Chickasha Daily Express. (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, January 1, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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CHICKASHA 'D
PRESS
VOLUME 10.
Chickasha Okhhoma Friday Jinuary 1 1909
NUMBER 1
A1LY
EX
GATHERING TOO
LARGE FOR
SIIOTEE
Teachers Return From
State Meeting-Hard to
Find Quarters
"Shawnee was wholly unprepared (o
entertain such a big crowd" said Supt.
Kamey who returned yeMerday from
the meeting of the Stale Teachers' As-
sociation. "There were from 25(10 to
3000 teachers enrolled. The hotels
were overrun early In the game and
many left the first day being unable
in find places to stay. I was phced
la a room with four others and It wan
so small that only one of us could
irc-M at a time. Afler the Shawnee
eople found out what they bad on
heir hands tliey opened their homeg
0 the visitors and treated them well.
"It w.vh a very HUrcessful meeting In
ttendance and the program was excel-
ent although but a small pcrcenV
.ge of the teachers were able to get
eats lu the opera house where the
easions were held."
The following Chickasha teachers
attended the meeting most of them
'eturnlng tost night: Mr. and Mrs.
Edgar Cowan II. If. Wilson Everett
Gregg F. D. Allen Mrs. Inse Mrs.
'yle Mrs. Dyche; Misses Trotter
'lark Brumm. Ratts Jones Canning
.'layton McVilllans Watson Bishop
nd Oliver.
J. E. Dyche of this city also attend-
1 the meeting.
VIAVI
Nature's food the greatest boon for
rlng women. For Information
l ZZ" Colorado ivenue. 1 7i
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LET THE CHILDREN
KODAK
Your boys or girls can make
good pictures with a Kodak
or Erownie Camera. ..There's
nothing that will give them
greater Christmas delight
nothing that will retain their
Interest longer.
Simple instructive and
good clean and wholesome
fun.
EROWNIE CAMERAS
$1.00 to $9.00
KODAKS
$5.00 to $35.00
H. J. Brownson
Leading Prescription
Druggist
NO. s -
The First National Bank
Capital : i $100000.00
Surplus and Profits 70.000.00
C. B. Campbell
E. B. Johnson
C. II Bessent
RESOURCES OVER ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
: Uniled Stales Depository j
If you anticipate miking any changes in your Banking"
i Business the first of the year we will appreciate your
' giving this Bank consideration.
POLICE COURT TODAY.
A. W. Bailey was tried In Judge
Grigsby'g court this morning on charge
of stealing a brace-let from Mexican
Joe's place. He was convicted and
fined $23 and cost. The only other
offender In police court today was a
drunk who was given the usual dose.
PROBING IS
POSTPONED
Guthrie Okla. Jan. 1. Attorney Gen-
eral West J. I. Connors president
of the state bo.ird of agriculture Sen-
ator Pat Gouldlng of Knid and George
Culleii of Savannah members of the
Oklahoma committee who left Tues-
day for Lansing to Investigate the Lan-
sing penitentiary have returned home.
Attorney General West ctme In yes-
terday. "We met the Kansas committee"
he said "but did ery little deciding
to defer our part of the investigation
until Jan. 7 when we will have an-
other meeting. The Kansas commit-
tee will continue Its Investigation I
understand. I understand. Mr. Cul-
len Mr. Connors and myself went
through the mines but did not tove
time to make any extended Inspec-
tion. The Oklahoma delegation de-
cided that on account of the meeting
of the Oklahoma legislature in a few
days it would be imitossible and a
waste of time for us to attempt any
Investigation at this time."
CHASE DAilK
ROBBERS
Wellston Okla. Jan. 1. Officer!
ue abatiduii.-J the cl&su tfter six
men who blew the safe In the bank
here yesterday morning securing
$5000 and the search has concentra-
ted to a systematic communication
telegraph and telephone wires by Chief
of Police Wild man.
"I have sent communications in all
directions" said the chief. "A man
we believe to have been one of those
who stood guard at the. doors a'ter
the robbers left went away from here
yesterday with a large grip heavily
loaded. He took a direction toward
Guthrie and we have notified all offi-
cers there and at Intermediate points.
"The cash secured by the robbers
weighed seventy pounds asd the loss
was $3000.
''We tracked the robbers to about
four miles northeast of town but the
trail was lost In a dense growth of
weeds and brush. If we succeed In
capturing the man we are ww after
and I believe we will the iS-'ntity of
the others will be ascertained."
Chief Wlldman declined to give the
name of the man suspected.
TWO NEGROES ARRESTED.
Jess and Lizzie Tate negroes were
arrested by county officers last night
on charge of stealing a watch from
W. P. Chitwood. They' are in jail
awaiting trial. 1
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DIRECTORS:
J. D. Sugg T. T. Johnson
II. B. Johnson T. II. Williams
R. Bond Ben F. Johnson
Starvation
Pestilence
Suffering
Follow in the Wake of the
Disastrous Earthquake
in Italy
Rome Jan. 1. To the terrifying
spectacle of death caused by Monday's
earthquake has now been added the
horrors of starvation and the fear of
a spread of pestilence.
In the ruins of Messina Iteggio and
scores of smaller towns in Sicily and :
Calabria lie the bodies of the dead ;
which it has been impossible to ex- i
trlcate while everywhere thousands!
of hungry and homeless persons
throng the littered thoroughfares. I
An official estimate made today
places the number of victims at ll.Vj
turn. There is reason to believe that
this number may be greatly exceeded.
Words are Inadequate to express the I
terror of the ruin and desolation that
has overwhelmed Caltbria and Sicily.
The earth's trembling and fire and
water have combined to change the
smiling verdant country into deserts.
Messina exists no longer. At least
thirty years will be necessary to re-
pair the ruin that aiture's violences
he wrought there.
TELLS 'EM ABOUT OKLAHOMA
State Geologist Gould Bears a Message to the
Scientist About The Great New
State
Baltimore Md. Jan. 1. Prof. Chas.
N. Gouid. state geologist of Oklahoma
who Is here attending the meetings of
the American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science Is preaching the
gospel of the undeveloped resources
of the baby state. To hear him one
could Imagine that all a person had
to do In order to become wealthy is
to go to Oklahoma.
"Why you people in the East don't
j know what you are missing" f said
Prof. Gould. "We have the wealthiest
state in the Union and the best thing
about It ia that the resources are now
practically all undeveloped. Our soil
and climate are unsurpassed. We
raise better wheat than Minnesota;
better corn than Iowa; better cotton
than Mississippi and better fruit than
Missouri.
"It is the mineral wealth however
Won't Take
Their Lands
Washington Jan. 1. Four thousand
one hundred and seventy-one persons
In Oklahoma every soul of whom is
entitled to a good farm have refused
to accept the farms as gifts. They
are Indians who have formed a small
army in silent rebuke against the di-
vision of their lands. They Insist
upon having a tribal domain or noth-
ing. Every effort has been made to
get the Indians to accept patents to
their .allotments but few of those who i
refused at first have persuaded to
take the land. These figures and
facts were obtained at the Indian bu-
reau of the Interior department.
In the Cherokee nation about 2000
farms or allotments were selected ar-
bitrarily for citizens who would not
select their own lands. The patents
were then sent out by registered mail
but 1640 were returned. These In-
dians are known as the Night Hawks
of the Cherokees. Similarly 1113 cer-
tificates were returned from the Creek
nation. The Snakes of the Choctaw
and Chicfoisaw nations refused 1400
patents. Among the Choctaws 600
were given arbitrary allotments and
every one refused the patents.
These Indians are the fullbloods who
Governor
Gives Out
JResults
Uf Vote on Amendments-
New Jerusalem Cap-
ital Carried
Guthrie Okla. Jan. 1. "Indicative
of the will of the people" proclaims
Governor Haskell in a proclamation Is-
sued yesterday afternoon showing that
the "New Jerusalem" state capltil lo-
cation plan carried by a vote of 117441
for to 'i"'.2 against. Proclamations
were Issued declaring lost the "Tor-
reus Land System" question and the
liry.in amendment providing thr.t the
permanent capital may be located at
any time by a majority vote of the
electors of the state.
The Torrens l.adn System question
lost by a vote of 114 3yi In favor to
T3.S'!8 agtinst the vote in favor not
being a majority of the required vote
of all electors at the general election
2.".oo:'.
The Bryan amendment to allow the
location of the capital at any time by
a vote of the people lost by a vote of
120.352 for to 71933 against the vote
In favor though a majority of the
votes cast on ui question not being
a majority of the votes cast at the
general election 2"0022.
that the state excels in; Oklahoma
has mode kinds of mineral and more
mineral of a kind than any state in
the Unulon including inexhaustible de-
posits of coal oil gas asphalt salt
gypstim glass sand marble granite
sandstone cement rock clay lead and
zinc besides iron tripoli and a lot
more but not one-half of one per cent
of the mineral wealth Is developed at
the present time.
"Oklahoma Is larger than New Eng-
land with a population of a million
and a half of as good people as can
be found anywhere. What we need
more than anything else just now is
manufacturing Industries; there is
abundant opportunity for all sorts of
factories plants and industrial organi-
zations. Oklahoma Is a land of vast
possibilities and wonderful dormant
resources all undeveloped."
desire to live in community owner-
ship as they have in the past. It seems
certain that they will be crowded out
of their present homes sooner or later.
The average allotment in the Chero-
kee nation is 110 acres. In the Creek
and Seminole nations it is 1G0 acres
and among the Choctaws and Chicka-
saws it is 320 acres.
Happy New
Year
To Our Many Customers and
Frieads: We with you a
happy and prosperous New
Year also thank voufor your
patronage and inflaence dur-
ing the past year and assure
you that it has been appre-
ciated by us. We solicit your
business for the coming year
apd guarantee you the best of
Service and Quality for our
stock is always fresh our
service' he best. If you havn't
tried the MODEL DRUG
STORE try it this year.
The Model Drugstore
BUGGY WAS UPSET.
W. I). Margraves and Fate Barnes
the Daily Oklahoman circulators had
a mishap on Georgia avenue yester-
day evening. The breast yoke brtke
and their buggy capsized the occu-
pants being more or less bruised up
and the vehicle badly damaged.
BILL CAMPS
AT GUTHRIE
Guthrie Okla. Jan. 1. William II.
Murray of Tishomingo speaker of the
First Oklahoma legislature has ar-
rived In Guthrie and established him-
self at the Royal Hotel.
"I will be In Guthrlo for some time"
he said "to look after some personal
matters to witness the organization
of the Second legislature and to dis
tribute copies of the records of the
constitutional convention.
The ex-Kpeikor yesterday evening re
signed from the Lansing Investigating
committee giving a3 reason that he
bad too many things to look after at
tills time to give time to the Investi-
gation. "I have been neglecting my
affairs for so long" he said "and am
now Just beginning to get around
again and pick up the ends and I
feel that I cannot give the matter of
the penitentiary the thought and work
required."
TULSA TOWN
IS SHOCKED
Tulsa Okla. Jan. 1. Tulsa's goclety
is greatly stirred up over the exhibi-
tion of a handsome life sized nude
painting completed some time ago by
a local artist. The picture has been
viewed and admired by thousands of
art lovers and others since its comple-
tion and while It was made known
from the start that the picture was
posed for by a young lady of this city
noting w.as thought of the matter.
However . admirers during the past
three days have begun to see features
in the face on the canvas that greatly
resemble those of friends and sus-
picion has fallen upon several young
ladles more or less prominent In social
circles.
It has been rumored that the model
who posed for the painting was a
stenographer In a local office. Again
the suspicion rests upon a saleslady
in a local department store and upon
a beautiful young society belle who
1ms recently made her debut Into so
clal circles.
1 JJLAHOMA
v ffl
CAPITAL $50000.00
SURPLUS $30000.00 .
What a Growing Surplus Means to the
BANK DEPOSITORS
The management and directors of this Bank art satis-
fied with a reasonable Drofit from the money invested
in the business "v.
The earnings from our business above consistent di-
vidends to shareholders are put back into the busi-
ness in order to give depositors greater and better
banking facilities and additional security.
Tha surplus is a reserve fund actually earned and
put back into the business.
Your business interests are well cared for at this
bank. Let us prove the value of our service
to you. " -
OKLAHOMA STATE BANK
Chickasha Okla.
AMEMCASEUDS
AID TO THE
STRICKEN
first (o Respond to Call
For Help For The
Sufferers
New York Jan. 1. The United
States supply ship Celtic which was
to Inve met the returning battleship
fleet with holiday cheer sailed out of
New York harbor this afternoon on an
entirely different mission but with-
out changing a single part cf the car-
go. She will go to .Messina to give
a tnllllor and a half of mvy rations
to the earthquake sufferers.
The Celtic has In her corga $ I T.O.OuO
worth of provisions sufficient food for
10.000 people for one month tX'.OOO
worth of clothing tents enough to ac-
commodate 1000 persons and a large
quantity of medic-il and surgical sup-
plies. According to her orders the Celtic
Is to proceed first to Gibraltar which
port she should reach in twelve days.
j and where she should receive con
gress' formal authorization to distrib
ute the government stores to the
naked and starving Italians. She will
w.aste no time at Gibraltar but will
simply touch there long enough to get
the necessary congressional sanction
and will then sail poste haste to Mes-
sina. The artist admits under conslderabla
pressure that the model was a Tulsa
girl not absolutely refuses to divulge
her name.
Blank Books Ledgers
and Office Supplies
The New Year Is approach-
ing when you will need new
Ledgers Cash Books. Files
etc. etc.
The OWL DRUG STORK
has a complete stock at reason-
able prices.
The Owl
Jji Drug Store
PHONE 126
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Evans, George H. Chickasha Daily Express. (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, January 1, 1909, newspaper, January 1, 1909; Chickasha, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc730641/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.