The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 5, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 11, 1898 Page: 4 of 8
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Ain't it about time for the yaping
corn doctor to sine good songi or
move alone to another town.
CARE Of THE POOR.
We imagine we see Tadpole
Thrasher taking up Jack Monroe's
••old track when he get'' to be sheriff.
A Citizen of Garber Refutes the jas-
sack Bray and Olouty P.
Moore's Lies Directed at
Commissioner Peters
the animal Balaam rode while we
listen with patience to a constant
but Hire discordant sound.
A POPI'LIST.
Look out for the blandishments of
the candidate and don't let him pinch
the baby.
It is said that the disembodied
spirit of a Kansas drugeist Is selling
booze in Pauls Valley. At leapt no
human agencies are visible when
you get your drink.—Free Press.
A fellow by the name of Limbunrer
from Oklahoma City was over in Ed-
mond the other day electioneering
for Sheriff. In introducing himself
everybody intutively grabbed their
noses shut.
TERRITORIAL COMMITTEE
MEETING.
Garber, O. T., Aug. 4. The Democratic Territorial Cen-
Editor Wavk:—As two .,f the Enid ' tra'- Committee ar.d a sub-committee
papers including lhe"EventB" are di - from the Populist Territorial Con-
cussing at length and taking excep- tra' committee, met in th'.s city to-
tions to Commissioner Pete'l because day to effect preliminaries for this
of his action in sending Mrs.Rennet to
the poor -farm, your corresoondent
would respectfully request space in
columns of the Wave to vindicate
his action in this affair.
Upon investiiration it will be learn-
ed that the old couple, Mr. and Mrs.
Bennett,alone and almost helpless
campaign, which will begin about
Sept. 1st.
•Jasper Sipes of Oklahoma City,
was elected chairman and Frank
Stevens of Waukomis, was made
permanent secretary and treasurer.
The Democrat appointed an execu-
tive committee, a joint committee
settled upon a with the Populists, and a fe-v minor
The county commissioners granted j
license to two of the new saloon. The
one that goes in the new Day block
on E street and the one that will open
tip behind the red front opposite the :
land office.
Kick Messall of Enid, dreamed the
other night that he had discovered
the combination by which he could
be elected treasurer of Gar6eld
county on tne republican tickct and
is now getting it in shaoe for busi-
ness.
In addressing some soldier boys
about to depart to the front a Mis-
souri 'orator!! remarked; "Boys,
when you go to Cuba be brave. If
you get shot and killed, why remem-
ber the Maine." He was forced to
his seat in a shower of applause.
The Shawnee city council passed
an ordinance regarding shows, and
placed the license at $150 per quar-
ter in advance for anyone wishing to
run a place of amusement. The Din-
ner Bell calls them ?. pack of chumps
and noone has refuted the statement.
The only republican paper of Pot-
towatomie county, the Shawnee
Quill, is advertised for sale under a
cruel mortgage for only $165. A re-
publican paper cannot live without
proof notices, county printing or a
postoffice. The poor Quill didn't
have any of those luxuries.
The prosperious city of Enid is
about to be offered another water
works proposition. The city needs
water works but the best way to get
at it would be to vote water w rk
bonds to the limit allowed by law
and put in works such as the money
will provide. This old fashioned
Kansas idea of giving the franchise
to a company and gradually paying
for the work owned by the company
through rent for fine plugs, is played
nut, or at least should be played out.
Bill Bolton never speaks of Tem-
ple Houston without tenderly calling
hiui "Senator," Colonel" or "Hon."
Bill should remember that It is about
four feet through his own corpu'.ancy
and that the new "mouser" ball
makes a big hole in going in and
a suiall hole in coming out which
gives the fellow getting shot all the
advantage in the world, hence, under
these improved methods of warfare
we think Bill could afford to risk
publishing it as simply Mr Temple
Houston occasionally.
Harry Gilstrap, who has been down
at Anadarko for awhile, says there
is little good land in the Kiowa and
Commanche country. Frank McMas
ler who has been all over the coun-
try savs it has no superior.—Guthrie
Free Frees.
Frank McMaster is accused of tell
ing too much truth, but in this in-
stance we think he has hit it about
right. Mr. Chairman!—'The Wave
moves that the report of Comrade
McMaster be accepted until we can
receive the report of a pop conven-
tion from that country.
Now, if the fusion ticket is a real
good one: if It is one the conservative
element can endorse it will be elected
hut if it is horn purely the child of
the cheap and drunken politician it
cannot win. The tricky politician
can sometimes work the Central
Committee and the convention but
he cannot work the people. Every-
body knows nearly everybody in Gar-
field county now days, hence, men
with clean characters and clear rec-
ords must be selected. In the early-
days most any old thing could pull
though If his party was dominant, be-
cause the people did not know him,
bjt now it i§ different.
with age and disease
claim four miles east of Garber at '■ comraittiees.
the opening, that they required help I* '3 their plan to leave the lepis-
from time to time and in addition to|'ative districts the same as tw#
continuous assistance from the neigh- j years ago. with a few alterations
ber , Grant township records show which will he made to give the Pup-
that they have received help fre- uusts a chance to control the council
quently as deserving poor. Also that j an(^ tne Democrats the house,
the Overseers of the Poor gave rdq- A plan was also effected t" place
uisitions on the county at an early t-.vo men on each county ticket to he
date and have continued to do so elected by the people as delegates
quite often since. I to a constitutional statehood conven-
On the 10th day of Ang'jst. tion to be held Nov. 15. It was left
Mrs. Bennett had a severe fall that ] to the discretion of the executive
dislocated a hip. So serious was the committee to annul this plan should
wrench given that the ligaments j it .-s thought liable to invalidate
that hold the socket in place are now i the tick t in any way.—El RenoStar.
supposed to have been severed be- —
cause the repeated efforts of avery! A GOOO SCHEME.
careful and reliable physician who! Comrjde Mcl];t,,crj u
time and again replaced the limb
DESIRES MORE SCENES.
Governor Barnes has received a
lari.'e number of photographs of
buildings, street scenes, -chools, col-
letes, general orchard scenes, etc.,
for u e wit ii his annual report to the
secretary of the interior, but he de-
sire- a nuniher ot crop and grain
scenes still.
Anj perron having a photograph
of a good wheat scene, a field or spec-
ial display of corn, a collection or
display of kaffir corn, a general col-
lection of fine grains, a good thresh-
ing scene, a collection or display of
fruits, an apple tree showing fruit,
a peach tree showing fine fruit, a
plum tree with fruit or a grape vine
showing erapes, extra large water
melons or any other products, will
confer a great favor and help pre-
sert tiie products of the territory in
their true light if they will forward
same to the governor at once. All
photos not used in the report will be
promptly returned to the senders.
GEN33AL03NER ORDERS.
student
;rees with
practical
out
to benefit the masses.
The Wave heartily a
Mac in the following
suggestions:
••We can elect the legislature.
That body should make every local
appointive office elective, "r destroy
the ffice. If we cannot elect audi-
tor, attorney, regent and the entire
official family created by the Okla-
homa statutes, we should fire them
fpitn ollicial existence and rejoice
over their hnrial.
BARNES BOODLE
The newspapers over the territory
are complaining of the fact that the
apportionment of the territorial
school fund for six months ending
June 30th, as made by the auditor,
is about fifty per cent less than it
has ever oeen before. They also
claim that the school lands pay
a higher rental than ever before,
and they think Governor Barnes and
his administration will have a hard
road to travel explaining this mat-
ter to the people.—Leader.
Spain wants our peace terms made
more definite. If they are not
definite enough, call bark your peace
overtures and send Camara's squad-
ron over to bring us t"o terms.—K. C.
Times.
of politics: he dont only talk politics,
binding it firmly and placing the suf- but he -H constantlv studying politics
ferer in a swing suspended from o/er- j and search,nc out ways and raeans
head proved to he utterly futile as I
the least move after a long period
would invariably throw it out of
place again.
All these months and during all
these operations the poor old woman
has been suffering untold agony. The
attending phvsician unable to collect
any fee and to secure that assistance
necessary to perform a surgical oper-
ation on the poor old victim of mis-
fortune whose wasted form needed
building up by good strengthening
foods and careful attendance so her
system could stand the shock of such
an operation, gave the case up in
despair and to compensate himself
for his tabors he secured a least- for
four years and broke out some raw
prairie, the only broken land worth
mentioning on the Bennett claim.
We profess to he a Christian na
tion and properly have fraternal tears
to shed because a Spanish admiral
saved some of our brave boys from
unnecessary suffering but here in our
very midst the expediency is ques-
tioned by some cold-blooded, avaric-
ious creatures of almost human shape
of not permitting a poor crippled old
woman to be neglected for months
and years because they are poor and
in obscurity and unable to secure
proper food and the necessary skill of
a surgeon who will be required, if
relief is ever given, to cut into the
hii>, clean out the socket of calloused
matter, replace and bind the joint
with artificial cords u ntil nature
properly heals up the wound.
Instead of Peters hunting up the
case as represented, Mr. Hurne, trus-
tee of Grant township called at the
home of Mr. Peters and request ed
that he Investigate the case and if
possible secure for her proper and hu-
mane treatment. A careful investi-
gation by this official showed that the
Bennetts had a little property of no
great value, a plug team, a cow, two
hogs sotne chickens and old
traps about the dugout on their
claim the value of which would be no
more than required to pay for a cou-
ple of visits by a physician or two
from Enid when both old people would
be utterly helpless and a continuous
public charge, also Dr. Kelso is paid
$325 per year to attend to just such
cases. The contract permits him to
collect f join all he can, hence, he re-
quires all to take the pauper's oath
but his collections do not lessen the
amount the county pays to hiui under
the contract.
Two years of intense suffering in-
termitted by periods of excruciating
pain and 110 relief. Has she "fallen
among thrives?" Shall we' pass by
on the other slde?:' Or shall Chris-
tian and humane people approve of
the act of Commissioner Peters, who
had the old sufferer gathered up, as-
sisted by the Ladles Christian Aid
Society of Garber and sent properly
clothed to the county poor farm where
be cared for and if possible healed?
Shall we through our officials try
as nea rly as possible to emulate the I
Saviour, of the World who lifted poor |
suffering humauity from the ditch
and pronounced it of more value than
all material wealth or shall we exhib-
it no more humane intelligence than
Foul-Smelling
Catarrh.
Catarrh is one of the most obstinate
diseases. ,-ind hence the most difficult
to get rid of.
There is but one way to cure it.
The disease is in the blood, and all the
sprays, washes and inhaling mixtures
in the world can have no permanent
effect whatever upon it. Swift's Spe-
cific cures Catarrh permanently, for it is
the only remedy which can reach the
disease and force it from the blood.
Mr B. P. McAllister, of Harrodsburg,
Ky., had Catarrh for years. He writes:
•"l ooulfl nee no improvement whatever,
though I wan constantly treated -with spr >-
«nd washes, and differ-
ent Inhaling remedies-
ln fact, t could feel that
each winter I vaavorH
than the year previous.
"Finally it wai
brought to my no ti o«
that Catarrh was a Wood
disease, and after think-
ing over the matter, I
saw it was unreasonable
to expect to be cured by
remedies which only
reached the surface. I
... then decided to try
KI and after a few bottles were used, I no-
ticed a perceptible Improvement. Continuing
the l >medy, the dls> ue win forowl nut of my
system, and a complete oure was the result.
I advise nil who have this dreadful disease to
Sbandon their local treatraen t, which hasnevoi
one them any good, and take 8. 8. 8., a rem-
edy that eao reaeh the disease and cure It."
To continue the wrong treatment for
Catarrh is to continue to suffer. Swift's
Specific is a real blood remedy, and
cures obstinate, deep-seated diseases,
which other remedies have no effect
whatever upon It promptly reaches
i Catarrh, ana never faus to cure even the
most aggravated cases
S.S.S& Blood
is Purely Vegetable, and is the only
blood remedy guaranteed to contain no
d«ngerous minerals.
"Books mailed free by Swift SpoeLflo
Company, Atlanta, Georgia.
HOW ABOUT THIS?
A large number of people gathered
at the bicycle track Monday evening
just before dark to witness a race be-
tween Alfred McAtee, and a young
man from Enid by the name of Cun-
ningham. The two young men put up
$20 each and made the race for the
money. Mr. McAtee's wheel was a
common roadster and Mr. Cunning-
ham had an excellent racer but just
the same the race was easily wjn by
Alfred. He is probably one of the
best wheelman in the territory and
no doubt Alfred feels proud of the
distinction. The people here felt
sure of his ability to win and were
ready to put up any amount of money
on the race.—Pond Creek News.
The Discharge ofCap. Whitworth and
OrJcrs the Election of Offi-
cers for Company K.
Adjutant Genera! Bert C. Orner to-
day issued special order No. 37, which
accepts the resignations and honors l>
ly discharges all members of the Okla-
homa national guards enlisting in
Oklahoma volunteers. ItfurtKris-
sued an unqualified discharge to Cap-
tain William Whitworth and dishon-
orably discharges Otto BolhotT and
Ed Wright of the Guthrie comnany,
for desertion. The latter skipped
out with their uniforms on failing to
stand the examination for the Rough
Riders. Bolboff joined the Third
Regiment at Kansas City and went to
Cuba and Ed Wright when last heard
of was following the Oklahoma boys
to Tampa, Fla.
Further orders were issued ordering
the election of a captain and first
lieutenant for the Enid company, to
fill the vacancies made by the resig-
nations of Captain Gordon Finley and
First Lieutenant Perl M. Randall.—
Guthrie Free Press.
GIVE 'EM HELL.
The Guthrie Capital is very bitter
against democratic and populist offi-
cials. It deserves to be. At the
last session of the county commis-
sioners of Woodward county the
Capital presented bills amounting to
$494, 07 the board reduced them to
$250.99. One claim of $81.80 was re-
duce! to $26.
The Capital has grown very rich
because the republican rulers of
this territory have paid its bills
without cutting them down.—Mc-
Masters.
A COMMON TRAGEDY.
Refering to the shooting of a four-
teen vear old girl at Cedar Rapids,
In., by her lover some time ago, the
! Hockford Register truthfully says:
j "It is a common enough tragedy,
! being duplicated somewhere in this
progressive country of ours every
I day. Such things ought not to he.
The parents of such girls are wholly
| responsible. These little fools
should no more be allowed to run
around nights with a fellow than
lambs be left at night for the wolves
to get. What does little half de-
veloped women—a girl of fourteen—
want with a fellow? You see them
every day everywhere, by day, by-
night running around steeped in love
sickness before the last tuck in
their dresses is let down, and yet we
Itt them run and gad around and
pick up the first worthless stick of a
man they come across to be divorced,
deserted, or to fight woman's hope-
less battle with maternity and
poverty, or to be betrayed and de-
Iserted, or to be killed as was this
girl at Cedar Rapids or the one at
I New Hampton.
Oklahoma is looked upon as a fac-
tor in the markets of the world. It
is only in political circles that it is
rated as a dependency to be ruled
by chumps and scoundrels.—McMas-
ter.
Professor Victor Mtirdock, the
blondined paragrapher of the Wichi-
ta Eagle, has suddenly bounded into
prominence as the author of the
"Curley Kirk" soldier letter from the
front. "Curley Kirk" is a creature
of Victor's mind, but the letter was a
corker making all the women in Kan-
sas laugh and cry in turns. Vic
knows how the war should be "fit"
through, but he lacks time to go to
war and so strategizes the thing
through
The only living souveneir of the
Oklahoma townsite board law with
headquarters in Guthrie are in Perry
now to allow the town lot holders
of west, north-west, north-east,
north Perry and the Linn additions
all of Perry to prove up. This job
will about consume all their time un-
til their usefulness ends by act of
congress the first of next lanuary.
Jonesville will be handled by the
land commissioners at Washington.
Col. Dick Morgan, the republican
candidate for congress from Perry,
was in the city yesterday looking
over the republican situation here.
To a Wave reporter he said: "I find
that my friend Col. Havens desires
the delegation from this county fa-
vorable to his nomination and that
Captain Garber holds a fair hand, so
between the two I think I am not in
it here." Guess Dick was right.
GONE GLIMMERING.
Guthrie, Aug. 3rd. Governor
Barnes left yesterday afternoon for
Omaha, where he will inspect the
Oklahoma exhibit and arrange for
the observance of "Oklahoma Day,"
for which September 16 has been
designated by the exposition officials.
The governor on that occasion will
be accompanied by his military staff
and an unusually low rate will be
made by the railroads to permit of
a large attendance from the terri-
tory.
Dennis Flynn says the free homes
bill depends on the election of
republican delegate to congress
which goes to prove that the repub-
lican party is in the habit of defeat-
ing meritorious legislation just be-
cause the man. presenting the meas-
ure is not branded republican. Such a
policy should and will defeat the
strongest party on earth.
If McKitiley would telegraph Sa-
gasta that the United States ac-
knowledges that Spain had thrashed
it, the peace terms would be quickly
accepted and two or three islands
thrown in for good measure. It is
the thought of having to acknow-
ledge defeat that hurts Spain,—K.
C. Times.
A. I. Acres of Noble county, is a
candidate for county weigher on the
republican ticket. It's natural to
suppose that there's lots in him.
SCHOOL LAND LEASERS.
The territorial board for leasing
school lands will receive bids on or
before August 20th for leasing
vacant lands and all parcels on
which present le ise^ expire October
1st 1898 and January 1, 1899. All
applications must be for three
years from January 1st 1899- All
notes must be made payable Oct. 1st
each year for deferred payments.
No bids will be considered prior to
Aug. 20th at less than the appraised
prices.
MAIL CONTRACTORS HOGS.
The mail contractor was unable to
secure carriersbetweenWaukomis and
Isabella, and from Walthall to Lyons
for four years. It is right thai, he
shouldn't. The government allows
the contractor a good margin to
work on but they are all hogs and
won't pay anything but starvation
wages to carriers. It is a system of
robbery that should be remedied.—
Guthrie Free Press.
John A. Foreman, Thomas Jensen
and "Uncle Jimmy" Thompson en-
tered three hundred acres of the
present site of El Reno under the
townsite law, about eighteen years
ago, and paid the government $300
for the land. The property was
afterwards declared a government
townsite, subject to free entry by
all persons. Suit was brought to
recover the money and notice was
received lately that it would be
paid. During the tedious litigation
that has ensued Thompson died in
poverty.—Beacon.
The deep grief in France over Bis-
marck's death will give Shafter an
idea of how he will be mourned in
Spain when de dies.—Eagle.
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