The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 2, 1894 Page: 6 of 8
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The Wave
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J. L. ISENQCRG. Editor and Manager.
OAH.Y KPIWCHIPTIOK iiates.
Oally, Uiio Year £6.0(1
Dully, Six Months. — 2.60
OaJly, Three Months 1.KI
thill y. One Month. ... .60
city ( ihcl'i.ation iiy CAHIUKli.
Dally, IVr Week (Collect every Saturday) .15
vfkkki.y 817b8ci11ption hatkh.
Woekly, One Year. 11.2ft
Weekly, Six Months 76
Weekly, Three Months -ft'
^"Subscription Invariably In Advance.
LOCAL ADVKKTI0IMJ.
Daily: Local advertising uuioiik reading
matter In Dally, 10 cents per lino first lnser-
tlon, and ft cents per line for each subsequent
iiMortlon.
Wkkki.y: ijoi al among reading matter 10
(Hints per line for the first two Insertions, sub-
sequent insertions subject to contract at this
Office.
ai>vkktisino llatkd.
For prices on display advertising Inquire at
the office of the Business Manager, near the
Corner of 2nd and C streets.
BILL NYE ON ENID
drous beauty of nature's park in | pecting company. I thought her hot
,'our midst, which you call the court j boiled weiner wurst sandwiches were
house square. Oh!—it must be one of j the best I had ever e~ten in the west,
those lovely spots on earth, which ; but the butcher swindled her in the
Expaciates on Enid and nla'"-'s t'le sou' ekb a d flow with ad- horse radish, for my acute palate in,
miration and inspiration divine. Do j formed me that it was nothing more
Her Public Square. they ever let the town cows hold ! than tame white raddislies fricassed
! evening indignation meetings on it? j in vinegar.
The Wave speaks of it not being I Enid—what a pretty name-is it a
PINE MOUNTAIN SGENE.RY.
, r "T". , m " r on . ...
farming on account of Hoke Smith j Tell Tom Phillips and Alderman
. bringing the price of wheat down so [ Ward that the next time I go to New
He Intimates That He Would Like to j low, I would like to trade my North York I will go over to Coney Island
be Mayor of Enid arid be
In the Swim.
Written for tlio Wavk.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
The water works and electric light
plant propositions are still agitating
the minds of Enid's people.
The Waak is inclined to think that
the schemes are both going to be
very hard on the little taxable
property in the city. We undoubted-
ly should have lire protection if we
can get it within our means, but the
Wave is quite certain we could get
along without an electric plant at
such a cost to the city. Now if a
private company thinks they can
make anything out of an electric light
plant here, which we think they can,
but the city taxpayers should not be
obligated to support such a plant
under the present condition of things.
When city scrip gets as low as it is
now it don't seem to us that it is a
good financial policy to issue more of
it than can possibly be helped.
The financial condition of the
country generally should be taken
into consideration in discussing these
questions. If it is unwise or unjudi-
cious for us to throw ourselves in debt
in order to get all the conveniences
Chicago has got after fifty years
hard work, it seems to us that we
ought to be contented even if we can
not complete the city in one year.
Let the people thoroughly think
these matters over before things go
too far. The WAVE is open to any
citizen who may wish to express an
opinion in this matter, both sides of
the question may use these columns
to discuss the matter.
Carolina homestead for your court
j house square, fence or no fence, but
1 of course I would want the fire bell
I saw-buck for a wind-mill tower. My
In coming from a tour of luxury, I homestead is all fenced, or it was
and association among the nobility | once) before Japers kicked holes in it
of Europe, where I am a night of the j here and there. As I have often in-
garter, a welcome guest and a j formed the public, there is a good
brilliant star sitting with crowned j well on my place, but in real dry
heads filled with ancient imbecility, weather a bucket of water or two
I feel refreshed and glad to be back should be poured into it each day to
on my ranch in North Carolinia once j keep the bottom from getting
more, getting ready for haying time
and to see that the bottom of my
new well is kept dam]). I feel almost
as tired as if I had walked over, which
1 had thought of doing, owing to the
two year's dues I owe our preacher,
and the hard times brought about by
the tariff bill, but as Peter, who, I
think is dead, was the only man who
ever made such a trip, I gave it up.
eep the bottom from getting
dusty or musty, otherwise the well
needs no attention, it will behave
itself and never get full. If you can
make the trade I will subscribe for a
copy of your weekly to send to Mrs.
Nye's folks and when I come to Enid,
will use my christian influence in se-
curing all the church ice cream
social locals for the Wave.
Enid must be a lovely place to live.
I have a faithful hired man on the I never lived in a place like it, and it
TOO SWIFT FOR THE BOYS.
Wednesday morning quite a crowd
gathered at the E street depot to
watch the traivi obediently bow to the
will of the city ordinance. A few of
them had on their finest toggery,
bent on taking a trip down to Hennes-
sey, Kingfisher and other cities
below. Among them was our genial
friend George Laing. The train
came, but it seems that the engineer
had forgotten his orders, as his iron
horse plowed through at the old time
thirty mile an hour rate. George
looked at the retreating train as it
went glimmering toward the south-
land; a little moist water gathered in
his good natured eyes as he stood
with both hands grasping the lapels
of his coat. Waking as from a
dream he said: "Well boys, I was
only joking, 1 didn't want to go south.
Enid is the best town in the territory
and 1 will celebrate here if 1 have to
steal another fellow's girl." He
walked up town and joined the pro-
cession, the happiest disappointed
man in the city. The Hock Island
trains are uncertain at our depot,
sometimes you catch them and some-
times you don't.
WHO WILL IT BE.
It was reported this morning that
E. Cotton had been appointed pro-
bate judge of O county, vice Judge
Tompson, resigned, but the report
fails of confirmation in full, yet in-
dications go to prove that he will be
the man.
The Wave has no interest in the
struggle for the place any further
than it would like to have a good,
eligible democrat in the position.
If Mr. Cotton is the man it is per-
fectly satisfactory to us In every
particular, as we are not connected
with any particular ring or clique in
this city, if any such thing exists.
farm now, he never sleeps and eais
but little. I hired him out of Coxey's
arinv when I was in Washington the
other day. He does all the work,
with the assistance of my race mule
"Japers," 1 do the bossing, which is
constantly reducing my robust frame.
I came in from the field the other
evening, where I had been engaged
in studying the politics, earthly use-
fulness and pilgrimage of the little
yellow butterfly, quite tired. I laid
down to rest and ordered Hiram, the
hired man, to bring in the exchanges
that had accumulated during my
European tour and read them all
through aloud to me.
He went down cellar and brought
up eight sacks full of newspapers and
emptied them out In a grand heap of
American intelligence and patent
medicine ads. Hiram grew pale at
the task before him, so did I, yet I
was determined to have them all
read to me so that I might be posted
on all new ideas in regard to farming.
Seated like an ancient corn husker,
Hiram broke the first wrapper and
read out "The Enid Daily Wave."
The name startled me as it was void
of the musty aroma of chestnuts:
something new to my weary nature.
Hira'ui, says I, that name has the
smack of freshness, who is the editor
of that paper. As he read out the
name of my old billious yet patient
Rocky mountain friend of years ago,
1 relapsed into a semi-Coxey-coma
state; my disturbed and battered
intellect struggled back to scenes
gone by in California gulch where
you and 1 met in 1877. Me thinks I
see the gaping wounds we made in
nature's rounded mountains, still
gaping, deserted and given up, yet
evidences of good faith and youthful
ambition; how well I remember how
you and 1 used to sit and sweat on
the banks of tile sinking hole watch-
ing the other boys dig and direct
them how to do it, and how we laid
down at night groaning from the
smarting pain in our blistered hands.
If I recollect right, you was the
1'atti of the camp, a great singer,
with a voice that needed a spoonful
of New Orleans molasses to sweeten
it before the notes would fall at the
weakening feet of tile hearers with
much pathos.
You used to sit in front of the
Pueblo tent and sing the "Old Oaken
Bucket," with variations that
sembled the howling of a mastiff dog | better. I have that dollar yet
in intense pain, until everybody, for j least Orner never got it back.
seems to me it must be quite romantic
to live in a city that has a railroad,
yet there are no dirty stock cars
standing around to give the children
the me.isles; the cars being always on
the move: then there being no noisy
hack drivers around a depot where
the train never stops. The idea of a
city with a depotiess railroad reminds
me of a bottomless North Carolina
road, but I believe I would rather
be depotiess than bottomless..
If I could strengthen my influence
with Enid's city council I would have
them make the railroad tunnel under
the city, then the city marshal could
stop the trains whenever he desired
by putting a stopper in the end of
the tunnel; a right kind of stopper
would stopher I think
As an inducement for your people
to make the trade I desire, will say
that they may elect me mayor when,
ever they think the idea is ripe
enough. I could fill the office as well
from North Carolina as I could from
Illinois, yet if your people have a
preference for Illinois I can move
there temporarily.
I never saw the Cherokee strip but
once in daylight; it excited me very
much. I told my troubles to a police-
man: he made the fellow put on his
clothes again; but I must trot back
to my subject.
Well, old boy, I am glad you are in
the strip, "After the strip comes the
swim,"' as us boys used to say. The
last time we met you, you were selling
peanuts in Pueblo, Colorado. I
thought you had cultivated quite an
adaption for that business. I forcibly
recollect the glass of peanuts you
sold me; you said they were fresh, I
looked into your meek and watery
eyes and thought I saw evidence of
truth. The nuts were fresh, at least
they had never been used, but I
thought I detected a little mould on
them, just like some I had sold after
they had laid in my springhouse loft
seven years.
I see by the Wave that my old
friends, Cal Orner and Henry Ryan are
both knights of the plow at Enid. I
first met Cal in Topeka when he was
a young and giddy girl, engaged to be
married; it was a rainy night and my
lecture fell dry on a thin rain-water
saturated audience; Cal pitied me a
dollar's worth and told me to go get
a bottle of Pabst blue ribbon and a
dozen hot tamales and I would feel
at
miles around would come and
willingly give you two dollars to
quit. Around your feet I often
noticed the dying remains ot thous-
ands of mountain bugs who had
hearkened to your song only to die at
your feet, having been knocked out by
the echo vibrating from the distant
mountains.
1 always had great hopes of you
rising in the world as a desultory
songster, but I was afterwards in-
formed that you gave it up and had
gone to whistling.
Hiram has been reading the Wave
to me for several evenings and the
Henry Ryan and I served in the
same company in a county seat war
in western Kansas, but Henry was a
poor soldier, he fell in love with a
girl over in Wichita which caused
him to pine and droop around in the
ranks until the captain discharged
him from further military duty.
I see that my old friend Captain
Ilassler is the receiver of your land
office; we used to be quite chummy
and advised with one another a great
deal as to how we had better run the
government. We were together on
the road one day and in an unguarded
moment I asked him which he
ENID TO THE FRONT.
Enid is a great market for out
prosperous neighbors just over the
line in Old Oklahoma south of us.
They are here every day with wagon j voice in reading, but
loads of garden truck, fresh fish, hogs, I it very much.
etc., etc., and they seem to find Hiram called my attention
I fact
subject matter of your thoughts, my J thought was the most useful to man-
dear bov, seems to run to piety and j kind in this world, the prairie dog or
christian fortitude, at least I I
thought so when I was awake, but
sometimes my snoring bothered my I
thoughts.and almost drowned Hiram's j
till I enjoyed
the ant. The Captain grew pale,
stared at me a moment, became
angry and went into another car.
Tell the Captain that I am not mad
at him and that if he will write me a
J good long letter every week we will
to the | put a foot path over the bloody chasm
buyers. The court house square I fact that your editorials were not | between us and I will quit writing for
seems to be the market place by ! headed with "Royal baking powder, J the papers and address all my com-
common consent and it looks like a I ">e best and purest." That was a re- municatlons to him.
market house some days. I lief to me all my Kansas exchanges 1 must owe you about eight years'
—————— head their editorials with the baking subscription for the various papers
An Excursion. powdet. "I love the Royal in buck you have published, but since 1 have
An excursion party from Minne- wheat cakes, but as a head for I become a farmer, I never pay any
editorials, it has not risen my mind f such bills, however, I'll send you a car
out of proportion. j load of cobs in the fall c. o. d.j you
My quick nerved ear caught the J may think I am c-o-.l-ding, but I will
words Morning Slobber, several times, do as I agree.
What Is it, a little tiny drop of j Give my most refined regards to Mrs.
morning dew on a faded blade of j I. Tell her that I still enjoy that im-
grass, or is it mud? j promptu dinner she got up for you
The Wave speaks often of the won-1 and 1 at a time when she was not ex-
apolis, St Paul and other parts of
that country made a stop at the sta-
tion last Thursday The board of
trade ami our citizens generally
should have been on hand to show
them this young giant city of
plains, but the last we heard of
matter thav were all claiming
lack of time to attend to it.
the
the
the
and visit fhe boys awhile.
I would have written to you last
week but an Enid hack driver wrote
informing me that you had been
kicked by a jackass, and would not
be able to stand another kick, like
this, for at least one week.
This is not written for publication
but if you desire you may put it in
the Wave one time if your charges
are reasonable; be sure and put it in
alongside, or immediately under, pure I
reading matter, not in the neighbor-
hood of any horse medicine ad.
Be sure and send me marked copy I
of the paper and upon receipt of the
Wave with ad properly Inserted I
will send you my check on the Mer-
chants bank of Enid.
Fraternally Yours,
Bill Nye.
P. S. Put the air brakes on the
city council until I get there. I want
to crawl on the Inside of some of
those water and light deals.
PADEN BROS.,
GUY MEAT MARKET, i
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All kinds of Fresh Meats, Pure*
Leaf Lard, Dairy Butter.
E Street, Near 3rd St.
ENID. OKLAHOMA TERRITORY
—T H E—
SENATE,
GRANT & BERMANT,
PROPRIETORS.
Wholesale and retail dealers in
choice whiskies, wines and
cigars. East Side of the.
Square, Enid, O. T. ^
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BffeftD, Pies ftND CftKCSs
A Sure Curefor Piles.
Itching Piles are known by mois-
ture like perspiration, causing in-
tense itching when warm. This form
as well as blind, bleeding or protrud-
ing, yield at once to Dr. Bosanko's
Pile Remedy, which acts directly on
parts effected, absorbs tumors, allays
itching and effects a permanent cure.
50 cts. Druggists or mail. Circulars
free. Dr. Bosanko, Philadelphia. Pa.
Sold by J. B. McFarland, Druggist.
Notice.
The people of Enid In going on
long journeys, east or west, should
change cars at Wichita and take the
old reliable Missouri Pacific line
which makes close connections with
the Rock Island. The Missouri Pacific
will take you to the mountains of
Colorado twelve hours ahead of the
Rock Island and It Is a much shorter
route to all points in the east. The
Rock Island is fighting your homes,
hence, does not deserve your patron-
age.
Wholesale mid Retail at the
K.C. BAKERY,
Goods delivered to any part of the city, morning and evenii^.
M. T. DAWSON, Propr.
First Street, % Block South of Square. - d 11.") - Enid, Okluliomu Territory^
Third street Second Hand Store.
Second Hand Furniture bought and sold and exchanged.'■
If you have any furniture, stoves, etc., or anytning you do
not need and want to exchange for something you do, call
around and see us. Gasoline and cook stoves cleaned and
repaired.
OLD & MOUNSEY, Props.
OPPOSITE POSTOFFCE. ENID. O. T.
Subscribe ior the Wave,
hotel
GEO. THEIS, Jr., President.
C. F. H ERNST, Vice-Pres't.
11. I). SYKES, Cashier.
Bank : of : Enid,
INCORPORATED.
MONTEZUMA.|
On I) st.. south of square. Clean beds everything new and first class.
COUNTY DEPOSITORY.
Do a General Banking Business
South side of Square, Enid, O. T. ldw
Capital Stock $50,000 ^|(| § g^||
Two Blocks South of Square,
! Pitted out with steam for laundry and bath purposes, such as Plain, Vapor*
j Russian, Turkish and Electric Baths. Give us a call and help one of Enid's
! best coming enterprises. Following are the (lays set apart for special pur-
| poses at the
SWI!V]IV]IIS© POOL
Tuesday morning, ladies and gents.
Wednesday p. m., ladies exclusively.
Friday, p. m., ladies and gents.
Open every evening till 11. Saturdays all night.
Open Sundays all day.
Plain and shower bath with admission to pool, 25 cents. 108dw
Gonkliiig, Steen & Gonklimj
L_ A W VERS-
Federal and Territorial Court practice and I
Land Office business. Rooms 1 and 2, Fuqua ;
building, Enid, O. T. ldw.'tm
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fresti
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And <i
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V eoetables
Red
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Five Doors
North ot
E. Street,
fast Side
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The West Side Senate.
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Finest "Wines, Liquors and Cigars:
62dw
S. HAMMERSLOUGH, PROPR. i U<*
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SOUTH OF FUQUA BUILDING.
First Enid Bakery,
E Street Near Postoffice,
Fresh bread, pies and cakes. Free
delivery to any part of the city.
134-1 m I. L. MAYER, Proprietor
W. 0. CROMWELL,
Attorney at Law
Criminal Defenses.
Next to Bank of Enid, - ENID, O. T.
GO TO MRS. A. M. WILMOT'S
For the Cheapest and Best
M 1 LaLAI NE1RY,
In the City.
A present with every purchase. Four doors
east of Cherokee Pharmucy. 117-lm
G. F\ A R N ETT,
BUTCHER,1
PAYS THE
HIGHEST MARKET-
PRICE FOR
I' jultry, Game and all kinds
Butcher Stock.
All kinds of Fresh and Salt
Meats, Poultry and Fish,
constantly* on hand.
CORNER
E AND :mi> ST.
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DR. GUNN'S Headquarters for the boys!
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MILD PHYSIC
ONE PILL FOR A DOSE.
Sold by J. B. McFarland, Druggist
The Coney Island Sample Rooms!
And dealers in Purest Liquors, Finest Wines, and Giuars.
Pure Pabst Beer Always on Draught.
North side of E street between 2nd and ard, Enid, (). T.
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Isenberg, J. L. The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 2, 1894, newspaper, June 2, 1894; Enid, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc111553/m1/6/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.