The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-03-17
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HOOPER MEDICINE co., Dallas, Tsras.


lnA on receipt Of price.
HOOPER MEDICINE CO., Dallas, Tsras.
ped 10 Kansas City and ST. Louis the
people enjoying the advantage Of two
markets. Cotton seems TO be the
staple crop Yale has two cotton gins
in operation The past season WIS not
as good as the average owing to pc.
riod OF dry. hot days IN September,
yet az this place alone $4,000 VAS
paid ont TO the cotton producers Ne-
groes are not allowed 70 live inside
Of the townsite OF Yale.
What is known as the "Jim Grow
law" has gone into eIfect since our
arrival here Now the negroes ride
all to themselves. C'ars are plainly
marked on outside, "This car for Ne
groes; all Others in train are white
peoples cars. Only a yerx few mixed
bloods are making any objections to
the new law
Yale has two through lines Of rail-
roads, the M.. X. & r. aud the Santa
Fc This climate is certainly an ideal
one no ice - ever frozen BY cold
weather
We left iowa with mercury register
ing 10 below zero. and five inches OF
SNOW. At st. Joseph Mo. we lost
most of the snow Kansas City was
still warmer At Parsons, Kas.. We
we're in q perfect blizzard. with eight
inches OF fresh snow ht Usage, the
storm was gone At Cleveland the
world seemed like u May morning.
Eighty miles further south we end our
exist and southern trip. Here at Yale
we found our youngest brother and
his family We are now three brotn-
ers here, one having accompanied us
from Oskaloosa, Iowa. to assist in tAe
general mix-up of a happy time to-
gether No moments have been lost
time simply flies Only a few days
remain till all viii say the parting
words TO scatter ana return to homes
far away
Prices OF land here are yet almost
in the reach Of anyone. Improved
ranches OF 1850 acres can be had for
from $4,000 TO $1,000, seldom more
than the latter price. They are gen
orally the first settlers and want to
sell out and 80 to new place
In company with my Oskaloosa
brother, returned yesterday the
18th, from The oil fields that lay close
TO the north and eas5 OF Yale We
first gave ClevelanG the round-up.
Next in order as we Went along We're
/ Bartlesyille, Tulsa and last but by
no means the least, was Keifers the
center of the great Glenn oil poll. We
will reserve our comment and descr1p
tions Of that trip for future article
we hope to the glory of many Union
OH patrons of the future.
AS Is usually the case, we are too
Wen fcd-Our clothes will scarcely but
ton, and other complications begin 10
tell tales OF extravaganza With corn
meal mush pumpkin pie, sweet 30
/ iatoes. sorghum molasses. corn bread
! fat hen pie rabbits. squirrels quail
and such Ike, when can a hungry Ore
gonian jar loose and get on a .hiko2
About the 5th or 9Th OF March is the
| time set for a dissolution with two
days off In Colorado.
Oklahoma is a grand state-clothed
With some of tho best laws ever en-
acted; the new bank law being ono
OF them. 1t guarantees depositors
funds from loss. No bank IN the
state operating under a state charter,
can fail and not pay each creditor IN
fun dollar for dollar and Henny for
penny Inspectors are TO pass on the
banks twice year. and ofteper u
necessary and they pass upon the
methods OF business employed In
other words, the grandest banking
law ever written is now in force here.
Tile result Of il all is TO the effect
that capital from surrounding states
IS seeking deposits in the oklahoma
! ban.s The state has coal enough 10
/ heat Tie United States for centuries.
cement for all purposes, ard oil for
ICod's sake; asphalt 10 pave the
lsirco.s of oyory city; mountains OF
marble. building stone TO no end. On
isome farms here can be seen growing
at the same time the products that
lgrow in AN the states east of Snake
river TO the Atlantic ocean. Wherey-
cr we have halted the water has
proven to be good, even in the oil belt,
az depth OF 200 feet pure water
gravel IL encountered; al 200 feet is
salt water at 500 feeg IS petroleum
water, which kills all vegetation and
timber.
VIII saw of for this time and come
again soon on else you may begin %
think the writer IS stuck on this pui-
fled Twentieth century state.
Yours very iruly
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