The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 15, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 15, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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Thf El Reno Democrat.
Historical Socitty. V
VOLUME XV.
KL RENO, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY, THURSDAY, DECEMBER t5. 190-4.
NUMBER 48.
XMAS NEWS
ENGLISH FRUIT CAKES, per
pound 30c
RICHELIEU PLUM PUDDING,
per pound . .30c, two lbs. 50c
YULE TIDE N ABISCOS, per
package 25c
MIXED NUTS, per pound 15c
LARGEST ASSORTMENT
AND LOWEST PRICES ON
XMAS CANDIES IN El
RENO.—TONS OF CAN DV
AND NUTS.
MANY, TOO MANY TO ENUM-
ERATE, KINDS OF GOOD
EATABLES. COME AND
SEE.
JELLY BEANS AND CAR
AMELS, per pound 10c
Other candy prices on appli-
cation.
Will pay the highest prices cur-
rent for eggs and butter.
We've been paying 25c dozen
for eggs, but will pay all the
market will afford in case of
any change. Bring your pro-
duce to us.
: W. F. McGrath & Co.
£ PURE FOOD GROCERS,
t 'PHONE 30.
£ Bring the Children—We've a
Warm Room.
4 I
EL RENO VICTORIOUS.
Walloped the Oklahoma City Bowlers,
Last Night.
On« of the most interesting howling
contests that has ever taken place in
El Reno occurred last night, at the
Vencedora Alley, on Hock Island
avenue.
The contestants were representa-
tives of the El Reno and Oklahoma
City teams of the Oklahoma Bowling
League. Arrangements had* been
made for a five-team game, but when
the time came Oklahoma City desired
to change it to a tIir -e team contest
El Reno wouldn't stand for it. hut
finally a four-team game was agreed
upon. The El Reno team was repre
sen ted by Messrs. Seaman, Smith.
Pleraon and Sharpe, and the Oklahoma
City team by Messrs. La Pa. Miller.
Oliver and Qualey.
Only two games were played, the
Oklahoma City team being convinced
by that time that they were outclass-
ed. The first game resulted in a
score of 685 to 587 and the second
stood 680 to both in favor of
El Rene
I A return game will probably be
howled in Oklahoma City next Monday
! night.
ACRES OF
FURNITURE
Holiday Presents Given Away.
Free of charge at the Bankrupt
I Auction Sale of watches, jewelry and
I silverware at O. L. Richards' store,
! Five expensive presents will be
given away free of charge to all the!
A MAMMOTH STORE COMPLETE
IN EVERY DETAIL.
USEFUL PRLSENTS
THREE IMMENSE ROOMS PACKED
ladies attending our opening sale
Thursday Dec. loth at 2 p. m. sharp
First prize a silver tea set costing
$22.00. This is a groat chance for
our citizens to procure holiday pre*
ents as every article will positively
be sold to the highest bidder regard
less of value. 100 chairs furnished
for the ladies. 2116-21
Butter 2<>c a pound at Fowler's.
VOORHEES
VINDICATED
WITH CHOICE GOODS.
Every sleigh in the city is in use
today. There is seldom a call for
sleighs in this region, and an inch or
two of snow will bring all of them
Perry's Parlors, the Finest in Okla into use.
homa, Present a Dazzling Display
of Useful Elegant Holiday
Presents.
You will be convinced if you visit
Million's Sample Sale. 222-tf
Major Simpson, vice president of
the Oklahoma and Indian territories
Good Roads association, representing
Canadian county in the association
will call a meeting sometime in Jan-
uary for the purpose of organizing
a county association. In the meantime
the vice president will select a com-
mitteeman from each township. The
object of this association is one
which merits the moral support ot'
every citizen.
LAND OFFICE DECISIONS.
Several of Interest to People of This
Region.
I In the contest of George W. Goode
! vs. Thomas McCormick, for lands in
! ;:0-l 1 -10. the secretary affirmed the
commissioner and local laud office in
i favor of the entry man.
In the contest of .lames T .MeLin
vs. Gnstav Schumski charging aban-
S donment of the SWMi 7 12-18, the com-
missioner sustained the local office
and cancelled the entry.
"O Jerusalem. Look About Thee"
| is the opening vocal number for Thuri
day evening. It is a beautiful soprano j
| solo and will be sung by Mrs. A. O :
I Cromer. Christian church. December!
• . | 15th. |
Christmas turns the world to ■
thoughts of shopping and as the past
year has been a most prosperous one
in all pursuits of life and ll.ere Is j H. K. Ricker ami A. C. SpriuRS have
nough moisture promised the farmer dissolved partnership. The business
CLEARED BY STATEMENTS OF
FELLOW CONVICTS.
GIVEN HIS LIBERTY
THROUGH PARDONING POWER OF
THE GOVERNOR.
Convicted in El Reno of the Crime
of Robbery, and Sentenced to
Five Years in the Peni-
tentiary,
J. K. (3 lass, of Minco, is an El Reno
visitor today.
to guarantee his crop.: for the present
year ami no great calamity threatens
the country, no doubt there will be
a liberal holiday patronage this sea
son.
here will be continued by Mr. Rieker.
The firm is one of the oldest and
largest real estate firms in Oklahoma.
Henry Engle and (I. W. Compton
re in Wichita, attending the Retail
is there a single man or woman in Implement Ik'alers' association
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
Governor Ferguson Gets Busy on the
Document.
For watches go to Morse's Drug and
Jewelry Store. 222-tf.
E! Reno who has not visited Perry's
I mammoth furniture establishment? It
i is one of the wonders of Oklahoma
i and no one in this town or countv
I should fail to see its contents,
i building is 50 by 140 feet with three
| full stories. The first two lloors are
| stocked with a magnificent line of up
j 'o date furniture of every description.
ttliile the top floor is used as a work
i room. To visit, this store doe
mean that you must buy
Butter 20c a pound at Fowler'
Mr and Mrs. E. B. Marchant, of
Guthrie, are visiting at tin* home of
The ! otto A. Shut tee.
Guthrie. Dec. 9.—The office of Gov-
ernor Ferguson was closed yesterday
to all visitors, for the reason that
the governor was busy preparing his
message to the legislature. The
regular reports from all the territorial
offices are coming in and have to be
made tip into a message for the use
of the legislature Governor Fergu-
son's message to the legislaure will
cover the needs of the departments.
Announcement.
Rev. W. J. Sims, presiding elder of
the Oklahoma City district, will preach
at the South Methodist church this
Jevening at 7:00
j \Ve desire all the officials of the
church to he present. Everybody in-
vited to come.
C. S. WALKER Pastor.
Dr. H II Winne is here today, from
Oklahoma City.
An Oratorio Cantata.
Will be? given by the choir of the
not , Christian church Thursday evening
There are i December 10th. This is a fine work
] Will have holly on sale for the
, Holidays at El Reno Bakery and Con-
fectionery Co., 109 North Bickford and
| 102 Rock Island. 223-6t.
MORE IMPLEMENT HOUSES.
Two Big Establishments Will Make
Headquarters Here.
El Reno's importance as a distribut-
ing center for agricultural implements
is becoming every year more appar-
ent. More farm machinery is hand-
led here than in any other city in
Oklahoma, and this week two more
big manufactories made arrangements
to make this city their distributing
point for the southwest. They are
the Western Manufacturing company
of Kansas City, and the Hancock Disc
Plow company, which now makes its
southwestern headquarters at Wich
ita. These companies realize that in
order to compete for the trade of Ok-
lahoma they must handle their goods
at a central point, and that the cen-
tral point is El Reno. The Engle
Transfer and Storage company will
be their agents here.
j He/ Longmire returned from Wich
j ita last night. Walt Downing, who
j accompanied him to Wichita, will re-
I main in the Kansas town for several
days.
BOWLING CONTEST.
Oklahoma City and El Reno Teams
Will Contest Tonight.
COMMISSIONERS ADJOURN.
The Bridge Proposition Laid Over
Until Next Meeting.
The county commissioners have
adjourned, to meet again on December
26th. The board decided to do noth-
ing in regard to the South Canadian
bridge at this meeting. Mr. Horton.
the contractor, says that he will re-
main in the county until they meet
again and in the meantime search for
the steel for the bridge, which disap-
peared in the great flood two months
ago.
The auction sale of diamonds, jew-
elry and watches at O. L. Richards'
store will be begun tomorrow, and
from present indications it will be a
hummer. Thousands of beautiful
holiday presents will be offered, and
the sale comes just at the right time
to meet with an enormous patronage.
An interesting howling contest will
take place tonight, at Vencedora bowl-
ing alley, on Rock Island avenue
Five of Oklahoma City's best bowlers
will contest with an equal number of
El Reno men. The names of the Ok-
lahoma City players could not be ob-
tained in time for publication. The
El Reno men are: Harry Seaman,
Free Smith. E. A. Sharpe, Herman
Harms and C. W. Shively.
CONCERNING INSURANCE.
The Council Will Discuss the Ques
tion Tomorrow Night.
The city council will meet tomorrow
night, and the fire department and
insurance questions will receive cou-
sideable attention The committee
will recommend the adoption of prac-
tically all the suggestions of Mr. In-
galls. of the Underwriters associa-
tion. It is claimed that the result
will be a net saving of at least five
thousand dollars a year in insurance
premiums, and much better fire pro-
tection.
Evidently nature is out of plumb
in Oklahoma this winter. Two heavy
snow storms during the first half of
December is a new record for this
region However, the moisture is
worth countless thousands to the
growing wheat.
Wait until you see the dolls and
doll bazaar before buying your Christ-
mas presents. 224-6t.
and has been carefully rehearsed and
will be enjoyed by all who hear it.
Admission 50 cents. Children 25
cents
courteous gentlemen at the place who
will take pleasure in showing people
through the store, but to see is to
want and if you make a tour of this
m^gniJirent star" you will surely find „ make> father of ('. O. and K.
something you want ami something E. Blake, writes from Oalipolis. Ohio,
you need. I'seful presents are always that he and Mrs. Blake will visit El
acceptable and Perry's store has a Reno again in the early spring. They
line to select from suitable for all | visited here last year, and have many
ages. There are baby carriages, go friends in the city.
carts, little rockers, high-chairs ami ________
cribs for the little ones.
For your mother, sister or sweet I
heart there is the finest line of ladies 1
desks, dainty dressing tables of birds
Butter 20c a pound at Fowler's.
Mother Rang Too Late.
nnessy, O. T. Dec. 14—John
eye maple and finely polished quarter j Ogden and Miss Gertrude Townsend
sawed golden oak that has ever been ; were united in marriage yesterday at
placed on the markets of El Reno. | Kingfisher by Probate Judge Graham,
Mr. Perry took especial pains in the who, until the wedding was over, post-
selection of these goods while at the poned answering the telephone, which
world's fair this summer. The new-
est novelties in dressing tables are
those with an adjustable glass and
a chair to match with an adjustable
glass at the back, doing away with the
use of a hand mirror. There are beau-
tiful Princess dressers ranging in
price from $8.50 to $.'55 each, china
closets, music racks, Iron and brass
beds of most artistic designs, dining
tables, round and square of the best
quarter sawed oak and polished
with a surface as smooth as a mirror,
with dining chairs to match: handsome
sideboards, kitchen cabinets, hall
trees, door mats, room-size rugs from
$0 to $50 each, Turkish rockers and
Morris chairs in real leather, genuine
mahogany dressers and washstands
to match, folding beds, a beautiful
line of Axminister, Wilton velvets and
Ingrain carpets, lace curtains from
$1.25 to $20 per pair, and an elegant
line of portiers. couch and table cov-
ers. Out of this wonderful assortment
who could not find a suitable and most
acceptable offering to the most ex
travagant feminine taste?
For father, brother, or lover there
is an endless line of artistically hand
carved rockers suitable for dens,
library tables, iweiity-two designs of
roller top desks from $12 to $85 each,
adjustable parlor tables, an elegant
line of box couches and lounges, chiff
oniers. a genuine leather Davenport
for $85, another for $65. These Dav-
enports make very useful and hand-
some pieces of parlor or sitting room
furniture as a settee or lounge during
the day, while they may be opened
up into a large comfortable bed at
night. There are handsome leather
parlor suits and plain and artistic
furniture of every description.
Do not fail to visit Perry's before
rang unceasingly during the cere
mony. It proved to be that the bride's
mother was at the other end of the
telephone insisting that the ceremony
should not be performed.
OSAGES NAME THEIR FIGURE.
What They Want for Right of Way
Through Lands.
Guthrie, Dec. 14.—As a result of
numerous conferences held by the
chiefs and head men of the tribe, the
Osage Indians, in northeastern Okla
homa. have agreed to accept $35 a
mile for a strip of land 100 feet wide
for the right of way of the Midland
Valley railroad, now building across
the Osage reservation from Tulsa. I
T., to Wichita. Kan.
Mrs. H. K. Ricker and Mrs. G. W.
Smith will give a Baptist tea. tomor-
row afternoon, at the Ricker home
:}0(i east Coony street. The invita
tions call for attendance before three
o'clock.
For Christmas gifts in jewelry, you
will prefer goods bright and new from
the factory. That's the kind you get
and at lowest prices at Morse's Drug
and Jewelry Store. 222-tf.
A1 Voorhees, who was sent to the
penitentiary from this city, nearly two;
years ago, is again a free man. the .
governor having pardoned him yes j
terday. If the evidence upon which
the pardon was based is true. Voor
liees is a deeply wronged man, and
has served many months in prison
for a crime of which he was absolutely
innocent.
Yesterday evening's Guthrie Leader
says:
"Governor Ferguson today pardoned
A1 Voorhees; who was sentenced by
Judge Irwin in March. 1903, for a
term of five years in the Lansing peni-
tentiary on a charge of having been
implicated in a diamond theft The
case was a peculiar one and at the
time of the committal of the crime
suspicion pointed toward Voorhees as
the guilty party, as well as to two
other men Vlio are also in the peni-
tentiary. having been sentenced on
the same charge.
"On February 3, 1903. Voorhees was
asleep in the Choctaw depot at El
Reno when the theft was committed.
It is claimed that the theft took place
on the platform of a passenger train
Vincent, who is now in the penitenti-
ary, and who has sent the governor a
written statement to the effect that
Voorhees was not near when the crime
was supposed to have been commit-
ted. says that Voorhees is absolutely
innocent, as well as himself.
"Brown, who was also arrested, in-
dicted ami sent to Lansing on the
same charge, deposes that Voorhees
is innocent, and that neither he nor
Vincent knew him until they were
thrown into the same cell of the jail
at El Reno.
"Judge Irwin has since satisfied
himself that Voorhees is innocent and
sent in a recommendation to Governor
Ferguson that Voorhees be pardoned."
The Holiday Season
Is Hrrr
Elegant Presents Can Be Found
at my Store. Consisting
LAMPS. JARDENIERS. FLOWER
POTS. HANDSOME PAINT.
ED CHINA
RANGING IN PRICE FROM
10c lo $10 EACH
Great Specialty is
Odd Pieces in
l ancy Wares
The Largest and Most
Varied Stock in 0k a-
homa
Come in and Let us Show You.
E. T. PRINCE.
No. 104 South Rock Island Ave.
PHONES 43.
WILL BUILD
FINE DEPOT
SO ROCK ISLAND OFFICIALS HAVE
STATED.
LEFT THIS MORNING
FOR CHICKASHA—WI LL RETURN
IN A DAY OR TWO.
Public Announcement of the Fact Will
Then Be Made—A Splendid
Structure to Be Erected
Here.
Phone Numbers.
I'nlucky 111 New Phone, No. SO Old
Phone for groceries, feed and notions
Peach Brothers. 217-12t
21 to 50 per cent saved at Million's
Sample Sale 222-tf.
For hand painted china, go t
Morse's Drug and Jewelry Store.
222-tf
Butter 20c a pound at Fowler's.
Mrs. Nellie Whittlesey left this af-
ternoon for Omaha. Nebraska, where
she will visit until after the holidays.
Yesterday evening a special train
of three private cars arrived in th«
city over the Choctaw, bringing to El
Reno a number of Rock Island railroad
officials. The visitors are .1 S. Stev-
ens. second vice president, of Chicago;
I O Melcher. general superintendent,
of Little Rock; James T. Mahr, gen-
eral real estate agent, of Chicago;
District Engineer Zinn and Division
Engineer Merrill, of Oklahoma City.
They remained here until this fore-
noon and then departed for Chickasha.
While the officials were here the
question of a depot for El Reno was
freely discussed Vice President.
Stevens said that undoubtedly El
Reno needed a new depot more than
any other big town on the system,
and that it had been fully decided to
build a splendid structure here, and
that the work would be begun very
soon The party will return to KI
Reno from the south in a day or two,
and then a public announcement will
he made* and it will be known just
how soon the work will begin.
O. B. Whittington, of Ladd. Texas,
and Miss Eva Watts, of Topeka. Kan
sas were unitted in marriage today
by Judge Phelps.
The marriage of M. E Faubian. of
Cereal, and Miss Lou Boulmore, of
Mustang, was solemnized at the Caddo
hotel, at 2 o'clock this afternoon by
Rev. Cole.
Harry Homewood, manager of the
Sioux Indian base ball team, was in
town yesterday talking base ball with
C. J. Woodson. Homewood made $17.-
000 with his Indian team last season
and is wintering at El Reno.—Okarche
Times.
Montreal has a man who can swing
a club continuously 1 or forty-two
hours He ought to b« on a police
completing your Christmas shopping force
A deed was recorded today showing
the transfer from Emma Hensley to
Katie H Dunn, of lots 1, 2 and 3, block
174. on Capital Hill The considera
tion was $2,000
D. A Scott has sold to John W Day
a farm six miles north of El Reno.
The price paid was $4,000 ,
Mrs. Delia M. Ritchev has sold, to
August Older, lots 9, 10 and 11. block
94. for $2,500. This is the pretty resi
dence property at the northwest, cor-
ner of Russell street and Barker
avenue.
Butter 20c a pound at Fowler's.
For Christmas jewelry g* Morse's
Drug and Jewelry Stort. 222-tf
J E Dunn, of Oklahoma City is in
town today, extolling the merits of
the Labelseo Colony and Old Mexico.
He has samples of farm products and
tropical fruits that look as if they
might have been plucked from the
(Jarden of Eden Jim Sackett will
represent the colony here, and arrange
for a big excursion to Tampico, the
port of the colony, some time next
month.
Ed L. Dunn is here today from Ok-
lahoma City.
The case of the Territory vs. Doc
Creel, charged with embezzlement, is
being considered in probate court this
afternoon. A motion to quash the
complaint was sustained, and an
amended complaint was later filed.
The weather report calls for more
snow. It will be gracefully accepted,
if it comes.
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Hensley, T. F. The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 15, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 15, 1904, newspaper, December 15, 1904; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc111478/m1/1/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.