El Reno Daily American. (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 194, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 26, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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EL RENO DAILY AMERICAN.
FIFTEENTH YEAR
EL RENO, OKLAHOMA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26. 1908
NO. 194
FOR MOKE RURAL ROUTES
1
I'ongrewiman Fulton Promises to
Help Improve Mail Service
All of the postmasters In the Sec-
ond Congressional District have re-
ceived letters from Congressman
Fulton requesting them to communi-
cate with him regarding the matter
of establishing new rural routes, so
that he may at once take it up with
ttoe department and push it to a suc-
cessful termination.
In Mr. Fulton's 'district there are
$290,075 people to be served from
about four hundred postoffices, with
only 225 rural delivery routes. Un-
der statehood there will shortly be
established better roads and more
bridges across streams, thereby en-
abling tho congressmen to secure
many more routes provided the pro-
per amount of enterprise is display-
ed by the farmers in getting up peti-
tions and making applications. He
Tjill forward the necessary blanks
to all who want them.
W. S. Tinsman Appointed General Manager,
With Headquarters at El Reno. Circular
Issued by President Winchell Today.
New Depot ut Tulsa.
American Special.
Tulsa, Okla., Feb. 26.—Plans to
build the best depot in eastern Ok-
lahoma at Tulsa have been made by
the Kajty. The idepot will replace
the station building burned down
some weeks ago. It will be 35 feet +
wide by 300 feet long and will be |
built entirely of brick and stone. I
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Chicago, III., Feby. 26, 1908.
J C. O. Blake,
El Reno, Okla.
Have just issued circular appointing Tins-
man manager lines in Oklahoma, Arkansas
and Louisiana with headquarters at El Reno.
B. L. WINCHELL.
<*hild Died From Huru
American Special.
Maysville, Okla., Feb. 2fi.—The
eighteen months-old daughter of J.
C. Kennedy, a farmer living three
miles from here, is dead as a re-
sult of burns about the face and
shoulders caused by it he upsetting of
a pan of hot .gravy the 13th of this
month. The child survived the burns
two weeks.
NEGROES llREEIHNG TltOl IU.K
Something Worse Tlinn Fine anil Im-
prisonment "Will Happen."
Kingfisher Star:
As passenger train No. 35 was
leaving the staltion here Monday
night, a stone was thrown through
the wirodow of the chair car. The
stone passed within a few inches of
the head of a lady ho was sitting ty
the window, The disturbance creat-
ed quite a panic In the car for a
few minutes. The conductor noti-
fied the Rock Island officials at EI
Reno, explaining to them that he had
put a negro off the 'train for beating
his way on the blind baggage. De-
tective Beardon came up from EI
Reno Ithis morning and located the
negro, who had slept in a box car all
night. The negro, who gave his
name as Earl Williams, was arrested
and pled guilty before Judge Gra-
ham who fined him $i>0 and thirty
days in jail.
SPECULATION AS TO
WILL BE
OEPENDSON PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION
Bryan Will Probably
Choose His Own Run-
ning Mate.
American Special.
Washington, Feb. 26.—Everyone
must have noticed that during the
past week or ten days there has been
a very marked leit-up in the talk of
nominating some other man than Mr.
Bryan as the Democratic candidate
for president. The New York World,
"Washington Post and a few other
rabid anti-Bryan newspapers contin-
ue to discuss the availability
candidates, but the anti-Bryan move-1
nient In Congress, which a while ago
Itromlsed to make itself formidable,
has almost wholly died out.
It has been so strikingly demon-
strated that the great mass of Demo-
crats want Bryan as their candidate
that the hope of displacing him no
longer ii seriously enterta ued. Dem-,
ocrats, at least so far as the party is j
represented in Congress, now accept
Bryan as a foregone conclusion.
With 'the question of the presiden-
tial candidate accepted as settled, |
Democratic thought Is now turning t"
the selction of his running mate.
Eastern Democrats argue 'that the lo-
gic of the situation calls for an East-
ern man for Vice-President, but there
is a very strong sentiment in favor
of nominating a man from the South.
The Eastern men most discussed
are Lieut. Gov. Chauler and Attorney
General Jackson of New York. The
latter is a follower of William R.
Hearst and the former, though elect-
ed at the time of the Democrat Ic-
Hearst fusion, is regarded as a con-
servative. Of Southern men, the
name of Senator John W. Daniel of
Virginia, is most often heard in con-
nection with the vice-presidency.
In the absence of knowledge as to
the views of Mr. Bryan, however,
Mr. W. S. Tinsman, who comes to
El Reno as general manager of the
I Great Rock Island System for three
states, is one of 'the best known rail-
| road men in the United States from
| the fact that he rose to his present
high position in practically a very
: short time. I't was only a few years
ago, seemingly, that he started as
call-boy for the Rock Island road at
| Trenton, Mo. While at that place
I he held the positions successfully of
■of the chief pawns used in the con- ' operator, dispatcher, chief dispatch-
vention game. ' I er and trainmaster. From Trenton
It all along has been the assump-, he was sent to Blue Island where he
;ion that should Taft be the nominee ' served as terminal superintendent,
for President some Eastern man and later was transferred to Chieka-
would go on in second place, but late-1 sha where he was made superintend-
ly there has been a good deal of talk ent of the Oklahoma division. Then
of a vice presidential candidate from j he went back to Trenton as superin-
the far west. Secretary of the Navy ' tendent of the Missouri division, then
Metcalf, who is a Californian though ! to Little Rock where he was promot-
a native of New York, is the far west-
ern man advocates of a Pacific coast
nominees have in mind. He stands
close to the president and is highly
regarded in administration circles.
Like Taft, Metcalf is a Yale man and
should the ticket be Taft and Met-
of other oalf' that university would do a lot
of crowing over Harvard, which has
taken a great deal of glory in itself
during the Roosevelt administration.
Mr. Metcalf went to California about
i 1880, opened a law office in Oakland
i and was three times elected to Con-
gress before becoming a member of
1 the Cabinet as Secretary of Com-
merce and Labor.
Should either Hughes or Knox be
i the winner in the Republican presi-.
dential race there would be strong
sentiment in favor of the nomination
i of Leslie M. Shaw, of Iowa, for the
j vice presidency. Though he was
; long a member of Mr. Roosevelt's
| cabinet, former Secretary Shaw by
recent utterances has landed himself
in disfavor with the administration,
but this has not hunt him with the
j "allied opposition," and he would be
regarded as bringing strength to a
ticket headed by Hughes or Knox.
Geographical considerations would
be against his nomination for second
place should Fairbanks or Cannon
win first prize.
It has not been disclosed how Mr.
Shaw would regard a proposition to
nomlnaite him for vice president, but
acoompanying the announcement of
his retirement from the New York
trust company of which he was the
it is not regarded as especially pro-1 head there was an intimation that he
fitable to speculate on the subject might re-en'ter the political arena. Aa
of tho vice-presidential nomination.:" would be rather late for him to en-
It Is conceded that he will dominate j'nr as !l presidential candidate, ex-
the convention and 'that whoever he' c°Dt in the capacity of a dark horse,
favors will be chosen. I ll,e vice presidency would seem about
I the most desirable thing open.
There also has been considerable' Two other Republicans discussed
vice presidential talk among Ropub- j as vice presidential timber are (iov-
licans, but nothing like a crystal!-' ernor Fort, of New Jersey, and Tlm-
zation of sentiment. So long as | othy L. Woodruff, former lieutenant
there remains doubt as to who will j governor of New York. Governor
lie the nominee for president, It .Guild, of Massachusetts, also has
■would be Idle far vice presidential ' been discussed, but he has practical-
aspirants to shy their castors into ly declared himself out of consider-
the ring. There is every prospect ation. There also has been so-iif
that second place on the ticket will talk of Governor Wilson, the Re-
ed to the office of general superin-
tendent, and from there was changed
to Topeka where he held a similar
position. From Topeka he was taken
'ito Chicago where he has been serv-
ing in the capacity of assistant gen-
eral manager. Now he Is general
manager for three states—Oklaho-
ma, Arkansas aud Louisiana, with
headquarters at El Reno. In addi-
tion to being a railroad man of un-
usual ability, Mr. Tinsman person-
ally is a man whom the people of El
Reno will take great pleasure in ex-
tending the most hearty welcome.
Aside from always having been a
friend of El Reno in a business way,
he is a congenial gentleman social-
ly, and one whom we will all feel
honored to know as a friend.
The establishing of the general
offices at this place means much to
EI Reno. It brings here many other
officials and a large office force, and
will probably necessitate the erec-
tion of the large brick and stone
office building by the railroad com-
pany which we have heard whisper-
ed at times, but not 'definitely. The
news which The American publishes
today ought to convince the most
skeptical that the Rock Island com-
pany now intends to do what has been
claimed all along-—that of making
El Reno the center of its operations
in the Great Southwest.
BANK EXAMINE!!
WAS "JIM CROWED"
NOT ALLOWED TO STOP IN BOLEY
WARRANT E0R
HON. JACK LOVE
CITY POLITICS
IN MUSKOGEE
Muskogee, Okla. Feb. 26.—At five
o'clock Monday afternoon a warrant
for the arrest of Hon. Jack Love,
chairman of the Oklahoma board of
corporation commissioners, the sec-
ond most powerful staJte official in
Oklahoma, was issued by Justice
Burke of Muskogee upon complaint
of Hoi) Swafford, a Muskogee barber,
who charged Love withr assault with
a dangerous weapon.
Love was first arrested Sunday by
the police. He had met the barber
in the streets, and being drunk, pull-
ed a revolver on the man and forced
him Ho accompany him to his hotel,
from which he had been lost. Love
is a giant, and the barber went
without hesitation and in fear of his
life. He escaped from the statesman
at the hotel and complained to the
police. A policeman took Love in
custody, but as soon as the city au-
thorities learned the name of their
distinguished prisoner they fell over
each other in releasing him and I
squaring things. Love took the next!
train 'to Guthrie, which was yester-j
day afternoon.
Swafford the barber appeared in j
police court Monday morning and!
found that his kidnapper, in con- J
sideration of his high official stand-!
ing, had been allowed to go. "I'll notj
stand it," said Swafford; "even if he
was Roosevelt, he shall be punished."
He 'then sworn out another warrant
before the justice. It will have to be
Berved In Guthrie.
X>e used for trading purposes, Just
as it has been done by both parties
in conventions of the past. When
the delegates have all been elected,
Bhotild it be demonstrated that Taft
er any other of tho candidates has
enough votes to assure his nomina-
tion. the question of a running mate
probably will be taken up and de-
cided before the convenllon meets.
But if the convention meets with un-
certainty as to who will head the
ticket, the vice presidency will be one
publican executive of Kentucky.
Little-Wade Revival.
Last evening witnessed a fine ser-
vice at the Baptist church. Rev. Lit-
tle, D. D., of Fort Worth, preached
on "Watching." Four additions have
been made to 'the church membership
since beginning the meeting. Solo
tonight, "When The Pearly Gates
Unfold." Come and hear the gospel
in sermon and song.
A Jew giving his name as J. Fine
was arrested today for peddling with-
out a license, and Police Judge Nich-
ols assessed a fine of $31 for his
offense. Further Investigation led
the officers to believe that the goods
he was selling were stolen articles.
He sold thirty pairs of shoes and
twenty pairs of pants to Ed. Coleman
at a ridiculously low price. Later
he tried 'to sell Jim Posey, owner of
the colored second hand store, some
goods and Jim reported him to the
police. He is now lodging at the
county Jail awaiting further inves-
tigation. It Is thought that the
goods were stolen at Geary.
Negroes Fight Jim Crow law—
Muskogee, Feb. 26.—The twenty-
seventh instant a monster petition
of one-third of the voters of Musko-
gee will be presented to Governor
Haskell, asking that a special elec-
tion be called to make the city one
of the first class, and also to elect
city officers. The petition is gotten
up under the Brook municipal bill,
which was pushed through the Ok-
lahoma legislature for the express
purpose of allowing the democrats of
Muskogee to remove ithe present Mus-
kogee republican city administration,
llrook is a Muskogean as also is the
governor. The bill is so drawn that
the democrats will have the election
machinery in their hands, and the
outcome of their election in the city
will hardly be doubtful.
The Republicans, however, are see-
ing their danger and are attempting
to forestall the Democrats by calling
an election themselves in which the
election machinery shall be In 'their
hands. The mayor and city council
have set the date for the Republican
election April 8th. The Democrats
are hurrying their petition through
with the intention of calling their
election a day or so before the Re-
publicans.
Prospects are that both parties will
hold an election of their own, and
then the city of Muskogee will be
treated to an election contest similar
to the one in the county which is still
unsettled and in which for several
weeks after statehood two sets of
county officers were In office.
Itl't'KET SHOP III I.
IX THE SENATE
American Special.
Guthrie, Feb. 26.—The house to-
day passed the Franklin-Durant
bucket shop bill, as a substitute for
the bill already passed by the sen-
ate and sent to the house for its ap-
proval, including features of that bill
and the Durant bill in the house. The
bill prohibits 'the sale of cotton,
grain, provisions, or stocks or bonds
of any corporation on future con-
tracts where the goods are not actu-
ally to be delivered. It permits
"hedging" on contracts but not by
'the use of private wires, and makes
the running of bucket shops or cot-
ton exchanges dealing in futures as
defined by the bill a felony, punish-
able by a two years' penitentiary
term.
The farmers' unions of the state
were behind the bill, and their rep-
resentative on the floor of the house
refuted the charge that the bill
would prevent legitimate future con-
tracts for the purchase of cotton In-
tended for actiual delivery. An un-
successful fight was made for the eli-
mination of the section prohibiting
'brokers or agents of outside exchang-
es from doing business in the state.
The bill appropriating $100,000
for per diem and contingent expens-
es of the legislature was passed by
both houses and sent to the gov-
ernor for his signature. The audi-
tor is arranging to pay off members
of the senate on Saturday under the
provisions of this bill. They lost out
on the last pay day on account of
the playing out of the appropriation.
The uniform text book bill was
passed by the house and sent to the
senate, and will probably be substi-
tuted for the one under discussion
there, which has met with such op-
position. The principal amendment
made to the senate bill today was the
addition of a provision for free text
books, when ordered by a referen-
dum vote of any school district.
No progress whatever was made
by the senate on the new prohibi-
tion enforcement bill as reported by
the conference committee, which
had been made a special order and
was under consideration the latter
part of the afternoon.
Orove 10 Miles Through
the Dark Before He
Found a Place to Stop
American Special.
Muskogee, Okla., Feb. 26.—A most
unusual story is being told here con-
cerning Bank Commissioner H. H.
Smock, head of the state bank sys-
em of Oklahoma, and the negro town
of Boley, southwest of Muskogee In
Okfuskee county.
Smock sent an examiner into Boley
to examine the Boley Bank & Trust
company, a negro banking institution
with a capital of $25,000. The ex-
aminer reached the town, which is
composed of about 2,500 negroes and
which is run by negroes from mayor
o postmaster, just as the sun was
setting. A mob of negroes immedi-
ately gathered around him and es-
corted him beyond the town limits
with the reminder that no white man
could spend the night in Boley, or
stay there after the sun went down.
The examiner was compelled to drive
ten miles through the dark before he
found a place to spend the night.
Smock heard of the treatment tend-
ered his examiner, and became so en-
raged that he ordered the bank clos-
ed if i>. did not at once comply with
severe regulations. A delegation ot
the directors of the colored insti-
tution went to Guthrie to get him to
loosen up on them a little, but he
told ^hem plainly that they had
made his examiner hunt the night,
and that he would make them pay
for it. He also told them 'to accept
no more deposits until they had com-
: plied with his additional demands,
i As a result the bank was compelled
| to close it doors from the 12th of
| February until today, when khey
I succeeded In arranging things to the
commissioners satisfaction.
Boley is the largest purely negro
town In the United States, and is
a well-regulated little city. Even
the station agent Is a negro. It is
safe to say that the next bank exam-
iner will be provided a place to
sleep. 1
NEGROES WILL FIGHT
JIM (ROW LAW
Kansas, once the stronghold of
populism, has evidently turned its
back on 'the party. The populist
state convention which was to have
been held In Topeka next month, will
probably be abandoned.
A constitutional amendment de-
signed to disfranchise the colored
voters has been passed by the Mary-
land legislature and will be submit-
ted to the people for ratification at
the general election next year. The
amendment provides for an educa
tlonal or property qualification.
American Special.
Guthrie, Feb. 26.—William R. H.
Hart, a negro professor in the Ho-
ward Law College of Washington, D.
C., arrived here today to assist the
local negroes In their fight on the
Jim Crow law. Judge Cotteral to-
day allowed the attorneys in the case
to file a new petition for temporary
injunction and set the hearing on the
application for March 2 at Oklahoma
City. A number of negro attorneys
of Oklahoma, lnciud ng E. P. Mc-
Cabe of Guthrie, William Harrison
of Oklahoma City, E. T. Barbour of
El Reno and E. O. Tyler of King-
fisher will assist Professor Hart In
the case.
INDIAN CONVICTED
OF MANSLAUGHTER
American Special.
Muskogee, Feb. 26.—Tom Tahola.
a full-blood Creek Indian youth, aged
about 18 years, was convicted here
of manslaughter today. He stabbed
to death another full-blood by the
name of Mickey Smith at Dustin sev-
eral months ago. The boy cannot
speak English, and his trial was con-
ducted through an Interpreter. The
charge against him was murder, but
the accused Indian acted In panto-
mime the way in which the other In-
dian had attacked him with a club,
and his acting on the witness stand
with the club, which had been kept
as an exhibit for the trial, was so
convincing that the Jury reduced the
charge to manslaughter, though the
Indian admitted that he killed the
other.
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