The Ravia Tribune Sep 1904 - Johnston County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Mary Achterhof 18 May 2008 Return to Johnston County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/johnston/johnston.htm ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== The Ravia Tribune, 1 September 1904 The commissioners of Comanche, Samuel Coot and wife were arrested at South McAlester last week upon a charge of having robbed a hotel at Shawnee. Julian Taft was arrested at Lawton last week upon the charge of attempting criminal assault upon a five year old child. G. P. White, one of the striking Katy operators at South McAlester, was arrested and fined for calling astrike breaker a "scab" and using abusive language. Lightning recently destroyed the barn of J. F. Denton in the Ponca Indian country, together with 5,000 bushels of wheat. No insurance. An effort is being made to secure the unconditional pardon of V. H. Albright, who was sent to the penitentiary two years ago for manslaughter. He lived near Guthrie. A cablegram has been received from the mayor of Liverpool, England, stating that Miss Lloyd Wise had been selected to represent that city at the ceremonies on Oklahoma City day at the World’s Fair. At the reunion of the United Confederate veterans at Cheotah last week John L. Galt of Ardmore was re-elected major general of the Indian Territory division. Vinita was selected as the place for holding the next annual reunion. Jonas Cook, superintendent of the public schools at Chickasha, has resigned, to engage in other business. He has been unanimously re- elected each time since entering upon his duties at the head of the schools of that town. After experimenting with the dipping process of the cattle on "101" Ranch Mr. Perry, deputy live stock inspector, pronounces it a success, as every vestige of infection is destroyed and the skin of the cattle is given a healthy appearance. Judge Gillette has refused a writ of habeas corpus for Mrs. Louisa Fuller, a Kiowa Indian, who is held for perjury in the Randiett investigation. Her bond has been fixed at $500. Inspector O’Fallon has been sent to the Indian Territory to investigate charges preferred against Attorney Adams, a Delaware Indian. J. S. Davis has sold his house to Henry Romines who has sold it to James F. Pate. Mr. Davis leaves this week to make his home in Texas. We regret to lose him. He is an estimable and public spirited citizen. We wish him success in his new home. Mrs. Austin of Dallas, was visiting in Ravia Saturday. C. E. Tynes of Sherman, was on our streets Monday. T. J. Burns is making some decided improvements to the hotel. When completed it will be one of the best hotel buildings in the town. W. A. Payton’s baby is quite sick. Rev. Brownlee closed his meeting here Sunday night and will begin a meeting on Bullet Prairie this week. Mrs. Lena Johnson of Fort Worth is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Gilliam. We are pleased to learn that Mr. Johnson has been assigned to a responsible position with Swift & Co. in Dallas. J. S. Unsell has bought the old commissary building from A. A. Chapman and moved his business into it. C. H. Fischer went to Fort Worth Sunday. J. L. Richardson says it has been so dry that a good wind that blew the other day broke off his corn and blew it about over the field. Mrs. T. A. Caperton received a letter Friday from her sister in Stephensville, Texas calling her to the bedside of her mother who was thought to be fatally ill. Myrtle, little daughter of C. C. Graves, has been seriously ill about 30 days of typho-malaria. She is reported better at this writing. I. L. Kimbrell shipped out a car load of gun stocks last week. They were all walnut. W. R. Mixon came in Saturday from Beaver County, O. T. He brought a badger with him that attracted a good deal of attention on the streets. Ernest, son of Mrs. Eastin, was quite sick last week. Mrs. A. J. Leeper is reported convalescent. J. C. Owen that all around good fellow of Troy, was in Ravia Saturday. He tells us he is running the gin at that place. "Charley" as his familiar friends call him, has the confidence of everybody and deserves it and if he does no satisfy all his gin customers and give their full quota of cotton and seed it won’t be because he does not try. TROY J. H. Duncan and A. A. Chapman were in town Saturday. Mrs. J. W. Hewley of Claremore, was in town on business. W. C. Hooser has returned form Kansas City here he has been buying his fall stock of goods. Dr. Harper and wife, of Ravia, were in town Saturday. J. C. Conley’s little son has been right sick but is better now. W. H. Main has moved part of his stock of drugs to Mill Creek. He will move his family this week. Mrs. C. S. Mudd and little daughter Mrs. Irwin have returned from a visit to Ardmore. M. M. Webster is in Denison on business. F. A. Donahoe quit the telephone gang. He said they were taking him away from Troy to fast. Jesse Hall is in the Creek Nation on business. Henry Norton went to Ravia Saturday. Mr. Wright or Ravia was in our town last week. Rev. Barnes of Ardmore, preached at the schoolhouse Sunday at 11. W. D. Jones and C. E. Helnet of the Townsite Commission are selling lots here today. Mr. Burney is also here. NORTON The death of Mrs. Finney occurred on the 23rd and her remains were interred in the Norton Cemetery. Singing given by Pap Clark was enjoyed by all present, he was singing the leading part, which was sitting in the shade and spending his opinion that the boll weevil was eating his cotton. He has never been down in his cotton since the weather has got so hot; but says he knows they are there, because the butterflies were flying around his well. The Ravia Tribune, 8 September 1904 THIS ISSUE MISSING The Ravia Tribune, 22 September 1904 John Chance, a farmer near Troy took ten bales of cotton to Tishomingo Saturday and hearing that they bought cotton here he phoned over to Jake Wilson to know what he would give. B. W. Trice his buyer telephone back 10.10 and bought the cotton. Ravia is a cotton market. TRUE STORIES OF THE FRONTIER By Rec. J. C. Scivally After I got back from hunting a hog ranch I went to work for Joel Burrough an uncle of the noted Rube Burrough. I was well acquainted with Rube; he married one of the best girls in our country. On November 19, 1876 I was married to M. A. Martin the daughter of Rev. M. L. Martin a member of the North West Texas Conference. Now my kind readers my life changes but we have some things to tell you of a frontier life. In he Spring after I was married in the Fall I was happily converted, joined the church the 28 of August and was licensed to exhort the next day, was licensed to preach November 8, 1880. I came to Indian Mission Conference in the Fall of 1883. My first work was the Walnut Bayou Circuit. This circuit embraced all the territory between Red River and Wild horse Creek and from a creek called Walnut Bayou which empties into Red River just below Burneyville west to the Comanche line. I had sixteen appointments to fill once a month. I had one appointment sixty miles from where I lived. I preached there on Wednesday at 11 o’clock. The people would go to church any day in the week for preaching was scarce. I shall never forget my first time to preach at that place. The church was called Friendship. I left home Tuesday. I wanted two days to make the trip for I had never traveled the road. Did I say road? Excuse me there were not any roads. After I left home and got out of my own little neighborhood I never saw any one till two o’clock I found a house and asked the good lady if I could get dinner and my pony fed. She said yes, but that I would have to feed the pony myself as there was no other man there. I fed my pony and went into the house. She prepared me a nice dinner. While eating she asked me if I was not a minister. I said yes. Why did you ask me that? She said "because I thought you looked like one." I laughed to myself and wondered how a preacher looked. I inquired of her what church she belonged to she said right out flat "I am a Campbellite" and looking straight at me said "you are Methodist aren’t you?" I said why do you think so? Because, said she they always so into a country before any others." When I got ready to go I wanted to know what I owed her; she said nothing but wanted me to leave an appointment so I agreed to preach there a month form that time. When the month rolled around I found a nice little congregation there about twenty in number, so I kept up the appointment during the year. I found her to be an intelligent lady and thoroughly religious. But back to my subject, after I got through with dinner I moved on north, rode hard all the evening, never saw anyone; would see plenty of wolves, now and then a deer and a good many antelopes but not a human being did I see. The sun went down, the night birds began to whistle, the owls began to hoot and I felt lonesome and was thinking of lassoing my pony and laying myself on the grass to await the rising of another sun when I heard the rattle of a wagon so I galloped up and overtook a wagon with a man and a little boy in it, so decided I could go as far as they could. After following about half a mile without either of us speaking I saw alight through it seemed to be to the left of the course we were traveling. After the man turned off the road if it could be called a road, and went toward the light, as we got nearer I discovered the light was in a house. The man drove up and stopped. I rode up beside the wagon and spoke to him and asked if he lived there. He said yes. "I want to stay with you tonight." He said "I can’t keep you but there is a man across the mountain that keeps travelers." "How far is it" said I. "About four or five miles" was the answer. "Well said I it had just as well be fifty as far as I am concerned, for I am a stranger here and don’t know the road or country. Now said I, I am going to stay here. I will build me a fire out here and lay by and buy some feed from you for pony if you will let me have it." "Well said he if you will stay we will do the best we can." So I put up my pony, went into the house. Now they had one room with no floor in it, then about forty yards from this was a little house built out of poles, it was about 10 by 12 in size; they used it for cook and dining room. When I went into the house the woman folks were in the kitchen and the old man and boys were feeding. There were two beds in the house, a light burning. I saw under one of the beds a hold dug nearly as long and wide as the bed. Now my curiosity got excited and my imagination began to play on me. But supper came at last; we went in and sat down to the table. They had plenty to eat and it was palatable to a tired and hungry man. We eat without any grace as they did not say any nor call on me; they were not as good guessers a my good sister where I got dinner. So after supper we went into the house. The family consisted of the old man, his wife, two sons and a daughter about grown. The old man was about 50 years old, rather corpulent, talked but little, had beard all over his face you could just see his eyes. Mrs. H. (we will call them that because we do not want to spell their names because part of them are in this country yet and some of them got into trouble so will know them as Mr. H and family….. continued. At Alderson J. L. Painter was injured while attempting to drive across the Choctaw tracks. A locomotive dashed into the horse and buggy, killing the animal, demolishing the vehicle and throwing Mr. Painter out. He was severely injured. W. C. Hooser and Dr. M. M. Webster of Troy were in Ravia Thursday. W. T. Brady went to Tishomingo Thursday. T. B. Thompson of Emet, has been appointed Treasurer of the Chickasaw Nation. Judge Cornelius Hardy, a prominent attorney of Tishomingo was in Ravia Saturday. I L. Kimbrell was over from his sawmill last week. Lon Beard tells us he has been picking 330 to 370 pounds of cotton a day for the last few days. He could afford to pick cotton all the year. Lester little son of R. C. Johnson who has been sick with slow fever for three weeks is reported better. That is a pretty tough spell for a little boy. Mrs. Hobson of Mannsville and Mrs. J. W. Scrimshire of Ravia visited Mrs. J. W. Garrett at Milburn last week. Mrs. Hobson paid this paper a highly appreciated compliment when she remarked to a friend that she always found all the news in the Ravia Tribune. Died – Sunday September 18, 1904. Mr. Sam Costilloe. Just as the sun was setting in the west, his spirit took its flight to the beyond. C. C. Graves has made another investment in town property, buying the house lately occupied by E. H. Gibson and belonging to Mr. Kitchens. Jake Wilson has bought out Beard’s hardware stock. Dr. Palmer took the train here Monday for Texas. He was accompanied by his mother and sister. J. H. Lowery of Mill Creek was in Ravia Monday. Judge Gullet of Tishomingo was in Ravia Monday on his way to hold court at Madill. Mrs. E. L. Robertson has returned from a visit to Texas. Tom Lawson ad George Kingserry went to Ada Tuesday. C. E. Tynes was in Ravia Monday. B. M. Sharrock has bought J. T. Wright’s house and lot. Dr. A. G. Cranfill of Reagan, was in Ravia Tuesday. He came to assist in organizing the Ravia Masonic lodge under the charter. This is a great addition to the fraternity of the town; this most venerable of all benevolent orders. Born, Monday September 19, to Mr. and Mrs. U. A. Lowrimore a fine boy. This bran new American, like his father is a heavy weight and tips the scales at 12 lbs. We hope he will be pleased with Ravia and thrive and prosper here. HOUSE AND GOODS DESTROYED W. L. Isom, a farmer who lives two miles north of Ravia, had his house and all its contents destroyed by fire, about noon Saturday. While his wife was getting dinner and he was picking cotton the roof caught from the stove pipe and the house being papered burnt like a tinder box. Mrs. Isom could save nothing but her baby. The Ravia Tribune, 29 September 1904 Lawyer G. W. Bingham of Tishomingo, will be tried November 1 to determine whether he shall be disbarred from practicing before the Dawes Commission for buying information from one of its clerks. No doubt he will be loaded down with the sins of he grafters and an attempt made to turn him loose in the wilderness. J. C. Wilcox was bound over to the grand jury for assaulting townsite Commissioner Shephard of robbing him by valuing his lot unreasonably high. An old statute has been unearthed that makes the maximum penalty for assaulting a U.S. officer 6 years in the penitentiary. TRUE STORIES OF THE FRONTIER By Rev. J. C. Scivally Mrs. H. was a large, fleshy woman and a great talker. After supper we went into the house. I kept my eyes on the hole under the bed but in such a manner as not to be detected. Now one of the young men was very inquisitive and began to ask me questions, was I a lawyer, a school teacher, a U. S. Marshal, a detective or land hunter to all of which I replied in the negative. He never once ask if I was a preacher. So bed time came and the man told me to sleep on the bed that had the hole under it. I thought that was a trick; so I went to bed. Now let me tell you kind reader had the slats fell out as I have seen them I would have got up and sat all night for I would have thought it a trick to throw me into the hole under the bed. After I had lain down I heard the old lady tell the man he would have to sleep with me, so I decided it was a concocted plan to trap me, I lay awake till midnight. When I went to sleep I slept soundly till Mrs. H. called for them to get up and make fires they all got up the women went to the kitchen the men to feed. I then got up, dressed fully determined to see what that hole was under the bed so I got on my hands and knees and found the hole about as long nearly as wide as the bed and about four feet deep. So I was still in the dark as to the purpose of the hole. I then went to the lot to see about my pony; seeing it had been well fed I went back to the house, washed and got ready for breakfast. While gone to the lot a child about six years old had got a discipline and hymn book out of my saddle bags. I saw by that they had found out who I was. When we went in to breakfast they all seated themselves nicely and the old gentleman in a very dignified manner called on me to grace the table. After breakfast we all went into the house I asked them what I owed them. Mr. H. said "we don’t charge preachers and I presume you are a Methodist preacher" (the hymn book and discipline had told on me) I said yes and Mrs. H. said "why did you not tell us last night, for we are Methodist. Now some one may think I was ashamed to let them know I was a preacher; no, nom never. But I have always made it a rule when traveling among strangers to get a night’s lodging and pay my bill, and then tell them who I was. I did this for fear if I told them who I was before hand they would think I wanted to beat my way. So Mrs. H. instructed me to stop every time I passed their way. Well said I, "I want you to explain to me what that hole is under that bed for." (continued) Jim Daily, and Indian is being held at Perry upon the charge of attempted murder. His father-in-law, who was the victim of the assault, had a gash cut in his forehead. Mike White, a federal prisoner confined in jail at Ardmore, charge with arson, died from the effects of excessive cigarette smoking. Tom Rose, fourteen years old, was struck by lightning in Marietta and died from the effects of the shock. Two horses were killed and two other boys were severely shocked by the same bolt. Eddie Milligan, fifteen years old, who left his home in Cisco, Texas, August 12, to visit his uncle, J. S. Bettes, a carpenter living at Muskogee, is lost. He has never been heard of since his departure from home, and diligent search is being made for him by relatives. A Carpenter, an engineer on a freight train, was instantly killed at Sageeyah, several miles north of Claremore, last week. The engine jumped the track and the tender crashed into it crushing Carpenter. The fireman jumped. One of h is hands was badly mashed. H. W. Ritz, a fireman on the Mangum line of the Rock Island, received a serious injury in the eye from a bursting of the water gauge. A piece of glass struck him, cutting the eyelid and ball. It is thought the sight will not be destroyed. J. H. Dolman took the northbound Meteor Sunday for the World’s Fair at St. Louis. Sixty years ago Mr. Dolman was 25 years old and a citizen of St. Louis and doubtless he will see many familiar places in that old town though all the earmarks have disappeared from most of them. He tells us he has fished may a day at the old mill pond that filled the site of the present Union depot, said to be the finest in the world. James F. Pate is in Texas this week lookin after his farm near Weatherford. Prof. B. H. Key will start to Little Rock, Arkansas in a few days on business where he will spend two months. Mrs. T. D. Monroe of Hickory, I. T., who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. U. A. Lowrimore, returned home Monday. Dee Beard and J. R. Stroud went to Salina Texas Sunday where they will work at the carpenters trade at $2.50 per day. Miss Kate Murphy of Dallas, was visiting her sister, Mrs. R. G. Guptil last week. This week she is spending with her father in the country. Dr. A. H. McTaggart will leave Ravia this week to hunt a new location. He will probably locate in West Texas. Rev. J. C. Scivally has moved out on Mill Creek where he can push his boys out of the bed of a morning into the cotton patch. Jess Pleasant of Connorville, was visiting Rev. J. C. Scivally last Thursday. J. N. Loving formerly of Russett who moved into the old Record office has been bound over to the grand jury charged with theft of a horse and introducing whisky. His household goods were moved out and shipped to Texas last week. J. W. White’s little child is quite sick. NORTON T. B. Phillips went to Mannsville yesterday after a load of goods, such as Greenville tobacco and plow points. Frank James is moving closer home. He is staying at Pap Clark’s now. Ed Sorrels went to Ardmore yesterday. Jack Leard went to Woodville to attend the Baptist association; will return Saturday. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Johnston County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/johnston/johnston.html