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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-02-05
Youthful TinSmithS
Making Things to be
Used Around the Home

Young but going great" That Is
the fitting title for the latest course
Of study in the Ardmore public
schools the Junior high school shc,r
metal department There. under ihr
supervision Of L. H. 'Endter. their
Instructor. some one hundred and
twenty ambitious Young chaps are
turning out creations in the form CT
dust pans, tin cups pipe intersections
and ventilators that resemble the
work Of any expert tinsmith in dura.
bility and workmanship.
The shop, which consists Of two
large working rooms, is equipped with
practically every apparatus necessary
for sliillful tin working Pick, stow
and Wilcox machinery is installed
throughout a former for the rolling
of tin for stove pipes, a burning ma.
chine, a crimping and wiring appara.
tus, bar folder for crimping tin, and
a seamer for bradding seams on pipe
arc among the equipment found in the
shop. Soldering irons and salamoniac
acid are also used when the necessity
demands
Mr. Endter is very enthusiastic
over the work that his students are
doing. Every advance student plans
his own project" he said, "and some
Of the things they make are great
Every student is also required to draw
and submit specifications of his in.
tended job, so that any mistakes may
be corrected without any unnecessary
delay. Now we are making SCOOPS
while dust pans and other real articles
of value are 10 be made in the
future,
AS for the students. every mothers
son among them is keenly Interested
in his work and fun of pep and 60
as the stacatto pounding Of mallets
will testify. Perhaps none Of them
viii hang up u tinsmith's sign when
he grows to manhood, but all Of them
will have learned to use his head and
hands in coordination. and that is
the intention Of the school board in
establishing such n department.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-02-05
INDICTMENTS AGAINST
OFFICIALS RETURNED

Observation-Disclosures against sev.
en- officials and former officials OF Chi.
cago charging violation or the civil
service law through sale Of su5scrip.
iions 10 political newspaper backed
oy the city administration and tickets
10 a picnic given " the official fac
lion headed by Mayor VIM Hale
thompson. were returned Saturday by
special county grand jury.
Evidence submitted 10 the jury was
intended to show that city employees
virtually had been forced 10 subscribe
to the paper and buy picnic tickets
under threat Of losing their jobs. One
Of the men indicted was said to have
sold $4,000 worth Of subscriptions MIN.
self
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-02-05

way TO move in those days for pur.
poses OF extending your sphere of in
fluence 10 the national capitol.
After statehood, his rise in his own
party became more noticeable. al
though 1t was rather shadowed by
the Democratic ascendency To intra
state authority.
But he moved hither and YOU. push.
ing his organization, until in 1916,
he branched out as the opponent OF
big jim Harris, who at the time
was holding the national committee.
rnanship almost by right Of seizure.
Men Came TO Blows in This Contest
In this fight. the power of McGraw
had become so potent that men OF
prominence engaged in fistcuffs even
to uphold his standard.
The long night battle Of the G. o.
?. state committee was livened by
oneround exhibitions by no. less well.
known gentry than Alva Mcdonald.
present L. $. marshal. and T.. T.
Blake, attorney aud wit OF Oklahoma
City.
Mcdonald, Loren G.. Disney. Amos
Ewing. and even Jake Hamon himself.
tried as they could TO sci the stage
for Harrls. hut something smooth
and fine working in the McCraw Or
sanization ou,witted the Harris men.
II was there The issue OF McGraw
against Hamon first grew 10 great
proportions.
II was in this success Of McGraw that
II was first brought to light that the
Irish Republican leader was probably
kinman or Woodrow Wilson. II
was disclosed by McCraws aged father
who lives at Ponca City.
The incident was The meeting Of
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-02-05
HOMMES ET CHEVAUX
ELECT ALL OFFICERS

Officers of the recently organized
La Voiture Militaire Local No. l52 des
40 Hommes ct s Chevaux are: Mar.
Gus Davis. Chef de Care. president;
John W. Wheeler, Chef de Train, vice.
president; w. +. Rumse. conducteur;
Ben Hunter, Commssiaire intendant,
ttreasmer; Paul l.. shelby. cores.
I tpondent, secretary; Gardes de Prison
naires, special guards. John Wheeler,
1 Jack Murphy, Buddy Moorehead'
Cheminots. executive committee, Fl. =.
Fell. Jack Murphy Guy r. McVey;
Garde de Ia Porte, Sergt. at arms, Guy
TT. McVey.
Al meeting OF the Locale Friday
/ night. plans for membership and ini-
fliation were discussed and other mat
tiers OF Importance taken up.
4 Meetings will be held on the second
sand fourth Monday nights Of each
month.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-02-05
BY "REASONER"

The salt of the earth literally rose
up and came to the aid of Jim Nc
Graw il the infancy Of his financial
/ vigor.
Even the most dyed-in-the.wool self
made men can hardly say this of their
early rise. but the president of the
biggest bank in Tulsa, who is also one
Of the dictators of Republicanism i'll
Oklahoma. can actually say he sprink'
led salt on the skirts Of Lady Luck"
and made her kow.tow.
Most people know of McGraw as the
opponent Of the late Jake l.. Hamon
in the national committeeman fight
OF 1920 that is remembered chiefly
/ for its bitterness.
They know that McGraw Is the
Catholic Republican who withdrew
from the contest with Hamon when
the war become so openly religious
controversy that il had ceased TO have
the appearance OF smart politics.
They know him as an oil man OF
Ponca City who seemed 10 have con-
siderable money and time 10 devote
to the extremely thrilling but not par
ticularly exalted business OF seeking
the patronage control in Oklahoma.
They know that despite his defeat
| by Hamon and the subsequent ma
tional victory by the man who was
favored by .he Hamon interests IN
this state. McGpw seemed 10 WELD 4
strangely powerful influence IN Wash
mgton for 4 beaten man
Came to Cherokee Strip With fiis
Father.
McGraw is Iust another OF the Kan
sas farmer bows who came 10 Okla
hona with his dad when the Chsro'
kee strip was opened in 'sS.
While he wasn't old enough 10 get
homestead Of his own In the grand
rush he WIS TO derive considerable
benefit in deals ne made after he had
worked with his father for 8 year
or two.
He watched the great herds roam
the plains in the north CT Oklahoma,
and saw that Il big need WAS for salt
lie therefore jumped into prominence
os the man who brought traiuloads OF
Hutchinson salt into the cattle couu'
try, TO be ~ and distributed among
the cattlemen
He developed the trading sense. He
bought lands from Indians who we're
given their freehold rights by the
government and usually the land he
bought was good land, aud was sold
at good profit.
During his growth. he assimilated
the intense Republicanism OF his father
and turned 10 active politics in his
community. He kept his Republican,.
ism, and his organizing ability grew,
and with both he managed to spread
his fortunes and his influence.
lie did forget politics long enough
10 court and win as his wife, the
daughter OF tha only Democratic mem.
her NJ the Kansas legislature az the
time OF the courtshlp-a slrl who
bore the good Irish name of Dona.
hue.
Even Standard oil Sought Ills Advice.
He became Ponca CITY banker
aud through this business his fortune
and holdings grew. T'hen when the
oil business became so important In
oklahoma, he became 20 well known
fer his knowledge of lands aud moneys
and politics combined, that Standard
OIL. through the oNeal group at IN.
dependence. sought his advice.
IL must have been good. for other
wise It is doubtful Il he would b.
president OF the Exchange National
at TULSA.
In territorial days. McGraw moved
as a follower or the Dennis 17ynn
power IN Republican affairs good
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-02-05
Letter Club" Is Formed.

HUGO. Okla.-F'ifty students who
made letters in some form Of ath.
ietics in Hugo high school in the
past few years are expected TO at
tend a meeting Of the Letter Club
recently formed here to promote in.
terest in high school athletics among
high school alumnae. \. D. Harry,
coach, and II. V. Posey. former coach.
are sponsoring the movement
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-02-05
SERVICE STRIPES GETS HARRIS
RACK INTO nASEBALL

Judge Lands, baseball
commissioner. Saturday reinstated J2t
Harris or the Cleveland Indians. lie
accompanied his decision with a state
ment that Harris service IN France
during the World war, entitled him
TO consideration which might not
otherwise have been given. Harris
had been declared ineligible for play
ing with ana against ineligible play
ers IN independent gamea.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-02-05

W@N4AHEh NA@'"the fact that there
tare only few human beings counted
iamong it's population Of thousands and
THAT very few of these speak Eng.
r1ish.
Snakeville. Texas. is the town and
tthe man who founded it, William A.
tKing, is popuularly known as the
lSnake King.
Here is the story Of how the munich
tpality OF Snakeville sprane from a
Borrowed $40 bill
Time TO Settle Down
Twenty years ago william King,
ihaying wandered three times around
the globe in various capacities from
able seaman and stevedore to common
laborer. decided that it was time TO
settle down and take more serious
outlook upon life.
Being more or less . naturalist by
instinct and his world wandering
having further developed this tendency
he decided on the job of supplying
crcuses and zoos with wild animals
as a profession.
With ten cents in his pocket he
borrowed a $40 bill for one month at
the rate Of 81 interest and began his
career. With the borrowed money in
his pocket he sauntered down the
sleepy main street of Brownvlle and
purchased a fine specimen of bull
snake from a Mexican peon who had
lust captured it in the foothills back
Of Matamoras. Mexico. He sold IL al
most Immediately TO an Eastern zoo
and the snake king was launched upon
his business career.
1900 Reptiles
From the bull snake purchased from
the Mexican peon Kings collection
has grown until now the town Of
Snakeville boasts of a population of
$4,000 reptiles. TO say nothing of the
various specimens Of parrots, monkeys,
lizards, lions and other beasts. Sooner
or later every specimen known become
inhabitants of Snakeville and remain
residents OF the various concrete
houses and runways until sold.
AT the present time the business has
grown so that King has seventeen
animal.buying stations throughout
Mexico and South America.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-02-05
Threatens Rip Eynnse.

f1.AWToN.--Following the announce
sment that John c. keyes had sold al
lls public utility interests In oklahoma
~ local newspaper has made known
tts intention OF making known corrupt
)condltlons connected herewith II is
)oAfgestej thar scandalous eNpositions
nm be made concerning boyeotts and
nntaguniRtic combinations.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-02-05

WAsHiNGToN.-Secretary Hoover
announced Wednesday the appoint.
ment OF Grosvenor VI. Jones Of Cleye.
land. as head Of The newly organized
paper division OF The bureau Il for
eign and domestic. commerce.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-02-05
Strike In Johannesburg

y JOHANNESBURG The strike of
Rhe coal and gold miners in the .and
histrict. remains in full force. Efforts
4 ~ bring the two sides together. have
uned. The men went out in protest
hooinst proposed Increase IN the
6nbsr OF oolorsd lsoorers employed.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-02-05

llttle VIVA Se WIN
"A population run
ming into the thous-
ands I hat had its
start on a borrowed
$40 bill. There are
no traffic cops on
the streets and
Sunday is just as
good as any other
day in this unusual
little municipality.
Another unusual
feature of this pc
culiar little town is
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-02-05

CHlCAGO.-Chicago's board Of edr
cation puts its official taboo OH the
shimmy. Jazz. short skirts. low necks.
joy riding and cigarettes and recon.
mends study five nights a week.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-02-05

the elder AlcGraw and man by name
OF Wilson who was chairman Of the
Woods county delegation to the g..
o. p. convention.
$50 your name is Wilson" quered
the old man upon introduction. I'm
interested 10 meet you. for the VII.
sons are kinsmen of perhaps
you are. visited Ireland a few
years ago and visited the place in
which our people are buried.
The plot in which our ancestors
lay, also held the Irish ancestors OF
President Wilson / am confident that
the grandmother of Woodrow Wilson
and the great grandmother Of Jim are
cousins"
Politically. jim Was Most Harsh to
His Distant Kinsman.
! The discourse OF McGraw's father
so impressed The man Wilson 10 whom
he was talking. that the man went
into the Woods county caucus aud
swung its vote TO Jim McGrav for
national committeeman.
McGraw, from Republican point
OF view was lust the man 10 have
in the national committee. for there
! Is every reason 10 believe It was his
idea which caused the committee 70
seize upon Wilson's famous political
letter of 1918 as the point Of attack
to turn congress into Republican
body.
The Ponca City banker told win
HAYS. and Dougherty, and The rest
that he woul- contribute $4,000 TO
. fund to fight on that issue. and so
earnest was he in his argument that
he won the committee. He aided in
subscribing about $500, 900 more for
the Republican campaign, and they
went to It.
History records that not only the
house, but big share Of the senate,
was turned Republican, 10 the dis
comfiture of Scott Ferris, who was
responsible for the Democratic con
gressional campaign in that fateful
year.
Thus McGr1w can be said TO have
thrust the first thorn into the side
OF his kinsman."
McGraw unquestionably has mad
great backing. made greater by his
interest ana strength in politics. The
Independence O'Neils are now the
Wall street O'Neils OF Standard Oil
Democrats Consider Him Most
Dangerous.
He has oil interests, lumber inter
ests. land interests. He is often called
the most dangerous man for Demo
Gratis that can be- found in Republl-
can councils.
Hes not averse 10 spending money.
or being Identified with men who do
that in politics. Wasn't he one OF
the principal workers OF General Leon.
ard Wood. whose angel Proctor,
went 50 strong that ne finally had
to yell?
McGraw Is suave looking gentle.
man. with no penchant whatever for
taking out loud. He needs no par
ocular voice right now for most
anything he does politically fer a
few years must be- done behind the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-02-05
LANES J. McGRAW


Oklahoma opening Cherokee Strip in Ss3 when
City Exchange National
National committeeman. 1850
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-02-05
SNAKE Ranch
PAYS DIVIDENDS
William King Borrowed $40
to Start Venture, Now
Has $4,000 Reptiles in
Colony on Border.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas-Down on
the Mexican border, within a stones
throw Of Brownsville, is a prosperous
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-02-05
MIRRORS OF OKLAHOMA
JAMES j. McGRAW

wright 1921 Oklahoma News Published the dmorete
with the sanction o of the copyright
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-20
TORPEDO PLANE, WHICH RIDES M
 HEAVY SEAS, IS TESTED BY NAVY

down near the surface of the water, as far from the target as possible, launches it's torpedo and then climbs high again. For this purpose it carries full size torpedo slung on carriers between the pontoon floats. The torpedo is released by a trigger. In addition to the torpedo the plane carries a complement or machine guns with a clear field or fire. It can carry a gross load or five and half tons with a cruls- ing range of 300 miles, and accord ing to the builders has speed Of llo miles an hour, with full load.
 As an. additional qualification the machine is designed to be practic- ally invisible two miles away, and, in fact, on the surface of the sea against any sort of background 1t IS we'll nigh invisible only a short dis tance away.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-20

WASHINGTON, March 2O.-NaVal officers here are watching with in terest the experiments now being conducted with the new torpedo plane, craft of this type having recently been brought to the naval air station here for experimental purposes.
 Ships of this sort have been in the minds of naval men for years, as the aerial counterpart of the sub- marine of the seas; for that, in short, sums up the new aircraft.
 In general terms the torpedo plane is like seaplane. It carries pom toons which are designed to float It in the heaviest seas, and it carries two powerful 375 horsepower en- zines.
 Unlike the bombing plane, Whlch hovers over it's target and drops it's missiles, the torpedo plane swoops
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-20
LONDON REVOLT BREWS
 AGAINST STIFF COLLAR

LONDON, March 20.-There IS a war brewing in London It is directed against the high, stlfl collar.
 Fashion leaders have attempted to renew the popularity of the "choker collar. which was famous along Plc- cadilly in the pre-war days, and have met with a storm of .disapproVal'
 London dandies have become ac- customed to the soft collar, ana they have no desire to go back to the strangulating fashion of five years ago.
 The newspapers have taken up the fight for the soft and low collar, and medical experts are quoted at length to prove that the high collar is a menace to health of the British Empire.
 George Bernard Shaw is held uf to the Londoners as the greatest ex- ponent of the soft and low collar.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-20
PELICAN SWALLOWS BALL;
 BREAKS UP GOLF GAME

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, March 2O. A pelican, one of those huge, long peaked marine birds that poise them selves a hundred feet above the water, close their wings and with beaks open dive head foremost into schools of small fish, finished a golf game here recently lone down." The Coffee Pot course is along the. shore of Tampa bay and on the eleventh hole is a small brackish lake forming water hazard which must be crossed to reach the green.
 One member of foursome drove from the tee and strong wind car ried the ball into the lake. A peli- can flying lazily above the lake evi- dently took the ball bobbing on the surface for a new variety of fish for he suddenly closed his wings, dropped with terrific speed, and gobbled it.
 Try Daily Times for Job Printing.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-20

CHARLESTOWN, w. Va, March 20. Sixty-three years ago John Brown ,Abolitionist, was hanged to a sour apple tree in the courthouse yard of Charlestown for treason against the United States Govern ment.
 In April, 1922, two hundred men charged with treason against the government of West Virginia, and other offenses, will be put on trial here as a result of the armed march of miners last August.
 The trial of John Brown was one of the fifteen famous trials Of American history" That of the United Mine Workers officials and their followers will probably be one of the most remarkable industrial hearings of modern history.
 Comparing the two cases there is a queer similarity. Brown, North erner, with Theodore Parker and oth- CT famous Abolitionists, matched scheme to establish free negro col ony in the Virginia mountains, where e-liberating forays could be made into the surrounding country.
 October 6, 1859, with nineteen con- rades, John Brown captured Unit ed States arsenal Two days later he was wounded and taken prisoner bv Federal forces commanded by Robert E. Lee.
 Brown was convicted of treason in the historic Charlestown court house and hanged December 2, 1859. His body was taken to an old farmhouse near North Elba, Jefferson County where to this day his grave IS marked by a huge rock. AFFAIR GREAT SENSATION The affair created sensation throughout the North, and while sympathy was not with Brown for his treason against the Government it gave rise to a famous war song ! which goes:
 John Browns body lies a-moulder- | ing in the grave
 But his soul goes marching on
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-20
200 MINERS TO 60 ON TRIAL
 WHERE BROWN WAS HANGED
 TO SOUR APPLE TREE IN 1858
Historic Place to Be Scene of Greatest Labor
 Case in Our History.

Trial of the union miners was transferred from Logan to Jefferson County on plea of the miners that they could not get a fair and impar- tial trial in Logan for the reason that most of the eligible jurors had taken up arms against the miners army.
 The 1921 march was organized at Marmet w. Va, in August of last year. Before the authorities realized what had happened a big army start ed march toward Logan, with the avowed intention of unionizing the coal fields there.
 On Federal intervention the miners halted near Madison, Boone County, where they were urged to disband by Frank Keeney, president of Dis trict r, United Mine Workers of America.
 5000 STORM LOGAN COUNTY
 A day later a second march was organized, and an army of more than 5000 stormed the Logan bor- ders. Logan residents and "volun- teers" from many other counties of southern West Virginia took up arms in an effort to halt the march to the Upper Guyan coal fields.
 The big mine army was held in check until the arrival of United States troops, when it was disband- ed Grand Juries in Kanawha, Boons and Logan counties brought indict- ments against various members of the United Mine Workers organiza- tion and participants in the march
 Charges upon which the miners were indicted range from pistol to- ting to conspiracy, insurrection. mur- der and treason.
 Charlestown lies about ten miles from Harper's Ferry, where the Brown raids were organized. It is a much-visited Summer resort, lying on the Shenandoah River. The pop ulation is about 5000 persons. The Northern District Federal Court is held here.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-03-31
NURSE ADMITS THREAT.
Confesses She Wrote Kinkead
Note That She Would
Tell Her Brother.
= Associated Press to Every rv.n,n.

BY Associated Press to Every Evening.
New York. March 31-Halting her
testimony 70 frequently weep Miss
Olivia VI. p. Stone today admitted. at
her trial for the murder Of Ellis Guy
Kinkead. authorship OF a threatening
letter to Kinkead which she denied
she had written.
Miss Stone took the stand at the
opening of this mornings session.
and faced Assistant District Attorney
Warbasse for further cross exami-
nation.
Handing her paper and pencil. Mr..
Warbasse asked her TO write at his
dictation.
The letter he read. dated October 4,
1918. at Mt. Ohvet. Ky. advised Kin
kead that Miss Stone intended to file
a suit for breach Of promise and that
she had told her lawyer AL about
that woman-the real cause Of your
not wanting 70 marry me-
After the suit IS over" Mr.. War
basse read. Il am going 10 telegraph
nay brother Guy TO come 10 me at
once. and you know what will happen
TO you after he sees me and hears the
story.
You will be mortified TO death when
the suit is brought for breach Of
promise"