The Guthrie Daily Leader. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 113, Ed. 1, Thursday, May 26, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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Tonight and Friday lair; cooler tonight.
The Guthrie Daily Leader.
THE ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS PAPERi IN OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.
GUTHRIE 0 LAHO MA. 1MUR5DAY MAY 26. 1904
NUMBER 118
VOLUME 28
SEVERE FIGHTING
DEEMED PROBABLE
But Russian War Off ice .Attaches
No Credence to Report that Jap-
anese Have Entered the Kwang
"tung Peninsula.
Ohio Democrats
Adopt nit Rule
(By Associated Press.)
Columbus O. May iC The Demo-
cratic state convention nominated tho
following ticket:
Secretary of state. A. P. Sandles of
Ottawa.
Sunrlimo Judge. Philip J. Renner OCT
F Cincinnati
Clark of supreme oourt Peter Ma
huffj" bf Cambrldfe. '
Railroad and food commissioner.
Quintan M. OraVatt 6f Wcoster. ;
Member of tho boaru of public
worlts Wm. H. Ferguson of Spring
field
eventually won out. The platform tho
briefest In the history of such stal
literature was adopted as It came
from Cincinnati with $ie exception Of
a two-cout a. mllo railroad tare plajfk
that was added at the lnstlgntlonJ)f
Mayor Johnson of Cleveland Insflie
conntlon. The ruraldelegntes who
were co-operating 'In. other malhsrs
with the conservath es voted for the
twoennt fftra plarjk as did otliers from
the cltlbs who Insisted that It vfouhl
be lticopststant this year to defeat ttdl
resolution which was a feature of thfl
state platform last year. The votl
however was very close on the twrn
BOILER EXPLOSION
SINKS TOWBOAT
Victims Number Thirteen Killed and
Many Are Injured; Cause of the
Accident is Unknown; Captain
Kiled.
(Dy Associated Pross )
St Pote-sburg May 2G. (C:20 p.
m ) While no news" has been recqiv
ed from Lieut. Gen. Stoessel com-
mandor of the Russian troops at Port
Arthur the war office Is Inclined to
be'.lovo that severe fighting is In
progress In tho southern part of Ltao
Tung peninsula abovo tho narrowest
po'nt of tho peninsula but no cred
ence Is attached to reports ot mo
Japanese having catered Kwang Tung
peninsula south ot and connectod
with the Uao Tung peninsula. Tills Is
considered Impossible boforo tho cap-
ture of Kin Chou which. It Is believed
here would Involve long and difficult
siege operations. Tho general staff
denies rumors of the final evacuation
of New Chwang and says tho Heavy
guns wore not takon back when tho
town was reoccupled In force.
No changos of Importanco In tho po-
sitions of General Kurokl or General
Kuropatkln are reported.
and Was of the most doaperate 'char
acter it Is beltevod the casualtlos
were heavy. ' .
Kleetors-at-larse. Jao. A. McDowell l cent faro resolution and the majorjljp
...ii .. .i t Tinn.unn if fnr" IVia nlrinlr wnB nnlv R8 out Offt
Kin Chou Reported Captured.
London May 2C.--(7 p. m) The
correspondent of tho Central News at
Tcklo cables that tho Japaneso at-
tacked Nan Qwan Ling on tho nar-
rowest part of Kwan Tung peninsula
icprrtnv. and drovo back tho Uus-
Pert Arthur Bombardment.
St. Petersburg May 26. (4:45 p.
m.) viceroy Aloxleff telegraphs that
a report is current that Port Arthur
was bombarded Alay 24 but says ho
has not received any. official connr1-
matlon of the rumor.
It Is reported that Genoral Ronnen-
kampft'8 Cossacks who aro operating
on tho line of General Kuroki's com-
munications have made an important
capture of somo of tho enemy's guns
which were being taken forward to
Feng Wang Cheng. No other details
aro given. Tho report comoa from
membors of tho emperor's suite.
Viceroy Aloxleff has decided not to
allow any more foreign newspaper
correspondents to Join tho Manchurian
army at least for tho present. Nono
of those nt Mukden havo yet been al
lowed to go to Llao Yang much loss
to the front and when permission Is
granted It Is probable somo sort ot
pledge will T)e exacted which will re-
quire them to remain thoro until tho
end of this year's campaign on tho
ground that It they depart at will they
would tako away Information con-
of Mllurpburg and A. J. Pearson ot
Woodsflold.
Thoro were throo prosItUwtlal felO'
monts Involved. The Hearst men inct
dentally wanted Instructions but fin al
ly limited iholr opposition to tho unit
rule. Tho friends ot Colonol Jamos
Klluourno of Columbus who wns the
Democratic candldato for guvornor
three voara bko. wanted "Indorse
ment."
Tho friends of Judge Judsou Hnr
mon ot Cincinnati who was attorney
general under Cleveland wanted
neither Indorsement nor Instructions
tnr'thB plank was only 65 out o$n
total vote of 7tt. T
The nonvantlon wns In contluiioliB
session nlmost nine hours and djiring
tht last three hours It was boisterous
at times disorderly to tho oxQftt of
Mill): rioiuuH.
The delegates and allernatbs-at-largo
aro claimed by tho conserva-
tives who" also claim 30 of tho Ohio
district. ddloghtea. Tholr poll of. tho
Ohio delegation to St. Louis Is 16 con
servatives (friendly to Hafmon)
Hearst 6; Folk 4; and that under tho
unit rule tho conservntlvos will Jiave
but tho unit rule. Tho Harmon mon Jtthe Ohio delegation raoro man a to i.
Territory After
jtirety Company
Finns bv main forco. Tho attack on
Kin Chou. the dispatch adds was bo-
gun at dawn today and by noon Kin
Chou was in tho hands of the Jap-
anese who occupied the castle. Fight-
ing continued during tho afternoon
Attorney Genoral P. C. Simons for
the Territory ot Oklahoma yostorday
afternoon filed suit In tho district
court of Logan county against tho
Ameilcan Bonding company Of Baltl-
bank which failed on the 4th of April
was and had botm in an insolvent and
fnlllm; condition prior to that tlmo.
Tho plaintiff furthor claims that tho
bank officials had known of tho fall-
InK condition of tho bank and had
(By Associated Prose.)
Louisville Ky. May 26. Thirteen
persons wero killed and three fatally
injured and flvo badly hurt as the re-
sult ot an explosion of boilers which
lotnlly demolished tho towboat Frod
Wllfeon off Rlvervlow park today.
The dead:
Captain Joseph Price. Pittsburg.
Wm. Holland Pittsburg.
The steward pilot saoond onglneer
cook five white deck hands and two
uogroos.
Fatally Injured:
Chambermaid deckhand.
Cllrt Johnson of Tyrone Pa. a pas-
senger. Tho causo of tho accident Is un
known. Tho boat had Just put about
to back a tow Into tho landing place
whon tho oxplosion occurred.
Tho Injured wero takon to the reel-
denco of Colonol John H. Whallon.
Whallen's houso x.hlch Is about 160
yawls from the river wbb badly dam
aged by the explosion.
Whallen used his nrlvato yacht In
reeoulng many who wore blown into
the river.
The Wilson was literally blown to
pieces and hor hull sank in 18 foot
of wntor. Two heavy pieces of hor
boiler woro found almost 500 yards
from tho bank and hor flag floats from
tho too of a treo near Rlvorsldo park.
where it was blown with a piece of tho
wreckage.
Thirteen membors of tho crow wero.
saved. All ot thorn with tho excop-
tl noof two wero more or less Injured.
Tho stonnior was valued at $26000
Holland wns a business man and
neighbor ot Captain Prlco and was on
a pleasure trip as tho guest ot Cap-
tain Price. Captain Prlco was ouo of
tho host mastors In tho employ ot tho
companv. Ho was Worthy Captain of
the American Association ot Masters
and Pilots.
more Md. for tho sum of 1241068 .'wrongfully conceuled Bald fact from
and Interoat at 7 por cont from April Its patrons It was claimed that tho
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4tn. and tno cost oi uiu ucuuu. uau ... u... uu.ua. ..
cernln'g Russian dispositions equip
.ft ..nr nn.1 n T OnMf fl tfT fflftlll
ties. 'which would bo published bo- brought for tho amount of territorial
American Bonding company was sure-
ty on tho territorial doposlts in tho
defunct Capitol National bank to tho
amount of $250000. and tho suit Is
Wind
And Hail Work Dam-
age in Guthrie and
gVicinity
A storm with a path ot five miles
-wide swept ovor the city yesterday
afternoon at about 3 o'clock leaving
heavy marks of destruction In Its
wake. From all slues today are com-
ing reports of the storm and Iho de-
struction It wrought Somo toll of tho
TUinatlon ot crops others of tho de-
molishing of housos and others tell
freak stories about what the wind
did.
The storm started with a high wind
which was followed by rain and hail.
Just as a driving rain was sweeping
the streets and bringing tho smile
which always accompanies a gift of ;
Jupiter Pluvlus. it began to hall
breaking windows In the city and de-
stroylug the crops of tho farmer. A!-'
though the strongest wind did not
strike this city some little damage
was done uv the hall.
The greatest loss In the olty was at
Furrow Bros green house where over
two thousand square feet of glass was
broken and a large number of flowers
and nlants destroyed. The loss is es
timated at about $600 covered by In
surance
vond the Jurisdiction of Russian mill
tary censors and might provo of groat
value to the enemy.
VVaVSV
stroyed by wind between horo and
Seward.
Roports coming from the farms west
of this city are to tho effect that tho
hall did much damage to tho crops In
that vlolnlty.
Wm. Mnrkward living one mno
north of town reports that the hall
storm yostorday destroyed about half
of 120 acres of his wheat and 55 acres
of oats. Mr. Markward says his gar-
don is a total loss and that a fifteen
acre patch of canteloupes was literally
mashed Into the ground. Tho ele-
ments have been very unkind to Mr.
Markward as last year about this tlmo
he sustained a heavy loss by a cyclone.
money on deposit at tho tlmo tho bank
olosod its doors April 4th. The United
Stateb Deposit and Guarantee com-
pany of Baltlmoro was also surety on
those doposlts for tho sum of $25003.
and It Is said that a suit is also to bo
instituted against it.
A suit has boon filed In tho office of
the clerk of tho district court whore-
in T Wolnborcor Is BliinK J. A. Will-
oughby receiver of tho Capitol Na-
tional bank for tho sum of $202.22.
This Is only ono of soveral similar
cases In the hands of C. G. Hornor.
In the petition It Is claimed that the
tiff a short tlmo prior to tho closing
of the doors of tho bank and ho claims
ihnt tho monov was recolved at a
tlmo whon tho bank was In an lnsol-1
Lvent condition. Tho monoy. It is
claimed wns takon chargo of by the
receiver Mr. Willoughby. Tho plain
tiff thoroforo asks that tho court
compel tho rocoJvor to pay back to
him the said doposlt of $2G2.22 with
Interest
If this case Is won by Mr. Weln-
borgor thoro aro a numbor of others
which havo boon prepared and which
will be filed against tho rocelvor for
monoy deposited In tho snmo way.
Rocolvor Wllloughby haB Instruc-
tions from tho comptroller of the cur-
rency to return nono ot those deposits
but to prorato them tho samo as those
of other depositors
trol tho burned district. The loss is
ostimatod at $1500;000 to $2000000
nnd Iho Insurance probably will prox-
imate fifty por cont of the loss.
Tho devastation ot tho business dis-
trict Is complete. Twortty-olght
blocks wero swept cloan. Ot tho two
hundrod buildings dostroyod fifty woro
splondld residences occupied by
some or the woalthlost otttzons of tho
South.
POTTINQER DRUG CO. FAILS.
Shawnee Okla. May 26. -Tho Pot-
linger Wholosalo Drug company fall-
od lo-lay. J. M. Aydolotto has been
appointed rocelvor.
Tornado at Llndsborg.
Llndsborg Kas. May 26. A torna-
do hero yostorday aftornoon demolish-
ed tho Union Pacific depot and a num-
ber ot other buildings. The storm was
especially sovoro in the country north
of this place. As far as can bo learn-
ed no lives woro lost. Several are re-
ported Injured. Great damago was
done to stock and farm buildings.
Sallna Kas. May 2CA tornado
yesterduy afternoon unroofed build-
ings at Marquette and Falun. A wat-
' ersnout In this county caused the
streams to overflow. Missouri Pacific
tratni lanvintf Knllnn. have been an
nulled owing to the tracks being un-
der water.
Wichita Kas. May 26. At 4:S0 p.
m. a tornado struck seven miles north-
west of Augusta Kas. wrecking eight
.houses and accompanying hall did
much damage to crops. What appoar-
Not Guilty
Tyner and Barrett Ac-
quitted on Conspi
racy Charge
rectod his efforts almost ontlroly to
an attompt to counteract any Influence
on tho Juror's vqrdlct which might re-
Biilt from sympathy to Gon. Tynor. Ho
told tho jury that they had no right to
ontortnln sympathy for Gon. Tynor or
tho young wlfo of Mr. Barrott who
was a wltnoss In tho defendant's be
halt.
Iroquois
DAY CIRCUIT GOES ON.
K. J Qberholser. who lives a roue d like a cyclone loroup an oronuru
and a halt from the olty. reports ISsiand destroyed a barn at Valley Cen-
acres of wheat laid waste. ' ter In Sedgwick county.
The barn ot Teague Ray who lives
..finmt of here was blown over. A meeting of the depositors of tho
Mr. Roienberg the dairyman re- Capitol National bank is called at the
ports the loss of a Wrso and his wife olty council chamber Saturday oven-
was -injured by being struck by a hall- ing at 8 o'clook. Tills Ib puroly a
Htone. ' meeting ot the depositors and it Is not
Dr. Chas. Bezanson living one mile
and a half southeast of the city lost
two barns and two carriages. He says
that the wind and hall was terrific on
his place.
their desire to make It a mass meet-
ing. Committee.
Nabisco and champagne wafers 25c
(By Associated Press.)
Washington D. C May 26. Vlthln
22 minutes of the retirement of the
Jurv In the case of James N. Tyner
and Harrison 'J. Barrett tried on the
charge ot conspiracy In connection
with their duties as law officers of
the nostoffice department a verdict
of not guilty was returned rne
throns; which filled the court room
throughout the arguments to the Jury
had time hardly to leave the building
before the Jury was baek and the fore-
man announced that a verdict had
been reached. General Tyner expect-
ed a longer wait and his nephew and
co-defendant hastened to give an or-
der which caused him to return.
General Tyner appeared greatly ex-
cited as he attempted to face the Jury
and when the verdict wae returned he
hrohe down completely. Several ot
the Jurors wept with him and all of
them shook hands with him.
Tho Tyner-Barrett case was begun
on May 2 and has been before the
court 19 full days.
Tho principal arguments made to
day were by A. S. Worthlngton. for
tho defense and Major Holmes Conrad
Electric Light Company Makes Need
ed Improvements.
At 1 o'clock this afternoon the day
current for the loeal eleotrie light
plant was turned on.
At the same time the Leader's two
new 15 and 0 horse power moters be-
gan spinning. The circuit is satisfac
tory The current is clear and steady
'the Improement Is great
Devastation
Theatre Refused Per
mission to Remodel
the Building
(By Associated rroes.)
Chicago III. May 26. Permission to
rflmoJol the Iroquois theatre on plnns
submitted to the building department
has boen flatly refusotl by the build-
ing ooinniUsIoner on an opinion from
tlu corporation counsel. The latter
ssid the theatre would not le allowed
to reojieti uutll every prortstott of the
tliwitre ordinance had been compiled
with and Intimated Uiat It might be
found Impossible to remodel the In
terior of the playhouse to conform
with the law.
Mkvor Harrison concurred In the
opinion of the counsel and also said
he would close all theatres October 1.
It the failed to mest the require-
ments of hie ordinance.
It Is said that Ave houses wero de-( per bpx at Economy argcQry(
Complete in Business
District of Yazoo
City Miss.
CROW A HUSTLER.
New Manager of Eleotrie Light Plant
All Right.
(By Associated Press)
Yaxoo City MUs. May 26. Yaxoo
City is under martial law as the re-
sult of yesterday's conflagration. 8ev
tno deiense ana Major ijoimes uonrnu I orm ucgruea wu 7 uuuguk m u
special counsel for the government attempt to steal salvage have been ar-
for the prosecution. The latter dl-) rested. Two military companies pa-
Q. Crow the new manage- of the
eleotrie light plant Is a hustler. Crow
ootnes from Texas. He Is urbr.e and
enerxeUe. He neans business. "Our
dy dresrtt starts at 1 o'clock today.
aid Crow this mom log At 1 o'clock
the current went on. "We are going
to mak- the Guthrie plant a hummer"
aUJi Mr. Crow. And Crow csn be
believed.
Woman's
Federation Mild on
Divorce But Severe
on Mormons
(By Associated Press.)
St. Louis Mo. May 26. The seventh
biennial convention ot tho general fed-
oration ot WomouV Clubs ndjourncd
last night.
Tho most Important action of the-
convention was tuken when hto fol-
lowing resolution wns unanimously
ndupted.
"Whereas we recognize in the por
manonce mid Baarodnoss of ttio mar
rlago relation a prinalplo great In Its
significance;
' Resolved Thnt ench federation In-
form Itself on Its statu laws govern
lug murrlagu and divorce und that
concerted and systematic effort ba
made to kocuru strict and uniform
laws governing thoso Important sub
Joats;
"Resolved That wo oxtond our
thanks to the United States sonata
for the Investigation Into an orgunlza
tlon which controls Its adherents mor
ally politically and commercially.
"Resolved That In view of the sys-
tematic effort of that body to under-
mine the Christian standards of mar-
riage and to dominate state and na-
tional legislation each state fedratlon
urge upon Its senators to take such
legislative action as will prevent the
recognition ot a power which under-
tttliidu nwual sit a twin twits nrwt Mia sfvnt!n
I nance ot practices which are contrary
vii iiiu princii'iva ui me Ai9 infill iij-
ple."
At the closing session Mrs. Sarah
Piatt Decker of Colorado the newly
elected president spoke briefly thank
iny the delegates and expressing hor
appreciation of the honor accorded to
her.
The niece of meeting and the date
for the eighth biennial convention will
be determined by the Hew board of
diroc'ors.
A B. Gray's drug store on BaBt Ok-
lahoma avenue. Is doing a big business
In perfumes. Gray carries the best
and (hat la the reason.
tV&ilace KneUley. who rt-turni-l
Sunday from Berkley Cal . where b
lias 'ic-cn attending the state unKoroi
ty Is taking active Interest in the
. field da) exercises and will art as one
I of the Judges tomorrow. Wallace 13
! somewhat of an attileto himself
Heinz's pure food bottled goods and
preserves at the lowest prices at
Economy Grocery
A v
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