Talala Topic. (Talala, Indian Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, November 11, 1904 Page: 2 of 4
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(■la In la (Conic.
One DaJktf per Year ia Advance.
Published Every Friday at
Talala, Indian le rritory.
OLARENCE MHRPHY.
Publisher a r* d Proprietor.
Torre uffiue for Job work of al!
kinds.
Remurtbei Topic office is in
th« second story of the Farrar
Pendleton building, where we are
aJ ways pleased to welcome our
friends and all who favor our office
with a visit. Cooie up when in
tv wn and subscribe for your home
paper, the puioe, $1 .00 per yeai;
ctnis for six months >r 25 Gents for
ih-te months. We also do job
work.
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*o their places of business through
your town paper. You will be
re to be treated right when you
vis-it tlietu.
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for vhe paper will be discontinued
to you address unless otherwise ar-
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indicates your subscription has ex-
pired and a renewal is respectfully
solicited.
Come in and subscribe for Topic
for the ensuing y«ar for yourself,
if you are not already a subscriber,
and also one for a friend or rela
tive. You can t very well afford to
ignore youi home paper this yeir.
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an inch per mouth, payable at the
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Difficulties of cJourra 1 is 117
If a newspaper man desires
to know how generally his ef
fusions are read, let him print
something objectionable to
persons who never take his
paper or pay him a cent. He
will wonder how they knew
these things were in the paper,
but will wonder in vain. There
is evidently a vast: amount oi
sponging done. It might be
added that he may say nice
things about a man for ten
) ears without a word from him.
but make an uncomplimentary
notice of one of his wife's
aunt s second cousins and he
will come in with a club to
ii«'ive the slan ier corrected
While the Indian Territory-
is up in arms against the
Hamilton bill, on account of
the liquor clause, or, rather,
the lack of prohibition in thts
bill, it is a fact worthy of re-
mark that no responsive senti
ment is aroused in the terri-
tory of Oklahoma. Oklahoma
either wants statehood with
the saloon or she is wonder-
fully silent, on the greatest
question that confronts her
people in the present crisis. If
the people of Oklahoma want
union with this territory,
as they profess, do they want
to force the open saloon oh
the five tribes of Indians, or
what do they want ? To make
a state half probition and half
anti-prohibition . would be an
anomoly in statesmanship,
Such a state would be a bas-
tard without parent or prece-
dent. Would it not be well
for the friends of temperance
to wake up Oklahoma and
make a. united effort to pre-
serve and loster order and
decency in the coming state ?
— Vinita Chieftain.
Where Is The fvloney?
1 he statutes obtaining in
tliis country provide that after
the clerk of the court and his
assistants have drawn their
salaries out of tha receipts
rom filing records, the surplus
shall go into the school fund
in the district where the mon-
ey was collected. The ques-
tion in several official minds
at this time is : Where is that
fund? In ei<ght months last
year K. P. Harrison, clerk of
the western district, turned
$11.000 in excess of all sala-
ries for the district clerk and
his assistants, 1 his year he
will turn over twenty thou-
sand dollars. It is likely that
in the four districts there will
be turned into the govern-
ment seventy-five thousand
dollars. 1 he clerks turn the
money into the government
all right, but 110 one has heard
of any public school fund or
a public school system being
.augmented by this amount.
Superintendent'Benedict said
recently that he was going to
start a little investigation him-
self to learn just what fund this
money goes to, and if it is not
possible to apply it on the
schools of the Indian Terri-
tory. Last year congress ap-
propriated one hundred thou-
sand dollars for schools, and
nearly 300 schools were estab-
lished. I he recording fees in
excess of salaries would pay
fur nearly as many more each
TALALA
TOPIC
— «*•'
W3&
News and Job Office.
in [own Come in and See (is.
3ear if the money can be utilized.
If we are entitled to that money,
Mr. Benedict wants a chance to u^e
it.and every person in Indian Ter-
ritory would Le glad to see it Uitd.
—Arrow
I lie Dallas News says that many
of the friends of [apau believe that
she reached the climax of her niili-!
tary pr«wess in the present war at
Uao Yang, and that Russia has'
only just commenced to fight- Don t i
be counting 011 anything like that. I
Japan can put an enormous army in
the field, and with the fall of Parti
Arthur Japan will send hundreds
of thousands of Japanese farmers
into Manchuria, and utxt year the
Mancburian campaign* will be self-'
sustaining, if the estimates of
American army officers ar? to be
relied upon. Those who think the
Japanese have reached their limit
of fighting power are very much
mistaken. Japau, by superior
skill assumed command of the sea,
and with superior skill and bravery,
will keep it, regardless of what,
ships Russia may send to the Far1
East. On the other hand Russia, j
working so far from her base, and 1
in uch a rigorous climate, eea|
never put the soldiers in the field
to equal the Japanese army. Mark i
the prediction!
rJaWl> After Territory Got.
tor).
For the purpose of controlling the
cotton product of both Oklahoma
and Indian 1 erntory, the Matsui
company of Japan— the Rothschilds
ot that country—are establishing
headquarters at Oklahoma City
and expect to compete with locai
dealers in securing the crop as fast
as it is picked from the fields. This
company has headquarters both in
san rransisco nnd New York City.
It is estimated that the company
purchases the necessities ®f life for
at least one seventh of the entire
population of the JapaHtse empire.
It has built and operates the street
railway ©f Tokio, handles all the
street rails going into Japan; all the
flour, meal and cotton; ownes im-
mense fisheries; operates the mine?
of Japan; controls the silk industry
there and other vast commercial
and industrial enterprises. The
company employs 50,000 people.
Think once before yon speak-
think twice befere yon act; think
thrice before yoh write it, and think
four times be^ere you mail it.
A
Art is all right, but a Living is
more important.
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