The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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turdav, ncimiir m. in*.
aniurl Rudy nnJ family, who ha.l
n visitini; at the taonit of Sol Kr i(l,
arted this morning for their home
Cherokc-e. Mr. and Mrs. Rud.v itc
parents of Mrs. Froa<l.
QUAKIR MEDITATIONS.
(From the Phllaile.p.iiH ltecorj.)
A j alou.s woman is the devil's
right bower.
It's wbtyi they lose that dice are
badly rattled.
The tenor doesn't always belonis to
the upper ten.
Fri
_
urn iu ufcout two weeks
>
M iSB Vina Hardy is visiting friends
Geary today.
The man who takes time by the
red Kvlber and fniuily departed (forolock tikes the cake. ,
morniiiK for a visit with home j Some people flatter themselves who! hurry on.
ks in I a.vton, Kansas. They will never flatter anybody else. ,
Many a woman ran change her i Hon. R. A Lyle, of Klngflsher, waB
mind without bettering it. i' the city this morning.
It's ail right to choose the least of j
two evils, but often there Is little, Rev H. C. Garrett went to Auadar-
cholcc |k° 'bU morning.
The average man will stand up for)
himself, even though ho may have to
eourao m«ou was served to the follow-1 ous left halfback and hooter Is auother
Ing: Misses Bessie Lowe. Grace Car- ! Delaware, while tlnlcntl comes from
ter; Messrs. Brady. Clyrnor, Hatchett the same tribe to which the Mausers
and Mrs. Dennis Brown. , belong, the Cheyenue. Exendlne, the
— . 1 former crack right tactile, is h Dela-
King Ed h:is ordered that hereafter] ware, and Owl. who plays fullback, is
"God Save the Kl\g" must be played also a Cke>ouue. Little Old Man.
faster. Well, y , if there's going to j the gaunt. stoop- hou!der\'d guard, is
be any saving d' ne iu that direction. , also a Cheyenne.
i somebody will ha"a to get an awful _
ATTEMPTED BURGLARY.
Safe at Long Bell Lumber Co., Fo
by Thieves.
An unsuccessful att nipt was made
between 1:30 and 2 o'clock today to
rob the safe at the office of the Long
Charley Beers went to Chattanooga J Bell Lumber company. The door of
this morning.
The Canadian county jail is labor
under a strain at present. It is
twenty-four-capacity jail, and it now . to 1,0 lf .
ids twenty-six prisoners. It was The coniposor who writes a lullaby.
,ught that several of the occupants I « « for the rocks. j Dau Genrich ,nd .1 I Sands are, they left without ^curing any booty,
nil,I be sent to the penitentiary soon.' 8o"'fi P'*0P«« couldn't make both looking lifter business matters in
t under a recent ruling of slate i ends meit In an abattoir. |Okar.he today.
the safe was forced open but the
thieves were evidently frightened as
AS
It doesn't do to tako the thought
for the deed in a real estate trans-
action.
Tho teeth of the gale demonstrate
that cold winds bite, but never bark.
The man who jumps at conclusions
doesn't always get there with both
feet.
The wise doctor always prescribes
a tonic for the nerves before he sends
In his bill.
la cold weather you don't have to
go to the postolllee to see people
stamping their feet.
icials convicts will be kept in the
nnty jails until they can be care.l.
In the new penitentiary in McOles-
N'o more Oklahoma convicts will
s-.'itt to the Kansas penitentiary.
Mrs Joseph Ladynnm died, Thurs
night, at the family home, 514
est Hays street, and was buried
sterday. .She leaves a husband, and
baby only two days old.
Mr and Mrs. J. 11. Maher left this
ternoon lor Omaha. Nebr., where
y will visit relatives for a week
Mr. and Mrs. F. K. Sunsoiu had as
The employes of the Marks-Higglns 'Unner guests yesterday. Mr. and Mrs.
Win. Devine and family. Mr. and Mrs
J. >1. Harklns and family and the j
guests of honor. Miss Maggie Reagan
of Hobart and Mr. Millard Jerniny of
Fall bury, Nebr. An elegant five
course dinner was served, and the
BUSY SESSION IS ALREADY
| SURED.
I'd Talbott, of the firm of Newell & ' Grandfather Clause Will be Invoked
TuilKitt, came down from Watonga to
compare business figures with the
main house in Kl Reno.
Rev. E. A. Rlppey and family, of
Temple, are visiting at the home of I
I. C. Bennington. Rev. Rlppey preach- j
ed a splendid sermon at St. John's'
church yesterday.
Formation of New Electian
Law.
Effort Will be Made by Hotel Men to
Reoeal the Nine Foot Sheet
Law,
mpany on Thursday evening present-
Mi'. Higgins with a handsome din-
on i Klk button as an appreciation
their good will and esteem, and the
rks in turn found a ten dollar gold
•ce in their stocking on Christmas
urn as a token of the firms appre-
itlon of their services.
P. J. Samon and wile of Medford,
kluaomu. are here visiting the family
James Salmon.
Temple Thornton, tin- negro who
Officer McDonald a few nights
;o, was arraigned in county court to
i.v, charged with transporting liquor
id with assault with intent to kill
e pleaded not guilty, to -both charges,
id will board in jail until the time
his trial, next week.
Pror. Howell denies emphatic:'^ \|
at he was a member of the kickers
).mn:iit< o which protested against
ivi in tho r< sid-nce district, and
at 1 - name should not have appenr-
t!: • ,-t> in the Democrat'
. ..,.'1 !h niro.
Guthrie, Okla., Dec. 2S.—LoM *sta
1 represent Iiir various Interests have al
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Paulsen left rAi|(|y b(1Rlm to invade Guthrie pre-
yesterdny for their home near Ana ■ pal-u|OI-j- to beginning work with the
larko. They were accompanied b> gecoud legislature, which meets here
Mrs. Paulsens mother, Mrs. A. R. Con- ^ week from Tuesday. Some of these
"oily. represent organizations of the stute
• which are asking the repeal of some
Will Prince spent Christmas wltli i Qf th), |#wi pa!isoj by thp Kirst legis-
home tolks In LI Reno and returned 1 n 11VIVS or the enactment of new meas-
to Enid this morning.
Is some talk that enemies of
believes, would have a tendency tu I pern. Mitchell and Morrison from co-
reduce materially the tire loss of the | ing to jail.
state and Iu turn effect a rvduttlop of Tli« men have take:: an appi I from
tho rates. j tjie supreme court i f the District of
The i* mutual lire and hall lnsur | Columbia tn the I .1 States clr-
■ nce coinisinies of the state will, asK ( eplt court of appeals aud had no dif-
fer legislation permitting mutual com , Ucultv in furnishing tho required
ponies to maintain a reserve fund At ' bond.
present, with no reserve fund, the The appeal of tho ca*o will prob-
losses in some years exceed the ^ ably consume a year. Of course at
premiums collected and those com-; that time Mr. Roosevelt will uot
panics are sometimes uuable to pay president. What his successor will
the tuil aiuonnt of their losses ; do in case the District of Colunibin
The insurance men over the state 1 court is upheld by the United States
111 demand the enactment of a Ju^. j elrcplt cuurt Is a matter of conjec-
and equitable general insuiance lai . lure. ,
The law which was considered by the I Among politicians the prevalent
legislature last year w as unsatlsfac ; opinion is that Gompers, Mitchell and
tory slid was killed after it had been Morrison will never serve Jail terms,
considered for weeks by both houses, whatever the result of the case pend-
The repeal or extension amendment ] lug in court.
of the gi'neral eloctlou law is demand j
•d from all over the state. The ex ILLINOI8 PARTIES PROPOSE TO
treine southern Democratic elerant *LOCATE BIG PLANT HERE.
will demand the udoptlon of a "Grand '
Father" clause to further restrict the Will Employ Many Men and Suppty-
negro vote, fchlcli a more conscrva- Market cf Large Scope of Country
live element will demand a more lib South and West.
ernl election law than the one now j Motion Brothers, of dixon, llli
In lorce with a repeal of the red tape nols, are In the city, seeking a loco
features of the resignation clause, tlon for a large planing mill. They
The Republicans in the legislature ,,re infatuated with El Reno, and the
will ask for the enactment of a gen- indications are that they will decide
oral election law which will throw upon Kl Reno as their future home,
the most rigid restrictions around elec- The rapid growth ot the city and the
lion thieves, ai the same time making vast region which can be easily and
the provisions of Hie laws so liberal readily reached from here have lm-
that any quiilllied elector may cast pressed them so favorably that they
Ills vote, without unnecessary red have about concluded that they need
will
table was prettily decorated with holly
and mistletoe.
Word eonies tu the Democrat that a
tires.
There
Governor r N. Haskell will try to
MONDAY, DECEMBER 28. 19C .
nimibi r of tramps are making their jmyp introduced a resolution for an
of the city. There is one gang quar-
tered at the "Y" in the south part of
tow n. another crowd are encamped
jlist west of the city anil the juue-
Davis arrived here last nlglit, from ; tlon Is the rendezvous of another
Hot Springs, and was taken to the! crowd. It is a notable fact that there
habitat along the tracks in the vicinity cbmont trial of the governor,
rlaimiug that the disclosures made
■Jill-ins the campaign, which resulted
In the governor's il'slgnallou from
tli' treasuryship of the national Demo-
cratic committee, were of sufficient
report, puli-
Frend, who is now engaged in
as a barber in Enid, was mar
lursday evening lo Miss Emma
- n of that city.
force to warrant such proceedings.
Ellis Home and kept there until morn-'are a number of tramps on the streets |lH1.(nv believed, however, that
ing, win. n it was r ent to Enid for j every day and something should be (|(.^ movement will meet much en-
burial. Davis liail been an Elk, and an! done at once to rid the city ot them.; (.ttt|vagenient. It is said thai this
escort of Elks from Enid Judge met the " «or.>metit is being encouraged by
boilj here and accompanied it to that, E. C ltohker returned from Shaw ilearsst representatives who have In
city.
S. I,. Thomson has brought suit,
against .1. N. Lama lo rescind contract.
Thomson traded bis livery outfit to
I.ama a few days ago, for land near
Weatherford, and claims that he was
givi 11 ti e worst of It ill the deal
. Okla . last evening, where lie
spent the holidays with his son
Charley and family.
SUIT TO ANNUL MARRIAGE.
Lieutenant Govt rnor
lamy left for Guthrie
It"
B *
iallock's force made
present of a fine
n tliis morning. H. M
to snv but wore a
bin
a
^ator
. had
rrangenienis for tin
unto on next Moud
ieo. W.
day to con
opening i
iv mornini
Dillv
r W
to sell, ill
i'l t
iwell will
Liberty, 1
1 days. 1
in Iowa,
ord*r to 1
this
wn, to in
r *
liicli he
vest the
rite.
Ella Classen Says Perry Made False
rrocunng License.
Ella Clason lias filed suit for rl-
voree from Perrv Clason. Tho parties
reside north of Calumet. The petition
recites that they were married on
iu Oklahoma.
It is slated on good authority that
friends of Attorney General West In
the legislature will Introduce a bill
defining clearly the duties of that offi-
cer and giving liini the Initiative and
tape and be sure ,that his volt
be counted,
The commercial .Interests of the
state will demand the submission of a
proposed constitutional amendment re
look no farther for a location. The
plant which they propose to ectab-
lish here is large and complete, and
will furnish employment to mailt
men. The gentlemi n are especially
pealing the clause of the constitution pleased with the splendid shipping fa
which prohibits the consolidation of cilltlcs of El Reno, and with the cu
two or more lines of railway in the j couragenient, which they have receiv-
state. It is pointed out that tin- older ed from the citizens* Their plant will
roads always have their extensions turn out everything that is made in
built by independent companies who, planing mill and they expect to liud
alter tile line is completed, sell it lo a market lor their products all over
the other company. Railroad officials the southwest. Ii will be ow of the
point out that Ibis Is the way almost largest planing mills in the state.
all new construction is secured. Under .—
the present terms of tin construction SUGAR MILLIONAIRE EXPIRES IN
this procedure is Impossible and the CALIFORNIA.
heads of several of the leading rail-
'ptetllle
ii.ler tin'
as only
Hill.
■ lit -
when
w as
1 lint,
j his
bride
ill a "d Teniiny a former El Reno |
is here from Fairhttry. Nebr.. I
pen. .g the holidays with friends. |
W.
Miss
iinl t'l
Anderson nr.il Me
apman played for
<srs. Pitts
• the Wood
Vmli■ i -1mi was tin1 guest id Mr. ;
tirs 11 lowiIt'll. wiiih iu Yukon.
Mr. and Mrs. John Roup and datigh-
:. Eva. are here from Iiewey. Okla
loniit. visiting at the home of C. \\ .
leers. Mrs. Roup and Mrs. Beers are
ister .
1;. '' :' manager of tlie compress
spent Christinas with his mother ai
bickasha.
*r. nnd Mrs. .1. S Tucker and Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Tucker, of Cortland
Kansas, ale ill the city visiting rela
lives. Tile gentlemen are brothers of
Mrs. Frank Kraft and cousins of
Frank Anstinf. Tliey are merchants
il bankers In their home town, and
Hie two franks—Anstine and Kraft-
singing to tlieni their sweetest
songs about El Reno, and trying liaid
to induce them to renounce their alle-
iance to Kansas and locate ill this
Mr. and Mrs. 11. S. Williams left this
afternoon for a visit at the home of
Mis. Williams' parents. Mr. and Mrs.
T
Slatti ii. who i-- : 'a t' ring the.
new residence on John Allen's t
south of Cereal, say ■ that during j
present year nearly a dozen |
splendid farm residences have been |
built w ithin two or three miles of the |
Allen place. Canadian county Is
keeping right up with Kl Ileno in the
the
] improvement lm
he was
and Perry
f the con-
not given,
ore that he and
• of legal age.
Tie v were married and lived together
two weeks, when she left liini. She
is now of nge. and asks to have the
marriage annulled.
PETE HAUSER A FAVORITE.
Former Ha-kell Player Now One of
the Very Greatest.
road companies operating in Oklahoma
have staled that there will be nothing
doing toward new construction in Ok
lahoma until this feature of the con-
stitution is repealed
The coining legislature will be al
llbei ty to repeal the --cent fare clause
of the constitution, if so disposed, as
it is subject to change or repeal by
and pressure probably will Vic brought
lo hear by railroad interests for such
repeal.
which i Hie l-irg-
which prodltc d 13,*
Pneumonia Claims the Head of
Famous Millionaire Family
of Pacific.
the
The oil ii
,-t In the
no.ono barr
maud the
nil
will 1"
t!
upon tin
nl
V
lion and
ing IS
ii id I float loll of
•ea passed by
uprising both
nl
nival
In
lie
non
Pi te Salmon
been visiting i
James Salmon,
for their home
and family,
t the home
departed tills
at Medford.
who had
of Col. ]
morning .
The brilliant work of Pete Houser,
till' famous Carlisle halfback, is tio
surprise to the close students of the
game. Nobody who followed the
young Cheyenne's career with the
Haskell Indiana doubted his ability
to make good with the Carlisle team.
Many remember that tile only
made by Haskell against tli
i cagoes in 190:1 wer
.lltn Hightower spent Sunday with j Hnuser.
his family, in this city , and returned (
today to the cocklebur country at Nor-j
man.
Mrs. J. T. Parsons departed this |
morning for Hutchinson, Kansas to |
spend holiday week with her parents.'
made
scores
Chi-1
hv Pete'
Hauser went to Haskell in 1S02
from Oklahoma. His brother. En,11,
who is now playing left tackle on the
' Carlisle team under the name of
to cultivate a' Waukesha, was then a tackle on the
e to a beautiful I western eleven. Although Pete was
Id head, which then but 16 years old, he soon
"j j. Cody—I class on the gridiron
close of the season was playing sub
in ta
mi to tin
ill be call
tlonal slat
lppropriatlon f
intf of a stale nit utln
school ami to ndil buUdir
facilities i<> the state in
tttl Hshc«l bv the first legislati
It is doubtful \vhrtln r the
U'tii-lalmv can met all the
made upon it in the short si
sixty days to which it will he
The legislature may prolong
sion more than sixty days,
members will receive only 5
tl«.
cliools
build
s and
itutinn
its
but
after the xpiration of that tin
is not likely that the solons will linger
at Chithrie long aft r the limitation ot
tln ir sixty days ;it salaries that will
not pay their hotel bills.
Great Hen Show.
With thou
showed
and before the
Christmas
daughters.
pre
C. Hot hell, in Hock Island township,
(lus Tackson, who travels out of 1*7.
Ueno ior the Douglas Candy company
of St. Joe, Missouri, went to the lat-
ter city today to attend the annual
meeting and banquet of the members
;ind traveling representatives of the j
company.
Mrs. T. B. Moore of 717 South Miles |
[entertained her pastor. Rev. H. C. j
Uiarrett and family and Rev. Price ^
pad wife at an old fashioned Methodist |
I'inner on Thursday. December 24. I
u'he occasion was the ."Villi birthday of i
Mrs. Moore and her guests extended |
iheir appreciation anil wished her'
(ii any happy returns of the day.
Joseph Cracker, who moved to Ok-
City a few day? ago. is here
looking aftir business ftftllft.
J. Cody is trying
limp, so as to do justic
ehonv cane with a gc
bears the inscription.
Fro the Girls." The cane was- a
from Mr. Cody .end.
The next year Coach Herrnstein,
Ohio Slat s present coach, recogniz-
' ed the youngster's ability and placed
him at right end. He rapidly develop-
(l good kicking qualities, and at the
Charley Matthews was in Chick- j end of the season was booting the ball
•sterday. examining a stock of | very well.
lie was If rrnstein's chief standby
n the Chicago game of 19o:j, and he
R. Connolly left today for a few
visit at Anadarko.
as ha* >
goods which he will bring to El Renol
aud sell at auction.
Rev. Sehenberger, of Clay Center,
Kansas, is conducting a series of
meetings this week in the Evangelical
|church.
Ebert Clymer left today for St.
Louis to resume his studies, in the
St. Louis medical college.
Will Stewart of Oklahoma City visit
ed with fi'iemls in this city yesterday.
Mis. S. K. Roberts who is attending
a medical college in St. Louis is here
spending the holidays.
Miss l.ouise Hatchett entertained
few friends Saturday evening with
dinner party. Tile rlejant live
on behalf of the state ami ninktiR it
Impossible for the governor to order
the dismissal of a suit instituted by
the attorn > g' neral. as was the case
111 the I'raiti, oil and gas >'tit.
'I'l ■ organization of hotel men will
demand the r peal of the nine-foot
sit law, having decided upon Midi
action al a recent convention. It is
stale,1 that the law has many featun
that are i.sent d by the hotel men
as undue Interference with their per-1
somil liberty in conducting their u n
business, and it i- reported that some j
of the hotel men of the state have
flatly refused to comply with the re-
quirements of the law.
The newspaper publishers of ti "
slate will ask the enactment of n law
permitting a more equitable distribu-
tion of I lie state printing anil will op-
pose the establishment of a state
printing plant. The features of the
, present law. which penult the letting
of the contract for the printing of all
the flection ballots to one printing
house will be opposed and an amend
liient sought permitting the ballots
to be printed in each county. The
newspaper men will also ask for II; 1
elimination from the present primary
election the provision which requires
all "boosts" of candidates to be labeled
"political advertising" and to bear the
price of the advertisement In plain
letters and figures at the head of the
notice.
The state banking board announces
that the only amendment it will pro
pose to the depositors guarant- •• 1; 1 j
will he one permitting the banking
commissioner and tile banking hoard i
to limit the number of banks that may j
be established In ativ one town.
recognizing the danger of the estab-
lishment of too many new banks un-
der the depositors guri intee -' -1 • i i-
Other amendments to the banking law
will be proposed by the state hankers.
one to permit a fixed and equitable
annual assr e.ent of a small frac-
tion of 1 per c tit SO that the banker-
may know lust what, they will have
to pay- into the guarantee fund faeh
year, anil another to permit the reten
lion in tho banks of the amount levied
for the assessment, each bank to put
up a certificate of deposit subject to
sight draft at any time by the state, j p rs. \ ii I
Slate Insurance Commissioner .Mc- Secretary Morrison, of the Ainetii.i i
Comb will ask for the enactment of a j federation of Labor, now under sen-
fire marshal law so that the causes of .tone for contempt of court, attention
all fir s may be Investigated and re- is call! d to the
that helped them stow away their ol't s ported to the insurance department, hire still b fore tlu
enemies, Kansas university and Ne-jjjr MeConib believes that a large, ter what the president's opinion may
liraska. Both of the Mausers are also proportion of the fires |n Oklahoma be as to the justness of the sentences
known In baseball circles, ar(1 (,r incendiaiy origin ami that de-1 imposed, he cannot take inn action
In addition to Pete and his brother, |rctivrs should be employed under; a ; looking to pardon <>r expri
Oklahoma has furnished other good Kta)(, pire marshal to Investigate to. ion as to the merit
players for tile Carlisle squad. 1-ong. ,|^termine whether fires are of Incen- j The president
a Delaware, plays left guard; Aiken, ,|lary origin and ir so, to arrest and tions from labor unions all over the
a Oneida, also has made quite a repu-' ]ltosecute the guilty parties This I I uited States urging him to
tatlon in the line. Thorpe, the fiun- gystein, the Insurance commissioner •leclltlre clemeac
San Kranclsco, Cal„ Dee. "S.—Clans
Spreckbs, the famous sugar million-
aire. died from the effects of an attack
of pneumonia early Saturday. Mr
Speekh s recently returned from
here he "as suffering from the effects
of a cold which developed into pneu-
monia.
lie was not thought lo be seriously
ill but lii.
oily McntlHi
i • k 11
i lolpli Speekh s.
d with tli graft
eiry. who was In
I ol hi. fatlii r's
I home, arriving
ier Nippon.
Ipri ekles are John
■lor of the Morn-
nt of the Oceanic
and prominently
\ business inter-
and Mrs. Kmnia
Wat
all
Omaha, Neb.. 1) <*. -!■
sands of exhibits from
Missouri valley, the Trans Mississippi
Poultry and Pet Stork Association to-
day opened its annual show in this
city. Many millions of dollars are
annually added to the w.-alth of this
s.'ction by the industrious hen. and
,« r Outsit! of being at one time known
, s_ ;is the "sugar king." Mr. SpiveMes
is chi"!!' remembered for the part he
inp pi * • e.i in thi• annexation of Hawaii.
,,js 11. - u;i ;11 Honolulu when Queen I -il
of was deposed and the provisional gov -
«<d. I'nnient established in 181)3. At once
application for annexation to the
its I 'nitcd States wa made, but President
lay Cleveland took Mi's side of the contro-
ls verM and a republic was established,
with Sanborn 1 . Dole, a friend of
Hp reck h and former associate judge
of the superior court under the mon-
archy. as first president It was not
until Is'. s. under the administration
of president McKinh y. that Hawaii
\n,is forui;i1'> annexed to the 1'uited
States and a governor appointed.
Spreekles was said to have financed
ion.
authorities say that
tie poultry industr>
e income
rapidly in
Of late
Spreekles ii
taken by h
finance,1 th«
and the ot
Rudolph Sj
east and w;
the plat'
public e'
n, Jiudolii
of
Claus
been
lltion of Abe Reuf
rseo graft' rs. Mr.
WILL
NOT MAKE STATEMENT
ABOUT GOMPERS.
made good. After the Maroons had
scored 12 points, the 17-year-old end
kicked a 45-yard goal, which made the
Chicago players sit up and take notice.
After the Maroons had totalled 17
points. Pete got the ball on Chicago's
36-yard line and plowed through the
entire team for a touchdown.
In 1904 Pete again played with the
Haskellites. It was his great work
Labor Unions Throughout Country
Have Bombarded White House
for Clemency.
Washington, i> c L's
statement is- ucd froi
Mouse iu regard to pi■
it : • nee in the cases of
In nn offlci
the Whi
idential intc
■ i - -.ii 'it (i
iet that the cast-
courts. and no mat-
of the
has receiv
any optn-
>d resolu-
■ xercise
and prevent Ooiw-
J15,COO TO CLEAN PITTSBURG.
Andrew Carneg e Said to be the Graft
Exposer.
Pittsburg. Dec L'S. It is nl that
Andrew Carne^i ha- put up *1>.-
000 in order to clean up Pittsburg
morally, following the municipal brib-
ery scandal. The storv told in the
I)n Quesue and other fashionable clubs
is that the same men who told Pitts-
burg conditions to President Roosevelt
also went to Andrew Carnegie and
laid an array of facts before him.
The decision was. according to. ru-
mors, that he authorized the expendi-
ture of $15,000 in detective work. He
1 is said to have taken the same stand
that Mr Spreekles did 111 cleaning up
Sun Francisco. _
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The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1908, newspaper, December 31, 1908; El Reno, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc120827/m1/3/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.