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The Peoples Voice
VOLUME 11.
NORMAN OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER, 17, 1902.
NUMBER 13
DOES LICENSE PAY.
THIER TEAM WAS TOO
LIGHT.
The Biggest Game Played
This Season.
FOUR MEN INJURED.
The Arkansans Called the Game
off as Forfeited Ten Minutes
Before the Close.
The football team of the Univer-
sity of Arkansas met the team of the
University of Oklahoma on the cam-
pus of the University of Oklahoma
Monday afternoon.
The Arkansians were humiliatingly
beaten by an easily made score of 28
to 0. The halves were 30 and 20
minutes.
From the beginning every thing
went in favor of the Oklahomans.
They made one or two good kick-offs
but at no time endangered Oklahoma
goal line. The general outcome of
their work when they had the ball
was to lose it on downs. The best
gains they made were by end runs but
at no time did they make a gain of
more than five yards.
The Oklahoma boys went into the
game to win and expected to do
harder work than ihey found. Our
team was heavier and presented
a line that could not be broken by the
visiting team. They went over
through and around the Arkansians in
every play. Short, McCoy and Dun-
can made some good runs around and
through their line-^Ioore of the
opposing team did some splendid
tackling several times and saved the
score from piling up higher on them
by tackling McCoy and Short.
Arkansas had three men disabled at
the end of the first half. Clark left
end, had his shoulder broken; Chap-
man, quarter-back, had his right
hand smashed and Ruggles, left
tackle, was lail out from injuries re-
ceived around the face and head.
After playing ten minutes of the last
half one of their men was disabled
and as they had no sub. to take his
place they called the game off as
forfeited.
None of the 'Varsity boys were in-
jured. They came out of the game
looking fresh and strong.
The visiting team was given a re-
ception in the evening at the Arline
which was more pleasant to them
than the one of the afternoon. The
Arline girls entertain well.
Ruth of Kingfisher was the Umpire
and Stockford of Iowa University was
referee. The line-up was as follows:
Cleveland County a Typical Apple Eegion
It has long been known that the
mountain regions of Arkansas and
Missouri are typical apple regions
and that millions of bushels of apple
are shipped from there annually
The reasons for this great production
of fruit are twofold First these
regions are in the great limestone
deposits of the middle Mississippi
basin. Secondly they are in the
most temperate part of the lime
stone beds thus giving them a climate
which is especially conclusive to the
growth of the apple tree.
Cleveland county is in the temper
ate belt in which the apple flourishes,
In fact the climate conditions of
northern Arkansas and Southern
Missouri are but little different from
our own climate. Our elevation
the same as that of the greatest
Ozark orchards giving us the dry, but
by no means arid ciimate, in which
the apple is more at home than in
the lower humid regions.
The apple will not grow unless
there is calcium in the soil and will
not produce abundantly unless it can
get large vuahtities of this element.
From one to fifteen percent of the
red soil of Cleveland county is
calcium sulphate (gypsum). This
furnishes as much calcium as the
trees will need to bear their best and
will be as accessable for them as the
calcium carbonate is in the limestone
soils of Arkansas and Missouri. Be-
sides this the iron in the soil which
gives it the red color, will always in-
sure a heavy crop of bloom which
will be sure to hang.
Trees grow here as rapidly and
mature as early as in any region.
Many of them begin to bear the
second year after planting and after-
wards bear yearly with ever in-
creasing crops. There has been no
failure of the apple crop in the
history of the county and the income
from it this year will be larger than
ever before. The farmers who plant-
ed large orchards are realizing fine
profits and planting more trees.
The finest samples of apples in the
west are some grown here this year,
Some fine ones selected from orchards
near town here will be sent to Europe
and put on exhibition in the large
fruit fairs there. They will be e
credit to America and especially to
Oklahoma and Cleveland county.
Some of the most successful or-
chard and apple growers of Cleve
land county are W. S. Britt, J. J
Winton, G. S. Vaugn, J. A. Collins
and M. McCullough.
Oklahoma
Arkansas.
Clements
L E
Clark
McCoy
LT
Ruggles
Burch
L G
Myers
Matthews
C
Wilson
Jenkins
RG
Stanley
Tribbey
R T
Baird
Green
R E
Bryan
McCreary
y B
Chapman
Short
L H
Van Winlde
Duncan
R H
McDermott
Bogle
F B
Moore
Goes to Sunday Schools in Norman,
Beginning Monday Oct 20th and
continuing for four days J. J. Wintin
will make and sell on the streets of
Norman apple cider the entire pro-
ceeds of such sales to be equally di-
vided between the Sunday schools in
Norman of the 1st Baptist 1st Pres-
byterian 1st Christian and the M. E.
North and South churches.
Mr. Wintin hopes to be able to
realize from such sales at least as
much as *10.00 each for the five Sun-
day schools in Norman enumerated
above. Remember that the money
you spend for cider with Mr. Wintin
on the four days mentioned goes to
the Sunday schools in Norman. We
hope to see Mr. Wintin unable to
supply the demand for cider on those
days; but Mr. Wintin thinks he will
be able to meet the demands.
Drink and its Relation to Economic and
Financial Problems.
We believe it to-be true that the
prosperity of any county depends in
a large measure on the prosperity of
the mass of its citizens and that
whatever adds to the prosperity of
the masses adds to the general pros-
perity of the country, and vice versa.
The larger the proportion of the
inhabitants of any country engaged
in useful labor at living wages in all
the varied industries, business and
professional vocations, the greater
the wealth-producing power in the
nation. Let any considerable num-
ber of citizens from any cause be
idle or debauched, and its effect on
the national prosperity is bad. The
direct cost of the saloon to the
citizens of the nation in money
actually spend for drink is nearly
fifteen hundred million dollars an-
nually. To this must be added fifteen
hundred million dollars more the
cost of the traffic in shortened lives,
loss of productive labor, cost of crime
etc. This three billions of dollars
goes to debauch the nation. A small
per cent of the money comes back
into the channels of honest trade.
A large amount goes to make a few
rich brewers and distillers richer,
while a vast sum is spent annually
in bribing Legislatures, buying votes
papers, etc., necessary to keep the
saloon entrenched. And the nation
is annually robbed of the services of
hundreds of thousands of otherwise
nseful citizens, because they are the
slaves of drink.
In 1898, 816 out of 2841 alms-house
keepers in all sections of the United
States, written to by the New Voice,
replyed, giving as their opinion based
on many years of experence of the
number of paupers under their
charge through drink. The average
was 51 per cent. According to cen-
sus reports, there are 3,000,000 peo-
ple in the United States dependent
wholy or partially on the nation.
Since in the above estimate no large
cities are included, where the per
cent is far greater, it is evident that
the proportion will hold good easily
throughout the United States, which
would give 1,530,000 paupers through
drink.
McCall
Has it for
Less,
the poverty arrising from drink, his
chnrch would alone take charge of
and relieve all other cases in the
city needing relief. We do not
claim that the enactment of prohi-
bition, even with a party behind it,
will cure all evils in our land, but we
do claim that prohibitory law, hon-
estly enforced will put multiplied
thousands of those who would other-
wise be the victims of drink, at re-
munerative employment, would
elevate manhood and give us a sober
citizenship and a cleaner govern-
ment. And surely a sober nation
can grapple far better with other
great problems that confront us
than a citizenship half drunk, with
the drunk end in control. For
proof of this we call attention to the
decreased arrests in prohibition ter-
ritory, to the empty jails of Kansas
to the moral and spiritual uplift of
the people, better schools and public
buildings, decreased taxes, etc., is
many communities under prohibi-
tion even party enforced by parties
hostile to the reform.
What has been done in localities—
and far better—prohibition promised
to do for the nation.—E. M. Coni-
bean.
Allied Meeting at Franklin.
The Allied meeting at Franklin
last Friday night was a failure by
reason of the non attendance of
parties to talk to. The meeting had
been little advertised and nobody
in neighborhood seemed to know any
thing about it. The meeting Satur-
day at Denver, however, was a good
one and the speakers were greeted
with a very nice crowd and by par-
ties who seemed to be interested in
what the speakers had to say,
In 1899, leaving out liquor used in
manufactures, our drink bill was
$1,322,591,440 Deducting 10 per
cent for unused licenses, and 11,000
issued to druggist, their were in
effect that year 179,951 Federal
licenses held by saloons, houses of
ill fame and clubs. This would
make the average income of each
saloon in the United States $7354 an-
nually. So that the citizens of
Texas through their 3500 saloons
contribute annually about $25,750,-
000 to the nation's drink bill, while
Dallas, with her 300 saloons, contri-
butes not less than $2,250,000, and re-
ceives in return in the way of
evenue, about $45,000. And yet we
are told that the saloon is a great
tax collector. How many votes
would a man, running for Tax Col-
lector of the city of Dallas receive,
pledging himself to beat the saloon
400 per cent, turning into the city
treasury one dollar out of every five
collected instead of one
wenty?
The only ten no-license cities in
the United States, reported in the
September 1899, Bulletin, Depart-
ment of Labor, show an average tax
rate of $17.72 per $1000, while ten
license cities in the same class, with
practically the same surroundings
and population, and as near as possi-
ble in the same sections show an
average tax rate of $20.25 per $1000.
Sanitarium Eeport.
The regular quarterly report of the
Oklahom^ Sanitarium company, hav-
ing in charge the care and mainten-
ance of the insane patients of the
Territory, has been filed with the
territorial auditor L. W. Baxter.
The report shows the territory to be
indebted to the company in the sum
of $15,290.21 for the quarter, ending
September 30, and a warrant for this
amount was drawn by the auditor in
favor of the sanitarium company.
The report also shows that at pres-
ent there are three hundred and
forty-five patients in the asylum
divided among the various counties
as follows
Beaver 3
Blaine
Caddo.
Canadian 24
Cleveland 22
Comanche (j
Custer g
Day 2
Dewey g
Garfield 17
Grant g
Greer g
Kay 24
Kingfisher 12
Kiowa ... 2
Lincoln 22
Logan 28
Noble g
Oklahoma 42
Pawnee 22
Fayne 16
Pottawatomie 29
Roger Mills 4
Washita 9
Woods u
Total 335
They Met in Norman.
Lafe Canada, of Faxon, Oklahoma,
arrived in Norman last Saturday
morning to visit old friends. He
says that he is doing well in the new
country and is greatly pleased with
it. On his arrival in Norman he was
treated to a surprise in the way of
learning that his cousin Emmett
Griffin of Macon county, Mo., had
arrived the evening before to visit
him, not having learned that he had
moved out to the new country. Mr.
Canada found him Saturday morning.
Cambridge, Mass, under ten years of T. ~ ^ , „ Z ,
no-license decreased her tax rate Little Daisy Stover Died.
over a dollar a thousand, besides Died-Sunday morning Oct, 12th
doing more improving and building at 1>aisy Stover age 4 years,
more than double the number of i ytle was a ^rand daughter of W. O. I
! new houses than under the same | ^ 'ant* daughter of Mr. and!
j period of license, and Cumberland j Stover wh° reside 011 the Med- i
! lock farm. The parents have
W, L. Kendall for Superintendent.
W. L. Kendall, nominee on the
fusion ticket for county superinten-
dent arrived here Saturday from
Cleveland, Okla., where he has been
principal of the city schools. From
now untill election Mr. Kendall will
take an active part in the campaign
in this county. He will be with the
voters and they will have a chance
to see and get better acquaieted with
him.
Mr. Kendall's record as a Btudent
and teacher is one that is not ex-
celled in the county. He has taught
several terms in the public schools
here. He has always been successful
and has secured a reputation as a
good teacher not only in this county
but in other parts of Oklahoma.
While attending the University Will
made such a good record in his studies
that he was given several classes
in Latin while in his Freshman year
and continued to teach both Latin
and mathematics in the University
while attending it. In the spring of
1900 he won in the local oratorical
contest here and later won in the
Territorial contest at Guthrie. Less
than one years work will graduate
him from the University. Mr. Ken-
dall has always been strong and con-
scientious in his work and if he is
elected in November he will hold up
the standard of our public schools
as high as any superintendent has.
every
Three W eeks Campaigning.
W. L. Kendall candidate for school
superintendent on the Republican
j and Peoples party ticket arrived in
Norman last Saturday and will put
in the next three weeks campaign-
ing. He is an intelligent, energetic
young man and you have but to see
him and hear him talk to be con-, , ,,,rlr ...h „ .
vincedthathe would make an ex- countJ. Malne> under honest enforce- 10CK Iartn- lfle . Paints have the ; b,„ vote ,n Pott county and
cellent man to put at the head of I ment of the Prohibitory law is in the ^'I,pathy' °f ^,many frlends ln j he will be able
the schools in this county. lnost Prosperous condition in its :the los3 of thelr llttle daughter. 1 democratic
! history. So well recognized is the j H. P. Doughty of the
Miss.lane Prickett of Fairmount, I drink curse ati the Pritne cause of j Kingkade Company is erecting a fine ! Council District.
West Virginia, a cousin of W. O. 1 Poverty that Edward Everette Hale, residence in the south part of the
Prickett and Mrs. J. O. Prickett of pastor of the Old South Church in citJ. It is suspected by many of his! City last Saturday and while there
Plasanton, Katis, visited a few days Boston more than once said that if ■ friends that he contemplates taking! had the pleasure of hearing
in Norman with relatives this week. •some one would take charge of all | unto himself a life partner. Nation speak.
Wood Lyttle MakeB a Speech,
Last Saturday afternoon Wood
Lyttle mounted a wagon on Peters
avenue just east of the Cleveland
county National Bank and proceded
to delever a political speech. A big
crowd soon assembled for they knew
Wood would say something and they
were not disappointed. In the speech
delivered there was much chaff; but
the fellows who could separate chaff
and grain found many kernels of
solid truth in the speech. Wood is a
fearless fellow and speaks what he
thinks and believes and he cares not
who he makes squirm. It was the
opinion of Mr. Wood that it was
about time for the citizens of Nor-
man to arouse themselves and take
steps to curb a spirit of lawlessness
that was making itself manifest in
this city. They owed it not only to
themselves but to the territory to see
that the moral tone of Norman
should be kept up to the highest
point and this could not be done if
the laws of the city and territory
were not enforced rigidly and the
city and county seemed to have a
set of peace officers who were either
powerless unviling or very lax in
in their enforcement of the laws.
Norman a Peach Market.
Norman has shipped 20,000 baskets
of peaches this season—Alva Re-
view.
That is right and all of the later
varieties have not come in yet.
Norman is in the best fruit belt of
the Mississippi valley and has
shipped more peaches than any
other city in Oklahoma this year.
The shipment of peaches has been
carried on since early in June.
Neither The Scored.
The Oklahoma City high school
football team met our high school
team on the University gridiron
Saturday. Both teams were in fine
shape and fought it out stubernally.
Neither side scored. Our boys showed
the best football ability and only
failed to score on account of poor
tactics at the crisis in the game.
Sure of a Big Vote.
Hon. E. Duffy passed through Nor-
man on his way home from a trip to
Shawnee and Tecumseh last Friday
and he feel- now that he is sure of a
believes
to overcome the big
majority and be re-
elected as councilman from the 5th
Lynn Choate went to Oklaho-na
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