The American--News. (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 18, 1902 Page: 3 of 8
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MEMO OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY DECEMEBER 18, igoa.
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EL RENO IS
THIRD.
Manufacturing Statistics
For Oklahoma.
GUTHRIE THE FIRST.
Oklahoma City and El
Reno Are Next.
c TWO COMPRESSES.
Governor’s Report As Compared to Formor
Years in Wholesaling—The Terrieory
Has Some Big Industries and
Larger Pay Rolls.
tion of the territory creates a great
I demand for gins, oil mills and com-
j presses. The time is not far distant
j when several cotton mills will be m
j operation. There arc over 250 cot-
ton gins in the territory and about ten
! oil mills. A large mill is now in th •
course of construction at Hobart,
which will cost in the neighborhood of
$60,000.
"The compresses are located at El
Reno and Oklahoma City and employ
a large number of men. There are
several broom factories as a result of
| the increase of the broom corn crop
throughout the territory. Cannerie-.
creameries, cheese factories, ice plants
and brick plants can be found in most
of the best towns and cities. Tire ce
ment and stone quarry products ar?
growing rapidly and it is only a ques-
tion of a short time until the granite
quaries of the Wichita mountains will
be developed, which, in my opinion,
will startle the world.
“Manufacturing in nearly every line
is emparatively in its infancy. As
the country grows older, railroads are
j being built, fuel and building mater-
1 ials arc becoming more accessible, and
I opportunities are opening every day
1 for new industries.
“From letters addressed to the may
ors of the cities, I glean the following
information concerning their manu-
facturing interest's:
manufacturing establish-
ments.
In three years the manufacturing
industries of Oklahoma have increased
by 76 per cent, or three-fourths. This
alone is proof of the wonderful devel-
opment of the territory.
In Governor Barnes’ report for 1899
he reported to the secretary of the
inteior that there were 131 manufac-
turing establishments in the territory,
employing 1,921 hands. In Governor
Ferguson’s last report, the number of
establishments are placed at 231 and
the number of hands employed at 3,-
054. From these figures it can be seen
that in three years, 100 manufactories
have been started. Over one thou-
sand additional persons have found
employment in these.
The above figures include simply the
manufactories. The wholesale houses
are treated under a different head. In
1899, there were 96 wholesale houses,
employing 815 hands. Today there are
1359 wholesale houses employing
959 hands. This while the increase in
this line of business in Oklahoma has
not equalled that of manufactories,
there has been an increase in the three
years of thirty-nine wholesale houses.
In 1899, Oklahoma City led all the
other cities of the territory in the
number of manufacturing establish
ments, having twenty-five, while Guth-
rie had fifteen and Shawnee ten. This
year Guthrie leads in this line, having
fifty manufactories, Oklahoma City
having forty-five.
Oklahoma City has always had the
largest number of wholesale houses
In 1899 that city had thirty Weather-
ford eight, El Reno eight and Guthrie
seven. Today Okllahom-a City has
thiry-seven, Guthrie thirty and Enid
fourteen. El Reno is reported as hav-
ing seven and Weatherford but one.
The three new towns have added
very materially to the inustries of Ok
lalioma. Hobart is reported by Gov.
Ferguson as having the third largest
number of manufacturing establish
ments in Oklahoma. Lawton has three
and Anadarko six.
No statistics on these two subjects
will be found in aany of the report •
prior to that of 1899. The subject of
manufacture is dismissed with the ex-
planation that Oklahoma was too
young for su’ch industries.
How resourceful since then this
“land of the Fair God” proved her-
self.
Location.
No.
Anadarko.......
. .. 6
Blackwell........
. .'. . 6
El Reno .......
. . 20
Enid..........
1 2
Hobart........
.... 30
Guthrie.......
.. 50
Lawton.........
. .. 3
Kingfisher.......
. . . II
Medford.......
. . . 2
Newkirk .......
. .. 3
Norman.........
4
Oklahoma City .. •
... 45
Pawnee .......
. .. 3
n „
. .. 6
Pond Creek .. •.
Shawnee........
... II
Stillwater.......
Weatherford .. •.
... 2
.... I
Total......
3051
THE WHOLESALE ESTABLISH-
MENTS.
Location.
No.
Hands
Anadarko.......
20
Blackwell.......
. . 2
10
El Reno .......
5n
Enid.........
.. 14
56
Hobart.......
T 2
Guthrie.........
155
Lawton.........
22
40
Oklahoma City .. •
. .. 37
45'
Pawnee.......
. . I
3
Perry.........
. . . 2
Ponca.........
28
Pond Creek.....
c
Shawnee.......
42
Stillwater......
... I
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Stroud.......
3
Woodward......
. .. 6
30
SCORED BY COURT.
judge Said He Would
“Disgrace a Peni-
tentiary.”
leged to have been committed at the j
I Sullivan hotel in El Reno last summer, j
The case ha several sides and!
married but a few months. Her hue
phases to it. Mrs. Maybery had been
band was a conductor on the Santa Fe
road, between Guthrie and Purcell.
About two months after their wedding j
occured, she went to Weatherford to
visit her aunt, and while there she met j
C. J. Brown, and they ran away to-
gether, came to El Reno, remained a j
short time and went from here to va-,
rious points in Texas and New' Mexi-
co, but he grew tired and left her. A
few weeks ago Brown was a 1 re ste-el
and brought back to E’ Re,’). His
case came up for trial yesterday an 1
had progresser but very little, when an
affidavit was read from her, which put j
an abrupt ending to the case.
That affidavit brought a new matter
to light. It seems that H. H. May
berry, her husband, was making an
effort to get a money consideration
out of Brown and had said that if
Brown would pay him $1,500 he would
go away and not appear against him in
the case. He prepared a written
agreement of that kind and gave it to
his wife to take to him, and as soon as
she got it in her possession she refus-
ed to give it back, but took it to her
attorney and it was produced in court
as ‘evidence. When she refused to
give it back to her husband he un-
dertook to take it a va r from her and
she Screamed for help, lie affair took
place in the Kcrfont hotel, ;tmf the
proprietor, S. G. Humphreys, went to
her aid, and prevented her husbar. J
from taking it way from tier r.nd made
him leave the hotel. She further a.-
leged in her affidavit that the Lad nev
e- demanded any monev 1 ,n t’rown,
a°d if it had been done it ivis w ithout
he’ knowledge or consent. She said
sn - had seen her luis’ua m.n her- of
11. es since the case had come up, :.ml
lie has told her repeatedly that il
$1,500 was given him, he would go
away and never bother them by ap-
pearing in court.
after the affidavit had been read in
court, there were a few moments of
silence. hTe judge looked at the coun-
ty attorney and the county attorney
looked at the judge. It looked as if
matters had reached a crisis, and
Judge Irwin asked Mr. Carney if he
had any suggestions to make. Mr.
Carney said that he believed that he
had, and thought the tan should be
dismissed. Judge Irwin said he mi:
heartily concurred wi. 1 0 m, and the
h proceeded ’o expre .s his opinion.
Tt is to b; regrette ill it lb’ opin’ u
c the case as was given b>‘ Judge Tr
w r was not ’prepared fer prim It
is tc be regretted that •« c pi of it *ss
not taken. We would like to have it,
for there is an object lesson—some
fatherly advice, a rebuke and a cau-
tion. He said that he had no pity for
a man who would sell his wife’s vir-
tue as an article of merchandise, and a
man who would be guilty of such
would disgrace any penitentiary to
which he could be sent. He said he
was of the opinion that it was a
straight effort at blackmail and
boodling, and Brown was promptly
found not guilty as charged and dis-
missed from court.
(IIARTERED.
The Western Investment
Company of El Reno
ble will be caused. The matter of the
shiping of game from the territory lias
assumed a colossal size and wi’l be
closely watched in the futurr. Ait of-
fenders convicted will receiie a heavy
fine The shipper ot the iitt’e har.-
I dred and fifty birds will be assessed j
j at something like $200. Twelve hun- j
I dred birds were seized at Oklahoma j
City last week, and the offending par ,
ties had to pay a heavy tine in addi |
tion to the loss of the birds. The birds j
retail at something like a dollar and
a half a dozen in the eastern market.
All Escaped.
I.HiliUl
He Sold Papers and
Slept in Sheds.
LAND & LOAN FIRM.
the YUKON POSTOFFICE ROB $31,000 IN CLOTHES
BERS NOT CAPTURED.
Succeeds to Business of Dick T. Morgan \*ith a
Number of Branch Offices—Capital is
$500,000 —Has a Large Busi-
ness tn Oklahoma.
Carl Musgrove came up from Yukon fli HVman Uicd in Charitable Hospital With a
The Remonstrance.
When the case of tlie Territory vs. D.
L. Brown and Mrs, Mayberry was called
in district court yesterday the judge took
occasion to give some wholesome advice
to the husband of the woman accused of
bigamy. Brown and Mrs. Mayberry were
arrested about two weeks ago on inform-
ation filed by Mr. Mayberry, and the
returned from Texas
WHICH WILL BE PRESENTED
TO THE CITY COUNCIL.
The Western Investment com
pany of El Reno lias just been
incorporated. The capital stock is
$50,000.00. The incorporators are G.
W. Sawyer, Harry Lee Fogg, and E.
W. Burns. Mr. Sawyer has been asso-
ciated with Dick T. Morgan for more
than four years. He has been the
general manager of the real estate de-
partment of Mr. Morgan’s business,
and has had the direction and manage-
ment of the large number of branch
offices conducted by Mr. Morgan. Mr.
Sawyer possesses line executive abil-
ity, and lias shown that he lias special
talent as an organizer, and director
of men. Mr. Sawyer will be the secre-
tary and general manager of the new
company. Mr. Harry Lee Fogg came
from Kentucy to El Reno in I9°t and
has demonstrated that lie is an attor-
ney of superior natural ability of
thorough training, and has won the
confidence and respect of the entire
community. He lias been and will con-
tinue, Mr. Morgan’s chief assistant in
his extiAisive law and land practice,
V, Fogg will be president of :lie pew
company. Mr. E. W. Burns is a law-
yei of experience ami an excellent
business man. Mr. Burns will baie
charge of the local real estate depart-
ment.
The principal business of the
Western Invesment company will
be the negotiating and making of
loans upon farms and city real estate
but will also conduct a real estate
department. Branch offices will be
established in all the leading towns
and cities of the territory. The plan
is to make it the largest institution
of the kind in Oklahoma. The new
company succeeds to the real estate
business heretofore conducted by Dick
T. Morgan, in connection with his
law and land practice, and thus
the Western Investment company
starts out with a well estab-
lished business, and with a large num-
ber of branch offices already equipped.
Mr. Morgan in the future will
devote his time exclusively to
the practice of the law, before the
courts, the local land offices and the
Department of the Interior at Wash-
ington. He will be the general at-
torney for the new company, and his
advice and counsel will, no doubt, con-
tribute largely to the success of the
newly organized corporation.
yesterday and spent Sunday with home
folks. He says it was an erroneous i
report which was sent out in regard i
to one of the men who robbed the |
post office being caught. The robber
drove to Oklahoma City, went to a
livery stable and took the sack con-
taining the money and stamps taken
from tire post office out of the buggy
and walked off. A policeman saw him
going, but supposed the man was a
farmer coming to town with some pro-
duce and paid no attention to him. Un-
derneath the seat of the buggy was
found the $2 in pennies, and some of
the stolen stamps, which had been
dropped out of the sack, but that was
all. They have caught none of the
robbers.
Fortune Sewed in His Clothing.- Wife 3
and Daughter Will Enjoy His Wealth
Toronto, Canada, Dec. 18.—Eli Hy-
man. a jew who begged for admission
to the general hospital here on Satur-
day, is dead. An examination of bis
clothing resulted in finding script
worth at least $31,000. For twenty
years lie slept in sheds and stables.
His heirs are bis wife and daughter,
living, it is thought, in San Francisco.
Other papers tound snowed him to bs
worth probably $100,000.
Horse Thieves.
GET IN A SAMPLE OF THEIR
WORK AT GEARY.
Special to the Daily American.
Geary, Okla., Dec. 15—Two horses
and a mue are entered on the credit
side of the ledger of some enterprising
native engaged in the business of
horse stealing operating in this conn
try. The Geary Bulletin relates that
the barn of S. M. Ball was entered the
other night and the intruder appro-
priated equine property to the above
extent. Now, Mr. Ball is offering a
reward of $50 for the arrest and con-
viction of the thieves and the return ol
the horses and mule. The Bulletin
further asserts that horse thieves are
•working at their trade pretty regularly
thoughout Oklahoma this season, and
that if the authoities would catch a few
and give them a dose of Judge Lynch
it would put a “quietus” on the bus-
iness.
Pros] nets for statehood look exceeding
lv dark. What Oklahoma City didn't
convince that committee isn't worth
knowing.
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Mr. Cross’ committee has announced
that McGuire’s seat will be contested.
Whv rub it in 011 Bill that way? If be
should succeed in gaining bis point he
would have to give up a $7,000 a year job
as traveling salesman for a Memphis
house for a weensv $5,000 a year a3 dele-
gate-
Oklahoma City's statehood delegation
has starteil home from Washington with
the announcement that the Nelson bill
will be passed. What next?
(gCongress has decided to give Oklaho-
mans a chance to rest their nervous sys
terns for a few days. The suspense ha
been something awful since the count of
the ballots commenced down to the pres-
ent time. However, we could stand the
strain a day or two longer without hav
ing nervous prostration if the omnibus
bill was passed.
Chased By Indians.
CAMPERS GET BUNCH OF MUS-
KOGEES AFTER THEM.
>it. couple were returned from Texas to
£flie following mills tlaf< Eaclc prior answer the charges. When the case was
fo the manufactories and in 1898 the j called yesterday a motion to dismiss by
twenty-two such mills in Oklahoma County Attorney Carney was supported
governor reported that there were by letters and affidavits showing that
.Mayberry hail made repeated efforts to
secure money from Brown in considera-
tion of a dismissal of the bigamy charge
against himself and Mrs Mayberry.
When the facts were laid before Judge
Irvin, be delivered a lecture to the pros-
ecuting witness which he will net forget
during bis life. He said, in substance,
s in , that it is seldom the courts of justice are
8760 hm called upon t° forward such disgraceful
methods as Mayberry used on the de-
fendant. The judge scored Mayberry
unmercifully, for trying to prstitute his
wife for personal gain, and concluded by
saving that such a person as Mayberry
would be a disgrace to the inmates of a
penitentiary.
Judge Irwin is receiving the congratu-
lations of the entire bar for the whole-
some lecture be delivered.
fwenty-two such mills in Oklahoma,
»itli an aggregate capacity of over
3,300 barrels a daj. These were the
first statistics given n this subject by
any governor of Oklahoma. In i8gg.
in one year’s time, this number in
creased to thirty-five mills, with a ca-
pacity of 5,100 barrels. Today there
are forty-eight flouring mills in Okla
horaa, with a capacity of
rels.
In 1899 Enid led all others in having
the greatest number, three. This year
Oklahoma City also has three, whose
combined capacity outdoes that of the
Enid mills by 250 barrels.
Governor Ferguson has the follow-
ing on the manufactures of Oklaho-
ma:
“While Oklahoma is generally look
ed upon as an agricultural and stock
country, yet our cities have grown fi
such proporitions that we arc not
without manufacturing industries,
many of which will compare favorably
with, like establishments of older and
larger cities.
“Our mammoth wheat crops call for
numerous flouring mills, and the cot-
tor crop throughout the southern por-
number of tire property owners on
Rock Island avenue are rem nstrating
against the proposition to pave that
avenue, and will present a petition to
the counci ltonight against that move.
The petition is signed by many of the
property owners, and it is as follows:
To the Maytor and Council ol the City
of El Reno, Okla.:
We, the undersigned, lot owners in
district composed of Rock Island and
Bickford avenues and the streets con-
tiguous thereto, covered in a petition
asking that the same be paved with
brick, would most respectfully remon-
strate against said paving being done,
considering it unnecessary, premature
and against the interest oi the city,
and a burden to the property owners,
and we believe that the money could
and should be used to better advan-
tages to the city in placing all streets
and roads leading into the city in a
better condition, and in giving induce-
ments to outside enterprises to enter
the city, thereby adding to the ability
of our peopleto make such improve
ments as proposed later. Respect-
fully submitted.
One of the most sensational end-
igs to a case which promised to be
full of surprises was reached yester-
day, wherein C. J. Brown and Kittie
Mayberry were dismissed from court.
It was the case wherein C. J. Brown,
a wealthy young merchant of Weath-
erford, was indicted with Mrs. May-
berry on the charge of adultery, al-
Perry Moving.
DOWN WITH GAMBLING.
Gambling dens in Oklahoma should
be closed. They disgrace many of
the larger cities. One is in the base-
ment of the hotel at Guthrie wher-
Senator Beveridge’s committee was
entertained. Others are at Enid, El
Reno, Anadarko and Lawton. Four
big dens are open night and day in
Oklahoma City. Through windows
and doors victims may be seen stak-
ing and losing their money at faro,
poker, craps, keno and roulette. Ok
lahoma is no longer a frontier coun-
try. It is up to date, wide awake and
destined to be one of the great com-
monwealths of the southwest. The
last relic of its barbarous ‘early day*
should be sent after the ruffians, coy-
otes and buffalos. One of Mr. Bev-
eridge’s objections to the admission of
Arizona and New Mexico is that the
gambling is wide open there. Okla-
homa should take warning—Kansas
City Journal.
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Confiscating Game.
WHAT WARDEN GOULD’S DEP-
UTIES HAVE BEEN
DOING.
Two campers on lower P.decat
creek, in the Creek nation, being ig-
norant of the solemn fact that son;** jf
the Indians deposit their dead children
in hollow trees, had to flee for their
lives from the righteous wrath of sev-
eral aggrieved Muskogees after cut-
ting, defacing and otherwise desecrat-
ing a large oak tree in search of an
oppossum. The molested sepuiclvr
contained the remains ol three “In-
juns.”—Stroud Messenger.
It is to be hoped that now he has re
turned to Topeka, that Mr. Long will in-
form the Topeka papers where lie went,
what he did while he was away from
Washington, and to prevent them from
having another spasm that he will give
them a statement as to where he cau he
found every moment between now and
the election of a United States senator.
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Bailie Wagner has filed the shortest
brief on record in the Kansas supreme
court. He cited five opinions covering
his case and quit at that. He won the
case, too.
C. E. Perry is mving into his new
quarters, the big three story brick
building on the corner of Russell and
Bickford. He says they expect to have
their entire stock of furniture moved
within the next four or five days. It
is to be an immenses establishment,
the largest of its kind south of Wich
ita.
Oklahoma is to have another red line
knock ill the east. Two men have been
sentenced to hang at Pawnee for murder.
William Jennings Bryan’s visit to Ok-
lahoma is said to have no connection
w ith the election in 1904.
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HI Reno has the largest wholesale and
retail furniture house iii Oklahoma. It
occupies 10,000 feet of floor space.
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A pretender has seized the threue of
Morrocco, but the dispatcees do not state
what he intends to do with it.
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President Castro seems to be a little
late with his offer to arbitrate, but if he
is willing to pay the cost the goods may
yet be delivered.
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Auditor of State-elect Wells is opposed
to the election of Charley Curtis as Unit-
ed States senator. It Is becoming epi-
uemic all over the state.
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The wicked may have stood in slippery
places yesterday, hut if they were able to
do iliat much it was better than some of
the rest of us did.
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C. E. Penn, game warden for Lincoln
cqunty, went to Stroud Thursday.
One of the deputies captured a hun-
dred and a half of quail ready for
shipment, says the Kingfisher Free
Press. On inquiry, the agent at that
point refused to divulge the name ol
the shipper. The agent will be taken
into custody if he persists in shielding
the offender, and a great deal of trou-
Enid is hot after a shoe factory. I f
she succeeds she will have no trouble in
footing the bill,
The Commercial club of Chickasha is
making things lively. The papers of
that city are almost exclusively devoted
to booming the town.
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Minco is rejoicing over the fact that
the Canadian river is not bridged. 1 lie
Minstrel says a bridge would ruin Min-
co’s trade.
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Draper, the fake Indian character
painter, has been turned loose by a Wich-
ita judge. Probably for the reason that
the judge saw plainly a prosecution of
fake writers would soon depopulate
Wichita.
The young man who started a rough
house in Morocco pulled off his affair
just ill time to have it run over in tho
dispatches by the South American fracas.
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If the report that the Mad Mullah was
jabbed in the stomach with a spear while
he was praying is true, he at last had
something to be mad about.
President Castro is said to be an ac-
complished linguist and he will find that
this will come mighty handy in express-
ing his opinion of the Monroe doctrine.
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Pat Crowe has promised to come in
out of the jungle and surrender himself
to the officers again. The officers have
almost forgotten what they wanted him
for.
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A Nebraska man who shipped 500
quail is liable to a fine of $5 for each
bird. There is nothing like it except the
active operation of the prohibition law in
Kansas, when it takes on a man.
One of the members of the strike com-
mission rebuked a lawyer for referring to
the president as “Teddy”. The great
plain common people have that term
copyrighted and the commissioner did
right to rebuke the infringement.
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