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VOL. 11.
ENID, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY", SATURDAY, .JTNE 15, 1805.
NO. 39.
WANT EQUAL RIGHTS.
NEWSPAPER MEN TAKE ACTION
AT PHILADELPHIA.
Vft Is InaUted that the Fress In no Lean En-
Qtltled to Holt' in .Sacred Confidence Their
Source* of Information than Clergymen,
Lawyers and the Like.
MOXIC1 FLANK. GAVE TROUBLE.
Philadelphia, June 12.—The conven-
tion of the International League of
Press clubs today took important ac-
tion on the question of privileged com-
munications to newspaper men and the
libel laws of the various states. Gen-
eral Felix Angus, of the Baltimore
American, called up the resolutions of
th© Baltimore Press_club, presented
yesterday, demanding for newspaper
men the same privileges of holding in
strict confidence sources of information
as are accorded to clergymen, lawyers
and others.
"We come," said General Angus, "to
protest against insults to our profes-
sion, to the toilers and workers," and
then he related the history of the cases
of John S. Shrlver, of the New York
Mail and Express, and E. J. Edwards,
of the Press, of this city, who publish-
ed the Sugar Trust information that
led to their summons before the United
States senate committee.
General Angus said the press some-
times takes a poor boy and by its pow-
er makes him a judge, yet he turns on
those who elevated him.
Joe L. Cook of this city said the mat-
ter was the one weakness of the pro-
fession, and comes from the fact that
it is younger than the other profess-
ions mentioned. He believed the press
'had power to have laws recognizing
<the sacredness of the confidence be-
tween the giver of information and the
newspaper man.
TO LABOR FOR LAW9.
A resolution was then offered by
Charles Emory Smith, of the Philadel-
phia Press, urging the various press
clubs of the league to work energetical-
ly to secure from the legislatures of the
several states the passage of laws to
protect newspaper men in preserving
inviolate, confidential information com-
municated to them in tho ordinary
course of their duties. The resolution
was adopted.
Speaking subsequently as a newspa-
per proprietor Mr. Smith declared that
if he had correctly observed the young
men about him there was not one
worthy member in the newspaper pro-
fession who would not rather rot in
Jail than betray his confidence.
Tremenduous applause greeted this
tribute and Mr. Smith followed it up
by expressing t • belief that news-
paper men were more careful in their
confidences than the average man in
private life.
John H. Dow of Philadelphia then of-
fered a resolution relative to llL^l laws,
introducing it In a long preamble call-
ing attention to the services performed
by newspapers of the nation as the
chief weapons of defense against of-
ficial corruption and vice, and recit-
ing that it has become their duty and
Tight to expose public scandal, malad-
mlnstration of office and violations of
law, so long as they do no.t, in print-
ing and writing, abuse the liberty
granted them.
LIBEL LAWS ARICED FOR.
In conclusion the resolution calls up-
on the secretary of the league to peti-
tion the different state legislatures to
pass a general libel law worded as fol-
lows:
"Before any suit shall be brought for
the publication of a libel in any news-
paper in this state, the aggrcived party
shall, at least three days before filing
or serving the complaint in such suit,
serve a notice on the publisher or pub-
lishers or said newspapers at their
principal office of publicalton, specify-
ing the statements in the said article
which he or they may allege to be false
or defamatory. If it shall apear on the
trial of said action that the article was
published in good faith, that its falsity
was due to a mistake or misapprehen-
sion of the facts and that a full and
fair retraction of any statement there-
in alleged to be erroneous was publish-
ed in the next regular issue of such
newspaper, or in case of daily papers,
within three days after such mistake
or misaaprehension was brought to the
knowledge of such publisher or pub-
lishers, in as conspicuous a place and
type In such newspaper as was the ar-
ticle complained of as libellous, then
the plaintiff in such cases shall recover
only actual damages. Provided, how-
ever, that the provision of this act shall
not apply to the case of any libel
against any candidate for a public, of-
fice In this state unless the retraction
of the charge Is made editorially in a
conspicuous manner at least three days
before election, In such libellous arltcle
was published in a daily newspaper, if
a weekly paper, at least ten days be-
fore the election."
The resolution was adopted.
ENCOURAUED BY KED TATE.
Little Man and Red Lodge, Cheyenne*, As-
sault a White Woman.
Watonga, O. T., June 12.(Speclal.)—
Little Man and Red Lodge, two Chey-
enne Indians were arrested at the In-
dian Issue house near Watonga on Mon-
day June 10, and thrown Into Jail at this
place. They were arrested on the charge
of rape. Their victim was an aged la-
dy by the name of Hays whose home
is in G county; The arrest was made
by the sheriff and his deputies from G
county.
This is the second rape that has been
committed by Indians on white women
within the last two years.
The red tape business In the Howling
"Wolf rape case has encouraged the
Indians in their fiendish work. Howl-
ing Wolf committed rape on a little
girl In the summer of 1893. He escaped
from jail and since that time has been
dodging around In Blaine county and
wthe sheriff is charged with being afraid
to try to capture him.
Excitement here is intense. The peo-
ple have become so disgusted with
the sheriff in the Howling Wolf matter
Tnnt ftfey Tfilk sfronkly or going arter
the Indians with Winchesters.
Little Man and Red Lodge will be
taken to G county for trial.
HOKE WON'T HELP MINER.
if He Wants to get Away with lllarkwell
Townnlte lie Must Contest.
Washington, June 12.—Secretary
Hoke Smith has denied the application
of O. A. Miner for a writ of certiorari
>y which he nought to overthrow the
townslte of Blackwell, O. T. The sec-
retary holds that Miner's remedy Is by
a connst an '.lnst the entry of the town-
site board or against Frnk Poots, the
or'giral locator 6f th« land.
(Milo Prohibitionists Want Free Coinage ai
Matter of Temporary R«Ulef.
Springfield, O., June 12.—The Proh?.
bitlon state convention wrangled near
ly all morning over the money planli
in the platform and adjourned for th«
noon recess without deciding it.
The convention praotlcallv completed
its labors this afternoon hut did not
adjourn until the ratification meeting
tonight. The financial plank is as fol-
lows:
The money of the country should be
of full legal tender, Issued directly to
the people on ample security in such
quantities as the people may demand
and to all at a uniform rate of inter-
est. To this end the government
should establish real national banks
as it does postofllces, wherever con-
venience of the people demands. Until
such financial system can be establish-
ed, we favor free and unlimited coin-
age of silver and gold at a ratio of 1£
to 1, as a temporary relief.
A full ticket was named, the prin-
cipal nominations being: United States
senator, R. S. Thompson of Springfield
governor, Seth H. Ellis, Springfield
lieutenant governor, J. W. Sharp, Mans
field.
GOLD MINERS ON BOGGY CREEK.
Gold Exiiltment Grows More Intense with
Each Passing Hour.
Guthrie, O. T.f June 12.—The scene
on the banks of Boggy creek south-
west of Arapahoe is a queer one for
agricultural Oklahonia^ Instead ol
diminishing, the gold fever grows
apace. People are rushing pell mell
along the banks of the stream where
the camps are only a few feet apart. A
regular hack line has been established
between Arapahoe and the gold field.
This hack leaves Arapahoe at 7 a. m
and 1 p. m. daily. When it arrives in
the city It Is packed with miners, every
one of them carrying a small sack full
of "ore." At the sametime men come
riding into town almost hourly with
sacks of the precious ore tied to their
saddles.
The nearest town to the gold camp is
Cloud Chief, and that town has taken
on a veritable Colorado mining town
appearance. Scores of restaurants are
going In with the usual accompani-
ments of saloons, real estate offices
and dance halls.
Quanah Parker, the Indian chief,
who is thoroughly acquainted with the
mountains, says they are full of gold.
Parker, with sixteen of his followers,
are digging for the gold along with the
palfaces.
THOUGHT INGERSOLL KNOWS BEST.
New Yurk Suicide Dies Because the Social
System Doesn't Suit Him.
New York, June 12.—Slegmund
Schneider, 36 years of age, shot his wife
today, inflicting fatal injuries. He
then blew out his own brains.
Schneidler was the son of a wealthy
flour manufacturer of Prussian Silesia,
but he and his wife lived In poverty. I
Before committing the terrible crime !
Schneidler wrote the following note:
"To the coroner—Being unable to
bear life's miseries any longer, I de-
termine to end my life, taking my dear-
ly beloved companion with me. Colonel
Ingersoll is right In his views and lect-
ures and is to my opinion the most
sensible man of the century. Our social
system Is wrong and unjust, and our
laws churches and priests are fakes.
They all serve one God and his name
Is Mammon.
(Signed) SIGMOND SCHNEIDLER."
Schneidler graduated with high hon-
ors from Heldleberg and was an en-
gineer of great ability.
BIS FIERCE SPIRIT TAMED.
Geronimo it* Behaving Himself and Enjoyi
Practical Liberty.
Chicago, June 12.—Genoral Merritt ot
the department of the Missouri has ar-
ranged to purchase $10,000 worth of cat-
tle at Fort Sill Saturday next to be
given to the 213 Indian prisoners of war
at that post comprising the remnant of
Geronimo's warlike Apache band. The
recent session of congress appropriated
$15,000 to be expended In putting the
band to work on the farm lands of the
reservation. Though still considered
prisoners of war tin- members of the
band have as much freedom as any
other reservation Indians. Since their
conflinement, now running over a per-
iod of nearly ten years, the members
of the band have lost much of their old
spirit, and Geronimo Is represented to
be a quiet, docile old man.
MEMPHIS IS THEIRS.
SILVERlTES IN POSSESSION OF
THAT SOUTHERN CITY.
Rotables are There-Personnel of the Con-
vention a Remarkable One-Senator Tur-
pie Presides at the Deliberations.
WILL SHUT THEM UP TIGHT.
No Soda Water, Candy, Fruit or Cigars at
Yorktown, O., for a While.
Youngstown, O., June 12.—Acting un-
der pressure from the civic federation,
the chief of police today issued an
order for the closing of all places of
business hereafter on Sunday. The
order is intended to include the ice
cream and soda water stores, fruit
stands and cl gar stores. It will be the
first attempt in the history of the city
to enforce strict Sunday observance.
Catching a Boa Constrictor.
To catch a boa constrictor Is a very
difficult and dangerous task, says a man
who makes it his business to capture
wild animals and reptiles for menagerie
purposes. "Briefly, it is accomplished by
means of a labyrinthlan tangle, embrac-
ing sixty square feet of ground. Tho
labyrinth Is made by Joining together,
end on end, pieces of matting.
"This web Is eight feet high, usually,
and placed so that the opposing walls
will be two feet apart. All sorts of
criss-cross and diverging combinations
are made with the matting—It is sup-
ported here and there by stakes—mak-
ing. when it is set, a geometrical puzzle
that might well challenge the Ingenuity
of man.
"The trnp is baited with a live pig,
which is placed in a pen in the center
of the labyrinth. By-and-bye along
comes the boa constrictor. It is easy
enough to get in. He scents the prey;
he Is very hungry; the pig is devoured;
and this is where the boa constrictor
comes to grief.
"For hours he tries to relieve himself
from the tortuous passages which rise
about him, but finally he grows tired
and stretches himself out for a nap.
Then is our time. We enter the labyrinth
and catch him."---Pearson's Weekly.
^ Sprlng.|
Hunter—I saw large flocks of wild
geese flying northward early in March.
Farmer—Huh! If they wasn't geeae
they wouldn't go by the almanac.
Memphis, Tenn., June 12.—Friends of
silver and representing twenty states of
the south and west began a two days
convention In this city today. Fifteen
hundred delegates, comprising Dem-
ocrats, Republicans and Populists, but
with "honest money" as the slogan of
all, filled the lower floor and a large
portion of the balconies at the audito-
rium when the gathering was called
to order this morning. On the stage,
besides the officers of the Central Bi-
metallic league of Memphis under
whose auspices the gathering was held,
were, with very few exceptions, all the
leading advocates of the free coinage
of silver in the United States. They in-
cluded Senators Bates and Harris of
Tennessee, Jones and Berry of Arkan-
sas, George and Walthall of Missis-
sippi, Marion Butler of North Carolina.
Tillman of South Carolina. Turpie of
Indiana, Governor John G. Evans of
South Carolina, ex-Governor Prince of
New Mexico, ex-Governor Eagle of Ar-
kansas, ex-Congressman William J.
Bryan of Nebraska. General A. J.
Warner, of Ohio, C. S. Thomas and Al-
va Adams of Colorado, Alexander Del-
mar of California and congressmen and
bankers from Tennessee and adjoin-
ing states by the dozen.
The number of people in the audito-
rium today did not exceed that which
greeted Secretary Carlisle upon his
appearance here on May 23, but the dem
onstration was equally imposing and
enthusiastic with the one witnessed on
that occasion.
A permanent organization was effect-
ed today with Senator Turpie of Indi-
ana as chairman, and addresses were
delivered by that gentleman and Alex-
ander Delmar of California, in the af-
ternoon and by Congressman Sibley
of Pennsylvania, C. S. Thomas of Den-
ver and Anson Walcott of Pennsylvania
in the evening.
Tomorrow will be devoted to speeches
by some of the distinguished visitors
and the consideration of the report of
committee on resolutions of which Sena
tor Jones of Arkansas is chairman.
Politically, the most significant in-
cident of today's proceedings was the
clear and emphatic statement of Sena-
tor Harris of Tennessee, who, it has al-
ready been clearly demonstrated, is
the controlling spirit In the manage-
ment of the convention, as to the ob-
ject of the gathering and the single
subject to which it is expected to con-
fine its deliberations. The strength
of the men who are for silver, first, last
and all the time, and whose purpose to
advance the candidacy of Congressman
Sibley, of Pennsylvania, for the pres-
idency, has been frequently manifest-
ed, is formidable, and the result of the
encounter between the opposing forces
the conservative and the radical silver
men, as it will be shown In the decla-
rations of the convention, Is watched
with great interest.
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the
convention:
The coined money of the government
in full meaning stands four squares to
all commercial transactions of the peo-
ple. It has four functions or uses. It
is a njedium of exchange; it is a meas-
ure of values'; it is a means for reduc-
tion of Its paper proxies; it is a legal
tender for the payment of all debts.
There are many things besides coined
money that have some of those powers
and uses—It has all. Of these func-
tions, two are creted by law—those of
legal tender and redemption; those are
artificial. The other two—of exchange
and value measurement—are natural.
There is no doubt that coined money
existed, and was used to effect change
of commodities and to denote the
values long before legislation concern-
ing redemption or debt.
But, although the natural functions
of coined money are older—much older
than its artificial functions—yet both
these clauses or functions are very
ancient—almost coeval with the com-
merce of civilization. The natural func-
tions of such money used in designat-
ing the prices and effecting the trans-
fer of commodities do not depend whol-
ly upon law, have never so depended,
but depend also upon useage and agree-
ment. They have no natural or neces-
sary existence. The artificial func-
tions depend wholly upon law. When
an article Is sold and delivered and the
price paid and received, this Is a finali-
ty, but creates the need th^t some
measure shall be enacted by public law
providing for the payment of the pri-
vate notes, for the redemption of the
public notes in coined money of the
country.
This need is not a natural one. It is
altogether artificial, and yet It Is caus-
ed by that thing which Is called credit.
Credit—that creature of legislation—
that product of the statutes. Credit,
the promise of today, the cash of to-
morrow, looking to the power of the
government for the collection and en-
forcement of Its obligations, cannot
gainsay the right of the same power
to enact what sort and what quantity
of coined money shall be paid and
shall be received in discharge and 11-
quldtlon of the same. Such Is the le-
gal tender quality, and though it Is
highly artificial, yet it is doubtless one
of the most valuable functions of coin-
ed money.
He who would deprive one sort of
coin of this quality, and leave it only
with the other, where two kinds had
been used before from time immemorial
—from the very origin of the credit
system—is guilty of gross injustice.
And that unequivalent policy—another
way of doing the same thing, which
would permit only the making and use
of one sort of coined money, and which
would prevent the free and further
making and use of the other, where
both had formerly been coined and
used as money of final liquidation, per-
petuates and maintains a system of
bondage.
Those great artificial functions of
coined money were not the cause of its
primary worth and use, although they
have aided very largely to It In both
these respects. Coined money has al-
ways been, and yet is In itself a thing
of value, and this value is of two iTlnds
—a general value derived from the
material out of which It Is minted, a
specific of particular value determined
by law. The first is called the metallic
or bullion value; the second Is known
as the money worth or lei?al value. The
latter Is alwys a matter of law; the
nuTTTon value is one or estimation ana
opinion. Neither of the two coined
metals of the world has the best or
highest elements of Intrinsic or Inher-
ent value. Both are used in the arts,
but If the use to which a thing Is put
is to be a sole measure of the value.
Iron, which is a necessary product,
steel. Is the most valuable, as It Is the
most useful of all metals. But the vast
abundance of this useful metal denot-
ing a supply unlimited, has deprived
it of monetary functions.
Silver and gold, in this order, have
been from the earliest times, and yet
remain, the principal eoin metal among
mankind. SUved and gold have been
deemed and called the precious metals.
The word precious indicates their mon-
ey use and origin. It leads directly to
price; it is very closely related to and
connected with price. Price Is the name
of that sum of money in coin which we
pay in exchange for what we wish to
purchase, and it must have always
been in itself a thing of value-—a ma-
terial capable of easy carriage, or other
qualities suitable for coinage—and it
must have always had relative to oth-
er commodities, the quality of scarcity,
or scantllness In supply For 4,000 years
gold and silver have been mined, coin-
ed and used as money. During all that
time those two precious metals have
been furnished, both as to quality and
as to cost of production. In such man-
ner and amount as not to be compared
with any other commodities, as to ad-
mit of no comparison save with each
other. It has already been said that
the bullion value of the coin metal*
was largely a matter of polnlon and
estimation.
The bullion value of silver and gold,
here and elsewhere, has always rested
and rests today, upon the conception,
upon one opinion, upon one single and
simple item of belief; It is an old be-
lief, universally credited, based upon
the actual experlecne of 100 genera-
tions of the human race. It is this:
That, as there has been In the ages
past, so there will be in the years to
come, no discovery of either of such
metals which, as to quantity or as to
the expense of production, shall make
them comparable in value with other
materials suitable for the use of man-
kind as money. It is not Impossible, it
is not inconceivable, that away down
deep In some subterannean strata of
our planet hitherto unexplored, there
may be found extensive deposits of sli-
ver and gold, miles in area, whole belts,
zones In clrcumfrence, of the metals
heretofore known as precious—but this
is a more dream; no one believes it.
The faith and credit of mankind In the
natural and unconquerable limitation
of supply as to those materalls rests
unshaken and undisturbed, as it did
at the first dawn of commerce; as it
did in the days of the old patriarch
whose "silver was current money with
the merchant."
There has always been a difference
between the commercial or bullion
value of the two metals and the legal
coinage value. This characteristic of
difference attaches to both. No de-
nomination of the gold coinage of the
United States has a bullion value equal
to the legal tender value thereof. The
gold dollar Is not what It purports to
be. The whole series of these gold
coins is made from bullion only nine*
tenths fine. I do not go into (ho rea-
sons for this—I state the fact. The
whole of the gold coinage is tithed—
It Is placed under par bullion value of
the substraction of one-tenth; this Is
why these coins outside of our own
country pass only with weight, not by
count. The missing tenth Is what is
called alloy. This alloy Is not gold at
all; it is a mixture of copper and silver
—only one-tenth of silver and nine-
tenths of copper. Of course this alloy
reduces the commercial value s metal
of the whole series of gold coin. This
is nowhere spoken of because of a very
curious claim made by the advocates
of gold monometallism, that a piece of
money whose bullion value may be less
than its legal value Is unsound and Is
dishonest.
It is the same with the sliver coinage,
the dollar and that par called subsidi-
ary money. This is coined under par
commercially. Like the gold coins,
the alloy is one-tenth, wholly of copper;
and besides that the proportion of
grains of metal used diminishes with
the denomination of the coins. The
half dollar has but 192 grains, a good
"Whole dollar; the quarter d®ll£r has
deal less than half the number of the
only 96 grains: the dime has only 36
grains—the holder of ten dimes has
only 380 grains, yet he can get halves,
quarters or the whole for those dimes,
notwithstanding the commercial price
of the metal in them is far below its
lawful value. The nickel passes for 5
cents—the bullion value of the metal
which conposes It Is .not half the legal.
The cent coined by the United States,
made of 95 parts of copper and five
parts of tin and zinc, Is worth as metal
not more than one-third its lawful or
legal value, which is the one-hundredth
part of a dollar.
Still, we have no other coin than this.
All our balances, when settled Tn coin,
are paid In It. The largest payments
'are made in the alloyed gold, and the
silver dollar with its group of frac-
tional parts and subsidiary coinage,
performs the functions of money—is
passed, paid and received as coin of
ultimate liquidation. Is this an honest
condition of business and finance?
According to the test of the enemies
of bimetallism that the legal value of
coined money must be the some as the
commercial or bullion value of the
metal in it, nothing could be more dis-
honest. According to that test there
is not, and cannot be, an honest dollar
of either silver or gold, nor nor any
honest part or fraction of the same; as
for the nickel, it Is viler than the dime,
and the honest penny Is banished for-
ever.
According to this same test and rule
of coinage there is not an honest coin
in tho treasury, there Is not a piece of
sound, safe money in the country. I
have read the story of a poor widow,
who long ago cast her mite into the
treasury, and it Is said of her that she
had given more than they all This
mite was the smallest Jewish coin. It
was worth in legal value about two
mills of our money. What was tho bul-
lion value of the morsel of copper >ut of
which It was made? Not one mill, not
one-half mill—less than this. The coin-
age reformer of our day would say^thll
was
then, did the celestial benediction rest
upon a fraud so palpable? Ney, but
this was lawful coin, having a legal
value. It was indeed honest money.
The law made it, she gave it, and ths
blessing and the glory of the mite yet
remain.
Senator Turpie was accorded another
round of applause when he finished his
speech.
QLKEY SETS HLS JAW.
HE MEANS TO SHOW FILIBUS-
TERS WHAT'S WHAT.
Told to Slay On! -Can't Come to this Conn,
try to Start any More-tlrover I'roc lit im*
Accordingly.
Washington. June 12.—Secretary Ol-
ney is thoroughly determined that the
tJnitfd States government shall da all
In lis power and all that international
law requires to prevent the violation of
United States territory by persons who
undertake to make it a base of hostile
operations against Spain, with which
power It is at peace. Complaints have
reached the department of state thro-
ugh the Spanish minister that men are
being recruited on American soil and
that armed expeditions are leaving our
shores for the purpose of attacking the
Spanish forces in Cuba. Whenever the
nugessary evldenoe can be procured
tlvflfe Infractions of the law are to be
severely punished, for the secretary of
state will leave no just ground for
eomplaint that the United States has
failed in its obligations to other na-
tions. Meanwhile, however, It has been
<J§emed proper to give formal warning
to misguided people of what they may
expect, so this afternoon the following
proclamation was issued from the state
department:
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNI-
THD 8TATE8
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas the island of Cuba is now the
seat of serious civil disturbances ac-
companied by armed resistance to the
authority of the established government
of Spain, a power with which the Uni-
ted States are and desire to remain on
terms of peace and amity, and,
Whereas. The laws of the United
States prohibit their citizens as well
as all others being within and subject
to their jurisdiction from taking part
In such disturbances adversely to such
established government, by accepting
or exercising commissions for warlike
service against it, by enlistment oi
procuring others to enlist for such ser
vice, by fitting out or arming or pro-
curing to be fitted out any armed ships
of war for such service, by augmenting
the force of any ship of war engaged
in such service and arriving in a port
of the United States, and by setting
on foot or providing or preparing the
means for military enterprises to be
carried on from the United States
against the territory of such govern-
ment.
Now. therefore, In recognition of the
laws aforesaid and in discharge of the
obligations of the United States toward
a friendly power, and as a measure of
precaution, and to the end that citi-
zens of the United States and all others
within Its jurisdiction may be deterred
from subjecting themselves to legal
forfeitures and penalties
I, Orover Cleveland, president of the
United States of America do hereby ad-
monish all such citizens and other per-
sons to abstain from every violation
Of laws hereinbefore referred to and do
hereby warn thepa that all violations
Of such laws will be rigorously prosecu-
ted; and I do hereby enjoin upon
all officers of the United States charged
with the execution of said laws, tho ut-
most diligence in preventing violations
thereof apd in bringing to trial and
punlsnment any offenders against the
lame.
fn testimony whereof I have hereunto
sot my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this
12th day of June in the year of Our
Lord one thousand, eight hundred and
ninety-five, and of the Independence
of the United States of America, the
one hundred and nineteenth.
(Signed.) G ROVER CLEVELAND.
By the president, RICHARD OLNEY
Secretary of State.
SYMPATHY FOR INSURGENTS.
Washington, June 12—When asked
today as to the character of the fili-
bustered who are reported to be leav-
ing the Florida coast for Cuba with the
view of participating in the Cuban In-
surrection, Senator Call of Florida said
a majority of them are of Cuban de-
scent.
"The sentiment in Florida." he con-
tinued, "is generally with the insur-
gents, as I am satisfied It is In the
country at large und but for the Cuban
climate and the danger of contracting
fever on the part of native Ameri-
cana I believe the Cuban army would
ere this have been reinforced by a
hundred thousand men from this coun-
try."
The senator said the administration
could not under existing circumstances,
and in view of our treaty obligations do
less than make an effort to prevent
the filibustering expeditions, unless it
should, as he thought it ought, decide
to recognize Cuban Independence. He
was of the opinion that It would be
more difficult in the fall, when there
will be no longer danger of yellow
fever, to keep sympathizers out of Cuba
than at present.
LAUNCHES A REIJ-IIOT TAUNT.
ALL SOK1S or CROPS and WEATHER
Wherein Oklahoma !« not One Whit Won#
thnu Any Other Conutry on Earth.
Oklahoma City, O. T.. June 12.—(Spe*
cl%l)—Ths United States department of
agriculture, weather bereau, has Juit
issued weather-crop bulletin No. 11, of
tfoe Oklahoma weather crop service for
the week ending Monday, June 10, 1895,
as follows:
Local showers poorly distributed,
normal sunshine and temperature
above normal have been the prevailing
conditions during the week.
The average temperature, 75.9. Is one
degree above normal for the first week
in June. The very heavy rains through
out western Kansas last week, extend-
ed over the northwestern portion of
this territory, giving 3.BO inches over
Beaver oounty on the 1st and 2d; 1.76
inches at Alva, Woods county, on the
2d; 2.00 inches over Woodward county
on the 2d. and from .75 to 1.37 inches
over Woods county on the 2d and 3d.
A very heavy shower, 1.16 inches at
Pond Creek. Grant county, on the 3di
and light showers in portions of G.
Washita, Canadian and Kingfisher
counties, fell during the first days of
the week. Sunday night a very heavy
rain fell over portions of Kay, Noble
and Logan counties, extending into
Oklahoma county. Over two Inches fell
in these northern counties, while at
Oklahoma City, the amount was only
.23 of an Inch
No rains are reported from the east-
tern section, and but two light showers
on the 4th from the southern section.
The weather continues excessive dry
over the greater portions of the central
and northern sections, and the north-
ern and western portions of the south-
ern section.
Wheat and oats harvest has begun
In fields that are worth the reaping.
Throughout the central section, but
In one county. Kingfisher, are there any
fields that will yield three or four bush-
els per acre. The strip counties are
about on a par or very little better
than old Oklahoma, so far as wheat
and oats are concerned. The very best
fields aro estimated at 6 to 8 bushels
per acre, while most fields are a total
failure, many townships not realizing
seed. Washita, G and Blaine counties
of the western section, report better
prospects, G the best. Some fields in
these counties will average 8 to 10 bush-
els per acre. Wheat and oats are best
in the southern and eastern sections,
but far below an average.
Corn looks very poor throughout ths
greater portion of the central section.
In every county, however, there are
strips of land along the river and creek
bottoms where it looks well and is
growing finely. Around Dale, Potta-
watomie county, it is best, with a pros-
pect for a large yield. Generally In this
section it Is tassellng so very short that
It cannot possibly ear, and the fodder
will be light.
Grass is still very short and pasture
poor. Throughout this section ground
Is being prepared for broom corn and
a large acreage will be planted In Ok-
lahoma county.
A large acreage will also be planted
in the northern counties, especially
where Indian corn Is poorest. Corn in
Woods and Woodward counties haB
grown very fast during the week and
the outlook is encouraging. Grass Is
fine and stock are fat. In the western
counties reports state the past week
to be ideal weather for corn. Most of
it has been laid by and many fields are
beginning to tassel.
In the southern section frojn the cen-
tral portion South' and throughout the
greater portion of the eastern section,
reports show the very best conditions.
Corn could not be better. It Is all laid
by and coming in silk. Cotton, too. Is
in excellent shape and has been worked
and chopped out, the warm dry weath-
er of the week being very favorable to
its growth. Grass Is very rank and
range good. Of grapes, apples, peach-
es and other fruits there will be but a
light crop. Early peaches are ripen-
lne- , i"'
Large shipments of potatoes have
been and are being made from the
southern Chickasaw nation to outside
markets.
Chinch bugs in the southern and
eastern section are leaving the wheat
and oats and going to the corn, doing
much damage.
JAS. I. WIDMEYER,
Director, Oklahoma Weather Service.
OltANT TAKES T11E WARPATU.
Perry
French Government Accused of Accepting
th«< Alaace-Larraine Situation.
Paris, June 12 —The Autorile, in de-
manding the publication of the text
of the treaty between France and
Russia, makes the statement that the
French government does not dare pub-
lish it because the first clause binds
France to accept the European situa-
tion. meaning acquiescence in the loss
of Alsace and Loraine.
KIDI i N«. IN six C1T1E8.
Several Missionaries MUiiliig In China hut
no Liven Known to l)« Loitt.
New York, June 12.—A World special
from Hankow, China, says riois are
general In the province of Ssiehun, and
In at lea.1t six cities all foreign property
has been destroyed. Others are threat-
ened. So far as learned foreign resl-
,Vnt# are all safe, but they are hur-
riedly leaving the province
London, June 12.—A dispatch to the
Times from Shanghai, says the English
French. Canadian and American mis-
Cheng Tu. Kla
•eformer or our uay woum .ay ini. i "yach^IT rTng Shanr and Sin
i'?^°.rLe? King. Some missionaries are missing,
" "" but no lives are known to have been
lost Sulfa and Touchu are threatened.
A riot Is considered Inevitable at Chang
Tang.
Dewey of Abilene Made Happy.
Topeka, Kan , June 12.—T. E. Dewey
of Abilene was today appointed assist-
ant reporter of the supreme court and
W. C. Campbell of Topeka, clerk, at
•atari.. of (1,000 each.
Member of the Otoe Tribe Near
Proves it Mighty Had Injun.
Perry, O. T., June 12.—(Special)—
William Grant is one of the most Intel-
ligent Indians in the Otoe nation. Ho
has a magnificent farm adjoining the
strip about ten miles north of Perry. In
some way seme horses belonging to
Sam Robinson, an imbecile in chariro
of Judge McKinney, got into Grant's
field and di<3 some damage.
This was the beginning of the trouble
The following particulars are given as
gathered from a friend of Robinson's:
Judge McKinney paid the $5.00 de-
manded by Grant and promised to get
the horses Sunday. Hut one of the
judge's boys and Robinson started oft
with a revolver to kill some squirrels
and finally rounded up at Grant's and
asked him for the horses.
While they were talking Grant sud-
denly seized Robinson around the body
and took from him his revolver and a
pocketbook containing about $27.00 in
money. These he took to the house and
then came back and attacked Robinson
with a knife, the latter also using a
knife to defend himself with. Robin-
son was badly cut around the head and
arms and was also badly bruised about
the head by a club which Grant pro-
ceeded to use with great effect.
In the mean time the McKinney boy
hail Jumped on a horse and started for
help. The judge took his Winchester
and started for the scene of action but
the fight was over. Robinson was near-
ly killed and the Indian had started off
with the other of Robinson's horses,
but gave it up as ho saw he was al-
ready pursued. For some reason
Grant had Robinson arrested, but the
sheriff is out now after Grant. The
case is likely to prove a serious one be-
fore It Is over.
Metropolis, 111., June 12.—The bank-
ing house of Brown & Rruner closed
its doors today and made an assign-
ment this afternoon to D. W. Helm and
E. P. Curtis for the benefit of their
creditors. The liabilltes will be about
4100,000; assets $140,000.
PREFERS TO COME TO KANSAS.
McKlnley will Keep III* Ottawa Chautau-
qua Appointment.
Cleveland, O., June 12.—Word comes
from Columbus tonight that Governor
McKlnley has decided that he cannot
accept tin invitation to speak at the
Republican league llconye"tlon1>on
had promised t > talk at the Kansas
Chautauqua on the same day and Will
keep that appointment.
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