The Shawnee News. (Shawnee, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 189, Ed. 1 Monday, September 19, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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Oklahoma Historical Soci ty
THE SHAWNEE
The Newspaper That Is Making Shawnee Famous.—"Fear God, Tell The Truth and Shame The Devil."
VOL. 3.—NO 189. SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19. 1904 TEN CENTS PER WEEK
BIG WEEKLY PRIZES ARE OFFERED FOR COTTON
PRIZES FOR COTTON
GIVEN AWAY EACH WEEK
JURIES AT WORK
THE DEEP WELL
1 WOMAN RORIED IN
The merchants anil business tnen of
this city have demonstrated the fact that
they want the trade of the farmers who
have products to market here by a liberal
announcement which they have just sent
forth over the surrounding country, in
which they propose to give away one
hundred and eleven dollars weekly for
the next eight weeks lO farmers who
market their cotton here. On next Sat-
urday and each Saturday thereafter, they
offer 25 cash premiums in gold to farm-
ers who draw the lucky numbers.
The following committee has been ap-
pointed to award the premiums and
have charge of the drawing contests this
season: W. L. Chapman, Harry Mead,
Willard Johnston, J. M. Aydelotte and
]. M. Remington.
For every bale of cotton, or every load
weighing 1,500 pounds of seed cotton,
or cotton seed, the seller will be given a
coupon where he receives his pay. A
duplicate coupon will be placed in a box
to be drawn out at the following Satur-
day's drawing. The party holding the
corresponding number to the first coupon
drawn will get $25, the second, third and
fourth will get $10 each and the other
numbers up to and including 25 will get
minor cash prizes. These coupons will
be retained, and the end of the season,
some time in December, there will be a
capital prize drawing in which the win-
ner gets f 100.
This is one of the most liberal prop-
ositions ever offered to the farmer and it
means a lot of cash added to the usual
prices of cotton. Shawnee has the larg-
est retail stores in the territory, the most
liberal merchants, and the best cotton
market and she will get the cotton this
year as in the past, too.
ENROLLING
TOO LATE
Muskogee, I. T., Sept. 19.—Despite
the fact that the enrolling division for 2
weeks has been closed, the commission
is receiving a large number of letters
daily from persons asking to be enrolled
for allotments. Some of these people
have not read the newspapers ai & do
not know that their last chan<?e for put-
ing in applications for places in 1 he rolls
has forever passed, and others cjpress a
hope that the government will make an
exception in their cases and enroll them
in spite of the regulations.
List your property with The News
Real Estate Agency. We find you a
renter, or we will find you a house if you
want one. *
KUROPATKIN WIRES
St. Petersbug, Russia, Sept. 19.—Gen-
eral Kuroputkin wired the St. Peters-
burg war office today that Generals Ben-
nenkampff and Samsonoff had been con-
ducting important reconuaisances which
have resulted in severe fighting and many
casualties, though they disclosed a large
further increase in the Japanese forces at
Yaneuti and Bentsaiputze.
The list of casualties is not given, but
it is understood that the Russian losses
in the fighting between the scouting
parties were considerably heavier than
those of the Japanese.
The czar will organize a second Man-
churian army under the command of
General Linevitch and place it in the
field to aid the other army, with General
Kuropatkin in chief command. The re-
port of a battle in progress at Mukden
is officially denied this afternoon.
THE PAVINC.
Contractors are In the City Pre-
paring to make Bids.
Tomorrow night at the regular meet-
ing of the council, bids for the paving of
Union, Bell, Broadway and Beard streets
and parts of Ninth, will be considered
and there is now a strong probability
that several contractors will be in the
field for the job.
Already F. A. Cook, Chas B. Derr, who
paved Main street, are here to make
their bids and they will remain over to-
morrow night. It is probable that there
will be at least five bids.
Order your fall suit of J. H. Kreiling,
the fashionable tailor at 206 East Main.
16-tf
Mrs. Simpson, one of Shawnee's popu
lar dressmakers is now located at 637 N
Beard. Best patronage solicited. 26-t
Niagara Falls, N. Y., Sept. 19.—In-
stead of a city of sky scrapers, Chicago
is doomed to become an expanse of wa-
ter. In course of time the smaller build-
ings will disappear beneath the tide
sweeping in from Lake Michigan. Above
its head will appear the tops of the Ma-
sonic Temple, the Montgomery Ward
steeple and the Auditorium tower—
breaking the monotony of a yellow sea.
Gradually these will disappear.
This is the prophecy made by Profess-
or Grove K. Gilbert, of the United states
geological survey, in his address before
the memmersof the International Geo-
graphic congress. He added to his
gloomy picture by predicting that in
those calamitous times the Niagara Calls
would cease to exist, and the great wa-
ter course be as dry as the sands of Sa-
hara.
HAS SOLD A PILE OF CHAMBER-
LAIN'S COUGH REMEDY.
I have sold Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy more than twenty years and it
has given entire satisfaction. I have sold
a pile of it and can recommend it highly.
—Joseph McElhiney, L'nton, Iowa. You
will find this remedy a good friend when
troubled with a cough or cold. It always
affords quick relief and is pleasant to
take. For sale by Shawnee Drug Co. 9
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C H M M M *
Have You Ambition
To some day go In
business for yourself?
You'll need capital—and the successful
man of the future is the young man
who keeps a savings account and adds
to it regularly. With us $1.00 will
start an account.
East Room Whlttaker Building
Bank of Commerce,
Shawnee, O. T.
Judge Burwell convened court at Te-
cmseh at 9 o'clock this morning and the
roll of grand jurors was at once called
and the tnen placed under the usual
oaths and instructions. The jury then
retn ed and is now at work 011 various
matters connected with the criminal
business of the county 111 the federal
line. The class of business will be con-
cluded in a short time and the jury will
then take up territorial matters. The
petit jury, which has been serving since
court last week, is still on deck, though
today has been mostly to the hearing of
motions by the judge.
To Take Up Bond.
Prof. Ware, treasurer of the Katy ex-
ecutive committee, and several other in-
terested parties, went to Tecumseh today
to take up the Katy bond and pay over
the J6,ooo which is necessary to have the
suit against the bond signers dismissed.
J. M. Elgin, the grocery mm hand
les the Geary Flour. Call for it. 23
The derrick at the Pennsylvania Oil
and Gas company's well north of the city
Is up and ready for business, while the
engine, boiler and other machinery is
being installed. The plant will prob-
ably be ready to commence drilling this
week, though considerable work is yet
in be done on the machinery. It is as
fine a drilling outfit as ever was seen and
fitted with everything up to date. A
large crowd from the city saw the der-
rick and its outfit Sunday and today.
Wanted—Girl about sixteen years old
at once, at 639 N. Broadway. io-3t
The News Real Estate Agency, 126 N.
Broadway, will sell your property for
you. Our Ads go to every part of the
ountry. List your property with us. *
Oct. nth, the Santa Fe will place 011 sale
Home Visitors tickets to points in Indi-
ana, Ohio and Kentucky, for one fare
plus $2.00 for the round trip limited 30
days from,date of sale for further infor-
mation. Call 011 or write.
Geo. P. Nelson, Agt.
GASOLINE RLAZE
* *
j PRESIDENT HADLEY, THE \
I HEAD OF YALE COLLEGE 5
OF HARD FIGHTING
SAYS CHICAGO
IS DOOMED
Mrs. Amanda Tenipleton, a well
known coloied woman who resides near
the compress in the southeast part of the
city, was burned in a gasoline fire Sun-
day evening and her injuries will prob-
ably prove fatal.
She had been troubled with a gasoline
stove which refused to burn properly,
anil she emptied the tank's contents,
including gasoline and a sediment which
had gathered in the tank, into a bucket,
which she placed nearby 011 the floor.
After cleansing the tank, she refilled it,
opened the burner and lighted the
stove, throwing the lighted match to one
side.
Unfortunately the match struck the
bucket of gasoline and in a second the
whole room was ablaze and Mrs. Temple-
toil was frightful burned before she
could extinguish the fire, which burned
her clothing off from het head to her
feeti
She was alone at the time and she lay
for some time 011 the floor screaming for
help, before anyone responded. The
police were immediately notified and
they called in physicians who dressed
the woman's burns, they have but small
hopes for her recovery, as her flesh is
burned so badly that it is coming off her
arms, limbs and body, and she is a
burned mass from her ankles to her
chin. Her sufferings since the accident
have been frightful though she is being
given the best of attention.
LEFT VIEWS
AT THE FAIR
E. I,. Rstes has returned from a visit
in Chicago and St. Louis. Mr. Estes is
one of the well known sons of W, J.
Estes, a pioneer of this city, and he col-
lected a number of fine panoramic views
of this city and vicinity which he used
while in Chicago, interesting many cap-
italists, with whom he Is acquainted, in
the greatest city of Oklahoma. He says
that several capitalists intend making in-
vestments here shortly.
Enroute home, Mr. Estes decided,
upon urgent request, to leave the views
at the World's Fair and they are now
daily being seen by thousands of people
who visit the fair, thus adding to the
advertising which Shawnee is getting
there.
J. W. Bain s grocery store has in stock
the celebrated Geary Flour. 23
Houses in all parts of the city for sale
or rent. See Pulley, 318 E. Main and
phone 279. 7-6t
WILL AMALGAMATE
AT MEETING HERE
President Hadley is the head of Yale College, and has come into prominence
of late through his advanced educational methods.
CRITICISM ACCEPTED
We don't like to criticise so
good a paper as the Daily Shaw-
nee, Oklahoma, News, but we can-
not believe, without seeing the
city at least, that Shawnee justi-
fies such a paper—a ten page, six
column sheet with four pages in
two colors. We must admit, how-
ever, that the paper Is well filled
with advertising and no one could
ask for more in the way of news.—
Pointers, Kansas city.
Stray red cow taken up. Owner in-
quire, in N. Broadway. 13.91
"Protect Yourself."
"Intending visitors to Saint Louis dur-
ing the World's Fair can assure them-
selves satisfactory rooming accommoda-
tions through the Merchants' Servicer
Company at a nominal] expense. For
particulars, apply to nearest Frisco Sys-
tem Agent." •
SPRAINS.
S. A. Read, Cisco, Texas, writes,
March nth, 1901: "My wrist was
sprained so badly by a fall that it was
useless; and after using several remedies
that failed to give relief, used Ballard's
Snow Linimedt, and was cured. I earn-
estly lecommend it to any one suffering
from sprains." 25c, 50c, $i.00. Sold by
the Crescentand Owl drug stores. 9
CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY
The thirteenth annual session of the
Oklahoma Christian Missionary Society
will be held in Enid, September 19 to 22.
The program has just been prepared and
it indicates that the sessions will be of
interest to these who attend. It is ex-
pected that the attendance at this meet-
ing will be in excess of that of any form-
er meeting.
The following parts of the program
concern Shawnee people:
To what extend should literary talent
be used in the C. E.?—Granville Snell,
Shawnee.
Report of J. R. Robertson, L. L. and
C. W. B. M. missionery for Southeastern
Oklahoma, Shawnee.
Devotional exercises—Led by Mrs.
Granville Snell, Shawnee
Cotton Market.
The cotton market today has again
been as high as the New York markets.
New York quoted it at $10.20 this morn-
ing and the Shawnee price was $10.15,
quite an amount being bought at that
price, though it has ranged down as low
as $10. How long the price can hold up
to this figure is a matter of conjecture as
the city markets are going down. Seed
cotton is quoted at #3.35.
Wanted—a woman to do washing
and ironing in small family. No one
but a person that knows how to iron need
apply. Call at News Office. 6tf.
Oklahoma City, Sept. 19.—The execu-
tive committee of the Bar associations of
Oklahoma and Indian Territory held
separate sessions at the Threadgill hotel
Saturday night, and each by unanimous
vote decided upon amalgamation of the
two organizations into one inter-territir-
ial society, which will be known as the
Bar Association of Oklahoma and Indian
Territory. This consolidation will take
effect at a joint meeting to t~iieTd at
Shawnee, Okla , on December, 26-30 of
this year.
The executive committee of the Okla-
homa association is composed of Roy V.
Hoffman, president, Chandler; C. H.
Wood, secretary, Guthrie; Frank Wells,
Oklahoma City; J, L. Ledbetter, Ard-
more; F. C. Hunt, Stillwater; W. O.
Eagleton, Pawnee; C. L. Botsforil, Nor-
man.
The Indian Territory executive com-
mittee is composed of Joe G. Rolls, pres-
ident, Atoka; R. L. Kellog, South
McAlester; J. L. Ledbetter, Ardmore; C.
D. Tannin, Vinita; and W. J. Williams,
Atoka.
The association will retain separate
identity until the Shawnee meeting oc-
curs.
A committee was selected, composed
of Messrs. Hoffman, Wood, and Hunt,
for Oklahoma and Messrs. Rolls, Kel-
logg and Ledbetter for Indian Territory
to formulate a constitution and by-laws
for the new society to be adopted at the
Shawnee meeting.
A joint committ e was also selected
to arrange for the joint meeting at
Shawnee and to prepare a program for
same. This committee is composed of
Messrs. Hoffman, Rolls, Wood, Kellogg,
Wells, Jackson and Blakeney.
Lloyd & Jones, no% E. Main St., ap-
preciate your business, all kinds of In-
surance in the best Companies. 9-iin
Mrs. HOUSEKEEPER
Vacation time is over and
the family must be fed.
Let's get th i larder filled
up with good things once
more. Bring your memor-
andum to our store, as the
quickest and most econom-
_ ical way of replenishing it
and don t forget to include in that list the necessary
spices for canning purposes. You want the best, you
want them absolutely pure. We have just received a
new line of spices—the Golden Gate quality put up in
air tight tin boxes, the best and purest spices that
money can buy. Here's a list of them.
Mustard Mace Thyme
Ginger Nutmeg Marjarom
Allspicc Cinnamon Cloves
Saflc Savory Cayenne
White Pepper and BlaeK Pepper
This week 10 pounds of sugar for SOc with a $3.00 order
The C. 0. D. Grocery,
113 E. Main McNEIL & SMILEY Phones 208
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Halpin, Harry E. The Shawnee News. (Shawnee, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 189, Ed. 1 Monday, September 19, 1904, newspaper, September 19, 1904; Shawnee, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc137701/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.