Oklahoma Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, December 2, 1892 Page: 1 of 8
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RLi RENO. OKLAHOMA ' TERRITORY, FRIDAY, DEC. ii, IBOii
Number 43.
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OTHER BRANDS IN PROPORTION.
I am now comfortably located in the Corner Brick, on north Bickford avenue. Having bought out my partner, Lassen, and buying my goods in carload
lots, I am prepared to take the best of care of my customers. All kinds of groceries, provisions, confectionery, etc.
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By T. F. HENSLEY.
A California!} has produced
for n*suy a piece of gold-bearing
rock which he claims is a part of a
meteorite.
Secretary of the Treasury Foster
is up to high "<r" in figures, He
was called on to figure a surplus out
of a deficit and has done it. It is
unfortunate for his party that he
could not figure a winning majority
out of the late political land-slide.
The republicans of New York
were thrashing buckwheat on elec-
t.on day instead of voting as they
should have done.
New York Tribune.
Smart fellows to be thrashing
buckwheat while the democrats were
thrashing them,
The Teview is glad to learn of its
friends also its enemies. We are
not rich but will live to mow grass
over our political enemies coffins.
Mark our words. Do you remember
how wo predicted the democratic
landslide? Not after but before
the election. We are still predicting
and as all others you will soe this
will come true.—Oklahoma City
Gazette.
El Rkno Democrat: A newspa-
per has been started in a western
t W4i bearing ti. v primitive name of
Adam. Of course it is issued in the
Eve-tiing and it is also A-dam poor
newspaper.
And has it a rib knocked out?—
Guthrie Capitol.
No, it is not that kind of a paper,
and it will bo knocked in some other
direction.
The El Reno Democrat man
proves himself to be a pretty good
sort of a cuss after all, by the publi-
cation in his paper of a two-column
Missouri biography which he says
his subscribers can buy tor $12—if
they don't tlunk he has copied it
straight.—Guthrie Capitol.
A cuss, eh! You irreverend sin-
ner. Well, after all, the Democrat
man don't give a cuss whether his
subscribers buy tiic biography or not.
Since we come to think about it we
believe we would rather they would
•compromise the matter by paying
up their subscription.
At a recent prayer meeting in
Netv Jersey, a Democratic brother
prayed thatGod would cause the Dem-
ocratic party to hang together, where-
upon a Republican present shouted,
"Amen, amen." This led the Demo-
cratic brother to make the following
amendation to his prayer "Not, ()
Lord, in the sense our Republican
brother means, but in the spirit of
accord and consord." "any cord will
do Lord; any cord will do," interject-
ed the Republican. The pastor im-
mediately made a rule that hereafter
politics should be kept out of the
prayer meeting.—Ex.
A dispatch from Washington says
that O. Beeson, W. H. Llewellyn
and Price Beaton, executive com-
missioners respectively for Oklahoma
New Mexico and Arizona ha ve let
the contract for the erection of the
territorial building which is to con-
tain the joint exhibites of these three
territories. Henry Bennett of 1(57
Dearborn street was awarded the con-
tract at $7,500. Work is to com-
mence at once and the building is to
be completed by April 20, 1893.
The building will be of staff finish,
occupying a foundation space 122x130
iect. This site was formerly award-
ed to Virginia and it lies just behind
the Pennsylvania building.—Sey-
mour Davis of Topeka was the archi-
tect, and three bids were recei ved for
its construction. One of these was
from Topeka and the other two were
from Chicago.
Hon. A. M. Dockerv, recently
elected to congress from our homo
district, in Missouri, for six times in
succession, is almost certain to have
tendered him a cabinet portfolio.
By reason of his eminent services on
various financial committees in the
I louse for the past six or eight years;
his name is most frequently connect-
ed with the Secretaryship of the
Treasury Department. He has long
been recognized by congress as the
best informed man, on our national
finances, the country has. The
Democrat never has claimed to be
anything of a political prognostica-
tor, but it is willing to wager the
office towel that it can name two
members of Mr. Cleveland's cabinet,
Hon. A. M. Dockerv, of Missouri,
and ex-Gov. Isaac P. Gray, of In-
diana, is our guess, mark the pre-
diction.
It is pretty generally conceded
that Travers will get about any ap-
pointment he asks for in the territo-
ry. This is but right and proper, as
he took charge of our scattered bat-
tallions last fall when disorganized,
overpowered and discouraged, and
led them with such impetuosity and
brilliancy against the enemy as to
not only excite the admiration of his
friends, but to rob the temporary
victory of the enemy of naif its lus-
ter. It is true that we were not suc-
cessful under his leadership but he
spread tho If-av • s£ democracy
throughout the territory, whicii will
quicken into irresistible life long be-
fore another election rolls around.
If Travers desires the U. S. Attor-
neyship, the press of the territory,
the great arbiters of the destiny of
men, as well as of political parties,
should see to it that he gets the ap-
pointment.
This country is more directly in-
terested in the selection of the Sec-
retary of the Interior than of any
other member of Cleveland's cabinet.
That position and that of Commis-
sioner of Indian Affairs should cer-
tainly not l e given to New England
sentimentalists who don't know as
much about the Indian Territory as
they do about Australia, and think
that the Indians of the five civilized
tribes are just the same as the In-
dians that they see with Wild West
exhibitions. We would like to see
Hon. Chas. Mansur put in as Com-
missioner of Indian affairs.—Purcell
Register.
A better man could not be named
for the place than Charley Mansur.
He is perfectly familiar with the
practical workings of the Indian Bu-
reau. lie understands the Indian
and his necessities and is in touch
with the best interests of the Indian
Territory and Oklahoma, soon to be-
come a State. Give us Mansur for
Commissioner of Indian affairs, and
a Governor from Oklahoma and our
future is assured.
Who is this man Nicks of Guthrie,
whom they have recently sprung as
a candidate for U. S. Marshal? Has
any democrat out side of Guthrie
ever heard of him? Has he ever
done any thing for the democratic
party of Oklahoma, or any where else?
If he has, we would like to be in-
formed in order that democrats in
this locality may be enabled to act
intelligent!) in this matter.—El Reno
Democrat.
Well, now, E. D. Nix has not
been hunting an office—and j
this is probably a test of domo-'
cratic "activity;" but he has)
attended to his own business in
establishing the chief wholesale
grocery in Oklahoma. He is a
democrat of intelligence, enter-
prise and good character. Will
these traits debar him from an
office under the great "reform"
administration? This is not our
fight, but we won't stand by
and see even a good democrat
traduced in his own political i jn his Thanksgiving sermon
w n T Statf CaPlto1- ill Atlanta last Thursday, Bish-
Woll, now, does the above1
paragraph traduce Mr. Nix?
We think not. It only draws
out an introduction, from the
Capitol, of Mr. N., to the pub-
lic, the very thing the Demo-
crat desired, and in addition
thereto, it has elicited a very
pretty little compliment, and an
advertisement from the Capitol,
all of which Mr. Nix doubtless
appreciates.
Dr. John W. Scott, Mrs. Har-
rison's father, died at the White
House in Washington City,
last Tuesday, in the 93rd year of
his age. Dr. Scott held a posi-
tion during the entire Cleveland
administration in the Pension
Office. The editor of this paper
knew him very well, having oc-
cupied a desk adjoining his in
the Pension Office in 1885 and (i.
The Doctor was a speaial favor-
ite in the office and admired by |
all who knew hfm.
During the first year of the
Harrison Administration the
estimate for pensions was
500,00(1. The estimates trans-
mitted on Saturday by the Sec-
retary of the Interior to the
Secretary of the Treasury fix
the requirements for pensions
during the next fiscal yoar at
$166,831,350. In addition to this
a deficiency of $10,508,021 is
asked to meet the requirements
of the fiscal year ending June
30, 181)2. Secretary of the Trea-
sury Foster estimates that the
pension demands will soon reach
$250,000,000 per annum. In
other words, the Harrison Ad-
ministration, besides its profli-
gate expenditures in other direc-
tions, has imposed upon the
country a permanent burden of
from $100,000,000 to $150,000,000
a year for pensions in addition
to the enormous one that was
being carried already. The
significance of these figures
will not be fully grasped for
some time to come, but the
voters are sure to have their
innings. On the grave of the
Republican party may as well
be written now: "Died of Mc-
Kinleyism and Pretorianism."
op O. P. Fitzgerald of the South
Methodist church, injected poli-
tics enough to make tho dis-
course spicy. In answer to tho
question, "For What Should
We Be Thankful?" he said
' among other things:
"As citizens, we can all pro-
perly join in this Thanksgiving.
As democrats, you can thank
God for what you have just re-
ceived. As republicans, you
can thank God for what you
have had. As third partyites,
you can thank God for what
you hope to get hereafter. As
prohibitionists, you can thank
God for the grace of hopefulness
and perserveraneo under diffi-
culties. As mugwumps, you
can thank God that if you are
few you are select. As native
born citizens you can thank
God that you were born in this
land of liberty. As foreign
born citizens, you may thank
God that you made your way to
this country of your choice and
your love. As wliita people,
you can rejoice that you are the
child of one Father. As color-
ed people, you can rejoice
that you are also the
child of God. j et us all, then,
join in a tharVs^iviag song,
and let its melody roll all over
the land."
Nearly every county in the
territory has made up a slate of
appointments for Cleveland to
act upon just as soon as he takes
his seat. These slates embrace
every office, from Governor of
the territory, down to the star
route postoffices; but the strang-
est part of the whole business is
that not a single solitary news-
paper man in the whole terri-
tory is named for anything.
The politicians in making up
their slates have parceled the
appointments out among their
gang and handed in the list to
the newspapers, with a great
long pedigree of each man
selected, with a request to pub-
lish; and the darned fool newspa-
pers arc publishing them without
so much as the hope of a penny
a column from tho men they are
boosting into office. The news-
papers of the territory are pub-
lished by honest, intelligent,
competent men for any place in
the gift of the president, and
the party is under greater obli-
gations to them than any other
Oklahoma's Population.
A new claimant for the honor
of statehood is Oklahoma, the
boomers' territory that was
formed out of the heart of the
Indian territory. Counting the
additions that have been made
to it by lands ceded t.o it from
the Indians since it was organ-
ized. Oklahoma now contains
14,000,000 acres of land. The
Cherokee strip will give it G,-
000,000 more. The territory
promises to be a magnificent
one agriculturally, most of the
products of both north and south
growing there.
Governor Abraham Seay, of
Oklahoma, reports already a
population of 130,000. Of these
one-tenth are negroes and one-
twentieth Indians, who have
taken their land in severalty
and are citizens. This is the
only new country to which color-
ed people have ever flocked as
pioneers. In April, 1881', when
the boomers' land was opened,
both negroes and women joined
in the grand rush for homesteads
and town lots. One year later
Oklahoma had a population of
00,000, and since the census
year it has more than doubled.
One year after it was organized
it contained more people than
eitheir Nevada or Wyoming,
and it has the unique distinction
of including in its population, in
considerable numbers, citizens
in three colors—white, red and
black. Prosperity to them all!
—Washington Republic.
Reno, O. T. Payment for purchase
price is hereby acknowledged.
R. M. blair,
Editor New Era.
While not a calamity paper, the
Courier hopes to l>e able to come
as near supplying tho wants of the
former readers of the New Era as any
Democratic paper could. It looks
upon the people ol the Alliance or
third party as honest men who are
laboring in a good cause, and who
ought to bo democrats.—Courier.
Our peoples party friends will see
by the above that Bro. Blair has not
only sold them out, hook. line, sink,
and bob'ier, but that he has deliver-
ed them, bound hand and foot, into
the camp of tho Philistines. It must
be a pleasing situation for a middle
of the road man to be in, and it re-
mains to be seen whether many of
them will take their medicine as ad-
ministered. It will he remembered
that this same Courier could not find
epithets coarse and vile enough lo
express its hatred for the third party
and its candidates during the last
campaign, and now it is trying to
cajole them into taking that paper
in lieu of the busted New Era. Mr.
Grant the former owner of the typo
and material, the subscription list
and good will of the New Era, in-
forms us that he sold the plant to
Mr. Blair, taking his note, secured
bv a vendor's lien up - the same,
for $325, that the notes are unpaid,
and that he lias taken possession of
the machinery and typo and will
commence an action against the
Courier for the recovery of the sub-
scription list.
LOT JUMPING.
Just as wo go to press lot jumping
is going on at a lively rate in the
Totnpson addition to the town ol
El Reno. The news of the can<*<-lla-
tion of Tompson's entry reached
town some time yesterday, and last
evening and even during the night
the carpenter's hammer could be
heard all over that part of town.
The work was being done princi-
pally by iot owners to protect their
property from what they anticipated
would follow. This afternoon tho
news came from some quarter con-
firming the report that tho entry had
been cancelled—then the fun began;
every unoccupied lot was jumped,
and many lots that were under fence
was staked and claimed by jumpers.
A repetition of this lot jumping
business is to be regretted as it is
certain to retard again tho growth
f the town. We were just begin-
ing to recover from the effect >f
our jumping episode of Feb. the 6th
and this new break out is sure to
frighten capital away again for a
time. But very few lots can be held
as all or nearly all the lots in that
>art of town have improvements, or
lave hid of some kind on them.
GUSTAV TIIELAN.
President.
J NO. W. NICK.
\ ice President.
MICHAEL EICHOPP,
('.wliler.
CHAS. A. NF.WMAN,
Assistant Cashier.
The New Era.
With this issue of the New Era,
the Alliance pap*r, is consolidated
with the Courier, and from the next
issue on, the subscriber of the New
Era will be supplied by the Courier. ! follow and all this
All subscription bills duo to the New business with Texas and other south
Era are now duo to tho Courier, and | ern statP* " ithouthaving everything
nt around by the way of Kaui
The Rock Island.
Tho Rock Island bridge across
Red river is finished, and construc-
tion trains aro runnning across all
the time to the Texas side. Work
is rapidly going on, with grading
and track laying a few miles south
of the river. It if expected tho
road will reach Bowie, Texas, and
form connection there v/ith the Ft.
Worth and Denver road inside ol a
month from now. When that con
nection is inado through passenger
trains will l e put fin to run from
Chicago direct to Ft. Worth, mak-
ing connection there with all south-
ern points. Then freight trains will
country can do
The Stock Exchange Bank.
Capital Stock $50,000.
DOES AC, EXE HAL BAjYKIjYG BUSINESS.
DIRECTORS.
Gustav Thelan, Clias. l'\ Ashley, 11. I.yeth,
.Ino. N. Nyoe, I.miis Eiohhoff, M. L. Stanley,
W. E. Fry.liorger, Jut. F. K< lso.
op®'.j'-XDaoG<x;ss<;;T . is. - ajOG&dSeuamsS'
Davidson & Gase
Retail Doators In
Od l Work si specialty.
J. G. Tompkins. Manager. •
CHAS. RIDER,
Renister of Deeds.
Abstracts of Title, of Lands and Lota in
Canadian County.
Deeds, Mortgages, IDtc., Acurately Drawn.
Office in court house. El Reno, Okla.
G M BUCKLES,
Staple and Fancy Groceries, Piwisions, Flour, Heats.
Canned, Green and Dried Fruits
of all kinds.
Highest Price Paid for Country Produce
FIRST DOOR NORTH OF POST OFFICE.
II. J. Winn ; . Geo. I). Orput, M. T. Clark,
President. Vice-President. Cashier.
CITIZENS STATE BANK.
(INCORPORATED.)
CAPITAL. 850.000.
o- «s>cs;DiaECTc;is.
H. J. WHITLEY, GEO. D. OUPI :T, I. A. Dl'NSMOCR, H. ('. ACUFF''
GEO. F. BROWN, M. T. CLARK, J. T. PARSONS.
RENO FEED MILLS.
N. J. CORETTE & CO.,
Chop Feed, Corn Meal, : : :
: : : Graham i iour and Bran.
—CUSTOM WORK PROMPTLY HONE.—
M^Farmers trade solicited. High istmarkf . price paid forgrain.
tu un;iii uiu.il tUlJ UUltl r«t urn now UUO lO in« ^OUrier, and | ^ " "'r
class of men in tho country, all unexpired subscriptions of thm ar<?an'l by the way of Unnsas
rpx i . .. • " ! ... . , ,, before it can L'et to us. i ho i. v
Thoy have spent their money, [paper will be supplied by us. rhe liml corn „ld *hpr Mlr|,ll|S
time and labor in the interest of j following statement from Mr. Blair of this country will fir I :i r«*adv and
the party and they should de- j will explain itself:
rnand recognition and then "I hereby transfer to Geo. W. Mc-
stand united in the support of Clintick, the subscription list, good
each other until that demand is ! will and business of the New Era, a
heeded. 'third party paper published at ti!
profitable market to the south, and
lumber ar.d other products of th«-
s* uth can reach us liie same \ear the
order is sent in, which fact will no
doiiht greatly surprise us.- Minco
Minstrel.
NEW YORK BARGAIN HOUSE
Soutiiwkst Corskh ok Wade Choctaw,
This is one • f i lem of 3,00O sinn. tr .nstituti .11 in c I J St ,;„l is controlled b
I!, l: . . of V w York City. Til -apply is <1 nved Ir m manufa :urci*. j«.V.rrs importers.
Dry Goods, Notions, Ladies and Gent's
Furnishing Goods.
ry few daw 1 prices « Ucl*
W- ol 011 r \v
Very Truly Vows,
JOSEPH ESSE!?.
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