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THE TEXHOMA TIMES.
VOLUME FOUR.
Texhoma, Beayer County, Oklahoma, Friday, November 8, I HI.
NUMBER NINE
Republican State Ticket Elected in Kentucky.; planofLeKi5latlon
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Elections were held in fourteen
different states last Tuesday- All
elections were not for full state tic-
kets some only being to elec judges
of the courts and others were to
elect various officers in the cities.
In all the states which usually go
republican that party made big gain
over last year. In Massachusetts,
Governor Guild was reelected and
received a majirity of 105,000 again-
st 30,000 last year.
But what pleasesthe republicans
of the nation most was the election
of the entire republican state ticket
in Kentucky. It looks likethesolid
south wil' surely be broken, when
Kentucky starts on the march to
progress and prosperity under the
banner of republicanism.
In Cleveland Ohio Tom Johnson
the present mavor defeated the Con
gressman Theodore E. Burton, the
republican cnadidate, but this will
have no national political signili
cance, as Johnson's reelection is
onlv a result of local conditions.
Maryland weni democratic by a
small majority and it is thought
that New Jersey may also be in the
democatic colum-i when official can-
vass has been completed.
It was considerably mixed up in
New York state, where only judge
of the courts were elected. The re-
publicans elected their ticket out
side of New York where the Tamory
democrat won as usual.
Prom the results of last Tuesdays
elections it seems as if though the
people are still satisfied with repub
lican management of government
affairs.
Million Dollar
Irrigation Project.
Last summer there was an arti-
cle in this, paper about the irriga-
tion Echeme for Cimarron county
in which ic was stated something
like one million dollars would be
spent to irrigate the country in the
vicinity of Hurley. It now seems
like the hopes of the promoters of
this huga proposition will be real-
ized.
The proposition was started on
foot by the Syndicate Land &
Town Co., the owners of the Hur-
ley townsite. This company took
up the proposition with the Recla-
mation Department cf the govern-
ment last summer and also enlisted
the services of senators and repre-
sentatives of Kansas and promi-
nent politicians including Hon. B.
8. McGuire, of Oklahoma.
The indications now point very
strongly that an immense dam
will be built across the Cimarron
north of Hurley which will be the
means of providing ample water
to irrigate thousands of acres in
the vicinity of the coming county
seat of Cimarron county.
While the rainfall is sufficient in
Cimarron county for the produc-
tion of all ordinary farm products,
yet if the land whs under a govern-
ment irrigation ditch Its value
would immediately advance until
it would ioach $100 per acre mark.
When the irrigation project is
assured, the Syndicate Land &
Town Co., of Hurley expect to have
a beet sugar plant of 8500,000 value
established at their city.
It is known by those who are
acquainted with soil conditions
that the soil around Hurley is pe-
cularly adapted to sugar fceet> cul-
ture, and all that it lacks to make
that part of Cimarron county rival
Garden City, Kansas, in the pro-
duction of sugar beets, is sufficient
water. And after irrigation is
provided that part of Cimarron
county within a radius of thirty
miles of Hurley will be the most
productive and valuable land in all
Oklahoma.
Praises Texas County.
Ther* was a meeting of the
•ounty commissioners and county
clerks elected to serve the new
state, as well as other prominent
Democratic leaders at Guthrie, the
first of the week to decide on how
to run the affairs of the new state
November 16.
Hon. R. D. Stratton, of this city
County Commissioner elect of
Texas county and T. M. Latham,
of Guymon attended the meeting
and in regard to their presence the
State Capital has the following to
say:
"Among those who are in the
city attending the meetings of
county officials are R. D. Stratton
county commissioner elect of Tex-
as county and whose home is at
Texhoma and T. M. Latham of
Guymon, who managed the demo-
cratic campaign in his district.
Both Mr. Stratton and Latham are
extremely enthusiastic when it
comes to discussion of that part of
the state in which they reside and
especially their home cities and
Texas county. They dropped in-
to Oklahoma from Texas many
years ago and it is intimated by
those who would have it under-
stood that they arc wise, that
Stratton and Latham had much to
do with their county being named
after their old home state. "Tex-
as county is fast foregoing to the
front," thoy say, "and the growth
is of such a nature that before the
next election it will be safe to pro-
dict that instead of 3,200 voters
there will be over 7,000 in the
county, which was formerly a part
of Beaver county.
What Is The Cause?
Texhoma does not get the busi-
ness that it should,
It does not ship the broom corn,
corn and wheat that it should.
For some reason its shipping of
agricultural products has not been
any ways near what it should have
been during the past season.
In other words this city is not
getting the business.
This is hard to 'say—
And some might think that it is
a knock against the city—
But—
It is not.
This article is only written that
the business men might see what
is slipping away from them and
see what competing towns are
getting.
Does anyone know how many
cars of croom corn has been ship-
ped from here? Has any one ever
paid the least attention to making
this city a broom corn market?
Who has ever seen a car of
wheat or corn shipped from here
this season?
Guymon nas bought broom corn
already, according to reliable re-
ports, to the value of §168,000.00
And it goes without saying that
the bulk of that vast amount of
money will be spent in that town.
Stratford and Guymon have
bought and shipped manythouaand
of dollars worth of wheat, during
the past season. And the regret-
able thing about it is, the bulk of
this wheat was grown in the vicini-
ty of Texhoma.
The Texhoma merchants are en-
terprising ; they carry larger stocks
and better grades of goods than
can be found in the stoie of any of
her competitors.
But do they get the business to
which they are entitled when the
farmers sell their farm products at
the rival towns?
Why don't Texhoma buy the
farmers' products? Do you know?
Think about it and see what is the
cause—and see if you can suggest
the proper remedy.
Next week the Times will try
and give the cause whether or not
it has any remedy to offer.
State Capital Question.
The question of the proposed lo-
cation of the Oklahoma state capi-
tal is becoming an important one. i
With the advent of November 16,1
next, the agitation over the section j
of a permanent state capital will be |
given additional impetus.
While the enabling act provides
that the capital must remain acl
Guthrie until the year 1913, still'
there should be an effort made to!
decide upon a permanent location
years in advance of that time.
But this agitation should not be
begun until after statehood be-
comes a fact. There i an old ad-
age reads something like this:
"Thero's many a slip twixt cup
and lip," and while apparently we
are going to have smooth sailing
from now on in the matter ol state-
hood, it is well enough to be safely
over the breakers before we take
up any other important questions
But when the time does arrive for
consideration of this matter there
should be a concerted movement,
to have it quickly submitted to
popular vote and settled for all
time to come.
Continual agitation of a question
of this sort will not do the new
state any good, but, on the con-
trary, it will soon prove itself ex-
ceedingly detrimental to our inter-
ests.
Life has no particular choice as
to the location of this capital.
Guthrie' Shawnee, Enid, Musko-
gee, McAlester, and all the other
applicants fr.r state capital honors
are splendid towns and no mistake
will be made to locate it at any
of these points.
So far as Oklahoma City is con-
cerned, it will probably not be a
candidate. It is essentially a
commercial center and its business
men have decided that it can main-
tain its supremacy in that particu-
lar direction without aspiring to
something which will not materi-
ally add to that supremacy.
Common Honesty.
We sometimes wond> r why there
is so much graft and dishonesty in
big things. The man who takes
his little dinky home newspaper
for three years and thm moves
away to some other address and
has his paper marked "Gone" or
"Refused,'' therefore cheating the
country editor out of his three dol-
lars subscription money—the man
who does that often wonders how
a thief can be so lost to honor as to
actually steal what does not belong
to him. The same people who
beat the street car company out of
a nickel protest vehemently when
the street car company tries to get
a franchise dishonestly. The good
citizen who beats the country by
religiously dodging the county
taxes is amazed when some hard-
up public official steals a few dol-
lars from the public treasury. A
high sense of honesty and honor
cannot be expected at the top of
the social ftructure if it does not
exist at the bottom.—Topeka Jour-
nal.
Will First Appoint
The Two Senators.
One of the first, if not the vory
first official acts of Governor C. N.
Haskell will bo the appointment of
the two United Siates senators
from Oklahoma, T. P. Gore and
Robert L. Owen. The action for
the purpose of assuring Oklahoma
a full congressional representation
in Washington. The two senators
cannot be formally elected until
the legislature meets, at the
earliest date, December 2. They
will then be formally elected to
succeed themselves.
Governor-elect C. N. Haskell
will leave Guthrie wi*h his family
Saturday night, two days follow
)ng his inauguration on November
16 for Muskogee, where he will
attend Trans-Mississippi congress,
Monday. The same morning he
will administer the oaths to the
new democratic officials of Musko-
gee oounty.
THE BIG SPECIAL EDITION.
Don't forget our special edition. It will be issued on November 29.
It will a Thanksgiving edition. It will will be a prosperity edition.
It will tell of the prosperity of this city and the counties of Beaver,
Texas, Cimarron, Sherman, Hansford, Moore and the whole Panandle
country. It will bo so attractive and so completely descriptive of this
section of the southwest that it will be valuable as a part of the his-
tory of the Panhandle country and "No Man's Land." Your friends
back east will want to know about this country; about its climate, its
development, its cities and towns, its agricultural progress and its
men and women, those who are making it great. You should not fail
to arrange to send copies to your friends in the states.
We want the photograph of every live business man and a short his-
tory of his life in addition to a write up of his business. And every
man who wants to be represented in this big special edition arrange
to give us his photo and a "write up" of his business before Nov. 15.
As we must have all matter in not later than that date. If you haven't
your pohto made, do so at once.
Now don't forget that we want every business and professional man
in Texhoma represented in this big special edition.
lion. John H. Cotteral
Appointed Federal Judge.
Washington, Nov. 7—President
Roosevelt today announced the fol-
lowing appointments for the new
state of Oklahoma; John H. Cotter-
al, judge; JohnEmbry, United States
attroney; John Aoernathy, United
States Marshall; for the western dis
trict. Ralph E. Campbell, judge;
William Gregg, United States attor-
ney; and G. A. Porter, United States
marshall for the easteru district.
Hon. John H. Cotteral, who has!
been appointed Federal J udge for j
the Western District of the new
state of Oklahoma is one of state's'
best known lawyers. Hahasalwaysj
been influential in republican poli-
tics of the territory and was a dele-
gate to the last republican national
convention held in Chicago in 1904,
He was on the recent republican
state ticket for supreme judge, but
was defeated with the rest of the
ticket, although he received a large
vote on election day,
John Embry is present United
States attorney for the territory as
well as John Abernathy is the pre-
sent U. S. Marshallt
Ralph Campbell Federal judge of
the eastern district of the new state
is a wcllknown lawyer and Influen-
tial politician of McAlester. He
was temporary chairman of the Tul-
sa Repablican State Convention and
later was chairman of the Speakers.
Bureau during the republlban cam-
paign.
Beaver and Texas and Cimarron
countiea last summer. Only in
twj districts did herd law fail at
election. But every where in this
locality herd law has been voted
and is now in effect.
The districts were usually four
townships in extent. The district-
near here which voted herd law at
different times are townships 1 and
2 in ranges 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14.
Anywhere in those districts cat-
tle can be restrained from running
at large.
courtesy to visitor*. It is pleasant
to know that during all the exoiting
times of the past week that this bank
has not resorted to the giving out of
certificates, neither did if take ad
vantage of the holiday proclaimed by
the Governor, but has kept open
every day and paid all of their checks
in the real money, or as some boys
say, "Thi Long Green". Such a
'lank is an honor and a credit to
any city.
Dr. Russell returned this week
from Texas, whither he went to see
his brother-in-law who is very siok
With typhoid fever.
8. B. Harwell was at Dalhart on
ittslnlslttifHkr '
Herd Law Is In Effect.
There has been a misunderstand-
ing on the part of a number of
this community In regard to the
herd law situation. Herd law was
TOM l« searlfjiTwy dlstrlot la aid
Farmers State Bank
Occupy New Home.
The handsome brick building on
the corner of Main and Second
Streets, the home of the Farmers
State Bank, will be occupied by
them Monday. All of the fixtures
have arrived and are being put in
place today. The new steel fire and
burgular prool safe has been placed
in the new building and is admired
by all who see it. The officers of
this bank will take pleasure in
showiug visitors through the new
building and fire proof vaults aud
will explain the workings of the time
lock on tho new steel safe. This
safe if oovered with white enamel
and is one of the finest in the Pan-
handle. The steel fire proof safety
deposit boxes ara being putin plaoe
in the fire proof vault and will be a
great convenience to the farmers and
businessmen who have valuable
papers to protect. These boxes are
free to the patrons of this bank.
The officers of The Farmers State
Bank Invite everyone to oall and in
speot their building and esteem It a
plsaaors to eztsad awf psalbla
Holiday For
Wall Street,
Guthrie, Nov.6—Governor-elcct
C. N. llaskel yesterday recieved
the following telegram from New
York:
"In your opinion does not the
financial condition of this country
justify entirly nonparlism request
for an extraordinary session of
congress currency reform? Kindly
telegraph reply."
In ant-wer he dictated tho follow-
ing message which was sent as a
reply to the Eastern newspaper:
•'If my advise is worth anything
it would be to declare a ninety day
holiday on the stock exchange,
thus suspending tho necessity of
using all the money in the country
for Wall street purposes. With
the cash then at hand to market
tht crops the welth of the country
would be so increased as to put tho
country at ease and even carry
the gamblors through another per
iod of reckless financiering.
The financial planof our govern-
ment canaot be changed in a day,
hurried to meet the demand of the
moment. Tho next congress certan-
ly should make amends for the
neglect of the past by adopting a
fiaancal system equal to the needs
of favoritism to any class or dom-
ination ol aay special Interest.
Guthrie, Ok., Nov. 5—Probably
the fir*t bill introduced in the
(^tlahoma Legislature will provide
for separate waiting rooms and
coaches for the white and negroes
races. This subjoct was handed
down from the Constitutions! con-
vention to tho first Legislature
under what the convei tion regard-
ed as positive aasuranoe that the
Constitution would not be fashion-
ably treated by the President
should tho "Jim Crow" provision
be wirtten hreln. Alth ugh sepa-
ration of the races was a general
demand in the dlegate election of
a year ago, many members of Con
greas of both parties held that the
policy of making it a Coa-titut-
ional matter was dangerous.
The 'Jim Crow' law was recom-
mended in a resolution to ihe Leg
Ulaturte from the constitutional
convention. It was a platform de-
mand by the Democratic party in
the last state campaign, and will
receive the qualified indorsement
of the Adminstratlon in Gov
Haskels' first mossage.
It is said that there aro twenty-
five bills already prepared upon
tho subject py members of both
houses, indicating the Legislature
will have no difficulty in finding
one to suit the publio taste.
It is also indicated that the bill
will be hustled through bot i bran-
ches with little debate undea the
usual legal declartion that "the
welfare, peace and dignity of the
state are paramount, hence an em-
ergency exists, and it is hereby
declared that the said law takes
effect and be in force on and after
its passage and approval by his
excellency, the Governor."
Otherwise tho act would not be-
come effective for ninty days fol-
lowing adjournment of the Leg*
ielature.
Senator Clarcnce A. Davis of
Briston, I.T. who is here and has a
"Jim Crow" bill prepared, believes
there is no qnestion as ao the leg-
ality of the emergency clause in
this instence, and is prepared to
show by a recent Oregon decision
that the LegUlaturels not restricted
as to emergency matters, save as
expressly stipulated in the funda-
mental law.
The Governor's approval of the
"Jim ciow" law is not a matter of
doubt providing its features are in
attented accord with the people's
desire. ThoBe who are giving their
attet uoion to this particular piece
the legislature favor following the
law of Texas and Arkansas, with
additional provision that ac-
commodations given the negro
mnst be ample and as comfortable
as grovided othor passengers.
The Constitution degines the
race as follows: "Whereas, in tho
Constitutional aud laws the word
or worbs colored, colord race,
negro or negro race are used, the
same shall be constitued to mean
all persons of African desent.
Tho term white race, shall in-
clude all other persons.
W A. Mason was a pleasat caller
at this offioe Monday. Mr. Mason
read The Times in the future.
E L. Spark and "Chunkey"
Bowlin - of Stratford were in the
city Monday.
I WHi liH tfll MMMaifglB—IM
TEXHOMA. OKLAHOMA.
Capital $25,ooo.oo
Offers every security possible to DEPOSITORS
and extends to every customer every courtesy
consistent with safe banking. Your business
is earnestly solicited, whether large or small.
BEN F. DAVIS, Pres. R. D. STRATTON, Vice Pres
A. F. BAILEY, Cashier.
J. R. P. SEWELL, President HERMAN C. SBlILfZ, Cashier
FRANK A. SEWELL, Assistant Cashier
Of TEXHOMA, OKLAHOMA
We make an earnest effort to
accommodate all classes
Our aim is to make this in EVERY respect
* the PEOPLE'S BANK; a' bank where all
may feel at home ; a place where those of
moderate means may expect the same treat-
ment as those more favorably situated.
We Solicit Your Deposits and Business
Texas State Bank
Texhoma, Oklahoma
TEXAS ADDITION
Capital Stock ✓ $15,000,00
Wc extend every oourtesy consistent with conserva-
tive banking and your balance will warrant. We
solicit your deposit large or small.
OFFICERS
J. J. DIMMITT, Pres. J. L. WILLIAMS, .Vioe Pres.
J. W. ELLIOTT, Cashier.
DIRECTORS
J. J. Dimmltt, J. L. Williams, J. W. Elliott.
Located in Big Brick Building South ol Railroad
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