The Lawton Constitution. (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 16, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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The Lawton Constitution.
Vol. III.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF COMANCHE COUNTY AND OF THE PEOPLE.
LAWTON, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 16, 1905.
No. 2.
THE CITY NATIONAL BANK
OF LAWTON
Capital,Surplus
and Profits
$36,000.i!£
EVERY
PROTECTION
USED
IN
MODERN
BANKING TO
GUARD
AGAINST
LOSS
F. M. ENGLISH, Prist.
MONE\ TO
LOAN
ON
APPROVED
SECURITY
*V .V ,4 ...
ACCOUNTS
■JfQ HxSRgt ' V - m> *£.*2 'M
FIRM:
\ND INDIVID
UALS
SOLICITED
SPONSOR
S. M. KINO, Vice Prwi.
E. E. SHIPLEY, Cashier.
Opera Chairs.
! J. I).Ramsey who contemplates build-
ing a nice new opera house in our city
if the citizens take hold of the propo- i
Lady Who Will Represent uition of buying tickets in the proper
spirit, hhs just received a sample of the
npera chairs. It is a beauty and up to
the requirements in every detail, lie
will provide the opera house with six
hundred of these chairs to be uned as
reserved (eats. All other seats are to ■
be common chairs. The committee
designated to solicit the sale of the
FERRIS
Oklahoma U. C. V. at
Lonisville.
Market Report.
Lawton, March 16.
WJieat, per bushel $ ,95
Oats, per bushel .55
Corn, per bushel 40 to 45o
4.50
60c
Comanche County Represent- h°k"' per cwt
ative Returns to his j PotBtoe"> p01, l,ush<?l
, Sweet poiotoes, per bushel
Constituents. ! Cabbage, per pound
I Unions, per pound
Chirkeus, young, per pound
Col. A. S. Heaves of this city, in-
spector-general for Oklahoma, of the
United Confederate Veterans, has
prepared a sketch of Miss Mary Snced, „ck^B hai bc(?un it9 mi9aiol|
the, cceully appointed sponsor to the I xhe Climnlitt€e j8 anxioU9 thBt no
. Louisville reunion, which follows: j one flhouk, fail to purchasea ti(;kot to
j "Miss Mary Dudley Sneed, who has thp opp],inR. |||ght H8in(hia instanc<!
| been honored with the appointment as th„y are placed at w an(J whjch
Citizens State Bank
OF LAWTON.
Capital Fully Paid $25,000.00
Oldest Stale Bank in Southwest Okla.
OFFICERS!
O. F. H. Barber, Pres.
J no. H. Porter, Vice P -«s.
F. W. Smith, Cashier.
"V I I« l« • JWH. Cnt-hler.
GERONIMO
Has Returned From His
Washington Trip Almost
Worn Out.
"Ql
Our bank Is managed hv responsible
officers. whose financial standing will
bear Investigation. Accommodations
extended along conservative lines. We
are prepared to handle collections
promptly.
We invite personal Interview with
our officers and desire a share of your
business. We now hhve Installed' the
Hankers Money order System. Notice
the cut of a Home Bnnk which w« loan
you upon the deposit of 11.00. Every
home should have one for the savings of
t he children. Interest computed the 1st
days of .Ian. nnd July. Alrendv several
hundred have been placed In the homes.
Crestfallen and thoroughly subdued,
Geronimo has returned to his home in
the Fort Sill reservation. Against the
w.shes of the Indian commissioner,
Geronimo was taken to Washington to
| take part in the inaugural parade. The
j committee insisted that he was needed
(as an attraction for the inaugural
| parade, and the commissioner con-
sented.
Upon hisarrivalCommissionerLeupp
informed Geronimo that he had been
permitted to come to Washington as a
sponsor for the Oklahoma Division
United Confederate Veterans to the
Louisville, Kentucky, Reunion, is a
pioneer Oklahoma lady, having been
: brought here by her parents some nine-
; teen years ago. When a mere prattling,
vivacious, fair-haired girl, she gathered
wild Towers where the magic city of
I Law .on now s an'ls. Her father,
| Captain R. A. Sneed, proceeded with
his family to Comanche.
"Miss Sneed obtained her primary
education in Texas, and afterwards
graduated at Dr. Price's Female Col
lege, Nashville, Tenne>see. She then
spent two years in New York and other
eastern cities. In conversion with
George l'aechal, president of the First
National Bank, Mr. Paschal said that
he remembered when this young lady
came to the Indian country, has known
her ever since, and that ho was fully
convinced that no more suitabte ap-
pointment could have been made in
all Oklahoma, to represent this great
territory.
" Miss Sneed sprang from an ances
is very low compart d with the price
obtained at other points*.:! the same
purpose.
The chairs cost Sit apiece, making a
total of §1,800 for opera chairs.
Oklahoma City went without an
opera house fourteen years and Law-
ton does not want to follow her exam-
Represcntative Scott Ferris returned
to Lawton Saturday after the adjourn-
ment of the terr.torial legislature.
The main bills passed during thisses.
sion, a Constitution reporter learned
from Mr. Ferris, were the primary
election law, quarantine law, county
depository law and the demurragt bill.
The latter law requires the railroads to
within forty-eight hours after the c:ir
is order, d by the shipper, to have the
car ready for loading or to pay a fine
of $5 per day therefrom and all neces-
sary damages made by the delay.
Chickens, old, per pound
Hlltter, per pound
K;;gs, per dozen
I lay, per ton
| Cotton
Turkeys, per pound
t attic. butcher stuff
I Sheep, per ib
50c
2^c
3o
flo
8#0
20c
lie
6.00
6 50
260
4c
pie in this matter.
School Examination.
The state board of education has
notified E. 15. Nelson, county superin-
tendent, that Thursday and Friday of
the second week in April, and Thurs-
day and Friday of the third week in
. May have been designated as the days
A bill w as passed providing for the! , h,iJ, ,.
"f holding i he examination for common
expenditure of the #200,000 n w on <
school diplomas. The county superin-
tendent will have the grading of the
hand to the credit of Oklahoma forirri-
gation in the semi-arid districts.
f papers and will be assisted by two
rnWCTITITTinM A|,rmlhlon was '"adewher.by the teachers holding active first grads
LUiNM I I U I iU.\ ;sh"nff '''".V^ive pay forgoing out of certificates. An examination fee not
the territory to Ket a prisoner. | to oxcced „fty centg to ,)e charged
The quarantine line, according to 1 Tho j. w . ,, ,
* The diploma a are issued by the state
the bill passed, begins at the southeast j h„u^ A.
i board. A pupil to be entitled to a
Convention May be Called to
Prepare One For State
of Oklahoma.
corner of the territory and runs iden-
diploma must make a general average
Guthrie, March 12.—It is suggested
by representative democrats and re-
publicane alike that a mass single
statehood convention should be held
this spring and the object of the con-
vention in addition to showing the
sentiment of the people as favoring
tral line of illustrious patriots, running single statehood to t 3 exclusion of
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tical with the bound .rv lines on the „ uc . .
I of No per cent, antl in no branch must
south and cast, stopping at the south- , >, ,, . ...
fall below tlo per cent.
east corner of Greer county, where it;
bisects the federal quarantine line,
where it ceases. This will shut out all
$50.00 Reward.
Straybd or stolen from the Olym
pia cafe, three big turkeys. But bein
able to purchase three more equally a
good, we will still be able to serve tha
big turkey dinner, Sunday, March 19th.
This piece is under the management
of Critcber & Badman, formerly pro-
prietors of the little NoxalL
We serve everything the market
affords. Open all night.
reward for having behaved himself as j b™k 10 Colonial days, on both paternal any other 90rt) Wuuld be tQ arrang0
a prisoner of war. A more docile |and maternal sides. Her mother and methods o( representation and set th
Indian than Geronimo was never lc a grandmothers were classed among date and place for holding a constitu-
parade. Geronimo appeared at the those noble Southern women who spun tional convention at which both
white house before he left Washington, ",e thread from the native Mississippi
and *;*ude an appeal xor freedom to tiie c°tk°n> and wove the si\ .ie into cloth
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"great father." to clothe not only themselves but their j'be framed t0 ^ 8ubmittud to congre88
I "I want the rope taken off my hands," reap ctive families, and their loved ' ,1Don convening of that body with a
said the old medicine man to the presi- . °ne8 absent battling for their native [ request that it be ratified and the state
dent, "that I may go in freedom to my la,ld. and here I say that this Southern thu8 forined a{]mitfed t0 the union
home. We are tired of living so far 'and, once the Niobe of nations, bathed 8ome who oppo8ed th(J authorizatioB
away." Geronimo could only have a , lnt,i r8. isolated in her unspeakable of a cngUtutiona! convention by the
few minutes with the president. He , S"ef, is Niobe no longer, bui she is recent legislature are in favor of this
asked for permission to come back in "ow rather the noble Cornelia, pointing plan. It is pointed out that the action
two months and talk the matter over with just exultation to her triumphant of ,he oklab-ma kgislature could not
: with the president and commissioner Gracci conquoring all foes,and tramp- haVe bouud the Indian Territory at all
of Indian affairs. He was informed linB under feel every barrier to her while the action of a mass convention
that he could make his appeal in progress. She is still, it is true, nd i„ whicll the Indjan Territory #llan be
writing. Geronimo has been spoiled ,ever wl11 be> Kachael inconsolable at an equal participant with Oklahoma
by the attentions of the curious public the lo88 of her ,rue8t children because will to a ni0ral extent) be binding upon
W. C. T. U. Entertainment.
A grand illustrated entertainment
will be given by the W.C. T.U. Friday
evening, March 24th, at the First Con-
gregational church. -'Ten Nights in
the Bar Room" illustrated, over one
hundred beautiful views given. Mu-ic
from the difierent churches, and illus-
trated songs. Admission 20 cents.
and it is not probable that he will again
be permitted to leave the reservation.
ASSESSOR
Very Anxious to Have Law-
ton Property on Uni-
form Basis.
H. N. Popp, city assessor, bis just
finished making a personal visit to
every lot in the original townsite of
Lawton. He visited the proper y in
person that he might know just w hat
waB the extent of the real estate
values and to secure a uniform valu-
ation for the entire city.
He will next take up the assessment
cf the Woods and Beal addition.
Mr. Pope has his books arranged in
excellent shape so you may turn at a
glance and see just what your property
is assessed at. The board of equaliza-
tion will meet the latter part of April.
Mr Pope invites each and every person
interested to call and see him regard-
ing the assessment made against their
property,
Subscribe for the Constitution,
COUNTY EXCHANGES.
FREDERICK ENTERPRISE.
Rev. Loud of the Congregational
Chuich of Lawton, will give two illus-
trated lectures at the Presbyterian
Church at Frederick, March 16, i
and 17, "Around the World in Eighty j
Minutes," and "The Passion Play."
The east part of Grand avenne will!
soon be putting on metropolitan airs
by the erection of four brick buildings, J at Brice, New Mexico, for some time
which will cover all the space from W'ra.' of ^
*. ju Pa8t where h© been connected
Cook s lot to the lot now occupied by i
they are not, but she is also the brava 1 the indian Territory
mother, pure and still more refined by, It is expected that the single state-
th« Sres through which she has passed ' hood HecuUve cominUtee wi„ takfi
encouraging her sons and noble daugh- action along thifl ,jne yery soon ^ |f
tersto as great achievements in peace, the col)Vention to arrange for a consti
as were won in war The South will tutional convention be called at all it
ever love, revere, and honor the names wiI1 no doubt be arrang( d ^ aggemble
of her illustrious women, whose blood in May op June. It has been suggested
pulsates in Miss Mary Dudley Sneed's that 8hawnee would be the proper
' place for holding the mass convention
To Begin Active Work. an<1 G"'hrie the p>*<* *e
assembling of the constitutional con-
T. E. Ruby of Apache, who has been \ vention
Wyne's produce house.
! with the K, C. Mining Company, is in
Lawton today. He is showing some ex-
The local seed men report that 21,000 : • =
bushels of oats have been sold the past ' Re"ent specimens of copper received
few weeks to farmers in this vicinity,! from his Mexico mines. He is also one
about 1,000 bushels were kept over by of the company that is drilling for oil
farmers, making a total of 22,000, „A . „ , ,, ,
, . 1 ,, . ! and gas at Cache. Mr. Prver, the oil
bushels which will be sowed. It requires! . ,
a bushel and a half to the acre. This ('r'"er with this company, has also ar-
eans that about 15,000 acres of oats rived, and active work will be com-
~ menced upon the Cache, well at once.
PROOFS
will be sowed in the vicinity of Fred-
erick.
Tuberose bulbs
tore.
at Goodner book
d-2t w-lw
Are Rapidly Being Made
Before the Local Land
Office.
The work at the Lawton land office
has again picked up after a lull of over
Purchases a Domicile.
County Treasurer Riley Smith has: a month, caused by claim holders not
Luther Tarkington, a prominent j purchased the Widmer corner, on 9th j desiring to prove up in order to avoid
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merchant of Temple, was in the city
yesterday. Mr. Tarkingtonhasrecently
purchased an interest in a mercantile
business at Comanche.
The grandest scene ever witnessed
in Lawton will be the entrance of Mi-1 r " —™—™ r — —-
nerva, Mercury, and the candidate ; property. He will improve the place for and were allowed to remain in the
from the lower regions in the "Ancient and make it a nic-e home. Its already land office by the applicant, and not
Or?eoc°f j'®™11168" March 17. Prices good enough for a bachelor. taken up until after the first of the
and D avenue. Riley is one of the j paying tax on his farms. All farms that
eligible bachelors of the city, and j were not proven up on before March
dame rumor msy connect an im-' lsti are exempt from taxation for this
portant news item with the purchase of | year. Many proofs that were sub-
j this piece of desirable residence mitted prior to this time were not paid
diseased and effected cattle from Texas
and Indian Territory.
No school land law was passed. The
two bills that came up to further pro-
tect the rights of the school land less-
ees, passed the lower house but died in
the council. Mr. Ferris wasan ardent
supporter of the bills.
The lower house passed bills regu-
lating railroads which were killed in
the council by the railroad lobbies. Mr.
Ferris made a speech b-fore the house
stating if they could do away with the
railroad lobby they could pass some
law.
The fellow servant bill was defeated
in the lower house, nine out of the
eleven democrats voting for it.
Mr. Ferris voted for all school land
lessees law and anti-railroad bills of-
fering such amendments as he thought
were for the good of the people. He
was one of the twelve that voted
against the appropriation bill. A joint
memorial bill introduced by Mr. Ferris
passed both bl anches of the legislature
memoralizing congress to ope'i the big
pasture. This document was approved
by the governor and wired to Washing-
ton.
The mechanic lien law was passed.
The Ingmire bank bill was killed in
the council which provided I hat all
banks give bond to secure the safety of
the depositors.
Mr. Ferris has asked the attorney
general for an opinion and a copy of
the engrossed bLl which was passed
concerning cities of the first class. The
law was passed presumedly for Okla-
homa City and all cities in the territory
having a population over 2600. He will
know whether Lawton isincluded in the
bill when he hears from the attorney
general.
The eighth legislature has been un-
der republican control in both houses
and never before was there such an
amount of extra help, appropriations
both for schools, printing, etc., as dar-
ing this session. Every republican
member had from tl>ree to five clerks
each, while the eleven democratic
members had to be satisfied with one
clerkship for their entire number.
They adjourned Saturday morningat
3 o'clock sine die.
CREDIT
French Financiers Wili Re-
fuse Further Aid to
Russia.
London, March 15—The revolt of
the French bankers is considered by
the London newspapers as the most
hopeful and important news of the day
promising an arly conclusion of peace
between Ktissiaand Japan. Apparently
the proposed loan has not been abso-
lutely refused, but only "postponed."
Ihis, however, is regarded as here as
being tantamount to a refusal, and is
expected to speak '^uder than the
Russian war party even than Kuropat-
kin's reverse at Mukden. It is the
general belief that by the death of M,
Germain, the late governor of the
Credit Lyonnais Russia lost her strong-
est financial friend in France and that
had he been alive no difficulty would
have been experienced. With the
American and English markets close
to her it is thought that Russia can
only turn to Germany, who is not
likely to be much more responsive
than France, and the only alternative
would seem to be to make peace.
Reports are current here that Japan
will now demand an indemnity of be-
tween $500,000,000 and $750,000,000.
WHAT A NAME.
Paris, March 15.—The correspondent
at St. Petersburg of the Petit Parisi-
enne says that General Kuropatkin's
resignation has been accepted and that
Duke Nicholaivitch has consented to
take chief command in Manchuria.
Married.
Judge W. H, Hussey united in mar-
riage, C. F. Matton of Apache, and
Miss Lilian May Branden of Richards,
Saturday evening at the Rankin hotel.
They are prominent young people of
their respective localities. The groom
was nineteen years old and the bride
seventeen.
month. The work at the local office is
only 25 and 35 cents.
Lee Griffin of Manitou, and W. H.', famous 0hio cultivators are , . DrPS,.n, anrt thB inHi„.
Cofer of Hastings called on the Consti- llandle^ by Benb->w-Horton Hardware
tution. Mr Griffin called to pay • |Co' Be 8ur« you see them before buy- "on" that it will remain so, for
year's subscription for Sam H. Tuck cf inB" ome time;
M,nitou lhe Constitution has a Urge Guaranteed flower seeds at Goodner Gladiola bulbs at the Goodner book
list at that point, book 0 e. d-2t w-lw store. d-2t w-lw
To Old Mexico.
Grant Hill of Sterling left last Fri-
day for Tampico, Old Mexico. Mr.
Hill was at one time a member of the
1 Spanish-American veterans camp of
Lawton. He served with Roosevelt in j prisoners with bunks in which tosleep.
Cuba, and speaks Spanish.
Jail is Crowded.
At the present twenty-seven prison-
ers are confined in the county jail. Of
this number seven were recently sent
here from the federal jail at Guthrie to
be arraigned in court.
The jail is only provided with six
cells and it makes it quite difficult for
the authorities to accommodate the
He thinks
of selling his Brown township farm
and locating among the greasers.
Wanted—by a woman to do house
work. Apply at 306 Second street be-
tween Cand Dave.
For 8ale:-A three room house. In Wanted:—At the Olympia cafe, %
quire at 71« A. «t woman for kitchen help. tf
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