The Yukon Weekly. (Yukon, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 2, 1899 Page: 2 of 4
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Roofing & Guffennj a SpeciaUfy,
I am on deck again with a l)etter stock of goods than ever be-
l"ie; Hardware, Harness, Collars & l’ads, Stoves, Tinware,
blacksmith and Wagonmaker’s supplies, Windmills, Pumps.
Pipe and Fittings, brass goods, Gauge glasses, Packing &e.
I will also carry a large stock of the celebrated Wabash, white
pine Screen Poors: also screen wire, and will meet anybody's
price, bring in your work harness for repairs before Spring’s
work comes on.
1 hankuig one and all for past favors and soliciting a contin-
uation of the same, I am yours for business.
H. E. OAKES,
yuKO|^ - - - o. 7.
THE YUKON WEEKLY.
Bruce Ott.
Yukon lias four saloons and in-
cidentally four churches
Several local capitalists aic con-
templatin'.' building house' to rent,
in the near future.
The It I Keuo Supper Mel) lias en-
larged and is now a hot daily.
1'lie Ukarche 1 imen sa> s a inad-
dog near that town hit a gentlemen
in Ins employ. What’s that?
Lemons, w ho formelly edited the
El lleno Republican, lias changed
from discussing politics to pump-
kins. The name is the Farmer’s
Journal and it contains much use-
1111 information for the farmer.
There is a village in New llamh-
sliirc which has produced twenty
six editors, and alluding to the
fuel one day a good old deacon
said: “Yes there was twentvsix
ol ’em; but as they have all left
town and cleared out, 1 reckon the
Lord wont lay it up against us.”
To.day the people of the United
{States have more money in their
pockets, or subject to their checks,
than at at any previous period in
the nation s history. The amount
as estimated by the treasury de-
partment at Washington, is nearly
two billion dollars.
Up at Guthrie a class compos-
. cd of boys was requested to write
a short letter to the teacher.
One youngster added a P. S.,
which read: “Please excuse bad
riling and speling as I haint been
taut any beter.”
•The business men of Yukon
should put forth a strong effort
during the coming year to reach
those districts not now trading
with us to any extent and present
to the people thereof the advan-
tages of Yukon as a trading point
If there are obstacles imagined
or real that holds them from com-
ing here to transact their trading,
ways and means must be devised
to remove them- The condition
of the various thoroughfares lead-
ing to our town, should be inquir-
ed into, and many things should
be done that have been left un-
done too long. Some mav take
only asuperlicial view of this mat-
ter and think it an unnecessary
waste of time and attention, but
nav! h c ale as between Scylla
and t'liarybdis. Kl Reno and
Oklahoma Pity arc making strong
efforts to pub pom its our right-
ful trade. So let us tip and be
a hustling and not set around
whining ovei the low price ol
our products, for nothing is to he
gained thereby. \ ttkon prosper
edduring 1 S‘is, let her prosperity
continue with a good big increase
during 1
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i Lion 11 deserves neither reverence
tor tiie savagery which it created
the antipathies it continued, nor
the sufferings which survived its
chaos ot methods or its flagrancy
of administration. Deriving no
power lrom the consent of the un-
iortunates it governed and em-
bodying no principle of that de-
claration ot independence under
which it exists, foreign to the
constitution it violates and defy-
ing the methods of the govern-
ment which fathered it, territori-
alism has no precedent outside of
hades, and no Sponsor hut the
lather of all evil.”—McMaster.
The Fifth Annual Convention
of the Oklahoma Live Stock As-
sociation will he held at Wood-
ward, Okl., Feb. 14 and 15, 1899.
It promises to he the best ever
yet held in Oklahoma and a large
attendance is promised. One
Lire rate is given by the Saute
Fe, the Fort Worth & Denver and
the Pecos Valley railwnvs from
all points on said lines in Kansas,
Oklahoma and the Panhandle of
Texas, to Woodward and return.
An excellent programme has been
arranged. Secretary Wilson, of
Washington, D. C. is expected
to he present, ' also Gov. Barnes
and the legislature of Oklahoma.
•Specialists of note on Southern
Fever, black Leg and Lump Jaw
will address the convention. The
work of the year will lie carefully
reviewed. All are invited to at-
tend and receive the benefits ot
thisorgaizatiou which so ably rep-
resents the live stock interests of
the southwest.
However much a newspaper is
cussed and abused, however onery
it may he, it saves many a fellow’s
bacon. There are people in ev-
ery community who would toda\
he frying on the ski!let of public
condemnation if thceditor of the
home paper told what he knew.
As a rule the editor is the first t<
hear all the scandal there is going
and in some cases the charges art
true and can l>u proven. All tin
indiscretion of men and women
all the nasty talk indulged in b\
qertain classes of young people
reaches the ear of the editor
but if the editor would publish
half of the stuff he hears divorct
suits would follow thick and fast
There would he shot guns and
funerals, desolate homes and mis-
ery. And yet our home editor is
abused, cursed and maligned be-
cause his paper is no account and
he is worse. No thought is given
to the stuff he has heard of your-
self maybe, that he hasn’t printed
It don’t take much of a man to tell
what to put in newspapers, but it
takes the wisdom of Solomon to
tell what to Keep out.—Norman
Transcript.
Eiutok Yukon Wkkki.v:
Will you kindly per-
mit me space for a short article
through the columns of vonr valu-
able paper.
There are questions of right and
wrong to he settled by the human
family during the process of evolu-
tion in intelligence. Liberty is and
may possibly always he a privilege
bought with blood, lint we be-
lieve that the hand of tyranny must
soon cease to grasp the throat of
Libert) and cry you are my slave.
The women and mothers of Okla-
homa territory are praying at the
threshold ot the Oklahoma state-
house and beeseecliing our law -
inokiug body to grant them a priv-
ilege that for humanity's sake
should he granted at once. If there
is a person in the legislative halls
if Oklahoma territory that has a le-
gitimate right to dictate against the
vishss of their constituency orov-
•r-ride the popular sentiments and
' ishes of all classes as to the right-
onsness in grantiug this petition,
w ould liketolook at him just once.
I Miring two days in the month of
'vtoher. 1898 there was a petition
dgned in our presence by 180 qual-
ified voters in this place to he pre-
sented to that august body_the
legislature of Oklahoma territory
leqne-iing that they grant equal
sufftage to the women population
of this territory possessing the
saint qualification as men voters.
On this petition are names of repub-
lioans, democrats, populists, busi-
nes» men, mechanics, fanners: and
Mr. Editor I stop here to state
that, I am ashamed of the Hon.
Thus. Heed as a republican; the
stand helms taken in reference to
tins matter, and while I am a repub-
lican-dyed in the wool, I believe
any man who sets his foot down on
this proposition regardless of poli-
tical affiliations is a hack number
and it Weyler or Blanco would
stoop to associate with him let Ok-
lahoma territory he as liberal as the
government in which we live and
give them tree transportation to
Spain. I hear the souls of them
under the altar crying out, “llow
lo"S» l,ow '«»«!”, am. I hear the
pompous dignified representative
"ay, ‘A et a little w Idle, until we
investigate. I am afraid you would
pollute politics or yourself become
polluted.” Which?
I*. S. K KKN.
By the action of the wind, owing
to its being in a much exposed
Place at the top of the lull, the old
town well is slowly climbing into
the air. The earth has been blown
away from around it, so that now
the top is some feet above the level
of the surrounding surface, Kre
many years no doubt we can claim
as an attraction the spectacle of !t
well projecting skywards. By that
time Yukon will be ready for water
works and it can be used for a
stand pipe.
S- SV- HodAN A (Jo. have some «
neh pine lumber for sale at Jt|o per
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Ott, Bruce. The Yukon Weekly. (Yukon, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 2, 1899, newspaper, February 2, 1899; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc913286/m1/2/?rotate=270: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.