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The Official Advertising Medium of the City of Hugo and the County of Choctaw.
VOL XI.
HUGO, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY. APRIL 25. 1912
FfflDir IFIERNOi
COUNTY COMMISSIONER WAS
ONE OF COUNTY'S PIONEER
CITIZENS AND LEADERS
Malarial Congestion Takes One of
Choctaw County's Public Officials
and Boosters
J. M. Morton, county commission-
er, and pioneer resident of Hugo and
Choctaw county, died at his home in
Ward 2 Friday afternoon at 1:30
o'clock, after ar. illness of but two
days.
County Commissioner Morton had
been on a fishing and hunting trip
with friends In this city, returning
home only to be immediately taken
ill with malarial congestion. For 48
hours a brave battle was waged
against death, but Mr. Morton sank
steadily, the end coming shortly after
noon today.
J. M. Morton was one of Choctaw
county's leading and most public-
spirited citizens. He was born at
Grant, Ark., January 28, 1867, but
removed to Fannin county, Texas,
when but a lid. He resided in North
Texas until he came here about 1900,
making Hugo his home since the
time this place was laid out as
town. He has been one of the city
and county's foremost workers, being
county commissioner from this dis-
trict at the time of death, and a can
didate for renomination. Mr. Mor-
ton was also in the mercantile busi-
ness, operating a coal office here, be
sides being a buyer and seller of Hu-
go real estate all of the time.
The deceased is survived by his
wife and seven children, three of the
latter still residing at the home,
four of them being married.
Besides the family mentioned, he
has four surviving brothers and one
sister. The sister resides at Corsl-
cana, Texas, and one brother resides
at Fort Stockton, Texas, another at
Muskogee, one at Wapanucka, and
the other is W. F. Morton, one of the
best known residents of this city. All
were present before dissolution, save
the sister and the brother at Fort
Stockton.
News of County Commissioner Mor-
ton's death comes so soon after an-
nouncement of his first illness, that
the business acquaintances can
scarcely conceive It to be true. Coun-
ty Commissioner John Huskey arriv-
ed from Fort Towson at noon, only
to find his fellow officer unconscious
and rapidly passing from life.
MORE OEM
OF CiTIISTIIOPHE
WOMEN HAD THE BOATS AND
MEN WENT DOWN TO DEATH
ON SHIP
EACH STATE SENS
WO REPRESENTOR
AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEE
FROM STATES WILL TOUR EU-
ROPE AS INVESTIGATORS
DOES BIG HARM FOR OIL MILL
PERRY STORM SWEPT AND CY-
CLONE TAKES TWO
LOVES
"Nearer My God to Thee" Played by j Plan is Big One and Southern Com- I Injured Are Numerous And Damage
Marine Band as Vessel PTunged Mercial Congress is Pushing For 1 To Property Can Not Now Be
Beneath Waves Its Early Consummation f Computed
EOITDR ARRESTED
FOR MURDER
RECENTLY APPOINTED POST-
MASTER OF NOWATA FACING
TERRIBLE ACCUSATION
Detectives Allege They Have Proof
That Jeffries Slew Pretty Mrs
Gohecn
NOWATA, Okla.. April 24.—Detec-
tives whq hav,' T een working on the
NEW YORK, April 19 (Noon) -The
steamship company officers report
nothing new on the White Star liner
catastrophe from the dispatches of
the morning, save that members of
the crew deny that Captain Smith
committed suicide. He did shoot
three men who tried to crowd into
the boats ahead of the women. The
last seen of him, he was standing on
the bridge, and sprang as the vessel
shot beneath the waves.
The total death list was almost
1700 and there is not the least prob-
ability that any of those who had on
life preservers were picked up by
smaller boats.
Hurd's Story of Disaster
NEW YORK, April 19.—How the
Titanic sank is told by Charles F.
Hurd. a staff correspondent of the
Evening World, who was a passenger
on the Carpathia and who last night
furnished that newspaper with his ac-
count.
He gives the number of lives lost
as 1700. He praises highly the cour-
age of the crowd, hundreds of whom
gave their lives with a heroism
which equalled but could not exceed,
the account says, that of John Jacob
Astor, Henry B. Harris, Jacques Fu-
trelle and others in the long list of j
first cabin passengers.
It was the explosion of the boilers. ■
according to Mr. Hurd's account,
which finally finished the Titanic's
career. The bulkhead system, i
though probably working, prevailed I
only to delay the ship's sinking. The !
position of the ship's wound on the
starboard quarter admitted icy water,
according to Hurd's story. which
caused the lx>il®s to explode and
these explosions broke the ship In
two. The ship's string band gathered
in the gloom near the end. the narra-
tive says, a fid played "Nearer My God
to Thee." The account continues:
"The crash against the iceberg
which had been sighted at only a
quarter of a mile distant, came 'al-
most simultaneously with the click
of the levers operated at the bridge,
which stopped the engines and clos-
ed the water-tight doors. Captain
Smith was on the bridge a moment
| later, summoned all on board to put
| on life preservers and ordered tne
lifeboats lowered."
j "Women First" Rule Was Enforced
| The first boats had more male
passengers as the men were the first
to reach the deck. When the rush
of frightened men and women crying
OUTSIDE CAPITALISTS CON-
CLUDE HUGO DESIRABLE
PLACE FOR BIG INVESTMENT
Work Started Thursday Morning on
Construction of a Seventy-Five
Thousand Dollar Oil Mill
thj'i tli" li.'L.; mi .. ti.- untanciiu-
m" ■ Kciii r> surrounding
nhe brutal murder of Mrs. Irene Go-
newspaper woman who was found
children to the decks began. the
"women first" rule was rigidly enfor-
ced.
Officers drew revolvers but in
most cases there was no use for
ti. :n. Revolver shots heard shortly
before the Titanic went down caused
n.;.:iy rumors, one that Captain Smith
. "1 shot himself, another that first
< nicer Murdock had ended his life,
but members of the crew discredit
these rumors.
Captain Smith whs last seen on
tile bridge, just before the ship sank.
en to go down d
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19.—
The Southern Commercial congress,
through Its- president, Senator Dun-
can lT. Pitcher, began today the dis-
tribution of letters to agricultural
leaders and thinkers regarding a na-
tion-wide study of European systems
of co-operative rural credit. This
action arises from the meeting of the
directors of the Southern Commer-
cial congress in Nashville, last week,
when they unanimously V9ted to act
on the recommendations of the con-
ference on rural finance held in
Nashville April 1 to 6th, under the
auspices of the Southern Commer-
cial congress, and with the co-opera-
tion of David Lubin, American dele-
gate in the international institute of
agriculture, at Rome.
I The conference recommended that
the Southern Commercial congress
| take immediate steps to bring togeth-
; er a select commission of two think-
j ing men of practical agricultural ex-
| perience of each state state of the
J union; this commission to leave New
I York June 15, in order to make a
tour of Europe studying European co-
[ operative rural finance between that
date and September 15. The com-
mission as proposed would first visit
Home to meet with the international
institute of agriculture, and then
travef through Italy. France, Austria-
Hungary, Germany, The Netherlands,
England and Ireland.
After the commission is formed it
will organize under its own by-laws
and thus become national, the South-
ern Commercial congress only appear-
ing in preliminary arrangements. The
agricultural forces of each state will
be expected to bear the expenses of
t,lieir delegates and the joint expenses
of stenograpliers, interpreters, and
expert assistants.
The reason for the large size of the
proposed commission is that owing
to the differing agricultural condi-
tions found throughout the United
States, leading men from each state
may by the tour, study European
methods, and see how best to adapt
them to local needs. An additional
reason for the large commission Is
that when the journey is completed
there will be two men in each state
who have had personal touch with
methods of modern rural co-operative
finance as a means of strengthening
rural life in the United States.
Herbert Myrick, president of the
Orange Judd company, has already
guaranteed the participation of New-
York and Massachusetts. At least
twelve other states, including Penn-
sylvania and Mlnensota. can be de-
pended upon to act immediately. The
directors of the Southern Commercial
congress will, in the Southern states,
act as the nucleus of a committee
within each state to produce imme-
diate action.
BURNED IN THE JAIL
Mayes County Prisoner Burned in
The Structure
PRYOR, Okla., April 20.—Wallace
W. Haley, a white man about thirty
years of age, was fatally burned
...'most to the ground. He died
! FERRY, Okla., April 22.—All day
Sunday reports coming from the
| country southwest and northeast tell
cf devastation in the track of Satur-
day's storm that swept diagonally
across the county for 20 miles,
wrecking houses and barns and de-
stroying everything in its path. The
first damage reported at a point 11
miles southwest of Perry, where it
completely demolished the house,
barn and outbuildings of R. M. John-
son, then the home of Harry Pratt
and house of John Kemnltz, the lat-
ter taking fire and burning, with all
contents. The damage probably will
reach 1100,000.
The Lawnview school house was
destroyed. Keeping a course a little
north of east, it took the barn of Tom
Davidson, the home of Fred Shind-
ling, b rn of G. L. Briggs, house of
J. A. Pearson, where an 11 year old
son suffered a broken arm, then the
farm of J. E. Shepard, where W. H.
Hussellon was injured and the house
of W. L. Edwards, where it wrecked
the building, injuring Mr. Edwards.
Sweeping down on Perry, it entered
from the southwest, filling the air
with wreckage, tore through the
Blaine brick school building and up
the Frisco track, it wrecked the im-
plement house of A. B. Smyser, far
mere warehouse. Johnson Produce
house, the Perry Milling company's
plant, Houston Lumber company,
Master elevator. Cook coal yard and
Coyle cotton gin. In the residence
portion east of the railroad, it
wrecked or damaged almost every
building and a number of people were
injured. Leaving town ft took a more
northerly direction for six miles,
where it took the house and out-
building of Len Barnes, the farms of
Mike Burke and George Kirns and
demolished the noted Bohemian hill.
From there it went east where it
took the Soulek house and barn,
sweeping both from the face of the
earth and varying and twisting in
its path until it reached the home
of W. M. Gerdes, six miles northeast
of Perry where it tore the house in
fragments, crushing the life out of
| their HOtle 3-year-old daughter. Mary
j and injuring a 12-year-old son. John,
who after suffering for ten hours
died in great agony Sunday morning.
Dead:
John Gerdes. age 12 years; Mary
Gerdes, aged 3 years and 7 months.
Injured:
Mrs. W. M. Gerdes, badly bruised;
Frank Pearson, age 43, one arm bro
ken; G. L. Briggs, ami antj head
cut; W. H. Husselton, neck gashed; I
W, L. Edwards, bruised body and
head; J. McCrawford, aged TO, bruis-
Friday ground was broken
for the beginning of construction of
an immense cotton oil mill, the buil-
ders being outside capitalists who
have selected this as one of the
points for a great system of cotton
oil mills.
The site selected Is near the com-
press on the West Side, where con-
struction of a seed house, one story
of 150x160 feet will be made. The mill
building will be two stories, 70x120
feet. The hull house will be a one
story structure 135x50 feet, and there
will be numerous smaller structures
oh the grounds selected for the erec-
tion of the mill and plant. The mill
will have an 80 ton capacity, working
forty men with a monthly pay roll in
excess of <3,000.
The company is capitalized for 175-
000 and was to have been incorporat-
ed as the Hugo Cotton Oil mill, but
that name has probably been secured
by a rival concern which made ap-
plication for a charter this morning.
Location for the site had been se-
cured prior to announcement by the
company that it was ready to com-
mence building operations and active
work commenced this morning.
Mr. Dill arrived Wednesday after-
noon from Texas to take charge of
the construction work on the big mill,
and has already succeeded in getting
the work started.
The list of stockholders of the com-
pany has not so far been announced,
although it is known that many of the
principal stockholders are already
ownere of large blocks of stock in
other oil mills, and all of them are
men known for their solid financial
ratings
The coming of the institution with
that formed by local capitalists, adds
much to Hugo's commercial import-
ance and means another pay roll, and
pay rolls, after all is said, make cit-
ies thrive and business good all along
the line.
MRS. T. F. BIARD DIED AT FAM-
ILY RESIDENCE IN GRANT
TUESDAY EVENING
Daughter of Pioneer Lamar County
Physician Who Lived Her Life
in This Section
ARRESTED TEACHER
IR Dp COURT),
ATTEMPTED TO ASSAULT LIT-
TLE TWELVE-YEAR-OLD PUPIL
Or HIS SCHOOL
In Durant Jail Unable to Furnish
Bail in The Sum of Three
Thousand Dollars
Mrs. Lilly Johnston Biard died at
the family residence in Grant Tues-
day evening at 9:15 o'clock, after an
illness which commenced Sunday.
The deceased was one of the pio-
neer women of this section, and for
the past twelve years has resided
with her husband. Justice T. F. Biard
and children at Grant. The deceased
was a native of Biardstown, Texas, a
daughter of Dr. Johnston, one of the
pioneer physicians of Lamar county.
She had attained the age of three
score years and was therefore a. wit-
ness of the great transition which
has occurred in the past half century
on both sides of Red river. She was
married to Mr. Biard about forty years
ago, and of that union seven children
were born, two of them preceding
the mother to eternity. Those living
are: A. J. Biard, Dallas, Texas; W
W. Biard, Kaufman, Texas; Mrs. Jas.
Kenny, Texarkana; Mrs. Charles
Switzer, Fort Towson, and Claude
Biard of Grant.
Perhaps no family of Choctaw
county has figured longer in the early
day history of this country than the
Biards. and it is certain that none of"
the pioneer women did more to ac-
complish things and make of life
worth while than the wife and moth-
er who passed from life Tuesday eve-
ning at Grant. She was known and
admired by a very large circle of ac
quaintances, and her loss is a severe
one to the community in which she
had lived so long and had contributed
| so much toward making Besides the
husband and children mentioned,
there are many relatives by blood
and marriage in Choctaw county and
back at the old home in Texas
mourn the loss of the deceased.
Funeral services were held
Grant at 4 o'clock Wednesday after-
noon. after which the remains were
laid to rest in the cemetery at that
place.
to
at
pb, internal Injurl
SI; internal injui
cuts about head;
bruises; Ed Wile
and face; Mrs. J
Juts: J. T. Ches
M. O'Dell, shouli
md Mrs, W. M.
lernal injuries.
M. Johnsc
SkTinc
bod:
heat
DURANT, Okla.. April 24.—Tues j
day s Democrat contains the follow j
ing narrative of a fearful attempted j
assault near Caddo.
Walter Flowers, who has been
teaching the Franklin school 4 miles j
west of Caddo, was brought to this !
city Monday and placed in the coun- j
ty jail, charged with heinous crime
of assault with attempt to rape
It is alleged that Flowers enticed
Reeves, a well-known :m.l i.m,Wrnn! !
OKLAHOMA PIONEER DEAD
Captain Frederick B. Severs Died at
Muskogee Home
.MUSKOGEE, Okla.. April 24.—
I Captain Frederick B. Severs, pioneer
citizen of the Creek nation, died at
8:30 Tuesday morning at his home
on Terrace boulevard in Muskogee,
from the effects of a stroke of parai
ysis suffered last Wednesday morn-
ing. With Captain Severs when death
came were his wife and three daugh-
ters, all of whom live in Muskogee.
During the past year Captain Severs
has been in very poor health and
has suffered several partial attacks
of paralysis. He became weaker and
weaker from day to day, until at r>
o clock on last Wednesday morning
rigl
useful service
ind to Oklahom
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Hinds, C. W. B. The Hugo Husonian (Hugo, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 25, 1912, newspaper, April 25, 1912; Hugo, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc139731/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.