The Texmo Times. (Texmo, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, August 13, 1909 Page: 4 of 10
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The Texmo Times
TEXMO
OKLAHOMA
NEW 8TATE NOTES
The historic old county court house
at Cordell was totally destroyed by
fire last week
NEWS NOTES
Epitome of the Important Hap-
penings at Home and Abroad
Sulphur makes an Ideal summe re
sort The breezes blow direct off the
Arbuckle mountains
The Women’s Christian Temperance
Union will hold Its annual convention
at Stillwater September 28 29 and
30
That the Frisco obeyed the corpora-
' tion commission and builded a tepot
at Clayton '‘Nj to close it up as soon
as finlsheois the complaint of citi-
zens of that place
Assistant Attorney General Reeves
has sent papers to Pottawatomie
county to file in a suit against the
city officials of Shawnee seeking to
have pure water served the people at
that point
Platt National- park at Sulphur
contains 800 acres The streams were
recently stocked with bass and trout
Three foresters are kept at work in
the park the year around
With the last man enrolled at the
state penitentiary last week the num-
ber boarding with the state without
consent of the boarders reached
1001
Chas Simpson who was ‘ three
months ago released from the state
penitentiary after serving three years
for manslaughter is lodged in ' the
county jail at Lawton charged with
counterfeiting
Ardmore is rejoicing that it was
given the state Confederate home
The site for the buildings is beautiful
and the old soldiers will be given
every convenience?
Washington
The tariff has been revised The
Payne-Aldrich bilL which has been
pending in congress since last March
was passed by the senate Thursday
afternoon and shortly after 5 o'clock
President Taft attached his signature
to the measure
President Taft declares that while
the bill is not perfect by any means
nor a "complete compliance with
promises made strictly interpreted" it
is nevertheless a sincere effort on the
part of the party to make a downward
revision and to comply with the prom-
ises of the platform
President Taft has sent to the sen-
ate the nomination of A Platt An-
drews professor of economics at Har-
vard to be director of the government
mint He is nominated to succeed
Frank A Leach resigned
Senator Aldrich estimates that the
new tariff law will increase the reve-
nues by $15000000 the first year
Allhougn urgent invitations have
been extended to President Taft to
visit Oklahoma while In the west and
southwest this fall ft has been defi-
nitely announced from the White
House that the chief executive had de-
cided to proceed eastward from Texas
The tariff situation was the subject
of a conference Monday at the White
House between the president and Sen-
ators Aldrich and Crane
Boys who play marbles "for keeps”
are gamblers and are liable to punish-
ment for violation of the law accord-
ing to the dictum hande out by Judge
Kimball in one of the -most unusual
cases ever brought before the polico
court in Washington
Apprehension of serious trouble be-
tween Turkey and Greece is conveyed
in telegrams received ny the state de-
partment from Athens
Judge Ralph E Campbell of the
United States circuit court has sus-
tained the demurrers of dsfendant
In 30000 Indian land alienation suits
brought by the government
A committee representing the board
of oontrol board of affairs state au-
dits and attorney general considered
about $90000 in claims against the
penitentiary construction fund and
agreed that the maintenance of the
institution should be charged with
about $11000
Judge J B A Robertson of Tecum-
eeh sentenced Ben Bond convicted
boodler to five years in the state
prison Bond's attorneys were denied
a new trial
W D Bynum ex-member of con-
gress from Indiana but at preesnt
living in Muskogee Okla is in Wash-
ington where it is said he Is puslv
lng his claims to be made a rnembe
of the newly created customs court
The interior department has granted
two months’ extension of time to the
Whaley Lumber company and the Pin
Creek Lumber company to removo
their saw mills from unallotted lands
in the Choctaw nation '
Another test suit wag filed against
the state auditor Tuesday for failure
to issue warrants for the live stock de-
partment of the state board of agricul-
ture which have not been approved by
the state board of affairs
Transfers aggregating 400 acres of
land near Tanah were filed for reoord
in Creek county by Frank D Fuller of
Birmingham Ala land and irrigation
agent for the Frisco system The value
Is given as $12000 but is believed to
be nearer $100000
It has been learned that a compro-
mise will probably be effected in the
OKLAHOMA DIRECTORY
Ever Get Poor Coffee?
- If You Buy
NEW STATE
or
LOUIS BRANDS
You will get Good Coffee
Coffee that is fresh roasted daily in
the most modem coffee mill in the
U S New State and Louis Brands
COFFEE are Roasted in the Flame by
natural gas in an electric mill This
process retains all the aroma and
essential flavors so absent in other
coffee
NEW STATE COFFEE
in 1 and 2 lb cans is the finest
produced
' LOUIS BRAND COFFEE
in 1 lb bags is high grade at popular
prices
1 lb Red Package retails 25c
1 lb Green “ " 20c
1 lb Yellow “ “ 30c
1 lb Pink “ “ 35c
At All Leading Grocers in Okla
Roasted and Packed by
The Wllllamsou Haitell-Frasler Co 'a MUIa
Oklahoma City Okla
MALTH0I9
AX9
“C A fl"
ram®
BEST EVEt
land fraud cases brought by the gov-1 Curtis & Gartside Co Oklahoma City
Quite a party of Guthrie people have
been enjoying an outing at Sulphur
Springs Among the guests were
Governor and Mrs Haskell
Guthrie and Logan county citizens
are law-abiding no arrests have been
made In the county for violating the
fish and game law
An important reward for his twenty
years service as a -minister in Okla-
homa has been given the Rev Frank
Naylor of Minco who was recently
chosen by Warden Dick as chaplain
of the 'state penitentiary at McAles-ter
A roposltion made by the Western
Packing and Storage company to
build a $200000 plant at Clinton has
been accepted by the Chamber of
Commerce
Justice Bailey decided against' the
Law and Order league on the Sunday
baseball case and released the Mus-
kogee and Pittsburg teams under ar-
rest for playing on Sunday
The crop of oats in Alfalfa county
turned out to be a bigger surprise
than the wheat crop The fields of
oats were smaller owing to the fact
that all -inerest was centered- In the
other crop
A million dollar interurban railway
company which will begin actual
construction out of Enid by Septem-
ber 1st according to M F McMahon
of Toledo Ohio one of the chief pro-
moters was granted a charter last
week by the secretary of state The
corporation paid a charter fee of $1-
DOMESTIC
Leo Meyer assistant secretary or
state has compiled a very complete
Oklahoma State Manual giving a Hat
of all state officers and boards coie-
ty officers oT the various countier
county election boards faculties and
employes of the various state Inst:
tions election figures by counties for
1907 and 1908 and statistics oil the
taxable values of the various classes
of property for 1908
Lieutenant Governor Bellamy re-
ceived a formal demand by letter Fri
day from Charles West the state at-
torney general directing Bellamy to
return the 'sum of $193750 to the
treasury of the state bank board im-
mediately The Americanization of Manila has
resulted in radical changes in the
everyday life of the people of the
Philippine -metropolis yet the Ameri-
cans who live there have in turn yield-
ed much to the Spanish and Filipino
customs
Oklahoma City’s Board of Trade
will be in operation within ten days
according to the plans outlined at a
meeting of the recently organized ex-
change in the Chamber of Commerce
rooms Thursday-
Because of the part he played In
connection with the international ex-
position held in Bordeaux France in
1907 Dr Harvey Wiley chief of the
bureau of chemistry department of
agriculture has 'had conferred upon
him by the president of France the
Cross of Knights of the Legion of
Honor
The effect of the latest spell of hot
weather in Chicago was seen in the
official death record of Thursday the
report containing the names of 26 in-
fants one year of age and under '
ernment against Carrol W Gates a
millionaire land owner of Los Angeles
Cal involving the possession of thir-
teen sections of land in Woodward
and Harper counties
Articles of Incorporation for a new
$l!0000 ice and cold storage company
at Chlckasha have been drawn C
Sullivan & Son are the promoters A
charter will be secured and " work
started on the plant so that It will
be in operation by next season
ReY Thomas F Marshall pastor of
the Trinity Presbyterian church in
Cincinnati has accepted the offer of
the presidency of Oswego college for
young ladies at Oswego Kan and will
leave at once
Because of the location of a million
dollar steel mill at one side of tha
city and a half million dollar packing
plant at the other ' the Sapulpa in-
lerurban road has begun the exten-
sion of its line of roads Jn both direc-
tions Attorney General West has papers
prepared for a suit against the mayor
and city council at Shawnee charging
them with maintaining a nuisance in
that the city water supply is contami-
nated by the sewers
The six hundred and forty-first state
bank took out a permit to do business
and a charter Monday' - - -
Northwest Oklahoma is awaiting
breathlessly the opening of -the sale
of school land
As soon as the valuations of the
school districts can be received -from
tbe-county clerk work will commence
on fifteen more school buildings In the
rural districts in Grady county
News has been received in a semi-
official way that bids for the East
Central state normal school buildings
will be opened in Guthrie some time
about September 1 '
The state board of agriculture Is in
receipt of so manyinquiries in rela-
tion to hardy Bermuda grass and other
grasse sthat are being successfully
grown in Oklahoma that the experi-
ment station at Stillwater haa prepared
a new outline on Bermuda grass which
will be furnished on application to the
director of the station at Stillwater
Wholesale Manufacturers of Sash ana
Doors Hardwood Finish Office and Bank
Fixtures Ask your Lumber Dealer
CHOCTAW FLOUR
A GOOD HOME PRODUCT
FOR GOOD HOME PEOPLE
ALL G009 GROCERS SELL IT
£end (or Sample
Lone Life
ROOFING
And fro wuTMlr
OJto no Mm of
yourbdw A lumber
FRCC deal or Beat pre-
r pared rooflui mad
THE OKLAHOMA SASH DOOR COMPANY
N S DrW frwti-t Okiahema CJdy UJA
Olvea beat
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WESTERN NATIONAL
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Fire Lightning and Tornado Your buaineae solicited If
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plication Agents wanted where not represented
PRACTICAL and
THOROUGH TRAINING
In Modern Methods un-
der the direction of ait
expert accountaut Catalogue Free
BRAINARDS BOOKKEEPING TRAINING SCHOOL
804 West Main Street Oklahoma City
and LADIES’ TAILOR-
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40 to SO days Stud
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West Main Street Oklahoma City
Braudh of St Louie Keister School
ELECTRIC SIGHS
ELECTRIC SUPPLIES S”
S W ELECTRIC CO ‘“"-saSaK1--
SHERMAN MACHINE & IRON
WORKS Rogers Cotton Cleaners and Ginning Machinery
Engines aud Boilers Repair Work a Specialty Machinery
Supplies etc OKLAHOMA CATT
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Bradshaw, A. C. The Texmo Times. (Texmo, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, August 13, 1909, newspaper, August 13, 1909; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1817666/m1/4/: accessed July 2, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.