Pauls Valley Sentinel (Pauls Valley, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 2, 1905 Page: 1 of 16
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Pauls Valley Sentinel
"WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE, WITH CHARITY FOR ALL, WITH FIRMNESS IN THE RIGHT."
NO. 46
PAULS VALLEY, IND. TER., THURSDAY, FEB. 2, 1905.
VOL. I.
WRECK ON SANTA. FE.
Surplus and Profits, 73.000
IMPORTANT MEETING Capital Stock 50,000
Bill Introduced Making Sulphur
Court Town-Our Interests
Jeopardized.
A special meeting of the commer-
cial Club was called for February 1st
at 4 p. m. in the U. S. court room, to j
take some action on the bill introduc-:
ed by delegate McGuire of Oklahoma, ;
which provides for the establishment
of a court at Sulphur, I. T. A fairly
good number of representative men
were present and it was unanimously a-
greed that we send a delegate to
Washington to look after the interests
of the 17th recording district. The
Hon. J. B. Thompson was the man
selected, he will start in a few days for
the scene of action. The bill intro-
duced provides for the formation of a
recording district with headquartere at
Sulphur, the same to be 18X30 miles
in dimension, the principal territory to
be taken from the Pauls Valley district.
Boundries will run a little south of
Wynnewood, cornering out between
Brady and Klondike, taking in Davis
and several other points.
Our district as it now stands is 24x
36 miles in area, and is only a fair
sized county, to cut jaggle and emas-
culate it in the way proposed would be !
to destroy the country's future useful-
ness as a center almost entirely.
There is a coterie of grafters behind
the Sulphur bill, who have land inter-
est there, who are working this matter
up and who will try to bring the influ-
ence they have as pompered favorites
to bear on congress in order to secure
the passage of this measure. We are
and have always been friendly to Sul-
phur and her people but we must op-
pose this latest scheme to despoil our
our fair domain.
The First National Bank of Pauls Valley solicits
accounts large and small and with its Capital stock
of $50,000, and surplus funds of $73,000, offers
to the public every facility consistent with safe and
prudent banking..... <S§3) C$3)
to play here again next season and his re-
turn will be a pleasure to our citizens who
will give him crowded houses as they have
done this time.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SPEAKS.
President Roosevelt was the guest of
honor and the principal speaker last evening
at the forty-second anniversary banquet of
the Union League Club of Philadelphia.
The president's speech was entirely devoted
to a discussion of the industrial and railroad
question. We quote from his speech as
follows:
"Unquestionably, however, the great de-
1 velopment of industrialism means that there
must be an increase in the supervision ex-
ercised by the government over business
enterprises. This supervision should not
take the forra of violent and ill-advised in-
terference; and assuredly there is danger
lest it take such form if the business leaders
of the business community confine them-
selves to trying to thwart the effort at re-
gulation .instead of guiding it aright. Such
men as the members of this club should
! lead in the effort to secure proper super-
vision and regulation of corporate activity
| by the government, not only because it is
for the interest of the community as a whole
that there should be this supervision and re-
gulation, but because in the long run it will
be in the interest above all of the very peo-
ple who often betray alarm and anger when
the proposition is first made
"Miiiiiior npnnlp or anY
AMUSEMENTS.
The managers of the opera house are to
be congratulated on the number of high
class entertainments they have presented to !
their patrons this season and especially
complimented on having the McDonald ;
Stock Co. , in their house this week. With- j
out a doubt this is the best theatrical organiza-
tion that ever played our city. The members
of the company are ladies and gentlemen j
and each and every one are actors of abili- J
ty. The manager, Mr. McDonald, is for- j
tunate in securing such a capable company
to play his excellent line of new plays.
The vandeville members presented by I
this company is the best seen in any reper- i
toire show, every thing new, refined and
origional and fully worth the price of ad- |
mission. The specialties are so arranged ,
as to make no tiresome waits between the j
acts, a fact much appreciated by our theatre
goers who have been accustomed to such in
the higher priced attractions.
Mr. McDonald has made arrangements
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Neither this people or any other free peo-
ple will permanently tolerate the use of the
vast power conferred by vast wealth, and
especially by wealth in its corporate form,
without lodging somewhere in the govern-
ment the still higher power of seeing that
th's power, in addition to being used in the
interest of the individual or individuals pos-
sessing it, is also used for and not against
the interest of the people as a whole. Our
peculiar form of government, a government
in which' the Nation is supreme throughout
the Union in certain respects, while each
of nearly half a hundred States is supreme
in its parts of the Union in certain other
respects, renders the task of dealing with
these condition especially difficult. No final-
ly satisfactory result can be expected from
merely State action. The action must come
through the Federal government. The
business of the country is now carried on in
a way of which the founders of our Consti-
tution could by no possibility have had an
idea. ,
"All great business concerns are engaged
in interstate commerce, and it was beyond
question the intention of the founders of
our government that interstate commerce in
all its branches and aspects should be under
National and not State control. If the
courts decide that this intention was not
carried out and made effective in the Con-
stitution as it now stands, then in the end
the Constitution, if not constructed differ-
ently, will have to be amended so that the
original undoubted intention may be made
effective. But, of course, a constitutional
amendment is only to be used as a last re-
sort, if every effort of legislation and ad-
ministration shall have been provided in
adequate.
"Meanwhile the men in public life and
the men who direct the great business
interests of the country should work not in
antagonism but in harmony toward this
given end. in entering a field where the
progress must of necessity be so largely ex-
perimental it is essential that the effort to
make progress should be tentative and cau-
I tious. We must grow by evolution, not by
j revolution. There must be no hurry, but
there must also be no halt; and those who
are anxious that there should be no sudden
and violent changes must remember that
' precisely these sudden and violent changes
will be rendered likely if we refuse to make
the needed changes in cautious and moder-
i af.e manner.
"At the present moment the greatest
need is for an increase in the power of the
National government to keep the great
' highways of commerce open alikfe to all on
reasonable and equitable terms. Less than
a century ago these highways were still as
they had been since the dawn of history,
either waterways, natural or artificial, or
else ordinary roads for wheel vehicles
drawn by animal power. The railroad,
which was utterly unknown when our gov-
ernment was formed and when the great
principles of our jurisprudence were laid
down, has now become almost everywhere
the most important, and, in many large re-
gions, the only from of highway for com-
merce. The man who controls its use can
not be permitted to control it in his own
interest alone.
"It is not only just but it is in the inter-
est of the public that this man should re-
ceive the amplest payment for the master-
ful business capacity which enables him to
benefit himself while benefitting the public;
but in return he must himself recognize his
duty to the public. He will not and can
not do this if our laws are so defective that in
the sharp competition of the business world
the conscientious man is put at a disad-
vantage by his less scrupulous fellows. It
is in the interest of the conscientious and
public-spirited railway man that there should
be such governmental supervision of the
railway traffic of the country as to require
from his less scrupulous competitors, and
from unscrupulous big shippers as well,
that heed to the public welfare* which he
himself would willingly give, and which is
of vital consequence to the small shipper.
Every important railroad is engaged in in-
terstate commerce. Therefore, this con-
trol over the railroads must come through
the National govenment."
If you send your laundry work to
the Pauls Valley steam laundry it will
be washed in distilled water, which is
as soft and pure as water can be.
Phone 39.
FOR SALE CHEAP.
I have a four month's scholarship in
the South-western Business College
which I will sell cheap for cash. Ap
ply at once to H. M. CARR,
Pauls Valley, I. T.
A head-on collision about 12 o'clock
IS miles north of Ardmore on the
Santa Fe between passenger train No.
19 due here at 10:55 a. m. and a
freight train No. 36 in charge of Frank
Sadler.
Killed:
E. G. Gasset, of Gainesville, fireman
on freight train.
The injured:
H. A. McKensie, of Cleburne, pas-
senger enginees; leg broken and bruis-
ed. Don O'Brien, of Shawnee, pas-
senger conductor, bruised and head
cut. Roy C. Hedgkinson, Gaines-
ville; brakeman. J. E. Harrison,
Cleburne; fireman. J. A. Fitzgerale,
Topeka; slightly hurt. Y. A. Farmer,
Gainesville; slightly hurt. T. W.
Stone, Gainesville; slightly hurt. W.
T. Strange, Ardmore, traveling man,
arm broken or bruised. Mrs. Saas,
Ardmore; cut on face.
Fireman Gosset was injured in the
chest and died on a train taking the
injured to Ardmore for medical treat-
ment.
It is said that both engineers saw a
collision was inevitable and quickly
reversed their engines- Both crews
jumped, escaping serious injury, with
the exceptions of Gosset. In some
manner he was struck in the chest.
The saving of the passengers was
probably due to the fact that the speed
of the trains was considerably reduced
when the collision occurred. Both
engines were demolished. Two tanks
of oil and one or two cars of merchan-
dise w-re wrecked, while the front end
of the baggage car was demolished.
Express Messenger Fitzgerald had a
narrow escape. Engineer McKensie
was caught under the debris, but was
soon rescued.
The conductor, Dan O'Brine, was
well known in this city having at one
time had a run on one of the branch
roads from this place. News of the
wreck soon reached this city and many
conflicting reports were circulated con-
cerning great loss of life, ect. Dr. T.
C. Branum went at once to the scene
of the wreck.
The exact cause of the collision is
not known. The passenger train was
running on schedule time, while the
freight train was late. Traffic was de-
layed several hours.
U. S. Court adjourned here yester-
day morning at 10 o'clock after a fif
teen days' session in which the uocket
which was a big one, was gieatly re
duced.
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It is known by all 1 aundrymen and
wash women that hard water ruins
clothes—same as rust does iron. All
city and country people should have
their clothes done by an Artesian
(soft) water laundry. See N. G. Tur-
ner, the best and cheapest laundryman
that ever come to Pauls Valley.
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