Marietta Monitor (Marietta, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, September 7, 1923 Page: 2 of 8
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We Have Just Received a Fresh
Car of Farmer-Union Flour
Come and Get Yours
Out of This Car
$325 Per Hundred
Flour is Going Up and Will Cost
You More Money
TRADES DAY SPECIALS
11 lbs Cane Sugar - - - $100
Best Peaberry Coffee 4 lbs $100
8 lbs Dried Apricots - - $100
20 Bars Crystal White Soap $100
30 Bars Polar White Soap - $100
No 3 Galvanized Wash Tubs 75c
12 lbs Pinto Beans - - $100
Farmer-Union Store
J B COLVIN Mgr
G ASOLINE TAX RULING
GIVEN IN OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma City Sept 3 — The gas-
oline tax of lc a gallon now collected
by the state shall be prorated to
each county in the state in the pro-1
portion to the percentage of approv-1
ed mileage of the state reads an
opinion from the Attorney General's
office to Paul Nesbit state highway
commissioner I
The gasoline tax law was enacted
by the last legislature The opinion
is in answer to a query from the
commissioner The question was ask-
ed should the tax be prorated to the
counties in accordonce with the per-
centage of state roads in the county
actually approved as state roads or
should the tax be prorated to the
counties in accordance with the per-
centage of state roads that the coun-
ty actually approved as state roads
or should the tax be prorated to the
counties in accordance with the per-
fT
There's Another Season
In that overcoat or suit of yours’ men If the lining
is ripped we’ll repair or replace it If it needs a
new collar we’ll provide one- At any rate we’ll
repair clean and press it to look like new
Blacks Tailoring Company
PHONE 47
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“BETTER HAVE IT AND NOT NEED IT
THAN NEED IT AiD NOT HAVE IT’
Grain Insurance
Now is the time to insure your grain crop— the
work of an entire season — don’t let it go up in-
smoke — But if it does be prepared by having it
insured-
STRONG COMPANIES— CHEAP RATES
t
Richard C Smith
THE INSURANCE MAN
Fire Tornado Auto and Farm Insurance
Phone 56 Marietta Okla
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centage of state roads that the coun-
ties should have?
The tax has been collected by the
state auditor but is placed to the
credit of the state for the purpose
of building roads This in turn is
sent to counties for the purpose of
aiding the building of roads in the
respective counties but must be pro-
rated as outlined in the Attorney
General’s opinion
THANKS TO THE KLAN
I take this method of expressing
my sincere appreciation to the
Knights of the Ku KIux Klan - of
Marietta No 227 for the liberal do-
nation of which they were so kind
and generous in donating to me in
the sad hour of sorrow and which
was enclosed in the following letter
True friends in need are friends in
deed May God’s richest blessings be
with each and every one is our hum-
ble prayer
T C SALLE AND
DAUGHTER
IS Fill
STATE CAPITOL
(By W F Bickford)
Olcluliuma Cily— Coincident with
i o'jvluusly report that
g £ex Baird 11 Markham com-
inl tl’i state troops ocrupyliit
vi as c'tout to arrest the "ctrs-
r ' i:l- 1" of Uk’ahori i 'a whlppl ig
i 'Its a verlt-t'-ic title of this-
t'-oke out la various counties
i- cf ih 'iti in Tilsu Itself - where
i j law was ('-e’lir J by Cover-
or J C Vrltou nearly tv nionb ngi
a it v It of the ia'i'st whip tins
o n ! ar 1 ol'nri under Inquiry
u io on” ly tif nu'ioiol Knar!
’us tlie contil'eH of 0!ini!e
1 "j r Unllo Wu h'n son Wit'?-
- ctl M:dirt:iin G jvoraor Wnl-
give no evidence of weakening la
s Itt'rn ijn to sui press mob law
vea s'c !J it require the services of
he eelie Oklahoma ml 1 1 ( la
Hl-:c u-e the recent developments
rt Waliuns war on OUluhonta whip-
Cinf-rolon of Constable William Ar-
thur r'nloy of Broken Arrow Tulsa
jount v that us a up-mber of the Ku
Kiux Klan he participated In a mob
Hogging when Mis Myrtle Spain of
3roken Arrow and Leslie Goolsby
whom she luter married were whip-
ped Finley was sentenced to two
years in the state prison
Arrests or numerous Tulsa county
citizens on charges of rioting grow-
ing out of whippings In the last year
A formal statement by Governor
Walton that official and unofficial
sentiment in Tulsa county apparently
has favoted mob law
Filing of a $100000 civil suit at Tul-
sa against Walton and Markham by
W W Wilcox superintendent of a
consolidated rural school In Tulsa
county held under $1500 bond on a
charge of riot
la boldest defiance of General Mark-
ham's militiary investigation in Tulsa
seven masked men kidnaped W J
Mathews a mechanic took him to
Red Fork a surburban town beat him
severely on the way and were pre-
paring to lash him when be made his
escape Two of bis ribs were broken
by a kick administered by one of his
captors while he waa lying In the
bottom of a car
Reporting to General Markham Im-
mediately after he bad secured medi-
cal treatment Mathews said be was
passing the Y M C A- budding la
Tulsa's downtown business section
when an occupant of a passing auto-
mobile hailed him As be answered
a summons to the car several of tne
seven men In It seized him and threw
him to the floor inside
Mathews fought all of the way to
Red Fork and in the darkness suc-
ceeded in giving his captors the slip
He was unable to indentify all of his
abductors be said but named one as
a man with whom he had had trouble
over mon’ey matters
A few hour3 before Mathew's ex-
perience O White a negro appeared
at the governor's office in Oklahoma
City displaying wounds he said bo
had received at the hands of a band
of whippers near the city of Okmul-
gee which was under martial law for
several days before the troops were
sent Into Tulsa capitol of the ad-
joining county
White declared to Governor Walton
that he recognized three of his assail-
ants and said he could indentify tho
other three in the party He named a
deputy sheriff and two well know Ok-
mulgee citizens
The governor at once dispatched a
curt telegram to Sheriff John Russell
of Okmulgee county demanding to
know what action had been taken to
apprehend the whippers A similar
message was sent to County Attorney
Grant Gillespie the executive statlDg
that the county officials would be giv-
en an opporunity to show that they
could cope with the situation before
guardsmen would be sent back into
the county
White a teamster employed by an
oil company said six men came to
bis house at 2 a in1 tore the screen
door down took him from the house
and knocked him to the ground with
the butt of a revolver A gon was
held at his wife's head while he was
beaten After the whipping he said
the Doggers asked him some questions
and left remarking that they had
“bad the wrong man”
Requests that the state take charge
of the situation in Wagoner Wash-
ington and McCurtain counties came
from citizens of each on the day that
White visited the capitol building
Unconfirmed reports of whippings el-
sewhere from every corner of the
state have poured into the governor’s
office within the last tea days ac-
cording to Executive Counselor Aid-
rich Blake
Constable Finley the fourth Klans-
man to confess participation in a Tui-
sa county whipping appeared in coutt
with his attorney to make a clean
breast of things and ask for mercy
He was dressed In rough work
clothes his throat bare at the neck
and a big hole in one of his - plow-
shoes His attorney's plea for lenien-
cy was chiefly an attack on the KK
K Finley's two-year sentence was
the minimum under the Oklahoma law
and the same as given the three
Klansmen who had pleaded guilty be-
fore him
These three were given 13-ffay stays
of execution in order that they might
be held in Tulsa and used as witnes
les against the Tulsans arrested sfeoe
heir confessions for complicity tn
floggings
The Information against Finlay
charged W M Bills Harve Acers'
City Marshal BindHlisw of Broken Ar-
row and T If Matthew with thn
same whipping Bills Is also charged
with helping flog J S lawhorn of
Jenlts an oil town In Tulsa county
Myrtlo Spain one of the vlctlma or
ihe Finley whipping party wus the
'tlie of pi'ofiVHlonul psrichuM
jumper He wus killed in a Jump at
Sonera Mo July 4 1922 and friends
'aid lie committed suicide because of
icqai'iit quarrels with tits wife Tim
woman and Goolsby were whipped
just a few days Li tore the Tula! Jump
Masked men toak the couple from
officers at Broken Arrow and beat
bo'h severely Mrs Spain reported to
officers later Hut she was iotd In the
mm" of the Ku Kiux Klan to return
to her husband nnd try for two
weeks to live with him She remain-
ed with Spain one night nnd then re-
turned to Goolsby whom she married
soon after Spain's death-
General Markham also caused the
filing of riot charges against Marshal
Moore A V Brudshaw A if Bate-
man Harve Acers and A O Schrad-
er of Broken Arrow In connection
with the lashing of Jack Wentz
March IS 1922 Bradshaw and Acers
already were held In the Spaln-Gools-by
case After his second arrest the
town council ousted City Marshal
Bradshaw
Wilcox petitioner in the $100000
suit against Governor Walton and
General Markham claims that he was
wrongfully arrested by military auth-
orities and heidwithout sufficient food
and water lu prison barracks while
the militia officers tried to coerce him
into a statement Ho aska $50000 for
injury to his name and reputation and
$50000 for alleged wrongful arrest
Governor Walton’s formal state-
ment on ills attitude toward mob law
lu Qklahoma was elicited by a re-
quest from an eastern newspaper
“Thousands of citizens otherwise
'normal” be said “apparently approve
whippings on the theory that it la
utterly impossible to secure prosecu-
tion and conviction through the legal
agencies of government
“In Tulsa county where I declared
martial law it is said that sentiment
in favor of such whippings is domin-
ant One secret organization has had
a militiary department with what Is
called a whipping squad and a great
deal of violence undoubtedly will be
traced to this source
“However many of these outrages
have been committed by individuals
and gangs probably belleviDg that the
outrages would be blamed on such or-
ganizations as might be regularly at
work
“It Is difficult from the outside to
appreciate the degree to which our
law enforcement agencies are involv-
ed in these outrages and to what ex-
tent the public has lost faith in them
This faith must be restored”
J C HolliDgshead of Enid is out
of the state penitentiary where' be
was serving sentences aggregating 26
years for automobile stealing
J D Hollingsliead rich farmer of
near Perry is out $5000 which he
paid to L S Flannery a Ponca City
taxi driver bolding a special police
commission from Governor Walton
This Holiingshead Is father of the
freed convict and paid the $5000
when Flannery delivered the signed
pardon
Governor Walton is out gunning
for those who have Involved him in
another unsavory incident growing
out of pardon and parole solicitation
Judge J V Roberts of Euid explain-
ed that he and James ' Mathers of
Ardmore former county attorney of
Carter county spilt the $5000 and
that it was paid them to represent
Holiingshead in eleven automobile
theft cases still pending against him
County Attorney J P Crowe at
Enid where the cases against Hol-
llngshead are pending laid there nev-
er had been any intention of prosecut-
ing any of them after Holiingshead
was sentenced to the penitentiary
So according to Governor Walton
it appears that Holiingshead’s father
was “duped”
While the facts relating to the Hot-
Ilngshead case were developing Gov-
ernor announced that be would call
on the next legislature to enact a law
prohibiting exorbitant fees in pardon
and parole cases
On suspicion that Ed Lockhart was
one of the bandits wbo held up and
robbed the Southern State bank at
Mazle Mayes county Aug 24 tbe gov-
ernor revoked a parole granted Lock-
hart two days before freeing him
from a 20-year sentence for robbing
the Farmers State Bank at Gore
Before the revocation could be
served on Lockhart be had disap-
peared He is a native of eastern
Oklahoma a known desperate charac-
ter and credited with a long criminal
record Records in Ihe governor's of-
fice Bhow he was granted a six months
parole to visit his wife and children
who were reported to be destitute in
SL Joseph Mo
Here are tbe more important acts
of executive clemency within a week:
Pat Whitfield Carter county four
years for manslaughter Jan 26 1923
pardoned '
Jim Noel McCurtain county ten
years for robbery paroled by Gover-
nor J B A Robertson now pardoned
Roy Carr Muskogee county 21
years for manslaughter July 1915 pa-
roled Tom Tracy Comanche county two
years for larceny J921 paroled
If ever there wa3 a wall finish that just
suited a bedroom it is Melldtone We can’t
exactly tell you why But when you see its
charming velvety-like finish and the excep-
tionally pleasing array of colors it comes in’
you’ll know better than if we took all this
page to tell you about it
That’s why we are suggesting that you
drop into our store and see for yourself
After which make up your mind what’s best
for that bedroom of yours
For Salo By
WAPLE3- PAINTER
NOTICE OF SALE OF
REAL ESTATE BY GUARDIAN
In the matter of the guardianship
of Freeman Bonner minor Geo H
Collins guardian
Notice is hereby given that in pur-
suance of an order of the county
court of Carter county Oklahoma
made on the 30th day of August
1923 the undersigned as guardian
of the estate of Freeman Bonner a
minor will sell at private sale to
the highest bidder subject to confir-
mation by the court on the 22nd day
of September 1923 at ten o’clock
a m of said day and date at Ard-
more Oklahoma all right title and
interest of the said Freeman Bonner
in and to the following described real
estate situate in Love county Okla-
homa towit:
The southwest quarter of the south
west quarter (swl-4 of swl-4) of
section 11 township 6 south range
1 west in Love county Oklahoma
Said real estate will be sold on
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and dispatch and will be made by people who
know HOW Try us with your next order for an
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The Cold Hand of Winter
When the cold hand of winter hovers over your
home will you be ready to protect your family from
the cold with a well-heated house-
You will if you let us put your coal supply in
for you now- And you will save money too for
prices are less now than they will be in the winter
We have the RIcAlester lump coal for August
delivery at $1100 per ton
We also have the Henryetta coal for August de-
livery at $9-50 per ton
D L NEAL
LBR CO
the following terms and conditions
towit: Cash on delivery of deed
Bids for the purchase thereof must
be in writing and must be filed in the
county court of Carter county Okla
or delivered to the undersigned at
the office of his attorneys Bass &
Hardy at 124 1-2 Main St Ard-
more Okla on or before said day
of sale and the hour of said said
sale aforesaid
GEO H COLLINS
9-7-3 Guardian
TO TRESSPASSERS
This is to notify the public that
all land owned or controlled by
Lacy & Womack is posted and that
no tresspassing of any nature what-
ever will be allowed Anyone caught
hunting or - tresspassing on said
premises in any manner will be
prosecuted as the law directs
8-31-4 H P WOMACK
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Choate, Henry Willis. Marietta Monitor (Marietta, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, September 7, 1923, newspaper, September 7, 1923; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1753569/m1/2/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.