Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-12
THE DOKlES
Gave Unique Street Parade Last Evening
Followed by Ceremonial Session and
Banouet-The Victims.

Gave Unique street farNoe Last F'chihE
Followed by Ceremonial Session and
banquet Victims.
The "Dokies" had their innings last
night. Their street parade and cere-
monial session was a ''hot finish to a
notable day.
The Dramatic Order Knights Of
Khorassan, the double jointed title Of
the "Dokies," assembled at Castle Hall,
corner Twenty-seventh and Chapline
streets, early, and after doning the con-
ventional attire, which is very uncon-
ventional from any other point of view,
they formed in line and took up the
march to Tenth street and return. A
high dignitary on a jassaks, rode in
front of the procession, and cleared the
way for the Oriental pilgrims. Follow
ing him was Meister's full band Then
came a guard and the nights victims
holding to a long rope. The Knights
who have previously been indicted into
the mysteries of the order brought up
the rear. There was quite a bunch OF
them, and they presented a decidedly
picturesque appearance with their flow
ing robes and gay colors, each carrying
in his hands or mouth a stick of burn
ing red fire. The real things rode in
carriages, but their number was small.
All along the line of march there
were dense crowds. All who witnessed
the afternoon parade. all who did not
witness it, together with their sisters,
their cousins and their aunts, had as
cembled on Market street between
Eleventh and Sixteenth. Such a push
ing. surging, but withal good natured
mass of humanity has seldom before
been seen in Wheeling. The wires
stretched to keep the spectators on the
sidewalks failed to resist the weight
and pressure of the crowds behind, and
were broken in a number of places,
followed by a crush and rush that en-
dangered the life and limb of all who
were involved in it.
The rag time parade ended about nine
o'clock at the starting point. Then
there were "doins" The only evidence
of what transpired in the Temple was
auricular. but it suggested all kinds OF
torture and incidentlly several vari-
cites of undiluted merriment 1t is
said that those who prompted and con-
Quoted the proceedings were:
Venerable Sheik, W. ]. Cook.
Royal Vizier, William Mccormick.
Grand Emir, E. s. Ellis.
Mahedi, w. H. Rose.
Mental. s. R. Graves.
Sahib, George Hartong.
Mokanna, Paul Flack.
Joe, David White
Ben Higgins, the man with the due
book
These were the victims, who will be
not at home to callers, and will eat
their meals in a standing position for a
week or more:
luther w. Blayney, OF Ronev's Point;
Louis Seheehle. Of Martins Ferry:
Frank Nesbitt, VIII Miller, Louis Hoff-
man, of Wheeling; Lester Smith, OF
Elm Grove; ]. H. Hanks. OF Sisters
Vile; Jess E MeCausland, of Wheel
ing: G. E. Work, of SistersviIle; C. W.
Black. of Sistersville: John Hetzel. OF
Sistersville: W. R Flemming. Of Sis
tersville: C. NJ. Logston. Of Wheeling:
Joseph Weisgerber. OF Wheeling: Geo.
b Heller, of Wheeling; E. T. Howell.
Of Pittsburg: J. Wilson White. of
Wheeling: T. F. Anderson. of Jarvis
vile: George ". Beller. Of Charleston;
w ]. Miller, of Wheeling: Dr. H. P.
Linsz, Louis Schwalb, Albert Capps. Of
Wheeling; T. c. Henderson. of Sisters
vile; ]. f. Sutton. of Sistersyille: J. G.
Kline. Of Wheeling; w. r. Stoops. OF
wheeling: C. F. Wendell. of Wheeling.
IN G. Bcadwing. Of Wheeling; H. P.
enan. of Wheeling; James Cow. OF
u eeling: Charles E. Metz. of Wheel
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