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THE 8hAWNEE NEWS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1910.
Shawnee NEWS
LOU S ALLAKI) Owner and I ubliaher
V.
pfeht and nobody seems to have any
knowledge of its disposition or its
whereabouts. It is more than likely
that a good portion of k has gone
into the pockets of individuals con-
nected with the administration forces
omewhere, and to locate the respon-
sibility is what tho resolutions are
I directed at, let them hit where they
i fiay. This is a case of where the
I'irant motto should be applied, "Let
no guilty man escape."
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NEW PHONE
News lluatneas office. 321
Lou o. Aii.tni i Residence. 846
Ec.'tC.'Cu as sccood-o.uss mall matier aiSha •
•ee Oklahoma, under the act of Congress of |
Marota I.IS79
Only a small portion of the res-
os'lty of the present democratic ad-
ministration has been discovered,
compared to what will be brought to
light when a republican administra-
tion gets into the offices. If some of
the present force escape the peniten-
tiary they are going to be lucky. It
has ben known for some time that
crooked work was being done in
nearly every office, and it has only
needed a little smelling around to
I find it. Much of this dishonesty has
been so openly carried on that It
fould be Been from a long distance
I without the aid of a microscope.
While there was not a republican
Haskell in his New State Iribun hn ^ staje wanted the extra
wants to know why lie to the peo- L0 sjon an(j g0Vern0r called it
pie when money talks. i any way tj,e republicans thought It
" I would be a good time to start the
The administration democrats are) ...... ,
, . ball going in the way of looking into
gett ng themselves into a devil of a
fix iry
deceive the people.
The corporation commission has
slid off into obscurity wondering
where in h— lightning will strike
next.
The socialists are just now thank-
ing their God that none of them
were recognized by being appointed
by Haskell to office.
The boys are after ihem in good
shape, aint they? They will be run-
ning to cover pretty soon to escape
the cyclone that is forming on the
minority side of the house.
If the present extraordinary session
of the legislature will look to their
own personal interest, they will
make ample provisions for the care
of the state's insane and buggy citi-
zens, and in this way prepare
home for themselves.
doings of the officials, knowing
[their record before going into office
they were satisfied there was a ne-
gro in the wood-pile, and that a
smelling committee would And him
whether the democrats approved of
it or not. What has been surmised
is proving to be true, and even worse
than had been charged by the repub-
lican papers.
It's a downright sliame that the
council aad mayor will not c!c~i.
out the joints in Shawnee. They
might roduee thp number any way
Just to please some parties, even if
that is a part of the duty of the
county and state officials, who are
being paid for that' class of work.
The Oklahoma democrats claim to
be followers of Andrew Jackson, the
apostle of democracy, and yet they
ignore one of his fundamental doc-
trines, so eloquently expressed in
the following: "Let the blessings of
good government, like the dews of
Heaven, descend alike upon all, the
faigh, the low, the rich and the poor
Judge Lincoln's resolution inquir-
ing into the whereabouts 01 one and
half million of state bonds that
have mysteriously disappeared since
last April, has set the administration
forces to moving about spry and un-
usually active. The question is
where are these bonds that have
made their way into hiding since
April of the present year, and why
was their disappearance overlooked
in the governor's many messages?
Did the governor know that they had
turned up missing, and if he did,
why did he not so inform the mem-
bers of the legislature In some of
his dozen messages? Somebody
knows where these bond3 are and
will have to give up the secret, as
bad as they may hate to do so. It
is certain that they have been dis-
posed of by some of the state offi-
cials in a way not at all creditable
to the state. Now that rascality is
being uncovered let the good work
continue until every man Is exposed
or exonerated by a duly authorized
committee of the legislature. The
taxpayers are the ones that have
to sufTer from whatever dishonesty
there may be practiced by the offi-
cials of the state, and It is to them
there must be an accounting.
some kind of employment or they
will not stay with us, and in leav-
ing create a bad impression among
others who have been planning to
come. What If we should attract
a half dozen good factories to set-
tle here giving employment to two
or three thousand men and women
Would these not spend their earnings
with our merchants and open the
way for additional mercantile insti
tut ions? It is safe to count that
with every head of a family that
comes to Shawnee there comes five
others who need providing for, and
it is factories that open the road for
their maintenance. To secure these
Industries there must be some in
ducement other than the name of
Shawnee. No greater inducement could
ever be had than cheap and unlim
ited waterpower with which to drive
factories, who in consequence of the
cheapness of their power can manu
facture cheaper finished products for
the people.
The cheaper the production the
cheaper the article produced, thus
enabling the factory to enter sue-
sfully Into competition with other
higher priced goods made elsewhere.
The factory that sells the cheapest
always finds sale for its output no
matter where it may be located
Cheap power adds to this cheapness
and attracts the men of capital seek-
ing a good place to Invest It, where
they are assured of receiving a hand-
some return on their investments,
But then why put forth this argu-
ment unless moneyed men can be
made to see and after seeing act to
bring It into actual realization? The
News will repeat what it has re-
peatedly said on this subject, Shaw-
nee Is standing In her own light by
not taking this water proposition up
and setting to work In a way that
will bring results.
Work 24 Hours a Day.
The busiest little things ever
made are Dr. King's New Life Pills
Every pill is a sugar-coated globul'
of health, that changes wtaLness in
to strength, languor Into energy,
brain-fag into mental power; curing
Constipation, Headache, Chills, Dya
pepsla, Malaria. 25c at all drug
:i COURT
Maron Komura. Japanese mlnl-te.
for foreign affairs, who, in a recent
address to the diet at Tokio, reas
sured the United States of friend
ship of Japan. He explained the re-
jection of the Knox proposal for the
neutralization of the Mancburian rail
road zone on the ground that it
would be attended by such serious
consequences that it was best not
to attempt it Just now.
AT THE BECKER.
The number of bills tinroduced In
the legislature runs well up to the
hundreds, most of which are appro-
priations and place makers for the
faithful. This is the way they are
reducing the taxes for the benefit of
the farmers. The farmers may not
be able to see it just in that light,
but then what do the administration
looters care who likes or dislikes it
so they get what is coming to them.
Some dealer in fruit at Oklahoma
City the other day wrote the gov-
ernor a letter in which he asked
that the legislature pass a law ira
posing a tarifT of $100 a car on all
fruit coming into Oklahoma froir;
other states. The governor will like
ly take the matter up In his eighth
or ninth message and rocommenri
that such a bill be passed. Okla
born* n^tod for freak legislation
and this would not «e any mor<
aioug irtsak linen tha.ii &ome of th.
bills that have been passed.
The enforcement officers ought to
look Into that, basement of the lone
hotel where some of the freaks legis
lation has been hatched up and
placed on the statutes for the courts
to take up their time in knocking
Out Tf tho rrpnr4* are tm<* thero
was something stronger than water
being handled in this basement on
the night the negro porter was shot,
and from which wounds he died. We
understand, however, that It Is at
the lone where the prohibition gov«
ernor makes his home along with
many of the other state officials.
Starting In to discover what be-
came of the $10,000 appropriated by
tho last legislature for the benefit
of the cyclone sufferers Is another
move made by the republican mem-
bers of the legislature that may be
equally as productive of surprises to
the administration. There has been
no accounting of this fund, although
It has been disposed of by some-
body in some way that rendered Its
accounting for discreditable, or it
would have been done. One thing
is certain, it has disappeared from
PAYING INVESTMENT.
Now that we have landed the Big
Pour packing plant there has been
nucleus formed around which to
construct many other Just as impor-
tant and valuable institutions. The
present Industry is but the beginning
jf Shawnee's greatness If our men
of money will but open up their
purses and let their surplus capital
enter the proper channels, for a fur-
ther development of this city. There
is, perhaps, no one thing that would
help Shawnee more than a develop-
ment of her waterpower advantages |
and It has been the least regarded. |
It is recognized as among the great- j
:*st factory drawers that a town can
nvest In. and is so recognized every-
where on the continent except here.
In order to substantiate this argu-
ment we have but to refer to the
;dans now under way for damming
he Mississippi river at Kookuk for
ie purpose of generating electric
power for all St. Louis and Interme-
diate towns and localities. If there
was no virtue In waterpower, why
should men of experience invest mil
lions in developing for this pur-
pose?
Several towns In this state have
not as good advantages as we have
here for waterpower development,
nd yet tb^v have Invested heavily
In the construction of dams that the
power may be secured to turn the
wheels of Industry in them. The
Canadian river will furnish enough
power to move all the industrial en-
terprises that Shawnee will ever have
oven with a population of two hun-
dred thousand people. Nature has
done great things for our town and
left her work here for the people to
take up when they were ready and
prepared to do so, bnt notw. stand-
ing this fact It has been neglected
though of the most important of
them all combined. Cheap power is
what Induces factories and stimulates
other enterprises that go to make
a metropolis out of a hamlet.
With the coming of the packing
plant there will be added to our
population no less than twenty-flve
thousand new citizens, many of
whom will have to be provided with
The return of Tim Murphy, like
.lie coming of any old and dear
*iend, like the return of spring and
sunshine, is an occasion of alert de
light. Steadfastly faithful to his
ideals, prefering the standards of
fertile and flowering human nature
to the vagaries and vapories of a
broader and coarser art, it may be
truthfully said that the merry-go
round of the season brings no one
whose appearance is anticipated with
a more general an uniform degree
of pleasure than the coming of Tim
Murphy. This city has every reason
to rejoice in the fact that he is to
appear In "Cupid and the Dollar
at the Becker Monday evening, Feb.
7
The new assignment of criminal
cases, beginning Feb. 10, is as fol-
lows:
February 10.
State of Oklahoma vs. Ben Leouaid.
State of Oklahoma vs. Frank Cal-
lahan.
Stfte of Oklahoma vs. J. W. Tennl
son.
a,ale of Oklahoma v&. W. b. Djbb>.
State of Oklahoma vs. W. G. Dobbs.
State of Oklahoma vs. W. G. Dobbs.
February 11.
State of Oklahoma vs. Fretwell &
Smith.
State of Oklahoma vs. A. Brazil.
State of Oklanoma vs. John Lan-
hrop.
February 12.
State of Oklahoma vs. John Lan
throp.
State of Oklahoma vs. John Lan-
throp.
State of Oklahoma vs. Bud Bur-
keti.
State of Oklahoma vs. Bud Bur-
kett
State of Oklahoma vs. W. L. Hull.
State of Oklahoma vs. Julius Ship-
men.
February 14.
State of Oklahoma ve. Thomas
Bullfrog.
State of Oklahoma vs. B. B. Daw-
son and G. A. Maulsbury.
State of Oklahoma vs. C. T. Polk.
State of Oklahoma vs. J. \7. Hester.
February 16.
State of Oklahoma vs. Sam Frede
rick.
State of Oklahoma vs. Sam Frede-
rick.
State of Oklahoma vs George
Crump Jr.
February 17.
State of Oklahoma vs . Fred
Brooks.
February 23.
State of Oklahoma vs. Cannallis
and Irene McKinney.
February 26.
State of Oklahoma vs. Will Sulli
van and Marcus Sullivan.
State of Oklahoma vs. Will Sulli-
van.
Excursion
TO
i'Ecos valley,
new mexico
Tuesda y,
Feb. 15, 'lO
Good land and plenty of artesian
water. Famous fruit and alfalfa
country. See A. N. BONWELL, 220
East Main.
Tb« Best CQp
of COFFEE in
the city. Pure Cream.
FINE CHILI
QUICK LUNCH
215 East Main St
Tom ar« rifffat about thM
Electric
Bitters
Succced when everything else fails.
In nervous prostration and female
weaknesses they are the supreme
remedy, as thousands have testified.
FOR KIDNEY, LIVER AND
STOMACH TROUBLE
!l is the best medicine ever lold
over a druggist's counter.
Conkey's Famous Poultry Remedies
Ask for o'ir poultry book—FREil
absolutely guaranteed.
OLARK'S SEED STORE
Phone 140 208.E. Main.
THE NEWS, 3 MONTHS FOR I1.0C
TIM MURPHY,
At the Becker, Feb. 7th.
A Thrilling Rescua.
How Bert R. Lean of Cheny, Wash,
was saved from a rngntful death is
a story to thrill the owrld. 'A hard
cold," he writes, "brought on a des-
perate lung trouble that baffled an
expert doctor here. Then I paid $10
> (15 a visit to a lung specialist In
Spokane, who did not help me. Then
I went to California, but without ben-
efit. At last I used Dr. King's New
Discovery, which completely cured me
and now I am as well as ever." For
ung Trouble, Bronchitis, Coughs and
Colds, Asthma. Croup and Whooping
Coughs it's supreme. 50c and *1.00
Trial bottle fr.>p Guaranteed by all
druggists *
Kermlt Roosevelt, Bon of former
President Theodore Roosevelt, now
In Africa hunting with his father.
While there have been many reports
coming from the Far East attest-
ing the prowess of the elder Roose-
velt, it remains for W. N. McMillan
of Kansas City, who entertained the
Roosevelts at his African place re-
cently. to declare that Colonel Roose-
velt Is only a fair shot, but that
Kermlt Is a crackerjack. Mr. McMil-
lan says that not only Is Kermlt a
better shot than his father, but that
Colonel Roosevelt acknowledges the
fact to everybody but Kermlt
SHERIFF MAXWELL DEAD.
Sulphur, Okla., Feb. 6—Thomas A.
Maxwell, sheriff of Murray county,
dropped dead of heart failure at his
home in Sulphur at 7 ocloek yester-
day evening. He had been ill for
several weeks and had become a
physical wreck. Arrangements for
the funeral have not been made.
Maxwell was 46 years old. He was
born In Tennessee, but had been In
the Indian country for many years.
He was elected the £irst sheriff of
Murray county with statehood. He
leaves a widow and four children.
I.,ast December Mix<ve!l was Indicted
by a special grand Jury, charged
with malfeasance In office, but was
recently acquitted of the charge. Dur-
ing the trial It became necessary for
the sheriff to be carried to and f-om
the courtroom.
at the becker.
Tim Murphy offers as his play for
this season "Cupid and the Dollar,"
and he will present It at the Becker
theater Monday evening, Feb. 7. It
gives to this always clever exponent
of high-class comedy unlimited op-
portunity to distinguish himself as
a player of merit While this is a
powerful story, it is not devoid of
comedy situations, for there are
many logical episodes brought about
as a frame-work for the more dra-
matic situations with, back of all,
a beautifully conceived love theme.
In presenting "Cupid and the Dollar"
Mr. Murphy has considered every
means by which he could make this
a strictly high-class entertainment
and offcers It elaborately costumed
and carefully caste. Among his ac-
companying players will be Dorothy
S«errod In the principal feminine
role, enacting a part aptly suited to
n ir. Mr. Murphy is under the man-
agement of Louis F. Werba.
A PLEASURE TO COOK
with a Gas Range. Tour clotnes do
not get soiled nor your face red with
the excessive heat so common wim
a coal stove.
A GAS RANGE
enables you to entertain in the par-
lor, yet by leaving occasionally for
the kitchen, you can cook a meal
without change of apparel. Come to
us and talk It over. We can do
plumbing of all kinds.
shawnee plumbing co,
114 North Beard. Pohne 242.
A Policeman's Testimony.
J. N. Paterson, nlghl policeman of
Nashua, Iowa, writes: "Last wlnte-
I had a bad cold on my lungs and
tried at least half a dozen advertised
cough medicines and had treatment
from two physicians without getting
any benefit. A fr'end recommende.i
Foley's Honey and Tar and two-third*
of a bottle cured me. I consider It
the greatest cough and luuir medicine
THE ORIGINAL.
QUICK bag gate w*fon. Phone 777.
U-lm
Call us up—Phone 796. The old
eat cleaning shop In Ih<- city. We
do work for the most aristocratic
people In Shawnee. We are going Ijo
enlarge our place of business at once
and kindly solicit your patronage
All kinds of cleaning, pressing, dylnx
and repairing of ladles' and gentle
men's fine clothing. Ooods called
for and delivered on short notice
All work guaranteed. The original
Shawnee Steam Dye Work*. 118 W
Main, 8t.. Shawnee, okla.
SMITH A RICHARDS, Prop*.
A Message of Hope
Suggestive Therapeutics.
Every known disease has yielded
to tbls method, why not yours? We
have the personal endorsement of
Prof. Weltmer, founder of the method,
and assure you the same treatment
and benefit as given at his Institute,
at much less cost. Do not delay till
your case Is too deep seated, begin
treatment NOW. Those not living In
Shawnee can be successful y treated
at home for a nominal sum and
should write at once for particulars.
Consultation free and confidential.
All people not having u modern house
are cordially Invited to call and see
the bath appliance used In our treat-
ment room. Is also used in the
Battle Creek sanitarium. If you de-
sire, will teach you, that you may
use one In your own home. It is a
great lnvlgorator and health producer.
If you are well now, It will keep
you so.
SUGGESTIVE THERAPEUTISTS.
Rooms S aad 4 P. O. Bldg.
Shawnee, Okla lmd
THE NEWS
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SHAWNEE
Plumbing' Co.
112 N. Beard
Estimates famished on all
kinds of phimbiDff, Bath-
room and Toilet fixtures of
the latest on display.
PHONE 242
KNIGHT BROS. PROPS.
MEET MB AT
Joe MosJeh
Marmaduke ChiM
Parlor
The Best Coffee
213 East Main Street
IVe Been There And It'a AS
Right-Bill
Ladies' Try
Mrs. W. E.Jackson's
White Ro«e Complexion Cream, and
you will use no other. Find it at
Wallace Mann's or P. A.
Reynolds & Son.
WM. MABEN
T. G. CUTUP
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