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1906 Chicasaw Enterprise
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Chickasaw Enterprise, Pauls Valley, Chickasaw Nation, IT, Thursday, July 05, 1906

For Criminal Assault on Miss Mary Robinson Friday Evening Near Womack - Hanging followed by burning. A mob of nearly five hundred was present at the time of execution. The first assault ever committed by a negro on a white lady in this country took place near Womack about 25 miles northwest of here Friday evening. The victim was Miss Mary Robinson, daughter of Ira Robinson, a farmer living near Womack. Miss Robinson had started on a visit to some relatives about a mile distant and was nearing her destination when the brute appeared and as the frightened girl started to run he seized and over powered her. The news soon spread through the neighborhood and a mob was soon in hot persuit. A close watch was kept over all avenues of escape during the night and by Saturday morning something like 500 men and boys were on the trail. The persuit was kept up until Saturday night about 9 o'clock when the almost exhausted negro was surrounded in a thicket where he surrendered without resistance. He was then taken to the residence of Mr. Robinson and identified by his victim and at the same time confessed his crime. The mob then proceeded about a ile when they came to a large tree where the negro was hanged, after which the body was cut down and burned. Marshal Portor heard of the troubel and with several deputies started from Ardmore but did not reach the scene in time to prevent the lynching. A pecial Grand Jury was called at Chickasha Tuesday to investigate the case.

D.F. Baker and wife to E.W. Housley, 40A Sec 18 t2n r1e $1200
Ruth A. White and husband to S.W. Love 20A Sec 25 12n r5e $600
Olaf Anderson and wife to N.L. Hale, lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 blk 4 in Davis $150
Estella Rennie to W.B. Petersonn lot 2 in blk 98 in Pauls Valley $380
R.C. Caldwell and wife to Jas S. Coghill lots 1 & 2 blk 105 in the town of Lindsay $325
J.T. Blanton and wife, Lucille and Frank C. Robinson and wife, Beatrice to Robert T. Knox lot 1 in blk 91 in Wynnewood $300
E.G. Hightower and wife to Warren F. Stewart lot 5 blk 12 in Pauls Valley $650
Charles N. Hilton and wife to George F. Hicks lots 17, 18, 19 & 20 in blk 34 in Belleview add, to Sulphur
Carl A. Shumate and wife Margaret Shumate to C.C Henson lot 2 blk 18 in Pauls Valley $300
John Stewart and wife Maggie Stewart to J.L. Barnett 30A sec 3 t3n r1w $300
L.L. Moore and wife to J.A. Camp 10A Sec 9 10A 13 t4n rlw $520
Georgia C. Caffree and husband to J.A. Camp 40A Sec 22, 40A Sec 23, 20A Sec 24 t4n rlw, 110A Sec 3, 50A Sec 10 t4n rle
H.C. Miller of Ardmore to Roy C. Oakes 10A Sec 35 t1n r3e $1000
C.L. Williams and wife to J.T. Bruignton (?) 6 1/2 A Sec 21 t4n r2w $330

73 x 140 foot lot 7 room house on Chickasaw street on corner next to A.D. Bur store. Also 50 x 150 corner business lot next to J.W. Latimer property south front on Chickasaw street. See J.W. Latimer

The people of our community have just finished harvesting a fairly good crop of oats. Considerable damage was done to corn Friday night by a severe wind storm. Our cotton crop is fairly good considering so much cold backward weather. The Elmore Record is now making its appearance weekly and while the field is narrow and well occupied, we are ready to extend to Mr. Cowgill the right hand of encouragement and hope. The editorial in last weeks Enterprise warning the people of the necessity of sending our very best men as delegates to our constitutional convention should be heeded by every good citizen who has the welfare of our state government at heart. Yes, we want a constitution that will not only guarantee unto our citizens equal rights before the law but one that will make provisions for the protection of citizens in the enjoyment of those rights. Yes my friends our delegates, will be serving in a capacity where their actions will be of the gravest importance to the tax payers of the new state. Now I know of some little bullet headed lawyers who will offer their services as delegates, whom I know to a dead moral certainty have been in the services of the land grafters and railroads for the past several years. Now in case of their election, we all know many propositions of boodle and jobbery and individual benefit will be offered our delegation. Then as the Enterprise says, let us send our best men. Perhaps I should not have mentioned the lawyer as being disqualified, as one of them in Pauls Valley a few days since told me of my good friends from Elmore that their was not a farmer in the 17th district qualified for the position. I oftimes wonder what kind of meat those little disciples of Blackstone subsist upon that when they fold their arms in sleep all the intellect of this broad land indulges in a nap similar to that of Rip Van Winkle. Sometime since I made the assertion through he columns of the Enterprise that William Jennings Bryan would be our next president. The signs of the times certainly point to the correctness of my position. Several months ago Mr. Bryan left us following the trail of the setting sun and now we behold him approaching us form the east. Yes wise men of Democracy have seen his star in the east and are coming to worship him. W.Z. Moore who has been one of our best citizens for many years has gone to New Mexico. Will was one of our earliest and best friends in the I.T. and we regret to see him leave. Geo, Nichos(?) and John Bost have returned from New Mexico where they filed on land and will move when crops are gathered. They are two of our best farmers and we regret to see them leave us. With best wishes for the Enterprise and the great and glorious state of Oklahoma, I remain, N.B Spearman.