Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1914 — BOY SCOUTS MAKE WAYGONER BEHAVE [ARTICLE]

BOY SCOUTS MAKE WAYGONER BEHAVE

Oklahoma Lada Make Amato Impoaa Plnaa and Collect the Money. Muskogee* Ok.—The Boy Scout organliatloa of Wagoner, Ok., is the tnoct remarkable in the world and has extended its sphere of activities to #uoh an degree that the national organisation is now making a Study of the system in operation. This Soon! organisation has all of the regulations required in the Scout man-, nab but In addition to these the Wagoner scouts have a Soout bank, a complete court, police force, a corps of deteotlves and a force of deputy ■kerlffi. these are not make-believe organisations. The bank accepts deposits gad leads money .to Scouts; the -court Orders arrests, tries cases, aasosms, Hass and collects them; deteoBtvsa gather evidence of crime and layBt before the Soout Prosecuting Attortoagr; the deputy sheriffs make arrests. And this sqppe of nativity applies to the satire oily. In fast the Scouts have ‘‘cleaned —r Wagons* Blood was spilled to Aging it, bnt ttto So ant i closed the vidsky jafaga, the ■nmhUng-houeee fejtodto macro dives ttto had defied Ike into officers far fttrs. Wagoner Se4ey is ana of the cleanest and mast WaMdtog towns in the Stole. The Htattoma/* a negro station to the wet part of town was one of the meet «*■ torleus dM sections la the Stole. Five murders were oemmltted base In the mentt es March. Whisky loinSa, pamhUnphouses and he—as of fSdame (an tods open. Whisky was sold ofor «lao bar and strangers, white end bleak jyeuiig and c*d, were tared there apt ret>tad andkOtoJL Rwps tte^most jaaa slier togtafigU. Tedtor men gn* Women may watt them* the “Bto toms” to night as imft on tbs mtoa street of Wnpmßr. The Boy treats did tt. The Sooufe wean organised hr Hi H. Townsend, soout matter. Tbt wombs Townsend made in simffigg eg law mtaraament orgapteatioc of Scouts has slnoe made Mm CM* of PtttoaPeeple emiledjrjso ttaHtojuJ tatom to idols gs the team sad Sow-end its most popular o£*