The American--News. (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 8, 1903 Page: 4 of 8
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Busies driving wagons, runabouts, etc. We have the best selected stock ever shown here. A fine line oi
steel and rubber tires. ' Also a large stock of surries, I oth steel and rubber tires at prices all can afford to buy.
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OKLAHOMA NOTES.
Enid is to have a $40,000 shoe fac-
tory.
It was bound to come.
Alester is organizing a
assembly.
South Me
Chautauqua
propositon will be received
good, but illiterate, except one, who
was such a “black sheep that he was
kiled before he got a change to nibble
at the crop of wild oats he had sown.”
says he knew many of Abraham Lin- j worse people may attacked. Even ‘hen began to burn ar /. Im tronVe Jty ^ .imc_1iatcly a(ler the
coin's relatives, a., of whom were » newspaper man .. hablc to have hi. ^L^enio f si.-L Afs holdiays. Th, ,*• .« is substantiated
__ and successive difficulties of counter hy the fact that those who see the
The grading gang'making a cut for'currents in a state o, ft: with the handwriting on the wall arc making an
the street railway at South McAlester watts and kilometer... Ia ever; day effort to get in on ground floor
{recently uncovered a fossil tree, in- English, ti.c engiiu . ‘ 13 iUt , 1 _
Phil iger of the Creek nation died tact, with nuts resembling walnuts, but tended screwdriver M gUfc _ . .. f .
11,1 r> 1,1 1 c ^rccK nau n» u,c 1 .. , .. .- •, bowlc’r il an 1 the A t ot pro Enid is making a canvass for sub-
rrrrntlv from iniiiri<»« inflicted bv ill- as b»tf as tea cups, dangling from it> DOWIc^g.u .11 1 in- t y . . , x . .
recently from injuries inflicted by an Mimjr (ossUs have been fa„e. If this cxnlnr not sal- scnpt.ons to stock to put .n a shoe
knife ripped open one of the arteries
of his leg and he bled to oeath.
There is a moral to this slory.
The Chicago coal dealers understand
how to create a coal famine in zero
weather with 150,000 tons in the yards.
Pity that there is not a clear cut legal
prescription to relieve it.
The annual income of the famous - . ,
"101" ranch near Bliss, which con- , other tiger who broke a jug of coal ram ies. . j. . lorv asb . , , knows.
oil over his head, he oil caught fire found from time to time, including > ..ictory, as., .
tains 50,000 acres and employes 203
men, is estimated at $500,000.
Ardmore is to have another opera
house with a seating capacity of 1,000.
It will be heated by hot water ana
lighted by electricity by its own plant
An evidence of improvement in th;
grade of Oklahoma live stock was the
importation from Missouri last week
by Judge Lynch of Ponca City of for-
ty-six registered Red Polled bulls.
The Phoenix says a Muskogee little
boy, under the unsettling influence ot
the statement that there is no Santa
Claus, told his parents they were not
his papa and mama; he just 1 sorrowed
them from God.
Several weeks ago malicious parties
threw a quantity of old iron into tht
testwell at Cushing after it was down
700 feet. It has just been removed
and the well will besunk to the 1,500
foot level.
WaWn-wah-sah, a well known Oz-
aakee Indian, whose wiie died in his
wigwam on Euchee creek last week,
and Tigers wife was burned to death lace-like ferns and perfect flown - 1 ■
factory, the commercial club having
accepted the offer of R. P. Shirley
of Washington, Indiana, to build at
while trying to save her husband. The ologis.s say the country thereabout During the opening at mid an old
. , . . .. ..— c .nvrri.,1 with trr.nw.il rrtr-r> “mammv staked a claim at the L,nul- its capacity is to be 900 pairs
man responsible for the death of the
lady and the Tiger is now in the Sa-
pt.Ipa jail.
The juxtaposition of the citation by
the Waurika News of the cas • of “a
partly drunk and the rest damphool
fellow who went down the street yes-
terday morning firing his six-shooter,'’
as an evidence that the town ought .0
be incorporaten, to an advertisement
was evidently covered with tropical negro “mammy’ ’ staked a claim at the
vegetation when the glacial flow cov : -ucr of Independence and Monroe Ptr ' .1.1,1 »i ctnp oy 225 peop e.
ered it streets. Claim jumpers threw her lhc building w.l! be four stories and
__ ; r„.(£:s and chattels into the street, but occllP>’ 75xijo feet ground space. The
he “toted ’em back" and stuck to the caPi:a' t0 foilnd and °Perate this is
.t on which she has accumulated a month- t0 say nothing of b i. and
.e rd variety of junk picked out of the $35,"CO or less than the output oi • ne
alleys. Recently a building boom r ’ lacidnery.
c ffertd $;,ooo for the lot, but she de- 0
Dined and ran him off with a broom- While ,his coun,ry is matching the
El Reno has five elevators with a
total capacity of 230,000 bushels, King-
fisher comes second with an elevator
capacity of 150,000 bushels and Okla-
homa City third with 142,000 bushel*
Rev. Billy Greyeyes, a noted high
priest of the dog-soup eating otter-
skin secret order, sojourned in ~ur
town last week, says the Stroud Mes
sengir. Billy is the heir consumptive
of the Ozaukee crown, his father hav-
ing officiated as chief for some time.
for shrouds, casket an 1 burial slippers, ; It is, however, doubtful if Billy will
was doubtless accidental. ever brace the Ozaukee throne an.!
__ ; draw a $500 annual salary as principal
A newly opened will of the Granite , chief of the Sacs and Foxes.
Oil company only 200 feet deep is pro- | -
ducing ten barrel sof oil per day. it ‘ "The three new counties, Kiowa, Co-
will be driven deeper in the hope that } manehc and Caddo, added to Oklahoma
that a gusher will develop. Oil has during the past year, have brought in
has been struck near Mountain View i 7°.°°o people, and by virtue of the on-
in several wells i which Senator Han-|a*>ling act are launched free of debt
na and other Ohio senators are inter- I for the first three years, with court
estccj j house, school buildings, waterworks
_ t and steel bridges all paid for from the
An echo of the gladsome Christmas s*'e of town lots in the three county
times from the South McAlester News: j whicb n°w >'ave: Lawton, 7.083;
"Deputy Crockett Lee spoiled the ] people.
Christmas of D. Stottes by arresting
Oklahoma City is after another rail-
road. This time it is the Missouri
Pacific. By the way, that town has
the reputation of getting just about
what she goes after, too.
stock. Some people call her foolish smoke that 15 rlsm8 ,n thc Venezue-
la turning the offer tdown. Maybe la" trouble. « bctter kceP lts c>e on
s', e is, says the Enid Mirror, but thev Colombia, where an invasion of Nica-
ir.ad ethe same remark when she rc ra«ue maX bc made not only for the
fused the offer of $1,000 three years ”™>' employed and out of michief
but to get the edge in the canal con-
struction and be able to dictate terms
Every vote against the school bond
election counts as two. There must
be two-thirds of all the legal votes
in favor of the bonds to carry the is-
sue.
In the beginning God created the the United States by controlling
heavens and the earth, then the editor. both rou,es- Columbia is the smartest
then the liberal advertiser-which was of thc Central and South American re-
all good. The next day it snowed publics.
What a painful surprise to the Ch -
cago Inter Ocean it will be if the Ven-
ezuelan troudle is settled without
President Roosevelt kicking John Hay
out of his cabinent.
and He created the man who does not
It is now claimed that wireless tele-
believe in advertising, antoher who Only twenty-one days until the graphy is not a new thing by a good
does not take the home paper-and fcho°’ bond Section. The stay at many years; hut the original discover-
ers seem to have been trying to keep
it a secret.
then He rested. And then the (level homc votes count ,he ,ssuc
got into the moulding room and ere- B‘st tbeJianlc as those cast in tbe nc*-
ated the man who takes ttie paper for a,ive' The ,aw re<ll"res a ‘’■''°-‘b"'ds
several years and fails to pay for it. aff>™iative vote.
i. said to have mourned his loss by on the OutT of manufacturing Grea.grand-mother Roubkloux. aged, After be ^c^ipletH that ;orry job ^ Vene=^“r j$
house and found a party of his friends
and nights without food or drink.
■t said to have mourned tus loss by ■ ' 7 " , . " ()« years who is a member of the Iowa and having a few lumps left, he ere- 1 nc Venezuelan anair is giv.ng
riding around her grave for three days and dlsPosmK- Lee went to Stokes . ■ > . .. f , settles some of the British knoekers a chancce
-a -------------T , 1 hnnse and found a nnrtv of his friends I"d>»" tnbe and a daughter ot the once I ate.l jhe^xvuse of a m^n^who^sejUe.s ^ ujc the.f hammcrs And ,hcy seem
master tTmark hisy paper ’refused.”- *° have lbem over ‘here just as we do
„ . , , • n- in this country and they cut ust about
Carson, was in town last week say* Hotchkiss limes. .
as much ice in one country as the
the Stroud Messenger, he old squaw ---
Captain Jack Ellis, for sixteen years white relatives in Kansas City
"Thc year has gone and with it many
a glorious throng of happy dreams,
giving Its mark is on each brow; its shadow
in each heart.”
| gathered around a barrel of Choctaw famous Joe Roubidoux, the founder
Euchee and other squaws who did ,lccr' mjoying it hugely.” Evidently of St- Joseph, Mo., an 1 a churn of Kit
their Christmas shopping at Stroud j be disposes best who disposes last,
there were no Indian or even negro
who
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civilian garb at South McAlester on but shc ins,sts uPon Passin« ‘lcr whole
January i and again donned the blue b,e wbb Indian j.
with its attendant star and gun. Ellis |
skins.
I is a good idea for a man tj -e
Enid claims it has not been fairly
with 250.000 bushels. El Reno is sec- >Pon him and he enlisted again as n *• e VjUa,,r,ka News that Ik was te
ond. with 2^,000 bushels; Kingfisher, private, but will be given a.captaincy a "***»* hcnglulcss Ik.v add.cte ;
on April , He is now in Chiekasha to bU,c ovcralls and stone bru,5cs l!
and will help nm the cattle out of In- >ou bave a ani1 P'8'«t'd to add a
ilian Territory little sunshine to his life and make lnm
i think you the best old dad a boy ever
150,000 ad Oklahoma City, 140.000.
Perkins has an anti-cigarette club.
inrL-Q hindincr themselves urukr no the trousers of a Lawton attorney on ' , , , .
tacks, binding themselves tincVer no
less penalty than to pay a dollar to
each of their fellow members or in lieu
New Year’s day, their owner being in a Christmas present if 1 had to go
them at thc time, and it is suggested hungry for a month to buy it.
The flight of the crown princess of
Saxony again calls attention to the
misforutnes of the house of Hapsburg
other.
Colonel Bryan has a beautiful house
to mortgage if he wants to run for
president again and raise an ample
campaign fund.
The Isthmian Canal Commission
within the memory of a generation <*n a‘ least P0^ ,0 *»«/«» that 11
The murder of the empress of Austria has onl>’ ab°a‘ bal* of ‘he
and the suicideof the heir to the throne alrcad>’ aPProperated in making ready-
can well be Cited. Well remembered to do *ometh'n8- It costs as much
is the fate of Carlotta. wife of Maxi- mone>’ lor a government commission tr |
millian. and thc life of Maria Chris- l° do no,h«n8 as do sme,th,nR'
tine, queen dowager of Spain, seems Moreover there is a large surplus in
the treasury.
In about two weeks, President C»s-
tro will want to join with the Euro-
pean powers in arbitrating his trou-
bles with the Venezuelan rebles.
o-
not to have been exempt from the
woes of her house. And there will be
momentuous political Happenings in
Europe when old Franz Josef dies.
6Silver to the front again. A Denver
man refuses to take $1,500 for a silver
dollar of-1804.
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On the surface of friendly relations
j are supposed to have been resumed
j between this country and Spain, but
so copiously in her SPain ne';cr wil1 feel iust ,he samc
thereof to receive ten spanks with a that the sufferer have them made
cedar shingle.
! double breasted behind in the future
1 or wear a bustle. “If criminal law-
Captain Jasper Hicks of Stroud, who yers arc not exempt.” says the Enter-
was raised in Spencer county, lnd., prise, “there’s no telling how soon
playrth.r'he" makes'her veil all sop-ItowaH ,his co"ntr>r as she did durin«
py, but if she doesn't occasionally wine ,be da> '; Christopher Columbus.
This is the way the lights go out at her nose it likes that much of being
The El Reno club must move tomor-
row to another room for the new
lessees.
,U, .0 the Enterprise, tfe er.t .Pin, A t~ -On, ’, ^ ^ ^
"Last evening the electric lights went withoui wiping her nose ant snittlinn.
The report comes from good authr- ent a" b'S borse the
out at 7. The stuttered awhile and
It is only fair to Connecticut to say
that the fellow who has recently been
selling tanhark for cinnamon is
not front that state.
The proper education of a child is
the foundation of its life.
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Greer, Charles F. The American--News. (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 8, 1903, newspaper, January 8, 1903; El Reno, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc911178/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.