114 YEARS AGO Checotah Times

Friday, August 6, 1910

Struck by Fast Mail

On Tuesday afternoon, about two o’clock, Forney Horton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. L. Horoton, was struck by the Southbound Katy Fast Mail and almost instantly killed.

Deceased and an older brother, Curby, who are sons of Section Foreman Horton, had been east of the water tank, and were returning on a railroad velocipede, when they were overtaken by the train, which was behind time and was running over 60 miles an hour, and were hurled from the tracks.

The surviving brother says that they knew it was about time for the train, and that they had looked back not two minutes before they were stuck.

••••• 100 YEARS AGO Checotah Times

Friday, June 27, 1924

DARING AVIATOR ACROSS CONTINENT San Francisco, June 24 – Lt. Russell L. Maughan wrote a new and spectacular chapter in the history of man’s conquest of the air yesterday when he spanned the North American continent in lass than a day.

The hazardous and grueling flight was his third attempt. He left Michell Field, New York at 2:59 a.m. (eastern time) halting briefly at five re-fueling stations en route across mountains and plains, fought fatigue and constantly recurring nausea for 21 hours and 45 seconds and arrived at Crissy Field, San Francisco at 9:47 o’clock (Pacific time).

••••• 80 YEARS AGO McIntosh County Democrat

Thursday, January 6, 1944

COUNTY QUOTA IN FOURTH WAR CAMPAIGN SET

McIntosh county’s quote for the Fourth War Loan campaign is $195,800, according to information received by L.K. Sharpe, county sales chairmen this week.

Special emphasis will be placed on the sale of “E” bonds of which the county has been assessed a quota of $124,000. The balance of the quota is expected to be raised in purchase by the county, city governments and banks

••••• 75 YEARS AGO McIntosh County Democrat

Thursday, June 30, 1949

Woman Outshoots Ex-Convict; Saves Lives Of Entire Family

“Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition,” sang Mrs. Joe Young one day last week as her sturdy sixshooter routed her former husband, Bill Seagraves, after he had come to her home two miles east of Checotah, in a rage of jealousy, to wipe out her entire family.

Seagraves, an ex-convict, is said to have threatened Mrs. Young and her two children while still serving time in the state penitentiary at McAlester and the straight-shooting Mrs. Young wasn’t totally unprepared when the showdown came.

Seagraves, in an effort to carry out his threat, drove to a point just west of the Young farm and parked his car and then advanced across the field to the backyard of the home where his former wife was busy washing clothes.

Armed with a powerful 30-30 Winchester he asked the woman if she and her husband and two children were ready to die.

The quick-thinking woman bided her time, dashed into the house and grabbed a .45 caliber automatic. Just as the ex-con raised his rifle to kill the woman, she fired at him. The surprised Seagraves made a breakout of the house and the woman fired another slug as the man took refuge behind a cellar in the backyard.

After Mrs. Young fired several shots, her ex-husband fled the scene and later was arrested in Wilburton.

••••• 50 YEARS AGO McIntosh County Democrat

Thursday, July 25, 1974

Coon hunters to meet

The McIntosh County Coon Hunters Association will hold a political rally and pie supper Friday, Aug. 9, two miles east and two miles north and one mile east (Old Mt. Zion school) beginning at 7:30.

Everyone is welcome.

••••• 19 YEARS AGO McIntosh County Democrat

Thursday, October 13, 2005

Bomb scare puts post office on hold

A bomb scare last Wednesday left a square block of downtown Checotah roped off while local law enforcement officials attempted to determine the contents of a suitcase left in front of the Post Office.

••••• 10 YEARS AGO McIntosh County Democrat

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Former USS Carr executive officer visits exhibit U.S. Navy Commander Neil Krueger stood silently staring at the white dishes trimmed in blue.

“I have eaten meals off that dinnerware,” he said. “I have a mug like that.”

Krueger was traveling cross-county from Washington, D.C. to San Diego, where he is relocating. He made a stop at the Paul Henry Carr Exhibit housed at the Katy Depot Museum and Information Center in Checotah.

He was the executive officer on the USS Carr and the decommissioning officer when the frigate ended its time on open waters on March 13, 2013.