The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-10-03

thc business mon generally give TO .
Haskell the credit for the develop .
mont and building of Muskogee ana .
vicinity and Tor z wing property the .
value that has made 1t worth liuga
tion. and doubtless accounts for the
fact that effort is made to reclaim
npsc present great values, due to the
growth of this city. when NO enor'
Is made i'm dozen other Creek Nat on
towns whore little or no 'rcrcase In
value has occurred since the lots
were originally scheduled Ma koger
today Is city Of 10000 people. q
commercial and industrial center.
lind thai Haskell and h. other
luur citizens of Muskogoe. wao are
indicted. are largely the mon who
have made Muskogoe property ya'u.
able Every enterprise in Muskogae
created from the year 1902 to the year
1907. is traceable in great part TO the
enterprise and energy of Haskell
White Ha kcll himself learn. hi
public u.tcrunccs gives the credit to
many Musk.goe people, yet these
same people tell me that the town
property would be- Of IN iguiiican,
comparative value today excepting
Tor mis- efforts,
His Real Estate Deals.
! also lind that until the year 1904.
Haskclls time was SO entirely taken
with his railroad construction work
that his associates in the real estate
company deemed his services 10 them
of no value aad never compCu,a'ed
h'm until after ne had ceased to be
a railroad builder. and then only for
Other purposes Beginning with the
year 1901. during the next three years,
Haskell and his associates built
leased and sold fourteen of the proml.
nCnt brick business buildings OF Mus
kogpc. located in the business part of
town and none Of them on an outlying
lot In controversy. The hotel ana
opera house buildings in Muskogec
are conspicuous among the many i'm.
proycmcuts to which he contributed
and which early made Mus kogce at
tractivc to strangers. | want right
here 20 correct an erroneous state.
mcnt made by a magazine writer. who
in sensational article about the rob.
bing of tn" poor Indian. referred to
he hotel ana opera house lots as be
the Indian. There is no truth in this
statement u, to either of these lots.
Ihey were both scheduled to church
societies which mad church buildings
thereon. and were owned by the re.
spcctivc organizations until the year
1901. when the church organi2at ons
sold them at a good price and remov.
ed their church buildings away from
the business part OF the town
Where Is Il.
When | reached this point in gath
cring facts | asked Where. then. Is
all this property and wealth that
read Of Haskcll's securing ~ graft ?'
The only answer get, and | have
inquired everywhere. is that Haskell
owns very little property In Muskogeo
ana never did own any con ,idcrable
amount, that hr was 4 man OF small
means when he came to Muskogce
and that he closed his career as ac
tive railroad and town builder abou
the beginning Of the year 1901. worth
les, than when he began And thi.
realize is true Of many public spirit
ed men While Haskell and other.
built the town and swcllod the value
Of properly. others held on to thei
real estate and profited by the IN
creased values.
haskell's Political Career.
find that about the close OF tn,
year 1906, Haskell entered the stat,
CON titutional conventions that ne 1
universally conceded to have been on
- of the members most influential II
= ioming the constitution for the new
= state, considered by all as havIni
been one OF the dominating factors il
that convection Following the clos
y Of the constitutional convention. Ha,
- kell was taken up by the people o
the state and elected their first go,
= crnor against the most determine
opposition OF the special interests
IT. that in this election hc must certainl
" have had the support OF many reput
u licans. who were pleased With tn
popular constitution,
asked again; II Haskell is
+ CRATER what was he doing amidst thi
! opportunity OF state constitution wri
J. ing? Why did he not enrich himself?
u For nearly two years Haskell ha
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