The Hennessey Democrat. (Hennessey, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 44, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 29, 1893 Page: 1 of 8
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Volume I. Number 44.
HENNESSEY, O. T., SflTURDflY, JULY 29,1893.
Subscription $1 Per. Year
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KINGFISHER. GUTHRIE ANI)
THE SANTA FE.
THE SANTA EE REACHING FOR
$100,000 OF THE PEOPLES
MONEY-KINGFISHER AND
GUTHRIE TRYING TO
SWALLOW THE
EARTH.
From Press-Gazette.
Some few days ago, Governor
Swineford, authorized to locate four
land offices, in the strip, arrived iu
Guthrie from Washington. It was
but natural that he consult with
resident party leaders. This, owing
to their organized methods, resulted
in the governor being induced to
decrease the number, until, under
the plan as contemplated last Thurs-
day, a land office in the western
portion would be the only one
recommended. But Guthrie broue
faith and her compact with King-
fisher was sacrificed when an attempt
was made to attach the strip's north-
east county on the Santa Fe to an
office to be established on the Rock
Island at Pond Creek, while the
Pawnee country anil the south county
on the Santa Fe were to file at the
capital city.
Should the Kingfisher-Guthrie-
Santa Fe plan be yet perfected, the
nearest settler would travel about
9 twenty and the most remote con-
siderably more than one hundred
miles to file or contest <>r prove up,
resulting, in the five years of home-
stead residence, in the payment of
something more than #218,000 for
railroad fare alone. Using the
estimates based on figures furnished
by a receiver, it becomes evident the
placing of the lands in question
under Kingfisher and Guthrie
jurisdiction would worn a financial
hardship of more than a half million
(*500.000) dollars on the farming
element of the strip. These figures
represent mathematical accuracy,
the number of contests, witnesses,
miles traveled, tilings made and
hotel bills having been duly consider
ed.
And what is it all fur? Merely
to support Kingfisher and Guthrie.
Kingfisher tallied of calling a
public meeting looking to the defeat
of strip land offices. This was des-
paired of when a prospective strip
settler threatened to capt ure it. The
Santa Fe has labored long and hard
with methods peculiar to itself.
Guthrie's board ot trade gave a
soon-to-be government official &12">
to appear in Washington against the
establishment of land offices on the
Santa Fe, this man being recognized
in Washington as representing what
would be for the prospective strip
settler's best interest. Was he
working for the settlers or for
Gutdrie hotels, livery stables,
merchants and lawyers, as well as
an extension of his own salary to
the maximum. A peculiar feature
of this *125 is that, at the suggestion
of the president ot the board of
trade, it was omitted from all news-
paper reports of that meeting.
An effort is also being made to
reserve additional lands for certain
education purposes, removing four
sections of each township in the
strip from tax rolls. This is nothing
less than unequal taxation. It can
not be urged with equity. '1 he
movement iB conceived in injustice,
fed on greed and should die at the
hands of public sentiment. It is
robbing the unborn.
In time the strip will be as densely
populated as its equal area across
the Kansas border and at that time
it will contain 254,000 people.
Kingfisher and Guthrie each want
the capital. Do they want those
votes? These towns seem unable to
distinguish between ambition %nd
avarice. Greed is not gain. If the
Blind Goddess is hit below the belt,
Kingfisher and Guthrie will be
weighed as having less than eleven
ounces to the pound.
If they hang the strip's prospective
settler's bide on the bacEL fence the
"promoters" will be compelled to
smell them during the rest of the
heated term.
The Kingfisher and Guthrie press
and people are organized to deprive
the strip of proper land office facilities
and for that reason all papers are
urged to produce this article in
order that justice may be done a
people not yet iu position to
"demand."
After it became known this move-
ment was contemplated, :t Guthrie
paper intimated a land office would
be located at Perry, but this so
smacks of a death bed repentance as
to seem like a "blind."
On Saturday afternoon rumor
had it on the streets of Guthrie the
department had wired an order to
go on and locate the four offices as
per first orders. This may and may
not be true, but we will act as
though it were not, remembering
that eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty.
The two young cities are asked
and urged to stop and consider the
injustice they are about to inflict,
rather than abuse those demanding
rights the department saw tit to
accord them.
After a Guthrie job office refused
to set this matter up for fear of a
boycott from its patrons, it was
deemed best to have the worn done
at another town.
Intolerance never has convinced
an intelligent world or won a last-
ing victory. Will it this time?
> Any one desiring to correspond on
this matter will receive attention by
writing W. II. McCartney of King-
fisher, or W. T. Little of Guthrie,
w. II. McCai'.tney, Kingfisher.
J. (). f. Jknninc.s, "
W. T. Little, Guthrie.
J. L. Smith, "
W. M. Bowi.es, "
Committee,
Every Lady Visiting
Our Store
©imping
will receive a
He^some Souvenir.
Our Assortment
IS - IMMENSE.
Our Prices
Y>(;py Low.
Grand Opening
-OF-
DRY GOODS, SHOES,
CLOTHING, and
GENTS' FURNISNING GOODS;
-AT THE-
Ghicago Bazaar,
BLACKBURN BUILDING, East side Main St.
Saturday, Aug. 5tji, 1093.
Come And See Us. We Want To Get Popular And
Surely Will Get There—If Honest Goods,
Fair Treatment and Low Prices
Can Get Us Your Favor.
G. HERZBERG & BHO.
LEADERS IN LOW PRICES.
The El Reno Courier says:—"The
lug Indian dance at Darlington,
Sunday was attended by two or
three thousand whites. The dance
w as participated in by the Cheyennes,
Arapahoes, Kiowas and Comanehes
The number of Indians present was
estimated at from one to two thous-
and. The dance was the "Messiah"
dance in which the dancers fall into
trances, see visions, etc. Something
after the manner of the Spiritualist.
The dance became so exciting and
the excitement among the young
Indians because of the encroach-
ments of the whites that the military
authorities stopped the dance. This
dance was followed, yesterday by a
purely Kiowa dahce in El Reno.
The business men of the town,
wishing to make friends with the
visiting tribes of Kiowas and Co-
manehes raised a purse, bought
several beeves and invited them t.o
town to have a dance. The dance
was in Sweet Bro's., old lumber
yard, and was participated in by
probably two hundred Indians,
bucks, squaws aud children. All
were well dressed in bucKSKin suits
of yellow and blue, some of which
were valued as high as one hundred
dollars. One squaw had on a suit
of ornamented red that cost her 160.
they are a cleanly lot of Indians,
intelligent aud robust, and in their
fanciful garbs their aspects are more
attractive than their dancing which
consisted of jumping up and down
in a sort of shuffling movement.
The gale icceijiln failed to pay the
expenses, the shortness being about
nineteen dollars. Five persons
looked on from the outside to one
who went inside and paid a quarter.
Several hundred Cheyennes and
Arapahoes excitedly viewed the
dance from their wagons and shed
roofs on the outside. The Kiowas
wtre well pleased with their treat-
ment and may be considered solid
friends to El Reno from now on."
OUR—
StocV) is f^ew
and contains the
pick of the
eastern pixels.
Every Lady Visiting
Our Store
-ON
will ukckivk ▲
He^tvisorrvo Souvenir.
Sheridan Items.
Hot, hotter, hottest—Sweat you
nigger, .sweat black jacK timber—
No breeze.
Mrs. Scott of Marshall has gone
to Chicago to visit her brother, who
is very low with consumption.
Corn looks up a little just at
present, as the rains have been
splendid.
The average corn Iooks tine and a
good prospect for a fair crop at
least.
The Chicaskia reunion will be
held at Dayton's grove north of
Caldwell, August 8th, to 13th. All
old veterans should attend.
The Kansas threshing machine has
pulled up and will move back to
Kansas.
Our worthy editor Mr. Campbell,
likes the merry-go-round better than
the World's Fair.
Farmers have commenced plowing
for wheat in earnest.
The average of wheat around
Sheridan is 20 bushels to the acre.
Columbia wants a postmaster uou,
but Sheridan is in no need of one at
all.
The holiness people have abandon-
ed their quarters and Mr. Scott says
Skeleton catches them all.
Mr. Cummings of Hennessey, who
keeps the neat ice cream parlor, will
have a stand and treat the people at
the Harvest picnic at Sheridan.
Sam Dav is has joined the Great
American circus show, and is play
ing the clown part handsomely.
J. I. C.
w
e Have
A small lot of Pants
we want to clean up
and will make the
prices so they will go.
CHARLES PERKINS,
Notary public.
Office upstairs in Liddle building.
Farms for Sale i Collections Made.
Hennessey, Oklahoma.
*4.50 pants for
$4.00 pants for
$3.00 pants for
13.25
$2.50
Some jeans and cot-
tonade that arc good
but shelf room will be
cleaned up in the same
proportion. Come ear-
ly and get your size.
GRIFFIN & GRIFFIN
Vnd Door South oj P. O,
GUY R. GILLETT,
Notary public.
OtHce at the Postofflee. All work
promptly attended to.
Hennessey, Oklahoma.
B. B. SMITH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office ou the South side of Okla-
homa avenne, 3rd door West of the
Metropolital Hotel,
Hennessey, Oklahoma.
JAMES BR1NKERHOFF,
^ttobnky at l.aw.
Office oil east side, South Main
street, in Justice Thompson's
office, 2nd door south of Olivaut'ii
photograph gallery.
Hennessey, Oklahoma.
A. H. CARROLL, M. D.
PHYSICUIN md SURGEON.
hennessey, oklahoma,
Office in front rooms up stairs in the
Rodgersbuilding. Residence, corner
of Fourt h and Cherokee 6t. All calls
promwtlv anvwered day or night.
N. RECTOR, M. D.
PHYSICM rnd SURGEON..
hennessey, okla.
Office on Oklahoma ave., residence
corner of 2d and Cherokee sta. All!
calls promptly answered day or
night.
O. S. MERADITH, M. D.
PHYSICM am SURGEON.,
hennessey, oklahoma.
Office second door west of the Metro-
politan Hotel, south side Ok. Ave.
All calls promptly answered, day or
night.
EAMES & LOWER.
Painters 8. Paper Mergers. .
hennessey, oklahoma,
SIGN PAINTING,
House Painting, Decorating and "
Paper Hanging. Shop on North <
side of East Oklahoma avenue.
E. II. COOKE, M. D.
PHYSUM md SURGEON.
hennessey, oklahoma.
Office in the Postofflee building. Calls
promptly made day or night.
Ilung Hertelf Around The Neck
Of her husband coaxing him to get
her a pair of those fine shoes at i
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Campbell, W. P. & Weesner, R. The Hennessey Democrat. (Hennessey, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 44, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 29, 1893, newspaper, July 29, 1893; Hennessey, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc109753/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.