Pawhuska Daily Journal from Pawhuska, Oklahoma • 1

the of of I Tom the of a. of are from the Tulsa in and Society time DAILY JOURNAL VISITS MORE PAWHUSKA AND OSAGE COUNTY HOMES THAN ANY OTHER DAILY PUBLISHED PAWHUSKA DAILY JOURNAL ASSOCIATED PRESS PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING EXCEPT MONDAY PRICE: 3c. SUNDAY 5c VOLUME 91. PAWHUSKA, OKLAHOMA, SUNDAY, SEPT. 21, 1924.

OFFICE 139 E. MAIN FLIERS REACH EL PASO IN SAFETY Bartlesville Man Hi jacked Friday Night Take and Car Watch, and Money Him to Tree FOUR IN PARTY Pawhuska Officers on Watch Until 2 a. m. E. J.

Searight of Bartlesville was hijacked, slugged, tied to a tree and robbed of his money, watch and car by four desperadoes on the Bartlesville road Friday night about 10:30 p. m. at the point in the road where the hill has been recently about five miles this side of Bartlesville. According to the report of Bartlesville officers to local police, Searight was coming this way and was chased from near Smeltertown to the point where the robbery occurred. The bandits were in an old Ford car which seemed to be in fine shape, however.

Hailing Searight, whose car is a 1924 model Ford, they sought to stop him but he stepped on the and tried to outdistance them. They overhauled him near the hill and ran their car in front of him. There were four of the bandits, described by Searight as being all young men not over 18 years old. They were armed with revolvers and high powered guns, the Bartlesville man stated. Commanding him to get out of the car, they struck him several blows on the head.

not sufficient to render him unconscious, however, tied him to a tree, went through his clothes from which they removed his watch and money and then set tire to their own car. driving off in car their victim. They had not gotten out hearing until Searight had twisted loose from his bonds and scrambled into the road. One car passed but he was unable to stop it. Another car came along and stopped to pick him up.

The car was going into Bartlesville and on the way, met the four bandits returning. Neither Searight nor the driver of the car was armed and they drove on past without trying to stop the bandits. When they had reached Bartlesville, and notified the officers who proceeded to the scene, there was no trace of the four to be found. Sheriff C. A.

Cook was called into the neighborhood of the robbery urday and Searight accompanied the sheriff in a search for his car. While the sheriff was successful in locating two other cars as noted in another column of this issue, neither of them belonged to Searight. Following the robbery of Searight Friday night, police officers here were notified and went out 011 the Bartlesville road to apprehend the desperadoes in case they came this way. The officers returned to this city about 2 a. m.

with no report of the men who had apparently turned off somewhere. VISIT OF H. R. H. WILL END TODAY Prince of Wales Will Start on Trip by Rail to Canada This Morning.

(By The Associated Press.) SYOSSETT. N. Sept. Prince of Wales will spend tomorrow. the last day of his holiday visit 011 Long Island, quietly in the James E.

Burden house, which has been his home during his vacation here. receiving farewell calls from friends. At about 10 o'clock tomorrow night. he will board the train placed at his disposal by Sir Henry Thornton, dent and director of the Canadian National railways which will take him all the way to High River, Alberta. The plan to cross Long Island by yacht was changed because of the greater simplicity of the present route.

The party will not stop in New York or at any other point between Syossett and Montreal which will be reached at about 11 o'clock Monday morning. Well, the defense test is over and nothing about it was half as hypohtetical as the enemy. THE WEATHER Sunday and Monday partly cloudy, probably showers, er Sunday. HUNG JURY IN JACK BLAGG CASE Seven Were Said to Have Stood for Conviction and Five for Acquittal The jury in the case of the state of Oklahoma versus Jack Blagg accused of complicity in the killing at Cooper September 23, 1923, of Pomp Middlebrook, failed to agree when they reported Saturday afternoon and was discharged from further consideration of the case. The jury is said to have stood seven for conviction and five for acquittal.

The case occupied the attention of the court all day Friday and well up into the night. The jury was instructed by the court to report Saturday morning but did not do so until in the afternoon. Considerable difficulty was encountered in getting a jury as so many of the older men of the venire were acquainted with the elder Pomp Middlebrook, father or uncle of the murdered man, and this regarded as grounds for challenge by the attorneys. The elder Pomp Middlebrook followed the cattle business for a number of years in the county, covering the entire west side in his operations. A special call had to be sent out for more jurymen and the first man examined proved satisfactory and was accepted for the twelfth place 011 the jury.

SHERIFF RECOVERS TWO STOLEN FORDS Receives Call From Near Okesa With Instructions to Bring Six Men With Him. Sheriff C. A. Cook received a call from parties near Okesa Saturday afternoon with instructions to bring six men with him. As he was unable to round up a sufficient force, he proceeded to the point designated with only Mrs.

Cook in the car with him. He found that a car belonging to Miss Denitia McClarney, teacher in the Buck Creek school, had been stolen and that several of the boys of the school had become alarmed for fear of a gang of hi-jackers which formed grounds for the request for reinforcements. Special Officer Harve Pairick of Bartlesville, had also been called and arrived on the scene about the time Sheriff and Mrs. Cook did. Miss McClarney's car had been taken from the school house apparently.

A search was instituted and the sheriff found the car in an almost inaccessible canyon, where it hardly seemed possible for a car to be taken. There was 110 one in the vicinity when the car was found and it was taken by the officers and boys to its owner. Another Ford car was found but the owner of this one is not known. It was brought to Pawhuska. Sheriff Cook and his deputies recovered a stolen Ford of the vintage of '76 seven miles north of Lyman Friday at the time they found the big still described in Friday's Journal.

The car was a relic of bygone days but still a car and the sheriff brought it to Pawhuska. NORTH OKLAHOMA CONFERENCE AT STILLWATER FAIFFAX. Sept. annual meeting of the officers of the Northern Oklahoma Conference will be held at Stillwater, next Saturday, September 27, Elmer Petree, pres ident, has announced. The 1924 basketball schedule will be arranged, the debate work assigned and other business matters will be discussed.

It is very probable that track and work will be added this year among the ten schools that are members, Petree states. CHARGED WITH ASSAULT WITH DEADLY WEAPON A charge of assault with a deadly weapon was preferred against P. J. (Tom) Simpson Saturday by County Attorney Charles L. Roffi in connection with the assault Thursday on Mrs.

W. L. Woodson, of this city. Simpson will be given a preliminary soon and it is likely that other charges will be made against him. STEVEN PAPPAN IS CLAIMED BY DEATH Body Will be Taken to Washunga today for interment Steven Pappan, age about 26, died at the Municipal Hospital Friday morn ing following an operation of several days ago which was performed in all effort to save his life.

The body will be taken to Washunga this morning where interment will occur this afternoon. Steven Pappan was born in Oklahoma. His father, Joseph Pappan, has lived in this city for a number of years. The mother of Steven Pappan was Mary Cheyenno, of the Pottawatomie tribe. before her marriage to Joseph Pappan.

She is buried 111 Washunga. The deceased is by two brothers and one sister in addition to his father. Reuben Pappan lives here and Isaac Pappan at Arkansas City. Mrs. Sophia Marsh, a sister, lives west of the city.

JURY LIST FOR SEPTEMBER 29 Panel of Thirty has been Drawn and Notices Sent cut Saturday The jury list for the term court beginning September 29 at 9 111. was sent out from the office of Court Clerk Twelve Leahy Saturday. of the jurors are the from towns Pawhusand Grainola and ka balance the county. Following the over names listed: Pawhuska: W. E.

Branson. O. nett, G. R. Curry.

William Adlum, Charles C. Harkey, J. W. Soderstrom. Grainola: J.

W. Bruce. S. J. Weaver Robert Johnson, M.

F. Rice. Earl Bardorf. Fairfax: C. C.

Cline. T. B. Phillips, Earl R. Fry.

S. S. Mathis. Hominy: W. B.

Russell. Earl Beard. Wynona: O. Ferguson, George W. Yowery.

Ralston: Riley L. Drake, A. M. Ward. Burbank: William Cunningham: Aarondale, T.

G. Cox: Shidler. C. L. Hallock; Foraker, C.

0. McBride: Kaw City, Charles Brown: Copan; Floyd H. Carpenter; Barnsdall, John Pearson: Avant. F. M.

Anderson. KELLEYVILLE BANK IS ROBBED AGAIN SATURDAY Two unmasked bandits entered the bank at Kelleyville Saturday at exactly 12 noon and robbed the institution according to word received here by officers of the police force shortly after noon. They were in a Ford touring car. rather an innovation for a bank robber, and were described as being young fellows not over twenty. One was slim with light complexion and the other had a round face with florid complexion and weighed about 160 pounds.

No statement was made d5 to how much they got. This is the se ond time the bank has been robbed 111 the past two years. Officers are speculating 011 the possibility of the two being part of the gang of four that held up and robbed a man named Searight of his Ford car on the Bartlesville road Friday night, OCTOBER 18 NAMED AS "LIBERTY DAY" (By The Associated Press.) OKMULGEE. Sept. designation of October 18 as "Liberty Day" to be celebrated in every county seat in the state by persons not members of the K.

K. K. and a state wide meeting of delegates from klan organizations at Oklahoma City, October 27. were announced here tonight by M. M.

Alexander, state manager of the anti-klan organization per fected last Monday in Oklahoma City. ONE IS ACQUITTED ONE FOUND GUILTY TEXARKANA, Sept. Louis S. Grim, tried on charges of use of the mails to defraud and conspiracy in connection with a refinery plant promotion scheme in the Arkansas oil field, was acquitted by the jury this evening. Thomas J.

Ryan, co-defendant with Grim, was found guilty 011 one of the seven counts in the indictI ment. THREE MEN RELEASED ON BOND OF $10,000 Charged With Assault in Case of Man Named Stevens Near Tulsa J. I. Barnett, of Tulsa, was released Friday on bond of $10,000 and George Carr and Bernard McGowan, of Lake Station on the Sand Springs road. were released on the same amount of bond Saturday in the case growing out of the alleged assauit on one Stevens near Tulsa 111 Osage county a few nights ago.

Stevens is alleged to have been so badly beaten that his assailants left him for dead. He revived however and managed to get assistance to Tulsa where he is now in the hospital. As mentioned in the Daily Journal a few mornings ago, there seems to be considerable mystery about the whole matter. Stevens, in the hospital at Tulsa, is improving and is alleged to have made accusations against the three men who were released from jail here and they in turn are making counter accusations against Stevens. The original difficulty is rather obscure but is thought to have been some trouble of a private nature among the men.

Stevens wife is said to have been 111 Pawhuska a few days ago and arrests followed her visit here. Deputy Sheriff William Bryant went to the first of the week and brought the three men to Pawhuska. JAMES CARLE GIVEN LIFE IMPRISONMENT Jury Returns Verdict in Famous Murder Trial Friday Evening (By Associated Press.) OKLAHOMA CITY. Sept. imprisonment in the state penitentiary was the verdict of a jury returned here late today against James Carle for participation in the killing of Newell Lessinger, son of all Oklahoma County farmer, July 14, 1919.

Lowden, a brother of James Carle, was twice tried in Oklahoma county for the same charge, both trials re-ulting in hung jury. A third trial was held in Canadian county where he was found guilty of first degree murder and life imprisonment was imposed in the fall of 1921. He was pardoned by former Governor Walton. He was a witness in the trial of his brother. The Lessinger youth was killed when with his father and brother, he first drew a wagon in which hogs were being hauled from the Lessinger farm early one morning.

Lowden testifying 111 James trial claimed that he and his brother were hauling hogs for M. I. L. ssinger, a brother of the slain youth. when the Lessinger party opened.

fire 011 them and that Lessinger was killed when they returned the fire. The trial was held in Oklahoma county court, Judge William H. Wick. presiding. Attorneys for Carle announced late today that they would file a motion for a new trial.

The Carle boys are sons of a prominent pioneer Oklahoma county family. Lowden at one time was an instructor in the Oklahoma City schools. WILL PAVE ALLEYS FAIFFAX. Sept. committee was appointed at the last meeting of the chamber of commerce to investigate the matter of paving the alleys of Main street.

Merchants are complaining that the stores are flooded after each hard rain because of the high elevation or grade of the alley. The committee of L. A. Wisemeyer, D. E.

Johnson and A. C. Hunsaker, will meet with V. V. Long.

acting city engineer from Oklahoma City, the first of the week to decide on what resolutions they will present to the commerce. MARTIN FUNERAL AT 3 O'CLOCK TODAY The funeral of T. L. Martin, who died Friday night, will be held today at 3 o'clock at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ben Hall, on Trumbley avenue.

Interment will br the local cemetery. Crowd Breaks Through Ropes Strung up to Hold Them Back and Hubbub is Subdued by Cavalrymen NEXT JUMP TO TUCSON, ARIZONA No Set Schedule will be Followed But no Time Wasted, Says Lieutenant Smith MRS. WARD IS BOUND TO DISTRICT COURT Preliminary Trial Held Saturday Before Justice of the Peace Crozier. Mrs. Marie Ward, charged with forgery in connection with the cashing of two school warrants in the sum of $630 some time ago, was given a preliminary hearing 111 justice court before Judge Crozier Saturday afternoon and was bound over to districting court en bond of $2,500 which she had not made Saturday evening.

She is charged on two counts and on the second waived her preliminary. The cashing of the two warrants by a woman some months ago produced considerable of a sensation here. They were from school districts 51 and 55 and were regularly signed, or appeared to be so by the clerk of the board. When presented to the Pickens store here in payment for goods. they were taken to the office of the county trasurer where they were cashed.

The woman making the purchases was described as being middle aged an dhaving gray hair and driving a Ford car. Mrs. Ward was arrested for the alleged offense at Drumrgiht brought here. The Grolier 01 Kansas City, became interested in the case and representative a Mr. Jeakson, was here to investigate.

Mr. Jackson stated at the time of his visit here that Mrs. Ward had formerly been connected with his firm which sells "The Book of Knowledge." a set of books for children. He stated that Mrs. Ward was traveling for a company dealing in encyclopedlas at the time she had had dealings with his company.

He stated also that there were never any irregularities in the dealings of Mrs. Ward with his company. The woman who cashed the two district warrants here is alleged to have received the money for two sets of encyclopedias. HELD FOR KILLING OF 8 YEARS AGO Mystery of Disappearance of Atoka County Farmer is Explained (By Associated Press.) ATOKA, Sept. Williams and the widow of Wiley Sexton.

arrested today in connection with the death eight years ago of Wiley Sexton, who mysteriously disappeared from his home in the northeastern part of Atoka county and for whom an almost continuous search has been made by county officers, late today were given a preliminary hearing before justice of the peace O. H. Presson and held without bail for the district court grand jury. Following his arrest today, Williams 1S said to have confessed to Sheriff 0. P.

Ray that he shot Sexton while the latter lay asleep, alleging. according to officers, that Mrs. Sexton had requested him to kill her husband. Williams also made known to officers what disposition ha dbeen made of body whereupon Sheriff Ray went to the old home of the murdered man and found his skeleton buried near the house. Sheriff Ray, aided by J.

W. Clark and an attorney, who had been employed to look after the case, spun the web of evidence which resulted in the arrest of Williams and Mrs. Sexton. D. AND R.

G. TO BE JUNKED AND SOLD (By The Associated Press.) DENVER, Sept. Denver Rio Grande Western railroad will be sold at public auction on October 29, according to an announcement here today by Jess E. Herrington, special master to conduct the sale, named by Judge Dave Foster Simes yesterday. The minimum bid to be received, under the direction of the court will be $17.935,700.

An n. S. f. check is first cousin to counterfeit money. (By Associated Press.) EL PASO, Texas, Sept.

world fliers arrived at Ft. Bliss today at 6.15 p. m. They came over the horizon at 5:45 p. flying in a trianglar formation.

At 6:12 p. they circled the flying field and made a perfect landing. The Chicago, piloted by Lieutenant H. Smith, landed first. The Boston second, piloted by Lieutenant Leigh Wade was second and the New Orleans piloted by Lieutenant Erik Nelson was last.

The crowd was estimated at the flyfield at 20.000. The fliers were. greeted by the din of honking horns and cheering. As the planes taxied to the hangars, the spectators broke through the ropes that had been strung to keep them off the field and rushed toward the planes. They were driven back with difficulty.

A clash between guards and civilians in which several blows were passed was quickly subdued by cavalrymen. The contemplated itinerary of the fliers from El Paso with a stop over in each of the towns named, is: El Paso to Tucson, Arizona, to Rockwell field, San Diego, to Clover field, Los Angeles, to Crissey field; San Francisco; to Eugene, Oregon to Seattle, Washington to last milestone in the journey. No set schedule will be followed, will but 110 be wasted, depending upon the condition of the planes, Lieutenant Smith said. GRANT IS GIVEN 90-DAY REPRIEVE Youth in Illinois Jail May Have Sentence Commuted to Life Imprisonment (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO, Sept. E.

Swanson, an attorney for Bernard Grant, under sentence of death was planning tonight the last stage in his fight to save Grant from the gallows. Earlier in the day word had been received from Springfield that Governor Len Small had granted the youth a 90-day reprive which set date of execution over to January 16. "Several of Chicago's best lawyers" said Mr. Swanson, "will go to Springfield to plead for the boy when the statement is heard. Thousands of other petitions from individuals and from organizations have been received and will be forwarded to the governor.

We understand that other requests of clemency has been sent directly to the state capital." Grant received news of his reprieve with a smile. "Fine, that's just fine," he said. "It lifts 90 days of worry off my shoulders. My hair ought to turn black after that. I hope in time the governor will commute my sentence entirely.

am sure of that because I am innocent." Walter Crauser, also sentenced to death, and a companion, who shot and killed a policeman in an attempted robbery. is now waiting an appeal to the state supreme court which will be acted upon within a few weeks. Governor Small declared in granting a reprive that he would postpone consideration of Grant's petition until Causer's case had been ruled upon by the court. LEGIONNAIRES ATTENTION You are reminded of the Legion meeting Monday night at the Chamber of Commerce rooms. Clarence Lohman has just visited the battlefields of France and will have something interesting to say and many in- teresting pictures to show.

You are invited and urged to be present. SPEAKER LOUISIANA HOUSE DEAD AT HOME (By The Associated Press.) SHREVEPORT, Sept. S. Douglas, speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives, died at his home in Dixie, near here early tonight..