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SIXTY-FIFTH YEAR NUMBER 22
By Robert A Park Editor
THE YUKON SUN
Sheriff Tiny Royse is very un-
happy that this newspaper is
telling the people of Canadian
county that another bootlegger has
moved into our county
Since the bootleggers and
gamblers began moving from
Oklahoma county across the line
into Canadian county to set up
shop several years ago this news-
paper has opposed Tiny Royse as
a candidate for shoriff
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Russell G Cofer has '-
Impressive Record
Russell Gilbert Cofer n2
Oklahoma City's famous -
"bicycle bootlegger" is now
a resident of Yukon living r
in the garage apartment at
1019 Aiap!e aronne
Cofer won his "bicycle boot-
legger" title as a youth by usiag
a bicycle to deliver whiskey
oklahorna City chile his driver's
license waS under suspension
H( wever since hi ()manic a
bv4 iearcie boo'lcg-tor Cofer never
let lack of a (lefties keep
him from dritirig autionohilos
January 1:1:4 lt t as aceluimed
by the sta'e department of putilic
safety as one of the first Ohla-
homan to become a member of
the "more than 200 arrest club"
of traffic violators
Jim Lookabaugh commissioner
of the state department of public No 81
safety said this week that Cofer his bs
is now under suspension from do no
driving a motor vehicle until Oct on th
12 1957 Joplin
Last Friday afternoon Cofer sa"
was driving a late model Ford his Pic
sedan on Main street in Yukon drivin
The license number was 1-45054 -
Cofer's attractive woman com of lict
panion was at the same time driv- v''wde
ing his new Cadillac sedan license Was ft
number 21-2151 Both cars are motor
often seen parked near the garage Tria
apartment lit Tu
Commissioner Lookabaugh re- laws
ports Oklahoma license tag No under
21-2151 (which was on the Cadillac grand
last week) is registered to a 1951 On
two-door Oldsmobile sedan in the j girl fr
name of Junior Mashburn 302 22 w
North Pearl street Picher Okla county
Lookabaugh said tag No 1-145e54 busine
is registered to one Charles Tye A Tr
no street address Oklahoma City and a
Just because those license tags
were on the two cars last Friday
doesn't mean they had the same
tags on Saturday or this week
On Dec 10 1950 Cofer's car
was riddled by machinegun bullets
when he tried to run a roadblock
of Texas officers near Denison
Texas The officers nabbed him
55 cases of whiskey and found
nine sets of license plates in his
Late model car
Ile bad a license plate lor each
day of the week with two left over
for special occasions
Cofer got into his most serious
trouble on Sept 24 1955 when a
federal warrant was Issued charg-
ing him with assault on a federal
officer during a running gun bat-
tle near Joplin Mo
Cofer was charged with shooting
the federal Alcohol Tax Unit offic-
er Glenn Starrett in the leg when
the officer tried to stop a car
hauling whiskey in a 90-mile-anhour
chase
After the shooting two men
abandoned the 1947 model Ford
sedan containing a large quantity
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Royse has never carried eastern Canadian county in his bids
for re-election and for this he blames the editor of The Yukon Sun
for printing some facts that he had rather not have printed
It seems the fact the bootleggers and ganiblers have moved
just inside our county line from Oklahoma county does not bother
the sheriff—and he certainly almost neverbothers them
But when this newspaper prints news items and pictures
calling attention to the drive-in liquor joint southeast of Yukon on
the lOth street highway bootlegger E F (Red) Barnett and the
notorious Saddle gambling club near Piedmont Sheriff Royse
gets mad
The sheriff somehow heard that I was going to give Gilbert
Russell Cofer the famous Oklahoma City bootlegger a nice
spread of publicity in The Yukon Sun this week
Sheriff Royse called on me at the Sun office Tuesday morning
and asked me not to run the story "right now" lie said he hopes
to catch Cofer with a large stock of liquor and wants to surprise
ig "Bicyrzic7:- Boakie
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of liquor and fled into a heavily
wooded area The old model car
was found to have a new Cadillac
motor
Trial of Cofer in federal court
lit Tulsa for violation of liquor
laws is set for this Friday lie is
under $1000 bond set by a federal
grand jury
On May 24 1955 Cofer and his
girl friend Billie Mae Armstrong
22 were arrested in Seminole
county where he was in the liquor
business
A month later on June 10 he
and another girl friend Beverly
Gay Coiner 24 were arrested in
Seminole county and officers said
Cofer was attempting to organize
Seminole McClain and Fottawato-
' mie counties for wholesale distri-
bution of liquor
Cofer at that time was charged
with drunkeness consorting with a
prostitute and allowing an
authorized person (Miss Coiner)
to operate his new Cadillac
Miss Coiner was charged with
vagrancy by prostitution reckless
driving and driving without a
driver's license
On August 29 1953 Cofer's car
crashed into another car at the
corner of NW 23 and May avenue
in Oklahoma City and police
nabbed Cofer and a woman who
said she was his wife Peggy Ann
Cofer 21 as the Cofer car fled
from the scene of the crash
By the time officers stopped the
car the woman was behind the
driver's wheel — but Cofer was
convicted of drunken driving and
leaving the scene of an accident
In January 1954 the state in-
surance commissioner said that in
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NEW YUKON RESIDENT—Russell Gilbert Cofer (above) F B
No 880-306 famous "bicycle bootlegger" of Oklahoma City has moved
his base of operations to Yukon and you can be sure his "operations"
do not include working for a living He is at present under heavy bond
on charges of shooting a federal agent in a running gun battle near
Joplin Mo on Sept 24 1955 Although the state department of public
safety has ofen revoked his driver's license for drunken driving and
his license is now under suspension until Oct 12 1957 he may be seen
driving in Yukon almost any day
view of Cofer's record of more
than 200 traffic arrests and his
record of bootlegging no insur-
ance company would be required
to sell Cofer public liability and
property damage insurance on his
cars
Cofer often wears George Raft
type high-waisted britches and
this led to his arrest the night of
May 9 1955 at a elle in Prague
Two state highway patrolmen
entered the cafe for coffee and
saw Cofer tip-toeing out the back
door
They recognized the high-waist
pants and nabbed Cofer finding
in the high-pants two pints of gin
and $1853 cash
Because of his long record of
drunk driving reckless driving
and driving without a license
Cofer has lots of trouble getting
an Oklahoma driver's license
However when arrested while
driving in Seminole county in 1953
he produced driver's licenses from
three other states At that time
he told officers he bad quit boot
legging and was "moving to Idaho
to raise potatoes"
Corer's police record so far as
known to Oklahoma authorities
is printed below All charges filed
in Oklahoma City unless otherwise
noted
Year MS
Jan 12—Arrested at Chillicothe
Mo and turned to custody of
V S Marshal
Jan 19—Charged violation Dyer
act (car theft) federal court at
St Joseph Mo
Feb 20—Charged with escape
('in U S Marshal arrested in
):A:ioma City
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asked Itoyse how he could expect me to believe that he would
"knock off" Cofer When the other bootleggers and gamblers have
been operating over here for years with little or no interference
from Royse
Royse gave me to understand that "80 percent of the people
of Canadian county vote wet" and that he didn't think they wanted
the liquor laws enforced
And Royse is right about this being a "wet" county but every
time he has taken his oath as sheriff he has sworn to "discharge
the duties of my office with fidelity"
It seems to me the sheriff just dldn't want any publicity on the
new bootlegger until after the Nov 6 election in which be has a
republican opponent for sheriff
I think the public should know about Russell Gilbert Cofer
BEFORE the November 6 election then if the voters like this kind
of law enforcement they can re-elect Royce
So long as professional gambling and bootlegging are against
the law the sheriff is sworn to enforce the laws—whether he
agrees with the laws or not
It is not up IA) a sheriff to deride which laws are to be
enforced If a law is unpopular the law should be changed by
the majority of the citizens through their legislators
In April last year an ex-convict escaped from the county jail
at El Reno taking along three loaded pistols and $10 in school
money from Sheriff Itoyse's safe
At that time this newspaper asked Royse in an editorial (I)
Why was the night jailer asleep in his bed over the jail at the time
of the break? (2) Why did the sheriff leave loaded weapons and
funds entrusted to him in an unlocked safe? (3) Why were keys
to the cells left in a desk drawer in plain sight of the prisoners?
Sheriff Royce did not answer
In January last year ageets of the state crime bureau and
our then County Attorney James V Phelps Jr raided the "Saddle
YUKON OKLA110MA-THURSDAY OCT 25 1956
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Year 1939
July 1S—Iteck1ess driving and
resisting an officer
Dec 20 — Destroying insured
property investigation
Dec 21 — Destroying insured
property
Year 1940
Jan 26 — Speeding running
boulevard stop
Feb 2 — Disorderly conduct
possession of whiskey
Oct 30—Vagrancy investigation
Nov 12—Larceny of auto and
investigation released to El Reno
pohce same date
Dec 14 — Disorderly conduct
liquor
Dec 14 — disorderly conduct
liquor (second charge on same
date
Year 1941
Jan 18 — Disorderly conduct
liquor
Jan 25 — Disorderly conduct
liquor
Jan 29 — Possession whiskey
Feb 10 — Possession whiskey
Feb 3 — Possession whiskey
June 3 — Possession taxpaid
whiskey
July 3 — Possession whiskey
July 4 — Possession whiskey
July 21—Assault and battery
July 23 — Disturbing peace
Oct 13 — Possession whiskey
Nov 12 — Possession whiskey
Dee 21 — Possession liquor
Dec 21 — Possession liquor
reckless driving operating vehicle
with improper tag
Year 1142
Jan 21 — Disorderly conduct
possession whiskey
Feb 20 — Possession whiskey
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Club" gambling casino and two liquor joints southeast of Piedmont
Phe!ps called on the state crime bureau for assistance in
making the raids and Sheriff Royse and his deputies did not know
anything about the raids until they were over
Authorities said the raids were planned without the knowledge
of Royse
At the Saddle Club the state agents ripped out warning buzzer
systems and arrested E C "Juuk" Johnston El Reno gambler
on a charge of liquor possession
In an upstairs room the officers found a long table such as
are used in big time dice games Several decks of cards were
found The room was wired with a warning buzzer from down-
stairs Johnston was identified as the proprietor of the club
The previous week George Barnes Oklahoma City gambler
was arrested in a 9-mile-au-hour chase with a newspaper re-
porter from the Daily Oklahoman Police saw Barnes trying to
catch the reporter's car and arrested him Barnes had $21s:'i in
cash in his poekets when he was booked at the Oklahoma county
jail
Then there was the case of Vigil Atwood Oklahoma county
bootlegger who in 1951 opened a thriving liquor joint on the high-
way east of Mustang just inside Canadian county and also
operated the drive-in liquor joint about three miles east of Yukon
on the 10th street highway
Sheriff lloyse knew about Atwood and his liquor joints but he
was conspicuously absent when on Sept I 1951 County Attorney
Ralph A Myers Jr and agents Of the state crime bureau raided
Atwood's two joints
They seized 402 pints of whiskey at the joint near Mustang
and 337 pints of whiAvy 27 fifths of whiskey and 90 pints of gin
at the loth street joint where they arrested Theodore Gray-
mountain employe of Atwood
Following these raids the state safety commissioner said
May 24 — Vagrancy investiga-
tion July 17 — Charged at Hobart
with reckless driving
Dec 16 — Possession liquor
Dec 21 —Sale of whiskey
Year 1943
Marc!' 30 — Possession whiskey
April 9 — Possession liquor
Aug 16 — Speeding
Sept 19 — Speedng
Dec 19 — Speeding
Year 1944
Jan 13 — Arrested by State
Highway Patrol at Kirkwood Mo
for violation of federal liquor laws
improper auto license
Jan 13 — Charged in federal
court at St Joseph Mo violation
federal liquor laws (Pleaded
guilty May 9 fined Vp00 sentenced
60 days jail)
Aug 23 — Charged in federal
court with violation CPA gas reg-
ulations Year 1945
July 12 — Reck lees driving
July 23 — Improper turn
Year 1947
June 20 — Reeeiving stolen
property
Aug 20 — Drunk investigaion
Nov 26 — Drinken driving
Year 1341
Oct 27 — Reckless driving
Nov 2 — Speeding
Year 149
Feb 27 — Possession whiskey
March 3 — Possession whiskey
March 19 — Possession whiskey
March 21 — Possession whiskey
March 23 — POSteSsiOn whiskey
July 9 — Possession Iquor
July 24 — rOSSiOn liquor
July 20 — Possession liquor
County Attorney Myer v "asked us for he!p an1 sse are glad to
help him" (Why ifitt Myers have to call on the state agents?)
The state commissioner added:
"When local authorities fail or refuse to eliminate open and
notorious law violations investigators from the state crime bureau
will be used
"The director of the state crime bureau is going to put Virgil
Atwood out of the whiskey business in Canadian county if the
authorities of Canadian county are unwilling or unable to do so"
The state safety eoninnssioner stressed he was not referring
to County Attorney Myers when he mentioned Canadian county
authorities "who are unwilling or unable to put Atwood out of the
whiskey business"
And Atwood was put out of business not by our present
sheriff but throun a permanent injunction issued by District
Juib:e Vdhi u I Furg
t'arridian county Or OiS a sheriff who does not operate a string
ot race horses There may he race horse owners i ho never gamble
On their horses but I fleViT personally knew one
Sheriff Royse is going to be very angry with me for printing
this editorial In August 1954 when The Yukon Sun printed some
facts about his record as sheriff he told me "I am going to beat
you up if it costs me $IN"
If the sheriff ever its any excuse to lock me up in his jail at
El Reno I hate (i) think what I may look like when my wife and
five children see me again
I am and always have been a registered Democrat but first
anti foremost I am an American and I am going to vote for a
Republican when I think it is in the best interests of city county
sLitt' and nation
It will come as no great surprise to Tiny Royse s hen I tell
you that on November on going to vote for the Republican
candidate for sheriff—Dennis Adams an 11 Reno business man
l 1 HOME SWEET HOME—Above is the garage apartment at 1019
Maple avenue where Russell Gilbert Cofer the famous boollegpr is
now living His new model Cadillac sedan bearing a license plate
4 registered to a 1'751 twocloor Oldsmobile sedan in Ottawa county may
i 4 be often seen parked in the garage below his upstairs apartment
-- 1 When he rented the garage apartment he identified himse:f as "an
ILLEGAL LICENSE PLATE — Cofer's new suspension of his driver's license until Oct 12 1957 automobile dealer"
Cadillac generally driven by his attractive girl However he does not let this minor detail keep him
friend bears Oklahoma license tag No 21-2151 (or from driving Last Friday afternoon he was driving
at least it did Sunday afternoon when the above a new Ford sedan license number 1-145054 which weapon
Year 1954
picture was taken in the 400 block on Main street according to Commissioner Lookabaugh is regis-
Feb 22 — Public drunkeness 1 Nov 12 — Vagrancy
here) Jim Lookabaugh commissioner of the Okla- tered to one Charles Tye no street address Okla-
April 20 — Charged drunken Dec 3—Driving without license
home department of public safety told The Yukon home City driving leaving scene of accident driving wrong way on one-way
Son this week that according to tax commission Cofer never lacks for plenty of license tags for Aug 5 — Loitering investiga- street
records this license tag is registered to a 1951 his fancy aosomobiles On Dec 10 1950 his car was bon Sept 21 — Charged in federal
Oldsmobile two-door sedan in the name of Junior riddled by machinegun bullets when he tried to run Year 1955 court at Joplin Mo with shooting
an
Mashburn 302 North Pearl street Picher Okla a roadblock near Denison Texas The Texas officers J 2 — Drunken driving Alcohol Tax Unit agent during
March
Cofer has recsrd of over 200 traffic arrests nabbed him with SS cases of whiskey and found 20 — Drunk resistirg running gun battle near Joplin
many for drunken drivisg and Is now under nine sets of license plates in his lat model car arrest escape investigation violation federal liquor laws
from driving Last Friday afternoon he was driving
a new Ford sedan license number 1-145054 which
according to Commissioner Lookabaugh is regis-
tered to one Charles Ty no street address 01(1a-
home City
Cofer never lacks for plenty of license tags for
his fancy aLosomobiles On Dec 10 1950 his car was
riddled by machinegun bullets when he tried to run
a roadblock near Denison Texas The Texas officers
nabbed him with SS cases of whiskey and found
nine sets of license plates in his lat model car
Aug 12 — Possession whiskey
Aug 18 — Possession whiskey
Aug 31 — Possession whiskey
Sept 19 — Possession whiskey
Sept 27 — Possession whiskey
Oct 19 — Possession whiskey
Oct 2—Driving without license
Novi 9 — Reckless driving driv-
ing without license
Nov 11 — Reckless driving no
driver's license
Nov 29 — Reckless driving no
driver's license
Dee 20 — Possession liquor
Year 1950
Feb 17—Driving without license
Jan 15 — Disorderly conduct
Oct 4 — Possession whiskey
Dec 10 — Cofer's car riddled by
machinegun bullets as he tried to
evade a roadblock near Denison
'Tex a 3 Ty k 3 s police found 53
cases of whiskey in his car
Charged with possession and trans
portation of untaxpaid liquor
Year 1951
April 3 — Operating public
nuisance vagrancy
Sept 14 — Driving without
license vagrancy
Year 1952
May 12 — Speeding no driver's
license
Oct 11 — Public drunkeness
Nov —Driving without license
Year 1953
March 6 — Driving without state
driver's license (45 days in jail
$2i) fine)
Aug 10 — Speeding
Aug 28 — Drunk driving no
state driver's license
Aug 29 — Leaving scene of ac-
cident drunken driving driving
without license drunheness
Year 1954
Feb 22 — Public drunkeness
April 20 — Charged drunken
driving leaving scene of accident
Aug 5 — Loitering investiga-
tion Year 1955
Jan 2 — Drunken driving
March 20 — Drunk resisting
arrest escape investigation
June 8 — Drunk possession
whiskey consorting with a prosti-
tute allowing unlicensed prosti-
tute to drive car vagr they
June 13—Driving without license
July 21—Driving without license
Oct 2 — Assault with deadly
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Nov 12 — Vagrancy
Dec 3—Driving without license
driving wrong way on one-way
street
Sept 21 — Charged in federal
court at Joplin Mo with shooting
Alcohol Tax Unit agent during
running gun battle near Joplin
violation federal liquor laws
May 9 — Arrested at Prague
Okla cafe with two pints gin in
George Raft type high-waist
britches $1835 cash in pockets
Year 1956
April 8 — Vagrancy investigation
EX-BOOTLEGGER'S HOME—The two-story brick home above has
been built at the comer of the Piedmont road and Cedar avenue one
block north of U S 64 There is a full basement under the building
and in the floor of the two-car garage is a largo hole with a chute
going Into the basement Jo Poteet former Oklahoma City boot-
logger built the house and moved into it about three weeks ago He
said the chute is used to deriver firewood into his basement for use in
a fireplace Poteet saki he quit bootlegging nearly two years ago
before he moved here from Oklahoma City He said be and Russell
Gilbert Cofer have been friends about 20 years but have never been hi
business together "I built this home for myself and I live here by
myself and my home is not going to be used for illegal purposes" he
added "Any officer is welcome to search my home at any time—clay
or night and he won't need a starch warrant" Poteet said is is now
rsction business
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him - Club" ginibling casino and two liquor joints southeast of Piedmont County Attorney Myer- "asked us for help and sse are glad to
I' owN ez:z:? I asked lloyse how he could expect me to believe that he would
"knock off" Cofer IA hen the other bootleggers and gamblers have Pheips called on the state crime bureau for assistance in
making the raids and Sheriff Royse and his deputies did riot know help him" (Why dui Myers have to call on the
state agents')
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been operating over here for years with little or no interference anything about the raids mail they were over
"When local authorities fail or refuse to eliminate open end
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E Royse gave me to understand that "80 percent of the people
of Canadian county vote wct" and that he didn't think they wanted of Royse
At the Saddle Club the state agents ripped out warning buzzer will be used
1' systems and arrested E C "Jtsuk" Johnston El Reno gambler "The director of the state crime bureau is going to put Virgil
110 ' 77 i iiik the liquor laws enforced
And Royse is right about this being a "wet" county but every on a charge of liquor possession Atwood out of the whiskey business in Canadian county if the
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- I - It seems to me the sheriff just dIdn't want any publicity on the In an upstairs room the officers found a long table such as
are used in big time thee games Several decks of cards were
found The room was wired with a warning buzzer from down- authorities of Canadian county are unwilling or unable to do so"
The state safety commissioner stressol he was not refurring
to County Attorney Nlyers when he mentioned Canadian county
authorities "who are unwilling or unable to put Atwood out of the
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whiskey "
zeith the aye tdiZt republican opponent for sheriff Johnston was identified as the proprietor of the club business
I think the public should know about Russell Gilbert Cofer
The previous week George Barnes Oklahoma City ganibler And Atwood was put out of business not by our present
was arrested in a treinile-an-hour chase with a newspaper re- shehtf but throudi a permanent injunction issued by District
tern Canadian county in hi BEFORE the November 6 election of law enforcement they can re-elect Royce n if the voters like this kind s bids portcr from the Daily Oklahoman Pollee saw Barnes trying to Judge William I 1ogg
Imes the editor of The Yukon Sun
So long as professional ga mbling and bootlegging are against catch the reporter's car and arrested him Barnes had $21s5 in Can idian county niTitS a sheriff who does not tiperste a string
lad rather not have pri nted cash in In pot when he was booked at the Oklahoma county
the law the sheriff is sworn to enforce the laws-whether he tat race horses There inzly be race horse owniTs vim never gamble
ggers and ganiblers have moved agrees with the laws or not jail on their horses but I never personally knew one
Oklahoma county does not bother It is not up to a sheriff to decide which laws are to be Then there was the case of Virgil Atwood Oklahoma county Sheriff Royse is going to be very angry with me for printing
lost never1iothers them enforced If a law is unpopular the law should be changed by bootlegger who in 1951 opened a thriving liquor joint on the high- this editorial In August 1954 when The Yukon Sun printed some
arints news items and pictures the majority of the citizens through their legislators way east of Mustang just inside Canadian county and also facts about his record as sheriff he told me "I am going to beat
operated the drive-in liquor joint about three miles east of Yukon you up if it costs me $100"
iquor joint southeast of Yukon on In April last year an ex-convict escaped from the county jail
on the 10th street highway If the sheriff ever its any excuse to lock me up in his jail at
er E F (Red) Barnett and the at El Reno taking along three loaded pistols and $90 in school
Sheriff IZoyse knew about Atwood and his liquor joints but he
near Piedmont Sheriff Royse money from Sheriff Itoyse's safe El Reno I hate to think what I may look like when my wife and
At that time this newspaper asked Royse in an editorial (1) was conspicuously absent when on Sept I 1951 County Attorney five children Si( me again
Why was the night jailer asleep in his bed over the jail at the time Ralph A Myers Jr and agents of the state crime bureau raided I am and always have been a registered Democrat but first
that I was going to give Gilbert Atwood's two joints
of the break? (2) Why did the sheriff leave loaded weapons and anti foiemost I am in American and I am going to vote for a
ahoma City bootlegger a nice
funds entrusted to him in an unlocked safe? (3) Why were keys They seized 402 pints of whiskey at the joint near Mustang Republican when I think it is in the best interests of city county
Sun this week
to the cells left in a desk drawer in plain sight of the prisoners? and 337 pints of whiLkey ZIT fifths of whiskey and 90 pints of gin ' state and nation
the Sun office Tuesday morning Sheriff Royse did not answer at the loth street joint where they arrested Theodore Gray- It will come as no great surprise to Tiny Royse hen I tell
y "right now" lie said he hopes In January last year agents of the state crime bureau and mountain employe of Atwood you that on November il I it In going to vole for the Republican
: of liquor and wants to surprise our then County Attorney James V Phelps Jr raided the "Saddle Following these raids the state safety commissioner said candidate for sheriff-Dennis Adams an El Reno business man
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Park, Robert A. The Yukon Oklahoma Sun (Yukon, Okla.), Vol. 65, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 25, 1956, newspaper, October 25, 1956; Yukon, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2292730/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.