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THE ENID EVENTS.
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Vol. 12
ENID. OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18.1904.
No. 47
KNIVES IN
THE AIR.
Through the Slaughter House
to the open Grave; Exeunt.
War has been declared and the fac-
tious of the Unterrified are engaged
in bitter, though silent, conflict. The
county convention will l>e held next
Tuesday in this city, and already slates
have been made and demolished and
made over again.
A deal was hatched last weejc to
side track .ludge Bradley, All along
it has bean conceded that Bradley
would be nominated for probate jud-
ge by acclamation, and no candidate
came out against him. Whittinghill
had agreed to make a spread eagle
nominating speech for him. But last
week the clans got together and hatch-
ed up a deal to nominate Dan lluett
probate judge and ('. .1. West county
attorney. The reason of this was to
shelve Bradley and at the same time
put Huett out of business. Ever
since Huett moved to Enid he has
mat.ifested aTnliitions, and, inGa:-
tield county where democrat chances j mises to be a circus. If the Combitia
are so slim, and ambitious democrats i jjon wjtls out Campbell will be noini
s:> i.u ne ous, new individuals witIi {n^ted tor slierltT, West for county at-
sink bordering on a lingering fitful
demise so sad and heartrendering.
Until he is defeated in an election
Campbell will continue to lie a force
in democratic politics, tie must be
defeated.
Of course t tie "deal" may not go
through, Bradley may succeed In se-
curing the nomination for probate
judge, Huett may be nominated f6r
county attorney and Campbell may
refuse to take the nomination for
sheriff. In which event Campbell and
West will remain live propositions.
However, the combination will be
able to glut its vengeance on Bradley
and lluett and put them out of busi-
ness, yet Bradley and lluett are se-
condary considerations. The game
will be lost unless the combination
gets the meat houses of West and
Campbell.
With West and Campbell still in
action the stuff is off. That means
that Charley Borders, Pat Colliding
and Whittinghill, .laeolK. Charley
Moore, Major Berry, Colonel Cozart
and Ellis, together with West and
Campbell, are still bosses of democra-
tic county politics. Whereas, with
West, Campbell, Huett and Bradley
slaughtered the combination will
have a clear field in the future and
will run things two years hence,
There is certainly blood in the air
and the convention next week pro-
tomey, Iluott for probate judge, Dan-
gertield for treasurer and Charles O.
Wood for county clerk. If the com-
bination loses Bradley will l>e nomina-
ted for probate judge and Huett for
attorney. The others don't matter.
Next Tuesday will tell whether
West and Campbell are to cease to be
democratic factors, and, strange to
say, their nomination will presage
Horse Has
Brains
ambiiims are received with more or1
less cold and icy grace.
It is figured by the Untsrrified
schemers that, if Huett is nominated
for probate judge he. will be so over-
whelmingly defeated, and snowed un-
der that he will never again stick
his noodle above the political waters,
At the same time another turn down
will do Bradley up for keeps. Brad-
ley has been too promiscuous in the ' their cessation of activities
past to suit Charley and Clint and j
Scott and the boys, and they want to j
put the fixings to him right this1
time.
The deal is to nominate West for
county attorney in order to commit a
ramps on him politically. West has j
also been to previous. In fact lie ha.s j
swelled to such an extent as to enter- j
tain congressional ambitions. How-
ever, Ilerr Berry, Von Porter and Berlin, Aug. 13—William \ on
Horatio Denton punctured his eon- Oston, who has for a long time made
gressional tire at the last county con- 'investigation of the intelligence of
vent ion here. So successful were they | animals, has reached results in edu
that, notwithstanding West was the .eating an Oriofl stallion that caused
only candidate Tor endorsement, the ! amazement among scientific men
convention refused to endorse him. and phsychologists. Some of those
The deal is to nominate West for, who have tested the mental powers of
county attorney, and knowing the the animal are Dr. Sudt, the Prus
strength of Sturgis, slaughter him'sian minister of education; Prof,
unmercifully, thus to premanently George Schweinfurther, the famous
disable him and put him off his trol-' African traveler; Prof. Karl Stumpir
ley for keeps. iof tlle Berlin University; Her
Another deal, which has lieen a Schillings, the naturalist, and Lud
longtime hatching and brewing, is wig Heck, director of the Berlin Zoo-
the nomination of Sam Campbell for (logical garden. The horse has lieen
Sheriff. For awhile Clint Clark was j taught adding, subtracting, multl
slated to oppose Campbell for the j plying and dividing sums, does sever
nomination, but last week it was de- a 1 of those operations, finds numbers
cided to pull Clark off and nominate j and not only simply repeats what it
Campbell by acclamation. Campbell is taught, but solves fresh problems
has all along been the thorn in the | put to him by examiners in the ah
cuiticle of the Denton, Porter, Clark
combination. They hate him with
an undying hatred fetched from the
bowels of Sheol in a hand cart. To the
mind of the combination Campbell
> embodies all that is fateful, disrupt-
ing. To them Campbell is a bulky
piece of luggage, too big to drown,
and too dangerous to carry around.
They want to lie rid of him. And
knowing this to he a Republican year
the easiest way out of f he ditemmi is
to give him the nomination for sheriff
and then slaughter him. Slaughter
is in the air. They are bound to
slaughter somebody. They demand
V RM'e, and will only be satisfied when
it runs even to the bridle bits. They
don't expect to win this year. All
t tliey want to do is to "get even" on
old scores.
' « The deal is to nominate Campbell
and then give him the icy mitt to a
fareyouwell and in great, large, glis-
tening chunks. Porter remembers;
he cannot forget and even in the
night time when he seeketh his bed of
slumbers, over him falleth a mantle
like as a hideous nightmare and It
aeemeth that he smothoreth, he gas-
peth, he criethaloudjhe thlnketh that
upon his throat is fastened like a vise
the iron hand of Sam Campbell and
upon his nether regions grindeth the
iron heel of Samuel Campbell. By
day as well as by night—he remembers
—he cannst forgot—It hurts—the old
sore and to think what Champbell done
to him and what he will doagain. No
there is no other way out of it Camp-
bell must be put out of the way. Un-
less he is put out of the way the com-
bination is done for—It has croaked
its last croak, and will sink into a list | point wh;'re tha horses became fright-
Mfi. BAVIN SUPPORTS THE TICKET—WITH
ened, the carriage was thrown over
an embankment about, 20 feet high.
Mrs. Jones falling underneath the
wreckage of the vehicle. She receiv-
ed internal injuries and also sustain-
ed three fractured ribs. She was
given all the relief possible at the
Boer War hospital, where the end
c:wne at 8 o'clock Saturday night,
Sanders
Jolts
Dunn.
sence of his master, showing a grasp
of the principles of Arithmetic.
The horse remembers them next day,
and discriminates twelve colors and
shades, giving their corresponding
names. The animal distinguishes
musical tones, indicating where
they are situated on the chromatic
scale, and picks out discords, des-
ignating which tone to omit in order
to restore harmony. The horse com-
municates by a gytetn of hoof lieats
representing the alphabet.
Mrs. Breckinridge Jones Killed.
Mrs. Breckinridge Jones, aged 50
years, wife of t he vice president and
counsel of the Mississippi Valley
Trust company and a director of tlie
World's Fair, one of the best known
society women in the city, was fatal-
ly injured in a runaway accident on
on the Exposition grounds at 4:.'S0
o'clock Saturdav afternoon, She
died at the Boer War hospital three
hours later.
Mrs. Jones, with her husband,
daughter, Mary 1>. Jones, aged 7
and niece, Mary Elizabeth Melvluney
of Stanford, K.v., were driving across
the wooded portion of the grounds
in their park trap. When near the
Boer war inclosure the horses liecamo
frightened and started to run away,
Oscar Chouteau, the coachman, was
thrown out of tha trap, and the
horses dashed on at a terrific speed,
the pedestrian* scattering on either
side in answer to the warning cries of
tha occupants of the carriage.
When about 100 yards from the
Gives the history of Fusion
and Perfidy of Democrats
likewise Dunn.
Spencer E. Sanders chairman of the
Populist Territorial Committee, wrote
an open letter to Jessie Dunn, popu-
list deserterand chairman of the dem-
ocratic territorial committee in which
he gives the history of fusion, the per-
fidy of democrats and show how Dunn
has been transplanted togold-bugism,
Sanders says in part:
Hon, Jessie Dunn, Alva, O. T.
My. Dear Sir: Upon reading the an-
nouncement in a recent issue of the,
"Oklahoman" that you had been
chosen chairman of the Democratic
congressional territorial compalgn
committee, I thought at first that my
eyes were deceiving me, or that 'twas
a typographical error, or that a care-
less type had caused a confusion of
ideas by an interchange of words, but
my doubts in the matter have since
From my limited acquaintance with
you, 1 had been led to believe that
your political principles were mainly
in accord with me. I now discover
my error
Hundreds of North Side Democrats
as well as all Populists, are bitter and
scorn at the treatment accorded the
Populists by the Democrat* in the re.
eent Oklahoma City convention. Men
who had always been loyal, faithful
and.frue under every political emer-
gency in the union of anti-Republican
forces of the territory, men who are
honest and sincere in their political
belief and who had stood squarely
and firmly by every agreement and
promise with their pollticial allies,
were one and all virtually told to"glt'
Delegates would arise from their seats
in the late Democratic convention
and gazing abstractedly around, their
eyes falling upon nothing but Demo-
crats, on every iTand, vainly,imagined
the whole world composed of Demo-
crats. Outside brass hands played
sweet music and patriotic airs at the
expense of Democratic candidates,
and again it seemed to t he bewilder-
ed delegates that all nature, too, was
Democratic. But my brother, these
were not all the men and voters of
Oklahoma. Indeed, not for away from
the Democratic halls, was another
small band of determined men, most
of them sun-burned, calloused and
toil-worn, not so many silk skirts or
patent leather shoes among them, but
a great deal of the bone and sinew of
Oklahoma was represented there: this
band of a'lout one hundred and forty
men were eager, anxious and willing
to form a coalition or union of fon-es
with their former allies for the Letter-
ment of Oklahoma, hut their entrea-
ties, their desires, their offers were
treated with disdain, were spurned
w t i contempt. Do you wonder, Dunn
that we feel just a trifle hurt?"
Then follows the history of fusion
or and a credit superior in every way
to many of the delegates in the con-
vention of our late allies, who buried
abuse, ridicule and insult at the brain
and brawn of the Populist party.
"But to resuqie. Our regular com-
mittees were then appointed and
everything was apparently going our
way. The ice seemed smooth and we
were feeling safe and secure, but the
shoals were just ahead. The Demo-
cratic convention appointed a confer-
ence committee, upon learning of our
committee and we were delighted.
The conference committees met and
consulted, the Populists made a writ-
ten offer for a coalition: the Demc-
crats neither accepted nor rejected,
but replied by offering a counter pro-
position. Adjournment was had and
both committees returned to their re-
spective conventions to make report.
The People's party convention, after
another fight with the mid-roadcrs,
confirmed the action of their confer-
ence committee and adjourned until
8 o'clock the next morning, hoping
and awaiting favorable act ion of their
Democrat brethern. can you conceive
Dunn of anything more than we
could have been done? Wasn't our
desire apparent? Could we have pur-
sued a more honorable course? And
you are now herding with the crowd
that sought to treat these men with
contempt. The Democratic conven-
tion in their mad anxiety and baste,
disregarding all previous agreements
and promises, refused to wait for the
report of their conference committee
and had proceeded to place the respec-
tive candidates before their conven-
tion, and if 1 remember correctly were
casting their second ballot when their
committee returned to report, The
report was met with hisses and jeers
one Creer county delegate shouting:
Wc don't want the damned Pops;"
Another from elsewhere announced:
"We don't need the Pops anyway,"
Still we were hopeing anxious and
willing. We reflected that the place
of the convention (in a beer graden,
'with intoxicating liquor flowing brisk-
ly) had perhaps maddened some of the
brethern, who In more sober mo-
ments would speak more mildly,
There was never an opportunity giv-
en the Populist convention to enter
and unite with the Democrats either
as a convention or as individuals.
Many of us there on the speaker's
platform and elsewhere about the
building waited hopefully for favor-
able action.
Owing to the fact at the late con-
vention that a friendly
Japs Again Victorious.
The .!ai>s were again victorious i,
their naval battles Saturday.
Following closely on the heels (
the naval tight off Port Arthur, i
which Admiral Togo scattered ti
Russian fleet, sinking the Pallac
and rendering the battleship Czar
vltch useless, another Japanese, flee
composed of powerful cruisers, me
and defeated the Russian Vladivosto
squadron In the strait between ,lapa.
and C'orea. In this action, whic
occurred Sunday morning, the Ru.«
sian armored cruiser Burik was sun
and serieous damages inflicted up
the Gromobio and Rossla, the tw
most powerful armored cruslers Ru
sla had in eastern waters.
Of tlie Port Arthur fleet, defeate
and dispersed in the battle with Tog
but little has lieen learned. TIi
battleship Czarevitch lies injured an
dismantled at Tsitig Chan, the pre
tecting cruiser Pallada, is sunk, th.
protected cruiser Askold is lying ti.
jured near Shanghai the protecte
cruiser Novik is damaged, but put ti
sea after stopping at Tslng Tau, am
at least two torpedo boat destroyer
have been dismantled. The where
abouts of the remainder of the Por:
Arthur fleet is not given out, but tlu
ships probably returned to the har-
bor.
A Handy Machine. .
G. W. Osburn is exhibiting his nev
20th Century Screening machine
which he patented in 11W3.
This machine is for screening am
grading grain, apples, potatoes
oranges, lemons, with coal gravel
sand and etc. 1 his machine wtl
put any of the above articles in fron
two to three grades by running
through once. It Is also a grea.
novelty, as it can lie folded up on tw<
wtieelswhich run on tie ground anc
can easily be run by any kind o
power, built any sUe and of an,
kind of material, Stato and count,
rights for sale at reasonable prices.
Knapp 4 Walker of Enid hav<
bought, the. right oC Oklahoma ant
Indian Territory,
lieen removed and my fears don firmed and the turning down of the populists
by which corroborating evidence, and by the den o Tat. Then fellows a eor-
my suspense and hesitation to bcl'eve
has given way to the coif, uncomfort-
able knowledge of the fait that you
are now the acknowledged leader of
the Bourbon Democracy of Oklahoma
Now, Dunn, I cannot extend my
hearty and sincere congratulations,
for the reason that I had hoped for
reipondence tietween Duun and San-
ders prior to the National Democratic
convention, in which Dunn says, in
bis letters, that unless the democrats
do as they did four years ago, he is in
l'avor of "going it alone,"
Then Sanders winds up as follows:
"As territorial chairman your cor-
To Indict Mitsdiner.
Instructions have been sent Horace
Speed. United States attorney fo
Oklahoma, to present the informa-
tion in the possession of the govern
ment against O. A. Mitscliner, form-
Jcoalition of erly agent of the Osage na'lori, t<
forces had been eoncummated in pre- the federal grand jury with the ob-
vious campaigns and that botn con- jeot In view of securing Ids indict
ventions had been called to meet in ment. The Instructions are manda
the same city on the same day, most tory and it is expected that Mr,
of the counties united at home and Speed "will get busy" in this cas<
had elected half the delegations Dem- within the next ten days. Exactl
ocrats and half Popollsts. addressing what the charges are against Mitsch
their credentials to the Democrat- ner cannot lie ascertained, but the}
Populists convention and but nine relate to his administration of tin
counties had elected separate delega- office of agent for the Osage Indians,
tions. and of course we appeared weak It is understood that the charges an
and so we were but those nine coun- for accepting bribes as agent fron
ties represented more voters that any attorneys and other persons havin
nine counties selected from the other business before his office, says i
convention, and those nine counties Washington, D. C. special to tin
together with thousands of voters will
see to it that Mr. Mathews retires to
his home and after November 8 next
and those nine counties met the fol-
lowing morning at the place from
which they had adjourned the previ-
ous evening and faithful to their vows
and political belief nominated Mr.
Strauglien the man who will carry
more voters at the comin
thews.
Muskogee Times.
Wichita Produce Sold.
II. II. Peavy, manager of the O. K.
Produce Company negotiated a deal
Saturday for the purchase of the Enid
business of the Wichita Produce Co
than Mat- a"d in tlle ruture wiil handle the pro-
duce trade of this city aid outlying
The new company
The chairman of the convention Is 1 he new company is heaviij
a Cleveland, Goldbug Democrat. Your ^Pi'allzed and will xaxe a spread it
conference committee was composed "ie "''olesale produce business in Ok
chiefly of the same element. Your lahoma. The Odd Fellow building
platform endorses Parker and his na- h:us secured and will be head-
tional Cioldbug. Did you notice the t|" rlers of the company in the future
clammy feeling that seemed to creep
letter conditions, and besides I am respondence called the People's par-
tempted to believe form my knowledge ty convention to order in < >klahoma
of your past political career that you City and our first ad after effecting
are not riding easily and securely in a temporary organit Ion was to appoint
your new gold-bug chariot, but I shall
not forbear to extend my sympa- was
Mr, Peavy is an expert in the produce
over our convention of the following ",K':mf' w"' Pu li the business to a
Tuesday, after your nomination of. complete success.^ We wish him well.
Mathews, as you exhorted us to come „
over and join the gold camp? True <*rank Stowes I Utdtir Dead.
we invited you tosi>enk to us for many i
a conference committee, of which I! of us had advocated your nomination Douglas News: A message received
member. In the temporary | but you should have rememtiereilIt hat Sunday morning by Mis. M. J. Mc-
thy in advance, for erstwhile it will organization of the convention a tilt , Popul'lst organization, and not '""^unced I he expiration of
be appreciated, to you and the gentle was had with the mid-roaders, and j die mid-roaders as you evidently im- {V'1'1* 'lI"1 John Ste.ves father at
but ambitious steed (Mathews) you they were downed, In the appoint- agined. We understand 'bat Mat- . lei herson, kansas.
he mid- bews is a great boy for home, and we I he deceased had long lieen an in-
; will make it a point to leave him en- valltj aiKj [,is death
(Mathews) you
are now grooming for your cheerless lngof acouferoncucoinmittec
and gloomy trip up Salt fork early in readers again gave trouble, but
the morning after the 8th day of Nov- third time they were whipped. I
ember next, for, premlt me to assure speak of these frequent tilts and t rou-
you tliat he and you are going up the hies with ties mid-roadcrs to show you
creek just as sure as the sun rises to sir, that the convention that nominat-
glve you sufficient light on that mor- ed Strauglien was not controlled by
Joy its comforts,
■vaj no suprise to
nlng you as helmsman, he is a lonely
passenger. Mark the prediction.
Personally, my life since long before
I first exercised the right of suffrage,
has lieen devoted politically ill fight-
ing principally, those element in gov-
ernmental affairs for which you now
stand as the chief exponent in Okla.
these men but by the regular organi-
sation: that the Insult of the Demo-
cratic convention was not thrown at
"John Allen's sideshow," but was
thrown at tha regular organization of
the people's party, So far as John
Allen is concerned personally 1 shall
stop here to remark that he is an hon-' ness
Spencer E. Sanders. I
his relatives and friends. Ho was
man of excellent qualities and a much
loved, highly respected citizen of Mc-
Phorson county.
His death is annonced by avery
large nuuitier of acquaintances, in ev-
ery one of whom lie had a friend.
Mut« BHt« ft Mmm,
I X R. Portw of NorthIxmi. Mo., m
tltteo by a vteloua mule. Th« wound
Charley Hunter iogjfed into
the citv Monday nitfht with 150
boomers who have purchased
lots in the various Bes Line
townsites. The boomers took
in the city Monday night and
then went to the opera bouse
where they organized for busi- Bot he*' Fbrter want to
the Pastmr institute In Chicago.
r.
rw ha mi told that h had
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