The Okfuskee County News (Okemah, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 1920 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL XVII No 23 OFFICIAL PAPER OF OKFUSKEE COUNTY
OKEMAH OKLAHOMA MARCH 11 1920
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
$150 a Year
FAMILY FHSHT LANDS
GEORGE M’KINNEY IN JAIL
George McKinney who recently es-
tablished a residence just east of
town is now recuperating in - the
county jail with a bandaged head ana
a bum arm the result according to hi3
own statement of an attempt to en-
force a little family discipline ''
McKinney was arrested Saturday
evening by Deputy Sheri'F Frank
Stanford and Undersheriff Tom Mc-
Bride after a family fight had oc-
curred which resulted in two or three
casualties
The story told by some of the fe-
male members of McKinney’s family
is to the effect that the trouble started
over an act of assault and battery
""committed by the head of the house on
his 14-year-old stepdaughter Ac-
cording to the story the girl had been
to Okemah and was later in arriving
at home than the stepfather thought
was necessary He took the girl to
task about this delinquency and finally
told her to take her clothes and leave
home The girl’s mother told her she
did not have to leave home It is al-
leged that McKinney then attacked
the girl and began to punish her
throwing her down on the bed pummel-
ing her in a rather vigorous manner
An older sister of the girl was pres-
ent who proceeded to take a hand in
the scrimmage She bombarded the
person of her stepfather with various
articles of bric-a-brac including an
iron poker in order to divert his mind
from the apparent design of making
mince meat of the younger girl Mc-
Kinney states that the girl struck him
with the poker before he attempted to
defend himself and that to save his
life he got the weapon and returned the
compliment At all events when the
smoke and dust of the conflict had
cleared away McKinney was found to
be a casualty with a gash cut in his
head and one arm temporarily dis-
abled Mrs Fisher the girl who interfered
on behalf of her younger sister had a
severe gash cut in her head which ex-
tended clear to the skull One of her
hands was also badly cut She says
that her stepfather struck her over
the head with the iron poker but she
does not know how she got the cut on
the hand
There was another woman who ap-
pears to have taken part in the of
fensive or counter-offensive either
stepdaughter or stendauehter-in-'nw of
McKinney It is alleged that McKin-
ney struck her across the back with
the poker and knocked her down Both
this woman pnd Mrs Fisher are in a
delicate condition
After the fight the women went on
in front of the family residence and
hailed a car coming to town Tho”
were brought to the sheriff’s office
where thev told what bed occurred
When Stanford' and McBride went
out to the battle ground they found
that McKiney had retired to a more
strategic position They finally found
him secreted in a closet on the prem-
ises of a neighbor and took him into
custody
County Attorney Ballard filed r
charge of assault with intent to kill
against McKinney Monday mornin
Mrs McKinney sent her daughter
Mrs Fisher to the officers with a re-
quest that the charge be dismissed
The girl was informed however that
there was nothing doing in the way of
’ a dismissal
THREE PRISONERS
TAKEN TO PEN'
x Deputy Sheriff Stewart Agnew left
Monday for McAlester having in
charge three prisoners sentenced to
the state penitentiary The prisoners
were: '
Willie Grayson sentenced for eigh-
teen months for grand larceny
Willie Johnson two years for bur-
glary Taylor Coon two years for bur-
glary These prisoners had been held here
in jail for several weeks after receiv-
ing sentence on account of the peni-
tentiary being under smallpox quar-
antine Sergeant Raymond L Bortle of the
recruiting service is in Okemah with
headquarters at the Broadway hotel
Sergeant Bortle has taken the place of
Corporal Oliver who has been trans-
ferred to Oklahoma City Sergeant
Bortle is a member of the 14th cavalry
which is stationed at Ft Sam Houston
JIM MILLIGAN HELD OKFUSKEE COUNTY MINISTERS
I FOR STATUTORY CRIME ATTEND PASTORS’ CONFERENCE
Jim Miligan who is alleged to have Rev J C Cooper pastor of the M
eloped with Florence James an Oke- E Church South and ftev J S Price
mah girl the last Sunday in February of the Presbyterian church returned
was given a preliminary hearing at this morning from Oklahoma City
Henryetta Monday before Sam Davis where they attended the State Pas-
justice of the peace and was held to tors’ Conference of the Inter-Church
answer to a charge of statutory rape Movement Besides the ministers just
Milligan the defendant in the case was named Okfuskee bounty was represent-
attached to a small tent show which ed in this conference by W T Reedy
visited Okemah a week or two before pastor of the M E Church South of
the elopement occurred The allega- Weleetka and C H Gilmore minister
tions are that Milligan got acquainted of the Disciples of Christ or Christian
with the girl and persuaded her to church of Weleetka
leave home with' the promise that they i This conference was attended by
would immediately marry The girl 732 ministers More than 300 women
went to Weleetka on Sunday where she were also in attendance This move-
met Milligan The two then went to ment is distinguished as being the only
Henryetta Tuesday Milligan was ar- time in the history of Protestantism
rested by Henryetta officers at the re- when all the leading denominations
1 quest of Sheriff Stockton of this have come together (
'county The sheriff and deputies wen Aft'er the general sessions of the
J over from Okemah and brought the conference the meeting broke up into
I girl home No charge could be filed denominational groups Each denom-
against Milligan in this county but i ination then held a session of its own
charge of statutory rape was filed and gave their unqualified endorse-
against him in Okmulgee county as nient of the movement The Disciples
the girl is under 18 years of age of Christ or Christian church repre-
C T Huddleston and Logan Ste- nted by more than one hundred
phenson of the law firm of Huddles- members unanimously endorsed the
ton Hockensmith Stephenson & movement
White volunteered their services in The general sessions of the confer-
j the case on behalf of the prosecution ence were of great interest A number
and went over to Henryetta Monday of the most prominent laymen of va-
and took part in the preliminary - j rious denominations were present and
Justice Davis before who’m the case j leading missionaries from foreign
was tried is a former citizen of Oke-
mah having once conducted a barber
shop here
REVIVAL TO START
AT BAPTIST CHURCH
' We are asking through the News
this week that you as a town and the
! country around do not forget the re-
jvival to be held at the Baptist church
j the first of April jit would be well 1
think to ask why have a revival? This
I question could be answered in several
ways
1 We should have a revival that
God’s people may rejoice in Him Ps
85
! - 2 A revival calls a halt in worldli-
ness I 3 A revival calls out the best in
people Nothing better to settle the
j
differences of people than a revival
T
It causes people to see and acknowl-
pel to all men
The work of this conference will be
them take a new interest in religion d‘v'ded 80 a ts message will be
it enables them to see each other from £frne 0 eve7 coun y m t e state
a different view point and love each:C?rps ° be organized
iv i who will visit the different parts of
other better and sympathize with each f ®
the state The dates selected for this
other more
work are April 6 7 8 and 9 On one
4 A revival reaches the lost and
results in their salvation The many
thousands that are saved each year
are largely reached in a protracted ef-
fort on the part of the different
churches '
5 A revival glorifies God and hon-
ors Christ God loves this world to-
day as much as when he sent His son
to die for it Christ will save today
the same as He did while here and
immediately after his ascension
That these and many other things j
that might be mentioned are true we
all know and for these things all re-
vivals should aim Now what we want
is your cooperation in this We want
you as Christians to help with your
u
presence and prayers We want you
as singers to help in the singing We
want you as personal workers to help
in reaching the lost I am not going
to say of you as I have often heard
said that you are not a Christian if i oner to work on the road
you do not help in this meeting for I
well know that people have their own
convictions about religious matters
and I respect them for the same
neither do I tell you that I am not go-
ing to say anything that will be dis-
agreeable to you for I mean to preach
j the truth of God as I understand it
and leave it with God and your honest
convictions to settle it But I do crave
that you give of your very best to the
forwarding the work of His kingdom
JAS J AUTREY Pastor
COUNTY EXCISE BOARD
TO SIT MARCH 22
The county commissioners met Mon-
day and held a short session All three
districts in the county were represent-
ed After the routine business was
transacted the board adjourned to
first Monday in April In the mean-
time the excise board will meet and
transact its business The excise
board will sit March 22
Jim Whitson of the Okfuskee neigh-
borhood was in Okemah Monday
lands addressed the assembly There
was one woman missionary from Afri-
ca who gave a general survey of the
work of all the churches on the dark
continent and another woman mis-
sionary from Armenia who had been
through the late massacres in war and
famine tortured land who had seeq
fellow missionaries slaughtered by the
enemies of Christianity There was
also present a young man who was
born and raised in India and who had
been engaged in missionary work in
the land of the ancient yogi
It has been represented that this
movement is backed by a few million-
aires It is in reality backed by the
missionary boards of all the leading
denominations It is not a movement
for denominational amalgamation or
for the weakening of individual church
organization but for the co-operation
i
of all denominations to carry the gos-
J s
of these dates the message of this
movement will he delivered at Oke-
mah The men who are giving their time
and attention to this work are not do-
ing it for any financial remuneration
The executive secretary has refused a
position with a New York Corporation
at a salary of $100000 a year in order
'to devote his time to this movement
j Another man engaged in the work has
! relinquished a salary of $50000
I ReV’ C°°per and Rev' Pnce are b°tb
1 ver en uslas ic supportcis of the
movemen an ln ee lb appears to
possess boundless possibilities for
f u
good-
year
Art Gooch of Welty was in Oke-
mah Wedensday He took back to
Welty a load of material to be used in
road work and also one county pris-
Take Advantage of the
Old Subscription Rate
On and after the first day of May 1920 the sub-
scription price of the Okfuskee County News will be
$200 per year in the county and $250 out of the county
In the meantime the old price of $150 in the county and
$200 out of the county will prevail Use the blank be-
low to send in a new subscription or to renew at the old
rate f
The Okfuskee County News Okemah Okla:
Find enclosed for $ for
which (renew my subscription) send the News to the
following address :
COUNTY AGENTS HELP
MANY OF THE FARMERS
The sixty-eight Oklahoma county j Oklahoma City March 9 — Warning District court convened here Mon-
agents had a busy year in 1919 Dur- I tbat a band of bank robbers who are day afternoon Judge Bozarth of Ok-
ing the calendar year ending Decern- ecuri?“ andthe contents of mulgee presiding Three prisoners
safety deposit boxes is working m Ok- who were confined m the county jail
er 31 they made 75995 visits to ahoma was issued today by the Okla- entered pleas of guilty and were sen-
farmers and club members and doing homa State Bankers Association The tenced by Judge Bozarth The pris-
so traveled 440385 miles by auto rail robbers according to the association’s oners were:
and team They addressed 8514 meet- warning are confining their activities William Smith charged with bur-
ings at which the total attendance was £°r e present ta a sector of the state glary’ 8entenced to two yal'8 in the
ooo aon -rv wltbm a radius of 75 miles of this city penitentiary
ey wro e o ciai norh and east of here A series of Asa Harris grand larceny two years
letters atod prepared 5200 circular let- j robberies has been committed in this in the penitentiary
ters and sent out 182349 copies of
the same beside writing 2381 articles
for publication in the newspapers of
their respective counties They or-
ganized 821 boys’ clubs and directed
and supervised the work of 28027
members of these clubs Altogether
the county agents of Oklahoma spent
a busy year and it would indeed be
interesting te know the exact net re-
suits of the various activities which
have been organized and promoted
during the year
The special warning comes as the
result of eight bank robberies begin-
ning January 8 in which the burglars
I invariably tunnelled through buildings
Sunday C C Whitson brought inand vau'ts and rifled deposit boxes of 'by this action that Smith must be
Lee Woods a negro also known as Liberty bonds war savings stamps guilty of some crime and arrested him
George Woods and lodged him in theand otbor securities and jewelry In and locked him up in the city cala-
county jail
The women of the community in
which Woods lived made complaint to
Mr Whitson that he was making choc
and that the men and boys were fre-
quently getting drunk at his place
-Mr Whitson went to investigate
and arrested the negro and made him
take him to the place where his choc
was hidden Woods had about ten
gallons of choc on hand The prisoner
and the keg of choc were brought to
Okemah Mr Whitson also deprived
the prisoner of a sixshooter
MINERS UNION BUYS STOCK
IN OKLAHOMA LEADER
Kansas City March 10 — The con-
BOYS CLUB PIGS HERE TUESDAY
The Okfuskee county boys who are
getting a bred gilt under the Endless
vention of district fourteen of the Chain piS Club wiI1 &et their Ps
United Mine Workers at North Tuesday March 16th in Okemah Ok-
America ini session at the labor temple laboma Thirty-five head of big bone
last night voted to purchase $10000 P5 Poland china and Duroc Jersey
worth of stock in a co-operative news- i bred wb’cb are immune from
paper to be published in the interests eholera
of labor at Oklahoma City
A $200000 plant has already been
purchased and $175000 worth of stock
subscribed
Organized labor cannot hope for fathers a dinner at tbis banquet als0
success unless it has public opinion a11 members of the Breeders’ Associa-
behind it” declared Alexander Howat jon be ban0ueb wd be be'd ab 11:30
district president “and public opinion !iust before noon- order that those
can best be reached through the news’ have a lcmg ways to corns play
papers It is up to labor to go into!get back home early’ A Program con-
the newspaper business” sisting of speeches from members of
“We want to keep down strikes and the Extension Division Stillwater and
lock-outs as much as any one” de-lothers wiU be given- also the Okemah
dared W J Mallett president of theiboy8’ band wil1 furnish music’
labor party in Kansas City “but we I The pigs wiH be at Nelson & Fears
must have the strike held in reserve as : nor‘h barn Just north of the First
a last resort or we cannot have any National Bank
hope of obtaining concessions”
Dan Richmond a member of the na-
tional executive committee of the labor
party advocated the establishment of
friendly relations between the world
war veterans and the American fed-
eration of labor declaring that both
had the welfare of the country equally
at heart
The Oklahoma City labor paoer
mentioned in the dispatch is under
stood to be the Oklahoma Leader a so-
cialist newspaper being founded here
through the backing of the Victor Ber-
ger organization of Milwaukee The
Leader it is understood will begin
publication within a few weeks
BANKERS WARNED AGAINST
ORGANIZED ROBBERS
zone during the past week and no clue
has been found of the men
Monday night the Peckham State
Bank in Kay county was robbed and
$400 in money and an unknown
I amount of securities taken
Beginning with the robbery of a
bank in Blackburn last week robbers
have looted a bank at Stillwater a
railroad station at Nelagoney a bank
at Meeker a store at Tonkawa and the
Peckham bank in the order named
nearly all cases the loss in casn has
been small and no attention paid by
the robbers to the large safes holding
the bulk of the money the bankers as-’
sociation points out
Bankers in small towns of the state
are cautioned to put on extra guards
and night watchmen and especially to
place all securities in the safes
It is the belief of the association
that the gang working in this state is
in collusion with a similar band which
has been operating in small towns and
cities in Texas recently
The chamber of commerce of Oke-
mah will give a banquet for these
boys and the Okfuskee County Breed-
ers’ Association will give the boys’
Come and see the boys’ pigs Call
at the county agent’s office for infor-
j rna‘on
1
I
E A KISSICK
County Agent
NEW PHONE DIRECTORY
WILL ISSUE APRIL 1
The new directory for the Okemah
Telephone Company will be issued in
regular order which is every six
months April 1st All advertisers
will take due notice and if they want
space or service of any kind in the
new book they must make their wants
known at the News office where th-
book will be published between now
J and the 20th of March
Mr Steele manager of the com-
pany also asks those' who are con-
J templating the installation of a phone
or making any changes in their pres-
ent numbers to advise the company
I just as soon as possible in order that
the numbers may appear correctly in
( the new book Every effort will be put
forward to make this the best directory
ever published The street addresses
will appear after the numbers and
names and as the addition of the
street numbers alone is a huge under-
At the business meeting of the Pres-
byterians at their church Sunday
morning it was decided to retain the
services of Rev J S Price as past r
taking every possible co-operation of for another year and arrankements
the patrons is solicited were made accordingly The people
Call at the News office or phone 23 I of Okemah regardless of denomina-
regarding advertising space and black tional affiliation will be pleased ' to
face names and all arrangements for learn that Rev Price is still to re
phones errors in names numbers and
! concerning street addresses phone the
‘ manager of the telephone company
1 Mr Steele
I C I Miller came up from Oklahoma
City the first of the week Monday Mr
Miller visited the Paden oil field and
reports that the situation is looking
good
PRISONERS SENTENCED ON
PLEAS OF GUILTY
Clemmy Parker forgery two years
in the penitentiary
County Attorney Ballard recom-
mended a two years’ sentence in each
case All three prisoners are colored
William Smith was charged with
breaking into a Frisco car at Weleetka
on the 22nd of last December He was
arrested and lodged in jail here but
escaped He went to Crowder City and
was loafing around the town when the
officer of that town happened to give
chase to some Other party who was
wanted for a misdemeanor Smith
thought the officer was after him and
took to his heels The officer thought
hoogo It so happened that Berry
Jones got to Crowder City about that
time with Asa Harris who had also
escaped from the Okfuskee county jail
and had been recaptured in Texas Mr
Jones took Asa to the calaboose for
safe keeping while waiting for a train
on the Ft Smith & Western and when
the door of the city jail was opened he
discovered Smith He brought both
prisoners back to Okemah
After Smith was recaptured it was
learned that he had twice escaped from
the Texas penitentiary He has an
unexpired term of about three years
yet hanging river him in Texas
Asa Harris was jointly charged with
Willie Grayson with stealing three
leather belts from the Clearview gin
Grayson plead guilty and never tried
to escape Asa Harris escaped bu
was recaptured as stated above
Clemmy Parker was charged with
forging a check and attempting to
cash it at a Weleetka bank The check
was for $248 and the name of J L '
Loggins was forged
After the three prisoners were sen-
tenced some motions in a land case
were argued by Judge Ural A Rowe
and Sid White
Monday evening court adjourned un-
til the first Monday in April
BUILDING CONTRACT LET
BY GUTHRIE MASONS
Guthrie March 10 — A $2000009
deal was finished today when the Ma-
sonic building committee let the con-
tract to a New York construction com-
pany for the erection of buildings and
grounds to be known as Capital
Square which will be the new home ot
the Scottish Rite Masons here
A maximum of $1500000 will be
used for immediate expenditure in the
construction of the building with ad-
ditional amounts for decorating More
than $500000 will be used for furnish-
ing and parking
The new building will be erected on
a ten acre tract of land recently con-
veyed by this city to the Oklahoma
consistory No 140 The plans call for
an auditorium with a seating capacity
of 3500 persons together with com-
modious lobbies reception rooms and
general offices ’ A dormatory dining
room and kitchen will also be included
When these buildings are completed
Guthrie will have the largest and most
beautiful buildings of any in the south-
ern jurisdiction of Scottish Rite Ma-
sonry if not in the United States
REV PRICE RETAINED
BY THE PRESBYTERIANS
main at this place His work is of
great value to the community at large
and it is quite generally appreciated
COURT HOUSE STARTED
AT HOLDENVILLE
Actual work on Holdenville's new
$180000 court house was started there
I Wednesday The building is to be
' ready for occupancy January 1 1921
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