Weekly State Democrat (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 9, 1906 Page: 1 of 4
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All the News
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Weekly State Democrat
A Paper published in the Metropolis of the Southwest, Devoted to the Interests of Lawton, Comanche Countyand Dcmocrary.
Hid Read by
the People.
LAWTON, OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 9,1906.
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OWIING TO THE BACKWARD SEASON
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Pioneer Men's and Boy's Outfitters
READY FOR
OPENING
PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION WILL BE
ISSltD SOON FOR
PASTURE OPENING
The Rules and Regulations for Opening
of the Pasture Reserves Have
Been Completed, and All
is Ready for the
Proclamation
Washington, Aug 7.-Theregulations
which are to govern Uncle fevtu e gigan-
tic auction Bale, the disposicg of half a
million acres^of land in the Kiowa, Co-
maccne acri Apache Indian reservation,
in Oklahoma, are all prepared and ready
to submit to Secrttary Hitchcock for
bis approval. After the regulations are
approved the proclamation must be issu-
ed by the president, setting a date for
the opening, and declaring the reserva-
tion open for settlement by purchasers.
The secretary may under the act of con-
gress dispose of the lands either by seal-
ed bid or the auction vian.
The former is not regarded with favcr
ss being too slow and cumbersome and
besides a prospective purchaser would
not have the opportunity to bid on aa
G. F. H. Barber,
President.
many tracts as he could under the auc-
tion system. Then it is considered that
there are over 3,100 tracts of 100 acres
each which are to be disposed of, it is
readily understood how interminable
would be the sealed bid scheme. The ^
lands will therefore be disposed of, it is
a safe prediction, at publio auction to
the higheBi bidder. The general land I
office has been waiting until some pre-
liminary work in the reservation haB
been completed. ,
The Indian bureau mUBt make allot-
ments to children born since June6, 01,
to persons who were regularly enrolled
on the tribal roles at that time and the
lessees of the lands 'n pasture reserve
No. 3, must be allowed sixty days in
which to exercise their preference right
to purchase the lands tht y occupy. The
appraisers of these leased lands in pas
ture reserve No. 3, are now at work in
the territory, but will probably have
completed the task within another week
at farthest
Sixty days must elapse from the date
of the proclamation to the date of the
opening and the earliest that the open
ing can be held is some time in
October, Recording to the estimate ol
land oflice officials.
Mr. Richards, commissioner of the
general land office, will probably con
duct this opening in person, ss he has
the openings of the Crow and the Sho-
shone reservations in Montana and Wy
oin ing.
TO PAVE
D AVENUE
CITV CLLRK INSIRl'CKB TO ADVER-
TISE FOR BIDS
COUNCIL GOT BUSY
Last Night. Ordinance Ordered to Reg-
ulate Bus and Cab Fares. Bids
for Sidewalks on Fifth
to be Advertis-
ed for
W. P. Barrett brother of Supt. S. M,
Barrett arrived in the city last nght.
F. W. Smith,
Cashier.
CITIZENS STATE BANK
Of Lawton, Okla.
j no. H. Porter,
Vice-President.
W. F. Barber,
Asst. Cash.
The coun;il met in regular session last
night at the city hall, the mayor and all
members being present, although owing
to the excessive heat of the eveniog
there were very few spectators present
After the reading of the minutes of the
previous meeting, the allowance of
olaims was taken up.
Among the claims presented was one
of*\V. H.Anderson foroce hundred dol-
lars for his expenses while in Washing-
ton, where it is said he devoted a por-
tion of his time looking after the inter-
ests of Lawton. The bill created con-
siderable discussion. Brewer moved
th;it the claim be allowed, ' as there
was no second to bis motion, the bill
went over without any action being tak-
en upon it. 'V
A number of saloon licenses were
granted, there being no remonstrances
Sled against any of tbem.
A motion was adopted instructing the
:ity clerk to publish a statement, show
ing the condition of the various oity
MERCHANTS & PLANTERS BANK |
Capital Surplus $26,OOP. ffi
that be had about made up bis mind to
locate here and make this bis future
home. At the conclusion of his re-
marks, the council extended a vote of
thanks to Colonel Postgate.
Again at this point the sidewalk ques-
tion was taken up and the city clerk was
instructed to advertise thirty days for
bids for the construction of all side-
walks not completed at that timo. Th.s
includes even those walks where the
work has been oommenced but has not
been oompleted.
The city clerk wf,s instructed to adver
tise ten days for bids for construction
of street crossings.
Councilman Riling brought up the
street paving question by offering a mo
tion instructing the oity clerk to adver-
tise for bids for the paving of D avenue,
from Railroad street to Seventh street.
Brewer offered an amendment to refer it |
to a committee to decide upon what j
Kind of pavement would be adopted ;
The vote on the amendment was a tie, j
the mayor voting against the amend j
meat, for the reason that he thought j
best to let all bidders come in and the t
council then determine what kind of ]
paving is the best. Then the original
moticn was presented and defeated by
the following vote: Against it, Brewer,
St. Clair, LindBley, Stewart, Norman
and Anderson, For the paving, Gooch,
Riling, Boyle and Kimble.
Norman then moved to .jcons'der the
veto by nhich the pavisg uf D avenue
was turned down. The vote to recon
sider was a tie, the mayor bresking the
tie by voting to reconsider, Then a vote
was taken upon Riling s original mo-
tion to advertise for bids, the vote t^ien
being a tie, the mayor casting a vote in
favor of the motion, ana thus the clerk
BASE BALL
CLATTER
M\ SHAWNEE FAILED TO SHOW IP
HERE AT LAWTON
GOOD TEAM COMINfi
Here Friday for a Series. Anadarko
Shut out Hobart. Shawnee
Back in the League, A
Proposition Has Been
Submitted to Guth-
rie Team.
funds. !
The report of the water commissioner! was instructed to advertise for bids for
showing that for the month of July, he the paving of D avenue from Railroad
Centrally Located, Conservatively Man
aged, Absolute Protection to Deposi-
tors. Come and see us.
had collected $691.10 for water rent, and 6 jet to Seventh street.
that there is yet a balanoe due on water Upon motion of Brewer, the lemon-
rent, the sum of $96 67. ! ^trance against paving C avenue, was
Considerable discussion followed this , tabled, the remonstrance being seven-
report, particularly upon the question teen names short of the requisite num-
of purchasing the necessary pipe with ber.
which to extend the auxiliary plant so \ motion was introduced and adopted
a9 to furnish water for the manufaotur instructing the city attorney to draw an
ing industries in the city. Councilman ordinance regulating hack and buB fare
\nderson reported that f.s a result of jn the city.
his correspondence thus far he was un-
, _ , . ... ... .. TWO WRICKS LAST NIGHT,
able to findBny firm that could furnish
the necessary pipe before the tint of As the local Fri.co freight from the
November. ! we9t came into the yardB'lsst night'tbe
H A Lloyd
President
L S Meyer
Vlce-Pres.
D R Rankin
Cashier
, t „ . ... , ../train broke in two and then ran together.
In his report, that was submitted by ...
Twoor three passengers, riding in the
the city engineer, be stated that he was ,
caboose were injured. A commercial
very much displeased with tbe progress
... ,, man, whose name the reporter oould not
that is being made by the sidewalk con , . .
..... .. . ascertain, was quite severely injured,
traotors, and advised that action be,
A freight wreck on the Rook Island,
taken to force the work to completion. ,
. „ , „ 'north of Apaobe, delayed the south
He stated that on A, B and E avenues v ,
... . , . . ; bound passenger until after midnight,
there were one hundred and twelve lots j
TheThurber, Texas, ball team opens
a series of gameB here tomorrow, play-
ing Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
This is said to be an exceptionally
strong team, having defeated Denton
and a cumber of tbe strongest teams
down in Texas, It is now on a tour
and is especially strengthened for the
tour, its object being to win honors by
< defeating the crack Lawton team, as in
fact that seems to be tbe ambition of
every northern Texas team, for the team
that can come to Lawton and win the
series has something to boast of when
it gets back down in Texas. This is
bourne out by the fact that every tfram
that has come up here out of Texas this
year has brought with it players speci-
ally engaged to play the Lawton games,
all those teams recognising the fact that
with their regular members tbey
wouldn't be in it with Lawton.
By the way, Anadarko and Hobart
played an interesting game at Ana
darko, Tuesday, resulting in one to
nothing in favor of Anadarko. Tbe bat
tery for Anadarko was Root and Kerens,
while that for Hobart was Haney and
Huffman. Anadarko borrowed Root
from the Oklahoma City league team,
be ha.'icg been placed upon the sus-
pended list for violation of rules.
Haney, who pitched lor Hobart was
formerly with the Shawnee league team.
And speaking of tbe Shawnee team re
minds one of tbe fact that the Shawnee
team failed to show up here Tuesday
for a series of games here at Lawton
No explanation was sent, but it is obser
ved in the base ball telegraph news that
Shawnee is back again in the Scuth
Central league. Tulsa dropped out of
the league, the other day, and the
Tulsa team, or a portion of it, has boen
consolidated with a portion of the
Shawnee team and bhawnee takes
Tulsa's place in the league. This of
course means that Shawnee will not
play any games here at Lawton.
The Western Association, of whicb
league Oklahoma City is a member,
closes its season on September 23rd,
anu it U just possible that a series of
games can bs arranged between the
Oklahoma City and Lawton teams, to be
played immediately following Septem-
ber 23rd.
Manager A1 Jennings has made a
proposition to the manager of the Guth-
rie team, which recently dropped out of
the South Central league avl became
an independent team, to hav^be (iuth-
rie and Lawton teams play a series of
games at Oklahoma City, thus each
team would be playing upon neutra
grounds, Ab yet he has rt ived ns an-
swer to tbe proposition.
But don't forget the gani'js that are
scheduled to be played here at home,
the first of tbem commencing Friday-
Lawton has the best independent team
in the southwost, and it is earnestly
hoped that the citizens of Lawton will
turu out and liberally patronize these
games, as only in that manner can the
home team be kept up. Every Lawton
fan is anxious for gemes later in the
season iih the league teams of the two
territories, and if every fan will use Ilia
influence to induce a good attendance at
tne games, the teem will be kept up to
its prosent standard and they will see
those games.
Now everybody tura ont to the 6
games and help keep things moving.
TIME
5th Anniversary ot the
CITIZENS BANK.
that have not as jet even contracted for
i
Establshed in 1901 > Capital.™ _.ZZ^ 111000 00
Increased in 1902, Capital and Suip , ^ ...
Increased in 1908, C.pif d gulp .8
Increased in 1904, Capital and ' | 30,000.00
Increased in 1905, Capital and & i . • 32 000.00
Increased tn 1906, Capital, Surplus and Profits— ^.uuu.uu
A good bank gets better as it grows older, and its deposi-
tors usually grow with it-
Nothing spells PROSPERITY so plainly as a gradual
growth.
P. T. BENBOW, T. H. DUNN,
President. Cashier.
sidewalks, while there are a number of
lots on C and D avenues where tbe side-
walks have not as yet been constructed.
NEW JAIL CELLS.
Tbe county commissioners yesterday
aias nave cui as yn uwi
, , . . awarded to the Paully Jail company the
A motion was then made and adopted, 1 ,, .
, .. contract for putting in four new cells in
instructing the city clerk to advertise
for bids for the construction of cement
walks along Fifth street, from North
Boundary to South Boundary.
At this juncture Col. Postgate, repre-
senting the St, Louis Globe-Democrat,
was invited to address the oouncil. He
the county jail, thus doubling tbe cell
capacity 0f the jail. These cells are far
superior to the present ones, as they are
of Bessemer steel, and it is said that it
is almost impossible to cut out of them.
Tbe new cells will be placed on top of
was invueu 10 auurtBo ^ ,
the present ones, thus making two tiers
accepted the invitation and paid a very j
1 of cells.
flattering compliment to the city of
Lawton, stating in the course of hi6 re-
marks, that he was firmly impressed
with the belief that Lawton is destined
to become a great city. He further
Btated that he was so firmly oonvinced
that Lawton is to beoome a great oity
Frank Spencer of Wichita township
was in the city Wednesday conferring
with the county commissioners in rela-
tion to opening a road near his farm.
Frank says tbe only way he can get off
bis place without trespassing is with a
balloon.
C. S. Powell, formerly prinoipal of
the Lawton high school, and later en-
gaged in the drug business in this oity,
has purchased the Vanderpool drag
store, at the oorner of C avenue and
Third street.
Jes9 Westmoreland, Lawton's ball
pitiber, who was taken ill with typhoid
fever at Wichita Falls, while the team
was playing there, has been sent to the
home of his parents, at Brownwood,
Texas
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
LAWTON. OKLA.
CAPITAL $50,000. SURPLUS & PROFITS $20,000.
The United States Treasury Department has rec-
ognized the importance of Lawton as a financial centre
and has designated this bank a
United States Depository
Being amply able to care for your business and
desiring your account, whether large or small, we in-
vite you to call. We promise you good treatment
and absolute safety for your funds.
GEO. M. PASCHAL, Pies, l«„ H, OUINETTE, fa Pits,
EU1 C, nostra, Cashier,
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Neff, Robert A. & Bixby, T. M. Weekly State Democrat (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 9, 1906, newspaper, August 9, 1906; Lawton, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc123104/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.