The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 24, 1902 Page: 7 of 8
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A girl in town has a friend that
tells such long-winded stories that
they make one tired almost to the
limit of endurance." The girl ran
across directions in the Ladies' Home
Journal how to cut a story short, and
she wants to cut it out and send the
article to the woman for her guid-
ance.
Our republican citizenship were
kind enough to assist in the inter-
taiument of the city's democratic
guests. The convention promises to
be one that will ring down the lines
of the history of Oklahoma in tones
memoriable. It now looks as if the
convention would not adjourn until
the sun sets on the toming Saturday
The cool morning breezes today
were cut with the music of four ex-
celent bands and the unterrifled demo-
cracy was soon astir for the battle of
the day. Delegations after delega-
tions marched to the opera house at
the hour of 10 a.m. The city presened
a fourth of July appearance; bunting
and flags were numerous especially on
Broadwa y.
Fred V. Wiatt formerly of the U.
S. Army in the Philippines arrived
from Los Angeles. Cal., Sunday night
and is now living with his mother,
Mrs. J. E. Brock on Independence
avenue. Mr. Wiatt served three years
in the Philippines and received only
one slight wound, a gun shot in the
right leg. He likes the climate and
other conditions in the Philippines,
but he has had enough of army life
and is glad to get back home where
he can get some of mothers cooking
Attention Gentlemen.
THE COUNTY CONVENTION.
The democratic county convention
of Saturday was a very deliberate
body and harmoirious to a degree.
The convention fit and fought over
rules established and unestablished
and wound up by recognizing the old
gang of ward and township heelers.
The convention stood on top of a hill
and coold not escape the old line
grafters and heelers of the party who
stand as a barrier against the con-
servative and respectable element of
the party in this county.
Judge John Curran was made the
favorite son of the convention as our
candidate for congress, but the graft-
ers whose votes arc for sale failed to
accord him the usual privileges of a
favorite son.
The unit rule was killed for graft-
ing purposes and the.WAVE can say
truthfully that all other rules were
killed that have been adopted by
democratic conventions since the or-
ganization of the party over 100
years ago.
Forty-four delegates were selected
giving each delegate a half vote for
the pnrpose of giving places to a
whole lot of fellows who could not
>tand a successful exmaination as to
their fitness for the position of road
overseer.
Of course there are a whole lot of
good representative democrats on the
delegation,but the sharks and healers
are in the majority, therefore the
Wave will not grant the delegation
a bit of advertising through the pub-
lication of their names. Owing to
the meeting of the represetative de-
mocracy of the territory in this city
tomorrow the Wave will switch this
ubject, only to take it up as a vital j
democratic local affair in the near j
future.
The Wave desires to call the at-
tention of our visiting Oklahoman's
to the rapid growth of this city. Do
not leave until the commercial clul
in connection with the Mayor has an
opportunity to show you this growing
city. The city of Enid now covers
nearly 1,600 acres and contains a
school cencus of over 1,600, which in-
dicates a population of over 8,000 pr:.
pie. There is not a soul, there is not
family within the bounds of our city
limits under the care of the county
or city. The Wvae could point to
numerous old time citizens of Enid
who come here almost naked
who are now worth from $20,000 to
$75,000.
These people staid with a plausable
proposition in the importance of the
town; they had faith in it; they in
vested their earning in it; they made
it what it is—the second commecial
city of the territory; we gracefully
give Oklahoma City the first place in
commercial importance, but the time
is coming when Oklahoma City
will have to guard her interests well
to defeat Enid in the line of com-
mercial importance. No unfortu-
nate circumstances can prevent this
city from securing three if not four
railroad lines. Enid has a popula-
tion of 250 of the most enthusiastic
business men any town was ever
blessed with. They have become at-
tached to tUeir homes to the town and
when theii /dollars are necessary for
the legitimate upbuilding of the
town there is not^a laggard among
them. Of course this article is not
written for the purpose of inducing
any of the delegates to the demo-
cratic convention to invest here
but simply to call the attention of <i
body of intellectual men to the push,
progress and enterprise of one of the
best and most liberal cities of our
beloved province,the territory of Ok-
lahoma.
CLOUTY THE GUN TOTER.
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C. B. Co&les SSL Co.,
Implement & Hardware Dealers
No. QOI, 903 East Broadway.
We are agents for the celebrated Deering binders. Headers, Mowers, and combined
12 foot machine, Deering twine and every implement of Deering manufacture.
John Deere Listers. Corn Cultivators,
Sulky and Gang Plows,
We sell the Russell Threashing machines and Parson Feeders, the best and most
durable machines on the market.
S> Terms Easy and Prices Low S
We carry an excellent line of
John Deere Rubber Tired Buggies. Surries
and Runabouts.
Stronger than the strongest wheels on the market today at the most reasonable price
John Deere's best Guarantee with each rig.
"We carry a full line of Builders and General
Hardware of the very Latest Pattern;
Barb Wire. etc.
We handle the very best Windmills in the market. Remember our location
Corne r of Broadway and 9th Street, C. B. Cowles & Co.
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Skinfisher is Proper.
The town of Skinfisher is believed
generally to have been named after
the kingfisher bird. "This is not
true, however," said JamesMcConnell
assistant territorial secretary. "I
am told that old Kingfisher stage
station was named after a. ranchei,
King Fisher, who lived there in the
early days. 'Pat' Nagh is the only
„an I know who writes the name of
the town correctly, "King Fisher."
Now wouldn't that maUe you cough?
Pat Nagh is always doing something
mysterious. On the birth day of this
prosperous city September 16, 1893,
the Kingfisher people rusned in with
the horse race and captured the ma-
jority of the valuable lots, they hav-
ing had a pointer as to the plat of
the town All new comers went
around enquiring wtio owns this or
that lot, tjie answerer was invari-
able; "a gentleman from Skinfisher."
Ever since' those early days the town
has been called Skinfisher by the old
timers. _________
TWO MORE JUDGES.
Hurrah!
Vernon W. Whiting has purchased
all of the Anheuser-Busch building's
to be moved from the present lo-
cation to make room for the new
buildings and is to move them by the
1st of May. This assures $50,000 in
in new buildings for Enid.
Hagan Tops the Market.
The following letter received yes-
terday by H. H. Hagan of (lUthrie,
from Kansas City is in itself fully
explanatory:
Stock Yards, Kansas City, Mo.,
April 17, 1902.
H. H. Hagan, Guthrie, O. T.
Dear Sir: If you will contract your
cattle at $6.25 to go from the 1st to
the 20th of May, weighed an home, I
will bring one of our packers down
there and try to buy your cattle. |
Yours truly, 1
H. Hopkins.
YOUNG MARRIED MAN.
Missing From Pond Creek and Friends
are Anxious.
: \ i i o .millinkhv.
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m 1 )ns wants re-
u s 1 it navy pro-
U;, ,..,..>..,11 w Irish puzzle,
millinery.
The Flynn bill, providing two more
associate" judges of the supreme court
of Oklahoma passed the house of
representatives. The bill raises the
salaries of the judges from $3,000 to
$4,000 per annum. It also provides
tor the appointment of Oklahoma
men; must hare lived in the territory
for at least one year. This bill will
certainly become a law and every
patch of timber in the province will
produce a candidate or two and every
road will become dusty from the
tramp, tramp of the aspirants as
they travel around hunting pull and
influence.
Skinfisher confidently expects to
fill these vacancies. The successful
candidates will probably be Judge
Jake Roberts, Aunty Brownlee and
Emory Brownlee.
Yesterday afternoon eugenepmore
pulled ix gun on Saui Dumont, the
proprietor of the Grand Avenue hotel
but he didn't I shoot. It seems that
Clouty was overcome with a Ju ge
McAtee spasm in front of the Grant
Avenue and was indulging in language
not fit for the ears of the guests of
, he hotel and Mr. Dumont, who is a
peaceful citizvn, called him down and
H doing so intimated chat he, Clouty,
was not near as good as the people he
was talking about. Clouty whipped a
great big dangerous looking weapon
from his pea-nut pocket and pre-
sented it so that Mr. Dumont could
look right down into the barrel there-
of The police took the maddened
creature in. He plead guilty and was
fined, but the Wave is informed that
the trouble is not near all over The
authorities of the city should not
have any mercy for the gun i> t
they should be punished severely
wheync:u,ght, regardless of whom the
.1 i There was a I soluttly no
excuse for the gun play of yesterday.
An Error Corrected.
A number of the papers in this, the
5th, Judicial district are saying that
as McAtee has resigned all of the
U. S. commissioners appoined by him
lost their jobs as soon as he handed in
his resignation and that any and all
acts done by them after McAtee re-
signed are illegal. Keep your shirts
on boys, don't be foolish. The fact
and the law is that all the said com
missioners are at least officers de
facto, and all acts they perform uu-
til they are removed are legal and
binding. If any of you are pulled up
before them for a violation of the U.
S. law do not go on the thc ry that
they havn't jurisdiction. The state-
ment going the rounds to the con-
trary is misleading, untrue, and is
liable to cause some poor fellow con-
siderable trouble.—Jett News.
Big Head Sign.
Boys with hats oft the back of their
heads and long hair hanging down
their forheads, and cigarettes and
smuty stories in their mouths are
cheaper than old worn out horses.
Nobody wants them at any price.
Men will not employ them and girls
will not marry them. They are not
worth their keeping to anybody and
they will not keep themselves. If
any boy who happens to read this
answers to this description let him
take a-look at himself and 'do what
his conscience says is the best thing
to do
A little girl in school was asked
what a famine was, or, rather, the
class was asked, and one little girl's
eyes brightened with evidence that
she knew. The teacher asked her to
define a famine and she said: "A
famine is a man and his wife and a
lot of little children.V If that is not
enough to create a famine we do not
know what would be.
The Pont Creek Vidette prints the
following:
Several weeks ago Fred Jackson, a
brother-in-law of Frank Stevenson,
of Nashville, departed for Illinois to
visit relatives. He left there for
home two weeks ago, according to a
letter received from him, but as yet
has not arrived here. His relativesare
considerably worried and have spent
much money in telegraphing. I hey
thought perhaps he may have met
with foul play. The young man, who
is married, has lately been located in
a small Iowa town. George Jack-
son will leave tonight for that place
to see what is wrong with his brother
that he does not return home to the
bosom of his family.
\TaMilu;lon'> Fmtldlona Kln..n«i
Lawrence, earl of Ferrers, a distant
relative of George Washington, had 8
most tyrannical temper, and one day in
a fit ol passion he cut down with hi",
sword his steward, an old gentleman
named Johnson. The latter had given
no provocation for ihe deed, and the j
crime was an act of brutality inexcusa j
ble save that the earl may not hav^
been well balanced mentally. He wai
brought to trial for killing Johnson an?
demanded jnd received the privilege 0!
being tried by his p^crs.
The house of lordtf was throned dur-
ing the hearing. The evidence provetf
to be conclusive, anl Ferrers was sen-
tenced to be hanged at Tyburn. Ap-
peals were made to tue king for clem-
cncy, but In vain. Ferrers met his fate
with considerable bravado. He was
carefully attired for the occasion and m-
•lfted on providing a silken cord for the
ceremony To this whim the execution-
er agreed, and the ''9*1 was turned oft
otherwise like any other felon.
Some young men were in town and
a girl tried to detain them by calling
them up on the telephone. She kept
talking till after train time, and if
the train had been on time they
would have missed it. Now say that
this town has no smart girls.
PARKER'S
HAIR BAI.SANI
Clean..'. «nd bc.utlflM
Nwer" Fail*. > i.
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After all what does life's work
amount to? It is said that an Atchi-
son woman who had fought all her
life against the practice of letting
voung girls receive boys without a
chaperone died recently, and a young
woman and a young man sat up with
the corpse and sparked all night.
A couple of grown up, supposedly,
sane men nearly had a row the other
day. about a meaalj', mongrel dog
that was not worth the powder to
j shoot him. It doesn t take much
1 excuse to make same men want to
I quarrel.
Who is the home merchant? He is
the man who helps pay for the street
upon which you walk; the schools in
which your children or perhaps you
are educated; he helps you keep up
the church in which you worship; he
is the man who builds a house which
adds to the value of your property; j
every subscription paper passed has
his name on it; he is the very one
who cannot afford to swindle you,
while the out of town dealer may; he-
bears the burden of good government
and pays local taxes or perhaps rent;
is a constant patron of the home,
stays with you in adversity and pros-
ne'ity.—Ex.
Horace HTSagan, and Judge Brook
came in Saturday from Guthrie.
They are red hot numbers for !'<• A.
1 P. Jones.
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lief from ..
grammes ti:. >.
it can sit ou laii
It is the ^manuarlan League tha.
has provided the House with the oppor-
tunity for this plei-sant interlude. The
league has drawn up a measure called
the "Sale and Use of Feathers as Mil-
linery bill."
The following is the proposed enact-
ment: "Any person who after the
commencement of this act shall wear,
or 6hall have in possession for the pur-
pose of wearing, whether separately or
attached to any nat, bonnet, or other
article of dress, any part of the plumage,
skin, or body of aay bird named in tha
schedule appended to this Act, or shal'
offer for sale, whether separately or at'
tached to any such article of dress ail
afortsai'l, any part of such plumage,
skin, or body, shal! be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, aud may cn conviction by a
court of summary jurisdiction be fined
in any Bi rn not exceeding £5.
"On every such occasion the skin,
body, cr plumage of such bird found to
be in the possession of the person thus
convicted, and any article of dress to
which the same may be attached, shall
be confiscated to tae crown, and the
costs of the prosecution shall be borne
by the person thus convicted."
The following is the schedule attached
to the li'.l: "Bgret, or female white
heron (whose plumage is known as an
ospreyj. bird ot paradise, humming bird.
Imppya'i pheasant, :ern, 1; ttiwake, king-
j fisher." ,
The bill opens up a terrible vista for
the jtollrv man. May he seize the offend-
, in- hats in the strjet? His kind atten-
! Hon to the impeneaable barriers of the
matinee hat 'vould be appreciated
i.apy quarters.—London Daily Mail.
So the World.
Madse—I had a most diiightful time
kt the piano recital this afternoon.
Marjorie— How lucky you are to have
I lather who can give you money all th«
lime for tickets. The overture mus'
have been beautiful.
Madge—I don't quite recollect, but
Ihe pianist's hair was just lovely. He
hiust spend more '.ime on It than on hl«
practicing.
Marjorie—How was the sonata?
! Madge—I guess that was all right, bu;
I was in dreamland all the time, for I
knew mine was the prettiest gown in the
to'holo audience.
Marjorie—Do you honestly think, my
Hear, that you derived any real benefit
Irom the recital?
Madge—I'm sure of it, love. All the
music in my nature seemed to ha
aroused by the young artist's skillful
jenditlon, and the moment I arrived
homo I sat down to my piano and play-
td a whole lot of those lovely rag-tlmi;
coon melodies.—'The Smart Set.
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Isenberg, J. L. The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 24, 1902, newspaper, April 24, 1902; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112128/m1/7/?rotate=270: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.