Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 25, 1904 Page: 1 of 7
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THIRTEENTH YEAR NO.: 6
GUTHRIE, OK LA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 25. 11)01.
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To The Republicans of
Third Council District
The republican convention Saturday to nominate a candidate
for member of the upper house of the legislature from the 1 hird
Council district is of more imports ice this year than h is been in
the history of Oklahoma. A gigantic scheme has been put up by
a political Syndicate to pass immense appropriations through the
next legislature for various purposes. I hese appropriations will
be for private gain wut of the pockets of the public. Por this pur-
pose they must have a legislature of their making.
In this district they have chosen D. F Smith as the man that
will do their bidding. They have had a hard time finding a can-
didate that will go the distance they want him to.
They have sought in turn O. R. Fegan, J. C. Foster, C. M.
Barnes, Rev. Cohagen, and F. B. Lillie to run, but found that none
of these would promise to do their work at the expense of the
public. Each in turn was rejected.
D. F. Smith, chosen by the Syndicate has not been identified
long enough with this district to maHe his interests paramount with
the peoples interests. He ran but two years ago tor the lower
house of the legislature frc/m the Kingfisher district and was turned
down.
What can Logan county hope from him?
What can the north end of Lincoln county hope from him ?
He was the man that lobbyed in the last legislature for Secre-
tary Grimes to retain all the fees of his office and get 825,000 a
year instead-of the salary he now gets,
He helped J. C.'Robb, of Kingfisher, the Capitol National
bank wrecker, and others, in the notorious Insane Asylum inves-
tigation, in which the truth of its condition was smothered
"Patty" Smith has belonged to the Third House of every
legislature.
The Syndicate who is putting up Fatty Smith objects to Capt.
S. E. Seeley because it says he is a "crank."
By a "crank" the Syndicate means that he is "Honest' and
can't be "Used."
Capt. Seeley made one of the best members of the legislature
four years ago.
Democrats and republicans who had no boodle schemes to
work say he was the "Watch Dog" of the appropriations com-
mittee. Yet he was liberal in appropriations for the "Good of
Oklahoma Institutions."
If the republicans expect to elect the member of the upper
house of the legislature they must nominate some man like Seeley.
The people don't care how big a crank he is, they know he will
take care of their interests and not that of some private Syndicate.
The farmers are with him.
S. E. Seeley has the majority of the city delegates. He car-
ried the Third, Fourth and Fifth wards and splits the delegation in
the West Second. Since they are not instructed, he has votes in
the First and East Second. There is a contest in the Third and
Fifth wards.
FIRST WARD.
Council delegates—F II Greer, W M Spurlock, C R Wilder, H
1' Wigley, B A Mintoyne, T M Ballard, A M Nelson, G M Green,
Monroe Felton, F M Jones, Dr. E O Barker, Geo. Butterworth.
Representative delegates—11 H Dodd, James Hepburn, John
Mahoney, W T Walker, tt Putete, O'M Williams, John Adams, Eli
Dye, W M Stewart, H S Jordan, H W Painter, Peter Jelsma.
EAST SECOND WARD.
Council delegates—T A Neal, E G Shars, C W White, Henrv
E Asp, N D McGinley, Adelbert Hughes.
Representative delegates—C M Barnes, Ed Johnson, W M
Sexauer E. P. Burlingame, Norman A. Smith, J. R. Cottingham.
WEST SECOND WARD.
Council delegates—J L McCracken, E E Tallman, HarperS
Cunningham, W R Benham, Geo. McQuaid,Leon Gilbert and J S
Shearer.
Representative delegates—Geo. Harrington, A M llulburt.
William Brunner, J no. Massey, John Scothorn and C. C. Kneisley.
THIRD WARD.
Council delegates—James H Stumpff, Ora Thompson, John
Golobie, John Small, Sam Martin, Little Jim Jackson, Tom Tor-
rents, O L Brooks, Geo. Champ.
Representative delegates—Tom Higgins, O P Cooper, Theo.
Scofield, John Freeman, Chas. Moore, John Towers, Chas. Carpen
ter, John Brownlee, H Lyle.
Contesting delegation. Council—C E Carpenter, H J Child-
ers, Chas. Ford, L H I.ohr, Fred Armstrong, J D Dunbar, B Tib-
bits, Geo. Thornton, John Towers.
Representative—C C Nelson, F D Pierson. John Brownlee,
Joseph Hobson, W H Harmon, Geo. White, Elmer Billings, J VV
Freeman, A /. Clark.
FOURTH WARD.
Council delegates—Chas. Van Meter, L L Patton, H A Booth,
John Nelson, Ben Brummage, James Hutchison, M C Butler, Neal
Alexander.
Representative delegates —F B Ltllie, J VV McNeal, Will Van
Meter, Chas. A Blair, G W Billings, Geo. Chadwick, P M Vick, J
Reagan, Clark iledgwood.
FIFTH WARD.
Council delegates—C E Smith, J W Ray, G W Thompson,
Wesley McGill, Henry House, John Stewart. S R Bates, Barnes
Edwards, C A Jeltz, A P Jordan, W T Warren.
Representative delegates—R O Pierson, John Gilmore, S Perry
Mai Morton, Enoch McGill, Will Hopkins, James Reese, Pete
I Capers, Will Richardson, A Haines.
Contesting delegation—Council—II Haines, Mol Morton, N
B Booker, A P P-Mtwood, A G Dennis, Joshua Boyd, Andy Allen,
Dick Pierson, George Thompson, Pete Capers, P. S. Davis.
Representative—Robert McDaniel, Sam Johnson, Alex Rus
I sell, Jam s Crow, J. P. Williams, Jacob Jackson, A Owens, Adam
[White, VV T Warren, James Nicholson, Robert Henderson.
TELEGRAPHIC BillEFS
Oklahoma has the biggest apple at
the St. Louis Exposion.
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The Interstate Association of Live
Stock Sanitary board in session at St.
Louis decided to hold its annual meet-
ing in Gu'hrie.
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Last Friday a damaging storm stru t
a portion of St. Louis, but did not
harm the Exposition.
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The Japanese crusiers Chitose am
Tsu-hima sank the Russian crus ■
Novik,. after a two days chase.
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G.dveston celebrated the co/npleti
of its sea wall on the 22nd.
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Sixteen persons were killed and -
000,000 worth of property destroyed
a storm that swept down the Missis-
sippi river, near St. Paul, last Satur-
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The Anieroin Mining congress held
its annual jeasioa in Portland, Oregon.
| A. T. Clark, of Belleville, Illinois,
• succeeds George Eolend as superin-
t- . dent of the Oklahoma Insane Asy-
lum at Norman. The change was made
by Receiv-r Willoughby of the Capitol
; National bank, the stock being an as-
set of the bank.
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The Czar of Russia as an offering to
his son has issued restitution of citi-
zenship to political prisoners, remitted
land purchase arrears, reduced sen-
tences for common law offenses and
amnesty for political offenses and re-
mitted fines of Jewish avoidence from
military service.
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The city council of Chicago will make
a second effort to arbitrate the strike
in the stock yards.
agreed, and the indictmen's were fi ed
away when Hagan moved with his
family to Montgomery, W st Yiigima.
Barbour came to Louisville after the
shoot'ng and claimed he aeted in self-
defense. While out on Sj.OOO bail he
heard of Hagan'. de .th ai d surrend-
ered. Ho is in jail. When t< Id ih.it.
death was new, Mr. Hagan ma e an
mti-iriirU-m statement, in who-, l.e
said:
"This is a most i\; d- looded, mur-
derous assa.si1: ata n. It is without
j.utilj.': tion i,r >• i < o: any kind. 1
did not kn >.v B rbour wa.i at the sta"
tion u:oil ti e t-'.i ■ -truck m«, and 1
tuiToi' hii! ► him fire the second,
th ul ■■ id fdur h shots at me. This is
"U* ti . t.empt he has made on my
i!i, : lie has at last been suceess-
u1'."
Rob r Hagan, prosecuting attorney
the Louisville court, and a brother
of the victim, charges that Barbour
rude in the baggage car in order to be
.ible to kill his borther as he left the
irain. Hagan had just returned from
Alabama where he had gone to prevent
further trouble with Barbour.
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CZARS BOY A
PEASANT CHILD
Peasant blood supplies the throne of
Russia. Russian revolutionists in Paris
declare positively that the empress of
Russia really gave birth to a girl, for
whom, at its birth, a boy was substi-
tuted, the child of a peasant woman.
The revolutionists insist that it comes
from a perfectly reliable source, and
that it will be verified.
The Nihililists say that the internal
conditions of Russia is such that had
the people been disappointed again in
their hope for the birth of a Czarevitch
a revolt would have been imminent.
This danger, magnified by the proba-
bility of Port Arthur's fall at any mo-
ment, caused the czar's advisters to
take precautions.
A peasant about to become a mother
was smuggled into the Alexander villa
at Peterhof, wheye the empress await-
ed the immensely important event. The
Nihilists pretend even to go into par-
ticulars and aver that the czarina was
blessed with a girl, the fifth, the day
before the boy was Bern. The fact of
the czarina's accouchement was con-
cealed until the baby boy was taken
from his humble mother arms, present-
ed to the czar's relatives and court and
placed in the imperial cradle.
F J HAGAIN KILLED
UN KENTUCKY
Report from Louisville, Kentucky,
tells of the assassination of Francis
J. Hagan, the victim of a feud. Ha-
gan is a nephew of the late Horace H.
Hagan of this city, and also of Attor-
ney Eugene Hagan of Topeka, Kansas.
With his brother, Robert Hagan, who
is city attorney of Louisville, the mur-
dered man was an extensive land own-
er in this county and also in Southwest-
ern Oklahoma, becoming interested
through friends here.
The report from Louisville states
that on the afternoon of August 12, at
Hughes Station, John R. T. Barbour,
assistant treasurer of the Louisville
Water company, and Francis J. Hagan,
had a shooting affray which ended fat-
ally for Hagan.
The men, who had been at outs for
for some time, met at the station as
they alighted from a train which car-
ried them to Louisville.
Hagan is a son of Captain Frank
Hagan, a Louisville lawyer.
The first open breach between Ha-
gan and Barbour was February 14,
1903, when Barbour claimed he was
waylaid and shot by Hagan and anoth-
er. Barbour had sworn out a warrant
against Ha jan, whose hogs, he claimed
had overrun his cornfiled. The case
finally cams to trial. The jury dis-
TIIAT
THAT'S
or! Arthur's final feif
Is Now iftl Progress.
Inkii), Au,r. 25, (10 a. m.) The final assault 011 Port Arthur is
imminent. Hundreds of Japanese guns continue to pour a destruc-
t ve fire into the city and harbor, along the lines and forts and en-
trenchments preparatory for the infantry assault. It is evident
that the Russian lines have been weakened and partly penetrated
in the vicinity ot Autzshnn and Itzshan forts. The entire line of
defenses immediately about the harbor are within range of the
J tpanese guns. A number of Russian forts and batteries continue
to be vigorous. The Japanese death roll will be heavily increased
before they are captured. The direction of the Japanese attack
creates the impression here that the city and defenses 011 either
side of the harbor entrance vvi 11 fall first. The final stand will be
made at Liaotishan. Japanese official channels of information re-
main closed and the navy department's announcement of the strik-
ing of a mine by the battleship Sevastopol and the firing upon the
Russian forts by the crusiers Nissein and Casuga yesterday are the
only disclosures made for several days. It is believed here that
both sides have suffered heavy losses and that the final record will
make the siege the bloodiest since Sedan. The Japanese are su-
premely confident of the ultimate result. The leaders of the gov-
ernment await the outcome with calm assurance. The people are
everywhere decorating streets and houses and erecting arches and
flagstaffs in preparation for a national celebration of the expected
victory.
The army under Kuroki has Kuropatkin surrounded neat Liao
Vang, and is waiting for the rainy season to stop to strike the final
blow. The Russian army is in danger of capture.
The two Russian warships in Chefoo harbor have been ordered
dismantled by ths Czar and the threatened trouble with China is
averted.
Japanese armored crusiers Nishin and Kasuga have bombard-
ed and silenced Russians forts east of Golden Hill, at the entrance
of Port Arthur.
The present style of hig 1 heels was
probably suggested to help out short
girls who have tall lovers. The next
will probably have no heels at all to
help out tall gills who have short
lovers.
A grain of resentment planted in the
bottom of the ocean will grow a
leviathan too large to swim in it.
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It tioesn't take a very smart man
nowadays to see right through a girl
when talking to her.
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Women have an advantage over men j NEEDS NEGRO cempany promise that it will be a
in the mystery of their drapery. j " , _. mr./ pnc ^reat deal larger. What that means
® tft ii tU I lUlN PILKlkS to Wichita only the man with a keeti
Tne society woman snubs aj A telegram from Lawton says: The j scent for business and the making of a
tradesman s wife, she in turn snubs a 1 fuar> entertained ever since the rains
workingman s wife and the working- ^ macje an enormous yield of cotton cer-
man s wife kicks the dog. j tain throughout the new country, that
'** ' there will be a -scarcity of cotton pick-
! ers has grown until it is a foregone
conclusion that pickers will have to be
vast city can foresee.
To have the world look to tie Wichi-
ta broom corn market for its products
will be a thing to be proud of. It will
carry the name of the greatness and
permanancy of the market throughout
imported here. Newspapers in every the world, and will help business
When you have run over somebody,
it i? immaterial whether you were
gazing at the sky or staring at the
ground. ^ ^ ^ ; town of the new countryJare advertis- growth.
A young man without a mustache, is | 'ng the scarcitv of pickers, farmers are 'IVere will be car load after car load
not necessarily down at the mouth. writing to other states for them and of broom corn brought to Wichita.
a to many are organizing into clubs for the , Some of it will be taken direct from
It is people living in glass houses purpose of sending representatives in- the field to the factory, but it will all
who have a right to throw stones. It to the s uthern states to bring in men . have to pass through this market. A
is cowardly for those secure behind to take care of the crop. j number of warehouses will be had by
stone walls to do so. In every section of the new country the company located in various parts
1 the number of cotton gins is growing, of the city, in which the product will
The time to pick cherries is when anti it ;s probable that throughout the be stored. Several laborers will be
they are ripe and the tin e to carry your whole section gins will be found at in- hired and buyers will be put to work in
eggs to market is before they are ; tervals of ten to twelve miles. The all of the available territory."
| railroads are constantly shipping in *
to to m
spoiled.
. . . . 1 , gin machinery and workmen are put- 1
it book than heTpraVboo^ she ting up gin houses at dozens of places. OKLAHOMA FARMERS
USING TELEPHONES
pocket boon tnan ner prayer
h ts it oftener with her.
to to to
A Guthrie girl tried a new walk she
read of in the funny papers, and came
nearly disjointing her versute psue-
dostatic.
to to to
You give some persons your finger
and they'll not only take your whole
hand, but they'll pull your leg.
GREATEST BROOM
CORN COUNTRY The farmers in Oklahoma who wish
Oklahoma is now the grestest broom rural telephones are dictating their
corn country in the United States, this °wn terms to the companies operating
year exceeding in amount of produc- "'e exchanges in the various cities and
tion both Kansas and Illinois. It is es- these terms are being accepted with
timated that 25,000 tons of broom coin 'be bejt grace possible by the compa-
will be raised in Oklahoma west of the nies- The reason for thi3 ready ac-
Rock Island railroad. The principal ceptance is that the telephone men
n, ni|i ,CTC p,, , counties in the territory raising broom know that the farmers will build their
PuPULISIa PLAIN corn are Gree.1, Kiowa, Comanche, own lines, if their desires are not ac-
THE!R CAMPAIGN Washita, Caddo, Dav, Roger Mills, ceeded to, and this will ultimately drive
Dewey, Blaine, Custer, B' aver, Wood- the professional telephone man out of
The p ipulist executive committee ward. Woods, Logan, Oklahoma, Kay, business.
was in session in Guthrie this week Osage, Pawnee, Kingfisher and Cana- A ti independent company operating
and perfected plans for the campaign, dian. ! in the town of Tonkawa thought it
The meeting was attended by R. L. Oklahoma should be the great mar- was big an(] strong enough to override
O'Mealey, of Grant county; J. P. Ren- ket for this broom corn, but is laying the wishes of the farmers in that local-
flew, of Woods; S. E. Sanders and F. idle while the business is being reached jty and as a result a sale of the ex-
| VV. Jacobs, of Kingfisher county; E. for by Wichita on the north. I he change will be made to the sto^k com-
E. McAllister, of Greer county; John American Warehouse company, with a pany, headed by the very farmers who
Allen of Norman; H. E. Straughen and j capital of $100,000, has located there applied for service to their farms}
Nesbitt, of Chandler and F. F. Bush to handle the broom corn business. When the company refused to give the
of Payne county.
R. L. O'Mealey, chairman of the
central committee, presided. F. VV.
Jacobs was elected as organizer of the
Straughen Peoples Party Clubs. Reso-
lutions wer • adopted to carry on a vig-
orous campaign until the close of the
polls November 8 for the election of
Straughen for congress. A
committee was as follows:
H. E. Straughen, of Chandler, S. E.
S inders and F. VV. Jacobsof Kingfisher.
J. B. Kintz, of Orlando, has leased
the Dally hotel and will hereafter run
I that popular hostelry. He is an ex-
perienced hotel man and will complete-
' ly renovate the house.
The Wichita Eagle of Sunday says: service at terms which the farmers
"The broom corn prospect in Oklaho- deemed reasonable it was expected the
ma tee present year is beyond expec- farmers would weaken. Instead of
tation. That territory will have an this, however, the farmers calmly an-
output of at least 25,000 tons west f nounced they would be compelled to
the Rock Island railroad. That I or- build a line of their own. Each farmer
tion of the territory is practically plant- who wanted a 'phone was interested n
ed into that crop. At least 5,000 tons the scheme and most of them took
finanace of that large yield will he brought to stock in ahe new company, ranging
Wichita and unloaded. V j from $5 to $100. These same farmers
This city will not only be a place for I are the mainstays of the merchants of
selling broom corn but consignments the town of Tonkawa and because of
will be taken from the farmers and will this fact it was no difficult matter to
be stored here. The seller will be tak- interest the merchants. All those to
en care of. The buyers from eastern j whom the farmers sold their products
factories and from every part of the were likewise interested and ii'.duced,
world, will be attracted to Wichita, ag were the merchants, to take from
where they can purchase their stock of to $50 worth of stock in the new
broom corn. A large amount ot it company. With the money thus se-
SEND1NG OUT NOTICES
J Secretary Wenner of the territorial
' school land office is sending out notices
j to the lessees of school lands that their
j rents will be due October 1. The total
amount of these rents is $-100,000,
against $300,000 last year.
will be exported to Australia and oth
er parts of rhe continents across the
waters.
Heretofore the nearest markets have
b ion located at St. Louis and Chicago
Now Wichita will have as large and
as good a market as either, und the
managers of the American Warehouse is badly needed.
cured a small exchange was put in and
a goodly sum left in the treasury. The
old company in the meantime, was
losing money right and left and the
farmers' company now proposes to buy
out the old company instead of putting
in a now and larger exchange, which
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