State Sentinel (Stigler, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME VI.
STIGLER, HASKELL COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, SEPTEMBER 1, 1911.
NO. 23.
CLARK
SKINS
TAFT
BOY HELD FOR MURDER
Fort Smith, Ark., Aug. 28,-f—Lewis*
Jensen, aged 14, a white boy, was
| yesterday hefld to the grand jury by
Justice Fisher on a charge of mur-
der. He Is accused of killing an 18-
months-old negro child by shooting
the infant with a 22-caltbre revol-
ver. Immediately after the lad was
held to the grand jury application
was made before ClrcUlt Judge Hon j
'OF bond. The iMituion ". TOM THE LONG DRAWN OUT BATTLE FOR A DAN TO TAKE THE PLACE OF
sum of $500. Jensen, his brother JUDGE ROSSER COMES TO AN END THURSDAY MORNING WHEN
Robert, aged 5, and Robert Putmau, THE GOVERNOR GIVES W. H. BROWN HIS COMMISSION
■ aged 14, were shooting at a target j
SATS THAT HAD IT NOT BEEN 1 along the suburban railway tracks j
— . on North Q street: The target was
I placed on a tree. One of the Jen- ■
sen boys fired at the mark and mis-!
' sed- The bullet struck Mary Cross, i
; the infant, who was playing in the
i front yard of the home of her par-:
ents 200 yards away from the point
where the boys were. An effort was
FOR DEMOCRATS TAFT WOULD
BE MUCH DISCREDITED MAN
DEMOCRATS DID IT
FREDERICK IS HANDICAPPED
81 HOLDING AN OFFICE
—— mad^to show that the ^oun^er Jen- GOVERNOR CRUCE STATES THAT HE WILL NEVER APPOINT A MAN TO A
IN HIS RECIPROCITY MEASURE, TAFT j POSITION WHEN THAT MAN, AFTER BEING ELECTED BY THE
PEOPLE, IS MAKING A SATISFACTORY OFFICER.
REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE THEIR
AID AND THANKS REPUBLICANS
Qulncy, 111., Aug. 29.—Speaker
Champ Clark in a signed interview
here Tuesday replied emphatically ta
President Taft's speech of defiance to
Insurgent republicans and democrats
delivered at Hamilton, Mass., Satur-
day. He accused the president of
not stating facts. He said h.e did
not reply for the insurgent republi-
cans, ''who will no doubt take up
cudgels in their own behalf." He
declared among other things that if
sen boy fired the bullet, but this fail
ed. Had it been proven the young-
er lad fired the shot, he could not j
have been .prosecuted, owing to his j
age.
TRAPPED BV POSTCARDS
Guthrie, Okla, Aug. 28.—Frank H.
Kimball, arrested yesterday at
Tacoma, Wash., with $17,000 in his
possession, on charges of fleecing
banks throughout the country out of
$75,000 during the past year, was
trapped through postcards and let-
ters which he recently wrote to his
three small Children here. These
the tariff board is to be used as a, were intercepted, and Kimball's
pretext for delaying tariff revision
downward, the democrats will out
off its supplies. Referring t the
Hamilton speech, Clark said:
"The president essayed the rather
large stunt of running amuck oq
both the insurgent republican*
democrats in congress, singling out
Mr. Underwood and myself In parti-
cular as targets. I accept the on-
slaught as a badge of honor.
"The president, as a rule, Is a
most amiable gentleman, but at
this time he seems to have been in
a bad temper because he sees defeat
staring him in the face.
"The president's criticism of Mr.
Underwood and myself is uncalled for
and is as ungrateful a performance
as I can remember for had It not
been for the action of the democrats
in the house, both in the sixty-flrst
and sixty-second congresses in lining
up unanimously In favor of reciproc-
ity he would have been the most
thoroughly discredited and humiliat-
ed president since the days of An-
drew Johnson."
"With all influence and patronage
of his great office, he could not
whereabouts became known, during
I recent tyo weeks' mysterious
Visit here of Captain F. H. Tlllot-
son, a Kansas City detective.
Kimball has never lived in Guthrie.
Ills wife, a pretty young Cuban wo-
man, who boas's of royal Spanish
blood, and three children came here
six months ago, through the solicita-
tion of friends who had formerly
known the Kimballs in Jacksonville,
Fla. Kiiriba'l has not lived with hi^
family for about five years and the
wife came to Guthrie, where she be-
gan business as a dressmaker in or-
der to make a living for her children
So far as known Kimball has"'not
contributed to their support.
Kimball was a Louisiana soldier in
the Spanish-American war and while
in Cuba he won his Cuban bride, who j
eloped to marry him. They lived in
Jacksonvlle, Fla. Her marriage to
Kimball was opposed by her family, a
prominent one on. the island.
Seattle, Wash., Aug. 28.—Frank
H. Kimball, confessed bank swindler
of Guthrie, Ok., made forced restitu-
tion yesterday of the proceeds of his
crimes to three local banks, and C. (
JUDGE W. H. BROWN, STIGLER,
OKLAHOMA. That is he way it
reads now. The long drawn out
fight for the man to take the place
of Judsse Malcolm E. Rosser. cauie
to an end yesterday morning «Hen
Governor C. E. Cruce signed a com-
n>is on appointing W. 11. Brown of
Stigler to the position.
Just as soon as it became certain
that there would be a vacancy in the
Judgeship of this district, W. H.
Brown and J. W. Frederick both an-
nounced their candidacy for the posi-
tion. The campaign final'y became
so hot between the two men that a
dark horse, in the person of Col.
15. F. Lester, of Wilburton, was run
Into the race, and backed by some
of the strongest members of the bar,
it looked for a time as if Lester
stood a chance of winning. ♦
Finally Gov. Cruce gave Attorney
Frederick the Information that it
was) against his policy to appoint
any person to an office, while that
person was holding an office to
which he had been elected by the peo-
ple. And furthermore. Gov. Cruce
continued, the information was to the
effect that Attorney Frederick was
making one of the best prosecuting
attorneys in the state and that he
would not for a minute deprive the
people of his services.
Gov. Cruce forther stated that he
wanted to appoint a Stigler man,
but that one of the two here must
withdraw before he would make the
appointment, as lie wou'd not choose
between them. When this condition
became fully established Attorney
Frederick withdrew from the race
and W. H. Brown was at once ap-
pointed to the place.
This appointment is a very satis-j
factory one all round, and while the j
race was a hot one while it lasted |
there is no ill feeling left, and our
are glad thai Haute 1 county
received- the proper recognition in
the person of W. H. Brown, and all
the people are confident that Judge
Brown will fill the position with j
honor.
FEEDS CORN TO WORMS
Fort Gibson, Okla., Aug. ,-2>8.—A
new method of protecting cotton
from the boll worm, and other' in-
sects has been found by ' William
Gulager, where one of his tenants
this year experimented by planting
corn In the cotton. .
This is on one of the Gulager
farms in the bottoms near Fort Gib-
son. As soon as the cultivation of
the cotton was finished late in the
season Mr. Hamilton, the tenant,
p'anted a row of corn between every
other row of cotton. The corn was
drilled in and came up very thick.
Then a plow was run between the
cotton and the corn rows and this
kept the field perfectly free from
weeds.
When the worms commenced to
appear in the fields of cotton they
attacked the corn Instead of the cot-
ton in this particular field. The
corn was tender and green. It has
practically been stripped of all of its
leaves and will not make corn or
fodder, but It is saving the cotton
from the worms.
FAIR IS
AIRSHIP AT MCSKOGEE FAIR
Muskogee, Okla., Aug. 30.—
Avltaor Hugh A. Robinson, a Curtiss
hydro-aeroplane similar to the ma-
chine he will use thrice daily during
the six days of the 'second annual
Great Muskogee Fair in October,
created a big sensation at the inter-
national aviation meet at Chicago
recently. Okiahomans as welt as the
thousands of residents of the south-
west who will attend the Muskogee
fair will have an exceptional oppor-
tunity to see Robinson perfprm
equally spectacular stunts with his
bird machine as those which caused
PROF. C E. SCOTT SPEARS
Superintendent, of the Stlg er and this will be a good time for the
schools, C. E. Scott, will give a
lecture at the Methodist church Sun-
day evening at 3 o'clock, his sub-
ject being Sunday School work.
Prof. Scott Is one of the foremor.
educators In the state of Oklahoma,
patrons of the Stigler schools to turn
out and see what manner of man will
control the destinies of the schools
the coming term. A'l who attend
will be amply repaid for their
trouble.
muster a majority of the house re- D. Hlllman, a real estate promoter.
publicans for reciprocity in either | Of the $17,250 which Mil Into Kim-
ball's hands through his operations,
all but 600 was restored to the rlght-
tUH°eWwas8'charged with forgery by ' formances of Harry N. Atwood the
^publicans, and not a word of thanks j information filed In the superior | ^
to the democrats. | court yesterday by the prosecuting for
congress. After we pulled him out
of the hole in the sixty-flrst congress,
he wrote a letter of thanks to Mr.
McCall of Massachusetts, and the
AVIATION WORLD EXCITED
New York, Aug. 28.—The aviation
world, which Includes many millions
ot human beings who never flew and
never intend to fly, still Is more or
less excited over the astounding per-
"The president says that he didattorney,
not play politics" about reciprocity,:
but that we did ' p'ay politics |
aboot the tariff. The only politics
we played was to keep faith withj
the people and to religiously redeem j
the promises we made in order to j
win the election in 1910 which is:
the best and noblest sort of politics. |
HARRIS ARRESTED
AS A WITNESS
smithereens all previous records for
long distance aeroplane flights by
flying from St. Louis by way of Chi-
cago and Buffalo, a total of 1,269
miles, without a mishap. Atwood's
safe arrival in New York aB he flew
down the Hudson river from Nyack,
his lust halt on his journey, was view-
ed by many thousands of people
the best and noDiest son ox po.mcs. , — — -.there* on housetops and along the
If any politics was p nyed on re-ipf, MAN TAKEN TO MUSKOGEE rWer^front" ^
clprocity the president himself play- j|||^ jq TESTIFY IN THE
ed it.—-personal at that."
SEARCH FOR NEGRO DROPPED
Durant, Ok., Aug. 28.—After a
search of eighteen hours for the
negro who attempted to attack Mrs.
A. Wllkerson, last evening, the pur-
MCCLURE MURDER CASE
His air voyage, which will become
historic, was made in twelve days,
his actual flying time being on'y
twenty-eight hours and thirty-one
minutes. Up to two years ago the
Charley Harris, of Stigler, who
was at Porum last Saturday when , -
McC ure was killed and who was the St ^la °
second man to reach his side before New or (overe 16 8 *
A. wiiKerson, .a8l ^ d,e(, wg6 nrretteA here Wednes- almost exactly the same time but the
suit was this morning dropped by , #v by Deputy parker an(l train journey Is more than a hundred
Sheriff Hamilton. Intense excite- j taken tQ Mugkogee yesterday by miles shorter than the air route tali-
ment followed the affair, and another , () Sherlff Pugh> of Muskogee by Atwood.
burning was feared if the negro _ It is thought that Harris The Previous worlds record for
was captured. mlght know MmethIng 0f the men | "oss country flying was 1,164 miles,
It developed today that the negro who kJH#d McClure xhe offlcenj! made In Europe.
was dressed in woman's clothing ; of Mugk county are TOakinC a1 Atwood now announces his lnten-
when he entered the Wilkerson home. investigation of the affair and "on to try for a prize of *50,000 of-
Mrs. Wllkerson fled when she , 80 tar have had little light th-own on ^ed to any aviator who will fly from
covered that the negro was a -man. ; the w t0 the authorB of the coast to coast. He says he will start
, nnrf I deed lt geem8 that the porum peo. from San Francisco, fly down to Los
pie believe in sticking together. , Angeles and then across the continent
Charley Harris is well known here to New York In October.
having been in the cement block
■„ business here and was janitor of the
After carrying the child some dts-1 gtlg,er 8Chool8 laBt year
tance toward Red river the negro j „
dropped it and fled. It Is thought
that he escaped up to Dennison. j
COMPLETE INTER URB AN SOON
Muskogea, Okla., Aug 30.—For-
mer Governor Haskell's electric in-
terurban line between Muskogee and
historic Fort Gibson will be in opera-
tion by October first and will have
the honor of transporting thousands
of residents along the right-of-way
to Muskogee on the days of the sec-
ond annual Great Muskogeee Fair.
The new storage Edison battery car
from New York and a gasoline
motor car from Omaha, Neb., will
both be here before that time.
The extension from Fort Gibson
to Tahlequah will be completed in
about two months is the confident
expectation of the engineers. After
that section of the road is completed
the oonstruetion crew will begin
operations from Muskogee west to
Okmulgee. Tulsa and Sapulpa w,Jll
be touched after that.
COMMITTEE PREPARING THE CAT-
ALOGUE OF PRIZES TO BE
OFFERED FOR PRODUCE
S2.000.00 IN PRIZES
THREE DAYS OF PLEASURE AND PROFIT
ARE OFFERED THE FARMERS IN
HASKELL COUNTY NEXT MONTH
Active arrangements are being
ma<|e to complete the program for
the® County Fair which will take
place In Stigler, October the 16, 17,
and 18. More than $2,000.00 in
prizes will be awarded to the farmers
of the county and prizes will be of-
fered on every thing raised on the
farm and on all classes of stock and
poultry.
The committee Is busy now arrang-
ing the catalogue of prizes and the
list will appear later in State Sentinel
and will probably be ready by our
next issue.
An effort will be made to make
this one of the biggest events ever
pulled off here. More money will be
spent and there will be three days
ot fun and amusements as well as
. . . Of «uu nuu aiuuBciuouis - as wen ua
the great surging mass of liumanttp Jg * , .
„ , * . . ... "or business. Watch for the list of
at Grant park, Chicago to gasp with
dismay, a wo and fear.
At the Chicago meet occupants of
hundred'; of tauiiches and other
small craft which fl'led the lagoon
Inside the breakwater, received a few
thrills that wern't Included in those
given to persons in the grandstands.
They saw a bird-boat leap over them,
settle on the water, scoot around like
a1 lightning bug then fly away over
the land.
They saw Hugh Robinson making
his second flight in av Curtiss hydro-
aeroplane. Starting from the shute
he skipped across the waters of Lake
Michigan at a speed of fifty miles an
hour. A sma'l launch was the first
obstacle In the way. Barely elevat-
ing his planes Robinson leaped his
machine over it and, before the
startled occupants had recovered his
composure was hopping other small
crafts on the lagoon. Robinson
next started to jump the three
hundred foot lake steamer United
States, then suddenly changed his
mind, turned his plane upward an 1
soared out over the lake. After
several minutes he came into land
and alighted near the grandstand.
He seized her 3-year-old child and
threatened to kill it if she did not re-
turn. She ran to her husband, who
was working in a nearby fle'd, and
gave the alarm.
CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
Charged With Seduction
Simon Dansby, a negro who lives
In Pruett. Valley, wns arrested Wed-
nesday by Deputy Parker, charged
with seduction. He wsb placed In
Mrs. L. C. Winn returned yester-
day from a visit of e*e* l days with
relatives In Arkansas.
The cemetery association will meet \the county jail.
next Tuesday, Sept. 5th, with Mrs. D. i 0
Balne near Boone school. All mem- John Moore of Kinta wus in the
jbers are requested to be present. ' | city Wednesday.
ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETED
The committee of the Modern
Woodmen of America have completed
their arrangements for a great day at
their Labor Day Celebration next
Monday They have arranged for
some good speeches and the pro-
gram for the day Is' full of good
things, and there wlil be amusements
for all. They calm that they will
have the biggest single day's celebra-
tion ever pulled off In the city and
as the event has been widely adver-
tised there Is little doubt but that
they will succeed In the undertaking,
for this commtttee, with Dr. Mc-
Kinley at ibe head, are hustlers, and
this camp one of the best In the
state.
DURNETT TO
DE HERE SUNDAY
GREAT EVANGELIST WILL BEGIN MEET-
ING AT STIGLER SUNDAY IN
METHODIST CHURCH
The Rev. R. H. H. Burnett, of
Hope, New Mexico, will be in Stigler
Sunday and will at once f e charge
of the affairs at the Methodist
church for a series of meetings to
last some time. The Rev. Burnett
is an evangelist with a national re-
putation and as an orator Is the peer
of any man in the pulpit today. It
is seldom that the people of a tiwn
the size of Stlg er are able to listen
to such a man. Rev. Burnett will
be ably seconded in his effort here
by Pastor Jno. D. Salter, of the
Methodist church. One of the great-
est revivals ever held in this part
of the country 's looked for
premiums offered and get your prize
produce and stock ready for the fair.
v . -o «
GOVERNOR ITNWILLING
TO TAKE ACTION
County Attorney John A. Fain of
Comanche county, who led the suc-
cessful fight for the dissolution of
that county, was in Oklahoma City
Monday in consultation with state
officers as to what steps to take to-
ward the county officers of the late
county, who stubbornly refuse to be
dissolved.
The sheriff and county judge are
going ahead with the duties of their
respective offices as though nothing
had happened. Marriage licensee
are being issued and marriage cere-
monies performed, persons arrested
and tried for misd3meanors, just as
though the county still had a legal
existence.
The question of using the militia
to dispossess the officers who refnse
to quit was discussed with Governor
Cruce, who was unwilling to take
any action of that sort unless con-
vinced that the local authorities are
unable to deal with the situation.
The plan now suggested is to cite
the officers for contempt, either be-
fore District Judge Johnson of Law-
ton, who first ordered the dissolu-
tion of the county, or before th9
supreme court, which afflmeil Judge
Johnson's holding.
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Cotton Coming In
J. W. Shropshire of Shropshire
Valley brought In the second bale of
cotton Wednesday. The bale weigh-
ed 495 pounds and was bought by
W. B. Fears for 11 1-2 cents.
Returned Prom Market
Miss Emma Winter returned home
last Friday from St. Louis where
•he purchased a nobby line of fall
and winter millinery. Call and In-
spect her line before you buy.
Miss Mooring, who *111 trim for
Miss Winter this season, arrived
this week from her home near St.
Louts.
MARRIAOE I.ICENSES
Elmer Richardson of Lequire, age
18, to Miss Edith Allen of Sana
Bols, age 18.
J. H. Covington of Quinton, ags
26, to Mls$ Maude Lee Hatridge of
Kinta, age'17,
R. O. Patrick .age 19, to Miss
Ethel McMlnn, age 16, both of Kinta.
Walter Brown, age 27, to Miss
Ollle Rogers, age 19, both of Gar-
land.
REWARD FOR THE
ARREST OF MURDERERS
*
"I will pay one thousand dollars
to the person making the arreBt or
to any person giving any information
which will lead to the arrest and con-
viction of thfe person or persons who
murdered ^harley McClure last Sat-
urday evening."
This statement was made yester-
day In the Phoenix office by Jack
Davis. Mr. Davis requested his
offer be made public through the
columns of the Phoenix.
"I will give the one thousand do'-
lars just as soon as the guilty part-
ies are arrested and under convic-
tion for killing my friend, Charley
McClure." said Mr. Davis.—
Phoenix.
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