The Choctaw Herald. (Hugo, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 27, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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THE CHOCTAW HERALD.
Hugo. Oklahoma. Thursday, Juey 27, 1911
Captain Joe
Everidge Dead.
In ii at week's Issue we stated that
J. W. Everldg , of Grant, was ser-
lourly II] at Hot Springs, where lie
tad gone In search of relief for
Brigiit'a dises.se. News reached the
city Thursday that lie nad died In
Hot Springs very suddenly early thi.t
morning.
Caitaln Everidge was 58 years of
age and was born and rear.ed at Grant,
at'd had lived there all his life, lie
was pi eminently identified with the
tribal government of the Choctaws
for many years anil had served his
people In many Important positions,
heintf at one time captain of the light
^iorse and afterwards superintendent
if Indian schools for tlie nation. He
leaves a widow and nine children be
sides thousands of Indian and white
friends to mourn his death He was
burled at Grant.
Hugo Man Commits
Suicide iri Ft. Worth.
J. L. Pounds, one of the best known
print rs in tills section of Oklahoma,
and well known in Hugo, where he
lias m- de his home for several years,
coram tted -suicide in Fort AVorth,
Texas Saturday night, July 15, and
No. 22
THE HUGO SEWER SYSTEM.
Through complaint, of ome of the citizen! of the northeast por-
.onofthe city recently it wa. found that the sewer pump station,
located near the city limits, was in bad condition. This beinit talked
on the streets caused several citizens and taxpayers to jo ihere and
ie*as oaturaay night, July 15, and ■ .. mere ana
his bo ly was hurled by thetypograph I i,v , was ca"sml ' e talk, and the following communications Tonight the antl-prohlbitlon ira-
icai union of that city. It is not, 7 somt ot '"em who vmted the p'ace will give you some idea as to jor,t* 1,1 the state-wide prohibition
If nnu n u 11 c 1. . ../ *. i _ t IIP nnilirkn* .... i • i .
Anti-Prohibition
Wins in Texss.
Dallas, Tex.. July u. -Texas di-
luted statewide prohibition in Sat-
urday's election, according to admis-
sion i(jda. of the "dr/' campaign
headquarters,
Speer News.
We ar« having some nice rainy
weather at present. The rain was
badly needed.
Mr and Mrs. Bud Allen, Mrs. Kly
a d Miss Lena Harris attended the
b ptlzlng on Long Creek Sunday
e enlng.
Miss Ida Lucas is at Haworth vlslt-
• g Mlfs Myrtle Maggart.
John Lucas, of Arthur City, Texas,
v sited his mother. Mrs. Ely, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Burks and Miss
Nittie Lochenly, of Powderly, Texas,
P «*ed through Speer on their way to
vl.lt Mrs. Uurk'd daughter who lives
at Antler?.
Cur little Sunday school is doing
ti e. All are Invited to cinie and
t e part.
it Is pretty cooi for J .ly in
t s part o' the country. It, seems
m re like fall than summer.
(ropa :ook very pood, considering
tli droith. Cotton is simply fi,,e and
oo n fairly good. Many farme s are
pin tln( late ..ora.
Birrr«RKi.v.
Mr. ana Mrs. M W. Gron have re-
tun ed from a visit to their old h .me,
l>a\lsboro,Ga., where they werec.lled
ly he serious Illness of Mr. Gloss
latter. He is reported much better
known why thv-officers of the union 'I'® condition:
did not notify the family here, as
there w re Identl faction papers on h Is
person, among other things his pass
book of the Oklahoma State Bank,
and the b nk was only notified after
the burl il took place. There was
very little told as to the manner in
which lie killed hi.iiself and other cir-
cumstance i concerning his death.
Recently Mr. Pounds had become very
nervous an 1 at Mines while In IIuko
was scarcely himself. He was oorn
To the Editor 'r'T: n'* I operatlon tur 'eason that the city
lothe Editor of The Herald: | would be compelled to pav for the
In response to vour request that 1 j electric current used In operating tin
make a statement of the condlfions I Puoips What tills expense wo-Id
which I found existing In the vicinity j amount to I am not In a position to
of the pump house of Hugo's sewer
system, will say, that in company
with three other citizens I visited the
locality on the 10th Inst.
We went tirst quite a Utile distance
east of the pump house to a small
# ... ....rv ... «| v TT Itn UUI III. - —
in Atlanta, Ga., and was 4ti years old. )ra"( w,dch we followed up in our
He leaves a wife who resides on North aml"atl°"' "ntil 11 reached the
Broadway. house and tank
"The bank ng business of the coun-
try is overdo e the same as anv other
business," & id a prominent Hugo
say, but It certainly would be no
ifieat matter.
What the excuse and damage will
be to the city of Hugo ami Inr citi-
zens If the present conditions are al
lowed to continue, and the rains carry
this sewage Into Salt Creek, thew-e
into Kiamichi rive" ami finally back
to Hugj through our wate- pipes,
Along this branch are numerous IJY ",lH!VT an I I think it
--P. .'.*ij^ij AIC numerous f..i_ . ,
sunken places, now dry, which were j 4 lit* ie>vr bce i e>ti
recently flooaed with sewage, leavinirl '"aLeii l,}' wl,° have in charge
upon the trround a coating of the j1 81",UrJ' conditions of our citv.
Respectf ti 11 v you rs,
W. S. DE A N.
banker the otter dav. "Of course, we ' jfroene®t Ifreen tiiat nature lias ever,
have demands for all the money we l'H!e" ablc t0 l'rortuue- Inter persed:
can loan on good security, but the m1,|Jt',,Sare Rreat pat hcs of'
banks are not making the money they I blackell<id tarl1'. SlvJng evidence ol \ 1 inspected t' e northeast sewer sU
should. 1 f a biiik makes ten per cent I, racter of L,le Hl11' which lias I tlon and It «£>es nut 11 >k g(K> I to me
uross It Is counted as being in fine j" allowed 10 accumulate ti ereon,; The refuse was running out and dow n
a'"1 ""ally be absorbed by o other a brancii that leads to the river aliove
earth.
condition: but take any other line of
business and with the same money In-
vested, and if it did not make more
Continuing west we came upon
the pumpstftion. I t dnk it should
be looked ifier at once.
T. M. WALTON.
than ten per cent it would be a failure, j Foote "r stagnant sewage with such a
Bank stock does not pay like other in thick coating of this green matter
vestments and is only good for the man | "P0" tl,em that was surprised to Have seen the north side sewer st-
who has plenty of money and wants it i sce 11 break throjgh when a drg trod J tion and saw where the refuy i,a,l
placed where he Is sure It is safe and | "•>on " 11 a surprise to the dog | drained from tlie receptacle aud run
willing to take a small income and|als°- 1,c (l", "ot know there was down the branch or drain below ■ r„|.
know his Investment is safe." Evi-1 water u,,der t. In one of tliesepools ' lowed same, for considerable distance
dently, this banker has never been In waf a *Pr-v Hm' cow. quietly. Tlie water in the branch was covered
the newspa|ier business. Lnd K, ''"^"•toolinK bershanks| by a very green scum and the bottom
f . , W'y ,,,linK llt,r s,ol"ach full of. by this refuse matU-r. \s a whole it
• he delicious fluid which the stench looked verv i*i
Fire Monday Night.
Ti.e residence of James White, on
ranough street, burned about 12 p
m. Monday night. The origin of the
fl>e is unknown and when 'the alarm
wa* turned In to the department the
home was covered in flames. Fir.-t
t: eawltch engine gave the alarm ana
a ter a few minutes Uie fire whistle
a u..ded, and still there had been no
t ie^hone message as to the locaMon
6j the tire. Consequently the de-
p rtment arrived to late to save the
hue and a few bed clothes was all
t at co ild be saved. The house was
v lu d at aboua ! 0J an I the furnl-
t re sb0Jt9i5QU, with IIOOO Insurance
DeirocratsAt Sea
On Redistricting.
V Sine, Oklaho na has been assured
P> h r rej resell atlves In c ngress
tli 11 e bill II Ing a new b sis for
ep es tat'on liomt'.e varlo.is states
ill pa s at t'lls secalon, the questlo'i
if wh the.- tlie Oklahoma districts
v 111 bj reariaa„'td before the next
c ngr is? lonal eieitlon Is the all ab-
B'lbln; toolc of chcussio i among
democr tic po'iticlan-. The demo-
cr tic I aders seem t o be c hided as
to whet er it wo ild t e th ■ best poli-
cy to re1 pportion the s:ate or simply
to have the Are di til ts intact as
.hey no.« are aud perm.t the three
rh rc ngressmen to be ciocted at
1* -ge.
Cover or Cruce is und ratood to
-a\or th< p oposltlon o ct i tlng the
Big Revival to j therefrom must reach to high heaven
Rpffifl at Qowi/nr f ,JP«" reaciilng tlie pump-house we
DCglll ai sawyer, found Ihat tlie concrete receptacle
Nert Saturdav nig1 :. July 2Sth,)whWl> rupupsed toconUiu the sew
Rev Rogers, of Grant, and Rev. |aKC' ls ,,ot wiUer-tlght and income-
Hayas. of Hugo, will begin a series of! ',ue"tv l,,e sewage is leaking out on
meetings at Sawyer. The meetings i U,,ec sldes am< running wheresoever
will be lield under an arbor near the ' 'k^ek''-
town, and seai« will be provided out! The greatest surprise of all was
of the school hojse Everybody in- jst'" In store Tor us. We found tiiat
vlted to attend. this receptacle had been tapped at
—. the ground level, and sewer pl|ie had
Miss Georgle Itiggs has returnoa |lwe" l'°'>"ected therewltli, for the
from a two weeks vesit to Galveston | ver} l1urP°w of allowing this sewage
and Paris Texas.
election bed in Texas Saturday
stands at ti, 10s, a tigjr«! too large to
be overcome by thi unreported vote,
according to figures compote I by the
I>allas News
Tlie iotal \ote to date Is: Against
the amendment, for the amendment.
227.9U7.
The News figures tin final count
will show the majority against pro-
hibition to be more than P,000.
1 lie boxes yet to be heard from are
mostly in sparsely settled sections,
remote from wire, ran or even auto-
mobile communication. They are
both prohibition and anti-prohibi-
t/ion territories
1 he hope o* tlie pro'iibitionists
that these missiiur returns would
wipe out tha anti-prohibition ietd
was almos*. gons by 11 o'clock today.
In a statement today ('hairman
Hall of tin statewide prohibition
committee said the co uplet*; returns
will likely show an anti-prohibition
majority of less than WJ votes. Mr.
Ball would not say wh. thcrthe pio-
•:iblMonlsts would bring charges of
fraud sufllcient to warren": a contrst.
Chairman Wotters of the antipro-
hibitionists claimed that tlie antis
have defeated tin prohibitionists by
a majority of about 6.5 VJ votes.
lieburus coming lu treelv late this
after no n appeared t^> confirm the
claim tiiat Texas has defeated state-
wide prohibition by approximately
5.000.
CommerJal-App:al
Cotton Fstimate.
The cotton crop grew and developed
In a normal way during the week in
tlie two Carolinas, Georgia and ail
States west of the Mississippi RT it
and in Tennessee. I n M Ississiupi arid
in Tennessae In Mississippi and Ala-
bama there are complaints of excess-
ive rainfall, but the damage appears
to have been slight and sucn as w ill
be easily overcome with fair weather.
The plan has grown quite rapidly,
but generally is taking on fruit ais .
Continued excess of rainfall might
caose excessive growth at the expense
of fruitage, so that dry weather east
of tlie Mississippi river is desirable.
General and copious rains have
caused a marked revival in tlie plant
in Texas and Oklahoma, and the out-
look is decidedly m ire pro nisi.i - .
Sufficient rain for the present has
fallen.
•I M. BRA.SWELL
"0JT<J5 Ok la , July 21. Hill.
To tlie Citizens of H. c< :
As one of your number I wish to
say I went out to the pumps that are
suoposed to pump the refuse from the
Actor Is Old
Newspaper Man.
Cody Items.
We have been having p enty rain of
late and crop? are lo iking fine.
Health in our little town is very
g>«od at present.
I>r. Carter an 1 family attended tlie
funeral of George Everidge at Satur-
dav.
Rev. Robison tilled his appointment
here Saturday night ani Sunday.
Large crowdi attended the services.
There was an Ice cream supper at
Pet llankin's Saturday night.
J. A. Speegles and family attended
church hereSundav.
C. F Payne and family and J. K.
Wilson and wife and Mi-s Bertha
Keith went to the river Sunday even-
ing to see the big rise.
Mr. Finnel and wife of Messer, at-
tended church here Sunday.
S C. Payne is busily at work put-
ting up his new gin.
Rev. Mower has gone to Soper to
hold a protracted meeting at tLat
pla 'e.
W. I). Mitchell delivered a wagon
i'Md of inel.fi, hi CTiigo tl.o iir-t Bi
the week.
Tom Carpenter and w Ife ami George
Brhnage and wife were the guests of
Died at Sawyer.
John Edwards. B2 years of age, died
Sunday srternoon at .1 o'clock of drop-
sy, after a lingering illness. Fjr a
long Mine he had been proprietor of
the only hotel i« Sawyer ami was well
known throughout tlie county. The
burial took place at Burgoyne ceme-
tery near Hugo, Monday about noon,
Mr. Eli Sheets officii ting by request
of Mr Edwards, resides his aged
wife he leaves thre; children, two
daughters and a son, < ne of his daugh-
ters, Mrs Chaffin, res ding in Sawyer,
tlie other in Texas J'e was a devout
member of the Metho : 1st church.
to run out of tlie tank and off into
the branch which we hid previously
Rsbert Neff, who was playing with
his company at the Aihlrtfie last
week U an old newspaper man, hav-
ing licen in the business in kansas
and iu thii state For a number of
north side of tlie sewer pipes hack to' years a pai>,!r *' Blackwell, j Ed. Carpenter Sunday
Mie"ceptictankindIfoundihitsomQ ja"(1,ateratLawt,m- "e was also at j Miss Bertha Keith Is visiting
one has stopped npthe reeepta le and '11,1 tnneounty J id.'e of Kay county, Belzoni this week.
•had laid some earthen tile and turned j OWIa,"Mna-
the refuse out iu the branch that, "Wlien 1 li'st started in to learn
empties into Salt creek, which creek !'" l>e a l'rlnU?r " hen I was the de-
etnutles Into tlie river just aUive wafr jliia priri'slK)P I" m.v home town
1 will say further that I Pv'c,|lta. Uiere were several of the
er station
examined. At the Mine we were there j,iave Poisonous an 1 filthy | l),inu'rs «ho l<e!onged to a dramatic
a volume of sewage was passing out j things and places but this was the -'•-•fcty. and Uiey prevailed upon me
through this drain, whlcs 1 judged 1 ,,ly e}es eVHr beheld. I will'tl> Miem, which I did. Three of
say fi rther that should there be ty-1 0,0 "umbsr. two others bcaide.s mv-
pho germs in tiiat refuse and get into I S1 1 ri,"owed Mii stage awiiiie,
judged
would All a six inch pipe.
1 am Informed that this state of af-
fairs has existed ever since connec
Changes In Business.
J II. Warren, who has beed prac-
ticing law with ( laud P. Spriggs,
has formed a partnership with George
W. Rlchrrdion and these t wo will in
future be associated together in tlie
practice of law with rooms in the
I avis bui'ding. Both are well known
our pi,we, It looks very much to mn tl.en went int,i the newspaper busl-; in the county and together make
lions were made with the sewer and ! a co"deimnlt,un Proceedings for nci'for an l bave been falrlv j strong o Brmf practitioners.
that the punuis have not been in P'a"1
R. M. PRICE.
Allen Wright an1 Ir.lng Hart veil
went to Soper yesterda .
Mr. and Mrs. R. Robertson are
parents of a tine boy baby born Mon-
day
Cholera Among
Hogs in County.
EH Shee". of Sawyer, was in the i Messrs. Gregg and Kennedv who
f ,aj a"<l rel>orU tiiat hogs 1 were the engineers in cliar'e of tlie
have died by the hundreds h, the \ survey of the propped North
H. & N. W. Survey
Now Complete.
Sawyer nelghbjrliood recjnMv from
an epidemic of cholera.
himself lost 85 Poian
which lie
j western railroad from Hugo to Atoka,
Prof. Lou Smith made
trip to Paris Monday.
a lus'ne s
Mr. Sheets j were in the city Mond u. and report-
. China hoirs led that they had completed their sur-
whkiii be says would have brought vey and would go to work In mediate
W™! fl!!riid0| hionths froui now. iy compiling their report. The sur-
4^hl Jnf h J ?r' 48 081 w,',n ,drl« reached Atoka last Sit-
40 head of tine hoirs from the dis«t!u. „rH.. ... . ,.
successful hi both
Mr Neff'., company is a sort of; Attorney W. K. Greaves arrived iu
family affair, Ids two daughters be-; the city last week, from Ashdown
Ing in his support, and he his a dra- j a"d hasassociated himself with Claud
matlc company tiiat compares favor-! P Spriggs in the practice of his pro-
ably with any in tin alrdome circuit.! fesslon, with omccs In the Wright
I building. Mr. Greaves comes to Hu-
go highly commended as a gentleman
and as an attorney and his association
with Mr. Spriggs and his long stand-
ing as a lawyer assures the success of
the new firm.
J. T Roes, of Poteau, who was or-
ganizer for the American Yeomen
ar.d who Is charged with making
false entries upon application blanks
to secure members, appeared before
justice Oak. s Tuesday and wa\ led er
aminlng tr al and the esse will go to! 'n Oklah-wus, New Mexico and Ail.
hogs from the disease.
Mr. Sheets reports that the re.-eut
rains have brightened things consid-
erably in his neighborhood and that
the people there will make compira-'
tlvelv good corn and lots of cotton.
Rev Father Ketchum of Washing-
t n, I). C.. spoke to a large crowd at •
the Erie Th-atre last S .nday night (
Father Ketchum I; hispo;tor ol ln-
ilan missions<-f tlie Ca' holic church 1
urday afternoon and after a litt'e
work near Hugo the survey will lie
complete.
the county court.
__ A benefit dance will be given to-
thrce ad itl na1 congr. ss an which I "W't In 'he new building on Jackson
C Ictal o .ia w uld have und r the bill str-*t b.. the II , o baseball club.
owien Ing In congre a, at large,! P . .. . —~
prov.vlln,'of course t at t e conercs- .'.! ey WCUu t°
>!cna' ac'
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dabol Tues-
.dayon bislnes . lie lias established
a bunci. drug I ous>j Miere.
conercs-
ghes su h a thorlty to
lie has i xpre cd open on-
\stti nti ca llnj a s clal session
of the I. g tat re for ti e purpose of
redistrl t ( ilia s te when Ok la- . . . „ .. .
buna m g t g t I s full representa-'l' P ^°.New * ork an ' '
lion in ilia next congress by electing r* " l'
; t large.
Mr. Ptrry Fll g and daugliUr,
1 Miss Pauline, hav • eturncd frcm i
olnts lu West
Irglni
J. F. W id, the big Sawyer iner-
11 ant, wa> In lie city Tuesday.
Attjrn.y A ex McDonald
turned I104J a business trl-:
has re
to l)J-
Mls Pauline Fling and M's. H. II
Fling and daughter, Miss Eva, left
Monda, i.n the uxcursi n to tiaives-
ton.
Mia.: an ar has
home 11 Texarkar •
/.ona and visited tlie schools at An-
tlers. Ills talk Sunday night wa>
very Intere. tinu. shonniK Mie part'
tlie Catholic church has taken In the
civilization of the world and its Influ-)
ence for g w I amonv tlie nations of!
the earth. He wis accompanied by!
Father Tei-svr. of tlie mission at'
Antier«. and the two remained in
STRONG WORDS.
"And he gave it his opinion
that whosoever could make two
ears of corn, or two blades of
grass, to grow upon a s|>ot where
only one grew before, would de-
serve Utter or mankind, and do
more essential sen ice to his
country than the whole race of
pollctlans put together - Dean
Swift In "New Education '
Tlie farmers of Choctaw countv are
the city Monday visiting among the "caring the smile ti at wont come
members of the church in the city, j eli since the rains «.r last week, which
netted tliera a'<out Hve Inches. The
No. 003, westbound pissencer train i prospects for the Cli .Uw count*
on the A. A C., was derailed near! crops me now brighter than they
Boswell, last Thursday morning. The have been In tears all ex apt, corn
wrec was caused by the engine strlk- j which It Is expected will make some
ing a cow and turning completely thing like half a crop or even nioie.
over Engineer Rosenthal and tlu>'
Breman could not Jump but stayed
| with the engine and were not
returned to her The baggage and express cars
li. acaMn r r derailed l> did not tur,, over
.iit (uto ti x -H batt,
._ Taxes
Due For a Raise.
The assessed valuation of land
t irougliout the stat> is due for an
approximate 40 per cent increase and
town lots about per cent over fig-
ures returned by various county
boards of equalization as the result
of inquiries of the stat: board or
equalization at its hearing last week.
U Is understood that such a resolu-
tion will be adopted before the board
makes up Its final figures on real
estate and personal property.
Representatives of railroads nereto-
tare charging that farm land and
town lo\« were assess*! at an average
of. 50 and 6) per cent of their fair
cash values and who had been invit-
ed by the stat? board to furnish de-
tails lie fore this year's assessment was
made, aupeared with information
gathered from the official records of
fifty-eight counties. It shows that
2,162 picces of land sold during the
current year were assessed by local
boards at 41.7 per cent of what they
brought on th« market, and that 1.
7s«.i town lots transferred were assess
ed at only t< T p>r cent of what they
brought at sale.
Honey G.-ove, Texts, sent her team
ot hall plavers to llego last week for
four games, but they were rained out
one dav. Of the t hree games plavwi
Hugo took two of them Then Hugo
went to I lone v Grove Monday for a
A woman giving lier name as Mrs.
Shlpman was arrested in Soper Sun-
day and brought here and placed in
jail on a charge of adultery. She is
the mother ot two little boys .*> and 8
years, and these were taken in charge
by Mr. Hawkins, who looks after the
bovs and girls iu Mils section of the
state for the orphan home and the
reformatory. The woaien claimed
her home was near Durant and there
was some talk of raising money and
buying a ticket and giving her that
she might go back to her people.
Paul Harris, of Antlers, was in the
city Monday enroute Jiotr.e from the
funeral of Capt. Joe Everidge at
Grant.
According to Justice Robert L.
Williams of tlie Oklahomi supreme
court, the auxiliary court, created by
tlie last legislature to help clean up
the supreme court docket will bo
called to convene tor the first tlmo
with Hit regular members ot the
beach in Oklahoma City on Septein-
• fr 1 Although appointed several
months ago. the auxiliary members
were not sworn in for duty beear.se
of the capital removal eve then (len-
ding and because no quarters were In
readiness at Oklahoma Citv. Thd
auxiliary members are J.
taved Mrs. II .1 Fllmr md , ' 1 ■' ,or a auxiliary member?are J. II. \ K„n.
hurt. M^^Cva, of lifted! W Va a^e vbit- * ^ ^ tWl*r' J ^ «
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