The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, September 2, 1898 Page: 1 of 10
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fHE CHANDLER NEWS.
SEVENTH YEAR.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1898.
NUMBER 50.
The Mascot Clothing House
Is now open for business in the new building (the Dawson building) and invite
you to call and see their immense stock of Clothing, Mats, Caps, burnishing
Goods, and Boots and Shoes. It is the FINEST, LARGEST, and most COMPLETE
stock in Lincoln county. Remember the place, southeast corner 10th St. and Man-
vel Ave., opposite post office. The Mascot Clothing House, Chandler, Okla.
SUICIDED WITH A SHOT-GUN.
A. B. Daggett, A Chandler Hardware
Merchant, Takes His
Own Life.
The people of Chandler were
very much shocked last night by
the report thai A. B. Daggett
had shot himself, but inquiry
proved that his dead body had
oeen found in his sleeping room
in the Mascho building under
such circumstances as to leave
no doubt that he had committed
suicide.
Mr. Daggett has for more than
a year conducted a hardware
store on north Manvel avenue on
the lot adjoining the Mascho
building. He Sold the lot recent-
ly and was, yesterday morn. ig.
attending to the rroving of his
building from the k t. He 1-ft
his store about 11 :i50 o'clock, tell-
ing Roy Mosier, the boy who
worked for him, to stay there till
he returned. He was seen a few
minutes later to enter his room,
and a short time afterward a
sound like the report of a gun
was heard by the occupants of
the building, who, however,
thought nothing of it. In the
evening Roy Mosier began to
look for Mr. Daggett, and in com-
pany with A. E. Mascho he went
to Daggett's room, where he was
found, dead. A new shot gun,
just taken from his store, was on
the floor near him, and the na-
ture of the wound, as well as the
blood marks on the wall went to
prove that he had placed the
muzzle of the gun in his mouth
and fired the fatal shot, while in
a standing posture, the force of
the explosion tearing away the
upper part of the skull.
Judge Cordell impanelled a
jury, consisting of J. W. Feuquay
Frank' Anderson, Eugene Dea-
con, W. C. Hoover, P. T. Caesar,
and A. W. Bennett, who viewed
the body and took the evidence
of witnesses, completing their
work this morning. Their ver-
dict was that Mi'- Daggett came
to his death from the effects of
a gunshot wound inflicted by his
own act while he was temporar-
• ily insane.
No one seems to understand
exactly what brought about the
mental condition that caused Mr.
Daggett to take his own life.
His business, according to his
own statements, v.-is in good
shape. In addition t > his store
he has a good farn about five
miles east of town, tnd one of
the stations on the new railroad
is located on the line of his farm.
When the body was found he had
*105 in his pockets. He did not
seem to be in any sort of trouble,
so far as is known, except that
his health has been very poor
and he has been subject to fits
of despondency.
Mr. Daggett was a single man
about 40 years of age. He came
here in 1891 at the opening, and
is quite well known, and has the
reputation among all his acquain-
tances of being honest and indus-
tirous. His mother is said to be
living at Ogden, 111., and .she has
been notified of the tragedy.
Important Work
Every tax-payer feels a deep
interest in the republican con-
vention which wDl meet in Chand-
ler to-morrow. The people ol
all parties ai*e disgusted with
the machine-made fusion ticket,
and scores of democrats and
populists have declared that if
the republicans put up a good
strong ticket the} will vote for
the republican nominees. It Is
clearly the duty of the delegates
to tomorrow's convention to
choose the very best from among
the abundance of good material
available, and to so guard their
actions as to preserve the full
strength of the party and put it
in a good shape for its campaign
against the incompetency and ir-
responsibility of fusion officials.
"Well begun is half done," and
tomorrow's work can-do much to
insure republican success at the
polls.
Better Roads.
The movement that has been
started for the improvement of
the roads leading into Chandler
is a very important one and
should interest every, person in
and around the, county scat.
Some of the roads near here are
almost impassable for empty
vehicles, and when it comes to
hauling heavy loads of cotton
over them, it is simply out of the
question. If these roads are
not put in a passable condition
Chandler will lose half the trade
that she would otherwise get.
Let everybody take hold and help
in this good work, either with
subscriptions of money or labor.
There is no better'way in which
we can show our appreciation of
the trade of* the surrounding
country and there is no better
way to secure a continuance of
this trade for the future.
St. Louis Furniture Store,
I have just received another big lot of furniture and my store is
crowded. I must make room for a carload that will be here
on the first train that comer to Chandler. Now is the time
to buy if you want furniture, carpets and queensware
at your own price. They MUST go as I have to
have room. Here are a few of our prices:
E piece bedroom suit for $14.0*).
Fine suits marked down, $2,00 to $20.00.
Iron bedsteads IN.00.
Cane seated chairs $0*50.
Rocking chairs marked $3.50, for $2.20.
Ladies sewiug chairs, $1.00.
8 ft. extension table, oak, $H, for $5.25.
rt ft. table, soft wood $4.00.
611.1able, solid oak 14.75.
Fine dining chairs $0 .45.
Bedsteads, only $1.75.
Other goods at reduced prices.
Please call and see my stock before
buying elsewhere. In the new
South Manvel Avenue. J -j--j
Gott.
Without a Parallel.
K. C. Star: The republican
congressional convention at El
Reno yesterday is unparalled in j
the history of Oklahoma politics, i
Politicians who had seen a, quar-'
tea of a century of activity in
Kansas conventions say that they
never before saw anything like
it and never expect to see another
in which hero worhip reigned so
absolutly supreme. Dennis T.
Flynn, may'live to be an old gray
haired man and have many more
honors heaped upon him. but in
his dotage he will prooably look
back upon the El Reno conven-
tion as the most magnificent out-
burst of partisan adoration that
he ever beheld.
A Happy Culmination.
Times Journal: The nomina-
tion of Flynn was a happy cul-
mination. There is unfinished
| business to be done in congress
that no one can do as well as
Flynn. He can take up the work
in congress where it stopped
when he stepped out a year ago.
A frenzy deprived the people of
two years representation in con-
gress, hui happily t lie frenzy lias
gone and the people are again in
their right mind.
A Contrast.
Flynn: "Wherever Old Glory
has been placed by the blood of
our brave soldiers and sailors,
there it sTiould remain and never
be hauled down."
Keaton: "I am opposed to
territorial expansion."
COMMITTEEnEN, ATTENTION!
A meeting of the members of
the county central committee
chosen at the primaries on the
17th inst. will be held at the
court room in Chandler on Sat-
urday, Sept. <3, at 12 o'clock, M.,
for the purpose of effecting a
permanent organization and at-
tending to such other business
as may properly come before the
convention at that time. It is
earnestly requested' that every
member of the committee bo
present.
S. J). Dennis, Chm. pro tom.
H. B. Gilstuap, Sec. pro tenr.
The People's Choice.
Flynn is the republican candi-
date. He refused the nomina-
tion, but it was thrust upon him.
There were eight other candi-
dates in the field, but the people
wanted only Flynn. He is the
strongest candidate t in; republi-
cans could have nominated. He
will make a hard tight, and will
get more democratic votes than
any other republican could have
gotten.—El Reno Star (lnd.)
Call at tin; Welcome grocery
for what you need in our line.
A fresh and carefully selected
stock of groceries at the Wel-
come.
Try the Welcome grocery.
Our prices are low and our stock
complete.
Long talks don't count but
prices do on slippers at the A
No. 1 store.
N<> cure, no pay, thai is Por-
ter's Antiseptic Healing Oil is
sold for burns, barbed wire cuts,
scratches, cracked heels, saddle
-galls, old sores, and screw
worms in cattle and all kinds of
inflamationS on man or beast.
Price, 25 cents. Sold by A. D.
Wright.
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