The Okemah Ledger (Okemah, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 8, 1923 Page: 1 of 8
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AN OFFICIAL PAPER FOR OKFUSKEE COUNTY
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O C GASTON Owner
i E A GASTON Buainaaa Managar
VOLUME 17 NUMBERS
OKEMAH OKLAHOMA THURSDAY FEBRUARY 8 1923
SUBSCRIPTION 8200 PER YEAR
Nothing Definite About
Road Contracts Yet
Shaffer Gets New Well
in Okfuskee Field
Much discussion has been going on
this week regarding the letting of
) the hard'surfacing roads contract in
’ this county The county commis-
sioners and others returning from
Oklahoma City the first of the week
reported that the contract had not
' been definitely let It was reported
Monday on the streets that C W
Board had stated that the contracts
- for the four projects had been let to
Davis & Davis of Oklahoma City
they being the lowest bidders on the
‘ whole amount of work' Mr Board
Thursday noon stated that he did not
t make the statement but had said that
he understood that ' the Oklahoma
concern had the fcontract they being
the lowest bidders -
' Upon his return from Oklahoma
City Wednesday morning Commis-
sioner Ed Stine stated that in the
interview that the commissioners
and others had with the highway
commission nothing was said about
the contract having been definitely
awarded According to Mr Stine
it seems to be the attitude of the com-
mission to ignore them and the citi-
zens of the county in the matter of
letting the contracts Stine stating
i that they had been most unmerci-
fully “bawled out” for taking too
much interest in the matter Mr
Stine- was of the opinion that the
Oklahoma contractors would secure
the bids - - - '
Wednesday a telegram was sent
WHISKY KILLS INDIAN
r BASEBALL PLAYER
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’ Buddie Robinson of Weleetka was
found ’'dead in the home of A&stin
Webb at Weleetka Wednesday eVen-
- ing his death supposed to have been
caused by over-indulgence in moon-
shine whisky
According to' County Attorney
Tom Huser who held an Jnquest
over the body Wednesday night in-
formation learned from witnesses at
the inquest showed that Robinson
had been drinking heavily in-the
afternoon of the day ' of his death
and that late in the afternoon the
deceased had procured a quart of
corn whisky and in two successive
drinks had “killed” the quart After
drinking this liquor he had wander-
ed into the home of Webb and sat
down oh a chair Efforts to get the
- clothing off the man and get him into
bed were repulsed and he was left
sitting in the chair Shortly after
Webb came into the room and found
Bobinson Jying on his face on the
floor dead
The yerdict of the inquest was to
the effect that he had come to his
death from over-indulgence in com
whisky -
1 - Buddie Bobinson was a baseball
player of note and had in - former
years played many times in Okemah
with the Okemah and Weleetka
teams and had also played on the
Henryetta team He had signed
contract with the Decatur Ills
team for the coming season in the
Three I league He was a likeable
fellow and of superb athletic build
A brother of the deceased Tommy
Bobinson is also well known in the
baseball world Buddie was 33 years
old and several brothers and other
relatives reside in or near Weleetka
The remains will be interred in the
Weleetka cemetery
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GAYLOR PRELIMINARY
CONTINUED A WEEK
The preliminary hearing of Oscar
Gaylor charged with the murder of
Bob Hughes at Garrison City Decem-
ber last wa? continued one week by
Justice Vanzant of Castle Wednes-
day The case was taken to Castle
from Okemah on a plea for a change
of venue from the justice court
here Justice W J Lawrence having
presided at the preliminary hearing
of Dick Roberts also charged with
murder in connection vjith the case
but released at the prelminary
Gaylor’s hearing has been re-set for
February 15th at Castle " ’ ' -
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LOCAL ATTORNEY WINS BIG
VICTORY IN CIRCUIT COURT
Attorney A' G Nichols returned
home from St Louis Mo Wednes-
day where he had gone last week in
company with W E McKinney to
appear before the U S Circuit Court
of Appeals McKinney was interest-
ed in the case he being guardian of
Saber ‘Jackson wn Incompetent In-
dian who claimed a part of the
estate of the famous Barney
Thelocco estate settled some time
ago A lower court had formerly
granted $10000 as a “courtesy”
claim but this award had been ap-
pealed and at the hearing last week
at St Louis Jackson through his
guardian was granted $50000 - -
to' State Senator Tom Anglin signed
by all the county officers protest-
ing against granting the contracts to
anyone or concerns who would not
agree to hire all possible help and
labor in Okfuskee county claiming
that upon the promise to the voters
that this would be done the citizens
had gone to the polls and voted for
the bonds at a time when addition to
the taxes would work a hardship
upon the citizens of tlt county
It is understood here that the con-
tracting firm at Oklahoma City will
spend no money in the county they
having all their own teams men and
equipment and that the company
conducts their own corftmissary buy-
ing all their supplies at wholesale
from the cities It is claimed that
owing to Jhe shortage of the cotton
crop and the general hard times in
the county among the farmers that
it would be bad business not to pro-
vide work on the road for a large
number of farmers who will other-
wise suffer actual want which this
work would alleviate '
It seems impossible at the present
time to learn what has or has not
been done but it is hoped that some-
thing will be accomplished soon that
will cause the work to begin
It was said that a petition was be-
ing prepared by- tha citizens and
business men to be forwarded on the
letting of the contract to Senator
Anglin but it is not known whether
this has been done or not
PLAN COMMUNITY WEEK
FOR COUNTY FAIR WEEK
County Agent E A Kissick is lay-
ing plans for the 1923 Free County
Fair which will be held in Sep-
tember and will do away with the
street carnival idea and will sub-
stitute in its stead a program for
regular community week
The plans were discussed at
luncheon held Tuesday noon at the
National Cafe when members of the
County Fair Board' were invited as
well as other guests and Mr Kis-
sick outlined his views and plans to
the board ' At the ’ luncheon ’ was
Rev Chas W Estes of Hobart Okla
who is a great booster of the Kiowa
County Free Fair made a very inter
esting talk and mdde many sugges
tions which will be - incorporated
into the plans proposed- by Mr
Kissick
The object of the county fair will
be to bring together the people of
the county to exhibit their stock and
products and then to have a good
program each day that will be worth
coming to attend 'i
After the luncheon the members
of the fair board met with Mr
Kissick at his office and continued
the discussion of plans
CD ’ '
CITY PRIMARY WILL
BE HELD MARCH 20
This is election year for cities and
towns and it is expected that two full
tickets will be filed in the primary
election to be held in Okemah on
March 20 Prospective candidates
on -any political party have ten days
in which to file notice of their candi-
dacy for any of the several city of-
fices This also applies to Anyone
desiring to run as an independent
candidate The filing must be done
not more than 20 nor less than 10
days before the date of the primary
election which will be from March :
to March 10
The officers to be elected accord
ing to the 1921 election laws are a
mayor city clerk city treasurer
justice of th9 peace and also one
councilman from each ward the of-
ficers elected holding office for two
'years or until their successors are
elected The date of the city election
is April 3 or the first Tuesday in
that month
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YOUNG FARMER KICKED
TO DEATH BY STALLION
C A Coale a young farmer living
on one of -Walter Rhea’s farms one
and a half miles south of Garrison
City was kicked in the abdomen
Tuesday evening by a stallion from
the results of which he died Wednes-
day evening It is not known at this
time just how the accident happen-
ed Coale was a young farmer about
35 years old and wasmarried and
had two or three children The fqn-
eral services were held Thursday at
the home and Interment of the re-
mains was made in the Sand Creek
cemetery - -
or
Stacy Heffington 13-year-old
daughter of Mr and Mrs J J Hef-
fington died last Saturday as the
result of an attack of the flu Tjie
interment was made in the Bock
Creek cemetery last Sunday The
family reside about four- miles south
Of Okemah
Driller Killed At
Bearden Oil Well
Ed Mallory1-an oil driller of Ok-
mulgee working on a well a mile
and a half southeast of Bearden was
instantly killed last Friday morning
the accident occurring about 6
o’clock Malloy was working on a
Cosden Oil & Gas company well No
one knows just how the accident hap-
pened that cost the man his life his
companion on the job at the time
Andy Mocke returned to the derrick
just as Mallory’s body fell to the
floor from the bull wheel Mocke
rushed to Mallory and endeavored to
get him to speak but Mallory was
probably dead before he hit the floor
The left arm was completely torn
Worn the body the left side being
badly crushed a deep cut under the
chin and one on the left side of the
head The body was brought to the
MAYOR P W MOOMAW
- TENDERS RESIGNATION
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Mayor P W Moomaw tendered his
resignation to the pity council Mon-
day as mayor effective at once The
resignation ' was accepted by the
council and Lloyd Tindall - vice-
president of the council is acting as
Mayor
Mr Moomaw in an interview Tues-
day said that be tendered his resigna-
tion because he wanted to devote
more of his time to his private busi
ness pffairs Mr Moomaw is treas-
urer of the State Board of Pharmacy
which takes up considerable of his
time and ' as well as the ' newly
elected president of the Okemah
Retail Merchants association which
demands considerable of his time
Mr Moomaw whs elected as mem-
ber of jijie city council from the
second ward at the city election two
years ago and was then honored by
the members of the board by being
elected the mayor -As Mayor Mr
Moomaw did every thing he thought
honorable and ' possible looking to-
ward the up-building or Okemah and
in- the interest of its progress Mayor
Moomaw with the backing of the
council has made Okemah the clean-
est oil town morally in the history
of the oil development and hundreds
of people have come to Okemah to
make their homes because of the
good moral conditions surrounding'
the town During his administration
the extension of the water and light
Much interest was shown and a
splendid program was rendered at
the Okfuskee County Rural Confer-
ence for community welfare held
system was made and hundreds of ion the night of February 6 at the
homes have been built and material
additions have been made in the
business district
Mr Moomaw leaves the office of
mayor with the good will of the
people of the town and they ap-
preciate his efforts in giving the
town good clean government
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PNEUMONIA CAUSES DEATH
- OK AGED CITIZEN
Frank Nichols 70 years old died
at his home in Okemah Wednesday
night at 7 o’clock caused by an at-
tack of pneumonia The deceased
was -only sick three days The fun-
eral services were held at the home
at 3 :30 p m Thursday and the in-
terment was made in the Highland
emetery here
Mr Nichols was born at Bedford
Indiana September 5 1952 and be-
fore coming to Oklahoma 26 years
ago was a resident of Leadhill Ark
He was married to Miss Maggie Ogle
on February 4 ' 1884 Besides his
wife the deceased leaves three sons
Everett Roy and Oscar and several
grand children to mourn their loss
Mr' Nichols was a farmer by oc-
cupation but for the past two years
has been a resident of Okemah He
was a ' member of the Christian
church
parlors of the Okemah Undertaking
company where it was prepared -for
burial
Mallory was about 40 or 45 years
old and left a wife and five small
children in Okmulgee It is learned
that Mrs Mallory wss on a visit to
relatives at their old home at Clin
tonf Mo- when the death occurred
and did not know of the death until
the next day ' The body was taken
from here to Okmulgee where fun-
eral 'services were held and then the
body was taken to Clinton Mo for
burial - -
The driller was in the employ of
Wigton & Long drilling contractors
who are putting down the Cosden
well in the northeast corner of the
southwest quarter of section 21-10
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BILL ’ABOLISHING’
CIGARETS PASSED
BY SENATE 27 TO 18
-' Oklahoma City Feb 7 — Another
“Don’t” was added to the legislative
rolls today by the state senate
If 27 members of the senate have
their way the thousands of cigaret
users o? Oklahoma will be out of
luck
The senate passed 27 to 14 the bill
by Tom Anglin of Holdenville mak-
ing the sale or advertising of cigarets
in Oklahoma illegal Senator Hor-
ner of Okmulgee county voted
aye” "
The house hasn’t acted yet
The senate bill creates the cigaret
bootlegger and provides for his
punishment Selling or advertising
of cigarets would be made a mis-
demeanor punishable by imprison
meht of not more than ane year or
fine of $200 to $2000 or bath
An emergency clause was inserted
after passage with thirty senators
voting in favor
Warra debate preceded the senate
action The attack on the measure
was led by Senators Halloway Lil-
llrd Nichols and Golobie with Sena
tors Anglin Johnson Gulager and
Darnell supporting it
10 —
WELFARE CONFERENCE
AT METHODIST CHURCH
Methodist Episcopal church on South
Sixth street The program which was
enjoyed and participated in by a
large crowd consisted of short
addresses on the benefits of com-
munity work and many musical num-
bers The program as carried out is
as follows:
Song “America the Beautiful’! -
Invocation Rev J S Price
Chairman’s remarks — E A Kis-
sick county agent
Address “Community Life” Rev
Chas W Estes Hobart '
Solo Mrs Frederick Hadsell
Address to Boys and Girls ' “If I
were Where You Are”Rev W H
Jenkin
Some suggestions as to the moral
Recreational and Educational Life
of the Community led by G F
Durham county superintendent i
Benediction ’
— -CD
Miss Paralee Wilcox of Madison
Mo came last week to make her
home here ' with J J Minton and
children Miss Wilcox is an aunt
to Mr Minton '
Mrs W R Waller 509 S 4th
had as her house guest last week
Mrs L B Torrance of Okmulgee
’ W E Rich was a business visitor
in Paden Tuesday
The Shaffer Oil & Refining com- - The Empire Gas and Fuel company
pany is completing a 40 barrel well is still about 80 'feet off the bottom
in the NE corner of the SE quarter in the NE corner SW quarter sec-
of 27-13-10 Sand was topped at tion 2-10-9 where with the holq full
2687 feet and they 'drilled' through of oil showing for about a 50-barrel
six feet of it This is a south offset
to the Kirkbride-Independent well
The H?nry Oil company has a rig
on the ground for the test in the impossible to ascertain the result of
SE corner SW SW quarter section the shot -
The T A Johnston Oil company '
is fishing for underreamer lugs at
3200 feet in the SW corner NE NE
quarter section 2-10-9
The American Eagle started up
again yesterday in the center of the
SE NE quarter section 17-11-11
where they have been shut down
waiting for cement td set at 1720
feet They probably will have to
drill 14 to 20 feet deeper to get the
pay sand which should be reached
sometime tomorrow ' - J
The Empire Gas and Fuel company
is drilling at 3380 feet in the NE
corner W half NE NE quarter sec- '
tion 21-11-10 '
The Amerada Petroleum corpora-
tion is shut down temporarily at
2240 feet in the SE corner NE NW
quarter section 17-12-10
The Independent Oil and Gas com-
pany having already fished a half
dozen or more sets of tools out of
the Lucy Fields test in the NE cor- -ner
SE NW quarter section 24-11-11
and now confronted with another
such job is in a quandary as to what
to do abandon the hole which ia
exceptionally promising or go ahea&
and keep on fishing
The hole is down to 2985 feet (
It looked like a 100-barrel well in an
upper sand but speedily dropped off
to almost nothing However the-"
Independent set out with the inten-
tion of making a deep test of it and
all oil men believe it will be an Oil
well if taken on down
- Under the circumstances however
it has been shut down until the situa-
tion can be thought over a little any-
how Waite Phillips has made a location
in the NE corner SW SE quarter
section 3-11-11 and has a rig on the
ground This is a south offset to the t
producer of the Ohiokla Oil company
and the Cosden Oil find Gas com- "
pany
The North Baltimore Oil & Gas
association and the Anglo-Texas Gil
company have a showing for a good
well in their No 5 Togy Sugar farm
on the center of the east line of the
SW NE of 13-12-11 Sand was
found at 2661 feet and the hole filled
with oil
The North Baltimore should get
the pay this week in their test in the
NW corner of the SE NE of 13- 12-
11 They are running a-string of
pipe at 2567 feet This was a gas
well drilled deeper
12-12-11 !
’ The McMan Oil company has a rig
on the ground for the No 2 test in
the SW corner SE SW quarter sec-
tion 12-12-11
The Tidal-Osage Oil company’s
wildcat test in the NW corner sec
tion 3-9-8 is drilling tn sand topped
at 3505 feet with nothing showing
It picked up a broken sandy lime at
3462 feet where it made a bailer an
hour of water A break was found
at 3467 to 3469 feet
The Kimbley Oil and Refining com-
pany is drilling at 3190 feet jn lime
in the SE corner W half NE 'quarter
section 27-10-12
C W Wangerien is drilling at
about 2200 feet in the' NW ‘corner
section 14-13-10
The Carter Oil company is fishing
at 2950 feet in the NE corner SW
NW quarter section 36-10-12
The Bradstreet Oil company is still
trying to set the 5-inch casing and
shut out water in the 3500-foot sand
in the SW corner N half NW quarter
section 28-10-12 ' '
The Texas company is shut down
at 2900 feet in the NW corner NE
quarter section 36-10-11 presumably
awaiting orders from headquarters
It is not unlikely that they will have
to abandon the hole After fishing
for a long time they succeeded in
drilling by the tools lost in the hole
and then were unsuccessful in their
attempts' to run the 5-inch casing
by
The Traqpcontinental Oil company
is trying to drill by 304 feet of col-
lapsed casing in the SW corner NW
NE quarter section 29-10-10 ' The
total depth of the hole is 8893 feet
It was in attempting to raise the 5-
inch casing set at 3400 feet that the
damage was done The bottom Cf
the hole is in ‘ sand which flowed
some of the highest grade oik to be
found in the state hence tha added
importance of saving the hole
The Empire Pipeline company has
completed a 13-mile 6-inch line from
the Kingwood station in the NW NE
quarter section 22-11-11 to the We-
tumka field in the NW quarter of
section 5-9-10 The line is being
tested out by running water through
it
This is the first section of a 165-
mile line contemplated from the
Kingwood station to the Healdton
field The rq?t of the line will not
be laid right at this time it has been
announced
QLD
RESIDENT OF ‘
THE COUNTY DIES
William M Ferrell 70 years old
died at the family home' in Okemah
Wednesday February 7 after a
week’s illness pneumonia being the
cause of his death The funeral
services were held at the Methodist
church south at 2:30 this (Thurs-
day) afternoon
Mr Ferrell was born at Franklin
near Nashville Tenn Dec 8 1851
and married to Mary E Lackey
December 20 1878 Besides his
wife he leaves four living children
Everett Ferrell Dallas Texas Ber-
tha Autry Oklahoma City Lela
Davis Bristow and Arthur Ferrell
Okemal all of whom were at his
bedside at the time of his death
Mr Ferrell came to what is now
Okfuskee county 17 years ago from! budget of needs to July 1 1923 and
his former home at Ripley Teifti
He was a member of the Methodist
church south
(D
ARRESTED ON CHARGE
OF BEATING UP WIFE
L L Walters a carpenter living
on the east side was arrested Wed-
nesday morning by members of the
sherifFs force and placed in' the
county jail on a charge of beating his
wife The sheriff was called by
Mrs Walters and when he arrived
at the home he ‘found that she had
been beaten in the face andeabout
the head as well as having been
badly choked and bruised about the
neck Both lips of the woman had
been badly cut by blows said to
have tfeen dealt by‘ Walter’s fists
The couple have one child -
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DISTRICT COURT TO
HOLD NON-JURY TERM
A non-jury term of the district
court will be held here beginning
March 5 which will be motion day
According to Court Clerk Matt Jones
the equity cases will be taken up on
March 12 and the docket foe the
session is now being prepared
well a 20-quart shot was given and
the hole caved for a distance of 125
feet from the bottom - It is as yet
BOOSTER3 CLUB PLAN
- FINANCIAL BUDGET
FOR SIX MONTHS
The Booster’s Club luncheon was
held at the Roberts Cafe Wednesday
noon The Good Roads committee
has spent $100000 the past month
on the Okemah — Wetumka Highway
to the new oil fields south of town
and it will be necessary to raise
funds by public subscription to pay-
off this indebtness At least this
much more should be spent upon this
road at once according to the road
committee
In order to raise sufficient funds
to look after roads and other town-
boosting work a committee of three
composed of Natt D Dossey J R
Barry and E A Gaston was ap-
pointed to make an estimate for a
make assessments against business
houses business property owners
and professional men to make up
the budget
The business professional man
and property owners of Okemah are
invited to attend the weekly lucheons
as matters of great importance to
Okemah are discussed each week
— — — — TO
THIEVES AGAIN ENTER : '
THE MANHATTAN CAFE
The Westcourt hotel and the Man-
hattan cafe were robbed sometime
Tuesday night the 'hotel losing a-
blanket and several towels and the
cafe being short some cigars and
cigarets The cash drawer of the
cash register in the cafe was opened
and taken from the register but
only a small amount of change waa
in it at the time' No one at the
hotel or in the restaurant know how
entrance was gained - Mr Davis
proprietor of the hotel wa9 asleep in
a small room in the hotel lobby but
although the intruders had to pass -through
the lobby hd twaS not dis-
turbed 1 The Manhattan cafe was
entered and about $50 taktn a few
weeks ago
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