The Blair Progress (Blair, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 5, 1911 Page: 5 of 5
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An Impartial and Riy!i!cous
N
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The tax question in Altus now j
has the floor, and all other is-1
sues are relegaed to a corner to j
await their turn. We would not
undertake to set the county seat
right as we have troubles < - j
nough at home.
But while entirely ignorant;
of the situation in the concrete, 1
we do know as an abstract propo j
sition, that a writer in the Ok'a
homa Democrat has fallen" into ,
a grave ernor.
First this writer says that the i
Equalization Board has put up
the poor man's property at 100 <fl
cents and more on the dollar. <||
while the wealthy are allowed a (i
discount. (I1
Again he says that lots several i
blocks from the business "center
are assessed at more than twice
as much as like lots facing upon
the principal business streets.
Following these statements in
climatic order, this same writer
says that the Board has raised
the taxes on property without
knowing whether it was occupi-
ed by a building or not, or in
any way possessing the slightest
knowledge of it value, and that
all these things are done with-
out the consent or concurrence
of two members of the Board.
The foregoing is the substancc
in brief of the evidence with
which he hopei to convict this
honorable aggregation.
Now, we are an ideal juror,
our ignorance of plaintiff, de-
fendants, law and precedent is
Supreme, therefore we claim to
be fully qualified to sit and pass
judgment in this case.
Having all the testimony in,
or as much thereof as may be
necessary in guiding us to a
fair and impartial verdict we
proceed to adjudicate the matter
in a most approved manner.
Having as a conscientious and
proper juror sat and listened
until our preconceived opinions
were fully corroborated, we will
now proceed to impeach the
evidence of the witness and ex-
onerate the accused.
First, the allegations arc
made by one who admits that h<
has suffered a pecuniary loss b;
the misdeeds of this Board, :
loss most likely to wai p our judg-J
" and biasjwr.view ?, Th'-iv
fore, the testimony must be ac-
cepted with all ('ue and propei
seasoning
Secondly; Lots are valuable a.
they offer advaptrge for trade
ba ter or other advanta.m -
gain, and it ^ evident that Uv
nearer the site Is to the scat o
trafic the rrroi*e valuable it i
Hence in the very nature o
things it would be unjust to re-
quire the less valuable to Ih;h
the heavier burden. Nor c .n
man know the value oJ
unless he posses kn< wlcdg<
thereof, either frr.ir
aeq'jaintance therewit h or upr:
information furnisher! by crrc"-
ible and compr-tent vilr
And, whereas this Board is crea-
ted and maintained to see thai
all persons within the coriftnr*
of the county of Jackson, and
state of Oklahoma, Ho bear the
burden of taxation according 1o
the amount of ti is worlds-
goods he may haj \ < i to be seiz-
ed and possessor: and. where-
as again, for t honorable trio
to do as the testimony in the
case would indicate and allege
would be to take fr m the on<
that which is his own with, m
his consent < r ■ , ,■, <>
law, which is theft.
And .wkrea a tliir.l and ;a
time the members ,if , i-Y/m1
have sworn to deal out jut-tic
and equity to all J.
of race, rating, or previous par-
ty affiliations,
Therefore, to accept tlds'V t:
mony herein adduced, would I <
to convict this Boan'of lam m
and perjury, a fact which can-
not be, as the statute provide
that he that is guilty of either
The McCIure-Naftzger Lumber Co. r
TKED DEAL YARD
Everything in Building Material
BEFORE DAYS OF LAWYERS j
SEE US
BLAIR, OKLA,
•B" 4 "U" BUY
R. B. MAYFIELD, Mgr.
4 Rounds & Porter Lumber Co.
E. E. SNODGRASS, Mgr.
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Blair, Oklahoma, j
We have the Fnest and Most Com-
plete Stock of Building Material in
the country. Estimates cheerfully
Furnished. Give Us a Call. . .
Prices as Low as the Lowest,
and the Grades are the Best.
ll>AAVWVAAAA>a,AAA AAAAAAAAAA
otrense against the peace, and!
dignity of the state of j And then somehow the lines
Oklahoma snail not hold office \ got mixed, and this is what she
therein. ! heard: "WelJ, I'd pull her ears
Thirdly, no action of this.back till she opened her mouth,
Board shall have any legal force |and then I'd put a lump of mud
or effect unless at 'east two in it. If that didn't answer I'd
members of said Board concur give her a sound thrashing,
therein. It becomes apparent! And then Marion fainted.
that this allegation Jshall fall on Now they never speak as they
the deaf ear of the juror. i pass by and the man who was
Now assuming as a working | talking to%his farrier about a
hypothesis that this Board afore- j balky mare says that any body
;aid is composed of men, honor-
able and just nun who love
their country and eschew evil,
and further should any action of
this work the hurt of any man,
proper legal proceedings would
be instituted to redress the
wiong and call the p?rpetrator
thereof to an account of his
stewardship, the logic of the
^ase demands that the evidence
be set aside, and the accused
discharged.
v. ho will advise a man to put his
arms around the neek of an
obstrenerous horse and whisper
words of love in its ear ought to
be hanged.
-Tid Bits.
Be it resolved that the error I convinc
n the testimony is the result of ■ Bo"». I
imitation and in advertance,* and
that each member of the Board
of Epualization be given a
hromo as a token of our appre-
ciation of the efficient ser
endered by them.
Ends Winter's Trouble
Too many, winters is a season of
I trouble. The frost bitten toes and
I fingers, chapped hands and lips, chil-
| blains, cold sores red and rough skins,
| prove this. But such troubles fly be-
I fore Bucklen's Arnica Salve. A trial
Evolution From the Crude and Bar-
barous Rulings of the Powerful
In Primitive Times.
In fhe more jirlniitivo times the man
wns the head of all family relations;
his wllo, his children, his servants,
were his to do with as he would. If a
babe whs deformed, sickly, or a Rlrl,
where he wanted a man-child, he had
only to say the word and it was slain
or exposed to the elements and wild
beasts.
Later kings arose, and when .such
an one ruled a trlbo or nation "whom
he would he slew, and whom he would '
Ue kept alive." Suspicion In the
kind's mind meant death, swift when
I merciful and lingering through untold
| torments when kingly hatred or policy
so decreed." In due time the priest be-
canto at times superior to patriarchal
. prince and kingly tyrant and claimed
his human sacrifices to appease the
I outraged gods.
J Not only the criminal and the cap-
tive enemy perished. "In Ur of the
Chaldess," when Abraham le.'t the
city with his childless wife Sural,
both doubtless rejoiced In their
hearts that no man-child of theirs had
gasped out Its budding life" on the al-
tar of Hurld, the relentless moon god.
T'nder systems so crude and cruel
man lived subjected to strong thieves,
and slnying mercilessly brute and man
who lessened by fraud or force his
limited substance. From a general
paucity of necessities and luxuries
i and the ease of escape beyond the
I reach of post or pursuit, arose the
Draconian laws, which put to death
'millions of. human beings for crimes
that today are petty offenses Indeed.
Naturally this "king's justice" was
an inquisition and not a trial, decided
not on abstract rules and carefully
j weighed evidence, but by whatever
rude Justice, mercy, policy or favor
might rule the royal mind or Judge's
reason for the tftne. Execution fol-
lowed fast upon sentence, and when
the Assyrian's face was covered and
he was led forth he knew that bitter
torture or sudden death was close at
hand.
Whoever questioned the Justice of
the king or the decision of the judge
or, priest might be a brave man, but
seldom survived the resentment of his
judges. Therefore the lawyer is a
modern innovation.
w.
18 YEARS
iil
8 i i
iiow.
iviAS
Gommsrcial
GoIIeie
A .Wlxle-A wake,
Up-to-ditf'e School of
18iisiiu\ss—A School
that is Practical In
Principle, Modern In
Methods.
D.Pfl RACKET
FURNITURE *
UNDERTAKERS GOODS.
LIEN ED E.VIA1VJK
ALTUS ... OKU
Greatest -healer of Burns,
, _ Jes, Cuts, Sores, Eczema and
Sprains, Only 25c at Blair Drug Store.
Uiiciii Sam's Xmas Prasenl.
Washington. Dec. 22- Uncle
Sam received his first Christmas
present today. A shock accom-
panied it such as would be cor-
veyed to a gentleman 134 years
old receiving his first visit from
Sanla Claus.
A few days ago a rachman
wrote from San Antonio to
Secretary MacVeagh asking for
Mayor Frank J. Rice in a
thanksgiving speech at a news-
dinner in New Haven,
raised mince pie, says the
lev: York Times. , - „
"Mince pie," he said, is the<acopyof the estimates of the
rowning glory of a Thanks-
,'iving dinner. I am sure you
ill agree with me when I de-
lare that it is impossible for
ny one, at any time to get too
much mince pie. ,
"Once upon a time a mother |run things another year
;aid to her little son during the
rhanksgiving repast:
"'Tommy this is the last piece
of mince pie you can have.'
"Tommy frowned as black as
a thunder cloud.
expenses of the government for
1911. He also enclosed a £1
bill. Robert O. Bailey, Mac-
Veagh's secretary sent the esti-
mate showing it will cost the
goverment about $080,000,000 to
and
returned the $1.
Today the ranchman's reply
was received. The same #1 bill
was received.
"Take my dollar," he wrote,
"and play ten ways against tile
TRIBUTE TO GREAT WRITER
Japanese Accords Deserved Honor to
the Memory of Good Friend
of His Race.
Wo Japanese have been regenerated
by Hearn's sudden magic, and bap-
tized afresh under his transcendental
rapture; in fact, the old romances
which we had forgotten years ago
wore brought again to quiver in the
air, and the nnclent beauty which we
buried under the duet rose again with
a. strange yot new splendor. Ho made
us shake the old robe of bias whicH^
we wore without knowing It, and he
gave us a sharp sensation of revival.
However, what Impressed us most
was that he was a striking figure of
protest. He wrote to Mr. Otani:
"While this rage for wasting time In
societies-gops on there will be no new-
Japanese literature, no new drama,
no new poetry—nothing good of any
kind. Production will be made impos-
sible, and only the commonplace
translation of foreign ideas. The
meaning of time, the meaning of
work, the sacredness of literature, are
unknown to this generation." He was,
indeed, the living proof of the power
of solitude with which he tried to
master these problems, and with
which ho succeeded.—Yone Nogucbi,
in the Atlantic.
'There was a little boy likeIexpenses of ten different de-
you,' his mother continued stern- i partments with a merry Chriat-
ly, 'and he ate mince pie and mas.
he ate mince pie, and finally he) There have been many contri-
burjt. Yes, he {jurst from too butions to the conscience fund,
much minco pie.' but this is the first time on rt>
" 'No,' said Tommy, 'there's cord that patriot has made a
no ;:uch thing as too ibucb minoc Christmas present.
pie.' |
'Then,' .-aid his mother, 'why
did he burst?" ! ♦ SaVed From Atrful Doalli
" 'There wasn't enough boy,'! How an appallng calamity in his!
i family was prevented is told by A. j
I P. McDonald of Fayettavile, N. ('. i
It. F. D. No. 8 "My sister had < n;i-:
sumption," he writes, "She was wi-
thin and pale, had no appetite anil i
! Helmed to grow woaker every day,
I all remedies failed, till Dr. King's N
Deadly Mountain Crevices.
I In some of the high plateaus or
1 mesas of the Rocky mountains, says
a writer in the Wide World Magazine,
there are to bo found, a short distance
from the edge, cracks or fissures not
more thnn four feet wide, and often
as much as SO feet deep. During the
terrific blizzards that rage in thp win-
ter th<se crevices are filled to the
level, and cattle and horses whlcii are
not acquainted with the country fre-
quently drop into them, their strug-
gles only causing them to aink deeper
and deeper. The cracks, Into which
the sun never penetrates, are like re-
frigerators, and the hapless brutes,
when death has come to their relief,
simply dry up and become, to all In-
tents and purposes, mummies.
From Daily Cklal.omnn, Sunday. Oct-
aber, 3, 1910:
THE THOMAS COMMER-
CIAL COLLEGE,
THOMAS, OKLA.
This school has taken the in-
tative in educating boys ani
jirls for business by using
■quipment and instruction that
conform to the conduct and
methods of real business.
Their booth in the Exposition
building at the State Fair is a
minature business college in
Lself. Complete witn typewriters
tdding machine, copying press,
mimeograph, filing cabinets and
commercial books aud records
lemonstratiug«their course and
manner of instructing in up>to-
late bookkeeping, shorthanj,
typewriting, penmanship, bank
ng, fire insurance, real estate,
ibstracting, railroad acounting,
i'reight rates and classification,
dumber, grain and live stock
records, cost accounting, audit-
ing and general office work.
Thi3 is, without doubt, the
'>est display and the best equip-
ied school of business in Okla-
toma, and should recieve the
latronage of the boys aftd girls
■f the state. Add to this the
act that Prof. J. . Rudisill,
. ho is at the head of the college
ias been actively eugaged in
in preparing the young people
>f Qklahoma for a business care-
t for tre past eighteen years
md it has tha mark of success.
Don't fail to visit their booth
vhile at the fair.
Write for catalogue
THOMAS COM-
MERCIAL
COLLEGE.
For Boys and Qirls
J. M, Rudisill, Prop,
thomas Okla.
WM. 1. CUIUS* 1.1.
met li TH Mr In, mn
Rtninei Om Hack latf mi Om
North «f tW IU Hat* Bsafc.
Offic* IT, I Rwf. t—I4—C* 17. a»
T. T. CLARK,
Att«rs«y-At-Uv
Special Attention Given to Land
Title* and Collection#.
Office Over Grisham-Hulett'a Store.
Altus - - Oai-A.
IK. S. I H83S£,
Pkyslclai M Sitriwi
Office Om Deer wed Lackkart'a
Res Phone 60 Blair. Okla.
Tommy answered."
i{]3f Trying Telephone v
Several evenings a-o a young!"" m v
• , , . , , ' , Discovery was tried, and ho comple i h
il to a telephone oi- I her, that she has not. been trot:-
ice ami rang up h,s .v\ oethearl i bled with a c nigh since. Its the in
I Ut her resident!-.
"Is that you?''
"ies. Gcorg", dear," came
t'.ip ppply.
" \re \ ou k'.i.iuc'!"
"Ye , darling."
"i w.s.i I was thcic." '
"i wish so, too."
1 v.ere there <io .uui know
w ,..t i would do with my d irl-
i.igV"
' No, George, I do not."
medicine I i vor saw or heard of. F. ,
coughs, cold?, lairrippe, asthma, cnnic
hemorrhage all bronchial troubk:. ii
Imp i:o equal, 50c, $1.00 Trial boltle
froe, Guaranteed by Blair Dru^ Co.
When in need of any thin,- i;
;ie barb's line, remcm bet jt
• ect it at the new Fhnp in th< ;
oldc Citixens Bank Building.
Furniture Stock complete and
quality the best.
McGinnis & Huling j
Pre-Columbian Voyages.
Concerning the subject of the dis-
covery of America, John Flsko says:
"Nothing can bo clearer from a sur-
vey of the whole subject than that
I these pre-Columbian voyages were
fiuite barren of historic importance
In point of colonization they produced
1 'he two ill-fated settlements on the
Greenland coast and nothing more.
Otherwise they made 110 real addi-
tion to 1 he stock of geographical
Knowledge. They wrought no effect
whatfVei upon n , mind, in
no sen • v.-a:t any real contact oFtab-
lislied between rhn eastern und west-
ern, hnlves of oiir pinnpt until the
grout voyage of Columbus in 1402.'' j
Not as Bad .-<• He Had Feared.
"I i.hould think," said ihe beautiful
youiig widow, "yeni would resent Mr.
Brown's remark* troncornlns you."
"What has I10 been saying about
ii.enskec] Senator I'lnie.
"Ho Knya you nro a politician and
not a statesman."
"Oh. pshaw! i don't mind Hint. I
was nfi'n you wore going, to tell me
he hud been si«ylng 1 was nut true to
my party,"
Ranks On Sure Thing Now.
I'll never be without Dr. King's
New Life Pilis again, writes A. Schin-
reck, 647 Elm St. Buffalo, N. Y.
riioy cured me of chronic constipation
•hen all others failed. Unequalled for
HltiOushass, Jaundice, Indigestion,
Headache, (.'hills, Mniaria and Debili
y. L.'k at Blair Drug Store.
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sctrlc
Iters
Succeed when everything else hlta.
i.i nervous proitration and female
vctiknessee they are the aupreme
•T.cdy, as thousands have testified.
Ol KIDNEY, LIVER AND
STOMACH TROUBLK
: ia the best medicine ever aold
over n druggist's counter.
Everett Petry
Attorney At Uv
Office in New Allen Building
Northwest Corner Square,
Altus, • Okla.
Vridici la State and Federal Cewte
II I. TAYLOR, H. B.
Pbyilclai aad Sargeai
Office in Orient Drug Store.
teJte.fc.1!: BJair, Ok.
♦—_
Tisfager, Clay I lelilasoB
LMIEH
Haaguii, aod Altus, Iklaboaia,
lafjiln Crdinance
Kaunas City, Mo. Dec. 28.
—The City Council has passed
an ordinance making it a mis-
demeanor to woar a hatpin with
tho paint unguarded, a penalty
of $500 attaches to the offense.
Turley & Moore now have
plenty of the genuine McAlister
coal.
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