The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 15, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 14, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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T. F. HENSLEY, Proprietor
The Cl-Reno Democrat.
PUBLISHED ^VERY THURSDAY
$1.25 PER YEAR
VOLUME XV.
THE EL RENO DEMOCRAT
JAPANESE
AMBUSHED
WERE WAYLAID AND KILLED BY
THE RUSSIANS
visitor being given a chance to draw
At the opening of the big house a
year ago. the largest crowd of farmers
ever asembled in El Reno was present
and it is hoped that the attendance
will be even larger next Wednesday.
ORGANIZATION PER-FECTED
The Engle Transfer and Storage
Company Elect Officers.
RITQRY,
THURSDAY. APRIL 14. 1904
NUMBER 12.
FIGHTING
REPORTED
IT IS THOUGHT THAT A GREAT
NAVAL BATTLE HAS OCCURRED
EVERY .MAN KILLED
TAINED NO LOSSES.
Evidence of Corean Sympathy With
the Japanese Cause Apprehen-
sion in Russia.
HEAVY FIRING HEARD
Prom Wednesday's Daily.
The organization of the recently
chartered Engle Transfer & Storage
company was perfected, in a meeting
RUSSIA REPORTED TO HAVE SUS- Hi tlie office of Goodwin & Reid last PARTICULARS ARE
I night, and the following officers were
elected: 9 AWAITE
H. S. Engle. president and general
manager.
H. E. Ronebrake. vice president.
< I... Engle, secretary and treasur-
| er.
Directors, ,1. E. Ronebrake. H. s.
! Engle, of El Reno: H. E. Ronebrake,
c, r. . . . „ ! of Weatherford, and R. P. Smith of
St. Petersburg. April 13.—General Fort VVorth
Kuropatkin, in a dispatch to the em-
peror bearing yesterday's date, says
that General Krashalinski on the
night ot April 8th, ordered a detach-
ANXIOUSLY
thur and a fight on the Yalu river are
expected momentarily.
THE HENSLEY CASE.
The Defense Rested at Noon—Case
Now Being Argued.
From Wednesday's Daily
The case of the Territory vs. T. F.
j Hensley has occupied the time of the
1 court anil the attention of the public
! all day.
At noon the defense announced that
i it would present no more evidence
; This afternoon the court delivered the
instructions to the Jury, and at thr
j time of going to press County Attor
; ney Carney, for the prosecution, is
| addressing the jury.
FUNDS FOR
INDIANS
Another Attack on Port Arthur and
a Big Land Battle Near the
Yalu River Has Probably
Occurred.
Work on the company's building.
Bo by 200 feet in size, three stories
'; high, will be begun next Monday.
ment of sharp shooters to cross the
left bank of the Yalu opposite Wiju.
The sharp shooters landed on the is-
land of Samalind and surprised a pa-
trol of fifty Japanese scouts just as
the latter were approaching the east
side of the island in thiee boats. The
Russians allowed the Japanese to
land and then fired on them. Nearly
all the Japanese were shot, bayoneted
or drowned and their boats sunk.
The Russians sustained no losses.
Non-Commissioned Officers Luckie
and Souhaschonov distinguished hem-
selves in the fight. On the following
day the Japanese lowered their (lag
at Wytt and their outposts which
lately have been seen, have fallen
back.
On the night of April 9, four Rus-
sians crossed the Yalu to Yenampo j
(Yongampho) and made toward a
Russian village, where they found a
squadron of Japanese cavalry. The
Japanese pursued the Russians in a
boat, but were in turn attacked by
a Russian boat which had come to the
rescue of the swimmers.
The Japanese were all killed and
their boat sunk.
Montana State Convention.
Helena, Mont., April 13.—The re-
publican state convention met here
yesterday at noon with every county
in the state represented. Six dele-
gates were chosen and instructed to
vote for Roosevelt at the Chicago con-
vention.
SUICIDE AT YUKON
L. G. CONWAY COMMITTED THE
RASH ACT THIS MORNING.
FOUND HANGING BY THE NECK
Temporary Insanity Supposed to
Have Prompted Him to Do the
Deed.
Chefoo, April. 13.—A correspondent
of the Associated Press at Teng Chow
forty miles rorthwest or nere, tele-
graphs as follows:
"Sounds of very heavy firing were
heard at half past 6 o'clock this
(Wednesday) morning The firing
evidently was being done between
here and Port Arthur. It Is believed
at Teng Chow that the long expected
sea fight among the Miaotao islands
has taken place.
The battleship Asasi, (lying an ad-
miral s Hag was seen off Chefoo yes-
terday going to the west
is no doubt but that the
COMMERCE CHAMBER
AN INTERESTING MEETING OF
THAT BODY HELD LAST
NIGHT
COTTON CULTURE DISCUSSED
Reports of Committees On Implement
Dealers' Association Meeting
Received.
of the Japanese fleet was in the
inlty of Port Arthur
From Wednesday's Daiiy
The Chamber of Commerce met
and Ihere last night, and while the attendance
remainder was not quite as large as 011 some
vic-
! From Wednesday's Daily.
V. H. Russell and H. R. Buttman
came up from Yukon this morning,
bringing word that L. C. Conaway had
committed suicide, early this niorn-
| ing.
From -what can be learned, Cona-
way arose at five o'clock this morn-
^ | ing and went out to the barn, to feed
the horses. When breakfast was
, , . . , 1 ready he had not returned, and Mrs
has proved his superiority in strategy j ,
and in the manner of attack which
left no chance for a single enemy
to escape.
One feature of the message which
is not pleasing to the authorities is
St. Petersburg. Aprii 13.—General
Kuropatkin's report to the emperor |
of the annihilation of the Japanese
detachments 011 the Yalu river is a
matter of general satisfaction in offi-1
cial circles. Again in the view of
the authorities, the Russian soldier^
occasions, an Interesting session was
held.
| The committee appointed to ar-
Seoul, April 12. 4:3e p. m.—Japan - range for the entertainment of the
ese advices from northern Corea I visitors to the meeting of the Imple-
state that the Russians have strongly ment Dealers' Association, reported
fortified Chou Tien Cheng, a walled good progress made. The finance
town on the Manchurian side of the ! committee had rustled $242.00 to be
Yalu river, about ten miles north of j used on that occasion and Mr. Riley.
Antung It is estimated that there of the Kerfoot Hotel, was reported
are twenty thousand Russians of all 10 have donated the use of committee
arms at Anthung readv to oppose the and assembly rooms in the hotel.
Japanese crossing | It was announced that citizens
Webb Hays has returned here from | would be asked to furnish their pri-
a journey to Anju, thence to the j vate carriages and buggies to carry
American mines at I'nsan and thence | the guests to various places of in
to the Yalu river. He reports that terest in the city and surrounding
he received hospitable treatment from country, and business men are re
the Japanese and he compliments the quested to suitably decorate their
equipment of the Japanese field for j business houses; also, that a rale of
ces, the effectiveness of the pontoon one and one-third fare had been se-
bridges at Anju and their transport cured 011 all railroads entering the
CHOCTAWS AND CHICKASAWS
WILL GET TOWNSITE MONEY
ONE HALF "i;
TO BE DISTRIBUTED AMONG MEM-
BERS OF THE TWO TRIBES
Mrs. Emily McKinley Given the Post-
office at Kingfisher—McGuire
in Washington.
Conaway, becoming uneasy, went to
the barn, but found it locked, she call-
ed her brother, who was asleep in
the house, and he came and unlocked
the barn. In the barn loft they found
. 1 *Mr- Conway, hanging by the neck,
the action of the Coreans in revea ing , .... . .
, .. . * dead. He had evidently built
to the Japanese the presence of the
Russians at Yongampho, and the be-
lief prevails that the Coreans are not
so unfriendly to the Japanese as has
been announced. Incidents such as
that at Yongampho indicate that the
view held of the Corean attitude is a
mistaken one.
-EVERYBODY"
•■sa 4r-,e:K 5::£aHsrei
-IS INVI FED TO-
Washington. April 13—The house
committee on Indian Affairs have re-
ported favorably the bill authorizing
the prorata payment of the Choctaw
Chickasaw townsite fund to the Choc-
law and Chickasaw Indians of Indian
Terrilory on March 4th. The Indians
have $(108,277 lo their credit in the
treasury no part of which according
lo the bill, is to be shared by freed-
men of these nations.
President Roosevelt today sent to
the senate for confirmation the nomi-
nation of Mrs. Emily McKinley for
postmaster at Kingfisher. Mrs. Mc-
Kinley Is related to the late lamented
President McKinley, and her nomina-
tion was a personal matter with the
president. .
Delegate McGuire returned tyi
Washington today and resumed his
seat in the house.
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
The democracy of Canadian county,
Oklahoma territory is hereby called
to meet In delegate convention at El
Reno on Saturday. May 21st, 1904 at
1 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of
selecting seventeen delegates and
seventeen alternates to attend the
lerritorial convention to be held at '
Anadarko, Oklahoma, on June 1st.
1904. and for the transaction of such
other business as may regularly come
before the convention.
The basis of representation fixed
by fhe committee is one delegate and
one alternate for each ten votes, or
majority fraction thereof cast for Hon.
Wm Cross for delegate lo congress
at the general election held in Novem-
ber 11)02.
The various township wards and
precincts in the county will be en-
titled lo the following number of dele-
gates:
Samuel Hoar Dead.
Concord. Mass, April 1:1.—Samuel
Hoar, a distinguished lawyer and ne-
phew of Senator Hoar, died yesterday
of paralysis, aged 59 years. In 1902
he was prominently mentioned as the
successor to ,liiHtic<* Horace (!r&y as
associated Justice of the United State*
supreme court.
Near the Dark River.
Mrs. Crouch, wife of J. R. Crouch
of file Daily American force is very
ear 10 death's door, with only a few
..ours at most, to live. The family
live 011 Blckford avenue, the first door
north of the Fnrmer's Hotel. They
moved to El Reno two monllis ago,
from Guthrie. A few years ago Mr.
Crouch was editor of the Hutchinson.
Kansas, News, one of the leading
papers of Ihe state.
Irving Fowler, aged 36, and Georgia
( 00k, aged ill, were granted marriage
license today. Owing to the youth
of tile lady, Irving was obliged to go
and get her parents' consent, but that
didn't delay the Issuance long.
The preliminary examination of L.
C. Trent, charged with the murder
of Charles Sherman, is in progress
in the probate court room (his after-
noon, before Judge Bannister.
H. P. Topping, of the Bell Telephone
company, returned from Wellington.
Kansas, yesterday. Mrs. Topping and
the new boy will follow in a week or
two.
BAYSTATEFOROLNEY
MASSACHUSETTS GIVES HIM A
ROUSING SUPPORT.
W. R. HEARST STRONG SECOND
However, Neither Would Have Ghost
of a Show in the General Elec-
tion in That State.
Roston, April 13.—The supporters
of Richard Olney of Boston as a ciu
didate fur the presidential nomina-
tion for the democratic party have
attained a long lead in the primaries
over the friends of William R. Hearst.
Returns from 117 cities and towns
out of a total of 353 Indicate that 491
delegates to the slate convention were
either instructed or have expressed
preference for Olney while 180 are
Hearst men.
Vladivostok, April 13.—Vladivistok
and the surrounding country have
been swept by a heavy storm which
crippled the telegraph lines and de-
stroyed buildings. The telegraph
lines have been repaired.
Easter was gaily celebrated here.
Instead of eggs the citizens exchanged
pieces of shells fired during the bom-
bardment.
The commandant has ordered mili-
tary music every evening. There are
daily performances at the theater.
up
some bales of hay, tied one end of
a halter strap around a rafler and
j the other end around his neck, and
| jumped to his death. Conway was |
I about 32 years of age, and came to
| Yukon from Kansas, three years ago. '
For some time it had been noticed
S that he was irritable and quarrelsome!
| and it is thought that his mind had
become unbalanced. He leaves a
widow and two little children.
! Coroner Dyer went to Yukon this |
! forenoon, to hold an inquest
Found on Railroad Track.
El Paso, Texas, April 13.—Newton
DELEGATES APPOINTED.
Five Canadian County Men Will At-
tend the Good Roads Congress
From Wednesday's Daily
The National Good Roads Associa
tion and the World's Good Roads Con
gress will convene in St. Louis on
May 18th, for a six days session It
Marks, a veteran circus and theatri-1hoped that every county in the
cal man, came here for his health and west wi" 1)6 represented The fol-
was found dead and badly mangle I j 'ow'nS delegates for this county
on the Rock Island tracks near this ■ have been appointed:
city. For the past five years Newton I D ( Bothell and John Lively,
Marks has resided in the west. j Okarche.
! C. W. Barns. Yukon.
Tinkeipaugh-Kimmsll Company's
(«rand Opening
Apr.
Music and
Refreshments
Dr. Nichols, of Rirhland, was
visitor In the city today.
1 ■! M. Walker, the merchant
1 Richland, is in El Reno today.
Delegates.
First ward 10
Second ward 8.
Third ward 8
Fourth ward It
Calumet
Cement 3.
Darlington 1
Frisco
Maple 4
Matthewson 0
Meridian 3.
Mustang 11
Oak 3.
Okarche 6
Prairie 7
Purcell 8.
Reno 8.
Rock Island 8.
I'nion 11.
Valley 5.
Walnut 8.
Yukon East 12
Yukon West 11.
Total 155.
It is recommended by the commit-1 "r"S'!Dt 1,,oation t(> McCool's old
tee that ihe primaries in the several | ®ta"?' sou,h of the land offlce ne,t
townships, wards and precincts bt
held on Tuesday the 17th day of May j
1904 at 1 o'clock p. m . for the pur-'
pose of selecting delegates to the
of
A E Saxe;. of this city, was grant-
1 ed a notary's commission yesterday.
Miss Addie Kirkpalrick, has been
j very sick for the past two or three
| days.
P F Weasel Is again able to be
i on the streets, after a very severe
illness of two weeks duration.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Peach, Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Peach and the two smallest
Peaches left on the morning train
for a short stay at Geuda Springs.
The American will move from its
Sunday.
ANNIVERSARY OPENING.
The Tinkelpaugh-Kimmell Company
Will Keep Open House Next
Wednesday.
I. Cutright, Frisco
Wm. Roberts, El Reno
organization. Japanese Minister Hay city
Invitations are being sent out for
a grand anniversary opening at the
Tinkelpaugh-Kimmell hardware store
in this city, on Wednesday, April 20th.
Everybody living in the El Reno trade
district is invited. There will be
music and feasting and a fine sewing
machine will be given away, every
j ashi is urging the Corean foreign office
| not to permit construction of pontoon
bridges by the enemy
A Quintette of Boot Leggers.
From Wednesday's Daily. I Tokio, April 12.—8 p. m.—It is be-
Deptity Marshal Jacobs brought five j iieved here that fighting has corn-
prisoners from the federal jail at
Guthrie to the county jail here, last
night, and this morning took them to
Anadarko, where they will stand.trial
for seiling whiskey to Indians. At
the depot, this morning, they were
the center of Interest, ornamented as
they were with handcuffs
menced on the Yalu river. It is
known that the Russians occupy the
right bank of the Yalu river in force.
8t. Petersburg, April 13.—According
to telegraphic advices received by the
Nevosti from its correspondent at
Llaoyang a bombardment of Port Ar-
An important question that was dis-
cussed at length was the one of cot-
ton culture. It was the opinion of
those present that, as some fields of
wheat would produce no crop this
year, cotton would be planted there
with almost the certainty of a good
yield, and the culture of that staple
was earnestly advised. Messrs. Peach
Marks and Gibson ware appointed by
the chair to arrange for procuring
cotton seed, and to do all they can
to promote the raising of that, crop
in this county,
county convention.
It is especially enjoined upon the
central committeemen of each voting
precinct to see that the primaries
are duly called and that delegates and
alternates are chosen and attend the
convention. There should be a full
attendance and upon the committee-
men does the attendance depend
Committeemen look well to your duty
By order of the Central Committee.
JOSEPH G. LOWE, Chairman.
WM REDDER, Secretary
L. Suade came down from Pied-
I mont yesterday, missed his train in
the afternoon and spent the night in
the city.
WEATHER FORECAST.
Oklahoma, Indian Territory and
Kansas—Fair and warmer Wednes-
day : Thursday, fair.
The annuai examination of appli-
cants for certificates of graduation
from the public schools of the county
will be begun tomorrow, at the offlce
of the county superintendent, and
continue for two days.
Lars Jensen and bride returned
yesterday from their wedding trip
through the south, and are at home
at their pretty residence on North
Evans avenue. The boys, big and
little who serenaded the couple last
night, haven't yet lost the taste of
the goodies with which they were re-
warded.
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Hensley, T. F. The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 15, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 14, 1904, newspaper, April 14, 1904; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc111443/m1/1/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.