The Daily Gazette. (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 252, Ed. 1 Monday, November 25, 1901 Page: 1 of 4
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0®Voted to The Interests of Stillwater.
TO SECURE THE
IK. & T,
Preliminary Steps Taken at a Meet-
ing Saturday Night-Act-
ive, Earnest Work
Commences-
A letter addressed to the proper offi-
cial of the Missouri, Kansas and Tex-
as railroad left Stillwater this morn-
ing for 8t. Louis asking that person to
grant an audience to a committee of
Stillwater. Oklahoma, Monday Evening, November 25, 1901.
($4.60 per year
No. 252
there must be considered the constant
effort, made by the Western comma-
nitie. to have these reservation,
thrown open to settlement or, at least
to resist their future increase. This
reeling was so strong some years ago
that it forced the revocation of a part
or an order made by President Cleve-
land withdrawing lands from settle-
ment, a revocation which the depart-
ment has ever since bitterly deplored
It i hoped that an intelligent manage-
ment of the reserves will do much to
reconcile those who oppose them
fclaburate rules in regard to grazing,
the disposal of dead and down timber,
the cutting of mature trees, etc.,
which have been, or will be, speedily
adopted, are expected to aid in this.
If it were not for the fact that it
Htillwater business men in the near m u , . . f"Ct that U
future, that a few ,,f .1,0 „,i . °U l e ltse" ridiculous, the state
future, that a few of the advantages
offered by this place may be placed be-
fore him and some of the reasons be
shown why the M. K. and T. should
be built through here. The letter also
contained as much information and
statistics as could Ik- gotten together
on short notice, telling the story of
the wonderful development progress
and resource, of this section of the
country.
A movement was also started to in-
terest Pawnee and Pawhuska in the
scheme and it is thought that a united
effort of the three towns will greatly
enhance the chances to land th road.
Word is expected from those towns at
once.
A strong, steady pull and we'll land
the "Katy."
Washington Letter,
(irom our regular correspondent.)
It is considered significant of the
wide change that has taken place in
the standing of the United States in the
world within the past few years that
of the important questions now con-
fronting the government. as many as
ten are almost exclusively foreign.
These are: The May-Paunceforte
canal treaty; the reciprocity treaties;
the que.tion of colonial tariffs and
government; th- Alaskan boundary
dispute, which is not yet settled ; the
proposition to abrogate the treaty for-
bidding the building of war ships on
the (ireat Lakes ; the < 'uhan question ;
the purchase of Danish West Indies;
the Chinese act; the Pacific cable, and
the right of European powers to ac-
quire coaling stations in American
waters. In fact, trusts are about the
only great matter now Confronting us
which ig exclusively domestic. Some
of the questions named are for execut-
ive determination, some for judicial
and some for legislative, and some for
all three; all are of much importance
The Danish negotiations have hung
tire for various reasons, probably the
chief of which is the desire of the ad-
ministration to learn the opinion of
the supreme court on Philippine mat-
ters before entering into a treaty for
new acquisitions. Denmark wants her
citizen, in the islands to become full
Americans by treaty; the supreme
court held in the case of Porto Kico
that congress bad power to rule such
possessions with a free hand; just how*
this right may be limited by the Phil-
ippine decision Is doubtful, and until
it is known, it seems policy to keep
our hands free.
After years of delay, followed by
years of slow awakening, the United
States has at last taken up the forest-
ry problem in earnest and will liere-
after conduct it on scientific principles.
As the public reserves now amount to
«ome 150,000 acres, all of which lias to
he handled with skill and care, on pen-
a'ty of decreasing water supply, de-
structive Hoods and protracted drouths,
the necessity for action is evident.
Accordingly, Secretary Hitchcock Iihh
reorganized the forestry bureau of the
interior department, placing at its
head Mr. Filiburt Roth, who has been
ut the head of the forestry division of
the agricultural department for many
years, who has had practical experience
°n the plain, and who has been a pro-
fessor of forestry at Cornell besides.
His assistants are men similarly qual-
ified for their new duties. Aside from
fat 1 trlolly technical aide of the work,
department would at once direct the
recall of Consul General Dickinson,
for lus blunder in threatening to hold
Bulgaria responsible for any injury to
Miss Stone,consequent on any attempt
to capture the brigands who hold her
prisoner. President Roosevelt is
said, on excellent authority, to have
long ago resolved that when Miss
Stone shall have been rescued or put
to death, he will demand a heavy in-
demnity from either Turkey or Bul-
garia as may seem proper, for the
wrong done her. While Mr. Dickin-
inson's purpose was no doubt com-
1 , 1 , . . -puso sun* „,s ,in„K f ana start ot
mendable, his dictum will undoubedly a wild ride to fame and trouble
embarrass the president in this design
Bulgaria wi"
FERGUSON'S IDEA OF IT,
The Watonga Editor, Who Lives
In The" Cowboy Country Seizes
up the Governor's Office
Oharaoteristcally.
The idea that the governor', office
is a hoodoo i. growing in Oklahoma.
Tom Ferguson, of Watonga, calls it
' the bucking broncho," and doubts
very much whether anyone can break
it. He says: "Governor Barnes rode
the Oklahoma broncho through the
giddy mazes of many a fantastic round-
up. He hung to the saddle long and
well, while the "critter" swung around
the circle at a merry gait. Finally in
an unguarded moment, he lost stirrup
and was sent to grass. Governor Jen-
kins took the saddle and the skittish
animal resumed business at the old
stand. The governor's head is "a
boliin up and down like a clown on a
"wild pony" in a wild west show. How
firmly the governor is seated is still
problematical. Ten or a dozen Okla-
homa statesmen have already rushed
into the corral, and in cose the gover-
nor should lose stirrup or the crupper
slip, are willing to spring into the sad-
dle, straddle this bronk, stick the
spurs into his flanks, and start out on
a<sert that, if not inter-
fered with by the official represent-
ative of th-< United States, it could
| have captured the brigands and res-
I cued the missionary. Whether this
statement be true or not as a matter
of fact, it will have much moral force
and will certainly reduce the indem-
nity claimed, if indeed it does not
prevent its recovery altogether.
While there is little doubt that the
Chinese exclusion law will be re enact-
ed before it expires in May ne^t, still
it is usless to disguise the fact that
there is rather strong objection to it
in certain influential treasury circles
where it is held that the only effect
of the law is to exclude the better
class of Chinese, while the coolies, w ho
are willing to take chances, slip in
over the border by hundreds. Prac-
tically all the important men of the
trersury except Mr. Powderly, com-
missioner of immigration, think the
law wi*ong in principle and ineffective
in operation. In default of direct
recommendation on the subject from
Secretary Gage, (whose report will not
be submitted until congress meets) it
is impossible to tell just what modifi-
cations lie will suggest, but it is not
believed that he will go so far as to
oppose the law altogether. Mean-
while the labor organizations are tak-
ing steps to secure the re-enactment of
the law as it stands and their influence
is likely to be far more potent with
congress than any merely academic
arguments against it. They will also
urge that a larger annual appropria-
tion be made for enforcing it.
A Good Sermon.
Miss Madge Suthard, of Topeka
Kansas, stale evangelist for the Y. W.
C. T. U., occupied the pulpit at the
M.iE. church last night and delivered
the annual temperance sermon, it be-
ing that organization's "temperance
night." The house was crowded to
the doors, the aisle* were filled, and
many were turned away. Miss 811th-
ard preached a strong sermon and re-
ceived the closest attention of her
large audience. She presents a grace-
ful appearance in the pulpit, has a
cleBr voice and uses excellent Knglish
She will appear before the young la-
dies of the town from the same pulpit
Wednesday night.
I.adies tailor made suits at reduced
prices, #15 suits for $l2.7r>, f IN suits for
$16.75 $20 suits for $17.76. All other
qualities proportionately reduced.
Sample, of goods for ladie. Automo-
bile and Kaglan coat, on hand. Walk-
ing skirt, a speciality. Everything
guaranteed. Mrs. F. D. Hodob,
Chicago Millinery Store
Given a Bath.
Ever since the establishment of col-
leges there has been a sta>e of war ex-
isting between the sophomore ar.d
freshman classes and the A. and M.
college is no exception to the rule.
Dnting from Hallowe'en night there
has been special fancied cause for war
between these classes at the college
here, and last night a Gazette man
witnessed an interesting incident of
the "war." The scene of the incident
was at the colleee pond, time 7 p. 111.
and about a dozen persons participat-
ing. Two of these persons were evi-
dently prisoners for they were strug-
gling to get away. They could not es-
cape and they was too game to call
for help. They were quickly divested
of their clothing and between four
strong, husky, determined boys each
of their bodies were swung out over
the water in one-two-three order and
dropped about fifteen feet from the
bank into ten feet of cold water. The
sounds of the "splash" had hardly
died away until there were only two
cold, white forms outlined aginst the
horizon hunting hurriedly and shiver-
ingly for their clothes, and the Gaz-
ette man, satisfied that the fun was
ovev moved 011, himself shivering in
sympathy w ith the unfortunates.
\\ boever the two college boys are
and whatever they may become in the
future, we'll wager tliat thev will
never forget the ducking in the col-
lege pond they received at the hands
ol some of their fellow students.
Cunningham is Acquitted.
In the case of Isoni II. Cunningham,
at Pawnee, charged with being an ac-
cessory to the murder of Deputy Sher-
iff Tom Johnson, the jury after being
out since Wednesday returned a ver-
dict Saturday of "not guilty." John-
son was shot by Ben Cravens at the
time he was being pursued by ti posse
for the killing of Alvin Hateman at
lied Hock. Cravens took refuge in
Cunningham's house and the latter re-
fused to inform the officers of his
whereabouts. It was on that day that
Cravens shot Johnson. Some time
after that Cunningham was arrested
on the above charge. The case has
been one of the most noted in Pawnee
county and attracted much attention
became of its many complications. ,
Homer Yipyam, of San Francisco,
was in town Saturdny looking for «
location for a laundry. Mr. Yipyam
left town late Saturday evening, prob-
ably having come to the conlcuiion
that the Htillwater people were pretty
well satisfied with the work our laun-
dry, run by white men, Is doing. Yip-
yam ia a Japanese.
jAPAWbMi tJiuu&U'l.
fher Arc Eu r to Know of Ei(n>
thins Connected with Onr Form
ot Clvlllrntlon,
A characteristic which has been
potf nt in the modernizing of Japan 1.
that, of insatiable curiosity, an intense
desire to see and understand every-
thing new. While the present day
Chinese attitude is that of contempt
for any beings or institutions not
evolved in China, the Japanese are
eager to know everything connected
with our form of civilization, and to
adopt it if it is good. Sometimes their
great receptiveness and power of im-
itation and adoption lead them to
adopt innovations which thev after-
ward find it is wiser to discard, says
Anna N. Benjamin, in Ainslee's. llence
the accusation of fickleness. A pe-
rusal of Japanese history shows that
•the people have ever progressed by
impulses, by action and reaction, and
that in the end good judgment seems
to have become supreme. The for-
eigner traveling in Japan is soon mads
aware of the quality of curiosity. On
every railroad platform he is sur-
rounded by a crowd of people who.
with their mouths as wide open at
their eyes in their efforts to lose no
detail of interest, regard him slowly
from head to foot, and comment upon
him amongst themselves the while.
These people may have seen hundreds
of foreigners—they may see them
every day—but they continue to act
as if they had never seen one before.
1 visited some Americans in Tokio who
had lived in the same house with the
same Japanese neighbors for about a
year. Yet each time that we went out
to drive, the people in the little Jap-
anese house near by would rush to
their windows and stand there watclv
in? as eaa-erly as a sriuill Yankee at the
circus. This happened every day. It
is always possible t <> t"U whet In r a
foreigner happens to he in his card n,
for a good-sized crowd of Japanese
eathered about the gate announces
the important fact. T rave several
talks and lectures fo school children
and young men and women in Japan
Thev were interpreted. 1. of eourse
speaking in Knglish. so that half of
the address was understood by only
a few. Yet I hare never seen audi-
enees more absolutely attentive. Not
a word was lost, and the same concen-
tration was shown while f was speak-
Intr as when the interpreter was turn-
ing it Into Japanese. Little school
children, boys and girls—sat drinking
everything in, with their eves popping
Out of their heads until 1 had finished.
I never flattered myself that this was
Jue to the fascination of my dis-
course, but merely to the great curi-
osity of my audience. their power of
concentration and their receptivity.
Ten and Tvi>l,ul,l.
The Japanese are wonderfully
cleanly. When they come in from
the fields their first attention is to
a bath, prepared for them ia big
tanks near their shanties. They are
not particularly modest about suf.
ficient attire, and with hardly any-
thing but a towel to conceai their
nakedness they rush for the baths,
which they insist must be of warm
water. But they are remarkably sus-
ceptible to typhoid fever, due chiefly
to their own reckless habits. T never
saw a lliinaman in the Islands ill
with typhoid. Thut is because they
rnrel v drink water, always pre-
ferring ten, which, of course, is miide
of boiled water. Especially after
the heavy lains the Japanese suffer
severely from typhoid. On our
plantations the deaths were often hi
many as four or live a week.—Wash-
ington Post.
Kasland*! Old Common Field ftr.tem,
A "Common Field" is quite distinct
from a "Common." It ia a field be-
longing to numerous owners. The
land consists of long narrow strips,
perhaps not more than ten yards
wide and running parallel with an an-
other. What are the exact rules of
cultivation that obtain in Kent to-
day we do not know, hut of old it was
nsual to have a regular rotation, such
as wheat one year, barley or oats the
second and fallow the third. When
the crops were harvested, each mem-
ber of the community petting his or
her share, all could put in their cat-
tle, which roamed over the whole
Held, feeding on the stubble, eta. And
this was termed the "right of sack."
The "Common Field" system was
riduslly done away with fljr statute*
the reigns of George ni. and Wil-
liam IV.—London Sxpreaa.
Cranberries,
New Comb Honey,
New Sour Pickles,
New Sweet Piekles.
_BicJ*ed>^jij)1e!v
New Tennessee Sorghum,
^^olo^^o^pei^Jju^^ijto
H§ Best bananas in town per
fj|8 dozen . 25
You will have
to hury to get
them Shoes at
98c. Clothing at
less than Cost,
Hats, Etc., at
Metcalfe's
A Chance
On
The
Big
Doll
With
Every
25 cts.
Purchase
At . . .
J.C./NI0RTM'S
Robert Johnson L. O. Woods
JOHNSON & WOODS
FIRST NATIO/NAL
BARBER
Up-to-date first class tonsorial
parlors.
Hot and Cold Batlis and finest line
of cigars in the city.
Under First National Bank.
J. W. Dillard, M. D.'
Physician and Surgeon.
Special attention given to diseasca
of women ar.d children and chrooie
diseases, Whiskey, morphine and to-
baoeo habits treated. Office corner
•th .and Mait> St.
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