The Walters Journal. (Walters, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 14, 1910 Page: 2 of 8
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GET $117748 FOR
NEW ARMY BUILDINGS
CONTRACT EXPENDITURES TO-
TAL $1025000
Include Sewer System Electric Light
and Water Plant for
Post
Guthrie — Captain David L Stone
construction quartermaster at Fort
Sill Is In receipt of advices from the
war department at Washington that
the government has just awarded ad-
ditional contracts for the new army
post at Sill in accordance with recom-
mendations of Capt Stone on bids
opened earlier in the month involv-
ing an aggregate investment of $117-
748 The contracts include the building
of two field-officers’ quarters and one
four-set officers’ quarters at a cost of
$62000 wiring for the buildings
$1550 and plumbing $5948 water
reservoir $26500 sewerage and puri-
fication plant $12600 and a steel
bridge across Cache creek to cost
$8650
The original contract for buildings
in the new post was for the aggre-
gate sum of $750000 To this number
of buildings have been added eight
more Including one guard house two
store houses one repair shop and the
four just contracted at a cost of
$75000
This Increases the total number of
buildings to alxty-two and the total
expenditure on buildings alone to
$835000 To these contracts have
been added $10000 for artesian wells
$25000 for water works $28000 for
reservoir and sewerage purification
plant $3000 for roads and $6800 tor
electric lighting system The aggre-
gate expenditure now under contract
is thus placed at $1025000
The contracts thus far let con-
sumes all of the appropriations made
for the year 1910 and for the proposed
bridge run even Into the appropria-
tions for 1911 so that contracts Just
awarded will probably be the last un-
til new appropriations for improve-
ments here are available It Is esti-
mated that another year will have
passed however before the new post
which is to provide quarters for a
whole regiment will be ready for oc-
cupancy Hut the war department does not
propose to stop here Immediate plans
include the enlargements of the post
to brigade rank extending buildings
directly west from the new site se-
lected something more than a dupli-
cate of present contracts and blue
prints In the office of the quartermas-
ter general which have been approved
by the department look ultimately to
the establishment at Sill of a division
post and the expenditure In its con-
struction of at least $20000000 1
The old post now occupied by three
batteries of the First field artillery
will probably be retained as a school
of musketry which under orders Is-
sued last year is to be transferred
from Presidio to Fort Sill
Timber Case Dismissed
Talihlna— Apparently only a few
of the several hundred cases brought
by the United States against timber
cutters on the three million-acre
Choctaw and Chickasaw forest reser-
vation will result In conviction One
by one are being dismissed and a few
defendants have pleaded guilty The
tbarge against A B Allen of TaUli'ra
was the latest to he dismissed by
United States Judge Campbell
McAlester Federal Jail Goes to County
McAlester — Giant Victor United
States marshal for the eastern district
of Oklahoma was here and formally
transferred the federal Jail to the
county commissioners of this county
In compliance with the recent act of
congress The property Is worth 50-
000 The title transfer will De maae
by the department of Justice when
the legislature passes an act provid-
ing that the jail shall be used for
temporary Imprisonment of federal
prisoners when necessary for court or
other purposes
Glass Factory Assured
Oknulgee — Arrangements have
been completed for the removal to
Okmulgee of a glass factory In An-
derson Indiana belonging to Whee-
lock & Call Both these men recently
were in Okmulgee and the induco
ments offered were satisfactory The
contract the firm made with the com-
mercial club provides that the plant
shall be in operation by October 1
More than 150 men will be employed
In the factory
Enlarges Cordell Academy
Cordell— Dr W C Roe superin-
tendent of the Indian mission has just
returned from a two weeks’ trip to
various points In the interest of Cor-
dell academy and Immediately went
to Cordell to hold a meeting of the
board of trustees of the academy It
Is proposed to arrange for a tempor-
ary dormitory for the coming school
which will be supplanted by two good
dormitories one for young men and
cue tor ladles
COTTON MARKET
New Orleans
New Orleans — Spot cotton quiet
and unchanged Sales on the spot 85
bales to arrive 18 Low ordinary
Uc nominal ordinary 12 5-166 good
ordinary 13c Btrict good ordinary
14c low middling 14 7-16c strict
low middling 14 ll-16c6 middliug
14 15-16c strict middling 15c good
middling 15 5-16c strict good middling
15c middling fair 15c middling
fair to fair 16c fair 16c nominal
Receipts 789 bales stock 57749
New York
New York — Cotton opened quiet
and from 1 to 5 points higher on
weaker cables showers In the East-
ern belt the absence of any general
precipitation in Texas and covering
Realising quickly checked the ad-
vance however and during the early
trading prices worked off to a net loss
of about 5 to 8 points under profit tak-
ing and selling for a turn by local professionals
'8t Louls
St Louis — Dull middling 14c
sales none receipts 254 bales ship-
ments 254 stocks 16895
Galveston
Galveston — Higher at 14 c
Bullets Kill Gun Fighter
Muskogee— Dick Terry an old-tlmo
deputy marshal of the former Indian
territory who was wounded In the
pitched battle with the Wycllffe gang
In the spring of 1906 when Deputy
Ike Gllstrap wag killed was shot and
killed in the rear of the old Cherokee
capltol building at Tahlequah Ok
where the big Cherokee payment la
being held
C L Pratt cashier of the Bank of
Kansas of Kansas Ok fired five
shots at Terry three of which took ef-
fect Before dying Terry made a
statement that he was unarmed and
had no words with the banker The
latter told some friends that he be-
lieved Terry was armed and was go-
ing to kill him The men had quar-
reled in Kansas when Pratt some
time ago foreclosed a mortgage on
some of Terry’s property and they
brought the quarrel to Tahlequah
with them Pratt surrendered to tho
sheriff
Land Sale Date November 15
fl Reno — A message received by
United States land office from
Representative Dick T Morgan an-
nounces that the department of the
interior has fixed November 15 as the
date for opening the sale of twenty-
four sections of Cheyenne and Arapa-
ho Indian lands near El Reno The
lands will be sold in tracts of 40 to
80 acres and at public auction to the
highest bidders The terms of the
sale are not stated- in the message
The lands comprise the Darlington
Indian reservation and surround the
Darlington government school which
was recently abandoned the buildings
for which were sold to the grand lodge
of Masons of Oklahoma for use as an
orphans’ home The lands are situ-
ated In the Canadian river valley for
the most part and are fertile
Oklahoma Lead Censua
Guthrie — That the census of 1910
will show the Southern states Includ-
ing Missouri and Oklahoma to have
made a gain of 21 per cent since 1900
is the estimate of the Southern Com-
mercial Congress The congress es-
timates the population to be 32415-
297 The gain of other states of the
Union during the same period is es-
timated by the congress to have been
18 per cent
The five states of the Southwest
which have made the greatest gain
in population according to the esti-
mate are Oklahoma Texas Missouri
Georgia and Alabama Oklahoma
gained 1250000 The figures are
based on provisional estimates of the
census bureau
Sentenced to Penitentiary
Gage — District court at Arnett the
county seat of this county hqs ad-
journed the grand jury having
brought In over one hundred indict-
ments A large per cent of them are
the result of violations of the prohib-
itory law Harry Weatherbolt was
found guilty of manslaughter In the
second degree and was sentenced vo
two years tn the penitentiary at haiu
labor
Weathebolt was Implicated In the
killing of the Morgans about one year
ago In which one other man was con-
victed and after having served a part
of his time was paroled
Indian Congress Date October 10
Muskogee— Tho date for tile Inter-
national congress of Indians vhlch
was to have been held In Muskogee In
June but was postponed baa been
definitely set for the week beginning
October 19 It is proposed to make
this the most notable gathering of In-
dians that ever assembled In North
America
Throws Children to Safety
Guthrie— While leading his twin
children James and Mary aged 10
years across the D E & O trestle
over the Cottonwood river near here
O W T Hightower of the school land
department was overtaken by a pas-
senger train and hurled to the rocks
below Defore the train reached him
the father threw the children to the
river bnnk both escaping without In-
jury The train slopped picked up
the father and child tn and brought
them here
TRAIN CREW
LEFTROBBERS
ATTEMPTED HOLDUP ’ OF KATY
NEAR ST LOUIS FOILED
THREE MEN ARRESTED
While Robbers Were Trying td Uncou-
ple Baggage Car Engineer and
Fireman Daahed Away
With the Train
SL Louis — Cleverness on the part
of the engineer prevented three youth-
ful bandits from robbing the Missouri
Kansas & Texas southwestern flyer
No 3 near Larimore St Louis county
about fifteen miles from St Louis
Sunday Three men were arrested us
suspects
Tbe police do not believe they are
the men wanted and are searching for
three others who are said to have en-
tered the city Detectives were Im-
mediately assigned to the case '
Engineer Quinn througu a ruse pre-
vented the baggage car and passenger
coaches from being looted Tbe ban-
dits at the point of revolvers com-
pelled the engineer and fireman to des-
cend from Lie cab and go with them
to tne baggage car to assist in un-
coupling it While lingering about the
coupling the engineer and fireman
managed to slip away In the darkness
The two started on a run for the
cab Tbe bandits soon became aware
that the crew was dashing for the
cab and opened fire '
The engineer and fireman ran faster
Springing Into the cab the engineer
threw tbe throttle wide open and
dashed away with the train
Five miles further on at Spanish
- Lake Quinn rang up O C Hill yard-
master of the St LouIb Keokuk &
Northwestern in St Louis and In a
matter1 of fact tone told him of the
attempted robbery
Several shots were fired during the
attempted holdup and the passengers
who filled five coaches were thrown
Into a panic
The train was In he hands of the
bandits forty minutes For half an
hour they tried of meir own accord to
uncouple the baggage car It waa not
until they found themselves unable to
do the work that they got the engineer
and fireman
v According to "Katy” officials here
there were thousands of dollars in the
baggage car in addition to the mall
which was unusually heavy for tbe
St Louis-Houaton run
Land Opened for Settlement
Oklahoma City — Ten thousand five
hundred and seventy-six acres of the
most valuable land ever offered for
sale by the government were opened
for settlement by President Taft in a
proclamation Issued Saturday The
lands will be sold at public auction at
El Reno Okla on November 15
These lands were formerly within
the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian
reservations They are composed of
some of tbe best farming laud In the
entire southwest and It is expected
that they will bring very near their
market value
To each person qualified to make
homestead entries a minimum of 80
acres will be sold One-fifth of the
purchase price and the usual home-
atead fees and commissions must be
paid on the day of purchase The
remainder la to be paid in six annual
Installments
Boy Takes His Own Life
Denison Tex — Elsie anccey 19
years old committed suicide here by
taking carbolic acid After swallow-
ing the acid which had been diluted
he walked the streets 'an hour trying
to buy more The boy waB forcibly
taken to a hospital where he died
Muskogee Okla — The first annual
state convention of Oklahoma post-
masters will be held in Muskogee
July 20 It Is expected that there
will be at least 1000 of the 1400
postmasters In the state present -The
postmaster general has agreed to
grant a leave of absence to all post-
masters lu the state to attend tbe
convention
To Institute Legal Actions
Tulsa Okla— Tbe directors of the
Mid-Continent Oil and Gae Produc-
ers’ Association at an extensive ses-
sion held here decided to Institute le-
gal actions against every railroad sys-
tem in Texas and Oklahoma to secure
a decision In the present exorbitant
freight rates on oil
Airship Flights at Frederick
Frederick Okla — The Tillman
County Fair Association has closed a
contract with Charles J Strobel of
Toledo Ohio for a series of airship
flights during the Frederick fair Au-
gust 16 to 19 Inclusive Strocbel la
to give three flights on each of the
four days
Restraining Order le leeued
Outhrlo Okls— Judge Cotterul has
issued a temporary restraining order
against the state eloetton board state
board of affulrB and Secretary of
State Dill Cross prohibiting them from
putting the “grandfather clause”
amendment on tbe ballots for the Au-
gust 2 election pending the determina-
tion of a bill of complaint filed In the
name of Dunlul Films an old Guthrie
negro and ex-slave who alleges that
under the grandfather clause he will
be disfranchised since he can nelthor
road nor write
SALOON RAIDER LYNCHED
ENDS SLAYER’S LIFE AFTER HE
HAD KILLED RUMSELLER
Large Battering Rams Were Directed
Upon the Jail Doors and Deputies'
Were Powerless— Troops Are
Called Out
Newark Ohio — Carl Etberlngton 22
yeare old employed Thursday night
by the state Anti-Saloon league as a
blind tiger raider was lynched here
Friday night following a day of al-
most continuous rioting 'The heavy
doors of tbe Licking county jail were
battered down and Etberlngton was
dragged frem his cell He was shot
kicked and brulBed before the street
was reached and the finish followed
quickly
Etherington iarly In the evening
confessed he killed William Howard
proprietor of the Last Chance res-
taurant and former chier of police
In a raid of alleged “speak-easiea”
Friday and narrowly escaped
lynching at that time When news
from the hospital that Howard had
died passed over the city the fury
of the mob took definite form Large
battering rama were directed upon
the doors of the Licking county jail
and the deputies were powerless The
doors fell after nearly an hour’s at-
tack Crying piteously Etherington a
curly headed Kentuckian who had
been serving as a strike breaker since
he was released from marine service
three months ago was dragged forth
Fearing the mob spirit would not
be satisfied with one victim Sheriff
Linkeim asked Adjutant General Wey-
brecht for troops to protect six other
“dry” raiders held at the city pris-
on in another section of tbe town
A hurried $uard was thrown out in
their defense
Etherington’s last moments while
he heard the mob battering down the
doors was spent in praying and writ-
ing a note to his parents farmers re-
siding near Wlllisburg Ky
Howard it la charged did not re-
sist the detectives when they enter-
ed his place on the outskirts of the
city He It is paid however put his
arms about Etherington as if to hold
him when the officer fired a bullet
into his head
Striking Baltimore & Ohio railway
employes declare Etherington recent-
ly came to Newark as a strike breaker
and the ill feeling growing out of the
strike has Intensified that due to the
raids
While the mob was battering down
the doors Etherington was in his
cell In an attempt to commit su'-
cldo he smothered his head in his
coat and set fire to It He was caught
In time
Tulsa County Wants to Enlarge
Guthrie Okla — An Initiative peti-
tion calling for an election to annex
nine southeastern townships of Osage
county to Tulsa county has been filed
with Governor Haskell Who has been
asked to call the election on August
2 tho dato of the general primaries
Jordan Denounces
Boston Mass — Denouncing college
football as a combination of pure bru-
tality and pugilism that appealed to
the love of the sordid David Starr Jor-
dan president of Leland Stanford uni-
versity led in the discussion that fol-
lowed a report made by tbe committee
on moral education In public schools
to the national council of education of
the National Educational association
In convention here
Reward is Increased
Jefferson City Mo— The standing
reward for the capture of the murderer
of Mias Anna Wenriler of Osage City
whose body was found In the Missouri
river noar here has been increased to
$1300 The Cole county court offered
the additional $200
Bad Fire at Bradley
Bradley Okla— Fire totally destroy-
ed the two-story building occupied by
Dewes & Son general merchandise
below and the Odd Fellows' lodge
hall above and all contents Nothing
was saved The fire originated by a
current of lightning going In on a
telephone wire during a thundor
shower Dewes £ Son loBt $11000 In-
surance $7500 I O O F hall end
regalia loss $1000 Insurance $700
The MuBonlc and M' W A lodges also
lust all records and regalia
GREAT VICTORY FOR UNCLE 8AM
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Two Verdicts Returned In Bleached
Flour Caee
Kansas City — “We the Jury find the
flour seized was adulterated” '
“We the Jury find that the flour
seized was misbranded"
These' two separate verdicts were
returned in the federal court here by
the jury which for more than five
weeks had listened to testimony for
and against the charge of the govern-
ment that 625 sacks of flour bleached
and sold by tbe Lexington Mill and
Elevator company of Lexington Neb
and seized by the government while
in the possession of the purchaser a
grocer at Castle Mo were adulterated
and misbranded
The verdict returned after seven
hours of dellberatlqn was a complete
victory for the government which
prosecuted the suit under the national
pure food'and drug act
The government charged that the
flour waa adulterated In that it waa
bleached by the Alsop process which
makes use of nitrogen peroxide in
bleaching-1 flour Misbranding waa
charged In that the flour seized was
labeled a fancy patent flour and the
government contended it waa not a
fancy patent flour and becausa it was
not made from a first grade hard win-
ter wheat
Attorneys for the millers will file a
motion for a new trial within twenty
days Arguments on it will be decided
by Judge McPherson September 1st
Millers say that the bleached flour
decision will handicap tbe farmers of
the southwest to the extent of from
$15000000 to $18000000 a year They
say the old differential of 5 cents a
bushel In vogue In Chicago and St
Louis markets five years ago before
bleached flour came In will soon ap-
pear again They further say that
farmers of Missouri Kansas Okla-
homa and Nebraska will lose 5 cents a
bushel on their present crop and that
flour made from hard winter wheat
soon will be selling at 25 cents a
bushel less than at present Already
millers are considering the establish-
ment of bleaching stations in states
where the use of bleached flour is not
prohibited Thus they say they may
avoid the interstate commerce law
Big mills whose product Is turned
out In states where bleached flour is
illegal may ship their flour unbleached
into the states where the sale of it is
permitted unload it at these bleach-
ing stations bleach It and distribute
it in the atate
Two Killed by Falling Wall
Kansas City— Two men were killed
and two others Injured In Kansas City
Kan by the collapse of a wall at the
ruins of the Peet Brothers soap fac-
tory whose plant was destroyed by
fire several weeks ago
Mob Hangs Whits Man
Rayvllle La — Aroused by the fact
that an appeal to the supreme court
hud been taken following hts condem
nation to death on the charge of hav-
ing murdered Town Marshall Chenault
a mob battered down the doors of the
jail at Rayvllle and dragging J D
Freeman a white man from bis cell
banged him -
Woman Killed In Runaway
Hobart Okla— Mrs John Terral
was thrown from a carriage a fow
miles south of here dragged a half
mile by a runaway horse and Instantly
killed A little three year-old child
which she held In her arms at tbe
time the horse became frightened was
thrown to the ground badly bruised
but will recover
Building Gain of 264 Per Cant
Chicago 111— The report for June
given out by the American Contractor
the leading building trades Journal
shows that Oklahoma City in build-
ing leads the list of 42 cities with a
gain of 264 per cent over the same
month in 1909 Twenty-five of the 42
cities show a gain over last year
Aeroplane Novices Meet
East St Louis 111— The first annual
aeroplane moet for novices opens!
this week In Washington Park under
the auspices of the Aero Club of St
Louis 1
Big Dam Gives Help
Washington— The preparations of
the reclamation service for the con-
struction of the big Engle dam have
given a great Impetus to agricultural
developments In that part of Nov Mox-
lcco according to a stutement lsruod
by the reclamation service
CRIMINAL UNO
DEALSCHARGED
TEN MEN AND THREE WOMEN
HAULED INTO COURT t
GIRL MAKES CONFESSION
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Implicates Others In a 8eheme to De-
fraud Land Buyers by Forging
Deeds to Lands They Did
Not Own
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Muskogee Okla — The state and the
federal government combined here
Monday In an attempt to convict mem-
bers they say of one of the most ex-
tensive land fraud schemes ever at-
tempted in this state It opened with
the preliminary trial of Albert Tay-
lor of Tahlequah a land man and the
defendants who answered not guilty
In court on the same charge are be-
sides Taylor W L Mays Jim Escoe
John Culver Ed Culver Etnan Casey
Sallie Casey alias Sallle Still C O
Zinn Ben Davis LL B Gritts Claud C
Upton Bertha Muller and Jessie wil-
der alias Anna Hughes
It la alleged that these persons to-
gether with four others not yet ar-
rested have for the past two jenrs
carried on a systematic business of
forging deeds to Indian lands and get-
ting the money for it when the real
owners of the land knew nothing of
the transaction and that they have in
this manner mulcted perhaps $100000
from land buyers who took their deeds
the women being used as blinds
The plot was discovered after the
conviction of John Culver on a charge
of forging a deed In an individual case
Then Culver and one of the women
Jessie Hibden a black eyed girl who
passes herself for a full blood Chero-
kee girl went on the stand and made
a full statement implicating the o’her
defendants in a gigantic scheme to de-
fraud the land buyers by forging deds
and oil leases to lands they did not
own '
Jessie Hibden stated that Taylor was
to pay her $50 for Impersonating Rach-
el Holland that she signed the lease
with her thumb print in green ink
that ehe only got $20 of the promised
$50 A scar on the end of the Hibden
woman’s thumb shows plalniv on the
thumb print on the lease She signed
with her mark because the Holland
woman a full blood Cherokee was
not supposed to be able to write her
name This oil lease la very valuable
It is alleged that the other women
were used as Impersonators in the
same way in other cases The Hibden
woman came here from Fort Smith
Fred Cook a district Indian agent
claims to have complete confessions
from five of the alleged forgers The
evidence he secured Interested the
United States Indian agent and the fed-
eral district attorney and the federal
authorities have joined the state pros-
ecutors to assist In the prosecution
It 1b claimed that there are sutlici-
ent forged deeds already in sight to-
break three or four of the blgget farm
land companies in this section snd -that
more are being discovered each
day
Plenty of Money In 8tate
Oklahoma City Okla — Bankers of
Oklahoma City say the state of Okla-
homa la now in an unusually prosper-
ous condition and In a few weeks the
entire state will witness such pros-
perity never before experienced In its
history The financial conditions over
the Btate they Bay and also the south-
west were never better The banks
are prepared to furnish money with
which to handle Oklahoma’s biggest
crop production and the bankers deny
the rumor that money for legitimate
purposes la scarce or hard to obtain
8even Joy Riders Injured
TiilBa Okla — Seven persona three
men and four girls were seriously In-
jured when an automobile In which
they were pleasure riding went over a
fifteen-foot embankment in West
Tulsa late Sunday night The injured
were hurriedly removed to their
homes Their names could not be
learned The men are said to be
prominent In business here
Township to Build Model Roads
Oklahoma City Okla — Mustang
township the southwest corner town-
ship In Oklahoma county has decided
through its board of trustees to make
an investment In good roads The
township has an assessed valuation of
$1500000 end ranks ss one of the rich-
est in the state outside of those hav-
ing incorporated cities The announc-
ed determination Is to make its road
system the model for the entire state
to follow Work Is to begin Immedi-
ately on grading the plans being for
a 20-foot grade with 18-Inch crown
hard packed and scientifically ditched
to prevent any washing An appropri-
ation of $3000 is immediately avail
able for this year’s work
Dates 8at for Convention
Oklahoma City— President Arthur
C Jackson of the National Good
Roads association has set October 4
5 and 6 as the dates for the conven-
tion here These days come within
the state fair dates and the meetings
will be hold in the auditorium at the
fair grounds The roason for selecting
this time and place la because It will
enable the farmors from nil points In
the atate to be present It will also
enable much better displays of roud
building machinery to be made
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