The Stroud Star. (Stroud, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, July 24, 1903 Page: 3 of 16
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book blf been arretted for hiving
committed i beisily crime. He is
liken to jail where he is carefully
guarded against anyone who would
do him harm. He gets three square
meals a day and does not have to
work which* ii almost an inducement
lor the lary good-for-nothings to
commit some outrage in order to be
placed behind the bars where their
every want is supplied. At last the
trial approaches. Some shrewd law
yer is interested in his case and by
hook and crook, saves his neck,
lor there are countless loop
holes in the legal meshes through
which even the worst criminal
may escape, and his attorney
lor the sake of filthy lucre will not
be slow in pointing these means of
escape out to him. Should his
efforts fail the black dog is put to
death in a humane manner, and be-
fore he is hung we may have the
sickening spectacle to have some in-
sane negroworshippers visit him in
the cell and there weep and condole
with him on account of his martyr-
dom. Are the people who see the
lives and honor of their wives and
daughters endangered by the lust of
a black fiend going to take any
chances that he may escape his well
merited reward? Certainly not.
They will take the law into their own
hands and administer to the black
monster the punishment he deserves.
Let the niggers refrain from com-
mitting crimes of so frightful a na-
ture and there will be no more burn-
ings at the stake.
And, on the other hand, give the
public absolute assurance that the
crime will meet with speedy retribu-
tion, which is rarely the case unless
the people take the law into their
own hands, and there will be no
more such “lapses into barbarism and
disgracings of our civilization” as
the negrophiles love to say.
••fired." His discharge undoubtedly
occurred because be wanted more
than bis share ol “pie.” As may
be supposed Douglas is now in no
manner in love with “Hitch *' This
is what he says in one of bis letters
to the secretary i ♦•The treatment
1 have received at your hands is an
outtage, and I will not submit to it
without a vigorous protest You can
blight the prosperity of a half mil-
lion people by your official acts, but
you can't officially blight my reputa-
tion without assigning cause or rea-
son. and then ignore my plea for
justice. 1 shall go to the president,
and to congress if necessary. and in-
sist that justice be done, and that
your actions and my own be
thoroughly investigated. As your
only friend among the editors and
publishers of this territory, 1 say to
you that you have by your treatment
forfeited that friendship, and it is a
battle to the finish, and may the
powers that be and the people decide
between you and
Clarence B. Douglas.
YOUNG LADY
Who wishes to be Well Dressed should not
fail to call at our Store. We are pre-
pared to supply all that is necessary to
a fashionable appearance at a moderate
outlay.
THE INNER MAN
THE LOVING CANE Of HITCH.*
Csar ••Hitch” has issued another
ukase in regard to the sale of Creek
lands, the fifth within a year.
••Hitch” it seems is doing all he can
to shut out the poor man and open
wide the door to men of capital.
How natural that is. How could you
expect anybody who holds office un-
der an administration governed and
subservient to capitalists to do other-
wise? The land will be appraised at a
good stiff price,no doubt,and thenew
rules as laid down by his magnific-
encen require that each bid must be
accompanied by a certified check.
Of course a man with no other cap-
ital save a pair of strong arms, wil-
ling to work, and desirous of obtain-
ing from this generous government
of ours a piece of land whereon to
make his home will not have the
least difficulty in obtaining a certi-
Needs to be supplied with good and whole-
some food. Our First Class Grocery
Department will provide every necessity
of Cook or Housekeeper. Highest prices
paid for produce.
ELK MERCANTILE C<>
GO N
BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Mr. J. E. Smulian has gone to Eastern Markets
to procure a fresh supply of Goods. But he
he has not forgotten his friends and customers
in Stroud and goods will be offered them during
his abscense as previously at
A GREAT REDUCTION
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THE LEADER
STROUD, CUSHING, PRAGUE, OKLA.
fied check of, say one thousand dol-
lars or more.
Nor is the man who has a moder-
ate sum of ready money at his dis-
posal any better off for all that we
can see. Supposing he makes a bid
and accompanies it with the indis-
pensible certified check. Were the
bids opened and those that are reject-
ed as too low returned with the check
to the bidder either at once or within
a reasonable period of time, well
and good. But, alas, there is an
almost unlimited amount of red tape
connected with all that the govern-
ment is concerned with that it may
be months if not longer before a man
whose bid was rejected will ever see
his money again. In the meantime
the money is tied up and the bidder
receives not the least benefit from
it. Or, it may be that the money
had been borrowed and interest has
to be paid on it while the money is
thus kept out of circulation and is
not doing the borrower an iota of
good. Why can not Uncle Sam act
as generous as on previovs occasions
and after compensating the Indian
for the land sell it to worthy settlers
at a fair figure and on reasonable
terms?
John Buchanan says that he is ex-
pecting a war of rate cutting among
threshermen to break out in his
neighborhood. There are nearly as
many rigs in the neighborhood as
there are jobs and more threshers
are crowding in.
Marconi has discovered a new
principal in wireless telegraphy and
has perfected an instrument by
means of which he no longer needs
high towers for transmitting his mes-
sages across the ocean. He can
now send them skipping from wave
to wave thousands of miles along
the verv surface of the sea.
PASSENGERS ON CAN.
He couldn’t have been more than
fifteen, and he was a perfect speci-
men of the type of street boys one
reads about but seldom sees. He
was standing on the back platform,
smoking, when the attention of the
genial passenger was first called to
him, and this because the boy brush-
ed off the genial passenger's coat
and apologized for nearly setting it
on fire.
“Been ter the ball game?” the
boy inquired. The genial passenger
admitted that he hadn’t had the
pleasure.
“Peach of a game,” said the boy.
Just at this point a fashionably
dressed young man boarded the car
and went inside, where after seating
himself, he pulled up his trousers,
displaying brilliantly colored socks.
The boy moved over to the doorway,
and, crouching, with his head inside
the door, fixed his eyes in a fascin-
ating stare on the gayly clad ankles.
When he was sure he had attracted
the attention of all the passengers to
the offending articles he yelled de-
risively :
“Bum show! Drop der curtain!”
By this time the genial passenger
had reached his comer, but before
he had a chance to get off a good
looking middle aged woman pushed by
him and stepped off the car, remark-
ing sharply as she did so on the evils
of smoking. Of course her speech was
directed to the boy. Quick as a
flash he retorted: “The old gal’s
mad because I won’t flirt with her.”
The car moved off, with the boy
smiling and happy and the woman
white with anger and wished she
could box the young scamp’s ears.
—New York Press.
I insure your wheat against hail.
M. W. Lynch.
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The Stroud Star. (Stroud, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, July 24, 1903, newspaper, July 24, 1903; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc406210/m1/3/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.