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MIAMI RECORD-HERALD
PAGE THREE
Friday ‘July 29 1921
COMMISSIONERS OK
$22890 BUDGET TO
RUN CITY THIS YEAR
Appropriations $15000 Less
Than MunicipalExpenses
for Preceding Year
ESTIMATESiSLASHED
Items for City Clerk's Office and
Street Pe-Paviag Reduced $2000
Each Tax -Levy Will Not
Be -Needed
' J
1 (Tuesdays Dally) - ' -
The estimates of the heads of de-
partments of the city were read by
city Clerk W B Gunnels at the reg-
ular weekly meeting of the city com-
mission Monday night and with the
exception of a few changes in the
original figures were approved by the
board The figures will be submit-
ted to the excise board composed
of the heads of county departments
A total of $22890 will be neces-
sary to run the city of Miami this
year according to the figures approv
ed at last night’s meeting This Is
said to be $15000 less than last
year’s total expenses of the city
Various departments suffered a cut
from the original estimates The ex-
penses of the cttyclerk were estimated
at $10200: Th8se figures were cut
to $8200 The street repaving and
surfacing flguprs were reduced from
$4000 to $2000
The estimates of the various de
partraents are:
Mayor and commissioners $500
city clerk $8200 city attorney $1-
100 police department $5760 tire
department $13930 board of health
$800 Btreet department $9000
Btreet repaving and surfacing $2000
library $1800 ‘general government
$800
It was announced by City Clerk
Gunnels Tuesday that not a mill
would he levied against the people of
Miami to secure the money to pay
the city's expense this year but that
Miami would be self-sustaining The
money will be obtained through the
light and water department collee
lions and the ad valorem taxes
In addition to obtaining sufficient
revenue to pay a greater part of the
expense in running the various de-
partments the light and water depart'
ment will pay off $5000 of the $26'
000 deficit due the sinking fund
BOARD ORGANIZED
TO DIRECT AFFAIRS
OF BASEBALL CLUB
Advisory Body ' Immediately
Speeds Up Efforts to Obtain
Funds to Assure Reten-
1 tion of Franchise
(Tuesday’s Daily)
An advisory board composed of
Fred Davidson Dr George Colvert
J J Smith S A Kenoyer aud Lon
J Newton was formed Tuesday to
direct the affairs of the Mlartii base-
ball club In the Southwestern League
This board with Irl Brlte as business
manager and Bobby Byrne as playing
manager will look after the baseball
club for the citizens and fans who are
helping support the club
The committee which has been
at work soliciting funds for the sup-
port of the team announced Tuesday
that the total amount needed is not
subscribed and urged Miamians who
have not donated toward the fund to
do so The committee needs a cer-
tain amount of money to insure the
expenses of the club for the remain-
der of the season and until this is
subscribed there is danger of -losing
the franchise toward the close of the
season
Outfielder McDougal was traded
Monday for Joe Boyd utility infield-
er Boyd has been with Bartlesville
He will probably be used in the game
with Pittsburg Wednesday
Thief Takes Trousers
With $18 in Pocket
(Monday’s Dally)
A sneak thief entered the room oc-
cupied by J D Lacey over the Glory
B theater Saturday night while La-
cey slept and stole a pair of brown
serge trousers In the pockets of the
trousers was $18
Yesterday afternoon the missing
clothing was found In the weeds near
the taxi station on A street west of
the court house
The theft was' reported to the po-
lice '
The five highest cities in the Unit-
ed States are Leadvllle Colo Cripple
Creek Colo Laramie Wyo Santa
Fe N M and Cheyenne Wyo
There are 576060000 Christians
In the world and 1118158000 non-Cbrlstlans'
OUTPUT FOR OKLAHOMA MINING DISTRICT
FOR WEEK ENDING SATURDAY JULY 23
WAS $129970 BLENDE $21 LEAD $45
More than six million pounds of
sine blende and above two million
pounds of lead ore were shipped from
the Ottawa County Oklahoma Mining
District for the week ending Satur-
day July 23 There was sold $68-
670 worth of blende and $59400
worth ol lead making a total of
$ 1 2 57 9 0 1 As to the Kansas District
the sales amounted to a total of $37-
962 Missouri mines brought In $13-
900 The average price for sine blende
during the week was $21 though
only $20 was offered the last of the
week No sales were made to any
extent at that offer
Lead ore again brought $45 per
ton and the demand seems somewhat
stronger '
The general situation seems about
the same as for the two or three pre-
vious weeks but the market indicates
firmness and that the bottom has
been reached Further Indication to
tills effect Is that quite an amount of
zinc ore has beed' sold at export re-
cently There are also rumors that
lead ore may bring $46 to $4760
this week
Following is the output:
Oklahoma Mines
Blende
Admiralty Z Co 341300
Aztec M Co
A E Bendelarl
Agent 524270
Bllharz M Co 190940
Black Hawk M Co 218 640
Colgate Co 124070
Commonwealth Co580390
Domado M Co — 172410
Dorothy Bill Co —259710
Dodley M Co 83900
Eagle-PIcher Co 522480
Boy 3 Found After
Wandering From Home
(-Monday's Daily)
' Little Billy Eulitte 3 likes to trav-
el and he enjoys his journeys best
when by himself
Yesterday afternoon members of
the W D Eulitte family 22 K stret
Southeast spent the afternoon away
from home A young man and a
friend of the family consented to
spend the afternoon at the Eulitte
home in charge of the small boy un-
til the family returned home
Billy was acting peaceable and was
not showing any particular desire to
get away from the home early In the
afternoon so his guard dropped off to
sleep The youngster left the home
immediately Later in the after-
noon he was found by E E White
at 16 F street Northwest havlyg
traveled more than a mile away from
home by himself White notified the
police and when the members of the
family learned of the youngster’s dis-
appearance they called on Chief of
Police Gibson to help find him The
police chief told them the boy was
waiting for them at the police station
Marriage of Miamian
June 8 Is Announced
(Sunday’s Daily)
Announcement has been made of
the marriage of Miss Mayme Close
of Cartervilie and Paul Pearson of
Miami The ceremony was perform-
ed by Justice McDonald of Joplin
June 8
Mrs Pearson is widely Jtnown In
Cartervilie having lived there prac-
tically all her life
Mr Pearson Is a former service
man and Is employed by the Sweem
Motor Company here
8 Automobiles Carry
Boy Scouts to Camp
(Sunday’s Daily)
Eight automobiles loaded with Mi-
ami boys between the ages of 8 and
16 let Miami early Monday bound
for the camping ground near Fair-
land The boys are members of the
Boy Scout organization here
The camp will last all week
WIDOW SUES FOR
$20000 DAMAGES
Mrs C O Bliss Takes Legal
Action as Result of Hus-
' band’s Death
(Monday’s Dally)
Alleging negligence on the part of
the Skelton Lead and Zinc Company
in connection with the death ot C O
Bliss a mine worker of the company
Florence Bliss filed suit in the dis-
trict court Monday asking $20000
damages -
According to the petition Mrs
Bliss bus tour children
Bliss was kilted July 19 when a
slab fell striking him on the head
Golden Rod Co 306280
Hot tig Co 616620
Laclede M Co 173360
LaSalle M Co 64890
Manhattan M Co 238 700
Mogul M Co —193030
Nlangua M Co — 217460
Oko M Co 484090
72670
61870
St Joe M Co 173340
Seals A Co 86720
Skelton M Co 1418 500
Vantage M Co — 539430
Woodchuck M Co366890
Whitebird M Co 213790
Sundries - — - 1700480
Totals 6340070 2640670
Values: Blende $66670 lead
$69400 total $125970
Kansas Mines
Blende Lead
Boska M Co 208290
Blue Mound Co 311040 89660
Chanute Spel Co 640000 211030
Empire Dev Co 295340 —
Euterpe M Co 65470 —
'Muncle M Co — 173470
Queen Esther Co 93100 -
Sundries 87910
Totals - 2785710 388590
Values: Blende $29323 lead $8-
730 total $37962
Missouri Mines
Blende Lead
Barnsdall M Co 1076600
Sundries r 93920
Values: Blende $11830 lead
$2070 total $13900
District
Blende 10202280 pounds value
$107632 lead 3132080 pounds
value $80200 Total value for
week $187832
U S Revenue Men End
Work in This District
(Sunday’s Daily)
' Internal revenue collectors have
completed their work in Miami and
Ottawa County and will go Monday
to Vinita where they will begin
checking sales taxes and special tax
delinquents The collectors also will
work in the vicinity of Vinita
Federal tax affairs in Ottawa
County are in fairly good condition
according to members of the staff
which is working this district of the
state There were a number of mer-'chan-ts
who were behind In payments
of sales taxes and others delinquent
on corporation taxes
Blaze May Destroy
Trans-Atlantic Liner
(Monday’s Dally)
Southampton- England July 25 —
A fire discovered today aboard the
trans-Atlantic liner Mauretania is
spreading rapidly and threatens to
destroy the ship The blaze broke
out in a stateroom
tte Mauretania docked here Fri-
day and was prepa-lng for the return
trip to New Yorrt
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR
C I BROWN WEDNESDAY
(Monday’s Dally)
Funeral serviaes !for Chester L
Brown will bo held Wednesday after-
noon at 1:30 o’clock from the Bap-
tist church here ' The J O O F
will take part in the funeral ser-
vices Interment will be In the G A
R cemetery under the direction of
the Hal Mitchelson Undertaking
Company
Ottawa County Men to
Attend Farm Congress
(Wednesday’s Daily)
County Agent Jim Lawrence h
received a preliminary program of
the Farm Congress to be held at the
Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechan-
ical College at Stillwater August 21
to 31
A number of Ottawa County farm-
era are making preparations to at-
tend the farm congress
THIEVES GET WATCH
AT HOME NEAR COMMERCE
(Monday's Dally)
- While members of the J B Alex-
ander tumily were away from their
home one mile from Commerce
thieves entered the house and stole a
solid gold watch and chain The
theft was reported to the Miami po-
lice department The number of the
case is 8860396 according to Chief
ot Police George Gibson
The census enumeraiora found only
115250000 bearing applo trees In
the United States in 1920 a reduc-
tion of 36000000 or nearly 24 per
cent from the number reported In
1910 Apple treeB not of bearing age
numbered 36000000 in 1920 and
65750000 in 1910 showing a de-
crease ot 45 per cent
MAN WANTED HERE
FOR BANK ROBBERS
HELD IN MINNESOTA
Lyman Ford Will Be Returned
for Trial on Charge Filed
in 1913
ESCAPED FROM JAIL
Prisoner Fled During Wholesale De-
livery Here After Arrest for
j Part in Quapaw Rob-
bery (Sunday’s Daily)
-Ottawa county officials Saturday
received word from F A Whittier
state parole agent and member ot the
state board of parole of Minnesota
stated that'Lyman Ford wanted here
on a charge of bank robbery was be-
ing held in Stillwater Minn for the
county officers
Ford will be brought back to Mi-
ami within the next week according
to AssiBtant County Attorney Louis
N Stivers Mr Stivers was prepar-
ing the requlsitldn papers tor the
prisoner Saturday
According to the letter received
Here Ford received -a pardon from
the Minnesota state prison where he
was serving a sentence for bank rob-
bery on condition that he be turned
over to the Oklahoma authorities
Ford will be brought back and tried
on the charge of robbing the Quapaw
bank which waa entered in 1913 ac-
cording to Chief of Police George
Gibson Chief Gibson was sheriff of
Ottawa County pt that time Ford
according to the Chief In com-
pany with Ellji Higgins Joe Ketter-
man and Carl "Hannan robbed the
Quapaw bank Higgins and Ketter-
man later attempted a bank robbery
at Pueblo according to Chief Gib-
son and shot a policeman in attempt-
ing to escape Both are serving life
sentences in the Colorado state peni-
tentiary Carl Hannan is serving a
10-year sentence for bank robbery
Ford made his escape from the city
jail before hia case came up for trial
Charles Baum was deputy sheriff at
the time and went into tne jail one
evening to build a fire for the pris-
oners Two of them Jumped from the
top ot a cell falling on him and
knocking him unconscious The pris-
oners took hia keys an dabout 25
occupants of the Jail made their es-
cape Ford according to Gibson
was one of the jtng leaders In the
wholesale break for liberty
INFANT STRUCK BY
CAR WHILE PLAYING
ON NE0 TRACKS
Wilbur Welch 18 Months Old
Seriously Injured in Acci-
dent Near Cardin
MAY CAUSE DEATH
Child Reported In Dangerous Con
ilitlon at BaptiNt Hospital Mls
hup One of First Serious
‘ Ones on Road
(Tuesday’s Dally)
WllburWelch 18-month-old son of
Mr and Mrs John Welch of Cardin
probably will dio from a fractured
skul-1 received between 3 and 4 o’-
clock Monday when a southbound
electri-c car of the Northeast Okla-
homa Railway struck the child
The accident occurred a short dis-
tance north of the Cardin station and
near the home of the child’s parents
The roadbed of the Northeast Okla-
homa at this point is constructed of
chat for a abort distance and It is
believed the child left his home and
wandered over to the tracks to play
in the chat '
H E Ringler a motorman on the
car stated he did not see the In-
fant until within a few yards of him
when he threw on the brakes and put
the ear Into reverse The child was
struck on the forehead by the Bteps
of the car and its skull fractured
The infant Was taken to Mhe Welch
home and a physician called The
child was removed Immediately to
the Miami Baptist Hospital Tuesday
hospital attaches reported the child
spent a restless night and said that
It had a high fever
W C Ellington was the conductor
on the car John Welch the infant’s
father is working at Larned Kans
The accident Is one of the first ser-
ious ones experienced by the North-
east Oklahoma Railway
In Alaska marriage among the na-
tives is a trade between the man and
the woman's mother in which the
bride has no choice
Lignum vitue Is the heaviest kind
of wood
WAR HERO BURIED
WITH ARMY RITES
Miami Legion Members Partic-
ipate in Services for Lemuel
Berry at Afton
(Wednesday’s Dally)
Several memmebrs of Floyd L
Perry post ot the American Legion
went to Alton today to attend the
funeral of Lamue! Berry killed in
action in France The funeral was to
be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon
from the Baptist church at Afton
with interment in Mount Hope cem-
etery The Rev L O Hudson waB
to officiate
Berry who waB 29 years old when
he was killed was shot down on Oc-
tober 2 1919 and died In a hospital
five days later He Was a member
of Company K Fifty-ninth Infantry
and had been in service a year before
he was killed
American Legion members of Ot-
tawa county had charge ot the ser-
vices at the grave
Among those surviving him are
his father J D Berry of Grove -two
sisters Mrs John Roberts of Afton
and Mrs Lee RIppitoe of Vinita his
stepmother and several half-brothers
and half-sisters
This is the third military funeral
for returned soldier dead held in
Afton
PLOWING BEGUN BY
FARMERS IN COUNTY
Reports to Farm Agent Show
1921 Wheat CTop Has Been
Cut and Threshed
(Wednesday’s Dally)
With the 1921 wheat crop harvest-
ed and threshed Ottawa county farm-
ers are wasting no time preparing for
the 1922 crop and are in the frlelds
each day plowing according to Coun-
ty Agent Jim Lawrence Mr Law-
rence stated one acre plowed in July
Is worth two in September
The farmers are realizing the value
of early plowing and are not waiting
until it is time to sow the grain be-
fore turning the soil
"Fields plowed in July 'will pro-
duce three and four bushels to the
acre more than the fields plowed in
August" said the county agent - J‘I
spent Tuesday in the country and
many ot the farmers are in their
fields preparing for a bumper 1922
wheat crop”
State Encampment of
Spanish War Veterans
Oklahoma City July 29
( (Wednesday’s Daily)
Orvel Johnson Commander ot the
Oklahoma State organization makes a
strong appeal for every Spanish war
veteran in this community to attend
the annual encampment of the organ-
ization which is held in Oklahoma
City July 29
Every man who served In the
Spanlsh-Amerlcan war who no$- re-
sides in this county is especially urged
to attend Each local camp in the
state is requested to send all avail-
able records so that the status of
this ' group of k soldiers may be
checked up and put in permanent
records
General O W Meier representing
the national headquarters of the or-
ganization Is at Oklahoma City look-
ing after the work and hopes to as-
sist in making the encampment the
largest in the history of Oklahoma
Car Tries to Climb
Trees Driver Unhurt
(Monday's Daily)
Lester Stark who works at the Ro-
bard's garage narrowly escaped inju-
ry early this morning when the car
be was driving Jumped the street
curb In front of the J S Brown at
32 C street Southwest and destroy-
ed to small cherry trees
Brown stated this morning that
this was the third automobile acci-
dent which has occurred at the street
corner in the lust month
Anti-Rum Crusader Arrested
Three Times in Hour Here
On Charge of Intoxication
(Sunday’s Daily)
A young man whoBe father
has been one of the leading fig-
ures In the fight for prohibiticn
and ita enforcement and who
has been lecturing In several
stales on prohibition was ar-
rested three times within an
hour by counly and city offic-
ials one night last week for be-
ing Intoxicated The officers re-
fused to divulge his name
Police Chief George Gibson ar-
rested the man but later turned
DISTRICT COMBED IN
HUNT FOR ESCAPED
ROBBERY SUSPECT
Ed Lee Shot by Oronogo Mar-
shal Eludes Guards at
Joplin Hospital
REPORTED AT RICHER
Rumor Brings Officers to Ottawa
County But Trail Is Lst Lora!
Authorities on Watch for
Fugitive
(Sunday's Daily)
Officers were scouring southwest-
ern Missouri northeastern Oklahoma
and southeastern Kansas yesterday
and laBt night for Ed (Slim) Lee of
Tulsa who escaped from St John’s
hospital at Joplin early Saturday
morning Lee was being held by the
authorities following Identification by
Marshal James of Oronogo Mo as S
man wounded In an attempted bank
robbery at that place Lee was ap
prehended ut Picher where he had
been taken to a hospital for medical
treatment
County officers received word here
early Saturday of Lee's escape from
the hospital According to one of
the officers here the man succeeded
in getting to a telephone and called
a taxicab station in Joplin saying
that a broth 3r was seriously ill at
Columbus Kan and was not ex-
pected to live There were several
reports received here as to the man-
ner in which the man scaped One
was to the effect that he walked five
blocks after his escape from -the hos-
pital before calling a taxicab
' Two men one of whom answered
the description of Lee were said to
have visited a Picher restaurant for
breakfast at 6 o’clock yesterday
morning Officers sent to Picher
however could get no clue to the
direction taken by the supposed fu-
gitive after leaving Picher
Special authorities were on the
lookout all day Saturday for the
missing prisoner It is believed the
escaped man headed for Tulsa after
his disappearance
Lee was identified as one of a
party of four suspected of having de-
signs of robbery against a bank at
Oronogo Mo about a week before
and who was wounded in the hip by
Marshal James He was under sur-
veillance at the hospital
James E Dykes 23 Dies
at Family Home Here
(Wednesday's Daily)
James Enis Dykes 23 died at the
koine of his parents Mr and Mrs C
E Dykes at D street and Central
avenue Southwest at 3:30 o’clock
Tuesday afternoon of complication of
diseases He had been lil only three
days and preparations were belay
made to take him to the Miami Bap-
tist hospital when death came Fun
eral will be held at the family home
Thursday afternoon at 2:30 services
will be in charge of Rev C Stubble-
field Burial will be at the G A R cem-
etery James Ennis Dykes was born In
Carthage Mo December 27 1897
When about 12 years of age he
moved with bis parents and other
members of the Dykes family to Mi-
ami where he had since lived He
was a cook by occupation and war-
employed in the Hotel Miami Cafe
until Saturday night when he became
111
Besides his parents he leaves
three sisters Mrs Alice Hosier Car-
thage Mo Mrs P Allen Carthage
Myrtle Dykes Miami and a brother
Harvey of Miami
Called to Brothers ltrdslde
(Sunday’s Daily)
Mr and Mrs Harry Plummer re-
turned Saturday from a trip to Cof-
fpvvilla where they had been called
oil' account of the serious illness of a
brother of Mrs fHummer An oper-
ation for appendicitis had been per-
formed but it Is understood that the
patient is doing better
him loose when he promised not
to create a disturbance’
A few minutes later a deputy
sheriff arrested him and about
10:30 Policeman Wilbur arrest-
ed him again
County and city authorities
state that the young man haa
been following in hia "father’s
footsteps” -In the fight for the en-
forcement of prohibition but ev-
identy got side tracked long
enough to get several "shots”
ot corn whisky Thursday
GENUINE
§um'
DURHAM
tobacco makes 50
flood ciflarettes for
& l0c
SCOUTS ARE HAVING
‘BIG TIE’ AT CAMP
Letter Tells of Swimming and
Fishing Many Relatives
Visit Site
(Wednesdays Dally)
-Miami Boy Scouts are well start-
ed on a week’s program of fun and
Instruction at their camp near Fair-
land accord itjs lo word received
from mctrt:i of the party The
following letter ' received today
speaks for itself
“Dear Record-Herald: July 26
"We arrived at camp o k We got
here put up our tents and put a few
boys on K P After breakfast Bob
Pinnell Cravens and a few others '
went fishing Rev A P Cameron
caught a large bass -
"The swimming hole is where the
Cowskin emptiee into the Grand and
it’s not over your shoulders at any
point In the Cowskin there are
eome riffles The boye enjoy riding
the riffles Sometimes you bump ‘
-into a rlffly rock and you come up
all bruised up -
"We expect to have a lot of fun to-
morrow "Yours truly
"Max Patten Jr”
Every afternoon and evening the
Boy camp near Fairland in
visited by auto loads of Miamians
end relatives of the boys in camp
The autoists drive to the camp and
return late at night Tuesday nlgut
several Miamians drove to the camp
and spent the night with -the scouts
returning to Miami Wednesday
The scouts spend the day swim-
ming fishing and in hikes Reports
Irom the camp say the boys are get-
ting brown and are in griat spirits
over their outing
W Mark Sexton Will
Lecture Here Sunday
(Wednesday’s Daily)
W Mark Sexton of McAlester
widely known throughout the South-
west as a lecturer has been secured
by the Rev D A Dawson pastor of
the Methodist Episcopal Church
South to give an address on the
church lawn Sunday evening
The 8unday evening lecturea are
proving a big success according to
the Rev Dawson and seem to be
meeting with the approval of Miam-
ians as nearly 1000 people heard At-
torney General S P Freeling last
Sunday evening
In certain parts ot India no girl
can marry unless her father has been
pacified by a gift of rice and a tew
ru pees
PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN
Tills Is tlie Artist’s Idea of the Aw- -fill
Little Gel who parka her Chewing
Gum on Tables ’n Windows ’n Chair
’n Doors ’n Beds ’n Trees ’n Automo-
biles ’a Ev’rywlieres Remember LIT
Gel a Perfeet Lady does not Throw
b-r Used Chewing Gum under Foliuf
ioa She swatters it I
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