The Stillwater Gazette. (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 30, 1902 Page: 3 of 8
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ORGANIZE FOR
BUSINESS.
Stillwater’s Critical Period is Here
And Something Has Got to Be
Done. All Depends on
Immediate Action.
The railroad story published in yes-
terday’s paper explains itself. Com-
ment is entirely out of place and un-
necessary. It’s time for action—vig-
orous, systematic, and united action.
The future of Stillwater may he for-
ever decided within a period of a few
days while her people—the people
who nursed her as an infant, provided
for her and guarded her welfare in
the strugiiling years that have gone
into history and records duty well
done—sit idly by and watch opportun-
ity slap her face and pass on without
an effort to prevent.
Now is the time to prepare for action.
Time is short, let’s use it, and organ-
ize a band of men, under the name of
a commercial club, to fight for her in-
terests and secure the Katy road. A
harmonious, working club cannot be
perfected at a single meeting nor in a
single day. The organization must
understand itself, what it is for, and
who and what the men are who may
he selected to represent it in the in-
terest of the city. There is but. one
way to have a commercial club of this
sort and that is to meet and organize
it.
Stillwater always has been a good
town. It is a good town nowj-one of
the best of the many good towns in
Oklahoma. The question is : shall we
keep it in its present class or shsll
we allow her choicest territory to be
invaded by railroads and towns?
The question is a serious one and
effects every property owner in Still-
water
TIMBER CUTTER InTrOUBLE.
Another Man Is Reminded of His
Agreement by an Officer.
The Wichita Eagle in a specinl from
Guthrie says: It was yesterday an-
nounced from the territorial school
land office that M. Campbell, a resi-
dent of Noble county, has been arrested
on the charge of cutting timber from
school land. He was taken before the
United States commissioner at Perry
and bound over to await the action of
the federal court. It is claimed that
this was a flagrant violation of the
school land law and that the territory
and federal officials will see to it that
the case is pushed to the full extreme.
Information is reaching the depart-
ment and thf governor continually of
timoer being cut on school lands in the
southwest part of the territory. At a
special meeting of .he board, this mat-
ter was the feature of discussion. The
board will offer a reward for informa-
tion leading to the conviction of all
such violators.
Persons without any hold whatever
te the lands, in the western part of the
territory are cutting the best timber
from the school lands and there is a
continual complaint from the lesees.
In the east part of the territory, the
matter is getting to be understood.
The lessees are applying to the depart-
ment for leave to clear such land as
may be desired. In all such oases the
board has granted the petitions, except
where valuable timber would be de-
stroyed.
THOMPSON SUCCEEDS SMITH.
Dead Officer’s Place is Filled by
Competent Man.
James 8. Thompson has been ap-
pointed by Governor Furguson as
sheriff of Caddo county to succeed
Frank Hmith, who was killed near Ana-
darko last week. Mr. Thompson has
been a deputy U.8. marshal and served
ander U. 8. Marshal 0. H. Thompson
daring the rush of the new country
last summer. He came to the terri-
tory from Nebraska and while in that
state was a principal of schools. He
is s comparatively young man and has
some splendid recommendations, which
were presented to Governor Ferguson.
This is the first vacancy that Govern-
or Ferguson has been called upon to
fill in the important ofRoes of the new
eoontry since taking charge of the gov-
ernor's eflee.
SLAUGHTERING
RANGE CATTLE.
Complaint Comes Into Lawton
From Country West.
Consiclerahle interest prevails over
the report that psrties west of Lawton
have been slaughtering range cattle
and selling them to the markets here.
It is said that, these eattle are not in-
spected and are very poor. About forty
head have thus been disposed of. The
matter is being investigated and may
result seriously to some one before it
is over.
Glencoe Notes.
(From the Mirror.)
Eli Stout has moved hack to his
farm from Stillwater and is reported
to be in bad health,
N. 8. Le'mer, of the West Point-
neighborhood cut his foot so severely
last week that he fainted twice from
loss of blood. He is all right again
and was in town Monday.
A. G. Withers was up from Still-
water this week and paid for the Mir
ror. He will move back to his farm
east of this eity just as soon as ho can
get possession of the same. He also
made application to prove up b?fore
the commissioner here.
An old fellow who likes to vent his
opinion on unwilling ears sauntered
hack into the mechanical department
of the Mirror office last week and,
leaning over on a type form, kindly
pied a column of type for us. He had
gotten out of our reach before we had
discovered the pi, so the cor o n e
missed a job. We immediately sought
a carpenter and had a railing built
across the room to keep just such fel-
lows out of the inner sanctum, where,
even in ordinary times, angels fear to
tread.
“Faint Heart,” etc
Stillwater is making strenuous efforts
to land the "Katy” railroad. They
may whistle and wait a long while for
“Katy,” and then not get her. Sorry,
hut you are not on the line.—Cushing
Herald.
Tut, tut. boy, you shouldn’t make us
feel had now. Let us enjoy the beauti-
ful vision of "Katy” as long as we can
for she may not he bore always. But
she’s being courted by Stillwater pret-
ty strenuously right now and she is
halting between two opinions with her
eyes in our direction .
Here is something written by our
old neighbor, Bill Palmerof the Jewell
City, Kansas, Republican, that is
good enough to go into anybody’s
paper: My son if you find anything
in this world you must do or ought to
do, do it without a complaint ora
whine or a growl. A habit of com-
plaining will grow on you and become
chronic. You will find yourself com-
plaining simply from habit and with
no thought qf lightening your load or
changing your task. Whatever you
do, teach yourself to do it cheerfully,
and when you unexpectedly strike a
hard place in the road and feel like
growling, just w-histle a little instead.
The Lord not only loves a cheerful
giver but he, like everybody else, loves
a cheerful worker. Fight the growl-
ing habit and cultivate cheerfulness.
Shut your mouth when you feel like
letting out a growl or a whine or a
complaint. You will be happier your-
self, will he worth more to your em-
ployer, will be n.ore popular among
your companions, and will have glad-
ness instead of gloom to pass around
among your friends. Complaining is
acomplAint. Don’t catch it. Don’t
let it catoh you.
Ripley Notes-
(From the Times.)
The railroad graders are arriving
this week from the Pawnee extension
ta begin work on the Ripley extension.
I)r. D. F. Janeway, superintendent
of the county board or health, accom-
panied by attorney C. B. Case, were
down from Stillwater Wednesday.
Bob Andrews, brother of Dorsey An-
drews, was in town yesterday. Dor-
sey left for St. David, Arizonia, this
morning, where his father is lying
quite sick- He will bring him home.
William Brown, Melvin Fairehild
and J. H. Kelly were appointed ap-
praisers by Judge Burford to appraise
the farms east of Ripley through
which the Eastern Oklahoma railroad
will run. They ara performing their
dutiea this week. We hope the farm-
ers and the company will settle their
difference* without going to eourt.
AN ADVERSE REPORT.
Committee Appointed to Investi-
gate Sanitarium — Finds
Causes For Complaint.
Things in Bad
Shape.
THE POWER OP SPEECH.
A Qrawtfc Like Other Ittrtkstw af
Msa, tr«M Cra4e Itearln-
alaaa.
Doctors Cook, Elliott and Werner, i
the committee appointed hy Governor I
or Ferguson to investigate the insane I
asylum at Norman to learn if there wao'
foundation for the many charges of'
cruelty and starvation of patients
made its report to the governor Satur
day. They found the food insufficient,
noplace for the care of sick patient,
and made a general adverse report.
They found thatmaiiy patients entirely
recovered were being held there, and
ordered the discharge of twenty-eight.
The charges of cruelty and immoral
ity could nut be substantiated, except
in one or two cases. The report con-
cludes as follows:
it is the opinion of your committee
that the present management of the
sAfiatarium is not alive to the responsi-
bilities of such institutions; thst the
medical and pharmaceutical depart-
ments are unsatisfactory ; that the sal-
aries paid the employees are not suffi
cient to obtain competent service ; that
there should be a hospital set aside for
the sick, trained nurses having charge
of the same; that the cesspool is a
Duisance and a source of great danger
and should be removed; that the qual-
ity of the food does not comply with
the contract existing between the ter-
ritory and sanitarium company; that
the fire escapes, which are wooden
stairways only reaching to the second
story, should be replaced by outside
fire escapes of steel or iron and ex-
tended to the third story ; that there
should be exits at the south ends of
wards nine and ten.”
There were 311 patients in the sani-
tarium of which 183 were committed
as insane. 93 were imbeciles or idiots
and 35 were epileptics.
Territorial Jabs.
W. Lay, of Kremlin, Oklahoma, has
been granted a patent through A. C.
Snow A Co., Washington, D. C., on an
improved valve gear for engines. T
A. Edgerly, of Billings, has been al
lowed a patent on a draft, equalizer
through the same attorneys
Judge John Burton, of Oklahoma, is
all swelled up with importance since
he received an anonymous letter dis-
closing an awful tale that he was to be
assassinated.
The Times-Journal is furnishing its
readers a full report of the Delisspar-
Beebe preliminary, and incidentally
taking the balance of the hide off the
scoundrel Beebe.
A young Ponca Indian whose name
is Joe Know-the-Country, came to
town and looked upon the wine—or
whatever it was—when it was red. and
his legs became tangled, says the Pon-
ca City Courier. A couple of white
toughs enticed him to an out of the
way place and robbed him of his over-
coat, boots and loose change. Which
goes to show that while Joe may know
the country he does not know the town
or at least did not until his recent ex-
perience, which it is hoped will do him
good.
The indications are that hard-headed
old Andrew Carnegie is losing some of
his mental strength as the result of
'advancing age. It, is reported that he
will endeavor to boost the wireless
telegraph scheme.—Ponca City Courier.
AVhether the generous old man is
losing his mental strength or not, it’s a
dandy method of circulating more of
his coin.
The mysterious markers are still at
work on the sidewalks of Pond Creek,
and the town’s curiosity grows apace.
The Vidette says: The person or per-
sons who are placing the notorious
signs on the sidewalks about town be-
came very energetic Saturday night,
with the result that one could notstep
in any direction Sunday without walk-
ing over the mysterious figures and
letter*. The signs were placed al! over
town, along business streets, on build
ings and throughout the residence por-
tion of the city. Many people who
felt sure that a show company was
using ibis method of advertising have
now given up that solution of the affair
and are at sea more than ever regarding
the matter. The letters “P H I” have
been substituted for “S H C” beneath
the 2 8 1 and D K. The curiosity of
■ome people over the matter i* ludl-
eroue, or would be if one waa sure just
what sort the sign* meant.
Speech i* the result of a slow proe-
ees of natural growth and there is no
human race fhat does not possess it.
If in the present state of the world
•ome philosopher were to wonder
how man ever began to build those
houses, palaces and vessels which we
see around us we should answer that
those were not the tilings that msu*
began with, says Science. The sav-
age who first tied the branches of
shrubs to make himself a shelter wnji
not an architect and lie who first
floated on the trunk of a tree was not
a nnvigntor. So it is with speech,
•which grew from rude beginnings.
All the more intelligent animals can
express simple conditions of mind
both by sound and gesture. The dog
ran emit four or five sounds each
fully understood hy its companion!!.
The common barnyard fowl has from
Bine to twelve distinct vocal sounds,
•11 of which are comprehended by it*
chickens and by other fowls. There
can he no doubt, that the speech of
man arose, in the beginning, from
similar sources. Gesture speech waa
frequent. Many sounds were imita-
tive. Purely conventional and non-
imitative sounds were adopted for
convenience, just as deaf mutes now
invent, arbitrary sounds to stand for
the names of friends, etc. It- is not
precisely true, then, to say that “lan-
guage begins where interjection
ends.” However It originated it ia
the condition of progress. As Ro»
manes said: “A manlike creature be-
came human hy the power of speech.”
When did speech originate? Romanes
thinks that our human ancestor may
have been In the ago of flint when he
added to gesture, vocal tones and
faeinl grimaces the power of speech.
The foregoing sentences are a very
free transcription of an address by
Prof. Cunningham before the B. A. A.
6. in which the general subject is dis-
cussed in terms too cautious and too
scientific to be reproduced here. As
a Scotchman he might have quoted
(and did not) Lord Montboddo’s fa-
mous dictum that ‘ language was in-
vented hy a congress of learned men
assembled for the purpose.”
garrr Traits ef I.ocomotlves.
“The queerest thing about machin-
ery,” said an old railroad man, “is that
different machines, all built on exact-
ly the same lines, with every part of
the same size and of the same material,
pns:icss a distinct individuality. Take
locomotives, for instance. A railroad
will build a batch of engines< say, 20,
of a certain class. All of them will
be of the same dimensions, the s>nme
details in every particular, and yet
every one will behave in a different
manner. There will be as much dif-
ference between them as between 20
men. Some will steam well, others
not. One will be cranky in a certain
particular, and* a second in still an-
other way. One will be stiff, rigid;
another loose jointed. And then, just
like members of the human family,
•ome will' be remarkably unlucky,
through no fault of their own, while
their mates go through life without *
scratch.”—Galveston News.
Amusements-
Ghas. H. Boyle and his company will
be the at the Grand opera house, Mon-
day night, February 3, in “The Star
Boarder.” This farce comedy lias been
constructed entirely for laughing pur-
poses and for the introduction of many
clever vaudeville features. Judging
from the press notices, the piece has
received en route to the coast, ‘ The
Star Boar(i»r” evidently pleased the
people and fulfills its intended purpose.
The company selected to support Boyle
is largely composed of well-known
people, whose specialties individual
and collective, form the chief portion
of the entertainment. The action of
the piece is decidedly swift and every-
thing goes with snap and vim, that is
so necessary to the sucoess of a farce
comedy. Chas. Boyle is a comedian
who is already well and favorably
known to theatre-goers as a farce
feature. He is also the author of the
piece in which he is starring. Miss
Sue Bell Mead is one of the leading
members of the company and a song
stress of considerable repute. Viola
Bennett is another valuable member
of the aggregation It was site who
composed and arranged all the musi-
cal numbers, songs and medleys in
"The Star Boarder.”
Regents in Session.
The hoard of regents of the A. and
M. college, are in special session this
evening. The board has some special
business to transact with reference to
the new building* and will also reor-
ganise, at thie meeting, there being
several new member*.
PROSPECTS BRIGHT
Statehood Arguments at Washing-
ton Were Vigorous and Tell-
ing. Doyle “Flogged”
on all Sides.
At the conclusion of the hearings
before the house commit tec on terri-
tories of Oklahoma statehood measures
the chances seem quite favorable to
a report for blynn’s bills, Says a report
from Washington Saturday. Fri-
day’s hearings lasted several hours.
They were full of interest. New
Mexico and Arizona will soon be
taken up then the committee will hold
executive session to determine wbat
reports to make on the various state-
hood bills, Mr. Flynn and the Okla-
homa contingent are quite confident.
“ISenator Havens of Enid opened for
Oklahoma. He replied mainly to Tom
Doyle of Ferry, who discredited his
territory the day before yesterday. ,
Havens adduced evidence to show
that instead of decreasing in popula-
tion as Doyle claimed, Noble county
and Oklahoma generally had increased.
Chief Justice Burford followed with a
carefully .prepared statement, urging
the Flynn statehood bill, and his pres-
entation was an effective one. Flynn
closed for Oklahoma. He had made
extensive preparation, and presented
statistics and argument, showing the
reasons why Oklahoma is entitled to
statehood. Flynn earnestly combat-
ted Doyle’s line of argument. He de-
fended the territory. He declared
the purpose of Indian Territory seemed
to be to secure a divison of Oklahoma’s
•chool funds, lie said he favored
Helping Indian Territory, Dut not in
this manner. He would rather give
it a territnral government, something *-
after the provision* of the Moon bill.
ile was opposed to Oklahoma giving
lomething away when nothing wa« t*
come in return. The committee room
was crowded. Flynn’* sentiment*
were applauded by Oklahomans.
Doyle was present, and took the criti-
cism made upon his course without a
word Governor He ay and Senator
Clarke are assisting Flynn 'materially.
Pointed Paragraphs.
(Front the Chicago News.)
A blessing in disguise gets many a
rebuff.
The gold cure is a good thing for a
tight money market.
Peace of mind is often the result of •
not knowing any better.
Applause has hurried many a man
along the road that leads to failure.
Wise is the prophet who doesn’t bet
on the result of his own perdietions.
When a busy man has a moment's
leisure he does some other kind of
work. .*■
Most of the trouble in tbi* world is
due to the uncertainly of .sure things.
The older a woman grows the safer
it is to intriiBv a secret to her keeping
A man’s ingenuity doesn’t get him
out of half the trouble it gets him
into.
8ome women are so addicted to the
habit of not feeling well thnt they
wouldn’t feel well if they felt other-
wise.
Reflections of a Batchelor.
(From the New York Press.)
It is a wise woman that lets her
servants have their own way.
Being a crank depends a good deal
on who turn* the handle.
The kind that ought to drink them-
selves to death never do; they just
keep getting a bigger thirst.
A week old New Year’s resolution
ceases to be an ailment that will cure
itself; it is a disease that must be got
rid of.
A woman will get mad at you if
you don’t try to have the last word,
because you h^ve to do that to give
her another chance to have it.
Coal Swipers.
Some one who evidently was badly
in need of coal, attempted to help him
self from the bin at the Lincoln school
building last night, but for some
reason did not succeed in carrying
any away. The lock wa* broken off
but there was no evidence showed of
the doors being opened. Last night
was certainly an unfortunate time te
be without fuel but the board is of
the opinion that it has already done
its duty for eharlty.
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Neerman, C. F. The Stillwater Gazette. (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 30, 1902, newspaper, January 30, 1902; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1077834/m1/3/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.