The Lawton Constitution. (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1905 Page: 1 of 4
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The Lawton Constitution.
SUCCESSOR TO THE ELGIN EAGLE.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF COMANCHE COUNTY AND OF THE PEOPLE.
WEEKLY EDITION.
$1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Vol. II.
LAWTON, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, JANUARY i9, 1905.
No. 46.
OF LAWTON
THE CITY NATIONAL BANK
AWTOI
K
Capital,Surplus
and Profits
$36,000."!!
EVERY
PROTECTION
USED
IN
MODERN
BANKING TO
GUARD
AGAINST
LOSS
MONEY TO
LOAN
ON
APPR0VEI1
SECURITY
ACCOUNTS
OF
FIRMS
AND INDIVID-
UALS
SOLICITED
P. M. ENQLISH, Prcst.
S. M. KINO, vice Preat.
E. E. SHIPLEY, Cashier.
BILLS
Old Commissioners Not Care-
ful in Allowing Them.
Section 1193 Wilson's revised statutes
of Oklahoma reads:
"No account shall be allowed by the ",lf-ur.v> snot expected
county commissioners unless the same | correct conception of what an official
shall be made out in separate items I paper of the people should be. The
The esteemed News-Republican gets
very rabid because of the line at the
head of the Constitution "official paper
of the county and of the people." A
newspaper that is edited by Jake Ham
ans faithful ma, ■ Friday, and which
has spent so mat... irvice in tne cause
of grafters and looters of the public
to have a
BRYAN
Taggart Will Adopt The Ar-
ticles of Faith.
C. E. MoDditkik, President. r. h. McDuffik, Vloe Pres.
.1. S. McDttfkik, .... Cashier.
E. R. McDl'kfik, Assistant Cashier.
The B,ink of Lawton,
LAWTON, OKLAHOMA.
CsplUI, $10,000 Fully Psld. A General Banking Business Transacted.
There Is no Bank In Comnnche county better able to handle your business
Corner Fourth and Ave D. we pay interest on
One block west of
l4Mid Office.
We do not pay Interest at the rate of rt p« r cent,
but will pay thn principal when the people want It.
Time Iiepoalt.
Farmers Call and See Ut
and the nature of each item stated
which account so made out shall
be verified by affidavit, setting forth .
that the same is just and correct and ln Wle r*Publ'™t' P^ty, but it praises,
News-Republican not only stands for
everything that is rotton and oorrupt
remains due and unpaid."
A glance at the bills in the county
clerk's office allowed by the old board
upholds and compliments the most
vicious element that -.ttempts to seek
shelter under the democratic banner,
of county commissioners will reveal „„j „ ., .. ... ,
n, i. /.v and when Friday, the editor's atten-
the fact that in many instances they
tion is called to the fact that he is
Citizens State Bank
OF LAWTON.
Capital Fully Paid $25,000.00
Oldest State Bank in Southwest Okla.
officers:
Q. f. H. Harbor, Pres.
Jno. H. Porter, Vice Pros.
F. W. Smith, Cashier.
W. F. Barber, Asst. Castile
T>,.
Our bank Is managed by responsible
officers, whose fl nunc la I standing will
bear Investigation. Accommodations
extended along conservatIve lines. We
•re prepared to handle collections
promptly.
We Invite personal Interviews with
our officers and desire a share of vour
business. We now hhve Installed* the
Bankers Money Order System. Notice
theoutofa Home Bank whleh we loan
you upon the deposit of Kverv
home should have one for the savtngsof
the children. Interest computed the 1st
days of Jan. and July. Already .several
hundred have been placed In the hom-.'s.
First pub. In Woekly Constitution Jan. 19,
last pub. Feb. 16.
CONTEST NOTICE.
Department of the Interior, United Htates
Land Office, Lawton, Okla., Jan. 14, 1906.
A sufficient contest affidavit having been
tiled In this office by Jessie James Hinlth,
contestant, against Jacob H. Cellars, entry
No. U71M, made April 2*2nd,lW2,for the « l-2,of
nw 1-4 section rt,township 4 n,range lttw.I.M.
by Jacob H. Sellers, routes tee, ln which It
Is alleged that en try man has wholly
abandoned said tracv of land for more thaa
rt month-i last past and Is not now living on,
cultivating or improving said tract of land
as by law required, and hence said default
exist at this time. Absence not due to em
plovment in the IT. 8. army or navy of the
II S. A., said parties are hereby notliled to
appear, respond and otter evidence touch-
lng said allegation at 10 o'clock a. rn. Marcb,
291 h, 1905, before the Register and Receiver
of the United States Land Office In Lawton,
Okla.
The said contestant having, ln a proper
affidavit, tiled January 14th, 1905, sot forth
facts which show that after due diligence
personal service of this notice cannot be
made, It Is hereby ordered and directed
t hat such notice be given by due and proper
publication. H. D. McKnight,
Jennings & Jennings, Register.
Attorneys.
Taxpayers.
A large number of taxpayers who
expected to come to the city Monday
to pay their taxes, and especially those
a few miles from either city or aail-
road, were storm-b und and eoaldaot
get in. Some of these farmers ouae
in today, and they say that there many
others.
Appreciating the situation, and in
John Milton Clark died yesterday ; the interest of those who were unfor-
did not take the precaution to protect
the public treasarery, contemplated
by the statutes. A ni.mber of the bills
allowod are not arorn to at all. A
very t-ge number of warrants are not
recfeipto . for by the persons in whose
f.wor thty were draw * nd the tax-
payer ht'.s no accura ay of ascer-
taining whether or not the service
claimed was ever rendered. One claim
No. 190 of 8160 for 40,000 assessment
blanks is presumed to have been filed
by the Western Newspaper Union of
Oklahoma City. The claim is unsworn
to and does not bear the clerk's seal.
The order wan given to the State
Democrat which turned it over to the
News-Republican and the latter fur-
nished an inferior lot of the blanks
claimed in the hill. The manager of
the Western Newspaper Union writes
that he did not know his company had
a bill before the board of county com-
missioners or that one had been allowed.
The Topeka & El Reno Telephone Co.,
is a souless corporation that has not lost
any money in dealing with the people
of Lawton and Comanche chanty. A
number of bills have been allowed it
that were unsworn to. Tom, Dick and
Harry, it appears, have been telephon-
ing to their uncles, aunts and nephews
at the expense of Comanche county.
On January 3rd the old board allowed
this telephone company $216.90 for
rentals of 'phones and toll message.;
for the past three months as follows:
Claim No. 692 $ 20.00
Claim No. 93 4.55
Claim No. 94 52.25
Claim No. 95 44.10
Claim No. 96 43.00
Claim No. 97 5.00
Claim Mo. 98 19.70
ClaimNo. 99 11 65
standing for rotten democrats, a sickly
possum grin comes over his physiog-
nomy, and a hen cackle laugh is
emitted from his guttural as ho tells
you he is playing politics. He wants
the democrats to renominate the men
who have laid down on the pledges
made by their party to the people, and
give the republican grafters a chance.
The Constitution does not play politics.
It stands ready to call a democrat to
account, who is found wanting in his
duty to the public as well as a republi-
can. It stands up for the people and
for the taxpayers at all times,and when
ever the editor of the News-Re-
publican or any other person finds
this newspaper advocating anything
that is detrimental to the public] weal,
it is time to call the Constitution down.
"Official paper of the people" yes,
brother, and it stands ready to defend
them against the wolves who would
loot the public treasury. The demo-
cratic party is the party of the people.
Died Yesterday.
morning at the liom@ of his sister, Mrs.
R. A. Watkins, a few miles south of
the city. He died of pnemonia, the
cause of which ha contracted while in
the Creek Nation a short time ago. Dr.
Hues was in attendance.
The funeral services were conducted
by Rev. Loud, of this city, and the re-
mains were interred in the cemetery
three miles south of town.
Mr. Clark was born in Texas in 1861.
He was converted several years ago
and ever since led a most exetnplairy
Christian life.
tunately detained by the stoma and
mud, the writerinterviewed the county
treasurer in rpgard to the matter, and
was informed that on account of the
conditions as above stated, there would
at least be no penalty attached until
the first of February. However, in
case of failure to meet the require-
ments by that time, the penally will
date from the original date.
Sherman Ingals, a wide-awake
farmer near Cache, came to the city
this morning with two bales of cotton.
Claim No. (500 16.65
Total $ 219.00
This bill is itemized and the items
consist principally of messages to and
from officials and employes around the
county offices to persons in other
(ts of -the comity. The tobs-
<es in wme instances are known
to bave been more to the -purpose of
«ome official's political chest-
nuts oat of the ttre than in the interest
of Shcpuhbc service.
The public should withold judgment
until a full investigation is made by an
expert. May be so all of these trans-
actions will be explained satisfactory.
W. S.Spencer, of Cache, and one of
the leading spirits in the drilling for
oil and gas at that place, was in town
today, and returned on the noon trai n.
Newton Estes, an ex-Confederate
soldier, and brother of H. 0- Este>!, of
of this city, is very sick at the home of
his brother, who lives on Park A ve-
uve, between 3rd and 4th, on the Beal
Addition. Dr. Gipson is attending.
The Walter New Era, one of the ex-
cellent newspaper of Comanche
county, approves the stand the new
board of county commissioners has
taken for an economical administration
of affairs, but expresses the fear that
they will over do the thing or "stand so
straight that they will lean back-
wards." Certainly, the taxpayers who
elected the new board would not com-
plain if tins fault really existed but it
does not. The matter to which the
New Era has reference is the decision
of the board not to pay the expenses of
extraditing criminals from other states
for offences committed in this county.
The board simply decided to follow the
law in this niattter, were they to do
otherwise they would become criminals
and outlaws themselves, and the New
Era would nol approve of that. The
law says that these expenses shal1 b^
paid by the territory; the board of
county commissioners that desires to
follow the law has absolutely no dis-
cretion in the matter. The case to
which the New Era refers that of
Deputy Sheriff Carter arresting a man
in the Indian Territory for horse steal-
ing, and having to let him go for want
of funds to bring him back, there is
nothing in it. Mr. Carter, at the in-
stance of the father, went to Marlow,
I. T., after a horsn and buggy his
eighteen-year-old son had gone away
with, When he arrived the boy was
gone; he got the horse and buggy and
brought them back to the ow ner-
Lafayette, Ind., January 14.—The
future of the Democratic party, its op-
portunities and its mistakes were
discussed here by such national loaders
as William J, Bryan, National Chair
man Taggart, John W. Kern, late can-
didate for Governor, and Mayor Holtz-
man, of Indianapolis, at the tenth
annual Jackson Day banquet.
The meeting was looked forward to
as tho opportunity for a pronounce-
ment of a policy to be adopted by the
followersof Mr. Bryan. It is significant
in this connection that National Chair-
man Taggart, who fought with desper-
ate fury for a Parker delegation from
Indiana to the national convention,
should so eulogize the Nebraskan and
so demonstrate the showing he made
in 1896 and 1900 as to creata the general
belief that be will be with him in the
fight four years hence.
When questioned regarding a con-
ference of the Democratic leaders rela-
tive to the future of the party and the
out-lining of a policy Mr. Bryan said:
"There is to be no conference. Of
course, when we Democrats get to-
gether we naturally talk, bus. thore
will be nothing 6f the kind to which
you refer."
A talk with other prominent Demo-
crats in attendance at the banquet
corroborated Mr. Bryan's statement.
The gatheringappeared like a strict
Bryan gathering, there bei ng a notice-
able absence of the Parker wing of the
party.
ASSOCIATION
Of Teachers to Meet at In-
diahoma January 28th.
The north-west teacher's district as-
sociation will hold its secoi d meeting
for the year at Indiahoma, Saturday
January 28th. It will be an evening
session. A large delegation of teachers
and friends is expected1 to be present.
The program is as follows:
Vocal Quartet
Seeley's School Management, Chapt-
ers Hand III—Miss Kellfjr.
Discussion—R. C. White.
Vocal Solo.
Recitation—Miss Opal Gillespie.
"A Review of the Situation in the
Orient"—L. J.Abbott.-
Reeitation—Miss Ha/.el Tomlinson.
Vocal Quartet.
Writing in English—Miss MyrtleCorn.
Discussion—Miss Rosinu Simmons.
Recitation—Mrs. Snow.
Vocal Quaitet.
Vocal Solo.
I'antomine—-"In the Arms of Night."
To Pay His Taxes.
From Monday's Dally Constitution.
C. M. Clingsn, of the Cache Hard-
ware & Harness Co., drove over
through the ice and slush this morning
in order to get here in time to pay his
taxes. His daughter came in later on
the one o'clock train to do some shop-
ping, and returned on the west-bound,
which was tvo hours late.
Mr. Smith, cashier, and Ed Lecky,
assistant cashier of the bank at Cache,
were here yesterday attending the
banker's meeting. They returned on
today's noon train.
The News-Iiepubllcan of yesterday
contained some good reading. The
fact is, the News-Republican is a good
newspaper aside from the political phase
of itseditorial policy .—State Democrat.
Tub mutual admiration society
formed by "the organ" and the News-
Republican, iB but another illustration
of that old saving that "birds of a
feather flock together." These two
"organs" have been partners and co-
conspiration in crime for seme months.
One of their transactions worked
through the old commissioners bosrd,
cost Comanche county a pretty penny.
The order for40,000 assessment blanks,
more than double the amount required,
was taken by the State Democrat, by
it turi over to the News-Republican
and by the latter turned over to the
Western Newspaper Union of Okla-
homa City. Thus Comanche county
not only paid for 40,000 assessment
blanks to be used by 7,800 tax payers,
but it paid profits to throe concerns,
and tho commissioners have been
informed that the profit of the first one
was more than the entire cost of print-
ing the blanks, ahd the profit of the
second one was more than that of the
Western Newspaper Union, which
actually did the work. After this little
game of highway robbery, the blanks
were dumped into the county clerk's
office incomplete, and the new board
of commissioners found itnecessary to
send them to the Constitution office to
be finished and $2.50 additional expense
was incurred. The News-Republican
and the State Democrat regard the
tax payers as legitimate prey and all
of the feathers they can pluck from
them through incompetant and ex-
travigant public efficials, they are that
much to L.*: guuu. This is a short
sighted policy. The sins of a news-
paper as well as those of an individual
will find it out.
Seed Potatoes.
A car load of nearly seven hundred
bushels of Red River Early Ohio po-
tafoen arrived yesterday for the Coman-
che County Producers' association.
The potatoes were ordered about the
middle of December from Fargo, S. D.,
where this variety grows to perfection,
and cost the association only ninety-
five cents per bushel delivered in Law-
ton. This shows the great advantage
of a properly organized co-operative
movement along commercial lines.
We understand that every bushel
of this shipment has been engaged by
the members of the association, and
that there is a demand for more.
Every bushel of these potatoes will
be planted in the immediate vicinity of
Lawton during the latter part of Feb-
ruary.
The association will also secure the
best seed of the finest varieties of all
kinds of garden and farm products.
The great benefit to Lawton and vi-
cinity from this movement is hard to
even approximate.
Cotton Market.
New York, Jan. 18th, 1905.
Open High Low Close
January $6 81 86 85 $6 74 $6 76
March 6 94 6 94 6 81 6 85
Spot cotton selling from 4Va to 6 cts.
Reported by the Lawton Cotton Ex-
change.
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OIL AND OAS LEASES WANTED.
TO THE LAND OWNERS:
We are now leasing land east of town within a distance of from three to six miles. It is our intention to prospect this land for both
oil and gas, provided we are successful in securing leases on fifteen quarter sections of land and are granted a franchise permitting the
installment of a gas plant and general system of gas lines in the city of Lawton. In order to convince all parties interested that it is our
intention to prospect if leases are secured, we are entering into an agreement with those from whom we secure leases to pay fifty ($50)
dollars bonus for each one-quarter section and to deposit five hundred ($500) dollars in one of the city banks, said sum to be forfeited and
divided among the land owners, also leases returned, provided we have not begun active operations within sixty days from the time we
obtained the fit teen quarter sections as .described. For further information call at the office of the
Lawton,o.t. Deming Investment Co., No.318d.Ave.
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