The Orlando Clipper. (Orlando, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, May 21, 1909 Page: 1 of 9
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D. E D^hlgrcn, Publisher.
OKLAHOMA BBS
Will Dlsposs of Osage Land.—Hugh
Pitzer, Indian supervisor for the
Osage nation, has been in Washing-
ton for a conference with the secro-
tary of the interior, relative to the
leasing and sale of the Osage lands
on which regulations have just been
Issued. Pitzer is of tha opinion that
there will be considerable of the land
sold, and practically all that is not
sold will bo leased under the new
regulations. This will break up the
leasing of big areas by Texas cattle-
men who have for years shipped
thousands of cattle to the Osage na-
tion for grass fattening. The provis-
ion that prohibits any person or cor-
poration from leasing more than 640
acres shuts out the Texas cattlemen
for they have to have more land to
make the business profitable.
Orlando, Logan County, Oklahoma, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1909
Vol. III. No. 26,
running entirely across the county
from east to west, the proposition car-
ried by a vote of 445 to 143. The
road is to cost $100,000 and the first
to be built under the new pood roads
law passed by the last legislature.
The cenirtiereial club of Chandler has
agreed to put up $2 for every dollar
that the "highway cost* the farmers
and to build ft hard road through the
town to connect with the rurul high-
way.
Malpractice 8ult Dismissed.-—'The
damage suit for $5,000, filed two years
ago against Dr. Fred S. Clinton of
Tulsa for malpractice, has been dis-
missed in the district court. B. F. IjM
was taken to the Tulsa hospital, own-
ed by Dr. Clinton, with necrosis ol
the knee joint. The leg was ampu-
tated but I.ee thought It could har«
been saved and therefore sued Dr,
Clinton for damages. The case was
put off from time to time and no def-
inite action was ever taken until the
suit was withdrawn.
PRICE-CUTTING.
Spanish War Vets to Meat.—The
Spanish war veterans of Oklahoma
(ire to meet in Oklahoma City fot
their annual encampment July 5 and 6.
There are several hundred of the
veterans in the new state, and it Is
expected that at least 200 or 300 ot
them will attend. Details of the
meeting have not yet been arranged.
There are camps at Muskogee, Enid,
Guthrie, Watonga. Lawton. Chicka- ""j~~jple of uslng "leaders" to attract
sha. Chandler, Vinita and Oklahoma CUBtomers l9 permissible, it is limited
City. It is expected that delegations - .. .
In the End the Consumer# Are Net
Ones Who Gain Benefit.
The average merchant Is informed
us to the evils of price cutting. He
knows just where to draw the line,
just how far he dares go in lowering
quotations for the sake of drawing
trade. He realizes that even If the
will he present from each. Captain
Earl Bohannan of Muskogee is de-
partment commander of Oklahoma.
Within the next two weeks the vet-
erals in Oklahoma City are to or-
ganize a "ladies' auxiliary." This will
be the only chapter of that organiza-
tion In Oklahoma, and In fact In the
entire west.
in its usefulness and eKceedingly dan
gerous when overdone. Not only is It
apt to degenerate into Indiscriminate
cutting of prices, to lead to dissatisfac-
tion among customers, and has a ten-
dency toward giving a store a cheap
KIND READERS!
We hereby announce to the
many readeis of iho Cmiteh that
there will be no paper issued next
week, May 28, and ask you all to
be patieut for only one week.
While you ate reiuling this we
are on our way to another state to
rest a little while; to get away
from business and work Ten
years of hard wo< k without any
kind of a vacation or rest, as sum*
mer conies stealing upon us, we
cannot tesist the temptation of
hiding away for a few days. It
will do us ^ood, and when we re
[ttunwewill have more spirit to
labor and a brighter mind to think
for at present we are tired and
worn.
We have gone to Arkansas to
I visiti various points in thut, state
: —not to seek a new location but
to gather up a few ticks and climb
the mountains, and will make our
headquarteis at Menu during our
visit. Please do not feel sleighted
for not receivicg a Clipper next
week, for it's the first time in
many years that we are oil duty
The Editor.
messages from Mars by means of j bargains and tlii.- house is among
wireless instruments carried up in | the be.it in the country, and
a balloon to the edge of the earth's j known to be honest anil fair to its
atmosphere.
Shut up in an airtight tank,
borne aloft, in a huge baloon. Prof.
Todd will make the iirst attempt
ever made by the inhabitants of
the earth to intercept possible
messages from the people of the
plauot Mars, whom astronomers
are inclined to think have been
signalling to the earth by means of
other waves for years.
The attempt to signal Mars will
be made in September, when the
planet is at its tu tu est point to the
earth. Prof. Todd will he accom-
panied by Loo Stevens of New-
York, a celebrated areonaut, who
will endeavor to pilot the baloon
to a height of ten miles. The out-
patrons and for these reasons we
hold that they are entitled to as
much space as they are willing to
pay for, the same as any other
business concern-—local or foreign.
—Sterling (Ivans.) Journal.
Miss Louise Pace wont io Perry
Wednesday.
Mrs. Knosp went to Perry
Wednesday.
Emma I'aul came homo frcui
Perry Wednesday-
Moving picture show at Short's
opera Saturday evening
Mrs. Beiihler of Perry came
down to visit friends Wednesday
Grace L Bringlo, optician, will
Wi H lld^U" V/A fVIA HI ■ I VtJi • "v w" * I , f ^ | » f
lay, it is stated, will not exceed j bo at Short s store, luosday, May
*5,000. | 25th"
"If there nro human beings on J 11. 11 Berger went to Norman
Mars," said Prof. Todd, "I have. Wednesday to spend a couple of
no doubt that they have been send- j days.
ing us messages for years and still
Birth Every Twenty Minutes.—
With a birth rate over three times as
large as the death rate, according to
the report3 made to Dr. J. C. Mahr,
state commissioner of health, there
seems to be no immediate danger of
race suicido In Oklahoma. The aver-
age birth rate Is something over 2,400
a month, or eighty a day, which
means a birth every twenty minutes
In some part of the state. For the
month of February, which ran a little
lower than the average, being a short
month, the number of births was 2,342.
The number of deaths for the same
month was 762. In January there ;
were 2.C02 births and 774 deaths, j
More male than female children are (
being born In Oklahoma every month, j
but the matter is equalized by the
fact that the death rate is also heav-
ier among the males. Dr. Mahr'e fig- j
ures also show that if the na<?ro Is to
become a dangerous factor in Okla-
homa affairs it mwst be through Ira- j
migration, as the birth rate among
the negroes Is smaller than their pro-
portion of the entire population, j
while the death rate is much larger, i
The negroes constitute about a twen-
ty-fourth of the entire population of
Hie state, while, according to the last j
report there were only seventy-two
negro children born during the month,
aft against 2,53$ white children, and
there were forty-nine deaths amon;
negroes, as against 72* whites. Pot-
tawatomie county has on easy lead
on the birth statistics, with 131 dur-
ing the month. Pittsburg has 105, j
Garven 84, Oklahoma 70 and Bryan
57. Cimarron and Nowata counties i
each had but three In a month. Ok- j
lahoma county leads In the number j
of deaths, 52, with 45 In Pottawa-1
tomie, 32 in Pittsburg and 31 In Gar-
field. Major and Texas counties had
only one death each during the month
and Delaware 2. The report shows
107 cases of diphtheria during the
month, with 14 deaths; 137 cases ot
scarlet fever, with 6 deaths; 202
cases of smallpox, with one death;
47 cases of t>_phoid fever with 15
deaths; 74 cases of tuberculosis, with
47 deaths; 356 cases of pneumonia,
with 190 deaths.
Licensed to Loan Money.—The first
Insurance company, which, In addition
to its regular Insurance business,
loans money at a low rate, to begin
business lu Oklahoma was given a li-
cense by State Insurance Corum is
sioner McComb. Lt is the Central Life
Assurance Society of Des Moines, la.,
e;ith a capitalization of $100,000 and
assets of $1,000,000. "The passage of
the new Insurance code by the recent
legislature has opened a' new era in
Oklahoma," said Mr. McComb. "This
[8 the era of cheaper money."
reputation, but lt is inclined to arouse
suspicion a^nong other merchants and
the people as well.
While the merchant Is «o thorough-
ly grounded in the matter ot price-cut-
ting, the public has not been so gen-
erally educated. There are those who
exult when store managers are at war
believing that they may profit by the
losses of the competitors. It is Just
the old fable of Aesop orer again—
the lion and the bear fight orw the
prey until both are too much exhaust-
ed to move, and then the sly fox comes
along and picks up the dainty and
bears it away to eat at his leisure.
The public rejoices over the price-
cutting campaigns. It profits by them,
and on account of the fact that lt
has been taught to consider prices
only, it feels justified In taking every
advantage offered it.
The store which starts a campaign
of price reduction and bellows and
roars and screams for the sake of
drawing custom, will either go under,
because it has been foolish or be-
cause it has mado up Its mind to de-
fraud its creditors, or else It sells
goods which are far lower in merit
and true value than it pretends.
The public loses, bat it does not
realize lt. If a store fails to pay Its
creditors, the wholesalers and manu-
facturers must make their losses good
in some way. If the store seeks to
foist inferior goods upon the public
: at a lower price, the public gets what
It pays for, no doubt, but believes
that it has been cheated and robbed,
and comes to have a low opinion of
merchants as a whole. The whole
trouble lies in the fact that the pub-
lic, instead of being a prey to the
merchant, is really playing Into the
hands of sharpers while seeking, too
often, to get the best of the mer-
chants.
TWO HANGINGS.
Perry, Okla.— Unless court do-
cress intervene, two convicted
murders will be hanged, one we oik
apart oil Friday, in Oklahoma.
Henry T. Armstrong, in jail nt
Perry, has been sentencod to be
executed today and John Hopkins,
the Lawton murder, next Friday,
May ^8. Armstrong's attorneys
have appealed to tho criminal court
aud this probably will work a de-
lav in the ci.se. He was found
guilty of killing Isaac Fell,a Payne
county farmer. Ho is part Indian.
The general impressi n at Lawton
is that Hopkin's sentence will be
carried out on the day fixed.
Ward Theater Company.
Moving Picture Show at Short's
opera house Saturday night, May
'22.
Loud and Lusty Advertising.
There can be seen every once In a
while the front of some erstwhile dig-
nified store plastered with flaming red
signs, announcing unheard-of bargains,
tremendous reductions, sensational,
disastrous, ruinous cuts In price, and
the rest of the well-worn expressions
so common to the cheapest grade of
stores. It seems that a merchant
Is extremely apt to succumb to the
wiles of the man who believes in ad-
vertising through a megaphone and
with a bucket of red paint. What man
has the most influence—the man with
the loudest voice? What friend give*
advice which Is heeded—the man with
the heaviest tone, who yells in your
ear and enforces it with crazy gestic-
ulations? Does the man who exag-
cerates extravagantly claim faith and
trust the most? Advertising Is right
and proper, but advertising with such
methods is cheapening and harmful.
It appeals to the senses In the wrong
way.
Chinese Salt Tax.
~ In China the salt tax is a govern-
ment monopoly. It is one of the prin-
cipal revenues of the empire, yielding
I about I9.000.000 a year
Votes for Better Bonds.—At an f>Ie» , , , *, ivi,..
lion held in Lincoln county to rot. I Mr, O Roark andI Mi,. Dillcy
for the construction oI a bard road, WOJO IB MulBttll lUOBday.
They Got Married.
Pensacola, Fin.,—With the
bridegroom in short trousers and
tho blushing bride in knee skirts
her hair in two long braids, Jas-
per Huckabana, aged 14, and
Myrtle Crawford, aged 1H, have
been married at Puxton, near here.
The children, it i« believed, have
established a reoord for youthful
principles in weddings in th s
state. The little lovers ran away
from school, played hookey in the
same old way, went to Pastor,
secured a license in some way, and
in some way induced a minister to
marry them.
OLIPHANT IN THE CHAIR.
Mr. Oliphnnt of Fulton was
temporary presiding officer of the
house for a house yesterday morn-
ing. While he was in tho chair
and without his knowledge some
one pinned a large sign on the
drapery behind him, which read.
"This is a man"
Mr. Oliphant enjoyed the joke
au much as any one when he was
finally directed to look around,
and aftei wards laughingly le-
marked that the incident re-
minded him of tho picture drawn
by a schoolboy, which was
thoughtfully labeled. "This is a
! horse."—Arkansas Gazette.
WIRELESS MESSAGES
FROM MARS.
Boston, May 18—Prbf.~ Dnvid
F. Todd, head of Amherst college
' observatory, in an interview today
1 announced his plans fur picking up
wondering at our stupidity in not
replying.
"The Martians have found out
the things that, tho pc >plo of this
planet are still grouping for. Up-
on Mars they progressed thousands
of years boy juud us. Many
things that aie inystu\e* lure
must bo an opju book there. On;ie
give us a connecting link and in
that moment we shall have unseal-
ed a book which only tom of
thousands years of work and study
could reveal.
"Wo cannot presume to send
mossnges co Mil's on this coming
trip, but will try to receive 1lu;n.
Tho balloon in which wo shall
ascend will be the largest obtain-
able for we wish to reach a height
I of ten miles, if possible.
"The bag will be constructed of
Japanese waterproof silk, ve,-y
tough and capable of supporting
a pressure of 100 pounds to the
square inch from one-half to two-
thirds full rf hydrogen gas-
"At tho top of this b:ig will be
constructed tho wireless antennae,
which will be connected with the
ground wires ard which may open
1 up to tho world a new source of
information from our celestial
neighbors.
"In the the basket, of tho bal-
loon will be our two cylindrical
tanks, each about four feet high
and from one to thi ee feet in di-
ameter, i n 1 capable of holding a
single person. Entrance to the
cylinders will be by a manhole on
tho top, titled from tho inside with
a compress cover screwed in place
from the inside. As soon as we
reach the low outside pressure
above this cover would hold itself
in place, even though it. were not
fastened."
Peter .lelsma, of Guthrie, who
litis purchased the old \> signer
farm, was in town Tuesday.
Mrs. Joe Flora of east of town
visited Saturday and Sunday with
her sister, Mrs. ,!. F. Con well.
Are you going to paint that
house! If so try Perm-mate Cot*
tage paint. Sold only at Markers*
The second pupils' county ex-
amination will be held at Orlandt,
Thursday and Frl lay, May l'7, at.d
28.
—Ladies go to Mrs. Chas. died-
ford's Millinery store and get
your baby a new cap. Newest
styles.
,). F. Couwell leturned Tuesday
night from Stillwater, where he
l ad been transacting business for
several days.
W. K. Mi Donald and (i. II.
Aebi. of Enterprise,' Kans. wore
here Wednesday visiting lt. H.
Gane aud wife;
—Are you looking for ti square
deal, when you are buying your
Groceries, Drugs, Hardware and
Implements'? If so try Marker.
C. J. Ward and wife went to
Guthrie Tuesday afternoon. Mr.
Waul returned Wednesday fore-
noon ano Mr<. Ward remained for u
few days visit with her sister at
that place.
Rudolph Uraso visited at Beek-
enridge, from Sunday until 'Tues-
day with Mrs. Llrase'* parents,
I Io was accompanied Lome by
Mi>. Hrase's sister, Minnie Kend4,
who came to visit.
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Do you want to quit farming
and trade your stock and imple-
ments for a hotel business in
Guthrie, one of the best hotels in
Lowr ? It's a snap. Thepioprie-
tor has purchased a farm and will
nave to move onto it. Therefore
ho will sell at a bargain ff called
for soon- Inquire at this office.
Several of our exchanges are
telling how they had the 'heroism'
to turn down ti nice advertising
proposition from Montgomery
Ward ti Company, because they
were an out side concern. We
took their offer under .consider-
ation, quoted them regular local
rates and have secured their busi-
ness, People a io looking for
Want Column.
Lost,'Found,Wants, For Salo
Advertising in this department cost Scouts
n line tor one insertion,or Ifteent-* per line l»y
the month. These liners bring quick results
Lost--betwf en Orlando and A.
M. Howe's a brown ladie's hand-
bag with two dollars and a looking
glass in it. Return to this office
and recive reward.
Found—a ladie's pocketboolc.
Ownet may get same by paying
for this notice, H, C. Hanks
R—4.
—Sand for sale at $1.75 per yard
or $1.50 at the car. We also have
cement flues and. cement water
tanks for sale.
J. F. Couwell
An almost new "lroquis" Speci-
al Bicycle for sale at this office
Price *85.00*
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Dahlgren, David E. The Orlando Clipper. (Orlando, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, May 21, 1909, newspaper, May 21, 1909; Orlando, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc305528/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.