The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 14, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 3, 1903 Page: 2 of 8
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com-
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elopement. Her
train on which
tieir departure. H
wo children, a dauj
n and a son aged
rith his wife's tfimki
age the woman ntc
gaiuat the entreaties
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raise ftitods for
husband was a
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cd with the eloj
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the
I Young Cooner is one of the pn
prietors of the French Dye work
Twe_„
ordor- IRPeclal llno of worl< ,h>'|n w In tlio heart of tho Flat
name Is woman.
Ugly Booze.
Shawnee, O. T., Nov. 28.—II
was commissioned during carnival
extra policeman. It beln&;
knew Hi" toughs and IWl
could locale them for tho t
force. Mayor Bochor Usued tli
mission on Tuei i iy but learned Wed
nesday thai Fi lth wm a booy.e light
cr aud ordered the chief to recall tin•
commission, which w i not done un
til Thursday mornlnp Wednesday
night, while still having the commit
Bion, Smith got a Jag on and tried to
run things his own way. Gene Kraft
a deputy sheriff and night watchman, (
happened in the saloon where 8mlth |01 n '1
was playing bad man, and he
cd his gun put up. Hinlth started to
lock Kraft up for Interfering with him Ul.k(Ma ovf,r lhc 8anta K
and the latter went along to the hold-
over. believing that Desk Sergeant
Flanagan would see the true state
of affairs and uld In locking the
drunk officer up. Flanagan, however.
didn't see it that way and when Kraft
was obliged to draw his gun to pro-
tect himself, Flanagan aided In dis
arming him and putting him in Jail.
Kraft claims that after he was locked
np, Smith came to the cell and poked
a gnu at him, trying to shoot him.
Smith was arrested a few minutes af
terwards by Policeman Moore and
placed in the callboose, Kraft being
liberated. Tho police Judge lined
Smith the next morning and turned |
him over to tho county authorities
aider reciprocity with Canada.
! There was a party alignment o
vote of tho motion to adjourn
iho democrats voting against It
ther
bag
br>
f hi
WAR IMMINENT.
Regular Troops after Cow Boy
Montana—Battalion of the Tv.
ty-fourth Colored Infantry li-
the Fitld.
Missoula, Mont., Nov.
'orroy, with a battalion
28.—J
from
Fort
| a mere boy, small In stature, far from I Missoula. Including Captain Maxoy
!lu>ing handsome, without money, tt'vj.in(j Assistant Surgeon Merrick of the
and without skill In any j Twenty-fourth infantry, U. S. A are
The couplo aro said to havo pur (j)0 jjorrlgeaus cow boys Is expected -
for before night. Tho troops rodo at
double iiuick all night, as tho sltua-
,Indian reservation and a brush
Head
with
I Kansas City.
lion on tho reservation is believed to |
They Own Up.
Chicago, Nov. 28.—Onalned wrist to
wrist, their clothing covered with
dust and dirt, two beardless boys,
l'eter Neldermeyer and Harvey Van-
dine, sat last night In tho presenco
of Mayor Harrison and Chief of Pol-
ice O'Neil, calmly confessing their
shares in a three month" career of
crime, which included many murders
and a long list of robberies. Tho
bandits, together with Emil Roski,
I who is no older, all being about 21
I ho critical.
Morrigeaus men number
nearly fifty. They are all Indian cow j
boys, crack shots, well mounted and |
well armed
NOT GUILTY.
The Jury In the Hensley Libel
Cnse Returned aVerdict
in Eleven Minutes
SAYING,TOMR. CLARK
The Door is Open For You to
Go—Out to The Cowshed-
Out in The Snow- Out
where The wintery
winds do blow
OUT OF THE HOUSE
Jury which wc
that If
pute to
tent to
tion is
mum1
at them and
o tho Inform;
and
it tc
the
T. F
to be inni
and that
eutlon to
by proof
pap r article .lid lm-
J.ihn W. Clark an in-
• r mi ), such Imputa
lent to constitute this
n this territory.
Itructed that the law
umes the defendant
icent of the offense of libel,
it devolves upon the prose
overcome this presumption
satisfying tho Jury beyond
said new:
the said
commit i
not suffic
>f libel
jury is in
case pr<
CAPTAIN OBERLAIN M CARTER.
Has Gone to Chicago Wher He wmjYoil Aillt no Good—YOU Coulden't
Fight For the Bonds He is Said
To Have Taken.
i Liverpool Ind., yesterday, after a
Ho was tried before Justice Reasoner j ^ lhcy ual(J(>l1 ag!lln8t
yesterday and lined $,0 and sent to pmcn ra„road detectlves, rail-
jail for 30 days for carrylnga revol- ^ farmerB.
ver while intoxicated. This is Ihr | ^ anothor fatally
be Libeled if We Would—
So Kiss Yourself
Good Bye.
maximum penalty.
Smith and Flanagan, the desk ser j1
geant, were arrested by complaint of
Deputy Kraft, charging tliem with as
sault and battory in the case, but as
they nsked for a Jury, the trial will be
beforo Justice Reasoner. The affair
the
! but not seriously.
The dead:
T. J. SOVEA, brakeman
ennsylvania railroad.
Wounded:
Joseph Driscoll, detective on Chicago
I police force, shot through abdomen
caused considerable comment among ^ ^ ^ a short Um(,
Matthew Zimmer, detective on
j police force, shot In head and arm.
Neldermeyer was wounded it) tho
: head by bird shot.
Leavenworth, Kans., Nov. 28.—At
midnight last night Oberlin M. Carter,
ex-captain of engineers, U. S. A.,
noar i finished serving his term of flvo years
in prison, serving three years and,
seven months in the federal prison at j
Fort Leavenworth. He did not leave j
One man; the prlgon unti| this morning at 5 j
o'clock with Just sufficient time to
... , ,, f,,™ Just eleven minutes after leaving the John W.
board a Missouri Pacific train for j *
Kansas City Mo., where he left tit
f30 o'clock over the Santa Fe for! The case has been a long, tedious law
wishing to arrive in the lat- !«■"> expensive one to the taxpayers,
in s- Hi. case a i he had a r:
do tinder the law.
Judge Crum's Instructions i
Jury are as follows:
Territory of Oklahoma vs.
llensley, Libel.
Instructions.
The Jury are instructed that the
defendant in this case is charged
with tho commission of criminal libel.
Under the laws of this territory, in
order for the defendant in this case
to be guilty of criminal libel, it is
necessary for him in tho newspaper
article alleged to he libelous to have
charged the prosecuting witness, John
W. Clark, with the commission of
some crime punishable by the laws
of the Territory of Oklahoma.
And in this connection t'.ie Jury are
further instructed that even though Saved By Searchlight.
they may believo that the newspaper j York Nov. 28.—Officers of th.
article complained of is scurrilous ' ,,
and calculated to hold the said John I steamer Denver of the Mallory
W. Clark up to public hatred, ridi- just arrived from Galveston, repor
I cule, contempt and obloquy, and to j a coiiision with the bark Araby Maid
I deprive him of public confidence andjat sea> thirty miles off Tortugas is
j injure him in his profession and busi- ]an,| Saturday night. The first mate
I ! „ l.in nfflninl nnilflnitv ns u .1
all reasonable doubt as to any fact
necessary to constitute said offense
it is their duty to give the defendam
the benefit of saiil doubt and acquit
him.
The Jury is instructed that by the
term "reasonable doubt" as used in
these Instructions, means that state
of the case which after a fair, candid
and full consideration of all of thi
evidence in the case, the jury can not
upon their oath as jurors, and their
consciences as men say that they havi
an abiding conviction amounting to
a moral certainty that tho charges
alleged In tho information are true
t
wounded I
ness and in his official capacity
| city attorney, yet this will not auth-
' orize you in finding tho defendant
(From Saturday s Daily.) j guilty of libel unless you are further
The Hensley libel Bult ended last ' convinced by tho evidence and beyond
night as everybody predicted, by a all reasonable doubt that tho said
verdict of "not guilty," by a jury in newspaper article charges tho said
Chicago, wisnuig iu ""] reason „f the determined efforts j the solo que
ter city and spend Sunday with his | ^ hv ,ho bias in this case, is whether the newspaper j
! of the prosecution aided by tho bias
and prejudice of the probate court,
' and the court house ring to force an
tho city
the way
for.
officials and something in
of removals may be looked i
mother.
Although Carter refused, so long as
ho was in prison, to give out inter- ,
views it was said yesterday that he .unjust conviction if possible upon the
had no immediate plans for the future editor of this paper, to prevent in
beyond devoting his time in defending;future any further criticism of the
Deyonu _ _ official misconduct of the gang of
tax eaters of this town and county,
now living upon the hard earnings of
. ' r .i,„ ' the Deonle The defendant In this
during the January term of the 'ne people.
bis claim to the bonds which tho gov-
All Eettled. 1 Vaudlne was similarly wounded and ornment has sued to recover from
1'anamu Nov. 28.—The slight oppo- a flesh wound In the left thigh. hjm Ttlis sult wm come up in Chl-
sition to the ratification of the canal | Roski was shot in the.left^ | eago during the January term of the . ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ignorant
treaty between the republic of Pana- The three men we e murders!Lnlted Statl's court , prejucliCea judge from forcing
ma and tho United States which pre-1 police for complicity in tbe murders niirjnfi yeaterday afternoon Carter ^ ^ ^ ^ or
vailed on the Isthmus a day or two at the car barns of 3at down to a typewriter and for two him ^ ^ unpreJudiced
ago now appears to have been over Railway company on August 30 when hours wa8 busily engaged in copying S one
come, if not altogether dissipated. | two men wereJ led. a thlnlbadly a 8la(ement prepared for him by his for PaPtemporary
This opposition existed only among j wounded and -,250 stolen from attorney H. ti. Stone of Chlcago^and prohlbltlng pueips from proceed-
a few government officials, who now company. signed by the att y. (hen the d}striCt
have been won over and thoroughly The list of the our boys victims flnished he gave copies to the In • 1)ermanent
convinced by the reasonable argu killed and wounded In the last half, representatIve8 present. It contains court of ^ ™ J him
ments of their conferes. ab°Ut Vl°,° W°rdS Trom farther meddling in the case.
The plan outlined in these dispatch Killed. view of his cast. great expense falls upon
es yesterday, by which the treaty was OTTO BALDER, murdered during [n the first paragraph it stated hat | county, Jose
to be signed and to be dispatched toja saloon hold up on July it 1s no, a rule to discuss pending .. o1,
ADOLPH JOHNSON, murdered in lawsults in the newspapers, 'but the | burdens
of tho bark, named Myrland, and Ber
ger, a sailor, drowned, and the bark
which was heavily freighted withlum
ber, sank five minutes after she was
ramed by tho Denver. Eleven of th<
crew were brought off the wreck by
the Denver's life boats. The bow of
Clark with tho commission I tjie steamer was damaged.
of some crime punishable under the Rudolph Nath, quartermaster of thi
)f this territory. | Denver, said that a very heavy sea
Tho jury t.re further instructed that was running when the steamer struck
stion for you to determine the bark at the fore mast. The bod
of the two men who were drowned
were buried at sea.
As soon as the collision occured
Captain Evans of tho Denver order
ed the Denver's searchlight into play
and in its field those on tho Donvei
saw the bark capsize. 'iiie boats
were lowered and as the searchlight
played on the wreckage the two men
were rescued. No official statement-
as to the cause of the wreck was given
by the Mallory line officials.
Washington, on the day of its arrival
here has been abandoned, because it saloon robbery on August
. . ' t 4 xiit*es p muvsinv
20.
government has argued Its
of taxation now almost
case amount to confiscation. The costs
| in this case should be taxed up to
even 1 Phelps and Clark and they should be
has been hastily and inadequately con- way company car barns on August lhose who are inclined to be fair are made of fac( however_ the
sldered and thus lay the members of _ almost convinced that tar er a ,C!!!.!, Wbole outfit engaged In pushing this
give
iretl BUL-ll lai'HIHJ Wl '
tho impression that the treaty killed in robbery of Chicago City rail pers for S(, many years that
the junta open to criticism, it is ab ; !■ RANt IS
solutely certain, however, that the down without warning
treaty will bo ratified without the
uliKhtest opposition.
In government circles it is now said
that the junta, as soon as the treaty
has been ratified, will address a note
to Secretary Hay asking that $2,000,-
000 be paid in cash to the Panama
government and that $8,000,000 shall
bo transferred in such a manner that
it can be invested, the interest being
payable to the government.
It can be Baid authoritatively that
the junta is still firmly opposed to
undertaking the responsibility for any
portion of Colombia's foreign indeb-
tedness.
\V. STEWART, shot jg hopeless, especially as they have
prosecution, pays taxes on property of
no idea of what his side of the case the case.
B. C. LACROSSE, murdered in his really „when the courts of Justice are used
saloon on August 2. Further on. in accounting for the nrivate
POLICEMAN JOHN QUINN, killed manner in which Carter obtained his by public offi s d ,
November 21, while trying to arrest money. lhe statement is made "his ,t the
Marx. father-in-law, the late Robert W. . . . a com.
J. SOVEA, brakeman killed yes- , We8lcott) a millionaire of Newjork Uxpense o ^ ; ^ ^ com
1891 and 1897, munity to relegate such unworthy
' ' public officers to the shades of pri
UoinK „ nmnnnL u. , vate life, and give them an opportun
Colon, Nov. 28.—The captain of the
royal mail steamer Trent, reports
that while he was laying in the har-
bor of Cartagena, the United States
consulate at that place, Luther K.
Ellsworth, was invited to come aboard
as his (captain's) guest. Ellsworth
responded to the invitation, but when
half way up the gang plank was stop-
ped by Colombian soldiers and turn-
ed back. The Colombian authorities
would not permit the Trent to take
any passengers, mail or cargo from
Colombian ports to Colon. Ellsworth
told the people of tho Trent that he
had been repeatedly insulted by Col-
ombian officials since the recognition
of the independence of Panama by
the United States.
I ttiiiuau tiauio —— | rvuilBiis, a ....— - |ti.. nrwl
made a trip to Cripple Creek, Colo., la visiting at the Meyer home. She central co ^
to obtain dynamite for use in the hold j la one e( the sweetest singers in the Cope and e V
lips.
Colon, Nov. 28.—Nothing can b|
learned here concerning a statement
that Luther F. Ellsworth, tho United
States consul at Cartegena, at the
time he was prevented by the Carte-
genan authorities from boarding the
mall steamer Trent, has taken pas-
sage to Colon. It is believed that the
consul simply wanted to pay a so-
cial visit to the officers of the ship, j ways
(whom Carter first met in
gave to Carter between
when Carter was accused of wrong-
considerable amount of
T
terday.
JOSEPH DRISCOLL. detective,
now lying in a hospital.
Wounded:
T. Wr. Lathrop, agent Chicago and
Northwestern railway, shot during at-
tack on Cleburn Junction station on
July 3.
Peter Gorskl, shot during an attack
by the four men on his saloon on
July 30.
Henry Biehl, clerk, injured in rob-
bery of car barns on August 30.
William B. Edmund, clerk, shot and
seriously injured during same rob-
bery.
These crimes netted the highway-1 and kissing him."
men $2,540.
Lately they had planned to hold up | Mrs. Williamson,
railroad trains in Chicago and had J Kansas,
-,i Pnrtor i ity to spend their own money and
spending money with which Carte j ^ ^ peopl(,s iQ persecuting their
lived much beyond his salary
captain of engineers.
"The receipts which Westcott took
from Carter for those bonds are now
in evidence and abundant written-evi-
dence is now in or going in to prove
that everything which Carter spent
or had in excess of his salary, came
from Westcott as gifts to t'arter at a Even John Carney publicly
time when Westcott never left Carter J^ ^ ^ but he m not
have the courage to save the taxpay-
| ers the expense of a long drawn out
of Coldwater, trial, because ho was being coerced
sister of Mrs. Frank Mey- by the chairman of the democratic
political enemies.
There is not a lawyer in El Reno,
or a man that pretends to know any
law except Lowe, Cope and Phelps,
but has said from the beginning, that
Clark was not libeled, and that the
case must fall to the ground as soon
as it reached a competent court of
without putting his arms about
Killing Time.
Washington, Nor. Z8.—The nouse j
met yesterday and adjourned until j
Tuesday. the proceedings were j
marked by a debate on the motion
to adjourn over, during which the
minority took the republicans to task
for not proceeding to the transaction
of business. Mr. Williams (Miss.),!
the minority leader, protested against
the inactivity of tho house, asking if
the majority were afraid to trust
themselves. He said that while the
speaker had not been able, as he
knew, to name nil the committees,
yet there were matters which the
and means committee already
Candidate
who were trying to
, ... rnlT,b7hY'Rock Stop the newspapers of the county
Island"7M^E. church a" both morning from criticising their public acts,
and evening services next Sunday.
Judge Crum's instructions to the
article complained of imputes to tho
said John W. Clark the commission
of crime, and in determining this
question you are instructed that it
is your duty and that you must con-
sider the language alleged to be libel-
ous in connection with the whole of
said newspaper article and not from
fragments or portions thereof.
You aro further instructed in this
connection that tho words "armed
with authority to levy petty black-
mail," "graft," "pull his leg," "make
a stake," "hold up," and words of
like expressions are not of theselves
criminal, and do not constitute a
crime under the laws of this territory,
and in order to convict the defendant
of libel for using them, you must be-
lieve from the evidence and beyond
a reasonable doubt that tho defendant
intended to charge and did, by the
use of said words, charge the said
John W. Clark, of the commission of
some other act which is a crime under
the laws of this territory.
The jury are further instructed that
even if tho words themselves, alleged
to be libelous, when standing alone,
did impute a crime to the said John
W. Clark, yet if you find they were
used in said newspaper article in con-
nection with other words which ex-
plains them, or takes from them their
criminal import, and shows that the
acts done by the said John W. Clark
were not criminal, then said article
would not be libel and you should
find the defendant not guilty.
The jury is further instructed that
the said John W. Clark, acting in his
capacity as city attorney, or under
the direction of the city council, did
not and could not commit any crime
against the laws of this territory by
demanding payment of the fine and
costs assessed against the defendants
or their bondsmen mentioned in said
newspaper article. ,
The jury are Instructed that even
though the newspaper article com-
plained of accuses the said John W.
Clark with falsely and corruptly de-
ceiving the city council cf El R^no
by obtaining from them an order to
collect certain unpaid lines assessed
by the police court of said city, that
6uch an accusation undo- the law does
not amount to criminal "ibel in this
territory.
And tho jury are further instructed
THE CAMEL'S HEAD.
"Where the camel's head goes his
body follows," says an Oriental proverb
It's the same way with disease. A small
opening will give it an entrance and
when disease once has a place in the
body a large number of ills may follow it
The opening for disease
is often fouml in a w weak"
stomach. When the
stomach is " weak '
body also becomes weak-
ened by lack of
nutrition, and
disease attacks
the heart, liver,
lungs, kidneys {
and other organs. n •wr pn i/W
Dr. P i e r c e's \ ^ J ,#
Golden Medical Discov- ^ pjxJ//
ery makes the weak
stomach strong. It cures
diseases of the stomach
and other organs of di-
gestion and nutrition,
and so enables the body
to resist or throw oflf other diseases.
Men and women who are sick are in
vited to consult Dr. Pierce, by letter, free,
and so obtain without charge the opinion
of a specialist on their ailments. All cor-
respondence strictly confidential. Ad-
dress Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
"For the past two years I have been a verjr
sick woman " writes Mrs. Chesley. of 108 Wood
land Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. "I tried mediciuea
from doctors and to no avail. At last I decided
to try I->r. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovcy
When I started I was all run-down and hart a
very unpleasant tiste in my mouth. Was
choked up, and at times it was very hard for l.ie
to breathe. I had severe headaches and cuttinc
pains in my knee joint. Was so weak I could
not attend to ray work nor walk up or down
stairs without the assistance of mv brother « r
some friend. I am now taking the fourth bottle
and am hap- y to say I feel like myself again
I can go up ind down stairs ami perform my
duties as well ns any one. Everything seems to
be brighter, and I can assure you that life i*
worth living."
Accept no substitute for "Golden Med-
ical Discovery." There is nothing just
as pood for dyspepsia or debility.
Biliousness is cured by the use of Dr.
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
t
Frank Jensen and wife of Fort
Worth who have been visiting with
Mrs. Louis Jensen returned home last
night.
I
t
j organized, could consider, citing
A Nice Wofe. 'among other things tho resolution re-
Ardmore, I. T., Nov. 28.—Mrs. Car ! lative to Canadian reciprocity,
rle Griffin, wife of Frank L. Grimn, Mr. De Armond (Mo.) also crltlcis-
former manager of tho Ardmore Eloc- • d tho republican majority for lt
trie company and the Chickasaw Tele- . ourse. Mr. Payne (N. Y.), on whose
phono company and a prominent clti-1 request unanimous consent was giv-
ten of this place, eloped last night
with Fred Cooner, a youth of nine-
teen years. Mrs. Griffin is a woman
of forty but has retained a girl-like
boauty and has been qulto popular
in her part of the city.
The woman disposed of her buggy
and horse and sold much of the fural-
p:i fur debate on the motion to ad-
journ over, replying to the opposition
took occasion to say that the repub-
licans would hardly care to take up
the question of tariff revision and
disturb conditions on the eve of a
presidential campaign. He also said
the time was not opportune to con-
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