The Oklahoma Representative. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 1897 Page: 1 of 4
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The Oklahoma Representative.
Monev, Land and Transportation for Americans—Not Europe; No More International Conference Buncomb Goes with "Real Patriots.
VOLUME 7, .N().• <;
GUTIlfllK, OKLAHOMA, Dh'CEM 15Klf J I, 1«J 7
WHOLE IN UMBER 37 1
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RENFRO
IS OUT FOR THE TRADE!
And the way to get it is to Marl* Down, and I have
done that. If you want School Books call at Renfro's Drug
House. Drugs, Paints and Oils at your own 'price.
C. R. RENFRO/qotSto™. T!"
WHEN IN GUTHRIE STOP AT THE
CAPITOL HOTEL!
POPULIST HEADQUARTERS.
RATES,
$2^o
PER DAY.
THE CAPITOL IS:
4*0 feet from J'oHtnffir.p.
~0 feet front ()pet a I/oust'.
450 feet from Leijistntive Unit,
In the Center of Businex*.
HAS:
THE CAPITOL
Tin' first Tulile.
The lit si llah.
The Hem Service.
The Coolext Room* in the City.
A COMMODIOUS CYCLONE CELLAR, NINE FEET UNDER GROUND,
ENTRANCE FROM DININGROOM.
MONEY SAVED
on FARM LOANS.
Can give you one to ten years' time on Farm Loans. Low
rate of interest—due annually. Allowing the borrower the privi-
lege of selecting the time for payment of same; also permit him to
make partial payments at any time after one year, with rebate ol
interest. Call and see me. Your acquaintance will be appreciated
J. STUART McKAY,
105 South First Street, Guthrie, O. T.
Hank
oj Indian
we are just from
NOW know wUert
• CHEAP money.
■ If. IIacan, over
Territory ! "
Farmers, Attention!
FARM LOANS.
I'or tlOM'.V at reasonable rate* and for INSURANCE
on your buildings and grain, either in stack or granary, call on
VEEDER B. PAINE,
Rooms 16 and 17, Gray Building, Division Street Front.
HARNESS AND SADDLES
J—THE NEW SHOP can show
you a complete stock of
Harness, Saddles, Collars, Whips, Horse Blankets, Robes and
everything usually found in a first-class harness shop. buggv and
Carriage Harness a Specialty. Repairing at lowest prices.
Our goods are made from oak tanned leather, hand-made
>f.nd warranted. Give us a trial and we can save you money.
*W. S. FINNEY, U4 Harrison Av., Opposite Tontz & Hirschi's.
From the Nation*! Capita!.
[Special Correspondence
Washington, D. C., Dec. 18.—The
holiday recess is here, and the House
has passed osie appropriation bill, the
pension, which carries $140,000,000, and
while there was some discussion, there
were .practically no votes against it
for the ayes and noes were not called
There was a remarkable statement
tnade by commissioner of pensions be
fore the subcommittee, which had
charge of the preparation of this bill
■Mr. Campbell, a democrat of Illinois
moved to increase the amount appro-
priated to $150,000,000, and gave as his
reason for it that Mr. Evans stated
there would be a deficit of <5,500,000 in
addition to $2,500,000 which had
been allowed previous to July last, and
had been held back by him, rather
than to ask eonjfress, then in session
to make the necessary appropriation
Let him speak for himself; here it is
from the Congressional Record of De-
cember 10th:
"I bridged over last year; you were
in special session for a special purpose
* * * and for the month of June did
not send the certificates out. * I
held everything up until the first of
July."
Here is a plain fact stated, certifi-
cates were issued for 12,467,000 in May
and June, 1807. There was not enough
money appropriated to pay them. Con-
gress was in session and would have
passed an appropriation bill in fifteen
minutes to pay these pension certifi
cates. Pension Commissioner Evans
preferred )o let the pensioners wait a
month or two rather than to ask con-
gress to do what it would gladly have
done. Someone ought to call on Mr.
Pension Commissioner Evans for the
list oi old soldiers who died while wait-
ing for the pension certificates he
"held up." That is his own language
and is very proper, and is the same ex-
pression used when a robber "holds
up" a man and takes his money.
The democrats are beginning to im-
bibe some practical ideas. At their
House caucus they adopted resolutions
to fight the enlargement of the na-
tional bank privileges and the reduc-
tion of taxes paid by the banks: to ad-
vocate the granting of beligerent
rights to the Cubans; to resist the re-
tirement of greenbacks and Sherman
notes, or their impoundment, and to
favor a general bankruptcy law. This
program, as far as it goes, suits the
ideas of the People's Party members.
Pierpont Morgan, "great and good
friend" to the late Grover Cleveland,
now controls about FIFTY THOl'S-
AND MILKS of railroad, but like Alex-
ander the Creat, sighs for new worlds
to conquer. So he has organized a
trust which is to control all the steel
rods, wire, and nails of the country,
and another little sixty-million affair
that proposes to take in all the brew-
eries and distilleries. There is an anti-
trust law on the statute books and a
suit was commenced months ago to test
it, but that suit still lingers in the
courts. In the meantime, the existing
trusts are robbing the people, and
other trusts are actively being organ-
ized to engage in the same business.
W'hat has developed so far in the ses-
sion is that the president has rery little
following in his own party for his fi-
nancial pians, and that he is violently
antagonized on the civil service; that
it will be very hard to prevent the Cu-
ban question from coming to the front,
and that a bankruptcy bill will cer-
tainly be passed; that Hawaii will have
to be taken in by a re olution, as the
annexation treaty will not command
the two-thirds vote necessary to con-
firm it.
After the holidays the lines ot legis-
lation will be distinctly marked out.
Ilradstreet and Dunn A Co. are the
finger-posts who show how trade is
going, and, being in New York, and ca-
tering to the business element, they do
not like to admit ccrtain conditions,
but hare to at times. Ilradstreet this
week says; "Wheat is higher, partly
on improved statistical position, but
largely in sympathy with the Chicago
"squeeze. which has advanced prices
15 cents on the bushel. Other cereals,
coffee dairy products and sugar, have
advanced." Every wuge-earner has to
pay more for all that he eats, and in
many places the wages are being re.
dueed.
U has been suggested that the publi-
cation of the pension roils, giving the
name ami post *oHice address of every
pensioner and every applicant for pen-
sion would be a most excellent method
of discovering any frauds that now ex-
ist and of preventing the perpetration
of any in the future. If any dead men
are carried on the rolls, as it is claimed
there are, the neighbors will know and
report the fraud, and no fraudulent
application can escape the scrutiny of
the neighborhood.
The senate has passed the hill giving
all'persons who were not at the time
owners of land acquired under the
homestead law the right to make
homestead entries.
One item of the agricultural appro-
priation bill is a provision for $10,000
for an agricultural experiment station
in Alaska.
The government receipts for the last
week were $15,071,818. Of this $'.1,000,-
000 came from the purchase money
paid in by the I uion Pacific railroad.
The expenditures were $8,020,000 show-
ing a surplus of $7,045,818. The regu-
lar receipts and expenditures, deduct-
ing the !i,ooo,ooo, showed a deficit of
$1,054.18'-, 'Tilt; receipts for the month
up to date were $35,522,018, of which,
including the $0,000,000 named above
paid in by the 1'nion Pacific. The ex-
penditures were *13,057,000, showing a
surplus of $13,4211,618. Deducting the
Union Pacific money the actual deficit
between receipts and expenditures
was $2,5.14,383. The yearly receipts
were $173,036,404, and the expenditures
$ 111: ,627,120, leaving a deficit of $19,000,-
020. liut the 15 millions paid by the
railroad added to this makes tin- actual
deficit $44,900,636.
There is no doubt about the passing
of a bankruptcy law at this session of
congress. There are some differences
of opinion as to whether voluntary
bankruptcy should be permitted, but
the opinion of some of the old leaders
is that an agreement will be reached
and a bill presented that will secure a
majority in each house.
SOME PEOPLE
WILL FOLLOW A BARGAIN
AND BITE AT A FRAUD,
But the steady, experienced Farmers for their Screen
Doors, and everything in the line of Staple and Fan-
cy HARDYVARL Goods, Gasoline Stoves, etc..etc.,
CO TO THE O O
SPENCER HARDWARE CO.,
Cor. First and Okla.
Ave,. GUTHRIE, OKLA
There will be no surprise occasioned
by the news announcement that Dennis
Flynn has become a lobbyist. Every-
body who watched his record as a con-
gressional delegate anticipated his fin-
ish.—Kansas City Tunes.'
Statehood Convention Called. 1 will entitle ear to the follow-
To the People of Oklahoma Territory | inK votes:
\\ hrhkas, The Press association of ,
Oklahoma territory, at their semi-an-1 Heavt
nual session held at Hennessey, on the i can a"
15th day of November, 1807, unanimous- J j' "
ly adopted a resolution favoring the i I'
immediate admission of Oklahoma as a "'v
state; and
Wiikkas, A mass meeting of citizens
held >at Kingfisher, on November 17,
1807, adopted a resolution favoring the
calling of a statehood convention com-
posed of delegates divided equally
among the political parties of the ter-
ritory; and
Whkkeas, At a meeting of the chair
men of the respective political organi-
zations of the territory held at King-
fisher, in pursuance of the action taken
by the aforesaid meeting, it was de-
cided to consult the public sentiment
of the territory in regard to statehood
and to meet again at Oklahoma City in
December 16, 1897, together with the
chairman of the statehood executive
committee lor the purpose of calling a
statehood convention; and
Wiikreas, After full and free confer-
ence between the chairmen of said
organizations held on December 16,
1807, the undersigned were authorized
to issue the following call:
The people of Oklahoma are invited
to meet in delegate convention at
Kingfisher, O. T., on Thursday, the
13th day of January, 1898, at 7 o'clock
p. in., for the purpose of memorializing
congress for the admission of okla
lioma as a state.
The basis of representation will be as
follows:
One delegate for each one hundred
and twepty-tlve voters and major frac-
tion thereof, cast for delegates to con-
gress at the election of 1890, to be ap-
portioned equally between the repub-
lican and free silver parties; which
Kingfisher
Lincoln . j ?
Una is A
Noblr
Oklahoma )n
Pawnee s
Pottawatomie !! ! '
ltogcr Mills
Washita
Woods j- j J
Woodward
It is recommended that the free silver
voters of each county meet in mass
convention at their respective county
seats for the purpose of selecting dele-
gates on Saturday, January 8, ls 8, and
that such delegates so selected be pro-
portioned proportionately as nearly as
may be between the democrats, Popu-
lists and free silver adherents; and as
requested by the chairman of the ter-
ritorial committee, it is recommended
that the republican delegates he se-
lected in such manner as the territorial
county committee may direct.
It is further recommended that no
proxies be given to non-residents of
any county. In order that the conven-
tion may be conducted in a fair and
orderly manner it is recommended thai
the chairman of the republican party
and the chairman of the free silver
party each select one persou to pass
upon the validity of credentials of the
delegates entitled to participate in the
preliminary organization.
Si on k v Cl.ahk,
Chairman Statehood Executive Com-
mittee.
H'M. (JRIMKS,
Chairman Republican Territorial Com-
mittee.
Viroii, M. Holms,
Chairman Territorial Free Silver Com-
mittee.
Santa Claus' Headquarters.
© o o o o © ©
SANTA CLAVS COMES
but once a Year. Why not enjoy the season together, and this year let each person eadtavor
to male some other person hap p. The ONLY COMPLETE LINE of
HOLIDAY IS GOODS!
in the city will be found at
SPECIAL SALE
■ IfH'n and Hoy*' Suit* anil Overeoatti, ali. of the month. We will sell you ^
anything in our stock cheaper than you can get the same goods elsewhere, notwithstanding * p
the brag, blow and bluster of other*. Sec us for the truth of this statement. ^
F. B. LILLIE & CO.'S,
Where you can have you choice of
Toys, Hooks, Games, Musical Instruments, Bibles, Fancy Goods, Albums, China
Cups and Saucers, Lamps, Dolls and Doll Cabs, Hobby Horses, Gold Pens, Foun-
trin Paper, Etc. ^ on must see our stock to appreciate it.
000,0000
TWO GOLD WATCHES GIVEN AWAY
To the Lurbr <aiie««er.
********
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LEVYS BEE HIVE
CLOTHING HOUSE,
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Oklahoma Auenue and First Street, Guthrie.
O O O O 0 G O
COME AND SEE ABOUT IT.
Respectfully, Your Friends,
P. B. LILLIE & CO.
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Hudson, C. C. The Oklahoma Representative. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 1897, newspaper, December 24, 1897; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc94917/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.