The Southwest World (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 9, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 28, 1900 Page: 4 of 8
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The Southwest World
IunrJ F>ery Saturday at 121 North First Street
FRANK G. PEOUTY, Editor.
TINGLE & DOLPH, Managers.
Entered at the post office at Guthrie, Ok la.,
as second class mail matter, arch 12. l90O.
PRICE PER YEAR
Advertising rates made known at the office.
FLYNN WINS A POINT.
Fenator Piatt, of Connecticut,
Will no Longer Oppose Free
Homes Bill.
SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1900.
COMING EVENTS.
Republican National Convention, Philadelphia,
June 19.
Democratic National Convention, Kansas City,
Missouri. July 4.
Populist National Convention, Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, May
Middle « f the Road Populist Convention, Cin-
cinnati, Oh?o, May 9.
Prohibitionist National Convention, Chicago,
June 27.
Democratic Territorial Congressional Conven-
vention, Oklahoma Citv, Julv 27.
Democratic Territorial National Delegate Con
vention. El Reno, June 4.
Tenth Annual Oklahoma Press Association
Alva, May 15.
Territorial National Delegate Confbntion,
Enid, May 10.
Republican Congressional Con vention, Guthrie,
August 8.
The Inter-Scholastic Oratorical Contest, Guth
rie, May 4.
Commencement Day- Lincoln School, May 25;
Central School, May 28.
A. O. U. W. Grand Lodge. Third Annual
Session, El Reno, July 24.
Tenth Annual Encampment Department of
Oklahoma G. A. R. Oklahoma City, May 16th
17th and 18th.
The United States leads all
countries in the number of ex
hibitions at thel'aris Exposition
with the exception of France.
Admiral Schley, the hero of
Santiago, is being strongly en-
dorsed as the candidate for vice-
presidenton the democratic ticket.
M. L). Welch, of Lincoln, Neb.,
lias made arrangements for the ac-
commodation of 1,200 Nebraskans
during the democratic national
convention.
Chairman Towne, of Minne-
sota, has called the silver repub-
licans to meet at Kansas City,
July 4, for the purpose of nomi-
nating candidates for president
and vice president.
Joe Heim, of Kansas City, one
of the best boomers for Guthrie,
is jubilant over the new city hall
on block 55. Joe will go down
in his pocket to push the good
thing along, if necessary.
O. A. Mitcher, one of 'the lead-
ing dry goods merchants at Okla-
homa City and who voted at the
national convention for Major
McKinley for president has been
appointed Indian agent for the
Osages.
An editor over in Perkins hav
ing been taught by one editor how
Jesus would run a paper and by
another how the devil would run
one announced that he was going
to see how an angel will run a
paper, turned his office over to his
wife and went to Ripley to reside.
Senator Piatt, of Connecticut,
has promised Delegate Dennis
Flynn, of Oklahoma, not to
oppose the passage of the free
homes bill. This is an important
concession which means in effect
that this measure—which has
been before congress for the last
eight years—is practically to pass
this session. Unless unexpected
opposition is developed from un-
known parties, the bill will have
comparatively plain sailing. For
several sessions Senator Piatt has
been its most active opponent
and on two or three occasions he
has prevented its final passage at
the last stage.
This time the bill has been so
drawn that it meets his views
and if no new obstruction is met
the Oklahoma home seekers who
have been clamoring for the free
homes bill will get what they
want.
The house will take up the free
homes bill for consideration May
3. Its friends hope to get it
through the house that same day.
It will then go to the senate and
with Senator Piatt in the ranks
of its advocates it should reach
the president in time for his sig-
nature before adjournment sine
die.
The measure, as it is drawn,
affects fully 8,000,000 acres of
land in Oklahoma, valued by the
interior department at $15,000,-
000.
L. G. Niblack, of the Guthrie
Leader, would be a delegate to
the Kansas City convention and
makes a talk about inviting 100
of his political friends to be his
guests at Kansas City, he paying
all expenses, including railroad
fare. He avows his straight,
unmixed democracy. For com-
petitors he has Gen. Jamison,
Joe Wisby, T. J. Lowe and others.
—Chandler News.
A small Atchison boy's mother
told him he must contrive to earn
money during Lent, to give to the
church at Easter. After a day
or two, in which he thought the
matter over, the following an-
nouncement appeared on the
barn: "I will swallow one small
green worm for one cent, one
large green worm for two cents,
one woolly worm for three cents
and a small toad for twenty-five
cents. The money I take in will
go to the church."—Atchison
Globe.
Be Opened For Settlement.
Thirteen thousand farms will
be thrown open for settlement in
Oklahoma as the result of the
passage by congress of. a bill to
ratify the treaty of agreement
with the Kiowa, Commanche and
Apache Indians for the sale to
the United States or the surplus
lands belonging to their reserva-
tions in the territory.
It a tract of land embracing
nearly 3,000,000 acres, now held
by the Indians under the treaty
of 1868 at Medicine Lodge. The
lands are situated in the extreme
southwestern quarter of Okla
homa Territory, being bounded
on the north by the Wichita
reservation and Washita county,
Oklahoma; on the south by Texas;
on the west by Greer county,
Oklahoma, on the east by the
Indian Territory proper. Near
the center of the tract is the Fort
Sill military reservation of 50,000
acres, upon which the army post
of Fort Sill is maintained by the
United States government, and
where Geronimo's band of
Apaches are being held as prison-
ers of war. The total number of
lands included in this agency is
3,872, of which 1,553 are Com-
manches, 1,126 Kiowas and 193
Apaches.
Of the whole amount of land
in the reservation 2,183,925 acres
are at present leases at an annual
rental of about 10 cents an acre,
and amounting to an annual pay-
ment of $216,308.15 each year for
the benefit of the Indians. This
is called "grass money" and is
periodically distributed to the
Indians through the interior de-
partment. The payment on thi>
account for the year 18* 9,
amounted to about$70 per capita
It is estimated that there art
now upon the reservation not fa
fro 40,(too beef cattle. One and
two year old steers are purchased
in the southwestern part of Texas
and driven to these great pastures
where they are held one and tw<
years and then shipped to market
It is a gigantic industry, and in
reality is controlled and operated
by- 2') men, who have succeeded
in obtaining leases to these land
The Mulvane, Kas., Record
says: "At last Mulvane has been
called upon to pay her share of
the sacrifice to tlie cruel god o
war—and what a price has it cost.
Our people has been shocked
beyond measure to hear that
Vaughn McKee, one of our best
and most popular young men, had
been murdered by natives in
Porto Rico. His parents received
word from a comrade to this
effect last Wednesday. With
several comrades he had gone up
town to make a few purchases,
preparatory to moving to another
station. Being off duty they were
of course unarmed, and several
natives attacked him, stabbing
three, and Vaughn fatally. This
was March 10th and he died on
the 12th. It was with a light
heart that Vaughn left Mulvane
about a year ago to join Troop
M. Fifth Calvary. He done this
in spite of the protest of his
parents and friends/ but he
thought nor cared little of the
possible dangers of war. Imagine
if you can, the sorrow of his
parents—of the mother who so
tenderly cared for him in his
childhood and so carefully reared
hirn to young manhood, only to
see him die in a foreign land, far
from mother and home.
Governor Barnes addressed the
Business Men's club at Oklahoma
City, last Saturday, in which he
took occasion to refer to the
request made by the Hough
Riders' Reunion association, that
the Territorial Military encamp-
ment be held here in July. He
regretted that the request could
not be granted, but as the com-
panies now organized are poorly
equipped and as the appropriation
for the year does not become
available until July 1st, he
thought that it would not be
wise to have the encampment
while the Rough Riders are here,
as the militia would not be able
to make the creditable showing
which they could make later in
the year. He had, however,
decided that the encampment
should be held in Oklahoma City,
and he would defer to the people
of Oklahoma City in the matter
of fixing a date for the encamp-
ment.
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GROVVty
CHASE & SANBORN, Importers, BostdiL
The Aristocratic Coffee of America.
UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED AS THE
LEADING FINE COFFEE OF THE
WORLD. A A. A: A A A A A
... .For Sale By. ...
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THE CAPITOL NAT-
IONAL BANK OF GUTH-
RIE OFFERS TO DE-
POSITORS EVERY FA-
CILITY WHICH 1HEIR
BALANCES, BUSINESS
AND RESPONSIBILITY
WARRANT.
Mr. Ernest Eaton, a leading
farmer of Logan county, was
placed in the asylum last Sunday.
He was wildly insane and had to
be bound hand and foot. For a
number of years he was a staunch
People's party man, but of late
years went off with the fusionists
and was one of the fusion dele-
gates from Logan county to the
Enid convention. Dr. Treadgill
is at work enlarging the saqitar-
ium and fitting up one room
specially for Bob Neff. We give
this as a pointer to cur fusion
friends in the territory. Bryan's
defeat four years ago brought
one of the most prominent
fusionists of the territory to the
sanitarium and we really fear that
if some of the fusionists in the
territory don't ease up a little
Bryan's defeat at Kansas City
may go hard with their mental
equilibrium.—The Norman Peo-
ple's Voice.
See New York Hardware Store
For Screen Doors, Screen Wire, Refrigerators,
(,)uick Meal Gasoline Stoves and Oil Stoves,
Water Filters and Steam's Pure Mixed Paints
W. H. BRUNNER,
MANUFACTURER Of
BUGGIES, SURREYS, SPRING WAGONS, CARTS, Etc
Horseshoeing ami General Repairing Done in the Latest and Neatest Style.
All Work Warranted Prices Reasonable. 222-24 North Division St.
THE
Arlington Lunch Room
113 South Second Street,
has changed hands and invites the public to give
it a call. Firstclass Meals and Short Orders at
all hours.
Mrs. C. M. JAMES, Prop.
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