Lawton Constitution-Democrat (Newspaper) - December 31, 1908, Lawton, Oklahoma i i 1 s- Although threats are male of taking from all of her in the formation of new military reservation and tko no supporting tax can fee drawn from making of SHI is still some They cannot ruin glory Jtf Today's News Today all News in the Newsiest of Local News First i IN THE BEST EV THE BEST STATE IX THE BEST OS Local Advertising as Interesting -a tea ture as a Papers News It has News for All NUMBER OKLAHOMA LOOS CATHOLICS PLAN ELABORATE Slashed into Dozen Wounds When He Asked Sister From Lover Stole Horse and dle from Another Admit Their Guilt KNIFE WIELDER MAKES ESCAPE t rx IT in KEPT SADDLE a youthful farmer slushed 11 dozen serious knife uhoul the same u from justice and n whole thrown into a stale of is the re- sult 01 a cutting affray which occurred Let Ilia about last to nt the Sheriff today Although is not considered fatally many of the knife took painful effect One ear is most severed from his head his throat is slushed from ear to car Uit little the ilesh one has a irash elear to the bone ered of the tendons Dr JL T GoocH is with this after- noon The trim Me arose over Uie sister oi It has lieen ou the frequently but to the wishes of brother Last nil had a wedding in the 011 Those attending ten o'clock mass at Catholic Church next Sunday will have an opportunity o heaving some tho finest nusic ever heard in a church in this city Leonard's maft in B flat one the classics will be played by the Fort Sill military orchestra and band of twenty pieces assisted by the church choir under the leadership of Mrs L A DeWeese Chiet Musician Brinley and his splendid bend played this mass at the fort Christmas eve and the rendition was much enjoyed and highly com- by a large company of Lawtor people the Ft Sill services Since Uien the military hand and orchestra together with the local Catholic church choir practiced the several rehearsals together and the music Sunday promises to be probably the best ever heard in an Oklahoma church of any denomination Father Lamb cordially invites all lovers of good music and impressive service whether Catholic or to attend FT SILL Objection to Water Use Here by Medicine Park People i J s Investigation from Morris ami hvo wove tills lodged in comity jail liy Deputy Tow Glenn churned with tJie of ji horse iroin Walter Saturday admit the theft oi Hit lint sinte Uiui they Ud not intend to keep flic stated lij the Indians loosed the horse shortly after him to and ho was on the military reserve They brought I lie saddle to town ami i tried to sell it and to pawn it attempts however since men to whom they tried to dispose I of it realized Mint it lind stolen I j They promised Hint they would return instead of it hidden night in j hay and Monday tried to sell it they it In outside the city its Here if found by farmer T I1 and to Sheriff of i the people com ins and when i hero are for- their friends The Towers Laid and Loan com- Our variety oE the tao far north or south crops and a local at Lawton j cast ol to please is attracting people who are not only land for investment because they want 10 come live to Alfred oi with us saiu NT i Illinois a farai here Many j of also Hrs C AV people place ir land in Canada a in Law Did Mexico with for a raise md the Kress Company in by someone eU- from New York City have two ing to give up their lots in block Ave ship lo become pioneers ir developing i mKl construct a those countries to make FT SILL Bee the enlargement of Ft Sill to probably the most im- military post m the souther west is now but a matter the commanding officers here interest and efforts now being expended by the war department in plans already started for its development and by the announcement just received here that the army school of at the Presidio of Monterey California some post in the Middle West Brigadier General Frederick Funston who was ly commanding officer of the department of California has the school be more centrally located as it now is so far from the Eastern posts that its usefulness to those officers and men who are stationed in that section and the department officials have decided that Fort Sill will be a good location for the school because of its Jons natural facilities location and climate The change to Fort Sill would drain upon the appropriation for mileage and transportation in addition to its other natural ad- vantages The location the school of als of the Law ton Sapid Transit com- just and legal settlement has been I store adding one mora to their seventy-five stores Yes Lawton and county attract people to city country because of real merit Uec and Sicily mid anil a score oi other in laid tlie record so from the that slowly into Komi of tlie almost of lines or ibt iis ranges from to o far us nt on in to tlie s er wealth Another class of land ers are going to the Panhandle and Southwest Texas to Montana and other places and land This class also expect to use some one elsa is the cat paw to develop the try and miike their land valuable Those places are not claimed as being for the real home but sales are urged ou the That the hind will increase in value In this vicinity we not only claim big increase on the investment but people to come here for homes to mid become because of our ideal climatic conditions our j in- charge of bribery a member of longitude and altitude j Seining hoard in the of au overhead trolly franchise to Jhe ended on December 10 ivas otic of the most celebrated in the oi the it could grant to the and advising the thai the id Transit company mnst be ed in the deal Inductions were forthwith city's to the land from which it is securing water whether or not SAX Uvv boss of San Francisco today sentenced to in bo slate penitentiary at Siin Sentence by P presided over trial on our productive soil onr wonderful city our mountain parks and resorts people and pleasant surround In our schools churches and social conditions our central location as near once ocean as Fort Sill it is understood has j pany city of Law been under consideration for some time it planned by the military authorities to establish Uie -in the present Quarters of Ft Sill after the army post is removed to the new post The announcement of tentative decision reached after Gen Funston seems to give definite of such re- moval Raise Dan Contest Further interest oi the department in tho construction of the new post is given in the matter the dam and reservoir site now used by the city of Lawton Immediately after the action of the city council granting to the de tree use oC water from the main to Medicine creek from a point to be tapped on the military re- serve providing the department -ar- range so that the city's own supply he not decreased report of the action made as to the right of way and also no rights and privileges at thel to investigate the title of the Rapid proposed reservoir and which Transit people Capt Stone last evening went to Lawton and made preliminary gation in the matter and has BOW tele- department for a special attorney from the department of attorney is to be sent immediately To Page Three sent in TO the department by Cant State t 3 is leading in the Cor president D L Stone quarter j Oklahoma Teacher's at the Shawnee convention er logother with his report Ing surveys and as to dispatches received here today candidacy which ivas exclusively to the new post But same I lle of last Prof I J Abbott time a communication from the Formerly of iias tlie nice and It is practically tln entire At reported Casun iDO half the population of about Tlie one been devastated ft nil San and and nil and on straits are in ruins on Canvas at HONOLULU HAWAII Dec here that evsn an act of Con- department annulling the Organic Act oi has ruled that Hawaii cannot benefit I would not he sustained by the An immense crowd of character of the productions and the regular production I though President Roosevelt had given iho western scenes of taken ths and the pictures his un- iho last summer by the qualified endorsement many of those large who saw last night at in fact Dial all could not find room in the completeness in every detail of the house Fully ono thousand are believed to have attended Every sent in the house was taken early in tho evening performance began ery foot of standing room in the rear of tlie building was taken And tbe was well the With n poor shine and much of tho time with poor light the wolf hunt the Mt Signal massacre and the Cache robbery were to a delighted audience Although many of the local people knew of the woll planned arrangement ot tho of the tures although all knew much of the the Before the beginning of the program Attorney All Jennings ono oC the chief participants In the motion pictures a member the Oklahoma Natural Mu company which forwarding tlie project made a brief tall ing the motives behind tho enterprise and tolling something of tho story of their talcing His also scenes presented thus adding greatly to the interest of the production The which the pictures were last night will ho replaced by a good ono and Uie same pictures will be given all by the recently inaugurated ter rate on between the United States and Great Britain In passing subject tho Second Assistant Postmaster General has written to the local postmaster that the agreement not embrace Hawaii Porto Ri- co uid other possessions of the ed States As a result of this rulins the in- of Hawaii in known 110 some warm cablegrams have sone to the Territory's and to ernor W F who is there also at present Not Hawaiians care about the paltry pennies involved but to he classed by a department official I as a possession and thereby Weighty and thy editorials have burdened the of the local papers When will Americans and especially portion of the population living east of the and above all Federal officials learn the true tns How much ins is it going to require to make them realize that Hawaii Is not a That Hawaii Is much more a territory than Alaska far as local powers of government arc en- joyed and In come respects even broader powers than Arizona and That Hawaii Is not a part ot the States ac a spoil or through servile tion of tho Island to be taken In but by agreement under a binding contract which took expression form of an Con- gress OH comprehensive It is courts owing to the conditions under which she entered the Since the postal rate matter broke lose It has been that er Departments slighting Hawaii also The ment this year omits to Include in tlin report ot the United States the District ol Hawaii which should stand 12th In the list its tions ot And after Hawaii had been perly recognized in the report vious years The general ignorance They are made of the very bes terial They are fine Home made dies wholesale and retail Palace Bakery 416 D Avenue conceded that will be selected probably this afternoon i o oi teachers is is understood headed by ii shown by a long list of editorial in Eastern newspapers in waich Is classed as a dency or or shunted into tlie class with the pines Porto Eico and Guam As a matter oC fact Hawaii's pride j is hurt Peeling that In reality she stands if anything In L higher place in than even the land territories Arizona and New Mexico it is to be classed as a dependency Hawaii self governing in an equal degree with the Territories of zona and New Mexico executive power is rested who is appointed by the President as is also the Territorial Secretary but both of these officials citizens oC the Territory other Territorial ore by the Governor with the approval of the upper house of the A law making body consisting ot a enate of fifteen members find a House of thirty members elected by the meets biennially and has power to formulate any law not In conflict with the Federal Constitution The Governor has power to veto but a two-thirds vote of both houses pass- es any measure over his veto He has even than the of the in a number of- Instances He example the writ corpus and call-out the forces without waiting for the permission of tho h In common other tories -is represented In Con- gress by one Delegate who has Door privileges In the House no vote To Page Three in the politics of the ini and oi the state is expected to land several important tions in the new For next honors ind City arc the only There are tcuchers In the largest of touchers in the history lling Hand to Fight Great White Plague Five Red Cross stamps the entire number in consignment sent to Lawton for sale Immediately pre- ceding the New Year sold within a period oi three Sold for the good of the race for the extermination of the white plague This is the record made by R J Ray president pC thie southwest dis- organization Fed of Women's Clubs to the stamps were sent and through which organization the movement Is being It is a record not equalled by any son to whom stamps have been sent the city of thus ng hand the move ably could have been sold Al had time for re- port to-be made to headquarters the Xew Year and Mrs Ray closed out her stock yesterday But the movement is to be carded on after opening of new year matter will be brought up for con- sideration and action before the con- of the Oklahoma League of Municipalities which convenes in homa City January the of women's clubs which have already pushed forward the fight again at the dreaded disease by proximately from the sale of Red Cross stamps all fill Join in the general move ment if Is hoped far ward In new state of the great while A more permanent and thorough system of raising funds will be for more systematic plan of these funds will be adopted
