The Enid Daily Eagle. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 62, Ed. 2 Friday, December 10, 1909 Page: 1 of 4
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THE ENID DAILY EAGLE.
VOL. IX, NO. 02.
ENID DAILY EAGLE Fill DAY, I)E( EMBER 10, 11)01).
TWELVE PAGES.
PRICE FIVK CENT*
GET FRANCHISE
roe EXTENSION
BOSLER AND HALL ARE GIVEN
RIGHTS AT SPECIAL SES-
SION.
A Big Boom for Packingtown to Re-
sult From Action of the City
Council Last Night—
Means Greater Enid.
Following the daily conferences
and ultimate agreement of the realty
men interested in the extension of
the Enid City Railway company's
line to East Enid, as announced in
The Eagle on Tuesday, the city coun-
cil met in special session last night
and granted a franchise to expire on
January 1, 1935, to C. H. Bosler,
president of the Enid City Railway
company and J. J. Hall, a director
of the company.
This forges the binding link in the
chain of probabilities regarding the
extension of the line. It eliminates
all doubt that the line will be con-
structed and will be an arm of the
present street railway system, al-
though owned by Bosler and Hall.
Although it is yet necessary for those
interested in the proposed line to se-
cure the right of way and obtain
donations which will reimburse the
builders of the line$ 10,000 for every
mile of track laid, there is no doubt
that this can be done. In fact, the
greater part of the money is already
in sight.
The Packingtown extension will
add eight miles to Enid's already
large mileage of street railway.
Leaving the city from the north and
then covering a larger territory to
the east, to Packingtown, the stock
Pavilion and returning via the Okla-
homa Christian University, it will
form the most valuable loop that
Enid could have.
If the conditions of the contract
are complied with by the local realty
men, the construction of the line will
have begun within four months and
will have been finished within a year.
The route as defined in the franchise
is from a point on the present Enid
City railway's tracks on Washington
or Locust. The present indications
are that it will be started from the
intersection of Independence avenue
and Locust street. It will traverse
the territory directly south through
Normandy and Clowortli additions
entering Packingtown, thence to the
live stock pavilion, and returning via
the Oklahoma Christian University.
The franchise granted the com-:
pany does not make certain a five j
cent fare, this matter having un-
doubtedly been settled in the con-
ferences. An hourly service will be
maintained on the line.
The meeting was called at 5:30
last night. Mayor McKenzie presid-
ed and there were present Aldermen
Randolph, Brandt, Scarff, Kent, Al-
ton, Robberts, Hitchcock, Wilkins,
Silvers and Huett. The city fathers
settled down to the consideration of
the franchise immediately. The in-
strument was read by the city clerk.
Mr. Brandt objected to that sec-
tion of the franchise which provided
for the location of the tracks in the
center of the street and the declaring
of a certain part of the street as neu-
tral ground. He stated that the resi-
dents of East Broadway were dissat-
isfied with neutral ground and he
was opposed to the proposition.
Mr. Bosler stated that it was to
prevent the people from crossing the
street car tracks except at intersec-
tions. He stated that it is done in
Washington, D. C., New York and
many other large cities. He said
that upon that ground the company
would erect poles to hold the trolley
wire.
Mr. Scarff said he was in favor of
granting the franchise, but he was
not in favor of giving the company
so much of the street. Finally it
was agreed to cross out the section
relating to the neutral ground. The
franchise was then re-read and
passed.
BE SELECTED SOON
(Political Advertisement)
RANDOLPH FOR MAYOR.
A meeting of the executive com-
mittee of the Oklahoma Hospital and
Sanitarium association was held
Wednesday in the office of Dr. Da-
vis, secretary of the state medical
board. General questions relating to
the institution were discussed.
A meeting will be held the fore
part of the week and at that time it
is expected that the site for the local
institution will be selected. The san-
itarium for the treatment of tuber-
culosis patients will be in the salt
plains northwest of this city and the
hospital will be located in this city.
A number of real estate men are bid-
ding for the location of the hospital
but thus far the committee has made
no attempt to select the location.
Members of the committee are Dr.
Davis of this city, Dr. D. W. Miller of
Blackwell and Dr. E. T. Keeler of
Hunter.
As a heavy tax payer in the City
of Enid. I desire to publicly voice
my preference through the medium
of the press in favor of the most
available candidate now before the
people for the office of Mayor, as I
view it.
The City of Enid is as yet, embryo,
but in my judgement is destined to
become the metropolis of the South-
west. Wre are now passing from the
old political regime of the manage-
ment of city affairs to the business
man's plan of government and it be-
hooves the voters who will present
themselves at the poles on the 14th
day of this month ,to scrutinize care-
fully, the name, character, ability
and achievements of all the candi-
dates now before the people, and
asking for their sufferage.
In order that the new plan of gov-
ernment may be made a success and
that the city may be managed along
conservative lines, and at the same
time, the public improvements now
in course of construction, may not
be impeted, it is necessary that the
voters of this great city make no
mistake in this, their initial attempt
in the selection of their Mayor and
Three Commissioners. It is abso-
lutely necessary that business men
who have made a success in their
own business and who are at the
same time in a measure conserva-
tive, be selected to fill these great
offices. The success or failure of
this commission plan, depends abso-
lutely upon the character of the men
elected on the 14th day of this
month.
The writer has been an observer
of municipal politics for many years
past, and is of the opinion that poli-
ticians at this time will not do. The
writer has carefully scrutinized the
candidates, character, characterist-
ics, ability and achievements of the
men in the past, their mental tem-
perament and make up, and above
all their standing in the community
on moral questions, and Is of the
opinion that Mr. C. F. Randolph oue
of the candidates for Mayor, of this
city, is the logical man to oe elected
at this time.
Mr. Randolph is a pioneer in the
city of Enid, Is a man of high attain-
ments, is a successful business man.
is a man conservative in all things
and above all, his reputation is spot-
less and without a blemish. The
writer has observed the character of
Mr. Randolph during the past three
years, while Mr. Randolph has been
a member of the City Council and
has observed with a great deal of
pleasure the important committee
assignments that Mr. Randolph has
filled with dignity to himself and
glory to the municipality, and chal-
lenges any voter in the city of Enid,
to point out a single act of Mr. Ran-
dolph while a member of the City
Council, that can be questioned.
The public will remember that Mr. |
Randolph, as a member of the Fire
Committee on the City Council, Is
very largely responsible for the mag-
nificent and excellent Fire Depart-
ment that the city of Enid is now
blessed with; in fact, every act of
his, as a public servant, has been in
the broad daylight and no finger of
suspicion can be pointed at him.
The writer has naught to say
against the two gentlemen who are
the opponents of Mr. Randolph for
this great office but as a heavy tax
payer, the writer Is of the opinion
that Mr. Randolph, by reason of his
experience as a legislator, that by
reason of his mature Judgment and
natural conservatism, that he is the
best qualified of any man now aspir-
ing to the great office of Mayor of
this City, to fill said office with dig-
nity to himself and honor and glory
to the municipality aftd if the voters
on the 14th day of December, by
their ballots, elect him, that they
will make no mistake but that ihey
will have placed a man at the head
of the City Government, under a new
and great charter, who will devote
all of his time, energy and ability in
carrying out the principals enunci-
ated in that char ter, and will
thereby make the City of Enid a
grander, greater, cleaner and betUr
place to live in.
Very respectfully submitted,
3t TAXPAYER.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. ❖
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ENID EAGLE. 4*
70 DEMONSTRATION FARMS
LOCATED B* STATE BOARD
Guthrie, Dec. 10.—The state board
of agriculture has had added to its
other duties this fall, the location of
a demonstration farm in each county
of the state in which there is not al-
ready located an agricultural college
or district agricultural school. Mr.
A. C. Cobb, member of the board,
from Wagoner county, was appointed
by the board as superintendent of
demonstration farms. Other mem-
bers of the board were designated as
agents of the board to make contracts
with the parties selected through the
medium of the county farmers' insti-
tutes to have charge of these farms.
Under the law which was passed last
winter an appropriation Mf $20,000
per year was made for the purpose
of defraying the expenses of seed,
supervision, and indemnity to the
farmer in cases where, by reason of
following the instruction of the
board, the expense of handling the
demonstration farm should exceed
the returns. The board does not ex-
pect to be called upon to indemnify
anyone in carrying out this experi-
mental work, since staple crops in
each section will be practically the
only crops experimented with, and
the method of culture prescribed will
and scientific culture which has al-
ready proven successful in this .and
be simply the best known, Hiodern
other states. Contracts have been
signed and filed from a large num-
ber of the counties. Other meetings
have been called, and Superintendent
Cobb expects to have the contracts
eompelted in each of the seventy
counties that will be entitled to one
of these farms by December 15. In
some instances, notably Carter coun-
ty, a request has come to have the
board designate two farms—the par-
ties pledging themselves to hold the
state free from any indemnity in the
case of a second location. This point
has not yet been decided by the
board.
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DELAY THE 1
OF DEMOCRATS
> EFFORT TO GET THE TAY-
LOR BILL IN COURT AGAIN.
1N>1\<; THEIR 1)1 TV.
Scores of l-'iihi Renders Are I^nniiug
the Duty of the Kidneys.
To filter the blood is the kidneys'
duty.
When they fall to do this the kid-
neys are sick.
Backache and many kidney Ills fol-
low ;
Urinary trouble, diabetes.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure them all.
Enid people endorse our claim.
E. Besgrove, "J 14 West Cherokee
avenue, Enid, Okla., says: "I never
lose an opportunitj of praising
Doan's Kidney Pills. My faith in
them is just as strong today as when
I publicly recommended them in
1900. For a long time my kidneys
were very weak and every cold I
caught settled In them. At times my
back ached and the kidney secre-
tions became far too frequent in pas-
sage. When I learned of Doan's Kid-
ney Pills. 1 procured a supply from
the Corry Pharmacy and began using
them. They proved of great benefit
and during the past two years I have
been practically free from kidney
trouble."
For sale by all druggists. Price
50 cents. Foster-Mllburn Co., Buf-
falo. New York, sole agents for the
United States.
Remember the name—Doan's—
and take no other.
Harris Will Keep Fight Going On
Election Law 1'ntll Final Vote
Is Reached.
Guthrie, Ok.. Dec. 10.—'"The fight
to secure a referendum vote on the
Taylor election law will be kept up
incessantly until the people are given
the rights which the state constitu-
tion provides in its initiative and
referendum clause," says Jliu Harris,
acting chairman of the republican
state committee.
"It has reached me," says Harris,"
that the democratic administration
wilt continue the delay, seeking to
prevent a vote by the people, in ev-
ery way possible. It is understood,
in this connection, that they will
again take up their old objections
to the referendum petitions, filed by
the republican state committee,
claiming the petitions are insuffici-
ent, in order to throw the whole
thing back in the supreme court if
comprehensive opinion from the
state supreme court, sustaining ev-
ery contention made by the republi-
can counsel. Judge John H. Burford,
the democrats cannot hope for any-
thing by further opposing the peti-
tions bur. to cause all the delay pos-
sible. It matters not what course
the democrats follow, however, we
will keep the fight going until we
get for the people of this state their
right to have the Taylor law, or any
other law, referred."
The original protestors against
the republicans' petitions were three
local democrats, Intimate friends of
Governor Haskell—Joseph W. Wis-
by, A. R. Eastman. Haskell's local
Suicide Facts.
According to a compilation recently
published, there were 7,048" suicides in
Prussia in 1908. The most remarkable
point about the statistics Is that there | banker, and .1. M. Brooks, at whose
were more suicides in summer than in u"*~' Tr""T"'" r «*it.
wlr.#er. It appears, according to the
figures, that people have the least In-
eli: "tion to quit this life on Saturday
and Sunday.
Given Time to Think.
Condemned to death, a prisoner In
Greece is kept in confinement for twe
years before the sentence is carried
out.
hotel Haskell lives. Their protests
are repeated here, just to show the
people how silly the protests are
and how hard up the state adminis-
tration is for something with which
to oppose giving the people a vote on
the Taylor law. The protests are:
"That the petitions were not filed
In time.
"That they were not properly veri-
fied.
"That they do not contain the re-
quired number of signatures.
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