The Stillwater Gazette. (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 18, 1902 Page: 3 of 10
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It Was Funny.
What was funny? To see the inem-
i bers of the city council Tuesday night
* after the notice had been served upon
them demanding that they bring suit
to recover the money illegally paid
out. They would read the notices,
then would lay them down. They all
had notices and they kept them going
around. After reading awhile they
would try to transact some other busi-
ness but their minds were hungry for
the contents of that notice, and they
would again feast it upon that whole-
some food. Finally they could not
stand it any longer. They had to take
that demand up und dispose of it.
What should they do? What copld
they do? There was a proper demand
jnsde by twelve or fifteen t x payers
for the council ttr institute suits
against themselves for over 38,000.
“Holy horrers” they thought. We ex-
pected and requested to bring suit
against ourselves for $8,000! W'e
might have been requested to 11 y. or
go to the penitentiary, or build a
street railway in Stillwater, or he
punished in any other way, but to sue
ourselves i9 out of the question
Miller took the notice and read it
while Bush ran his lingers through his
hair and looked “purty.” Then Rush
took the notice and read it while Mil-
ler looked up at the ceiling and medi
tated. Then Miller and Bush put
their heads together. That w as like
putting the negative and positive poles
of a magnet together. It started the
current, and Bush was seen to shake
his finger at Miller and Miller nodded
his head at Bush. It was all fixed
now'. Bush thought there were *24 in
the items set out iu the notice, that
probably could not be collected buck
by the city. An idea struck him hard.
It knocked him nearly out of his chair.
He could not sit still it was so sudden
and unusual. He said to Miller:
“Lets take that $24 and make tv test
case of it. We will play horse with the
people. See? We will make them be-
lieve that we are going right after
Indians Take Fart.
Ths five civilized tribes are begin
ning to take an interest in the state-
hood bill. They do not want to be
placed within the l’mits of the state of
Oklahoma, and are now filing protest
against the statehood bill reported by
Senator Beveridge.
The agitation in the Indian Territo-
ry favoring a union with Oklahoma is
confined to the white settlers in that
country. The Indians are strongly
opposed to being a part ef Oklahoma
or any other state. They prefer to re-
tain iheir present system of govern-
ment as their treaties provide. The
politicians and speculators are push-
ing the statehood bill, but the Indians
are just as vigorously opposing it. The
position taken by the democrats in
their minority report, is that the peo-
ple of Indian Territory have not signi-
fied any desire for statehood and they
do not favor thrusting upon them a
government they do not want. That
report discussing this phase of the
question says:
“All legislation for the admission of
new' states has been preceded by ex
pression ef a desire on tne part of the
people for admission to the union
But the amendment submitted by the
A RAW QA
Two Men Captured While Trying
to Pass Forged Letter of
Credit.
George Studebaker Seriously In-
jured This Morning.
_ i A very serious accident occurred
A man representing himself to be a I this morning about four miles south of
Kansas City mule buyer, and giving I town. It seemed that Mr. Kora was
his name as William J. Sullivan, called 1 having soma hogs killed and George
at the National Bank of Commerce yes I Studebaker and another young man
terday, and presented a letter of credit I were helping him. They had the gun
purporting to have been issued by the I loaded and George Studebaker handed
American National Bank of Kansas it to the other young man to kill the
City. It bore every evidence of fraud I hog but before handing it to him, ho
upon its face, and aroused the suspi-I cocked it. The gun had not much
cion of the officers in the bank at once, more than passed out of George 8tudo
They accordingly toot up the letter, I baker's hand until it went off takirig
allowed him to make a sight draft on 1 „ .. j-
the Kansas City bank for $1,600, took
his signature, and identification, and i -v-
gave him nothing in return excepting I W
a blank check book. A wire was im-lw
mediately sent to the American Na -1
tional bank at Kansas City, and are-|||j|
affect in George's stomaoh. The
wounded man was at oneo brought to
Stillwater, where his mother resides,
and Dri. Grey and Murphy were sent
tor.
They found Mr. Studebaker quite
sick and vomiting blood, indicating
that the bullet passed through his
stomach. The wound is serious but
may not be fatal as the bullet was a
22 short. The wounded man is about
26 years old and lives with his mother
in the west part of town. He hae
been working for Mr. Nora for several
weeks. The doctors made the exami-
nation today at noon and their patient
seemed to be getting along as wall as
could be expected.
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ply received pronouncing the letter el I ^
credit a forgery, and requesting that I
the parties be arrested at once. 1 m
In the meantime, deputy sheriff, H.
B. Hueston happened to be at band,
and was told of the circumstances and
. . , ... wa8 on the lookout for the stranger,
<!„t the amendment aubm.tted b, the „„ ejp«led, would toon .bo.
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the state ot Oklahoma without ■ „ ttedmol« Eicl,.„g,
pression of ilia people of Indian r«"- * / Glencoe, phoned the National
tory to be either a state or a partCommewe here that a party,
Oklahoma. So far as our committee .k^ name of william J. Bulli-
has information, this alliance may be K 0allod there and represented gi
the union of an unwilling people ftnd ’ buying mules and had a ?
- unwiUlng connection. In no -. bat he wa^ buying^ ^ ^ **
in the past have the people ot any . flakinir if hi*
territory been compelled by the enab- mg to show for tandaBkmg
ling act to form a constitution against checks would be honored,
their expressed will However, much They>ere told to have the officers
the people of Oklahoma desire state- nt Glencoa arrest the man and hi*
pardner, and officers Mode, Gaasoway
and H. B. Hueston left her# immedi
ately to bring the men here. They
are now both lodged in the county
jail, and are certain to spend a few
years iu the penitentiary for their
would be smartneas.
The other party gives the name of
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Before Making Your
trie people m u»i»uuiu.»v..r----
hood, the Indians have made no ex-
pression ot any such desire.”
Three cases of bubonic plague were
unloaded at New York Tuesday. This |
is one impert that New York does not
encourage.
XMAS PURCHASES.
We Have the Finest Line of
Package Perfume Perfume Atomizers
and Toilet Sets in the City.
Military Brushes Ink Stands Stationery
Traveling Sets
Mirrors Chatelain Bags Puff Boxes
Hair and Cloth Brushes
Cigar Cases Pipes Box Cigars
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s. W. KEISER, President AMiv..n,c.
W E Bbrrv, Vice President A. R. Kart •
THE STILLWATER NATIONAL BUNK.
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K. X. Good, Cashier.
A. R. Kastman, AM'tOaahier.
lieve that we are going ngnt aner City Attorney Case is a pretty '0,ig The other party gives me .mum I ma
that money and when tve fail t« col- inat1i but we doubt Ins ability to reac McQiaj„t and is said to We a brother of I W '-fC'A'KK'K*
lect that $24 we will put on a long face that ma„ in Louisana that the council ^ prea(jher who once lived in Glencoe.
and say we are awful sorry. There i» ordered “to get.” _ Both men are certainly ignorant of | ----------- i
no use to bring anymore suits. We Mav OverstTeet, teacher in the the method by which banka carry on
brought one and it failed and we must ... College left this morning for such transactions or they surely would
not put the city to so much expense. • Kansas fora two weeks vis- not have attempted such a scheme.
■capital id*.,” exclaimed MlHor. 1^° [ tfZeMl'he b.nkil.B »l thecj.ntr, i.
Then Miller dropped liis head. I’retty --- such a perfect system that it is now
soon he picked it up and said : “Ido The Paris Millinary will sell at cost nearly impossible to make such a
not like to be sued even for $24.” the balance of the season. Everything 18windiing scheme work, and in this
This put a damper on their enthusiasm | muBt g0 t0 make room for the new ca|e none Df the banks will lose a
and they both sat and studied for
awhile. They could study best when
they sat. They waited for some in-
spiration to inspire them, or some
spirit to move them. The inspirat ion
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j must go to make room for the new
goods. South Main St.
City Attorney Folk of St. Louis has
[been keepng tab on Oklahoma mat-
ters. He seems to like the omnibus
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would be a good idea to instruct the time. -*—-;--
eitv attorney to bring suit against John D. Rocnefeller has given anotli-
soma one in Canada, then the judg- Lr million dollars to the Chicago uni
ment of the eourt could not possibly ver9ity. He believes in giving his
be against any of the city council. monev for educational parposes, and
That would ba like the two men that he llas ^ven more money for charita-
hada quarrel in New York and one ble pqrposes^than any other American.
jumped on the train and went to ®en‘ \V. Mathews has been look-
er, and telegraphed back to in^fter h s political fence.. He is a
York man to shoot if he j speaker of the lower
You see we would be ordering him representatives and has been
sue for that amount that we doubt if hou«o^ ^ ^ a few day9,
he can recover ; and then he "'l 8 ,uiabiy to see how the boys talk
Canadian, and we know le wi |P . He returned to Stillwater last
out and we will not he sued at, all. bee? to him.
Yes said Bush, but it would be better night. __-------;-----
if w'e could su6 an American. I know jt has now been unanimously decid-
man in Louisian i who would make a ed by tlui senate of the United States
' d subject for a law suit. His name that tho Monroe dpctrinc does not ap-
is George Wallace. “It goes” said ply tn the .present Venezuela trou-
Miller That will be lighting at a ble This will be a great relief for we
safe range So Miller and Bush re- did not want the United States to
commended that the city attorney file L^p England, Germany, Italy, Spain
suit at once for the $25 they doubt him and Belgium allatonce.
collecting, and that he make George | - T
caae none of the banks will loae a I
penny, but the would be swindler#,
by their silly attempt to defraud,|
have only succeeded in plaeing them-
selves in the meshes of the law.
Oklahoma Towns-
Superintendent Swartout, of tbe|
Bradstreet mercbaniile reports, com-
pleted his tour of Oklahoma, and the
forthcoming January edition qf^Brad-
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Wallace defendant, and then they
know he will not collect it. If he fails
to collect this he must let the members
of the council alone.
This report was unanimously adopt-
ed by the council, and a butcher town
prayer was offered up and the council
adjourned The council feels safe as
long as they can keep the city attor-
ney after that Louisiana man, and the
Louisiana man feels safe. They all
feel safe. It is a happy situation.
Miss Mary Soule went
yesterday
to Pawnee
Dr. F. 8. Peck went to Glencoe last
night on business.
Professor Hancock started for Mis-
souri this morning where he will H>nd
his holidays. ^______
Dr L. L. Lewis of the A. & N. Col-
lege went to Pawnae last night to at-
tend court at that place. He is a wit-
ness in a quarantine case pending in
court at Pawnee.
p p_ Hillerman, an old time attor-
ney of this city, left this morning for
Cushing where he will locate and re
side in the future. He lias rented a
nice suite of rooms anil will continue
m follow his chosen profession of law.
Mr. Hillerman came to Stillwater in
the early days and is one of the old
inhabitants of the city.
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The supreme conn of the District of
Columbia has upheld the law enacted
by the Chickasaws, wnich charges
cattlemen for a permit to graze cattle
in that nation. Secretary Hitchcock
ordered the cattlemen to move out, or
pay the tax, and they refused to do
either. The secretory was proceeding
to remove them and they brought suit
to enjoin him. The result was that
the court sastained the recretary and
they will have to move out or pay up.
The cattleman cannot work Hitchcock
as they have some secretary, and when
he decides what is right he is going to
doit. Hitchcock is one of the best
streets report, will show a wonderful
increase in business in Oklahema,
there being 1,831 new firms never be-
fore published. It will show that
Oklahoma’s fifteen cittiea of chief im
portance from the standpoint of com-
mercial atatiatics are as fdlowa, ar
ranged alphabetically:
Anadarko, Alva, Blackwall, Enid,
EIKeno. Guthrie, Hennessey, Hobart,
Kingfisher, Lawton, Oklahoma City,
Perry, Ponca City, Shawnee, Stillwa-
ter. . I
Superintendent Swartout declined to
state in advance the relative impor-
tance of the showing of the several
citties named according to the show
ing of the unpublished reports. Three
leading citties in the territory will
make a practically even showings
as regards the number of business
houses listed, exhibiting a beautiful
neck-and neck race at present. One
Santa Fe town is neck and neck with a
town on the main line of the Rock
Island, but whoever makes a guess a*
to these will probably fail to pair them
correctly. Stillwater is of twin im-
portance with a leading town on the
West Side.
Capital Paid Up
$25,000.00.
Surplus and Profits
$5,000.00.
We have done business in on* spot
longer than any other Bank in Payne
County. We are here to stay. We
have the best safe in Payne County.
Come and do business with us.
Condition of the Stillwater National Bank at the close of business Nov.. 3|, 190a:
LIABILITIES:
RESOURCES: ,
Loans and Discounts.................................* 43.77*-46 1 Capital Paid...........................
uswasis hag BSlsrr Ko“- ~
_ —... Ufnmnc ................... SO.74
$118,257.16
...$ 33,*00.00
... 5.37*.W
.... *5.000.00
... 73,671.77
$t3S,3ST.»6
The above statement is cot rect.
E. E. Good, Cashier.
I EDGERS,
Bk. JOURNALS
“Two Married Meo-’’
One or the funnieat icenea in “Two
Married Men” is the initiation of Car-
naby Fix inte the mystic order of odd
fellows. Everybody can appreciate it
and to "many it will bring back fond
recollections of the night they rode
the goat.” The characters in thie mer-
ry eomedy are all well drawn and are
interpreted by a company of actors es
pacially adapted to farce comady
They come highly reccommended by
the eaBtern press and will no doubt
repeat here the succeaa which has at-
tended them in the eastern citiea. The
comedy will appear at the opera home
1 ECAL RLANKS
SPECIAL BJULING
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officials that ever held that position. |en Chriatmaa night.
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Neerman, C. F. The Stillwater Gazette. (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 18, 1902, newspaper, December 18, 1902; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1078588/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.