The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-09-15
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NEWS Fitzpatrick and Lon
AND NOTES. ME Chaddick, aged
twenty-five and thir-
ty-five years respectively, in jail at
Idabel on charge of having caused the
death at Garvin of Jim Beatty, fifty
years old, a tiemaker, whose remains
were found a tree with piece of wire
tightly around his neck, a sensation
has resulted in McCurtain county sec
ond to none in Oklahoma. Beatty was
last seen alive in the company OF the
women, at whose residence he made
his home. The fact that the wire did
not hold Beatty led to the beliefthat he
had been drugged and then suspended
from a limb of the tree. A piece of
wire was found wrapped around the
tree. Beatty had been dead some time
before his body was found.
d. G. Black, who was jailed at Mus
kogee, confessed to having for some
time made businessof robbing grips
at railway stations. Loss of grips
had become so prevalent that the chief
of police detailed detective on the
case and he finally caught Black with
goods on and the latter confessed that
he had been making an excellent liv-
ing by preying on grips. His system
was to snatch up a grip when it was
set down by a person about to buy
railroad ticket, step into another room
and go through the grip hurriedly, ex-
tract whatever of value he could find
and then leave the grip where its own
er could find it.
W. G. Parsons, a butcher of Ben
nington, while climbing into his wag-
on preparatory to goangto his slaugh-
ter pen, fell, and knife which he was
carrying penetrated his side, causing
his death in five minutes. Deceased,
who was one of the most prominent
cattlemen of Bryan county, leaves a
widow and five small daughters.
Wendell Dobbs. seventy years old,
was arrested at the home of his SON
in-law, Chris Troub, ten miles south
west of Carnegie, on the charge of as
saulting girl at Creston, Ia. He was
taken to that place by an officer from
the Hawkeye state.
Fire destroyed the opera house at
Ada, frame structure, owned by E.
w. Hardin, and was prevented from
destroying or damaging other build
ings in the block by a rain storm, that
started when the blaze was raging at
its height
W. S. Crutcher, freight conductor
on the Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf
railway, was caught under his train
at Council Hill, near Muskogee. Both
legs were SO badly crushed as to ne
cessitate amputation.
Attached for an acid bill at Tnlsa
drug store, the big airship owned by
the Strobef brothers of st. Louis and
operated By Captain Harry Ginter,
which had been making fights at the
county fair, had to cease..fying.
Governor Haskell has informed re-
porters of newspapers that no state
department news will be given out
from Guthrie. This action is taken
with the view of compelling recogni--
tion of Oklahoma City as the capital
of the state
In future no preaching will be per-
mitted on the principal thoroughfares
Of Oklahoma City. according to amor
der issued by Mayor Scales, the Sal
walton Army excepted. which is to re-
tain its stand at Grand avenue and
Broadway.
brooch containing thirteen dia-
monds and other jewelry, totaling sew.
eral hundred dollars, were stolen in
daylight from the residence at Okla
homa City of Fl. r. Hudson.