The Prague Patriot. (Prague, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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THE PRAGUE PATRIOT.
«D FOR PRAOUS AND VICINITY.
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Prague, Liaceln C*iiaty, Okls., Tiurtdaj, Feb 4 1904
Number 23
00 TO MERTES & HEATLEY'S FOR BARGAINS IN WIRE AND NAILS.
A BANNER YEAR.
(. klahoma Will Break All
Previous Building
Records.
Shawnee Herald.
Guthrie, Jan. 27—Every indi-
cation points to a year of the
greatest prosperity in Oklahoma.
The bank deposits equal one-
third of the total taxable prop-
erty valuation of the territory,
and the amount of unmey now on
hand in the territorial treasury
over •'JBSO.OOO, is the best record
in the history of Oklahoma. Of
this fund £350,000 is for the pur-
pose of erecting public buildings
•after Oklahoma is admitted as a
st&te. That thin fund will soon
b available for this purpose is
evidenced by the present favor-
able attitude of congress regard-
it:^ iht* passage of the bill ad-
mitting Oklahoma into the union.
According to Guthrie archi
tects this will be a great building
year and from all points in the
territory come reports of con-
templated plans for all manner
of improvements. Both Joseph
Foucart and Jiihu E. Bonnet, lo-
cal architects, believe I90i will
be a banner year.
Present indications show that
elections will be held in the coun-
ties of Blaine, Oklahoma, Noble,
Grant and Woods for the purpose
of voting bonds for the erection
of county high schools, averag-
ing in cost $(0,000. One such
building will b* erected in Guth
rie this year, the contract having
been let. Elections will be held
in Logan and Woods counties for
issuing bonds to eivct new coun-
ty court houses, costing on an
average £100 000, and such build-
ings are already provided for
during the year at Oklahoma
City, Hobart, Anadarko and
Lawton.
Bonds have been voted for the
erection of a $25,000 city hall nt
Shawnee and $15,000 county jail
at Newkirk.
Bridge construction will be an
important item, as plans are now
being considered to ulace a $12,-
000 steel bridge over the Cimar-
ron river here, over the Canadian
near El Reno, over the same river
at Taloga, over the Cimarron at
Ingersoll and over the Arkansas
at Cleveland.
In answer to queries asking of
contemplated improvements for
the ensuing year, the following
replies have been rec> Wed from
cities as follows:
Anadarko- Waterworks, court
house, three brick schoolhouses,
sewer system, light p ant.
Blackwell —Sewerage system.
Cordoll -Two gram elevators,
300 barrel Hour mill, *25,000 wa-
terworks sy tem.
Chandler—waterworks, new
business buildings and street
improvements.
Clinton—Oil mill, cotton press,
three cotton-gins, laundry, ele-
vator, three depots and 24,000
feet of trackage.
Cleveland—Ice plant electric
plant, two churches.
El Reno—Street paving, sower
sys em, $24,000 high school, Car-
negie library and opera house.
Enid—Court house, school
houses, street car line, library
and a city hall.
Arapaho—County high school,
library and a church.
Geary—Sewerage system, salt
works.
Granite—waterworks, electric
plant, rock crushing plant, capac-
ity seventy live cars daily.
Guthrit—Two hundred and
fifty thousand dollar public build-
ing, $25,000 I. O. O.F. hall, street
railway, street paving, three de-
pots, big elevator and storehouse,
county high school and county
court house.
Grand—Court house, jail, wa-
terworks.
Hennessey—Extension of the
water system, opera house.
Hobart—v ater works, sewer
system, court house, cotton com
press, school house, jail, many
business buildings.
Lawton—Water works, court
house, city hall, schools cyanide
plant.
Mangum—Thirty thousand
dollar water works, $20,000 high
school, three churches, opera
house and brick plant.
Norman—State University
building, Carnegie library.
Oklahoma City Storm and
sanitary sewer, straightening
coursc of Canadian river, w«ter
works extension, court house,
county high school, four public
schools; seven churches, three
secret society halls, etc.
Perry—'Three miles of bricK
walKs, Frisco depot, school build
ine, county high school.
Ponca City—Water worKs ex-
tension, street improvements,
public school building.
Roosevelt—Ore crushing plant
court house, water system.
Tecumseh—School house and
street railway.
Temple—Electric light plant,
flou" mil], cotton gin.
Watonga—vater works, coun-
ty high school, (lour mill.
Shawnee—City hall $3o,ooo,
water werKs $125,ooo, street
railway $35o,ooo, electric plant,
gas plant $ loo, ooo, two churches,
Catholic school $65,ooo, depot
$ loo,ooo, street psving $25o,ooo.
Both Ok lahoma City and
Guthrie have congressioaal ap-
propriations for public buildinirs.
The Orient, Santa Fe, FzarK &
CheroKee Central, Missouri Pa-
cific and several independent
companies are planning railroad
extensions for this year.
The raw material is on every
hand and the increasing number
f li> u r mills, cotton seed oil
mills, plaster and cement mills,
room factories, gas plants, and
foundries, etc., all of which are
in a flourishing condition, indi-
cate that Oklahoma is to see dur-
ing the year many valuable addi-
tions to this manufacturing list.
In conferring with the differ-
ent conspicuous cities of Okla-
homa Prague has been neglected
and we ought to l ave been first,
as we are biggest for age. We
are going to build a ten thousand
dollar school house, a church, a
canning factory, one or two more
cotton gins and several business
houses of stone and brick this
year with more in sight. Watch
us grow in this "Land of the
Fair God."
a large stock loss.
One Hundred Cattle Kill-
ed at Warwick on
the Frisco.
One hundred head of cattle
were killed in a wreck at War-
wick last Thursday night. The
train was a double-header and
the weight of the two engines
caused a rail to turn as the sec-
ond engine was passing the frog
of a switch, throwing this engine
and seven cars from the track
down a twelve-foot embank-
ment. Five cars loaded with
cattle were piled in a heap at the
loot of the dump. The trainmen
escaped injury. The engineer on
the wrecked engine jumped as it
went over.
PROSPERITY AT
FINE winter
clothing
at4
less than;
racket
prices.
Perry Republican: A matter
that should interest every tret-
planter in Oklahoma is that of
government inspection of nur-
sery stock coming into the terri-
tory. Nearly every state in the
union has strict inspection laws,
but any old brush is allowed to
eome into Oklahoma, no matter
how badly it may be affected
with scale, aphis, worms or
borers. This is not right. The
fact that the states do not allow
such stock unloaded in their
borders has resulted in the verv
worst class of stock, such as
were excluded from there, being
dumped into Oklahoma. At
present Oklahoma is entire!v free
from any tree disease. As far as
is known, there is no San Jose
scale or other injurious pest
either in our orchards or nurser-
ies, but unless something is done
to stop the shipping of diseased
stock to the territory we will
soon be overrun with pests.
• 'klahoitii School Fund.
Territorial Auditor Baxter has
filed his annu.il report for the
apportionment of the Oklahoma
school fund among the common
schools of the territory for their
maintenance, a fund derived from
the school land rentals. A sum
of $208,081 will be immediately
distributed, an increase off5,048
over last January.
There are 192,000 school chil-
dren in Oklahoma, a per capita
apportionment of $1.08, or 14c
more than last January and 6e
more than last year's total ap-
portionment.
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f FOR EYERYBODY.
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They Don't Want it.
Santa Fe, X. XL, Jan. 30—The
territorial republican central
committee today at Santa Fe
unanimously and amid cheering
passed a resolution to the effect
that as representatives of there-
publican party of New Mexico
they are entirely and utterly op-
posed to any act of congress
providing for statehood jointly
with Arizona.
F. F. Kingsbury, Pre*. A. G. Rogers, Vice Pres.
W.i'F. Fester, Cashier.
Lincoln County
. BANK .
C*3h Capital, $10,000.00
(iener/il Banking: Business Done.
Special Attention to
Coii. c{ions & harm Loans
Money Furnished Without Delay.
J Frte I'm? of Fire Proof Vault for Storage of Valuable Papers
City Meat Market
Oil was struck at a depth of!
290 feet near Knw City. While Nortn Side East Main Street, handles all kinds of fresh, stnok«d
the workmen were trying to put'
in the casing the well shot oil j
about twenty feet in the air.
and salt meats and all kinds of sausages.
Royal Banquet and Cream of;
Wheat brands of flour, for sale,
by Merritt & Co.
F j DUFFEK, Prop,
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Overstreet, W. S. The Prague Patriot. (Prague, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 1904, newspaper, February 4, 1904; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc146670/m1/1/: accessed July 1, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.