The Cushing Independent (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 20, 1917 Page: 1 of 8
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THE CUSHING INDEPENDENT
WKKKI.V K1.HTION
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3 MURDER TRIALS
IN DISTRICT CAURT
Take Up Case of Bob Raines For
' Mike Horine Murder Today.
Drumright, Okla., Sept. 17.—Three
murder cases will be tried before
Judge E. B. Hughes at the present
session of the distrct court criminal
branch, following the disposition of
the Braught trial. The trial of Bob
Raines, charged with the murder of
Mike Horine at a dance in Sapulpa,
is the first on the docket and waa
started today.
The second case scheduled, which
will be reached the early part of the
week, is that of "Doc" Hawkins of
Oilton, charged with killing Andy
Anderson, a pipe line contractor, in
a iystaurant in KJef^r. Hawkins,
who was a former deputy and guard,
is well known in Drumright and the
local oil field. He attacked Ander-
son and beat his with a chair, after
the latter had insulted Hawkin's wife
Anderson later died of his injuries.
The \pst murder case on the doc-
et is that of Carl Freeman alleged
to have killed Solonom Torres at a
town in the southern part of Creek
county.
WOMAN SENTENCED
TO PRISON FOR LIFE
Mrs. Roe Convicted of Killing Hus-
band Two Days After Marriage.
Pawnee, Okla., Sept. 17.—Mrs. Mary
Florence Roe, the Meramec woman
who was charged with the killing of
her husband, Jesse Roe, last April,
within two days after their marriage
must serve the remainder of her life
in prison unless the criminal court
of appeals or a governor of the state
intervenes to grant her clemency. A
jury in the district court here return-
ed a virdict of finding her guilty of
the murder charge and fixed her pen-
alty at niney-nine years in the state
penitentiary.
Ills. Roe heard the jury's verdict
with the same stolid indifference she
has maintained throughout the trial
which lasted a week. ^
Two brothers of the condemned wo-
man, Nelson and Charles Burton, a
sister, Miss Nin Burton, and her aged
mother, Mrs. William Burton, have
been with the defendant throughout
the trial, although Mrs. Roe urged
them to leave her alone. Judge Linn
spoke of their faithfulness in passing
sentence. The mother who is 76 years
old, was prostrated when she heard
the verdict.
CUSHING FIELD
NOT A DEAD ONE
NEW WELLS REVIVE PRO-
DUCTION IN ONE OF OK-
LAHOMAS GREATEST
POOLS.
OIL PttlCM
Oklahoma $4J.O#
Kansas 2.0©
Healdton 1.2®
Indiana 2.88
Petrol ia 2.08
Princeton 2.17
Ragland 1.10
Plymouth 1.82
Illnios 2.12
Caddo Crude .. . 1.00
Caddo (32 degrees- 2.00
Caddo (35-degress- 2.90
Caddo (38 degrees 2.00
Pennsylvania 3.50
Garber 3.60
Mercer (black) 2.25
New Castle 2.28
Corning 2.60
(.p belli 2.57
South Lima 2.08
North Lima 2.08
Corsicana (light) 2.00
Electra 2.00
Wooster 2.30
Henryetta 2.00
Somerset 2.40
port these cattle to the southeastern
states and feed them there.
The embargo on shipments to
neutral nations will have a ten-
dency to keep down all food prices,
and will enable the Hoover commis-
sion to apportion the supply more
GRAIN CROP IS BIG BUT
MEAT IS VERY SHORT
• BY GILSON UAUDNKK.
Washington, SepV 15.—Crop re-
ports are the most encouraging fea- equitably between the domestic and
ture la the business situation. The foreign user.
small grains are now harvested and
the corn crop is practically assured.
The latter is to make a crop larger
than the record by 3,000,000 bushels
and larger than last year's record by
8,000,000 bushels. This will help
the feed situation and eventually
make for cheaper meat.
NEWS FROM THE
TRAINING CAMP
WHY GERMANS RIAD ENG-
LAND _AND NOT PARIS
BY BASIL M. MANLEY
Washington, September, 15.—Lon-
THE CITIZENS' CORRESPOND don 111141 u England are At the
ENT TELLS OF WORK OF I mercy of periodic
OUR ROYS
FIRST WAR'BABY
Rockville, Center, L. I., Sept 13.—
A me.sa.iger boy pasted quickly up " *iZn sTring. TraininTcam"p
visitations of
frlghtfulness from German air raid-
era.
Paris and France are practically
Leon Springs, Texas, Sept. 16. 1917 lmra|1,w>
The name, Camp Funston, has been [ VVHT?
officially dropped so far as the camp Geography and geography alone!
is concerned and it is officially known prom t_h„ German airplane bases
T
It
the walk hftwwn „{ "" — • *" * at Zeebmgge and Ostend on Che Bel
. , .. . , . ... seems that there were at least three K,an coaJ|t to jj0ndon U 130 miles, a
Wheat is turning out better than awn of a quit, home u, Rockvillo _ Camp Fun8tons in tho u. s. and it • morrt than an hour.a
expected, as it comes frotn the tenter, a typical Long Island town caUMd too much confu8ion in official
threshing machines. Oats is a tre- of 1000, New-Yorkified and yet '
mendous crop, fine of quality, and , countrified.
both barley and rye are excellent. At the door, as the boy waited for
According to Agricultural Depart- his bood to be signed, they read this
ment reports, potatoes, beans, gar- cablegram:
den products and fruits will be more "Arrived safely in Fran®®—
abundant than ever in the history Captain Albert Whitney Wa -
of the country. The pack of all dron."
From the German front to Paris Is
. . ^ , | uj weight than when they arrived
kinds of canned and dried lruits will Suddenly upstairs, behind a closed here Mathews ha8 ^ 8ufferlnK
be much larger than usual door which opened only as the doc- considerably from a 8prained ankle
The new corn crop «B8ellinga ap-, u,,. and nur8e passed in and out, which ha8 kept him from work for a
% eorn Z ^ few days. Little has been under the
Old corn in , dued moarning-that first wail from ,,hyHician9 care for a day or two> tt,_
fllB •> flnv fhfnut f At- urKink onvi nil a fath. ' __ ...
j circles. As we understand it there onjy 75 mneg.
I is now but one Camp Funston" which 1 BUT in the flight to London the
j is located at Ft. Riley, Kansas. j flrat 90 miles Is over the water with
I ■ . , Utle danger of attack and no dan-
1 The Cushing bunch is scattered sd 1 ger of detection except wireless mes-
j that it is seldom that they see each ( sages from patrol boats and sea-
I other. They are each much lighter planes.
Even if tho German air-raiders
are sighted, the second they cross
the coast line, there are only 20 min-
utes to mobilise British airplanes
to repel the attack. This woul be
enough if it were certain London
STATE HEALTH OFFICER
TO BE HERE SOON
Sanitary ©fficer, Gelbhaar has re-
ceived notice that a representative of
the state health department will be
in Cushing soon.
It will be well to have your premises
in good shape, weeds along streets
and alleys cut and all other object-
ionable mater removed.
PKNTECOSTAL CHURCH OF THE
NAZARINES
317 East Main Street
Sunday School at 10 o'clock each
Sunday morning and preching at 11
a. m. and 8. p. m.
Prayer Meeting each Wednesday
night.
All are cordially invited to these
services.
Rev. F. E. CHAPMAN, Pastor.
BY W. H. PECK, HOTEL TULSA.
Box 833. Telephone 6241.
The Cuhing field continues to fur-
nish the real sensational dope and,
one by one, wells are drilled that
show that thj big field is not played
out by a long shot. The C. B. Shaf-
fer test, located in the southeast cor-
ner of the northwest of the south-
east of 11-18-7, Alice Colbert farm*
is the latest. It is reported by what
wculd seem good authority, good for
«ii00 barrels, but 300 barrels is good
enough, with oil at $2.00 a barrel, and
this if likely nearer a correct esti-
mate. It is interesting to note that
when the Cushing field was new, Mr.
Shaffer, driving by this same land,
remrked to a friend that '"They are
going to get oil in here," and waved
his hand over toward this particular
spot. I, goes to show that in the
absence tf geological dope at least
that he old timers' hunch is worth
as much for a tip as anything and dem
on'strates that Mr. Shaffer is in the
frefe-for-all class of an oil producer,
as has frequently been mentioned
in this column*.
The well is of great importance,
as it means that many other deep
teste will be drilled to the 3,000-foot
sand and the Clover well, offeeting it
on the south, is already being deep-
ened. It looks as though the same
sand might be found across the town-
ship line to the north where they have
the oil in the Skinner and, and if se
will add greatly to the value of pro-
perty in that vicinity. The only test
up to that was drilled by Tom Slick
who went through the Tucker sand,
all the others being abandoned at a
lesser depth. The Slick teat is a
little to far east to hurt the stuff to
the north.—Daily Oklahoman.
proximately $1.08
December delivery.
Chicago has sold as low as GO cents a tiny throat for which anxious fath- 1 and Haya are dinner ! would be the point of attack; but
por^bushel and as high as *1.80 per . ers have u tened, since life began. but gtn, ab)e ^ uke nourighracnt. there are score, of other points be-
more eagerly than for the sweetest j . J sid6B London—munition plants, ,ar-
music There is no apparent idea here that my and nary barracks and lndus^
The messenger boy was starting , the wftr wJU en(J 800n and ^ war 1 trU1 towns—within easy striking
down tho walk. He was called back. hu8ine89 pervadeg the air. The thund- I distance
When he returned to the telegraph | ^ q{ aptiUery ^ crack of rlfle prac. j Generally the German bombs have
office he carried with him this cable- j tjce and ^ whjn of the airplane ia done their deadly woTk before the
bushel.
The meat situation is less encour-
aging. A conference was called by
Secretary Houston in Washington
to consider means for averting a
meat famine. The high price of all
meats is drawing to the slaughter
houses young animals and females
which should be kept for fattening
or breeding.
In the present scarcity of meat
lamb should be permitted to grow
into sheep and ewes should be kept
for breeding purposes.
The egg supply is threatened In
like manner by the high prices of-
fered for dead chickons. This
brings the pullets to the table when
they should be permitted to lay
in the air here most of the time. | British planes can locate and en-
By July 1918 the United States will ' *age them, and then it Is a running
be U* bitf trtflr- jn Uu> woxW war,' u6ht with aU the aBainHt the
provided of course that a revolution! *>ur9uftr9
that tin<e ' 11 only 40 minutes flight to
I Paris; but see how the conditions
Next week the work will be build- 1
r.nd Mrs. Frances G. Hooley, Mrs. 1 ing trenches and b*rb wire entangle- ' 'HOOOn<1 tt s1uadron of Oer-
Waldron's parents, of the first Ameri- j ments, You will have- to cmagine ! mlu^
can war baby and also of the news | Wharton, Little and Mathews at such
that the baby's father, at the time work. Hays who is with the artillery
when most men are pacing back and does no such work.
gram:
"Captain Albert Whitney |
Waldron Jr., has arrived saf-
, eiy in the United States. I
MotKer and child both well."
That is the story of the arrival in j
the same hour at the home of Mr. '
eggs. It is certain that all meats forth within call, meeting their sur- j
will be higher for some time. The I preme nerveous test, had just set The men are housed in long bai-
foot on a distent land staged for death racks, one hundred men to each bunk
instead of birth. j house. A cot and other necessities
0 I are given to each man. At 7 a. m.
these bunk houses are inspected by
tin officer and ill fares the man who
' | is carelcss enough to have the leas!
D. M. Collins arrived in Cushing on i ,hii,« out of ordm- Jt is a Public dis-
have the least appearanre
priixv of feed has also resulted In
the premature killing of both poul-
try and meat animals.
Lamb is retailing at 50 cents a
pound for the choice cuts, as Is
also calves liver.
Hogs have sold up ta $20. per
hundred- weight, lit the Chicago
yards, but the price has recently Saturday evening and is now the guest 1 ^ e
of his brother, Indnan Farmer, A. border.
FROM THE PACIFIC
gone down to $18. Shipments of
h«gs have fallen off enormously.
Where the Chicago packers nor-
mally receive 20,000 a day, they
are now receiving between 2,000
and 4,000. It is a rare day when
8,000 hogs are brought in.
The feeders announce there are
fewer corn-fed cattle than at any
time since they went into the beef
industry.
The Texas drouth threatens to
drive to market nearly a million
and a half of cattle which cannot
find feed unless there are early
rains. - It is planned even to trans-
B. Collins, at the home of the latter
on Seventh Street.
Mr. D. N. Collins is a resident of
^A demerit i^ called a "skin" A
man with a skin has about the same
the far famed CalifomTa City, Los' laaral standing in the eyes of the
Angles, where he has been living for j °ft>cer a8 8 pirate. However thsre
the past fourteen years. ! are merit marks as well as a "skin"
He formerly lived at Stroud, part j may bt* obliterated by good work,
of his farm now being within the
corporate limits of that town. When
spotted by the French or British
fliers, who can mobilize at any
point on the front an airplane
squadTon of equal strength. 1
The German planes must cross
the French-British trenohes and run
the gauntlet of antiaircraft guns.
Th3h for 75 miles they must fly over
French soil with the alarm Bpread
by telegraph and hundreds of
French planes taking the air from
the reserve airdomes and flying
schools all the way to Parle.
A fine chance Miey have of reach-
ing Paris In sufficient numbers to
do any damage! And a great
chance to return to tell the tale!
BIGGEST FACTORY IN
WORLD TO MAKE AIRPLANES
tiuffalo, September, 15—Ground has
corporal* um.4s O! uiav vow,,. rynen " y°" should consult ^ COUrS® of | ^Tne
Mr. Collins left here Cushing was an st«dy of 1)16 armX *cho°l8 y°u would , ?aclorv b', T 1(^
iTiaionifirinnt villiflttrp :,n,i ,np net notice the subject of profanity . ?t„0ry bUlIdlng the world—
insignificiant villiajfe, and me change
is a great surprise to him.
He, however is a thorough going
subject of profanity
included in the same. It is there how-
In training troops it is drivs,
1,000,000 square feet of floor
space—to manufacture exclusively
training planes for the United
Calif orn inn and thinks Los Angles drive, drive to the limit of endurance '7r
u . . , r n v tho «t.rnnyp t: ron tttirviVC w
an earthly paradise.
Nearly everything you
know of In the way of hu-
man needs has advanced
tren*endously In price.
Jewelry is one exception,
never before ' has jewelry
been so cheap in relation
to the other necessities as
It is at this time.
There Is no more appro-
priate gift. Select a piece
of appropriate Jewelry for
that next present.
Make us a visit and be con
vlnced.
/
R. O. WATROU8
I Do Make Them Keep Time
111 Iwt Broadway
A HAPPY REUNION
There are at present living in Cush-
ing, four brothers, all connected with
the oil business. They are all married
and they are the sons of Willis S.
Clark of Stillwater, being all of the
family. >
They are C. L. Clark, vice-president
of the Hillman Refining company, J.
H. Clarke, employed at the filling
station, Reed Clark, bookkeeper at the
Hillman Refinery, and W. R. Clark,
employed at the Peerless Refinery.
On Sunday th)B Messrs and Mes-
dames Clark, resident in Cushing, ac-
companied by the little daughter of
C. L. Clark, the only grand child,
wended their way to the parental
home at Stillwater and ate their Sun-
day evening dinner with father and
mother Clark.
The occasion was one of joy and
happiness and will be long remember-
ed by the participants.
To the parents of these four boys
making for themselves an honorable
career in life and happily married to
most estimable women, and settled in
happy homes, it must have been a
ocasion of supreme gratitude to the
great father of all. '
The Cushing Clarks returned home
.on Monday.
Banking Safety
Our modern banking methods
have been devised to meet the con-
stantly Increasing demand# of bus-
inesH.
Each department of this organi-
zation has been sj>ecialzed In its
pau-ticul line of work with a view
to affording the customer every fa-
ciity for the expodetious and con-
dlity for the expedetions and con-
venient, transaction of their require-
ments.
If your present connections are not
satisfactory, we invite you to open an
account with us.
m
Farmers National Bank
....
completion
60 days.
of this great structure
uad only the strongest can survive.
To a large extent this is the best way
lor tho soldier depends to a large ex- j Thl(( ^ (dea ^ ^
tent upon his officer to decide his lim- ^ Q[ Unc,o
it of enduarance. Some officers can f(}r war ^ ^ ^ and ^ ^
get twice as much work from men be,n)? put them
as another officer would and the me,! ln 3Q daya ha,f th# bulldlns muat
would not feel more tired. The tend- be under r<K)f an<J Jn 30 more mugt
ency of men is to respect a officer | ^ ready lo lnHta]1 machlnery
more who drives them than the one I be(?!n manufacturing.
who is easy with them. work is being pushed with three
' 1 shifts of men, 24 hours a day, soven
One of the mildest men in camp is : dayg a woek. ln order that America
named, John L.,Sulivan may have her thousands jt air-
. I planes on time.
Many men are being sent home, j o
Most of them are men who are phy-j FRQST KILLS CROPS
sically unable to stand up under the, mi
intense strain of the drill. This ia | NOW WANTS TO FIGHT
no place for a man who cannot under-j Fremont Q s
go the greatest physical test. He 'er ( farm#r> olalmftd
must be able to go through his work ^ ^ on ^ ^ ^
at quick tune and continue it all day. I Thftn ^ k,Uea hu ^ ^
The work here is far more serious
than that perscribed for the boys in '
matoes and melons.
Today he withdrew his claim.
the army. A man here must do more «Nothlag to do on ^ term „ ^
than a common soldier and then keep tJ>,d boar(, offlc,aU ..g0 { mJrtt —
up with his studies besides. The am- well gQ tQ war
ount of study compares probably with
[ that done by the average High School | -
I student. A training camp is a 13
weeks intensive drivet in every form
of army work. It is no cause for
criticism, if am an cannot stand up
under the strain, tho every man wants
to stick it out.
Mrs. Richard Barrier, motored io
Guthrie and spent Sunday with her
mother-in-law.
Mrs. Geo. Jardot, of Cleveland is
visiting at the home of Mrs. Gene
Wheeler, on south Cleveland.
PU I'll MR PRURD
FILMS DBVHLOPBD
One Day Service
Bring Your Ktlias Today
Get your Pictures Tomorrow
We Can Please You
R. O. WATROUB
UlBast Broadway,
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