The Hobart Republican. (Hobart, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 1, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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THE HOBART REPUBLICAN.
VOLUME 7.
HOBART, KIOWA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, JULY I, 1900.
NUMBER 19.
DIRECTORS
ARE NAMED
Chamber of Commerce Held Annual
Election Thuraday-Oklahoma Mid-
land R.R. Submit* Proposition
DIRECTORS.
W. W. Lumpkin, president Alfalfa
Milling Co.
R. B. Ash. member firm of Hooper &
Ash, lumber dealers.
W. C. Kelsay, cashier Home State
D. S. Wolfinger, cashier City State
Wm. Ilippen, manager T. D. Turner
Produce Co.
A. W. Hall, president Board of Ed-
ucation.
John R. Williams, president Kiowa
County Abstract Co.
Fred Mann, secretary Chamber of
Commerce.
B. M. Lovelace, cashier Farmers &
Merchants National bank.
F. T. Chandler, president Hobart
State bank.
E. F. Dunlap, president First Na-
tional bank.
Tho above are the gentlemen who will
compose the directors of the Hobart
Chamber of Commerce the coming year,
and no better selection could possibly
have been made. All live business- men.
Citizens who have the advancement and
welfare of the city at heart.
At the annual election held Thursday
afternoon and evening from 3 to 9 p. m.
the eleven men named above received
the highest number of votes, and accord-
ingly were declared the choice of the
Chamber of Commerce at the regular
meeting held in the evening.
Officers of the proposed Oklahoma
Midland Railroad Co., attended the
meeting and submitted a proposition to
the Chamber of Commerce. In sub-
stance the proposit on is as follows;
Hobart is to furnish the right of way,
from the city limits to the edge of the
county line in the direction of Hetrop,
to the northwest, and another the same
distance in the direction of Rocky. To
give a bonus of 8100,000. One-half due
and payable when the line to Sayre is
complete and in operation, the balance
due when cars are running between Ho-
bart and Oklahoma City. Npthing was
said about the location of proposed shops
terminals, etc, or the time of completing
the line.
In order to further air the proposition
a committee of live were appointed to
confer with the railroad company and
report to a mass meeting, which has
been called to meet in the court house
in the future. The committee: J.
M. Rule, W. W. Rowland, R. B. Ash,
Morris Erdwurm and Will Hippen.
DURIED A STRAN6ER IN
THE CITY OF THE DEAD
Henry Davis, the man who died Mon
day night in the Hobart hospital, from
a blow on the head, has been interred in
the Potter's Held of the Hobart cem-
etery.
Every effort of the officers failed to re-
veal a relative or friend of the deceased,
and after holding the remains as long as
possible, Undertaker BurUe, laid the re-
mains to rest, in that unknown tield, in
the city of the dead.
DAYTON FIRM SECURES
GOVERNMENT CONTRACT
LAWTON, June 28—Sites for fiity-
four new army buildings at Fort Sill
were selected this morning, three
fourths of a mile west of the old fort by
Major Frank B. Cheatham, represent-
ing the quartermasters department at
W7ashington.
Contracts were also signed for the
construction of the buildings at a cost
of 1750,000. Luyster & Lowe of Dayton,
O., have the general contract.
Major Cheatham announced that
$1,500,000 was now available for the
post and target range improvements.
MORPHINE DOES THE WORK
COTTON CROP SHORT
NEARLY 7,000 BALES
Assessors' Return* Show Butter Pro-
duction $85,892, Fruit $44,344. bnt
Potatoe Yield Decreases.
GUTHRIE, June 24—Lincoln county,
which led the state in cotton produc-
tion last year, according to the ginners'
report to the federal department of ag-
riculture, falls nearly 7,<100 bales short
this year, according to the statistical re-
port based on the assessors' returns just
received by the state board of agricul-
ture, but is still propably in the lead in
the state. The ginners' report credited
Lincoln county with 44,561 bales. The
assessors' returns show only 37,902
bales. The county had 110,81.1 acres
planted to cotton, with a gross return of
11,521,495.
Corn was the only other crop in Lin-
coln county that yielded any great re-
turn. There were 78,905 acres of it,
producing 1,283,879 bushels, valued at
$670,977; 4,788 acres of oats, producing
84,675 bushels, valued at $36,082, and
only 244 acres of wheat, with a yield of
791 bushels, bringing the growers an in-
come of $560. Kaffir corn proved quite
a profitable crop. From 5,117 acres
were obtained 32,618 bushels of grain,
valued at $16,253, and forage worth
$16,373 in addition.
The farmers' wives in Lincoln county
must be good butter-makers, for butter
was sold to the value of $85,892; poultry,
$19,767; eggs, $35,640; milk, $38,606; ani-
mals fattened or sold for slaughter,
$46,484; orchard productions, $44,344,
and small fruits, $12,973. It also re-
ports 121,327 acres of native forests
from which wood to the value of $11,878
was sold last year.
Tho report shows that 2,345 of the
farms of the county are owned and 1,718
rented. This percentage of rented farms,
large for the western half of the state,
is due to the large acreage of school
land in the county.
Sequoyah county, which has won
fame as a potato producer, and stood
third in the state in that respect in 1907,
shows a great falling off both in acreage
and production in its report for 1908.
There were only 1,893 acres, against
2,457 the year before, with a production
of 140,776 bushels, against 203,242 bush-
els in 1907. The value of the 1908 pota-
to crop is placed at $106,434. The coun-
ty also has 38,395 acres of cotton, pro-
ducing 16,311 bales, valued at $646,869,
and 29,208 acres of corn, producing
396,803 bushels, valued at $236,076.
There are 502 farms owned in the coun-
ty and 1,342 rented.
HODART GAS AND FUEL
COMPANY INCORPORATED
Local Men Charter Institution to Fur-
nish Cheap Fuel to Hobart-Capital
Stock, $10,000.
The Hobart Gas <fc Fuel, Co., was this
week issued a charter by the secretary
of state, with a paid up capital stock of
$10,000.
W. S. Pryor, a local gas man is the
prime mover of the new incorporation,
and controls a number of wells, south-
east of the city, from which he hopes to
obtain a sufficient supply of natural gas
to furnish the city with light and fuel.
In conversation with a Republican
representative recently, Mr. Pryor stat-
ed it was the intention of the company
to commence work at an early date.
Later the capital stock will be increased
to $100,000.
THIRTY-FIRST BOMB
THROWN IN CHICAGO
CHICAGO, June 28—One person was
killed and twenty six injured, and dam-
ages to the amount of $100,000 sustained
at midnight, when the thirty-first mys-
terious bomb exploded in the rear of
the telephone exchange. Thirteen girls
were injured by falling glass, and 2,000
phones were put out of commisaion
Jim Hughes, Rocky Suicide Dead—Will
Fill Grave in Potters Field.
ROCKY, June 28— Jim Hughes,
whose only identification was his name
tatooed on his arm, died Sunday morn
ing, after remaining unconscious ihe
entiretime from Friday until the hour
of his death. He will be burried here
at thecounty's expense.
Fishing on Medicine Creek
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Curtis and Miss
Katharine Bremmicker left Monday for
Cache where they will join a fishing
party. Others in the party are, A. C.
Hippen and wife of Oklahoma City, At
torney Zink and wife, Keith Miller and
mother. J. T. blatou and wife and
Robert Himmons.
OKLAHOMA MOD STORMS JAIL
AND SWINGS NEGRO TO POLE
SHERIFFS FORCE
MAKING A RECORD
Hundred Men at Wilburton Avenge Brutal Murder of
Constable Albert Turner—Calm Follows
a Night of Intense Ex-
citement.
Joe Jones Arrested Monday Morning,
Charged With Stealing Horses Be-
longing to Chief Lone Wolf.
WILBURTON. June 26 Cutting off
telephone communications from the
police authorities and shrouding ithe
town in darkness, a mob of 100 men
stormed the county jail here at 1 a. m.
this morning, and dragged Sylvester
Stennien, a negro from his ceil, and
hanged him to a telephone pole on
Main street in the very heart of the
city, where the remains hung until cut
down by a member of the sheriff's
force after daylight.
Stennien was under arrest for mur-
dering Deputy Constable Albert Turner.
The negro was known as "Alabama
Red," a coal miner, working in the
mines three miles west of town. Thurs-
day Officer Turner was called to arrest
Stennien, who was drunk and raising a
disturbance. The black man resisted
arrest, and overpowered Turner, who
was a one armed man, secured the offi-
cer's revolver and shot him through the
heart. Other white men wounded Sten-
nien and captured him after a desper-
ate fight, an 1 he was lodged in jail.
Since that time the feeling against the
negro has been intense.
Yesterday Sheriff Riddle left town
and placed the jail under the charge of
the city marshal. At midnight the
mob formed and cut the telephone
wires to prevent an alarm. A commit-
tee appointed by the mob leaders went
to the electric light plant where the
lights were switched off and proceeded
to the jail, which was unguarded. The
doors of the jail were rammed in and
the locks broken.
Stenien, prostrate with fright was
taken from his cell to the principal
street in town, and strung up to a
telephone pole, where lie was left until
cut down this morning.
After accomplishing their purpose,
and the negro being pronounced dead,
the mob quietly dispersed to their
homes.
As thief catchers of every description.
Sheriff I'arham and his efficient force
of deputies are rapidly making a record
for themselves and the county.
Monday morning Deputies lirashears
and Jean Parham mado another impor-
tant capture, when they took into cus
tody one Joe Jones, charged with steal
ing a horse from Lone Wolf, chief of the
Kiowa Indians.
Only last week, it is alleged JoneB rode
off the Indian's horse, and traded it to
L. D. Sautbine of this city. The sheriff
at once detailed his trusty men on the
case, which resulted in his landing in
jad. With this Brrest an enviable re-
cord has been established by the sheriff's
force, having captured every alleged
horse thief and reoovered tho stolen
property, that has been reported to tlteni
GILLILAND
ON TRIAL
Sixteen Year Old Boy Charged With
Murder of Henry Davis, Is Being
Given Preliminary Hearing.
INSORANCE COMPANIES
WILL REDUILD HOTEL
Park Hotel at Mountain Park to be
Duplicated to Save Expense-Be-
lieved Money Can Be Saved.
MURPHY'S KITTENS
DEFEATED VERDEN
Sunday Results in The Rock Island
League-Game Here Was Featurless
-Gotebo in the Lead.
In a slow, featureless game, save for
Galloway's home run, Murphy's Kittens
easily defeated the Verden team, in
Sunday's game.
From the very start it was evident
that the visitors were no match for the
locals, and after running the score up to
two figures, the home guards made mon-
keys of the Verden aggregation.
The final result was Hobart 14; Ver-
den 4.
The attendance was poor.
Lone Wolf 9; Fort Cobb 3.
Lone Wolf won a decisive game over
the Fort Cobb Indians, on the letter's
grounds Sunday. Score: Ljub Wolf 9;
Fort Cobb 3.
Gotebo 5; Anadarko 2.
In Sunday's game at Anadarko, Go-
tebo continued to head the column in
the Rock Island leagne by triming the
Washita river town by a score of 5 to 3.
Hobart Blacks Trim Roosevelt.
The Roosevelt negroes weren't in
Sunday's game, when the oil mill aggre-
gation trimmed them to a standstill-
Scores Hobart 12; Roosevelt 5. For sup-
remacy and pure fun. this game is stid
to have been the hit of the day, by those
who attended.
FALL ON PAVEMENT
CRACKS THREE RIBS
B. F. Duncan, Driver of Delivery
Wagon for Bretch Bros. Wholesale
Grocery, Seriously Injured.
During the shower Friday afternoon,
a team hitched to one of the Bretch
Bros. Wholesale Grocery Co's. wagons,
became frightened, and plunged forward
throwing the driver, B. F. Duncan heav-
ily to the bard pavement. Three ribs
were fractured and serious internal in-
juries were sustained by Mr. Duncan,
The injured man was taken to his
home in an ambulance, and medical aid
summoned. His injuries are believed-
to be of a serious nature.
Mr. Duncan is a married man and re
sides on S. Monroe street.
I Cases Filed.
The W. M. Cameron Lumber Co., has
tiled application against the First Bap-
tist church of Snyder for a meheanio's
lien in the sum of $676.15.
Many Go to Lone Wolf
Sixty-four tickets were sold from Ho-
bart to Lone Wolf Friday afternoon, for
persons going over to take in the picnic.
Today is Odd Fellows day and many
members of the Hobart lodge are in at-
tendance.
GRAB THREE FOR
HORSE STEALING
Deputy Sheriffs Walters and Brashears
Make Another Important Capture
in Comanche County.
Charged with horse stealing, J. P.
Vaughn, Charles Vaughn and Robert
Frazier are under arrt st and in the coun-
ty jail.
The trio were arrested Friday after-
noon in Comanche county by Deputies
Walters and Hrashear.-, and is one of
the most clever captures in the criminal
annals of the county.
Two horses were recenty stolen, one
from F. Cuppy and the other from Lone
Wolf, a Kiowa Indian, and both were
recovered and returned to their rightful
owners, and the three men charged with
the crime arrested.
A fourth party to the alleged theft is
still at larg^, but Sheriff Parham will
get him.
BRAKEMAN KILLED AT CUSTER CITY
Falls Between Two Freight Cars and
Body is Severed.
Wm. Thornbro, a Frisco brakeman
was killed Sunday afternoon at Custer
City, while switching in the yards at
that point.
Thornbro slipped between two cars
and.fell on the track. His body was
severed in twain and dragged several
rods before the train could be stopped.
The remains were taken to Enid, his
home.
CHANDLER CHINAMAN
MAY BE LEON LING
CHANDLER, June 28-Hoping to
preclude any possible escape of any
suspect that there may be of
Leon Ling, wanted in con-
nection with the murder of Miss Elsie
Sigel, the New York police authorities
have telegraphed the officers here to
hold the Chinaman, who under arrest
appears extremely nervous and says
his name is Sam Wing.
Believing they can save money by du-
plicating the Park Hotel, which wbb re-
cently burned, at Mountain Park, and
save money, the insurance companies
carrying the policies to the amount of
$4,500 have ordered plans, and specifica-
tions drawn for a new structure.
The Park Hotel was a large, two story
frame building, hnd was erected several
years ago, when the price of building
material was considerably higher-priced
than at present.
If the building can be duplicated for
less than the amount of the insurance
this will be done, and Mountain Park
will again have another hotel.
STATE EXAMINER TAYLOR
CRITICIZES 3 OFFICIALS
GUTHRIE, June 23—State Examiner
Taylor in his report on the conduct of
the state agenoy severely criticizes For-
mer Superintendent Lozior, Enforce-
ment Attorney Caldwell and Attorney
General West, for "slack indefinite, er-
roneous and improperly kept agenoy ac-
counts."
In the expense vouchers, amounting
to $57,000 are large charges for 'enforce-
ment expenses and detectives," employ-
ed by West with no further explanation.
What became of the money is not
known, other than Caldwell acted at
treasurer and collector for his depart
ment.
JURY FREES MRS. PRICKET
RUT CONVICTS PARAMOUR
OKLAHOMA CITJf, June 26-Mrs.
Emma Pricket was acquitted of the
charge of forming a conspiracy to kill
her husband.
James Wilson who was tried as an
accomplice was sentenced to a year and
a day in the penitentiary.
"Shorty" Jones, who confessed te have
assaulted Pricket was given 10 years at
hard labor.
L0N6S TO VIEW WIFE'S
GRAVE REFORE DEATH
Southern Inventors.
The following patents were issued this
week to southern inventors; reported by
D. Swift & Co., Patent Lawyers, Wash-
ington D. C.
S. M. Doling, Chandler, attachment
for scale-beams. J. A. Pittman and S.
A. James, Spiro, pipe joining machine.
II. W. Smith, Gage, draft appliance.
OKLAHOMA CITY, June 26-Fear-
ing death would overtake him before he
could look upon the grave of his wife,
Emanuel Rhoads, aged 73. disappeared
suddenly from the home of his son, and
is believed to be walking to Rochester,
N. Y. The son is now searching for his
father, whose only possession was a $5
bill.
MASONS ATTENDED PICNIC
Down with Typhoid.
P. G. Hyde, bookkeeper for the War-
ner Quinlan Paving Co., and assistant
superintendent, is very ill with typhoid
fever at the home of Father Kickx.
Members From Hobart Assist in Initi-
ation Work.
Several members of the Hobart A. F.
i A. M. lodge went to Lone Wolf Fri-
day and attended a meeting of tho lodge
there, during which session three mast-
er Masons were made.
An elaborate lunch was served after
the work.
Sentinel, Granite, Hobart, Gotobo,
Mountain View and the Carnegie lodges
were represented.
Churged with murdering Henry Davis
Ed Gilliland, a 16 year old boy. was
given a preliminary hearing in the
county court before bounty Judge
Mansell Monday.
On opening thecase, County Attorney
Standeven mado the usual preliminary
remarks, after which both sides opened
the case, without loss of time.
Oscar Ford, tho Hist witness called,
testified that he was at the residence of
Dan Gilliland, for whom the deceased
was employed, and that Ed, tho defend-
ant, and Davis had boon to town, d 'ring
the day, the crime is alleged to have
been committed and that Davis had
given Young Gilliland $2.50 to be pre-
sented to his brothor, which he claimed
as a debt. After the parties had re-
turned from town, Davis asked the boy
to return the sum, and words passed be-
tween the two, when Davis, the deceas-
ed, finally threw the boy to tho ground
and bumped his head several times.
Davis, 'ator in the day, made other de-
mands to tho boy to return the money,
finally threatening to stamp his head in
the ground. Gilliland asked to be left
alone, stating that he could not, make
him give it up, and if he (Davis) was
going to thrash him, to go ahead, but
stop picking on him. Davis then strJek
the boy two or throe times, when final-
ly Davis knocked Gilliland down, and aa
he arose picked up a single tree, which
was lying olose by, and as Davis again
advanced towards him, dealt him a blow
on the head, rendering him unconscious.
Ed Gilliland then oame to town and
summoned medical aid for the injured
man. ,
All the testimony adduced tended to
show that D.ivis was the larger man of
tho two.
The next witness called was Wm.
Kennedy, who verified Ford's testimony
throughout. Neither could be shaken
on cross examination.
Court adjourned until 1 p. m.
At the afternoon session, three other
witnesses were examined and all testifi-
ed that the deceased provoked the boy
to Buch an extent as to cause him to
think that his own life was in danger.
The case was submitted to the court
without argument, exept as to the point
where a person is justified. The defend-
ant was discharged for insufficient evi-
dence to hold him to the higher court.
DRYAN BER6ER NUPTIALS
SOLEMNIZED THIS M0RNIN6
DENVER, Colo., June 24-William
Jennings Bryan, Jr., only son of the
former Democratic presidential can-
didate, and Miss Helen Berger, daugh-
ter of Alexander Berger, a millionaire
grain and flour dealer of Milwaukee,
were married today at the Bryan sum-
mer home at Grand Lake, Colo.
After a brief honeymoon the young
couple will go to Tucson, Ariz., where
young Bryan has extensive business in-
terests given him by his father. The
bride is a young woman of remarkable
beauty, educated and accomplished and
a devotee of outdoor spores
Mr. and Mrs. Mryan, Miss Grace Bry-
an and Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt, who
was recently divorced from her artist
husband, witnessed the ceremony, which
was a simple and unostentatious affair.
Young Bryan only recently attained
his majority while hi9 bride is only 19
years of age.
ALLEGED MURDERER KILLED
WHILE RESISTING ARREST
BALTIMORE, June 25-Emmett Rob-
erts, accused of murdering Mrs. Wood-
ill, was killed this morning while resist-
ing arrest. Roberts was surrounded in
a farm houno, but escaped, and when
ordered to surrender commenced tiring
at the posse, when the fire was returned
and he was shot through the bn/ A
bottle of poison was found on I
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