Mangum Sun-Monitor. (Mangum, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 6, 1903 Page: 1 of 10
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NEW ONE ON GREER
THE DISTRICT COURT
Meld in Mangum This Time.
j mean* of a living iixl nllkiliun.
.that the) might m lbrxlnriuu> fit- f
I—— : ture i uitintK l» Ihrm. honor that'
mother and glorify God. And
mother* don t you think that they.
"■ •*»»•»••« "wim. jlikrll«nicr T. Wilson will «a>
_ If 1 could walk through the floral
RICHEST COUNTRY ON EARTH j
—— e*t perfume and then select front
H< Uy. V„I Deposits .1 rf Sort, ;1-;—' 0p„» M^y. August 17.
> would fashion thrm into a more
I beauteous crown and with the hand*
U ti. Si. OTN MAV.
Criminal ca»r*'--Trr \» II It
——— i Kin*cll Trr v» 1*«. N- Mik'klinilur
Only < Thr« Weeks' Term lo B< J," > ■ Wj# iW T« >.
' . u John Ma) Iw Trr u Uhc Col>-
ASSIONMENT OP THE CASES.
of Minerals Lie Near the Sur-
face in Greer County.
Is H a Pipe Dream?
! of love would place that crown up-
jou the mother.
Ait to the substantial good this
grand order is doing in the world i
p™*' I The good deed* they do are very 1
Criminal Docket Will be Tak-
en up on Friday-Juries to
Be Drawn This Week.
Promoter hggleston, it •7-—-jxhe good deed* they do are very I lJtstrtct court will convene im
cottn l'y° sal^proposit loo' " I common, but nevertheless I will re-1 Mangum on August 17. one week 1 mrm Lt
Court o«w N K llarve\ vs
1J B Harvey I! ti Richard- vs
j I*. kiclurd* A Wilson vt S. A
I Wilson Trekell >1f Rounds v» K
C McColIough
At'O. 24, 7th UAV.
Criminal ca*e»~Ter. va K N.
I Stock bridge iiud Will Maxwell
jTer v* K N. Slock budge Tcr.
jv* Chester McCormick Ter. vs
I John A Hilton Ter v* llenrv
j Pike
Court cases—Choctaw Improve-
TEACHERS CHOSEN 1 £ SSU!
When lie pronounced hi* bene-
C. W. Allen of Lexington. Okla-^ voice
. . w • . , '•»«* out with splendid resonance,
homa. is the New Principal. Ill every way today he showed be
_____ )ond 4 doubt that he had dignity
E. 0. DUKE IN SECOND PUCE, £ 'SSSSJZlSSlS'^ '£
——— 1 famous pontiffs who for centuries
The Lady Teachers Chosen all| h*vr n»lcd the vanca,,
Reside in Mangum and There
Is Not a Married Woman
On the Entire List.
HE STRUCK A SNAP.
| A Utw Raal liatola Man Sacurad a
Valuable Farm Vary Cheap
But May Loaa It.
He visit
ed the Kizer and Cheney .salt fields
last week accompanying H. O.
Winters, of New York, mining en
giueer and expert miuer. and if the
latter gentleman's report to those
who sent him is anything like the
talk he made while here those New
Yorkers will be running over each
other to get investments in Greer
county. He said he had traveled
all over thiscoutitry, Alaska Mex
ico and much of South America,
but he had never seen a country of
such mineral wealth a s Greer
county. He says the county is
simply too rich to calculate the
wealth. Not only salt and gyp-
aum, but oil, gold, silver, copper,
lead and zinc. And he says these
heavy mineral deposits are quite
close to the surface.
Messrs. Winters and Eggleston
stopped over night at E. F Barnes'
home at Bloomington both going
and returning from Salton and it
was while at Mr. Barnes' place that
Mr. Winters talked so enthusiasti-
cally of Greer county. He said
some day Greer county would be
developed into one of the most
wonderful mining regions of the
world. He was shown a stone
picked up a short distance from
Mr. Barnes' house and after exam-
ining it with his glass said it con-
tained iron pyrites, indications of
gold, oil deposit, lead and zinc.
Speaking of Ben Kizer he said,
"there lie is maki.ig a corn bread
living by shoveling salt when there
are millions of dollars worth of
minerals besides salt and gypsum ■
vs Annie Wilson.
| Smith vs H Smith. J.
The Board of Education of Man-
call to your minds that awful dis-lfroui next Monday, for a three I fnV.1" v* 11. Hardy
aster, the cloudburst, that befell I weeks trrm It was thought thati{, J™" >hcritI- > " Jonr,,
Oretrou a few short weeks ai«o. at least a four weeks term would wann et al.
Rachael j gum yesterday settled the question
Oregon a few short weeks ago, j at least a four weeks term would
where more than 200 were killed | be held this time, but Judge Beau-1
outright. What did our noble or |champ say* three weeks is all the
der do there? The women of Wood
craft gave the suffering ones the
nice little sum of $5,000 and they
and the W. O. W. paid many
thousand dollars of insurance, and
besides are now helping to care for
the orphans there, too. Everyone
knows what they did for the flood
sufferers at Galveston, and what
other insurance company paid all
their war claims during our last
war? Woodcraft not only paid ev-
ery claim, but hunted up the par-
ties in order to pay them. Would
any other insurance company do
that?
Now, a few words as to our fi-
nancial standing: Our total re-
sources April 1st were, in round
numbers, $78,000. Up to that
time the Woodmen circle since its
organization has paid out in death
claims $431,000. Our membership
in June was 17.400. We are
prompt in all our business transac-
tions. The average time from proof
to payment of death claims is only
4# days, and in addition to claims
there is always $ 100 set aside tor a
monument to mark the last resting
place of a fellow sovereign and if
they are Woodmen too that $100 is
given to the family to help defray
funeral expenses. Our surplus per
head at present is almost $6. The
American Insurance Union stands
next to us with a surplus of $2.56
in the hills on his place." Wheth-! Puer head> 80 y°«jCan **
er Mr. Winters meant what he said ! th.at w<; are ranking ahead of all
or was just talking for pastime is
not fully known, but Mr. Barnes
says the man certainly seemed to
be in earnest. 1
Mr. Winters is in the employ of
others by far. The foundation of
a fraternal order is its rate of as-
sessment. If its rates are so based
that the cost of protection is equal-
1 ly distributed among its members
R. W. Hadden & Co., New" York, i so that each bears his or her just
and gave his address of 32 Broad- proportion of the burden, then you
way. He travels all the time ex- i J"™.a bas's on which to erect a
amining mines and reporting on ! w>» stand tor all time
mining properties. Let us hope to co1nieti y°u bave a havenlt of
that what Mr. Winters has foretold w,hlc.h yOU,caLn;lnLV11te al! to I,nk
will come true, but, it is safe to as
the fortune of their beloved.
The building proper of a frater-
nal order is its membership. The
greater the membership the greater
the instrument to accomplish the
good intended. And as we are
striving today to do all the good
we can, and as a large membership
Woodmen of the World Ceremonies' a'ds us so materially in doing a
sert that Greer county real estate
will not immediately take on Crip-
ple Creek, Beaumont or Joplin
prices because of this report.
riONUMENT UNVEILING.
Last Sunday—
in Mangum
Mrs.
Last Sunday there assembled in
, Mangum a large crowd of Wood-
men of the World from all parts of
the county, the occasion being the
unveiling of a Woodman monument
at the grave of the late L. G. Mair.
The ceremonies took place at the
city cemetery at five p. m., at least
two thousand people being present.
Some ten or twelve camps and cir-
cles of the county were represented.
The beautiful and impressive ritual
work was well carried out and Law-
yer J. L. Carpenter delivered the
oration.
Mrs. W. S. Bradshaw, worthy
guardian of the Mangum Circle, the
women's auxiliary to the W. O. W.
delivered an entertaining address
on behalf of the circle. She said:
Commander, sovereigns and
friends—Allow me to partly ex-
press my delight in meeting and
addressing so grand an army of
sovereigns as is here assembled.
Not being in the habit of speaking
in public. I make but a poor repre-
sentative of so grand an order as
the Woodmen circle, whose grand-
eur is glorified by the multiplied
thousands who swell its ranks, hap-
py in the assurance that should
that grim monster, who finally de-
greater amount of good, let us
strive with all our might to at least
reach the 50,000 mark this year,
and as the Woodmen have been
filling up their ranks so nicely we
sincerely hope that united Wood-
craft will go hand in hand to suc-
cess. It is easy to join the circle
as rates are not high, neither is the
entrance fee—$2.50, and it is thor-
ougly reliable, every Woodman can
recommend it. Women are joining
beneficiary orders every hour and
they will join the Woodmen circle
if Woodmen encourage it and set
the wheels in motion. We would
like to ask every camp to consider
it and act promptly and effectually.
Nothing is ever gained by postpon-
ing duty. Disagreeable duties, and
even trouble itself, accumulate a
son of interest and there is more of
it to pay the longer it is shirked.
Meet duly and promptly and it will
never become irksome. That life
insurance you evaded a short time
ago will cost you a little more now.
Your friend, who took his policy
when you put yours off, has less
rates to pay than yon. but you can
even up on that neighbor who is
still hesitating. Take out your
policy now and in a year you will
have the laugh 011 him. No one
time he can spare for this term as
supreme court meets early in Sep-
tember. There are now on the
docket 115 civil cases and fifty-nine
criminal cases and probably as many
more criminal cases to come, and
all to be disposed of in eighteen
days. It will keep the court hus-
tling. The first four days will be
devoted to civil business. This
will give the county attorney time
to get the grand jury work well
along and the criminal cases can be
pushed more rapidly when the
criminal docket is to be taken up
on Friday, August 21.
Following is the assignment of
cases. At this writing the juries
have not been drawn but will
probably be done this week:
august 17, 1st judicial dav.
Motions.
Demurrers.
Empannelling petit jury.
Empannelling grand jury.
Criminal cases-
Territory vs. Green Parmer.
Territory vs. R. L. James and J.
E. M. Kelley.
Jury cases—
G. Newman vs. A. West. J.
G. Rutherford vs. J. D Littlefield.
Andrew Blakemore vs. K. C. M. &
O. R. R. A. M. Cochran vs. K.
C. M. & O. R. R. W. Mitchell
K. C. M. & O. R. R.
Court cases—
H. C. Sweet vs. J. G. Bogard.
J. W. Lewis vs. H. M. Ferguson.
J. W. Lewis vs. R. C. Hannah. A.
A. Gregory vs. Board of County
Commissioners. J. A. Powers et
al vs. heirs of I. J. Rude.
AUGUST 18, 2ND DAY.
Jury cases—
A. Ferguson vs. K. C. M. & O.
R. R. Edd Bird, same. J. H.
Loving, same. S. H. Milwee, same.
W. H. Gardner, same. J. O. Mc-
Clary, same. J. W. Kelley, same.
Court cases—
D. A. Belmore vs. C. A. Lodge,
et al. English Supply Co. vs.
Granite Brick Co. D. M. Paulk vs.
G. W. Benton. W. H. Drew vs.
J. M. Collins, et al. Chickasha
Wholesale Gro. Co. vs. Zinn Bros.
aug. 25, htm uav.
Criminal cases—Ter. v* J.
Dunn and A. T. Wiseman. Ter. vs
Walter Hunter. Ter. vsLon Hun-
ter. Ter. vs G. W. McLain. Ter.
vs Bud Turner.
Court cases—Aetna BTd'g &
Loan Ass n. vs L. R. Ward, et al
C. S. Vines vs A. Vines. F. R
Feathers vs D. Feathers. A. B.
Ruddell vs T. S. Ruddell.
[To b* Continue*! nexl arcek.|
A HEAD IN COLLISION.
A Switch Was Left Opraaod the Paa-
senger Train Ran Into
Car* on Side Track.
AUGUST 19, 3RD DAY.
Jury cases—Stephenson-Brown
Lumber Co. vs. H. M. Ferguson,
et al. J. D. Tidwell vs. C. R. &
P. R. R. G. T. Bray vs. G. T.
Reedy. M. J. Dunn vs. J. B. Over-
ton, sheriff. J. F. Dunn vs. J. C.
Gilliland.
Court cases—N. B. Claunch vs.
J. R. Byers. J. B. Jones vs. Gran-
ite Brick Co. H. M. Ferguson vs.
Heirs of I. J. Rude, et al. J. E.
Coen vs. M. J. Welch. J. E. Fowl-
er vs. M. J. Welch.
AUG. 20, 4TH DAY.
Jury cases—John Norton v s.
Drake & Newton. I. J. Rude vs.
L. J. Edwrrds. El Reno Mill Co.
vs. T. W. Baker. Mary Welch vs.
W. O. W. May Amos vs. J. M.
Finney.
Court cases—J. W. Wood vs H
B. Ansorg, et al. Dixie Racy
Nash Racy. H. G. Jones vs Board
County Commissioners. G. W.
Lynch vs Board County Commis-
sioners. H. H. Smith vs H. H.
Smith and R. A. Smith.
Quite a serious smashup occurred
iu the yards near the depot last
Saturday at about nine p. m. The
passenger train was about two
hours late and the local freight
pulled in ahead of it. Some switch-
ing was being done just before the
passenger train arrived and one of
the switches from the main line was
left open. The passenger train ran
onto the switch and into some box
cars loaded with oats. The train
was running at a speed of about
twenty-five miles per hour. As a
result the box car which the engine
struck was badly smashed up and
a considerable quantity of oats
spilled. The engine was also bad-
ly demolished. The timber in the
pilot was smashed into kindling
wood, the front end of the jacket
of the engine was bursted and some
of the heavy castings were broken.
No one was seriously hurt, how-
ever. The fireman jumped from
the engine just before the collision.
The engineer remained at his post,
and as a result sustained a small
cut over one of his eyes and a gen-
eral shaking up. The conductor,
who was on the platform of the
train, was thrown therefrom, but
his injuries were slight. A num-
ber of the passengers were injured,
but none seriously.
The train crew of the local had
been doing some switching and the
head brakeman had opened the
switch, but instead of closing it
again had locked it open, with no
evil intent but from pure careless-
ness. The careless brakeman was
Van Williams of Leger. In his
statement to the company Williams
said he thought he had left the
switch right and so reported to his
conductor.
The passenger engine fras so bad-
ly injured as to be put out of com
mission until repaired. The local
freight engine was used to take out
the passenger train Sunday morn-
ing and the crippled engine was
taken to Chickasha. Another en-
gine was brought out Monday and
as the local freight does not run on
Sunday no time was lost by the
smashup.
v* of who should have charge of the
vs schools for the coming school year
by selecting W. G. Allen for the
I piuce. Mr. Allen
j: year* old, married
^ experience in school work, having
been almost raised in the school-
room. as his father is one of the
ahjpst educators in the state of
Texas. He has lieeit principal of
the schools of Lexington for sev-
eral years and is now conducting
the teachers' normal institute at
Granite. The teachers attending
the normal paid Mr. Allen a very
high compliment by getting up, un-
solicited, a strong letter of indorse-
ment to the Mangum boaid, signed
by all the teachers present at the
normal. It was a very strong in-
dorsement and Mr. Allen is justly
proud of it, coming as it did as a
voluntary contribution. In the
letter the teachers stated, among
other nice things, that they would
be proud to acknowledge him as
the pedagogical head of Greer
county schools.
E. O. Duke, a young man from
Georgia, graduate of the Georgia
university, was given second place.
The lady teachers selected were
Misses Rushing, Anna Laura Trip-
pet, Lentiie Ferguson, Minta Nor-
ton, Hattie Garrett, Ethel Tacket,
Kate Carlock, May Roberts, Ella
Eagin, Mand Trotter and Una
Howard.
The board has decided the bonds
for a new school building would
not be legal because of defect in
the notice of election, and as it is
now too late for this year to take
up the matter of a new election,
they will get along with the old
building, but will, during the win-
ter, call an election and have every-
thing ready to begin a new build-
ing in the spring and thus be in
ample time for the next school year.
We believe that each individual
member of the board is trying to
make this the banner school year
in Mangum, and will continue to
work with renewed interest and
energy for the upbuilding of the
Mangum schools, so as to make it
a modern system.
Later: We have since learned
that Miss Trippett has declined,
having accepted a position in the
schools at her former home in Tex-
as. Her place has not yet been
filled.
A cant that attracted much inter-
est has been on trial at the U. S.
laud office this week. Prom the
testimony given in at the trial the
is twenty-eight story of the case is about this. In
has had muchjiMtjq a man named Lewis Frank
came to Greer county and settled
011 a claim near Lock. About a
year after he died. The widow and
three minor children continued to
live on the place, until about a year
ago when Mrs. Frank married John
Smith, a neighbor, and went to his
glace to live, the children being
irgeenough toshift for themselves,
drifted away and the home place
rented out. Some time last
spring Jesse O. Ely, of Leger. went
to Mrs. Smith and told her she .
could not hold the home place, could
not prove up on it and said soaae
one would contest it and she would
lose it, and offered her $300 to re-
linquish. She said the place was
worth $2,500 and ahe did not pro-
pose to give it away. Ely left but
went back in a day or two and took
Lawyer W. T. McConnell with him.
Ely got the relinquishment and
gave Mrs. Smith $300. Ely pre-
sented the relinquishment at the
land office and promptly filed on
the place. When the heirs came
to find out that their mother had
let the farm go for $300 they were
much offended and refused to ac-
cept their part of the money, bnt
at once sought legal advice and this
action was brought by their attor-
neys, Garrett & Garrett. The law-
yers found that she could not only
prove up the place, but she could,
after becoming *a widow, take a
claim in her own name. The case
has not yet been decided, but we
will bet that the woman will get the
farm. No such sharp practices will
go if brought to the attention of
Uncle Sam.
Alum Baking Powders.
There are so many alum baking
powders about, most of which are
represented to be made of cream
of tartar, that the following list of
powders in which chemists have
vs found alum will be of value
K. C.
Calumet.
Bon Bon
Chapman's.
The housekeeper should bear
THE NEW POPE, PIUS X.
The High Honor Went to Guizeppe
Sarto, an Italian, With the Title
of Patriarch of Venice.
Press dispatches from Rome say
the conclave of cardinals assembled
in the Vatican for the election of a
new pope ended a four days' ses-
sion on Tuesday by choosing Car-
dinal Guizeppe Sarto, the patriarch
of Venice, to be the successor of
Leo XIII. Sarto, after some hesi-
tency, accepted the honor and is
now the ruler of the Catholic world
with the title of Pius X. Rome
was grandly illuminated Tuesday
night in honor of the new pope and
his election and the assumption of
his office were marked by impres-
sive ceremonies at the Vatican. The
YOUNCI MR. WRIQHT DID WRONQ.
A Case Wherein It Is Shown That
Love Laughs at Laws as Well
dispatch says: "Tomorrow the
new pope, clad in his full pontificial _
robes, and with all the ritualistic ] wrjting was much' Tike the hLid
Mrs. U. J. Davis came to Man-
gum last Monday, from her home
near Granite, in an agitated frame
of mind. A uaughty young man
had stolen her fourteen-year-old
daughter and married her and she
wanted the legal process undone
immediately, the daughter brought
home and the young man prose-
cuted to the fullest extent ot the
law for marrying a girl under the
age of conseut, and she gave As-
sistant Prosecuting Attorney Hen-
ry to understand that if her in-
structions were not carried out im-
mediately there would be much
trouble for someone. Her husband
was with her but he carried the
baby and did not have much to say.
After recovering from the first
shock Lawyer Henry, by skillful
diplomacy, secured an armistice and
proceeded to investigate the case.
He found that one Wright Chris-
tian, said to be twenty-one years
old, duly procured license to marry
and did marry one Alice Davis,
said to be over fifteen years old,
and on file at the probate judge's
office was a document purporting
to be the written consent of U. J.
Davis for his daughter to marry.
This document Mr. Davis declared
he never saw before and the hand
ceremony will receive the members
of the diplomatic corps, the cardf^
„ ... , , . . once and watch yoar policy
stroys all things earthly. Uy hi. j ^ p|^MirepOUC>
auo. 21. 5th day.
Criminal cases—Ter. vs Henry
T. Russ. Ter. vs Barton Russ.
Ter. vs Wm. Huff. Ter. vs Sid
Woodring. Ter. vs A. Woodring.
ever gained anythiug by deferring I ^ ^ Woodring. Frank
life insurance, meet that dutv at Woodring and W. F. Reynolds.
Ter. vs Samuel Biby and Albert
duty at
grow
mind that alum makes a cheap bak !nals and the *»*!">!*. who wiU then
ing powder It costs but twocents! offe,r their official homage, this not-
a pound, while cream of tartar withstanding the fact that twice
costs thirty. The quality of the t^ay the cardinals and many high
S-owder is. therefore. usuaUv indi officials of the Vatican went through
eated by the price a similar ceremony
Fl
fell hand on their lives their inno-
Jamiaon Ter. v* Samuel Biby and County Farmer's Association
little
would be left with When yon get a Moon Bros * yt>
* " get the original Moon buggy, en
™ft bracing style, finish and durability
of leaving , A, c. p.
the charitt
Samuel Howard Ter v* J
1 Turner Ter vs R E Bullock
Court eases—A Galloway v> G
Galloway M Blu ard vs W H
Biiurard Okla Nat ! Gas Co vs
F M Fish, et al J. F Morri* et
•al vs J. W. 9. Rnpe et al
The date on
which the coronation of Pins X
s Association. j will take place has not yet been de
The annual meeting ot uk Greer cided. but the impression prevails
will' that it will take place on August 9
writing of Alice Davis. After
much persuasion and more diplo-
macy Mrs. Davis was made to see
that the best thing to do would be
to make the best of it. If there is
anything in a name, surely Mrs.
Davis ought to be proud of a son-
in-law of the name of Wright Chris-
tian.
be held on the second Saturday in " Italians who know the new pope ai
August at 2 o'clock p. m in the all say that be will soon be **
District Court room There will be much beloved as pont iff as be w
reports of committees and officers yesterday as the patriarch of Vc
and the annual election of officers ice In appearance Pius X is
H D. Auoiin.i Pre* handsome man He has a hi
J. F Ewalt Sec erect figure despite his M-yen
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