The Edmond Sun (Edmond, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 17, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 6, 1905 Page: 2 of 11
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THE EDMOND SUN.
K. D. BAILEY.
EDMOND,
OKI; A
NEW STATE NEWS
Muskogee Is to hnve a tent factory
added to Its enterpiisee.
A company with a capital stock ot
$25,000 vwb organized at Hugo to test
for oil and gas. The contract for the
first well has b^en let.
The Oklahoma association of Oste-
pathy held their annual convention at
Ponca City last week.
RobberB. one night last week,
wrecked the safe of the Citizen s Na-
tions i bank at Owl and escaped with
over $3,000 of the bank's cash. The
bank is owned by Beard Bros., ot
Shawnee.
THE MILL STARTS
FIRST SESSION OF FIFTY-NINTH
CONGRESS CONVENES AT THE
NATIONAL CAPITAL
MACHINERY MOVES WITHOUT FRICTION
The fifteenth annual session of the
Oklahoma Teachers Association will
be held at Enid, December 27th and
28th.
The team and franchise of the Guth-
rie base ball clu has been transferred
to St. Joseph. This leaves Oklahoma
City the only territorial member of the
Western Association of base ball clubs.
The Newmarket Grocey at I.awton
has gone into voluntary bankruptcy.
The assets are placed at $3,785.30, and
the liabilities at $3,GG7.1C.
Oklahoma Ctty Is still wrestling
with its terminal proposition. The
committee is short a few thousand on
subscriptions.
Joseph G. Cannon Is Re-Elected Speak-
er of the House—Senate in Session
Only Few Minutes on First Day-
New Members Sworn In
WASHINGTON: The first session of
the fifty-ninth congress was called to
order by the respectiove officers ot
both houses Monday. The senate re-
mained in session only a short time.
Senators Aldrlch, Rhode Island; Knox,
Pennsylvania; Warner, Missouri and
Frazier, Tennessee, were sworn into
membership. Senators Allison and
Morgan were appointed a committee
to notify the president that the senate
s In session and ready for the win-
ter grind. After a session lasting
twenty minutes the senate adjourned
as a murk of respect to the late Sena-
tor Piatt of Connecticut.
The preliminary steps to organiza-
tion .were taken by the house. Joseph
Cannon of Illinois was elected
speaker; the members of the house
took oath of office; officers and floor
employes of the body were re-elected;
the rules of the last congress were
adopted and members went through
the formality of drawing for seats, all
The bond of Thomas E. Newton,
former postmaster at Oakland, who
plead guilty to embezzlement at Tis-
homingo last week, has been forfeited.
Newton was released on bond until
sentence could be passed, and when
the time arrived for sentencing him
he could not be found.
In the district court nt Alva'Judge
Pancoast sustained the objections to
the jury venire under the Phillips de-
cision nnd dismissed both the grand
and petit juries until February, in
the meantime it is believed congress
■will provide some remedy for the ir-
regularity now existing.
In the United States court at Tis-
homingo. Kid Kelley, colored, was sen-
tenced by Judge Townr.end to be
hanged February 23 Kelley was con-
victed of the murder of a negro named
Dllllngnam. The case will be appealed.
The money box and contents were
stolen from the Frisco agent at Eldora-
do one day recently. The box and a
few checks were later found near the
track four miles from town. Pour
mc-n were arrested at Quanah, Texas,
and are being held on suspicion. The
amount stolen nnd unrecovered will
not exceed $100.
John W. Shartel, one of the pro-
moters of the proposed Oklahoma Clty-
Guthrle lnterurbiin line, stntes that
nothing more will be done on the road
until statehood and the location ot
the capitol of the new state Is deter-
mined. According to this. If the Mc-
Guire provision te accepted, It will be
hung up until 1910 at least.
The women of Blackwell have signed
a petition to the city council and com-
mercial club to prevent the location
there of a brewery by a Peoria, III
syndicate. The city had agreed to tbo
brewery's terms, chosen a site and had
all ihe arrangements to erect the buiid
Ing under way, wnen It was decided
to wait the action of congress on the
Galllnger prohibition amendment.-
The new Methodlsth church at Bra-
man will be dedicated on Sunday, De-
cember 10, by Rev. George H, Brad-
ford, chancellor of the Epworth Uni-
versity. Methodists from all over Kay
county will attend and participate.
The postofflce receipts at Oklahoma
City for the month just closed were
$9,741, as against $7,1(52 for November
of last year. A gain of 37 per cent.
Nina Truelove, confined in the
federal jail at Ardmore, charged with
the recent killing of Fill King, has been
released on bail of $3,000.
At Okemah flro destroyed cotton
valued at $35,000. A spark from
passing train is thought to have
caused the conflagration
The fruit and vegetable canning fae
tory at Davenport, is said to have paid
a 60 per cent profit this season.
P, F. Yeck, a farmer near Okarche
shot an eagle that measured seven
feet from tip to tip. The eagle was
only slightly Injured.
Day county cotton growers are pay
ing high wages to pickers. The Grand
Progress tells of one mar and his wife
who are making $10 a day.
Rural route No. 1 has been ordered
established at Boise, Caddo county, to
serve 480 people and 120 houses.
Sixty-six farmers in the vicinity of
Custer have entered Into an agreement
to prohibit hunting on their farms and
have published p.n announcement to
that effect in the Courier.
WILLIAMS IS CHOSEN
Democrats of House Select Him at
Candidate for Speaker
WASHINGTON; John Sharp Wil-
liams was unanimously chosen by the
democrats as speaker of the house ot
representatives, as the nominee for
speaker and this action of the caucus
makes him the minority leader for the
ensuing congress to succeed hlmseir.
Following his nomination, Mr. Wil-
liams made quite an extended speech,
outlining principles upon which the
party should stand, and especially in-
sisted that the party should oppose
subsidies of all kinds and support anti-
trust legislation.
Speaking of railway rate legislation,
he insisted that the party would be In-
dorsing its national platforms If every
effort were used to further legislation
looking to governmental control of
such rates. ■
As to the charge that the democrats
were following a republican president,
he declared hat the democrats were
supporting their own principles, and It
mattered not if these principles are
Indorsed by a republican president.
The chief discussion was precipitat-
ed on a resolution Introduced by Rep-
resentative Lloyd of Missouri, which
was finally adopted. It requires mem-
bers of the minority of various com-
mittees to submit minority reports on
bills where democratls principles are
violated, in the opinion of such minor-
ity members.
A pessimist is a man who is always
looking for trouble, and isn't satisfied
when he has it.
IT GOES TO YOUR BAD ACCOUNT
To half do Ihlr.gE.
To be lax, indolent, indifferent
To live a half-life when a whole life
is possible.
Not to be scrupulously clean in per-
son and surroundings.
To acknowledge a fault and make
no effort to overcome It.
To be ungrateful to friends and to
those who have helped us.
jvew code foh heliocravh
ADMISSION TO STATEHOOD
From rri^ident Ilonitfvelt'M to ConjfreBH.
I rocotnmend that Indian Territory and Oklahoma be ad-
mitted as one Stato and that New Mexico and Arizona be ad-
mitted as one State. There is no obligation upon us to treat
territorial subdivisions, which arc matters of convenience only,
as binding us on the question of admission to statehood.
Nothing has taken up more time in the Congress during the
past few years than the question as to the statehood to be
granted to the four Territories above mentioned, and after
careful consideration of all that has been developed in the
discussions of the question 1 recommend that they be im-
mediately admitted as two States. There is no justification
for further delay; and the advisability of making the four
Territories into two States has been clearly established.
In some of the Territories the legislative assemblies issue
licenses for gambling. The Congress should by law forbid
this practice, the harmful results of which are obvious at a
glance.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
A man can make a very good living
by marrying a rich wife.
A woman can guess a thing right
quicker than a man can reason It.
Some people are always willing to
tell the truth when it Is disagreeable
to somebody else.
A girl of 10 always wants to do the
things she will never let her daughter
so when she has one of that age.
Can anybody explain how it is that
at 6 o'clock in the morning the tem-
perature of the furnace is six degrees
lower than the air outdoors?—New
York Press.
DYSPEPTIC PHILOSOPHY
It takes a strong woman to hold her
tongue.
Lord Harris tellB an interesting
story of how Col. Frank Rhodes out-
witted the Boers. It concerns the
relief of Mafeking.
As Col. Mahon approached Mafe-
king from the south, Col. (now Ma-
jor-General) Plumer was approaching
It from the north, and Col. Mahon re-
ceived the following questions from
Col. Plumer by heliograph:
1. What Is your strength?
2. How many guns have you?
3. How are you off for stores and
provisions?
Col. Mahon would not allow any
answer to be sent, for fear of the
Boers trapping it on the way, until
Col. Rhodes suggested the following
replies, which were approved. 1 at-
tach the key in brackets:
1. Q. What is your strength?
A. Naval and Military multipled by
ten.
[The number of the Naval and Mili-
tary club in Piccadilly is 94, and mul-
tiplied by ten approximated their
strength of 1,000.] ^
2, Q. Hew many guns have you.
A. As many as there are boys in
the Ward family.
[Lord Dudley and his brothers.!
Col. Mahon protested, as regards
this, that there would be no one who
would know but Col. Rhodes assured
him that Col. Watson Jarvis, who was
with Col. Plumer, would be sure to.
3. How are you off for stores and
provision?
A. Officer commanding Ninth Lan-
cers.
rcol. Little, known as
tlV] . .
The answers were received
correctly decoded.
Lord Harris also mentioned tnat
Col. Rhodes contributed largely out
of his own pocket to the outfit of the
Mafeking relief column, and that in
his day he was one of the best bats-
men in the British army.—New York
Times.
"Small" Lit-
and
dueam of vanished -boyhood
It takes
her rage.
a wise woman to conceal
of which was enlivened by the pres- SCHOOL LAND REPORT'
ence of the crowds in the galleries,
the animation of the reunion of vet-
eran members and interest of new
ones.
Admission of Oklahoma and Indian
Territory as one stato was the sub-
ject of the first bill introduced in the
house. The bill was prepared by Dele-
gate McGuire of Oklahoma and is al-
most identical with the joint state-
hood bill of the last session.
Put Under a $10,000 Bond
GUTHRIE: Judge John H. Pan-
coast, presiding in the Woods county
district, has held Fred Vanblbber
under $10,000 bond for the killing ot
his neighbor, O. C. Andre, during the
latter part of October. Vanblbber
went to town after the killing and sur-
rendered to the authorities, and has
since been in the county jail. Recent-
ly he entered a plea of self defense,
and as.ied that he be released from
jail. After hearing the testimony,
Judge Pancoast fixed his bond at $10,-
000, which Vanblbber has not yet
given.
ARRESTED FOR THEFT
Several Persons Held at Lawttfn for ~
Taking Government Supplies Farmers' Union Opposes Scheme tc Set
LAWTON: James Ratliffe, proprie- Aside 100,000 Acres
tor of a livery barn at Fort Sill, has GUTHRIE: The announcement from
been arrested, charged with taking Tuskahoma that Jack Gordons
feed for his stock from the government scheme to establish a private game re-
The smallest fish often inspire the
biggest tales.
Wealth isn't essential to happiness,
hut it helps some.
Love laughs at locksmiths, but It's
different with goldsmiths.
There is often more true Christian-
fty in silence than in a sermon.
Good intentions should never grow
cold if hell is paved with them.
Life might be worth living if wo
could only choose our own bosses.
The mind is a storehouse, but it
needn't necessarily be a junk shop.
So many men want the earth that
(here Isn't really enough to go around.
A woman's idea of a stingy man is
one who never pays her compliments.
Some women are so inquisitive (hat
they would even try to pump an or-
gan.
There's a scene 1 remember, an oft chos-
en byway,
Where the Krass tn midsummer was
wavy and long.
And whore, in its joy. whs a bright little
river
'i'h.i 1 rippled and babbled and murmur-
ed its song.
A clear littli-. bright little mite of a rlvc-r
That sparkled and chattered and mur-
mured along.
Ar.d there on the high grassy bank was
the beeehwood.
The far-reacliing elm cast its shadow
around; „ ,
Twas there too the silver leaved maple
was growing.
And the bright fiery tassels of sumach
were found— , ,
While on through the patches of shade
nnd of sunshine.
In ripple and eddy still (lancing away,
That dear little, clear little mite of a
river
Kept murm'rlng and singing the whole
summer day.
And there, too, the red-breasted robin was
singing. ,
The bluebird once swayed in the
branches on high
As if undecided which charms to be spelt-
The'grien of the earth or the blue of
the sky. . .
While still from the depth of the shadiest
places, , ,
With ripple and song, never ceasing to
run.
That dear little, bright little mite of a
Whirled merrily into the light of the
sun.
And there leaped the trout through the
rapids and shallows,
Midstream 'nrath the dead whitened
hough of the tree. .
Where oft in his glory the bold feathered
Usher ,
Swooped down on ids prize, twas in-
tended for ine,
While 1. youthful angler, expcctunt.y
waited , .
The impulse conveyed by the twinge or
the line , ,, , „
That hung in that clear little mite of a
river.
Whose blight, finny treasure no moro
may be mine.
E'en now the gay butterfly Oits o er the
water, , .
The wild bee returns to the sweet
scented flowers. , ,,
The summer born locust flings out 0. the
trcetnps
His shrill whistled praise of the bitg.it.
sunny hours;
Even now I Imagine the Inaple Invites me
To eome back and lounge in the unptn
of the glen.
That tli.- dtar little, clear little mite or
a river
Is calling me back to the meadow again.
No more by the bend, where the water is
deepest. .
I pile ibe few garments a boy needs
must wear.
No mere may I plunge in the pure gurg-
ling water
To spurt with its ripples, their cool-
ness lo share.
For I'm far, far away from tli.it ;,-reen
grassy meadow.
While tune into years pai-ses slowly
along,
But still in the distance that mite of a
river
Is calling me back with the voice of its
song. _
—Floyd !">. Itnz. in Chicago Inter Ocean.
Otherwise Preoccupied.
"Why don't jou tell the voters what
you can do for them?"
"That's the campaign orator's busi-
ness," announced Senator Sorghum.
"I'm busy figuring on what the voters
can do for me."—Washington Star.
Too Few of Them.
"I see that the ideal newspaper those
Chicago publishers tried to make go is
a failure."
"No doubt all it lacked was Ideal
readers."—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
In Railroad Parlance.
"Is Charley Richpop as rapid as
ever? He used to be a regular light-
ning express.
"He isn't now. His dad has cut
down his allowance to $10 per week/*
"All, then, he's now a limited male?'
The Retort Cutting.
The tailor who made an excuse to
Rear Admiral Barker "that the doctor
said he had a swelling of the head'*
was not overjoyed at the reply:
"Of course there's nothing in It!"
Leasing Receipts for Month of Novem
ber Were $92,889;24~
GUTHRIE: The monthly report of
Fred L. Wenner, secretary of the
school land leasing board, shows re-
ceipts for November of $92,889.24, in-
cluding $55,478.87 for the common-
school fund, $13,805.7G for the public
building fund, $12,507.59 for the college
ft.nd, and $9,470.90 for the common
school indemnity fund. The expenses
of the department for the monlh were
$2,229.83. The amounts of $12,200
from the college fund and $13,500 of
the public building fund were turned
over to the territorial treasurer dur-
ing the month. Receipts from trans-
fer fees during the month amounted
to $228, and from timber waste $222.
The amount now on deposit is $259,-
317.49, the largest items being $223,-
759.01 to the credit of the common
school fund and $20,102.85 in the com-
mon school Indemnity fund.
Dublin's police are the finest. Every
man is more than six feet tall, end
physically perfect.
e
FIGHTS GAME PRESERVE
Btables at the post. The arrest was
made by Deputy United States Mar-
shal Rooney upon a warrant Issued at
Oklahoma City. Charles Boody, an
omployee of Ratliffe, was also arrest-
ed for complicity In the alleged theft.
Several other persons are also under
arrested, charged with having been in-
terested in the same transaction. Sus
serve of 100,00'0 acres in the Choctaw
nation had gone through the Choctaw
council and would now go to congress,
has aroused considerable opposition in
Oklahoma, especially among Ihe lead-
ers of (he farmers' unions, who have
always opposed Ihe plan, and who have
announced their Intention to fight It
to a finish. At a recent meeting ot
plcloning theft, an officer of the day representatives of the unions of the
disguised himself as a private and two territories, resolutions eondemn-
went to the stable where oats were be-
ing loaded. While the soldiers were
in the stable after sacks of oats the of-
ficer took the wagon, which then con-
tained about fifty bushels of grain,
ing Ihe project were adopted and an
effort is to be made to head this plan
off before It is too late.
Negro Goes Up for Life
GUTHRIE: Fred Brown, negro.
and drove to Ratliffe's barn. 1 hen ((ijcted here for murdering Rev. Moses
Ratliffe received the oats, paying ?■>; \\'|nston, negro, three years ago, was
therefor. Ratliffe and Boody have convicted nnd sentenced by Judge
given bond for their appearance be- fjurfor<j (0 serve n life sentence,
fore the United States court, while the grown crushed Winston's head with a
soldiers will be held for court-mar- ,.ocbecause the preacher had testl-
tlal. • ■ (led against him in court.
Quarreled Over Pronunciation of Word Woman Bccame Violently Insane
STILLWATER: Frank Houston, a GIRARD. KAS.: Mrs. ina Berry of
survivor of the battle of the Doolin Spokane. Washington, who, while (
outlaws and officers at Ingalls, ten passenger from that place to Tulsa, I
years ago, following a quarrel with t. became insane last week, and with
Jesse James, a neighbor, regarding the n pistel drove the other occupants
pronunciation of a word, shot and from the car, which was subseqnelty
killed James with a Winchester rifle sidetracked here. Is still in (he ear
near Youst lake. Both men were ron- she is suffering from cold and hunger
sidered partially demented, Houston's; but refuses lo surrender, saying she
mind being affected since the outlawi will die In (he car
fight in whleh his brother was killed
Houston confessed the killing of James
to his family.
A snob is a superficial figure consist
ing of nothing but side.
an Save You Money
A Big Line of Ladies', Misses and Children's Wraps
Ladies' Long Coats, worth $15 to $20, our price - - $9.98
Ladies' Fine Silk Coats, worth $20.00, our price - - $8.09
Misses' Jackets, worth from $1.50 to $5.00, our price - - 49c
Men's and Boys' Duck Coats, all grades, at CUT PRICES.
We carry a full line Men's, Boys', Ladies', Misses' and Children's Shoes
ALL AT CUT PRICES.
EXTRA! EXTRA!! "ST MLL °" a0T"'
QR Children's two-piece Suits, worth QRn
up to $5, choice - /OC
We will sell all our Men's and
Youth's 3-piece suits, worth $15
READ THESE PRICES
12 qt. Galvanized Palls at . 19c
10 qt Galvanized Pails at 15c
8 qt Galvanized Pails at 10c
10 qt Milk Pails at 25c
12qt Dish Pans at l c
25c Galvanized Wash Pans at 12c
15c Galvanized Wash Pans at Sc
25c Stew Pans at 12c
15c Stew Pans at He
15c Pudding Pans at Sc
15c Dippers at 8c
10c Dippers at &c
25c Coffee Pots at 12c
35c Dinner Pails at 25c
25c Dinner Pails at lyc
25c Bread Pans at 19c
75c Lanterns at 39c
15c Sifters at l°c
10c Curry Combs at 5c
35c Garden Rakes at 19c
25c Axe Handles at 15^
5c Toilet Soap at 3c
3c Hard Water Soap at ;..lc
5c Pint Cup at 3c
Clothespins, per dozen lc
10c Lamp Chimney 3c
5c PearU Buttons, per dozen 2c
$1.00 Wade & Butcher Razor at 39c
50c Monkey Wrenches at 25c
50c Hammers nt 25c
50c Butcher Knives at 25c
50c Handsaws at 25c
25c Meal Saws at 12c
25c Scissors at 10c
50c Sraee at 2p°
25c Keyhole Saw3 at 12c
25c Padlocks at 12c
READ THESE PRICES
25c Strap Hinges at 15c
25c Saw Set at 12c
15c Stove Shovels at 10c
25c Curry Combs at 10c
10c Gimlets at 5c
Carriage Bolts at lc
Wringers at $2.49
Mrs. Potts Sad Irons at, pei set 89c
100-yard Spool Sewing Silk .-. 3c
5c Ball Silks 3c
25c Needle Books at 3c
25c Pictures at 10c
10c Card Collar Buttons 3c
10c Can Talcum Powder 5c
A big line of Double Coated Enamel Ware half price.
New line of Corsets at 50c on the dollar.
Remnants of Ribbon at less than half price.
Men's Socks at, 3c
25c Patent Corkscrew at 10c
25c Razor Strop at 10c
25c Acme Frying Pan at 15c
25c Wrenches at 15c
25c Grass Cutters at 15c
25c Cake Parafine at 15c
50c Thermometers at 15c
25c Scrub Brushes at 12c
25c Box Copper Rivets at 10c
10c Potato Mashers at 5c
15c Men's Linen Collars at 5c
25c Russian Iron Stove Pan at 15c
10c Pack White Envelopes at 3c
25c Bottle Ammonia at Sc
25c Bottle Vaseline at 10c
10c Bottle Vaseline 5c
10c Tar Soap at 5c
50c Zinc Washboards at 25c
35c Fruit Pressers at «a,...19c
OVER A THOUSAND MORE BARGAINS NOT LISTED
LION STORE ANNEX, Oklahoma City, Qkla.
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