North Enid Weekly Tribune. (North Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 9, 1894 Page: 1 of 8
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TRAINS STOP ONLY AT NORTH ENID.
i he only Enid that gives Warranty Deeds to City Prope rt
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EKLY TRIBUNE
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EORTII ENID. O.T.. Til I I&DAY, AUtJ-UST !>. 181)1
1."J ( "I S. 1 I: K AVE EK
The Tribune Arraigns Geo E.
Hubbard, Trustee.
Before the Bar of North Enid and Vicin-
ity Public Opinion and He is Unan
imously Condemned.
T/ic CltHons Conde/mi llublturcl
ii/k/ Swear by the
Tribune.
FOR A STINKER 10 REFLECT OVER.
T M Poynter,
Jos Hunter,
I N Phifer,
J H Williams,
J J Munday,
A L Pritchett,
J E Kootitz,
S M Shockey,
S B Pettee,
J T O'Hair.
E K Williams,
J W Carpenter,
W F Laird,
H B Moore,
J S Brown,
J M Cochran,
Win Lindsay,
F W Havlicek,
F W Van Ness,
C Sowder,
Ed Phifer,
I>r (i W Keneker,
W B Dawson,
A M Durail,
L O Hays,
W C Berner,
H B Dewey
I M Tappen,
M Hartsfield,
H P Williams,
C L Woods.
F W Colville,
H W Day,
Ed M Kelley,
G W Chapman,
W M Coon,
W J Turney,
Angus McLean,
interests will be stronger and lx-tier after this
public process of purgation.
Our people will know a .id the public will be
informed who are the to* it's enemies and who
arc its friends.
He true to your friends tlm -irli liell yawns
in front of vou.
Craw. Hutchinson,
John Knudson,
J Le Lisle,
A1 Bieschkee,
Chas. Wagner,
S H Craig.
As some of the trustees say by sur-
reptitious methods they were induced
to sign, which afterward appeared, the
following which was taken to South
Enid and published in the Wave, a
paper that has tantonly villified
almost every citizen in North Enid:
To the Business Men and Citizens
of Enid:
Gentlemen:—On behalf of the citi-
zens and business men of North Enid,
we desire to give public expression to
our condemnation of the unwarranted,
unjust and columinous articles pub-
lished in the North Enid Tkibune
against your people. Such senti-
ments excite our indignation. We
want your friendship and respect and
believe we are entitled to it, and trust
that vov will believe the violence of ! for damages. This thing is not over
the Tribune is offensive to us. This , Ggo £ Hubbard. Trustee stein
editor has frequently been requested j -
to be decent and friendly, but in vain, i says he signed no such athing ashe is
Very Respectfully, [ represented. Trustee Armstrong said
Geo. E. Hubbard. | jie Would publicly state at the countil
President of Board of Trustees, i meejjng. tomorrow night that the
| board in no way spoke the sentiment
of the people of North Enid.
A H Johnson, citizen of O county,
J R Griffith, "
F D Trekell,
S P Redding, "
C F Mason,
B L Hine,
L W Johnson,
H W Jenness,
Geo. C Grav,
R M Blair,'
S L. Thompson.
W E Johnson.
The above includes the merchants,
lawyers, ministers, real estate men,
in tact very nearly every interest in
North Enid. C. H. Thompson, of the
Rock Island, criticized the dirty trick
severely: C. E. Butterfield, trustee of
the Town Co.. denounced it; the city
attorney, city clerk and city marshal;
signed the protest, and both the jus-
tices of the peace. It is the most
unanimous petition ever signed in
North Enid. Many have urged us to
bring action against the instigators
Mr. Joe Ramsouer to one of the trustees: "I
want to say to you, sir, that * .hi knew that
statement in no way expressed the sentiment
of our people, and that you not only struck a
coward's blow at our home paper but a more
disastrous one at the welfare of Hie town and
the interests of every citizen in it. You struck
a blow at my interests and every other prop-
erty owner's. The Tkibune has been the best
local friend the town ever had, has done ten
times more for it than any of us, and your
cowardly conduct against it is reprehensible
and scandalous. Confer a favor upon the
people by resign iny front the council." Joe
Ramsouer, although always popular, has more
friends in town to-day than ever.
There is not a citizen in town but who has
the warmest praise for the Tribune as a news
paper. Do yon wonder, then, that the editors
feel hard against a city council, three of the
members whom the paper was instrumental in
electing", that will sign an infamous lie to dis-
credit away from home and seek to stab in the
back their home paper that has stuck by them
and ther interests and the town's interests at
all times and under the most adverse circum-
stances. We should like to print the various
expressions used by the citizens since this in-
fernal trick was perpetrated.
The Rock Island is having1 a streak of hard
luck the past week or two. While having all
these things to contend with it should not be
called upon to defend itself against those
abominable Oh titer eating houses that are
"holding up" luckless passengers without
stint or mercy . It is not an uncommon thing
to see passengers go hungry because they are
unable to pay the robber prices.
R. B. Hanson,
Geo. B. Armsrong,
C. T. Sale,
G. S. Stein,
Board of Trustees.
The Tribune Stands by the Town Co.,
But Its Officers Refuse to Do It
a Simple Act of Justice.
The harm this done is only tempor-
ary, because the people were fearfully
aroused when they read it, and a A ilunaballlo is raised by the South Enid
petition circulated among them was [ Wave because a Mrs.Darrow was ejected from
unanimously signed denouncing '.he ! <>ne of the allotments ill this town, claiming
scurvy trick. George E. Hubbard j<he Town c,"" b ' fraud<theft'
scurvy men. ^ and corruption; that there never was such a
couldn't hurt the Tribune in North j ]ierson a9 RUth Riley. The following is from
Enid. It has been the influence of j the Wave:
this paper which has attracted pat- Great God, what is this eonntry coming tr
ronage to his old beanery. The peo-
ple urge that Hubbard could not in-
jure the Tribune, but the act of
having such a vile trick published
away from home was a severe blow at
North Enid and the interest of every
man in the town, and they eould not,
when solicited to sign the following
petition, employ severe enough lan-
guage to roast him. We have not had
sufficient time to get every man,
when helpless and homeless women art- treat-
thus.' Kirkpatrick & Sargent < f this city are
Mrs. Harrow's attorneys and they did all they
could for her before a prejudiced court, f he
object of the tank Town Co., for it is they who
are fighting tin* poor woman, is to get her to
abandon her claim so thev can feast on the
ill-gotten gains.
To show that this woman had 110 right on
the land; that Ruth Riley did live, and the
Town Co., is in legal possession, these affida-
vits are submitted:
We, John W. Jordan, Lee Jordan and Tom
Jordan, having been duly sworn, say, that we
were well acquainted with Ruth Riley,and she
was a near relative to us, and that she was liv-
ing and well when ihe allotments were con-
woman and child on the paper, but
every person signed it as they were j firmed in 1893, etc.
re tched Even Trustee Stein was the Sworn to before E. h. McKee in this county,
.... , r,-. J u 1 v 11,1804.
first to stick his name down, l ie
. . ■ , Territory of Okla., County O, ss:
Tribune takes great pleasure in sub- pL.rsonal)y appi!ared ,„.f„re me on this nth
initting to Geo. E. Hubbard just what t];lv Qf juiy( 1894, Dr. W. P. Baker, a citizen of
the people of North Enid think of him I said county, who deposes and says: i was the
and his conduct through the following j attending physician upon the late Ruth Riley,
c | . . daughter of Richard and Polly Ann Riley of
petition. Many of them asked that a ( Q mumy^ 0k wllodled at her Uome March 16,
petition be started demanding his J ls04 w. P. Baker, M. D.,
resignation from the board of trus-! Supt. Health, County o, Ok.
tees, and the gentleman who was in- Sworn to, etc., before notary, E. L. McKee.
strumental in his election said lie Now, then, this slander and villiflcation of
siruiueni.1 I the Town Co. was published in the South Enid
would be glad to be the first to sign j Wav(Ji a pa,)er that has villified and abused
such a petition. Nine out of the ten . everything and everybody in North Enid; a
voters of his ward will sign it. Read j paper that Geo. E. Hubbard used to lie about
this petition, Geo. E. Hubbard, and this paper: a paper that has traduced and
1 , . . 1,rtllll1„ tiln ! boasted that the Town Co. stole the allotment,
how severely and unanimously the i
sec nun j . . . The Tkibune has at all times and on all oc-
people of North Enid and vicinity ^ casi0us refuted this preposterous trash, stood
have "set down on you:" ' by every individual member of the Town Co.,
, ... , j although it maintained a Secretary, Fred
We, the undersignec ci lzetis a. ianeSi who fights us bitterly, and when the
business men of I <>i l ^n,( ( | members of the Town Co., were asked to sign
protest against tie ac lOtl o .l(V tile statement refuting the infamous lie defam-
Board of I ruitees of . or 1 "*nu I ing the publishers, which refutation was sign-
the publication of t le a ov e e e d ninety-eight per centof the citizens, they
condemning* the North ^ -<ni ^ ^ | refUge j0(jo us that simple act of justice.
After this paper had been so atrociously lied
about—gutted in the home of its friends—and
It will be observed that Trustee G. S. Stein
is prompt to repudiate the base calumny into
which he was tricked to do this home-guard
paper a most scurvy trick. We were pained,
however, to learn that George would sign such
a devilish statement even for a secret purpose.
Hut he has been manly to help undo what
could never have been accomplished only by
stealth—a whelp's weapon.
fectly willing- that the "citizens and
business men of North Enid" shall
say whether or not the Tribune has
put up a good fight for its chosen
home.
The Tribune came here when there
was nothing—was here the day of the
opening*. We have done our best to
give the people of North Enid a good
paper. The paper has not pleased
everybody—no paper ever was publish-
ed that did. What little money we
have had to spend we have given to
our home merchants. We do not pur-
chase our meat in Kansas City or
Wichita; we did not purchase what
little furniture we have in Kansas
Citv; we purchase our groceries of
home merchants and not in Wichita;
we do not ship our vegetables from
Kingfisher, and we did not send to
Kingfisher for carpenters to put up
our little building, and above all our
Board of Equalization Work.
The Territorial Board of Equaliza-
tions is composed of the governor, sec-
retary and auditor. This board held
regular meeting last week. The valu-
ation of railroad property was fixed as
follows, towit:
A. T. A S. F. mailt line, ner mile $5,250
sidings ana turnouts 2,«X)0
Kiowa division 4,000
" sidings;md turnouts l,5ft0
Rock Island, main line 5,250
sidings and turnouts . . ^ooj
Choctaw, main line 4,500
The rolling- stock of all railroads was
fixed at the following' valuation:
Locomotives, each $3,000
Passenger cars, eacli 2,(XX)
Mail, express and baggage cars, eacli . 1,500
Housecart,each .... . ITS
Cattle car*, each 175
Coal cars, each 150
Platform cars, each ioo
Cabooses, each 300
1 i.md «an, mm ii 1
Ptt h cars, ncta 10
Pullman cars,each 6,000
Tourist cars,each 1,500
The Western Union Telegraph Co.
was valued as follows:
place has not been a rendezvous for Each mile of line, and instruments $150.00
the enemy. In fact every dollar the Ch"c,8W lvi^rar>hc„ 7S.OO
Tribune has paid out since last Sep- The Mis8°ttri & Kansas Telephone
tember, except for white paper and ""
, , ... i Logan and Oklahoma countie
stationery, has been given to business Local Telephone Co
men of North Enid. Can Mr. Hub-
bard sav the same?
$5,ntx>
50.00
LAND VALUATIONS.
The valuation of land was fixed as
The Tkibune is, has been for North follows:
Enid all the time, and will be. In our
zeal we may have made mistakes, but
no one is infallible. We have put up
the best fight of any paper in the
Strip anu Mr. Hubbiird cannot make
the people of North Enid believe but
that what we have done has been hon-
est and open handed. We are stab-
bing no one and do not intend to, out
when Mr. Hubbard becomes presump-
tuous in regard to our business we are
not backward in speaking out in
meeting regarding it.
Our people have been egged and
mobbed by South Enid. TheTniBUNE
condemned it and did not mince its
words. Mr. Hubbard entertains
South Enid people occasionally and
no doubt to '"square" himself with
Canadian count}', per acre
Kingfisher
Logan 44 4i
Payne
Pottawatomie " "
$0.00
. 5.00
5.00
Silo
5.00
Other property left at valuation re-
turned by county clerks.
valuation by counties.
is the valuation of all
each county, as fixed by
The skunks who perpetrated the dirty trick
on this paper will realize how odious the whole
people look upon the trick when thev realize 1 , , , ,
that their customers are gain* to other places those people lie has made an attempt
with their favors. We trust, however, our *0 tear down his own town.
friends will not carry out their boycot expres- j Members of the council tell us they
s""ls' were deceived in the matter and we
charge Mr. Hubbard with being a
party to that deception inasmuch as
lie says he would do the same thing
over again.
The purport of the letter was to
create dissension and strife in North
We have not the space to reprint the many Enid, but the TRIBUNE will not fall
kind expressions made in our behalf, but all into the trap but will keep on sawing
are in line with those that appear in this issue.
It is so uuanimoua and vigorous that it makes
the boys' ears tingle.
uav
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Kingfisher
I.
Logan
Lincoln
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"Every person in North Enid should swear
by the Tribune. It is the best friend we have
in the town, and the inexcusable outrage per-
petrated against it by men we worked hard to
honor should not be quickly passed over." So
spake Captain and Mrs. Hine.
Following
property in
the board:
Beaver ...„$ .7H.288.5S
Blaine .V o,141.00
Canadian 1,889,631:57
Cleveland 1,3*9,631.57
D «>0,757.00
151,'>50.58
147.207.00
'X^.'W.OO
1362,038.00
808,829.22
. 2,950*619.89
(>48,734.00
<•82,2(H).78
720,378.14
O ... 790,617.58
Oklahoma 3,279,888.25
1* 966,563.16
Payne 958,077.57
•'otlawatomie .... 658, .343.00
Q 185,853.00
Kog T Mills 25<>,20«>.00
Washita 193,604.00
Total $19,947,922.86
LEVIES FOR TKKRITOKIAI, TAXES.
1. For current expenses of the ter-
ritorial board of education, one-tenth
of one mill on the dollar.
2. For general revenue, three mills
on the dollar.
3. For current university fund, five
co.\y
By reference to another column
this issue our readers will learn that
wood for North Enid, knowing that mills on the dollar.
the people of North Enid commend it. 4. For current normal school fund,
We trust we shall never again be five mills on the dollar.
compelled to refer to this matter. 5. To meet interest on territorial
— bonds outstanding, five mills oti the
The Tkibune has heard nothing but dollar.
the Board of Trustees have "condemn- ^ kindesl expressions since the Hub- ='-====
ed" the Tribune "in behalf of the i '^-South Enid Wave trick was play- A young man at Atchison, Kans..
citizens and business men of North cd 0,1 the town- U did not iniure this j or(lered ;l Pa,r of Pants of a tallor and
Enid." The citizens and business PaPer- but "ntil 80 severely refuted it , "hen they were finished he took them
men of North Enid speak in then own la-v llave ini«red the t0" - If j a,Wa> Pro s ^ t0 PaX ^e.n in a
behalf n\ a protest which we also pub-1 Enid was "iade "P of tie class of j short time. After waiting for some
lish. and a great many of them were People who inhabit South Enid Geo. | time the tailor met the young man on
not very complimentary in their re- Hubbard wou,d be STiven to under-
stand what was best for him to do.
marks when they signed the protest.
As to the object of the card pub-
lished in the South Enid Wave by the
Board of Trustees—we believe, as do
many others, that it was done for the
purpose of causing strife among our
own people, and we believe that it was
instigated by Robt. L. Owens and the
tool used was Col. Hubbard who hits
the street and asked him to come to
the shop and he would do some repair-
ing on them. The young man went
along and when he arrived at the shop
js it does not express the sentiment of
the people of North Enid toward the
Tribune which has stood so firmly
by our town ever since the day it was
born:
G S. Stein,
F A Woodbury,
F R Rogers,
C A Holme*,
J P Rigley,
J W Byrnes,
J L McCracken,
W E Poynter,
M Haggerty,
W S Grubb,
O S Peynrath,
E H Perdelwitz,
S A Stephenson,
J A Ramsouer,
F W Edwards.
C J Aurell,
Chas A Fisher,
F W Hill,
H C Franz,
W M Bevers,
J P Royston,
R S Belford,
J B Frost.
Wm Runge,
Wm H Holmes,
J L McCormack,
N E Chapman,
J B Greenlee,
infamous work denounced by every citizen
and the Smut Mill airain turns its vile filth on
the Town Co., its members come to us with
affidavits to refute the slanders heaped upon
them. All this after they liad refused to join
with the unanimous voice of the people In re-
futing a devilish slander ajralnst our paper.
We have no ill-will In the matter. We will
tight for the town and Town Co.. and its mem-
bers, to-day and to-morrow and all time as we
I have in the past. It's almost our religion.
This infamous course toward us by a coward
is something that cannot be suppressed and
I hushed up. The public must be the judge as
to who has played the puppet and ingrate, the
j Tkibune or the instlgatorsof that rotten liein
' the South Enid Wave. The town and all our
Ilr. Geo. W. Reneker, of North Enid,
visited with his numerous friends in he took the pants off and gave them to
Waukomis Wednesday. The Doctor ; the tailor. The tailor then informed
never fails to become very popular tlie young man lie would keep the
wherever he goes on account of his pallts untii they were paid for. He
conversational ability and affable j paid the bill. Ex.
manner. He was highly entertained
while here by the "Bills" of the Cam- THE NEW MILL.
a grievance against the Ikiblnr. ^ e i den Drug Co.—Wizard. \ The Tkibune is pleased to note that
do know that Mr. Hubbard worked —— , the obstacle obstructing work on the
Three car loads of stone were un- ! "
new mill has been removed, and that
the work is now being pushed right
along. The car loads of stone for the
foundation were placed on the ground
Mondap night and the masons are now
at work preparing it for the foundation.
Mr. Richter, who is putting in the
mill says that everything about it will
be first-class, and hopes that sixty
days will see the mill in full operation.
Anticipating that this will be a good
grain country a large elevator will be
built in connection with the mill so
that farmers will next season, when
they expect to rn's n good crop, find
a good market right at their door.
Hurrah for our mill.
Mrs. H. B. Dewey and son Marshall,
Mrs. S. M. Shockey drives a horse j who have been visiting relatives in
in. We are making no fight on any and phaeton, a present from her hus-| El Reno for the past ten days, re-
very assiduously to get the paper
signed. We also know that a member Monday for the new flouring
of the board tells us that he did not m''' and now a b'ff f?allSf workmen
sign the letter published and that he n '" Pusb t,lat new enterprise to com-
could not be induced to do so, and his pletion. North Ivnid is going to be
is the first name that appears oil the j *'le ,nos'; conspicuous industrial point
protest. He did sign a letter to the 'n '^klahoina^
Secretary of the Interior. Another The Cherokee Republican, the new
member says he did not read it, but paper published at Waukomis, has
that Mr. Hubbard approached him reached us. It is republican in poli-
and said, "here is a paper that Owens 1 ties and we trust that it may live to
wants you to sign as a member of the ljoom Waukomis and vicinity. It is a
board." He signed it w ihout reading four-page paper, three of which are
it. Aside from Hubbard and one ' plate matter.
other member of the board none of „ .. — 7——,
, , Editor Palmer, of the Patriot, and
them knew such a letter was to be , „ . ,,
, , T1 ,, , . , ,, , .. Towneite Agent Dunsinore, of Med
published, Hubbard carried the letter : , , r„
* - ... , , , , ford, were in the city Tuesday and
to ti,e south town and delivered it 111
made the Tribune a pleasant call.
person. It was a trap set to cause
strife, but the Tkibune will not fall
of our own people, and we are per- band recently.
turned home last uight.
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