The Oklahoma Almanac, 1930
IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE YEAR IN OKLAHOMA, 1929.
printed by The Oklahoma Publishing company.
Contributed by Nalora Burns vashti@theshop.net

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JULY

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Theodore T. BARNHILL, oldest veteran in a Confederate Soldiers Home at Ardmore, died.

Charles WEST, Tulsa attorney, filed suit in Sapulpa for $4,000,000 for Indians claiming to be the Heirs of Thomas AIKENS, Creek Indian. The papers filed allege that the late Charles PAGE, millionaire, admitted he had used bribery in a former court procedure in dealing with the Aikens heirship.

2                                                                                                  
John RAMSEY, convicted of the murder of Henry ROAN--one of several mysterious slayings of Indians in Osage county-- gets new hearing, as case reversed by United States court of appeals at St. Paul. W. K. HALE, wealthy Osage county ranchman, accused of being instigator of several of the killings is in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth doing time.

3                                                                                                  
Col. Charles A. and Mrs. LINDBERGH spend the day in Waynoka, Oklahoma. Dalton A. THOMPSON, 58 years old, miner at Pitcher, dies of heat stroke.

Corinne KING, 9 years old, and Carter KING, 6 years old, Okemah, wonderful child dancers, leave for Los Angeles to fill theatre engagements and to study dancing under famous teacher.

Bryan DICKERSON, 14 years old, Perry, in mask, high boots and two toy pistols attempts to hold up occupants of a pool hall. He recieved a suspended sentence and was paroled to a local attorney.

4                                                                                                  
William H. MURRAY (Alfalfa Bill) president of Oklahoma's constitutional convention, advised friends he has sold his colony in Bolivia and is returning to Oklahoma.

J. A. DEIGNAN, 50, prominent Oklahoma City automobile dealer, died. He established the first Ford organization in Oklahoma.

In a prohibition enforcement raid on his farm near Tecumseh, James HARRIS, 35 years old, was killed and his brother-in-law, Oscar LOWERY, 34 years old, fatally injured. In a deathbed statement, James HARRIS said he was shot by Jeff HARRIS, prohibition agent. Others in the raiding party were W.W. THOMASON, Tom LITTLE, and John D. WILLIAMS, these latter were not arrested.

At Wilson, J. D. PARKER, 12 years old, was struck over the heart by a fouled ball and instantly killed.

5                                                                                                    
Dr. William G. LEMMON, 42 years old, prominent Tulsa physician ends life with automatic revolver in his home.

6                                                                                        
Announced that William ALSTON at Wagoner has a portrait of a maternal ancestor done by Thomas SULLY, painter of portraits of Washington, Decatur, Jefferson and other prominent colonials.

7                                                                                                  
Miss Alice HUNT of Okemah, assistant secretary of Senator A.H. VANDENBERG of Michigan, injured when hit by a taxi cab in Washington D.C.

Allen BUSBY, 47 years old, of Allen, killed in plunge of his car down a 40 foot embankment near Holdenville.

8                                                                                                
Joel A. MOORE, 50 years old, advertising manager for Kerr Dry Goods Co. died following an appenicites operation.

10
 J. L. ADAMSON, Blackwell, Oklahoma, files suit in Wichita, Kansas, against J. B. YOUNT, oil man, for heart balm in the amount of $195,000 claiming alienation of affections of Adamson's bride of six months.

Obsequeties of James KEYS, pioneering mining man, held at Miami.

11
Clyde FARRAR and Elmer WINDHAM, each 14 years old, Oklahoma City School boys jailed after Elmer admitted taking $730 from the First National Bank at Edmond.

Mrs. Harvey STAMPER, Oklahoma City, who less than a month previous was barely recieving a livelihood from rent, now enjoys an oil royalty of $250 a day.

12
Matt WOLF, 78 years old, pioneer cattleman of Davis, died in Oklahoma City Hospital. 13 State Criminal court of appeals reversed and remanded action of Cotton county district court in dismissing the state's arson charge against M. L. HARRIS, alleged to have burned his toll bridge.

Russell PARRISH, 18, Chickasha, sentenced to 15 months in United States penitentiary at Leavenworth on charge of driving stolen automobile, Chickasha to Detroit, accompanied by girl he intended to marry. The girl was sent back to her parents.

14
Miss Helen FRIEND and Adrian LINDSEY, head football coach of the University of Oklahoma, married at the brides home, Lawrence, Kansas.

15
Clem L. BUTLER, 59, former deputy state examiner and inspector, died at his home in Oklahoma city.

16
Layton MITCHELL, 29 years old, Pawhuska, announced as youngest police chief of the state.

17                                                                                                      
Joe ROCHET, found acting as town marshal of Wink, Texas, is returned to the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, whence he escaped in 1915 when serving a 12 year sentence on charge of joint robbery in Okfuskee County.

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Miss Viola VENTRIS, 21 years old, Oklahoma City, died as a result of a nose bleed following tooth extraction about a month previous.

19                                                                                                      
For alleged beating to death with a hoe handle of Stanley KELLEY, 16 years old, of Oklahoma City, warrant was issued for arrest of R. E. DAVIS, discharged guard at the Pauls Valley training school, a state reformatory institution. The boy's death was first announced by the officials as the result of sunstroke.

Forest BRAUN, 26 years old, Poteau, sets record of 100 hours continuous pipe organ playing.

The long-contested HICKMAN-WILLIS estate contest settled at Ardmore when Federal Judge R. L. WILLIAMS declared Lodie WILLIS and Louise SCOTT to be sole heirs in the Indian's estate.

21                                                                                                   
 Albert BRIGGS, 16, drowned in Woods Lake near stop No. 21 on the Oklahoma- El Reno Interurban line.

Mrs. Sarah Skeed HADLOCK, 89 years old who made the run into Oklahoma when it was opened to white settlement, and the widow of a Civil war veteran, died.

Martin L. MCBRAYER, 73 years old, plainsman who lived near the Texas border for 60 years and engaged in many Indian fights, died at Oklahoma City.

22                                                                                                      
John MANNING, 73, Braggs, died July 19. he was the last of the old time Cherokee Peace officers and alone in 1894 routed four members of the notorious COOK gang of bandits while they were robbing a store at Braggs, killing Sam MCDANIEL.

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L. BENNETT, pioneer resident of Grant County and for many years local Democratic leader, died here while celebrating his ninety-fourth birthday anniversary.

Obsequies of W. P. "Uncle Billy" JONES, 85 years old, at Chickasha, born at Bluefield Fort, Nacogdoches, Texas, April 14, 1844, he enlisted in the Confederate Army at 17, and fought in three battles--Bull Run, Atlanta and New Orleans. He was wounded at Atlanta. later he wore the blue uniform of the United States Army and fought as a cavalryman with Custer in the Oklahoma and Kansas Indian wars. He was for seven years sheriff at Okmulgee.

24                                                                                              
Frank GATZ, 33, Union City, shot by burglar when he responded to a burglar alarm from his store.

Joseph GRAHAM, 24 years old, assistant speaking professor in the department of public speaking, University of Oklahoma, while qualifying for his pilot's license at Oklahoma City, went into a tail spin at 3,000 feet and crashed to earth and death.

Arthur APPLEGATE, engraver at Muskogee, gets five year sentence in prison on pleading guilty to counterfeiting.

25                                                                                              
Word recieved at Oklahoma City of the death of the Right Rev. Monsignor Bernard MUTSAERS, one time vicar general and chancellor of the Roman Catholic church in Oklahoma, at his home in Tilberg, Holland.

27                                                                                           
Tommy SLOAN, 116 years old, Mulhall, died. He was born in Mourn Shore, County Down, Ireland, Dec. 25, 1812; came to the United States with his parents in 1826. As a boy he was a sailor. Later he was superintendent of bridges and buildings for the Northern Pacific railroad.

28                                                                                              
Two armed bandits in Lincoln Park, Oklahoma City, robbed Andy O'FARRELL, H. E. RUSSELL and ORAL HARDY, three Osage Indians of $1,010.

Miss Minnie SALISBURY, 86 years old, Norman, knew Abraham Lincoln in her girlhood, and he took a kindly interest in her. She said that Mrs. LINCOLN was "eccentric" and at one time said of the president: "That darned old fool will lose everything he's got."

29                                                                                             
Frank COCHRAN, 69 years old, pioneer peace officer, coming to old Oklahoma and Indian Territory in 1880 from Kansas, died. he formerly was cheif of police at Oklahoma City, under Mayor O. A. MITCHER, a deputy marshal and a deputy sheriff under Capt. C. H. DEFORD, first sheriff of Oklahoma County. Single-handed he routed bandits looting a bank in Bristow in Janurary 1901, after sustaining five buckshot wounds.

30                                                                                                        
Snowden PARLETTE, 50 years old, president of Oklahoma Book Co. found dead in the breakfast room of his home, Oklahoma City.

Court at Woodward gives life estate of C. N. CANFIELD to his widow. It includes 320 acres of land in Missouri and 160 acres potential oil land near Oklahoma City valued at about $500,000.

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W. A. WRIGHT, 60 years old, pioneer farmer of Custer County, while hunting coyote, accidentally killed himself.

Charles L. STANLEY, 60 years old, Tulsa, retired Frisco engineer, kidnapped, robbed and killed.

August

1                                                                                              
Edgar FESS, 81, pioneer Guthrie resident, dies. G. G. VINCENT, 80, old Chisholm trail driver and former Sheriff of McClain County, died in Stillwater.

2                                                                                            
 County Judge E. J. LINDLEY died and the body shipped to Knox, Ind. for interrment.

Pleading guilty to being drunk and carrying a weapon, night of July 20, when a car driven by his son, Hughes, struck and killed Johnson ANDREWS, Blanchard farmer, John GOBER, Norman, was fined $190 by W. J. WAITE, Oklahoma City Justice of the peace.

Miss Iris Eleanor JENKINS weds W. Lewis MILLER, Oklahoma City.

Jess PHILLIPS, for several years sheriff and eight years postmaster at Atoka, appointed assistant warden of the state penitentiary at McAlester.

Miss Mary V. MALLOY, Norman and Roland L. WILLIAMS wed at Oklahoma City.

Mrs. G. B. HESTER, 90, mother of the wife of former US Senator Robert L. OWEN, pioneer missionary and civil war nurse, died at Muskogee.

3                                                                                               
District Judge Sam HOOKER granted $10,000 bond to Hughes GOBER, 21, Norman, driver of the car that killed Johnson ANDREWS, Blanchard farmer.

Ralph FINKELSTEIN, 20, messenger for Oklahoma Rubber and metal company, Oklahoma City, held up by lone bandit and robbed of $500 in alley back of American National Bank.

W. R. BINKLEY, 82, pioneer Oklahoma grain dealer, founder of state grain association, dies in Oklahoma City.

John MITCHELL, 65, hit by an automobile, dies at McAlester. The auto was driven by Harry PLUMB, chain store manager.

George H. BRAUER, 66, pioneer resident and realty dealer, died at Oklahoma City. He came to America from Germany at age of 4.

Miss Catherine JANEWAY and Ward MCCANN wed at Oklahoma City.

Miss Arteola BILBREY and Warren E. DANIER[?], Tulsa, wed July 28 at Norman.

Miss Marie VAUGHAN and Joseph G. RALLS Jr. wed at Bowling Green, Ky., They reside at Atoka, OK.

Miss Violet MOORE, Arkansas City, Kansas, and Cecil L MURET, Oklahoma City, wed July 28 at the bride's home.

Announced that Miss Dixie CLEMENT, Oklahoma City and Jack J. COMPTON, Chickasha, were wed July 22.

Henry ANDERSON, 50 and Gene SARTIN, 21, killed by explosion of a boiler at the Cromwell Oil well, 18 miles northwest of Alva.

Miss Garland FRENCH and Victor R. DALHKE wed in Oklahoma City.

4                                                                                              
Joseph NOLL, 34, associate proffesor piano, University of Oklahoma, died.

Dr. W. Lee DAVIS, KINGSTON, indicted by recent federal grand jury on four charges of swearing to false affadavits in connection with war risk insurance claims.

Jimmy, 2 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. BROWN, drowned in goldfish pond of Shell petroleum camp near Roxana.

Joe THOMAS, killed in auto crash at El Reno.

Miss June WHITEFIELD and Earl H. BEILAND wed at Edmond.

5                                                                                                      
Miss Nelson J CARR, 80, died at Bartlesville, she was born near Grove in Deleware County.

Elden LOWE, 75, 20 years Indian Agent at Oklahoma, part of the time at Chickasha, died at Coffeyville, Kansas.

Mrs. Lydia M. CHASE, 92, who homesteaded a claim near Blackwell at the opening of the Cherokee strip, died at Blackwell.

Troy O. KILLOUGH, 18, Oklahoma City, appointed a cadet at Annapolis Naval Academy.

6                                                                                              
James HILDEBRAND, 70 years old, chief of the eastern emigrant Cherokees died at his home near Dennis on the Grand river. He was a noted interpreter.

Miss Mary Louise HARDIN and Virgil HURLY Jr. wed at Oklahoma City.

Mrs. Evelyn BLACK, 85, who came to Oklahoma and made the run for a home in 1889, died in Oklahoma City.

7                                                                                                
Justice DEUPREE, Oklahoma City held death fo Mrs. Elsie YOUNG, Seminole, hit by an automobile driven by Francis MILNER as "unavoidable accident."

Col. Zack MILLER, owner of 101 Ranch and wild west show, sued by wife for divorce, $300,000 alimony and possession of the children. They were married at Natchez, Miss. in Feburary 1921.

Rev. U. G. SELF, 97, pioneer eastern Oklahoma preacher, dies at Poteau.

9                                                                                                  
Miss Maurine HARVEY, Ada, wed Richard A BILLUPS Jr., Oklahoma City.

H. B. BULLEN, 64, Stillwater, pioneer 89'er retired lumber dealer and banker, died at La Junta, Colorado.

George ADAIR, 43, whose wife was killed seven years ago at her home in southern Craig County by Ellis RIDGE, 13, negro boy, reported to have committed suicide at Paris, Ky. He formerly was Captain of the University of Kentucky football team. He is said to have grieved continually over the death of his wife, who was beaten to death and her body thrown into a hog pen.

G.W. EVANS, 69, pioneer resident and promoter of his city, died at Okmulgee.

A falling pistol killed John IRWIN, county commissioner and pioneer oil man at Bartlesville.

10                                                                                          
Pressing and pulling at the tongue of F. R. EDWARDS, Wagoner, stopped a seemingly interminable case of hiccups.

Announcement recieved of wedding of Miss Florence Day ADAMS, formerly of Oklahoma City, to Carl Christian von MUNTHE av MORGENSTJERNE, a well known Norwegian Architect, at Salsburg, Austria.

Tom CHURCHILL, Olympic Decathelon star and all-around athlete at the University of Oklahoma, and Miss Marie WEEKS, society editor of the Pawhuska Daily Journal-Capitol, wed secretly at Bentonville, Ark.

11                                                                                                  
G. C. BURNS, 26, murdered in Oklahoma City and his body found on the north bank of the North Canadian river under the Walker Avenue viaduct, Oklahoma City.

Harry G. GRAVES, 24, drowned in Greenwood lake near Okmulgee, his home.

12                                                                                              
Henry H. HOWARD, age about 65, born in Lawrence county Ill., former territorial politician and prominent lawyer in Oklahoma City, later candidate for appointment as federal judge in New Mexico and still later divorce attorney at Reno, Nev., died on his farm near Sulphur.

Miss Esther GROSECLOSE, Warika and Rev. Henry J. DAMM of Norman wed.

13                                                                                                 
Ned GRITTS, police veteran of Tulsa, died at Tahlequah. Frank W. HEYDENREICH appointed guardian of Willie Williams HARJO, Wewoka, whose estate was valued at $10,000,000.

Miss Lucinda Catharine WOLLARD, Oklahoma City, weds Vernon THORNTON, Madison, Kansas.

14                                                                                                  
E. A. HUMPHREY, 60, died at Clinton.

15                                                                                                
Miss Helen Harriet MEISTER weds Glenwood D. ARBUCKLE in Oklahoma City.

Kay County authorities, following the arrest of Attorney F. C. HYDE, Ponca City, allege latter plotted to kidnap and poison Samuel C. COLLINS, wealthy Ponca City resident. HYDE formerly was COLLIN's private secretary.

16                                                                                                    
H. P. TRUDGEON, 71, prominent Mason, lumberman and political leader, native of Victoria, Ontario, Canada, died at his home in Oklahoma City. He was an Oklahoma 89'er.

Alexander W MCKEAND, former secretary of the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, died at Atlanta, Ga., where he was executive director of the Georgia Automobile association.

17                                                                                            
 Russell GIBSON, suspect in connection with recent $75,000 robbery of bank messenger in Oklahoma City, saws through iron bars, brushes aside M. R. GALLION, jailor, and escapes from the Oklahoma City jail.

Miss Flora KINCAID, Braman, and Robert A. BROWN, Oklahoma City, wed.

Miss Dorothy Allen FULLER and Dr. Kirtland G. PARKS, the latter of Pittsburg, Kansas, wed at Oklahoma City.

18                                                                                              
James Edward BERRY Jr., 16, eagle scout of Stillwater, killed in fall from a cliff at Ilfracombe, England.

Thirteen persons killed and several others injured when Frisco passenger train No. 118 ran into an open switch on the outskirts of Henryetta.

Miss Elizabeth Fay LONG and Thomas GODFREY wed at Norman.

Miss Doxiene Ruth SAUNDERS and George W. HICKMAN, New York City, wed at the home of the bride's sister in Oklahoma City.

19                                                                                            
William SMITH, 24, killed in gun fight with officers at Oklahoma City, having barracaded himself in a house at sixty-fourth street and Shartel Avenue. The dead man had recently arrived from Fort Cobb. Joe VICKERS, 29, was wounded.

20                                                                                                
Mrs. Harry T. MCWILLIAMS, Oklahoma City, died at Clayton, N.M. from shock as a result of an automobile accident.

G. A. DEMOSS, deputy U.S. Marshal, Tulsa, shot and killed Charles JENKINS, 35 miles southeast of Kansas, Oklahoma, as the latter attempted to escape when the officers were reading a warrant to him. He was wanted on a liquor charge.

Cyrus P. GREEN, 84, former Oklahoma Department commander, D.A.R., died at Enid.

22                                                                                          
Jackson GILL, 37, for eight years U.S. commissioner at McAlester, was killed in an automobile accident at Red Oak.

Maj. Gordon W. LILLIE (Pawnee Bill) purchased ranch and buffalo herd (22 animals) of Charles I. PUMROY.

23                                                                                                
Mrs. James JENNINGS and baby daughter, Muskogee, killed when K. O. & G. motor car hit automobile in which they were riding hit at a grade crossing near Miami.

Miss Elizabeth WORTHEN, Weston, Mass, weds Horace A. TREAT, Oklahoma City.

Estate of late W.H.P. TRUDGEON, Oklahoma City, placed at $240,000.

Mrs. Beulah CROKER, Indian, widow of the late Tammany cheiftain, given verdict for $1,670,000 representing purchase price and interest on lands worth $7,000,000 which CROKER owned at Palm Beach. She formerly was Beulah EDMONTON of Pryor, Oklahoma.

24                                                                                                
Miss Alpha A. JONES and Dr. Hadley C. BROWN wed at El Reno.

25                                                                                                      
Miss Vina FISHER, 55, killed in automobile accident near Harrah.

Betty Jo SMITH, 4, killed by Frisco train in Oklahoma City.

George W. PURDUE, 35, principal of Guthrie High school, died at Halstead, Kansas.

Miss Thelma MCANALLY, Tulsa, weds Jeane H. SISSON, postmaster at Mounds.

25                                                                                              
"Uncle" Ben CLAY, ten years watchman at Oklahoma City university, died in a hospital at Oklahoma City, he came to Oklahoma in 1889, and had been sheriff of Cleveland County and chief of police of Norman.

27                                                                                            
William P. FORTSON, owner of wealth-producing tract in Oklahoma City oil field, dies.

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Alton PACKARD, 59, distinguished artist, lecturer, musician, and news writer, died at his home in Oklahoma City. He was a member of the Chicago Press club and International Lyceum association.

Jim DEUPREE, former saloon-keeper, fatally shoots Lew WATSON, 35, water well drilling contractor, in a dungeon cafe at 12 1/2 West Grand Ave. Oklahoma City, and surrenders at police station.

Information from Senator THOMAS in Washington that amnesia victim held in France for desertion and giving name of "O'Brien" and saying he came from Oklahoma, is Merlin O. PRITCHARD, formerly of Yale, Oklahoma, brother of Mrs. Helen HALL, Cushing, who enlisted in the army in 1917, and sailed for France from Hoboken and later was reported killed in action.

After rescuing two girls, after his motor boat had overturned in Swatek lake, Oklahoma City, James SHOCK, 23, drowned, as did Charline ANDERSON.

At Tulsa, Dick GREGG, notorious southwestern outlaw, was killed in a gun battle in which two officers, Ross DARROW and Link BOWLINE were slain.

Mrs. Josephine PARKER, 60, Oklahoma City, found dead in hotel at Rochester, N.Y. Henry W. DAVIS, 35, Baptist Missionary preacher, wanted at Erick, Beckham County on a starutory charge, arrested at San Jose, California.

30                                                                                               
Joe DURANT Jr. 21, Pond Creek, member of crew of the San Juan, believed to have gone down with that vessel 55 miles south of San Francisco, August 30.

31                                                                                                  
Dr. Charles D. COIL, 61, dentist, died at his home in Oklahoma City. Mrs. J. B. TITUS, 63, hit by automobile, she died the next day.

Miss Ruth BURFORD, Watonga, and R. T. BATTEY, Oklahoma City, wed.

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