Pittsburg Filter and Engineering Company vs. F.A. Young, et al., judgement for the plaintiff in the sum of $850.

I. Schwarz vs. S.H. Cottmann, et al., judgement for the plaintiff in the sum of $316

GRANT COWAN GETS CONVICT WHO ESCAPED

United States Deputy Marshal Grant Cowen arrested a preacher named McClure, this morning, and locked him up in the city prison.

The arrest was made on orders from the warden of the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas. The man was paroled in 1915, after serving time on conviction for manslaughter or murder, and the crime is believed to have been committed in the old Indian Territory prior to the advent of statehood.

McClure has been around Henryetta for a considerable time, and has posed as a preacher. He has been holding meetings out in the settlement where Fred Been lives, west of town.

A miner said, when the man was locked up, that McClure had been engaged in making and selling props to the Creek Mine. There had been so far as we could learn, no sus

There had been so far as we could learn, no suspicion that the man was an escaped convict or even a paroled one. We have not the data on the commission of the crime for which he was convicted, not even the date.

March 30, 1922

VETERAN OFFICER WILL SEEK NOMINATION FROM THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

In Experience, Efficiency and Integrity He is Excelled by None – Will Have Strong Following Among the Whole People.

Now that Sheriff Sowers and former Sheriff Lon Kuhn are formally in the race for the Republican nomination for sheriff, what is the matter with Grant Cowan? One may conjure with that name as well as any other not in Okmulgee County, but anywhere else when it comes to a question of considering a man for an officer.

Grant Cowan is all that any person could ask in every way. With a wide and varied experience as an officer, he would bring to the office of sheriff a vast store of knowledge that only years of actual experience and personal observation could possibly give a man.

Grant is a Missourian, but was water-bound over in Arkansas for some time, and came from there to Indian Territory in the early years. He was an officer in the old days when the only law was that of the United States courts, and its enforcement was placed in the hands of a marshal and his deputies. Cowan served as such officer with great success and has had as much rough experience as any of the other old timers.

In addition to this, he possesses an excellent appearance, has fine address and really knows more about the business of running the sheriff ’s office than any other person could know without similar experience. Cowan’s personal integrity has never, to our knowledge been even questioned. As one evidence of his honesty, he has remained poor. Had he held his hand behind him, he might have accumulated wealth during the days when such things were frequently done.

But Cowan has failed to accumulate wealth and is now a deputy United States marshal. If the republicans of Okmulgee County want to select the best man for the nomination, they may have choice in August and Grant Cowan looms up as a formidable contender for that nomination.

The man needs no introduction to the old timers, but in our population now there are thousands of people who have but recently come to Okmulgee County, and they should be informed on this topic.

When questioned on this matter today, Mr. Cowan declared that he had no money to spend in a campaign, but that if the republicans wanted to nominate him, he would willingly serve. Let us see what the people think of this.

JURY TRIAL IN THE SUPERIOR COURT TODAY

In the superior court today the case of T.J. Johnson vs. W.P. Marler is on trial before a jury.

The following were other proceedings in this court:

L.C. Lockhart vs. James C. Davis, et al. judgement for the plaintiff in the sum of $1,000.

The Anthony Mills vs. H.T. Brinson et al., judgement for the plaintiff in the sum of $118.

Henryetta State Bank vs. Dane Bennett, judgment for the plaintiff in the sum of $510.

Mabel Spoon vs. H.A. Spoon, decree of divorce granted the plaintiff.

C.R. Bean vs. Alva Martin judgement for the plaintiff in the sum of $367.50. R.L. Lewis vs. M.A. Cowley et al., decree for the

R.L. Lewis vs. M.A. Cowley et al., decree for the defendants and mortgage held cancelled and plaintiff ordered to return notes to the defendant.

J. Savage, et al., vs. J.J. Allen, judgement for the plaintiff in the sum of $45.

Deputy Cowen had the purpose in mind to go out and look this prisoner up, but McClure happened to come into town early this morning, and the federal officer made the arrest at once. McClure is to be returned to the federal prison at Leavenworth, and what else may be done to him remains to be seen. Violating a parole will possibly forfeit him the liberty he has been enjoying. Chief of Police James Stormont is authority for the statement that McClure had reported tot eh warden of the prison in a satisfactory manner until about three months ago.

BOND ELECTION TODAY GETS BUT LIGHT VOTE OWING TO INCLEMENCY OF THE WEATHER

An election is in progress in all the wards of the city and the Henryetta school district today. In the city proper, a bond issue of $230,000 for public improvements is being voted on and in the school district one of $50,000 for school purposes.

The very inclement weather prevailing all day is no doubt accountable for the light vote being polled. About the same number voting on the city bonds had voted on the school bonds, this indicating that the people in the outlying sections had not been coming to the voting places by reason of ran and bad roads.

If there was any opposition to the issue of the bonds wither those of the city or the school district, it did not make itself apparent to a visitor at any of the voting places.

Between 12 o’clock noon and 1 o’clock p.m., there had been votes cast as follows:

First ward 16; Second ward, 31; Third ward 35; Fourth ward 31.

It is expected that this vote will be very materially increased by evening and taking into consideration the fact that perhaps not more than one-fourth of all the voters of the city are qualified to vote on a bond issue, under the laws of the state, by night there will no doubt be a very fair expression of the people of the city directly interested in these bond issues.

REPORTED DRY IS NOW MAKING 3,000 BARRELS

The Gypsy Oil Company’s well in the NW corner of the SW 1-4 of the NE 1-4 of section 13-11-11, reported a dry hole, was shot yesterday evening and is now making 3,000 barrels, one of the best wells in that section.

This refutes the first of the three dry stories that have gone forth from that location tending to lead to the belief that the field was pinching out there.

The Minnehoma Oil Company has drilled in its No. 3 in the NE corner of the NE NE of 24-11-11. Sand was topped at 2,643 feet and was drilled 10 feet in, and the well is flowing 40 barrels an hour. This is an offset to the Gladys Belle 40 and the Wiser Oil Company’s 80. The same company’s No. 2 center of the north line of the same forty, is also due in.

The Wiser Oil Company is drilling at 2,550 feet in the NW corner of the south half of the SW of 18-11-12. They have also reached the same depth in the SW corner of the same eighty. In the center of the west line of the same eighty, they are drilling at 1,250 feet.

WHOLE TOWNSHIP LEASED

Lease men and abstractors lend color to statements that in eastern Oklahoma there are at least two entire townships solidly leased for oil or gas. One of these is a few miles west of Muskogee and north of Morris, being 14-14.

Township 11-11, in Okfuskee County, southwest of Henryetta a few miles in which is located the Lyons-Quinn-Deaner pols, is another township which is leased solidly.

If one desires to purchase a lease in 11-11 or in 14-14, it is necessary now that he secure his lease “second hand.”

MORGAN TODAY

If you are fond of real drama, wholesome comedy and, incidentally, have an eye to the beauty of the latest creations of the Parisian modesties, then you should see Billie Burke in her new Paramount picture, “The Frisky Mrs. Johnson” which will display at this theatre today. In every respect it will prove a revelation to you.

Independent of Miss Burke’s great popularity as a star, her newest vehicle is a fascinating picture. The scenes are laid in Paris during the gay carnival season and the story presents Miss Burke in a delightful characterization. Once you have seen “The Frisky Mrs. Johnson,” it is certain you will not soon forget it.

Talk about rich gowns – why, this picture presents a vast variety that will bewilder most women!

Vaudeville – The Norton Co., present their feature play of the week, with new specialties between acts.

MORGAN TOMORROW

A like sentence tied to a millstone. And love beckoning beyond. “Cabiria” presents a romance as tender and touching as “Ben Hur” and just as thrilling.

Two years in the making. Seven years before the public. “Cabiria” has had to be the exceptional picture to have endured in public favor that long. Staggering in its immensity; bewildering in rapid action; soothing in its story of sacrificing love.

Fleets destroyed, empires devastated, the world’s greatest romance rewritten, all these in “Cabiria,” the smashing hit that endured as a motion picture marvel for seven years.

The splendor of ancient Carthage has never been paralleled, but “Cabiria” shows a faithful reproduction of the greatest struggle of all history.

You’ll see the greatest romance of ancient times when you see “Cabiria.”

March 31, 1922

GREATEST COAL STRIKE OF INDUSTRY’S HISTORY IN FULL FORCE

Nearly 600,000 Union Miners Will Lay Down Their Tools and Leave the Mines Between This Hour and Midnight.

Every mine in the Henryetta field will be virtually closed by this evening. Some closed down last night, in fact all of them,

Some closed down last night, in fact all of them, so far as the cutting of coal is concerned, as the companies desired that the men be paid for all the coal they had mined and they wanted today to clean up and remove the machines from the rooms.

By Associated Press:

Suspension of work by the nation of 500,000 union coal miners is scheduled tonight with mine owners confident of ultimate victory in the fight over wages and working conditions, the miners equally optimistic with the exception of Illinois, where there is a note of pessimism and the larger industries of the country generally preparing to withstand complete cessation of coal production for a period of from sixty to one hundred and twenty days.

In many states the operators were planning to continue production without union workers. In Illinois, this will be impossible, it was said, because of state law2s, one of which provides that no one may dig coal underground without two years’ experience.

No attempt at production is planned in the state. Illinois union leaders predict a short strike and announced that if it became “wabbly” they would seek separate wage agreements with their operators regardless of the actions of the men in other states.

The miners’ leaders have issued orders that there is to be no violence and that sufficient men are to remain on duty to guard the mines and prevent deterioration of property.

The shut-down begins with the largest supply of coal on hand in most districts since the armistice. The railroads, consumers of 65 percent of the annual coal production, reports sufficient coal on hand to last from two to four months, and similar reports came from the large industries of the nations.

All have been stocking up for some time. Because of the season of the year the shut-down is not expected to affect the average household.

Hopes that last minute intervention by the government might avert suspension of work, ended with the announcement from Secretary of Labor Davis, that the government had not changed its original “hands off ” policy.