The Lincoln County Journal. The Stroud Star. (Stroud, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 1909 Page: 1 of 4
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Lincoln County Journal.
The Stroud Star, established in 1896.
The Lincoln Co. Journal estab. in 1906.
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Vol. 3, ISo. 48.
STROUD, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1909.
FORMER
PICTURE FAVORS
MISSOURIAN
HEARST AGENT
. . ~ , t-" l Muskogee Teacher Brings Old
Meets Scld Fcltei Photo From Rogue's
Here Last
Friday.
Gallery.
Gurthie, Okla., Jan. 28—The
storm that has been revolving around
On 1 ist Friday evening at S o' cock, Scctt MacReynolds, an accredited
Cleath Henderson, who has been an agent of William Randolph Hearst's
employee of the Stroud Cotton Oil legal advisers, since his arrest here
Company since last October was two weeks ago on a charge of con-
caught in a beater belt and instantly spiracy against Governor Haskell,
Local, Personal, Wise
and Otherwise
The snn is not lost; it is merely
in hiding
Contractor Brock went to Bristow
Sunday.
killed, but was not so badly mang-
led
He was a nice young man and well
liked by all who knew him and his
untimely death will be deeply felt
by his Stroud frinds as well as by
his relatives and friends in James-
ville. Mo., his native home.
His father, Hiram Henderson and
aunt, Mrs. Wyatt, of Tulsa came in
Sunday to attend the burial. Rev.
K^arne conducted the funeral ser-
vices and the interment took place
in the Oak Grove cemetery.
Four of his friends employed by
the Stroud Cotton Oil Company act-
ed as pallbearers.
The Journal extends heartfelt
symathy to the bereaved ones
Gold Strike Excites Town.
Durant, Oklahoma, Jan. 28.—
at a depth of 227 feet the big drill of
the liryan County Oil and Gas
Company struck a vein of gold
bearing quartz that seems exception-
ally rich. Last Friday at a depth
of 145 feet the drill brought up a
distinct spine of zinc. These indica-
tions of mineral wealth in this county
have set the city wild with excite-
ment.
broke into sudden fury here today
when a delegation o f prominent
Muskogee citizens headed by C. W.
Briles, city superintendent of schools
appeared in Guthrie with a photo on
one Mark Van Houghton, a copy of
a picture in the rogue’s gallery of
Detroit, Mich., who it is stated had
served a term at Detroit, and at-
tempted to identify MacReynolds as
the said Houghton.
Briles was a school mate of Mac-
Reynolds at the University of North
Carolina and knows him well. He
says the photo of Houghton is an ex-
act likeness of the MacReynolds he
knew as he last saw him.
MacReynolds has already forced
Oklahoma newspapers to publish re-
tractions of articles in which Gov-
ernor Haskell was quoted as saying
that MacReynolds was a conspirator
I and an ex-cohvict. Governor Has-
kell Las possession of the photo and
says he will drive MacReynolds from
the state in three days.
Will Coffee was in Sapulpa last
week
Webb Arwood, of Weleetka, was
in Stroud Monday on business.
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L. W. Currey was in Lenora on
business this week.
Positions guaranteed by the Okla-
homa City Business College of Ok-
lahoma City Okla. We teach more
Bookkeeping in four months than
any other schools do in six months,
more shorthand in four months than
any other schools do in six to eight
months. Address T. M. Milam Ok-
lahoma City Okla
Ennes Ilamelon was in town Tues-
day.
S. R. Cochran has moved to the
DeLong place.
A. J. Whitmoore and wife were
visitors in Sapulpa the latter part of
last week.
Rev. Sartin, of the jjM. E. church
South, came in Monday after j reach-
ing to the people of Depew Sunday.
Roy Paine has been having the
rheumatism hut is able to be out a-
gain.
Good Company for 1909.
You are careful what choice of
friends the young people of your
household make. You do not open
wide the door to those speech and
and behavior betray ill-breed-
ing and lax morals. Are you as
careful to shut it against books and
peroidicals that present vulgar and
demoralizing pictures of life and its
purpose? Perhaps you are among
those who have found that The
Youth’s Companion occupies the
same place in the family reading
that the high-minded young man or
woman holds among your associates.
The Companion is good without be-
ing ••goody-goody." It isentertain-
ing, it is informing. In its stories
it depicts life truly, but it chooses
those phasas of life in which duty,
honor, loyalty are the guiding mo-
tives.
A full description of the current
volume will be sent with sample cop-
ies of the paper to any address on
request. The new subscriber who at
once sends $1.75 for a year’s sub-
scription will receive free The Com-
panion's new Calendr for 1909,
“In Grandmother’s Garden,” litho-
graphed in thirteen colors.
The Youth’s Companion,
144 Berkeley Street, Boston, Mass.
Oklahoma's Big Cotton Crop.
The Oklahoma cotton crop for 19-
OS is valued at $50,000,000, and
the total yield was a little more than
one million bales. In 1907 Okla-
homa had 2,196,000 acres planted
in cotton, an increase of 215,000 ac-
res over 1906. This area produced
a total approximating 900,000 bales.
Cotton buyers say the acreage now
is equal to if not greater than last
year.
Greer county is the largest cotton
producing county in the state, and
last year grew 50 000 bales or more.
On the east side of the state Hughes
county is the largest producer, with
23,000 bales, and Okfusgee is second
with 20,000 bales. There are 941 I
active ginners in the state. Cotton at
present is selling for about 8£ cents.
A year ago it was selling for a trif-
le over 11 cents. The buyers esti-
mate there is more than half of the
19u8 crop already ginned. The
cotton this year is much better than
it was last year as a staple, but the
grade is lower.
Dr. J. C. Burton went to Moun-
tain View on official business this
week.
Representative Charles spent
Saturday anu Sunday with home-
folks.
An infant of Sam Weltzheimer’s
son died and was buried last Sunday
at the Stroud cemetery.
Mrs. Hanna Wyric and son Harry
came up last Saturday to attend the
funeral of Cleath Henderson.
Mrs. Kanard was up from Okla-
homa City last Thursday visiting
Stroud friends.
Started
New Paper May Be
Next Week.
“The Oklahoma Retailer and Cre-
dit Record will be the name of a
new state trade paper, the initial
number of which probably will ap-
pear Monday.
The publication will be the organ
of the Oklahoma Retail Merchants
association, and will be issued by
the officer of that organization.
President O. A. Farquharson, Sec-
retary A. W. McKeand, Sydney L.
Brock, of the Chamber of Commerce
Clark Hudson, manager of the Bu-
rea of Publicity of the Federation of
Commercial Clubs of the state, and
others will constitute the editorial
staff. The publication will be sup-
ported by a per capita tax, probably
for a time, and will be devoted en-
tirely to the interests of the retail
I business of the state. One of the
— . . _, . chief objects of the new journal will
It pays to advertise in The Joarn-|be t0 discourage the patronage of
al.. “Get the Habit.” J fake advertising schemes.
Miss Alice Patrick came in from
Kansas last Sunday where she has
been visiting her grandparents.
Now you can hear Scott MacRey-
nolds, Hearst’s agent shout, open
the lid and let the fog out.
Oklahoma City was visited by
a $145,000 fire last Friday. J. I.
Case branch house and the Daily
Oklahoman were the heavy losers.
John Worley visited in Oklanoma
City last Sunday
Sam Cochran and family moved
in from the Creek Nation last Mon-
day into the DeLong place west of
town.
Mrs. Henry Isaac and grandma
Burgett visited with Mr. and Mrs.
George Rogers east of town last
Sunday.
Ole in Spiritland played to a small
audience here Thursday night. In-
clement weather kept the theatre
goers at home.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Evans, of
Greenwood, Ark , are the guests of
their parents this week. Mr. Ev-
ans will return home today but Mrs.
Evans will remain for about two
weeks.
Mrs. Jack Newman has returned
from a visit to Kansas relatives.
A. B. Hettich spent last Friday
in Chandler.
Miss Mable Clutes visited in Dav-
enport Sunday.
Miss Ruth Sutton visited in Cush-
ing last week.
V. E. Shakleford is building a
house in north Stroud.
The Oklahoma State Retail Mer-
chants’ Association meets at Okla-
homa Ciiy next year.
There is one consolation and that is
that the Eskimos are getting it worse
than we are
A man who roasts the town he
lives in ought to go to the place that
suits him.
The best remedy for divorce is
the unhasty and well considered
marriage.
J. W. Stoud returned to Pauhuska
Saturday after a business trip to this
city.
Gas Mantles
5ct, lOct, 15ct, 20ct, 25ct
Miller.
R. J
Perry Walterman is moving sev-
en miles north of town on the John
Remington place.
Tom Banks is having a carpenter
shop fixed up one door west of the
cream station.
W. M. Littlefield has had the old
building east of the Missouri House
torn down and is moving it out to
his farm making barns out of it.
Misses Stella Forsythe, Nellie
Robertson, Estelle Frayer, and El-
mer Schaffer visited in Chandler
Sunday.
Students are guaranteed work
to pay board at the Oklahoma
City Business College, Oklahoma
City Okla. Big saving: Write
or full particulars.
The 2nd degree in Masonry was
conferred upon Tom Evans, of Ken-
drick, and the 3rd degree upon W
Pardoe, of Stroud, by Stroud Lodge
No 48 F.& A. M. Saturday evening,
Jan. 30.
The public is cordially invited to
a free lecture on Christian Science
by Hon. Clarence A. Buskirk.C. S.,
of St. Louis, at the stroud Opera
House, Tuesday evening, Feb. 16,
at 8 o,clock.
HIGH WINDS
CAUSE DAMAGE
Farmer Injured At Enid—Farm
House Burns At
Carmen.
Enid, Okla., Jan. 28—Listed a-
mong the victims of a high wind
which has been raging over Enid and
the surrounding country since 11 o’-
clock today is George Herndon, a
farmer who was blown from a wag-
on load of hay on which he was rid-
ing, and seriously injured by being
run over by the hind wheels of the
wagon. He may die. A plate
glass window demolished by the
force of the gale injured Mrs. G. D.
Davidson, who received a number ot
cuts about the face and hands, and
Mrs. Irene Smith and Mrs. J. V.
Admire were slightley hurt by col-
lapse of the plate glass front
At Goltry, 20 miles west of this
city, a store building was demolish-
ed by the wind. The extent of the
damage could not be learned, how-
ever, owing to the crippled condition
of the telephone wires.
A fire at Carmen four miles west
of Enid, destroyed the home of a
farmer on the northwest edge of the
town.
NO. 63
THAT'S ALL
Hearst’s Agent Mc-
Reynolds Has
Blurred Past.
Up the Street
and Down
By Miram S. Clark.
Up the street and down they pass
People, all the day ;
Man and wife or lad and lass,
Sad, or grave, or gay ;
Here a bit of ribbon red,
There a bowed and weary head—
Hundreds pass each day, ’tis said,
Up the street and down.
And I’m thinking, as I go
In among the throng,
That their heart I’d like to know
As they pass along;
What their business is to-day—
What they have to do or say—
As I meet them on their way
Up the street and down.
Oh, the world’s a busy place,
And they hurry on ;
There’s no time to know each face
That I look upon ;
Yet I wish we had a while
Just to ask, and learn, and smile,
As we meet, through every mile—
Up the street and down.
May Charter Train fcr Lin-
coln Day.
O. Wile, of Kansas City, came in
last week and will open a general
merchandise store next door to Jon-
dahl Furniture Co., Main St. This
is only a branch house of this firm.
They have about 15 stores over var-
ious states.
Assurance of the complete success
of the Lincoln Day program was re-
ceived yesterday when word came to
the committee that Governor Has-
kell had definitely accepted the in-
vitation to speak at the banquet in
the evening. Harry T. Parsons has
been chosen as the speaker for the
minority of the house. Personal in-
vitations to the banquet have been
extended to all members of the legis-
lature and so many of them are go-
ing to accept that plans are being
made to charter a special train for
the trip,
V/ise merchants advertise in the
Journal. Why dont you get wise
and do likewise.
Gov. Haskell today issued the
following statement:
Scott MacReynolds, the special
Hearst agent, whom I had arrested
ten days ago for trying to buy false
affidavits is the same Scott MacRey-
nolds, who as Hearst’s represenative
travled through Ohio and Michigan,
as I am advised, seeing numerous
parties to whom lots had been sched-
uled by the townsite commission at
Muskogee, and attempted to scare
these witnesses bv telling them that
because they had never had a resi-
dence in Indian territory they had
violated the law, and unless *hey
could throw the responsibility on
somebody else, they would be in
very serious trouble.
This same Scott MacReynolds, to
whose defense the “special interests”
attorney flew when I caused bin ar-
rest —will these attorneys still de-
fend MacReynolds when they kr ow
his history.
This morning, Prof. O W. Firi-
les, superintendent of the public
schools, delivered to me a photo-
graph from the rogue’s gallery of
Detroit, Michigan, endorsed on the
back of the photograph is the writ-
ten statement of W D. Aston, of
Greenville, Tennessee, a nephew of
Governor Bob Taylor
The endorsement in Aston’s hand
writing says:
“You will recognize it is a Scott
MacReynolds. He served a term in
Detroit, Michigan, under the name
of Mark Van Houghten, copy of 63,
from Rogue,s Gallery, Detroit,
Michigan.”
Aston, Professor Briles and Mac-
Reynolds attended college in North
Carolina about 1895, the three were
well acquainted. Aston happened to
be in Michigan while MacReynolds
was serving time, obtained the photo-
graph and mailed it to Professor
Briles, who has had the same in his
possession until he gave it to me
this morning.
MacReynolds has also been forc-
ed to admit that he is a fugitive from
justice from Mexico.
My attention was called a day or
two ago to the fact that he had left
the Iowa university at Iowa City,
Iowa in disgrace a few years ago.
I telegraphed the professor at the
Iowa university and received from
him a telegram, as follows :
“Scott MacReynolds was a speci-
al student in the university in 1897-
8 Not eligible for graduation ; left
here suddenly and in vile repute.”
I have several other statements to
the serious discredit of MacReynolds
and will publish them as soon as
they are verified, as the above state-
ments are.
Let us ask that all honest people
decide for themselves is it a credit
to the Interior department and to the
special interests, who are opposed to
Oklahoma’s style of government to
employ this class of men to besmirch
the character of public officals or
any other citizen.
They say Haskell is too much of a
fighter. Let me ask every honest
citizen—Am I to deliver the people
honest government without defend-
ing the state and myself against vic-
ious assault? Shall I permit the
use of such contemptible men and
measures without exposing them
when the truth is in my hand?
C. N. Haskell.
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