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The First Paper Published In Oklahoma.
VOLUME 7-
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY DECEMBER 28, 1895
NUMBER 112
THE
DHUGGIST
ooee?
A Complete I^ine Ol
HDrugs, Pereuues hud Paimb*
THE Q K i si
MCIGARS)
In the City.
OKLHOMA AVE.,
AND FIRST ST,
NOW OPEN!*-^*
New Shoe Store
With a Clean Fresh Stock of
BOOTS & SHOES.
DAVID HETSCH
REPAIRING NEATLY DONE.
CORNER OKLAHOMA
AND FIRST ST.
AVE.
Guthrie, Ok.
A BOM) ISSUE.
| The Government to Place $100,000,-
000 on the Market.
WILL BE A POri-LAlt LOAN.
The Itoiul* Will l> of Small Denomination*
uiiil Placed I poll the Market In the
1'nlted State* Tlie l(ii«-
slan OITfr.
Washington, Dec. 28. The presi-
dent and Secretary C arlisle have de-
termined upon an immediate issue of
bonds to be in the form of a popular loan.
It will make no difference whether
Kussian gold is available or not, as it
will not be called for or accepted.
Highest of all in Leavening Tower.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report
Powder
A driving CAPE and dress \\ hap.
people, toiling millions have slaved , power, that plunder is not gain, that
and starved, jeweled crowns have ! fame is not happiness, lie will learn
adorned unworthy brows, sweet music to seek for true power, power over the
has lauded base tryants and the bells wide domain of his own soul. And if
in every steeple have clangored power, the dream of the ages is ever reali/.ed,
power, power—great is the king! and tlic race is good and great and
long live the king! The air that to- happy.—then will individuals have at-
day plays over historic battle fields tained true power. Then will ambi-
and round mediaeval dungeons is rift j tion vanish from the minds of men and
with the groans of the victims of am- aspiration be enthroned therein. As-
oition. The tears of the helpless have ; piration with its pure motive, its
bathed the feet of the mighty. ; honest purpose, its steady progress to-
Great fortunes, fame, commercial ward perfection. Then will injustice
advantages, names envied and feared die, an d hatred and tyranny and all
—these are not the true aim of men oi manner of wrong. And crime shall
nations. All the wonderful and man- cease and war shall be only a dark
giyen that "there is a divinity that
shapes our ends, rough hew them as
' we will." The universal longing for
1 immortality is the strongest evidence
Miss r>eCou's Splendid Effort at the of immortality, the longing for truth
and beauty and goodness proves the
Territorial Contest. existence ef the true, the beautiful
— j and the good. Aspiration is the leaven
"THE SI RUOGLEFOR POWER" I ££
I doubtful places, working quietly,
An An.ilyi.eii of the Passions and Force* ! slowly, surely, creating no false aims
PRIZE ORATION.
That Have Maria Hiiri Unmade Na-
tion*—Not Ambition But An-
pira'lon Should Kule.
The following is the oration deliv
ercd by Miss Maud DeCou, of the Ter-
no artificial appetites, lifting to a
higher plane, not as a man surmounts
an obstacle, putting all things under
his feet and climbing, climbing with
the danger ever imminent that his
path may prove uncertain and treach-
erous, not as a dead weight lifted
above its position by outside agencies
ritorial University at Norman, for I but as the tree grows, according to the
which she received the gold medal
prize as the best orator:
The StruBKle for Power.
The Roman warrior said, "lietter be
first in a little Iberian village than to
be second in Home." In these words
he voiced the sentiment that has made
of our fair earth one great battle lield
and has filled the pages of history
with the names of mighty warriors;
the sentiment that has been the mo-
tive power of man's progress and the
prime cause of his misery-
Man's struggle for authority is pa-
thetic. Infinite space peopled with in-
finite worlds surrounds him: stars ring
out a inuBic too deep for human ears
to hear: solar systems are born and
die; the works of (iod move on in
seeming confusion but in wonderous
harmony, and amid these mighty evi-
dences of infinite power, there shines
this tiny world, a mere sptvk among
the wonders of the universe, and upon
it human atoms strive with each other
and trv to solve the problem of "Who
shall be the greatest among these
mighty men?" .. ......
Power' Power! How often lias tins
old earth echoed to the word? Men
have longed for it, striven for it, died
for it,—aye, they have bartered their
souls for it. They have stood,
with glittering crown, with aching
head, with empty heart, the exponents
laws of nature, growing strouger and
firmer as it towers, rising not to be
seen of men, but because an irresist-
able law bids it rise.
Ambition has called forth mighty
deeds: it has waged bloody war for the
aggrandizement of men and of na-
tions; it has accumulated great for-
tunes whereby a few men have con-
trolled the industrial policy of a coun-
try; it has built the ships and the rail-
roads, bored the tunnels, cut the
canals, sunk the mines, reared the
pyramids. It has climbed the highest
mountains, sailed the widest seas.
Spurred on by the restless spirit of an
indomitable race, it has carried man
to the remotest corners of the earth
and looked out longingly toward the
neighboring planets. Ambition has
given material prosperity and temporal
power; it has made men emulate the
gods. Hut it has donu more; it has in-
cited them to the blackest crimes.
From the rural village, with its little,
great men, to the metropolitan city
with its giants of shrewdness and pol-
icy, the land is full of heartaches
caused by disappointed ambition—yea.
and by successful ambition.
Ambition is a synonym for selfish-
ness, and selfishness is the curse of
the race. Many evils are fought as
the great evil. The drink question,
the labor question, the tariff question,
paternalism, competition, the concen-
created evidences of material prosper-
ity, all the marvelous structures of
mind and muscle are not to be com-
pared with the value of the humblest
man or woman.
Nothing that the prudent man has
ever created is comparable with the
human mind and the human soul. The
worth of the individual ami the regard
in which he is held is the true test of
a nation's greatness. Greece once
boasted that every citizen could read
and write; but back of her superficial
attainments was the dark menace of
an enslaved people who were not citi-
zens and not educated, who were not
a part of the nation, but were in it
and could not be ignored
Woe to the nation that ignores the
individual! Human wrongs are not
mere questions of expediency; minds
uncultivated and unenlightened breed
pestilence, and the humblest citizens
are potent factors in a nation's life.
The instinct of self preservation
teaches governments to respect their
citizens, to render them justice. The
instinct of humanity teaches man to
deal fairly with his fellowmen, look-
ing upon their faults and failings with
compassion, treating the humblest as
something worthy of sympathy in
memory of that far-olT time when (iod
made of one blood all the nations of
the earth, and the infant races spoke
the same language around the same
ancestral hearth.
One kind of power is worth having,
power overself. lie that ruleth his
own spirit is indeed greater than he
that taketh a city. A disciplined mind
is more effective than a trained army.
The troops of Alexander established a
world empire and its crumbling ruins
were the monument of the conqueror.
But Sir Isaac Newton, by the subtle
power of intellect, conquered the laws
that bind together the universe and
the triumph of his mind shall endure
when the triumph of the warrior is
forgotten.
Great power carries with it commen-
surate responsibility. Me who has the
gift of speech and can think thoughts
that glow and wield words that burn,
has no right to hide his talent. It is
not his alone, but God's who gave it.
and man is simply the agent of God's
expression
of authority of power, and creatures tration of wealth, each is heralded
that call themselves men. creatures I as the prime evil; but darker
made in the «mage of God and bearing than faults of government are faults
vet the impress of their divine origin of character, and selfishness is the
have done them homage, homage that wellnigh universal fault.
• >---«• • cheek of) Selfishness is a relative term and has
memory. Then shall men be just, be-
cause they love justice. Then shall
men be true because they love truth.
Then shall men do right because it is
right. Then as now. shall man's
ruling passion be written in his fore-
head, but the word that we read there
on shall be not ambition, but aspira-
tion.
A SLY HINT IN IT,
The Governor Answers Col. Prouty's
Letter Asking an Extra Session.
THINKS "fWOl'LD 1>0 NO GOOD
Would Cost More Money Tlmn Twoohl
Save Kveu If It Legislated (tightly—
Some ot the Taxes Helnjj Paid
Would Complicate Matter*.
Governor Renfrow wrote the follow-
ing letter yesterday in answer to'Col.
C. T. Prouty, of Kingfisher, asking an
extra session of the legislature:
Hon. C. T. Prouty, Kingfisher, 0. T.
— Dear Sir; Your esteemed letter of
the 17th inst. asking thai an extra ses-
sion of the territorial legislature be
called at an early date for the purpose
of postponing the payment of taxes
for the year 181)5, and to relieve de-
linquent taxpayers of the excessive
penaltj imposed by the last legislature,
has been received and carefully con-
sidered. You state "as this has been
a year of depression and a failure of
crops, to a large extent, at least that
kind of crops from which people ceuld
realize money, the question of taxes
coming so closely upon the payment of
the taxes of 1894, in August last,
makes the taxes and the fact of their
becoming delinquent if not paid £at
this time and the penalty of 2 per cent
added at once and an additi nal tax of
1 per cent on the first day of each
month for the first three months; and
_ an additional 2 per cent a month for
But let him beware lest j the second three months, and r. per
Absolutely pure
Tilt
The Debate lo
I OND Hil l..
to llii i outluueil I nlll Tlire*
O't lock Saturday.
Washington, Dec. 27. A conference
was held between Speaker Reed ami i
the house managers to-day and the re
suit was an agreement for a vote on |
the bond bill at three o'clock to-mor
Congress will not be depended upon. | row |n tea*l of five o'clock to-day. Ii
for l're&ident (loveland is satisfied that | meantime it is to be open to de
no bond legislation will get through j bate up to thc timo Qf voting to
that body in time to relieve the present i morrow. A further arrangement
urgent situation. , was made that tin- ways and
'1 he issue will lie announced in a means committee, before reporting
very few days. The amount will be t,)e lliU shull inscrt a ciails# show
8100,00U,000 for a period of .10 years at , t|(at it is not the purpose to retire
four per cent, but the sale will be | the greenbacks. It was also arranged
fixed at such a premium as will make •
the interest H per cent. fiat. The de-
nominations will be small and the
bonds will be put upon the market in
the United States. No arrangement has
been made with the Belmont-Morgan
that there shall be separate votes—
one on the proposition for a $.">0,000,000
bond issue and another on the unlimit-
ed issue. The conference was satis-
factory to all elements and the conces-
sions made o.vereame the protests
syndicate, representing the Roths- [ ajrainst haste, which led last night to
the appointment of a committee of
publieau members to wait on Speaker
Reed.
Tha ways and means committee
adopted the amcndmcut to the bond
bill suggested by Mr. Hopkins, of from Waukcgun
Illinois, to prevent the accumulation ; Kankakee. III., <
AN EXPLOSION.
Four Tons of Giant Powder Ignited
Near Romeo, III.
THE MAGAZINE DEMOLISHED
Fortunately No One Wan Killed • Night
Shift* \\ <-re Nut I mployed on the
Line Hie Shook Wai telt
Over a l-artc** Area.
Chicago, Dec. 28.—-What was be-
lieved to be another earthquake shook
Chicago at four o'clock this morning
and made the country tremble for
miles around. It came not in the low,
rumbling manner in which earth-
quakes usually occur, but with a great
boom. The shock was caused by
the explosion of four tons of
giant powder said to have
been accidentally ignited near the
little town of Romeo, on the new
drainaire canal, in course of construc-
tion. Throughout an area of 50 miles,
on the north to
the south, and from
hilds, other than that they may, after
all the bids of general and private
sources in this country have been re-
ceived, take the residue or surplus at
the same rate of interest. This the
syndicate has agreed to do.
The story of the Russian tender of
half Us enormous gold supply is still ln n,e treasury of the greenbacks and | ][„uUford, 111., on the west to Michigan
the uppermost topie of discussion in their practical retirement without can- city, the east, the shock was
the financial world. The explanation | cellatiOI1. Th„ amendment provides fc,u. At all these places the explosion
that it grew out of the oiler of a loan | ttmt nothing in the act shall be con-1 wns thought to be local, and anxious
of $t u,000,000 made by Russian repre- , 8tnlei, repelll „r modify the not of i„,,„i, ies were sent In all directions.
1« months ago, which 1878 jor t|)0 reissue of the greenbacks WI1S kille<l. The explosion
been repeated, and the w,len redeemed. oeeurre.l in the powder house near
ousequent efforts to discredit Another amendment was adopted j Koineo and about 8(H) feet from the
canal. Ill Chicago windows rattled
and buildings seemed to rook. Prob-
sentativi'
has not
the power that is his be a power for | cent per month of each month tin
evil. As thought is more potent than after until paid. It seems to me these
any power of nature, so evil thoughts penaltieBare too great a burden for
are the most corrupt influence touch- our people to bear in their depressed
ing life. condition."
"As a man thiuketh in his heart so While I lament the partial failure of
is he." Some of the brightest intel- ■ crops and that the taxes of 1895 fall
lects have hurled carelessly into hu- j due so soon after the postponed taxes
man knowledge, thoughts that have j Gf i&'.'l, and am of the opinion that the
been as rank poison to the minds of i penalties imposed upon delinquents
others. Men have lived and written are unjust and excessive, yet after
1 J> story oil that account do | making the bonds issued under the act
not appear to hold good. It is j pavable within 15 years. The second
learned upon excellent authority that amendment was suggested by Mr.
although the offer has not yet been re- j j^icey, of Iowa, and met the approval
peated, authorized representatives of I 0f tlu. republican members, in the
the Russian government are prepared ori^rinttl draft of the bill, it was
to do so and will shortly offer the j provided that the bonds should be re-
United States government as much as j ,|eemable at the pleasure of the govern
half of Russia's supply of gold, what- | ment after five years from their date
ever that amount may be. The frantic
efforts to disprove the story of a Rus-
sian loan are much more untenable
and founded on a far less basis of fact
and reason than the story itself.
The good otliees of Russia, however,
will not be utilized. The prospect of
delayed bond legislation upon the part
of congress will not be depended upon.
A new bond issue will be made and
made upon a plan that none can criti-
cise except that element that is unal-
terably opposed to any issue of bonds
whatever. The details of the new
issue have been acreed upon. If the
bonds of small denomination, at an in-
terest fixed by the secretary of the
treasury, are put upon the market and
all the issue readily subscribed for by
private sources, then the issue will re-
solve itself entirely into the na-
ture of a popular loan. If it is
not taken up in this manner,
then the syndicate remains to fall
back upon. If part of the issue goes to
popular subscription the residue alone
goes to the syndicate at the same time
and at the same rate. If none of it is
taken by the public the syndicate will
remain bound to accept the entire is-
sue. The government is safe in any
event, and the £100,000,000 of gold will
soon be added to the reserve.
Till 1 It \ I l.W \ V Till •
Ink
' various manifestations. Sometimes it
should bring a blush to the
both prince and subject.
Real power, the ability to do, is seeks mere pleasure, sometimes self
man's best effort: but it is not aggrandizement, sometimes self pres-
worth man , . .
real power that is the goal of human-
ity's mad race, it is the accompani-
ment of power, the admiration, the
royal robes.
Men seek two kinds of power, power
to do great deeds, to regulate affairs,
to compel admiration and applause,
or power to make the most of their
talents and opportunities, to see their
duty clearly and to do it faithfully.
The desire for false power constitutes
ambition: the desire for true power is
aspiration. Ambition has made great
men, great nations, but there has al
ways been a flaw in the greatness, "A
little rift w ithin the lute, that one
day made the music mute." Man,
moved b^ ambition, seeks emoluments
from without, the praise of men is
sweeter to him than the approval of
conscience. Perchance he is honest,
but he acts on that pernicious proverb
Honesty is the best policy.
ervation. It is not so apparent when the
conditions of life areea*y,but adversity
brings out the sharp lines in charac-
ter, be they true or false. The selfish-
ness of individuals makes private
wrong and public tryanny. It makes
the system of competitive trade the ex-
ponent of the idea that might makes
right. Individual selfishness is the
blot upon our fair civilization; the
creeping insinuating evil that pene-
trates every condition of life poison-
ing the pulpit', the parlor, the plat-
form ami the press. It is wrong, radi-
cally wrong and it even defeats its own
purpose. Men are selfish that they
and died, and could they with their
clearer vision look back upon their
work, more than the father of English
poetry would exclaim, "Woe is me
that I cannot, annul what I have writ-
ten! '
Thought is as potent as it is subtle.
Bodily tortures have been impotent
to shake deep-rooted faith, but the
mind of one man has swayed the opin-
ion of a multitude. Wendell Phil ips
stood before many an audience that
was a howling 1110b, and by mere words
—but words imbued by mind and will,
made them listen, made them think.
Savonarola dictated from his pulpit a
constitution for Florence and com-
pelled the city to accept it. From the
door of his cathedral rolled forth such
denunciations, such truths, that the
guilty people trembled and obeyed the
voice of the censor
Webster and Clay stood between the
opposing elements of secession and
abolition maintaining the principle of
"liberty and union." and by stress of
mental strength held the states to-
gather, keeping back for years the
deluge of fraternal blood that came so
soon after they died. Chrysostom
stood before crowned heads and told
mature deliberation I am forced to the
conclusion that no extraordinary occa
sion has arisen within the meaning of
the Grganic Act, which would justify
an extra session of the legis'ature.
The condition of the territory has not
changed greatly since the law com-
plained of was passed, and one of the
greatest hardships in connection with
the payment of tax has grown out of
the postponement of last year's taxes
So far as the penalties for delinquent
tax are concerned, the last legislature
with full knowledge of all the facts,
saw fit to affix these penalties, and it
would be presumption in me to assume
that a majority of that body had
changed its mind so soon. I need
scarcely add since the expense of the
last legislature was over $50,000 that I
fear the expense 01 another session at
this time would impose an additional
tax much greater in amount than the
benefit likely to be derived from an
extra session, a burden that ought not
to be placed upon the people except
for the gravest causes. I feel sure
that the taxpayers of the territory ap-
preciate your generous offer to attend
the proposed extra session without ex-
pense to the territory, but I can find
nothing in the records of the auditor's
Interstate Commerce Com mis*lone
l'roc<*eri ili|;fl to Annul It
Washington, Dec. 28.—Chairman
Morrison of the interstate commerce
commission has sent to the senate a
copy of the articles of organization of
the railroad joint traffic association
and also a copy of a letter which the
commission has sent to the attorney-
general. In the letter to the attorney-
general the commission says the
agreement is in conflict with the inter-
state commerce law, ami requests him
to direct the United States district at-
torney for the Southern district of
New York to institute proceedings, by
injunction or otherwise, to prevent its
being carried into effect.
1 1VI
Mil. I. ION I.OvH
ment, after five years
It was thought best to make a definite
termination of them. The amend-
ments were adopted by a strict party
vote and the bill will be reported to
the house as amended.
Mr. Taruney, of Missouri, offered an
amendment to repeal the act of 1*7*
for reissuing the greenbacks, but
failed to get any support for it.
The amendment agreed to by the
ways ami means committee this morn-
ing providing that the greenbacks
should be reissued, is considered a
great concession to dissatisfied ones.
TO UtillT LKLASD.
A Number of Hanna* KcpuhllcaiiH llolil u
s. < rri Meeting in Kansas < ity-
Kansas Citv, Mo., Dec. .'8.—This
morning 25 prominent. Kansas repub-
licans arrived in Kansas City. Some
of them registered at the hotels and
others did not. Later they concen-
trated at the Wisconsin building and
went into secret session. He fore
noon, in secret session, the meet-
ing passed a unanimous resolution
indorsing «). B. Johnson, master
in chancery of the Santa Fe railway
receivership, for delegate at large to
the republican national convention.
The further tenor of the meeting was I
that the Kansas delegation to the na-
tional convention should go iinin- j
structed for any particular presiden* j
tial candidate.
The opposition which crystallized in j
the secret meeting at the Wisconsin j
club is "against Cy Lclaml and his
plot to deliver the Kansas delegation
to McKinley." Ex-Lieut.-Gov. A. .1. 1
Felt, presided. Among those present j
were William Higgins. ex-sec re- j
iary of state; A. W. Smith
Maj. W. IV Shock le v, of Leav
en worth; D. A. MeCray, of To
peka. W. R. Hopkins, of Harden City
Judge Reed, of Wichita, and Ton
Kelly, of Osawatoinie.
l.ooo.ooo people were nwakened
by the shock. Last week, and in the
same place, several workmen wore
killed and injured by a similar acci-
dent on a smaller scale.
Not a stick of wood or a scrap of
iron of tin* powder magazine was left.
The only tangible result was an im-
mense hole in the ground. A 75 pound
weight, known to have been at the
magazine, was found half a mile
away. Several cranes were damaged.
That no one was killed or injured
is due to the fact that there were
no watchmen on duty in the vicinity
at the time, and no shifts employed on
till- line. The nearest habitation is a
quarter of a mile distant, the contract-
or's boarding house. Nearly 100 tnen
were thrown from their beds to the
floor, but none was injured.
A MMIi: I l It II I HILL
Mr. Iturrown Waiitn a Duty Placed «
the
I'r
I.Ut.
Washington, Dec. 2"
ate to-day, Mr. Burrow
presented a tariff bill.
IOKI. KKtilONS AtllVK.
the
them truths to which they could not „
choose but listen Not only kings and ( office that would justify the assutnp-
princes and the vast concourse of An- tion that this spirit of generosity is
tioch and Constantinople listened and I shared to any great extent by a ma-
believed. but even yet his life and jority of tlu* members of the late
work inspire the pulpit orator. Socra- assembly.
may gain power and thereby pleasure; ! tes. unaided by tricks of eloquence I f in any case the taxes are oppres
but selfishness destroys the sensibili- brought confusion upon the Ureek 1 sive tlu, fault is witi| the officer8 mak.
ties whereby the highest pleasure may I sophists and Demosthenes spoke in . M|(#h )(,vv ,M
be enjoyed. Shall we give up our tones that made the Macedonian war-
ruled
Awful llevaHtiitlon Wrought hy tln< Hecent
KloodM In !>liiNourl.
Skdama, Mo., Dec. 28. As the watei
recedes in the submerged districts the
extent of damage is becoming known.
The valleys of the Osage and Gascon-
ade rivers suffered most and it is not
an exaggeration to place the aggregate
loss at $5,000,000. Famine threatens in
some localities.
■iitloii 4 ailed.
A convention
I'roiluce Dealer*' Co
Macon, Mo., Dec. !
of wholesale poultry
dealers of North Missouri has been
called to meet here January 0. an effort
will be made to form an organization
with a view of securing better and
quicker transportation facilities, pro-
tection from unreliable commission
merchants, the enactment of laws in
the interest of pure produce and other
matters connected with the trade. It
is expected that the convention will be
well attended.
It A I l.W A Y llll Mil NO.
he l.owekl
Trade Ouunually Large itnil Sitlarle
lllKlieMt Kver Known.
Uniontown, Pa., Dec. 28.—Follow-
ing the notice to the 10,000 coke work- j
ers employed by II. C. Friek & Co., of |
a ten per cent advance in wages, after !
the first of the year, the announce- j
ment was made by W. J. Rainey to-!
day that he would also advance j
the wages of Ills 2,000 employes j
ten per cent., to take effect ,
next week. The past three months j
has been the busiest in the history of j
the coke ^-ade. Of the 17,017 ovens in j
ill the region, l'i.oil are in operation 1
and the prospects are that more ovens I
ill be fired. The advance of wages]
In the sen-
f Michigan,
le explained
that, under the Wilson bill, many
articles were placed on the free list.
Tlu? house bill passed yesterday, had
raised duties 011 article:, already on
the dutiable list, but had not reached
those of the free list except in a few
instances. The bill he now intro-
duced placed 00 per cent, of the duty
under the law of lsiiOon those articles
placed 011 the free list under the pres-
ent law.
Mr Sherman, of Ohio, suggested that
it was contrary to precedents for a
revenue bill to originate in the senate.
It could be considered only as au
amendment, not as a bill.
Mr. Burrows accordingly offered the
measure as amended, and it was re*
ferred to the finance committee.
The bond question made its appear-
ance when Mr. Mill, of New York, in-
troduced the following resolution:
Ki'>olyei], That any bonds hereafter Issued
under the laws now in force may, in the dis-
c ret ion of the secretary of tho treasury, be
made payable in United States gold coin of the
pri ^i tit standurd weight and lineuesH, cr ln
standard silver dollars, at the option of the
holders of sui'h bonds, but no bond containinv
swell option shall l en a r.ite of interest o*
ceedintf three per cent, per aunuin, payable
quarterly.
Mr. Hill spoke in favor of the reso-
lution at considerable length.
At 2:io p. m. Mr. Mill's resolution
was laid aside and the senate ad«
journed until Monday.
Double Trailed)- at a Dance.
Bon nib vi 1.11. Ky . Deft 31 A lvioct
from Fnclid, Mart county, say that at
a dance in that vicinity iienry Mathis
shot Tom Mathis in the back, killing
him instantly, and was instantly killed
himself by some one shooting him. Al-
vin Mathis, a son of Henry Mathis. was
also perhaps fatally shot. Henry Mathis
and Tom were not related.
butter and egg i wil1 enable the men to make the high- ^
\ 11oI !• I I hlcf I
I'll am a, Kan.,
Dec
private life, the public service, the in
most character builded and planned
bv ambition may be magnificent but
must be hollow. The character that
reaches down into the eternal virtues,
has no question as to popularity or
profit. Such a character is molded
not by ambition but by aspirations.
Aspiration is a subjective force. It is
that part of man s nature that is di-
vine and is the strongest proof ever
The Itecord for I8IIS Held
tor Twenty Yours*
Ciiicaoo, Dec. 28. —According to the
Railway Age for December 27. railway
building in the United States reached
this year a lower point than in any of
. . . ,IUh ... ,ll„ of the in- the last 20 years, and in only two years
enjoyed. Shall we give up our j tones^that inade^ne^Ma e(ionian j creased valuation of this year over last sii1('e 1805 has so small a mileago been
* 1 ** " 4 ** "" """" "" ords for 1895 show only
>f track laid, in the eight
Whatever might have been proper years since that time tho decrease in
prior to the actual collection of the construction has been great and eontin-
great are its ! tax, now that the greater portion of uous, and this year the total built was
the taxes have been paid it would be only about 100 miles more than in tho
ling difficult to remove thepenal- year 1855—40 years ago. The greatest
st wages ever paid in the coke region j nai|) of the ,\alace lmte| was robbed
higher powers, our better nature, the rior tremble. Mind has ever ruled ,h(l p ( i.nt ,,URjlt to have been re- l*iilt. Tho record
faculties that raise us above brutes the world. The printed page, the ,|Ui.t.d in ,.very instftnce. 1 7s2 miles of tracl
The and brutality in exchange for the spoken word, the eloquent eyes are *. , 1
empty satisfaction of a little worth- j agents of mind and as such are sym-
less power? Such a course is un-: bols of power.
worthy beings who have been endowed Great, is power, and
with such high attributes. manifestations! Terrible is power
Men have implored the Creator for ! when it is the agent of man's pas ion
power-unholy power. 1 ney .mvc - •- •■•■ v - ;;; ! j , tin se who. bv great effort and sac
triidden the desolate oaths of degrada- power when it. is the instrument 01 .
iroQian nil ui u Imvu,u' *1 * . ' ,,f i.^tino nnd of Th > 1 fice, have paid their taxes promptly,
tion crying, only let me be great, let mercy, of justice and ot eisciom 1 ne t ,
Thev have his prejudice or his folly. Beautiful is 1 ties on delinquents without injustice araount of track laid was in Texas,
- y - ! 1 J . •• - > • • # I ♦ -i_t.il' *1* who, by great effort and sacrl- « ->«- — * -> - 1 r
tion crying, only let me be great,
me be powerful, give me a name that 1 struggle for power will never i-rwr, 1
will live. And the oarth has echoed to I but as man struggles lie will learn, j
the tread of marching armies, and the 1 learn from sad mistakes and the bitter j
Very truly,
WiI.I.IAM C. RKNFROW,
Governor.
where 224 miles were put down. In 15
states no increases whatever were
made. Tho railways of tho United
States on December 31 will aggregate
a little over 181,000.
roiinterfidtorii at I'lttMhuri;. Kan
Pittbhtho, Kan.,Dec. 28. t or weeki-
it has been known that a gang of
counterfeiters were working in this
city. Yesterday Detective I. N. Skin-
ner arrested James Dildy, Al and
Frank Morris, Dick Craig and Mrs. Al
Morris and Mrs. Ilettio 1 Mitchell.
Molds and considerable spurious coin
in various stages of manufacture were
included in the capture.
TeacJwr* That Won I'rl/en.
Mexico, Mo., Dec. 28.—In the ora-
torical and declamatory contests of the
Northeast Missouri teachers, T. A.
Craighead, of Calloway county, won
the prize for the best oration, subject.
"The Mainspring of Human Action;"
Miss Mary Cottingham, of Monroe
county, was awarded the prize for tho
best declamation, subject, "The Toy
Bridge."
Seven Death* In a I'eiHM Storm.
Dallas, Tex., Dec. 28. A letter to
George Cummings, superintendent of
Hambrick's cattle and sheep ranch in
Sterling county, says five Mexican
herders and a woman and a girl were
drowned in the Concho river during
the
f.'iOO last night. The thief gained
entrance to the bedroom of Mr. and
Mrs. Plain, where the money was se-
creted, with the help of a stove poker,
which he used to unlock the door from
t In- i ii^iile 1 lin mi Ii tli t ransom.
Awarded
Highest honors World's Fair,
DR.
CREAM
BAKING
POWDER
MOST :'fcRFECT MADE.
great storm that swept over the j A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Fie«
Concho vallej and tha greater portioy , from Ammoniit Alum oi my othsf sduIUrtnt*
of west Texas. 40 YEARS THE STANDARD.
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Greer, Frank H. The Daily Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 212, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 28, 1895, newspaper, December 28, 1895; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc103937/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.