The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-06-18

Chum With Preachers.
4 The young mans weird attraction
for ministers of the gospel seems th
most puzzling thing about the affai
in Newark. Ministers we're his pals !;
4 it was a ministerial civic worker whc
Il secured Douglas a position at S100 {
! week as church editor on the Newart
paper; ministers vouched for the re
former everywhere; and ministers are
still hoping say Newark dispatches
for Douglas to come back and prove
the whole thing bad dream" Bad
checks in assorted sizes and large
numbers constitute the chief of the
mans financial wrongs.
His Life in Oklahoma.
That morphine, contracted as a
habit when j. II, MacFarland was a
soldier in miasmic South America, is
the key to the young mans history
of monetary and matrimonial wrong
doing, is the theory of the girl Mac
Farland married here in January,
1909. Two weeks after the wedding
MacFarland was gone.
1T was not like this New Jersey
case" said MacFarland's bride, today.
For MacFarland didn't leave me.
made him go when / found out about
his habit"
MacFarland's bride of 1909 was
Miss Katherine Anderson. That is her
name now. For almost to a day, one
year after the wedding, divorce was
granted, in the Oklahoma county
court house.
d. X, Pope, present Oklahoma coun-
ty attorney, appeared as attorney cor
the then Mrs. MacFarland. The |
couple had been married by DR.. Phil |
Baird, pastor of the First Presbyter- |
ian church.
Miss Anderson was then, and is |
now, an Oklahoma City music teach
er She had met MacFarland in St
Louis two years before the wedding |
here. They had corresponded; then
when they came to Oklahoma, Mac
Farland had sought her out The wed
ding followed.
L. T. RuseeiPs Part
l.. T. Russell, former owner of the
ArdmOre Democrat, and a busy fight.
er in state and city affairs, played
a strange part IN the life of the young
reformer For it was Russell's poll
cies which MacFarland, arriving in
Ardmore in the fall of 1908, imme.
diately spotted for reform; and it
was Russell who. as present owner
Of the Elizabeth, N. j., Times gave
his old enemy MacFarland appear
ing in Elizabeth under the name of
Douglas, another chance to make
good"
Details of the mans spectacular his
tory in Oklahoma come from three
chief sources-Sidney Suggs, state
highway commissioner and owner of
The Daily Ardmoreite; Miss Ander-
son, MacFarland's former wife, and
Maurice Clark, manager of the Grand
Avenue hotel mere.
Story suses Tells.
The man called at my house in
he middle of a cold night in the ]
all of 1908, said Sidney Suggs today.
l felt sorry for the fellow and gave
lin a job on The Ardmoreite and
hought for a time that l had made
find His work was so brilliant, !
nd his personality SO attractive,
'hen he began to drink heavily. l
Whether he was addicted to morphine
don't know; | never saw him Use l
/, but | often suspected He was so
ueer at times | sent the young mal
0 Guthrie to do some work on a po-
tical campaign story, and he be
anne absolutely TresLons Bile, | soon
ad to cut him off, and l am one of
is financial victims. He was with l
lie less than two months"
Says Miss Anderson: l
Il never suspected from the meet
lg in st. Lolis with Mr.. MacFar
md, or from his letters, that he was
bnormal. When he came to see me F
1 Oklahoma l didn't suspect In fact
ly mistake in marrying him was be E
ause l didn't inv Vestigate his record
lore thoroughly, l suppose. I had
cen married 10 him but a very few
avs when / discovered him using S
lorphine. S
He told me the habit had been O
extracted when he was in South Am 4
RIGA. When | felt sure that he was Il
slave to the habit made him leave $
lie. The many bad debts he had "
cquired assisted in hurrying him out \
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