The Davis News (Davis, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 1910 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME XVI--NUMBER 29
DAVIS OKLAHOMA THURSDAY APRIL 21 1910
$100 A YEAR
‘ AT E L PEGS'S I
ATHRBAY
We will offer our customers a Big
P Discount on Merchandise in some depart- j
ment of our store every fokla Historical Socie Jhe i
Hj discount will be on Shoes one Saturday
on Men’s Shirts the next on Men’s and
Boys’ Clothing the next Ladies’ Ready-to-
Wear and Dress Goods the next etc etc j
REMEMBER IT IS EVERY SATURDAY IN 1
SDME DEPARTMENT NOT ONE
SATURDAY OUT WILL CON-
TINUE FOR SOME TIME i
E L PEGG Davis Okla
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EVERYTHING IN DRY GOODS
ROWNSEl5MSHOE&
DAVIS
Eugene Ray’s Impressions of
Davis and Murray
County
The following article regarding
Davis and its surrounding coun-
try was published in last Sun-
day’s Ardmoreite being the im-
pressions of Mr £ugeue Ray a
writer of ability and note now
employed on the Ardmoreite :
“Things must come my way”
says the town Davis up pn the
Santa Fe thirty miles from Ard-
more north and seventy from
the Btate metropolis south
That’s Murray county over
there and Davis is the metropo-
lis of the county and that’s good
enough Oklahoma City is
greater as the metropolis than
many other cities are as capitals
I had been to Davis often be-
fore but failed to rnnke the ac-
quaiutance of its people until I
went there last Monday for the
Ardmoreite That Davis popu-
lation is of a democratic turn of
mind chiefly but not wholly so
for there are some citizens there
of a republican bent — not so
mauy but what there are of that
class are mighty good folks and
just an ordinary mortal like
this rambler can not tell one
1
class from ’tother To him they
all look alike
way
knows
that politics do not bring things
Da vis knows that folks not
politicians build a town
jji Some one has said — and so
have I — that no other territory
of Oklahoma’s size — has as li tie
and in it hr Oklahoma lias
hundred md
Henry having been defeated for
school trustee by Secretary H S
Shackelford of the board George
liollow of the county election
board received from the attor-
ney general nn opinion stating
that women could vole at school
elections but may not hold office
“The only place in the state
where a women has been on the
school board” said H S Shack-
elford “was Liudsay where
Mrs Mike Conlin was secretary
The attorney general holds that
nearly all of Lindsay’s proceed-
ings have been illegal” — Wyn-
newood New Era
Phone 1
This one ad may win the premium the 1st of
July Cut them all out and bring them to my store
JULY 1ST 1910
i in
Grand Jury Report
(Left over from laBt week)
To the Honorable R McMillan
Presiding Judge
We the grand jury empelled
and sworn to investigate the
cotrfmission of all offenses com-
mitted or triable within Murray
County and to investigate such
other matters as would tend to
uplift and benefit the society of
Murray County in the way of the
expenditures of the public funds
would make this our final and
complete report of the work done
Lumber
Cement
Lime
Iron Roofing
Wire
Everything in
Building Material
YJAPLES-
PAINTER CO
and accomplished by our body
We have examined into 08
cases We have examined 142
witnesses we have returned 9
indictments for felonies and 48
indictments for misdemeanors
we haye visited tho jail aDd find
that the same has been kept with
reasonable care considering the
insufficiency of the same wc
find that the prisoners have bad
proper care but in this connec-
tion the grand jury recommends
that at the earliest time possi-
ble a new good and sufficient
jail be provided
We have had the Auditor be-
fore our body who is now ex-
amining and checking up the
Couuty offices He reports to us
and we fiud from his report that
the Couuty Judge’s office is in
excellent condition that the
District Clerk’s office is in ex-
cellent condition We find that
the Register of Deed’s office is in
good condition we find that the
Auditor has not yet completed
his report on the County Clerk’s
office but says from what be
sees at present that there is no
wrong committed in thut office
and that the County Clerk seems
to be very willing to assist him
in the auditing of his office and
to make any correction he sug-
gests We find that the Auditor
has not completed his report of
the Sheriff’s office but he tells
ub that everything indicates that
no monies have been misappro-
priated In this connection we
recommend that the Sheriff’s
office be furnished with a com-
plete sheriff’s ledger We have
not examined the Couuty Treas-
urer’s office We understand
that the State Examiner exam
ines the County Treasurer’s of-
fice every six months We be-
lieve that tho County Treasurer’s
office has been kept and is in
good shape The Auditor says that
I he has nothing to do with the
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JvJ I believe that nine
fcs ami ninety nine thousand nine
t3j hundred and ninety-nine acres
in every million acres of land in
A Oklahoma are rich in soil aud 1
believe that nowhere else in the
jfjj! state is there any richer land
than this iu Murray county sur-
rounding this town Davis 1
drove ten miles out to take
look at it and to a downcast-
euer this Davis-Murrajcounty
land is a marvel
Why sir I am told that one
man out there — one Mr Lon
Willis living two or three miles
out — “cleared” last year $1700
on rented land Mr Willis it is
said used only one plow but
had some day bauds as he needed
them And now mind you Mr
Willis is no longer a renter he
has hia own plantation now his
own home May the good Lord
contiuue to be with his sort
There are a few’ thousand acres
Of such land in this section of
Murray county
That is where Davis is But
there’s more There is a mineral
business less than ten miles out
to the west in the Arbuckle
mountains Davis is the supply
and it is waiting for a railroad
from here to the mines where
there will be a smelter copper
zinc and they say gold have
been discovered Judge Rob-
nett of Ardmore Mr C L Mc-
Decision of Judge McMillan
on Road Law
One of the most important
questions before Judge McMillan
during the recent session of Dis-
trict conrt at Sulphur was the
case of Dr T P Howell vs King
Crippen et al This was a case
to test the anthority of township
boards to open pnblic highways
on section lines without first pay-
ing for the right-of-way
Our readers will remember
that the Act of Congress approv-
ed April 26th 1906 provided
among other things that section
lines should be public highways
but no mention was made as to
compensation to the allottee for
the land so taken '
The Legislature in 1909 passed
a similar law Government
officials opened a number of pub
lie highways on sections prior to
statehood under the Act of
April 26th 1906 and many
county officials have been pro-
ceeding nnder that Act and the
Act of the Legislature above re-
ferred to and many public roads
have been opened without com
peiiRation to allottees
The authority to open section
lines as highways over lands al-
lotted prior to April 26th 1906
without compensating the allot
tees has always been questioned
by many lawyers and Judge Mc-
Millan ruled squarely in favor of
Dr Howell decidiug that do
official township board or county
official could open public roads
on section lines until the right of
way for such highway had been
obtained in some legal manner
Regarding Platt Park
A Washington item in the
Daily Oklahoman a few days ago
contained the following bit of
interesting Dews:
If surface indications are any
criterion Platt Natioual park
near Sulphur will not be aban-
doned by the government and
turned over to the state as was
at first expected Pressure
brought to bear upon the house
commmittee on appropriations
by Representatives Carter Fer
ris and Morgan has opened the
way for an appropriation cover-
ing maintenance charges for an-
other year at least It is esti-
mated that $15000 will be nec-
essary for this purpose G 0
Boland and T J Hartman both
of Sulphur appeared before the
committee today in the interest
of the project and were subject-
ed to a severe grilling by mem-
bers of the committee Daring
the hearing Walter I Smith of
Iowa one of the ranking mem
bars of the committee declared
the administration of Platt Na-
tional park represented a gross
abuse of economy Its cost he
said exceeded the combined
costs of Yellowstone and Yose-
mite parks A sewer system is
one of the greatest needs of the
park and the city and unless
Sulphur shows the proper spirit
in defraying its share of the
cost the park in the near future
doubtless will either be aban-
doned or turned over to the
state
Senator Gore’ Platform
Senator Core’s speech and plat-
form made a decided hit at the
Jefferson Day banquet held at
Washington on April 18th He
said : “If I had the power (as I
ought to have?) of drafting the
congressional platform this year
and of drafting the national
platform two years hence 1
would condense and compress
them all into a dozen words
Those words should be these:
‘Less tariff more trade free
ships no trusts no graft no
Taft’ ‘In that sign we conquer’
Get a 50-cent box of Mi-o-na
Stomach Tablets at City Drug
Store and stop all distress Cure
indigestion or money back
auditing of the County Attor-
ney’s office from the fact that
there is not funds that passes
through his hands in the way of
fees and costs but we have had
the County Attorney with us in
our deliberations at all times
necessary and we believe he has
done his duty fairly and impar-
tially ably aDd faithfully 1
The Auditor tells us that he
has examined the School Dis-
trict reports of No 1 and finds
them in excellent shape We
have examined all matters that
were brought before us careful-
ly and we find that there are a
great mauy rumors in the pub-
lic’s ear that there is nothing to
and nothing in
We have watched the proco-)u‘re ani ot'ers are in on the
dure of the District Court at this
term and we believe that our
courts in Murray County both
County and District have des-
patched their business with
great credit to the County the
District Court having disposed
of almost all the docket at this
term
We having completed our re-
port wish at this time to thank
this Court for his courtesies and
for the kindness shown this
grand jury We wish to thank
the Sheriff’s department for
their efficient service to this
grand jury and ask the Court
that we be discharged
J O Abney Foreman
B F Long Clerk
Long Time Loans
Made on Improved Farms
Money ready when title is
perfected No waiting Ap-
ply to me in person
at First National
Davis
E B TURNER
A Hardwood Fioor of any Color
You may Choose for $250
development of these mines
Now about three or four miles
south of Davis they are actually
putting in a hundred thousand
dollar crusher I say “They”
because 1 did not go down there
and get all the details but in
passing on the train I saw the
crowd at work and it looks like a
hundred thousand dollar enter-
prise and more besides
The foregoing embrace Davis’
chief advantages— farming on as
good land as there is in the
United States stock and cattle
raising the mineral ore supply
and the rock crushing business
The town has its electric light
plant waterworks system etc
Out west for ten miles is a
country neighborhood of greater
resources and greater wealth
thau any other I have visited
Davis has three banks and fif-
teen hundred or two thousand
population and will have more
next week and very many more
next year
Women Can’t Hold Office
After the city eleotion was
over and it was too late to
make any difference Mrs Ohas
Floors which are in too
poor condition to he im-
proved with vamisli alone
can be made to imitate a
genuine hardwood floor
with tliis new patented
Graining System
This process does not
require the services of a
professional wood fin-
isher The Graining Tool
takes the place of skill
and can be successfully
used by the inexperi-
enced man or woman
thus making it possible
for any one at a very
slight expense to enjoy
the luxury of a new hard-
wood floor
This Graining Com-
pound when protected
by one or two coats of
Chi-Namel produces a
surface that will out-wear
any ordinary varnished
floor many times over
TAiKlI
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