Coweta Times. (Coweta, Indian Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1907 Page: 2 of 8
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' NERVY DEPUTY AT STROUD
QUELLS LYNCHING OP NE-
GROES WITH GUNS
CUS'NII LEIDEB WITH IIH EUI
Than Levels Wtapsni on Angry Qltl-
ana Who Taka Him at Hla Word
—Assault Upon Whita Man
and Woman tho
Caurj
STROUD: An attempted lynching
tallowing an assault by two negroes
Desey Skelton anj Thomas Cook on
white 'taan' bK'hied "Wilson and his
wife who were traveling through the
aountry was only averted here by
the nerve of Deputy Sheriff J W
Ully who knocked the leader of the
anb down ' with the Autt end of a
Winchester rifle and threatened to
the if the other members of the rab-
hla made any further effort to take
his prisoner from him
Wilson and his wrfe were about
Saar miles south of Stroud when they
ware met by two negroes The two'
parties locked wheels In endeavoring
to pass and following an argument
the negroes assaulted Wilson He
was severely cut about the head and
face with a knife in the hands of
Ikelton The two negroes then took
six shooter away from Mrs Wil-
son who was endeavoring to defend
her husband cutting her slightly on
aae hand and took to the woods
Deputy Lilly organized a posse an!
eeptured the pair a short distance
Cram the scene of the trouble When
he returned to Stroud with his pris-
oners there were threats of lynching
Ekelton Lilly decided to take Skel-
ton to Chandler and lodge him in the
eounty jail When he got to the
depot to take the train a mob of 40
er SO men and boys were there car-
vying a rope and started to rush the
officer Lilly promptly knocked the
too man with the rope down with his
rifle and covering the others with
too weapon quelled the riot
Skelton is locked up in the county
Jail at Chandler Cook is in the hold-
aver at Stroud but is thought to be
In no danger of violence as he was
not concerned to any great extent in
toe assault
Wilson was painfully Injured but
will recover
28 YEAR8 A FUGITIVE
W- F Davidson of Hobart Arrested on
an Old Charge of Murder
HOBART: One of the most sensa
tional arrests that ever occurred In
Oklahoma occurred when W F Dav-
idson whose real name is alleged to
ha Frank Drlnkard was arrested on
a charge of committing a murder in
Macon county Missouri 28 years ago
H N Graves sheriff of Macon
county arrived in Hobart and at
aace made himself known to the sher-
iff of this county and stated his mis-
sion Graves in company with Dep-
aty Sheriff Poole arrested Mr David-
aon while he was engaged at his trade
as a carpenter
8herlff Graves learned of the when
about! of Davidson through a Mr
White of Comanche county who was
la attendance at the recent congres-
sional convention in Hobart where
ho saw Davidson on the street and
vaported to the sheriff’s office that
ho was in Hobart He also wrote to
toe sheriff In Missouri
Davidson denies his guilt and
ateadfastly refused to return to Mis-
aourl without requisition papers Sher-
iff Graves wired for papers and wait-
ad In Hobart till the application fpr
requisition came
FRANTZ NAMES DELEGATES
Oklahomans Will Discuss Combina-
tions and Trusts at Chicago
' 'GUTHRIE: Governor Frantz has
appointed the following delegates to
attend a conference of the section ol
toe National Clvlo Federation on com-
bination and trusts to be held in Chi-
eago September 23 to 26 1907:
H H Howard Oklahoma City
John H Mosler Norman Okla
Emery Foster" Chandler Okla W C
Totrick Blackwell Okla B A Par
tenter Lawton Okla Robert Low-
ty Stillwater Okla W W Noff-
singer Stillwater Okla Robert For-
est El Reno Okla David B Marum
Woodward Okla N O Stephenson
Booker Okla Henry Bullow Arapa-
ho Okla H A Russell Sayre Okla
Would Better Convlets’ Condition
GUTHRIE: In regard to bettering
toe conditions surrounding tho lm-
prlsonraent of convicts Governor
Frank Frants stated recently that he
will' advocate before the first etate
f legislature tho passage of an Indeter-
minate sentence law placing It In the
wer of a presiding judge to sentence
prisoner for an Indeterminate term
of years thus making It possible to
- shorten the time in the penitentiary
of first ' offenders and espeolally of
those whose prison records have been
INVESTIGATE HANGING REE
Federal Authorities Go After Those
' Who Lynched a Negro
GUTHRIE: The federal authorities
have assumed jurisdiction in Inves-
tigating the lynching of Frank Bailey
by a mob at Osage station Ip the
Osage Indian reservation John R
Abernathy the United States mar-
shal and two deputies John Freeman
add Wiley Haines are on the ground
In charge of the Investigation and
with Instructions to arrest any and
all parties who were concerned in the
mob
Judge John Embry United States
district attorney has sent two of his
assistants Isaac Taylor of Pawhuaka
and John W Scothorn of Guthrie to
Osage to collect and compile evidence
and It is the intention to sift the en-
tire matter thoroughly at the present
time looking toward Indictments by
the federal grand jury at Pawnee in
October Any persons arrested will oe
arraigned before the United States
commissioner at Pawhuaka and then
bound over to the federal jail in Guth-
rie in cases where bond cannot be
furbished
On the rejuest of Judge Embry
Coroner George W Wheeler of Paw-
nee county conducted an Inquest at
Osage
According to all reports quite a
number of young boys participated in
the mob’s work while others were
near and witnessed the hanging cf
Bailey
Six arrests have been made by
United States Marshal Abernathy No
names have yet been revealed by the
officers The rlsoners will be ar-
raigned before Ed Gray United
States commissioner at Pawnee
G A R OFFICIALS
ARE UP IN ARMS
8AY THAT THERE HAS BEEN DIS-
CRIMINATION ON PART OF
RAILROADS
Officials of the Grand Army of the
Republic in the department of Okla-
homa are protesting against what
they call “radical discrimination”
against their organization It is
claimed that the railroads are not of-
fering as low rates to the union vet-
erans as they did to the confederate
veterans a month ago
The national encamment of the U
A R will be held in Saratoga Springs
N Y and so far no extraordinary
low rates have been announced from
the southwest This fact Is bewailed
by the department of Oklahoma in
a circular letter received in' Okla-
homa City from William H Horna-
day department commander at Law-
ton and M M Duncan assistant ad-
jutant general
"Some quick and efectlve work
must be done by the railroad officials
if they expect a very large attendance
from Oklahoma and the southwest”
the letter reads "It Is surprising that
these officials could be so presump-
tlous as to suppose that the G A R
comrades would quietly stand for
such a radical discrimination as these
proposed rates show as compared
with the Richmond rates of a few
weeks ago It there are any favors
shown they should be to those who
preserved rather than those Who
tried to destroy the union These
headquarters hope to be able to make
an early announcement of 'more rea-
sonable rates and more practical
concessions as to stopover privileges
on the return trip”
According to Colonel John Fields
of the Oklahoma Farm Journal cot-
ton will be the permanent king in
Oklahoma
GETS DECI8ION OVER RAILROAD
Logan County Farmer Wins Oklaho-
ma’s Flr't Case Before I C C
GUTHRIE: W O Mitchell a Logan
county farmer has won a suit before
the interstate commerce commission
which he inaugurated over a year
ago It was the flrst case ever tiled
from Oklahoma with the commission
Mr Mitchell being the pioneer com-
plainant from this section The com-
mission has decided in his faor by
making a Santa Fe freight rate on
grain from Guthrie to Gainesville
Texas of 20 cents per hundred and to
Fort Worth Texas of 22 cents
Mitchell 1b a wheat grower who
for years has made a practice of
handling his own crop for shipment
and export After shipping his crop
two yeara ago Mitchell thought that
he had been held up in the matter
of freight rates and he filed a com-
plaint with the Interstate commerce
commission preparing his own briefs
On the commission’s docket It Is
known as Mitchell vs Atchison
Topeka & Santa Fe
- 8herlff Short In Accounts
LAWTON: Sheriff "Jim’’ Thomp-
on of Caddo county has been sum-
marily and tentatively removed from
office by District Judge Gillette on
he charge of having been short In
his accounts with the county
The board of county commission-
ers upon Investigation announced that
Thompson owed the county nearly
$S 000 Upon application of the board
asking for the eherltt’e removal Judge
Gillette granted the order ’
'
MANY TERRITORY REFINERIES
Two In Operation end e Number of
Other Building
Tulsa I T — Indian Territory and
Oklahoma have caught the refinery
craze The Chelsea refinery built
by Pennsylvania operators in the
shallow pool started operations a
few days ago and is running full
time with a capacity of 800 bar-
rels a day The Oklahoma City' re-
finery is running full tiipe 000
barrels a day Ground is being brok-
en for a refinery here of 160 barrels
Initial capacity and Sapulpa has
closed a deal with Corsicana refiners
to erect a plant there with an initial
capacity of 1600 barrels a day! The
Uncle Sam plant is complete put
net running It never has been oper-
and The Muskogee 'refinery IB ' to
be shortly doubled ip capacity and
will take some of the oil tkm tMF'eRdo le much stirred jip paer a
Morris pool - Vi ‘ partisan political fight and her peo
ple expect trouble it sqmething N
not done to placate the factions
f h
Proper Pronunciation
Indian Name a
Muskogee I T— Did you eveAtry
to pronounce an Indian name and
then wonder whether you had come
anywhere near the correct pronun-
ciation? Try this rule Place a
dash after each vowel in the word
and then pronounce each sylable
slowly Note the smooth flowing
sound produced and tehn gradually
pronounce the syllables faster until
you get the entire word grouped
You will be surprised both at the
oase with which you get the word
and the effect in pronounciatlon
The moat difficult Indian name is
readily pronounced in this manner
Nearly all Indian names of towns
and rivers have some particular sig-
nificance The names jthat have been
given towns in Indian Territory will
perpetuate Indian history for untold
centuries - Only yesterday a nw
town was named Neba This is a
Creek word and means oil town
It was given to a siding put In on
the railroad a few miles south of
Muskogee in the new oil field
We In Creek means water It Is
fonnd in many names In the territory
and the significance attaches to the
remainder of the word For instance
here are a few: Weleetka means
running water and Wetumka’ mean
bounding water Both are towns on
the Frisco railroad Weleetka the
home of the Creek chief means fall-
ing watdr Wecharta means red wa-
ter Okmulgee which Is the Creek na-
tional capital means in Creek head
of power" and the name was given
the town of Okmulgee because It was
the national capital Tallahassee con-
veys to the Creek mind the same im-
pression that deserted village does to
the English It was the name of a
town In the eastern home of the
Creeks and also a town of that name
or what was a town Is located In
Indian Territory There Is an Indian
school there
Pekantullahassee means a grove of
native plums and the name is ap-
plied to a place In the Creek nation
that in the early days grew wild
plums in great profusion but the
thicket has since been destroyed Ok-
taha Is the name of a small town
south of Muskogee It Is a Creek
name and means sandy land
To the Creeks the Arkansas river
was Wecharty because the grater Is
red and Deep Fork was Hutcbety
Soofka because It Is deep and the
Vlrdlgrls was Wascre Hutchety be-
cause the Osages came down that
river and the Creeks called It Osage
stream Tbe North Canadian was
called Oklahutchey because it was
full of sand The village of Cboska
was so called because Choska means
postoak and around Choska postoaks
grow In great profusion
BELIEVE THERE IS OIL THERE
A Well to be Drilled Neer an Aban-
doned Well at Fort Gibson
Muskogee I T— A local company
has commenced to drill an oil well
on the townslte of Fort Gibson The
well Is within a few feet of a well
drilled more than a year ago and
plugged up Residents of Fort Gib-
son assert that a good flow of oil
was discovered and the well "pinched
in” and abandoned for some reason
by the persons who drilled it So
sure are they of this that they are
willing to spend their money drilling
another hole beBlde the old one to
find out
Train Rushes Over Him
Konawa I T— Jasper Berry a
farmer who lived two miles north of
Konowa was run over last night by
an M K 1 IV work train and In-
stantly killed He had been In town
during the afternoon and left shortly
after dark partly under the Influence
of whiskey to walk home up the rail-
road The work train left Konowa
about nine o'clock jo go to Maud for
water The engineer it Is reported
saw him sitting on the track ahead
but thinking he would move never
sllckened tbe speed of hts train un-
til It was too late A wife and seven
children survive him
Falls From Wall Discharges
Injuring Boy
Holdenvllle I T — Lem the twelve
year old son of Geo Lee a local
drayman was accidentally shot here
Wodnesday night This boy with
several others was playing in the
rear of a store and a target rifle
which was leaning againBt tbe wall
was knocked down and discharged
The bullet entered the right shoulder
ranging upward into the neck The
boy is In a dangerous- condition
seldom commit suicide or become In-
sane John Bullett one of the lead-
ing Indians of tbe Cherokee nation
said that the suicide of thlB woman
waa with a single exception the only
case of an Indian suicide that he
even heard - of About fifteen yehrs
ago there was an old full-blood Cher-
okee who' shot himself
A Territory Edltory a Candidate
Dewey I T— W E Dixon editor
of the DeWey World has announced
his candidacy for the republican nom-
ination for stats Insurance commis-
NEW STATE TOPICS
Pottawatomie county will ship out
Its first Blberta peaches Friday
Afton and Vlan are to have two
new national banks before the flrst
of August
'What few bodies of soldlerf
that remain at old FortGlbson will
be reintered at Fort ' Gibson this
year
The McAlester coal field has al-
ready yielded as much coal this year
as it did during the entire season
of last year
Tbe Watonga Herald wishes to
know what will become of the out-
laws In the two territories when
statehood goes Into effect
In a revival at the Lawton Chris-
tian church slxty-flve persona have
been converted
All the republican newspapers and
a few democratic newspapers are
asserting that they compelled the
convention to amend the constitu-
tion TM postoffice name of the town
of Lemert Is Kkeedee and of Law-
son Quay Here’s for Skeedee which
an Osage Indian once said means
“wolf-frozen-ln-the-lce”
It Is believed that the Cherokee
freedmen will reslBt the order of the
Indian police In ejecting them from
their land upon the decision of the
United States supreme court There
are 2000 of the freedmen
The alligators in the tanks at the
Platt national park are becoming
versed In pure cayman tricks One
of them recently bit off the tall of a
too Inquisitive cow who happened to
stray Into the tank
The drummers In tbe new state
will organize a home for those of
their profession who may become
worn out on the road or who nu
have no home of their own
Earlesborough over In Oklahoma
by’ the Seminole line has two more
saloons with which to furnish the
thirsty territory people a drink as
they travel to and fro to Oklahoma
City
Outhrle Bays that she has profited
less off of state legislatures than
any state In the union According
to the territorial capital the only
ro the territorial capital the only
been the saloon and the corpqratlon
lobbyist
A occvdtognrltyfly cAlesterdsh 1
According to Colonel John Flleds
of the Oklahoma Farm Journal cot-
ton will be the permanent king In
Oklahoma
The Oklahoma Post says that ihe
sanity of the southwest is proved by
the fact that her people have spent
the Fourth of July plcnicing Instead
of celebrating
The eastern part of the Indian Ter-
ritory Is rejoicing because T W
Gullck the secretary of the McAl-
ester chamber of commerce has dis-
covered diamonds In the Klamichl
country
The commercial Age of Chicago
says that without any question there
are some of the most remarkable
hotels in Indian Territory and Ok-
lahoma that can be found anywhere
for the size of the territory towns
and the newness of the country
The socialists In McLain county
have nominated a ticket
J A Stinson of Kenton Beaver
county clipped 200000 pounds of
wool from his flocks this summer
Halleyvllle Is building a brand new
hotel to replace the one which was
destroyed by fire not long ago
The railroads of the new state are
all considering the plan of double
tracking In order to handle freight
better
The date palm Is hte latest agri-
cultural dream of the western iart
of Oklahoma and the experiment sta-
tion at Stillwater Is preparing to tet
the Oriental shrub's fitness for this
climate
For the benefit of those wio be-
lieve that parts of the new state are
the hottest places on earth the
Chickasaw Express says that a man
who lived lit the San Joaquin In
California need have no fears of
the warmest of ' orthodox purgator-
ies Lawton is going to start In busi-
ness In tbe oakum industry lu a few
weeks by the erection of a big pick-
ing shed
‘Freight cars are already ten per
cent short of tbe number needed to
handle the business in Oklahoma and
Indian Territory ( 'v
A man who spent the day In South
McAlester described the Choctaw me-
tropolis as being built upon a rook
that bad no hole or crack In It u
far as he could discover
The Checker Players— What’s all the row abcutT
EXPLOSION DN BATTLESHIP
Eight Men Killed and 13 Injured
on the Georgia
Two Hundred Pounds of Powder Be-
came Ignited In a Turret by
Sovw Unknown Means
Boston Mass — Eight men dead
and 13 Injured was the grim record
at a late hour Monday night of the
result of a powder explosion on the
battleship Georgia Monday off Proy-
incetown Six were dead when the bat
tleshlp reached here and two more
died later at the hospital
The battleship Georgia steamed
slowly up Boston harbor from the
target practice grounds in Cape Cod
bay late Monday and landed tha dead
and injured men at the Charlestown
navy yard With the arrival of the
Georgia there became 'known the de-
tails of the most terrible naval catas-
trophe that has ever taken place
along the coast of New England The
accident occurred shortly before noon
Monday while the Georgia’s crew were
at target practice off Barnstable In
Cape Cod bay In some manner as
yet unexplained two bags of powder
became ignited and In the terrible
flash that followed the entire turret
crew consisting of three officers and
enghteen men were enveloped In fire
and received terrible burns one of-
ficer and five men dying before the
ship reached port
Prosecute Oklahoma Lynchers
Guthrie Oklahoma — For the first
time In the history of Oklahoma the
government will prosecute lynch-
ers United States Marshal John
Abernathy and two assistant United
States attorneys were in Osage Oklai
Thursday night to secure evidence
against the members of the mob that
Tuesday night hanged the negro
Frank Bailey for assaulting Brake-
man Frank Kelly Charges of mur-
der will be preferred against the men
and boys Osage Is In an Indian reser-
vation and the territorial authorities
‘have no jurisdiction
Japanese to take Korea
London Eng— The abdication of
the emperor of Korea would cause
no surprise here Matters have
been drifting in that direction ever
since the Japanese occupation of
that country and the Japanese gov-
ernment evidently regards the
dispatch of a Korean delegation to
The Hague as affording her the long
Bought pretext for putting an end to
the present anomalous condition of
affairs In Korea
Militia to Prevent Lynching
HahnvIUe La— Two companies of
militia were Thursday night ordered
here to protect from threatened lynch-
ing the four Italians convicted "with
ont capital punishment” of the com-
plicity In the murder of little Walter
Lamana of New Orleans who was
kidnaped and strangled about a
month ago
Roosevelt’s Gift to Berlin
Berlin Germany — President Roose-
velt has sent as a gift to the Uni-
versity of Berlin a set of his works
in nine volumes beautifully bound
and bearing his autograph They
have been added to the Roosevelt li-
brary which was founded by Pro!
John William Burgess
ATverican Officers Entertained
Paris France— Officers from the
American cruisers Tennessee and
Washington now at Brest have come
up to vlBlt Paris where they are' the
recipients of unusual official honors
The offleers Include Rear Admiral
Charles H Stockton Captain Albert
8 Berry and Captain Theodorlo Por-
ter They were entertained by Pres-
ident Fallleres at luncheon Tuesday
at the Elysee palace Ambassador
White and the members of the em-
bassy staff being present
RATES ARE EXCESSIVE
Railroad Charges to Points in New
Mexico Ordered Reduced by
Commerce Commission
Washington D C — In an opln-i
Ion rendered by Commissioner Prou-
ty the Interstate commerce commit'
slon Thursday announced Its decis-
ion in the case of the Roswell Com-
mercial club and others against the
Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
company and others The complaint
In this case put in Issue the reason-
ableness of rates between various
points In the United States and Rod-
well Attests Hagerman and Carlsbad
in the territory Of New Mexico The
present class rates from Kansas illtp
and St Louis Galveston and Denver
to said points In New Mexico are un-
just and unreasonable and reductions
were ordered Certain commodity
rateB to the same points in New Mex-
ico were held to be excessive The
commodity rates on grain and grain
products from points in Kansas andi
Oklahoma were ordered to be reduced:
from 47 cents on flour and 46 cents-
on wheat to 42 cents on flour and 40
cents on wheat The commodity rate
on lumber from points In Texas and
Louisiana was ordered to be reduoed
from 45 cants to 32 cents per 100 lbs
and that on salt In sacks from Hutch-
inson Kan was ordered to be re-
duced from 35 cents to 30 cents per
100 pounds The commodity rates on
apples alfalfa and alfalfa meal from
points in New Mexico to Fort Worth
Tex were held to be unreasonable
and were ordered to be reduced from
60 cents on apples and 34 cents on al-
falfa and alfalfa meal to 45 cents on
apples and 30 cents on alfalfa and al-
falfa meal
The Tennessee Damaged
St Louts Missouri— The steamboat
Tennessee loading tor her first trip-
In Missouri river traffic and the prop-
erty of the Kansas City Tranporta-
tlon A Steamship company was
blown against a pier of Eads bridge-
Thursday afternoon by a sudden gust
of wind and damaged to the extent of
about $1000 Several members of the
crew and negro roustabouts jumped'
overboard and swam to shore others
clung to the pier and climbed to ths
bridge The steamboat was rescued
by a tug which towfed it to shallow
water
The Fatal Automobile
Boston Mass — Nine pedestrians
have lost their lives and 34 have
been Injured as a result of automo-
bile accidents In Massachusetts with-
in the past 26 days according to-
statistics compiled and made publlo
Wednesday by the Safe Roads Auto-
mobile association During the 33
days there have been 92 collisions In
Which automobiles have figured The
Investigations conducted by the asso-
ciation show that out of 16 cases
looked into the operator was to blame
In 13
A Jsnsas Rato Hearing
Garden City Kansas — The heap-
ing of the complaint of the South--west
Kansas Farmers and Business-
men's league against the AtohUon
Topeka A Santa Fe Railway company
before Special Commissioner John H
Marble of the Interstate commerce-
commission was begun here Thurs-
day morning The question Involved
In the complaint Is discriminating
against this section In coal rates
Frank Grattan Appointed
Topeka Kan— Frank Grattan Of
McPherson was appointed attorney
for the board’ of Vallroad commis-
sioners Wednesday by Gov Hoah
Mr Grattan at once accepted ths-
piice -
Double Track ''Siberian Road-
St Petersburg Russia— The coun--ell
of ministers has definitely ap-
proved the project for double track-
ing the Siberian railway and a bllU
sanctioning this project will be tub '
mltted o tl)(f next douma
rrT’ngMW
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