Garfield County Press. And Enid Wave-Democrat (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 21, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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PROSPERITY ERA DAWNS
WITH COMING OF 191?.
Basinets Men Predict Great Things
for Next Year.—Everything
Tends to Indicate Revival
Throughout Country.
arfietii
AND ENID WAVE-DEMOCRAT
(By International News Service
New York, Dec. 1G.—A new era
of prosperity is dawning. The gen
era! situation at tihe close of the
year is so much better than busiuess
men had anticipated that optimism
has taken the place of the wirespread
.pessimism that characterized their
utterances taree months aso. Bank-
ers, railway administrators, Indi-
vidual managers and merchants who
took a gloomy view of the outlook
over thirty days ago now pitch
their comments in a hopeful tone.
Wiiiie the business of the country
has not reached the high record es-
tablished In 1909 tt is stated by the
experts in the mercantile agencies
that it Is so far ahead of tb* cor-
responding period of 1910 that they
confidently look for a condition of
revived activity in all lines un-
usual for a presidential year. They
believe Dhat 1912 will not only out-
strip 1910, but that It Is to go
ahead of 1911.
Salesmen returning to the city
to complete preparations for their
first trip of the new year bring
most hopeful reports from all parts
of the country. Elbert H- Gary,
•hairman of the board of directors
«f the United States Steel corpora-
tion, who is always extremely cau-
tious in ihis utterances as to con-
ditions, says the business of lis
company is far in advance of what it
was at this time last year.
Steel Good Gauge.
"The volume of our business is
large and satisfactory," declared Mr.
Gary. "Prices are still low, with
prospects of an increase."
For thirty years It Iias been an
axiom in Amberican business that
steel is its barometer. When there
is a satisfactory trade in than in-
dustry it is an indication that all
ether lines are brisk.
A high note of optimism is sound-
ed by the mercantile agency of R.
G. Dun & Company. While the
Bradstreet agency is a little mort
conservative than that of Dun, still
the reports Bradstreet is now assem-
bling for distribution at the open-
ing of Che year do not exhibit th«
usual signs of depression to be
looked for on the eve of a presiden-
tial campaign.
What Dun Says.
The head of the statistical depart-
" ment of R. G. Dun & Company said
today:
"The betterment of the indutrlal
and trade conditions, signs of which
have been visible to close observers
for two months, has now Ifcecome
plain to everybody and is reflected
in the expansion of bank clearings
and railroad earnings> the big up-
lift in the iron and steel trade, the
advance in copper, the increased ac-
tivity in dry goods, Che brisker de-
mand for money and in the confi-
dence inspired by the record-break-
ing cotton crop.
"Therr is no disposition to mini-
mize the problems still unsolved,
but business men are disposed to
move ahead in spite of the situation
As the year draws to a close It is
so much more encouraging as to
be the year's most conspicuous de-
velopment.
"The holiday trade is notably ac-
tive in the large cities. This re-
tail activity, coupled with the un-
usually warm weather and the end
of the year accounting, operates to
make wholesale operations slower,
■but there has been no real checks
to the expansion in business.
"HEW TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY."
WASHINGTON NEWS ITEM.
Dollar-a-D&y
Bill Passes
DECEMBER 21, 1911
ENID, (GARFIELD COUNTY) THURSDAY
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REV. J. W. UMPHRES
Washington, Dec. 20.—The Sher-
wood dollar-a-day pension bill pass-
ed the house by a large majority,
84 democrats and 8 republicans
voting against it. Speaker Clark
voted for It and Trader Underwood
voted against It- Friends of both
feel that their respective votes will
have a decided effect upon their
presidential booms. This bill In-
creases the present annual pension
appropriation from 157 millions to
230 millions. Oklahoma pays under
the present pension law about three
million dollars a year. Under the
new law, if it passes, Oklahoma will
pay about four and a half millions
yearH. The bill will meet with
stubborn opposition In the senate.
Oklahoma Members Attend Anti-
Saloon Dinner.
Washington, Dec. 20.—Several
members of the Oklahoma delega-
tion in congress attended the Anti-
Saloon banquet at the National ho-
tel on the evening of the 14th.
Senator Gore Says He Will Support
Nominee.
Washington, Dec. 20.—Senator
Gore has nominated for the presi-
dency of the Annanlas Club the
party who represented him aa say-
ing that he would not support the
democratic nominee unless Wilson
or Clark should win the nomination.
The senator says he will go as far
and as -fast as any democrat In sup-
port of the democratic nominee. He
tiays that the statement to the con-
trary is a fabrication woven upon
the loom of an active Imagination,
Without the thread of truth and with-
out the fiber of fact, either in the
warp or in the woof. He has said
nothing that could be either con-
strued or misconstrued Into such a
declaration of disloyalty. Ho could
name a list of democrats a little
longer than the moral law that he
would enthusiastically support and
the list would include more than
one Oklahoman besides himself.
NATIVES ALONG TIIK NILK
AN ENID MAN WHO Hi NOW GIVING LECTUR 3S FROM HIS TRAVE LS IN FOREIGN LANDS.
COWBOY SHOWMAN
SUED FOR DIVORCE.
Has Impaired Her Health by Threats
and Abust and Tore Her Infant
Daughter From Her.—Both
Known Throughout the
World.
Oklahoma City, Dec. 20.—Zack T.
Miller Is made the defendant in a
sensational dlvorc# petition filed by
Mabel A. Miller in the superior
count- Miller Is part owner of the
famous 101 Ranch at Bliss, part
owner of the Miller Bros.' Wild
West shows which have exhibited
In both America and Europe and is
generally known throughout the
country as one of the wealthiest
men In the state.
With the exception of Infidelity,
Miller .according to the petitioner,
has been guilty of accusing her with
Improper conduct and has oa fre-
quent (occasions violently pursed
and abused her. Mrs. Miller also
alleges that because of his numerous
tirades and displays of temper anl
oft-repeated threats to kill, b«r
health has become impaired and she
1* living in mortal dreafl of tht prob-
ability of the execution of the
threats. It Is also charged that
durlig one of his vicious v«rbal at-
tacks 'her, (hat hs tors their
baby girl, Virginia Ann Mlllor, from
her arms and left the home.
Took Baby Girl Away.
It Is stated that Miller took tils
youthful Virginia Ann to Mlsanurl.
In the petition Mrs- Millar de-
clares that she Is without fund# t«
properly prosecute her acti*n and
asks Che court to give her tempor-
ary alimony in the sum of (250
a month and attorneys fees In ths
sum of $2,500. She also secured a
restraining order denying Miller'!
right to visit her or in any wise to
seek to execute his allege.! threat*
to kill.
Must Not Visit His Wife.
The orders were signed by Judte
E. O. Oldfleld.
Since the inauguration of the 101
Ranah shows, Mrs. Miller has been
one of the chief drawing cards.
Her expert horsemanship has been
commended throughout the country.
She was particularly pretty of face
with clear complexion, enticing eyes,
golden >halr and a charm ta mak*
her the pet of the show organli
tlon and to the visitors at the rancb
home. She Is quick of Intellect and
her conversation but Increased her
popularity and promised her to the
first position In social affairs.
Miller and his wife have been
married since January 24, 1906, the
ceremony having been performed at
Fort Worth. The case has not been
set for trial. In addition to a di-
vorce decree and permanent all*
mony, Mrs. Miller asks for tbo cus-
tody of the baby girl.
BE A BOOSTER.
GOING TO MARKET IN PALESTINE
THE TAX LEAGUE.
Do you know there's lots of people
Sitting around in every town,
Growling like a broody chicken,
Knockin' every good thaing down?
Don't you be that kind o' callte,
'Cause there ain't no use on earth,
You just be a booster rooster,
Crow and boost for all you're worth
If your town needs boostin' boost 'er;
Don't hold 1 iick and wait to see
If some other fallow's willing' —
Sail right in, this country's free-
No one's got a mortgage on it,
It's yours as much as his,
If your town is shy on boosters
You get in the boostin'biz,
If things just don't seem to suit you,
And the world seems kinder wrong,
What's the matter with a-boostin'
Just to help the thing along,
'Cause if things should stop agoin'
We'd be in a sorry plight;
You just keep that horn a-blowin'—
Boost'er up with all your might,
If you know some feller's failin's,
Just forget 'em, 'cause you know
Tfhat isante feller's got some good points
Them's the one's you want to show.
"Cast your loaves out on the waters,
They come back's sayin' true,
Mabbe, too, they'll come back 'buttered,"
When some feller boosts for you.
—Selected.
AKEN SCSHOOL INITIATED
BILL TROUBLE MAKER.
Is Stirring Up One of Bitterest
Fights Since Statehood—Schools
Are Fighting It.
COME BACK, BOOTLEGGERS.
Court Sayi Oklahomans May Keep
Liquors in Business Placei and
Home*.
Oklahoma City, Dec. 15.—Cltlisns
of Oklahoma may keep more than a
quart of whiskey or other Intoxi-
cating liquor In their places of
business if they choose and they
may seuester more than a gallon of
It 1b their residences, according to
an opinion handed down yesterday
by the court of criminal appeals.
That portion of the Oklahoma
prohibition law which limits the
•mounts of liquor cltliens may have
In thslr possession at one time, was
the Issue. The court held that it
violates the 14th amendment to ths
federal constitution which provides
that no atate shall pass any measure
Oklahoma City, Dec. 18.—When
on Saturday, November 25, Oliver H.
Aknl, f Moore delegate to the les
uiature from Cleveland county, filed
3ii Innocent looking little bill wh\h
he i&ks to have Initiated at the s
erul (le.:tlon November 5, 191*-? a..-
started one of the bitterest fights
since statehood.
The bill was a trouble maker, bo
cause It alms at the elimination of
fourteen state schools, located in as
many counties of the state, and the
cities and towns In which the Insti-
tutions are situated have rushed to
their defense with one startled yell
of defiance and alarm which set
thc "scrap" going In every corner
of the state.
Akln's bill seeks to cut off four of
the state normals, the six district
agricultural schools, the girls col
lege at Chickasha, the two univer-
sity preparatory schools and the
school of mines at Wilburton.
Economy Is the grounds oh whloh he
bases his argument for the elimi-
nation of the Institutions. To teach
agriculture he would have a course
of study to Include that branch In
the consolidated district school sys-
tem of the state, and he would build
which deprives any citizen of ths
United 8tates of property wihhomjup that part of the public school
du« process of law. I system strengthened.
DECOY LETTER VICTIM
IS DEEPER IN TOILS
J. C. Blair, in Newton Jail Charged
With Worknig ''Con'' Game On
Oklahoman, Too,
J. C. Blair, who was arrested la
Wichita by Chief Cubbon's men,
and turned over to the Harvey coun
t authorities for trying to work a
confidence game on Isaac Anderson
In Newton, is believed by the au-
thorities of two states, Kansas and
Oklahoma, to be a mighty smooth
proposition. But he apparently hai
bumped up against something, from
the way complaints of his work have
been coming In.
G. J Taft, cashier of the Farmers'
State bank of Garber, Okla^ yester-
day camo to W'ehlta and filed a
complaint In the city court, charging
Blair with obtaining money from
John Oolllnge, a Garber stockman,
through fraud. As Is the case of
Anderson, Colllngc was Induced to
write his name In Blair's note book
Ills signature later turned up on a
draft on the Farmers' Stato bank of
Garber, which the bank cashed and
the money was sent to J. Johnson,
at the Manhattan hotel In Wichita.
The draft was dated November 29
and called for the payment of $114.-
60, with exchange, to J. II Johnson
Colllnge met Blair on a street in
Wichita Thanksgiving 'Wy, when tho
alleged confidence man Introduced
himself and then got Colllngn'i
through some sort of a plausible
excuse.
Just now Blair is In Jail at New-
THE MODERN EDITOR'S DUTY.
The newspaper business has ma-
terially changed In some respects In
the last decade. The coming of the
syndicate and the press bureau have
solved the question of "copy," and,
notwithstanding the linotype has In-
creased the consuming power of the
printer and given him the whip
hand, so to speak, of the editor with
the lead pencil or typewriter, the
benevolent action of the different
press bureaus over the country, en-
ables the newswrlter (?) to easily
swamp the best equipped linotype
batteries In any moderate sized city.
You don't even have to read the ex-
changes to get the news. The press
bureaus In their generous magnani-
mity, furnish you yards of It In ad-
vance, without money and without
price.
The editor's de*k Is piled high
each day with letters marked
"rush,'' "special news," etc. The
friends of Woodrow Wilson, Senator
La Follette, the Protective Tariff
league, Champ Clark, the Panama
Exposition, and the forty 'leven con-
gresses for the promotion of this
thlr.g or that thing are taking a
personal Interest In the erltor these
days, and some of their produc-
tions are so Ingeniously arranged
for the promotion of their particu-
lar Interest that It is almost a trag-
edy not to print them.
Add to this flood of foreign mat-
ter furnished us daily the local
grist of civic and social, political ana
religious organizations and It is
easy to conclude that the average
editor need not be a writer but he
must be a compiler of boosts, a
Sudden ending of the Lon Bobo iapld reader of manuscripts and
trial came yesterday on account ot work for an institution that will al-
lllness in the family of Louis low him to put In a good share of
Schouldlng, one of the jurors, and his time turning the grlndstonc for
iu was agreed between attorneys
and the court that a mistrial be
ordered. The order was made and
There was a meeting of the Tax
league held in Oklahoma City Satur-
day. Delegates from all over the
state were present. Matters of Im-
portance were discussed and plans
for the campaign were made.
The local league will hold a meet-
ing at the county court house Sat-
urday when all interested In the
movement should be present.
B0BO TRIAL COMES TO AN
*;ND; JURORS DISCHARGED.
Illness in Family of Second Juror
Hindered Further Progress.—
Second Trial fn January.
ton, awaitftng trial in the case on the caso set down for a second trial
which the Wichita police pick-1< I in the January term of the district
people who have never negotiated
with the business office for space.
We notice the would-be metro-
politan papers of this city are using
a flood of this dope. It Is easy,
court- All of the hearing had to IA man can sit in his office all day
him up wllen he sent a messenger I preBent time in the case Is set' and furnl'i copy but It Is just such
boy to the Eaton hotel to get a de- a( naugj,t because of the unfortun- thing' which hurts the papers,
coy letter, believing, It Is supposed. ' ate circumstances
that It was a letter containing the Jury,
money on Anderson's check. lhc
Harvey county sheriff has been
One of the children of Mr.
Schouldlng, who lives at Falrmount,
It
attending the 1 yn-u pay $5.00 a year for a news-
paper you want news, not Wilson-
Harmon dope.
notified to hold him. In case he Is Is afflicted with croup, and two
He asked
... . • «„,! ^h.po-o other children In the family had the
acquitted of Lu«- Anderson cnarge,,
until the Sedgwl-h county authori- 8ame
ties can get him to answer to Mr.
Taft's complaint.
Mr.
to Newton yesterday, where
WESTERN STEEL LIA-
BILITIES BIG.
Seattle, Wash., Dec. 19.—Sched-
disease recontly.
to be excused and In agreeing to hie u|cs ln bankruptcy of the Western
request, the court and attorneys ^tee] corporation, showing liabilities
, .. ™„r,< t00lt under advisement the matter $1,493,400 and assets of $7,339,-
Taft and r. > ge Qf ordering a new trial. The re- S()5 wer flled loday in the United
,. maining Jurors were Immediately statea district court. Of the llabllt-
rompared tbo wr 1 ng on < > discharged. ilea the largest amount Is for se-
drafts, and where Collinge Identified , Xhe wlfe of Juror B. F. Wood| °'|sured ciaims, $810,181. an l th*
Blair as the man ho met in Wichita Urummond who was reported se- 9econd largest $626,514, Is for un-
J- A. Elvln, postofflce inspector ![ougljr ,g aUU ,n a precarlou613ecured claim3. neal estate forms
stated last night that Blair might condition. The absence of the two!lhe la|.gest portion from the assets,
also have t answer to the govern- Juror8 and the nn„kllhood „f fur-I pUlttd at $0,542,662 v hJ*-
ment for using the mall to defraud, (her progretB ln the case for some ^ Machtnery la vaU,ed at $225.-
In connection with these two cases (lme lod ,0 the d^mi^al of the other . . . t «108, 78.
He has made no official investiga- jurors and the ordering of a new j • -
tlon of thc case, but will take It up trlai. COMPANY
before Blair Is allowed to get away. IKU&i war, ARRESTED.
It Is said that there are others In, The Enid Chpmber of Commerce Ik r city Dec . 19.— H. W.
Kansas and Oklahoma who want to . boMrtto. •iS/of lis j Richardson of' U.ul.ville, Ky„ for-
dlrectors 1b boosting a lot of work merly president
see Mr. Blair on thc same charge.
FOR SALE.
Good second hand book
s for !)S«
out of Enid clear down to Oklaho-
ma City. We don't need the money
ln Enid. Everybody hore has more
signature ln his memorandum book j woodward, Okla.
than one-fourth orlglnnl cost. Many than they know what to do with but
practically new. Religious, flct.on poor oklahoma City needs tt. They
historical! etc. $1.00 books ' > ] also ne<..d the extra men It takes to
For particular* address Box 318
do this work.
Kansas City,
Ry-
ot the American
I'nlon Trust company, was arrested
here tonight on a charge of forgery
In the second degree. Richardson
Is alleged to have forged the name
of Theodore L. Stegner of Kansas
City to 66 shares of the trust com-
pany's stock valued at f 7,000.
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Garfield County Press. And Enid Wave-Democrat (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 21, 1911, newspaper, December 21, 1911; Enid, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc159851/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.