The Guthrie Daily Leader. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 111, Ed. 1, Thursday, December 1, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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Tae Guthrie Daily Leader.
THE ONLY EVENiNG ASSOCIATED PRESS PAPER IN OKLAHOMA TERRITORY
I Volume 24
GUTHRIE OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY DECEMBER. 1. 1001
NUMBER 111
ST. LOUIS FAIR
HAS CLOSED
LOUISIANA EXPOSITION
ENDS WITH GREAT
HONOR
PRESIDENT FRANCIS DAY
Gates Are Thrown Open to
School Children
Last Day Program Include
Addresses and Exercises
at All Exhibit
Places.
(Br Associated Press.1
St. Louis Mo. Dec.
j With Ideal1
weather with Kates thrown open to
cnturcn ami moisc wno were wormy
liut unable to attend from pecuniary
reasons with geat crowds pouring In-1
. . i..nB.iin. .rnhmt .. nn.'ns numerovs le'tera which tho sheriff
u u '
tire day. the Louisiana Purchase o.v
position hold for the last day today. I
The day was proclaimed a holiday '
bv tho mavnr and In tho stato bv tha
governor nnd throngs poured Into the
grounds from every direction. Presi-
dent Francis was the center of Inter-
est at the closing exorcises nnd wns
accorded special honor by the direc-
tors city officials and others. i
Interesting Features
I All children under fourteen years of'
age were admitted freo no matter
whether tl ev wero accompanied by
adullB O! cr.tno alone. It was n day of
festivity Inmates of charitable In-
atltutlons nnd those wno have been
unable to attend on account of the e-
pense wtj admitted free upon pre-1
son tat Ion ?f a note baying thai tho
bearer is worthv of free admittance.
The cxp-rises of the day commoner!
at It o'clock on the Plnaa of St Louis. ;
the broad parada ground immediately' HOW
north of the main hi goon known ae
Cascade Basin. Mayor 'W ells present-
ed PresldPn Francis who dellvorodi
)iis farewell iddress. Following this
there was n.i International parade and
special crtertalnmenta were held In
each of the largo exhibit palaces.
At f o'clock in the evening President
Francis will be accorded a recaption '
of a general nature in the houso of the
board of la 'y managers. Aftor this le
concluded he will be escoited through ' htuuls with his numoroiis friend nnd
the pike Ly tho executive cammlttco 'incidentally he is being asked to ex-
and thor serenaded at tho administra.' plain bow he got nibbisL Mr. Murphy
Uon building At 10 o'clock minute' is not m the leant backward about tell
buds will begin firing ana continue ' ing the whole story and It Is an Inter-
unMl midnight tho display of fire- estlng one too. Only a few dnvs stneo
works also adding to the closing feat- he was ret'irning from the World's
ures. Promptly at midnight tho Illum-
ination will be turned off and Mix
World's fair a 111 have formally ended
WRIGHT tAYS HE IS INNOCENT.
Strong Circumstantial Evidence That
He Murdered SUttery.
I
Tlie tnurde- of W M Slat lory of
Ho'rnrt whose holy was found in the
Wichita hills last Friday after a1
sraichlng lartv had worked for nearly
two weeks and the subsequent arrest
of R A Wright charged with having
con.mittel the Cflme have culminated
Info one of the strangest aOaira In;
Oh'ahoma criminality. Although
Wright claims to r entirely Ignorant
of the manner of Slattery's death a
chain of circumstance a has been woven
aro'ind him which lead the officer
to billen that he not only kllld 81at-
lerv In cold bloa! but thn.. he ts a
member of a dangerous band of out
laws to which numerous cria.es nrve
been charged
.lattery's body wae found In a crev-
ice of a hillside ledge near which he
was seen with Wright on the day he
disappeared from Hobart The body
would lit all probability have remained
in Its hldinr place for months had not
Wright told moe than que story as
lo where hi? companion went after
the two separated.
Slattery was one of the olueet and
best known residents of Hobart Twg
week0 ago last Sunday he and Wright
left town together nnd drove into the
mountains Wright returned that
same evening alane anil when first
asked In rogard to Slnttcr. ho Is said
to havo stated Mint tho miterdind gone
to Chllltcolhe. Mo Later fie stated
that Slattery bad gone to tho Rainy
mountain agency.
Wright Upon his ro'urn produced a
bill cf sale purporting to give him the
right lo SlattotvV jragon and toam
which wns already In nls possession.
This coupled with the conflicting
storlos as to whore his companion had
gone ai-ou'eH tln suspicion of the
residents or Hobart and Wright wns
arrested
linlll Inst Friday night tho prlsonor
was hept In Jail at Kotiart. On that
ovenlng howevor. Slattery's manglad
hotly was found an I. lest mob violence
might bo reortM to tho p leaner was
spirited away by the sheriff nnd taken
to Anadarko.
Wright was apparently unmoved by
the fnet that the body had been discov
ered. Ho "ill persisted and tloos yet
that he 'old the truth In the first place.
But tho cltbeus of the community in
which both h and his supposed victim
llvod nre convinced that ho hilled Slat-
tery In cold blool for his properly.
l wns w""o making a search of
Wrights rooms that evidence appar
ently njsoclatine him with a dancer-
ous bnn of organzed criminals was
found la his trunk wers a number of
photogranbs of bad characters as woll
' holding for future use.
Afjr aU hW9Vor thorG ls somo.
tMn remarkable In the way -Wright
demeans himself. Whon he knew thnt
a mob was walling to lynch him ho
' told hla wife goodby with tho part-
i Ing Injunc'.ion that she must bollovp
him Innocent.
So preliminary hearing Tins vet been
held. Only circumstantial evidence
' has so ar been brought forward and
it seem rosslhlo that nono other can
Uo obtalnel. Three witnesses tostl-
1 flod. before the coionors iury to hnv
Ing seen Wright and Slaitory driving
1 tho latter' team near the rolnt where
the body was found and iho prisoner
i admits Having separated from the dead
man near 'hat spot.
Murphy's Story
HIS WAS TOUCHED
FOR $57
Walked Down Sedalia
Streets Ilatless Money-
less itnd Friendless
Hart Murphy sheriff-elect of Imogen!
county.
Is In the'clty tmlay shalring
fair vW the Missouri Parir.c. lea'lng
8t. Iouli" h. got a berth and went to
sleep shortlv alter getting on the train
At Sedalia he bar; a friend he destrM
to see and when the conductor gave
the call of the station Mr Murphy
awoke. When ha lnobed for his cap.
which v.ss fine f ir article it was gone.
He then put on his overcuar and he
reached into hs imckct and could no
And his pocket book.
He at nrcp no'ifled the conductor -the
fact that he had been robbed i"
it was tH latp ly tbat time the tiain
had tcpK'd nnd evm If the thief were
on the tnin tbn he would liave gotten
off. and probably did
Mr. Murphy j
hades moiK-yleis and feeling alr.tc-itt
I trien.n-sj. sa-iniereu up 10 uie ponce
intatlon V Sedalia ad explalneil bl
case He old them who he was and
Mr Murphy says ne is quite sure tual
tlm lalof r-.t tr li liiliuf Tia f irlvffn '
; I ss3 . i' ' .. - - m ' '
him the hcre laugh bnt It waa no
Uughlng matter to him. He told the
chief that he had lost hla cap and a
pocket lork containing about $67
Mr Murphv then weni out to see hU
friend and lucky for him he foun-i
him But today when his friends be-
gan to laugh at biro about tht affair
Mr Murph' sa'd "Well. It Is a kin 1
.-f a iuew case Put I'll tell you gen-
"emen that was the firs' time I was
eer tourhtd in my life Tet 1 dou t
regret it because I got my moues's
worth on the trip to Uie World's fair
I saw Teddy RoosoveU which aardy
repaid me for all hat I lost"
SHEOL IS POPPING
AROUND PORT ARTHUR
Japanese Army Has the City and Harbor at the
Mercy of Its Big Siege Guns-Defenders
Position Extremely Critical.
(By Associated Pross.y
ToKlo Dec. 1.-General Noel's tele-
gram announcing the capture of 203
Metre Hill was received with cheers
by the Japanese people It revives
hope of an early capture r Port Ar
i bur proper.
Russians In Tight Placr.
St. Petersburg Oec. 1. The war of-
flco Is not yot propared to accept the
reported capture by tha jnponeeu of
.His Mnu-o Hill but It it is offlolnlly
confirmed the wnr office admlls It to
bo n desperate blow for the dofondorfl
of tho fortress. It is admitted thnt
such a breach In tho chain renders tho
position of the Russians extremely
critical.
Russians Repulsed.
Toklo Dec. 1. Report from Man-
churian heurttiarters toll of small at-
taoks by Russians at difforent points
which were repulsed by the Jnpauoee
Japanese Fire Eaters Wounded.
Toklo Pec 1. Reports from the
Japanese army before Put Arthur say
Lieutonniit Jeu.iral Tliuchlya Is
among the wounded ana Ueneral
Nakatuum. the lender of Uie i-pecially
trained body of swordsmen that cha-g-el
Into tho Russian force on Novem-
ber 20 Is injured In both leys.
'Bfg Gins Booming.
London Dec. 1 The Daily Telc-
tfruph's correspondent at Oho Poo cab-
ling under date 'if November M says
that the Japanese began a further
heavy hoinbardhunt of 1-ort Aitlmr at
11 o'clock Tuesday night.
Capture of Hill Confirmed.
Tokio Dc 1. I p. m. The Imperial
army hoaduartors announce that the
Japanese troops besieging Port Arthur
ure in possession of 20) Metro Hill.
The following dispatch has beon given
out:
"The at my commenced a bombard-
neat ngnlnst SOI Metre Hill at dawn
of November 30 and mudo several
- "i"" uuvn mo uuw
noon. iMving to tne enemy's stubborn
resistance the charges railed At 6
o'clock In the afut.won our force ad-
vanced against the Foulhensern por-
tion of the hill made a fiiwce clmrgp
Would Not Shoot
MILITIA RE FUSE TO FIRE
AT STRIKERS
Many Guns Discharged
Zeigler but No One
Was Injured.
at
(By Associated Press )
Duqiieio III. iec l. Aceordlng to
I the xheiiff an attack was made on
3jOIKier afc n)ent UlUy thrw huadred
t-hots being fired from a po'ut two
niUeil nnrfh of ;oBn preaing u
(he mtmnK (own All the rallltla were
n. ollt 6nd hey dia not aMwef ths
nre Ko wag saot fap aB u;
known.
TO REDISTRICT.
City Soundmen AixImjs About a Live
Wire.
It is rtuno:t-d that x n-emet is on
font mng tne majority mMtoi of
lie cjt ci'iii'dl to red I strict the eity
at once It is understood (bat the
mayor 'f aa'iiat rentslrU ting but tho
couoill ki-'.uiii; ibe re--lli-(M of the
Di- iple relnt'K ij th- matter will re-
dlatrlct au4 'a case Ibe awyor vetoes
the ordinanro. the meaourd will be
passed over hla head.
and reachefl wlthta thirty meters of
1 -utnuut. At ? o'clock with rein
foroemenu. we charged to the top
the hill. Which was neeuurmt hv m.r
roree. Against the nartheaaieru mm
Of the hilt w also charged and at S
uOlnck the entire fort on the stimmli
nwi into our hands. The Russian
ieJ heaps of dead bodies on the east-
rnjslde of the hill but we have lia-
na Inline to InvesUgnte further."
New Held Bark.
Toklo. Deo. 1. No further news re-
garding the sloo before Port Arthur
hns been rt celled today.
B?tt'e Held Unimportant.
Mukden Dec. 1. :hor seems to be
'-Indue Importance attnohed to the
thrio days' fight between the Japanese
and Oeneral lleritionk miiS'a men. It
wns In reality an unimportant ndvanco
guar I nfTnlr In which the Japanese
WUfe repulsed with n luss of 100 mon.
This advance of the Japanese against
Da !'a nc not Ife cnrihlilerwl as a
Wg Hanking movement inward Tlo
PaM whifp no manv Imagine Is tin-
rouw the Japanese intend to takv
Hotli the Jnimnese armies are unite i
nonr Mukdi n and. as heretofore
ar-
slmpty awn II Ing develnpr.ents
Tho weather Is wnrmer and there !
lewt wbtd. The uavtgatlrm of the l.lao
river will cloe in a day or two
Signs of Big Battle.
LUndon. Doc 1 - Oneris Kiimpnt-
kin and Sakharoff arc senduu dally
long detaded sTonnt of apparently
rat hoi unltvp rtant flei-tiiig which
however ptjssl! ly may turr. out to be
the beginning of another great battle
deciding tln fate of Mukden Japan-
ese in Loudon decline to believe that
there will lie a cessation of hostilities
till spring
Oeneral Snkliimrr In addition to his
reiori of ihe u Japanese attack en
TslDkhatcheii. announces that the Jap-
anese In force o-'cupled the village of
Nanluintga and the adj Inlng ravine In
front nf Potittlof (litie Tree) Hill.
No further ne from Port Arthur
has linen received Itevoud reports from
Ahanabal tltat the storming of the
Russian stronghold continues
According to the Tally Telegraph's
dispatch from t'he Foo very few ot
Admiral Togo's shljM are now seen
blockading Port Arthur
Elusive Dollars
DISAPPEAR FROM WELLS
FARGO OFFICE
Express Company Separated
From $15000 in Mys-
terious Manner
COy AsocUtea 1'rws.i
Ran Francisco C Pe". 1 - Well.
Fargi exprwM deter-livta an ci-el.lm;
for a trace of. fifteen thousand dollars'
in gild which .imarpeared fniu tie
rouii-any'i office in this my. 'i wus
rent n 'o- j hl'iment and disappeariii
niyKit -iouslv.
REtfFROWS TC RETURN.
Govrnor and Psr-ily Will Likely
Loantt at Oklahoma City.
An Oklahoma City paper says: Mrs
W. C. Renfrew and daughter. Miss
Nell of Japttn. Mo. aro in the vlty
visiting Mrt. Ri-nf row's mother Mrs.
L. I York at ?r Rroadwa Circle. Th-
Reufrows have Just returned from tne
fair at 8t Louis and are coining her"
wl h the possibility ot n.aklug O.i'u
homa City their home. Governor Rn-
fruw will arrive later.
Miss Ron f row r greatly delighted
wtlh the projpects of again making
title city Iht home .and as she is on
of the most charming and cultured
cf all the young won.an who hit vi-
ew lived in this city die will he a
veer welcome addition to society Hei
many ft lends here win be delighted
to know that the is In the city im
there will bo many social events gtrei
In her honor.
FCRM6R GUTHRIEITE DIED.
uaed Away Last Night at Neosho
Mo
.1. Ames formerly of this city dle-l
last night at Neoehi Mo from a own-
plication of tei-js. resulting pi In-
clpally from a taJ coif wiilch he eon-
tract' d .vhlle on his return tome from
Uuihrle recently 11 was uie rather
of Mrs L. B. Kimball ana Mrs. .1. c.
KuAter who dte-1 here a few niomn
since.
Tht repairs of the deceased will be
brought to Onihrle via Frisco ar-
burled tomorrow at 2 20. Fttnernl
neri'lces will be conducted from the
residence nf I. n. Klr.ball and will be
in charge of Rev. A. R. Nicholas. Mr
Ames has lived In Cluthrto at various
tlmos for rovural years. Ho was well
thought of and had many friends.
STALFORD-MASSEY.
Popular Young People Were Married
Yestcrdsy Afternoon.
Dr. Frederick Dixon Stalfbrd mid
Miss Mary Hollo Mnsaey wore married
vostenlny afternoon am! left In tho
evening for tholr honeymooa trip on
the south bound Santa Fo. Tho ocre-
inony was performed at tlio home of
the b.'lde's p.itonts Mr. and Mrs. J. o.
Mnsaey 423 .VorJi Dhlsloii street by
Rev. W. 11 Rosa of the I'lrst Ati)i.-
dlsl church. Tho bride mm groom ni-c
p"m!ar '0K lopIe nnc hitvc many
iriHiius. Afier vlHtlt.g in Galveston.
Jiew Orleans and other soutliem
points they will return to the city nnrt
innae Mielr home in the Hiisohi build.
:ng where they hnve a stilto nf rooms
Adams is Alive
LETTER DISCLOSES THE
WHOLE STORY
Wrote to Roy Hoffman That
He Was Discouraged
With Mines.
The whereabouts of Chailes p
Artotr.a M n- .-u.jr conatderod mysti-
cal Vnee It has been iloveloppd that he
wrtH to Itoy Hoffman of ChandW.
from New Jiexlco. tattg thai he was
disgusted with the miring business
and that he wou'd nev. te heard of
Main In thai httr he tld Mr Hoff
iran o!hve an I over uluee people
have beon wntiderlng what became of
him.
Adams was interested in the iter-
nosa Mining company -ith a number
of Oklahoma people awontr them
none of the most prominent and best
fixed f itlen! of luthile He was ct
to NVw Mexico to take charge of thoj
mining rroperty When he arrived!
nerc It Is said tha- the proper'v wan
not at d! ar li hud
teen renreumte.l
and he saw tint he eo-ild n akf nothing
our of the trains 'lion fur tne company
hence lib disappearaine
That .Xilanm
nah eiit-iMten with a
l.nge atiionni or n n.- is a mistake
according i-. those wh- ate In a posl ' Possession.
tion to kn'-w He was allowed eno mh
money ?:r trivcbng pcnsev and l Sometime aro I tie t;rn I l. nl r drv
other minor out.ays but h iad wi' store nil -d two lali - lacketx
surplus fends. ' ud a fn' alin-l m about t'.u Th
ills friends siir-niscl for awh.'e thst ' Policemen ir.- Iininediatelv put m
as he 3i in the habit of (loin he k search for them and this uiorntiiK
had gotten into gambling houses aad
that he -net with the wont of he deal
""his Is p-c.ably not true If the re-
ports fr-m Colors 1o sr to be taken
for anything.
He his b.n areti by two leppnnttt
hie Kriii- In kloraIa It Is -pirtel
that ho t'-hl tlwu people the ta4oa
for his sidden dlsappearsno "iteh b
practically the same as Is related
hoieln There' 'e Chailes P Adams
Is alive
Fra in- vahi' will be UMatuted by
the Lyric Ppm company at the
D rooks ti-voirow night. Seata are now
on vile. Prices io 36. 50 and 75e
"FOOL KILLER"
KNOCKS NISSEN
CHICAGO INVENTOR
M12ETS DEATH IN BAR-
REL TRAP
CAST UPON THE BEACH
Body Found at Michigan
Lake Port
Tragic
hardy
Ending of a Fool-
Navigator's Sen
sational Attempt to
Gain Notoriety.
(Dy Associated i"-nsa.)
Chicago. IIU Doc. 1. Petor Nlssen
Is bollopod to havo oltbor stnotherol
or frozdn to death In his rolling
balloon "Fool Killer- In wbtsh ho
started for a trip across the lake ye
torduy.
Tho opinion that Nlsson wns lost be-
came gunarnl 1Mb afternoon when It
was found that nftcr twenty four
hours there wns still absolutely n
word from the Invontor who some
yours ago shot tho whirlpool rnphla ot
Niagara Fulls In a barrel. He tins not
bean sighted bj any vonsol.
Possibility of Nlssen'n smothering to
death was mndo more clearly whon It
wns learned thnt his only suppl or
nlr wns thnt pimped In boforo Iho
ornft wns Inuuchad. it wns said by
Nlssen's brothers however that tb-
navlgntor hnd computed his nlr care-
fully and Itguiod that It would last
hi infor a groat nuinbor of hourfc.
At the woatber bureau It was sn
that wren If Nlnafn reocned shoro he
would suffer from the com. as then
wns a snow storm blowing neor tho
Michigan shore nnd that as his boat
had no moans or heating and permit
ting of no air the navign'or would suf
far aeretoly. The wlna toward mid
night Increased from twenty-five miles
an hour to a forty mile rate.
NI3SENS BODY POUND
Detroit Mieh. Doc 1 A hullotln
from Stevenm lilt Mich seven mile-
from St Joseph soys the lody of
Peter Niasen. the Chlcg'j Inventor
has been found in his boa' en the
bench there.
SUPREME COURT.
Two
Cases Wers Filed Today From
Can.idi.-m County.
Two carer veri fllad in the Hipromo
court lor'ity both tietng appealed from
Canadlaii cnuntv. Uaatlu fclMlTei
et al is a suit to reveie the iudgmunt
of the lowe oo'irt wheie he dureudani
in er-or was given jL.lgnunt for $652
In the Goodwin et al vs. nickford oas
there Is a $t.fxi estate luvotve-t. Th
defendant in error is an adopt tl sou
of the decease I relative of the plain
tiffs In error Rlckfoid clalr. Uiai
he held a will r hlch his motriei ma:
to him but the probate court ot Can
' "UV cuny l-8" ' l ''' 'le
nul1 n'1 vod
I
i TOLN GOOD FOUND
Uro 0-'"s
Hnd Jackets
in
The r
everything was found except the 'ur
The fackeis wire In tha po.Ft.B--(no uf
two colored women who ktw thi.
names as F.da'ds anC wtio luvo Itoei
in the polUe cc-urt often befoi.-
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TODAY'S COTTON MARKET.
Seed i9Un $2
Lint Cotton 7 S0
(Purnijheil by HoMgatoa ft
Douglas Cotton Oln Co.)
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