The Pawnee Dispatch. (Pawnee, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, January 24, 1896 Page: 2 of 9
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PAWNEE DISPATCH.
WILL lk PETEK, Editor.
JTHJJMI! I) FillJiAY OF I5ALTI WKKK
KKIDAY, JANUARY 24.1890.
Kn v r«*d f»t t h«* i<-«t ofMoe r.t Pawnro. O. T., u-
»t«*tirul «*!n - * iiuittor, Kt*H. I5tli, 1894.
Satariplioe $1 per year, in advance,
«»HI'll I \l. I’Al'KIl OK < OI’XTV AND l ITV
few ringstors. Hi* Hon., Judge
Biorer did a gixxl job straighten-
in^r out the kinks for them though,
while here during the Inst term of
court.
It would not hurt the republican
party to have a Tom Reed in the
Senate for awhile.
The sale of the democratic na-
tional ronvehtion seems to have
licen overlooked by most of the
democratic editors.
It will go pretty hard on Ben
Harrison if lie gets married to Mrs.
I )imtuick, and is re-elected presi-
dent of tin* United States, all in
one year._
Xiblack gelH up on his hind feet
because tin* State Capital intimates
that 1 )oolin's capture was pre-un
dels food by l\ S. Marshal Nix and
Doolin. But late dcvolopemcnts
in the case seem to bear witness
to the t'lipitnl's utterances.
Two or three weeks ago Prof.
Stciinctt started out to diagnose
the gambling question, but since
then has displayed good sense for
once by refusing to say anything
more when he lacks the jiower to
back the opinions of somebody
else.
It now appears that Mr. Cleve-
land has become jealous of the
> Mney boom for the democratic
nomination, and has instructed Ids
‘riohds to throw cold water on it
by declaring that the late Secre-
tary Gresham, ami not Mr. Olney,
originated that Venezuela policy.
If a man insulted another and
then as soon as the other fellow
showed tight should say: “Oh, I
insulted you during a moment of
irritation, which lias now passed,” f .*. V”' " ““V
’ , ,, action of the commissioners is to
<U»OI> HOADS.
The Dispatch is heart and hand
in sympathy with this question of
roml improvement. We believe
that no improvement over the
present conditions should lie more
acceptable to the agriculturists
and people in general than that
involved by the construction of
good roads instead of indifferent
ones and bad ones. By menus of
modern thoroughfares through our
country districts the farmer is
brought into close touch with the
populous centres, and thus is nf-
fonlod a chance for a better and
wider homo market at much less
expense to him in the way of time
and wear and tear upon his vehi-
cles. For every reason it is to bo
hoped that the march of improve-
ment in the matter of good roads
in Pawnee county should be stead-
ily urged upon officers who have
this work in charge. Ex«ra time
and means could be very profita-
bly spent in this work in our
county, ff our fanners wish to
enjoy the full rewnrd of their la-
bors and of their lives they should
spend their spare time in mending
our public highways.
WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES.
W. W. Scott, the trustee of Paw-
nee township, appeared before the
board of county commissioners, up-
on their demand, at their last ses-
sion, and wns asked to resign his
office.
The occasion for this demand on
the part of the commissioners was
tlio discovery that Scott had been
using warrants, which were the
property of others or had been paid
and cancelled, that had come into
his possession by virtue of his of-
ficial position, as collateral secur-
ity for his individual obligations
and to fortify his personal credit.
These are grave offenses and the
wild would usually be the result?
That is the manner in which the
(ierinan Emperor explains his in-
sult to England,
Now that the chances for free
honied for the people of Oklahoma
are 'exceedingly go<xl. several pa-
pers throughout the territory that
have practically been silent on the
question are now breaking their
necks and straining their pent up
intellects, trying to say something
nice about it. The Outline Load-
er. for instance.
Senators would bette'j do some-
thing towards increasing the reve-
nue of the government., or else do
less talking aliout increasing the
navy. The navy can’t be increased
i itliout money. Let the Senate
pass the House tariff bill, which
vyould add £10.000,000 a year to
->ur revenue; then it might be in
order to spand some n < re money
on our navy.
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The managing servant of tlio
Tinies-Deinocrat is now trying to
pacify his readers by saying that
tfl.i.OOO of the illegal debt heaped
upon this county by a few demo-
crats lias been bonded and that the
taxpayers have thirty years in
which to pay it. It will b? a con-
stant drain on t.Ho resources of our
people to provide funds for the
payment of these 1 Hinds, and they
must be taxed every year to pay
bo commended. But Scott refused
to resign, and has secured or paid
his obligations and taken out of
the hands of others the evidence of
his guilt. From the standpoint of
a criminal this is, no doubt, his
wisest course. Resignation would
be taken by the public ns a confes-
sion of guilt, and would be a cir-
cumstance against him on a crimi-
nal prosecution. Ah to whether he
shall lie prosecuted for tho crimi-
nal offense it is not our province
to say. That is within the duty
and discretion of our officers con-
stituted for that purpcsV*. But
that the proper proceedings should
be instituted for his removal from
'dffioe, wei demand, ami we feel ns-
sured that our demnud will be sec-
onded by every good citizen of our
county regardless of party.
Scott is a democrat, and predis-
posed, possibly, by reason of it to
"ways that are dark ami trickB that
are vain,” but wo are dealing with
him and speaking of him, not as a
democrat, but as a public official of
whom, as of all public officials, w'e
have a right to demand not only
official integrity, but moral up-
rightness and personal honor, ns a
conservator of the public, welfare.
And wo want to say further that
we have what we now regard ns re-
liable information of tho wicked-
ness of certain other officials which
if upon further investigation
the interest, That is consoling :i,Kfcorroborated, we will give ful-
ly to tho public.
indeed lie further suggests that
Slil.OOO of the debt was repudiated.
Well. yes. If the democratic
hoard Imil studied the law a little
more closely and not been mere
machines in the hands of a few
schemers there would have been
no need of repudiation. It is un-
fyrtunate for the democratic jmrty
<9 general in this county that they
•rtust be led into these snaros by a
We do not desire to l>© sensa-
tional nor have we nny personal
spleen to vent, but our sense of
duty as a purveyor of rows and
condemnor of “wickedness in high
lac os" and low places, will cause
iui to lay open to the public gaze,
and ask public condemnation on
all persons who are “public ser-
vants" for their misdeeds.
DEPOTv r. S. M .% nsII AI.X.
A special agent of the depart-
ment of justice has been in Okla-
homa for two weeks, examining the
affairs of United States Marshal
Nix and the workings of his office.
A dispatch from Guthrie to the
Kansas City Journal says the agent
is very close mouthed anil refuses
to say anything whatever about
what, lie has discovered, except
tlint he thinks that the holding of
the United States court in every
county of the territory b a great
extravagance and should be abol-
ished. From other sources, how-
ever, it is learned that his report
will bo somewhat of a bombshell
when it is made. He finds dozens
of useless deputies lying around
and drawing fees, which should be
abolished. Marshal Nix cut his
force of deputies January L from
150 to 80, and after this report is
made a majority of those left will
have to go. ns being implicated in
all kinds of sharp practices to got
fees out of thi' government. Ar-
rests have boon made by tho score
for travel charges and the prison-
ers taken long distances right past
commissioners in order to get more
mileage, and in many instances
prisoners who were innocent were
induced to plead guilty, tho depu-
ties agreeing to pay tho fine out of
their fees. These arc but a few of
the many sharp practices he will
speak of in his report.
The examiner will censure the
manner in which prisoners nre
transported to tho penitentiary,
they being taken one at a time,
with generally two favorites as
guards. There nre also about
three times as many attaches about
tlio courts ns necessary. The cus-
tom of arresting settlers for little
technical offenses or on trumped
up charges and dragging them far
from lionie and among strangers,
where, though innocent, they often
plead guilty rather than lie in jail
for months, until given a trial,
will bo strongly condemned.
What Pays Bost. ^
Aft I "avo you a few facts regarding
cotton culture last week, this time I
will confine my remarks to broom
corn, flax and castor beans.
I have hnd no experience, but from
what I do know about castor beans I
believe it would lie a paying crop. At
ten bushels to tlio acre it would bring
ten dollurs at the railroad. Flax does
not pay as much per acre, i but the
labor is not so tedious as n castor
beans. It would be a paying crop on
sod 'f tlu- sod was disked and the seed
harrowed in. It is ulso a good crop to
rot sod for n wheat crop in the fall or
a corn crop in the spring. We couhl
raise eight or ten bushels per acre
w ith a reasonably good season, w hich
would fetch nt the railroad, at present
prices, about seventy cents per bushel,
anil as there is no market for the straw
nt present, the seed would be nil that
we could count on to bring in money.
Broom corn is n crop that does re-
markably. well in this country. 1 do
not think there is any slnte in the
union that can equal Oklahoma in thu
quality or yield or broom corn, but nt
the present prices at the railroad
towns, it simply would not pay to rnise
it. The price at Oklahoma City for
the best is twenty dollars per ton, and
counting the labor attached to raising
and caring for broom corn, it would
not pay under forty dollars per to’A
Bu* I believe that if two nr three far-
mers in a community would plant
enough to make near load, and plant
it early, and ship it to Kansas City or
Chicago, they would get the top price
each year, ns the crop can bo harvested
here a month or six weeks earlier than
in Illinois. This year, bcfoie the new
crop ciime on the market, broom corn
w as worth nt Chicago one bunilred and
ten dollars per ton, and nt Knnsas City
ninety-Hve dollars. Next season's
prices may be some lietter, ns prices
being so low there will be less planted,
But we can not expect to realize w lmt
we ought to on broom corn while there
is but one buyer hi each town, ns they
they do not pa-* the actual market
price, but just what suits their incli-
nation, Three acres will yield a ton
nnd it will sometimes do better, but a
ton to three acres is nil average yield.
. ,4a*. Kirkwood.,
B. 11. Wecsner warrants all watch
work.
R. E. BAOBY.
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EE PATTERSON.
LEADING DRUGGISTS
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ZDZR.TJOS, PATENT MEDICHSTES, I? .AO INTI'S.
OlliS -A. IN’3D GLASS.
We Handle the Purest Stock of Drugs.
Everything in Druggist's Sundries Prescriptions Carefully Compounded.
& Patterson.
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Anything in tin* line of
JVIceit mu cl Groceric
Come and See us.
Adams & Manning
LEADlSlO BUTCHERS.
Opposite S W corner of Square,
Pawnee, Oklahoma.
Lie Slur
Game in season.
Meat
fl arket
J. M. .Rutter, Prop.
Fresh and cured meats of all kinds.
Finest grade of lard. Fish and
Cash paid for fur and hides. °K^omL\™c.r‘
TRY
W. M. Oban & Sou
FOR
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All AMs of Kraia ani Fan Implements
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We have also added .t egrn crakcer and slieller, and tire
now prepared tc grind all kinds of feed.
aTlevis.
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Livery, ■ Feel ail - Sale
Finest Turnout in
the
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city. . Meast corner mare.
Money Saved
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Money Earned
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And When V^ou Want to .Save Money on
GROCERIES,
DRY GOODS, . ;
BOOTS AND SHOES,
ETC.,
(’all and See our Goods and Prices.
Laughlin & Co.
V>
CALL AND SEE
PROPRIETOR
A. T. BOLTON,
OF THE OLD RELIABLE.
Meat Sin it Gi’ocery Store!
We have just added a neat line1 of groeerie»/in eon
neetion with our meat market,7aml respect-
, fully solicit a share of youi trade.
north side.
PAWNEE,'.O. T
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Peter, Will H. The Pawnee Dispatch. (Pawnee, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, January 24, 1896, newspaper, January 24, 1896; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc907525/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.