The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, July 7, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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I he Granite Lnterpnse.
VOL. XII
Granite. Greer ( nutty, Oklahoma, Friday July 7, 1911
NO. 9
I
MULE'S KICK THEY WERE Here they are; Name them and get the Picture.
IS FATAL ALL HERE
Six-Year-Old Roy Dirt of Oddfellows'Picnic Pulled Off
Injuries Received i rom Vic- at Granite Tuesday By
ious Animal's Keels. Far the Bisect Ever.
Little Howe Morvin. 0 year ' When (Sr.iuiie pe 'pi- tart
o!il non of Mr. and Mis. Elaav lout to pull i.ff a pic nic Munt,
Afot'KMii, living five miles south you may know from the .-tart
«.f l^one Wolf, died nt the Border | that itii going to b • u rucc- <.
!o pitnl, Mangum, KrWny mm'ii hut *h.;t the Oddfellows ;.i.d
in;: as u result of heir.if kicked ! Rebekshs both net behind it. you
in the litud by a mule. msy bet you.* last ifinxera i p
The little fellow had been sentI that it will be a hummer.
by his father to the pasture to fhla mildly ezpres*e? the
drive 'he animals to the house,as joccasion here on the 4 h. After
he wished to use them. On the j weeks of hard work the inein-
way home he ventured too close' bers of these lodges had every-
to the heels of one of them, when | thing in readiness when the first
it let drive with its heels ftrik- straying visitors began to drift
jug the boy just a\>ovc the left; i'1 Sunday. Monday a good crowd
ear, crushing in the entire side j was present. Tuesday-well the
of his head. deluge came.
Dr. Willis was called and whenj The crowd on the ground at
he arrived found the boy atill three o'clock Tuesday afternoon
alive but decided he could do] was variously estimated at from
nothing alone, so he placed the 5000 to 10,000 people, and The
TAX VALUES
injured child in his auto, and,
accompanied by the father, hur-
ried to the Border hospital, in the
Enterprise is not going to dis-
pute any of the guesses, because
there were lots of people there
Board of Equalization Raises
Assessors' Figures 10 to 45
Per Cent in County.
BAD CONVICT
IS KILLED
Guard Compelled to Shoot
Desperate Indian in Self
Defense Thursday.
hope of being able to save him. | that we never saw before.
The broken pieces of skull werej The agent at Mangum reports
removed, and all that was pos-j that he sold 386 tickets for the
sible done to save him, but to no
purpose, and the iittle fellow died
just twenty-four hours after be-
ing hurt, having never regained
consciousness.
For promptness and quick ac-
tion, Dr. Willis showed himself
morning train alone.
Plenty of cold drinks and re-
freshments, barbecue and other
eatables had been prepared, and
the big crowd seemed to be hav-
ing a great time.
The Granite band, the best
Last week the board of county i While a bunch of convicts
commissioners finished work of were engaged in installing an
equalizing the assortments in the oil tank on the mountain near
various townships ot the county the reformatory Thursday, two
capable of going some in this aggregation of amateurs- to be
ease. He went from Granite to \ found any where, met aH-trains
the home of the parents five land saluted the arriving visitors
!1 4 U T tVia/Jf* tartiVi liirnlu rmf u ra nnH
miles south of Lone Wolf, made
his examination, decided what he
would do, and had the child in
the Hospital at Mangum all in
one hour and thirty minutes
from the time he left his office,
the distance covered being^
nearly 40 miles.
The parents are comparative
strangers in this section, having
come here from Tennessee the
paat winter. They lived a
while in Granite, and then went
on the farm <n Kiowa county.
They have theheartfeltsympathy
of the community in the loss
of their little one, which was
brought over Friday by Schave
Bros., and buried at the Quartz
cemetery in the presence of a
large number of friends and re-
latives.
ANOTHER ACCIDENT
Three-Year-Old Chilo's Skuh
Crushed By Horse's Heels.
Tuesday morning Rev. H. L.
Maulden, pastor of the Metho-
dist church at Erick, started
with his family to the Granite
Sulphur Springs to spend a few
days camping out. When within
about four miles of town, Mr.
Mauldin touched up the horse
keenly with the whip, which so
enraged him that he let drive
with his heels over the dashboard
striking their little 3-year-old
boy in the head and crushing the
skull bo badly that a considerable
amount of his brains ran out.
*The child was hurried to Granite,
where Dr. Willis took charge of
it and rushed it to the Border
Hflsoit&l aLMangum- . There the
with lively patriotic ars, and
each one claimed that the sere-
nade was for his special benefit.
Hon. George Henshaw, State
Corporation Commissioner, made
an appropriate address on Odd-
fellowship, and them mixed with
the crowds just like ordinary-
folks, seeming to enjoy himself
to the limit.
No accident marred the pleas-
ure of the day, not an intoxicat-
ed person was seen on the ground
and when the shades of evening
fell everybody started for their
home tired and happy but feeling
that they had a'l that was com-
ing to them in the way o' a pic-
nic.
The Enterprise man had his
share of the fun, and has not
yet recovered, neither have the
remainder of the force, so we
are not going to say anything
more as we are to tired to do the
matter justice, and close by say-
ing that when you want to have
the time of your life, be on hand
whec Granite pulls off another
picnic.
BRINKMAN NFWS QUITS
Plant is Sold, Building and
All Moved to Willow.
and in every instance the valua-
tion of real estate was raised
cosiderably from the amount
given by the assessor.
In Bloomington township hordes
are raised 20 per cent, while no
other persona! property was dis-
turbed; farm lands were raised
35 per cent.
In Granite Township the val-
of th<;ni made a sneak and hid
in the rocks. Additional guards
were called at once and a hunt
began for them. Guard J. E.
Love discovered one of them,
Jug Needles, creeping behind a
large rock and ordered him to
come out. Needles replied by
hurljng two iarge stones at the
guard, narrowly missing his
uesof personal property was not}head and then started to reach
disturbed while farm lands were j for more rocks. Mr. Love then
raised 35 per cent. fired at him, the bullet passing
Jester Township escaped with through his body and inflicting a
a raise of 5 per cent in the value
of horses, and no other changes
in personal property while farm
lands were raised 40 per cent.
Horses in Mangum township
were raised 10 per cent, and all
other personal property left un-
changed, while the value of farm
land was increased 20 per cent.
Cattle in R.ney Township
were raised 25 per cent and all
other personal property left un-
changed, while farm lands were
raised 40 per cent.
In Willow township there was
no change in any Of the personal
wound from which he died the
following morning.
Needles is a full blood Creek
Indian, sent from Salieaw for
burglary, and was serving a term
of five years. He was reported
as a desperate sort of character
by the officers, and has given
them a great deal^ of trouble.
His family was notified by De-
puty Warden Hackett, but no
word was received from Ihem,
and the dead man was buried
near rhe reformatory Saturday.
Claude Shattuck, the other man
wno escaped at the same time.
AUNT JANE
GIBSON HURT
Well Known Granite Lady
Sustains What is Thought
to Be Fatal Injuries.
Mrs. M. J. Gibson, familiarly
known to everone in this section
as "Aunt Jane," sustained in-
juries by falling Tuesday from
which Dr. Austin who is attend-
ing her, says it is doubtful if she
can recover.
Mrs. Gibson had been out to
the picnic at the springs, and
when she returned stopped off
at the home of Mrs. Peers, liv-
ing in the east part of town to
spend the night. Just as she
entered.the house tripped andfell
fracturing the neck of the thigh
bone, and sustaining injuries of
such a nature that the doctor
states he never knew one of her
age to recover from.
Dr. Austin says that the same
hurt in a young person leaves the
one so injured a cripple for life,
while it has been his experience
that in the case of an old person
death always resulted in from
three to sixty days.
Mrs. Gibson was removed to
her home on the west side
Wednesday evening, and her
condition w*s reported yesterday
ac extremely unfavorable,consid-
erable fever having developed.
I1V7 1*1 111 I I i-, vr :i UI*.
property, but the farm lands has not yet been recaptured. He
J, F. Griffith, editor of the
Brinkman News, has sold his
plant, building and all to Willow-
parties, and it has been moved
to that place where a weekly
newspaper will be published.
Mr. Griffith states that owing
to lack os support from the nu r-
_ chants of Brinkman, he had been
broken peices of skull were re- j running the paper at at a loss,
moved and the iittle one is re-; and he could not afford to con-
ported to be-doing nicely; and tiiiue the sacrifice. He ha re-
some hopes are entertained of ito turned to his home at Lone Wolf
recovery. Rev. Mauldin and We have not yet learned who
wife have the heartfelt sympathy {will conduct the paper at Willow
of a large number of friends in ! hut we know that the pe .plr of
southwest Oklahoma who sin- j that place are a live bunch, and
cerly trust thnf H"- one will give their T" w-^-psr^r tho
my recover. I r'gfct supp"*
was from Muskogee, and was al-
so sent up for burglary.
No blame attaches to the
guard, Mr. Love, as he was com-
pelled to do as he did or himself
be dangerously injured, as the
desperate man was getting closer
to him every stone he hurled.
were raised 40 per cent.
The value of town lots in Man-
gum was raised 20 per cent,
while no changes were made in
the personal property.
In Granite city town lots were
raised 20 per cent, while no
change was made in the personal
property.
This means that Greer County , , , t
will likely hrtve a bis increase in ba,ve not Jet learned what r
the valuation l his year, and un- " ol>ta,ned ^ ' m- .
less the tax rate is lowered it Joe Rude, hv.ng southwest of
means that you will pay more town, says that he has found a
taxes this year.than you did last mixture of bran, molasses and
vear. There may yet be be verJ effective u.
changes made in the rolls how ; killing them. He places this
., , , i i .• . . ' mixture around the edges ot the
ever, dz the state board of cqua -1 - .
tip i whPfP t hnv /•nmo nil ot rhp
GETTING READY
Granite Firms to Supply Re-
formatory Material.
Oklahoma City, July 1—Con-
tracts for building material ag-
gregating $16,434.13 for the new
buildings for the State Reforma-
tory at Granits have been let
during the past week by the
state board of public affairs.
These contracts for the most
part cover only the trimmings,
as the main material for the
building is to be the native
Granite, which is now being
quarried by the convicts confined
in the reformatory. The biggest
FRANCHISE
ASKED FOR
Red Rose Granite Company
Wants Permission to Build
Track on East Side
At its meeting Monday night
the city council wan asked to *ub*
mit to the voters of Graniu* the
{question as towhetheror n«>t the
i American Red Rose Granite Co.
should be granted a franchise to
, build a railroad track through
the ea-it part of town leading
out to its property near the
Sulphur Springs. The request
was granted unaniously, and the
date of election set for August 3.
Permission is asked to construct
at the point where the Sulphur
, springs road intersects the Rock
Islaad Railway and going dui
north to the city limits. Messrs
J. W. Ryder, Olin j^aswell and
A. L. Elliott are the principal
property owners on that street,
and all of them are favorable to
the proposition, and but little if
any opposition it apprehended.
Col. Tomas L. Eggleston, the
bresident of the company, states
that if he finds the sentiment of
the sentimerit of our people gen-
erally favorable to granting the
franchise, he will have material
here ready to unload before the
election can be held, which, un-
der the law, requires thirty days
notice to be given.
This is the culmination of plans
on which Colonel Eggleston has
been working for years, and he
states that ample funds are now
available with which to--fltoance
the proposition. His plans are
to put in one of the most mordern
quarrying plants in the world at
the east end of Granite mountain
This in itself will be a great
thing for Granite, but it is not
all. Forty miles northwest of
us, geologists say there is enough
brine going to waste to make 100
carloads of salt a day. Colonel
Eggleston has had a charter for
a railroad leading from Granite
to th&t place for several years,
and is now ready to construct
a line there in order to be able
to put this inexhaustable supply
on the market.
Mr. Warfield, a civil engineer
of chickasha, was here Monday
and will return tomorrow for
the purpose of begining the sur-
vey of the road. '
Colonel Eggleston Monday
closed with J. W. Hester for
Twenty five acres of land at the
east end of the mountain, and he
and J. Olds were in Mangum
yesterday to close a deal for some
of the Bartlett property,of which
Mr. Olds is guardian.
It certainly begins to look as
if the proposition was a go. and
our people will to a man aid it
in every way possible.
izatiun
them.
has yet to pass upon
To Kill Grasshoppers.
Grasshoppers are said to have
begum to destroy cotton to
| field where they comc out of the
1 edges of the grass and begin on
I the cotton. This kills a few of
j the "hoppers" and then others
eat the dead ones, and die from
the effects thus supplying "bait"
for all that are left in that par-
considerable extent in this sec-1 ticular spot. This is a simple
tion. In fact with some farmers alld ver ' cheap method of «et'
the dair.aiie is becoming ^ rieus!1^ r,ld uf th* ****> and, ia™'
and they are now looking our foriors ,V*K' are ^° reu v,it^
some means to get rid of (hejwould do well totrv it
pesta. Lewis Parr, a young far-
mer living north of town, was
here Wednesoay and secured a
sucply of Paris Green, to be used
-s R^ss has some good prices
uke you on hats if you are
ei d of one. She also has a
line oi Kabo coreets: long
es both silk arid li?ie.
which went to the Ada Portland
Cement Co. for $4,500. The lum-
ber contracts went to the Mc-
Clure Naftzger Lumber company
of Granite, $3,047.80 and J. J„.
Kilpatrick of Oklahoma City,
$1,827.48. Other contracts were
fer steel, let to tlie Gill-Dungan
Supply Co. of Oklahoma City,
$2,257; tile, IV.- S.- Ditikey of
i Kansas City.- $344,50, roofing,
I B. F. Nelson,-$527; lime; Nation^
Jal
j $640,58. Hockaday- Mercantile
j Co, of Granite secured the con-
tract for furnishing nails and
other builders' hardware to go
! m the KuifdinfS.
Hotel Changes Hand*.
item in the contracts was cement-k, \ j?'
w- .u- Park has closed a. de^l ..for the
Parnell proerty in Granite known
as the World hotel. A farm near
that place was a.part of the con-
sideration.'Jlr. Trader is* having
some improve"trienls'made on the
■property/but has not as yet dec-
ided jvhether he-twill lease it
■out or eondtrct it as a hotel him-
self. Therev*are twentj^Beven
-rijoais. i©-|he\boase„\ iind^wheu
repaired-itwSll bt^Qpe-opportu-
Builders Supply company. nHy for some unyoking- for a
co \f L4;,.;Mpcati0!> for a hotel_ ^ ^
Rev.-David ^lantAMWift lec-
ture oa the- atreeta-vSaturday,
Jul); "What-w Man?"
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Charles E. Hill and Sons. The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, July 7, 1911, newspaper, July 7, 1911; Granite, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc281852/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.