Drumright Evening Derrick (Drumright, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 69, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 3, 1917 Page: 1 of 4
four pages : ill. ; page 20 x 13 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
ItrttmrijjJ#
Betrtritft
VOLUME THREE. NUMBER 69.
♦ I 1
* «
4 *
DRUMRIGHT, OKLAHOMA, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1917_
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
DEATH OVERTAKES
VISITOR TO SHOW
"O, get a doctor, quick," said C.
L. Kilpatrick, a Mannford contractor
at the Yale theatre, as he leaned for-
ward evidently realizing that the end
had come, and addressing his com-
panion at his side. Before the com-
panion could more than make a start
for aid the man had sank to the floor
and was dead.
The incident caused a great con-
sternation in the house filled with
people and the body was carrfed to
the walk before the theatre and an
ambulance summoned.
Coroner Avery examined the body
and pronounced death due to natural
causes, and that no inquest was
necesSary.
The remains were conveyed to the
Buffington undertaking rooms and
word sent the family of deceased
which was reached through thc kind-
Congress Will Make War Declaration
Before Night-Half Million Men Called
MAN, 61 YEARS OLD,
ANXIOUS TO ENLIST
nfcss of Col. Winchester of Olive who
was reached by phone.
Kilpatrick had been engaged in
construction of a portion of the
Ozark Trails across this county, and
tut yesterday had reported in an
estimate of his work, and had been
issued a warrant for $600. This
with a small amount of change and
some private papers were all that
was on his person. The family ar-
rived this afternoon and took charge
of the remains.—Sapulpa Herald.
April 8: Easter Sunday.
Washington, April 3.—(Special.)
—Both house and senate committees
are meeting today to take action on
President Wiison's memorable speech
of yesterday and it is probable that
speedy action will be taken and that
before nightfall the state of war
with Germany will be officially re-
corded, fresh soldiers will be under
call, and a struggle that will mark
democracy's final step against a bru-
tal autocracy will be an accomplished
fact.
PRESIDENT ASKS WAR.
President Wilson last night asked
Congress to declare a state of war ex- I
Enroll Eight Here;
Response Slow To
Call To The Colors
Frank Schrickam,
Benjamin F. Simmons,
Arthur E. Girens,
Emmett R. Malosh,
David K. Fox,
Alenton T. Hanna,
Claude E. Sumpter,
Clarence Renfro.
Above are the names of the Drum-
right boys, who, this morning, had
responded to the call to the colors
and who had recruited in the com-
pany which is being raised in Drum-
right.
Under the orders of the adjutant
general the company must be raised
by tonight* and there are but a few
hours left in which recruits may enroll
their names in the Drumright com-
pany. The recruiting office is in
charge of First Lieutenant S. J. Fos-
ter and is located at Room 202 in the
city hall.
It is expected that there will be
many recruits this afternoon and to-
night and there is a probability that
the complement of 100 men will be
obtained from this citty. The re-
sponse, up to this morning, had been
slow.
senate in joint session, asked con-
gress to recognize and deal with Ger-
many's warfare on America.
The president said war with Ger-
many would involve practical co-op-
eration with the governments n^w at
war with Germany, including liberal
financial credits. He urged the rais-
ing of 500,000 men and universal
military service.
The president made it clear that
no action was being taken against the
Austrian government and the other
nations allied with Germany.
BRING GERMANS TO TERMS.
The portion of the president's mes-
isting between the United States and sage in which he asks that a state of
Germany. war be declared to be existing be-
While the news of the submarining tween the United States and Ger-
of the steamer Aztec, the first Ameri- many follows:
can armed ship to sail into the war , "There is one choice we cannot
zone, was being told from mouth J make—we are incapable of making:
to mouth in the caiptal, the prcsi We will Aot choose the path of sub-
dent, appearing before house and , mission and suffer the most sacred
rights of our nation and our people
to be ignored or violated. The wrongs
against which we now array ourselves
are not common wrongs; they cut to
the very roots of human life.
"With a profound sense of the sol-
emn and even tragical character of
the step I am taking and of the grave
responsibilities whicTi it involves, but
unhesitating obedience to what I
deem my constitutional duty, I ad-
vise that the congress declare the
recent course of the imperial German
government to be in fact nothing less
than war against the government and
people of the United States; that it
formally accept the status of bellig-
erent which has been thrust upon it,
and that it take immediate steps not
only to put the country in a more
thorough state of defense, but also
to exert all its power and employ all
its resources to bring the government
of the German empire to terms and
end the war."
MEETING AT CLINTON.
Clinton, Okla., April 3.—W. H.
Harvey, president of the Ozark as-
sociation, held an interesting business
meeting with the captains of the
northern route, west, here this week.
Plans for finishing the trad to
specifications in the required time
were discussed anfl details worked out
for their execution. President Har-
vey's visit was the occasion of un-
usual interest to the .-wad builders.
Washington, April 3.—Anxious to
fight, but fearing that his age would
prove a bar to his enlistment for
service, Thomas J. Walker, 4401 Mc-
Pherson avenue, St. Louis, has writ-
ten to Major General George Burnett,
commandant of the United States
Marine Corps.
Walker wrote: "I am 61 years old,
healthy, active, temperate, and re-
liable. I wish to offer my services
in some capacity—shore, river, deep
sea, or otherwise."
The recent rush in recruiting has
brought many odd types of both
sexes to the Marine Corps recruiting
stations. Like Walker, many have
expressed a willingness to "do their
bit" whenever duty calls, whether it
be "shore, river, deep sea, or other-
wise."
Metz Leads Nicodemus Early
This P. M.--Hints At Election
Irregularities— Watching Polls
Auto Hurtles Over
High Bank Killing
F.G.Hann^OilMan
Early this afternoon, with a com-1 The closest possible watch was The polling places and election of-
paratively light vote having been kept at the polls today to insure the ficials in the various wards are as
DISTRICT COURT, CRIMINAL
DIVISION, CONVENED TODAY
The criminal assignment of the dis-
trict court was taken up in Sapulpa
today. There is a heavy docket and
it will probably take several days to
dispose of the cases. In the county
court yesterday Judge Frazier took
up the cases on the civil docket.
Here's Act of War;
German Sub Sinks
American Steamer
New York, April 3.—The Ameri-
can steamship Aztec, owned by the
Oriental Navigation company, the
first armed ship to sail from an
American port, was sunk yesterday
by a German submarine near the
Island of Brest, according to advices
received here by the company from
the United States consul at Brest,
France.
The cable message gave no infor-
mation as to the fate of the crew.
There were thirty-nine men aboard
the vessel. Sixteen of them Ameri-
cans.
The Aztpc sailed from New York
March 18 for Havre. She was com-
manded by Captain Walter O'Brien.
Sixteen members of the crew were
native bom Americans.
The Oriental Navigation company,
owner of the Aztec, also owns the
Orleans, one of the first American
vessels to run successfully Germany's
every indication that William H. had been properly registered. It is
Metz, Republican, will poll a heavier said that evi(lence of faUe refriatra.
vote than W. E. Nicodemus, the In-1 ... ... . ,
dependent candidate. Earl Powers, t,on has been Kathered but "° off,clil
Democratic nominee, isj, not consid- ac*ion has been taken.
ered very heavily in the running and ! Outside of the closely contested
probabilities are that the returns fight between Nicodemus and Metz
wll show him a poor third. the chief interest in the election cen-
submarine blockade. The Aztec car
ried a full cargo of food stuffs and
general supplies valued at more than
$500,000.
Some of the crew were rescued and
are being brought into Brest. A num
ber of the men are missing. The
steamer was torpedoed at night while
a heavy sea was running.
William Graves Sharp, the Ameri-
can ambassador at Paris, was in-
formed by the French government of
the torpedoing and immediately ca-
bled the state department.
The Azetc was armed with two five
inch guns, one forward and one aft.
The crew of naval gunners on board
was in command of a warrant officer.
The Aztec, formerly owned by the
Pacific Mail Steamship company, was
a ship of 3,727 tons gross and 2,345
tons net. She was built in New Cas-
tle, England, 1894. She was 350 feet
long with a beam of 43 feet.
Metz was reported leading in
every ward in the city, including the
First, which is conceded to be Nico-
demus' stronghold, at 2 o'clock this
afternoon.
Feeling runs high in the mayor-
alty race and party watchers on both
sides are keeping close tab on the
polls. There have been numerous
charges of crooked registration made
but up to this time no arrests have
been made in connection with al-
leged election frauds. Startling de-
velopments are expected to follow
action which will be taken after the
election, irrespective of who is re-
turned winner.
ters around the school board fight.
Both Mrs. Earl Anderson, the pres-
ent treasurer of the board of educa-
tion, and Mrs. Bridges, her opponent,
are putting up strong fights and it is
probable that the result of this con-
test will be very close.
Dr. Melvin Fry, candidate for the
school board from thfe Second ward,
is also strongly in the race. Fred
Ewing is leading the fight for the old
school board, against which a strong
opposition has been developed.
The re-election of Arthur Davis,j East Broadway,
city treasurer, seems assured and the !
probabilities are that he will run far'
ahead of h'.s ticket, I he Democratic, j
I Sapulpa, April 3.—Anothor victim
was added to the list of those who
lately have gone the way of the auto
route yesterday, when F. G. Hanna,
an employe of the Oklahoma Pe-
troleum company, and who was a
brother of Mrs. Grant Watkins, liv-
ing north of the city, came to his
death under his car which left the
bridge over the Polecat, on the Kiefer
road as the car failed to make the
turn properly and went down a 20-
Fir«t Ward. foot embankment, landing on the
Tent, west side Penn. ave., corner head of the unfortunate driver. The
first alley north of Broadway. <*ar was a new Dodge and It is sus-
Inspector—Jack Boatman. | pected that the stiffness of the new
Judge—George Ham. j steering gear may have had some-
Clerk—Sid Busby. ; thing to do with the accident.
Second Ward. | It was manifest from marks on
Taweel building, corner first alley
south of Broadway.
Inspector—Burney Brasel.
Judge—L. D. Burney.
follows:
the bridge that the car luut first
dashed into the outside of th«
having evidently been *>iag at .
high rate of speed and then, taring
been hastily turned in the other di-
rection, gone over the other side
before it could be controlled. In tkie
condition the victim lay for a Um
until someone came by and saw the
lamps of the auto still burning, and
sent in the alarm.
Coroner Avery responded to Ike
call but found that no InreetlgaWan
as to the cause of the death was
necessary.
Deceased was a native of Missouri,
and was aged 86. He is survived
by his father, J. P. Hanna, and sit-
ters, Mrs. Grant Watkins, and Mrs.
Lena Birch, the latter of Shawnee.
Clerk—V. H. Holmes.
Third Ward.
Razook building, corner Virginia
avenue and Broadway.
Inspector—Louis Hazen.
Judge—G. T. Strickle.
Clerk—Dennis Wilcoxen.
Fourth Ward.
Tent, west of Yale Grocery Co.,
Inspector—O. E. Freeman.
Judge—A. W. Butts.
Clerk—E. F. McCullough.
Two Hurled Into Oil
/ 5
Slough, Drowned, When
An Automobile Skids
PAVING COMPANY DEPOSITS
$75,000 IN GUARANTY STATE
■£■ I "H11 'I' * 'H
D. B. Welty, president of the
Municipal Engineering & Construc-
tion company, which has the local
street paving contract, has deposited
$75,000 in cash in the Guaranty
State Bank to insure the completion
of the street paving work here, the
payment of contracts, workmen, etc.
Good progress is being made with the
work. All the preliminary grading
has been finished and upon the ar-
rival of machinery and material the
latter part of this week, the actual
laying of paving will start.
ELKS TO FROLIC TO
MUSIC OF JAZ BAND
Ed Bodkins, an oil man, and R. A. ]
j Haley, Sr., a wealthy field junk
dealer, were drowred in oil when, |
————————— near Pumpkin Center, their automo-
represented Oklahoma at the recent bile 9kidded °n a ,ine' hurled
gathering in St. Louis of state asso- down a ten-foot embankment, and the
ciations, brought back plenty of work two men weT* plunBcd headforemost
for the convention. Ilnto a slough of crude ° - from
j which they were unable to extricate
Among other things for a born op-' thcmselv<*> when the car came plung-
MANY ATTEND M. E.
CHURCH LECTURE
STRAND THEATRE TODAV
YOUR PATRONAGE APPRECIATED ™
yy
YOUB PATRONAGE APPRECIATED
Today Only
William Fox Production
"Romeo and Juliet
Theda Bara and Harry Hilliard
Seven Big Reels—Lavishly Mounted
THE ROSE MAIDS MUSICAL COMEDY CO.
Present
"The Bachelor's Twins"
An Amusing Farce—New Songs—Snappy Dances
Admission 15-25c Matinee—Evening
. 111 I I'l I'M I K N"H I'l MM HI H |l 11III H 11111 lll + H IH
Mr. Arthur Christner, a native of
India, who is giving a series of lec-
tures at the M. E. church, addressed
capacity audience last night. To-
night he will tell of hTs experiences in
earthquake? and floods in India and
will alsto speak on his conversion from
heathenism to Christianity.
His subject Wednesday night will
be "India and Her People, Their Cus-
toms, Religions, Famine and Civiliza-
tion." On Thursday he will speak
of the poor classes in India, child
marriages there and the need of and
hunger for God of the Indian na-
tives.
Assurances are given that if the
United States goes to war, women's
fashions will be "more simple." For
the life of us we can't see how theyj
can be witho'ut bee'dming p'ositiv'ely
idiotic.
Muskogee, Okla., April 3.—(Spe-
cial.)—Perhaps the church in your
home town, too, has taken up side-
arms against the latest dances!
Well, moderation is bound to come
and, like prohibition, it is fast creep-
ing 'crost the country.
Muskogee is taking no chances. By
mid-summer—who knows—wc may
not be allowed to "toddle," to "trot"
when the jaz band plays! So, for a
night at least, this city will spread
wide her canopy and be one big dance
pavilion. When the State Association
of Elks' clubs meets here, Mav :),
in convention—it will not be all busi-
ness.
The Severs hotel, recently placed
under a Kansas Cityain's manage-
ment, will be the hub 'round which
everybod'll frolic. The "mez" floor,
the ball-room, the parlors, the lobby,
the gallery, the walk—and four full
blocks of asphalt surrounding the
building will be cleared for the rev-
elers. The streets will be treated to
coat of corn meal to make 'em
slick, and the furniture will be re-
moved from every available square
of floor space. There will be one
band of music at each street inter-
section and a band inside the build-
ing.
The bankers, whose convention
opens here on May 10, will be get-
ting into town in time for the biggest
Elks' dance Oklahoman's ever staged.
Every lodge B. P. O. E. in Okla-
homa holds membership in the asso
ciatidn which meets here In M^y.
C. B. MilM and Wa'rreiri Bu'tz, wh'd
timist to consider is the annual Sun-!inK down UP°" them- Haley'9 identity
day school picnic. |was not established until Monday
I when the body was identified by one
By the way, we have not had any of Haley'9 sons of Sti*ler- 0kla-
of Willie Bryan's idiotic pacifist doc-1 Bodkins WBS employed by the Cos-
trine crammed down our throats for dwl Refining company as a pumper
some time. Perhaps Mr. Bryan is
preparing to raise that army of a
million men over night.
MAN HELD
on three of their leases at Pumpkin
Center, near Sapulpa. He is sur-
vived by relatives who live at Bow-
den. Haley's body was shipped to
Eufaula for burial.
! Perhaps that German army in
AH A DC AM rUADrr France Krow'n£ homesick and
UH AKuUN lilARbt wnts t0 K° back to the home folks.
SAPULPA BEGINS
"P0L1CELESS" TERN
Sunday was the first day in
Sapulpa's "policeless" history. Al a
result of the action of the c'tVy ad-
ministration in dismissing most of the
pol.ee force, it now consists of two
patrolmen, two special officers end
a motorcycle policeman to police a
city of 17,000. Sheriff Woofter has
been asked to assist in policing the '
city. The reason given for the dis-
missal of the greater portion of the
police force was lack of funds to
keep up the department without mak-
ing a bond issue, which the city ad-
ministration refuses to do.
Homer Cunningham, a farmer re-
siding three miles east of Oilton, who .
is accused of burning a barn be- ]
longing to J. E. rooks, an Oilton '
storekeeper, on the night of March -
9th, was given a preliminary hearing
before Justice of the Peace Edward
M. Lotridge in Sapulpa yesterday
afternoon. Decision will not be
reached until this afternoon, it is ex-
pected.
Brooks' barn was burned to thc
ground, four muled burned to death
and hundreds of bushels of grain
were destroyed with an aggregate
loss of $3,000. Bloodhounds were
procured from Muskogee and are
said to have gone directly to Cun-
ningham's house. Brooks sail he had
had trouble with Cunningham and
swore to an information charging
him with the deed. Since his ar-
raignment a few days ago he had
l.feeo at liberty under a bond of 51 ,-
c-'oO.
Phone No. 90 for job printing.
PASTIME THEATRE TODAY
"The Newest Theatre"
THE LIVEST SHOW
Fun Makers
Musical Comedy Co.
IN
"IN PANAMA"
New and Original Full of Snap and Vim
A Beauty Choru3 of BEAUTIES.
Three Reels.
Big Vitagraph Feature
"BILLY SMOKE"
Other Good Pictures.
ADMISSION 10.20c MATINEE-EVENING.
M1MI!1IIIIIM>>>I 11II H I Ml II H
\
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Drumright Evening Derrick (Drumright, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 69, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 3, 1917, newspaper, April 3, 1917; Drumright, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc148149/m1/1/: accessed July 6, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.