The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 30, 1897 Page: 3 of 8
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The hoif pens have been
from the square.
removed
Business of all kinds is still on the
ncreaee in Enid.
A great many are going to Wichi-
ta to hear Bryan speak this week.
The Enid land office is doing a good
ind business now days.
We are having fine early fall weath-
er. Could not be nicer for plowing.
Somebody has stolen the court
house flag at least it cannot be found.
Geo. Laing is now deputy district
clerk at Kingfisher and wears $6
shirts. 'Tin well.
The pestiferous cockel burr will
soon take, the place of the life invig-
orating chigger.
IT will soon be time for the wild
ducks to make the annual trip to the
jungles of the south.
Mr. Frank Wood a "Racket store
man'' was in the city yesterday figur-
ing on locating in this city.
About 10,000 bushels of castor beans
have been marketed in Enid this
season, and art* still coming in.
Mayor Joe McClelland of PondCreek
hasn't been down to see us since the
apple trees bloomed in the spring.
The Wave is informed that the
Bank of Enid is contemplating the
erection of aline brick bank build-
ing in the near future.
The farmers report quail very plen-
ty this fall. They desire to give the
Wave hunting privileges on subscrip-
tion. Wouldn't that kill you?
The Wave ladies will take in
Niagara Falls next week if it don't
rain and the Wave honors their draft
for more dough.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
If grease is spilled on the floor, cold
water poured on it at once will pre-
vent the spot from soaking into the
wood.
Two bottles should be kept for a
bottlefed baby. -The one not in use
should be tilled with cold water and
soda.
Bamboo furniture can be cleaned
with a brush dipped in salt water.
Grease stains can be removed from
matting by first wetting them with
alcohol and then washing them with
suds made from Castile soap.
A special broom should be kept for
sweeping carpets.
Stone jars are far better than tin
boxes for keeping bread during hot
weather.
A little vinegar added to the water
in which salt fish are soaked will im-
prove their flavor.
Ivory-handled knives should be kept
in a canton flannel bag having sepa-
rate compartments for each knife.
A tablespoonful of kerosene oil add-
ed to the boiler when scalding clothes
will help to whiten them.
A street dress and shoes should be
removed as soon as one returns to the
house, and a house dress and shoes
substituted.
An eld silk handkerchief makes a
good duster.
Lamp chimneys can be cleaned by
rubbing with a clean, soft cloth and
polishing with a piece of newspaper.
The Baptist congregation is tnak-
ng rapid strides in the direction of
building a church and they should
meet the approval and help of all
citizens.
The Keegan Furniture Co. filled
out a twenty-four roomed hotel in
North Enid yesterday with brand new
furniture and carpets throughout.
It was a large order but the Keegan
company had the stock.
Notice.
(First published In the Wave Sept. 2!), 18117,)
To whom it may concern:
Notice Is hereby given that E N Perdlewltz
tiled on the 20th day of September
A. II. 18117 his petition for a license to re-
tail malt, spirituous and vinous liquors
in the city of North Enid Garfield County,
Oklahoma Territory, and that unless
objection to the same, as required by law, be
filed by the 9th day of Oct. A. D. 189'
said petition will be granted.
Enid, O. T. Sept, 29, 1897.
j As. A. Taogaht, County Clerk.
Notice for Publication.
i First published In the Wave Sept < 0, 189T.)
Land Office at Enid O. T., Sept. 23,189'
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler ha* filed notice of his inten-
tion to make final proof in support of his
claim and that said proof will be made be
fore Register and Kecelver U. 8. Land Office
at Enid, < i. T. on November 9, 1897, vis:
llABt, F. SOUTHWICK,
for the south west quarter section 35, township
23 n, Range 4 w.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultiva-
tion of, S ild land, viz:
C. O. Merrlott, A. H. Caldwell, Daniel
Schratilling. Thomas Cooper all of Garber,
O T.
• W. H. Anderson, Register.
PITHY PARAGRAPHS.
One touch of the milliner's fingers
makes the whole femine world akin.
When woman gets her rights she
will be man's equal instead of his
boss.
Great minds may run in the same
channel, but more frequently they
shoot different chutes.
Men frequently forsake love for
ambition, but they seldom give up
ambition for love.
If a man's uiind is a blank during
sleep it must be difficult for some
men ti- tell when they are awake.
A jealous person is always in love,
but it's ui'ially more self-love than
anything els< .
Passion makes a fool of a sensible
man, and occasionally it makes a
sensible man a fool.
Flattery is the art of making others
believe you are interested in them,
when in reality they give you that
tired feeling.
Nature has a roundabout way of
doing things. For instance, from
chickens we get eggs, and from eggs
we get chickens.—Chicago Evening
News.
Marriage Record.
Within the last week the fellowing
people have been licensed to form
matrimonial partnership: Mr. Clem-
ent A. Kennet to Miss Etta Hill, both
of thiscounty.
Mr. Albert DeFord to Miss Mary
Thompson, the former of Fannie and
the latter of Dane.
Nr. Fred J. Sutler to Mies Anna C.
Myers, both of North Enid.
Mr. Jacob J. Schmeat to Miss Mary
Schultz, both of Fairview.
The Wave wishes all these people
joy, prosperity, wealth and health,
but after the ceremony has been per-
formed in these cases we would be
glad to publish a full report if the
happy people will send them in.
Something About a Circus.
In Ringling's circus, the man who
plays the steam calliope is a remnant
of the steamboat days on the Mississ-
ippi river. In the good old times he
played a calliope on a big boat. He
has never been out of a job.
Every big circus carries with it a
full set of books and competent ac-
countants. They work harder than
the canvasmen, and get no more rest.
A circus has several depositories
for its money and immediately upon
its receipt it is checked up and sent
to the banks by draft.
Very few animals now seen with
circuses are wild. They were born in
this country and in many cases the
generation before thetn were born in
captivity.
The African elephant, which is dis-
covered by most people through its
large ears, is becoming a rarity and
no circus undertakes to carry more
than one.
Circus people have their social
grades and people who appear in the
ring together frequently are strang
ers on the street.
The employes of a circus are usual-
ly paid on Thursday. They are paid
in cash. Each man has a bantt of his
own somewhere and on pay-day the
local express, postoffice, and telej
gragh offices are crowded with circus
employes dispatching their money.
There is no particular choice
among trainers in riding in a cage
with wild beasts during the parade,
but the uneasiest man among them,
if any is uneasy is the fellow in the
panther cage.
Gambling on the part of the pro-
prietors is said to be the cause of the
dissolution and collapse of most of
the big circuses in the past.
FRED LUFT.
The leading Enid dealer in harness, collars, whips, saddles,
and everything in the saddler and harness making line,
at the very lowest prices for good stock.
Hand Made Harness a Specialty.
25
All hand work warranted. I invite your trade; try me.
FRED LUFT.
or Farm Loans
Fire. Gudone and Lite insurance,
Call on
J. D. MINTON,
Enid, O. T.
9-2
The InfamoaR Wool Schedule*
The senate computations ol Tne equiv>
dents for Dingley bill rate's on woolen
goods only need to be stated. They
make opposing argument unnecessary
in the mere reading. For example, tho
rate is 55 per cent, on second-class wool,
289 per cent, on garnetted waste, 328
per cent, on shoddy, 171 per cent, on
woolen cloths valued at not more than
60 cents per pound, 167 per ceuL. on
blankets more than three yards in
length and valued at not more than 50
cents p T pound, 212 per cent, on shawls
valued at not exceeding 40 cents per
pound, 151 per cent, on ltnit fabrics val"
tied at not exceeding 40 cents per pound,
257 per cent, on hats of wool valued at
not more than 30 cents per pound, 419
per cent, on felts of the sume value, 147
per cent, ou plushes valued at not over
40 cents per pound, and 64 per cent,
on the uggiegute of woolen carpets.
The people of the United States could
better afford to buy every sheep in the
country and to put every shepherd on
the pension list than to submit tliem-
nelws to such shameless plundering,
Philadelphia Record.
Butter and poultry are scarce in
the Enid market which has raised
the price of the former a notch or
two. This simply indicates the pros-
perity of the farmer. Previous to
this year the farmers of the Chero
kee strip were compelled to sell their
butter and chickens to secure ilou
bacon and other necessaries of life
eating bread smeared with sorghum
themselves. This year it is quite
different they are eating the butter
eggs and chickens themselves. The
big wheat crop has placed nearly all
of them in good comfortable circum
stances.
KLONDIKE BOOMERS.
R. C. Dickensheets and Squire Wor
rel are having numerous conventions
as a committee of two to devise ways
and means to reach the Klondike
gold region when the snow birds take
their flight again. They have agreed
on everything except the mode of
navigation up the Yukon iiver
The squire favors the formation of a
company of ten who will subscribe
$1,000 each. Provisions enough to do
wo years is to be taken along and
when the mouth of the Yukon
reached a boat is to be built out of
frozen sea moss or icc and then a
whale is to be bribed to tow the boat
up stream to where the gold can be
shoveled up and sacked. Dick think
the Squire's plan empractical for th
reason that the boomer who has a
thousand dollars will stay at home
then again when it comes to crawlin
up the Yukon he thinks the party
had better be provided with skates
and sleds; if there is no ice on the
river he thinks rubber necks filled
with air, something like a life pre-
servor, sufficent to keep the boomers
from sinking would be the thing for
safety in swimming up the river. In
this case each man would pull a small
canoe containing grub for two years.
It is thought that the Squire and
Dick will come to an agreement be-
fore the expidition winds its weary
way toward the gold haven leaving
Enid on the Klondike road leading
north west past the Presbyterian
church and through Kenwood to
Dawson City.
SUGAR TRUST PROFITS.
loUu De Witt Warner Mnken Some
KntlmnteM and Score* the 'Croat.
Ex-Congressman John De Witt W ar-
ner is one of the best posted men in this
Country on sugar tariffs. When in con-
gress he carried the house for free
sugar. In a recently published state-
ment he estimates the net protection
to the trust given by the Aldrieli sched-
ule at from 35 cents to $1.14 011 every
100 pounds of refined sugar.
Without attempting to give his argu-
ment as to each of the ways in which
the trust would be protected we give
his summary of trust profits as follows:
Specific differential (plus) |0 13® 0 4C
Thirty-five per cent, ad valorem
differential ® ^
Countervailing duty, say 0 08© 0 36
Additional by substitution of 7o
per cent, ad valorem for specific
duties in low grades 0
0 IS
Cap. Woracek showed us two pears
from his orchard yesterday that
were monsters. They wereabout live
inches in length and 9i inches in cir-
cumference and he said, "these are
the largest of coursc but I have plen-
ty others on the tree nearly as large."
Tell us that Oklahoma is not des-
tined to make a most wonderful fruit
country in the world.
Our big wheat crop will kill us all
yet. Now comes the Crap Shooter
Minstrels from away out on the Cow-
skin near Alva. They paraded the
streets to-day singing "Johnny get
your gun." Ours was out of repair or
we would have drawn a bead on the
troop, however, their music was good
and refreshing.
Church Meeting.
The members of the Baptist church
met Monday, September 27 for the
transaction of business. It was de-
termined by the church that the Sun-
day School be suspended until perma-
nent arrangements can be made as
we have no place to hold services.
Also a committee was appointed con-
sisting of Mrs. Cornelius, Mrs. Downey
W. M. Hackett, Dr. McKenzie and
the pastor, A. Lawrence, to secure
location and price of same and re-
port to the church which will con-
vene at Dr. McKenzie's Monday night.
All the members are especially re-
quested to be present.
A. La whence, Pastor.
Total $0 S5@U 14
In the vast majority of cases, however,
the actual result is between 45 and 60 cents
per 100 pounds net protection to the trust,
and It is Impracticable so to combine cir-
cumstances as to bring this belo-w 40 cents
or above 60 cents for any considerable
amount.
As an item of tariff taxation the
sugar schedule is ideal from the pro-
tectionist standpoint. Sugar is the one
article used by poor and rich to an
equal extent, and a tax on which there-
fore falls most heavily 011 the poor iD
proportion to their ability to pay it-
Its production and distribution are con-
trolled by a concern which is at or.ee
the greatest of our mean trusts and the
meanest of our great ones.
It is consistent therefore that on tills
one article there should be levied more
than one-third of our total tariff taxa-
tion, and that our people should be bur-
dened by a tax of more than $1)0,000,000
that realizes less than $70,000,000 for
the treasury and more than $20,000,(KM)
for the *ugar refining combine, while
the same combine is enabled to net
an additional $10,000,000 by the oppor-
tunity given to it to import at present
duty rates raw sugars from which it
can make refined to be sold by it under
the enhanced price assured it by the
proposed Aldrich schedule. The net
"protection" of from 45 to 60 cents pej
;100 pounds given the trust on its refin
ing process alone bliould be considered
as sufficient when we remember that
the labor cost of this process is slightly
less than 6% cents per lOOpounds—that
is to say. Senator AldricH, in behalf of
American labor, proposes unduly to tax
wage-earners in order to give the trust
from five to seven times as much "pro-
tection" as it pays for all the labor in-
volved.
Next to the wage-earner the farmer
is dear to the protectionist heart, and
he is therefore equally favored by the
sugar schedule. Of late yetu.« through-
out the eastern and middle and many of
the central states the competition of the
far west has driven our farmers from
grain raising into fruit culture. This
lias now so developed that except for
exports of canned goods—jams, pre-
serves, etc.—in which we ought to sup-
ply the world, the business of fruit rais-
ing has, in its turn, become almost
profitless. And poverty is now assured
to those who are dependent upon fruit
culture by the proposed tax of two
cents a pound on sugar. This increases
by from 50 to 75 per cent, the article
which would make up from 40 to 75
per cent, of the total weight of the jams,
etc., the export of which might insure
living prices for the surplus fruits, but
which is now practically prohibited.
And this is "a government of the
people, by the people and for the peo-
ple." -Who are the "people?"
BLAINE CFPOSED IT.
Siht the Ureat Ki>kl> of Tnklnir Hl<le«
OIT the Free I.Int.
The following letter, from Secretary
of State James (1. Blaine in 1890, is sup-
[Ktsed to have had great weight with the
ways and means committee:
Washington, April 10, 18W.
Dear Mr. McKIt Icy: it la a great mistake
to take hides from tho free list, where they
have been for so many years. It Is a slap
In the face to the South Americans, with
whom we are trying to enlarge our trade.
It will benefit the farmer by adding five
.0 eight per cent, to the price of his chil-
Sren's shoes. It wi 1 yield a profit to the
tiutcher only, the lust man that needs it.
The movement Is Injudicious from begin-
ning to end. In every form and phase,
pray stop it before It sees light. Such
movement.- ns this for protection will pro-
tect the republican party Into a speedy re-
tirement. Yours hastily,
JAMES G. IiLAlNE.
Hon. William McKlnley, Chairman Way>
and Met-ns.
Where, is the Iilaine this year who
can head off the westerners who want
their share of protection and foolishly
imagine that they can get it by a duty
on hides? It is perfectly consistent
with the protection system to tax hides,
especially as the bulk of the tax would
probably go to a few monopoly butcheTS
and ranchmen. But observe some of
the effects upon our industries:
The importations of untaxed hides
and skins last year were valued at $20,-
216,258. The goatskins were valued a)
$10,303,359. The former were mostly
converted into sole leather, beltings
and such like heavy material, for which
our native hides are not thick enough.
The goatskins are not produced in thii
country.
From this raw material we not only
manufacture boots, shoes and leather
goods for our ow n people cheaper and
better than are made elsewhere in the
world, but we exported finished prod-
ucts of the value of $20,242,750. With-
out free and cheap raw material thi|
export trade would have been lmpossK
ble, and our own |>eopIc, as Mr. Blain<
pointed out, would be compelled to pay
more for their footwear. The wagei
paid to our workers in leather last yeai
amounted to $25,542,166.
THE PROTECTION UMBRELLA.
Stolen.
One Bradley buggy, black with
blue stripe, nearly new, had shafts
when stolen, inch tire, had onenickle
plated burr off top brace on left side,
two buttons off back curtain, fast-
ened with baling wire in place, knot
out of spoke of front wheel, right
shaft cracked. Stolen from the un-
dersigned ten miles west of Newkirk,
O. T., on the night of Sept. 25. A
get of single harness stolen with the
buggy. Twenty-five dollars reward
for buggy and thief. Address,
H. M. CLOUOH,
Newkirk O. T.
«/«•
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An Odious Tax.
The tin plute makers wish to boon:
their business by increasing the duty
on imported tin plate, to the injury of
the canning industry and other in-
•lustries that flourish by reason
of cheap tin plate. Another blow
Is struck at business by abolishing
the rebate 011 exported tin cans. Now.
canned goods exported in cans made of
Intported tin are allowed a drawback of
the duty paid, and thus an export busi-
ness has been built up in canned fruite,
oysters, vegetables, petroleum, etc,
Over 4,000,000 tin cans are sent abroad
annually, containing oil which com-
petes with that of llussia. When Iluw
sia san buy tin plate at $2.70 a box,
while we have to pay $3.50 for it, it Je
evident that our competition will b*
rendered difficult. Mr. Dingley rob*
Prter to pay Paul.-—Baltimore Sun.
• Wut •( CanOdaaM.
Kama—Take this medicine now, lik.
a good boy. The doctor aay it will
w k« you better,
Johnny—What does he know? Didn't
ae raccinate ine twice and it
U f— Vuck.
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Isenberg, J. L. & Isenberg, Edna. The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 30, 1897, newspaper, September 30, 1897; Enid, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112032/m1/3/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.