Mangum Sun-Monitor. (Mangum, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 19, 1907 Page: 1 of 9
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MANGUM, GREER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER i9l 1907.
A,STREET CARNIVAL
Under Auspices of Mangum Fire
. Department Next Month
VOL. 17. NO. 40.
OCTOBER f4 TO 19 THE DATE
Manager Fulton Promises Good,
Clean Attractions and Ex-
pects a Very Large
Attendance
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Fulton, of
Fort Worth, Texas, are quartered
at the Harris Hotel. Mr. Fulton
is here in the interest of the Fire-
men's Carnival, October 14th to
19th. He has contracted to furnish
all the attractions for the fire com-
pany and will give his whole time
to making the week a big one. In
speaking of the carnival Mr. Ful-.
ton said: "The people of Mangum
will not be ashamed of the attract-
ions that will be offered to the
public here, as I am going to book
the very best there is in the car-
nival business both the paid and
the free attractions. In bringing
in all independent shows, as I am
doing, we can get all good shows,
whereas with an organized com-
pany some are good and some are
bad. The free attractions will be
the new ones if it is possible to
get them. I am going to hold off
till I get what I want and as I
have started early I have lots of
time and can take my choice. There
will be a merry-go-round and Ferris
wheel and the usual accessories,
stand booths etc. One of the feat-
ure shows will be the everyday cir-
cus, a regular circus performance
will be given two times a day—
afternoon and night and it will be
a good one. I have promised the
fire company to give them a good
show and now I promise the pub-
lic at large I will give a good,
moral, up-to-date company of paid
and free attractions and people of
Mangum can invite their friends
to visit Mangum October 14th to
19th and feel assured of entertain-
ing them in the right way. The
advertising will start this week.
The entire county will be covered,
thoroughly, covered and if the town
is not full during carnival week it
will not be my fault."
Cotton Premiums.
The following is the list of mer-
chants and business firms who lib-
erally contributed to the fund with
which to pay 15c a pound for the
first ten bales of Greer county cot-
ton sold in Mangum for the season
of 1907-08.
Snow Grocery Co., $10; C. P.
Hamilton, $10; Gilliland Mer. Co.,
$10; Mangum Wholesale Grocery
Co., $10; First National Bank,
$10; Jackson & Wilson, $10; Mc-
Kinney & Auld, $10; J, H. Wig-
ham, $10; City National Bank, $5;
Okla. Trading Co., $5; F. S.
Gentry, $5; R. C. Hannah, $5;
Mangum National Bank, $5; W. T.
Funderburk, $5; Logan, Jeweler,
$2.50; J. W. Lovett, $5; J. D. Cur-
reathers, $5; Guthrie Grocery Co.,
Mangum Drug Co., $5; Rounds
& Porter, $5; Independent Home
Lumber Co., $5; finsley & Tucker,
Farmers' Union Gin, $5; G.
W. Scott, $2.50; B. E. Davis, $2.50;
J. D. Sentell, $2.50; Warner, $2.50;
R. D. Rhodes, $2.50; J. O. McCol-
lister, $2.50; Stepp & Pinkerton,
$2.50 and Mangum Star, $2.50.
The following is the list of the
more fortuntae farmers who sold
the first ten bales and got the 15c
a pound, besides an additional
premium of $35 which was paid on
the first bale.
J. H. Fennell, J. Kendrick, W.
Day, W. R. Harmon, J. J. Mad-
den, C. L. Smith, H. L. Eaves, M.
L. Williams, J. T. Buchanan and
J. L. Johnson.
THE STATE ELECTION
Con.«titutionand State Wide Prohi-
bition Proposition Adopted
BOTH SIDES CLAIM GOVERNOR
Frantz Runs Ahead of His Ticket-
Mangum Did Well-HasKell
Carried Greer County by
1200 Plurality
Invitations were issued Tuesday
to the marriage of Probate Judge
Jarret Todd and Mrs. Alice Young,
who for a year or more past has
been assistant and clerk in the
office. The wedding is to take
place in the court house in Hobart
on Sunday, September 27th at 9:30
a. m. The Judge's reason for
going to a neighboring city
and county to have the ceremony
held is that being the official of
Greer county whom the law desig-
nates as the one to issue marriage
licenses there might be some ques-
tion as to his right to issue a li-
cense to himself hence he will ask
the probate judge of Kiowa county
to issue his license. Many rela-
tives and friends will be present at
the wedding.
John Elkins was arrested in Day
county a few days ago and brought
to Mangum and lodged in jail.
Elkins is under indictment by the
grand jury of Greer county
charged with abandoning his own
offspring, a child under six years
of age. He is the man who some
months ago left a baby in a buggy
that was standing near a church
at Eldorado while the owner's,
were attending services. Elkins'
wife went before the last grand
jury and told her story. She said
it was her baby that Elkins had
placed in a buggy at Eldorado and
Elkins was the father of the child.
They were not married at the time
of the birth of the child but were
later and they lived together some
weeks until he abandoned her.
He was located last week and his
arrest followed.
William Hupp, whose home is
in Roger Mills county, near Car-
ter, was brought to Mangum Mon-
day before Justice McMillan to
answer to the charge of perjury.
His is a peculiar variety of perjury
that is more or less common but
for which convictions by the law
are rare. It is for false swearing
in obtaining a marriage license.
Hupp came to Mangum about a
month ago and procured license to
marry a Miss Cummings of the
Carter neighborhood. In his ap-
plication he gave the age of the
girl at 19 years and his own at 34
years. Last Friday I. D. Cum-
mings, father of the girl, came to
Mangum and swore out a warrant
for Hupp on the charge of perjury,
stating that the girl's age was 16
years and that Hupp was at least
44 years old. Hupp was bound
over to the grand jury and gave
bond in the sum of $750.
Half Insurod
If your premiums do not cease
and your policy become full paid
or provide you with an annual in-
come should you become totally
disabled, then your life is only
half insured. The Fidelity, a
purely mutual, profit-sharing com-
pany issues self-paying life insur-
ance. See Hassell or Bolton, who
can tell you more about it.
Bargain in a Farm
We can sell you a farm of 320
acres, 130 of which are fine. Im-
provements $350. Four miles from a
town. Easy terms. A splendid
opportunity to secure a home or
make a good investment. South-
western Land and Improvement
Co., Mangum.
Lost, on Tuesday, September
10th, on White Fait road, between
Mangum and my home, seven
miles southwest of Reed, one fifty
pound sack of aslt, twenty-five
pound sack of sugar, and one pair
of No. 7 shoes, bought from the
Dixie Store at Mangum. Liberal
reward offered for return of goods.
G. T. VAUGHT, Blake, O. T.,
Route 1.
A big musical comedy coming
'•next month. The Allen Curtis
Musical Comedy Company, one
of the the best organizations tour-
ing the country wiH be here Octo-
ber 5th, producing one of tke fun-
niest musical plays seen on the
| rood this season. $10,000 beauty.
Everywhere this company has
shown both tke i»ress and public
arc a unit in pronouncing this to
be the musical treat of the season.
If you have a farm for sale, a
house and lot in Mangum, vacant
lots in Mangum, or business prop-
erty which you would be glad to
dispose of get the Southwestern
Land and Investment Co. to handle
it for you. This company is in a
position to do business for you.
See them in the court house.
Six cent Spool Cotton, only 5c at
Trippet's Cash Store, north side
square, Mangum, Okla.
When you want door frames or
window frames, doors or windows
come to the Mangum Planing Mill
where you can get them at mucb
less than what you will have to pay
elsewhere. They buy lumber by
the car load and make the frames,
doors and windows.
Now is the time to buy a new set
of buggy harness. A full line at
F. S. •Witry's, south side square.
The Mangum Ice Faotory Gin
has been thoroughly over hauled'
and is now qeady to begin the seas-
on's werk. Take your cotton there
and you will be treated right.
The election is over. There was
a big vote polled and the constitu-
tion and statewide prohibition
were both adopted by overwhelm-
ing majorities The democratic
state ticket except governor is
elected beyond doubt. Governor
Frantz, republican, ran far ahead
of his ticket and Chairman Charley
Hunter says he will pull through.
Up to this writing both the state
committee headquarters were
claiming the election of governor.
Frantz carried Muskogee, Oklaho-
ma City, Shawnee, Guthrie, Enid,
Lawton and nearly all of the other
larger cities of the new state.
About 225,000 votes were cast in
the state. The majority for the
constitution will be over 60,000
and for prohibition will be over
30,000.
Greer county's returns are all in
at this writing, except three small
precincts Sandy, Martin and Beth-
el, which altogether will not poll
over 200 votes.
This twenty-nine out of thirty-
two precincts of the county shows
a total vote of 3,069 on the consti-
tution-2^96 for and 773 against.
Prohibition was a close second with
a total of 3,062—2,140 for and 922
against. The vote on governor
was not so large, the total being
2,878, with a majority of 1,142 in
favor of Haskell—a little more
than three to one.
Willow is the republican strong-
hold of Greer county. It is the
only precinct in the county that
gave a majority for Frantz.
The vote on congressman was
nearly one-third less than on the
contstitution. This was largely
owing to the fact that the con-
gressional candidates names were
on the ticket with the county
nominees and there being no oppo-
sition to them many did riot vote
that ticket at all. Major Mc-
Knight's vote in the county will be
about 500.
In the city of Mangum the heav-
iest vote was on the constitution
and still, of the 540 voters who had
registered only 446 voted. The vote
stands 261 for the contsitution to
185 against it. The next largest
vote was on the prohibition propo-
sition, 443 votes were cast on this,
258 for and 193 against, giving a
majority in favor of prohibition of
sixty-five. In the Fourth ward the
vote on prohibition was thirty-nine
for and forty-two against. This is
one of only two precinct in Greer
that gave a majority against county
prohibition and every precinct in
Greer county gave a majority for
the constitution.
The city of Mangum cast, for
governor, 400 votes of which num-
ber Frantz received 180; Haskell,
209, and Ross(socialist) 11, making
Haskell's plurality over Frantz 29
and his majority 18. This is a
good showing for Frantz. In view
of the fact that there are only
about eighty republican votes in
Mangum, one hundred democrats
must have voted for him.
Following is the vote of twenty
nine of the thirty-two precincts of
Greer county on the constitution:
Mangum, Ward 1, for 75; ag'nst58.
Mangum, Ward 2, for 88; ag'nst 58.
Mangum Ward 3, for 55; ag'nst, 32.
Mangum Ward 4, for 43; ag'nst, 36.
Mangum Tp. for 84; against 55.
Gyp Hill, for 37; against, 18.
City View for 26; against, 9.
Granite, for 351; against, 66.
Sand Hill, for 43; against, 11.
Hollis, for 281; against, 20.
Reed, for 85; against, 17.
Looney, for 163; against, 25.
Francis, for, 79; against, 37.
Willow, for 46; against, 43.
Prosperity, for 48; against, 29.
White Flat, for 47; against, 9.
Coralea, for 29; against, 25.
Orient, for 33; against, 10.
Templeton, for 47; against, 19.
Jester, for 41; against, 28.
Bloomington, for 88; against, 12.
Wild Cat, for 45; against, 35.
Teacross, for 66; against, 1\3.
Lone Star, for 96; against, 3.
Emmert, for 69; against, 55.
Dryden, for 52; against, 12.
Grape Creek, for 30; against 20.
Halsmith, for 98; against, 4.
Madge, for 51; against, 14.
The following is the vote of
Greer county on governor:
Frantz,—Mangum, 1st Ward,
52; 2nd Ward, 66; 3d Ward, 31;
4th Ward, 31; Mangum township,
51; Gyp Hill, 15; City View, 6;
Granite, 110; Sand Hill, 15; Hollis,
25 ;Reed, 17; Looney, 28; Francis,
46; Willow. 74; Prosperity, 27;
White Flat, 7; Coralea, 24; Orient,
13; Templeton, 16; Jester, 32;
Bloomington, 8; WildCat, 33; Tea-
cross, 7; Lone Star, 8; Emmert, 54;
Dryden, 20; Grape Creek, 8; Hal-
smith, 5; Madge, 19.
Haskell,—Mangum, 1st Ward,
64; 2nd Ward, 67; 3d Ward, 41;
4th, Ward, 37; Mangum Township,
73; Gyp Hill, 32; City View, 24;
Granite, 287; Sand Hill, 32; Hol-
lis, 253; Reed, 74; Looney, 155;
Francis, 59; Willow, 31; Pros-
perity, 45; White Flat, 48; Cora-
lea, 27; Orient, 22; Templeton, 43;
Jester, 35; Bloomington, 72; Wild
Cat, 42; Teacross, 67; Lone Star,
89; Emmert, 63; Dryden, 4!;
Grape Creek, 26; Halsmith, 93, and
Madge, 38.
A FATAL ACCIDENT
Workman Killed and Buried by
Caving of the Sewer Ditch
NAME WAS CHAS. H. M'ALISTER
Has a Brother Living at Reed This
County-Relatives Took Body
to Waxahachie, Texas,
for Burial
Election Notes
Frantz carried Haskell's own
city and county, Muskogee.
Andy Stewart and G. L. Wilson
are responsible for this blight of
Haskell ism that has come upon
us.
The election in the town of Blair
on the question of incorporating
resulted in favor of the propo-
sition by a vote of forty for to five
against and seven mutilated bal-
lots.
Mangum Fourth Ward and
Grape Creek, the latter in the
northwest part of the county, are
the only two precincts in Greer
county that went against prohibi-
tion.
I The joke is on J. 0. McCollister
and Tom Gilliland. They were
among the most active prohibition
advocates and the precinct they
live in was one of only two in the
county that went "wet."
Although nearly all opponents
of the constitution have conceded
within the past two weeks that it
would carry the enormous majority
that was given it was surprising.
Now, within three weeks the propo-
sition of statehood for Oklahoma
under this constitution will
be up to President Roosevelt.
If he issues his proclamation Ok-
lahoma becomes a state at once.
If he finds in the proposed consti-
tution anything that in his opin-
ion conflicts with the U. S. consti-
tution, the enabling act or his defi-
nition of a "republican form of gov-
ernment" he will probably pass it up
to congress which meets December
1st.. We are, however, of the
opinion that he will issue his proc-
lamation creating the new state.
There is nothing in the report of
the adoption of the Oklahoma con-
stitution by a very decisive vote
to occasion surprise. To those
who have acquainted themselves
with the situation in the two terri-
tories comprising the new state,
the result has been held as a fore-
gone conclusion. The majority for
the adoption of the instrument is
merely the expression of the people
for statehood and a protest against
the intolerable conditions of terri-
torial government. It is not nec-
essarily an indorsement of the
constitution as a whole. There
are serious defects in that docu-
ment which Secretary Taft and
others have clearly pointed out to
the people during the campaign,
but the overwhelming consideration
in the minds of the voters was to
secure admission to the Union at
once without subjecting the state
to the uncertainties involved in the
passage of another enabling act.—
Kansas City Star.
It does look now to the rank and
file as if Haskell would win out in
the race for governor but Charley
Hunter, chairman of the republi-
can state committee, is not going
to let Haskell steal the election.
Charley has "an eye like an eagle"
and is watching close. If Haskell
has won it fairly he ean have it but
not otherwise.
A most deplorable accident oc-
curred in Mangum Monday—a
strong healthy man, in the full
vigor of life was crushed to death
and buried by the caving in of a
sewer ditch. His name was Char-
les H. McAlister, thirty-six years
old, unmarried, formerly a resi-
dent of Waxahachie, Texas.
The accident occurred Monday
afternoon. McAlister was the
man who went behind the pipe
layers and pulled out the timbers
and braces which are put in to
keep the walls of the ditch from
caving while the ditch is being
dug and the pipe laid. He ap-
peared to be a man of steady nerve
and careful and for those reasons
the foreman of the job had picked
on him to do that dangerous work.
He had been doing it some time
and quite satisfactorily but on this
particular occasion he seems to
have made a miscalculation. The
ditch at that point was ten feet
deep. He was at the bottom of
the ditch loosening a brace when
he heard the ground cracking
above him. He started to run and
get away from the avalanche that
he knew was coming but ran the
wrong way. A great slab of earth
weighing several tons slipped from
one side of the ditch and crushed
him against the oppoiste wall.
He was completely buried standing
up against the wall of the ditch.
A number of workmen nearby saw
the cave and saw it catch the man
and soon pickers and shovelers
were digging him out. But it was
a half an hour before they could
get the unfortunate man out and
he was dead. Dr. DeArman,
county coroner, examined the body
and stated that the neck was
broken by the fall of earth so that
it was not a lingering death.
McAlister was a good workman
and a sober and industrious man
and saved his money. He had
$1,500 in the First National Bank
of Mangum and it is reported that
he owned some property in Texas.
The body was taken to S. D.
Rude's morgue where it was em-
balmed and remained until Thurs-
day morning when it was taken
to Waxahachie, Texas, for inter-
ment. Four brothers of the de-
ceased aefcompanied the remains.
Deceased was the youngest of a
family of five brothers and two sis-
tres. One of the brothers, W. M.
McAlister, lives at Reed, this
county, another, J. L. McAlister,
lives at Walker, Okla., and the
other members of the family re-
side in Texas.
A revival meeting is in progress
at Mountain View school house in
the Dial community, conducted by
Rev. Jackson, of Whitt, Texas,
Christian evangelist
Thirteen candidates for baptism
were immersed in Horse Branch
Sunday by Bro. Newsome.
Ben Cameron attended the picnic
at Olustee Saturday and reports a
good time.
Mangum R. F- D. No. 3.
Mrs. L. S. Hughes has been on
the sick list for the last few days.
Singing at J. M. Maloy's Sunday
night was attended by a large
crowd.
E. A. Windham has moved back
on the river to gather his crop.
Miss Kate Cheek, of Reed Route
1, is visiting Miss Dora Ewalt this
week.
Geo. Hughes has been busy this
week sowing wheat.
J. H. Powers has out one bale of
cotton and is picking on another.
M. M. Rati iff is busy this week
sowing wheat and picking cotton.
The trustees of City View have
signed a contract with Miss Effie
Zornes to teach the winter term of
school at that place.
Prof. J. E. Taylor, of Mangum,
visited the City View school last
week.
Miss Jeffie Johnson and Miss
Beulah Gatewood, of Route 3,
started to school in Mangum last
Monday.
Edwin Clark, and family, of Ce-
1 ina, Ohio, are stopping with his
brother, M. B. Clark. Mr. Clark
is well pleased with Greer county
and will make this his future
home.
It is reported that Verbie Sharp,
son of Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Sharp,
has the scarlet fever.
Mr. Bradshaw has moved to Mr.
Clark's farm.
ON THE RURAL ROUTES
Notes Picked Up By Free Delivery
Carriers on their Regular Dally
Rounds.
Are you interested in the lands
of West Texas or New Mexico? If
so write or call on the Southwest-
ern Land and Investment Co., Man-
gum. We can give you informa-
tion that will be of great value
to you.
Hon. Frank Mathews, state sena-
tor from Greer, is ill of typhoid
fever.
Mangum R. p. D. 2-
Most of the farmers are putting
up feed and some are picking cot-
ton.
Miss Alice Martin has returned
from an extended visit with her
siters at Erick.
S. G. Weddle, of the Seminole
nation, has moved on the Walter
Botts place, ten miles south of
Mangum.
W. J. Roberts returned Friday
from Kansas City where he had
been with cattle.
Walter Davidson, of Erick, is
visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs.
A. T. Martin.
J. W. Morgan is building a new
residence on his place near Gyp
Hill No. 2.
Mrs. Mary Fullerton is visiting
her son and family at Ridgeton,
Okla.
W. B. Crisp and J. F. Smith
with their families returned this
week from a visit with relatives at
Roff, I. T.
Charlie, the youngest son of P.
D. Hawkins, is sick with typhoid
fever.
Miss Edna McCastland is on the
sick list.
A. R. Morgan has built an addit-
ion to his residence.
Mangum R. F. D. No. 4.
Dub Foster threshed ten and
one-half bvshels of alaflfa seed
from one acre.
Miss Laura Wallace is going to
spend sometime in Blair with Miss
Kate Clarkson.
Cotton has begun to open and
some are gathering.
Fred Smith has his house about
completed and will give an ice
cream supper when it is finished.
The meeting at Mt. Zion closed
Sunday night. There was nine
conversiQns and twelve additions to
the church roll.
Master Willie Grimes celebrated
his seventh birthday by giving a
dinner to several of his little
friends which was enjoyed very
much by all present.
Last Friday Bro. Bullock's horse
got scared at an automobile near
the residence of S. P. Goforth and
ran into the wire fence, hurting
the man real badly * and disabling
the horse.
The summer term of school at
Center will be out Friday and it
has been a success with an enroll-
ment of 104 pupils and it is hoped
Miss Robinson will return to assist
Prof. Sims in the winter term
which will begin December 1st.
Several of the young folks visi-
ted Mr. and Mrs. C. McAuley Sun-
day.
B. G. Lewis and family left for
Eschite, O. T., Wednesday where
they will make their future hom#.
—R. B. Cameron departed yes-
terday on a trip to Nashville,
Tenn.
—H. L. Stone and two sons,
father and brothers of Daisy May
Stone, are giests of Dr. and Mrs.
F. C. Holmes. Their home is in
Colorado.
—Ed Vaught, of Oklahoma City,
who succeeded Charley Hunter as
clerk of the court of Judge Bur-
well's district, was in Mangum
today. He was on hia way to Mc-
Knight on legal business.
County Farmer* Union.
The F. E. A C. U. of A. County
Union of Greer county will meet at
Madge thirty miles west of Man-
gum on the 4th and 5th of October.
All local unions will see to it that
they have a fuU delegation at thiB
meeting. Marketing of our cot-
ton will b« dissussed at this time.
I!. H. WYMAN,
President of Greet Cowitgr.
Miss Kittife Fullenton loaves Sat-
urday for Bsyd, Texas. She has
engaged to terth school at Hollis,
this county, n'ext year.
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