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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-08

School land lessees of Grady coun-
ty were here in force today to meet
the state board of adiusters.
The board is composed of r. E.
Wood, Of Shawnee. chairman; J. r.
Thacker, Hollis. and e. F. Tebbe. Per-
ry They are assisted by George w.
Barefoot and G.. W. Caldwell of this
county, who were appointed to act as
an advisory board.
There are about seventy-five les
sees in this county, the school Land
being located in those townships
which were formerly parts of Caddo
and Comanche counties. Section 13,
1e and 36, or common school lands,
are not considered at this TINA since
no provision has been made for their
sale, but the board is concerned en-
iiTely with the indemnity lands and
the public building lands, the latter
being section 33 The public building
and indemnity lands are to be sold.
The adjusters hope to complete
their work here Monday, sixty-three
hearings icing set for the three days.
The adjustment grows out Of the
complaints OF the lessees on the ap-
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-08
ASK INJUNCTION and WANT
GRADING CONTRACT
CANCELLED

Nj Weaver ct al, plaintiffs, VS.. the
City Of chickgsha and G. A. Heman,
defendants.
The above is the style of a case
filed in the district court late yester-
day afternoon. wherein about sixty
five property owners in Improvement
District No. 8 pray the court to an
nul the contract made with G. A. He
man by the city OF Chickasha for
grading in said district and further
ask for an Injunction to stop the city
from further proceedings relative to
the same.
The suit was filed by Attorneys w.
II. CrIley and w. NJ. Wallace Of El
Reno.
The petition. which Is voluminous
being accompanied by several exhi3-
its containing the ordinances passed,
reports, etc, In connection with the
case, attacks the entire proceedings
under which the council has acted.
II Is alleged that the original reso-
luton passed BY the council, declaring
the necessity for the improvements,
was vague, uncertain and insufficient
and that the council was without au.
thority TO pass such resolutions. Sub
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-08
GLORIOUS
SHOWERS
BREAK The
DRY SPELL


fAbout II o'clock last night the rain
maker. who has bad his plant shut
down for many months. concluded to
try his machinery again just to see
If 1t would work. To the surprise
of everyone he soon had a beautiful
shower pouring out of the hopper. At
one time there was quite a heavy
downpour
Encouraged by the success last
night, the plant was again start
ed this morning, and gentle
shower lasting over an hour was the
result
The showers seem to have been gen
eral throughout this section and they
came as welcome relief to the long
drouth.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-08
Up-tO-date Methods Over
come DrOuth

Frank Ikard, Grady county's mem
ber of the state board of agriculture,
returned this morning from Oklahoma
City, where he had been for several
days attending a meeting of the board
The session was rather stormy one,
owing to the big row raised over the
location of district agricultural
sch Is
Mr.. lizard has spemy the past month
going over the state fSs the purpose
Of establishing demonstration farms.
These have now been started in a
large number of counties and import
ant results are expected next sea
son.
AS an illustration of the results OBJ
tanned by demonstrative farm meth
DDS, Mr. Ikard has to show his neigh
bors fifteen acres Of corn on his place,
which is making forty-two bushels
per acre. This corn was grown on
upland and had only two rains, one
on June "a and another very light
one few weeks later. There was
no more rain and the soil was no bet
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-08

sequent acts of the council are simi
larly assailed and it is further de
clared that the contract for the grad
ing was let at a price which was three
times the actual value of the work
that there was no competition in the
bidding, and that the charges assess
cd against the plaintiffs are grossly ex
cessive.
The petition also alleges that suffi.
eient notice was not given to the
plaintiffs at different stages in the
proceedings. that the board of ap-
praisers appointed to assess the cost
OF said improvements did not prop
erly qualify and their report was not
properly made, that the grading was
not finished and that all of the pro
ceedings are Illegal and void.
The suit grows out of the contract
for bringing to grade the streets in
district No. 5, which was made in the
fall of 1908.
Following are the plaintiffs to the
suit:
M. Weaver, 7. T. Stewart, w. 1.
Edwards, L. NJ Chase, Dawson 4
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-08
Asks $4,000
Damages

Through their attorneys. w. A. Led
better and F. L. Riddle. the Sigmon
Furniture Manufacturing Company to-
day filed suit in the district court
against the st. Louis & San Francisco
Railway Company for damages to the
amount of $4,000
The suit grows out of the fires in
which The Sigmons lost-their furniture
and mattress factory which was 10
Gated near the Frisco tracks and it
is alleged that fire from the the com
pany's engines caused the loss.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-08
DEATH CLAIMS FORMER
COLLEGE STUDENT

The death Of Leroy Prater OF Edin-
burg ILL.,. occurred az his home last
Sunday morning. after an illness Of
five weeks. Mr.. Prater was a student
In the Chickasha Business College
this fan until taken sick, when he
returned to his home In Illinois, but
short time before he would have
graduated He was bright and prom
ising young man. % years OF age. and
the news OF his death brings grief
tc his many friends in Chickasha.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-08

ter than is found on much land where
the yield was less than half the
amount secured by Mr. Ikard. The
differencein yield is attributed wholly
to methods of cultivation.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-08
POLICE COURT TODAY.

In the police court this morning,
Edwin Atwood was fined IS for ped
ding without license. Chas. Cooper
and Maud Wilson, arrested for immor-
al conduct, had their hearings con-
tinued. VIII Cooper was arrested for
being drunk and released on bond.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-08
TEACHERS GET THEIRS.

William Stacey. secretary of the
school board. contributed to the hap
piness Of the public school teachers
today by drawing warrants for the
monthly pay roll, the total amount
being $S,614. The first month of
school ends today.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-08
DEER WAS ACCIDENTALLY
KILLED IN DEHoRNING

Dr. Walter Penquite was dehorning
one of his deer this morning when
the animal so twisted his head that
part of the horn was torn out and he
had to be killed. DR., Penquite says
he will now have plenty of fresh ven
ison.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-08
REcEPTIoN POSTPONED.

The reception TO have been given
this evening for Rev Treat and fam
lily at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. H. L.
Jarboe. has been postponed until to-
morrow evening. when it win be held
ii the weather is favorable.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-08
SMALL BLAZE LAST NIGHT.

A residence at No. 7O2 South First
street caught fire last night and con-
siderable damage was done before the
firemen could arrive and put it out.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-08
FOOTBALL TOMORROW.

Attend the football game at The fair
grounds tomorrow. Encourage the
boys by your presence. 1t win be a
good game.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-08

FOOTBALL TOMORROW.

{ The High School football team !
4 will play the second game of the :
+ season tomorrow afternoon, when !
+ they viii meet the Oklahoma =
= City team at. the fair grounds. :
+ The teams are evenly matched :
+ and the game viii be hotly con- =
+ tested. !
= +++ ++++#$++*+++++s : =
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-08
we ARE ALL ALIKE

When you want stoves or furniture 80
where you have the best to seAeet
rom The place Is III South Third
street. l.. d. Mason. s-dt
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-08
CRUCE SAYS
HE WILL
GET into
THE RACE


+ Ardmore, OKLA, Oct. ST. =
I would not perjure myself by =
: spending more than the legal al I
: lowance for primary expenses to =
i be the governor of Oklahoma" :
+ said Lee Cruce last night upon Z
: his return from the Democratic :
!. gathering at Oklahoma City. !
+ Yes, l will make the race be- :
I fore the primaries for governor. !
: and will make my formal an :
: nouncement within ten days or 7
+ two weeks :
1865 .
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-08
KENDIC SAYS HE'S NOT
A PARTY TO The SUIT

That's the first intlmation | have
had that ] am a party to a law suit.
said B. F. Kendig. Third and Penn
sylyania, when his attention was call
ed to the fact that his name appears
among the plaintiffs in the suit filed
against the city on the grading con
tract
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-10-08

CONTINUED on Page 81
The oasis., 1909-01-16

Sunday evening there arrived from the Key de Orc camp Mir. George P. Moore, president and general manager for the Tribune Gold Mining & Milling Company, who was en route to his home in the East, with two of his sons, R. c. Moore and Master George P. Moore Jr. Tuesday morning they departed for Chicago.
The oasis., 1909-01-16
GODS INSCRUTABlLlTY:
 MANS IMPOTENCE.

A babe IS born: It IS Welcomed with smiles of joy by it's loving parents, who watch with delight the development of it's intantlle faculties, it's growth in strength and beauty; and they weave bright visions of its future, when in the glory of youth it will be the pride of their household, and in the full flush of manhood it will become the stay and solace of their declin- ing years. Suddenly the Fell Des' troyer breathes its icy breath upon the infant; and in day it wllts and fades as flower before the hot wind of the desert, smiting with agony the hearts of the fond parents, their bright visions van ishing into nothingness, and a dread, dreary pail settling upon their little world. Vainly do lov- ing and tender friends endeavor to assuage their grief and tighten the burden of their stricken hearts all too hollow sound the words of sym pathy, and the cancellations offered by religion seem but a hideous mockery. Automatically the lips of the stricken parents repeat that stereotyped phrase: "The Lord gave; the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord"- but deep down in their hearts there is revolting protest that to them brands the canting words as horrible lie. Yet others can hardly understand their deep seated grief until in their turn they face the dread work of the Des- troyer in their own homes: and their grief stricken hearts bow tc his passing
 Or with the fleeting years the child waxes in strength and stature until he has attained the surpass ing glory of adolescence, bidding fair to fulfill all the bright visions woven in fond fancy over hi cradle, when the dread hand il stretched forth and his fond par ents see all of his bright youth anC beauty stricken into an inanimat, clod, as by an unseen bolt from th' azure sky. Then do those agonizet parents voice the cry of old tha sprang from the grief burdeneC heart of the Poet King of Israel 70 my son Absalom, my son, m son Absalom! Would God 1 ha, died for thee, o Absalom, my sor my son." To the world at large is but a swimmer sinking beneat the surging wave of humanity, an the endless and resistless flow ( the stream of life closing over hin
 Or the years are kind and tn youth of promise has develope into the man of strength and ca pacity, who bears nobly his part i the constructive life of the race when in the fullness of his strengtl his plans but half executed, h work uncompleted, he is laid To by the sword of Azrael, and he
 called away ere the world he benefttel by all that he migl have done. To his grief stricke friends and family it seems { though cruel Deity has perp trated an irreparable wrong, to h dependents and followers it seen as though the community h. suffered an irretrievable loss; bl to the mass ot mankind it is but
 soldier who has fallen in the bait
The oasis., 1909-01-16

Whole No. SIS

myriads of worlds, has ordered the life and growth of this little Earth of ours on stupendous and all comprehensive scheme. It is
 scheme of evolution and develop
 ment. The Earth, flung from the
 Sun in his tremendous swing
 through space, has evolved from a
 great ball of fre.to it's present fair
 proportions. It is not yet through
 the making, and when it's making
 is completed, it will be dead and
 dreary world, revolving through
 space, without an atmosphere, it's
 waters dried up, and all forms of
 life vanished utterly. During it's
 life Earth has been and will be the
 abode of man-not man of this
 generation, nor of a generation of
 a thousand years ago nor ten thou
 sand years; nor yet man of the
 next generation nor generation
 thousand years hence nor ten
 thousand years; but man of all the
 generations. Regardless of the
 lamities and cataclysms with
 which the face of the earth is vis-
 ited (and relatively they are no
 more than the shrivelling of the
 skin of a fruit upon the contour
 of the Earth the loftiest mountain
 range is no more than a ridge on
 the cheek of a dessicating apple) :,
 the race of man lives, thrives and
 develops onward and upward to
 higher things. Evolution is the
 universal law, law which works
 in the growth and advancement of man as it works everywhere else. , The individual comes into the , world and at the appointed time he leaves it. The generations
 come and they go, and as they float
 along the stream of time each : shows a marked advance over it's predecessor. Old Mother Earth, , lasting through the ages, yet , through the seasons renewing her
 juvenility, is yet in the making |. and the end of her evolution is still 3 afar in the ages. And man-the } race man-is yet in his infancy l His progress onward and upward B has been through toil, trouble and 3 travail. Any other plan would /. make of him mere outomaton l without volition, W thout sym l pathy, without a mind, without , t will. His evolution is a part o $ the evolution of the Earth. He
 travail and hexing are his travai y and sorrow. Individually he move 6 upon her bosom but a few shor Is years, and sinks in peace therein j. But collectively and successivel, e his is the heritage of the ages; ant
 his individual return to her re d poseful bosom, whether from tn a cradle of the infant, from tn le shield of the warrior, from tn e forum of the legislator, from tn le dying bed of the octogenariar ,f from the missing ship at sea, O p- from the cataclysm of wid y spreading earthquake, are but tn l. steps by which the swiftly succeed ar ing generations pass on to thei n goal in the interminable processio le of the development of man.
The oasis., 1909-01-16

the assassin felled Abraham Lin coln. In their heart.rending an guish the people of all the world cry out against the providence of the Almighty, and speed to the succor of striken Sicily great ships laden with supplies, provisions, medicines, bandages and doctors. Kings and Queens leave their palaces and devote long days and vigilant nights to the work of re- lieving the distress of stricken humanity; and from single blow all ranks and all nations discover that they are akin. Yet this is the very season in which stands forth the fanatic to rebuke the suffering peo- pie for their alleged sins or to re- buke God for his alleged ineffable cruelty. The religious fanatic whose sole idea of the duty of man is to devote his life to ascetic prayer and hypocritic praise sees in the visitation upon suffering Sicily condign punishment of it's people
 for their light heartedness and keen enjoyment of the material
 pleasures of life; the materialistic
 scoffer and maligner of Deity sees
 only the cruel act of hideous
 monster; and another class of
 takers see but the alleged botch
 work of an apprentice Architect of
 the Universe, who peoples the
 Earth with myriads of his creatures
 ere he has completed the structure;
 while a fourth kind of critics stand
 with their hands folded and prate
 glibly of "the inscrutability of the
 Almighty and the helplessness oI
 man."
 Yet the very alleged inscrutab-
 ility of God and mans helpless
 ness are becoming to the philo'
 siphic mind indices of an all wide
 and all pervading plan that i'
 working constantly and irresisti
 bly, and eternally to definite ends The principal failing of the Unit, } mind of man is his tendency t( ! imagine himself the sum and enc
 of all creation. For him all tn, solar system was created, and ht } was placed upon one of it's most in } significant units ito worship Goo and glorify him forever" AnC ; whenever in development of tha [ inscrutable plan God does thing !, man does not understand and can l not like, there arises immediatel : blasphemous protest against tn !. alleged cruelty of God or Hi } capacity in His alleged chosen oC E cupation of Architect of tn t Universe.
 l But science is giving mankin t glimpses of a broader, greater, e more widely comprehensive Schem
 -the emanation of the Divin t mind. Science has found that tn 7. solar system is-but small part ( h the sidereal system, and that b' g yond the farthest void pierced b r the eye of the most powerful te ,f escope are other systems and otht }, worlds than ours revolving i e illimitable space. Some of tt ], farthest of the so called fixed sta n are demonstrated to be great fan ing sons revolving and travellir le in their orbits through spac d carrying with them in their rusl of ing round about great centr v sun vast satellites that are parts y their systems as is the Earth pa 'e of the solar system. Yet the 1 d finite Mind that has organized ar
The oasis., 1909-01-16

of life, the vacant place in the ranks where he marched is closed | quickly, and the line sweeps on. word in its irresistible course with out a thought of the fallen warrior.
 Or the hand of the Death Angel is stayed until the mans work is completed, his mission accom- plished, and filled with years and honors he is gathered to his fathers, beyond the veil joining those who have gone before and are awaiting him in blessed immortality; and for once all unite in an under standing of the fitness and com pleteness of the end. The few re. maining who are near to him, and to whom he is dear, realize that his race is run, that his work is done, that he has fought the good
 fight and kept the faith. Tenderly and gently are his ashes laid
 away, and with immortelles men
 garland his tomb
 A great ship steams from land locked harbor, bearing within her
 staunch lines a thousand precious
 lives, tempting the hidden dangers
 of the vasty deep; by the force of a
 powerful engine in her hold and
 the direction of "a compass like a
 conscience" breasting the billowy
 main true to her course, those
 awaiting to receive her upon the
 other side counting the time of her
 expected arrival to the very hour
 and minute But she comes not
 The awaiting minutes run into
 hours, the hours into days, the
 days into weeks, and yet no tidings
 of the missing vessel. Scattered
 far and wide upon both sides oi
 the great ocean are those who wal
 and watch, and hope and dread
 Finally the missing ship is giver
 over for lost, yet the fond hearts
 whose hopes and fears are bound
 up in "the ship that never re turned" hope against hope, thei
 lives overshadowed by a settled , melancholy. Little recks tn, } world of their secret sorrow. T, } that it is naught but missinl ship.
 Or the fate of the ship is not ; profound mystery, but she zoe 3 down on some rocky shore or i } sunk in some terrible collision l and the shocking disaster with it frightful loss of life occurs unde l the eyes of numerous witnesse: {: whose vivid accounts are put upo 7 the wires, making all the world aC l quaint with the freezing horror |, For little time the world at larg [ sympathizes with the mourner h bereft by the dire disaster; bv | shortly it is forgotten by a f save those whose grief assuages nc l. and who feel tempted to blame tt e Almighty for their deep distress. d And again, as within the shol : space of time since the Nativit n the very foundations of the Bart }; seem slipping away, wreckir l, beautiful cities, desolating ia is provinces; destroying thousands W lives in the twinkling of an ey is all the world standing aghast Il IS tremendousness of the cataclysr It the immensity of the calamity. n the face of such disaster all ma IS kind stands 6guratively beside tl g. open trenches in which are burit is the putrid and bloated corpes IS thousands of victims, and open
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-28

lation OF but little more than that or
Portland, has front foot record OF
$4,000, while the Portland record is
$4,000, which was paid by T. b. Will
cox for the lot at the southeast corner
of sixth and Washington streets
New York Leads the World
New York affords the best example
Of the growth OF realty values, and
In that particular leads the whole
world. The recent probating Of the
will Of Mary G. Pinkney in that city
Is shining instance Of the fortunes
that have been made there. In 1926
the price paid for the John Delacy
farm was at the rate of 1852 per
city block. Today it Is worth $780,
600 per block The Pinkney setate,
only remaining portion Of that farm
was valued at 10000, 900. John Jacob
Astor had a partner when he started
into the real estate business the
partner bought land down close to
the battery and held IT, Astor bought
and sold over and over again, buying
ahead Of the march Of progress and
selling in its wake. Each made his
millions, but Astor made $4,000, 900
where his partner made $1,000
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-28

the Daughters of the Confederacy
who are the guests of Mrs. Grubb
the Generals wife. These Southern
women assisted Mrs. Grubb in re-
ceiving the Northern and Southern
veterans and their wives and daugh-
ters, who accompanied many of them
to the reunion.
Gen. Thomas Mulford and Col. Hill
airy Herbert, the Confederate leaders
who took part, are as enthusiastic as
Gen. Grub over the reunion. Speak
ing of the affair, Col. Herbert, who
attended his first "Yahoo" celebration
last year, said:
THAT gathering last year was one
of the finest experiences of my life,
and it is with the keenest pleasure
and happy anticipation that I accept
ed the kind invitation of Gen. and
Mrs. Grubb to be present at the re-
union today as the leader of the sur
vivors of the Eighth Alabama.
Those Alabama boys had heard of
the 'Yahoo' and Game Chickens re.
unions, but they had no idea of the
welcome they would receive from the
heart and hand of an old enemy. 1
also learned last year that American
hospitality is not all confined to the
South.
"The Confederate veterans who