Oklahoma Leader. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 23, 1902 Page: 1 of 8
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ONE YEAR
FOR ONLY
50c
STANDS ^OR
DEMOCRACY
First, last and
All the time
VOLUME 10
TWELVE PAQE8.
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 1902
TWELVE PAQE8.
NUMBER 39
V 1
MINE REGION IS ACTIVE.
Wilketbarre, Pa., Oct. 22.—'Thou-
sand* of men began work today re-
pairing mines and placing the col-
lieries in condition for the general
resumption of coal mining which will
take place throughout the anthracite
region tomorrow. Those men who are
directly engaged in cutting and hand-
ling coal will not, under the decision
of the convention, return to work un-
•tll tomorrow. While there were thou-
sands of men who were able to again
begin earning their dally bread today,
there were hundreds who were disap-
pointed when they applied to the
superintendent of the collieries where
FUTILE EFFORT TO
TEMPT CALLAHAN.
Ca.sh Cade and his dido ring of
blood-suckers are growing desperate j
Cash Register Cade is kept busy i
writing check, and he fs quite liberal f
with the amounts.
The negroes are up in arms against
the federal office holder®' machine j
ticket in Kingfisher county and they I
are "gwine" to lay it low. This, ja |
spite of the fact that Amos Ewing
has tried and tried to throw much of j
his highly inspected oil on the troub-1
led wate.s, but the negro stands firm.
Now comes the news that Cash
Register Cade hati concluded to send
they formerly worked. They were s two Guthrie rpellbinding negroes to
principally steam men. engineers, fire- Sklnflsher to hotairelize the negroes
men and pump runners who struck in'° line-
on June 2 for an eight hour day and Tlle Knl(i Wave says:
also to help the miners win their bat- J Sid Clarke, it is alleged, received
tie. These men wanted their old al,out $3,000. and Lord only knows
places bacj<, but in many instances j 'low much of the Republican Cash j
the companv officials refused to dls- Cade cash that Tom Hensley of El
charge those who stood by them Keno >s gobbling up. howe<ver, it is
during the strike. There were many reported that Tom is to be appointed
in the Wyoming valley, however, who I'postmaster of El Reno for his trouble,
were fortunate 'enough to find em- 11 's reported that the Republican
ployinent. Company officials maintain power purchasing machine has offered
that they will not discriminate against! th® Hon. J. Y. Callahan $5,000 if he
union or non-union men and tha,t work would jump out and make a speech
will bet given all when there are va- j similar to Sid Clarke's recent costly
cancies. speech. All he would have had to do
During the strike the companies j would be to simply get up and read
were jcompelled to employ many In- j it aloud. Be it said that Mr. Calla-
com patent men to help keep the I han spurned the offer, but just think
mines free from watec- or from of the temptation the devils placed at
"squeezing'' as the result of lack of j the feet of an honest man. all for the j
proper timbering. Th'e strikers feel j purpose of deceiving and duping the j
that a majority of these workmen j masses.
I
■will gradually l p dismissed and more
competent men engaged A mine
worker today said:
■"The superintendents are turning
down a good many men on the ground
That they are not needed. This is
only a 'bluff.' and they will be glad to
get our men in a day or two."
PROF. SPANGLER DEAD.
Had Been Prominently Identified With
University of Kansas,
'V«
(By Associated Press.1
Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 22.—A spec-
ial to the Star from Lawrence Kas .
says:
Wm. C. Spangler, aa;ing chancellor
of the University of Kansas in 1889
and 1890 and again from 1900 to 1902,
died this morning of consumption.
He had been in failing health many
months and was barely alive to re-
main at his post as head of the uni-
versity until after commencement last
June. Prof. Spangler was born in
The Republican management seeing
the hand writing on the sky over- J
hanging the fhree new counties which J
reads: "Comanche, Kiowa and Caddo!
counti'es will give Bill Cross a major-
ity. combined, of 12,000 votes," have
jerrymandered the precincts horribly
in favor of the Republican ticket and j
t..ere Is evidence in view to prove i
that the Republican inspectors and j
judges of the election, appointed by I
the federal office holding machinery,
and who will be in the majority on |
each and every election board in those j
counties, to apparently make errors j
in the election and the returns so J
that the Republican returning board |
can throw the vote of those counties I
out if necessaiy to secure the election j
of McGulre. Now , dear reader, is not |
the above chapter of political chican-
ery, fraud and Bishonesty, enough to
turn tlia stomach of an honest liberty i
loving, patriotic American citizen?
The Republican management of this \
campaign will not stop in its determi- j
nation to carry this election, for d'ele-1
gate to congress, at least, fair or foul j
Illinois in 1859. He came ito Kansas
in 1870 and graduated with honors and to th* disfranchisement of the I
from the university here tn both the voifp of th* Pe°P,e of tha tenltoiy.
arts and law departments He was j
connected with the institution at va- GEORGE JOHNSON QUITS
rious limes as law school lecturer! THE GANG. |
and twice as regent. He was regent j
at the time of his death. He was city I Resigns from County Committee In j
attorney of Lawrence the past fifteen | Protest Against Republican
. Ring.
DISTRICT COURT. Guthrie, Okla., Oct. 22, 1902. J
In the district court this morning | To the Hon. Chairman and Secretary j
M. Nowland filed suit against Harry
A. Carson to quiet title to lots five,
six, seven and eight, in block seventy-
three, Capitol Hill. Mintonye and
Jones are the attorneys for the plain-
tiff.
Sarah EX Smith asks that (she be
granted a divorce from John B. Smith.
She also asks that she be restored to
her mainden name, Sarah A. Bosley.
of the Republican County Central
Committee.
I, George D. Johnson, do hereby,
this, th'4 22d day of Oatober, 1902,
tender my resignation as county com-
mitteeman for the Fifth ward in the
city of Guthrie, Gkla.
Respectfully submitted,
Geo. D. Johnson.
I have quit the gang.
REPUBLICAN LIES HURT.
Dates of Hon. H. H. Hagan
and Hon. P. Y. Brinton. [
Arapaho, Thursday, October 23, 8 Abu" and c"um"y Bri"9ing votes
to Democratic Ticket.
There has been a remarkable
m
The gentleman looks with ap-
proval upon the hot biscuit, and
willingly puts aside his most in-
teresting morning paper for them.
Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder
makes hot biscuit, muffins and
hot-breads light, delicious and
wholesome, which are a tempta-
tion to a good breakfast for the man, woman and child.
Food raised with Price's Baking Powder is unfermented,
never sours in the stomach, and may be eaten in its most
delicious state, fresh and hot, by persons of all temperaments
and occupations, without fear of unpleasant results.
PRICE BAKING POWDER, CHICAGO, U. S. A.
Hobart, Friday, October 24, 8 p. m
. , o i . „. . , change of serttiment in Logan county
Anadarko, Saturday night, October " ® •
^ m j toward the Democratic candidates the
' p m past week. The voters have investi-
j gated the absurd charge® made by
©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©j Republicans and they are incensed at
FLYNN REITERATES.
© | the attempt to play them for suckers.
Washington correspondence to j Said one Republican farmer this
Kansas City Journal, Oct. 19: © morning:
©, "I had about made up my mind to
© vote the Republican ticket straight,
© but I've changed my mind. If th'a
© | Republican candidates will lie and
*51 spread scandal during a campaign,
© j 'they will be corrupt when in office.
© JI will have none of them."
©
© i Licensed to Marry.
© I Marriage licenses were issued to-
Delegate Dennis T. Flynn of
Oklahoma, has returned to
Washington with his family
He expresses himself very confi-
dent that the senate next
December will pass the house
omnibus territorial bill. Mr.
Flynn said the people of his
country were waiting eargerly
for statehood, and they fully
believed his bill to admit Okla- © day to the following:
homa would be passed by the
senate during the first days of
the next session, whether a
Republican or Democratic dele-
gate was elected.
1 © © © © © © © © © © © © © £
© | Claude C. Clothier, aged 27. and
© I Miss Jennie M. Massey. aged 23, both
of Guthrie.
Geo. W. Spet. aged 32, of Gutlhrle
© and Miss Elizabeth Woodward, aged
22. of Cashion.
Lees Summit, Mo., Oct. 22.—T'l i fragments carried off until butl little
body of Jim Younger, the bai dit. who except the bare writing was left.
shot himself at St. Paul, arr've.l here j
today, and probably will be buried in secretary F. B. Lucas of the Com-
:ne family lot tomorrow. I he pall mercial club, has received a letter
bearers have been selected from fl.om Paul Morton aecond vicd presl.
loungers former Missouri friends, dent 0f gan{a stating that the
several of whom knew him from National Association of Merchants and
childhood and served with the Young- TraveleriJ of Chicago will be in Guth-
ers under Quantrell. When the cof- rlo November 5th, from 4 to 6 p. m.
fin arrived it was seen that many -j^e C|u{, |g preparing a big reception
splinters had been cut from the pine for the vlBltors and when lhe dele.
box enclosing it, presumably by relic ' gatlon arrlves lt w|u be mv,t at th0
Winters who had met the funeral j depot and! be glven a drive around the
party at different points along the city A reception and banquet is also
route from the north. | being talked of at which short speech-
The four corners had been whittled es will be made by prominent citi-
with knives and long slivers cut off zens, with responses by the visitors,
and carried away. Along the top of (The association Is on a tour of the
the lid wherever entrance could be Southwest and as Guthrie will be the
obtained for the point of a knife van-j only stop the association will make
dais had desecrated the casket of the
dead bandit. Tuclred under the un-
dertaker's card was the waybill pro-
viding for the transportation of the
body. Even it had been torn and
in Oklahoma a big meeting is being
planned by the citizens.
Harrison avenue, near the corner of
Division street, resumed an appear-
ance that' was familiar in previous
years when Guthrie held the banner
as the biggest, cotton market in Ok-
lahoma. There were thirty bales of
the fleecy article all of which were
the property of Hon. Miles Allen, of
Meridian. The sight presented was
mo;t gratifying and the "old settlers'*
were busy with reminiscenses of the
good old days when Harrison avenue,
from Second to Division streets, was
blockaded with loads of cotton. "It
look* good to me." was the usual re-
mark.
Chicago, III., Oct. 22.—Five parsons
are known to be dead, while seventeen
ar© unaccounted for, as a result of
tihe fire that destroyed the plant: of
the Corn Producers company, West
Taylor street and the river, last night.
Four of the unaccounted for are
thought to be alive, ae three men
were seeu escaping down th'e water
pipe during the progress of the Are
and one was seen to jumt> Into ths
river.
The known dead:
Otto Trap, Ed'ward Steinke, uniden-
tified body; two unidentified bodies of
vlcitms wso died this morning.
Frank Rothenburg, foreman of the
plant, who was reported as dead last
night, was not in the building at the
time. The loss to the building Is In
the neighborhood of four hundred
thousand dollars.
The coijnty board of elections is in
see-ion this afternoon in the office of
County Clerk Dobson. W. M. En
gart, J. B. Dobson and C. H. Fllsoo
are the members of the board.
Work on the west abutment on
Harrison avenue If nearly half com-
pleted.
United States Marshal W. D. Fos-
sett has returned from a business trip
to Kingfisher.
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Niblack, Leslie G. Oklahoma Leader. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 23, 1902, newspaper, October 23, 1902; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc121593/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.