The Frederick Leader (Frederick, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 137, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 16, 1922 Page: 1 of 4
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THH LAST NEWS FIRST"
VOLUME VI
THE FREDERICK LEADER THURSDAY NOVEMBER 16 1922
NUMBER 137
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CONTRACT LET FOR
septic Tank drain
BY CITY COUNCIL
Contract for extending the sewer
line ’from the east septic tank for ‘a
distance of about 1000 feet was let
by the city council Wednesday night
to J H Hlghtdwef on a bid of $150
the contractor' merely to supply the
labor and tooisand the city to fur-
nish the - pipe Work on the exten-
sion will begin under the contract
'when the piping is laid on the ground
by the city
There were two other bids' J S
Bruton of Tipton had in 'a bid of
941625 while $490 was the bid of
Alva Doze of Frederick
Present at the session were Mayor
Z Z Rogers Councilmen E J Cow-
en J T Godard T A Lovelace Rob-
ert Calvert City Attorney J O
Count and City Engineer E L Guy-
cr The routine run of city claims were
allowed and the third installment on
the American LaFrance fire truck
amounting to $32020 was authoriz-
ed The next payment on November
1 'of next year will close the account
The vacation of J If Calvery cem-
etery sexton was extended to a per-
iod of thirty days He has been iri
Duncan several days on account of
the illness of Mrs Calvery and the
mayor had received several applica-
tions for his job Mayor Rogers said
he was tho best sexton the city ever
had -
The council voted that papers and
similar light rubbish collected from
the streets and alleys should here-
after be immediately burned instead
of dumped on open lots where high
winds would again scatter them
throughout the city
Chief of Police T S Akins was
again instructed to begin collection
of occupation tax
Councilmen Godard Simmons and
Cowen were instructed as a special
committee to take up with' the Wil-liams-Miller
Gin management the
matter of constructing a concrete dip
or bridge over the draw near its gin
on West Dahlia' avenue at the Frisco
tracks while Councilmen Godard
Lovelace and Calvert were appointed
a committee to negotiate with the
same company a trade of the proper-
ty occupied by Its gin owned by the
city for property owned by the gin
company Immediately south of the
city swimming pool on North Ninth
street which could be used by the
city for a small addition to the park
about tiie pool The tract consists of
half a block and it was said that on
this tract trees could be easily grown
Mayor Rogers called for inventor-
ies of all city departments to be pres-
ented at the next session of the coun-
cil Owing to the complaints made that
the Mount Zion Baptist church con-
gregation which is temporarily using
the basement of the Carnegie library
for church purposes is getting free
use of city electric service and city
coal Councilmen Lovelace Calvert
and Cowen were appointed a commit-
tee to Arrange for payment by the
church for such service
The need for patching of the street
pavement at several points was call-
ed to the attention of the street and
alley department
Police and lfght and water depart-
ments rendered reports which were
approved City Bookkeeper Tom Mc-
Bride reported expended to date $35-
189 of the-total appropriation of
$86570x48 for the fiscal year to end
June 30 1923 leaving a balance un-
expended bf $5108148
" Mr McBride also reported receipt
of - another check from the county
treasurer for $426 38 representing
tax penalties due the city bringing
the total thus collected since an audit
of the fund was made by E J Mc-
Bride to $462328 All of this goes
Into the city’s general fund
4 COTTON GIXNINGS
Ginningg in Tillman county to No-
vember 1 aggregated 25 925 bales as
compared with 22412 bales-for the
same period last year according to
the statement Issued Thursday by R
H’ Wessel federal cotton Reporter for
this county-
Lead
United Press
Washington November 10—
The “ilrys" still maintain a two-
thirds majority in the new con-
gress according to a careful
eanvasa made or the personnel
r both houses following prac-
tically complete returns anil it
Is believed that the hope of the
“wets” ito amend the Volstead
act so that it will not be illegal
to manufacture and sell light
wines and beer must be deferred
until after the next election at
least i
This was the announced opin-
ion today by Wayne II Wheeler
legislative chief of the Anti-Saloon
league after a careful re-
view of the situation
FRISCO IGNORING
WEST OKLAHOMA
IN TRAIN SERVICE
Notwithstanding urgent requests
from the Frederick chamber of com-
merce and Individual appeals made
for resumption bf the special train
service train between Oklahoma City
and Wichita Falls Texas via Fred-
erick known as the “Oil Special”
the management of the St Louis
and San Francisco Railway company
although at times intimating that
the service would be resumed at
least between Oklahoma City and
Vernon has made rto movement to
restore thife service '
Notwithstanding neglect of this
situation in western Oklahoma there
is hrdly a week passes that aban-
doned train service at different points
elsewhere and particularly in eastern
Oklahoma is not being resumed
One of the latest resumptions ef-
fective November 12 was the rein-
stallatfon of trains 425-525 and 526-
426'between Tulsa and Weleetka
Recently also trains 705-706 be-
tween Ardmore and Hope have been
restored and trains 403-404 operat-
ing between Kansas City and Oklaho-
ma City
In the light of recent occurrences
it is regarded as poor business pol-
icy for the Frisco to disregard public
needs in western Oklahoma particu-
larly in the southwestern part of the
state especially in thought of rates
now- In effect both freight and pass-
enger - Railroad men here express the be-
lief that in view of the fact that the
Katy maintains that operation of the
Oil Special on the old plan is more
of an expense to that line than other-
wise the Frisco might find it ad-
vantageous to operate its own train
over the Katy line from Frederick to
Wichita Falls Texas on a mileage
basis and if necessary not include
its former train from Frederick to
Vernon Texas merely continuing the
present one train daily to and from
Vernon
DAVENPORT BANK
HIT BY BANDITS
United Press
Sapulpa November 16 — The Dav-
enport State bank was held up and
robbed shortly after noon today the
robbers escaping with $1600 ac-
cording to reports here
PLACE THREE LAMPS
Upon petition of R L Christian
T C-Greer and others the city
council at its meeting last night or-
dered street lights installed at the
intersection of Iris avenue and Sev-
enth street at Iris and Fifth and at
Seventh and Jasmine A -sidewalk
also was ordered for North Fifth
street
THE RAINFALL
Rain which began falling
here about 8 o'clock in the
form of a misty precipitation
of an inch up to the noon
hour with prospect of continuance
ONLY GOVERNOR’S
ACTION CAN SAVE
BOY FROM CHAIR
BULLETIN
United Press
Oklnlionui City November HI
— -Tho execution of Klias Ridge
which was scheduled take
place at sunrise tomorrow was
today stayed by the criminal
court of appeals here after a writ
or habeas corpus was tiled by V
D Matthews state commissioner
of charities The stay of execu-
tion is only temporary while the
npeal court reviews 1110 trial
United Press
Oklahoma City November 1 fi —
Oklahoma watchol the capitol today
for probable action by Governor J B
A Robertson on the case of Elias
Ridge age fourteen a negro sen-
tenced to be electrocuted at sunrise
tomorrow morning at the state pen-
itentiary for the murder of Mrs
George Adair a white woman near
Pryor
Should the governor fail to inter-
vene with the pardoning power the
boy will be the youngest person lo be
executed In this country in the twen-
tieth century
A plea of guilty waived all rights
of the boy to appeal or ask for a new
trial
A writ of habeas corpus ivasjo be
filed with the criminal court of ap-
peals today This writ and executive
action represents tho only chances lor
the boy to escape the death chair
Word from the state penitentiary
this morning said that the chair is
in readiness the current tested and
the appliances have been gone over
Ridge killed Mrs' Adair by slash-
ing her throat and brutally heating
her He said he wanted the rings
she wore
MOTORIST CHARGED
WITH HOMICIDE
RAN OVER CHILD
United Press
Oklahoma City November 16 — J
F Dorsey of Sayre Oklahoma was
today remanded to the district court
without bond on a charge of murder
Dorsey is charged with driving the
automobile which ran over and killed
Lillian V Rona aged eight October
27
The murder charge came in con-
nection with the local drive against
traffic law violations being carried
on here which ’las resulted in fifty-
one arrests since Saturday
KLANSMEN KILLED
BY MOONSHINERS
IN ARKANSAS FIGHT
United Press
Hot Springs Arkansas November
16 — In what Isbelieved to have been
an organized attack by Garland
county moonshiners on a hand of
men who were members of the Ku
Klux Klun at Jesseville near here
one alleged kiansnien was killed and
another jnjured
Jeff Howell age 31 was killed
instantly and John Newkirk shot
several times as a party of citizens
emerged from acommunity meeting
where they had been protesting
against moonshining
WILHELM CUNO TO
SELECT CABINET
United Press
Berlin Germany November 16 —
William Cuno director general of the
American-Hawailan x Steamship com-
pany has gecepted thfc offer of Pres-
ident Ebert to form a new cabinet
It is believed that Cuno’s selection
of associates will be made from the
industrial ranks and that he will in-
vite into the cabinet men from the
business world-'
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
GRADUATE
- il'Ta r'v Iceai'he' &£
Mrs Mary Keane and her daughter Helen aged sixteen stood side by
side and received their diplomas at the Lane High School in Chicago re-
cently both having completed their course in home economics with hon-
ors When Miss Helen declared she was going to take up the course her
mother also decided it wa3 never too laic to learn so they went to school
together
CLARA PHILLIPS
IS FOUND GUILTY
WOMEN ON JURY
United Press
lais Angeles California No -vemlier
Hi 2 p in — Tlie jury of
nine men ami three women this
afternoon found Mrs t'lara
Phillips guilty of murder in the
second degree in connection witli
the slaying of Mrs Alberta
Meadows
’Mrs Phillips beat Sirs Mead-
ows to ileatli with a hammer lie-
cause of jealousy of her hus-
band's attention lo the woman
Ten years of Imprisonment
will be tiie penalty
United Press
Los Angeles California November
16 — The jury in tiie “hammer mur-
der" case is reported to be deadlock-
ed After ten hours of deliberal ion the
jurors who will decide tiie fate of
Mrs Clara Phillips charged willi tiie
slaying ef Mrs Alberta Meadows re-
tired at a downtown hotel
Three ballots liad been taken
DRIVERS OF CARS
MUST OBEY RULES
OR WILL BE FINED
“Watch your step!'’ may lie
translated into “Watch your
steering wheel and brake!"
Recently the city iii a half
page advertisement published
in Tiie Lender notified tiie pub-
lic relative to certain rules rela-
tive to driving automobiles and
trucks ill the business district
in the nmtter of handling the
cut-out glaring headlights
running into sidewalks and
stopping nt street intersections
on both sides of Grand avenue
Relieving that the public lias
liad plenty of time to thoroughly
digest and memorize tiie rules as
advertised the city council
after n thorough dissection and
discussion of the rules last night
instructed tti6 police lo nt once
begin making arrests when uuy
of the rules embodieiV in tlint ad-
vertisement are violated and Hie
police judge is expected to bn-
pose p t-ofier fines whenever tiie
guilt of the persons haled liefore
him for offenses of this nature is
proven or admitted
OPERATION SUCCESSFUL ’
B L Isbell residing southwest of
Frederick was successfully operated
oil for ulcer of the - stomach at
Rochester Minnesota according to a
message received Thursday by W M
Tomlinson his father-in-law
LEGISLATURE WILL
PROBABLY ENACT
$30 BONUSMEASURE
UnileA Press
Oklahoma City November 1C —
“Tiie silent vote killed Oklahoma’!
tonus hill” Joe C Campbell bonus
advocate in close touch with tho next
state administration declared today
“Although the favorable vote to-
ward the measure numbered mote
than the unfavorable there was not
v majority in favor of tiie measure
compared with the entire vote cast
as required” Campbell said
Official figures on the balloting of
u week ago will not be available for
several days it was said Last un-
official tabulations from 2640 of the
state's 2937 precincts gave 230997
voles for the measure and 212238
against Although this is a favorable
majority of 18759 it lacks 9378 of
being a majority of the total votes
compiled
' Official and complete returns will
show tho mcasurc’Tailcd at the gen-
eral election by about tiie same ra-
tio it was predicted
In spite of the failure of the meas-
ure at the election efforts will be
continued to give Oklahoma men who
enlisted for service during tiie war
some sort of compensation Campbell
said
Tin same measure -defeated at the
general election will be revised to
provide payment of $3 0 for each
month’s service instead of the $50
provision and will be introduced to
tho next state legislature Cambpcll
predicted
COMPANY H WILL
INSPECTED
NEXT MONDAY
Machine Gun Company II will be
visited by a regular army officer
Monday next and will be given tho
"once over” as a survey preliminary
to tho regular annual inspection by
a federal army inspector which us-
ually is made sometime in January or
February The inspector usually
visits tbq Frederick’ Rational Guard
company: £n February making first
inspection tours in eastern Oklaho-
ma —
Captain J L Meeks received no-
tice Wednesday of the preliminary in-
spection and said that the local mil-
itary organization would be found in
good condition
BACHELOR AT DALLAS
BURNS IN I1IS HOME
United Press t
Dallas Texas November - 16 —
Thomas- H' Freeman a bachelor
burned to death when his home was
destroyed by fire today
! RETURNS REVEAL
DECISIVE DEFEAT
OF LLOYD GEORGE
United Press
London England November
Hi — Former Premier Lloyd
George' lias been signally defeat-
ed in Ids efforts to win the bal-
ance of power in llie next house
of commons on the fare of the
incomplete 'returns tills after-
noon The roimt at 1 o'clock showed
that the Conservative candidates
of l’remler Bonar laiw with a
dear majority over all parties
ami tho Conservatives gaining
'"all the lime having won nine
additional seat since noon re-
sults were posted
London November 16 — Women
who turned out in unexpectedly large
numbers at polling places throughout
the British Isles furnished tho sur-
prise element in Wednesday’s elec-
tion The heavy feminine vote was
the big feature in an otherwise dull
and uninteresting election day
In London the women were excep-
tionally eager to cast their ballots In
various districts large numbers lined
up before the polls opened
Judging from the early trend of
the balloting the majority of observ-
ers believed Premier Bonar Law who
unsaddled Lloyd George as prime
minister would have a safe conser-
vative majority in the house of com-
mons when that body meets Novem-
ber 2 0
Conservatives were reelected to
the hotise of commons rrom tho two
districts reporting official returns
Tiie conservative majority was un-
changed in one district while the lab-
oritos made big Inroads in the Tory
vote of the other district
All London watched tho bulletin
boaids for the first returns in the
general election in which 558 mem-
bers of the house of commons were
elected Wednesday
Returns from Great Yarmouth
whicli were -posted shortly after the
last of the polling places were closed
at 9 p m allowed that a Conserva-
tive supporter of Premier Bonar Law
was unseated by an Asquith Liberal
A supporter of David Lloyd George
was defeated by a member of the la-
bor party at Barnsley Early returns
showed that the lahorites and As-
quithites were making big inroads in-
to the former Georgian and Tory ma-
jor!! ies
Returns at midnight including dis-
tricts in whicli present members of
the house of commons were unoppos-
ed showed the following had been
elected: Conservatives 46 Georg
ians 7 Asquithites 7 Lahorites 6
Independents 1
On the basis of returns the Iabor-
ites had gained four seats Asquith-
ites two Tiie conservatives liad lost
four and the Georgians two
The heavy vote of tiie women be-
lieved to be conservative in their
leanings gave rise to increased opti-
mism on the part of the Tories Con-
servatives were of the opinion that
economy had decreased taxes prom-
ised by the party of Bonar Law
gained many feminine votes
FREDERICK PLAYS
GRANDFIELD FRIDAY
For the Becond time thlB season the
Frederick high school football team
will face the Grandfield high srtooi
team on the gridiron tomorrow this
time on the gridiron at Grandfield
In the first game the Frederick team
won an easy victory1 but expects to
meet with more formidable opposi-
tion in Friday’s contest-A However
with the brilliant form exhibited by
the “Red Devils” in their recent con-
test that won a victory over Carnegie
it is expected that Frederick will win
November 24 Hobart high school
team will play here and on Thanks-
giving day November 30 the Freder-
ick team will meet Weatherford on
the local gridiron This will be the
last conference game of th season
and if won by Frederick will place
the local team at the top pf the lad-
der ' " ' jDbregon
1 1
POPULATION 1250
MAY HAVE BEEN
ENTIRELY LOST
United Press
Santiago Chile November 16
— Rumors are persistently being
circulated here that Easter Is-
land off the coast of Chile has
completely disappeared as a re-
sult of the recent scries of earth-
quakes and tidal waves
The report has not been con-
firmed The island which was located
off the southern coast of Chile
had An area of fifty squaie miles
and a population of 1250
ACREAGE SOUGHT
ADJACENT TO NEW
RED RIVER OILER
Coming in late Sunday night with
a flow of 200 barrels but which in-
creased to over 1000 barrels dally
the well of tho Peck-Merchuson and
Pigg Vernon operators on block 834
Clois Green subdivision of the Hirschi
tract has been one of the most im-
portant developments for the year in
the North Texas fields according to
the Wichita-Falls Times ' '
The well is located about three-
quarters of a mile from the - south
bank of the Red river and north of
the Clara pool
When the' news of the strike
reached the city a scramble was on
for -desirable acreage in the vicinity
of the well and hundreds' of opera-
tors and others in automobiles are
(locking to the new strike and a
number af acreage deals were made
Nearly all of the larger producing
companies which include the Texas
Gulf Production Magnolia Petroleum
and the Sun company are well fort!-'
fled with protection" the Sun having
a tract of 150 acres offset
The well referred to is ten miles
bouthwest of Grandfleld 30 - miles-
southeast of Frederick and north of
tho bluff line
MEXICO NO LONGER
TO BE MECCA FOR
ESCAPED CRIMINALS
El l’aso Texas November 16 —
Agreement has been reached' it ia
announced here today whereby offi-
cials representing practically every
department of tiie United States
government in El Paso and Mexican
government officials in Juarez will
cooperate to check crime along ‘ the '
border the smuggling of liquor and
drugs into this city and to suppress’
revolts in Mexico
Following a conference of offi-
cials it was said that the police' of j
the two cities will work together In
apprehending criminals and that
federal and state representatives will '
cooperate in the matter of extradit-
ing offenders Inauguration of a tei-'
ephono system between Mexican river '
guards and customs men on this side)
is a part of the plan to stop smug-
gling American and Mexican officials
will work together It waB said - to
stop stolen automobiles at the two
bridges here and at the fords south
oif El Paso But few stolen cars' tak- ’
en Into Mexico it was pointed out by
the police were recovered "
Under the new qgrpeipent Airier-'
leans will help to prevent revolts in'
Mexico by informing Mexican" au-
thorities of shipments' of’ arms andv
munitions into the latter country and
watching more closely for' revolu-
tionary movements which may be
fomented on the American ‘side of
Ihe border Plans also- were "die-
cussed to check the traffic in - nar-
cotics General Paulino ' Navarro com-’
mander of the fiscal guards 'in Chi- v
liuahua is now on fails way' fr6m
Juarez to MexlcoHJityio present de-
tails of the conference ‘to President-
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Newland, John Lynne & Lingenfelter, N. H. The Frederick Leader (Frederick, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 137, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 16, 1922, newspaper, November 16, 1922; Frederick, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1746526/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.