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| This information was transcribed & submitted by Nalora Burns. ************************************************************ IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE YEAR IN OKLAHOMA, 1929. From "The Oklahoma Almanac, 1930" printed by The Oklahoma Publishing company. JANUARY 2nd day ---------- Died, at Britton, 72 years old, James Franklin "Bud" CAVETT, early day stage coach driver between Oklahoma City and Tecumseh. ------ Fifteen of 17 passengers were injured, 4 seriously, when a pickwick bus crashed into a bridge railing at El Reno. ************************************************************ 3rd day ---------- H. C. JOHNSON, found asphyxiated in his home at Oklahoma City. ------ H. G. SNYDER, who began work with the Frisco as a clerk at Enid 26 years ago, made traffic manager with headquarters at Oklahoma City. ------ James HEDLEY, 78, who aided in the original Oklahoma-Indian survey in 1871, died. ------- Two unidentified bandits robbed the Canadian Valley bank at Asher, getting $2,500 in loot. Cashier W. M. HAMPTON and bookeeper Carl COCHRAN were kidnapped by the robbers, taken to a deep woods and released uninjured. J. A. HUFF, a Burns detective, armed, was in the bank when it was robbed. ************************************************************ 4th day ----------- Report recieved of death at Yukon of T. J. TAYLOR, 66, wealthy farmer. ************************************************************ 5th day ------------- Miss Josephine CROKER of Oklahoma City named deputy United States Marshal to succeed Miss Era BROTHERTON, resigned. ************************************************************ 6th day ---------- Twin boys, 18 months old, and a girl three weeks old, children of Ben CALES and Alberta WILKES burned to death in CALES' home. ---------- John L SPRINGSTON, 84, pioneer Tulsa citizen, died. ---------- V. M LOCKE, 85, Pioneer and father of Victor LOCKE Jr., former superintendent of the five civilized tribes, died at Antlers. ************************************************************ 7th day ---------- George A HENSHAW Jr., formerly of Oklahoma City who has lately sold his vast west Texas oil holdings for $3,000,000 chartered an airplane and jazz band at San Francisco and flew to Reno with Miss Caledonia Clay PULLIAN to be married. ------- Word recieved in Oklahoma City of the death, Janurary 3, of Thomas P. BRAIDWOOD, 80, city clerk at Beaver City. He was one of the first surveyors of the group of men who endeavored to create "Cimmarron Territory" from that region now embracing Texas, Beaver, & Cimmarron Counties. When the president in 1890 signed the bill creating Oklahoma territory, he interpolated that the government should include the Oklahoma panhandle, long known as "no man's land." -------- Prof. A. C. BAER, head of the department of dairy husbanding at Oklahoma A. & M college at Stillwater, died. He was nationally known in the dairy industry. His body was taken to Milwaukee for interrment. --------- Harry D. HENRY, 52, state senator from Greer and Harmon counties, died at his home in Mangum. ************************************************************ 8th day ------------- Mrs. Ida M LEWIS, former national officer of the Eastern Star, died. ------- Appointment of Ed S. VAUGHT as federal judge of the western district of Oklahoma confirmed by United States Senate. --------- Frank LOOSEN, 58, pioneer banker at Okarche, died. ************************************************************ 9th day -------- A. J. PETERS of Okmulgee, expert in oil finances, became vice-president of Security National bank at Oklahoma City. ------- Capt. W. G. B. HINDS, 84, Confederate army veteran, died at his home in Oklahoma City. -------- T. A. BLALOCK, 58, of Madill, Democratic presidential elector, 1928, died in hospital at Sherman, Texas, as a result of an automobile accident. -------- Announced that the estate of W. J. PETTEE, pioneer resident and business man of Oklahoma City who died at Los Angeles, Calf. Dec. 24th, exceeded $237,000 of which amount, the widow recieved $137,000. ************************************************************ 10th day ------- Will of Charles S. PECARE, Tulsa banker who died at Christmas, left $5,000 for the establishment of an open air playground in the Ozark mountains for Tulsa children, establishment of the camp is to be carried out by the Salvation Army. ------- Funeral held at Anadarko of C. ALDRICH, 85, who committed suicide at his home. ************************************************************ 11th day ----------- William ROWCLIFF, veteran travelling salesman, died in his home at Oklahoma City. -------- F. C. WARREN, 40, and J. J. WALKER, 40, insurance salesmen of Sapulpa killed when their automobile was was hit at Tulsa by a Midland Valley freight train. ------- Harland SHIDELER and Miss Ruth PAYNTER, both of Blackwell, divulge the fact that they were married Dec 28, 1927 at Midland Ks. -------- Mrs. Sam BANKS, wife of the sheriff-elect of Jackson county, killed when the automobile in which she and her husband were riding after attending a funeral went into a ditch as they were passing another motor vehicle. ------- Mrs. Walter E. WRIGHT, Tulsa society woman, invited to act as judge at the annual horse show at Denver. She is the first woman ever to invade the judge's ring at the national horse show. ------- Obsequeties held at Nowata for H. C. CAMPBELL, 74, millionaire oil man and ranchman. ************************************************************ 12th day ------- Death reported of Dr. T. A. BLAYLOCK, Madill, pioneer physician. ------- Obsequeties held at Durant of W. M. WARMACK, deputy grand lecturer for Oklahoma Masons, who died in Oklahoma city Jan 10. ************************************************************ 13th day ------- Capt. J. C. THOMPSON, 41, Oklahoma University football star in 1911 and 1912, deputy warden at the state penitentiary at McAlester during Gov. M. E. TRAPP'S administration, died at his home in Tulsa. He served overseas during the World War. ------- R. L. STEWART, pioneer cattleman of Oklahoma, 64, died at Tishomingo. -------- News recieved in Oklahoma city of the death at Grenoble, France of Mrs. John ALLEY, wife of the head of the government dept of Oklahoma City University. ************************************************************ 14th day -------- Funeral services at Oklahoma city for W. T. LAWRENCE, 76, pioneer contractor. -------- O C WYBRANT named as Woodward county district judge. -------- Winifred D. MCCAIN, nurse, sued Charles B. LUTZ, 25, Oklahoma City business man, for $50,000 in a breach of promise suit. --------- John Guy FRIAR, formerly of Stigler, appointed national athletic director in Chile, S. A. ************************************************************ 15th day -------- Ellen G. CLAYPOOL, 35, former wife of a Missouri Banker, pleaded guilty in district court at Tulsa to two charges of passing forged checks. ------- Mrs. Anna Morris-COATE, 90, died at Ponca City. She was a pioneer. Her husband, who died two years before her passing, was a descendant of Marmaduke COATE, who came over with William PENN. ************************************************************ 16th day ------- As a result of an automobile accident R. H. PARHAM, executive of the Norman Transcript, died. ------ G. W. SCHELGEL, 83, state treasurer of the I.O.O.F., Chandler OK, died at an Oklahoma City hospital. ------ Aldin JAMES, 35, boilermaker at Okmulgee, killed in an automobile accident. ************************************************************ 17th day ------- Bob WHITE, 18, and Wash WHITE, 21, were killed in an automobile accident at Red Oak, which followed the wrecking of a Rock Island Train. ------- Collin EBREY, 20, returned to California to face charges of burglarizing the Oklahoma State Bank at Enid, Aug 1, 1926. Loot in the burglary included $1,200 in silver, $1,200 in negotiable bonds, and $16,000 in non-negotiable securities, together with silverware, jewelry and other valuables. ------- Mrs. Dan WELTY, 42, wife of prominent Oklahoma City attorney, died. ---------- Walter BILLINGSLEY, former county attorney of Seminole, cleared of all charges of conspiracy against the county. -------- Mrs. Sarah BURKE, 84, niece of Henry CLAY, died at Shawnee. ************************************************************ 18th day ------ J. W. MANSELL, state pardon and parole attorney, died suddenly at his home in Oklahoma City. ************************************************************ 19th day ------ W. S. KEY, former warden of the state penitentiary, assaulted & battered Clem L. BUTLER, former deputy in the state examiner & inspector's office in the lobby of the Huckins Hotel. He pleaded guilty in court & was fined $25. KEY stated later that the prison charges could be refuted. [Transcribers note: Clem Butler had released a report from his office filled with wrong-doings at the penitentiary, which would eventually lead to the impeachment of Governor Johnston of Oklahoma, later in the year.] ************************************************************ 20th day -------- George B. KEELER, 78, pioneer of the Indian Territory as well as one of the founders of Bartlesville, died in the Maire Hotel in the latter place. He was born at Hennepin, Ill., Feb 7, 1850. In 1871 with Jake BARTLES and William JOHNSTONE, founded a trading post at the "best ford across the caney river". and gave it the name of Bartlesville. The Osage Nation was surveyed that year. To the indians KEELER was known as "Little Horse". ************************************************************ 21st day ------- Senate suspends Governor JOHNSTON by a vote of 38-5 and W. J. HOLLOWAY became acting Governor during the period the impeachment trial is scheduled. -------- Winning the referee's over Angus SNYDER of Kansas in a ten round battle at Oklahoma City, Babe HUNT of Ponca City slashed his way to undisputed possession of the southwest's heavyweight championship. SNYDER won the second, fifth and eighth rounds. ************************************************************ 22nd day -------- Ira MONETT, 78, who helped plat the University of Oklahoma addition, died at Norman. He was the father of Dr. V. E. MONNETT, head of the University geology school. --------- Marsh CORGAN, sheriff at Wagoner, appointed deputy US Marshal to suceed A. R. COTTLE, removed to Tulsa. -------- Jemima, wife of Miller TIGER, wealthy Creek Indian at Eufala, granted a divorce and alimony totally $30,000. -------- Margurette GRIFFIN, 13, of Oklahoma City, announced not a day out of school in 9 years, and only 3 times late. ************************************************************ 23rd day --------- William Harvey BARNES, pioneer oil operator at Bartlesville, found dead in a hotel room at Claremore. --------- Joel NAIL, 79, pioneer who died the twentieth at his home near Kenefick, brought many of the fine horses from Kentucky to Oklahoma, and to retain them built the first wire fences in Indian Territory. In middle age he was one of the wealthiest men in Choctaw Nation. --------- By a vote of 59-38 the Oklahoma House voted impeachment of Governor JOHNSTON for calling out the guard to disperse legislature in 1927. ************************************************************ 25th day ------ L.D. FOWLER, 67, veteran police officer, died at his home in Oklahoma City. He was a mechanical genius and invented many valuable devices. -------- Clarence RISDON, 78, pioneer of Noble county, died at Perry. ************************************************************ 26th day --------- Miss Faye CANTRELL, Tulsa radio "blues" singer, gets a year's contract from Anatole FRIEDLAND, New York's theatrical producer. ------- Mrs. O. O. HAMMONDS, secretary to Governor JOHNSTON, is summoned to testify before the legislative impeachment committee. --------- After a three year fight in the courts, W. K. HALE, cattleman of the Osage Hills, convicted of the murder of Henry ROAN, Osage Indian, and sentenced to a life term at penitentiary. ************************************************************ 27th day ------ Alice STEINHOLTZ, 14 year old high school girl at Okmulgee. reveals talent in poetry, writing both in English and French. -------- Paul LOCKE of Bartlesville held up and fatally shot a young man who proved to be his school chum, Forester BENNETT. LOCKE said he was broke and needed money. BENNETT had 40 cents on his person. ---------- Max L. CUNNINGHAM, first Oklahoma highway engineer, appointed highway engineer of Louisiana. -------- Miss Gladys WHITE, Oklahoma City, killed in automobile accident in Los Angeles, Calf. ************************************************************ 29th day ------- Ollie R. FLEMING, 29, and Mrs BRASHIER, 18, were found dead from monoxide gas at a Holdenville Hotel. The hotel owner said the man and woman had registered as E. R. BROWN and wife of Holdenville. ------------ A. L. FARMER chosen president of Tulsa Chamber of Commerce to succeed W G SKELLY. ************************************************************ 30th day ------- Mrs. L. K. SUMMERFIELD bound, gagged and robbed of $8,000 in a Tulsa hotel. -------- E. T. PRINCE, pioneer merchant at El Reno, died. -------- Paul G. LIEBMAN named as El Reno's most useful citizen. --------- Homer BISHOP, county attorney of Seminole county, aquitted of attempt to defraud the county. W. C. LEWIS, assistant attorney general was a witness for BISHOP. |
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