The Gotebo Gazette. (Gotebo, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, August 19, 1910 Page: 4 of 8
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When Gotebo Took Scalps—A Story of
Battle Told By the Old Warrior Chief
M E—rr rrttw *
h rrewiUtr. r i
Roya' FamiUM £« •"• «•
In decidiat to r*i* tbe allowance for
the roral lam!?* of Great Bnta:n trdm
$3,005 000 to $3.170.000. tbe corn rat tee
of pari meet baring charge ot the nt>-
•ect baa acted in accordance with tbe
tendencies of tbe times. LHrinx e*
pense* of W:ng . queen*. pncces. pr r:
cesses and <>tber titled biRhaesse*. as
. weil as of com setters, hare increased
greatly a tbe la« fesr years Emperor
Will am of Germany recently pet tbe
{acts boldly before tbe holders of tbe
pobl:c parse strings, with tbe result
tbat he also is to be granted an increase.
Tiiat tbe drift of the times affec.s dem
ocratic as we.l as aristocratic countries
FRIDAY. AUGUST 19. 1310
Are W. 0>« a> Forty? ^ ^
There is no fact more *trii ng than ^jeut from tbe fact that corgrev
Grave
Little
Question
of Being
Happy
tj HAl'DE HEAL
tbe way m . 'em life i* P " °g back
the peimd of « '• *v« 1 writer ir'
the September Str «nd Mag.<*i« «r Lev
than a ternary ag a m ta was old at
lo tv Voo have only t« P^k up Jane
Au>- ■ ~ sovc • i find K«n- eine f
tbirtr -ti-ve ••r^.rSed a? •Kfdle-aeed
At a.a'y-five t'«ey were gabhl.og in
their dotage. And there . Mr I'ck
wick—that d-ar. deli* itful. beaevolen'
old gentlem < of forty-fire'
Fifty years ago. wne:i « :a n reached
the age A forty fire he grew a be*rd
vndrr h:« chin. t -.u«hl biimelf a pvr
• •f drab gaiter-i and a white
nnd p« ke with c •r.cerr nf tbe
raising generation .wliose roan-e^ were
so d fferent fr m those H* bad known
as a "young man" Nowadays the
popular notion of irre*p"n% "re-
prcssible yootb i .r.u.truted by C- ionel
Koosevtlt. -bo i : -t« io -r
generation thirty tw-i is outwardiv indi--
tioguisuable fri «n lift) tw i, vave in th.«t
the former has a s'tgh'ly m -re yootbfu
tint in it'* cheek nnd i'< «.a <coa!
As for tbe fair ae*. tbe genus old
lady i> all bnt estioct The pretty,
rivacio i* matron yon admire at a gar
den party may hare seen twenty-fire or
•eventy summers. As yoeen Alexandra
not long since said to Mine. Patti: We
ore two of the youngest women in Eng
1 he illust
not w> maay months ago ra: ed tbe
salary of the president from $50,000 to
$75 000 a \ear. with aa add^ional al-
lowance cf $25 000 for traveling expen-
ses.
Britain's ciril list, as tbe roll of tbe
royal fam Iv -ud tbe amoants appro-
prated for each is called, is settled by
parliment at tbe tieginning of every
reign Tbe civil li*'. of course, in-
cludes the expenses of maintaining the
crown hoaeeh fl and some officers
wbose salaries in a republic would te
separate) v considered But there arc
approx *n i'r .■ 300 members of th: rov-
arfamily—tbe last edition of Whiiaker'i
Peerage shows 236—. nd their support
•- nece^-irily expensive. Thesum total
expended no them, however, falls short
of tbe expenses <>( maintaining fortv
s;x separate sta'e goveramtnw and a
central federal administration, as in,
the United State*, according to tbe
• claims of sotae Eng isb writers. A sat-
ula^tory comparison on this line would
not be easy to make, for it would have
t . consider in detail tbe wholesale ex- ;
perse* of the -two gorertynsntal sys-|
tems
As Prince of Wales. King George was
paid $100,000, a year, the P mcess of ,
People try to be Lappv on the wrong
Uii*. They won't be happy on what they
hare; they dream of being happy on some-
thing that they don't pc*sc«s or that be-
long* to somebody else.
Yon see a girl who is young, pretty and
has nice clothes and a moderately pleasing
"steady." Yon ask for the reason of the
discontented expression she wears and she
tells yon that she has not been invited to
a certain party or that if she has been her
dressmaker has disappointed her.
Another woman who seems profoundly
miserable you question thus: "How are the
children ?* "Oh," she replies, in a discouraged tone, "they are very well,
but they grow so fast I can't keep any clothes on them."
"And your new atrvant?" "Oh, she is a Jewel, bnt you can never
tell what moment she will pick up and leave."
"Pid your new dress turn out all right?" "Yes, but it's so much
trtyJ. !e getting a dress I would almost prefer to do without"
• How is Your husband? Did he get back from his trip all right?"
"Oh, yes; I can hardly realize he lias been away."
"You seem to be worried. What is the main trouble?"
"Well, I caught cold in some way and I've been suffering with a stiff
neck. I think that is one of the worst things a person can have in the
way of ailments."
And there v u are! A husband's safe return, children abundantly,
Wlthv, clothes made by another, a servant and the wherewithal to pay
for her, and yet none of these things count for happiness when pitted
against the inconvenience of a 6tifl neck.
If people would only gay, "Oh, I am so happy becaute I have this.
I am so thankful that this trouble'which came to my neighbor wasn't
allotted to me," instead of whining, "Oh, if I only had his luck," or, "It
u absolutely unheard of and terrible that I should be called upon to
endure this," the world would be made up of a wonderfully cheerful pop-
ulation.
lut
Wales receiving $50,000 a year The I
Duke of Coonaugbt. the only surviving
- K v exatcpk Mother of the late K'ng Edward, re-
lia lieen «<> *eduloJ v followed that the jn the last year il25.000 Other
la«t«es— always yonng, always active. prjoces and princesses received from
always in the height f fashion—may J13 000 to $30,000 a year each. The
""" "" 'he reri' '*ce amount directly appropriated for King
Ed*ard and yueea Alexandra was
$2,350,000 for the year 1908 00, the
Tr.. Horan Mo.d. Hla Own Hncipa, ltenis being$550.000for ' their
Tii'-v: #ho still perns' in believing m;i.sties' private purse." $625,000 fori
1 bat every- new labor saving invention.
devive and improvement teods to de-
be aa'd to laugh
Patber Time
salaries of the royal household and re-
tired allowances. $965,000for 'expense
oev.e *uj —• - - rrea ano1* ;t:.ces, •j- <- a
(>r re tlie older producers, men and Qj jjj§ majesty's household," $100,000
. £ •.. . n- mnl f 1 n in tm. . 1 trr /vwi t _ 1 Sk ..r< t ••
■ •easts, of occupation might find in re-
cently compiled statistics relating to
tbe hor«e a striking contradiction of
their pet theory. The "horseless age"
which was prophesied with the coming
into general use of the automobile has
not arrived, and. what s more to tbe
point, it wems to have been indefinitely
postponed. That is lo say. we have it
00 the authority of the Live Stock
Journal Ibat horses have increased six
million bead in the last ten years
There are now in the country 31.000.
for "works," $65,000 for royal Oounty,
alms and special services. These am-
ounts vary only a little from those fixed
for King Edward's maintenance and j
that of bis family on bis accession in
1901 The new civil list, not yet known
in detail, probably will be divided in
about tbe same fashion.
Britain's hereditary rulers, however,
are not so expensive as those of some
other European countries. Emperor
William is to be given -appr ximately
. -— — — $5,000,000 this year, $700,000 of the
000 farm and city horses, with a valu- aTTlount being for court purposes From
afton <>t $3.5000.000.000. and prices are , the einj„rei the emperor receives notb-
. •—!«• In MOO I jnK hls reveoue being derived trom the
better than ever before. $250 to $500
for good draft homes
How is this accounted for? The an-
-wer is: The railroads and various
forms of machinery have called for
more l.orfces to do the increased work
All (be automobiles manufactured in
the world in 1910 will number, it is es-
ti mated. 235 000, and their value will
lie about $235,000,000 The 2,000.000
horses in Illinois alone are valued st
$256,000,000. Horse breeding is the
roost important industry in the country
as well as the most profitable, it is
claimed, and we are told that farmers
cannot supply the increasing demand
from American and European markets
for more and better animals
Now all this must convey a sense of
deep satisfaction to the mind of every
right hearted man. All those who fa-
vor progress will hope for a tremendu-
oiisexpansion of the automobile industry
iu the years to come Every observant
and well poised person must see that
the automobile has come to stay and
that its use will constantly increase.
But we all want the horse to continue
t<> hold a place in the world's activities
and it is pleasing 10 know that so far
•team, gasoline and electricity, instead
of wresting occupation from him, have
Increased his opportunities and, on the
whole, bettered his condition —Arkan-
sas Valley Farmer.
The murder of a joint keeper by a
policeman at Oklahoma City last Satur-
day night is but one of the fruits of
lawlessness. If there had been no joint
there would have been no murder; if
the county officers had done their duty
there would have been no joint. The
people ol the state voted for prohibition
and it became law. If officials will not
•nforce that law they should be im-
peached; if the people do not want it
•oforced the law should be repealed.
Plagrant violation of any law creates
disrespect for all laws.
The great seal of the state was taken
back to Guthrie this week, but whether
It will stay there or not is a question.
Governor Haskell has ordered all of
the state officers to move to Oklahoma
City, threatening to declare vacancies
and appoint successors to all who do
not obey him. On the other hand the
courts will push contempt proceedings
against those who disobey the injunc-
tion to keep open office at Guthrie. It
Is a pretty mixup.
state of Prussia, of which he is king.
He has. in addition to tbe yearly grant
by the Prussians, a vast amount of ;
property that is income-producing, but J
his need for a large income is shown in
the fact that he maintains fifty-two
town and country residences, some of
which h* has not visited since the be- |
ginning of his reign.
Britain and Germany, however, are
rich countries and the burden of roy-
alty in them seems comparatively
light when Italy is considered. King
Victor Emanuel and bis family draw
$3,010,000 annually from tbe pockets of
the people and lament the fact that the 1
greater part of tbe private domains of
the royal family were given up to the
state in 1H48 Austria-Hungary has a
civil list of $4,520,000, with about 4^.-
000,000 population, against Italy's 33,-
000,000. Spain pays King Alfonso and
his relations $1,78,000 a fear. Portu-
gal's compensation to young King Man-
uel for bearing the burdens of atate and
other royal appropriations amount only
to $541,000 a year Sweden's bill for
kingship is also low, amounting to
$3*3 000 a year, while Norway's ruler
Ke's along with $255,000 Republican
Prance is least burdened of all. though
paying more to her head than the
United States, the salary of I'resideot
Pallieres being $120,000, with another
$120,000 for expenses, making his in-
come $240,000 a year Russia, the most
autocratically governed of the Euro-
pean nations, pays for the support of
its imperial household the large sura of
$8,500,000 a year.
Fighting Gear and Motor Cara.
Receipts from customs duties in the I
year that ended June 30 were the larg-
est known. Internal revenue receipts
were slightly smaller than in l'JOO and
1901, when the Spanish-American War 1
taxes were in force, but with that ex-
ception they broke the record. A new
source of revenue, tlie corporation tax.
j brought in over seventeen million dol-
lars before the close of the year. Thus
the government's total incume was
I larger than any previous year -l&tger
by seventy millions thau in the two
preceding years; more than double the
total revenue in the last year of Cleve-
land's administration Also, tbe gov-
ernment spent all and something be-
sides.
The postoffice deficit was much
smaller than in tbe year before, and
for all peace purposes the government
spent less. But expenditures of the
war and navy department increased,
exceeding two hundred and eigbtv
millions. This is nearly two hundred
millions more than the two departments
cost in tbe last year before the war
with Spain. In five years the war de-
I partment nas spent seven hundred
millions. In live years the navy de-
partment has cost nearly as much as in
the whole generation between tbe civil
' and the Spanish wars, and less than a
I third of the expenditures come under
the head "Increase of the Navy."
These are tall figures. We hear a
good deal nowadays about extrava-
gance. Some thoughtful persons say
that farmers are ruining the country
buying automobiles. A little arithme-
tic will show that thirteen hundred
million dollars, spread over five years,
would provide many rural families
with nobby runabouts. If we want the
farmer to economize, why doesn't some-
body set him an example?—Saturday
Evening Post.
Swanson county, with Mountain Park
as its temporary county seat, became a
reality F^day morning by proclama-
tion of Governor Haskell. The Gazelle
questions the soundness of the policy of
creating two connties where there
should be but one, but is williug to
grant the south-end the Tight to deter-
mine its own future Kiowa loses a 1
great area of fine country, several
flourishing towns and a good part of
its population, as well as its standing
as one of the great coufities of the
state, by the cut, but will manage to I
get along somehow. Success to you. 1
Swaason.
Chief Johnson of '.he Chickasawsi
should not be censured for failing to
remember tbe detail* of a bank deposit |
of $75,000. Such a stim in these pros- '
perotis times i>. a mere tagatel and not
worth cumbering tbe memory with.
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
STATE OFFICES.
For (iovernor— *
J. W. McNEAL. Guthrie.
For Lieutenant Governor—
GILBERT W. DIKES.
For Secretary of State—
DONALD R FRASER.
For State Auditor—
THOS. N. DULANEV.
For Attorney General—
JOSEPH N. DODSON
Por State Treasurer —
W. H. DILL.
For Supt. Public Instruction—
JOHN P. EVANS.
For Examiner and Inspector—
W. B. LAIN.
I For Mine Inspector —
JOHN H. HALL,
For Commissioner of Labor—
JOHN W Fl'NSTON.
For Commissioner of Charities -
KATE H. BIGGERS.
For Insurance Commissioner —
JAMES T BURNS.
For State Printer—
SAMUELL BARTHOLEMEW.
For Pres Board of Agriculture -
WILLIAM H. BEAVER.
For Corporation Commissioner—
EMQRY D. BROWNLEE.
F )T Clerk of Supreme Conrt—
CHARLES C CHAPELL.
For Justice Supreme Court—
L. M. KEYS. Hobart.
For Representatives —
GEO. L. ZINK.
O. B. RE1GEL.
For Senator—
L. C. FORD.
CONGRESSIONAL OFFICES.
For Congressman, Fifth District—
J H FRANKLIN.
COUNTY OFFICES.
Forjudge, 17th Judicial District—
W D. WALTON.
For District Clerk —
D. E. GIBSON.
For County Judge—
W. A. PHELPS.
For County Attorney—
E. M BRADLEY.
For County Clerk—
O. P. SMITH.
For Sheriff—
GEO. W. DANIEL.
For County Treasurer--
JOHN 1. RICKEL.
For Registel of Deeds—
JOHN W. HOLT.
For County Superintendent Schools—
W. C BRYAN
For County Commissioners—
J J. KLIEWKR, First District.
H. OSTER, Second District.
T. W. WIGINGTON. Third District.
Few people have had an Indian warrior get a half nelson on their
scalplock and escape with enough hair to pin a marcel wave to. or
sufficient hide on that part of their block, commonly known as the
crown as would be needed to patch the eyelid of a Lilliputian: for
when our red brother got the game that well in hand it was gener-
ally all over but the whooping and trimming the prize down to a
siz^ suitable for tepee decoration. The Gazette man is one of those
few who have felt a redskin's fingers in his hair, saw the gleam of
the knife and the battle lust in the tawny eyes of the Indian above
him and yet wears his scalp where nature placed it.
If this was not a true story the date j Tbe iron-gray hair which adorns tbe
might be be bid in tbe phrase, "in the head of the Ga*tte man looked good
early '70s." sod ti* place designated to the old boy and brought back to his
as "oat on the plains " but being a true mind memories of a past wherein a
one. with living witnesses, the date and string of scalps drying in tbe smoke ol
place is herewith set down with an ex- a lodge fire were mute witnesses of his
actitude that would command respect prowess and marked his fame as a war-
at Copenhagen. This thrilling event rior.
took place in the year of our Lord 1910. Being in retrospective mood he re-
in tbe Bank of Gotebo, located at Gote- (.ounted a tale of battle with six white
bo, a thriving little city in the new state men armed with guns, butbis medicine
of Oklahoma, on Priday. between the was strong and he came forth victor,
hours of 12:00 M . and 1:00 P M With signs and gestures, grunts and
Our old friend Gotebo, war chief of and gutterals. he re-enacted the bloody
the Kiowas. and alter whom tbe town scene Each time a scalp was taken
was named, came in to negotiate a our poll was used to illustrate the ait.
small loan. The writer was sitting in [ Even the knife was brought out to give
the sweater's seat immediately to the | it more reality. His tremulous fingers,
left of the cashier's desk. This position 1 his excitement and intensity of gesture,
brought his bare head above the railing was sufficient evidence that the savage
and directly at the elbow of the chief sleeps but lightly in the nature of the
as he advat c;d to the position assumed old chief and that the lust for battle
by those assailed by money hunger. and foray is quelled only by age and
The old chief is a scalper of record, ibe knowledge of his impotency to war
and recognized as a collector of consid- against the paleface who has spoiled
erable note. In fact, in his younger 1 him of his inheritance of the wilderness
days he was nutts on the game, as will 1 and deprived him ol the chase and the
be attested by records in the war de- ' game of war.
partment which spent considerable And the mimicry of that battle was
money and time, as well as the service 1 sufficient for the writer, for when the
oKa couple of cavalry regiments for | practised hand of the old warrior grasp-
sevetal years keeping the old boy from 1 ed his scalp and the inward fires lighted
carrying his hobby to extremes ; up those eyes that have glowed above
While the chief is a deep-water Bap-j many a vanquished foe, the tbrill of
tist and a law abiding citizen in these almost reality was experienced.
piping days of peace, with the right to The tale ended with whoop of victory
exercise tbe privilege of franchise if he and Gotebo, warrior, "The Scourge of
cares to and can interpret tbe constitu- the Southwest," became once more the
ti<jn of the state, which he don't and , peaceful citizen, Jesus-man, good Injun,
can t, he still takes an interest in the money-hungry and wanting to borrow
sky piece of a paleface. ix dollars until next payment.
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Jl AM making a specialty of getting Cash for saleable
Realty and Realty for ready Cash. If you have
property to sell or money to invest, it unll be to your ad-
vantage to investigate what 1 hare to offer.
WRITE FIRE ANP TORNADO INSURANCE
MAKE FARM LOANS AT LOW RATES
Correspondence Solicited
H.H.ANDERSON
GOTEBO,
OKLAHOMA.
The state board of equalization,
which met at Oklahoma City the other
day levied one mill for state purposes
and one-fourth mill for general school
purposes This levy will produce a
revenue of Jl,!32,(*0.4?).
It is a notorious fact that the prohib-
itory law is being flagrantly violated in
nearly every city In the state, that boot-
leggers and jointists have protection
from the authorities and that the peo-
ple seem to care very little about it.
This is a bad state ol affairs. The
Gazette maintained, during the tain-
p iig|i for prohibition, that prohibition
could be enforced if the people wanted
It to be, but would become a farce and
encourage boodling and corruption if
tbey ever ceased their vigilancc. Okla-
homa City boasts of fifteen hundred
joints iu that city; according to popu-
lation other town* in the state are j
about as bad. This indicates that the
people have ceased to Interest them-
selves in the question and that the law
has failed. A return to the saloon is
pteferablv to a continuance of the joint.
JZ UNCLE BOB JZ
The Rhyming Sage.
KIOWA COUNTY ABSTRACT GO.
HOBART. OKLAHOMA.
BONDED ABSTRACTERS.
IAY CSttPlETi SFT V ABSTtACT MO N BWA
ustutts Cf rmi kunbs mmvt m
Daily Heporta
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H. H ANDERSON.
President.
F* K. ROGEK8.
V i -1* raaid * n t.
C. A. FISHER.
Cash nr.
We will meet upon a common plane, discuss the sunshine and the
rain; talk of crops, cotton, corn and hay, each man has his idea
and his way, to rewch the end so it will pay and keep on smiling
as he has his say. They speak of how the prices rise and fall and
wonder if they'll never cease to crawl, and all such
Politics thing* they freely talk as they sit around or work
or walk and keep on smiling through it all until they
give politics a fall. 'Tis then old Harry comes and tumbles in and
raises Cain when party talks begin. No kindly spoken words or
happy smile, but bitter talk, as rasping as a file, and with such feel-
ing we move along V) ijoast that "1 am right and you are wrong."
KOBT. B. WKLLS.
Bank of Gotebo
DEPOSITS PROTECTED BY STATE GUARANTY
A Home Bank owned and run by Home People.
We solicit you business.
WE MAKE FARM LOANS.
i = ==*
GOTEBO MEAT MARKET
J. H. WARKENTIN, Proprietor.
Fresh and Cured Meats
of High Ouality,
North side of street. .*
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