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MANGUM. GREER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, JUNK JU. iqo*
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HE COUNTY BOARD
H«| Litl Week •» Board ol fcqual
uilion Midi Few Change*
MANGUM HAS MOST WEALTH1
•liMlion ol T«x«b!e Property in
County Exclusive ol Rail-
roads, tic . Nearly Six
Million Dollars.
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plan: in
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Up
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ABOUT THE OIL MILL
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Greater Interest Should be Shown
in Thit Important Enterprise lie In
t hr I
lur
c tcl<
i wife
ol tb«
d movrtl to Man
ivrp<ci| * (KMillun
the cle»|i|tf li|(t»l
Mr 1'olh. which
t until lakm ill
aud five children
children i« a girl
u and tend 50 acre* all right
im 71 >rar» old But, tiro
euden, tlir point i» nitric arc
•»mg to gel hand* to chop ami
our lotion To <h"W the
ity ol larui hand* I have only 1
UNION SHOULD TAKE IT UP
Farmer* Have Been Losing Mon-
ey by Overlooking Impor-
tance ol the Ureal Cot*
ton Seed Product
The hoard of oontity commit-
ioncr» net la»t Thursday to do Hit
tork of equalising the report* ol;
The oil uiill enterprise i» not j
progie*Hng a* rapidly a» we would |(
like to see it Mr. Taylor, the oil.'
mill machinery man, wa» here Sat-
urday aud had a conference with |
to Mght you to the lat t that I have
good land lying idle thi* vear for
want ol Hiine one to cultivate it.
and there 1% much laud 111 Greer
county lyiuit idle this year for the
«ame reason.
There is a fortune 111 Greer coun-
he la* aaaessors of the various j ty awaiting the industrious farmers
• iwnabtps and incorporated towns of the liast and North who do not
nd to attend to aucb other hitsineasi own their farms. They can rent
a might come before it. here on much more favorable terms
Of the township reports three and the crop* are just as sure.
k-ere reduced and three were raued. J M. Ckosiiv,
armel wan reduced 9 per cent. Martha. Okla. u_-... ,».
!,la 1 obok"tco 10•"■»»* ««-"1 srs*
. . - for the machinery. Manyofthoae
jiOtr raised (. per cent. Tbeae1 A Pl** » «">•«» Jo whom aubacription blanks bad
hatiKea are all on real catale, no the B... Ball N«l»«..-ll , i I ,0,°
iD "* ~ si fetss itess,
iVt total valuation of real eatate Pleaae let this old backwoods- me*lmK on Saturday of this week,
nd personal property of the conn-, ®«»^m Arkansas protest against 7,2 «
: The ol'
of 16 years and the youngest a boy
of two \ears
The funeral took place at s p
m on Tuesday, June 27 Inter'
nient was made in the Mangum
lity ceuutery and nervier* were
BIG CONTEST CASE
It Involves the Home ol the Sher-
iff ol Roger Mills County
BEEN ON TRIAL TWO DAYS
till
id
Plucky Little Mis« Sober Got Sec-
retary Hitchcock to Order
Her Brother's .and
Case Re-opened.
held at the grave conducted by
Kev. Dttvid Adams of the Baptist
. hurcb The service* were shoit
but very impressive, Rro Adams
remarks were very appropriate in-
deed. There wait a large atteud-
unce at the funeral.
Mr, Iiavia wan a native ol Ken- -
tucky and waa born in 1850. Ills, progress. Two whole day* have
u.u.jr -uw « vwuicic.ee w.in 1 ,f , , f Mr and Mrs ' »*rn occupied in taking testimony M N
the directors of the company but A u ?, , . , . ai„t annihpr lulf t!.»\ will doubt-
the director* decided ihVt not .1 A. Ruaa. of Vtnaon. both of whom ;»»<! another half da> will doubt |nw.(
sufTtcieut amount of stock had hccu
reported as sold, by the solicitor*
One ol the most impoitaui land
1 cases ever tried before the U. S.
; Laud office at Mangum is now in
were
•resent at the funeral as was lc*a be required to finish.
The contest i* over the
Sec. 9, Township it, Range
> pre***
al«o H. T Rtiss. a brother of Mra.
Da via.
SKJa
HAND BADLY BURNKl)
all, at aliout S3,000 aud la now
Th«0. K. Tailor t^t a LiKhttd /latch held by Samuei A. Klliott, Sher-
Oct too Cloaa to hla Ban- iff of Roger Mills county.
daged Hand. The record in the case shows
that the original entry was made
H. Boam. the tailor, was the bV HughW. Soher on May tt.j
victim of an unfortunate accident J ,9°I* On September 7, 1903. J.
•; I Tuesday evening. He had run a ! w- ¥rfn?ha » ]™y<r of
11 nail in his right hand and it was I contested Sober s claim. On Oc-
v. according to the official figures olle nuisance that, to my way of nc,,ors 10 nunc report
S exclusive of railroads, telegraph ; growing to be one of the j ^owU^c-L^made8'
nd telephone property, which is worst evils that confronts our ™, . . , pB,uiuK ...u. ,sw...c »uu .w« .cu. u«,
ssessed by the territorial board, Jww county boys. I say "o- r 1 » j® ^ want of "ood poisoning he had bandaged ' 'hfc Mangnm land office. On mo-
15,969.777. making the grand to- Greer county boys' because lharl' suDwrt of farmer! as .Ms d?recUv 1il and rated the bandage wilh I tion of claimant the case was con-
pi of taxable property of the coun- j » as taf as I can see just now. I ^'PP"rt ° have it auSSd ' turpentine. While standing on I t'nued }° ^eceniber 6, 1903, when
y close to six and a half million | know that this nuisance is hurt.ng I the s.dewalk on the south side j the trial was had resulting
ollars valuation. a quantity of our best farmers light 1 Ah ,s !10.w the farmers are at the J TtiiMiHav ^wnin„ tniiriMa tn ! decision for contestant b 1
The real and personal valuation !now' aud has bee° f°r
I the town o( Mangnn, to **.. y j [J-H'.? JL I wten'the "i'r^nS'Tn the"^: |Land Office. This appeal was
filed by Sober's attorney in the
28 and that of Altus, the next
argest town of the county, is
871018
what it is drifting to now Gam-' P°w*r to chan«« ,hat condition if I ™aea ine turpentine
1 1 ariuing 10 now. uam Farmers who will have ! da8e caught on fire. He attempt
ing or gambling, yes this is now ;inty WUV. rf " ^uljVe ed to out out the blaze and one of 1 ma,,K"»»»»»"
-rr u I .1 f an evil and a tininanrp llnrlfr any considerable amount ot seed 0111 f7 ? ' . . 1? f. , ,Q iQ(,i The next dav Miss Oer-
The board granted a petition for an evil aim a nuisance. Unaer , ' . . , his friends took off his coat and '9. '903- me next aay mi» v«r
n election at Olustee on the ques- | these four heads I waut to ask our fr^ thJ IdJSSSd thiv ' tried to smother the fire but did Itrude bober,.sister of the original
ion of incorporating that town and neighbors to notice and see it I am [ea ° led enou^h ! ™t succeed and Mr. Boa.11 ran into I entrymo^ appeared in Mangum
rdered the election held on July 5. ! 1Firs,J loss of1t,me: second- to iv the subicriDt.onl^Zre : a store« ierked the lid off of a wa* ^ ^ l°° ? * th® f86'
An inquiry was held by the board immoral conduct and unbecoming 1and there | ^ cooler with his left hand and | had_^torn^withdraw
n the application of Coker &
hristian for liquor license at
rauite, resulting in an order for
lie license to be granted and the
xpense of the trial to be taxed up
gainst -the remonstrators.
Resolutions of Condolence.
Whkreas, it has pleased Al-
ligbty God to take to himself the
ife of Bro. T. r. Jackson,
Therekork, be it resolved,
hat we, the members of Forest
ity lodge No. 363, Order Sons of
it. George, deeply sympathize with
ur brother iu the loss of his wife,
ho was so kind and considerate
o all whom she knew.
resdlved, therefore, that we | bors only lose one."
ommend our brother and family j Now, if that is the case where
o Him above that he may grant j an individual is really resting, how
hem grace to bear the loss they 1 much worse is it where it lays
bnrni.n7h.nd d"own £
by an old Seventh Day trolling interest in the stock and I ^^and^s^ bfdly b^e^The brothers name, filed an application
ick in Arkansas by the mI assure to then^the ma°- to be allowed to withdraw the ap-
langtiage; third, danger; fourth,
violation of law.
I lived
Baptist back
name of Ramsey. He came out
West a long time ago, and I do
wish I could find them; he was
such a good man and the family
were such good neighbors. Well,
the old brother would not allow
any work done at all on the 7th
agementof the business and the j »kia •" ?ff of the back. lh« !
fingers and palm j^re a mass ot
njayt fingers and pa'.m j^re
Mr. Tayjor proposes to' firaisffj ^
them a thoroughly competent and ^ and Wi l ,a>l h,m off lrom work
reliable man to look after the oper- "r a nr
ation of the plant, and any fair-
minded and level-headed man of
day (Saturday) and the custom ! some experience can prop-
made them keep the 1st day (Sab-1 erly manage the business of the
bath), soon that account I have j co"cern-the buying ot seed, dis-
beard his boys remark many times 1 °. Pro^ucts. etc.
that "the reason we can't get along . This is an enterprise of too great
any better is that we lose two days
out of every week, when our neigh-
ave sustained.
Resolved, that a copy of these
esolutions be sent to thje family
nd a copy be kept on records of
he-lodge.
W. H. Burrows, 1
A. Booth. Com.
A. Eastwood, )
From Valley View.
Cotton choppers are wanted
iow and cotton pickers will be
anted after a while in Greer
Dunty. I want to know where
e are going to get them. I don't
ant to fail getting my cotton
icked this year as I did last,
'here was between ten and twelve
ales of cotton went to waste on
y farm last year for want of pick-
s. A greater part of it was not
icked over even the first time and
ould have made over one-half
le to the acre.
Some will say you did not offer
pay enough for picking. In an-
er to that I will say that of the
vo last pickiugs I had one lot I
lered to give all the cotton for
:ie picking. I was told by the
ickers that they were not picking
Dtton for the cotton but for the
ay for picking. The last, cotton
had picked I hauled it to the gin
nd sold it and the proceeds of the
ale lacked ten cents of paying for
he picking. And I was not the
nly one that came out loser,
here were many farmers who had
othing left after paying for the
icking, to say nothing of the one
ollar to $1.50 per day that must
e paid to the choppers and where
the money coming from to pay
[>r preparing the land and cultivat-
ig the crop, and where is the high
it money coming from? It has
ot to come or wme of ns old hay
eds will lose a home. I
ie hand now and will need
chopping Hands are scarce
mibt have more help or we wil
* to stop raising cotton.
majority of them up until even 011
importance to the farmers of Greer
county to let fail. An independent
oil mill built any where in Greer
county will benefit every cotton
raiser in the county because it will
insure a better price for seed at any
point in the county. Farmers, es-
Mondays they are so sore that it pecially of Greer county, have been
takes two of these gamesters to hoe I Pay*n8 too little attention to their
Citv View Items.
The health of our community
good.
Oats are fine and the prospect for
a corn crop is flattering.
Rev. Cook filled the stand at the
View last Sunday morning.
The lecent dry weather has about
killed out the worms and cotton is
looking better.
One day last week a -fine son ap
peared at the home of Mr. Bus-
by. Howdy dad!
Some of the young people of
Templeton were out at our singing
in the afternoon.
Justin Burt left last Friday for
Eliasvitle, Texas, where he will
assist J. Iy. Blankenship in a nor-
mal music school.
All singers will please remember
the singing convention to be held at
Templeton on the second Saturday
and Sunday in July. All singing
classes are requested to elect and
send delegates to the same, and to
et there on Saturday.
Meet me at L. A. Snow's resi-
dence at 8 p. m. July 4 and let's
have a good time.
The wedding of W. J. Price and
Miss Violet E. Higdon took place
at the home of the gtoom's parents,
autkdaughters are gettiug^nervous, | county "e are tor. and we are proud ™T_ P P',c<!_ "f ®5';
they demand it, our crops d.uu.nd to «y that dur.ug the four year, ^by Rev
it instice demands it we have bee0 here we have seen ceremony was periorine p) Kev.
J. T. McCoelum. j Greer county develop from a cow I Sims, pastor of the First Methodist j
' I range, with a few scattered settlers, s . _ - , , ,
to a magnificent agricultural em-1 eI,ce u h16111^^ of the fannly and
pire with a taxable property valua- about one h^red guests. After
tion ot nearly seven million dollars. t,he ceremony and congratulations
! the wedding supper was served on
as much cotton as one of our dear
girls. Now this is a fact, and for
fear I make this, my first, too long
and force you to set it aside, I will
cut this just a leetle shorter.
As to the immoral conduct and
unbecoming language, I just refer
to our ladies and old folks who at-
tend games of late.
cotton seed heretofore, not realiz-
ing that it is of such vast commer-
cial value, and it is time they were
asking themselves why they have
been almost giving their seed away
while the oil mill trust is getting
fabulously rich from the sale of pro-
ducts of this same seed. The op-
portunity is here for the farmer to
Danger! Yes, besides the dan- j Set some of this Profit himself and
ger of accidents they have actually at the same time §et a better Price
got to fighting and paying fines. ' ,J?1S -^eed- . .
Violations of the law! Now, sher-! We advocate the building of this
iff, don't be in too big a hurry to ol1 miH and ur*e the fari»ers to
take stock in it for the same rea-
see me about my evidence as it is
not in right good shape just yet,
but I know of some of your kin-
folks who do know.
I do not want our boys tq have
to pay fines yet. Let's pass a law
to stop this if they will not stop
without compulsion. Our wives
son that we advocate any and all
progressive enterprises that we be-
lieve will be of benefit to the coun-
try. We have ua direct personal
interest in the matter but anything
that will tend to the enriching, ad-
vancing and upbuilding of Greer
for a week or two.
Among lb«*r who intended hum
MaugMiu wete -Mi and Mr*. Juhu
Tnpprl Mi and Mr.. II J. |lr
AiW4n, Mr and Mr* S W. Al
Tboma Tutvey «nd
daughter. Mr and Mr» Floyd Mc<
Null. Mr* Juhu Human. M i*a
Mary Power*. G. C. Moore. Mr
Mi'Miuu. John Latham W. T.
(Han. Kmnirt Winter. S. K. Kch-
oU. Saui li Mudc.
The late Mr. Atcbiiion wa» the
»lorekreprr at Corsica. Hla widow
it* a sifctri uf County Clerk Floyd
Neill and In Unight the bu»i-
and farm from Mr McNeill
aliout three years ago ami altout a
year ago he died Mrs. Atchinou
. t~ m ! Htill owns the real estate but sold
Roger Mills county. It is a larui !ou| thc
now valued, improvement# and
THti DISTRICT CONFIiRKMfc
Attendance Waa Oood and <Taay Pro-
no 11 mod it the Beat District Con-
ference They Ever Attended.
The Methodist District Confer-
ence cloned Sunday night after hav-
ing been in session since Tuesday
uigbt last. The attendance was
good from the start but reached its
highest number Friday when there
were fully one hundred iu attend-
ance. The session was one of un-
usual interest, aud was pronounced
by all the best conference they ever
attended. A large amount of busi-
ness was transacted, and while the
debates often t>ecaine spirited the
best of fellowship prevailed.
The citizens of Mangum vied
with each other in their endeavor
to make things pleasant for these
visitors, aud while the attendance
was large, there were a number of
good homes thrown open to which
no one could be sent.
The next session goes ,to our
plucky little city to the south, El-
dorado. Those in attendance from
♦ distance wmm JUv.vW^. JL , ijau*^ -
kle and Rev. Wm/J. Sims, from
Oklahoma City, and Rev. J. N.
Moore, from Ardmore.
The pulpits of all the churches
in the city were filled at the morn-
ing hour Sunday by members of
the conference.
a
rs light' As 11 ,s "°* tne ,armers are at the j q"uCSHaT, Vv<:ti j tic" talkine to some I decision for contestant French
' I rs? as 'thei^'sewlconcerned I We^s'he s.nlfk*?'Z.cb T.h ! "hich conteatee Sober, appealed
eat and be granted a new hear-
ing which application.. denied.,
by the local office and from which
an appeal was taken. When the
matter came before the Commis-
sioner of the General Laud Office
he sustained the action of the
Mangum office and ruled that no
appeal of the case had been made
and the only question for him to
settle was on the granting of a re-
hearing the denial of which closed
the case and left the land open for
filing.
On this decision French was
notified of his right to file 011 the
land and he relinquished to Fran-
cis B. Witcher who later relin-
quished to Samuel A. Elliott and
it is said that there was $750 in-
volved-in the deal.
About a year ago Miss Gertrude
Sober got transcripts of all the evi-
dence in the case and went to
Washington where she succeded in
getting the matter to the attention
of the Secretary of the Interior
who rendered a decision to the
effect that the Commissioner had
erred in his decision of the case,
that the appeal on the question of
granting a new hearing was vir-
tually an appeal of the case and
he ordere 1 the subsequent entries
cancelled and a rehearing of the
original case held. This trial is
now proceeding and ten or
a dozen Roger Mills county citi-
zens are present as witnesses.
Judge J. L. Brown, of Oklaho-
ma City is Sober's attorney and S.
B. Garrett is representing French
the original contestant.
UNVEILINU ATCORALEA.
Don'tforget the open air concert
at the residence of L. A. Snow
Tuesday evening, July 4. All are
cordially invited. Refreshments
will be served. Admission 35c.
Call for Mass Convention.
To select delegates to the Okla-
homa--Indian Territory Single
Statehood Convention, to be held
in Oklahoma City, July 12 at 10
o'clock, 1905.
We, the undersigned citizens of
Greer county, Oklahoma Territory,
in compliance with the instructions
of the single statehood executive
committee for Oklahoma and In-
dian Territory, hereby call a mass
convention, irrespective of political
parties, to meet at the court house
at Mangum, Oklahoma, at 2 o'clock
Saturday, July 8, 1905, said con-
vention to be composed of the citi-
zens of Greer county to select twen-
ty-three delegates to said statehood
convention, said delegates to be
selected from all the political par-
ties. Respectfully,
J. L. Carpenter,
T. P. Clay,
Chas. M. Thacker,
W. C. Shadden,
Jno. A. Oliphant,
h- L. Crittenden.
The Mangum Cash Store will
close at noon nejft Tuesday, the
j Greer county develop from a cow j h^fMangum™? The "wes11 A Number of Mangum People Attend-1 Sjoseat ^ ne*1
range, with a few scattered settlers, [ r - j ! ed--Dlnner was Served to all ' ^ourtfi Ju'y>
Methodist Church.
Sunday morning, July 2, at 11
o'clock, Dr. C. Q. Ray will preach;
subject, "Retribution." At 8:45
p. m. he will deliver a lecture on
"Character Building." These , ., - , - ,
subjects will be presented from a ! d«»t oil mill on the plan proposed,
scientific and biblical standpoint- hh,ch » rean>' th,e co-operative
showing the harmony between j PIan- wtlljend Jargely to that end.
science and the Bible. The pub-
m the Woodman Hall.
The Coralea camp Woodmen of
There are 100 people living near
this place that know only one of
two things. The thing they know
We want to see the county con-1 , - . . .. a-v .,w.~vU a«.. . ... ,
tinue to grow and prosper and we the la,TnL and was most heartily the World unveiled the monument * that they ha£t°?^ °r,J,p j° *
u.lding of an indepen- enjoyed by aH. Mr. and Mrs. of the ,ate Sovereign W. J. Atch- dozen 50™8; Jhe thing they don t
Price are an estimable couple and —* ~ " "
have many friends in both Greer
and Roger Mills counties.
believe the building <
ison last Sunday and a number of I know ls that Hannah s drug store
Mangum members of the order at_ prepares a salve that cures them
tended the ceremonies. {*"»• . ™er' are5°o P«>-
Tbe crowd assembled about noon I PIe,that know both the above facts.
lie will fce welcomed. Scientific
investigators have a special invi-
tation. Those interested in the
study of the nervous system come
out.
Meeting at Shrewder.
Editor Scn-Moxitor.—Please
want announce in your piper that 1 will
more 1 begin a meeting -of several daysdu-
ation at Shrewder. Greer count v.
The nnen air rnnrtri af T A 1 he crowd assembled about noon i v , ; ' :
Greer cunnty'a oat crop this year ■ Soo„.s ,he evening o(, at theCoralea Woodman ball and^ak'ny otthem Pnce ioc; b;
is something immense. JuJy 4 froin 8 to IO p m wi,f ^ ■ brought their lunch baskets with i mai1 1 IC _ 'lannan,sUrng b
— Iwell worth thepnee. Come.
A. R. Davis died at his home in F* Sale. teady of which everybody was in-
North Mang um at 6 a. m. on Tues-, A nice 3 roomed bou^c and two vited to partake, which they did.
day, June 27. He was afflicted | lot> small bam. chicken house, and there was nearly enough lett
with abcess of the liver and had, gool garden spot, nice lawn, to feed another such a crowd.
For Sal*.
Two yearling mule
bred jennets, one two-'
1 n»t, one three-year-o' "
I/a P.
j stem.
Springs
been ill nearly a year
to Greer county about
ago and settled on a claim near
He came plenty of shade and well fenced,
ven years A very desirable location on South
Pennsylvania Ave for sale on
1 Satuixl
lulv
*nv>n in
! terms.
The service*- began about :
1. and were, as they always a;
ery beautiful and impressive.
Um Mar\ Powers went with t
St. r
A.
Wichita, Kansas.
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