The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, January 8, 1909 Page: 1 of 4
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Buecauor to the (Jamkron Journal,
Baubllihed May 88, IMI.
MANCHESTER GRANT COUNTY. OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, JAN. I, 1909.
Volume It, Number J2
LOOKS LIKE A FARCE.
The Twenty-Nine Million Dollars Fine Imposed by the
Lower Court Against The Standard Oil Company Has
Been Set Aside by the Supreme Court of
the United States.
THE CLEAN DP.
A special train Is to go out over the
Missouri Pacific from Anthony next
Saturday for St Louis, and another
over the Santa Fe from Manchester
Sunday, which trains will probably
carry the last hoof of beef steer cattle
in this part of the country that are
now fat and ready foi the market.
In addition, many canner cows, stock
steers and cows, and heifers and
calves will be sent out.
E. F. and J. C. Burchfiel will clean
their feed lot of over 160 fat steers
that have been on feed since in Au-
gust. They will drive to Anthony
and ship over the Missouri Pacific
special on Saturday and be in St. Lou-
is for the market Monday morning.
Their cattle are pretty well finished
and will sell anywhere between $6 50
and 97. per cwt., barring fluctuations
in the matter.
If the market remains firm and the
outlook Is good for the coming week,
the Journal will probably clean up Its
feed lot of three car loads of pretty
well finished steers by sending them
out on the same train. These cattle
have done exceptionally well and al-
though not fed so long as some of the
others that will go, we expect to get
fully as much for them on the market.
A combination of cotton seed meal,
shelled corn, cotton seed hulls and al-
falfa huy has proven a winner for
feeding cattle on the Journal farm,
and with such ideal weather as we
have had the results have been almost
wonderful. These cattle, of course,
will make plenty of money for the
owner.
On the Santa Fe special for Kansas
City between one and two hundred
head of steers fed by Charley Ford
will be sent out. We have not seen
these cattle but are told they are look-
ing pretty fine. H.W. Reneau also
has three car loads to go on this
train. They are good cattle, but
have only been fed about 30 days,
hence he cannot expect as much
money for them as if on a longer feed.
They will mnke lots of money, how-
ever and like everybody else, that’s
what suits him.
Guy Cromwell will also make a ship
onthistraln. lie has a lot of butch-
er cows and heifers -probably three
carloads—and they will make him
good money unless the market breaks
Brown & Feely also have a mixed
lot to go on the Santa Fe special, and
this will about clean up the ship-
ments for some time in this vicinity.
In fact, we do nor, know of another
bunch of fat steers in this part of the
country, and only two more bunches,
those of Rurchfiel & Son and II. W.
Reneau, to go on feed for the spring
market.
TO REFORM BAD CHILDREN.
Asserting that the "child is the
state’s most valuable asset,and that
the world’s future lies hidden away
in the thoughts and tendences of a
little child,’’ Miss Kate Barnard will
urge upon the coming legislature the
establishment of state industrial
schools for Incorrigible and criminally
inclined boys and girls.
She declares that there are 150 such
children in the state who are running
the streets unrestrained or are housed
in county and the city jails. Miss
Barnard will also urge the establish-
ment of a home for weak minded, 66
of whom are now in the state hospital
for the Insane.
Miss Barnard’s recent report shows
that there are 75 wayward girls be-
tween the ages of 8 and 16 years who
should be restrained and educated in
some useful trade or occupation un-
der the shelter of a state institution.
—The Star restaurant put off its
New Year’s diuner until! Sunday last,
when two large turke>s were served
along with everything else that goes
to make up a fine dinner. The Jour-
nal man and wife were guests at the
dinner, which was good enough for
anybody.
DIRECTORY
Of the Business Men and Firms of
Manchester who Ask for and
Appreciate Your Patronage
MANCHESTER.
R. L. Smith & Co., general merchandise,
business.
S. B. Fling, hardware, Implements, harness.
Star Restaurant—MIbs Sadie Singleton and
Mrs. Weiss, proprietors.
Burchfiel & Warnock, live stock dealers.
J. W. Smith, law loans, real estate.
Slaughter A Tuttle, Auctioneer.
Mort Canlleld Carpenter.
Dr. Hmedley, piai'tlrlrig physician.
Madden-Nally Dm* Co.. drugs and
Jewelry.
City Meat Market, W.Ai Pellock'
Citizens State Bank, general banking busi-
ness.
Palace Barber shop Ross Helm ‘ Prop'r.
WAKITA.
— W. T. Tucker, undertaker and funeral
director.
O. W, Straughan. the land man.
W. G. Smith general merchandise.
GRANT COUNTY WOLF HUNT.
A Grant county circle hunt of no
mean proportions is being arranged
for Friday, January 15, its center be-
ing the town of Medford and its end-
ing to witness a barbecue for the
hunters. It is proposed to start the
lines a distance of six miles out of
town in all directions leaving the six
mile limit at 9:30 a. m. However,
those outside of the six miles can
make a drive to the starting line if
they choose. The proceeds of the
hunt will be sold and aid in payment
for the barbecue so participants are
urged to bring In all the cotton tails
and wolves they can. There will
without doubt be numerous wagons
along the roads so that those who be-
come overburdened can take the game
to them. Shotguns and dogs will be
the implements of warfare, but the
owners of dogs are requested to keep
them on a slip unless a wolf breaks
through the line. Talk up the pro-
ject with your neighbors, get a sup-
ply of shells, rub down the hounds
and see how much game you can con-
tribute to the grand total to be exhi-
bited at the band stand Friday after
noon. A prize will be given to the
one man bringing in the most game.
Captains will be selected as near on
the lines as possible and the names
announced. But every man should
constitute himself a committee of
one to see that everybody gets out
and helps to bring up a strong line
from his side. There should be
enough participants to form a good
strong circle around the town a half
mile from the outskirts, when the
wolves corralled will no doubt be
easily killed as they run around the
circle. By Order of Committee.
—We were Invited to dinner at Jas.
Clary’s boarding house the other day,
and were surprised at there being so
many boarders there. The table was
well spread and no one is permitted
to go away hungry.
—Jas. Goode returned from a trip to
Arkansas one day last week and again
went to work on the Journal farm
Monday morning. Some of the folks
had it sized up that Jim would bring
a wife back with him, but were dis-
appointed.
—Wednesday morning was the cold-
est of the winter. In fact, we have
had summer and fall weathsr all win-
ter up to Tuesday night, when a stiff
cold wind came down from the north
and it grew colder and colder hourly,
until Wednesday morning the ther-
mometer registered zero, and some re-
port that in exposed places the mer-
cury got as low as 8 degrees below.
That was mighty cold considering the
weather we have been having, aud It
made a fellow shiver the moment he
stuck ills head out the door. It has
been gradually moderating since and
looks as though the weather might get
decent again right away. There has
been considerable snow to the north
and west, and thu's probably what
brought the cold here. This part of
Oklahoma has had uo snow this win-
ter and we don't want any.
SANTA FE RECK.
There was a reck on the Santa Fe
on December 31 just north of Kins-
man on the H. & S. Branch.
The rails Rpread, owing to rotten ties,
and the engine tender, baggage car
and both coaches plowed their way
between the rails, rooting up rotton
ties and dirt In great heaps. The
engine, which held to the tuck, was
stopped as soon as possible, and
fortunately none of the cars turned
over and no one was hurt, though the
passengers were pretty badly shaken
up. The Sauta Fe road-bed from one
end of this line to the other is unfit
for travel, and people ought to shun
it just as far as they can. The Jour-
nal would suggest to the company
that if it continues to use the track
from Hutchinsau to Blackwell It
would be a good idea to inspect the
road and see to it that there Is at
least one sound tie to every 40 rods of
track. We are not authority on rail-
roading, but would think it dangerous
to run trains over a road with less,
than one sound tie to every 40 rods
of track.
THE COMPARISON.
We have before us the Crop
Reporter, published by authority of
the secretary of Agriculture at Wash-
ington, D. C , date of December 26,
1908. In this report a comparison is
made of the yield of corn, wheat and
other crops for 1908 and 1907.
The total yield of corn for 1908 was j
2,668,651,000 bushels, and for 1907 it
was 2,592,320 bushels. The com-
parison thus shows 76,331,000 bushels
more corn grown in the United States
in 1908 than was grown in 1907.
The number of bushels,of winter
wheat grown in 1908 was 437,908,000,
and in 1907 it was 409,442,000. An in-
crease in 1908 ovbr 1907 of 28,466,000
bushels.
Spring wheat for 1908 amounted to
226,694,000bushels, as compared with
a yield in 1907 of 224,645,000 bushels-
again of 2,049,000 bushels for 1908
over 1907.
This iucrease of yield In 1908 as
compared with 1907 is due mainly to
an increase in acreage, and not an in-
crease in yield per acre, as many
would suppose. But we have the
graiD, nevertheless, and we also have
more people to use it than we had a
year ago.
—Miss Helen Wilson, an employe
of the Grit Printing Co. at Wichita,
came down for a couple of weeks, to
visit her sister, Mrs. Earl Smith and
her numerous friends here.
—Fred Ebenhack has a position as
head electrician for the Cherokee
electric light and power plant and has
taken charge. His wife a bister of
Mrs. J. W. Smith, who has been
stopping in Manchester and vicinity
since they came from Pueblo, went
to Cherokee to join him on Wednes-
day.
—Wm. Watkins is contemplating
the erection of a large automobile
garrage on the corner north of the
Journal office and across the street,
where the old feed yard stands. He
has a lot of sand hauled and if he
don’t change his mind will put up a
building that will be quite a benefit
to himself and to the town. His son
Raymond is quite an adept In carlog
for automobilee and would be a good
hand to take oharge of the business.”
C. C. C. What does that stand forY
Well, it stands for the names of the
three counties from which Benjamin
F. Wilson was elected as flotoral rep-
resentative to the Oklahoma state
legislature, Caddo, Canadian and
Cleveland. Wilson was elected on
the first ballot, receiving 41 votes to
26 for Representative Terrll, an east
side man. Our Republican friends
who were so afraid that the Demo-
crats would make a mistake in elect-
ing an east side man for speaker, may
now compliment the west side Demo-
crats on the good work done. But of
course they’ll never do It.
As predicted all along by many peo-
ple, the Standard Oil company will
never pay a penny of the 922,000,000
fine Imposed against it for violations
of the anti-trust law.
A Washington dispatch of January
4 says that a decision to this effect
was announced by Chief Justice Ful-
ler of the United States supreme
court soon after court convened on
Monday. The case came to the court
on a petition filed by the government
asking the case for a review of the
decision of the United States curcuit
court of appeals for the seventh cir-
cuit by which Judge Laudlss’s original
decision imposing a fine of 929,000,000
against the Standard Oil company for
accepting rebates from the railroad
companies was reversed In the su-
preme court the cast turned largely
upon the right of the court to Inter-
fere in view of the fact that the case
had been passed upon by the court of
appeals, the government contending
for such privilege as a right, while It
was urged in behalf of the oil company
that the precedents were all against
such a proceeding.
The action of the court consisted Id
the announcement that the govern-
ment’s petition would not be granted.
The effect of this announcement will
be to leave standing the decision of
the court of appeals, which was ad-
verse to the government and favorable
to the company.
CATTLE TRADE BRISK.
The cattle trade in and around
Manchester has been quite brisk for
the last two weeks. The expected
advance has come, from the finished
beef steer down to the veal calf (can-
ner cows included) and every man
who ever thinks of handling cattle
has been active in buying or selling.
H. W. Reneau has stocked up with
a large bunch of feeders bought of
Earl Feely and Brown & Feely, and
will commence feeding them about
the middle of the month for the spring
market. He’s sure to make good
money on them.
Brown & Feely have also been pick-
ing up cows, heifers and young steers,
and have a large bunch on hand.
E. F. andJ. C. Burchfiel are also
buying quite extensively. A nice lot
of cows were bought by them from E.
F. Buidue and Wm. Brett, to go la
the feed lot, and they also bought 48
head of feeders from the Journal that
averaged 1024 pounds each. This
was the highest priced sale we have
heard of, being 94.50 per cwt. for the
greater part of the bunch, but the cat-
tle were all good individuals and car-
ried much better flesh than the aver-
age feeders in the country. While
the price looks high, there is ample
room for a good margin for the buy e is,
and when these cattle are fed out
they are sure to make plenty of mon-
ey.
Frank Gillespie who is always awake
to the buying of a good young steer,
has been circulating around and pick-
ing them up here and there. He got
a nice bunch this week from Elbert
McMullin.
Burdue & Brett buy and sell all the
while, while Guy Cromwell loaded up
early when prices were lower and is
having all he can do to care for what
he already has on hand.
There have doubtless been other
deals which we have not heard of, but
trading has been brisk, any way, and will
continue to be so for some time. This
little flurry is due to the advance in
beef steers and butcher cows and heif-
ers on the big markets, which advance
is more than likely to hold good urn il
grass cattle are placed on the mar :et
next summer, so that we may expect
good prices until that time. But
while good prices can be paid for these
classes of cattle, it will be an easy
matter for buyers to become excited
and pay more for grades of stock that
will have to be held over than they
will be worth next fall after grazing
all summer, counting out, of course,
the cost of keeping.
It will be observed, then, that un-
less a man is a feeder and is in shape
to get his cattle ready for the high
market between now and late spring,
he would better be on the selling side
than a buyer. The man who makes
the most money on cattle buys them
when they are cheap and turns them
when the price gets up. For the av-
erage man, we may say, now is a bet-
ter time to sell than to buy. we
would not be understood as sayiug
that there is a wild excitment in cat-
tle prices, but merely a steady ad vance.
based on the market for beef grades
of all classes, and nothiDg particular
to warrant any material advance iu
stock grades.
—Jack Fulkerson went to Wichita
Saturday and returned home Tuesdaj.
"^3TW. Wilkinson hashis farm all
under hog tight fencing, and tie
hogs never allow anything In the ehape
of feed to go to waste on the farm.
This ought to be the condition on
every farm in Grant and Harper coun-
ties.
—Exports of corn from the United
States during the ten months end! r g
October 31,1908, amounted to 27,971.-
574 bushels, as compared with 74,521,-
86« buseels exyorted during the ten
months ending Octodey 3f, 19o8, &-
mounted to 27, 971,574 bushels, as
compared with 74,523,866 bushels ex.
ported during the corresponding
period in 1906. Crop Reporter.
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from 5 p. m. Thursday, Dec.
31 to noon, Tuesday, Jan. 12.
ALL WORK GUARAHTEED
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Simmons, J. Mason. The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, January 8, 1909, newspaper, January 8, 1909; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc496892/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.