The Konawa Chief. (Konawa, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, August 25, 1905 Page: 1 of 16
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^Ibe Ikonawa Cbtet
Oldest and Best, and the Official Paper of the Town of Konawa.
FIRST YEAR. NO. 40.
KONAWA, IND. TER, FRIDAY, AUGUST, 25 1905.
$1.00 THE YEAR
News and Comment
There has been a good deal of
quiet fun made of Secretary
Boneparte and his refusal to
avail himself of railroad passes,
and it is now announced that
when senator-elect LaFollette
goes to Washington he is to start
a similar campaign in the Senate.
It might be funnier if the situa-
tion were not so serious, but it is
more likely that the pass system
is coming in for some harder
knocks in the coming cession
than it ever has had before. It
will be remembered that when
Representative Baker of New
York first went to the House, he
refused the annual pass tendered
him by one of the Eastern roads.
He was looked upon at the time
as a fanatic and his refusal as a
piece of cheap heroism or a bid
for notoriety. But as the case
stands at present, there will be
three prominent anti-pass men
in Washington this winter. Along
with Secretary Bonepart and
Senator LaFolette, President
Roosevelt has declared himself
in favor of public men paying
their way on the railroads. He
sat the example on his hunti""
trip to Colorado. Now it looi o
like a very simple and innocent
thing for a Congressman _to ac-
cept a pass. Even now a public
man, or for that matter any oth-
er sort of a man, who refuses- a
pass is regarded more or iess o|
an extremist. But it is not so
many years back that it was tne
exception rather than the rule
for a gentleman to go to bed so-
ber. Society has frowned do n
the six and sixteen bottle m >n,
and it is just possible .that the
current is setting the same way
against the legislator who ta :es
passes. Why are passes gi en
to legislators at Washington any-
how ? The mileage of every man
in Congress is paid in cash, and
when he rides on a pass to and
from his home and puts his mile-
age in his pocket he is simply a
thief and that is all. The fact
that the practice is quite custom-
ary does not alter the case. ( The
amount of his mileage is a cheap
bribe from the railroads. His
pass is worth so many dollars a
year to him, and there is no use
talking, it would be a whole lot
easier for a man to vote honest
railroad legislation if he were not
unde.' obligations to the railroads
for transportation. Railroads
are not in business for their
health. Passes are one of the
cheapest forms of bribery that
they can use. They use them Stolen Paragraphs
where they will do the mosti
good, whether it be with a legis- .
lator or a newspaper man or j Most people wait until it is too
someone else with a pull. And i late before being careful.
they know that in the present; Hmir j ■ u ,
state of public opinion the pass ? many drinks per day
is not a form of bribery that any- j must a man take to make him a
one is likely to resent. At worst drunkard?
the pass issued as a "courtesy"! 4.„n v v u
will merely be courteously re-1 When a man tells a solicitor he
turned, whereas if a similar cash jW1'' think about it" the solicit-
sum had been offered to many a: or knows he has lost.
man who rides on passes, he' v„„ u •*. • j *
would take it as an insult. It i Yo? of^en ,hear Jt said of some
may be a good while before the j one that he does not know what
system of pass bribery is frown- j fear is. Only fools possess that
ed down by the public, but any i quality.
constituent whose senator car- I
ries a pass in his pocket, can be ! Where does an owl get its rep-
sure that the pass was put there1 utation for wisdom? It carouses
by the railroad with a direct all night and does nothing in the
view to influencing legislation.1 rUvtjmp
And the railroads know it will i
serve their purpose for it has | When some women comple-
turned the scale many a time. j ment their husbands, it is by
~~ 7 I saying they are not so mean as
The Picnic. ,, ,
. . they used to be.
The Farmers Union picnic •
held last Saturday in the grove ! Most men sa^ they are £reat
north-west of town was a grand Ito work' but we recently heard a
success from every view point. man admit he was ^ and al"
The crowd began to gather i ways had been.
early, and long before noon sev- A school teacher considers she
eral thousand people had gather-1 is broad if she admits there are
ed from far and near, people j good people in the world who
coming for miles and miles. use bad grammar.
Besides the usual attractions,! There are persons in the audi-
-.ch as dance platform, merry-! enCe who are better than the
.-round, cane racks, curio preacher, but you would never
shows, snake charmers, etc., to think it from the they
amuse the young and relieve gel;
them of their nickels and dimes, i
several prominent speakers from ! Some of these days a genius
abroad were there to expound ^nd use ^or °jd ^in cans> an(^
the principles of the Union, ^en he can get rich by hanging
among them being that grand around a tazy housekeeper's
man and matchless orator, Sen- d001"'
ator Gore of Lawton, Oklahoma. The average good citizen is
Although blind, Senator Gore is not only expected to "do his
one of the foremost thinkers in share," but to devote a lot of
Oklahoma. He is a broad and his time to coaxing men who are
liberal statesman, a close student not willing to do anything for
of current events and is bound1 the public good.
to take an active part in organ-1
izing the future state of Okla-! A remark the average woman
homa when that boon is granted makes every evening to her hus-
to us. The other speakers were hand, as he silently reads his
the Hon. J. M. Caves of Roff, PaPer- or dozes off in his 1
and Hon. T. C. Wyatt of Wa- "Well, 1 must say you a
nette, each of whom delivered ivery entertaining."
chair:
are not
excellent addresses on unionism.
At noon a lunch of barbecued
beef and other eatables was
served and the vast crowd went j front "door."
home thanking the Farmers' Un-! can a woman
If we were a woman we would
insist upon the milliner putting
this sign on hats: "This is the
Otherwise, how
help occasionally
standing in front of a bar, pay-
ing his hard earned money for
liquor he didn't want. "Barkeep-
er, " the fool said, "have some-
thing." Whereupon the bar-
keeper said: "All right; I'll take
a lemonade." But the lesson
was lost on the fool.
A Horton, Kansas minister has
been married four years and is
the father of two sets of twins.
Recently one of the oldest set
accompanied his mother to visit
a neighbor where a baby had
recently been born. After in-
specting the baby the boy said:
"Mamma, where is the other
one?"
A new medicine contains this
statement on the wrapper:
' 'Good only for dyspepsia." The
medicine will never succeed.
When people buy medicine these
days, they want one that will
cure not only dyspepsia, but
rheumatism, kidney complaint,
consumption, blood disorders,
nerveous exaustion, catarrh, etc.
When an agent calls on you,
.remember that he is not a phi-
lanthropist looking after the
welfare of the people. Remem-
ber that he is working for his
own pocket all the time. Why
deal with an agent? Why not
deal with merchants you know?
It is an evidence of weakness to
let an agent "work" you. Every
agent goes on the theory that he
is smarter than his victims, and
can hypnotize them.
Here is a new story: An Ir-
ishman sent to the Anheuser-
Busch brewing company at St.
Louis asking for one of their ad-
vertising knives. The knives
are valuable and are not freely
distributed. The Irishman sent
a nickel so the gift would not
"cut friendship." The brewery
sent the knife, but the Dutch-
man who wrote the answer re-
marked that nobody but an Irish-
man would have sent a nickel.
The Irishman wrote again say-
ing that nobody but a Dutchman
would have accepted the nickel.
ion for making it possible to get J setting her hat on hind foremost?
together on this occasion. The!
Union is doing a good work, and j We don't know much, but we
every farmer should join it. j know too much to play a slot ma-
The business houses of Kona- j chine, and every man ought to
wa all closed from noon till three have as much sense as we have.
o'clock so they could attend the
picnic and mingle with the farm-
ers, and they, too, enjoyed the
day.
The cards are stacked against
you when you play a slot ma-
chine.
A drunken fool was recently
Stole a Gun.
Some miscreant stole S. A.
Wilborn's gun aud a blanket at
the picnic Saturday night. The
gun was a 44 square barrel, short
saddle Winchester, very heavy
make. The bead was made from
a silver quarter cut in half. Mr.
Wilborn offers a reward of $50
for the arrest and conviction of
the thief, or $5 for the return of
the gun.
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Nichols, G. E. The Konawa Chief. (Konawa, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, August 25, 1905, newspaper, August 25, 1905; Konawa, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc97125/m1/1/: accessed May 14, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.