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AN OFFICIAL PAPER FOR OKFUSKEE COUNTY
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VOLUME 17 NUMBER 20
OKEMAH OKLAHOMA THURSDAY JUNE 7 1923
SUBSCRIPTION 3200 PER YEAR
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Prisoners Taken To
Marshall Huser and Clarence
Brown two Okemah youths were
badly cut on the head and face in
an encounter with two negroes on
South Third street Sunday night
about 9 :30 o’clock It was at first
thought that the Huser boy was
fatally wounded drat after examina-
tion by Drs Spickard "and May it
was found that neither of the boys
were dangerously hurt
It is learned that just prior to the
tutting affray a negro servants
bouse on the W C McIntosh place
had been stoned the screen doors
" and windows being broken One of
the McIntosh servants had been hav-
ing a party at the 'time at which
several negroes were present
A large crowd gathered on the
- streets and but little excitement
among the crowd seemed apparent
although a large crowd between 200
and 800 people assembled about the
county jail after the two 'negroes
who it was - alleged had done the
cutting had been arrested and plac-
ed in jail v '
After midnight the Sheriff R H
McKinnon began to fear for the
safety of his prisoners and decided
' toJ remove them to some place of
safety The two negroes were load-
ed into a car and Deputy Sheriff
Jim ' McAlester City Marshal Frank
Cole and Policeman Frank Gehagen
drove to Okmulgee with the negroes
where they are being held in jail
The negro who is alleged to have
wielded the razor on the two boys is
namld Lee and says that his parents
live at Boley The other negro is
named Brown
' According to Jailor John Williams
I about a half hour after the removal
of thf prisoners a bunch of about
2$ ntasked men came to the jail and
demanded the keys to the jail He
told the leaders that the negroes
had been taken away and led some
ef the men back into the jail to see
for themselves - When the' men
found that' the negroes had been
spirited away they dispersed alt once
According to a statement made
Tuesday afternoon by the Huser and
Brown boy to County Attorney Tom
' Huseri they were walking about in
' the' south part of town prior to the
trouble - When they arrived at a
' point just south of the L L Rebman
home they met two negro men ac
' companied by two negro women
BIBLE STUDY CLUB MEETS
The Bible study club composed of
the Christian ‘ women of Okemah
met in regular session at the Presby-
terian church at 2:30 o’clock Wed-
nesday afternoon the vice-president
Mrs Dexter presiding
Reports of committees were called
for Mrs Taylor chairman of the
program committee reported the
names of the leaders for the lessons
taking up to the first of September
Each leader to use her own method
of teaching 'the bible study found in
'the book she is to teach Following
" is the list ’of leaders
“Exodus” will be taught by Mrs
T M Heniy the president of the
club ' I
“Levitcous” will be taught by
Mrs Chowning
“Numbers” will be taught by
Mrs O C Gaston Sr Motion made
by Mrs Taylor that the report ofj
the committee be ' adopted second-
ed ' by Mrs E L K Rice carried
unanimously -
Meeting was then turned to the
leader for the day Mrs Norman
Taylor and a most interesting dis-
cussion of the Abraham period em-
bracing the 12th through the 25th
chapters of Genesis ensued
' This meeting together of the
Christian women of Okemah and
their studying of the bible will bring
about a better understanding of one
another and a desire and willingness
to co -operate in tha' interests of
building a better city
Every woman will find it jnuch to
her advantage to attend nextweek’s
meeting which will be hold at 4jhe
Presbyterian church at 2 80 o’dtck
next Wednesday afternoon— meet-
ing called to order promptly at 2:30
Be on time-
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M E CHURCH
South' 0th Street
£SUiiday school 10 a m
l Mnwg Worship 11 a $ ’
v Epwbtth Lsagus 718 p thl
Childrtn Exercises 8 p
The -public heartily' invited to- all
ouU' services - V?--
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JUDGE NORMAN TO OKMtfLCEfe
'District Judge John L-Noman
is in Okmulgee this week where ha
is holding court for' Juge James
'-Hepburn trying some -cates in which
Judge Hayburn has disqualified him-
self Judge Norman return
e4 home Wednesday night' '
Okmulgee For Safety
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The negroes did not show any inclina-
tion to give any part of the sidewalk
and Marshall Huser asked them “what
do you think you are doing?" and
pushed one of them from the 'walk
The negro Struck Huser cutting him
with a razor and knocking him down
Brown tried to pust jthe negro from
Huser and received a like cut with
the negro’s weapon Huser did not
take note of any other actions of the
negro but Burt Barrow stated that
the negro started toward him and
that he threw a stone at Lee strik-
ing him in the head It is said tfyat
the other negro did not take part in
the fight but ran away following
the women
According to the negro’s story to
the officers told on the way to Ok-
mulgee the boys jumped onto him
when thy met on the sidewalk The
negro had been struck in the fore-
head and had been cut in the left
wrist with a knife According to
the officers the cut in the wrist
could not have been made with a
razor as the wound was ragged
Immediately after the fight the
exodus of negroes fjom Okemah be-
gan and both early morning trains
carried a load of them from here
At the present time there are few
negroes in the city Almost every
year there is a similar trouble with
the negroes in Okemah but the
latest ruction has been the most
serious so far -
-Sheriff R H McKinnon is to be
commended for the prompt manner
i" which he removed the negroes
from the city thereby making it im-
possible for any excuse for a race
riot to dvelop over the affair
Both of the wounded boys were
taken to the Huser home in the
west part of town and at latest re-
ports are resting easy and recovering
from the effects of the wounds as
rapidly as can be expected
In discussing future action Mtyor
F M Streetman said that special
qtf eery wpuld be appointed in each
warn- to : assist hr keeping out of
town negroes who are not working
for eombody For the past few weeks
there has been gathering in town a
few who do not work much and are
being fed rfnd kept up by the negro
women cooks This element is al-
ways a source ef trouble and will
be ordered out of town as soon as
apprehended
NEW CASES FILED IN -
THE DISTRICT COURT
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S L Looper vs Gardner Petro-
leum company appeal from J P
Court i
Silvester MoSealetis vs f Lewis
Quint et al quiet title
First Presbyterian Church of Oke-
mah vs J E Coffman county treas-
urer cancellation of tax deed
LelaN Fixico vs Hully Fixieo
divorce
Amos S Scruggs Henry Grayson
vs L K Price et al concellation
of instruments
O G Meyer vs Hettie Lena et
al quiet title
In the matter of the estate of
Cusehta Yarhola incompetent H
A Dolan and Hill Moore guardians
appeal from county court on' appli
cation' for attorney fees
C C Cabe vs D E Lee suit on
note '
First National Bank of Okemah
vs Standard Machine and Tool com-
pany recovery of money on promis
sory note
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EQUALIZATION BOARD
MAY RAISE VALUATIONS
The County Equalization Board of
Okfuskee county met in session
Monday and then adjourned for a
day or two and then will again be-
gin continuous sessions for some
few days ' This year the board plan
a closer viewing of the property
which in some instances may result
hi higher valuations'
! Town property in ' Okemah will be
one over closely and an attempt
will be made to equalize values The
board and County Assessor Tom Mc-
Gee believes that there is some
property in town on the rolls under
valuq as compared with property of
like value and an attempt will be
made to "unscramble the eggs" so
to speak
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OKEMAH LOSES TWQ
v GAMES TO ADA TEAM
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Sunday the Okemah baseball
leap journeyed to Ada for a couple
of jnmes with that aggregation The
Sqpdsy gams resulted In a 8 to 0
Victory for the Ads eam and the
Sgame was slso lost by the
team by a score of 6 to 2
lg to reports both games
were Very interesting and well play-
ed’ by both teams
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DISTRICT COURT DISPOSES fcOHEN’S DEPARTMENT STORE
OF MANY LAW SUITS OPENING SUCCESSFUL
Following is the title and disposi- Cohen’s - new department store
tion of cases in the district court pkemah’s newest store opened Sat-
during the past two ' weeks: jurday with an immense trade and
Henry W Perryman et al vs B O the store was fuU of buyers all day
Sims et al judgment for plaintiff iThe store is located in the McIntosh
Bob Perryman vs Blanche ' E gliding formerly occupied by the
Ross et al judgment for plaintiff iDunlop Bros store and the build-
Clarence W Vann V3 Charles E ring is well stocked with goods of
Helphery et al dismissed i ' -fell lines found in the modem town
Bob Perryman vs Blanche Ross department stores
et al judgment for plaintiff' ' ' Louis Cohen of Shawnee is the
George Grayson vs E S Warner lcad of the firnlf and iocai Btore
stricken by agreement s in charge of Norman Cohen
Nancy Wilson vs Gale Statlsr et IeraId Cohen of Shawnee was here
al stricken - ' --' the week prior to the-opening and
Nancy Severs vs Louie Sevens j
dismissed
Dolphin Mercantile Co vs C A
Johnson et al judgment for
plaintiff
O P Jameson vs Mrs Joe BeU
ford dismissed
J R Barry Vs J' H Biedleman
judgment for plaintiff
Chas E Helphrey vs E D Smllh
judgment as per jdumaHntry-
Wilson E ConnclL vs- -Arthur
Lippa et al judgment for plaintiff''
Rachael Matthews vs Tonce Har-
rington dismissed ' '
J W Woods vs T W 'Harmon
continued and referred to T H
Wren ' "
Bertha Brandon vs J A Collinge
judgment for defendant
Nettie Gunderson vs W C Duke
dismissed
Lee Tire Sales Co vs Okemah
Filling Station hung jury -
W M McGee vs Pete Sanders
judgment for plaintiff of 2100 and
costs of suit '
Charles E Helphrey vs E D
Smith et adjudgment for plaintiff
L G Murray vs W R Blake
verdict for defendant
Ed Morgan vs M Moline et al
dismissed at plaintiffs cost
John E Rose vs F W Dillard
et al stricken
Paden National Bank vs D’ L
Barnes et al judgment for plaintiff
W E McKinney vs Sarah A Car-
ter et al dismissal filed signed by
W E McKinney and Sid White
Birdie Coleman vs Dossey Hard-
ware Co verdict for defendant
P 0 Melton a junk dealer of
Henryetta was arrested at that place
Tuesday afternoon and brought to
the county jail here on a charge of
Bank of Commerce vs W A grand larceny It is charged in the
Boyd et al judgment for plaintiff complaint that Melton had in nis
Park Produce Co vs J W custody a bull rope which had been
Krumme judgment confessed 1 stolen from a Prairie oil lease north
J Wesley Krumme vs C B 0f pharaoh Melton claims that he
Young et al stricken did not steal the rope but that he
j vs J- Hugh Nolen bought it from a young man hut
dismissed did not know his name Melton has
Mid Continent Life Insurance Co a family at Henryetta
vs W T Hamm et al stricken j m — —
Key Wallace & Thomas vs W A CHILDREN’S DAY EXERCISES
Wilson stricken
Frank P Douglass vs E- M Ken- Children’s Day will be observed
nedy continued - 'at the Methodist Episcopal Church
Bob Perryman vs G M Castle on next Sabbath
stricken ! Sunday school and sermon at the
® I morning hour Special program en-
CARRIAGE LICENSES titled “The Secret whispered to
- ’ ’ Children" will be rendered by the
Wilburn Thon age 21 and ' Lizza children of the Sunday school at
Holland age 19 both of Boley 8 m
Earl McKinley age 19 and Jonie The public cordially invited
Ward age 18 both of Springhill P- '
Anna Mae Nesh age 18 Wetumka alt?rnoon'
Ernest Snelson age 23 and Mince ' About thirty guests were present
Cummings age 20 both of Ok- he following was the program
mulgee Solo Water-Nymph Dance and
George Bailey age 20 Okfuskee Dance of the Hours — Eva Burnett
and Essie Jones age 17 Okemah! Duett Wedding Festival March —
Marvin Beasley age 21 and Lillie Flora Horton and Mildred Horton
McSpadden age 18 both of Paden I Solo Ciribiribin — Aline Lojyri-
S B Bradley age 23 and Grace more
Cunningham age 18 both of Solo Starry Night Serenade —
Pharaoh ' I Flora Horton
A C Cartwright age 21 and Joy! Duet Sunset Meditation— Eva
Redding age 18 both of Wetumka Burnett Arline Lowrimore
H D Ewings age 27 and Mts
Lula Woods age 30 both of dear-
view Omar Woodward age 20 We-
leetka and Ottie McCain - age 19
Clearview
Arthur Powell age 40 and Verri-'r
L Friar age 17 both of Weleetka
Week End Trip
assisted with the opening sale
The clerks of the new store are
G M Fox Harry Spitz Coe Ausley
and Pearl Westover Mrs Holmes
and Mrs Hadsell
' Mr Cohen said Monday are
well pleased with the reception the
people of Okfuskee County 'have
given our new store We are here
to serve them and feel sure of a
Al’lendid business In ' looking over
the towns of the stats for a location
for tills store decided that Okemah
was the coming town of this section
of the state and business conditions
were better here than any other
town we looked over’
About sixteen years ago Louia
Cohen opened a small store on a
side street in Shawnee and has built
and expanded his Shawnee store
until’ he had - moved three times into
larger and better quarters and has
a splendid store in that city Many
of his customers from Seminole
county and west end of Okfuskee
county were here at the opening of
the Okemah store Saturday
A number of people from
Shawnee have remarked “The
Cohens are fine people and are a
valuable addition to the business
circles of your town”
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HENRYETTA MAN CHARCED
' WITH GRAND LARCENY
afternoon
Independent Well Blows
Itself In for 1000 Barrels
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The Independent ' Oil and Gas
company test In 19-13-8 drilled it-
self in Wednesday ‘iiight and is
flowing at the rate of 1000 barrels
daily and the oil is ' flowing off
down the hillsides because of inade-
quate tankage The Prairie Oil and
Gas company pipe line coming from
Creek county has not yet been com-
pleted to the well ' The depth of
the well is 4147 feet and this means
a great deal of new' deep develop-
ment will take place in townships
13-7 and 13-8 and 12-7 and 12-8
Four new offsets will be drilled
around this well at onfee and a new
big field seems to be opening in
Okfuskee county
Howarth Oil and Gas company
got salt water at 4140 feet in the
Wilcox sand in their test in the
NW of 10-12-8 and will be aban-
doned -
The Independent Oil and Gas
company la drilling at 2700 feet on
Ross in 3-13-7
The-Transcontinental Oil company
is drilling at 1000 feet in 23-13-7
The Joaey Oil company has drilled
into about 2000000 feet of gas at
2000 feet in the SW corner NW
SW quarter section 24-12-10 The
sand is also making some water
The ' Gypsy Oil company has
100(000 feet of gas at 3020 feet
in the SW corner NW SW quarter
section 6-10-10 across 40 acres from
the original ' Allison well in the NW
corner - section 7-10-10 They are
running the ff-inch casing and will
probably drill in today 4-
The Howorth Oil and Gas company
has a hole' full of water at 390 0 in
the SW corner NE SE quarter sec-
tion 26-12-8' The contract depth of
the test is 4000 feet v
The Empire Gas and Fuel company
is abandoning its test in the ' NE
corner W half NE NE quarter- sec-
tion 31-11-10 at a total ' depth o I
3871 feet — - f
The Prairie Oil and Gas company
has the rig on the ground for a teal
in the NW corner SW quarter sec
tion 26-10-11 -V
Wilson and Huckins got a ' dry
hole iq the Dutcber sand are non
underreaming at 2700 feet to drill
on down to the Wilcox ' sand In the
SW corner NW section 36-13-10
The Texas company well in the
NW corner NE quarter section 36-10-11
which made16Q barrels of
oil in the first 12 hours after a 40-
quart shot in the sand at 3081-85
feet and then quit producing al-
together is now swabbing about 60
barrels of oil and - as much water
daily i 1
Wangerine and others No 1
Huineha in the northwest corner of
14-13-10 was dry at 3525 feet
’ Boso and others 1 Salina in
the southeast corner of '29-11-8 was
dry at 2507 feet t'
Brink Oil company’ No 4 Hop
wood in the northwest Of the south-
west of 11-11-11 Was dry at 2534
feet '
Gilcrease Oil company No 1
Berry in the northeast of the south-
west of 9-10-10 was dry at 3740
feet ’
The Transcontinental Oil company
is drilling at 3785 feet in their No
1 Kennedy in 29-10-10' The dis-
covery well in the samh' section which
was drilled through the 3800 sand
into water is being' plugged back
and an effort will be made to save a
well The oil from this well is the
highest grade found ' in' the south-
west field
The Howarth company is shut down
at 3918 feet for five-inch pipe in
No 1 Nancy Johnson in the north-
west of the northeast of the north-
east of 17-12-8 It is drilling at
1350 feet in No 1 Byer Beaver in
the southwest of the 'northwest of
the southeast of 26-12-8 : Its No
1 Nelly Yahola in ‘ the Southwest
corner of the northwest of 20-12-9
is-'drilling at 500 feet: Its No' 1
Lydia Fields in the southeast of the
southwest of the northwest of' 1-11-8
is a rig 1
The Sinclair Oil and Gas company
is still fishing 6-inch Casing at 3172
feet in the SW cornier NW quarter
section 1-10-9 -
t The Sinclair Oil add Gas company
is drilling at 2750 ' feet in the SE
corner seetjon 1-10-9 '
The Gypsy Oil company is pulling
the big pipe preparatory to' grilling
in in the SW' corner NW SW quarter
section 6-10-10
Thb Skelly Qil company is drill-
ing 'at 875 feet in the NE cornfer
section 2-10-9
The Independent Oil and Gas com-
pany id tmdprreaming the easing and
will drill jit down front 8097' feet
after missing the Allison sand -altogether
in the NE come SE quarter
section 12-10-9 ’ “ rf r
R J Allison’s three wells In the
NW NW quarter section 7-iprlpsre
making 100 barrels a day"
The McMari Oil 'company’s two
wells in the SW SW quarter section
6-10-10 are making 100 barrels n
day
The Minnehoma Oil company has -spudded
in the SE corner SW NUT
quarter section 16-10-11
The Turman Oil company is drill-
ing at 1200 feet in the NE corner
NW SW quarter section 16-10-11
Webster et si have drilled into
water at 2351-67 feet but are drill-
ing ahead in the CEL NE SW
quarter section 3-11-11
Waite Phillips has set the 10-
inch basing at 858 feet in the SS
corner SW SE quarter section 8-12-
11
The Josey Oil company is ready
to run the casing at 2036 feet iiv-
the CEL SE SE quarter section 11
12-11 '
Hartman et al are drilling at 709
feet in the CEL NW NW quarter
section ‘ 27-12-11 ‘
With the running of a string of
five inch pipe and a new packer the -water
has been shut off in the well
of the Independent Cary and Blake-
ly in the SE of NE NE of 29-12-10
snd' the oil is coming back in good
ihape The sand will not be tested--out
The Independent ' 'Oil and Gas
company and Cary and Blakely are
yetting ready to drill their well
ieeper in the SE- corner of the NB
ie of 29-12-10 The packer is hold-
ng and they are swabbing The
veil made a couple Of flows Sunday
In the Ad Garrison pool the
Midwest and Gulf company reached
the top of the aaid at 3020 in the '
NW corner of the SE SE of 2-L0-9-snd
there is 1800 feet of oil in the
hole - They are now drilling in
This is northwest across the forty
'rom the discovery well '' ’
The Sinclair Oil company has a
lice showing of gas in sand from
1870 to 8Q in the SE comer of 1-0-9
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The Gypsy Oil company has drill-
’d in a twenty million gas well in
he SE corner' of the NW SW of
i-10-10 near Okemah Sand was
trilled from 3010 to 3018 feet The
veil will be shut in today ' '
Kessler and Smith are drilling at
1500 feet in their test in 15-1413
A telephone report from ’ the
Lyons-Quinn pool says that the
Waite Phillips company has 40 mil-
lion feet of gas in another sand on
the center of the west line of the
NW SE of 13-11-11 this being the
third gas sand found below the
regular Quinn-Lyons sand It is
aid that Phillips got 53 million feet
of gas in 156-2800 (foot sand and
mudded that off and- went 80 feet
deeper and gat another sand Defin-
ite information was not obtainable
I’he news was telephoned to M C
French If the report is true the
find is a very important one
COLLIER GETS MEN
OPERATING STILL
Ollie Owens and Aaron Fipps
farmers living on the Walter Rhea
farm south of Okemah were arrest-
ed by L M Collier S V White and
Bill Holloway on a charge of manu-
facturing whisky The two men
were found in possession of a 12-gallon
whisky still five gallons of
whisky and a quantity of mash The
men were busy running off a “batch"
of whisky when surprised by the of-
ficers One other man who wa
present at the still made his
escape in the timber closely follow-
ed by a load of bird shot from a gon
in the hands of one of the officers
Owens and Fipps were taken to
Holdenville to appear before the
United States commissioner there
Last Monday Collier was over in
the Henryetta district and succeed-
ed in unearthing a 20-gallon copper
still and 100 gallon of mash in
farm house two and a half mi!e
north of Henryetta - Bob Stucky
was garnered in as the proprietor
cf the factory and taken to Holdea-
ville to make a bond for bis ap-
pearance in the federal rcotfrti ’
Collier also captured a 60LgaIlan
still three milea north -of 1 Wetumka
but no arrests were made in this
instance
SPANISH WAR ‘VETERANS "
' TO HAVE' ORGANIZATION
Preparation! are' being ’ mad by
local veterans cf - the Spanish-
American war to ’'organise a post of
that organisation at Okemah At a -
meeting the first of tha week tem-r
porary officers were elected4 GLH
Moore was elected temporary ekajjy
man L B Locke temporal Afcrp-V
tary and J W Gibbdney temporal
treasurer A' charter Jor tha Ijt
organization will bo applied jog o£-
once which a membership catg)apfc
once after whid& a merobenhtnh-
pampaign will bejnt -on to get siL
veterans of the $paniih-AmerieaV -war
in the couqt JptQ the organiza-
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