as strong or stronger,
be found by the wayside, but such has
not been heard of here. Why those en
ergetic citizens have sent lady real es
tate agents oyer here lo sell lots located
:j miles from the heart of the city at
$0.00 per trout foot. Of course this is
on fiit ures but the returns at this price
are about ten ears hence.
Good Cherokee Citizeus; do not take
this rot of the Muskogee Phoenix ser
iously. come to Tahlequah and get
'-our money; you will be protected and
you will leave the grand old "beautiful
city of your ancestors just as good and
possibly better than when you came,
aud our banks will afford you aiupl"
protection for your money and see that
yon and yours get all of what is justly
due you.
ONE WHO KNOWS.
Watch for Hudson's "lucky number"
posters. $.-|.00 iu gold if you get
th" right number.
Government Not
To Interefere
Washiugtqn, June HO.—It was siaied
at the deparment of justice today tthat
there are not in contemplation any pro-
ceedings to prevent the remoyal of the
Oklahoma state capital from Guthrie
tj Oklahoma City.
This statement was made iu response
to a rt quest from Attorney General
West of Oklahoma for information of
the government's intent ion.
A few'of Hudson's "Lucky Number"
posters were handed out this afternoon.
BUNCH OF BARGAINS
Lots in beautiful Normal Addition
$75 to $200
lour Lots in Academy Addition
$400
Two Lots west of Normal building
$200
5-Room house and lot facing City
High School building
$1600
New Two-Room House and Lot
$375
W. A.THOMPSON
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