The Southwest World (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 10, 1901 Page: 4 of 8
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The Southwest World
iMBfd EvefT Saturday at 121 North First Street
Independent In All Things.
OKLAHOMA PRINTING CO.
H. A. BOOTH, Editor
Entered at the post office at Guthrie, Okla.,
as second class mail matter, March 12. l'Htn.
PHICE PER YEAK
Advertising rates made known at the ollice.
SATURDAY, AU(i. 10, 1901
The biff El Reno daily resem-
bles a puffed up bladder.
Delegate Flynn will build ;•
handsome home in Guthrie. Now
Oklahoma City will please roar.
"Save your straw" appears in
almost every paper these days.
That's about all we have to save.
The late hot weather has had
but little effect on Col. Bryan's
talking machine. The old thing
continues to revolve heat or no
heat.
The Vinita Leader man thinks
Uncle Sam's lottery was not
entirely lair because he failed to
land claim No. 1. Amos is foolin'
however.
Since Oklahotnans will control
the elections in the new towns it
is safe to say that a stiff game
will be played on the political
chess board.
The Youngers have fallen onto
the right job—selling tomb-
stones. They furnished a num-
ber of subjects for such articles
in their balmy days.
Bill Grimes is making an offi-
cial worthy the respect and ad-
miration of everybody in Okla-
homa. He is the secretary in
fact a> well as in name.
"The bird on the hat" has ap-
peared in at least a dozen papers
as original matter. The minds
of these editors must run in very
near the same direction. Who's
guilty?
Delegate Flynn did not succeed
in winning a claim in theKiowa-
Conianche lottery, but he can
stand-this loss it he succeeds in
making that country safely Re-
publican.
Dennis, be jabers, was in Law-
ton the past week helping to
pump hot air into the safety
valves of the Republican party in
that section. No cyclonic dis-
charges have been noticed.
DP TO HITCHCOCK.
Now that Uncle Sam's great
land lottery has been pulled off
on schedule time, he should see
that the contract entered into by
and between the government and
the individual is carried out to
the very letter. Speculators
should find no abiding place with-
in the new lands. Ample pro-
visions i-> made to protect each
and every hotneseeker, and the
Secretary should sec that no one
but bonafide homesteaders are
permitted to enjoy the fruits of
the late land drawing. The
Kansas City Star lias the follow-
ing to say along this line:
"In face of the rigid terms of
the President's proclamation de-
fining the allotment of Indian
lands, and despite the warning
and clear interpretation of the
proclamation by Secretary Hitch-
cock, it is evident that many of
those who have drawn claims are
preparing to dispose of them in
some irregular and unlawful way.
It has been manifest from the
first that a large number of the
applicants were mere speculators.
This was apparent in the extra-
ordinary number of reg istrations.
It is now the duty of the interior
department to see that every suc-
cessful applicant either fulfills
the conditions of settlement in
person or relinquishes his claim.
"It is well known that there
was a great deal of juggling in
previous land openings, but there
should be none under the system
employed in this instance. The
registrations on the part of the
speculators and those with whom
they would deal, combined with
lax supervision on the part of the
commissioners and their assist-
tants, can bring about any
evasion of the law. It was de-
clared from the first that this
would be a fair lottery. It is not
sufficient that the drawings
should be above suspicion. It is
essential that the purposes of the
government, to give these lands
only to those seeking homes,
shall not be thwarted.
"Many of the most deserving
applicants are necessarily left
without land at the end of the
drawings. It is wholly unjust
that these, who are ready and
anxious to abide by the provisions
of the Interior department,
should have to buy from specula-
tors, who aim to evade those pro-
visions and whose sole interest
in the drawings has been based
upon the hope of such evasion."
The twentieth century restau-
rant that proposes to furnish a
set of "store t eth" with every
beefsteak will b<- a notable in-
stance of Anglo Saxon progress.
But it is not to be eotnp red t<>
the "Turkish bath ««n wheels"!
which an ingenious St. L>uisan
hasinvented •.<> meet t't t .ventieth
century demand for a time saver.
We are in what migut be called
the Turkish bath via a time of ■
steaming str< tnioiisruss w hen the j
sweat of competition 01 sses fr< m J
the brow of him who tries to keep
step with tin ]> u r,-ion. Fre-
quent liquid.it en , in- lo be the I
order of th< « .i\. n il the man i
who liquidat - i\ \ time he is]
asked must li.t.vc ins time lor be-
ing bleached .md UoiKiiout. The
mud bath is a good bljacher, but
very few men who are knee deep
in the strenuous strife can give
up the time to wallow in a mud
bath. Appreciating the demands
of the strenuous time, this St.
Louis inventor has perfected a
device whereby a man who has
the desire of his friends to slake
hss thirst may be brought to the
boiling point while riding from
theoffce or store to the home.
This Turkish bath car is to run
on the streets like a mail or ex-
press car. When the days work
is done the weary wrestler with
the markets who is loaded with
business care and other liquid
perplexities may board a Turkish
bath car and after a ride of a few
miles be delivered to his waiting
spouse, properly steamed and par-
boiled, smelling as sweet and
clean as a new baby. A great
mass of bibulous humanity which
needs boiling and steaming, but
hasn't the tints for it, will wel-
come the Turkish bath car. Its
immediate popularity is assured.
your administration will prove a
crowning success.
It is a well recognized tact that
the Guthrie Capital (republican')
and the Guthrie Leader (demo-
crat) are both controlled by the
same man, Mr. Frank Greer.
The Guthrie Leader of which
Mr. Leslie Niblack (by the way,
a most able and versatile writer)
is the ostensible editor is at pres-
ent engaged in bitterly abusing
Gov. Jenkins' administration,
while the Guthrie Capital gives
the administration a feeble sup-
port. This is a great graft. Mr.
tlreer evidently purposes getting
the administration a-coming and
a-going. Gov. Jenkins will sit
down 011 Bro. Greer so hard some
of these days that every bone in
Greer's body will crack.—Norman
Transcript.
Edgar Jones, Roy V. Hoffman,
and others, have been mentioned
in connection with the congres-
-ional plum in Democratic circles.
The World would like to know
what's the matter with our
Horace?
The latest dispatches show
that Ihere has been no cessation
for five years, one month, two
week and three days in the hot
wave which is parching Colonel
William Jennings Bryan's presi-
dential crop.
The steel trust and its em-
ployes have locked arms in a ter-
rific struggle for supremacy.
This trust has set its heart in
tearing down the different unions
that it is compelled to do busi-
ness with. The World hopes
that the union men will win.
"In union there is strength,"
and it is proper and right for
laboring men to combine together
to better their condition and the
condition of their families.
This is the time of year when
the large department stores in
the cities send out catalogues all
over the country and give prices
on staple articles that are a few
cents below those of the home
merchants. A great many peo-
order from these houses and
usually find that after figuring
the freight or express they have
paid more for the article than
they would had they bought it at
home. In a number of cases the
goods are of an inferior quality,
and then there is no way of hav-
ing them exchanged. Besides
this these foreign stores often
send "something just as good,"
and write telling that what you
ordered was "just out of stock,"
and you get something you didn't
order at all, but still must be sat-
isfied. The home merchants
handle first-class goods and you
always get what you want when
you buy from them. Money
spent at home will help to build
up the county, will increase the
value of your property, and make
money more plentiful in the
county. Don't spend your money
with the foreign houses, but
spend it at home where you will
I derive a double benefit from it.
Bro. Barrett, of the Shawnee
Herald, has become morose. Just
read what he says about our
friends and neighbors: "What
is the matter of the Oklahoma
City census bureau? Last week
would have been an excellent
time to have made a new census
count. While that city was
crowded with boomers, her rug-
ged rival, Guthrie, lost a large
number of prominent citizens—
five of whom were taken to Nor-
man, eight escaping from the fed-
eral jail, and the balance secur-
ing appointments to office in the
new country. The 'metropolis'
will never get such another op-
portunity to take a 'rise' out of
the 'capital.'"
The Democrat took a fall out
of the city council of Sapulpa in
its last issue. The present city
council is made up of Republicans
and that paper alleges that they
are runing a mild boycott on the
Democrat. The paper also alleges
that they are not treating
Thomas Wills with fairness. If
they are not, they should, for no
man in Sapulpa has done as much
for that town as has Mr. Wills.
His purse has always been found
open to the furtherance of any-
thing that would prove of benefit
to Sapulpa.
"agin" the government. But
then this class of cattle would be
are "agin" Christ if they failed to
draw the best crown if they
should get to heaven.
It is given out on good au-
thority that Col. Frank Prouty's
Lawton paper will assume the
form of an almanac minus the f
weather prognostications. This
need not prove serious, however,
for dog days are over.
The State Capital has greatly
improved its looks by putting on
new head letter. The old style
was entirely too black.
T
DR. COOK,
AN OLD
Eye. Ear. Nose, Throat
SPECIALIST.
Over Indian Territory Bank. v
Will give you as good treatment as
you can get in large cities.
The Democratic party is built
pretty much on the kindergarten
plan when it comes to decipher-
ing the ways and wherefores in j
politics. A few lessons in good, |
common sense would prove highly
beneficial to this ragged, aged
and dilapidated political mon-
strosity.
Captain Silas E. Seeley came
through the lottery wheel with-
out a squeak or a jar. He landed
flat-footed in the center of a
choice claim. Silas is a wheel-
horse in the Kepublican ranks,
and will be found helping to
build the g. o. p. upon a solid
foundation in the new country.
THE CAPITOL NA-
TIONAL RANK OF
GUTHRIE WA NTS
BUSINESS BASED
ON BALANCES AND
RESPONSIBILITY.
If Governor Jenkins' appoint-
ments in the future are as clean
i .is the ones he has already made,
| Oklahoma will have nothing to
| complain of. No better men than
L. W. Baxter, auditor and super-
intendent of public sehools; E.
1'. Burlingame, adjutant general;
James J. Houston, school land
commissioner; Fred L. Wenner,
private secretary, and others,
could have been made. These
gentlemen are clean, upright and
well qualified to fill the positions
to which they were appointed.
The World is well pleased over
the general renovation that has
taken place in the public service
in this territory. Keep up your
good work Governor Jenkins and
A great many Oklahoma news-
papers are busy preaching the
funeral of the Daily American.
It would be real funny if the
American survived to preach
funeral sermons over the remains
of these jealous contemporaries.
If the American is backed by the
Rock Island it will live and pros-
per. The one great trouble with
the American is its "puffed up"
feeling. It talks like "I" am
"it."
A WORD ON SHINGLES.
What do you propose to do about
that leaky roof that you so often looked
at atul just as often shook your head ?
We can tell you what to do with it:
BUY SOME OF OUK BR ST SHIN-
GLES.
You remember the Arkansas Trav-
eler's tale of the man who said that
\rhen it rained he could not work on
the roof, and when it was dry the roof
did not need shingling, but he is not
the man for you to pattern after. "Iti
time of peace, prepare for war," and
in dry weather, remember the leaks
in the old roof. We have all kiuds of
shingles and you can take your choice.
We have all grades of each kind, and
you can choose again. We have
shingles that a hen can't lay, but a
good carpenter can. We will give yon
our opinion without extra charge, and
can assure you that whatever grade
you buy you will get your money's
worth, for the price is graded with the
shingles.
We also remind you that we keep a
tirst-class stock of general Building
Material, and are here to do business.
A C. Houston Lumber Co.
GUTHRIE, OKI.A.
Special
Summer
Excursions
...TO...
The Nebraska woman who
saved the lives of fifty persons by
waving her apron and thus pre-
venting a train from plunging
through a burning railroad
bridge illustrates what a loss it
would have been to the world had
women adopted man's style of
dress.
The political lottery will soon
open in the new country. From
general observation, judging by
those who have drawn claims
over there and from whence they
came, the World believes that
the El Reno district is safely Re-
publican, while the Lawton dis-
trict has a Democratic taste to it.
Some papers still insist that
the Populist party is on earth.
It looks to the most of us as if
the party, in its original form,
had been swallowed boots and
breeches by the two old parties.
A corpse is a corpse no matter in
what state it might exist.
The chances are that some of
those fellows who failed to play-
in luck at the late laud drawing
Colorado and Utah.
The following cheap summer
excursions to Colorado and Utah
have been arranged:
On July 1st to 9th inclusive,
and September 1st to 10th inclu-
sive, we will sell round trip tick-
ets with final return limit of Oc-
tober -s 1 st, to Denver, Colorado
Springs and I'ueblo at $19.20;
(lien wood Springs, $29.20; Salt
Lake City and Ogden $34.20.
On June 18th to 30th inclusive,
and July loth to August 31st in- >
elusive, round trip rates to same
destinations will be one fare plus.
$2.00; Denver $23.lo; Colorado
Springs $21.55 and Puelbo
$20.05, final return limit October
31st.
Tickets are continuous passage
until first Colorado common point
is reached when stop overs will •
bo allowed. Round trip must be
absolutely continuous passage
commencing date of execution by
Joint Agent.
On June 9th we will have a
new train leaving Guthrie at
about 9:30 a. m. which will make
direct connections with the Col-
orado without any lay-overs en-
route. Further information will
be cheerfully given at office.
Call up No. 9 on either phone.
Santa Fe Route.
A. J. COKKINS, Ag^eut
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