The Daily Democrat. (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 56, Ed. 1 Monday, May 30, 1904 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUMN IV.
THE DAILY DEMOCRAT, EL RENO, OKLAHOMA. MONDAY. MAY 30. 1904.
NUMBER 56.
DEATH OF
M.S. QUAY
THE END CAME LAST SATURDAY
AFTERNOON.
This was
a truly great man
! to move him to Eeaver.
' the last move.
Quay showed all the stoicism of
an Indian in his last illness. He
held out no hope of recovery and re-
fused to believe It was possible. Cool-
ly and firmly he took leave of the
| dearest things Thursday last he
asked to be taken to his famous li-
brary. remarking to the attendants:
"I want to see my books once more
before 1 die."
Through it all he maintained a
'ori I activt mind, and his li.-ntat ||p,{> TA
u.-rgic- ii.-vtr flagged. A relap- ^nllO I U ,., ~ ~
UNCLE SAM
AS PROTECTOR
PROPOSES TO EXTEND STRONG
HAND TO HIS SUBJECTS.
YESTERDAY'S BAND CONCERT.
The Ne* City Park Was Dedicated
With Music Yesterday Afternoon.
The band concert yesterday after
noon, at the city pari, was attended
by man) pleased people The bu;i
ing of th-. band stand was a Heat thing ,
for the teneflt of the people, and con-
cert* will be given there frequent h
h. leafier. El Reno is proud of Its
concert 'and. and it has cause to h
There Islnot a l.and in thi southwe;
that eqi:ll it.
BIG LOSSES
AT NAN SHAN
THE FLOWER OF TWO ARMIES
SLAIN IN A FEW MINUTES.
ONE OF THE NATION'S
PROMINENT LAW MAKERS.
A POLITICIAN ALL HIS LIFE
A MAN LOVED BY FEW AND FEAR-
ED BY MANY.
Fully Realized That Death Was Near
He Faced it As Calmly as He
Would Have Entered a Poli-
tical Discussion.
..acurred Thursday night, and the
alarm was so serious that the I itts-
burg speclalits were called in at mid-
MOST night
On Friday he rallied again. That
same night the absent members of
the family were summoned, and every
preparation f.>i' the < was made
Friday night again his condition
continued worse and the end gradual-
ly came, stupor, fever, high pulse and
weakened pespiratiou marking the
approach of death.
The following senators have been
selected by Senator Frye to attend
the funeral of M. S. Quay:
Penrose, Frye, Allison. Aldricli,
i Alger, Gallineer, Ellyns, Hansbrough.
Stewart. Piatt of New York. Alles
Foraker, Mitchell, Gorman, Daniel
Teller. Dubois, Cockrell, Tillman
Blackburn and McLaurin.
EDVOND TO THE FRONT.
WILL TEACH THE BRIGANDS A
MUCH DESERVED LESSON
Prcclarr' tion Issued Making
C y of the First Class.
heaps of dead men
TRENCHES LITERALLY FILLED
WITH LIFELESS BODIES.
MUST BE GIVEN
Guthrie, O. T„ May :iu. Ihe an
t, nouncement was made today at tie
LIBERTY fitfica of Governor Ferguson that
the town of Edmond, in Oklahoma
— i county, is to be a city of the first
OR THE MOROCCAN GOVERNMENT class, th| proclamation was issued
during t^e day. The citizens peti-
HAND-TO-HAND CONFLICTS
WILL HEAR SOMETHING DROP
The United States Will Not Tolerate
a Repetition of the Ellen Stone
Hold Up By Robbers.
tioned to be made a first class city
showing a population of 2,60" to be j
come a city of this class This will
make two cities of the first class in |
Oklahoma county the other being
Oklahoma City Kay county is the
only other in the territory having
more than one such cit>
REMARKABLE LOSS OF OFFICERS
ON BOTH SIDES.
BROWN-HATCH ETT.
At Last the Russians Unable Longer
To Face the Terrible Slaughter
Broke Into a Retreat That
Became a Rout.
Washington, May 30.—The navy de-
Loved by few and feared by many, partment is advised of the sailing: ot d a QFF THE rOAST OF MANCHURIA,
Matthew Stanley Quay was an even the Atlanta, Marietta and Castlne. | Marriage of an Ei Reno
Man new oiamey — •••- chauunf><> Man
more remarkable man than the late ships of the South Atlantic squadron Shawnee
Senator Hanna The Ohioan enter- from Teneriffe for Tangier to join the
ed politics after making a success in flagship Brooklyn. The detention ot Dr j A Hafehett received a tele
i the commercial world. The Penn- the South Atlantic squadron with the gram yesterday from his daughter
rvlce will be held _.vlvau|an niade politics his business Moroccan port will be dependent on olivette, stating that she and Dennis
body w'ijl lie but ,tifrom the beginning of his car conditions. If the situation on the at- jjrown of Shawnee, had been married
letery. ' j rival of Rear Admiral Jewell does not . gaturday evening at 6 o'clock at Nor-
r i . , . i
Quay was born in Dillsbury, Pa require the presence of two squadrons [ man
threescore and ten years ago He of American war ships for the pro- i M,gg Halchett has lived in El Reno
son of a Presbyterian clergy-. tectlon of American interests in tha
An invalid almost from the quarter, Rear Admlrng Chadwick will
oi i■" 1' aim me , man An invalid almost irom ui< quarter, iv^<t> auiuh.^ is a popuiai juuub
,\ 1901, when he .was of hjg birth, he did not have per- be authorized to proceed on his cruise j n attending school at Norman,
strain of a campaign | heal'tll al any time during hi- toward his station la the- South At- ilr«g is a lumberman at Sluiw-
o the enat( Never (Continued on Page 3) j Iain 1c. ^ neel^andta said l" q"1"' w' a!
phvsically. Senator —. 1 . . ..
— ' ttfe WW"" ■' * ■ *
auction of a tOWn h
imposing array of I'niteil States war
ships that has been assembled In the
Mediterranean for many decades has
i Meaiierrdiiettu 11 • 1 •
AN ARKANSAS BURG TO BE DIS ,)een ordered by the naval department j TH E SECRETARY OF WAR VISITS
to proceed to Morocco to aid in the
the kidnaped ;
POSED OF AT PUBLIC SALE.
' rescue of Perdecaris,
, American.
™ n niTtMT Admiral Chadwick. commanding the
CLAIMED UNDER OLD PATENT
South Atlantic squadron, left Tener-
i iffe on the flag ship Brooklyn yester-
day for Tangier, followed by the re-
mainder of the squadron, the Atlan- Commercial Club and Other Organ.
! ta. Marietta and Casting
j Yesterday Rear Admiral Jewell ar-
, rived at Horta. Azores, with the Euro-
liean squadron composed of the Olytn-
i |iia. Baltimore and Cleveland, and was
ordered by cable to proceed to Tan
gier as soon as coaled.
Heirs of Patentee Have Gained Judge-
ment in the Court for the En-
tire Town and Surrounding
Country.
Little Rock, Ark., May 30.—A spec
ial to the Gazette from Carisle, Ark.
says:
Unless the courts intervene the en-
Beaver, Pa., May 30.—Matthew-
Stanley Gua"y, senior senator from
Pennsylvania, died peacefully Sat-
urday afternon at 2:4S o'clock of
chronic gastriti
The funeral service will be held
tomorrow, and tht
led in Beaver Cemetery
Senator Quay's indisposition began
about a year ago. It was a recurrence , ,nree8l.UIC (d
of the trouble that beset him during wag son af a presbyterian clergy-j tectlon of American interest
the latter part of 1900 and the early ' —
days of January, 1901, when he was
undergoing the
for re-election to
a c(i'ong man physically, Senator
Quay prided himself on his endurance
- and believed firmly that outdoor life
would restore his health. It was this
thought that took him to the Maine
woods for several successive sum
jners.
Col. Quay, in health, was a great
eattr. and hi* troub!. s of later >' ar-
dated, is is said, from overdrafts on
his system due to heavy eating, smok-
ing and the great nervous strain
which he underwent.
He celebrated his seventieth birth-
day at Beaver last fall and at the time
seemed in excellent health. The loss
of weight, however,, weighed constant-
ly on his mind. He dropped in weight
so persistently that the alarm which
prevaded his own mind spread to
friends and family. The result was
that be forsook bis eut es in the s -r.
^ ate and betook hiin.-i ;l to llnrida.
Florida failed to restore vitality.
The senator went back to \\ ashing-
ton and to Philadelphia, where he
was placed under treatment Spec-
ialists ordered him to Atlantic City,
hoping the sea air would aid in re-
covery. but the loss continued grad-
ually.
The physicians then advised him to
return to Washington.
There his condition continued un-
changed.
Senator Quay constantly expected
death and told his friends so. The
last time he called at the White House
he told President Roosevelt that he
expected never to recover, and would
hardly see him again.
In order to escape the worries of
official life and to be entirely secure
against intrusion. Senator Quay decid-
ed to come to Pennsylvania. In go-
ing to Monganza. where his brother
Jerome Quay, was superintendent of
the Western Pennsylvania Reform
school, the thought was that in that
place he could be visited by none but
► his physicians ami the family
His "condition after arriving there.
was such as to give no hope to the
family.
Quay told the doctors It was all use-
less, that he had run his course and
> w;
(days ago he began the arrangement
of his personal affairs, looking to-
ward the end.
The last papers were not signed un-
til Friday morning, but the arrange-
ments were all made In the mean-
time no relief came, and the sapping
of the great man's vitality continued.
The only Wod he could take was a
milk preparation such as is used for
babies, nnil he frequently revolted
against this.
Sunday last his condition became
-o alarming that the family decided
were found forty-four canon of every
description which had been abandoned
by the enemy.
A large number of prisoners were
taken and they admitted that Lieut,
(len. Stoessel, commanding the garri-
son at Port Arthur, was present dur-
ing the earlier lighting and did his
l,est to check the Russian retreat.
; Three of his personal aides were
wounded and he himself had a very
narrow escape, the concussion from
a bursting shell throwing him from
the back of his horse
It is impossible yet to give anvthing
Ilk. an adequate list of the dead and
wounded Many, of course, were kill-
ed because of the unusually accurate
fire of the Russians and this, too. de-
spite the fact that not even the high-
er commandants wore consplclous
| uniforms.
A squadron of Japanese gunboats
cooperated with the army from Kln-
cliow bay and it Is reported that they
suffered very severely. The vessels
were exposed to a dtivlng artillery
fir. and that they escaped unscathed
seems too much to hope.
One of Ihe survivors captured was
a ('ossack officer who stated that Gen.
Fok. chief of stair to Gen. Stoessel,
was severely wounded during the first
attack, he being hit by a piece of an
exploding shell. Four colonels and
twenty-four commissioned officers are
-aid to have been killed during the
battle, while many others were
wounded. The total Russian loss was
not less than 2.000 while the loss of
the guns captured bv the Japanese
will seriously cripple the Port Arthur
garrison.
The Japanese loss in Killed and
wounded it is thought will reach the
4.000 mark.
the greater portion of her life, and
is a popular young lady. She had
a. .
taft in kanass city
THE WESTERN METROPOLIS
BIG TOWN DOES HIM HONOR
zations Give Him an Insight Into
Western Ways.
-W. H.
• ■ii hert
Taft
Kansas City. May 30-
He left for' secretary of war, arrived nere mn^j
Tangier this morning. morning, on his way .to Topeka. Kan..
The demands of the brigand. Fras- to attend the semi-centennial e.-iebra-
• I suli as cabled to the state depart-: tion He was met ai the union de-
i nless the courts intervene the en-1 ^ arp prepogteroug. He not only pot by C. D. Parker, president of the
tire town of Carisle and about 3,40" ! asks for an immense sum of money.. Commercial club; W. P Trlekett
acres of land surrounding the town j ^ for (he vlrtual turning over to i commissioner of the transportation
the bandits of the government of bureau, and other officers of the club.,
Morocco. He also asks that the Unit-1 in automobiles, and was taken for a
ed States and Great Britian guarantee j whirl over the boulevard-
the fulfillment of his demands. j The secretary's stay was brief and
If necessary, Admiral Chadwick will for this reason the C'ommereial club
place marines at the disposal of the i v.as unable to give an elaborate enter-
sultan to accompany the native troops lainment in his honor
into the interior after the brigands.
by wireless telegraph to \\ ei-Hai-wel,
May 29 —All of Japan is in mourning
today because of the fearful losses af-
ter the capture of the Nanshan hill.
Three thousand loyal soldiers fill
unnamed graves on the summit of the
position they took There has not
been in modern warfr.re any more
,1. perate struggle than marked the
Japanese advance begun in the early
morning hours of Friday All ar-
rangements had been made by Gener-
al Oku and it was decided that only
a general assault would sweep the
Russians from their position which
was so necessary for the .final Japan-
ese movement against Port Art hur.
Suddenly at the left of the Japanese
position, there was heard the dull
roar of the passage of a charge of
shrapnel followed by a steady bom-
bardment. The range was absolute
and every shell fired from the Japan-
••• lanii'"1 W|,M" !l '"v MANY JOINED GRAND PARADE
yards of the mark. The Russian ar-1
tiiiery was not so well served ami
many of the first ah wild, but MiljUry
there was a fair percentagi which fell Addresses, mus
close enough lo the massed Japanese |
infantry to slash great holes in the |
! line- The Russian position com isted |
■ 'if almost a permanent chain of earth-
1 works extending across the peninsula. j
strongest along Nanshan, the apex of Memorial day was never more ge -
[the Russian position. observed ... El Reno than
Extending across the hill was a was today
series ..f pits, each guarded by sever At 10 o'clock this morning the long
,i wirings of barbed win This, how parade formed, and wended its .way
bad no practical hinderance. as ! to the cemetery. The parade was
The El Reno millers and the King-
fisher millers are playing ball at the
fair grounds, this afternoon. In the
game between these teams at King-
ttisher two weeks ago. K1 Reno came
out winner. Both teams have some
excellent players.
memorial exercises
HOW THE DAY WAS OBSERVED
IN EL RENO.
Salutes—All That Tend to Keep
the Dead in Remembrance. T
will be sold at public sale June 9, on
an order granted by the probate court
of Lonoke county to the heirs of the
original owner of the land.
The order was secured by the guar-
dian of three minor heirs of a French-
man named Comio, who, years ago.
owned all the land on which the town
of Carisle now stands, as well as
much of the surrounding country.
The original owner sold most of the
land years ago. but in 1879 presum-
ably to make the title clear, he se-
cured a patent from the state for the
whole tract. He failed, it is said, to
make new deeds, however, after the
land which he had sold, and as a re-
sult the heirs now claim the property
Three of the grandchildren of the
original owner, who now reside in
Louisiana, claim an undivided sixteen-
th of the property and through their
guardian secured an order for the
sale of the whole tract.
The citizens of Carisle held a
mass meeting and decided to raise a
fund to carry on a fight against the
claimants
MISS LAWSON HONORED.
Was Elected Field Secretary of the
Christian Endeavor Societies of
the Two Te ritories.
ANNUAL PICNIC.
Harms Brothers Entertain a Host of
Friends Yesterday.
I'VfT, Hall U" |>ia< ' .v-cii ,
the Japanese troops swarmed across beaded by scores of flower girls u
the plain and began th< upward rush were followed by the Relief I
with very little loss. Behind this and the Rebekahs, the Grand Army,
j ii,,.- cam,' a second detachment from, tiring squad from Port Reno the Odd
' the engineers' corps. I Fellows, and a line of vehicles that
With a column of Japan -le infan- extended for nearly a mile,
try entrenched at the bottom of the, A. the cemetery the graves of he
approach the firs, range were a job. soldiers, and ofhundreds ocvi-
large number of field guns pouring Hans, were covered with .
hundreds of shells against the Rus- salutes were fired and appropriate
-dan fortifications So fierce was the ! hymns were beautifully sung
Japanese fire, that in less than four' This afternoon, in the district court
hours most of the Russian heavy ar-! room. Judge Lowe delivered an a< -
• 111<• ry had been silenced The acur- dr.-s to the old soldiers, and splen-
,rv of the Japanese fire was well did musical selections were rendered.
niKh unprecedented. I Nearly all the business houses m
Shortly after in o'clock, it could be the city closed their doors for at
..en tha". tie Russian rapid fir- guns | least a part of the day in respect
were being drawn back along the hill the fallen heroes and their friends.
A second charge was ordered and
the entire Japanese frontal force start-
ed across the second zone of fire The
One of the most enjoyable events
| that has occurred in this vicinity in
I many months was the annual picnic
Miss Mary F. Lawson of this city by an() wnhelm Harms
was unanimously elected to the office terday a{ GUbert a )akl. .
of field secretary for the Christian - ^ ^ woather was Ideal, the rain Russian- poured in a deadly fire from
Endeavor societies of the two terri-! f before having laid th> their artillery and mu?ketr>
tories. The office was created es- w,thout maUlie much mud and I by foot, the Japanese fought th-tr way
pecially for Miss Lawson at the re-1 ^ twQ hundr I • - — The
cent convention at Kingfisher She ^ ^ hosplta,„y of
will he supported in the field at the, . , ,,
expense of the societies Miss Law-
1 brothers Everything
BASEBALL YESTERDAY.
El Reno and Minco Played Splendid
Game On the Minco Grounds.
The El Reno ball team went dow-n
to Minco yesterday and won a hotly
contested game from the Minco team,
bv a score of 5 to 4. A return game
son has been a resident of El Reno
i ,r s. veral years, and has been a pop-
ular teacher In the public schools.
She will now however, devote her
j entire time to her new work The
people of the Christian church will
tender her a grand reception in the
near future
desired or imagined in the line of
refreshment- was there 1 r oh; aiel
young, and all sort of amusements
had been pi video for tin litih tot
'he Hi I
I by foot the Japanese fought their
Kues - en and the effect was sublime Thi
the Harms j Russians fled, leaving behind them all
that could be their supplies
tiall:>
a f:
It wa
and people of all age
tendance. Boating an
prominent featur< - ir
i menta, and some five
were caught Tom Ah
Pagels making won-
tores at while Tom Sanford In
south of bait.
Island, were The occasion was th
Minco has one of' the best taams in : burglarized Saturday nigh; Two | ed by all. and the par
region, and H.ev declar, tha' men were arrested at Minco charged | night wishing their h
Burglars-
The postofflce and two
pla
this city next Su.iday afternoon
; l*f Reno, on the Rock
It was but a breathim
tin- brave Japanese seeur
the hardly audible order "Fit bayot
ets," signal "Charge" was soundr
mily picnic. Onward and upward swept tli ■ <
were In at- anese and at once tht rat 11 •
fishing were Russian rapid firei wa
the amuse ' but at tht point of ti" h e ;
rings of fish Russians were driven from 11
tt and Frank works and their plac
last ; retreat, panic striken from the r.
Coming Home.
Albert Gerrer received a letter to-
lay statiug that his brother, Rev G.
but foot It. Gerrer, who has been in Rome.
Italy, for the past four years, will
1,-ave that city tomorrow, en route
to El Reno He will visit for a month
in various European cities before
! tha' crossing the ocean.
and then
eturnei
many
TAILORING?
The Best on Earth.
PRICES?
Same as for ready made.
WORK?
The FINEST and BEST to be had.
GOODS?
l.niiO styles of the BEST to be FOUND
in AMERICA.
FIT?
Well; that's GUARANTEED, or
clothes are not jours.
WHERE?
place, F. W. Bruchmann,
they will win the game next Sund . with 'he crim>
py returns of their annual picuif <ln>.
ance, there
Same o
221 S
R. I. Av(
El Rouo, O. T.
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