Mangum Sun-Monitor. (Mangum, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 11, 1907 Page: 4 of 8
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Mangum Sun-Monitor.
H. L.CHITTENDEN
Editor »nd Pubttohoi
Pdbushkd Bvkey Thursbay.
■atcred at the PotoOc* at Mangaas. O. T.
Subscription Rates.
One Year,
Bis Months,
One Dollar.
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Phone No. 8.
Thf SUN-MONITOR is read each
mttk by Five Thousand people in
Grttr county.
THURSDAY, JULY ii. 1907-
SUM CoavMtloa Call.
By the direction of the Oklaho-
ma-Indian Territory Republican
Central Committee, and the au-
thority in me vested as Chairman
of said Committee, a Republican
State Convention for the pro-
posed State of Oklahoma is hereby
called to meet at Tulsa, Indian
Territory, on
1907, at 10 o'clock a. m., for the
following purposes:
To decide what will be the pol-
icy of the Republican party relative
to the rejection or adoption of the
proposed Constitution;
For the purpose of making a
declaration of party principles;
For the election of a State Cen-
ral Committee; and for the elec-
tion by the Convention of a Chair-
man of the State Central Commit-
tee.
For the nomination of candidates
for State offices, should the conven-
tion decide to make such nomina-
tions.
The representation of the various
counties in Oklahoma and Indian
Territories, to this Convention, is
apportioned among the several
counties upon the following basis,
to wit:
Adair 14
Alfalfa 22
•Atoka 18
Beaver 15
Beckham 15
Blaine 22
Bryan 22
Caddo 30
Canadian 23
Carter 23
Cherokee 17
Choctaw 21
Cimarron 11
Cleveland 22
Coal 17
Comanche 28
Craig 24
.Creek 18
Custer 20
Delaware 14
.Dewey 18
Ellis 17
Garfield 32
Garvin 15
Grady 16
Grant 23
Greer 14
Harper 14
Haskell 20
Hughes 17
Jackson , 15
Johnston 17
Jefferson 13
Kay 32
Kingfisher 28
Kiowa 22
Latimer . . 19
LeFlore 25
Lincoln 26
Logan 36
Love 15
Major 16
Marshall 13
Mayes 15
Murray 13
Muskogee 39
McLain 20
McCurtain 19
McIntosh 24
Noble 21
Nowata 20
Okfuskee 19
Oklaohma 45
Okmulgee 23
Osage 24
Ottawa 21
Pawnee 24
Payne 28
Pittsburg 31
Pontotoc 17
Pottawatomie 28
Pushmataha 33
Roger Mills 15
Rogers 18
Seminole 17
Sequoyah 24
Stephens 15
Texas 16
Tillman 14
Tulsa 26
Wagoner 34
Washington 22
Washita 18
Woods 24
Woodward 19
This call is made upon the express
delegated authority of the Okla-
homa-Indian Territory Republican
Central Committee.
Dated at Oklahoma City, the 26th
day of June, 1907.
J. L. HAMON, Chairman.
O. A. Wells, Secretary.
For feed and coal phone Hick-
orson's Wagon Yard. Phone 256.
TO THE REPUBLICANS OP OREBR
COUNTY.
You have, through your delegate
convention held in Mangum on
Tuesday July 9, elected me to rep-
resent you on the Territorial, or
State, committee. I assure you
that I duly appreciate the honor
and will endeavor, to the best of my
ability, to prove worthy of the
trust. It will be my utmost desire
to see a strong party organisation
built up in the county and I hope
every Republican in the county will
do his part in assisting the work.
We must build up our party and the
way to do it is to talk up the prin-
ciples and interests for which the
party stands and in every way, by
word, precept and example,endeavor
to encourage party patriotism.
H. L. CRITTENDEN.
Digging the Sewers
Work is being pushed on Man-
gum's sewer system and according
to present plans will be completed
in about sixty days if there are no
accidents and the contractors do
not have to wait on materials to ar-
rive.
They are now working near the
old Seal's gin and already have
about 1,500 feet of fifteen inch pipe
layed while the ditch is dug and
ready for the pipe to be layed all
the way from the Ashley Wilson
place to the Seale's gin.
The contractors have a steam
dredger at work digging the ditch-
es which doe3 away with a great
deal of labor. The machine will
dig a ditch twenty-one inches wide
and nine feet deep, five hundred
feet a day. It is certainly a won-
der to see this machine work.
Messrs. Stokes & Bouse, of Okla-
homa City, have the contract for
the work and have six months from
the time work is commenced to
complete it in. The contract price
was $13,650.
Stover buggies, the best on the
market. New styles with auto
seats and detachable tops, can be
changed to a run-about in a pair of
minutes, at Jackson & Wilson's.
educational movement, and by at-
tending the institute not only in
person, but that he will remember
that the good wife and children are
or should be as vitally interested in
farm progress as is the head of
the household. The institutes
throughout these counties have not
been as well patronized in the past
as they should have been, the plea
being offered that the cotton pick-
ing prohibited attendance. There
will be mighty little cotton picking
done in August this year; mosquit-
oes will be too bad to enjoy fishing,
so there will be no excuse accepted
if the farmers are not at the meeting
C. A. McNabb, Secretary,
Oklahoma Board of Agriculture.
ON THE RURAL ROUTES
BRAVE
Playing With a Trust
Tulsa World:—Since last Novem-
ber the democrats have been play-
ing with the sacred trust of the
people in making what they term a
constitution. For nearly a year
they have been burning money of
the taxpayers and idling away time
in fruitless efforts to frame a docu-
ment which they could shove down
the throats of the people and per-
petuate themselves in power. Still
no constitution has been offered.
The document remains in a state of
incompletion and July 10 the dele-
gates assemble to make amendments
to it. The voters do not know
what the document really contains.
They have no means of knowing its
contents and what things it fastens
upon posterity. And yet the con-
vention may call the election Aug-
ust 6 to make the people vote
on the "sight unseen" article they
have been framing this past three
months. These slow and exaspera-
ting methods are being roundly con-
demned by the people of both terri-
tories. If the democracy really has
a document by which the statehood
may be safely granted to all the
people of both territories, why these
dilatory tactics. They have merely
been playing politics and mak-
ing buffons of the people who must
accept or reject their offerings.
It is high time to come out of the
alfalfa patches. Frame your con-
stitoution
Let the people really know what
is in store for them. Let the full
truth be known that the citizens
may judge and vote intelligently
Thinking themselves safely in
power the democracy have taken a
Rip Van Winkle sleep but they may
like poor Rip, awake to find their
friends gone and shattered, a wreck
of what was once a strong, power
ful party.
Farmers' Institutes.
Dates for the holding of annual
sessions of County Institutes have
been arranged as follows:—
Elgin, Comanche Co. Aug. 12th.
Anadarko, Caddo Co. Aug. 13th
Hobart, Kiowa Co. Aug. 14th.
Mangum, Greer Co, Aug. 15th.
Berlin, Roger Mills Co. Aug. i7th
Norman, Cleveland Co. Aug. 20th
Shawnee, Pottawatomie County
Aug. 21 st.
Chandler, Lincoln Co. Aug. 22nd
Morning sesiioa will begin at
9:30 a. in. sharp.
The time for holding the above
meetings was selected with a view
to striking a period when the cot
ton and corn crop would not be de
manding so much attention from
the farmer. It is to be hoped
that each farmer who possibly can
will lend assistance'to this valuable
Notee Picked Up By Free Delivery
Carriers on tbeir Regular Dally
Rouada.
Mangum Route No I.
Miss Pearl and Mable Barnett
spent Saturday and Sunday with
the Nicholas girls, Miss Pearl and
Francis.
W. T. Nicholas and family spent
the 4th with his brother, Joe Nich-
olas and family and had a fine time.
John Cox of Rock bought a new
buggy and tried it for the first time
on the 4th.
Jap Steel appears to be patrol-
ling the road between his home and
Mr. Epps.
Miss Jennie Thomas' two music
classes will'close with an ice cream
supper together at Mr. Needham's-
did not learn the date-and all the
neighbors are invited. There will
be a musical program which will
conclude with the farewell song.
There was a singing at the home
of J. R. Thompson Sunday night
which was enjoyed by all present.
Miss Winnie Chambers is on the
sick list.
The ladies of Route No. 1 en-
joyed a quilting at Mrs J. R.
Thompson's June 20. When the
quilt was finished Mr. Thompson
came in and the ladies proceeded
to wrap him up in it and had qui «
a lot of fun. At the dinner the
guests were, Mr. and Mrs. A. W.
Patrick, Witt, Vaughn, Dilk,
Chambers, Miss Winnie and Ethel
Witt, Lewis Vaughn, Pattie and
Lettie Starnes, Jack Witt, Bob
Witt and Lewis Combs,
Master George Patrick drove to
Mangum, Monday. He drives a
fine little poney and calls it his own.
Mangum R. F. D. No. 2.
Threshing is in full blast in the
Horse Branch community. A poor
yield of both wheat and oats is re-
ported.
T. B. McReynolds was in Man-
gum on business Tuesday,
N. B. Dial is cutting his third
crop of alfalfa for this season.
The children of J. B. McReynolds
have the whooping cough.
E. R. Montgomery is in Bloom-
ington this week.
J. M. Longmire and Louis Staub
were Mangum visitors, Tuesday.
Rev. Donehoo preached at Gyp
Hill No. 1, Sunday morning.
Quite a number of the farmers on
route two with their families at-
tended the picnic at Mangum last
week.
The young people of Gyp Hill No.
one, held their regular Sunday
night singing at the home of Mrs.
T. J. Vanlandingham, Sunday night
a nice time is reported.
L. W. Loper, formerly of Olney,
Texas, is shaking hands with old
friends on the route this week.
S. G. Barton wa3 taken suddenly
ill at the picnic, Thursday, but is
able to be around again.
Mrs. Anna Barnes of Temple,
Texas, is visting relatives on the
route this week.
"Ton can »»y what you mind to
about the nerve of the redsktna, but
don't say tt when I'm around," thun-
dered Col. B Scenting a atory.
the cowpunchera crowded nearer the
ranchman.
The room of the adobe shack was
blue with tobacco smoke; Just the at-
mosphere that seemed to Inspire the
old man.
"I have followed a flock of canvas-
backs down the Poteau for miles, wait-
ing for them to float within range,
and I've watched with Increasing heart
beats a battle between the dogs and
black bears In the Mississippi cane-
brake. but thla waa my first and only
experience with a wild-cat." aald the
colonel, betwen puffs of his corn-cob
pipe, by way of Introduction.
"It was In aouthwestern Arkansas
la the daya when you got to St. Louis
by riding a third of the way aatrlde a
broncho, another third In a stage-
coach and the rest of the way In a
train which the natives would acorn
if It was run over the Jenny Llnd coal
branch to-day.
"Red Blanket iad been my chum
ever since our fathers had smoked the
pipe of peace and »ad agreed not to
murder each otAer oftener than once
a week. It was during the big Chero
kee payment when Uncle Sam unload
ed several millions of his treasury
notes on the members of that tribe,
and every Indian was rich; that Is,
until the tradesmen from the fort col'
lected their long-outstanding ac
counts.
"Red Blanket and I took advantage
of the excitement to slip off Into the
hills for a quiet hunt. We *ok only
our guns and ammunition. Neither
had been educated to carry a kit full
of eatables when we set forth for big
game. And I don't remember ever
having missed a meal, either.
"We hunted all day with fair suc-
cess and were searching for a good
place to camp for the night when we
encountered the wild-cat. Boys,
have had some terrifying experience
In my time, but they were as tam* as
a euchre party at a church fesvval
compared to this one."
"I pride myself on my keen ears,
but If It hadn't been for Red Blanket
I don't think I would be here to repeat
this yarn. My first inkling that any
thing waa wrong came when the In
dian deliberately tripped me. I fell
alongside a log under the branches of
a big tree.
" 'Don't' move,' I heard him say
Before I had time to roll over and
demand an explanation, I heard
whir-r-r through the air, followed by
a shot and a gleeful cry, if an Indian
Is capable of such an exclamation.
"The whir-r-r chilled the very mar
row In my bones, and I believe my
heart stopped plugging for an Instant
but the shot caused me to Jump to my
feet. Something fuzzy-like brushed
my coat as I rose from the ground
I followed Red Blanket's gaze to the
object.
"Struggling in Its final agony was
the monster. Ordinarily they are not
very big, but this one was about the
size of a young panther. Boys, as you
know, I'm not much given to demon
strations, but when I realized what
had happened, I Just hugged that In-
dian kid.
"As he dexterously skinned the cat,
he told me that he threw me down
when his eyes met the gleaming balls
of fire of the feline, crouched in the
tree, ready to spring, he thought, upon
my head. And I always will believe
that he acted none too soon.
"That whir-r-r through the air con-
vinced me that the beast would have
torn my eyes out had I not hit the
ground when I did. What do you
think of that Indian, standing up
there as cool as an Iceberg and send-
ing a ball into the very center of that
cat's heart as it leaped for me?
"A good shot? You bet it was, and
It took nerve, too, to hit the mark."
Don't Forget
We are still selling Groceries that are
fresh and of the best quality.
Bring us
Your Produce
we |>ay the highest prices. The best
Flour sold, "Maney's Marvel." A fine
line of Cigars and Tobacco, Candies,
Cakes and Crackers. Phone No. I®.
GIVE US AN ORDER.
LOVE & KEE
We Offer You Our Services
-IN THE-
Undertaking Line
A full stock always carried. Coffins, Caskets, Robes
AND A NEW HEARSE.
SOUTH 5IDE SQUARE
J. W. L0VETT,
THE FURNITURE
flAN.
FREE
1-2 Dozen of
these
Glasses with
Your Own Initial
on it free with
$6.00 worth
at
Cur-
reathers
Earnest Smith, who is employed
on the farm of E. Williams, near
Bloomington, fell and broke his
arm at the skating rink here dur-
ing the Fourth of July celebration.
We sell the best buggy for the
money that is sold in Western Okla-
homa. It's the Stover. Jackson
& Wilson.
A man by the name of McMur-
ray, a one armed man, was arrested
in Mangum on Friday on a tele-
gram from Lawton which stated
that he was wanted to answer to
the charge of stealing a pair of
horses and a buggy owned by a
Mrs. Estes, of Lawton. It was
claimed that he had borrowed the
rig to go to another part of town
and then kept on going. The ar-
rest was made by City Marshal
Shipley and he found the team and
buggy in a wagon yard. Mrs. Estes
and Deputy Shenf Smalls, of Law-
ton arrived Saturday and returned
the same day, Mrs. Estes driving her
team and the officer taking the thief
on the train.
CO8T OF LIVING HIGHER.
Mr. Winne, of Winne & Winne,
bankers and loan agents of Wichita,
Kas., was in Mangum Saturday and
laid the ground work f6r the organ-
ization of a new bank. The plans
and personnel of the new institu-
tion will be announced later.
Subscribe for the Sun-Monitor.
Big Increase In 1908, Reports Depart-
ment of Commerce.
Washington.—Additional statistics
on the Increased cost of living are
given In a bulletin Issued by the de-
partment o' commerce and labor. For
17 years the ^vernment has conduct-
ed an investigation of Wholesale and
retail prices. The present Investiga-
tion shows that wholesale prices
reached a higher level In 1906 than at
any other time during the 17-year per-
iod covered.
The average for the year 1906 was
5.6 per cent higher than for 1905; 36.5
per cent higher than that for 1897,
the year of lowest prices, and 22.4
per cent higher than the average for
the ten years from 1890 to 1899. Prices
reached their highest point In De-
cember, 1906, the average for that
month being 4.1 per cent higher than
the average for the year 1906 and 6.3
^er cent higher than the average for
pecember, 1905.
Only two groups of commodities,
»»,rm products and drugs and cheml-
sals, showed a decrease In price for
1906 as compared with 1905. The de-
crease was .6 and 7.2 respectively.
Food Increased 8.6, clothing 7.1, fuel
and lighting .6, metals and imple-
ments 10.4, lumber and building ma-
terials 9.6, house furnishing goods 1.7
and miscellaneous articles 7.4. Of 258
representative articles Investigated
ITS showed an increase In price, 50
a decrease und 30 no change from the
previous vear
I do not handle anything but the
best in 17 to 23 jewel movements.
Solid Gold Rings Only.
everything in proportion.
LOGAN
THE JEWELER
MEAN AS EVER
A Checking Account
is important to any business—
it is a convenience to any man
—it will be a great help t
you.
X Checking Account
records your business transaction* accu-
rately—keeps your money mattersjstraight:
—affords you a convenience that is at all
times safe, simple and sure.
We invite your account. ;
THE CITY NATIONAL BANK,
Mangum, Oklahoma.
T. M. ROBINSON
w. h. DICKEY
LIQUOR NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that I, A.
L. Roberts this day filed in the
office of the county clerk in and for
Greer county and Oklahoma Terri-
tory my petition asking that a li-
cense be granted me to sell at re-
tail malt, spiritous and vinous
liquors on lots 5 and 6, block 16 in
the 3rd ward of the city of Man-
gum said county and Territory.
If no protest be filed on or before
the 26 day of July 1907, I will
request the issuance of said license
according to the Territorial Stat-
utes.
This the 10 day of July, 1907.
A. L. ROBERTS,
Applicant.
Farm Loans.
SLATON BUILDING.
Manc.vm, Okla.. March i, 1907.
Dear Sir:—If you can use any 8 per cent
money on very easy terms, for a long or shot
term with option to pay a part or all of prit
cipal each year, we can accommodate you.
are home people and will close up papers
yonr own home if you choose. If'you wish
sell, /our releases will come promptly as w
expect to deal with you during the Ufe of loat
nor is there auy commission to come out of fac
of loan. Unless incumbered, we pay wh«
papera are closed; when incumbered, we a<
vance balance, and clear incumbrance ourselve
We have plenty of money for large or amq
loans ready at all times. If we do not treat yc
perfectly fair we do not want your loan. Mont
spent on farms increases the value double tt
money spent. Good rent houses hold go4
renters who pay off the loan that built ti
houses. We think we are the promptest.
Phone, write, or call on us.
Yours truly,
ROBINSON & DICKEY.
BW. Cor. Square,
FACTS
IN RErBRENCB TO
Jahn *. Bicker's 014
llaMe ly. Water.
It cures sore eyes or granulated lids.
It strengthens weak eyes.
It cools and soothes a sore eye.
It refreshes and strengthens a tired eye.
It don't hurt when applied.
It feels good. Children like It.
More than a million cures back it. .
The genuine always enclosed in a red floldi
For; chronic sore eye lids, sties, and
box.
diseased condition of theroots.of eye lashes, 1
Dickey s Old Reliable Kye Salve. Both guars!
teed under pure food law, No. 1411.
-SOLD BY-
MANGUM DRUG CO. I
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