The Press-Democrat. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, December 7, 1900 Page: 4 of 8
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THE PRESS-DEMOCRAT
T J S OrTCHIHiOW.
Kntercd « bscond-cl&s. mutter in the po«l
ifflo. t Heanewejr, Okluhaun.
Ii PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Published evr.it Frl<Uy, t Hfnnm .*y, Okl*.
NOTICE.
Having sold an interest in the Press-
Pemocrat to Mr. J. E. Wells, recently of
the Caldwell (Kan.) Advance, an all-
round newspaper man, an able writer, a
democrat from "Okl Missouri," and a
gentleman in every particular, anil with
itie co operation of his ability anil addi-
tion of capital, we hope soon to make the
l\-l). the best equipped office in King-
llsher county, which is necessary to han-
dle the increasing local demands.
Mr. Wells will come down the first of
i he week and his family will follow soon
who will be valuable acquisition to the
church and social circles of our city.
.1. E. IIuTcniKSON.
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ton Oklahoma would bav* to pay nearly I possible. And then the federal (overn-
all the expense of the new state govern
ment. Wo i^on't see how we are going
to make anything that way.
The nineteenth century ends Decem-
ber 31, but we can't help it.
The Kansas City Times has annexed
Indian territory to Oklahoma.
Mark Hanna'g congress met Monday
lor the transaction of business for tho
trusts.
Died, Saturday, December 1, 11)00, of
old ape, the Hennessey Daily Clipper,
aged 89 days.
Fifty thousand barrels of beer were
shipped Monday from San Francisco to
Manila. "Trade follows tho flag."
The settlers can go to tho border and
look over into the promised land and see
the cattle syndicates pasturing thoir
cattle.
A movement has been started to make
Mark Hanna president, in 1904. What
has become of the "unwritten law'1
against the third term?
Dennis Flynn telegraphs from Wash-
ington that there is no show for state-
hood legislation this session. This was
to have been expeoted.
Fears are expressed that some leading
capitalists are going to corner tho gold of
the world. They are buying up all the
mines they can get hold of.
THE KANGAROO TICKET.
The Oklahama press is almost unani-
mous against the Australian ballot, so
far as our observations extends. We do
not know that ours was the first kick,
but our kick has been extensively copied
and favorably commented on by many
papers of both parties, and we hope it
will be productive of some change in the
law by our legislature. What we want
is a simple, practical and intelligent way
of voting. The Australian ballot is none
of that. The law-making power has no
right to disfranchise a legal voter. The
voter has the right to vote as he ploases
and for whomsoever he pleases and to
have his vote counted that way. The
Australian ballot deprives him of that
right, for if he does not voto exactly as
tho red-tape law prescribes, he iosos his
vote. There are ways by which the
ballot could bo made more simple and
intelligible by following American meth-
ods and cusloms, and that is what should
be done. This thing of disfranchising
thousands of good voters for the purpose
of imposing an imported fad upon our
people is an outrage. Better knock the
SiCstem in the head than to continue the
palont ballot fraud, though we think tho
good points of tho system can preserved
by adopting an entirely different form of
ticket and counting what is voted ac-
cording to tho intention of the voter.
The single ticket is the simplest—the
only one that every one can understand.
Let the county print the tickets for all
parties, if that is thought best, but let
each party ticket be on a separate slip.
Then, if a man wants to vote a straight
ticket, all ho has to do is to select his
ballot, fold it up and vote it. Wo are
"agin" the pencil habit at the polls,
anyway. But if the voter wants to vote
for some one on another ticket, or for
some one not on any ticket, he scratches
out the name of tho man he does not
wish to voto for and writes the other's
name in. Everybody can understand
that, and there is no room for mistakes.
But oven if the voter does make some
mistake in scratching out and writing in,
he does not lose his vote on the rest of
the ticket, as he does under tho present
merit should donate what public land it
has left to the states in which it lies,
and then go out of the land business.
The lar.d should be devoted to school
purposes.
It is proposed to enlarge the White
House at Washington. It may be neces-
sary and desirable, but the men who
own it—Hanna, Rockefeller, Morgan &
Co.—are the ones who ought to do it.
A bill for the admission of Oklahoma
as a state was introduced in the senate
Tuesday by Senator Fairbanks, of Indi-
ana. It has little prospect of passing at
this session.
Brave men fall victims to stomach,
liver and kidney troubles as well as
women, and all feel the results in loss of
appetite, poisons in the blood, backache,
nervousness, headache and tired, listless,
run-down feeling. But there's no need
to feel like that. ,1. W. Gardner, of Ida-
ville, Ind., says: "Electric Bitters are
just the thing for a man when he don't
care whether lives or dies. It gave me
new strength and good appetite. I can
now eat anything and have a new lease
on Jifo." Only 5Uc at Dinkler's drug
store. Every bottle guaranteed.
All business on tho federal side of the
court at El Reno has been postponed by
order of Judge Irwin, owing to the prev-
alence of smallpox in the Kiowa-Co-
manche. About 200 witnesses had been
subpoenaed from that country, and they
have been sent home and the further at-
tendance of witnesses countermanded
by order of the court.
Cures catarrh permanently. Bunsen's
Croam Catarrhal is sun a remedy. Cures
catarrh easily and pleasantly. Cleanses,
soothes and heals the membrane; con-
tains no mercury nor other injurious
drug. It is quickly absorbed Gives in-
stant relief. Regular size, 50c; samples
free, also pamphlet telling how to treat
catarrh successfully. Address C. W.
Beggs, Sons & Co., Chicago.
WEDDING
PRESENTS,
CHRI5THAS PRESENTS.
We have them. Lots of them. El-
egant ones.
Lamps from 25 cents to $10.00.
Chamber Sets from $2.50 to $12.00.
Cups and Saucers from 5c to $4.50 per set.
Glassware of all kinds and prices.
No Trouble to Show Goods.
Phone 36.
GRIFFIN'S CASH STORE.
108 South riairt.
GO TO
Ti IE
New Furniture
Store.
DON'T ARGUE
irst National Ha loon
To Deposit Your Money for the Best
Wines and Liquors
In the Territory
E.. J. Taft, Prop
BUDWE1SER BliEit ALWAYS ON DRAUGHT
Near Depot
Hem.if " ey O. T.
system.
More legislation is needed for the pro-
tection of the gold standard and the de-
struction of the greenbacks. Tho money
|)ower is in complete control now.
Many other foreign noblemen have
come to this country and gone to work
on our railroads who have been of more
benefit to the country than tho duke of
Manchester ever will be.
It has been found to be disastrous lo
try to print a nonpariel paper in a long
primer town, and it. has been shown to
be equally disastrous to print a long
primer paper in a nonpariel town.
As the end of the nineteenth century
is now at hand, tho discussion about tho
year I!)!I0 being the beginning of the
twentieth century has died out. The
new year conn s in as a double header.
"It is sail1 that tho cattlemen are get-
ting up a fund to keep up Kiowa country
from being opened."—Eagle. It will he
the people against the cattle barons, and
our gnrss is that tho cattlemen will win
out.
Judge Bnrford, at Guthrie, seems to
be determined that the gamblers shall
cash in. He has called for a new deal,
that is, ordered a now grand jury and
gave it a very strict charge on the sub-
ject. He says the game is over.
If the white people in the Indian ter-
ritory want statehood with Oklahoma,
let them move across the line. That, is,
some of them. There are a whole lot of
people there who aro "wanted" else-
where, but we don't want thom.
COL. ALLEN BUCKNER.
The death of Colonel Buckner recent-
ly removes a good man who was many
years somewhat, prominent in Illinois
and Kansas. He was known as the
lighting parson," and fairly earned the
title during the war of the rebellion. lie
was a young Methodist preacher at the
outbreak of the war, but enlisted among
the first in the throe months service, and
aflerward went out for the three years
as lieutenant in the Twenty-fifth Illi-
nois. He was in command of his com-
pany at the battle of Pea Bidge, having
been in many of tho battles in Missouri.
He was appoinnted major of the famous
Sovonty-ninth Illinois upon the organiza-
tion of that regiment at Mattoon. This
regiment was in the battle of Perryville,
Ky., in four days aftor it was mustered
into service. Major Buckner succeeded
to tho command of the regiment at the
battle of Stone River, where Colonel
Sheridan P. Head and the lieutenant
colonel were killed. Buckner was colo-
nel of tho regiment, throughout tho war,
and he and his regiment distinguished
themselves in the many hard-fought
battles of tho Army of the Tennessee,
being at the head of the line in the great
charge at Missionary Ridge. They also
lead the charge at Rock Bidge, where
Colonel Buckner was shot through tho
body and supposed to have been killed.
Hut he commanded a brigade at the
battle of Franklin.
After the war Col. Buckner was a dem-
ocrat and greenba'cker, and nominated
twice for congress by that party in
Illinois, hut being in a strong republican
district, was defoated. He was chaplain
0; the Kansas senate for eight years and
always prominent in the G. A. II. and
tho Methodist church.
with a man who tells you that there s a
more satisfactory place to purchase a bill
of Furniture than this. Bring him here;
we'll convince him he don't know our
facilities, the completeness of our stock,
or tho equity of our price. Durability is
the first step in our buying for your sat-
isfaction, and the variety of goods han-
dled is a bid for your order.
Respectfully,
EDWARD DURBON,
Furniture Dealer.
C. S. HERADITH,
Physician and Surgeon,
Special attention given to
Surgery and Paediatrics.
Office: Sccotul door west Rhodes
Motel.
Push door bell for night calls only.
The SunniT Saloon,
For the Best Whiskeys, Wines and Cigars.
New Saloon - - _
West Side North ruin. HoppC & Coillcy,
b^l 0^0«>4040^0 < ^0«0*0<> 0^0^04C<0<-C^!>«X^0404c
HENNESSEY,
OKLAHOMA
E. R. DERBY,
J EWELER,
If you
'are in a hurry" for timepieces,
call on him.
Practical Repairing Guaranteed,
Two Doors North of Bash's
OK. N. RECTOR,
Physician a^d Surgeon.
OFFICE—North side of east Okla-
homa Avenu*, opposite the Metro-
politan hotel.
HENNESSEY OKLA.
That annual infliction, the president's
message, appeared in tho papers Tues-
day morning. It is 110 doubt a very able
document but not a very interesting one
10 its only readers the reading clerks of
congress and the poor proof readers
throughout the land.
We had supposed, of course, that the
proposition for joint statehood included
the bringing of the land in too and ren-
dering it Subject to taxation But this
does not seem to be tho case. There Is
nothing In the Indian territory that
would pay any taxes except personal
property, and not much of that, Thoro-
The British parliament met the other
day, but before Ihe members were ad-
mitted to the hall the old girls looked
under the bed. A corps of officers sol-
emly examined the vaults under the
houses of parliament to see if thore was
a man there with u lantern and a barrel
of gunpowder. This performance is gone
through with every year before tho open-
ing of parliament. About 300 years ago
Guy Fawkes undertook to blow up the
house, lie was caught and hung, but
the old toots have not got over their
scare yet, and you couldn't got a member
to enter that building any time afler the
">th of November until tho police have
looked under 1110 bed.
All the organized territories should be
promptly admitted as states as soon at
SEE
GEO. BALDWIN
For all kinds of
House Painting.
Paper Hanging
a specialty. Prices are al-
ways right.
L, A, brewer,
Remember that we can fur-
nish you
A Nice Roast or Big
Turkey
For Christmas Dinner.
NO MORE 15 CENT HEAT.
W, c STEVENS
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Office o?er Fumeri and Merchants Bank.
HENNESSEY, ... OKLAHOMA.
C. OGOSE..M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon,
HENNESSEY, O. T.
Office ov%r Crider'i stare, In rooms formerly
•conpied by 8. H. AntroSaa.
Beeid«nce, J. H. Antrcbus property, Southeast
Hennessey.
a$50,000.00
To Loan
On farms in Kingfisher, Gar-
field and Logan counties, at
lower rates of interost and on
easy orivUeges.
rvr $50,000.00. .v
OF
Home Money
To loan
On Farms.
R, BINDING
Prof.
A. L. Craig's
School of
Magnetic Healing
Teaches the science
and treats all manner
of diseases
SUCCESSFULLY
without surgery
medicines.
or
Over the Royal Restaurant
UEO
Geo. \V. Bear,
XOTART PCBLIO ASC JHgr3lA!fOJ£
Agent for Aetna Building and Lo&a
Association.
HBNNESsr.Y, OKLAHOMA.
R. R. GASKILL,
Jl 6TICE OF THE PEACE AND PAT-
ENT SOLICITOR.
Office on west side South Main, 1st
north of Dinkler's.
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Hutchinson, J. E. The Press-Democrat. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, December 7, 1900, newspaper, December 7, 1900; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc98233/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.