The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 16, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 23, 1905 Page: 3 of 8
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ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.
Wm. Meahon Meets With a Serious
Accident.
Word was brought to town yesterday
that Wm. Meahon. a farmer who re-
sides four miles east of El Reno, was
shot and seriously wounded. Friday
evening.
According to accounts, a boy named
Longslde and one named Cooksey,
who were hunting. Friday evening,
stopped at Mr. Meahon's house. Mr.
Meahon soon parted to go to the barn
and while the boys were playing with
the gun it was discharged, and five of
the buckshot with which it was load-
ed struck Mr. Meahon. One shot went
into his hand. two into his
right thigh and two into the
calf of his left leg. The boys, who
lived on farms adjoining the Meahon
farm, did not think the man was
seriously hurt, but they were so badly
frightened that when they got home
they said nothing about the affair.
Saturday evening I)r. Sandercook
went out to the Meahon farm for a vis-
it, and discovered Mr. Meahon, who
lives alone on the farm, to be in a
helpless condition. He at once gave
the wounded man all the assistance
possible, hut his wounds are consider-
ed to be dangerous.
CATARRH
n
which the tax has not been paid
This is sure to provoke trouble for
the cattlemen are a determined set
and they are likely to fight before
they will see their cattle run out of
the territory by the Indian police
The tax is due January 1. The big
cattlemen have laid their tax. The
inspector stated that It is the smaller
class, those who handle front 100 to
500 head of cattle, that cause the
trouble. They have for years more
or less successfuly dodged the lax
I which is twenty cents |*r head on
'all cattle In the two nations belonging
j to noncltlzens. The men who have
large herds are easily located and j
^ their Interests are too large to In
Ely s Cream balm risked to the Indian police and they
pay their tax on demand. Those with )
herds of a few hundred head drift
about front place to place and are
bard to locate with their cattle. When
rf
This Remedy la a Spoclflc,
Sure to Give Satisfaction.
CIVES RELIEF AT ONCE.
It cleanses, soothes, heals, and protects the
diseased membrane. It cures Catarrh and
drive* away a Col4 in the Bead quickly, tin-\ an found they pu> only when
-■ " ' 1 Smell.
Restores the Senses of Taste anil Bme
Easy to use. Contains no injurious drugs.
Applied into the nostrils and absorbed.
Large Size, 50 cents at Druggist* or by
mail; Trial Size, 10 cents by mail.
ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren 81., Ntw Y#rtu
forced to and there have often been
times when a light seemed to be un-
avoidable. It has been Ihe custom
with the obstinate cattlemen to wait
until the Indian police, acting under
TT I ! 7 _ui,„ ... I orders from the department, went to
wealthy lumbermen, ten wealthy cat '
... , , ,.... the ranges and rounded these cattle
tlemen, four horse raisers, two for- . , , „
„ ;iup and started to drive them off when
mer county commissioners, a railway 1
i ... thev would put up their money and
conductor and a number of other bust- j J
the police wottl
ness men.
TERRIBLE DISASTER.
Premature Blast Started Fire Which
Has Not Yet Been Brought
Under Control.
Charleston. W. Va., March 20.—A
terrible disaster occurred at 10 o'clock
Saturday night in Rush Run mine,
seventy miles east of here. Accord-
ing to the first reports received fifty-
five men were known to be dead, but
later inquiry at the mine brought the
news that the death list is but ten.
The mines are isolated from easy tele-
graph and telephone communication,
so that details are unobtainable, but
the statement that the death list is but
ten comes from the mine officials
themselves.
The Rush Run mine is a mile and
a half from the famous Red Ash mine,
but both are connected and the dis-
aster has affected both.
The disaster was due to a prema-
ture explosion, which in turn set tire
to black damp. That more people
were not killed is said to be due to
the fact that only a small shift is
worked at night and at the time the
accident occurred there were but ten
mine men in the mine. They were
machine workers, the only class work-
ed in New river mines at night.
Doubt is cast by local miners upon
the estimate of the dead list given out
by the officials. The mines are burn
ing and no one can be induced to
enter them, so that the thorough ex-
tent of the disaster cannot be ascer-
tained. Whether the mines are
wrecked and whether the death list
is really greater will not be ascertain-
ed until some time today, when an
investigation can be made.
HAY IS IMPROVED.
Cretic Signaled That He Was Feeling
Better.
Sandy Hook. N. J.. March 20.—The
steamer Cretic signaled as she passed
here, outward bound, that Secretary
Hay was much better.
Mrs. Hay said just before Ihe ship
sailed: "No one In Washington ex-
cept the family, and possibly the cabi-
net. realized how seriously ill Mr. Hay
had been. This Is not the first time
he collapsed. Since the severe at-
tacks of grip during the winter he had
been very weak. We hope the trip
will benefit him, but we fear it will
take much longer than he antici-
pates."
he police would leave the cattle in
the territory. This doctrine they
spread until it became a general cus-
tom among Ihe cattlemen to wait tin-
til the Indian police came to get the
cattle before they would pay. and by
doing so a great many of them dodg-
ed the tax entirely.
There will be no more of this. There
are three district revenue collectors
in each nation and there will be a
squad of Indian police detailed to
each inspector. Where the tax has
not been paid by April 1 the cattle
will be run out. There will then be
no recourse. The revenue inspectors
will be instructed to take no money
front the cattlemen and the Indian po-
lice will not have authority to do so.
They will run •the cattle out of the
territory and when they do that there
is going to be resistance on the part
of the cattlemen. Hut the inspector
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We Have the
LOOT OF GAMBLING I is determined to collect the tax. which
RAIDS IS BURNED, lias been held valid by the courts, and
he will not fool with the cattlemen
Property Valued at $35,000 is
duced to Ashes—Was Taken
by Detectives.
- Soint
New York. March 2(
worth of roulette wheels, faro layouts,
card tables, playing cards, thousands
and thousands of poker chips and sev-
eral bushels of costly dice and other
loot acquired in the raids on the vari-
ous gambling houses by District At-
torrney Jerome and his detectives
were burned on the river front.
There were 100 costly tables, in-
cluding the most valuable roulette
wheels, faro layouts and card tables,
taken in the raids on Canfield's and
John Kelley's gambling houses.
Re- any longer.
The cattle tax of the Choctaw and
Chickasaw nations amounts to nearly
i $100,000 per year and goes into the
$:I5,000 lribal treasury, though it is collected
under the supervision of Ihe govern-
ment authorities. .
KANSAS OIL FIGHT.
Santa Fe Officials Deny That There
Has Been Any Discrimination
Against Certain Points.
SPINAL CORD SPLICED.
Physicians Perform Delicate Opera-
tion Upon Man With Broken
Back.
Philadelphia. March 20.—Should
Edward Farrell successfully pass
through the convalescent period of
the operation performed upon his
spinal cord In the Medico-Chirurgical
hospital the surgeons of that institu-
tion will have achieved a notable vic-
tory.
The patient fell from a loft in
stable on Friday night, breaking his
backbone.
Portions of the spinal cord were
cut out and the ends spliced. Farrell
stood the operation nicely.
Only once before in the last five
years has a similar operation been
attempted.
SHOOTING WITHOUT DESIGN
Court Martial Finds Czar Was Not
Shot At.
St. Petersburg, March 20.—The
court martial that investigated the
mysterious shooting of a cannon di-
rectly toward the whole royal family
at the time of the performance of the
ceremony of the blessing of the
waters before the Winter palace on
February 20. has decided the shooting
was without design.
MILLIONS ARE STARVING.
Russian Peasants Living Like Animals
and Eating Rats.
Rock Island Riding Lister.
Considered one of the
very best on the market
tha
$35.00 COMPLETE.
with four horse evener
and rolling coulter.
THIS IS THE BEST BARGAIN
that will be offered this
spring and we will be glad
to show it to you. : :
Tinkeipaugh-Kimmel! Co.
By V. D. Tinkelpaugh.
CRITICISE COWBOYS.
Black Hills People Indignant Over Re-
ports in Eastern Press.
St. Paul. Minn., March 20.—Black
Hills people are criticising Seth Bul-
lock's expedition of cowboys to the
Washington inaugural and wondering
whether it has done that part of South
Dakota any good. Western people
have been reading the "slush" in the
eastern papers concerning the cow-
boys, and are indignant.
TUe party that left the Black Hills
consisted not of cowboys, but of the
general manager of the electric light
plant, three newspaper men, two
xrhMi IletakelW
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nit*. lilotchPt, t r*- M«n.
Sanburn nil skin affections
(Vwipi '*r qui. l.u anil perma-
nently by «■ U(M'-
HEISKELL S
_ OINTMENT
j,hntto„. Hon.../ * CO., Philadetph...
Berlin. March 20— Prof. Reuss
ner, a recognized authority on Rus-
sian affairs, in an interview with the
Publishers' Press correspondent today
ileclared that ten million inhabitants
of the Russian empire are literally
starving. Eighty per cent of the pop-
ulation are unable to purchase the
necessities of life, he said. Mortal-
ity from starvation is increasing by
leaps and bounds. In some districts
it has reached the enormous figure of
10 per cent monthly.
The peasants are living like animals
devouring hay, fodder, rats and mice
The awful popular upheaval in the
empire, he declared, is not due to any
political reasons, but to pure hunger
C'hanute. Kan.. March 20.—In the
hearing the case of the state against
the Santa Fe for forfeiture of charter
Saturday, it developed that the Prai-
rie Oil and Gas company, through its
president, had encouraged the devel-
opment of this district through a
promise that when the total produc-
tion of the district reached 500 barrels
there would be all the pipe line con-
nections necessary and the charge
would be 10 cents a barrel pipeage.
This letter, which was introduced as
evidence was written three years ago
and was addressed to the secretary
of the Southwestern Oil and C.as com-
pany. the pioneer In this district, and
held in confidence until brought in
the evidence. The Chanute producers
have always contended that the dif
erential of 20 cents a barrel was un-
just.
Topeka. Kan., March 20.—General
Freight Agent Koonse of the Santa Fe
says the statement sent out from Cha
nute, Kansas, about alleged discrimi-
nation on crude oil rates are misrepre-
sentations. It is not true, he said,
that collusion exists between the San-
ta Fe and other roads and the Prairie
Oil and Gas company to, discriminate
against the Kansas oil shippers in fav-
or of the Standard. There is no such
discrimination. Since the rates es-
tablished by the maximum rate law
went into effect the rate from Peru
to Kansas City, a distance of 191 miles
over the Santa Fe, is 10 cents per 100
pounds. The rate from Chanute to
Kansas City and from Chanute to Ar-
gentina under the new law is exactly
the same as from Benedict.
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SILENT FOR THREE DAYS.
Peace Party Demands That the War
be Brought to a Close, Regard-
less of the Terms Which
May be Imposed.
St. Petersburg, March 20.—The
ominous lack of news from the far^
east and the refusal of the war office
to divulge the few official dispatches
that have been received leads to the
general belief that Linevitch's army
is either engaged in battle or has sur-
rendered.
No news has been given out here,
and as a consequence the feeling of
anxiety is intense. The censors ap-
parently are exercising the closest
watch over the war correspondents. I ,s Rolng
..-,1 U„. l.nnn hnaril from
lhat the recenl defeats of the army I nounced that the division would be
has given them and the agitation has j moved from Caldwell unless addltonal
TO COLLECT THE TAX.
Say They Will Offer Terrible Resist
ance to the Collection—Claim
That it is Unjust.
Muskogee. I. T„ March 20—There Is
going to be trouble in the Choctaw
and Chicasaw nations this spring over
the collection of the tribal cattle tax
One of the most stringent orders yet
Issued to cattlemen was sent out to
the revenue inspectors of the Choctaw
and Chicasaw nations by the Indian
inspector, in which they are directed
to furnish at once a complete list of
all the cattle in the Choctaw and
Chickasaw nations on which the
tribunal tax has not been paid.
Acting on list the inspector will order
the Indian police out to round up and
1 run out of the territory all cattle on suits.
and not a word has been heard from
them.
In this the public sees an ominous
sign All kinds of rumors are afloat
as a result of the silence maintained
by the war office, and the fact that
the correspondents apparently have
been muzzled. Some of the reports
started on the streets have been of
the wildest character and are un-
doubtedly without formation More
conservative opinion, however, holds
the view that the silence indicates
that the Russian army has suffered an-
other loss
become very open. This has added
to Ihe confusion that naturally follows
the successive disasters.
Public anxiety is growing all the
time and it is possible that the war
office will be obliged to give out infor-
mation which the people claim is be-
ing withheld from them. Unless dis-
patches are received soon it is impos-
sible to say what will result. One
thing is certain, that an ugly tone is
already to be noticed in the clamor
for information. The manner in
which the real facts as to the battle
of Mukden were kept back until Ihe
blow fell without the least warning,
is not been forgotten.
The people now want to know what
on and may make a decidedly
forcible demand.
BIG COTTON RECEIPTS.
Thousands of Bales Coming to the
Compress, Late in the Season.
Cotton continues to roll in to the
compress at a remarkable rate, for
this season of the year. Thus far
the receipts here have been thirty
j thousand bales, and Manager Fen-1
tress yesterday received word that one
perhaps has been cut off (fjrm jia(| ma(ie a shipment of two
An
ground could be obtained at a reason-
able price.
The proposition was then submitted
to the Caldwell people that If they
would secure 1100 feet additional right
of way on Ihe east side of the tracks
from the Kansas Southwestern tracks
to Fall creek, at a total cost of not
more than $50,000 to the Rock Island
company, the railroad would pay for
the land, would leave the division in
Caldwell and would expend $250,000
this year in making improvements
there.
This proposition was regarded as a
fair and reasonable one. The Com-
mercial club and the people went to
work with a will and energy that
have always characterized the Border
Queen. They did business. The com-
mittee having the matter in hand re-
port that the required right-of-way
may be secured at a cost considerably
less than the $50,000 limit. Of course,
some of those whose property must
be acquired are demanding extortion-
ate prices for their properties, but
these cases will be properly handled.
WOODMEN WORK.
Munseli's Hard Fight for Clerk—How
Muskogee Won Out.
STANDARD OIL INDICTED AGAIN.
The El Reno delegation to the con-
vention of the Woodmen of the World
A Kentucky Grand Jury Returned 151
Counts in One County.
Morganfleld, Ky., March 20.—The
Cnion county grand jury returned 151
indictments against the Standard Oil
company for selling oil in retail lots
without a license. The penalty is a
fine of from $50 to $1,000 for each
conviction. This is said to be the
largest number of indictments ever
returned against any one corporation
in Kentucky.
from its retreat to Harbin or Kirin, thotisancl bales to the compress.
or even forced to surrender. [advance of a cent and a quarter a
The reports of further fighting that pound has set cotton to moving front •. ..>..... —
have reached the people from appar- the farms, and the El Reno compress at Oklahoma City put in some hard
ently reliable sources have caused the will have handled forty thousand j work to carry off the position of head
reatest alarm General Kuropatkin's hales by the time the season closes, clerk, the candidate being Dayton
i Munsell of this city. Three ballots
SUBMITS A PROPOSITION. were required for an election, Mun-
! sell leading in two, but the Indian
Rock Island Wants Additional Land at Territory delegates combined to his
Caldwell. j defeat.
There was also a peculiar contest
Caldwell. Kan , March 17 — Caldwell over the place for the next meeting
is intensely interested in a proposi- of the head camp. Shawnee seemed
Hon submitted to them by the Rock to be the winner and their delegates
last message spoke of a rear guard
action being in progress. This is in-
terpreted to mean that the major por-
tion of the army is engaged. The
war office is keenly alive to the danger
that threatens the army from the
flanking armies of the Japanese, which
are reported to be engaged in anoth-
er wide turning movement
While the flight through the moun-
tains is as hard on the Japanese
Island officials. They are given the hail so laid their plans that defeat
alternative of losing the Rock Island seemed impossible. A motion was
on''the'"Russ 1 ans, the people'have"not ] division or of furnishing at a reson- offered to make it unanimous <when a
forgoUen the almost Impossible swif- able price some forty acres for addi- Muskogee man arose £
ness with which the Japanese moved Itional trackage and yard purposes. claims of that city It was neatly ac
"n th^ir attack on Mukden. If they A few Hays ago the head officials of compllshed and his oratory cooked
I display a similar ability to outmarch j the Rock Island visited Caldwell and
! the Russians in the cross country
With fairly liberal receipts thf j chase now going on, the fate of the
cattle market continues good. Hogs ' fleeing Russians will be sealed
Shawnee's goose, as Muskogee was
me nuuiv remu i
asked to meet the commercial club of almost an unaminous winner.
the city A meeting was called. To Delegates from this city report a fine
this meeting the Rock Island officials time and seem pleased over Major
t,„. .1,,,!.. Olmnontl'll G Ct 1 OP t 1 I 111 DC
io cents lower on Tuesday, compared | Th^^lng' of unre7t haTbeen in- sialed what everyone know-that their j Simpson* selection as territorial or-
with same day last week. Make your j creased by the activity of the peace 1 present yards at Caldwell are en irt >j gan./.i i
consignment to Hutton-Keck Com. | party. The leaders of all classes who , too small to accommodate t e >usn('s® j
consignment to nuuon-i\.ecK tom. party, irie leaaers ui an ihwbco « 'y
Co.. at Kansas City, to insure best re- have been urging that the war should s that must be transacted theie as
.■ . .1 _ a. I jioiainn urtint it was positively an*
wtf cease have been using the advantage division point
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Hensley, T. F. The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 16, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 23, 1905, newspaper, March 23, 1905; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc111491/m1/3/: accessed May 15, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.