Johnston Co., OK - The Tishomingo News, November 1905 ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Mary Achterhof USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** The Tishomingo News, 1 November 1905 C. S. Williams left Friday with a fine drove of the B. H. Colbert Poland China hogs for the Dallas fair. Marshal Colbert left Monday for Dallas. They expect to get some good premiums. Misses Dora and Winnie Harrison and Ida Griffith accompanied by Grover Powell all of Milburn, spent Sunday with F. C. Pangburn and family on South Broadway. Sam Nails stole a horse from John McGee on October 18th on his farm about six miles east of here. H. D. Howard followed the thief up in the Creek Nation near Wetumpka and succeeded in capturing thief and horse. Good catch Mr. Howard. W. W. Clarke, Smith White and a number of other farmers from the 12 mile prairie south of Emet marketed cotton here this week. The farmers know where the best cotton market is, the distance don’t amount to anything just so they get pay for it. LOCAL AND PERSONAL W. T. Ward is on the sick list this week. Lem Richardson visited in Reagan Sunday afternoon. Lynn Williams, of Madill, is attending court here this week. L. H. Roberts, of South McAlester, was in the city Sunday. John Williams, of Truax, was marketing cotton here this week. J. B. Chastine, of Randolph, attended court here Tuesday. Charley Gilliam assisted us in getting out our paper this week. William J. Hersey, of Hartshorne, spend Sunday in Tishomingo, the guest of W. H. Walker. T. B. Thompson, national treasurer, was transacting business here today. Attorney George Gates, of Ardmore is attending court here today. A. T. McKinney, of Emet, was a business visitor in our city Monday and Tuesday. Mrs. Callie McManus, of Denison, is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jones here this week. Mrs. Mary E. Bridges left Sunday for Vienna, Illinois. She goes there to spend the winter with her daughter. Dr. and Mrs. Robert McCall, of Vienna, Illinois, are in the city this week visiting his brother, Dr. W. G. McCall and Dr. and Mrs. J. T. Looney. J. T. Gardner and Drs. J. D. French, L. Seeley, of Milburn; Dr. Carroll, Mr. and Mrs. Avant, of Emet, were attending district court here Monday and Tuesday. Andrew Warbritton returned home from Sulphur Sunday. Judge Alexander Gullett was in Ardmore Tuesday. F. J. King, of Ardmore, transacted business here Friday. A. Boyd made a business trip to Emet the first of the week. Shimer Boyd came over Saturday afternoon and spent Sunday with home folks. Hon. Bert Rennie, assistant prosecuting attorney, is here this week assisting the grand jury. J. P. Johnston and son, Cleve, of Belton were transacting business in town Monday and Tuesday. F. R. deCordova, of Collinsville, Texas, visited his father and brother, W. F. and J. R. deCordova here last week. Mrs. W. O. Neeley and little son, Harvey of Collinsville, Texas, are here this week visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Robertson. Hon. P. L. Soper, Republican National Committeeman of the Indian Territory, also attorney for the Frisco Railroad, was in town Monday looking after the interests of the company. The Tishomingo News, 8 November 1905 L. E. FULLER IS DEAD Muskogee, I. T., November 4 – Leslie E. Fuller, the assistant attorney general, who became violently insane here several months ago while investigating charges against Judge C. W. Raymond, is dead in a Michigan sanitarium, having fallen from a window, according to a dispatch received here. Fuller was taken to Michigan by a government employee, and on the way attacked a man in Chicago. SOUTH MCALESTER NEGRO HANGED South McAlester, I. T., November 8 – Grant Williams, the negro charged with the murder of two railroad contractors at Wilburton three years ago, was hanged at 10:15 this morning in the U. S. jail. His condition was such that it was necessary to strap him between two boards. He mad no statement. He was pronounced dead by the physicians in ten and one-half minutes, his neck being broken. Notice reached here yesterday afternoon that the president had refused to commute the sentence and everything was made ready, so that there would be no delay. The execution was private, none but officials newspaper men and clergy being present. LOCAL AND PERSONAL J. W. Mason, of Ardmore, was a visitor to Tishomingo Thursday. Jake Bodovitz, a leading wholesale grocery man, of Ardmore, was in town Friday on business. Dr. W. G. McCall spent Sunday with his father and mother in Ardmore. J. E. Looney come over from Ardmore Sunday afternoon and remained with his family here till Monday noon. Harry K. Allen, of Ardmore arrived in town Sunday afternoon to visit his many friends a few days. J. W. Marsh and Mrs. Josephine C. Norris were married at the office of Garrett & Bingham in this city last Wednesday afternoon – Rev. C. H. Holland, officiated. George Wade, head clerk at the Grand Leader, has been confined to his room with malarial fever for two weeks, but at present is convalescent and will be out again soon. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Butler, of Ardmore, are visiting friends here this week. Ed is well known here, having clerked for his cousin, Dr. G. H. Butler, in the drug business here several months. Ed has taken unto himself a wife since he left Tishomingo. Miss Bertie Smith, of Ardmore J. C. Grissom of Coalgate, is in Tishomingo on business. Dr. Norman Miller, of Milburn was a capitol visitor Monday. Joe Brown returned to Ardmore Monday after spending a couple days with his parents Mrs. Nettie Bridges and daughter, Zelma, of Emet, visited in Tishomingo Monday. Mrs. Mollie Goodwin, of Ardmore, is visiting the family of James E. Looney here this week. Mesdames D. H. Johnston, Lucy, Cheadle and Hunnicutt, of Emet were shopping in the city Monday. A. J. Morris, of Konowa, is in this city attending court a witness in a case of United States vs Bob Deaver. Rev. E. A. Rippey left Saturday for Lawton, Oklahoma, to attend the M. E. Conference, which is in session there this week. Miss Sudie Durham came in from Bloomfield Seminary Monday morning and will spend the week with her mother here. M. White and James Simmons returned from Dallas, Texas Thursday, where they have been taking in the State Fair. They report a good time. Mesdames Lottie Durham and Jane Tussey went to Denison Saturday to meet Mrs. Durham’s daughter, Miss Sudie, on her return from Bloomfield to visit her mother and her many friends. William Bryan who has spent the summer months in different parts of Oklahoma, returned to Tishomingo Sunday and has accepted a position with the Dudley Hardware Co., at his trade, as tinner. MURDER AT REGAN Doc Roads Went to the Home of J. T. Tier, Called Him Out, Had a Few Words, Then Shot and Killed Him Almost Instantly. One of the most tragic killings in the history of the little village of Reagan, ten miles north of Tishomingo, occurred Monday night about 9 o’clock. Doc Roads, a cotton picker, who was in the employ of Mr. Tier, a ginner, called at the home of Mr. Tier with a single barrel shot gun, called Tier out and had a dispute of about $3.00 worth of cotton when Roads became angry and shot Tier through the left lung killing him almost instantly. It is said that Tier had no weapons, and that the murder was committed without any provocation whatever. A man by the name of Higgins was present and tried to prevent the shooting, but of no avail. Roads made his escape and up to the time we go to press has not been apprehended. Roads has a wife but no children. Mr. Tier was a good man and was liked by all who knew him. He leaves a wife and three children, he was about 45 years old and a successful ginner. Marshals J. H. Bridges and Dero Duncan left here at 11 o’clock Monday night for Reagan but up to the present time have been unable to locate the murderer. The taking of human life is becoming too common in this civilized country of ours and it will be necessary to use the hangman’s rope to suppress this awful crime. KILLING AT ARDMORE Ardmore, I.T., November 6 – Will King, about 30 years of age, was shot and killed here this afternoon. The deed took place on the East Side and there were said to be no witnesses. It is further alleged that the killing was accidental. Only one shot is said to have been fired, this striking King in the abdomen. He died shortly afterwards. It is said that he made a statement before dying. King was well known in Ardmore. He was a son of Joe King, an old citizen of Ardmore. Deceased leaves a wife and two children. An arrest has been made. MISSING ISSUE 15 NOVEMBER 1905 The Tishomingo News, 22 November 1905 WORK OF ASSASSINS A B Ward and R. J. Popping are Instantly Killed – Officers Are Working on the Case, But No Arrests Have Been Made. Madill, I. T., November 18 – Much excitement exists here over the cowardly murder of A. B. Ward of Oakland and R. J. Popping of Kiowa, which occurred this afternoon in the lane between here and Oakland. Ward who is a man about 45 years of age, last February killed an old man named Harkey and had only recently been released from the Ardmore jail, where he was awaiting trial for the killing. Popping was a man about 60 years of age. He was formerly a deputy marshal at Kiowa and was well known over the Choctaw nation especially at Kiowa and South McAlester. Popping was a brother-in-law to Ward and was here to help Ward in winding up some business affairs. The two men came to Madill from Oakland and had been to the law office of Hardy and Franklin to see about fixing up a land lease and were en route to Ward’s home when waylaid. Two parties are believed to be directly implicated in the shooting, they being Lee and Ord Harkey, sons of the man who was killed by Ward. The shooting occurred in a line near Fred Harkey’s home. With the first shots Popping fell dead from the buggy in which the two men were riding. The horse wheeled around and started back toward Madill, while Ward who was thrown from the buggy, started afoot in a fun south in the hope of escaping, but he had not gone more than fifty feet from the scene before he too was shot down. The murderers must have been very near the men, when the first shots were fired, as the gun wads struck Popping’s head. He was shot in the forehead and was instantly killed. Ward was shot in the side of the head, in the shoulder and in the hips, he too being dead when parties who had heard the shooting reached him. Two other Harkey boys Fred and Seth, were in Madill at the time of the trouble and for that reason could not have taken part in the shooting. It is stated that in all about eight shots were fired. Officers are here working on the case. The two Harkey boys Ord and Lee, are said to be missing. The officers are now trying to locate them. Popping’s body will be held here until instructions are received from his people at Kiowa. LOCAL AND PERSONAL Hiram McGee, of Teller, was attending court in town Monday. E. F. Colbert, of Sulphur, was in town Monday on business. J. R. deCordova made a business trip to Milburn Monday. Mrs. John Newman, of Milburn, visited in the city Monday. Marvin Burris, of Stonewall was visiting relatives and friends here Thursday. Col. F. E. Batie, of Milburn, a prominent stockman was in Tishomingo Monday. J. A. Barrett, of Pontotoc, was a business visitor here yesterday. While here he called and subscribed for the News. Prof. E. B. Henshaw, of Bloomfield Seminary, was in town Friday and Saturday. W. T. Croslen, left Thursday for Chickasha in the interest of the Washita Valley Interurban Electric Railroad. Editor LaMay, of the Union Review, of Ardmore, was in our city Wednesday and Thursday. W. H. Sellers, the gin man, of Belton, was courting in the city Monday. He reports a good business this season and says he had ginned 640 bales of cotton up to the present date. Mrs. Nettie Bridges and children were in the city Thursday en route to Vienna, Illinois, to visit the old home and relatives of her husband Will F. Bridges, (deceased) This is her first visit to Illinois and the many friends and relatives of Will will give her and children a cordial welcome. J. T. Sellers, of Belton was in the city Monday as a witness before the court. JOSIAH BROWN DEAD One of Tishomingo’s Oldest and Best Known Citizens Passes Away Last Saturday. Died at his residence at 3 o’clock last Saturday morning, November 18, after a lingering illness, Josiah Brown, a Chickasaw by blood, born in Mississippi, aged 70 years and 7 months. The funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the city cemetery, conducted by Rev. E. A. Rippey, followed by the interment. The deceased was quite prominent in tribal affairs, has held several prominent positions in the Chickasaw government. He was well posted on tribal affairs. He was serving as district clerk at the time of his death. He leaves a wife and one son, C. H. Brown, present speaker of the Chickasaw legislature, and one of our most prominent farmers, also a daughter Mrs. Kate Norman, who lives in the Southern part of the Chickasaw Nation. The News joins the many friends of the family expressing sympathy. Pete Foley, of Parsons, Kansas, is here this week looking after his interests. COURT NOTES In the case of the United States vs B. J. Lester, for the murder of his father, at Mannsville, in the year 1903, the jury brought in a verdict of not guilty. James E. Humphrey, John Stobaugh and P. G. H. Shearer, represented the government in the prosecution, while Stilwell Russell, A. C. Cruce and Neck Wolfe defended. Friday morning the case of the United States vs Kid Kelly for the murder of Richard Dillingham came up for trial, and was given up to jury Saturday noon when they brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree as charge. The judge has not passed sentence on the defendant yet, but it looks as though Tishomingo would have a hanging in their near future. Kelley was ably defended by P. B. H. Shearer who did all he could for his client. The killing of Dillingham occurred about twenty months ago in a negro restaurant just across the street from the News office. It was proved that Kelley without any provocation, walked up to Dillingham’s back while he was setting in a chair and thrust a knife into the deceased’s heart.