North Enid Weekly Tribune. (North Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 30, 1894 Page: 1 of 8
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TRAINS STOF ONLY AT NORTH ENID.
I he onh Enid that j^ives Warranty Deeds to City Property
NORTH ENID
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north enid, o. t.. til i rsdav. au(tus t ho, 1804.
*!..">( l'EK YEAR.
I IS ill SIf!
The Democratic Conventio-i
a Great Hippodrome.
A Revolver 1*1 ay Causes u Stain-
pec/e in the Hall.
tion to adjourn out of order, Frank
Rogers and Geo. Stein thought an in-
[ stallment of a western Kansas county
seat war had arrived and they wanted
to prove an alibi. The Tribune man
was sandwiched between Conkling
and Parker who were breathing- in
whispers.
Every delegation
sustain the chair.
Later on the fever broke out again
and the first skirmish wasn't a patch-
in' to the last one. Mulholland, who
was defeated for the nomination of
sheriff, was mad, in fact, very much
so. His candidate for county commis-
sioner was also left out in the cold,
cold world, and drawing his gun swore
that the whole ticket would be defeat-
WATER WORKS.
The democratic convention last Sat-
urday was a corker in every sense of
the word, and it was give and take
from the time the convention was
called in the morning until its close
near midnight. The usual form of
making a temporary organization and
appointing committees was done and
adjournment taken until after dinner.
When the convention was again called ! . , *
, „ , " i looked at the Waukomis
the fun commenced.
The committee on resolutions re-
ported with a set of resolutions cut i
| contemptuous manner and threw the
i flattened bullet out the window and it [
that this would he done, but this has
been the first direct evidence that
such a sell-out was being consum-
mated.
They may do it.
1 here is no law to prevent them
from doing it.
They are the judge of their own
but three voted to j We Need Fire Protection, and Work actions. But if the republicans of
Can be Furnished to Men Out | South Enid indulge in this kind of a
game, it may be a winner and it may
not. We seriously doubt if such a
scheme will ever win.
It's too rotten.
But the republicans over there
should impress this fact upon their
minds and keep it constantly before
them: If they have come to O county
to make this their permanent home
and expect any reward from the re-
publican party hereafter, and they
sell out the party this fall, they might
as well make up their minds that they
will be eternally done for so far ,as
political emoluments are concerned.
They can never be elected village
Because there is a town
North Enid Can Put in Water
Works Cheap.
of Employrrent.
As the winter months begin to ap-
proach, property owners are begin-
ning to think of insurance and of tire
protection. A conversation occurred
in an attorney's office this week that
developed a plan whereby water
ed and emphasized his utterances by I W0I'ks for 'ire protection might be put
indiscriminate firing of his 45. He
mistook Isenglass' nose for a lamp
and hit it with a bullet. The Sheeny
warrior in a
in this fall, yet at no great cost to the
city, and at the same time it will fur-
nish work to a number of unemployed
men. The first thing that was dis-
cussed was the power, and the Trib-
une man and another gentleman
I now adorns our wigwam as a trophy waited uPon the ice plant people, or , .
from some newspaper, ready made | of U]e nonsense and ridiculousness of ™her Mr. Smallwood, and laying the ; do^lter.
as it were, that endorsed nearly ev-
erything, even to the administration
of Cleveland and the free coinage of
minority report was also brought in j
that covered a few things the major-
ity report did not touch, among other
things that of a resolution that O j
county be named "Berry" in recogni-
tion of some great(?) work that had j
j hitting that Sheeny in the face with j Plan before hi'" asked if the plant
anything except stale beer. When would furnish the power? He said
j tight being waged in the county the
If it is, the parties
who arc responsible for the deal may
j republican party must not be sacri-
, t c , ficed to promote the interests of one
...... I the bombardment commenced the del- that 11 would for hre purposes only.' .. .
r> an act of contortion that would , egates begau tQ Swartout j When asked about the power thi, win- Mde °r thC 0t"er'
j started for the basement but Hamm's ' -hen the plant would be shut, expect the eternal of t,]e
I feet got crossed in the stairway and w 11 lie said at a small cost hre J tribune for all
blockaded it. Hassler surrounded his cou^ kept in the furnace all 1 lie
corporosity with his nerve and the fly- time during- the winter, and said that
! ing- bullets made 110 impression on it— P^ant would do anything" that it
| it was impregnable. Byrnes had all C011^ *° encourage the enterprise.
i his attention employed in jumping ^ *s lh°uS"ht: that the mains can be
been done by the gentleu.au of that | sideways and . u bHn(J Q £ Qf ! put in and twenty-five fire plugs
name, but the atmosphere was murky j the forated Lay,s Hule placed ready for use at a cost not to
and the heavens cloudy which made it commissioner boom amJ u coll d. exceed $1,500 or $1,800. We are in-
a water haul for the "Berry" hunters
for the minority report was tabled af- j
ter some debate.
Scarcely had the echo of the chair-
man's decision died from the room
when John C. Moore jumped up and
offered the same "Berry" resolution.
It was a gigantic display of gall on
the part of Moore as he was not a del-
egate; it was an insult to the conven-
tion as that body had just voted the
resolution down; it was ungentleman-
ly as it was a direct slap in the face
of a portion of the delegates. Moore
was only looking for notoriety—
And he got it!
Delegate Rush was 011 his feet in an ]
instant and the next two minutes j
he devoted to skinning Moore and
hanging his cuticle out of the window ]
to bake. He accused Moore of mal- j
iciously insulting a portion of the del-
egates and in doing so he was not a
gentleman and unworthy of the name
for he was at that time a member of a
committee whose mission it was to
bring about a better and more friend-
ly feeling between the two Enids.
Moore didn't know his resolution was
loaded at the wrong end and he has
not yet recovered from the recoil.
On the vote the chair ruled the mo-
tion to adopt was lost. Captain Has-
sler, who was also a champion of the
resolution, appealed from the chair's
decision. Capting Hassler was a little
excited. He grabbed himself by his
boot tops as he advocated the chris-
tening of this county with a name ob-
noxious to so many.
"Now he's sorry that he spoke."
Before Hassler could unbuckle his
belly-band Delegate Rush arose in an
Abraham Lincoln manner and draw-
ing a "toothpick" (but Rush denies
this) commenced slitting rents in Has-
sler's alleged argument. The states-
man from North Enid was just a little
excited and in his gesticulations hit
Doctor Craig on the back and scatter-
ed his false teeth around over the
floor. Doc wanted to make a motion
to adjourn but the interior of his
mouth was disarranged and he could
not even make signs that a democrat
could understand. This frightened
Greer, who was there as a visitor to
see who his opponent would be, that
in attempting to fall backward out of
a window he stepped into a man's
mouth and lost his shoe, and in trying
to rescue the shoe fell through the
window and ripped his pants. Will
Day, who was there just for fun, grab-
bed one of the falling lamp brackets
and rushed out into the street search-
ing for an honest man but forgot what
he was looking for and declared a 1110-
j Cornelius took advantage of the Co
! formed that bond.
s can be voted for
j motion and was nominated before the 1 ^his amount, 01 the city council can
j Wave man could pull the knife he had ! t^e the matter in hand and have the
buried in his sleeve. Bill Williamsfworks Put Pot the benefits to be
time to come, so long
as it lives.
North Enid republicans are work-
ing for the party in good faith, went
into the convention in good faith, and
propose to stand by the ticket in good
faith, and if any skunk sells us out,
look out for merry shoel in the future.
Remeinder, this is not the only elec-
tion ever to be held in O county.
There are others coming around.
went out and buried his woes in a
bowl while Johnson was at his elbow
yelling "me too." The convention
scattered in disorder and the man who
went back to lock up the house should
have been arrested for inciting a riot.
The next democratic convention is to
be held out on the prairie.
She was a red hot time and no mis-
take.
derived from the enterprise we do not
think there is a man in North Enid
who will oppose it. The digging of
the trenches, laying the mains and
| other work that will of necessity be
| connected with it there will be work
for some weeks for men who are now
unemployed. The protection from
I fire will bring insurance rates down to
| shooting distance at least, and in
The following are the nominations: j other ways it will prove a benefit to j *
Li 1. n TI .. ,Mt. T 1.... I.. 'ill A lit* fin . \«\ 1 . t
Sheriff, Hugh Douly.
Treasurer, J. T. Daniels.
Probate Judge, Mose Anderson.
County attorney, Bob Wood.
Reg. of Deeds, — Carpenter.
County Clerk, W. D. Cornelius.
Supt., — Taggart.
Coroner, Dr. Bird.
Com. 3d dist., S. H. Craig.
GOT IT IN FOB US.
The secretary of the interior, one
j would think, had done enough harm
i to the territory of Oklahoma and es-
i pecially to the Cherokee Outlet, but
here he come again with another load
| of filth and dumps it upon us;
Washington, Aug. 27.—[Special.]
| The secretary of war started an officer
i today for Mount Vernon barracks,
Ala., where he will take charge of the
eronimo band of Indians and escort
all our people.
It is thought if the city council
*)~..ould call a meeting of our people to
discuss this matter that it will be
j almost the unanimous sentiment that
1 niinf Af tui 1' 1 1 111 . • I about 250 strong and was taken off the
! a plant of this kind should be put in, '
i and the Tribune would suggest that
j a meeting of this kind be called at an
early date. All are interested in it.
The rate of insurance has been so
I hey have been kept under close
guard there, and being ,^o far from
Com. 2d dist., J, P. Goff.
We did not learn the name of the ! high that many have no insurance at
nominee for commissioner in the 1st. all, whereas if we had fire protection
— ; of the nature proposed, all could
W. E. Worden, of Waukomis, says oarry insurance upon their property,
the south towners Ijave agreed to com- [ As regarding the force of the power
bine their strength upon Mr. Riley, ; used, Mr. Smallwood says they can
the populist candidate for register of , furnish power to throw an inch stream
them to Fort Sill, O. T. This is in
accordance with the scheme worked
through congress by some of the
Southern members. The band is
warpath in Arizona and New Mexico
in 1884 and placed in prison in Ala-
bama, where they have since re-
mained.
M. It AX DAI. L.
1 lie above gentleman was born in
Catawba, Ohio, in 1867. He remained
there until lie came to Kansas in 1871,
settling with his parents in Sedgwick
county. He was educated in the
Southwestern Business College in
Wichita, ami after he finished there
went into the district clerk's office in
Wichita where he remained for three
years. When the Cherokee Outlet was
opened he made the run into this
county and got a good claim in the
southwestern part of the county—on
the northeast quarter of 4-20-8. He
went into the republican convention
as a candidate for county clerk and
was nominated. He is a staunch, loy-
al republican and his nomination ad-
ded strength to the ticket.
He is in every way qualified for the
office to which he aspires; is well
acquainted with its duties and if elec-
ted, which we believe will be the case,
our county will have a clerk who will
in every way be efficient. He is a
young man, pleasing in manner and
address and is a vote getter in this
campaign.
The county tickets are all put up.
Compare them one with the other; lo-
cate the candidates, and vou will find
that the republican ticket has its can-
didates more fairly distributed over
the county than either of the other
tickets; the republicans have nomina-
ted none but men who are competent
in every respect; men who have left
clean records behind them in their old
homes; men who have no wild-eyed
theories to champion; men who have
been loyal to a party who gave to this
country the best credit of any country
in the civilized world; men who be-
lieve in the always sound principles
of a party that has made the United
States the greatest nation on the
globe; men who do not believe in lay-
ing aside a safe policy for something
that have for their authorship men
who have hobbies and are fanatical.
We offer to the voters of "Garfield"
county men who will be an honor to
our county and who stand upon a plat-
form of principal that has ever been
the peer of any other.
deeds. The south town has no candi-
date for that position. Mr. Gieer, of
North Enid, is the republican candi-
date for that position. Is the combi-
nation for Riley simply to defeat Mr.
Greer because he is from North Enid?
We want to know this before election
day. The republicans of North Enid
are carrying the banner of republi-
canism in good faith and they de-
of water over the smoke stack of the
ice plant. Let the people discuss this
matter. Winter is approaching and
more or less danger is to be appre-
hended from fire. Let us have the
water works by all means.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN p
Coming down on the train the other
day the editor of the Tubunk over-
maud to know who is responsible for heard a couple of republicans from
their native jungles and scenes of
warfare they have been content to
live at government expense. But some
of the Southern members got up a
scheme to send the band away from
there. They even maligned their own
climate in order to help the argu-
ment.
When the item was reached pro-
viding money for removal of the band
to "some one of the territories," the
advocates of the scheme insisted that
the Alabama climate was killing off
| the members of the band, and it was
j cruel and inhuman to hold them there.
They extolled the dry, pure air of
the banditti being organized within
the ranks to encompass the defeat of
those on the ticket who do not happen
to live in or pay tribute to South
Enid.
South Enid explaining bt tween them- \
| "some one of the territories," and
selves the result of the election in this
county this fall.
The writer was unknown to them
and they talked with perfect freedom,
not knowing that we were taking
\\ eith & Company are the new edi- ! down every word uttered by them,
tors of the South Enid Republican. ■ From their conversation it was learn-
It occurs to us that that new paper is , ed that the manipulators in South
having a pretty rocky road to hoe, Enid had so contrived in the nomina-
when it was hailed in the south town tions of the three parties to secure a
as a long felt want. The paper was
started for no other purpose than to
crush out another institution, and such
principle as that, though it flies pretty
high in the beginning, cannot live.
There are several republican rallies j
throughout the county tonight and
the various
perfect South town ticket, and on
election day the voters of that town
will cast a solid vote for certain can-
didates selected from all three of the
tickets in the field.
From their talk it seemed that only
two men on the republican ticket
candidates will address i would be voted for, and two, possibly
the people upon the issues of the day.
And now comes Senator Vest in a
strong speech denouncing, President
Cleveland. Vest don't believe in be-
ing pulled down.—Ex.
three, 011 the democratic ticket, the
rest taken from the populist ticket.
This may be the trick arranged by
the leaders in South Enid and it may
not, but we are inclined to believe it
is. There has been considerable talk
succeeded in getting the money ap-
propriated.
The provision being made, the sec-
retary of war, jointly with the secre-
tary of the interior, concluded that of
"some one of the territories" Okla-
homa is the one. Since the passage
of the bill the people of Arizona and
New Mexico have protested against
sending them back to their old haunts,
and have insisted this would prompt
them to bloodshed. So it was easy
under the circumstances to send them
to Oklahoma.
Dame rumor has it that our demo-
cratic brethren had somewhat of a
"rough house" at their county con-
vention in the south town last Satur-
dav. 'Twas ever thus.
The refreshing showers of demo-
cratic reign the country is being
deluged with are somewhat "bogus,"
as it were.
The republicans in Nebraska at
their late convention became involved
in a terrible wrangle, and at this date
it looks very much as if the entire
ticket would be sacrificed. E. Rose-
water, editor of the Omaha Bee and
National Committeeman from that
state, sent in his resignation because
the convention persisted in the nomi-
nation of Tom Majors, a railroad
manipulator, and says he will fight the
nominee to the bitter end, and it is
said that the anti-monopoly element
of the party has bolted the ticket with
the Bee. It is a bad fight and unless
it is adjusted soon the whole ticket
will probably be defeated. Who is to
blame for this?
Yesterday the limitation of the hack
ordinance expired and Marshall Jen-
ness notified the south towners that
they must take out licence or stop
running their hacks into North Enid.
North Enid hackmen had to pay a
license in South Enid within a few
weeks after the opening and those
fellows over there have been plying
their vocation in our town for almost
a year without putting up a cent for
it. They have been an incalcuable
damage to the growth of North Enid
and our people will now congratulate
themselves that this will in a measure
be abated. Marshal Jenness should
see that the ordinance is rigidly en-
forced.
Mr. E. C. Cook, the republican can-
didate for surveyor, has the privilege
to come in and wallup us over the un-
occupied commons of the town. The
Tribune was the first paper to run up
the republican ticket and criticised
other papers for running the ticket
only in part, and we were guilty of
that fault all the time. The mistake
is rectified in this issue, and we trust
that Mr. Cook will run thirteen miles
ahead of his ticket this fall.
Miss Florence Gilmore has gone to
Chickasha on a visit of several weeks.
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