The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 7, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 2, 1902 Page: 4 of 8
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EL RENO DEMOCRAT
T. F. HENSLEY, EDITOR.
Write it 1902.
New Year's day was ti <iuiet one
in El Reno.
Swear off.
King out the old ring iu the new.
Tomorrow is the day for good
resolutions.
"Sauciety" puts a spike tailcoat
on alive dollar clerk, and the cartli
trembles at his tread.
The Commercial (?) Club recep-
tion was a huge affair. 1 hey hail
something to drink and it was
drunk.
Base envy withers at an other's joy.
And Hates that excellence it can-
not reach.
The Democrat wishes its many
readers a happy New \ ear and a pros-
perous future.
Surely Mr. Roosevelt will not sully
his record by appointing a colored
man to an olllce where he will have
twenty-live white women as subordi-
nates.
Requisitions have been made on
the United States sub-treasury in
Wall street for new coins to be used
as Christmas gifts, to the amount of
$7,000,000.
The associated press announces
the formation of a soap trust. If
this is a blow at the democratic party
we are against in.
Did you ever notice how success-
fully some would-be society people
can make "thirty cents look like a
new crisp fifty dollar bill.
The Southwest World of Guthrie,
has placed lloracc llagan in the con-
gressional democratic racc. None of
the other candidates have quit how-
ever, since the announcement has
been made.
Chief Justice Burford holds that a
slot machine in a saloon is sullicient
to revoke the license, lie holds that it
is a gambling device and contrary to
law, and that any game of chance is
a gambling device.—Blackwell News
The El Reno American is iu trou-
bled waters. The plant has been tak-
en on a mortgage. Editor W bite de-
posed and the stockholders are con-
sidering the advisability of winding
up the buisness.—Kansas City Journ
al.
New Year's day was generally ob-
served by all classes, with all of the
customary frills and formalities
which "society" imposes. El Reno
is not behind the world iu anything
and iu most everything she is in
front of it.
Guthrie had a suicide and an at-
tempted suicide one day last week.
Domestic trouble was the cause of
the suicide of Mrs. Bertha \ arley,
and unrequited love was the cause
of the attempted suicide by Miss
Viola Barnhill.
Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball, formerly
of Larned, Kansas, is said to be the
only woman ever given a seat in the
congressional press room at A\ ash-
ington.
Senator Cullom, who always
speaks in confidential tones says
"(Jetting the President's ear is like
opening the window and talking to
the wide, wide world."
The King of Siam has notified the
American minister to his country
that he would like to visit the United
States—provided Uncle Sam will pay
his expenses.
Hon. Walter Williams, editor of
the Columbia Herald, Missouri, and
well known to the newspaper frater-
nity. is in Europe, lie will visit the
Bible lands before returning.
Mr. William Allen White has
pricked with his pen the skin of Sen-
ator Piatt, and the Senator is threat-
ening libel suit. He will probably
And that Mr. White used no action-
able words.
MILLIONS GIVEN AWAY.
The chair ocoupted by the Speaker
of the House of Representatives cost
$:S21. It is not surprising that its
occupant should unconsciously come
to imagine he is seated on a throne
and render autocratic decisions, oc-
casionally.
By the provisions of the l'nilipine
tariff bill the l'hilipine producer will
have to pay $36 per toil on all sugar
he sells in the United States, while
the American producer can sell in
his market by paying $17 per ton.
It is said that contrary to custom,
Mr. Roosevelt has determined to ap-
point no colored man to a position
where a white woman will have to
serve as his subordinate. If this is
true every true American will respect
his determination.
The tirst year of the new century
shows a wonderful distribution of
wealth along charitable and educa-
tional lines, and statistics prove that
women are conspicuous iu the gen-
erous bequests which have been
made.
Of the 15 million dollars given
alone to colleges during the lirst six
months of the year, women contribut-
ed six million. Libraries have profit-
ed to the extent of one million dol-
lars by women's gifts and charity
realized the magniffcient sum of ten
million dollars. At the triennial
convention of the Episcopal church
held at San Francisco in October,
women gave £100,000 for missions
and pledged the further sum of $15,-
000 for a girls' school in China.
One of the most notable gifts for
hospitals is that of Mrs. Collis 1*.
Huntington who has presented her
beautiful home in San Francisco to
the city to be converted into a hospit-
al for women. The mansion, cost a
quarter of a million dollars.
Mrs. Indiana Williams has given
her magnificent home in Virginia,
comprising 1,500 acres and an en-
dowment of $700,000, for a girls
school.
Miss Helen Gould and Mrs. Mc-
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Miss Mildred Lee, daughter of
General Robert E. Lee, recently at:
tended a session of the Virginia leg-
islature and the senate took five min-
utes recess in order that the Sena-
tors might have an opportunity of
meeting her.
Cormick, of Chicago, continue their
Bull Tick Bolton, of the Wood-
ward News has a faculty of indulg-
ing in as dirty journalism as any
newpaper man in Oklahoma. Bolt-
on never was accused of adding any
eclat to anything however.—Shaw-
nee Democrat.
The Woman's Christian Temper-
ance Union of El Reno do not have
to get down on their knees in the
mire of the gutter in order to find
victims of the social bowl. They can
move their breast-works back on tlie
hill and find plenty to do.
New Yorkers are referring to the
approaching Low inaugural ceremo-
nies as the "Tamany obsequies,"
but they may wake up some fine
morning to find that the tiger was
only playing 'possum.
A requisition for a second con-
signment of plows from the Indians
at Standing Rock Agency lead to an
investigation which developed that,
after using the first plows to con-
struct irrigation ditches according to
instructions the Indiaus had built a
huge dam, using the entire consign-
ment of plows to form the super-
structure.
liberal gifts to charity and educa-
tion.
GONE TO EL RENO.
John W. Shartel, the well known
attorney, lias gone to El Reno, to
look after the interest of his clients
who have about $20,000 tied up in
the plant of the American.—Times
Journal.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Dr. J. R. A. Crossland, colored, of
St- Joseph, Mo., as Minister to Li-
beria, and J. C. Dancy, colored,
collector of the port at Wilmington,
N. C. to be register of deeds for the
District of Columbia,
Off to Prison.
Sheriff Cosby left yesterday for
Lansing penitentiary with John Henry
the negro who was sentenced to ten
years at the last term of court for at-
tempting to take the life of H. L. Nor-
man. Goldie Fiisou who was cap-
tured some time ago after jumping his
bond was returned to prison.
W. F. Card well of Weatherford,
attorney, orator, poet, democrat and
director of the Jefferson club, says
that the congressional bee has quit
buzzing in his bonnet, but he wants
to represent his bailiwick in the leg-
islature and to attend the constitu-
tional convention. W. F. is modest
in his demands and we would like to
sec him get what he wants.
It is understood that the "only"
night policeman El Reno has, will
make application to the city council
for an automobile to enable him to
make the rounds of the city at night
to ascertain who has failed to lock
up his alley door. It will be steam
heated with a free lunch attach-
ment—the automobile.
We don't believe the report that
Editor R. A. White, of the El Heno
American, had made an attempt to
shufile off this mortal coil without
u ♦ .i « tti daba the benefit of clergy. Still we be-
W e would suggest to the El Reno . iion ,
, , ,i u' n t it «i.«t 1 eve that he had sufllcient cause for
contingent of the W . C. 1. U., that
the same after reading the silly gush
concerning Mr. White's attack of
diarrhoea at Enid, in Monday's
American.—Shawnee Quill.
they bring out their old spavin boy-
cot they tried to use on the Demo-
crat last spring during the Ross
campaign and use it to impress up-
on the minds of their scions, male
and female, that woe, is the portion
of he, she, or it who looketh upon
the llowing bowl when it is filled with
grape juice, bug juice or any other
kind of old juice
According to the Daily Leg-puller,
two or three hundred business houses
of this town have fallen into the
habit of forgettiug to lock their back
doors when they close up business
for the night. This practice should
be stopped. It not only raises the
suspicion of loose business habits of
our merchants, but it increases the charged with using their official
labor to an unbearable degree of tliej positions to assist relatives to file up-
"only" night policeman the town of on public land. Their respective
El Reno has ever had. terms of office expire in January
Senator Freeman E. Miller of
Stillwater, who is a member of the
territorial democratic committee, was
not present at the meeting yesterday
lie is visiting with friends iu Indiana,
his old home. It is claimed that on
his return to Stillwater he will go
into active training for the race for
the nomination to congress.
Emory D. Brownlee, register, and
J. V. Admire, receiver of the King-
fisher land office are among the num-
ber to have charges filed against
them at Washington. They are
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shof.rs of the people
GO SIT DOWN.
Some democratic newspapers are
worrying themselves about the
re-organization of the party. Ihis
is much ado about nothing. Demo-
cratic principles need no re-organiza-
tion, nor do they need amending
or trifling with. Let the would be
bosses go 'way back and sit down
and the rank and the file of demo-
crats, will find the very smooth and
very even way. Depend upon that.
—Tecumseh Standard.
Ed Smith, the man that was placed
in the city lock up on account of his
peculiar actions is insane and will b
taken to Norman as soon as the neces-
sary arrangements can be made. He
is violent at times and offers fight to
those that may be with him He
claims Chickasha as his home.
Married.
Edward W. Biois to Miss Sue C.
Thomas, at 8:30 o'clock yesterday
evening at the M. E. Church South.
The church decorations were said to
be very elaborate. Mr. Blois has been
clerking for Cook & Shriver for some
time and is well known to the people
of El Reno. The bride came here
from Bristol, Tenn., about two months
aga to visit with her sister, Mrs. Hawk.
The El Reno Dancing Club has
swallowed the El Reno Commercial
Club and the two clubs are merged in
one.
Editor White has probably real-
ized by this time that meteoric journ-
alism does not bunco the Oklahoma
merchant. They are pretty swift
but they don't go any faster than
their inclination urges them.—Shaw-
nee Democrat.
CALL AGAIN.
The Daily Leg-puller instead of
broadening its sphere of usefulness
as was hoped by its recent change
' of management, has simply become
1 a kiud of sewer pipe vent, for the
conveyance to the public eye, of the
mental excrement of every misfit
politician and sorehead in the coun-
try.
Yesterday it permitted a demo-
cratic oflice hunter and a deposed re-
publican editor to hash up a lying
screed against the mayor of El Reno
as to his lack of public enterprise,
etc.
The mayor of HI Reno was here
before the Daily Leg-puller; he was
here before the democratic office-
hunter, and he was also here before
the deposed editor of the Leg-puller
and had laid the foundation for a
good living for himself and family
without levying contributions on the
citizenship of the town, or preying
upon the generosity and forbearance
of his friends at home and abroad.
If the mayor of El Reuo was un-
der any obligations to the public or
any one else to answer to an annony-
mous screed, palmed off as the edi-
torial utterances of an acephalous
sheet, that obligation would end,
when the fact became known, that
the creature who penned it, was not
only an itenerant grafter from an-
other state, but without sufficient
force of character to cut his own
throat, when he really wanted to do
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Anderson-Davis.
A very pretty church wedding oc-
curred Christmas eve at the Baptist
churcn, at which Rev. Scott Anderson,
pastor of that church, and Miss Spur-
la Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. It.
H. Davis, were the contracting parties.
The church was beautifully decorated
and crowded to its utmost cap&city by
friends of the bride and groom. Rev.
Scott Anderson has been in El Reno
long enough to prove his ability as a
minister of the gospel and his sincer-
ity in church work. The bride is the
only daughter of Mr. and Airs. R. H.
Davis and is a pretty and accomplished
young lady. She is devoted to church
work.
A Christmas dinner was served in
honor of the bride and groom and the
attendants at the home of Mr. and
Mrs, R. H. Davis at South Rock Island
avenue, where the young couple will
be at home to their many friends.
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Hensley, T. F. The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 7, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 2, 1902, newspaper, January 2, 1902; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112263/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.