The Dover News. (Dover, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 19, 1907 Page: 1 of 4
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THE DOVER NEWS.
E. F. PURSELL, Editor.
DOVER, OKLAHOMA, Thursday, September 19, 1907
Vol. vii, No. 30
Closing Out Sale
To Quit DRY GOODS Business
On account of the ill health of Mr;
A. L. Snow of entire stock of
%35t000.00 Worth of
DRY GOODS
Cloaks, Suits, Millinery,
Skirts, Carpets, Ladies just when you want it
Furnishing Goods, etc. j
will be closed out with all possible haste at j
Tremendous Discounts
Nothing in the North Room and the
Carpet and Millinery Rooms will be
reserved
IT IS A ClEAN SWEEP !
The store will be closed all this week to mark BARGAINS!
down the goods and get ready for the greatest s ———1—•———
sale ever launched in Oklahoma. The great sale }
begins at 9 o'clock Saturday morning Sept. 21*t. \
IT MEANS
Anything You Want
and
BARGAINS!
BARGAINS!
$35,000.00 WORTH
of everything you want
to be closed out at un-
heard of prices.
Many things being offered at Half
Thhir Value. Don't forget the day
and hour of the opening, but you can
come most any day soon and get the
benefit.
9 o'clock Saturday
Morning, September 21st
The Big Sal# continues during the
Month and until the Stock is Closed
Out.
Come Early and
Get First Choice.
Logan; Snow & Co.
The Store With the Right Goods
Kingfisher, O klahoma.
$be ©over, iHcws,
Entered at the poet ollice at Dover,
Oklahoma as second class matter.
It does not pay auy party to put
speakers id the field who go around
and bemean tbe opposite party.
Such speakers drive votes away in-
stead of making them. This is a day
of intelligence and the people will
sot swallow any kind of dope that
comes along, but on the other hand
it requires good sound argument to
convince a man on any subject.
This rag chewing is a disgrace to any
party and helps to gain votes tor the
opposition. It is au imposition upon
candidates for the committee to use
their money to pay fellows for making
speeches just because it seems that
their party should help tbein in a
matter of finance and who cannot
make a vote if they spoke from now
until doomsday. Here in Kingfisher
county there have been times when
the republican county committee have
paid Buch speakers as referred to
above and turned down the expense
bill of speakers who had some lnfl-
uence in some communities at least.
Money can be spent in a campaign
in a way that will accomplish much
good for the party and secure more
votes than by paying it to a few
protesrional politicians.
BIQ VICTORY.
Tuesday was a vitorious day for
the republican* in Kingfisher county
as the entire ticket was elected with
only the sheriff in doubt- Both sides
claim the sheriff by a small margin.
Marshall Ilinch led the ticket for
county attorney. At the time of
going to press enough state reports
had not been received to tell about
the state returns- The constitution
is carried by a large majoriity and
prohibition is also probably tarried
Haskell and Frantz With
claim the governorship. The
ballots were long and it has required
much time to count them, in fact
it will be several days yet before the
final result will be known.
Election is over now aud politics
can have a rest for a while. We
w.int all tbe news of your community
but will have to trust you to tell us
the happenings of interest as we are
not a mind reader. If you have
visitors tell tbe News about it. If
you go on a visit tell us or in fact
tell us all the things you know that
may be ot interest to the community.
The busy man and woman of the
world arc they who have attained
to greatness. Many fuch have
endured hardships and practiced
rigid economy to enable them to
meet the demands of a large family
and the greatest men this country
has produced have labored with
hands and brain, after acquiring a
competency, remembering the years
that are gone, admit that their
working years were their happiest
years.
Some History.
Just a few months over eighteen
years ago by proclamation of Pres-
ident Cleveland and tbe sanction of
President Harrison the first Okla-
homa came into existance. The be.
ginning of a [mssible new state did
not bear with it the evidence that
within eighteen years a new empire
would be knocking at the door for
admission 011 into the union of states,
which had for credentials a million
and a hall peogressive citizens with
wealth that the measure of which
cannot be expressed in figures aud
words.
The first homesteader entered
Oklahoma April 22t 1889. He
"squatted" in what is sometimes
known as old Oklahoma, the bound-
ries of which have been erased from
the maps. Land offices were created
for tho settlers benefit at Guthrie and
Kingfisher. Perhaps thirty thousand
persons settled in the new country.
Two years later, by proclamation,
the Cheyenne and Arapaho land was
thrown open for settlement. The
land craze was not so great at tliat
time as later in the history of the new
state. Th«i opening of the land did
not materially increase the popula-
tion of the territory until several
I years later. The Cheyenne and
I Arapaho country was subdivided into
| counties named after letters of
the alphabet. They later become
1 known as Blaine. Dewey, lioger
Mills, ami Washita counties. This
country is now considered to be as
good as any in the new state.
A year later the pott country was
declard to no longer be forbidden
ground for the settler. The rush for
lands in Pott country was heavyt a
forerunner of what was to occur the
next year. Theu came the days ot
Hoke Smitht follewed soon by tbe
proclamation that the Cherokee strip
would be opened- Drouths in Kansas
and other states bad created
thousands and thousands of dis-
contented persons. They pined for a
change. The sweeping prairie aud
green covered hills appealed to them
and when September rolled around
the month of the opening the line
about the country was toed by
thousands of eager homeseekers.
What was then known as Oklahoma
had a population of perhaps seventy
thousand souls, not a single person
lived in the Cherokee strip. They had
been run out long before by the
soldiers. Three years after the
opening of the Cherokee strip the
territory hail 380,000 persons and
with the erea of prosperity that came
with McKinley's administration the
western empire prospered as it had
never prospered before. Perhaps the
greatest opening of land for settle-
ment in Oklahoma was that of the
Kiowa and Comanche reservationsi
less the allotments) which occurred
in 1901. The opening was unique be-
cause Uncle Sam profited by past
experience. There was no repetition
of the horse races of previous events.
Every one had to take a turn with
chance. Then, too, the physical
scramble tor lots was eliminated. Tbe
town properties were knocked down
to the highest bidder.
In 1901 the teritory ot Oklahoma
had nearly a million people. Today
the new state that is to be has over
a million and a half.
The first governpr of the territory
was George W. Steele, now a
congressman from Indiana Following
in order are the men who ruled tbe
country: A. J. Seay, Wm. Renfrow
Cassius M. Barnes, William Jenkins
T. B. Ferguson, aud Frank Frantz.
Delegates to congress Irotn the
territory follow; David Harvey
first; Dennis T. Flynn, second; J, Y.
Callahan, third, Dennis Flynn again,
and Hen the present delegate, Bird
McGuire. Flynn gave to the settlers
free homes and McGuire gave them
a chance for statehood.
A history of the next eighteen years
of Oklahoma's existance probably
will make a moro interesting history
than the eighteen years of the past.
It can be safely predicted that the
state will then have over two million
souls and trillions in wealth where
now it has billions.
Report of the condition of
The BANK of DOVER
at Dover, in the Tcsritory of Okla-
homa, at tiie close of business
Sept. 3, 15)07.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts .. $21,830.15
Overdrafts, secured and
unsecured .'1,860.12
Stocks, Bonds, Warrants, etc. 841.00
Banking House 1,500.00
Furniture and Fixtures 1,081.15
Due from Hanks 18,913.83
Cash and Sight Exchange -1,474.45
TOTAL
52,510.30
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock Paid In $10,000.00
Surplus Fund 500.00
Undivided Profits, Less Ex-
penses and Taxes Paid.,1,047.20
Individual Deposits Subject
to Check 39,049.10
Demand certificates of deposit 120.00
Time certificates of deposit 1,794.00
TOTAL 52,510.30
Territory of Oklahoma
a I
[ss.
County of Kingfisher
I, M. A. Mitchell, cashier of the above
named Bank, do solemnly swear that
the above statement is true and that
said Hank has no other liabilities and
is not endorser on any note or obliga-
tion other than that shown in the
above statement, to the best of my
knowledge aud belief, so help me God.
M. A. Mitchell, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 10th day of Septenber 1907.
J. W. Lewis, Notary Public.
My commission expires April 21. 1908
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Correct-Attest:
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Money to loan on farms', five
und one half per cent, call and see
F N- T lylor, Dover, Okla.
&
S. H. DREWS
Department Store.
DOVER, OKLAHOMA.
SCHOOL SHOES
THAT WEAR
S E LZ
Shoes Make the Feet Glad
EVERY PAIR Guaranteedl
For Sale Only By
Gilchrist Sherwood £ Co ||
Dry Goods and Groceries.
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