The American--News. (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 25, 1903 Page: 4 of 8
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AMERICAN PRINTINGCOMPANY
Publisher*.
Entered at the post office at El Reno,
Okla., as Second Class Mail.
STREAMS IS VINDICTIVE.
In answer lo a telegraphic message
to the Rock island officials yestcrd..y,
they stated that a committee ol citizens
ol El Reno would be heard in the ceme-
tery matter, if it was presented with-
in the next few days. The local com-
mittee consisting of Messrs. Lowe
Frame and Stolts, said the committee
would be ready to call upon the rail-
road officials in three or four days.
The American has contended all
along that the proper action would be
to first try to settle the matter by mu-
tual agreement, and if that failed to
take every means within the law to
stop the building of the road. Council-
man Streams either intentionally mis-
represented the American, or else can-
not read intelligently, when he stated
that this paper is in favor of the rail-
road going through the cemetery. The
American can see no reason why th
road should go through the sacred
ground and has so stated. Councilman
Streams was surely ‘coached” in what
he said. His speech was of consider-
able length and was probably prepared.
The American has always been, and
is now, oposed to the desecration of the
cemetery, but will never consent to
"shot gun” violence to keep the rail-
road away even if this method is urged
by public officials for political purposes.
The American Is not versed in law,
and therefore followed the city attor
ney closely in his remarks. He advise
the council that no action would lay in
a court except on an appeal from the
amount of damages assessed, and to'
the council he knew of no way to take
the matter before a court of jurisdit
tion. On this statement the city attor
ney was given two weeks, or until the
next meeting to look further into the
leg-1 prooosition.
Councilman Streams knows this state
inert to be a fact. He cannot deny
this—unless he is deaf and could not
hear the city attorney.
The American believes Mr. Streams
made the statements he did in a spirit
of vindictiveness1—encouraged by his
advisor, Editor Hensley.
American liar, boodler and other pet
names. Now he is mad because he
is asked to report on certain city prop-
erty he has in his possession. But,
no one is surprised. Streams a
Hensley are inseparable. The former
was the stool pigeon for the ex-mayor
for two years, and he hates the Amer-
ican because it has the courage to as-
sail "Boodler Tom,” the Blackmailer.
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“The Democrat would suggest to the
lineal descendant” of "Old Honest
Abe” that as a revenue measure he au-
thorize his whitewash committee to
charge each policeman a small fee; sac
for two coat work 60 cents, and three
coat work 75 cents.—Democrat.
At this rate we wonder what it
would cost to make the ex-mayor a
“white man.”
Grover Cleveland denies that he ev-
er intimated that he would retire from
public life and intimates that the intl-
mator violated his confidence when he
made the intimation. But the newspa-
per man who interviewed Mr. Cleve-
land may be said to have smoked the
Sage of Princeton out and placed him
in the running. His denial of the in-
terview is equivalent to the announce-
ment that Mr. Cleveland will again be
candidate for the persidency.
The Democrat has no respect for the
hault, the lame or the blind. It ridi
cules Rev. Monroe because he does not
walk well, as the result of stopping bu!
lets in the civil war. The editor who
would pen such articles is a fit subject
for bullets, which should strike about
three feet higher.
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The Modern Woodmen of America
at their national convention last week
atptopriated $50,000 from the general
fur.d of the society for the relief of the
fioi d sufferers in Kansas. This is the
largest contribution ever made by any
fraternal organization for the unfortu-
tunate. It is a wonderful and practical
demonstration of the spirit of brother-
hood hat is he fundamenal principles of
the order. Other fraternal orders have
responded liberaly to the appeal that
has gone up from those in the stricken
district, and their members have been
cared for more generously than tb>
who have not been so fortunate as t
belong to some of the organizations.
A Topeka man in attempting o res-
cue a young woman in North Topeka,
according to the report, took her into
the top of an «lm tree where they
stayed all night. When asked if he
could not have kept warm by snugging
up to her be replied that she was awful
wt. Who wi'uld have thought of that?
Hensley is so insanely jealous of the
success of the republican administra-
tion he can scarcely restrain his spleen.
H would rather see the town go to
hades than to have this administration
do something good.
The difference between Pension
Commissioner Ware and many of those
who are criticizing him is that he has
paid for the right to talk. There are
several in that game who have not
paid for chips.
The opposition which is developing
in Colombia to the isthmian canal has
many distressing features, but among
the most acute will be that of start-
ing Senaor Morgan o going around
again.
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Those specialists who are evolving
a theory that floods are caused by de
forestation have another guesss coming
as far as Kansas is concerned. There
are two trees planted every year to
where one is cut down.
No one can blame Lieutenant Laxar
Javanoics for killing himself because
he was not alowed to assist iln the
obseques of the late king and queen of
Servia. The mean old things might at
least have let him kick the corpesse.
The Sultan of Turkey referredto the
assassination of the king and queen of
Servia as “an unfortunate accident. '
It was certainly unfortunate for the
king and queen, but there is no use
in Ab attempting to fool himself about
it.
An epidemic of fever i9 expected in
Oklahoma City as a result of the re-
cent flood. We woul advise all afflict-
ed to come over to El Reno and enjoy
the benefits of a perfectly sanitary city.
Oklahoma City boasts that one deal-
er sold 65,000 pounds of binding twine.
El Reno has handled more than four
times that amount and the trade was
not extra fine, either,
— —o
If Kansas has' any idea of putting in-
to practice that scheme of Senator
Burton's to store the surplus of water
during such floods as have jl.ust gone
into history and the ground, we would
suggest that he state rent a few coun-
ties in Nebraska and CSolorado as res
ervoirs.
The Michigan legislator who pro-
posses that all feeble minded children
should be put out of the way should
st< p to consider what his plight would
have been if that ride had been in force
. t the time of his advent into this world
'! sin and sorrow.
BRYAN STICKS TO SILVER.
W.lltam J. Bryan refuses to strike
hi- colors'. He sticks to silver at the j
ol 1 ratio, and to the platforms of 7"o' (
and 1070. Imperialism, whatever that
may be he condemns. . He wants a
tevcnt.r tariff. This is his latest de-
liveiarce in his paper on his pnsit'on
on the politics of the day. Let repub
licans and democrats, therefore, make
no mistake about the ground occupied
bv the late democratic candidate. lie
takes hack nothing. If he were to I
the nominee of 1904 he would want
to stand on the platform which lie occu-
pied three years and seven years ago.
All this says the Globe-Democrat,
will suit the republican party. It would
give joy to the republicans to fight
next year’s battles on the issues of the
two latest presidential canvasses, plus
imperialism, which is a som -what new. r
fad. If Mr. Bryan can coax or coerce
his party into adopting his creed in
1904 he will do a good service to the
republicans. While there is not much
likelihood that Mr. Bryan himself will
be the candidate next year, at least not
the candidate of the regular democracy
—he could do a good work for the re-
publicans, for sound politics and the
cause of American prosperity, by in-
stilling his ideas into a sufficient num
ber of democrats to dominate the con-
vention next year.
It would be vain to deny that the
republicans feel a good deal of inter-
est in Mr. Bryan. He rendered them
valuable aid by his addresses and his
creed in the canvasses of 1896 and 1900.
In fact they have never shown the grat-
itude to him that they ought to feel for
bis’ work in their behalf in those two
important exigencies. They would have
won in those campaigns even if the Ne
braskan had never been invented. But
the fact that he was extant at the time
and exceedingly active, served to make
the republican majorities a little larger
than they would otherwise have been,
and thus contributed to the country's
prestige and advancement. If Mr.
Bryan will induce the democratic party
to make the canvass of 1904 on tile creed
■which lie nas just outlined he will de
serve, and doubtless' receive, the plaud-
its of the republican party.
The Evening Blackmailer ridicule
Rev. Monroe because he limps as the
result of bullets received in the war to
free tie slaves. It comes in bad grace
for a freedman to assail a defender of
his country.
The Watonga Republican Governor
Ferguson’s paper was issued Monday
as a daily. No better evidence could
be produced that Watonga is up and
coining. The Dispatch has been per -
1 based by the R< publican. Success to
you. governor, in your enterprise.
A granddaughter of the second vice
president is pjust dead. Which re-
minds us tha after all this republic is
not very old in years, but in works
it exceeds all other nations of the
earth
The interest felt and exhibited in
the Jubilee is gratifying to the man-
agement and the people of Hutchinson.
It is one o fthe greatest events in the
slate and no event is manipulated with
greater success year after year.
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The Democrat is the worst town
killer ever. The next public movement
should be to buy the junk shop, and
put some one at the head of it win "
not sour on himself and every one e'sr.
The contract for building the battle-
ship “Kansas’” has been let for $4,179,-
000. There has been no excuse for the
past three weeks why the conract
should not have been let to a Kansas
firm, unless it was that there is' not a
man in Kansas who knows a poop-deck
from a cold-deck.
Dick T- Morgan,
Lawyer and Land Attorney, El Reno, 0. T.
Will Practice In all Courts. Branch Offices at all Important Tow n
MY SPECIALTY
My specialty is practice before the U. S. Land Offices and the Inter
ior Department, Washington, D.C. Sixteen years’ experience in active
practice. Satisfaction guaranteed. Consultation free. If you have
any trouble concerning your .and or desire to contest an entry, write
or call on me. One special feature of my work will be preparation of
appeals and preparing briefs and arguments before the commissioner
and secretary. I will make occasional trips to Washington to look af-
ter such business in person. No charge for answering letters or fur-
nishing ordinary information about a tract of land. Your business is
solicited.
REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT
Connected with my business I have a real estate department in charge
of competent men, whose responsibility and work I guarantee. Through
my branch offices and extensive advertising, I have the best facilities for
disposing of your claim, school land, city property pr deeded farm.
If you want to sell your claim (whatever it may be) list it with me. I
have a large list of Claims and school lands for sale. The demand for
deeded lands is increasing. If you or your friends want to buy, write to
me for list.
USEFUL LAW BOOKS.
I have three publications of great value to people in the new country.
isL—MORGAN’S DIGEST of Oklahoma Statutes and Supreme
Court Decisions—a large book of nearly 300 pages, covering the impor-
tant statutory laws of the territory and Supreme Court Decisions, with
valuable forms.— Price, $2.00.
2nd—MORGAN’S MANUAL of the Homestead, Townsite and Min-
ing laws, is recognized authority; contains all the laws applicable to the
Kiowa-Comanche and Caddo country.—Price 50 cents.
3rd—MORGAN’S SCHOOL LAND MANUAL, a valuable hand-
book, containing the school land laws—Price, only 25 cents.
20 131-ct
It will cost the Union Pacific railway
$5000 per mile for repairs for a dis
tance of 200 miles in Kansas^ and the
Santa Fe and Rock Island about $r,.roo
per mile for a like distance. The only
only thing left- in some places of th
Union Pacific road was the right o'
way and the company had to employ
sutveyors to locate that.
The statisticians are now claiming
that gold is depreciating in value ow-
ing to the increased production. Let'
demonetize it and use hen’s teeth as
a standard.
EL RENO MILL & ELEVATOR CO.
EL RENO, OKLAHOMA.
FLOUR, FEED, CRAIN. COAL.
Manufacturers of the Celebrated
EL RENO’S “BEST’’ FLOUR
E D. HUMPHREY^
MANAGER.
ETEI >2S*35*33*
-‘‘jas. E. PEPPER
WHISKEY IS PURE.
DISTILLERY ESTABLISHED 1870.
A platform now declaring against
irrigation without the consent of the
irrigated would be popular in Kansas
this year but there is no telling what
the conditions will be by the line ve
ge o building plaforms.
The mosquitos are said to be very
pestiferous in the flooded cities and
the physicians claim that they carry
the germs of disease. How would
it do to boil them?
The Evening Blackmailer has sud-
denly turned against the Law and Or
der league. Is it possible an effort
will be made to “double-cross” as so
much per double.
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Think of a newspaper ridiculing a
man’s limping, when lie lost his legs
fi) I ting ior the freedom of the slaves,
and a minister, too. Old soldiers a hat
do you think oi such a man?
Had not the word “skupshtina” ii i"
already pre-empte' by tlie Ser iar.s
as the name oi their legislative body,
what an unparalled health foou title :t
might have made.
Having
I its home
1 Democrat
I this week
lost almost every line ot
advertising patronage, the
m ide a great to do one day
. bout having closed a con-
tract with a foreign advertising agcnc
Tlie Democrat's opposition to railroad
and other movements of public benefit
is meeting with a just reward. No
newspaper can exist for long on
mi erable allowances made by these
forei n advertising concerns. The
Newspaper reports state that tile
first sea serpent of 1903 left a stifling
odor in its wake. This looks as if the j Temple of Treachery is tottering.—Sat-
up-to-date monster had acquired the urday Advertiser,
works of the gasoline automobile.
If Joe Bristow keeps on he will give
the postmaster general an entire new
force in the postoffice department.
The attention of the ice man is called
to Grover Cleveland's boom. It was
taken out of cold storage too soon.
Will some one please tell an anxious
I iibltc what has become of Hobson?
Councilman Streams Hensley’s
man Friday, is exceedingly mad at
the American He vented his spleen
Monday evening on the street corner,
much to the disgu.-t of Ills hearers. He
accused this paper of misquoting City
Attorney Clark in his advice to the
council. If Streams were not biased
in the matter, he would be aide to
J. F. Gadberrv, his mother and son,
came in this morning and surprised
Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Minton. Mr. Gad-
berry had heard so much of the “young
giant” he decided to leave the blue gras
state for a few days and see for him-
self. He decided to spend a few days
with his cousin, Mr. Minton, and look
around for investment in Oklahoma.
When he left Kentucky his friends
joked him about coming “out west to
the arid country". He wrote home to-
day and told them he saw maore wheat
in one hour’s ride in Oklahoma than he
ever saw in the whole state of Ken-
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One is almost tempted to wish that
cmething terrible enough to keep the
Red Cross busy for a while would liap-
len. It might stop this everlasting
wrangle.
DR. DUNCAN
Limits his practice to piles, fistula
and diseases of the rectum. Cures
piles without the knife, ligature or
burning caustic. Cures piles in ten
to fifteen days without detention
from business a single hour. Cures
piles without pain, chloroform or
anaesthetic of any kind. References
given from people treated all over
Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Mis-
souri and Oklahoma.
EXAMINATION FREE. Office hours
9 to 12 a. m., 1 to 5 p. m. Office rooms
410 and 412 over Lion Store. Oklaho-
ma City, Okla. _ ___
(First Published June 18, 1903.)
LEGAL NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that in com-
pliance with an act of the legislature of
the Territory o{ Oklahoma, to regulate
the traffic in intoxicaing liquors, the
undersigned did, on the 16th day of
June, 1903, file his application, by peti-
tion with the County Clerk of Cana-
dian County Oklahoma territory, pray-
ing for license to sell malt, spirituous
and vinotus liquors at retail on lot 9, in
block 74. in the Second ward of the city
of El Reno, in said county and terri-
tory: *T*^
IOSEPH ABBOTT & CO, Applicant.
LOOK OUT
FOR MALARIA.
An epidemic of Malaria in sure to fol-
low the wet season and the high waters
which have prevailed all over the
South. Malarial and kindred fevers
will develope to an alarmiag extent.
General health condition* will be bad;
every precaution should be taken.
jrijl ■— • ■ *—* ■ ■ — -- UUIILLLni 1—Jinui..-..—
t-The Fifth Distillery of the United States.j,;
Lexington, Kentucky whiskey drinkers should always*
(*) drink the best. — |;
H ENRYJSCH AFER, ;|jj
| AGENT FC R'OKLAHOMA TERRITORY. |j|
Oh, yes! Everyone knows Hensley
has money. He has blackmailed every-
one lie could for years past—no won-
der he boasts of his riches—taken for
silence. His fellow citizens even ac-
cuse him of having blood on his hands
—put there for money. What he wont
stoop to for lucre no one has discov-
ered.
(First Published June 18, I9°3-)
Report of the condition of the
EL RENO STATE BANK,
at El Reno, in the Territory of Okla-
homa, at the close of business June
10, 1903:
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts .......$ 84,814.54
Overdrafts, secured and un-
secured .................. 1,027.98
Furniture and fixtures'....... 2,566.47
Ths System Mast Espaalally Par-
tided te Resist Malarial Attacks.
A trial of fifty years has demonstrat-
ed that for this emergency, Dr, Har-
ter’s Iron Tonic has no equal. Iron ia
the fighting element in the blood, and , , . 0
the kind of iron supplied by Dr. Har-I <Checks and other cash items. .,108.6,
ter's Iron Tonic is just the kind the Cash an<1 s,Sht exchan8e 34.35i.3i
system requires to successfully combat
malarial conditions. Don’t wait until Total............•
you are attacked. Take it now and for-j LIABILITIES.
tify yourself; it is an absolute safeguard Capial stock paid in........$ 25,000.00
and, at the same time, it is the best Surplus fund............... 7<».oo
tonic and invigorant for the entire sys-: Undivided profits, less ex-
tern. On the other hand, quinine dis- penses and taxes paid ..... 2,361.49
turbs the system and its cumulative Due to banks ............... 8,076.75
poison begets greater physical trouble Individual deposits subject
than those it is employed to remedy. | to check ................ 86,667.71
Where a bad case of chronic Malaria Demand certificates of
already exists, take DK. HARTER'3
FEVER and AGUE SPECIFIC. It ia
guaranteed to cure. Price 60 cent&
BUT IF YOU WILL
de-
posit *.................... 900.00
Cashier’s checks outsanding. 163.00
My Com. Exp. Feb. 13, 1906.
Correct—Attest: (SEAL)
J. A. HATCHETT,
FRANK KRAFT,
Directors.
(First Published June 18, 1903.)
Report of the condition of
THE BANK OF UNION,
at Union, in the Territory of OkP
hema, at the close of business June
<oth, 1903:
RESOURCES.
Loans- and discounts......$ 14,471.40
Overdrafts, secured and un-
secured ................. 1,112.52
Furniture and fixtures...... 1,280.80
Due from banks ............ 2,648.91
Checks and other cash items 148.26
Cash and sigl t exchange.... 1,660.50
Total ...................$21,322.39
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in .......$ 5,000.00
Surplus Dund.............. 500.00
Undivided profits, less ex-
penses and taxes paid..... 77048
Individual deposits subject
to check ................. 12,952.21
Demand certificates of de-
posit ................... 100.00
Time certificates of deposit.. 2,000.00
Take
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(First Published June 18. 1903.)
LEGAL NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that in com-1
plianec with an act of the legislature of;
the Territory of Oklahoma, to regulate
I'he traffic in intoxicaing liquors, the:
I undersigned did, on the U2th day of
j lime, 1903. file his application, by peti- ;
| lion with the County Clerk of Cu-.a-;
dian County Oklahoma territory, pray-
Total ..................$123,868,95
Territory of Oklahoma, Crjunty of Ca-
nadian, ss;
I, A. F. Masterman, Cashier of
above named bank, do solemnly swear
that the above statement is true and
that said bank lias no other liabili-1
Harter Medicine Co., Dayton, OhiiV and is not endorser on any note or ob-
| ligation other than that shown in the
DR- Hurter’S
IRON TONIC
You Won't Have Malaria* Price St*
All dealers handle, or bcih! to Dn.
Houston, Tex., Aug. 1, 19QL
"I have used Dr. Harter’*
Iron Tonic myself and in my
over twenty five years, and
family for------------
can heartily recommend it.
, and
egMrd It
1 ull rna*
tyYive jc
as pnrtfenlurly valuable to ward ‘
lain.,l ..ml other fevers.
J. IT. H AYra,
Land and Em!station Agt., l'rlsco Line.
..JS.MU ttil eWm teaiiav-Pal!» zeaulat.)
above statement, to the best of my
knowledge and belief, so help me (■>
A. F. MASTERMAN, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this j8th day of June, 1903.
\. S. BOOTON, Notary Public.
Total ...................$21,322.39
Territory of Oklahoma, County of Ca-
nadian, ss:
I, H. H. Bull, Cashier of the above
named bank do solemnly swear that
the above statement is true and that
said bank has no Other liabilities and is
not endorser on any note or obligation
other than that shown in the above
statement, to the best of my knowledge
and belief, so help me God.
H. H. BULL, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
16th day of June, 1903:
CfIAS. LIEBLER, Notary Public.
My Com. Exp. Feb. 24. 1906.
Corro-t—Attest. (SEAL.)
W. W. JACKMAN,
H. A. JACKMAN,
I. F. WALLA CE.
Directors.
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