El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 10, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 29, 1899 Page: 4 of 8
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EL RENO DEMOCRAT.
T. F HENsLRY. Editor
^XDIDITIOIST A^Xj LOCALS
T. F
OCRaT 1
paper. —N<
El Ft*no
Md • of v
citizen sb<
ro.ttee of '
good • ime
Hensi
t on the F
appoint
H
count
shortage*
money ci *
the treasu
MCGfStb, ex-sher
nan been eompe
a amounting to i
dlected and not
Shawns
of Wood*
•d to pay
Over fop
turned into
Democrat.
The women of the Phiilpi
that If all the men '.re killed off th
wi,; keep iip the light. '1 his . ■ no
boast It will renifmtiiT«l that I
KiI ipin<''e - ! ■" no rts .in• I can r
hh fa-t ait 'heir ho-foaniW Wirhi
Kagle.
■a i
HARD
TO FIND....
Ti
.Are you aware that this i* the ,s a '
.in regards to pfr^ons that have he
-ame foe ill power iri both eves.' i on
.have this condition iri your eye* and
,re trying to wear glasses of the same
.foi ul power; if so- this is an injury to
.yout eyes an'l you should have them
.examined and fitted correctly....
ROCK ISIAND AVf.NUE,
OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE.
EI. RENO, OKLAHOA TF.R.
H. C. RISSE,
■ The Jeweler and Optician."
r*. E. C. Voung went te
id ay with Mr* amy
Dr. J. M Patterson :ft th
rie wee* for EureKS ->pHinif
Watt-on went to Guthrie
''Ollar pad-
it
fame
•sr. of t
in frorr
M" i
at of '
Hoe lead
Pourl
A republican pap
State Capital, ii to
kogse by the ( reei
get it.M ({raft, in lik<
ho started at M is-
1 f it manages to
lhe Outhrie outfit
\d one respeet,, at least, the Indian
territory has set a mark aliove any \
other state or territory. We speak of,
the prosecution of the Seminole eases.
Lynchings are not confined to any one
-tate or any one section of the country,
hut, while they are of frequent occur-
rence it is seldom that those guilty of
participating in mohs are punished.
Hut here in the Indian territory, where
many people think there is scarcely any
law, lynchers have been prosecuted and
convicted, convicted by an Indian ter-
ritory jury at that. Messrs. Soper,
Last fall you could buy barbed wirc i Speed and Wilcox have Kone against
for KM p. r i, .imlr-d pound*, UM you I "-en who were banded together to de-
IM . 10 M) K 90 not bMS there of. '«* the ends of the law, and they have | ?
or an Iwwilrf «Mtd for it. but be-1 b™><en lJ('wn thrtr 0PP°*Ul°° 10 Uw
mm tr ... recently which i *n,i OI*der- AU lhe CMC* hHVe n"1 bt,-n
is the true cause of the advance in price tried yet, but enough has been done to
GRAND
Go to Hockaday's '
harness line. FI>- wi
If you want fin<
John prices, call
Sam Peach ft a-
tang township t
low,l.
Miss Cora Melntire wi;
Saturday an.i sp* r,d r,
home folks.
The grandest celeui it
in Ok.i> noma wi,. >• ,i
■July the r'ourtri
The new wagon ir. ■
North Canadian .ver
was opened to travel last
neard
tor Kreba, I.T.
sit friends.
more harness
ted California
at prices never
24
lay a
jobpririting at'
ip No. 1ft—teiepl
-old r . s farm ,o
) a gentleman
go
Kou
• p p
' .ast -s in
irtment was ca
•e which starte
. the explosion
lrcag
'ternoon the Are de-
ed out to -mother a
in Sam Peach's barn
.f Are crackers. No
was done.
Old Sol'tier*
..ave chronic diarrhoea can be
by using
by
are
p-omptty cured
I'hif i B.v -am. Guaranteed.
R. M . er. the druggist.
ann
Da
has the territory is to < ■ pitied, a;her
than congratulated upon its omirig
Purcell Register
When the people are tired of fighting
and devouring one another and of be-
ing robbed, skinned and cast into the
ditch to starve and die, they can try
co-operation and brotherhood for a
change. The change can't hurt and
may help them.--Humanity.
/NIJUlU
celebration!
iant Saturday.
Frank Hens.ey Aent to Geary
Weatherford Tuesday to announce
Ri He no Four in of -J i
proaching mar
num and C. B.
The ceremony
residence of ti
and Mrs. C. H.
Hani
.ncing the ap-
M.-s Lena Han-
r. both of Yukon.
take place at the
ue's [arents. Mr.
jm. on July 12th.
the
of barb wir>«l <, ithrie Register.
: show that justice has vindicated her-
' self. — Vinita Leader.
^\* v* + %k Ji * * li + v* sk * * >fc vAt * K
iEl Reno S
■i f-
everything free!
Then what the dickens was it Harry
Gilstrap wanted from Governor flarne- No Fusion.
and failed to get' There is a screw Tl*e Newkirk Democrat nays that
loose, somewhere in that country press t Tom Doyle, of Perry, is out in an open
Did he want to be a cuckoo postmaster ' declaration against fusion and advo-
Come, Harry, wipe your tears and tell rates straight democracy. The Demo-
ns all about it. Newkirk Journal. j erat. also volunteers the statement that
Doyle has excellent congressional tim-
The present style of postotTlce money t^r in him: "but he absolutely refuses
orders will be discontinued and a new the nomination if it is to be a fusion
form adopted by the government on j ,jeai again,"
and after September next. This is vVe agree with the Democrat that
done to put an end to the controversy Tom has excellent timber in him for
with the. express companies, who orig- anything from a shillelah to a United
Inated the zig-zag scheme of tearing states senator. But we fail to under
the end of the order to designate the ,tand how he can refuse a thing before
amount for which it was drawn. it is offered to him. We serve notice
on the east aide statesmen, "sawbucks"
lhe Maryland democratic editorial HI1<j that the next congressman for
association started a ball to rolling that oklahoma will come from the westside
every slate where it Insisted that tho
rural party press be given a hearing
before party council decide upon plat-
forms and candidates, which the party
press is expected to support regardless
of thanks or any sort of recognition.
The country editor always does more
for his party than his party does for
him. — Ex.
Kvery watch is u veritable compass.
No traveler or bicyclist who carries a
watch need get lost. All one has to do
fln Old-Style
Bari)«l
ebration.
Hockaday nas just received a full
anu complete line of single and double
buggy harness. See him before buying.
Mrs J. T. McCormick departed Mon-
day for Gainesville and Gaive-ton,
where she will visit with friends ana
relatives a month.
Temple R. Smoot, the young son of
Mrs. Annie Smoot, went to Orr, I. T.,
Tuesday, where he will spend h.- vaca-
tion with his gl-andmother.
Hockaday has moved his harness
shop one door north of the oid stand,
arid will carry a full and complete line
of buggy and team harness. -1
Geo. Bellamy and F. E. Rickey went
to Topena Tuesday oi. business con-
nected with the town of Mountain View
Mrs. Bellamy accompanied her husband
as far as Wichita.
C. M. Buckles w ent to Oklahoma City
Monday to straighten outsome accounts
for a large firm at that place. Mr.
Buckles is an expert accountant ana is
in good uemund wnen work of this
character ha? to i e Uone.
M.--, May Stew : the talented ac-
tress ana eiocutionisi, from Kansas
i lty. will reaii the Declaration of Inde-
pendence on the Fourth of Juiy. Miss
Stewart is spending thu summer here
with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. A. T.
Stewart.
T. D. Gainer atid famiiv will move
back to El Reno frcm Alderson, I. T..
tonight. Tneir return will be a
source of joy to their many friends in
Ei fteno. as they bring with them their
charming and brilliant daughter, Mi--
Ina. who will add grace and life to El
Reno's best -ocietv.
Judge Irwin recent
the Canadian c
louid have been ma
ii re-ult :a reduci
properly not
m>-nt a lid f, • ;i
who are gov.
to local taxat
y made a decision
jity court that
e years ago. and
g taxes in many
e territory. He held that
>elonging" to the govern-
'l po-ses-ion of Indians
rnment wards is -ubject
". —Enferpri-e-Time-.
Ten Beeves and over 5.000 Loaves
..of Bread for the People...
W. VV. Henson and G. H. Sherman,
wife and baoy, left Tuesday for Kansas
City. They have been here for the past
three months sei..ug the calendar clock
safe. They have sold over 400 of these
useful articles during that time.
iait\ D1
I
FOOT A. SACtf RACES.
The Dkmockat numbers among its
advertising patrons the best firms in the
city. Those who enjoy the best trade
and who have the full confidence of the
people. These firms do a strictly hon-
orable business and recognize in the
DEMOCRAT the best medium to reach
the best class of citizens of Canadian
county. Last week a firm that was sell-
ing a household article by canvassing
among the farmers informed us in an
unsought and unasked for certificate
is to lay tho watch flat in the palm of ithat canvassing this county they
found nearly every well-to-do farmer in
the county a subscriber and constant
reader of this paper.
FINE BALL GAME
Few < hamplonsbip of Oklahoma
JUDGE C. F. IRWIN
And other prominent speak-
ers will address the people.
G-off's Cadet Band
and 100 trained vocalists
...will furnish music...
the hand and turn it very carefully so
that lhe hour hand will point exactly
toward the sun, and a point just mid-'
way between the hour hand and the
figure 12 will bo directly south. Sup-
pose it to be 9 o'clock. Point the hour
hand toward the sun. A line, drawn
between the figure* 10 and 11 will give
the true lino from north to south.
If We Please You, Tell Others;
If don't, tell us.
T \/ \ V/ ( I intend to to put
I ^ I' up any fruit :
What is Wanted.
A pair of suspenders for the breaches
of promise.
A barber to shave the face of the
earth.
A dentist to work on the jaws of
ueath.
A pen that will write with inky dark-
SEE
us and get our prices on
tin cans, mason jars and
Jelly Glasses...
! A corset for the waste of time.
A mosquito bar for the Vied of the
ocean and the cradle of the deep.
Sea horses to feed from the troughs
of the sea.— Ex.
FIRE-WORKS
The display of Fire-Works will
be the grandest ever seen in
....the Southwest....
low excirsion RATES
ON ALL RAILROADS.
It Is Afjtji'fiI'dtimj
To have dandruff falling1 over your
coat and collar after making your toilet.
U e Beggs' Hair Renewer, it is an ele-
gant dressing. P'or sale by C. 11. Miller,
; the druggist. 2^
J. H. Nail and family, and Mi&sRuth
Cusey. who waa visiting them, have
just recovered from quite a severe spell
of sickness, attributed, a? the doctors
say, to some meat which had been pur-
chased from one of the markets here
and wnicn tbey had partaKen of.
AGENTS WANTED- FOR 'THE I.II I. AND
Achievements "f Admiral Iiewey," the wm ids
srreatest naval hem. lty Murut Hai>t ad, th«-
lifelong frieud and admirer of tm- nation'*
idol and : ♦• t book : ov -r"«00 pages,
KxlOInciio: rieariy 1UU page- halftone iliu*
tratlon^ Only $!." • . Enormous demand. Big
commission- Outfit Ire* ( ham of a lif —
tiim- Write quid. The 1 dominion ( ompany,
ird Floor (.'axon Rug . Chicago. ~ l )t
Gertrude, the youngest child of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Grove, dieu lust Sun-
day . ol wnal the doctors termed tuber-
cular-meningitis. Little Gertrude had
oeen wen and happy, -pending most of
the tim.' ou'. nf doors playing, up to
about ten days before her ueatti. She
was two and on. baif years o,d. The
i family have lhe sy mpathy of the entire
community in their -ur-u'v. f... affliction.
Mr. J. Sneary, of Chillicothe. Mo.,
h-i- 'ieen in t • tv visiting his son.
Oliver, who ame here about three
months ago. Mr.Sneary returned home
yesterday and will proceed to dispose
of his propertv in Mi«"Uri, which in-
cludss aoout tfOo acres of laud, and will
return to the territory to stay. He says
it is the greatest place he ever struck.
Laurice. the infant daughter of Mr.
and Mr-. Bobert Williams, and grand-
child of W. (j. Williams, of the El
Reno Wholesale Grocery company .died
la-t Saturday. Funeral services were
held Tuesday afle moon at the Episco-
pal church, Rev. Brooke- o3ie. iting.
Interment will tak- pi.ice in South Hilt
cemetery as soon as a vault which i- be-
: ing built, can be completed.
The marriage of J. L Jenkin- and
Miss Caroline Ream- took place at the
Presbyterian eli irch la-t Thursday
evening in the presence of a large cir-
cle of invited friend- Mr. and Mrs.
Shuttee entertained in honor of the oc-
casion the same evening. Instead of a
bridal tour the couple have settled
down in their beautiful new home on
Barker avenue, where they will he "at
; home'' to friends after Julv l.">th.
Hockaday ha
and complete ll
buggy harne--
ju-t received a full
■ of single and double
ee him before buying.
Last -
found dt
mile ea-
E. I'err
Two hundred members of the Twen-
tieth Kansas regiment, who are sick,
are on their way home. Four hundred
and tifty are still on the tiring line,
THE 1)/ \I \'T is. vmi can eaviog in the ne.gh'or of 400 who are
1 il Ll i Vj 14.N 1 v
=====::===:===:=::=::= yet left the Philippines
...of us...
Granite Preserving Kettles.
Iron Preserving Kettles.
Tin Preserving Kettles.
-THE
(First pubii-hed June 2f th, is!if )
Legal Notice
Notice is hereby given that in com-
pliance with an act of the legislature
of the territory of Oklahoma, l,to regu-
late the trattc in intoxicating liquors,"
W. I. GOFF.
did on the '."Hh day of June, A. D.,
1899, tile h;- application by petition
with Earl Beehe, county clerk of Cana-
! dian county, Oklahoma territory, pray-
! ing for licen-o to sell malt liquors at
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy,- the author j whole8ale ln the citv )f E1 Ren.f, Okla-
' homa territory, in Canadian county,
signed by thirty persons representing
themselves to be resident taxpayers in
that the operation of her physical fac- jn tfit. saij cjtv of El Reno.
ulties have been arrested.—Kansas City : Attest:—Earl Beehe, County Clerk,
Star. ! Canadian countv, Oklahoma territory, j spons,
T r.
and finisher of Christian Science, is not
dead, a- was reported. In other words,
-he has not succumbed to the belief1
«i^ >r, "p\/ CT/^vDr Three proicinent men died during
V t li i 1 ^ 1 ( )k I. the month o( I ine, this year. Tln-y
No. 103, South Rock Island Ave. were Richard P. Bland, of Missouri:
i Captain H. E. Nichols, U. S. N.i and
Sharpe Bros. Johnson Strauss, the "Waltz King."
The Fourth of July orator h is been
twisting the British lion's tail for a
century and a quarter: but with this
year of our Lord, 1899, he will in all
probability take most of the twist out.
a turd ay an unknown uum wa-
nd near the Choctav track, a
t of town. Deputy Coroner t'.
y summoned a jury, who went
to the scene and brought the corpse to
the city. I he man was apparently
about forty years of age, a laborer, re-
spectably dressed. In his pocket was
found $1.1)0, a razor and brush, and a
paper addressed to Joseph Childers,
Springfield. Mo., and a box containing
two grains of morphine Dr. ( I! Mil-
ler says that he filled ii prescription for
ten grains of morphine fur the st ranger
and it is supposed that the man's death
was cau-eu by the eight grains of the
drug which hav,. disappeared Me wim
buried Monday in South IIill cumetery
4-th of July Entertainment.
The general -eere.i.iry of i.hc I. T 1.
Helen (>. Rice, has called on the Loyal
I em pern nee Legion all over the world
to join in a movement to celebrate il>,
♦th of July in a manner which wi I <m
pbasize the intimate relation^ b> ice. „
true patriotism and t..,rr,|„,,„n<,
the Oklahoma territorial ortlc, i ( of ti ,■
W C T V. and L r, L. have
llleu on us to celebrate, and In re
Ki Iteno's W. c, T, C ,,,,,j |,
|i. L,. Will give a fine rit.erta|fno. i,i ,,,
1 the Rock Island M. K. , hurrl, t
ing of music arid reeltatlonH on t.|,„
evening of July 3rd, at 8 o'clock afiet
which they will serve Ire ep,tll,„ (,Ve
are compelled, for want of xpai e t„
omit the program, which U rpni„. io„k.
Utah Mining Districts.
1 Bingham, Tintic, Park City, Mercur,
Mary-vale. Gold Moutain. Deep Creek,
L-i Sal, described and illustrated in a
'•4-page pamphlet, together w .th a pros-
pector's map of Utah, and claim group-
ed' maps of Bingham, Tintic and Mer-
cur, now ready for delivery. Send two
cents in postage for this, the most reli-
able write-up of the mineral resources
j of 1'tah ever published.
F. A. WADLEIUH, G. P. & T. A.
Salt Lake City, [Hah.
e.<
Notice to Contractors.
Sealed bids will he received until 12
o'clock noon, July 1, 1899, for the erec-
tion of a dormitory for Kingfisher col-
lege. at Kingfisher, Okla. 1'lans and
specifications are on file at the office of
tho receiver of the U. S. land office at
Kingfisher, and at the office of J. Fou-
eart, architect, Guthrie, Oklahoma. All
bids are subject to the conditions set
forth in Hie final specifications, and the
immlttee on building reserves the
ri^hl to reject any and all bids.
J. FOUCART, Architect.
Mrs. Schmerhorn Dead.
' hrlstlna C. Schermerhorn, wife of
l it. Schermerhorn, died at 7 o'clock
last Sunday evening. Mrs. Schermer
horn hail been an invalid for a number
of years and for the past few months
bin! been confined to her bed most of
the time, III r death has been looked
f'.r for n number of weeks. She had no
fear of death and said she was willing
to meet, he maker whenever He called
her Him was a devoted member of the
I'reoityiiirlitn church. She was 57 years
of age funeral services were conduct-
ed by llr.v Curdle at '■! o'clock Monday.
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Hensley, T. F. El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 10, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 29, 1899, newspaper, June 29, 1899; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc139982/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.