The Hennessey Democrat. (Hennessey, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 46, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 12, 1893 Page: 1 of 8
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cnttcsseti Democrat.
Volume I. Number 46.
HENNESSEY, O. T., SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1893.
Subscription $1 Per. Year
REGISTER A T HOME,
A Washington dispatch of Aug,
5th nays "thu Swineford report was
definitely passed upon also by tlu*
secretary and the commissioner of
the land office. It was decided that
there should be four land offices in
the strip, located as follows:
Kildare, on the Santa Fe; Pond
Creek, on the Rock Island; Alva
and Woodard, on the Panhandle
road. It was also decided that the
Beaver office should be abolished and
that territory added to the Woodard
office. No part of the strip is to be
added to either the Kingfisher or the
Guthrie offices.
It was decided to set apart a strip
100 feet wide on the north and south
side of the reservation for the
accommodation of settlers. This is
for the purpose of defeating land
owners in Kansas and Oklahoma,
who have been planning to sell
rights to settlers who want to get a
favorable start. Booths will be
located on this reserve of 100 feet
and opened ten days tor business
prior to the date of opening the
country to settlement.
The location of booths were
approved as follows: Arkansas
City, Iliinncwell. Caldwell, Kiowa,
Lipscomb, Hennessey, Orlando and
Stillwater.
The matter of reserving lands for
educational purposes was also dis-
posed of by setting aside section
in each township. Two sections
were asked for by many of the lead-
ing men of the territory, but there
was some opposition, with the result
of giving only one section. The
secretary abandons the idea that the
strip will be opened to settlement on
September 1, and stated to-day that
it could not be opened before the
15th."
linn in.K AN- shame is a sham.
Finance, like tariff, is a local
question.
golden luxury,
Conuress is a
silver-lined.
A (iEEAT many fears are expressed
at the county seat that the lining up
at the land office may serve to
prejudice the secretary of the in
terior against attaching the $1.50
area ot the strip to the Kingfisher
land office. It is predicted that
these liners furnish not only an ex-
cuse. but a seeming necessity for
the establishment of a land office in
the strip where these speculative
idlers can not have such an advantage
over the industrious citizen who lias
something to do. If these liners
were homcseeKers, it might look
different, but they are not; they are
real estate speculators, professional
liners up and claim-takers. It is
questionable if a solitary man in line
at Kingfisher expeots to ever live on
a home in the strip, lie is a pro-
fessional claim climber and hopes to
get a cinch on a town site or a
quarter adjoining one where lie can
sell out as soon as possible anil re-
turn to his Kingfisher home.
Perhaps the same is true of the
Guthrie liners. Kingfisher ought
not be held responsible for the grab
proclivities of these, her citizens,
but it is feared she is liable to suffer
for their sins.
Oil) you get the wind of the
booth—being located at Hennessey.
The woods «re full of applicants
for county appointments in the
strip.
COMB, SBB,
Hennessey's booth will be
crowded for ten days previous to the
opening.
There is no use of importing
people to fill the county offices in
the strip.
Din you know that the fellows
standing in line at Kingfisher are a
set of fools.
Reports come from a reliable
source, that at least five hundred
teams are in the strip headed for
Hennessey.
Most of people in this section have
seen the Cherokee strip. To see him
stripped, they can draw on the
imagination.
Four troops of soldiers have been
ordered to clear the strip and be
ready for the opening announce-
ment at any time.
The west proposes to place the
nation on a silver foundation with
gold trimmings. If the east doesn't
like it, let her secede.
It may be inconvenient for a
great many to register before taking
land in the strip, but if it keeps a
half dozen "blood money" fellows
out, it is that much good for the
honest home-seeker.
Tub regents of territorial in-
stitutions deny the right of
a democratic governor to remove
them, because they were appointed
by a republican governor. This is
the climax of gaul, and only shows
the republican idea of office—once
vou get in gives title for life.
It is not certain that additional
legislation may not be had on the
strip opening, looking toward some
more equitable way of throwing the
country open to settlement. All
the plans available under the law as
it now stands are biased and unfair,
in the interests of town site schemers
and professional claim runners.
The run plan virtually shuts out
those who are physically unable to
ride a race or too poor to own a
blooded racer. It is possible, also,
for railroad companies to run special
trains packcd with favorites and
make such time as would bar out
others from choicest homes and
townsites on their immediate lines.
After all, The Democrat is inclined
to believe that could it be done
legally, the lot plan would lie the
fairest, and shut out possible blood-
shed with a bold rush on the run
plan.
Hennessey still en joys an era of
prosperity and boom. She will
continue to do so till the town is
equal to the demands of the match-
less surroundings. This will re-
quire a town of 15,000. By that
time new enterprises will be secured
that will advance the demand for
more towns. And there is no limit
to this; no limit to Hennessey's
possibilities.
Mr. Cleveland is not a gold-bug.
He believes in both metals as a
basis of circulation. He is in
perfect accord with democracy on
thcbi-metalic question. Democracy
is a unit on that question, the only
difference being the amount of
silver a dollar should contain. Mr.
Cleveland believes the silver dollar
should contain sufficient metal to
maintain a perfect parity between it
and gold.
Custodian Campbell of King-
fisher, lias issued a little publication
entitled, Mistletoe Leaves. It is
gotten out to further the develop-
ment of the territorial historical
collection. Such enterprise should
meet a hearty second by those who
desire the success of the historical
society. In his Mistletoe Leaves the
custodian solicits contributions of
anything that may in the future
prove of curious or historic interest.
Receiver Admire of the King-
fisher land office, announces in his
Free Press that he is anxious to turn
the office over. Here is what may be
mildly termed a commentary on the
extra caution the President is taking
in his selection of democrats to till
the best offices. When such re-
publicans as Admire and Roberts
become disgusted with the tardiness
of the president in performing an
imperative duty.it is time lor patient
i democrats to poke.
AND GET CONVINCED!
THAT THE
CHICAGO BAZAAR
IS THE PLACE TO TRADE.
Our stock is New and Choice,
The assortment Large and Varied,
Our Prices the LOWEST in the Country,
TUG CHICAGO BftZftftR
Plac^bart? J3aildit)Gj, S0a^ Street.
A Democrat reporter while
around town this week picking up
items of news, stepped into the
Chicago Bazaar, where one of the
neatest stocks of clothing and
furnishings you could wish to see
appeared. Not too many goods
piled upon the counters and shelves,
but just enough nice new goods and
so arranged with neatness that an
eye of taste could not help but be
satisfied. He also met the new
cleric, Mr. Isadore Strauss, once
with the firm of Winter & Ilerzberg
of Anthony, Kans., but hereafter
will be found at the Chicago Ba/.aar
and from a conversation with the
gentleman found him to be a clever
fellow, one who will always please,
on account of his pleasant way and
fair dealings. There are several
parties in the vicinity of Hennessey
who were acquainted with Mr.
Strauss before he came to this place,
and he bears the name ot a gentle-
man, by all.
As inventors in political coupss,
the republicans deserve letters patent.
For instance, that the appointive
power has no right to remove an
appointee by a predecessor; especial-
ly if the predecessor and appointee
are republicans. Lincoln, Grant,
Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Harrison—
none of these ever dreamed that they
couldn't bounce a political enemy.
But the country has gone democratic,
and republican pap-biters make a
death st' uggle for office, to the extent
of denying the right of democratic
appointing power to remove them.
This logic leads to life-tenure, life-
tenure to imperialism. Democracy
is the mortal foe to imperialism: so
there vou have it.
T. J, Daniels has out a petition
asking for the appointment of
register of deeds in county Q, in the
Cherokee strip. This is the first
county north of Kingfisher with
Enid as the county seat. During
the time of Mr. Daniels residence at
this place, those who have met him
are satisfied as to his ability to till
the position, and he has the en-
dorsements of all the leading business
men of our city.
When it was understood that
there were a number of people in
line at the Kingfisher and Guthrie
land offices ready to tile on land in
the strip as soon as the proclamation
was issued, Hennessey held a rousing
meeting in which- speeches were
made by Mr. B. B. Smith, Lee Gray,
Mayor Withers and others, giving
vent to their feelings of the unjust
way in which people were trying to
procure the best land in the strip.
Resolutions were read and adopted
and sent to the President of the
United States and to the Secretary
of the Interior Department, asking
them to take from these land offices
the portion of the Cherokee strip
which had been added to them.
Upon breathing the atmosphere, it
became so strong, that immediate
action was taken and the change had
been made before the resolutions
could be sent in.
Mr. J. C. Boswell, one of the best
Known and most respected citizens
of Brownwood, Texas, suffered with
diarrlicea for a long time and tried
many different remedies without
benefit, until Chamberlain's Colic,
I Cholero and Diarrhrea Remedy was
used; tlial relieved him at once.
! For sale by Clipper Drug Store.
Ho Not Spend a Dollar!
WE HAVE COME TO STAY ON TllK
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Remember we have always beeil
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Farmers, Merchants and Mechanics, make your home at the
Farmers' Place while in the City and we will al-
ways give you a "Cordial Welcome."
Do Not Spend a Dollar
Until you have Sampled our Goods.
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Campbell, W. P. & Weesner, R. The Hennessey Democrat. (Hennessey, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 46, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 12, 1893, newspaper, August 12, 1893; Hennessey, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc108775/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.