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SUCCESSOR TO THE ADA ENTERPRISE AND THE aCA REPUBLICAN
Volume II
ADA PONTOTOC COUNTY OKLAHOMA FRIDAY JANUARY 5 1912
Number 39
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Negro Lynched
at Muldrow Ok
Brute Murders White Man
with Ax Ravishes Wife
and Falls Asleep in
Victims’ Bed
tialisaw' Ok la Dec t 31 — For the
brutal murder with an ax of George
Casey a white farmer living here and
a criminal assault upon the farmer’s
wife Saturday night a negro named
Turner was taken Sunday morning
from the farmer’s home where he lay
in bed in a drunken stupor and lynch-
ed in the streets of 'Muldrow by an
infuriated mob of unmasked white
men He was strung up to a telephone
wire Sheriff Johnson of Sequoyah
heard of the proceedings in Sallisaw
and hurried to Muldrow but did not
arrive until after the lynching had
taken place
The negro had in aued the home
of Casey about midnight Saturday aft-
er he had stolen an engine in -the
roundhouse of the Iron Mountain rail
road at Von Luren Arty Satardiv
enu it cn iv tu ©714 wv’
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eil ofji runaway eugine turned it
onto a siding and the engine was de-
railed The negro seeing that he was
trapped deserted the engine and con-
tinued his way on foot for about two
miles until he came to the Casey
home
When he knocked on the door of
the bouse Casey got up from bed and
allowed the negro to enter after he
bad made a plea of being nearly froz-
en Turner sat down near the stove
and Casey went back to bed A few
mlnutgs later Turner arose and start-
ed to leave hut going outside the door
be found an ax and turning to the
bed he struck Casejr several times on
the head killing him instantly He
then compelled Mrs Casey to remain
in bed and through throats of death
eorapr11 1 ’ey to submit to his at-
tack Neirrn Falk Asleep
After ateui'ip’ishing iiis purpose
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the negro who was partly drunk
soon fell asleep and Mrs Casey slip-
ping from the bed Rnd room ran all
the way to Muldiow in her- night
clothes informing men there of the
murder aud assault A posse was
formed quickly and hurried to the
Casey home finding the negro yet
asleep lie was taken back to Mul-
drow where a mob formed in a few
minutes and It was decided to lynch
the black A rope was secured and he
- 'tas eruns up to telephone wires on
the main street of tbo town and he
was hardly dead before Sticrif Jonr-
son arrived from Sallisaw The men
had dispersed and no effort was made
to arrest any of the participants
None of them wore masks
Afterward Mrs Casey was taken
back to Muldrow and she identified
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the dead negro as the one who had
killed her husband and committed the
assult upon her person The woman
before the death of the negro held up
bravely and was able to walk to the
place where he was lynched in order
to identify 'him but afterward she
swooned away and her condition now
is precarious It is believed that she
will recover by the physicians in attendance
Negroes Ordered Off the Slreels
(Muskogee Qkla Jan 1 — Following
the lynching of Wilbur Turner for
the murder of George Cason and the
criminal assault upon Mrs Cason ne-
groes have been warned to keep off
the streets of Muldrow where the
j3"ching occurred
There has been no demonstration
Ence the Ijnching occurred- There
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has been so far no effort to deter-
mine who -was in tiro mob that Ijncb-
ej tne negro and them v ill probably
be itpne
I ii woman victim cf?’ie nog'T'Vas
not seriously injured The murdered
rnau was buried Monday
Before tiie mob got to Turner- he
-Mo-e a letter to his wife saving:
“I have gone wrong and I am going
io die before night 1 want you to
uuet me in heaven and I do not want
you to ever marry again”
The letter was addressed to Mrs
Wilbur Turner Eutaula Okla
1MH1VS AREAL TO
1) HITE FA I IIEK
St Louis Jan 3 — Five fall-blood
Cherokee Indians from eastern Okla-
homa Wednesday stopped in St
Louis while en route to Washington
where they will appear In a case be-
fore the United States supreme court
The case Involves approximately
$10000000 worth of Cherokee lands
The Indians allege the government
has illegally allotted the property to
negroes in Oklahoma
-The case which has been tiled in
every Oklahoma court and two fed-
eral courts involves about 8000 full-
blooded Clierokees ami about 30000
half-breeds
Vue Cherokee puity comprised one
woman Miss Susan Sanders and four
men
LITTLE INTEREST IN
0 ELECTION YESTERDAY
Little interest was shown by tnc
voters yesterday In the election on
the commission form of government
proposition Returns were not in as
we go to press but indications are
that the proposition carried ’ by a
good majority
Good Roads
Good roads have a money value far
beyond our ordinary conception Bad
roads constitute our greatest draw-
1 ack to internal development and ma-
terial progress Good roads mean
prosperous farmers bad roads mean
abandoned farms sparsely settled
country districts and congested popu-
UJ3 cities -where the poor are des-
tined to become poorer Good roads
mean more cultivated farms and
cheaper food products for the toilers
in the towns bad roads mean poor
transportation lack of communica-
tion high prices for the necessities of
life the loss of untold millions of
of wealth and Idle men seeking em
ployment Good roads w ill help those
who cultivate the soil and feed the
multitude and whatever aids the pro-
ducers and the farmers of our country
will Increase our wealth and our
greatness and benefit all the people
Pontotoc County Enterprise
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is Forced to Quit the Field
After a most painful existence of
twenty-one months — eight months un-
der our personal management — The
Pontotoc County Enterprise and In-
dependent aud non-parlican newspa-
per must succumb to that dreaded
and fearful malady iiuancial distress
caused by insufficient patronage on
the part of our merchauts
Yes we hate to say so but never-
theless 'tis true Unless some one
purchases our plant (and liabilities)
it 1b not likely that our readers will
receive another copy of the Enter-
prise Our unexpired subscriptions
will be taken over and continued by
some one of the leading weekly pa-
pers of the county and subsciibers
will receive one hundred cents’ worth
of reading matter for every dollar
I paid to this paper
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We came to Ada last May leaving
a good paying position and invested
our small amount of capital In thr--
Ada Enterprise moved our-little fam-
ily to “the town” of our boyhood and
builded great air castles portraying
the beauty and picasuies of our per-
manency in Ada i'he thoughts of
making a city so beautiful as tills our
permanent hems the verbal encour-
agement cf west of out business men-
so dj'zisd Ufi ifnt ve could soo noth-
ing tut on iters in the d'slauce lut
Jusc'an wo-nnoje to meetjke condl-
tijns tnf I ictci’ i n: Failure lumps
sift ill foui r Hi cur playuouse
&r i b ft noth-? r-mnuieg but the cor-
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‘vie !'’" C-
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hat fo"ght a
hard
fight
'S' against I'lg-hddfc and wo lost We
Love done oar utmost jo give our
readers the best pap r in the county
Bui now v-e c-an't We appreciate the
suppoit of our fiioiuU and remember
them alvv ays aud to them we regret
most to announce our in ability to re-
main in the Ada newspaper field It
is not an easy matter for us tp ad-
mit thatiwe are a failure But condi-
tions demand it
This field of journalism and print-
erdoi has been strained for some
time in fact ever since we came
here With three weekly papers and
one daily each of -whom maintained
a job printing office our merchants
have had too many to support The
city is not large enough to support so
many offices In fact to keep alive
two weekly and one daily papers Is a
great deal for Ada to do Some of
the business men were frank enough
to tell us so when we had under con-
sideration the proposition of coming
here We see It that way now and if
any man doubts it he needs but try
running a newspaper here for a
while
We were discussing with our com-
petitors some time ago the situation
and all conceded that there were too-
many papers here and that some one
had to suspend When It was deter-
mined to stick it out we remarked
that if we were forced out of the
field we would accept accept a posi-
tion with either one of them We
meant it We are open for offers
now and our plant is for sale We
reserve the right to reject all or any
offers made
Persons indebted to the Enterprise
or the management will confer a
favor upon us by making Immediate
settlements either by mail or In person
'Wishing our friends and patrons
success in their various lines of oc-
cupation we bid you farewell and
suspend publication succumb expire
and evaporate as doth a fog in the
sunshine Most respectfully
OREL HARPER
Why Taxes are High
Pontotoc County
An article appeared n I'u-Oklaho-lnan
of I) i I'nix r 21 puvi jrting to
give the rcnoiia w hy ia re hieli
in Oklahoma this year ’urn) as tie
statements contnin-d la this at'k-l-concerning
the taxes In I’un-oiec
county : incurred and r!-k
It is lut fair that the tavimuu m
the real reasons why their (axes ai
high A persistent effort is being
made by the slate board of equalial
lion to place all the blame for high
taxes on county town tola am
school district officers Ill rtijj
is unfair and has no four imicu if
fact No officer should ntUDipi
evade the responsibility of Lis oL
action or try to place it or the sU uf
der of the other fellow
The following figures will shew
what the state officers ha'i done jto
promote high taxes for the year l‘lr l
In 1910 the s’ate hoard levied 1 J S
mills on a valuation of $ 819189 n
Pontotoc county This lety yielded s
revenue of $12274
Jn '911 the state board' levied 2
mfn Oil a valuation $13855827 la
'ontotoc’ county This levy will yield
a revenue of $?7712 an Increase of
$144 ( joh ' is n Increase of 114
per t Jit '
In 1910th© xte boarii'' fixed the
value of tbavAi ‘oDul piepafty of
F TALLY HURT IN
MOTOR ('All COLLISION
reoge O Gibson (or Borum as h©
was alleged to be known bj et Fran-
cis) chief dispatcher of the M O &
G nl this place was fatally Jnjuiett
In n motor ear collision near Calvin
about 8:30 o'clock Fuidny night
Taf-k A Broke! trainmaster at Al-
len who was on the car with Gibson
was injured but "was able to bobble
around Motorman Bowman who was
running the south-bound car was
considerably bruised up but not se-
riously hurt ' '
Gibson and Blekcl were en route te
Calvin while Bowman was headed
for Allen the two motors coming to--gether
in a head-on collision at a
speed of about twenty miles an hour
two miles south of Calvin
Gibson received injuries about the
head and never regained conscious-
ness He was tdheu to the hospital
at iMuskogee where he died at 2:17
Monday night
Some trouble -was experienced in
finding bis relnftves on account of tb©
Alleged change of name but his body
was finally sent to relatives in-New
Mexico for burial
Gibson was about 2( years old aud
i It is said was soon to have been mar- ‘
cf
Ponnjtjo eouu'v at'V ’'47112
In 111 tin itrtu bbd fixed the ’ " Voun lady ' iu'A
value of pt ‘1(011111 property'iiTsT'mto-
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In cIV
toe county atv 1376852
of nearly 31 per e t
in 1310 the state Td fix "I the
value of the countiy aud v r'ai es-
tate in Pontotoc county at $v 17 57
In' lSHThe-ntat© -board ’ ©
value of the couuiri Mid -ity ronhefi
Umvlt Is also alleged that he was en-
gaged to a young woman of McAles-
‘r both yetiDg ladles expeetii o
Jhrry Mm on (trlstmns day St i
fatbvvlh’fli r ’dding dea
Hustler'v- ‘
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tali'1 in Pontotot- t iiHy at JTTa'tjt 7 “ ’ ‘‘ ‘lF “ T' x v t I
Ai uor a-'- of i V j r it viAn 'v y i
1: ii J in'' £y Vc ’’ “ WS- v r Vl i
value cf all prupeity la Pontotoc 1 Mvysc -iku’ti'i v'ivi’
utmib-a'in of Oklahoma
HnVlg iK r tkll'KS hvidJ' i4 fA-
"One genllt tnin hi-i-— f-jet-
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county except pule service col por-
ationa fit $7loli7r '
In 1311 tie sai board fid the
value of all property in Pontotoc
county except public service corpor-
ations ut $1104 I ’’5 an increase of
more than 51 pi r cent
In 1940 the stale board tixed the
value of public service corporal ions
in Pcntotoc county at $27f73l2
In 1C11 the state board fixed the
value cf public service corporations
in Pontotoc county at $2814442 an
ineioisu of leas thau 4 per cent
Tuo above figures prove these facts
— The stute taxes are increased 118
per ceut the value of the personal
property was increased 3 4 per cent
the value of real estate was increased
63 per cent but the value of public
service corporations was increased
less thau 4 per cent
Do you think that the state board
has given you a fair deal and has
done nothing to make the tax-cs high?
In 191 Otbe county commissioners
estimated that it would take $7216')
to pay the current expenses for the
fiscal year 1910-11
In 1911 the county commissioners
estimated that it would take $79070
to pay the curcut expenses for the
fiscal year 1911-12 an increase of less
than 10 per cent
The statement that more money has
been levied than the estimate called
for is also jncorrect as the law
makes it mandatory for the excise
board which does not includetheonz
board to add 10 per cent to all esti-
mates for delinquent taxes and the
proper officers can only draw the net
amount of the estimate as approved
by the excise board which does not
include the 10 per cent added for de-
linquent taxes
There is however a wise provision
of law which permits the proper of-
ficers to use any unexpended balance
left at the close of the fiscal year to
reduce their estimates for tle follow-
ing year so the officers are given a
legitimate way to use any money that
may remain unexpended at the close
of the fiscal year '
IV S KERR 1
County Clerk
R A lit WIN
County Treasurer
County Attorney
- -'alks about tie population t )fla-
lioiiui Territory being ‘inchoatt’— t'ldt1’
tiiey do not know one another Iot in
tell you that tlu-v are American L’ t
om all they are the advoutuieij'
sjilrit-t of all that western counl T
Illinois Missouri Iowa Neoroika
Kanhiis Arkansas and Texas i
are the sane sort of men tiiatK7
the foundation of free governr)'T2
in all th Ixmislana purchase In 'ai-
ifornfa Oregon and Texas Theyl
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ITLLINS’ STORE BURNS
The store of T O Cullins near the
Normal was totally destroyed by fire
which is supposed to have been cf In-
cendiary origin The loss was about
$750 with $200 insurance Mr Cui-
lins expects to rebuild at once
long to the class of men such as 'old
Sam Houston who fought for liberty
at San bietnto and such as Davy
Crockett Travis and the brave men
who !ird at the Alamo in defense of
American freedom (Applause) An ln-
etioute population iB it? Why sir
take one hundred and fifty thousand
American citizens place them in the
middle of the great African desert to-
morrow uiul in Jess than a week they
will hav a con-tituiion and laws and
te lhmg in peace and order under
tbepi (Applause) That ts the disting-
uishing haruoti riHtic of the race
from which vve sprung (Applause)
Theae Oklahoma people are flesh or
our iiesh and bone of our bone (Ap-
plause) They arc1 an liono to any
country They are fit to have beea
the fathers and mothers of the
Gracchi (Appluuse) Let no man I
do not fare where he comes from as-
sail the hardy pioneers that go out
into that wild couutry and conquer
the -wilderness making it blossom like
the rose (Applause) God bless them’
They are state makers After awhile
joir children will go there it may
he a good while but finally after these
hardy pioneers have smoothed th©
pathway your children will be proud
to -be citizens of the great state of (
Oklahoma that Is to be” (Applause)
— 'From the Congressional Record i
Vol 26 part 1 page 274 I
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Nhoots Self lu Font
J C Story ar-cidentaliy shot the lit-
tle toe off his ri“ht foot about noon
Christinas day lie is doing fairly
well It is repotted but the danger
from blood poison has notf yet passed
He and a friend were returning from
a hunt and stopped at the home of D
L Richardson one mile norUieast of
town to telephone to some one Com-
ing out of the bouse ho set his gun
down on his foot "the gun was dis-
charged ths Jbad-of shot teaiirg awav
the right side of his right foot Jim’s
many friends hope no serious compli-
cations will follow — Hustler
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