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The Lawton Constitution.
; - • — OFFICIAL PAPER OF COMANCHE COUNTY AND OF THE PEOPLE.
Vol. III.
WEEKLY EDITION
LAWTON, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1905.
WEEKLY EDITION
No. 17
COLLEGE
Plenty of Banks
NO BONUS
Preliminary Hearing
WHEAT
There are 607 banks in the
two ter
ritorieg, and 321 were represented at
the recent association meeting
Commencement Given Last
Evening Showed Excel-
lency of Pupils.
dian Territory has us national banks Railroad Companies Can Not
and Ian T.**:..n... 1 1- ... . .
from Saturday's Dally Constitution.
The third annual commencement ex-
ercises of the Lawton Business college
given at the opera house last evening
were exceptionally line. The house
was crowded and the audience
listened with great interest to the in-
teresting program. The stage wag
handsomely decorated and had two
banners floating overhead with the
following printed in gold: "Labor
Conquers," "Class of 1905."
Mrs. E. P. McMahon played the
march, "Alia Marcia" while tha grad-
uating class of 1905 marched in from
the rear of the hall and took their seats
upon the stage. The class history,
"1903-4" given by Miss Bessie McClung
was a very interesting one. She told
how each member of the proceeding
graduating classes had more than con-
quered every difficulty they had under-
taken; and that they had learned that
there was no road to success and no
excellence without great labor. Many
of the graduates of those classes are
now holding places of honor to them-
s Ives. One of them has accepted a
a civil service position in Panama.
The piano solo, "The Lily of the
Valley" by Miss Claudia Wallis was a
fine selection.
Miss Mabelle Broadwell gave the
class prophecy of 1905 in a few chosen
paragraphs. She told how five years
hence one of the graduates returned to
^.awton to see it a city of 30,000 inhab-
itants With all the moderri improve-
ments and representing all classes of
business Her Btory showed various
ones of the class filling various posi-
tions of trust.
The baccalaureate address was de-
livered bv B. M. Parmenter in a very
pleasing manner. He stated that he
was clad to be among the students and
participate as it had been his good
fortune to see many of this college's
Btudents at their labors. He had ob
and 138 private bank*; Oklahoma hag
ninety-live national tanks and 256 p..
\ ate banks. This I.: n average of one
bank tc every 2,500 peipie. Only eight
states in the union are better supplied
with banking facilities. The two ter-
ritories combined with theb 1% million
population, have more national banks
than thirty-five of our states. The
city-; Muskogee, for example, hag
four national banks, six state banko
and two saving banks.
The totai capital and surplus of the
607 banks is 17^ millions of dollars,
and the deposits more than 14 millions
of dollars.
Collect Notes Taken
From People.
The Land Grabbers."
"The Land Grabbers" is an illus-
trated story in Harper's Weekly of
this week by Frederick Koyd Steven-
son and is an exposure of the conspir-
ancy to steal millions of acres of land
from the United States government.
It ' illustrated by fire very fine
pictures of Lawton in the early days.
The picture shows Lawton just before
the opening of the government lands
to settlement, Lawton land office about
to be qpened to the public, view of
Lawton on the morning after the open-
ing and the f,s passenger train Into ' performing
Lawton.
Attorney Z. H. Whitney of Guthrie,
claims that 'he opinion handed down
by Judge Irwin during the supreme
court session in the case of the Enid
right-of-way and fownsite company
vs. W. L. Lile, wag far reaching and
will effect every railroad bonus suit in
the territory. The decision of the case
was in favor of Lile in a suit over a
bonus note, and Attorney Whitney
says that this means that no railroad
company can collect a note for either
a depot or a line, and if they do the
notes are illegal. He says that he is
going to urfci that a petition be given
to the governor directing the attorney
general to revoke the charter of all
railroads who are tryingto enforce the
collection of these notes. In the
opinion aflirmed by Judge Irwin, At-
torney Whitney gays that in locating
a depot the railroad companies are
performing a public duty, and that the
building of a line is also a public duty,
although in the location of a round
house, the proposition is different. In
pudlic duty, how-
Anadarko, Okla , June 21.—The pre
limlnary hearing of the case of the ter-
ritory vs. Sherman Edscventers, and
Rainagtijmon, was heard before
Justice Starkweather t6day. It is a
cape growing out of murder of Mans-
field Canada north of here last week.
Canada lost about $700 in money.
The Rdscventers men and women and
Ramaguymon are supposed to have
been working with ycung Hickman
w hi is alleged killed Canada and it is
tho'jght these defendants received the
most of the stolen money
Yield Has Been Over Esti-
mated—Crop Damaged
By Rust.
ARTILLERY
Quartermaster has Ordered
Feed fr mo Horses
at Fort Sill.
ever, Mr. Whitney says the railroad
cannot legally solicit bonuB notes. The
syllabus and review of the opinion by
Judge Irwin in the case of the Enid
right-of-way and Townsitecompany,
a corporation, vi. W. L. Lile, is cited
by Whitney as follows:
"A railroad company is a quasi pub-
lic corporation, and the public have an
interest in the location of their depots
and stations. An agreement which
tends to influence and lead persons
charged with the performance of the
duty of locating such railroad stations
serve
his office aiid they showed what they j effect that some six batteries will
worked themselves up to. j shortly be transferred to this post and
"Wherever I have seen their work ' that feed will be required immediately
it has been proven that they Lave been | for 24o horses.
dilligently taught. It is a college that ' ■ So beyond any qaestionFortSi.il
graduates into good salaries and pre- j will at once be made a very important
pares the individual for practical busi- j post; and it is very likely that within
n ss lines, i'rof. Blanchet has placed : one year it will be a regimen-al post
this college upon its own merits and j used for the regular army.
Still more information is received
regarding the prominence with which
Port Sill is being looked upon by the or depots, is an agreement to influence
military authorities at Washington.1 the discharge of a trust to the public,
E. F. Mitchell of Fort Worth, Tex., ; intended by law fo:- the benefit of the
who formerly resided in Lawton and people, and any agreement which
who has the contract with the gov- j tends to influence, restrict or limit
ernmcntto furnish oats and other feed that power, for a pecuniary consider-
f..r the government military post at ! ation, running to such company, or its
Fort Sill, has recently received a tele- j agents, or persons supposed to have
Indian Gospel Meetings.
Activities of the mission mlnistery
and Indian converts indica'e that
during this summer every Indian of
the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache
tribes will have an opportunity to hear
the gospel preached. To this end the
summer for the past three years has
been leading. Rev. Wright, of the
Port Sill Apache mission, under whose
ministry summer revivals have been
held and many Indians converted,
will take the lead this year. He has
recently returned from a visit to New
V ork and brought with him a prominent
singer who will assist in the summer's
work. .
Arrested.
John Abernathy arrested an Indian
this morning who was in possession of
a pint of whiskey. Tha white man
who sold the whiskey made his es-
cape.
FORT SILL
Five Companies of Artillery
Have Been Ordered
There.
Guthrie June 22.—"The wheat crop
of Oklahoma has haen over-sized,"
said J.N. Miller, one of the proprietors
of the 101 ranch, today, and he went
on to explain that the oropat the ranch
oould not be more than a half yield.
This year the Miller brothers have
about 8,000 acres in wheat; last year
they had 11,000 acres. About 500 acres
of this year's crop will not be cut at aM
and is already being plowed under.
The best wheat, they have will not
make over fifteen bushels per acre,
and on an average it will not go over
six or seven bughels.
Wheat was badly Injured in all parts
of Oklahoma by rust. There was an
excess of rain in the wrong time and
it is believed by a great many farmers
that the extreme cold weather, which
is unusual far Oklahoma, did serious
injury also.
The repotts sent out that Oklahoma
will yield 30,000.000 bushels of wheat
are highly extravagant if one is to
judge according to the conclusions of
expert wheat men over the territory.
Farmers have written from every
wheai county Oi.lahoma stating
that the reports ooiue-uing the magni-
tude of the wheat yield are entiroly too
large and that if ten million bushels
were taken off of the figure given
above it would still be too large.
Woodmen Comsumptives.
Milwaukee, June 21.—Dr. Warner of
Topeka, addressed the convention of
the Woodmen of the World this after-
noon, discussing the merits of the
national fraturnal sanitarium for tuber-
culosis s.ifferers. In the course of his
remarks the speaker said that of tha
more thin 700,000 membersof the order
more than 100,000 were doomed to die
of consumption. The Woodman paid
in May, 8KA,000 in death claims due to
consumption.
Compliments Our Water.
William F. Watson, special agent of
the Hartford Insurance compan
iu the c.ty yester^d|y., He jMacJd
insurance business^BB^^^^^
hands of C. G. Joy. ^
Mr. Watson in >g IllkHgof ourwater
system, stated tfeygPhon had the
best system o,t any c#y In both terri-
tories. A^nd as twWe quality of water
ours was jHMRnd them all.
_Visit in
NraJjVnna pea
iting Friends.
Pearl Phelps, of Morgan-
town, Kentucky, arrived in the city
yesterday on a visit to Miss Dixie
Moore and Mrs. H. N. Whalin. Miss
Phelps in company with Misses Dixie
Moore and Thurlow Ward and others,
will go to the mountains this evening
on a picnic.
Buj'pu^eu to nave
d them in thecourt room and in Pfram from the quartermaster to the [ an influence with such company will
may it prosper and have the help of
the community."
"1 desire to say to you, students and
graduates, that you are standing in an
o ien doorway of your opportunities."
Mr. Parmenter also presented the
diplomas to the students, after which
he presented the college cane to O. R.
Kindt, president of the class. In pre-
senting this emblem he stated, "1 now
present to you this emblem, not be-
cause of its great value but because
your class has selected you to preserve
it and pass it up to the next year's
ciass."
In response Mr. Kindt stated, "I
fully appreciate the kind words you
have spoken to us. i r ceive this cane
in the same good spirit it has been re-
ceived in the past. As president of the
class, 1 will vouch that no stone will
stand unturned to make our lives a
success They will all be awake to^op-
portunities."
The duet "William Tell" hy Misses
Mabelle Broadwell and Jessie Harris
was a flue one and well produced,
Miss Edith Tet^ord as valedictorian,
was chosen to unloosen the tics of the
school year. She stated
not where we
when these ties
must part from
only remombeiiu
Tho re juirement o
tical business edu
completed our
c ause of regret.
our teacher for b
siderate. We I
success will crowr
The last part o
dance for the you
well attended an
be void as against public policy, and
not enforcible by the courts.
Public policy requires that a railroad
company, chartered by the authority
shall not be permitted to limit these
franchises by contracts which will put
it in a position where it is not free to
act in the locating of its railroad
stations and depots at such points as
the public convenience requires. And
a contract which provides that for a
consideration, the location of a railroad
Flynns 10 go to Italy.
Guthrie, Okla, June 23,—Ex-Dele-
gate Dennis T. Flynn, accompanied by i station or depot by the railroad corpo-
Mrs. Flynn, their two sons and Dr. | ration, shall be at a certain point, re-
Richardson and Mrs. Richardson of; Rardiess of the question of the needs
Washington, will sail July 8th, for j 'h® people, 'or public convenience'
Naples, Italy. They will remain abroad ! against public policy."
several months for the b-neflt of Mrs. J Justices Hainer, Gillette and Irwin
Flynn's health. Mrs. Richardson was j concurring. Justice Beauchainp hav-
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A Degree For Takahiri.
Medford, Mass., June 22.—Tufts col-
lege today celebrated its fiftieth
anniversary and also bestowed the
honorary degree of doctor of law on
Kogoro Takahiri, the Japanese min-
ister and Governor W. L. Douglas.
A Substitute.
Because of the high price of rice at
Carnegie a newly married couple was
showered with Kaffir corn and broom-
corn seed. The bride and groom got a
much larger supply than had the tra-
ditional |
,aft.
bing company
100 foot shaft
'row Foot claim
kis the prop-
ipany has
willco'ow a ti
i,. in- Blount Scott
'•! cy from which
je n getting such gi
New Auto
Fred F. Thompson
> purchased a fine auto
•len' and was receive'
ing tried the case below, took no part
in the decision, Chief Justice Hurford
dis3enting, In the body of the court's
opinion in the above case, they apply
the rule to the location of the railway
company's line of road with the same
reasons that apply in locating their
depots.
The court further holds that the
company, being bound to locate its
roads and its depots, that there Is no
cansideration passing lor the promise
ta do that which it is their duty toper-
form.
To Readvertise.
It has been officially announced that
the Indian agency of the Comanche
tribe will recommend to the secretary
of the interior that he readvertise for
bids, a iarge|portion of the "big pas-
ture." The bids were opened at Ana-
darko, June the 7th. Only a very few
bids were made at this time on account
of the ironclad contract the renter had
to enter into with the government.
The agency will also recommend
that such a contract be entered Into by '
the interior department as will be sat-
isfactory to the prospective bidder. |
It is no longer any question but that
Fort Sill is to be made an artillery
post and the prospects are that the
regular a my manuevers will be held
there in the future.
A soldier iu the city last eveniug in
| conversation with a busines-i man,
stated that nve companies of light ar-
tillery will be transferred to Fort Sill
within the next ten day. They come
here for target practice, but those fa-
miliar with army tactics state that
after they are once here they are
likely to remain indefinitely. It is re-
ported that the bill of lading has also
been received at the post for 93,(100
pounds of artillery amunition.
Ten wells are being drilled upon the
reservation near the fort. As there
are 58,ijOO acres in the forest reserva-
tion and 5fi,000 acres in the military
reservation making a total of 114,000
acres for maneuvering ground, it is
thought by many that the maneuvers
will be hold here this fall. As soon as
the work is begun upon the new build-
ing the promoters of the Lawton,
Wichita Mountain and Western Elec-
tric line will get busy.
Amusing Incidents.
Muskogee, 1. T., June 21.- a Mus-
kogee merchant walked into the fi-
nancial office of the Colon Indian
agency here yesterday and paid bis
trihal tax, amounting to !1 cent*.
Shortly afterward a messenger boy
stepped into the office and Handed Ly-
man Lane, fie head of the departLunt,
who collects the tax, a large hand-
somely framed picture of "It's a shame
to take the money." Attached to the
picture was a typewritten copy of the
Creek tribal tax law bearing and a note
requesting Mr.. Lane to hang the
picture in his offioe.-
These two incidents created much
amusement t- the agency. The 11
cents in payment of tribal tax wa$
submitted ' by William Thomas <5f
the Badger grocery of Muskogee.
Thomas made a sworn statement that
the invoice va)v fjnods purchased
since Febrile 1st, 1906, when l,e
opened a business in Muskogee is
$21.91 and his tax amounted to a half of
1 per cent of this amount. This Is the
smallest sum yet collected at t!;«
agency from anyone paying the tiibal
tax.
Mrs. Z. T. Miller left yesterday for
Trinidad, Colorado, where she will re-
main during the summer. She has
been sick eight months and goes for
her health.
DITCHER
Overturnc5 and Smashed. Is
Machine Used on Sewer
Hoo Doo'ed?
Col. Reaves Returns.
Col. A. S. Reaves returned today
from Louisville, Ky., where he had
been to attend the United Confederate
Veteran's reunion. He reports the
reunion as among the finest ever held
and that the number of persons in at-
tendance was iarge. The sponsors
from Oklahoma and Indian Territory
were at the front.
New Walter Bank.
The Walter National Bank of Walter
opened for business this week with
#25,000 capital stock. It js backed by
North Mississippi capitalists. I). T.
Carter, president of an Oxford, Miss.,
bank, is also president of the Walter
National Bank, with W. D. M'Nees as
vice president; R, H. Sultoii as cashier
and J. T. Sawyer as assistant cashier.
Crops are Fine.
James F. Austin, a farmer living near
Lawton, was in the city today. He
states that crops are looking fine in his
| locality and with another rain before
. the fourth, they will have an abund-
ance of corn.
Bryan Donates.
oklahoma City, Jurie L'i During W.
,T. Bryan's virit to the city yesterday he
plated a donation to the credit or the
Kingfisher Congregational college
through Rev. T, U. Harper of this city,
who w conducting the Oklahoma City
Chautauqua assembly. Mr Bryan
made the donation in the name ot his
wife and said that as trustee of the
estate of the late l'hilo Sherman Ben-
nett of New Haven, Conn., he was
authorized to donate the fund to some
educational institution for the aid of
poor and deserving girls in obtaining
an education.
Indian Land Sale.
Kaw City, Okla., June 21.-Albert
Taylor, a Kaw Indian, has petitioned
for the sale of a tract of land in the
Kaw country which is his by inherit-
ance. Not very many Indian lands
are offering for sale for the reason
that they only get |10 a month of the
purchase price. This is the tirst land
in the Kaw country that has been
offered for sale. It includes 240 acres.
The large ditching machine used in
the construction of the sanitary sewer
system being built by j. o. Severng
' has again met with an accident The
machine was being moved from tenth
street between B and C aveunep to
Railroad street to begin another cut.
At 8 o'clock last evening while the
machine was moving nicely on Sixth
s'reet between North Boundery and A
avenu , a small ditch of several inches
was struck. When the back wheels of
the machine went down into the ditch
j it jarretl the beam that held the wheel.
| The jar was too much of a strain and
the entire wheel and beam fell over to
to the west with a sudden crash which
was tieard a distance of several blocks.
W M. Georgo and Mike Hale, employ-
ees, were riding upon the beam to
raise the wires that cross the streets in
' order that the machine could pass.
1 Both men were considerably shaken up.
| Hale hungon and was the least injured.
George was thrown twenty feet and
sustained slight bruises and cute about
the head and arms. He was taken to
the hospital for medical treatment.
The damage to the machine will
amount to considerable and the work
will be delayed.
Boy Drowned in Lake.
Altus, Okla., June 21.—On the 16th
Imt. C. E. Yoakum's three-year-old
boy, while playing near the lake, fell
in and was drowned.
Goes to New Zealand.
Rev. H T Morrison of the Christian
church, left Law'on yesterday for
Springfield, Illinois. Krom there he
will leave shortly to accept a call in
New Zealand at a good salary with all
expense of travel allowed. It is with
much regret that Lawton loo«s Rev.
Morrison.
The Bilton's Prelimincry.
Waurika is well represented in Law-
ton today. The majority of Waurikans
came as witnesses in the preliminary
trial of the territory of Oklahoma vs
J. M. Hilton and son, Joe Bilton,
charged with the murder of P. A. Cox.
The witness are: T. R. Martin, G. J.
Jenkins, W. C. Haywood, Bill Morris,
T. W. Wilson, I N. Reed, Ed Cole, W.
J. Berry, Bill Neg^leson, Harry Bird-
well, Jim Long, Mesdames J.M. Bilton
and Emma Martin.
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