The Cherokee Republican (Cherokee, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, June 25, 1915 Page: 1 of 8
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HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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VOLUME 12
CHEROKEE ALFALFA COUNTY OKLAHOMA JUNE 25 1915
NUMBER 49
PROVIDE FOR CHILDREN
VERDICT FOR CHURCH
FREEMAN PLEADS GUILTY
GOLTRY WOMAN KILLED
COMING EVENTS
AMAZING
TALE OF
RELATED
NEGLECT
Judge Gudin Place Stringent Re
quirement on Jet Farmer Accutad
of Mi treating Hi Family
Sum T Ricketts k furmer living
north if Jet wan brought Into the
county court luat week on a charge
of neglecting hie aix minor children
At the lame time hii ' wife wue
brought before the County Board of
Inaanity and adjudged to be inaane
She waa cent to the etate asylum at
Norman Ricketts was given a sen
tence of a year in Jail under the pro
vision of the newly enacted state
law which makes provision for the
punishment of heads of families who
neglect those dependent on them The
sentence was suspended by Judge
Gustin so long as Ricketts complies
July 5-07 At Carman Three
days’ celobrution
July 5— Annual Mooting of
county board of equalisation
July 5— Dute of making rtl
mates for towns townships and
school districts
August 1628 At Cherokee
Alfalfa County Teachers'
Training School
August 22— At Driftwood Al-
falfa County Singing Con
vention
RECEIVE IISOO BEQUEST FROM
WILL OF SIMON DIXON
Free MathedEst Church al Ha’aa
Wins Deaiiioa from Didrict
Judge Roberts
NABS THE KING “BOOT”
Sheriff Duncan Doc Quick Work a
Holona and Puts Stop to
Disorderly Work
Judge J C Roberts at the ape
rial term of the district court heli
here this week announced his deci
sion in the case of the heirs of Simon
Dixon against the Free Methodist
church The decision was in favor
of the church and gives them the fif-
teen hundred dollars bequeathed to
them by the terms of Mr Dixon’:
will The evidence Was heard by the
court at the March term and was
taken under advisement by the court
Mr Dixon was a member of the
Free Methodist church at Helena arid
his will contained a provision to the
effect that the natural heirs should
pay the sum of fifty dollars per year
i While passing through Helena last
with the terms of the ten regulations I
which were laid down by the court ft "J evidences of con for ten year8 to the gtipport 0f the
BI 7 v J siderable rowdyism and drinking was church There are three children and
Mrs Ricketts who comes from one I l cr enuren mere are inree enuaren ana
of the better families of that com-1 ° th attenton Sheriff I the will specified that each of them
I Hank Duncan and an investigation of I ahould oav fiftv dollars annuaTM
munity is said to have been driven u snouia pay nicy aouars annuaujs
insane by the treatment wMch she I ®M thaiLa? bo“7 reaulted n tba tr For the term of the provision the
has experienced She had a long and I r®8t ° a ter ypo ® on charge I total amount to the church would be
has experienced She had a long and of peddIing Uquor A pint of alcohol hundred dollars
beautiful growth of hair which had T niceen nunarea aouars
I was found in the dresser drawer The three children L E Dixon
Maypole claimed that he had Charles W Dixon and Mrs Ethel
bought the white mule the day pre- Geer refused to make the payment
vious to be used for a sick headache
“White mule makes the headache
come instead of leave” said Mr Dun-1 pej compliance with the terms of the
can and Mr Maypole wits brought contract The children were repre-
to Cherokee on the charge of trans I sented by Attorney Simons of Enid
porting and the case proved to be one of the
When brought before Judge Gus-mogt hotly contested at the March
tin Monday morning Maypole entered term Judge Roberts gave Mr Car-
been reported in an Alfidfrcountv I “ P'ea °f and WM given a fine Penter all that he asked in the suit
v j I and sentence which amounts to 145 1 r Hkelv that an apueal to the
home The children were half starved T 11 18 1Key inat an appeai 10 ine
days in the county jail The busi-1 supreme court will be taken
ness men and decent element of Hel-
ena were warm in their commenda-
tion of the quick work of Sheriff
Duncan
and the living apartments were de-
scribed as being unhabitable for
human beings For beds they had
piles of hay and there was nothing
in the house in the way of furni-
ture v The scant provisions which
Attorney C H Mauntel of Alva
were supplied to the family were I a committee of ladies appointed by j one of the best known short grass
kept locked in a chest in the gran-1 the court said committee consisting lawyers in western Oklahoma was -
ary It was stated that Ricketts re-1 of Mrs Maggie White Mrs Ida Jones I bere week ° dally ytb the law tend until some time in August In
SENTENCE OF SIXTY DAYS
JAIL AND COSTS
IN
Ceaviacd of Ceuaty Attorney Kir
kondair Determination to Enforce
Law Ho Abandon the Fight
Convinced that County Attorney
Kirkendnll was sincere and that he
means bulheaa in the matter of strict
law enforcement Dr R W Free-
man charged with practicing medi-
cine without a license entered a plea
of guilty in the county court last Sat-
urday afternoon and received a sen-
tence of sixty days in jail to which
the costs are added In view of the
plea of guilty County Attorney Kir-
kendall dismissed the second case
agains the doctor and saved a con-
siderable amount of expense to the
county
Dr Freeman and his assistant 0
0 Goben were arrested something
over a month ago at Jet Some par-
ties in Cherokee who had been treat-
ed by them made complaint to Mr
Kirkendall which represented them
as quacks Kirkendall commenced
an investigation of the case and had
them arrested on a charge of ob-
taining money under false pretenses
A local patient Mr Cline went on
the bonds of the doctors and they
THE RAIN FALL
Recorded by lb rain gauga
al Tbe Pionaar Drug Store
Total for October 1913 —1 01
Total for November 1913174
Total for December 1913222
Total for January 1914 00
Total for February 1911 48
Total for March 1914 10
Total for April 1914 124
Total for May 1914 272
Total for June 1911 153
Total for July 1914 181
Total for August 191 4 352
Total for September 1914278
Total for October 1914328
Total for November 1914 80
December (snow) 30
Total for January 1915 40
Total for February 1915378
Total for March 1915 141
Total for April 1015 345
Not since the devastating cyclone
of 1908 whon over a score of per-
sons lost their lives and the commun-
ity of Ingersoll was laid waste has
Alfalfa county euffered so severely
from the forces of nature as she did
lust week whon a section of country
ten miles in length and from a half-
mile to a mile in width between Gol-
try and Helena was swept clean of
every evidence of improvement
More than a dosen of tha finest farm
houses in that part of the county are
total wrecks thousands of acres of
growing wheat are entirely destroy-
ed and the daughter of Mrs Ford is
made motherless Mrs Ford a wid-
ow living west of Goltry was so bad-
ly injured in the storm that swept
her home away that she died the
morning following The daughter
was but slightly injured and is now
almost recovered Everything about
the Ford place was totally devastated
and the scene about the once com-
fortable home is terrible and deso-
T m I late The ground is bare trees are
nant over their arrert and their c DISTRICT COURT TERM no vestie of the house barn
or fences remain all is indescribable
desolation
LAST WEEK'S TORNADO DOSS
MUCH DAMAGE
Dasan Farm Hosna Total Wrecks
—Crop Damagod— Moay Nar-
row Eacopos Rolatod
tions caused Kirkendall to commence
an investigation of their records He
found that they had been convicted
in a southern Oklahoma county and
had served a jail sentence He also
found that the license of Dr Free-
man had been revoked by the state
Judge Robbort Groat HU Many
Friend and Admirer in
Alfalfa County
The cyclone struck at a point five-
miles west of Goltry between seven
and eight o’clock last Thursday ev-
ening and traveled in a southeaster-
judge J C Robberts member oflly course destroying everything in
medicT board ‘ Indthe ' addition! h! A“P”” 1 1 f°r “ diatance of ton milea-
charge of practicing medicine with-
out a license was filed against both
of them They were placed in jail
but Goben secured bond
Freemaq has been in the local jail
for several weeks and finally decided
that it frould be best to’inter a plea
of guilty
and impose his wit on the proceed
he issued them from the chest Fori 3 Mary A Hopkins the grand- j£gS of the dlatnct court Jude
over a week the family had been liv- mother of said children is to be per-Mauntel 18
ing on corn bread and turnips I mitted to' visit the home at any time
One statement which was credited I and assist jn looking after and caring
to Ricketts by neighbors and rela- for the children
tives of the unfortunate woman was 4 A cook stove and proper cook
particularly shocking m view of the utensil3 are tobe furnished by
apparent ability to furnish food
Ricketts had a nice herd of milk cat
tie and he is alleged to have refused 5- Plenty of S°°d food 18 to be Petersburg
the children milk with the’ statement £urnshed for said family the same Incidentally Mr Mauntel is very
that “there is more money in calves not to be kept under lock and key much concerned in the recent deci-
drinking the milk than kids” In the aS has heretofore been done and sion of the supreme court which held
face qf this utter 'neglect Ricketts suitahle dishes are to be furnished for the Oklahoma “grandfather” clause
had $126 to his credit in one of the I serving same ' - unconstitutional “This decision
banks in Jet -‘6- Suitable beds and bedding ac- means the' same to the Democratic
When Sheriff Duncan brought the I cording to their station in life are party in Oklahoma that the torpedo
unfortunate family to Jet he required to be furnished
did to the Lusitania” he said t‘It
Ricketts to go to the bank and draw I “7 Plenty of milk and butter eana that tlm letter r has-been re-
out ten dollars and supply the fam-1 sufficient for family use are to be
ily with the most elaborate meal that I furnished
could be bought in Jet He stated
that the children ate like famished
wolves when Beated around the table
with plenty of food They were
brought to Cherokeq accompanied
“8 Clothing to be furnished for
said children sufficient to make
them comfortable and' respectable in
appearance
“9 Said children to be sent to
stored to he Oklahoma constitution”
Mr Mauntel took occasion jto com-
ment at length on the conditions that
prevailed when all of this country
was a part of old Woods county Re-
garding conditions at the old seat of
government he said: ‘ The most not
by their grandmother Mrs Hopkins I 7 7T v“ — "“CT r ““T fable thing in yoir former capital is
In passing sentence Judge Gustin Sunday School each Sunday and to the fine new eight-cylinder automo-
laid down the following require- the common scb°o1 when in sesfuon-1 bile owned by Captain Stine You
ments I In case the wife Sarah Rick-1 people should take considerable inter-
“Whereupon the court finds that etts who was on June 17 1915 by est in the machine a great many of
the defendant is guilty as charged in the Board of Insanity sent to the you having contributed interest to-
said information and that he has neg- hospital at Norman Oklahoma wards its purchase”
lected his six minor children to-wit: should return within the year anti Regarding- the division of old
Ora Ricketts Porotha Ricketts Lulu durin£ th? continuance of this order Woods county Judge Mauntel stated
Ricketts Edith Ricketts Kenneth tben sbe ’s bave ProPer treatment I that the wounds were healed to a
Ricketts’ and Ruth Rickette and care ' ' considerable extent but that there
“Therefore by the terms of Sen- “?ad defendant is given until Sep- are still some lingering regrets over
ate BUI No 208 passed by the 1915 tember r 1915-’ to make the proper the division of the assets “The
Legislature it is hereby ordered that preparations as specified in the ten things that we regreted most to lose”
said defendant be punished by a fine requirements above mentioned and said-J udge Mauntel “are largely mat-
of $50000 or as much thereof be Mn tbe meantme the said children are ters of sentiment Of course we
required as’hereinafter provided and to be Placed under the care and' man- hated to part with Lee Watkins and
by imprisonment in the county jail a?ement of their grandmother Mary Charley Boone There was of course
of Alfalfa county for a term of 12 A Hopkins and to be returned to the loss sustained when we were
said defendant Sam T Ricketts at I forced to part with the pedagogical
any time before September 1 1915 proclivities of Tiffany Brockway
provided he can show to the court! We well remember the famous state-
that he has met the above conditions ment of Herr Tiff when in explain-
“Said defendant is required to en- ing to the county institute was said
ter into a bond of $100000 that he that he could not tell exactly but
will faithfully perform the obliga- that he could give an illustration He
tions above imposed but owing to the stated that a hippodrome bore the
fact that he owns a half section of same relation to the hippopotamus
land in this county and cannot well that the camelopard did to the- camel
dispose of the same and thereby de-1 Of course we lost Ora Brewer the
feat these requirements it is (Ordered “Juke” of Helena but we have the
here the first of the week to hold the I Mrs Clyde Garwood was alone in her
term of court which he had set for I home when the storm struck and the
that date at the time he held the I wind piqked her up bodily and car-
regular March term It was not ex-fried her into an adjoining field and
pected that Judge Robberts would be I she suffered - many bruises' 1 Her
here but he found that he could I home was entirely razed The home
hear all the matters that were pend-1 of George Stanley was wiped off the
His 'ail sentence will ex- ng and took tbe occason to way I earth and the family' only saved
1 from the supreme court work Judge I themselves by going into the storm
Robberts enjoys the trial of cases cave Frank Pecha lost all his build-
and stated that he had spent a pleas-lings as did also John Pehlicha who '
ant time during his short term had everything he possessed de-
I Judge Robberts has many friends stroyed J H Johnson who had on-
and admirers in Alfalfa county who ly returned from Enid the day' be-
are always glad to welcome him fore with materials to finish his new
when he appears on the bench at I home which was just ready to move
Cherokee There are a great many I into had everything swept clean
who would like to see Judge Robberts Perhaps the most wonderful trick of
returned to trial work so popular is (the storm happened at the home of
he in this district I Volney Trask where it carried away
Attorney A C Beeman scored the I all of the buildings and the windmill
most notable victory at the short term I besides plucking eighty feet of pip-
by winning the Luther Martin case I ing out of the -well and carrying it
Mrs Martin was seeking to establish I into the unknown Elmer Porter lost
her property rights in a farm which I his house barns and much livestock
is in Martin’s brother’s name but I Walter Thompson suffered similarly
failed to make her case stick It was I and members of the family bad a
passing sentence on him Judge Gus-
tin stated that the understanding
must be definite that he would not
practice any more in the county with-
out a license
WINS IN THE FIRST
A Sunday afternoon’s recreation
of Sheriff Hank Duncan proved to
be a matter of duty and business the
first day of the present week With
his family and some other friends
Mr Duncan was driving to Goltry to
view the results of the cyclone and
in passing through Helena noticed
an excited crowd on the streets A
man ran out to the automobile and
stated that they had a call in
law at that time
Some hoboes were fighting and
creating a disturbance and the busi-
ness men asked the sheriff to find
out if possible who was selling the
whiskey to them’ In conducting an
investigation a big fcurly hobo ob-
for the largely £be industrious and intelli- narrow escape from death Melvin
gent work of Mr Beeman that won
the case for his client
BUSINESS GROWING
Pipkin whose home was of stone
had several of his family injured in
the total destruction of his house
The home of Eli Aikins was unroofed
and his barn and granaries blown
months
“Said fine to be paid as follows:
$100 per week for each child kept
to be paid to Mary 'A Hopkins for
the support of said children and $ —
per week as needed for clothing
this to continue until the conditions
hereinafter mentioned arq fulfilled
whereupon these requirements may
cease except as td Ruth for whom
arrangements will later be made the
conditions above referred to being as
follows:
"1 Said defendant is required to
repair his house and to put screenjs
on the doors and windows paper
paint or whitewash the walls scrub
the floors fumigate and otherwise
prepare the said house so that it will
make a decent and comfortable home
“2 Said house to be open for in-
spection at any time and all times by
The Cherokee Bakery under the away The fine farm home of George
able management of Messrs Long I Mahaffey was also a total loss and
jected and taking off his coat an-1 a”d K“PP- has made most remarkable I Mr Mahaffey suffered a few bruises
nounced his intention of running the strides in growth and popularity about the head but
sheriff but of town It may be stat- Since the installation of their mam- John Boise suffered some loss and
ed that when the hobo had completed Uoth bread mixer several months damage b“t bl® a®nn entlJ®
his effort to chase the sheriff out that ago they have enlarged every part The community in that section is
he was lying in a heap in the middle of the baking department and are kstneken r 8 d®atb
of the street with the sheriff’s No 12 now baking on an average of 6000 Ford and scarcely & family but has
planted sqiiarely across Ws appoglotis loaves of bread every week besides suffered nwni way: materially The
- their pies cakes and cookies Every I severity of the storm has called to
loaf is wrapped in waxed paper andltbe minds of the older settlers the
is entirely protected from germs dirt I devastation of 1908 and the fear
and flies A great deal of their I which always follows a cyclonic ca-
bread is sent out to the smaller I tastrophe has fastened itself upon the
The Cherokee Mill which has hith-towns every day and in nearly every county again The material loss
erto been charging a storage rate on community in the county they have hard as it u to bear 1 ades -
wheat of of a cent per bushel a dealer who handles Cherokee Bak-1 significance when lives are taken
has announced through Manager W ery bread Mr Long recently stated f”d the Sllluf tort sUeJT ‘as '
o Currier that after September 1 that they were preparing to fix their lfcy are thankful that as severe as
t rr4?blr£dt e oet prices that it Wrid pa the th storm oo more fttht
per bushel A great deal of wheat mers to buy their bread for the har-
has been kept in storage by the mill
at Jet 'Burlington and Cherokee and
the increased rating will affect all
three towns
Attorney: C H Parker- of Enid
one of the most widely known law-
yers in the state was here this week
attending the district court’ Mr Par-
ker has enjoyed a nice business in
this section of tfie state every since
the organization of the county He
that he be allowed to go upon his satisfaction of knowing that you js a square reliable attorney who
nnn WAnnvn IwnMAA timAn KnLoV I JILn J i TL ‘ 1 i ( a 1
own recognizance upon good behav-lfolks do not have him There was
ior and the fulfillment of the require- also a loss sustained when we parted
ments herein imposed with “Red” Connor the pirk whis-
“Should said defendant refuse or kered commoner of Griever canyon
neglect any time during the year to “Red” was for many years the J Ham
comply with the requirements herein
specified then it is hereby ordered
that hea be committed to jail until he
satisfies the court that he will per-
form said obligations”
Lewis of the Woods county Demo-
cracy We also list on our books a
deficit in the loss of Joe Sherman
the black jack orator of Hoopville
“We often long to hear the raelo-
stands at the top of the profession
in Oklahoma
dious whoop of Mardell Guffey ema-
nating from the interior of the Sand
Hills which always seemed to have
more delegates than they had corn
bread We miss Ike Dillon who al-
ways brought in the returns from
Saline township ’8 Republican”
vest season and save their wives the
trouble of baking Several of the
farmers in this community are doing
this and contracting for a certain
amount of bread several weeks be-
fore harvest begins Messrs Long
and Rupp are both well pleased with
their success here and say that
their move to Cherokee was a good
one
PAST MATRONS CLUB
Mrs J C Beaty entertained the
Past Matrons Club on Tuesday after-
noon at her home in the east part
of the city A delightful three hours
was spent by the guests after which
they were served with dainty refresh-
ments Those present were: Mes-
dames Z J Clark L R Smtih Fred
Blue Murray Coppock H D Brandt
and S B Growden
CHOOSES DEPUTY
Carl Dunnington county treasurer-elect
who will take the office the
6th of next month' has chosen George
Halstead as his deputy and made the
choice public this week Mr Hal-
stead is a young man who has been
raised near Carmen and is a nephew
of Leonard Halstead and J L Grif-
fin of this city For a number of
years he has been employed by a
prominent firm at Wichita in the ca-
pacity of bookkeeper and his cleri-
cal ability has been proven and is of
the best
Mrs George Fenimore and chil-
dren Alma and Robert visited last
week with the family of Mort Mans-
field From here they went to Lam-
bert to visit relatives
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Ferguson, Walter. The Cherokee Republican (Cherokee, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, June 25, 1915, newspaper, June 25, 1915; Cherokee, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1721813/m1/1/: accessed July 15, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.