Cherokee County Democrat (Tahlequah, Okla.), Vol. 26, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 5, 1913 Page: 1 of 8
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CHEROKEE
OFFICIAL PAPER OF CITY AND COUNTY
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DEMOCRAT
PUBLISHED BY THE ARROW PUBLISHING CO.
Successor to The Tahlequah Arrow and Herald
TAHLEQUAH, OKLA., THURSDAY. JUNE 4 1913.
TWENTY SIXTH YEAR-NUMBER 37
LOVE
AFFAIR
GOES ASTRAY
(From Tuesday's Daily Arrow)
The best laid schemes of mice and
men,
Gr.ng aft aglee,
And lea'e us nought but grief and
pain,
For promised joy.
Such is the sequel of the elope-
ment of the two girls, Josie Bracket
and Alice Maxwell, with John and
Sylvia Strickland, from the Cherokee
Training school, Saturday night.
John and Josie, who were married
in Muskogee, yesterday, have return-
ed to Tahlequah, not to live the life
of wedded bliss, but be separated
until the charges of abduction, which
have been preferred against both
♦ he Strickland boys, have been set-
tled in the courts . In obtaining the
licenses, the boys are alleged to
have perjured themselves in as
much as that they swore that from
their own knowledge the places of
residence, age, etc., of all parties
were personally known to them.
The girls will be returned to fh<?
school until the cases are finally dis
posed of.
ARKANSAS RIVER
OWNED BY STATE
MUSKOGEE, Okla., June3.—Jud
ge Ralph H. Campbell, of the U. S
district court, in a. decision at Mc-
Alester today held that the bed of
the Arkansas river, between the two
usual high water lines, is the prop
ertv of the state, and under state
control. This establishes the right
of the state to mnko oil and gas
leases and sand gravel leases on th
river so long as they di not interfere
with navigation. The decision de-
nied that the Creek nation owns the
bed of the river, but holds that It
was owned by the United State,s until
it was transferred to the state. Tiie
suit at bar involved oil leases or.
which there are eleven producing
walls. In the suit the Creek nation
sought to establish its right to tlifc
river bed and whatever lease value
it had.
PR V\ S TO MEET THE
WIFE HE MCROMIKD
HOT SPRINGS, Ark., June
With a preyer on his lips that he
might meet the wife in heaven he
had murdered last July, Clarence
Schumann was hanged at 3 o clock
yesterday p. m. He had spent the
whole of the morning in letter writ-
ing and in prayer and walked to the
scaffold without a breakdown, though
several times in the jail previous to
the execution he had given up to
hysterical outbursts.
He and his wife had been separat-
ed. "Morphia-Mania" was the de-
fense at the trial, it being contended
that because he was addicted to
morphine, he was not Hesponsiblt
for the crime.
BAND CONCERT
Save Your Hogs
Hog cholera usually appears during the summer and fall months.
\s the summer months are utmost here much study should be gnen tlix
hog to save him from the ravage* of that greatest of all hog diseases, the
"Cholera." Sick hogs are reported already in our county in the follow-
ing neighborhoods: Wauhillau, Barber, Cookson, Sleeper. Moodys, Low-
ery and Fegg-s. The symptoms of hog cholera may be observed by the
hog showing a luck of appetite, sluggishness, disinclination to movu
about and sometimes it is shown by Inflamatlon of the eyes.
Cholera is fatal to a very high per cent of the hogs and causes death
in from one to two weeks after exposure. Every farmer in Crerokee
county should raise hogs and llkwlsa every farmer in Cherokee coun y
who raises hogs should strive to ward oft hog cholera which own be done
if the situation is met promptly. By writing to the A. and M. < ollege
i>t Stillwater, Okla., a syringe which is used to vaccinate the hogs may
be purchased for the price of $3.25 and express charges. I he serum
necessary for the vaccination of the hogs tuay be obtained for 45c fot
every 100 pouud* of hogs owned and should be vaccinated. I • •* tarui
demonstrator of Cherokee County, Okla. will gladly aid those who desiic
to procure the syringe and serum and it should he borne in mind that to
prevent loss in hogs vaccination should he made before the hog becomes
sick. • iv
Next week's issue will contain some more information on tite nog
cholera.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $100,000.00
W. W. HASTINGS, Pres
D. O SCOTT. Cashier.
D. W. WILSON, Vlce-Pres.
RGBT. WYLY. Ass't. Cashier.
OLD TAHL
BOY
N ALASKA
HAMMONDS SLATED I BATTLES^
FOR WARDEN
OKLAHOMA CITY, May Si —Cap.
ain C. C. Hammonds, of Lawton, for :
warden of the state penitentiary at |
McAlester and former Sheriff Frank !
Carter of Frederick, for warden of
he Granite reformatory, is the penal
instiution slate, which is currently
reported the new board of prison
control will follow.
The names of the control board
members hove not been announced
nor will they be until June 23, when
he senate reconvenes and will be
•eady to pass on executive appoint-
ments. Governor Cruce takes the |
position that the senate is construct-
ively in session and that his appoint-!
ees if announced, could not take
office before their confirmation. i
Captain Hammonds is the present
state fire marshal, w'as sheriff of:
Comanche county for many years,
and lis an ardent Cruce supporter. j
Carter is sergeant-at-arms of the j
house of representatives and was j
sheriff of Tillman county for several!
years after statehood. As a special ^
officer acting under the governor's
direction, he went to Osage county'
last week, and arrested the nine;
officials and liquor law violators'
whom a dictagraph connected viih
a gigantic boodMng scheme.
ARRANGE TO AMEND
KLAHOMA
ARTICLE 9, SECTION 9
Ollie Kuhn wires that work on
the new battleship Oklahoma, which
will be one of the finest ever con-
structed, is progressing rapidly, ac-
cording to advice received by the
war department. It will be l'ully a
year before the ship is completed,
but when the finishing touches are
placed upon the vessel she will be
one of the most terrtbe engines of
war afloat.. Considerable interest is
already being manifest as to
which Oklahoma young woman will
be asked to christen the vessel.
The first band concert of the sum
nier will be given Thursday evening
from the band stand in the capital
square. Regular concerts thereafter
will be given each week during the
summer. It is to be hoped the peo-
ple of the city show more interest
in the music this year and make
themselves more conspicuous by
their presence than in the past as an
interest shown is bound to result in
better music.
FLEEING FROM
IM CROW LAW
RAMONA SCENE
OF MAN HUNT
BARTLESVILLE, Okla., June 3.
-In a dense forest in the southern
t part of the county a man hunt is on
and a battle with guns is expected
at any time. Four deputy sheriffs
aro search ing for Van Osborne and
a second man thought, to be George
Hollingsworth, both fugitives from
justice. Osborne is wanted on a
charge of escaping from the state
prisons in Oklhoma and Colorado
and is also wanted on a charge of
horse etealing. Hollingsworth is
wanted on charges of murder and
bank jobbery). Late this evening
the men were said to have been stir-
rounded near Ramona, this ct>unt/.
MUSKOGEE, June 3.—Believing
that the grandfather clause and the
Jim Crow law have been placed on
the statute books to make life in
this country as uncomfortable as
possible for them. 125 and perhaps
more negroes will leave this city in J
September over the Frisco road to
New 'York, where they will take
steamer for Monrovia,, Liberia.
A year ago a dozen negroes undrr
the ieaderstoip of George Lee left
for that place after they had been
assured by the English government
that they would be given as much
land as they could cultivate success-
fully.
This little colony sent word back
to friends here that they were pleas-
ed with everything in their new
home and upon receiving this word
others .signified their intention of
making the trip to South Africa.
It was first estimated that more
than a thousand would go back but
crop sonditions were the cause of
some changing their minds and
while many more than 125 may
make the trip, this is the number
which the Frisco is making arrange-
ments fqr.
FHF MINERAL
DEPOSITS
(From Monday's Daily Arrow.)
A visitor to the city made the re-
mark today that were the lead and
zinc deposits which it seemed prob-
able lie beneath the hills surround-
ing the town, properly developed
this place might in the course of no
distant time become a second Joplin.
To use an old but expressive saying,
the visitor "spoke a mouthful."
While no test has ever been made
it has long been known that there
is lead, zinc and iron at no great
distance from the city. At a place
some few miles from this place the
specimens of lead and zinc procured
at no great depth indicated that a
|shaft sunk to a depth of perhaps one
hundred to two hundred feet would
reveal a deposit of great richness.
In the instance mentioned silver
was also found, though in small
j quantity. Out in the fudged hills
east of the Illinois the indications
are that lead and zinc could be found
' In paying quantities at no great
'depth. Of course, there are many
tales told concerning locations where
the lead may be found almost on the
surface of the ground, the same is
true concerning zinc and silver, and
a few relate to gold having been
found. These tales are deserving
of no attention, but coming down to
the real thing, a careful and thor-
ough test would no doubt reveai the
existence of the useful minerals in
abundant quantities.
OKLAHOMA CITY, JuneS.—
About one hundred representative
farmers, business and professional
men interested in the proposed adop-
tion of the new amendment to ar-
ticle nine, section nine of the con-
stitution met at the Lee-Huckins,
Monday and perfected a working or-
ganization by the selection of Sen-
ator C. B. Kendrick of Ardmore,
president of the state senate as chair-
man; and W. B. Anthony of Marlow,
secretary.
The organization perfected at the
meeting Monday will be the central
organization and within a short time
branch organizations will be com-
pleted in every county of the state
ant' an aggressive campaign waged
until the election.
I The proposed amendment was re-
ferred to a vote of the people at a
special election to be held in August
by the legislature and it has the ap-
proval or corporation commissioners
Henshaw and Watson.
The campaign committee will
maintain quarters in parlor B'of the
Lee-Husktns hotel.
Joe Manus handed us the follow-
ing letter received from W. W. Tol-
an, who left. Tahlequah about three
years and joined the U. S. ariuy
and i. now a member of the 30th
infantry and located in Alaska:
My Friend. Hello. I was glad to
hear that you are getting along fine
and dandy. 1 am getting along the
same way.
Say, Joe, you ask me when I will
be back in Okla. 1 don't know and
nobodyelse knows, but Go-tah-na.
If you see Isaac, you tell him to an-
swermy letter. I wrote him a letter
nbout four months ago. 1 never
did get any answer from hitn. How
is bootlegging getting along in Okla?
Well, Joe, I guess you hear about
Japan's forty thousand around the
FerUlc ready for fight. We just, re-
i. r -d by wireless this morning,
j Everybody is just crazy to go fight
| with Japan.
1 will bring my letter to a close
' hoping to hear from you soon.
Your Friend,
W. W. Tolen.
IWO OLD FREES
Then is a cottonwood tree in Bar-
tlesville. says an exchange, that is
supposed to be one of the oldest in
the state. "Uncle John" Rise, a pio-
neer. Fays that when he arrived fop-
ty years ago, this tree was then one
of the largest in this section. It
was set out by an Indian many years
ago, so the story goes. The Indian
cared for it, making trips to the tree
each day and watering It during the
period of a long drouth
There is, however, some miles
distant down the Illinois, uot "far
from the river, an oak which from
size and general appearance must
have been a fair sized sapling when
Columbus discovered America. The
cottonwoow is of rapid growth com-
pared with the oak, a fifty year-old
cottonwood being of great size, but
the gigantic oak must have been
centuries in attaining its present ^
proportions.
STANDARD SUI
BEGAN~
TODAY
ONE HUNDRED TRUNKS
CORSICANA, Tex., June 3.—Tak-
ing testimony before a special com-
missioner in the state of Texas suit
for J99.275.000 penalties against the
Standard Oil interests and alleged
subsidiaries charged with violating
Texas anti-trust laws, is scheduled
to begin here today. The suit
also is tor ouster of the alleged Tex-
las branch concerns. This examina-
Uion is expected to last for more than
a month during which it will be
trasferred successively to Dallas,
Beaumont, Houston and Galveston.
After that it is planned to tak.j
testimony in New York, and possibly
other eastern cities. The state has
disclosed only part of Its position as
contained in a petition granted in
Greenville, Tex., March 5, last, plac-
ing the two Texas conpanies invo'ved
in receivership. This petition ''harm-
ed anti-trust law violations begin-
ning in 1900 and continuing pi ac-
tually up to date.
One hundred truks were unloaded
at the depot yesterday and last eve-
ning the helpers at the depot were,
to use the common phrase, "all in"
last night from wrestling them from
the train to the baggage room. It
was the biggest day, from a trunk
business standpoint, in the history
of the depot.
REPORTED CRITICAL
A report Is current on the streets
today that Harry Pitchford .who was
taken to a hospital in Ft. Smith, Ark.
several days ago, suffering from ty-
phoid fever, has had an attack of
appendicitis and is in a critical con-
dition.
PROBABLE CHANGES
IN INDIAN SERVICE
WASHINGTON, June 2.—That
there will be a sweeping investiga-
tion of the administration of Indian
Affairs in the United States, and
that this proposed congressional in-
quiry will lead to radical reforms
in present methods of handling the
business of the red wards of the na-
tion, Is the belief of members of con-
gress.
In recent years vast sums have
been spent by the government in
handling the business of the Indians
and a great per cent of this money
has been taken from tribal treasur-
ies. The Oklahoma Indians have
been forced to spend hundreds of
thousands of dollars on the upkeep
of an administrative force, the wis-
dom of which is still under question.
Years after years, notwithstand-
ing the work of the Indian bureau
in Washington, the business has
multiplied although the Indian pop-
ulation has not Increased in propor-
tion. In addition to this, in recent
years, the charges of fraud against ,
the Indians of the country have mul-
tiplied, notwithstanding the increas-
ed government force of guardians
The Indians themselves are crying
for reform, and more freedom in the
handling of th^ir own afTairs, and
it is expected the proposed congres-
sional investigation will do much to
bring about a satisfactory solution
of the Indian problem. Oklahoma
would welcome relief from the pres-
ent heavy bureaucratic system more
than any other state.
RAISING HOPPERS
ON SUGAR BEFTS
DODGE CITY, Kan?., June 3.—
Millions of young grasshoppers have
made their appearance in this vi-
cinity and farmers fear they will do
great damage to crops. On Decora-
tion Day the little pests settled in
swarms on the tlotwers and green
branches used in decorating graves.
Sugar beet growers along the Ar-
kansas valley west of here report
that the insects already have done
considerable damage to the sugar
beets. Farmers are preparing to
fight the pests with Paris $reen.
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