The Enid Events. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1911 Page: 2 of 10
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ENID - EVENTS
rith the cir-
duced 430,00© metric tens out of a
of
into the hands of a receiver. (for nothing. That he i a patriotic who are not familiar
In building a city we must be republican and does so for the good cumsta.ee. of the Woods killing I total producuon for the world
able totook ahead several years. If of the party, they are uiable to ap- have settle* in Stephens coontyand TSOATJtons.ThenextJargestpro-
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1,00 PER YEAR
#3 ti Pcsx4fic at E-i-. Okij
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F. Everett Purcell. Editor.
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UNION 1
we cannot do this—if we merely predate. Such
serve time and inaugurate a grab their ken.
game for the present—we are not
of sufficient calibre to build the
right sort of a cltjr.
Two years ago George Emrick and
the editor of the Events male
speeches from a box at the opera
house, during a packing house meet-
a spirit Is beyond
I it is now proposed t<f try Brennan ducer was the Spanish peninsula,
• for murder, upon the supposition Including Portugal, which produced
Ing. and pointed
the
Peop
ored t
n p ratt
ts of
eking
that
Intensely self-centered people nev-
er do understand patriotic thought
or generous feeling. Recognizing no
virtue in their own disgruntled, nar-
rowed souls they deny all evidence
of it in others.
Unlike "General'' Latta and tha
with hardly any
ful to Mr. Sar-
■iican Press Bu-
work done for
; that an impartial jury can now be
found to try the case.
The outcome of this case will be
A WORD BY THE
WAY!
at all hazards. We a
t spectacle nor as a
It I* serious businea
three meals a <lay, n
bills and preparing a
the undertaker.
These facts being
;ng based on
cated opening
ficient bonus
and Enid wi
sion of a bi|
■ al location.
experience, and advo-
; negotiations with Ar-
or some other packing
big capital. Had such
followed no doubt %ut-
could have been raised
>uld now be in po3se -
plant. This is a logi-
cannot be beaten, and
Times, ^epublicai
exceptions feel gr
chet and the Re]
the party.
Possibly if To
a little of that
encases him a fe
filter into the d;
soul and he wou
THE POST SHOULD
MAKE GOOD!
S3.425 tons. Third in rank camg
Japan, with 44.TOO tons: Australa-
sia produced 40.123 tons; Chile, 3S,-
927 tons; Mexico 28,700 tons; Can-
ada, 24.391 tons. Peru (estimated)
22,240 tons: Germany. 20,523 tens:
Russia, 16.821 tons, and Gerat Brit-
ain but a few hundred toes.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.
I hereby announce my candidacy
or the mayoralty of the city of Enid
subject to the suffrage and will of
the people in the coming election.
PETER BOWERS.
I hereby announce my candidacy
or commissioner of the city of Enid^^
ubject to the choice of the peopl^'in*1
the coming election, under the char-
ter. EARLE R. LEE.
lent
Bev-
after
of
Id soak off
•rust wihch
earns might
or
>el bet
re not her«
''good joke.' ought to have a big paekery.
—this gettiag But we have frittered away two
eeting current precious years and still no sign of a
mi!* to leave plant. There is no sense of frit-
tering away two years more. Los'
established, it time never comes back and "bogus
: ent exit
Form
It was while following
Jlythe and the Post's con-
jf "public opinion" (truly
jade) that Beveridge fell
morasses of error, resulting
jpeless defeat and perman-
from politics.
rly Senator Beveridge was
son will
ie for
I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for City Commissioner,
subject to the will of the people at
the coming spring election, April 4,
Oil. WALTER DOTSON.
in
•an. !
A GREAT "REE0RMER."
Tom McNeal, of Kansas, reformer J an unspoiled apostle of Depublican-
of everything on the calendar, in-
lican. It would appear that the
hope cf democratic politicians to se-
ure national control is doomed.
ism and had every prospect for a Never again will the democratic par-
brilliant future—possibly presiden- y be in power. It could only win
lial honors. He fell a victim to the 1 n election with an independent,
writes of a fellow reformer germ muckrake and after going up hence, would never realize an) fruit3
eluding the Philippines (which is-
lands almost landed him in con-
gress)
eli
eing
• 1
essary efforts to get it. And it had a little money to Invest.
prin
would seem to be a good idea—as a industries" give the city a bad name
City Policy—for all hands, interests, 'abroad. Nothing can win
property owners, real estate promot- false pretenses.
ers, capitalists, etc.—to join in a Undoubtedly a big branch pack-
fast and tight agreemer.- and ar- :ng concern can be located
rangement destined tc
general progress and
While selfishness is ih
in every nature, yet wi
ness essays to gain a pa
vantage at the expense-
munlty It cuts off its n<
its face and finally la
ditch. Its $50,000 pro
shrinks to a bare $5.0
are so fictitious, you kr.
absolutely dependen' upc
perity of the community.
It might be a good
City Policy—to cut out
propositions, visionary s
i;«ating of tom-tom- the promising THAT PRESS BUREAU.
thusly: like' a rocket, came down like a
''The other day I read a let'er 1 stick. Plainly it is the duty of
written by a man who pinned bin the Saturdav Post to "make good"
under faith to Tam Lawson. the celebrated j aEd ,r a of the havoc it
writer of 'Frenzied Finance. Law-1
jf the victory.
The first newspaper appeared in
Boston September 25, 1690. There
son made a great many people be- 'ias wrought to the unfortunate Sen- issue of it. The brevity
h(>re lieve that he was the personification ! ator by partially rehabilitating his jtg career was due to the fact
of honesty and the champion and finance
Just a small desk in an
and it is up to us to put forth the protector of the pl%in people who ,ipper gtory wm do. But the Sen-
Icular ad-
of a eom-
e to spite
in
tae 11
Values
and bo
is our confidence that Enid will
back any bona fide deal to the fin-
ish .
Various industries and manufac-
tories can be secured, but honest, in-
ligent and unremitting effort will
required.
The promoters of the
'He advised them to invest their
cash in a copper property that was
being promoted by him and gave
them his guaranty that the stock
should never be lower in price than
about $25 per share.
"The believers in Tam Lawson
put in their money, paying as "nigb
$25 per share for the stock. It is
ator will have to "hack." No more
political prophesies are desired from
the ''distinguished Indianian.''
Walk, you sucker, walk.
I hereby announce my candidacy
or e mmsisioner of the city of Enid,
subject to the choice and action of
th" people in the coming city elec-
tion. W. D. HITCHCOCK.
I hereby announce my candidacy
for commissioner of the city of Enid,
ubject to the choice of the people In
the coming election.
J. H. SHAW.
Subject to all tne conditions ar <!
requirements of the charter under"
which the city of Enid is governed,
and the chocie of its citizens at the
coming election, I hereby announce
my candidacy for commissioner an J
earnestly solicit your support.
J. J. SILVER.
I hereby announce my canddiacy
or commissioner of the city of Enid,
subject to the will and choice of the
WHAT 0E IT.
Gov. Haskell has recently admit-
ted that the honest and capable
that it promised to print in its next
issue the names of all the liars in
Boston. Naturally the authorities i people in the coming cit) election.
, , ! '.ti. AIEilE W •
thought it was a good time zr.r trio j
paper to qu.>. So .he.c %-s co sec- ^ hereyb announce my candidacy
ond issue, which, perhaps, was a ! for commissioner of the city or
good thing for the descendants of ' Enid, subject to the will and choice
it vener- j of the people in the coming city
zen;
able town.
i election.
J. D. CORRY.
new deal worth, or rather quoted at, about bankers of Oklahoma have now paid
assured that Enid will $1 per share now and in all proba- j^oo.ooo to liquidate the debts of
meet them more than half way
any proposition that shows the run-
ning gears of real business.
Kansn
The Okiaaoman pretends to see
a "demand" for a state railroad.
That is, Oklahoma City would like
'Hot Air"
hemes, the j
rh'cb I General "Grouchy" Latta (the
bility is not worth that. ! the'dishonest or incapable.
''Lawson in my opinion is one of clt journal.
the most remarkable frauds of bis j ^ gtate thal tbus penalizes sound
day. His own story ought to havej bankjng and promotes the other to have the state build a railroad
warned people to distrust him for if kjn(] js sUrely shaping things for a from southeast to northwest through
his statements were true they pro\- genera] smash sooner or later.—Mil- oklahoma City for local purposes,
ed that his wliole business career waukee Sentinel.
had been tainted with graft, that he Well—what of it? This is Okla-
had been willing to go into any sort boma not Milwaukee, where the
tne same who failed Napoleon) erstwhile j of deal^to skinUje BuMte "roridefl Socialigt3 controI and intend to "di
™ .pencil pusher and scissor-ehopper for j awgon vide up" the bmk deposits.
of things, the realization of
theic Is not the slightest hop
round'ng of false hurrah#—and
down to bed rock, legitimate un- tbe Tulsa World—a paper published ..He determined to make his dis- Speakin' of that $500,000 tne
dei'akings robbed of ail bombast Up0n jhe oily banks of the Araansas j closures, not because he had a s.^ate Banking Department has a
-capable of producing results a' 1 1 rjVer—over *har in the black-jacks ' change of heart but because the batch of assets on hand to off.
lacing the city's progress upon a |_feel8 greatly solaced and now .icks | ^"Ykinned him an°d he set. We may never realize anything
Nice scheme, eh? Use state finan-
ces to promote the commercial greed
of one city. A state railroad would
be defeated 4 to 1 on a referendum
vote.
plac
safe and substantial foundation .
his chops complacently. The Okla- wanted to get even.
| on the said "assets
John W. Gates, the financier,
predicts 1911 is going to be a "bull
but they can year." In other words, things are
Else when big thing- are proir.is- )10ma c'ity Times—a remnant of the "The man who has been dishonest j ajwayS be used in figuring up bal- going to boom in business and that
ed and nothing is forthcoming thej^; ma City newspaper war up to the time he is 4o maj ances and that's all the good "as- consequently will stimulate securi-
ittuere they are trying to make slx | b^ d'ays "bu^T^op't "care6 w'give j sets" are anyway. Besides if the ties on the stock exchange. This is
worst comes to the worst w-e can an optimistic prediction that will
city suffers and the promised bectf."-
ridiculous. j newspapers grow where two could a prance to skin me. 1 fear tlie
Better promise little and do much : hardly thrive fat) is the cause of temptation might be too grtat for
than promise much and do little. Herr Latta's great elation. It ap- him to resist. As a ruj®. |W5? a
Additional payroll*. additional ( pears that the Times has also "protector of the Peo-
capltal, additional population ar« , 'hopped onto" the Oklahoma Press p)e )t ig wejj t0 keep your eye on
the needs of Enid, the securing of Bureau with both feet—red eyed him."
which Is not child's play but serious j
business.
The growth of Enid is the first
consideration. The seiling of lots or
real estate a second consideration
and a minor one. It is not enough
that hubbub be raised and a few
lots sold. It Is necessary that the
city's advantage be permanent.
Then—
If the city's progress be assured1
the selling of lots is assured, and
the prices therefor will be doubled
The tail ought not to wag the
dog. Every lot within five miles
around will be sold if increased pay
rolls. Increased efforts, increased
capital and Increased papulation
permit the ample foundation requir-
ed.
There is no use to whisper false-
hoods In your own ear. Might as
well look things right Jn the face.
Else you f^pd yourself deceived, un-
each other be-
done, and betrayed of your own fol-
ly.
It is necessary to solve the fuel
proposition by securing natural gas
or cheap coal. The state adminis-
tration—for all Its boasts against
trusts and monopolies—don't se-m
to be able to handle the coal mine
and railway combination cf this
state, the result being that coal
costs us In Oklahoma about three
dollars more per ton than coal, for
the same haul, does in almost any
other state In the Union. There is
nothing to do, therefore, except bore
for gas or promote the building of a
gas pipe line from the fast side.
It has been proposed to vote $10,000
bonds to pay for a boring test for
gas. The bonds should be voted
and the test made. The finding
of gas would benefit the entire city,
hence, the community should bear a
proportionate share. However, the
lests should be conducted by an
expert who knows his business and
can Judge of the place offering the
best chances, and ought not to be
left to some well meaning local
man who would blunder because of
lack of experience.
We understand that there Is a
new proposition on foot to promote
the building of a packing plant.
Nothing would be of greater advan-
and a-grinnln'—ketchin' 'em a-com- And so is life.
in' an' a-goln'. "Reformers" hate
As the public Is well aware. J cause each recognizes the other to
•'Press Bureaus" are operated by j be a fraud, just as street fakirs
the political organizations for the are onto each other's tricks, sneer-
purpose of sending out campaign Ing at the other's success as denot-
material to all newspapers advocat- ing the density- and gullibility o
ing the party tenets. The Demo- the public. Also each "reformer,
crats have a powerful bureau and desires to pre-empt the field, that
the Republicans maintain one dur- It may remain lucrative, regarding
ing campaigns for the purpose of all Intruders with the baleful eye.
combatting canards and misrepre- j Then—furthermore—the reform-
sentatlons and in getting up facts er" of today becomes the reactionary
and arguments against the enemy of tomorrow. He accomplishes his
and in behalf of the party for ready ' reform ' and must defend it. while
use by the newspapers. Were it not the seeker after fresh laurels can
for the batch of press dope sent out only win them by attacking what
to newspapers many of them (es- somebody else has established.
peciallv the Tulsa, Oklahoma City Thus the whirligig goes round
and other country papers) might and 'round and ever the agitator
overlook or forget to place before [finds a ready audience.
their readers many important facts
of benefit to party success.
Herr Latta and the Times desire
the Republican Press Bureau abol-
ished, In which event the Demo- Hrennan will be brought back
AFTER TWENTY YEARS.
The dispatches state that
vote bonds, refund the "assets" ana count for the reason that John W.
re-imburse the "banks. is usually on the right side of the
This is Oklahoma—not Missouri right kind of a "hunch."
or Milwaukee . ■
— Just as we are rejoicing, says an
LET'S ANNEX EM. exchange, over the announcement
Many have not yet made up their that the prfce of salt had been re-
minds as to the merits or demerits duced thirty cents a ton. we are tola i "pasadena
of Reciprocity with Canada, but that the price of tin has advanced )Redlands 23.00
all are willing to agree to the an- $2 a ton. Let us hope
nexation of Canada. \<"ith Canada be no increase in the rates for steel
annexed that "Texas and Oklahoma" rails until the average housewife
argument would be correctly ampli- has secured her spring supply.
One step more and we could ^
Low Fares
to California
New Mexico
Arizona
Mexico
VIA SANTA FE
One way Colonist tickets on sale
daily, March 10 to April 10, 1911,
inclusive, from ENID.
Only a few points shown below.
For fares to other points and in-
formation as to the liberal stop-over
privileges accorded, phone, write or
see the undersigned.
Los Angeles $25.00
San Francisco 25.00
San Diego 25.00
25.00
fled.
take Mexico under our wing (the j The question of "What shall we
Panama canal already giving us a ^ with our ex-Presidents?" has
foothold) and thus all of North been answered by Mr. Roosevelt.
America would be under the banner , j^eep them dodging in and around
of the Stars and Stripes. This Is a a tblrd term and see how close they
logical sequence. There is no more can come without getting hit.
need for a divided government in -
North America than there waa for
a Confederacy in 1861.
There will be a big scandal
to
uatic press bureau would have a Stephens county, Kansas, and tried
clear field, with no central factor for the murder of Colonel Sam
to call its hand. It is urged by them Wood.
that the expense Is too great and Brennan killed Wood twenty yeart
the bureau unnecessary. ago at Hugoton, Kansas, while
As to the expense of the Republl- Wood was walking toward the Ste-
can press bureau, such expense phens county court house, his wife
amounts to this. Corb Sarchet, a leaning upon his arm It seems that
republican newspapers correspond- Brennan walked up behind Wood
ent, residing at Guthrie, among oth- and shot him In the back of the
er numerous duties, during campaign head. The killing was one
times (and at other times when it of the results of an Intense
is necessary to arouse the public county seat war then raging
to some state issue) wrote a week- in Stephens county between Hugo-
ly press letter which letter consumed ton (the rounty seat) and. Woods-
about two hours' time weekly and dale. Woodsdale had been estab-
for the writing of which Sarchet llsbed by Colonel Wood for the
NEVER RECEIVED ONE CENT express purpose of taking the coun-
COMPENSATION. ty seat away from Hugoton. The
After Sarchet wrote the press let- latter town was three mlle from
ter It was sent to the local printer Hugoton, but now there Is hardly
and printed and then It was folded, anything left of It Prior to the
placed Into an envelope and sent out killing of Woods six citizens of
unsealed (one cent postage) to the Woodsdale had been killed while
various republican papers of the they were on a hunting trip in No
,,tate. Man's Land. Woodsdale people ac-
Hence—we perceive—after laborl- fused Hugoton citizens of murdering
ously figuring up the matter—that the six men and feeling was In-
the vast expense entailed by the tense between the two towns.
Oklahoma Republican Press Bureau Brennan was arrested for the
— so eloquently complained of by murder cf Woods and brought to
our friends of the "sour grape"— trial. However, practically every
amounts to the vast sum of about 111811 capable of Jury service in the
,$4.50 per week, stamps and all counly had heard of the rase and
tage to Enid than a packing Indus- {According to the "sour grape" wail-1 ,a"te<^ alK>ut It, so much so that
try, provided It was of sufficient | Ings a pusson would think the ex- when Jl'dKe Wall, of Wichita (who
p.nse totalled several hundred dol- down to tr> the CMe> at"
lars per month and that the Bureau tempted to secure a jury he was
were an Incubus about the neck of ""ablp <° ao 8« Brennan was
tb* piirty turned loose and never brought to
•'Sour grapera" can't undentand trial.
why Sarchet would write the latter I th«n hundred, of people
The current ,
Magazine publishes a batch of drivel | ^et , ,.
^ ... v., at Oklahoma town some of these fine
written by a fellow by the euphoni-
ous name of Smith (an impertinent ! da5's-
scribbler of laborious and pedantic i —:
mind) entitled "Kennedy Square,"
in which the said Schmidt drags the
name of Edgar Allen Poe through
the mire and muck of his jaundiced
imaginings and manages to dabble
a little filth upon the memory of
Lord Byron. Of course Smid ,is a
harmless nonentity—without liter-
ary future, or hope of renown—and
for him to bespatter such Immortals
as Poe and Byron is like a tadpole
wiggling in fury at the moon—but 1
Scribner's Is a reputable magazine
which many people like to read, and
for It to publish such maimed and
pitiable amblings is extremely dis-
appointing, to say the least. The
public has been led to expect better
things from Scribner's.
there will Sacramento 25.00
Santa Barbara 25.00
Monterey 25.00
Prescott 25.00
Phoenix 25.00
Falgstaff 25.00
i Tucson 25.00
Bisbee 26.35
Goldfield 35.60
Tonopah 35.60
Deming 25.00
Silver City 25.00
Chihuahua 25.00
Guaymas 25.00
Mexico City 25.00
Through tourist sleepers to Los
Speaking of padded election re- | Angeles and San Francisco are elec-
tric lighted and have smoking room
for men and extra large dressing,
room for women . I
W. H. G0BLE. -A
Aeent
A. T. & S. F RYr
| turns the Census Bureau has not
issue of Scribner's bee"11 it9 recount of Oklahoma City
capacity, equipped up-to-date, and
backed by sufficient capital. No-
thing wquld hurt Enid me re than to
erect a blip slaughter house !n order
to sell off'l lots and then have the
and go
Dispatches from Washington
showed unmistakably that It was
not the friends of Senator Lorimer
but his enemies in the Senate—the
so-called Insurgents—who have been
filibustering and preventing a vote
on the Committee report. Why
should these honest, God-fearing I
gentlemen, so loud In their protest-
ations that Lorimer should be oust- |
ed from his seat, seek to prevent the
Issue coming to vote, thus to settle
the controversy, Demagogy—thou
art a vile trade! With Lorimer
disposed of, the agitators would be j
robbed of another subject upon |
which to prattle away and main-
tain themselves In the limelight.
alaughter house close up i
The United States easily leads the
whole world in the production of
copper. Statistics for 1908 show
that in that year the industry pro-
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Purcell, F. Everett. The Enid Events. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1911, newspaper, March 2, 1911; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc147588/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.