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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-01-18
CHECKERED CAREER
OF BEN CRAVENS
MAN ALLEGING HIS NAME is
MAUST TO BE TRIED FOR RED
ROCK KILLING IN 19o1

Guthrie, Okla. Jan IA crimi-
uallv romantic career has been that
of Ben Cravens, formerly an Oklaho-
ma and Kansas character, and to
whom is accredited more sensational
prison escapes than any other west
ern man.
CrayenS is wanted for the murder
OF Alvin Bateman, assistant post
master at Red Rock, in 1901, crime
which was incidental to the robbery
of a general store at that point.
There is man to be placed on
trial before the federal court for
the western district Of oklahoma
here this week as Ben Crayens for
the Red Rock killing. The prisoner
was recently brought TO Oklahoma
from the Missouri penitentiary, ahv-
ing been identified as Crayens. He
maintains, however, that he is Chas.
Maust; that he never knew CravcnS,
ana knows nothing Of his crimes. In
the neighborhood of 80 witnesses
have been summoned to testify in
the matter of identification.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-01-18

The proportion to make change
Of 10 pounds excess baggage PEI
inch on all trunks that are more than
- inches long has been unanimously
reaftirmed by the western lines. II
has also been agreed to make a rate
of Two cents Il mile for a number Of
summer conventions, including those
Of the National Education Associa-
ton which meets in ST Paul in July;
the Sangerfest of the Northwest in
the same city. July 24-27; the Knights
of Pythias in FIT. Worth, Tex. in Aug
ust the general conference of the
African Methodist church in Kansas
City, MAY to 20; the Northern Bap-
o'i-t Convention in Des Moines, Iowa,
l. to %. and the North American
Shat League in Chicago, May - to
2S.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-01-18

State of Oklahoma, Carter Comfy.
In the District Court.
Winnie King, Plaintiff. VS. Sam
King, Defendant. No. 1878.
Said defendant, Sam King, will take
notice that he has been sued in
the above named Court for divorce
and custody of children, and must
answer the petition filed therein by
said plaintiff on or before the 9th
day OF February, A. D., 1912, or
said petition will be taken as true,
and a judgment for said plaintiff in
said action for divorce and custody
of children will be rendered accord
ingly.
Dated this 27th day OF December,
1911.
BROWN & BROWN,
Attorneys for Plaintiff
Attest: S. F. HAYNIE,
District Clerk.
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-01-18
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The old mansc where Grover CleVo-
land was born s2vcnty-tWe years ago
is about to become a national mem
orial Of him. The citizens of Cald-
well, y. j., have organized a COM
mittee 20 raise a local fund of So
600 that is to be supplemented by
national fund of $4,000 for the
purchase and improvement of the
property.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-01-18

Passenger officials Of western
roads state that they do not ex-
pect an increase in tourist fares for
the coming summer 1t was proposed
by a number of the lines that an ad-
yanG% of $3.50 be made and the
rates committee prepared the neces-
sary tariff Objections was raised by
the Rock Island and the matter is
to be considered again this month,
bur with no prospect that it will be
unanimously approved. Homeseekers'
excursion rates Tor 1912 will remain
unchanged.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-01-18
Had Been Farmer Boy.

Ben Cravens came from southwest
crn Missouri where he had been a
farm boy. ami later developed into
a Jockey. with a distinguishing record
on Kansas and Missouri tracks. With
his parents he moved TO Chautauqua
county. Kansas. Cravens went to
school to Thompson b. Ferguson, the
Nat0nga editor. and one of the las
Oklahoma territorial governors, and
to Bird S. Mcclure. congressman
from the first Oklahoma district
At the age of Is he made his frs
plunge into the northern part OF what
is now Oklahoma, then the Usage
country. dispensing liquor among tn"
indians and assocating with early
day Characters infesting that section,
This was, in 1879
In 1898. after operating along the
northern Oklahoma border, Cravens
was incarcerated in the Shawnee
courtv Kansas fail for an offens2
and if was then he made his first
ascana Nearly wear later he was
o,.restod for hiabwav robbery and
sentenced to serve twenty years in
the lansing Kan. prison.
After throe voar. there Crayens. in
co,,ro,, with - p rstelIo and sam
smith both lfe.termers fashioned re.
voIvore out of wood and wrapping
tbam ,yith tinfoil held IN their
Guards secured good weanons and
ascanad In the fusiIlade that fol
lowed Smith was killed, both Cra-
vans ard rste,Ie escaning The last
romad was arrested in NIemphis.
chorsad with train robbery commit
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-01-18

kentucky railroad managers are
waiting with more than usual inter
est the announcement of the board
Of valuation and assessment on their
franchises for the present year, and
if there is further increase they
are disposed to oppose it, In the
past = years the taxes imposed have
quadrupled.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-01-18
Left Welty to Die.

In the fight the men became sep
arated, and Crayens, miStaklng Welty
for a pursuer, shot him. Crdyens then
realized his mistake, but, according to
confession later made by Wclty.
left him to die on the prairie. Wclty
had the money, and this was re-
covered
Crayers continued his flight into
Pawree county where he was sur
rounded in a house, but shot his way
out and again escaped. Deputy Sher-
if Tom Johnson OF Pawnee was
killed.
At this period Cravens seems to
have dropped out of sight, although
numerous arrests were made of per-
sons supposed to be him, and series
OF other attempts to capture MIN
proved abortive. 1t vas once al
tempted to decoy him at Catoosa
through letter from his sweet
heart. As the man whom they
thought to be Craven5 appeared to
get the letter he grew suspicious
and fled He was later supposed to
be a travelling salesman. appearing
in Oklahoma City, Guthrie and othe:
towns of the territory. Sheriifs in all
the western states We're on the look.
out for Cravens. One arrest was
made in Nebraska, but the prisoner
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-01-18
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Every woman S heart responds to
the charm and sweetness of baby's
voice, because nature intended her for
motherhood. But even the loving
nature of mother shrinks from the
ordeal because such time is regard
ed as period of suffering and danger.
Women who use Mother s Friend are
saved much discomfort and suffering,
and their systems, being thoroughly
prepared by this great remedy, are
in a healthy condition to meet the
time with the least possible suffering
and danger. Mothers Friend is
recommended only for the relief and
comfort of expectant mothers; it is in
no sense a remedy for various ills,
but its many years of success, and
the thousands of endorsements re-
Ceived from women who have used it
are a guarantee of the benefit to be
derived from its use. This remedy
does not accomplish wonders but SIM
ply assists nature to perfect its work.
Mothers Friend allaVS nausea, pre-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-01-18
DOCKET.
COURT.
CRIMINAL
DISTRICT

Criminal Cases Set for Trial at Feb
ruary Term
Setting of the jail cases of the
criminal docket for the District
Court at Ardmore:
Monday, February 5th. 1912.
Charlotte GoosbY, larceny.
Patrick Hogan, burglary.
Will Lake, larceny.
Charley Price, larceny
jim Wells, embezzlement. &,
+. Z. Radcliffe, false pretense.
George Anderson larceny.
John Reeves, larceny.
Tuesday, February 9Th, 1912.
Nalessa John AM Serena Postoak,
murder.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-01-18

The southern classification has
been adopted by the Mississippi Rail
road Commission for intra-stato bus
ness, the effect of which is to place
the state on a parity with every other
states. 1t has been urged by rail.
roads for years, but opposition from
various sources prevented the action
now taken, aad which, it is asserted,
will save shippers thousands Of dol
lars annually Heretofore rates have
been governed by a classification
adopted in 1893 and which long since
necome obsolete and practically use
less.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-01-18
Large Number of Witnesses,

Al J. Jennings, formerly of LaWton,
now of Oklahoma City, has been re
tanned by the man alleging to be
Maust to defend him. The govern
ments case will be looked after by
John Embry, attorney for the west
ern district. \ large number of Ok
lahoma people have been served with
summons as witnesses in the matter
of identification alone. Welty, who
is serving a sentence for the Red
Rock robbery, is now supposed -
be in Guthrie. having been brought
for the purpose of testfying for the
government. At the time of his trial
Welty made a confession to Bird s.
Mcclure. then of the district attor-
ney's office, and now congressman,
in which the identity of his accom-
plce in the Red Rock robbery and
murder was definitely fixed upon
CravenS Cravens, according to his
BIRTH should row be so years of
age Letters will be used by the de-
fense showing that Crayens is in
Mexico.
II viii! otherwise be shown by the
defense that the prisoner is not only
not Crayens, but is Charles Maust,
otherwise known as Charles Maust
Mcdonald. who was born in Fannin
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The PENNSYLVANIA is reported to be
seeking new line ont Of Toledo
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-01-18

Tn" winter before = national cam
paier is always called the SILLY seas
on in American politics. Nothing is
too trivial nothing is too ridiculous.
nothing is to asinine to be used for
or against any man whose name hap
pens to be mentioned in connection
with the nomination. Mr.. Bryan is
quoted as calling it the season of
scanGalous letters and cheap politics.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-01-18

proved to be a reddler and not Cra-
yeus.
In 1905 the man who is to be
placed on ,rial was arrested in Mis-
souri, and given a four.year term in
the penitentiary of that state. 1t
was while he was being shaved
that the Missouri penitentiary barber
is alleged to have discovered the
identity of the prisoner, and upon this
other identfications We're made and
his irnnsfer 10 oklahoma resuIted.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-01-18

Since Colonel Roosevelt has an.
no1nced that he will not have any
thing to say on the subject of be-
ing n candidate for president, and
since President Taft has announced
that he will 90 before the republican
national convention prepared to fight
for the nomination if he have bu-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-01-18

one vote, the rumors regarding can
didates for the republican nomination
have increased Just as there ara
about a half dozen democratic COVER
nors reported as candidates tor the
nomination, so there are about as
many United States senators credited
with presidential ambitions in the
republican party. In addition to Sen
ator LaFollette, the other named
mentioned in this way are Cummins
of Iowa, Oliver of Pennsylvania, and
Penrose of the same state, Crane Of
Massachusetts and Borah of Idaho.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-01-18

II IS said that in the event of re.
publican success in the national elec-
tions next fall, whether Taft or
Roosevelt win, provided Roosevelt de
cides to run, the next secretary OF
state will be Henry l.. Stimson, who
is Tafts secretary of war just now.
Mr.. StimsOn is a close personal friend
of both President Taft and Colonel
Roosevelt and he is liked by both
factions OF the republican senators
and congressman His friends say
he has all the elements of real pO-
litcal greatness, and for so discord-
ant time as this he is a man to
merit attention . He can talk politics
in equal confidence with President
Taft and eX-President Roosevelt, with
out finding it difficult in the slight
est degree to be equally loyal to
both.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-01-18

vents caking of
the breasts, and
in every way
contributes to
strong, healthy
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The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-07-12
SPENT MONEY But GOT NO ROADS
Arkansas Said to Have Paid Out ST.
100000 Without Results-More
Money Wanted Now.

Monte Ne, Arkansas.-More than
200 delegates were present at the
opening session of the TriState Good
Roads convention and more than 100
women listened to the discussion.
State Senator P. A. Rogers of Ben
tonville was elected chairman. He
charged that in the last five years ST.
100000 had been paid into the various
Arkansas county treasures under the
road tax law and he defied any man
to point out a single mile of modern
highway constructed with the money.
At the night session a resolution
was adopted favoring national sys-
tenn of modern highways and asking
for an appropriation of $5O,0O0,0OO an
nually to carry on the work.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-07-12
WIN RaIse Fura N kansas.

Cottonwood Falls, Kansas.-A sheep
farm, which will be the first of its kind
in this part of the country, which will
produce new hybrid animal, by
crossing American ewes with Kara.
kule rams brought from Central Asia.
has just been started on the L. M.
Crawford ranch in this county.
The Karakule sheep. which are ma.
tive of Asia, are valued for the ex-
cellent fur they produce, which is here
called Persian lamb and Astrakhan
fur. and the object in crossing the
Karakules with native sheep is to
produce a hybrid which will thrive in
this county and at the same time
yield the valuable fur of the Asiatie
variety.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-07-12
MORE TROUBLE FOR ORIENT RY.
Trainmen Now Threaten to Tie Up the
Road Unless Increase is Granted
Officials Say No.

Wichita, Kansas Added to financial
difficulties, which receivers for the
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient rail-
way are endeavoring to untangle, is
that of a threatened strike by train
men on the entire system between
Wichita and San Angelo, Tex.
Trainmen have demanded 121s per
cent increase in wages. A committee
representing the trainmen met at AL
tus, Ok, but Orient receivers did not
appear. ]. o. Davidson of this city,
one of the receivers, arranged by wire
for conference between dissatisfied
trainmen and the receivers at Kansas
City. Trainmen say they will strike
# their wages are not increased. Mr..
Davidson stated that the road could
not pay the increase demanded.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-07-12
TO PREVENT WoRMY SWEETCoRN
Kansas Agricultural College DiscoV.
ers Remedy for Troublesome Pest
by Experiment.

Manhattan, Kan-Experiments to
prevent the small worms which at
tack the ears of sweet corn were sue
cessfully carried on at the agricultural
college.
One block Of sweet corn was treated
by Prof. T. j. Headlee with powdered
arsenate of lead and air-slaked lime,
half and half-the silks and tassels
were kept covered with a light, dusty
coat of it, Another block was not
treated. Both lots yielded about the
same number of ears, but with this
difference: Seventy-five per cent of
those from the treated plot were free
from worms while but % per cent OF
those from the untreated plot were
clean. The treatment is harmless; it
will not injure persons eating the corn.
The dust is easily washed off.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-07-12
BIG TEXAS METEORITE is SOLD
Last Piece Of Great Stone Shipped to
Eastern Mineral Company
Fell 80 Years Ago.

Lubbock, Texas.-The second and
last piece of the large meteorite winch
fell in Hale county, several miles
north of here, 80 years ago was just
shipped by B. o. McWhorter, the own
err OF the land, to the Foot Mineral
company of Philadelphia. This mete-
orite weighed S75 pounds. When it
struck the earth it split in two.
About seven years ago Mr.. Nc
Whorter sold the larger piece of the
strangely mineralized stone for $500
and it was shipped to an Eastern con-
Germ fol laboratory purposes. To what
use this second part of the meteorite
is to be put is not known here. 1t is
said to certain rare minerals.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-07-12
BRICK LAYER TURNED SLEUTH
KANSAS MAN LOCATED ESCAPED
Ro5BER IN DENVER.
Letter Which Went Wrong Started
Amateur Detective on Hunt
Was After $500 Reward.

Denver, Colorado.-A bank robber
who broke jail at Marysyille, Kan, in
October, 1911, while awaiting transfer
to the state penitentiary to serve
ten-year sentence has just been cap
tured in the st. James hotel through
information furnished by an amateur
sleuth, whose incentive was a reward
of $500 offered by the Kansas authori-
ties.
The prisoner is Daniel Kearney and
the man who turned him up" is H.
H. Scott, bricklayer of Marysville,
Kan.
Kearney, according to Scott, was
one of band of yeggmen who robbed
banks at Waterville and Beattie, Kan,
in 1911. He and one other member
of the gang succeeded in escaping
from the Marysville Jail.
No trace of either was secured un-
til Kearney wrote from Denver to
James Murphy, a half brother of
Scott. Murphy had been accidentally
killed several months previously and
the letter fell into the hands of Scott,
who came to Denver and located Kear-
ney.
Scott engaged a room at the st.
James and Kearney went there with
him to spend the night. While Kear-
ney was sleeping soundly, Scott
slipped out of the room in his night
clothes and requested the clerk to
summon a policeman.
Patrolmen Williams and Sellers
went to the hotel and Scott led them
to the room and the sleeping fugitive
awoke to find himself gazing into the
muzzle of a revolver. He submitted
to arrest.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-07-12
FIRE COST PACKERS $25o,ooO
Twenty-Five Firemen Injured at Nor
ris Plant--Three Hundred Men
Temporarily Idle.

Kansas City, MISUNDERSTANDING
firemen were injured, one probably
fatally and others severely, in a fire
which did $25O,OOO damage at the
Morris & Co. packing plant. The fire
was in the north part of the east
main building. Entire companies OF
firemen were overcome by smoke and
fell unconscious at their work. The
packing house barn was converted in.
to an emergency hospital with Ave
doctors in attendance.
The building damaged is about 2OOx
700 feet and six stories tall. The fire
started in the northeast corner of the
fourth in the leaf lard cooler The lard
cooler the beef casing department, the
fat and bone departments and the beef
killing beds burned. Three hundred
men will be out of work temporarily.
The fire is believed to have been
caused by hot motor.
S. G. Frazee, superintendent of the
plant, said the building probably would
be rehabilitated without delay.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-07-12
TRAINS CRASH IN HEAVY FOG
Express PIows Through cars-Day
Coaches Hurled Down steep
Embankment.

Corning, New York.--At least "a
passengers were killed and so injured
when an express train crashed into
the westbound Lackawanna passenger
train No. 9, hidden by fog two
miles east of this city.
Thirty-four bodies had been taken
from the debris three hours after the
wreck. Among the injured were sew
eral babies and children.
The passenger train, which runs
from New York to Buffalo, had been
standing on the track for 20 minutes,
when the express train, which carries
no passengers, struck it in the rear at
full speed.
The two day coaches attached to
the rear of the passenger train were
hurled down an embankment and the
express plunged half way through the
rear Pullman of the standing train be-
fore it came to stop.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-07-12
BLACK MAN is SILL CHAMPION
Johnson-FIynn Fight stopped in Ninth
Round by Police-Ratte Was
Disgusting Sight.

East Las Vegas, New Mexieo.-The
most scintillating hope" in the fistic
constellation was snuffed out here and
Ink still reigns supreme. Jim Flynn
was not knocked out, but his work
was so crude that even Capt. Fred
Fornoff, Rough Rider, refused to allow
him to butt any more, and barely after
the beginning of the ninth round the
head of the state mounted police
crawled into the ring, followed by a
score of his Rough Riders, and put an
end to the proceedings.
1t probably was the most disgusting
fight ever known in ring annals.
Financially the fight was a loss.
Promoter Curley assumed a debt Of
more than $4,000 by staging the bout,
while it is said that the gross receipts
didn't exceed $4,000. Flynn will not
receive one cent for his work and
some three months of heroic train
ing have been wasted. The crowd did
not exceed 1000, and they left the
Meadow City as rapidly as they could
with many knocks against the fighting
game in general.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-07-12
MANY Women Seek offce.

Cottonwood Falls, Kansas.-Chase
county has four women candidates in
the field this year who will seek nomi-
nation for county offices. They are
Miss Anna Arnold, who is running on
the Democratic ticket for county
superintendent; Mrs, Bertha Plummer,
who is a Republican candidate for
register of deeds; Miss Gussie Hous-
ton, a Republican candidate for the
office of clerk Of the district court, and
Miss Pearl Bledsoe, candidate on
the Socialist ticket for county high
school trustee.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-07-12
HAD NEW WAY TO HIDE A JOINT
Wall Which Swung in Like
Door.

Wichita, Kansas.-Following out in
formation that several of the dentists
here had stocked up for the Fourth
with beer, the police raided number
of places and confscated 300 bottles
of beer and $50 bottles of whisky.
A few men found in the places we're
taken into custody. Entirely new fea-
lures were encountered in plants"
At one place when buzzer brought
the news that the police were ap-
preaching, the law enforcers encoun-
tered a supposed brick wall when they
swung open door,
One of the raiders, however, sought
to investigate more closely and
touched the wall; it swung back and
disclosed a small room in an areaway
between two buildings. The brick
wall' was built in frame and hung
on hinges. Two hundred "cold ones
were found here
Wichita experienced a dry Fourth
after the police made their cleanup.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-07-12
TwENTY-oNE DEAD IN ONE COACH
Passenger Car, Pushed by Engine,
Struck Freight Traln-Every
Person But One Injured.

LaTrobe, Pa.-Twenty-one persons
were killed and 80 injured, a num-
Der fatally, as result of wreck on
the Ligonier Valley railroad at Will
pen.
An overloaded passenger coach,
pushed by an engine, was struck by a
double header freight train of coal
cars, crushing the coach like paper
and spreading death and injury to all
but one aboard the train.
The impact was terrific. The pas
senger coach practically was laid open
and the passengers either crushed or
thrown through the air.
The train was well crowded, every
seat in the lone coach being occupied.