Carney Enterprise. (Carney, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, December 31, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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The Carney State Bank Wishes All a Happy New Year.
(JAKNcjV mterprise.
VOL. 9. CARNEY, UNCOLN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1909. NO. 23.
CARNEY ENTERPRISE
Published Every Friday
a. S. HERBERT. - - Editor
S.itered July 10. 1903 at Carney
Oklahoma ,as second class matter ,un
iar actof Congress March 3. 1903
5UBSCRIPTKI IATES
OME If EAR. $1 6 MONTHS 50
3 MONTHS 25c
Miss Mabel Montgomery who is
engaged in teaching at Meeker, is
visiting her mother here.
More than 85,000 of gambling
paraphrenalie was burned by the
sheriff of Oklahoma county last Sat-
urday night.
An epidemic of smallpox of huge
proportions has broken out in five
towns in Wyandotte county . Kan.,
and all the schools are closed.
Tha trusts are more anxious to-
day than ever before as to just what
will happen and this notwithstanding
t ,e fact that Mr. Roosevelt is ten
thousand miles away.
Christma? day was quiet and or-
d rly in Carney. But few people
trom the country were in town.
S.veral articles were raffled off
which claimed the attention of some
of our sports.
The first beefsteak that ever
reiched the town of Circle City,
AUska, sold for $48 a pound, ac-
cording to the newspapers of the
ti ne. When the owner of the pre-
vious bit of meat reached the camp
the miners turned out in a body to
se-; it.
i'erhaps and perhaps not some
p .pie are anxious to know whether
i Mr. Cannon recently executed by
P ciident Zelaya of Nicaraugua is
t i • Speaker of the House known by
h s intimates as Uncle Joe and by
th i-.e more intimate as a great poker
pi i /er and by other as the man be-
hi;i i the cigar.
Are the coal and oil fields, the
ph ssphate and timber lands, the wa-
r power sites not yet monopolized
by the trusts to become the property
of ;;reat corporations or of multi-
mi.Uonaires or are they to be reserved
f r the benefit of all the country and
or future generations? These are
urgent questions which Mr. Taft in-
itiated that he would take up later
and which it is now said will not be
considered until after decisions have
b en handed down from the Supreme
Court on related questions.
Everybody is talking about the
high taxes and as a general thing
they refer to the taxes that are be-
ing paid to the county treasurer be-
cause that is tangible taxes and can
be estimated in so many dollars and
cents But if the ordinary farmer
who pays from $25 to $50 taxes at
the county treasurer's office could
pile up the tariff on indirect taxes
that are paid during the year he
would think that $50 taxes looked
very small indeed. With a big tax
on shoes, clothing, implements, in
fact, almost everything that is man-
ufactured and which he has to buy,
ranging from 40 to 200 per cent he
would see that the indirect tax is
much more than all of his direct tax.
There is plenty of room to reform
the direct tax, but there is more room
to reform the indirect tax. Had
Biid McGuire, C. E. Creager, and
Dick Morgan have stood with Charlie
Carter, Scott Farris in the house of
representatives and fought the Payne
bill as did many of the republican
members there is no doubt but what
the indirect tax would have been
lowered this year instead of raisei.
The recent bank failures only ac-
centuate the necessity of our present
bank guarantee law. It is hard to
tell what the result would be if it
were not that this law is now in opera-
tion. The fa.lure of three banks,
one national and two state, has not
inspired any uneasiness in the minds
of the people of the state. Every
depositor in the state bank is receiv-
ing every dollar of his deposits. How
different it is in states that have no
guaranty (■ a ure. This is one law
that the people will not allow modified
to the extent of crippling it, unless
the federal court decides that it is
unconditional. While some in-
dividual may not like the guaranty
feature, the people do, and the peo-
ple are running this stale at the pres-
ent time
We are told that the tramp jeweler
Slim, thai we have mentioned as do
ing the people up, is in jail at Cush
ing. Parties from that town wen
here and recovered a couple o
watches Slim had taken from Cush
ing and traded to parties here—Lu
ther Register.
This is the same slick one who
laid around Carney for several
weeks and when he s iddenly depart
ed carried off a couple of watches
that he had taken to fix. So sudden
was his departure that he forgot to
settle a boatd hill of several weeks
The first school for the blind ir
the world was established at Liver-
pool in 1791.
The corporation commission has
never worked harder since its organ-
ization, than during the past months,
besides the "rate hearing," which
has been going on for most of the
period, the commission has been
gathering evidence to be used in the
federal court at St Louis, wherein
the railroads are attempting to knock
out the two-cent passenger fare
clause of the constitution If the
federal court admits the evidence {
that has been gathered by the com-
mission there is not a doubt that the
constitution will be upheld, but—
well, wait and see what the federal!
court will do.
News comes that New Engla d
cotton mills are preparing to reduce
the wages of their employees. Can
this be so? No industry is more
boosted by a high tariff than the cot
ton industry. The cotton schedules
of the new tariff were little short of
scandalous. There was an urgent
demand for a downward revision but
the already highly protected manu-
facturers of cotton actually secured
an increased protection of twenty
five percent. It little becomes them
to talk of reducing the wages ot their
employes.
Oklahoma has more state normals
and more agricultural schools than
any other state in the Union. Th;s
is something that the people from
everywhere are noticing and it is re-
markable when it is to be considered
that Oklahoma is as yet thi young-
est state of the Union.
They are still agitating about the
quarantine line in Harmon, Caddo,
Greer and Canadian counties just as
if the ticks were not either already
dead or retired to win er quarters.
TUST A WORD OF APPRECI-
ATION AS W TH<:
NEW YEAR.
The old vear is almost gone.
It his been filled with sunshine
with just enough shadow to tem-
per the glare and as we stand up-
on the threshold of the new year
about to be ushered in we are de-
termined to give our people better
service in 1910 than 1909.
Banks are public service insti-
tutions and we do appieciate the
business and kind words of our
customers and friends. Prosper-
ity abounds throughout the land
and we take up the work of the
new year with bright hopes and
high aspirations, and as we wish
for you success and prosperity we
venture the hope that we may mer-
it whatever business you may in-
tru-t to this bank. Wishing you
unbounded success and a happy
prosperous New Year let us turn
the page together. Extending to
you every service of a prospering,
progressive institution we are
Yours for a successful New Year.
CARNEY STATE BANK
CARNEY, OKLAHOMA.
Safety Boxes For Rent.
Farm Loans and Insurance.
Dr. W. H. Brockman
PHYSICIAN AND SURCEON
Will Attend all Calls.
Office at Residence.
CARNEY,- - - 0KLA.
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Herbert, H. S. Carney Enterprise. (Carney, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, December 31, 1909, newspaper, December 31, 1909; Carney, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc142761/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.