The Harper County Democrat (Buffalo, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, August 29, 1913 Page: 1 of 4
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BUFFALO. IlARl'KII COUNTY. 0*LA., FRIDAY, AUG 20. 1 91 oT
NUMBER 10
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THE GAME OF
j Smelting & Refining Company
(a Gugenheim concern) and
Phelps, Dodge & Company, of
whom Cleveland H. Dodge is the
dominant figure. The Monte-
zuma Copper Company, controll-
ed by Phelps, Dodge & Company,
is one of the largest properties,
handling 500,000 tons of copper
ore a year.
Other big mining concerns are
the San Toy Mining Company,
in Chihuahua, a Pittsburg cor-
poration, of which Donald B.
Gillies is president; the Guana-
How Foreigners Have
Gobbled up Riches in
Mexico.
I
To The Beacon:
It beats all how the foreigners
have gone after the riches of
Mexico.
BUFFALO SCHOOL NOTES.
Industry after industry, busi* .
after business, natural resourse Juat0 Reduction & Mines Com-
aften natural resource, have been ; pany’ owned by Cleveland, Cin-
gobbled up and exploited by for-jcinatt1' Dayton and Columbus
people, withC. C. Kurtz presi-
dent; the Mines Company of
America, headed by W. B.
eigners.
Of the $1,640,000,000 of for-
eign investments, Americans
hold about $1,058,000,000; British Thompson, operating the Creston
$821,000,000: French, $143,000,-i Colorado, Dolores, El Rayo and
000, and other nationalities, with La Dure Mill & Mining Com
Germans leading, $119,000,00.
It will be seen that American
interests are greater than all
others together.
panies; the Pacific Smelting &
Mining Company, Western own-
ed; the Greene-Cananea Copper
Company, a Duluth corporation.
These holdings are divided with over. $60,000,000 invested;
among rich Americans in many j Batopiles Mining Company,
cities. New York naturally leads: which owns the city of Batop-
in amount,but Pittsburg, Boston,! ‘‘as: the San Carlor mine, owned
St. Louis, Cincinnati, Cleveland, | lllinois and Missouri railroad
Denver, Duluth, San Franscisco, °hicials; the Zapoteca Mining
School opens next Monday.
Get ready to enter the first day.
In order to have but one be-
ginners class in the primary de-
partment, and thus economize
the teacher’s time, all children
will be six years old on or before
April 1st 1914 will be admitted
at the opening of school to the
beginners’ class. No beginners
will be admitted after the first
of month has closed. Parents
who have children coming six
will note this ruling of the
Board. You don’t have to send
your child until he is eight, un-
less you want to; but if you wish
to send a baginner, take note of
this order.
Tuition for non-resident pupils
will be the same as last year;
$2 50 per month for high school,
and $1.50 per month for the
grades.
Since the State school text
book controversy is still in the
courts and unsettled, it will be
Every pupil should bring his
last year’s grade card with him.
That is his ticket of admission
and settles at once what grade of
work he is to take. Those who
have no grade card and whose
record is not in the Buffalo school
registers will be required to
take the entrance exam, to de-
termine the proper gradation.
All who must take the entrance
exam, should be on hand the
first day to take it together. It
saves the time of both pupil and
teacher. Don’t stay away and
try to miss it. You’ll get it
when you come just the same.
Come the first day and have it
over.
Parents make a serious and
some times fatal mistake when
they think that they can keep
their boys out for a few weeks
at the beginning of the term and
let them catch up when they
Start. They seldom catch up
RENTROP THROWS
MCMURDO
‘Scotty” no Match for
Powertul German
Wrestler.
As previously advertised a
wrestling bout took place on the
mat at the fair grounds in Buf-
falo, Saturday night, between
“Scotty” McMurdo, who claims
the middleweight championship
of Canada, and Charles Rentrop
middleweight champion of Ger-
many and who challenges the
world at his weight or under.
From the beginning it was
evident that Rentrop did not in-
tend to waste any effort and
worked fast in order to pin his
opponent in as short a time as
Los Angles and other cities have
big investments.
Railroads are the most impres-
Company in Oaxaca, owned by
St. Louis and Chicago men; the
Cuautlemoc Mining Comany, a
necessary for us to begin with aiong getting into all kinds of
the old books used last year. J trouble and do no good. Par-
We think there are enough books j er.ts, it is the best dowry you
in town to start us and pupils j Cah give your child. Why not
who have school books that they j give it to him right? Get them
will not need to use can dispose ' all in the first day, keep them
r„. stluuul iavui UM possible, winning the first fall in
jjhd usually get discouraged, fall thirty minutes and the second in
behind, and either drop out and ten minutes,
forever lose their opportunity to! McMurdo played the game in a
get an education, or they drag1 classy and gentlemanly manner.
but was never able to get a dan-
sive item. American railroad Pittsburg enterprise of which
holdings total $644,000.000, chief- JamesMcKay is President, and
ly in bonds of the National Rail- many hundred other corporations
ways, financed by New York linked with American manufac-
banking houses, with Speyer & turin£- railroad and banking in-
C impany playing a leading part. ; terests.
Wall Street controlls the railroad Americans also own nearly all
nf thp pnnntrv I P the breweries in Mexico and con-
Morgan & Company have had*jtro1 the grocery business, and
much to do with the railroads, have a dozen shoe factories in i
especially the “independent” j Mexico City.
Southern Pacific extension, which f he International Rubber Corn-
cost $50,000,000. pany, capitalized at $30,000,000, j
Americans have over $253,000,-1 °*^ which W. C. P. Potter ot
000 in mines, $30,000,000 in oil | New York is president and for-
and rubber, $8,000,000 in timber, j Senator Aldrich is a large stock-
$10,000,000 in factories of various holder, has 2,000,000 acres of
sorts, $12,000,000 in ranches and! rubber producing land and con-
cattle, $4,000,000 in general trolls 2,000,000 more,
and neumerous other unclassified | There are heavy interests, too ^
investments. * i *n forest and agricultural lands.
The active development done ^ ast tracts have been taken up
by Americans has been mostly i and colonized and held lor spec-
in mining. The country is incon- u*at>on- W- R. Hearst and mem-
ceivablv rich in minerals and has hers of his family have large in-
naturally attracted rich exploit- terests of this sort, Ihelucer-
ers. One small district has rnational Lumber and Develop-
yeilded $1,000,000,000 of gold ment Company of Philadelphia
since the days of Cortez, and the has 288,000 acres of fertile land
silver output from 1900 to 1910 in Campeche, with millions of
was $600,000,000. There are a!- mahogany and cedar trees,
so great deposits of copper. The Mexican lelegraph Com-
At the head of our mining ex- Panv uvvned largely by the
plotters stand the American [Continued on page 2 ]
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$ Bank of Buffalo
X Capital Stock #10,000.00* Surplu* #",,000,00.
“Deposits Guaranteed.” a
of them to others who need them
Old books will be accepted in ex-
change for new ones at about
half price when the new adop-
tions are settled, so there will be
no extra expense for pupils to
there every day, and sev what a
difference it will make in a year.
111 do cot receive sufficient patron-
a-U' to j ustify me in supplying ice to
Buffalo vou will have to go back to
buy the old books at half price | paying #*-50 to $300 per hundred.
and exchange for new when new I Coj8U,t y°l,r owu iuterest-
are ready. j lUm*T E'Fowler'
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HARPER COUNTY TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION.
Buffalo, Saturday. September 6, 1913.
gerous hold on Rentrop, while
the German’s powerful strength
enable him to hold the Scot
whenever he got a hold on him.
During Rentrop’s visits to
Buffalo he has proven himself a
real wrestler and his friends
here believe that it is going to
take a mighty good man of
his class to
last great land drawing Uncle
Sam has to offer his people and
one of the greatest in the history
of government land openings in
point of fertility. Government
agricultural experts estimate
that when this vast stretch of
virgin soil is tilled it will add
about 25,000,000 bushels of grain
apnually to the production of the
United States—enough to feed
an entire nation.
The Interior Department is
making extensive preparations
to rush a big corps of clerks to
Glasgow, Havre and Great Falls,
Mont., which are to be the reg-
istration points. These land
offices will be open September L
next and the work of filing for
this land will then begin. The
people will have a chance to con-
tinue filing until September 20.
The vastness of the area open-
ed to white settlement is expect-
ed to make this one of the most
alluring land openings ever pre-
sented to the people inasmuch as
their opportunity of getting
something in the drawing will be
much better than any previous
land opening. For instance
when the Coeur D’Alene, Flat-
head and Spokane land drawings
were held last year a total of
1)0,000 people filed and drew for
land in those three Indian reser-
vations, the total area of which
was about one-fourth of the area
to be opened upon the Ft. Peck
defeat him upon reservation. Government ofli-
the mat. He challenges the cialsdo not think that more than
world at his weight or under, (75,000 people will file for the Ft.
and has consented to meet Joe 1 Peck land. Hence the chances
Tuby of Pennsylvania in Buffalo!of drawing a quarter section
on Saturday night, Sept. 6th. ; in the Ft. Peck reservation
Tuby forwarded a challenge to' ‘ lottery” are about four times
j the winner of the match last as good as they have been in
| Saturday night and Rentrop will previous government land draw-
I meet him here. This will prob- ings. The actual value of this
10:00 A. M. — Opening Exercises, Mrs. T. A. Seibert, Josie Simons, ably be the last time Rentrop land is said by government agri-
First Year Pupils Cecile Proctor, Virginia Bowling.
Purpose and Value of Reading Circle, Co. Supt. W. D. Drake.
NOON.
Roll Call, Answer by a Noted Saying.
President’s Annual Address J. S. VVesthafer.
The Teacher and the Pupil’s Health, O. K. Chamberlain.
will wrestle in Buffalo. Tuby cultural experts to average about
is reported to be an exceptionally $25 an acre. However, the gov-
good man and it is believed that ernment’s appraisal for its open-
this will be the best contest held ing to white settlement is only
here. from $2.50 to $7 per acre, thus
McMurdo left Buffalo for (making real prizes for those who
Value of the Study of Psychology,
Correlation and Alternation,
Round Tabic.
Grace Spaugy-i Wichita, Kans., where he is draw this land.
C. E. Hollen. W. R. Merriss.
C. L. Coultrup, Anna White.
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Baptist Church Notes We hear a great deal of talk
Only two more Sundays re- of peoele-farmers-leaving the
8,406 VIRGINS FARMS
UNCLE SAM’S OFFER.
hilled to wrestle Chas. Delivuk. j The drawing will take place in
: this way. The names of all who
| file for land will he placed in a
big box and the envelopes drawn
out one by one and numbered,
Washington, D. C., Aug. —Near-! until enough envelopes are taken
ly 9,000 160-acre farm homes 'from the box to correspond with
main before my work as pastor country. Most of them don’t. will he drawn by the “lucky the number of quarter sections
of this church closes. I desire know just where they intend to ones as the result of the throw-■ available—8,400. Those getting
to meet as many of the people as They are just going. Better ing open of 1,345,000 acres of the early numbers will of course
possible on these two Sundays, think that over a few times be- land upon the Ft. Peck Indian get first pick of the land, in rota-
I am not leaving because I *ore -vou TUH up stakes. Mr. j reservation in northeastern Mon- tion, according to the numbers
dislike the people in this place. Farmei. AVe have Iriends in tana next month. This is the [Continued on page2.J
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They are a loyal people,
leaving becauee I expect to at-
tend school.
I do not know that there is a
recently read a letter from Billie 1 0
Boggs in northern California j 0
person in the town or surround- stating that their rainfall there ^
Little Willie’s View:
When Mi whipped Little Willie, it must have hurt
her us much as it did W illie, hut Willie insists
that it wasn't in the same place.
When we carry a customer along ami tide him over
the rough places, and then he transfers his account and
leaves his wheat check at some other bank, just as
soon as he gets on his feet, it may hurt him to make
the change as bad as it does us—but not in the same
pluce.
It sure jolts our faith in human nature. We stand
by our patrons and we like to have them stand by us.
It is our patrons that have made our bank Strong and
Substantial.
We appreciate the support you are giving us. and ii
will be the constant effort ol this bank to handle vour
b'l-mess in such a manner as to merit your favor and
support.
ing country that has
against me; but if there
be one, it would be a joy
to know it and have the
i ege of making amends.
ought was eleven inches short for the 1 q
should reason. Jim Admire has a letter 0
to me Lorn parties in Kentucky who 0
privil- are ready to do most any thing ®
I love to 8et out the death stricken j ^
you all from the bottom of my region there. In short it seems ®
heart: I haven’t laboured to that the unfavorable conditions 0
make vou love me. but that you prevail all over the United States g
might love God who first loved and there is a chance that by J
you leaving Oklahoma you are but ^
Announcements for Sunday jumping from the frying pan in- 0
to the fire. Certain it is that it 0
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THE BANK OF BUFFALO
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L. L. Stine
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Aug. 31.
10 a. m Sunday school.
11 a. nr. Preaching.
3 p. rn Junior.
7.15 p. m B. Y. P. U. The
subject is Africa.
8 p. in. Preaching Subject:
The Ethics of Courtship and
Marriage This will be a timely
discussion on this important
subject from both the ancient
and modern view point. Come.
A. T. Wilkinson. Pastor.
will be harder to make a new ^
start among strangers in a |
strange country than it will be-®
to hold on here for another 0
year. Better stay awhile. - Fair- J
view Leader.
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Miller
To My Ice Patrons:
Out of every ton of ice brought toBulfalo,
50 per cent is a direct loss (through shrink-
age) before it is sold—and as I have no way
of disposing of the water I lose the shrink.
The original cost of my ice laid down here is
TUcts per hundred, so it is plain to anv sen-
sible person that my ice costs me $1.05 per
100, and if a dealer can handle same three
times for less than one-half ct. per lb. I
don’t see any profit in it. We know there is
a big profit in what you drink.
i still assert that if l could furnish you this
commodity at any cheaper price than I am
now delivering it to vou. 1 would gladly do
so.
Thanking all for your past patronage and
assuring you that you will always *■
with a supply of gomi ice «
Yours For Business.
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Adams, E. Lee. The Harper County Democrat (Buffalo, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, August 29, 1913, newspaper, August 29, 1913; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc942319/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.