Pawhuska Daily Journal from Pawhuska, Oklahoma • 1

Historic Sorictjr THE DAILY JOURNAL IS DELIVERED INTO MORE HOMES IN PAWHUSKA THAN ANY OTHER DAILY PUBLISHED TT YT -f State Supreme Courtin Decision Saturday Dis-tDCLl solves Injunction Granted by the Miss Geneva May In Wreck Thought Court Lower ELECTION BOARD STARTS MACHINERY OSAGE HEREFODS HEAD THE LISTS Well Known Leahy Herds Bringing Home Honors. OSAGE COUNTY STAGES ANOTHER COMEBACK Court Will Pass on Legality of Referendum Blil in Session This Morning Osage county has been famous for the frequent comebacks it has staged during the past fifteen or eighteen years since the drouth and hot wind has rendered the county unsafe for strictly agricultural purposes. For several years the hot winds and blistering rays of the sun during July and August, have parched both growing crops -and range pasture. The first of September has frequently seen the entire county as dry as tinder but in these years, September rains have opened the pores of the soil and caused a revival of forage crops as well as the range pasture to the extent that both feed and grass have been plentiful to carry the herds through the winter. Seeral years, during the early part of the fall season stockmen were concerned about how they were going to get through but the late rains have invariably solved this proposition.

The couuty is making another comeback this season. Middle and late August found a hot and burning surface. September rains have cooled it off, started revival in the grass and a growth on late crops, and stockmen face the coming winter in good cheer as they will have plenty of feed and plenty of range. This is cited only as a resource of the county. Both early and late crops have been produced putting the care and feed of dairy cows as well as range cattle down to the minimum.

There is not a section of country anywhere in the w'est or southwest where so few months of full-feeding is required as right here in Osage county. While it is true that dairy cows require some feed during every month of the year, it is also true that the better the pasture and the better the roughness they secure, the less high priced feed is required. And this shows Osage county to be desirably located for dairy farms. Lines of railroad through the western, central and eastern borders make the shipping of cream to the established creamers in southern Kansas easy. Later, when the production of cream is sufficient in this county to justify the establishment of a creamery, they will come here.

It is getting around to the point where the business intersts of the differnt towns of Osage county ralize that it must look to the dairyman, the small stockman, poultryman and the farmer for the permanent prosperity throughout the county. No town is so large nor so small that if it can afford to overlook this proposition. With the assistance of the Santa Fe it should be easy to interest the agricultural department of the railroad in Osage county to the extent that the road could be depended upon to largely assist in bringing in sellers who will help to develop this resource of the county. Osage county is large enough, has acres that are good tillable acres, to support thousands of good farmers. When the time arrives that house dots the county every mile or half mile, there will be a population sufficient to furnish the present towns with all the prospective gains that these towns can hope to make with business enough to make them all prosperous.

TROOP THREE HAS TAKEN TO BOXING Scrapper from Troop 4 Will Box Husky Youngster of Troop 3 Friday. The Boy Scouts of Pawhuska are taking rapidly to the manly art of self-defense as is evidenced by the boxing matches held by troop 3 following their business meeting last night. The hoys met at the shop of their scoutmaster, K. L. 733 Kiln-kali avenue, at 7:30 p.

m. It had been noised around that there would be some interesting boxing matches so about fifty spectators were on hand to see the show. Ellsworth Stephenson, of troop 3, and Boss Ilattie, of troop 4, had a skirmish which the scout scribe described in his minutes as "snappy and to the point. In other words, both oppi nen's Firpoed and Demnried each other all over the ring. Stephenson received the decision however, but Hattie challenged him again for next Friday night at the same place and hour.

Everybody is welcome to conje and see the hoys box next Friday. All hoys in troop 3 who expect to have a place on the football team will he expected to he at practice this morning at 9 o'clock The scribe forgot to write down where the practice will he held but doubt the hoys will know. COMMISSIONERS TO CONSIDER PARK PLAN Proposition Offered by Fred William is Still Hanging Fire Many have believed that the park proposition offered by Fred Williams north of the city had all been settled and that work on placing the park in shape for occupancy was already under way. Such however is not the case. The proposition of Mr.

Williams to the city of twenty acres of land north of Dial Hill on certain con- Mt" fated Train Rescue Work Account High Water BULLETIN Mis Geneva May, who was on C. B. and Q. No. 30, wired her people here Friday morning not to worry about her.

She did not state whether or not she was hurt but it is inferred that if this is the case, the injury is minor. Miss Lucile May wired her sister at once asking for particulars but up to last night had received no fur-ther word. Miss Geneva stated in her telegram that she would probably not be home for another week. CASPAR, Sept. 28.

Upwards of two score persons perished last night when Chicago Burlington Quincy train No. 30 broke through a small bridge spanning Coal creek, fifteen miles east of Caspar, Wyoming, rescue workers estimated tonight although only three bodies have actually been found. The plunge of the engine, baggage car, smoker, chair car and one pullman coach through the bridge weakened by the lashing current of the usually placid little stream caused by recent heavy rains imprisoned the occupants of these cars who had little opportunity to escape. Rescue parties were hampered tonight by snow and rain v.bich started shortly after the wreck and has continued unabated while workmen stand helplessly on the bank of the raging little stream whose force during the day caused the submerged and partly submerged cars with their grim burden to settle still deeper into the creek bed. The wreck of the Casper Denver train hurrying through the storm at reduced speed is believed by railroad men to have started its plunge to destruction as the engine hit the first span of the bridge.

The baggage coach apparently slid into the current on top of the egnine and was crushed like an eggshell. The smoker where greatest loss of life is believed to have occurred, was completely submerged. One end of the chair car was lifted out of the water by resting on the smoker and this helped save those in this car. One pullman coach came to rest on the bank of the stream with one end in the water. Four men in the pullman smoker are reported to have been caught in this death trap.

No additional bodies were recovered from the wreck this afternoon and the known dead consists of Nichols Schmetz, of Douglas, D. E. Schultz, of Casper, a baggage man and an unknown man who was beating his way on the trucks of the baggage car. It is impossible to accurately estimate the total toll of lives taken by the wreck. Generally a conservative estimate of dead is believed to be forty.

The death figure probably will not be known for many days. Out of approximately eighty persons believed to have been passengers on the train about forty haVe been accounted for in the list of dead and survivors. The estimate is based on statements made by passengers who passed through the day-coaches prior to he wreck These coaches are still submerged. Newspapersmen returning from the (Continued on page 4) JURY DISAGREED IN MORRIS CASE Stood Eight for Conviction and Four for Acquittal The jury in the case of state versus J. W.

Morris failed to agree after about twenty-four hours delibernt-tion Friday and were discharged by Judge Worten. The successive ballots always stood the same and the four who had voted acquittal refused to change their decision. WEATHER Oklahoma: Saturday and Sun- day generally fair EXPLOSION HAS AN UNEXPECTED RESULT (By The Associated Press.) OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 28. The last legal barrier to the special election call by Governor Walton for October 2 was removed late today when the state supreme court isued a mandate to the local district court for dissolution of the injunction under which the election would have been prevented.

The supreme court earlier in the day had denied a re-hearing of the friendly suit instituted by Attorney General Geo. Short to test the legality of the election after yesterday reversing the decision of the lower court in granting the injunction. The mandate formally notifying the district court that the restraining order had been dissolved directed that the state election board he informed in effect that machinery for the election now can be set in motion. The fate of a referendum bill which would allow the state legislature to convene without a call from the governor will he taken up at supreme conference tomorrow morning. At that time the court is expected to rtde on an application for mandamus filed by Pastor Russell who circulated the petition to force the election hoard to place the measure on the October 2 election ballot.

The supreme court also is expected to act on the application of Gov. Walton for rehearing of his appeal from the decis-ioh of the secretary of state holding" that the referendum is legal. Gov. Walton charges that a number of signatures on the petition are forgeries. Russell explained that he requested the writ of mandamus to forestall further court interference should the supreme court rule against the governor.

Attorneys pointed out that such an action would prevent a district court from issuing an injunction preventing the measure from going on the ballot, ..7 Russell, a former chairman of fhe state corporation commission and a bitter political opponent of Gov. Walton, circulated the petition for a local governmental research organization. It provides for a constitutional amendment empowering any member of the state legislature to call a special session. Charges that the governor used TULSA, Sept. 28.

The said election machinery in Tulsa county can (Continued on page 5) countyIudgewins IN DAMAGE SUIT Suit Brought in Tulsa County Several Year Ago County Judge L. A. Justus was notified yesterday that a damage suit which he brought against the Tulsa Street Railway Company, prior to his removal to this county, had been set tied and he was given a judgment of $20,000 damage. Judge Justus was extremely well pleased with the amount of the judgment awarded, also with the termination of the suit which had been one of those particularly hard cases. The settlement came in the-way of a compromise placing it in a position where there will he no appeal made in the case and Mr.

Justus client will be congratulating himself that he had attorneys who stuck to his fight and carried it through against desperate odds. o- Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bolton of Kansas City will arrive the first of the week for-a' week's visit withMrs. Boltons parents, and Mrs.

A. T. Woodward. Mrs. Bolton was before her marriage ir.

June! Miss Sybil Woodward. The best blood of the Hereford family has been on exhibition at the state fair at Oklahoma City this week. The tops from Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Colorado have been shown in classes with the best there is in Oklahoma. The showing from Oklahoma is largely made by the Lcahys of this county and the A. M.

College at Stillwater. The Oklahoma stuff has gotten off with the best money and the best prizes. Awards made to the Osage county Herefords were. The exhibitors Bickering Farms, Belton, H. R.

Hazlett, ElDorado, Kansas; Terrace Lake Hereford Park, Kansas City, Y. T. Leahy Sons, Pawhuska, T. J. Leahy Son, Pawhuska, P.

Tahnewald, Denver, V. L. Matthews Son, Kinsley, Oklahoma A. M. College, Stillwater, Okla; Commercial Land Bixby, Oklahoma.

The Judge Henry Moxley, Shclby-ville, Kentucky. Aged bulls, shown fifth, W. T. Leahy Son on Beau Delaware jr. Two year old bulls, 6 shown fifth, T.

J. Leahy on Repeater 4th. Junior earling bulls, 4 shown fourth T. J. Leahy on Repeater 13th.

Senior bull calves, 6 shown fifith, T. J. Leahy on Repeater 3Jnd. Aged cows. 3 shown second, T.

J. Leahy on Ethel Sturgess. Senior heifer calves, 10 shown fifth, V. T. Leahy on Lady Perfect loth.

STARTLING SENTENCE GIVEN FRANK ESTES 50 Years Says Jury but Prisoner Never Lost His Smile Fifty years at hard labor for robbing the Barnsdall National Bank; that was the sentence meted out by a stern-faced jury in district court last night to Frank Estes. It was a solemn momen when the verdict was read as it always is. It impresses the average man. Not so with Frank Estes. He had smiled throughout the trial; when his sentence was 'pronounced which, if served to the end will virtually mean life imprisonment to this 33-years old man, he smiled in an in-explainable way.

Perhaps he had heard words like that before; then again he might have had his pardon in his pocket; if he did, however, he did not spring it. The jury deliberated just 20 minutes over the case. One man said twenty-five years and one said life. They finally agreed on SO years and sent word to the judge that they were Ireadv. It was over in short order; it jwas the briefest thing in the whole trial.

Frank Estes has a charge against him for robbing the First National Bank at Barnsdall. The county attorney believes he has just as good evidence about the second robbery as the first. But it is not likely that he will be tried on the second robbery. Fifty years is enough for one days work. John White will be tried today.

If anybody ever saw White once, they would know him. He is tall and stoop-shouldered, has one tooth gone, deep scar on face, red bushy hiar and an unmistakable individuality. A verdict in his case will probably be returned tonight. 0 AIR MAN VISITS MUSKOGEE. (By The Associated Press) Muskogee, Sept.

p9. Lieut. Ruf-fell Vaughan, famous transcontinental aviator entered in the air meet next week at St. Louis, reached Muskogee at 3:15 o'clock this afternoon alter an uneventful flight from Kelley Field, Texas. He will spend the night here, leaving for St.

Louis at seven o'clock tomorrow morning. Dr. E. K. Witcher returned yesterday from Edinburgh, Scotland, where he and his brother Robert spent several weeks doing special work at the University of Edinburgh He visited in Chicago and Kansas City before- his lo Paw busk.

ditions was accepted by the commiss- ioners at one of their meetings; Recking names on the petition to substantiate his charge that there were not sufficient signatures on the petition to make it legal resulted in the calling of a grand jury in district court here which the executive prevented from meeting by military authorities enforcing martial law here. The secretary of state held the petition legal and dismised Gov. Waltons appeal from the decision. Late yesterday, however, a new hearing on his appeal was granted. ing further has been done on the proposition at all and it is now two months since Mr.

Williams made hi offer. The city commissioners and city manager looked the ground over shortly after accepting the proposition and asked that their acreage be put hack farther from the road and away from a level, treeless tract into one where there was a profusion of trees and more opportunity for state highway department employes COUNTY TREASURER LEE DIXON HONORED State Association of Treasurers Make Him President County Treasurer Lee Dixen was honored by the state association of county officers at its meeting in Oklahoma City, Thursday. The honor is more significant from fact that Mr. Dixon was the youngest member of the association. The meeting was held at the Huckins Hotel with a program lasting fiom about 9:30 in the morning until 4:00 in the afternoon.

11ns metting included all county officers. There were about eighty-five or ninety fully one-half of which were count' treasurers. In separatmg the different b'anches, the t. easurers went by themselves, clerks cy themsCives and the others by themselves and each group makes up the general aquation. C.

A. Cargill, mayor of Oklahoma City, delivered the address of welcome which was replied to by Cliff Myers, president of the association. Among the matters discussed in the treasurers group was the change is; the personal property tax law. This change provides tor a different method of assessment and collection oi persona! property tax. This amendment will be submitted to the.

next legislative assembly in regular session. Mr. Dixon, bcsu.es being a young man is serving his first term as county treasurer. That the honor of heading the state association of such treasurers should fall upon him is all the mere significant because of these laits. It is not only a compliment to Mr Dixon pcisonaiiy but it is a com-I hment to 0.ege county, tna- its titasurer shouV.

be selected to heat i. state association which is composed largely of older mem and men who arc older in public life. CLARENCE BARNHART BOUND OVER TO DISTRICT COURT Clarence Barnhart, accused of the theft of wearing apparel to the amount of $429, from A. C. McClain, living near Bartlesville, had his preliminary in the justice court of W.

T. Crozier Friday and was bound over to district court on $1,500 bond which. fee has been; usable to make. Colored PorteV Stick Hi Hand Through Wind Shield With Poor Success. If you were polishing a wind shield a hundred feet away from a vulcanizing outfit and the aforesaid outfit exploded blowing a large cap some fifteen or twenty feet away barely missing the operator of theoutfit but not coming within a mile of you, what would you do? You never can tell.

For instance, a colored forter under exactly the circumstances related above, jammed his hand clear through the wind shield of a ear. It all happened at the Buick garage. L. E. Wilkinson was working at the vlcanlzing apparatus Friday morning when suddenly there was a loud explosion.

The 100-pounds of pressure from the steam blew off the cap of the apparatus, weighing 100 pounds. The heavy cap grazed Wilkensons shoulder knocking him down. He wasnt hurt any but if the cap had hit him squarely on the head, he well, flowers would have said it all. Not so with the negro porter. Standing 100 feet away, dreamily polishing a wind shield, his mind was perhaps on the fried chicken and sweet spuds that he had last Sunday; get the picture.

A sudden explosion and Jack Dempsey never landed a harder lick than this hoy did on that wind shield. It broke the wind shield of course and severely lacerated the hoys hand. We cant figure it out by geomptry so come on, Dr. Fred, ry your psychoanalysis. LOCAL NO.

25 PRESSMEN ACCEPT TERMS NEW YORK, Sept. 28 Pressmen of former local No. 25 after a stormy meeting tonight agreed to accept the terms of the New York publishers and the international union to return to work tomorrow. The only condition to otheir acceptance was the stipulation that none of the men should be penalized in any way for their participation in the making a natural park. Mr.

Williams agreed to this and the park has been staked off. The site as selected by the commissioners is as pretty and tasty a spot as may be found in this section of the county and is a credit to their judgment. There are trees in abundance, plenty of rocks and other natural features that could he made into a pretty park. Moreover, city-water has been led to the edge of the park and light and gas may he had handily. Mr.

Williams has asked that the city pay the expense of piping water 2,000 feet from its present ending on through the park at an approximate cost of $1,800. The cost of other extensions amounting to some $400 Mr. Williams has agreed to turn hack into the park fund for the purchase of playground equipment for the use of children in the park. It is understood that the initial cost of about $1,800 that is estimated for the expense of the water line is not the limiting factor in the case. Whether or not the city wants to spend the necessary amount of money to properly fix up the park, place roads, seats a swimming pool, swings and playground apparatus and other things in the park is a question with the city, it is understood.

Pawhuska needs this park and other parks about the city. It must come some time and the present is perhaps as good a time as any. Ponca City is building parks on the bare praries and planting trees that, will take years to grow. Bartlesville. has a Wonderful park where six (Continued on page 5).