Drumright Evening Derrick (Drumright, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 107, Ed. 1 Monday, October 10, 1921 Page: 1 of 6
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VOL. 6. NUMBER 107
DRUMRIGHT, OKLAHOMA, MONDAY, OC1 10 1H21
FIVE CENTS A COPY
Say Wilcox Shot at Mayor
rC" " ' Q " £: 'X 1 a" > c* WSS* against him too strong
Lhier Ary Begins rigvi Against M0E disqualifies hen orders
Charges Made by Grand jury
Hundreds of Witnesses'
Flock to Sapulpa to
Testify in Behalf of
the Suspended Police
Head Kept the City
('lean
Chief of Polit e Jack'Ary was placed
on trial in superior eourt uf Sapulpa
this morning on charges returned
against him by the Creek count >
grand Jury in a writ of acquisation.
The greater i r«rt bf the morning and
part of the afternoon was spent in se
leeting the Jury.
Hundreds of witnesses flockeil t«
Sapulpa this morning to testify in the
chief's behalf. He is charged with per-
mitting the sale of whiskey in tin* eity.
and with permitting disorderly lions-
to be operated
In denying the chorges, t i • •
will introduce police court iv > t«>
show thot it has been th I m,cv « r the
local fores to clean ui 'lbonie.lv
houses uh fast as they v. ve unc • i
ed.
Witnesses will be introduced tc
testify as to the clean condition «-f
the city, and the good work of the lo-
cal police department in running
down criminals and preventing law
violations.
Fred Wagoner bus been retained l>:
the court as assistant prosecutor.
The chief will also stand trial on a
charge of assault returned by tlv-
grand jury, and which i* said to be
the result of a frame up by enemies ol
the city administration.
BANDITS ESCAPE
HUNDREDS APPEAL FOR
SECOND GRAND JURY
NO MYSTERY TO
YANKEES TAKE
CLERK'S OFFICE
Judjjfe Wilcox's Official |
tier Searchlight in 'Z TODAY'S 3 T01,
District Court
Mr:. Barr Issues Statement to
Public—Did Not Want
Books Tampered With
The official eonduct of Judge (Jay I
I „rd Wll.-nx „t the Nip. riur , our. i ... | Amer|can Forge Ahca(, ot Nat.
ne investigated by the ne« ci"ol/1
county grand Jury which is to be
her
There was no mystery attached to
he colsing of the city clerk's office
week, according to Mrs.
?ofl Barr, city elerk
Mrs. Barr closed the office Thurs-
day shortly after a stranger made I1I3
Seize Satchel Containing Al-
most $100,000 in Cash
and Bonds
!!>• Atfcocfaiteu fre.i'i
St. Louis. Oct. ,n"n ",1S
morning licld up Robert Hurdama"
ii iiLKrii yusBcngnr fur the Grand Ave
mi!' Bunk and cut-apod villi a sntclio!
containing $ 17.700 in i'uhIi and V.l.OWi
in non-negotiable papers. The robbery
WUB eommlUed.on a crowded Otivi
street car. "t Twentieth street near t!i
heart of the down town business sec-
Hon.
Hard,.man was taking th - nionej
from tho Oi-nftd Aveiuie Hank in th
i,„ltr«l part or the city to the down
town ban!*.
After obtaining the satchel, tin
,.;llKlU„ compelled the conductor to
-lep the ear and open the door, aftet
which they made their getaway in an
autonicbllc.
TiMeLy ToPiCs
Fight Special
THERE is A HIGH powered
Interest TO-DAY among THE
Drumright people IK THE bat-
tle BETWEEEEN The YANKS
and GIANTS AND another
fight IN SAPULPA. BUT
that DON'T keep US FROM
battling FOR business. DOC
Thomas has JUST delivered A
DRAY load OF NEW books
FOR children of ALL ages.
EVERYTHING from linen PIC-
TURE BOOKS, for the BABIES
to CHEW the rag over, to DIS-
SERTATIONS on grand OP-
ERA FOR older KIDDIES.
PRICES from 10c to §2.00
Uden's Book Store
all-
ed in district court at Sapulpa, it was
said here yesterday bv a number of
those who signed the petition to
.lihlgo Lucien H. Wright asking
for a grand jury in his court.
More than two hundred taxpayers
of Drumright have signed the petition.
It was reported this morning. It is be-
.u«c ' - Jievecl that fully five hundred signers
a a ranee in the office with a request 1 will be secured throughout the coun-
the books He would not (eli t). including Sapulpa. Oilton. Shan.
for whom he was o make the audit. "Kit, Depew. Bristow. Mounds and
Mr 1.111 did not wish to have the , the.rural diatl icU.
books tampered with, she :<ays. In Hundreds Rush to Sign
.lew of the fact that the booUs were Citizens have rushed to put their
I, in- audited bv another firm. «nd|n nies on the petition sine# it was
,v„, . presented In court Moo I parted in circulation Saturday. It Is.
,1,., niornin, | believed thut a thorough inquiry Is
needed Into public affairs In the coun
Mrs H.nr c pla ns the situation to
ty. and that the present superior court
grund Jury has failed to serve tile liui |
pose because it confined its efforts
almost exclusively to an investigation
of enemies hi certain members of the
Jury.
It is suiil that the funds of the su-
perior court have run low. making It
impossible for the jury to push its
work much further, while the district
court has sufficient money to finance
a grand Jury in that court
The new grand jury, it is said, will
be in a position to look into some .nat-
ters that the present grand Jury is
unable to pet to.
Looked Like Wbitwash
Charges filed against Judge Wilcox
with the attorney general by citizens
of Drumright which were called to the
attention of the present grand jurj.
will also be called to the attention of
the district court grand Jury, it is said.
Without questioning a single one ot
the citizens who filed the charges
against the judge, the present grand
| Jury exonerated Judge Wilcox of the
1 charges of drunkem so and official
misconduct. This action caused many
I to feci that the grand jury simply ap-
plied a coating of whitewash.
! ti was pointed out that the person
uel of the jury was selected by Judge
Wilcox himself from the 24 men
whose names were drawn.
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SHAWNEE ROTARIANS
TO VISIT CUSHING
ionals in Fifth Game of
Big Series
her friends in a statement given out
Sunday morning.
"For the benefit of t lie friends win
supported me In the recent election.
I want to say that the city books are
safe In the vault of the city hull and
have been all the time. They are being
audited, duly mitlioriaed by the cit.
council.,
"in iustin to all concerned, and
on mv own authority. 1 thought it
best to clos", the office as 1 had been
subpoenaed to appear with the books
and I did not propo3e to allow anyone
sceep.v to them unless legally author
d to do so.
LKOTI It A It 11."
Any citizen is welcome at any tini"
to look over the books, Mrs. Burr
told the i'-vonlng Derrick and wile.i
will have finished with the court,
silo will be pleased to answer any
questions regarding city affairs which
may full within her scope.
KLANSMEN MARCH
THROUGH
DURING SERVICES
Ku Klux Makes Its Fir^t Ap-
pearance at Blackwell—
Backs Pastor
Polo ('.rounds. New- York. Oct. 1<
The Yankees again pulled into the
lead today by taking the fifth t,ame
of the world series from the (Slants.
The score stood ' to 1 at the end of
the ninth, giving the Yanks ;i one-
game lead.
Hoyt, in the box for the Yanks, g.i'
up more hits than Nehf forthe Olanl -.
but the Yank hurler was able to keep
them scattered.
Score by innings: It II K
Yanks 0< 1 200 000 :l 6 1
Giants . A 100 000 000 1 10 1
I Batteries:Hoyt and Sehapg, Nehf
and Smith.
GRAND JUROR 13
PEEVED,UNLOADS
ON THE DERRICK
York Tells Publisher of this
Paper to "Lav Off
the' Post"
The publisher of the Kveuing Der-
rick was indicted tried, convicted and
condemned yesterday by J. A'. York,
one of the Creek count> grund jurors,
when the two met.
The grand juror wa-; displeased be
eause the Evening Derrick re ently
mentioned that he had no particular
occupation, but did laundry work at
his home.
We apologize for mentioning him
again.
"You want to lay off tho Post.
York said by the way of warning
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EDITORIAL
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STOPPING OBSTRUCTION
A move has been made in the
United States Senate to end the
(distruction of legislation by dila-
tory procedure, through a rule (
permitting debate to be dosed by
| majority vote, instead of two
thirds as now. .Many people will
feel that such a rule would im-
( pose the gag upon legislators, and
he used as a means for rushing
ti trough many arbitrary acts.
Yet the country suffers more
from the failure to get good laws
p:issed, than from the effect of
bad laws. A vast mass of business
is submitted to Congress each
year that never gets any atten-
tion Man j useful and helpful
measures are suggested that can't
be got through because you can't
get Congress to consider them.
Congressmen are much inclined
to dodge action. If they believe at
heart that a proposition is a bad
thing, they do not always dare op-
pose it publicly. They are more
inclined to pigeonhole it, on the
plea that there is not time to take
it up.
And they often rear to pass
some measure they know to be
^ od, because of tho opposition of
some influential interest. Instead
of strangling all this proposed leg-
islation with so little discrimina-
tion through the process of delay
they should come out in the open
and decide for or against these
measures and complete their
business.
With a prompt system of doing
business, considerable crude leg-
islation might get through. Hut
amendments to unworkable laws
could be secured more easily than
now.
Congress is too unwieldly ami
sluggish, and the country will
never get the action it needs to
straighten out business and put
the government on an efficient
basis, until the legislative session
is run on u more prompt system.
No .business corporation would
for a minute tolerate anexecutive
board laboring under the red tape
rules that now govern the. Senate.
SAPULPA LEGION POST ELECTS
NICODEMUS AND WITNESSES HELD
Prosecuting Attorney Holds Action Illegal,
Orders Sheriff to Disregard Court's Instruc-
tions, Kef uses to Arrest Drumright Executive
Who Made Sensational Charges.
Disregarding the instruction# ot Judge Gaylord Wilcox
in superior court ;il Sapulpa this morning. I ounty Attorney
Kay Mcllhinney ordered Sheriff D. B. Livingston not to arrest
Mayor Nicodemus and two witnesses for the mayor on charges
of perjury.
The counly attorney held that the judge's action was
illegal.
Judge Wilcox ordered the arrest of the mayor and the
two witnesses on a charge ol perjury alter he had certified
| to his own disqualification to try Mayor Nicodemus on. five
charges returned against the mayor by the grand jury, and
upon which the judge recently based a writ of acquisation
against the mayor, suspending him Iron, office.
K. I!. Page, former owner uf che Victory laundry, and \S .
T. Clarksdale, former owner of the Waffle House here, were
the two witnesses ordered arrested with the mayor.
Acting on instructions from his attorneys, the mayor
walked into the sheriff's office and said he was ready to be
locked up.
It was at this point that the county attorney stepped in
and ruled thai the judge's action was illegal.
Sensational Charges
In his motion to disqualify Judge Wilcox, Mayor
Nicodemus charged thai the judge was prejudiced
against him and had sought to prevent his election.
Page and Clarksdale testified that Wilcox fired a
shot at the mayor in a room at the St. James hotel in Sa-
I pul'pa on October 1919, when the judge walked in in
an intoxicated condition and picked up a revolver which
was lying on the table.
Page', Clarksdale and the mayor were in the room
when the judge walked in, they said.
Will Select Judge
Members of the Creek county bar will select the judge
to tr\ Mayor Nicodemus. The case will be tried n« soon as both
sides are able to get ready, it was said this morning.
Neither Governor Robertson or Attorney General hree-
ling were present this morning when the judgi gave his de-
cision 011 the mayor's motion. Judge V\ ilcox had invited both
[to hear the decision.
8 I>:;I|k>. Oct 10.—The Kobioc l-'r> •-
port of tile American Legion elected j
r. I-' t'nderwood its post commander I
BOYS FOUND HANGING .PENITENTIARY SENTENCE
may PROVE SUICIDES FOR WHITE SLAVER
"What do you mean. he was asked, to sin
Chicago, Oct.
little
out
juice.
"You and your
peek-a-boo!" the pub
er him as the grand
away majestically.
jury go play
dier called uft-
juror strutted
I'onca City. Oct. 10 Jim Uoiton.
alleged tramp who was arrested near
Tonkawa nearly a year ago on a white
lave charge, has been given a year in
the penitentiary at McAlester by Dis-
trict .Judge John E. Hird ut Newkirk
I*he girl in the case. Margaret Dever
While investigation was still in pro-115 years old, at the time of Bolton s
post constitution Lr,.ss t0 ( i,;ar Up the death of Samuel1 arrP8t was sent to the girls' industrial
so that election would be changed j Buffington, found dead in
'he mysterious j
d It bcrt B. Kennan recently I deaths by hanging of two 14«year-eUI j
You'll find out!" he answered, and 1 elected national executive committee- boyg i1L,ro in less than a week offered j
spat out a mouthful of tobacco; man. I nderwood had been acting as the authorities today one of the most
adjutant of the post until the vacancj I puzzling problems they have faced for
created by Keenau's advancement, (months.
The election of officers followed
vote to . mend th
closet of a-boot. She was brought buck to Kay
I Hack well. Oct If. The Ku Klux
Klar made its first public appearanc ■
in Blackwell .last night, when thro
lun.dird whit' robed figures, man , *•"
pf them earning banners, marqhed I $
th ron'.'Ii ill hii -t thodist churteijX
during evening < rvicc. X
Tin ie mi : -toppin- at the altai v
;,r: 1 lueiim Ue'- Fred MeSch, s;ii'.jy
■■ ,Ye know you are not one of us* toot
three thousand Klansnnn in Kay'*;,
county are back of you." i Y
The app1 '.ranee of the Klausnie : J
came following a series <>f sermon <|.j.
upholding the order preached l . I g
pastor M' sch ' .
Cutrldiig. Oi t. 1".
Urns will be in this
the g'l 'fef of: the
Club for luncheon.
Shawnee Ilotar-
city Thursdaj as
Cushing Rotary
BAND BOYS
Be sure
night at v
from tho beginning "f the year until |hiv riMlln iilRt Saturday, un almost lount> recently to appear ago Inst Dot
the tall Of the your. It Is bollcvetl , (Qentifal ease u .is presented last, i ton.
I that twenty-five members of the post I when the body of lid ward Knaus
and be at high school to will attend the national convention at :MUb foun(| hanging in the basement of
O'clock Kansas City. Jiis home.
Bryan is backing blue laws in Flor-
ida. Bet the anti-blues hired him.
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Drummer Samples
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attention moose
Ynur tines are ilne now must I
paiil liy Oct. 15tlT or you will lie a
delinquent Office I*1' N. Ohio In rear
of Guaranty State bank.
J. W. KLlNGLJiil, Sec.
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$15,0C0.00 Stock of FURS 11
will be on sale lues. Oct. 11 11
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E. Allen representing Wm. Jackman & Sons, |'
New York, will be here. 11
Far coats,Capss,Scarfs,Chockefs,in fact everything in the fur line. ■
Don't miss this opportunity to bin good furs at wholesale puces. !. ■
The MARKEY FALL STORE
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L. & L. L.
Live and let live club.
Wages are too low.
Prices are too hi^li,
Join our club today
See our large ad
L. C. Carpenter, Specialist
The man behind the gun,
That does the work
All American and Irish
Headquarters
203 K. Broadway Ave
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