Pittsburg County Guardian (McAlester, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 1920 Page: 1 of 8
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Pittsburg County Guardian
GUARANTEED LARGEST WEEKLY CIRCULATION IN PITTSBURG COUNTY ALL HOME PRINT
VOLUME XV
A STANDARD COUNTY NEWSPAPER
Mcalester, oklahoma, Thursday, jun is, 1020
the newspaper that goes home
NUMBER 47
MANY WAYS SUGGESTED
10 SAVE WHEAT CROP
Threatened car shortage and the
possibility that the Oklahoma wheat
crop might be materially endangered
through lack of transportation fa-
cilities and restricted storage rqpm
on individual farms, has aroused in-
terest throughout the state. The pos-
sibility of losing a portion of the food
supply after it has been harvested is
too a' thought that the consumer ac-
cepts with satisfaction.
State officials have resorted to
several plans for relieving the situ-
ation, among them insistent calls upon
the railway management for all spare
cars to be used in the transportation
of grain to ware-houses. However,
the fact that many terminal ware-
i houses are crowded to capacity has
raised another obstacle.
In a transportation way the use of
federal trucks, army trucks, etc., for
hauling the grain to storage centers
• • has been suggested and may be re-
lied on for relief.
A suggestion of interest has ilso
teen made by George E. Lance, of
this city, that is interesting. Mr.
Lance suggests that the situation can
I # be materially relieved by an order
from the Secretary of Agriculture for
the use of the thousands of govern-
ment tents in protecting this grain in
storage on the farms. There are
great quantities of these tents at Ft.
Sill and other points available. Mr.
Lance says. The tents, Mr. Lance
says, might be furnished free to farm-
I ers who have no granaries.
"It is safe to predict that 25000 or
even 50,00() tents could easily be ac-
quired in this way," he says, "if the
government will consent. These tents
are 16 feet square on an average, and
the farmer, by building a crude b;n
and putting the tent over it, could
keep the wheat indefinitely. Eact
1 covering would shelter approximately
800 bushels of grain, which means
that 2,500,000 bushels could be cared
for in this manner."
STEAL CLOTHES FROM
STEAM LAUNDRY "LINE"
Some hard-hearted violator of the
commandment against stealing broke
into the rear end of the American
Steam Laundry, Tuesday night, and
helped himself (or themselves) to a
lot of choice suits of summer togs
that had been cleaned, pressed and
otherwise prepared to decorate the
corporeal frames of the sons of Adam.
Just how many suits disappeared in
this manner can be determined only
after a careful check-up by the man-
agement, but the loss amounts to
several hundred dollars at present
prices of summer raiment.
No clues were left and no arrests
have been made.
CLAIMS FRAUD IN
SECURING OIL LEASE
W. White Newberry has filed suit
in district court against H. J. Stough,
asking that an assignment of an oil
an gas lease made by the plaintiff
to the defendant recently be set aside
and annulled. Plaintiff alleges that |
at the time he assigned the lease to
defendant he was in ill health and
not in the best condition to onsider
-uch a deal and that the defendant
took advantage of this to get posses-
sion of the lease. The land under
lease is located in Pittsburg County.
LARR1SON AND THOMAS
ARE EXONERATED
The charges of grand larcenv filed
against Carl Thomas and Myrom
harrison, in connection with some au-
tomobile wheels which D. Bennett
claimed were taken from his car, was
dismissed after a hearing in the court
of Judge W. A. Treadwell this week.
The defendants claimed that they
bought the outa parts in question and
had no knowledge that they had been
stolen.
Suit has been filed in district court
bv Mrs. Ethel Milburn against the
Homa,Okla Oil Company for $10,000
for the death of her husband, Walter
Milburn, who was killed as the result
of a gas explosion at anoil well in the
Allen field some time ago. The charge
charge is that the explosion was due
to the carelessness of an employe of
the defendant company in lighting
a cigarette.
DIES FROM INJURIES
As the result of injuries received
when he fell from the roof of the
Weimar residence, at Miami and
Second streets, Wednesday about
noon, J. H. Garland, a contractor and
carpenter, died at All Saints Hospital,
where he had been taken for emer-
gency treatment, about 5 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon.
The accident occurred while Mr.
Garland and other workmen were re-
pairing the damage done to the Wei-
mar residence during a recent elec-
trical storm. He had placed a tyock
of shingles on the roof and stepped
against a toe-board, when the sup-
port gave away and he fell to the
ground, more than 20 feet below. Be-
ing a large man of 200 pounds or
more weight,-the fall was all the more
severe, fracturing his thigh and in-
juring his chest.. However, at the
hospital he appeared to be doing
nicely until just a few moments be-
fore his death, the cause of which
was evidently an acute injury of an
internal nature. The body was tak-
en to the Humphrey Undertaking
parlors where it was arranged for
burial. The funeral hour was set for
2..'Hi o'clock Friday afternoon. Rev.
W. M. Wright, pastor of the First
Baptist church, will conduct the fu-
neral sen-ice. Burial will be in Oak
Hill Cemetery.
The deceased was fil years of ag<?
and had been a resident of McAlester
for 16 years. The family resided at
803 West Washington at the time of
his death. He had been a consistent
member of the Baptist church since
the age of 14 years, and stood high in
the esteem of a wide circle of friends,
who sympathize with the family in
their bereavement. His wife, who
survives him, has been an invalid for
a number of years and her care
was one of the keenest solicitudes of
Mr. Garland in his later years. His
tragic death thus comes as a double
shock to her.
Besides Mrs. Garland other mem-
bers of the family who survive the
deceased are three sons, Tom and
Harvey, who reside in McAlester, and
Ernest, Who is living at Sherman,
Texas. The children are all here,
Ernest arriving Wednesday afternoon.
Two sisters and a brother also sur-
vive. His brother lives at Slayton,
Texas, and was to reach the city
Thursday. The sisters live at Shaw-
nee and Olustee.
Oklahopxa May Harvest
950,000 Bales Cotton
A cotton crop of 950,000 bales for
Oklahoma is now predicted by the
government crop reporters, in an an-
nouncement made showing the con-
dition of Oklahoma crops as of July
1. What is particularly significent
is the statement that the condition
"shows a splendid improvement over
what it was a month ago."
Continuing, the report says:
"It seems to be a rule that, in Okla-
homa, when the condition of cotton
is low the latter part of May, it does
not fail to show a great improvement
in June."
When it is considered that the crop
conditions have steadily improved,
even since the government report was
made, and that rainfall, sunshine and
all other conditions have been prac-
tically ideal for cotton, it can be tak-
en for granted that the condition of
the cotton crop in Oklahoma, and par-
ticularly Eastern Oklahoma, was
never bette" than at this minute.
The only adverse condition is the
appeal ance of the chinch-bug, which
attacked the small grain to some ex-
tent and, now that the grain harvest
is over, these pests are appearin in
the cotton fields. Farmers are ad-
vised by County Agent Nelms to keep
a close watch out on all bugs and sus-
picious looking insects tha tmay ap-
pear on the cotton stalk. Cotton is
in full bloom.
The government report on corn is
also very gratifying. The acreage
shows an increase in 25 out of 77
counties of the state, with a total
acreage of 3,300,000 acres. The con-
dition is 90 per cent normal, com-
paring favorably with former years.
Winter wheat forecasts a tum-out
of 35,000,000 bushels for the state,
with a much better grain than last
year. The gain is plump and heavy,
against a light, skinny grain last
year.
The forecast is also for a large oat
crop, approximating 41,325,000 bush-
els from a total acreage of 1,425,000
acres.
Hay is 91 per cent normal. Alfalfa
is well along with the second cutting.
All grain sorghums show good condi-
tion.
County Agent Nelms, who has just
returned from Texas, says that Ok-
lahoma crops are better decidedly
than crops in a large section of north-
east Texas, although conditions there
are very favorable.. Oklahoma mere-
ly has an unusually good crop pros-
pect.
During the past ten days there has
been some unearinesg lest the grain
crop should suffer materially through j
lack of cars for hauling the grain to i
storage points. Meetings of state of-
ficials to dual with the situation have
been held and everything is being
done that will offer relief. In the
meantime, it is up to the farmers to
see to it that every available cubic
foot of storage room on the farm is
provided to shelter the incoming
crop. Storage on the farm will settle
the transportation problem for all
time to come.
During the past week there has |
been complaint about tomatoes not
doing well. The plants in some cases
are apparently dying. This is caused
the county agent says, from what is I
known as wilt, a disease caused by !
an organism that attacks the plant
and sometimes infects the ground
where the vegetables are grown, i
There is no cure for the disease after i
it strikes a garden, but varying the
truck crops, planting the same ground
in different varieties of vegetables,
etc., will help to remove the trouble. |
CALLED TO MISSOURI
BY SISTER'S ILLNESS
A. A. Watson, of this city, was
called to Springfield, Mo., Wednesday
night by the sad message that his
sister, Mrs. R. L. Ferrill, of that city,
was not expected to live many hours.
He left on the St. Louis Special for
Springfield that night.
Mrs. Ferrill had been ill for only
a short while _and her condition had
not been considered even serious,
which fact added all the more shock
to the news of her critical illness.
Mr. Watson, who is a candidate for
county assessor, was scheduled to
visit a number of public gatherings
in the county this week, but had to
cancel all engagements..
Registration Books
Now Open; Get Busy
WOLF PLEADS GUILTY
AND GETS THREE YEARS
Entering a plea of guilty to con-
spiracy to defraud, Esau Wolf this
week received a sentence of three
years in the penitentiary at the hands
of District Judge Melton in one case,
and two years in another, the two
terms to run concurrently.
It was charged that Wolf, in con-
nection with Frank L. Walker, con-
spired to obtain money from Arthur
Rewoldt by representing to him that
they could get title to a dead claim of
one Dora Moore, and that on the
strength of this representation Re-
woldt paid Wolf $700; whereas, Dora
Moore was not dead an.: no such death
claim existed.
The other charge was that they
,..esented to Rewoldt that for $250
they could obtain an oil and gas lease
from Reuben Wolf, through the sign-
ing of said lease by Reuben's mother.
Instead of securing her signature,
however, they secured the signature
of Maty Wolf, who had no interest
in the lease and no power to contract
it away. Rewoldt had paid the $250,
however.
Prosecuting officers assert that
Wolf played a rather shrewd game,
as Rewoldt Was presumed to be a
very careful investor. He did not
live in this section, but was here pros-
pecting for investments when he ran
into Wolf.
Registration books have been open-
j ed in the county and will remain open
until July 24th. Registrars have
j been named for all precincts and
! persons who are eligible to vote and
have not registered should lose t.o
| time in visiting their precinct regis-
trar and being enrolled.
There appears to be some misunder-
j standing about registering, some per-
j sons having the idea that this is a
; new general registration. It is not.
i If you have registered before, you do
i not have to register again in order
j to vote. The present registration is
for persons who have become eligi-
I ble since the books were last opened,
j Owing to the keen Interest in the
coming election, voters are naturally
; anxious to be entitled to cast theii
ballots next August. Interest is par-
ticularly keen among the women,
j many of whom have so far failed to
j register.
Mrs. Wiggenton, county registrar,
has sent the necessary books and
instructions on registration to all
Mrs. Lucy Hilyer and Mrs. W. S.
Childers have gone to Oklahoma
City to attend the state meeting of
members of the Democratic women's
clubs interested in laying out the cam-
paign to be carried on in behalf of
the ticket from now until the Novem-
ber election. The meeting is to be
held Thursday of this week.
i precincts, so hunt up your registrar
j and get fixed up.
Registrars for the city of McAlester
! are as follows:
First Ward—First Precinct, T. E.
' Hamey, at the Royal Laundry; sec-
ond precinct, Guy Sherrill, at his of-
fice on North Fiist Street.
Second Ward—First Precinct, Wal-
i ter A. Evans, at the Evans Realty
j Company, on East Choctaw Avenue;
; second precinct, Harry Chaney, at
| the Harry Chaney Company, near
I Choctaw and Third.
| Third Ward—D. Bennett, at the of-
fice of the McAlester Egg & Poul-
try Company, on South Main.
Fourth Ward—First Precinct, C.
! H. Yandel, at his residence on North
C Street; second precinct, F. A. Gar-
rett, at The Guardian office, 118
North Main.
Fifth Ward—Chris Springer, at the
Springer Drug Company, North Mc-
Alester.
Sixth Ward—Ray Morris, at Morris
& Banks Grocery, North McAlester.
ARNDT SCHOOL HOUSE
TO HE PICNIC SCENE
,f
The
McAlester Trust Company
The Largest State Bank in Southeastern Oklahoma
DEPOSITS GUARANTEED UNDER STATE LAW
"IN THE HEART OF* MCALESTER"
At Choctaw and First
OFFICERS
EUFAULA WANTS TO
ESTABLISH COUNTY FAIR
The Eufaula Journal is strongly
urging the advisability of the city of
Eufaula buying a site for a perma-
nent county fair and the erection of
such buildings as will constitute the
nucleus for a future county fair
equipment of the first water. McIn-
tosh County is not to have a county
fair this year, but the Journal weil
admonishes the friends of better
I fanning and stock breeding that now
is the time to begin for next year's
| fair. It is a wise suggestion, and the
I people of the county should get be-
| hind the Journal's proposal. A good
J fair is the best investment a city or
county can make. Pittsburg County
j has proven this fact.
WEEKLY GRIST IN
JUDGE MELTON'S COURT
The case of Lillie Goforth vs.
George Goforth, asking for a modifi-
cation of a former decree of divorce,
was continued to July 17.
Motion for the appointment of a
i receiver in the case of the Oklahoma
i Fa rrn Mortgage Co. vs. Dug Cesar et
al was overruled.
^ Case of E. A. Daniels vs. E. A.
Elliott, involving collection on a
-omissory note, was dismissed.
] Alvin Aldridge was granted a di-
vorce from Gertrude Aldridge and
custody of the minor child was given
to the plaintiff.
E. M. FRY, President.
G. C. COCHRAN, Vice-President.
W. S. O'NEAL, Cashier.
CABELL C- CORNISH, Asst. Cashier.
W. E. NASH, Asst. Cashier.
DIRECTORS
MELVIN CORNISH, Chairman.
SAM L. MORLEY.
BEN MILLS. >
R. C. NELSON.
r > w. b. Mcalester.
CHAS. E. HEAD,
nr Dr. E. N .ALLEN.
FRED C. SWITZER.
I J. W. Hargis, deputy sheriff of El-
j lis County, Texas, came to McAlester
j and took into his custody Leonard
I Dillon, 16 years of afce, charged with
; having in his possession a stolen au-
! to mobile belonging to A. T. Bagget
I of Midlothian, Texas. Bagget came
I to McAlester Sunday and identified
j the car as his. He drove it back to
j Texas. Dillon made no effort to
[ resist being taken to Waxahachie,
j Texts, where he will be given a pre-
i liminary trial on the charges against
him.
| S. Crowl, manage: of the Diamond
Hardware Company, has returned
from Glen Comfort, Colo., where he
enjoyed a summer outing.
L. P. Bobo, of Wilburton, is a can-
didate for re-election to the legisla-
ture from Latimer County. J. J.
Smallwood, of Red Oak, is a candi-
date for representative on the Repub-
lican ticket. Claud Briggs is out for
county attorney on the democratic
ticket.. He lives at Howe. W. E.
Logan, of Yanush, and A. A. Croft,
of Bowers, are both candidates for
county commissioner in the Second
District of Latimer County ,on the
democratic ticket, and J. T. Harris
is a candidate for the same place on
the republican ticket. Tony Ander-
son, bookkeeper for the Hailey-Ola
Coal Company, at Lutie, is out for
commissioner in the Third District,
and Everett Fulkerson, of Wilburton,
is a candidate for commissioner from
the Third District.
The street railway company will
soon have the old street cars looking
brand new, having started the job
of repainting them. This will mater-
ially improve the looks of the "sys-
tem." A considerable program of im-
provement is under way, including
several new steel bridges for the rail-
way, one in Krebs and another at
Hartshorne, similar to that just com-
pleted between here and North Mc-
Alester, at the main line junction.
A north bound street car collided
with a Studebaker roadster Tuesday
morning, at First and Madison, badly
damaging the rear of the auto and
slightly injuring the driver, W. G.
Stein.
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* SOME UOLITICS *
* , *
* Next week The Guardian will *
* issue a section devoted to politics *
* in the county, designed especial- *
* ly to give candidates an excellent *
* opportunity to present their *
* claims to the voters of Pittsburg *
* County "just before the battle of *
* ballots" which takes place Aug. *
* 3rd. In addition to political an- *
* nouncements, the section will *
* carry matter of considerable in- *
* terest to the voters generally, *
* the full ticket as filed with the *
* secretary of the county election *
* board, some matter of interest on *
* state and national elections, etc. *
* Be sure to get your copy of this *
* issue and keep it for election day. *
* *
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"All these other picnics they have
been having around are merely start-
ers for the big time we are going
to have at Arndt School House, next
Tuesday, July 20," declared Culley
Stevens, of that neighborhood, who
was in town Tuesday, with John Kin-
kead, putting the finishing touches
on the plans for a big basket picnic
and free barbecue to be held at the
Arndt school grounds on the above
date.
Besides Messrs Stevens and Kin-
kead, William Arndt and Charley
Dobyns, two more prominent citizens
of that community, are on the com-
mittee in charge of the picnic, all of
which means that there won't be any-
thing left off that ought to be put
on.
Of course there will be speaking
by state and county candidates, all
of whom are invited, and a special
feature nnounced by the program
committee is a debate between repre-
sentatives of the Gore and Ferris fol-
lowers. Both men are said to have
strong followings in the community,
and this adds to the interest of a
possible debate by their representa-
tives.
A particular feature of the enter-
tainment will be a program of singing
staged by classes from Arpelar, Mit-
chell, Baker and. other schools, where
there are some of the best singing-
school classes in the county. There
is always keen rivalry when these
singers meet.
"There's going to be an all-day
time for all the folks," declared Mr.
Stevens. "They can get to Amdt
School House almost as easy as folks
can get to McAlester, for it is right
on the Postal Highway, one of the
best roads in the state."
Interest is also growing in the pic-
nics to be held at Ashlnd, July 23-24
and at Indianola July 22-23. The
Ashland picnic has ail sorts of ath
letic contests, riding and roping, etc.
planned, as well as the other features,
and is being given under the auspices
of the Ashland Commercial Club, a
bunch of live-wire business men.
The Indianola picnic ic under the
auspices of the Woodmen and all pro-
ceeds from concessions, etc., go to
this cause. They are planning for a
big crowd.
Crowder and Canadian are holding
the boards this week, with a two-days
picnic for each town.
SENATOR GORE WILL
SPEAK IN INDIANOLA
Senator T. P. Gore will speak at
Indianola Thursday morning at 10.30
o'clock, July 22, according to an-
nouncement of Senator W. N .Red-
wine, who is in charge of Senator
Gore's campaign in Pittsburg Coun-
ty-
This will be on the opening day of
the two-days picnic arranged for In-
dianola by the Woodmen of the World,
and will be the third visit of Senator
Gore to the county since the cam-
paign opened.
The Indianola picnic, by the way,
promises to be one of the biggest
gatherings of the sort planned in the
county. Many county and state can-
didates will attend. No announcement
has been made yet as to whether Con-
gressman Ferris will be present to
make an address during the celebra-
tion.
BANKER GIVES PARDON
RAGK FO GOVERNOR
Rather than undergo a court
scrutiny of the conditions under which
his pardon was issued by Tom Wal-
diep, speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives, Martin M. Fulkerson, of
Alva, convicted bank embezzler, re-
fused to accept the pardon and sent it
back to Governor liobertson last
Tuesday, with a polite note, saying
that if there is any question about
its validity he doesn't want it. He
also asserts that he will not in the
future use this pardon incident as a
basis for asking any clemency what-
evei at the hands of the governor.
It hail been presumed that a legal
fight would naturally result from the
pardon and that Fulkerson would
use every available power to make
the permit issued him by Waldrep
stick in court. His decision to de-
cline it altogether and to come to Mc-
Alester to begin his seven year sen-
tence is rather unique and avert* all
legal complications in the case.
Fulkerson, accompanied by the
sheriff of Wood Countv, from which
county he was convicted, came to Mc-
Alester Tuesday night anil presented
his commitment to the penitentiary
warden. In fact. Warden Switzer
was in Oklahoma City himself Tues-
day, and came to McAlester on the
same train with Fulkerson and the
Wood County officer.
Fulkerson's original sentence war
for seven years in prison and to pay
a fine of $5,531, for the crime of em-
bezzling funds in connection with a
bank at Alva of which he was an of-
ficial. The fine had been remitted,
but the court sentence, assessed in
May, 1917 and since re-affirmed by
the state criminal court of appeals,
stands. By entering the prison at
once and being allowed his good time
anil for labor, he can finish his term
in 3 1-2 years, or by January, 1924.
No action has been talfen by At-
torney General Freeling, relative to
the two other pardons issued by
Waldrep, one to a man convicted of
seduction and to another convicted of
robbery, and no action will be taken
unless requested by Governor Robert-
son. The same is true of the pardons
issued by Senator Davidson, of Tulsa,
who pardoned J. J. Creekmore, notor-
ious ex-bootlegger, although practic-
ally all the pardons were issued unile-
the same conditions, and if one is in-
valid all are so. The contention in
the main, bv Attorney-General Free-
ling, is that the acting-governor does
not have the right to issue pardons
under the circumstances of the tem-
poi-ary absence from the state of the
regularly elected governor. Gover-
nor Robertson was in San Francisco
at till time, attending the national
democratic convention, and did not ex-
pect to be away longer than a week.
SUES TO RECOVER ON
STOCK CLAIMED STOLEN
Alleging that the defendant com-
pany bought cattle that had been
shipper originally from Mcintosh
County by one R. L. Mickle and sold
as his own but which belonged, in
reality, to the plaintiff, W. G. Ungles
this week brought suit in the district
court to recover $2,400 from the Ar-
mour Packing Company, which he
claims was the reasonable value of the
cattle at the time they were disposed
of.
Ungles, who is well known as a
cattle man in this county, sets up in
his complaint that, about August,
1918, one R. L. Mickle, "with intent
to steal,1" gathered up 32 cattle be-
longing to Ungles in a pasture in Mc-
Intosh Countv and shipped them
from Eufapla to the National Live-
stock Commission Company, of Okla-
homa City, which company in turn,
disposed of them to Armour & Com-
pany, the defendant in this suit.
Cattle, at the time and of the quali-
ty in question, were declared by the
plaintiff to be worth an average of
$75 per head.
Stanley Thomas and J. C. Noah, of
the McAlester Buick Company, left
Wednesday night of this week for
Flint, Mich., to arrange for the ship-
ment of more Buicks for the big de-
mand constantly being made on the
distributors here for the Buick car.
Mrs. O. M. Anderson, of North Mc-
Alester, has gone to California for
the summer.
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* MORE GOOD NEWS *
* *
* State Auditor Frank Carter's *
* report of the condition of the *
* state treasury is such as to indi- *
* cate that it will not be necessary *
* to levy any advalorem tax for *
* general purposes next year. *
* This will reduce the tax levy in *
* Pittsburg County at least three *
* mills, amounting to the big end *
* of a hundred thousand dollars. *
* There is approximately $3,000,- *
* 000 on hand in the state treasury, *
* and this, with the gross produc- *
* tion tax on oil, the inheritance *
* and other taxes to be collected *
* during the coming year will run *
* the state government, says Mr. *
* Carter, without having to levy *
* any tax for that purpose. This *
* is the first time in state history *
* that such a thing has happened. *
* Of course there will be the city *
* and county taxes, but missing *
* the state tax will help a lot. *
* *
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