The Evening Star from Independence, Kansas • Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, INDEPENDENCE. KANSAS. PAGE FIVE SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1913. I jt A NIGHT OF EXCITEMENT I AN IMPORTANT SALE custom and. pasttime of the club.

A dainty luncheon was served late in the evening, after which the club adjourned, declaring Mrs. Thibus a charming hostess. ft ft ft Entertained at Six O'clock Dinner. Prof. C.

V. Dennis and wife entertained the teachers of the Longfel-llow building at 6 o'clock dinner Thursday evening. The guests were: Miss Frank Wilson, Helen Conrad, Grace McFerrin, Nellie Gibbs, Gertrude Stolfus, Grace Angell, Helen Ferrell and Ethel Brown. The teachers took this occasion to present Miss Wilson, who severs her connection with the school this spring to become superintendent of the Beloit Industrial School for Girls, with a beautiful ivory manicure set. IN MIIJLMMIEJR $5.00 Clots 91 $2.50 EQCEJ ff Idea ond Saturday specials at Oitte Milliiaery Beldorf Theatre Building Dancing Party.

Mr. and Mrs. Jim Robinson were host and hostess at a very delightful dance last evening at the Country-club. For Her Sister. Mrs.

J. W. Lantz, 816 West Locust, entertained a number of friends last evening in honor of her sister, Mrs. F. A.

Webster of Parsons. For the Children. Mrs. Moody is entertaining a party of children at the Country club this afternoon. The afternoon's amusement will be field and outdoor dancing, taught by Mrs.

Moody's friend, Miss Mitchell, of Michigan, who is her guest. a The W. T. U. The W.

C. T. U. met yesterday afternoon with Mrs. M.

L. Truby at 203 South Fourteenth street, with their newly elected president, Mrs. A. J. Oaks in the chair.

Mrs. Agnes Fyree tendered her resignation a week ago on account of her duties as police matron. ft ft ft Babes in the Woods. The little girls of the "Gym." class of the Baptist church are being entertained this afternoon by Miss Helen Hall, their instructor. They were treated to a hayrack ride to the woods, where they will spend a very enjoyable afternoon eating picnic lunches, fishing and swinging with all other amusements that go with a picnic.

ft ft ft Bridge Party. Mrs. Lewis Wemrich entertained yesterday afternoon with a bridge party at her home, 614 North Tenth street. There were sixteen guests. At the close of the games the hostess served a dainty three-course luncheon.

Mrs. W. A. Hambleton won first prize and Miss Ida Heebler, who is the guest of Misses Mamie and Margaret Baden, was consoled. ft ft ft A Pretty Party.

Mrs. Chas. Thibus- gave a very pretty party at her home on North Eighth street Friday afternoon complimentary to the Kill Kare Klub, and all the nfembers except two enjoyed her hospitality. The different rooms were decorated in the spring blossoms, peonas and roses. Mrs.

Jennie Gregory favored the guests with several beautiful piano selections. The afternoon was pleasantly spent in embroidering, which is -the High school in this city last evening. Their brother, Vernon Hill, was a graduate. i Mr. Bradford, of 400 North Nineteenth street, is on the sick list.

C. J. Melrose left last night for St. Louis on important business in that city. Luzena Marshall, of Liberty, is; visiting in this city, the guest of Miss Nellie Finney and Irma Custw man have taken positions with thd new Woolworth five and ten cenf store.

Mrs. Nellie Fletcher returned last night, to her home in Joplin, after 3 short business mission in this cit5 yesterday. Mrs. Sherman, of Tyro, came ur yesterday for an over Sunday visiH at the home of her sister, Mrs. D.

Fj Broughten. ftftftftftftftftftftftftftft ft ft PERSONAL MENTION. ft ft ftftftftftftftftftftftftftft C. W. Laney is in Coffeyville today on business.

Clair V. Dennis went to Chanute yesterday to visit relatives. Mary Braden left yesterday for her home near Chanute to spend the sum mer. Attorney Chas. D.

Shukers has gone to Claremore and Collinsville to transact some legal business. Miss Lola Burfield has resigned her position as trimmer at the Bennett Millinery store and will assist at the Woolworth store. Fred Crane, of Elgin, is expected today or tomorrow for a visit with his Mr. and Mrs. H.

H. Crane, of North Eighth street. Mrs. Bate Hamer and little girls, of Howard, arrived today for a few days' visit with Mrs. C.

A. Roth and daughter, Pearl, of West Chestnut. Cash Davis, of Wichita, arrived in the city this morning on business and was met by J. P. T.

Davis, of Elk City. Miss Nona Randall, who recently left this city and went to San Diego, to live, writes her mother, Mrs. L. E. Bradford, of 400 North Nineteenth street, that she and her hus band are enjoying their California home and are delighted with the climate.

E. P. Jackson, general yard master, and Lew Choate, passenger engineer, of the "Soo" line, and their wives, located at Fondu Lac, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. W.

S. Fox, of this city, for a few days. The two couples are winding up a two months' trip along the Pacific coast and through the oil fields of Oklahoma. Mr. and Mrs.

Roy Braik and children, of Erie, and his father, Adam Braik, motored down from Ene yesterday and visited among friends awhile, then returned, accompanied by Mrs. Adam Braik, who has been visiting old friends here for several days. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Braik will start for their home in Victoria, B.

soon. They left there several months ago on a visiting voyage. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY i i i i WANTED Good girl for general house work; no washing; good wages. Mrs. R.

L. Scott, 118 South Twelfth street. Phone 118. 5-17-3 1. HAIR WORK Made to order.

Bring your combings. Skillful work and prices low. Mrs. McKinney 205 S. 3rd.

5-i-3t WANT- ADS INDIANS AND NEGROES CLASHED NEAR DELAWARE. A Trusted Colored Man Sent on An Errand to a Farm House Attempt-to Assault a Young Wife and Warfare Resulted. A story of the Delaware row was printed in The Star yesterday, but coming by telegraph, was necessarily in abridged form. As soon as the Coffeyville Journal heard of the fracas a reporter hopped a train for 'Delaware and the following story is the result: Delaware, May i Two, white men and one negro were wounded when a posse clashed with ten armed negroes seeking to protect Vernon Fields, a negro who assaulted Mrs. Perry Ballentine, wife of a farmer, west of here about midnight last night.

The wounded men are William Worthington, a pumper, shot through the thigh, and A. C. (Slim) Barker, a pipe line worker, shot through the foot. Barker may lose all the toes on one foot. One negro, giving the name of Jess Sanders, was captured in the barn of Grant Wolf a half mile north by Wade Kivett, deputy sheriff, a short time later.

Sanders is filled with shot from head to foot but his condition is not dangerous. The posse brought him to Delaware, threw a rope around his neck and Perry Ballentine, husband of the outraged white woman, had climbed the pole when the crowd changed its mind. Ballentine agreed with the others that Sanders would make too valuable a witness to hang. So the negro was bundled in a motor car and rushed to the county jail at Nowata. As Ballentine "shinned" the pole near the station, a man dropped to his knees and took aim with his rifle on the pole, apparently planning to open fire on the negro as he was strung up.

The man with the rifle turned his back for a moment and when he looked again the black was in a motor car which was starting down the street. Sanders was game in the crisis. He did not whimper or plead for his life. He talked in a low voice and stared seriously but not a bead of perspiration showed on his forehead. r- The trouble started about supper time last night.

Vernon Fiellds is the son of a freedman, and about 25 years old. He has practically been 'raised by Mrs. Lizzie Ballentine, mother of Perry Ballentine. The Ballentines are Cherokees and came here from Tahlequah. The Fields family came to Nowata county with the Ballentines.

Thursday afternoon Mrs. Lizzie Ballentine sent Fields to her daughter-in-law's to get tomato plants. Fields rode the Ballentine horse. The story of the assault is not clear. Ballentine said today that he was so enraged at the time he is not certain what happened.

It appears that the negro grabbed the young woman, that she screamed and seized a gun. There was but one cartridge in the rifie but that was sufficient to frighten Fields off. The wife was hysterical when her husband arrived and is not yet able to give a connected account of the attack. The Ballentine home is a mile and a half north of Delaware and isolated. Mr.

Ballentine was in town at the time. Mrs. Ballentine is the mother of a 2-months-old infant. Mrs. Lizzie Ballentine looked out a few minutes later and saw Fields ride up hurriedly without the plants and looking back anxiously.

He demounted, hastily tied the horse and ran into a nearby clump of brush. Mrs. Ballentine sensed the trouble. Though a woman of advanced years, she rides like the Indian she is. Quickly putting on a divided skirt she mounted the horse left by Fields and went on the dead run for herdaugh-ter-in-law's home.

In the meantime her son had returned home, found his wife hysterical and had started for Delaware on the run to give the alarm. Mother and son missed each other on the road. The near race war last night is blamed on Mrs. Emma Alwell, a ne-gress. When the other blacks were ordered away a year and a half ago 'she was allowed to stay, having a reputation for peacability and industry.

Mrs. Alwell, it is said, called Lena-pah and Wagoner on the phone and asked friends there to organize posses of negroes to come to Delaware and rescue Fields. When the news of her action circulated about town tension, became high. Some were thoroughly alarmed as there are large negro colonies to the north. The story was that Delaware was to be wiped off the map by the blacks and someone telephoned Coffeyville for help.

Mrs. Alwell's alarm resulted in ten negroes, including Vernon Fields' wife and brother, leaving Lenapah and Mrs. Alwell is said to have sent a child to meet them and tell them they would find the white men near Mrs. Lizzie Ballentine's home west of here. Jess Daniels was a member of this party.

The white men were headed by Newt Garrison, ex-town marshal and Perry Ballentine when the negroes opened fire. It was a bushwhacker attack, the shots coming from the darkness on three sides. The whites answered the fire. In all it is estimated that thirty-five shots had been ffired when the negroes broke and ran. It was then that Daniels was run down in a barn on the north edge of town.

The vicinty in which Albert Fields was seen last was watched by part of the white men. Once they thought they heard Fields and were closing in on him along a creek bank. The bank gave away and one man tumbled in. At that it was decided to drop the search until daylight. Ten motor cars mingled with men In the saddle last night while the search was on.

Shortly before 8 this morning a fresh posse started out. It divided in two sections, one going south and the other west. It was planned to head in a southwesterly direction toward the Hogshooter, gradually closing in. All members were in the saddle and most of them carried rifles or shotguns. Ballentine and two others left later in a rig.

The stables of both livery stables here were exhausted to mount the posse. W. D. Humphries, a prominent Nowata, attorney, was a member of the party. Many of the mounted men were Indians, some of them full bloods.

Though not in war paint or aboriginal costume their whoops during the night were blood curdling, some of more timid residents say. While grim faced men galloped down the street this morning with rifles slung across their fschoolgirls in dazzling white dresses with diplomas tied with purple and gold ribbons passed them on their way to the school building for the closing exercises of the year. It was a strange mingling of the new and the old. The feeling here against Mrs. Alwell is intense.

Probably her sex is all that saved her from rough handling. She was prepared for trouble last night, carrying a six shooter in her bosom and another revolver under her waist band. Hers is the only negro family in the corporation limits. Grant Wollf, in whose barn Sanders was caught, is a negro but lives just north of town. Wolf is an industrious and law abiding citizen, as a good business man and well liked.

He was on the streets today and got the usual friendly salutations from all who knew him. The aged mother of Albert Fields was here last night when the trouble occurred and returned on the morning train today to her home near Lenapah, accompanied by niece-She had heard nothing of the result of the pursuit of her boy and was very nervous. "I don't believe what they tell about my Vernon. He ain't a bad boy," she said as she waited for her train at 'the depot. Fields is described as a dark mulatto, with a small dark mustache.

He is six feet high, weighs about 175 pounds and has a full face and broad shoulders. PERSONAL MENTION. W. A. Gardner, of Olathe, was the guest today of C.

H. Kerr. Chas. Fadler, of the Corner Pharmacy, returned this morning from a few days' business trip to Kansas City. L.

E. Walsh is home from Okla homa to spend Sunday with the fam- iiy. Prof. Stanton Olinger, who will speak tomorrow at the Presbyterian church, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs.

A. C. Stich. Miss Ollie Walters, cashier at Hal-sey store, will visit her sister, Mrs. Myrtle Benton, of over Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. T. Black, of Neo-desha, were shopping here today. John McNamara left last night for Henryetta, Okla.

John Howe, John Overfield and R. Litchfield left this morning for Sorghum Hollow, where they are bringijng in a fine oil well. Misses Rosalie and Roberta Tag-gart, who have been attending the county high school here, have returned to their home in Elk City. Miss Ethel Sanford, of South Second, will leave tonight for Bartles-ville, where she will spend Saturday and Sunday with her brother, Joe, and wife. H.

H. Titterington, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, arrived yesterday for a few days' visit with his son, Harry, and family, of 420 South Fourteenth street. Mrs. R. O.

Bolman and Mrs. R. R. Wharton, of Coffeyville, attended the graduation exercises at the County AUTO BROKE ARM. While James M.

Hunter of 512 South Eighth street, was cranking his auto at the Santa Fe depot a little before 12 o'clock today the cranlc kicked and broke his right arm above the wrist. It is a bad fracture. Dr. Wickersham was called on and fixed him up. The laws of gravitation decree that' what goes up must come down.

This; is a comforting theory to apply to the high cost of living. See and Hear 0 Ml niirp BELDORF THEATRE May 20-21-22 :.) err cz Jurors and tliers Attending Court Will Find it Convenient to Get Their Meals at the Farmers' Eating House 120 East Main Hiatt Norris GILMORE INSURANCE AGENCY. G. E. Gilmore.

R. S. Gilmore Established 1875. Insurance, Real Estate and Loans. Farm Insurance a Spec- iality.

Over First National Bank. QuicK Lunch Restaurant Distinguished for its clientage, appointment and location. Equally attractive to permanent or transient guests. 1 MODEST UNIQUE HOMELIKE Take your meals and lunch here at all times and especially our Splendid Sunday Dinners. QUICK LUNCH RESTAURANT 123 North Penn.

Ave. 0 pecisd Prices OEH.n ATTENTION U. C. T. Special train will leave Independence, Kansas, at 3:55 a.

May 23rd, for Muskogee, via the Missouri Pacific, arriving at Muskogee at 7:30 a. m. Fare for round trip, $4.70. Returning, leave Muskogee at 11 p. May 24th.

For further information call at depot. IF; Coiyer, Agent All Trimmed Hats, Untrimmed Shapes and Materials Miss Pearl JemiKms With Halaejr Bros. Phone Office 1063 Main Floor 1273.