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The Lawton Constitution.
rmiKiTV a Kin OP THE PEOPLE,
Vol. III.
WEEKLY EDITION.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF COMANCHE COUNTY AND OF THE PEOPLE
LAWTON 0KLAHOMA^ THURSDAY, AUGUST 17,1905-
WEEKLY EDITION.
No. 24.
EXAMINATION
County Teachers Busily En-
gaged—A Very Large
Number Here.
Krora Friday s Dally Comtnutlon.
This morning one hundred and fifty
teachere presented themselves for ex-
amination Of the one hundred and
fifty, twenty-six are trying for first
grade, sixty-six for second grade and
fifty-eight for third grade, and ten of
the high school pupils are taking the
examination in order to bring up some
back work.
Superintendent Nelson is assisted by
tbe Misses Lena Collins and AlmaMis-
simote.
This morning the elimination in-
cluded orthography, compositi n and
geography, this afternoon, grammar,
penmanship, history and reading. All
other subjects will be taken tomorrow.
At the close of the normal yesterday
the following resolutions were adop-
ted:
We, your committee on resolutions,
submit tbe following:
First; That we, the teachers of Co-
manche, do hereby thank the board of
education for the use of the high
school building and grounds, and the
citizens whs havt/ welcimed us to
their homes and churches.
Second; That we, as a body of grate-
ful teachers, tender our worthy con-
ductor, Mr. S. M. Barrett, our appreci-
ations for the untiring efforts in class
work and in securing the very best and
instructive lectures given by Dr.
Greenwood and that we further ten-
der otir thanks ti Mr. A. W. Bohannan
and Mr. C. H. Roberts, for their very
thoughtful manner in presenting the
various subjects for our dutiful consid-
eration, and that we go from here bet-
ter prepared for the responsible po-
sitions 1 ntrusted to us.
Third; That we as teachers of this
county, recognizing the f ct of our In-
fluence upon the children that
under our care, resolve todo o«i 'j.-
most to prevent the use of gum, to-
bacco and intoxicants, not only by
teaching their effects, but by example.
Fourth; That we sincerely thank
Superintendent E. B. Nelson for the
nstruotioi.s given and his ewocess in
securing able instructors and the
grand reci ption that was enjoyed by
all, in partaking freely of fruit of Okla-
homa product.
Fifth; That when possible, not when
convenient, we attend the regular
meeting of our general and district as-
sociations, pay our dues and carefully
prepare topics assigned us, that we do
our best towards making both general
and district meetings profitable.
Sixth; And that we make these res-
olutions mean more than a mere ^nat-
ter of form. Signed,
W. W. Cunningham, Chm.,
Hazkl F. Tomlinson, Sec.
Their Work Ended.
The teachers' examination closed
yesteriay. It will take about three
weeks for Supt. Nelson to grade the
papers and report the results. Many
of the teachers left by way of the
Rock Island and over land to their
homes yesterday afternoon, and by to-
night they will all have departed.
Militia Encampment.
I Governor Ferguson hag announced
j that he has selected Chandler as the
| next place to hold the encampment of
the Oklahoma national guard, and that
j the date will be the week following
| October 5th.
Governor Ferguson stated that
Chandler had put up the best propo-
sition, and the citizens there are very
desirous of securing the encampment.
The date set is unu-ually late but ibis
was done in tbe hopes of avoiding all
hot weather.
The citizens of Chandler have raised
1500, out of which enough will betaken
to pay for ptixes, and they will al*o
defray all expenses.
WILDMAN
Breezy er From Pioneer
Mining Camp of the
Wichitas.
At Ponca City.
Ponca City, Okla., Aug. 11.—The re-
port that a strong flow of gas has been
struck in the new gas well created
more stir and excitement than any-
thing that has happened In the city for
a longtime. There whs a continual
procession to the well all the after-
noon and In the evening the <vhole c'ty
turned out to see the gas lighted.
There must have been more than two
or three thousand people on the
ground when the torch was applied to
the top of the six inch casing which
had been erected near the well and the
flames shot upwards a distance of
forty or fifty feet.
Manila To Fort Sill.
San Francisco, Aug. 11.—The trans-
port Buford, Captain Hail, hasarrived
in port twenty-two days from Manila.
The steamship came direct from
Nagasaki. It carried 117 cabin and 142
ste rage passengers, besides troops
from the Philippines. These consisted
of the Seventeenth infantry, bound for
Fort McPherson, Ga., and the Third
squadron of the Thirteenth Civalry^
which is und for Fort Sill, Okla
Colonel Van Orsdale is in command of
the Sevente. nth.
CROP
Wheat, Corn And Oats Exceed
Last Year 250 Million
Bushels.
The July government report makes
the winter wheat crop o' United
States 424# million busht . >!ch is
the largest, with one exception—that
of 1901—ever produced, and 91 million
bushels larger than last year's crop.
The indicated spring wheat produc-
tion is 265 million bushels including
199 million bushels in the three nort1- -
west states, which were credited with
154 million bushels last year.
The total winter and spring wheat
crop of the United States promises to
be 693 million bushels, the largest,
with one exception, ever raised.
The report on corn conditions indi-
cated a total crop for the country of
almost 2,600 million bushels or 127
million bnshels greater than last year,
Wildman, O. T., Aug. 12, 1905.
Editor Constitution.
Dear Sir:—Thinking it will be of in-
terest to your many readers to hear
from this end of the Wichitas, will pre-
sume on your good nature and valuable
| space to give you a few items.
Wildman, as you perhaps already
| know, is the oldest mining camp in the
I Wichitas, and from present conditions
will be the camp that will be the first
to prove the claim of the miners of the
Wichitas that pay ore • xists here and
that sooner or later these mountains
will be developed into one of the rich-
est mineral districts in the United
States. The recent discovery of the
rich copper and gold mine in Wildman
known f8 tbe Lyon Lode, is a long
stride in the establishment of these
facts beyond dispute. Even a Bain, a
De Barr, or a Gould could not help be-
ing amazed at the tremendous propor-
tions of this lode. The truth of the
buBii -?8b is, you can't look at this mine
without wondering how these men
could have the gall to make an adverse
report against these mountain".
Wildman is located on the 160 acres
on which the Lyon lode is located. The
Wildman Mining & Milling company
own all this property having bought
out the homestead title, and propose to
build a town second to none in Kiowa
county, and it is now a candidate for
the county seat ot Kiowa county and
expects in a short time to have popu-
lation enough to defeat Hobart in a
fair contest for those honors. There
has not been much effort made yet to-
wards the building of the future capitol
of Kiowa county as the time has not
arrived, but people are oming in daily
and knocking at our door for admit-
tance, and our motto is not to turn
anyone away empty-handed. We lo-
cated on our towrsite last week the
following enterprises which will go up
very soon: one bank, one ice factory,
one lumber yard, one smelter and one
refinery. The parties who are to put
in the smelter and refinery, started
east to purchase the machinery
for same yesterday. Two busi-
ness houses are going up now
and will be occupied in a few days.
Below are the names and business
of the most recent arrivals in our
Apache Township.
J. C. Carlile of Apache township
brought to this office this morning
somt as fine peaches as have been
shown here this year. They were of a
large yellow variety, something on the
order of the Chinese cling. Mr. Calile
lives fifty miles from Lawton but he
comes up several times during the year.
He reports crops of all kinds good and
says they are raising good corn on tlie
high prairie land of Apache township
this year.
Mr. Carlile says that the people are
well pleased with Commissioner Hall
and have found that the campaign
stories told about him are without
foundation.
F Nfi IN F FP Fair Association
Lfl^ vJ 11^ L*a\. The fair association met l<"«t night
i and ordered the building committee to
| let a contract for a commodious build-
I ing to be u9ed for art, floral and agri-
Kennard Makes Report Kela
" I cultural displays, also
tive to Permanent
Sidewalks.
poultry hall, to-
gether with stalls for horses and cattle,
pens for sheep and hogs.
The committee, headed by T. H.
Dunn, has the speed program almost
complete, and the committee on dally
_ . „ program, heui'sdby Wit. Hornaday,
rr°mjm>" Ia"y on* u' has that program about completed.
Th« c'tf oouneiI met in sp.cal sen The pr(,mium ligtig being bound and
sion Sa>ortUv erttung and appr ^ed nt out ttg faBl ai p0g«ible.
the report W City Engineer Kennard , ^ere Is a greater number of inqui-
relative to tht nonstt acUou ol cement deg cominK fr<>m partg of the
sidewalks. The i % wb« Mtter.-d lli" county than ever before, hence the as-
vided into sewerdistricWKc ipeeilka-
Good Outlook For Cotton.
Elmer Helm is Lere today from near
Hulen. Mr. Ilelin saj's the chances
for a large cotton yield were poor un-
til thi-< week. The foliage was heavy
but the blossom did not appear until
the warm weather this week. The
threshing in this section of the country
is about completed and many of the
farmers have the land plowed prepara-
tory to further use. He also stated
that his people were healthy and sel-
dom did one die unless old age was the
cause.
Comanche Fair.
The people are taking a great in-
terest in the fourthcoming meeting of
the Comanche county fair association.
This is a year the farmers have many
things to exhibit of which they are
proud.
Pawnee Bill's Show.
On September 29th Pawnee Bill's
show will be here, and on October 3rd
tbe Floto shows. Floto shows are
said to be the best on the road.
FRISCO
Railroad Company Making
Many Improvements in
City of Lawton.
It is not quite a year since the Frisco
mad:' Lawton a freight division, and
while no rcund house has yet been
built, the work in the yards has steadily
increased, and the Constitution learns
tliet the blue prints for the round h8use
have been made. Four engines tie up
regularly here "very night, frequently
tions made for lateral sewef>.
The engineer's report in P-rt*
"I beg leave to report and fnbmit
profile which shows established grad#
for C avenue and sidewalks, also Bur-
face elevation on eai.li side of C ave-
nue, from Railroad to Seventh street,
and further submit to you in connec-
tion with said profile the complete es-
timates for each lot in each block Cal-
culations are made to sub-grade for
side grade, walks to be built, said esti-
mates are to be made in cubic feet to
be filled and excavated, also the num-
ber cubic feet for retaining wall, which
will have to be built upon Buch lots
I (jf are low and which will have to be
lllled before sidewalk can be con-
structed.
"Total excavations, H2,316.63 cubic
feet; total fills, 42,179.98 subic feet; 18
inch retaining walls, 5,504.55 cubic
feet. 5,640.7 lineal feetofsidewalktobe
constructed oil Avenue C, Railroad lo
Seventh street. This amount includes
new sidewalk for Martin building,
which is in bad shape and below grade.
6,200 feet of curb and guttering is to be
constructed, also 21 catch basin for
lateral and drainage Bewer are to be
built. Stone from the quarry north-
west of town is recommended for curbs
and cement is recommended for gut-
ters. Surveys and maps for district
Bowers are recom mended to be made
and the contract for construction let at
the same time the contracts are let for
| the Avenue D walks."
In conclusion the engineer states
that he has poshed the work as rap-
idly as it could be done, taking into
consideration that he has been re-
quired 11 giv i grades in other paris of
the city and look after the oonstructiou
ol the storm sewer, hie recommends
that this be extended to Avenue C
and Fifth street.
«ociation believes there will be throe
. (old more exhibits this year than last.
Or* are more demands for space
:$( oan (H) supplied. The association
Itaf** the <# ulook is exceedingly
good. nil
Returned Hooks.
O. E. '.oucks, an early day
attorne.,, but now of kan*. ch>, >
where be is engaged by the Cash
ister company, has returned to his
home after spending several days ill
the city visiting bis old friends.
Chickasha Beaten.
The Lawton ball team has another
substantial victory to their credit.
Chickasha was beaten Sunday. The
Bcore stood 9 to 6 in favor of Lawton.
The Lawton team is playing swifter
ball every game snd If they keep up
their present rate, few territorial clubs
will be able to stand before them.
Lawton also won the game Saturday
against Fort Sill. Score 8 to 6-
1100 was to have been put upas a purse
but the Fort boys failed lo put up their
half.
D0LS0N
Charge of Larceny of Dia-
monds Against The Doctor
Is Disui.ised.
ijiu'sv jcwui- "—o - - —
camp: W. S. Allison, J. W. Buchanan, there are five; last night there were
S. Treadwell, F.I). Hewitt ari ' six and one night last month there were
Wm. Swath wood. Tbe above named
parties represent t'e Southwestern
Development Co., and are the parties
i who are financing the Kansas City
Southwestern & Gulf railroad, and are
here to finance the Wildman Central &
Wichita Mountain railway. Another
enterprise with Wildman as its main
office and headquarters is John Wohl-
wend, one of the smelter men from
South DakLta, who, as stated, has
gone east to purchaBe a smelter and re-
eight. Eight men are now regularly
employed in the yards, two of whom
are car repairers. Three freight ca
ttj i 11 Ion hnshP p grreau-r man mst j "#r f . .
s . j I finerv for this place, Mr. Eubanks, a
and the largest corn crop ever produced. > from Fort Worth> and Mr.
Will Quarantine.
Muskogee, I. T.,Aug. 10.—The Mus-
kogee board ol health today decided to
establish a rigid quarantine against the
towns in the south now stricken with
yellow fever. A committee will meet
each train which will be stopped at the
city limits and inspect the passengers.
Any person from theinfected localities
will not be allowed to ieivethe train at
Muskogee unless lie p issessos a cer-
tificate of iiealih from a practicing
physician.
Kansas Corn Crop.
Topeka, Kail., Aug. 10.—Reports from
various sources indicate that Kansas
will come close this year 'o breaking
its former record of 274 million bushels
of corn, produced in ll89. The acre-
age t his yearis larger ihanin 1889,and,
excepting a limited area in the south-
west, where dry weather had done
som damage before recent rai'is there,
the conditions have bem ileal all sea-
son.
Some wonderful tales ere told of the
probable production. Many^M* i s
asserted, will produce seventy hve
bushels to the acre and some will yield
100 bushels. In view of the fact that a
perfect crop in the United States as a
* whole is only thirty-one bushels, these
estimates for Kansas look very Im-
pressive.
Dave Grout returned from Arizona
Saturday evening.
capitalist from Fort Worth, and Mr.
Gaskell and others from Fort Worth
are here, and many others wnose
names I have not yetlearned.
The engineers of AVildman Central
& Wichita Mountain railway will com-
plete the survey of the road through
Greer county by tomorrow night, and
Drunken LOW tioys. wjjj begin at Wildman on the eastern
Thursday night at 9 o'clock as Star ! division of the road in the direction of
Route Mail Currier C. F. McCarty en- ! Lawton o next Monnday.
The oats yield, 880 million bushels,
is slightly less than lastyear.
The aggregate production of these
threo crops amounts to 4,164 million
bushels, or 250 million bushels more
than last year.
Children's Home Society.
The Children's Home society of Ok-
lahoma had a representative here yes-
terday and today, Rev. Noah B. Wick-
ham of Guthrie. While here Rev.
Wickham placed a child in one of the
h^' e ,„iwton. We nays tbe Child-
Home societ; - doing a great
are car reuaiiuru. xiiree uci^in * .
have been fitted up as tool and repair I work, and since its organtzatiori in
houses, and a material platform is now I «00 has handled more than 200 child-
under construction. The work traip is
now ballasting the track around Cache
and Indiahoma with gravel taken from
a pit that was opened up last week just
west of Cache, and from now on the
cinders, instead of being taken toother
points, will be used to pave the Law-
ton yards.
tered Chattanooga, 9ix drunkeu cow
boys who had been in a round up in
the big pasture roped the m .il hack
and turned if over. The hack con-
tained U. S. mail. Mr. McCarty re-
ported the matter to U. S. Commis-
sioner Illanding, who reported it.to
U. S. Attorney Horace Speed. The
name of one of the cow boys bag been
learned and the entire outfit may yet
get into trouble.
Yours Truly,
E. E. Moulder.
a defense
were issued
'as made con-
Igress, limiting
Want Campbell Pardoned.
Guthrie, Okla., Aug. 10.—Governor
Ferguson has been asked to pardon
Horace C. Campoell, who was sen-
tenced to a year and a half In the peni-
tentiary from Lawtonfor perjury. He
was convicted of giving perjured testi-
mony in the case against George Mo-
ran for the murder of Beemblossom
during tbe opening of the new country.
The pe'ltion is signed by many persons
win know Campbell, who is now an
old man—over 50 years old.
New Bus Line.
L. M. Bcera has started a new bus
1 and baggage line. He made his first
trip to the Rock Island train this morn-
intr. He has a d pot coach that it is a
pleasure to ride in, and Mr. Beers is
well known for prompt service in a
business way.
Dallas State Fair.
Dallas, Texas, August 10.—There
are now more than two hun-
dred and fifty race horses on the
grounds in training for the c ming
races, and the number will reach six
hundred by opening day.
The firstdayof the fair, Satutday,
September 30th, has been designated
Dedication Day, as the magnificent
new auditorium and exposition building
will be dedicated on that occasion.
The fair will be formally opened by
Governor Lanham, who is the first
honorary vice president. President C.
A. Keating, of the fair association, and
Hon. Bryan T. Barry, mayor of the
city of Dallas, will n spond. The Dal-
las Commeicial club, in connection
with the various civic, fraternal and
industrial organizations, will have
charge of the ceremonies. The gov-
ernor will be greeted by a chorus of
two hundred children's voices and a
mixed chorus of one hundred voices,
accompanied by Seymour's military
band of fifty members. The selections
will be patriotic airs. All of the hon-
orary vice presidents are expected to
be present.
District School Script.
The First National bank brought suit
in Judge Husseys court against school
districts No. 2 and 13, to collect war-
rants amounting to something like
eight hundred dollars. The warrants
of district 13 were issued to Connella
for building a sc t}10use.
The districts s-'si M
plea that the wari-ai
before an asseBs rlent
trary to an act of c
indebtedness in ; be territories.
The court heldlhat the act does not
apply to Oklahoma and decided in
favor of the l> rik ami against the
school districts. 1
Judge Burford' one pf the ablest
jurists in the ten ijory,' t^ith all due re-
spect to Judge Hu«sey, ljudg-5 of the
supreme court, held' thai the act did
apply to Oklahom^t' the case of the
City of Guthrie vsltise&New Vienna
bank, reported in t.||e Pacific.
The decision is f* rtapliing as many
school districts in] the V
have similar cases.
The ca G against l)r. F. R. DoIbod,
who was charged with the larceny of
diamonds w«s dismissed this morning.
The prosecution put on four witnesses,
Meadames Hannan and Batton, Mc-
Duftie the jeweler, and George Riggin.
Sufficient evidence was not adduced to
prove that the defendent was guilty.
When the prosecution was through with
its witnesses, tbe defence demurred to
the evidence and the case wat dis-
missed.
It will be remembered that Dr. Dol-
Bon refused to tell where the diamonds
were a few days ago, upon the ground
that there was a criminal charge stand-
ing against him, and to answer might
tend to lDcriminate him. Now that the
charge has been dismissed, the Doctor
may be cited again to Btate where th©
diamonds are. In the mean time how-
ever, if the court holds that the will pro-
duced by the Doctor is genuine, a new
administrator will be appointed to look
after the property in the interest of the*
little girl Viola,deceased's sister.
With Water.
Philadelphia, Aug., 13.—Much to
the surpri-e of everybody, except the
few who were concerned in the little
plot, the battleship Kansas was
enona vo Tne launched from the New York ship-
archbishop, however, left his house j building yards in South Canadian to-
only on one occasion before he wa-' day with a baptism of water.
taken sick This is the firs; war ship in the world
— 1 to. be launched with
A Second Choice. |simpi
ren. Rev. Wickham goes from here
to Kingfisher where he will get three
homhlesB children and place them in
good homes.
Fever Gets Archbishop.
New Orleans, August 10.—Arch-
bishop Chapelle, of th diocese of New
Orleans, who became ill with yellow
fever last week, died here this after-
noon.
He had returned to the city three
days before, having made a tour of
Louisiana and announced on his ar-
rival the intention of helping in the
efforts to st imp out the fever. ~
water pure and
r. . Everybody thought that
10 Col nel' chi,mPa8ne was ,<J be usod and more
Anadarko, Ok , Aug. nel I than haff the delegation of Kansas in
Randlett the Indian age.,' has re- | ^ ,aunchi s,aml w„re i(?norant of
ceived instructions from Se^cretary ^ gobgtilution tl|#t hac| ^ m lde at
Hitchcock regarding the leading of the
bew country
Attorneys Hud
the bank.
Leath
Yesterday C
ningham rs lea
the civil office
soldier who
of the t#e
evidence sho
charging his
the officers o
Is shooting
ningham w
soldier fou
Of Lawton
y represen etl
iased.
ity. Att .rney Cun-
the custody of
itiel Leath, the
Ra ns, a private
It battery. The
It Leath was dis-
s commanded by
and was justified
'However Mr. Cun-
iusly prosecute any
ing a gun in the City
le is cn duty.
half million acres of Indian pasture
lands. He is directed to change the
form of bids heretofore sent arid to
allow all bidders to make a second
choice in tneir bids. One deposit of 10
per cent of the acreage rental will
suffice for both bid', and if the bidder!
is turned down on his first choice he <
has an equal chance on bis second. As
any person may lease as many aB four
seperate quarters, the second choice
privilege really gives a person eight
the substitution that had been m ide at
the last moment.
It was not known u .til an hour be-
fore the time set for sending forth the
big fighting vessel, that prohibition
sentiment oi Sunflower state had
triumphed.
Police Chief.
Pawhuska, Okla., Aug 13.—Wiley G.
Haines has been appointed chief police
of the Osage Indian reservation, to
succeed Warren Bennett, who died
chances to secure one quarter section, j last week. Haines was with Bennett
in the fight with the Martin gang of
Davis Citizens Raise Bonus.
Davis, 1. F, Aug. 12.—Ihe ciii.ei'f : ^ shoulder and badly woundi d
of Davis have just completed the fund
of tl2,50J to be donated to_ theelectric
railway to be built
City to Sulphur by way q
and l>avis. According
the work must be
later than September
pleted March 1st, 1
raised under tbe
that the entire lii
completed not la
1907.
outlaws, in which the two Martin
brothers were killed. Haines was shot
lhoms High School vs. Cache.
alley Yesterday the Cache boysy
ment Law ton f> r the purp. se of
*d not scalp of our High Scl ool b|
be com- they [lacked one p
ie bonus put up a good game b
provides boyB were a little stroi
Ld must be and after the twelft
August 1st, ished, the score st
^ of Lawton.
teams
wton.
was fin-
in favoT
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