The Duncan Banner (Duncan, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, June 19, 1914 Page: 1 of 8
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Gentry Grove Basket Picnic 4 miles west of Marlow July 15 and 16 Prominent Speakers
ANNER
A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Dissemination of the News and to the Upbuilding of Stephens County
DUNCAN OKLA FRIDAY JUNE 19 1914
VOLUME XXII
Attorney General West
p Scores Oklahoma Court
V —
t Attorney General’ Chas West
made two addresses in the coun-
ty Thursday of last week in the
interest of his candidacy for gov-
ernor speaking at Comanche in
the afternoon and at Duncan in
the evening Both addresses
According to those who heard
them were similar in tenor and
effect and created merely pass-
ing comment
Mri West was' suffering from
A severe cold but managed to
flbake himself heard and was lib-
erally applauded by the small
audience gathered at Duncan !
In the course of his address
here he severely criticised the
Supreme court of the state in
general and Judge R L Wil-
liams former member of ' the
i6urt who resigned to enter the
race for governor in particular
and declared that all he had ac-
complished as attorney general
fras done in spite of Judge Wil-
liams while all he had failed to
accomplish wa3 because of the
opposition of Judge Williams
He dubbed the judge a pinhead
and a hypocrit and several other
choice names of that nature He
also charged that recent decis-
ions of Judge Williams on the
bench were made with a view of
bolstering his candidacy for gov-
ernor and characterized the act
as malicious and reprehensible
Mr West discussed the two-
cent fare question the Columbia
Bank issue and past Democratic
administrations Xd Aeav
one was lead to believe that ev-
ery good deed performed in ' Ok-
lahoma should be credited to his
account
Mr West ha3 a number of
strong supporters here and oth-
ers who are warm personal
friends but it is the consensus of
opinion that such viciousness as
he displayed here is calculated to
do his cause injury rather than
good The people are tired of
these campaigns of abuse and
vituperation and will sit down
upon such tactics in the future
Hon W L Alexander candi-
date for state treasurer laid his
claims before the voters- He
felt that he had the nomination
cinched if the people will Just
remember that his name is Bill
though appearing on the ticket
as W L '
Professor Lloyd Elmo Peddicord
Lloyd Elmo Peddicord the
great Boy Expert is to be in
Duncan Tuesday June 23 for
two of his celebrated lectures :
Prof Peddicord has been deal-
ing with the problem of the big
boy his troubles and his joys
for a number of years Perhaps
no other American living has
dealt with a3 many boys as has
this man Hi3 lectures are a
revelation
Several of our business -men
have employed Prof Peddicord
to come to Duncan and deliver
two lectures one at 10 a m at
the High School building free to
everybody and the other at the
Pastime Theater at 8 p m Ad-
mission 15 and 25c
Mary Florence Callaway the
little daughter of Mr and Mrs
J F Callaway died late Tues-
day evening She was taken
sick with the measles tnd com-
plications set in and has suffered
for several weeks Little Mary
Florence was born September
27th 1912 and died at the age
of 1 year 8 months and 12 days
— Marlow Review
Lace bargains the greatest on
earth at H A Hall & Co
Villa Quits Campaign
May Start Rebellion
1 T
El Paso Tex June 16 —Gen-
eral Villa -tenderedhis -resignation
to General Carranza within
the last week it became known
Tuesday night
To Villa’s message the consti-
tutionalist’s commander-in-chief
replied asking who would suc-
ceed him
Following this 1 Villa’s various
military chiefs held a conference
and sent a “round robin” to Car-
ranza declaring they would ac-
cept noneother than Villa as a
leader The split of Tuesday re-
sulted -
General Villa Tuesday night
ordered all commanders of gar-
risons throughout the territory
he controls to report at once at
Torreon This order was accept-
ed ominously by observers here
History of the Pascaul Orozco
rebellion against President Ma-
deira was revived - v
Orozco like Villa was a lead-
er of volunteer troops of Chihau-
hau state and as a popular fav-
orite led a revolution against the
former president j
The break is taken to mean
another or three-cornered rebel-
lion with Villa opposing both his
fortrier Chieftain and the Huerta
forces
Woman Question is
Now in High Court
1 ' - — - -‘A
The question of he eligibility
o I w iwner : to ruC for Jaunty offi-
ces in the coming primary which
has received considerale atten-
tion from election officers during
the past few weeks was laid be-
fore the state supreme court
Tuesday in an appeal by Mrs
John Stone of Washita county
in which she i3 seeking to man-
damus the Washita county elec-
tion board to accept her filing as
a candidate for county clerk and
certify her name to the state
election board
Several weeks ago Mrs Stone
according to her petition at-
tempted to file her name with
the county election board as a
candidate for county clerk The
board refused to accept her fil-
ing'or to certify her name to the
state election board on the ground
that she was a woman and not
eligible to the office she seeks to
fiH
Application for a writ of man-
damus to compel the board to act
was applied for in the district
court of Washita county and was
denied by District Judge James
R Tolbert It is from his ruling
that the case is appealed
Old Settler's Reunion
At Velma July 16-17
-- —
At Velma July IS and 17 the
annual picnic will be held this
year and will be featured a3 an
Old Settler's Reunion Joining
with the people of Velma will be
the inland towns of Loco Alma
Dixie Tussy Ara Doyle Arthur
and Harrisburg and it i3 hoped
to make the occasion one of the
best ever held in this section
Committees have been ap-
pointed to arrange for the en-
tertainment of all visitors
Prominent men in state affairs
will speak during the time and
there will be other things to' in-
terest and amuse visitors
The people of Velma will put
forth their best foot this year
and everybody should take their
baskets and attend the reunion
Look at those hats in H A
Hall & Co window
Regular Court Term
Set-for July Sixth
The regular term of county
court convenes July 6 with ' a
reasonably heavy docket The
criminal docket will be taken up
on that date arid the following
cases set for trial:
Marvin Vaught violating quar-
antine law
Wiley Morgan conveying in-
toxicating liquors ’
George Hitt selling whiskey
George Hitt selling! intoxicat-
ing liquors
Stanley et algattwpg
Johe Jones drunkenness
Ike Williams running a gam-
bling bouse
J M Littr'ell and Amon Haile
permitting gambling to be done
Isaac Impaon killing a hog
Wyber Howell petit larceny
Ed Groves assault
Jim Li ttrell’ betting bn a horse
race ( '
Burr Osborne running a baw-
dy house
Dud Groves assault
Dick Pruitt assault
Bill Browder whiskey
j Wm Morgan pointing a fire-
arm Wm Morgan discharging fire-
arm Hesse York seduction
Wyber Howell petit larceny
0 C Miller unlawful posses-
sion of whiskey 4
Geo Youngblood whiskey case
'Mrk Jphn Dunn and Wiley
Morgan kidnapping' -Doc
Shaw whiskey
‘ dim Shaw whiskey selling
Frank Rawls’ violating quar-
antine law
L H McCune whiskey case
George Spencer cutting fences
C D Chambers selling whis-
key ‘
The following criminal cases
are set for July 20: ’
Walter Tucker conveying in-
toxicating liquors
Bill Browder selling whisky
Biff Green unlawful possession
of intoxicating liquors
A C Flowers whisky
M T Hines conveying whisky
A C Flowers selling whisky
Belton Thompson conveying
whisky
Bill Green aggravated assault
Bill Green conveying intoxi-
cating liquors
Jeff Nix assault
Walter Whittington conveying
intoxicating liquors
Grover Scott drunkenness
Osa Davis et al selling in-
toxicating liquors
Sheeley selling whisky
S Hardy etal malicious mis-
chief Henry Sexton gaming
Jim Harrold gaming
The Home The School and The Boy
This lecture at the High School
building 10:00 a m Tuesday
June 23 deals with the question
“What does the Home and the
School owe the Boy?”- The lec-
ture is free to all Let every
parent in Duncan and surround-
ing country hear it
At 8:00 p m of the same day
at the Pastime Theater a second
lecture will be given Admission
15 and 25c
The oats harvest is now on in
Stephen county Ok where T
F Judson carries on stock farm-
ing “Oats have been very help-
ful to our farmers during the
past year” he remarked “All
fall and winter the aftergrowth
of last years crop furnished good
pasture and now we are harvest-
ing a fine crop The straw when
properly handled also makes a
good rough feed”— K C Drov-
ers Telegram
To Reimburse State
For Taxes Lost
--
Washington June’ 13— Okla!-
homa is to be reimbursed to the
extent of taxes lost through fed-
eral exemption of Indian allot-
ments according to a bill offered
by Representative Murray of
thatstate
In the Atoka agreement it was
provided that Indian lands should
be free of taxes for twenty-one
years from the date of statehood
The state Undertook to tax the
property of Indians and the Su-
preme court oi the United States
held to the terms of the treaty
Similar ruling was made affect-
ing all of the Five Civilized In-
dian tribes
Mr Murray's bill provides that
in determining the amount due
appraisal 6f the land made by
the Dawes commission is to be
taken as a basis arid to that' ap-
plied the constitutional tax yate
limit in Oklahoma and multiplied
by twenty-bne the period of
years for which the exemption
is to run
Another- bQl by Mr Murray
appropriated $145000 being
what the state spent in excess of
the congressional appropriation
to hold the constitutional conven-
tion and an election for ratifica-
tiOn of the constitution Con-
gress appropriated but $100000
and the state paid the remainder
In the Enabling act congress
transferred from the federal
court dockets to the state court
dockets 9 large number of crimi-
nal" cases pihdirrg at LLfe'dace' ''ox'
statehood -A third bill by Mr
Murray appropriates a total of
$300000 to reimburse Oklahoma
for the cost of giving the defend-
ants a trial
Good Rains Tuesday
of Local Character
— — i i
Good rains fell in portions of
Stephens county Tuesday In
Duncan the fall registered 38 of
an inch The rain extended only
a few mile3 west of town but
covered the northern and north-
east parts of the county and
much of the eastern
Wherever these showers fell
crops will be wonderfully bene-
fitted as the hot weather of the
past three weeks had packed
the ground considerably They
did not interrupt harvesting to
any great extent and no damage
resulted so far as known
A general rain all over the
country would prove a great
blessing at this time
Can’t Deliver tfiQ Goods
The attempt of C N Haskell
to line up his old friends in be-
half of Charles West met with
flat failure and illustrates very
forcibly the fact that no longer
can people be delivered like
sheep
It is not to be denied that Gov-
ernor Haskell ha3 a wonderful
following and many warm friends
in this state They were men
who had demonstrated their
friendship by going to the ditch
with him When he asked them
to line up for West they told him
emphatically that while they
respected him that they did not
respect that kind of politics and
that as citizens of this state they
had already made their align-
ments and would not be put in
the attitude of being subservient
to anybody No man in this
state can deliver his following to
some other man
We believe that Charles West
Governor Haskell and Governor
Cruce will testify to tbi3 after
the primary election
News of the Oil Field
Report of Good Finds
News from the Stephens coun-
ty oil field is very encouraging
and it would not be surprising if
one or more oil wells are drilled
in during the next few days
The country around Loco is com-
ing in for a great amount of
activity and ‘much interest is
manifested in that section
The Dixie well is drilling at
1400 feet in blue shale and indL
cations are very favorable Re-
ports from there are encourag-
ing A rotary drill has been install-
ed in the Jennings well near
Velma and drilling will now go
forward with a rush
The Haskell well is still shut
down but many people believe
that a paying oil sand wa3 en-
countered Nothing definite is
known however
( Sunday’s papers carried the
following which will be of local
interest:
The Oklahoma Diamond Oil
and Gas company in the north-
west of section 15-3-5 has com-
pleted a well It i3 making 25
million cubic feet of gas The
drill encountered heavy gas
sands at 700 900 and 1200 feet
The Washita Gas company
drilled into an oil sand in the
northwest northeast northeast
of section 10-3-5 near Loco The
hole is standing 1000 feet in pil
and looks like a 100 barrel well
The drilling about Loco is at-
tracting some attention from the
'ohTnen aiid it is "probable 'taatw:
large number of wells will be
drilled in that territory It is
said that the Lone Star Gas com-
pany of Texas agreed to drill ten
welfs in a contract for gas rights
there with the Oklahoma Dia-
mond people
The Elgin Oil company in sec-
tion 25-3-4 is drilling in blue
shale at 750 feet and the Heald-
ton Oil and Gas company is drill-
ing in the same formation in the
same section at 900 feet
The Healdton Oil and Gas com-
pany begins today to drill deeper
inNo 1 in section 31-3-3 Jack
Sankey has the contract
Farmers Buying Thresltsrs
Six or seven threshers have
been sold in Duncan during the
past few days more than for the
past several years all together
The big grain crop makes the
acquisition of more threshers in
the country absolutely necessary
and the farmers are rallying to
the call
Practically all the wheat has
been cut and much of the oats
and both crops will be in shock
by the latter part of the week if
pretty weather continues
Two Lectures June 23
Lloyd Elmo Peddicord the boy
specialist of America will be
here next Tuesday and deliver
two lectures to the people of
Duncan His first lecture will be
at the High School building 10:00
a m the second will be at the
Pastime Theater at 8 p m the
same day
Several of our business men
learning that Prof Peddicord
would be in Oklahoma City for
an address determined that our
people should have the pleasure
of hearing this celebrated lectur-
er They arranged to have the
morning lecture at the High
School 1 building free to every-
body It is hoped that every
parent in Duncan every teacher
either of the Public School or
the Sunday School who i3 inter-
ested in the boys of our country
will hear both lectures
NUMBER 42
Mexican Peace Plans
Are Doomed to Fail
I
The latest word 'from- Niagara
Falls where the mediators are
holding meetings forecasts a
failure of the peace plans Fri-
day’s meeting of the mediatbrs
is expected to witness the begih-
ning of the end
The 1 Constitutionalist repre-
sentatives say they could not
agree to an armistice that only
a man prominent in the Consti-
tutionalists’ ranks could be ac-
cepted by them for the Provision-
al Presidency and that they be-
lieved the Constitutionalist arthy
would settle the Mexican problem
soon if left unhampered by
foreign complications
Huerta delegates are resolute
in their determination not to ac-
cept a constitutionalist partisan
for the provisional 1 presidencty
and there appears no feasible
way of keeping all elements in
conference Only-developments '
not now foreseen such as a
change of attitude on the part of
the Cohstitutionalists or the
Huerta delegates can keep the
conference in session
Gentry Grove Picnic
Booked for July 15-16
i '
J D Gentry whose famous
grove four miles west of Marlow
has been the scene of many
gatherings during the past years
has announced that the meeting
this year whichwill be held as a
bit? basket picnic wilf occur on
July 15 and 16: He is anticipat-
ing the largest igathering for'
years and great preparations are
being made to entertain the
crowds
Aside from the usual features
of such celebrations prominent
speakers will be in attendance
and many addresses will be made
of a political nature and other-
wise The people generally are in-
vited to attend and are assured
of royal treatment
The Indian Problem
During his recent address here
Judge S M Hayes candidate
for the United States Senate
made some very able suggestions
as to the disposition of the In-
dian problem After - stating
that the non-taxable lands of
the Indian allotments result in a
loss of $3000000 a year revenue
to Oklahoma Judge Hayes says:
“I would divide the Indians in-
to two classes the competents
and those who are in whole or in
part incompetent Of the form-
er I would remove all restrictions
of any character and make their
lands taxable just as' the lands
of other competents are taxed
The tests for competency are
not necessarily the amount of
Indian blood either There are
competent full bloods and incom-
petent breeds who are mostly
white As to the incompetents
I would reduce the size of the
inalienable and nontaxable home-
stead to forty or eighty acres
and permit the land due to be
sold and the funds invested for
the Indian owners by the agen-
cies of the Government that are
charged with the care and pro-
tection of the Indian I have
high regard for the goodness of
heart of the people of Massa-
chusettes and other Eastern
States who are interested in the
welfare of the red man but I
know that we people here have
better opportunity of knowing
the needs of the Indian”
Complete line of new veils at
H A Hall & Co
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Sampson, Fred E. & Leeman, Ed J. The Duncan Banner (Duncan, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, June 19, 1914, newspaper, June 19, 1914; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1741983/m1/1/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed July 8, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.