The Headlight. (Augusta, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, December 14, 1900 Page: 1 of 8
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THE HEADLIGHT
Vol. I.
AUGUSTA, WOODS COUNTY, OKLA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14
1900
NJ. 22
Alva Market*
CORRECTED 8Y
Si B. SHARE & BRO.
D«ai«rs in GENERAL MERCHANDISE
SEPoKTEDEVERY THURSDAY AF-
TERNOON OVEI4 THE 'PHONE.
—GRAIN—
Wheat 51—53
Corn 25—26
Oats 20
—LIVE STOCK.—
Cattle 3 00
Hogs 4 15—4 251
- PRODUCE—
Butter 15
Eggs 161
—POULTRY—
Chickens 4—4i
Turkeys 5
—MISCELLANEOUS—
Broom Corn 40—62 50
Flour [best] J B0
Meal per cwt 1 20
Potatoes 70—80!
Apples 1 10
Salt per bbl 1 50
Til© KTew Town
Augusta
Our County.
Woods county is 58 miles long
T>y 48 miles broad aud contains
2784 square miles or 11136 farms
of 160 acres each; is bounded on
the north by the state of Kansas, lVTost Beautiful Site in
on the east by Garfield and Grant'
counties, on the south by Dewey,
Blaine and Kingfisher counties,
on the west by Woodward county,
overhead by the main dome of
the canopy of Heaven and be-
neath by rich soil and mineral
■deposits undeveloped; and was
opened to settlement by white
xnen on Sept. 16th, 1893, under
the most unfavorable conditions
•during the lamented reign of
Grover Cleveland.
In addition to the general hard
times that then prevailed, this
county had to contend " against
the inllnence of Congress which
had advertised this as inferior
country by fixing the price of the
land at one dollar per acre, while
further east the price was two
•dollars and a half per acre, and
this part of Oklahoma was dub-
bed by the newspapers the
"short grass country." Under
these conditions men who had
money, went into the counties
further east, while Woods county
was left to that class of settlers
who were so poor that they were
obliged to be content with a
hand-me-down farm from Uncle
Sam's bargian counter.
Ast a natural consequence the
men with money in the eastern
caunties improved their farms
at once while the settlers in this
county with no capital but their
energy and pluck were forced to
defer their improvements till
they made the money from their
farms. But by the untiring en-
ergy and push of the early set-
tlers of this county and the nat
ural fertility of the soil, it has
been demonstrated that while
The first town to be opened on the new Kansas City, Mex co &
Orient Railroad running from Kansas Oity to the Pacific coast
in Mexico. The center of a district seventy miles square with
the best land, largest population and without another railroad.
OKLAHOMA
PURE WATER,^ ^PERFECT DRAINAGE.
Sale Opens at Nine O'clock A. M.
Tuesday, Dee. 18 1900
LOTS REASONABLE AND TERMS EAST.
AUGUSTA can be reached best by way of Alva, on the Santa Fe railroad. A good
hack line runs between the two places. The distance is twenty-Eve miles, over an excellent
road. Distance from Kiowa thirty two miles. Enid forty-six. For farther information address
Mutual Town site Company,
Augusta is located is the cen-
I ter of Woods county and is sur-
rounded for miles in every dir-
ection by the best farming coun-
try in Okhlaoma. Augusta has |
the most healthful climate and
Enforce the Laws. is criminally disposed. Many
There is perhaps no one an liouesc farmer who would
thing that Oklahoma needs so not stoop to theft, il he has for
badly, as a vigorous enforce- gotten his horse feed when
ment of the laws on ottr statute starting lo town, thinks noth-
books. The great mass of our ing of stopping at a neighbor's
izen has any duty to peifurm
and the officers e'ected to tn
force the lawn are very likely
to close their eyes to violations,
as long as the general public
are satisftsed, and uniil pubic
sentiment demands action at
their hands.
If every honest, law abiding
citizen of Oklahama wou'.d
carefully observe all laws him-
self, and see that any violation
of the laws within his know-
ledge was reported to the prop-
er authorities and duly punish-
ed, we would have a veiy dif-
i ferent state of affairs, and un-
less it is done, law breaking,
ilawlesness aud crime will in-
i crease.
I The organization known as
| the Anti Saloon League is mak-
jing a great effort to enforce the
I gambling and liquor laws of t he
! territory and its efforts in fav-
• or of law and order are to be
commended; but why stop at
these laws? why not enforce
all laws and punish ail
tors? If we have a law on ottr
statute books that d es not
ineed to be enfoiced, it should
be repealed, und the best way
to test the use and value of a
law is to have it rigidly enfor-
ced.
I We trust the incoming Re-
publican officers of this county
will see to it that all the laws
I are enforced and all violators
of law are punished and that all
good citizens of the county will
make it a point to assist the
officers. If this is done Woods
county will soon be the banner
county of the territory for peace
and prosperity as it is now for
population and wraith. We
I have one of the finest edtlctt
I tional institutions in the terri-
tory and we owe it not only to
our sons and daughters, but to
the people of other counties
who place their sons and daugh-'
ters under our care and protect-
ion, to see to it that the stud-
ents of the N. W. Normal are
not subjected to the baleful in-
fluences of lawlessness, vice
and crime. '
roiiTess may be fairly well post | the most healtnrui climate anu i " ■>< ® , .. . . . ""
Turn some questions, .. was a the bast and purest well water people are law abiding ho,,or held und appropiat.ng leed
,*M>r jutlffe of the quality of laud to be found in the Territory., able citizens, yet.it is a fict of corn or a e o o
ju ... . , . , _ o •___ .. . . lawn Inn teiiin and bv his example
has
A new postofflce ruling
just gone into effect' imposing a
tine t>f *-00 or one year's impris*
.onment on anyone who through
when it tixed the prices in the I With the advantages to be deriv: (that a great many of our laws his team and by his exaniple | ^reles^ness o^^ ^© thGm from
Cherokee Strip. ed from the building of the | ~rw 0j.i*fnly violated with impun*'encourages petit larceny. j the office and fails to return it
With the return of prosperity Orient railroad, the future Vi„n(i n0,hing aaid or do.:e game laws are violated, liquor linroediately. This apphea to
arte,- Me Kinley's election in 1886 urowtu and development of Aug.. al)oat it. In many oases ihej laws brokan and the law against p® le when uu.
Woods county began to Improve | usta and Woods county are past | laWH afebroken hy thought- J gambling disregarded and so ....
and today there 1s no more pros, comprehension. There is now
perous people in Oklahoma than 110 place in Oklahoma or the west
the farmers of this county, who that offers so many advantages
have made all thev have siuce to the homeseeker, the business
they came here and made it from man or the speculator as Augusta
their farms. |and Woods county.
les* people who have no inten-
tion.of wrohg doing, yet the ex-
ample may be the pretext for a
wilful and mors serious breach
of the law by some person w\u-
long as no one is especially in-
jured nothing is said about it
ing their mail from the office
should examine it before going
iii.qu .. out of the building; it will only
people are apt to depend on the j it
offioers to enforce the law, nev- j was t^0 postmaster's fnult will
er thinking that the private cit-'cut no Ice uuder this ruling.
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Salter, L. A. & Salter, F. A. The Headlight. (Augusta, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, December 14, 1900, newspaper, December 14, 1900; Augusta, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metapth351530/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.