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OFFICIAL ORGAN FOR THE TOWN OF GROVE AND LEADING NEWSPAPER OF DELAWARE COUNTY
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VOL 5 NO 29
GROVE OKLAHOMA FRIDAY APRIL 3 1914
$100 PER YEAR
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KILLAH TOPS K C
QUARANTINE MARKET
Delaware County Stockmen Put Tha County
on Stock Market Map During the
Past Tbree Months
Five stock farmers living in the
vicinity of Grove Okla had on
the quarantine division today a
shipment of good cattle There
were 11 carloads in the consign-
ment belonging to W E Harper
W L Evans W D Ross H C
Harper and W T Killam -
Mr Ross had in a carload of
steers and heifers weighing 737
pounds that brought $725 Mr
Killam had 66 head of 1113-lb
steers that sold for $785 the top
for the week in this division —
Drovers Telegram (Friday March
27) -
Mr Killam ’s record for last
week is only one df a series that
the cattlemen and stock-raisers
of Delaware county have made
during the three months past
During the month of January
Hampton Brothers topped the
ADAIR JURY GIVES
FOLSOM LIFE-TERM
For the second time during
the present term of the District
Court of Adair County a jury of
twelve staunch men with the
quarantine market three times jioourage of theirconvictions have
'said to the assassins and mur-
derers of this county in unmis-
takable tones “Thou shalt not
kill'” The trial of Tandy Folsom
for the murder of Pat Dore on
the 27tli day of February 1914
which was concluded Wednesday
night at 10:30 when the jury re-
turned a verdict of guilty assess-
ing his punishment at life hs g-V
tsacted more interest peups
than any judicial proceeding in
this district Able lawyers were
employed on each side and the
case was thoroughly presented
for both the state and defendant
Eorthe state County Attorney
Woodruff was assisted by J udge
B L Keenan of Tahlequah Sam
V O’Hare of Muskogee and W
P Harris of Westville The de-
fendant was represented by E
B Arnold and Pete Helton of
Stilwell and W F Parker of
Westville They represented
Folson ably conscientiously and
well They did theiy full duty to
their client and when they did
that there was nothing more in-
cumbent upon them
The facts developed that Dore
was the guardian of two the mi-
nor children of the defefendant
and had had some controversy
with Folsom over the disposition
of some eight hundred dollars in
the hands of the guardian belong-
ing to the minors Folsom want-
ed to get this money in his 'pos-
session for the reason as he
stated of purchasing some land
for the children Dore opposed
the investment and rather than
accede to the demands of the de-
fendant in making the invest-
ment had filed his final report
and asked to be discharged as
guardian and that he be permit-
ted to turn over what money was
in his hands to the court or to
his successor when appointed
The rejxort was set down for
hearing at the April 1914 term
of county cou rt Folsom became
angered and incensed at Dore
because he wouldn’t or couldn’t
turn the money over until his re-
port had been acted upon by the
county court He secured a
pistol and in the most base and
cowardly manner slipped up be-
hind Dore while he was standing
talking to a friend unsuspecting
and unprepared and shot him
through the brain Not satisfied
with that and to make his das-
taidly deed doubly sure he emp-
tied his pistol into the prostrate
form of Pat Dore as he lay Already
dead weltering in his blood on
on January 15 establishing a new
record above all previous Jan-
uary prices both at Kansas City
and St Louis This firm also
topped the quarantine market
for the month of March
When a county makes the re-
cord that Delaware has during
the past three months in cattle
marketing it’s time for outsiders
to sit up and take notice Since
‘thdUrsiTof January ft’xas ’“’befen
the privilege of Delaware county
stock raisers to top markets and
establish new recoid prices no
less than a half dozen times But
then that’s not to be wondered
at since the cattle were raised
and fed in one of the best agri-
cultural counties in the south-
west and a good agricultural
country makes a good stock
country Good stock and fine
crops and feed stuff go hand
in hand-and can’t be separated
At this time the greater por-
tion of the county is below the
quarantine line but active pre-
parations have just begun looking
to the early eradication of the
tick from the entire county And
since Delaware stands easily in
the forefront of quarantine coun-
ties in stock raising it Js inter-
esting speculation as to what she
will do wThen the fever tick has
been driven out and our stock
goes in on the native side at the
markets
Mineral in This County '
Percy Waskbourne of Jay was
in the News office Monday and
displayed two fine specimens of
almost pure lead The mineral
was from the place of Will Fair-
burn about four miles southwest
of Jay and was unearthed by Mr
Fairburn while doing some dig-
ging on his fax’in Mr Washburn
stated that the specimens shown
us were only a small portion of a
considerable pocket that was
brought to light
This instance is one of the
many findings of mineral of va-
rious sorts In this county and
they all go to show beyond a
doubt that there is untold miner-
al wealth laying undiscovered
and undeveloped beneath the
hills of Delaware county
A Correction
In the resolution of the Board
of Trustees of Grove that ap-
peared in last week’s issue of the
News designating the News as
the official organ for the town of
Grove the name of W 1 Mayes
appeared as president of the
Board cf Trustees whereas it
should have been W D Gibson
Another Blaze at Jay1
Jay was visited with another
fire last Satuday night that creat-
ed considerable excitement at
that place The residence owned
by the Cox minor children and
recently vacated by the elder Mr
Gentry was fired by an incen-
diary and burned to the ground
Fortunately no one was oc-
cupying the building at the time
and no one's household furnish-
ings were destroyed
' It is certain that the burning
of the building was of incendiary
and malicious orign owing to the
fact that the chicken house
which set only a few feet from
the house was opened and the
chickens belonging to Mr Gen-
try were allowed to escape other-
wise they would have been baked
to death - f
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GR0VE--A CONNECTING LINK IN
BIG MTERURBAII RY PROPOSITION
Oklahoma Oil Balt Traction CO Capitalized at $50000000
Wants to Gome to Grow with Combination Freight
and Passenger Intorurban
The biggest railway and trac-
tion proposition that has yet
found it’s way to light in Okla-
homa is one that is being- organ-
ized and exploited by the Oil Belt
Traction Company of Oklahoma
City The company is capitaliz-
ed at fifty million dollars and it
has for its officers Geo T Wal-
lace President Hans -D Studt
Secretary and Treasarer S A
Horton Attorney
The promoters want to come to
Grove with their road and their
object and purpose is to connect
every important town in central
and eastern Oklahoma and the
route will be about as follows:
From Tulsa to Pawhuska thence
west to Blackwell thence east to
Bartlesville Nowata Vinita Mi-
ami and south to Grove and
Stilwell west to Muskogee
north to Tulsa and from Okmul-
gee to Oklahoma City
W D Gibson is in communica-
tion with Mr Horton the attor-
ney for the company who states
that he will be in Grove sometime
between the 10th and 15th of
April to discuss the proposition
with the citizens of this place
Mr Gibson has asked Mr Hor-
ton to set a definite date for his
coming to Grove so that our citi-
zens might be better prepared to
act A date will “be set for a
mass meeting of the citizens of
Grove and vicinity and will be so
announced bv Mr Gibson in the
columns of the local press
In order that the people might
get a better understanding of the
proposition and the purpose of
the company we publish here-
with a letter from Mr Horton
which explains in greater detail
the character of the road and
what will be expected of the
towns along the route:
March 24 1914
Mayor
Grove Oklahoma 1
Dear Sir:
A corporation has been or-
ganized or is in process of
organization the object and
purpose of which is to build a
combination freight and passen-
ger car line from Tulsa to Paw-
huska west to Blackwell in Kay
County East to Bartlesville No-
wata Vinita Miami and South to
Grove Stilwell West to Musko-
gee North to Tulsa and from Ok-
mulgee West to Oklahoma City
The exact route has not been
determined
We have a tentative agreement
to furnish the money with which
to construct this road but
whether they will furnish the
money or not will depend uixm
the showing that we may be able
to make I may state gener-
ally that the showing required
is that we furnish right-of-way
terminal grounds depot grounds
sidings switches and franchises
together with a cash Bonus of at
least $1000 per mile This cash
Bonus will have to be a part of
the assets of the Company and
be used in the construction or
in operating expenses There
will be no Holding Company per-
mitted A Holding Company as
generally understood means the
Company that holds all the assets
and sells to the railroad at a big
price Now in addition to these
things it is necessary that we
show an earning capacity I am
therefore enclosing herewith a
a statement upon which I am
asking certain questions - I am
also enclosing (under separate
cover) a blank application for the
purchase of Treasurer’s stock as
well as an agreement in reference
toright-of way and Bonuses A
statement of the proposition is
also enclosed
jThe object of writing this letter
in advance is to enable you and
your citizens to talk the matter
over and be in a position to go
into details with me when I shall
reach your city I will probably
be" there somewhere about the
10th to the 15th of April In the
meantime if you fill out the
statements in reference to your
resources we will appreciate it
very much as there is one of the
very material parts and we would
like to have this for the consider-
ation of the parties furnishing
the money and the matter of how
much Bonus and how much right-of-way
you are in a position to
furnish will be taken up in de-
tails when I arrive
We thank you very much for
your consideration of this mat-
ter and assure you that wTe are
rpally in earnest providing we
fyiLthat utter we are through
with it we can carry it out We
do not want to be understood
however at that time as making
any definite premise but when
I am through with my investiga-
tions we thing we will be able to
say whether or not it can be fin-
anced We desire to thank you in ad-
vance Oil Belt Traction Company
By S A Horton Attorney
Saturday in Grove
Last Saturday witnessed the
largest crowd of farmers and
shopers that have been in Grove
in several months Every hitch-
rack in town was full and the
streets were lined on both sides
with busy hustling people fi’om
whose countenances beamed the
pure joy of life and living and
whose air and sprightly step be-
spoke confidence in the future
and good cheer over the beauti-
ful crops the approaching season
Farming activity isin full swing
and the planting season is on
During the past year a host of
new farmers from various parts
of the nation have settled within
the confines of Delaware county
and who have not as yet picked
out a permanent trading point
While you are doing that Mr
New Man let us suggest that you
investigate the merits and ad-
vantages of Grove as a trading
and buying point We feel quite
sure that the merchants of Grove
offer as great variety of mer-
chandise end at as low a figure as
any town in nortlieastesn Okla-
homa They have anticipated
the approaching season of good
crops and good times by laying
in a complete stock in their re-
spective lines And for the corn-
season they extend a cordial in-
vitation to all alike to make Grove
your permanent trading buying
and selling point
Methodist Ladies Bazaar
The News is requested to an-
nounce that the ladies of the
Methodist church will hold a ba-
zaar at the Forbes Drug store on
the first Saturday before Easter
Text Book Case Finally
- v Settled
Litigation involving thevalidity
of the attempted school adoption
of 1912 which has extended over
a period of nineteen months was
finally terminated Saturday when
Justice Lamar of the Uuited
States supreme court denied a
second application for a writ of
error the1 granting of which
would have taken the case to the
highest tribunal in the land
W C Fidler' Secretary of W-
H Wheeler & Co pf Chicago the
company wThich has fought" to
sustain the validity of the 1912
adoption in a statement given to
the press Sunday afternoon de
clares that’ the long drawn out
legal battle which has been one
of the hardest in the history of
the state is at an end
DELAWARE COUNTY
HENS INDUSTRIOUS
Figures furnishished the News
by Frisco Agent D F Allen and
taken from the records of his of-
fice discloses some very pleasing
information relative to the activi
ty and industry of the Delaware
county hen We venture to say
that there are not a half dozen
people in Grove that realize that
there is being bought and sold in
Grove $5000000 worth of eggs
and produce annually Yet the
facts and figures that speak for
themselves on the books of the
Frisco railway company prove
beyond a suspicion of a quibble
that Grove is the champion egg
and produce market of North-
eastern Oklahoma To be more
specific there have been shipixed
from this point since the first of
January less than three month’s
time 1041 cases of eggs and 240
coops of poultry
Those figures elucidated on
mean that during the past ninety
days our produce dealers have
shipped to more needy markets
31210 dozen eggs or those fig-
ures multiplied by 12 gives 374-
520 eggs The average price for
eggs for the past three month’s
has been 20cts per dozen and
that multiplied by 31210 the
number of dozen will produce
the imposing figure of $624200
that has gone to swell the bank
accounts of the farmer’s wives of
this section and the year has on-
ly begun That means an aver-
age of more than $200000 a
month and a daily average of
about $7000 or if speulation is
permissable a grand total of over
$2500000 paid out annually at
Grove for eggs alone We are
told however that the figure will
beat that by several thousand
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Poultry brings up the rear as
p good second to it’s product
240 coops of poultry have taken
destination here for the hotels of
the north and east since the first
of January At an average price
of twelve cents per pound each
of ‘these coops have placed $1200
or more of good hard cash into
the pockets of the poultry raisers
of this section $1200 multiplied
by the number of coops makes
$288000 for the three months
or $900 per month or $32 per
day Those figures do not in-
clude alniut $800 that was paid
out for a car of chickens by a
Neosho firm And that added to
$2880 gives $3670 that have act-
ually been paid out to poultry
raisers at this point during the
past ninety days which would
make an annual expenditure of
about $13000
The shipments of eggs and
poultry must not be confused
with the total receipts at this
WAGONER MOB
LYNCHES WOMAN-
Murderess of Lemuel Peace Taken from
County Jail and Swung up to a
Telephone Cable
Wagoner March 31 — Marie
Scott the negress who killed
Lemuel Peace Sunday morning
by driving a knife into his heart
was taken out of the jail here last
night and lynched by a mob of
fifty masked men Her body was
left swinging from a telephone
cable until the sheriff cut it down
and sent it to an undertaker
The town is quiet The people
appear to be satisfied with the
way of justice as administered
P J Ryan the night jailer a
one-armed man went to sleep
last night without a thought of a
mob Sheriff Conny Murphy of-
fered to sleep at the jail with him '
but Ryan declined About 1
o’clock the sleepy jailer' was
aroused by a knock on the door
He asked who was there and the
reply was that it was an officer
with prisoners a usual occur-
rence Ryan opened the door A
dozen guns in the hands of mask-
ed men covered him He was or-
dered into a corner of the jail of-
fice and held there while the
members of the mob secured the
keys to the cell They opened
the one where the negro woman
was confined threw a rope over
her head and quickly whisked
her out of jalh'rRyan says’ that
he did not hear her make a sound
and if she reaJized what was go-
ing on she was probably choked
by the rope until she could not
speak Outside the jail she fought
desperately
The mob went less than two
blocks from the jail found a con-
venient telephone cable and threw
the rope over it The woman was
drawn up and the body left hang-
ing while the mob departed cer-
tain that she was dead At 2:30
o’clock the sheriff found the body
swinging in the night shadows
and cut it down It was sent to
an undertaker
This morning C E Castle
county attorney started an in-
quiry into the lynching The
hearing is before Justice Kirk
An effort is being made to ascer-
tain who the members of the mob
were but this will probably be a
difficult mattea as all of the men
were masked and the night jailer
does not believe that he could
identify a single one of them
The Revival Meeting
Great interest is being taken
in the Revival meeting now in
progi’ess at the Methodist
Church Rev Jeter is doing
some gi’eat preaching and many
are being saved There has been
between forty and forty five con-
versions and reclamations during
the past week
place A considerable portion is
consumed here and does not
show on any records A compi-
lation of the figures for the two
products will show that about
$125 are being distributed among
our farmers every day for eggs
and poultry $4000 a month
scattered around makes a pretty
neat little pile of pocket change
There is many a town that would
herald bx’oadcast the fact that it
had a $4 (XX) monthly payroll
The figures given here do not in
ciude hides and fur and suchlike
and we believe it would not be an
extravant statement to say that
$iuuuuu is expended annually in
Grove for eggs poultry hideq
fur etc
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