The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 339, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 27, 1902 Page: 4 of 8
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THE OKLAHOMA STATE CAPITAL, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 27. '9°--
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HE OKLAHOMA STATib CAPITAL. rT, i
had been allowed were ,n ainouin.; ex- | W
.. slve of what the mvrlU ot the -sit- VJ
uatlon demanded. C^t)
Thy status of lho settlor on tho gov
By the Stat- C ?l:a! Printing Company.
FRANK H. GREER, Editor.
DON'T DO IT
l THE BIG DRIVE ON FINE WALLPAPER J ;
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES.'
ily, One year by mail .
tly, Six months;. by mail
lly. Three months by mall
ily. Quo month by mail .
tly. One wool* by < airier .
?ekljr. One year ...—
it'Klj. Six months •
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ALL AND PAY YOUR NOTE
ON TH1: KATY BONUS TODAY 1
At tin. meeting of the railroad committee yesterday a letter (ron. Chief
ifiineer Yale of the M. K. & T., wan read, atutiiiK that he was prepared
beB,n wurk at tluthrle at on™ <.n the grade of the road and that It wax
„«mrr fu have right ot way ready within a week. Ine commit..
lere.l the urgency cf the matter and u.e vital ImporAn™ of it and decided
at it la neeeaHary to realize on the notes given for uulK.rlptlon to tho
iht of wuy fund.
Th<> ncies will accordingly be placed with the font banks an i.u -
rlbera may .-all at whichever hank they do bu.lneia with anil pay their
.tea today or as ooon an possible. The great importance of this matter is
vlous. Construction has begun on other parts of the line and tluthrle must
In tho work at once or suffer irrepaiablo damage and loss.
Subscribers should not hesitate to .all at the bank and meet tho call
at loyally and public spirit demands shall he done. The bonus is net
,avy on the most of the people but it moans a right of ; and a l.ig rail-
ttd system in the aggregate.
The difference in paying the note new or later Is nothing of Impori
,00 to the man whose Interest Impelled him to make the note it is all
iportant to the Interests of tho el'J Today is. a good day to pay the note.
,e city needs it. The subscriber made it for the host interest of tho city
id because it will pay him. It .1 ever pay so well to pay it as it will
day.
ernmont townsmen u the new country
and the relation of th' probate Judges
thereto are proper subjects for judi-
cial Inquiry euch as lias been lnstl- j
tuted in the courts there, and tho re-
mit of the inquiry will show that there ;
i is no ground for the row that has |
been raised by persons and newspapers
l antagonistic to the administration and
to the welfare cf the same to the ex-
tent of making charges that have no
foundation in fact.
The foundation of a calamity party
is always found in bad luck.
There is peril in the self conceit of
the man who is proud of himself.
A man who has both friends and en- j
emios to be nfraid of is indeed unfor-
tunate.
Don't b\i3r cheap, inferior paint. It
will change color, chalk off or feel off
within a year. Stuit that is offered
at $1-25 a gallon and "our best;1 at
SI a gallon is not paint at all.
New Kra High Grade Paint COSTS
US $1.40 a gallon, but it is real White
Lead ane Oil and guaranteed by us
positively for five years. Don't be
deceived.
Paint
Mixed for
per
Gallon.
:• Do not let any one tell you it la not good, for it >
'f is. Call aad let us figure with you, lor we Lave tho £
i gtoe and the prices. . £
We have the largest and best stock of Drugs in j.
S the territory and will make you prices accordingly.
EAGLE DRUG STORE,
EDWARD NICHOLS, Prop.
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Harrison Ave.
Genius and ordinary humanity arc
about on a par on most things save in
tho size of the bill.
When old fashioned hospitality gets
into politics the country Is getting Into
a bad shape indeed.
The eagle is getting in shape to
•■ ream very loud and shrilly July
I C R. Renfro, I
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106 West Oklahoma Avenue. .;
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lis tickets when the ballots are count
ed.
tho man that can best represent tin
people of this territory. He came to
_ Southern Kansas when a boy. He has
THE ENID CONVENTION. 1. -en a loader In all things that
Watonga Republ.can: Say. Mr. Re tr the betterment of the masses of
publican, whc. wi.l as a delegate at he people. He has the brains and
Fourth in Oklahoma.
. mi mi l< ail, « ll v • > I . 1 t o r". > - — '
tend the territorial convention at Enid,
v nominate tho next delegate to con-
Mioss, let us talk the matter over. The
plaform adopted at the convention
-xperience to accomplish more than
any other man we can seud.
_____——— pianii in uiii .iifu ui
The woman with a pretty arm Is said should be In tho Interests of tho neo.
i lo of Oklahoma. Of course, we. as
FOR SHERIFF.
Watonga Republican:
The an-
ftood republicans, are and should be
true to the groat principles that made
be developing the ping pong wrist
j iu an alarming degree.
It may be announced as a fact that merited William Mcliinley was twice
the man who is at liberty to do as he triumphantly elected
Thlu iu ii vnnr '. u
i'IIHIMI I'C III llli' lll.i-icoia ui tut — i
lo of Oklahoma. Of course, we. as nouncement of Harry H. Hantz, <.r
Watonga township, as a candidate for
tho office of sheriff, subject to the
J. B.
FAIRFIELD...
TRANSFER,
COAL AND
STORAGE
imo IO I Uf ■ «irui piiinijii "* "v ...... v ... '
tin the platforms upon which the la- action of the republican nominating
- — «.«««—«. elsewhere in this
convention, appears
paper.
WEST HARRISON AVENUE
PHONE No. 20
FEW THINGS
GUTHRIE MUST HAVE
There are a few things that th
Quthiio now lacks in the w
ansportation facilities to a^utv <
immerclal future of the city They
•e not going to be difficult, of ac
impllshment and the coal is golu,',
be mostly la effort.
The first and most natural of these:
their vote tor a delegate in congress
and they will have their representa-
tion in the territorial assembly with
1 leases Is always dangerous
Now that It Is alleged the beef trust
non iu iuf i i:ia" |*us bitten off mere than it can chew
out the necessity of any effort In the is jl0pt.(| that th" immense bite will
boko the beast.
'f way of petitions or memorials.
OKLAHOMA CROPS
THAT ALWAYS COME
Some time last spring, when
A Joplln, Missouri, newspaper man
who has been around some claims
that his town can boast the prettiest
it ,iaa and most graceful eighteen year old herd law problem, which now eon-
rr/M.tc ihp Hottlpi's ot Western Olua-
Tliis is a year, however, in which —
national politics are not being :!u Cleo Chieftain: \\e know Col. Eld-
strong'v pushed to the front. While rod to be a good man and if he is in
we should stand by the great pollc.tr. the rac? to win we are for him but
of cur party and will, there are things if ho Is running to aid the candidacy
of a 'trritorial nature that dema.td of some other man, we are not in favor
attention. We hive a legislature t > of him.
ileet, and our platform should indl-, —
,-ate and pledge the policy '( that OKLAHOMA PARAGRAPHS
legislature relative to territorial |j.|URL«nw
terests.
We have the free book problem, the
rhe first and uiosj, nutuim ««. v.. refused to rain for a long t me even
the extension by the Rock Is and for oklahoma, the people whoso ex
the recently acquired Choctaw in
trough this .• t.y to Enid for a
jctlon with the main line "
oek island at tnui t i! Tl
K a good move for ' Roi k I • ;
Va natural thing i"i 'he road t
f
fact
-and it w< aid give to Outlii i
per ence had taught them better, had
they not forgotten, alleged that the
' outlook for the what crop bad just
,l about entirely gone.
Tho dryness of the ground and of
' the atmosphere was something almost
visible and much wheat was destroy
fronts the settlers of Western Okla
homa and numerous other interests of
a territorial character which demand
our attention.
In the first place let us see that the
platform is plain anu tha it means
i
GREEN & GREEN,
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA.
The lawton Commercial club has a
habit of hoiuing interesting sessions.
Watonga Dispatch i.-: a new republi-,
can newspaper oy McRUl and Bold-
ridge.
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INSURANCE -* AND CHATTEL & LOANS.
girl who ever pulled on a sock
There is an effort to break a Mich-
igan man's will becauFe he left $40,- in luu UISl piut-.- ici no uc< „ . , .
to found a home for "indignant old , platform is plain ana that it moans The cotton nop around Bristow ■
women" It has beon enggeated that iomething of interest to the people estimated to he worth «i«t,00o this
11 , ,, .„ hfl,,oa of Oklahoma. Do not appoint men year.
tne man probably knew wnat he
writing, after ull.
} Phone 553.
We have the oldr,eo. H. Dodson fire insurance
Agency, a fine list of time tried and fire tested
companies. Get the best, it costs no more.
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212 Went Oklahoma Av®, Q
Opposite Poatoffice. V
rati—ana n "■ — - - In treating his enemies with silent Ul8„ ...... ....
unfqiiale.l with rer.n,I by l«ing pelled np 'or i,e,„et .ont.mpt (leneral Fnnston la doing n^hjngjt peop.^
Had It not been too dry to p.ow UJj the army regulations would ha\e .....
many acres of tho wheat would have j _m ,i0 in tolling of his attitude ho iri.tll um. ,,, ,
been turned under to make a p at e for lS probably talking too much for the teeming with
something else. good of the service. * "vr"h«
Then It rained. The wheat awoke and ——
came to life in a sort of discouraging Now that tine champagne is being
wav that gave a tr f! of hope. It made in Frame from th« dried apples
rained some more at., the wheat bo- shipped to that country from the rmt-
on the cemm'ttee on resolutions, who
simply desire 'o air their English by • j. Ed Van Me.tre is making the Leger
n< ompassing the world with their Timos one of the best in the bunch
high sounding phrases and yet say 0£ oklahoma ucautles.
•ame more active. The weather b. came
chilly and moist and th - wheat spread
I ••she territory.
Mn the mat tin f tho llock ls.and.
' seems not unliKely that tho l.-id
(ranch will l • secured by Guthrie.
there a d< maud fur it and the ad
rentage to gained by its building
tould be great to the company. It
jould secure 10 the Rock Island poo-
he a grand section of territory that
i. not at this time wholly the Rock
dand's.
JTo the city of Guthrie, however.
cje great advantage Is most apparent. ^
•shft extensions here mentioned would | waving seas of headed grain
uake the capital city the cent u- of spectacle of today is one of effulgent
i'ceessability for the entire territory j promise that makes the Oklahoma
tind from Indian Territory. Th«-:- farmer happy. The outlook of th
h.ould Ih no county seat in the t-rn
Jpry that would not then be n ii
iRct communication with th i
° ho result of this not w rk • :
f transportation centering in i; ie
' t^ould amount to commercial
1 fijdlsm. The prlod of o\panr
ed States the peopi
!y begin to believ<
• here will probab-
that the land of
chiiiv and moist anu tm • wucui spi« ;ui .
over tho ground and then it was what wcHjden nutmegs is not so many after
might be termed a prospect al1-
The wheat fleldi of Oklahoma are
THE POLITICAL
POINT OF VIEW
A Cleo newspaper ha an advertise-
on earth Is a platform, all the way munt that says "wo vM treat y u
freni one to three columns in length, ctldlj" at the soda fountain.
•sounding brass a^1. i *
t'nkllng cymbal" sentences, which are Cache creek 'hat went dry last turn
never road except by tho persons who, n;..r when ecttlera wire thirsty, has
wrlte them. I.ef us have ;i boiled been overflowing tli s ween.
down. ,)lain. honest, sensible, lucid
platform, which moans something and Ardmore Appeal: Tam I'. xby s ;
not tc/> long. Let us Jiave a platform jgnation is like the game oi th.- "con
that the people will read, elo« t our mUn. Now you hc • it new you don't,
ticket and then carry out the platform
• o the letter.
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| 67'iCW. Poiid, Pres. Ilattie AT. Pond, Secy. CAaw, S. Hoe, Trta*.
other day is almost a reality now and
the yield per acre will bo nearly as
great as It was last year, and last
THE sr VATlON.
Hobart News R uublican:
has never been a t.nie in the
Th«
history
FOR FLYNN.
Lawton Republican: The Republi-
can has taken some pains to learn
the opinion of leading republicans cf
t'se city and county us to the choice
for congressman.
With but a very few exceptions,
.and those only when some personal
grievance is felt. i:-!i as come natur-
ally in the court t of politic:;) the son-
Pciry Enterprise The most popular
gentlemen's resort 1qi Oklahoma C it j
is the brewrry. Here in Perry it is the
ten pin alley.
Tha Leger T'mes ha^ issued a neat
boom Mipp ement showing same Greer
county products and places in Hue
ha.f tones tha'. make an exec dent ad-
vertisement.
: GUTHRIE
\ LAUNDRY
(.Incorporated.}
„ 'ocomoat once patently payir.
'^ait i and the foundation < f •
nr-tyln tho Southw. st■ wou.d b
n^oatabllshed in its direct conn.-.
w<*lth «very others town i ti th.
"aryAThe work oft securing i'
artinslona should' be push* .1
I wirritancy• shouM be manifest
Wfig fori what is necessary.
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th
fir
REAPPORTIONMENT
UTLL BE MADE
seasons any
where. Oklahoma soil is tho most pro.
1 ductlve solUtn fno farming belt of the
Sbuthwest that Heads the world.
The sasons that come to make Ok-
I lahoma great do not oomo by rule but
vt)iey„ come in time.
r beon a tune in tne nmiury .u.j ••• t..- ...... . - - - Coyle CIpper Frank A. Thomp.on
ar. and la-t .• the •■epublicau , arty ot Oklahoma timent is universal tha* Dennis Hynn rep0lMs hjs thirteen acres of rota o-s
• When n was so important that every i* the logical man and would make by and hl stwenty acres cf watermelon
'rOP ' ar republican should banish all thought all odds a stronger canui-Lio than {n rxc|lcnt condition. And the fruit
uf personal aggran.ii/omont or of per- any o'ner ma- who co; Id be uomln- , . f b,(,s fa!r )0 proauce more
I'ii s-a p and work unwltohly for bU If he were a eandldate no po«.r E as0B than r
u . on earth could prevent his nomination
I-t l.;ail * a nnanimoua vote.! Fridiy
Nino . it of ten voters are for him. L ' i ' tn ..-u.(...^ charco
.otwlthstandlng his announcement t fl'°{lJ®an r Hrrnnii nf WesivTe I T
that he would no, be a candidate. j
TIIWR COMMITTEES fought over a-i eleetl. a. lie was ar-
El Reno Iiemo.Tat': lif lut domo-; jewed in^San FranclSeo and brought
' ratic campaign was In charge of a to Muscogee
5 Agents Wanted in Every Town. |
2 S
year was a oi«? enough
any man who Is ever satisfied, to be
enthusiastic over.
It is # thus sthat Oklahoma comes party as the present.
, , , ii# ti, Ther never has been a time where
through and redeem, herself. The rher ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
fanner has the best of the situation •
! hen- an he has nowhere «dse whore
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AW
i*a>|B ai
■: N. F. CHEADLE....
VAVAVAWj
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of e\ cry republican, whether in of-
ficial position or in tho ranks, sin il>i
fanning is the main employment of'be directed, not to increasing the
the people. Ok'ahonia oeaaona are the ^"°veryU"!1e !UWana
most propitious of any seasons any - j gjrongost men for every position to
bo tilled r,t the coming November
Wholesale ami Retail
Scaler IU
election.
It is
b<; diff
best material
who
th
be expected that there will
•nces cf opinion as to the
every
committee v. It 11 an alleged dqpnocrat j
foud and a populist tail, ami so was i Sapulpa item:
a so was, jjuyuiiju. mm. There is a strong
the one just preceding it; and Bob probability that the oil wen at this
Neff and Jim Keaton know the result f p.ace will be t unk deeper h such a
ii i.l a i ''lid will likely remember it. It is Hi'pg Is d°"ldid upon and It Is llkeiy
, ... "tu - .ekina to udvam e tho piper caper to put someone at the that It will do. the ho'e will ba sunk
,lro rof V^ ^Sbllean pany l ead of -he detno,-rail, party to man-; down below t,e rait ,a.er A great
but
All Grades of Coal
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;! I ha.ve plenty o* , , , '
, McAUTER. WF.IR CITY S; *
■I e.nd CA>ON CITY irvslocli I; u
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"I Also tho Pennsylvania Anthracite and Arkansas ;•
-• Anthracite for Base Burners. ;•
A BASELESS KNOCK
OF PARTISANSHII
i y In the hill providing for reappor-
""omnent tor Oklahoma wlileh-has th
:na°me necesaary sniee llu gpaRpln •. at straws.to fave a sit
—)ie new conntiea un.n... '< '™-" " | nation tho demoeratie pari. ha. al
- he weet aide to an extent that „a* ^ rWlru,ol,B u
iot foreseen when the pr nt * A „ ltm„ ln
■ortionment was made is amp.- P • I
ision for the completion of the work 1
ii republican party head of the d&nocratii party to man-j down neiow Tie eau
'z ksJ.'SS .rr JX*** j w,Ll civ* you the best ser.v.Ce at all times. .
11 .. . .i... f the party is lacking In timber the , si rata.
■mploynunt of some competent repub-
ean would be justiflable.
to a Just conclusion as to th
qualifications of tno candidates and
act accordingly.
The nun the republican party put
to the front for ounty as well as
territory offices should be men who
an b'' Vi'fely counted on to not only
•vin but do tho party most good, and
democratic press has thrown no tru > republican will allow either
, out against tho territorial
ll- lb
ir^Ctiatton and the probate
adminls-
udgea of the
new count es
hat Is necessary by the appoint
lent of three commit toner* to make
"he apportionni' n, and th- approprl ^ ,lualn^ that fell tr
al,t..„, „f on, Ihou. and dolla, ■ for th-I ^ ^ ^
*pens > ... Ill, «ame I lie.e •• m.w un,|,,
Kynmety among the th- -• • uu , _ tha, uiwc,i , .,y
^ icb to be affected oy the
I'/ient lest the matter h not
time t allow full r pi
fie coming legislature.
tlu it is believed that the t
intntirely safe. The matter i-
., or way in con-.;i> ; and ti..
J bje^tlon to ' ■ enactment. It i
j tt®nlted as purely routine Ne :no
necessary eharatwr and the
^111 bciono
friendship or enmity to stand In the m*"- «•* «iii,.«., —~-;-
no lime for a Kic.wa Flynn remains by his decision uot to
,,uum ■ an Oklahoma republican to 1 e a candidate Judge Ilobberts Is one
v,.-v p a friend, if that friend can, cf the foremost republicans in Ok.aho.
th(. ,.loM (.„• th party or to ma and a better selection could not
■ , . ... ti i, and capable man l-o made by that pariy. lie is a resl.
aiiM' he i; net a friend, but all the dent of Comanche county.
>tnmn t<tne.ii better I'lan for the place. , .
Twore |s alleged to be a territory
I tcliool ma'am who has a dread of all
GOOI) MAN. ; kinds of contageous djscaseB. She
l.eger Plalndealei Judge J. C. Rob- I a chi d h"m becauvo her mother
•its. attorney general for Oklahoma. wa8 sick. The noxt day the little girt
.as anncAincetl himself a republican ( pretented herself at school with her
for the nomination of dele. f\n?rr In her mouth and a little hood
congress, provided Dennis j
J I
Officc and yards:
424 OKLAHOMA AVENUE
"Phone J>lo. 6
/•ViViVi ••• ■•■
i andldate
to
swinging by a -trlng and paid: "We';
got a baby at our hou o and mama1
says I shall tell you ii is not catch
ing."
Coyle Clipper: It looks I ke the road
overseers who have no funds to work
the roads with' should have access to
reapportl
not provided bj
ranged
Oklahom
utatiou in
and taxpayers arc placed In by th
deplorable fix the roads are In
/>• 111 b< 01110 a !'iv. without
^"t the hand - •!' he peop e . t the
9 of
bill
' urging
|S^y interested. _ _
In his
^,c^terysts in W: ion ton Mr K'ynn 1.->h
ever yet • verlooked a matter that is
tliep ,he benefit t the people < •' ti .'•
iiteoi. lit - 'he r«..r*Mw
ti ii 1 The
eoyie of tho no".'counties will have
h
prov
government townsitos should l>e can-
not Im? here definitely stated. In Ok-
lahoma the cost has always varied
greatly but it has never been so
.■Ti.at as to re.ult in hardship to the
setter
In his recent interview, in the State1
Capital Judge Strang, former attorney-;
general of the territory, has explained
the situation with rofer nco to the new 1
. county townsites and the connection !
j of the probate judg.^ therewith in J
a maniu'r lucid and straightforward,
j lie has shown that the question of
malfeasance has never i. -.n 1 i\« <-uc
■opubliei. i party is to win
..t eounty and in the territory
• they must adopt this course.
. a partial if not a complete
as ecrtuin us the day of
With such a
. animating the republi-
. mi. ...
one of the few prominent republicans
Lelonglng to this c ass. and In o.tr
tplnlon his nmination would bt eg
the party clrr.er together than any
nlicr man we could select.
If th
in Kio
at larfi
otherwise
defeat is
leetlon will urnve tviui lui-n ■■ .. ..
spirit is this animating the republi- m'nkai. the man.
(a- pat " .■!' ii -ma with sm-h a Aline Chronoscope- Joe mt Neal has
• • V. 1 t ig the republi l.undro.ls of personal friends In Woods
•mi* of Kiowa . ..nut\. tin- republi-1 ' ounty who wuld b. pleased to see
• ■an party is just a- muc to elect their j him receive the noudnation for del-
tiiUet i - the sun ii.-es and seta. ' cate to congress While this Is true
The News Republican makes the Woods ounty should stand firm for
rtdove suggestions, not because 'here Col. Eldre 1. If Ills nomination can
s an antagonistic element within the not I > • ffoc'ed McNcal would be a
republican ranks or a want of liar-1 i,ood sei-ond choice.
\ 1 the t'.«u .1 ti
desire
on'-tv
def .
plv\or the
• ' Y.-t 'lenlro 'ha' no j
1 candidate: will be found oa
11 \S II HA IN
Woodward bulletin:
Tulsa Democrat: Tho opening of th>
Kiowa. Comanche and neighboring
Indian reservations to sott.ement last
c-umtner reduced^ th pasturage f<u-
transient cattle in Oklahoma by fully
two m'Uion acres. The Osage Indian
reservation is so ut'Uicd b> Texas
i atUemen for summer rnd spring pa*
turtitre and hundreds of carloads have
Ik"n" shipped to tho reservation this
spring by way of K'rjin, Kan It
estimated that there are 1<!'>0«0 head
of rattle ln the Osage country.
Lahoma has been incorporated and
j. w McNeil the people there are pleased,
[ - •
G. w. BRUGE
Book Keeper anil Accountant.
Rooms 1 and 2 ao.mford Building.
GUTHRIE. - - ■ OKLAHOMA.
Special Attention Given to the Examinoaion^of
County Records and [Books of a
M erce rvtile Character.
REFERENCES!
Board of County Commissioners vf Logan County.
Board cf County Commissioners of Dewey County.
Any bunk in Hit city of Guthrtt.
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