The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-10-26
GRAND JURY
PROBING BIC
GUNS0 STATE
PROBE. SUPPOSEDLY RELATED
TO PRIMARY CAMPAIGN AF-
FAIRS - BANKERS, OIL MEN
AND STATE OFFICIALS CALLED.

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and high officials of number o
Oklahoma City banking institution
were interrogated by the grand jur.
Friday morning, presumably in con
nection with the primary election IL
vestigation.
The only light it appears, the.
could throw on the situation woult
be possibly to tell of the size of thu
various campaign funds. Not ever
an indication as to what their tes
timony concerned was disclosed b!
the prosecutors office, however.
William Nee, president of the Sc.
curity National bank; Walter Cald.
well, president of the City State
bank; c. II. Everest of the Guar
anty State bank; d. w. Hogan of the
Farmers National bank, and |. b
Levy Of the State Exchange bank
were the bankers called on TO tes
tify, according to the list of wit
nesses furnished by the county at
torney's office.
]. J. Shea, a prominent Bartles-
Willie lawyer and former district
judge Of Washington county and
Albert Shields, of Enid, were also
questioned. Shields was prominent
West worker during the primary
Governor Lee Cruce, r. L. Will
liams, c. n. Haskell, Al j, Jennings,
j. b. A. Robertson, Charles West
and other democratic candidates in
the primary, many men connected
with campaign headquarters Of the
candidates for governor, and a score
of state officials, will be subpoenaed
jury, according to information gath
cred today.
Subpoenas were issued for Fred
Parkinson, state examiner and in
spector, and Homer Hammonds, as
sistant examiner, Wednesday. Charg-
es made by democrats against demo-
Gratis will be probed by the grand
jury. Charges of graft in the school
land department will be investiga-
ted. Witnesses among whom it is
now said will be the governor, will
be called in a few days to give
evidence in connection with charges
that nepotism is being practiced
among state officials.
Election fraud and charges of
excessive campaign expenditures will
be investigated
Repeated charges have been made
that there is graft in the land Of
fee" said County Attorney Pope.
Records and books will be taken
before the grand jury. expect
the state examiner to be an import
ant witness in this case"
1T has been charged that nepo-
tism is being practiced among state
officials. The state officers, includ
ing the governor, will be called upon
to testify in this matter.
''All the democratic candidates for
governor in the primary will be call
ed. Both state and county election
boards will be subpoenaed. Print
ing companies and their representa-
tiyes will be summoned"
Pope mentioned the following wit
nesses who will be called in the
school land matter:
John R. Williams, secretary of the
land office; r. NJ. Miller, clerk
Ben Harrison, r. NJ. Wilson, Joe Nc
Clelland, G.. T. Bryan and Governor
Cruce, members of the school land
commission; Jim Jacobs, Kirby Fitz-
patrick, Cam Gait, j. H. Chambers,
Frank Lane, II. S. Sewers, and
Jackson, a banker of Roger Mills
county.
Parkinson is expected to be the
most important witness in-the school
land matter. Parkinson was out of
town Wednesday and the subpoena
was not served. Pope declared he
thought Parkinson would hurry back
when he heard of the summons. In
a report on land matters in Roger
Mills county Parkinson said that
criminal prosecution should be-
brought.
Pope said that many of the state
might be subpoenaed to-
morrow. Pope said that Governor
Cruce, G. 7. Bryan, president of the I
board of agriculture; Joe McClelland,
state auditor; J. d. Langford, state
bank commissioner; Lon Frame,
chairman of the state board of af- /
fairs; Ike Renfro, member of the
board of agriculture; Bob" Dick,
warden of the penitentiary, and DR..
]. C. Mahr, commissioner of health |