The Democrat-Topic. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 1899 Page: 4 of 8
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THE GRAr*
THE DEMOCRAT-TOPIC,
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THE STATE DEMOCRAT.
TUB I'ERRITOKIAL TOPIC.
(UOTH UNDER ONE MANAOKMKST.)
The Official Paper of Cleveland County
Tom Jarhoh, - - Editor.
GeokgK A. Alkire, Business Mg'r.
Telephone No. 25.
Tliis paper is in favor ofthe frco
and unlimited coinage of silver
and gold at the ratio of 16 to I.
It favors an Income tax, believing
such a tax, taxes the resources of
the country, rather than mort-
gages the industry of the nation.
It is opposed to the national banks
issuing the currency of the coun-
try. It is opposed to an increas-
ed standing army of 100,000
men. It is opposed to the annex-
ation of the Philippine Islands,
believing that such annexation is
not in harmony with the declara-
tion of war as made by the United
States against Spain. It heartily
endorses every syllable, word and
sentence of the Democratic plat-
form adopted at Chicago in July
181)0.
PROSPEROUS OKLAHOMA,
(Continued from Supplement.)
W. F. Bennett, fifteen mile-
southeast of Norman. Corn wil|!
make from thirty five to fifty bushels j
to the acre in my section. Cotton ;
js not so promising however I am
not discouraged for 1 have lived
here seven years and have never
had a crop failure."
J. I . Barbour, a member of th
board of county commissioners, hat*
lived in Clevelan 1 county since the
opening. lie has a quarter section
of laud two and one half miles from
Norman, lie is original!) from
Cooper county, Missouri, an 1 likes
this county much better than t '. <>,>-
er. "Farming is no experiment in
this county" said he, "1 have never
experienced a failure in crops since
coming here on the other hand I
hive raised ninety bushel of corn
to the acre and I am confident
•yheat has averaged, one year after
ahothcr, twent;
acre. I find t
well here.
J. II. Lambe
raised eighteen
year which avc
to the acre. I:
same neighbor
bushels of oats
Cornelius Nc
I threshed 20C42
from one hund
Any deseri
county would
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village of Nob
eminence on 1
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Home of Pres. Koyd. Trees Planted in
March. 1K0S.
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Kegbteen Months Later, Sept. 20, 1890.
Two Years Later, Sept. 20, 1898.
Asy 111 in for the Insane, Located at
Norman.
Wagon Hridge Acronn South Cana-
dian River at Noble.
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Orchard and Cotton Crop, near Norman
Farmyard Scene, Cleveland County.
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A Young Apple I ree on Lafe Canady'
Farm.
The Laws Are as Oood as In
Any State.
Hon. George S. Green, a lawyer of
ripe experience, formerly commission-
er of the Supreme Court of Kansas,
and now located at Guthrie, contrib-
utes the following article regarding
the laws of Oklahoma:
"Oklahoma has as good laws as any
state in the Union, The code of civil
procedure was taken from Kansas.
•'Property interests are surrounded
with every safe guard and capital in-
vested in this territory will he protect-
ed just as well as in the 'States.'
is no more inviting field for safe and
productive investment.
"Accounts duly verified may be
sued and judgment rendered thereon,
unless denied under oath. Actions
are brought as in the states having a
code of civil procedure. There is no
arrest for debt.
"The territory has a good banking
law, and there are over sixty banks
organized under the territorial law,
besides the national banks. These
state banks have a capital of more
than a half million, a surplus and
profit of two hundred and fifty thous
and, and a deposit of three million
dollars.
"Private corporations may be
formed for the transaction of lawful
business. The corporation acts are
very liberal. To do business in the
Territory a foreign corporation must
file a copy of its charter with the sec
retary of the territory, and appoint a
resident agent, upon whom service of
summons may be made.
"The Supreme Court of the terri-
tory has general appellate jurisdiction,
and consists of five judges appointed
by the president of the United States
The district courts are courts of gen
cral jurisdiction, and have and exer
cise the same jurisdiction in all cases
arising under the Constitution and
laws of the United States as is vested
in the circuit court of the United
States. The probate court has pro
bate jurisdiction in civil cases where
the amount does not exceed one
thousand dollars. Justices of the
peace have jurisdiction where the
amount does not exceed one hundred
dollars,
"The following property is exempt
to the head of every family in the ter-
ritory from every species of forced sale
for the payment of debts. The home*
steail of the family (not in a city, town
or village), consisting of 160 acres of
land in one tract, with all improve-
ments thereon, The homestead in a
city, or town village, consisting of one
acre with the improvemants thereon.
"The following peisonal property
is exempt: All household and kitchen
furniture; all implements of husband-
ry used upon the homestead; all tools,
appratns and books belonging to or
used in any trade or profession; all
family portraits, pictures and wearing
apparel; five milch cows and their
calves under six months old; one yoke
of oxen and two horses or two mules,
and one wagon cart or dray; ten hogs
and twenty sheep; all provisions and
forage for home consumption and for
use of exempt stock for one year.
"There is also exempt to every old
soldier, sailor, or marine all pension
money belonging to him subsequent
to December 24, 1890.
Contracting parties may obligate
themselves to pay 12 percent interest.
Parties contracting for a greater rate
than 12 per cent may forfeit all inter-
est, but no part of the principal.
Where there is no rate agreed upon,
7 per cent is the legal rate. All judg-
ments bear interest at the same rate
as specified in the contract, provided
the same shall not exceed 12 per cent.
When no rate is specified in the con-
tract 7 per cent is the legal rate.
"Married women may sue and be
sued without joining with their hus-
bands; contract and carry on business
and own all their separate property
free from their husbands' debts, the
same as a single woman. Females
become of age at 18. Aliens have the
same property rights as citizens.
"A married woman may dispose of
her separate property by will without
her hushttud's consent, and she may
alter or revoke a will the same as if
single: If after making a will the tes-
tator marries and the wife survives
him, the will is revoked, unless pro-
vision be made for her by marriage
contract."
A11 Opinion by the Governor of
< )klahoina.
A public man in his official utter-
ances tends to tin* conservative view,
lie speaks not for one person but tor
many, and his opinion is composite,
an under, rather than an over-state
ment.
Approaching Hon. C. M. Barnes,
governor of Oklahoma, for a special
message to the outside world, he re-
plied that the carefully considered
statements in his latest report to
Washington, a document of seventy-
six pages, told the whole story; but
that tin* gist of it was contained in the
following paragraphs, which are here
reproduced with the added force of <1
second utterance:
"Our local papers are constantly
telling the story of Oklahoma's pros-
perity, and the car of agricultural and
horticultural exhibits sent out last
fall, together with the fine display be-
ing made at the Omaha Exposition,
have all served to convince the poople
that Oklahoma is the mecca for the
home seeker and the investor. As a
consequence, people have been com-
ing singly, by families and in colonies,
from all sections of the country, and
particularly from the states of the
north have coine a desirable class of
immigrants with ready money to pur
chase farms and stock and improve
tlx in, or to develop important business
enterprises.
"With a population aggregating a|
third of a million, and greater than
that of any other territory and a half
dozen different states of the Union;
with an area of 40,000 square miles, or
24,489.680 acres; with a prosperous, I
contented people largely engaged in
agriculture and kindred pursuits, and
producing crops that astonish the
world; with a taxable valuation ex
cceding forty millions of dollars; with
a commerce that has doubled and
trebled in the past twelve months;
with a smaller bonded debt than any
other state or territory, and the small-
er amount there is having been in-
curred only for the erection of educa-
tional institutions; with a public
school system equal to any in the land;
with better facilities for higher educa-
tional training for her youth than
many states five times as old and with
as many times the population; with
the best of transportation facilites and
almost unlimited natural resources;
witli a fertile soil, a delightful climate,
bright sunshine and health giving
breezes, Oklahoma extends a cordial
invitation to the farmer, the stock-
raiser, the fiuit-grower, the manufact-
urer, the investor, the invalid, and
the homeseeker or every class to come
and better his condition, and chal-
lenges comparison with any other
bqual area on the continent.
"The Oklahoma farmer is today
prosperous, happy and contented, and
with his success has come prosperity
to the whole territory. During the nine
years of the existence of the territory
the farmer has gone through many
hardships and encountered many (lit
ficuities, but he kept bravely on. sur-
mounted every obstacle, and is today
s prosperous as any man in the na-
tion.
"Coming into a new and unknown
mutry, settled under conditions
liich rendered inevitable controver-
sy ovrrthe possession of his land;
coming in most instances with only
such few possessions as could be
loaded with his family in a single
wagon, and what little cash was in liis
pants pocket, the pioneer Oklahouiiin
conquered the wilderness, broke the
trackless prairie into field and garden,
xperiinentcd until he found the things
which best would grow and yield, and
learned the time to plant and to reap;
kept kravely on no matter what the
odds, and today has his reward iu a
onifortable home, a productive farm
and a bright future.
True, there were days when his
home was a dugout or a cottonwood
shack, when his family wen; in rags,
when his farm was unproductive, when
his future was anything but bright,
but he forgets all these things in the
mifort and content of today,
"His family is clothed in comfort,
his home is a substantial structure, Iu;
rides to church or to town in a com-
fortable carriage instead of the creep-
ing, white-topped schooner, well-fed
stock roam his fields, growing crops
are all about him, orchards are fruit-
ing on every hand, and feed and
grain are found in hit barn, while a
schoolhouse is within easy reach of
his children, and a college almost at
his door."
As a supplement to the above this
is an appropriate place to insert some
xtracts from an interview with Gov-
ernor Karnes by William E. Curtis,
which appeared iu the Chicago Record,
May 1, 1899.
•There is no more intelligent, law-
abiding, prosperous, or contented peo-
e on earth than the Oklahotnans.
immigration is coming in steadily.
There is no longer a rush. Most of
the immigrants these days are men
with capital, who are seeking invest
mcnts, for almost any kind ot busi-
ss pays better here than iu the old-
parts of the country. A few of
them are disappointed, but whether
you go in for agriculture or business,
;iuy intelligent and industrious man
can accomplish more with the same
amount of labor, and the same money
will earn larger dividends in the same
lines of business here than anywhere
else within my knowledge.
We have escaped the privations of
a new country. There was practical
ly no pioneering in Oklahoma. The
laud was ready for the plow as soon I
A Summer Scene on Little River, Cleveland County.
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Harvest Scene iu Cleveland County Wheat Field.
The HnriieBB Fruit Farm, Near Lexington.
Residence of L. C. Kendall, Norman, Okla.
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Another Cleveland County Wheat Field.
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Jarboe, Tom. The Democrat-Topic. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 1899, newspaper, September 1, 1899; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117111/m1/4/: accessed March 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.