The Duncan Weekly Eagle. (Duncan, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 27, 1914 Page: 1 of 8
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R J Allen May be Appoint-
ed Indian Commissioner
Washington Aug 25— Mem-
bers of the Oklahoma delegation
have not agreed upon a man for
appointment as Indian commis-
sioner to succeed J George
Wright and Dana H Kelsey of
Muskogee and the list of ap-
plicants numbers between fifteen
and twenty Senators Gore and
Owen will be asked to call a
meeting of the delegation with a
view of making a recommenda-
tion to the secretary of interior
and commissioner of Indian af-
fairs The Indian Rights Asso-
ciation is understood to strongly
favor the appointment of Kelsey
but members of the delegation
today told the secreary that
neither he nor Wright could be
x confirmed
Senator Owen has expressed
himself for Postmaster Brewer
of Muskogee Representatives
Ferris Weaver and Thompson
are for Royal J Allen of Dun-
can who served in the Oklaho-
ma constitutional convention and
was one of the segregated land
appraisers in eastern Oklahoma
W E Utterback of Durant has
the backing of Representative
Carter Representative Daven-
port would sanction the appoint-
ment of John D Porter of Tulsa
and Representative Murray is
for Milas Lasater of Oklahoma
City Lasater was' also a mem-
ber of this constitutional "con
Der oi uns cuua““““ r
vention and for a time served as
state insurance commissioner m
Oldahoma j turn over his pistol at ’ the 'point
There is some talk of working £
out together the appointment to
the position of Indian commis-
sioner at Muskogee federal at- killed himself
tcrney for tire western district j
of Oklahoma and the Osage jlDai
national attorneyship which are
the only three well paying pieces
of patronage unfilled by demo-
crats For the western attorney-
ship Senator Gore is still support-
ing John Fain of Lawton while
Senator Owen is believed to “"Jw ““ Roondtree "M
favor Judge A G C Eierer of ® a horse' whch he m0Mted '
Guthrie It is not 'known who
has a line on the Osage attorney
ship ’ '
The Sabbath a Holy Day
Rev J S Lamar will discuss
this very important theme at the
Methodist church next Sunday
night at 8 o’clock Don’t fail to
heanthis sermon Inspiring mu-
sic Everything made comfort-
able for the service Come
Colquitt for Bonded
State Warehouses
Austin Tex Aug 24— Gov-
ernor Colquitt’s message to the
special session of the legislature
this morning urged the estab-
lishment of a bonded state
warehouse system for the stor-
age of surplus cotton and the
adoption of memorials to con-
gress urging an amendment to
the emergency currency act to
permit the issuance of currency
oa commercial paper - and ware-
house receipts for cotton No
other subjects were presented to
the legislature
Two warehouse bills were in-
troduced in the house today - and
referred to the committee which
will hold the hearings
Clara and Choyce Wilson are
visiting relatives in St Jo Tex-
as having returned home with
their' uncle Jno Scales and
family who visited here last
week making the trip by auto
Subscribe for the Eagle
Stephens Coonty Young Man
Seriously Injured at Ryan
Claud Roberson son of JJ Rob-
erson who resides ID miles north
west of Duncan near Nellie was
brought to this city Monday from
Ryan in a serious condition He
was met here by relatives ant
taken to the home of his father
The accident of which Mr
Roberson was the victim hap
pened in a rather peculiar man
ner Sunday morning about 10
o’clock Roberson with a number
of companions went to the creek
near Ryan to go in bathing Im
mediately upon disrobing the
young man attempted to dive
into the creek but in some man
ner he slipped and instead o
diving in deep water he struck
upon his head and shoulders in
water not more than six inches
deep His injuries almost re-
sulted in a broken neck anc
were for the time thought to be
fatal The blow received causec
a partial paralysis of the spine
and lower limbs jtnd his injuries
are serious though it is 'not
thought that they will result fa-
tally The many friends of the
Roberson family which is wel
known and prominent in the
western part of the county hope
for the young man’s speedy and
complete recovery
Holds up Sheriff
Houston Tex Aug 23—
After stopping anr automobile
occupied by Deputy Sheriff C D
Eyersoe and Milton jkd
and -compelling the officer to
Humble and rode out to where
he met the automobile contain-
ing Eversole and Lockwood
Justice of the Peace F K
Wise who was called to hold an
inquest over the body of Round-
tree says that he is of the opin-
ion that the man shot himself ac-
cidentally He bases that opin
ion on statements that he ob-
tained from witnesses who wit-
nessed the shooting
According to witnesses Round-
tree after obtaining possession
of the revolver which was of
automatic pattern rode into the
town of Humble and fired one
shot into the air He then open
ed his shirt bosom and was en-
deavoring to stick the pistol un-
der his shirt when his horse
stumbled and the weapon was
discharged the second time The
bullet struck him in the left
breast piercing his heart and
passing entirely through his
bod
When Roundtree first encount-
ered the automobile he threw his
empty shotgun down on the oc-
cupants and compelled Lockwood
to take Eversole’s pistol and
throw it into the road All the
time that he was getting off his
horse picking up the pistol
Roundtree held the empty gun
on the occupants of the "car
When he mounted the horse
again he told them to drive on
Roundtree has been employed
around the Humble oil field
about eight years He was 36
years old and is survived by his
widow and four children
Big Mass Meeting at
City Hall Tomorrow
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There will be a mass meeting of the citizens of
Stephens county held at the' City Hall tomorrow
(Friday) afternoon at 2:30 'o’clock The jneeting
is called for the purpose of deciding upon some ac-
tion looking toward the profitable marketing of the
county’s big cotton crop
This is a matter of vital concern to every citi-
zen of the county it matters not in what walk of
life you may be j
Diincau will make every jeffort to care for the
farmer this fall There is no denying the fact that
the situation is tense and it will require the concert-
ed action of all to arrange a ‘Satisfactory manner in
wliicli to relieve the situation
Do not fail to attend this mass meeting which
has been called by the business men of Duncan
Many important details will be brought up for dis-
cussion and you should be there
Remember the time and place At the City
Hall in Duncan at 2:30 p m Friday August 2S
‘ Every farmer merchant business man laborer
and other citizens of the county are earnestly re-
quested to be present
Diincari Booster Band
to Girt Special Program
The' Duncan Booster Band an-
nounces that they will give a
special program tomorrow even-
ing at their regular weekly con-
cert on Main street In addition
to the regular program of band
music the crowd will be favored
with several ' selections
Harmony Male Quartet
be well worth your trip down was made by substantial farm-
town to hear tomorrow evening’s ers of Cotton county and he was
program Don’t miss it (released from the county jail
i here yesterday He was arrest-
Married at ed tbe da7 f°Iowl’“ff the tragedy
1 which occured on July 31st and
has been in the Stephens county
His trial
Baptist Parsonage
Jno 'Funk and Miss Minnie
Prickett were united in marriage
Sunday evening at the Baptist
parsonage -in this city in the
presence of a few intimate
friends Rev J E Billington
pastor of the Baptist church offi-
ciating The wedding was in the na
ture of a surprise to the rela-
tives of the contracting parties
Miss Prickett was here from
Kansas City on a visit to her un
cle W W Stover who resides
eight miles northwest of Dun
can and had told her uncle that
she intended leaving Monday
for a visit with relatives in New
Mexico
Mr Funk is a prominent young
farmer of the Nellie neighbor-
hood while the bride has been
teaching school in Kansas City
where her parents reside but is
well known here having visited
relatives here often Both the
young people are popular among
heir acquaintances in this coun-
y and The Eagle joins their
lost of friends in wishing
lappiness and prosperity
Divorce Granted
Judge J W Bailey Monday
granted a degree oi divorce in
ihe case of Willie B Totty vs
no M Totty Mrs Totty re-
sides in Comanche and' the
petition upon which the decree
was granted charged abandon-
ment Clyde Whitcomb formerly a
Duncan citizen but now residing
in the state of' Washington
visited friends here several days
this week He was called here
jy the illness of his father who
resides near Temple
r -
Tom Smith Granted
'Gail In Sum of $7500
Tom Smith whose preliminary
J earing was held before County
udge J W Marshall last week
and who was remanded to jail to
await the action of the district
court on the charge of the mur-
der of his father-in-law J T
by -the-rPhniam has been granted bond
It will jin the sum of $7500 His bond
jail since that' time
wilI probably be held at the next
term of district court in this
Deputy and Stranger
Shot by Negro
Shawnee Ok Aug 23—
Deputy Sheriff Huddleston of
Seminole county was shot twice
and an unknown passenger once
by an unknown negro on a Katy
train between Hazel and Konawa
last night The negro jumped
from the train and escaped
Sheriff Huddleston had previous-
ly searched the negro and found
one pistol but the negro opened
fire with another Tbe officer’s
wounds are not serious but it is
feared those of the other man
will prove fatal
Expect Special Grand Jury
Oklahoma City Aug 24 —The
petition for a grand jury to in-
vestigate campaign expenditures
is expected to be filed in the su-
perior court tomorrow morning'
Judge Oldfield was not in the
city today It is understood that
sufficient signatures have ’ been
secured to the petition It is
being circulated by friends of
one of the candidates for the
Democratic nomination for gov-
ernor but the investigations
will probably be general If a
grand jury should be assembled
it is probable that both County
Attorney Pope and Attorney
General West will participate in
its investigations The attorney
general was instructed by the
governor some time ago to inves-
tigate alleged election irregu-
larities The Eagle for the news
Duncan Gets 10 Cent
Rate For Industrial Gas
Through the efforts of Mayor
R W Cline the city of ' Duncan
has been granted a rate of 10
cents per thousand cubic feet
for industrial gas The local
gas company has been notified
by the main state office of the
company at Bartlesville to allow
this rate on gas for steam and
power purposes Mayor Cline
made a trip to Bartlesville i
couple of weeks ago for the pur
pose of endeavoring so secure
this rate The company officials
at Bartlesville took the matter
up with the main office at Pitts-
burg Pa with the result that
this very low rate has been
granted
This will prove of great ad
vantage to Duncan in the matter
of securing manufacturing en
terprises as cheap fuel is one of
the most essential features and
one of the first to be investigated
in the location of factories or
mills of anv kind The gins oil
mill and other enterprises here
which at present are using coal
for fuel will very likely immedi-
ately begin arrangements to in-
stall gas and thus take' advan-
tage of the new low gas rate
which has been secured for this
city
The same rate will apply to
Marlow
Marriage Licenses
The following permits to pair
have been issued by Clerk C D
Cund of the county court since
last report:
Ed McMurtry of Waurika and
Miss Nellie Young of Terral -Jno
Funk and Miss Minnie
Pricket- of Duncan
J B Clark and Miss Leottie
Sherrock of Ninnekah'
Negro Porter Arrested
Harry Reid a negro train por-
ter on the Rock Island was ar-
rested here yesterday by the
sheriff's force when the north-
bound noon train arrived Reid
is charged with striking J P
i Taylor of Rush Springs with a
(lantern and ' inflicting injuries
which for a time were thought
to be serious The alleged as-
sault occurred at Comanche last
Friday morning The negro
made bond in the sum of $150
for his appearance here Septem-
ber 7th Parties who were on
the train on the night of the as-
sault state that Reid is not the
negro wanted as he was not the
porter who was on the train that
night
An Enjoyable Affair
The Ladies Aid Society of the
First Christian church of this
city were hostesses to a Benefit
Tea at the home of Mrs Monroe
Henderson on last Thursday af-
ternoon from 3 till 6 Quite a
neat little sum was realized and
each member of the Aid Society
proved herself to be an ideal
hostess
Taxpayers Vote For
Excess Tax Levy
The school election for an ad-
ditional 3-mill levy for school
purposes was held Monday A
light vote was polled only 200
votes being cast as follows: For
the levy 129 against 71 This
assures the city of Duncan a
nine months’ term of school in-
stead of six months which would
have been the result had the
vote been reversed
The Eagle for the news
Ouncan Man Has Pros-
pective Conscience Fund
C H Reviere of this city
formerly was in the merchandise
business here A few days ago
he received a letter from a for-
mer Duncan citizen who now
resides in Arkansas As explain-
ed in his letter which is repro-
duced below the writer took
from Mr Reviere’s store a small
box of knives without the knowl-‘
edge of the owner Recently he
has been converted and desiring
to make reparation he has writ-
ten to Mr Reviere to know the
value of the stolen articles The
letter in full follows:
-Ark Aug 6 1914 '
Mr C H Reviere
Dear Sir: It is with pleasure
that I write you a few lines to
let you know that when I was
out there I got a lot of knives
out of your store and did not say
anything about it Now I want
to know just what they were'
worth I am trying to live for
the Lord I hare made my start
and I want to make everything
good that 1 have done that was
wrong if I can Now I ask for-
giveness from you and my God
I w ill try to tell you just what
cind of knives they were one
was a bread knife one a fruit
knife and the other a butcher
knife all in a little box together
Please write and tell me what
they was worth and ift is the
Lord’s will I will send you pay
for them ‘
I remain your friend
XXX
Youthful Shoplifters !
Three boys from Rush Springs
were caught last week Uy a
Duncan merchant when they at-
tempted to steal several pair of
trousers from his store here
Owing to the youthfulness of
the culprits and the kind-heartedness
of the merchant no com-
plaint was filed against them
but they were given a lecture
and a scare that may prove to
convince them of the error of
their ways
Farmers'
Union Meets
Allen Ok Aug 24— The
annual state meeting of the Ok-
lahoma Farmers’ Union has just
closed at Ada The meeting was
attended by farmers from various
sections of the state and par-
ticular attention was given to
the situation in this country
relative to the marketing of cot-
ton and other crops ' The stamp
of approval was placed on both
the state and federal govern-
ments in their efforts to enact
legislation that will meet the
situation and afford relief to the
cotton farmers of the south
Officers were elected as fol-
lows: President O W ' Taylor
Roff vice president C H Hol-
and Atoka secretary treas-
urer M T Norton Mansville
organizer D J Bell Allen
chaplain Rev J W Bell Stone-
wall conductor H C Cain
Mansville- doorkeeper C H
Scisson Tushka executive com-
mittee A C Martin Mansville
O C Bonham Bruno J N
Freeman' Atoka W Robbins
Coleman and J C Kemp Tisho-
mingo National delegate s
George J Christain Davis and
Dave Fulsorn Tishomingo
State
Mrs F J Latham and daugh-
ter Mrs Beulah Thompkin left
Suturday for a visit of several
weeks with relatives near Ham-
lin Texas
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Gaines, D. B. The Duncan Weekly Eagle. (Duncan, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 27, 1914, newspaper, August 27, 1914; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1715894/m1/1/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 22, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.