Cherokee Weekly Messenger. (Cherokee, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 6, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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C L WILSON Editor
Cherokee Alfalfa County Thursday June li 1912
Volume 14 No 47
Who's Boosting You?
A fellow once said: “Please don’t
recognize me I’m afraid people lll
think I know you” It la recorded
that Woodrow Wilson told Col Har
vey of Harpera Weekly "It la an in-
jury to me to have you carrying my
aame at your masthead as choice for
president” Col Watteraon peeved
when Wilson told him: "I cannot use
Ryan’s Money”
It now looks like Wilson would be
the nominee His chief opponent has
had the support of the owner of yellow
Journals and some interests whose
business are questionable Anyway
Governor Wilson' did not mske himself
unpopular with the better class when
he was frank enough to tell those who
wanted to do his boosting that their
friendship was damaging and would
meet with public disapproval and has
caused him to be a candidate in every
: state
This rule applied locally might be
interpreted the same by some people
who are getting some “hot air” from
- a questionable source The class of
friends a man has indicates his real
' -character It is often a man’s “Fool
Friends” who do him the greatest In-
jury In fact it is not infrequent that
fellows whose transactions and honor
are questionable make a strong effort
to become popular by trying to “get
in” good with popular candidates for
office and thereby become a load which
the candidate cannot carry and reach
'the goal
Now the Messenger expects to use
'its personal privilege of being just a
little cautious of getting “too strong”
for candidates who are so loudly tooted
by those whom we know and have the
-evidence to prove they are political
thieves ' If that bunch of grafters
think they are fooling os for a minute
they had just as well shake themeelves
loose from that idea We know when
-a bunch of thieves have conspired to do
ws material injury and especially so
when the chief perpetrator voluntarily
acknowledges it to us and desires t!
have our political friendship ' When a
- man tells us that he did a thing for the
specific purpose of injuring ua and usee
the influence of a position which we
were instrumental in his holding td do
' it we have either to take the fellow
tube a liar or form the opinion we are
-entitled to When thechivf perpetrat-
or states that “you put up a fight we
-didn’t thing you could and I want
to be your friend and have you for my
friend” we are prone to wonder what
he would have done had be succeeded
-as declared he would “put ua out of
business” and we had been compelled
to bow the knee I distinctly want it
understood that I don’t want that kind
of friendship We havn’t any confi
-dence in a man that will resort to some
things that we have observed and ex
jperienced We wouldn’t trust him in
an empty cellar We- don’t owe that
class of cattle anything and therefore
have nothing to pay
There is going to be a housecleaning
-and if we are a part of the rubbish
that must be swept out we’ll take our
medicine and never whimper Some of
you felloes may get the whole gist of
thiB article when we say: You lied to
ms like a hound and we have no confi-
dence in you and your statements
' will have to have greater support thsn
'mere assertion - ' '-
l
Strongly Impressed Us
A few days ago a' fellow who bad
apparently imbibed a superfluous
amount of Bootleg or Bitters tried to
ampaign us in the interests of a cer
tain candidate for the nomination for
Sheriff (and it wasn’t Charley Morgan
either) with the apparent idea that
we didn’t know enough to support the
proper person -
' That part of the incident was incon-
sequential but the idea of a slobbery
drunk suggesting to us who should be
sheriff was only surpassed in amuse-
ment by disgust Now a fellow that
is drunk and telling ' someone who
ought to be elected sheriff reminds us
of the fellow who when told: “Say
Jim I saw you going home drunk the
either night” replied: “Well a fellow
is liable to go most anywhere when he
is drunk”
County Court
June 4 1912
ESTATES
Annie Anderley ' Order hearing peti-
tion to sell real estate
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Bessiel R Cambill of Carmen and
Olive M Parsons of Augusta
Devin has a big stock of
machinery and binder twine
Deering
2t
$300000 For Schools
Senator Gore on Wednesday last
secured a favorable report from the
committee on Indian affairs on his
proposed amendment to the Indian ap-
propriation bill to appropriate three
hundred thousand dollars for the bene-
fit of the common schools In the east-
ern half of ths state This amend
ment waa offered in consequence of
the recent decision of the supreme
court of the United Stiles in which
it was decided that the act of con-
gress undertaking to subject certain
unrestricted Indian allotments to tax-
ation waa unconstitutional and void
The act of congress just mentioned
undertook to subject to taxation 'eight
million seres of lands in the old Indian
Territory portion of the state By the
recent decision a major portion of ths
land is now withdrawn from taxation
which occasions a great burden not
only on the state government but on
the county and township governments
and the local school districts In a
number of counties 70 and 80 per cent
of the land ia exempt from taxation
To meet this situation and to relieve
the burdena of the people Senator
Gore immediately after the decision
of the supreme court introduced an
amendment to the Indian appropria-
tion bill granting three hundred thous-
and dollars to that portion of the atate
affected by the deciaion The Indian
committee at ap extra' eession held for
the consideration of this amendment
consented to a favorable report The
contest will now be made on the
floor of the senate and every effort
will be made to secure the retention
of this amendment in the senate
It ia also the purpose of Senator
Gore and other members of the Okla-
homa delegation to follow this effort
to secure relief by an effort to secure
a further removal of restrictions The
bill and amendment which will be
offered for this purpose will authorize
and direct the Secretary of the inter
ir with the consent of the allottee
to sell the surplus allotments of the
Chickasaw and Choctaw Indiana of
three-quarter blood or more This
will soon ' subject' a large portion of
land'to taxation' J Jk
Christian Church Notes :
We were greeted by good audiences
at both services last Lord’s day Mabel
Duncan sang an appropriate song at
the evening service “Just As The
Ship Went Down” which was enjoyed
by all
Childrens Day program will be given
Sunday evening You cannot afford to
miss the childrens service
The officers of the church are re-
quested and urged to meet Wednesday
evening after prayer service to decide
on the Evangelists who will hold our
meeting in November To get a good
company we must decide now
Sunday services:
- 10:00 a m Bible school
11:00 a m communion and sermon
3:00 p m Junior Endeavor
7:00 pm Y P S C E
8:00 p m evening worship and ser-
mon 8:00 p m Wednesday Prayer meeting
and Training Class
2:30 p m Thursday Christian Work-
ers The Endeavorers started in two com-
panies to Palestine last Sunday One
company went as far as Kansas City
the other reaching St Louis This will
be an interesting trip for the Endeav-
orers You should join them before
reaching the coast '
You are invited to all services
L L Roberts Pastor
Doesn’t Pay To Advertise?
A merchant of this town told us this
week he had quit advertising that it
was useless Guess that is right
But we remember a time when this
same merchant when given a shot by
a Bheet in a neighboring town Baid
“I never wanted to cuss bo bad in my
life” and we would hate to bet he
didn’t if the truth were known and
when the editor of this paper took that
galoot to a good cleaning with nearly
a two colum article thia same mer-
chant thought it was a great act and
even had the nerve to offer to give us
$2— tfilnk of it— two measlevs— for an
article that a person properly ' appreci-
ating same would have never thought
of receiving it for less than twenty
five
It’s a long lane that has no turn old
top and you’ll be blamed glad to buy
Borne space in this sheet some time
Mrs Leonard Halstead of Cherokee
came down Sunday to visit her sister
drs Ayers -Carmen Headlight
Buzzards On Hand
A glance around you will develop to
your vision the perched buzzards who
have begun to roost on the fence
waiting the marketing of the excel
ent crop of which we now have the
finest prospect
No community on the face of the
globe haa been better picking for the
professional snd amateur grafter than
haa our country Many of you who
read this will call to your min
instance wherein you have been in
duced t obligati yourself for some'
thing which you have found out since!
was not only uselesa to you but
detriment You have been compellec
facrifice in order to meet these obliga-
tions and have deprived yourself oi'
comfortB and even necessities in or-
der to meet these g r s f
obligations while you can
in your imagination aee the buzzari
who benefitted by your hard iabpr
basking in luxury and ease or maybe
indulging in licentiousness
Now the same class of buzzards are
perched on the limbs of the trees W
have observed them already We
have heard their oily language diS'
penaed in order to inform the poor
downtrodden laborer how he ahoulc
“lay up something for a rainy day
Just thia morning we overheard lop-
eared shark telling s prospective vio-
tim how' “I have taken this and I have
taken that’’ etc etc and if our
judgment is not wrong and guessing
from the looks of his mug all symptoms
fail or he has put jn s large proportion
of his time “taking” s lot of atuf'
that was of no benefit to him and yet
he was trying to tell this innocent
what a grand mistake he was making
if he did not take his sdvee Oar
gness is that that old cuss didn’t j care
whoop whether that young man ever
made a single payment on a life insur-
ance policy and all that he was inter-
ested in was in fleecing him of the
first policy fee and if the fellow wook
take out the policy1 that old duffer
would be the last fellow on earth to
help him keep op the payments in
caae of misfortone They mske us
tired— no they don’t we don’t let them
spread their Bachelor Scisnce on Mi
any more they did once -
It’s funny isn’t it hotf all of a
sudden these buzzards have discov-
ered what great opportunities arebe
ing passed by our citizens - just as the
wheat crop is being ready to harvest?
Did you see anything of them last fall
and winter when coal bills were due?
You may have heard from them
through their never-failing agent that
well-known gentleman Mr "Pleaae-re
mit-or-Suit-Will Be-Ins titutert’j
You don’t need to look for ’em you
can smell ’em if your head ia not
stopped up with cold (feet) '
Fat Calf Contest for Farm Boys
’ Any boy in this county who is not
more than 18 years old and has a beef
calf that will be a year old and not
more than 2 years old by next Septem-
ber may win some good prize money
and considerable glory this fall at the
Oklahoma state fair The calf may be
a grade crossbred or purebred steer
or a spraved or martin heifer The
only proviso is that the boy must feed
or fatten the calf himself for exhibition
at the big fair Oklahoma City Okla
September 24 to October 5 1912
This is a plan of Arthur Capper
publisher of the Oklahoma Farmer
Guthrie Oklahoma to get the farm
boys of Oklahoma interested in rais-
ing baby beef the most profitable beef
Behind it is the fact that something
must be done to bring the beef steer
business back to the cornbelt in time
to come in beef raising f
Each boy entering' a calf will became
a charter member of the first Capper
Boys’ Baby Beef Club with head-
quarters at Guthrie but he must make
his entry immediately by writing to I
S Mahan Secretary of the Oklahoma
State Fair Oklahoma City for entry
blanks which he will furnish free The
class will be known as the Capper
Boys Baby Beef Special
In addition to the regular prizes
offered by the fair association Mr
Capper will offer cash prizes of $15
$10 and $5 respectively for the three
best fat beef calves exhibited by
Oklahoma boys After the show the
boys may sell their baby beeves at
auction Mr Capper would like to
have every boy who enters a calf or
who intends to do so notify him of
the fact on a postal card addressed to
him at Guthrie Oklahoma
Mrs Mary E Hebei and children de-
parted Wednesday for Pana Ills
where they will spend the Bummer
with friends and relatives
Curtis Enjoins City
A petition was filed in the District
Court Tuesday of this weak and with
It an order from the court granting
temporary junction against the City by
F D Curtis from interfering with ths
conduct of the pool hall which is at
present running contrary to an ordin-
ance prohibiting same which was passed
by the city council a few weeks ago
It will be remembered that last
summer a petition was piesented to
the council requesting an ordinance to
be passed prohibiting the pool halls
Later a petition was presented re-
questing the matter to be submitted to
the voters for their approval or rejec-
tion of the proposition At that time
there wm piesented the argument that
those opposed to the pool hall were
about to cause the creation of a large
useless expense to the city for holding
the election Had that election been
held the pool hall would have been de-
clared an outlaw by at least two to one
The council simply passed the matter
up and the matter should have been
voted on at the regular spring election
but there waa no election for the rea-
son there were no candidates filed and
the County Election Board had no ret'
son for calling an election and there-
fore aa provided by law the incumbents
holdover' The time of the license of
the pool hall having run the ordinance
was passed This ordinance did not
carry the emergency clause and could
have been referred to the voters had
the plaintiff in this injunction petition
so chosen' But ft is s difference whose
hog is eating the corn snd no effort
has been mode to refer the matter to
ascertain whether the pool hall ia
wanted by the majority of the people
It appears that the pool hall people
are not content to leave the matter up
to the verdict of the people end are
trying to take advantage of a little
smootbe litigation to prolong their out-
lawry They know full well that should
the matter be left to the people it
would have been ousted by practically
a unanimous vote The court might do
well to seek verification of that -Ore
of the strong and first conten-
tions of the petitioner for being allowed
ta contitiue without being disturbed is
as follows: “That the plaintiff is the
owner of a large number of billiard and
pool tables now situated in the said
city and is engaged in the business
of operating a pool and billiard parlor
in the said city and derives his sole
livelihood and means of subsistence for
himself and his family from the con
duct of the said business and the pro-
fits therefrom”
Logical argument this: bow would
It sound to say: “I am the owner of a
large amount of burglar tools and ni-
troglycerine and blowing banks and
iold-ups is my business and the
way I have of making a living for my
family and while I know it ia against
law and decency yet it ia my choice of
avocation and to interfere with it
would be to disturb my ’personal’ priv
lege” There would be just as much
consistency in that kind of talk
Speaking for ourselves the man who
persists in shoving a questionable
business into the midBt of a community
appears to us to he in the class as de-
scribed by Roosevelt “undesirable
citizens" 1 Carried to its full limit
would be to claim the right to slam a
saloon into the middle of a community
just because a man has no greater de-
sire than to obtain money Whenever
the pool hall becomes a place where it
s respectable enough for the owner to
take his wife and daughters a resort
for young ladies to pass an evening
they will be defensible in the columns
of this paper If the proprietor will
bring his wife and have her make the
place a resting room have the son
ring his sweetheart to pass away the
evening and conduct it so that it is
unnecessary tj carry a sign “No Min-
ors Allowed” and a place to be habi-
tuated by little boys and girls he can
get the approbation of practically the
unanimous vote of the city to run
without license or without being dis-
turbed The inconsistency of the petition is
observed wherein they attack the le-
gal status f the city claiming it is
not legally incorporated and further
states: ' “That prior to the time that
said ordinance by its terms and by op-
eration of law became valid or effect-
ive the plaintiff tendered to the proper
officers of the said city the amount of
the fee or license tax required by the
then existing ordinance to authorize
and entitle this plaintiff to operate and
conduct the business in which he was
then engaged a3 hereinbefore set forth
for a period of one year from the 30th
day of April 3912”
If the plaintiff was so smart and
cnew that the city was not legally in
corporated why was he fool enough to
proffer to pay license to which the
city was not entitled snd could not
collect?
The world I full of people who
would like to be privileged to “do
things” according to their own notion
in a community regardless of ths rights
of others and sometimes the majority
of others
Memorial Services
Agreeably to the established custom
of ths Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows snd in conformity with the pro-
clamation of the Grand Master of the
Grand Jurisdiction of the state of Ok-
lahoma ths reguarly annual Memorial
services of Hebron Lodge No 219
I O O F wiil be held h the Christ-
ian church in the City of Cherokee
Okla on Sunday June 9th at 3:30
o’clock
Ths Rebekah Lodge of Cherokee
will be expected to attend in a body
and assist in this service
All Odd Fellows and Rebekahs in the
jurisdiction of this Lodge are cordially
invited to attend and especially the
members of the local Lodges
Everybody cordially invited to attend
this service and a very apecial invita-
tion is extended to the families of our
deceased Brothers and Sisters in whose
honor this service is to be held
All Odd Fellows and Rebekabs are
requested to meet at the Lodge ball at
1:00 o’c ock P M and go in a body to
the church
Fraternally
J W Rackley N G
Hebron Lodge No 219 1 O O F
Editing A Newspaper
Anybody so tradition runs esn bo an
editor In spite of the wall know fact
that where one newspaper has surviv-
ed ten or more have perished thous-
ands of men of all professions would
rejoice in an onportunity to take the
editors chair and demonstrate their
ability to improve the paper’s Interest
to the public These same men would
not expect or ask to enter any other
profession without long preparation
As e matter of fact the duties of a
responsible editor are more difficult to
muter then thou connected with any
other profession and none demands a
wider range of experience
The capacity to write alone does not
constitute an editor He must possess
a clear judgment of men and affairs
and the ability to render a decision on
ths inBtant He must not use bis
paper to exploit a fad' to grup a nom-
ination or help a speculation To the
man who is born to be ajournalist and
is fit for the business the success and
good name of his paper is higher than
all these things
What an editor of the flrBt class must
have is a sense of proportion in ftn ex-
tremly complicated business though
marked attitude is a good foundation
for it —Printer’s Album
A Birthday Surprise
A surprise party was given for Miss
Lela Dunning Thursday night at their
place north of town by her sister Marie
The guests assembled at the home
of Miss Clara Hunter in Cherokee and
from there went in a body to the Dun-
ning home A very delightful time
was spent in playing games after
which refreshments were served At
a late house after wishing Miss Dunn-
ing many happy birthdays the guests
wended their way to their respective
homes
Those present were: Edith Loomis
Lena Ficke- Maggie Peterson Grace
Sutton Atba Sutton Clara Hunter
Thearesa Weaver Ivan Ludwick Ralph
Smith Raim Weaver Mary Hunter
Anna Ficke Marie Dunning Ruth
Hebei Edith Burns Eddie Norris Jim
Mills Harry Maltby Lardon Lower
Echo Sparr Edith Duckworth Lela
Dunning Lloyd Forsha Ch arley Hunter
Harry Friend Claude Dixon and Ira
Me Connell
Back to Business
I desire to announce to my old friends
and customers that 1 am now back at
the old place of business in my office
over the Famous Clothing Store ready
to take care of your wants in the loan
and real estate business and other
deals I shall be glad to have all my
old friends call and also any new ac-
quaintances who will be treated with
the usual courtesy
If there is anything I can do for you
I am now better prepared than ever to
look after it Anyway call and let me
know what I can do for you
Very Respectfully
S b McFadden
What’s The Use to Kick?
As we are gettjng out a little special
In the Kicker’s edition this week we
stop long enough to ask the question:
"What’s The Use?”
We kick about politics we kick
about city affairs but what’s the use
We have been kicking to the City At-
torney and the City Marshall all spring
about allowing a breeding pen to ba
operated within 100 feet of our family
kitchen Our wife hss harangued at
us daily about it The nuisance ia
carried on contrary to and in violation
of law The profanity of the men the
squealing of the horses snd the per-
formance can be heard and seen by our
children and wife We have offered
time ana again to awear to com-
plaint if necessary to have this pre-
vented So fir the marshall and city
attorney have either gotten cold feet
or haven’t the nerve to do their (worn
duty They like to aee the Messenger
taking punches at the people though
so wsat’s the use?
We wish City Attorney A R Car-
penter and City Marshall A 6 Lot ton
each had just such a breeding pen
chucked under the nose of their homes
and then aefe whether they would get
as warm under the collar about it as
they will at us for putting this into
print Somehow we have just m
great respect for our family aa officers
have for theirs but we haven’t got
much respect for officers who will per-
sistently allow our family to be insult-
ed as much ia the case in this instance
I by refusing to do their sworn duty
We have told you fellows about this
time snd again and you know it If
you don’t intend to do your duty why
the thunder don’t you get off the dump
and give some fellow a chance tfiat
will?
Pampered Too Much
"You are always worrying” r
marked the baseball magnate
”1 have to be careful not to produce
anything too heavy” explained the
theatrical manager" Ton know I
have to cater to the tired bualneaa
”1 don’t let the tired bualneu mas
worry me He roots with the others
when he goto to the ball park”—
WMhiagton Herald
( Burned By Gas Stove
Last Sunday at the home of Commis-
sioner J C McWilliams occureda very
serious accident to their daughter '
Mias Mary The mother had generat-
ed the gaa stove and told her daughter
to turn it on Not fully understanding
her the daughter took the alcohol to
generate it again and when poured on-
to the burner a flash blaze caused her
to jump backward and probaly spill
some of the fluid on her clothing She
was dressed in light summer goods and
the cloth ignited and burned like tissue
paper Her Bcream brought assistance
and the presence of mind of the father
in attempting to strip her clothing from
her body and also to force her to the
ground having run out doors prevent-
ed the blaze from reaching her face
or hair' The blaze was eventually
smothered but not until after her
body was severly burned in places as
was sIbo her arms
The family was entertaining neigh-
bors and preparing together some
music for the children’s day exercises '
to be held by the Sabbath School of
which Miss McWilliams is a prominent
worker and choir leader Mrs E L
Murphy was one of those present and
heroically assisted in the rescue It is
reported that the young lady is not in
serious danger from the burns and
will suffer no Bevere scars
Study Club
Mrs L ft Smith was hostess to the
Priscilla Club on Friday afternoon
The house waa gaily decorated in old
glory’s colors red white and blue
There ia nothing so pretty or which
lends it’s charms so readily in decorat-
ing as the Ameiican Flag “Long
may it wave O’er the land of the free
and the home of the brave”
The ladies spent the time in makiag
flags Mrs Woodmansee receiving the
prize a box of chocolates and Mrs
Brandt honorable mention As the
ladies enjoyed a delicious t wo-course
luncheon each one related a story of
the Civil War Mrs Roth spoke of
her personal acquaintance with Mrs
Pickett widow of General Pickett
MrsAlbrightof the Bushwhacker days
in Missouri Mrs Hague in a very in-
teresting way told a story of Lincoln
which won the prize a book “The
Climax” Guests of the club were
Miss Leman Mrs Titus Mrs Owen
and Mrs Albright mother of Mrs
Smith
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