The Chandler Tribune (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 25, 1915 Page: 1 of 8
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OFFICIAL PAPER FOR THE CITY OF CHANDLER
V
THE CHANDLER TRIBUNE
VOL. XV.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1915.
NO. 40.
MRS. R. A. BOATWRIGHT COM-
MITS SUICIDE.
Mrs. R. A. Boatwriyht, 52 com-
mitted suicide here by shooting her-
self through the head, using an army
rifle belonging to her son-in-law, Jas.
A. Embry, clerk of the district court
and a lieutenant in Company B, Ok-
lahoma National Guard.
The body was not found until Mon-
day morning, when the little grand-
son. John, went into the room to see
why she had not appeared at the us-
ual hour. The shot was fired while
the family was at church Sunday !
i pht, and on returning they supposed j
that -lie had retired.
. wo notes found on her pillow give
a partial explanation for the act: “1
ar.i going to shoot myself, mama.”
The other was longer: “My burden is
co great and it is greater on you
and Ivy if I don’t do this. Jim do
what you can for the children.”
Mrs. Boatwiight is survived bjt
seven children three boys and four
daughters, and her husband, who lives
in Sapulpa. The youngest child is a
boy, 7 years old.
i The deceased was supposed by the
relatives to be discouraged about her
own condition, as she had been in pool
health for several years. She was
ught here from the Vinita sanitar- |
ium about a year ago and has been
1 ng with her daughter, Mrs. James
A. Embry.
rave improved cmrd the thme tmefo
Jt is supposed that she took the
v..n with which she killed herself.
V m the case and tried it until she I
cund how it worked. She had asked |
lur grandson a week ago to show her j
1 v to make the gun shoot, but he
would not show her. About two weeks
ago James Embry was shooting on
'he rifle range here with the gun, and
■ rcught seme cf the cartridges home.
These he put on top of the safe in
the kitchen. Mrs. Boatwright had
secured one of the cartridges from
the clip and had used it in the gun.
nice coming here her he»lthr»«*em-
e to have become better and the
iijnily had no idea that she was de-
pressed or disheartened. She had re-
vived every possible attention that
ccu’d be given her.
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Jim Adams, Charlie McLane, Loyal
Holland and Harold Green who are
attending the University at Norman
auiv .n vveunesday to spend Thanks-
giving here with their parents.
Turkey Soars Above the
Eagle Today
GOOD ROADS WORK
By “Farmer” Mitchell.
Still the good work goes on. Last
Monday we took our team and little
grader north east of Davenport on
the “Better Way.” When we reached
the farm residence of C. F. Sowad
we were halted until young Sowad
examined the little machine. We
found Soward a man of but few words
but when it comes to good roads he
is a whole township of enthusiasm.
His enthusiasm is not lost in words
hut is covered with deeds. J
His team was hitched to his buggy
as he and his wife were gbing to town
But he was so delighted that we had
come to work the roads along the
“Better Way” that he hired a man
and sent his team to assist as long
as we remained upon his road. This
made me feel so good that I worked
harded than ever before. Mr. Soward
is in poor health and not able to do
manual labor, so while we were at
work he took a hike. In about an
hour he came riding upon a load of
cotton with Mr. C. Oliver. He ex-
plained to Mr. Oliver that we had
come to assist them as long as they
would donate assistance to the end
"ml J ■ .! f.cr Way" should he as
nur.k
fji For Thanksgiving is the day and the turkey is the viand that are peculiarly American.
-1 The eagie may appeal to our hearts, but who would swap the Thanksgiving turkey
when it is a question of the rest of his body?
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CAPT. STREETER LANDS IS IN JAIL
“Diitrict of Lake Michigan’* Raid By
Enforcement Officers.
BAPTIST MEN GET HEAT, LADIES
GET TREAT.
Chicago.—The police Sunday In-
vaded and after the exchange of fifty
or more shots, captured George Wel-
lington Streeter’s district of Lake
Michigan, the filled in land on the
shores of Lake Michigan, where until
Sunday, he has successfully defied
Mayor Thompson’s Sunday saloon
closing order.
One person was wounded, Mrs. John
Holst, the wife of one of Streeter’s
tenants, 192 cases of beer were con-
fiscated, six rifles, four revolvers and
three boxes of ammunition were cap-
tured, one of the buildings in the
stronghold of Streeterville 'demolished
by a hook and ladder company of the
invaders, and Streeter, his wife and
fifteen others were arrested.
The land claimed by Streeter is
north of the harbor and in a fashion-
able lake shore residence district.
Streeter and his wife landed there
years ago when their sailing ves. el
was wrecked on a sand bar. The sand
has gradually filled in between t’ e
wreck and the shore until their claim
comprises several blocks of valuable
territory. Streeter called the new
made land the United States District
of Lake Michigan and has refused fo
recognize any authority but that of t n*
United States.
In a unique contest of attendance
and new pupils, between the women
and girls against the men and boys
of the Baptist Sunday School, the
women won over the men by about
two hundred miles in the distance
from New ork to Palestine and hack.
The distance was taken as the
amount to be covered and the first
tc make the trip was the winner of
the contest. Each new pupil in’the
Sunday School and each attendance
at the Sunday school was counted as
sc many miles on the way.
As the men were about two hun-
dred miles behind the women when
the later reached the journey’s end;
the loser had to entertain the winner.
Tonight the men of the Baptist church
are going to give te women an oyster
supper at the Pinson House.
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Jd previous encounters with the po-
lice the captain ami his wife have
usually had a high degree of success.
It was said at the police station ti it
when a man was sent to arrest thi ;n
lie usually ended by buying a lot.
New Campaign Against Villa.
Douglas, Ariz.—With tin arrival of
General Alvaro Obregon at Ap. .1
jpriuta* opposite here, from Nogub-s,
the Carranza forces began their ac-
tive campaign against the army of
Teneral Francisco Villa in Son »ra.
Ni.tf, Sonora, was occupied bv I r»oo
Carranza cavalry, unuer command of
Colonel Lazaro Cardenas. Leavi a
lUiirison to bold Naco, Colonel Car-
denas immediately went in pursui ol
a Villa column headed by General .j i t
Rodriguez, who had been open: ing
iut; below the International bound.ir:.
SMALL FIRE TUESDAY.
STROUD DEPOT ROBBED.
Fire caused by a defective flue in
Mrs. Sawner’s house occupied by
Henry Harris, at 211 E. 9th st. com-
pelled the fire hoys to make a run at
eight thirty Tuesday morning.
The wood stove in the house had
been knocked down the night before
and when it was put back up the con-
nection had not been properly made.
This caused the fire in the morning
v hen a fire was built in the stove.
There was a small hole made in the
roof of the house which damaged the
building about five dollars. The
water was not used in ex tinguishing
the fire as it was a small one and
was not very serious. The building
and the furniture in the house was
valued at three hundred dolars. There
was no insurance on the property.
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Mrs. John Grant of Stroud came in
Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving
here with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Stiller.
( HANDLER TEARS UP CARNEY | LUPOFF KILLS SELF AT Me-
ON GRIDIRON. ! ALESTER.
Tuesday night the ticket window
of the Stroud depot was opened with
an iron bar and robbers went into the
office and heped themselves to the
amount of two suits of clothes, an
Oliver typewriter and an adding ma-
chine.
Wednesday the county officials
were called to the scene but no con-
victing evidence could be found ex-
cept some tracks. The typewriter and
adding machine were found in a pond
j south of the depot. Sheriff Arnold
I says that they think they know who
j entered the deot but there is not en-
I ough conclusive evidence to make an
I arrest.
Deputy Frisby had been wondering
what use a robber could have with
an adding machine, until someone
told him that perhaps they wanted to
add up the amount of the loot. Hi
is now satisfied with this theory.
Jake Marcus returned to Drunn ight
Wednesday after a two weeks visit
here with Mr. and Mrs. S. Greenberg.
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SHACKS BEING TORN DOWN.
The City Council has order several
of the old shacks which have been a
menace and an eyesore to the city,
tern down. These buildings have
been condemned for some time hut
it is only recently that anything has
been done towards tearing them down.
The buildings which have been torn
down in the past week are those lo-
cated just south of Hood’s and south
of Egbert's Hotel. When these build-
ings are gone a place will be left
where some substantial buildings can
hi erected that the city may lie justly
preud of.
Keep the good work up, City Coun-
cil, there are more.
The Chandler high school football
team journed to Carney last Friday
and ran several hundred miles piling
up the huge score of 115 to the Car-
ney school’s goose egg before they
started on their trip home.
The Chandler team was pible to
complete forward passes and to make
long gains around the end and
through the line at will. There was
not a time when the local’s goal was
in danger of being crossed. In fact
the boys thought they were entered
in a track meet instead of a gridiron
contest.
At the end of the first half the
score was 48 to 0 in Chandler’s favor
and in the third and fourth quarters
The boys showed the Carney boys what
the county seat town team really was.
Several days before the game
coach Clen E. Tope had tried to can-
cel the game with Carney and was
going to get a game with the Still-
water A. & M. rookies, but the Car-
ney team would not cancel nor would
they take a game with the Chandler
scrubs therefore the boys went to
Carney with the intention of piling
up as heavy a score as possible.
Officials of the game say that the
Carney boys played a good game and
were fighters from the first to the
sound of the whistle at the end of the
fourth quarter but they did not know
the rules and were deficient in train-
ing Some of the Carney support-
ers thought that they had an equal
chance with the local boys.
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(). F. Hayes left Wednesday fur
Oklahoma City to attend the big
‘Shriner’s meeting at that place Thurs-
day.
McAlester, Okla., Nov. 20.—Lying
in a pool of his own blood the body of
Louis Loupoff, a Roumanian citizen
of the United States, was found in a
loom at the Manhattan hotel at noon
of Davenport as it
i D import and Chandler.
Mi ( '<t drove up he ex-
i. i if that he was glad that
} r mises but actual work
e v.\;v giving them. Oliver
said “I am too busy with my cotton to
come and assist you but I will give
ten dollars to the work.” We were
paralyzed for a moment hut soon re-
covered sufficiently to thank him and
give him the assurance that we would
stick by that road as long as they
would donate to assist. I meet Oliver
every day and he is always wearing
that satisfied smile that wont come
off because he is going to have a
good road to Davenport over the
“Better Way.”
Mr. Soward hitched his other team
to the buggy and went to Davenport
to see Oby Oleson. Mr. Oleson was
formerly Mayor of Davenport. He is
one of those big hearted, full pocket-
ed men that are always in to help on
needed improvements. Oleson gave
five dollars and felt all the better for
having given it. He would have felt
like a crowned king had he have giv-
en a hundered dollars instead of five.
He may yet. We hope so.
Who ever heard of anyone going to
T. L. Lewis the gin man of Daven-
port without getting something?
Sometimes it is only a smile. Some-
times a good price for cotton but this
time it was five dollars. No wonder
Lewis gets so much of the cotton.
Everbody likes him and he likes good
roads five dollars woith. This isnt
the first time he has given and it
wont be the last.
i Saturday. A revolver lying beside
i him and a bullet hole in the top of his
head indicated that he had killed him-
self. Lupoff's home for the past
month has been Hartshorn. He form
erly lived at Chandler and is said, to
own property in Tulsa. He recently
established a store at Hartshorne and
business letters on his person indicat-
ed that he was in prosperous condi-
tion. On the fold of one letter, evi-
dently one of the last acts of the de-
ceased, had been written the name
and address, “Madam Balle Lupoff,
(•alatz Roumania, Strada Movilo, 14.
Lupoff rented the room at the Man-
hattan about 11 o’clock Friday morn-
ing. Shortly after that time a cham-
bermaid heard what she believed to
be a revolver shot, but the sound
could not be located and the matter
was soon forgotten. When a maid
found the body Saturday it was lying
on the floor in front of a mirror, a
new revolver with one chamber empty
lay beside the body.
S. Greenberg of this place went
to McAlester Sunday morning to take
charge cf the body as Lupoff had no
relatives in this country.
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CARD OF THANKS.
W. A. Trumbo is an old timer here.
He is in the grocery and meat busi-
ness. He is a country and town build-
er. Good roads build both of these,
so he willingly gave as usual. When
this road is built Trumbo will be sat-
isfied with it whether he likes it or
not.
Ed Glasscock is now running the
Waggoner Produce house.
We wish to thank the many friends
who so willingly gave their aid to
us in the unexpected death of our
father. And especially do we wish
to thank Mr. and Mrs. R B. Holland
and Mr. and Mrs. J. (’. Barker.
Signed T. A. Waggoner, G. W.
Waggoner and Mrs. D. P. Andes.
Mr. A. M. Hopkins lives on the
“Better Way” and donates team work
He has been here for years and un-
derstands the necessity for better
roads
Mrs. Mattie Robinson who is a wid-
ow and a sister of C. F. Soward sends
her man and team to do donation
work. Thanks
Many others will give either in
cash or labor We will make men-
tion of them next week.
Monday we commence to grade a
half mile of swamp road across Dry
Fork bottom. This road has been al-
most impassaple during wet seasons.
We will use four horses on the plow
and the same number on the grader
and throw the dirt to the center of
the road making a complete water-
shed and a passable driveway. We
want to make it good but must stop
when the donated funds are exhaust-
ed.
We have calls to go to other parts
of the township to superintend do-
nation work upon roads. Should still
others desire to have us work in their
section let them ring us up. We are
ready to go where ever called.
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LEG AMPUTATED.
Dr. W. H. Davis amputated a leg
for Frank Harding at his office last
Monday. Harding has been at the
poor farm for some time. At pres-
ent he is getting along nicely.
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Smith, G. A. The Chandler Tribune (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 25, 1915, newspaper, November 25, 1915; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc915235/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.