The Weekly Examiner. (Bartlesville, Indian Terr.), Vol. 13, No. 21, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 27, 1907 Page: 1 of 8
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THE WEEKLY EXAMINER.
VOLUME XIII.
HAHTLKSVILLE. INDIAN TERBITOBY, SATUI!I)AV, JULY 27,180T.-EIGHT PAGES.
COUNCIL FAVORS
CITY OWNERSHIP
Members of That Body Will Lead
the Fight for Pure Water and
Adequate Fire Protection
Direction to City Attorney John J Shea to prepare at once for
adoption at a session to be held Thursday evening a resolution call-
ing a special election August 19 to vote upon a proposal to issue)
8125,000 for the construction of a municipal water plant, was given j
at an adjourned session of the council held Tuesday night. I
This action was taken after the receipt of a communication from'
City Engineer E. C. D'Yarmett* vyhich embraced a favorable report
on the proposal to use water from Butler creek and an estimate of
the probable income from the operation of a city plant.
I mound west of the city. From the
ENGINEERS ESTIMATE
Earning capacity of plant,
with population of 10,000:—130
gallons per day, at five cents
per one thousand gallons, 865
per day or 823.725 per year.
Five cents per one thousand
gallons is the average price
charged by municipal plants in
cities of over 20.000. This
means six barrels for one cent.
Allowing $10,000 for operating
expenses, this leaves an earn-
ing of better than eleven per
cent on the investment, which
would increase to an earning
of 27% per cent with a'popula-
tion of 20,000. '
tank on tiie mound to one mile east
| 1 would recommend the installing of
J a fourteen inch main and there reduce
j to a ten inch main to the eastern lim-
its of of the city. It would require
J about two miles of eight inch mains
and ten miles of six inch mains to
reach every porton of the city at the
present time. Of course i will be
some time before the city will require
mains on all the streets and my esti-
mates are accordingly high. The pipe
as above sepcified at prices that I have
been able tosecure, would cost about
♦64,000. The tank on the mound would
cost between $10,000 and $12,000 or the
whole plant would be installed, exclu-
sive of the dam and reservoir for ap-
proximately about $110,000.
Allowing for the acquiring of the ies-
ervoir site and the building of the dam
| j $15,000, which is doubtless all that
J would be required, our total estimate
Every (member of the council present | would be $126,000. The new plant
last evening expressed hearty agree-! coul l be installed to meet the present
ment with the d^ision to submit the re1uiremrat at a considerably lower
, . . I figure by putting in a smaller reser-
proposal to a vote. When Mr. D'Yar- , , . .
voir closer to town, but it would be
mett read his report, Attorney Shea weu to arrange at the present time
advised the council as to tlie steps for all our future needs and secure
to be taken. Already a' call has been ! 8UC'1 teritory as would be necessary,
made for an election to vote $50,000 for a re9Crvoir of sufficient size for a
. iV . .. . xl , population of 50,000.
for the completion of the sewer system. | m, „
j lne cost of our pumping plant could
The water works proposition will be be considerably reduced should we on-
voted on at the same time—August 19 , ly provide for our present population,
—and if the propositions carry the to-! In regard to the quality of the wa-
tal bond issue will be $175,000. Mr. ter of Butler creek, there is no doubt
D'Yarmett't report follows in full: but what -t is as good a source of sup-
As to the consumption of water in 1 ply as that of any city in the United
cities df various sizes n the United, States. Although no analysis has been
States, I find that 130 gallons per cap- j made yet, we are able to judge of its
ita is the average for cities of 5,000 quality by its lack of color and taste,
and over. On the basis of population | It is well known by experts on water
of 20,000 people, which I believe is the | systems that the quality of water im-
minimum for which we should provide proves when it is stored in large clean
at the preset tme, 2,600,000 gallons! open reservoirs.
per day would be required. The water As an alternative to the above plan, I
shed of Butler creek above the pro-;;ind in case the present plant could be j
posed location of the dam, drains an j purchased at a reasonable price, I be- j
area of between fifteen and twenty! lieve it could be combined with the'
square milos. According to investi- Butler creek reservoir proposition in
gatioiis of F. P. Stearns, chief engin- such a way as to eliminate the con-!
of the Metropolitan water board of struction of a new pumping plant; 1
Massachusetts, with a rainfall of for- that is, the water could be carried in
ty-tye inches, which is the average pipes by gravity from a reservoir in
rainfal at Bartlesville, and a storage the Osage and distributed through the
of 100,000,000 gallons for each square; city mains bv means of the present;
mile of 1/ind surface drained by the pumping plant. The stand pipe in south
water Bhed, a daily yield of 600,000 end of town would be sufficient to give
gallons per square mile can be expect-i the required pressure, although I would
This takes into account evapora- recommend the construction of a new
tion, seepage of the soil and other los- foundation for It and the placing of
sea usuallly encountered. Prom this steel braces of sufficient size to in-
we deduce that taking it at the min- sure the safety of the residents in its
imum of ten square miles of water immediate vicinity.
shed we will Ihiave with the above j As to the location of the dam and the
storage a supply of 6,000,000 gallons amount of territory thflt would be
per day available or a sufficient quan- flooded, it will necessary to make
Cherokee civilization was far advanced
over that of theotber tribes, and since
the sixty or seventy years ago
that he first bands of that tribe
came west, this section of the country
has been occupied by people who culti-
vated land and lived in houses. The
Cherokee population was sparse, how-
ever, and it was not until the coming
of the Delaware Indians that the conn-
try took on the aspect it bears today.
A visit to Silver lake and a day spent
at the home of Joe IP. Suagee recalled
many interesting events connected with
the early history of this community. I
and suggested the great changes which J
are soon to come.
Silver lake is intimately connected j
with the history of three Indian
I tribes that make their home in Okla-
: homa. There was the first home of the
j Osages when they left Kansas after
i the making of the Drum creek treaty,
a treaty which is still, after the lapse!
of forty years, the subject of litiga-
tion. The Cherokees had contracted to j
sell a body of land to the Osages, and
when the latter tribe left Kansas to
take possession of their pnrchase they
stopped at a point believed to be west
of the 96th meridian line. There,which
was at Silver lake, an agency house
and other buildings were erected, but
correct information of the location of
the line required that the Osages re-
move west, when they took up their
headquarters at Pawhuska.
The Delaware* came upon the land
after the departure of the Osages, and
because of its favorable location many
of them took up their homes in the
community known now as Silver lake
and Fish creek. They were good farm-
ers and they made substantial improve-
ments which stand to this day. John
Sarcoxie, uncle of the present Jolin
Sarcoxie the well known Deleware'
ies of water close to Bartlesville, and
the prophecy has often been made that
it will some day come to be a famois
lt-sflrt for Bartlesville people. That
the electric line be extended to Silver
lake is one of the proposals made in
connection with plans for use of the
lake, but the necessity of bridging two
or more streams is regarded as an in-
surmountable obstacle to this end at
any time in the immediate future. Mr.
Suagee occasionally gives picnics at the
lake and is framing up one for some
date before the election. Silver lake
may bo decided upon for the oil men'B
picnic. The lark of good drinking
water is a serious impediment to Silver
lake's popularity.
The trip to the lake Thursday show-
ed that the corn is erinkling in the heat
and will be serieusly injured if rain
does not come soon.
On the road to Silver lake is to be
seen a derrick on the Clem Winn land
which wag erected by a 12-year-old
boy, Jesse Calvin, son of a dairyman.
For the bullwheel the lad has used a
sand heel and in many details he ha*
followed the lines of a standard rig
with marked fidelity. TBe lad^rigged
up some tools and made a test, but he
gravely announces that the hole was
"dry as a powder horn."
SCHOOL BOARD ASKS BONDS
City Council Is Asked to Include Proposition
in Call For Election of August 19.
"KLONDYKE"
ARRESTED
When "Klondyke" Charley Ball
ran a uno joint and restaurant on West
Third street a year ago his blackboard
signs were uniquely interesting. Since
his location in the basement of the
Miller-Keeler building at Second and
his famous blackboard until Wednes
MORTIMER K. STILWELL,
A $75,000 issue of bonds for the con
struction of three ward school build-
ings and a four-room addition to the
High school building will be asked for
by the Bartlesville school board. De-
cision by the school board to request
the city council to call an election for
voting on the bond issue was reached
at a session of the school board held
in the offices of the Bartlesville Na-
tional bank Wednesday evening. The
election must be (called by the city
council; the school board can only
recommend a course to the council and
has no right itself to call an election.
Decision also was reached by the
school board to erect seven additional
temporary buildings at once. Six of
these will be on the sites now in use
and the seventh building will be near
the smelters. The school board will ask
of the city council a six-mill tax levy
for school purposes. This will yield
$24,000. Last year the levy was eight
mills, but the increase in valuation has
been such that the six-mill levy will
bring in more money than the former
eight-mill levy. Last year the school
board had about $18,000 available and
there was a deficit.
Of the $75,000 be derived from
the bond sale, $25,000 will be expended
for an eight-room building on the west
i side. The remaining $50,000 will be
divided between the two other ward
schools and the High school annex. The
High school annex will have an audi-
torium, for which there has long been
a pressing need.
All of the members of the school
board are in favor of the issuance of
$75^000 bonds. Mayor Beasley met
with the board and encouraged the
proposal for a bond issue. An issue for
school purposes together with the is-
sues for waterworks and sewers, make
a total of $200,000. The assessed valu-
a tion of Bartlesville property is such
that $300 000 of bonds might be issued
by the city.
On tfie board of education are Wil-
liam Johnstone, president of the Bar-
tlesvill National bank, and Joseph J.
Curl, vice president of the First Na-
tional bank. No men in Bartlesville
are better informed on the needs of
the schools and the 'inancial ability
of the city to issue and pay the bonds
than they. They are heartily in favor
of the issue. Their judgment should
have weight when voters come to con-
sider their eourse-at the election next
| month.
the subject of Rev. J. N. Edwards'
sermon at the Baptist church 8unday
forenoon. Mr. Edwards is secretary of
the Ministerial Alliance and he will
have no services at his church in the
evening.
The Church of God will have its reg-
ular services, morning and evening.
Reverend McGarvey, 0f Tulsa, con-
ducts services for the Episcopalian
each Tuesday evening.
Father John will have two services
at the Catholic church Sunday mora-
: mg—one at 8 and one at 10:30.
SHORT LOCALS
Sti?eTrh«f °f Wf°85 "ndirdaLcr ,f°r thc Republican nomination for
to Tulla Augus't his Washington county friends will go
tity for a population of 50,000 poo
pie. Or in oter words should a dam
complete and acurate survey, taking
cross sections at intervals sufficient-
be built that would flood thirty-six ly close t<*be able to figure the quantl-
acres at aa average depth of ten feet, I ty of water stored and the amount of
it would give sufficient storage for I land flooded. It will he necessary al-
a population of 50,000. so to make sounding at the site selected
I propose the building of a dam at j for the dam and~ ascertain where a
some point on Butler creek from one good and permanent foundation can be
to two and one-half miles north of the secured. This survey should he very
mound west of town and there full and complete and determine the
install a pumping plant with a I elevations above Bartlesville, and
capacity of 1,300 ^gallons per minute, i should also be carried to a siifficlmt
distance to enable the selection of the
be^t position for the dam and reser-
voir.
This would mean a plant of 200 horse-
power with all necessary boilers, pip-
ing, pumps, etc. I estimate the total
coif of this plant, Including the house
and all machinery, to be approximate-
ly $20,000. From the pumping plant
to the imound west of town an eight
Inch pressure main should be laid, and
I would recommend the installing of a
30,000 barrel steel tank on top of the
SILVER LAKE NOTABLE
IN HISTORY OF TRIBKT
The modern Bartlesville city Is to
new that all of us usually forget that
the country around it is quite old.
preacher, built the house on the north
side of Silver Like owned and occu-
pied by Joe Suagee. He " set out a
good orchard of apple and other fruit
trees, most of which arc still produc-1
ing. The first part of the house, now I
used ss a dining room, was built of!
logs in 1868. In 1872 Mr. Sarcoxie'
hauled lumber from Lawrence, Kan., to j
weatherboard the log house and later j
j he built the other rooms. James Gib-1
| son, of Copan, lived with him at the
time.
| J. H. Parties' first store In Indian'
| Territory was a log house that stands
j a short disance west of the Suagee j
j house, on the north side of the lake, i
J "Old Man" Carr afterward occupied I
the building with a stock of good*, and
a party of Osages once raided it and
j ran the occupants away.
A Delaware church building on the
j west side of the section line road be-
tween sections 31 and 32, opposite the
Jamns MeCoy land, and a half mile
j nnrbh of the lake, was several times
"shot np" in the early days, and bul-
let horoiet are still to be seen in It.
There a fight took place one night in
which three men were killed, "one of
the victim being a brother of the
present Cherokee Chief Rogers. An-
otner victim rf the fight was the father
of the Henry Sarconle from whom the
widow of Joe Suagee bought the house
built by John Sarcoxie, senior. The
Rark< r , notorious white men, took part
in th< so killings.
Sllv r lake Is one of the largest bod-
■lav morning, when he made this start-
ling announcement:
look:
7 Gambling Houses in Bartlesville.
Ask Klondyke Charlie.
The Oficers Don't Know Anything
About Them>.
Yours Truly,
Klondyke Charley.
Several days ago "Klondyke" was
arrested on a charge of selling cider
on Sunday. The mayor's record shows
that he pleaded guilty and that sen-
tence was suspended during his good
behavior. When he made the black-
board display Mayor Beasley directed
"Klondyke" to appear before him at
| 7:30 in the evening. The offender be-
i can a tirade against the police ad-
ministration, and Mayor Beasley di-
I rected Officer Harry Craft to take him
: into custody and hold him until the
$32.50 fine heretofore assessed against
him was paid.
Charley Ball got the name "Klon-
dyke" at Lawton, Okla., during "the
opening" several years ago. He con-
ducted an eating house in a tent after i
the manner of mining camps, and be- j
cause this was the time of the Klon-'
dyke discoveries the name was applied
to tho place and later to him. In Law-
ton he acirmulnted a considerable sum
of money but los his profits while de-
fending himself against charges of il-
licit liquor selling.
Gov. Frantz
issues Gall
Guthrie, Okla., July * 24.—Governor
Trunk Frantz issued a proclamation
at 4 o'clock this afternoon calling an
election of' officers for the state of
Oklahoma and for the submission of
the constitution to the people for rati/
fixation or rejection.
Governor Frantz, in issuing the pro-
■laimation, has taken into considera-
tion the doubts which may exist as to
the legal satus of the constitutional
•onvention not adjourning sine
die, and has endeavored to frame the H. W. Kendall, of El Dorado Kan-
document ,n such plain and unmistaka- sas, is the guest of his sister, Mrs J.
language that the people will know P. Easterley.
positively what they are voting on \r . -r v' -c i
when they go" to the polls K E" Ear'Cy returned ThuradaT
mi i„ i j • . , night from a visit with relatives and
The egal advisory committee has ad- friendg Parsons
vised the delegates that when the!
parchment copy is filed the convention i /ttorne-v Burdette Blue left Friday
expires over it, but the election ordi- i afteraoon for a vacation trip. He will
nace may be amended at any time the , v,,,t relativcs "d fiends in Illinois,
convention may deem necessarv Dele- After a visit wIth ber Parent* Col-
Williams, King, and others are'of thin™®1 and Mrs- William Mrs.
opinion, but President Murray has' etzer tas "turned to her home at
stated since the adjournment that he Colcvrado Springs.
is not entirely of this opinion, believ-1 ^use7i representing the Indiaa
ing that the Kentucky decsion lays aSent was her« Thursday and recevetl
down a different rule. i several appliactions for removal of re-
Now that Governor Frantz has is- s^ctions. He says the interior de-
sued the proclamation, nothing can P*rtment is showing great liberality in
stand in the way of an election unless ac,;ions on such petitions.
the supreme court of the United Mrs. W. H. Evans returned Friday
States revives the injunction recently afternoon to her home at Esbon, Ran.,
dissolved by the territorial supreme after a week's visit with her relatives.
court in the Woods county case.
PRESBYTERIANS
IN NEW CHURCH
the Doctors Barton. She is a daughter
of T. H. Reeve, of Dewey, the Republi-
can nominee for register of deeds.
Illness prevented Judge Parker from
keeping his appointment here Thursday
and Friday. He w is to have heard
motions in probate eases. An appoint-
ment will be made for another visit be-
fore the regular Deeember term of court
WANTED—Extra salesladies at the
Boeton store.
Ethan Casey, a young fellow employ-
ed about Ernest Lewis's livery barn,
was arrested Ttrtrsday evening by Dep-
j Heat, building operations and the ab-
sence of pastors and members of con-
gregations will affect the regular order
ol church services Sunday. Rev. H. J.
Corwine ,of the Christian church, is out
of the city on his vacation; the Meth- evenin* DeP~
utlists in I th . p i . , uty United States Marshal Williams on
odihts ana the Presbyterian* have „ • _ . . . , . _ "
building operations under way, and all ' t« duc,ng Deputy Mar-
.f .h. 4.J Vtl?T',a '.l l r""""
. ,, train Casey gave bond and the prisoner
All of the services of the Methodist wag released.
church are held in the court room and A party of ladies of th Woodmen Cir-
that place will continue to be utilized ele drove to Dewev Thursday evening
until the new church house is com-: and were the guests of the Dewey Cir-
p.eted. In the forenoon there will be ele members. This was in accordant
the regular services of preaching, Sun with an agreement that the lodge seenr-
fch001 and >ounR Peoples' society, ing he largest number of new members
meetings. At the court room in the .luring the uaqrter should be entertain-
Mias Betrtha McMillan
friends at Caney Wednesday.
visited
evening the Ministerial Alliance will
have charge of the services and Rev,.
R. J. Lamb will give the sermon.
The Presbyterians will hold their
first service in their new building next
Sunday forenoon. Heretofore the serv-
ices have been held in the parsonage.
The lecture room will be used next
Sunday. There will be no evening
services. Windows for the building will
be shipped next week. The bill of
lading for the church furniture has
been received.
"A Three-Fold Petition" will be
ed by the other lodge at lunch. The
Bartlesville ladies report a very pleas-
ant time.
The crowds at the New Theater are
well pleased with the vaudeville bill.
The pictures are taking finely. There
will be a change in the singing, also
an entire change of pictures. The ad-
mission is ten cents. Don't fall to see
these people before they leave the city.
An entire new company Is engaged for
the week of July 29. Watch for our
new bill. Souvenlers to the ladies at 3
o'clock Saturday afternoon.
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