The Oklahoma Leader. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 24, 1903 Page: 4 of 8
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PAGE FOUR.
THE LEADER, EUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA
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BY LESLIE Q. NIBLACK.
y~THB ASSOCIATED PRESS
If Mayor Seth Low regard* a nomi-
nation as a vindication, how will he
figure on the defeat which will almost
certainly follow?
If the Salvation army succeeds In
converting the Kentucky feudists It will
be eminently aualifled to take on the
Basht-Bazouks next.
If Curtis Jett Is not careful he may
get his numerous changes of venue
mixed up and turn up some fine morn-
ing In the wrong court.
Under cover of his Illness enator
Hanna may gracefully get away from
the ardous task of attempting to re-
elect Roosevelt next year.
That the Tammany factions are
fighting each other merely meatus th.it
they are training for giving the Repub-
licans a good old fashioned licking.
Mr. Macheit should order an arith-
mometer to keep count of his indict-
ments.
Maryland Republicans are crying for
harmony. This Is about all they will
get.
Now the factories are making birds
for women's hats. Look out for the
canned hat next.
Bulgaria issued a note but the pow-
ers discounted It, so the situation re-
mains unchanged.
Lieutenant Peary says that the north
pole can be discovered for $200,000.
But is the pole worth it?
Notice how the earth tlppel up when
Dennis Flynn landed In Oklahoma
City? Also the heavy frost that de-
scended ?
Harrison avenue grows dark again.
Negro loafers should be given the run.
It's a long time until election. Police
can operate without fear.
No wonder the Turks destroyed Kas-
torlo. They must have got tired of
hearing the babies cry for it.
There ought to be a godd demand
for Roosevelt-Booker Washington but-
tons in Guthrie.
Premier Balfour's position is made
exceedingly precarious by Mr. Cham-
berlain's resignation. He has commit-
ted himself to a partial abandonment
of the present free-trade system, thu^:
offending the aut-and-out free-traders
in his Cabinet, like Mr. Ritchie, the
Duke of Devonshire and Sir Michael
Hicks-Beach. The general expectation
in London is that under these Inhar-
monious conditions the Balfour Min-
istry must shortly disappear and a
general election be held.
"ATTORNEY" FLYNN.
(Blackwell News.)
It Is report^I that Dennis Flynn has
been offered the position of attorney
for the Frisco railroad In Oklahoma
If this Is true it means that the Frisco
is going to dabble in politics In thli
territory. We have known Flynn fo.
the past seventeen ye irs. Wr knev
him while he was engaged in the re i! |
estate business in Barber county, K in
sas, from whence he came to old Ok-
lahoma on the day of the opening o
that country to settlement, with th<
commisson of postmaster of Guthre in
his pocket.
If he ever practiced law, or had 11
case In court, during the past seven-
teen years, it Is news to us. But it
is not necessary to be a lawyer to hoi,I
down a political Job with a railroad
corporation. Of course it sounds bet-
ter to say a man is employed by the
railroad as attorney than to say he Is
employed as political manipulator.
The duty of the political manipulator
Is to look after the candidates for the
legislature and see that no one who If
antagonistic to the railroad Interests
is nominated, and if nominated to s.?e
that he Is defeated. It Is also his duty
to be conveniently present at each ses-
sion of the legislature and see that no
anti-railroad legislation becomes a law.
He Is always supplied with an unlim-
ited supply of railroad passes and plen-
ty of money for urgent needs.
Heretofore the Rock Island and the
Santa Fe have handled railroad poli-
tics in Oklahoma, but the statement
that the Frisco will employ Dennis
Flynn as "attorney" Indicates that the
Frisco, since its alliance with the
Rock Island, Is going to take a han!
In the deal und attempt to run the
pclitcs of Oklahoma.
capital city. Several men owning prop-
erty southwest of the city think fav-
orably of the park scheme and provid-
ing they keep the schema free of
banking Influences and Jobbery a legi-
timate corporation can be formed and a
$100,000 park equipped. One thing is
certain, a big park for Guthrie is an
absolute necessity if the urban line is
to be built and the project should be
pushed.
HUMOR AS A QUALIFICATION.
District Attorney Jerome is oppos-
ing the renominatiou of Mayor Low
of New York for. among other rea-
sons. the fact that he "lacks a sense
of humor." says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Visiting foreigners have communed
upon the humor loving characteristic
of the American people, but not even
one of these had had the audacity to
declare that *o elect our office holders
because they are comedians. Still,
there is force la Jerome's objection.
There can be no doubt that the man
with a sense of humor Is apt to be more
openly popular than his morose fellow
citizen. Consider how many votes are
cast for candidates because they are
"good fellows."
Ponder also upon the advantage It
must be to a professional politician
to have his subtle, saving sense of
humor. How otherwise could he bold-
ly and brazenly sit down to write
pledges of reform that Ire never means
to redeem? We can imagine some of
our bosses chuckling between planks
as they glibly round off the sonorous
nothings which are to fool the people
into giving them fresh lease of pow-
er. A man without a sense of humor
might balk at such a deliberate de-
ception, but redeemed with the un-
derstanding that it is merely a joke
upon the dear people, the humorist
can toss It off without a qualm. Ye?,
the possession of a sense of humor Is
a requisite of qualification from either
standpoint.
THE WEALTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Atlanta Constitution says in I860
the census estimates of the total wealth
of the southern states was a little more
than $5,200,190,818 including the value
of negroes held as property. In 1880.
after the civil war, em&neiprv'ion and
reconstruction. It wis $2,000,000,000
less than In 1860. It is now stated that
the census returns of 1900. when fully
tabulated will place our wealth at over
$12,000,000,000.
What a tremendous significance lies
in those figures! During the last
twenty years we have quadrupled our
total wealth and yet we are but at the
beginning of the development, of our
resources. What we have done in
manufactures, mining, railway build-
ing and the transformation of raw ma-
terials into finished goods has but
demonstrated to conviction the certain
profitableness of such enterprises.
From now on the logic of conditions
and commercial circumstances will
multiply our stocks of capital and our
sources of profit.
The people of the south are firmly
advanced on the way of prosperity and
only need tranquility from agitations
over academic Issues of politics and
inflaming questions of social policy in
order to speedily reach their old posi-
tion of economic Independence and
power in public affairs. Peace and in-
dustry are the handmaidens we n??tl to
cultivate.
I
Wichita Fair and Carnival!
September 28—October 3,
REDUCED RATES ON ALL RAILROADS
0
ETTER THAN
$
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$
$
$
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Cresceus, 2:02| the World's Champion Trotter,
Cute, 2:0-Jf the Guideless Wonder,
£5, 500 Speed Ring—150 Race Horses,
Beautiful Flawer Parade, •
Burton-Tillman Debate,
Illuminated Fire Department Run,
Immense Live Stock Show—£5,000 in Premiums,
Fancy Poultry Show,
Automobile Race Against Time,
Thrilling High Dive, 90 Feet,
Electric Fountain, Free,
High Bicycle Ride, 80 Feet,
'1 he Three Valares, Men of Muscle,
Hayden & Parks Trio, Amazing Aereal Acts,
Wallace & Beach, Contortionists,
Amarillo, Wire Wonder of the World,
$10,000 Carry-Us-All,
Ferris Wheel, Mammoth, all Steel,
Parker's Short Line. Miniature Railroad,
'lhe Coliseum, Covering an Acre of Ground,
Thelmo, the Queen of Fire,
Electric Theatre,
Eighth Wonder of the World.
A Day in the Alps,
Laughing Palace, too Funny,
£10,000 Mystic Maze of Mirrors,
Far Famed, Fear Frustrating. Fool Hardy, Fravol6
Death Defying Achievement, Looping the Loop,
Balloon Ascension,
Willie the Wonder,
Langley, King of the Bounding Wire,
Old Plantation,
Miss Abilena,
An Open Page In Fairyland.
INTERESTING! INSTRUCTIVE! IMMENSE
DON'T MISS THE OPPORTUNITY.
THE GUTHRIE CLUB.
The Gut'aria Commercial club is in
a bad way. It is staeped In debt with
no immediate prospect of solvency.
The clr.b has done some gcjd work far
the city but the financial end of the or-
ganization has be^n woozy and un-
kempt. Something should be done to
brace up th.a club. Radical reform is
necessary and it should be Immediate.
Few dues are turned in and members
are deriving small benefit from their
contributions. The Leader suggests
that the club be reorganized, placed on
a different basis, stocked, and share.s
sold to members. This plan has work-
ed in other places and can ba made to
go here. At any rate, the club needs
attention and strong reformatory rem-
sdy is necessary.
Dl RECTORS
C. CASEY, GEO. DIMOND, O. P. TAILOR. P. V. HEALY.
C.M. IRWIN, Pres. H.L.RESINE, Sec.
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The proposition looking to the es-
tablishing of a park in £-ou:hw.
Guthrie Is a laudab!' move. It should
be pushed. But while being pushed it
■hould be clean, wholesome and abso-
lutely free from s.-raft and jobbery.
Mr. Sh.irtel, of the urban line, says the
electric road cannot be built to Guthrie
and made a paying investment uale •-
popular amusement resorts arc located
at each end of the line. In Delmar Gar-
den. Oklahoma City, has a dividend
maker-. Guthrie should have a park-
even better than D?!mar, or Guthrie
amusement lovers will be pulled to Ok-
lahoma City to the dJtrlmen; of the
Notice the next 10
healthy men you
meet. They take
Ayer's Pills. isiraat
MULHALLS AGAIN.
Advertise Oklahoma In Texas With
••Wild West" Feats.
The Denlson Herald speaking of the at-
tractions there says:
After the pacing race there was n
special half-mile running race between
Miss Lucile Mulhall, a cowboy and a
jockey. Miss Mulhall won. The tfme
posted was 55 seconds. She gave her
pony a good ride, got him off well and
finished equal to a professional jockey.
The trick roping contest on the race
track in front of the grand stand was
a fine exhibition. The ropers were Miss
Lucile Mulhall. Dim Hopkins and Will
Garrett. The rough riding by Miss Lucile
Mulhall and a cowboy, was also an excel-
lent feature of the piogram. as was Geo.
Elser's fancy trick riding txhlbltion.
Miss Lucilo's performance with her
trick pony was well received by the
spectators. The horse Miss Mulhall
rides is raid to be one cf the best trained
animals in America. He displayed a great
v.<al of intelligence and performed feats
th it would s< *m Impossible to teach a
horse.
The potato race i etween Miss Mul-
hall ar.d cowboys was a very amusing
feature.
ENGAGEMENT IS ANNOUNCED.
Ralph Faxon and Miss Louise Winans
Are to Wed.
Cards are out announcing the en-
gagement of Miss Louise Cochran
Winans of Hutchinson and Ralph Fax-
on of Medicine Ix>Ige. Both of the
young people are quite well known and
popular in this city. Mr. Faxon is
one of the rising young men of Kins iff.
He is at present serving as private sec-
ret iry to Senator Chester I. Long and
has a promising future. While at
congress la*t winter he wis the Wash-
ington correspondent for the Ktgle.
Miss Winans Is the popular daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Winans
of Hutchinson, and his made several
visiles in Wichita, during which time
she has m.ide many friends.—Wichita
Eagle.
I Contractor Charles De.rr said today that
1 street paving would be resumed at once.
CASE IS APPEALED.
Grows Out of Leasing Certain School
Lands.
The case of John P. Whittaker vs.
John A. Hughes, from Washita county,
has been appealed to the Oklahoma
supreme court. December 14, 1S9<.
Whitaker secured a lease for i period
of three years on a tract of Washita
county 1 :nd. paying the suni of §115
rental. The leasing board was then
composed of C. M. Barnes. Win. enkins
and . N. nopkins. On November 15.
following. Whitaker re-l?asei to B.
F. and Albert Cooper, and in November,
1899. these persons transferred their
interest to John A. Hughes. In De-
cember, 1900, Hughes desired to re-
lease the land, and Whitaker came for-
ward claiming that he had never relin-
quished his rights for the land and
therefore entitled to the tract. Hughes
went into court and secured a perma-
nent injunction restraining Whitaker
from interfering with him in possession
of the land. In the lower court. Barnes,
Jenkins and Hopkins were made par-
ties to the action.
Theresa Roubldeaux. grandmother of
Mitchell Roubldeaux. who is charged with
the murder of Dave Tohee". chief of the
lowas, Is for vengeance on her grandson.
She wants him hanged. She is the oldest
squaw In Oklahoma. Being about 100 years
if agf.
At Stroud recently an unusual marriage
took place the other day. Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Kirk were mtirrled after having
been separated for eight years. Neither
had rnaiifd since the tirst separation, and
Kill; had lived a rtgular hermit Kfe on
hi.'* fine farm i ir Parkland, while Mrs.
Kirk and her two children had their res-
Uier.ee near Bristow. I. T.
"GET YOUR MONEY'S WORTH.
The Souttiern Kansas Fair and Car-
nival association, a company of lead-
ing wholesale and retail men, has
adopted as its motto, "Get Your Mon-
ey's Worth. It is their advice to their
visitors, and it is advice which cannot
help but be heeded, for how can a man
woman Qr child go to the city bp; ween
September 28 and October 3 and not
g?t his money's worth? For stock-
men, there la to be the biggest and
best stock exhibit ever shown in the
Southwest. This is assured already
by the entries which have bean receiv-
d, and mor^ are coming in with every
mail . Horses, cattle, hogs, sheep and
mules, not only from Kansas and Ok-
lahoma but from Missouri and from as
far east as Illinois, have been entered.
Five thousand dollars is the sum set
aside for premiums in the livestock
department, and every cent of the mon-
ey will be on deposit in one of the
banks of the city when the fair opens,
so that there will be no trouble about
receiving the money when the prem-
iums have been awarded.
To guard against any troubue and
any claim of partiality, the associa-
tion has made it a point to procure
judges in all classes from among men
of known ability. The horses will be
judged by C. K. Douglas, of Kansas
City, and F. F. Ferguson, of Union
City, Oklahoma, will place the awards
in the swine class. For the cattle and
sheep the judges have not yet been
named, but men of equal ability are
under consideration, and their names
will be announced later.
The association, which has been in-
corporated with a view of making it
a permanent affair, intends to estab-
lish a precedent for future successful
stock shows, and it will see that each
exhibitor, if he be disposed to ask
what is fair and just, shall go away
satisfied.
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M. Branson,
farm Loans, Ins^ranoe, Abstracts I
Only complete abstracts of title in Logan Counj. |
\ou pay interest and principal at our office.
Oldest ai.l largest insurance agency in Oklahcjna. >
GUTHRIE, OKL& f
Work is pr
>n the new re
Katy road in
yards. The
house anr th'
completed.
th
sing very satisfactorily
iouse being built by tlv
local Choctaw south
lations for the freight |
v turn table have be
Roy Biggs, a 9-year-old boy living
rear Pond Creek, was badly hurt a few
mornings ago by being kicked by a
horse while walking in his sleep.
Karly. In the day before the other mem-
bers of the family were astir, the lad
got up and walked to the barn
without knowing it. and it is suppos-
ed that while moving about in the sta-
ble he was kicked. He was no: dan-
gerously hurt.
Captain The.mas N. Sergeant, of Cush-
ing. v.-jll pioi. tly receive back pay from |
the government for valuable services r<n- i
b red year* ago. He was In charge of a
company cf soldiers thirty-Arc years ago
which fought the Sioux Indians.
Frederick asserts It is deserving of
having the title of being the town to
have the first bale of cotton marketed
in the new country this season. J. V.
Dutton brought to Frederick on Aug-
ust 29 a bale of cotton for which he re-
ceived a $50 premium.
"KATY" CAUGHT NAPPING.
Fort Smith and Western Lays Cross-
ing at Meridian.
For once the Fort Smith and "Western
railroad was not caught napping by
the Katy. In the district court the
Katy secured an injunction preventing
In court the Fort Smith and Western
crossing the Katy tracks at Meridian,
in this county. But while the Katy was
in court the Fort mith and Western
was busy and before the papers In
the injunction matter could be served
the Fort Smith and Western construct-
e 1 its tracks across those of the Katy
at Meridian an 1 won the day. Had the
Katy succeeded In serving the papers,
then that company would have com-
pleted Its tracks Into Guthrie before the
Fort Smith and Western.
Miss M ibel Leach, of 517. E. Springer
end Mr. E. C. Glover, of Oklahoma
r;ty, were married last Wednesday, the
15th Inst., at Oklahoma City. Miss
Leach is stenographer for Cotteial &
Horner, where she has been for over
two years. She han tendered her res-
ignation, to take effect in 30 days, after
which she will go to Oklahoma City,
where Mr. Glover will have a home
prepared for his bride.
5 Black Building
£ 118 West Okla. Aye.
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you will pay a visit to tba
OKLAHOMA
Carriage and Wagon Works
322 S. Division St
We will show you hew we
tighten loose wagon and buggy
tires without cutting, welding and heating them, thus .preseiv
ing the wood-work from injury---a wonderful invention which
cost a large sum of money in order to be up-to-date. Our shop
has the Only Henderson T:re Setter in this section of the
United States. We also have the very latest Goodyear Rubber
Tire Machine. We put first quality rubber tiies on any whtel
that rolls, buggy or wagon. New vehicles made to order Re-
pairing, painting and trimming our specialty. You are invited
to visit our factory, the best equipped In the Southwest.
First class Horseshoing SCHICKRAM (St WICKMAM
Independence. Kans., Sept. 21.—The
Missouri Pacific passenger train that
left Kansas City last night was wreck-
ed about two miles north of Independ-
ence early today. Apparently an at-
tempt had been made to wreck the
train as a rail on each sde was pried
loose and a fish plate inserted between
it and the next rail. The engine and
all the cars left the track, but remained
upright. No one was injured.
Cleveland, O., Sept. 21.—Senator Han
na stated today that there was no truth
In the report printed In some of the
Eastern papers this morning that he
would resign the chairmanship of the
National Republican committee on ac-
count of ill health. Hanna's duty as
chairman, it is pointed out, are extreme
ly light at present, and will continue so
until the National Republican commit-
tee meets, when a new chairman may
be named. Hanna declined to state
whether he would or not again accept
the chairmanship if offered to him.
An Oklahoma City lady took her false
teeth out and laid them on the center
table, one night recently, when her hus-
band, to play a joke on her. substituted
a horseshoe in place of them. She wore
the horseshie all the f renoon. complain-
ing that her "teeth did not fit'' and only
discovered the change by the wide gash
made by the calk bit a biscuit.
( Mr. Chamberlain's Resignation.
; The retirement of Mr. Chamberlain
from the Cabinet on the ground that he
cannot accept Premier Balfour's pro-
gramme of retaliatory duties against
manufactured Imports wil hasten the
break-up of the present British gov-
1 eminent, which s further presaged by
I the resignations of C. T. Ritchie, Cnan-
I cellor of the Exchequer, and Lord
George Hamilton, Secretary for India.
Mr. Chamberlain's position from the
first has been that, in order to have
anything to offer the colonies as an
inducement to them to give to the
mother country's exports lower tariff
rats than those of" other nations, there
must be duties imposed on the enor-
mous food Importations of the British
people. In return for the stlmulu to
be thus give to the grain and meat pro-
duction of Canada and Australia, Mr.
Chamberlain's Idea was that those col-
onies would provide a larger market
for British manufactures. He adheres
to this position, though he Is reported
as admitting that on a first appeal to
the people his programme would be
rejected. A little later, he believes, it
would be approved.
It is the prediction in Kiowa county
that at least double the area of ground
will be put in crops next spring over
that of this year. Farmers over the
territory are beginning to plan and
plow for next season's planting.
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