The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-04-10
INVOLVED LAND
WORTH A MILLION
Creek Freedman Loses
Suit for Possession of
40-Acre Lease

SApULPA. Okla, April e.-Forty
acres of land. said TO be worth
$1,000, 900, with six big oil wells on
10 for which suit was brought last
November by Lewis Robinson.
Creek freedman, was today decided
IN district court in favor of the
defendants. Tnis 40 acres was part
OF the allotment Of 100 acres re-
ceivcd by Robinson. He sold the 40
acres TO B. B. Jones In 1908. Rob
Iuson brought suit on the grounds
thdt the woman whom he claimed
10 he his wife had not signed the
deed when he sold to Jones. Toe
Judge decided that the evidence
showed that the woman In question
was not Roblnson's wife, because
hr had not publicly 'acknowlcdgcd
her as such. All OF the defendants
live in or near Sapulpa. They are.
j. W. Thompson, ora Thomp mpson,
5. l.. Canterbury. II. H. Hendricks,
Ntll VI. Anderson, George VI. Smith,
G. J, Davenport J. y. Thrift, and the
IRON Mountain OH company
That an Investigation Of the most
ofucc situation in this city to deter
minc whether the office shall be
moved from It's location at the cor.
D
to \ now location on East itobson
avenue will be made at once, was
the substance Of dispatches received
/ today from Representative j. g.
hringcy and Attorney r. keenan,
OF this city who are now i'm Wash
iugton TO take up the matter with
| Postmaster General win II. HAYS
/ Announcement OF an intention to at
tempt TO prevent the removal of the
postofficc from It's present location
was made by several SapUlpans re-
! c"ntly when n became known that
/ postoffiCc officials were considering
! occupying a new building at the cor.
ncr OF lIobson avenue and water
street.
Three hundred gallons of "choc'
was found yesterday afternoon by
! Constable j. A. Self at roadhousc
two miles north of Kiefcr. Five
mon and two women, who were
/ found at the place were arrested
and taken to Rristow where they
| paid fines in Judge Hcrman's court
/ The place IL said TO have been IN
I operation only a snort time.
Fifty Sapulpa Rotarians returned
1 today from one OF the biggest dis.
| trict conventions at Wichita, Kan.
sas, that the Seventh Rotary dis.
I trict has ever neld. Each clut
| staged a stunt" and the Sapulpa
| stunt" won them much notoriety
| II was staged at the Lassen hotel
| An account OF this was carried IN
| the Wichita Beacon as follows:
| Seven roistering Rotarians from
| Sapulpa were arrested In q room u
/ the Hotel Lasscn this morning wneT
! their conduct aroused the suspicious
| and Indignation of guests in ad
| joining rooms. The Rotarians gave
| their names as Newell Menifee
| John WEIGH, 'CHft Levy, Emmet
| Matthews, w. A. Wise and II. J.
! Houston, and were book ed as vags
| Additional charge of liquor in pos
| session was placed against Mat
I tncws.' The arrests were though
TO have come from some cards tina
mad been distributed. gapulpa Ro
/ tarians were Mr.. and Mrs c. u
4 Powell Jim Wilson, Ed Creegan, j
! Il. Barton, Ira Anderson, T. A. Hol
| lenbeck. Joe Allen, Cliff Levy, n
| u. Menifee, Il. NJ. Sweeney, O. II
| Eden, Earl Foster, Bob Coffy, Ira
| Malone, Ferd Kaufman, II. NJ Nc
| Mahan, Sam Harris, Claude Har
mony. Claude Masters Peck owens
| Arthur Black. John Welch, Emmett
/ Matthews, Herbert Johnson, Jerry
| Kipps, Don McMastors, John Mor
/ ritt, Polk Tongmire, Walter Bovaird
| willis Strange, Troy Shearer, Fen
/ Pell, Bill Wise, Joe Homes San
| Moore, and Miss Gertrude Rogers.
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