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The Lawton Constitution.
Fourth Year.
WEEKLY EDITION
SEALED Eli) PLAN
OFFICIAL PAPER OF COMANCHE COUNTY AND OF THE PEOPLE.
LAWTON. OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1906
WEEKLY EDITION
No. 27.
BASE BALL SERIES.
Lawton and Geary Will Play Three
Games.—Teams Well Matched.
Method of
Disposal
Lands Is
DEFINATELY
of Pasture _.
The Lawton and Geary ball teams
j arrived over the Rock Island last
j night for a series of three sanies on
TirPIDFlJ l'le loca' diamond, beginning today,
r. 1 I JL L) These teams are evenly matched
f and Interesting contests are expected.
r, , „ , _ Three struggles have just been pulled
Regulation Will k.oon be Given Out off at Geary, of which Lawton cap-
Roosevelt Supports Luepp I tured two. Each game was hotly
Idea. I contested and the third, won by the
| Geary boys required twelve long i
| Innings, resulting 6 to .1 against the
Washington, Sept. 11.—Word was locals- In the first two games Geary
received from Oyster Bay that Presi- j was shut out by the Cardinals, but
dent Roosevelt approves the decision | ^ a narrow margin, results being one
of the Interior department to offer''0 nothing and two to- nothing.
Kiowa-Comanche lands for sale b> j These results are evidence of the fac
the sealed bid system. The Issuance1 'hat the fans of this city will be
of the regulations has been deliivingj treated to the real article of ball In
the final settlement of the question of j "le l"'esent series. Both teams are
as to how the sale should be ton- ln fine form and composed of a likely
ductet' lot of ball tossers.
It was the judgement of both the I 7 ~ ~
Indian Commissioner, Mr. Luepp, andj LAND CONTEST.
Secretary Hitchcock that sealed bids | From Thu„day..-F«ny constitute
Trnnln , nm7m , "irT 0 ,hfi A contest Involving some nice law
Indians. Oin ositlon to the plan devel-1 ques,ions was set for hearing at the
oped in Oklahoma. Delegate M ,and ()fn,.p yesterdav. This
;" !ue. a„rr !P f fays ,af0,,"n<1! «■ a case of the DeWolf heirs versus
lodged .i piotest against sealed bids,. I N-elUe Moore Baldofk u ul„ieai>
urging In favor of public auction The tha[ Mrs Nenio Moorp made Vntrv
Vr?« ,"n,WiTh 1 fn" U" Witl1 thKe °" a of land in the early da>:s
President. The regulations now j rob- here an<1 a („mpst was fi,e(, ou
ably will be made public tomorrow.
NEW RAILROADS
Many Miles Built and to be Built ln
New State.
They are to be given out as soon as
they can be prepared.
The lands form what is known
as the "big pasture" and are on the
north bank of the Red river. There
are some half million acres to be open
ed to settlement, it is believed that
the lands will bring on an average
$8 to $10 an acre.
the ground that she was the owner 4
of more than 160 acres of land by
reason of an Inheritance from her
former husband in Iowa. The local
land office decided gaainst her, and
the contest was taken before the Sec-
retary. The Interior Department
claimed that no case had been made,
and returned the contest for a new
hearing. .
In offices, shops, and upon the
streets one hears much about sealed
bids. The concensus of opinion seem
to be entirely in favor of the public
auction plai., on the theory that it
would result ln greater good to every
interest as well as to Lawton. Occa-
Says St. Louis Dispatch.—Inter-Ur- sionally an opinion will be advanced
TWO COMING TO LAWTON
ABOUT TOWN.
Street Improvements, Storm Sewer and
Sealed Bids the Chief Topics
LARGE INCREASE
ban and Canadian Midland
to Enter this Field.
MISS .MAY.ME DAVIS
First M.:id of Honor, Oklahoma Division, I". C. V.
GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS.
S. K. Richards, the D avenue con
tractor has returned from a trip to
Iowa and Missouri. Mrs. Richards,
who accompanied him will not
return until next week. Mr. Richard
STERLING FAIR.
Col. Sneed of Mt. Scott reports the
agriculturla and horticultural display
at t*:e Sterling Fair a great credit to
the good people of that good country.
He says the display would have been a
credit to any community,old. or young, visited his daughter at Marshalltown,
large or small, none excepted. [ Iowa, and his old home at Chillicothe,
; Chas. A. Seymour, one of the first Mo. He reports a magnificent corn
farmers of Comanche county had six crop in Iowa and more fruit than can
watermelons weighing 493 pounds, one be used. Peaches and plums are
of which he gave to Col. Snted, which in such an abundance that thev are
tipped the scales at eighty-one and left lying around on the ground rot-
one-half pounds. This melon lost . ting.
none of its toothsomeness in its great' At Chillicothe crop conditions are
bulk. j not so good, corn is poor and hay
The Sterling community is blessed I scare. There is a spot including sev-
with progressive people and a pro- eral counties where everything was
ductive country, and is recognized by considerably burnt up. In general,
all as one of the very best parts Mr. Richards says the country was
of this good county. never in better condition, but he has
no desire to return to the old stamping
DISTRICT COURT. "ground. Considerng the age of
From i"ueaday'« Daily constitution. Oklahoma, he thinks no place holds
The regular September term ot the a candle to this country.
district court began this morning,
Jt.d;e frank F -iillette presiding. j CAPTURE MEDALS.
There is a full docket for this '
term, and it is possible that the Court Capt. Frank Ben King and Private
will remain in continuous session Ernest Elliott, of I he local engineer
for at least sixty days. The first corps, have returned from the annual
case on the docket was the Territory army shoot at Sea Girt. N. J. Law-
of Oklahoma versus A. N. Byers, who ton may well take pride in its repre-
is accused of the brutal murder sentatives as each returned with a
of his wife in Kiowa county over a bronze medal awarded for excellence
year or more ago. This case conies in the contest. Capt. King seemed
on a change of venue. It was call- Soper cent.while Private Elliott reache
ed this forenoon, but to allow attor- 90 per cent.
neys time to look up some special
points of law was laid over until this PASTURE BOUND.
afternoon's session.
At 1:30 this afternoon the court I Shirley Jocelyn, a prominent young
St. Louis, Sept. 6.—When Oklahoma
and the Indian Territory become,late
in March next year, a full fledged
state she will have fully 6,000 miles
of railroad in operation, the mileage
of these roads being about equally di
vided between the twin territories,
less than 100 miles probably turning
the scale in favor of the Indiau Ter-
ritory. In addition t<i tli93,000 ln
operation there are several other lines
now under survey, with some of them
in actual course of construction. Ta
ing the past five years as a criterion
for the next five years it will be a
conservative estimate to place the nu'tt
ber of miles that will be constructed
within that time at 3,000. Both tert
ritorles are already grldironed with
roads, but there is no let up in the
cry for more. The country is building
up so rapidly and developing with
such vigor that the demand for addi-
tional inlets and outlets is impera-
tive.
The Missouri Pacific railroad comp-
any has no property interests in eith-
er territory save that involved in the
line between Fr- Smith and Coffey-
vllle, Kan. . i .s not improbable
that this system may enter the Okla-
homa field. Indeed there is a sus-
picion that the Goulds are back of a
proposed line starting with a Mis-
souri Pacific connection at Clarmore,
running south through Coweta, cross-
ing the Arkansas river near Harun,
thence on to Okmulgee and the south-
west. Surveying parties are at
work on this line and much of the
preliminary work has already been
done. About thirty miles of roadbed
has been completed on a new line
running from Lehigh to Chickasha, a
distance of about 120 miles. Some
steel has also bern laid on this line
which will be known as the Oklahoma
Central.
Kansas City is proposing a new
line, the Canadian Midland, rutin ing
from the latter city vie Muskogee to
Lawton. This line if '•Ing llnanceti
by Holland capital and so far as is f
known 1s entirely free of complica-
tions with any ot the other lines.
Along the Canadian Midland as a de-
velopment proposition forty new to*
sites wll be opened as rapidly as the
road progresses.
The last six years have been
prolific of railroad building in the
Indian Territory. The Frisco has
built its entire system during that
time, with the exception of the Okla-
homa-St. Louis line. Within that
time the Missouri, Kansas and Tex-
as has built over 600 miles in
branches and .ill of them are in opera
tion. The Santa Fe has added over
KtO miles. The Midland Valley come
in with 300 and the Fort Smith and
Western comes up with 20. The
Rock Island and the Choctaw, the
latter absorbed 1>.< Hie former! have
built over 600 m:les in the new state
within the time mentioned. The
Kansas Oity Southern has built no
new lines.
Without doubt there will be many
interurban electric lines built In the TO
state directly after the territories
tine into full statehood. Already
there is one projected between Ok-
lahoma City and Guthrie and another
between Lawton and Fort Sill and
there is talk of a line between Mus
kogee and Tulsa and also between
Bartlesville and Dewey. So far there
is only one electric interurban system
in the state and that covers only
the coal mining towns in connection
with McAlester.
proceded to impanel grand and petit attorney of Wichita Kails.,and Clare
juries for this term, and Judge Gil- Pancoast, son of Judge Pancoast, of
lette Is now engaged in examining and Alva, are in Lawton bound for the
instructing the Grand Jury. big pasture. These young gentlemen
The court room had been espe^iall value their homestead right and will
prepared by the addition of new chair take no chnace of forfeiting it. They j of his powers by getting a number of
to sufficiently care for the public, but speak of the career of Lawton with, prominent citizens to appear on the
this afternoon, lobby and gallery are much wonder that so much has been. stage, men in whom there Is general
crowded to overflowing. done In such a short time. I confidence.
GALVANI.
Hypnotist Entertains Small Crowd.—
Displays His Power.
In one sense of the word the enter
tainment given by Galvani at the
opera house last night was dissapoint-
ing. It was dissapointing in the way
of attendance because of showing on
short notice, and in the response of
those present. It is absolutely neces-
sary for a hypnotist to have some
one on whom to work his spell and
the success of Ills entertainment is
dependent more or less on the nature
and character of the subject. Those
responding last night were mostly
juniors and therefore not capable of
the higher form of entertainment.,
In one sense Galvani's performance
was a decided success for he proved
himself without doubt a master of his
profession. The most convincing feat-
ure of the entertainment was the breai
nig of a stone on the body of a sub-
ject with an iron sledge. The sub-
ject was first placed in a comotose
state, his body being made rigid and
placed with the head resting upon
one chair his feet upon another and
the rest of his body unsupported. A
heavy stone was placed upon his sus-
pended form and twice broken with-
out injury to the sjbject. Yesterday
afternoon Galvani gave evidence of
his power by driving a team around
the city and locating a number of ar-
ticles which had been previously hid-
den by a deputation of leading citi-
zens, his eyes all the while being blind
folded with a handkerchief.
Prof. Galvani will be at the opera
house this evening at which time he
hopes to give further demonstration
not particu. • rly hostile to sealed bids
perhaps from a philosophic tendency.
In this connection J. M. Bellamy re-
marked: "1 see no reason why the
sealed bid proposition will not bene-
fit Lawton fully as much in the long
run as the public auction plan. True,
there will not be such a large crowd
at one time, but a steady Influx, as
the people will have to come here in
any event to look over (he land
and to make filing. While this will
necessarily work a hardship ou the
restaurants, the rooming houses and
the saloons. It will not result in the
material detriment expected as the
benefit to the city will be spread out
over a longer period rather than one
big boom occasion with the usual
temporary depression following.' '
On street improvements J. M. Pow-
ers is very enthusiastic. He Is of
the opinion that all citizens should
. support this movement and ef
feet immediate action. "This is the
first step, .'-.nd a very necessary ono
toward beautifying our city said Mr.
Powers. Improvement of parking and
the uniform system of planting trees
is necessarily delayed pending an
establishment of the true grades and
putting in curbing. It works a hard-
ship on no one on the 10 year payment
plan, and the owner of property
reaps the benefit at once. in case
one desires to dispose of property .value
will be materially enhanced by these
improvements and the unpaid balance
will be paid by the new owner."
J. C. Norman in speaking of the
storm sewer proposition says there is
little In the way of this proposition.
"We have an Okla. statute covering
this very point. By establishing a
benefitted district the cost of the
work can be so distributed as to make
the plan feasable."
Mayor Jones is very much in favor
of this proposition and advances the
suggestion that according to the
statutes both the present and contem-
plated sewer can be taxed to the ben-
efited district. He thinks the fur-
ther construction of sewers is essen-
tial to the interests of everyone in the
storm sewer district .
J. Robert Gillam, register of deeds,
was much pleased with a cartoon ap-
pearing in Tuesday's Oklahoman
This cartoon represented the rising
sun of democracy dispelling the clouds
of republican mis-rule in Oklahoma.
Judge Wilford M. Smith was called
to task in this matter and asked to
pass judgement on this work of art.
The judge said he would have t i hea
all the evidence, and as he had just
promulgated a theory of p-imlnlstra-
tion of Indian affairs he hi."rdy felt
equal to the occasion.
Judge Cherryhomes had but one crit-
icism to offer the prophetic abilities
of Col. Postgate of the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat. Col. Postgate pre-
dicted h) population of 60,000 for Law-
ton in ten years. "One hundred thou-
sand would be better," said Judge
Cherryhomes.
"The pasture lands will be sold at
public auction in Lawton, in my
opinion," remarked Major McKnight,
register of the local land office.
| Post Office Receipts for August Much
in Advance of Last Year.
A BUSINESS BAROMETER
Is Local Office Proving General Pros-
perous Conditions.— Steady
Increase.
No better index of prosperity or de-
pression can be found in a city or
community than the business condi-.
tion of the local post office. A post
office in fact is a businss barometer
indicating quite as clearly general
financial storms as universal pros-
perous conditions. Lawton Is there-
fore to be congratulated that the bus
iness advancement claimed for this clt
is fully supported by post office re-
cords. It is learned from Postmaster
White that the receipts for August of
this year are $400 in excess of the
receipts for August, 1905, an increase
of something like 35 or 40 per cent.
The business of the money order and
registration departments is advancing
with the same rapid strides as other
departments. incidentally twice as
many orders are made payable here as
formerly on account of the large
•umber of pasture maps being circu-
lated throughout the country,for which
a cash remittance of fifty cents or
one dollar Is received, usually
In the shape of a post office money
order. Last month the money
credit order of the local office at
New York was raised from $2,000 to
$5,000. Two new clerks have recent-
ly been added.one temporarily and ona
permanent, and Postmaster White
says the force will yet have to be in-
creased as the land opening ap-
proaches.
There are now 7 office employee®
three carriers, one special delivery
clerk. Besides the local matter slit
rural routes and three star routes are
handled through this office. A steady
Increase in the business is noticable *
for the past year, and the average
monthly receipts are near $1500.00,
making the total for the year claM
to $20,000.
The business of the local office Is
only exceeded In Oklahoma by Okla-
homa City, Guthrie, Shawnee and
Enid, all old established cities compap
with Lawton.
RE-UNION STREET PARADE.
From Thursday's Dally Constitution.
Below Is given the order of the big
street parade as planned for Wednes-
day, Sept. 12th, the second day of tha
Confederate reunion to be held hero
next week.
Lawton Cornet Band.
General S. J. Wllklns and staff.
Sponsors and Maids of Honor.
Major Taylor, U. S. Army, staff and
escort.
Old Coufderates, preceded by offi-
cers.
..Daughters Chapter.
Sons and Sponsors and Maids ot
Honor.
Troop of U. S. Cavalry.
The parade will form on E avenuo
between Second and Fourth streets
at 10 o"clock a. in., and will proceed
up Fourth to I), thence west to Sixths
thence north to C, thence east on C'
toT hird, thence to D, thence west
to Fourth, thence to ctv HaU„
where the procession will disband.
THE VOTERS OF THE
DELEGATE DISTRICT.
53 rd
I am a candidate for delegate to th
Constitutional Convention from the
53rd district subject to the Democratic
convention of October 10.
As I may not have the opportunity
of meeting you all personally before
the nomination, I take this method
of submitting my position on some of
the chief questions that will be before
the convention.
I am in favor of making all offices
elective. All state officers to be elect-
ed by the people of the state at large,
and district officers by their respect-
ive districts.
I am in favor of making the terms
of all officers, State and County, ex-
cept Judges of the Supreme Court,
Railroad commissioners and members
of the lower house of the Legislature,
four years, and all officers except Su-
preme and District Judges. Railroad
Commissioners and members of the
Legislature ineligible to succeed them-
selves. There should be a Supreme
Court of five Judges and at the first
election elect one for two, one for
four, one for six, one for eight and
one for ten years, and the term shoul
be fixed at ten years.
State senators should be elected for
four years, and members of the Hous
of Representatives for two years.
I am in favor of the Texas railroad
Commission law, with the addition of
a provision conferring the power to
regulate and control telegraph and tel-
ephone companies. The Texas law
has been adjudicated by the Supreme
Court of the United States, and it Is
more effective than the law of any
other state.
Railroad commissioners should be
elected for six years, but at the
first, elect one for two, one for
four and one for six years.
I am in favor of making stockholder
directors and attorneys of franchise
corporations ineligible to hold public
office during their connection with
such corporation, and for two years
after such relation- is severed.
I am in favor of prohibiting the
acceptance of free passes by any
public officer for himself or another,
or the acceptance of any g.atuity of
whatsoever nature from any corpora
tion under the penalty of impeachmen
or removal from office.
I am is favor of prohibiting railroac
£ WILLIAM M. CROSS.
Adjutant General and Chief of Staff of Oklahoma Division.
C. V.
companies from owning or operating
coal mines,or engaging in any other
business than that of a common car-
rier.
. .I am in favor of reserving the right
to the state to own and operate rail
roads,mines and oil wells,and to have
the right under eminent domain to
condemn coal and oil lands.
I am in favor of selling the school
lands, except those known to be
valuable for mineral, tb the highest
bidder, with preference in favor of the
bona fide resident lessees, on twenty
years time at four percent interest,
with the right to commute at any time
if purchased by the lessee, and after
expiration of five years if purchased
by another. The purchaser other than
the lessee to pay the lessee for Im-
provements.
I am in favor of a liberal public
school system, with a prov'slon that
will forever prohibit the education of
whites and blacks in the same school.
1 am In favor of requiring railroad
companies to furnish separate cars
and waiting rooms for whites and
blacks.
I am in favor of prohibiting the
intermarriage of whites and blacks.
I am in favor of establishing a state
printing plant, which, in addition to
other state printing, shall print school
books to be furnished free to the pu-
pils of the public schools.
I am in favor of the Initiative, Re-
ferendum and recall.
I am In favor of prohibiting counties
and municipalities from incurring an
indebtedness in excess of four . per
cent, of the assessed valuation of its
property, to be determined by the last
assessment.
I am in favor ot limiting taxation
for state nad county purposes to $1.50
on the $100.00.
I am ln favor of prohibiting trusts
from doing business In this state.
..I am in favor of prohibiting any
corporation from doing businecss In thi
state that refuses to . answer,
through its proper officers under oath
any question concerning its corporatloi
business that may be propounded by
the commissioner of Corporations.
1 am in favor of creating the office
of District Auditor, whose duty it
shall be to audit the accounts of all
officers in his district at least once a
year.
..I am In favor of submitting to the
people, as an independent article, the
same provision on the liquor question
for Oklahoma, that must be written
in the Constitution for the Indiau Ter-
ritory.
..I am In favor of prohibiting corpo-
rations from contributing to campaigns
or using the corporate money in any
other than their corporate business.
I am in favor of a provision re-
quiring the passage by the legislature
of a primary election law.
I am opposed to the Issuance of
bonds or the incurring of any liability
by counties or municipalities in aid
of railroads.
I am in favor of prohibiting railroad
companies from issuing stocks or bond
on railroads in excess of the actual
cost of construction of the railroad,
to be determined by the railroad com
mission.
I am opposed to the Constitutional
convention considering the question
of the division of counties for Okla-
homa, as that Is a proper subject for
legislation. I have no objection tx
the delegates from that part of Ok-
lahoma known as the Indian Terri-
tory fixing their county boundaries,
but if the question of county divi-
sion for Oklahoma is forced upon the
Constitutional convention, if elected.
I will use every endeavor to have it
submitted to a vote of the people ot
the counties affected, as separate arti-
cles.
1 will appreciate your support if
you endorse my views, and if elected,
I pledge my energy and whatever abil-
ity 1 possess to have the foregoing
principles Incorporated in the Contitu-
tion. Verv respectfully,
LESLIE P. ROSS,
Sept. 8, 1906. Lawton, Okla.
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