The Enid Events. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 1906 Page: 1 of 8
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The Enid Events.
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ENID is the County Seat of Garfield County with a population of 1,1.000 It is a Natural Wholesale Center and Distributing Point, having Two Great Trvnk Lines, the Rock Island and Frisco, the Denver, *Eni
Railroads diverging in nine Directs ns from the City. Enid has Three immense School Structures, and two auxiliary schools, Electric Light System, H'a/iT Works System, Sewerage System, Telephone Systemt two Ice PI
Plant. Brick Plant, Planing Mill, Yeast Factory, Etc. Ftr.. and all the various church denominations have splendid edifices ami congregations here. Enid is an ideal place, in which to invest or come to reside.
nid and Gulf'and Five Branch. Lines
'Vants, Two Mammoth Mills, Steel Bridg
Vol. 14
ENID, OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY, MARCH 15,1906.
No. 24
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Statehood
Bill Passes.
clearly my duty then to do the best
I could for Oklahoma, and 1 suggest-
ed to Foraker and Torn Carter to cut
out the two western territories, even
though the original Foraker amend-
ment. should win, to which they
agreed. I think t he bill is iti such
shape when the proper step is made
to concur in senate amendments un-
less the speaker tinds some rule we
don't understand. That was the ob-
ject in striking out the senate com-
mittee amendment of the appropria-
tions in the house bill. The question
now is squurely presented whether
congress is willing to give Oklahoma
statehood.
The New
Hotel
Friday at 5:35, the senate passed a
bill for the admission of a new state
to be called Oklahoma, and to be com-
posed of the territory of Oklahoma
and Indian Territory, It was the
house joint statehood bill with all
the provisions relating to Arizona and
New Mexico stricken out. The mo-
tion to strike out was made by Mr.
Burrows, and it was carried by the
close vote of 37 to 35, after having
been lost by the still closer vote of
35 to 36.
The vote ori statehood came as the
climax of a day devoted exclusively
to that bill. Most of the time was
given to discussion, but the voting on
the bill and amendments consumed
an hour and a half. The speech-mak-
ing excited comparatively little in-
terest, but there was pronounced ex-
citement throughout the voting period
and it culminated when the success
of the motion to eliminate Arizona
and New Mexico was announced,
after the second vote on that proposi-
tion.
The test vote upon which the op-
ponents of joint statehood showed
their greatest strength was on the
Foraker am ndment, which provided
that Arizona and New Mexico should
have an opportunity to vote separate-
ly on the question of statehood. This
was carried by a vote of 42 to 29.
Previous to ti. is action provision for
increased appropriations in the bill
was stricken but in order to afford an
opportunity for a motion to concur in
the senate amendments when the bill
is sent to the house The speech-
making began at 11 o'clock and was
under the ten-minute rule, after the
first hour. About a dozen speeches . , . .. ... . ..... „ .
j . n. . u, . ed in the rear of the building, facing
were made, but the notable ones weve>r „ .......
made by Messrs. Dubois and Burrows
And Opera House.
Mr. Albert Loewen has about com-
pleted arrangements for the construc-
tion of his new hotel and opera house
on the corner of Grand and Maple
streets, one block north of the square,
on Grand Avenue. All arrangements
have also been made by Messrs Gan-
non & Goulding, Randolph & Mehew,
Gist, Champlin and others for the
transfer of the corner property to
Loewen.
Mr. Loewen has had the plans
drawn for the new building, which
will be a handsome structure, four
stories high with a basement 1)1x150
feet. The new building will cost
$100,000 and all necessary resources
are on hand. Work on it will com*
mence in six weeks.
Opera House.
The opera house part will be locat-
in denunciation of polygamy in Ari-
zona and New Mexico. Mr. Dubois
secured incorporation of an polygany
amendment, but the elimination of
Arizona from the measure detracted
somewhat from the importance of the
accomplishment.
Just before the voting began Mr.
Cullom, who has been absent from
the senate on account of illness during
the greater part of the session, enter-
ed the chambar. He was warmly
welcomed. As amended by the sen-
ate the bill provides for the creation
of the state of Oklahoma out of Ok-
lahoma and Indian territory and the
adoption of a constitution. The
state is allowed the usual quota of
executive, judicial and legislative of-
ficers. two United States senators
and five members of the national
house of representatives. A consti-
tutional committee with.110 members
55 of which are to be chosen by each
of the territories comprising the
state, is provided for, and all male
citizens or male Indians 21 years old
are made eligible to membership in it.
There is an especial provision pro-
tecting the Indians in their rights
and continuing the prerogative of the
national government to control their
affairs. The sale of intoxicating li-
quors in what is now Indian territory
is prohibited for twenty-one years
and longer unless the constitution is
changed. Sections 10 and 30 of each
township of land in Oklahoma are set
aside for the benefit of the common
school system, as is also 5 per cent of
the proceeds of the sale of public
lands. There is an appropriation of
five million from the national treas-
ury for the benefit of the schools.
Provision is made for the support
of higher education and charitable
institutions Two districts for the
United States courts. one in Oklaho-
ma and the other in Indian territory,
are provided for. Guthrie is made the
temporary seat of government, but
the house provision continuing it in
that capacity until 1915 was eliminat-
ed.
Enid was retained in the bill as a
federal court city.
Speaker Cannon and his friends feel
great resentment toward McGuire be-
cause he urged the scheme to strike
out everything in the bill relating to
Arizona and New Mexico and for the
past week has been working hand in
glove with Foraker and Senator Tom
Carter. McGuire said Saturday: "1
was loyal to the house bill uutil a
week ago, when it became clear to
me that the Foraker amendment
would win and that the speaker
would never agree to it. 1 saw It was
on Maple and will be sixty feet wide
and 91 feet long. It will be pat-
terned after the Century theatre, of
St. Louis, the Century being the
leading theatre of St. Louis, 00x90j
feet., The Loewen opera house will
have two galleries. The lower floor
will have a seating capacity of 580,
the galleries of 800, the lower boxes
48 and lower boxes 30, making a total
seating capacity of 1404. The stage
will be 35 feet wide and 02 feet high,
all scenery being of the drop kind
with asbestos tire proof front curtain.
The stage scenery will be the best in
Oklahoma, as will in fact the entire
opera house.
The Hotel.
The Hotel part of the building will
occupy all above and west of the
opera house, and will contain 101
rooms witli 32 baths. The tioors will
be tiled with white marble columns
in the office and dining rooms. It will
have an elevator service and every
room will have a telephone which will
be connected with a central in the
office, making it thoroughly modern
in every respect.
The Building.
This entire building will be con-
structed of pressed brick and will be
trimmed in stone, with marble col-
umns in front. The building will be
completed and ready for business by
August 1907. The street railway will
run by the Grand Avenue door,
The Plan.
Mr. Loewen intends to conduct the
hotel and opera house personally and
through his assistants. He will open
the hotel by giving an elaborate ban-
quet to cost $10 per plate. This ban-
quet will probably be the finest of its
kind ever given in Enid.
Mr. Loewen will open the opera
house with a splendid company and
will sell the tickets for $5.00 each.
At Tulsa, Oklahoma City and other
cities the opera houses were opened
at $10 a set, but Mr. Loewen de-
sires everybody to attend the open-
ing night, hence, reduces the price of
the tickets^ And he desires credit in
this respect.
Big Thing foii Enid.
This $100,000 structure means a big
thing for Enid, as it guarantees the
employment of labor for a year and
further, because it means that Enid
will have a hotel to compare favor-
ably with all the large cities. It will
mean a big prestige to the city and
in every way Is calculated to pro-
mote and advance the progress of
Enid.
Mr. Loewen is entitled to Enid's
profound gratitude. He and Judge
Cromwell leave this week for St.
Louis to perfect a few details.
Embry
Appointed.
Hon. John Embry, of Chandler;
was appointed U. S. Attorney for Ok-
lahoma to succeed Horace Speed
Monday. The appointment of Em-
bry is an excellent one, he being one
of those deserving Republicans who
lias won his spurs, whose ability is
the highest, whose character unim-
peachable and whose record is as
clear as crystal. The appointment of
such men as Embry reflects cr. 0 t to
the party. We are indeed heartily
glad of his appointment.
TUNNESON SUICIDE.
His Family Must Be Cartd For,
S. A. Tunneson. of this city, com-
mitted suicide at Lawton Friday by
taking poison. It seems that he had
drawn several checks on an Enid
baud which were protested and, not
having any money and being depress-
ed because of a recent spree, he se-
cured poison and ended his life.
S. A. Tunneson came to Enid short-
ly after the opening of the strip and
engaged in the hardware business in
the store now occupied by Burdiek's
grocery, with W. B. Mick under the
firm name of Tunneson & Mick. He
was a good business man and made
money, finally selling the store Af-
terward he engaged with the Perkins
Wind Mill Company as their oklaho-
ma representative and seemed to
make plenty of money. However, lie
took to drinking heavily and man-
aged to spend all he got. It was not
until the last year or eighteen months
that he drank heavily, however, after
which time he was frequently seen
under the influence of liquor. He
leaves a wife and six children.
destitution
The sad part of this case was the
destitution of his family left to sur-
vive him. We are reliab'.y informed
that Mrs. Tunneson did not have 25
cents in the house with which to
send a telegram to her folks announc-
ing the death of her husband. Ow-
ing to the circumstances, the where
we do not know to attach the blame,
sufficient money was not had by Mrs.
Tunneson to biing the body of her
husband to Enid for burial -the little
children not having, the opportunity
ol' one last look at their dead father
The wife was crazed with grief and
alone went down to see her husband
before he was buried. We are in
formed that $31 was raised by sub-
scription and given to her, or she
would not have been able to have
done that.
a crying shame.
The Events does not like to go in-
to such matters as this, but, to our
mind it is a crying shame that, in
this day of prosperity, of Enid's num-
erous charity societies, churches and
charity bazaars, where thousands of
dollars are spent annually in preach-
ing the Gospel to sinners, that such a
condit ion could come to pass in Enid.
We are aware that the condition
come to pass through fieglect No-
body thought. The preachers were
busy preparing their sermons and us
Christians were busy attending toour
own affairs. As we silt around our
opulent firesides we ran over in our
mind how much money we had in the
bank and forgot that there was any-
one in our city who was suffering the
pangs or hell because they had not a
few paltry hundred dollars to give a
deceased loved one decent burfcl and
provide for necessities for his unfor-
tunatate off-spring. We forget that
Jesus said that "'Religion pure and
undetiled was to visit and care for
the widows andophans in their af-
tiction" and considered that our en-
tire Christian duty consisted in pay-
ing the preacher his salary and going
once a week to be harrangued on
texts.
We were forgetful, that was all.
Merely neglectful, but this paper sin-
cerely hopes t hat never again in Enid
will there be a like occurrence.
It makes no difference that Tunne-
son dissipated, His faults should not
weigh against the innocent lie left
behind.
It is not too late to rectify the
wrong done yet, in part, so far as
taking care of the family is concerned,
and it must be done by all means.
The Events will be glad to sign a
' subscription list for $10, and some-
body must take this case in hand and
attend to it.
Statehood Status.
The Statehood bill will come up in
the House March 19. At present
Speaker Cannon is a roaring lion,
casting about in guest of those he
may devour. Cannon is determined
that Oklahoma shall not be admitted
without New Mexico and Arizona,
That Cannon's position is fundament-
ally and absolutely wrong, as a mat-
ter of principles, there Is no question,
and it may be that he will be unable
to force the House to his way of
thinking. Already the Kansas, Ne-
brasna and Missouri delegations are
breaking away from him, and there
will no doubt be sufficient vqfes to
pass the senate bill, provided Cannon
does not muster a caucus and succeed,
in binding Republican congressmen.
Such proceeding would lie outrageous
in the premises.
Our opinion is flat—that the senate
statehood bill will be passed in the
house, even over Cannon's opposition
That he will be unable to bind the
Republican members as a whole.
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A Fire.
The residence of Bob Hill,, colored,
located iu Jonesville, was burned
early Sunday morning. The tire was
discovered by Charley Dangerfield,
who was looking out his window at
4 o'clock Sunday morning. He no
ticed the roof of Hill's house afire and
turned in the alarm, but before the
tire company reached the scene the
fire was beyond control and all the
contents of the house consumed. Hill
and wife were both away from home
at the time, but Frank Cheney was
sleeping at the house. The tire was
caused from a defective flue. The
Events sympathizes with Hill in his
loss for he is one of Enid's thrifty
colored men.
Farmers Union Mill.
lion. J. V. Callahan arrived at
Enid Monday and called at the
Events Office. He informed us that
ho lias come to Enid to live and in-
tends to at once begin the construc-
tion of the Farmers Union mill,
Chamber of Commerce.
The Cliamber of Commerce, in and
for the city of Enid, met at ti in Court
House Tuesday night ami proceeded
to do business under the the direction
of Herr Von Whittinghill. The first
order of business was t he reading of
spoken of some t ime since. Mr. Cal- the by-laws and their formal ;idop-
Bound Over.
Wm. Guthrie, charged with the
rape of Nancy Clevinger, living in
Patterson township, was tried before
Judge Jacobs Monday and bound over
to await the action of the Grand
Jury in the sum of $1000. In default
of bond Guthrie was placed in the
county jail.
The particulars of this case are ex-
ceedingly revolting, the pitiful spect-
acle of a 15 year old girl with an in-
fant in her arms being presented.
That Guthrie is guilty or innocent
must be proven in his trial, but that
somebody is heniously guilty, cannot
be denied, and guilty of a crime for
which no excuse can palliate, but
meritorious of the most, rigid punish-
ment.
Republican Nominees.
The Republican primaries for the
city of Enid were held Monday night
in the various wards, when the follow-
ing nominations were made:
councilmen.
! First Ward—FranK Bradfield
I Second Ward—J P. Cook
Third Ward—W. H. Hills.
Fourth Ward—Richard Messall
Fifth ward—S. H. Allen
Sixth ward—W. M. ltandels
school hoard
! First ward—E. L. Swigert
Second ward—W. P. Lightfoot
Third ward—Dr. Mudgett
Fourth ward -C. L. Shaw
Fifth ward—Long term, Albert
J Kerr; short term, I). C. Bass
Sixth word—II. J. Sturgis
Everett Purcell was elected com-
: mitteeman in the fifth ward to suc-
ceed S. H. Allen who became a cand-
idate for council.
This is a splendid ticket, nominated
by the Republicans, and merite the
! support of all citizens. Be certain
I that you register.
lahan informs us that the mill will
be of 100 barrel capacity and will be
located on the Frisco tracks. The
lumber will arrive here within a few
weeks when t he construction of the
mill will progress. The mill cost in
the neighborhood of $20,000. The
capital stock of the mill will be$40,000.
Mr. Callahan says tl.at the mill will
be completed about the tirstof July,
but that he does not expect to at-
tempt to handle this year's crop. He
also says that the mill will be fitted
to grind alfalfa meal feed, which will
be no small pari of the business.
Mr. Callahan figures that ihe Farm-
ers Union Mill prove a good thing for
tills city and country.
NEW LAUNDRY.
A. F. Barr has withdrawn from the
Enid Steam Laundry and is preparing
to establish the new Star Laundry
in the building recently occupied by
Rainey Davis, south of Gensman
Bros. Mr. Barr was one of the orig-
inal establishes of the Enid Steam
Laundry Is an expert laundry man
and will no doubt do well with Ills
new laundry. The Star Laundry will
be first class in all respects, the ma-
chinery and fixtures for which have
been already ordered. Mr. Barr ex-
pects to be doing business by the first
of April.
Shows Up Well.
Wichita Eagle:—The Enid Events
comes out this week witli a special
addition and write-up of Enid and
Garfield county. The illustrations
one of its best features, are well se-
lected and show tip excellently.
tion. After much talk pro and con
the by-laws were adopted as read.
Thereupon the following directors
were elected;
First ward—J. I!. Ferguson
Second—James French
Third If. II. Hills.
Fourth V. W. Whiting
Fifth—B. C. Soule
Sixtli S. T. Alton
Director at Large Edmond Frantz
After some debate the Chamber
proceeded to the nomination of a sec-
retary, when the following candidates
were nominated.
G. A, Kennedy
D. W. Eastman
L. J. Simmons
W. W.
I). M. Miller
Richard Messall
J. J. Cunningham
English
Feger Appointed.
I
Colonel Frank Feger, of this city,
was appointed Meat Inspector by
Governor Frantz Saturday. .1. R.
Voorhees was also a candidate for re-
appointment, having been appointed
several years ago by Governor Fergu-
son.
Senator Dick.
We are indebted to the Hon. Clias.
Dick for two copies of the statehood
bill, accompaning which also appears
Ills address in favor of the bill. Sen-
ator Dick made a splendid speech and
will lie remembered by Oklahoma.
(io To The Pen.
A dispatch from Denver says that
the Supreme Court of Colorado de-
nied the supersedeas proceedings in-
stituted by J. A. Hill and Leonard
Imboden, for stay of sentence, and
that, both men will be sent to the pen-
itentiary at once to begin sentence at
hard labor The sentences are for
ten years.
Hon. W. A. Maxwell, of Moberly,
Mo., register of the Lawton land of-
fice was in the city Sunday the guest
of his brother F. C Maxwell. Mr.
Maxwell was on his way frgm Lawton
to Moberly where he will pack his
household effects and move them to
Lawton. He was quite compliment-
ary of fair Oklahoma.
W. E. Morrow, who recently came
to Enid, has rented 103 Independence.
C. Lowenstein moved his rurniture
from Broadway to the new Block on
the west side of the square this week.
Lowenstein lias double stores and
plenty of room in his new location.
Then came up the liattle royal
which surged and roared for an hour
and a half. J. II. Ferguson and Dan
Iluett led fhe fight to suspend the
by-laws and check up to the directors
the securing of a Secretary, iu other
words, to waive the by-laws and make
no popular selection. Debate waxed
hot and furious, motion after motion
was put, withdrawn or defeated.
Finally after an hour and a half de-
bite a motion to adjourn was made.
Thereupon Charley McClelland and
Pat Goulding desired to bring up a
base ball proposition, which was fin-
ally checked up to be settled after
adjournment.
Finally a motion to adjourn for one
week was put and carried without
the selection of a secretary.
The Chamber of Commerce will
meet next Tuesday at the Court.
House
The directors of the Chamber met
aiyl selected Edmond Frantz presi-
dent, which is considered by all as an
eminent selection. '
James Frenoh, vice Pres
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis.
Our readers will be much surprised
to read the following for several
years past Mr. Curtis has been ailing
constantly physicians here and else-
where have been consulted from time
to time and most of them agree—
that a change of climate and a higher
altitude are the only remedies left
to help him regain Ills health, conse-
quently the Curtises have decided to
quit business in Enid and move to
Colorado, where Mr. Curtis will de-
vote his time in ralsingstandard bred
horses.
Mr. Curtis states that the store
building now occupied by them and
their home at 902 Pine steeet; will be
sold at once, in fact the merchandise
and real estate will be sacrificed to
enable Mr. Curtis to leave in a short
time.
Irvin Buck recently moved to Enid
and has located at 1310 Walnut street.
Colonel Pete Becker was in the city
Tuesday enroute to Oklahoma City.
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The lasts are true to nature, the material is the best, the
workmanship is unexcelled, they're neat and stylish in
appearauce. They are made in oox or chrome calf |with
solar cap, black vici k.nd with patent tip. or in tan vici.
Iam selling the 5-7-2-$l.10; 8-10 1-2 $1.35; 11-2 $l.h0, 2
1-2 and larger #2.00.
MY "LAUKEL," school are equally splendid values at
S-10 1-2 Sl-10, 11-a SI.35.
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new lines Hand Painted China just in.
YOUNG FOLKS, $5.00 reward l or best list of 5c coun-
ter articles in my north window. See window and
small bills.
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