The Daily Oklahoman. (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 86, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 13, 1898 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 10
Fancy Parasols
Wc arc showing some VERY SWELL things In TLAID STRIPED
and FANCY Lace Trimmed PAIIASOLS The Prices are RIGHT
See our Straw Mattings at 15 18 and 20 cents per yard These are
values von can't find elsewhere
ladies Belts
Leather Belts Velvet Belts Satin Belts and Jewel Belts all tl:e papu-
lar colors can be found among them
Kansas City
AN ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING
By Which Archibald B Moorchout
Looses Ills Life
Guthrie April 12 — (Special) —
Arcbible B Mooreliousc aged 21
years son of Mr and Mrs T II
Mooretaousewas accidentally shot and
killed at 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon
at the bridge on Skeleton creek eight
miles north of Guthrie Young
Moorchousc with Floyd and Ralph
Lcland left the city early Sunday
morning with shot guns and fishing
tackle They Bpent the day on the
banks of the Skeleton and were re-
turning home when a covey of ducks
engaged the attention of Moorehouse
He loaded his gun with No 4 shot
and then leaned the gun against the
pier of the bridge In some manner
the hammer of the gun struck the
atone pier and the gun was discharg-
ed the entire load striking Moore-
house in the head just above the right
ear The head was partially blown
off Moorehouse fell forward Into
the laps of his young companion
dead
TIIE DOUGLAS TRIAL
The Killer of Editor James William
to be Heard
Ardmore I T April 12 — Dis-
trict court convenes here tomorrow
Judge llosea Townsend sitting
About 500 civil and criminal cases
are docketed for trial Among them
are several murder cases and notably
the trial of Clarence Douglas who
Editor Jamca Williams of the Daily
Chronicle last spring because of an
editorial in his paperrldiculing Doug
lass’ political aspirations The ca e
has attracted widespread attention
because of the prominence of both
men Douglas sought at one time to
become a member of the Dawes coin
mission to the Indian territory There
are twelve murder cases already dick
eted
The host Mocha and Java coffee
McCloud & Gilmore’s for 30 cents
BARGAINS IN
BEAL ESTATE
at
Tracts
ranging
in size
from
Single Lots to Fir Acre Tracts
In areas to suit purchasers in
rinvi'jQQQ
Or other Suburban Sites
Good locations for baadsemc
Residences Great Bargains als
a few desirable F arms on terms
to Buit purchasers
Wm J McClure
WANTED
Teams Teamsters and Scraper Hol-
ders to work on the St Louis and
Oklahoma Ry at Layton’s Corner 7
miles north of Choctaw City for all
Information apply t J Kaufman
D J MCDONALD Contractor
OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA WEDNESDAY MORNING
Cash Store
TIIE COMMITTEES IIITCII
Hopeful of Being Able to Report To-1
day
Washington April 12 — (Spec) —
The senate committee on foreign rela-
tions resumed its sittings this morn-
ing all the members being present ex-
cept Mr Daniel The committee
immediately took up the task before
it of forming a resolution defining its
idea of the course to be pursued Id
the present complication with Spain
Many minor differences were develop-
ed but they were not of such a char-
acter as to dispel hope of securing a
final agreement
The committee was hopeful of be
ing able to report today but the re-
port was delayed so as to afford an
opportunity to hear General Lee
The committee Is finding it a very
difficult task to reach an agreement
on the terms of the resolution it will
report Ther is by no means the
ainie unanimity that there was when
the committee first met and decided
to report the Foraky resolution
Many propositions have been made
covering all the lines of possible In-
tervention but the Indications at the
beginning of today’s session were
that there would be a return to the
compromise proposition which was
made prior to the receipt of the mes
sage Indeed asuffleient number of
pledges had then been secured to
render the adoption of this course
quite certain
SOME OF LEE’S DISCLOSURES
The Montgomery Was Flaced Over a
Submarine Mine
Chicaoo April 11 — (Special) —
The News’ Washington special says
The information comes from confi-
dential and reliable authority that
not only will General Lee present evi-
dence to the senate foreign relations
committee showing conclusively that
th3 Maine was destroyed by Spanish
officials but evidence will be presented
showing that when the Montgn
ery went to Havana to relieve the
Fern which was used to convey food
to the reconcentrados she was placed
over a mine which was discovered by
a diver from the Montgomery who
was sent down to sxamine the hot
tom The diver cut the wlre3 at-
tached to the mines
PERSONAL POINTERS
C G Jones returned from Wichita
yesterdav
Otto Bckcmcyer was in the
yesterday
Judge Biercr of Gutbrie was in the
city yesterday
L E Pitts of Guthrie was in the
city yesterday
Edgar Jones of Guthrie was in the
city yesterday
James Brown of Edmond was In
the city yesterday
Mrs Will Overholser returned from
L uther last night
A MESSAGED CUBA
President McKinley Informs Con
gress on Cuban Matters
TOCS OF THE BATTLESHIP MUSE
Tli t aiB'trophe Krferml to M Proof of
gln'a I nra parity to Govern C uba and
l’uwrra Asked for tha I’ral
tl nt to Mop tbs War
Washington April !2— The presi-
drill yeNtrrday sent the followim? mes-
sage lo the congress of tho United
Males:
I Un ci lent to that precept of the- constitution
si hlcli commands tha president to rive from
time to time the congress Information of the
elute of the union and to recotmiMrnd to their
consideration such measure u he shall jiulire
necesury and expedient it become inr dutr
now to address your body with rejrard lo the
prate cr sla that has arisen In the relations of
Ihe United Stales to Spain by reason of the
warfare that for more than three years has
ratted In tlio nclithborlng Island of Cuba I do
ao because of the Intimate connection of the
Cuban question with the atate of our own union
and tha grave relation the course which Is now
Incumbent upon the nation to adopt must needs
bear to the traditional policy of our govern-
ment If It la to accord with the precept laid down
by the founder of the republic and religiously
observed by succeeding administrations to tbe
present day Tbe present revolution la
but tbe successor of other similar
Insurrections which have occurred in Cuba
against tbe dominion of Spain extending over a
period of nearly bait a century each of which
during Its progress baa subjected tbe United
States to groat effort and expense in enforcing
Its neutrality laws caused enorraou losses to
the American trade and commerce caused Irri
tutlon nnnoyaooe and dlsturbnnoe among our
citizen and by the exercise ol cruel barbar-
ous and unclvlllx’d practices fit warfare
shocked the sensibilities and offended the bu-r
mane aympnthlee of our people Since the
present revolution began In February 1H&
this country has seen the fertile domain at our
threshhold ravaged by fire and aword in tbe
course of a struggle uneiualed In the history of
tbe Inland and rarely paralleled as to Ihe num-
ber of the combatants and the bltternesi of
the contests by any revolution of modern times
where a dependent people striving to be free
have been opposed by the power of the toverelgn
state Our people have beheld aonoe prosperous
community reduced to comparative want Its
commerce virtually paralyrrd Its exceptional
productiveness diminished lta Helds laid waste
its mills In ruins and Its people perishing by
tens of thousands from hunger and destitution
We have found ourselves constrained In the
observance of that strict neutrality which our
laws enjoin and which the law of nations com-
mands to police our own wators and watch our
own seaports In preventioa of anv unlawful act
in aid of the Cubans Our trade ho suffered:
tbe capital Invested by our etttxeqw InCubn
been largely loWand the temper and forbear-
ance of our people bnve been m sorely tried as
to beget e perilous unreal among our own citi-
zens which bos inevitably found Its expression
from time to time la the national legislature
so that issues wholly external to our own body
polltlo engross attention and stand la the way
of that close devotion to domestic advancement
that becomes a self-contented commonwealth
whose primal maxim has been the avoidance of
all foreign entanglements All this must
needs awaken end baa Indeed aroused tbe ut-
most concern oo the part of this government
woll during my predecessor's as my own
Kffortc to firing Aboal Petes
In April IHM the evils from which our coun-
try suffered through tho Cuban war became ao
onerous that my predoeessor mails ao eff rt to
bring about a peace through the medlutloa of
this government In any way that might tend to
an honorable atjustment of the tontest be-
tween Spain and her revolted colony on the
basis of some effective scheme of aelf-govern-ment
for Cuba under tha flag and sovereignty
of Spain It failed through the refusal of the
Spanish government then In power to consid-
er any form of mediation orindccd any plan of
settlement which did not begin with actual
eubmlsMlon of tha Insurgents to the mother
country and then only on u'h term as Spain
herself might aeo fit to grant The war con-
tinued unabated The resistanes of tho In-
surgents was la do wise diminished
Policy of lmilo
The efforts of Spain were tnerensod both by
the dispulch of fresh levies to Cuba and by the
addition to the horrors of tho strife of a new
and luhumnn phase happily unprecedented In
the mod rn history of civilised Christian peo-
ples The policy of devastation and oorcenlra-
tluu Inaugurated by the capt a In-general's
bitndoof Ooiotier SI Idefl In tho province of
P nr d '! 1 1 was th:: extend A toemb aoeall
of the Islund to which the poweruf theSpunlsh
arm was able to reach by occupation or ci ti-
tan1 operations The peasantry Including all
dwelling la the opon agricultural Interior were
driven Into the garrison towns or Isolated
places hold by the troops The raising and
movement of provisions of all kinds were In-
terdicted The flelds were laid waste dwell-
ings unroofed and fired mills destroyed and in
short everything that could desolate the lund
and render It unfit for human habitation or
support was commanded by one or the other of
tbs contending parties and executed by ail tbe
powers at tbcIrdlspomL
lly the time the present administration took
office a year ago reconcentration so called
bad been made effective over tho better part
of the four central and western provlnoea—
Santa Clara Matanxa Havana and Plnar del
Kio Tbe agricultural population to the es-
timated number of 1000X1 or mors was de-
prived of tho means of support rendered desti-
tute of sholter left poorly clad and exposed to
the most unsanitary conditions As the scar-
city of food Increased with tha devastation of
the depopulated areas of production destitu-
tion and want became misery and starvation
Month by month the death rate Increased In
an alarming ratio By March ltT according
to conservative estimates from official Span
lab sources tbs mortality among the reconoen
tradoa from starvation and the diseases there-
to Incident exceeded W per eent of their total
number No practical relief was accorded to
ths destitute The overburdened towns ah
ready suffering from the general dearth could
give no eld So-called xonea of cultivation
established within the Imm-dlste area of ef-
fective military oontrol about the cities
and fortified camps proved illusory as a rem-
edy for ths suffering Tbe unfortu-
nates bslag for the most part women and chil-
dren with aged and helpless mea enfeebled by
disease sad hunger could not have tilled the
soil without tools seed or shelter for their
own aupport or for tho supply of ths cities
APRIL 13 1898
Keronrcniratlon adopted avowedly
measure lo order to cut off the re so
Insurgents worked lta predestined result As
I said in my message of lust December It wta
not civilized warfare: It was extermination
The only peace It could beget was that of tho
wilderness and the grave
Relatwed Into a Hogged Straggle
Meanwhile the military situation In tbs Is-
land bad undergone a noticeable change The
extraordinary activity that characterized the
second year of the war when the Insurgents In-
vaded even the hitherto unharmed flelUa of
Pina del Rio and carried havoc and destitution
up to tbe walls of the city of Havana itself
hod relapsed Into a dogged struggle In the cen-
tral and eastern provinces The Spanish arms
regained a measure of control la Plnar
del Klo and parts of Havana but under
the existing conditions of the rural country
without immedlato Improvement o( their pro-
ductive situation Kven thus partially redla-
trirted the revolutionists had their own and
their submission put forward by Spain as tha
rsMiitiuI and sole basis of pence seemed as far
distant os nt the outset In this atate of affairs
my u :i:lilstrutlon found itself confronted
with the grnve problem of Its day
Orvrnr Slade lotst Itereinher
My iie-suge of last December reviewed tho
situation and drtailed the steps taken with a
View of relieving lta uculcacs and opening tho
way to some form of honorable a-ttlemenA
The assassination of the prime minister C'ano-
vass led to a change of governmont In Spain
The former administration pledged to subju-
gation without concession gave place to that of
a more liberal party committed long In ad-
vance to a policy of reform Involving the wider
principle of home rule for Cuba and Puerto
Kleo The overtures of this government made
through Its new envoy Oen Woodford and
looking to an Immediate and effective amelorta-
tion of tho condition of the island although not
accepted to the extent of admitted mediation
In any shape were met by assurances that
home rule In en advanced phase would be
forthwith offered to Cub without waiting for
the war to end and that more humane methods
should thenceforth prevail In tbe eonductof
hostilities Incidentally with these declara-
tions the new government of Spain continued
and completed tho policy already begun by lta
predecessor of testifying friendly regard for
this nation by releasing American citizens
held under one charge or another connected
with tbe insurrection so that by the end of
November not i tingle person entitled In say
way to our national protection remained la a
Spanish prison
The Starring Cuban! Fed
While these negotiations were In progress
the Increasing destitution of tbe unfortunate
reconcentrados and tho alarming mortality
among them claimed earnest attention The
su ‘cesa which hud attended the limited meas-
ure of relief extended to the suffering Ameri-
can citizens oi ton i them by tho Judicious ex-
penditure through -he consular ngencles of tho
money approv-riai d expressly for their auoeor
by the Joint re ootlon approved May 11
IW7 prompted the humane extension of
a similar ‘itnc of aid to the
great Ixjdy t s-ff - xtra A suggestion to
tniaend na -ced in by the Spanish au
thorities On llio -Jlth of December last I
caused to be Issued ao appeal to the American
people Inviting contributions In money or in
kind for the succor of the starving suffarer In
Cuba followlt ' this on the Hth of January by
similar public anpouu-ement of ths forma-
tion of a central Cuban relief committee
1th headquarters la New York rltv com-
posed of three member representing the
American national Red Cross and the religious
and business elements of the community The
efforts of that commutes have been untiring
and have accomplished much Arrangement
for free transportation to Cuba have greatly
aided the charitable work Toe president of
the American Red Croat aud representative
of other contributory organization have gen-
erously visited Cuba and co-operated with the
consul general and tha local authorities to
mirke effective distribution of tho relief collect-
ed through th efforts or the central committee
Nearly In money and supplies has al
ready readied the sufferer and more is forth-
coming Tho supplies are admitted duty
free und transportation to the Interior has
been orraugel so that the relief at
Ora: ncosurlly confined to Havana and
tha larger cltl-js Is now extended through most
If not all of the towns where suffering exists
Thousands of lves have aiready been saveJ
The necessity for a change In the condition of
the reconcentrados ls recognized by the Span-
ish government Within a few day past the
orders of Oen Weyler have been revoked the
reconccntro los arc It ls said to be permitted
to rciurn to tliclr homes and aided to resume
the aelf-supportlng pursuits of peace public
works having been ordered to gtvo them em
ployur'iit and a sum of 16X1 OiX) has been appro-
priated for their relief
The war in Cuba Is of auch a nature that
short of su J'jgatlonor extermination a final
military victory for either side seem Imprac-
ticable ’Ihj alternative lies In the physical
exhaustion of ihe oue or tho other party or
perhaps of both— a condition which In effect
ended the ten years' war by the truce of Zan-
jon The prospect of auch a protraction and
conclusion of the present strife Isa contingency
hardly lv oe contemplated with equanimity by
the civilized world and least of all by the
United Slates affected and injured as we are
deeply and Intlmutely by Its very existence
Proposition fiubmltttd to the Spanish
Realizing this It appeur to bo my duty In a
spirit of true friendliness do less to Spain than
to the Cubans who have ao much to lose by the
prolongation of the struggle to neck to bring
about an Immediate termination of the war lo
this end I submitted on the H7th ultimo as i
result of much representation und correspond-
ence through the United States minister at
Madrid propositions to the Spanish govern-
ment looking loan armistice until October 1
for the negotiation of peace with the good of-
fices of the president la addition I asked the
Immediate revocation of the order of rcconccn-
trallon o as to permit the people to return to
their farms and the needy to bo relieved with
provisions and supplies from the United State
oo-o pc rating with the Spanish authorities ao
aa to afford full relief
The reply of the Spanish cabinet was re-
ceived on the night of tha 81st ultima It of-
fers as tbe mesne to bring about peace la
Cuba to confide the preparation thereof to the
Insular department inasmuch as the concur-
rence of that body would be necessary to reach
a final result It being however understood
that the power reserved by the contltutlon to
theoentral government are not lessened or di-
minished A the Cuban parliament doc not
meet until th 4th of May next the Spanish
government would not object for It part to
accept at onoe a suspension of hotlllltlet If
asked for by the Insurgents from the general-ln-chief
to whom It would pertain In euch
ease to determine the duration and condition
Of the armistice
The proposition submitted by Gem Wood-
ford and tbe reply of the Spanish government
nrm oC frr!f tnTnnrflw1
(Continued on paga eight)
NUMBER 80
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Royal make th food pare —
wholesome and delicleaj
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LEE AT WASHINGTON
lie Is Received with Great
iasm
Entlius-
Wasftington April 12(Specia1) —
General Fltzhugh Lee arrived in
Washington at 2:30 p m and enter-
ing a doted carriage was driven at
once up the avenue A hundred or
more bicyclists accompanied the car-
riage General Lee was driven at once to
the state department presumably to
report his arrival and receive any in-
structions it might have
Word had "gone through the de-
partment that he was due to arrive
and the corridors in front of the sec-
retary’s door was jammed with peo-
ple As General Lee stepped from
the elevator in front of the secreta-
ry’s door the crowd gave threp rous-
ing cheers which rang through the"
building General Lee bowed his
recognition to the crowd and was im-
mediately ushered Into the secretary’s
room The enthusiasm throughout
the building was tremendous Gen-
eral Lee remained In the building
only a few minutes quickly ‘depart-
ing accompanied by Secretary Sher-
man and Assistant Secretary Day for
the white house The state depart-
ment at once telephoned the senate
to arrange for General Lee’s appear-
ance before the foreign relations com-
mittee The ovation was repeated as Lee
went over from the state department
to the white house A mounted bi-
cycle boy had preceded the carriage
carrying large Cuban flag and this
served to stimulate the enthusiasm
displayed along the drive to the
white house portico
At the railroad station when Gen-
eral Lee arrived the crowd was Im-
mense and exceedingly enthusiastic
DEPUTY DISTRICT CLERKS
For the Counties of Burwell’s
trict Decided On
Dis-
The appointments of deputy dis-
trict clerka for the counties cf Judge
BurweH's district have been decided
on but havt not yet been made pub-
lic T J Stauber will be clerk of Tot-
tawatomic county J J Burke for
Cleveland county and Mr Young for
Greer county
Tom Sandford and wife arrived
from Enid yesterday to attend the
funeral of Mr Jackson
War With Restaurant
Klee Easter dinner with ice cream
at the Silver Moon restaurant 120
Main street
WHEN TRAVELING
Whether on pleasure bent or busi-
ness take on every trip a bottle of
Syrup of Figsas it acts most pleasant-
ly and effectually on the - kidneys
liver and bowels preventing fevers
headaches and other forms of sickness
For sale In 60 cent bottles by all lead-
ing druggists Manufactured by the
California F'j Sjrjp Compaq taly
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