Mangum Sun-Monitor. (Mangum, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 30, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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MANT.t'M. GRHKR COl'NTY. OKLAHOMA, THt'RSiMY, MARCH v». «<*>
VOL. i«. NO. 14.
PINCHING A TRUST
Chicago Grand Jury Hat Indict
«d Armour's Confidential Man
BEEN WORKING A WITNESS
Thomas J. Connors Shadowed by
Secret Service Men-Arrested
and Placcd Under
$5,000 Bond
Ttir flic i|(|» ti I tnenl ha« not ytl
doplrd a art t*f signal* of bell lal»
1 MDK consequently ibrfr wa* notb*
lit| lit the ringing oI iltr lit** Ml
U.i Sumliy wummi lo imlmit
whali direction (rum tbc public
[ M|u«r« lit* Ate wiib antl a* a icsult
I lie fiir U»y* got mixed up iud
took l Willi IUII IU Iltr r«»t I>4(1 of
town in*trad ofnorth of ibe square,
diiKxinii ibe heavy hose cart ibru*
tbe mixl ami did ix l gel lo lite
scene ul tlie fire uul"! niter tbc
neighbors bid extinguished tbe
llanir< wiib water from bucket*.
Tbe boy* made a ||Owl luu though
ami if lltcy bad got started in tbc
A RAILROAD SCHEME
-
A Plan to Build Prom Chattanoo*
ga. Okla to North Greer Co.
MAY BE PART OF TRUNK LINE
Granite Wants it Run to that Town
and Cut Out Mangum-Via
Altus Would be a Much
Better Route.
LtM soutlay m
'clock • a* auunUc
"i?
about
(if »l te
Chicago, March jMh. Tbc fed'
eral grand jury touiKht returned
an indictment again*! Thomas
J. Connors, general superintendent
ot Armour bt Co., on a charge of
interfering with . witoB. .urn- ? • Sm„, lm, ,
monvtl lo.|.|*.r before ti* (rand Lwdwct lo back Ihli .
jury now investigating the so-call-
ed beef trust. Mr Connors, who
is J. Ogdcn Armour's most confi-
(Initial employe and active head of lhe s,UTObcr«>l liale*olCotton(tinned
right direction would have made
good time. Tom Lawrence aay*
the rcasou tbe fire lioya were mi
long showing up at the fire was
that they went to the jail lirst to
get a permit from Sheriff Nelson
but there is no
■talc nicut.
OVIIR HAN I III; KSTinATE.
Wu Nearly One hundred Thous-
and More Than t£»tlmatvd.
The government report ou the
tbc largest {Kicking companies in
the world, was arrested on a bench
warrant by a deputy United
States Marshal and brought into
'he grand jury room wl.ere be »•» ^ - (^ ., crop
releued on " »5.ooo bond. Mur toM.rcb loibw.,
his release Mr. Connnor, refund , TWs reyon was in,
,o-?rwtr:r'cb.rgeS .h.. -«■£<. ^
John Edward Shields of Brookjyn, Hjj-ju »
5a=a®^^*aas«!a."rr»
was approached favored and enter-, as much {qt j( as
tamed by Mr Connoreand s^afic-, th(jse wfao j before djnner This
aM states that on March 25th the actual count
offense upon which Mr Connors P» & hundred thousand
was indicted occ^d. It is also | bales Qverythe government estimate
charged that Shields was; made in December. The officials
r» £Xl«. ^reet y,o i were likely satisfied at the time
office at 205 L v _.. that the count would over run their
transact his business while in Chi-1 but Jt was much ^ to
cago and also the use of a private faHen short tfaan tQ haye
telegraph wire in the office of the the estimate too high. Man-
packing company. Another charge ^ local dealers did not lose on
is that Shields was entertained by . * however thev were
Connors and that Connors suggest-1 P' something of the sort
ed to the proposed witness that he , , , " , .
sboold ,eS,^favorably .0 Ardourr £
and company and not tell all that |1 * J
he knew concerning the matter '
under investigation.
Mangum Culture Club.
The hospitable home of Judge
and Mrs. Oliphant was again open
for the reception of the Mangum
Culture Club, which held its week-
ly sessions there on the afternoon of
March 24th, with a good atten-
dance. Responses to roll-call were
from the dayjs lesson and ranged
"from grave to gay, and from live-
ly to severe," showing the varying
tastes of the members.
Mrs. McIntosh conducted the
lesson from "As You Like It," in
her own inimitable manner, bring-
ing to light the hidden beauties of
the master's lines. The nimble
wit of Touchstone, the lovesick
ditties of Orlando, and Rosalind's
blushing acceptance of the tender
tributes, were all subjects of com-
ment. The review of the week's
topics was full of interest, com-
prising a report of the new rubber
plantation in Mexico, the emigra-
tion of fifty Mexican gypsies to
Texas, the appointment of a new
apostolic delegate to the Republic
of Mexico, who will be a member
of the Pope's household, and the
election of United States Senators
from Tennesse and Missouri. The
club will meet with Mrs. H. W.
Trippett on March 31st, with the
following program.
Roll Call.—Quotations from the
lesson.
Lesson, Act III, Sccnes II and
III.—Leader Mrs. McIntosh.
Table-talk.—Current events by
the club.
A Case of Destitution.
A case of great destitution has
just come to the notice of the
writer of this article. As a farmer
named Brown living about three
miles east from town, was passing
an abandoned dug-out he heard
sounds within and upon investiga-
tion he found it occupied by Thos.
Feline and his wife Kittie, togeth-
er with their infant. Both Mr.
and Mrs. Feline were without
shoes and stockings and their poor
little offspring was blind. The
family had been occupying the dug
out for some time and had subsis-
ted on what they could forage from
neighbors. Mr. Brown immediate-
ly furnished food and milk for the
hungry family. Anyone disposed
to help them can leave donations
honor Roll
The following named persons
have paid, or some one has paid for
them, subscription to the Sun-
Monitor during the past two
weeks:
G. F. Harney, Altus.
J. L- Meeks,
J. E. Parks,
E. B. Turner,
W. Marble, Mangum.
P. D, Hawkins, "
E. H. Thomas, "
Dud Stephenson, "
Mrs. H. M. Maloy,
Wm. Latimer, "
Silas F. Snipes, "
Dan Dial,
Mrs. M. McCartney, "
G. W. Isbell, Ladessa.
A, C. Watters,
W. T. Armstrong, Carl.
C. G. Atwood,
J. R. Baker, Blake.
W. C. Baker, "
J. W. Biffle, Bettina.
A. J. Henson,
C. C. Clark, Granite.
L. W. Olds,
W. F. Simmons, Coralea,
Wm. Hester, Delhi.
H. D. Proctor, Willow.
D. C. Gilliam, Lincoln.
C. McAuley, Koreb.
J. P. Smith, Reed.
I. N. Wallis, Blair.
J. S. Moore, Hess.
W. A. Eoyd, Jester.
W. W. Maples, Duke.
M. H. Raiborn, Vinson.
C. F. Houser, Warren.
J. A. Roach, Madge.
F. M. Carruth, Mt. Hope, Ala.
W. M. Cotton, Shamrock, Tex.
Seth Mills, Ragsdale, Okla.
S. D. Justice, White Fist, Tex.
Mrs. M. Timmons, Sharp Top,
Texas.
Arch Wheeler, Lansing, Kan.
Notice to The Public.
We, the undersigned liveryman
of the town of Mangum, do hereby
mutually agree to the following
regulation and prices of rigs, etc.:
Sunday afternoon, $2 till 7 p. m.
and 25 cents an hour thereafter.
For bitchups and city calls, $1.00
for first hour and 25 cents an hour
thereafter. M. H. Dodson,
B. A. Finley,
W. E. Castle,
C. H. Ruttbr.
W. E. Childers and Miss Maggie
to help them can «ve I Pieni0n were united m marriage
4t e,. c".°L %7r^fTA»?A? >«t Sunday by Judge Todd. The
next Saturday. Hum •, took place at the borne of
B. E. Cotner expects to ship two the bride's parents four miles east
carloads of fat cows to Kansas of town. Tbe groom is a son of
City Saturday. jS. L. Childers of Mangum.
The towu of Granite ban been
trying lo hatch a tailruad scheme
for Mime time but kept it mi «juiet
during the process uf inculMtiuu
thai wc were not able to get at it,
but now the aculc siagc is consid-
ered passed uiid there 11 no longer
a question in the tuinds of the pro-
moters of the enterprise so we arc
able to give the facts to t|ie public.
R. B. Davis, a young man whose
home is in Granite, appears to l»c
the principal pusher ot the enter-
prise. He pioposcs, so it is re-
ported, to build a railroad from
Chattanooga, Comaucbe county,
Oklahoma, to Erick, Greer coun-
ty, via of Granite, giving Man-
gum the "go by." This road, Mr.
Davis says, is to be a part of a sys-
tem that is to extent from Galves-
ton to Denver and is to be uitiety
miles shorter than the present
route by the Denver & Fort Worth
road.
A public meeting was held in
Granite Friday and it was decided
that the people of that town would
give the proposed road forty acres
of land, $10,000 and the right of
way tor five miles on each side of
the town.
It seems to be the plan to bring
the road north from Chattanooga
through the Wichita mountains
probably by way of Snyder or
Mountain Park, or both towns,
thence northwest to Granite, pass-
ing that town on the east and go-
ing round Granite mountain 011 the
east aud north sides, thence to
Willow and on to Erick.
A meeting of the farmers along
the line of the proposed road from
Granite lo Willow and 011 west, was
held at Willow Saturday night and
the plan and purposes were outlined
by Mr. Davis. The proposition met
with a hearty indorsement by the
farmers and all present agreed to
give the right of way across their
tarms and a committee was appoint-
ed to see and confer with those on
the line who were not present at
the meeting.
The people of both Granite and
the Willow vicinity are displaying
much interest in the scheme and
seem to have faith in its accom-
plishment. Mr, Davis and his as-
sistants have been at work on the
proposition for sometime but very
quietly. The reason they gave for
secrecy in the matter was that they
wanted to keep the Rock Island
road in the dark until they got the
line blazed out and the right of way
secured, as the Rock Island would
oppose their plan and put stum-
bling blocks in their way.
Mr. Davis has filed on one of
the granite mountains and proposes
to ballast the road with crushed
granite and build its bridge piers
and depots of that stone. Mr.
Davis says his line is entirely inde-
pendent of any of the large rail-
way systems, and especially will it
never become a part of the Rock
Island system.
We would like to see the hopes
of young Mr. Davis realized at
least in part, but would respectfully
call the attention of himself and
his associate promoters to the fact
that the most feasible and best
route for a road from Chattanooga,
Okla., to North Greer county
would be to cross North Fork south
of Headrick and proceed to Man-
gum, taking in Altus, Martha and
Koreb, and from Mangum proceed
to Sayre via Willow and Bettina,
or Erick via Marie and Blooming-
ton or to Texola via Reed and
Salton.
Chattanooga is at the end of the
Rock Island branch that runs
southwest from Lawton to the
northern edge of the big Comanche
pasture. It is about thirty-five
miles due east of Hess, this county.
This ronte offers great advantages
over the one Mr. Davis has select- '
ed in the way of easy grades and |
more thickly settled and richer j
communities.
aUm <•! Ale Mnrv tbe wain work*
and At lighting apf»»»altt*ha» brcn
tnsiaUrd 11 wa* a *tnall blaic
caught if out a stove pipe going
through 1 be root of a »nmmei
kitchen of the bouse on N«»»th
Pen us >! v an la avenue, owned by J
ti. tttt i'heiis and imupml b
Klmer llcatly. Ncighlm
fire out with water from
Tbe fitriiten resfsmded promptly lo
Ibe call and got their hose cart out
in good tune but were mistaken in
lite lm siiun of the fire and slarted
off lu lhe cast pail of town Time
were no teams on the street at thai
hour that could lie nrc«*cd into
I nervier and after the lireiuen had
draggni the cart and ho*c through
the sand alatut a mile they arrived
I al the Mciic of the fire well mgb
exhausted Chief Logan will soon
.null, .1 system of signal fire 1*11
' taps
he as Mell as the fireman can tell
1 by the ringing of the bell in v/bat
i |>art of towu it is.
INTER STATE UNION
Duly Organised at Shawnee Latt
Week- Cut loote Irom Texas
CiRt.t R CO. MAN SECRETARY
buckets' ^*wn<c W Probably be Per-
manent Headquarters- Next
Meeting Will be Third
Week in July.
I A K Uavts. Imwrrb engineer
al the electftc light plant, In hav-
tug a pietty louifh lime !t« baa
| heett ill lor Mvrral months ha*
hardly been out >4 tbe house since
ltrcctnber, and now can be out of
> l*d only a little while at a lime
The money be saved while be was
I aide lu wi'ik wa* used aa sparingly
all gnuc sonic*
c ha* made a
ul the family
ot equal to the
»deserving and
The Greer
lhe Inter-Ten
ion 1 on veil l lot
last week ret 11
wt-rc well plei
and work t f
hciug the hi-I
ing all the initi
-tinnt v delegate* to
lorial Farmers' l?n*
at Shawnee, Okla ,
iird Sunday They
>cd Willi the outcome
he convention, but
convention and hav-
work of organize*
that in case of fire the_ pub- ,lontodo. aud being limited in
time to three days, not as much
was accomplished as had lieen ex-
pected, but the organization was
affected aud u general plan of work
outlined. There were two hun-
dred delegates in lhe convention
und u majority were from the In-
dian Territory.
The latter went there with a chip
on their shoulder expecting Okla-
homa delegat cs to attempt to run
tbe convention—some delegations
were even instructed to vote for
separate organizations for tbe two
territories, but when they found
that Oklahoma was inclined to do
the fair thing and help tbe Indian
Territory fellows out in their pet
measures they came around alright
and a harmonious orgaui/.ation and
pleasant understanding was finally
arrived at.
The name of the new organiza-
tion is the Indiahoma State Farm-
ers' Educational & Co-Operative
Union. In the selection of officers
Oklahoma gets the president, sec-
retary and treasurer, chaplain and
ItOU UARMi.S' III l)Ut: I.
Ilems ul Interest In antl About Loon-
ey I rum our Special Cor-
respondent.
B. C. Sharry has moved to E. K.
Palm r's farm.
J. S. Swearengen is visiting rel-
' atives in his native state—Arkau-
I sas.
Floyd Cox went to St. Louis to
I buy new stock for the firai, S. P.
| Cox & Sons.
Mr. Carroll, manager of S. W.
Lumber Co., of Eldorado, visited
Looney Saturday.
A Singing Bee was given at the
j home ot J. Tol Thomas Suuday.
Everybody was there.
Jas. Miller has moved his family
to the Beebee tarm which he bo t
from Mr. Beebee about three years | one of the three members of the
I ago. 1 executive committee,/ while Indian
| Don't forget that R. D. Barres, i Territory gets vice president, state
! of Looney, is agent tor the SUN- orSamzer and four »lembers o{ the
i_. * .. .. .. ~ i- vmpii i i\;p pnmnnt rimtp qii pvpii
Monitor and Dallas News, $1.50
per year,
All the ladies of the Looney
j neighborhood went to Sandy creek
ou a fishing and pleasure outing
Saturday.
| If all the garden that is being
I planted this year comes to maturi-
ty the people will have to dig new
cellars to store the products in.
| We are glad to know that George
Harrell, who was hurt in a run-a-
way last week, is improving and
seems to be out of danger now.
Mrs. T. B. Bryant and children,
accompanied by Miss Alice Bishop,
of Eldorado, spent Saturday and
Sunday visiting their sister, Mrs.
R. D. Barnes.
We are proud to say that our
friend, Bob Browder, is able to be
with us again. Mr. Browder has
survived a long siege of sickness
which bordered on pneumonia
Much to the credit of our young
doctor, J. P. Lee.
The residence of J. A. Keeton,
five miles west of Looney, was re-
duced to ashes Friday at 2 o'clock.
Some one of the family stepped on
a match, a spark caught to some
lint cotton which they had in the
house and the building was on fire
before they realized how bad it
was. The good people are getting
up a purse to help build a new
house for their neighbor who lost
nearly every bit of their household
goods. They only saved an organ,
two trunks, some quilts, etc.
Teachers Reading Circle.
The next meeting of T. R. C.
will be held at Reed, Okla., Satur-
day, April 1, at 2 p. m. Lesson,
five chapters of Seeley's School
Management, beginning with the
ninth chapter. All teachers con-
veniently located, and especially
members of the class are invited to
be present. Visitors will be appre-
ciated also.
Mrs. A. B. Crouch,
Instructor.
executive committee, quite an even
division of honors.
The president is S. O. Daws, of
Cordell. He is editor of the Un-
ion Signal, a farmer, county lec-
turer for Washita county, a justice
of the peace and a widower. His
salary was fixed at $480 a year.
Greer county really got the most
important office, that of secretary
and treasurer and a very worthy
man was selected for it in the per-
son of J. S. Moore, of Hess. His
salary was fixed for the preseut at
$750 per year, which is small
enough, as the duties of his office
will require his entire time. It
was decided that he should proceed
to Greenville, Texas, and there in
the office of the sta^ secretary and
treasurer enter upon his duties and
remain there until the executive
committee can arrange for the re-
moval of headquarters to Oklaho-
ma or Indian Territory. It was
left with the committee to select
the place for temporary headquar-
ters but it is quite likely that
Shawnee will be selected as the
public spirited citizens of that town
propose to donate a lot and build-
ing to the Union in consideration
of that being made the permanent
headquarters. The other officers
are S. T. Connor, of Canadian, I.
T., vice president and P. C. Estice,
of Snyder, chaplain.
The third Tuesday in July was
the date fixed for the next meeting
of the State Union but it was left
with the committee to change the
date if found advisable. Also the
place for holding the next meeting
was left with the executive com-
mittee.
A mass of resolutions were pre-
sented that never got beyond the
committee for lack of time to con-
sider them, but a few were adopted
—one expressing the thanks of the
new State Union to Shawnee, her
officials and citizens generally for
hospitality and courtesies shown
the Union and individual delegates.
One strongly arrainging tbe Stan-
dard Oil monopoly and the trusts
generally, one endorsing the move
of Kansas for a state oil refinery
and her war on Standard Oil, and
several of local interest to Indians
and white land owners of tbe In-
dian Territory. Tbe five civilized
11« possible bui wa
lline ago (lis w
I noble cfloit lo »U|<
j by washing but is
lask. The family
• worthy of syinpst
Norloa'CWfit \\ rddiftg.
I Wedding announcement tarda
mailed Monday give mil ice of ibe
| uiariiage of Mi** Minla. daughter
'ol Mi and Mrs John Norton, lo
Mr. Auditw IV Pierce, which took
1 place at I he parsonage of the First
Methodist church ol Mangum at (*
jp m. o'clock on Sunday, March
jo, lyoj, Rev. J. XV". Sims jvrform-
lug lhe ceremony It was a situ-
' pic affair, only relatives and a few
' intimate friends being invited,
j After the ccretuouy tbc bride and
' groom aud the guests all went to
the Gladstone hotel and |iurtook of
an elegant bridal stipjier.
Mr. aud Mrs Pierce will lioard
at Frank Simpttou's until the city
; schools, in vhich the bride is a
: teacher, close for the summer, after
! which they will go to housekeep-
ing in tbe cottage which Mr. Pierce
recently purchased in the north-
western part of towu. Mr. Piercc
is a young man of excellent char-
acter and considerable prominence
in business as well as social circles,
being cashier of the Mangum Na-
tional bank. The bride is a lovely
and very excellent young lady.
The ycung couple has mauy warm
friends who wish them a pleasaut
life journey together. Among
those preseut at the wedding were:
Misses Leah and Stella Naudain,
Miss May Roberts, Miss Francis
Van Horn, Misses Allie and Maud
Norton, sisters of the bride; Messrs.
Jim Lee Gilliland, John Daniel, B.
H. Squire, H. I). Henry,— Gor-
don, James M. Norton, brother of
the bride, Mrs. Mathewsou and
Messrs. and Mesdames Blake, Jane-
way, Curreathers, J. C. Gilliland,
W. T. Funderburk.
a Card From nr. Waggoner.
Having retired from the jewelry
business I desire to express my
thanks to the people of Mangum
and Greer county for the liberal
patronage extended me in that bus-
iness dnring the past eight years.
I will in the future devote my en-
tire time to the music business, re-
taining a part of my former busi-
ness room as headquarters where I
will be glad to see my old friends
and show them the best in the
market in the way of pianos and
organs. T. A. Lawrence succeeds
me in the ownership of the jewelry
business but the business will be
practically the same as Mr, Logan,
who was my jeweler for three
years, is now manager of the store
and all work guarantees made dur-
ing my administration will be made
good by him. Bespeaking a good
business for my successors and a
share of public patronage in my
new enterprise, I remain
Yours respectfully,
R. L. Waggoner.
Read tbe tbe prize coin and free |
cultivator offer made by C. P. Ham-
ilton in this weeks adv.
A Safe Cough riediclne for Children.
In buying a cough medicine for
children never be afraid to buy
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
There is no danger from it and re-1 tribes of Indians were all well rep-
lief is always sure to follow. It is resented in the convention,
especially valuable for colds, croup 1
and whooping cough. For sale by j °
all druggists. I will close to invoice Monday.
April 3. and will sell everything at
A full line of refrigerators and actual coat until Saturday night.'
ice cream freezers at F. S. Gentry 's, j April 1st. J. S. Wakefield, i
The recent decision of the De-
partment of Agriculture which
placed Gr^er county south of the
Government cattle qurantine line
not only had a bad effect in causing
a reduction in the cash value of all
cattle in the county but also inter-
fered with the plans of a num-
ber of owners of "a bunch of
cows'' who had intended to drift
them off into the Panhandle this
spring. Now they cannot take
them across the line at all until
November and then only on
inspection. About the only way
to take them then will be by rail
as there will be no grass for them
to eat on the way.
a Call Meeting
Of the Greer County Farmers' Co-
Operative Association. To the
members of the G. C. F. C. A.
You are hereby requested to meet
in Mangum April Sth, at 10 a. m.
for the purpose of adopting a new
constitution and to transact any
general business that may come
before tbe association.
F. H. Sweet,
Sec. G. C. F. C. A.
See Peden Bros, for tin roofing,
guttering, well casings, well curbs,
etc. Best of work guaranteed by
skilled workmen. Shop Erst build-
ing east of Cameron Lumber Co.
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