The County Democrat. (Tecumseh, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, September 26, 1919 Page: 3 of 8
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THE COUNTY DEMOCRAT. TECUMSEH. OKLA.
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Being the Authentic Narrative of a
Treasure Discovered in the Bahama
Islands in the Year 1003. Now First
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call them, and there we were able to
TO THE 8HARK8I
Bynopile—The man who telle this
etory—call him the hero, for short-
tar visiting his friend, John Saun-
ders, British official In Nassau,
Bahama Islands. Charlie Webster,
a local merchant, completes the
trio of friends. Conversation turn-
ing upon burled treasure, Baunders
produces a written document pur-
porting to be the death-bed state-
ment of Henry P. Tobias, a suc-
cessful pirate, made by him In 1369.
It gives two spots where two mil-
lions and a half of treasure were
buried by him and his companions.
The conversation of the three
friends te overheard by a pock-
marked stranger. The document
disappears. Saunders, however, has
a copy. The hero, determined to
seek the burled treasure, charters
tbs auxiliary schooner Maggie Dar-
ling. The pock-marked man Is
taken on as a passenger for Span-
ish Wells. Negro Tom catches and
curea a "sucking fish” as a mascot
for the hero; It has the virtue of
keeping off the ghost of the pirate
who always guards pirate treasure.
On the voyage somebody empties
the gasoline tank and the hero
starts things. He and the passen-
ger dash. He lands the passenger,
who leaves a manifesto bearing the
signature, "Henry P. Tobias, Jr."
With a new crew, the Maggie Dar-
ling sails and la passed by another
schooner, the Susan B. The hero
leads on Dead Men’s Shoes.
CHAPTER VI—Continued.
"I can’t afford to give you that,
Theodore.”
4,ra die for dat,” he declared.
“Take this handkerchief instead;”
but, meanwhile, my eyes were open-
ing. “Take this instead, Theodore,"
suggested.
‘Td die for dat." he repeated, touch-
ing the tie.
His voice and touch made me sick
and afraid, Just as people In a lunatic
asylum make one afraid.
“Look out!” murmured Tom at my
elbow.
And just then I noticed hiding In
some bushes of seven-year apple trees,
two faces I had good reason to know.
I had barely time to pull out the
commandant’s revolver from my
pocket. I knew It was to be either
the pockmarked genius or the engi-
neer. But for the moment I was not
to be sure which one I had hit. For,
os my gun went off, something heavy
came down on my head, and for the
time I was shut off from whatever else
was going on.
• ••••••
“Which did I hit, Tom?” were my
first words as I came back to the
glory of the world; but I didn’t say
them for a long time, and, from what
Tom told me. It was a wonder I ever
said them at all.
“There he Is, sar,” said Tom, point-
ing to a long, dark figure stretched
out near by. “Tm afraid he’s net the
man you were looking for.’’
“Poor fellow!” I said; it was George,
the engineer; ‘Tm sorry—but I saw
the muzzles of their guns sticking out
of the bush there. It was they or
me.”
“That no lie, sar, and if it hadn’t
been for that suckin’ fish’s skin you
wouldn’t be here now.”
“It didn't save me from a pretty
good one on the head, Tom, did it?”
“No, sar, but that was Just it—If
it hadn’t been for that knock on the
head, pulling you down Just that min
ute, that thar pockmarked fellow
would have got you. As It was, he
grazed your cheek and got one of his
own men killed by mistake—the very
fellow that hit you. There he is
over there.”
“And who’s that other, Tom?”
asked, pointing to another dark figure
a few yards away.
“That’s the captain, sar.”
“The captain? Oh, I’m sorry for
that. God knows Tm sorry for that.”
“Tes, sar, he was one of the finest
gentlemen I ever knowed was Cap-
tain Tomlinson; a brave man and a
good navigator. And he’d taken a pow-
erful fancy to you, for when you got
that crack on the head ho picked np
your gnu and began blazing away, with
words 1 should never have expected
from a religions man. The others, ex-
cept onr special friend—”
“Let’s call him Tobias from now on,
Tom,” I Interposed.
“Well, him, sar, kept hU nerve, but
the others ran for the boats as if the
devil was after them: but the cap-
tain’s gun was quicker, and only four
of them got to the Susan B. The other
two fell on their faces, as if some-
thing had tripped them np, in a couple
at feet of water. But Just then Tobins
hit the captain In the heart; ah 1 If
only he had one of those skins—but he
always laughed off such things as su-
perstitious.
“There was only me and Tobias
then, and the dog, for the engineer
boy had gone on his knees to the Su-
san B. fellows at the first crack, and
begged them to take him away with
them. There was no one left but To-
bias and the dog and me. and I was
rare my end was not far off. for I was
never much of a shot,
“As God Is my wit a ess, ear. I was
ready to die. and there was a moment
vtoen I thought that the time had
mine; but Tobias suddenly walked
away to the top of the bluff and
called out to the Susan B., that was
;(ust running up her sails. At his
word they put out a boat for him, and
while he waited he came down the hill
toward me and the dog, that stood
growling over you; and for sure I
thought It was the end. But he said;
■Tell that fellow there that I’m not
going to kill a defenseless man. He
might have killed me once but he
didn’t It’a bound to be one of us
some day or other, but, despise me all
he likes—Tm not such carrion as he
thinks me; and If he only likes to keep
out of my way I’m willing to keep out
of his. Tell him when he wakes up
that as long as he gives up going after
what belongs to me—for it was my
grandfather's—he is safe, but the min-
ute he sets his foot or hand on what
is mine, It’a either his life or mine.’
And then he turned away and was
rowed to the Susan B„ and they soon
sailed away."
“With the black flag at the peak, I
suppose, Tom,” said I. “Well, that
was a fine speech, quite a flight of ora-
tory, und Tm sure Tm obliged to him
for the life that’s still worth having. In
spite of this ungodly aching in my
head. But how about the poor cap-
tain there! Where does all his elo-
quence come in there? He can’t call
it self-defense. They were waiting
ready to murder us, as you saw. I’m
afraid the captain and the law be-
tween them are all that is necessary
to cook the goose of our friend Henry
P. Tobias, Jr., without any help from
me—though, as the captain died for
me, I should prefer they allowed me
to make It a personal matter.”
“It’s the beginning of the price,’
said Tom.
“The beginning of the price?”
“It’s the dead hand,” continued Tom;
“I told you, you’ll remember, that wher-
ever treasure is there’s a ghost of a dead
man keeping guard and waiting till
another dead man comes along to take
up sentry duty so to say. The ghost
is getting busy. And it makes me
think that we’re coming pretty near
to the treasure, or we wouldn’t have
had all this happen. Mark me, the
treasure’s near by—-or the ghost
wouldn’t be so malicious.”
And then, looking around where the
captain and the engineer and Silly
Theodore lay, I said:
“The first thing we’ve got to do is to
bury these poor fellows; but where,”
I added, “are the other two that fell
in the water?”
“Oh,” said Tom, “a couple of sharks
got them Just before you woke up.”
CHAPTER VII.
In Which Tom and I Attend Several
Funerals.
When Tom and I came to look over
the ground with a view to finding a
burial place for the dead I realized
with grim emphasis the truth of
Charlie Webster’s remarks—in those
snuggery nights that seemed so re-
mote and far away—on the nature of
the so 11 which would have to be gone
over in quest of my treasure. No won-
der he had spoken of dynamite.
“Why, Tom,” I said, “there isn’t a
wheelbarrow load of real soil in a
square mile. We couldn’t dig a grave
for a dog in stuff like this,” and, as I
spoke, the pewterlike rock under my
feet clanged and echoed with a metal-
lic sound.
“Come along, Tom, I can’t stand any
more of this. We’ll hnve to leave our
funerals till tomorrow, and get aboard
for the night”—for the Maggie Darling
was still floating there serenely, as
though men and their violence had no
existence on the planet.
”We’d better cover them np, against
the turkey buzzards,” said Tom, two
of those unsavory birds rising in the
air as we returned to the shore. We
did this as well as we were able with
rocks and the wreckage of an old
boat strewn on the beach.
I don't think two men were ever so
glad of the morning, driving before it
the haunted night. After breakfast
our first thought was naturally to the
sad and disagreeable business before
US.
“I tell you what I’ve been thinking,
sar,” said Tom, as we rowed ashore,
and I managed to pull down a turkey
buzzard that rose at our approach—
happily our coverings had proved fair-
ly effective—“I’ve been thinking that
the only one of the three that ready
matters is the captain, and we can
find sufficient soil for him in one of
those big holes.”
“How about the others?”
“Well, to tell the truth, I was think-
ing that sharks are good enough for
them.”
‘They deserve no better. Tom, and
dig him a fairly respectable grave.
Tom and Sailor and I were now, to
the best of our belief, alone on the
Island, and a lonesomer spot It would
be hard to Imagine, or one touched nt
certain hours with a fnirer benuty—
beauty wraithlike and, like a sea
shell, haunted with the marvel of the
sea.
First we went over our stores, and,
thanks to those poor dead mouths that
did not need to be reckoned with any
more, we had plenty of everything to
last ns for at least a month, not to
speak of fishing, at which Tom was an
expert.
When, however, we turned to our
plans for the treasure hunting we
soon came to a dead stop. The indi-
cations given by Tobias seemed, in the
face of such a terrain, naive to a de-
gree. Possibly the land had changed
since his day. Some little, of course,
it must have done. Tom and I went
over Tobias’ directions ugaiu and
there was the compass carved on the
rock, and the cross. There was some-
thing definite—something which, if it
was ever there at all, was there still—
for In that climate the weather leaves
things unperlshed almost ns In Egypt,
Sitting on the highest bluff we could
find, Tom and I looked around.
“That compass is somewhere among
these infernal rocks—if it ever was
carved there at all—that’s one thing
certain, Tom; but look at the rocks!”
Over twenty miles of rocks north
and south, and from two to six from
east to west. A more hopeless Job the
we reached the boat at sunset we had
scarce strength left to eat our supper
and roll Into our bunks. A machete
Is a heavy weapon that needs no little
skill In handling with economy of
force, and Tom, who had been brought
up to it, was, in spite of his years, a
better practitioner than I.
I hnve already hinted at the kind of
devil's underbrush we had to cut our
way through, but no words can do Jus-
tice to the almost intelligent stubborn-
ness with which those weird growths
opposed us. It really seemed as though
they were inspired by a diabolic will-
force pitting Itself against our will,
vegetable Incarnation of evil strength
and fury and cunning.
Day after day Toni and I returned
home dead beat, with hardly a tired
word to exchange with each othtr.
We hud now been at it for about a
fortnight, and I loved the old chap
more every day for the grit and cour-
age with which he supported our ter-
rible labors and kept up Us spirits.
Once or twice we had made fancied
discoveries which we culled off the
other to see, and once or twice we had
tried some blasting on rocks that
seemed to suggest mysterious tunnel-
ings into the earth. But it had all
proved a vain thing and a weariness
of the flesh. And the ghost of John P,
Tobias still kept his secret.
State
News
Notes I
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ROOSEVELT MONUMENT
Oklahoma Expected to Contribute
$100,000 to Fund.
WHO WILL GET REWARD7'
Everyone In
Red Fork Wants a
of $3,000.
8llca
Oklahoma City.—Governor Henry J.
Allen of Kansas, personal and politi-
cal friend of the late Theodore Roose-
velt, delivered an address last week
In Oklahoma City in launching the
campaign in this state to raise $100,-
000 of the $5,000,000 national fund
with which to provide a suitable mem-
orial for the former president. The
occasion was a conference of the
county chairmen and state executive
committee assisting the state chair-
man, J. J. McGraw of Ponca City, in
carrying on the Roosevelt Memorial
campaign and conducting the drive
during the week of October 20-27.
Following noon luncheon, given in
honor of the Kansas executive, and
attended by the county chairmen,
state committeemen and many news-
paper men, Governor Allen was intro-
duced by Chairman McGraw and paid
on eloquent tribute to Mr. Roosevelt.
State headquarters for the Roose-
velt Memorial campaign at 809 Skir-
vin Hotel, Oklahoma City, in charge
of C. T. Berryman as director.
They Glided Off With Scarce a Splash
mind of man could not conceive. Tom
shook his head, and scratched his
graying wool.
‘T go most by the ghost, sar,” he
said. “All these men had never been
killed If the ghost hadn’t been some-
where near. Mark me, if we find the
treasure it’ll be by the ghost.”
“That’s all very well,” I laughed
“But how are we going to get the
ghost to show his hand? He’s got
such bloodthirsty ways with him.
“They always have, sar,” said Tom
no doubt with some ancestral shudder
of voodoo worship In his blood. “Yes,
6ar, they always cry out for blood. It’s
all they’ve got to live on. They drink
it like you and me drink coffee or
rum. It's terrible to hear them in the
night.”
“Well, Tom," I remarked, “you may
be right, but of one thing I’m certain;
if the ghost’s going to get any one, It
sha’n’t be you."
“We’ve both got one good chance
against them—” Tom was beginning.
“Don't tell me again about that old
sucking fish.”
“Mind you keep it safe, for all that,”
said Tom gravely. “I wouldn’t lose
mine for a thousand pounds.”
“Well, all right, but let’s forget the
damned old ghosts for the present.”
We- decided to try a plan that was
really no plan at all; that is to say, to
seek more or less at random, till we
consumed all our stores except Just
enough to take us home. Meanwhile
we would, each of us. every day, cut a
sort of radiating swathe, working sin-
gle-handed, from the cove entrance.
Thus we would prospect ns much of
the country os possible in a sort of
fan, both of us keeping our eyes open
CHAPTER VIII.
An Unfinished Game of Cards.
One evening as I returned to the
ship unusually worn out and disheart-
ened I asked Tom how the stores were
holding out. He answered cheerfully
that they would last another week and
leave us enough to get home.
“Well, shall we stick out the other
week or not, Tom? I don't want to
kill you, and I confess I’m nearly all
in myself.”
“May as well stick it out, sar, now
we’ve gone so far. Then we’ll have
done all we can. and there’s a certain
satisfaction in doing that, ear.”
So next morning we went at it
■pin, and the next, and the next
■gain, and then on the fourth day,
when our week was drawing to its
dose, something at last happened to
change the grim monotony of onr days.
It was shortly after the lunch hour.
Tom and I. who were now working too
far apart to hear each other’s halloos,
had fired onr revolvers once or twice
to show that all was right with us.
But, for no reason I can give, I sud-
denly got a feeling that all was not
right with the old man, so I fired my
revolver and gave him time for a re-
ply. Bnt there was no answer. Again
I fired. Still no answer. I was on the
point of firing again when I heard
something coming through the brush
behind me. It was Sailor racing
toward me over the Jagged rocks.
Evidently there was something wrong.
“Something wrong with old Tom,
Sailor?” I asked, as though he could
answer me. And indeed he did answer
as plainly as dog could do, wagging
his tail and whining and turning to go
back with me In the direction whence
he had come.
“Off we go, then, old chap,” and as
he ran ahead, I followed him as fast
as I could.
It took me the best part of an hour
to get to where Tom had been work-
ing. Sailor brushed his way ahead,
pushing through the scrub with canine
importance. Presently, at the top of
a slight elevation, I came among the
bushes to a softer spot where the soil
had given way, and saw that it was
the mouth of a shaft like a wide chim-
ney flue, the earth of which had evi-
dently fallen in. Here Sailor slopped
and whined, pawing the earth, and at
the snme time I heard a moaning un-
derneath.
“Is that you, Tom?” I called. Thank
God, the old chap was not dead at all
events.
“Thank the Lord, it's yon, sar," he
cried. “I’m all right, but I’ve had a
bad fall—and I can’t seem able to
move.”
“nold on nnd keep up your heart—
I’ll be with you in a minute,” I called
down to him.
CIRCUS TRAIN IS WRECKED
Barnum-Ringling Outfit Suffers$20,000
Damage on the Frisco.
Tulsa.—There is to be a division of
the reward all r all as a result of the
frustrated attempt to rob the Red
Fork bank. There la $3,000 worth.
But I he question is who and hrw
many are to benefit from the slice of
the $3,000.
For some time there Ws been a
standing reward in Oklahoma of
$1,000 for the capture, dead or alive,
of a bank robber. Technically three
robbers wore captured. But when the
split conies there will probably be
several hundred who want to “be in
on it.”
First there is Sheriff Woolley and
his two deputies who will demand a
share. John Scott, the snitch, is un-
doubtedly expecting a share. It may
be that he will demand the reward for
his own capture.
Irvin Currell, youth who acted as
“cashier" of the bank when the boy
robbers walked Into the trap, is un-
doubtedly entitled to a share.
Last but not least there are 250
residents of Red Fork who played the
part of the “mob” in the plot. They
wero hidden in every conceivable
place and armed with every known
type of gun and during the "attack”
they were all shooting.
So the important question now is
whether it will bo wise to divide the
$3,000 reward.
Attorney General Freeling has
given an opinion to the state banking
board, advising payment of $1,000 re-
ward to the estate of W.T. Beasley,
deputy sheriff, who was killed.
Before he was killed Beasley killed
one of the robbers and effected the
capture of a second. The banking de-
partment has a standing reward of
$500 for each bank robber apprehend-
ed by peace authorities.
Bristow.—One brakeman was injur-
ed and twelve fine horses belonging
to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum
“and Bailey circus were killed when
the third section of the circus train
went into the ditch as it was passing
through Milfay, ten miles southwest
of here, en route from Oklahoma City
to Supulpa.
Four cars of the train were com-
pletely demolished, when they hit a
partly open switch. Seventy-five
horses are said to have, been injured,
and these may have to be killed. The
amount of the damage is estimated
at $20,000.
The circus was on its way to Tulsa
where it was to have put on a per-
formance, but the Tulsa performance
was canceled, and the show went to
Okmulgee, where it exhibited.
The section consisted of thirty cars
and an engine.
INDIANS USE HUN SCALPS
Realistic Victory Celebration Held by
Tribes at El Reno Fair.
MORE VATS FOR M’CURTAIN
Determined Attack to be Made on
the Texas Tick.
Broken Bow.—McCurtain county is
going after the cattle tick in earnest
and in one year’s time it is hoped
to be reported clean. The money ap-
propriated by the county commission
ers has become available and dipping
vats are being constructed in every
section of the county.
Eight hundred sacks of cement fur-
nished gratis by tne state has boen
unloaded here and several vats are
under construction in this community.
The stockmen and small cattle own-
ers are enthusiastic and the troubles
that have occurred in other places
over the dipping of cattle is not ex-
pected in McCurtain county as the
petitions to the commissioners in
favor of an e*tra levy for tick eradi
cation was signed by large and small
owners of cattle.
BOOZE CAMPS ARE RAIDED
Okmulgee County and Federal
cers Find Stills and Mash.
Offi-
A cave, a pirate’s bones,
a chest and—
El Reno. — Bearing real German
scalps, wooden shoes and other relics
of the world war, the 400 Indians who
were encamped here for a celebration
of the victorious return of their war-
riors proved the big feature of the
Canadian county fair in progress here,
their victory dances being the chief
attraction.
The scalps and relics were brought
back by their tribesmen from over-
seas, and are adding a realistic touch
to the dunces. Exhibitions have been
given each evening during the fair
at the Indian camp grounds just west
of the city and in the afternoon a day-
light victory and war dance was given
before a big crowd of fair visitoss.
A big parade of the Indians in full
dress was given through the streets
of the city this morning, headed by
Harry Black, Cheyenne, carrying a
big American flag.
STATEHOPSE BREVITIES j
Carter Rejects Highway Claim.
Payment of a claim for $30,644.91
in favor of H. C. Smith, highway de-
partment employe, alleged to be due
for services in connection with the
supervision of the construction of fed-
eral aid road projects, was turned
down by Frank Carter, state auditor.
Attached to the claim is a copy of
a contract made between Henry
Wood, highway commissioner, and
Smith, which forms the basis of the
claim. The contract was made on
August 15, and shows that Smith was
employed as a special assistant state
engineer “to furnish all the labor and
do the work of supervising construc-
tion of federal aid road projects.”
The contract provides that Smith
was to receive for his services five
per cent of the actual cost of con-
struction, payment of this sum to be
made to him by the state on the basis
of 1 *4 per cent of the estimated cost
of the work as soon as bonds and
contracts covering the work were fur-
nished and approved. The remainder
was to be paid as the work progressed
the last being made when the work
was finished.
The claim turned down by Carter
represented Smith’s claim for the in-
itial payment of 1^4 per cent of the
cost of eight projects, aggregating a
total of $2,206,158.30. The total
amount that Smith would receive on
this total under his contract would be
approximately $110,000.
Smith has been attached to the
road building department of the state
for a number of years.
I think we may as well get rid of them | for a compass earned on a rock.
first.'
So It was done as we said, and car-
rying them by the feet and shoulders
to the edge of the bluff—George, and
Silly Theodore, and the nameless giant
who had knocked me down so oppor-
tunely—we skillfully flung them in.
and they glided off with scarce a
splash.
Then we turned to the poor captain
and carried him as gently as we could
over the rough ground to the
of the banana holes.
this way we might hope to cover no in-
considerable stretch of the country in
the three weeks, and, moreover, the
country most likely to give some re-
sults, as being that lying in a semicir-
cle from the little harbor where the
ehlps would have lain. It wasn t much
of a plan perhaps, but It seemed the
most possible among the impossibles.
Harder work than we had under-
taken no men have ever set their hands
| to. It would have broken the bsek of
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Cure for Rheumatism.
A certain variety of seaweed, known
In Ireland as “tope," has been recom-
mended hy n famous physician as a
cure for rheumatism and throat affec-
tions If eaten hot. whilst In some parts
of England and Wales n variety of
seaweed, known as “laver." has been
in demand for years as n vegetable.
Served with roast meats It Is said to
be extremely palatable.
M the natives 11
able-bodied navvy; and when i of Interest.
Critic Coins New Word.
Tired of the hackneyed phrase, a
“gripping" story, originated by some
weary critic and eagerly snatched up
by book advertisers, it has remained
for ■ Boston dramatic critic to dis-
cover s new term. He has found s
play that Is "riveting" la its Intensity
Okmulgee.—Two moonshine camps
in McIntosh county just over the Ok-
mulgee county line east of Henryetta,
were raided by federal officers. One
small still for making corn whisky
and four barrels partly filled with
whisky mash were seized and de-
stroyed and two men were arrested.
A white man and a negro were taken
to Tulsa by the federal officers.
Choc Popular At Tulsa.
Tulsa.—Choc beer mas never be-
come a national beverage for the in-
ebriates but indications are that it
has already taken a strong hold on
the devotees of strong alcoholic
drinks in Tulsa county. Sheriff James
Woolley says that the Choc is the
cause of a large percent of intoxica-
tion since the great drouth. Since
the beer is easily made, he says, many
persons, especially in the negro dis-
trict, are making the beer in large
quantities and not only using It for
domestic consumption but for -retail.
Miami Company In Big Lumber Deal.
Henvener.—The Mineral Belt Lum-
ber Supply Company of Miami has I
purchased all the timber holdings of
fhe Buschow Lumber Company for |
approximately $80,000. Included in |
the transaction are the Buschow In-
terests north of the top of Walker and Mrs Morris, and A. N. Leecraft.
mountain and east of the Kansas City I Btate treasurer, and Mrs. Leecraft.
Southern railway approximating 20,- .
000 acres, two Urge saw milts and The first of twenty murder cases
residences for workmen The mills set for trial in district court at Idabel
and planers of the company have a r baa been disposed of. The Jury gnve
capacity of ttar-e can of lumber a the defendant. Will Baker four veara
fc, | for the killing of another negro.
The state board of equalization
fixed the tax levy for the state at
three and one-half mills, which is the
I maximum allowed by the constitu-
tion. The high levy on an increased
valuation was made necessary by the
large amount of revenue to be raised
by the state during the current fiscal
year.
Governor Robertson and members
of his official party left Okliroma
City for Philadelphia to present the
silver service set to the men of the
battleship Oklahoma. In the flarty
with the governor were Mrs. Robert-
•n. Joe S Morris, secretary of state.
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Henderson, L. P. The County Democrat. (Tecumseh, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, September 26, 1919, newspaper, September 26, 1919; Tecumseh, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc936783/m1/3/?q=July+5%2C+1922: accessed July 1, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.