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KYou Are For Single Statehood You Will Vote For FRANK MATTHEWS.
J. M. TUGGLE,
The Leading
Grocer and Bak^r
Will buy your Produce.
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VOLUME 18.
LEXINGTON LEADER
(Consolidation of You Alls i)oin5, Established i8qq: Cleveland County Leader, (Established i8qi.
Lateral June0. iskui, at Lnxiutftou, Okla. as stu'oiul-eluss mattwr, mulm Aft oic. :u;ross ..t March «, km."
LEXINGTON. CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY. AUGUST 19, 1904.
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FO^ FAVQ*ABLE LOANS ANO CORRECT ABSTRACTS OF TITLE SEE THE ANDREW KINGKADE COMPANY. NORMAN, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY
Special Features of Interest
at the World's Fair.
By Mrs. Mary Mitchell.
f <
is an embroideried picture made by j j~ ▼ ~w-v -v t -r -r -v
a lady in Chicago, that took three 1 LONE STAR NllWS ^
years to make, aud contains over twi !
million stitches The price of the !
picture is two thousand dollars All '
number of special ladies who have a fancy for fine em
1 1 atiended
Electric Line Assuming Tan- A Simon Pure Democrat
gible Honor.
The directors of the Oklahoma
8 Lottie EllioU ^turned home Citv Lexington & Sulphur Springs
Local and Personal.
There are a number of special ladies who have a fancy for fiue em ',iuuu,,J'- Electric Ry., closed contract with
features which belong to the several broidery should see that piece of1
Quite a large crowd atiended the If I. McMath Surveying Co , of
exhibits that are very attractive, and work. Also in the same building, is "hutch Sunday evening. i St. Louis, Mo, this week, making
ire worthy of independent descrip- a cut glass punch bowl, the largest Miss Bertha Leaoh, of Norman, is . this fii in chief ami constructing
tion. One of the most uovel feat in the world, price twenty-four hun-1 visiting the Misses Collins.
tires is the tloral clock ou Agricul- dred dollars. It is in the display oT Miss Lottie Elliott spent Saturday
turai Mill. This consists of a dial! Jacquard & Co. and Sunday in this vicinity.
one hundred feet in diameter, the; Do not fail to see the (iold Dust j Mrs. Wallace and two daughters
numerals on which, are fifteeu feel Twins in the Varied Industries. I spout Sunday at J. G. Boggs'.^
high, and made entirely of (lowers. They are real live little negroes, but ~ ,,
.. ., , r ,' , " , . Mr. and Mrs. b. 1'. Huges were
At the top of the dial, there is a a fine representation of the twins as1 • •.• o.
. . visiting in Star vicinity Sunday,
-mall house built to contain the given m the picture ou the box.
mechanism, and on top of this house There is a Bmall enclosure in w hich , 1 ('hl11 Jarboe and
'H placed a five hundred pound bell, they stay, in the center of which is a '"j'' <''"ll'reu 8P0nt Wednes-
whose tones can be heard throughout fountain of bubbles made from gold ; ' " ' ll'^"SS9' ^
the grounds, and a mammoth hour dust, that gushes out from the top, *^rs' Lula Stewart and children with headquarters at ludiauapolis,! "ul'' '^y.him' '""t Heen that they ^ ^
glass. This bell strikes tte hour and rolls gently down the sides,' re';urDe^ hone Monday accompanied lud., and has under h's supervisicn 'u°t an«i will not make good any ' '' ' ' 1
and half hour, and upon the first forming a complete mass of bubbles by Grace her sisters. a greater milage of electric roads '• Pro0,'Pe ever made them So now
Mrs. Mattie Carnehan and child than any man in America, and is re t ,llBy ure going to exercise their own !'
1 • • ■ 1 are made of wood
I giueer and superintendent of con
struction of the line.
R. E McMath, senior uiemb
i the firm. was for two years president
of the American Association of En*
gineers, the highest position an en
giueer can acquire.
Tom J!. McMath, a member, also
of the linn, is the engineer in chief
Irank Mathews grows stronges; Walter Burrage, of Pool North
over the territory every day. Those Carolina, is visiting j. finrrag,
that did not know him before his of Denver, O T. He probably wili
nomination, have had time since lemain until Decwm,)er Mf
then to investigate hill, thoroughly | rage thinks Oklahoma a fine country
They find him absolutely with a Hml Uiat „ f„ '
clean record. His life neither P"-' most excellent.
vate or public, bears a single blem ;
i s Fair should all be at their
on Oklahoma Day, Tuesday,
j i ... .,. ,, The Oklahoma exhibit* at llm
ish He is a Simon pure Democrat. „ , . a l""
l 11 r . . • . . "01'd
of All factions respect liiui and it will )j(
be seeu after the election, that he is u
there, when it comes to polling the i a"y p, rSOn bavinS
largest vote ever polled by a Demo of "Pecml value or merit
crat in the territory. The votes have isamples
listened to the Republican's promises ' h"f"r" th#t th"e' Let
i , , , ' . everybody take hold.
long enough and voted against their
A large collection of bows and ar.
•■f-i ' " 1 ' -"
and superintendent of construction j C0UVll!ii0"8i and better judgmeut to
of live interurbau electric railw.
help elect a Republican congressman r0W8 "f Chine8e manufacture are ex
hibitsd in the Palace of Liberal Arts
stroke of each hour, the hourglass from top to bottom.
turns and the sand runs back. At The World's Fair is a fine educa- u'n< of Cheyenne, is visitin
the same time the doors of the : tor, insomuch that a vast amount of! mother, Mrs Basham.
house will swing open showing the knowledge can bn gained in a short [ Rec. J. D, Watkins gave an ice
machinery which controls the strik time, that it would require perhaps cream supper Friday night in honor "edg-
ing, and operates the dial, and clos- years of study, and then never be' >f Miss Mamie Stevens Leo. (
ing upon the last stroke of the bell, able to so fully uderstaud, for an j Miss Sadie Wallace returned Fri
her garded as a genius in electric works.
This firm stands at the top of the
list iu both civil ami electric * ngin
day from Wanette where
she has
A. B.
The Queens Jubilee Gifts, tbo . ot>ject loHson is always more impres
greatest array of costly presents ever sive. j bfen visitin^ her gjgter Mrg
exhibited to the world, are to be I Monoid
seen in the Administration Building Notice Number Four. j j
t , I Mr and Mrs R. W. Jarboe and
Among the articles shown is the fa- The Piker9 a|0Dg lhe Pike have family am, Mifisns Anlm CoHins aml
rniMs chain of state. It lias truss 9tarted out with the intention of I Bertha Leach and Charlie Stewart
shaped legs, with lion paw feet, the makil]gthat amusement resort the spent Sunday at E. 1) Jarboe'*
arms terminated in the lion heads, ,nost p^tious the wotld ever yet j
the back surmounted by shell orua has seeu. and from the reports which T ▼ ▼ y VT T y ▼ ▼ ▼
ment supported by two elephants, have beBIJ receiVed from visitors to 4 D, U i
the side and all parts enriched by th„ F.,;r U)e n)()st beautifu| of r|, 4 OUCKhCad ItCmS. [
plaques of covered ivory, and the the Pike concessions is "Fair Japan."
seat inlaid in alabaster A carved tIere eif?|lt hundred natives of th(1
worn footstool with two steps, is |ittle empire now 80 c0ngpicu0u8l
lined with green silk velvet, with before the public eye have congre
Itfold lace border, also a shaped L,Hfeil atll, have formed „ vii|
The bows are
curiously shaped aii'l decorated and
of various sizes The arrows
rights, and cast thrir vote fur this arH a,HI'e woo(' but iro tipped
|clean man who stauds for immediate B'mrP pifees of steel.
statehood, and who stands on a plat ^ "lackie party" was given by
form that can be heartily endorsed ^^11 ''"u Little at their home
by every citizen of Oklahoma terri. j eveuing. A prize was to be
lory. We can and must elect Frank :lwarded the 'tackiest* boy and girl.
I Mathews to congress. Hob art Chief. 'unit' Slirader was the lucky girl
lace border, also
kneeling cushion ill green silk velvet, „ r,. , u . i r I.
which fioui the standpoint of the in Paumn county, Texas. ; ir.,i,.i,t
enibroideried in gold and silver i i . , , . , i straight
unique novel never before has been tiim i^ut , L1 .
thread. Numbers of other beautiful M(ud (ipoil this ,n,lti„,nt 0r1 fh " ^n 7 f " j W a
and costly presents, presented to j j,, fact anywh6re outside of th„ > ' the farmers , Davis out
Queen Victoria by t h e different Cele9tia, Empire.
D/.iatzko, manager of thelbv eTerv citizen of Oklahoma terri. I Mouday evening
firm was in Lexington several days
last week collecting data for engin
eer's report which will be forthcom
comiug iu thirty days.
A St Louis tiust company pro-
poses to furnish funds to construct
and equip the same with favorable
report from this firm.
lhe road iu Oklahoma Territory
will be under construction this fall.
Work in the Indian Territory por
tion of the line may be delayed till j b^,, U9. The corn and a,falfa
n,*x'' spring, as the indifference story is not fiction We have the
Mai'gie Mallow is quite sick , shown l,v some of the towns down goods in our agriculture exhibit to 'lie fact that he keeps only the best
there mav necessitate another sur Provt! the truth of our statement, blooded hogs to be found.
and Mrs. line Baleses have a y,ev ' and you will find timothy heads five
! , .. ,, , „ inches long in the same exhibit.
u ri ! ■' "T'-h 1 """y h:,s n!Tere'1 <° P,v' We are a great tock country, with
1 n 1H ; $JO,(KH) extta, if line should go everything in cur favor, such as
from there to Sulphur plenty of feed and open winters. It
jand Emmett Massey the
Praise for Oklahoma. termelons slii^rbet and
•We raise the fiue.t alfalfa and s,'rvi"d as refreshments,
corn ill the u. il l. Our corn grows
twenty-four feet high and. oui alfal
fa seventeen feet high. Without
boasting we are the linest state in
the union. Why, when we tell the
people the truth about our country,
I they won't believe us: we are com
pelted to pr- varicate before thev will
boy. Wa-
cake were
All report
a good time.
' N ( urtis received two hogs
from Indiana last Saturday. These
two are both registeted Berkshires
and are the best hogs we have seen
iu Lexington. Mr. Curtis is one of
the best hog raisers in the south and
his success has been attained from
Mrs
Mr.
very sick baby.
A. T. Barber
An interesting group of Japanese
carved panels is a feature of the loaii
collection in the Art Palace , t the
Worlds Fair. These panels are
leave Wynnewood and ^°"'t 1)e lt)U« bef"ro make the called "Choshiu Ramma" and
\1 I III I' l in i i In lir.tr nwiiMul "
Mr and Mrs. Henry Myers are
Wash
sore e\es
Mrs. J„hn
home lr"in a
Rose has returned
visit to relatives at
f
nations, are on exhibition. tk„ ... r r r • i <*
I lie enie! feature of "rair Japan
Another special feature is the big is the beautiful entrance, a replica ,
bird cage, in which are large living in ev-ry detail of the famous Nikko! viaitiDK ,h" letter's parents at Avoca
birds and fowls, some very rare Hate in Japan, the street in Tokio, jtb'9 Week'
species, one lieieg the pelican, a the .Japanese Theater in which the <)llr "bliging postmaster
waterfowel that rears its own young (jeisha Girls disport themselves for1 R°se> is suffering with a bad case of
on the islands near the southern , the edification of the public; the tea
border of South America. This gardeu and the ancieut architectural
fowl is snow white, and about the structures which have been brought
size of a large duck, has very small
wings, a large flat bill, and walks
with its body almost perpendicular.
, """I'M Iltu'-Ilf, .11 I fin !«*( 1
In the enclosure of the cag* is a all of those residents of this city J goo weflding Sunday
p^ol of water for the aquatic fowls, who visit St. Louis and pause before! VIru ,u. „ ,
While there are several familiar the sign of the Dragon, will not be- lf ' , ' ' "
n ' , of I5"\, Were the quests of Mrs
grudge the small admission fee de j Wlt„h R(We> tbjg WBpl(
mantled for an exhibition at the j
same time educational, beautiful and '
unique.
Missouri mule bray second
... ... , From discourse deliv
Miss b lorence Wheatley is con v.i The directors are copsidenng the Marchant of the World
lecent, after a long illness of fever, j advisability of accepting this propo- luissioner
by Mr
lir coin-
are
made from wood known in Japan as
"Keyaki The panels date back to
the 10th and 17th centuries and
vary iu value from $200 to >7.00
I' rederick W Dimbeley, grand
chaplain of .he grand lodge of Eng
lintl, Independent Order of Good
Templars, in Boston Evening Globe:
' lhe English have no idea of what
•M0,IKK) more to go that way ir on Summit Cembat mountains, sei d- America really is They have he.
sition, as they could in that case
make a large town of their own half
way between Pauls Valley and Sul-
phur. east of Wynnewood, where
with the *20,000 from Pauls Valley
would pay the directors something
like
Cloudburst Causes Death.
Kingman, O. T, Aug. 17 lie
port by telephone from Layne
Springs, fourteen miles north of
here, says that between o and li
o'eJ e.k last ( Veiling :i cloudburst fell
lo thi I uited States for exhibition j Ardmore
purposes. All in all "Fair Japan" Will Lackey and J. C Cromwell,
is a nlace well worth the seeing ami | of Wanette, attended the Lewis Dra
tile lin
miles, save
JTo.OOO.
ing a flood of water lifteen feet deep i,„i ; ,„i. ,i , , ,
,i . 1 : leu to trunk that Americans were of
the - line stamp that visit the other
down through the canyon. . .
everything before it, At the Night
hawk mine a hou
ever
kinds, you will find it very instruc-
tive to go and see them.
A colossal' statue of Vulcan occu-
pies a place in the center of the
Palace of Mines. It is made of
iron, anil is a part of the exhibit of
mines contributed by the iron manu
Wt
Notice.
the undersigned business men
facturers of the city t>f Birmingham. Qf the city of Lexington, have taken
Alabama. The statue is fifteen feet uo part in arranging for a so-called
high, and weighs one hundred thou pie,^. at Lexington August 19-20 a-
sand pounds. A horse and buggy advertised by Ed Exelton, and take
can be driven between its feet. It is thia method of acquainting our
next in size the Bartholdi statue friends and customers with the fact
of Liberty, the largest statue iu the j tbat we are not in any manner con-
world. At the bead of the grand nected with said scheme and-that we
lagoo.i, and directly facing the Cas- |are not supporting it. We consider
cade gardens, is one of the principal ijt a scheme to make motley for the
decorative features of the Fair, j party wfao is advertising it and that
This is the Louisiana monument, | jt i8 notlor the purpose of furnish,
one hundred feet high, that rises amusements for the people of
from the center of the plaza of St., Lexington and country surrounding,
Louis. Thirty five groups of statu but for the sole purpose of enrich
ary form a part of "
while the statue of
the shaft.
A mud-daubed cabin, the home of: The Fair
Mrs. James Millegan left Wed
nesdav f"r Bellview, Kan , where
she uill attend the betlsith of her
daugliier, who is quite sick.
B ickhead farmers give thanks
Hail * I hey have nothing to do tint
sit in the shade and eat watermelous
and pi in how to spend their money
i h i - 1 a 11
the monument, ;Ug the advertiser.
'Peace" crowns | Hine & Hine
\Vynue Bros
W. E. Paisley
W D Hoi ford
J. B Peters
President Roosevelt for three years j. W. Schouecker Perkins & Reid
> while he was a ranchman in North First Nat'l Bank J.B.Collins
Dakota, cau be seeu in the Agricul j Jatues Bros
tural building. It is a fine repre | j_ Keller
sentation of frontier life, built very i q £ Shrader
low, contains two rooms, the furni-1 j, s. Little
lure rudely constructed, while the
skius and horns of different kinds of j If you can solicit, call at the Lead-
animals display his fondness for er office, where you can secure a po
hunting. Iu the Varied Industries, sition tbat dollars are in.
P. C. Isom
J. M. Toggle
Myers Bros.
J. W. McBride.
tit
Rev Win. Mickolls performed the
c reinony in the presence of about
one hundred guests Ice cream,
cake and fruit were served.
Last Saturday Misses Almetta
5 aud Mabel
invited about 25 of their friends out
w mid be shortened threi
construction
everything before it
carried away
and two men drowned Qeorge M.
A Con eCtion. Bowers, a well known mining man,
In describing the rural route last escaped from the building, but was contact,
week we unintentionally left, out one imprisoned in the tunnel of the mint
linn of the route, which we include ""d was lug out thi-- morning by
this week. fellow miners. The body of Ole
Five miles north to E. V
son's corner, thence two mil
to Bughu's corner, then
miles to Standeford corner, thenct
Declare War On IVIormanism,
Lewiston, Idaho. Aug lfi — Tht
Dubois Heitfelt forces regained con
trol of the Idaho Democratic Coil
vention today, routing the
forces after a fierce fight.
Last, night the anti Dubois forties j.
succeeded iu striking the anti-Mor
John Inglebrethern was found iu mud aud meats."
west debris. The both of John Connors.
side. At the St. Louis Fair I mar
veled at the progressive spirit shown
by everybody with whom I came in
I think that the present
fair, which is about three times the
size of the Paris Exposition, is tb
greatest of all modern accomplish-
north two another victim, has not yet been
covered.
east 4 miles to Davis' <v,ruer thence
south one mile to Jackson corner-
then west to Alamo school house,
then south to Harness corner anil
making a distance of
miles and serving 11 t
into ton n.
twenty-two
families.'
Four Killed By Lightning Bolt,
Guthrie, Okla., Aug. 17 — During
a rainstorm at Perth today the home
of D. A Darling, near there, was
struck by lightning and burned to
the ground. The inhabitants of tie
I bouse were either killed outright or
so shocked that they could not es-
cape, ami besides Darling, bis «.
anil two children, (J ami 14 y. hi.
MAitRiKi). iwnuiy-twu nines ana servuiL' III tun Mormon
Sir 'lay evening at five o'clock at!
me of the brides parents, Mr. o j o . , .
,,, ... , bunflay benoo Cass Enter- """u™ m wrming me ann-aior m . i
J hn Lewis, of Henderson, and M ss uiuci , , 0,d, respectively, are believed to Iihv
lii . , i , tainprl mon plank out of the platform by aL , ,
Blanche, the daughter of Mr. and Idllieu. 1 J perished
vir tv i? n m , I e 0 *"'■ Adjournment
i ' e h Iv bonds "of "T "" ! . *'","rtained was then taken. During the recess OKLAHOMA COTTON
y S °f i1"''' Sunday school class Saturday,,be Idaho county delegation was
afternoon from 1 to 7. Refresh- rounded up and swung into line for World s Fair Visit0|-s See Plant in
meiits of cream and cake were Dubois. Different Stages of Growth
served Mr-, Ferguson was assisted! w|mj|| ^ COf,ventjon aB9(Jmb,e() | To illustrate that Oklahoma ,
by Mis.es Hattie Kelley and Mary ! today the following resolution was sovereign state in the union i,, u
Lorett i V irgin. I lie little ones j presented and carried through by ' c°mes to growing cotton Edgar if.
Williams, Grace aud Mabel Thacker Io . Ldgar Keber, Geo. i the Dubois forces, led by the senator Marchant, executive commis.i -u r t
- j I erkms, Lois Perkins, Dwight Kirk t.imself: the state has bad four growing
Robert Thacker H'iz"Mh Kel,er' We demand the exterminate of, ton plants installed in the Okla, o„i,
The crowd wis ' Kr<'d T,,r,,er' 1Varl Cofi- P«'yg«n y «'"> unlawful co habita state building, so that visitor, ui -v
' I Bruce Turner, Joseph Virain. Stan ti°n within the borders of Idaho and i 9ee cotton in all stages of it
the r'Omnlet.4 Kflliarati/tn ,,t nl.,. „V. I
to the farm of Dr.
to eat watermelon
On srriviug at the place about 50
Bruce Turner, Joseph Virgin, Stan
ley \irgin,
i ami Monroe Perdue, Leslie
' ,. , . „. .. and state in no t ea affairs. W.. I 1 '' nt ia at the foot of the stairs
state in political affairs. Wei -
big melons were cut and the voun ! ' 1 ' , i>t sue ova ' pledge the Democratic party to enact, aB °''H!r tllree on the porch of
"" "aughman and Lotie Kosten such legislation as will eveutually the building. The cotton m w bears
bailer, rite oltler ones present were: J suppress this evil.
Mesdumes. T. B. Gordon, A. M Henry Heitfeld, of Lewiston, for-
Peritue, Turner, J. P. Perkins. Chas.1 mer United States Senator, was then
folks proceeded at once with their
work of devastation. The occasion
was au enjoyable one.
1
reliable
The Leader wants a few
young men at oMce. Come today
Kirkpatrick
' Muwln.
a n ti Miss Nanniei nominated for governor by acclama-
I tion.
a white bloom. This will turn two
colors before burstiug into cotton
Oklahoma has taken world's prizes
for cotton at both the Chicago ami
Paris exposition.—Globe Democrat.
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