The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 14, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 4, 1903 Page: 1 of 8
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The €l Reno Democrat.
T. F. !J ENS LEY, Proprietor,
VOL XIV.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
El Reno, Oklahoma Territory, June 4. 1903.
S1.25 PER YEAR
NO. 19
If You Fail to Remove Your
Burden of Disease in June
Your Life is not Secure
Paine s Celery Compound.
Three Bottles Saved Mr. Tripp from Indigestion. Liver
Trouble and Rheumatism.
There was never a remedy so high-
ly recommended for making sick peo-
ple well in summertime as Pain's
Celery Compound. It successfully
grapples with all the ailments com-
mon to summertime, and never fails
to remove long standing and chronic
diseases that have baffled the skill
of physicians. When Pain's Celery
Compound is used, there is no long
waiting for results. It tones the
stomach, improves the appetite, as-
sists digestion, excites the bowels to
healthy action, expels all foul humors
from the blood and braces the nerve
system. Mr. J. D. Tripp, West Ken-
nebunck, Me., says: —
"I suffered from indigestion, liver
trouble, kidney disease and rheuma-
tism. The worst trouble was in my
head; the pain commenced in the
shoulders and ran up my neck until
it reached the head. 1 could not
sleep at night, had ugly dreams and
bad feelings when I did sleep. Since
taking three bottles of Pain's Celery
Compound, I am well and feel like
a new man. I have a good appetite
and can do a good day's work. I
am recommending Pain's Celery Com-
pound to every one who is suffering."
THEY WILL
' UNITE AGAIN
Democracy of the East and
West will Stand To-
gether.
ANXIOUS TO GET BACK.
the So-Called Gold Democrats Are
Sorry They Did It. and Will
-Help the Party Retrieve
Its Loss.
Special Correspondent Democrat.
Washington, D. C. June 3.^-Will
there be harmony in the ranks of the
democratic party next year? Will
the party be able to get together and
once more present an united front to
the common enemy? Those are the
questions now uppermost in the minds
of all patriotic democrats in the
country. This is the political ne ve
center of the country. To this city
come all sorts and kinds of democrats
as to a Mecca and when they get
.there it is as natural for them to
''talk politics as it is for water to run
down hill. I have used the personal
pronoun very little in this correspon-
dence. My opinion as an individual
democrat amounts to but very little,
but for the purpose of this correspon-
dence I have talked to almost every
democrat who has visited the city
since the adjournment of congress
and I have done so because I wanted
to present to the readers of this cor-
respondence the true conditions of the
party gathered from an intelligent
consensus of opinion obtained from
' the leaders of the party in the con-
gress and out of it, and I want to
give my readers the result of my re-
search in that direction.
I want to say right now that there
is going to be harmony in the party
next year and that all factions are
J\ going into the battle in serried ranks,
f with visor down and lance at rest,
all fighting as never before and for
a common cause.
All this scrapping and crimination
and recrimination between the so-
called Bryan and Cleveland factions
of the party at this time is mere by-
play, at least so far as the Cleveland
faction is concerned. The element of
the party which left the regular or-
ganization in 1896 wants to get back
and intends to get back. This talk
of attempting to renominate Grover
Cleveland is all balderdash and tom-
myrot. The element is simply foster-
Mug that kind of talk in order to
"tryout" the regular organization
democrats and endeavor to show them
the strength and power they possess
in the East, what their defection has
cost the party in the past and how
much they can be worth to it in
the future. They are not trying to
ride the party or dictate to it
organize it.
They only want recognition. I
have warrant for these statements.
, They came from the highest possible
"^authority. They came from one of
I the leaders of the faction that refused
jto support the ticket in 1896. I
have the same authority for the
statement that the so-called Cleve-
land faction of the party is going to
| give the ticket the warmest and
| heartiest support next year and that
j that support will bo- given a candi-
' date who is entirely satisfactory to
i the Bryan or regular element of the
| party. All they ask is a reasonable
j platform and they will support the
! nominee with earnestness and en-
! thusiasm.
I They will do this for the one single
and overpowering reason that they
want to defeat Roosevelt for election.
They know that this cannot be done
with any man who loyally supported
the ticket in 1896 and 1900, and they
want to win. In order to do this they
are willing to follow instead of at-
tempting to lead, but they do not
want to be kicked in the face as they
enter the democratic door and it were
folly for the regular democracy to
continue to bait them. They are
afraid of Roosevelt, they do not want
Roosevelt at any cost and they do
not intend to have Roosevelt. They
will not ask for anything that the
so-called Bryan wing of the party, or,
if you please, the regular democracy,
cannot grant gladly. I think that
they would prefer an eastern man
who is acceptable to Mr. Bryan and
the regular democracy, and 1 think
that this will be conceded them. If
so, then they will support the ticket
as loyally as any good democrat did
in the years of 1896 or 1900, and will
help elect him triumphantly, for
Roosevelt is their bete noir and they
will go to almost any length to beat
him. Let the regular democrats then
stop berating the gold democrats and
the men who left the party in 1896,
for they will be with them in 1904
and on the terms dictated by the
regular Bryan democrats. There is
no occasion for republican smiles and
cocksureness at this time. They are
up against it good and hard. There
is no further occasion for democratic
dumps, for the clouds are fast blow-
ing over. The party is in better fix
today than it has been since 1892.
All this that I have told you is still
an undercurrent and has not come to
the surface, but it will in the near
future and all will see it as plainly
as I do. Democratic victory is in
the air.
"Night's candles are burnt out and
jocund day stands tip-toe on the
misty mountain tops."
CHARLES A. EDWARDS.
BARS ALU SOONERS
Regulations for the Sale of Creek
Lands Shuts Out Advance Pay-
ments.
Special to the Democrat.
Muskogee, I. T., June 1.—Prospec-
tive buyers and speculators in Creek
lands find themselves up against a
hard proposition. The ^ew rules and
regulations governing the issuance of
Creek deeds interfere with their
plans. Many of them have already
contracted for the purchase of lands
from the Indians and paid some
money down. Under the new rule
they cannot consumate the deal with-
out committing perjury. In order
to procure a deed they must make
an affidavit that they have not paid
in advance; also
"That the sale of said described
land is bona fide; that there is no
contract, agreement or understanding
written or verbal, whereby the con-
sideration money or price paid for the
land, or any portion thereof, is to be
refunded to the purchaser after the
approval of the deed; and that no
live stock, implements, or other thing
or things of value are to be taken or
exchanged in lieu of said considera-
tion money, or any portion thereof."
The grantee's affidavit must read:
"That there is no contract, agree-
ment, or understanding, written or
verbal, whereby the consideration
money, or price paid for the land, or
any portion thereof, is to be refund-
ed to the purchaser after the approval
of the deed; that no live stock, imple-
ments, articles, or other things of
value or to be exchanged or taken in
lieu of said consideration money, or
purchase price, or any portion there-
of, for such land; and that I am not
a party to ar.y association or combi-
nation of persons to acquire said
lands at less than their fair value,
or to prevent open and fair competi-
tion in the purchase and sale of lands
within the limits of the Indian Terri-
tory; that I am not directly or in-
directly connected with or interested
in any device, scheme, or plan to pre-
vent or interfere with fair competi
tion in the purchase of said lands, or
to secure them at less than their mar-
ket value; and that the contract un
der which the deed presented for ap-
proval was executed and was not pro-
cured through or by means of any
such device, scheme or plan; that
such contract was not procured
through false representations to the
grantor or by suppression of facts as
to the value of the land or as to any
other feature of the transaction; and
that neither the grantor nor anyone
acting for him or in his place has
been given or promised any money or
other thing by the grantee or by any-
one with his advice, knowledge, or
consent, except the consideration
named in the deed, to induce him to
agree to such sale of his land."
Three members of the Creek tribe
must make affidavit that the consider-
ation mentioned in the deed is ade-
quate for the land and the recording
clerk who takes the acknowledgement
must swear that he is personally ac-
quainted with the witness and that he
knows of his own knowledge that they
are reputable persons, entitled to full
faith and credit.
Thus, if a speculator or prospective
buyer has contracted in advance to
buy a certain farm and paid some
money down he cannot get a deed to
the farm at all without purjuring him-
self, and perjurers are handled by
the courts without gloves. As a re-
sult those who have contracted in
advance are simply out their money
and time and they must come in open-
ly and take their chances with the
rest of the people in purchasing land.
Everybody is placed upon the same
footing.
ROADS MUST
ANSWER
AN INTERESTING LETTER
L. R. imith Writes Entertain-
ingly un Rodding Mouses.
Lnited States Circuit Court
So Orders in New
York.
WILLIAM R.
The Great Newspaper Man Forced
the Issue and is Triumphant-
Details of Business Must
be Told in Court.
Special to the Democrat.
New York, June 3.—Judge l.acombe
in the United States circuit court to-
day granted an order to show cause
why the defendants to complaint of
W. R. Hurst against the coal carrying
roads should not answer certain ques-
tions propounded during the investi-
gation of the complaint by the inter-
state commerce commission. The
order is returnable June 10.
The matter came before Judge La-
combe in the form of a petition by
the district attorney, Gen. Burlett, for
an order to compell the' witnesses to
tell certain details of the contracts
between the coal roads and the coal
producing companies. At the hear-
ing before the commission the lawyers
for the railroads argued that the com-
mission had not jurisdiction in mat-
ters that related to buying and sell-
ing of the coal. On their advice the
witnesses declined to reply even
when ordered to do so by the com-
mission.
(From Monday's Daily.)
Sunny Southland.
Nichols got home with his grip full,
now don't make any mistake aboK
what was full. Dr. Lane cast off his
Alabama suit down the road just after
the crowd got flood bound. The pil-
grims started from New Orleans last
Wednesday morning and some of
them got here Sunday, Miss Elsie
Cody and Gertrude Saxey, Dr. Lane,
and comrades Nichols and Jackson
crossed the rickety bridge out of
Holdenville, I. T., Saturday night on
foot and worried along through floods
and railway wrecks until Sunday
morning. An interview with com-
rade J. A. Nichols, reveals the fact
that there was no preparation for a
trip to Cuba, in fact, there was dan-
ger of Yellow fever even in New
Orleans, the city is in a fearfully
filthy sanitary condition and probably
another dose of old cockeyed Be
Butler might improve it again.
Wealth, untold wealth and elegance
and yet the whole city is absolutely
filthy and a stench to the nostrils.
The reunion itself was a grand suc-
cess and the people of New Orleans
OEAD MAN
IS BOOTH
There is no agent more dangerous
than lightning. When we least ex-
pect danger, clouds are seen gather-
ing. and as the lightning flashes and
the thunder roars we are utterly help-
less and feel how dependent we are
when at the mercy of the coming
storm. We then look around us for
a place of safety. The wife and chil-
li tAnbl dren that God has given us to love
j and protect have placed on us certain
responsibilities, and when we fail to
perform them "We have denied the
faith and are worse than an Infidel."
(God's own language.) What shall
we do then? Shall we utilize the
means that science has given us by
adjusting lightning conductors on our
building rendering the vivid flashes
that desolates so many homes, harm-
less? Or shall we place human life
in the balance to weigh against a few
paltry dollars? God forbid.
The greatest electricians of the
world. Prof. Thos. A. Edison, Prof.
McAdie, Prof. Merrlam, Prof. Joseph
Henry,a nd Hon. Richard Anderson,
whose authority is indisputable and
to whom the intelligent world looks
to for wisdom, have unanimously de-
cided that a lightning rod is the
safest and only protection against
lightning.
It is a national law, endorsed by
every nation on earth, that no pas-
senger vessel be allowed to go upon
the high seas without a rod upon the
main mast.
The rodding of Washington Monu-
ment, the Goddess of Liberty, and
other government buildings shows the
confidence that the great men of
America have in lightning rods. The
telegraph companies rod every eighth
telegraph pole for protection. The
lighting up of our cities; driving our
street cars, loaded with human
freight; operating the machines in
our modern mills, bearing messages
to our loved ones far away, all this
and much more, is accomplished with
electricity. Now, if by actual dem-
onstration we have proven to the
world that lightning can be controled,
is it not a duty that we owe to our
family, above everything else, to see
that they have protection from the
death dealing bolt? Who ever heard
of a house receiving a bolt of light-
ning that was properly rodded?
While on the other hand thousands
of houses and barns have been struck
and destroyed by lightning when
there was no protection. Reader
what would you think of a man who
was too stingy to send for a doctor
when some one of his family was
sick? Or to provide a shelter for
them against the storms of winter?
Ah! gold might emblazon the most
" I costly residence, but gold will not
3D .-■■■■i
The
Suicide at Enid
Identified by a Rel-
ative of
is
JOHN WILKES BOOTH.
Identification of Junius Brutus Booth
Corroborated by Other Actors
Who Knew the Assassin of
President Lincoln.
One of the interesting exhibits that
may bee seen in the Horticultural
department at the Louisiana Purchase
exposition at St. Louis, next year, will
be the fruits fresh from South Africa.
The managers of fruit farms of the
late Cecil Rhodes, at Cape Town, have
announced their intention of placing
fresh fruits on exhibition each week.
Even in London this feat has never
been undertaken.
buy the tears with which to wet the
velvet on a coffin. Then we should
rod our buildings, because it is a
duty that we owe to our families.
For more than twenty years I have
sold lightning rods, and while I have
rodded thousands of houses, barns,
government buildings,
did themselves proud in innumerable j churchea and
ways, but to a fellow used to breathing ' (s not' record " that an accident
the pure air of Oklahoma it is some-| has eyer occure(, on one of these
; buildings from lightning.
High honors were paid Miss Elsie Edmond is Mr Sn)iths h()mp an(J
Cody the sponsor of the First Okiaho-1 he ,g endorsed hy the be8t citizens
ma brigade and the Canadian county n( (hp (ow|) „e warns (he farmers
veterans who accompanied her. Mrs. against fakjr8 golnB lhrollgh ,he
Blackmail stopped at Memphis, or colmtry takinf, orders in bnKBies and
rather returned there ahead of the | nQ man jn ,he terrltory wlll rod a
Oklahoma contingent and she will
visit there with a friend formerly
from Iowa for a few weeks before re 1
turning home. Drowned in Street.
Special to the Democrat.
Enid, Okla., June 3.—Furthere evi-
dence is at hand that the man who
died here last January and who was
supposed by some to be John Wilkes
Booth, the assassin of President Lin-
coln, was really that man. He has
been identified by Junius B. Booth,
his nephew, and others who knew
John Wilkes during the war.
After the death of the man here
certain papers found upon his person
led to the opinion that he was the
fugitive assassin supposed to have
been killed thirty-three years ago, and
the body was embalmed to await a
thorough investigation. It has been
in an undertaking house here ever
since, and all possible efforts have
been made to verify the remarkable
claim made by the dead man's law
yer who came here from Memphis,
and asserted that his client was none
other than the slayer of President
Lincoln.
St. Louis, Mo., June 3.—A special
from Enid. Okla., says:
Junius Brutus Booth, the actor and
nephew of John Wilkes Booth the
assassin of President Lincoln has
fully identified the remains of the
man known as David E. George, as
his uncle.
George or Booth, committed suicide
here January 4 last and in his effects
was found a letter directed to K. L.
Bates, of Memphis, Tenn. Mr. Bates
came here at once and fully identfied
the body as John Wilkes Booth. He
then went east and has obtained posi-
tive identification of the remains from
the dead man's nephew and from Jos.
Jefferson, Miss Clara Morris and a
score of others known by him in his
early days. According to his (Mr.
Bates') story he had acted as Mr.
Booth's confidential agent and attor-
ney for nearly forty years. After
Lincoln was shot the assassin escaped
to the Garrett plantation in Virginia.
According to Mr. Bates, the man who
was killed was named Ruddy. Be-
ing warned, Booth left Garrett's and
was taken care of by friends in South-
ern Kentucky. He later settled at
Glenrose, Texas, where he conducted
a store for several years as John St.
Helen.
| no man in the territory
I house as cheap as he will
Register Brownlee of the Kingfisher
land office passed through El Reno
yesterday afternoon, making a short
visit at the land office here. He
had been out to Darlington to attend
the sale of Indian lands. He says
the lands are bringing big money.
An allotment between here and the
Fort brought $1,500 and another over
$5,000. Mr. Brownlee reports his
father, who has been suffering from
a severe attack of inflamatory rheu-
matism, as improving
Logan county claims that it is
worth more than Thomas Jefferson
paid the First Napoleon for the whole
Louisiana purchase.
The people now see what they are
about to gain by giving the great
American town builders, "all they
can make out of the people." •
The plans for the building of the
Travelers' Protective association at
the World's Fair, St. Louis, have been
completed. The contract for the
Law and Order League.
The Society of Equity.
In 1901 began to be agitated the
formation of a co-operative associa
tion of farmers, of an international
character. This agitation was wide-
spread and the plan met with great
favor not only in the United States
but in other countries of North Amer-
ica especially in Canada. It lead to
theorganization and incorporation at
Indianapolis, under the laws if Indi-
ana, Dec. 17, 1902, of the American
Society of Equity. It is a business
organization, conducted strictly on
business principles, with state
district organizers, in all tre
all the counties,
Mr. and Mrs. Ross reside at the cor- i whose business it is to organize the
ner of Broadway and Chickasaw farmers and keep them organized,
street, and their little son in com- ; much on the plan of other successful
pany with all the boys of the neigh- national business enterprises. It is
j Special to the Democrat.
Firm Changed. Oklahoma City. O T. May 30.—
Sam Humphrey and the hotel clerk j There was one death from the flood
have retired from the partnership in Oklahoma City yesterday. Iler-
with Mr. C. A. Herford. H. O. Sitler \ man Ross, the 3-year-old son of Mr.
and A. T. March purchased their half land Mrs. George Ross, was drowned
interest and the style of the firm now j in a culvert in front of his home yes- an<i
is, Herford, Sitler & March, with of terday morning at about 9:30 o'clock, states and almost
fices under the First National bank.
They are all hustlers and we predict
for them a good business.
borhood, went out yesterday morning
to play in the water that filled the
A call is given to the citizens of, street in front of the house. Mrs.
not a secret society, and It does not
meddle with the business of other
people. Its growth has been phe-
nomenal and it now has a firm foot-
hold in every state and territory. Its
first object is to secure equitable (not
exhorbitant) prices for farm products.
building will be let next month. The ■ ember the date and hour.
structure will be 85 by 45 feet and ;
one story high. It will contain a ei Reno is dead enough with out
large central hall which will be used ; giving up our trade from the north-
for receptions during the fair. east to a new town.
El Reno to meet at the M. E. Church | Ross was under the impression that
South next Sunday at 2:30 p. m., for ■ the lad was with his older brother.
the purpose of organizing and main-1 but it seems he became seperated
taining a Law and Order League in j from the others and was drowned in
this city. This is not a movement of j the gutter, where a hole almost three it accords the right to productive in-
the churches alone but is a call to j feet deep had formed. ; dustry to make prices on its products.
every law abiding citizen who desires I As soon as the boy was missed a and it claims the same right for tho
the simple and plain enforcement ot | search was instituted, and Ed Hyder, j farmer. In doing this it does not
the law without discrimination. Rem- colored, by wading into the water al- geek to increase tho cost of living to
most waist deep, finally succeeded in the consumer, but by destroying the
recovering the body, which had drift- | power of speculative price-fixing, it
ed In under the culvert. j brings producer and consumer into
I closer relationship and benefits both
Cotton Is king again. classes.
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