North Enid Weekly Tribune. (North Enid, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 2, 1894 Page: 1 of 8
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TRAINS STOF ONLY AT NORTH ENID.
The only Enid that skives Warranty Deeds to City Propert
TRIBUNE.
VOL. 1. NO. 4!
NORTH KN' II), OK LAI I OMA, THl Its DAY, AUUUST 2, 1S94.
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Clearance Sale
On all Summer Goods Broken lots and Rem-
nants at Hardenberg & Hancock's. Dur-
ing the Next Thirty Days we will slaughter
values to the right! Slaughter values to the
left! Slaughter values all around! No line of
Goods will be exempt, but all must succomb
to *the kinfe and clear the way for Fall Stock.
Everything in Summer Dress Goods at Re-
duced Prices. Everything; in Slippers and
Walking Shoes at Reduced Prices. Everything
in Hot Weather Clothing at Reduced Prices.
Hardenbergh & Hancock,
bargain distributors.
" North Enid,
Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma
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Have been doing" so well by the
Settlers on low prices, that it is
now the ladies' turn. They
have some pretty
Flower Pots
TO CLOSE OUT CHEAP.
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Our prices in Grocer-
ies are the cheapest.
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great Rock Island Roilte.
TO THE EflJT.
Best Dining Car Service in the World. j
The Rock Island is foremost in adopinff any '
advantage calculated to improve speed and
give that luxury, safety and comfort that pop- i
ular patron aire demands, Its equipment is j
thoroughly complete with vestibuled trains,
mairnincent dlnlntr cars, sleepers and chair
coaches, all the most elegant, and of recently |
improved patterns.
Faithful and capable management and po-
lite honest service from employes are hnpor- ,
taut items. They are a double duty—to the \
company and to travelers—and It Is sometimes
a i vs'li difficult of accomplishment. Passen-
gers on this line will find little cause for com-
plaint on that ground.
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The Great Rock Island Route runs all regular
trains to Kuglewood suburban station, close to
the World's Fair Grounds, and you can save
time and trouble by getting off at that point
and avoid the crowd In the city .
For full particulars as to tickets, maps, and
rates apply to any coupon ticket ofhee in the
United States, Canada nr Me x^'4 TI AN*1
Gen'l Tkt. .V l'ass. Agt. Chicago
E. St. John, Gen'l Manager, Chicago.
station bill passes, a RIDE TO CALIFORNIA.
It Docs Not in Any Manner Refer to Over the the Santa Fe.
the Rock Island.
The news arrived in the city yester-
day afternoon that the station bill liad Oid you ever make a trip to Catifor-
passed the senate without an amend-1 nia? Nc.? Then we must tell you of
nicut. Our friends in South Enid our trip to that most delightful coun-
went crazy last night over the news. try. Of course the trip was made
| and tile Tribuni dislikes to throw i over the great Santa Fe Route from
cold water upon their joy, and while it IJtieblo. 1 his is the principal scenic
may seem cruel to them in the end
thev will thank us for it. The follow-
trans-continental route, and to obtain
views of sublime scenery no other
iag is the bill; read it closely and then ro"te should be considered. Entering
the people will unci rMancl that this ^e\v Mexico at 1 rinidad the threat
bill does not give to cither South Enid
or Round Pond a deoot and those wh
Raton Range of mountains gathers
significance, until it becomes a towcr-
mieu aiiues \ v:j - i jr;'*l ^,A.' "i' reet long, .at an elevation ot /.-on re t.
lined under ativ grant or act of Con- T tunnel and the Rubicon
ress l'/t ingtosaia railroad companies ; . *
ie right of wav over the public lands i is passed, and we are sweeping down
The North Enid Gro-
cery Company will sell
goods cheaper than the
cheapest.
Tit em an' see!
do understand itcan now unload while ! 'ny wall. 1 here are level side cations
the excitement is on: ; shaded with aspen, long slopes cover-
\n act i with pine, tumbled and jagged
To require railroad companies oper- waves of rock covered with chaparal,
ating railroads in tli ■ Territories j ^jr-nt cliffs with perpendicular or
over a right of way granted by the , brown face-, and breaks through
Government to establish .stations . . ,
, 1 J,1 \ •. .i which me niav look far out across
and depot.-, at all town ,-ites on the
lines of said roads established by \ other lower ranges Our train is
the Interior Department. : pulled by two immense 8-wheel en-
Be it enacted by Hie Senate and House gines which snort and puff as if they
oj Representatives of the < mted States were about to succumb.
of America in Congress assembled.
That all railroad companies operating One enters New Mexico in the dark,
railroads through the territories of the ; through the great Raton tunnel, 2547
United States over a right of wayob- feet long, at an elevation of 7500
tained
f?re
the right of way over the publi
of the United States shall be required I the mountain sides to the plains of
to establish and maintain passenger | tjie great adobe realm of Coronadu
stations and lrHght depots at or with-j New Mex.co u a s(|n sh|„v country
in one-fourth of a nule of the boundary «
limits of all town sites already estab-1 «P the ,ky; and if he." mountain
lislted in said Territories on the line j ranges were leveled over her valleys
of said railroads by authority of the j she would be higher than any summit
Interior Department. tjle catsi(ills. The landscape is
Sec. 2. That said r.n.r.Vid compan- ....... , , , ,■
ies are hereby required within three > oriental, the sky a deep blue, sunlignt
months from the passage of this act I dazzling, clouds luminously white and
to establish at or within ne-fourth of i stars that throb like sparks of tire,—
a mile of the boundary limits of all j and the ganta Fe Route takes
town sites provided tor in the pre- *
ceding section, passenger ..tation- through the most delightful portion of
freight depots, and other accotn no- the territory, and along the Great
dations necessary for receiving and River of the North whose turbid
discharging passengers and fi eight at st:reaill ;s t;le 0f t|le New World—
such points, and upon failure of said j
companies to establish such stations I Past ,ne*as> blltte*' dead volcanoes
and depots within said time said com- j and lava beds, until it seems that the
panies shall be liable to a line of five whole region is sleeping for thirst,
hundred dollars for each day there- j gja^e that, and it becomes a garden
after until said stations and depots)
shall be established, which shall be of paradise as by a magic touch. You
recovered in a suit brought by the ! cannot appreciate the full stride of
United States in the United States i American progress until you have
courts in any lerritory through which traveled New Mexico via of the Santa
said railroads may pass. j
Now then, The above act. it is,
thought by many, was probably in- j
tended to refer to South Enid and
Round Pond.
It does not apply because congress
did not give the Rock Island Railway
the right of way over the public lands
of the United States on the Cherokee ;
Outlet, but the charter of congress re-
quired the Rock Island to pay $50.00 a ,
mile to the Cherokee Nation for such
right of way. It was not "over the i
public lands of the United States" but i
over the private lands of the Cherokee
Nation.
Moreover the charter of the Rock \
I-land Railway provided that only
! one station should be constructed in j
each section of ten miles. This charter
was a contract between the United
States and the Rock Island Railway
company, and an act requiring an in-
crease in the number of stations is
imposing a new condition to the con-
tract. The constitution of the United
States declares that no act of congress
shall be passed "impairing the obli-
i gation of contracts."
The bill that has passed congress
1 refers to railroads passing over public
lands of the United States. At the 1
time the Rock Island bought its right
of way the land belonged to the
I Cherokee Nation and the Cherokees
held a patent for it. The Cherokee
Outlet did not become public lands of
, the United States for live years after
Fe Route. A territory rescued from
the centuries of horrors and atrocites
and populated by the splendid genius
of our generation; where vast herds of
cattle and countless heads of sheip
fatten upon the nutritous grasses;
where waving fields of grain sweep in
extacy the lover of the green, and
where orchards bend under the weight
of their golden fruit. This is a para-
dox of a region whose softer scenes
seem to be overshadowed by bleak
mountains and desert, scattered en
route by drowsy Mexican villages,
Indian pueblos and many other evi-
dences and scenes of ancient times.
Crossing into Arizona the scenes do
not change much. To the traveler it
1 will appear a novel environment for
contemporaneous American life; this
; land of sage and tuesquite, of horrible
: volcanic eruptions, deep canons,mesas
i and flashing buttes. It seems fitter
for some cyclopean race. The Colo-
rado River goes shifting through the
territory wayward and strenuous, but
possessed of terrific energy when its
basin is tilled with a seething torrent
from the mountain sides and gulches
and canons. It cliisled tiie Grand
> anon, one of the great panoramic
cenes of the world, embellishing its
towering walls and transformed by
the sybaritic chemistry of nature with
chalcedony; topaz, onyx, carnelian,
!agat >and amethyst. It is a perfect
storehouse of rare and perfect gems,
every fragment of which would adorn
the collector's cabinet, and polished
by the lapidary, would embellish a
crown: the realization of a seer's rhap-
sody, squandered upon a desert far
from the habitation of man. In des-
cribing Canon Dioblo, Mr. C. A. Big-
gins says: "It is a profound gash in
the plateau. 225 deep and 550 feet
wide. It has the appearance of a vol-
canic rent in the earth's crust, wedge-
shaped and terraced in bare dun rock.
* * For many miles you are bowled
over a perfectly level plain and with-
out any preparation whatever, save
only to slaken its pace, the train
crosses the chasm by a spider-web
bridge and then speeds again over the
placid expanse." The mountains of
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THE RACKET.
Ls having more of a Racket every day.
New Goods arriving almost daily. Last
weeks arrivals consisting of Men's Pants
Hats and Shoes. Also a full line of La-
dies and Childrens Shoes—latest styles
and prices, direct from St. Louis Factory.
yours for bargains.
E. K. WILLIAHS, = HANAQER.
Is headquarter for Fruits. Candles. Cigars. Summer ;
Drinks and
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My place in Nev., Neat and Clean audi .->« .licit the patronage of
tli«' people of North Enid.
2d door West of P. O, Hermann Franz.
H. F. 11EST. C, A. HOLMES,
Ccn,Tal llustli-r. Attorney A: Notary.
J. A. KAMSOUER,
Heal Estate.
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the Rock Island had purchased its
: right of way from the Cherokees.
It is perhaps unfortunate that it will
1 take not less than five years to get a
judgment of the supreme court of the
. United States to demonstrate this to
South Enid and Kottiid Pond. But it
is a cold fact just the same.
Mrs. C. II. Thompson started for
California last night where she goes
for the benefit of herhealth. She will
be gone several months.
C. N. Whitaker returned from his
' California trip last night.
NORTH ENID
Real Estate, haioS Collection Agency.
List your Claims and City Propeity
with us if you want a quick sai.e.
We Buy, Sell or Trade Oklahoma dirt.
Special /UMlioo given lo Collections.
Oklahoma Ave..
North Enid, O. T.
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Whitaker Brothers. North Enid Weekly Tribune. (North Enid, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 2, 1894, newspaper, August 2, 1894; North Enid, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc110131/m1/1/: accessed April 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.