Norman Democrat--Topic. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, February 10, 1905 Page: 1 of 4
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NORMAN DEMOCRAT=TOPiC.
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NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, FEB. 10, 1905.
No. 29
! SCHOOL BOOKS!
For Anything In
Books, Office or School Supplies
SEE US
A Fine Line of
BALL GOODS -- STATIONERY
CIGARS and CANDY
Subscriptions taken for any Magazine or
Newspaper.
KINGKADE BOOK STORE
P. O. Building. Norman, Okla.
'VjTX'DfiJlDSh?
|:/edicine'
This great utock tpedicine is
' ■ f r stot k raisers. It I
is a < h(ap f"< l or I
| corn!it n powU< r Though put up ]
rpor form than Thedford'sl
Black-DrungLt, renowned for the]
J (ur of ti.'- <Ii; tion troubles of I
IS pei niB, i' I . ■ ti..* same qualities I
m "i in • igorat ing digest n, stirring I
" up tlip tor| «l liver and loosening J
ti it i pa ted bo« els f >r all stock |
i! poultry. It is carefully pro-
pared and its action ia so he«UtHfu| I
that stock grow an* 1 thrive with an I
<!<- o in tli"ir food. It I
j cun - h g 1 ra and makes bogs I
I grow fat. Itcnrcs chicken cholera I
and r> 11]► and makes hens lay. It I
I cures constipation, distemper audi
Colds in horses, murrain in cattle11
and makes a draught animal do I
i more work for 111« food consumed, f
It giv< • onii ;i! and fowls of all I
kinds now 1 ifi- Kvi-ry farmer and I
raiser should certainly give it a |
| trial
It c< t« 25e a can and saves ten |
| times its pr.f in profit.
, March V>, 1«KM
Draught I
foci hut I iiav"Sf'!uud |
L yours i;. tho best for my purpose
J. 8. HASSON.
It Stands Without a Peerl!
What?
Osteopathy
This Modern Science is thor-
oughly rational and natural. Its
purpose is simply the restoration
of nature's own force. The meth-
ods of the Osteopath are quite un-
like those employed in Magnetic
Healing, Christian Science, Etc.
If you desire to know of all the
kinds of diseases cured by Osteo-
pathy, call on
Dr. KATHERINE HARRIS
Osteopathic Physician
Examination and Consultation Free
Office Over liphraim's Store; Main St.,
Norman ~ Oklahoma
Res. Phone 159. Office 235
R. P. STOOPS, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon.
KUNICE RANI) STOOPS, M.I)
Diseases of Woineu and Children.
Office over VVlnan'u Store.
statehood Bill Passes Senate
Prohibition For Tw/er|ty-Or|e Yt;ars—Siriall ttopc For
Statehood—OI\lai)orr|a Used as a Football.
Letter From the ritilippincs.
The i>eople have some very
strange customs. They regard death
very calmly. Talk to them of death
and they smile. A tear is hardly
ever shed at a funeral. If a hoy's
mother dies in the forenoon he will
come to school in the afternoon
looking as pleasant as if nothing
unusual had happened. Their dead
are carried to the grave in coffins
by hand. There the corpse is
taken out wrapped up and buried,
and the same coffin serves to con-
Cows and Cash
No county on earth is better ad-
apted to the buisness than is Okla-
homa. Her mild waters, virgin
soil, her abundance of feed and for-
age crops, above all the aggressive-
ness and and genius of her yeoman-
ry all combine to make her the
ideal milk producing state.
The industry, however, is merely in
its infancy and at this stage there
is great danger that the false me-
thods and unbusinesslike schemes
which are so likely to be indulged
in by those who are not fully posted,
may discourage and hold back her
proper development.
For the past two or three years
there have been many stock organi-
zations formed to build small cream-
eries by subscription. Amounts
from $3000 to $5000 are subscribed
to put up a $1500 plant, the balance
generally going to the promoters.
On account of the industry being
new, the creamery is not generally
patronized, and the result is failure
not only to pay dividends on stock
but even to pay running expenses
the year round. All this gives a
black eye to the buisness.
Legitimate concerns, however, arc-
operating in this territory offering
to the up-to-date farmer a propo-
sition upon which big profits on
his investments are absolutely sure.
The hand separator has moved tile
skimming station from the town to
the farm, and now the cream is
marketed just as butter was in the
olh skimming station days. Let 110
farmer be inveigled into taking
stock in a small creamery of skim-
ming station, but rather let him in-
vest in his own skimming station
and keep it on his farm, marketing
his cream wherever he can find the
best market. Thus he is sure of a
good big lot of good fresh milk for
feed and a good price for his butter-
fat besides. Good farm separators
can be had for the price of a har-
vester, and ten times the value of
milk can be put through the separ-
ator as compared with the value of
grain that can be handled with a
harvester. Let the farmers of
Oklahoma make 110 mistate but
thoroughly investigate this propo-
sition before they invest their good
hard money.
The Hamilton Bill, in its amended form, passed the United States
Senate about 9 p. 111. Tuesday night. The bill, as it passed the Senate,
makes Oklahoma and Indian Territory one state and admits New Mex-
ico, leaving Arizona as a territory. The surprising feature of the bill, 1
as it now stands, is Senator Gallinger's amendment making twenty-one j
years of prohibition in the entire state of Oklahoma. The text of the|l'lul °''ur torpsis to tin grave. It
amendment is as follows:
"The manufacture, sale, barter or giving away of intoxicating li-
quors within this state is prohibited for the period of twenty-one years
after the date of admission of this state into the union, and thereafter
until the people of this state shall otherwise provide by amendment of
this constitution in a manner prescribed herein. Any person who shall
manufacture, sell, barter or give away any intoxicating liquor of any
kind, including beer, ale and wine, contrary to the provisions of this
section is hereby declared to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con-
viction therefor before any court of competent jurisdiction shall be pun-
ished by imprisonment for not less than 30 days nor more than 100 days
and by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $200 for each offense,
upon admission of this state into the union, the provisions of the section
shall be immediately enforced in the courts of this state."
The above clause will certainly cause rejoicing among those who
are honest in their demands for the suppression of the liquor business.
Senator Beveridge championed the majority report which would make
two states out of four territories. Very fortunate for the West, the
democratic senators and a few honest republicans, led by Senator Fora-
ker, of Ohio, took a patriotic stand against forcing Arizona to accept
joint statehood with New Mexico when her entire population was so
bitterly opposed to it. The vote was very close, sometimes ending in a
tie, except the prohibition amendment which stood 53 for to 20 against.
We have not secured statehood yet and we should not count the
chickens before they are hatched.
A conference committee- three from each house will be appointed
to reach an agreement. It is nearly a well known fact that the house
will not concur in the senate amendments, and then somebody must
make concessions. By the time the conferees agree the fourth day of
March will be on hand and our much wanted statehood will be put off
with a next session promise.
It is believed by many that the many amendments were tacked on
for the purpose of defeating statehood legislation. We want statehood
this session of congress and let us hope that the congress of the United
States will not consider us the equal of Filipinos any longer.
Later. Speaker Cannon leads opposition to bill. He says that
bill must go to the house committee 011 territories where it is feared
that it will be strangled to death. However, Delegate McGtiire assert-
ed positively Wednesday night, that the bill as amended would pass
the house and become a law. All the democrats in the house and
about one-third of the republicans will vote for the amended bill, pro-
vided Cannon will give them a chance.
II. H WILSON, M. I).,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON,
'rial attention given t
Kar, None and Throat
corrected.
CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH
PENNYROYAL PILLS
I'arty Opposition to Roosevelt.
John Sharp Williams, the dem-
ocratic leader in the national house,
declares that he is not falling behind
the president in his fight for the
regulation of railroad rates for any
political purpose, nor because he
has modified his views in any res-
pect. He supports the president in
this matter because it is a true
American policy, and he desires to
give the nation's chief executive
such additional strength as may
come from the assurance that th
democrats in congress will support
him in his endeavor to carry it into
effect. Mr, Bryan takes much the
same ground. He praises President
Roosevelt for his efforts to help the
cause of the people. It is evident,
WiSS sa>'s thc Pittsburg Post, that if the
policy which Mr. Roosevelt has
rSSfc outlined on the railroad and
■Monlnla ami •• Hrllrr for l.adlea." UtUr,
l<> return 91*11. 10,000 Testimonials. Hold by
"chiohbbthr ohbmioai. oo. it will be due to the opposition in
• lOO HadUon Squai """
1 k>1 icy which Mr. Roosevelt
trust
questions is not carried into effect
Agricultural Report sheeP> bee keeping, fruit culture,
The first published report of the g<"denit,g, "nek growing, corn
Tentorial Board of Agriculture has breeding, Kaffir corn, alfalfa, irri-
been in the hands of the printer for Kat,°" alld ma y °thers- Altogeth-
1 ;ii u ; .,,.,1 jw.. i er the report will l>e one well worth
some tune and will be issued snort-
ly The report is necessarily a brief preserving and should be in the ha-
one. Owing to the fact that it has "(ls "f wer>' progressive farmer in
been impossible to collect statistics
because of defects in the law which ion is limited
provides for the collection of such a11 Part,es interested to immediate-
information, no attempt has been j '> address a request to J. B. Tho-
1 . , 1 „t burn, Secretary of the Board of Ag-
made to present detailed account ot | * - h
of the operations of the Board
Inasmuch as the c
it would be well
presented and a great deal of mis-
cellaneous information concerning
the Territory and the development
of its agricultural resources and in-
dustries is also given. Prof. Clias.
N. Gould of the University ofi Ok-
lahoma has contributed a very able
paper on the "Soils of Oklahoma,"
treating the subject in a popular
manner. Likewise, C. M. Strong,
riculture, at Guthrie, for a copy.
Irwin Cleared.
A statement regarding the charg-
es against Judge Irwin, of Okla-
homa, was made public at the
department of justice by Special
Assistant Attorney General Clias.
W. Russell. The statement says
that Milton IS. Cope, a lawyer of
El Reno, who filed charges of
Section Director of the United 1 drunkenness and other offenses
States Weather Bureau, has contri j failed to support his charges with
buted a most instructive paper 011 affidavits. Friends of Irwin made
the "Climate of Oklahoma in its affidavit that the allegations had
Relation to Agriculture," A num-
ber of the most prominent and sue
cessful farmers, stockmen and hor-
ticulturists of the territory have
written articles and papers for the
report. Among the subjects treated
will pe dairying, swine breeding,
110 basis. I11 fact it appears that
the judge was sick when he was
supposed to be drnnk. The de
partment will take 110 further ac
tion.
A hot political time for the next
year if the statehood hill passes.
THE
WINNE MORTGAGE COMPANY
CAPITAL $100,000
Successors to
WINNE & WINNE
A MATTER OF HEALTH
the deceased can afford it the band
always accompanies the corpse from
the church to the cemetery. They
are not particular as to the kind of
funeral music, in fact ragtime
seems the most popular. Babies
hardly ever remain in the ground
more than three years. The bones
are dug up, scattered upon the
ground and a "fresh" corpse takes
the place of the old one. I visited
the cemetery of Boac not long ago
and I don't care to visit it again.
It is surrounded by a stone wall
and is entered through a large
double iron gate beneath a rude
stone arch. It has been the repos-
itory for the dead for probably
more than a century. It contains
only about an acre and no telling
how many thousand have been
buried there. Bones lay scattered
about everywhere and grim skulls
lay all around! At once corner of
the wall was a pile of skulls at
least two feet high! Horrors!
had seen enough! It was sundown
too. As I turned the heavy latch
011 the gate to leave a gecko in the
stone arch above uttered such
blood curdling croak that had
not heard the like sound before I
would have run all the way
town.
The climate here is not the best
in the world but it is fifty per cent
better than 1 expected to find. It
has rained nearly every day since
October 1st and it will until Janu-
ary 1st when the dry season be-
gins. While it has rained every
day since October 1st, I do not
mean to say it has rained all the
time. There has not been a day
since that time that the sun has
not shined. Sometimes it rains
several hours but very often only
a few minutes. Often it has rain-
ed at night and all day the sun
would shine. This alternating rain
and sunshine makes the air very
humid and sometimes sultry. I
have not yet seen a fog; and there
are 110 hot winds. The thermom-
eter has not gone above 90 since I
have been here and often, of late,
it has dropped down to 613. The
temperature now (near Xmas) is
about like the last week in Septem-
ber at Norman. Sometimes I have
found it necessary to sleep under
two blankets. It is very easy to
take cold and colds here are hard
to get rid of.
Health among the poor classes is
bad but is improving greatly since
American occupation. Small |xix,
malaria, dysentry and consumption
are common. Cholera was former-
ly common but there has been no
serious outbreak of it since 1901.
The government is battling hard
to stamp out smallpox. Every
province has its health president
and every town its sanitary board.
All natives are now required to he
vaccinated once a year under penal-
ty of fine. They are rounded up
and vaccinated like cattle. Every-
body must go through the ordeal
no matter if he is pockmarked all
over. There is little resentment,
they take their medicine calmly. It
costs them nothing and they are
beginning to see the great bene
resulting from it.
The health conditions are due to
the mode of living among the jxjor
No Delay in clos
inj; Loans
FARM LOANS
Money paid tc
Borrowers as
soon as title i«
Approved
SEE
J. M. KERR, LOCAL MGR.,
REAR OF CITY NATIOIMAL BANK,
NORMAN, - - - OKLAHOMA
must either wear out the disease or
die, for doctors are scarce and
charge so much that a poor native
cannot afford his services, Medi
ciues too are very high. Quinine
tablets sell at the rate of two for
five cents and other drugs accord-
ingly. Health among Americans
and the better class of natives is
generally good. Few Americans
ever contract the contagious dis-
eases that are so common among
the natives.
Living is more expensive here
than in the states. Employes of
the government have access to the
civil commissary. Commissaries
are, 011 an average, a third higher
than they are in America and often
things that one wants cannot be
bad. The nearest commissary to
Boac is at Lucena, thirty-five miles
away 011 the island of Luzon. Some
kinds of canned goods can be bought j
from the stores here but such things
are very costly. The only tiling to J
do when one gets out of commis- |
saries is to live on native "chow" •
which for the most part is cheap, j
Some of the tilings with their prices
that may he had here are: Chick-
ens, each, ten to thirty cents; rice,
per pound, two cents; bananas,
seventy-five to one hundred and
fifty for ten cents; fish, big ones,
each, three cents; crabs, large, each
ten cents; egg plant, waterbucket
full, ten cents; sweet potatoes, per
bushel, fifty cents; beef, good
(Chinese cattle) once a week, per
pound, twenty cents. Many other
things such as squashes, onions,
mustard and all kinds of tropical
fruits can be bought cheap. The
main things that one needs from
the commissary arc flour, lard sug-
ar, coffee, canned butter and con-
densed milk. There are four bak-
eries here and they make a good
tasted bread and sell it about as
cheap as it is sold in the States
although their flour costs twice as
much. If an American eats the
bread from one of the bakeries he
must not let anything like dirt
baffle him, for the bakers are Chin-
ese. It is impossible to obtain clean
native lard. Although the Philip-
pine hog is plentiful, 110 American
would think of using one for food.
They are the most miserable crea-
ture in the hog line that I have
seen. They never get fat and live
almost entirely upon filth. They
are the scavengers of the Philip-
pines. Native sugar and coffee can
be bought but neither is good.
The sugar is coarse and black and
.fit | the coffee does not have a good
flavor. I have not yet seen a milk
cow. A few milk goats hut the
goats are almost as miserable as
It is now perfectly safe for
Americans, especially here in Mar-
itiduque. There has not been the
amount of disturbance for the last
six months as there lias been in the
same length of time in Cleveland
county. There are about thirty
constabulary soldiers stationed in
Boac to preserve the peace on the
island, besides every town has its
police force. I have l>een in near-
ly every village on the island and
have always traveled without the
least fear of being disturbed. The
natives have always shown me the
greatest respect wherever I have
gone.
Very truly yours,
Chas. II. MKKKBR,
Teacher of English Insular High
School.
Boac Marinduque, P. I.
Clothing Sale at Rucker's.
the hogs.
House rent is rather high,
house that an American can live
classes and a lack of sufficient tiled
ical attention. The poor people
live crowded together. At night
they close- up their shacks and lie will cost from $10 to $25 a month,
down like beasts to sleep. Their We have a house
Anything you want
in any kind of insur-
I'll 11.A., PA-
| his own party alone.—Topeka Jour-
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
HAS HO SUBSTITUTE
made of native
food is dirty and is not properly j lumber and covered with nipa palm
cooked. Rice is boiled in water that costs $12.80 per month. It
and is eaten without milk or sugar, painted, has six good large rooms
Fish are fried, often whole, in lard and goal floors. It is the property
or cocoanut oil. No objection is I of an ex-,nsurrecto "gin.nl.' t he
shown as to the ancientness of the "giniril" is now however perferth Actna Building & Loan Stock
fUTOL
Special cut prices all this week
011 Suits and Overcoats; don't over-
look this opportunity if you are in-
terested in suits and overcoats. We
guarantee to save you money.
Rucker's Cut Price Sale lasts all
this week.
Phone 260—Hello! !
THIS IS
The J. F. Norman
Insurance Agency.
ancc j
fish, in fact rotten fish seem to be
relished as well as the fresh. One
does not have to be in the Philip-
pines long to spoil a goyd fish
stomach for ever.
peaceable. He has long since hung
up his "bolo" and is now a hearty
advocate of American "custumdre
Help is cheap. A cook costs only
$5.00 a month and a boy to do el
When a poor native gets sick he rands, $2.00.
For Sale.
j. f. norman,
nokman, okla.
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