The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 1898 Page: 1 of 8
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|T WAVES SURGES ROARS AND REBOUNDS ONLY TO COME BACK AGAIN W'TH GREATER FORCE FOR ENID. GARFIELD OOUNTY. OKLAHOMA, AND DEMOCRACY,
VOLUME 5.
ENID, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY, THURSDAY, JANUARY ! 3, 1898.
NUMBER 2
Royal makes the food pure,
wholesome and delicious.
*AKlK0
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
royal bakinq powder co., new york.
GARFIELD
COUNTY.
A Garden Spot in Oklahoma.—
Composed of Rich, Level
and Rolling Prairie.
! less farmers from Texas, Colorado and
nil parts of the United States crowd
t-d into this Edenic sectioi uf new
Oklahoma; took up claims, suilered
and toiled foriliree seasons, brought
iheir families her.-, founding per-
manent, happy anil independent
Immes, without means, without mix
encouragement lor many weary da\ s,
weeks, months and years, yet today
they feel fully repaid, as they ure in
possession of bountiful crops mid
valuable land.
ALTITUDE.
This county is on a line with
; central Tennessee, Arkansas and
I North Carolina and the Bay of
Montery on the Pacific coast, and has
| a mean altitude of 1,158 above the
! sen, which is that happy medium be-
ll ween arid plains and malarial
I marshes.
The surface is as handsome as the
practical mind can conceive; long
swells ot green crested, billowy
waves succeeding one another, frnin
a dark green garment, irrigatiu
and draining, furnishing power,and
ami
lepth
indicating
l superior
EYERY ftGRE HOMESTEADED.
Soil Unsurpassed in the World
for Richness and Pro-
ductiveness.—A
GflPTIVATING, HEALTHY GLIMATE
That causes Thousands to Seek
Homes Here and Elsewhere
in the land of the Fair
God every year.
Km CRYSTAL WATER.
Flowing From Thousands of
Springs and Wells and Num-
erous Winding Creeks.—
Oak and Other Tim-
ber in Abun-
dance.
THE CITY OF ENID.
The County Seat and Trading
Center of 35,000 People.—In-
dustries, Crops, Population
Wealth, Prospects,
etc., etc.
Previous to the year 187(i the
Clisrokef outlet was inhabited only
by Indians, buffalo*, wild horses,
scattered bands of cow boys and
liHir inseparable companions, the
long horned Tex a? steer. It was
during the year 1876 that the ad-
vance guard of the grand army of
King Agricola inarched into the
ijuiet pr«*c'\nts of Southern Kansas
to recnnnoiter; the main army soon
fallowed, taking up every acre lo the
Kansas slate line llieo looked wisli-
I illy into the sir p, this beautiful
Country of whiifli we write. From
i iie centennial year, nventy-one years
ago, there was a continual struggle
Willi the powers at Washington lo
open this land, so that new homes
might be established and the fertile
miil be made to bear the fruits of the
«'i >r of the pioneer farmer.
file strgglrt con tinned from year
to year, and, at times, the hardy
boomers becoming lired of the in-
action of the government would
bieak across the Kansas line to forcq
a settlement, only to be driven out
bv the soldiers. At last on th(? 10th
day of September, 1893, a beneficent
government declared the long closed
«fates of tlie Cherokee strip ajar, and
bade all enter, who wished, provid-
in t they held a booth certificate.
Thousand!! of mortgage pinched
furmers from Kansas; the drouth strio
Vnn lioor from weslern Kansas;
water for stock,
i hat at a moderate
buality of well water can be found.
Here and there a babbling brooklet
percolates through tangled grass
and over its gravelly bed, and a
short, brisk walk will find its source
in a bubbling spring, sparkling in
the sunlight and tasting lo the
thirsty palate like the spring water
we so loved to lay our face iu our
boyhood days in our far away east-
ern home.
There are at least one hundred
clearlv defined water, courses dis-
tributed so judiciously that in a mile
or two, at almost any point in the
county, one will cross a creek of
greater or lesser importance, while
the Turkey, Skeleton, Boggy, Hack-
berry and Black Bear creeks and
others are formidable streams.
There is along the banks of these
streams more or less timber, anil had
it not been for the raging fires that,
for centuries, prior to the settlement
of the country, swept over this coun-
try, there is no doubt but what hard-
wood timber would stand where the
tall prairie grass waves to and fro at
the will of the wind today
CI.IMATK,
The climate of Garfield county or
Oklahoma can scarcelv be exagger
ated in words. The country is cen
trally located between the cold,
frigid north and the torrid, hot
south. To prove this we have only
to say that both wheat and cotton
can be successfully grown here.
The weather scarcely ever gets ex-
tremely hot or cold; the nights are
always cool and pleasant during
the warmest weather.
The reader whose fortunes bid
nm dwell in low malarial places,
breathing the foul breath of death
itself at every respiration, is unpre-
pared to accept the truth regarding
the influence the clear, baliny, invig
orating atmosphere of this locality
has upon mankind. A short stay
here convinces all that here is na
turn's sanitarium. The depressed
mindis made buoyant, the clouded
and aching brow bright and pleas
ant, the cramped muscles and sore
joints elastic and strong, the slug
gisli braift and impaired blood active
d healthy, and, in fact, the whole
systeui becomes renovated, making
life "worth the living." Those who
ive amid the cold banks of gleaming
snow, anil in the far north, where the
freezing blizzard chills the marrow
in their bones, pinches the poor am
impoverishes the rich, will find that,
much sought, medium between the
cold blasts of the north land and the
ndolent atmosphere of the south
his latitude; and at this point the
elevation is such as to eliminate all
traces of lassitude and retain all the
energies for which the people of the
north are famous.
The stranger in this section is in
fatuated with the delightful climate
and satisfaction in this direction
guaranteed by every loyal and
sponsible citizen.
PKODUCV8..
that has ever reached the market and
wheat, this year, that lias or will
astonish the civilized world.
As a general thing corn of all
kinds, including kafiir and broom,)
grow to wonderful proportions, the
species mentioned never failing.
Here is the home of tlie castor bean
oats, barley and sweet potatoes. The
homesteaders who ha'! money to im-
prove their homes rapidly are well
provided wit'i fruit this year.
The records in the county clerk's
office, from the returns ot the town,
ship assessors for the year 1897,
shows that there are 58,75(3 apple
trfe.s planted and growing in the
county; 170,540 peach trees; 24,481
cherries; 8,250 apricots; 4,(572 pears;
(5,760 grape vines; 207,250 straw-
berry plants; 10,229 blackberries;
2,930 raspberries and 9,280 plum
trees. These figures do not include
the fruit trees planted this last
spring.
BUTTER, KGCJS AND POULTRY.
There was 128,826 pounds of but-
ter marketed last year and upwards
of 1,520,728 dozens of eggs and
130,000 chickens, ducks, geese and
turkeys, making a grand aggregate of
income from this smirce of about
i)8,000, and nobody makes a
specialty of these lines in farming.
WlllCAT.
The acreage of wheat reported to
the assessors for this season is 85,000
acres, for this c unty, but owing lo
farmers fearing a slough m
price, should tliey report correctly^
ed considerably, hence, 125,000
acres is nearer the actual amount
rvt sted and it will average tliirly
bushels to the acre making a grand
yield of 3,750,000 bushels, which at
50 cents a bushel amounts in cold
gold cash to #1,875,000.
January Clearance
Sale.
Tlie Gnsfltest Hit
Reduced
Prices on
Goods.
all Winter
dress goods department.
All wool Henrietta worth 75 for
Cashmere
Serge
Novelty
Flannel
Cotton novelty
Black Sateen
Outing Flannel
50
65
45
75
40
30
45
35
25
20
15
20
15
12i
15
m
10
00
35
50
30
50
30
22*
35
25
16
14
m
17
13
11
12
10
8*
7 i
8*
1.30
1.00
?M)
50
35
8* "
Cotton Twills " 10 "
SILK DEPARTMENT.
Novelty silks worth 1.50 tor
.< „ j 35 n
n « ti i.oo "
" " " 75 "
ii it 50 ii
Yaril wide Roman striped percale 121
BKAI1) TRIMMING.
Jet, black and colors from np.
Silk braid " 4 "
Mohair braid " 4 "
Calicoes from 4cts. up.
Apron Ginghams 4, 5 and Gets.
Table Oil Cloth 12icts.
Masceline worth 10 for "tcts.'
Ladies' and Children's underwear ana wool hosiery
at Reduced Prices.
In order to make room for our
Up to the first day of Febuary,
ast, the little empire of Garfield
county, 30x36 miles square, con-
tained 9,869 hogs, or a half a hog
for each man, woman and child m
the county, which means consider-!
able pork; horses to the number of in this reduction sale, Jf you want to save money do not
9,635 about a half a horse for "cJ'Liss this Clearance sale.
>ne ot us; mules 1,001; cattle of all!
kinds 11,376, about two thirds of a Yours Respectfully,
steer, cow or calf for each of us. The
yalue of this stock on a close estimate
$755,085. Counting an increase
of one to each head of stock each
ear to be is sold in the market
makes the income from the stock
source about the amount mentioned
above.
spring clothing we will
offer you our overcoats at cost and make you reduced
prices on all our men's boys' and children's winter suits, so
as to close out same at once. We will also include our en-
tire line of men's underwear, wool overshirts and duck coats
Logan & Kennedy,
enid, o. t.
OATS, BARLEY AN1) RYE.
The acreage of these cereals was
not large this year, but the yield per
acre was wonderful; oats and barley
figured as high as eighty bushels to
the acre. There were 7,488 acres of
oats out, some barley and rye, but
record wa- made of it. There
were 4,022 acies of castor beans, and
6,220 acres of cotton planted.
These crops are estimated to be
worth * 100,000.
FOllAGE.
No county on earth can beat this
county on forage of all kinds, and
English blue grass does remarkably
well.
This country will produce as fine
leanuts as were ever placed on the
markets, ye they are notraised to an
extent worth mentioning.
Attention!
Pure Liquors are always in use
for Medicinal Purposes.
E. STETTNISCH
Makes a specialty of this class of trade in quantities to suit
customers. All liquors guaranteed as recommended.
Columbia Saloon, ^
E St. Enid, O. T.
PENSIONS.
Garfield county contains
hi
Pies. ■ 6ak6§. - Bread.
BAKERY.
Brail New
The products of this country are
very numerous and wonderful, as it
is in the peanut belt and just far
enough south to raise the best cotton
Yatlutio Tale at m H t.
A touching1 story of a rat comes from
IRIckmansworth. The hero is old and
felin3. He lives with his family on *
tewnge farm, and sinoe he has lost the
•se of hit eyes he has taken his daily
airing with two of the younger mem- i j
bers of hi* family. To guard against JUNIUS,
misadventures the three go abreast.
with a piece of stick in their mouth%
which the youngsters uso as a tiller to
■teer the blind gentleman with. Thui
fortified the afflicted rat is enabled to
teke his walks over hi* native sewage
Arm, crossing planks and eluding doga
m in the days of his youth and rigor.
Hren the lafly who J,out off their taila
with the earring knife" will have so
thane* against the blind rat of lUcW
^aasvrtvrth.—Westminster Ciaaatu.
I'
We have opened up a bakery, confectionary and fruit
store in Enid. We also carry a full line of lunch canned
LUNCH COUNTER.
Best Brands of GlQdPS 911(1 101)3660.
Store in the old Banner grocery building. E Street.
Gunnlngta & Linneborn.
Proprietors.
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Isenberg, J. L. & Isenberg, Edna. The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 1898, newspaper, January 13, 1898; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112047/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.