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PUBLISHED SEMI-VVEKKLY,
VOL 7.
XOHMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY. OKLAHOMA. WEDNESDAY .IANI AK\ 1
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HAVANA EXCITED.
The Cuban City Expected to Be Be.
sieged by the insurgents
GOMEZ'S GOOD GENERALSHIP
The IiiHurgent Lender Uulfliuiki tho Fanifd
Si>a 11 Ik It Commander—Country People
I'locking; In Terror to MiitAnzas—
Not Hellevetl t Washington.
pie fiT>m' air of ' the Country
ground Matanzas are flocking in terror
to that city, according to the official
dispatches. But other reports say that
I hey are in the main offering to join
the insurgents, who are being plenti-
fully supplied with provisions by the
Inhabitants of all the towns along* the
route they follow.
PISCHKMTED AT WASHINGTON.
Washington, Doc. 20.—The officials
uf the Spanish legation appear not to
he disturbed by the news coining from
Havana. They ridicule the idea of the
insurgents talcing possession of a city
I.lie Havana, with its population « t
300.00) people. Minister do Lome lias
n*. e ve I several dispatches JY
\ v showing in part the eon ; . '
Highest ol' ail in Leavening i ov,-cr.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report
ABSOLUTELY PURE
A Stupendous Plan of the Society of
Brotherly Love.
Till re Are t< Ho No Poor, No Hlch, hot All
to He Equal and llitppy According
to the Dream of the Most
Ardent Reformer*
II—IIILUHf 1| HI I I1 H'lllili I I Til r~ 11 " B iBES
[T^ WiSfelT
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. An Elegant Residence or a Store Building?
l;| Do you contemplate puttin: up a l>s;il<!mg of any kind?
[tl If you do call and see me and let me give you figures. I
riavana, Deo. 20.—Christmas eve
was ushered in with something like
dismay in the city and there is appro-
hension hourly gaining ground tlmt . /inVI Hi VI/
Havana will be besieged by armed \ ^ ^ ( ()i;j ji U j\ Ti.
forces before Christmas day is over.
The advance of the insurgents seemed
at latest advices to be uninterrupted,
thus contradicting a report sent out
during the afternoon that they had
been turned back in a pitched battle ,, umTTII WIFRTPA
by Campos himself and were striving (A)LOiNl lii SOU ill AMljitlvA
to make their way back into Santa |
Clara province. This rumor stated, in
great detail, that (ien. Campos, in
person, at the head of the Spanish
forces, had succeeded in coming faee
to face with Gomez and his forces at
the plantation of Coliseo, which was
in ilaracs. This plantation is situated Kansas Citv, Mo., Dec. 20.—1The So-
12 miles from Cardenas and 21 miles ciety of Brotherly Love, which has its
from Matanzas. The insurgents, it , headquarters at 23 East Missouri ave-
was said, were kemmed in and com- ' nue, and is composed of about 250 un-
polled to fight, all retreat being cut employed men, is not devoting its cn-
off. Desperate engagements took tire time to securing work for the un-
place, the combatants being surround- ifortunates who have no money and 110
ed by the flames of the burning plan- employment. There is a scheme
tations. The insurgents, it was said, in connection with the organiza-
were dispersed, leaving 700 dead and j tion which is quite stupendous,
wounded on the field. The troops'loss It is the intention to ship as many
was, it was reported, comparatively j men from here as will go to South
insignificant, being only 14, and Gens, j America sometime next March where
Italdes and Luque had already started the South American Colonization Co.,
to Sabinalla del Incomdadum, sup- which was chartered in Kansas in 1894
ported by several other columns, in by Secretary of State Osborn, has se-
pursuit of the flying insurgents, who cured a grant of 2,500,000 acres of land
were supposed to be making their way j jin Venezuela and Colombia. One hun-
back to Santa Clara province at their , drcd and twenty-five men have already
best speed. i signified their intention of going from
The details of this engagement had Kansas City, while 600 are expected
hardly become disseminated through from different parts of the country,
'the citv, however, before there came j principally the large cities. The colo-
in a further report that the insurgents 1 nists will board a ship at New Orleans
were marching toward Guanabana about the 1st of next March.
and that Capt.-Uen. Campos had hast-
ened to that point to oppose the ad-
vance, thus once more moving his head-
quarters westward and nearer Havana,
as he had had to do so often within
the last few days. Guanabana is only
about five miles out of Matanzas and
ten or fifteen miles west of Coliseo
plantation, where (ien. Campos was
said to have won his important victory
4 ver Gomez in person. It became evi-
dent that the reports of Gen. Campos'
successful stand and route of the in-
surgents was either unfounded or that
I. N. Merrifleld, business manager of
the colony, and president of the
Society of Brotherly Love, which he
was instrumental in organizing from,
the ranks 01 the unemployed in Kansas*
City, recently surveyed the land of
which it is proposed to establish tho-
colony, lie secured the concession
from the Venezuelan and Colombian
governments. The plan of settling*
the new country is similar to that em-
ployed in homesteading in the United
States. The only thing that remains,
l'OUTO KICAN rrUlSlNU.
Movement on Foot to Join Force* will.
Culm Against Spain.
Nkw York, Dec. 20.—A local paper
says: Members of the l'orto Kiean rev-
olutionary party, who have organized
a junta to work in connection with the
Cuban junta, are purchasing arras and
fitting out an expedition. The organi-
zation of the party and the junta has
met. with the approval of Porto Kicans
in this city and elsewhere, who realize
that a decisive blow can bo struck for
liberty, now that Spain's attention is
devoted to the quelling of the insur-
rection in Cuba.
F.xploded In a Crowded Street Cur.
Topkka, Kan., Dec. 20.—A revolvel
in the hip pocket of Herman Traut-
man, a youth of 20, went off on a
crowded street car in this city. The
bullet lodged in Trautman's leg, in-
flicting a dangerous wound. The ex-
plosion created 11 panic and several
women fainted.
Qnuy und llantlncfl Make lip.
11 Auuisiiruo, Pa., Dec. 20.— A com-
plete reconciliation has been effected
between Senator Quay and Gov. Hast-
ings and they are again friends. Sen-
ator Quay was with the governor at
1 lie executive department yesterday
ir over an hour. They met by ap«
;;i ment and what passed between
lem neither will disclose.
WAYS AND MEANS.
The Committee Hare
I event-j
at Work on tho
ills.
IMPORTANT Cll.VNGKS MADK.
The illiIn Not Intruded in Keprment lie.
publican Policies on 1 In* Tariff or
Finance—1 x-Spenker Crlnp to
Offer a Snbdltute.
s-veral
years
I guarantee satisfaction.
E. MAiNrIRE,
Contractor and Builder.
it is said, is for the people to go thero
the force he had met was merely a j and live upon tho land which is ready j products at 11
wing of .the insurgent array sent to for Settlement. A novel scheme to over the Wils
make a diversion, while the main col- pay
umns pushed on to tho westward.
All is confusion of mind here and the
authorities are apparently all at sea as
to what will bo the next step of tho
insurgents, whether Matanzas will be
besieged, or whether the advance on
that point is merely a feint to hold
the Spanish forces there, while the in-
surgent forces make a way once more
j. w. hocker, oashier.
Directors. J t. Phel
3e-pf e3.
D. L. LAM:. ' S. B.OWENS,
and D. W. Marquaht.
B-'Hughes. a. Kingkade
$
M :K OF
?vtAU $00,
fl ,
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[Incorporated linder the Liws of OUhihum.a.J
The By-laws of this Hank yrovUles thai no Stock can be
issued to non-residents oft -leveland 1 -ounty.
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R. M. ROW,
Rtt, ti. SON,
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Livery, Feed and Sale Stable..
BRAN * NEW *1 RIGS,
I ouble or Single Hacks, Buggies, Cnrri.i v - :m<l Surreys. Good Saddle5
Horses for Ladies and Gentlemen.
Drummers Carried to a!! Pun's of the Country.
Charges Reasonable. | Main Street, Near Depot, Norman, Ok.
W. II. McCALl
o.
Does a General
Transfer Business^
You ■ Patronage Solicited
in the west for Havana, which is less
than 50 miles from Matanzas. Tho
near approach of the insurgents to
Matanzas has, in fact, had the effect of
concentrating all the available Span-
ish forces at that town, and the coun-
try people for miles around have flocked
in to Matanzas.
A day or so ago, the insurgents
caused a scurry in Colon. Firing was
heard at Ajuca, about 15 miles from
that place, and reinforcements were
sent to the front, but this turned out
to be litilo more than an outpost af-
fair, and while the Spanish troops
made for this point, the main body of
the enemy passed south of Colon, near
the line of railroad, and headed for the
frontier province of Havana, thus turn
jng the llank of the captain-general,
who, with the bulk of the Spanish
forces in Cuba, is now well to the rear
of the insurgent columns. The latter,
moving much more rapidly than tho
Spanish troops, who are utterly un-
used to traveling in this thickly wood-
ed country, without regular roads and
with heavy grass and low brushwood
to interfere with every movement, are
not thought likely ti) be able to catch
up with the quickly moving Cubans,
whose machetes clear a road for their
advances, and who, much more fa-
miliar with the country and accus-
tomed to the climate, easily distance
the Spanish soldiers, only recently
brought into the country.
Gomez, by a beautifully-executed
countermarch, has turned the flank of
the famed Spanish commander, and
yesterday, with his army, made his ap-
pearance close to the town of Jovol-
lano, well to the rear of Colon and
commanding tho railroads to Cardenas,
Mantanzas and Havana. Tho move-
ment of the insurgents was an ex-
ample of splendid generalship, accom-
plished under the most trying circum-
stances and in the face of overwhelm-
ing numbers of Spanish troops, com-
manded bv the best officers « f Spain.
A late dispatch says that Capt. -Gen.
Campos has managed to get out of
Colon and that he has placed himself
at the head of the Spanish forces at
Liraonar, 20 miles cast of Matanzas,
where lie expects to be able to strike
at the insurgents. Thousands of neo-
Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder
A Pure Grape Cream ol Tartar Powder.
for the steamer passage of
those going on the first trip is devised.
Nerfr the mouth of the Magdalena
river in Colombia there is a large tract
of land which is covered with guano.
When the vessel reaches the mouth of
this river it will be loaded with this
rich offal, 2,000 tons of which are ready
to load, valued at $35 a ton. This will
be taken* back to New Orleans and
sold. Only enough men will be left at
the river's mouth to load the boat, tho
rest of the party pushing on toward
the interior, where a settlement will
be started 200 miles from the coast.
The land grant is principally located
in what is known as the < auea valley.
The 125 members of the Society of
Brotherly Love, who have enrolled
themselves as members of the coloni-
zation company, are enthusiastic over
the prospects of settling in South
America. The others still think tho
United States is good enough for them.
It is the intention to run tho South
American colony as a commune. Ap-
plicants for membership must sign this
agreement.
X. , hereby cove.in:.■ with tho South
American Colonization Co- for live years of
pervlco, eight hours per «luy. Mndays except-
ed, for the consideration of in < passage to
South America, and board, clothing, amuse-
ment and the enjoyments o". life, as deemed
best by the company. J furthermore agree to
turn such lands and proi rt .1 may acquire
(fluril - said period into the common treasury.
Washington, Dee. 20. The repub-
iican memI ers of the ways and means
committee held another conference
and decided upon several changes in
the two revenue bills wli;ch will bo
introduced in the house at once. 1 ho
most important change in the tariff
bill was to drop the elnu-e putting in
cereal breadstufFs, live stock and dairy
an advance of per cent.
Wilson-Gorman rates, so that
these features will simply have the 15
per cent, advance under the horizontal
tJau.se.
it was also decided to advance car-
per, wools to the MeKinley bill rates,
bu:t other wools and manufactured
prodmgts of wool will remain at GO per
rent., .of the McKinley tariff, according
to the {Agreement of yesterday. Hie
other chance was to exempt sugar from
the horizontal advance of 15 per cent
of the McjCiwley duty.
I11 the I ond bill the principal issue
Authorized will Ue a change of the rate
of interest authorized by tlie act of '7.1
winch will be offered as a substitute
for the republican measures. It is
based on the old bill for coinage of
silver seigniorage, which was passed by
the last congress and vetoed by the
president, but to this bill modified will
be added a feature for the redemption of
greenbacks.The principal feature in tho
M'igniorage bilf will be the omission
of that part which rendered availably
the seigniorage before it had beca
coined by the use of silver certificates
based upon it. The framcrsof the bill
hold that this feature is not necessary,
because there is no immediate de-
ficiency with tho present amount of
silver in the treasury. The other fea-
ture of the plan will provide for the
redemption of the greenbacks in silver
whenever the amount of gold in tho
treasury falls below $100,000,000. This
may be offered as an amendment to the
seigniorage bill, as more votes can be
mustered for tho former than for tho
latter proposition. The democrats who
favor tho plan intended, of course,
merely to place themselves on record
as consistent in tlioir financial policy.
KANSAS w ANTS him.
a Sherman County Olllenr <1o h to Hound
1'oml, Ok., After It S. Ml wood.
Topicka, Kan., Dec. '<>.—Armed with
a requisition from («ov. Morrill, tho
sheriff of Shermar. county, Kan., has
gone to Round Pond, Ok., to be on
hand Friday morning, when IJ. S. El-
wood, the bank swindler, will be re-
leased from custody. Hlwood will be
at once arrested and returned to Kan-
sas. The crime for which.ho will be
tried here is swindling tho Goodland,
Sherman county, bank out of >:>00 by
means of a New York draft purporting
to be issued by an Oklahoma bank,
which had no existence. Elwood is
well known all over Kansas W hen lie
went to Goodland ho got A. I . Mont-
gomery, tho rainmaker,* to identify
him, and the cashier of the
bank then counted him out
the money. From Goodland El-
wood went to Ness county and
secured £.100 from a bank there on the
same kind of a fraudulent draft. l*rom
Ness he went to Cripple Creek and
later transferred his operations to Ok-
lahoma, where he was captured.
Tho New Hond Syndicate.
\| w Yoinc, Dec. 20.—The Evening
Sun says it is reported that the syndi-
cs to take the tew issue of gold
I,. U will consist of J. Tierpont Mor-
«i \ Co., August Belmont <Sc Co.,
1 Co., and other associated
bankers.
iii:h
Miss Iiiit '
l i t I I I Ml
.cwuiiui, of Albai
110n.
r, Mo., ElopnL
Motix.
ii. — Inii Now-
(if HtlllMlill
daughter of
James Newman, for many years
bunker at Albany, Mo., eloped with
llrioe Dicks, a squatty, full-blooded
Sioux Indian, with a very repnlsivs
The couple were captured hero
li^htiuK
with :* I ull-IHoodi'd
St. Joseph, Mo., Dec. 2
man, a youn_r woman
beauty and intelligent
and to yield strict obedl"uco to tho majority
vote, or forfeit all legal interest, except divi-
dend stock in said company.
There are other requirements to
membership which indicate a co-oper-
ative commonwealth to be established,
in which there are to bo no poor, no
rich, but where men are all equal and
happy according to the dream of the
most ardent reformer.
1 Hi. NICABAOI * CANAI*
I)uiiK,,r That the Aim rloan Company'#
i liarter May He Hnvoked.
Cuicaoo, Dec. '20.—A special to tho
Times-Ilerald from Washington says:
A South American diplomat now in
"Washington has received a personal
letter from a member of the Nicara-
guan cabinet stating that the charter
of the Nicaraguan Canal Co. will
be revoked by Nicaragua. A
representative of a London syndi-
cate is now in Managua in
conference with the cflicers of the gov-
ernment, and he ha: used the recent
adverse report by tho American com-
mission as an argument in favor of a
concession to a British company. Ho
has promised that if the existing char-
ter is revoked, a British syndicate
will take up the work and push
it through without depending upon
state support. Tho Nicaraguan gov-
ernment, the minister states, is pro-
voked at the delay in the work of the
American company and at the recent
report of the commission.
from four per cent, to three per cent
and these bonds will be payable at tho face.
option of the government alter three by the police us they were 111 iirlitln-f
years. The rate of interest, for tlieono j from a Burlington train. I hey hail
venr treasury certificates of indebted, known each other only three weeks
ness was raised from two per cent. ,t0 . The Indian belongs to n patent
three per cent. This nill will also pro- medicine company that li:i, been gi\-
•vide for the temporary isolation of ing performances at Albany. I ho
-the greenbacks so that they will bo I (father and three brothers ol the girl
held separate in the treasury and not j wired to the police that they '.vuul.liir-
incliided within the general assets of rive here last night. I he Imliaii lias
the government. assumed a defiant attitude an I says ho
Several important considerations op- will sacrifice bis life to present oeint
| crated to bring about the changes in separated from the ; irl.
the tariff bill. There has been little Miss Newman is is year- of age. I.ass
.ii.tibt from the beginning that sugar spring she graduated from the 'Uan>'
■wonkl be exempted from whatever tur-1 high school, and last < > t i er entered
iff changes were made, because any at-
tempt juo alter the schedule would give
rise to.complications. The decision to
drop farm products and cattle from the
list of duties to be advanced will cause
disappointment among tho western
men. but sojnuch trouble arose over the
settlement of these items that it was
thought best to drop their considera-
tion. An effort*was made to have iron
nnd steel and their products given an
advance, I>u4, 1-t ***et with opposition
from the western men and was aban-
doned, its abandonment also having j
(something todo with dropping the live j
stock and cereal advances contem-1
plnfbucl. The iron and steel interests
•argued that they should be equally |
fc'vored with tho farmers.
.Members of the committee state em- |
piratically that these bills are not in-
tended in any way to represent repub-
lican policies on the tariff or finance;
they are merely temporary expedients
to meet an emergency, the republicans
holding tlie emergency is caused by an
insufficiency of revenues. Chairman
Dingley had a conference yesterday
with Secretary Carlisle over the bills.
Jloth bills will be adopten by tho
ways and means committee at a meet-
ing which the democratic members will
attend. They will be reported to the
house Thursday with a rule giving
that day for debate on the tariff bill,
with a vote at the close and Friday for
debate on the bond bili, bringiug that
to a vote Friday night.
A plan has been drafted by ex-Spcak-
j ci* Crisp and Mr. Bailey, of lexas.
college at Albany. She says she lias
bad many sweetheart but never re-
alized the divine passion until she saw
her Indian lover in w a r paint.
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