Edmond Enterprise and Oklahoma County News. (Edmond, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 70, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 2, 1904 Page: 1 of 5
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Edmond Enterprise
AND OKLAHOMA
COUNTY NEWS.
THURSDAY
THE EDMOND ENTERPRISE,
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An unknown man pushed off Into
eternity at Caldwell last week by step-
ping In front of a fast morning passen-
ger train.
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Last Thursday the electric light
plant at Mangum was partially des-
troyed. presumably by dynamite placed
in coal by some one who had a fan-
cied grievance at the company.
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Two young men who were disobey-
ing the laws of Oklahoma by seining
the Cimaron river near Perkins lost
their lives, presumably by being caught
In quicksand. They both left families.
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In going down the "slipety slide" at
St Louis, one Edmond lady run over
the guard and they both fell across the
room all in a heap. By the time all
the stories are told lots of things will
have come to light.
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The Mangum Star says that a four-
teen year old bo> by the name of Dau-
des McClure, living near Hollis, Okla.,
had been drowned while bathing in a
large water tank. His companions
were unable to help him.
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Several Edmond people visited the
"hereafter" at St Louis. They know
now how they will be when they "cash
in." They were frightened and clung
to the guard. Just ask some of them
how "hell" looks. They know.
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Reports from Wellston and Luther
show these places also suffered greatly
from hail the same as Edmond last
Wednesday. There has been several
destructive hall storms over the terri-
tory during the past two weeks.
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Mr. Cooper, game warden, arrested
L. H. Haskins, last Friday charged
with dynamiting fish in Cache creek
near Apache in the new country a few
days ago. There were about 175
dead ones floating around on the water.
If found guilty he should, and no doubt
will be prosecuted to the full extent of
the law, for no true sportsman will in-
dulge in such sport.
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Muscogee dispatches recite that a
case of whether a ring is an engage-
ment ring or merely a present, will be
decided by the court. Augustus Lindt
gave coy Harriet Cloud a $125
diamond ring and now wants It back.
He claims he gave it to her as an en-
gagement ring and she broke faith, and
now he has brought suit to recover.
She claims that it was merely a present.
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The Wichita Eagle gives an account
of a wedding which took place at that
place last week. The groom was a
man 70 years old by the name of Hill
and his bride was a girl of 14. The
groom was a well to do farmer and
the reason given by the parents of the
girl to the wedding was that Hill could
give her a better home than they could.
Just before the wedding ceremony
Hill gave his bride $1,800 and deeded
her a farm The groom is an Oklaho-
man.
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Proclamation.
Whereas, a petition signed by a
majority of the legal voters of the town
of Edmond in Oklahoma Ccunty, Okla-
homa Territory, praying for the organ-
ization of such town into a city of the
first class has been filed with the Gov-
ernor of Oklahoma Territory, and,
Whereas, it has been made to ap-
pear that said town of Edmond has a
bona fide population of over two thous-
and five hundred inhabitants residing
upon land platted Into lots and blocks
in said town of Edmond, and.
Whereas, It appears that said town
of Edmond is entitled to be organized
into a city of the first class under the
laws of the Territory of Oklahoma,
Now Therefore, I, Thompson B.
Ferguson, Governor of the Territory
of Oklahoma, do hereby declare and
proclaim the said town of Edmond In
Oklahoma County, Territory of Okla-
homa to be a city of the first class
from and after the date of this Procla-
mation, and to be known as the City of
Edmond.
And Whereas, it is made by law
the duty of the Governor to call a
special election In such city within
thirty days after the filing of the pe-
tition as aforesaid praying for th® or-
ganization of the town Into a city of the
first class, providing for the election of
a Mayor, City Clerk, Police Judge.
City Treasurer, City Attorney, an As-
sessor and eight councllmen,
Now Therefore, I, Thompson B.
Ferguson, Governor of the Territory of
Oklahoma do hereby call a special
election to be held In said city of Ed-
mond in the county of Oklahoma,
Territory of Oklahoma and fix the
time for the holding of such special
election for Tuesday the 28th day of
June A. D. 1904, and proclaim that
at election there shall be elected for
said city of Edmond a Mayor, City
Clerk, Police Judge, City Treasurer,
City Attorney, an Assessor and eight
councllmen, and that all of said officers
shall be elected to serve until the first
annual election In said city and until
their successors are elected and quali-
fied.
For the purpose of holding said
election, I do hereby establish one
polling place In said city of Edmond,
and hereby designate such polling
place to be at the Town Hall on the
street known as Broadway in said city
of Edmond, and I do hereby appoint
as Judges of said election, George
Baker, 0. N. Weiser and H. L. Low-
ery of said city of Edmond, and as
clerks of said election, C. E. Hunley
and A. Spangler of said city of Ed-
mond.
Given under my hand and the Great
Seal of the Territory of Oklahoma at
the city of Guthrie this 28th day of
May A. D. 1904.
T. B. Ferguson
Governor.
By the Governor:
William Grimes.
Secretary of the Territory,
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Wa> A Shame.
Edmond people who came home
from Guthrie last Saturday say, and
we have no reason to doubt the honesty
of our citizens, that they never in
all their lives received such treatment
as they were accorded at Guthrie.
The Guthrie papers stated and also
a man told them at the hotels that one
of the railroads would run a train to
and fro between the grounds and town
every half hour, at the rate of 10
cents a trip. The road took them out
but when it came to bringing them
back it was found that the train had
gone to El Reno. The crowd had to
walk back or pay 50 cents to ride to
the brewery, not even to the hotel.
The rooms for the ladles chorus to
dress in were engaged several days be-
fore and the bargain was that the
rooms were to be occupied until after
the oritorical contest was over. When
the ladies returned they iound th«ir
dress packed in suit cases and carried
to the hotel office, by a lot of colored
porters. The grips were packed any
old way.
The choral singers were given tickets
which were to admit them to the hall
free, but upon arlval at the hall they
had to pay 50 cents—every tlm they
turned around it was 50 cents. 50
cents for a meal, 50 cents to see the
sports at the park, 25 cents to get to
the grand stand which fell last year at
4th of July, 50 cents to ride back
from the grounds. Any thing you
wanted was 50 cents. Edmond sold
450 tickets to Guthrie, they left In the
town about $1,000—and the athletics
got the whole sum of $18.17 as their
share of the receipts. Now Guthrie
people are not hogs but just over grown
pigs of the razor back variety. When
they get anything of the kind again
they will have to whistle a long time.
Edmond people can be worked once—
just once, and that Is all. They even
sent a lot of badges advertising Guth-
rie to Edmond to be sold.
From California
We are 112 miles north of San
Francisco, on the California North-
.western railroad, at Ukiah, the county
seat of Mendocino county. The town
has electric lights, a fine system of
water works and sewerage, and a pop-
ulated of 2,500 within the corporate
limits. The valley is about 6x15
miles extent, thickly settled, dotted
with orchards, hop fields and hay land.
The hay land generally consists of
from five to twenty acres which is
sown to barley and oats, or wheat and
oats, and the grain is cut bafore it gets
ripe, then stored in barns for fall and
winter use. There are some small
alfalfa fields and these bring their own-
ers good money. They do not irrigate
in this valley. Hay harvest has begun,
and the orchards and hop fields are
being cultivated. The ground is in
fine condition, and you will not wonder
when I tell you the total rainfall for
the season, so far, is four feet seven
inches. We had a light shower this
week, but the chances are that we will
have no more rains until in Septem-
ber or October.
For a period of 56 days, beginning
on February 3, once of 36 and twice
of 24 hours were the longest periods
without incessant rainfall. The valley
is drained by the Russian river, a tor-
rent in winter but a clear mountain
stream in summer. The scenery is
something grand. So far as scenery
is concerned this Is far ahead of any-
thing we saw in southern California,
and is called "The Switzerland of
America."
Tall mountains rise all around us
from 1,900 to 2,200 feet, and to the
north of us 30 miles we can see snow-
capped Sanhedrin. The evenings are
cool, a breeze generally rising about
4 p. m. The streets are sprinkled
day and night and the graveled roads
in the country prevent the dust getting
as bad as one would think. It gets
bad enough though.
This is the season of trout fishing
and many are the tales told of great
numbers being caught. They are a
very fine fish, but shy and very hard
to get. The railroad company has a
fish hatchery here, where millions of
salmon trout are hatched and put in
mountain streams. This Is an induce-
ment for the sports from the City to
pay the company four cents a mile to
get to the stream, and the hotels from
$8 to $ 17 per week to stay. I sup-
pose the reason the railroad fare is so
high is because of the expense in
building so many tunnels and cost of
keeping the roads fret from slides in
the winter, The reason the hotels
charge so much is probably because
they are only open half the year, and
because the City fellows have money
to spare.
It is interesting to visit the fish
hatchery. They have many speci-
mens of fish preserved in alcohol, but
In the vats one can see thousands of
pink eggs and In the next vat (of run-
ning water) the same color of eggs
but with a little black spot, the eye;
the next vat contains buckets full of
little fellows just hatched, and so on
till we come to the distributing vat
from which they are taken when per-
haps three inches long, and placed in
streams.
Many of our friends write us that
they suppose we have plenty of fruit to
eat. Well, oranges are 25 and 30
cents per dozen. These and lemons
and some very fine strawberries at 25
cents a box, are all the fruit one sees
on market yet, and these are not raised
here, Fruit trees were in bloom in
Oklahoma two weeks before they were
here. Prunes, pears, cherries and
figs will be plentiful later on. There
will he an abundance of grapes. We
have had garden products such as
lettuce, onions, celery, etc., all winter
raised here at home in open field.
They sell most everything by the
pound except eggs and oranges.
This seems to be a healthy place in
spring and summer, but we never lived
in a town where they had anything to
compare with the sickness and deaths
they had here last winter, About a
funeral a day and sometimes more.
The people are a hospitable, liberal
class as a rule, but nearly all of them
on the lookout for "suckers" and the
"tenderfoot." They have no Sunday
law in California and the saloons run as
wide open on that day as any other.
There are nine saloons in town and
they each pay the city $50 per quarter
and the county $15—a total revenue
of $260 es.ch, a year. The expense
of our trial alone this year was $ 1,360
resulting from bad whiskey in half
breed Indians.
The highest ambition in the breas'.s
of many of the men in this country, is
just to be abl« to run a saloon. If
they can ever reach that lofty station
in life all their hopes and earnest long-
ings have been satisfied. No sacrl
flee Is too great and no privation is too
much to endure if it will only put them
in reach of the prize. But still there
are others who feel that the hand of
fate has been heavy upon them, that
they are destined to be but poor earth-
worms, and will never be able to en
gage in such a noble calling. They
are greatly in the majority but notwith-
standing their fellows have ascended,
they are not hopeless. To them it is
given to be able to take the cup from
their master's hand and to drink there
from the "condensed joy" of ten year
old Bourbon that causes all dissappoint-
ments to vanish for the time being.
They get to the point then where they
"dont care if they nebber wake up-"
This is the bane and curse of this
country. It is worse than in Oklahoma.
Wages are high here, but so is the
cost of living. School teachers are
in great demand, being hard to supply
the schools.
One of the state hospitals for the
insane is located here. At present
there are over 750 inmates, largely
foreigners, and 75 percent of the cases
(state statistics) due to the work of
King alcohol.
We have a beautiful court house
and square with jail and hall of records
a sociable people, not all of whom are
bad, and a hot but healthful summer
climate.
Otha Wilkison,
JUNE 2, 1904
The Anadarko Democrat says that
we had a terrific hall storm last Wed-
nesday, the 25 of May. They were
right, we did but there was not a single
runaway that we could learn of during
the storm or afterward.
| ENTERPRISE WRINKLES.
By A Disbanded Volunteer. j
A bird that can sing, and won't sing,
ought to be made to sing, but a wom-
an who can t sing, but will sing, ought
to be sent to Sing Sing.—Sprig of
Myrtle.
An Atchison grocer says the aver-
age family pays two dollars a week
royally to trusts in the necessaries of
life bought at a grocery store. He
reckons an average family as consist-
ing of four persons. The grocer called
off the following articles on his shelves
which are controlled wholly or partly
by the trusts: sugar, baking powder,
crackers, oils, tobacco, wooden ware,
dried fruits, bananas, oranges, soaps,
package coffees, soda, starch, flour,
meats, creamery butter, stoneware,
glass jars, and matches. He says
bananas and oranges are controlled by
a very strong trust, and as for oils he
says It is simply appalling the way
prices continue to go up in the face
of the fields being developed all the
time. If there are four members in
your family you contribute two dollars
a week as velvet to the various trusts
which con'rol what you eat and use in
your household. Still, the tariff, the
monetary system, and the isthmian
canal continue to be "paramount"
issues in the fourthcoming national
campaign. So says the Atchison,
(Kansas) Globe. Can it be possible
that the Globe does not understand
that the trusts are the most liberal
contributors to the political campaign
funds and that it would be "poor polit-
ics" to crush the trusts who put up the
spot cash to pay campaign expenses
to elect presidents, congressmen and
legislatures in the various states and
territories? And how are the numer-
ous trusts to be able to pay millions to
help elect candidates, unless they can
make "the dear people" pay enough
more lor their goods, so that the
trusts can pay political party expenses
and have something left for profits?
The trusts are Itl The trusts have
more influence at Washington than all
"the dear people" combined. The
trusts own most of the candidates.
'The dear people" will continue to
"grin and bear it." Of course the
dear old Tariff and Money and Pana-
ma will be "the paramount issues."
Why not? Did you never notice that
in the crowd at the circus, it was while
the people were watching "the para-
mount issues" that the gamblers and
pickpockets got in their work? How
"the dear people" do love to be robbed
while they are shouting for The Party!
And after they have been robbed how
they like to shout for "Prosperity,"
"Protection" "Panama" The Flag
and An Appropriation." Politicians
are smart. No ticket seller at the
circus is more shrewd than the pol-
iticians. The politicians and their
trusts are partners. The politicians
rake in the voters and the trusts rake
In the money. The dear people have
always footed the bills and always will.
If some farmer dares growl about it,
they call him a "fossil;" "a fool;" "a
crank," and accuse him of treason to
the party! The poor frightened far-
mer asks God to forgive him. Then
the country is saved again and the
trusts are happy,
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