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| Transcribed and submitted by Nalora Burns ************************************************************ MARCH ------ 1 ------ Tunstall MORRIS, 52, formerly a prominent business man in Oklahoma City, reported as having died Feb. 27th at Long Beach, Calif. Since 1909 he had been one of the owners of the COLLINS-DEITZ-MORRIS Co. Was formerly president of the Oklahoma Wholesale Grocers association and also the Oklahoma City Golf and Country club. ************************************************************ 2 ------ Hubert KNICKERBOCKER of Oklahoma City, New York Evening Post correspondent at Berlin, Germany, gives police information causing arrest of Vladimir ORLOFF, former Russian counselor under the late Czar NICHOLAS, and Michael SUMAROKOV, former employee of the soviet Ukranian mission in Berlin, alleged to have forged the notorious documents purporting to show United States senators BORAH and NORRIS had recieved bribes from the soviet government. ************************************************************ 3 ------ Mr. and Mrs. J A HEDGE 219 1/2 Harrison Ave, Oklahoma City, celebrate the seventy first anniversary of their wedding. ------ Major Gordon W. LILLIE, "Pawnee Bill" and 51 indians--ten of the members of the Kaw tribe, of which Vice President Charles CURTIS is a blood member--participated in the inauguration exercises at Washington. ************************************************************ 4 ------ Al J. PALMER, formerly of Neil O'BRIAN's and Al FIELD's minstrels, but for several years bandman and teacher in Oklahoma City, arranges to return to minstrelry with the company of his brother, Don PALMER's minstrels. ------ Mrs. Mike PESHEK, 66, Oklahoma City pioneer of 1889, died. ------ William G. LACKEY, 57, prominent oil man and former vice president of the MARLAND oil company, died. ************************************************************ 5 ------ David BRINDLE, 50, perhaps the last of the Indian traders in this region, died at Norman. ------ H. A. WILLIAMSON, Grand Knight of the Oklahoma Knights of Columbus, died in Oklahoma City. ------ David GREEN, 68, who opened a grocery store in Oklahoma City on the day of the "run" in 1889, died in Guthrie. ------ Mrs. H. P. KING, 83, who came to Oklahoma in 1890 with her husband and settle in Mulhall, died at Perry. ************************************************************ 6 ------ Jury in distric court, Oklahoma City, acquits Mrs. Lelah SPENCER of the charge of murdering her husband. ------ Women's Club of Antlers give party in honor of Mrs. Sarah Starn ELLIS, Oklahoma City chapter of Daughters of the Revolution, sent her a birthday cake with the legend "Real Daughter". She was born in Bolivar, Tenn., in 1833. In 1850 she married Issac ELLIS, and they made their home first in Arkansas and then in the Indian Territory. Her eldest son was the late Bill ELLIS, former United States marshal and ranchman. ------ Capt. Ira C. BAKER, native son of Oklahoma who recently made inter-ocean flight from Pacific to Atlantic, recieve warm welcomes at Oklahoma City. ------ During the convention of Utilities associations at Oklahoma City, rewards for meritorious service were given to J.W. CAMPBELL and J. S. HENDERSON, Oklahoma Gas and Electric employees at Enid, who saved the life of a man overcome by gas. ------ Leon STROTHER, poor Nebraska boy, wanting an education in college, starts to find his sister. Finally he learns she is worth $5,000,000 from the bequest of an oil well by O. D. STROTHER of Seminole who died three years ago. He was shining shoes in a barber shop when he started on his quest and his 16 year old sister, Louise, was visiting the Riviera. ************************************************************ 8 ------ Roy NICHOLS at Cordell acquitted of charge of murdering his father-in-law, John JORDAN, who was shot and killed at the NICHOL's home at Canute, Dec 23, 1928. NICHOL's pleaded self-defense, admitting the killing. ------ F. L. WEEMS, killed, and Ralph KEITH wounded, in robbing the Capital Lunch Stand, 507 East 23rd St., Oklahoma City, The shooting was done by T. F. SPEARS, operator of the stand. ************************************************************ 9 ------ At Wewoka, Sam LOCKHART, brother of Dave LOCKHART, killed at Harrison, Ark. in 1926, was found guilty of robbery with firearms and sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary. ------ Eight tribes of indians represented at grief meeting of red men over the recent death of their friend, George MILLER at Ponca City. ************************************************************ 10 ------ Owing to the departure of Gov. W. J HOLLOWAY from the state, Senator C.S. STORMS, of Waurika became chief executive pro tem. ------ B. J. KAUFMAN, veteran Oklahoma City merchant died. ------ For extraordinary heroism in action at Vacqueville, France, May 12, 1918, award of the distinguished service cross was made posthumously to Dick B. BREEDING of the 167th Infantry, 42nd division, whose home at the time of his appointment was Holdenville. ------ Miss Jo BURNSIDE of Sulphur and Harold Davis JENKINS of Norman were married. ------ Alex E. RITCHEY, 64, former postmaster died at Caddo. ------ Andrew J. CLIFTON, 23, attempting to flee jail at Pauls Valley, falls four stories and is killed. ************************************************************ 11 ------ Milas LASATER, 57, president of the Wichita Kansas federal land bank, formerly prominent cattleman and a member of the Oklahoma Constitutional convention in 1906, died and later was buried at his old home in Pauls Valley. ------ Menter G. BAKER, 7 years an employee of the Veterans' bureau, named regional adjudication officer to suceed P. MONCURE, transferred to the central office, Washington, D.C. ------ Mr. and Mrs. J. T. MARTIN of Ponca City celebrate their sixty-fourth wedding anniversary. He is 85, she is 80. ************************************************************ 12 ------ Pat HURLEY, Tulsa, named as assistant secretary of war. ************************************************************ 13 ------ Laurence MANTOOTH elected captain of the University of Oklahoma wrestling squad. ------ Louis BIBLE, former Oklahoma automobile mechanic, killed on Daytona beach, Fla trying to beat previous automobile speed record. ------ Arthur H. GESSLER, of Oklahoma City, lately U.S. minister at Guatemala, made Doctor of Law of Lincoln Memorial University at Cumberland Gap, Tenn. ************************************************************ 14 ------ Dr. G. M. CLIFTON and Dr. Marvin E. STOUT, Norman surgeons, after x-ray removed a 25-cent coin from the stomach of J. L. MASSEY. He had carried the money in his stomach 28 years. When 9 years old he swallowed the quarter, a dime and a nickel. The dime and nickel were not found. ************************************************************ 15 ------ The Rev. John L. BRANSETER, 91, pioneer Methodist pastor of Oklahoma City, died at Arcadia, Fla. ************************************************************ 18 ------ Mrs. Anna M. IMLAY, daugther of Mrs. Sonora BODINE, who lived on the BODINE farm, now Bodine City, was buried. She died March 15. ------ ** Dr. John A. BEUCLER, 85, died in Oklahoma City. His father and three sons fought through the civil war in the third Iowa Cavalry. ------ Moving here from the Kentucky tobacco belt, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Fox and 13 children located in LeFlore county, last year planted 100 acres of cotton. (A crop they had never seen before) and made a net profit of $2,200. ************************************************************ 19 ------ Te Ata THOMPSON of Tishomingo, former studen in Oklahoma's Womens college, appears in Belasco's production, "Mimi" with Leonore ULRIC, on Broadway. ------ Miss Gether WAGNER, Oklahoma City, voted "most representative girl" at Oklahoma College for Women. ************************************************************ 20 ------ The body of Raymond JACKSON, negro-indian reputed owner of oil properties worth $1,000,000 who was killed in a train wreck near Blue Mountain Arkansas, Nov 7, 1921, while riding the rods as a hobo, brought back to Wewoka, Okla. for interment. ************************************************************ 21 ------ E. T. SMITH, Hollis, elected president of the Northern Texas and Southwestern Oklahoma Peace officer's association. ------ Superior court at Okmulgee gives verdict awarding Jasper BRISCOE, attorney, $10,000 damages from Rev. W. J. BOSTROM, for alleged alienation of affections of BRISCOE's wife. ************************************************************ 24 ------ J. C. WEST, 87, first deputy United states marshal in eastern Oklahoma and an Indian policeman for many years, died at Porum. ************************************************************ 25 ------ Dr. H. E. VAN HORN, pastor University Place Christian Church of Oklahoma City died at Des Moines, Iowa, his former home. ------ Mrs. J. M. CORNELIUS of Antlers died. She was the mother of of the late Lieut. W. L. CORNELIUS, one of the famous army "Three Musketeers" of aviation, who was killed in a plane crash in Sept. 1928. ------ John T. SIMPSON, 37, wholesale grocer at Coalgate, mysteriously shot and killed in his office. About three years before he was kidnapped by Emmett BALES, notorious convict, and held several hours along with his family, until BALES was shot and killed by a deputy sheriff. At the point of a gun SIMPSON had been forced to sign a check for $15,000 in BALES' favor. BALES had been dissatisfied with the prorata division of funds when a co-operative store at Tupelo, in which both were interested, burned. ************************************************************ 26 ------ George COURTNEY, 23, contender for the middleweight boxing title, and Miss Virginia HOWARD, 21, a featured singer in Ziegfield's midnight follies, both Oklahomans, married at Greenwich, Conn. ------ A. W. WHITTEN, Birmingham. Ala, filed suit against Eugene ARNETT, known as "The Prophet" in connection with his work at Putnam City, a suburb of Oklahoma City. WHITTEN asked $100,000 solace for a letter which is said by WHITTEN to represent him as "the greatest egoist the Lord has ever allowed to live." ************************************************************ 28 ------ Ika's fancy, a mature jersey cow owned by A. W. ENDRICKSON, Perry, won State championship for cows over 12 years old. ------ F. R. BUSKIRK, Rock Island train dispatcher, El Reno, aged 70, retires after 56 years railway service, begun with the Michigan Central at Detroit as a telegraph messenger. ------ Charles F. MARTIN, president of Ponca City board of education and one time vice-president of the Marland Oil Co. in charge of the land department, died. ************************************************************ 29 ------ John BROGAN, 86, pioneer of Oklahoma in 1889, died. ------ F. T. CRAWFORD, with a record of two former convictions, for violation of liquor laws, was fined $1,000 and sentenced to one year in jail upon pleading guilty before Judge E. S. VAUGHT. ************************************************************ 30 ------ Betty SCHUMAN, held to be the common law wife of W. E. MCKALLIP, wealthy Okmulgee oil man, given $41,000 in settlement out of court in case in which MCKALLIP's daughter, Edith, presented a purported will in which the SCHUMAN was bequeathed $9,000 to be paid at the rate of $30 a month. The daughter claimed Miss SCHUMAN was the house maid and housekeeper and no more. MCKALLIP died in New York City, Oct. 31, 1927. ************************************************************ 31 ------ Miss Dorothy MCNATT, Oklahoma City, and Jack FRANCE, Lawton, married at the First Methodist Episcopal church, Oklahoma City. ------ Maj. A. G. WINNINGHAM, 85, color-bearer trans-Mississippi Dept. U. C. V., buried at McAlester. He was with the Army of Northern Virginia in every engagement from the second battle of Bull Run. He served under both General Lee and General Jackson. ------ Their motor boat overturning in the swollen current of the Arkansas River near Muskogee, John D. ROCKEFELLER, high school athlete and distant relative of the Standard Oil Magnate, gave his life to save his companion Dale DECAMP, who could not swim. **Tuesday, March 19, 1929 The Daily Oklahoman PIONEER STATE DOCTOR IS DEAD Services Will Be Today For Dr. John A. [sic] Beucher [sic], 85 Years Old. Dr. John A. [sic] Beucler [sic], a physician and surgeon of the old school, who is dead here after having spent an eventful life of 85 years, will be buried Tuesday afternoon in Fairlawn. Services will be in the First Presbyterian church at 2 o'clock, by Dr. Samuel L. Gibson with Rev. S.L. Hogan of Apache, Okla., assisting. Military honors will be accorded Doctor Beucler and present at the funeral will be Frederick Beucler, 90 years old, and sole survivor of a quartet composed of father and three sons who left Keokuk, Iowa, in '61 with the Third Iowa cavalry to fight through the CivilWar, in the same company. Louis, middle brother, died two years ago when 85 years old. Doctor Beucler's wife, eight children, 15 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren survive, as do three sisters, all between 70 and 80 years old. He was married twice and the father of nine children. One[Mae] died in 1918. Beucler, born at Cincinnati, was taken overland in a covered wagon by his parents, who settled in Iowa. He graduated from the only medical and surgical college west of the Mississippi at that time, and in 1889 [sic] came to Oklahoma, settling in Apache, where he continued to practice until last year. He retired and removed to Oklahoma City to be with his elder brother and a daughter at 1144 North Pennsylvania avenue, where he died Saturday [March 16]. Doctor Beucler formerly was active in Masonic and Odd Fellow work. Surviving children are Mrs. Roy Randall, Mrs. A.L. Levite, and Mrs. I.N. Keester of Oklahoma City; Mrs. Charles Powell, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Mrs. William Blanchett [sic], San Antonio; Mrs. Edward Thompson, El Reno; John H. [sic] Beucler, Jr., Dewar; and Mrs. T.C. Hays, Canton, Illinois. The three surviving sisters are Mrs. Elizabeth Gray, Pratt, Kan.; Mrs. Addie Hyde, San Gabriel, Calif., and Mrs. William Harrell [sic], Alameda, Calif. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes: 1. Dr. John Henry Beucler, M.D. 2. Moved to Apache, Oklahoma between 1898-1901. 3. Mrs. William Blanchet 4. Mrs. William Harrel Submitted By: Dr. Stephen Brian Hodson, GGG grandson of Dr. J.H. Beucler |
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