Miami Record-Herald (Miami, Okla.), Vol. 30, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, May 18, 1923 Page: 1 of 6
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OTTAWA COUNTY’
REAL NEWSPAPER
Leading Newspaper of Nortli
eastern Oklahoma Only Otu-
wa County Paper WHh a Dona-
fide County-Wide Circulation
Official Democratic NeivsPaP'e of Ottawa County Oklahoma
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OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
MIAMI OTTAWA COUNTY 0KLAH0A t RIIAY MAY 18 1DS19
LARGEST CIRCULATION
WHOLE NO VOL 42 NO' 40
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Increased $3500 to Provide for
Expansion of Organiza-
tion’s Activities
ft' $2450 IN PLEDGES
Enlargement of Agricultural Program
Contemplated With Additional
92000' Designated for
Work Among Farmers '
The budget for the fiscal year
1923-24 of the Miami Chamber of
Commerce providing for an expendi-
ture of 113985 as compiled by 'the
board of directors was presented to
the membership at the Thursday
noonday luncheon at Hotel Miami by
R J Tuthlll 1(
Tbtf budget this year amounts to
about 83500 more than last year
However early contributions are an
Indication that the budget will be
raised with little difficulty Volun-
tary donations received within ten
minutes after the closo of the moet-
zing amounted to 82450
The appropriation for the United
Charities a 'part of the budget last
year was omitted from the new bud-
get owing to the fact that the duties
of that organization have been taken
over by the Red Cross
82000 for Agriculture
Mr Tuthil) Indicated that It 1b the
sentiment of the board of' directors
that the chamber this year enlarge
Its program of agricultural activities
and to that end 82000 has been fixed
as the amount necessary for that pur-
pose From that amount It was said an
automobile will be purchased for
Secretary M W Krleger In order
that he may coma In' closer touch
with the community work A trailer
Upon which Is to be mounted an elec-
tric lighting plant also will be pur-
chased from this fund to be used at
the community meetings
i The budget as read by Mr Tuthlll
follows
Secretary's salary 83000 office
assistant 8f000 auxiliary office
help 8300 incidentals such as the
purchase of office furniture and
equipment 82000 for payment of
old debts 81500 highway expense
8250 agricultural program and com-
munity work 82000 office rent
8360 tourist camp 8200 bands for
concerts and entertainments 8300
fireworks and Incidentals for Fourth
of July celebration 8250 advertis-
ing and printing 850oT tor use of in-
dustrial department in bringing fac-
tories to Miami’ 82000 for member-
ship in Chamber of Commerce of the
United States 825
Pledge oards with the amount
specified us tho donation ot each
member of the chamber have been
made out and a number liuve already
been signed Tho curds will lie at
tlicc hnmbrr headquarters and at the
O T Dixon printing company and
may ho signed hy the members
Volmiloors to solicit the contribu-
tions will Sturt working Monday Mr
TiUliill said
The following contributed to tho
fund pledged at today's luncheon:
L W Thompson Wesley M Smith
C 8 Kennedy H D Cobbun-N E
O R R Co Miami Hotel Co Com-
merce Mining A Roy Co W H
Trapp ft Co Socurety State Bank
Millner ft Frtbley R J Tuthlll O
T Dixon Printing Co Massey Motor
Brakeman Injured In
Plunge From Box Car
Oscur Poe 33 years old a broke
man fur lhe Northeast Oklahoma rail-
road who lives at 20 2 G struct South-
oust suffered a slight injury to hls
Co Ottawa County National llnnk U(ti hhj left ankle was sprained an !
Vpnifnnnl T niiiifliiit T T TV I i 1 I '
Ins right foot was wrenched about
Crescent Laundry J J Ituhenstahl
Miami Hotel Cnfe Miami Nows Publ
Co A P Canioron Ottawa Cuuty
Ice Co
A B ADAMS NAMED
COLORADO SENATOR
Governor Ignores Wilson and
McAdoo In Filling Nich-
olson’s Place
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Donvor Colo May 17 — Alva B
Adams prominent Democratic leader
and attorney' of Pueblo was named
United States senator today by the
governor to till the unexplred term
of the late Samuel D Nicholson
By hls selection the governor
Ignored the recommendations ot both
Woodrow Wilson and W G McAdoo
'King Ben9 Lived in Regal Ease
Served by Silk-Draped Beauties
Supported by Cotton-Clad Cult
By J L O'SULLIVAN
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
St Joseph Mich May '17 — Ben-
jamin Purnell tho man who would
bo king ruled with regal pomp and
splendor In the Shiloh palace of the
House of David Surrounded by a
harem of ' "virgins” the "eleventh
angel" as he styled himself lived a
life of luxurious caso and splendor In
this Michigan "Valley of the Kings"
The Inner story of tho cult lead- eilks while tho less fortunate “sis-
er's lifo was given to the United tern" dressed in cotton and ate the
Press today by Lavina Johnson poorest food
4 PM FLASHES
Council Bluffs la May 17— Ftro
whicli broke out in the Farmers Cash
3tore today destroyed tho town of
Weston seven miles from here The
loss will exceed 850000
Loavenworth Knn May 17 —
James Dlvid Missouri Pucitic special
officer was shot and killed toduy by
o box car candlt in tho rnilroarl yards
here Tho bandits escaped utter
looting a freight car
Moscow Muy 17 — Slrty-ono per-
reus have been sentenced to die iu1 superintendent of schools stated to-
tho ltussiau government’s new cam-'duy Approximately 400 "perfect
paign to clean Its ilopiirlmonts of 'attendance” certificates in the rural
bribery Moro than 3000 have beer'gchools have been given out during
found guilty and given sentences the school year 1922-23 which
rauging from death to life impris- m08Ug that 400 children have attend-
onirent Iei) school for three months without
Ijelng tardy or absent
Eighty-three pupils In the county
of the Chinese government's embar-
ng ppisodo tho house of represents-
tives sitting in commitice of the(
dence in the government 251 to 70
DEATH TO FIGURE IN
CARLOCK DOPE CASE
Alleged Confession of Dying
Man Offered In Effort to
Clear Defendant
Two cases against J Trank Cal
lock Picher druggist who Is charg
ed with selling narcotics were con
tinued over the Mny term of Di-tricl
court this morning by Judge J J
Smith
The application for continuance
filed and read in open court bv coun-
sel for the defense contnined a state-
ment which was said to have been
the death bed confession of George
Cotter formerly a pharmacist in Car-
lock's diug store apparently Intend-
ed to exonerate the P'cher druggist
The statement said to bo that of
a defense witness in the case who
was at Cotter's bedside at tho time
ot hls dBath rec0Htly ln Treece' Kan
18 to the effcct that r°Uer 8011 the
ln th® defendant's drug store
wUll0t tho b"'v-edg ®r consent
of Cm lock
Tho co'itlnuuice was granted af-
ter it was shown efloits to Bcrve snb-
pmias on witnesses for the defense
had been futile becauso ot their teui-
pcr'irv absence from Hie county
Mrs El nor Zedoker a'los Red
wil'e’ 8 Ball! t-’ bo lhe 6U‘ "ll®hS
for the stole
7:30 o’clock Wodncsday night wlior
ho foil from a box car ‘
He was taken to lluptist hospital
n hero If was said this morning his In-
juries aro not believed to be scloue
Tho accident occurred at the Anna
Beaver spur of the clctrlc lino nurtb
ot Cardin
Rain Forces Change In
Opera Cast Reception
Owing to the unfavorable weather
the reception (or members of the
"Chimes ot Normandy" cast will he
held In the basement of the North
Methodist church tonight Instead of
at the Country club as first planned
The program will begin at 8
o’clock
A wasp’s nest
4000 Insects
averages about
Henger who said she had been em-
ployed by Purnell as a "spotter" re-
porting to the king 'regarding Indis-
cretions of his flock
Food was served this self-crowned
monarch on plates of gold and
washed down with liquor quaffed
from emerald-studded goblets while
trained hula hula dancers furnished
entertainment His beard was comb'
ed and his bath prepared by select
"sisters" who were arrayed in finest
RURAL SCHOOLS END
TERM WITH BRIGHT
ATTENDANCE SLATE
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83 Pupils Were Neither Absent
Nor Tardy During Year Trio
- Rewarded for Three- '
Year Records
All rural schools of the county
have closed with a record of excel-
lent attendance Harry C Ballinger
hov aUen(lcd the enllre term of
1922-23 without being either absent
lar(Jy They are located aa follows: '
'Con80ii()ated No 1 S P Huinmun
superintendent 25 pupils Rural
District No 16 E H Gellerman
er 6Rural District No 7 Cectle
Boone teacher 5 Rural District No
8 CiM- Cochran
District No 16
teacher 5 Rural District No 17
Mra Van Landlngham teacher 4
Rural District No 20 Ben J Sater
teacher 8 Rural District No 22 1
Georgia McBrien teacher 4 Rural
District No 24 Mayme Waldron
'teacher 2 Rural District No 27
poratlou commission
According to the rulln of the Fed-
eral Court with n0 Judge dissenting
teacher 7 Ruralthe skyja the limit the'gas rates’
E H Gillermun until further °rdois However the
court r3erve(1 A supervisory right
Should the 8s companies decide to
Lou Adair teacher 2B Rural District hands 0f tb® eorporatlon commission- llef tliat the Prlce9 fix0d by the ap-
No 33 Burley Davis teacher 3 ers for the tllna being- praisers were fair and if both the
Rural District No 34 Tillman Hays j May lke Detailed Inquiry hoard ahd owners of the tracts agree
teacher 4 Rural District No 37 Officials ot lhe Oklahoma Gas and 11 la probabl® tbe tracts will be pur-
Leona Miller teacher 3 Rural Dis- Electric c0mPany were of the opinion eha8ed at once-
trlot No 38 Reby Chenoweth teach- late Wednesday afternoon that a’ ' - 1
er 2 Rural District No 45 Juanita master weuld he appointed hy the INSURANCE AGENT ARRAIGNED
Weston teacher 5 court to in®1® a searching study of "N ‘NO LKUNSE’ CHARGE
’ There are three pupils ln the coun- valuations ®nd expenses of the gas I N Ilansbcrger a Joplin Insur-
ty who have attended school for three compaqica and would be roqjired to nnce agent was roleased under 9200
consecutive years without being report t0 the court when further rul- bond when arraigned In County court
either absent or tardy and awards
have been issued by the State Board
of Education at Oklahoma City for(
these etudents They are Melba
Harris and Mary CoatB ot Rural Dis-
trict No 20 add Jesse Helm ot Dis-
trict No 30
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New Facts May Clear
Clara In Hammer Case
Tngiiclgnip1 Honduras May 17 —
ImporUml new evidence may ho pre-
dated to -'ear tliri Phillips ot tho
ebaigo of having murdered Mrs Al-
herla Meid)ws with a hammer Jcsre
Camon who has been posing as tho
woman's husband declared hero to-
day Cnrsnn asm ted Hint Clara was not
the slayer charging that ono of llm
women who testified tor the prosecu-
tion wielded the hammer
Carson said bo was ready to threBh
til a wholo caso out in court bore ulul
block the proposed exlrudllluu
Petitions Ask Release
Of Lynching Leaders
(Hy Prn
Oklahoma Cily iMay 17 — Petitions
asking for the roloiBO of all per-
rons dentonced in connection with tho
lypehing of Jake Brooks packing
house worker horo last year woro
tiled toduy
More than 1000 algnaturos many
those ot persons oulsldo tho stulc
ware affixed to ahe petition relative
:o the cuse of Ira Wllliunis sentenced
to 25 yoais ln p-lson for criminal
issuult on a young woman in Musko-
gee In 1920 who was granted a six
Month' paroln by Governor Walton
The illness of Williams' mother wrr
glvon gs the reason for the parole
Two other prisoners were relcas-
d for tho same period and for simi-
lar reasons the records show
MKl
imiem
Oklahoma Situation Develops
Into Quoion of Company
Valuation
SKY PRESET LIMIT
UiMi'il ProlHibly III lie Named
to Detenu”0 ProlW'ly Figures
on Vlirl' New Charges
W'Hl Re Based
B y Preasa
Oklahoma cllY May H — Tho gas
rale situation hthoi state developed
Into a question of onipnuy valuation
today 'I j ’
t A ‘PrevatiloK stqtq-wido price for
gas was lacking folio" lug the deci-
sion of Federal Judge Kimbrough
here l8t0 Wednesday' placing the
rate-fixing power uddof federal con-Jc Tucker of Afton C E Roark pf
trol and virlnellyf eliminating tho Council Houso and Joe MfCullorgh
Stale Corporatuu commission from of south of Fairfand who wer np-
that field
Property valuation will
What rate vvill be charged by
companies observers declared '
Board tf Fix Vol“Hon
The comnlsson It was understood
by the attorney will appoint a
board to find the correct valuation of
the property B"d iue a new rate at
the conclusion -of the investigation
which wtit take 81Proiniately six
months
It was thought that the new rates
will be 8t least 5o cent8 at the burner
tip lor the Oklihona Gas and Elec-
trie company In Oklahoma City This
would mean a 6 cfent Increase over
the rate fixed las( Monday by the cor-
about three
weeks ago after a ' quantity of
Riverside park as has been proposed!
e I u I morphtna as found- secreted in ap
It will bo constructed adjqceptjn the K at BUBed (n-a sack
tract under condemnation Mr Barry alonRuhi Blhct IrHltt an
88 ' I doughnuts alleged to have been sent
The waisement will be present- hy McCoy to anoller prlBOncr the
raise the price of gas beyond reason ed to lhe boarI of city commission- C0Imty jalj
It is though that there will be no ers at the meetl"S n®1 MondM s'nce his commitment to the bas-
remedy not" Hie ca® comes up he- nlgbt tor consideration Mr Barry tile McCoy has made one a'tcmpt to p ete
fore the cOrt gain aa Wednesday’s sa(1- escape It was said by Sher'ft ChI1 The
ruling took the matter out of the1 The city attorney expiessed the be-
Ings might b® expected
died fewer than 000 dresses
were found In hor wardrobe
On8 thousand gardeners and labor-
ers are einPloyod to keep London's
great royal Kxrdons 1® ordor
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Should Boost the Home
Newspaper
The following is an excerpt of a letter received
front E R- Wnile Secretary of the Shawnee
Board of Commerce:
Shawnee Okla May 12 1923
Editor Kefoi'd-IIerald
Miami Oklahoma
Pear sir:— —All citizens ahoutd boost their local
newspapers and give them their hearty support
lhe more they boost the newspapers the more
the newspnpers ran boost the home community
Jlawspnpars keep a city alive
What is wanted is a live city to
LIVE in Not A DEM) ONE TO DIE IN
Yours very truly
E It WAITE
Secretary Shawnee Okla' Board of Commerce
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Three Appraisers Complete
Survey of 202 Lots Desired
for Hall Site and Park
now upTo Council
pointed In District court Wednesday
deckle' by Judge J J Smith and who vlew-
theed the lots late Wednesday
' Tho appraisers placed a value of
84800 on the five lots at the earner
of Second avenue aud South Main
street adjacent to the city hall the
!8it® proposed for the convention hall
Tim two lots on which the old Hv
cry stable stands were appraised ft
81050 cadi while the corner lot ami
the two lots directly adjacent to the
cily hull were appraised nt' 8000 1
e ich ' I
- s J 'clamping down on tho wholesaler
A value of 83o05 was placed oni ‘
the 197 lots adjacent to and east of! °t"eir "aU° Char8°8 a
Riverside park the prices fixed rang- pe" "f 888 ”8 ‘C °
ing from 85 to 8200 a lot If a dam Ia '°r he Ca8P8
1 McCoy he was released under bond
is constructed
river to form
across the
a boating
Neosho
pool for
was bou"d over to the District court
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THE WEATHER
Unsettled
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DRUG OR DEATH’
HIS ULTIMATUM
WIFE CHARGES
Charging that her husband is ad-
dicted to' the use of morphine and
that he threatened to kill her unices
she used the drug Mrs Hazel Mol
of Commerce filed suit for divorce
In ' District court hero Thursday
against Ralph Moll
Mrs Moll also charges her husband
wlih non-support Slid asks that the
court grant her 26 a month ullmony
and restore her maiden name Hnzol
Moorehead
They were married In Juno 1922
M’COY GETS 5 YEARS
IN NARCOTICS CASE
$5000 Fine Also Attached to
Jury’s Verdict Against t
Picher Man ' l
A term of five years In the peniten-
tiary and a fine of 85000 was rccom-
monded today by a Dlstrlrt court
Jury wlihh found Jim McCoy of Pick-
er guilty of a chnrge of possessing
narcotics Tho Jurors wero out 10
minutes
McCoy was arrested November 30
1922 in a raid on a rooming house! the Turks
In Piclior where the officers confis-
cated 1000 grains of morphine hid-
den in a fruit Jar and an ounce bot-
tle of cocaine
The present trial Is tho first In
which County Attorney Commons has
asked for the maximum penally of
seven years in prison and 85000
fine In his argument the prose-
cutor hiade a dramatic appeal for ex-
termination of the "dope” traffic by
l but was Jailed again
The report of the success of tho
fiesta was encouraging to the mem-
bers and lnsuies It as an annual
event In Miami While Mr Thomp-
son has not received reports from
At Doctors’ Session al1 °f the committees he gave out a
few of tho reports
Seven Ottawa county physicians i The drilling and shoveling con-
attended the convention of the Okla- tests incurred un expense of 8289 10
homa Medical association lu sosslon nil of which was met by popular con-
in Tulsa Tuesday WednesHday and trlbution from local mining men In-
Thursdny Tho Miami doctors re- terested ln development of the lndus-
turned from the meeting today Tnoso
who attended from this county were
Drs General Pinnell W B Smith
Lemuro'of ' AVoliraud 'w' A"s7hley
of Cardin-
Muie lhm 500 doctors from ovor
Hio state attended the
Yihlch was said by the local physi-'8trel
emns to have been one of the host
mctngs of tho association ever held
convention
Kansas Sheriff Unable
To Find John Pinkerton
Columbus Kan May 17 — Al-
though Sncrlff Dick Hulinun has been
unable to find John Pinkerton
wanted iu connection with the shoot-
ing Sunday of Niles Waggoner and
Charles Fleming at Blue Mound he am
has been in touch with relatives of q-e
the two men who were preseut whenwa8 tho signal for a noisy and hilari-
the shooting occurred
Clifford Pinkerton John Harper
and his wife and the children of John 1
Pinkerton all of whom were with
tho latter Sunday afternoon wore
found In a rooming house in Picher
Okla They have not been arreBted I
Harper and Clifford Pinkerton told
a different story in regard to tho
shooting They said that lhe Wag-
goners attempted to rock thorn oft
that
the' Waggoner property and
Mrs Waggoner tried to take tho re-
volver away from John Pinkerton
Keyhole Slculll Tiiuniphs
Oklahoma City May 17 — A key-
hole alt'll th proved the undoing of un
ulleged female bootlegger here
‘ There’s a blond hooded woman
Dr E P Malone returned Thurs-
day from Tulsa whore he attondod
hoie selling whisky to my husband the convention of tho Oklahoma As-
I got the dope on Jier by peeping socfutlon of Osteopaths which was In
through the keyhole" an excited sesaion Tuesday aud Wednesday
woman notified pollco i Tuesday night Doctor Malone was
Hurrying to the number MIbs the toastmaster t a banquet which
Estelle Squlies was arrested with was attended by about 80 members
pint of whisky on her person police of the association from all parta of
snld ' the state
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Serbia and Bulgaria Tgke Sides
Respectively With Major
Disputants
ALL NATIONS ALERT
h'enr Tlmt Controversy Over Near
Fast Reparation Muy Cause
Geurral Conflict Spreads
lu Europe
f By Unites PreMI
Lausanne May 17 —Renewal of
tho Tirrco-Gioek war with Serbia as
an ally of Greoco and Bulgaria as an
ally of Turkey was threatened today
Such a Balkan conflagration It is
feaied might preelpRato another
goiioral European conflict
The Greek delegates this morning
throateitod to leave tho peaco con-
ference Fridayunicts tho Turks fore-
go their leparutions claims At the
suno time Athons tva threatening to
send troops to the territory held by
Rcpoils also havo tioen'v reKived
hero that British ffrers"ln Turkey
have been requested to cancel their
social engagement
BALANCE TO REMAIN
IN FIESTA COFFERS
— — — ’
Finance Chairman Estimates
$1000 Will Be Cleared
Above Expenses
Assurance that Miami's first
Iniaim-Amokalko fiesta held last
week was a financial success was
given Thursday by L W Thompson
chairman of the finance committee
at the noonday luncheon of the
Chamber of Commerce In estimating
that there will be a balance on hand
of about 81000 when the statement
of the celebration has been com-
try he reported A profit of 9543 45
resulted from the Queen Imairn elec-
tion while 836042 was received
from the carnival and 8255 from the
concessions The Tour of the Na-
tions netted 8233 between 8500 and
8600 was received from “Tlio Chimes
of Normandy” while Queen Esther”
each netted about
Thompson said
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and the School of Mines girls' mln-
8200 Mr
Queen Imaim Is Honor
Guest at Luncheon
Miss Maxine Palmer who occupied
the throne as Queen lma'liu' daring
Miami's recent spring festival and
her 12 attendants were guests Thurs-
day at the noonday luncheon ot tho
Chamber of Commerce at Hotel Ml-
Introductlon of Mis Palmer
ous greeting on tho part of the mem-
bership which was only subdued
when Her Highness begnn spoaklng
Queen Imaim In a brief statement
wished for’ the success ot the cham-
ber during the coming year
Her attendants were Misses Chrls-
tlno McConnell Leila Fribley Cath-
erine Wills Dorothy Maitln Gladys
Shepherd Elmario Young Dorothy
shepherd Jean Buckingham Kath-
ryn Wagoner Lucille Hubbard Leota
Barnard and Opal Carroll
Dr Malone Presides at
State Osteopath Feast
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