The American--News. (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 4, 1902 Page: 4 of 8
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AMERICAN PRINTINGCOMPANY
Publishers.
CHARLES E. GREER.
Editor and Manager.
THE AMERICAN-NEWS.
RENO, OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, iqoa
Entered at the PostoffL . El Reno,
Oklahoma, as Second-llass Mail.
MILLMON CASE AGAIN.
Interest in the celebrated liillinon
insurance case is revived by the re-
port that arguments have just been
submitted in the United States so
preme court. The case is that of the
Connecticut Mutual Lite Insurance
man trouble in getting all his bones I is, What will the president
together and identifying them.
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message to congress?
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An Ohio preacher is complaining | All eyes are
because the younger members of his
congregation have fallen into the hab-
^ it of kissing during his
performance
company against Sallie Hillmon, and | and his principal objection is that it
NOT A CLASS COUNTRY.
The American Federation; <>i La-
bor has done well in voting down i
socialistic proposition that working-
men form a distinct political party and
act in politics as a class. The prop-
but lias no part in the political .con
omy of this country. The United
States is not a class country and til-
fate of the populist party and such
movements is an evidence of the truth
of this statement.
This is no dicussion of the merits
or demerits of the socialistic theory
of the ideal organization of society
and state. Under the present condi-
tions as they exist in this country to
day socialism should lie the most un-
justifiable policies. Advocates of the
doctrine point to the advance made
by socialism made in other countries.
But, granting this statement as true,
In those countries burdened with class
distinction, where for ages all political
power has been in the hands of a
class, workingmen may, perhaps, be
excused for regarding themselves a- a
class whose interests are hostile to
those of the ruling class, and for en
deavoring as a class to obtain and
use political power for their own ben-
efit.
But the United States is not such a
country. Here political power is not
in the hands of any distinct class. No
man by birth, by wealth, by social po
sition, by profession, by any qitali
ties whatsoever except his ability as
a man may lead his fellow nun.
designated as a ruler of the American
people. Here the poorest and the
humblest may not only hope to rise,
but have risen, and do rise, to tin
highest stations. It is really aston
ishing that any American working-
man should talk about himself as be
longing to a distinct class apart Iron
lvis fellow citizens. For when, he
does so he asserts one or two things
—either that he is superior to the
rest of his fellow chiz.ens or is infer
ior to them. As those who thus talk
<1(1 not assert superiority—in fact ex
pressly disavow it—ithen they must
confess inferiority Why should any
American citizen thus voluntarily <h
grade himself as a man and as an
American citizen?
A Kansas City judge has decided
v nvcmy-ioui j..,.. that saloon men cannot be deprived
Hillmon, a resident uf their licenses because they violate
the Sunday law. This is in keeping
with the precedent laid down by Mis-
souri courts that a man can not be
punished for killing another man, pro-
vided that he proves that the other j plexy
man needs killing or that there was
reasonable grounds for believing that
he did.
the court has already passed twice on
other disputed points involved. In
addition, it has had six trials by jury.
Although the amount involved is but
$5,000, the Connecticut company has
spent something like $90,000 in resist-
ing payment of what it regards as a
fraudulent claim. The case has been
pending for nearly twenty-four years.
1878 John M
of Kansas, husband of the defendant,
insured his life for $10,000 in the New
York Life and Mutual Life Insurance
companies and for $5,000 in the Con-
necticut Mutual Life. Shortly there-
after he was 0111 a hunting trip in an-
other part of the state. His com-
panion later reported at a near-
by town that Hillmon had been shot
accidentally in removing a gun from
the wagon in which they were travel-
ing. An inquest was held and Hill-
mon's body wa> buried.
The insurance companies, regarding
the circumstances as suspicious, had
the body exhumed, and, as the evi
deuce regarding identification was
conflicting, refused to pay the claim
for insurance. The widow brought
suit for payment, and since then 011c
side or the other has appealed from
the decision of the various court.,.
The case lias been five times sent
back to the trial court for retrial, and
twice before has been passed upon by
the supreme court.
Some years ago, after the court de-
cided in favor of the widow, the Nev
York and Mutual Life companies
abandoned the contest and paid the
claims, but the Connecticut Mutual
continued its rcsistence. The point
involved in the present appeal is a
technical one regarding the admission
of certain evidence which it is claimed
influenced a verdict in favor of the
widow.
diverts the attention of the older mem
bers of the congregation from the
thread of his discourse. '1 hey ought
to be old enough to know better, ii
they are too old to appreciate the sit-
uation.
say in his j A move is on foot to reorganize the
j Commercial club and abanuon the El
1 Reno club and Chamber of Com
now turned toward merce. This is a splendid plan and
Washington and the statehood bill. | should be a success.
about an anarchist. He is generally
a desperately bad shot.—St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Chauncey M. Depew is true to
Thomas C . Platt. Mr. Dcpew is not
much of a politician himself, but he
knows one when he ses him.
The New York women may now
smoke cigarettes according to law.
The only thing they now violate in
doing so is good taste, and if they do
not care anything about that, let them
go their paces. Who cares?
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Admiral Casey reports that the war _
on the isthmus of Panama is ended (things he forgot to
Wr. Wu Ting Kang intimates that
he will come back to the United
States soon. Perhaps there are a few
ask about.
The Two Territories.
various items OF interest
OVER THE TWO TER-
RITORIES.
Still, people ho want to see a war
that will be harmless can. not possibly
make any mistake by going down
there and waiting for a week or two.
Ardmore now has carriers for
free mail delivery.
the
The street commissioner has made
a great improvement on Rock Island
avenue by one days work. What
could be accomplished by keeping up
the same work every day in the year?
The council could do the city no great-
er service than to keep the work on
the streets going until the work .s
accomplished.
A Minneapolis woman fastdl for
thirty-nine days to get rid of appo
She”ll never have it again. It
was as effective as the democratic
remedy for a surplus in the publi:
treasury.
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Conditions in some provinces in the
Philippines, like conditions in some
portions of the United States, ha\
made it necessary for the civil autnor-
ities to cal upon the military arm oi
the government to aid in the
pression of disorder and lawlessui ***•
This was the case in the anthracite
regions of Pennsylvania, when the
governor called out the troops in the
late strike to protect property and
life. But this fact, neither in the
Philippines,
It is intimated that the steel trust
can get along very well without Mr.
Schwab; but he is still drawing bis
fancy salary, and the steel trust pro-
bably knows what it is about. And
Mr. Schwab is having more fun with
his money than Andrew Carnegie, < r
Rockefeller, or any of the Vanderbilts
ever had. Russell Sage is not in it
at all.
Kansas City celebrated Thanksgiv-
ing with a bull fight, pulled off in Con-
vention hall. This is the first thing
of the kind to be pulled off in that
building since Bryan was nominated.
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The boom of ex-President Cleve-
land for the nomination for the pres- j
idency is giving a case of jiin jams to .
The headline, "Scott is still for
Hanna," is a trifle misleading. The
West Virginia statesman is seldom
still for anybody or anything.
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General Corbin can hardly expect
to be popular with the sweethearts
o.' yong army officers.
"Crazy Snake" stories are again
about due. The famous Indian is at
liberty once more.
Keep i
An exchange sets down the action
of a majority of the Ohio congress-
ional delegation for Mr. Cannon a,
a Hanna victory. It is not plain that
Mr. 1 Ian-tsa cared much about the
matter, or did much to bring the re-
sult about; but if he had been ' ;»
posed to "Uncle Joe" the movement
would, of course, have ben arre.-te
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Gov. Ferguson's report to secre-
tary of the interior is one of the most
complete documents of its kind ever
filed with the department. Oklahoma
could find no laetter source of ad-
vertising than to distribute copies of
it throughout the eastern states.
certain New York gentlemen,
cool, Mr. Hill, it's all a bluff.
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It is reported that Carrie Nation j
has sued Murat Halstead for libel.
The report is probably incorrect. For
Halstead certainly could not have j
done anything like that.
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The fact that there is talk of put-
ting a tax on beer in Germany is evi
dent that they make no exceptions
over there in favor of the necessities
of life.
Turkey is possibly the best adver-
tised country on earth just now.
Asthma
My daughter had a terrible case
of asthma. We tried almost every-
thing, without relief. We then tried
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, and three
bottles cured her.” — Emma Jane
Entsminger, Langsville. O.
United States, nor in the
mcrican citizen< proves that there has been any suh-ti
Had the delegates to that federation Ul,j011 ()f t)re military (or civil gov-
convention realized that they w.re | ornment. Neither does it prove that
asked to confess themselves inferior
eminent.
______ the substitution of the civil govern
to the general body of citizenship , men Qf tpc islands for military wa>
inferior as men and citizens—the so- prematur0- Neither does it justify the
cialistic proposition would not have contention of some that the civil gov -
been defeated by 4-744 votes against ernment tb(. islands where military
^..)44. It would have been rejected .(ii, nef,led shoul<l abdicate its time
with practical unanimity.
Thanksgiving football scores are
made—today the total number of fun-
erals will be announced.
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Senator Quay has optimistic views |
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral
certainly cures many cases
of asthma. And it cures
bronchitis, hoarseness,
weak lungs, whooping-
cough, croup, winter
coughs, night coughs, hard
colds. 25c., 50c., 5100. All drufflsts.
Consult your doctor. I f ho says take it,
then do as he says, 1 f he tells you not to
tiike it, theu don’t take it. He knows.
on statehood,
aku hope.
Now, Mr. Cross may
Gen. Corbin advises young officers
not .to marry amb Bisjiop Dun* an
deals out a full hand of the same
kind of advice to young bashelorsR
kind of advice to young preachers
It will soon be that no one will get
married except those who tire °h'
enough to know better.
Ill this republic all men are equal
as men and citizens. No man is de-
graded below the body of citizenship
save by his own acts. And jt is high
time that workingmen as well us ad
others realize tlu-ir equality as men
and is citizens with all other citizen-
of the republic and cease to be delud-
ed by doctrines of foreign socialism
that have no part or place in
country of equality.
lions and authority altogether into the
hands of the army. It is not to be
wondered a that there should be some
little friction betwleen the outgoing
military and the incoming civil gov-
ernment, but this will all disappear
in time and everything be amicable.
the speakership.
The boom for Cannon is getting
Illinois noisy.—Buffalo Times.
By firing the first gun. Cannon w < •
able to bring down the speakership.
—Hartford Post.
It looks as if the roar of Cannon
would be heard daily in the next con-
gress.— Boston Globe.
Cannon is said td have made no
pledges. Of course, he hasn t. If
he should lie might
A Virginia woman who hunted for
forty-three years for her husband s
S grave has just found it. It is to be
hoped that, being positive, and know
ing now for sure that lie is dead, she
will quit worrying and get married
again without any fear of later com-
plications.
George J. Gould is said to w .ilk
about town two hours a day. 1 Ire
time is not wasted. H'e will have
health to a greater age than any man
who nails himself to his office every
minute and will probably be making
money when a good many of his con-
temporaries are laid up with diseasi
and that tired feeling.
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John Lawrence Sullivan, of Boston,
has been so long before the public
that he now seems tit home before an
audience; but there art still times
in his career when he does not have
the environments apropriate to a lec-
turer on temperance.
The death of Mrs. Gore will possi-
bly lead to more gore, from present
indications.
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Colonel Bryan argues that the daily
newspaper is losing its influence. 'It
has been a good while since the col-
onel severed his connection with the
daily press.
Freight rates are going up and
while the shippers can hardly see an.-
necessity for the advance, the growl-
ing is reduced to the minimum by the
recent advance ill wages to the rail-
road employes.
Good for the Indiana miners who
struck because the mules were not
properly treated. It never occurred
to a walking delegate to start a strike
of that kind.
Daily movements of the bowels are
necessary to health. Ayer’s Pills
are gently laxative,purely vegetable.
.1. C. AYElt CO., Lowell, Mass.
TOUCHING VARIED TOPICS.
South McAlestcr has a hustling bus-
iness men’s league.
Mary Smith has married Sam Lee
Fang at Oklahoma Cit).
Work has begun on the South Mc-
Alester street railway system.
Twenty-five cows were impounded
at one time in Vinita last week.
The recent rains have greatly in-
i terfered with the late cotton crop.
An Iola, Kan., man has returned to
his home from a visit to Oklahoma in
I disgust. He says every one is com-
pelled to mind their own business
down there.
There were 230 lots sold at Talihina
which brough the appraised value or
over.
The South McAlester Capital says
that the cotton crop in that vicinity
is the largest ever raised and esti1
mates that nearly twelve thousand
bales will be marketed.
Ardmore teachers and lawyers are
to engage in an old fashioned spelling
match.
Woodward has introduced the “sock
social" to enrich the exchequer of the
churches.
The chief of police at Blackwell lias
been ousted for drunkenness and the
gentleman has left town.
The official republican plurality in
Illinois is 69,678, which gives entire
satisfaction for an off year.—St. L011L
Globe-Democrat.
King Oscar's Samoan decision
against us is as sweeping as 'it is
unanimous. We’ll never go there any-
more.—Boston Herald.
Young Mr. Pike seems to be an-
other kind of fish—one of the sort
gamblers say are born every day. -
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Out of twelve prisoners tried at the
term of court held in Pauls Valley, five
were charged with murder.
The county commissioners of Co-
manche county recently corn.'acted
for fifteen bridges to cost $14,710.
Gainesville, Tex., parties are seek-
ing an electric railway, telegraph and
telephone franchise at Sulphur.
Break it gently to Lincoln J. Car-
ter. They are using buckets of real
blood in Puccinui's new opera at
Dresden.—Indianapolis News.
The New York Journal and the
Chicago American may in the future
score many brilliant scoops on the
esteemed, but rather unprogressive.
Congressional Record, in printing the
Hon. William Randolph Idearst’s pale
not he clecte 1 yellow speeches.
speaker.—St. Louis Republic. '
If Uncle Joe Cannon becomes Perhaps the real cause of llerr
speaker of the house there arc mel- Krupp's death was the shock lie re-
1 suppu.i 11**... ..... ......_______ It is to be hoped that Chili and Ar-
must not imagine that John gentine will accept the decision of the
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ancholy days in store for the pork
barrel.— Detroit Free I’res*.
There is just a suspicion that the
Cannon it is proposed to mount in
congress is for the purpose of tariff
d fense.—Indianapolis News.
Uncle Joe Cannon claims to hav
enough votes in sight to elect lum
to the speakership. But can lie keep
them in sight?—Pittsburg Dispatch.
Uncle Joe Cannon is getting 11011-
sectional support from New England,
but he
Dalzell has no friends in the west.—
Pittsburg Gazette.
It appears that some gentlemen are
about to awaken to the fact that the
Hon. Joe Cannon cinchification of the
speakership has gone into effect. •
Washington Post.
Uncle Joe Cannon is the western
toast, anil seems to he popular with
the cohorts of his vast section of the
country, but New York may give him
a Payne.—Buffalo News.
Congressman Cannon declares that
the politicians cannot control him
Congressman Littlefield declares
that he will stay in the speakership
contest until it is ended, but the gen-
eral opinion seems to be that Little-
field has little chance—Boston Globe.
ceived when the sultan of Turkey of-
fered to pay cash for the big shipment
of guns ordered of the late gun
maker.
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Tom Johnson’s son lost $5,000 on
; the election in Ohio. The young man
seems to he about as poor at guessing
as his distinguished, though some
what erratic, father.
The papers arc giving the president
3 great ileal of advice about beat hi.til
ing. It will he the first duty of th.
advisory committee, however, to find
the whereabouts oi the bears. I lit
“happy hunting ground" oi the Miss
issippi was a great bluff.
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There may be other attractions ol
more or less interest in the near fu-
ture, hut congress is bound to receive
its share of attention while the de-
bate on the trust question is on, that
is if it ever gets on.
If a few more magazine writers
were sued for their "fairy tales
about the Indians of Oklahoma and
Indian Territory, we would be better
off.
Good Health
and pure blood are inseparable. If
your blood is bad, your health must suf-
fer. Poor blood allows the body to lose
vitality just as a poor fire under the
boiler allows the steam to run down.
Prom poor blood to impure blood is but
a step, and impure blood is mother to a
large percentage of human ills. Dr.
Harter’s Iron Tonic is an antidote for
both poor and impure blood, for it is
both a builder and purifier — a food
and a medicine. It is the best combi-
nation o£ the kind known to medical
science, and its success for nearly half
a century has led to its endorsement by
court of arbitration regarding the
boundary line and both nations con-
tinue to follow along the paths of
peace for some time to come. These
are by long odds the most progressive
of the South American republics, and
the settlement of the dispute means
a great ileal to the United Stacts,
whose manufactures are slowly, but
steadily, finding favor in the Chilian
and Argentine markets.
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Columbus had another funeral the
other day and if Chief Trumpeter Ga-
briel isn’t careful when* he sounds the
last call, the great discoverer will find
that lie hasn't been discovered. And
the carelessness of some of those un-
dertakers is going to give the old
It lias been said on a lew occasions
"that President Baer is willing to ar
hit rate everything except those things
which need arbitrating." Hush. Di
anybody dare to intimate that Baer
was just like the editor of the Com-
moner.
It is impossible for Congressman
Cannon to resemble all the alleged
pictures of him in the newspapers.
Confidentially, the best looking ones
are the true likenesses.
The frequency with which Chaim
cey Depeiv isn’t making after dinner
speeches these days shows that mat-
rimony may he good for something,
after all, and not an entire failure.
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w. M. Cross is still contesting, ac-
cording to late reports. He believes
the vote in Indian Territory should
have been put in the democratic col
until.
The question which agitates the na
tion, now that Thanksgiving is over.
The resignation of the president oi
the Lehigh road may he due to the
fact that some humane sentiments
had been detected in him.—Detroit
News.
Laivton lias voted $21,000 school
bonds to cover the indebtedness for
school apparatus and teacher’s war-
rants.
Mrs. Mattie G. Kemz of Washing-
ton City has been appointed a seam-
stress at Arapaho Indian school.
The young man who forgot to take
his bride on their wedding journey
would make an ideal witness for the
defense in some court cases.—Mil-
waukee Journal.
The clash of the British with India
with the Waziri of Gumatti threatens
to introduce a lot of new and awful
names in the spelling department.—
Pittsburg Times.
King Oscar has decided every point
acenturynasiea 10 usenuorseraem uy -I the Somoan dispute against the
thousands of medical men who have United States and England. I11 fact,
'--------KI„ *„ it niay be called a "made for Ger-
, many” decision.—Washington Post.
been unable to find a substitute.
Dr. Harter’s
Iron Tonic
The Okemah Journal says the mer-
chants of that city have quit the coal
oil business awaiting electric lights.
It is stated that more than one-halt
the prisoners brought before the
grand jury in Oklahoma City were
negroes.
Oklahoma City will send twenty-one
delegates to the single statehood con-
vention to be held at Claremore, I. T.,
tomorrow.
A man seldom gets in the habit of
; making Wednesday and Sunday night
1 calls on a girl who insists on pro-
j nouncing the word “either” as if it
were spelled “eyether.”—Hartford
| Post.
will insure you against the many evils resulting
from impure blwU Scrutula. pimpies. hlGtehp, Senator Depew is ready to rev ise
kidney disorders, rheumatism, gout, dyspepsia, 1
female weakness, anosmia, chlorosis, etc., are a the tariff. Man ol extraordinary in
few of them: but the greatest evil, the greatest
danger, is the general weakening of the whole dustry.
system, which affords an opening for every
passing disease
The following is only one of the thousands of
testimonials we havt* received:
Detroit, Mich.. Jan. 10. 1901.
I commenced using Dr. Harter's Iron Tonic
when prostrate from a severe attack of rheuma
tism. After using three bottles all traces ol
Ordinary citizen would have
his hands full revising the New York
Central tunnel.—New York Evening
Telegram.
tree bottles all traces of
letely eradicated from my vtm mv
As Flint church.
UOU4, niSVI U-Ollg VlilCO k
this disease were completely e
system, and my general healt
As a blood purifier Dr Harter’s *.
has no equal, and I most sincerely recomme
it to all persons suffering from indigestion,
fatigue, rheumatism, and the —
J-
cent
Pierpont Morgan lias given a
to the Woman’s League of a
There were no condi-
tions attached to the gift, and the
fatigue, rheumatism, and the many weakened league is at liberty to do whatever it
conditions of the system produced by impover- . , , ^
ished blood.1 Margarite F. Veazeli. [pleases with the money—Detroit brec
No. 040 Second Ava.
($5,000 guarantee that above testimonial is genuine.)
Press.
Every bottle of Dr. Har-
ter's Iron Tonic has ou~
"Crescent*’ trade-mark o
ae label.
We fancy there arc several Cuban
statesmen who are under the impres
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the label. Don’t accept a . . , . ,
______—insist on Dr. Harter s. , sion that we might be as easy as
A/.*dt only by ■ Spain. They have something formtii
DR. HARTER^MEDtcmE COMPANY ab|e comjng to them in the way of a
,,u« of Dr. tun.*, wild chenr bum* surprise party.—Washington Post.
foe 8ale everywhere. There is only one pleasing featur-
Seven business bouses in Collins-
ville were burned the past week. The
total loss will be $15,000. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
A man by the name of Lovelady
was recently granted a divorce at
Shawnee. If he was true to his name
it must have been some other lady.
Business Men
have confidence in the young
man who has sufficient faith in
himself to take out life insur-
ance. It bespeaks a desire to
succeed, and a belief in his own
power to win success. His
choice of a company reflects
his judgment, and successful
men take this into considera-
tion.
Tb« ihiu of Tkt Mutual I .if* I aaurance Ceaipan v
• f N*w V *rk errW tKo*« of aejr ether lif« iMur.ur e
i« uiittnc# Tkty art «vtr
$352,000,000
It ha* paid Pekcy holder* ev«r
$569,000,000
whick » war* than auv other life ta*ur«e< • cewipam
i* the werld ha* diaeurved
A rating t*ai, aMbitieut ef tureeea, ifcauld cantldet
thcee petals.
Write far ** Where Shall 1 Insure ? "
The Mutual Life Insurancf
Company or New York
kiuuaa A. McCunuv, President.
F. M. DARST,
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