The North Enid Weekly Tribune. (North Enid, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 4, 1894 Page: 1 of 4
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The Trains Stop Only at North Enid.
The Hortt) Er?id Weekly Triba^e.
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THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE
OFFICIAL. CITV I'Al'KK NORTH KNID
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THAI)I III-HII.
We have frequent-
ly wondered at the
oroide nerve of the
South Enid business ! metropolis of
Tribune.
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, Just think of it Knid with a popu-
I l.ition of 5,000 or 6,(XX' and only three
utonths old! What will she be when
' she gets to he a yearling". Knid is the
tlie Strip. South I nit/
C. tt HAMLIN,
Mrs. Lk
ousted by
feeling mar
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ewellvn
proposi
n that
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Erjicl Toa)n Co.
Thrkk new grocery store
up in North Knid this wet
j will be operated by Win. Cot
llros., and . Redding.
. will open '
k. They ;
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Correspondence Solicited.
North Enid,
Okla.
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Thk people of South Knid arc
and despondent. The Santa Fe
the hands of a receiver and the Huteh- t
inson & Southern bubble has burstcd. •'
men when they give
it out to the settler
that goods are sold
cheaper there than
.it North Knid, for when the people of
that town imagine the settlers about
these diggings are fools they are sad-
1\ mistaken. The Tkibi'nK people
have had a number of chats with set-
tlers who have taken claims in this
county and we have yet to find the
first one but what gets his supplies in
North Knid when they bin quantity.
The settler is no fool. He knows that
a merchant who freights his goods
several miles by wagon cannot sell as
cheap as the man who does not have
do this transferring. The settle
The North Carolina editor of the
above failed to say that about 4.1HMI of
her alleged 5,1)00 people live some-
where else. For instance: When your
census was recently taken one man
gave in his family as containing
forty people and another said there
were so many members of his family
that he couldn't exactly remember the
number but thought there were forty-
six. He supplemented his statement,
however, by saying that they live in
Utah, but the enuiner.it
make such a note.
"enumerators" were asked to vacate
the town and th« \ did so without any
further parley . No force was used in
any shape or form except that they
were told to go in no uncertain tone,
The railroad attorney spoken of by a
sheet called the Hare had nothing to
do with the matter and knew nothing
of it until the next day, and if the
editor of that sheet comes up here ami
goc-. through tin- same tactics as did
his "enumerators" he will be given
the same advice be he from "(Jeojah"
or some other sea port.
w I IKOS i !•;«. II ri;.
failed t
tiii i'iun'1 i t \ v \\'.\it.
The Macon "Jawgv gent leu
who was appointed by Secretary Hoke
i knows that if he tries to
ell any Smith to receive public moneys at this
cheaper or even as cheap he kn
' place, has got a leave of absence itu-
Iftter I there is something wronK iintl lie then til January 25th, in order that lie
Swink for I) is now out in
lying be never "writ that report." j .Uncovers that he apparently gets six-1 might go to Washington and try for
that Swineford teen ounccs to the pound when actual j l,ne of the Judgeships in the strip.
ly he is getting short weight. One man j ^ hile
in South Enid tried to sell lower than |
the merchants in North Knid and be i
honest about it but it brought him in-1
to financial straits and he had to sue- j
The general belief
was in his cups when he "writ" the
denial.
The Perry Sentinel, democratic offi-
cial city paper, commends District At-
torney Speed in the most profuse
terms for procuring Malone's indict-
ment in the face of democratic intimi-
dation and threats.
he is gone, Capt. Hassler who
called the democrats of Knid a faction
of sore heads, etc., when he was in
Washington, refuses to transact cer-
tain business in the land oflice where
Ti IK city council of South Knid has
passed ail ordinance making it a mis-
demeanor for a railroad locomotive to
whistle inside the "city limits." The
ordinances of the buffalo willow may
go up in smoke in the near future.
cumb to the inevitable. This is not i' i-s necessary for Patterson s name
said in detriment to the unfortunate to be signed. 1 bus, business at the
man but as proof that is foolish to at I land otlice is practically suspended un-
tempt an impossibility.
A Tribunh representative did a lit - j
tie missionary work in South Knid on i
Tuesday with regard to prices on dif- j
ferent kinds of staple goods, and in
some places the prices were given very
readily, but in one grocery store we
found them waiting for us they had
been posted by a member of the coun-
some |
K1 lt*n cil whom we found camping on our
I trail, but if he had had the goods we
would have owned the store. We asked
how many poundsof granulated sugar
he sold for a dollar? He said 21. We
told him to weigh us out 200 pounds.
He saitl he did not have that much on
hand. We told him to weigh out all
he bad, but he wilted and said he did
not have a pound in the house. We
_ ... , .asked about the best grade of flour
tenth organized. It will not be very
fnuch sport for some people.
til Patterson returns,
itch is nt) comparison.
Tribune, (dem.)
Seven year
South / nid
Bi iork Lewellyn gets through with
Mrs. Lease he will be looking for some i
• •ue to help hiiu let go. Mary
is a stayer, and then her tongue!
governor of Kansas will wish himself
back in Wichita counting his eggs.
to be some rare
ession of court in j
of the merchants j
occupation tax on i
city was fraiulu-!
headquarters
('anon ('itv,
MeAlisler,
Lexington and
Wier ('itv
for
NUT
AND
LUMP
Coal.
GET OUR
PRICES.
W. E. Woods, mgr.
Tin.iv i: promises
port in the next :•
v.uth Knid. Some
efuse to pay the
he grounds that the
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and thought we had him as we had
noticed about a dozen sacks near the
door. He said 75 cents a sack for the
best and we told him we would take
all he had. "That is musty and I'm
going to send it back; I have no other
brand," be replied, and before we let
go of him we found he had nothing in
the store that he could sell at prices he
quoted. He looked relieved when we
told him he had better stock up, but
Tin: town of Manchester has strati- '1C did not 11" t :i^ «lg-l'n> Once
died an 11. «St S. railw ay draw-head u as enough for him.
and demands that Cameron be aban- We. however, succeeded in getting
doned or the people will make gore j what we went after and the following
flow from the company's jugular. The ; table show the result:
probabilities are that Manchester will
,, . Heat Flour, per s
now get mud. It's cheaper. rlns j r.ranuiatrci Suira
Thk people of North Knid are too ;
charitable to take offense at being J
called the "red water tank." We had J
rather be located in that way than to j
have the town's skirts besmirched by ;
boodlers, perjury, swindling, jobbery
and the Lord only knows what else.
South Knid prefers the latter.
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The Trihunk has it from authority
that cannot be disputed that there is
on file in Washington affidavits made
by South Knid people stating that the
town of North Knid is only one mile
from South Knid; that $5,000 would
cover the business interests of North
Enid aside from railroad property;
that there was not to exceed loo peo-
ple in North Knid and that the major
portion of the population was support-
ed by the Kock Island railroad. These
affidavits were made by parties in the
buffalo wallow to prevent us from get- j
ting a postoffice. When the proper j
time conies the Trihunk proposes to
give those affidavits in full, ami they
will then be turned over to the pros-
ecuting attorney of this county, and
we make the prediction that there will
be and emigration from the baffalo
wallow between two days.
The fact of the matter is that our
lumber interests alone reach nearly a
quarter of a million dollars; that we
have a better class of building
there are in South Enid; that w
fine brick business blocks, and that
they have none in South Knid altlio'
one or two parties down there try to
deceive the visitor by having their had
North Enid, So. Enid.
for the marines
Itutter, In
A. W. FRANK.
G, C. GRAY.
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lit
libit' front bus- A t Uuckh's <
Swift's Hai
be built on ()klaho- Lard, lu st.
A l inK two-story,
iucss house is t«
! ma avenue and Contractor Hrotherton
is now drawing the plans. It is to be
! of stone and will be a dandy. Mr.
Hrotherton is very reticent as to who
uml
uffee per |
11c
12'
25c
It hardly seems possi-
that where the prosper-
ous little city of North
Knid now stands three
months agt), or a little
longer, there was noth-
ing but a broad, barreu
cpanse of raw prairie that ''eally made
one think that it w is untenable, while
the dreary looking aspect almost gave
one the horrors at the very thought of
trying to make a home here. It was
almost enough to dishearten anyone.
Hut the average American citizen is
not made of the stuff" that gets dis-
couraged at anything, ami as we write
our thoughts Hit back to that memor-
able 16th of Septeinper when the train
arrived from the south bearing its
procioiis loatl of living freight. Then
it was that "a thousand people took a
thousand lots in a thousand seconds"
and in a blinding cloud of the dirtiest
dust that ever filled the air. Not very
long after the arrival of the train at
North Enid people on horseback and
in wagons began to arrive, although
a few of the more speedy animals had
arrived on the ground ahead of the
iron horse.
Inside of an hour tents were up and
a few enterprising individuals were
dispensing merchandise at more than
army prices. Lots were staked ainid
some jangling, but be it said to the
credit of that vast crowd of people
there was no disturbance of any kind.
The town company placed its lots on
the market that tlay and sold a large
number. Among the first to buy was
the TriioMC people and because we
located ourselves four blocks from the
railroad many said to us that we must
lie going into the fatiuing business,
but today we are "right in town" and
there are many buildings two and
three blocks west of us.
Huildings began going up on every
hand and carpenters were kept on the
than jump from early more till late at
have night, and the townsite was a verita-
ble beehive. We had no boom and we
want none of the kind that visited so
many Kansas towns. North Knid has
healthy, steady growth, and to-
OSB OF AIA.W 1,1 US.
It is said by one who cannot be
doubted that at Washington there is a
petition signed by 7,000 people who re-
side at the water tank asking that that
town be made the county seat of "O"
county. The question is where did
they get the signers. Another thing
is to be seen and that is that those
people have come to see the difference
between a county seat and a water
tank.— South Enid Tribune.
The above is one of the many false-
hoods that the South Knid "news-
paper fakes" are telling of our town.
It is a falsehood made up of whole
cloth as is easily proven.
There is no such petition in Wash-
ington for the .simple reason that the
location of the county seat is not in
the power of the government any
longer, but the people of () county
will locate the county seat when the
proper time comes. And the utter-
ances of the "press" of the hog
wallow three miles south are ridiculous
oil the face of them.
When this city circulates a petition
it will be signed only by bona fide
people who live here, and will not be
padded out by a lot of unknown off-
springs of Utah. Our friends in the
mud bole should get more substantial
houses before they commence to heave
boulders, or one of them might recoil
and wipe out their so-called city
organization.
a I*R<H; pom
The buffalo that used to roam
( undisturbed in these quiet pre-
* cincts for centuries have become
extinct, but their old bathing places,
commonly known as wallows, are still
stinking around here yet. The streets
of South Knitl are dotted with these
ancient lakes every time it rains;
when the springtime comes the mu-
sical frog will set around on the banks
and drown down the high strung air
of our Salvation Army.—South Enid
Wave.
Lord, but that's tough on the frogs!
The veracity of the land office organ
is not doubted in the least in the ut-
terance above, for during the recent
rains a hog wallow was a paradise
compared with South Knid. The site
of your town is the choice of your god
(Hoke Smith) antl you ought not to
grumble. As you make your bed so
shall you lie. If you prefer a hog
wallow take a little more quinine, but
don't grumble.
box frames painted to represent brick; day it is a good town of 1,500 people
that we are over three miles from the who live and make their homes here;
buff alo wallow town and that we have not a floating population that is here
a population of over 1,500, notwith- today and gone tomorrow, but people
standing the villainous reports sent who are here to stay. They are build-
out by the people of the buffalo ing up substantial homes and bus- j
Waukomis Snap Shota.
S. L. Downmaii ate Christmas
turkey in Fort Worth with his best
girl.
D. H. Meade was down from North
Enid to help E. E. Sproul take care of
a Christmas box from Virginia but it
didn't come. Better luck next time.
—Miss Jennie Shear will begin
teaching school the first week in the
new year.
W. K. Worden help carve a tur-
key in Kingfisher Christinas. A pair
of bright eyes seems to attract W. K.
down there.
Our building boom does not seem
to abate in the least, and the hammer
and saw make sweet music.
The postoffice is located tempo-
North
The settlers are trading
Knid for two very potent reasons:
fir.st, they can get a better grade of
goods; second, they can buy more for
frank & gray,
I5KST C.R A l>Ks OF
i Wines & Liquors.
is going to build it but we have rea-1 less money. Again, the settlers have
sons for believing that a merchant of no use for a town that permitted them
South Knid is having it built. i to be robbed by an unholy and thiev-
j injr gang that fleeced them under the
The Mormons must predominate in j very wing of the United States land
the buff alo wallow, which has been i office.
dubbed a "government town." One
man is < n the census roll with a fain- si/oi /./> ill AllA'i ill).
ily of forty and another with a family The Triuim has called attention
■ f forty-si\. and although they live in several times to a nuisance that is he-
Utah yet they are counted as 88 bona j coming unbearable that is the hacks
tide residents of South Enid. That is
a fair sample of the way they organ-
ized into a city of the "first-class."
Onk week from today South Enid
will begin making preparations to re-
move to North Enid. The senate will
never pass the railroad bill to which
the fate of the south town is fondly
clinging. The Trihi nk extends a
welcome to all, yes, even the Hare
man will be taken in on probation af-
ter he has taken a plunge in that "red
water tank." It may give him a cold
but it will do him more good than a
dozen Keeley institutes.
plying between the two towns block-
ading the platform and crossing so
that it is totally impossible for people
leaving the trains to get through.
That it is a concerted action and
scheme came to light Tuesday night
of this week. One driver, after hav-
ing half his teeth knocked down his
wallow. iness houses, not the kind that can be
Some of the democrats of this town put on wheels and moved, they leave
who pin their faith to the "iminacti- that style of architecture for neigh-
late Cleveland" think if the president bors three miles south to build, and
knew the status of the case lie would they are doing it to.
see that North Knid was given a post- North Knid has more substantial
office. Would he? Well you can tear improvements than any other town in
out that belief and throw it away in ^ the Strip. With our handsome brick j seriously sick, have about recovered
the rubbish pile. He is fully aware I blocks (more coining) and neat res-
of the facts in the case. Last month idences, an ice plant by the Anheuser-
we addressed a letter to a friend in iUisch people in course of construc-
Washington antl requested him to tion, an artificial stone, brick and ce-
give an inclosed letter to Mr. Cleve- nicut manufactory, to say nothing of
the railroad improvements that we arc-
going to have, puts this town ahead
of them all both as to present pros-
perity and bright future. It is by far
the best trading point in the county ! from Spickard, Mo.
for reasons given in another column, htore in Waukomis.
and farmers are hauling their sup-
land in person,
facts were given,
to that letter:
In that letter the
Here is the answer
kxKcirrivk mansion.
Washington. Dec. 10, 1894.
Ki>. Triiii nk, North Enid, < >. T.
Dear Sir: Your communication of
the 4th, inst., relative to a postoffice
rarily in Frank Bentley's grocery
store and Frank makes a good look-
ing deputy.
John Williams returned to Vernon,
I Texas, last Friday.
We are glad to note that Mr.
King's two little boys, who have been
again.
Fred House, who has been sick
with the grip, is up again and getting
ready to build.
There is quite a demand for town
lots, both in the business and resi-
dence portion.
P. Ci. Wild, of the firm of Wild &
Munii, is expected io arrive this week
They have a nice
it North Knid, has been referred to plies fi in North Knid to within eight
Assistant Postmaster (Jen- ■,
the Fourth
eral.
, .. miles of Perry for good and sufficient
Sincerely Yours, • , , , . .
GhovkkCi.kvbi.and. reasons. We liavc no land-sharks to
referred" to Mr. Maxwell rol tlR1 "Cttler, and our merchants
burled with all other mat "tfivw them a show for their white al-
i ley" by selling at an honest profit.
Every day sees many of the settlers
The Cauiden Drug <$t Supply Co.
have their shelving in and most of the
goods opened. It is one of the neatest
stores in the Strip.
—Gift Bros, are giving us good
meat. The boys do not ship in their
meat, but buy the cattle and do their
own butchering.
Alderman Kegg manages to keep
the mem
Thl' jTP.iCd J ' EeSi RVeD 01E
Thk friend
W. Thomson
pointment to the seat of one of the
circuit judgeships that has been crea-
ted in this territory. While the Triu-
im; is strictly republican it recogniz-
es the fact that there is no earthly
chance for the appointment of a re-
publican under the present adminis-
tration, and we know of no democrat
that could fill the position more fit-
tingly or more creditably than can
Judge Thomson. He is a man among
men and as an attorney antl advisor
he is head and shoulders above sever-
al who are after the place. He is a
competent man in every particular | J"™1* '^nne^ ,hall be taught
and in every way a perfect gentleman.
The Triui nj. hopes to see him ap-
pointed.
It was
throat by ail irate traveler, "'fessed [ where it i
up" ami said the hackmen were paid S ters pertaining to our postoffice under
by South Enid people to deter, as far I a slip of paper which bears this le-
a* poulble, anyone from .topping In gend written on a typewriter: "Mr. corn ng to o n or uirsup
North Enid: that ,1,. v w.-re instructed Smith requests that no action be tak I ' f"r lumber and for their (foods | the boys stra^ht. ily mutual consent
to obstruct pa^satce way as much as en in the matter of the location of u , wI"
possible and not to be backward about i postoffice at North Enid until he ha> 1" '1' 1 ^ au nn
• ■ and Hirst been consulted." Thus it is | UT --'lely <>« the present, and why.'
and proven beyond a shadow of a doubt P«r th« reason that they arc here to
ith them you get the benefit that it is a cold discrimination by the make a home anil then d. alings « itli
..ml possit.lv bodily democratic powers that be again.t the farming settlers are always such , settled up by farmer, of means, as
" ' " — back again. , the large nun
it. Most of them ar
f I'nTbate Judge j. j over-bearing, and if
f working for his ap-!
insolent
you stoj
parley
of a cursing
injury. It seems to us this matter has I town of 1,500 people to disfranchise
gone far enough, too far for that' them from having postoffice facilities,
matter, and it is high time that the Mr. Maxwell may wake up one of
citizens of the town take some action ; these fine mornings and find a writ of
n regard t > the matter. j mandamus looking him iu the face
The Tkihi ni: believes the Rock Is- with a request to explain why the gov-
land will issue an order for them to eminent should thus discriminate to
stay off of the right of way if our ! the detriment of citizens of the United
people will ask it, and to that end a States. If we lived iu Haiwii we
petition will be • inulated this week, would be strictly in it.
If the drivers do not know their places --
they should be given to understand TWOMU Mli\l Ai/iW.tToKN.
that their discourteous and ungentle-
have he is acknowledged city marshal and
receives that officer's mail. Boys,
look out for hegg.
Waukomis has a pretty location
and the surrounding country is being
lesson. It is time to stop it, and we
think it will be stopped short off iu a
few days.
RflCKkEl.
Thk "south enid" papers make a
great splurge about the people of that
place expending $800 for champagne
'■n Christinas day. And on that very
day some of her paupers were in this | few
So much has been said about those
"enumerators" from the buffalo wal-
low and the treatment they received
in North Enid, that the Triiu nk has
looked up the facts in the case and
rrr- find that the two fellows who had
copies of our been appointed by the council of South
We -till have a few PHpH
Holiday Edition left. Don't be back- Enid to take the census of North Knid down and dragged out and you awake
ward about coining in and getting a | became very abusive to some ladies to find yourself in the clutches of a
few copies. Price * cents. Send a and not being able to protect tliein- beardless youth (the jiolice judge), a
.pies to your eastern friends and selves sent word to some men who | Texas Importation who must live, and
ttlers are ;
that the settler comes back again. , the large number of nice farm resi-
Kegitimate business men build for the . fences and barns being built will
future while the "fakir" robs you in testify. Our town has a steady sub-
broad tlay because he expects to be ; Ktantial growth and the people who
gone before you come back. The first 1 are here havecome to stay. They are
named class you will find in North here to make a home and as it is the
Knid, but you will find more of the I only town on the Kock Island between
latter class in the "slock yards" three North Knid and Hennessey—a dis-
miles (tilth than iu any other town in tance of twenty-three miles—it will
the country. always make a good trading point.
Another advantage North Knid has jf you want a nice town to live iu
over the "stock yards" town is that1 come to Waukomis.
you can purchase property here and —Win. Pratt ha. opened hi. barber
get a clear title warranty deed for s^0j, for present in the store of
the tame, while in the "stock yards" WlM £ Mtmn, .t d T. J. Britt looks
Your very life is in jeopardy if you ;ifter the wants of the customers,
happen tostep onto a lot-they think | _Mr ^ ^ , fineli„eof
furniture and that is something we all
you arc a "jumper" and if you happen |
to be a tenderfoot you are knocked'
city begging for bread. Shame!
| help us advertise the town.
| were laboring not faraway and the a line ami costs you have io pay.
need.
A harness shop is another enter-
prise that will be in operation in a few
days. A good thing for the farmers.
Kkx.
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