The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-05-14
HAeAN AT OKLAHOMA CITY.
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N1"ANAA'NA AAeAA NNAEN ~
makes you realize that you haven't
been ioshed so very bad after all. So
everybody is always glad to be joshed
by the Farmer" One can well i'm
agine that MS favorite songs are The
Star spangled Banner and ~Theren
be a Hot lime in the cid Town To
night"
The recent removal OF Hagan's alb
stract and loan Office to the new Okla
homa building serves to call to mind
what a wonderful success he has
made, both as a farmer and business
man, since his arrival in Oklahoma.
He is one OF the oid-timers. having
been in the ,erritory since 1889. He
did not come to Guthrie, however,
until May o. 1898, at which time he
homesteaded quarter section adjoin-
ing Guthrie on the north. which has
remained his home ever since. Every
inch Of this is bottom land, probably
as rich soil as there is in the territory.
It's vegetation always appears earliest
in the spring and its green, glimmer-
ing landscape makes a beautiful view
from town. There are over FIVE thou
sand dollars worth or improvements
on this place, including fine resi-
dence, scale house, barn, branding
pens, feed lots an orchard and the
very finest vineyard in oklahoma. The
farm produces, also, more alfalfa than
any other one in the territory. Mr..
Hagan is a noted cattle man, being
one of the largest owners in the
Southwest He now has 1,036 head
of fat cattle in his feed lot that win
be marketed this month, besides 1900
head of cattle on grass, all Oklahoma
natives of the best grade.
In 1894 Mr.. Hagan started in the
loan and abstract business in Gath
rie, and has had continuously increas-
ing success. At this time he has 9S7
farm loans on his books and repre-
sents 100000 of individual mot com
pany) money. He is the only man
who didn't stop lending money dur
ing the money scare in 1896, The Of
fee carries a complete and up to date
set of abstract books and a large
business is done in hre insurance.
Besides his homestead, Mr. Hagan
owns four other good farms, two in
Logan and two in Lincoln county. He
Is the man who organized the Logan
County bank, of which Governor
Barnes is president, also organized
the Logan County Investment com
pany both Of these through his ST.
Louis friends, who likewise furnished
the capital for and built the new Ok
lahoma building, which is now the
finest business block in town. With
the ground, 1t cost $4,000 Mr.. Ha-
gan is one of the parties who recently
bought the electric light plant He
has no doubt advertised Guthrie bet
ter than any other man here. Be
sides spending hundreds Of dollars for
printed advertising matter which he
where it will do the most
good, he makes frequent trips TO Kan
sas City, St. Louis, and other cities,
where he never fails to get on the
good side of the reporters and work
in half a column or so about Guthrie
He knows how TO be interviewed, and
the advertising he gives the town in
this way has attracted more people
and money here than all the other
kinds of publicity put together
There is no man on earth who gets
more fun out of politics than Hagan
does He is in the game just for the
pure fun of II, and for nothing else.
He has never Deen candidate for
any office, although his unfaltering
adherency 20 Democratic principles
would bring MIN some recognition
from the party II he should make
"holler" for it. He IS a never-failing
source of hopefulness and enthusi-
asm, and when the boys need a little
ginger in a Democratic rally or con
vention thew alVavg send for Horace
In fact, a Democratic gathering IN
this vicinity without him would be