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Caddo County - Newspapers
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Anadarko Democrat
Thursday, Aug. 11, 1904
Vol. 8 No. 207
page 3   column 1

ARE WE TO HAVE A COURTHOUSE

For Anadarko And Caddo County And What Has Become of Our Court 
House Funds.

In a recent issue the Democrat referred to the town lot funds 
which congress provided should be expended under the direction of 
the Secretary of the Interior.  Not a cent of this fund has been 
expended at the instance of the county commissioners - except for 
the county jail - and the county still has $35,000 for a 
courthouse which ought to be somewhere under Hitchcocks control 
for the benefit of Caddo county.

It was announced some months ago that several thousand was used 
in building and equipping a jail, the exact amount being unknown, 
as no statement was furnished by the Secretary to the board of 
commissioners showing the amount.  The principal blame for the 
money (ex)penditure of those funds for county improvements rests 
entirely upon the Secretary of the Interior.  No statement has 
been made to our county officials during the past  year, except 
one of his engineers stating that "there would not be enough 
money left after building the court house to build a jail." This 
is not an official statement.

The jail cells which are second to none, were bought at a big 
expense, and placed in a "shack" on the public square a constant 
invitation to the fire fiend. It takes rank right beside the 
court house and the pest house.

To a certainty the tax payers of Caddo county are being defrauded 
of their just rights. We are entitled to a court house. We are 
not talking to hear ourselves and we know what the people demand 
that some effective steps be taken to secure these improvements.

By motive and intelligent action the city authorities have 
secured the passage of the sewer bonds and now have the 
waterworks under way. The expenses from the latter comes from the 
lot fund. Why don't our County Commissioners make Hitchcock 
disgorge? Stop this red tape business and get to work. Nearly six 
months to wait for specifications for a $30,000 court house!

There are half a dozen architects in Anadarko who could prepare 
gilt edged ones in less than a weeks time.  

This "specification business" is a deliberate falsehood and the 
man who made it knows he is a liar. The people had as well be 
robbed directly as to be robbed by incompeten(c)y and laziness. 
The time for action has arrived. The people are entitled to a 
court house. It seems that our endowment fund will be taken 
either by dishonesty or by incompetency.

The responsibility of giving just and good government as well as 
receiving the benefit from office holders rests on the party in 
power. 

August, the month in which Hitchcock said these specifications 
would be ready is here. If he don't keep his word make him get 
those specifications, get the advertisements for bids, get the 
Court House.  We have paid the price and lets have it.
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Anadarko Democrat
Thursday, December 17, 1904
Vol. 4   No. 17
page 4   column 2

OUR COURTHOUSE

Under an associated press dispatch the public is advised under 
date  Dec. 10 that "The Secretary of the Interior awarded today 
the contract for the construction of courthouses and jails in 
Lawton and Anadarko, Ok.  to L. Crosby & Son of Kansas City. The 
courthouse and jail at Lawton are  to cost $25,010 and $11,454 
respectively, and the courthouses and jail at Anadarko $26,878 
and $11,825 respectively."

This comes as especially good news to the town of Anadarko, as 
well as to the entire county. Our courts have been much hampered 
in the discharge of their duties by lack of proper rooms in which 
to conduct their business, for more than three years now. Juries 
have been discommoded in their work while the court has been 
hindered in many  ways in its endeavor to keep abreast of the 
ever increasing courtwork of the county. Not the least of the 
serious condition is the absence of any protection to many of the 
valuable records of the county, some of which if destroyed by 
fire, could not be replaced at any cost. While the  delay has 
been a tedious one we can afford to forgive and forget if the 
work be pushed to a speedy completion.
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The Daily Democrat
Thursday, March 8, 1906
Vol. 5   No. 173
page 1   column 6

NEW QUARTERS FOR OFFICERS

After Nearly Five Years of Waiting we Have Handsome Building  

The county commissioners have accepted the new court house and 
the officers are moving in as fast as possible. They have been 
scattered over the city for four years and are naturally 
delighted at their new quarters. The building will be handsomely 
furnished and when the taxpayers come to the county seat in the 
future they will see a court house that we can all feel proud of. 
Another thing people of Caddo county can congratulate themselves 
on is this building did not cost the taxpayers a cent. When the 
district court convenes here April 9 it will not be necessary to 
go to a church.
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