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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-08
M'rNTYRE IN CITY.
r.,1s of improvements Being Made at
University.

,1ont MCINTYRE. coach Of the West
,.;rrinia University football team, whip
was in the city Saturday. spoke Of tho
improvements that are being made to
the athletic field. A new stadium Is be-
ing constructed that will seat approx
,.ete1y 5000 people. and with its com
nIetion. Mr.. Mcintyre said. West Eir-
yinia fans could see many Of the big
Teams OF the east in action at Nor gan
town.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-08
Funeral for MRS. mooney To-day.

Funeral services for Mrs. Emma
fCoss) Mooney. who died in the family
home, 44S National road. Friday morn
Ing. will hc held In the place Of death
this morning at 1870 o'clock. The Rev.
Roy McCuSkey, OF North Street Metho-
dist Episcopal church. will oTficatc.
Burial will be in Greenwood cemetery.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-08
DAVE says:
The new Spring Designs in
MANHATTAN SHIRTS

are here and the most har-
monious color combinations
we have handled in several
seasons are included.
There are both stiff and
French cuffs, plain and
pleated bosoms, in the same
old Manhattan quality.
Naturally the prettler de-
signs 60 first, so make your
choice while they are here,
and you can be sure of your
size.
The prices are from $1.75
to $500.
Weather, for to-day: Fair.
.N<AL -
ntNT~
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-08
FUNERAL For Mrs. Sutton Today.

This afternoon az !. Nc1OCK GUNeTNI
services for Mrs. Susie Sutton. whose
death occurred Friday. will be held IN
the home Of her daughter. Mrs. Morn
Goudy, 1872 Twenty-ninth street. In
terment will be in Mt. Zion cemetery.
The following children survive: Mrs.
Jennie Brown. Blalrmunt, Ohio: J. Il.
sutton. Carnegie. Ia; Mrs. Lille II
ter.. Adena. Ohio: Mrs. Laura ttlcrs.
Carnegie, rn.: Mrs. Margaret Wht1"
Rvesville. Ohio; William Sutton. Rob
cysville. Ohio: Mrs. Tess WonnocGst'
sutton. Pomeroy. OHIO; Mrs. Rhoda Ber-
nard,' Mrs. Nora Goudy and Walter SUIT
ron OF this city.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-08

AL Jolson could not have chosen .
moro effective sob song for his latest
Columbia recording than "A BfoKen
musical comedy, London Taps"
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-08

The wonderful intermczzo that I'M
mortaIizcd the genius Of Masca Gnt. the
intcrmczzo from his opera "Cavalerla
Rusticana," has been recorded for CO.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-23

who was shot in the back and killed.
The murderer was fellow named
Stephenson, whose place Carthey had
helped wreck previously. The dead
officers body lay in state in the little
Methodist church for two days before
it was laid away; then the people held
an indignation meeting in the opera
house, and every bootlegger in the
district had to fly for his life.
In the month of August occurred a
pitched battle at SasakWa, Okla, which
resulted in the death of two more Of
Johnson's band. Between Sasakwa
and the Oklahoma border is a strip of
country inhabited chiefly by the Off
spring of Seminoles and negroes,
known as Seminole niggers. After
Johnson had shut off the railroad traf-
tic a band of these men formed an
express wagon system, carrying
whisky over the country.
Securing the aid of several city mar
shals, Johnson set out upon q regular
campaign. He sent Harvey De Hart
from Thrace with an armed posse to
lie in wait along the route, and three
prisoners were brought in, together
with rs gallons of whisky and team
of horses. The liquor was destroyed,
and the horses were confscated and
sold.
Soon afterward John Morrison, who
divided his time as Johnson's deputy
and as village marshal for Sasakwa,
received news of a gang near the
settlement, which was said to have
robbed a post Office safe. He set out
in pursuit of them, and, ON the way.
encountered another officer. The two
men decided to wait in ambush until
the negroes returned, as it was evil
dent that they were on the way to
Violet, a town just across the Okla
hona line, and would return with
liquor. On their return the two Off
GERS stepped into the road and or
dered the men to halt. The negroes
whipped up their team, and one of
them, swinging round, shot Morrison,
killing him instantly.
AS soon as the news became known
posse was formed and set out in
pursuit. A regular battle followed,
resulting in the death of l.. P. Dixon
~ Shawnee, and of bootlegger.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-23

q bootlegger who had recently come
out Of Jail, to which Lewis had con-
signed him. The bootlegger had had
plenty Of time to fill himself with his
own medicine, and instantly attacked
Lewis with q formidable dagger. I'm
fortunately Lewis had not his re-
volver with him. Drawing his sheath
knife, he tried to defend himself
against tho mans vicious thrusts, but
1t was an unequal fight, for Lewis was
q small man, while the bootlegger
was of huge physique, as may be seen
in the accompanying photograph,
which shows the ruffian and Lewis
side by side just after the arrest had
been made. Several of Lewis friends
came up, but they were afraid of
shooting for fear Of hitting Lewis.
While they hesitated the bootlegger
felled Lewis to the ground and thrust
his dagger through his throat. Before
he could infict further injury the man
was caught and pinioned. The dagger
had pierced the larynx, but subse-
quently Lewis made a recovery,
though he lost the use of his voice
permanently.
That Johnson won the admiration
and affection Of his men is shown
from the fact that his deputies found
time, in the thick of fighting, to sur
prise him with the gift of a magnifi-
cent gold watch.
THE chase Of chipmunk," said
Johnson to them, may be sport in a
small way. The pursuit OF bear or
tiger is still higher game, but the
hunting down Of armed and willy GRIM
inals, who prey upon the laws of our
country-the men who make their liv-
ing in crime and in preying upon the
appetites and passions Of their fellow.
men, is sport Of the highest possible
order"
Thus far, then, in spite of numerous
murders, the outlaws had failed to
murder Johnson. Now they set about
their endcavor in a more systematic
manner. A price of $4,000 was placed
on J0hnson's head.
THAT was the time,'' he says, when
did not expect to get through. 1t
lasted for six months. OF course
was shot at some, but I used always
to sit on the last seat in the rail.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-23

Finally the gang was rounded up and
the leaders were captured and placed
in Jail.
1t was in the town Of Chelsea that
the ruffians nearly got Johnson. He
had entered the "joint" of man
named Edmondson with Deputy Lowe.
but, as the crowd was very threaten
ing in it's demeanor, he left Lowe out
side to hold the door, and went into
the barroom alone, in his customary
manner. He smashed the liquor and
the fixtures, and was about to leave
when the mob brushed Lowe aside
and surged into the place, surround
ing Johnson, led by bad man"
named Dyce, of enormous build and
muscularity. Dyce thrust ais fist
into Johnson's face. discoloring his
eye. Johnson knocked Dyce down
twice, and Dyce concluded that he
had had enough. Beer glasses and bill
lard cues began to fly around John
sons bald head, and revolyers were
drawn. In another moment johnson
would have been put out of exist
ence. But snathing up one of the
billiard cues, he laid about him With
force, cracking half Il dozen heads
and clearing a little space about him.
At this juncture Lowe managed to
effect an entrance and knocked up a.
revolver which was thrust into John
sons face, in the nick of time. A min
ute later Johnson, with his billiard
cue, was driving the flock of rowdies
like sheep before him. Within an
hour Of this occurrence news of John
sons death was being spread in every
Oklahoma city.
I'll always telephone in when I'm
killed" Johnson explained to an in
curing newspaper reporter.
In connection with the killing and
wounding of Johnson's deputies may
be mentioned the attack on Omer L.
Lewis, though his death occurred, like
that OF Charley Escalante, one Of John
sons brave Indian deputies, at later
period. At Arloe, Mont, Lewis met
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-23

spirators resolved to get the pair to-
gether, 1t was now the invariable
practise of Johnson's deputies never
to go abroad except in twos and
threes, but in spite of his chiefs
warning, Bowman, who was a man of
exceptional courage, courted death
alone on several occasions. Four boot
leggers constantly logged him, hoping
to catch him and the elusive Pussy
foot together and "do them up"
Bowman was shot at on three occa-
sions, but he seemed to bear a
charmed life. and escaped without a
scratch.
On the fourth occasion the conspir-
ators laid their plans more success
fully. At dusk one evening Bowman
was riding toward his home near
Caney, Kan, after a successful raid.
A report had been spread that the
bootleggers who were logging him
had left the district, and Bowman was
off his guard in consequence. Sudden
~ a couple of shots rang out. Bow
man was unframed, but his horse fell
dead beneath him, Being an old FROM
tiersman, he. took refuge behind the
body of the animal and replied with
his rife, hoping to scare the cowardly
rutiians away. Apparently they were
resolved to get him, however, and
two of the party, moving round among
the shelter Of some trees, pumped a
hail of lead into the spot where Bow
man was lying.
eve ultimately found poor Bow
mar" says Johnson, with about a
dozen bullets in him. The conspira-
tors made no mistake that time
Another deputy, Il. J. Sapper, was
shot through the side Of the head,
like Sanders, and, like him, recovered.
About the same time w e. Strick-
land, while watching train for John
son at midnight on the border, near
Tulsa, was shot i'll the neck, and he
still carries the bullet.
Then there was Randolph w Car
they, city marshal at Pauls Valley,
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-23

Effort to Convert Virgil Into Vergil
Raises Doubt as to Where PtK<
lists Would Stop.

Quite vigorous discussion is going
on in the English press, as to the
spelling of foreign proper names. II
has all originated over the modern eff
fort to convert Virgil into vergih OF
course the poets name is Vergilius
but Virgil is the time-honored Angli
cism for it. The opponents of Vergi
point out that it is ridiculous to say
that Vergil is the correct way of spell
ing it, for the simple fact that that
Authorization is not and never was
Latin, but is an Anglicizea way OF
spelling the word Vergilius. and that
in order to incorporate word into
another language you have right to
make it conform to that language, nnd
that your determination to make 1t sc
conform is q sure sign OF the vitality
of the language.
AS matter of fact there is very
little doubt that those who take this
point of view have all the precedents
on their side. Macaulay always insist
ed ON spelling Louis as Lewis, and de
clared that you never should use for.
eign word where an English enc coulG
be made to take its place. The sup
porters of Virgil now demand to know
where the purists are going ~ stop
Are they, they ASK going to be content
with Vergil, or are they going the full
length to Vergilius? Are they going
to be content with Venice, or are they
going to indulge in Vene1e, and ii
Veneze, why not the whole length, and
say Venezia? When it comes to pre-.
cedents, we are afraid the refeTmers
have not much chance.-Clni;$fa
Science Monitor.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-23
Theatrical Troupe, Stranded in West
ern Town, Found Good Samari-
tan Unexpectedly.

The troupe had been playing III hard
luck. Fifty dollars, $G5, now and then
500, were the nightly receipts, hardly
enough to pay the railroad 'jumps,"
let alone pay salaries. There was
just enough money in the treasury to
get to Walyille on Christmas night.
1t was one of those east Lynne"
"the child is with its mother in Lon
don" pieces, and when the company
struggled into the town at midday the
local theater manager was at the sta
ton to be sure they had the eight ac-
tors.
The players wandered about the
town during the day. The curtain
went up on $24.75, most of it in the
gallery. Some of the $24.75 went out
at the end of the second act and didn't
come back. When the final curtain
came down weary crowd scattered
to the chill dressing rooms, wonder
ing if the hotel proprietor would stop
them at the station the next morning.
This speculation was at it's height
when the theater manager of the town
appeared, his arms filed with bundles,
and dumped them into the arms of the
youngest member of the troupe.
"Say," he clustered, apparently a
little ashamed of what he was going
to say, "you people are having rotten
luck, amt you. I'm alone up at my
house. Come up and have supper with
me, will you? And say, I've had bit
Of luck this year, and I'll stake you
Ito the nights receipts. And those
things gave the kid, they-well, they
once belonged to kid of mine."
And he went out.
One of the women started to cry
That's where the>story ends.-New
York Evening Post.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-23

paw that it would be a losing game.
He knew that Johnsons employment
by the Indian department would ter
inmate In short time, as soon as
the impending statehood was given
to Oklahoma, and, with the redoubta.
BILE Pussyfoot out of the way, he cal
cuiated that his scheme would work
out to a nicely. His hatred for John
son arose in the main from the
knowledge that he vas impotent to
sell liquor SO long as Johnson was in
the way. Yet, whether he really
meant to kill him or not, he was at
the same time sending threatening let
ters to Deputy Marshal Thomas, say.
ing that he intended to have his life
also. AS q matter Of fact, the man
he killed had no quarrel with him.
When Johnson learned that he was
to be killed he was greatly interested.
He had never been killed. and he
wanted to give Lewis a chance of
making good on his threat, for john
son is emphatically fair man. Nor
has Johnson ever taken a life. He
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-23

A Merry Little Deputy and His Pris-
oner, a Type of the Outlaws Whom
johnson Fought.
named Patman, and suggested chat
they should try to earn the $3.50 for
killing Pussyfoot.
On his release from prison Zen
Ellsworth went back to Forum. bis
home town, and made murdersus as
sault upon young man whom he
charged with having given information
to Johnson that resulted in his ar
rest. Johnson went after Ellsworth
again, alone, and in a furious rough
and-tumble fight, took away his reEol-
yer, handcuffed him, and then brought
him prisoner to Muskogee, 40 miles
away.
Patman was waiting near by to as
sassinate Johnson, but his nerve failed
him.
Ben Ellsworth broke jail and re
turned again TO his old haunts near
Forum, where on the occasion Of
Fourth Of July picnic. he again de-
fled the law by setting up q bar
where hes dispensed spiked cider
Hearing of this Sapper and Sam Rob
erts went down TO raid the place. In
the ensuing scufile Patman shot Rob
erts, killing him instantly, and shot
Sapper through the head, NOT NOR
tally, however.
Patman subsequently turned states
evidence against the Titswprths, after
the gang had been hunted down and
arrested. However, Eugene Ellsworth
was found not guilty, and the jury
was hung in the case of Ben. The
breaking up of this gang dishearteaed
the bootleggers, and no more attempt
was made to murder Johnson.
Copyright, by w. G. Cha4rnar3
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-23
DESPERATE OUTLAWS PUT A PRICE
ON HEAD OF "PuSSYFOOT" JOHNSON
Their Activities in the Indian Territory Being Seriously Hampered
by the Work of the Special Officer of the Indian Depart
ment They Resort to Assassination - Conspir-
acy Finally Ended
Lewis revenge RESULTS In Iv|O DEATHS
aCy Finally Ended.

We have seen how William e. John
sons sensational raid Of the Monte
Carlo establishment in mo Mans
Land" by Lewis, Killion and Para
disc, resulted in the murder by Kill
lion Of Carr, marshal at Caney, Kan,
and IN Killion'5 being sentenced to a
life term in the penitentiary. The
next tragedy that was to develop out
OF this affair came swiftly. After his
release from the short term Of i'm
prisonment which was melted out to
Lewis, the King" of No Mans Land,
he vowed vengeance on Johnson and
KeeIer, the deputy who had aided in
the raid, and sent word that he would
shoot them at sight. In the mean
while he set up a livery stable at
Bartleyville;
Lewis had had a worse career than
his confederate Killion. Some four
teen years previously he had been
implicated in the last train robbery
that was committed in the Cherokee
Strip. A portion of the booty was
traced to him, and Deputy Marshal
Thomas went after him, got him,
and removed from his person two re-
yolyers and knife. He then put him
in jaf1 at Guthrie.
While Lewis was still in Jail the
marshal discovered that he closely re-
sembled a certain Jerry Lewis who
was wanted for murder In the Chick
asaw country. There was a reward
of $500 offered for his apprehension,
and Marshal Thomas, fearing that
the jan at Guthrie was too weak to
hold Lewis, removed him to Okla
homa City for safeguard. The jail
there proved really too weak, how
ever, and within a month or SO Lewis
made his escape.
t1e was next heard of IN Arkansas,
from which state he made hasty
departure on account of charge OF
bigamy that was brought against him
He went to Colorado, assumed another
name, Ind actually became a deputy
United States marshal, in which ca
paeity he killed a man Lewis was
tried, but acquitted. Subsequent to
that he robbed the Wells-Fargo ex-
press company at Cripple Creek, and
was sent to the penitentiary for a
term Of eight years. After his ar
rest he confined mis- operations to
bookkeeping in the Indian territory,
suffering several short terms of i'm
prisonment, and finally engineered the
Monte Carlo kingdom which has al
ready been described, and which was
ended by Johnson.
As may be imagined, Lewis livery
stable at Bartleyville was only meant
as blind for the blind tiger" that
he contemplated establishing. With
the easy money that would roll in
from the sale of liquor. man of Lew
is record would ha- dly engage in any
legitimate business. However, so
long as Officer Johnson was bouncing
here and there about the territory, ar
resting liquor sellers by the score,
and smashing their stocks, Lewis
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-23
Pleasure in Imagination.

"a great deal of what we call pleas
ure is largely imaginary" said the
readymade philosopher.
II suppose So replied the man who
was working on his automobile.
snow, wouldn't you like to be able
to take long ride without having to
worry about speed limits or spark
plugs or tires, or anything at ala"
II should say SOP
"Well, here's a street car ticket.n---
Washington Star.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-23

way cars, so that | had everybody in
front of me, and in the restaurants
always got into a corner with my
| back against the wall When / was
in the street, if l heard anyone be-
hind Newell, just lined up against
| the wall till he had passed, keeping
a mighty close eye on him the WHILE
The leading spirit and initiator of
the plan to get Johnson by the offer
of the big reward was a man named
| j. D. Lincoln. He had been a black
smith at the little town of Byars,
near Pauls Valley, and had run
blind tiger there, which Johnson had
put out of business. Lincoln, who
was a great, brooding, silent man, uni
versally stunned on account Of his
| moroseness, conceived violent hatred
for Johnson after the smashing of his
shebeen. In his distorted brain he
evolved the scheme for getting a man
to make sure of putting Johnson out
of the way. He put his suggestion
before a number of bootlaggers all
through the country by letter, boldly
detailing his plans and asking for
financial assistance. Several of them
were believed to have complied, for
the $4,000 was duly collected. Az
amusing, though grim, feature of this
scheme was that when a deputy who
somewhat resembled Johnson was shot
and killed in mistake for him, the
money was actually paid over, and
half of it had been squandered on q
wild orgy Of dissipation before the
mistake was discovered.
However, one Of the bootleggers to
whom Lincoln wrote, happened to be
under heavy obligations to one of
Johnson's men, wrote to him, revealing
the conspiracy. Johnson was to be fol
lowed night and day until the opportu-
nifty for his assassination presented
itself. Johnson put the matter in the
hands of his most trusted deputies
he has never taken action in the
courts in self-defense-and gave the
matter no further thought.
OF all the regions most notorious
for eoldblooded murder and outlawry
the palm might have been awarded,
in 1907, to that section of Oklahoma
centerirg about the little town of
Forum.
This section was dominated in 1907
by two young outlaws, named Eugene
and Ben Ellsworth, and their gang
intimidated the entire distric$. John
son thought this part Of the country
needed cleaning up, and he took the
task in hand, accompanied by DR.. e.
J. Sapper, who, besides being his dep
uty, was also a United States deputy
marshal
The Titsworths had "blind tiger"
and gambling layout in the woods,
near a railway construction camp at
McMurray Crossing, where the. ig
norant Italians were constantly fleeced
OF their wages after being made drunk
On the vilest of spirits. Johnson and
Sapper made q night raid upon the
Ellsworth haunt, which was being run
by Eugene. They reached McMurrays
Crossing at midnight in a raging thun-
derstorm, and found the place filled
with drunken men. AS johnson ap-
peared at the door there was a wild
stampede, but Sapper held the en-
trance while Johnson, having demol-
ished the stock in trade with his axe,
placed Eugene Ellsworth under arrest
and drove off through the rain.
Ellsworth made his escape from
again, and caught him after a long
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-23
lcse, and finally landed hin, in tail

chase, and finally landed him in tail
at Muskogee
Then he made descent upon Beh
Titsworth's drinking and gambling
haunt at Warner, in wild section
of the country near Muskogee. He
went alone this time, into the most
lawless part Of the Territory, and
single-handed raided Titsworth's place.
smashed the fixtures, arrested him,
and took him a prisoner to Fort
Smith.
While in Jail there Ben Ellsworth,
who was involved in the conspiracy,
made the acquaintance of a man
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-23
Unexpected Approval.

II was rather embarrassed" remark
ed Senator Sorghum, "wheA l forgot
my speech and had to make srn abrupt
finish"
"What happened?"
Il made the hit OF my life. They
printed articles about me as enc great
statesman who could be depeneied upon
not to filibuster."
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1917-06-23
Unpopuiar.

HE seems to be very unpopular"
Stranger, you've hit it. He's about
as well liked around here as paciffst
in a patriotic meeting"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-04-30
WOULD MAKE FLOUR FROM
FETERlTA, MILO AND KAFFIF

Flour manufactured from feterita.
milo maize and ksffir corn will be
used in place OF wheat flour in Texas.
II efforts of the Southwest Texas
state Normal school, of san Marcos.
are successful.
\ letter was received by the cham
Der Of commerce Monday morning
from Grace Z. Berry. head of the de-
partment OF home economies Of the
school, asking for the names of firms
manufacturing flour from such crops.
We are giving a special course
on food conservation and are try
ing 10 use some of the above men
toned flours as a substitute for
wheat flour the letter read.