McCurtain Gazette (Idabel, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 58, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 11, 1920 Page: 2 of 8
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A NEW ATTITUDE TOWARD
LYNCHINGS.
white men accused of murder. It is i
only a step along a way already ly-1
(Fiist published in the Gazette
Sept. 1, out Oct. 2)
(By Victor E. Harlow) recognized method of procadure tha
Lynchings are no new thing in Ok- when any individual acts in a way
lahoma. But the response of the -which is exceptionally distasteful to
state government toward the situa- the people of his community, he shall
tion created by two lynchings which be subjected to immediate and con-
occurred in the state during this past sign punishment without the inter-
week, is a very new thing.
No one could tell without much in-
East, "lying in McCurtain County8<Ok- strid^vlveste^rih^^ aTd interes!t of,that il is necessary that said real ea-
Sr °"d 10 remo,e c,oud fr™ a*£2*5 raM&irr
ty.
IN DISTRICT COURT
Thomas Cole, plaintiff, vs. J.
Bartlett and Rachel Bartlett,
fendants.
No. 3305
vention of the law. The attitude of State of Oklahoma, To J. P. Bartlett
mind which takes lynching for any
and Rachel Bartlett, .Defendants:
Said defendants J. P. Bartlett and
therein by said plaintiff on or before,
the 14th day of October, A n 100f* '
SE 4 of the NEVi
IT IS ORDERED That said peti-
i . anc^ i tion be and the same hereby is set
or said petition will be taken as true' ITownshin^mi/vf 'p °* SeSo°S 2® 'down f°r bearing on the 28th day of
*nri *n. L;j I ^ ? 8. bouth and Range 23 East September, 1920, at the hour of ten
and a judgment for said plaintiff m\ Said lands will ba"so'ld'on thelEri5TTT
said action for cancellation of deed!lowing terms and conditions to-wit• Ifwtv
and to remove cloud from title at Cash in u«n,i wu •! County tuun room 01 lucuuruuii
above set out will be rendered' ac-■ the sale by the Co "tconf,rmat,on County, Oklahoma, at which time and
nnvriinrrlv ~ c . ll'
M., of said day, at the
Court room of McCurtain
cordingly,
Dated this
1920.
vestigation how many lynchings crime, as a matter of course, wili I
have occurred in Oklahoma durir.g presently take lynching for a lesser |Rachel Bartlett, will take notice" that ATTEST-
the last ten years. But it is certain crime as a matter of course, and in- ■■ • I
that there have been a great many, dividual safety, under the assurance
As a matter of fact, they have been of the constitutional safeguards, wiTl
so common as to have come to be cease to be.
28th
County
County,
I Tinted "tkn oi„r "i . j 1 place the next of kin and all persons
day of August 192D. August, interested in said minor's estate may
appear and show cause, if any they
have why an order should not be
granted for the sale of so much of the
The namo q„i^H£a(,lanL real estate of said minor as is neces-
was signed by me, his murk by'him Zlt the reflSOnS Said petiti0"
nam/as a StS to^TmSk^ ^ \ IS FURTHER ORDERED, That
Additional witnesses, J. A Andrews L\ C°Py °ufi,thJ orde? be Posted up in
and Pete Williams I™ £e pu^1,c-places in the County of
- J. A. Andrews, Attorney for Gdn I M/C?ft?in'. ?tate of Oklahoma, one
the have been sued in the above' (SEAL)
named Court for cancellation of deed
of the 5th day of July, 1920, from
considered practically a matter of Governor Robertson has taken the Jglands- J^ Bartlett to the
course. The public mind has be- only way which is available to put an NEV 0f SEi/. E,, f Nwv
come so habituated to them here that end to these outrages. Mobs arelsE*4 and the W& of NW*4 of SEVi
even high officers in the state have rarely compos'ed of the good peoplv
been found who maintained that lyn- of a community. On the contrary,I
chings were justifiable and should re- they are usually composed of that $100 Reward, $100
ceive the countenance of good citi- element of society which is eager in The readers of this paper will be
zens. seizing an, opportunity to unleash the1 ?!••*??.._t® J**fn that .th,re '• l*Mt
F. M. UROOKES,
r C°Urt Clerk-
L. E. Mifflin, Attorney for Plaintiff.
(First published in the Gazette
Sept. 1, out Sept. 15)
NOTICE OF SALE OF ftEAL I
TATE BY GUARDIAN.
No. 1145
State of Oklahoma, McCurtain Coun-
ty.
IN COUNTY COURT
J980- his
SYLVESTER (x) GIBSON, Sr.
mark
In the Matter of the Guardianship of
Sylvester Gibson," Jr., a minor.
Never before during the history of savage passions which lie very slight-1 Cn^biffodcur"tn SfVSSi . .
Oklahoma has a governor of this ly covered in the depths of human! f11?1 ls catarrh. Catarrh bein greatly I Notice is hereby given in pursuance
k„ coiwtltuUonal* conditions of an order of the County Court of
state, the man who is sworn to main- nature. The lust to kill, which quick-
tain the law, was a direct insult to ly comes to the surface whenever the
the government. Governors in the control imposed by government sits
past have had brought to their atten- lightly, can be kept in subjection on-
tion the fact that a lynching is an at- ly when it is known that deliberate
tack upon government itself; that it killing is murder, no matter wheth-
is predicated upon a double assump- ther committed individually 0r en
tion of governmental incompetence, masse, and that officers sworn to en-
to-wit, that the government would force the law who deliberately permit
not do justice agairst the individaul these outrages to take place or who
charged with the crime, and that it show incapacity in the face of such
would not prove itself competent to emergencies, are not fit to be intrust- i
punish the numerous other indivi- ed with the high responsibility they I
duals who chose to make this an oc- have assumed.
casion of a new crime. But govern- Attempts of the partisan press to I
ors heretofore have apparently as- cast discredit upon the governor in!
sumed that these violent outbreaks this particular action will not sue-1
were a matter of course and should be ceed. Whatever the governor's ideas >
winked at from the local officers on may be in other matters, in this par-1
up to the highest officer of the state, ticular emergency he has shown thai
The prompt action of Governor disposition and the measure of a true !
Robertson in this instance has sent a governor, a man who takes seriously!
thrill of surprise and of congratula- his oath to maintain the majesty* of,
tion through that part of our people the -law It now remains necessnrv i
which is seriously interested in main- only for him to make his words be-1
tenance of respect for law. He ha- come facts, to see that his instruc-1
merely done what every governor tions are rigidly carried out and tha:'
should do; he has-ordered the remov- in this instance, at least, the govern-!
al of the officers who have permit- ment cannot be flaunted with impun-
ted these outrages to occur, if it be ity.
found that thev are
Influenced by _
requires constitutional treatment Hall's
Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and
acts thru the Blood on the Mucoui Sur-
faces of the System thereby destroyinc
tne foundation of the disease, giving tha
patient strength by building up the con-
stitution and assisting nature In doing its
work. The proprietors have so much
faith In the curative power of Haifa
Catarrh Medicine that they offer" One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails
to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address F J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo.
Ohio. Sold by all Druggists, 76c.
the County of Mccurtain, State of
Oklahoma, made on the 31st day of
August, 1920, the undersigned guar-
dian of the estate of Sylvester Gib-
son, Jr., a minor, will sell at public
auction to the highest bidder subject
| of which shall be at the Court House
| where said hearing is to be held, and
! a copy thereof personally served up-
(First published in the Gazette
ORDERAFOR2 HEARSr\Pr PPTiTinJ °n ^ next of kin'o'FsaVward and
TO SKI r RITi i EOTIV i8 her Persons interested in the es-
ro SELL REAL ESTATE BY tate of said w«rd, residing in the
nf m >.' . . I County and a copy thereof mailed to
State of Oklahoma, McCurtain Coun-, the next of kin and persons interest-
ed in said minor's estate who are not
ty.
IN COUNTY COURT.
In the Matter of the Guardianship of
Nattie Nakishi, a Minor.
On this the 28th day of August,
1920, David Nakishi, as Guardian of
the estate of the above named minor
to confirmation by said Court on the | !? **{* file<| hi.s ,ver'fied. Petition to
16th day of September. A. D. 1930, Jh*:, fesj®te °£ ™lnor desenb-
at 10 o'clock A. M. at the front door petfon for the reasons in
of the court house in Idabel, Oklaho-'® petition stated. And it
DEAD NEWSPAPERS
in any way re-
sponsible for them, either through
carelessness or incapacity, and he
has commanded that the men who The public is enabled to sense the
have Committed the crime of murder seriousness of the newspaper gitua-
under the guise of a lynching be tion as it sees the disappearance, one
treated as any other men who have a*ter another, of old established jour-
committed murder, should be. But nals, due to the high price of labor
it is a new attitude and the more a an(l materials, especially of news-
source of satisfaction that it is a sur- Pr'nt.
prise. Heretofore, we have tacitly the saine neighborhood in In-
recognized a special species of hom- d'ana last Saturday tw0 daily news-
icide which was to all intents and papers gave up the ghost. One was i
purposes not a violation of law, to- a Republican daily 20 year? old; the'
wit, the killing of a man accused of °tber a Democratic daily establish-)
crime, by a number of persons in the in the seventies ar.d published con- {
form of a mob. Fortunately for the tinuously, and both worthy of a longj
state, Governor Robertson does not There are communities which!
appear to recognize this classifica- neglect their newspapers, as though;
ti°n- patronage were a matter of no per-
"Fortunately" is said advisedly, sonal concern. These communities do
The mob spirit is one that grows up- not awaken to a sense of their re
on what it feeds upon. There are ex- sponsibilities until too late. Since the
treme instances of grossness in crime outbreak of the war hundreds of
which so outrage the public sense as smaH newspapers have disappeared,
almost to justify an outbreak of rage j due to increased costs and indifferent
which would result in the immediate patronage. A community stands
application of extreme penalty to the aloof while the village paper is in its
person found definitely to be guilty 'ast throes can hardly escape a feel-
of it. But organized society exists, irg of self-contempt in the contem-
solely by virtue of the surrender to plation of the wreck.—Rochester (N.
the government of the right of en-iY-) Herald.
forcement of penalty against wrong-1 There are few, if any, newspapers,
doing. The attitude of mind which i: 'eklies, that are making a penny a
permits of the immediate application j year on their subscription list and a
of violence in these extreme cases continuation of advance prices the
very readily grows into one which J publishers will be forced to enter oth-
countnances the application of the fcr 1'nes of business.
same method to less severe cases.'
and we see communities advancing) two weeks off and filled up
from the lynching of negro rapists ion 8°°^ old time Arkansas grub, we
to the lynching of negro murderers j reluctantly begin our labors again,
and by easy stages to the lynching of jBut we can ass"re you, a little rest
————— troes a long way.
THE "OLD RELIABLE" j
THEDFORD'S BUCK-DRAUGHT
Wlite Haired Alabama lady Says She Has Seen Medicines Come
•nd Go But The "Old Reliable" Tbediord'. BUck-Drangbt
Came and Stayed.
Dutton, Ala.—In recommending Thed-
ford's Black-Draught to her friends and
neighbors here, Mrs. T. F. Parks, a well-
known Jackson County lady, said: "I am
getting up in years; my head is pretty
white. 1 have seen medicines and reme-
dies come and go but the old reliable
-JsPC—
"cSme and stayed. I am talking of Black-
Draught, a liver medicine we have used
for years—one that can be depended up-
on and one that will do the work.
feeling after meals. Sour stomach and
sick headache can be relieved by taking
Black-Draught It aids digestion, also
ssists the liver la throwing off impuri-
ties. I am glad to recommend Black-
Draught, and do, to my friends and
neighbors."
Thedford's Black-Draught is a stand-
ard household remedy with a record of
over seventy years of successful use.
Every one occasionally needs something
"Black-Draught will relieve indigestion to help cleanse the system of imparities,
and constipation if taken right, and I know j Try Black-Draught. Insist upon Thed-
for 1 tried it It is the best thing I have | ford's, the genuine.
ever found for the full, uncomfortable! At all druggists. (175)
residents of McCurtain County, Ok-
lahoma, if there be any, at least four-
teen days prior to the date of this
hearing.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, That
a copy of this order be published for
two successive weeks in the McCur-
tain Gazette, published in McCurtain
County, Oklahoma.
(SEAL) J. D. PARKS,
appear
mg to the Court from said petition
iSf'i
i *■"
Whats done as much as
anything else to fill up
the movie houses
Select your tirc3 ac-
cording to the roadi
t 'ney have to travel:
In sandy or nilly coun-
try, wherever the going
is apt to be heavy—The
U. S. Nobby.
For ordinary country
roads—The U. S. Chain
cr Usco.
For front wheel*—
The U. S. Plain.
For best result!—
everywhere — U. S.
Royal Cords.
KWl. CORD-NOeEY-QWNU SCO-PL/UN
IOOK at the crowds that
^ step out of their cars in
front of the movies every
summer evening.
The movie managers
would be renting half of their
theatres for store space, if it
weren't for the automobile.
//
It is typical of Americans
that they, took to the auto-
mobile as a matter cf coursc
— just as they have to the
movies and to every ether
great invention of the last'
half century.
And the same thing has
happened every time. Taking
things as they come is a fine
way to fester waste and ex-
travagance.
As regards tires, the come-
back is about due. People
are pretty near through pay- .
ng for something that isn't
there when they look for it.
Ill
What a man pays for in a
tire is quality—not a limited
number of miles or the privi-
lege of getting a rebate in
case the miles don't come
up to the limit.
U. S. Tires are guaranteed
as to quality—with no limi-
tation cf mileage.
And that hold's just as good
for the small car tire as for
the biggest U. S. Tire*we've
got. There's only one stand-
ard of quality with U. S.—and
the size of the car has noth-
ing whatever to do with it.
IV
We represent U. S. Tires
in this town. You'll find it
worth while to talk to us be-
fore you buy any more tires.
United States Tires
JOE LOFTIN, Idabel, Oklahoma
WYRICK GARAGE, Idabel, Oklahoma
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