The Coffeyville Daily Journal from Coffeyville, Kansas • Page 1

Si if hi if 51 Ik i- VOLUME 11. COFFEYVILLE, KANSAS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1903. NUMBER 292. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES, HOME NEWS WHILE IT IS NEWS---THAT'S THE JOURNAL fiOl'if fHltifiil THE WEATHER. farce comedy.

The play comes to the nni SHOT BY PRINCESS INT. Ill Kill ft unui hi ence report: In twenty-four days the banks well No. 1 in the Independence field produced $10,000 worth of oil, at $1.32 a barrel, or about 7,575 barrels. The well is now making about 300 barrels daily, flowing steadily, recently coming to flows by heads. Mr.

Ryder, who is in charge of the de-velopment, is very much gratified with the prospects on this tract and will rush development as rapidly as possible. i IS 0 LARGE NUMBER OF ATTORNEYS WENT UP FROM COFFEYVILLE. ARE 184 CASES FOR TRIAL The December Term Will Be Full of Business Twlenty-eight Divorce Cases for Trial. The December term of the district courj; convened at Independence Monday "morning and the following members of the Coffeyville bar went up to attend: Judge Osborn, T. E.

Wagstaff, J. H. Keith, T. G. Ayres, Vin Moore Harry Brown, Judge Snelling, J.

H. Dana, W. E. Ziegler and R. P.

Kercheval. There are 184 cases set for this term of court and in all probabilities Judge Flannelly will have a full term. Of course many of these cases are already settled, many dismissed and a great many will be continued until the next term, so that the number of cases does not cut such a figure. There are eighteen criminal cases, none of them being trials for crimes of any magnitude. There are sixty-five jury cases.

Of these a large number are suits for damages, to re-over money, school cases, and a number of other causes. The court cases number just an even hundreld. Of these twenty-eight are divorce cases. A FAMOUS FLAG, Old Battle-Marked British Flag Down in Territory. Miami Republican: An aged Chip pewa Indian, Joseph McCoonse, has on exhibition in the office of Coocer, Thompson Thompson of this city, a British flag of ancient make and design, torn and rent with marks of battle, which has been in his family since it was captured from the famous chief Tecumseh, in the decisive battle of Thames, in 1813.

It is about nine feet long ard four and one-half feet wide. The bedy is red, in the upper left hand corner is a cross of red, and in the four squares made by the cross are red and blue stripes running in an angle similar to all British flags. The tradition is that this flag was captured by Supeneau McCoonse (grandfatner of Joseph McCoonse) at the battle of Thames, in upper Can ada, on the 5th day of October, 1813. The battle was fought between the forces of General Harrison and the Ottawa, Chippewa and Pottawatomie tribes as Indian allies on one side, and the British forces under Proctor and" their Indian allies under the command of the famous Indian, Chief Tecumseh, on the other. Before the battle there were select ed two of the bravest warriors from each of the three tribes, Ottawas, Chippewas and Potjtawatomies, who took upon themselves a vow on the 4th of October, 1813, to the famous chief, Tecumseh.

On the next day, the great battle was fought. One of these warriors killed Tecumseh and wrested from, his command the English flag, which has from that time been in the possession of the McCoonse family, and' handed down by the grandfather and father of Joseph McCoonse, who has had it himself since the death of his father. The tradition relates that in recog nition of this incident the three arrows held in the claws of the eagle on the silver coins of the United States rep resent these three tribes the faithful allies of the United States, in that Important campaign and the eagle, the national emblem of the United States, feathers from which were worn on the heads by the warriors of said tribes. '-i Down to Reason. 7 From the Kansas Derrick Independ- COURT OPENE Auditorium tonight.

GET GOOD WELL. Coffeyville. Oil Company Makes a Strike Near Peru. The Missouri Oil and Gas company brought in a fine oil well on its farm lease southwest of Peru Saturday morning. The company has two drilling outfits at work of its holdings in Peru and another on its leases at Humboldt.

These wells will probably be Christmas presents. VICTIM OF PARALYSIS. Charles T. Carpentejr's Father Died in Oswego Sunday. Charles Carpenter received the sad news Sunday that his father was dead at his home in Oswego.

Mr. Carpenter went to Oswego Sunday evefaing and Carpenter went Monday evening. The funeral services will be held at Oswego Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Carpenter was past 60 years of age and leaves a wife and six children.

Hef was one of the pioneers of Oswego, having lived in Labette county for thirty years. He came from Tennessee. He was stricken with paralysis seven years ago and has been gradually growing weaker ever since. SHOT THROUGH WINDOW. Man Near McPherson Attacked by an Assassin.

McPherson, Dec. 7. An attempt was made last night to assassinate Gus Elmore at his home north of Galva. Some one! fired a shot through the window. A harge of No.

4 shot struck him in the side of the face and shoulder. The shot was considerably scattered and did not penetrate deeply. There was no one else at home and after the shooting Elmore rode to Galva almost dead from loss of blood and exhaustion. It, is thought he will ecover. Arrests are expected.

The affair recalls the shoot-lag of Mayde Holmes by Dr. Ryno last year. Funeral notices have been received in the city announcing the death of Mrs. Whetstone. Mrs.

Whetstone was well known here, her husband having at one time been an, employe of The Journal. She died in Cherryvale. THE HOUSE COMMITTEES SPEAKER CANNON ANNOUNCES THE NEW ONES TODAY Calderhead, Murdock, Miller, Curtis, Campbell, Reeder and Bowersock of Kansas Land Jobs. Washington, Dec. 7.

Speaker Cannon announced to the house the committees upon convening of that body today. Kansas members were assigned as follows Banking and currency, Calderhead; postoffice and post roads, Murdock; public lands, Miller, Indian affairs, Curtis; invalid pensions, Calderhead; pensions, Campbell; District Columbia, Campbell; irrigation of arid lands, Reeder; industrial arts and expositions, Bexersock. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS BRIEFS. Judge William Springer of Illinois and Indian Territory is dangerously ill in Washington, D. with pneu monia.

Three bandits in Northern Sonora, Mexico, were surrounded by Mexican regulars and put to death. They be longed to Juan Colorado's gang. Fire destroyed the Grovenor flouring mills ac Kingman, operated by W. C. Fairless.

Loss on building and ma chinery about $15,000. Insurance, $8,000. The total number of cases of typhoid fever reported in Butler, Thurs day to the state board of health was 1,143. The belief is general that the worst is over. Hypnotism will be the plea of Emd Roeski.

one of the Chicago car barn bandits, as his defense on trial fr murder. Roeski claims he was hypno tised by Peter Neidermeler. John G. Carlisle has been named as a representative of the United States In' the arbitration of the claims in the San Domingo Improvement company against too Dominican republic, which was arranged for byformer President Wos Gil as one of the last of his osciai acta. The thermometer Saturday night went down to a minimum of 15 degrees.

The maximum temperature Saturday was 42 degrees. During Sunday night the temperature fell to 20 degrees, with a maximum of 52 degrees for the twenty-four hours preceding the reading at 9 o'clock this morning. The official forecast for Tuesday is for cooler weather and a continuation of the splendid fair, clear skies. The forecast follows: Kansas Generally fair tonight and Tuesday; Tuesday slightly cooler. Missouri Fair tonight: Tuesday cooler.

Nebraska Fair tonight and Tuesday; Tuesday colder in east portion. was selected to take charge of the nursery for the Kansas building. The following have been asked by the Kansas commission to write arti cles and furnishing illustrations for a souvenir Kansas book for free distri bution to visitors at the fair: His torical, T. A. McNeal; education, Chancellor Strong; argiculture and ive stock, F.

D. Coburn; horticulture, W. F. Schell; mines, mining, manu- acturing and transportation, G. P.

Grimsley; art and clubs, Mrs. C. F. Dassler; state institutions, H. J.

Allen, George W. Martin is to be edi tor-in-chief of the publication. hoiks is in session THE FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS CONVENED AT NOON TODAY. Extra Session Robbed the First Day of the Regular Session of Many Interesting Features. WnshinHnn.

Dec. 7. The first regular session of the fifty-eighth con gress began at noon today, but the senate met half an hour previous to that time in accordance with the ad journment of Saturday last for the purpose of permitting an orderly term- inntinn nf the called session. The fact that there has been an extra ses sion'had the effect of robbing the first day of the regular session of manv features wheih usually char acterize a first day. The president today sent the Pan ama canal treaty to the senate for ratification.

The president will send to the sen ate today the nomination of General Wood and those of 167 other officers dependent upon Wood's promotion. He will also send in the nominations of about twenty-five civilian appointees who failed of confirmation, including Dr. Crum, to be collector of the port of Charleston. ATTACHED BY THE SHERIFF. Carrie Nation's Show Comes to Grief in Pennsylvania.

York, Dec. 7. The Carrie Nation show, booked for this point Satur day, was attached by Sheriff Peeling. It has not been a success financially and in the coal regions, where big business was expecqed, the returns were very light. Mrs.

Nation may allow the scant effects to be taken and move on, reopening with slight inter ruption. WILLIAM'S CONDITION SERIOUS. It Is Said the German Emperor Him self Is Apprehensive. Paris, Dec. 7.

Information received here through authoritative channels from Berlin represent the condition "of Emperor William as being less satisfactory than is officially admitted. It is said that the emperor himself is seriously apprehensive. Murder and Suicide. New York, Dec. 7.

Lestefr C. Fitz gerald, a glass manufacturer, shot and killed his wife at a 'hotel in Brooklyn last night and then killed himself because he was unable to ef fect a reconciliation. INDIANA GLASSWORKERS CLAIM BREACH OF FAlTH. ASK FOR RETURN OF $75,000 Money Loaned to Hartford City Pro prietor on the Condition That He Sign Wage Scale. The Hartford City (Ind.) Times says: Notice has been served on John R.

Johnson, president, and Treas urer Monroe of the Federation Glass company that the L. A. 300 would ex pect the return of the loan of $75,000 made the company a few months ago within thirty days. It will be remem bered that at a meeting of the glass- workers and manufacturers an agreement was reached by which the L. A.

300 should loan the Federation $75,000 for four months with interest, taking as security 30,000 boxes of glass which is in the warehouses of the company. In return for this the mem bers of the Federation were to sign the scale adopted by the two unions and put their factories into operation. The manufacturers were given thirty days in which to sign the scale. Mr. Johnston put off the signing until the last day and then Messrs.

St. Peter and Core visited him in his fac tory in this city and the scale was signed. It isalleged that the signing of the scale was not in good faith and that Mr. Johnston at once started in. to get men to go to work with a pri vate agreement, regardless of the scale which he had agreed to pay.

This, it is claimed by the officers of L. A. 300, was an act of bad faith and yesterday Secretary St. Peter made the demand mentioned above. SCENE WAS REALISTIC.

Actress Failure to Stab Board the Hero Wore. Gervais, Dec. 7. Robert Mat- terson of Minneapolis, a traveling showman, was stabbed in the breast at the opera house last night, and is in i. precarious condition.

During the entertainment a farce is played in which the woma in the case stabs the leading character. To make, it realistic the actor wears a board under his clothing. In this instance the heorine struck too high and the knife pierced the left lung, barely missing the heart. Mat-teson was taken to a hospital in Port land. The wound may yet result in deach, as internal hemorrhages occurred.

BUSINESS IS PARALYZED Martial Law is Having Harowing Effect in Cripple CHeeK. Cripple Creek, Dec. 7. The leclara- tion of martial law has paralyzed business here. Heavily armed pickets of the state milita are stationed on all the street corners and many resi dents do not venture upon the streets.

Provost Marshall McClelland is occupying the mayors office, and has caused the arrest of several persons. Newspaper censorship is likely. So Late ns That? An" Independence paper says: "The city council and mayor are earning their salaries these days. For three weeks they have been holding three or more session each week from midnight to 3 a.m." The' Coffeyville city, council has also been holding some special sessions, but they generally call the meeting to order before midnight. "Two Meirry Tramps." "Two Merry Tramps," Wood and Ward's comedy, actually has a well defined and oonsltent plot, is more than can be said of the average AN ACTRESS WOUNDED IN AUSTRIAN PRINCE'S APARTMENTS.

CONFRONTED BY HIS WIFE Princess Elizabeth Marie Shot the Opera Singer in the Breast and Then Fainted Away. Vienna, Dec. 7. A sensational story tached the effects of her show in the Princess Elizabeth Marie has shot and severely wounded a pretty actress of an opera, whom she found in the apartments of the Prince Otto of Windisch Graetz, her husband, in a palace on the estate of prince's family at Prague. It appears the prince had been paying attentions to the actress, and that a rejected suitor of.

the princess informed her that they had planned to meet in his apartments. The princess fired at the valet who refused her admittance to the room and entering the apartments she confronted the prince and the actress. He attempted to hold her but she fired point blank at the actress, who fell, wounded over the breast. The princess fainted. The couple was married a year ago.

The princess is a daughter of Crown Coffeyville I will sell my fine Strich at a hunting lodge several years ago -was the sensation of the day. The princess, who is a grand-daughter on her father's side of the emperor of Austria and on her mother's side of the king of Belgium, renounced her Tights to the throne of Austria a year ago to marry as her heart dictated. CHILD'S PLEA WON. Boys Pathetic Petition Opened the Prison Doors. Ithaca, N.

Dec. 7. After serving less than two years of a five years' sentence in Auburn prison for stealing $60,000 worth of bonds and $10,000 in jewelry, Charles D. Norris, formerly a car inspector here, has been freed through the efforts of his 9-year-old son. Norris the property from the private car of a wealthy theatrical manager as it stood on a side track here.

The theft was not discovered until the following day, but his arrest and 'Uhe recovery of the property quickly ensured. When sent to prison his wife and three children were left to strugggle for existence. They all secured employment and when Gov. Odell visited the city recently the eldest child a boy of 9 penned a touching appeal to the chief executive for the father's pardon. He sealed it neatly, and as the governor was about to board his car the little fellow handed him the letter.

After investigating the case the boy's plea was granted and Norris has been restored, to his family. World's Fair Appintments. Toneka Dec. 7. The world's fair board today filled some minor appoint ments.

Mrs. Noble Prentis was selected as hostess for the Kansas building. Miss Grace Redfield of Fort Scott, PRINCIPAL NEWS IN TODAY'S PAPER 1. An Austrian Scandal. Congress Is in Session.

Glassworkers Troubles. House Committees. City News Briefs. Telegraphic News Briefs. District Court.

Opens. An Oklahoma Tragedy. 2. Editorial. I and 4 President's 'Message.

Purely 6. Suit Over Oil Land. i i it 4 i -'I 1 i i I i FIRE IN CEMETERY. Burning Grass Threatened to Ruin Monuments and Trees. Sunday morning the fire department was called to Elmwood cemetery to put out a threatening prairie fire.4 Fire, communicated to the grass possibly by a Katy engine and possibly by boys with matches, threatened ruination to many of the handsome tombstones.

The department was compelled to ay 1,100 feet of hose and had con siderable difficulty in getting the rap- idly spreading fire under headway. A ew feet more and the tall grass would have been ignited and the damage to shrubbery, trees, and monuments would have been heavy. As it was the damage was slight. AN OKLAHOMA TRAGEDY MAN KILLS A BROTHER AND FA TALLY WOUNDS ANOTHER. Deed Committed With a Stick of Stove Wood at the Home of Murderer's Divorced Wife.

Oklahoma City, O. Dec. 7. Six miles south of here yesterday, Oscar Letheredge killed Oscar Smith, his brother-in-law, by crushing his skull with a stick of stove wood, and prob ably fatally wounded the latters brother, J. E.

Smith, both boys. Leth- eredge's wife, who had secured a di vorce from him, had gone to her father's home. He went there to see them and when the elder Sinith refused him admittance, Letheredge forced the door. The boys tried to eject him and the fatal fight followed. NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otis Moore of Elwood, has. accepted a position in Slosson's drug store. The local members of the Order of Railway Clerks of America have just received handsome lapel Initial but- tons. The lime plant at Sedan has installed a crusher and is now ready to supply glass sand to the glass plants of this county. There; were large crowds and a fine interest at the revival services at the Methodist church on Sunday.

Meetings continue this week, begin ning each evening at 7:30 o'clock. Tonight the fourth quarterly Love Feast will be held in connection with the revival services. John Muhlemen, J. R. Holland, and R.

Snappers, of the helpers union, will start out on a fish- ing and hunting trip the coming week. They have promised, their friends all the game they can eat for the next few weeks to come if ihey are successful in killing any. Architect George S. Colby has just completed the plans for a new fifteen-room boarding and rooming house to be erected by Nick Miller on the corner of East Ninth and Railroad' streets. The plans are for a handsome big frame structure and will be an ornament to that particular locality.

In giving the list of guests entertained by Mrs. Dan Wells in Saturday's Journal, the following names were unintentionally omitted by the person furnishing the list: Mesdames Robert Wells, Hazzard Read, W. S. Upham, John Lang, F. M.

Newmans J. J. Barndollar, W. H. Mahan, C.

T. Carpenter and C. L. Long. 5 Miss Rosa Bell's residence was moved Monday from 1208 Willow street to a lot in the Boswell addition.

Miss Bell will erect a two-story residence on the old site. John Holland, a packer at the Coffeyville window "glass plant, was severely injured Monday while packing a box of glass. A pane fell on hla left wrist, severing two big arteries. He will be compelled to lay off for some time. J.

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