The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 9, 1911 Page: 1 of 4
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Established May ID. 1891. I
MANCHESTER, GRANT COUNT*, ^RLAHOMA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1912.
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Old Hickory Chips.
The attempt of Wall Street to
p ice its “Collar” on Woodrow Wil-
son was a flat failure. Woodrow is
a man of the people.
Still Mr. Carnegie must take note
that he did not make a thorough
job of “cleaning out” Mr. Rock-
feller, who has still a few pennies
left.
President Taft expects that his
attitude on “peace” will help him
win his “fight”.’
A Texas washerwoman has been
le t $100,000 by one of her patrons.
It is safe to bet that she never put
too much starch in his shirts.
With characteristic firmness Mr.
1 ioscvelt resents any insinuation
t it he did not have exactly his
o u way in every step of that vice
p evidential nomination, that nailed
him in 1900.
The Congressional records is the
one publication on earth that re-
g rds it as a more important mat-
ter to please the contributors, than
ti e subscribers.
Now that the Japanese war scare
ln.o made its way to Hawaii, it may
be possible to drown it in midocean.
Germany is mak ng provision for
two new army corps. Thus facts
develop while the discussion of
a: bit ration peace treaties goes on.
e door opens and the Ananias
( i.) s secretary register^ the dis-
ti .uished name of Tnomas Codier
I!.
j ode Andy” told the Stanley
gressional Investigating Com-
iee how he got ahead of “John
Doubtless he’ll tell John how
got ahead of the committee.
T King Emanuel wants a really
pi mtaole investment he should
sc ik that $295,000 in some Ameri-
ca i security instead of that Portu-
g se Fiier.
Tussia will doubtless discover
n \t, that Paraguay and Monaco
n; • d pacification, the kind that
P rsia got.
A Kansas man has secured an
ii unction restraining his wife frDin
hinting him. What 'more does
u mi an want than this acknowledge-
ment of her superiority?
Skating is a lot of fun when it is
al done with the feet.
With so many Smiths in it, there
is no wonder that the Senate is oc-
casionally wrought up*
Anyway brother Andy was kind
ei ough to leave John D. a “little
si mething” for his old age, when he
ei mned him up years ago.
Here we’ve been in the newspa-
p t business these many years,
v ttrj.it having once been pointed
0 it by Col. Roosevelt as a falsifier.
V e feel slighted.
if Italy finds the subjucation of
1 • poli a long task it can point to
o .r T’ ilippines, which even yet re-
<1 tire a little attention now and
tl on.
“Live people want to know where
V. oodrow Wilson stands today, not
where he stood some years ago.”—
.V V. Tribune Rep. He stands
where Thomas Jefferson and An-
il ;w Jackson stood, with the plain
p ople.
The Secretary of War and the
Secretary of the Navy may be call-
p ! out to suppress the insurrection
of t ‘ Postmaster-General.
“Mr. Lorimer still insists that his
p. tinri was due entirely to friend-
s! p”. No doubt. The variety
t t goes to the highest bidder.
iayor Gaynor of New York says
L it the cold is what is forcing
p < es up. Well, if it isn’t the cold
it’s the heat, and the ultimate con-
s :er gets it at both ends of the
thermometer.
‘/i stronomers repmt that one of
t'.o e famous canal on Mars has
doubled in size during the past six
weeks.” If we could only borrow
one of their engineers for our Pana-
ma job for a few months.
“I know nothing about the affairs
of the Steel corporation; J haven’t
been in a steel mill since 1891”,
says witness Andy Carnegie. But
your Uncle Andy has been in the
steal mill as represented by the
robber tariff, all right and all along.
Ex-senator Beveridge wants the
laws boiled down and politics con-
ducted on common sense principles.
It is a simple and explicit program,
but it will require some time and
much eloquence to get it.
The United States “Steel Trust”
is not in a position to organize an
investigation to ascertain why Uncle
Sam’s pay roll shows up so badly
in comparison with that of this big
corporation.
Cuba should recall the days of
general Weyler and endeavor to
show a proper spirit of gratitude
for present freedom and conditions.
Every now and then a Postmas-
ter General seems more or less
tempted to get restless and rock
the boat.
This is the season when the stor-
age egg comes out of its hiding,,
looking as innocent as a new born
babe.
Turkey is aflame with the war
spirit. It wants to lick somebody.
Presumably some smaller country.
It must be mighty sorry that Rus-
sia saw Persia first.
Slipped One Over,
A couple of weeks ago the Jour-
nal carried this item:
“Miss Ora Mingle returned Wed-
nesday from a visit with relatives
at Lewig, Kansas.”
We were in error in two places.
The young lady in question had not
been near Lewis, Kansas, nor any
other Louis; and while Miss Ora
Mingle left here about a week be-
fore that item appeared, it was Mrs.
Roy Miller who returned on Wed-
nesday.
The writer had noticed that Ross
Helm was holding down both chairs
in the barber shop, but supposed
Roy Miller was just taking a vaca-
tion. And when the bride came
lome, looking as innocent as ever,
and Roy came in a couple of days
ater and went to work as though
nothing had happened, we natural-
y concluded that nothing had hap-
pened.
But it is a job to keep the people
ooled all the time, and some time
ast week the story leaked out.
don’t know which of them gave it
away, as both had decided to keep
their marriage secret for a long
time, but it was not to be. And
ike a good fellow, Roy had a box
of cigars sent up to the barber shop,
and passed them out liberally, just
the same as if he had not been
married two or three weeks
The truth is, the young couple
was married at St. Johns, Kansas,
on the 17th of January.
The bride is the da ughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John M. Mingle, and is
one of Manchester’s most popular
County Seit News.
Medford, Oklahoma, Feb. 0.—
The commissioners were in session
Monday at their regular monthly
meeting. The bonds of Geo. D.
Walker, superintendent of the coun-
ty farm, and W. I. Manela, treas-
urer of Hickory township, were ap-
proved. Several petitions for abate-
ment of taxes were heard and al-
lowed. A motion by Robertson in-
structing the county clerk to fur-
nish a copy of the proceedings to
any paper in the county wanting
same failed for want of a second.
The commissioners ordered Judge
Bird and C. A. Blasdell, clerk of the
county court, to pay into the salary
fund in the hands of the county
treasurer the sum of $97.20 of the
funds paid in by H. H. Rogers, ex-
county judge, this sum being fees
earned by A. C. Glenn as county
judge and which fees he is entitled
by law to draw to help make up
his back salary.
R. F. O’Rear, clerk of district 80
and T. S. Paris, a member of the
board, appeared before the board
with a request that certain
property listed in district 79 by er-
ror and rightly belonging in district
80 be corrected, and the board so
ordered.
The work of repairing the defect-
ive tiling in the court house is now
under way, Rowles & Bailey doing
the work free of cost to the county.
James Hodson, who was placed
in jail on a vagrancy charge last
week, was released the first of this
week on instruction from the
authorities at Lamont.
A total of $175,831.71 had been
paid into the hands of the county
treasurer as 1911 taxes up 1;o R?b-
ruary 1st.
The past week has been a good
one for the marriage license clerk,
five licenses being issued since last
report.
Emil L. Newhouse, 28, and Miss
Emma Turek, 24, both of Medford,
were united in marriage at the court
house by the county judge Wed-
nesday.
Arthur D. Patton, 22, and Miss
Annie B. Smith, 20, both of Lamont,
were marred at the court house
Wednesday, Judge Bird officiating.
Wm. M. Downing, 36, Oklahoma
City, and Mrs. Eva E. Tracy, 34,
Caldwell, Kansas, were granted a
license to wed.
Paul Clark, 22, Fredonia, Kaus.,
Miss Nellie Lockhart, 19, Nardin,
were granted a license to wed and
the ceremony performed by A. M.
VanValkengiven, Justice of the
Peace at Deer Creek.
Walter Robbins, 19, and Miss
Mary Fouch, 15, Pond Creek, were
given a license.
Lester Cummins, charged with
seduction, was released on $500
bond at the preliminary Saturday,
to await the action of the district
court.
Jatnes Cardenis, a Mexican, was
arrested at Jefferson Sunday by
Sheriff Latnison. Cardenis was
young ladies. Mr. Miller is a young caught in the act of stealing some
man of quality, and one who will
prove worthy of the lady who has
intrusted her future into his keep-
ing.
The Journal joins in extending
congratulations, and in wishing the
young pair unbounded happiness
and prosperity.
clothing from the home of A. M.
Keegan. He is now in jail await-
ing trial.
There are now three boarders at
the Hotel de Frack.
60 Sections to be Opened.
Guthrie, Okla..Feb. 2.—The local
-Mta Barti. JtM, Of HuoMattr. sre:ilrae"‘ lan<i received
notification from the interior de-
partment today that the Navajo
Indian reservation site in south-
western Oklahoma, a total of sixty
sections in five townships, is to be
thrown open to settlement under
the homestead laws April 10.
Warning is given that the land is
not subjeet to entry, filing or selec-
Ings by Rev. M. Porter, of Sold, i **on Pri°r that date. The man-
Builnees meeting Saturdav at 3 p. m. I ner of the opening is not yet known.
Some Oklahoma History.
The name Oklahoma is of India®
origin and signifies “Horae or land
of the red man”.
^phe first white man to visit the
tujea of the present state of Okla-
homa was the Spanish explorer, De
Soto, in 1541.
^ All but the extreme western part
of the region now constituting Ok-
lahoma was originally a portion of
the vast Louisiana country, which
w%s ceded by France to Spain in
1762, retroceded to France in 1800,
and purchased by the United Stat-
es in 1803.
The section of Oklahoma included
in the Louisiana Purchase belonged,
successively, to the district of
Louisiana (1804-5), the territory of
Louisiana (1805-12), and the terri-
tory of Missouri (1812-19). The
part north of 36° 3(y continued in
the territory of Missouri until 1834
and from 1834 to 1854 belonged to
the Indian Country. The part
south of 36° 30', upon the organiza-
tion of Arkansas territory, in 1819,
was included in that territory. In
1824 the western boundary of Ark-
ansas was placed about 40 miles
wefet of where it now stands, and
in 1828 it was established at its
present location; in each of these
yoars the area west of the new line
was re-transferred to Missouri terri-
tory and from 1834 to 1854 was a
part of the Indian Country.
In 1854, by the Kansas-Nebraska
set, the area of the Indian Country,
or Indian Territory, as it was after-
wards known, was reduced to that
of the present state of Oklahoma
exclusive of the three western coun
ties. The area now constituting
these three counties was a part of
the Spanish possessions till 1821, of
Mexico from 1821 to 1836, and oH*
Texas from 1836 te 1S50. There-
after it remained unorganized until
1890, when Oklahoma territory was
formed, but it was included in In-
dian Territory in 1889. Indian
Territory had no organized terri-
torial government, as had other
territories of the United States, but
the Five Civilized Tribes had their
own forms of local self-government.
By Presidential proclamation of
March 23, 1889, certain lands in the
central part of Indian Territory,
known as Oklahoma, were thrown
open for settlement on April 22 of
that year. No organized govern-
ment was provided, however, until
May 2, 1890, when Congress passed
an act establishing the teiritory of
Oklahoma. In September, 1893,
the Cherokee Outlet, also called the
Cherokee Strip, was made a part of
Oklahoma. The new territory was
then bounded on the north by Kan-
sas and Colorado, on the West by
New Mexico and Texas, and on the
south in part by Texas. The re-
mainder of its southern and all
of its eastern boundary were form-
ed by an irregular line extending
from the intersection of the ninety-
eighth meridian and the Red River
on the south to that of the ninety-
sixth meridian and the Kansas
boundary on the north. Sections
of Oklahoma were thrown open for
settlement at various dates, and the
population of the territory rapidly
increased.
In June, 1906, Congress passed
an act to enable Oklahoma and In-
dian Territory to form a state gov-
ernment and in November, 1907,
Oklahoma, with boundaries as at
present, became a state of the Un-
ion.
Sanitary Code.
The attractive town is one whose
environment* are such as to make
residence there a pleasure. Here
are some of the oivironments that
work to the disadvantage of many* evenings
Volume 19, Number 36
New Hope.
By Sol*m Fax
Josiah Dillion, of Kiowa, Kan-
sas, preached at Friends church at
New Hope Monday and Tuesday
Bob
Oklahoma cities aad towns, and
which frequently prevent increase
a* population and commercial ex-
pansion.
These things are not found in a
good, wdU-jjovernecl municipality:
Filthy ailleye .used as the dump-
ing ground for thejte/iise of business
houses, factories and jipmes.
Cess-pools in streew, rtUeys
yards that breed the mosquito and
fly.
Non-enforcement of sanitary'®re' „„„„
cautions about public institution^ wcji_
and on thoroughfares where the ob- *
noxious citizen is permitted to ex-
pectorate at will.
^ The ever-present manure-pile—
the modern fly incubator. Long
lines of foul-smelling and dilapida-
ted privies. Unsanitary school
houses where the scrub brush and
disinfectant bottle are strangers to
the janitor.
Unsanitary grocery stores, meat
markets and bakeries. Filthy
gutters in the business district,
where accumulations for weeks and
months prove a stench to the nos-
trils of the public.
These are a few of the reasons
why some towns are not experien-
cing the development that their
natural wealth and location justify.
Surely it is time for those who
have been waiting for the Goddess
of Fortune to come their way to
realize that there is something to
public health consideration by those
looking for homes in the new state.
Mrs. Mel Hime and her sister,
Mrs. Augusta McLaflin, and Mrs.
Martha Hime visited the Pleasant
Valley school one day last week.
County Superintendent Cbas. M.
JneofrltfiD made his official visit t >
the Pleasant Valley school last Fri-
day.
Joe Woods and family, who have
been helping take care of Grand p
Bowen, returned to thsir home
Waldron last Wednesday. M
BowCP is D0W 8ettin8 alon8 ve ’
was In Gibbon Thursday visiting
friends and looking after her Interests
in ths Manchester Journal’s piano
contest. The Flyer wishes Mias Jones
the best success when the votes are
counted.—Gibbon Flyer.
—There will be preaching at the M.
E. church Friday and Saturday even-
—•121 per sore net. Pecos Valley
soil makes great yield from al falfa
crops.
-Rev. A. P. Eaton, of the Metho-
dist church at this place, was called
to Waldron the last of the week to
preech the funeral of Wesley R. Wells,
the young man who was killed near
that place the 2nd by falling from a
handcar.
Only Ones;
The craze for speed is so great
that the thought of mere safety has
been abandoned. Take those fast
trains in the east for example.
When a man boards one of them,
it is about an even chance as to
whether he will reach his destina
tion or his destiny.—Manchester
Journal.
Speaking of fast trains, did the
Journal man ever ride on the Light-
ning Express that runs on the San-
ta Fe between Caldwell and Well-
ington?—Renfrew Tribune.
I sure did, Orrin, just one time.
That was some seven years ago this
summer. Mrs. Thomas and the
writer boarded that same lightning
express with the hope of making
connections at Wellington for Ton-
kawa, our home at that time. A
few miles out from Caldwell the
coupling pin, or draw bar, or king
bolt, or whatever they call(it, sever-
ed its connection with the car just
ahead, and this without any warn-
ing to the engine crew.
Don’t remember now just how
the engineer discovered that he had
lost his precious freight—may have
been on his return trip next day,
but we happen to remember that
some strong language was used by
some of the passengers in that
marooned coach.
Another Line to Bluff City.
M. F. Morgan, manager of the
Manchester telephone exchange,
went over to Bluff City last week
and closed a deal to put in another
line between that town and Man-
chester.
The new line will follow the route,
practically, of the one now in use,
and will prove a great benefit to the
patrons of the system in the two
towns and their tributary territory.
Work on the new line was begun
Monday morning, and Mr. Morgan
expects to have it completed with-
in the next ten days.
—Mr. and Mrs. Buckley, who have
been visiting here the pest few weeks
with Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Buckles, re-
turned the latter part of last waek to
their home at Lyons,
^auled corn ’
#epry Belling-
Gibbon fo
hausen last we. . ftaff i r
Min Montgomery ,Ch -
and oats for Bert Boweu,
pin and Jim Ricks last week.
Emil Hartman and Jim Chapin
hauled hay to Manchester for Bert
Bowen last Friday.
W. E. Bishop and John Hime
threshed their Kaffir last week.
J. C. Ferguson spent last Friday
at David Bowens.
Chas. Dietz and family and Fred
Radke and family spent Sunday
with Mel Hime.
Grandpa Williams said that
groundhog day would be his 74th
birthday.
George Morris was out last week,
making out vouchers for the ol i
soldiers who were not able to go 10
town.
Rosedale Items.
< Ed Pierce left Thursday for Buff-
alo, Oklahoma, to look after his
land near that place. He has been
visiting home folks here the past
three months.
Last Friday was the spelling con-
test day in each school in Grant
county Henry Morris was the
champion speller of Plainview Di -
trict No. 12. The group conte. c
takes place Friday, February 16t i.
Mrs. John Armour and her grand-
children, Pearl and Clarence Jeffries,
went to Waldron Friday to visit
ler daughter. On her return she
visited at the home of J. C. Jones.
Wm. Eggerman and brother,
Sig”, went to Wakita Monday to
visit John Bowers, whom they had
not seen for about thirty years.
Mr. and Mrs. Logan McDonal
of Byron, were here the last of tlu
week, visiting relatives.
Mrs. Dick McKee is reported very
sick this week.
George Starks has a new bugg\.
Je says all the girls will not get >
ride in it.
About twenty-five friends and
neighbors enjoyed the taffy-pull ..x
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Wright Tuesday evening.
-George Smith, of Ft Cobb, Okla-
homa, was here the first of the wet
visiting his cousin, H. E. Klbie. and
other relatives.
—Soil thatlwlll actually pay a protit
of *75 per acre is certainly worth $90
per acre, isn’t it? Certainly it is
Pecos Valley. See Hodson.
J. W. MALLORY
at Citizens State Bank, will
ceive all watch and jewelry re
pairing left with him, and give +
prompt and careful attention.
All work returned to him for
collection charges. AU work
guaranteed.
F. E. PIRTLE & CO.,
Jewelsra and Music Dealers,
ANTHONY, KANSAS
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Thomas, L. K. The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 9, 1911, newspaper, February 9, 1911; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc497693/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.