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THE CHOCTAW HERALD.
VOLUME 8
HUGO, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY MAY 15, 1813.
NUMBER TWO
Charged With
Killing Step-Son.
Mrs. Jack Basey was arrested at
Boswell last week charged with forc-
ing her 8-year-old stepson to take a
dose of medicine containing strych-
nine on Friday of last week.
Two step-sons were just starting to
school on the Friday morning when
the mother called to them that they
looked like they were sick and must
take a dose of medicine. The young-
er one came back into the house and
took the dose, but the older one did
not go. The younger one took his
medicine and went to school and died
at the blackboard shortly after ar-
riving. His teacher noticed that he
did not look right and asked him if
he was sick; he said he was and
wanted to go home. To do thm he
had to comply with the rules and
write an excuse on the blackboard;
went up to write the excuse, and in-
stead of writing the request, he
wrote "Teacher, please give me
drink of water," and just as the
teacher looked around he fell to the
floor and expired in a few minutes.
The woman was arrested by Depu-
ty Sheriff Pullen and brought to the
city.
In addition to this charge the Bas-
ey woman will also be charged with
the death of her husband's mother,
who died about six months ago, and
was reported to have been taken ser-
iously ill during the night and died
almost sintantly. The body was bur-
ied in Texas almost as soon as she
was dead. A 10-year-old step-
daughter also died very suddenly a
short time ago and she will also be
charged with her murder. This child
was supposed to have been standing
in front of the fire and to have fallen
into the open fire place and burned
to death before assistance coiild
reach her.
Mrs. Basey is an old resident of
the county and is well known all ov-
er the western portion, and in Bos-
well, where she has lived for many
years.
/Hugo Chautauqua.
V. A. Schiefelbusch, representing
the Redpath-Horner Chautauqua as-
sociation, was Hi the city this week
arranging for the coming of the cha-
tauqua to Hugo on June 17. While
in the city advertising was placed in
the city and other arrangements
made for the event. Among other
things a booster trip was organized
among the local enthusiasts which
will start on June 10th.
The Redpath-Horner people have
on their list some of the very best
chautauqua talent in the entire coun-
try, and Hugo will get the best the
company has. The city is making
preparations to entertain the largest
crowds that have ever been in the
city and can guarantee every attrac-
tion. There will be reduced fares on
all railroads into the city.
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10 Per Cent Dividend.
The Choctaw County Rural Tele-
phone Company held their annual
meeting on May 6th at the general
offices at Messer and elected officers
and directors for the ensuing year, as
follows: M. L. Carter, president; W.
W. Westbrook, vice-president; (X L.
Horton, secretary-treasurer. The di-
rectors are: M. L. Carter, W. W.
Westbrook, 0: L. Horton, A. L. Rod-
gers and M. V. Kveridge. A 10 per
cent dividend was declared on all the
stock, and all stockholders who have
not yet received their dividends
should apply to the company's treas-
urer.
Arrested at Idabel.
Sheriff Connell arrested E.
Stinson at Idabel last week on
charge of obtaining money by false
pretense.
The charge grew out of the fact
that Stinson wanted some money and
induced, it is alleged, M. H. Myrick
to endorse a note for him to the
amount of about (600. After he had
gotten the money, says Mr. Myrick,
he moved to Idabel.
J. W. Dawley has retuVned from
Oklahoma City, where he attended
the state meeting of electricians.
A. J. Stecn, the big banker of Sop
er; was in the city last week .
Held Without Bail.
Mattie Byms, the negro woman
who stabbed' Evaline Wallace, anoth-
er negro woman, to death last week,
was given a preliminary hearing be-
fore Justice DeWeese Monday, and
held to the district court without
bail, on a eharge of murder in the
first degree.
Lee Carter
Case is Dismissed.
Lee Carter, L. P. Winfield, Will
Adams and Jo Lawrence, men who
were recently arrested charged with
operating an illicit booze factory in
the hills near Fort Towson, were last
week given a hearing before Com-
missioner Wever at Idabel and dis-
missed, the evidence not being suf-
ficient to hold them to the federal
court.
The arrests grew out of the find-
ing of several stills near Fort Tow
son some time ago, and several ar-
rests were made at the time. The
still was there, all right, and was cap-
tured by the officers, but there ap-
peared to have been some question as
to who owned the outfit.
Rock Hill News.
Rock Hill, May 10.
News is very scarce this week.
Had a fine rain this week which
the farmers were beginning to need.
Crops are looking fine.
Mr. Spring's folks have returned
from Antlers.
Granville Springs and family and
Claud Colley and family went fish-
ing yesterday. Still I can't hear any-
thing about fish.
Mrs. Harris was down last week to
see her son. Tom.
Aunt Dinfh, tell your friend to try
healing oil on his peas next time and
see what the rabbits have t o say
about it
TULIP.
Letter to Choctawa.
Ome anumpla kaniohmi ka holisso
atoba fokkili shke. Oka homi ya na-
na ai isht ish ilaiyukpa hinla? Keyu
hatak at kotukma, hlampkochi chat-
uk oh cho? Keyu hohcha lokma kay-
achi cha tuk ok cho? Keyu nafoh-
ka kia hohkachi cha tuk oh chi? Ke
yu. Issoba hat isuko chatuk o, ke-
yu; ofiatoT Keyu. Yammohmi ka
nantihmi ho ish i.shko cho? Peh is-
soba ofi itta,tuklo kak kia akianwo
kushke, ish ahnl cho ? Oka homi
isht ik hachi hakso, yammat imilay-
ak isht yopomo yoke; oka homi ish-
kot hoita, isht a haksichit tasimbot
atampa holisso holitopa at achi shke.
Anonti achi kat oka homi iahko sha
hli keyu, achi shke. Yohmi ka oka
ohmi iishkot hakset yokat aboha kal-
lachoko wat fine atobbe, keyuk mat,
peh bowta illi naha, naonti illi yoho-
mi ehke. -yohmi na ohoyo alhtakla
alia alhtakla lanwa hosh aisba shke.
oka homi elappak osh ymtni hchi
shke. Yohmi ho himithowa alheha
hat pinsa hokakosh, oka homi yamma
issa he keyu cha; oka homi ako isht
a okchaya yonkeyu kako; inta hatak
himithowa hash puyutta ma, liachi
hachi manukfela ha hash kallochi cha
oka homi ishkot hash issa shke. Oka
homi ya ishkot issa hanna hokmat is-
sa he bieka hoke.
Messer News.
This weather is Tine for the crops.
Everything is growing and looking
fine.
Mrs. John Rinehart is sick this
week.
Sam Strickland is still very sick.
Stanley Pasley and Miss Callie Car-
penter were married last Tuesday.
We wish their troubles to be little
ones.
A crowd of Messer people went to
Roby last Sunday and enjoyed the
singing and unveiling.
The singing was fine at Mr. Gib-
son's Sunday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Mays and family
went to Bearden Springs Tuesday.
Jim Rinehart of Montana, is here
visiting his brother, C. M. Rinehart.
Dr. Carter was a caller at Messer
last Tuesday.
Brook Griffin says he knows now
what an auto is. He first learned it
last Sunday.
The Messer singing class is coming
to the front. They have a good lead
er,.Mr. I .em Ilogue. He understands
his "biz," all right.
AUNT DINAH.
Mr. Wilson's Frankness.
"I want everybody to realize that
I have not been taken in by the re-
sults of the last national election
The count ry did not go Democratic ir
November. It was impossible to go
Republican because it could not tell
which kind of Republican to go. The
only hopeful and united instru-
ment through which it could accom-
plish Its purpose was the Democratic
party."
These words uttered by President
Wilson in New Jersey the other day
are remarkable for their truthfulness
no less than for their candor. It is
aboilutely true that Mr. Wilson was
not "taken in" by the national elec-
tion, and neither was the country.—
Kansas City Journal.
Grover Folsom.
and His Land.;
Grover Folsom, a young Choctaw
Indian, has gotten into trouble about
his land, according to reports last
week.
It seems that Grover has an aiiot
ment in the county of very fine bot
tom land, and that the real estatt
men as usual were alive to his hold
ings and age. He was 21 years of
age May 4th, and about ten days be
fore that time he was accompanies
on a jaunt by Bob Snow, of the city,
who, it is alleged, was paying Grav-
er's expenses and showing him a
good time, and, it is reported, was
furnished money for the trip by
Messrs. Dodd and Webb, of the city.
At any rate, they were flying ovei
the country having a good time until
the people at the union agency in
Muskogee heard of it. An agent
from the agency was sent out to look
for the couple who were, found in Lit
tie Rock, and Grover was taken in
charge by the representative of the
government. He started home with
him and at Fort Smith ,he was turn
ed over to C. W. Miller, according to
attorneys for the young man, whr
came on towards Hugo with him
During the trip he signed a deed t<
Miller receiving $1200 for hisl and.
which, he states, is worth about $8,
000. A sale was going through pro
bate court for a sale of the land at a
price near $5,000.
Attorneys have been secured and an
action has >been begun to set aside
the deed to Miller, and will come up
for hearing soon.
Fault of Our Cities.
Munsey's Magazine: A costly, al-
most ruinous fault of local govern-
ment in the United States is to pick
for municipal business undertakings,
directors, general managers, superin-
tendents and foremen with disregard
of their qualifications for the work
entrusted to them.
A blacksmith in private life be-
comes in public life, perhaps, a com-
missioner of police, an orator, an ex-
excutive, a stable boy an engineer, a
bartender a financier.
In that way there have been wast-
ed for municipal taxpayers in the
United States not hundreds of mil-
lions of dollars but billions. Not al-
ways, not nearly always, by graft and
thievery—by ignorance and unfit-
ness.
A city ought to be managed, and
might be managed, like a railroad, a
factory or a department store. Muni-
cipal administration, properly con-
ducted, is nothing but a straight busi-
ness affair. For big cities like New
York, Chicago and Philadelphia it is
a huge business, as complicated a
the operations of a billion dollar steel
combination and in its many different
departments as needful of expert
judgment and technical capacity.
The plan is to make ^Washingtor
the best governed city in the world—
the model for every other Americar
city. Beginning with systematize^
methods of organi7ation, there are t«
come perfected standards o^ efficien
cy, scientific improvements of servic<
with reduction of costs, practical test
of uplift theories and civic training
schools. Thoroughly worked ou<
schemes and models are to be put at
the disposal of other cities and hand
ed down to later administrator; a
the design and machinery of a perma
nent organization to be operated tin
der any change of government.
A big contract, this, especially ir
its ambition to make Washington th<
best governed city in the world, wher
numerous European municipality
are so far in advance of the busines
efficiency of any of our cities.
T. L Griggs of Soper was in thi
city yesterday attending the big lain'
sale.
P. M. Clark was in the city yester
day from Boswell attending the lan<
sale.
While playing with a small gun a'
Speer last week Joe Frazier, a negn
boy was painfully injured when th<
gun was discharged.
Miss Helen Leard visited in Pari
last week.
V. Bronaugh made a business trir
to Fort Smith last week.
George Chandler attended the rac
es at Paris last week.
The Odd Fellows of the city reor-
ganized the local lodge last week, it
having been suspended for softie tinu
on account of lack of interest.
C. C. Lewter
New Commissioner
A vacancy on the board of county
commissioners was caused last week
>y the appointment of John Husky
as postmaster at Fort Towson, and
C. C. I-ewter, editor of the Fort Tow-
ion Enterprise, was at once appoint
ed in his place. Mr. Lewter is one oi
the oldest residents of Fort Towson,
-ind the oldest newspaper man in
Southeastern Oklahoma in point of
service, having been running His pa
per in Fort Towson for about ten
years.
The new commissioner is a good
jusiness man and will inject some ol
■lis business methods, which hav<
nade him a successful newspapei
nan, into the county board. He i
•veil known throughout the count)
and popular both personally anc
im^ng his business associates, an>
•very one of his acquaintances re-
joice at his appointment. Especially
s this true among the newspapers ol
he county, who honor and revere C
Lewter because of his manly per
sonality and integrity.
\ New Method for Inducing Immun-
ity Against Disease.
Scientific American: In recent
/ears there have been a number ol
successful experiments on a large
scale, with a view tp inducing immun-
ty against typhoid fever. It has beer
Tound, however, that the method ol
njecting the preparation under tht
skin is in some cases accompanied by
iisagreeable consequences. The ust
jf the hypodermic injection is also b;
itself an additional danger point, foi
n the hands of careless workers then
is danger of blood poison. For thesi
reasons many investigators havi
sought for another method of "vac
cination" against typhoid fever. Pro!
Julius Courmont of the University of
Lyons has found such a method.
With the aid of his assistant. Dr. A
Rochaix, Dr. Courmont first tried to
introduce the vaccination materia
through the jnouth of the animal
with which he experimented—rabbit *
joats, and guinea pigs. The materia
used consisted of a quality of the ty
phoid "toxin" prepared by cultivating
the bacilli in special mixtures am
then heating the 'mass to about 121
leg. Fahr. The heat kills the bacter
ia, but does not affect the poisoh. II
a small quantity of this is introduced
into the body, the white corpscles ar<
induced to secrete the appropriate an-
ti-toxin, and thus prepare the blood
against a possible larger invasion ir
the future. But it was found that
swallowing the "toxin" did not pro-
luce the desired results. This can be
understood when we consider that tht
action of the juices of the stomach
(he liver and the pancreas upon thi
'oxin must either have destroyed it o'-
modified it considerably before it
*ould be absorbed into the blood thrv
-he walls of the intestines.
When it was demonstrated that thit
nethod was not efficacious, Prof
"ourmont conceived the idea of get
ing the material into the large intes
ines directly. For this purpose h
ised the same animals and give eacl
number of irrigations; the result
•vere entirely satisfactory, the ani
nals becoming completely immune U
; y phoid germs. To make sure tha
.he method would apply to human be
ngs, the same experiments were re
tested with, a number of volunteers
".aih rceived three enemas containing
ibout three ounces of the fcilled ty
jhoid culture at intervals of fiv
lays. As itwas of course impossibl
•o infect the young men with typhoii
?erms in order to find out whethe'
his intestinal "vaccination" was ef
'cctive, another method had to be re
•sorted to. That was testing the be
havior of the blood in relation to tht
specific microbes. Now in every cas
xpeiimented upon it was found tha
■he serum of the subject's blood kill-
d cultures of typhoid bacteria. An
n no case was there any unfavorabl
>r even unpleasant reaction as a re
suit of the treatment. This methor
>romises much for our future health
Intestinal vaccination of the same
:ind was also tried on the experimen
al animals, using the bacteria of
blue pus" instead of typhoid bacilli
The induced immunity was complete
in every case.
Broken Bow Team
Says B. B. Won i
The Husoniart's Startling Statement
—Broken Bow Badly Defeated (?)
Sunday.
Broken Bow, Okla., May 7, 1913.
I-ast Sunday the much heralded
Hugo baseball team came to Broken
Bow to play the Invincibles. So much
had been said about the prowess of
i hat wonderful team that the Invin-
cibles were easily excused for their
nervousness, but the first inning for
ever dispelled any doubt in theii
minds that they dere indeed entitled
to the title "Invincibles." At the end
of Jhe first inning the score stood
to 0 in favor of Broken Bow. The
first game of the double header re-
sulted in a score of 14 to 4 and the
second game 6 to 2 in favor of the
Invincibles.
What then, was the surprise of the
Broken Bow people on reading May
jth Issue of the Husonian which in
glaring headlines announced "Broken
3ow Badly Defeated Sunday." Ii
s presumed that our good friend
Editor McDonald, was hoaxed by
some one into publishing such a
statement
We are now wondering if this
crack Frisco team's former victories,
about which they boasted so much,
are of the same kind as that the>
they won from Broken Bow. The In-
vincibles have made no extravagant
claims as to their baseball prowess,
but have simply tried to get a team
equal or a little better than the
neighboring towns—Hugo not excep
ted.
Editor McDonald is respectfully
asked to publish this correction ir,
justice to both teams.
B. B. BASEBALL TEAM,
Per W. B. Blackburn, Mgr.
Rev. Joe Mehvchuhbee Dead.
Rev. Joe Mehychubbee, one of th<
oldest full bipod Indians of the coun-
ty, died at his home near Cody las*
week. He was a Methodist preacher
and had worked among his people foi
many years. He died of pneumonic
and was B5 years old. The body was
buried at his home.
Sheriff Connell has returned from
McAlester, where he carried Earl
Rice, who was recently sentenced to
prison for life for the murder of Hy.
Williams, near Forney, last summer.
The city school board at Durant
has issued an ultimatum that in fut-
ure married women need not apply
for positions in the city schools.
John Bomford of the city was el-
ected state vice president of the elec-
ricians, at the meeting at Oklahoma
City last week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Davis are at-
tending the meeting of the Shriners
m Dallas this week
Negro Woman
Kills Negro Woman.
Mattie Burns stabbed and cut the
throat of Evaline Wallace at the h >me
the latter, near the ice plant late l 3t
Thusrday afternoon. Those who visit-
ed the house immediately after the
killing are of the opinion that there
was a struggle ending in the tragedy,
as the floor of the room was covered
with blood.
There was rtne eye witness of the
killing, I^ena Young, another negro
woman, but she has told two or three
stories about the matter.
Mattie Burns says that the Wal-
lace woman owed her some rent that
she went there to collect and that af-
ter some words tho Wallace woman
assaulted her with a stick of stove
wood and she stabbed her in the
neck with a knife.
She was arrested after making a
feeble attempt to get away, and was
locked up, there being no trial as she
acknowledges the killing.
The Wallace woman was known as
one of the thrifty and hard working
negresses of the city, and when the
body was searched a bank book show
ing a deposit of nearly $200 was
found on her person besides several
dollars in money.
News of the Legislature.
Oklahoma City, Okla., May i.—
Special Correspondence to The Her-
ald.—The precarious financial condi-
tion of the state of Oklahoma is
found in the fact that as yet no mar-
ket has been found for the $3,000,000
issue of funding bonds by which the
state officials hoped to change the
form of the state debt from six per
cent warrants to four per cent bonds.
The foregoing amount is only a
portion of the debt that has been
piled up since statehood. The state
has been paying out enormous sums
for interest on * warrant indebted-
ness in excess of $3,000,000. This
debt must either be paid off at once
by direct taxation upon the people or
through a funding bond issue. The
latter method was adopted as it
would enable the state to pay off the
debt during the course of twenty-
t - . ■ — . __ _ five years thus equalizing the burden
ine prefimiiwy tnaror Mrs. Timm an<j requiring the pavment of a much
was postponed by Justice DeWeese '
•n the 10th, because of the fact that
Mooney, the man who accused the
woman of shooting him, was unable
to attend court.
Dr. and Mrs. M. L Carter and
.-hildren leave today for a visit in
Deroit, Tex:, where Dr. Carter's mo-
ther and other relatives reside.
If all men are born free and equal
'iow is it that one man can kill twe
)irds with one stone and another man
•an't hit the ground with his hat?—
Ex.
Anyway, the man whose neck bulg
-•s out over the back of his collar ha>
>ne consolation. He is never mistak-
;n for a highbrow.—Ex.
Furthermore, the blockhead can al-
ways knock on wood by reaching un-
ler his hat.—Ex.
Another thing folks ought to be
hankful for is that all the people whr
lim to write a book sometimes don't
-Ex.
As a general thing a little boy-
would be more successful at brushing
his teeth if he cuold manage not tc
ret the tooth powder gummed up on
'lis elbows.—Ex.
After disposing of a very large
number of cases Judge Glenn last
week adjourned the spring term of
county court.
John Huskey and Charlie Blanken-
ship, both convicted at the recent
term of the county court, asked for
new trials last week, which, th^ coun
ty judge promptly refused.
S. A. Darrough of Kansas City
visited his brother, W. H. Darrough,
in the city last week.
J. H. Jackson, E. O. Haynes and
many others attended the automobile
races at Paris last week.
lower rate of interest.
A board of state officer*- composed
of the treasurer and others started
over a year ago to carry out the plan
of funding the state debt. The legal
difficulties and court preliminaries
are about completed but although the
state has been seeking assidiously
for a market for these securities none
could be found. State bonds are sup-
posed to be gilt-edged securities but
nobody seems to want Oklahoma pa-
per.
Inquiry among eastern bond buy-
ers reveals the fact that the two
Democratic administrations that
have had charge of Oklahoma since
statehood have- wrecked its credit.
This has been accomplished largely
through permitting fraudulent and
bogus state warrants to be issued
from time to time until the total has
mounted to nearly $100,000. Several
bankers inside and without the state
have bought these warrants which
have been repudiated by the state to
the extent that they have not been
included in the funding bond issue.
W ill McBrine, one of the former
employes of the state auditor's of-
fice who confessed that he was re-
sponsible for the issuance of many of
the fraudulent warrants, is still un-
punished although the defalcations
occurred more than two years ago.
As yet no one who is responsible for
issuance of bogus .warrants bearing
the name of the state of Oklahoma,
has been punished by the state and
apparently no effort is being made to
bring about such a result.
When the agents of Oklahoma go
east seeking a market for her bonds
the big financiers laugh at them
asking them why the state don't set
about to punish the men who have
been turning out worthless warrants.
They ask the representatives of the
state how anyone is to know whether
he is investing in bogus or valid se-
curities when buying bonds or war-
rants of the state of Oklahoma. This
condition brings the blush of shame
to patriotic Oklahomans of all polit-
ical parties.
As a matter of fact bonds of the
state of Oklahoma are first class se-
curity and would sell on eastern mar-
kets at par even under the most un-
favorable conditions if Oklahoma did
not have the reputation of permit-
ting bogus securities to be issued in
her name and repudiating them. All
state officials agree that every war-
rant or bond issued by Oklahoma will
be paid but have not been able to
convince the men with motley of this
fact sufficiently to sell their bonds.
It now appears that the do noth-
ing session of the legislature, which
has cost the state $278,000 and has
been grinding since before Christ-
mas, will be in session all summer.
Both houses have now agreed to the
recess idea bj t they differ as to how
long the members shall stay at home
before coming back after mileage
and their $6 per day. The senatp
wants to quit for one month and
then come back in June - when the
weather g$ts good and hot. The
house wants to recess until the
weather cools off in the fall.
Mrs. Jake Easton of Antlers
visiting Mrs. R: H. Stanley.
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