Cherokee Weekly Messenger. (Cherokee, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 9, 1916 Page: 1 of 10
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OFFICIAL PAPER OF ALFALFA COUNTY
-C L WILSON Editor ' CHEROKEE ALFALFA COUNTY OKLAHOMATHURSDAY MARCH 9 1916 Volume 19 Number 31
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STATE IS OVERRUN
WITH MEXICAN BANDITS
1 Kiowa Robbery One of Dozen Per-
petrated Throughout Kanta
TbU ’ Winter Headquar-
ter at Newton
from Kiowa Daily Record
A D Singleton of the York-Key
Mercantile Company returned to
Kiowa yesterday noon on the Santa
Fe bringing with him a portion of
"the goods stolen from the establish-
ment last week The men apprehend-
ed at Newton were caught with the
goods in their possession and Sheriff
Crouse who accompanied Mr Single-
ton to Newton brought the two
Mexicans back with him and lodged
them in the county jail to await trial
These Mexicans had boarded an in-
terurban trolly car at Valley Center
to go to Newton and were noticed by
the conductor who telephoned to the
authorities at Newton that he had
two suspicious looking men on board
and asked that officers be sent to
meet the car on the outskirts of town
"to take them in charge The officers
"were on hand and when the Mexi-
cans saw them in waiting' they
jumped from the car dropped the
suit cases and ran firing several
shots as they ran But they were
caught and taken into custody When
captured the men were wearing two
mackinaws stolen from the York-Key
store and each had on expensive hats
also stolen here silk hose and other
articles of wearing apparel all tak-
en from the Kiowa store In the
suit cases they had only about a
fourth of the entire loot secured
liere and what was done with the re-
mainder is a mystery For instance
they had parts of nine different suits
of clothing and only one complete
suit in the lot There were a num-
ber of pairs of silk hose some of
the smaller pieces of silk one new
lady’s coat and two of the guns stol-
en The remainder of the goods are
missing as yet
The capture of the culprits was
due to a peculiar circumsance: Two
young fellows whites had robbed a
store at Sedwick and the officers of
the law the trainmen on the Inter-
tirban and others were on the look-
out for the robbers of the Sedgwich
store and instead bagged the thieves
of the Kiowa establishment
Consultation with Special Officer
Ohrvall of the Santa Fe an ex-Pink-orton
man and said to be the most
astute special officer on the Western
roailroad lines and the officers of
the' city of Newton brought out a
fact generally unknown throughout
the state It is that the entire cen-
tral and southern part of the state
has been undergoing a veritable car-
nival of thievery by Mexicans for
some months past Dozens of stores
have been robbed during the past
months one of the latest robberies
taking place at Mulvane where three
mercantile establishments were brok-
en into in one night recently The
Mexicans then head inty Newton
where they are giving the officers no
end of trouble As soon as the goods
are stolen they are hidden out in all
sorts of places The Mexicans tear
off weather boarding from their
houses and stuff the goods in the
-walls they cut holes in the floors of
their shacks and dump the goods be-
neath the floors they hide them be-
neath hay stocks and in" extreme
cases dig holes in the ground and
bury the goods Then they peddle
the goods out little by little all over
the country Lately they have become
so bold that they have been attend-
ang the public sales and disposing of
the loot openly
The Mexicans who are charged
with the robbery of the Kiowa store
went to Valley Center on the Santa
Fe where they attempted to get to
Newton on the trolly line and were
caught Marshal Bunton went to
Medicine Lodge yesterday afternoon
to see if the men held in custody
were residents of the colony at
Kiowa and to see if positive identi-
fication were possible The capture
of these thieves together with the
publicity given the case will likely
bring the attention of merchants to
this new condition of lawlessness on
the part of the Mexican population
' of the state and cause protective
measures to be taken to guard
against the thievery which has been
extent the past few months and
which "has generally been blamed to
American organized gangs of thieves
operating in the West
Joe Constant of the Bank of Cher-
okee returned Tuesday from Okla-
homa City where he had been on
business
ACTED AS JUDGES
C M Delzell 'George Wood and
Prof Vinson of Alva were at Jet
last Friday night where they acted
as judges in the tri-angular debate
between Jet Ingersoll and Drift-
wood schools The teams debating
were Ingersoll and Jet
The question for debate was: “Re-
solved that the President of the
United States Should Be Elected for
a Term of Six Years and Then Be
Ineligible for Re-Election” Inger-
soll having' the arrifmative and Jet
the negative The judges rendered
their decision in favor of the affir-
mative After the debate the debating
teams judges and school board was
banqueted by the domestic sciense
girls
Attorneys A R Carpenter and
W L Owen and Rev Bowles acted
as judges at Driftwood the same
evening n the same question de-
bated by Jet and Driftwood The
debate was won by Driftwood who
represented the negative side of the
question
Judge Partridge and Stanley Cop-
pock with Prof Wyatt of Alva
acted as judges in the debate at In-
gersoll between Ingersoll and Drift-
wood The debate was won by In-
gersoll who represented the negative
side of the question The Ingersoll
school also banqueted the school and
judges ’
This triangular debate is to be for
a series of three years and the team
that has the most points at the end
is to be the champion Although this
is new to the schools it is reported
that the teams representing each
school should be highly compliment-
ed The results of Friday night gives
Ingersoll a good lead
NEW VETERINARY
Dr W L Wardell veterinarian
arrived the first of the week from
Dewey Okla where he has been
located for the past two years and
will make Cherokee his home having
bought the practice of Dr Bachus
who leaves soon for Idaho Dr War-
dell comes highly recommended and
has practiced for a number of years
His card appears in the directory and
will be found at the Carlisle barn
Dr Bacus who has been here for a
number of years has made a reputa-
tion as being one of the best in the
state and the appointment as State
Veterinairian of Idaho which car-
ries a salary of $3500 a year proves
that he is far above the average The
many friends of Mr and Mrs
Bachus will greatly miss them from
our midst Where Cherokee loses
one good man they gain another in
the person of Dr Wardell
QUARTERLY MEETING
The Friends quarterly meeting
which convened in Cherokee last
Friday morning and closed Sunday
night was more than a success from
every point of view The large num-
ber of delegates in attendance from
other monthly meetings demonstrat-
ed the growing interest in every de-
partment of the church work
A very important feature of the
meeting was the doctrine 'cqnference
Friday at which time some of the
cordnel principals of the society
were ably presented and discussed
by the ministers present
Rev Swaford general superinten-
dent of Kansas yearly meeting at-
tended the entire session and deliver-
ed several characteristic addresses
that were appreciated by all
DISTRICT COURT ADJOURNED
On account of the poor health of
Judge Cullison District Court which
convened Monday was adjourned
until June 5th There were only a
few court cases and some important
business transacted Judge Cullison
left for his home at Enid Wednesday
morning
CHARGED WITH STEALING
Ear! King of Burlington is now in
the hands of the law charged with
stealing He is supposed to have
broken into the Star Mercantile
Store through a big window glass
and took all the money from the cash
drawer and other articles He was
brought to Cherokee and is now in
jail
J A Strickland and family who
have been living near El Campo
Texas arrived Tuesday evening to
make their future home in Alfalfa
county near Ashley
W P MURLEY RECEIVES
BENEFIT
The host of friends of W P
Murley who was twice the candidate
for County Clerk and who was the
victim of a runaway team and later
suffered an affliction of his throat
will be pleased to learn that he has
received much relief at the hands of
the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburg
Pa
It will be remembered that he
was awarded $200000 by the Car-
negie Hero Fund Commission He
was earnestly solicited by the man-
agement of that institution to go to
Pittsburg to receive treatment for
ed in his throat that it was with so
his injury Later he became so af-
flicted in his threat that it was with
great effort that he managed to talk
and then only in a whisper He
finally went there and J L Griffin
has received a letter from him dat-
ed February 29th in which he
states:
“Dear friend r-Lgot her® on the
17th of this month and got under
my doctor’s care at once after he
had given me a thorough examina-
tion and put me through the usual
tests He said I had cancer aiid
advised an immediate operation so at
9:45 on the morning of the 22nd I
went on the operating table I have
two nurses a day and night nurse
They dress my throat every three
hours Am getting along first rate
The Dr was in yesterday and told
me I could write home and tell my
folks that I was out of the woods
now and that they need not feel
alarmed any longer I don’t know
how much longer I will be here If I
have my hip operated on it will be
8 or 10 weeks longer It has snow-
ed almost every day since I have
been here but it i3 not very cold I
will go by LaPlata as I go home and
stop a few days and I want to see
the Colemans at Calla too
“Trusting this will find you both
well I will close
“W P MURLEY-”
GARAGE CHANGES HANDS
O F Brown sold his garage this
week to George H Bowles and Co
who took charge Tuesday The new
firm will be known 0s Geo H Bowles
and Co Mr Bowles and his son
Lon will have charge of the place
Lon has had considerable experience
in the mechanical line besides taking
a course in an Automobile school at
Kansas City and with the assistance
of Mr Everet Robinson will be able
to give the best kind of service
They will also handle all kinds of
repairs and accessories which the
public will be able to get at all hours
The new management will appreciate
your patronage
Mr Brown will still be agent for
the Studebaker cars for this terri-
tory COMPLIMENTS SCHOOL
A T Parsons state high school in-
spector of Norman Oklahoma was
in the city last Tuesday He was
here for the purpose of inspecting
the school and while he found some
things that he criticised as not being
up to the standard demanded he
said that we have one of the very
best schools in the state He also
said that towns larger than Cherokee
would be very proud to have a school
like ours
Meech Blue was over from Chero-
kee this afternoon looking after busi-
ness in connection with the North-
west Oklahoma Ford Agency at this
place — Alva Pioneer Monday
INGERSOLL WINS TWO
Before the holidays the schools of
Ingersoll Driftwood and Jet arrang-
ed for a tri-angular debate to take
place the first Friday in March The
plan was briefly: each school put out
two teams one affirmative and one
negative All teams were to debate
the same question and on the same
date Ingersoll having one team at
home and one at Jet Jet having one
team at home and one at Driftwood
and Driftwood one team at home and
one at Ingersoll The visiting teams
upheld the affirmative side of the
question and the home team the
negative The question for debate
was: Resolved That the President of
the United States should be elected
for a term of six years and then
be ineligible for re-election
The first series resulted in a
double victory for Ingersoll Drift-
wood losing to her at Ingersoll and
Jet losing at Jet
Ingersoll was represented at home
by Erdice Brockway and Lena Haas
The Driftwood team was composed
of Ammel Lambert and Ted Hoefer
while this was the first public at-
tempt of any of these young debators
the debate they put up was one well
worth listening to Ammel Lambert
led off the affirmative and his speech
was full of enthusiasm his manner
direct and his argument weihgty
Lena Haas for the negative followed
with an argument and plea which
won her the admiration of the entire
audience Ted Hoefer in the second
speech for the affirmative handled
the subject in such a manner as to
put feap in the hearts of the Inger-
soll audience Then Ardice Brock-
way in the second negative speech
came forth with the most brilliant
effort of the evening handling him-
self and his argument as one old in
the business 1 The rebuttals by
Lena Haas and Ammel Lambert
were so pointed and spirited that
everyone was tense with interest
and nervous with anxiety until the
finarAectsion “Three for the nega-
tive” was announced Prof Wyatt
of Alva Prof Coppock of Friends
and Judge Partridge of Cherokee
acted as judges '
While the crowd was gathering
before the debate and while the
judges were rendering their decision
after the debate an orchestra Mat-
tie Venamon Ivan Morgan and Clif-
ford Dean rendered a number of
selections
After the' debate the teams mem-
bers of the Websterian Literary
society and judges gathered in
Titus’ Hall for a beautiful three
course banquet which had been pre-
pared in honor of the debators and
visitors by the girls from the
seventh and eighth grades
The work of these girls and their
teacher Miss Gray is to he highly
commended this being their first ef-
fort along this line The room was
beautifully decorated with the colors
of Driftwood and -Ingersoll inter-
twining and numerous pennants
Miss Brockway is due much credit
for the manner in which the decora-
tive scheme was carried out Miss
Fisk assisted in spreading the tables
The following menu was served
Builion celery and crackers
salmon croquettes salad sandwiches
creamed peas and pickles peaches
cream Cake and chocolate
Prof Rackley acted as toast mas-
ter The invocation was given by
Judge Partridge Prof Stanley Cop-
pock gave a splendid talk on “De-
bates” Ammel Lambert responded
to the toast “Our Viewpoint” Er-
dice Brockway toasted to “Our Visit-
ors” Prof Virgil Wilson toasted on
the unique subject “Blank” and it
is needless to say that he transform-
ed Blank into Blanket covering
many things Then Prof Wyatt
brought the evening to good time
and good fellowship to a climax with
his rousing Bpeech on “Fellowship”
Those who were out of town
guests from Driftwood were: Ray
Bamum and wife Sam Lambert
The home guests were Mr and Mrs
Frank White and Mr and Mrs Clif-
ford Dean
This marks the beginning of an
era of debating in the Ingersoll
High school which will make this
contest the big event of the entire
school year and result in untold ben-
efit to those taking jirt
H G Frizzell returned Wednes-
day from McAlester New Mexico
where he was called t'- weeks ago
on account of the serious illness of
his mother His many friends will
be glad to know that she is improv-in-
COUNTY CONVENTIONS APRIL 1
From Dally Oklahoman
The report of the committee fixing
the time and outlining the manner of
holding county and precinct conven-
tions for the selection of delegates
to the democratic state convention
which was adopted at the meeting of
the state committee here Monday
said:
“We recommend that each county
in the state shall be entitled to the
following representation in said con-
vention: One delegate for every 100
votes or major fraction thereof for
the democratic i:a:nc9 for presi-
dent at the preceding presidential
election
“That the 25th day of March A
D 1916 at 2 o’clock p m in the
precincts under the call of the several
county chairmen delegates shall be
elected to the several county con-
ventione under such rules and regu-
lations as may be prescribed by the
several county committees the dele-
gates to the state convention to be
selected by county conventions to be
held on the 1st day of April 1916
“That the chairman of the demo-
cratic state central committee be
authorized to issue a call for such
convention setting out the represen-
tation that each county is entitled to
and the secretary of the democratic
state central committee is directed to
notify the several chairmen and sec-
retaries of the county committees of
the action of this committee in this
matter”
HOME MAKERS CLUB
The regular meeting of the
Home Makers Club was held on
March 2nd at the home of Mrs Hob
Jay The day was cold and not many
of the members were present The
following program was rendered:
Devotional led by Mrs Fox
Roll Call Bible quotations
Paper — “The Community Recrea-
tion” Mrs C E Buxton '
Instrumental Music : Miss Maud
Muck
Violin and piano duet Mr Frank
Stalling and Miss Maud Muck'
The paper read by Mrs Buxton
received much praise in which she
handled the subject It is requested
by the club that Mrs Buxton be so
kind as to read the paper at our next
meeting which will be held at the
beautiful home of Mrs A Bernard
for the benefit of our club
After the program the hostess
served a delicious and appetising two
course luncheon which was much en-
joyed by all While serving the
guests enjoyed the music of a Vic-
trola The visitors present were: Mrs
Frank Spoon Mrs Workman of
Wichita Mr and Mrs Davis of
Iowa Mrs Columbus Sartin Mrs
Sherer Mrs Frank Stallings Miss
Maud Mack and Mrs H Henderson
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Well one thing our contest has
done we have fixed it so Alva got
her picture taken last Sunday and
a good write-up on the first page of
the Daily Pioneer We claim that is
helping Alva
We haven’t the presumption to re-
great that Alva had 411 present but
we do sincerely deplore our own re-
port for last Sunday There is a
reason: there were two special ser-
vices in town at that hour Quite a
number of our folks didn’t remain
for preaching service
But look out! We had a worker's
conference Monday night and the
way we did “resolute” was a sight
Warning! It was voted that every
member of the church who persist-
ently refused to come to Sunday
school should be excommunicated
from partaking in the honors of vic-
tory which we expect to be ours
Preaching morning and night as
usual by the pastor
CHEROKEE BEATS ANTHONY
The basket ball teams of the
Cherokee High School closed the sea-
son last Friday night with a good
record by winning both games of a
double header from the fast Anthony
teamA This makes three games
Cherokee has won from Anthony and
lost only one The games last Fri-
day night were very fast but too
much one sided as the Cherokee
teams had the best of it from the
start The score was Cherokee girls
22 Anthony girls 9 Cherokee boys
66 Anthony boys 34
Miss Hazel Smith was the week
end visitor with Miss Edna Weeks
COUNTY SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION
The ninth annual convention of
Alfalfa county which was held at
Carmen was among the best con-
ventions ever held in the county for
two reasons First the attendance
of adult people both men and wo-
men Second the great ' interest
manifested in every part of the pro-
gram rendered
So many expressed themselver in
testimony meeting as receiving so
much good spiritually and believed
they could carry home many good
things with them to help some one
else
The convention began Sunday
morning with the union Sunday
school with an attendance of 325 in
Bible school After Sunday school
and while the remaining part of the
program of the morning was con-
tinued Mrs Nichols held an elemen-
tary conference in a seperate build-
ing Words can hardly express the
great good which the children and
elementary workers received in this
conference
The 63 delegates registered were
representatives of almost every town
in the county We know of so many
that did not get to attend because of
the inclemency of the weather but
the three sessions on Sunday were
so well attended that many were
compelled to stand One feature of
the evening was that $7500 was rais-
ed to defray expenses of the county
The county pledge of $100 is paid
and the county is out of debt with a
few dollars to begin the new year’s
work
We want to make special mention
of the song sung by the teen age
young people which numbered more
than 100
0
The convtntion was very fortu-
nate in securing the services of Prof
J E Moore with whom all were de-
lighted and enjoyed the song ser-
vices under his leadership with Misa
Sutter at the piano who was so
faithful in doing her pftrt
The reading given by Miss Faye
Church and the instrumental solos
were highly complimented We had
so many good thing for Sunday even-
ing that the Gospel Team came very
near not getting in but the leader
George Wood made an appeal for
the renewal of the Gospel Team
work Stanley Coppock conducted
the singing for this service
The addresses by C H Nichols
throughout the convention will long
be remembered and the many help-
ful things of which he spoke con-
cerning the Sunday school work will
be like an endless chain linking to-
gether the various Sunday schools of
Alfalfa county for better service in
the Master’s cause
Carmen is to be conmplimented
for the way in which they entertain-
ed the people and in making every-
thing pleasant while in their midst
Nothing was lacking on their part
We think they are glad we came to
their city for they say come again in
1917
The following officers were elect-
ed for the coming year
W A Keller President Byron
E F Wentworth Vice President
Carmen
T B Toland 2nd Vice President
Cherokee
H A Deck 3rd Vice President
Jet
A L Stockesberry 4th Vice
President Goltry
Stella Kaup Secretary and Treas-
urer and Home Visitation Supt
Department Superintendent
Mrs Crow Home Department
Aline
Dr L T Lancaster Purity Cher-
okee Mrs E W Allen Elementary
Yewed
H A Deck Secondary Jet
E W Allen O A B C Yewed
Mrs I T Watkins Cradle Roll
Manchester
W C Fields Teachers Training
Carmen
IMPROVING BUILDING 1
The building owned by G W
Leslie and occupied by Mr O S
Gamble as a repair and tin shop is
being reconstructed this week They
have taken out the old wood floor
and are going to build on forty feet
more and also put in a cement floor
Mr Gamble and his sons have been
doing excellent work in their line and
have built up a business which makes
more room necessary
Chester Lemon of Carmen spent
Sunday in Cherokee the guest of
Miss Eunice Dennison
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