The Star-Gazette from Sallisaw, Oklahoma • Page 1

Society VOLUME 22. SALLISAW. OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1915. NUMBER 36. A Destructive Storm at Gans i Killing I'AIN KILLS LLOYD JOHNS AT VRONA AND LATER SUR' i RENDERS TO SHERIFF C.

M. GAY LIFE AND PROPERTY LOSS, SHOCKS A NEIGHBORING VILLAGE TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF SEQUOYAH COUNTY SALLISAW SENDS AID Al iibiuit iiDon tlic lowii of (iiiiis, 9 milt 's sdulluMst ol' Siillisiiw. wiis siriick the most severe cleslriietive Ilia hits been ree(ii(le(l in the annuls of Scquoyali eounty hislory for many moons. The wiies were all plaeed oul of commission by llie wind anil the news did nol reach Sallisaw unlil nearly iive 'clock. JIPIO 1-ee ('ampbell, Goy Wood, L.

N. YVa'laec, Ur. McKeel. panied by E. Bee Giilhrey of the SUir-Gazetle, were al the K.

C. S. depot for a freight train lo take Ihcm to the aid of the sufferers. While waiting at the depot a "wire was received from Gans announcing that siiflicienl nu'dical aid hud arrived and the doctors did not go. The remainder of the party, howevej, went on rmd reached the storm-stricken village about 6:30 p.

m. The K. C. S. Ry.

Co. stopped one of Jls fast through freight trains in ordei' to accommodate the 'travelers. At Viona Sunday morning about i.inc o'clock in the presence of a nuinber of eye witnesses Lloyd Johns was shot and instanllj killed by Deputy Sherifl" Lige Fain. There 1 have just completed a year's had been bad blood between the course al the Cotinors Stale School (wo men for sometime and the of AgricuUurc, located at Warner, trouble was not wholly unexpected. OkhdiMiiia.

and can say I am highly flic killing took place at W. H. pleased wilh the work being done Hulsey's store and to County At- a1 that institution. think if any tocney Joe Bailey Allen Mr. Hulse'y bey or girl of this county has a do- nie'dc the following signed statement sire lo attend a good agricultural duhng the afternoon Sunday: school they would do well lo go i fou the morning of June 20, 1015, that he was ready to come lo Sallisaw.

Considering the distance, the character of the road and tlie lateness of the hour, the sheriff decided not to start home that night. He got word to Deputy George Benge and Mr. Curtis, instructing them where and at whal hour lo meet him on the following morning and after spending a pleasant night at the I'ain home, started for Sallisaw before daylight Wednesday morning. The p.irly arrived here about noon. Frye Vvyc have been I 'elained as attorneys foi- the pr'e- dinances of the town and to see to it that the men brought before hiiii and found guilty of their violation shall pay the penalty seems to be a certainty.

The blufT game don't go with him. In his efforts he has the unqualified support of City Attorney J. H. Jarman who insists that he will ever be found ready to appear and defend the actions of the court. In an interview with an Evening Star reporter this af.ternoon Mr.

Jarman frankly insisted that he was not in favor of converting the town lockup into a free boarding house for left entirely dcstilule and by reason of Ihc seriods damage done all over the little village, uiilside aid is needed at once. These people do no! need aid next week, but Ihev NEED IT lUGIIT NOW. A local committee i-uiisisiing of Fonce Holland. E. C.

Gilbert, A. L. Shackelford and Dr. L. f'inncr has been app unied IM receive and distribute oOered in the way of cash, provisions or clothing.

The Star- Gazeftc will acknowledge leceipl of offered and see lo il- that the conlril.uitinns arc promptly sent to the above named committee. T-he -Showi-n? Today Sallisaw, June 2:1 We, the undersigned, hereby contribute to the Gans Conunit- lee composed of Fonce Holland, E. C. (Tilbert, Dr. L.

J. Pinner and A. L. Shackelford, foi- the use and benefit of the storm sufl'erers, the amount set opposite our names below and the Star-Gazelle is hcrehy authoiized to forward the same to said committee for in such manner as the committee may deem best: A. Quesenfaunry 5.00 would do well lo lo Warner.

Our motto is, "Learn To Do Doing," and I think it applies in every way. Agricidlurc is the leading occupation of Ihe i world, and CL the very lowest class lof people make il their IMease don't misunderstand my slale- 'ment; there are ciuitc a number of good who make a success, but there is a still larger number whu do nol. If intend to make leaching your jjrofession you most certainly cannot make any mistake by al- tenrling an ngricultural school. Whal (Spnday) I was standing on my store porch in Vrona, which faces w6st. Fain was alsc there with me, having come about 8:30, and having been there about one -half hour when Lloyd Johns cam.e up the road from the south.

Wlien 20 feet from the ponh he said, 'Good and Fain and I both When within a few feel of Ihe porch 'a ott' of the porch and asked, asi he did it, "Lioyd, why ilid lu wife that insulting said, 'I never done 'Y'ou ar'e a said Fain, 'for I fore Justice E. N. Ellis on the 2i)lh day of June. The deceased was a brother of Dan Johns, who killed Will Lovcrn al this some ago and who now resides at Yale. There were five eye witnesses lo the killing and among them was Jim the married son of the deceased.

liminary hearing will be held Ihe law violators and to get away from this he suggesis that the town has plenty of use for crushed rock upon its streets and that it has a ball and chain for the detention of prisoners. Tiie rock pile is to be located in some convenient place on one of the public streets and when a prisoner decides that he will not work under Ihe direction of the street commissioner he can bo placed upon Ihe ball and chain and sent REDCLOUD I and get credit for his time or he can REFUSES TO WORK I sit in idleness and get no allowance jfor time so spent. By this method On the 7th of June Rcdcloud Fleet-; it is Ihoughl that at sometime bc- wood was called up before now and the coming of the Dowell of the city court charged, snow birds Ihe defendant would with an ofl'ense against the liquor i probably get tired of sitting on the rock pile in the hot sun just for pastime. To an innocent bystander it would What AVe Found At Gans Mrs. Gibson is dead.

Ahs. Tom Bell is seriously but not fatally injuied. (j)wan is badly bruised about the head and face, but will sutler no permanent injury. Buildings Totally Destroyed: The .1. Harris two story store building and stock a iulal loss.

The upper floor of this building was occupied by the W. 0. W'. lodge and also by the Knights and Ladies of Secmity and both iodgcs sustained loss to some extent. B.

G. Strickland, store building. Slock only a partial loss. Dr. L.

J. Pinner, large barn and contents consisting of hay and other feed stuff. Town Hall, a Iwo-slory frame building. M. E.

Church and furnishings. Lige Gibson's four room frame residence and all contents. It was in this building that Mrs. Gibson killed. Her body was recovered over two blocks from Ihe site of the residence.

J. W. Sandlin, Tom Bell, residence. W. E.

Hurley's barn. C. E. Johnson, residence. 1).

B. Shriver, residence; occupied by W. J. Walton. Warehouse and contents; owned by Walton Shackelford.

B. Crossland, livery barn. J. F. Harris, old gin building, used as a barn.

Mat Taylor, residence. The Star-Gazette 5.00] Merchants National Bank 10.00 McDonald Matthews 5.00 Thos. Carlile 2.5» Palace Drug Store 2.50 J. A. L0(; Gus Warshaucr J.

H. Morgan 2.00 Frank Herring 2.00 Cherry Winter 2.50 P.iggs-Turner Gm, Co 1-00 Sallisaw Bank Trust ifJ'M Citizens National Bank B. (). P.ce.L--- 1.00 Chas. W.

Antlerson 1.00 J. A. Knowles 1.00 Gould Moore 1.00 Lelland firav 1.00 If you want to help our neighbors in this hour of need call on or phone the Star-Gazette. The committee can use clothing, bed clothes or food stulT, but articles of this kind should be reported here, and then sent by the donor direct to the committee at Gans; do you think of a teacher that the letter at and then not harness a team or tell corn from cotton? And vet we have just such i.ii_^oiJ\e I 'L i sincerely lo see Oklahoma ooe of the leading states in agricid- lural and educational lines, but it cannot attain the highest standard in either of them if we do not try to acquire more knowledge of them. So, I hope you will think it over and decide to make use of one of these good slate schools which Oklahoma is maintahiing for your l)cn- efit.

The president of the Connors -Agricultural "school, Prof. J. S. Malone, will be glad to send you particulars of this school if you will only write him. I also will be glad to tell you more concerning it.

I jhope to see Sequoyah county send- I ing a frainload of industrious young I men and wr.men lo Ihe Connors fState Si'hofd of Agriculture at Warner, for Ihe fail ajid winter L-rm. which will begin Seplenibcr 7ll). truly. HOMER LARWOOD. laws.

He demanded and was given a jury trial. A jury composed of Will Gilbert, W. A. Matthews, L. J.

Stalcup, E. seem that this game of bucking the began to shoot at Johns. They J. NMiecler and Gov Wood law is a tough one. wire both within five feet of the promptly organized and ahnost, TuesdaTMorninE IP, u.t nnmediatclv after hearing thQ Ks variation in the and fixed the fine at $2.5.00 and were the order of this bemg Sen a ihe est side amounting to a total of $53.40.

morning in the Redcloud nd nLut thir feet 'Rcdcloud gave notice of an ap-, wood case. The rock pile was ready nln we he first shot the usual ten and, the prisoner was tendered an' days in which to file an appeal bond, opportunity to go to work on the ITieu Johns made a run or dive tor cU f.iipd streets uuder the direction of the During the time allowed he failed the door on the north side-room ot my store and started through the Thursday orom and Fain shot the third time evening after supper he was arrested and he fell about three steps from the front door. My daughter was fiT ite-rdom at the time and was Grandfather Clause Dead. -Imu In i)riib- abl.v oric of the most imporUinl decisions in ils hisloiy Ihe Sui)reme eiiurl today annulled as uneon'sti- 'lidional the Oklahoma grandfalher clause amendment and the olis, voters' (iualiiication liiw reslrieling the suffrage right of those v.ho could not vote or whose ancestors could not vote prior to Ihe ratification of the 15th Amendment. Chief Justice White, a native of washing dishes.

Johns was dead when I got to him. I never saw him move. Johns was not armed. He had only a pocket knife on him and had made no effort to use that on Fain or anj'ime else. Fain remained here about ten minutes and then went home, he said.

He is a deputy sheriff. "I had Henry Peters, John Denny, George House and Jerry Fleetwood e.samine the body and I saw them do it. We moved the body lo the home of his son, Jim Johns, about too yards north of my store. He had a wound in the right shoulder which seemed to enter the front. One seemed to have grazed the back of his neck and Ihe other shot entered his back about the cross of the street commissioner.

His answer to the court was, "I to work." The usual fine of $25.00 was assessed for contempt of the court's' order and the mar.shal directed to take the defendant to the rock pile. With the exception of a short time during the storm he has spent displeased with the ruling of the! the day there but has never hit a court Mr. Fleetwood proceeded to, tap and insists that he will not do express himself in a manner so pleasing to His Honor that he was payihent of the fine and F.o.r. a con.siderafion of some of the matters involved in the case he was taken before Judge Dowell about 0:00 o'clock p. m.

Thursday and being fined an additional for contempt of court. Friday morning the court ordered The Ui)-To-Now Condition Tuesday morning Rcdcloud had still not made up his mind to work and that the prisoner be taken on the the judge was still of the opinion streets to work under the supervis-j that the law was made to be en- ion of the street commissioner, forced and not to be played with, is the usual custom in such cases, The usual opportunity was extended This order was entirely foreign to Tuesday morning and the usual refusal was made uiion the jiart of the defendant. and Thursday were both so i-ainy and bad that it was soldier, announced the court's decision which was unanimous except thai Justice McReynolds look iio par in the case. 'TWAS EVER THUS Buildings Damaged: J. F.

karris, residence; damage about $200.00 Dr. S. A. Jones, residence; blown from foundation and badly damaged. Citizens Bank building, damage about $300.

A. L. Shackelford, residence; damage about $800. A. L.

Shackelford, gin; damage about no insurance. George Gunter, residence; damage about $350. B. G. Strickland, restaurant, and residence; badly damaged.

It is impossible to estimate the damage done to household goods and wearing apparel. Several hogs and a large nupaber of chickens were The following letter was mailed this evening lu the committee: Sallisaw, June 23, 1915. the south and a former confederate Messrs. Fonce Holland, E. C.

Gilbert. A. L. and L. J.

Pinner, Gans, Oklahoma. Gentlemen: Addressing you as the Relief Committee for the storm sufferers in your vicinity, we have'the pleasure to enclose herein a list of contributions voluntarily tendered this morning from the citizens of Sallisaw and vicinity which we trust w-il! receive and use lo the best advantage in relieving the immediate needs of those who were so unfortunate as to be placed in a position of needing assistance as a result of the recent storm that has numbered your little city among its victims. The amount herein enclosed is only a part of what you may Bert Hodges of (he Okmulgee Democrat made a hard fight for the appointment of postmaster but lost. Bert is one of the bulliest newspaper boys in ihe state, but he should learn to keep an editor's the ideas of the defendant and he flatly refused to work. The officer having him in charge again took him before Judge Dowell and the Judge imiiosed another fine of for! not practical to work men on the suspenders and came out just below Thi.s", so no opportunity was given 1- .1 seemed to be entirely to the liking the prisoner to say whether he Mr.

Hulsey is the jus ice 01 me exception, would work or not. As matters now peace ot that district and tie assist- ask- stand he is getting no allowance for ed the court if he could not make it the time he is held and if he still $50.00. Judge Dowell up to this time adheres to his present determination had never been able to grant any of to stand pat against work there is the requests of the defendant and. nothing ahead of him except a life evidently felt that he owed the gen-' imprisonment. It is simply up to news of the trouble.

They consideration, so he' the prisoner. He can work or stay to Sallisaw about ten clock Sunday by raising the in jail, just 'as he pleases, except fine to the fifty-dollar mark. when the weather is good, and days of that kind he will be allowed to be on the rock pile where he can go to work if it should ever come to pass that he be taken such an inclination. The general impression among the people we have heard express themselves is that any man who is so bitterly opposed to work is better off ed the county attorney in taking the statements of all the- eye witnesses. Mr.

Allen, accompanied by Under- Sheriff 0. L. Goodale, drove to Vrona immediately upon receipt of the night. When Ihe killing occurred Sheriff was at attending court, but immeiliaiely secured his release and reached home Monday evening via the K. C.

S. Il was commonly rumored about th whoop'er up for the party and let the other fellow have the Wagoner Record. NO REWARDS FOR PEACE OFFICERS The Proceedings Monday Redcloud Fleetwood still objects to work. He shows no inclinatioii tc aid in improving the town high- streets that Fain had not and would ways. At the hour of 9 o'clock a.

not surrender, so the sheriff left ni. today he was brought out and town fur the of the killing offered another opportunity to be- within two hours after his arrival gin work on hisfirie. FoUowing the! from McAlesler. He was accom- precedent set yesterday he declined I panied by Deputy Sheriff George the invitation and was taken before Benge and Mr. A.

G. Curtis. Judge Dowell for further instruc- At Vrona Deputy Benge and Mr. tions. Curtis were directed to put up the The Judge talked the matter over and it seems safe to say that public: interest in the result has about run its course.

The of the town seems to feel a confidence in Oklahoma City, June expect from Ihis source as we have officers who make arrests in their had neither time nor opportunity jurisdictions are not entitled to re- to see many of our good people who, wards that may have been offered will willingly lend a helping hand for arrests of such persons. This under the circumstances confront- is the view that is tiiken by Judge ing you. Devereaux of the Supremo Court The attached list is a clipping from Commission in Ihe case of Leonard the Sallisaw Evening Star of Beck against George Sulzer from dale and our check is herein en- 1 Wagoner county. Sulzer recovered closed lo cover the amount shown by the list to have been subscfribied. An additional report will be made tomorrow evening.

On behalf of the citizeijs of Sallisaw let us extend to you our sincere sympathy and we express the hope that your injured may "speedily recover and that your losses may spon be regained. waU uatil sherl. wUh afte. (Jithor rntiirnfid to thorn or sent for rnnvinCfd fhnt HA wns I the case up to his best judgment From our vi(pwpoint Redcloud has booked hiinself for a tbnf' tiresome stay with tbe city au- It seenis. highly probablei that they will be able to stand the fiiHy as' wpll if bettejr, than lie can.

a judgment against Peck in that a reward the latter had offered for an arrest. Beck appealed. Uudge Devereaux holds as' follows: "It is against public policy 'for a constable or other peace officer ing within bis jufiediction and within the axithority upon him by lay? to receiva rewards other thap either returned to them or sent for convinced that he was determined them. Following the giving of these to disobey the petrfTomer, assessed instructions Mr. Gay started out another fine of $25.00.

This was afoot for the home of Fain, which along the line that seems most de- is some two miles distant from sirable -to Mr. Fleetwood, but Vrona, over a decidedly rough path- was not pleased with the amount way through the hills. As soon as and asked the Judge to make it fifty, he arrived ther6 he made himself The Judge may entertain some doubt known to the son of the defendant as to his authority to assess a fifty and other members of his family dollar fine, but he is perfectly con- and told them that they could get -fident-that there is no limit as to word to Mr. fain that the sherifT the number of fines )that may was at his house, waiting hihi. be dealt out so long as the Mr.

Gay had been up practically ant continues to corumit separata all night and was very tired and acts of contempt of his court, and sleepy. He arrivpd at tbe Fain home feeling perfectly willing tp please late ill the forenoon and after get- the in any manner eon- ting something to eat, down sistent wth the and went to sleep. Fain came ii) -of tbe court, lift assess abodt four o'clock in the afternoon; flnein 0 atid fouBd Gay resting nipely. He' but thi? tptal.ttiat de 'aroused sKerifF his ppace- Imnnediate Aid Needed TUB STAR-GAZETTE, Bjapwed by lay? (pXpressed TJiat it is ih'c'fixed pre' Jyr of, DowelJ.to;^en^^.,^<,-j A SUCCESSFUL Acpordinfe; to previous arrange- ments, I preached for thV people '-at Long last Sunday at ra, and at night At morning'servicjs; there were, four professed faitti ih Christ four o'fctoek at the water near -Jievr attended to tikra..