The Oklahoma Democrat. (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 1, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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Speak a good word for Altus, today and evety day. It's the best town and has the brightest future. Tell the people about it.
THE OKLAHOMA DEMOCRAT.
Volume 2-Number 27
Altus, Oklahoma, Thursday, October 1, 1908
C. E. Ruthruft, Publiher
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THIEVES ARE OVER
RUNNING STATE
MUSKOGEE SHERIFF SAYS
EPIDEMIC UNPREC
EDENTED
SHERIFF HENSLEY TIES
UP FRISCO PROPERTY
TO INSURE PAYMfNT
OF TAXES
SHERIFF RANSEr THINKS THERE IS
AN ORGANIZATION OF THIEVES
WHO HAVE HEADOUAR
TERSNEAR MUS
COGEE
Sheriff Hensley this morning put
a pad-lock and chain on one of tne
Frisco engines and chained it to the
track. The cause of the action was
the failure of the Frisco to pay pen-
alty assessed on past due taxes.
The tax warrant called for $2373,
but the Frisco people sent check for
$2287.44, omitting and refusing to
pay the assessed penalty. The sheriff
promptly levied on the property as
stated above, and will hold it until
the amount is paid.
BIG OPENING SALE AT GRISHAM
HULETT DRY GOODS COMPANY'S
BREAKS ALL PREVIOUS
RECORDS
The big opening sale at Griaham- j
Hulett's store yesterday was one ofi
the most remarkable successes ever,
pulled off in Altus. Not only was the
store constantly full of purchasers, but
they came to buy. The clerks were
kept constantly busy and an enormous
lot of good were sold.
This firm has a faculty of getting their
goods before the people in a way that
appeals to the buyer. They carry one
of the finest stocks that money can
buy, their prices are always low con-
sidering the quality of the goods, they
treat their customers with courtesy.
We are proud of the fact that this pro-
I gressive firm has chosen The Democrat
1 as the most logical medium by which
| to reach the people of Jackson county.
! The window display was one of the
; best ever seen in tne city. Photo-
| graphs were taken and we are having
; cuts of the windows made, which will
j be shown in The Democrat with a com-
I plete write-up of this remarkable sale
' to be given next week.
j From 4:30 to 10:30 in the evening re-
freshments were served by Miss Carrie
' Mae Hodgson and Miss Sophia Roberts,
who performed their part in keeping
with the general success of the oc-
SUCCESS BIG OPENING NEW ENTERPRISE SENTENCED FOR
AT MILLERS COMING TO ALTUS 99YEARSIN PEN
THE MAMMOTH STORE OF MILLER STOCK COMPANY IS ORGANIZED FOR A MURDER IN FIRST DEGREE
BROS. ENTERTAINED AND FED
THE MULTITUDE
LARGE WHOLESALE GRO
CERY CONCERN
The big stole of Miller Bros, was
crowded Saturday at the "Opening"
announced in the Democrat last week.
The store was decorted and illuminat-
ed to an extent that would have been
a credit to a store in the Irgest cties.
The band played during the after-
noon and at night,beneath a beautiful
canopy, artistically arranged and oc-
cupying the front of the building.
Several thousand souvenir mirrors
were given away to visitors ami re-
freshments served to the immense
crowd.
This firm has a faculty for doing
thingB and in the matter of this big
opening sale it set a pace that will
be a subject for conversion among
the citizens of Jackson County for
months to coine.
Muskogee, Sept. 28. -An unprece-
dented epidemic of horse stealing is
just sweeping over Oklahoma and
overlapping adjoining states, accord-
ing to a statement made today by
Sheriff R. B. Ramsey of Muskogee
county. "In this county alone,"
said the sheriff, " almost a do en
hroses none of which have been recov-
ered, have been stolen refently.
"Every mail brings me postal cards ■
offering rewards for the apprehension
of horse thieves and giving the de- !
scriptions of the horses stolen. I have j
just made a calculation of the amount;
of the rewards now outstanding for j
the arrest of thieves and the recovery
of stolen horses and find tnat the |
aggregate of the rewards exceeds
$2,000, and the total value of the
stolen horses, at a reajonable valua-
tion, i« more than $20,000.
"'From evidence which has come
to me I am led to believe that the
headquarters of an organized band of
horse thieves is located at or near
Warner, 12 miles south of Muskogee,
Dut so far I have been unable to effect
their capture. They are working in
twj ways. First, after stealing the
horses, they ride them away until
such a time as it is safe to bring
them out publicly and sell them. But
if it is dangerous to do this, and a
reward should be offered for the hors-
es, they have some unsuspected mem-
ber of the gang turn up the horses
and claim the rewards. At the pres-
ent time I have in my possession re-
ward and description cards from Fort
Smith. Ark.; Stillwell, Kans. : Am-
out, Mo;. Oklahoma City and other
places in Oklahoma as follows: Cat-
oosa. Ardmore,Tallahassee, Newkirk,
Haskell, Red Fork, Lone Grove, Dun-
can, Chelsa, Boley,Watonga. Collins-
ville, Colgate, Claremore, Okema,
Okmulga, Briartow, Purcell, McAl-
ister. Osage Junct on. Beggs, Chick-
asha. Davidson. Nowata, Sapulpa,
l^oco. Taft, Wesley, Kiefer, Red Rock
Lehigh, Stroud,C.organ, Lamar, Bald-
Hill, Buck, Pawhuska and numerous
* other places, indicating how wide-
spread and general the thriving oper-
ations are. It begins to look as
though the sheriffs and the police of
the towns of the state will have to
make a concerted effort to arrest the
perpetrators of the c.-i imes and break
up the gangs of horse thieves, before
there will be any relief." said the
sheriff in concluaion.
LOUD. BUI
NOT RELIABLE
REAL ESTATE MAN MET WITH A SUR
PRISE TO CLOSE HIS FANCY
ARGUMENTS
About the 25th of Sepetmber Mr.
W. B. Buckley, well known as the
head of Brockett Store Company, will
move to Altus. A stock company
will open at Altus about Octobtr 1st,
a wholesale grocery. Mr. Buckley
and Mr. Nesbitt will both be stock-
holders in this compaoy but for the
present Mr. Nesbitt will remain in
Norman. The store here will contin-
ue under "new management.
Mr. Buckley has had a wide expe-
rience in the grocery business, both
the retail line and on the road. Mr.
Nesbitt, before engaging in the
Brockett store had valuable experience
in insurance and abstracts.
Under their management the Brock-
ett store has become noted for first
class goods and satisfactory service.
Both gentlemen are intelligent and
honorable, and will be welcomed as
good citizens wherever they may go.
- The People'sVoice (Norman.)
FREIGHT RATES
TO BE LOWERED
COMMISSION HAS SIGNED ORDER TO
LOWER RATES ON COTTONSEED
AND SEED PRODUCTS
AFTER THIRTY-SIX HOURS JURY GIVES
EXTREME VERDICT TO THE i «
DEFENDANT.
Tishomingo, Okla., Sept. 25.—Af-
ter deliberating for 36 hours a district
court jury retured a verdict of guilty
of murder in the first degree against
Dulin Mullins and assessed his pun-
ishment at 99 years in the penitenti-
ary.
Mullins was convicted of murdering
Charles Cheshire, a farm hand, in the
Kemp pasture, four miles north of
Tishomingo, October 28, 1905. Ches-
hire had been employed by Mullins
and had a horse and $200 in eash.
When the body was discovered the
horse was gone and the $200 miss-
ing. #
Mullins is a married man.
MIRACULOUS
ESCAPE
KILLING ON FULLERTON'S
FARM WEST OF ALIUS
CONFLICTING
REPORTS
SAID WAS ACCIDENT
FEELING HIGH AT CANTON
PRISONER MOVED
A very amusing scene was enacted
at the local postoffice last night when
a gentleman with the air of '"one who
knows" proceeded to tell local citizens
of the badness of our governor, and
how it did warp, wrinkle and shrink
his democracy ( ?) to have such a leader. . cotton seed meal and hul,s about 30
He warmed up to his subject until per cent from the present schedules
many were disgusteu. Finally he I was singed today by the corporation
BALLOON CARRYING TWO AERONAUTS
EXPLODES WHEN 6000 FEET
FROM EARTH
de
Guthrie, Okla., Sept. 24. An or-
lowering the rates on cotton seed,
From Tuesday's Daily.
Wilson Logan, living on Fuller- |
ton's farm west of town shot and j
killed his wife yesterday morning.
Tt>e first reports from the scene,
stated that I.oagn had been sick with
the fever for some time but was bet-
ter and his wife approached the bed j
and asked him to take the gun anu j
kill a hawk on the fence near the
house. He got up took the gun and j
followed the wife to the door, the i
gun was accidetally discharged and :
she was killed. A Coroners inquest
was held this afternoon, and it ap-
pears that new evidence developed, j
throwing suspicion on Logan.
Sheriff Hensley was phoned for, |
and asked to come and take Logan
into custody. The sheriff went out
there about two o'clck this after
SEEKS SUPPORT ON
FATHER S RECORD OF
WAR GALLANTRY
YOUNG MAN SHOOTS PRETTY FIFTEEN
YEAR OLD GIRL ON HIGHWAY
SERIOUSLY INJUR
ING HER.
launched off on the prohibition ques-1 commission,
tion. Stated that he could buy all the
whiskey he wanted any time here, and
finally stated that he had bought
whiseky in Altus. Judge McL'onnell,
Dusseldorf, Rhenish Persia, Ger-
many, Sept. 28. Captain *,ron Aber-
cron and Lieutenant Von Goltzheim,
two well known aeronauts, had a
miraculous escape from death this
afteroon during the course of an as'
cent in a spherical balloon. Thous-
ands of spectators were horror-strick-
en at the accident, which occurred
high in the air. On being released
It will become effective
about Ocotber 10th. Commissioner
McAlister left for his home in McAl-
ister without signing the record and
who was present, informed the gen-1 the papers were mailed to Him before j from fastenings the balloon soared
tleman that he seemed to know the a dige8t of the proposed schedule was | a|most diretclv upwards to an altitude
very things that our officials were try- , ...
ing to find out. The judge went to his made pUbl,°- of 6,000 feet, where the envelope
office and issued a subpoena which was The commissinoers will convene to- |tuddenly ripped open. The gas ea-
served on him at the Frederick Hotel, morrow in Cleveland, Okla., to hear < Caped in streams and the balloon
Watonga, Okla., Sept. 25.—Abner
He refused to go. The judge then is- j the complaint of that town against
sued an attachment and sent Deputy 1 the Missouri. Kansas and Texas rail-
Hemphill after the gentleman road, for its aleged breach of contract
He proved to be a Mr. D. A. Wallace. 1 ..... ....
real estate man of Oklahoma City and ! r«'"t,ve to publishing a division
was very repentant when he found he | point at Cleveland. An understand-
waa "up against it." The fact was, he ! ing between the railroad and business I jgjy jn a pUre]y accidental manner,
Enochs, a young man of Canton, Ok- had never lH)UKht ar v whiskey in Altus. men of Cleveland, it is charged, was j forming a sort of parachute, which
la., was brodght here by Sheriff Me- but was accustomed of going about: the when ^ „ubli8hed ; checke<| the ^
Arthur on the charge of attempted country telling people things they for the Tulsa branch at1 a u a l.- w
w „ - . «. .#ll . .(didn't know in a way they never cared Its d,v,8,on for th* IuUa braneh at gradually came down, taking an hour
i ing o is. I to hear again. He admitted he had Osage junction. i . v..if k-
15, near Canton Monday night. The ^ tauRht g ^ jr ^
girl was shot in the body while she j
.mf Enochs w.r. in th, high.., with .. FRISCO AGENT KILLED
a party of young people. She may pITV II I DCLI A I
die. Enochs claims it was accidental, j HIT MAKM1AL BY A TRAIN AT JENSEN
Feeling is high in the Canton vicin- |/l| I n ■■ lit
ity and strong talk of violence caused j ll II I V MRN1
shot downward. The aeronauts swift-
ly clambered to the network in the
hope of evading the shock of cotact
with the ground. After a fall of 2000
feet, the envelope spread out, seem-
and a half to reach the ground, the
two men clinging to the ropes and
basket. They suffered no injury ex-
cept a few scratches.
The cause of the accident was the
sudden expansion of gas.
the sheriff to hurry his prisoner to the
county seat.
OPENING OE SCHOOL
FOR BLIND DELAYED
UNTIL OCTOBER 14
MOWER OF HIS FORMER VICTIM
SHOT D0V>\ IT tUSKEll
Hugo Okla. Sept. 28.—D. W. Scro-
rier Frisco agent at Jensen Junction
was run over and killed by a south-
bound passenger train this morning.
He was crossing the track near the
freight train, the noise of which is
presumed to have been responsible
for his not hearing the passenger
train, which does not stop at that
station.
AMERICAN BANKERS' ASSOCIATION.
To make room f<
na at half price th
Kursel.
' new goods, chi-
i week. E. E.
l'orter. Okla. Sept.28. There is a
.merry war on at this place over the
appointment of a postmaster ot suc-
ceed Jesse Kamey the present incum-
bent who soon retires. Miss Hattie
Thompson a dashingly attractive girl
is a candidate for the place and is
basing her ciaim on her father's rec-
ord as a soldier. She rlaions that the
daughters of old soldiers are entitled
to as much ronsideriton as the sons of
vetero*. She has pane oat in the
state for outside political influence
and is getting it.
Muskogee Okla. Sept.IT.-*. Using the
same weapon with which he killed
Fort Gibson Okla. Sept. 28. The his brother Luther Legon on January
opening of the state school for the 5 >am Tulk towr marshal of Haskell
blind has been delayed owing to the Okla. this afternoon shot Will L*gon. TWO PRISONERS ESCAPE
fact that buildings can not be gotten Legon had a revolver wrapped in a
in readiness and furnished by the time newspaper. He began .nwrapping it —
first set for the openig. It will how- and when the marshal saw the hand-
ever be ready and will open on Oc- die of the revolver he fired killing
tober 14. A good faculty has been I/ogan instanth. He then surrender-
secured and the building is being ed to the sheriff.
newly furnished and equipped through- while resisting a:
Denver, Colo., Sept. 29. Postal
Savings banks is the principal subject
under discussion at the second day's
session of the American Bankers'
Association here today. Opposition
to the plan prepared by Postmaster
General Van Mery. is marked.
ACTIVE PREPARATIONS
Manila. P. A.. Sept. 29.-Active
prorations for the American Fleet,
are moving rapidly forward here, and
the citixens are preparing to cordially
Hugo, Okla. Sept. 29. "Doc" welcome the naval represenatives of
White and William Smith, both char- the country, whose flag they are fly-
Tulk killed Luther ged with bootlegging, escaped from ' ing. The fleet will remain here about
The coroner's the county jail last night. Officers ten days, and during that time a con-
out so that no effort is being spared jury after examiring 27 witnesses found the j*il door unlocked this tinual round of fetes and .ntertain-
-ide the best conditions for returned a verdict that the killing morning and tracks outside that in- ments will be provided for the oAcera
to pw
t-«e work in beh
Oklahoma.
the blind of was justifiable.
existed between
Bad blood h« sine* dieated that prisoners were Misted and crews. The fleet will
the men. the outside. the harbor next Thursday.
amee in
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Ruthruff, C. E. The Oklahoma Democrat. (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 1, 1908, newspaper, October 1, 1908; Altus, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc282068/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.