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The Lawton Constitution.
Vol. III.
WEEKLY EDITION
OFFICIAL PAPER OF COMANCHE COUNTY AND OF THE PEOPLE.
LAWTON, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1905.
WEEKLY EDITION
No. 25.
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Wolf Fishing.
Turner Falls, I. T., Aug. 20.—"Wolf
hunting" is the new sport in the Ar-
buckle mountains, which seems to be
growing in popular favor. This scheme
was Introduced by Keaton Bryan and
J. B. Dickinson, the "mayor-elect" of
Turner Falls.
These gentlemen conceived the idea
of bailing a large fish hook with fresh
meat, suspended about three feet from j
the giound, secured by a strong wire.
7wiU leave Oklahoma city I They Plawd ei*ht hooke °n ringing
1 limbs last night and this morning went
out and found one large gray wolf and
SPECIAL
Oklahoma Statehood Special
Will Leave September 28
For Portland, Ore.
Oklahoma City, Aug. 20.—The state-
liuod
for Portlwd. Ore., carrying represen-
tati?es from every enterprising city
and town in the twin territories, and i a
two cars of exhibitB which will make a
solid vestibule train of about seven
BIRTH RATE
Trip in Four Days.
Pari?, Aug. 20.—The first attempt to
oross the Atlantic in a balloon is soon to
be made by the French aeronaut, Louis
| Godard.
, M. Godard, who has made more than
i 700longer or shortctrips in his balloon
I has all the details o.' his trip planned
j and the necessary money has been
promised by a prominent member of
[ ®ie Aero club.
1 The balloon in which he will under-
Washington, Aug. 17.—That "lhere | take his perilous voyage, will be large
has been a persistent decline of the en h to contain 12,700 cubic metres
l;_il a._ ?_ TlnUa/1 Utatad ainno . .
of hydrogen. He has floured that one
per cent of this gas will leak out every
FERGUSON
Census Bureau Says It Has
Been Decreasing Since
i860.
17.—That "there 1
Portland has thrown out her latch-
These wolves were shot with a Win-
chester rifle and their D"!ta caiTied co
the Fall" Ordei:. fcr large fish hooks
are going into Davis from many camp-
string to every town in Oklahoma and j e"-and th« rtof wolf fishing will be
Indian Territory with the same spirit 9tudied at Turner >alls dunn* the
of welcome as in the days of yore. 80 I sea80n-
the enterprise towns are going to | There are now bout two
in that fifty others arc coming next
Monday and Tuesdpy. This resort
seems to be growing in popular favor,
because there are no stores or hotels
at which money can be spent, and
camping has become a popular fad
these hot days.
birth rate in the United States since
I860," is the conclusion reached in
bulletin issued by the census bureau, day. but"allowsan extra marginofkone-
The bulletin was prepared by Prof ha)f Qf Qne ppr ceut whjch meail„ that
Walter F.Wilcox, of Cornell university, after ten d#y< tfce balio0n win .till
and it is explained that although many haye a carryingoapacity of 400 pounds,
suggestions as to the probable tenden- He doe9 nQt thjnk_ howeVeri that the
hundred
packTheir'hom".grown truc/and"put j P«°Ple camPed *ere a,ld rePorts uom°
on their best "bib and tucker" and 1 in th" fl,tv othpr8 "^ominir next
visit Noi^hbor Oregon. And what
then? Well, we're going to bring home
from the fair a lot of "blew" ribbons
tied on our cotton and corn, and every-
thing. Such a harvest festival we'll
have.
At Portland we will be received by
the city, state and exposition officials
on Monday and be welcomed. On
Tuesday will be Statehood Day, with
fitting exercises, an J last but not least,
the balance of the week will be Okla-
homa week, with our exhibits placed
in a conspicuous place on the grounds,
affording the opportunity of every
northwesterner to see what the new
southwest has to offer, and further-
more, where we will compete fur first
prizes with the twin territory products,
with tne view of bringing home all
binds of blue ribbons. There is no
doubt as to both the northwest and
southwest being the two richest pro-
ducing sections of the country, and it
is a matter of compensation that we
only hope to get in the way of prizes
that which is justly due us.
cies in the birth rate of the United
States it is, primarily, not a study oi
birth rates, but a study in the propor-
ation of children to the total popula-
tion or to the number of women of
child bearing age
Mysterious Kansas Well.
Salina, Kas., Aug. 20.—The people
of Beverly, a town northwest of Salina
on the Union Pacific railroad, are
greatly excited about a mysterious well
from which a roaring noise can be
heard for some distance. The well is
on the farm of Charlie Gaugh, just on
the out skirts of the village. The well
was being dug for water. Last night
when the men quit the well was thirty
feet deep, and no water had been found.
Today when they came to resume work
they found the well half full of water
and a rumbling noise was heard. It
was thought that gas might be escap
ing, but none would burn when a match
was applied. The entire town is in-
terested and the well is eagerly
watched for further developments.
ACCIDENTS
Pays Much Tax.
Chicago, August 20.—The contrib-
utions of Marshall Field to the public
coff ers of Cook county were announced
today by the b' d of review.
Mr. Field will . ay taxes on a real es- Number PcOpl? Killed and
tate valuation of S30,0u0,000 and « per-
trip will take more than four days.
To prevent the balloon from drop-
ping into theocean, it will be equipped
with a contrivance invented by M.
Hcrve which will keep it at a height
I of two hundred metres above the sea
The result of the study shows ihat at
the beginning of the Nineteenth cen-, The balIoon will be manned by a
tury the children under 10 years of age oiw Qf ten anJ wU, carry 2 400 kilo_
constituted one-third of the total pop-
' grammes of ballast and provisions,
ulation. The decrease in this propor- j besjdeg scientiftc instruments and a
tion began as early as a decade in I810 motor boat
to 1820 and continued uninterruptedly, M Qodard will ascend ,rom 80me
though at varying rates in each sue- 1 pojnt Qu tfae Newfoundland coa8t, and
cessive decade. 1 ,.oun[a on landing on the coast of Brit-
Between 1850 and *860 the propor- , t
tion of children to women between 15 j
and 49 years, the child bearing age, in- j
creased, but since 1860 it has constantly I
decre.sed. It is stated that the de-! H. P. Croff has returned from De-
crease has been very unequal for the ton, Caddo county, and will spend
Governor Informally Enter-
tained By Citizens—Ad-
dress Last Nignt.
Yesterday afternoon Governor Fergu-
son returned to the city from Cache,
were he delivered an address to the
Sunday school convention. He did not
speak at the fairgrounds, but addressed
the citizens of Lawton at the Com-
mercial hall last night. After the ad
dress, Gov. Ferguson and friends ad-
journed to the City I'rug store where
they w^are the guests of C. S. Powell
Mr. Powell served ice creamand passed
the cigars, thus making the evening a
pleasant part of the governor's visit to
the southwest.
B.M. Parmenter, F. A. Parkinson
and C. M. Myers accompanied the
governor to the train this morning and
he returned to Guthrie over the Rock
Island.
Will Feed Cattle.
decade but if the computation is made
upon the basis of twenty year period it
has been regular. In 1860 the number
of children under five years of age to
1000 women 15 to 49 years old, was 634,
in 1900 it was only 474. The proportion
of children to potential mothers in
1900 was only three-forths as large as
in 1860.
Injured on the
Railroads.
sonal property valuation of $10,000,000.
Unlike many of the wealthy citizens
of Cook county, who appear to think
the system of taxation is without fair-
ness, Mr. Field meets his obligation
without a murmur of objection, unless ] Washington, Aug., 20.—Ten thous-
he has been made the subject of flag j and and forty-six persons were killed
rant injustice. j and 84,155 injured on the railways of
There are those whodeclare thatMr j the United States in 1904. Of the killed,
Field, were he to realize full value of j 441 and of the injured 9,111 were pas-
all his possessions, could sign a check
for $200,000,000. The more conserva-
tive, however, estimate his wealth at
between 8100,000,000 and 8150,000,000.
Nobody but Mr. Marshall Field knows
how rich Marshall Field considers
himself to be.
Lawton 2, Fort Sill 1.
From Monday's Daily Constitution.
The above is the result oi a well
played game of base ball between
Lawton and the picked team from Ft.
bill. Only one earned run was made,
and that by Lawton in the ninth inn-
ing. A sensational catch was made by
Prosperous Farmer.
H. L. Hamby, who livos five miles
southwest of Frederick, departed on
Wednesday morning for a trip to Ken-
tucky and Tennessee, to be absent
several weeks. Mr. Hamby says):o
made thirty bales of cotton on his farai
last year, besides 700 1 ithels of corn
fi'dp20(> worth of.feed b'.Viff, e-id fit '
he has fine cotton and corn this year.
He says he has taken off 353 chickens
this year, notwithstanding the fact
that he is batching.—Frederick Leader.
Home time on his farm two and one-
half miles southwest of Lawton. He
will feed five car loads of cattle this
winter twenty-five miles north of Ana-
darko. He says that he expects to
purchase corn for eighteen cents de-
livered. There is a world of corn in
that section this year. Mr. Croff has
sixty bushels of corn to the acre on his
place near Lawton.
STORM
Farmer's Union.
Oklahoma City, Aug. 18.—The India-
homa Farmer's Union of the Educa-
tional and Co-Operative Union of
America has succeeded in landing
Shawnee as territorial headquarters.
A proposition was made the local
chamber of commerce by the union,
but the demands, although not great,
were entirely unfavorable, and had
they been accepted, would have proven
very unsatisfactory to oklahoma City
interests. Tbe reason for turning down
the proposition of locating head-
quarters here, was because the
chamber of commerce and traffic as-
sociation did not care to place the
union in competition with Oklahoma
City jobbers and retail dealers, and at
the Bame time pay out annually about
$1000 in supporting the competitor.
The union demanded inducements to
locate here in the form of the free use
of a suite of four furnished offices. and
also the co-operation of the traffic as-
sociation in securiii,' rates, it is under-
stood, with which pioneer jobbers and
retailers could not compete.
Many Quail.
Pauls Valley, I. T., Aug. 18.-Andy
Meeker, living up the Washita valley
from this place, two miles, and an old
t'~-- in this section, reportB quail
r numerous in this section this
«t- ,on than for years. In spite of the
! > avy rains early in the season and
Somewhat Personal.
The Constitution has found it
necessary to add another room and in-
stall a lot of new machinery. The
business is growing right along. Th:
newspaper is not only a perveyor^oV , ^ l|lwiltaVe hatched
big broods on the uplands and are nu-
Thirteenth Cavalry Here.
Four Companies of the Thirteenth
caviary arrived at For Sill SuBday
from the Phillieine Islands. They
were relieved in the Orient by the
Eighth caviary so long stationed at
Fort Sill. The four companies com-
prise more than 200 men. They ex-
changed horses with the Eighth
cavalry.
sengers, or one killed out of every
1,622,267 carried, and one injured out
of every 78,523 carried.
These figures are given in the annual
report of the interstate commerce
commission for 1904. The report
shows that at the end of 1904 there
were 297,073 miles of railroad in the
United States, owned by 2,104 railway
corporations. Of this number 1,086
maintained operating accounU, 848 q[ Q ^ Texas Mr
independent operat-, ~~ .
1 Settle will open a grocery business on
the 20th of this month. He will make
New Grocery Store.
J. W. Martin, owner of the building
recently vacated by S. Mittenthal,
on C. Avenue, has rented same to L.
being classed as
ing roads, and 238 as subsidiary roads.
During'the year companies owning
5,600 miles of line were reorganized,
merged consolidated, etc. The length
Lawton his future home.
Tarr. lie pulled down what would ! of milage operated by receivers June
have been a safe one to center garden j SO, 1904 was 1.323 miles. The number
by leaping into the air and reaching j of roads in the hands of the receiver
' " " was 28, and at the close of the previ-
ous year 27.
out his left hand. Sigmon pitched an
effe ".ivo game. He pulled himself out
of dangerous places and seemed to let
the Puldiers down whenever he saw fit
to do so. Once the baseewei"3 all full
and he retired three men in succession,, .
, .. . l _, , raged because she believed she had
but a wild throw by the catcher let | u
i v n piiitUnra been supplanted in Ins affections by a
one of the Sill boys in. I hillipp-" , ^
played well yesterday. In fact, every
Aged Woman Kills Lover.
Hutchinson, Kan., Aug. 20.—En-
man on the team did some good work.
Third baseman allowed a high fly to
pass through hie hands, but he did
some good work. "No use," Phillipps
thinking it was "no use" to play more
than nine innings, with Lakin
younger woman, Mrs. Medie Welle,
65 years old, today Bhot and killed
William Burch, 45 years old, and then
turned the weapon on herself, inflict-
ing wounds of which she died later.
The tragedy was the culmination of
discontent, which Mrs. Wells has long
second, drove the 'sphere beyond the I "Pressed because Burch would uot
center garden and ended the game, j "ame the wedding day
Latvton 2, Fort Sill 1.
Paid the Claim First.
A. B. Moore of this city, who repre-
sents the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance
company of California, went to Ana-
darko and handed Mrs. Joseph A.
Berry, the widow of Joseph Berry de-
ceased, a check for l>2,026. Mr. Moore
said his company was the first to pay : much annoyance.
Mrc. Berry the insurance carried by physician and had it removed, and
her husband, and he carricd insurance thus avoided what might have been a
in two old lines and one order. Life dangerous accident.
insurance is a good thing and often
times prevents the wife and children [ Draws Utah Land
Bug in His Ear.
A small bug crawled into Floyd
Kimble's ear last night as he was on
his way to church. At first he did not
think much about it but the insect
crawled up to the drum and proceeded
to pound away until Floyd could not
hear the preacher and also suffered
He went direct to a
from enduring many hardships of life.
Squire Boone of this city, has drawn
, On September 2nd. No.385in the Utah land lottery through
ctf Island railroad company ' soldier's declaitory. There are 3,500
an Oklahoma train to Denver, 8°°d claims in the lands to be
from El Reno. The fair is cpened and hi. number may be proflt-
for the round trip, subject to
aion.
able. His son-in-law, Mr. Moore will
go out to look after the filing
One Horse Recovered.
Yesterday Frank Smith found the
bay horse belonging to Miller Bios.,
about eight miles sjuthwest of town.
Sheriff Hammonds and force are in hot
pursuit of the theives who have the
horses belonging to Johnson and
Wright; and probably will effect a
capture within the next twenty-four
hours.
Walter Shook up by Storm-
Christian Church Blown
From Foundation.
Yesterday afternoon, Walter, Okla.,
was damaged by a hard wind. The
wind came from the south and for a
short time the inhabitants thought
there was dan^sr of a cyclone. The
Christian church was about completed
and was blown from the foundation
and partially destroyed. So much so,
that it will have to De reconstructed.
Everything loose was moved and
many buildings were damaged to some
extent. The rain was very heavy and
much damage was done to corn in
that vicinity.
Did Not Marry.
J. C. Woods and Miss Helen Weight-
man who eloped early yesterday morn-
ing, took a livery rig and driver and
drove to Anadarko. They were inter-
cepted and detained there by Mr.
Weightman reaching the probate judge
by long distance 'phone and advising
him that his daughter was not of age.
Mr. Weightman took the train for Ana-
darko and brought his daughter back
to Lawton m the evening. The young
couple have become reconciled to wait
awhile.
Sunday School Convention.
The Sunday Schools of Comanche
county united this week in a great
convention in the woods among the
Sixty-one Years Old. ; mountains near Cache, Great credit
Wm. H. Hornaday and family were '9 ^ue President Campbell and Secre-
pleasantly surprised last night by mem-1 tary Stubblefield for the efficient or-
bers of the G. A. R. and W. R. C., yes- j ganizations of the county making such
terday being Mr. Hornaday's sixty- j a convention possible. Hundreds of
first birthday. The evening was spent visitors from all over the county were
by the usual entertainment thataffordBj present camping in the vicinity,
pleasure and mirth. Ice cream and J Rev. O. B. Loud of this city gave his
cake were served and the guests de- j lecture on "Christ a Life,' illustrated,
parted wishing that Mr. Hornaday may j on Tuesday night. Governor Fergu-
have many more such milestones in ! eon and Hon. Fred V. <-nner spoke on
life. Those present were Messrs. and | Wednesday, General Secretary Rev.
Mesdames Snyder, Delharty, Mc-'Wm. Rogers of Medford, and terri-
Knight, Weymouth, Richardson and 1 torial officers.
grandson, John Broshears, Northup,
Mrs. Sumption, Dr. Merideth and Mes- Home in Lawton.
srs. Battin and Brandon. , ., . ..
O. O. Kirkham and wife of Kanuat-
City, Kan., who recently arrived in the
city and purchased a half interest in
the Goodner book store, are busy just
news and a stickler for better things
the administration of the affairs of
the city and county, but the Constitu-
tion plant is one of the largest in-
dustrial institutions in the city of
Lawton. Sixteen people are carried
on the pay roll of the Constitution Co.
and they are kept busy in the editorial,
business, mechanical and cirou:ation
departments of the business. The
Constitution's ambition is to publish
the best weekly newspaper in Okla-
homa, a newsy local daily and to build
up a job printing, blank book and
stationary house, something on the
order of the Guthrie Capital and Lea-
der. The Constitution is situated on
one of the most prominent corners in
the city, and if the Lord smiles upon
j us as we believe he will, some day
the Constitution block will be a hand-
j some three story brick building that
I will be an rviuuMUt W the ?i'y acd a
suitable home for the buBitese.
The Constitution wants every man
in Comanche county for its friend,
whose confidence can be enjoyed with
out the sacrifice of the principles upon
which the business is founded. Drop
in and see us, give us your order lor
job printing and advertising.
Live Stock Sales.
Oklahoma City, Okla., Aug. 18.—E.
Bracht, president; F. D, Northup, sec-
retary; E. E. Alkire, C. C. Walker, W.
S. Combes and T. E. Smith, officers
and members of the executive board
of Improved Live Stock Breeders of
Oklahoma, met here today and dis-
cussed and begun arrangements for
sales and shows in different parts of
the territory and also to begin on
the annual meeting and sale to be held
in this city. The permanent meeting
place of the association was fix-d at
this city at the last convention. It is
now proposed to form a company
among the live stock breeders, build
buildings and fit up a show grouud
where their meetings can be held and
at the same time give exhibition of
their stock.
merous. The game laws are strictly
enforced in this section, and this,
taken with the increased growing of
small grain, is causing the birds to in-
crease instead of die out. Mr. Meeker
recently sent for several Mongolian
ph<*asantK to a brother in Ore,;an and
states that be will soon have tbe
Washita valley stocked with these
beautiful game birds.
NEW ROAD
Good Melons.
J. E. Deaton went over to Syril to
day to load a car with melons. He will now making themselves familiar with
probably ship them to DesMoins, the stock. For sixteen years Mr
Iowa. Mr. Deaton says he will furnish Kirkham was a railroad postal clerk
melons for the state fair of Iowa.
Meetings at Phelps.
Elder G. W. Thompson, of Reck, I.
T., who is conductinga series c.f meet-
ings at Phelps school house, six miles
east and two south of the city, was
here today. Mr. Thompson opened
the meetings on last Saturday evening
and they will continue until next Sun-
day evening and probably longer. Fie
has had large congregations and good
interest this far, and believes the out-
look for nil excellent revival is promis-
ing.
Returned Home.
Miss S. E. Newcomer of the Carlisle
schools of Carlisle, Penn., who has
been here in the interest of the great
Indian school, returned to her home
today, She stated to a Constitution
representative this morning that two
Apache boys would probably attend
the Carlisle school this winter.
The Largest Normal.
Guthrie, Aug., 18,—O. F. Flayes,
county superintendent of Lincoln
county, was in tbe city yesterday at-
tending the territorial board of edu-
cation meeting. Professor Hayes re-
Wichita Falls Line Will Be
Built Through This
County.
Oklahoma City, Okla., Aug. 18.—a
letter from Mr. G B. Stone, who has
been in the east for thfe last several
days in the intereBtB of the Oklahoma
and Texas railway company recently
organized in this city, says tnathf has
secured sufficient funds for building
the line from this ci'y to Wichita
Falls, Texas, and that everything is in
readiness for purchasing the right-of-
way for the road. All surveys have
been made and probably with the re-
turn of Mr. Stone, which will be within
a few days, a right-of-way party will
start from this city aud take up the
options in order to begin work on the
road at once. This is the line of which
considerable has been said in connec-
tion with the Katy; that it was to be
be built by the Oklahoma and TexaB
company and turned over to the Katy.
Whether this be true or not, the line
when built will be an important exten-
sion and will provile an outlet to the
far B'lUthwcst, a thing which has been
needed, and will help the trade, both
export and import to and from Texas.
Besides, the country to be touched by
this line is some of the most fertile and
crop producing in Oklahoma and tbe
southwest.
Crime of.an Indian.
Last Saturday, near Jesse, a small
inland town, eighteen miles southeast
of this city, occurred one of the most
brutal murders ever known in the
Chickasaw nation. A young full blood
Indian by the name of Iirown killed his
mother and stepfather and wounded
bis sister, a pistol being used as a
weapon. United States DeputyMai-
shal John Chapman, of this city, left
for the scene of the murder on receipt
of the news and returned yesterday
morning with the Indian under arrest.
He is said to have been drunk at the
time tbe crime was committed.—Gains-
ville Messenger.
running most of the time on the Union ' ports that the normal institute has
Pacific between Kansas City and Den- i lugt closed and that it had the largest
of Delphos, Kan., ar- ver. He has come to Lawton to make attendance of any institute in the ter-
wton last evening and is his home and will work for the best
e home of O. L. Kinseyon interest of his business and will iden-
Mr Duncan will stay here tify himself with the undertakings of
iks. I the city.
ritory, enrolling 226 during the term.
Two hundred of these took the exam-
ination and Professor Hayes believes
that fully 66 per cent of these will suc-
cessfully pass.
Oklahoma Man Is It.
Denver, Colo., Aug. 18.—N. S. Sher-
man of Oklahoma City, is said to be
the lowest bidder for the construction
of the Pathfinder dam near Casper,
Wyo., for which bids were opened to-
day by engineers of the government^
service. The bid is approximately
$460,000. The mammoth dam is to b«
built in connection with the Platte i
rigation project. Bids of which ther
were six, have been forwarded
Washington where the contract will 1
let.
Rob' . Meecb has gone to St. Lou
where he will remain for si
months.
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