The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 7, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 29, 1900 Page: 6 of 8
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FRHGHT CAR FAMINE.
Grain Buyers are Doing Absolutely
no Business. Elevators
Choked.
Wichita, Kas., Nov. 20.—The
worst freight car famine in the his
tory of southern Kansas and Oklaho-
ma is now on, and all grain buyers are
doing nothing.
The shipment of grain has been
stopped. Business is at a stai.dstill
in that !ine.
All elevators are filled and in many
towns in Oklahoma the wheat is being
piled on the ground.
Cars cannot be secured to handle
half the grain.
Said E. K. Nevllng, grain dealer,
today:
"We have never passed through
such a car famine as is now on.«
"For 40 days we have done practi-
cally nothing toward shipping. All
of our elevators are filled with wheat.
In smaller towns empty store
rooms are being filled with surplus
wheat, waiting shipment,"
Other grain men report the same
as to their condition. At Enid, King
fisher, and several other towns alonK
the Rock Island and Santa Pe routes
the wheat is being piled on the ground
near the elevators.
The railroad companies are unable
to furnish cars to ship 1 he grain east
NOT GUILTY,
1 he trial of Mrs. Hill, at Kingfisher
for the murder of Mr. Totnlin last
spring, is ended. It will be remem-
bered that Mrs. Hill was driving with
Mr. Tomlin from Stillwater to Wea-
therford. They camped by the way-
side ana after supper Mr. Tomlin be
came very iii and died in spasms.
Nearby farmers helped to bury the
body and Mrs. Hill continued on he-
way and later sold the team and
wagon. Suspicions re-ted upon he.
and the children of the dead man
had the remains taken uo and an in-
quest held revealing strong evidence
of death by poison. The jury found
the defendant not guilty. It seems
that an "invoice" of the contents of
of Mr. Tomlin's stomach did not de
velope any poison. The woman was
also tried for stealing Tomlin's team
and was found innocent.
SINGLE STATEHOOU
RELAPSE AND SLAPS.
The relapse and slaps a man gets
In America after being defeated for
the highest office in the gift of the
people is worse than the mortifica
tion of defeat. Ever since the elec
tl°n the greatest and most distin-
guished American commoner now
living, Col. W. J. Bryan, has been
bored with offers of situations to pose
on the stage, or in the editorial col-
umns of almost unKnown newspapers
and other positions that would natur-
ally be almost insulting to a man
loved by 7,000,000 American people
for the principles he teaches and the
honest earnestness and bravery he
has expressed. The little jerk water
republican newspapers of the country
have even gone so far as to recom-
mend that he buy forty acres of land,
adjoining his farm, and a mule and
go Into the chicken business. Al.
though defeated and humiliated the
Wave believes that W. J. Bryan is
really loved and highly respected by
more people in America than his suc-
cessful rival, William McKinley, but
he stood for the common people, the
poor people and the middle class peo-
ple, hence, the aristocracy and
wealthy people could not afford to
let him be president, hence, bought
the election of a man who will do
their bidding.
STATEHOOD CONVENTION.
Tke Wave will publish the offlcia
cali for the South McAlester state
hood convention tomorrow. We
notice that Garfield county is allowed
twenty delegates and a mass meetin,
is recommended for their selection
The Wave believes that a more sat
isfactory way would be to allow the
chairmen of the three County
Central Committees select the dele,
gates, Messrs. John Curran, Tom
Sandford and O D. Ilubbell. These
gentlemen would select good repre
sentativc men who would attend the
convention and the delegation would
be equalized politically, A mass
convention would be liable to select
a delegation of whom only about four
would attend and the rest would ped
die out proxies to Turn, Dick and
Harry. However, the Wave pre
sents this only as a suggestion.
COUNTY SEAT CRANKS.
The county seat town lot cranks
are again at work mapping out vari.
ous new counties in the territory.
Among others is a scheme to form a
new county out of portions of Gar-
field, Kingfisher, Logan and Noble, to
be called Marshall county, town of
Marshall as cou„ty seat. The Wave
is inalterably opposed to any or all
new county schemes. There is not a
county in the territory a bit too large
to tnaintain a good, healthy county
government. The members of the
incoming legislature should give new
county seat schemes a wide and awful
cold birth.
STATEHOOD.
Editors Admire and Havens are
cutting wide swaths in the political
atmosphere of Oklahoma '.n opposing
single statehood. Their opposition
is nearly all based on political rea.
sons, very little good reasons can be
found in theiratterances. The Wave
is not howling for any kind of state-
hood, yet we see many reasons why
our territory should become a state,
but entertain some grave doubts in
regard to its beii g a real good thing
for the people, owing to the increased
expenses and the wholesale extrava-
gance that will follow in the wake of
statehood. If we must have state
hood every citizens must agree that
the larger the state the better jor
the taxpayers. The larger the area
of the new state the more taxable
wealth.
It must be remembered that the
extreme western part of the present
territory of Oklahoma is an arid rea-
son scarcely settled. The Indian
territory is rich.in land and timber
and would be a wonderful assistance
in building up one of the most pros-
perous commonwealths in the United
States, States the size of the New
England states, outside of New York,
cannot be successfully maintained in
the west. If politics could be taken
from the statehood question there
would not be the least objection to a
union with the Indian territory in
establishing one of the best states in
the union inside of the lines of the
old original Indian Territory.
Oklahoma cast 73,852 votes for
delegate to congress last election.
Seems so that Oklahoma ought to
have naif as much right in the gov-
ernment as Delaware. Just give
Senator Havens a seat in the United
States Senate and we will be satisfied
for two or three weeks anvway.
1 he man who captured Jefferson
Davis is dead. Making eighteen
times in the aggregate that he has
died. This is a companion to the
item that goes the rounds every now
and then that the man who killed
Abraham Lincoln is still alive. How-
ever, Charley Boss has not been found
for ten years past.
A gentleman from Massachusetts
has been given the editorial manage-
ment of the Wichita Beacon, Judg-
ing from the way he is firing hot shell
at Jo!. W, J. Bryan, he is not liable
to be very popular with the Beacon
readers. He shows symptoms of
Cleveland and Don M. Dicucrson
half shell democracy.
The gruuiblini! over the uncertainty
of the Kiowa and Comanche country
in loud in this territorv.
Now comes the word with the bark
on, Teddy demands a seat in the
cabinet. He wants to lead In the
charge and shoot Mack in the back,
we presume. Well—let's see—Teddy
might be made a cabinet messenger
boy.
The jiiry In the trial of James Wei-
cher, for the killing of Col. John F.
Stone, at Kingfisher, agreed to die-
agiee and were discharges. The jury
stood nine for acquittal and three
for conviction.
BUFFS 1ELEPHONIO «MOO*.
m|,o£ Bichty Confriiitd tfc*.
"• M*rrUd Hli Daughter.
Just when Papa Huff, ot Atlanta.
a., was in a most wrathful spelL
Voufht on by th« news that EliaI
Deth, hla pretty \hter, had elop«a
with Edward Wilson t tid gone to Grlfr
an, a boy ran in saying, -Mr. Huff,
•omebody'is ringing like tx,ry for
on MoHeath's telephone." ThinUin*
It was a customer wl. wanted to orae#
lumber, Huff corked up hU rage un4
fcrcnt to the wire.
"Kellol" h« said; "I'm Luff. Wh«
Wsnta me?"
"ThU m E6>" said the fellow on th«
4ud of the wire eighty <nilo«
fcwp.y.
"Ed who?"
"Ed Wilson, and m married yom
Lizzie. Thought I'd let you liuow ov«
tee what y-iu nre going lo do about it t
,k the ^oP^ona glr!
thought Huff was going to drop. Thea
he began shock ing ugly words over th«
wire so fast that tho current couldn't
carry the... "Now. what have you
to say to that?" he wound up. "Laugfc
t' P ^.U^a.nd 1 hear M«ie 'nicker
Ha, too. Tills mollifled the old man
and in rather repentant tone*ho shouV
if .. Kddle> 1 reokon you an' hi*
Ma h«d batter ww Uct*a • th &rj*
Call for Delegate Convention at
South McAlester, I. T
To the people of Oklahoma and the
Indian Territories:
It is the judgment of a large pro-
portion of the people of the two ter-
ritories that the amalgamation of
the two territories into one state or
territory is inevitable.
The people of Oklahoma feel that
they are entitled to statehood now
That they have the necessary popu-
lation and wealth and ought to be ad-
mitted without delay,
The people of the Indian Territory
feel that they have the necessary
population and wealth to entitle
them to an organization of some kind,
and a representative at Washington,'
that the interests of the non-citizen
element may be cared for, and prep-
aration made for self government, in
view of the fact that the affairs of
the Indian governments are now un-
dergoing preparation for final settle,
ment and dissolution.
The reasons for invoking organized
government for the Indian Territory
are too numerous to mention. Okla-
homa has asked for statehood and
the Indian Territoryjfor territorial
government; and both baye been told
to wait; that altogether each has the
requisite population and wealth that
the area is too small.
The onward march of Oklahoma is
retarded by the disposition of sena-
tors and congressmen to wait for the
Indian Territory and then amalga-
mate the two into one grand state.
The people of the Indian Territory
are now ready. The combined popu-
lation of the two territories is 790,000;
their taxable wealth $95,000,000 which
is more people, and more wealth than
was possessed by any state when ad-
mitted into the federal union, and is
more wealth and more people than
several states of the union now pos-
sess. The number of children of
school age in the two territories is
greater than the population of one or
two siates now in the union. The
soil is rich, the climate is good, the
water is pure, the mineral is inex-
haustible, the people are industrious.
The people of the Indian Territory
want schools; they want laws; they
want roads and bridges; they want to
open mines and ^evelope industries;
they want that better civilization
with the treaties carried out in good
faith and every Indian citizen of the
five tribes made a citizen of the
United States.
Only those who favor single state-
hood should participate in the mass
meetings, or act as delegates or al-
ternates.
Hiere having been 73,352 votes cast
for delegate tojeongress at the elec-
tion he'd on Nov. 6, 1900, tho appor.
tionment for Oklahoma is based upon
one delegate for each 245 votes so
cast which gives to the counties the
following representatives.
The voters of each county of Okla-
homa are requested to meet in their
respective county seats on Monday,
December 3, 1900, at 2 o'clock p. m.,
to select said delegates and a like
number ot alternates.
Every county in Oklahoma is en.
titled to delegates as follows:
Beaver 2
Blaine g
Canadian 13
Cleveland J2
Custer. „ 9
Day
Dewey 6
Garfield 20
Grant
Greer
Kay 20
Kingfisher j(j
Lincoln 22
Wan 20
Noble
Oklahoma
New Lumber M
ONE BLOCK WEST OP
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We have just opened up for business with a new, clean,
bright stock of
Lumber, Sash, Doors.
Mouldings, Lime,
Cement,
Plastering material,
In fact everything usually kept in a hrst class, up-to-date
Lumber \ ard. We solicit a share of your trade and
Sucircintee Satisfaction in
jvcry instance.
Come and see us. Respectfully.
THE FRANTZ LUMBER CO
ENID, OKLA.
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Roger Mills
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Osage Reservation '.... 2
Kiowa and Comanche Reservation.. .2
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-DEALER IN
X-Ray Sulky and Gang Plows
Bunnies, Moons, etG.
Gov. Seay still thinks the whole of
this government is invested In the
opinions and capticesof the leaders
of his dear old republican party. Of
course the governor is too old to be-
come a commoner by changing his
vievs to tht interest of the common
people.
! W. E. Bolton, publisher of the
! Livestock Inspector at Woodward,
1 lias established an efflce in Kansas
j City, In the Livestock Exchange
building. Mrs. J<>*ie E. Reed will
have charge of this new branch
! olllce.
for
"^ Fred Luft.
On East Broadway, He Carries a Eull Line of
Harness. Saddles, Horse Blankets,
Lap Robes, Halters, Whips, Etc. Etc.
He makes all kinds of Harness to order on Quick Time
His stock is large, complete and at the bottom notch in
prices. Take a look ;it his immense stock.
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Isenberg, J. L. The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 7, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 29, 1900, newspaper, November 29, 1900; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112190/m1/6/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.