Garfield County Democrat. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 19, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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Garfield
Counjty
ENID, OKLAHOMA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19
VOLUME ELEVEN
Democrat.
1908.
NUMBER 40
judge Houstin James
Judge Hou-tin James, citv at-
torney of Enid, ww found dead
in his bed Tuesday morning at 8
o'clock, at his home on East Main
Street. He ha* not been ill, and
heart failure is thought to have
been the cause of his death,
which comes as a great shock to
the community, as Judge James
was well known all over the coun-
ty,having eome here at the open-
ing.
He leaves a wife, two daugh-
ters, who live in Chicago, and a
oo, Marcus, who was in Guthrie
with Company K. when the sad
news reached him. Judge James
I bad been a member of the
fcwMtthodist church for two years.
Houstin James was born in
I'ike county, Ohio, December
18th, 1844, and was sixty-three
years of age last December. At
the age of seventeen he snlisted
in the army and saw much active
service. He wis promoted to
various high army positions.
Tw days before he was twenty- | un\ocj^ed.
one he commanded Company H ■
of the I7bth Ohio Regiment at
the famous battle of Nashville
od received great praise for his
work on that memorable day.
After the war was over he re-
turned to his home and took up
the study of law, first in an office
in \V verly, Ohio, and later grad-
uating' from I3e Cincinnati law
chool. He practised law at
Waverly and Hamilton, Ohio,
taking a very prominent part in
politics and being elected to a
Tjiosition on the Ohio bench. Id
J886, after meeting great finan-
cial reverses through a huge fail-
ure of a Cincinnati Trust com
jiany, removed to Springield,
Mo.', where he continued the
practise of law until 1903. Then
t the •ptning of the Cherokee
Strip he came to Enid and made
the run, settling on a claim which
now lies one-half mile east of the
southeast corner of this city
•Kfter proving up he sold his
claim and moved to Enid where
lie had already gotten « good start
Jn the practise of law.
Judge James was a member of
the board of county commission
ers being elected in 16^4 at the
fust regular election and aeryed
two years. He was nominated
by the republicans for city attor
ney of the city of Enic in the
spring of 1907 and eleci J, which
office h« held at the tin. of his
death.
the postofhee, made a confession
to the post office inspector i ues-
day, and said he had stolen the
following checks and drafts:
Check in favor of Arthur Stan-
ton for S30, cashed at First Na
tional.
Check for S10, favor A. K.
Callahan, cashed at Garfield
Exchange.
Enid Pla-iug Mill check for
$14, and draftof unknown amount
from Chicago, cashed at Wakeens
grocery.
When arrested he had a check
in favor of J. Y. Callahan on his
person. All the cnecks were
cashed by signing the name
Frank Weibling.'
he
NOTICE
To the Public
Oil and after September 1st,
the Garfield County Democrat will
be the WEEKLY and DAlL^i
l DEMOCRAT.
lake $3,000 Gems
From Lee Debris.
ey to run this campaign; make no
Diamonds valued at §3,000, two
trunks ol sample gold watches
and a quantity of other jewelry
were taken out of the debris in
the northwest corner of the Lee
Price further stated that hejjj0tel building Monday afternoon
found it very easy to carry on his j IJ. Snow and J. M. Scott,
1 ' u«^-.,,oo cn j-gpfgjjgqof ihe Woodstock-
licaiis know where to get theirs,
no matter what contributions
they may have to turn back to
comply with the law. Every
source that we can find will be
tapped and the results of our ef- j
forts so far are fairly encourag-
ing. The finance committee!
have started to send appeals to
editors ol all Democratic and in-
dependent newspapers to start
subscriptions, and to evry con-
tributor the national committee
will s«nd an acknowledgment as
a souvenir of the campaign.
The appeal is signed b Chair-
man Mack, Governor Haskell,
treasurer of the committee, and
myself."
^ O. j. flemish a, Tres S. T. Ai.ton. Vice-Pres. Kkank II. Li-C\
Enicl NTati o i \a 1 I >a 1 ]
Successor to the Hank of Knid
CAPITAL FULLY PAID, $100,000.00
Courteous and Liberal Treatment to all
A first-class
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Banking Institution wi h lurgc capital conducted
along safe and conservative lines.
plan of looting letters because so
many people leave their boxes at
theofficeopen. He would simply
take out the letters, tear all of
them open, and save any checks
or drafts they contained, throw-
ing the other letters away, How
many letters were torn up he
does not know.
He said nearly half the boxes
he tried to open had tejfl lcM
Young Mother
Deserts Babe.
Red Rock, Okla., Aug. 15.—
Mrs. Charles Iatns, of Keifton,
who caui2 here recently to visit
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
McCormick, has mysteriously
disappeared, leaving her smail
baby in charge of her parents.
She has been despondent recently,
and several times remarked that
sbe and her husband did not get
along well, and that she was not
fit to raise the child.
On the day of her disappear-
ance Mrs. lams left her child at
the home of her parents aud went
to visit Mrs. J. B. Smith, near
Otoe. While there she told Mrs.
Smith she believed she would go
away to some place where they
would never see ner again.
While the members of the family
were absent she went away, and
was last seen on the road leadiug
north. Not a clue to her where-
abouts has been found since her
disappearance. It ts feared that
she ha9 committed suicide, and a
systematic search has been made
for her body.
Mrs. lams aud her husband
have been married less than two
years. Her baby is but a lew
months old.
Hoofer Jewelry company of Kan-
sas City. The diamonds were]
undamaged and many of the
watches were kept intact in their
plush cases, in some instances
the plush being unscorched by
the fire. Four tweuty and two
ten dol'ar bills w^re taken from
the till of one of the trunks, with
their edges onl slightly scorch-
ed.
Messrs. Scott and Snow occu-
pied room No. 439 on the lourth
floor. It is supposed the trunks
were protected by debris after
th- floor fell in. The total stock
of samples was valued at $6,000
and is insured.
Starvation Leads
To Suicide
WE DO NOT PAY INTEREST
ON DEPOSITS
OUR S T OC KHO L I) E R S A R E A S KO L L O W S;
S. T, Alton • NI. God.schalk J. Robert®
M. M. Caliawa> W. H. Kinvr B. Robin non
CoKrial J. E. McChrUtv A. E. Stepheniob
J. D. Minton Glern A Walters
C. K. M thew E. II. We&therlv
Let&on O. J. Fleming
W. E.
John Curr
C. ft. Gannon
Frank H.
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The Man Who
llclps. to Create
Hoards
Business
His Money
Stagnation
• eI FET'
Negroes Support Bryan.
Arthur PriccContesses
Arthur Price, the eighteen
7ear old hoy who was arrested
FOr Sale
A good paying bakery. Owners
want to sell at once. Address
last'week on a charge of forgery I Palace Home Bakery, 21S West
and for stealing Utters from |Randolph, Enid, Okla.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 17.—Many
of the negroes in Atlanta are re-
ceiving letters from President J.
Milton Waldren aud Correspond-
ing Secretary William Trotter,
of the National Negro American
Political league, begging them
to cast their votes for Bryan and
scoring the tepublican party in
general and President Roosevelt
and Wiiliam H. Taft in particu-
lar for their injustice to the ne-
groes and stating that they are
both strong disciples of "Lily
Whiteism."
This league includes negroes
in many of the large cities
throughout the country and has
as its second vice president Bishop
Henry M. Turner, ot Georgia.
Along other things this letter
says that while the negroes for
fortv years have been supporting
the republican ticket, the general
government has stated that it
could do nothing for the rights
of the negroes.
After stating that a vote for
Mr. Taft is a vote to eliminate
the negro from politics, the letter
calls attention to the fact that in
six or sight northern and western
states the negroes have sufficient
power, if they vote as a unit, to
defeat the republican party.
At Orlando, twenty nnles north
of Guthrie, Monday afternoon
Mrs. Elmer Garfield, wife of a
day laborer, took a large dose of
rough on rats poison, and fed
large doses of the same to her
four small children. The poison
was used with homicidal and
suicidal intent. The entire
family were in serious condition
when discovered. Medical aid
was summoned and all placed out
of danger, except the infant,
which is not expected to live.
The woman is in custody of
; Deputy Sheriff Tom Ralston and
I will be brought to Guthrie as
soon as she sufficiently recovers
from the effects of the poison.
The woman premeditated the
crime, and first attempted to se-
cure arsenic for the evil purpose.
The druggist at Orlando relused
to sell it 10 her. She then secur
ed rough on rats. This she pre
pared in capsules. The three
larger children refused to take
the capsules. She then went
down town, purchased several
bottles of pop and gave each of
the older children a bottle as an
inducement to take tn« capsules.
The children took the capsules,
drank the pop, and were soon
convulsions.
The wretched woman fed the
poison to her baby from a spoon,
and then took a large dose her
self.
She left several letters, show-
ing that the deed had been care -
fully considered.
Poverty and privation are
thought to have been the incen-
tives.
When you are asked to put your money in a bank you have a right
to know and should know just how and why that bank is safe.
We want you to understand the reasons for the supreme safety of
this Bank.
\ The First National Bank
is organized under the National Banking Law and is under the constant
tupervision of the U. S. Government.
Not less than five sworn reports must be made each year, and
these reports are always called for an unexpected date in the past. The
affairs of this b ink tnu-t always be in such shape that we can make a
satisfactory, detailed statement to "Uncle Sam" for any past date
that the G mptroller of the Currency may pick out.
This means (lailv readiness These reports must he publish d and
must be verified by the expert Bank Examiner whom the government
sends hero to thoroughly examine
The Man Who Deposits His Money in
This Bank• Fosters Business Activity.
making the third.
Mr. Smith suffered for several
weeks with typhoid fever, and lie
died Thursday night. lie was
one of the pioneers of Washita
couuty, a former successful cattle
dealer, and one of the most hon-
ored and highly respectcd citizens
of this section.
Race War
In Tennessee.
ent statutory ground, as the only
way of fulfilling what he charac-
terises as the organic law of the.
church. He pointed out the
paradox that America, which suf-
fers least from the drink evil,
should suffer most from the soc-
ial parasite of divorce, while in
Great Britain anil Ireland, di-
vorces result from a very small
percentage of marriages. lie
proposes as a means of salvation
the awakening of public opinion
through the church.
II. S. Marshal Abernathy
Wounded.
Our
Teller
Subscriptions
Through Press
For Democracy.
will pay out on your
wheiher pre-
ted in person or
through another
I es Good
Your Checl
and passes current when ts d^awn against us
well known «olvency e banking interests are well
pass current the world over. Your banking business
iubs.T>#d when given in our charge, i™
is cordially solicited.
Oklahoma State Bank
Enid, Oklahoma
and
thi
Editors of every Democratic
udependent newspaper
oughcut the United States
will be appealed to by the I)etn
ocratic national committee to
start subscriptions for the Demo-
cratic campaign fund in their
newspapers. This plau, wh 'It
was made known by Col. Mw.>
C. Wetmore, chairman of the
finance committee, is distinct
from the effort already inaugu-
rated by the national committee
to obtain money through finan-
cial representatives, under the
direction of the national commit-
teemen in each of the states in
the country. Colonel Wetmore
said:
"We are I'oitig to get the mon-
United States Marshal John
Abernathy, who with his bare
hands captured coyotes alive in
the Kiowa-Comanche pasture of
southwest Oklahoma three years
ago for the entertainment of
President Roosevelt, was serious-
ly wounded in the Wichita forest
reserve at 6 o'clock Sunday eve-
ning in an encounter with a lobo
wolf which he had leaped from
his horse to capture. The ant-
mars teeth made incisions
through Aberna'.hy'a hand and
inflicted severe scratches on his
breast and abdomen. His life
was saved by A1 Jennings, an
Homey of Lawton, who leaped
■ in his horse and pulled the
Knoxvillt, Tenn.. Aug. 18.
As a result of the determination
of the Kings mountain co il com-
pany to work negroes in the same
mines with white men, a serious
war that threatens to assume
serious proportions is imminent
in the mining district adjacent to
Jellico, Tenn.
Saturday night seventy negroes
several of them armed, were barri-
caded in a commissary which w;.s
threatened by between 100 and
400 white men and a fijrht is ex-
pected at any moment.
Shsrilf lluddlestone has just
reached the scene and is summon-
ing every available citizen 10
protect the negroes. Ttie trouble
which has been brewing tor sev-
eral months, broke out afresh
Sunday when 15U white miners
went to the Kings mouuiain
mine and drove twelve negro
families from there,
They marched the negroes all
day Sunday, allowing the women
and children to sleep and eat
what iood they had with tlium,
but forced the men to keep mov-
ing. It is feared a serious battle
will occur before morning.
East Side Site Cited.
At a meeting of East Side resi-
elents to the number of seventy-
five 111 the East Hill school build-
ing it was dccided to tight for the
location of the Carnegie library
on the square or east of the
square. They have a proposition
to trade the east side city lotto
V. W. Whiting for 150 feet of
ground two and one-half blocks
from the square on East Broad-
way.
A permanent organization will
be formed next Wednesday eve-
ning to conserve public interests.
A booster's club of 50,0u0 pop-
ulation for Enid will be formed
and efforts will be put lorth to
get u storm sewer street paving
and other improvements deemed
necessary.
Men Fight Like Savages.
Vicious animal from the prostrate
body ot the marshal.
Member ol First Legislature
Dead.
Death has claimed three mem-
bers of the lower house of the
lirst state legislature, the demise
of lion David Smith, of Cordell,
American Divorce Hidden.
After visiting England, Scot
laud and Ireland, a a d hearing
reports from all parts of the En-
glish speaking world, Utshop
Gresr. the new head of the
Episcopal diocese of New York
has pronounced the United
Sta es the "most divorce ridden
cou.iiry in the world." He ad-
vocates the absolution prohibi-
tion of divorce, even on the preh-
Stigler, Okla., Aug. l'J.—In a
desperate light in a blacksmith
shop at Keota, fifteen miles west
of here, this afternoon, in which
blacksmith's tools were used as
weapons, Samuel Shores was
struck on the head with a hatch-
et and killed. His son, Frank,
was felled with a pair of tongs
and was fatnl'ly injured. Bos
LeElorc and Sid Stockton sus-
tained seiious wounds ou the
bode. The quarrel was there-
suit of a bitter suit in a justice of
the peace court above the shop.
W- B.
Undertaker
PENNIMAN
212 West Randolph
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