The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1903 Page: 1 of 10
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OK LAHOMA'', MAY 1, 190".
DEDICATION OF THE WORLD'S FAIR BUILDINGS
IN ST. LOUIS YESTERDAY ILLUSTRATED
HT&sss
Mr1
liied in Powder
t; o!'
n FOREST FIRES
Thieaten Destruct' >n of Prop-
erty Valued at O ie Million 1
uEAf UlNRtCOGNIZABLEi
jnd About Strewn
mnants of What
' Human Forms
oil Wells May Be
Ignited.
ol Ij-tsuri, Pa , April Jfi- Th- „!
> p ■ it of tho Cn scent Powder C
Qsn ock, about ion miles south of
t, w. wrecKcd by four expionloi
morn uk (->f the thirty employes
'i« weie killed outright und ah tin
hers were badly injured by l .
•■•■r about iho building :u which th"
•re employed.
The dead.
I KANK McKEENAN.
K' S3 IvEiNMJJl',
TiliURQE FAY.
^NDRhW GABRILLAC.
charlk3 ross
WILLIAM LYONS
ViLiSEPPE MA LEO.
FRAN KSTKA88EK.
joi n patrovlnski.
The igea of tne dead ra.iged from 1
to J& year*. Seven of them wore Amor
ms und tw;i ltall.' The list of lnju j
1 included Adatn Taggart, jf Pittsburg i
the bui rint« ident oi ihe impany
The first < .plosion occurred emong the j
materia) in the mixing house blowing!
It 't buj ding to almost nothing Fire j
- 1 • se ii the buildings to complete the
chapter ol horrors, the bodies of the
J «irc unrecognizable and tho country '
v..1' • v.-ere once human forms The j
the resertetl i int c mtinued
•«w ut the day und no person ven I
t'ire ir t..« doomed sti uctuivs. '«* • '
lag -ntal explosion Then* ir*- .. j
£i« of dynamite stored m i he build
in*: greater calamities ... diet- I
.mother explosion ucc ., The j
farmers hr.vo docked Imo the
. Wiiuatnsburg 1 >i refin.. The '
'Hint was a' i I * n
I i ;TRl'CliVi FOREST FIRES
li ck, I i «0 - I *• for-
est story of this - • ion
<•. isylvinit are in progress !
nirtl.' o ,j i , iv worth J..1
p>i' '< '/( y *J&
W*i '
C«f^: W
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r&*v P(*kac t
Tlir aimCSiuS CSDl.'ATtB
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THE STATE CAPITAL
Boole and btatlonory Store.
I IIIDAY MOU.M'
M M HER
►
► WEATHER.
► Washington. Ar
I t ' < I i. ■ ti
Friday
Rain
and Freezing Weather Disagreeable
Flandicap to the Occasion.
I rODAV'S
8t IXIUI5. Mo
PROGRAM
AT ST. LOUIS
April 30.—Followlt
ir t r *mnrrow :
mt^mbrrR of the dlplo- j
repsentntlves of foreign ;
)>■ exponltlon, and other
II assemble at the 8L
will be yll. d
'OKLAHOMA WAS THERE Willi BOTH FEE1
President Roosevelt Gave Oklahoma More Marked Attei^
'ion Than Any Other State Except New York--Frlsco
Special Handsomest Train Into St. Louis-Mas-
terful Speeches by Roosevelt and Cleveland,
M. Thurston of the
s|fC: ■ : T*y. "
v. ' < ''fa-' ' • '. v';
MR. B:\YAIN
MAKES A STATEMENT!
. tk Li i
Bhi'
' had.
April
the fol
Kill bo laid
of the pi
vnn's attention Ii
idveKlsIng matt
iwlng statfi
dins und foi
the
Oklah<
a m Saturday. Oklahi
Mi. I.lu.lfll (iimI ftH ti,,, lol.i.i.-- 'eh,.
I 1 ;■ tik of ('emitter. .,n invltaii'in
I'-nny, and <'.ishl. r Sohlburj,' of
of J. W.
The I t
- sufefe'ijlS
This romlnBtlon halftone llluptrates the Imposing reremonle.s hdd at St. Louis yesterday to dedicat" the VVor .1 i
.IS of the Exposition presented the buildings. President Roosevelt made the «PMot> of the day and he by
Gibbons rendered the lnvo«- tion. FnoMlng Ihe nerdM the most InpaOq g military nag 'ant ever seen la the West
I'nJted States troops and militia from cvry .s;aic.
"■en called to -ibout
hlch rep- I at the p|,
conuwction with se\-
1nt< n«tr«1 in Wyom-1 Si
.-lutement was d«- 11
v. as t'rst printed, I ml F
I company lias us. <1 u,
11 * .1 th 'ti as mi ad- ! u
md denial, i to
National, will giv.
tlft y
K la In.
Friday night
eial with Ho bifr bnnnera
i'st train that came Int.
flit-it is.'Hget Agent J.
1 •• deling I"r< Ivht Agent
nd ha
ha.
t'lla, oil ifinds i
♦•land. Ca:
s compos
did Us
VVslLMllly '\a
St. Louie. Tin
If proud Willi
the Oklahoma11«>,
i Agent Al< x I 111-
■ I to the vlHltura
F. II. GREER.
/ LTL
HFf.PPAT
coal drposits,
CALAMITY AT FRANK
FIFTEEN HUNDRED DELEGATES
ATTEND MEETING AT TOPEKAii
DEDICATION IN DETAII*
Si Louis. Mo., April .'{0 The buildings
ot the Louisiana Put chase exposition
wtv toilay flint ill. d.dicated to their
purpose with all possible- pomp
In •
. ry way
nlv.
sal i
, the <
i«nd thLs
at her
• rtls-
v ind bl-w fll rcely
Ing nrrat elouds of
i faces of the tioopM
i tlie president, and
Indlng tin prt'sldenI
impossible for him
et i
th«
cloc.
the past
•eek.
-nn«d the smouldei
rnto a roaring mass of flam.
Wateunville, i,.n n.i.vs
city Is reported as bel'.g <l.
It is feared that u num . i of 11
been lost, the hi t w id Loiii
nbout two o'clock at lh>t ti-
on ail sides of the plac an.i
pie were fearful ol b dng i irtti '
a: that ti . as tnere a - no \
es.M ne. 'i wasth«la.si icard
(juurter.
At Simpson, where th
. lat-jj
.-d Ui<
numoi'i
gre
wells
tleii
a. s of flam - .
ot two mil-'-
path The r
«u tae woods were
'hlch swept over an
.. r, everything in
Panic Stricken Flee From Their Homes-Millions ■:
of Limestone Continue to Slide Down on 1 op
That Already Deposited in the City
Piir.cipal Address Was That of Rev. Chas. M.
the Noted Author-Responses of Welcome
Made by Many-A Fine Meeting.
Sheldon,
Were
>! PEItATURE.
ength of the
SeattL . W.i
the Times fi <
The people
fled today tit
of tho horr
A pi il 30 A special to
' .mk, N. \\ T . says:
frank ne utterly stupl-
t:i. reactionary effects
ili.sf.ster of yesterday
killed in the ca|. i
II ASM ST 11.
his yawning ,
ordlng
The slldr from Turtle mountain cmi-
uii.ed throughout \-:iti-td..y an.l last
ight at intervals depositing milll>4:s
f tons of limestone on that w-Ln had
ume down before with tho results that
• e inhabitant*, becoming panic-; :ncken. : 1
hi ' lied for safety. Bui two r- sld'-neea Iii' ludcd
he fnuic t.iv^n w ' e used hist night i House, <i
they not by their own* rs. but by | pair si
have bcei
mountain.
In the dow
oilier mater '
- iniMl'.
«t lie
iiildin*
.OS ■ Y PIPE
in 30 —On® life
IC.C l.mage dena by a |
• 'O'i.. i he t',r spread to)
H \ MUink >s well i
id • .irei.ou** W' licit ad 1
ti in, but Johnstown ^
u le of three ho ■> the'
ndei control. Mirha. I 1
of Mr It W Lltalag. I
it Is generally belle\
is h'e in the Litslng* i
ions ihsu timid who decided
.nai. and t • chain - - Mai;y "f th • : w-ero
lie <,t the place went to Blairmore, being
• lllsgc two mil. a to the mest to remain
i I the danger ts over, while othera
t to points farthir aw. y.
ALL B l Si NESS 81 SPENDED
I buoinenii wss suspended yesterday
but few remained In town devoting
i nselves to th work of searching for
i d -ad But p <or resultb have ai:-nded
i work in that respect as but seven
and a portion of another have
ARIS TO RECF.IVF
KINH EDWARD
response to nn I'ppeal from ti • local
d of trade th-' Dominion government
sent \A iilium Pierce to act in Its I • -
Mr. Pierce conferred with the citi-
this morning and decided as to in*
i of clearing the obstruction away
the rivet from which thtre is im-
nt danger.
lompanylng the government agent is
iv.-* of mounted police to pollc the
• let. someihlng which was becoming
. needed ghoulf «nd lhiev< i ad
i. i. urfed to operate. Lust i.ig it th«
rt. was pi .tect'd by 1<
will exceed a million and « h.
tua| loss to ,Jj* *n. . iipati
exceed 1200,000. «nsdian , •.-
heavy . . block.
track.
MOST PICTURESQUE VAL1
The set n
originally .
T<;prl<a. Knr-.. April 30.—Over 1.500; teniationnl R. R. Y. >r, C. A. commif-
dtiegfttM to The Iatmittlonal oonvsn- ts« are' ill notable railroad man
tion of thrt railroad Y. M. C. A pa:h-; (' !•'. Cnx Is treasurer of all tho Van-
ered in the auditorium In this city to- derbilt lines while j. p. Munn is treas-
niffht when the formal opening of tiie urer of the Gould railroad and tele-
eleventh annual meeting of tho asso- graph propertle-
oiatlon took place. The train in which : K. .1 Ford Is tli^ flr^t of tho foreign
Col. John J. McCook, president of tljo' delegates tr arrive Mr. Ford is as-
aswclatlon was to arrive was an hour wistant imymaster of the Mexican
late and the convention put in the time , Nat ional Railroad. He is English In
waiiing for him by singing .sunk-. name only, boini a thorough Mexican
The sfetTe'arles of the railroad de-1 in appearance. He was sent, by his rall-
partment or the International Y. M. I road to observe the woik of the eun-
C. A. committee arc all here. They ar«, ference. C- Neve of the auditing de-
Clarence J. Hicks, Edwin L. Hamilton,, partment of the Mexican ('. iitral Is
H. i). Williams, Jno. F. Moore, Geo. I). expected here from Mexico but has no;
McDIll, Fred B. Shlpp, and Ed M. Wi!- yet come.
lis. All have offices in New York City i \t tho International convention of
and each is in charge of divisions rt'; the railrocd Y. M. C. A. thi:^ aftern. -n
the International R. R. Y. M. C. A. j
work. The three members of the In- J Continued
i Elgh
of thri awful i-nl.i irop'Var .
ie of the most picturesque val- I it u a .
ito* in Lr®n«d*- Through th- c. nter of ]i/m. i
this beautiful vail • ran Hie OH Man j j,r. „k ,,v
rivar. which has itr sour.-,- on i. • east !
ern slop' of the i*ruws Nest pn - The I fruni Fra' •
total width of tl.lt. vall.-v ., lit11. i . " „"i:'.
OVei n mile and It wi's houteie.
southern side by Turtle mou
Kheei wall of rock which rose to
of 00 feet Ihe town of I-'t
in the peaceful valley, now .
the
ho latest officl
excitement is
doubt 111 the r
rode f; (
uy Gailv Dccoraieti for tin
Biij Event-Use Same Show
untlng.
'mIs A pi 11 .' -'I his city ha«
i a .tepeet of festivity in antic
King Edward a arrival here
The Boulevards an.; a,em
v i i til n g to a sett Tin ,
The building'- an
md flags anil i lie avrunes are Hi •
Riie<>essloii of handsome arcnes.
srlkln# l. aline t f the display Is . i
bound-
of foot
e Mans
PHH desolation _
police inspector Davidson en the other .i<- hy a i
Pinch. • « i.-ek on receipt I bills of the Rocky mountain-
news of to .liamit y rlv.-i w n. h lowed thr..u«l ih. .j
ULHL'ILDINO TITI.LORAPM lowed thu side .,f I .irtl,- ii....iiimi
> 'lnieti'lent Taylor of tile Canadian "P 'i^Minst t • foot ,, vi.i. ii [ ,.
1 is her* directing the work of n - >f Frank was built. flic mountain
lug thi t -h graph line to ihe . ist v nefore t' is ti rrli.u < at.is: t ■.j 11
••••..<iruct;i r a wagon road around ' d-*"p and precipitous that even in
(feoted eon.' to carry mail until a '••• ''ingest day In the mlddl*? of «un -
irary rul'ioad can be put Into oj - , Ml' 1 the sun s< t in the town ol Frank t
n C-iil.-| Engineer Mcllenry of the •' k u. the afi • rnoe,i and nr. r that
ilan Paoillc will arrive tonight toi'w,:' fht ensued until the usual hour of
\ li'ir a temporary line and j sun-, t.
on it iv.il be 'oiiini'ticed us soon VERTICAL WALL OF ROT'K.
The material from the slide
tne over there Is
a ' anyone that the .-i. v.
fi1.. I huge landslides and tli- e w
nor etpl slon. There
knowo i id, of ,v. om
!• '-n anj fifteen • hduien
furtliet danger fr nr. i, .
dttmlnu' of the riv Tn
'lout 1 •iirthousand feet loi
frorj t! e top of Turtle
ley f.n " and a ijuarter
sttrly Tlie -i'd • :-. • ..d«
alley fcf
thre
ing
ftft.
the
of
•atlon
e F.
of the fro
Pr
the
ildent Krugi
bunt!
. ' I
.• ii I
-i
the
'«aod thf
. and w
the oppo
immons difficulties ' came
slime may be had from j rock an.
that It will require 2,U0U of ovr i
x -cverel months le fore a foothills
■ iiroad ran he built to rt ; ley to a height .
v . miles destroyed until the I building In the town
- I.as be. n augmented today Where once existed .-oiy h
of the Information that two | farms and etoe)t ram lies iherr is now
Johnson were al-o | nothing but huge r i mti i-H.-s r .1
itain which haw all
I in fan shape making
end of tho slide or rock nen
■o inigiii wide. There is no ti.i • r>f
> r fi r one mile bin ti v.-it • i r
Irip: li ough the rock as fu-«t a
•It Ti thought there will not be a r
n| wall of tltion. although rocks and dust < otuii
a distance . i f i I from tne mountain TI fact n
way up the I all Lie men working in tho mine exc
of the >'al- j twv escapeil is conlirmed."
fertile
the home
i Abe Dlxo
e.;l King Edwaid.
nght
th.
reported to have b>
Alexander brls f!
and four | the appearance
>•• leaned j The l.iud which was oni.
and was rapldl>- Inert
account ul the laejcuue of nat^
/
at"® a
First Nations! Bank
Special Dispatch to the Suite Capital
Washington, April 80.- Thf- f'ltlzens
National bank of Anthony. Kan., has ■ • n
authorised to commenee Liinh . ss w uii a
,n I capital of 150,000. The First Ms ti r. I
^■'•1 ( lienk of Harrison, Okla . was ai!«o ant
m i. • | ed to commence bualneua with a wapual
CONSTITUTIONAL COMMITTEE
; URGED TO CALL CONVENTION!
(Centennial of the Louisiana Furchase Marks Renewal
Movement for Statehood for Oklahoma and Indian
Territory—Strong Petition Signed by Committee.
Special Dispatch to Ihe State Capital. t The centennial of the lyouisiana pur-
Oklahoma City, Okla. April 80. ha^e will In- marUeil hv initial Ftepn
Today the . nr I in lredih i..riiversi ry for a.lti, .- '<• s'a.••ikk-.i of the only
M tht ra:ifidation of the Louisiana i terrif ry within the purchase not now
purchase ^ in he tho occasion for a embraced within state lines.
monster petition being sent to Chair- With tht exception of a large num-
niun Castle of the single statehood her of signatures which it was npt |h>s-
executlve committee from several hun- sll.de t<> obtain yesterday, the petition
dred prominent men In Oklahoma and which will be forwarded to Mr. Castle
Ii.dian Territory, a ••king blm to . •*. I todny is aj (' •:! >w j
his committee together for the purpose "To Hon. < E. Castle. Chairman Sin-
of dim imying the ndvlsablllty of tailing j
a constitutional con veil Lion. (C'.ntJnued on pag« eight)
'tflolol guests
1'' in. if developed that the chnlrg
•> i'J'prop 11 i ted by ut -
' ri I veil early oa
difficulty other
. 'a-1- i ty were little
v 'oun.l they could
•I.ill more effectively bjf
were
With
standing.
mportant ceremonies in the Ube
i! All Mil!,||■ e ,\,.a handled with all
: 1 1 1 ' in first to lu-st the
, "" 1 «' i- "gratiini.j succeeded each
;• 1 •■•I'.db. Of ..II the speakers. Presl-
•' '• 't alone was nida to make
• v. . ry further than fifty feet
! ni ,l1" 'By far the larger part of
" as . ii.i.i , . ould hear nothing. Thou-
'I p'.'ple In the rear part of tho
"tt f " big about und
that would bavo
hall were constantly
pioduclng a mutlled ro
battled a fog-horn.
Uh. n tho pi.sident arose to ipenk. he
was chei-r. d t.. tho echo. f|H bowed
n ...I . ggestlng by his man-
i-stored. Finally lie
d the l.road railing in front uf the
where he could be seen from
part of the hall, and again mo-
rn everything
" ~ icls sug-
that
tionaed for allenoi
but silence, and rl'eslde
.that he proceed with his
i'res ideal Koos,—
his loud. Taking
1 «|Ulet won id I ...
v« It luughed and sho
advantage of a lull, h« called:
"Now, you, my fellow cltlsens, give ine
• " "" you i an, for I n led It"
Ihe eh n I. was given, and the presi-
dent i>cKnr his audre«s, which v.as inter-
rupted by frequent cneerlng.
1'ivaldent Roosevolt spoke ns followi:
1 >' :'ient, Ladies and OeMJ^iio ti:
At the onis. t uf my address iePme re-
' Hi to the minds of my heurfrs thut the
s 'U upon which we stand, before It was
ours, v\ successively tho possession of
: 'V 111 1 ' ' ' ' -. S|. tin a l:,l Fiance,
whose h >ns made a deathless record of
"roism In the early annals of tile New
World No history of the Western coun-
try ran ho written without paying heed
to tiio \* •hiJerful part played therein
in th i a iy days by the soiiliera. ml.i-
i'111ai i.■ s, explorers, and traders, who did
t hi ir wtrlt for t o honor of the proud
l-..i:ocia of Frame and Castile. While the
• tilers of English-speaking stock, and
Ultimo of Dutch, German, and Scandlnav-
u origin wh0 were associated with them
u' ro nil clinging close to tiie Kaettrn
i "i d. the pi>.risers of Spain and oi
1 laid penetrated deep into the
hit her 10 unknown wlHerneas of Uie West
> . i .1 f..r and wide w.iluti
i ^ bouii.;nrieB of what is now our mighty
ninu 'i'iio very cities thejnselvee—SU
.N'ew Orleans, Santa Fe, New Mex-
ear witness by their title* to the
n.itlonalitlte of their founders. It was
• until the Revolution had begun that
Migllsh-speuking settlers pushed west
ss the Al.'.ghenies, and not until a
■•utuiy .•:;■• that they entered in to pos-
s t . land upon which we now ataud.
T i Ci.LF.BRATK EV15NT.
We ha. o met 1 « today to coinmemo-
0 h„.i li.-i.Lh anniversary of tiie
v.i.kh uijio than any other, after
• I "ii a- .ii of the government and al-
' a . •< in i ig lt preservation, deter-
ini, i !■ .• .|l4, icter of our national life
• e-'t wiat we should bo a great
, . f. i 1 nste i of relatively a
small and st itlonary one.
1 i" 'I w is n ' with the Louivlan*
piircliaae that our care<r of expansion bS *i
^ oi. ii1 the middle < ' the Revolutionary
t i i 1 i, in< luding the
present st te of Illinois and Indiana, ■
*■ 1 «d t ir domain by force of
o n . i a o .juel to ti a adven'.urou-i
'lion of ii- nge Rogers Clarke and
• fi i ,er fi. --I e:|. I. i,.,. n,e treaties
'I -n o.-y n . i Uly extended
t • -s to .. west. Lint none
of t:..v events was of so striking a
oat r ti to fix the popular Imagina-
tion. The old thirte n colonies had al-
• s .i inied th? f their rights sti etched
i ' to ' oe .Missis? ppl river, and
' u l nreal though the i claims
1 tiif.: ,;i : . /.mi berved to
the Impression that the earliest
i fill
i of ■
: Illy
tend to find that there
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