The Harrison Gazette. (Gotebo, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, August 19, 1904 Page: 2 of 12
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STRIKE INDORSED
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TAXES OF NEW TOWNSHIP
Pcwnte, Kay and Noble Counties. Ara
, Claiming the Right ta Collect
' " | GITTHRIK: Relative to the coV
^ rmroiTmw to stay I lection of taxes In th* new townships
CH-CAGO ^OERAT^N TO STA> . ^ ^ ^ p,^cl otoe
IT IS NOT OVERDRAWN
MORAL AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT OFFERED
In s recent Issue, the Phoenix pub-
lished an editorial, in part as follows.
The Indian Territory can duplicate
the quality of coal of Pennsylvania,
.he iron of Alabama, the asphalt of
he Isle of Trinidad, the cement beds
of Scotland, the brick shale and clays
of West Virginia, the kaolin ot China,
the lead and zinc of the Ozarks. tae
copper of the shores of I^ake Super-
ior. the granite of Msine, the marble
of Vermont, the lime of Arkansas, the
silver of Colorado, the sold of Call
Indian reservations, and added to the
counties of Noble. Pawnee and Ka>,
there- seems to be a difference of
opinion that will have to be settled
by the territorial courts, if not by
:j\e attorney general of the territory
The law in question was passed by
>l, | congress last spring and vient into <e
Labor Unions «n Chicago Take Up the I ^ ^ ^ lag( atta<;hinK town-
Cause of the Meat Workers' Strike Rhipp 2- an*rt ranges 1 and 2 east
—Membership of 300,000 to be As- Kay county. and townships 22 and
seesed to Carry on the Fight 2U, range 2 oast to *ne^CO"n**„ °L 1 fornia. the glass sand of Illinois, the
CHICAGO: All the labor unions j merty thoaa tovvoahipa. a 1 8>nd ,ono of North Carolina, (he o
Chicago have ***** the atocU j ~ '"^.'"^rpoae. & ZX
yards strike. After listen! and taxes were collected by that ^ hor8e8' of Kentucky, the cattle of
strikers' side of the co"*rover^ county. This year, as usual, assess^ I Wyoming the hog8 of iowa. the r m wtj ^rcciv w
which was presented to them mcnt waa made by Noble county an ^eep of I(laho the goats of Arizona, i gag in the Bartlesville, Tulaa. Hed
Michael J. Donnelly, president of the thp tRxes bec,roe due on Jui> lu. l ne ^ mul0| of Missouri, the burros of F . okmulgee and Muskogee oil
striking butchers' union, the Chicago; cieriiof pawnee county did not assess ^ Mexico, the fur animals of Ne fields; pearls along the Clear Fork,
Federation of Labor, which is com- these additional townships, and now ^ cotton of Mississippi. ,he j ir the Creek country; gold and silver
labor organization in writes the clerk of Noble county to wlicat of Minne8ota. the com of Kan- we8t of Davigf ln the Arbuckle moun-
a* a membership of forward to him the assessment mau ^ the guggr caDe 0f Louisiana, the talQ8 and on Pennington, in the vi-
by Noble county. 0his of tbe Missouri valley, the to-1 cillIt^ ot Tishomingo, Sylvan and Al
On the otuer hand, Kay county aw ] vv«.#k r'amima the rye of i , _4 .u <n ail th«
point train loads have been shipped.
The cement beds are east of Marlow,
on the Rock Island railroad, in tho
northwest part of the Chickasaw na
tion. Brick ahaJe and clays abound
in all the nations to such an extent
that every brick building in the ter-
ritory is constructed of the locil
product. Kaolin Is found near Dough-
erty. in the Chickasaw nation. Lead
and zinc n^ar Afton. Grove, Zena and
Spavanaw. In the Cherokee nation;
copper in the Arbuckle mouutalns:
granite in the vicinity of Tisho-
mingo; marble on the K. C. t 1*. road
at Marble City, Bunch, Swimmer and
Welling; lime at Marietta, east of
the Santa Fe railroad; glass sand
along the tributaries of the Arkansas
river in the Creek nation; oil and
TWO YOUNG GIRLS A0SAUL"*EG
posed of every
Chicago, and ha" a membership
nearly 300,000. has adopted resolu-
tions. pledging the moral aii'l finan-
cial support of the federated body
long as the strike continues. ~
member of the central body will
assessed a small sum per week.
ihe whole amount will be turned over The point ... .. .
to the striking unions to help in the The amount involved is about I . .
support cf the strikers and their fami- The commissioners of Noble county
lies during the struggle with the aie in doubt as to * 'a c
packers. The exact amount each ! pursue in the matter, and trom tne
member is to be assessed was left in j W|U come the request for an opiinon
the hands of a committee, with or- from Attorney General Simons
ders to report results later. While The territorial board of equallsa-
ihe officials of the Federation of La tion. in assessing railroads for this
bor were unable to give an exact eo- year, gives the railroad 'ax in t.ie dis-
timate of the amount of money the puted townships to Noble county, al-1
strikers would secure from thi" ' though they were attached to tne
source, it is stated that the total sum other counties. The Noble
w HI be well up in the thousands oach people claim this is a criterion that
weV. all of the tax assessed, and which bc-
A settlement of the strike seems to came July 13. two JJid I
be as remote as at any time since townships were detac.ied. will be paiu
the struggle for supremacy began to Noble county.
four weeks ago. The packers, while
claiming that they will soon have
i heir affairs in normal condition
again, so successful have they been
in securing non-union employees, still
admit that «o far they have been un-
able to get but of their old men
back, and that the majority of their
employee* are unskilled workers. In
the last statement given out by the
packers it was said that nearly half
as many men were at work now as
before the strike began. These men
have been brought to Chicago from
all parts of the country, the majority
of them never having seen a meat
packing plant before cominR here
With these men the packers have suc-
ceeded in accomplishing a great deal
rtf work. but. according to the strik-
ers. every animal that has been killed
since the strike was called has been
at a financial loss to the packers as
in the majority of case* a lack of
skilled workmen has made it impos-
sible to operate the by-products de-
partments, and this source of revenue
which, under normal conditions, i* a
clear profit to the packers, has been
allowed to go to waste.
Last week the packers were figur-
ing on a break in the ranks of the
strikers. but there Is nothing that
would indicate the men are even
considering surrendering. According
to Michael J. Donnelly, president of
the Butchers' union, the organization
which precipitated the strike. the
men are in a batter position than
tbey were on July 1?. the day the
origin1*! strike was callcd.
the gardens ot uerraany. iuu — wheat in the Purcell region: rorn in
Central America, the perfume plants, ^ Arkansas river l>ottoms; sugar
of the tropics, tho hard woods of New j fRnc ajong the rher; oats in th*
York, the soft pines of Oregon, the j)urant soclion; tobacco in the vlcin-
fowls of Brazil, the fishes of Canadian ^ jfy of g:;rwvn. parley on Courtney
streams, the game of *he western^for- I the Chickasaw nation; «r-
Two Brothera Drowned
GUTHRIE: Two boys, agci 10
acd 12 years, sons of W. A. Ledbet-
ter. were drowned lt Boggy creek,
near Cordell. The bodies have been
recovered.
The groccry store of J. M. Hcartseil
at Ardmore was burned recently. Tho
let# will reach bevcral hundred dcvl-
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Two Fiend* Rap. Fi(t«n-Y,ar.OI<f
Girl and are Captured
OKLAHOMA CITY: T*o girl.-,
Lorine Orr and Kessle Davis, aged
titteen veers each, were al Djsmar
garden Sunday evening, wher ■ <ho\
met two young men. stranacer* J
both the girls. A little flirts'; m - '■*
Indulged in. When the girls start-
ed for their homes they were fo'lowed
. y the young men. \ shor* dts'aneo
from the garden the tout?: nen
caught up with them and. a< th^ g rls
r !!ege. dragged them two blocks into
. sr ine brush nea- the Krisc ► traeVa
and forced the Davis girl into sub-
j jeetion. T ie Orr girl, by bard fight-
ing. escaped the animal attack of her
assailant, but her clothes were torn
from her. and upon her body were
marks showing where she had been
kicked, and there were also evidence#
that she had been choked. T.ie meu.
alter the attack, mad.5 their escape,
going southeast. The girls, when
sufficiently recovered, eaine iuto town
and notified their parents, and officers
were at once put on their track.
Henry Clarence Jacobs and Clyde
Murphy were arrettcJ. and the for-
mer has been identified by the Davis
girl as t.ie man who assaulted her.
At first the condition of the Davis
girl was considered serious, but she
has recovered, and bcr ease is no*
' considcrd hopeful.
Militia to Oo Police Duty
SIOUX CITY: Sheriff Jackson
. ). that ho has been unable to get
a sufficient number of deputies for
the strike district herv. and he has
decided to utc pvt of t.io militia
company for pollcc duty. The Cudahy
company announced that as a result
of recent dlstuibance^ the company
will press t ie suit in th* f^ders! court
foi au injunction t*> rfinln thfl
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?Kts and plains, the civilization of the
ofTeto ea: t. the skys of Italy, the cli-
mate of California, tscerery of
Switzerland, the moonlights of the
MotT terrane.m. the twilights ot
Spain, the sunrise of the Bay of Man
dllay. the sunset of tho Golden Gate.
♦ he energy of a compound engine, the
enterprise of a Chicago* l>oomer. With
tt^se things fiom which to draw in
spiratinn. a citizenship cosmopolitan
as the Pike is carvfng out of th
beart of the great United States a
commonwealth throbbing with prog-
ress and prosperity, a fitting horn?
for men and women the peer of any
on God'* footstool.
Since the above appeared we have
been accusjd by some of overdrawing
the picture of the greatness of ibis
country. Now. let's see if it Is
overdrawn.
The coal of Pennsylvania is found
at 1. >uth McAlester. Krebbs. Coal-
gate and other part* of th< Choctaw
nation. At Henryetta. Okmulgee,
Chase and Potter, in the Creek na
tion. and at Pryor Creek, in the
Cbfiokee nation. Mansanese iron
chards. vineyards, berries, garden*
and nuts In all the nations; flower-
everywhere^ hard woods, oak. ash
walnut, hickory, poran. on all the
streams: the largest belt of virgin
pine south of Oregon in the Choctaw
nation; fowls, fish and game In every
section: civilization throughout the
entire territory. climate from town-
ship 29 north to 8 south of the base
line, and froai range 27 east to 8
west of the Indian meridian. Sceuerv,
Seven Devils. Sugarloaf aud Arbuckle
mountains, and in the eastern por-
iton of the Cherokee country, and
energy, and enterprlfj in Muskogee.
Ardmore. Tulsa. Henryetta. South
McAlester. Durant. Okmulgee. Ada.
Chlckasl-a. Tishomingo. ildenville
ynd other towns.
The writer has picked cotton on
I the prairies, husked corr in the bot-
toms, quarried grsnite and burned
brick In the Chickasaw nation and
freig ited lumber in the Choctaw
country; prospected for and assayed
the ores of the Arbuckles and panned
cut colors along the Pennington,
mine! asphalt and paid assessments
ore is plentiful near t ie l oundary j on oil and gas well*, manufactured
line of the Choctaw and Chickasaw irtlfllcial stone from the cement
nations, in tftwnsbips one, two and p^ds and burned lime from the hill-
t! ree. north of tbj base line and : sides. pulled suckers In tobacco
townships one. two and three south, | fields and drank wine from the vine
and also In the Arhucxie mountains, yards. Knowing this, he knows th®
near old Fort Kas «ita. Asphalt I*! picture Is not overdrawn, but knows
found In immo;iso quantities west cf; the half has nevor been told.—Mus-
Ardmore and at Gllsouite. irom which j kogee Phoenix.
OLD FIREARM8 UNEARTHED
voint near Standing Rock, near Eu-
faula, they were beset by a band of
Charles Gibson. While Plowing, Un- Shawnees, and all but two of the
covers Ancisnt Relics Spaniards were annihilated, the two
Charles Gibbon, the Creek pall- escaping on a raft. The tradition
osopher. who lives near Eufaula, tells goes further, and is to the effect thst
oi a find out of the ordinary while a cave in the mountslns neat Eufauls
plowing in his field a few days ago. hetdil| place of
4lUi>«. a large numbarof oldftr.- a tn rtlUt:,
r: ^ r r - -
are of Spanish maki. some of then • 1 ^ w rwA hodv
^ere In the collection. oition.
There Is an old Indian tradition ~
tbat in 1854 about sixty adventurous Merely Matter ef Location.
Spaniards left New Orleans on bur- in tbe north, where the ruffed
roa. bound for the wsst in search of j* known as the partridge, tha boo
gold; thst thoy bad secured as mu?h v hits Is cslled the quail; in the south,
ol the precious metsl as they could -There the rufTed grouss is J
carry and started on the return jour-1 the pheaaaot, the quafl Is called
ney, and that, when «hey reiebed a partridge.
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Rehfield, E. T. The Harrison Gazette. (Gotebo, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, August 19, 1904, newspaper, August 19, 1904; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc184147/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.