The Okfuskee County News (Okemah, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1920 Page: 1 of 8
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JAILED ON CHARGE
OF DESERTING FAMILY
Sheriff Berry- Jones returned last
Wednesday morning from Texas
' bringing with him James A Smith
who is charged with desertjng his wife
and two children Smith is a barber
by trade and left his wife and children
at Weleetka three or four months ago
He was arrested in a Texas town at
the request of Sheriff Jones He is now
confined in the county jail here
Wedensday Mrs ' Smith came np
from Weleetka and she and her hus-
band attempted to effect a compro-
mise It is said that Mr Smith agreed
to give his wife $100 and pay her the
Sum of $40 a month Mrs Smith agreed
to these terms but wanted her hus-
band to give bond to insure the pay-
ment of the monthly allowance '
Mrs Smith went back to Weleetka
and Mr Smith asked the sheriff to
allow him to go to that place to ar-
range for a final settlement with his
wife The sheriff believed that all the
terms of the settlement wte "Agreed
on and complied with the request
Smith promising to report back at the'
i sheriff’soffice this morning
Today Mrs Smith came back to
Okemah and reported that her hus-
band Had not shown up at Weleetka
iAt the present writing he has not re-
ported at the sheriff’s office and the
officers have come to the conclusion
that he has left the country
The sheriff is arranging to again go
in quest of Smith and is confident that
he will soon have 'him in custody
YOUNG NEGRO WOMAN
ADJUDGED INSANE
Mary Watkins a negro woman 23
years of age was brought down from
Boley Monday by her brother-in-law
and sister in order that her mental
condition be passed upon The brother-in-law’s
name is Wm Watson
The young woman Mary Watkins
is unquestionably insane ' According
to the statement of her relatives her
mind has been deranged for a little
over a week 'She apears to be subject
to strange hallucinations Her rela-
tives say that at times she imagines
that death is a personality and that he
is chasing her At such times she
takes to flight and struggles' with and
fights whoever restrains her Again
- she will Imagine that hidden enemies
are shooting poison at her from every
direction She is rarely quiet more
than a few minutes at a -time
A few months :ago this woman’s
husband deserted her Then to add to
her troubles she last a child by death
She has also suffered an attack of
sickness When she had about recov
ered from her sickness her mind be-
gan to show symptoms of derange"
ment
Her relatives think that her troubles
and sickness have driven her insane
Tuesday afternoon Dr C M Bjoss
and Dr B Watts examined the woman
and found her insane and she will be
taken to the asylum at Norman
FIFTY DOLLARS IN PRIZES
FOR ESSAY WINNERS
For the information of the essay
contest writers CorpL I D Oliver re-
cruiting officer has made up in Oke-
three best essays written in the schools
of Okemah The winners’ names will
be sent to Corpl I D Oliver Okemah
Okla
The essays will then be sent to the
district recruiting office at Oklahoma
City The first prize is $25 second
prize $15 third prize $10'
If anyone wishes to see Corpl Oliver
he will be glad to 'give him all the in-
formation he can Each' teacher will
be furnished a come-back essay con-
test YOUNG MAN INJURED AT
DANCE NEAR CASTLE
A fight was pulled off at a dance
near Castle last Thursday flight in
which Leonard England was badly
damaged The young man had one
shoulder knocked out of place and was
badly beaten up about the face and
head The young man said that a
whole crowd attacked him and that he
could not tell how his shoulder was
dislocated He claims that he did not
know the name of the place where the
dance was held and that he knew but
two of his assailants He refused to
divulge any names No arrests so far
have been madtf"
NEW OIL FIELD MAY
I BE OPENED AT PADEN
(By Ira Rinehart 222 Lynch
' Tulsa Okla)
Will Paden have an oil field after
all? That is a question in the minds
of oil men at this writing Frankly
it looks Ijke it will The Red Diamond
Oil Co well in the northeast corner of
the northwest of 17-12-7 offsetting
I the original well of the Prairie Oil &
Gas Co that flowed all over the coun-
try and then “blew up” is reported to
have topped a sand at 2881 feet and
at 4 or 5 feet in the hole is standing
full of oil and made one flow Exact
information is hard to obtain as the
well is guarded but the above comes
from' an authentic source and is
the eomnanhas ordered ' two'l
barrel tenks and a 500 bael flow
barrel tanks and a 500-barrel flow
oneratkma “if this Whut r°ad8’ Which h8S rendered impos- effect bids will be advertised for in the ' ment tonjght declared y opposition ' projectile is fired and hits a solid ch-
op atons at this writing are shut gbfe to get material to that point In next issue of the News This call for i t
down waiting for a string of casing ye city however satisfactory prog- bids will be advertised for two weeks
and this tankage to arrive The
tvdavs so interest i rtw 5o
’bLnd to lav befo ifL Tt
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is reported the Red Diamond company:
is to have a directors’ meeting before
’’a recent previous month Broadway and a half block on each
e Paden mystery well drilled i A the power plant a great deal of side of Broadway on Third and Fourth
by the Prairie has received morework hag been done Since the ex gtreetg ' '
publicity than any other non-prodUcer tensions -to the building which houses j Arrangements for the sewer system
dri ed in the state of Oklahoma Con-i pant have been completed both are now completed and most of the
tending that the Prairie had “covered ' 0j the new engines have been placed material is on the grounds Work oh
up the first well John Cameron of on their foundations and the smaller the system will begin just as soon as
uskogee who had interests in that ye old engines has been removed the weather will admit
locality caused quite a stir in publicity be new switchboard has been put up I A serious problem will confront the
channels but the well itself seems to'and the wiring of this switchboard is city in handling the various improve-
i bave been a freak The Prairie atK practicaIIy completed The founda- ments soon to be launched and that
mits it floured considerable oil and ong for the new boilers have also is the shortage of houses in Okemah
loo ed like a big well but the oil been put n and the new smokestack It is proposed to employ home labor inv off"the vokTof0uni"v7rsal training
played out on short notice and failed j hag been 'in this work-just as far as it will go 1 °S the y°k6 ° UmVer8al
to make a commercial producer Later
drilling to the north and west by the
I Prairie failed to find the pay so the
Prairie quit drilling and turned over a
bunch of acreage to the Paden Oil &
Gas Co to drill
it is drilled deeper
E McAfee who lives in the Castle
neighborhood was the victim of an
auto accident last Friday Mr Me-
Afee was riding along the road on
horseback when Webb Thompson came
up in a car Mr McAfee’s eyesight is
defective and although the auto
1 1 1 B M l i a M a I S
honked he failed to get out of the road timated that in about thirty days there against a knotty problem They desire crucified g0 the puhiicng might
in time to prevent the accident When will be no lack of power for the water ( the News to state that if anyone has 1 bave tbejr little game of militarism”
Mr Thompson saw that he was going and light system ny suggestions to make which will Harreidg resignation according to
to run into the horse he threw on the ! Unless protest is filed today against help them to a solution of the problem "vying0f wa3 due to “the autocratic or-
brake but the car slid and struck the the resolution for paving Broadway that he or she will come forward with derg 0f the republican steering com-
horse breaking one of its legs ' ( that resolution will be in full force and ( the assurance that any suggestions I mjttee” which was challenged as un-
Mr McAfee fell partially under the' effect A protest to be effective must will be thankfully received and care-'- v’ n
car One rib was broken and one foot be signed by fifty-one per cent of the ' fully considered
was considerably injured Mr Me-1 - - 1 'mittee the front door and entered the store
Afee did not see a doctor at the time WILSON MAY NOT volved in making possible “martyrs" I Democratic members today said they
as he did not believe that he was much
injured Afterwards however
Bloss attended to his injuries
Mr Thompson
for the horse
: FIGHT FOLLOWS
CHURCH SERVICES
A fight took place Sunday night at let them teke me instead of the 900 Advisers
the Pleasant Valley school house fol- Germans who have committed no other
lowing church services Some of the 0ffense than that of serving their
neighborhood boys had a feud and it country in the war” '
is said had agreed to meet that night What action the president might which the latter will add to his already Wednesday morning She was accom- tracks but a search of the premises
at Pleasant Valley and fight it out was not disclosed There was a weu stocked hog ranch near town Mr Pnied by her father and Mrs Smith occupied by the boys failed to disclose
Some of the belligerents attempted to suggestion at the white house that he ' Sibley has been shipping in some 8 frend These parties had been in- any evidence Nothing missing from
use clubs and other weapons but for- might reply re-expressing opposition mighty fine individuals since he formed that the preliminary examin-
tunately no One was seriously in- to the trial of the former German em- launched in the business last year and aton °f J'm Baker charged with man-
jured peror or other enemy officials as ex- a probably as "well acquainted with slaughter through neglect had been
pressed by American delegates at tbja particular strain of porkers as 8et f°r Wednesday The preliminary
Paris In some quarters however the any one i the state examination is set for Saturday the
MEETING OF YOUNG
MEN’S DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE
The Young Men’s Democratic even acknowledge its receipt since the
League of Okfuskee county will hold United States is not a party to the
a meeting at the court house in Oke- treaty and has no legal voice in the ' Dallas Texas where he was called on OKLAHOMA NEWS
mah Saturday afternoon February proceedings ' account 0 fthe death of his brpther-in-
14 at 3 o’clock for the purpose of j The message did not come through jaw Just a few days ago Mr Size-
electing delegates to the state conven- state department channels but direct more returned from Texas where he
tion which meets' at Ponca City Feb- from the refugee in Holland of the I had been called on
ruary 1
Friday February 27 All Masons are
urged to attend All lodges in Okfus -
kee county are invited The luncheon
will be 'furnished by the Consistory
club of Okemah and served by the
ladies Of the' Eastern Star - -
1
Buick
1 Alvin Fields of the Fields
Company went to Oklahoma
City
Monday to buy supplies
NEW MACHINES
IN USE SOON
Much Headway Being Made in City
Improvements This the Last
Day to Protest Paving
Good progress has been made dur-
ing the last two weeks in the way of
water and light extension There has
i nt bee" mucl? headway made the
T the Tiver on the filtering pIant
I account of the bad conditIon of the
ress has been made
Since February 1 twenty water and
electric meters have been installed’
Ab°Ut 60 pw Cent °f the88 haV8 been
installed in newly constructed build-
jngg jbis ja an increase of 45 per
cent jn water and light extension over
concrete for the exhaust pipe and the
new boilers will have to be put in
place" By the time this is done it is
thought that the rest of the rmtehinery
v‘ "
will be installed
‘ One engine is now doing the work
at the power plant When the two
new engines are in operation they will
furnish a capacity of 200 kilowatts
The larger of the old engines which
will be retained will have a capacity
of 75 kilowatts which will make the
total capacity of the plant 275 kilo-
watts which is ample power to take
care of a town of 7000 people It is es-
ILI J at
STORE BROKEN INTO AT BOLEY
Dolphin’s store at Boley was broken
into Monday night Parties at pres-
ent unknown broke the glass out of
d the store
i vcwvd They left the room through the back
ANSWER CROWN PRINCE ®nt of offenders whether the former felt that they were in closer touch with door
jg President
Ger-
sonal cablegram from Frederick Wil-
helm former crown Prince of
many suggesting “if the allied and
associated governments want a victim
opinion prevailed that he would not
former German heir apparent It has
not come officially to the attention of
Secretary Lansing and he would not
Personal observation rather than any
1 °c‘a expression
There was no doubt among officials
° hi® strong bpposition to the whole
extradition proceedings now convuls -
'n8 Gerrtiany ' r
The president was said to believe
that Germany should be permitted to
work out her own salvation without
the embarrassments that would be in
property' owners in the
eluded in the resolution
district in-
It is not ex-
ge(j '
' n into
j - If the pavmg resolution goes ’nto
and then the fcntract for the paving
will be let The contractor will obli-
ate himself to begin work within 30
dayS fr°m -he d&U °f c°ntract
Thp contractor will have 120 days in
which to complete the work of paving
district No 1 This district comprises
is not enuogh home labor to handle the
work’ A small army of workem will
have’to b9 imported It is reported
t that very hotel rooming house and
private boarding house in Okemah is
now fulL There is not an empty house
in the town f
j How to house the workers who will
come here to work on the sewer sys -
ton and the street paving contract is
the problem which will have to b®
solved The chamber of commerce
endeavoring to devise some plan to
take care of these workers but the
members realize that they are “P
a I 41 u I-1 HIL 3 i —
en’Peror or his son or any high of-
It is understood that
j remaln in Pwer m Germany which
agreed to surrender such officials is
taken seriously by Mr" Wilson and his
E B Sizemore of the Pleasant Val -
ley neighborhood has returned from
account of the
The husband only
death of his sister
Survived his wife a few days
were well advanced in years
Both
The Man Nobody Knew starts in the
News next week This is one of the
very begj atoriea ever run in serial
j fornl( and the News feels very fortu-
pate in being able to furnish it to the'
readerg Look for it next week '
l
I G H Farnum has bought the build-
ing on Broadway just across the street
from the Glied studio Mr Farnum
will remodel the building and open up
an up-to-date studio
OPPOSITION TO UNIVER-
SAL TRAINING GROWS
Washington Feb 10— The decision
of the caucus of house democrats last
night to go on record as opposed to
any measure providing compulsory
universal military service or training
was discussed at length today and
tonight by those who attended
When the official list of negative in Russian waters The shell was a
votes cast In the caucus became avail- part of a lot of ammunition which tSe
able today it was learned that Repre-1 Americans captured from 'the bolshe-
Isentative Hudspeth Texas and Well- vist forces When Dan’s ship got back
jington Utah were among the 17 vot- 'to New York he sent the relic to Oke-'
ing against the resolution Represen- mah
tative Igoe of Missouri was not in the The shell is 20 inches in length in-
official list nor was Representative eluding the projectile The brass shell
Carter of Oklahoma who also was in- ' iB 16 inches in length It is something
eluded in the unofficial report In the over two inches in diameter The pro-
dared his oposition to universal train- ter and is of steel inclosing a cavity’
ing and also his opposition to the res- which is filled 'with nitro-glycerine or
& stateJgomg other high expIo3ivg Wn the
Pomerene Opposes Plan
- Enactment of universal training
wag opposed by Senator 'Pomerene)
democrat of Ohio" in a statement to-
1 night in which he expressed the be-
I Hef that it would be unwige at thjB
country’s financial
t- tbe
conditjon The Ohi
condition The Ohio senator who has supposed to have an abundant supply
been mentioned as a democratic can- of guns and ammunition which no
didate for president said he believed doubt accounts for their successful
in a limited amount of military train-1 campaigns against the armies oppos-
ing but that it was “quite different a ing them
proposition to say that all young men
must have it”
Representative Tincher republican home before August
Kansas commenting on a speech to-
ddy in the house on the action of the
democratic caucus said democratic
representatives should be congratu-
lated for their upright stand in throw
and declaring themselves “in favor of
lAtaa8 7e’cla’red “nob
i where the republiCans stand on uni-
I vergal training ” and that the repub-
licang themsel’ves did not know
Representative Wingo democrat of
1
Referring to the action of Repre-
sentiitive Harreld of Oklahoma who
J -withdrew his acceptance of a vacancy
I on tbg committee Mr Wingo
' declared the Oklahoma republican was
j opinion of the country on military
rani'n£ than was the president on
account of his illness and for that
reason voted to go on record despite
thd president’s appeal that the party
attitude be left for the national con-
vention to determine '
Bessie Baker came over from Beggs
j 14th but it is doubtful if all the par-
that
former Okemah
1 ties will be ready for trial at
i®1
SENDS SPECIAL MAN
Raymond Fields a
boy now on the editorial Staff of the
Oklahoma News at Oklahoma City
was here Sunday Raymond came over
1 to gover the Bessie Baker story for his
paper After securing the data 'here
for his write-up of the case he went
on to Beggs to secure a photograph of
Bessie Baker to use in connection with
the article which will appear in to-
days’ issue of the Oklahoma yews
I —
Mr- and Mrs- Guy Board were '
from Dustin last week and went over
! from here and attended the debate at
Henryetta ‘ between the high school
team at that place and the team which
represented the Okemah high
school
A BOLSHEVIST SHELL ON
EXHIBITION IN OKEMAH
In the window of the Dossey Hard-
ware Company is a six pound shell
the kind that the Russian Reds shoot
at their enemies The shell was sent
to O J Dossey by bis son Dan who
is serving in the United States navy'
and has been on a warship stationed
jject it explodes with terrific force
This particular shell of course had the
powder and high explosive removed
before it was offered for shipment and
in its present condition is perfectly
harmless In its complete state how-
ever it jg a very formidable Vnissile of
destruction The Russian Reds are
Dan Dossey is now in American
waters but will not be able to come
INFLUENZA SITUATION
SERIOUS AT JVELEETKA
Dr C M Bloss county health offi-:
cer states that the influenza situation
In Okemah is not at present alarming
There -are several cases in town but
1th' are et a ld type
I The epidemi
appead to be
bas received 8 re(lueat fro1” the mayor
'ofthat town for an oldir tocose the
epidemic at Weleetka however
more serious' Dr Bloss
of c0?inS the schools iind theaters in
nlrAmak af nwafiAnt Aa 4aa ai4ia4iai
Okemah at present as the situation
will have to become more serious to
justify such a step
j The sheriff’s office was notified of
the burglary and Deputy Frank Cole
and County Attorney Ballard went up
to investigate the case The proprie-
tor of the store could not miss any-
j thing in particular but a quantity of
sugar but thought other things had
been taken
The officers found the tracks of two
boys leading from the store They got
two boys whose feet exactly fit the
ATTEMPT MADE TO
DYNAMITE NEGRO S HOUSE
An attempt was made - Saturday
night to dynamite the home of Grover
Ligons a negro who lives a few miles
south of Okemah The explosive was'
not placed under the house but the
party who attempted to destroy the
house with the probable intention of
injuring the family threw a stick of
dynamite evidently aiming to throw
it under the building The dynamite
however fell short of the mark and lit
in the yard and exploded No damage
was done by the explosion
j Ligons says he is confident that the
party who threw the dynamite was
some negro who has it in for hftn
Watkins who has been adjudged in-
sane The woman was quite violent
at times She even attacked one of
the doctors who was examining her to
determine
I
her mental condition
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