The Exponent. (Ralston, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 33, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 14, 1907 Page: 2 of 4
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ED T. KENNEDY,
J, M, MOODY,
Cashier.
K. A. BULLOCK,
Vice President.
President.
THE EXPONENT.
Publish ed^every Saturday
«. Sulth,
Irs. UuH Salt!,
Editor ud froprlitor:
Bmril lollcltflr
AdvertiHinir Katea.
Display advertisemeuts per inch ... £
Locals per line _
Subscription ti a year.
"Entered as second class mail matter
i L u ii at the postofflce at Ral-
stoo, OklatK«na, under act of congress
March 3. 1879.
Ask for "Frontier" coffee and get
thetst Sold by Finley_B°wlH only.
Corn and whelT^tld at Eber-
wein's elevator.
List your farms or town property
with H. E. Thompson.
Don't forgetTtcTTisitthe Comet for
Santa Claus toys, dolls and comb .
Santa, Santa, Fancjcom^ hinkM.
ful present. At the Comet.
Honest weight, and bast market
price our motto. ^ ^ ebeRWEIN
Carrie Nation~absolutely refuses to
kiss a man who uses ™bacco. Tb>s
should be encouraging news for the
growers of the weed.
There is no comparison whatever
between the length of the days and
that of the President's message.
just now times seem to be pretty
quiet in Ralston. But from what we
can learn other towns in Ok ahom
are down with the same complaint.
Mrs. M. A Dunnagan left the lat-
ter part of last week for Mound Val-
ley, Kansas, to visst far awhile with
relatives and friends.
A. W. Cole came up from Pawnee
Saturday and spent Sunday with his
"best" girl.
The nice~weather was brought to a
close Sunday night b, the disturbing
elements from the north. During the
night rain set In, followed by a co
wave from the Arctic reglon. and
the indications are now favorable fo
snow and continued bad^weather.
Editor cT^TuTe Free Press has
been appointed assistant enroUing
clerk of the lower house of the legis
lature. We might be holding the same
job If we haden't been sucking the
off teat. _____
The Arkansas Valley Gas comnany
brought in another good gas well Mon
day. Gas -as strnck at a depth of
1140 feet. This well Is located on the
Hunt farm, about 5 miles northwest
0f Arkansas City-Gate City Journal.
With a few~paitty"aoNa™ any man
may be able to buy a house for his
family and elegantly furn.sh the
same. Hut after doing all this he
may still be without a home, In the
true sense of the word. Home should
be a place where a man is always glad
to return and loth to leave. Where
the smile of contentment beams as
brightly in days of adversity as it
does in days of prosperity. Have you
got a home, or just a place where you
take your mealsf
How Diphtheria Contracted.
One often hears the expression,
••My child caught a severe cold which
developed into diphtheria." when the
truth was that the cold had simply
left the little one particularly suscep-
tible to the wandering diphtheria.
germ. When Chamberlain's Cough ,
Remedy is given it quickly cures the
cold and lessens the danger of diph-
theria Or any other germ disease be-
ing contracted. For sale by T. M.
Cannon.
No 0232.
ORGANIZED 1900.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
ralston, oklahoma.
r.gs ,
A BOY OR A GIRL p^N EARN
AS MUCH AS A MAN.
We want boys and girls whoearn money ^so-
licit subscriptions to tHe Kans > can Jo the work as
hesitate because you are )0 g, > ■ the same.
readily as older persons andwewillpyy j week,
The Kansas City Weekly Star isthe best ^
newspaper in the west and your ^spare t Qr oth.
?£S l^TutWal Vite to-day forterms and ful.
information.^At^dresSty ^ Ka|lsas city, Mo
OSAGE MEAT MARKET,
VCITHLY & WADDELOW, PROPRIETORS
Wholesale and retail dea'er in all kinds ofJresh
Ralston, Oklahoma.
T. J. HOSIER,
DRY GOODS and GROCERIES
See Him for Bargains.
Ralston- - * Oklahoma
When in Arkansas City put up at the
ST. CHARES,
MEALS 25 CENTS
5 HlNECKER'S, £
$ Dray and Transfer Line *
Subscribe for
THE EXPONENT.
one dollar a year.
removing bkstbictions.
Senator Curtis ha. experienced a i
change of heart. Since cm . hit. /
contact with Oklahoma cond tions he
I ha. concluded the Indian coliectirelj
'.till need, the protectant overset
of Uncie Sam, and he will oppose
removal of restrictions.
Here in Pawnee county we are not
specially interested in the condition,
discovered by Senators Curtis an
Teller among the Kickapoos, but we
are interested in getting rid of the
dead Indian allotments in this county
much more rapidly than present con-
I ditions permit. We do not wish to
rob the Indian who is here or in the
hereafter, nor to advocate anyth |
obnoxious to New York and Massa-
cnusetts Leather Stockings, but we
want about 500 dead Indian allotments
concerted into tax-paying homes of
white people. We would like to see
all these tracts of land put up at auc-
tion and sold for the highest dollar
under some such conditions as the fol-
^Ifomore than 160 acres to be sold to
any one bidder or family.
Successful bidders to be compelled
to t--Id at least a four-room house
and substantial out-buildings and
If^itle^not to pass until conditions
are complied with.
Money to be held or invested by the
government for the benefit of the sur-
viving heirs.
Purchaser not to be allowed to trans
| fer such property until after five
years from date of deed.
Conditions of payment to be equa-
ble and safeguarded by the govern-
"The raw land might not bring quite
as much under the above conditions
of sale, but Pawnee county would im-
mediately have several hundred thous
and dollars' worth of taxable Pr°Per"
ty she does not now possess, which
would make every man's burden
lighter and work no harm to the liv-
ing Indian. .
Dead Indian allotments are a dead
weight to Pawnee county.-Times-
Democrat.
A STATE HIGHWAY FRAUD.
There has been some agitation of
the question of building a public high-
way across the state. The idea is to
macadamize this road for the use of
vehicles. It is expected to build other
roads tributary to this in all parts of
the state. ,
In the days that preceded steam and
electric railways there was need of
such roads. Good roads are still need-
ed but a macadamized road starting
at the state line at a point of no great-
er importance than ten thousand oth-
er points and ending on the opposite
side of the state at an equally insig-
nificant point is not a good business
proposition. It is an extravagant use
of the public funds. It is not proba-
ble that seventy-five per cent of the
citizens of the state would ever have
any use of such a state road. Most of
them would never see the road unless
it might be from a railroad coach
when crossing it. It would be a lint
thine for automobilists from the out-
side of the state to ba able to strike
this splendid road at the state line
and be able to go whizzing across the
state at the rate of 40 miles an hour,
but to a man who has taxes to pay
and who has to have his farm produce
hauled to market over roads washed
into gullies and over bridges and cul-
1 verts never very safe, it looks as
though the money that would have to
be expended on a state road should
be used to make roads for the taxpay-
ers where they will get some direct
benefit from its use. Pawnee County
I Outlook.
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Smith, W. A. The Exponent. (Ralston, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 33, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 14, 1907, newspaper, December 14, 1907; Ralston, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc169215/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.