The Daily Gazette. (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 265, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 11, 1901 Page: 1 of 4
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DAILY GAZETTE.
SOME REASONS
The Proposed Bonds For Water-
works Extension Are Li-
able to be Defeated.
We verily believe that there is not a
■ingle taxpayer in this city who, if he
would express hi, honest sentiments
could be not quoted as being in favor
of the bonds soon to be voted upon in
this city for the purpose of paying up
the city's floating indebtedness and
the extension of the waterworks and
electric light plants. It is a coldblood-
ed proposition and appeals to the bet
ter judgment of our people to get out
of a bad scrape the best way we can.
But sure as fate the bonds will be
defeated on election day.
And why?
Simply because the voters of this
town feel that they fell shart of get-
ting their money's worth out of the
big $36,000 bond issue voted for the
purpose of getting in a sjsUn of water-
works.
It is not that the people believe for
a minute that there has been jobbery
to any great extent going on among
the men who have had charge of af-
fairs but (bat there has been a ,crew
loose somewhere in the expenditure of
this money, and tha common voters do
not feel like voting an increased in-
debtedness upon themselves until some
of these matters are cleared up.
♦36,000 is no small amount of money
for a city even the size of stillwater to
expend in a system of waterworks but
Stillwater would not kick in the least
if she had a system even at the cost.
As it is we have five great dry holes
in the ground 24 feet in diameter and
•40 feet deep. These holes were walled
up from bottom to top with the most
expensive rock that ever were hauled
into the city. Besides these there is
another big pit in which twomonstrous
pumps are located. Then there is a
big boiler house with two immense 80
horse power boilers. Just b low this
there is a $3,600 dam built of the same
coatly stone as are in the wells. The
dam crosses a dry branch that has had
no water in it for months. Thos# big
holes (alleged wells) have never, and
never will furnish any amount of
water. Why this immense and costly
plant was erected upon this dry bar-
ren spot only the men who had charge
aeem to know and they are mum.
It ia currently rumored that Mr-
Kvans, the man who got a nice fee of
11260 for locating and superintending
tha putting in of the plant disclaims
all responsibility for locating it where
it ii.
Another matter in connection wilh
this location is thBt the city right now
has not a single vestsge of titlv to the
land on which this immense plant is
built. This land belongs to David
Husband and the city will have to
come hit terms or get off.
From this big "pumping station'
main* run over a portion of the town
and laat summer the plumbers had a
nice thing putting in "water" into ho-
tels. residences, barber shops, lawns
bath rooms etc , but imagine how the
poor "consumer" felt when he found,
aftar paying bis plumbing bill, he
had bean unceremoniously shut off
>nd bia expensive hydrants and pipes
could only be used for ornamentation.
Even the bath tubs of town were de-
nied the use of water because these
big expensive "wells" had gone dry,
Now these line "wells" together
with the dam and "filter" probably
cost the city in round figures close to
110,000 yet we verily believe that there
are wella in this city. 8 inches in diam-
eter, drilled at a cost of about )I4 00
that will furnish more water today
than the whole mess of thein, and the
water from the single well would be
pure and wholesome, while that fur-
nished from the holes is currently re-
fered to as "liquid manure."
Home people who claim to know
what water works appliances are
worth say that the city paidllHOOmore
than ib« had ought to for the tower
Devoted to The Interests of Stillwater.
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have alw.yRfelt lhat Abercrombfe &
bve.erw7de ''eit de ' "f ^eir
• hen they dumped that light
P s"t onto the city for |5,600.
i„Sr:l"li^ p'ant recalls an
inn. happened while negotia-
r':rrdJng for ,u p"rch"e
«ccr, J Atth,ttime the city had,
managers ,,a,ement of it "«= • DeleK te T Fljnn is enthu-
f :z::TKrM prosperit,
($4.00 per year
No. 265
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Delegates Tell About Oklahoma In
Washington. Stuns The
East With Gigantic
Figures.
waterworks. rhe l.ord Mayor called
t r;7.t0SeeWheth r not ,b«
'o era of the city would sanction the
p£ Thrrf1thiB,none,fora,ight
t. The election was held, the
rrvr the «i"'«tive but
when the deal was ready to be closed
it was found that the small sum of
In a conversation with
a newspaper man correspondent he
discussed the development of the ter-
ritory enthusiastically. He said
"There never was such a steady flow
of good people with money into any
possession of this country as has been
and is teday converging into Oklaho
15,500 had .linn m 01 y converging into Oklaho-
could only C'ty ^ *nd.'he Pe°P'e °' the e,8t h*ve n°
y W *1B0° on the plant and conception of it.
i-'no "0'e*.for t,le balance payable "If you don't believe it try to get
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pei month, with 12 per cent inter-
est. ISow the voters have not yet been
apprised of what became of that *6,-
Other unexplained incidents in con-
nection with handling the city'* aHairs
seem peculiar. For instance, last win-
ter the city advertised for bids for
sprinkling Main and cross streets dur-
ing the summer months, the city to
furnish the water from its mains at
convenient points. This work would
require a man and team about 2 hours
(Jay during dry weather but the
specifications stipulated that, the
sprinkling must hk donk by a Studb-
"akkk Sfkinki.ek. The Lord Mayor
liaU the exclusive agency for this sort
of a wagon and his price was $400 for
it. Now W. K. Hall has the sprinkler
and the city it paying him $65.00 per
month, can't furnish him watar so no
sprinkling i« done but big contract
holds good for another year.
Now incidents of this charactercould
he gone over-enough to fill half a doz-
en papers the size of this and while we
do not aim to cast reflectiona upon the
character of any one. the people—the
voters who are called upon to vote an-
other 126,000 indebtedness upon this
fair city are not satisfied with the way
things have been managed and will
say emphatically at the polls, "no
more bonds for the present."
Gone Home,
Little K. K. German, son of Tlios. I'.
and M. M. Herman, departed this life
December 8, 1901. lie was born Sep-
tember 14, 1HH8. He was taken sick
about the lirst of November with scar-
let rash. Complication of kidney and
liver trouble was too much for human
aid ; I)r. Cash and his mother did all
that was possible to defeat grim death
but in vain.
(SONS HOME.
^ es, little Buddie, our loved one,
Was called by the Lord to bis hap-
py home;
We all loved him—could not help it—
So noble, brave, so good and kind,
To know was to love, never to forget
That sweet little boy of mine.
Mine? No, he was the Lord's all the
time,
Only sent as the Lard was tent,
To teach us the good fruit grown on
the vines,
Noble, brave, good and kind.
His lesson taught, never to be for-
gotten,
lie battened back to his heavenly
home;
For the Lord could not spare long at
a time.
Such a dear little angel from his
heavenly home.
While our hearts are sore and we
bow in sorrow
To the will of the Lord,
We hope the future will prove
That the good seed sown was not
in vain,
But by the will of Uod
Will bring forth a harvest of
golden grain.
—I'ahk.nts.
seat in a I'ullman car going through
to the territory. They are as crowded
as the day coaches. It is impossible
for the average passenger at a way
station to get a seat on any train in the
territory, so great is the multitude of
people traveling. It is estimated that
aside from the rush of settlers that
20,000 people from the two states of
Iowa and Illinois alone have come to
us and bought farms inside of two
years. Notwithstanding that where
the main lines formerly operated one
through train each way a Jay three are
now run to meet these conditions of
immense passenger trafic.
"And what do you think of this:
Many of the farms that were given to
settlers as free bomegteads only two
years ago, are now selling for $10,000
cash. J here is something doing out
there with us.
"Oklahoma has a territorial extent
nearly as large as the great state of
Ohio. It has a population of half a
million. It lias an assessed valuation
of taxable property of 1300,000,000. It
has the largest native born population
of any state or territory in the union.
We boast of the largest and best school
system of any state admitted within
; recent years. Our climate ia unsur-
passed, and we can raise corn, wheat,
bats, cotton, peanuts, rye, sweet pota-
toes and other agricultural products
on the same piece of land, which is a
good combination to play for a farmer.
"The opening of the new lands under
the wise and able administration of
Secretary Hitchcock has added fully
100.000 new people to our population.
The manner of opening these new
land i was an entire change from all
precedents since the government was
organized and has redounded not only
beneficial to the people of the territory
but to the administration as well.
AN ANARCHIST ISLAND.
Resolution Looks to the Acquiring
of an Island as Place of Banish-
ment for Folks Who At-
tempt Assassination.
Washington, D. C., Dec. ll.-Sena-
tor Hoar yesterday Introducel the fol-
lowing resolution:
That the president be requested if
he shall deem it practicable, to enter
into negotiations with other civilized
countries tt, the end that a convention
be made in accordance with the terms
of which some island, or if that cannot
be done, some other suitable territory
may be set apart, to which, under due
precautions and after fair and proper
trial, persons found guilty of attempt-
ing or instigating or counseling the
overthrow of all governments or of
criminal attempts upon the life of
chief magistrates or high officials of
such government, may be transported
and to whiob they may be confined."
Our merchants are complaining that
Christmas trade is not as good as it
dab l>60n in former yuirf.
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L. J. JARDOT, Prop.
Offers $10.00 Standing Prize
for Bowling Records. $5.00 on
Ten Pins, and $5.00 on "Cocked
Hat." Conditions: High Score
must be held by one person for
two consective weeks.
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