The Ravia Tribune Nov 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, 3 November 1904 Married at Troy – Sunday October 30, 1904, W. N. Standiter and Miss Neecy Riddle. Rev. S. M. Brownlee officiating. Henry Jackson, charged with being implicated in a murder at Checotah more than five years ago, has been returned from Roswell, New Mexico, where he was recently located. Roscoe Hamilton, a colored boy aged 17 years was jailed at South McAlester charged with criminally assaulting Maggie McElroy, a white girl aged 11 years. Hamilton was bound over before a United States Commissioner without bail. John Shaw, a prominent farmer near Wilburton, lost a $5,000 barn by fire one night recently. Several tons of hay, together with eight head of horses and mules were destroyed. The fire is the work of incendiaries and all possible will be done to apprehend the guilty parties. During a thunderstorm near Stroud, a lightning bolt killed a fine team of horses, the property of W. H. Hogue, a cotton seed hauler. Hogue was knocked unconscious and remained in a precarious condition for several h ours and William Mills, another cotton seed hauler was also knocked senseless for a period of two hours. Silas Hunsucker, a negro preacher at South McAlester, has entered a plea of guilty of killing his wife at that place two years ago and attempting to cremate her body afterwards. W. T. Brady returned to Boonville, Arkansas, Sunday. At an early day he and his family will return to Ravia and again set up their "lares and penates" here. Mrs. A. J. Stratton from Advance, Texas is visiting her daughter, Mrs. H. M. Jones, west of town. W. H. Hobbs from near Troy was in town with cotton Monday. REWARD Strayed or stolen from my place near Anvil Rock about three weeks ago, one sorrel horse blaze face, 4 years old, 15 hands high, branded V on right shoulder, natural creace on right side of neck, nearly as large as a hen egg. One light bay or dapple yellow mare about 15 hands high, 5 years old, branded V on right shoulder and dim brand on left shoulder, wire cut on right fore foot, fresh rope cut on left hind foot, had on small bell when she left. One deep bay pony mare, 5 years old, about 14 1/2 hands high, branded half circle 5 or blotch brand on left shoulder, natural pacer. I will pay $25 reward for the delivery of the horses to me or liberal reward for information leading to their recovery. W. L. Hunter, Post office Troy, Indian Territory NORTON The baby of J. A. Ray is quite sick and reported no better at this writing. Dr. J. H. Logan who has been to Ardmore to undergo a surgical operation has returned home. We were glad to see the doctor arrive for he is badly needed. T. B. Phillips has moved from the town of Norton to his lease on Rock Prairie. The writer fears that Mr. Phillips will have a great deal of trouble with stone bruises but hope not. Mr. Lowrimore or Ravia, has been here this week. Some talk of him going into business here. Success to the Tribune. Jake Love The Ravia Tribune, 10 November 1904 Rev. T. J. Minnis has been assigned to the Ravia circuit this year. Mr. Scivally going on the superannuated list. The Tribune sincerely sympathizes with Mr. Scivally in his affliction and hopes that a short rest will restore him to his wonted health. We are pleased to note that Tom Gordon has secured a job at $30 per month in the Frisco office at this place. Tom is a good, industrious boy and unusually apt and deserves this promotion. How is this for a 15 year old boy? Success to you Tom. TRUE STORIES OF THE FRONTIER By Rev. J. Scivally We will go next to the Fleetwood farm not very far from where Grady is at present. That farm seemed to be mostly settled by infidels and Seven Day Adventists. I got into the settlement late in the evening began trying to get lodging for the night; went to seven places but was refused at all of them. So I decided to cross Red River; got across just at dark, went to a stable and put up my pony went to a hotel. After supper went out in town and found a man I had known years before. He said he had heard I was a preacher. I told him that was my calling. He told me he had professed religion and joined the Baptist Church. He took me around to a drug store and introduced me to a man by the name of Roberson and told I was a Methodist preacher and had put up at the hotel, so Mr. Roberson took me back to the other end of the store and made me acquainted with his father and said that the old man was a Methodist and did not allow one to go to a hotel, so the old gentleman went to the livery stable and paid for the feed then took us both (myself and horse) to his house and cared for us in old western style. The next morning we bade our host goodbye never to see him any more till we meet in the beyond for he has long since died. After saying goodbye we recrossed the river and spent the day on the Fleetwood farm, found a few Methodists preached for them at night and organized a church. Next morning, Wednesday, I moved down the river. I got out on the prairie between Fleetwood farm and Courtney flat. I saw about 50 antelopes in one drove. About 3 o’clock in the evening we arrived at Mr. Burge’s. He sent his little boy out over he community and gathered the people together at his house where we had preaching and organized a church. Left Mr. Burge’s next morning, went on down the river to the lower end of Courtney flat where we stayed all night with Rev. R. M. Hancock, a faithful servant of God. The old man is still living waiting the call to come up higher. He lives near Purdy, I. T. So. On Friday evening we arrived at home having been gone twelve days. (continued) J. R. Owens, living east of Purcell last week accidentally shot himself. He may recover. Henry Davis was bound over at South McAlester on the charge of horse stealing. He will be tried at the December term of court. Mr. Owens, father of Frank Owens, is lying very low at his son’s house and the few neighbors on whom has fallen the duty of sitting up with him, are worn out. "As ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to them" are the words of the Divine Master. Born, November 1, 1904, to Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Clark a fine boy. J. R. was so excited that we could not learn last week what gave life such a rosy color. But we guess "J. R., Jr." has been giving him if not a piece of his mind at least some evidence of his feelings, and has brought him around. Isaac Smith is putting up a tent on his lot on Grant Avenue where he was burned out. We hope he will soon be in his own house again. Mrs. Sallie F. Folsom of Lonoak, Arkansas is spending several days with her nephew, Dr. Baum. Miss Maggie Etheridge, who has been visiting her brother, Oscar Etheridge, retuned to her home at Woodville Sunday. She will attend school here this winger. Mrs. A. M. Leitzell and little daughter, of Okmulgee, came down on the southbound Tuesday for a few days visit with friends in Ravia. Mrs. Jake Wilson and Mrs. C. S. Mudd and little daughter spent Monday night in Mill Creek. Dr. Poyner of Tishomingo, was here this week investing in Ravia town lots. KILLED ALMOST INSTANTLY A deplorable tragedy was enacted 3 miles west of Ravia Friday evening. J. H. West was shot and almost instantly killed by Ernest Roberts. The trouble, it appears, originally started about a pig, and it was claimed that Roberts had whipped a minor son of West. The report brought into town was that as Roberts started after a bucket of water late Friday evening, he saw West with a Winchester, hiding behind a tree near the road which ran close to West’s tent. Roberts turned back and got his shotgun and as West ran to another tree shot him, the load entering the forehead. West, fell in forty steps of his tent and was carried in and l aid on the bed where he expired almost immediately. This is the only version of said affair that we have got up to this writing. Both men were farmers and men of families. Roberts sent word to marshal Bridges that he was ready to give up and the marshal took him to Tishomingo Friday night. A Pig! What little thinks start the most lamentable tragedies sometimes. MOTUARY Died, Saturday November 5, 1904, Mrs. Mans Clark, at Graven’s Mill on Mill Creek. The remains were buried at Norton Sunday. Died – Monday night November 7, Mrs. Gov McEwen. The remains were buried at Russett. Died – Thursday November 3, after a very brief illness Oliver, son of W. G. Burns. His remains were interred in the Ravia Cemetery Friday. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Irve Herron, November 7, 1904, a boy. The little son of W. B. Baine who has been seriously sick is reported convalescent. Dr. T. A. Caperton received a letter Saturday conveying the sad intelligence that his mother, Mrs. R. F. Hunter, was lying very low at Weatherford, Texas, and not expected to live. Mrs. M. A. Clark, of Topeka, Kansas is visiting her son J. R. Clark, manager for Houston Bos. The Ravia Tribune, 17 November 1904 ISSUE MISSING The Ravia Tribune, 24 November 1904 TRUE STORY OF THE FRONTIER By Rev. J. C. Scivally Well, having gotten home we took a few days rest. Wanting some sport as well as rest, we took our wife and two babies to Mr. Hoovers and did some hunting and fishing. Mr. Hoover had recently moved from Arkansas and was not acquainted with frontier life and one year satisfied him. I tried to keep him from leaving but he went and like most people that come west and go back, he could not stay. After a few years he came back to the Indian Territory and lived near Wapanucka. Moved from there to the neighborhood of Atoka and now lives five miles from old Boggy Depot, on the road going to Atoka. During a meeting on S creek at the little village of Maman had just completed a store house, the young people of the ‘baser sort’ wanted a dance. So the man owning the building give the house to be used by the dancers. The preaching was under a brush arbor about thirty yards from the store where the dance was given. It was a hand to hand fight between right and wrong. You could set under the arbor and hear the preacher and at the same time hear the music and dancing. The preacher had talked about thirty minutes when for some cause, I know not what, I leave it to the reader, the lights at the dance all went out and they could not get them to burn. There was no wind blowing and the lights at the arbor burned brightly. Some of the dancers got scared and quit while the meeting continued until eleven o’clock. I never heard a more powerful sermon. The preacher was Rev. J. C. Shanks of precious memory. He died some years ago while station preacher at Ardmore. LARGEST BABY A twenty-two pound baby girl was born unto Mr. and Mrs. John Owens, residing northwest of the city a few miles, last Monday night. The child should be named "Texas" in honor of the biggest thing in creation. The Denison Dispatch. The Denison Dispatch suggests that it be named Texas because of its great size. J. G. West, a farmer 50 years old, living near Ravia, was shot ad killed Friday evening in a personal difficulty, Ernest Roberts, a young married man has been arrested. Arrangements have been made by Senator George Brett of Ponca City to ship 15,000 head of cattle from Mexico into Oklahoma during the present open season and feed them in the Osage Indian country this winter. Ewall Waterson, son of the noted newspaper man and lecturer, Henry Waterson of Louisville, who has for a year been living on a ranch in Comanche County, is reported to have deserted his wife and left for parts unknown. He has been absent for several months. As the result of a drunken quarrel over a man at 2 o’clock Monday morning, Florence Madine of Oklahoma City was killed, her throat being cut from ear to ear. Jessie Young, who was arrested for the murder, stated that the cutting was done in self defense. The women are negroes. A. H. Kilpatrick, claim agent for the Rock Island at Oklahoma City, has a pair of horns of a Texas steer which measure nine feet from tip to tip. Mrs. A. L. Turman, superintendent of the Indian school at Leabanon, died last week. NORTON The death angel visited the home of E. A. Ray and took away the little babe that was loved by all who knew her. Her sweet baby ways will never be forgotten. Little Ethel is gone but still there lingers in our hearts a sad feeling for Mr. and Mrs. Ray. We have often witnessed the scene through which they have just past. George Nugent has gone to the Creek Nation for the purpose of locating there. We hate to loose him from our community. Mr. Sorrel left here Sunday for Brown County, Texas. He leaves many friends behind him. The wife of Ance Clarke was buried in the Norton Cemetery Sunday. We extend sympathy to the bereaved family. $15 REWARD – STRAYED OR STOLEN From Chapman’s pasture, one Gray mare, 12 or 13 years old, 16 hands high, branded DR on left shoulder. Been cut on foot by wire. Also one Red Sorrel mule; 2 years old, white spot in left flank, white spot in forehead, branded R on left shoulder. I will pay $15. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Robertson went to Dallas Saturday. Dr. Webster made a visit to Durant on business first of the week. C. C. Graves went to Ardmore Tuesday. E. D. Reed of Regan Union went to Durant as a delegate November 18 to an important called meeting of the order. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Johnston County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/johnston/johnston.html