Mangum Weekly Star. (Mangum, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 20, 1912 Page: 3 of 8
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Baptist School Assured!
LOTS FOR SALE ON EASY TERMS!
Residence lots 25x190, $75.00; $2.50 down and $2.50 per
month-NO INTEREST-NO TAXES
THESE LOTS ARE EASILY WORTH $150.00
First come first served with pick of lots—These lots will gen-
erally go in pairs, $150 per pair
Three Room House for Rent, One Block From Square. Rent $7 per Month. New.
SEE OSCAR O. WEIL, At Once
GOOD 6 YEAR OLD HORSE
For Sale on Easy Terms for a
Good Nolo
$10 down and $10 per month will buy
this horse. This horse works single or
double and is a good sound animal.
Will sell this horse at what he is worth and I be-
lieve you will say so. I got this horse in an exchange
and I prefer to sell him at once , as it costs $3.50 per
week to feed him at the livery stable.
OSCAR 0. WEIL
BOOTLEGGING TO RE-
VIVE IN U. S. COURT
FOR SIXTEEN LONG YEARS THE
CITIZENS ON THE EAST SIDE
ARE TO EXIST IN SOME WAY
IN A 'DRY ZONE."
(From John W\. Flenner)
measure is designed to stop the cruel-
ty arising out of the "bob veal bus-
ineas of the dairymen, wiho find It
unprofitable to raise calves over four
weeks of age.
HASKELL'S PAPER GETS THE
HOOKS
Prom McAlester comes the report
that the New State Tribune, offspring
of Charley (C. N.) Haskell, has felt
the cool but silencing hand of death.
soin could possibly have been effeo
ted. More than likely Mr. Haskell
will chalk his procedure to some mors
of the mysterious workings of thf
gov^Hnment—ta chalking-up which,
has heretofore caused him to bellttl*
the operations of our federal court*,
just because these courts took it up»
on themselves to "make it hot" for
4iim in some celebrated town lot cues
which have long ago passed into hit*
tory.—-Tulsa World.
Drs. Holmes and Vaughan are plan.
It is said that this child of the ex-' ning a fishing trip that will be very
Washington, D. C. June 19.—Unless governor died more from neglect than much enjoyed by themselves and ft
tie Oklahoma State dispensary sys-' any other one thing—a neglect
fcem can be revived there will undoubt-1 wj,ich permitted it to be over-fed, for ipafe.
! edly be a drought experienced in the 1 there is such a thing as slaughter re-
I eastern part of the state this summer, ,suiting from gluttony.
I the United States Supreme Court de- ( From all that can be learned, it ap-
| nying the petition for a writ of habeas ' pearg that some pcstoffice insipectors
corpus in the case of Chas. Webb of diagnosed the case of the N. S. T.
| Vinita, recently convicted of having Tihey felt its pulse, and in frequency,
recently introduced whiskey into the 1 the beats were throbbing with rapid-
| old Indian Territory portion of the J lty that almost shook the stars loose
(state, having declared that eastern }n thejr vibration. The poor thing's
j Oklahoma is still Indian country and tongue was coated, but the symptoms
I that tlhe old federal law against the looked dangerous, to make a long
j introduction of whiskey into the In- j story short, and so it is said they told
dian country, is still in full force and the renowned eO'tor and publisher,
I effect as decided some time ago by an<j the only ex-governor Oklahoma
' the Circuit Court of Appeals of the ever ^a-d. that there was something
Eighth Circuit in the now famous wrong with the subscription list.
I Friedman case. ! True, it was large enough, and too
That the act of congress approved large, they said. It looked a whole
, in 1885 repealed the federal law in- lot like using the mails for the dta-
sofar as applicable to the introduc- tribution of a free newspaper, and
1 tion of liquor for the use of the state that won't go for a minute with Un-
| dispensary but individuals living in cle Sam if he finds it out.
eastern Oklahoma are prohibited So the inspectors looked things up
from the introduction of liquor into ^n<j looked them down, and it is given
that portion of tike state and are out that when they finished with the
amendable to the federal laws. Un- WOrk, something like 90 per cent of
der the decision it wil be necessary the "subscriptions" to the New State*
• o appoint a number of additional U. Tribune were doomed to disapoint-
S. Commissioners and extra U. S. ment based more upon the use to
Marshalls to handle nothing but boot- which the paper was put over and
legging cases. The chances are that beyond its reading value. About 90
from now on the federal court in the pgr cent they said, of the persons of
eastern district of Oklahoma w81 be oklahoma who had been getting the
glutted with whiskey cases as in the weekly publication were not bonl
old days before statehood. flde subscribers, however much, or
Under the provisions of the enab- j,0w many times they received the
ling act eastern Oklahoma will be a paper each month
booaeless belt for gixtten years yet. of course, this being a political
—— ! year, and with Haskell issuing cam-
| The House C >n;mr / e eo Inter- paigfc thunder, political documents
state Connneice has imported favor- and discredited propaganda in such
ably the bill to prohibit the inter- volume that only a slight mistake
state shipment of calves under six would l««d to the belief that he is in
weeks of age, unless accompanied by the socialist business, it will be a «ad,
their mothers. There ts a minority ud blow to his senatorial ambition
report seeking to make the prohibi We thought it something strange and
Ut« limit age at four weeks. The curious several weeks ago when tks
bill will not Interfere with the move- New State Tribune owaaed being na-
mes t of calves la esttie couatrius on visitor to the earhsage ta-
acoouM of draught as It rraett— ex- hie. but we hardly thought that such
The* grave calamity as aa utter suspea
number of others who will partlcU
SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC
The boys of the Baptist BaracaW
class and the gils of the Philatia class
en toyed a picnic all to themselves
(Friday night. They hitched up a cou«
pie of floats, gathered themselves and
some lunch together, and with a good
supply of pop and cream, left the city
headed for theUnion Hill School
house. They arrived there for supper
which was immediately spread, and
done full justice to, after which the
young people started on their home,
ward journey, and the report is they
got there.
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Townsend, G. B. Mangum Weekly Star. (Mangum, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 20, 1912, newspaper, June 20, 1912; Mangum, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc284642/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.