The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 14, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 27, 1903 Page: 1 of 8
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T. F. HENS LEY, Proprietor
El Reno Democrat.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
$1.25 PER YEAR
VOL XIV.
El Reno, oklahoma Territory, august 27. 1903.
NO. 31
TO BILK
OKLAHOMA
AFTER CONTRACTORS.
Kansas is Trying to Hold
the Taxpayers of Ok-
lahoma
Up
KEEPING PRISONERS.
Governor Bailey, of Kansas,
Threatens to Turn Loose
Our Crazy Colony at
Lansing.
Topeka. Kas., Aug. 2(1.—Governor
Bailey has learned that it is not the
Intention of the federal government
to build a penitentiary in Oklahoma
during the next two years. For some
reason the matter has been delayed.
"When our new contract with Ok-
lahoma for keeping its prisoners at
Lansing expires," said the governor,
"I am in favor of doubling the pres-
. ent price and then serve notice that
if Oklahoma does not build a prison
of its own, its prisoners will be turn-
ed loose at the expiration of the con-
tract. There is no money in the !
contract.
"Kansas comes out just about even. Jhe Meeting Last Night was
She cares for Oklahoma prisoner^
more as an accomodation than any-
thing else. There is no reason why
the federal government should not
build a prison at once."
Grand Jury Will Investigate
Alleged Irregularities.
Hobart, O. T.. Aug. 26.—Acting un-
der instructions from Secretary Hitch-
cock, Horace Speed, United States
district attorney, arrived in Hobart
today to begin inquery before the
federal grand jury into alleged pecu-
lation by contractors and the commis-
sioners of Kiowa county in the build-
ing of bridges. The federal grand
jury was convened at Hobart yester-
day before Judge F. E. Gillette. It
is asserted that money has been paid
on bridges that were never built; that
work has been charged and paid for
twice and that many bridge piers
were simply shells filled with dirt
and debris instead of being solid mas-
onry. A number of piers were laid
on dirt foundations at a height of
from two to eight feet above the wat-
er. Speed, who has the reputation
of an unrelenting prosecutor, said to-
day that he was determined if possi-
ble to punish every person guilty of
corruption in these bridge deals.
Later he will investigate alledged
crookedness in public improvements
in Caddo and Comanche counties.
BEAUTIFUL
BRIDLE
George W. Keller Has One on
Fxhibition at His Second-
Hand Store.
MADE BY PRISONER.
Not a Buckle on It—Constructed
Entirely of Hair, Leather and
Sampson Cord—Fine
Workmanship.
CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE
Slimly Attended but Con-
siderate Affair.
(From Wednesday's Daily.)
Many an easterner would quickly
give a hundred dollars for the mag-
nificent bridle on exhibition at G. W.
Keller's second hand store in this
city which is certainly one of the
finest samples of expert workman-
ship we ever saw of the kind.
The bridle is constructed entirely
of hair, leather and Sampson cord,
not a single buckle on it, and yet
every part is adjustable so as to be
enlarged or made smaller to fit the
head of any animal
WOULDN'T EAT WITH NEGRO.
Booker Washington Kept Senator Ba-
con From His Breakfast.
Atlanta. Ga . Aug 26. I'nited Stales
Senator A. O. ltaeon and a party of
Atlanta people went without break
fast at Hamlet, N. C„ yesterday morn-
ing, while Brooker Washington and
a number of negroes feasted in I he
dinning room at the depot. The main
dinning room was given over entire-
ly to the negro delegation while a
smaller table in the side reading room
was cleared of books and papers and
a few plates laid for Senator Bacon
and friends.
Cnder the circumstances. Senator
Bacon and the Atlanta people refus-
ed to eat. Hamlet is the regular sta-
tion where Seaboard Air line trains
stop for meals. Senator Bacon and
friends, who were enroute to Wilming-
ton, had ordered their meal in advance
When the station was reached they
went to the dining room and were
greatly astonished to find it occupied
by Washington and his friends.
WARREN
BENNETT
The United States Marshal who
Killed the Notorious Mar-
tin Brothers
IN THE CITY TODAY.
GREAT PREPARATIONS
For the Grand Fair at
Oklahoma.
Kingfisher,
Arrived from East Over Choctaw
this Afternoon — Fired the
Shots that Avenged the
Murder of Cross.
ACCOMPLICE ON TRIAL.
McCleary, the Colored Soldier Who
Brained an Old Man With a
Scantling is in Court.
The negro soldier named Mathews
who was tried yesterday before Judge
Phelps for assaulting an old man al
Baker's store with a six shooter was
bound over to the grand jury in the
The sides, throat SMm Qf $500.00 in default of which he
latch and reins are round, made of j Was remanded lo jail and today his
Sampson cord over which is beautiful
plaited oil tanned leather. The front
piece across the forehead is flat and
made of leather covered with horse
hair artistically plaited and of vari-
iiated colors.
accomplice McCleary is being tried,
charged with beating the old man
with i scantling after he was knock-
ed senseless by Mathews. The police
court is also busy with a fellow charg-
ed Willi assault ami last night Sheriff
NO PEDIGREE.
THE WAGON FACTORY
The Enid Wave Man is Cross—He is
Married—He is Ugly—He Can
Afford to Say Mean Things
About School Mai.ns
The Wave never indulges in long
winded school reports, giving the
pedigree of the teachers, for the rea-
son that the matter is not interesting
to the general reader, and, no school-
ma'am ever subscribed for a local
paper. However, if her boarding-
house don't take the paper, she never
reads her pedigree in the public
prints.
Talked About Favorably-—Good
Roads Discussed-Opera House
Not Mentioned as There
was no Report.
Elaborate decorations in tassels of Ozman read the riot act to some fel-
I horse hair abound in j ink re 1 and lows who were a little fresh.
black and the reins, some distance ■ The Wrong Man.
from the bit is also covered with hair i Evidence disclosed the fact that
of various colors beautifully plaited McClary was not present at the time
and adorned with large hair guards of the assault.
in black. The bit is of solid nickle j
and of the elaborate construction used
upon the plains among the r.ders of
the west.
This elegant piece of workmanship
was made by E. J. Conners a prisoner
in the Montana penitentiary at Deer
Lodge and was sent to Mr. Keller to
; dispose of and he contemplates raf-
fling it off. the particulars of which
will be hereafter given.
HOME
'BILL ARP" DEAD.
After Illness of Many Months
Veteran Passes Away.
The Sister's School.
| The school will be opened on the
Art day of September, al 9 a. m. Be-
the
jFrom Wednesday's Daily.)
President Jones and a few members
of the Chamber of Commerce waited
until 9 o'clock for the reasonably ex-
pected appearance of the bankers,
merchants and mechanics who are
always howling about slack business
to appear at this important meeting.
Eight business men, four profes-
sional men and two newspaper men side the ordinary branches of study
finally showed up and business pro- between the primary up to the eighth
ceeded by reading the minutes of the grade inclusive, the pupils will have
previous meeting after which Presi- a first class music teacher, and on
dent Jones gave a little talk and call-' every Friday afternoon sewing and
ed ti|K)n Mr. Thoes to explain the fancy work will be taught. The boys
wagon and carriage factory proposi- will be taught to play several instru-
t.ion which he did and the following ments to form the (Sacred Heart
gentlemen present asked questions School band.) The music taught the
or spoke upon the subject. boys will be free this year, the music
J A Masters, S. Tannebaum, Coun on the piano will be $5.00 a month
cilraan Streams, the latter refering to or 50 cents a lesson. The tution for
the little plant started at Cedar the ordinary course of study is $1.00
Rapids. Iowa which at first got out a month in advance. The parents
one wagon a week and steadily grew who desire to give to their sons and
until it is the foremost manufacturing daughters music lessons on the piano
establishment in that part of the state will apply to Mother Superior,
and that beginning brought other fac- The boys who with the consent of
One ma) ruin himst > ran'ness i_^ there and made Cedar Rapids their parents wish to play any instru-
but one surely dishonois imsf > a Qne in]ami city, which the writer ment in the school band will apply
duplicity. knows to be a fact, and that there'to Rev. Father Constantine.
are better facilities right here than
A woman whose ruling passion ^ ^e(jar |^apids ever had. Of course,
not vanity is superior to an> man o j no^Q(jy want8 it, the thing won't<
equal capacity.
FINDERS
Cartersville, Ga., Aug. 26.—Major
Charles H. Smith, widely known as
"Bill Arp," died at his tiome, "The
Shadows," tonight, after an illness of
many months age 77 years. Follow-
ing an operation for the removal of
gall stones several days ago, he be-
came gradually weaker, most of the
time unconscious, until the end to-
night.
PEARLS OF WISDOM.
Substantial lowans Arrived in
El Reno Last Night En-
route Home
FROM GREER COUNTY
Bought Farms There and May
Buy More Land in Canadian
County—Good Citizens
with Lots of Cash.
build itself and there are not many ;
... other manufactures that will just drop
Good qualities are the substantia^ | ^ ^ ^ ^ c]ouds
riches of the mind, but it is goo | business men and mechanics can
breeding that sets them off to a< van j progts 0g the b,lshes in the front
tagp- yard.
, . . : Cities get things where the people
It is a great misfortune not o 'a^![,ugt)e themselves to get them and
enough wit to speak well, or not
Several acquaintances or the city |
editor of the Democrat came in on the ;
north bound Rock Island train last I
night and will pass a few days here
with F. A Sears also an old acquain-
tance, looking over the country and
possjbly some of them may invest in
Canadian county soil although they
have already bought farms in Greer
county. They are all favorably im-
,. . . pressed with Oklahoma and some of
Lotus police judge who 1
them will move here while others
enough judgement to keep silent.
MILL BURNED
Another Inalienable Right
It is a St
lecides that one of the inalienable
that i f'Shts of a citizen is the right to stop
a street car at the point of a pistol.
If pressed, his honor would no doubt
be equal to deciding that the reason
that this right was not formally rec-
ognized in the Constitution of the
land is that when the Constitution
was drawn up there was no such a
car—Louisville
$12,000 Planing Plant
Totally Yesterday Morning
while El Reno sleeps and dreams, Ok-
lahoma City, Enid, Guthrie and Shaw-
nee are gathering in everything thatjthinR H street
i makes a city and some little "two by Courier-Journal.
nine" will sit on his father-in-law's [
Destroyed j fr0nt poarch and swear that the Dem
ocrat ought not to tell the truth but
When the news reached El Reno
ihat the murderers of Deputy Sheriff
Cross bail been killed, Sheriff Oz-
man shouted and everybody rejoiced,
and were anxious to have the good
news substantiated and to know who
tired the shots. Later it was made
known that I'. S. Marshal Warren
Bennet of the Indian territory fired
the fatal shots, and that the fight to
the death was with him, his two com-
panions ami the three desperadoes,
an even-handed battle in which the
plucky officers won and two of .the
most reckless outlaws running at
large were killed.
Now everybody likes to see the
men behind the guns and grasp the
hand that steadied the gun whose
leaden messenger did the business
and look into the eye that sighted
| along the Winchester from which the
bullets were sent on the good message
of annihilation and good riddance.
The fame of Marshal Warren Bennett
and his two companions will ever be
a part of the advancing civilization
i of Oklahoma, and the good offices
of Sheriff Ozman in crowding them
to shelter so closely in their wake is
no small pari in the program result
ting in their capture and death,
j Marshal Bennett is in the city to
Consult Willi Sheriff Ozman and others
relative to official matters beneficial
lo both territories, and the meeting
is cordial and friendly.
The Baby.
What is home without a baby? A
I misfortune, a wheel with a broken
rog, a ship without an anchor. If
I here were a baby in every home
there would be fewer domestic trag-
edies. The baby is the keynote to
the happiness of the household, a tie
thai binds, an anchor that is cast so
deep in the heart that all the waves
of eternity cannot set it adrift.
A childless home may he, to all
outward appearances, a happy one,
but it is not so, for away down in the
deepest recesses of the heart, sacred
and remote from the eyes of the world
is a dark spot that will never know
sunshine until the angels leave a
baby at the door.
They had often grieved and sighed.
For the blessing God denied.
They lamented that no fruit their un-
ion bore;
But one night a cry was heard,
Was it goblin, elf or bird?
Then a gentle tapping, tapping at
the door.
'Twas a messenger of love
God had sent them from above.
Oil. the happiness and joy for ever-
more :
In a basket warm and neat,
Lying there with dimples sweet,
Kingfisher will hold its second an-
nual fair September 21 to 25. As
the date draws near everybody is
on tiptoe with expectancy on account
cured by the management.
Among the prominent features of
the exhibition will be the ostrich race
with a 2-10 trotting horse, and two
high-diving horses. These horses
dive from the top of a 50-foot plat-
form into a ten foot pool of water.
This attraction alone is worth double
tho price of admission for the whole
Fair.
Another free attraction which will
be given each day with change of
program, will be a comedy slack wire
act known as "20 Minutes of Fun on
a Clothes Line."
The Association is a member of the
Kansas-Oklahoma Racing Circuit, and
also of the American Trotting Associ-
ation.
The purses and stakes for the races
-aggregate over $7,000, which will in-
sure the best races ever held in tho
Southwest.
The premiums for live stock and
agricultural products are the same as
offered last year.
Kingfisher has the finest racing par
in Oklahoma. II is located on "I'nclo
John's Creek," in the city limits, and
within four blocks of the court
house.
The Association lias expended largo
sums of money in building exhibition
halls, stables, offices and track.
A great success is predicted for tho
meeting this year.
move
bought farms for their sons who will
occupy them and begin life aright in
this new country.
Among the delegation were the fol- \yas a baby, angels left it at the door
lowing gentlemen: W. L. Garner, yi, the darling noisy mite,
Ida Grove, Iowa who has large land Now their comfort and delight,
interests in Ida Grove county and has you can never tell wbat heaven has
retired from active work, his cousin,
D. W. Garner of Glidden, Iowa and
the following residents of Carroll
in store,
You will ne'er know joy and bliss,
You will ne'er know happiness,
Pleasingly Unique.
His strenuosity is probably the on-
j ought to say that the nieeting was a I ly sovereign who ever made a naval
Enid, O. T., Aug. 26.—The Enid grand affair, that everybody was there J review the occasion for a continuous
planing mill burned yesterday morn- amj several big enterprises were start- j performence of speechmaking. In
ing at 3 o'clock. The total loss is | e(i amj the Rock Island shops will ! this as in various other matters, our
$12,000. The insurance is $4,000. ; i,e here next Saturday. 1 liege lord is pleasingly unique. Chi-
The origin of the fire is supposed to j The Democrat is here to publish the I cago Chronicle.
have been incendiary. The mill will truth and tell the sleepy heads that
he rebilt. " they are getting all they deserve and They're All in the South.
all they will get unless they wake up The discovery lias been made that
Dr E Ernest White has returned to ! and do something. a 17-year-old girl has been Bold in
county, Iowa, E W. Mayor, John Fish- Till the angels leave a baby at your
er. they were accompanied by E. A door.
Traves of Chicago an immigration
agent of the Rock Island system.
The coming of such men to Oklaho-
ma we are glad to chronicle and ex-
tend to them a cordial welcome be-
cause it assures successful cultiva- Eruption
tion of this rich soil and the establish- tions
ment of substantial and happy homes
Ben C. Wilkins.
VESUVIUS STILL ACTIVE
s Accompanied by Detona-
and Lava Advances.
CAR LEAVES
TOMORROW
Major E. J. Simpson will Make
the Tour With the Canadian
County Exhibit.
OKLAHOMA ALL 0. K.
The Display of Fruits and All Farm
Products Are Fine and will
Give a Good Showing in
the East.
(From Wednesday's Daily.)
Major E. J. Simpson returned today
from Oklahoma City where he has
been arranging the Canadian county
exhibits in the great car that is now
ready and will depart tomorrow even-
ing on its tour through the east, and
the committee has appointed the gal-
lant major to accompany it from the
stall, which appointment we are glad
to know he has accepted and will be
absent 011 this important mission for
Oklahoma and especially Canadian
county for the next four weeks. The
major informs us that the assessment
has not yet been made up, but he be-
lieves will be and he also gives us
the privilege of publishing a list of
the contributors in the near future
which we shall take pleasure in do-
ing
WALLACE WALLOPED.
Two and is in Durance Vile, for the
Alleged Raid Upon His Fellow
Man—Music Everywhere.
I) A Wallace got frisky again and
put a head on a fellow and Judge
Meyer touched him up this afternoon
with a line of $11 aud trimmings and
as soon as Wallace got through with
that little unpleasantness a deputy
sheriff took him under his wing
charged with assaulting and beating
some other fellow and the probate
judge will next take a turn of the
wheel of fortune for brother Wallace
and there Is no knowing just where
lie may land by the time justice is
fully meled out.
El Reno after an absence of about
ten months. Dr. White took a course
in the University Medical,
City Mo., during his absence
Naples, Aug. 20.—The slight iu
crease in tho activity of Vesuvius
continues, Tho eruption is accom-
panied by detonations while the
stream of lava flowing In tho direct-
"Tho Pope died, and ion of Pompeii is still slowly advan- boy a five dollar bill by mistake. He
new Pope in Rome; clng. Some of tho Assures recently drove back and made tho boy give it
send correspondents out there but there will be no new Phil May to noted have become enlarged and are up. " trom recent developments I11
bondage in South Dakota ever sinc<
the she was 2 years old, her father hav
The Dignitary and the Genius.
That the dead dignitary may be re-
placed ,wliile genius departed has no
successor, is thus illustrated by Har-
upe
He Needs the Money.
jther day in paying for a news-
Plerpont Morgan gave a news-
There seems to be Iroubl
Kansas | air, everybody seems to be going 011 ing sold her into peonage at thai fier s Weekly:
>. He the war path and the pencil rushers time. Now don t all the Northern now there is
i "* '1 _n ,,flice over Fryberger's are about the only peacefe' innocent papers send correspondents out there but there will
has opened be an(, d , now nlnning at to write up the "system "—Memphis take tho vacant place at Punch's ta assuming almost the aspect of new wall street it is thought that Morgan
pleased10to meet 11 hi. old friends lar„. Commercial Appeal. York World.
1 craters.
needed the money.
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Hensley, T. F. The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 14, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 27, 1903, newspaper, August 27, 1903; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc111410/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.