State Sentinel (Stigler, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1922 Page: 3 of 8
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STATE SENTINEL, STIGLER, HASKELL COUNTY, OKLAHOMA THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1922.
PAGE THREE
Keota's Undefeated High
School Basket Ball Team
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| the tournament as the prime favorite.
From Muskogee the Keota team ex-
pects to enter the state tournament
I to be held at Norman, March 17-18.
! lo contest for the state title.
Wonderful Record.
Playing on an average of two
games a week all during the season,
the Haskell county boys have piled
up a total of 915 points against their
opponents' 271, which gives them a
margin of 644 points for the season.
The Keota team is built around
two men. Hollabaugh, who was an
all-state man in Arkansas last sea
eon, and West, who was conceded to
be one of the best high school players
in Kansas last year.
Hollabaugh at center has tossed
184 points, up to last night, through
the basket so far this year. West at
forward leads the team with 328 to
his credit, and Sewell, the other for-
ward, comes next with 255. Max-
well has accounted for 38 points,
Keese, 15, Bronson 15 and Didlake
1G. These figures do not include last
night't scores.
Ijose Only One Man.
Tho locals will lose but one man
by graduation at the end of the sea-
ton. He is Maxwell. With the re-
turn of all others assured, Keota fans
are already expecting another won-
der live next season.
From Front to Back—Hollabaugh, center (captain), Keese, guard; Bran-
son, guard; West, forward; Sewell. forward; Maxwell, guard.
23 STRAIGHT FOR
I record for him as he frequently'piles
KEOTA CAGERS up that many in an evening's per-
formance.
Wonder Five Mops Up on Sallisaw
and Adds to Remarkable
Record for Season.
Keota, Okla., Feb. 26.—Defeating
Sallisaw by the score of 62 to 16,
Keota's undefeated high school bas-
ketball teaim won its twenty-third
game of the season here last night.
The Sallisaw boys were completely
outclassed. West was the star of the
game. The local boy scored 16 field
goals. This however, is not a new
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'YOU STARTED RIOT,
SCARED OUT JUDGE'
Governor Charges Okmulgee Prose-
cutor Acted Mke Despot Crazed
with Stolen Power.
After State Honors.
Keota will close the season next
Friday with with a gaime here with
Wilburton.
The team began its season Decem-
ber 1 and has hung up a record that
is unsurpassed in the state. It has
defeated many of the strongest high
school teams in the state.
Keota is a contender for the dis-
trict championship to be decided at
the tournament to be held in Musko
gee March 10-11, and Coach Bill
Taylor asserts that honor is already
as good as won. Keota will enter
Oklahoma City, Feb. 28.—Govern-
or J. B. A. Robertson in a letter to-
night to County Attorney Hepburn at
Okmulgee demanded a chance to ap-
pear before the Okmulgee county
grand Jury, which is inestigating the
failure of the Bank of Commerce of
Okmulgee.
The governor reiterated his waiver
of immunity and asked an opportu-
nity to tell his story before the grand
jurors.
Governor Robertson asserted the
county attorney had full legal author-
ity to call him before the grand jury.
Hepburn in a letter to the governor
yesterday expressed doubt as to his
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legal right to summon "a person who
is himself under Investigation," but
said he would Investigate the matter
more fully and advise Governor Rob-
ertson.
"Stand Up Like a Man."
"I asked you to stand up like a
man and look me in the eye in the
grand Jury room." Governor Rob-
ertson challenged the County Attor-
ney Hepburn.
"If I aim guilty, you should wel-
come hearing my testimony," . said
the executive's letter. "If I aim in*
nocent common decency demands that
the grand Jury be penmitted to hear
what I have to say."
The governor's letter follows:
"Some\hree weeks ago, pursuant
to an arranged and publicly announc-
ed plan of which you were entirely
cognizant, I headed a large delega-
tion of Oklahoma business men on a
trip to the republic of Mexico in an
attempt to build up much needed
improvement in our business rela-
tions with that government. Upon
the eve of departure and during irny
absence, you a sworn officer of the
court, headed and led an unlawful
.iot In the superior court room or
Okmulgee county and by duress and
threatened force and violence drive
the judge of a court of record from
the bench and from your county be-
cause he followed the law and dared
lo oppose your unlawful demand.
"Like a Crazed Desj>ot"
"You have encouraged or led ev-
ery conceivable' public unovement in
your county during my absence cal-
culated to Intimidate the grand jur-
ors summoned to appear, the courts
and the judicial and executive officers
having to deal with the affairs of
your county.
"Upon the front pages of the news-
papers of the state during my ab-
sence you have played up your caim-
paign of terror like a despot crazed
with stolen power.
"Unless this is curbed, how could
a grand jury sitting in your county do
its duty in accord with the honest
judgment of its imembers without the
fear of suffering violences?
"Upon my return Sunday imornlng
I advised you of my willingness,
waiving all privileges and immuni-
ties, to go before the grand Jury and
testify fully as to all matters being
investigated.
"Still swinging with the momen-
tum of my absence, you announced
through the press that I would be
called. But before the sun could set,
you treimbled and weakened and, fall-
ing, gave to the press a letter to me
in which you said: 'I am in doubt at
this time whether the county attor-
ney has any right to bring before the
grand jury any person who is him-
self being investigated. However,
I will look into the mater imore fully
and advise you later.'
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Calls Him Hypocrite.
"The humblest layman in the land
knows that you stateents are the
rankest of hypocritical camouflage.
The grand jury has the right to hear
the testimony of any witness. A iman
against whom an indictment is sought
can lawfully refuse to testify or not
refuse as he sees fit.
"The governor of the state is im-
•nune from the subpoena of a grand
jury but I have waived all official pri-
vileges: and immunnities given the
governor by the law. I want to tell
the grand jury the facts. I ask in
tlfat regard only that consideration
fiiven by the law to the huimlest pri-
vate citizen.
"Now, that I have returned, Mr.
Hepburn, I ask you to stand up like
a man and look me in the eye in the
srand jury room. If I aim guilty you
should welcome hearing my testi-
mony. If I am innocent, common
decency demands that the grand jury
be penmitted to hear what I have to
say.
"Shame on State's Name."
"If I am indicted, a two-fold conse-'
quence occurs. First, it is a charge
against me personally. Second, it is
a serious reflection upon the state of
whose government I am the head. If
only miy personal name and fate were
involved I might unflinchingly let you
pursue your course and unjustly and
maliciously bring ime before the bar
of the court to stand trial on a charge
unsupported by evidence or reason,
and let my acquittal by a court and
jury suffice as imy exoneration and
vindication.
"But when you indict a governor
of a state, the report appears in the
press of all the nation. It sets a
stain upon the fair name of the state
harmful to the pride and business
welfare of all the people.
"It is to protect the people of the
state from such humiliation that I
have asked the right, without privi-
leges or immunities given to any cit-
izen of the state, to give the facts to
the grand jury; to attempt to pre-
vent you from maliciously distorting
the facts and the law behind the
closed doors of a grand jury roam."
Preston Banker Indicted.
Okmulgee, Feb. 28.—The investi-
gation of Bank of Commerce fail-
ure here, in connection with the
names of high state officials have
been mentioned, was started by the
new district court grand jury today
when T. P. Farmer, special auditor
employed by the recent sueprior court
grand jury, was examined and is said
to have submittedd the report of his
findings in the bank records which re-
cently caused a sensation when it was
made public.
The grand jury which was impan-
nelled Monday morning by . Judge
Mark L. Bozarth, was reoragnlzed
early today when W. R. Wiley of
Beggs, produced a physician's certi-
cate of sickness in his faimily and was
excused, F. W. Tuepker, Okmulgee
merchant, was selected to fill the
place.
Four indictments against B. Brown
missing cashier of the Oklahoma
State Bank of Preston, charging him
with embezzlement as in bills return-
ed by the superior court grand jury
before it was discharged by Judge H.
R. Christopher, three weeks ago, pn
the grounds it had been improperly
impannelled, were returned.
Officers and directors of the de-
funct Bank of Commerce and other
Okmulgee banks have been sub-
poenaed to appear tomorrow. All
these witnesses appeared before the
former grand jury. Officers of five
Oklahoma City banks who have been
subponeaed to appear with certain
records of transactions of Governor
J. B. A. Robertson, Fred Dennis, for-
mer state bank commissioner, and S.
P. Freellng, former attorney general,
will be here Thursday morning.
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Henderson, Virgil L. State Sentinel (Stigler, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1922, newspaper, March 2, 1922; Stigler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc99966/m1/3/: accessed March 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.