The Shawnee News. (Shawnee, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 158, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 13, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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THE SHAWNEE lNt*V3.
The Newspaper That Is Making Shawnee Famous.-"Fear God, Tell The Truth and Shame The Devil.'
VOL. 3.—NO 158.
SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1904
TEN CENTS PER WEEK
OKLAHOMA DAY WILL BE BIGGEST OF FAIR
TEAMSTERS INJURED KATY COMMITTEE RIG GOLD NUGGETS
THEIR PRESIDENT IS COLLECTING FROM CALIFORNIA
Chicago, 111., Aug. 13.—A riot in
crowded Fifth avenue, within a square
of the city hall, capped the climax of
the disorder in the stock yards strike
Friday. During the day half a dozen
men were hurt in various encounters and
shots were fired during an attack on a
train load of strike breakers. All told,
violence was more widespread than in
any previous twelve hours of the strike.
Even President Golden of the team-
sters' union was attracked while trving
to rescue Max Falk, a union teamster.
Four hundred persons had pursued Falk,
not knowing he was a unionist, and was
attacking him when President Golden
appeared. Golden mounted the wagon,
took the reins and urged back the mob.
Stones and sticks were showered at
Golden and Falk before Golden, who
suffered many injuries, was recognized.
Mayor Harrison will be asked to do
wlnt he can toward settling the stock
yard strike. With all prospects of peactf
or even peace conferences gone, the re-
tail meat dealers and grocers last night
decided to ask the city's executive to
take a position in the present conflict
similar to that assumed by him in the
street car strike last fall. The street
railway strike was settled through his ef-
forts. At a meeting of the retail dealers
a committee of ten persons was appoint-
ed to wait upon the mayor. Representa-
tives of the strikers were at the meeting
and expressed themselves as being satis-
fied with the plan to ask Mayor Harri-
son's assistance.
Previous to the decision to ask the
mayor to intercede for peace Cornelius
Shea, president of the International
Brotlierhool of Teamsters, declared, in
an interview, that there would be no
more sympathetic strikes of the members
of his union. He declared that all the
packing house teamsters now 011 strike
would "stand pat," meaning that they
would remain on strike
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PASSION PLAY,
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Dr John H. Scherer, representing the :
Orginal Oberammergau Passion Play Co.
of Germany, was in the city last week
and while here arranged with me to pre- j
sent the celebrated play in 225 life
size animated pictures, on Sunday I
August 14th at the St. Benedict's j
church. The program to commence at
8 o'clock sharp. Dr. Scherer carries !
with him hundreds of the most flattering
recommendations from eminent clergy-
men of every denomination and strong
testimonials from newspapers in every
city In which he has given the play. This
Passion Play has been given in Chicago
197 times, in New York 256 times< Oma-
ha 31, Lincoln 19, St. Paul 38, Sioux
City 7, Minneapolis 26 times and so
many ether cities, wlii.h fact is sufficient
evidence of the high order and merit cf
the play.
Rev. Father Bi.aisf.,
Rev. Father Morris, Pastors.
The Katy executive committee, which
has been empowered to collect the
amounts of $50 each from the signers of
the Katy bond, has elected W. A. Hav-
ener treasurer, but Mr. Havener has
turned the treasury over to Prof. J. H.
Ware, who will keep all moneys in the
Oklahoma National bank, and receipt
each one who pays for the amount. This
money will be held subject to the order
of the committee and a public account
will be given of it. None of it will be
turned over to the Katy until the bond is
returned cancelled, to the bank, when
the amount will be turned over.
The committee requests that all bond
signers and others who know their in-
debtedness to the road, to pay in the
amount at the Oklahoma National bank,
where it will be receipted for, and not
wait for a collector to call for it. The
payment has to be made, as there is a
suit pending for the amount, and delay
will be useless.
It is the intention of this committee
to have all payments made in the name
Prof. J. H. Ware, treasurer of the com-
mittee. and Attorney W. B. Crossati.wlio
is making the collections, will have
checks made in Prof. Ware's name.
This committee is composed of men
who own thousands of dollars worth of
property and whose reputations both
public and private, are absolutely stain-
•ess. Everyone who is 011 the bond
shou'd immediately pay in #50, the pro
rata agreed upon at the recent meeting,
and all parties owing notes should pay
up at once.
Experienced Nurse—Young man with
two years hospital experience, wants
employment as nurse. Typhoid cases
preferred. Address R. care News, tf
INSTITUTE EXHIRIT
LARGE AND FINE
IJUDGE PARKER AND =
IHIS GRAND-DAUGHTER I
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The extent of the big exhibit, which
has been arranged by the Farmers' In-
stitute at its sessions in Tecumseh, can
scarcely be pictured with words, but it
is sufficient to say that it is a true repre-
sentation of what this county can do in
the line of fine fruits, vegetables and all
farm products. Great stalks of corn,
towering over 20 feet high and covered
with blades and several ears to the stalk,
huge ears of corn, shucked and ready for
market, and all kinds of corn in every
conceivable shape; grain of every kind,
all of large size and in every profusion
which guarantees that it was not merely
selected from other smaller products;
f uits in all their lovliness, including
peaches of wonderful beauty and size,
rivalling California's products; apples,
pears, plums, and all manner of fruits;
melons, large and luscious and so heavy
that it means an effort to lift them; al-
falfa of wondrous size and showing its
splendid adaptability to the soil of this
I county, and everything that grows any-
j where.
J A part of the exhibit which attracted
. great attention was some enormous cu-
I cumbers, beets, and cabbage which were
raised in and near this city. Many of
the choicest came from this city. The
exhibit is complete in almost detail every,
all its best features will be packed and
shipped to St. Louis, where it will be-
come a part of the World's Fair exhibit
from this county. The farmers cer-
tainly are to be congratulated upon the
excellence of the yields they have made.
The cotton exhibit alone proves that this
county is a winner in the agriculture
line, while the potatoes show what can
be done here.
SPEND YOUR DOLLAR where i
buys most; where it buys 16-oz. pounds
where your potatoes and apples are
measured in a measure every time. No
guess measure here—this is the store that
does it.
SATURDAY OFFER
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John If. Harris, formerly general man-
ager of the Choctaw system, and Senator
Horace T. Delyong, of Grand Junction,
Colo., arrived in Shawnee Friday and
Mr. Harris is still here, but Senator De-
Long left Friday evening for his home.
These gentlemen are largely interested
in Siskiyou county, California, in the
Klamath river distiict, and they carried
with them a'lot of oie taken from the
mines. The biggest nugget they have is
almost pure gold, with a little quartz
mingled with it, and is valued at over
$600, while a small pear shaped lump,
about the size of a walnut, weighing 14
I ounces, is worth $280. These two!
j lumps of gold were taken out of a mine |
which is now being operated, and are
exactly as taken out. A number of vi-
I als show the fine gold which is panned
out by the miners.
The leases of - over 2,000 acres in this
district represented by these gentlemen,
are owned by the Railroad Mining and
Membership company, and the gentle-
i men named have introduced into the
j mining operations, improved machinery
and methods which makes about the
I same differences as the white man's
methods over those of the Indian in this
country. The Klamath river is known
to be rich in ore, but its current is so
swift that it cannot be mined. It is the
fifth biggest river in California, and it is
the intention of the company to build a
tunnel and ditch extending across a horse
shoe bend of the swift stream, thus cut-
| ting off seven miles of the turbulent
flow and laying bare its bed of washed
gold. The tunnel will pay for itself
many times over as the dirt through
which it will pass is rich in ore. Messrs.
Harris, DeLong and their associates have
surely got a "gold mine" in this invest-
ment and it will make them multimil-
lionaires.
In addition to the gold which they
have showing what the mines bring forth,
they also have a plat of the country and
the proposed tunnel, and the plans for
their operations are very interesting.
Such men as John H. Harris and Senator
DeLong are the ones wlio do big things
and their plans will be carried out.
THE REVIVAL
Friday evening, the first meeting of
the series of revivals, were held at the
large tabernacle, corner of Ninth and
Broadway. These meetings will con-
tinue for about ten days or more .
The meetings are being conducted by
Rev. R. T. Williams, J. L- Davis and
other preachers and workers of the city.
The object of the meeting is the conver-
sion of sinners and the sanctitication of
believers and everyone is invited to at-
tend. Tne attendance last evening was
not as large as was expected but was
good considering the hot weather.
SURE CURE FOR PILES.
Itching Piles produce moisture aud
cause itching, this form, as well as Blind,
Bleeding and Protruding Piles are cured
by Dr. Bo-san-ko's Pile Remedy. Stops
itching and bleeding. Absorbs tumors.
50c. a jar, at druggists, or sent by mail.
Treatise free. Write me about your case.
Dr. Bosanko, Phila., Pa. jan-1-05*
CATTLE ARE SCARCE
ON TEXAS RANGES
The latest photo of Judge Parker, Democratic nominee for President, shows
him with his only grand-daughter, little Mary Parker Hall.
PERSONALITY OF
SOGIALIST NOMINEE
Pound cut of best cream cheese, Saturdav only, for 15c
Force, Shredded wheat biscuit, Grape nut or Dr. Price's food, Saturday
only, at per package nc
Fresh country butter, per pound 20c
Helmet hams, Saturday only, I2#c
Pure lard, any quantity, at per pound ice
Qnartiar Mustard j Quart bottle grape juice 50c
Pint " " i Pint " " " 2«c
10 Pound bucket Blue Jay lard |i.oo j Best hard wheat flour, 50 pounds. ..$1.3c
5 Pound bucket Blue Jay lard 50c j Potatoes, per peek 25c
Honey dew syrup, gallon 40c ; Onions, ^ " " 200
17 Pounds granulated sngar fi.oo : 7 Bars Silk soap 2;t
20 Pounds sugar with Js.oo worth other : 7 " Clariette soap 25c
groceries for $t.ooi7
10 Pounds sugar for 50c with $3.00 worth : 6
other groceries. I 4
Swift's Pride soap 25c
Feather foam soap, toilet 25c
Fels Naptha soap 25c
/V/ce Large Celery, Fresh, 10c Stalk, 3 for 25c.
C. O. D. Grocery Store.
maIn McNeil & smiley, t
Stillwater, Okl ., August 13.—Long
and lank, a typical Yankee, but plain
speech, Clinton Simonton in O .lahoma,
is a man to conjure with; well posted, an
erstwhile preacher, he is also an orator
with a brilliant mind, quick at concep-
tion and ready in an argument with facts
that would appall the general politician.
His advent in Oklahoma politics will
mean much more than he is given credit
for at present. He will be heard from
in the future years, as he has a bill-dog
tenacitw in ccnnection with his all
around shrewdness.
Simonton lives at Shawnee, or has
since last March. He is thirty-six years
old. To look at him he might be judged
thirty or fifty. To hear him talk he
might be fifty to sixty. With a sonor-
ous voice, each word in itself distinct
and with a pleasing delivery, he will
make any audience near him with pa-
tience and interest.
Simonton came to Oklahoma 1 st
March to make it his home. For years
he has been an organizer for the Ameri-
can Federation of I,al>or and also for the
: s .-cialists. He has been one of Eugene
| Debs' right hand bowers, and he has
everything at his fingei ends to make a
campaign. He says he will maki a
thorough campaign of the entire terri.
tory, speaking in every county and will
have a corps of speakers to aid him in
his work.
He declares that socialism is gaining
more rapidly now than at any time in the
past and especially so in Oklahoma. In
the northwestern part of the territory the
party is gaining fast and Woods county
he believes to be the best organized in the
territory.
Simonton quit preaching to become a
socialist organizer because he believes the
ballot more necessary than the pulpit at
the present time. He believes that the
party which goes down to defeat this
fall—whether the democratic or republi-
can—will never again have a candidate
for the presidency, but that henceforward
the main political figfct will be between
capital and labor.
The action of Gov. Peabody in the
Colorado strike matter will be the chief
subject of Mr. Simonton and his cohorts
during the coming campaign.
Place your orders for calenders for 1905
with tab News.
Fort Worth, Tex., August 13.—There
has been considerable said and printed
concerning the shortage in Texas cattle,
but there are many who affect to believe
that there are just as many cattle iu th is
state today as there has been for several
years. This idea is certainly erroneous
and without foundation.
In the range country of Texas there
has been a marked falling off or reduc-
tion in the cattle supply. Mem who
have travelled over that section of the
country say they are surprised at the
small number of cattle they find every-
where. Big pastures are carrying fewer
than for years. Perhaps the reduction in
ni: 1 > r i: tn ire marked in the Panhan-
dle section ti 11 i 1 a i/ other portion of
the state, but the - • 1 I >1. etiu
practically all over the range country.
In the Panhandle there has been a steady
outgo and no income. That section is
not par excellence as a breeding country,
many of its leading ranchmen having
long ago recognized that fact by convert-
ing their ranches into steer ranches ex-
clusively.
They have been in habit of coming
down into the breeding country located
below the foot of the plains every year
and buying sufficient stock to fill their
pastures, but this year they have not
followed the custom. Consequently
there are no cattle to take the place of
those which have been moved out of the
country. Hall county is an average Pan-
handle county, and the taxable values in
thut county for the present year bhow a
decrease in cattle values amounting to
about $150,000.
D. B. Gardner of this city manager of
the Pitchfork ranch, located in King
county says he recently drove a herd of
1,800 steers to Childress, a distance of 70
miles and did not have to drive but five
head of cattle away from his herd on the
entire trip. The drive was through what
is regarded as a cattle country all the
way. Cattlemen who understand the
trouble that usually arises in handling
herds on the trail, through the mixing in
of other cattle will understand what M r.
Gardners experience indicates.
SAN ANTONIO.
The climate's the thing at San Antonio.
A rare day in June is not finer than the
average day in San Antonio. Climate,
scenery and the good hotels make it a
perfect winter resort. The cosmopolitan
population, the crumbling walls, ruins
and the historic places near San Antonio
are especially interesting.
Katy's through Pullman sleepers from
St. Louis, Kansas City and Shroveport
make the trip comfortable.
"The Story of San Antonio," a beauti-
fully illustrated booklet about the city,
its history and its varied attractions, will
be sent anywhere on receipt of 4 cents in
stamps. See Katy's Agent, or write
Gkoro.k Morton,
Gen. Pass. Agt., St. Louis.
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Halpin, Harry E. The Shawnee News. (Shawnee, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 158, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 13, 1904, newspaper, August 13, 1904; Shawnee, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc137671/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.