The Mulhall Enterprise. (Mulhall, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 38, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 19, 1896 Page: 2 of 4
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MULHALL ENTEKl'MSE.
Blt*rpri»« PMblUthinii Company*
MULHALL,
OKLAHOMA.
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TKKRITOK*
Win. Naulisbury one of Guthrie's citi-
xens tiiod Monday.
Texas fever has just broken out
among the cattle of Kay county.
The Oklahoma cottou market is on a
boom going from to 7'4 cents.
Down in CJreer county a good heathy
rattlesnake averages six pound* in
weight.
1 The recent rains throughout the
Territory has put the ground in splen-
did shape for fall aeediug.
The first batch of decisions handed
down this week by the supreme court
numbered half a hundred.
A young Logan county farmer says
he has sold enough butter during the
last year to feed and cloth himself and
family. This leaves his crop whatever
it is almost clear gain.
A Mr. Reece living in the northern j
part of Kay county has sold to Haden, |
of Wintield, Kansas, 411 bushels of)
hard wheat testing 01 pounds. Philip 1
Kipe, Baden's buyer, says it is the
best wheat he has seen this year.
Nelson Fitter, a negro outlaw, was
arrested in Logau county by Deputy
Will Hanks and lodged in the federal
jail, lie will hetulreu to Paris, Texas,
where he is wanted for numerous
crimes.
A call has been issued for a conven-
tion to be held at South McAlester on j
October 17 for the put pose of electing,
by non-partisan delegates, a represent- |
ativc from the Indian Territory to the 1
lower house of congress.
Thirty people were poisoned by eat-
g ice cream at. a social in Logan
county Wednesday night. All liavt»
about recovered save Mr. Kennedy's
daughter. The cream was mudc in a
rusty freezer and had stood a long
time.
It is said a woman's society is being 1
organized in Logan county which will j
be styled llie "lloolu White Cappers."
The object of the society is to keep 1
tab on certain horrid married men, j
whom, it is said, have been acting |
"just awful."
•ludgc ti. II. Pitr.er, of Canadian
county has been appointed by Gov.
Renfrow a delegate from Oklahoma to
the Inter-nutioua 1 Irrigation Congress
at Plneni*. Arizona. As an irrigator I
I'itzer is a huge success.
A few weeks more and the dirt will j
be flying on the Sapulpa extension.
With the commencement of railroad |
work and the marketing of the cotton 1
times will l»e greatly enlivened in the
southern part of the Territory.
Mr. J. M. Ward, of Breckinridge, j
Ky., is in Logan county looking \ip the
•prospects for feeding steers this win-
ter. Ho will send in 5,000 head of
steers as soon as they can be moved
under the quarantine law. He wants
to buy corn, and will begin at once.
The Oklahoma Live Stock Asssocia-
tioti should be congratulated on the
rapid strides being made in its mem-
bership. Kvery stockman in Oklaho-
ma, adjoining counties and the states
should enroll with it and secure the
best protection at least possible cost.
Thereisgreatexciteuien at Watongu,
over the killing of C S. Ruck man, on
Sept 7 near Homestead. lie was alone
and when found near his wagon
next morning his head had been crush-
ed with a club. Parties started in pur-
suit of the murders and a negro
named Morris was arrested and lodged
in t lie Wato n ga jail.
The discovery of a large herd of
Texas cattle infected with splenic fev-
er on the government reservation at
the Darlington Indian agency has
caused much excitement among the
farmers whose cattle are exposed. The
territorial veterinarian is there and
says the cattle are all in a bud condi-
tion. He has no doubt they have been
smuggled in to be fed to the Indians
on a government contract. An inves-
tigation has been started which will
doubtless create a great sensation.
Judge Tarsney's decision on the
Okialioma divorce law will make bona
fide residence necessai\\ It is as fol-
lows: "The report which was sent out
and was printed in many newspapers
that my decision in the Beech case
overturned everv divorce granted in
the territoi y. was croueous. The de-
decision applied to no other divorce
ever granted by Oklahoma courts.
I'iach divorce case stands on its own
facts and until a case has been ap-
pealed the decision has no weight in it.
lint of course the decision stands us a
precedent in deciding divorce cases
which may be appealed in the future,"
Constable William Jones arrested
John Norman at Clifton Wednesday
on a charge of larceny. On the way
to jail Norman attempted to escape,
and whs idiot through the hip by the
constable urid seriously wounded.
The Oklahoma State l air Associa-
tion will hold its Third Annual Fair
at (fUthrie. Sept. '.m»th to Oct.
The Logan county Oun club gives
due uotice what will happen if any
one is found violating the game law of
Oklahoma. They will b- prosecuted
to the fullest extent of the law.
(J. Kwing Price, arrested in Illinois
and taken to Oklahoma count \ by
Sheriff Del'ord is said to be a ( uban
major. He was delivering a lecture
on Cuba at Belleville when arrested.
A gentleman of Payne county had
his horse stolen last week, while wait-
ing in r doctors office.
A petetion is being circulated in Lo-
gan county for the pardon «»f the two
Welch boys who were convicted of
highway robbery in Kingfisher county
%nd sentenced to life iiuprisonine'it.
One hundred and tweny bales ot
cotton were shipped out of Guthrie
Monday.
The Freeman ranch near Ingalls,
was totally destroyed by fire fiend laat
week.
A summer girl named Row has just
concluded a visit at Argonia, and very
naturally all the local girls are glad
she is gone.
Nelson Ktter, a negro outlaw, was
shot in Cleveland county on the 11th
by deputy marshals. Ktter was a
native of the Chickasaw nation and
was wanted for a dozen different
crimes.
Wm McConn is held for the murder
of Tom Hevers, near Tishomingo—he
is the first person held unders the new
law, McConn was running a gin en-
gine and McConn turned the water out
of the Iniiler, which exploded killing
| Heaver.
Kd Hent ley who attached tho Bond
Brothers circus for a bill for posting.
Perry ia to have eleetrio lights
The cotton crop is being marketed at
a fair price.
The reported Indian outbreak in
Blaine county was a • fake."
The Logau County O. A. R. Associa-
tion will hold its reunion on Sept 10,
17 and 18.
Col T. J. Palmer, has been nominated
for representative by the republicans of
(•rant county
Manv Oklahoma towns which do not
have curfew bell seem to think it would
lie a good thing.
The National Guard of Oklahoma
will hold its first encampment at
Guthrie this month.
Raymond Wagv, a horsethief, was
captured at Red Bud Monday. He is
wanted in Platte county, Mo.
The residence J. B. Asher w as de-
stroyed by lightning on Sept 11 as j
were also the hay and w heat stacks of
John Wilson.
The employees of Bond Bros, circus | Post^I K
had quite a serious "mix-up" last week j
at Edmond. Several persona were !
badly hurt
Tho young lady who goes bicycling
iu bloomers, in Oklahoma dosen't need
a chaperon. There are plenty of peo-
ple to look after her.
Abe Smith, a Kansas City negro, was
arrested at Guthrie, while robbing a
freight car loaded wit# merchandise
on the Santa Fe track, Sept 11.
This promises to be a great year for
Oklahoma University. The fourth an-
nual catalogue gives a complete course
of preparatory, collegiate and univer-
sity course.
If every boy and girl in Cleveland
county, says the Democrat, who earns
910.4)0 u mouth would put ft'.'.oo a
month into the Building and Loan As-
sociation, in a few years we would
have a rich county.
Near Met .'loud, Ok., Joseph Wiggins
was digging a well and his wife | a^?«*iic?y VmicrHor instead of beinff turne<l
ALL AGAINST SILVER.
EASTERN MONOPOLISTS AND
TRUSTS LEADING THE FIGHT.
had no trouble in collecting
his bfil. Bond Brothers have played
to hard luck all through Oklahoma,
but when it come to attaching
their goods the manager hastily dug
up and liquidated.
The Cripple ( reek Star of September
? gives u glowing account of the re-
cent discovery of rich paying ore in
the mines of R. D. Nix, Oscar Ilalsell,
J. II. Ilavighorat and others of Logan
county. This find is said to be the
most phenoininal iu the history of the
history of the Cripple Creek district,
and the discovery was made by George
Andrews, general manager of the
Mayhell Mining company.
The recent Indian scare, which
caused many of the settlers west of
Okarche, to leave their homes and go
to the towns for protection, was caused
by ugly Clieyennes who were incensed
at the government order that in the
future all beeves to be given out to
in rations should be butchered by the
If Fr«« silver Would Injur* lb* Amtrl-
mn Workman Kv«r; Mother's Sou of
Than Would Ho Shouting for IS
to 1.
When Hourke Cochran exalted the
importance in the social fabric of the
men who toil he used a common trick
of argument to gain for his aido the
apparent advantage of the champion-
ship of labor.
But Mr. Bryan in his Khinebcck
speech went as far, although in fewer
words, as Mr. Cochran in pointing out
the importance of the tollers as vital
factors in the well-being of the whole
social organism. In doing so he merely
accepted a practical axiom of political
economy that the foundations of ull
prosperity rent upon the welfare of the
men who dig and delve for the product
of the soil and mine, who turn the raw
material into articles of necessity and
use and who perform the task of plac-
ing them where they are needed.
Agreeing, therefore, that the welfare*
of the producers is the vital concern ot
all, the question of the campaign is:
Which party offers the better hope of
prosperity to the producers?
The chief enemies of the toilers are
monopoly In all its forms and unjust
taxation. Monopoly may be represent-
ed by the power to control production
or to corner the products and thus reg-
! time would pay off the whole of a mart-
gage of 11,000 and leave $1,196 for ex-
penses. The same crop would now al-
j low the farmer $509 to apply to tho
mortgage and nothing to live or run
the farm on. or $">09 for expenses and
i nothing for the mortgage, or $80 for
1 interest and $420 for the farm and fam-
ily. leaving the debt as large as ever.
In I860 a man without money could
buy a farm in the west on credit and
pay for it with the proceeds of one crop.
In 1896 the same man might receive the
same farm, without incumbrance, as a
gift, and be bankrupt in a year. Put
Mr. Oochran see a nothing in the discon-
tent of the western farmer except a de-
| sire to cheat his laborers.
"Anarcliltli" of NtTtntiu-ii Sfvriitf'mi.
In a signed communication recently
published M. J. Bishop,General Worthy
Foreman of the Knights of Labor,
wrote as follows, comparing the Bryan
) "anarchists" and "hayseeds" with the
Revolutionary patriots:
"The men of Concord. Lexington,
I Bunker Hill and Valley Forge would
j possibly not be able to particularly
adorn a fin de slecle drawing room,
high tea. musicale or White House re-
! ceptlon; their language, manners and
I habiliments very probablv would causo
; the average scribe of today to sneer
at their inferiority, but thone patriots
were imbued with the same desire fcr
independence from British thraldom
which animates their descendants and
disciples of this century, and they will
advance to the goal with the aame
spirit of determination and self sacri-
fice as the heroes of the Revolution.
ron LISTS NOTIFY.
BRYAN AND WATSON IN-
FORMED BY LETTER.
Ur. Ilryaii Not K«pe«ted to Stand on
the m I.oiiU I'l.ttforui -W'm Nomi-
nated ii a Itrmnrrat in Whom tho I'op-
ulliti llnd I aitli—Moury Uurition l int.
TWO CONCEPTIONS OF COLUMBIA.
children were drawing up the dirt in a
bucket. His wife lost her balance and
full head first into the well with the
bucket and was crushed to death.
A Lincoln county mother has a novel
plan for getting her girls to come
home curly from parties and enter-
tainment* The last one out every
night has to get up first the next
morning and start the tires and get
breakfast. It works like a charm. In
the race to get 111 early none are out
late.
During a storm Tuesday in Garfield
county. Filmer Stanton who slept in a
seperate house from his parents was
awakened by a feeling that they were
in danger and called tlmu. Just as
they came to the door lightning struck
the house completely demolishing the
bed which they were sleeping on.
An eastern paper indulges in a tine
display of sentimcntallsm because the
late Bill Doolin was killed while on a
visit to his wife and baby. It should
be remembered, however, that Mr.
Doolin for several years applied his
talents almost exclusively to increas-
ing the number of widows in that sec-
tion of the eouutry.
A Choctaw section band named
Pierce, was run over by a train two
years ago. His leg was severed near
the thigh. I)r. Delos Walker of Okla-
homa county, pickled the leg which
was t<1 be used a» evidence iu a dam
age suit. Last week Dr. Walker threw
the leg on bis barn to facilitate.its de-
composition, in order to examine the
bone, and the police discovered it. A
great sensation followed.
The infant child of Mr. a nil Mrs. Ld
Batt of Canadian county died a few
days ago. The family report the
I death us tinviuj. occurred TliilrmlMv ! Unc specimen of the full blood
morning, but the neighbors claim that
the child died Tuesday night. The pa-
rents are believers in Christian science
and would not allow the babe to be
visited l.y 11 physician nor would they I Mr T 11 'IVn'.v •' leading Indian
rritorv merchant went to St. Joe,
to them alive, to be run down and
eaten while hot and bleeding.
1 Mrs. Doolin, widow of the outlaw,
! bus called for husband's gun and sad-
dle and the diamond ring found 011 his
! finger. I11 speaking ot* bis death she
'said they were preparing to leave
1 home the morning he was killed. They
1 were waiting for their mules to be
l shod, Doolin walking nervously to and
j fro before the house, when he was
j shot from ambush and fell dead. She
' said her husband had been betrayed
I by Tom Noble, who bad pretended to
be her husband's friend. She also
said that Doolin acted strangely the
1stter part of his life.
After 1"' years unmolested, on the
outside of a prison wall Bandolph
lluinininbird. a convict, unexpectedly
came to South McAlester last Friday
and gave, himself up to the high sher-
iff of the national prison. He was
tried ami convicted for the murder of
Goingwater in Delaware district and
sentedced to be hung in 1SNI. A few-
days before bis execution was to take
place Chief Bushyhead commuted his
sentence to ten years' imprisonment.
After serving three years of his time
be, in company with Blossom, another
convict, made their escape. Both be-
ing trusties they had little trouble
iu getting away, tlnally landing in the
Pawnee country, where for several
years they made their home. Gettiug
dissa tie tied they left the Pawnees and
drifted further west among the Kiowa*
and Comanchcs. Shortly after their
arrival there Blossom died and Hum-
mingbird settled down to farming un-
til recently. when he decided to come
back and serve out his remaining seven
ars in prison. Hummingbird is a
I The Pnrcel Regulator contained <1
• great write-up of their big celebration
last week.
TCall Strf#t Idea.
"I.lheriy I mi lln t: l ouln u tli* World.'
"A few of your financiers would fashion a new figure—a figure representing
Columbia, her hands bound fast with fetters of gold and her face turned to-
ward the east, appealing for assistance to those who live beyond the sea, but
this figure can never express your idea of this nation. You would rather turn
for inspiration to the heroic statue which guards the entrance to your city.
That figure—Liberty Enlightening the World is emblematic of the mission
of our nation among the nations of tho earth."—W. J. Bryan at Madison
Square Garden.—St. Louis Post-Dispatcli.
give it any medicine, and though it I
tliev
Mo., to purchase goods and stopped at
the Bacon Hotel, On retiring at night
be blew out the gas. At seven o'clock
next morning lie was called, but was
una bit* to answer the suiumous. Dr.
Charles Geiger was called and the
proper restoratives were administered.
The patient's pulse was 1110 at the time
be was rescued, and for hours his life
was despaired of.
Charles F. Beach, a wealthy text-
book writer of New York City, a year
was dead all dav Wednesday.
claimed it was only sleeping, (treat
indignation prevails and trouble may
follow.
Maj. R. R. P<te. special agent of the
general land office has been out in the
Cheyenne country for the past week
and found a number of parties who
live in Missouri and Kansas trying to
hold down claims in that part of Ok-
lahoma. He has recommended to the
department that the entrees of all
1 such persons be cancelled as they are ago obtained an Oklahoma div
not complying with the homestead law from bis wife. Anna Beach, alleging
and Mr. Poe does not think it justice ' crudity. He has since married and is
to the regular settlers who are con- | traveling in Kuropo with bis bride,
tending w ith all the difficulties of -The divorced wife, who was from Phil-
frontier life in their efforts to estab- adelphia. and very highly connected,
lish homes, that men living in the carried the divorce case to the supreme
states should be permitted to prove up I court. That body reversed the lower
<111 lands on which they arc not living. ' court, annulled the divorce and dis-
It also works against the permanent J missed the case, leaving Mr. Beach
settlement of the Territory landed high and dry as a biiramist
i Mr. and Mrs. Will Fra/.ier of Logan 1 The supreme court has decided that
| county have returned from Colorado, the herds of cattle in the Indian re-
I Mr. l ra/ier is very jubilant over bis servation could not be taxed, except
pold mining interests, and fullv ex- • for general, territorial and court cx-
j peels to soon realize a handsome for- 1 (tenses. This is a great victory for the
tune , owners of the great cattle herds, who
A certain Oklahoma mayor went | thus save many thousands of dollars,
blind on .Sunday and aliened the Mi- i it |K reported that W. H Mason.mem-
loons to keep open. j |)CI.the lower house in the last legis-
Ockarche has recently lost her only
barber shop.
The II. A S. railroad will soou be
completed between Manchester and
Pond Creek.
District 03, Maple township, ('ana
dian county, i* probably in as good
a financial condition as anv school dis-
alture lias skipped out. It is alleged
that Mason borrowed sums of money
and cashed several checks which are
worthless. The cause of disappear-
ance is unknown
ulate prices. It may operate by con-
trolling laws. In its last analysis the
evil of the gold standard is the evil of
monopoly, because it enables the finan-
cial magnates to fix the standard and
then to corner the money market an
they have done. Monopoly and unjust
taxation are often combined, as in a
protective tariff.
The candidacy of McKinlev is sup-
ported by monopolists. The tariff
barons who made millions from monop-
olies gained through unjust taxation
and the financial magnates who made
millions by cornering gold and selling
it to the government are combining
the power of their wealth and influence
to elect him. All the interests that plun-
der the producing tollers by the reduc-
tion of wages, the increase of prices by
trusts, the manipulation of corporations
and the juggling or the money market
are combined in his support.
On the other side is Bryan, whose
candidacy is a protest against every
form of monopoly and who must look
for support only from the tollers.
Can there be any question as to the
candidate whose success will represent
the welfare of the people?
I'lty for il>« "Napoleau."
Knights of Labor Journal: The Ad-
ranee Agent of Prosperity and the
"friend of the workingmen" has en-
tered into a very suspicious intimacy
with Messrs. Hanna of Ohio and Payne
of Wisconsin, both of whom have been
anything but "agents of prosperity" to
to the men with whom they came in
contact. But perhaps it is only per-
sonal prosperity whichismeant. In that
case, of course, the advisers are fully
competent to point out the methods
by which the Major may achieve finan-
cial success. Poor Napoleon has a heavy
drag on bis onward progress and the
championship may be hard to explain
away.
Ill* Dtaeom en ted tanner.
The agricultural department has is-
sued a circular that will help to explain
why the farmers are not as happy now
as they used to be. It compares the
prices of leading farm products year
by year, from ISM to 189;' The prices
ire given in currency, but when re-
duced to a gold basis the results are
sufficiently striking. Inspect these fig-
ures. for instance:
Currency.
18»>6.
Cattle Inspector ( antelou and Ter-
ritorial Veterinary surgeon Lewis a 10
having a busy time trying to prevent
territory. The J the spread of Texas fever which has
| district after purchasing and paying broken out in Kingfisher county
! for building material and all neees- ' .
Cotton is coming into the market
sarv supplies for the school building
,. .• | . 1 rapid v sill ove» the territory
they are erecting, have still quite a lit- 1 1
Thomas Root., a Creek Indian who
was for some time a member of the
Cook gang of outlaws and afterwards
turned state's evidence and caiue clear
was shot snd killed st a dunce wast of
Wagoner, a few nights sgo.
they a re erecting, ha ve still quite
tie money left in the treasury.
An evangelist dropped into an Okla-
homa town, stopped in front of a sa-
loon, stood on a beer case with a card
table in front of him and, it is said
preached eloquently.
Corn
Wheat
Oats
Rye
Barley
Buckwheat ....
Potatoes
Tobacco (per lb>
Hay (per toni.
•»82
2.196
.504
1.182
1 009
.972
.68
Gold.
1866.
f 184
1.558
.357
.84
1*95.
$ .253
.509
139 .098 .072
14.58 10.347 8.35
It thus appears that the farnvr In
1866 got more than three times us much
In gold for his wheat as he la getting
now. and about twice as much for ev-
erything else. But If he had a mort-
gage on his farm It was reckoned In
currency, and one bushel of wheat
would clear off nearly 2.20 of it. luateal
of about 50 cents as it will now.
A thousand bushels of wheat at tha
"There were no anarchists among
these brave fellows, hut there was, as
now. an abundance of agitators with a
definite idea of what to agitate for, and
but for the shrewd cunning of the silk
stocking brigade of that day the
phraseology of our present constitu-
tion would not need such a wholesulo
revision and reconstruction.
The fearless, honest, upright hay-
seed and odorolus' wage worker fas
our modern convention critic is nleased
to style them), were those who lifted
one form of British yoke from the
shoulders of Columbia and their latter
day prototypes will finish what they
so well began.
"Tory newspapers, misrepresentation
and abuse, not even the ever potent
gold, will save tho treacherous crew.
The people have seized the lever and
have demanded right of way for the
poplar reform train, and for tho man
or thing putting any obstacle on the
track to retard or wreck its progress
will be dealt with in as summary a
manner as his Tory progenitors of the
past."
Mora Nnmerona than Crazy.
Columbus (Ohio) Record: (John Mc-
Bride. late president of the American
Federation of Labor, editor.) ll is time
Eastern capitalists and Eastern news-
papers opened their eyes to the fact
that the friends of free silver are more
numerous than crazy. The Farmers'
Alliance, the Knights of Labor, the
American Federation of Labor, the
populists, the republicans of several
states heretofore republican states, a
large portion of the prohibition party
and organized labor in general have
| declared in favor of the free and nn-
; limited coinage of silver at the ratio of
| 16 to 1. The army of silver cranks Is
a large one, and if they can he mus-
, tered under one banner there will be
such a political revolution this fall that
the gold bugs of the East will find
their power to oppress the common
people forever gone, and to our mind
it cannot be gotten rid of too soon.
Had to Kipou ThautselvM.
j Workmen's Advocate: Heretofore
the money power by dividing its forces
between the republican and democratic
I parties has been able to control both
1 parties and all financial legislation has
I had its sanction. Through some means
they lost control of the Chicago conven-
tion. and the declaration of that body
In favor of free coinage silver has coni-
j pelled the millionaires who have been
masquerading as democrats to expose
themselves, and they are rushing over
the political fence to join their co-con-
splrators. They will now make a
! united effort to subjugate the people
and bring them under control. Will the
people be subjugated?
Th* ttenevolent tiold Hub*
Knights of Labor Journal: The deep
Interest which the gold bug hankers
are manifesting In the welfare of the
workingmen In these presidential r>c«
i tion times Is something truly touching
These benevolent financiers ate posl
lively panic-stricken over the ini
pending danger to the workluumen
I t om free coinage mu4 on lnn« •. «• I
I vo'.ime of money
Madison. Neb., Sent. 15.—Senator
Allen, chairman of the Populist na-
tional convention, mailed to William
Jennings Bryan yesterday the follow-
ing letter officially notifying him of
his nomination by that body:
"Dear Sir—At a couveutiou of tho
People's party held ut St. Louis from
July 22 to »5 of the current year, you
were unanimously nominated for
President of the United States to be
voted for at the approaching general
election.
"It was known at that time that
you had been nominated by the Dem-
ocratic party at its convention held
In Chicago a few days before that
time, and that you would in all prob-
ability accept the same in a formal
manner. Your nomination by the
People's party was not, therefore,
made with any thought that you
were a Populist or that you accepted
all the doctrines declared by the St.
Louis plat form
"It has at, 110 time been expected or
Is it now, that you will abandon your
idbesion to the Chicago platform, nor
that you will accept all that is de-
clared in the People's party platform,
however gratifying the latter would
be to all Populists. It must be under-
stood that the party does not abate
one jot or tithe of loyalty to its prin-
ciples. We have declared ourselves
in favor of many important reforms,
in our judgment essential to tho lib-
eration of tlie people from the present
unjust and iniquitious industrial
bondage.
"In accordance with the precedent
of our party we take this method of
notifying you of your nomination.
We will not send a committee, accord-
ing to old party custom In sending
this letter of notification of the great
honor that has so justly been con-
ferred on you by our party it is need-
less for us to assure you that you have
the confidence and esteem of all.
Your splendid abilities, known integ-
rity, competency aud eminent fitness
for the position justly entitle you to
a high rank among the great states-
men of the nation. Wc feel that iu
the event of your election, which now
seems certain, tnatyou will carry into
the executive chair the principles of
monetary reform to the end that the
people shall enjoy better industrial
conditions.
"It is not anticipated that this can
be done with undue liuste or so sud-
denly as to wrench or disjoint the
business interests ot the country, but
that it will be done gradually, and in
a way to infuse confidence aud hope
of better conditions for all.
"Tho People's party will exact of
you no promises further than those
made in your public utterances and
exemplified in a life devoted to the
welfare of the race, nor will it ask
you to abandon too patty of which
you are an honored member.
Mlt. WATSON MOTiriKll.
The Democriitlo Tarty 11 ml Mr. Smnll
Kcorcd—High Praise for llr.van.
Washington, Sept. 15.—Senator
Butler of North ( aroliua, chair.man of
the Populist executive committee, litis
sent a letter to lion Thomas M Wat-
son of Georgia, notifying him of his
nomination as candidate for Vice
President by the Populist uational
convention. After reciting the condi-
tions which gave rise to the People's
party, the letter tlicu refers to the
nomination of Mr. Bryan by the Dem-
ocrats, and says the People's party at
its second national convention recog-
nized in him a man who stauds, in the
broadest and truest sense, for Amer-
ican institutions and American princi-
ples. It then continues:
"If tho Democratic party had been
true to the people and to its own plat-
form in its selection of a candidate for
Vice President, we would not now
have the honor of addressing you, one
of the worthiest and most beloved
tons of the People's party, in this offi-
cial capacity, for in that event, the
People's party would have nominated
the whole Democratic ticket by even
n larger majority than it nominated
Mr. Bryan.
"But this was not tho case. It
seems that the party was not able at
one effort to purge itself of its modern
heresies, cast off its plutocratic lead-
ers, and at the same time it nominated
Mr. Bryan give him a running mate
who had earned iu the arena of ac-
tion, contending against the foes of
tho republic, the affection, confidence
and trust of the masses of our people,
"The People's party, true to its
principles aud true to its teachings,
nominated for the high office of vice
president, a man worthy to have
headed the ticket; a in:;n who repre-
sents what Mr. Bryan represents, and
therefore, present to the people to-
day in the persons of Bryan and Wat-
son, the best silver ticket in the field
—a ticket more representative of
American interests than any other;
a ticket that stands for just the oppo-
site of what the Republican ticket
stands for If the people win this
fight for financial reform, it must be
accomplished by the co-operation of
silver forces of all political parties.
To secure such co-oporation of the
diffeient parties it is necessary to
have a co-operative ticket. Therefore
Bryan and Watson is not only the
best silver ticket, but it is also the
true co-operative ticket
Kan*a<i Matoiiio lloino DeitlcMteil.
Wichita, Kan., Sept. 11.—Fully
8,000 vis'tors were here yesterday to
attend tho dedication of the Kansas
Masonic home. The dedicatory cere-
monies were conducted by Grand
Master Coleman of Clay Center, who
delifered a brilliant address A grand
reception was held at the home last
I night under the auspices of the Ladies
j of the Eastern Star One of the feat-
ures of tho day was a parade more
than a milo loug
I'oiotii Put In Tlifir lltirr
Denver, Col., Sept. ll. — Warren D.
Whitehead and wife and Mrs. Patrick
Kearney were drinking beer last night
at Whitehead's house. Mrs White-
head declined a glassful and soon
afterward the other two showed signs
of poison. Both tied later in agony.
Mrs. Whitehead has been arrested.
MAINE ELECTION.
Republican* Sun-fiiful liy From 4A.OOO
lo so,OOO Plurality
ArousTA, Me., Sept 10.—Maine ha*
given the Kepublican state ticket a
plurality of between 40,000 and 50,000.
Hon. T. B Keed is re-elected to llit
■ house by over 10,000 plurality, Tlit
returns show a majority of about 12,-
000 for Mr. Dingley for congressmau
from the Second district; over 1»,(hk
i for Mr. Millikeu in the Third district,
and practically the same for Mr. Bon-
I telle in the Fourth district.
In the state legislature the Deino
I erats will apparently have less than
half a dozen of the representatives in
; the house aud uot one in the senate
The Populist und the Prohibitionis»l
votes have been received from only a
: few towiih, but it is evident that
i neither party polled as large a vote as
two years ago.
Everywhere the most remarkable
gains are shown over two and foui
years ago. Not only has the Kepub-
lican vote made great gains, but tl«e
Democratic vote has fallen off, even
though the Democrats received great
accessions from the Populists, wlit
cast a light vote this year, preferring
to aid the Democrats rather than vote
their own ticket. In many town*
more than a third of the former Dein-
cratic vote was cast for the Republican
ticket.
FUSION ARRANGED FOR
UUnuuri l'opulUtN Agree lo Accept I'out
Electoral l'lace*
St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 15.—After an
all day's session, the Populist stale
committee adoptc.1, by the vote of 11
to 3, a resolution to accept the fusion
plan for electors proposed by th •
Democrats The number of electors
the Populists will get i?i four—three
district electors aud one elector at
large. Five members of the commit-
tee were opposed to fusiou under anv*
circumstances, and they made a hard
fight
The Democrats are trying to secure
the consent of the Populists to fuse
on the state ticket and on congress-
men. The Populists may ugreo to this
if they are given the lieutenant gov-
ernor and railway commissioner and
four congressmen.
SANTA FE MINES SOLD-
t'. J. Devlin Secure* ro^viiiloii of Al'
tlio Kait*iift Conl Interest*.
Topkka, Kan.. Sept !f>.—C. J. I)er
lin, manager of the coal properties o!
the Atchison, Topeka «fc Santa l'e
railway company, has bought all of
the company s mines in Kansas and
wiil take possession October 1. IL*
' purchase includes the Santa l'e mines
in Osage, Cherokee and Crawford
counties. He also owns the mines 11'
Marceline, Mo., anil Toluca, III.,
from which the Santa Fe gets a large
part of its fuel.
A Hit; Mercantile Alllauee.
j Chicago, Sept. 14.—Two hundren
: Chicago manufacturers and jobbers
and over 30,000 retail merchants out-
side of Chicago have just completed
i the greatest mercantile alliance thai
1 the history of the country has ever
! known. Profit to the retail merchants
who buy goods here is one of the
! main objects. Tho interests of the
traveling salesman, too are included.
; and a compact organization which
w ill act as a unit in tho pursuance of
; any object of mutual benefit to the
manufacturers, retailers and jobbers,
and all dependent on the result is in-
tended.
The Apple Yield Lighter
Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 15. — He-
I ports from the fruit belt of South
' Missouri and Arkansas indicate that
the apple crop this year will be far
short of last year's yield. The esti-
! mate of the department of agriculture
! places the apple crop of that section
1 at about sixty-four per cent of what
j it. w as last year. This estimate is be-
lieved by the fruit growers to be in e\
cess of what, tuo real crop will net.
They believe that the yield of good
apples will amount to little more than
half of last year's crop.
Oil Work* Hurned.
Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 14.—Tin
; Kansas City lead and oil works, lo-
i cated at Twenty-fourth street and
Broadway, owned by Marsh Brother
of Kansas City, was burned about
! midnight last night. 1\ C. Marsh,
i president of the company, places the
! loss at $100,000, fully covered by in-
j sura nee. The origin of the fire is nn-
! known, but it is supposed to have
; started from a spark from a passing
' Santa Fe locomotive ou the south side
of the buildings.
I.flwin' I* ut her lleateiu
Mexico, Mo., Sept., I*. — Colonel
: Warner Lewis, father of the Republican
! candidate for governor, was defeated
I for the nomination for prosecuting
attorney of Montgomery county on
! the Democratic ticket, ( lark Bali,
brother of Dave Ball, the Pike county
statesman, who was defeated for the
Democratic nomination for governor,
! being successful. In his speech here
Robert K. Lewis said that if his father
, w as to run for office on any ticket and
he had a vote it would go for linn.
Tornado Damage |n I'ariN.
Paris, Sept. PJ. —Three persons
were killed, scores were injured and
great damage done to property bv the
tornado which visited this city yes-
terday for just a minute. The num-
ber of injuries to persons is large.
Over fifty injured was reported to one
fire station alone. The skulls of sev-
eral men und women were fractured
by falling gates behind which they
t h#d sought shelter from the storm.
M* IrullauH Killed.
UtTiiltlE, Ok la., Sept. lfi.—Six In-
dians rode into the agency store, at
what is known as Big Jim's Crossing
| on Little River, amlattemptcd to hold
up the agent. The reds were half
drunk and fired over loOshots. In re-
sisting. Agent Gillaiu was wounded.
A posse turned out. followed the In
dians ten miles and killed the entire
six.
I mind a I'nnltlon In !\lexi«*».
Skpalia, Mo., Sept. 15.—James C
Thompson, tho absconding cashier of
the defunct Sedalia First National
bank, who lied from this city on May
4, 1V.»4, leaving behind linn a shortage
of « ' .0,000, has been appointed tie and
wood inspector for the Mexican Cen-
tral railway, with headquarters iu
Mexico City.
(leneral ilamen It. Morgan Dead.
Qcincy, 111., Sept. 14.— Major lien
eral James 1). Morgan, division com-
mander under General Sherman in the
war of the rebellion and a veteran of
the Mexican war, is dead lie was |
president of the Array of the Cumber-
land and treasurer of the Soldiers'
home, lie was year* old
Whole«nln Ma^acr* Manned.
London, Sept, 11 a diipitob fr »
Constantinople asserts that a whole-
sale massacre of Christiana is planued
t«: occni there within a fortnight, aud
that Armenians have been deported
from t here on board ships, and liava
been drowned in batches, being shot
through specially constructed chute*
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