Luther Register. (Luther, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 51, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 13, 1915 Page: 3 of 8
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DARK HOLLOW
By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN
(Copyright, 1014, by Dodd, Mead At Company!
SYNOPSIS.
▲ curloua crowd of neighbor! Invade
Ihe mysterious home of Judge Ostrander,
county Judge and eccentric recluse, fol-
lowing n veiled woman who has gained
entrance through the gates of the high
double barriers surrounding the place.
The woman has disappeared but the judge
Is found In a cataleptic state. Bela, his
servant, appears In a dying condition and
prevents entrance to a secret door. Bela
dies. The judge awakes. Miss Weeks
explains to Mm what has occurred during
his seizure. He secretly discovers the
■whereabouts of the veiled woman. She
to be the widow of a man tried
lure
ereaboutl
proves to be the widow of a man 1
before the Judge and electrocuted for l
der years before. Her daughter ts
gaged to the Judge’s son, from whom he ts
estranged, but the murder Is between the
en-
e ts
estranged, but the murder Is between
lovers She plans to clear her husband’s
memory and asks the Judge’s aid. Alone
In her room Deborah fleovllle reads the
newspaper clippings telling the story of
the murder of Algernon Etheridge by
John 8covllle In Dark Hollow, twelve
years before.
CHAPTER VI—Continued.
“Ah, Judge Ostrander," she ex-
claimed In a hasty but not ungraceful
greeting, "you are very punctual. I
whs not looking for you yet." Then,
as she noted the gloom under which
he was laboring, she continued with
real feeling. "Indeed, I appreciate this
sacrifice you have made to my wishes.
It was asking a great deal of you to
come here; but 1 saw no other way
of making my point clear. Come over
here, Peggy, and build me a little
house out of these stones. You don’t
mind the child, do you, Judge? She
may offer a diversion If our retreat Is
Invaded."
The gesture of disavowal which he
made was courteous but Insincere. He
did mind the child, but he could not
explain why; besides, he must over-
come such folly.
’’Now,” she continued as she re-
joined him on the place where he had
taken hla stand, “I will ask you to
go back with me to the hour when
John Scovllle left the tavern on that
fatal day. I am not now on oath, but
I might as well be for any slip I shall
make in the exact truth. I was mak-
ing pies In the kitchen, when some
one came running in to say that Reu-
ther had strayed away from the front
yard. And here 1 found her, sir. right
In the heart of these ruins. She was
playing with stones just as Peggy
dear Is doing now. Greatly relieved,
I was taking her away when I thought
J heard John calling. Stepping up to
the edge close behind where you are
standing, sir—yes, there, where you
get such a broad outlook up and down
the ravine—I glanced In the direction
from which 1 had heard Ills call—Just
•wait a moment, sir; I want to know
the exact time.”
Stopping, she pulled out her watch
and looked at it, while he, faltering
up to the verge which she had pointed
out, followed her movements with
etrange Intensity as she went on to
say In explanation of her act:
"The time Is Important, on account
of a certain demonstration I am anx-
ious to make. Now if you will lean
a little forward and look where I am
pointing, you will notice at the turn
of the stream a spot of ground more
open than the rest. Please keep your
eyes on that spot, for It was there
I saw at this very hour twelve years
ago the shadow of an approaching fig-
ure; and It is there you will presently
see one similar, If the boy I have
tried to Interest in this experiment
does not fail me. Now, now, sir! We
should see his shadow before we see
him. Oh, I hope the underbrush and
trees have not grown up too thick! I
tried to thin them out today. Are you
■watching, sir?”
, He seemed to be, but she dared not
turn to look. Both figures leaned,
Intent, and In another moment she
had gripped his arm and clung there.
“Did you see?” she whispered.
“Don't mind the boy; it's the shadow
1 wanted you to notice. Did you ob-
serve anything marked about It?”
She had drawn him back into the
Wins. They were standing in that
one secluded corner under the ruin-
ous gable, and she was gazing up at
him very earnestly. “Tell me, Judge,"
she entreated as he made no effort
to answer.
With a hurried moistening of his
dips, he met her look and responded,
with a slight emphasis:
"The boy held a stick. I should
say that he was whittling it.”
"Ah!” Her tone was triumphant.
"That was what I told him to do. Did
you see anything else?”
"No. I do not understand this ex-
periment or what you hope from it.”
"I will tell you. The shadow which
I saw at a moment very like this,
twelve years ago, showed a man
whittling a stick and wearing a cap
with a decided peak in front. My
husband wore such a cap—the only
one I know of in town. What more
did I need as proof that it was his
shadow I saw?”
"And wasn’t it?”
"Judge Ostrander, I never thought
differently till after the trial—till
after the earth closed over my poor
husband's remains. That was why I
could say nothing in his defense—
why I did not believe him when he
declared that he had left his stick be-
hind him when he ran up the bluff
after Reuther. But later, when it was
ail over, when the disgrace of his
death and the necessity of seeking
a home elsewhere drove me into sell-
ing the tavern and all its effects, I
found somethiug which changed my
mind in this regard, and made me
confident that 1 had done my hus-
band a great injustice."
“You found? What do you mean
by that? What could you have
found?"
"His peaked cap lying in a corner
of the garret. He had not worn It
that day; for when he came back to
be hustled off again by the crowd
he was without hat of any kind, and
he never returned again to his home—
you know that. Judge. I had seen the
shadow of some other man approach-
ing Dark Hollow. Whose, I am in
this town now to find out."
Judge Ostrander was a man of
keen Perception, quick to grasp an
idea, quick to form an opinion. But
his mind acted slowly tonight. Debo-
rah Scovllle wondered at the blank-
ness of his gaze and tile slow way
in which he seemed to take in this
astounding fact.
At last he found votce and with it
gave Borne evidence of his usual acu-
men.
"Madam, a shadow ts an uncertain
foundation on which to build such an
edifice as you plan. A dozen men
might have come down that path with
or without sticks before Mr. Ktherldge
reached the bridge and fell a victim
to the assault which laid him low."
"I thought the time was pretty
clearly settled by the hour he left
your house. The sun had not set
when he turned your corner on hie
way home. So several people said
who saw him. Besides—11
"Yes; there is a ‘besides.’ I’m sure
of It.”
"I saw the tall llgure of a man,
whom I afterwards made sure was
Mr. Etheridge, coming down Factory
road on his way to the bridge when
I turned about to get Reuther.”
"All of which you suppressed at the
trial.”
“I was not questioned on this point,
sir."
“Madam”—he was standing very
near to her now, hemming her as It
were into that decaying corner—”1
should have a very much higher opin-
ion of your caudor if you told me the
whole story."
“I have, sir.”
His hands rose, one to the right-
hand wall, the other to the left, and
remained there with their palms reet-
ing heavily against the rotting plas-
ter. She was more than ever hemmed
in; but, though she felt a trifle fright-
ened at his aspect, which certainly
was not usual, she faced him without
shrinking and in very evident surprise.
"It seems too slight a fact to men-
tion, and, indeed, 1 had forgotten it till
you pressed me, but after we had
passed the gates and were well out
on the highway, I found that Reuther
had left her little pail behind her
here, and we came back and got it
Did you mean that, sir?”
“I meant nothing; but I felt sure
you had not told all you could about
that fatal ten minutes. You came
back. It Is quite a walk from the road.
The man whose shadow you saw must
have reached the bridge by this time.
What did you see then or—hear?”
“Nothing. Absolutely nothing, judge.
I was intent on finding the baby's pall,
and having found it I hurried back
home all the faster.”
"And tragedy was going on or was
just completed, in plain sight from
this gap!”
"I have no doubt, sir; and If I had
looked, possibly John might have been
saved.”
The silence following this was
broken by a crash and a little cry.
Peggy’s house had tumbled down.
The small incident was a relief.
Both assumed more natural postures.
“So the shadow Is your great and
only point,” remarked the judge.
“I shall not desist, Judge Ostran-
der.”
“You are going to pursue this Jack-
o’-lantern?"
“I am determined to. If you deny
me aid and advice I shall seek another
counselor. John's name must be vin-
dicated.”
He gave her a look, turned and
glanced down at the child piling stone
on stone and whimpering just a little
when they fell.
"Watch that baby for a while,” he
remarked, "and you will learn the les-
son of most human endeavor. Madam.
I have a proposition to make you. You
cannot wish to remain at the inn, nor
can you be long happy separated
from your daughter. I have lost Bela.
I do not know how, nor would 1 be
willing, to replace him by another
servant. I need a housekeeper; same
one devoted to my interests and who
will not ask me to change my habits
too materially. Will you accept the
position, if 1 add as an inducement
my desire to have Reuther also as an
inmate of my home? This does not
mean that 1 countenance or in any
way anticipate her union with my son.
I do not; but any other advantages
she may desire she shall have. 1 will
not be strict with her.”
Deborah Scovllle was never more
taken aback In her life. The recluse
opening his doors to two women! The
man of mystery flinging aside the reti-
cences of years to harbor an inno-
cence which he refused to let weigh
against the claims of a son he had
seen fit to banish from his heart and
home!
"You may take time to think of it,"
he continued, as he watched the con-
fused emotions change from moment
to moment the character of her mo-
bile features. "I shall not have nay
affairs adjusted for such a change be-
fore a week. If you accept I shall be
very grateful. If you decline I shall
close up my two rear gates, and go
into solitary Beclusion. 1 can cook
a meal if I have to.”
And she saw that he would do it;
saw and wondered still more.
“I shall have to write to Reuther,”
she murmured. “How soon do you
want my decision?”
"In four days.”
"I am too disturbed to thank you,
judge. Should—should we have to
keep the gates locked?”
"No. But you would have to keep
out unwelcome Intruders. And the
rights of my library will have to be
respected. In all other regards I
should wish, under these new clrcum-
sauces, to live as other people live. 1
have been very lonely these past
twelve years.’’
"I will think about It.”
"And you may make note of these
two conditions: Oliver’s name ts not
to be mentioned in my hearing, and.
you and Reuther are to be known by
your real names.”
"You would—”
“Yes, madam. No secrecy Is to be
maintained in future as to your Iden-
tity or my reasons for desiring you in
my house. I need a housekeeper and
you please me. That you have a past
to forget and Reuther a disappoint-
ment to overcome gives additional
point to the arrangement."
Her answer was:
“I cannot take back what I have
said about my determined purpose."
In repeating this she looked up at him
askance.
He smiled. She remembered that
smile long after the interview was
over and only its memory remained.
• ••••••
Dearest Mother:
Where could we go that disgrace would
not follow us? Let us then accept the
■Judge's offer. I am the more Inclined to
do this because of the possible hope that
some day he may come to care for me
and allow me to make life a little brighter
for him. The fact that for some mys-
terious reason he feels himself cut off
from all Intercourse with his son, may
prove a bond of sympathy between us. I,
too, am cut off from all companionship
with Oliver. Between us also a wall Is
raised. Do not mind that tear-drop, mam-
ma. It Is the last.
Kisses for my comforter. Come soon.—
REUTHER.
Over this letter Deborah Scovllle sat
for two hours, then she rang for Mrs
Yardley.
The maid who answered her sum-
mons surveyed her in amazement. It
NEWS OF THE
STATE CAPITAL
OIL BIDS ON SCHOOL LANDS—
TAFT RESERVATION WILL
BE LEASED AUGUST 4.
OKLAHOMA CITY NEWS EVENTS
with Judge Ostrander, M»*a. Yardley—
keep house for him, mysetf and daugh-
ter. His man is dead and he feeia
very helpless. I hope that I shall ba
able to make him comfortable."
Mrs. Yardley's face was a study. In
all her life she had never heard newa
that surprised her more. In another
moment she had accepted the situa-
tion, like the very sensible woman she
was, and Mrs. Scovllle had the satla-
faction of seeing the promise of real
friendly support in the smite with
which Mrs. Yardley remarked:
"It’s a good thing for you and a
very good thing for the judge. It may
shake him out of his habit of seclu-
sion. If it does, you will be the city’s
benefactor. Good luck to you, madam.
And you have a daughter, you say?"
After Mrs. Yardley’s departure
Mrs Scovllle, as she now expected
herself to be called, sat for a long
time brooding. There was one thing
more to be accomplished. She set
about it that evening.
Veiled, but in black now, she went
into town. Getting down at the cor-
ner of Colburn avenue and Perry
street, she walked a short distance on
Perry, then rang the bell of an at-
tractive-looking house of moderate di-
mensions. Being admitted, she asked
to see Mr. Black, and for an hour sat
In close conversation with him. Then
she took a trolley car which carried
her Into the suburbs. When she
alighted, it was unusually late for a
woman to be out alone; but she had
very little physical fear, and walked
on steadily enough for a block or two
till she came to a corner, where a high
fence loomed forbiddingly between her
and a house so dark that It was Im-
possible to distinguish between its
chimneys and the encompassing trees.
Was she quite alone In the seem-
ingly quiet street? She could hear no
one, see no one. A lamp burned In
front of Miss Weeks’ small house, but
the road it illumined, the one running
down to the ravine, showed only dark-
ened houses.
She had left the corner and was
passing the gate of the Ostrander
homestead, when she beard, coming
from some distant point within, a low
and peculiar sound which held her im-
movable for a moment, then sent her
on shuddering.
It was the sound of hammering.
Hearing this sound and locating It
where she did, she remembered, with
a quick inner disturbance, that the
judge’s house held a secret; a secret
of such import to Its owner that the
dying Bela had sought to preserve it
at the cost of his life.
Oh, she had heard all about that!
The gossip at Claymore kin had been
great, and nothing had been spared
her curiosity. There was something
in this house which It behooved the
judge to secrete from sight yet more
completely before her own and Heu-
ther’s entrance, and he was at work
upon it now, hammering with hls own
hand while other persona slept! No
wonder she edged her way along the
fence with a shrinking, yet persistent,
step. She was circling her future
home and that house held a mystery.
As she groped her way along, she
had ample opportunity to hear again
the Intermittent sounds of the ham-
mer, and to note that they reached
their maximum at a point where the
ell of the judge's study approached tho
fences.
Rat-tat-tat; rat-tat-tat. She hated
the sound even while she whispered to
herself:
"It is just some household matter
he is at work upon—rehanging pic-
tures or putting up shelves. It can be
nothing else."
Yet on laying her ear to the fence
she felt her sinister fears return;
and, with shrinking glances Into a
darkness which told her nothing, she
added in fearful murmur to herself:
"What am I taking Reuther into?
I I wish I knew. I wish I knew."
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
What the State Officials and Depart*
menta Are Doing.—Items of In
tereat About the State
Governmest.
Oklahoma City.—
Four tracts of liver bed leases
twelve sections of land and 100 acres
of the land included in tne Taft school
reservation were advertised for bids
for oil and gas purposes at a meet-
ing of the school land board. Bids
will be opened on August 4 at 4
o'clock, aud the leases awarded at
that time if the bids come wlthiu the
requirements.
The four tracts of the river bed stuff
are in the Cimarron river and all in
Creek county, runnfng contiguous, and
all in a stretch of about six miles.
Twelve sections of land in Lincoln
county are advertised for bids on oil
and gas leases, and the board offers
100 acres of the laud belonging to the
school for the negro blind and deaf
children at Taft. Offers were recent-
ly made the board to lease some of
the Taft school land and the board
did not know if this could be done.
An opinion from the attorney gen
eral’s office advised that as custodian
of public lands of the state the school
laud department could do with the
land as seemed best for the best in-
terests of the school. The leasing of
this land, however, will be doue so as
to not in any way interfere with the
operation of the school, aud the actual
drilling of any wells will ne far enough
away from any of the buildings to in-
sure perfect safety to them aud the
Inmates.
Each of the bids must be accom-
panied by a certified check or bank
draft in the sum of $1,000, to be de-
posited as earnest money and to in-
sure the execution of the lease. All
bids must be on forms furnished by
the commissioners of the land office
and the royalty must be not less than
12% per cent of both oil and gas,
together with such cash bonus as may
be offered.
Judge Spilman Returns
Judge E. G. Spilman, former assist*
ant attorney general and at present
state librarian, has returned from
Washington where he has been for
the past three months prosecuting the
claim of the state before the depart-
ment of the itnerior for approximately
210,000 acres of land, which it is con-
tended should have been given la
Oklahoma uuder the terms of the Mor-
rill land grant act when Oklahoma
was admitted to the union.
All of the facts regarding the claim
are now before the department and a
decision probably will be rendered
some time during the latter part of
the present summer or early fall, it
was stated. The law and precedents
governing the cases, Judge Spillman
declared, are in favor of tho state's
contention, und he said he expected
a decision favoruble to the state.
Success of the state in the matter,
it is said, will amount to approximate-
ly $1,500,000 to $2,000,000. There is
no land in Oklahoma which can be
given to the state now by the fed-
eral government, it is said, but the
state will be given script good for
unappropriated government lands ia
other sections of the country.
Under the terms of the Morrill land
grant each state upon admission to
the union was to be given 30,000 acres
of land for agricultural and mechani-
cal college purposes for each repre-
sentative in congress. Oklahoma had
five congressmen and two United
States senators upon its admission
to statehood, and this would make Ok-
lahoma's share of the laud 210,000
acres.
Partial List of Auto Tax Rates.
Automobile owners will be interest-
ed to know just what tlcenae they must
pay on their machines under the new
law, which requires 50 cents per horse
power. They are required to pay on
the actual horse power and not on the
advertised power. State Highway
Commissioner Leecralt is preparing a
book giving all details of the law.
together with the compared horse
power of every make of machine. The
book is not quite completed and in
the meantime the highway commis-
sioner has compiled a brief tabula-
tion or some of the leading cars, giv-
ing the actuai horse power and the
price of the lincese for them for the
past six months.
The tabulation is figured according
to the A. & L. rating, and is as fol-
lows:
One-Half Wheat Crop Harvested.
The prospective average yield Of
wheat to the acre for the 1915 crop is
15 1-3 bushels, according to the June
report of the state board of agricul-
ture, and the total yield of winter
wheat is estimated at 46.649,000 bush-
els. While the excessive rains have
damaged wheat in some localities,
there never was a better prospect for
corn, the early crop now practically
being made. According to the report
about half of the w'heat crop had been
harvested up to June 25, when the re-
port closed. In the southwestern por-
tion of the state the harvesting is about
completed and wheat cutting should
be finished by July 20.
Oats will yield about 36 bushels
to the acre, according to the report,
and the crop is in fine condition.
About 32 per cent of the oats acreage
has been harvested. Cotton has been
set back by the wet weather. There
will be about 68 per cent of a full crop
of cotton, according to the statistics
gatehered by the board. The growing
condition of alfalfa shows about 93
per cent. The crop is much better
than that of last year. All fruits
show a prospective full crop.
Name
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Case ......
Chalmers .
Chevrolet .
Chandler ..
Detroiter .
Ford ......
Franklin ..
Hudson
Hupmobllo
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Maxwell
Molino ....
Overland .
Packard ..
Premier
"If You Deny Me I Shall Seek Anoth-
er Counsellor."
was the first time that she had seen
her uncovered face.
Mrs. Yardley was not long In com-
ing up.
“Mrs. Averill—” she began, in a
kind of fluster, as she met her strange
guest’s quiet eye.
But she got no further. That guest
had a correction to make.
“My name is not Averill," she pro-
tested. "You must excuse the tem-
porary deception. It is Scovllle. I
once ocupied your present position in
this house."
Mrs. Yardley bad heard all about the
Scovilles; and, while a flush rose to
her cheekB, her eyes snapped with
sudden interest.
"Ah!" came in quick exclamation,
followed, however, by an apologetic
cough and the somewhat forced and
conventional remark: "You-find the
place changed, no doubt?”
"Very much so, and for the better,
Mrs. Yardley." Then, wfith a straight-
forward meeting of the other’s eye,
she quietly added, "1 am going to live
ROYAL IN ITS MAGNIFICENCE
I "Founder's Room” In Pittsburgh Car-
negie Library Is a Splendid
Apartment.
A recent report of the Pittsburgh
Carnegie library contains a picture of
the "founder’s room," of which a
writer in the Boston Evening Tran-
script says:
"It seems to be a vast apartment,
about fifty or sixty yards long and
nearly as wide. It has Indirect light-
ing and a flagged floor, upon which
one might play hopscotcTi if one felt
inclined. There are four or five thrones
in the room, one on each side of the
fireplace, and there Is a table with a
lamp on it. The room is very mag-
nificent; it has all the spaciousness
and discomfort of a royal palace.
‘‘What Mr. Carnegie does In this
room we are not told. There are no
sleeping accommodations, unless one
of the thrones is really a folding bed.
It does not look cozy enough to use
for an office.’’
Internal Revenue Fiecal Year Ends.
Fewer than a dozen delinquencies
were reported by United States Inter-
nal Revenue Collector Hubert L. Bo-
len. According to the collector, the
income tax collections will show an
increase of 50 per cent over last year,
although the figures have not been
balanced as yet, and the totals could
not be quoted. He predicted that the
increase on all kinds of revenue pay-
able to the government will be 100
per cent. Mr. Bolen estimated that
$800,000 to $900,000 will be payable
to his office for the fiscal year.
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1,725
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1,295
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7.25
12.25
8.50
Who Gets This Ford?
Possession of "one certain Ford au-
tomobile,” which was used in the vio-
lation of the prohibitory laws of the
state, is the question presented to
the supreme court for determination
in an appeal filed by the state from a
judgment of the county court of Rog-
ers county.
The machine was being used by
Richard Roe and John Doe for illegal
transportation of contraband liquor
between points in the city of Clare-
more, when it was seized by the chief
of police of that city and turned over
to the sheriff of Rogers county.
A short time later one L. A. Hupert,
automobile dealer of Tulsa, filed a
claim against the county for the re-
covery of the automobile, alleging that
he held a chattel mortgage on it for
$100. The case was tried in the coun-
ty court, where both the state and
Hupert contended for possession of
the machine. A judgment was rend-
ered in Iiupert’8 favor and the state
has appealed from that decision.
It is the contention of the state that
the machine was being used for the
violation of the prohibitory laws and
was subject to seizure and forfeiture
to the state.
Infantile Paralysis.
A famous German physician proves
that infantile paralysis is often car-
ried from one household to another by
domestic animals, such as chickens,
ducks and cows.
Henshaw Attends Hearing
Corporation Commissioner George
A. Henshaw was at Chicago last week
where he attended a nearing before
the interstate commerce commission
in which the railroads are asking for
a passenger rate of cents a mile
in states where the 2-cent fare is now
in force. This includes a number of
the middle western states, with Okla-
homa. Commissioner Henshaw' is se-
curing all the evidence he can to be
used in the trial of the Oklahoma
2-cent fare case which w111 be resumed
here on July 12.
Board Names Live Stock Inspectors
Twenty state live stock inspectors
have been appointed by tho state
board of agriculture to assist in the
work of tick eradication. The last
legislature made an appropriation for
that purpose. The inspectors are:
John Hendley, Luther Smith, S. P.
Bagby, A. G. Liston, Merlo Dillon, H.
F. Fleming, J. H. Hightower, J. E
Haiston, M. L. Hite, J. H. Poole, W.
E. McConnell, Albert Romberg, H.
Tinuns, D. Kerr, Bill Parnell, J. H.
Hall, F. W. Taylor, Melvin Pierce, \V.
E. L. Durant, C. E. Camp.
School Fund Loans to be Investigated
Following up the report made some
time ago by State Examiner and In-
spector Fred Parkinson in which he
charged discrimination and irregulari-
ties in the matter of making loans
from the permanent common school
fund on lands in Roger Mills county
during the former state administra-
tion, Governor Williams directed Roy-
al Allen of Duncan and E. W. Moore
of Comanche, special appraisers, to
go ti) Roger Mills county and appraise
every piece of land upon which the
state has made a loan.
Roger Mills county is the home of
Madden Miller, former chief clerk of
the school land department under ihe
Cruce administration, and it was
charged by Parkinson in Ms report
that the department had lent money
on laud in that county which wa3
worth considerable less than the
amount of the loan. In all cases
where the special appraisers declare
the land to be worth less than the
amount of the loan, the persons to
w’hom the loan was made will be re-
quired to reduce the loan to the valuu
of the land, it is stated.
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Jackson, J. O. Luther Register. (Luther, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 51, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 13, 1915, newspaper, July 13, 1915; Luther, Okla.. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc853662/m1/3/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.