Sans Bois News (McCurtain, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1905 Page: 1 of 4
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Ordinances of tSje Incorporated town
of McCurtain Ind Ter
ORDINANCE NO 35-
An ordinance requireing physicians to register their certificates
of authority to practice medicine and requireing them to report
to the board of health certain diseases and providing a penalty for
failure to do so Be it ordained by the town council of the incop-
orated town of McCurtain I T Sec- 1 That every physician
beforebegining the regular practice of medicine or surgery within
th coporate limits of the town of McCurtain IT shall file with
the town recorder for the purpose of its registration the certifi-
cate of his authority to practice medicine or surgery in the Choc-
taw Nation: which certificate shall be returned to its owner by
the recorder after its registration-
Sec- 2 That m the case of the death of apy patient of any physi-
cian or surgeon or of any resident of said town upon whom the
physician or surgeon has been in attendance it shail be the duty
of the said physician or surgeon to file with the town recorder
within twenty four hours after such death shall occur a written
statement of the name age race and the disease which caused the
death of such person-
Sec 3 That hereafter all physicians practicing medicine within
the eorporate limits of the town of McCurtain I T: shall and
they are hereby required to-report all cases of infectious or con-
tagious diseases immediately after the same shall come under their
treatment or to their knowledge within the said coporate limits of
the town or within five miles thereof to the president of the board
of health
Sec 4 That any physician who shall violate the provision of Secl
of this ordinance shall on conviction be fined not less than $1000
nor more than $2500 and for the violation of any other section of
this ordinance or for the failure to preform any duty imposed on
him hereunder he shall be deemed guilty misdemeanor and upon
conviction shall be fined in any amount not to exceed the sum of
$2500
Sec 5 That for the registration of each certificate of a physician’s
authority to practice medicine or surgery as herein provided the
town recorder shall collect from the physician or surgeon procur-
ing such registration the sum of 50 cents Passed and approved
this 19 th day of June 1005 Attest:
H A- Bott Recorder Jno H Trigg Mayor
ORDINANCE NO 36
An ordinance to prevent cruelty to animals Be it ordained by
the town council of the incoporated town of McCurtain I- T
That if any person shall within the coporate limits of the town of
McCurtain over drive over load torture torment deprive of nec-
essary sustenance cruelly beat or needlesly mutilate or kill or
cause to be over driven over loaded tortured tormented deprived
of necessary sustenance cruelly beaten or needlessly mutilated
or killed any living creature he shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor and for ever such offense he shall upon conviction be
fined in any sum not more than $2500 Passed and approve this
19 th day of June 1905 Attest
H A Bott Recorder Jno H- Trigg Mayor
ORDINANCE NO 37 -
An ordinance defining vagrancy and providing a penalty there
for Be it ordained by the town council of the incoporated town
of McCurtain I T Sec 1 That every ablebodied person who
shall be found loitering or rambling about w ithin the corporate
limits of the town not having any visible means of maintaining
himself and wTho does not betake himself to labor or some honest
calling to procure a livelihood and all ablebodied persons found
begging" in the town and any resident thereof who quits his home
and leave? ftis family without the means of subsistence shall be
deemed and treated as a vagrant Sec 2 That every person who
shall be found guilty of vagrancy in the mayors court shall be fined
in any sum not more than $2500 Passed and approved this 19 th
day of June 1905- Attest
H A Bott Recorder - Jno II Trigg Mayor
ORDINANCE 38
An ordinance in regard to the disposition of the fines and licenses
collected Be it ordained by the tovn council of the incoporated
town of McCurtain I T That all fines licenses and taxes on oc-
cupations collected by the town marshal shall be equally divided
between the general and school funds of this town and when
paid into the treasurer shall be so credited Passed and approved
this 19 th day of June 1905i Attest
H- A Bott Recorder John H Trigg Mayor
ORDINANCE NO 39
An ordinance defining nuisances and preserbing a penalty for
maintaining the same Be it ordained by the town council of the
incoporated town of McCurtain I Ti Sec 1 That any act prac-
tice business substance thing or condition which if done transac-
ted or allowed to exist within the coporaie limits will be or have a
tendency to be injurious dangerous or detrimental to the lives
health or morals of the inhabitants of this-tewn is hereby declared
to' be a nusiance and any person failing to stop discontinue re-
move or abate the same within a reasonable time after recieveing
notice from the Mayor to do so shall" be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor-
Sec 2 That every hsrse cow mule hog dog or other animal
found upon the streets alleys or public places dead' or to weak or
disabled to travel is hereby declared to be a nuisance and if the
owner cannot be found or fails to remove said animal at once af-
ter notice is served the marshal shall kill it and order the scaven-
ger to remove it-
Sec-3 That all timber of whatsoever kind logs wood boxes
crates barrels hogshead casks planks shingles bricks lime
heaps of coal and all rubish remaining on any of the public streets
or public sidewalks of this town more than three days and all
wagons gigs or sulkies buggies drays carts coaches and carriages
of every discretion remaining in any part of the street or public
sidewalks of this town more than one day at a time or habitually
kept in said streets or alleys when not in use are hereby declarec
public nuisance but nothing he-einbefore contained shall be so
construed as to extend to materia Is used for building or improv
ments while such building or other improvments is being erected
provided the completion of such building or ether inprovments i3
not necessarily delayed and provided futher that the builder
contractor or owner in charge of such work shall each night dis-
play a red signal light after dark upon any obstruction or excava
tion on the public streets or other public places
Sec 4 Any cotton yard hereafter established and maintained
within less than one hundred feet of any residence belonging to
parties other than those owning said cotton yard is hereby declar-
ed to be a nuisance
Sec 6 It is hereby declared to be a nuisance for any person to
keep or allow to run upon the public streets or alleys any greater
number of cattle or horses than said person listed for taxation at
the last asessment in said town but this section ‘ shall not apply
where not more than three cows are kept nor when said person
was not a resident of the town at the date of the last asesement
Sec 7 For any person to bring or keep within the coporate limits
any animal of the horse kind aflicted with glanders or any other
contagious or infectious disease
Sec- 8 It shall be the duty of the marshal to report to the mayor
the existence of any nuisance as above defined and when such re-
port is made or a written complaint has been filed by any resident
of McCurtain showing that a nuisance exists therein the mayor
shall cause the marshal to serve upon the person maintaining such
nuisance a written notice signed by such mayor requireing said
person to remove or abate such nuisance within a fixed time
which time shall be the shortest time within which suid person can
proceeding with due diligence remove or abate such nuisance
Sec 9 In case any person notified as provided in the proceeding
section fails to remove or abate any nuisance within the time spec-
ified he shall be immediately arrested and if convicted of main-
taining or allowing to exist any nuisance enumerated or defined in
any section of this ordinance he shall be fined in any sum not
more than $25 00 Passed and approved this 19 th day of J une
1905 Attest
H- A Bott Recorder John H- Trigg Mayor
W B Johnson formal y ooo of
our draymen of Mccurtain has
quit the dray business aild bought
a fine carriage lie says he will
hereafter bo engaged in transfering
pasengers to any part of the city
Below will be found a clipping
from the Ft Smith News Record
which if taken and rightly constru
ed would be the means of better
townsenicn throughout the mail
building towns of the Indian Terri-
tory It occurs to me if some of
those would be citizens that inhabit
our town as well as other towns
would study the moral of this they"
would take a toumble and stop
vking long card mules of their
selves
KNOCK
W M fiershner
TIN & SHEET
METAL WORKS
Anything in Tin or Iron made to order
All Kinds of Shoe Repairing
Satisfaction Guaranteed -
r Ymir Wnrlr- Solioitod — —
West Broadway McCurtain I T
STOP THOSE CHILLS!
The malarial season is here again! and we are
on hand with all the popular brands of chill and
malarial medicines Dont neglect those warning
symptoms of coming chills and fever! but get a
bottle of our reliable tonic -and restore your good
health -
WHITE DRUG STORE NORTH CHANT
G H BRANHAM President
I) R BRANHAM Vice President
A 3 FOSTER Cashier
McCurtain
(State BanK
Capital Stock $50000
DOES A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS
EASTERN EXCHANGE AT REASONABLE RATES
aid well" Wants 500 Women to
Don’t bo a croaker Of all tbd
things that inhabit the earth lliel
human croaker is the most despi-
cable The crcakcr confesses he has
made a failure of his life and seeks
to sow thestles and thorns in the
lives of others The best oiet for
a croaker is a deadly poision and
there should be no restraint on the’
quantity for the world is belter off
by bis demise
The human croaker confesses
that be has less brains than the
lowest order of animals for her
stands on the street corners pol-
luting the air with pessimistic va-
poring8 while the frog the only
animal that God has given the right
to croiik never does so until he lias
hiden himself
The croaker tells you of the de-
generacy of the times and dosent-
kiiow that history shows the world1
far more moral today than ever
lie can sec nothing but failure"
ahead for every enterprise started
in bis city and if is the duly city
that is going backward instead of
forward when in fact if be w ere
to leave that city from which and
perhaps aided by the generosity of
old acquaintences he makes a liv—
be would starve to death He
believes every wild rumor that lie
hears in case of epidemic or panic
and spreads it with exageratiou
and addenda of its authenticity
lie quotes the man down in the
swamp forty miles froln nowhere
in preference to the man at the seat
of action
The only excuse for J lie croaker'
being allowd to live is that his-
moulhings are so monotonous and-
dismal that the devil won’t claim his
ow II
All the world loves a lover for
the simple reason that a lover sees
beauty iu every tiling lie is nev-
er a croaker
The South is suffering today from
a panic which has largely been pro-
deceil by a croker Man’s inliiinw
mily to men makes countless thous
uuls mourn and it is well being
llislvatcd during this excitement
Chickens come home to roost and
towns who have been Wrapped up
their ow n selfish interests re-'
gardless of their duly to their
I neighbors will find ere long their'
coops filled witli a mongiel
Try their excellent line of
Perfume and Toilet Articles
FOR SALE AT CALDWELLS DRUG STORE
lot oi
ashamed to"
McCurtain
I T
poultry they will be
own
Look on the bright side of life-
and remember your duty to your
town and your fellowman— F-
Smitli Re'-ord
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Hooper, Enos. M. Sans Bois News (McCurtain, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1905, newspaper, August 10, 1905; McCurtain, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1977488/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.