The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 13, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 14, 1906 Page: 3 of 8
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THE WATER WORKS
MUDDLE EXPLAINED
AND MADE CLEAR.
I lie Mayor And Council Kight And
Should Be Supported By Tin
People.
• In runn'nsj very eco-oml- jp V]y J||jj
. s C. ■< engine. No Indeed—be | I
Slid in la! Tard
JRUINANCE N l 40!.
The contract for the Olds Gas En-
Kine system of Water works w;s
signed, staled and delivered during
the latter days of Major Linden's
adaiini-tration an1 *b "e has been
two changes in the membership of
the council since Linden retired in
the spring of 1905. The Olds tieople
have been over one year constructing
the wi rks. Of course the city was
not ready fur several months for the
construction of the works, but the
company had this time to make the
machinery at their factory in Lans-
ing Michigan. The work has drag-
ed along u« il the city council were
urged by the people to d > some-
thing.
At the meeting of the council that
voted the Olds people' contract,
there a ppe ired an agent ol the Olds
Gas Po ver Co , who pictured a won
derfu economical gas power for
pumping p irposes that would save
over hair the expense necessary tip
operate st< am pumps besides.the plant
could be put in much cheaper and do
the same work as steam pumps. The
council not being engineers or me-
chanics listened attentively to the
lengthy speech of the agent and se -
ing a saving to the city, they adopted
the gas engine system to be con-
structed under a stro.ig contract and
guarantee bonds that woJld hold tne
company responsib e fur tbe satis-
factory running of the works for ttve
years, the contract was entered Into
but the company did not put up the
guarantee bond and have refused to
do so to this day.
As the machinery wasslowly placed
in position in the little shack brick
power house erected by the com
pany, new features adding to the
running expense were discovered. It
was found that considerable water,
a? much as would naturally flow
through a two inch pipe, would be re
quired to keep the gas engines cool
and purify the gas which would cut
into the water supply heavily. This
expense to the water supply at least
was not mentioned by the oritorical
jem, the agent. Itjwas next discov-
ered that the works would have to be
connected with the city sewer sys-
tem to carry off the gas impregnated
filthy water so that it would not ruin
the water in the wells. The latteral
sewer was laid at a great expenstf,
but the fast and smooth talking agent
did not inform tbe city council as to
this expensive feature of the great
and economical gas power works.
About the time the works were
declared ready for testing the Com-
pany come to the city council with a
proposition to furnish the works with
a little side gas engine and a coal
elevator and a few other attachments
for wjiich they wanted $1,000. The
slick talking agent had not mention-
ed these little extras in his speech,
but instead said that everything nec
essary to make the work complete
would be furnished the city for a sum
of money, then and their stated. He
didn't even speak of these extra ex-
penses necessary to make the work
a howling economical success.
The council very properly sat down
on the $1,000 extra, believing that the
little engine and little elevator was
covered by that part of tbe contract
which said "everything necessary to
make the works complete."
After the work was started for the
purpose of testing the same, it was
soon found that the air compressor
did not have power enough to throw
more than one good stream of water
out of one well, not to speak of the
three others and in time eight wells
Tbe council very properly called the
compressor a failure.
Aboutthls time the city govern-
ment discovered that it would require
the service of about three men ia the
power house all the time While
steam pumps would hayfc only requir-
ed the service of one, under erdinary
every day circumstances.
The oily tongued agent whose ar-
ticulation was geared to gas didn't
tell the council about this extra ex
nsr
I O
ver inentii'ii°d it.
.vf a tbe infant air compressor
■was condemned tbe Olds people pack-
t d up their tools, locked the doors of j
tue little power house, with tbe Mis- j
souri barn r"of, and hiked away: to
make a larger compressor, they said.
Time rolled on; silence reigned su-
preme out at tbe water works out
s.de of a littl ■ tetter writing t i the
cltv clerk nothing was doing.
accumulated I Rcnnins in Hands of County Under
Two or
Found.
K
litres liuu Shut Wounfs
Probably Hit by bill
issr;1 feW"rnri?r'twmro?iiiiinn wrwwwwuwwwmfwwwuws
iheriff Campbell and Burwell
f'ne council bavin
a few new members who kept pushing
fur the finishing of the works, a
resolution passed by the council giv.
ing tbe company thirty days to lOm-
plete the work. Tbe thirty days
passed with nothing doing. The
couuc.l then declared the contract
null and void and notified the com-
pany to remove their machinery from
tbe ground
These or lers woke up the company
and they came on with a new com-
pressor and three men and they pro-
posed to begin work once more, but
tbe city government was weary and
iheysaid no; we doa't want your
works, and they stood pat on the orig'
inal order to vacate.
The company tried to spring a new
cootract, through which another ex-
pense was developed. The company
now says that the works must be con-
nected with the city gas mains so
that the engines can be run while the
gas generator can be cleaned out
evety now and then and that tbe city
would have to bear this expense.
It was remembered distinctly that
the agent who indulged in tbe hi^h
ti ghts of oratory, under gas pressure
had not said anything about this
extra gas pipe expense when he was
telling of the gr iat economy in the
running expense of the gas engines.
taker. A Brother Turns lip
Liviug in hnid.
Yestt rday at 4:00 p. m. Sheriff Sam
Campbell and Deputy Sheriff Charles
Campbell arrived in the city over the
Rock Island with Byron Ward the
man shot on the western border of
the county yesterday, report of which
was given in the Wave last evening.
Ward was brought in on a stretcher
and it was quite apparent that he
could not live but a few hours at most.
He was first taken to Dr. Kelso's office
for the purpose of further treating
his wounds and probe for the bullet,
but the bullet was not found. He was
then taken to the jail yard where be
died at 6:30 p. m.
The hurried report of the shooting
yesterday was not correct in detail as
to how he was shot. The wounds in-
dicate that he had been shot twice if
not three times. One shot hit the
right arm and broke it, an >ilier passed
through the left arin into the body
back of where the ribs end, but did
not come out. After death another
bullet hole was discovered low down
on the back which was a third shot,
unless it could possibly have betnl
mr.de by the bullet that hit the Vody
on the left side, coming out. Camp-
bell said he shot twice ard Burwell
a the City i En d, U<lahoma j
fcrri 'ry, lor sewci district No. | Jfcr.
K It i UA1NED hv the Mayoi and
cm v.i nt t..e City of'Enld,Okl;.- fc
i l i orj: [
„ CTl N I That a lev, ne anil 1
si y ade .iiid assessed upon tne
lol i v <><' ills in ihe City of Knid,
O.J. ferritin , loi building a
dist1 i -< it in sewer district No.
7, iii'Kenv ood Addition to the City
of F-vd: i i-ing Blocks No. 13, 14, 15,
10, 17, 18, 19 and 20 in sa.d Kenwood
Addition, b' ing from center of alley
tietween Independence Avenue and
12th Strfe', west on O.ik Street 270
feet tn renter of 12th Street, North
in 12tn Street 105 feet, west in alley
between Ou t and Walnut streets
2200 leet ti the center of 18th
stieet, nonh on 18th stre<t 189
feet to the conttr of Walnut stieet.
l'lie amount of said levy and
assessment is the amount set oppo-
site each lot as follows, to-wit:
KKNWOOD ADDITION TO CITY OF ENID.
BI..OCK NO.
Lot No.
13.
...$31.00
.... 31.00
.... 31.00
.... 31.09
. ... 31.09
ti 31,00
7 31.00
8 31 09
9 31 09
1 0 31.00
1 1 ... 31.09
1 2 31.00
1373.08
BLOCK NO 14.
1 31.09
2 31.09
3 31.09
4 31 09
5 31.09
6 31.09
7 31.09
8 31.09
9 31.09
1 0 M.t.9
11 31.09
1 2 31.09
Lot'No. 1
The mayor and citv council can j 0hce. It is possible that all the shots
now figure tuai me expense of Olds hit the man. The shooting occurred
gas power, even if it proved satisfac- j jn the black jacks. Campbell first
tory otherwise, would cost much more caught sight of his man standing on
than steam and would still be uncer- a hill. He yelled to him, "Come
tain. It is charged by tbe mayor and here," but instead Ward raised his
council that the Oids Gas Power Co. gU,, an(j iiredl the ball coming quite
have not lived up to tbe contract in
maay directions and the works will
never prove satisfactory. They want
tbe ground cleared so that they can
put In other pumping works as soon
as possible.
The Wave believes tbe city gov-
ernment is right in this matter. 1 he
people have lost all patience and
something must be done at once to
procure machinery that will certain-
ly do the work and finish the plant.
It will also be remembered, by tbe
mayor and councilmen at least, that
the company tried to persuade the
council to pay for its little shack
brick pumpiog house before the
machinery was tested. Tbe council
very wisely refused as such a payment
would have held the city to pay the
balance of the money, whether the
works proved satisfactory or not.
The Olds people are putting in the
new compressor and the city is get-
ting ready to pump water otherwise.
$ ,73.08
BLOCK NO. 15
$31X9
31.1.9
3 31.09
4 31.19
5 31.09
ti 31.09
7 31.09
8 31.09
9 31.1-9
111 31.09
11 31.00
12. 31.09
$373 08
BLOCK NO 10.
Grain Dealers
Have A Meeting.
A special meeting of the Oklaho-
ma Grain Dealers was called yester-
day afternoon by the secretary, Mr.
C. F. Prouty, The most prominent
matters of discussion were the Okla-
homa Official Inspection and weights,
the dealers throughout Oklahoma
realizing that the inspection bureau
under the direction of C. F. Prouty
should be made Independant. It was
unanimously agreed that grain deal-
ers should insist upon this. Commit-
tees were appointed to take the
matter up officially at the Texas
dealers meeting and the same com-
mittees were also given power to act
officially. Some of the prominent
leaders at the meeting were: C. J
Wutraves of the Purcell Mill; J. D.
Hutcbers of tbe Ponca City Mill and
C. D. Humphrey of the El Reno Mill
slose to Campbell.
Ward dropped to his knees and was j
in the act of firing on Campbell the I
second time when Burwell appeared
on the scene and ordered him to sur-'
render. Instead of obeying he tried
10 turn the gun on Burwell tvhen j
he tired
The sheriff's say the girl ran when |
he ran and when he fell and before
they could get to him, she had raised Lot No.
his head, stroked his hair and was
crying.
Ward was tracked and traced
through the country very easily as he
had visited several farm houses beg- Lot No
ging for something to eat, having hid
the girl in the brush where she staid,
not trying to escape.
The first word spoken to his cap-
tives was "it will not be long until I Lot No
will be all in." Campbell inquired,
"why didn't you stop whin I told you
too?" "I am not one of that kind"
he answered.
Some time after tbe shooting he
confessed to the murder of Martin
Julian near Ponca City, about a
year ago, for which crime A
Harpster was convicted and is now
serving a life sentence, an innocent
man. He also confessed to a murder
in Colorado and one in Afkansas.
After the Wave was issued last night
contaiuing a report of the killing, a
young man appeared clainingto be a
brother of Bryan Ward, whom he
had not seen for four years; be
is employed in a restaurant near the
Rock Island depot.
The theory that the man was in-
sane is not sustained; he was simply a
very bad man and a killer. When
ever he became angry at anyone he
always talked of killing. He called
himself a bandit at times. He waB
wanted over in Kay county for steal-
ing hogs last winter. His people
give the body no attention and as
they are very poor it is presumed
that the county will have to bear
the expense of burial.
1
... 31.09
2
.... 31.09
5
.... 31.09
.... 31.09
•j
.... 31.09
.... 31.09
10
.... 31.09
11
.... 31.09
u
.... 31.09
$3;3 08
BLOCK
NO 1
1".
9
... 31.09
3
... 31.09
$124.30
BLOCK NO 18.
i
.. 131.09
3
.. 31.09
4
;!i 09
*124.36
BLOCK
NO.
19
1
.. $31.09
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3
... 31,09
4
... 31.09
5
... 31.09
31.09
10
... 31.09
11
,... 31.09
12
.... 31.09
$373.08
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To my Patrons and Friends:
I wish to'announce that after a
year's severe illness I am again able to
resume my practice and will be pleased
to have my old time patrons and friends
call upon me. I shall pay special atten-
tion to office practice and consultations
and will make a specialty of treating all
chronic diseases by i-lectricity and
Vibratory Massage.
Otli e over Moore's Grocery
North Side Square.
4 2.j,d6w4 Dr. Champion.
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HALLS Hair Renewer
c.„~o r.iiinnhair nkn. Sold for fifty years. >■ h h ■ ■■.
Stops falling hair, also.
block no 20
City Park. $310.00
Suction 2. That if after the ex-
piration of four weeks after the
passage of this ordinance the amount
named in section one of this ordin.
ance, together with costs of publica-
tion shall not be paid, then the
Mayor and Counciltnen of the City of
Enid shall cause tax-warrants to be
issued against such lots and pieces of
ground in said district, which tax-
warrants shall recite the date of the
passage of this ordinance,making the
assessments, tbe amount of assess
ments, the description of the
property, against which the same is
to be levied. Tbe same will be levied
against said property in three equal
installments with interest thereon at
the rate of 8 per cent per annum,
levied each year, to become due on
the 15th day of December next; after
each levy, to pay the maturing in-
stallment and shall be signed by the
Mayor and countersigned by the City
rMeik, which said tax warrants shall
be delivered to the contractor, pro-
vided, that the aggregate amount of
such warrants to be delivered to the
contractor, shall not exceed his con.
tract price, and tbe city shall retain
and hold for its own indemnity a
sufficient amount of the same to
cover other expenses and the con-
tract price of executing the work.
Section 3. This ordinance shall
take effect and be in full force from
and after the passage, approval and
publication for four weeks in tbe Eni^
Weekly Wave.
Passed and approved this 6th day
of April, 190fi.
PETER DOWERS
Attest:—Seal. Mayor
F. R. LF.F,
City Clerk
Change of Court Clerks.
Last Tuesday Mr. J. Jensen, late ,
District cnui t ciei k under the ap- j
pointmenl of the late lamented big
jiro, stepped down and out to make
ri om for the McGuire machine com j
a..jsary o rgent. Vernon W biting, |
Lhe appoinUe ot Judge Garber. It is
understood that Major Jensen's books
are in goc d straight shape and he
retires with honors. Mr. Jensen in-
tends moving back to Perry, from
whence he came, to look after bis ag-
ricultural Interests.
Judge Irwin Needs Estoppel.
Judge Clinton F. Irwin is quite sick
at his home in ICI Reno. There is
something wrong with his bladder. It
seems t<. us that if tbe Judge would
apply s.ime of his own medicine and
place a big jim poultice containing
one part of the statutes of limitation
and one pa>tof constipated estoppel
and 385,29 grains of "John didn't get-
the-mooey," the safety valve of
Judges bladder would probably work
regular as of yore. There is nothing
like justifying justice with a fellow's
own medicine, it cured big jim,
C. E. Dewing went to Wichita this
morning. He will return Monday.
A large and appreciative audience
attended the German-American doc-
tors' show last evening.
Roy Moyle of Hillsbro, Iowa, will
arrive this evening for a visit witfc
bis sister, Mrs. John Moxley.
ChrrfaM
Exgoglttoo
WHEN THE WHOLE TRUTH
IS KNOWN.
When tbe whole truth is (tnown
about the corruption of the Pennsyl-
vania and other railroads the graft-
ng of ths life insurance officials will
sink into insignificance in comparison.
How much the railroads have con-
tributed to republican campaign
funds in cash and how much In trans-
portation for speakers and "wprkers''
will probably never be known in its
entirety, but an Investigation by a
democratic congress will make
mighty interesting reading and open
the people's eyes to corporation cor-
ruption.
Recent developments have proven
beyond doubt that William Jennings
Bryan was not defeated in 18% or iq
1900 by the honest convictions of the
people at the polls. He was defeated
by "tainted money" that great hu-
man commodity and necessity that
controls more minds and men than
any other force, argument or policy
ouearili If tbe people of this broad
land bau ucen left to follow their own
conscientious belief in 1896 Brjan
would iiavebeen triumphantly elect-
ed. Tuc lepublican campaign man-
agement spent $2,000,000 in the state
of Nebraska alone in 1900 to beat
Bryan out of his own state, believing
that the loss of Nebraska would for-
ever shelve Mr. Bryan. The people
have learned mucn about the dishon-
est rottenness of the republican
party within tbe last two years.
Money only, and oodles of it, can de-
feat Bryan in 1908.
For sale by Frank
denbrand.
Hil-
The city was full of farmers today
buying supplies for tbe harvest time
at hand, Binding twine wenflike
hot cakes.
The Robinson block is nearly com-
pleted. It Is a beauty, bu^ would
have shown up perfectly handsome
and attractive had it gone up another
story.
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