El Reno Daily Eagle. (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 107, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 5, 1895 Page: 1 of 4
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El Reno is
The Railroad Center
of Oklahoma.
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El Kcno is
i he Supply Point of
The Southwest.
VOL. I.
TODAY’S TEMPERATURE.
Today's temperature as observed at
Valiely’s coal office-.
«a. m............ 4 degrees above zero
7 a. m............ 9 "
10 a. m...........23
J. p. m............23
g p. m..........22 “
Prospects are good for snow tonight,
ft. li. Scliwanke, of Okarcbe, is in the
disk your dealer for Morning Star
cigars.
Tlie kerfoot hotel is the tinest iu the
territory.
Capt. A. E, Woodson, of Darlington,
is in the city.
Have you smoked the Great Scott
cigar? Try one.
Tine wines and liquors for family
use, at The Schweizer.
The Salvation Army is still sounding
‘every beat for God.’’
Buy your coal and wood of Vallely
Cheapest place in towu.
The Eagle has the most complete
job office in the county.
Auheuser beer is on tap at all the
best saloons in El Reno
Fred Beall and wife, of Oklahoma
City, are at the Kerfoot.
Dr. Sandercook returned, last night,
from a trip to his ranch.
,J. I,. Darby, formerly with the Okla-
homa Star, is in the city.
The tinest cigars in the city can be
found at Henry Schafer’s.
John Schlentz. of David City, Neb .
is visiting W. J. Clarke in this city
Bishop Meerschaert, of Guthrie, is in
the city, visiting Father Germanius.
Remember the Lady Washingion
supper, February 22, at Baptist church.
C. F.. Hunter, of Enid, was in the
city today, enroute home from Guthrie.
Pearl’s cigar factory is in the Cana-
dian County Bank block, on Woodso n
street.
For family use Budweiser beer is un
equalled. W. I. Goff, agent, will de-
liver it.
The plate glass manufacturers have
forced a combine, with a capital of
$10,000,000.
Wanted—To buy or rent three or
four pool and billiard tables. Enquire
at this office.
A Rock Island train left the track
near Topeka yesterday, but uooue was
seriously injured.
L. J. Andrews, of Waco, Texas, is
here on a prospoctiug tour and will
probably locate in the city.
The best beer is that made by the
Anheuser-Busch Brewing company
W. I Goff is their agent.
The Schweizer makes a specialty of
the purest wines and liquors, for medi-
cal purposes and family use.
Major Simpson has several tine op-
portunities to secure good purchasers
for business plants in El Reno.
The Osage Indians are at present be-
ing paid $200 each annuity funds.
Verily, the Usages are "heeled."
Wasted—A boy to distribute circu-
lars for tuition in the business college
in this city. Call at White hotel.
One or two furnished rooms to rent.
Inquire of F. D. Schermerhoru one
door north of Presbyterian church. *
John L. Yallely will today complete
the erectiou of a neat residence on his
claim, twelve miles west of the city.
W. I. Goff, agent of the Anheuser-
Busch Brewing compauy, handles Tony
Faust's Special Brew, the best on earth
C. O. Williams, of Paris, Texas,
brother of Clarke Williams, formerly
of the Creamery restaurant, is in the
city.
Miss Maud Connelly returned this
morning from an extended visit with
friends and relatives in Illinois and
Indiana.
A fine assortment of imported and
domestic wines and liquors, for medici-
nal and family purposes, at Henry
Sehafar’s.
Tinted kalsomine, all colors, fifty
cents worth does a room. Cheapest
place in town for paintors’ lead at
Vallely's. 4
Anyone desiring to take a partner in
the mercantile business, or something
til that nature, would do well to call at
I Ms office
The Weekly Eac-LR circulates in
Every nook aud corner of the county,
,atl is the best advertising medium iu
western Oklahoma.
Bert McCormick, who was for a long
nine an employe of the Globe, re-
•urned to the city last night from June
not) City. Kansas.
The y. I’- S. C. E. will give a con-
cert at the Congregational church on
huoclayevening. The program will
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RENO, CANADIAN 6(JUN‘fY' UK L A HGiM
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, !39a.
NO. 107.
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THE LEGISLATURE.
In the house the following bills were
introduced:
No 149, to exempt fruit trees front
taxation.
No. 10Q. in relation to public priut
ing
No, lfil. to repeal paragraph 112
chapter 23.
No 152, relating to buiitliug
loan associations
A bill Ims been introduced to pvr
vide for u territorial militia. The name
of this militia shall be known asUkia
homa National Guard It will com
prise a battery of artillery of tv.u guns
and a company of cavalry. The gov
eruor will be the territorial comman-
der.
lit the council President Pitzer in
troduced C. B. 95 relating to eleetiuus.
The hill covers the whole ground and
has many amendments to the present
law.
No. 95 repeals the present quaran-
tine law.
The council treated Coulson, the un-
seated councillor, nicely, for after de
priviug him of his seat they made him
elerk of the commit lee on school lands
This carries with it a salary of $4 per
day. the same pay a; that of a coun-
cillor.
Prof. Craue will open his business
and normal college in this city next
Monday, probably in the Hobbs-Slttn
ley building For llie present music
will not be taught, as the gentleman
who will couduct lhat department of
the college cannot come until the expi-
ration of his engagement in Nebraska.
Prof. Craue asks for no bonus, hut
wuuld like to sell scholarships, the
proceeds to he added to the building
fund. He proposes soon to erect a
$7,000 brick building, which lie. wilt
enlarge to meet the demand for more
room. The professor conies highly
recommended as an educator and n
straight-forward, honorable geutle-
man.
A law shutting out saloons from the
schools and towns means the estab-
lishment of road houses where, secure
from observation students can raise
merry Hades with none to say them
nay. Don't let such a bill become a
law if you wish your children to be se-
cure. Road houses means moral death
for scores of young people who would
never enter the doors of a saloon —Ed-
mond News.
Rev. A Sanders, w ho has been con-
ducting revival services at the Chris-
tian church, has beeu called to aud ac-
cepted the pastorate of that church in
this city. He will move his family
from Trinidad. Colorado to this place
during the present month Mr. San-
ders is an eloquent and interesting
speaker and the church in El Reno has
made a wise selection.
Arrangements are being made to es-
tablish cement works at various place.-,
northwest of the city It has been as
cerlained that the cement beds, which
were supposed to he but a few acres in
extent, underlie a large scope of noun
try, and from present indications 1
Reno and Okarehc will snnu lie the
center of the biggest cement trade in
the country.
A special from Guthrie says that
uear Arlington, Lincoln county, while
ii. R. Byers was on his way to a liter
ary entertainment, he was shot ami
killed by Peter Glass, a colored man.
Glass claims that Byers tried to scare
him by yelling like a panther and in
the dark he mistook him for a wild
animal and shot him. Glass is in the
county jail.
It is rumored that I troop, Third
cavalry, stationed at Fori Bill, has
been srni out to tlio camp of Chief Red
.Moon. !"P mites west ot this city, In
answer to the request of that noble
brave. Red Moon claims that ihe cow-
boys have his warriors thoroughly Imf
faloed and that the redskins are afraid
to even get out and "rustle" cattle.
The Indies of the M E. rhurch. sonth,
will endeavor to giv“ the most interest-
ing entertainment of the season on
February 22. known as the Martha
Washington Tea. Some of the he„i
latent of the town nil! -tke pan. Re
member, at thw opera hm.-.-w C. In mil-
32nd. ___
The )aw against selling adulterated
milk sfcWfld be rii/’-lred in IP s rii*
Cream is a stranger to much of the
compound that is sold as milk, and th->
clialk wat evidently placed in the cans
after the dilution was strained,
The senate committee has refused to
report favorably the right of w ay bill
for the Oklahoma Central railway un-
til It* starting point is named The
object is to extend the Frisco west
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K! Henu is anxious to see the aouth-
ern reservations opened to settlument
at tl)e earliest possible moment; but iu
case cougress makes no provision for
tbp settlement of that region Kl Kenp
still ha? plenty of work mapped out to
keep her busy for a year or two The
Cheyenne and Arapahoe country, lying
right at the gates of the city, is to a
great extent uupeopled. There are
yet more than 14.out) vacant claims in
f hut country, and the lirst work of the
commercial club, the real estate men,
the merchants, the millers—in fact, of
the people ot the city—should he to in
duce farmers to settle upon and im
prove these claims. This land will
furnish homes for 70,1)00, iu addition
to the thousands who will live iu the
towns in that vast region. The prod*
nets of that country will be marketed
iu fii Henu; the supplies for that coun-
try will be bought in El Huno; the set-
tlement of that country will increase
the commerce ot El Lie no 300 per cent.
The western country must depend
largely upon El Reuo aud El Uuuo
must look principally to that country
for commercial supremacy City and
country are mutually dependent. El
He no can do much to reclaim the wild
eruessofthe west ami by so doing
she can win the gratitude of the pen
pie whom she induces to locate on
those fertile lauds, anil strengthen the
friendship of thousands of thrifty set
tiers who are already there. Work to
till up the Cheyenne aud Arapahoe
country now and take care of the
southern reservations when the proper
lime comes
Notwithstanding the cry about op-
pressive taxes and a colossal county
indebtedness, Canadian is today in
better shape, financially, than any
other county in Oklahoma. It is true,
tuxes arc high, as they are wherever h
county Jius had every improvement to
make, every needed article to buy in a
Very few years, with but little property
t.txable, aud that assessed at only one
third its actual value. From this time
oil, luxation will decrease rapidly. The
assessed valuation this year, on the
Oasis of 1891, will be about twice as
much us it was last year, aud by next
year It will have reached the 6.000.000
mark. I he outlook now is bright, com-
pared with what it was three or four
years ago.
John V Moffett has received a letter
from 1). *S. Hill, an immigration agent
of the Rock Island at Chicago, stating
that a gentleman of means, (giving his
name), who contemplates establishing
a foundry at some point in the Terri-
tory was on his way to El Reno and
that he might easily be induced to lo-
cate an extensive plant here.
A gentleman, a stranger in the city,
who is stopping at the Caddo, will
erect a brick building at the northeast
corner of Rock Island avenue ami
Russell street, ami open a large exclu-
sive boot and shoe store.
Reports from northern Minnesota
and Dakota tell of fearfully cold
weather. At some places 48 degrees
below jtero was recorded aud many
persons were frozen to death,
The Ladies' Sewing Society of the
Baptist church will hold its next circle
with Mrs. Taylor, on north Evans
avenue, Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Mrs J. !• Valljcly, Sec’y
A petition was circulated on the
streets yesterday asking that the board
of education be allowed to sell the
school bonds for not less than 95 cents
ou tlie dollar,
Tommy Abbott has retired from the
Kerfoot saloon and will open a saloon
in the Canadian County Batik build-
ing. iu the room formerly occupied by
Sol Fread.
Electric street lamps are being placed
in position, and in a day or two Kl
Reno can bid defiance to darkness of
the Egyptian variety.
Phillip Omohumlro and Captain
Grigsby are preparing to build line
residences near Major .Simpson’s home
on </Hpit( i Dili
i R. Wall tame flown from Pea-
body, Kansas, tMa morning to visit
friends and peffcffH htiy a farm hi
Canadian eotfrttj.
Lost—A Mstfh with*' sstter
bhc) . Suitable r*v ;tfff Wf}t be paid
for its return to C;1j:f. A E. Woodson
Dal lington.
FOUR MONTHS FOR 23 Hfi
The Twice a-Week l imes, issued on
Tuesday and Friday, is being sent t*»
subscribers on trial four months for 25
cents. Mail a quarter in silver or
Stamps to The l imes, Kansas City,
Mo., and get 32 issues of the best paper
published in the southwest. Fifty cents
buys the J)uily and Sunday Times our
REAL. ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Real estate transfer-; as furnished by
Parker S. Smith, Abstracter, for
February 5, 1895:
United States to Robert Pratt
final receipt, uw J 8-14 6 .$
United States to Francis M
Nickel, final receipt, south
west 25 13-6................
United States to James E.
Poareh, final receipt, south-
east 20 11-6 .....
United States to J. S Jones,
jlinal receipt, lots o3 and 4
aud south half of northwest
3-i3 e......................
United States to William 1)
Poareh patent, northeast
0 11 ti.....................
United ’* atns to iieudersou S.
Norcom, patent, southeast
12 11-0.*.....................
fid win L. Harrington ami wife
to John Harrington, w. d.,
southeast 12 aud noitheust
1311 6......................
Jacob Bauer and wife to Wil-
lis L. Townaley, w. d., lots 8
and 9. section 7 and lots 1, 2
and 2. 8 12 5................
John Harrington to II A
Price, w d.. southeast 12and
northeast 13-11-6.......
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GENERAL ORDER NO, 2.
The lifth annual convention of the
Ladies of the Grand Army of the Re-
public. Department of Oklahoma, will
be held at Perry, April 26 and 27. The
railroad rates, also lodging and hotel
accommodations will be given later.
Circle presidents arc requested to
see that credentials are promptly tilled
Out and sent to these headquarters at
once, that each circle may he properly
represented on the roll.
All questions for the council of ad-
ministration should be sent to Mrs
Rebecca Lucas, at least fifteen days
before the convention.
In Fraternity, Charity and Loyalty.
Ji»a Gainer,
El Reuo, Jan. 24. Dep t Pres
ABSOLUTELY FREE,
Any reader o.f this paper can get
The St Louis Globe-Democrat “abso
lately free for three months.” Read
the offer in this issue ami take advan-
tage of it at once The Weekly Globe
Democrat is issued in semi-weekly sec
lions, eight pages each Tuesday and
Friday, sixteen every week, making it
practically a semi weekly paper, yet
the price is “only one dollar a year.”
In polities it is strictly republican, but
it gives “all the news, ’ and is abso
imely indispensiblv to the farmer,
merchant, or professional man who has
not the time to read a lai ge daily paper,
and yet desires to keep promptly and
thoroughly posted Sample copies will
be sent free on application to Globe-
Printing Co.. St Louis, Mo.
PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Under the authority of the constitu-
tion of the Oklahoma Press association
which provides tnat the association
shall meet annually, a meeting is
hereby called to meet at Perry, Okla-
homa, on Sat unlay, February 9, 1895,
tortile purpose of transact ing such
i nisi ness as may properly come before
t lie association
Hoy V. Hoffman,
Lon Whorton. President.
Secretary.
DISSOLUTION NOTICE.
The co-partnership heretofore exist
ing between Danfonl, Moffett & Filch
in the rea estate business is dissolved
by mutual consent this 2nd day of
February. 1895.
F Dvnfoiid.
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Wm Fitch,
COAL! COAL! COAL!
Try the Arkansas Semi Anthacite
coal, for sale by the El Kcno Mill and
Elevator company. Leave orders with
Robert Smith, on Russell street, or at
the mill. *
All members of the Kl Reno Silver
Cornet band are requested to meet >r
the G. A. II hall Wednesday evening
at 8 o’clock. Wm 1 Goff.
Instructor
MULLS FOR SALE.
Large bunch of mules, consigned to
E. F. Mitchell, by J. A Ware, for
sale on long time.
E F Mitchell.
FOR EXCHANGE.
Good double-seated surrey to trade
for almost anything. Enquire at Hits
oMeek D O Fl'JWehs.
FOR SALE.
One of the best improved farms in
the county, two and one-half miles
from Kl Reno. Inquire of Jacob
Schweizer *
FOR SALE.
The Cyclone meat market, lirst door
south of the Union block. Wm, Olley,
proprietor. #
FOR SALE.
A "fresh” cow ini ss’e. Inquire of
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"Success requires not something new
'Jo win applause and recognition
But lining that which others do
Beyond their range of competition.’
T'l'jat Wl]sit We ©o,
de are not like, the hind whr-t of a wagon,
at ways following, but we a re pushers always striv
ing for a still larger business.
II7/G fills your prescriptions and family re-
re.ci pes f
O0.\'T blame your physician if medicine pre-
sei ihed by him din s not hare the desired effect-
WE KEEP IN STOCK
■ 7/- L the Standard I’atrnt .Validlies. Perfumes,
Toilent Soaps and Toilet Articles.
POP Paints, Oils and (Hass. CALL and see the
Stock and gel Prices.
A. P. MRSTERMRN.
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MONARCH SALOON
AND BILLIARD PARLOR
For a choice Drink or Smoke, nr h quiet. pleasant game of Pool or Billiards
Gerrer Block, Rock Island Avenue, EL RENO.
Wm K HUMPHREY. Pirs't E. D. HUMPHREY, Boo’y and Treas.
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MILLERS AND CRAIN DEALERS.
High.-sl markflt price paid for all kinds of ^rata Ask your grocer for the tol
lowing brands of Dour it1 yon want the best:
Kl. RENO—High Patent,
MISTLETOE—Straight Patent,
WIGWAM—Half Patent.
CALL ON:
•:H. * W.: TUSTeN,:-
THE . STAR .STABLES,
.Mirth Bickford Ar nue. KL RE.MO,
vrry Timms
HORSES BOARDED, BOUGHT AND SOLD.
—%aTHE CREAMERYissSs
SHORT OffDefE fteSTftURftNT,
STANTON & LE MASTER. Props.
Kill III, UUliHIlUI
Regular Meals Only Twenty-Five (25) Cents.
MCE, CLEAN BEDS AND GOOD ROOMS IN CONNECTION,
BICKFORD avenue _ EL RENO, OKI.A.
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O’Houkk.
President
W. Manky.
Vice- President
sTHEs^-
F. H
VV KIGIIT.
Cashier
O'auAiiuui 0’iAHHi.ii inuT
CAPITAL
i INCORPORATED.'
STOCK,
876,000.
Does a General Banking Business.
Livery,
. U. STANLEY’S
Peed and Sale Stable.
---iS TtlK J»| ACE TO CKT—
The Uery Finest Rigs in the City.
Corner W ide and Bickford.
Riso Fine Saddle Horses
KK RENO, OKI.A.
THE CADDO HOTEL.
J. T. IVlcCOM B Prop.
Hates I! to $1.25 ptr II .y. T* Siridly Firslrlass.
Sample Room in Connection
All MODERN CONVENIENCES.-
CONNER ROCK ISLAND
ANDWADK STS.ELRENO
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SMITH,
President.
GEO. I) OKPU l
V i« • Presi«
(INUOKPOliATRD.)
Paid-Up Capital,
OIK) SHUT IKK.
(Cashier.
Ill
$50,000.00.
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