The Yukon Sun And The Yukon Weekly. (Yukon, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, December 6, 1901 Page: 1 of 8
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THE YUKON
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YUKON, CANADIAN COUNTY, (). T.. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1901.
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Railroad Surveyors Here.
Considerable inquiry was oc-
casioned last Saturday by tbe ap-
jiearance of a corps of surveyors in
Yukon. Tiie chief engineer gave
his name as Dunn, said to be
.lames Dunn, chief engineer of the
•Santa Fe system. Mr. Dunn was
strictly non-communicative. He
said he had been employed to run
a certain survey and was not pre-
pared to answer any questions.
The men have been camping near
“Cereal station west of here for
some time. Their line runs paral-
lel with the Choctaw railroad from
Oklahoma City to El Reno. It is
only a preliminary survey and
may never be heard of again, yet
there has been much guessing as
to which company is having the
work done.
Some say it is the Santa F®,
which desires to run a new line
from Oklahoma City to El Reno,
thence through the new country
and connecting with the Santa Fe
branch south of Amorilla, Texas.
Otners think it is the Rock Island
planning a line to reach the
wholesale markets of Oklahoma
City and to go on east and tap the
e ml Helds near Me A tester, Indian
Territory. The Ruck Island is
now dependent on t he Choctaw
eo npany for all the coal she uses
on her south western lines.
Some of the wise fellows say
the survey is being made for the
proposed electric line which is to
run from El Reno, to Oklahoma
City, to Guthrie, to Shawnee and
•everywhere. Still others think it
is the M., K. <fe T. planning to
reach the new country by way of
Oklahoma City and El Reno. The
Katy has for some time been ne-
gotiating for the extension of their
road from some Indian Territory
point to Guthrie or Oklahoma
City.
The Sun lias made diligent in-
quiry but lias been unable to
learn anything of importance. We
have it on good authority that the
Santa Fe and the Rock Island are I
not on very good terms witli the
Choctaw, and would not lie sur-
Hlld Whittenton accompanied Court House lliock Deeded,
them, Conductor Sanderson in J The county commissioners met
charge of the train. The officials last week and accepted the deed
expressed themselves as well pleas- j L> block 7.) in the city of El Reno,
ed with the situation, expressly j f° he used us a court house site,
were they gratified with the sitna- Hie grantors were J. N. Mitchem
tion and condition of affairs in n,,,l Pauline Mitchem, his wife.
Geary. The grantors were given thirty
Commercial Club.
The Yukon Commercial Club
met in regular session at the city
building Tuesday evening. No
business of importance came up
except the discussion of the
mense amount of railroad building
that is being done in Oklahoma.
Yukon would like very much to
have another east-and-west rail-
road, but is not anxious for one to
come in from the north or south.
The secretary was instructed to
correspond with the officials of
the M., K. & T., the Santa Fe,
tiie Frisco and the Rock Island
loans, real estate and insurance.
We make farm loans on from one
to seven years time, at lowest
rates, give you privileges of pay-
ing all or part ut any year and get
you the money at once. We have
sold $100,000 worth of farms this
year. We keep posted on the
places for sale. If you have any
friends who want to liny we will
show them the whole country.
Notary public in office; deeds,
days time to remove the two or
three little buildings that stand
on the block. Commissioner beep-
er informs us that the title to the
block is peifect, the hoard having i mortgages, insurance, etc. written
’ ! received an abstract of record from contracts, petitions, etc. typewrit
-; the government patent up to and j ten; (ll,a(racts ordered,
including the deed to tiie county.
The Commissioners will meet
again on December iff to make
some arrangements about pushing
the court house project. Mr.
Leeper says they have not fully
decided as to whether they will
employ an architect or adopt the
plan of some other court house
Remember tiie farm loans.
Respectfully,
V. H. Russel & Son.
Yukon, Oklahoma.
l'Yrytirion Was Slated,
Tiie State Capital says; “Fer-
guson was agreed upon as tiie suc-
cessor to Jenkins, in case the lat-
ter should not he held in office, at
in this city
He was on-
. , , that has recently been built. There ------------
systems and to assure then, that 8eem(. to |)e no duubt, that a suit- a conference held
* , " “ 1'e,u1/ ,to ll° ,he he8,t B,»° able building can be erected for! over two weeks ago.
can by them if they want to build $-)(J 0(X> or leMS
through here. * ____c__
Real Estate Tra n fees.
—If you want to buy n claim
don’t fail to see me. 0. Li. Hoover.
H. II. Leeper has bought the
A Biu-glar Chase.
Town Marshal W. C. McComas
and a posse of citizens had an ex-
citing time late Wednesday night ! it , *,D1 - ,
searching tor a gang ot burglars
that were reported to he planning
some big robberies in Yukon. Wil-
lie stationed Tom Sliacklett at file
corner of to.wn. Consideration,
$300.
C. I). Long yesterday sold his
farm of 155A acres west of town to
! Thus* Williams of Texas for §2900.
rear of the Shamrock restaurant
with a big six-shooter in each , . „ ,, , ,
hand and had other sentinels scat- I Russel & hun n0«o,la,e<l tl,e ‘‘en-
tered along the south side of | dames Smith has bought, the
Spencer avenue with shotguns | Wnlker <,urm lluar Frisco ut *6200.
and lilies. Then the Marshul lThe lu,e Mr‘ 'Vtllker buuKht this
■went away in search of a lantern, j ffuaitei about two years ago for
Charley Bruza hid his money and ; *4^XJ ««d raised two crops on it.
locked 11is saloon, and oilier busi-
ness men prepared for the big
hold-up that was sure to come. By
the time the Marshal got back
with his lantern somebody let the
cat out of the bag. It was only a
joke that some of the boys had
fixed up to try the Marshal’s nerve.
Herbert A.
Herbet A., son
Sander*.
of M. B.
W. B. Mont fort inis sold his
frame building oil lot 21, Spencer
avenue, to S. S. Sanger and ,). H,
Russel. Consideration, $800.
Russel & Son will continue to
have tneir office in the room and
Dr. Sanger, will move his office
there in about two months.
and j
Pupils’
A number of
Recitnl
Mrs. Maxwell's
dorsed by -Flynn and the entire
organization of the territory. His
policy will be firm, it is generally
hqlieved, and conservative. There
will be some removals, it is said,
but no names are mentioned. A
number of officials have already
decided to tender their resigna-
t ions.’’
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I Iinow Not Why.
I lift iniuw eyes wrainst the sky.
Tin* elonds arc weeping, so am I;
1 lift mine eyes n*?;iin on hi«{h ,
The sun is smiling so am 1.
Why do l smile? Why do I weep?
1 know not why,; it lies too deep.
1 hear 11i<* winds of autumn sigh,
They break my heart, they make mo cry ;
1 hear the birds of lovely spring,
M.\ hopes revive, 1 help them sing.
Why do 1 sing'/ Why do 1 -ry?
It lies too deep, I know not why.
* —Morris Rosen fold.
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bocal ami Personal.
F. G. struck his match Wednes-
day night.
Ben Evans returned Wednesday
from Kansas City.
New equipment, new schedule,
new route. “Choctaw Route.”
Mrs. E. R. Smith is visiting old.
NO. 49.
Jenkins Scores Roosevelt.
friends in Butler county, Kansas.
Nannie E. Sanders of this city, j P’,,uo pupils will give a recital at Foil Sale Four room house,
died at 7:45 o’clock last Saturday j Bansom s Hall next luesdayeven- nearly new; barn; good well; two
morning, aged il years, 9 months I he door will lie open friftn lots. Enquire at Sun office,
and 28 days. Death was caused ; 1 8 o’clock and the recital I W. (). W. meets first Monday
prised to see either or both ot by an (tboeS8 in the thruat Tl)e will be held from 8 tq 9. It is not | lliK,lf. of etlH, month. All mem-
bet ween little fellow suffered for several I blended as a concert, but merely
days from the effects of the dis- ja recital fur the benefit of the pu-
Tne»El Reno Democrat savs the !ease-l,ul human effort could not ; l,lls- No admission fee will be
Rock Island will build east forccal. relieve him. During the hour be- ‘/barged, and al who are interested
in music from the student’s point
of view are invited to attend. The
these roads build a line
El Reno and Oklahoma City.
fore his death he manifested great
this dis- intelligence and seemed to be
The K. C. Star had
patch from Oklohonni City: A I aware that the end was near,
corps of surveyors arrived from I Funeral services were held at
(he West this afternoon. Whilejthe home Saturday afternoon,
they refused to give out any in-1 conducted by Rev. Rinehart* pas-
formation, it was learned that they j tor of the M. E. church. Inter-
had made a survey on a parallel
with the Choctaw railroad from
El Reno hnd that the survey
would be continued to South Me-
Alester. The surveyors started
ment at the Yukon Cemetery.
New Hold.
R. Frye, owner of the Belmont
Hotel, has moved the old building
from El Beno and it is thought r)a<>k !,bollt oO feet from the street
the Chicago, Ruck Island ife Pacific 11,114 "*d n* ull,‘e er,!<d a new addi-
is buck of them. • McCabe «k Co. 40,11 44 l°nt, two stories
of Kansas City, who have been en- j 1 lie structure will
wood.
lie of
gaged to lay the track for the Ok-1 "ajoH’ We llad hoped hi see Mr.
lalioma City & Western railway. f r,V® niovo (lie old building clear
will be unable to commence until ,,WHJ lllld l,u* up 11 solid brick
January, owing to the fact that no j 4,1 1 be d'd 11(4 seB d that
steel can bo secured before that ua'.' there will lie a vast jin-
bl|ie j proveinent, anyhow.
program:
Duet Negro Dance’.. G. Gurlitt
Sarah Faris, Pearl Ellison.
Solo The Forget-Me-Not. Matvli VYaddington
Lela Russel.<
Solo Heather Hells. Polka .Jacob Kunkel
Emma Ellison.
5010.. .. Star of the Sea. Reverie.... A. Kennedy
Frankie Scott.
Trio. On Drohs Parade. March.... Schmitt
Emma Ellison, Heryi Ott, Lela Russel.
Solo Dance of the soljths. CarLlIeins
Pearl Ellison.
Solo. .Careless Elegance. Caprice .SclileifTarth
Heryi Ott.
Solo The Little Prince Waltz C.W.Kroginau
Maggie Ellison.
5010.. . .Southern Jollification____( has. Kunkel
Sarah Faris.
Duet The Village Chime* Polka Washington
Frankie Scott, Maggie Ellison
burs are requested to attend regu-
larly.
R. W. Olive of Iowa is visiting
his uncle, John Olive, and family.
He may decide to locate in this
country.
The Anndarko Democrat says
Ralston Bros. Cafe served a fine
banquet to the Commercial Club
on Thanksgiving Day. They had
22 turkeys fur dinner Sunday.
Lesley A. Woods is now living
on his claim near Union City. He
thinks he has cine* of the best
farms in the Caddo country. The
Sun will keep him posted on Yu-
kon affairs.
The teachers of the Yukon
schools are visiting the Oklahoma
City schools today. The board
Last Saturday President Roose-
velt removed Governor W. M. Jen-
kins and appointed Editor Tom B.
Ferguson to take his place. A full
report will be found on inside page.
Ex-Governor Jenkins gave out
a lengthy interview at Guthrie on
Wednesday in which he defines his
position in the sanitarium scandal
ami scores President Roosevelt
unmercifully. Most people think
he Imd just as well butt his head
against a stone wall. Among other
things Mr. Jenkins says:
“No stock whs ever issued to me and
never siov a share of it in my life and
no one was trustee for me. The deposit
of the stock was made purely that it
might hr turned over to one in whom I
Imd confidence and whom 1 felt would
he the right sort of a man to have in a
company which had been given such a
sacred trust.
“The man who received (lie stock de-
clared in tiie strongest terms to tiie
President and Secretary of the Interior
that lie paid Mr. McNeal, tiie bunker
who held tiiis stock, exactly what In1
had in it, and I his banker took the
stock in his own name, paid for it with
his own personal money, and the memo
random lie wrote stipulated that if nol
transferred within the time specified the
hank was to continue to owu the stock
at the amount he put into it together
with all accumulation.
“President Roosevelt, as did Score
I ary Hitchcock told me they did not lie
lieve me dishonest, that I no doubt had
acted with pure motives, hut that an al
tempt to dictate to any of the Stockholm
ers was hu indiscretion they could not
excuse. After telling me this, Presi
dent Roosevelt sent to tiie world a
memorandum giving a very different in-
ference. Not only did he violate his
statement to me, hut to cast all the
odium possible lie garbled my written
statement to the secretary of the iuter
ior.
“In answer to the charge in this an
wer 1 said: ‘1 told them that it was an
important contract and that I must
know that the officers of tiie com pan v
and the employes at the asylum were
suitable persons, and that I had some
friends who 1 would like to have inter
ested in the company.*
“The president made me say, ‘that it
was an important contract and I had
some friends whom l would like to have
interested. ’
“it is not a little remarkable that the
president of a great nation would gar
tile a statement, tin official document,
that he might tiie better construct a
political memorandum for tiie public,
lie was either insincere when he toll!
me lie believed 1 had acted honestly, or
he was insincere not to say more when
lie sent out a document which the peo
pie generally would understand to he
purely political, an attempt to make
personal political prestige for the politi
cal remains.of one whose life he has de
termiued to blast forever.
“In all political annals ( believe tie
people of the country, and (‘specially
the people of Oklahoma, will look in
vain to find a parallel lo this ungenei
mis, cruel and wholly unjustifiable
‘memorandum.*
“Who thinks McKinley would have
been capable of such a lack of feeling,
who believes that when a man is down
the great and good should tramp on
him, crush his future, outrage his farni
ly and without blush or apology attempt
to east an eternal stigma iri addition to
tiie humiliation given in tiie mere act of
removal? I can outlive tiie ‘metnorai
dum,' conscious of having done ti
wrong, believing the public, which
Geary Bulletin: The Choctaw
Farmers, At (cm ion.
♦ gave them the clay for this pur- .
p7',le *«* ’Ir),»“len':....................I-'" *...........in JSK SB?
people, and espetlolly (iklahoma j |)e well spent. mv administration honorable and all my
people, don t know much and (’ A. Mundell and wife came up public and private acts of jniy motivi
, lliat they are an uneducated, com- fr()tll Anadarko, Tuesday, on lmsi- 1 wil,in" to let lh,‘ fut««‘'Techie.
1,10,1 lot »e»to*| living away out | nes8 and to visit relatives. Mr. '
Hut can Roosevelt live it down? Cm
1 here in dugouts, wearing rags, etc.; Mundell is doing a good bushes | Imd^i^^liknotamlde^,!^:!
yard and contern- try to irretrievably crush those you have
nlmle'an il^Hon of IhiTnUre' UAm will m,"" «n UEffiZ T1 ” **?' !iv" " «*» M» t«..l
system last week starting at Mem i» Yu k*on at 3:30 o’clock Saturday , 1,okey» 0,(1 nettled country plates putting up a livery stable, the power to hut. filiate? This is „ cod.
Hi is til rough to SuA “Z;!-'--.. I A \ ^ ^ hiXJ , T“" S'' ^
Dewaide, of our city, joined them njembors are urged fl> he present•: Ille|li ])retly W()l„eI1, lots «,f nice ,
here. At Sayre, Mr. Sayre pre-1 ^ew officera ami messengers will babies plenty to eat and 1 ' aV'
sen ted them with an elegant flag j ,e elected and new liiembers ad-1
which cost ^$180. The Hag was hiitted.
raised and appropriate exercises T *>• M. \\ amslev, Pres.
Jos. Rose, Secretary.
held. Sayre is to he a division
point and a 14 stall round house
is being built. The road will ex-
tend further west and south of
.Mori* Hotel Change*.
in u rain-barrel Wednes- even though they be exercised by the
,______ Ti)use who witnessed the I President of the United States.’*
. .. goo(l j performance stole up behind him i •
houses to live m we would like to tu ietm. what he was doing. They! ..........
show them, whether they are from |i8tened intently and heard Wait T1,e (’l,0(’taw Route wiU sed
Missouri or not. I ...........■•< pje wanted 4b'kets to points on their line.
We have lived here twelve yean,
and we know’these things. We also ,
within two hundred miles of se-
ling point, at one and one-third
G. M Sparks has given up liis know that Oklahoma people arc i-Ccd (iilnding. fare for the round trip. Dates i I
dense of the \ ukon Hotel and will here for the dough and know how Will grind chops and feed of nil sale: Dec. 21, and 31. and Jan .
Amorilla, and 16(1‘miles has been • take clinrge ot t he Belmont as soon to make as much of it out of. any kinds at my place f> miles south 1, with final return limit Jan. L
contracted west of Amorilla. ()n as the new building is erectod. kind of a detd as the “wise men of and 2 miles east of Yukon every 1902. For full inhumation ca I
their return they went up the _ J. S. Shack left has assumed the east’ or any other men. We Monday. Price, leper bushel. on nearest agent or write Geo. 1:
Choctaw Northern. Messrs. Elder control of the Yukon Hotel.
| want you to figure with us on f. r n 1 It
Frank. A. Nulk. Lee, (I.P. T.A., Litt'e Rock, Ark.
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Maxwell, William Albert. The Yukon Sun And The Yukon Weekly. (Yukon, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, December 6, 1901, newspaper, December 6, 1901; Yukon, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc911779/m1/1/: accessed March 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.