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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-02
TWENTY-FOUR DEAD.
RESULT OF A PANIC IN A
BALTIMORE THEATER.
Seme One Cried Out Fire and the Audi
enee stampeded for the Doors. Crash
ing Men. Women and Children to Death
Several Fatally injured.

BALTIMORE. Dee oS.-Tn o senseIess
panic caused by defective gas burner
and foolish cry of fire, ut the old
Front Street theaeer last night, TWEEN
ty-four people were killed, two fatally
injured, and ten more seriously hurt.
Up to o'clock this NOR uing, but four
Of the dead had been identified
Almost all of the victims are eff
Polish nativity and Hebraie extrae-
ton, and many of the in ured were
taken to their homes by friends, rem
dering it almost impossible to get a
complete list at this time.
The theater. which is probably the
Oldest in the city, was filed from pit
to dome with people who had assem-
hled to listen to Hebrew opera, which
has been given in The old house twice
a week for the past month. The
ticket office receipts show that over
2, 700 tickets had been sold when. at s
o'clock, the sale of seats was stopped
because there were no more left.
General admission tickets were sold,
however, after this, and it was sup
posed that there were at least 3,6e0
people within the walls when the cur
tain went up on the first act As the
capacity of the house is less than
., 500 the density of the crowd may be
imagined.
Ten minutes after the curtain rose,
one of the attendants went up to the
second tier to light a. gas Jet which ap-
peared to have been eXtinguished. as
he turned the cock and applied a
match it was seen that there was no
tip to the burner. The jet was we'll
down toward the stage on the left
side of the house. IN plain view of the
greater part of the audience, but as
the glare from it showed against the
wall, some one in the gallery shouted
s'Fire! Fire! Fire.
In an instant there was mad
scramble for the door, in winch the
whole audience took part The van
guard of the terror-stricken multitude
reached the entrance on Front street,
pushed on by the bowling, shrieking
mob behind them. There, those in
the foremost rank were compelled to
turn to the right and to the left to
reach the double entrance way, built
in the form of a storm door. Passing
through these doors, they reached
fight of steps, leading from each door,
downward to landing, from whence
a broad stairway OF moderate height
would have carried them into the
street and to safety.
In less time than ib takes to tell it,
the landing was packed twenty or
thirty deep with the panic-Stricken
multitude, and the hundreds behind
them were struggling over them to
reach the street.
When the mass on the landing had
been cleared, the frightened mob in
side were quieted down sufficiently to
enable the police to clear the theater.
Then it was found that there had been
no danger and that not soul would
have been injured had the audience
but remained seated
The dead are of all ages, from mere
infants to grayhaired men and wo-
men. All were killed or in ured in the
terrific crush on the fatal landing, not
a casualty having happened inside the
house, although the crush there was
tremendous
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-02
A Big Failure i'm Frisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec %. = Porter
Brothers & Co., the heaviest dealers in
dried fruits on the coast, have an
nounced their inability to meet obi
cations, and have asked their credit
ors for an extension of time. No state
ment of assets and liabilities is made,
but as the firm has done business of
a million and half during the pres
emit year, the amounts are believed to
be large
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-02
Activity i'm Coke Regions.

UNIoNTOwN, Pa, Dec. 2S.-Following
the notice to the 16, 600 coke workers
employed by FL. C.. Fricik and Co. of a
ten per cent advance in wages, after
the first of the year, the announce
ment was made by W. j. Rainey to-
day that he would also advance the
wages of his 1000 employees ten per
cent, to take effect next week The
past three months has been the busiest
in the coke trade,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-02
Value of JAY GouId,s Estate.

New YORK, Dee. 2s.-Sinee March,
1888, Lawyer David Mcclure, who was
appointed appraiser in the matter of
the taxation of the Jay Gould estate,
has been working on his final report,
which he fled yesterday with Assist
ant Tax Assessor Casey in the surro-
gates Office The total property tax
able under what is nown as the collat-
eral inheritance tax act Mr.. Mcclure
values at S73, Is, ABB. %.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-02
The w. c. T. U. Opposed to War,

CHICAGO, Dec. 2s.-The following
cablegram was received to-day, direct
ed to Miss Frances E. Willard, presi-
dent of the World's w. c. T. O., and
signed by the Twice president, Lady
Henry Somerset: 'sReigate, England
We Join prayers and influence to
yours to avert the greatest calamity
possible to the world, q war between
nations in whose history is involved
the highest hopes of humanity God
grant we may stand united to fight
oppression everywhere.-V 3 Presi-
dent, Lady SOMERSET
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-02
seven Deaths in a Texas storm.

DALLAS, Texas, Dec. ga letter to
George Cummings, superintendent of
Hambrick's cattle and sheep ranch IN
Sterling county, says five Mexican
herders and a woman and girl were
drowned in the Concho river last Tues
day night during the great storm that
swept over she Concho valley and the
greater potion of West Texas.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-02
MISSOURI FLOODS.
The Loss in the Usage Valley Estimated
at Several Million.

at Several Million.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Dec. 27.-The
news from the Gasconade and Usage
rivers is more encouraging. At Bag
nell "a fall of twenty-one inches in the
Usage is reported, while the Gascon-
ade is falling rapidly. News to-day
confirms reports of farmers rendered
destitute by the flood, and the con-
dition of some is deplorable in the ex-
IRENE. Many lost not only their
crops and cattle, but were stripped of
household goods and provisions as
well. There is no way of estimating
the loss. but it is very heavy. An esti-
mate of the corn loss in the Usage val
ley puts it at So, 900, GOO.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-02
Prob,bItion Convention called.

TOPEKA. Kan, Dec. 2S--The Prohi-
bition State Committee met here yes
terday and called a delegate conyen-
ton for May % in this city to nomi-
nate candidates for State officers
Fifty delegates were named to repre-
sent Kansas at the national conven-
ton in Pittsburg July L.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22

reduced, and at the same time allow a
fair compensation for All necessary
public services.
Tenth That we condemn the anti.
fusion law, prohibiting fusion by
which the name Of candidate is not
permitted upon more than one ticket
as being n partisan measure Of the
Republican party
Eleventh We favor the cn1c .ment OF
a agoneral law prohibiting the education
Of white and negro children in the
same schools, but we favor equal sepa-
rate educational facilities for the chill
dreu Of both races.
Resolved. That the Demo
cratic party Of oklahoma, in con
vention assembled favor coati-
tion OF the Democratic and Popn-
list parties OF oklahoma on a candid
ate for delegate to congress aud on a
platform consistent with the declara-
tions Of the national Democratic plat
form adopted at Chicago, July 2 1896,
and that we favor a union OF the
Democratic ard Populist parties OF Ok
lahoma, and recommend the nomina-
tion Of a candidate for such delegate
to congress on what shall be known as
the free silver ticket and that we
recommend that the Democrats and
Populists of the different council and
representative districts of Oklahoma
use all honorable means to perfect a
coalition of the two parties on leRlsla-
tive candidates.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22

The old newspaper saying, nov is
the time TO subscribe" was never
more true than at present The times
are so full Of incident, so many i'm
portant national and state affairs are
shaping themselves for a change, that
no one can afford TO be without a
metropolitan daily or weekly. The ST.
Louis Republic, the greatest Demo
cratic newspaper, is making a special
offer Of its daily and Sunday paper for
three months at Sl5O. It is S6 year
by mail The Twlce-a-Week Repu bile
is sent two times a week-1O4 papers
for only 81 a year. In addition TO all
the political news, it prints every day
a spread Of general news and features
not equalled by any other paper
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22
Queen MarEherita and Divorce.

Queen Margherita, of Italy, does not
believe in divorce, and wishes IL dis
tinctly understood that divorced women
need expect no social recognition at
her court At the time when Sig.
Crispi was first in power, not only were
his two divorced wives still living. but
also Donna Lna's (Crispis wife') di-
vorced husband. For a long time her
Majesty would not hear Of having this
lady at her court. but when she was
finally forced TO yield 10 the pressure
pat upon her TO admit Donna Lima to
the Quirinal receptions she did so in
these words: Every Wells Tell Sig
Crispi that / viii receive his wife. but
/ will receive but one Of them. and il
must always be the same one"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22
REsuLrs oF A nrrrFR I.rssoN-

THE McKinleyites tell the people
that a return to the bimctallism which
prevailed in this country for eighty
years prior to 1879 will ruin the peo.
people and bring dishonor upon the
government. Iithis is true, why didn't
these dreadful caiamities happen dur
ing these eighty years OF bimetallsm
when gold and silver was coined with.
out discrimination against either metal
at the present ratio OF i6 to /. why
was it that during all this period the
products OF the farms, the shops, the
manufactures, and the wages Of labor
of every state commanded remunera-
tive prices? And why is it that since
is73-the beginning Of the gold stand
ard system--the prices Of all these
have been steadily on a downward
tendency? These are questions of
vital Importance to the people. No
arguments are necessary to sustain
facts so obvious to everybody. They
are facts learned in the school OF bit
ter experience. They represent eighty
or more years Of bimetallic prosperity
against twenty-five years Of single gold
standard disasters, bankruptcy and
poverty prices on the products Of
labor
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22

John sherman and John
Thurston tell you in their
speeches that il Bryan is
elected the silver mine own
ers will make a. cents on ev-
cry dollar coined under free
coinage, and that there is but
SO cents worth OF bullion in
each dollar. and that each
dollar will be worth but so
cents II Bryan is elected. The
Problem is this: How will
the silver mine owner make
his AZ cents out of a so cent
doiiar when the bullion in the
dollar is worth 3 cents more
than the dollar?
For each correct answer the
OKLAHOMA LEADEB will give
one years subscription.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22

SILVER and gold as the primary
money Of this country is what Bryan
and the Democratic party stand for
This is the old Democratic doctrine Of
jefferson and Jackson. IT is the
money of the people. When silver
was stricken down in 1873 and gold
made the only primary standard Of
value, the money changers became the
autocrats and the people their slaves.
Bryans election will restore the equal
ity Of these metals as it existed before
1873, and with its restoration will
come a restoration Of the prices Of the
products of toll and labor.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22

icate feminine organs. The young gin suf-
lers, bodily and mentally, In silence There
Is undue WEAKNESS, unexpected paia, uu.
reasonable tears and FITS Of temper
DR.. Piercc's Favonte Prescription exefts
. wonderful power over woman's delicate
organism. II Is an invigorating tonic and
Is specific for the peculiar weak knesses, ir-
Tegularities and painfai derangements Of
woman.
Careless, easy-going doctors frequently
treat their women patients for bilionsness
nervousness. dyspepsia liver or kidney
troubles when the real sickness Is ia the
organs distinctly feminine, and no help can
come till they are made perfectly strong By
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22

"OvERpRoDUcTIoNw Oh, what hol-
low mockery! overproduction Of
wheat when millions are starving: Of
clothing when millions are naked. The
man who can write thus is surely a
lunatic or the most heartless of created
beings. It is not overproduction but
underconsumption which is causing
the misery OF the people, and this
can be remedied only by placing in
their hands the means to make them
consumers.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22

THE argument is constantly being
made that as the delegate to congress
from this territory has no vote on any
question in congre S, therefore it is
immsterial who represents this terri.
tory in that body. This is the great
est fallacy 1t is true our delegate has
no direct vote on any subject, but he
is supposed to exercise as much infu.
ence at Washington as any member
who does have a vote.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22

OLD John NJ. Palmer, who has bolted
every party and everything else since
time immemorial, when governor Of
Illinois denounced n Republican presi-
dent for sending United States troops
to Chicago in 1871 without his consent,
now upholds President Cleveland for
doing the same thing against the pro-
te st OF Governor Altgeld
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22
the value Real Estate of Logan County, give
descripton OF q few Of the farms on our list:

Eighty acres five miles from Guthrie,
all fenced; thirty-tiye acres IN cultiVa-
ton, good five room house cost $3.50,
700 apple trees planted I'm 1898. 81 POO
will buy the eighty acres.
2ls acres six miles from Guthrie; To-
Gated on the Cimarron river; all fenced;
100 acres in cultivation: $50 acres of
extra fine bottom land; a six room house,
cost $1,000; 500 growing apple trees
Consideration $500.
100 acres seven miles from Guthrie;
all fenced; l40 acres in cultivation; JOINS
the Cimarron river; "a two story log
house. Cousi teraton 5000
100 acres ten miles from Guthrie: all
fenced; seventy acres In cultivation;
iarm contains 40 acres OF good bottom
land; TWO room house, located one
half mile from the cOttonW God rivers has
living and never failing wator running
through il. Consideration si,sOo.
I6O acres three miles from Guthrie;
an fenced; 100 acres In cultivation; one
half mile from the Cimtri ga river; has
three room house: barn, stabling eight
horses. Cons Iteration 5000.
900 acres three and One-haif miles from
Guthrie; one mule from Cimarron river;
plenty of good bottom land; pasture,
water and good house Consideration
$1,000.
Splendid stock farm 100 acres; so in
cultivation, seYeral never falling springs;
500 fruit trees; some timber, price sUD.
This is dirt cheap; iu1e miles from the
railroad
100 acres one mile from Guthrie; all
fenced; $50 acres I'm cultivation; eight
room house, cost 81 500 ten minutes ride
from the city. 5000 per acre viii buy
this farm Should Guthrie retain the
capitol Of the new state, The land VIII
BE- worth 500 per acre.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22

1t doesn't matter much whether sick
headache, biiiousness, indigestion and
constipation are caused by neglect or
unavoidable circumstances; DeWitrs
Little Early Risers will speedily cure
them all L. B. Lille & Co.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22

Who does not
know women and
young girls who are
continually in tearsl
Who always see the
dark slider Who
have frequent cts
Of melancholy with.
out any apparent
cause z The intelli-
gent physician will
know that Il is some
derangemeut Of tho
complicated and del.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22

The looseuing OF the Republican
party on the throats of the people OF
this territory is close at hand.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22

If you want bills distri buted any
where in Oklahoma, write Smith, the
bill distributor, box 260, Guthrie Ok
lnhoma 1Gtf
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22

No More Little shAvsrs Carried.
San Franeiscos nunlclpal officials
have decreed that no bicycle rider can
carry on his wheel a child under six
years OF age.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22

THE LEADER Bindery Is one OF the best
institutions OF the kind in the West and Is
daily turning out large quantities Of work.
Send in your orders for binding and blank
books and thsy will be promptly attended
-.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22


If You Are Not Farmer and have yet to learn by experience
Nature will up your mistakes and will turn your
failures into kindly and surely here in okla
homa than in any other state or territory.
If You Are Farmer by experience and education your nte
gent labor will receive rich returns.
The Soil is rich productive fabe easily TILED soft
low garden.
The Water supply excellent and unaing
failing springs aud Xhaustble supply from wells
sunk from II to 30 feet
The Climate is mild and heahfu being happy medium be
tween Kansas and Arkansas Cool and refreshing nights
No winter weather.
The Rainfall uniform copous The government guage
Guthrie shows this rainfall of COZ inches in June
4.64 inches in July, and 30 inches in August
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22

The DAILY LEADER accepts adveFtls-
ing with the distinct and positive guar
antee that It has double the paid
circulation Of any newspaper published in
Oklahoma.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22
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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22

What The latest is the bridge the Cottonwood
the that leads to store has been closed
bridge unsafe much trade going to the West
Side? think little of both, and the two together
were heavy the counclor the bridge we
said But customers will have no trouble III
finding if they will follow the line OF cotton wagons
Oklahoma and the creek on the
bth street bridge.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22

Guthrie, Oklahoma
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Contains each month"; An original
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NOW Is THE TIME TO BUY A SNAP.

Sow the land in fall crop will nearl
pay for the land
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22
We viii again begin giving
SPECIAL BARGAINS ON FRIDAY
OF Each Week,

Saturdays will give you special inducements
to Friday
FRIDAY, SEPT H. will sell Ladies and Misses Shoes at
actual cost
FRIDAY SEPT lS We will sell Mems and Boys Shoes at
actual
FRIDAY SEPT 25 will the best bargains offered
in Guthrie We will sell on that date Mems, Boys and
Clothing cost lin suits only Never before
have the people of Guthrie and vicinity had the
select from New and Clean Stock of Cloth
ing at Actual Cost
ABOVE SALES WILL BE FOR CASH ONLY
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22

rhe omelai organ or Logan county.
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CHE Eeanes.

ny the Leader rrrnuns Company.
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LESLIE a NrnrAcK, Editor
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22

omelal organ of oklahoma Democracy.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-09-22

100 acres one mile west OF town; all
100 acres In cultivation; ten room house
cost $1,000, barns, outhouses, granaries
etc. $50 PER acre will buy this farm
671s acl es Of Cottonwood river bottom
land; every inch tllable; o e-half mile
from Guthrie, borders on the Cottonwood
river: no improvements TO amount TO
anything SO per acre 10 will take this
choice tract of land. and should Guthrie
become the capitol OF the new state, IL
IN sell for $500 per acre within five
years; not on % boom but because II viii
be worth the money.
Fine quarter section; living stream;
100 acres in cultivation; 30 acres In pas
ture; 400 fruit trees. Price $500; wants
an offer. VIII sell az a bargains good
reason given.
Excellent 100 acre farmi 100 ac rs ~
nue state OF cultivatiuui 20 acres b tom
laudi good large housei wei price fl,hpG.
100 acres four miles from Guthrie. al
fenced, seventy acres tn cultlVatiuni one
story five room house, cJst $500, Con
sidcrati0u l,s0O.
100 acres: so IN cultivation; good thre
room frame house we'll finished; fire
we'll; pump; 3 acre orchard; living
spring IN pasture close 10 barn; granai-
les; barn for four horses; hen house an
other out buildings; fine grove OF fore 2
tre- $; 40 acres In pasture; good safe cav,
black sandy loan. Price sl,d0O
100 acres; 90 acres IN cultivation; SO
ARE pastures good well splendi9 wat Z
at depth Of seventeen leeti frame house
liX2u, log house llX20l 50 bic for fof
horses; some timber; 2iO fruit tre,
black berries, etc. Fine chance TO bul d
comfortable home cheap; ! acre pait1
for garden spot; school house near.
three miles from Crescent City. PIce