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THE ENID EVENTS.
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Vol. 12
ENID, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11,1904.
No. 48
JacR Jones
in
The Clans
Gather.
'Matthews an Enid Visitor,
Where he holds love
Feast with Sons
of Sunny
South.
y J. F. Matthews democratic candi-
date for delegate to congress, paid
Knid a visit Sunday. He was met
by Mr. Walker, Dr. Kelso and others
and escorted around over the city.
Matthews drew a great, deal of com
fort from the society of Mr. Walker,
for Walker, l>eing also a southerner,
unable to pronounce the letter R. the
meeting was one of kindred spirits,
t "How ah you, Mistali Wahker."
"Veah well, Mistali Matthews."
"How's you all's politics up heah."
••\'eah well, ah think, Mistali Mat-
thews: ah thinks that ah may be able
toe line up th' boys veah well."
"What ah th' p'ospec's ah cahying
this county, Mistali Wahker."
"Ah thinks we have veah good
p'ospecs indeed, Mistali Matthews,
indeed I does. As for tnaliself ah in-
tend toe stump the county fall you.
Coa'se I haint lieen heali veah long,
_jindsonieofthe.se heali notlithenahs
calls me a new-comah, but ah feels
that the nomination of yoaliself as
the repalisentative of the south,
places me, also ah soutlienah, in the
saddle, so toe speak, up heali. Ah
feels as ef 1 wah again In mah old
element down in Mlssissippah."
"Ah sure app'eciate the f'endsliip
of ah soutlienah, suh, of the blue
><blood, alind since meeting you, Mis-
tali Wahker, ah feels moah suah that
mah intahests will lie called fob up
heah. An didn't like that poatly fat
nohthen detnoc'at you intoeduced me
He's toe inde-
vtoe ahwtiile ahgo.
pendent, suh."
The next happiest meeting of the
day was the meeting of Matthews
by Colonel Moore. Moore was a col-
onel in the confederate army and, of
course, embodied all that was deah
toe the heart of Mistali Matthews.
(And tlie bund played Dixie all the
time—all the time.)
•i It is stated that Wahker will lie
bead push of the Matthews campaign
in this county. So far as the Oklaho-
ma democracy is concerned, 110 north-
ern democrat need apply. Hence thej
ascendancy of Mistali Wahker toe
bosship in this county: hence the re-
tirement of the old wah bosses.
Dave Leahy, the popular Kausa-s
writer, gives a sketch of A. J. Jones,
of this city, in the K. C. Journal as
follows:
•The smartest Kansan I have ever
known," said Dave "was Jack Jones*
of Barlier county. Aliout twenty
years ago he went from Kentucky to
Medicine Lodge, and looked about
him for opportunities to engage in his
profession—a well digger. He took a
contract at Ilazelton and one day
while picking away for water some
sixty feet below the surface, the well
caved in upon him and for two days
tie remained buried. The third day
lie was rescued, nearly dead. He
made up Ills mind that the business
was too dangerous for him and begun
looking alxiut for a safer trade. He
concluded to enter the practice of law
went up to Medicine Lodge, stuck up
a shingle and waited for clients.
They did not come very promptly,
and he concluded to become a candi-
date for county attorney on the Dem-
ocratic ticket.
Fortune derected him one night to
a local church, where Carrie Nation
and other old ladies were holding
temperance mass meeting. He was
asked to speak there, and raadily did
so advancing his candidacy with tact
worthy of the genius that he had. He
concluded his remarks in this way.
"Ladles, I promise you now that if I
am elected, the demon rum will be
suppressed in this county, and the
day is not far distant when you will
again meet in this church and thank
me and God for a better condition in
this community." Tliat was suffici-
ent. The women went forth to bat-
tle for Jones, and in due time ho was
triumphantly elected.
Shortly after this 1 wont to Kiowa
to run a paper, and to make a good
impression 1 decided to champion
some great, moral issue. My friends
told me that the county attorney was
levying tribute upon the thirty-eight
saloonkeepers of the town, causing a
financial stingency that was hurtful
to its business prosperity. I immedi
ately took my pen in hand to de-
nounce the abuse of power manifest
ed by Mr. Jones, and in four columns
1 fairly peeled tile hide off the county
attorney. 1 was told that Jack would
shoot me on sight, but at that time I
was reckless and didn't care. Besides
lis was twenty some odd miles away.
The Sunday morning after the pa
one way. Everybody is for McGuire.
I don't believe Matthews will carry a
county east of the Rock Island, witli
the exception of Pottawatomie coun-
ty. I look upon Oklahoma county
as being safe by at least 300 majority
and that is ft small estimate. They
are trying to make capital against
McGuire on the capital location, but
that is so palpable as to collapse of
its own weigtit, and Oklahoma coun-
ty people merely smile at it. Every-
body knows that McGuire made an
excellent record for his first session in
congress and manifested great ability.
Matthews is an unknown quantity,
with but apparent meagre ability.
The dissaffection of the populists and
northern democrats is also a strong
factor against Matthews. And any-
way, tie is regarded as a weak char-
acter. I feel certain of Republican
success this fall."
Woolsey was on his way to Carmen
where he assisted in t lie organizat ion
of a Republican club.
At all events ttie Frisco took
offense at the tearing up of their
tracks, and this morning sent work-
men to rebuild the torn up track.
Thereupon members of the council
protested and caused a restraining
order to be issued, restraining tlie
Frisco from building the track.
The councilmen set up that they
are perfectly willing that the Frisco
have the right of way, but they don't
want tlie street spoiled by a useless
track.
However, the Frisco has been good
to Enid and we don't want any mis-
understandings with the road. Let
the matter be speedily arranged to
the entire satisfaction of the Frisco
as well as the Council.
Buncomb
Bunked.
Suit Brought Against Garfield
County in Furtherance of
Individual Aims.
ion's" stiogi
M MM
FOI IK
1
Sevaral suits have lieen tiled against
R. L. Denton, as Receiver of tlie
Citizens Rank lately.
The largest suit is tiled by Frank
Letson, trustee in the ease of Frank
' S. Kirk, bankrupt, in which it is al-
leged that Kirk lad money or other
property and that ho put It in the
Citizens Bank to pay papers held
there, giving the Citizens bank, ona
of his creditors, a right not afforded
to other creditors, and the petition
asks that the amount sued for be
turned over to him, so tluit all credit-
ors can liave a proportionate share of
\s'the money paid the bank.
The Kratzer Carrlago company sues
for ti,350. It is alleged in the peti
tiou that F. S. Kirk bought goods of
the plaintiff and gave a check due in
* several weeks after date, payable at
the Citizens bank, and that on Octo-
tier 5, said check was due and it was
presented and payment was refused
by the bank, and tliat later in the
month, F. S. Kirk became Insolvent.
The I"li*t National bank sues W.
E. Cogdal, Citizen Bank and R. L.
Denton for 11,0013V The petition
' allege* that W. E. Cogdal drew a
draft for tl.OOtt upon E. J. Ranney,
payable to the order of H. H. Wat-
kins, cashier of tlie Citizens Bank.
By the terms thereof, Cogdal promis-
ed ou demand tliat said Ranney
would pay to the order of Watkins,
the sum of ti,000. Watkins sold the
draft to the First National, and
when It was presented Ranney refus-
ed to pay the draft.
The suits are all defended by At-
torney Dodson, who Is the represen
fative of the bank receiver. ^
I per was issued I. heard a knock at my
j sanctum door and I called to the
I knocker to come In. He was a man
I with a tremendous bunch of black
whiskers.
"My name is Jones," he eaid "A.
J. Jones."
I thought my hour had come, but
by great effort I kept my nervo
"I I lave been reading your last pa
per." he said.
I was penned up in a very small
office with no avenue of escape open
to me and I would not give 5.cents
for my life.
"You are getting up the best. Dem-
ocratic paper Barber county has ever
bad." continued Mr. Jones, "and I am
not one of those guys that don't ap-
preciate it. Take this tl5 and send
ten copies for a year to fellows who
need to have their pathway lighted
by the glorious principles of Democ-
racy."
All my prejudiced ideas concerning
the character of Mr. Jones vanished
and he begun to loom up big and
broad and great before me. I could
not fall to see that all the abuse hurl-
ed at him up the public was malicious
and uncalled for, and from tliat day
on I was his friend. It was the most
clever turn 1 have ever known a man
to make who had a grievance to settle
with an editor, ami I like clever peo-
ple.
Rock Island
Operations
A dispatch to the Star from Topeka
says:
The Chicago, Rock Island a Pacific
railroad is said to lie behind a scheme
to build a north and south line of
railroad through the wheat bolt of
Kansas, commencing on the north
with the through line to Denver and
the northwest, and on tlie south at
Enid for the Gulf of Mexico points.
Although authentic information is
not at liand, it Is said by those well
versed In railroad circles that the con-
struction of the Gulf, Hutchinson a
Northwestern and the Denver, Enid
i, Gulf railroads contemplates corrall-
ing the bulk of the enormous wheat
traffic from the wheat blet of Kansas
for the Rock Island railroad company.
It is a notable fact that Kansas
while well supplied with trunk lines
of roads running In an east and west
direction, Is almost wholly without
north and south lines in any portion
of the state. The Denver, Enid a
Gulf road is under construction. The
road will reach from Enid northwest
to Kiowa, Kas. At Enid this line
would give direct connection for the
Rock Island to route shipments direct
to the Gulf over the main line of the
road.
Preliminary surveys and trips over
the proposed route have lieen made
from Hutchinson, Kans. to Grrat
Bind. Stockton, Lenora, Jennings
Oberlin and Atwood, in Rawlins Co.
From the connection at Jennings with
the main line of the Kock Island it is
said the road will bo built in a direct
southernly direction, so as to include
all of th# county seats towns in the
wheat counties through which the
road will pa«. it. Is said the road
111 lie built over one oft ha following
two routes south from Jennings, Kas.
I saving the Rock Island at Jennings,
the sama as the Lenora, Stockton, scnooi lana lessees out, suunw «>
Hays City, LaCrosse, Larned, Pratt, I,jle |ower house substitute for tlie
and to Kiowa to a connect ion with
the Detirar, Enid a Gulf, which also
The first hard shot of the Republi-
can campaign was tired in the resolu-
tions adopted by the republican coun-
ty convention of Noble county held
at Perry Saturday. The resolutions
were drawn by Earnest Jones who
has been familiar with the school
land matters of Oklahoma for a long
time. He has kept watch on legisla
tion and has been posted on tlie votes
on school land matters. The plank
The plank of the Noble county plat-
form condemning Frank Matthews
for voting against the McTaggart
school land bill is the blow that
is expected to cause consternation in
the democratic camp. The democrats
at Oklahoma City expressly condemn-
ed the republicans in the council two
years ago for killing the McTaggart
bill. The records show that the Mc-
Taggart bill was killed by the dem-
ocratic votes of Frank Matthews and
Sam Massingale. Of course the dem-
erits did not know about Matthews
school land record when they nomi-
nated him nor did they know that
they would nominate the man who
killed the bill when they denounced
the republicans for killing it.
The section of the platform treat
ingof school lands is as follows:
We favor the sale of the territor-
ial school lands at a fair and just ap-
praisement, the lessee to have the
preference right of purchase at the
appraised valuation.
As a matter of vital importance to
the. interests of our country we favor
the speedy enactment of a quaran-
tine moasure tint will protect our
live stock from the ravages of Texas
fever and other infectious and con-
tagious diseases, and condemn and de-
nounce as against the interest of our
county the action of tlie democratic
candidate for delegate to congress
while in the territorial council in vot-
ing and using his influence against
the passage of the quarantine bill, and
further for his action in voting
against and aiding in the defeat of
the school land lessees' bill, known as
McTaggart bill
We favor such action as will pro-
makes a direct connection for the gulf the ballot of all citizens and ill-
ports at Enid. The alternate route sur0 an driest count of the same."
would leave the main line of the Rock
Island at Jennings, the same as the """ ' ""
above mentioned route, pass through c Uaro
Lenora and Stockton, but Instead of B'S CiOw33 n.iC.
passing through Hays City would go
a trifle farther east and pass through About l.VKI people paid Enid a visit
Rikwell, Great Bend and St John and .Sunday, coining in on Rock Islaid
thencw straight south to Pratt and! and Frisco excursions. The Rock
Kiowa. Tills route would cut out j Island alone brought nine cars of ex-
IIays City, LaCrosse and Larned. uursionists, who were met at the de-
The latter route will in all proba- pot by the band and paraded to elty.
billty be tlie on# which will lie olKwen I The ofaief attraction was the ball
for the reason th# connection with game between Enid and Oklahoma
Hutchinson
Great Bend.
could b« best mado from
Won't Carry Two CoMtles
east of Rock Islani.
Tom B. Woolsey, editor of the Mul-
hall State Journal, was in the city
Saturday and as usual he was chock
full of Oklahoma humor and bore
evidences of the real thing Oklahoma
prosperity. Woolsey is $lso postmas-
ter of Mulhall and, as a necwaary
conclusion, Is a politician and watches
the Oklahoma situation very cloiely.
In speaking of McGuire's chances
Woolsey said: "I don't know how
you fellows are hooked up over liere,
but on the east side the thin# is all
City, which as usual resulted in a vic-
tory for th# Enid boys by a score of
H to 0. Tills is the third game Enid
has won f:o:n Oklahoma City in suc-
cession. JTlie gain# had jffftu* splen-
did features' mainly being the good
batting and field work of the Euld
team aod decidedly good work on tlie
part of th# Oklahoma City boys.
However, it was simply a case of be-
ing over-matched. Oklahoma City
played a good game, but Enid played
a better one.
Probably fifteen hundred people
witnessed thu game, tlie grand stand,
bleachers, feoces and raoe track being
filled with spectators. Many of the
Council Mixes up With Frwco
People.
The City Council butted into
Frisco rights Tuesday aud a squable
ensued. Several yea is ago th# Coun-
cil granted the Frisco right of way
on Railroad Avenue, west of th#
Rock Island track to the Garfield
county mill, aod the Frisooconstruct-
ed a traok to Hacketts blacksmith
sliop on Broadway, and there stopped.
Some time since the street conimls- ----- - . . ^
sioner tow up the Frisco track across visitors had never seen HuU before
Broadway and graded the street, and they mpmMed much admlwtion
He says lie did so by order of the for our thrift and progre^ Kvery-
mayor. Tha mayor says ha never or-1 body had a good Um« and the day
dered the street commissioner to do^w;w htippy anl merry.
Another chapter has lieen written
in the history of the failure of the
Citizen's Bank. On the morning of
the 8th day of August, 1SH)4, the
young receiver of the Citizen's Bank
after dreaming one of Ills favorite
dreams, and doubtless, acting under
the directions of thu Court controll-
ing the destinies of that late lament-
ed institution, filed suit In the Dis-
trict court of this county, against the
board of county commissioners, for
t he sum of $51,000.
The petition alleges the board of
county commissioners, acting through
its duly authorized agent, Jno. B.
Linden, who was the then county
treasurer, received from the Citizen's
Bank the sum of t51,000 witlvout any
consideration.
The real facts basing this suit are
gleaned from statements from) C. G.
Epley and Henry C. Davis, two of the
memliers of the board of county com-
missioners, ar.i as follows:—
Alxiut the first of October, 1M03, at
the expiration of the term of Jno. B.
Linden as county treasurer, the latter
filed his report with the commission-
ers, as required by law. The board
then proceeded to examine his report
and to check up the business transac-
tion by him as county treasurer dur.
ing his term of office, and upon the
examination of his accounts, found
them correct, and that there was in
his hands tha sum of tflO.OOO in round
numbers, which it would be his duly
to turn over to his successor In office
This examination was satisfactory to
the board of county commissioners
and, also, to Mr. Linden and to Mr.
Hayes, the treasurer elect. The board
of county commissioners had nothing
further to do in the matter, and the
the treasurer elect took charge of the
office and received the money due the
county treasurer's office from his pre-
decessor. A large portion of this
money wxs on deposit in the Citizen's
Bank and the present treasurer, Mr.
Hayes, continued to keep the account
with the same bank, and had on de-
posit therein the sum of t2i,383,51,
when the bank closed its doors.
In the meantime Mr. Hayes had re-
quired the Citizen's Bank and other
local banks in which he carried ac-
counts, to furnish to him surety com-
pany bonds, indemnifying him again-
st any loss bv reason of his having de-
posited the funds of the county in the
bank. At the time the Citizen's Bank
closed its doors, Mr. Hayes had on de-
posit, as county treasurer, the sum of
t24,383,51 and held as a security for
tlie payment of the same, a bond exe-
cuted by the Citizen's Batik with the
Fidelity and Guaranty Company of
Baltimore. Md. as surety. And this
bond, the Fidelity Company has re-
cently paid to Mr. Hayes in the sutn
of KM,383,51, the full amount of the
county deposit in the Citizen's Bank.
Upon what theory the receiver and
tha gentlemen who composed the cot-
erie having control of tho affairs of
the Citizen's Bank, expect to recover j
from the county the money turned,
over by the outgoing treasurer to the
Incoming treasurer, Is certainly like j
the ways of Providen v past finding
out. The contention that the county |
treasurer, in receiving the money that
he had on deposit in the Citizen's
Bank, and turned over to his succes-
sor in office, acted as the agent of tho
county, is certainly a novel one. The
county h a municipality and there
is no authority to hind It as a corpora-
tion, exoept. tiifotigh It's regularly con-
stituted authorities, tho board of
county commissioners, and they can
only bind it when acting within the
scope of the authority conferred upon
tlien by tha statutes.
If, prechance, some institution
loaned Its money to the individual oc-
cupying the offie* of county treasurer
and that Institution afterward learn-
ed that the securities given by such
individual were not adequate, it
would be liardlv contended' that,
therefore, the institution could re-
cover it* mouey from the county when
the county lud nothing whatever to
do with tho transaction. The re-
oelver might, as well claim that he
could recover from the various depos
1"
tors "of the bank, who had checke-
their money out of the bank befor
the failure, as to claim the lank, afte
loaning its money to the indlvidua
holding tha ofllce of county treasure
could recover it from the county. At
It makes no difference whether Linde
advanced a consideration or not. 1 '
the bank let him have the mone
with which to square the amount di
from him to the county, it is a simpl •
transaction between the bank an
Linden just the same as If it had le
Linden have money with which to
square his grocery bill.
It would appear to the casual ol
server tliat the action brought by th
receiver was inspired by some one i
a desperate effort to find some politi
cal buncombe to hoodwink the peopl •
and pull themselves out of a polltica
grave of their own digging and thosi-
same parties have diligently worke
every phase of the bank failure tv
that end. While the real facts ar-
that the county, through itsefOcien:
treasurer, Oscar Hayes, without an
desire or intention to favor one ban!
over another, required each and all o'
them to give adequate security fo
the deposits made in the banks. B>
this action taken by the treasurer,
the great calamity that befell Un-
people of Enid, in the failure of the
Citizen's Bank, left Garfield Count;
absolutely whole financially, and th<
txmd given by the Fidelity Companj
was collected without the expendi-
ture of a single dollar of the people'.--
money. Some people say that, know-
ing the county would fight the suit
to a finish, the suit was commenced ii
order to prolong the receivership for
years to come.
It Is but just to say that the act of
the county treasurer in requiring
bonds from the batiks, was in pur-
suance of the policy adopted by th<
board of county commissioners at the
time of the installation of Mr. Hayes
into the office of county treasurer.
It does not appear, either from the
bank records or otherwise, that the
facts pleaded in the petition of re-
ceiver are true. Upon what theory
th**' Claim that Linden received thi-
money we do not know, but we dc
know that the board of county com-
missioners had nothing more to d<
with the transaction than as herein
detailed.
Many theories have lieen advanced
since the Institution of this suit ti'
explain the reason for its inception,
but it must be apparent to every
fair-minded man that there is sorni
ulterior motive behini it, and that it
is not brought in g>od faith, with
any expectation of recovery of
whole or any part of the amount
sued for.
We have been Informed by the best
lawyers in the county tint the peti-
tion tiled in the district court doe?
not state any cause of action, and
more than that, that tlie most favor-
able statement that can lie made oi
the real facts, will subject the peti-
tion to a demurrer, and result
eventually in a judgment iu favor o
the countv upon the law without a
trial.
Horse rouai
It developes that the horse of J. D
King, which was supposed to have
been stolen the same night Henry
Routh left the country, was found at
King's pasture and was not taken by
Ruth at all. Since his departure no
word lias been heard frotn Routh.
His relatives state that, the young
man is not guilty, but left, to avoid
the scandal of a trial.
For Embezzlement.
A. 11. Duvnll'waa arrested by Sher-
iff Kershaw Monday, charged with
embezzling goods valued at too, Du-
val! had been employed by the Van
Nois News Co. as news agent on the
Frisco out of Enid, and was to have
gon« to work Monday. They sent
him a trunk pull of stuff and gave his
commission. But instead of going
to work Duvall approdriated tlie stuff
aud failed to go to work.
Therefore hts arrest.
J. T. Keck made this offi?e happy
yesterday by presenting us with
some fine grapes and tomatoes, which
ha raised lri his garden on east hill.
The tomatoes were especially line,
and Mr. Keek raises several hundred
pounds of them every season. Some
peoplo say tluit tomatoas don't grow
well here, but Keck savs It Is all bosh.
| It is all in knowing h>w. Not-
withstanding the fact that Joe Keck
owns a big farm east of towu every
season ho comes in and puts up a
winter supply of tomatoes from his
father's garden patch. This gives
the elder Keck great satLsfaction.
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