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The Medford Patriot-Star
BUARANTEED CIRCULATION OVER 2000
OFFICIAL PAPER OF GRANT COUNT*
VOL. XXIV
MEDFORD, GRANT COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14,1916
NO. 9
DEATH CANE LIKE SLEEP
TO CLARK PEACOCK
POPULAR MEDFORD CITIZEN
IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Passed Away Without Realising
How Seriously He Was Hurt
Funeral Friday. Finest
Type of Ottisen
asked if he would be all right
while I went to phene for a doc-
'or and help and he said he
iwnild. I started ora the run,
I but remembered that the engine
jfwus still running and turned
back and shut it off. I asked
I again if ho was sure he would be
I all right. Ilia eyes were shut
Oil and Gas News
In Grant County
JOHN LOCKE DIES
/GRANT COUNTY BANKS
NAKES GREAT SHOWING
Fairview Corre pondent
Moving right along; no
stops
Oil and Oas Assignments
to Gypsy
•John Locke who lives northeast
of Wakita, died at. the hospital
at Wichita, Wednesday and his
(body passed through here today
ora its way to Wakita Mr Locke --
fcvns operated on Saturday night DEPOSITS AVERAGE $100
.11 Stauffacher to Gypsy Oil £or appendicitis. lie has farmed PER CAPITA IN COUNTY
but he nodded yes. By the time were made the past, week, fifteen Co, SE 36-29-3. bn Grant county for years, and __
t Lot back from phoning others feet of water sand was passed) F E Blair to W II Hendel, SW[has many friends, lie leaves a Oil Prospecting and High Pries*
•raid arrived butrMr Peacock was through bringing in the usual 33-26-6 ....................$1 balmily. ^ Wheat Evidently a
dead when they reachtd him. amount of water, undterreaming! La Noria Grande Oil and Gafl WTTTTAM.~1_ - - *
‘When the car turned over the and the easfng set below the Co to Prairie Oil and Gas Co, W ULIAW STRIDER
s< eend time the running board sand shut the water out. After NW 15-27-4-
Mr Clark Peacock, old resident and fender, where they come 'the sand some slate again La Noria Grande Oil and Gas
of Grant county and 'one of its together struck the back of bis encountered. The drill is now Co to Gypsy Oil Co, SE 18-27-4, 1 rider, one of the old-
best known .and moat popular bus* ' t ad on the. left side. It is evi- working at 2630 leet. and NE 29-27-4 ..............$1. f®/, resi|dents of the town,
inesg men was killed in an auto- j dfnt that the blow severed
mobile accident near Wakita at | blood vessels and 'that he
DIES SUDDENLY
Factor. Medford Leads
in Deposits
Big
is evi- working at.2630 f/eet. and NE 29-27-4 ..............$1. . , , 1 ‘ 1 e lftwn> <U(“U DUI,1K tor yourself i
*1 the M T Kink, representing the' F E Stephens to Gypsy Oil Co, *uddenly 1 uesclny afternoon of member of your family?
was New York-Oklaihoin.a Oil & Gas all of W'/a W qf Salt Fork river |Jfart iailare- At. the time of you haven t your share.
Have you $100 on deposit in
died your baink for yourself and each
If not,
20-26-6 and SW 35-26-6......$1
F E Blair to C C Winters, SW
35-26-6 ...................$1.
W A Redding to Prairie Oil
and: Gas Co, NW 23-25-7.
La Noria Grande Co to Prairie
Co.
a little before tin o’clock Tiles- ( blinding inwardly as 1 took him Company was here 'last week
dav morning, December 12. J. E out from under the car. Nothing making the first quarterly pay-
jHodgson who was with hijm es-j could have saved him, but out- ment on the block of leases still
caped injury, nsxle from a few {vvai dly he did not seem hurt held by the company which
bruises. Mr Peacock’s injuries much, it was plain that he did shows an act of good faith on
were internal, and without rea- not rhink his injuries fatal, he the part of the company. The
lising thnrt he was seriously hurt was in no pain, lie just closed payment was not due until the! Oil Co, Wi/2 SW 30-27-8.
he died within a few minutes |his eyes, and passed away, as first day of January. The cqm-1 C T Owens to Gypsy Oil
after the accident, while Mr!though he were going to sleep” pany also asked an extension of EMi NE 23-25-6.
Hodgson had gone to a farm When Doctor Herrington ar*
house to summon assistance. |j.ived frQB1 Wakita about the
I The body was brought to the time Mr Hodgson returned to
Peacock home in Medford Tues- the ear from phoning, he pro-
day evening, and the funeral raouraced Mr Peacock dead. The cording to agreement,
services will be held in the Con-1 body was taken to Wakita. Mrs We note what My Teachman Qr, r 0
gregational church here Friday peacock and her son, Laurance said in last weeks Patriot-Star feE 25-26-4.
afternoon at 2 o'clock p'm, In-1 art-ived there from Medford, in regard to this well being
his death he was sixty nine years The statements of the banks in
three mouths-and nine days old. Grant ounty of their condition
Besides his widow he leaves to November 17th, which
mourn his death one son, John being published, show that flue
of Medford, and one tota' amount of money now ou
are now
„ U
btrider of Mpi______ __________ _ ______^
daughter, Emma Stridor Grey, i deposit in banks in the county "is
--------- ----...... ' ” at j $1,816,705.17.
three months ,to finish the well.; ,La Noria Grande Co to Gypsy
It was evident that with the pro* Oil Co, SW 5-27-4, NW 12-27-4.
gross the driLl was making the NW 22-27-4 and SW 31-27-4.
well could not be finished ac 1 Euke Teachman to Carter Oil
| Co, South J3 acres NW 6-25-3.
I T T Kohlbusch to R J Russell,
Funeral services were held
! the house Thursday afternoon
at two o’clock, conducted by
Rev 0 W Rogers of the Congre-
gational church.
PARALYZED
terment will be in Rosemound Jleiny Peacock, a brother
cemetery. j others soon joining them.
Just how the accident occur- j The body was brought
red can never be fully explained (Tuesday night, and-many of tha Teachman used when making the
Oil & Gas Agreement
she awoke her lower limbs were
Thp car, a Ford, turned over on
a level stretch of road, while go-
ing about twenty miles an hour.
Mr Hodgson was one of the first
promoters of Grant County Oil
Development, together with Sam
friends of the deceased
igone to the residence to
the remains
and dusbe,r and ,it may prove to be
diy, but we are inclined to be- j R Wirick to Carter Oil Co, both paralyzed and she has not
hero Lev* the divining rod that Mr sw 36.28-8. |bee® able to even move one of
J S Chapin to Carter Oil Co, her toes.
have test was simply nothing more gp 16-28-8
view than a rabbits foot killed in a _
! graveyard at midnight, in the Oil and Gas Releases
! dark of the moou by. a negro. J _
From what we have seen and II Stauffacher to W II Doran,
Mr Clark Peacock was a man
With no enemies, of a moral up- learned about drilling for oil in SE 36-29-3.
Flores and Jim KRtrell,'bringing rj;gjlt character, and a fine hus a wildcat field, no man knows
about the organization of the La band and father. He was born in the formation 3,500 feiet bolow
Noria Grande Oil and Gas Com- (Keosauqua, Iowa, September 14, the surface. If he ge*s it in bis
pany. Next he promoted the 1872, the eldest son of James noggin he does know, surely the ______ „„ .........
American Petroleum Company of j arwj Mary Peacock. Moved in ’wheels in his head are not inf drilling the well south of Deer
Wakita. Mr Peacock has been' ^fancy waith his parents <to Re- working order. Creek on the Snouffer farm. The
interested with him lately in j public County, Ka'nsas, from I - gas pipe line to Deer Creek was
some ml ventures, and they werejtbera to Sumner county where BIG BLACKWELL OIL WELL. laid *s0 'that it. runs by the loea-
their way to /Gibbon from ^ his hoime until the op* j _ ttbn on which* the derrick is to
WILL USE GAS
Gas is the fuel 'to be used in
Wakita to see about some leases, j enilJlg of the Cherokee Strip in
J E Hodgson was here Wednes 1893, It was in Sumner county
day and he described the accid-. that he melt Eva M Grove, a
ent as follows:— jyoung school teacher of Ames,
‘‘Just how it occurred no one >dwa, who two years later be-
knows. The day before, I was came his. bride on January 30th,
out with Mr Peacock and he had 1896a. To this union was born
trouble keeping the <#ir in the four children, the first dying in
!>e erected, the material now be-
Jritty feet in a sand struck • 1 ;
art 3290 feet, the Duluth and Ok- g 0,1 tlle ground'
lahoma Oil Company s test on J RfrAKflft a SETTLEMENT
the Wolf farm, southwest quarter
of section 6-28-1 east, ten miles J E Hodgson and the La Noria
northeast of the city of Black- Grande Oil and, Gas Company of Mrs Becker’s bedroom and
well, produced 4330 barrels of oil made a complete and satisfactory! emptied bureau drawers in sever-
, __ , , . . „ ,, . . . . r tn 23 hours. It is flowing at settlement of their differences al rooms. Muddy footprints in
road. I understand that a few infancy, Survivinghim a -e Lau-1 that fate at the present time, the past week. Mr Hodgson was the hall sh ow that he darod ex-
nights befoire^'the car^rtut'ae:d ovj‘ and ' enie an |This is the biggest well in the one of the organizers of the 1 posure by the bright hall light
Blackwell field and proves he- company. He accepted a settle- to walk +’roan room to room. A
yond a doubt that there is a big ment and released the company new revolver and about $50
This is a mighty good showing
for any year and especially so
for a year when the crops were
short. That means about $100
(for each man woman and child
in Grant county.
Where all this money comes
r ,1V, - ,. .. ,, I from and who has it is a mystery
Last Friday night, Mrs Fred to most people and especially to
Ebcnnack retired in her usual an editor. It is hard to make
health and in the-morning when a printer believe there is that
much money in the world.
Of course the high wheat prices
has resulted in the swelling of
some deposits. Then the amount
of money received for oil leases
by the farmers has been another
big factor, is a theory advanced
by others. But whatever the
showing Grant county may be
proud of this per capita showing
of deposits.
The money is distributed by
towns as follows according to
the sworn statements of tine
banks in the different town*s;
Medford..........$402,852.95
Pond Creek ....... 350,039.22
Lamont............ 231,342.31
Wakita............191,416.59
Nash.............. 134,694.42
Manchester........ 124,681.79
Jefferson.......... 121,884.61
Deer Creek ........ 80/102.44
Renfrew.......... 77,678.48
Salt Pork.......... 53,426.22
Gibbon............ 48,744.69
Total........$1,816,705.17
They are living on a farm a
few miles southeast of Manches-
ter, belonging to J W Smith, Mrs
Smith and Mrs Ebenback being
sisters. Dr Saffold of Gibbon
is attending her and thinks in
time she will recover, but it may
take several months.—Mancheste
Journal _
The Wichita Beacon Tuesday
contained the information that
the second floor of the J P Beck-
er home at 1145 Bitting Avenue
was looted by a house prowler
at 8:00 o’clock last night while
members of the family, excepting
one, were on the first floor. Us-
ing a ladder, the burglar enter-
ed the house through a window
er with Laurance. Mr Peacock ini Jefferson
thought that it was the top that Mr Peacock filed oin the claim
was making the car hard to on which Jelfferson now stands,
handle and Tuesday morning the .worked two yea:s in the depot
top was down. As we left Wa- j!t Jefferson, later working for
kita he remarked, that-the car J B Selars in the mercantile bus-
was handling better. When we iness. In 1902 he engaged in bus-
wene two and a hailf miles west iness f0r himself at Jefferson,
of town and about three, north, with A C Glenn associated with
near the Dr Miller farm, the ao- him. Later J M Maddy was made
cident occurred. The car swerv* a member of the firm In 1915 the
ed a little to the right and business was sold to Fred Cook
then cut across 'the road to the a.nd Mr Peacock devoted his
left throwing us out, Mr Peacock time to his Studebaker car
west of me. When the running agency, he and Mr W A Redding
board, hit the ground the ear having the Grant county agency,
turned completely around, hit- Last June they moved their
ting on the other side. It was agency to Medford, establishing
then that it caught Mr Peacock. a garage. Mr Peacock bought
We were going north and after Mr Redding.’s interest in the
the accident the car was beaded garage, but they continued to
south with the
A PLUCKY LAD
field southwest of the first pro-
duction.
Oil Leases
Jas R Edwards to Carter Oil
from its contract with him.
AFTER DRILLERS
The La Noria No. 1 e,ast of
town is drilling at about 2,409
V*' ‘/V-i n ’ ’ \mr ^eet» Frank Lacey has gone to
o- ,,q a l,eU' 0 Oartfir ll ( o, N| Augusta, to- get drillers for the
' „ry'° ’: ................^160 La Noria No 2 west of town.
VV A kauey to Carter Oil Co, - Medford is to have a. municipal
SE 35-29-6 ................$1. PRAIRIE CHICKENS FOR Christinas tree again this year,
Jas CotteriLl to Carter Oil Co., GRANT COUNTY FARMS! aE tke Sunday Schools of the
NW 4-28-8 ...............,$l(jO -- \ town co-operating enthusdastical-
Jno E Wirick to Carter Oil w W Pierce, assistant state 'n project. The tree and
Co, SW 36-28-8 ............$l. game warden, with headquarters entertainment will be at the
Worth of jewelry were taken.
Another sfaicipal
Chirstmas Tree
Paul, the eight year old sou of
Me amd Mrs Albert Nelson, liv-
ing threefourths of a mile north
of Hawley received a broken leg
when the pony on which he was
riding scared at a rabbit and
shied, throwing Paul over its
head. Holding the broken leg
up with a garter, lie pluckily
tried to crawl home. His mother
found him.—Wichita Beacon.
CAESARIAN OPERATION
Two local physicians yesterday
i T r,, . A ,, o............., ..............1—..... D , .. TT c , performed a Caesarian operation
J L Chapin to Carter Oil Co, at Oklahoma City visited Pond ^'al 0Pera House on Sunday Mrs w K Reeser 0f Renfrow,
&E 16-28-8 ................$1. Creek and Medford this week to ?veillll?< December 24th and an Oklahoma, the daughter of Mr
„ . . , A C Trenton to Carter Oil 0, consult the deputy wardens and invitation is cordially extended an,d Mrs p M Rea. 334 South
runmng, boards gether in the agency. TheyhavejNVV lo-26-8 .. ............$160. others interested in the propa- “ eveO'one to be oresent. There Elizabeth Street Physicians say
on each side smashed. The road als0 been much interested in the J B Brown to Carter Oil Co, ga:tion of game. The game de- wil] l)’e Gea'ts for all. An ex- j the mot},er aud child will live.
‘was good and we were running oil lease business in Grant coun-
about twenty miles an hour. Mr ty 'the past year.
is a ten and one-half
Mrs Reieser is
N.W 18-26-7................$1- partment is considering the pro- oclleut program of -readings and The ehild
. . /Geo W Halcomb to W A Red- position of stocking portions of muBlc has been arranged by the pailntl girl __ ______ _ _
Longa ere and others who saw the Surviving him besides his wife diag> N\V 23-25-7 ..........$160. Grant county with Prairie chick- Medford^Schools under the diroc- 'graduate of Wichita hospital. The
tracks made iby fhe car say that aiKj children are his brothers,! i9ftacs t° L I Owen, eng [f ^le proper local sentiment J'1'0.1] M ’ ^ tannest. The operation is one thait is rarely
a person could not believe that H Peacock, of Jefferson; E‘4> NE 23-25-6. is found the birds will be turned finding ^ door south of the performed successfully. Parents
a car could turn around in so Charl,ie peaC0ek, Mrs M E Hayes 1 Curtis to Gypsy Oil Co, ]oose in the Mnd hills in the bright offices will be put in of thc ehik| have decided to name
short a space on such good ioad^ R aister and his mother, Mrs ,E l“*26-3. western part of the county.. readiness Monday by the l^'itbei baby Mary Elsie after her
1 Walter A Armstrong to Gypsy It has practically been decid- nevobnt committee to receive all grandmothe.i--Wichita EaglQ. ’
ted to place some of the birds donations, such as money, food,|
« Sect w”»kmembt7“t £! OD Co, IIMU
without seeing it. The cause
the accident I do not know ^ ^ ^ ^
may be that Mr Peacock, being Odd Fellows’Lodge 'who wall* hav I FraneisJI Thompson to L Med-
accustomed to dnv.ng a larger ,.ha aE ,the £unera] and the K lea.SE 2°-25'5- ,
car, gave the wheel t 00 big a and L of S. I *ae following oil leases were
turn when?the car swerved to j^jr peacock n.as the finest taken by the Gypsy Oil (’o.: An-
the right Something might, have t of citizen honest, square,^00 Feuimore, NW 20-27-3; J 11
been wrong wi'.h the steering lir0ad public spirited and paitri- Shields, SW 4-26-8 and lots 3 and
on the Le Force places west
Jefferson.
SELECTS DEPUTIES
of clothing, candies or toys, to be
distributed to the less fortunate
children. M,r John Runyon Jias
MARRIED AT DEER CREEK
_ Ralph Harrison, one of the
been elected chairman in general Medford High School graduates
of all the committees and Mr I and popular young men of this
County Clerk elect Lee Card R Heasty secretary. Working community and Miss Edna Barks-
4 NW 1-26-8; John T Boggs, NE has made his selection of depu- with these two efficient gentle- riale of Deer Creek were married
apparatus As Mr Peacock hacB and in his death the com- .
one hand bare when the body rauniRy suffers a real loss. The 8-26-5; Elizabeth Mitcihel 1, NW ties. Bert Brewer is to succeed men are II M Stewart, E L Estes, flt I)eer Creek by Rev King last
was taken to Wakita some bereaved family have the ay in 12-26-4; Bert Glasser, NW 6-28- Miss Bess Crockett as chief clerk Will Henderson and J F Thom- Thursday afternoon. Miss Barks-
thought he might h#.ve been pathy of aJl. • . |,4; L D Sawyer, NW 12-27-3. He has had more than a year’s son, finance committee; W E dale i,s a mighty fine young lady
changing his gloves, but I think -pjie funeral services will be Frank Fle.ssa to Luke Peach- .experience in the State Auditors Brewster, Mrs E L Wilson, Mrs and we owe her an apology.. Ira
this improbable, aa I would have con,ducted j,y Rev J A McKee- roaI1» south 73 Acres NW 6-25-3. office, and has the qualifications J G McKelvv and Mi* T L Neal, printing the marriage Recuses
noticed it. The glove was taken Jnan wbom Mr Peacock has' W Ledger-wood to J L Brown, to make a good*deputy. Mrs committee on treats; W F Lati- iil5^ week, through a typographi-
cal when the d°«tor tried to l^nown since he was a child, as- SW 10-25-6..........,...$160. Florence Wrilson Woodrow, who mer, John Runyon, Mrs Mont- eai err0r we ;ga,ve her age as 29
take Mr Peacock’s pulse. man, an old friend, and R«v P«t- | J A Hoffman to Major Oil Co, is an expert on the typewriter, gomeay and Rev Rbgers, commit, when it should have been 20.
As soon as I could get up af- gjgte’d by Rev O V Beal of Bra- NE 31-25-6 ..............$160. will be continued as the office tee on Benevolence; Prof C G ---
ter being thrown out I called to 4r Parker of the Medford ME' J C Myers to J H Fuss, SW stenographer. Vannest, Hazel Merritt, Miss De- H. AUFDERHAR MARRIES
Clark aaking where he was as I church. 3-26-6 ....................$1. ---1— Weese and Rev McKeeman, com- ---
Hattie E Hunt to Major Oil Co, GETS LOTS OF WATER rnrttec on program; Mrs W E A letter from Mr H. Auftcrliar,
NE 32-26-5 ..............$200. 1 *Dr P W Schwartz struck a Brdwster, Mns Sam Wright, Mrs who left last week for Colorado
T A Harton to NE Crumfack- goodxvein of water dn the well Will Henderson and Mr G II Springs contains the information
Medford and Grant county re- er, NW 32-25-7 ............$240. dug by George Edmunds on hi.s Rhoades, committee on decora- which will be of interest to his
laying close to me and I picked ceived her first snow storm on 1 W H Doran to H Stauffacher, lots in South Medford. The well \ion. The superintendent of Medford friends, that he- was
it up and in no time had the car Wednesday night and Thursday SE 36-29-3. is 36 feet deep and fhe water each Sunday School compose the married Thursday, Decombetj 7th
jacked up so that I could get morning bringing joy to the1 OlLie E Six to Gypsy OU Co, rose 25 feet in it. He is putting executive committee This is an at Colorado Springs to Emilie
him out. I "placed him on th* hearts of the youngsters and giv- lots 3, 4 and E1/* SW 7-28-3. in his own water system and ex- excellent project, so let everyone Gold acker of that place. Their
seat* aa a pallet and asked how ing the wheat much needed mois- J D W Ilanmigan to Gypsy Oil pects to grow trees rain
could not see him. He answered
*lhat he was under the car and
could not breathe. 1 could not
lift the car but the jack was
FIRST SNOW FLIES
h« felt. He said better now. I ture
I Co, sy2 NW 12-26-3.
rain
or no ctvruie forward and help make it home will be at 1022 E Cache La
a big success, Poudre. Colorado Springs. t
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