The Konawa Chief-Leader. (Konawa, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, September 17, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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KONAWA CHIEF-LEADER
DAY & TUCKER, Publishers
AdvertIsinK Rates on App'lmi'lflii
KONAWA, - - OKLAHOMA
BANK IMS STAND TEST
NEW STATE NOTES.
Ily an overwhelming vote the issue
f bonds for $19(I,UOO was authorized
by the pvopJe of Chickasha last week.
The Santa Fe railroad has begun tho
laying of new JtO-pound rails on its
main line between Arkansas City and
Purcell.
GOVERNOR OF ARKANSAS HON-
ORS HASKELL'S REQUEST.
THE TRIAL TO BE HELD IN BLAINE COUNTY
The northeastern state normal at
Tahlequah has opened with an initial
attendance of 300. It Is expected this
will be increased to 400 before Christ-
mas.
A permanent organization of postal'
emplyes of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa,
Nebraska, Oklahoma and Arkansas
was formed at their convention in
Kansas City.
Alf Hunter, Garrison's Alleged Mur-
derer to be Placed in Watonga Jail
—Governor Promises Protec
tion from Mob
MURDERER IS CfiPTUREB
JGUARANTY STATUTE PROVES OUT
IN EMERGENCY CASE.
ALF HUNTER CAPTURED AFTER'
A DESPERATE FIGHT.
KILLED SHIRIFF DF OKLAHOMA COUNTY
While he and his family we it in j
the field picking cotton, the home of '
R. G. Sullivan, a farmer living north i
of Durant, was totally destroyed by j
fire.
Oklahoma City.—That Alf Hunter,
negro slayer of Sheriff George W. Gar-
rison, will be in Oklahoma for trial
was practically decided Friday when
the following telegram was received
from th'o> murdered man's son, Sheriff
H. D. Garrison. The telegram was
as follows:
"Requisition honored. Will be home
Sunday evening with negro.
"H. D. GARRISON, Sheriff"
The receipt of the telegram sent by
Held in Pin« Bluff, Ark., and Authori-
ties Will Demand Big Reward—
Oklahoma Officers Go With
Requisition Papers
A deal was consummated at Ok-
mulgee wherein the big Mid-continent
oil firm, Gunsberg & Forman, secured
leases on 280 acres in the limits of
the Preston pool.
Pine Bluff, Ark.—Alf Hunter, ne-
gro, who was arrested in this city
Monday night after a desperate fight
with the officers, has confessed to
the murder of Sheriff G. W. Garrison
of Oklahoma City and told the details
of his deadly work in Oklahoma, and
declared also that he murdered a
white man in Fourche bottoms, near
Sheriff Garrison followed rumors that,Lluto Rock aftor making hls escape
An amended charter was issued last
week by the secretary of state to the
bank of Ingersoll by which th«5 capi-
tal stock of the Institution is increased
from $f>.000 to $10,000.
The contract was let at Okmulgee
last week for the construction of a j
bigh sschool building to cost $35,977. j
J. H. Broker of Tulsa secured the! '
contract, over five competitors.
The second robbery at Sapulpa in a ;
month and one of numerous crimes i
committed in offices of professional j
men was perpetrated at the dental i
rooms of J. B. Bolt last e;k.
Governor Donaghey had refused to
turn over the negro slayer to the Ok-
lahoma authorities. Upon receipt of
this advice Governor C. N .Haskell,
who was in the city, sent the fol-
lowing word to Governor Donaghey of
Arkansas.
"Please deliver Alf Hunter, alias
Kingsbury, charged with the murder
of Sheriff Garrison of Oklahoma coun-
ty, state of Oklahoma, to Sheriffs Mc-
Arthur an'd Garrison upon my requis-
ition. I will guarantee that Hunter
will not be molested by mob violence
and that he shall have a fair and
impartial trial for the murder of Sher-
iff Garrison. If he is not convicted, I
will so notify you, and if he is
charged with a crime in your state
I will have him delivered to the propel
authorities on your demand.
"C. N. HASKELL, Governor.
from Oklahoma. He said he expected
death when taken back to the scene
BISK FillS, DEPDSITIlliS PUIS III Fllll
Governor Warns People Against Fake
News Items Circulated by Enemies
of State Law—Find Bank in
Good Condition.
Oklahoma City.—The banking situ-
ation in Oklahoma City is stronger
now than it was before the suspension
of the Columbia Bank & Trust Com-
pany here Wednesday when the state
officials took charge and began pay-
ing the depositors by check on the
state funds and the state banking
board and state bankers generally con-
sder that the guaranty bank law has
proved its stability in practice, and
that the next few days will fully estab-
lish the soundness of its principle.
, The much heralded "run" on the
bank Wednesday dwindled to nothing
by noon, and that none might be dis-
of his crime, but that Jesus was with!appointed who wishes to withdraw
him and he would not worry. He is funds, the doors were kept open until
not believed to be guilty of the Four-
che murder.
The officers belive Hunter is try-
5 p. m. instead of 3 o'clock, as usual.
After finishing a busy day at the bank
in conducting the routine of a busi-
ing to shield his brother, who is injness strange to them, the state of-
jail at Little Rock, charged with the ficers Were well satisfied with develop-
crime. Sheriff Garrison of Oklahoma j ment8, an(j Wednesday evening Gov-
City wired Sheriff Phllpot Tuesday |ernor HaskeU dictated th0 fo„owing
that he was on his way to Pine Bluff ,
with requisition papers. The officers | statement in behalf of the state bank-
here will probably refuse to surrender
Hunter unless the reward of $3,800
is guaranteed them.
Hunter is regarded as one of the
most desperate negroes ever in the
county jail here and is being closeiy
guarded. He will recover from
wounds inflicted by his captors Thej0' a11 national bankers for this as-
ing board:
"The same persistent critic-sms that
embarrassed the management for ten
days before the state took charge
seems to have worked on the deposi-
tors all day. It is not fair to complain
capture of Hunter was accomplished
State banks that have made the
Columbia Bank and Trust company
<if Oklahoma City their Oklahoma re
serve agent have agreed not to join
in the demand of depositors for their
deposits.
The issuance of the statement by ; through the determined work of Con-
Govercor Haskell regarding the Hun-I stable Angus F. McNeill of Redfieid,
ter arrest at Pine Bluff, Ark., resulted
An enormous vein of glass sand of
very fine grade has been located in
the southeastern part of Durant. The
vein was discovered several week j
ago when W. H. Cook commenced to
dig a well.
from a demand by Arkansas- authori-
ties for the payment of $2,500 reward
for the arrest of the negro. Attorney
E. G. McAdams received a wire from
Sheriff H. D. Garrison to have Gov-
ernor Haskell wire the Arkansas ex-
ecutive that, in the event of a failure
to convict Hunter in Oklahoma, the
accused negro would be returned to
sault; indeed, the vast majority are
courteous and fair with their state
bank neighbors and only a fe nation-
this county. McNeill has been trail- al bankers can be blamed for this per-
ing the negro for months, but each|sistent fight.
time he would locate him he would
make his "get-away" before the of-
ficer arrived. Monday McNeill learn-
ed, through a lodge brother of Hun
"The people on every hand are ex-
pressing satisfaction with the peaceful,
orderly way In which the state law of
ter's. that Hunter was in Pine Bluff.: Oklahoma settles these difficulties
The lodge member had previously j without loss to the people. We find
"tipped" the constable off, as Hunter j the Columbia Bank & Trust company
had confided': in him and had re- conditions stronger after a days' act-
to
that state for trial. Sheriff uarrison latei1 ,,le story of his lawlessness in .ye jnvestjgation th6n appeared
The corporation commission has
Issued an order denying the applica-
tion of the Purcell-Lexington Tele-
phone company to raise phone rates
in Purcell from $2 to $2.50 for busi-
ness phones and $1 to $1.50 for resi-
dences.
T. W. McLaughlin, secretary of the
state mining hoard, says there ill
be a meeting of the board for ex-
amination of applicants for license
held at Henryetta, Oct. 6. and 7, and
four days meetiug in McAlester, Oct
12 to 15 inclusive.
also asked Attorney McAdams to have
Governor Haskell agree that Hunter
would not be mobbed if he was re
turned to Oklahoma for trial. These
requests were promptly acted upon by
Governor Haskell.
Hunter will be taken to Watonga,
in Blaine county, for trial oil the
charge of murdering. Sheriff Garrisoa
Sentiment is said to be at fever
heat in the vicinity of Hitchcock and
Watonga, in Blaine county, where
Hunter, on June 2, 81908, shot and
killvd Sheriff Garrison, and seriously |
wounded Deputy Sheriff Fate Sanders
of Arcadia, who positively identified!
Hunter as the negro who is wanted
in this state.
There is going to be competition in !
the Oklahoma telephone field. That 1
is providing Major A. M. Harvey of
Topeka, Kans, representing the inde !
pendent lines of the Home Telephone I
company In Kansas, i-s able to com- |
plete organizations well under way.
Oklahoma. When McNeill learned of .
, , , , us the night before we took charge.
Hunter s presence here he was at j
Redfield. Ho telephoned Deputy j "The owners of the bank have made
Sheriff W. L. Goodwin to shadow him good progress in converting private
until he could reach Pine Bluff. Good- assets into cash preparatory to adding
win shadowed a negro answering new capital to repair any losses and
Hunter's description and was within a|warrant the state officials in returning
stone's throw of him constantly for control bank tQ wh,ch
eight hours. When McNeill arrived,,
t, * • « j• there seems every reason to believe
Hunter had disappeared, being tipped
off that the officers were after him. °ccur wJthln the cominK week-
The officers took the informant into Thl,s strengthened this bank will stand
custody and threatened to jail him "s a great benefit to the city and the
unless he revealed Hunter's where-j state.
abouts. He did so and when the of- "Four Oklahoma City state banks
i ficers saw him leave a saloon on East )iave tendered their friendly wishns to
Third avenue, they grabbed him. j be of service and created a feeling of
Hunter pulled a gun and showed fight, jmuch benefit.
I wo patrolmen nearby came to the, "\\re have to warn the people of
j assistance of the constable and I)ePu the state against fake and malicious
ty Goodwin, who were beating Hunter newg Uemg ag th0 enemleg o{ ,he state
The attack begun In the United
States courts at Enid against the Ok-
lahoma two-cent rate and all the im-
portant orders of the corporation com-
mission, is to be no skirmish bat a
war to tire end.
Want Money for Irrigation.
Woodward, Okla.-A call has been is-j With their revolvers. The clubs of the "aJVlrculatX theTaTesToT which"is
sued by President E. .1. Dick of the, policemen felled the negro and he was _ a,Weil snpp|fll frnm n..thrle tn thp
Northwest Okalhoma Irrigation asso- carried to the county jail in an in-
elation for a meeting to be held In this senshible stat". After recover.ng con- ^
city October 20. At the meeting a me-jsclousnesg ho showed fight in the of- sessmBnt'
morial to congress will be drawn by j Ac© of the jail and Jailer Holland had
which It ▼.'ill be asked that a portion of! ,0 knock him down repeatedly to
the now nearly $2,000,000 Oklahoma Quiet him.
an alleged special from Guthrie to the
effect that state bankers have agreed
to resist payment of an emergency a3-
reclamation fund be made available
for irrigation purposes in Oklahoma.
The northwestern part of the state has
suffered the most severe drouth.
The largest single purchase of meat
probably ever made in Oklahoma was
cosnummated by the board of affairs
who signed a contract with Armour
& Company for 134,000 pounds of
beef and bacon for the state peniten-
tiary.
Assistant Attorney General Moore
has given the governor an opinion
that the Enid city charter for com-
mission form of government was in
acordance with the laws and consti-
tution and had been regularly adopt-
ed at the election recently held.
Zollars Raises $14,000 in Wichita.
Guthrie, Okla.—Dr. E. V. Zollars,
president of Christian University at
Enid, has raised $14,000 in Wichita,
"The state of Oklahoma has always
been fair to both classes of banks and
national banks today have on deposit
Hunter declined to make a state-1 QVer one mjilion dollars of state money
ment until L. M. Bu.iker, a local bar-j coui(j at once be transferred if
ber and former government deputy ; (he 8tate disposed to be unfriend-
in Oklahoma, identified him. I ly to the national banks."
Mounds, a flourishing little towfl
near Sapulpa, is to have a line school
work of which will begin within a
few days, $75,000 worth of bonds for
this purpose, being sold to Chicago
persons.
Insurance Commissioner T. J. Mc
Comb has refused a license to tho
Sam Houston Life Insurance company
of Dallas, Texas, which is among tho
new insurance companies recently
established in the Southwest.
Business Stops and All Visit otate Fair Chapman Resigns His Job
Oklahoma City.—Moro ytian 10,000 Guthrie, Okla.—W. L. Chapman has
->eople visited the third annual state nanded In his formal resignation to the
fair Wednesday, the opening day of corporation commission E. L. Pot-
where he went in the interests of the big annual event. Most of the teFi wjjo has been acting secretary
the permanent endowment of the uni- j business houses were closed, business since Chapman was dismissed by
versity. 1 his makes more than $35, jmen and their employes spending the Chairman Jack Love or the commia-
000 he has raised in the last two day. visiting the fair. With a continu- sj0n, July 24, will be appointed to the
weeks. Phere is now no question nnce 0f Wedneday's perfect weather place.
that he will succeed in getting more condit,on3 the attendance will be
than $50,000, hich he started out to! floubied ; Tu|sa Demands Pipe Line
There were no ' srmal opening cere- Tulsa, Okla. At a meeting attended
monies. The gates were opened at 9 ,jy more than 100 prominent oil pro-
o'clock and at 10 o'clock began the ducers, the Tulsa Commercial club
concert by L beratl's band, the first adopted resolutions urging Governor
number on the official program. The Haskell to caU an extra session of the
crowds spent the forenoon stroIMng legislature nt once to d scuss the feas-
about the grounds ana v,siting the ibHIty of budding a state ptpe line and
different exhibitions.
raise before the church centennial at
Pittsburg.
Missouri Pacific Reorganizes
Denver, Colo,—Official announce-
ment of the reorganization of the Mis-
souri Pacific railroad system wrs made
here Monday when papers were filed
with Secretary of Slate Pearce. Under
the reorganisation the capitalization ii
placed at $240,000,000.
Grandfield Votes Bonds.
to enact and repeal such laws as will
relieve the oil fields of a grave condi-
At 1:30 oclock In the afternoon he tjon as to transportation facilities.
racing began Six lively events filled
the program. Between the races'
there was music by the Metropolitan
Grandfield, Okla.—Friday's viecuon |
to see whether the city would vote $2f
000 worth of bonds for a system of
waterworks to bo owned and operate 1
by the city resulted in an almost ui
auiuioug dieeision in its favor.
lection I concert band and free vaudeville b^
Jones Academy Opens.
Muskogee. Okla.—Jones Academy
, , „ the largest Indian boarding school in
members of the Barnes company of , , ° . . ,
the Choctaw nation, opened last we?k
1 cag0' , 'with Jas. W. Graves of Missouri In
Wednesday night the world s cham- charge. Mr Graves was selected to
pion six-horse team owned by Morris guceee(j William H. Bryce. who died
& Co., made its first appearance. jjn an indianapolis hospital recently.
The Valuable Whale.
Whalebone used to cost 35 cents a
pound 50 years ago, but now it is
worth about $5 a pound. A single
whale may yield 3,000 pounds.
Cleopatra's Needle.
Cleopatra's needle, the famous obe-
lisk on the Thames embankment,
London, is one solid piece of stone, 70
feet high and 1S6 tons in weight.
Electric Lighting Industry.
The electric lighting industry is
represented in the United States by
5,264 companies and municipal plants.
No Rest for the Boss
"What, haven't you had your var-a-
tion yet?"
"No, I'm the boss here."
Women Invent Safty Razors.
At a recent exhibitcn of wouiens
work in London there were exhibited
five safty razors invented by women.
Magic Lanterns.
Magic lanterns were invented in the-
seventeenth century.
Germany Feeds Herself.
German soil feeds nin-tenths of her
people.
Science Ignores the Poles.
Men of science care less for the
finding of the actual poles of the
earth's axis than for the exploration
of the lands and seas surrounding
them.
White Strawberry.
The production of a white straw-
berry which bears all the year around,
instead of at certain seasons only, is
claimed by Hugo H. Liilienthal, a Ber-
keley horticulturist.
Home for Aged Women.
By the will of Mrs. Mary E. Jones
of Knoxville, 111., $250,000 has been
left to that city for the erection and
maintenance of a home for aged
women.
Students Find Lead Mine.
A vein of lead and zinc ore has been
discovered on the grounds of the
school of Mines at Platteville, Wis.,
and will be opened up by the students.
Teach Children to Swim.
Last year more than 32,000 children
were taught to swim at the London
public schools.
Municipal Bread Bakery.
The population in Russia is increas-
ing at the rate of 2,500,000 a year
Portugese Proverb.
He that would have the fruit must
climb the tree.
Foundation of Chop Suey.
Chinese pork is one of the delicacies
of the ages; has been brought up for
centuries to taste better than turkey.
Peculiarity About Money.
The strange thing about money is
what it looks as if it could do for you
until you have it.
Camphor Trees in Florida.
More than 3,000 camphor trees have
been set out in Florida.
Railroads Using Telephone.
During the year 1908 the telephone
was adopted on 2,357 miles of railroad.
OKLAHOMA DIRECTORY
Nice light bread and flaky biscuits
can be made from
Insist on this brand and you
are sure to have the best
voi h (iRoriiR sKi.r.s it
Notary or Corporation Seals, - - f'iJX)
Notary Public Record Book. - - - $I OO
Mrgchants Quick Price Marker, - ti r*i
Oer. Silver Hat or Coat Badge. HXHi
Rubber Stamp*. Pad*. Stencila. Haters and
all atamp supplies Write for priced cata
h.gue, O K. Rubber Stamp jr Seal Co.,
118 W. Grand Ave , Oklahoma i'ity.
WESTERN NATIONAL
Fire. Llfbtnlnr and Tornado. Your bualneaa aolicitod. If
Dot represented in your locality lend to the Company for ap-
plication Agent* punted where not reprp*«rted.
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TABLETS, SCHOOL SUPPLIES
STATE ADOPTED SCHOOl^RKCOBI)S, FTC
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Tucker, Fredrick E. & Day, Jesse L. The Konawa Chief-Leader. (Konawa, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, September 17, 1909, newspaper, September 17, 1909; Konawa, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc98155/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.