El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 2, 1898 Page: 1 of 8
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El Reno Democrat.
T. F. II ENS LEY, Proprietor.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
KL UENO, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY, JUNE 2, 1898.
$1.25 PER YEAR.
NUMBER 20.
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SANTIAGO FORTS
BOMBARDED!
Sampson and Schley Engaged the
Santiago Forts Yesterday af-
ternoon, Doing much Damage.
70,000 men go to Cuba at Once.
A dispatch*from Cape Haytien. says: "The American squad-
ron composed of 14 warships, of which the cruiser New York,
displaying the flag of Rear Admiral Sampson, and some torpedo
boats formed a part, bombarded with heavy guns, the forts and
harbor of Santiago de Cuba, yesterday, doing much damage.
The American tire was directed principally against the forts
in the harbor.
Several of the Spanish ships came to the mouth of the har-
bor, but immediately retreated under the heavy fire of theAmer-
cian warships.
It is reported that the Cadiz fleet is now on its way to rein-
force Admiral Cervera's squadron.
It is authoritatively stated that 70,000 men will be sent to
Island of Cuba.
Who is Muddling this War?
TO USE MEXICAN
MONEY AT MANILA.
The New York Press says: "One of
the most interesting preparations for j
the outfitting of the Manila expedition
has just been announced. The govern-
ment lias purchased 25,000 Mexican sil-
ver dollars, which General Merritt will
take along to defray the expenses of
the expedition. This amount is not ex-
pected to last long, but more will be
sent, him from time to time.
By purchasing Mexican dollars a
jrreat saving is made. It is possible to
obtain Mexican dollars at 4(1 cents each
thus obtaining for one American dollar
two Mexican ones, and leaving 8 cents
toward the purchase of a third. I hey
were bought in San Francisco.
In the Philippines a Mexican dollar
will buy more than an American dollar,
thus the expenses of General Merritt's
expedition, after it once lands in Ma-
nila, will be less than one-half what
they would otherwise be. The soldiers
will be paid, according to law, in Amer-
ican money, but the paymaster will
give each soldier two Mexican dollars
for every American dollar due him on
pay day
Eight thousand cork helmets have
been sent from the Philadelphia hat
depot to San Francisco. They are for
the Philippine expedition. The gov-
ernment will purchase 18,000 of these
helmets. They are to be made of cork
which renders them light and water-
proof.
In connectien with General Merritt
taking a large quantity of money along
with him to Manila, it is interesting to
note that he will be quite removed
there from official supervision. His
chief quartermaster will be practically
quartermaster general, and the same
I will be true of bis chief commissary.
It is represented now, says the New
York Journal, that General Miles if
opposed to an immediate movement of
the army upon Cuba. Hitherto Mr.
McKinley and his cabinet of opulent
Quakers have been charged with re-
sponsibility for turning the war into
an international yacht race.
Let the civil and the military wings
of the administration divide the blame
as they may, the fact remains that
though a month has elapsed since the
Spaniards were ordered to leave Cuba,
the Spaniards are there yet, and as;ood
deal better able to resist expulsion
than they were on April 21.
Meanwhile why should the navy not
have been employed in something more
useful than maintaining a blockade
which starves our friends and affords
the Spaniards time for preparing to re-
ceive the assault of the army?
Havana's fortifications are bombard-
able, and so is Havana itself. Given a
Dewey and a cut cable, the city would
have surrendered ere this or been in
ruins and open to the insurgents.
A month has gone, and the end looks
a good deal further off than it did
when the imbecile "peaceful blockade''
began.
Who is it that is paralyzing the mili-
tary and naval energy of the United
States? Who is it that is muddling
this war;
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There's such a wholesome, appetizing feeling goes
with our groceries that they bring back your
childhood appetite. They are as pure, as
well as it is possible to secure, and the
enjoyment is Intensified by feeling
that they're healthfuhto you. and
there need be no danger sign given
out with the GROCKRIKS we sell.
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Each day of muddling prolongs the
conflict and insures a criminal waste of
life hereafter, for war is war and is
bound to culminate in fighting what-
ever may be the wishes of the muddling
mind at Washington.
The country is humiliated. Soon hu-
miliation will give way to something
much hotter and stronger.—Silver
Knight Watchman.
RIGHT - PRICES, - TOO! j
Not for this week, but every day in the selling year. ^
1 pound of prunes 5c; 1 pound of raisins 5c ^
1 " of bulk starch 5c; 1 pack (iold Dust 5e ^
1 " dried peaches..(lie; 1 lb of flaked hominy 5c ^
1 lb Steel Cut oatmeal. .5c: All are the best of quality
fet YOU can come to our store any day in the selling ^
week, and articles you purchase will be the lowest in
price—quality considered. We insist upon every pur-
chase being right, and if not so. your request brings ^
the money back to you
E. T. PRINCE. |
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Gladstone's Courtesy-
The Early Bird of Regiments.
They are "Tenting on the Old
Camp Ground."
Many memories of the civil war are
revived by the events of these days.
The principal camp of rendezvous is the
old battle-field at Chickamauga; two
In general society perhaps the most The Sixth Regiment of Massachu-
engaging quality of Mr. Gladstone was setts finds reasons which seem to its
his old-world courtesy to everyone. It j friends satisfactory for thinking itself
was not put on or put off. It was in- to bo the promptest militia regiment
variable, universal, and consistent. Ho j in tho country. Colonel Woodward
had the ceremonious manner of the old 1 had anticipated Governor Wolcott's or-
schooi. Towards intellectual inferiors der which followed the president's call
his manner deferential; careless ob- for volunteers, and it is stated that it
servers might regard his humility as took him no more than thirty minutes
assumed, or even as hypocritical. It to raise and report a full regiment to
was nothing of the kind. Mr. Glad-1 the governor. It was the Sixth, as will
stone lived in the presence of the un- j be remembered, that made the memor-
seen.
Like tho Puritans of[ old, he ! able march through Baltimore in 1801,
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men who were generals in the rebel I 0f jife. To him earthly distinction
saw the hand of God in all the events j and Captain Marshall, now of the regi-
SCHLEY ATTACKED BY
TORPEDO BOATS.
Monday night, at about '12 o'clock,
two torpedo boat destroyers slipped
quietly out of the ht^'bor at Santiago
de Cuba, bent on mischief- They at-
tackea Commodore Schley's Meet, but
were promptly driven back into the
harbor by the battleship Texas and the
cruiser Brooklyn. The Spaniards did
not discharge torpedoes, though they
run within 500 yards of the Texas.
CONGRESSMAN PEARCE v. ANTS
TO BUILD MORE BATTLESHIPS.
Congressman Pearce-has introduced
a bill, which, if enacted into law, will
go a long way toward building up a
large and powerful navy. Ihe bill
authorizes the construction of five bat-
tleships of the first class, carrying the
heaviest possible armor and the most
powerful ordnance; and of not less than
11,500 tons displacement: to have a min-
imum average speed of 20 knots, and to
cost, exclusive of armor and armament,
| $4,000,000 each: also to provide for the
building of 10 torpedo boats of about
150 tons each, to cost not exceeding
$200,000 each; 15 torpedo boat destroy-
ers of about 400 tons, and to cost $500,-
000 each, and 15 steel gunboats of 200
tons displacement, to cost not over
$650,000 each. The navy now Is short
especially on torpedo boat destroyers,
and the acquisition of 15 would be most
welcome to the naval authorities.
PRISONERS EXCHANGED
GENERAL BLANCO BOASTFUL.
army, Fit/. Hugh Lee and Joseph
Wheeler, have been commissioned to
lead United States troops; a grand-
nephew of Gen. Robert E. Lee and a
grandson of General Grant serve on
the same staff. But the most dramatic
event so far took place at Baltimore.
In that city the Sixth Massachusetts
Regiment was, while on its way to the
front, during the civil war, assaulted
by a mob with the tacit approval of the
city government, and some of the sol-
diers v/ere killed. On Saturday last
the Sixth Massachusetts again past
through Baltimore, on its way to the
front. This time their reception was
most enthusiastic. The mayor issued
a formal welcome, and the troops left
their train and paraded the streets
while the city bands played alternately
"Yankee Doodle" and "Dixie," and the
people showered (lowers upon them.
As the train departed each soldier was
given a box of lunch on which was this
inscription:
Maryland's greeting to Massachu-
setts, Baltimore and Boston clasp hands.
Baltimore wishes godspeed to the his-
toric Sixth Massachusetts \ olunteers.
A united country honors the men who
are rallying to her defense. May the
memory of 18til be effaced by the wel-
come of 1898."
were of no account. Did he not refuse
an earldom? On the rich and eloquent
on the nobles and dignitaries, ho looked
down with contempt, for he was rich in
a treasure that thieves cannot break
through nor steal; he was eloquent in
a language revealed to him from on
high; he was noble by the right of an
earlier creation than any inscribed in
the College of Arms, and the priesthood
of his life was conferred by the imposi-
tion of a mightier Hand than the suc-
cessor of St. Augustine. With this
panoply of spiritual armor, which shut
him off from the large majority of pros-
perous and worldly mind, he eagerly
sought information from babes and
sucklings.—Harper's Weekly.
mont, was a sergeant in it at that time.
Finally, the Sixth includes a Concord
company, in which are many descend-
ants of the Concord minute-men who
were in the first liglitof the Revolution
so that the reglme.it feels warranted
in filing a claim to have been first in
three wars. It may be disputed, yet
no better claim to this particular dis-
tinction seems likely to be offered.—
Harper's Weekly.
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Charles Thrall and Hayden Jones, I is still boastful and apparently anxious
the correspondents captured by the to meet the Americans.
Spaniards, were brought to Key West, "Tell them 1 have men, food and am-
Fla, by the auxiliary cruiser Wood- j munition galore," was Blanco's parting
bury Sunday, having been exchanged words.
for General Cortijo and three others. i Cortijo was formerly commander at
They speak well of the treatment re- Cabanas fortress. Havana, and is a
ceived at Cabanas and say that Blanco brother-in-law of General Weyler.
The criminal carelessness with which
men drive into the treacherous South
Canadian river with their helpless fam-
ilies, and the frequency of this occur-
rence is simply appalling. Our ex-
changes from down the river chronicle
the drowning of three or four persons
almost every week, caused by this fool-
hardy practice. The man usually man-
ages to swim ashore and escape a wa-
tery grave, but the wife and helpless
children sink out of sight and the
bodies are rarely recovered. Only last
week a little girl of about ten years
was seen floating down the river on a
log, near Indianola, but no one could
rescue her. It was afterwards learned
that she was the little daughter of J.
J. Chabord of the Chickasaw nation
with
The Curfew Bell.
There are, it is said, three hundred
towns in which the curfew boll is now
rung at night. The upholders of the
new regulations quote statistics to prove
that crime has decreased in conse-
quence, and that every day fewer ar-
rests have been made. The objeet of
the movement is to keep children off
the streets at night, and to get them,
under a penalty of fine in money, safely
tucked away in before danger or temp-
tation can assail them.
Reports to the navy department show
that the Oregon's machinery is with-
out need of repair after her phenom-
enal run of 13,000 miles. It is consid-
ered a remarkable record, and proves
that thev can build warships on the
■* , i who attempted to ford the rivei
Pacific coast as well as on the Atlantic. I ..i .
. , > his entire family, near Sacred Mission
near which lie the great iron and steel! "" c •"
industries of the country. \ and all but himself were drowned.
The United States battleships under
construction will each carry four 13-
inch and fourteen (i-ineh guns in their
heavy armament, and the (i-inch are if
the rapid-fire pattern. The latterthrow
a 100-pound projectile at the rate of
five or six aimed shots a minute. No
battle could last long with such heavy
pounding at close quarters.
The British government has pur-
chased in the United States, 120,000
barrels of Hour for- the army and navy
stores. The order was placed with the
Consolidated Milling Company of Min-
neapolis. The British are preparing
for an emergency.
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Hensley, T. F. El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 2, 1898, newspaper, June 2, 1898; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc139930/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.