The Newkirk Herald Journal (Newkirk, Okla.), Vol. 36, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 11, 1929 Page: 1 of 8
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OKLAHOMA CITY
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
TEDS
IKK HERALD JOURNAL
(Successor to THE DEMOCRAT-HERALD anl THE REPUBLICAN NEWS JOURNAL)
(Tho Thursday Edition of Tm Nowkirk Daily Reporter)
VOLUME NO XXXVL ' NEWKIRK OKLAHOMA THURSDAY JULY 11 1929 NUMBER 44
Graham’s Ranch
Ranked Among
Best In Territory
Stock Farm Is Modem And
Complete Owner’s Prog
ress Interesting
Fulton Graham’s 2300-acre
ranch 10 miles east of Newkirk
is reputed to be among the fore-
most stock ranches in this section
and is the more wonderful to a
visitor when he has learned that
the ranch complete stock of mod-
ern equipment and herds of dairy
-and beef cattle hogs and chick-
ens have been accumulated by
Graham since 1918
When a young man Graham’s
father gave Fulton and his broth-
er William a wagon and team of
horses as their start in business
The two brothers rented a farm
near Dexter Kan and lived there
three or four years before Belling
out to go in the mercantile bus-
iness at Dexter Some years
later the brothers went into the
same line of business at Kaw City
staying there until 1917 when
they closed out their stock and
decided to take a well earned va-
cation There was probably never a
more thorough vacation than this
one Three cars carrying Fulton
and William and their families
and their parents were used on
the trip which covered most in-
teresting points in the United
States and took the whole of a
year to complete In 1918 they
returned to Oklahoma and Fulton
Graham invested his money in
land His first venture in farm-
ing taught him a lesson he de-
clares “There is lots of money in
livestock raising’’ he said “but
"grain farming alone does not pay’’
His lay off for a year convinced
him that a little play along with
-a lot of hard work is a good thing
toward keeping fit and each year
he and his family which includes
his wife and nine children take
a vacation trip
Graham seems to posses a na-
tural ability for buying and trad-
ing livestock The business be-
gun on a small scale in 1918 has
grown until much of the fine
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Newkirk Man Is
Held J For Murder
Former Fire Chief One Of
Four Dry Officer
Tom Little former chief of the
Newkirk fire department is one
of the four federal prohibition
agents charged with murder in
Pottawatomie county in connec-
tion with deaths of two farmers
near Tecumseh Independence day
W W “Snake” Thomason fed-
eral prohibition agent and his
three “under cover” - unofficial
aides Tom Little Jeff Harris and
J D Williams are now in jail in
Tecumseh awaiting preliminary
hearing Saturday morning
The four men were transferred
Monday from the Pottawatomie
county jail to the Oklahoma City
jail when federal officers said
they feared mob violence might be
attempted if the men remained in
the county The prohibition of-
ficers were returned to the Pot-
' tawatomie jail Wednesday aft-
ernoon All four men are charged with
the murder of James Harris and
Jeff Harris is facing a charge of
murder in connection with the
death of Oscar Lowery The two
men died of wounds received in a
shooting affray when an attempt
was made to raid their farm near
Tecumseh July 4 “ '
Feeling is said to be high in the
Tecumseh neighborhood since the
raid Threats of violence were
made after the American Legion
post at Shawnee had posted reso-
lutions bitterly denouncing the en-
forcement methods
''Little who claims Newkhrk as
his residence served as fire chief
here under H S Burke then may-
or Prior to holdng the city job he
operated a cafe here He had a
cafe at Pawhuska until he joined
the prohibition force sometime
ago
Mexican May Face
Charge Of Dueling
Would Be First Prosecution
Of Kind In County
—
Prosecution of Jose Caudillo
under the Oklahoma statute
against dueling is expected if
Caudillo recovers from knife stabs
and gunshot wounds received in a
sanguine combat Fourth of July in
which his foe Abraham Hernan-
dez was fatally wounded
County Attorney Bruce Potter
has not decided whether he will
file a charge of fighting a duel or
a charge of murder against Cau-
dillo upon recovery but he stated
present evidence favoys a dueling
charge No defendant has ever
been prosecuted for dueling in
Kay county
The two Mexicans Caudillo
farmer living near Tonkawa and
Hernandez railroad laborer are
said to have met in front of Her-
nandez’ home at Whiteagle Indian
agency to settle a grudge of long
standing with knife and pistol
Hernandez stabbed six times in
the breast and stomach died
shortly after the fight Physicians
at the Ponca City hospital where
Caudillo lays with several knife
stabs and three gunshot wounds
believe he will recover from his
critical condition
Officers have been unable to
find any person who witnessed the
entire duel
CLAIM AGAINSt KAY
Farmer Wants $10 For Two
j Destroyed Oats Shocks
“To oat shocks destroyed by
deputy sheriffs $10” ‘ '
I The above is copied from a claim
filed in the office of the county
clerk Wednesday morning by a
farmer who owned land that a
filling station raided by Kay
county officers last week was lo-
cated on
i Officers in the sheriff’s office
say that the oat shocks concealed
the liquor that was found on the
raid and admit they “worked sev-
eral of them over’’ Bruce Potter
county attorney indicated that he
would approve the claim at the'-
rate of ten-cents a shock
NEW CHURCH SERVICE
PLAN IS POPULAR
Change in schedule of Sunday
school and morning preaching
service at the Presoyterian church
resulted Sunday in larger attend-
ance at both services according
to Rev D D Swinney pastor of
the church He said members of
his church are well-pleased with
the change
Sundav school opens at 8:15 a
m instead of 9:45 a m and the
morning preaching service is con-
ducted from 9 to 10 o’clock instead
of 11 to 12 o’clock under the new
plan which began Sunday
RAIL LINE TIEUP IS
CAUSED BY WASHOUT
All cars of a Midland Valley
Railway Co freight train left the
tracks four miles east of Hardy
Saturday night when the rails
weakened as a six-inch rain
washed out the fill
The engine remained on the
tracks - No one was injured
While a wrecking crew was at the
scene early Sunday morning traf-
fic was not permitted over the line
Sunday
QUOTA IS EXCEEDED
Seventeen boys from Kay coun-
ty are at Fort Sill in Citizens’
Military Training camp which be-
gan Monday morning They will
remain in camp a month The
county’s quota was 14
NEARING COMPLETION
Only one and one-half miles of
concrete on highway No 77 north
of Perry remain to be poured re-
ports state Completion is ex-
pected in the near future if
'weather conditions are favorable
“Home Town 99 Girl to Dance In Paris
Miriam Fischer Wichita Danseuse Wins Recognition
Of The East — Plans Foreign Invasion
&
A former Newkirk girl will be dancing in Paris this winter if
present plans materialize
' Mrs Miriam Fischer of Wichita who has won recognition in the
East expects to leave in th near future to study ballet with Michael
Fokine in New York this fall and fater go to France
Mrs Fischer danced at the?'
Strand theatre in New York last
year and at the Chicago theatre in
Chicago since the first of the
present year She has studied un-
der such famous masters as Ches-
ter Hale Serge Leslie Ted Shawn
and Anatole Bourman and won
their high approval
Two years ago she toured Eu-
rope with her husband Otto L
Fischer head of the piano de-'
partment of the College of Fine
Arts of the University of Wichita
They found American dances
were decidedly popular especially
in London and Paris and that
American musical comedies also
win favor in Europe
Mrs Fischer attended grade
school and highschool in Newkirk
and was graduated from the local
highschool in the class of 1919
The first summer after graduation
she was a news reporter for the
Newkirk Daily Reporter She is
well-known here and has many
friends who wish her success in
her ambition to become a premier
dancer
Always fired with an ambition to
“do something” she left Newkirk
late in 1919 and enrolled at a
music conservatory in Wichita
A romance began and soon she
was married to Fischer head of
the conservatory ' She studied
music and dancing and after mas-
tering both arts served as an in-
structor Her dancers were pop-
ular entertainers in Wichita be--fore
she decided to devote her ac-
tivities to the stage
On several occasions while
studying at Wichita Mrs Fischer
appeared in entertainments at
Newkirk theatres She has visited
in her “home town” numerous
times since her marriage
County Road Work
Is Progressing
j i
Contract Soon for Graveling
Newkirk-Braman
— !j
The contract for earth embank-
ment and backfill work on ten
bridges on a six-mile stretch on
the Newkirk-Braman highway will
be let July 18 by the board of
county commissioners according
to Joe Clark county engineer
The road on which the work
will be done runs six mlies east of
Braman Plans call for approxi-
mately 3500 cubic yards of earth
embankment and backfill Work
must be completed within 60 days
after the contract is let
It is understood that a contract
for graveling the Newkirk-Braman
highway will be let when bridge
work is completed Two bridges
remain to- be completed at the
present timely
Graveling work on the Ponca
Citv-Whiteagle and Ponca City-
Blackwell roads is progressing ac-
cording to Clark Work on the six-
mile Ponca City-Whiteagle road
will be completed within a few
days About half of the six-mile
Ponca City-Blackwell road is grav-
eled Bridges spanning Big Beaver
creek in the east part of the
county which were damaged by
flood waters several weeks ago
are being repaired and replaced
One bridge was completely washed
out and floors of two others were
damaged
Plans for the annual summer
cam'p which will be held in
August were discussed at a meet-
ing of Girl Scouts this afternoon
WEATHER
OKLAHOMA — Partly
cloudy tonight and tomor-
row
Delinquency Is v
Charged Against
Ponca City Youth
Killed HU Companion In a
“Cowboy-Indian” Game
Last February
That Kenneth Stahl 11-year-old
Ponca City youth alleged to have
killed his playmate Julius Mans-
field 12 years old during a sham
battle of “cowboy and Indians” be
declared a neglected and delin-
quent child is asked in a petition
filed in the juvenile division of
county court by County Attorney
Bruce Potter
The boy who has been living in
(Ponca City with his foster mother
Mrs Ruth Stahl was lodged in
the juvenile ward of the county
(jail Wednesday night He will be
given a hearing Friday in county
court
The Mansfield boy was killed
last February when a group of
children were playing together
An investigation was requested
by neighbors of the Stahls
The petition also alleges the
yopth is incorrigible wanders
about the streets and in railroad
yards and 1b growing up in idle
ness Mrs Stahl divorced from
her husband a Tonkawa mechan-
ic has been leaving the child at
home alone while she worked in
town
Local Banks Have
New Paper Money
Limited Amount Placed°In
Circulation Here
Limited amounts of Uncle Sam’s
new paper money in denomina-
tions from $1 to $20 have been re-
ceived by Newkirk banks The
currency was placed in distribu-
tion Wednesday morning
Many curiosity seekers visited
local banks exchanged large old
bil(s for small new bills It is es-
timated that within three or four
months most folks will have to do
their spending with bills of both
sizes but by the end of that period
practically all of the old currency
will be out of circulation
Advantages as outlined by
treasury officials include greater
convenience in handling and car-
rying the money improved ap-
pearance uniformity of design
insofar as the backs and portraits
on each denomination are con-
cerned to make quick recogni-
tion easier and counterfeiting
harder although not increasing
the purchasing power of the
money one hands out will at least
tend to improve the sanitary con-
dition of the money one takes in
QUICK SERVICE
Booze Manufacturing Draws 60-
Day Jail Term And $50 Fine
A record for quick justice was
set Saturday afternoon by Harold
Mead deputy sheriff and Ralph
Harder assistant county attorney
Less than an hour after they left
the courthouse armed with a
search and seizure warrant a boot-
legger was in the county jail serv-
ing a sentence
They arrested Arthur Hubbard
following a raid on his place
northeast of Ponca City in which
they seized a whiskey still Hub-
bard pleaded guilty before County
Judge R M Parkhurst to violation
of the liquor law and was meted a
60-day jail term and $50 fine
Kay Noble Revert
To One Court Area
Legislature Kills Twelfth
District Rice Is Out
Failure of the state senate to
pass the house bill making per-
manent the situation in the
twelfth judicial district of Kay
and Noble counties will leave this
district with only one district
judge after the present term of
Judge W E Rice of Ponca City
The 1927 legislature because
of congested court dockets in this
district authorized Governor
Johnston to name ' an additional
judge and he appointed Rice
The other judge is Claude Duval
of Newkirk re-elected in the fall
of 1926
The present legislature was
asked to make permanent the pres-
ent condition here with both
judges nominated and elected
within the district The house
passed the bill but the senate re-
fused Attorneys say a badly
congested condition of the court
dockets will result again
RIVALS IOWA CORN
With Sufficients Moisture Kay
County Will Have Banner Crop
- With two or three good rains
during July and the same number
in August Iowa will have a rival
to its state song: “Iowa Iowa
that Iowa Where the Tall Corn
Grows” With sufficient mois-
ture and late frost' Kay county
will be long on corn this year
The region around Braman
claims the honor of having the
tallest corn in northern Oklahoma
or southern Kansas The color
of the plants is so dark green that
at first glance they appear black
There is one large field planted
to corn two miles west of the
northern end of the townsite in
the Chikaskia river bottom that
wfis not flooded with the river’s
overflow last spring where the
stalks measure over eight feet in
height
FUNERAL SATURDAY FOR
MRS ETTA BORCHERS
Funeral services were held
Saturday at the family home one
mile south of Peckham and at the
German Lutheran-church in Wes-
ton township for Mrs Etta Bor-
chers who died early Wednesday
morning Burial was in the New-
kirk cemetery
Mrs Borchers is survived by six
sons and daughters Mrs Gerd
Ludwigs another daughter by the
same name and Henry Borchers
all of Iowa Herman of Arkansas
City and Eilert and Etta who re-
side at the family home
INSPECTOR TO PONCA
Ponca City has received notifi-
cation from the acting supervis-
ing architect of the treasury de-
partment at Washington that an
inspector will arrive the latter
part of the week to select a site
for the federal building which
will be erected in Ponca City at
a cost of $185000
Chafes frghroa
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Total Acreage Of
Crops About Same r
As Last Season
—FEDERAL REPORT
Decrease -Reported In Rye
v Corn Oats Potatoes (
Wheat Increase
Estimates issued by federal ag- -ricultural
department Wednesday
indicated decreases this season in-
the acreage of corn oats rye
rice potatoes and cowpeas In-
creases are indicated in acreages
of wheat barley flax seed cotton
hay sweet potatoes beans pea-
nuts soy beans and sugar beets
: Allowing for Borne late crops
still to be planted and for the
usual loss of acreage from
drought floods and other causes
the department said the total crop
acreage harvested this season
seems likely to be about the same
as that of last season
In general the acreages planted
appeared- to be close to the in-
tended acreages which farmers
reported in March' The chief ex-
ception was in those areas where
wet weather has interfered ' with
the planting of corn and oats
While it is still too early the
report Bald to forecast accurately
the position of late planted crops
the reports received from ' pro-
ducers indicated that up to July
1 the weather was 27 percent
more favorable ‘ for crops than
last year’s
In the country as a whole the
condition of crops average 37
percent below the 10-year average
between 1918 and 1927 Only
July 1 crops were in particularly
critical condition in the northern
great plains region where drought
and high temperatures prevailed
and prospects were declining
daily
The estimate of the area of
corn this year of 98333000 acres
is 23 percent below the acreage
harvested in 1928 Condition of
corn July 1 was 776 percent one-
half point lower than a year ago
The first report covering all -classes
of wheat indicated a prob-
able production of about 834000-
000 bushels in 1929 compared with
902000000 in 1928 and an aver-
age production of 810000000 dur-
ing the 5-year period of 1923-’27
Winter wheat production indi-
cated by condition July 1 is 582-
000000 bushels a reduction of
14000000 bushels since June 1
This decrease was largely in the
four states of Oklahoma Kansas
Nebraska and Colorado where hot
winds and insect damage were
severe during the month Condi-
tion was reported at 759 percent
compares with the 10-year aver-
age condition of 775 percent
Acreage of winter wheat for
harvest was estimated at 39885-
000 as compared with a prelimin-
ary estimate of 40467000 on May
1 Acreage harvested in 1928
was 36207000 and the acreage of
the preceding five years was 36-
244000 acres
Revive “Ike” Club
Officers Elected
Joe Hayes Named President
—Regular Meetings
The local chapter of the Izaak -Walton
league which has been
inactive for several years was
re-organized at a meeting Tues-'
day night in the office of Loris
Bryant secretary of the Newkirk
Business Men’s association ’
Joe Hayes temporary chairman
was elected president of the chap-
ter Other officers named were:
William McCluskey vice president-
Ray Moulton secretary
and J F Weaver treasurer A
field committee will be appointed
by the president
The local chapter now has a
membership of 25 and plans are
to increase the number to 50
Regular meetings will be held
each Tuesday evening t
iTO EXTEND AIRPORT
Blackwell Is planning to extend
and develop her airport DeflxF-l
plans have not been coc!:tL
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