The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 15, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1904 Page: 4 of 8
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THE EC RENO DEMOCRAT.
T. T. HBN8LEY. Editor.
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Senators and congressmen are hav-
ing KOba of fun talking over tlio pug
nadoui canal policy.
Japan says abe wants ni answer
from Hussla. Time Is up anil some
thing Is going to he done.
Senator Burton Is In St. Louis and
frothing at the mouth bocatiio h'.s
case could not he attended to at
once.
o
Major K. J. Simpson's old time
friend and "lonaman," Senator Dan-
iel of Virginia, Is again In the saddle
and has written the major an answer
to a congratulatory telegram.
Wo welcome Messrs. Legg nnd Col-
lier of Kansas City, Mo., and Mr. Pur-
ry Into the journalistic field, may they
nil get rich enough In El Reno to sal
lafy the wants of the tall lUard of the
Cottonwood.
The Democrat hopes that tomorrow
will lie a nice day. ami that nothing
will disturb the hilarity of the occas-
ion during the exercises In driving
the golden spike.
o
John \V. Daniel of Virginia, will sue
ceod himself as senator from his nn
live state, ltath houses returned him
for the long term, beginning next
December. Old Virginia never tlr<>
of a good man.
Night Is the Sabbath of mind.
The fluthrie leader says that hi
Reno, Shawnee and I'onea City want
work. Just so neighbor, there are
a lot of laboring men Idle In El Reno
that wero busy this time last year.
"Shawnee doesn't claim to be
much better than Oklahoma City.
El
Reno or Enid as a general proposition,
but wo thank the l rd that the
"Boodle business" and "corrupt com
bines" In city affairs were so vigor-
ously sat down on by all classes of
people in Shawnee that conditions
here are much better than In our sis
ter cities. It Is possible, now for a
man to hold an official position In
Shawnee and be above suspicion, and
It Is possible to carry on groat public
Improvements here Without the In
terference of the grand Jury. Pub
lie sentiment In Shawnee Is healthy
and our people, barring a few chronic
klekers. are thoroughly united."—
Oklahoman.
The above Item from a Shawnee
paper, republished in the Oklahoman
Is a gratuitous tllng so far as El Reno
Is concerned. El Reno started on the
royal road of public Improvements
four years ago. with the construction
of n sanitary sewerage system and for
four years no town of Its population
ami wealth ever made more public
Improvements, with less money, less
taxation and loss leaks from the pub-
lic treasury. Nearly ten miles of
brick or cement sidewalks were con
structed. the principal streets curbed
and guttered, and the best sanitary
and storm water system of sewerage
In the territory was built, a city hall
erected and thousands of dollars worth
of street Improvements made and nev-
er a whisper of boodle or the charge
of a miss appropriation of a dollar was
made.
Statehood wil put new blood in
politics and new hands to the bellows.
Oklahoma City and Guthrie should
have been represented in the Chamber
of Commerce directorate.
it was something of a surprise to
some that Mr. Harvey would deposit
the sum of 91,000 as evidence that ho
means business.
We learn this morning that money
h cheaper in New York and that great
g.dis of It Is piling up In Wall street
Send some of It out here the city ad-
ministration needs It.
Money may be very plentiful In New
York, but we know lots of poor men
In Oklahoma that have to scrimp to
make both ends meet.
Prohibitionists and socialists will
hold nominating conventions with the
purpose of entering their very dark
horses In the presidential campaign.
The more the merrier.
The eight enterprising gentlemen
who gave birth to the Panama repub-
lic. have held a constitutional con-
vention. Several negros, quadroons.
Indians, octoroons, mestizoes, and
Chinamen took a hand.
The Iroquois theatre incident is
about closed. The blame of the whole
affair having been placed on the
shoulders of the manager of the build-
ing.
We have heard it hinted that the
governor of Oklahoma is negotiating
an extradition treaty with the mayor
of Splva, Kansas. Ho might also pe-
tition the legislature of Nebraska to
repeal the statute of limitations just
to accommodate the boosom friend
of his late attorney general.
The weather here Is r little bit raw-
but trains are departing on time and
we have not heard of any cattle be-
ing lost in snow drifts.
It Is Immaterial to us whether the
democratic national convention is
held on July 1st or 28th, we will not
be there.
The missing link is found. It lec-
tured yesterday at the Y. M. C. A.
Tadlock lectured yesterday on the
missing link. It said that whispering
Charley will lecture next Sunday on
the lost Chord.
Mr. Robinson of Indiana has in-
troduced a bil in the house to make
one state out of the Indian territory
and Oklahoma.
Three weeks ngo there was going
to be such n crowd from Oklahoma
In Washington, clamoring for state-
hood, that both houses of congress
would be only too glad to give them
what they wanted to avoid a war.
Out of the hundred that were going
only a dozen have arrived in Washing-
ton. •
Our old. wnrm aud esteemed friend
Mathew Quay, of Pa., has changed
around some on the statehood ques-
tion. Well maybe Mathew is better
posted on statehood matters than we
are and we will wait until wo see how
he pans out before saying anything.
Since Major George McQuaid re-
turned to the State Capital he has re-
sumed his old business of having fun
with the ladles. We hope that when
George does take unto himself a bet-
ter half she will be demure and gentle
enough to comb his dark locks every
morning with a water elm sappllng.
An Okarche taxpayer says the rea-
Our latest dispatches received today
say that it is all up to Russia whether
there will be war or not. Bill of Ger-
many. Ed of England and the rest of son t|u, county commissioners select-
the boys are waiting patiently to hear ■ the m0bell as their official organ,
what Nick has to say was because they did not vant the
• o people to read the proceedings of the
The Chamber of Commerce had ar. board. A good idea.
We hear from reliable authority
that Senator Prank Mathews the
brainy young democrat of Mangum
in the county of Greer, will be a can-
didate for congress at the next eon
gressional convention if Prank Is
nominated he can have our vote.
Oklahoma City, when she susplclon-
ed that she was paying too much for
her lateral sewers, summoned El
Reno officers to testify before the
courts as to the cost of our laterals.
which were constructed at from $■">
to 17.50 per lot. while theirs cost from
$IS to $35 per lot.
During the four years in question
over $1100,000 was collected and dis-
bursed by the city administration and
not one cent ever went a stray.
When a democratic administration
turned the city over to the republicans
with twelve or fifteen thousand dol-
lars to the credit of the town, they
demanded an investigation of the
books and a complete overhauling of Teddy give them one so that the other v!oubt misconstrue,1
the accounts of the city, and when | nations may get one too. sovernor.
Mr. Bryan will publish a daily edi-
tion of his Commoner in St. Louis
during the convention. "All will be
treated alike."
Murphy, the Tamany chieftain, says
this is a democratic year and Cleve-
land would be elected if nominated.
So, ho thinks, would several others.
It Is a far cry from Alaska to Ha-
waii, but both of these territories will
send delegates to Chicago. Filipino
and Porto Rican wil now stand up
and try to read the constitution.
Senator Gorman, of course, holds
aloof from the senatorial contest in
Maryland between Smith and Raynor,
both democrats. Either is good
enough for anybody.
Mr. Bryan says that Mr. Blank is
his candidate for president—"some
dark horse." Many think this squints
towards Carter Harrison. Maybe Mr.
Bryan's dark horse Is a "May'r."
Word comes from far-off Texas that
it will send to Chicago a solid deli
gation of republicans for Roosevelt—
exclusively for nominating purposes:
of course.
William Jennings Brynn is slated
! tor senator from Nebraska to succeed
IC. H. Dietrich, republican, whose term
Was the destruction of the
zuelan fleet by Germany and Et\
vindication of the Monroe Doctrine?
or as it the same sort of vindica-
tion we are exhibiting in seizing Pana-
ma? Mr. Gorman asks "would Presi-
dent Roosevelt have permitted Spain
or Turkey or any weak nation to
seize Venezuela's fleet?"
Congress has had two months of
dawdling but now promises a busy
week. Committees have reported and
there is enough work for both houses
on the calendar. Executive business
has the right of way. But there will
be plenty of talk, if not discussions,
on the Panama outrage, the postofflce
scandals, and other more or less fra-
grant topics. The Hepburn bill will
give the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission custody of pure food transit,
is urgent for consideration. We are
now promised a business month.
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Labor and labor organizations in El
Reno are ably represented on the
board of directors in the Chamber of
Commerce by Yukon a competing town
with El Reno.
If you think there is no politics in
the Chamber of Commerce just run
your weather eye over the list of
officers, and behold one lone demo-
crat representing the lawyers.
o
Our republican friends are not distri-
buting out much harmony at present.
They are scheming just now for a
primary convention, if they do hold
a primary convention goodby to the
old guard.
| other spasm last night. 0
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o There must have been plenty of; lres ^[arch 4. 1905, and whose es-
I Hanna knows how to shuffel the rainfall in and around Pittsburg.. i cutcheon hps become more or less
cards and get the trumps. It is not lAtest dispatches say that factories, sta,ned by the bribery incident,
a bad deal by a good deal were obliged to shut down on account ^eyera| ex-candidates for the presi-
0 of big floods. The amount of damage \
Mr. Schwab is very anxious just jone j3 very great.
1dency have been in the senate.
Coal barrons, wheat speculators,
lumber combines, impliment men,
and merchant princes, were all allow-
ed representation in the Chamber of
Commerce, right here In El Reno, but
organized labor and men engaged in
industrial pursuits were given repre-
sentation in Yukon.
The laboring people and wage
earners of El Reno are just bogining
to wake up. You can fool i'.I of thein
some of the time and some of them
al the time; but you can't fool all of
them all the time.
now to recognize the ship building
trust. There is only $30,000,000 in
the scheme.
Whether Senator Reed Smoot,
two grand juries, made the usual in-
quiries as regards gambling and other
The insanity experts who examined i ,
x- 1 republican of 1 tah, shall retain his
the patients in the Norman asylum, it
o seems were not en to their jobs. They seat is being argued before a senate
France wants a trade treaty with .urnej 0ut patients who were j—. Committee at whlngton. *
the United States. We move that dlately return.M. The expert, n, cuuon charges that Smoot knew of
order of the and c°nlved al the polygamy ot six
apostles. He says he thought he had
Bible authority for knowing and con-
niving.
At the next meeting of the Chamber vve hope the Chamber of Commerce
prohibited vices, the star witnesses of Commerce we hope that some of w,n attend in a body the driving of
indorsed on the Cosbv-Hensley indict- the members interviewed at least two !he siiTer spike, when the second There is nothing like coolness
° 'tuents. swore that they never had con- j of the gentlemen who came in on the wanj cf El Reno and the fifth war '.
The committee appointed by the trlbutlHj ooe (^nt Ur paid out one -aid-winter excursion this moraine ;n Guthrie will, through the instru-
Chamber of Commerce to get the next oont for protection, friendship, permis- —o- mentality of the St. Louis. El Reno
Cowmen's convention for EI Reno will I (on or |iconse to run their business senator Quay's statehood bill pro- & Wes • rn. be united.
have to do a whole lot of hustling Reno mav not bo the biggest, the vi(les that at least one of the V S
Lawton the town contiguous to Fort ,10S, or ,he nio#t religious town in senators must be of Indian bl
Sill Is after that convention with $.v oklahoma, but her books and her ao- Q.,ay is a corker as we as a r*. ;
000 behind her. counts are open to the world for their An(j bjS bill is a lu-lu.
inspection and perusal. 0
Trust companies do not take hold
of a thing unless there is something
In It for them. Take the American
for Instance, one of the gentlemen
who helped put up the :• • • pur-
THE MAN WITH A PULL.
J. M. Tadlock. of the Blobellous.
will lecture Sunday afternoon at the
Y. M. C. A., rooms. His subject is
o evolution, and he promises to make
The burning of the mission schoc. it as clear as mud to the Y. M. C. A.
at Shawnee yesterday sfc . 1 be a boy
in
time of danger and excitement, but
for the coolness displayed by the ele-
vator men in the Masonic temple in
Chicago, thousands would have been
killed.
Senator J. Ralph Burton says he
will not wait until congress adjourns
next summer before appearing in St.
Louis for trial. He says he can prove
that he is not guilty. J. R. must rem-
ember that he is to be tried in old
Missouri and the fellows down there
have to be shown.
what becomes of the tail of a j
warning to those who neglect to look!tadpole when it evolutes to a frog,
after their chimneys There are
many such in El Reno.
The special grand jury
*t;II wori
All persons aflicted with appendicitis
should not fail to hear tim monkey
with this great problem of human
life.
The American this morning says
chase money for that widely knowr. (bat to succeed we must ail pull to-
journal. is an officer of one of the gether. True but in what direction
largest trust companies in Kansas would you have us pull. Sir Charles
Citv. You bet that company will be When the towline of speculators was ing at Oklahoma t. sty . rr-. -
extensivelv advertised trom this time hiKhod to the court house Position crimes that have been committed in The Ind an m.ss.on school «rt Shaw
vou howled all pull together and it that city There are a n mber of nee. one of the old- -t. if not the oldest
was people over there who are not resting was burned to the ground yesterday.
' This is another case of defective flue.
, No insurance nor no water. We are
The Wichita Eagle intimates that
El Reno wants a great many things.
Well, yes, we do want a few things
and if asking does any good we will
"shore" corral them.
i Teddy need not trouble himself
| about going to Colombia, he can have
The Langley airship seems to have j a taste 0f war right here at home,
worked up a hornets nest in congress, j Let hira muster in his old rough riders
Mr. Robinson of Indiana, says the j an(1 give ol(] Ketoowah the Cherokee
whole thing is a dream and the people J a warming up.
of the country coincide with him. ;
A $200,000 airship that won't work is The explosion in the Herwick coal
an expensive luxury. mine yesterday was a most deplorable
o ; affair. Two hundred laying dead in
They still think at Fort Sill that tho the mlne while their poor wives and
army maneuvers will be held there i children are waiting anxiously above
notwithstanding the war department th|nking that some of them may be
i has said Fort Riley is the place.
was done and everything that
loose was pulled into the extreme any too easy.
Those American missionaries
Seoul, want to be making a break for •„ <r.h ev. . f low r. ,u the hope that it
home or they may be martyr* to the would
good cause.
If Japan does not get too sassy.
Russia may consider the war incident,!be same direct.00
closed It looks very much tike peace
this morning
That was a very mysterious case
of safe robbery on the Southern Pa-
ct* A big safe containing *Sv\000 ho,lse
was taken 'rom a car and nobody. v_ , ^
knows how it was done
job that.
nhance the private holdings Over one hundred well dressed g>ad to note that no -'3
few individuals- strangers came in from the north and o
When the land office was to be kv oast this morning. Several of '.hem The Wichita Beacon says: E.
cated the same invitation to "pull in . said they were looking up locations. Reno will levy a tax of two mills to
was extended to Did any of the members of the Cham- assist Andrew Came&.e to bu.ld a
the dupes who pay the taxes and bear >.Kr of Commerce interview them? library in the town. If Andrew would
j most of the burdens of the town. o only give Wichita a library the
> When money was begged from the Let our Chamber of Commerce pat ip there would gladly levy five mills
! people of El Reno to build an opera ;ern after the one in Oklahoma City Andrew has a love for El Reno but
! house, the same cry of all pull to- and they will not go wrong,
gether went up and as a result the
none for the town on the Arkansaw.
Pretty slick j
located east of the out of the dozen men from Okla- -j-j,e little town of Moundville. Ala.,
! Kerfoot hotel in the interest of a homa. now in Washington, how many wag sTruck by a cyclone yesterday
few k* owners. of them are there to boost for state- m0rning. several persons were killed
When the Carnegie graft was pro- hood alone? and injured. We hope the situation
not as bad as has been reported.
J. Ralph Burton, senator from Kan-
sas. has been charged by a St. Louis
grand jury with receiving bribes. The
senator will not be convicted as there
are many ex-Kansans who would be
willing to swear that he would not
be guilty of such a brash action.
saved.
A part of the city council and May-
or Van Winkle of Oklahoma City, are
trying to hold their own against the
republicans in the council. Gentle-
men do behave if you don't you will
lose your division headquarters also
the $350,000 you were going to get
for a public building.
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The justices of the supreme court
are small potatoes in the eyes of
Major McCauley, the shoulder straps
gentleman who has charge of the so-
cial functions at the White House.
He turned them down recently at a
reception gotten up in their honor and
then explained matters 'by saying that
the reception was primarily to the
judiciary. .
..posed the tame old howl of "all pull o——— „ „ — — — ...
What might we ask. ..as become^* toge,her- wont up and as a result the |f you receive a letter from a friend Cyclones are terrible and the people The Wichita Eagle says that Con-
taxpeyers are having their legs pul'. jn the east asking about El Reno, her ! jn £• peno can be thankful that none cressman Vic Murdock will return
ed to the tune of $1^50 per year to resources and such, take it to Secre- have visited us yet. home this month. What will become
gratify the private interests of a few .jry Goodwin and let him correspond Q 0f Dave Leahy when Vic jeaves Wash-
the oil lands near the city, discovered
by Ed Wellman and others
Marsh Murdock has not lost any of
hi old time rigor when it comes to
writing up "gel-rich-quick" schemes
Maybe when the luxuries are cut
off there will be money in the city
treasury to give the laboring man a
few dollars each week for labor per-
formed on the streets, alleys and
crossings
The Kansas democrats are wise,
they know a real old fashioned con
Editor Tadlock holds to the doctrine
-.hat man's sedentary habits are re-
in gton?
persons on Capital Hill. with your friend.
There has never been a public build j ——o ^ BP
ing or a public enterprise of any Russia says she does not understand sponsjb;e for the removal of the miss-
kind or description proposed in this attitude the United States has between him and his ancestry.
town but what private interests are niea. Russia might just as we.! jj^e all great philosophers who
first consulted and the public wel- come out blunt and plain and say the ^are proceeded him. be leaves us in
fare trampled underfoot Speculators | Waited States is butting in to some- ^ dar._. ^ t ) w!]ether the "missing
cry out let us all pull together while that does not concern her |lnk-- Ta, wore cff. or broke off
In the same breath they are pulling | -o
the wool over the eyes ot the people if you know of any parties looking
and polling the last dollar out of their fcr s location to establish any kind " ^ w -e eVc-od i w°uld ultimately result !n an effort
pocket* in high taxes and useless ex- ^ , business, put them next to the •'* 0 y. 1Ito annex all of the South American
pendnuTes. The common people ar-: secretary of the Chamber of Com- -3-- n.g..t. w... -v3-'-epublics to the United States.
Tention cannot be held any where fioeeed to feather the nest* of the 0 ^ 'e 1 " ". j Whitelaw Reid will consider that optl-
eise in the state other than Wichita ^ rteh^ek fellows with a pull. 0 they may support -heir famil es and
-hile they are looking into that lit-,
Old man Ketoowah, down in the
Cherokee nation, has declared war
against the whites. He says he is
going to wipe out every paleface in
the nation.
There is more talk of war today but
with wheat at 89 7i cents there must
be a mistake somewhere.
Hon. William Grimes, secretary of
the territory of Oklahoma has grant-
ed a charter to the American Printing
company of El Reno, with a capital
stock of $23,000. The Incorporators
are E. L. Legg and D. C. Collier, of
Kansas City. Mo., and Otto I I urdy
of this city. The Democrat likes to
dull times
) ■<
President Sehurman. of Cornell
University, who was McKinley's Com-
missioner to the Philippines, declared I see young men In these
last week in a speech that the action I who are not squeamish enough to let
a $25,000 plant like the American
stand idle.
of the administration concerning Pan
ama was the destruction of the Mon-
roe Doctrine and the beginning of a
We hope the director* of the Cham- jP° " ot violent expansion which
You do not have to buy boo*-leg in-
spiration in Wichita.
Here ts a nice one the Kingfisher
Free Prvss gives us for which we are
very grateful: "El Reno will manage
somehow to dub along for a few more
years with the old passenger depot.
It was thought that she would get a
tf* one, but it seems not. The
Rock Island is in the habit of building
line depot* "
We unite with the American in the Tve Yellow sea may not retain its . ,
cry -pull together." but for God s ^ ^ch longer if all the battle tie matter they might ascertain from j
sake let us pull once aad a while for thips cruisers and torpedo boats now 'he t:ty t .erk .. the income, j -.- - In
f water get into action, is sufficient to pay the freight. the
General Wood's skirmish with
The day will come when some of
those editors, who are abusing the
school land lessees for honestly de-
siring to own their homes, will cry
for the mountains to fall upon them-
Heaping abuse upon the lessee isn t
argument. When the Arapahoe Be.
savs "the lessee union is virtually a
the common people of the town as _>a tbat body of water get
well as the plunger and the specula o
tor. In of any more disturbance in
Moros more than 300 of them union of men. selfish and mercenary
were killed without the loss ot an
Gen. Wood allowed gambling at the- American soldier. This aw-ful result
utilize Jai Alai game in Havana in deference :s explained by the revelation that
The driver* strike in Chicago waathe regiment of Porto Ricnn* now in to the alleged habits of th« «0 > ;-j Wt «p **t«r
bad enough bat it waj no: a marker Porto Rica There was talk of d:s- and no* tie president . C- a *-2 ■ ^ - 1. ' . fl. '
to the big thing now on in St. Louis ban^ng the regixent but Teddy would vetoed the lottery bill cn the grout: 1 women and children who fought our
It u rnther tough on the poCice when not itrten to it. If necessary he will, -hat a lottery U a compter of public troops and faced our machine guns
itn person lead them in battle morals That aught to be promoted armed only with knives and sticks.
Cok>mb-i Teddy is going
they have to act as pall bearers
who recognire no higher principal
than that which directly concerns
themselves and benefits their own
pocketbooks," it utters a most con-
temptible lie, and hurls a dastard:)
insult into the faces of some of the
most honorable men in Oklahoma
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