The Shawnee News. (Shawnee, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 3, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. 14.—No. 19.
SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1908.
THE NEWS. 40c PER MONTH.
The question of issuing a proclam-
ation declaring the five state ques-
tions, voted on at the recent election,
carried or not carried, will be de-
cided by the governor probably to-
day. His decision is expected to be
announced this evening.
At Guthrie, Wednesday evening, at-
torneys representing Guthrie, Shaw-
nee and Oklahoma City appeared be-
fore the governor and argued the
question as to what constituted a
majority of all the votes cast in the
election on the state question, upon
which hinges the point as to whether
the capital removal proposition car-
ried or not
Guthrie attorneys argued that a
majority of all the votes cast for
presidential electors is required to
pass the measure, while others held
that the election on the five state
propositions constituted a separate
election, and that a majority of the
votes cast on these questions is suf-
icient to carry any one of them.
The only two questions affected
OF
SUM
AT
The Russell livery barn has pur-
chased the bus, baggage and trans-
fer business of the Carey barn and
will take possession at once.
The business has fallen into good
hands, as Mr. Russell is an old-timer
here and has grown up with the city.
He is a first-class business man and
has won the confidence of the public
are the Torrens land system and the in his conduct of the affairs of his
capital removal. Both received a ma-j business.
Jority of the votes cast on the ques-
tions, but their vote did not consti-
tute a majority of the vote cast on
presidential electors.
It Is also argued by attorneys for
Guthrie that the governor cannot le-
gally declare the result of the elec-
tion until the returns have been can-
vassed by the state legislature.
Arguments presenting the Guthrie
view were made by Frank Dale and
A. G. C. Bierer of Guthrie and W.
A. Collier of Eufaula. Arguments to
the contrary were made by H. Y.
Thompson of Oklahoma City and J.
D. Lydick of Shawnee.
Upon the governor's decision in
the matter depends the time for
which the question of the location
of tlie capital will be called. The
governor is said to bo inclined to-
ward a speedy settlement of the
question of the location of the cap-
ital.
Chief Sims yesterday evening re-
ceived notice of the death on^ a train
near Churubusco, Ind., of A. E. Mas-
ters, whose family reside at the cor-
ner of Tenth and Bell streets in this
city. The family but recently moved
to Shawnee.
SHADE TREES.
Maple, Elm, Locust, Catalpa, Box
Elder, Linden of all kinds. 25 per
cent discount for next 60 days. E.
C. Winney, South Draper street,
Shawnee.
3*2m
Crowder, Ok.* Dec. 4.—Burglars en-
tered the Crowder State bank, blew
open the safe with a charge of nitro-
glycerin and took about $3,800 in
gold, silver and currency. They
made their escape without interrup-
tion and covered up their tracks so
completely that the authorities are
unable to tel whether they escaped
on foot, on horseback or by rail.
Entrance to the bank was made
through the rear door, which was
pried open with a crowbar. The
combination of the vault door was
turned, after being slightly tampered
(Daily Oklaihoman.)
Oklahoma City high vs. Shawnee is
the football attraction scheduled for
Colcord park Saturday afternoon.
While the locals ought to pull out
a victory* the Shawnee boys can be
depended on to put up a good game.
Those interested in high school
football feel that the Oklahoma City
team has not had the support this
fall which such a crack organization
deserves, but they expect to secure
a more enoouraging Showing from
now till the end of the season, which
it is hoped to wind tip with a great
championship battle with Norman
high on Christmas day.
Tomorrow the high school boys
will start out with tickets and ex-
pect a big advance sale for the Shaw-
nee game.
Probably there will be two other
games before the climax and nego-
tiations are on with several teams
as possible opponents. Perry and
Chickasha may both be taken on.
A game with Muskogee on Colcord
park would be a sure attraction, if
Shawnee shops and stores have
made the best of the few days of
inclement weather by placing on dis-
play their annual stock of Christmas
goods.
The 1908 stocks are larger and
more varied than any ever shown in
the southwest, if the early indica-
tions count for anything.
For the youngster, the mechanical
toy predominates very largely, with
the usual pretty dolls for little sis-
ter. Brother can pick almost any-
thing in the catalogue from the
Shawnee stores.
The haberdashers go in strong on
the fancy clothes for big brothers
who are just about the sparking age.
Father can ihave a Bible, the con-
ventional tie or "galluses," while
mother and sister can be pleased to
their liking.
The fact is, the purse-strings ot
the poor or rich can be supplied
from the Shawnee shops.
In talking to one shopkeeper about
the coming Christmas trade, he said:
You can't tell a thing in the world
about the business. Of course we go
to a large expense in making prepa-
rations. Last year some one present-
ed a relative or friend with some-
thing extra nice and, of course, he or
she is planning to make a return
this Christmas. However, I expect
a heavier trade than ever before in
the history of the county."
While the jewelers haven't made
their displays yet, they can be ex-
pected to carry the usual fine line
for which they are noted. Early ap-
pearances indicate a merry Christ-
mas for one and all in good old
Pottawatomie county.
THE 0. R. C.
The ball given by the Ladies' Aid
to the O. R. C. Wednesday evening
was a grand success in every par-
ticular. The floor was well filled
with dancers all during the evening
and the receipts amounted to over
$100. Music was furnished by Shnf-
fer and Stewart.
The grand march was led by
"Dandy" Fox and wife, and Conduc-
tor Wilbur Titsworth and Miss Ethel
Mason were second.
The ball was in charge of the fol-
lowing: Mrs. W. H. Harrah, chair-
man; Mrs. Bruce Hayes and Mrs. B.
M. Stephens, reception committee;
Mrs. C. D. Titsworth and Mrs. L. C.
Clarke, floor committee.
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYES
ARE EXAMINED.
Muskogee, Ok., Dec. 3.—Dr. Charles
Hendricks of St. Louis, special officer
Mrs. Hattie Tibbs, better known
as "Dolly Butts," one of Shawnee's
most noted "madames," died Wed-
nesday evening under circumstances
that indicate suicide. An overdose
of morphine was the cause of dt>ath,
though it is not positively known
whether it was taken intentionally
or not. The coroner is investigating
the case this afternoon.
"Dolly Butts" conducted an estab-
lishment on South Union avenue.
She had lived in Shawnee since the
town started almost, and had been
at one time in rather affluent cir-
cumstances. At the time of her
death she is said to have possessed
less than $200.
MANY CONVENTIONS
HAVE BEEN ENTERTAINED.
Oklahoma City, Ok., Dec. 3.—Okla-
homa City is proud of her record of
having entertained 191 conventions
L BE
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of the civil service commission, com-, dUr(ng the year ()n,y on(, of ,he8c
pleted an Investigation of govern- Bapt)gt wa8 R natlona, gather.
ment employes here, in connection j ^
with the donation of campaign funds.
In answer to the many inquiries
as to how soon gas will be turned
on after it reaches the city, Man-
ager F. W. Caldwell of the Shawnee
Gas & Electric Co., stated this morn-
ing that natural gas will be turned
on within three days after the com-
pletion of the pipe line. As soon as
the pipe line is completed gas will
be "blown in." It will then take
a day to test the line, another day
o change the regulators, and another
day to read the meters. On the
fourth day gas will be ready for use.
Barring accidents, the pipe line
will be completed early next week.
Shawnee citizens should be using
natural gas by the end of next week
at the latest Of course there may
be an accident, but the line is so
near completion that at this time
it has come to be almost a question
of hours instead of day or weeks.
Shops and Stores Prepare
I the Baptist, was
Next year the Chamber of Com-
, more® expects to have 200 conven-
A story was published in O a oma Lj0ng varjoua characters held here.
during the recent campaign to the ;
effect that political leaders, under SULPHUR BRIDGE CONTRACT LET
the direction of the national commits Sulphur. Ok., Dec. 3.—The secre-
tee, coerced civil service employes tary of the interior has awarded the
to contribute large sums of money
to the republican campaign fund.
Hendricks took testimony from and
interviewed several hundred govern-
ment employes and quietly left the
city. He declined to make a state
ment.
contract for the stone arch bridge
across Travertine creek. The bridge
is to be completed by Feb. 28. *
RETURNS TO PAYNE COUNTY.
Broken Arrow, Ok., Dec. 3.—W. T.
Dalton of Broken Arrow, a member
of the constitutional convention, will
return to Payne county to reside. Mr.
Dalton was the democratic candidate
for the territorial senate from Payne
county in 1898.
Harry Kelly, the 19-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Kelly of
with, while the safe, a Mosler with • -tile expense of bringing the east-
a square door, was almost totally | sl{*ers over were not so heavy,
wrecked. ' In the elght years that they have
Some $1,000 packages of currency '■ played Oklahoma City high has never
that had been wrapped for shipment | beaten Norman and the local boys
to the bank's correspondent at Fort j believe that If they can get the unl-
Smlth were taken, while a sack of Wersity understudies here on Christ-
pennies was left with the valuable Imaa day they can at last turn the
papers of the safe. jtrlck-
The safe explosion occurred about i
North Oklahoma, was frightfully in- 2 o'clock in the morning. One man.
Jured this morning at the cotton com- sleeping about a block away, was
awakened by the report and hurried
into the yard to investigate. He saw
nothing and returned to bed.
"The bank is fully protected by
insurance," said Cashier J. B. Ham-
ilton last night. "I do not care to
confirm or deny the report that we
lost $3,800, but prefer to await the
investigation of the insurance com-
ATTENTION, MODERN WOODMEN! pany's adjuster, who will be here
The annual election of officers will (tomorrow. We managed to get j
be held Friday evening, Dec. 4. All 1 enough cash to operate on today and
members are urged to be present, did not suffer. The condition of the
By order of the consul. 3-2t bank is not in the least jeopardized."
press. He had gone down to the
compress to watch the operations
there when a bale of cotton, which
was being unloaded from a car, fell
against him and bore him to the
platform. His left leg was broken
in two places and his ankle was
crushed. He will recover.
OKLAHOMAN WIN SUITS.
Suit for libel against the Okla-
homan, in which $10,000 was asked
by Ira N. Terrill of Guthrie, because
of certain statements printed two
years ago, was tried before Judge
G. W. Clark in district court yester-
day and resulted in a verdict for the
defendant. The jury was out about
ten minutes.
DR. LAND IS TO LEAVE.
Blackburn, Ok., Dec. 3. Dr. Lan
dis has received official notice of his
appointment as government physician
at the Indian agency at Yakima,
Wash. The position pays a salary
of $1,200 a year, besides an oppor-
tunity for outside practice.
WILLIAM BOYER INJURED.
Clinton, Ok., Dec. 3.—With a four-
inch cut in his scalp, a shoulder and
two ribs broken, left arm seriously
injured and both hands out of com-
mission from severe outs, William
Boyer, chief of the Orient water ser-
vice, is in a room at the Elite, un-
der the care of surgeons.
Mr. Boyer was assisting in the lo
cation of a new water station at the
north end of the Washita bridge. A
IN THE FIELD OF FRIENDSHIP.
The field of friendship is a wide
one and all our neighbors, both near
and far, should be candidates for ad-
mission there. The appearance of
cold esteem, the passive salutation,
empty of everything save chill for-
mality, have larger possibilities be-
hind them than we are wont to imag-
ine. At any rate, to believe so, hon-
estly and conscientiously, is an Indi-
cation of an active faith, and is far
wiholesomer than the suspicions that
do their utmost to master us. It is
only through this belief that we shall
bring ourselves in contact with some
of the finest issues of life and come
GARRISON STARTS TO
QUELL BOOTLEGGERS.
Oklahoma City, Ok., Dec. 3.—Boot-
leggers of Oklahoma City have got
to quit business, according to Sheriff
Garrison, who has started a series or
raids on the various Joints which
infest the principal thoroughfares.
The sheriff says he proposes to clean
up the town, and his officers hav**
already done considerable work in
that direction. The recent decision
of the supreme court sustaining the
constitutionality of the Billups law
is responsible for the activity of the
sheriff's office.
Nevertheless,
mind the im-
switch engine was standing on the fbe unUleg and har.
bridge, and In getting around it Mr. I Qf
Boyer caught hold of a shovel hook. R ^ ^ (q ^ iQ
which coming loose in his hand, | ( ^ ^^ ^ ^ on]y
threw him off his balance and fifteen
feet down to the jagged granite
which forms the breakwater.
MAN ACCIDENTALLY KILLED.
McAleuter, Ok., Dec. 3.—While Jake
Byas and Wm. Murphy were scuffling
over a revolver in the store of th«
latter this afternoon in a good-na-
tured way the weapon was dis-
charged, the bullet entering Byas'
neck, killing him instantly. The jus-
tice holding the inquest found it was
an accident.
PROPER APPRECIATION
and the proper handling of the business entrusted to our care
are among some of the things that have gone far in building
up this successful bank.
YOUR BUSINESS WILL RECEIVE OUR CAREFUL CON-
SIDERATION.
BANK OF COMMERCE
SHAWNEE
PLANING MILL
High Grade Lumber and Inter
ior Finish, Bank and Store
Fixtures, Shelving, Window
Glass, Plate Glass, Windows
Doors and Mill Work.
A HOME INDUSTRY
HELPING TO BUILD SHAWNEE
Meets all Competition
Asks For Your Business
J Corner 9th and Market Street.
Telephone 127
j To-day
THE NATURAL GAS PIPE
LINE Gang is Now Work-
ing Between Rose Street
and Drummond, on
Kickapoo.
Take the Broadway car
line, get off at Rose
Street—walk west five
blocks and see the WORK.
All who cannot go, have
but to watch this bulletin
daily to know how the
work is progressing.
The line will be complet-
ed, when laid, to 611 N.
Kickapoo, or within one
block of the Catholic
Church.
See our AD. on page 6,
this paper.
SHAWNEE GAS f
ELECTRIC CO.
130 N. Broadway
Phone 146
HER CATCH.
He told her about the fish he caught
On his vacation trip,
And how he used with rod and line
The mountain streams to whip;
And how ihe stalked from pool to
pool
An old and wary trout.
And where all other anglers failed,
Had pulled the rascal out,
But while he angled for the fish
Was clinging to his arm,
Enhanced her modest charm.
She did not boast about her catoh,
Tis not a woman's plan,
But while he angled for the fish
She hooked the fisherman.
STORAGE COAL.
STORE YOUR COAL BEFORE
PRICES ADVANCE. 8ANTA FE
COAL CO. PHONE 369.
H. Q. LAR8H, MGR.
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| friend and neighbor. Neither pstience
nor investigation is necessary to the
discovery that all things about us
are capable of inviting neighborll-
ness and dispensing it to those who
are wise enough to take advantage
of the hospitality that is constantly
proffered. The towering trees
—though they do not seem to tower
as high as bhey did when we were
younger,—the humble creeping vines,
the delicate flowers that spring up
in a night, casual and vanishing,
the whole movement and rush of na-
, ture in her vigorous insistent moods,
belong to nelghborllness in the most
I significant and satisfactory sense. It
I is something of a relief to discover
I that we need not depend entirely on
man for companionship—though be-
yond all doubt the best of his kind
are to be treasured in whatever re-
lation or condition they are found.—
The late Joel Chandler Harris.
MAY HAVE DROWNED IN FLOOD.
Guthrie, Ok., Dec. 3.—A hat, identi-
fied as belonging to A. J. Whitney,
secretary and treasurer of the far-
mers' cotton oil mill, was found in
a drift pile near the mill, leading a
further belief that he lost his life in
attempting to reach the shore during
the Cottonwood river flood Sunday
night. There is no trace of the body.
Mr. Whitney, after going to the mill
to assist in saving the property, was
surrounded by water and tied bar-
rels together for a raft to reach
the shore.
Other deaths reported during this
visitation of high water are Miss
Nora Coleman, aged 14, drowned in
Mustang creek, twelve miles from
Vinita, and John Sullivan, aged 60,
Santa Fe section foreman, drowned
In Bear creek, near Perry.
DR. G. H. TAYMAN
...DENTIST...
Office over Shawnee National Bank
PHONE 92
G. W. Jacobs, formerly car fore-
man of the Rock Island here and
now a general car inspector, was a
visitor Ihere yesterday.
HOT SODA ON TAP.
Hot Coffee with Whipped
Cream, 5c.
Try our Combination Noon day
Special Lunches,
16c *nd 20c.
€T/>e Shawnee Drug Co.
Main and Broadway
WE REQUEST THAT YOU EXAMINE THE FINANCIAL STATE-
MENT OF THIS BANK AS SHOWN BELOW.
If you are a patron of this bank and havo thus contributed to
our business success, we assure you of our appreciation.
If you do not transact your business with this bank, let this be
an invitation to become one of our satisfied customers.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts.$306,288.28
Overdrafts 4,833.98
Real estate, furniture
and fixtures 23,281.00
Bonds and warrants. 19,456.46
U. S. bonds and pre-
miums 100,120.00
6 per cent, redemp-
tion fund 2,500.00
Cash and Sight Ex-
change 203,602.18
Total $660,081.90
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock $ 50,000.00
Surplus and profits.. 30,262.85
Rediscounts 17,833.00
Circulation 50,000.00
Deposits. . . 511,986.90
Total $660,081.90
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