The Guthrie Daily Leader. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 147, Ed. 1, Tuesday, June 9, 1903 Page: 1 of 8
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GUTHRIE OKLAHOMA. TUESDAY JUNE 9 1903.
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PROSTRAT
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SPECIAL RIVER
WASHINGTON D. C JUNE
AT ST. LOUIS WA8 REACHED
GUAQE READING 37.7 FEET AS
THIS EQUALS THE HIGH WATER READING OF MAY 1? 1858 fO
EXACTLY BUT IS 3-9 FEET BELOW THE OREAT HIGJ WATER O
MARK OF JUNE 20 1844. THE WATER THIS MORNING STANDS
AT 37.4 FEET AND FROM THIS TIME FORWARD WILL FALL
STEADILY THOUGH AT FIRST SLOWLY. "
THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI IS
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SLOWLY AND STEADILY WHjLE
O CONTIjsfUEsI THE. STAQE.ATjcAIROMT.HlSMbRNINGIWASj
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A RISE OF 1.0 FOOT SINCE MONDA"'.
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(By Associated Press.)
SL Louis Mo. June 9. At 7 a. ra.
the officii cuago registered 37.4 feet
a light cfeillne since yesterday morn
ing. Tho tendency of the xlver thisl
morning seems to )k) to rise but tho
grea' volume of water coming from
above Is spreading out and does not
make Itself apparent on tho guage by
added Inches.
in the cities Madison Venice and
Oranlte City It Is estimated that at'
least 1000 men. womon and children
are In a precarious condition Many
are In the second s'orles and 'on' tops
of houses and other points above the
flood less In danger of death than
starvation.
In Hast St. Louis where the rail-
road yards and that part along the
rver on both sides of theTSads' bridge
is flooded the conditions nro the same.
ns yesterday. All of last night men
were r tyork. strengthening tho levee
tha'i Is keeping the 'vator back from
tho business and residence sections of
the city. The railroad situation showa
no Improvement
From St. Loujs to Cape Girardeau
a distance ot 140 mllest the Mississippi
has attained an average width of four
miles "Tho entire wheat and corn
crop in the valley has been rulued"
said W. R. Wilkinson n commission
merchant in St. Louis who was one
of the passengers of the steamer Cape
Girardeau which has Just arrived In
St Louis. "Some houses were com-
pletely submerged" he says "others
showed only the roofs. We saw many
persons standing on the tops of the
houses. They waved to us for assist-
ance. but on account of the uncertain
condltions of the river we were unable
to go to them. I do not know what
will become of these people." i
Mr Wilkinson says that in tho hot-!
torn lands below Capo Glrardoau the
water has teached an expanse of forty
miles from bluff to bluff.
No passenger trains are crossing tho
Eads or he Merchants bjldge today
and Union station is temporarily aban-
doned as a terminal point for all east
em traffic both Incoming and south'
bound Passenger business is pros-
trated Relief from present conditions
Is ot expected soon. It Is thought
that all ot the:roHroad8 combined hayei
000000.
From police reports It Its learned
Stagnated
of Floods
Loss to
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9. THE CREST OF THE FLOOD
MONDAY MORNING WITH A
FORECAPTEDON FRIDAY LAST
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ALSO FALLING SLOWLY
BELOW ST. LOUIS THE RISE
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there are '90 dostltute refugee flood
6ufferorsv;n St. LouK Tho 390 are
being cared for by tho pollco. A num.
bar have become ill from exposure.
There were 1200 flood rofugeosdn
Edwards 111. last night. Because of
tho congestion It was found necessary
to dls rlbute the sufferers In the cities
and village along the Wabash as far
north as Litchfield.
Four-flfths. of the 5000 Inhabitants
Granite City remain within the Urn-
Its of h& town.
One-half of them are
homers
The officials of Granl'e Cltr and
those who havo been most active in (
relief work believe that no deaths havo (
followed the flood there. Reports of
drownings have not been verified and
there Is said to oe no' slckneis due to
the flood.
Flood
At Topeka Was Great But
Death Losses Were
Few
The reports ent out from Topeka
regarding the nutnhar of deaths from
tho recent' floods are greatly exagger-
at!- The list of the known ead up
l Sunday evening as gathered by The
Lender repor er Is as follows:
Known Dead at Topeka- i
Edward Orafstrom mee&antcal eng-
Inoer of the Santa Fe
J. W. Housen employfol at Wolff's
Packing house fell from Santa Fe been washed out. Many of thd brick
bridge. h i and stone store buildings left tondlng
Forrest Kutz teacher t by the flood are being condemned and
Miss Louise Seahaven employed at ordered torn down. A largo number
woolen mill; body recovered .of homes bavo suffered the effecU of
Henry Jordan colored. lhe storm. The mud and acounmlo-
Mrs. Alice Bishop Oaklaad died at Uon of the flood measure In some
Christ hospital. places three feet deep. The average
John L. Adams. ' depth of the mud is eighteen Inches.
Mrs Kirrie Butord .colored !09;The canton of every home In North
Adams street died "at the hospital Topeka nave teen practically destroy-
Anld"s61dlo?"n"amea Wardof Oalc 'ed Tho high water also d6ne damage
land. to residence property la Auburudalo
Raymond the S year old aoa o(
Fireman O. H Garrett.
Five year old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs George M Story1.
I Simon. Taylor colored; body recoy-
ered -j. ' w"
Mrs. Phillips colored JM
North'lSaS
Clay street
I James Phillips colored son of
uuove; uouy recoverou.
John Jones colored
Mm. Salllo Halyard colored body
recovered.
Mrs. Kennedy colored.
Mrs Tilda Watson.colored.
Mrs Mlnulo King cotored.
Mlsa Minnie PUryear colored.
Mrs. Nellie Watson colored. CO
years odl body recoverod Jam
George McDonald colored body re'Ttf
.covered.
J Mrs. Nancy Shonkwllor. 1513 North
'Harrison.
; George Shonkwllor 1513 North Har-
rison. I Mrs Jessie Stout and four children
1513 North Hairlson.
I P. Edwards colored body recoverod
at Centrat avenue and Soldier crook.
) Mrs Dora -Reynolds colored body
recovered..
Nellie McReynolds colored body re-
covered. Thodamage done by tne recent Hood
to tho residents of North Topeka j Clfffig tho wild rumor to circulator
would bo dlfflcult.to estimate. WholeBgffifl hese lumber yards are an en?
salo drug stores groceries dry goods
groceries dry gooc
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owuera. are now uut a mass oi
ruins wa.' r soaken and weather beat-
en In some places th' contents of a
store room are lying In a heap In the
basement. The merchants however
havo assumed that seemingly hopeless
tapfc of cleaning up their business
places and a largo numbor of the j
stocks are being removed to the south .
side of the river into tha middle ot the
stroot where they can be cleaned nnd I
sold for a song
The Arnold Drug company tho V
CasUoy Dpy Good8 . Tho8i
Pago miller and tho Street Railway
company inow Era Department store
and othora afe heayy 080ra( U)Q aUflr
store es'tmatlng thetrlo3 at $45000
while the former houses place their
losses at $20000.
jn railroad circles the Union Pacific
j8 probably the heaviest loser. Tho
tracks and shops of this ralbvayaro
jolted 1n the flooded district and tho
Usr has damaged this road consider-
ably. The ticket office and the wait-'
ing rooms In ho depot had flftoen j
Inches of mud and sand upon the
floors Sunday morning. The hotel and
tho depot caught Are several times a holiday affair and failed to observe
during the height of the flood caused the order.
by floating lumber but the flames were Perhaps a hundred of the boM clti-
quickly oxtlnguUhed by the guests i sens hbwevor Including commercial
The side tracks have been washed
away by the terrific force of the storm.
Mall sacks- filled with first and second
class matter are lying watersoaked
I upon tho platform surrounding the
depot. No attempts have been made
to operate lialns ait train service will
not be established on tills road for
sovural days. The Union Poolfto park
Is filled with wreckage plle4 several
1 foot high. In the dfspaUokenj offtoe of
the Union Paolflo depot the mud is
pUed upon the de&ka. while In the
tioket otflw only a few water soaked
tickets remain for the belated passen-
G.
The platform surrounding the Norh
Topeka Santa Fe Junotloadopot was
swept away and Je lying a distance of
several rode from Us former plac.
The ballasting of the tracks hag also
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and considerable damage to property
In Oakland and Sheery suburbs of
Topeji
Laborers are paid as high as 50 and
75 ceMs an hour to shovel dirt from
Uiqlwusos In North Topeka. The
shop men and other laborers
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city worked nil day Sunday
w
anjbg 'ho stricken city of Its refuse
matt Prominent business men and
newspaper correspondents lont tholr
co In the Work of Sunday. A
the refugees who bavo beon
or by the city since the disss-
e refusing to work declaring
jy don't havo to work as mo
mmlttee takes ?aro of thorn."
ock Island railroad paid $2.50
0 a day for laborers lost week'
peka relief fund has now roach-
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00 Tho list of now subscrip-
ecelved Includos a gift of $1000
f mm l
orso J. Gould president of tho
rl Pacific railroad. Th& Con-
Tobacco Co. -f Kentucky
be lurgost single gift being $2-
ho Associated Press dispatch
I Saturday evening stating that
elihtgslx fires could bo seen In North
Toupgka from tho capltnl dome was
greatly exaggerated.
1py Thomas Lumber company and
tfhJsGfbrlel Lumber company botli
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Clearing
Flood Situation in Topeka
Takes on Good Tone
(By Associated Press.
Topeka Kas T-;m &. None of tho
stores-on the South Sldo cloflied this
morning to allow their clerks and pro-
prietors to don old clothes and shovel
mud from the flooded North Side
buildings. Mayor Borgunthal Issued
a proclamation last evening requesting
that such action bo tnken and that
Tuesday be made a genoral holiday In
Topeka proper But the merchants
evidently thought such work far from
club members did turn out In old over
alls and blouses and did valiant work
with pick and shovel. The last moah
and beds for the refugees wero given
at the; auditorium last night nnd here-
after those who can not shift tor them-
selves will be given quarters in the
'TenttGliy' in the southwest part of
Topeka.- The relief fund flaV reached
the sum of nearly $42000. All of the
railroads have resumed almost regit'
lar service out of Topeka except the
j Unlon'TaoJflc. Not a' train Is running
on that road. The waters are falling
rapidly. No
been found.
new dead bodies have
Op Again
(By Associated Press.)
Jefferson City Mo. June Q. The
atato supreme court today overruled
the motion to transfer tho boodle cases
ot Faulkner and Lehmann each under
sentence of two years In the peniten-
tiary to tho court onbanc for rehearing.
Now the oases will have to be tried
again in St Louie.
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Sheriff L T Shockey. wife and
daughter ore hero front Pawnee today.
FINLEY MUST COUGH
DP TOWNSn FEES
Supreme Court Renders QpnlQii.On
Prdkte Court Business ; ; '
An Important opinion was handed rocoIvat'bjfchlftUfbrrvfoes-rjJerod
down'by tho supreme court today lh jnd particularly th&fe08 tJoolvod
tho appeal case bf Harry Flnoypi-o- 7U1 MlnS lu' aU townaite mattony
bato Judg of Kiowa county Vs. tho fnd to r0llre'hD to Pr to the coun
Tf-.... - ly ireasbrer all- such fees and tho or.-J
Territory. The appeal was from cim ot lho nniount uowed
Kiowa county whoro an. action In man- law. The defendant in tho lowor court
damus to compel tho proba b Judge to contended that his position while act-
account for feoa was Instituted result. Ing In towns!; patters was onUrelr
Ityj In a peremptory writ being grant- sopara from h" position as probato
ed. Tho .dofdndant appdalotT Tho judgw and flrnt U was not required to
opinion ot tho court today Is thu (ho report nnd account for foos while act-
Judgmont b0 reversed and tho cause Ing In towiisHe ma'ttors. Since th-
bo remanded. ' Caso was Instjtutod Fln.oy filed n mo-
Tho case has been one of great In- ttoti VJfatnii'o catiBo bo dltimlsawl bo-
terest to tax payors and residents of causa his term of offlco had expired
the territory since It was first itisil- i'ha motion was denied. Tho Judg-
tuted. Tho mandamus proceedings mont of tho oourt Is that tho decision
wore brought by County Attorney of tho Iowr court bo rovorsod wid tho
Keys of Kiowa county against P. J. cause remanded with direction to ovor-
Finloy tho probato Judge of that coun- rule tno demurrer to tho return and
ty for Uho purposo of compelling Fin- answer to the altornatlY" writ of inan-
loy to report and account for nil foos damns
TO ABOLISH SLAVERY
IN
Philippine Commission's Bill Jror
Manila P. I. June 9. Tho Philip
pine commission has enacted a bill
providing ior tho government of the
Moras. Governor Taft and Major
General Davis Jointly drafted It. Tho
measure practically make the Mores
prov.tnco an autonomous colony of the
Philippines which tho Philippine gov-
ernment controls and creatos an ap-
pointive Teglslatlvo council to provide
local laws the commission rosorvlng
tho right to amond or nnnul them. Tho
council Is to be composed of a gov-
ernor sooretary treasurer engineer
attorney and superintendent of
schools. Governor Taft will appoint
Big Bull
Movement In July Cotton
On New York Ex-
change New York June 3. -The opening la'
the ooUon market today was one of
the nolseet and most exciting of the
season. July advanced to 11 98 Sept.
to 10.34 Aug. to 11 .$0 and Dee. to
90ft. The advance was a continua-
tion of the scarce of shorts started
yeaterdojr nnd wo amended by fur-
. ther talk of a July corner and reporti!
of crop damage. The Liverpool rabies
were lower than expected on the old
crop but higher ou the new while
New Orleans wm anHn strong with
July selllm? up to 13.07. After the ' " " "'" . - "-
call here there wm tremendous reft!- POrt 'th CA of Hftnr B"10-
islng and July declined to 11 I white " ""ar'1 Township Ti ustM-a.
Aug. reached to 11.00. The new crop ' docUlou t the court u u i.-v d
mpnths however had most ot their wl ia "Wed lnUuen' in u
advance and the undertone was nWk.cwr Vwider 0 Pan ' ' l VT
voifa and muM)ttlo4.
Wh..n the weather and oron renort
was rad the trading became wilder
and mnre exolteiifnan at any tlmtfalr
season within a short time July
was rushed up to 12 1C Aug. to 11.65.
aad Sept. to 10.66 these figures being
from 12 to J4 polnfa above the galna
made yeno. day.
JBOR'O PROVINCE
the officials. The bill will wdepd tho
Jurlsdlof-on1 of the Phiiioji.j. courta
nnd constabulary to thp province and
will recognize Moro law - whloh do
not conlllot wltti American tans 'tho
measure also direct utio confiscation
ot the tribal laws creates More courts
provides that the Philippine courta
shall try cases between Moro.; and
Christians glvos tho province It net
customs and foros'ry collections and
authorizes the council to abolish
slavory. Tho bill provides for partial
military government ftud U Is ospected
that Gonorit Leonard Wood will be thty
first governor of the Moro province.
Contests
Affecting Pawnee Indies
Allotments Will Not
Be Recognised
Guthrie Land Office Sustained-
Ttj conynlMloner of the general
land office and the oommUMoiMr of
the Indian affaire at Washington have
affirmed the rejection of the local
land offlp In refusing to onl-r a. hear
lug ujmh avri oonteis'n iliut5d
against Pwuno Indian alio-n itU
Official Notice Received
District i(iirfly 8pH-l 'i.i vlv-t-d
notice frotn Attirn- ;-n i lYnx
a Washington lnforinuii- liir r( Him
ot Township Trusteos of East iMHhrle.
thought an Afireoment oanlh en-
tor.ed into between the partir of tho
Jfr caso aMthat th m agtfa bo
amleably settled.
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Representative Herbert W WUUamn
Is-la tho lty from Pawner a. WW at
the Elks.
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Niblack, Leslie G. The Guthrie Daily Leader. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 147, Ed. 1, Tuesday, June 9, 1903, newspaper, June 9, 1903; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc72073/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.