Cherokee Messenger. (Cherokee, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 30, 1908 Page: 1 of 10
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CHARLES L WILSON Editor
EUGENIA WOOD Assoc Ed '
I
EVERY INDUSTRY every business in Alfalfa -
County small or great is the crystalization of a
good intention But good intentions unless ac-
companied with actions are absolutely worthless
'Your intention to start a bank account amounts to -
'nothing until you have a pass-book showing a
'balance Start today with the Alfalfa County
National Bank of Cherokee—a bank able to trans
act your banking business promptly and efficiently
(equipped with every modern facility for the satis-
factory transaction of all business entrusted to it
We solicit your business
The Alfalfa County
National Bank
IRA A HILL President H KmEwEa Cashier
S B MCFADDEN Vice-Prest VAN LEE HOOD Ast-Cash'r
Reportiofthe condition of the
Bank of Cherokee
Report of the condition of the
Farmers Batik
Good
Intentions
CHEROKEE
in the State of Oklahoma at the close
fef baeineao July 15th 1908
RESOURCES
loans and Discounts S 74041 95
twordrafts Secured and Unsecured 2762 08
'Stocks Bonds Warrants etc 4451 06
!Banking House 8325 00
Due from Banks 49658 46
ExchanzesforClearing House 2107 67
Casbrand Sight Exchange 8801 51
Total 145147 73
LIABILITIES
'Capital Stock Paid In S 10000
Surplus fund 1000
Undisrided Profits less Expenses and
Tates mill 5532
Due to Banks 2770 56
Dividends Unpaid 250 00
Individual Deposals subject to
Check 105970 30
Demand Certificates of Deposit 25101 40
Time Certilunitas of Deposit
10000
55 32
2 T70 56
260 00
106970 29
25101 46
Total 145147 73
State of Oklahoma County of Alfalfa SS'
I C M Davis cashier of the above - named
Bank do Solemnly swear that the above state
" ment is true and that said bank has no other
liabilities and is not endorser on any note or
obligation other than that shown in the above
statement to the best of my knowledge and
belief so help me God
C M DAVIS Cashier
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 27th
day of July 1908
LEsiot WooD Notary Public
My Commission Expires Feb 1 1 Mil
Correct Attest:
L E STONE
G D Amu
SEAL DIRECTORS
AT LAMBERT
in the State of Oklahoma at the close
of business July 15 1908
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts I 4769 40
Overdrafts secured and unsecured zas 65
Banking House Furniture and Fixtures
combined 1500 00
Due from Ranks 15921 93
Cash and Sight Exchange 1463 21
Total 533951 19
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock Paid In 5000 00
Surplus Fund 800 00
Undivided Profits less Expenses and Taxes
Paid I 71 13
Individual Deposits Subject to Check 24695 06
Demand Certificates of Deposit 16 00
Time Certificates of Deposit 8369 00
Total 33951 19
State of Oklahoma County of Alfalfa SS
L F Hall Cashier of the above named Bank
do solemnly swear that the above statement is
true and that said Bank has no other liabilities
and is not indorser on any note or obligation
other than that shown in the above statement to
the best of my knowledge and belief so help me
God L F HALL Cashier
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 27th day
of July 1903
J H CHOWNING Notary Public
My Commission expires Sept 28 1909
Correct Attest:
LE STONE
- C M DAVIS
SEAL DIRECTORS
Commissioners ot land MC
Guthrie Okla July 28 1908
To The Farmers of Alfalfa
County
There has been apportioned out of
the permauent school fund to Alfalfa
County the sum of sixty-one thousand
seven hundred fifty-seven dollars to
be loaned to the farmers of that conuty
on farm land The sum of thirty-two
thousand two hundred dollars has been
loaned in said county and there is now
in course of completion loans to the
amount of fourteen thousand three
hundred dollars which will be closed
in the next ten days And furthermore
nO more applications can be received
from Alfalfa nounty until in the fu-
ture there may be some additional farm
mortgage fun a to apportion
By order of the Commissioners of
the land office for the State of Okla-
homa SETH K CORDON Auditor farm loan
department
GliereAee Mezzengero
Will Make Railroads
Pay For School Land
El Reno July 27--S F Price and
A C Fleming of the state school land
department have been busily engaged
recently checking records of land of-
fices in this city and Lawton to as-
certain the amount of school lands that
are being used by the various railways
of the state for right-of-way sidings
and other purposes and to find out in
what manner they obtained title to
land thus occupied
In some cases it has been found that
the railroads have built across school
lands without obtaining any authority
whatsoever while in other instances
right of way was granted by Secretary
Hitchcock for a merely nominal figure
It is the contention of the school land
department that the secretary of the
interior had no power to transmit the
title of any of the territory's school
land in finy way andthv only mallner
in which a railroad could 'gain a right-1
of-way across any of the school lands
would be by au i act of congress
It is for this reason that information
is being gathered along these lines and
various railway companies in the state
will be called upon to reimburse the
state for lands set aside for school
purposes which they traverse
To those familiar with railroad build-
ing it is a well known fact that when-
ever possible it has been the custom of
railroads to make all surveys and lay
as much siding as possible on the
school sections where right-of-way
could be obtained cheapest For this
reason it will found that there is a
great amount of right-of-way on the
school land and in many cases side-
tracks have been laid for which abso-
lutely nothing was paid for the right-of-way
The school land department
will make a determined fight on this
proposition and if possible will force
companies to pay the state for the
land thus used
Guthrie Okla July 25—Within half
an hour after Governor C N Haskell
was announced treasurer of the na-
tional democratic organization $1175
was given him by local democrats
within two hours he had received from
62 people $2780 All was without
solicitation and in amounts varying
from $1 to $100
This is not only a distinction for
Guthrie in that it is the first to con-
tribute to the Bryan campaign treasur-
er direct but as far ahead of any form-
er contribution ever made by Guthrie
citizens to a political campaign
Governor Haskell sent this telegram
to Mr Bryan tonight:
"My appointment as treasurer of
the democratic committee received at
8 o'clock tonight In less than two
hours wituout solicitation I have re-
ceived from 62 local people a total of
$2780 in sums of from $100 down to $1
Not one cent is from special in-
terests nor those expecting special
privileges but every dollar comes from
a patriot asking no return but honest
government Oklahoma people prefer
to pay their own campaign- expenses
rather than have our party humiliated
by obligations to selfish interests"
The Anthony Fair Association is
offering a big fat purse for an auto-
mobile parade that will bring machines
for fifty miles Fully one hundred are
expected to be in it and all owners of
machines interested are urged to write
Secretary L G Jennings Anthony
Kansas for full particulars The pa-
rade will be August 5
Cherokee Alfalfa County Thursday July 30 1908
The Benefit of Brains
Industry is a good thing there ought
to be more of it than there Is But in k
order to count in this day and age the p
man needs brains rather more if possi- (
ble than he needs energy
We have in mind right now a couple
of men we used to know right well n
One of them was about the most in- f
dustrious man we ever saw It was t
astonishing the way that man would
work He was generally up before 4 d
o'clock in the morning and he worked
as long as he was able to see in the
evening He was a regular pack horse b
but he never got ahead because he J
hadn't the right kind of brains For
example he insisted on making his b
horses work as hard as he did and as a r
result in a short time his teams would I
play out and lie down and die He lost t
enough in horses that were simply F
worked to death to have made a reason- (
able profit for him every year if they
had not been killed with overwork
He kept a good many hogs but they t
were a poor 'breed and impossible to I
fatten The amount of corn wasted on I
those hogs would have fattened a good
many first class hogs that would have I
sold for good money His cattle were
similar to his ihogs they were of the I
scrub yariety and after he bad feed one e
of them for three or four years it was
still a runt and sold in the maoket as
a coil which brought from $1 to $3 a i
hundred less per hundred weight than (
the first class cattle that went onto the I
same market-
This industrious man was no reader
In the first place he worked so hard I
that he was too tired at night to read
and he Worked so many hours that he (
had no time left to read It is also (
probably true that if he had tried to
read he would not have understood
much about what he read As a result 1
he never got onto any improved meth-
ods of farming He never seemed to
realize that there was any difference
in seed that he planted Corn was 1
corn wheat was wheat and oats were I
oats with him He was just as likely
to plant seed from a nubbin as from a 1
tood ear '"and to soe:wheat thitt ilia's 1
only half developed and of an inferior
breed as to sow good wheat His
work way done in the hardest way pos-
sible This man was always hard up
He always got the poorest prices for
what he raised and his crops were al-
ways small in spite 'erall the work he
did That man simply wore himself 1
out with hard work and although he
lived hard he never managed to get
much ahead simply because he had no
brains to speak of to mix with his
energy
Near him lived another man of differ-
' ent type He was never what was
called a hard wo -ker He was never
out of bed before daylight and unless
there was something exceedingly
pressing he and his men quit work at
6 o'clock He never allowed his teams
to be overworked and as a result they
were always in good condition He
I kept the best stock of any man in
that country and every animal that he
sold on the average brought him three
times as much as the animals sold by
his industrious neighbor He never
seemed to be doing a great deal cri
I work but somehow or other everything
- he did counted He planted only the
5 best grain he could get hold of and
made a study of soils and what kind
I of crops were best adapted to each of
t his fields He dressed well lived well
and educated his children and some-
how or other he managed to accumu
late a great deal more money than the
- man across the road who worked 16
hours per day and never seemed to
- spend a cent that wasn't absnlutely
e necessary to keep him and his family
alive
n The difference between the two men
was simply a difference in brains The
one man was just like a work mule a
t burden bearer and nothing more the
o other was a general who planned and
made his plans count The man of
f brains insisted that it was just as easy
to raise a steer that would weigh 1500
pounds when it was 3 years old and
d that would on the average market sell
n for $75 as to raise a runty steer that
it would only weigh 800 pounds when it
was 3 years old and only bring $25 on
the average market He insisted that
d it was just as easy to raise a horse
that would sell for $200 when it was 3
years old as to raise a plug that would
is not sell for more than $75 at 3 years
old and was hard to sell even at that
price He insisted that it was better
's to grow a hundred bushels of corn on
e one acre than to grow 50 bushels per
acre on two acres and that there was
If no economy in growing a crop of wheat
e that would yield only 10 bushels per
acre when the same ground might be
r made toyield 30 bushels In short he
farmed with his head while his neigh-
bor farmed with his muscles and
didn't seem to use his head at all—Ex
0
John Worth Kern
The following concerning John Worth
Kern the democratic nominee for vice-
president is taken from the Lincoln
(Neb) Evening News:
John Worth Kern who is to be
William Jennings Bryan's running
mate in the Nebraskan's third contest
for the presidency is a democrat of
the old type that has dominated the
party in the Hoosier state since the
days of "Old Hickory" His democracy
is an inheritance that came through a
Virginia ancestry his forefathers have
been friends and neighbors of Thomas
Jefferson the founder of the party
And in Indiana the state of his birth
he was schooled in politics under such
rockribbed democratic warriora as
William H English the vice-presidential
candidate when General Winfield
Scott Hancock ran for president against
Garfield in 1880 Thomas A Hendricks
who in 1884 shared the victory that
came to his party with the first elec-
tion of Grover Cleveland and Daniel
W Voorhees the "tall sycamore of the
Wabash" as the senator from Indiana
With the passing of these men a
little more than two decades ago Mr
Kern rose to the leadership of his
party in the state His powers as a
speaker his knowledge of public affairs
and his fidelity to his party's interests
made him the most popular democrat
in the state He has fought in every
campaign since then and after each
battle—he lost oftener than he won—
he emerged from the fight with unt
ruffled spirit and like Mr Bryan was
ready to be "up and at theni again"
I The Miami Indian reservation in the
east tentral part of Indiana was open-
ed for settlement in 1846 By the
times the last of the Indians had de- 11
parted for new hunting grounds farther I
west the settlers began pouring in
Among the first to come was Dr
Jacob W Kern a native of Virginia
and his wife who was Nancy Liggett
before she married the doctor in War-
ren county Ohio The Kerns were
pioneers In a little while there was a
clearipg and a garden patch surrounding
the -little log cabin in Howard county
about four miles southwest of the site
of the city of Kokomo
It was in this cabin and amid these
surroundings that John Worth Kern
was born December 29 1849 and it
was there the now vice presidential
candidate spent the first five yeais of
his life
Prospects however were not bright
to the pioneers of that wooded country
Many families among them the Kerns
picked up their belongings and moved
to Iowa forming a settlement known
as "Hoosier Row" in Warren county
about fifteen miles from Des Moines
There Dr Kern practiced medicine as
a country physician while the son
growing up worked on the farm most
of the year and went to school in the
winter
After ten years of residence in Iowa
Mrs Kern died Dr Kern took his
little family—in the fall of 1864—back
to the old home in Howard county
Indiana The boy had made remark
able progress in school in Iowa for
the limited opportunities afforded
His father sent him to the Indiana
Normal Institute a private school in
Kokomo two winters Then he was
I sent to Ann Arbor Mich There he
I took three years in the English and
! law departments of the university of
Michigan At the age of nineteen he
was graduated from thelaw depart
ment
In the summer of 1869 before he
had reached the age of twenty John
) Worth Kern hung out a shingle and
began practicing law in Kokomo He
was considered something of a prodigy
The lawyers at first were inclined to
make sport of him but they soon
e changed their minds In spite of his
a youth he showed marked ability as a
e lawyer and he soon became popular
1 His entrance into politics for which
f he had a liking came soon after He
y was nominated for the state legislature
0 by the democrats The district was
hopelessly republican and Mr Kern
I was defeated though he had the sat-
t isfaction of carrying the city of Koko-
t mo and cutting the republican major
ity in the district down to a few votes
t Mr Kern's first public office was
e that of city attorney of Kokomo
3 which he held by election of the city
d council for six terms -
s In 1884 Mr Kern took a hand in the
t politics of the state His party nomi
nated him for reporter of the Indiana
a supreme court It was the year of
s the victory of Grover Cleveland over
t James G Blaine The democratic
ticket in Indiana was swept into pow-
' el Mr Kern served four years as
reporter of the supreme court His
work was done with a thoroughness
such as has been characteristic of the
In Selecting
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man in everything he has undertaken
Mr Kern in Indianapolis has been
active in every political campaign He
was nominated for state senator in the
Indianapolis district in 1892 without
solicitation on his part and was elected
He served four years He also served
as city attorney of Indianapolis His
popularity throughout the state made
him the candidate for governor in 1900
and again in 1904 but he was defeated
at both elections
When Charles Warren Fairbanks
returned to Indianapolis in 1904 after
he had received the nomination for the
vice presidency in the republican con-
vention in Chicago the people of his
home city turned out to greet him
One of the first men to grasp him by
the hand was John W Kern In pol-
itics Mr Kern and Mr Fairbanks had
been leaders of rival parties—political
enemies they were—and in every cam-
paiga it was a fight to the "last ditch"
But when Mr Kern stood before that
crowd and spoke a welcome to Mr
Fairbanks it was the heart expression
of an old friend and neighbor
"John was always that way" was
the comment of an old rampant demo-
crat of the "Old Hickory" type who
couldn't understand how any democrat
could say so many good things about
a republican
Mr Kern may properly be called an
idol of his party in Indiana In Indian-
apolis however he is best loved as a
citizen In the twenty-four years of
his residence there he has shown an
interest in the well being of the city
and has stood for a high standard of
citizenship He has been a member
of the Indianapolis Commercial club
has served as its president a position
without emoluments but one of honor
in wnich he had opportunities to do
work for his community The Com-
mercial club is non-partisan republicans
Mrs Kern is a leader in social circles
and is widely known in literary and
culture club work Mr and Mrs
Kerh have three children Miss Julia
the eldest is a leader in the younger
set of Indianapolis society The other
children are John W Kern Jr nine
years old and William H Kern five
years old
John W Kern is a supporter of the
policies which have been advocated by
William J Bryan He is a speaker of
more than usual attractiveness
A Farmer's Campaign Fund
To the Farmers of the United
States: The first contribution made
to the democratic campaign fund this
year so far as we know was made by
an Iowa farmer Just before the
Danver convention met this man
who modestly prefers not to have his
name mentioned journed more than
one hundred miles to Lincoln with his
contribution of WO which he left
with Mr Bayan to be given to the
committee when organized for the
campaign
This farmer was born in Sweden anp
Volume 9 No 6
give careful attention to the
STABILITY of the bank and
its WILLINGNESS to co-operate
with patrons in the develop-
ment of their business
Our customers value and "bank on" our willing-
ness and ability to assist them in every way con-
sistent with safe sound banking Whether their
accounts be large or small we appreciate their
patronage
This makes a mutually satisfactory and profit-
able arrangement and for the future well-being of
both bank and patron
We shall be pleased to have
you open an account with us
All the deposits are guaranteed
diM
The Bank of Cherokee
C M DAVIS Cashier
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for some time after he was naturalized
was a member of the republican party
but he was a student of public ques-
tions and in the course or time be-
came a democrat He has been a
reader of The Commoner'since its es-
tablishment and to manifest his deep
interest in the success of the party and
in this triumph of democratic princi-
ples he made this free-will offering to
the campaign fund
It is very appropriate that the first
contribution should come from that
body of that grrat body of our popu-
lation known as agriculturists for
the farmer has nothing to gain by
privilege and favoritism his hope is
in the application of the doctrine of
"equal rights to all and special priv
lieges to none" He has been the
victim of all special legislation and
has suffered from the control of poli-
tics by the great predatory corpor-
ations Now that the democratic
party has announced its determination
not to accept contributions even
from individuals and to publish all
contributions above a reasonabe mini-
mum it ought to be able to secure a
sufficient campaign fund from those
patriotic citizens who ask from the
1 government nothing but protection to
their rights and consideration for the
general welfare There are hundreds
of thousands of farmers who are
abundantly able to contribute to the
campaign fund There are thousands
who could give $100 apiece without
feeling it there are tens of thousands
could give $50 apiece without sacrifice
and still more who could give $25 or
$10 or $5
As the national committee has not
yet been organized we will ask the
Commoner to call for subscripti8ns to
this farmers' fond Those giving can
indicate whether they are willing to
have their names mentioned and if
the contribution is not more than $100
their wishes will be complied with
All contributions above $100 must be
made known no matter from whom
they come
The farmers' fund will be turned
over to the national committee as soon
as its permanent officers have been
selected Who will be the first to
respond? The Denver Convention was
a people's convention it adopted a
strong clear honest platform and its
nominations were made with practical
unanimity Our fight is a fight for
the whole people Our aim is equal
and exact justice to all our purpose is
to restore the government to the
hands of the freely chosen represent-
atives of the voters How many
rarmers will join in furnishing the fund
necessary to present the issues?
WILLIAM J BRYAN
JOHN W KERN
The Ladies' Missionary society
of the Christian church will meet
August 6 at 3:00 P M' at the
church All members should en-
deavor to be present
MRS W R SHUTT Sec
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