Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-06-30

worked there until he was 22 year
old, when he worked his wa.
through Campbell university at Hol
ton, Kan. and graduated In 1895
Later he worked his way through
the law school of the Kansas STATE
university and graduated. at the bal
in 1899. During these years h,
supported himself by reporting fol-
them over a regular route. and
working In the harvest fields during
all OF his school vacations.
McKeeyer came TO Enid the year
| following his graduation at the X.
| U. law school and was Immediately
elected city attorney, position
which he filled with so much salts
| faction TO the public that he was
| right after that nominated and
elected county attorney 1t was as
county attorney that McKeever
showed himself to be one of the
cleanest, squarest and most fearless
| officials in Oklahoma. In the early
days when 1t required courage to
stand up for right principles and en-
force the law, during the momentous
times incident upon the change in
the form OF government from a ter
rHory to the brotherhood Of the
union. McKeever stood four squares
to the wind for law enforcement and
fought for decency, right and JUS
tice against some OF the strongest in
fluences ever thrown to the support
Of the liquor interests. When the
saloon was outlawed by the states
new constitution, public sentiment
was almost Overwhelmingly against
the enforcement of the federal be-
slowed prohibition law. but It was
the law. and McKeever's duty as
county attorney to enforce 1t. In en-
forcing the law, some of the strong
est and most influential Enid citi-
zens stood in his way, and It required
| bravery of the kind that heroes are
made of to go against them. In this
line OF duty McKeever never faltered
once. AS matter Of fact, he is the
pioneer in law enforcement in this
state. The example he set as county
attorney has never been excelled
anywhere In Oklahoma.
lie did away back there in the
early days what no other county at
torney had done up to that time,
and what no prosecuting attorney in
Oklahoma has equaled since, unless
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cutting attorney of Oklahoma county,
put Bill Creekmore out of the boot
Logging business and finally sent him
to the penitentiary. McKeever
drove out of Enid at time when
driving was a new and exceedingly
dangerous business, notorious
bootlegger who had established him
self so firmly in Ends business life
that to many the mere thought of
opposing him was political suicide.
But the fact that this man was he
publican boss and the most influen-
tial fixer in the county did not deter
McKeever from his duty, nor prevent
him from enforcing the law. BY
thus fearlessly and successfully pro-
scouting law violators, McKeever
won for himself a place in the
hearts of the best people of this
community. and the public esteem
for him has grown through all Of
the years he has lived here, for his
qualities as a lawyer. citizen, a
patriot and public-spirited Okla
homan has placed him high in the
esteem Of the whole of northwest
ern oklahoma.
McKeever's popularity can perhaps
best be understood when it is ex-
planned that he has the militant
spirit lie is a fighter, born of a
fighting pioneer father and a sturdy
brave mother, whose spirits led them
20 Kansas in the early days OF the
settlement OF Jackson county. Nc