Hobart Weekly Chief (Hobart, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 1906 Page: 1 of 9
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HOBART WEEKLY CHIEF
Official Paper
of City of Hobart
VOL. 5.
HOBART. KIOWA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, liHXi.
NO. 21.
Looks Bad
For Hobart.
An Authorized State'
ment About the
Orient.
To Build a Bridge.
Clinton, Okla., Jan. 29—Today
the two largest grading outfits of
the Kansas City, Mexico and
Orient railway, the O'Donnell
Construction company and Frank
L. Adams oompany, arrived in
Clinton. Kergis, a sub-contract"
or, began work here last Monday.
In reply to a question as to
what their plans were, Mr.
O'Donnell said: "We are now
throwing our main force of work-
men on the grade here at Clinton,
and will push the work until it is
finished, which will be not later
than April. The grade is now
completed as far south as Custer
City or two miles north of that
town, where the Orient conneots
with the Frisco. Temporarily,
the Orient will use the Frisco
tracks from there south as far as
one mile north of Clinton, where
they will branch off, build their
own bridge accross the Washita,
and then grade through the town
and connect with the grade two
miles south of Clinton, which
will complete the Orient grade
as far south as Altus."
The fine steel bridge accross
the South Canadian river north
of Thomas is almost completed.
Twenty-five miles of rails and
ties are«eing unloaded at Clin-
ton.
It looks like it was about time
to call another mass meeting,
maEe some more speeches and
appoint some more committees.
By the way, what has become of
the last railroad committee and
its subdivisions? Are we dead
or just asleep?
Make the Comparison.
The township trustees are men
of good judgment and know good
work when they see it. We
want them to compare the assess-
ors blanks printed by the Chief
office and by the Guthrie Leader.
We would not let such work as
the Leader's go out of our office.
We want you to see what a home
printing office can do. The Chief
can do any job work that any
county office requires.
Gone Visiting.
County Superintendent W. P.
Stewart has gone to Chickasha,
Gotebo and Mountain View. He
will meet two old college friends
find have a visit of some days.
MONEY
Lowest Rates
The Hughes
To the Fore.
Washita County Officials
take Unwarranted
Action.
A Stolen Hone Recovered
and Lost Again-
This is a story of a stolen horse
its recovery, unwarranted official
interference and a resumed activ
ity of the Hughes gang. 8ome
years ago J. M. Hefley, of Jack
county, Texas, had a very valu-
able horse stolen. Jim Bourland
the very efficient field deputy
sheriff of Caddo county located
the horse some weeks ago at the
Hughes ranch in Washita county
He notified Hefley who came on,
made affidavit to the horse and
identified it. He went with Bour
land and got it taking it to Mt.
View and placed it in Coker's
livery stable to remain 24 hours
in order to give time for service
of papers if there was a olaim of
ownership by the Hughes. On
Friday night last County Attor-
ney W. J. Knott, deputy Woods
and sheriffs officers Brown and
Owens of Washita County, came
to Mt. View with Camp, the fore-
man of the Hughes ranch, and
demanded the return of the horse.
They had do legal papers and
without right or law took the
horse from Coker and turned it
over to Camp who has promptly
ridden it out of the country. The
Washita officers returned home
prepared papers and had Hefley
and Bourland arrested and taken
to Cordell for horse stealing. On
their arrival the prisoners were
discharged. Bourland, Tom
Conner and Jesse Morris then
visited the Hughes ranch and de-
manded the horse. It was not
there but Mrs. Hughes agrees to
return it by Friday of this week
when a trial will be had as to its
ownership. County Attorney
Tom Conner swore out two war-
rants against some of the Wash-
ita officials for their extraordi-
nary actions in this matter. They
were all in Hobart Monday night
and trouble between them and
Bourland and Jesse Morris was
narrowly averted. We have seen
Jesse Morris "go some" with the
toughest men in the two territo-
ries at Mt. View before the
opening and as a result of a
brief misunderstanding, argued
out with six-shooters, five
men lay on the floor of Smith
Brown's old saloon, shot
to pieces, Morris among the num-
ber. Bourland wont do to fool
with "at all" as Bill Robbins
says, he has seen both sides of
life and is now as good and de-
termined an officer of the law as
there is in Oklahoma.
Our opinion is that the Hughes
have tied up with their masters
and that the Washita officials are
in" very bad.
We shah see what we shall see.
npHK CITY NATIONAL has several customers who do
• not often come to the bank but send in their deposits by
mail. The bank promptly mails them a receipt for the de-
posit. The customer then issues his checks also by mail and
does a good banking business from his R. F. D. Box.
We invite others to use this system and become identified
with us in building up a strong banking business in this new
county. Should you desire to send money away, write your
letter to the party to whom you are sending and mail the let-
ter to us, enclosing your check on us for the amount desired
sent; plus exchange (as shown below) and postage, and we
will send the party the money along with your letter,
notifying you of the remittance.
and
4?
Rotative Cost of Post Office Money Orders
Drafts.
Pout Ormcs Monty Ordkrh. City National Bank Draft.
ft cento . For Order* for luni not exceeding f I 50 8 cento
5 cento Over I 2 In and not exceeding 6 00 3 cento
8 cento Orer 00 and not exceeding 10 oo ft cento
III cento Over 10 00 and not exceeding JO On ft cento
12 cento Over 20 00 and not exoeedlng SO on 10 cento
15 cento Over 80 no and not exoeedlng 40 (M 10 cento
18 cento Over 40 00 and not exceeding Mi 00 10 cento
'JO cento Over 50 00 and not exceeding 00 00 ... 10 cento
26 cento Over 60 i« and not exceeding 75 00 10 cenu
SO cents Over 75 00 and not exceeding 100 00 15 cento
The busy man or womon can stay at home and keep up
business matters.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^
The City National Sank
One Hound
to a Draw.
Reddy the Barkeep and
Tonsorial Shorty
Mix it.
Run in Rules.
Over on the southeast corner
of the square, in a retired and
dusty 'spot, Monday afternoon,
Keddy the barkeep and Tonsorial
8horty had a brisk run in.
The cause of the disturbance
is not known. When the report-
er made inquiry thereto and
thereof he was curtly told "that
| when gentlemen fought for the
A String of
Burglaries.
Begin at Frisco and go
Across the City.
Leave no Clue.
The Frisco 8aloon owned by
Pete Johnson was broken into
Monday night and some case
goods stolen. Only a few bottles
were taken and nothing else was
disturbed. Mr. Ballard's saloon
on the south side was also burg-
larized and bottled whiskey tak-
en. At the Rock Island depot
an attempt was made to rob the
safe. The knobs and oombi-
H«ke of a Madye faire' the time ! nation were Pul,ed out but the
Terms to suit borrower.
If you want to borrow
money on your farm,
call on or write
SCOTT & SCOTT
Hobart, Okla.
Second door wul of Post Office.
It Pays to Advertise
in the Chief.
Col. Hayes, the popular sale
crier and auctioneer officiated at
the big Gilliland sale 17 miles
southwest of Hobart on Tuesday.
He said last night that it was
the largest attended and most
successful sale he had seen this
year. He attributes this, by the
inquiry he made, to the fact that
the sale was advertised in the
Chief. We print the finest sale
bills and advertise the sales.
The people read the Chief and
the sales are well patronized.
That's what you want, ain't it,
when you have something to sell?
C. B. Clancey went to Gotobo,
Tuesday.
Will Come
to Hobart.
Farmers' Union of Kiowa
County Will Meet
Here.
February 9 and IO the Date.
The Farmers' Union of Kiowa
Roosevelt News.
From Roosevelt Record.
NEW GIN NEXT YEAR.
Messrs Foster, Scott and Julian I yelled out to the
were here Wednesday to close up
the contract fjr the new gin. Mr.
Scott will move his family here
immediately and Mr. Julian will
come about March 1st when ac-
tive work will commence. They
and cause was never given."
| The fight by rounds:
The principals neglected the
I usual formalities followed by all
1 well conducted affairs of this
i kind, for which they are to be
censured.
They spar for an opening and
lied gets it in the right peeper,
j this was not an opening but a
"closer" he countered on Shortys
off ear, they clinch; at this juno-
! ture Jno. K. Martin, who had
been late in getting to the ring-
| side, screamed "break away".
They did, Shorty rushed Red
who sidestepped under the hitch-
ing raok and swung for Shorty's
bread-basket, but missed and
broke a post Shorty landed two
hot ones on the air near Red's
glims and Red retaliated by
swiping Shorty in the kisser
which brought the claret. Dick
Thompson and Sile Richardson
now rushed up with two mops
and a bucket of water to cool the
fighters off and Jno. Martin
crowd, "give
County will hold a called county | propofle to(Jam the creek near the
meeting in Hobart February 9
'em a hand, boys, give 'em
hand, they're doing the best
they can."
Round 2:
Both came to the scratch much
refreshed and wet
John Parham also came.
and 10. President Jarvis of Ko-
bridge and pump the water from
there to the plant. They assure
safe was not opened and no loss
sustained.
Something must have caused
the burglars to leave hastily. A
word to our officers: Tools that
will tear off knobs and combi-
nation are generally used by pro-
fessionals who generally do this
first, either to later use nitro
glycerine, or to punch out'the
tumblers in the combination with
punches made for that purpose.
Notifiy adjoining towns to look
out for suspicious characters.
malty was a Chihf caller Monday | utj fh<iy wU] havp the ^ jn
and informed us that there would eratk>n jn ftmp,e Ume for thjj ^
be a great deal of important bus- i baje<
iness come up for consideration,
not the least important of which
would be the formation of a co-
operative branch of the union,
A full and iarge attendance of
delegates is desired and Presi-
dent Jarvis says that there ought
to be two hundred present. The
Chief has seen Mr. R.R. Rhorer,
the very gentlemanly and effic-
ient secretary of our Commercial
League and he has secured Bo
Ion's hall for the meeting
Both of these gentlemen
are experienced gin men and will
erect a plant that will be of suffi-
cient capacity to take care of the
cotton contributary to this point.
They will put in a complete outfit
which was purchased through
Ware Bristow.
WHO WOULD HAVE
THOUGHT?
Feed stuffs such as kaffir corn,
and cane and milo maize have never
assures us that he will see that it
is comfortably heated and seated
and placed at the service of the
Union free of all charge.
The farmers should take an in-
terest in these county meetings
and thoroughly complete their
organization. It is their one
chance of redemption and de-
livery from the cruel oppression
of the trusts aud combines.
The time has come for all men
who love their homes, liberty,
justice and their country to or-
ganize and stand together. Let
the motto of the three old guards-
men of France be theirs: "Each
for all and all for each."
Turn out and make the meet-
ing in Hobart a grand success,
To Our Friends
and Readers.
The Chief has a splendid list
of enterprising advertisers. The
goods they offer for sale are just
as described and there are big
bargains for all. We want our
many friends and readers to pat-
ronize our advertisers. We are
growing very fast. We are try-
ing our very best to get out a
better paper every week. We
are working for the people and
Kiowa county. You can aid us
in this by trading with our ad-
E. D. C. Debate.
There was a large attendance
at the Presbyterian churoh Fri-
day night to hear the high school
debate. The question discussed
was the governmental ownership
of railroads. Affirmative, Harry
Cook and Jim Hogan; negative,
Asa Reeves and Harry Reese.
The speeches were all good and
plainly showed that Hobart is
going to have some better speak-
ers in the future than she has in
the past. The decision was given
to the affirmative side.
The olub was entertained after
the debate at a splendid luncheon
given by Misses Robertson and
Seavers, two of our most popular
young lady teachers. The boys
all enjoyed themselves hugely
and unanimously voted their en-
tertainers "two mighty good
feilows."
been looked upon as an over and j vertisers and telling them about
above profitable crop to raise, but |Please do this and we will
1 be under many and lasting ob-
ligations to you. Help us make
the Chief a better paper.
the following figures seem to in
dicate different, which we secur
ed from Mr. Ed E. Carson just
after he threshed: 20 acres in
kaffir corn made 667 bushels when
threshed, 16 acres of milo maize
made 608 bushels when threshed,
and 9 acres of sorghum made 253
bushels.
Thanks, Brother
Purmont.
Slboney Spokesman.
Last week's issue of the Hobart
Chief was one of which that pa-
per may well feel proud. Itcon-
R. M. Rolston went to Ana-
darko, Tuesday.
To Our Readers.
We call your attention to the
article on oil and gas leases in
to-days Chief. In our articles on
"Frenzied Taxation and Taxes"
we will write one or two on the
subject of "Patronizing and Sup-
porting Home Industries." We
will say something of Sears A
Roebuck, Montgomery, Ward &
Co.. and foreign printing estab-
lishments. We will suggest some
reforms whereby our tax-payers
may be saved some money. Our
columns are always open to the
fullest extent to any one, who
even imagines he haB a grevi-
anoe against us or our policies.
Subscribe for The Chief.
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and when you come to town drop j tained in addition to its usual
in and take a look at the bebt amount of interesting reading
equipped printing office in west- matter, two full pages of views
em Oklahoma, the Chief's, and taken in and around Hobart,
get a copy of our big edition of showing some of the resources
January 18th to send back home, and industries of Kiowa county
We are yours. and its county seat.
Mrs. Robert Simpson, who has Miss Pearl Savage went to
been visiting her son J. B. Simp- j Walters, Okla., this morning,
son, left for her home in Ranger, where she was summoned to the
Tex , Monday. I bedside of her mother,
NOTICE, FARMERS!
'|E are making first and second mortgages on farms
at low and easy terms. We advance money for
final proof and pay you the full amount of your
loan the same day you sign our papers. You pay
your interest at our office in Hobart, and when
you deal with us you deal direct with the company who is
loaning the money, which is more satisfactory than deal-
ing with agents.
We are the only company doing business that
will make you a second loan if you wish it.
We are the only organized Farm Loan Company
doing business in Kiowa county that is owned and
managed by home people.
We also sell land and write Hail! Hall! Hail! insuranoe.
The Central Investment Co.
Offiem ovr City Natl. Bank. HOBART. OKLA.
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Worrall, C. C. Hobart Weekly Chief (Hobart, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 1906, newspaper, February 1, 1906; Hobart, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc270294/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.