Beaver Herald. (Beaver, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 1, Ed. 1, Thursday, January 28, 1897 Page: 1 of 4
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BEAVER BEAVER COUNTY OKLAHOMA TERRITORY THURSDAY JAN. 28 1897.
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Another Milestone.
With this issue tlio IIkhai.D starts
out on its third volume Wo say third
volume though iu reality it is tlio oldest
paper in Oklahoma hcing the old Ti:u-
BITOUIAL AbvocATE with chatigo of
name only. The pnpsr has heen pub-
lished continuosly io Beaver sinco 18S7
though it has had quite an assortment
of editors and publishers. It has been
under the present management only
about a year. Ooo year ago wo bought
the IiEttALlJcos.rting attho timo
that wo wtre biting off- a chunk that
would bo tolerably hard to masticate
and that it would require considerable
hustling to make the receipts equal tlio
expenses. With no county or federal
patronage and no advertising patronage
to speak of we have been compelled to
depend mainly on our subscribers to get
fundi tu keep tho machinery in motion.
Wo arc pleased to toy that they have
not disappointed us but have usually
been very prompt. Wo have tried to
make tho paper as bright and interesting
as possible and linvo endeavored to treat
every ono fairly eliminating from our
columns anything pertaining to abuse.
Notwithstanding wo have unintention-
ally offended n few very few who
havo ordered their paper discontinued
or havo refused to tako it from tho post.
office 6omc ol them without paying
what they owed on back subscription.
But wo content ourselves with the
thought that they arc few that it
was through no fault of ours that they
quit and that wo havo added several
names to our list for every one that has
been dropped materially increasing tho
came. We t-liall endeavor in tlio future
as in tho past to give our patrons tho
worth of their money and would bo
pleased to do business with every man
in tho county. Thanking our friends
for their liberal pationago during the
past year and inviting a conlinuauce of
tho same wc grip our pen moro firmly
sharpen our scistors and start iu on an-
other ycjr with tho furthering of the
better interests of Heaver county and a
desire to make an honest living for our-
selves tho principal objects in view.
There seems to be a general misunder-
standing amom; ministers nnd justices
iu this county regarding the recording
of marriages. In tho general transfer of
papers occurring at tho time of the lute
change of county oiljccrs between thirty
and forty tuppnscd ccrtiGcatcs of mar-
riage ceremonies were Bent to tho pro-
bate judgo's office from tho county
clerk's othco where they had been sent
lor record during tho past several years
and of tho wholo number there whs only
one that was prepared in shapo to prop-
erly admit it to record. In this matter
ministers and justices havo probably fol-
lowed a section of tho statutes which
provides that marriago certificates may
be filed for record with tho register of
deeds. Marriage licenses may or may
not bo filed with tho register of
deed) that is optional with the parties
themselves but the law requiring all
marriage ceremouies to be recorded in
the probata court is compulsory and se-
vere penalties oro provided for wilful
failure to do so. This law was enacted
to prevent plural marriages in Utah ter-
ritory but applies to all territories and
reads as follows:
9. That every ceremony of mar
riage or in the nature of a marriage cer-
emony of any kind in any of tbo terri-
tories of tho United States whether
either or both or more partus to such
ceremony be lawfully competent to be
the subject of such marriage ceremony
br not shall be certified by certificate
stating the facts and nature of such cer-
emony the full a rues nof each of tho
parties concerned and tho full nam? of
every officer priest or person by what-
ever stylo or designation called or
known in any way taking part in tho
performance of such ceremony which
certificate shall bo drawn up and signed
by the parties to such ceremony and by
every officer priest and person taking
fart in the perfcrmance of such cere-
mony and shall be by the officer piicst
or person solemnizing such ceremony
filed in the offiea of tho probate court;
Any person who shall wil-
fully violato any of the provisions of this
statute shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor and shall on conviotion
thereof bo punished by a fine of not
more than one thousand dollars or by
imprisonment not longer than two
years or by both said punishments in
the discretion of the court. 19th con-
gron sesa. II. eh. 387. 18S7.
The form answering the requirements
of the abovo law is on every marriage
license but in case no liccnso U issued
the minister or jtistici should draw a
certificate answering these requirements.
A record of every marriage should be
kept is the interest of the parties but
carelnssaess In this regard seems to havo
been tho rule.
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THIS AND THAT
Tom Heed evidently mount whut he
said in that speech at Wichita lust fall.
The pension fund disbursed nt Tope-
kn each quarter it larger by S1U0U00
Jhan the amount p.iid out at New York
and Philadelphia combined.
Two Ft. Scott Kns.i bvs were ar
rested t'lu other diy lor Moulin;; stereo-
type iiicIh! from ;i printing olfi'ee to make
bulled fur tho Cuban insurgent?.
Tho populktN mid demoeratH urr ha v.
ing things all their oviy way down at
the territorial capital. There are not
enough republicans there to sing bass.
Abo Stoufer says that rumor ruins
far more refutations than truth Would
Abe kindly take time to mention some
nno whoso reputation is not ruined?
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As if to make Mr. Pcffcr's humiliation
as deep as possible a man was chosen as
his successor who hasn't a particle of
whiskers. K. C. Journal.
A bill has been introduced iu the ter-
ritorial legislature to extend the payment
of all dobls of whatever nature for one
year. The Kansas legislatura will havo
to get a hump on itself if it expects to
keep up with us on ideas of reform.
Those who complain that
McKinlcy's election is not bringing
prosperity arc the kind of people who
would plant an apple seed to-day and
expect apple dumplings to-morrow for
dinner. K. C. Journal.
Dick Quinn in on idle moment fixed
up a lot of questions which ho wants
tho assessors to ask the people. About
tho first ono is an inquiry as to whether
a poker debt ought to bo as binding as
auy other obligation. Dick once re-
marked that straws show which way the
wind blows.
In tho Arkansas legislature lust week
a resolution to moro Jefferson Davis'
picture a little to one fide in order to
make room for a portrait of Georgo
Washington ut the right of tho speak-
er's stand was unanimously voted down.
Geoige Washington may have heen a
very good sort of n citizen but in the
minds of these patriotic Solon? to exalt
him above Jefferson Davis would bo
sacrilegious.
Tho Ashland Journal has sold its
franchise to tho Clipper and will appear
no more. This is a natural consequence
whero there aro two newspapers pub-
lished in so limited a field. A county
campaign in Kansas is invariably bitter
and the late one in Chik county was no
exception. It ended aftcrvn long hard
fought struggle in victory for tho fusion
forces by a margin of a very few votts.
There also they go on tho principle of
' to the victor belongs the spoils."
There is hardly enough patronage in
Claik county outside of legal work to
keep eno paper going in any kind of
shape; it requires the county patronage
there to conduct a paper without loss to
tho publisher. Two demo-pop commis-
sioners were elected and our paternal
parent petting into tho future foresaw
the result and "sawed off" in obeyance
to tho demands of tho first law of nature.
Ho will probably remove to Beater.
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The territorial legislature may pars a
law providing for the election of a coun-
ty assessor in each county and abolish
ing tho present system. Tho object is
to reduce expenses and get a more
equitablo assessment to compel the
man who owns thousands of dollars'
worth of property to pay taxes on all of
it tho same as tho poor man does on
what he owns. Under the present sys-
tem some men who own thousands of
head of cattle only pays taxes on hun-
dreds and as It requires just so much
money to pay tho expenses anyway of
courso this makes the burden of taxation
full more heavily on those who aro least
able to bear it. It is safe to say that
if every hoof in Beaver county was
listed for taxation the valuation of tho
county would be doubled and tho rate
would not need to be more than 82 on
the 8100. Tho proposed change would-
likely be of some benefit but a better
way would be to appoint the county as-
sessor. A man could be appointed to
that position who would assess all of
every man's property fairly at what it
was worth but it would bo difficult to
elect a man of that kind. The easy
going individual with an o'astio con-
science would be elected every time.
iu:i:n auaixst fim:k homi:s.
Washington Jau. '2'.). Tho House
cmuuiiltco on public lands after agree
ing to leport the enlarged freo homo
bill as it came from tho senate has been
working on Speaker ltccd in tho hopo
of securing his couscnt to tho calling up
of tho senato bill but tbo speaker has
not only declined to givo his consent
hut offeis no promise of a time iu the
future stating as his reasons for dechn-
ing that all of tho membcrs'of the houso
1 who had been activo in pushing tho bill
1 were defeated in tho late elections or at
least were not r turned to congress by
their constituents.
Speaker Heed to-day in talking with
a member of the appropriations commit-
tea on this subject stated that he had
made a speech at Wichita Kansas in
which he told the people that by their
votes at tho polls he would decide
whether they were favorable to the bill
and would favor its passage if he thought
they wauled it and so manifest their de-
sire by returning to congress the men
who had been instrumental in getting it
up. Now that Mr. Flynn of Oklahoma
the originator of tho bill Gamble of
South Dakota Wilson of Idaho and
Mciklcjohn of Nebraska who had
worked for it in committee. C.ildcrhoad
and Kirkpatrick of Kansas and Haincr
of Nebraska and all others who lubored
for its success wero defeated and he was
therefore forced to decide that tho peo-
ple most concerned did not favor the
passage of tho bill. Should tho bill be-
come a law it would prove of treat ben-
efit to tho settlers upon Indian lands
whether purchased originally from tho
Indians or from the United States gov-
ernment after salo by tho Indians flu it
would make unnecessary the payment of
a price for such land.
Despite tho speaker's unfavorable at-
titudo toward the bill Flynn is employ-
ing every endeavor to change his views.
Washington Jim. 2G. Delegate
Fljnn pic-entcd luto this afternoon the
icport of the house committee on public
lands on tho Oklahoma ficc homes bill.
It urgis the passage of the bill as it
went through tho senate.
The opposition of Chairman Lacey of
tho committee and of Speaker Heed
renders tho chances for its enactment nt
this session very remote although its
friends insist that no opportunity will bo
lost to facilitate its passage
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Breaking up of the Indian Territory.
The final and inevitable rhango from
tribal to individual ownership of land
seems to havo almost arrived in tho case
of the five civilized tribes of tho ludian
territory. The Choctaws ono of the mott
intelligent of tho tribes havo signed
through their commissioner an agree-
ment which is now beforo Secretary
Francis for revision and approval. Tho
other four tribes havo been almost per-
suaded to follow tho Choctaws and treat
with thn Dawes commission for similar
agreements.
A bill has been prepared for presentas
tion to the present congress which will
ignore prospective agreements with the
other four tribes and will provide in tho
speediest legal way possiblo .to carry
through tho forms of tribal dissolution
and the nllottinent of jands in sovcralty.
'The prospest of the passage of such a
bill by tho present congress is said to bo
nearly certain. Tho testimony of tho
Dawes commission is that a measure of
this kind will bo merely a short cut to
reforms that the Indians themselves
wish but which through proverbial di-
atorincsi of their leaders they have with
the exception of tho Choctaws quit pe
titioning for. Tho entering wedge of
the dissolution of tribal relations allot
ment of the lands aud tho establishment
of townsitcs is contained iu the Choctaw
agreement and it is said to bo the hope
of tho real leaders in the territory that
tho great reservation will be speedily
converted into a civilized law-abiding
portion of the country.
Sentimentaly there are strong objec-
tions to depriving the Indians of one
foot of tho reservation guaranteed them
by a treaty with tho federal government.
In the case of tho five civilized tribes
tho facts do not coincide with tho senti-
mental view. The Indians themselves
do not now number one-third of the uo.
tual population of the Indian territory
which is practically controlled by specu-
lative half hretds and adventurous
whitjs. The worst feature of the case
as it stands is that the Indian territory
has become an asylum for criminals from
all parts of tho United States. Having
neither territorial nor state government
it has developed into a hiding placo for
outlaws who carry their depredations on
social order into to: neighboring Hater
and then tlco for refngo to tho fastucss
of their hybrid dwelling place.
Tho testimony of every acuto observer
of southwestern affairs is that tho Indian
territory is a blot on tho escutcheon of a
sels-governinc law abiding republic.
On this ground alone tho breaking up ol
the tribal relations of tho Indians and
the substitution of a civilized form of
government will bo viewed with com-
placence. There will bo no confiscation
as the Indians will still hold their lands
in severalty aud tbo1 forces of civilizition
will he given a chanco in the garden
spot of tho great southwest. Chicago
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Litoral Kansas.
Headquarters for the Stockmen of the
Southwest.
CARTER TRACY
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Filing Final Proof and Conl-wt Testi
many taken beforo me as
Probate Juduc.
Boaver
Oklahoma
I BLANC1JAHD
Lawykh.
Special ut ten Hon' given to thn drawing
Usui documents.
Oillcnon Dougla Avoiiiih.
Beaver Oklahoma
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R. WRIGHT
(COUNfV ATTORNEY.)
Will practice In nil. Court or Oklahoma
KnneOB und Tcxai.
Beaver Oklahoma.
MCKSONsS DICKSON
Attorn Eva at 7.aw.
Will pructlcoln all the court I of the lountj
and Territory
Bca.'cr Oklahoma
JR. LiNLEY. M. IX
Eclectic Physician
SunOEON QQ OUSTETUICIAK.
CulU promptly attended either day or nigh
Beaver Oklahoma.
JAMES LANE
TONSORIAL ARTIST
Comfortable chairs and room sharp ra-
zors experienced workmen popu-
lar prices. Call at my shop
west idc Douglas avenue
when wanting any-
thing in my
line.
:b:e3.a.-v:e:r o. t.
GOTTLEIB STREULT
BOOT & SHOE MAKER
Manufacturer of Lullosaml Ovnts fine
llOOtS i. tihOtB
Repairing a Spciulty
Givo Me a Call.
Bcav
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Oklahoma
Is King.
and I want some
of it. I have too
many goods ad
owe too many
bills.
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Prices
From Jan. 25 to
March 1 st for
SPOT
I have a large stock of
UNDERWEAR
Will sell below cost for
CASH!
400 :p.aj::ks x..-a-idi
ie s shoes
.a.t cost ifoir
CA-SH.
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Gents' Boots and Shoes
at Cost.
Dress Goods Prints.
Muslins etc etc. big cut
I will sell more Sugar
for $1.00 than you ever
got lor it in Beaver county
Cut In all
For Cash until March ist.
ome and e U
and hring tle ibtuff.
ooel olel in tVje
olel Way' at tfje old
price-marleel
Custer
Store.
Will
Gut
BASH
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Chas. Summers
SAYS TO
THE
PEOPLE OF
BEAVER
COUNTY
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DON'T SEND TO THE EASTERN
MARKETS
You can do better. Summon has had eleven yoars' experience with
the western trade and ho knows what kind of goods you need and keep
them in stock. Best Stock of Furnishing (His west of Wichita.
Gloves mads to ordsr if you wish them and warranted not to rip.
Cull uud cxainino this stock of gcods and get prices.
ohas. stt:m::m::ej:rs
SW.AASgSgEx.ailfciAi m'jLersrasssr pjpj
BOYLE
HARDWARE!
TOVES TINWARE WAQON WOODWORK" IRON FURft.
ITURE AND UNDERTAKMR.
Tin Sheet Iron and Copper work done promptly. Call and see t befer
you buy.
LIBERAL IT. A -NTS3 A ot.
WILL LAMPE
LIVERY FEED SALE STABLE.
The Pioneer Stablo of Liboral. Good Rigs plenty of feed Fint CkM
Ac 0 nmodations.
Special Accommodations for .Freighters.
LIBBBAL IKZnSTS-AJS.
Ui:0. UEHIjACII President.
GERLACH BANK
WOODWARD OKLAHOMA.
"Tmnj&cij q eneral tSantyn butne.
Interest paid on time deposits.
CoRUEsroNUENTs: National Park Bank New York; Nationol Dank of Co
mcrce Kansas City; Canadian Valley Bank Canadian Texas.
You can discount "railroad" prices on
Mi SlE Tinware it
At Beaver Oklahoma. Here are a few of our prices:
Air tiht heating stoves complete with ash pan 96 50
No. S Copper Bottom Wash Boiler 75
No 8 All Copper ' ' 2 25
No. 7 Tea Kettle steel and copper bottons 25c. aod 40c.
No. 8 '
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1 qt. Coffco Pots 20o. Stovo
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