The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 15, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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Historical Soeiet,-^—
The tl Reno Democrat.
T. F. HENSLEY, Proprietor.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
$ 1.25 PER YEAR
VOLUME XV.
EL RENO, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY,
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 11, 1904.
NUMBER 4.
STATEHOOD
SURE THING
iFrom Tuesday's 1 tally.)
ships put out
WAR IS ON , commission.
Kansas City Feb
Official War News—Torpedo Boats 10. 9:25.' The sillk-
of FIRST BLOOD
FOR JAPAN
WAR IS ON.
Russia Whipped by the Little Japs—
Battle Ships Damaged And a
Cruiser Sunk—Great Rejoicing.
Washington, Feb. 8.—The adminis-
AFTERMATH
OF BIG FIRE
(ration thinks war has realy begun in j
the far east between Russia anil j
Japan.
Oklahoma City Delegation Return-
ed—Enabling Act This Term
- Statehood in 1906.
Damaged Two Russian War
Ships and a Cruiser.
By Board of Traao A Ire
Port Arthur, Feb, 9:30,
a. m. Nine Japanese torpe- nrmeci.
BIRD McGUIRES BILL do boats slipped up to outer
j harbor last night and attack-
ing' of two Russian
war ships reported
last night has just
been officially con-
Three Ships Disabled Two Officers L(m(Um Keb g_,t ,B reporled that
and Nine Soldiers Killed and a "romlnent merchant has a cable
Forty-one Wounded.
from his agent In Japan saying that
| a naval battle has taken place in
which throe Russian and two Japa-
nese vessels were sunlt.
The Estimated Loss is $125,000,
000. Insurance $90,000,
000—Needs No Out-
side Assistance.
Piece Meal Bill Will Not Be Re
ported From Committee Room
In Its Present State—
What Senator Bev-
eridge Says.
Washington'and
led the Russian Squadron, NewYorkdispatch
damaging two battle .hips ^ dated Feb ^ 1Q.
45 a. m., Say: Jap-
! and one cruiser.
Washington. Feb. 9, 9:iu an captured three
a m. It is olhcially an-, x
jnounced that the Japanese tran SpOl t S With o,
I torpedo ileet attacked Kua- OOO soldiers aboard
' sian war ships at Port Ar- , m
AT LONG DISTANCE.
Russian, English and Japanese
Reports of the Fight—a Draw
Fight— War has Only
Commenced.
tliur damaging them consid-
erably.
Washington, Feb., 9. 11 a.
m. Official confirmation of
the attack of the Japanese
torpedo boats on the Russian
Czar of Russia has H, r wsw™ crew wer° vury
, . ,, , . c . ,-w-. . , i much excited in regard to the danger-
warslnps in the harbor of issued an Official j „UB position.
3. Jones was the 1 Althur been reCeiV- declaration war While going out of the roads a.
ied by the state department, w Port Arthur the nUSSjan cruiser
ntinnnl nnnitni : * 4 _
Russian vessels reported very It was
9, 12:2f>
The Lloyd Steamship
Oklahoma City, Feb. 10—The Okla-
homa City delegation which has been
in Washington for two weeks past
laboring to secure the passage of a
bill in congress to secure theadmis-
sion of Oklahoma and Indian Terri-
tory, to the Union as a single state
has concluded its mission and on Sat-
urday the members of the party sep-
arated. Hon. C. C
first to leave the national capital, de-
parting for St. Louis on Saturday
morning, and Governor J. M. Grant badly damaged.
leaving for Oklahoma City the same
evening, the other members of the New York, Feb ,
party arranging to leave Washington
the following day. . . . , ,, . ,
_ , 4 . , Agency just reports the sink
Gov. Grant was the first of the dele- ° J 1
gatlon to get b£.ck home, arriving iJ1g tile two Russian WBI
here yesterday morning. | Vessels.
When seen by an Oklahoman inter-
viewer yesterday afternoon and asked From Kussiail Sources,
concerning the statehood situation
Gov. Grant said: St, Petersburg, Feb., 9, 10
"Our delegation secured a hearing >50, a. Ill, 111 ail effort to l'UU
before the house committee on Fri- past the mi lies to attack Port
day All the members of the dele- A tjmr eleveu Japanese war-
gation made short talks, but the ad- # 4
dresses of C. G. Jones and D. C. Lewis ships Were SUllk. 1 lie RllS-
were of considerable length. I siailS lost but One warship
"We found the sentiment among _ , , ,,
the members of the committee abso- and Ollly i llieil killed, Mrlliy
lutely in favor of single statehood solvere WOUllded by the boill-
far as we were able to judge from j bardment by tUe Japanese
St. Petersburg,
Feb. 10,10.30 a. m
Associate press dis fleet upon the Russian fleet reports
that the Columbia had a narrow es-
l.'hee Foo, Feb. 10.—The British
steamer Columbia which arrived here
today from Port Arthur bringing
news of the attack of the Japanese
patches say the
cape from being sunk.
Czar had declared
the case. Hot time
from now on.
reported Novik got between the Columbia and
_ , , , and the Japanese fleet. Shells which
yGSt8rCiay tnai Lnejpas0d over the Novik struck around
the Columbia. Her flag was cut into
shreds and one shell fell on deck. The
War SUCh ^vas not 'aC('s °' 'hose who were on deck were
'blackened with powder smoke.
A naval officer who was recently at
Port Arthur says the Russians were
not prepared for the attack on their
ships and had an insufficient amount
] of steam up. A boat patroled the
New York, Feb. Straits of Pe Chi Li continuously but
' " apparently the Japanese torpedo
10. 11.05 a. m. The boats were not noticed until after the
I first torpedo was fired.
Japanese have cap The Russians fired but the Japa-
' nese did not return the fire, but back
tured another trans ed off. An hour later the discharge
. i-/~\/-v torI)e(l°es was repeated after which
port with 2 .500 the torpedo boats withdrew some
| distance. At 10 o'clock Tuesday night
the .Japanese fast cruisers came in
view of the whole Russian fleet, but
London, Feb. 8.—Reporled that the
Japanese fleet has sunk one and cap-
tured one of Russia's armored cruis-
ers in the Korean sea.
TREASURE UNHURT.
London, Feb. 8, 2:15 p. m.—The
scare in commercial circles here was
shown today by a wild report cur-
rent on the stock exchnngo that
severe naval engagement has taken
place in which throe Russian and two
Japanese ships wero sunk.
St. Petersburg. Feb. 8.—The Japa
nese minister M. Kurino, is prepar-
ing to leave St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 8.—The Rus-
sian reply has been handed to the
Japanese government by Baron do
Rosen, the Russian minister at Tokio.
Russian soldiers on
board
The Town of Port Ar-
These dis
their expressions, and found that sen
timent to exist among all the con- lleet,
gressmen we talked with privately {Jjuj- took fire
as well as among the senators. ! , , • t
"On Saturday afternoon we saw i ptttcll08 lepoitillg J.lpaiieSt
Senator Beveridge, chairman of the J loss of ships Came f 10111 RUS
senate committee on territories, and
while he did not authorize any state-
ment as to the sentiment among the
other senators of the committee, we
were led to believe, from what he
said, that the sentiment was almost
unanimous in favor of making one
state of the two territories, and he ex-
pressed it as his private opinion that
we would get single statehood in 1906.
As to whether congress would pass
a bill at this session, Senator Beve-
ridge would not commit himself, but
from all information that the mem-
bers of the delegation could obtain
from conversation with both senators
and congressmen, it gained the im-
pression that an enabling act will be
passed at this session of congress,
and that act will be either the Robin-
son bill or the Quay bill, possibly a
modification of one of them.
"I do not think Mr. McGuire's bill
will be reported from the committee!
room. If it is reported at aH it will
be so greatly changed that its au hor
will hardly be able to recognize I It
will be changed to practically •'"in-
form with the provisions of the Ro'.iin-;
son bill."
i sian Admirality.
(From Wednesday's Daily.)
EVERYTHING
CONFIRMED
Russia In Hard Luck-
Very Latest From
East--Hanna
not Dead
Goff Heard From.
By Board of Trade Wire.
Kansas City Feb
10, 9 a. m. The
head lines of the ea
rly morning met-
Kansas City Feb
10. 11.40 a m. A
report was circula-
ed at an early hour
this morning that w:ir,1-s * wl,,,n : " ,asl ,PTh
0 'steamer Columbia left just as Tue:
Senator Mark A
unable to learn the result, though a
Hanna was dead. i distant witness. It is probable that
the Japanese fleet was conveying
At 12.25 a mess- twenty-six troop ships from Sasebo to
_ some port of Corea. Japanese are re-
age received says ported to be in possession of the south
, . cm portion of the peninsula.
tne report IS not The Rut Ian war elsal Vladivo
■f TI C? 4- stock are the armored cruiser Rurik
true, me senator Rossia, Gromboy and the Bogatyr, a
I screw corvett built in 1860. Russia
| has a thousand tons of coal at Port
Arthur but the coal must be taken out
of the battleships in lighters until
[the battleships disabled by the Japa-
i nese are floated.
Henry B. Lobb, a jeweler of Fond
du Lac, for several months has been He is a High Roller
dieting himself on an original plan. Burnett Young Tiffany, who is su
His daily ration is one gallon of milk ' jng to get his full share of the Tif
and as much raw oats or corn as he fany estate on 'l>c ground that he car
seems to need. In order to aid diges- not live on the income now allowed
Tokio, Feb. 8.— It is clear that dip-
lomatic relations between Japan and
Russia have been broken. Baron do
Rosen, the Russian minister, is ex-
pected to depart in a few days. Ills
preparations for departing are now
progressing. The Russian legation ex-
pected its government to break
seilence today, but no communication
was received except one announc-
ing that the troops had been dispaloh-
ed to Seoul. The populace is not
aware of tho diplomatic proceedings
and although it is generally well
known that the country Is on tho eve
of a war an.l the people await the
crash with the same calmness that
marked their demeanor in the pre-
liminary stage of the controversy.
THEY WERE NOT IDLE.
Special Grand Jury at Oklahoma City
Returns a Dozen Indictments—
Hard on Some of the Council
—Police Judge Gets it
Hard.
they were not engaged. The Russi-
ans returning toward harbor after
half an hour. The Japanese continu-
ing. came within three miles. A bat-
tle then begun and. the Russian forts
arid fourteen ships against sixteen I ma]i
Japanese vessels. A few of the Japa-
nese shells were effective but as far
as seen the Russian shots fell short.
The Japanese fleet was steaming to-
The
ics-
I day morning's contest begun, and was
Many Visitors From Outside Cities
—Will Rebuild Immediately
—Demand For Labor—
One Trust Company's
Safe Contained
$200,000,000
Baltimore, Feb. 10.—Tho governor,
the mayor and various municipal of-
ficials heiii a conference yesterday
at which it was decided that Balti-
more for tho present needed no out-
side help. At this conference also
was developed the machinery for an
advisory legislative commission to
act in conjunction with the legislature
The stock exchange chamber met
and decided to rebuild as soon ns pos-
sible. Tho same story can be told of
practically every commercial body,
while on every hand is evidence of
private effort toward rehabilation.
Old buildings, long used, private resi-
dences near tho business section, In
fact every available structure bears
the announcement that within is the
temporary office of a firm. Labor is
in demand and I he newspapers al-
ready contain display advertisements
for men to begin the work of clearing
the ruins.
A great cloud was lifted this even-
ing when it was discovered that prac-
tically all of the vaults and strong
rooms and safes of tho financial con-
cerns whose buildings wero destroyed
are unhurt. A tremendous loss in se-
curities had been anticipated there,
but vault after vault yielded up its
treasure unharmed.
From one trust, company's safe
I alone papers to the amount of more
than $200,000,000 was removed.
Another surprise was the discovery
Oklahoma City, Feb. 9—The special
grand jury last night made its final
report and was discharged by the
court after profused thanks for its I
excellent work.
Accompanying the body's final re-1
additional indictments | 'hat two financial concerns, whose
which bomes w<to directly in the path of the
port wero six
and as many
accusations,
is resting easy.
A Simple Cure.
S.umber of indict IflameB wer" practically unharmed,
total number These were the Mercantile Trust com-
pany and Brown Brothers bank. The
escape of these buildings is their lack
j of height. Tbey do not exceed four
stories, and as they were surrounded
by lofty structures, the flames swept
ter them.
SENATOR HANNA IMPROVES.
Very Quiet Day Yesterday
—He is Able to Take More
Nourishment.
the total *n
ments eleven, and the
of accusations twelve. As the war-
rants were not served last night the
names of those Indicted could not be
learned.
In its report the jury pays its re
spects to the police judge as follows: '
"We find the police judge and po I
lice department are not working in j
harmony, and that in some cases the
police judge does not fulfill his duty Passed
as is contemplated by the statutes,
and he is suffering his prejudice and
personal feelings to induce and influ-
ence his opinions to the advantage of; Washington,
parties who In justice and in fact j na's condition last night was a little
should be punished. We further find | more encouriging though
that the police judge also In some
Feb.
enator Han-
he extreme
weakness which lias been the worst
cases fails to perform his duties In | feature of his illness continues. He
the assessment and collection of fines, has a fairly quiet day, rested a little
and we suggest that this matter, it \ better, and there was less irritability
continued, be brought to the attention | of the stomach, so that the
of the next grand jury.
Is a Candidate.
Oklahoma City, Feb. 9.^Chief of
Police Emerick is in receipt of a let- (
ter from an unknown communicant FOpOlitan
subscribing herself or himself as
"one who knows," telling him to stop say, "Japan
searching for the body of Char. A. - . .
Goff, lately constable at Choctaw! thTGe VICtOrieS
City, saying, "you will neither find j , ^ • j. nxrpr "D,, „
his body in the Canadian nor his soul IICl L/i CUll VJ V CI XVU.O
in hell." The writer also declares
that Goff and his wife did not get
''"' seven Russian war
The Oklahoman
morning with the
tion he puts the corn or oats through him, itemized his annual expanses as I Guthrie: "Guthri
a coffee grinder and sometimes lie follows: Rent. $1,500; three servant
steeps the ration in water. He drink; an 1 a man. $1,500; Insurant'- $150:
all the water he wants, and eats but carriages, $3,000; clothing, $12,000: j
two meals per day. It was for the table $6,000; traveling expenses 1 Chicago. He was minister to Chinn ' The following bull.'tin was issued
benefit of his health that Mr. Lobb 000; other expenses necessary to com- un(jer j>resjdent Grant and is a strong on Senator Hanna's condition tonight
began the strange diet. Stomach ■ fort, $7,500; total $.14,650. Tiffany j R00Seven advocate." ' Senator Hanna's temperature at)
trouble, from which he used to suf swore he had not touched an intox: i g p. m., was 102: his pulse is 92. and
senator
was able to take more nourishment
than for some days. For the past two
days he has talked very little and has
made no effort, as at first, to bring
up business matters. The physicians
omes out thb say it is a case of waiting for the
following from disease to run its course, but that they
Oklahoma . Feb are hopeful. The heart action con-
g Col. C. P. Lincoln, mayor of E! tinii' good, and the fact that the sen-
Reno, is a candidate for delegate to ator is of a long lived family consid-
the national republican convention at I ored in his favor.
fer, has disappeared, and he has gain- eating drink foi nine years,
papers ed over thirty pounds in weight. Mrs.
has
to
sia with a total of
Lobb has taken to her husband's bill
of fare and has been greatly benefit-
ed too.
1904 Calendars.
If you want a 1904 calendar, any
size or description, call at the Demo-
crat office and see what we have.
We have some as fine as they make
them.
Still on The Force.
John McCartney an employe of the
U. S. Express company, was excused
from jury duty yesterday on the
ground that he was still a member of
the police force. We understand that
John had resigned but did not hear
that his resignation had not been ac-
cepted
Stiles is Guilty.
Guthrie Okla., Feb. 9—The church
trustees at Anadarko, Okla., found ;
Rev. J. G. Stiles guilty, as charged, j
of adultery, being an unordained min |
ister and bearing the title of D. L)
without being a minister of the gos-
pel. He was dismissed from further
connection with the Congregational
church.
regular; respiration, 24. There has
been no irregularity from his stom-
ach.
"RIXEY, CARTER".
Lost.
A light colored over coat. Owner
left it in some office or place of busi-
ness in town. The finder will confer
a favor on the owner by telephoning
the fact to the Democrat office. tf
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Hensley, T. F. The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 15, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 1904, newspaper, February 11, 1904; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc111434/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.