The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-02-07
LEYELY COUNTY
SEAT WARS BOOKED

in seven counties of Oklahoma. while
in eight others the inhabitants OF some
towns are looking with envious eyes
toward the town favored by the con
stitutional convention and designated
county sect
Perhaps the most hitter fight is In
Wagoner county The c0ntesting towns
there. Wagoner. which is now county
scat. and COweta have organized
clubs and entire issues of the local
weekly papers are devoted 70 discus.
sions of the county seat quel,flon.
Coweta is the aggressor in the cams
paign Literature telling OF the re.
sources OF that town and it's adVant.
ages as a county seat are being circu-
lated among the voters and already
that bustling little city claims il has
the plum all but in it's hands
Citizens Of Wagner take a differ.
ent view OF the situation. They class
the Coweta papers with their pagls OF
county seat campaign literature as
yellow and assert that Wagoner is
not only nearer the Cd graphical cen
ter OF the county but Is also nearer
the majority OF the voters than Co.
weta. Both towns are about five miles
from the county line
Another husky battle is beinp fonpnt
IN ellis county Here the war is three
cCrnered and each OF the shree towns
is ready and willing to cut the throat
of either or both antagonists. Shatt,icl
Gage and Grand are in the race Grand
| is the present county seat but Is IN
the eNtTelhe,t southern portion of the
countya while both Shattuck and Gage
are near the geographical center.
The Shattuck commercial club has
issued a map Of that county with n
circle drawn around Shattuck to set
OF the towns position a Gage news.
paper man has turned this into cam
paign literature for his own town bv
remarking sarcastically that the cir.
Gle represented the territory ShattucJ,
| expected TO draw votes from in the
county seat campaign
Another citizen OF Gaze termed fha
Shattuck circle as the wall buflt bv
Shattuck To keep "undersirables" from
leaving and to protect Shattuck mer
chants from gold brick men
The hight in Garvin county is three
cornered. Pauls Valley has the plum.
Wynnewood wants it bad and Elnore.
little town off the railroad homes to
land the dark horse Citizens I'm El
more and Wynnewood are circulafiug
petitions asking for an election. 81
more papers cnarge that Pauis Valley
rs trying TO bribe Wynnewood with
promising assistance IN securing "a
state normal school.
Clinton. Custer, Thomas and Wsatb.
ericrd would all like 10 wrest the
county seat of Custer county from It's
present location. Arapahoe. Custer
claims 70 be located In the center of
the county, Clinton says it's more ac.
cessibie by rail and Thomas lust wants
the county seat Arapahoe is making
no fight against the other towns and
Woatherford is hoping the other towns
VIII watch each other and allow IT'S
citizens 20 carry off the prize.
Fairview and Cleo are rivals for the
county capital of Major county. The
hght here is rs yet rather mild 81.
though the campaign has been going
on since the report of the county Iii.
vision committee OF the constitution
was made known Fairyiew at present
is the county seat.
Ia Mcintosh county Eufaula Is the
capital and Checotah the candidate
for the honor Cheeotah charges tbat
Eufaula, while little larger than
Checotah, is provincial and cut of the
way il SAYS that Eufala citizens are
deceptive and used nmderhanded me.
thods to get the county seat
Rumblings Of one OF the hottest
newspaper mud sllDging campaigns i'm
the state are still heard in Creek
county. whore Bristow and Sapulpa
ciashed over the county seat. Sapulpa
had il and Bristow wanted IL. me
fight has quieted. but may break forth
al any time. Il was waged on the
question OF geographical location.
In addition to these fights others
are being talked and in some counties
only a spark is needed 10 raise the
citizens of the community into active
warfare against the present county
seat
The little town of Wister has envi-
Gus eyes on Poteau, the county seat of
leflore county and Waurika is get
ting sassy with Ryan in Jefferson
county, Olustee would like TO replace
Altus as county seat for Jackson
county A 1a
Cimarrom county practically has no
county seatsand Il viii be a race be-
tween the numerous little towns
springing up. Kenton, IA the north
western corner was named Ia the con
stitution, but probably will not be
able to hold e.
Harper county is almost as bad.
lnere the convention named Bumalo
as county seat when in reality there
was no town IL is rimored that
|townsite company has secured the
townsite Of Stockholm, a few miles
from Buffalo and is endeayoring TO
get that town named as county seat
Shawnee has not lost all hopes of
taking the county seat of Pottawato-
mie county from Tecumsen aud Still.
well and Westville are sparrine FOR
time In Adair county Coalgate IS an
other town that has revived IFS hopes
Of being county seat and may de
eide to cross bats with l.ehign IN an
endeaVor 10 wrest the plum given the
latter city By the constitutional con.
vention.
Several OF the fights probably viii
be settled by the survey TO be made
by the state 20 determine the geo.
graphical cener OF each county by the
state. although this IS not expected
q ae fights are an made for CONNER
eiai gain and the hftle difference OF
biographical location will not destroy