The Enid Events. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 27, 1906 Page: 1 of 10
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The Enid Events.
Enid and Culf'nnd^Firr Branch Line
ENID is tht County Seat of Garfield County with a population of 1-*,7CO It is a Natural Wholesale Center and Distributing Point, having Two Great Trvnk Lines, the Hock Island and Frisco, the Denver,
liuilroads diverging in hint Dirtcti. us train the City. Enid has Thro tin mt flM School Struct ti r, *, a nd two a IUcilia ry schools, Elect nc Light Systr in, Wlk r With* System, Srwf rage S u$U M, Tt U pko Mi 8 l e Plants, Two Slammoth M>ISt ■ ! Undg
Plant Brie I: Plant, Planing Mill, Yeast Factory, Etc. Etc., and all the various church denominations have splendid edifices and congregations here. Enid is an ideal pla> e in which to invest or come to reside.
Vol. 15
ENID, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. 1906.
EASTMAN NOMINATED
Republican Convention Nominate Can«
didate by Acclamation.
The Republican Convention for the
13th constitutional district was held
at the court house Monday night.
Judge Houstin James called the con-
vention to order and rf. D. Asher
read the call as temporary secretary.
C. L. Shaw was elected chairman and
J. I).-McGill secretary.
Whereupon committees were ap
pointed and resolutions adopted, af-
ter which Major I). W. Eastman was
nominated by acclamation. The con-
vention was entirely harmonious and
there is no reason why Major East-1
man should not be elected by a good!
majority. The platforn adopted is
as follows:
Sec. 1 We declare our adherence
to the national platform of 1900 and
tiie platform adopted by tin first Con-
gressional District of Oklahoma on
August, 28th, 1906.
Sec. 2 We favor a corporation
Court elected by the people and a law
which will enable us to exercise in
thorough fashion a supervision over
the common carriers of this state, so
as, while scrupuously safeguarding
their proper interests, to prevent them
from charging excessive rates, to pre-
vent their favoring one man at the
expense of another, and especially a
strong man at the expense of a weak
man; and require them to be fully ac-
countable to the public for the ser-
vice which, to their own profits, they
render the public.
Sec. 4 We favor a provision in the
Constitution of the new state prohi-
biting railroad companies from own-
ing or operating coal or mineral land
or engaging in any other business ex-
cept that of common carriers.
Sec. 5 We favor a provision in the
Constitution prohibiting all trusts or
trade combinations, interfering with
legitimate business Competition.
Sec. 6 We favor the enactment of
an adequate fellow servant law.
Sec. 7 We favor a two cent rail-
road passenger fate.
Sec. 8 We favor the state owner-
ship of coal lands and the separate
submission of said plank.
Sec. 9 We favor the state owner-
ship of pipe lines for the tranporta-
tiL.ii of oil and gas within the boun-
daries of the state of Oklahoma, and
the separate submission of said plank.
SeC.'lO We favor the publication,
by the state, of school books, and re-
commended that the same be furnish-
ed at the actual cost of production.
Sec. 11 We favor the selection of
United States senator bv a direct vote
of the neople.
Sec 12 Resolved that we believe
that the welfare of the wage workers
and the welfare of the tillers of the
soil, make the real basis of the wel-
fare of the Nation as a whole. We
will do everything that sve can do lo
further the interests of the farmer
and the wage worker, and this declar-
ation is subject lo only one reserva-
tion—which is. that for no man, and
nobody of men, will do anything that
is wrong
Sec. 1ft ve believe that "if we
commend our wealth, we shall be
rich and f ee. It' our wealth com-
mends us, we are poor indeed."
Sec. l.'i We favor ail which provides
that the right of action to recover
damages for injury or death shall
never be abrogated an 1 the amount
recoverable shall never be subject to
any statuory limitation.
Sec. 14 We favor uniform consti-
tutional prohibition intoxicating
liquors for the entire state of Okla-
homa iu thebody of theConstitution.
Sec 3 We favor a Constitution
that will authorize the state govern-
ment to recall and revoke the charac-
ters and licenses of all corporations
when the interests jf tliet people of
the state will be the best conserved
thereby; we favor strict control of all
corporations and trusts.
J. B. Cullison,
J. D. McGill,
F. W. Buttrey,
W. B. Harrison,
If G. McKeever,
Committee on Resolutions.
THIS FACE SHOULD BE FILED OFF EVERY PUBLIC BUILDINC
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ENID COUNCIL MEETING.
Important Business Transacted at Friday Night's Session*
The city council met Friday night
and transacted considerable business.
The old bindings on Monroe street
at the northeast corner of the square
came up again for consideration after
having been previously ordered re-
moved. It was decided to allow the
front half to stand and the rear half
to be removed at once. The occu-
pants were also ordered to have the
street around the buildingcleaned up.
A settlement was arrived at in the
case of Clarence Roose against the
city. Several months ago Mr. Roose
Much discussion was had over this.
Finally the ordinance passed. Autos
must, register and pay a license fee of
SOcents to secure a number. Speed
limits were lixed at ten miles per
hoar in the business district and lif-
teen in the residence district. The
provision for rear lights was struct
out by t he mayor on a tie vote.
Attorney J. t . Moore appeared be-
fore the council with a draft of an
ordinance granting a twenty-one year
natural gas franchise to Buel Thomp-
son and his associates. The council
THE SLUSH FUND
Contributed by Standard Oil Company
fell one night in an excavation in i desired to fully consider the text of
front of the Loewen broom corn
building and suffered a fractured arm.
By the agreement made last night he
is allowed $280 damages. The city
the franchise and ordered it referred
to the ordinance committee. Mr.
Thompson has been securing leases in
the country for some time and if lie
There has been some speculation for
some time as to wh-re the big demo-
cratic slush fund was coming from,
it being a fact that tlie democratic
committee of Oklahoma City is spend-
ing money like water at the rate of
$1000 a week. The following dis-
patch explains:
Oklahoma City, Ok , Sept. 22—A
little Investigation by anyone will
bring out an abundance of evidence
that the Standard Oil company in
working hand In glove with the pop-
ulist managers of the democratic
campaign. It Is authoritatively
stated here that Hoy Stafford and
others who went to New York osten-
sibly to meet Bryar, had as their chief
mission a trip to 2;! Broadway, where
they showed that the Standard Oil
managers that Oklahoma demo'racy
was unorganized, and that a large
"slush" fund would be ^required if
the territory was to be carried and
persons favorable to Standard Oil in
terests elected to draft Oklahoma s
constitution. Asa result'he Stand-
ard Oil has been one of the most lib-
eral contributors to the campaign
fund.
With this large Standard Oil fund
and the $100,000 obtained from a
trust at St. Louis, the populist man-
agers have an abundance of money
and feel that with it they can con-
vince many that the "right men"
should be elected to the constitution-
al convention.
Senator Bailey who has a Standard
Oil odor about him, that is becoming
nauseous as a result of recent expos-
ures, is one of the men who will
stump the territory.
OKLAllONAN STANDARD OIL PAPEH.
But of greater importance is the
fact that the Oklahoman, the mouth
piece of the populist machine now
attorney was instructed to collect the t can secure a liberal franchise will drill
amount from the builders of the
; structure.
; Sidewalks was ordered in front of
lots 9, 10, 11 and 12, block 10, Wav-
j erly. The petition of property own-
j ers to have the Rock Island and Fris-
co railroads ordered to construct
for gas. The price limit asked is 50c
per thousand cubic feet. There was
a disposition manifested to cut this
down to 25c.
Seventeen feet on each side of the
north and south alley in the block on
the north side of the square was or-
running the affairs of democracy is
controlled by Standard Oil. This
trick of gaining control, of papers for
the purpose of misleading the public,
is a favorite one of the great oil mo-
noply directors.
The Oklahoman is now pulling oif a
contest in which among other prizes,
there is offered a $3,000 home. A. S.
Ebie, manager of the Standard Oil
interests in the new state, is one of
the foremost candidates in this con-
test, using it as a subterfuge to put
the whole Standard Oil force in the
field working for the Oklahoman.
Mr. Ebie lias sent out orders to some
eighty representatives over Oklaho-
ma to hustle subscriptions for the
Oklahoman, in which the Standard
Oil company lias developed a great
interest since the passage of the
statehood bill providing for a state
which will soon write a constitution.
WHAT STANDARD WANTS
Tiie Standard Oil wants that con-
stitution so written as to cripple the
state, as Kansas has been crippled,
should it attempt to make a tight on
grasping Standard Oil monopoly. Ok-
lahoma and Indian Territory have
within their boundaries a great oil
field. It is a plum worth lighting for
and standard is after it. If the
standard Is successful, the Indepen-
dents will have no place where they
can make a successful stand.
To gain this field money must be
spent. Standard realizes this and has
secured the Oklahonan as its organ,
and the populist managers of the
democratic campaign as its "fixers."
it is a combination that Standard
believes cannot be beaten.
The people of the new state must
arouse themselves for arrayed against
them is money in unlimited quanti-
ties.
Convention Call, Eleventh l)is=
tricl.
Pursuant to the action of the repub-
lican committee of the Eleventh Con-
stitutional Convention District, at a
meeting held September 18, 1900, at
Enid, Okla., Notice is hereby given
that there will be a republican dele-
gate convention held at the Odd Fel-
lows Hall, in Enid on Saturday, Oct.
0, 1900, at 11 o'clock a. m. for the pur-
pose of nominating a candidate for
delegate to the constitutional conven-
tion. and for such other business as
may properly come before it. Pri-
maries for the selection of delegates
to said convention will be held at the
usual places on Tuesday, October 2,
between the hours of two and four p.
m. in all townships, and at the hours
from four to seven p. m. in Lahoma,
and Waukomis cities and the Second
and Third wards of the city of Enid.
The basis of representation in said
convention shall be one delegate for
each 10 votes or major fraction there-
of the vote received by Hon. Birds
McGuire, for delegate in 1904, except
in the second and third wards of the
City of Enid, where the representa-
tion is based on the vote of Earl H,
Lee, for city clerk at the election of
1005, so taken in order to get the
ward votes seperate. Upon this basis
the representation will be as follows:
Prairie township. Grant Co., 4 dele-
gates.
Banner township, Grant C ., 4del-
egates.
McKinley township, Garfield Co., 8
delegates.
Keowee township, Garfield Co., 4
delegates.
Hobart township, Garfield Co., 0
delegates:
Banner township, Garfield Co., 7
delegates.
Logan township, Garfield Co., 0 del-
egates.
Garland township, Garfield Co., 9
delegates.
Enid township, Garfield Co., 8 del-
egates.
Sheridan township, Garfield Co., 7
delegates.
Waukomis township, Garfield Co., 7
delegates.
I Waukomis City, Garfield Co., 7 del
I egates.
j Lalioma City, Garfield Co., :i dele
gaoes.
J Second Ward, Enid City, Garfield
j Co., 17 delegates.
! Third Ward, Enid City, (i delegates.
Total lo;i delegates.
E. B. Weatherly, Chairman.
W. P. Lightfoot, Secretary.
For Delegate.
The friends of W. P. Lightfoot of
the second ward, are pushing him for
the nomination for constitutional del-
egate for the twelfth district. Mr.
Lightfoot is an old time party worker
and would make an able representa-
tive in the constitutional convention.
He held many position of trust in
Illinois before coming to Oklahoma.
The nomination will probably lay be-
tween Harry Horner and Mr. Light-
foot.
Telephone Managers Meet.
Tiie Pioneer Telephone managers
met in the city Monday for a general
discussion. The meeting was attend-
ed as follows:
F. A. Whartenby, Enid, District
Manager.
R. D. Sheldon, Alva.
T. C. Kelley, Cherokee.
L. A. McWilliams, Carmen.
Charles Sink, Pond Creek.
S. A. Williams, Medford.
W. F. Potter, Kremlin.
L. II. Anderson, Enid.
Negroes Killed.
Forty negroes were killed at a Race
War at Atlanta the first of the week.
The trouble was fomented by demo-
cratic papers and the public educated
that to "kill a niggah" is to merit
the favor of God. Great enlightened
age.
Judge Garber was quite ill with the
fever the first of the week and uuable
to re-convene court at Pond Creek.
The Judge was better Tuesday, how-
ever, and was able to hear tiie in-
junction case here Wednesday.
•! bridges over their right-of-way on | dered vacated. The alley lias been 04
j Maple street was granted and the
order made. Two new bridges were
ordered in Weatherly's sixth addi-
1 tion.
i Art Stephenson asked permission to
I construct a four feet area way along
the Broadway side of his new build-
ing on tiie Watrous corner when it is
erected this fall. Permission
I'
feet in width. Adjoining property
owners asked that it be [narrowed be-
fore being paved.
The following committee was ap-
pointed to act with the mayor in the
building inspection: Alderman Hills,
Bradfleld and McClellan.
City Engineer Sexton was ordered
was ' not to give the telephone company
the grades of streets along which the
company proposes to lay conduits un
granted.
An mrlimnco wis IntmHllfpri ivnrii ; uuuijjau.) inupusca iu iaj< tuuuuiu un
An ordinance was ihtiofluuu it„u ; iess permission was first granted by
lating the speed and operation of au-j the council. This was at the engin-
tomobiles within the city limits. 1 eer's request.
Will Drill
For Oil.
B. T. Thompson and Colonel Rose-
dale have about completed arrang-
ments and will shortly begin to drill
for oil or gas near Enid. They have
secured a number of leases and are
about ready for business. They are
backed by a Pennsylvania company
and will have plenty of money to
push their prospects.
Mr. Thompson says that if he
strikes gas he will be able to furnish
it to Enid for 25 cents. We hope lie
strikes it, for the reason that cheap
fuel is absolutely necessary to the
building of a city. We need cheap
fuel and if Thompson and Rosedale
can find it they will be the real lieros
of the city.
One Body Found.
Kingfisher, Okla., Sept. 22.—The
body of Mail Clerk Gamble, who went
down iu his car with the two other
coaches of the Bock Island passenger
train at tlieCimarron river bridge last
Tuesday morning, was discovered to-
night by a diver. The corpse is pinned
under tire wreckage of the mail car
and rescuers cannot remove it.
Tiie mail and smoking car are still
submerged in the river, which has
bee* errat cally rising and falling dur-
ing the day: It is thought Gamble's
body can be recovered tomorrow.
The bridge, which takes the place
of the old structure, was completed
today, but the railroad company was
enjoined from running trains across
the river. Passenger No. 23 disre-
garded the injunction and the engi-
| neer and conductor were arrested at
Hennessey. Trailic is tied up.
Tonight deputy sheriffs are sta
: tioned at each end of the new bridge
i with orders to let no trains pass. The
approach to the trestle is constrcted
j so that the engine driver cannot see
| the bridge proper until too late to
■ stop.
: The atmosphere in the immediate
vicinity of the smoker is poisonous
and the men can carry on the rescue
work only a few minutes at a, time.
Relatives of the missing men ai'e in
j the city awaiting the result of the
rescue work. The daughters of I). T.
Baldwin, a real estate man of El Reno,
| who was on the train, and the father
of young Miller of Lawton, who was
also a passenger in the smoking car,
are among the crowd that is tonight
watching the wreckage.
Honest Farmer.
Corbitt—Mathis.
Wednesday evening of last week at
the hour of 8:30 p. m. the Corbitt
home on 1702 West Broadway was the
scene of a quiet wedding. The cori-
I trading parties being Miss Myrtle
! Corbitt, one of Enid's most talented
I young ladies and M'\ Chas.J. Mathis,
i of Portland, Oregon.
The ceremony was performed under
an arch of white roses by the Kev.
Walters. Miss Ilattie Smith and
Miss Ethel Ornduff led the way to the
altar while Miss Gertrude Corbitt
acted as brides maid and Mr. Whit-
lock as best mail.
The Presbyterian orchestra furnish-
ed the music dnring the evening be-
hind a bank of ferns and palms.
The bride was gowned in a beauti-
ful white french muslin, the groom
wearing the conventional black.
Mr. Mathis formerly lived here but
is now one of Portland's prominent
business men.
Miss Corbitt was one of Enid's most
popular young ladies and will be miss-
ed much in the social realm iu which
she moved.
The happy young couple left Thurs-
day morning for Portland, Oregon,
their future home, leaving behind
them showers of congratulations.
Gensman Brothers have rigged up
a new fashioned automobile. It is
home made and consists of an ordi-
nary lnmber wagon and a gasoline en-
gine, tlie former carrying tlie latter
and the latter propelling the former.
Large belts run from the engine
wheel to two wooden pull ysattached
to the huh of ea 'h hind wheel, in
front is an improvi-hed gear. The
wagon runs at a speed of about ten
miles au hour.
GRANDAVE.PHQ
O. Stucker, a farmer living three
miles east of tlieCimarron rive ^bridge
found a batch of registered mail
Sunday, which had washed upon the
hank from the wreck. Stucker im-
mediately took the registers to King-
fisher, where they were dispatched
for their designation. The letters
were all opened by reason of the
fact that the contact of water with
mucilage aj ways destroys the adhesive
quality of the mucilage. In the batch
found was one letter containing $50
addressed to Joe Brickel, of Enid.
Brickel was glad to get the money,
but if au honest man had not found
it lie would never have seen his $50 in
currency.
Its the oldest store in town but the things to eat
are fresh and clean and everything-the market itfords.
Italian Prunes, Bartlett pears, Concornd grapes,
\ alencia Oranges, Bananas, Cranberries, fresh Toma-
toes, Celery, Egg Plants, Lettuce, etc
New Columbia River .-'almon, 10c. lb.
New Holland Herring, SI.25 key
New Dried Herring, 25c box.
New Codfish Bricks. 3 for 25c.
New Mackerel, 3 for 25c.
Beardsley's Shredded Codfish, 10c
Try Beardsley's Herring Relish, 15c jar.
That 100 piece imported China Dinner Set
here, still going down 50c da.ly till sold, today
IS still
$ 0.35.
You'll be disappointed right
Why not take it today?
soon if you don't.
Stamp Plates, plain glass tor decorating with cfgar
bands, etc., 10c.
Visit the "Bargain Basement." The 5c, 10c, 15c
counters are full of surprises for you.
Drink Breakfast Bell coffee, 35c, nothing finer.
Plantation, a genuine Mocha and Java, 25c.
100 Piece Set. St0.35 Today
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