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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-04-15


Gladly as would millions Of his
fellow countrymen welcome an oppor.
tunity TO vote for Admiral Dewey as a
candidate for president Of the United
States, there has yet come, with his
definite announcement that he would
consider such a thing for not even a
moment, feeling OF relief through
the certainty that at no time will any
American be compelled through 10y
atty to his political principles, 20 do
anght, save in the direction OF crafty
ing the aspiration OF the heart of the
hero of Manila. AS admiral OF the
navy, in which position he will 60
down TO an honored grave, he will al
ways be the recipient in the full OF
every attestation OF admiration and
affection Of which this whole people
is capable. Had he, on the other hand,
for a moment even, yielded TO the
ambition honorable and worthy, to
be the president Of his country, he
would thereby and therein have sepa.
rated himself from approximately one
half OF his fellow citizens through the
necessary and inevitable diHeIe
Of view that arise under popular gov
ernment with It's concomitant OF an
elective system. But today and for
all time he is aud will be the idol OF
every American, rendered the more
dear because hisawell-won glories
have not caused him 10 harken to any
call Of service rave that which has
been his life's work for all his country
men.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-04-15

Is THE parable Of the talents the
money lender had case like our
school fund contention. When the
lord OF the servants asked for the one
talent the servant said Of deposited
it. That you know is not a loan, hence
/ have no interest for you. But the
lord knew he lied. Times Journal.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-04-15

Effective March 18th, the following
second class passenger rates VIII ap-
ply from Guthrie san Francisco,
Los Angeles and other California
points taking same rate will be So. so,
Portland. Seattle, Tacoma and other
Oregon points taking same rate Will be
s32 95, For further particulars call on
A. j. Corkins, Agent santa fe route.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-04-15

THE sudden activity Of Coal Oil In
specter Ewing is alarming. Why
wasn't all this oil condemned months
ago2 Can it be possible that Shorty
has had the nuid buried and harpoons
it now as a direct thrust at Legislative
s.a.nAn
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-04-15

THn LEADERS Scripps McRae ser-
vice gives today the news which will
come by the Associated Press TO the
Capital tomorrow morning
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-04-15

The California Limited, Santa Fe
Route, solid between Chicago aud Los
Angeles. Time, 2M days, Electric
lighted. Three times a week.
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OkiahoBia Ga-offer.

The Leader has few copies cf the
oklahoma State Gazetteer, by q. W.
MeMillen, for sale at sl.50 each. Call
at the business ofiice aud get one while
they last,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-04-15

OUTSIDE papers arrive today with
the news which THE LEADER printed
yesterday.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-04-15

ABOUT this time last year powder
mills were busy blowing mp all over
the country.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-04-15

Barber shop and ladies observation
car on the California Limited via San
Ia Fe RoNte: service finer than ever
before
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-04-15
LIQUOR NOTICE.

To Whom II May Concern
Notice is hereby given that +. M wyatt
has this dag hled his petltion 10 sell al
retail spirituOus, vlnops and malt liquors Ia
Guthrie, Logan county, Oklahoma, and that
unless objection be hled on or before the
litn day Of April, A. ID. 1872 said petition
will be granted,
Guthrie, Okla, March 80. is99
r. =. MORTON, County Clerk
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-04-15

THE syndicate protectorate business
is a good thing. 10 works well in
Samoa.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-04-15

II you use Lilies pills YOU won't
have the grip.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-04-15

The Califor. "A Limited via Santa We
Route; finer aud faster than ever.
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The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-15

Paul Tip" pleaded guilty on Nov. and
was sentenced on that day TO twenty-five
years in the state prison.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-15
Four COrpses Packed in Zinc-Lined
Trunks Found in the st. Louis Union
station Baggage Room.
WERE SHIPPED FROM MEMPHIS
AND INTENDED FOR A MEDICAL COL
LEGE AT KEOTxUK, IA.
Thompson an Employe Of an Under
taking Firm which Has a Contract
for Burying Pauper Dead.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 14-Four zinc-lined
trunks, such as are used by travelling men
to carry samples, each containing a corpse.
were taken from the baggage room at the
Union Station to-day, and Frank Thomp-
son, who says he is city undertaken of
Memphis, Tenn, is under arrest. Charges
against Thompson are being formulated
For some time the police have been aware
that traffic in human bodies has been going
on through this city and have been on the
watch for evidence. Recently a shipment OF
four bodies in trunks was made, addressed
to w. H. Hanson, at Keokuk, Ia, to whom
those captured to-day were also consigned.
The expressman who hauled the trunks
from the Keokuk depot told the station
master there that he believed they con-
tanned bodies. An investigation was begun
and the police of this city were notified to
look out for any other shipments.
When taken to police headquarters
Thomps on told of the whole affair. He said
he hal the contract for burying the city
dead OF Memphis. For some time he had
been selling the bodies to medical colleges
| throughout this part OF the country. His
| method was to pack them with excelsior in
| drummers' Zinc-lined trunks and take them
| with him as baggage far as st. Louis.
/ From here he shipped the trunks to their
destination by express. Thompson said he
had been paid all the way from $50 to 500
per body. He said the name wv. II. Han
| son." to whom the trunks were consigned
| in Keokuk, is a fictitious one, but he re-
| fused to state who his consignee really was.
| In the trunks taken to-day were the bod
| les of two men and boy, all negroes, and
| a white woman. From appearances they all
| died from consumption or some other vast
| ing disease. The white woman was evil
| IDENTIFY some one of refinement. Her features
| are regular and her hair black. The front
| teeth are gold-filed. All the bodies are well
| preserved.
| This afternoon a man entered the morgue
| and was overheard by the police to utter
| some words that indicated he knew about
| the case. He was arrested on suspicion. The
| police will not reveal his name. Another ar
rest was also made. but 1t is believed to be
| unimpOrtant.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-15
LONG UNDER SUSPICION.
Thompson Thought to Have Disposed
Of nead ROdies.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Nov. H.-The following
telegram from the st. Louis chief of police
was received at police headquarters here
this afternoon:
I'VE have under arrest Frank Thompson
who 1 understand is undertaken in your
city. Arrested for having in charge four
trunks containing dead bodies, three black
and one white. Understand checked from
Memphis to Keokuk for disposal at that
point. What do you know about him?"
The news of Thompson's arrest in St.
Louis was not a surprise TO the police OF
this city, who have suspected for some time
that a wholesale robbery Of bodies was be-
ing carried on in this city. Frank Thomp-
son is an employe of the undertaking firm Of
E. d. Thompson & Co., who have held the
office of county undertaken for several
years The first time Thompson came con-
spicuously before the public a little
over year ago, when the newspapers made
the sensational announcement that corpses
were being shipped from here by express IN
boxes supposed to contain books. The nome
of Thompson was connected with the affair,
but it was never possible to trace the ru.
mors down to a satisfactory knowledge or
the facts. 1t was never shown that the
Thompson whose name was associated with
that clandestine traffic was connected with
the Thompson who Officiated as county nm
dertaker here. though Frank Thompson. s
it. He always denied that he was engaged
in the corpse trade.
The records at the city Board Of Health
show that the following bodies have been
turned over to the county rndeTraker in the
| last week: Lulu Jones, Carrie Gray, George
| Butler Rufus Jack, Frank Jackson, Will
| liam White. All of these are negroes. The
Identification of the white woman whose
| body was found in one Of the trunks has
| aroused considerable interest among the po-
lice. The records show that firm of
Thompson & Co. have buried several white
| women recently and further developments
| are expected. Lulu Atkins, white girl
| died at the City Hospital on Oct. q, and.
being without friends or money. she was
| turned over to the county undertaken. She
came here from Arkansas
! Chief of Police Richards announced to-
| night that Thompson would be brought to
| Memphis for trial.
| At a late hour tonight 1t was learned that
| the white woman whose body was found In
one of the four trunks captured by the
| police in St. Louis was Mrs. Jennie r. Nc
CURE. The woman had been in the Shelby
| county insane asylum, coming here from
| Little Rock about nine months ago. On
| Friday last she died Of cancer and the re-
| mains were turned over to +. d. Thompson
| e. Co. for interment
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-15
WANTS MORGAN's SEAT.
Governor Johnston a Candidate for
Senator from Alabama.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Nov. H-Joseph
r. Johnston announced to-day his candi-
dacy for the Democratic nomination to the
United States Senate, to succeed Senator
Morgan. Johnston and Morgan will open
the campaign with joint debate at Athens
next Saturday. Several days ago Governor
Johnston announced that he would deliver
several speeches in Limestone county. A
day or two afterward he received tele-
gram from Senator Morgan. requesting the
Governor to divide time with him in the
meetings. The Governor wired that he did
not consider it good policy for Democrats
to meet each other on the stump, but that
in Difference to the distinguished senator's
desire he would meet him at Athens 1t is
understood that this will be the only joint
discussion of the campaign, as it is said
TO be the Governors idea that it is i'm
practicable TO meet all of his opponents for
nomination in a series of discussions with
out negiectinG the duties of the office which
he now occupies.
The contest between Morgan and john
ston promises to be interesting. They
unQuestionably the strongest men in Ala
bama politically. Other prominent candi-
dates for the senatorial nomination are
former Governor VIM. c. Oates and Col.
John ID. Roquemore, of Montgomery. If
the issue between Morgan and Johnston
becomes as sharp indications now prom
ise one of these may stand an excellent
chance.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-15
ARISTOCRACY OF CORN.
New Product, CellulOse, Will Make
the Crop More Profitable.
Brooklyn Eagle.


Dollar wheat knocked the free-silver
lunacy into moral limbo. but that is nothing
to the financial. social and political revolu
ton likely 10 spring from the discovery OF
a new use for cornstalks. The indigestibie
pith of this fiber, which has been used chief
ly for electrical experiments before the
classes in physics in the old-fashioned high
schools Is found TO make almost as good
protection for warships below the water
line as steel Its great lightness and its
capacity to swell on the application of mois
make il pretty nearly impervious TO shot A
genius named Marsden discovered this use
ana he convinced the Cramps. so that
packing of cellulose-which is the CONNER
cial name of corn pith-is now used on new
warsh;ps.
Marsden has factory for the preparation
OF this by-product at Owensboro, Ky, where
he handles 12.O00 tons of cornstalks a year.
He proposes to build other plants, one at
Peoria, H., another at Lynden, Ind, and
one somewhere on the Atlantic seaboard, TO
prepare his cellulose for export He has al
ready interested foreign capitalists in the
project and according TO the hopeful Mars
den-whose name does not seem TO be Null
berry Sellers-it is only a question of time
when the new industry will reach the corn
belt OF Kansas and Nebraska When that
glad day comes look out for development
OF prosperity which will make the fortunes
heretofore piled up by the cotton kings, the
coal barons. the owners Of oil and gas wells
ana unlimited wheat farms. and the Klon-
dixie millionaires look commonplace.
See what Marsden has done for a few
ldi HSrS drOuuu OWenSDOrO. The corn on
an acre of ground is worth somewhere
from Sc to 81, and the fodder has hereto
fore been worth from 30 to co cents There
are two tons of stalks TO an acre. Marsden
pays the farmers $3.75 a ton for this
product delivered at his factory after IL is
dry, which means after husking time when
the fall work is out of the way, so that
the hauling will be easy. Instead of 81 an
acre the farmer will reap close up TO SIS
from his corn land. Now count up the hun
dreds of thousands of acres of prairie al
ready devoted to corn without the induce
ment of double value for the crop. Instead
OF being millions in K, like the eye water,
there promise to be trillions The best OF
TINS scheme is that II works, or at least
has begun to work. There will be three
cellulose factories ready for next years
crop, and how much the future uses OF
the new product will develop the Industry
no one can foresee. 1t must be vastly cheap D.
er than cork for life preservers, for one lit
tie item.
All this new wealth is to be made right
IN the heart of Populism. Really BRYAN
should be sure to get elected next year
AFTER that the stars in their courses and
the cornstalks on a thousand prairies will
fght against the prophets of calamity.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-15
THE VOTING MACHINES.
Results of Their Use I'm New York
Generally Satisfactory.
Rochester Democrat,

In the elections on Tuesday, Nov. z. 225
Standard voting machines were used in this
Rochester. %; Utica, 26; Ithaca 10: Albion
D; Canisteo, 2. and West Winfield l. Extra
machines held in reserve to meet accidents
or other emergencies are not included in
the enumeration.
High praises of the machines come from
all quarters They have met every promise
automatic and instantaneous footings of the
total number of votes cast for each candi-
date and a promptness in announcing the
aggregate result IN a city or village propor-
toned TO the quickness with which the re-
turns from each district were conveyed to a
central point and tabulated. Ithaca seems
10 be the banner town in this last respect.
with a record of seventeen minutes in gath
ertng and adding the figures from ten ma
chimes.
OF the 295 machines used mishaps were
reported TO only seven, and these were due
in three cases to malicious vandalism and
breakage by violence. in three cases to a
displacement OF keys by election officers.
delaying the unlocking of the machines
promptly at the appointed time on election
morning and in one case TO the strong arm
Of an ignorant fellow who gave the voting
lever a fierce wrench in the wrong direc-
tion. In none of these cases was a serious
delay caused nor did single citizen lost his
vote.
In addition to their speed and accuracy
the machines are so constructed as to make
II impossible to cast defective vote, to
repeat or 10 commit any fraud or irregu-
larity. On the score Of guaranteeing to
every citizen the exercise of the voting priv
ilege without risk OF disfranchisement on
account of blunders the machines seem alb
solutely perfect Their superiority to the
official ballot ins this respect is plain and
striking and is demonstrated by official
records.
the inventive triumphs of the age and n Is
as sure in the near future to displace the
printed ballot as steam has proved to be In
putting out Of date the stage coach and the
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-15
Another Clerical Error.

FRANKFORT, KY, Nov. H-There were
few new developments at the state Capitol
to-day in the muddle over the governor
ship. A majority of the Democratic poll
ticians inclined to give it up, but Mr..
Goebel, according to his own statement, re-
mains serenely confident and says: II know
I have been elected"
Zack Phelps, Aaron Kohn and Lee Suffer-
of Louisville. arrived tonight, and it is
said they brought with them and laid be-
fore the Democratic campaign committee
the plans by which they hope to cut down
the Republican vote in Jefferson county
several hundred.
An amusing feature of the situation devel-
oped to-day when ii became known that
more than 5000 votes in Fayette county had
been cast for j. G. w. Bickham, instead of
Beckham, for Lieutenant Governor. In
Nelson county Beckhams home, by cler-
ical error of the Democratic clerk General
Taylor's name printed as w. p. Tay-
lor, instead of w. S. Taylor. To-day,
when Beckham's friends discovered what
had happened in Fayette. they served no.
tice on the Goebel people that no contest
must be maze on the Nelson county vote.
and, as a result, Taylor Will not lose 1,100
votes cast for him there and all of the
votes cast for Bickham in Fayette will be
counted for Beckham.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-15
COLOR LINE In CUBA.
Americans Punished for Refusing to
Cater to q CclOred Officer.

HAVANA, Nov. 14-Three Americans
Hanson King and Holland-have each been
sentenced to two months Imprisonment and
to pay a fine of s65 and two-thirds of the
costs of the proceedings for placing over
their saloon a sign reading: I'VE cater to
white people only" Their place had been
closed in January last by order Of the civil
Governor, because they had refused to serve
a colored Cuban general, but they had been
allowed to open the saloon again on prom
Using to serve the public without distinction
of color. The defendants have appealed the
case. the costs of which already amount to
5000. A letter has been published in a paper
of this city written by another colored Gu
ban general complaining that the owner of
a barber shop had refused to cut his hair
on account Of his color.
la Lucha and the Journal comment ad-
versely on the decision of the Audiencia
regarding the Washington cafe color line.
The Journal says: THE law under which
the sentence was imposed is a relic of the
ancient regime and should not be permitted
to exist longer. A fine is bad enough. but
to send the offenders to Jail is a violation
of the very principles of liberty for which
the Cubans claim to have fought and for
aided them in lighting"
The students of Havana University held
a meeting tonight to protest against the
posed by Senior Lanuza. They threaten 10
withdraw and thus to compel the institu-
tion to close it's doors If the university au-
thorities attempt to carry out the proposals.
General Wilson, military governor of the
department of Matanzas-Santa Clara, will
sail tomorrow to make a tour of the island
particularly the coast cities of Matanzas
and Santa Clara.
The bark New Venice, from Key West
which vas captured off Porto Padre under
conditions that excited suspicion. was found
to have several hundred pounds of dyna-
mite on board. 1t is supposed that she in
tended to poach fish in Cuban waters. The
captain and officers have been placed under
arrest and the dynamite has been confis-
Gated. Collector Bliss has not yet decided
what further steps he will take.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-15
CARNEGIE WILL REMAIN.
Will Continue i'm Business with Frick
and His Other Partners.

PITTSBURG, Pa. Nov. 4.-The following
official statement explains itself:
"At meeting of the Carnegie Steel Com
pany and Frick Coke Company interests
held to-day 1t was resolved that no change
be made either in organization, ownership
or policy. Mr. Carnegie signifed his entire
concurrence with this action and expressed
himself as delighted to continue as before
with his partners.
With reference to the recent newspaper
reports of war between the Rockefeller and
Carnegie interests, the company states that
these have no foundation in fact. The
Rockefeller fleet carries the ore mined by
the Carnegie Steel Company from the mines
leased from Rockefeller, about 1,50O 900 tons
per annum, but the Rockefeller boats being
unable 70 transport more of the Carnegie
ore, which was offered, the Carnegie Steel
Company was compelled to provide its own
boats, its total shipments being 4,5O0OO0 tons
There is no truth in the report that the
Carnegie Steel Company contemplates going
into ship-building at Conneaut"