The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 53, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 24, 1913 Page: 2 of 6
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CONTRACT
IS SIGNED
■jflllJ l/l A ML ♦ The Comanche Indian school is •
rill\ | l.rt lllj ♦ going to have a soils products ♦
® ♦ exhibit in the rest room and ex- ♦
INDIAN SCHOOL WILL
HAVE FARM EXHIBIT
NOT CONTESTING IN PRODUCTS
OF FARM BI T Jl'ST TO
SHOW WORK.
kansas city company will
furnish air flu;hts for
celebration.
♦ hibit hall which is to be the agri- ♦
♦ cultural feature of I-awton's
♦ twelfth anniversary celebration.
♦ K E. Brandon, superintendent
ATTRACTIONS ALL IN:
Aeroplane, Balloon, Street ( irnivil,
Bands; Will Work Now on
Detailed Program.
From Saturday's Daily.
Art Smith, the daring young "bird
man" who not long since acquired con-
MARCY-M'CLELLAN EXPEDITION BROUGHT | The latter description is of Medi-1 P R
FIRST WHITE FOOT PRINTS IN K-C COUNTRY EPOSFTS
precisely fixes the location of the old j
Wichita village which, es 'Camp,
Wichita." formed the later location of,
gy j \n* Perry. Liked Looks of lawton.
The first official record of the visit One of the most interesting; points the southwe*teri. mil'tary post
of white men to the territory now em- in the report written by Capt, Marc>
braced in the Kiowa-Comanche coun- is a description of the exact spot upon
try opened to settlement Austin 6, which Fort Sill is now located evi-
1901, or in fact the whole counrty in dently showing that the well known
southwestern Oklahoma above the leaders of this first expedition visited
mouth of Cache creek on Red river is the present site both of Fort Sill and
the story of the "Red river expedi- Lawton. The report indicates, too,
tion" of 1852 conducted by Gen. R. B that (apt. Marcy would have ranked
Marcy, then captain, in command of a, well with present real estate boosters
company of the 5th infantry, and ac-jof this part of Oklahoma. Our camp
companied by Capt. George B. Mc-Jis upon a branch of Cache creek,"
Clellan of the engineering corps, later writes Capt Marcy, about a mile
comi ander in chief of all the federal above the village last occupied by the
troops of the civil war. j WitcheUws, before they left the
At a very early period, officers had mountains. Here they lived and plant-
The Indian school is not con-
siderable newspaper notoriety because testing for prizes offered by the
of a cross-country elopment with a
Fort Wayne, Indiana, girl, using a
Curtiss bi-plane as means of trans-
portation, is the man who will pierc.1
the clouds o'er Lawton during the
three days of the city's twelfth anni-
versary celebration.
Contract with the Young Aeroplnne!
company of Kansas City, Missouri, j
was signed Friday night by Roy F.
Champlin, secretary of the chamber
of commerce, under authority given |
by the celebration committee.In their j
letter enclosing contract, the ^ oung
people announced that Smith, known' .
as the "eloping boy aviator," would j
be the man sent here under the con- i
tract offered.
Flew 75 Miles; Married.
of the school, has asked for and
been assigned space in the show
building, the old Miller Brothers'
home, and is planning an elabor-
ate exhibit, just to show the _ ..., ■■
farmers of the Kiowa-Comanche ♦ been sent out by the French govern-Jed corn for several >ears, and they
country what the Indian young- ♦ ment to explore Red river, but their [exhibited much taste and judgment in
iters whose parents were once ♦ examinations seem to have extended' selecting this site for their town. It is
sole'owners of this new country ♦ no farther than the vicinity of the situated upon an elevated plateau dl-
can do in the wav of farm mak- ♦ present town of Natchitoches, Louis- rectly along the south bank of the
♦ iana. On the third of May, 1806, afterjereek. and commands an extended
♦ the Louisiana Purchase by the United:view of the country to the north,
States government, a small party [south and east. From its commanding
known as the 'exploring expedition of,position it is well secured against
Red river," consisting of Capt,
Sparks Mrs. Freeman, Lieut
ing.
agricultural committee but ♦
merely entering for the interest ♦
it may add to agric .ural ex- ♦
hibit. Farmers are urged to list ♦
their entires with A. B. Hall be- ♦
fore the week of the celebration. ♦
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
G£T TEACHERS
LAST OF WEEK
superintendent here;
move to lawton a!wut
august first.
Smith, according to newspaper ac-
counts at the time, eloped with a
young lady from Fort Wayne, Indi-
ana, and, with his bride-to-be safely
tucked away in the seat beside him,
Teachers to fill vacancies on the
faculty of the Lawton public schools
will be elected a? soon as the teachers
committee of the uoard and W. C .
French. newly elected superintendent
flew seventy-five miles to Hillsdale, i oon h„V(, tjme to look into the quali-
Michigan, where they were married. fications of applicants now seeking
Humphry, and Dr.| Curtis with seven-
teen ->rivates, started to ascend the
Red river, coming up from Mississip-
pi, but. after overcoming numerous
natural obstacles and reaching a point
abov< the great raft, they were forced
to abandon the expedition. Still anoth-
er expedition was fitted opt in 180ti
at the instance of Gen. Wilkinson, in
command of Lieut. Pike, but, after
wandering over the planis for many
months, suffering many privations
and finally mistaking the ?io Grande
for Red river, the explorers were
barely able to reach home through
the kindly assistance of the governor
of New Mexico. Hence it is seen that
up to the time of the Mfc •cy-McClellan
surprise and is, by nature, one of the
most defensible places I have seen.
"The landscape here presented to
the eye ha-s a most charming diversity
of scenery, consisting of mountains,
woodlands glades, watercourses, and
prairies, all laid out and arranged in
such peculiar order as to produce a
most charming and delightful effect
upon the senses.
"This must have been a favorite
spot for the Indians, and why they
have abandoned it I cannot imagine,
unless it was through fear of the Co-
manches.
"The soil here, in point of fertility,
surpasses anythiifg we have before
seen, and the vegetation in the old
cornfields, consisting of rank weeds
the positions open, probably the lat-
ter part of ne\t week or the last
He is no longer in the elopment
business but has acquired new experi-
ence in the manipulation of an aero- \j0nday night in July.
plane and guarantees satisfaction for! Mr French came down from Ed-
l,awton's visitors during the August j m0nd Friday evening. He cannot drop
event. Flights are to be made each |,js Work at the Central state normal
day and the contract stipulation is ^ until the end of July, unless a succes-
that, if there are no flights, there will ,(or can be secured by that time, but
lie no pay; any reduction in the num- w,)j move here with his family—he
b<T of minutes flown meaning a like >tJS a w,fc an(j three children—about
reduction in the amount of money the • rst of August.
paid on the contract price. An assistant *-:<rh schol principal,
Get Carnival Companj. , Ftin teacher and two grade teachers
At last night's meeting of the cele-j are yet to be supplied.
bration committee, contract was also —
authorized, or approved, for bringing
the Lewis-Lachland Greater shows, a
street carnival company, here for all
three days of the August celebration.
The special committee, composed of R
L. Robertson and Joe Wolf, who went
to Paducah, Texas, to inspect the
shows, reported most favorably upon HISTORIC CAREER ENDS WITH
the carnival company. It is composed SURRENDER TO ILLNESS
vi ten big paid attractions and twen- OF MONTHS.
ty concessions and the shows are said .... ,, , ,
. . ,, . j u i . i i Mrs. Francis Ruhm, 79 years of
to be excellent and absolutely clean ' , , ,
.... . #41. age, eldest sister of Col. E. L. Greg-
Ainong the features is one of the ' _ . .. _,__j ._
twelve feet high, was so dense that it
oedition, no rccord was in existence was difficult to force a hors<- through
of any traveler having reached the it. * * *
source of Red river or having gone! Describe Medicine Bluff,
any distance above the mouth of the "The creek just above the village
Cache. j flows directly at the base of a per-
OFFICERS STOP
FORTUNE WHEEL
AND FAXON FUN IS MARRED
BECAUSE CHANCE TO LOSE
MONEY IS GONE.
From Saturday's Daily.
A "wheel of fortune," seemingly
the chief center of amusement at the
annual W. O. W. picnic at Faxon, was
put out * business, Friday afternoon,
by the order of County Attorney T.
B. Orr who looked upon the
ASSETS OF BANK OF LAWTON
TO BE HANDLED THROUGH
CITIZENS STATE
CHARTER IS CANCELLED
Matter Has Been Held t p Penclmc
New Deal But Money Comes
After Tuesday.
Frnm Saturday's Daily.
The Bank of Lawton h.\- jeen in ihi
hands of the state backing board foi
1 several days, and the doors have b<t
_ _ _ nstru-; ciose<ji pending an examination of th.
ment as approaching too nearly to the. con(jition of the bank. State Bank Ex
nature of a gambling outfit
Mr. Orr, with several other county
officials, had gone to Faxon looking
aminer J. G. Hill has had charge <i
the bank, and the state banking boar
would have immediately commence
for pleasure. When they found inter-; paj.jn(j 0(f the depositors under th'
est at high pitch around the gambling
game, they ordered it stopped under
penalty of arrest.
Several hundred people were as-
sembled at the picnic. Judge W. C.
Hendersoji spoke there Friday after-
The expedition of 1852 started out
of Fort Velknap, Texas, on the first
day of May and overcoming all ob-
stacles, including the then formid-
able one of threatened attacks by hos-
tile Indians and deprivations for want
of pure water, the sources of the Red
river were located the entire south-
west Oklahoma country traversed and
many interesting facts discovered
concerning the lands and the Indians
inhabiting the region.
state guaranty law, liquidating th.
bank and cancelling the charter, but
three offers for the bank have bwi
received, two from out of town fin.
one from within the city, and the mat <
. ter has been held up, to give the stat.
noon. The picnic began Thursday and board time to determine jusi
closed today. which offer is the best so the mow
— ! can be realized out of the assets ot
the bank.
J G Hill, state examiner, siy
ELECTION BALLOTS rf ** "*
j M. A. Wert is a victim ol' circuni
INITIATIVE PRO-! stances over which he had no control
4ND j The failure of the street railway deal
] to go through is the cause of the fail
| ure, this coupled with the fact thji
i the "whispering rumor" that was gen
OKLAHOMA CIT^, July 18.- It 'R|(.raiiy passed around caused a run ot.
now considered practically certain j ^ bank resulting from which near!;
that only one of the various initiated j j2oto<)0 were checked out the last four \
questions, petitions for which are sup- • dayg was open
posed to be in circulation, will be vot-j jhc citizens State> th(. pirst Na
cd on at the special election on AuK"; t;ona] an(j th«. City National came t<
ust 5. The only questions which will , th(, re8cue of th(J Bank of Uwton ;.r„
appear on the ballot will be those re- j furnished $1,500 each or a total ot
ferred by the legislature and one ini- ^ ^ ^ ^ut was not (,n0ugh to stem
ONLY one
po;ial completed
ready for vote.
I
pendicular wall of porphyritic trap,
300 feet hiph, and studded with dwarf
cedars which, takincr shallow root in. - 4. ,u """" *"
the crevices of the formation, receive1 « ted bill—the repeal of section 18 of, thfi ^ Qf thp „run„ an<, Mr Wer,
the new mining law. ; jjj wjse thing in asking the banV
The state board of affairs, on the | ^ takc char?c
recommendation of Secertary Ben .. There has been no excitement, a
Riley of the -«ate election board, has^ dcpogiu wcre ,.uaranu-ed. and
awarded the _ ntract for the printing, Jiverj. depositor will secure his mone>
direction \Ajy .... °f the ballots' 8h"fs ^ I dollar for dollar.
the appearance of being the vertical matter to be ln ^ ^ Pay ThrouRh Citizens State.
section of a round hill that has been Uon- bul only om' of the Just as we go to press arrangv
mated questicns appear or. the official have been made whereby thi
their meagre sustenance from the
scanty decomposition of the rocks.
"This interesting escarpment has a
columnar structure, with parallel flut-
ings traversing the face in a vertical
direction from top to bottom, and has
SISTER OF LAWTON
EDITORtIS DEAD IN
TENNESSEE HOME
biggest animal shows in the country
and several good bands in the comp-
any will lend to the "gaiety of the na-
tion" in the matter of music.
All Attractions Are in.
ory of the News and Star, is dead in
i her home in Mount Pleasant, Tcnnes-
I see, according to telegraphic dispatch
received today by the Lawton editor.
I Death came this morning, says the
..... , ,i message, following an illnes contin-
With the closing of the aeroplane! . , _ ,,
umg over several months.
contract, deals have been closed for
practically nil of the attractions to be
offered during the clebration and the
only thing left to be done is to ar-
range detailed program, plans its
carrying out, and advertise the show]™ ^^^^'arVcUr so graphical-
so as to get the people to come and !)y by th, greBt Leather
enjoy it. ; author. For, in the year fol-
And there ends a most historic ca-
, i eer. Born on the farm of hei grand-
father, adjoining the estate of James
! Fennimore Cooper in New ^ork, Mrs.
I Ruhm was destined to see all sides
.
state banking board placet the fund-
at the Citizens State bank to pay all
deposits, commencing next Tuesday
morning and the assets will be hand
led through thi Citizens State bank
The charter for the Bank of Lawtoi.
will be cancelled.
FATHER OF LAWTON
MAN DIES AT CACHE.
Duke's Mixture Umbrella
Whatever way Toil *n>oke O'lkr'* Mtiturr It i de-
lightfully watisfymg Everywhere t i* tbr choice «f oicn
shn want real. n*tur*l tobareo
copy for the ballot.
Only six questions will be voted on,
including the proposed amendment to
Art. IX, Sec. 9 of the constitution; a
new provision for the distribution of
schol taxes, providing that schools
located in counties in which no pub-
lic service corporation operates may
share in the proceeds of the school tax
collected from such corporations; the
amendment providing for an addition-
al levy of taxes to be made by the leg- j Jonathan Steven Herndon w«-
islature in school districts where tht*, born Januarv 14, 1816 in Ripley cour.
present levy is insufficient, and ,ht"! ty> lntiiana) anj died July 11, 1913, at
amendment, backed by Senator Camp-1 hjs home jn Cache gt the Un,v
bell Russell and the People's Power lf hig death C7 year8i B months and 27
league, providing for reducing the size k q{ ap(. „i8 wife and seven child
ui the board of agriculture from e'ev" ren survive him, all whom wcre pre.-
en to five members. ; ,.nt at the time of his death, J. E. and
To Wait for General Election. jG e Herndon, Mrs. J. L. Adkins.
It is possible that some of the peti-| Mrg A c Shcarcr of Missouri, W. A
tions now in circulation could be cora- j Herndon of Fort Worth, Texas, B. f
pleted and filed in time to be printed j Herndon of Lawton and Mrs. G. U
a special ballot, but this is not LinvlHe of Cache.—Cache Register.
considered probable in view of the
/act that the election will occur in; SUngs or bites 0f i„secU that are
twenty days. According to advices re- j followed by .swellings, pains or itch
lowing her birth, 1835, her parents
removed to Fort Clark, Illinois,
The free attractions will include)
daily aeroplane and balloon flights,
Indian races, street contests, street' jn ^ heftrt of the lndian cou„.
parade and fire works. During all I where now sUnds the city of
three days of the week, the Moss-Sny- j peorj8j and, when the Black Hawk In-
der combination of wild west show-.^^ wpre suMu(.d „ fcw years later
men will put on a wild west perform- (h(? cabjn q{ B|ack Hawk him.
ance and roping contest at Koehler Lelf the home of the Greg-1
park, the roping contests taking on ,g_ u waa (here that her girihood |
the nature of vieing of skill between, Shortly before the civil'
ropers from Texas and ropers from,war sh(? recuivcd a iaw dogree from
Oklahoma. The big street carnival Rnox eol|(,^p Xenn., but, when the
csps the Whole show with its noise, its war broke out> she volunteered to
hum drum and it flashing finery. And, | teach federa, 80,dier8, in the
thc mldstof t^° seParaU' armv schools maintained by the gov-
film companies will be taking motion; ernment WM m ^ work that she
! met Lieut. John Ruhm, her husband.
She leaves three sons and two
; daughters, one of the sons an army
| engineer high in the service of the
government's naval construction
MMIlt t<
present coupon
pictures of the goings rn. So, alto-
gether, the twelfth anniversary cele
bration promises to eclipse all form-
er undertakings of the kind not only
in Lawton but in any city or town in
the southwestern part of the state.
Expect Fifty Thousand,
That the people are Interested in
the promised performance is shown
in the fact that letters are coming in
from all parts of the country, not only
from old residents of Lawton but also
from amusement lovers of other cit-
ies in Oklahoma and Texas, pledging
large delegations for thc big show.
The celebration committee is confi-
dently looking for fully fifty thousand
people during the week of the cele-
bration.
The Best Hot Weather Tonic
liROVE S TASTKI. KSS chill TONIC cortchn tit
blood, btilldi up Uir wholf «ratea and will woo
(fertility Mrrnctlttn and fortify you to wtthataml
Um lipitwai tltcf ol thc hot sumo. SCc
work Col. Gregory will be unable to
attend the funeral.
K. H. T. A. RrWARD.
The Antl Horn
Thief Assedatlo.
No. 455 of Rose-
land offer* the fol-
lowing itandiai
rewards for evl
dence that will
lead to the recovery of prop-
erty stolen from any member of tin
Roseland lodge snd evidence to con
rict thief; S10 for petty larceny anc
$25 fo grand larceny.
B. H. SAGEL. President
J. C CLINE, Fin. Sec. 10-11 dkm ti
ln each 5c sack there are one and a half ounce.of
choice Virginia and North Carolina tobacco—pure. mild,
rich—bent sort of granulated tobacco Enough lo make
many good, satisfying smokes - « y
u«e it And with each *ack you grt
Get an Umbrella Free
The coupon, ran be richanged for all sort, of valu
able prceot* The list include, not only smokers' «,rtic!e.
- l,ot m,nr desirablr preseDU for women and children
umbrellas, cimfrii,
toilet articlei. trnnif
rackets, catcher •
gloves and masks, etc.
We will .tend ClU*
illustrated catalogue of
presents FREE to any
address. Ask for it oo •
postal today This offer
expires December SI ISIS.
from DuM/'t Mixtun m>
be asurrttd with Ufs from HORSE
SHOE, J.T..TWSLEY-S NATU
RAL LEAF. CRANCER TWIST.
caupoy from FOUR JOS"
tin doublr coupon).PLUG
CUT, PIEDMONT aGARETTES.
CUX CIGARETTES, ond oiAor
itft or comfo+t uiurd h
Address-Pr«a^*s DepL
I
StUrisHo rf
cdved in official circles, many of the L shcul(1 be ter^ted
backers of the different petitions have j they are poisonou8
SNOW LINIMENT
-ed :iciivity in the work of secur-
ing signatures, preferring to hold
their questions until the next general
state election. This plan would give
the supporters of different proposi-
tions an opportunity to make a cam-
paign in thc interest of the adoption
of their propositions, which is not pos-
sible before the special election.
The Printers' Publishing company
of Oklahoma City received the con-
tract for printing the ballots and oth-
er printed supplies. The contract price
is $6-17, which, it is said, was the low-
est bid submitted. The bids, it is said,
ranged from that amount to $2,600.
The delivery of the ballots to Secre-
tary Ben W. Riley of the state election
board for distribution throughout the
state is to be started not later than
Saturday.
promptly
BALLARD'S
counteracts tht
poison. It is both antiseptic and heal-
ing. Price 25c, 50c and $1.00 per bot-
tle. Sold by Jones Bros. (Adv.)
HIS TROUBLE
NOT OF HEART
Real Facts In Regard To F. R.
Huffman's Illness. Relief Ob-
tained By Curing His
Stomacn Ailments.
HOW FOOLISH
To suffer from Skin Diseases, Itch,
Eczema, Ringworm, etc., when one
50c box of "Hunt's Cu. is n-Ngitively
guaranteed to cure or yov fnoney
promptly refunded. Every retail drug-
gist in the state stands behind this
guarantee. Ask your druggist and see
the guarantee with each box. You
don't risk anything in giving it (i
trial. (Adv.)
H. W. HANNA.
Lswyer and PensUn Attorney
Notary Public.
Praet.ce In all the Courts.
312 C Ave. Lawton, Okla.
Waynesville.N. C.—Mr. F. R.
ot this city, says: "I suffered dreadful)}
with whal i thought was heart trouble
tnd tried various medicines in vain.
After other remedies had failed, Thed-
lord's Black-Draught restored me M
health. I would not feel safe withot*
Black-Draught in the house. I considti
It worth its weight ir gold.
It cured my indigestion, and by thli
means I was restored to health. I cat
not express my gratitude for its benefits "
Good health depends on the conditio*
of your digestion. Poor digestion ani
good health do not go together.
Thedford's Blick-Draught will
thoroughly cleanse and set in order yom
digestive system.
It har. done this for others, during the
past 70 years, and is today the mosl
popular vegetable liver remedy om the
maiket. Try IL
lasist on Thedlord's Pries 25c.
4i*
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