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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-12-22

This forenoon while an en-
gine was switching in the yards
north Of the passenger depot,
an accident occurred resulting
in the overturning of a box car
loaded with culvert timbers.
No one was hurt aud no great
amount of damage done TO the
car beyond throwing ii from
the TRACK where it lies upon its
side.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-12-22

Persons shooting fireworks on
Main street viii be prosecuted
to the full extent Of the law.
Arthur WALcoTT.
United States COMMISSIONS.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-12-22
BOYS Quarrel.

Rayburn Wilkes and Cecil
Frensley. two little fellows had
a quarrel over a eroquet ball,
resulting in Cecil being serious
ly injured about the head by a
brick bat or rock thrown by the
Wilkes boy.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-12-22

Our turkeys are stall fed on
pecans, chestnuts and aeorns,
which, Of course, makes them the
finest in the market. We will be
pleased to have your orders for
dressed ducks, chickens. turkeys
and quails.
It. b. JOHNSON & Co.
81 3t French Market.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-12-22

Just try a 10e box of Cascarets,
the finest liver and bowel regulator
ev made.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-12-22

Kinstonia cigars, the kind
your husband smokes, one dol
lar per box at Coleman &
Lynn's. 2O-lw
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-12-22

If you want the best cake
pans in the world, something
new, 20 to j. NJ. Golledge a.
Co.'s, headquarters for all up
to-date tinware.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-12-22

THE ARDNoREITE-Job Printing
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-20
EXAMINATIONS OF PENSIONERS.
The Assistant Secretary of the Interior Is.
 sues New Rules.

The Assistant Secretary of the Interior Is.
 sues New Rules.
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-In order to guard against irregular and illegal practices by members of the pension boards of examining surgeons, Assist ant Secretary Jobn w. Reynolds, of the interior department, has issued rules to Overn exami1ations- of pen sion applicants by these boards. They are:
 l. Whenever claimant shall have been or dered and appears before q board Of examining surgeons for examination, all the members or such board shall participate in such examina- tion and no certifc ate from such board will be accepted which fails to show this fact, except where claimant on appearing and finding less number of surgeons than the full board present shall consent in writing on such certih- sate to be examined by such board then pres- ant
 ?. The secretary Of the board shall cer5ify on Inc back of the certificate the names of all the members of the board who were present and were participating in such examination. and when full board have participated in the ex- animation the certificate of the secretary of the board will suffice so. but in case full board is not present the applicant may refuse to be examined and appear at 2 later day be- fore a full board
 2 These rules shall take effect only from the fst day of October, l896. and are not intended to disturb cases heretofore adjudicated, in good faith, according to the practice heretofore e1- tsting in the bureau of pensions,
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ministration would come in com mitted, in the most solemn manner, against the maintenance of the gold standard. He and his supporters be- lieve that the policy of the present ad- ministration, and of all previous ad- ministrations, in maintaining the gold standard is, and always has been, an outrageous oppression of the people. The election of Mir. Bryan would be an indorsement of that belief, and he would come in commanded to discon- tinue the redemption of "coin" obliga- tions in gold. It is nonsense to talk of his being kept in check by a sound money congress-" He would have the senate and claim to have the people on his side. He would understand that he was elected to deliver the people from the oppression of "the money power" There is no reason to doubt that the first day of his administration, as soon as his secretary of the treasury was sworn in, discrimination against silver in meeting "coin" obligations would cease, and in making such change there would be no violation of the Iet- ter of any law. It has been optional with any administration since 1878 to meet "coin" demands with either of the two kinds of legal tender coin.
 To those who believe that a change from the gold to silver basis would be disastrous it seems unnecessary to suggest that their chief concern should be the election of a sound money presi- dent. Those who hold the opposite opinion will understand that, by elect ing Mir. Bryan, they can ring in the change regardless of the house of rep entatives.-Washing Post.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-20
DEATH IN A STORM.

Many Lives Lost In Cloudburst in Pine
 Creek Valley, Near Pittsburgh.
 PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 14.-Probably 30 lives were lost and the whole Pine creek valley, eight miles in length, was devastated by a great food, caused by a cloudburst at six o'clock yesterday morning, which turned the morning into darkness and caused general ter TOT. At De Haven, an oil town six miles north of Allegheny City, every member of the Appleton family, Thomas Byrnes, Mrs. Thomp- son and others at present unknown were drowned and houses, oil tanks, barns and other buildings were swept away. The water was eight feet deep on the6 main streets at the floods height and people were forced to flee to the hill sides. Every street car line in this city was tied up and washouts blocked travel on nearly all railroads. At Etna the water rose so rapidly that the employees of Spang, Chatfal & Co. s iron mill were compelled to swim out to save their lives. The foundry of Walter Watkins was also flooded and the workmcn narrowly escaped.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-20
DRIFT OF OPINION.

DRepublicans have agreed to choose Mckinley electors in Montana, and they will be elected, too.-Chicago Times-Herald.
 DThe creditor class, which means everybody, is going to run this cam paign for honest money and the Amer ican home.-Philadelphia Press.
 URising prices without rising wages are heavy tax on the workingman; and this tax the advocates of free sil- yer coinage at the ratio of sixteen to one are seeking to levy on him. What is worse, they are asking him to help them with his vote.--Detroit Free Press (Dem.).
 DNinety days ago not one American in forty had ever heard of William J.. Bryan. Now he is a candidate for pres ident, and claims to be the savior of "the common people," This young man has been picked very green, and it is reasonable to suppose that he will suddenly wilt.-St Louis Globe-Dcm- oorpt.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-20
BRYAN TO MAKE A TOUR.

The Democratic Nominee Will Deliver
 Speeches from the Rear of Car.
 NEW YORK, Aug. lf.-W J. Bryan will travel the country over, address ing the crowds from the rear of rail. road car An announcement to this effect was prepared by the chairman of the national committee, Senator Jones. It was as follows: Ut has been decided that Mir. Bryan will enter with lively interest in the campaign about September and continue on the stump until the election. In order to obtain much needed rest and to pre- pare the letter of acceptance before the speech-making begins, he will spend the next two weeks at some quiet place not yet decided upon. Tho visit to Bath, Me, will, therefore, be postponed until the latter part of Sep tember, when Mir. Bryan will make Q number of speeches in New England"
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-20
HANSEN NEARING HOME.
The Explorer Was Close to the North Polsu
 hut Did Not Find It.

The Explorer Was Close to the North Poles but Did Not Find It.
 MALMo. Sweden, Aug. 1.-The news paper Dagensnyheler has received com.
 nun cations from Dr. Nansen and
 Lieut.. Schottansen from the island of Vardoc, Norway. These communities.
 tions state that they left the Fran in
 the autumn of 1895 and resorted to the ice. The steamer Windward, carrying supplies to the Jackson Harmsworth expedition, picked them up near Franz Josefand They expected that the
 Fran would eventually drift to the east shore of Greenland. Dr. Nansen failed to reach the north pole, but he touched a point four degrees nearer than any other explorer has done. Dr. Nansen left the Tram on March 14,
 1895, in s4 degrees north latitude. He traversed the polar sea to point s6 degrees IA minutes north latitude, sit- uated north of the Siberian islands. No land was sighted north of S2 de- grees of latitude or thence to Franz .Iosefland, where he passed the winter, subsistng on bear flesh and whale blubber. Dr. Nansen and his compan- ion are in the best of health. Tho Fran is expected at Vardoe or Bergen shortly. She stood the ice we'll There were no sick persons aboard when Nan sen left her.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-20

FRESH POND (L. 1) CREMATORY.
 than 50 years the body secreted beneatl, the sod will decompose into its elements as surely as the corpse exposed on the funeral pyre. But the custom of 1.5OO years is not easily overcome and the medieval prejudice against cremation still remains.
 il was not until the latter half of the present century that the agitation in fla yor of COnsigning the corpse to the flames began. Jacob Moleschott, the Dutch-Italian scientist, was the apostle of the movement. Progressive men in Italy took up his cause and in 1876 the first crematory of modern times, I. e., in Christian countries, was put into opera ton at Milan. Later in the same year q crematory was built at Washington, Pa, and third at Gotha, Germany, in lS1S.
 Since then the movement has grown rapidly. The United States is the fore most champion, with Italy a close sec end. Cremation societies have been founded in nearly every country of the globe. In the United States there are over 20 such societies, and class paper published in Chicago, Park and Ceme- tery, devotes portion of each issue to the subject
 A cremation is no such hideous spec tacle as one might imagine; in fact, its associations are not near as gloomy as those of the earth burial. When the fu- neral procession arrives at the crema- tory, the coffin is first taken into inc chapel and placed upon bier. If so desired, a final ceremony to correspond to that at the grave is performed, and then the bier bearing the coffin is lowered by a hydraulic system to the floor below.
 Sometimes the corpse is taken out of the coffin and wrapped in asbestos. but usually coffin and all are burned to- gcther. Only the chief mourners are al- lowed at the scene of cremation. The coffin with its contents is placed upon . sliding frame and showed up to the doors of the retort, which are then opened. No fire is visible. But the air is so intensely heated, from 5000 to @,7OO degrees Fahrenheit, that beauti- ful rosy light bathes the interior of the furnace. The retort has average di- mensions of ten by five by five feet. It is lined with fire clay and has an outer wall of fire brick.
 It takes about two hours to complete the cremation. The process may be witnessed through window of mica. In many furnaces no fire touches the body: the superheated air alone does the work. There are two fires, one be- low and one behind and above the corpse. Coal oil is the usual fuel. The rear fire is fed by air obtained through loOpholes in the rear of the furnace. u shoots it's flames to the front and carries the gases from the body with il, These are driven down into the opcn- ing in front, which leads through the under fire back to the chimney in the rear of the retort. So perfect and so powerful is the ventilation that not particle of gas can escape without pass
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United States. Other crematorics arc located at London, Glasgow. Paris, Copenhagen and Stockholm.
 In reality it is the old country that most needs the reform. The filthiness and infectious character of cemeteries increases with the thickness of popula- tion.
 About 5000 cubic feet of gas are given off by decaying human body and must rises out of the ground and pollutes the air above and about the burial ground, while part presses literally until it finds an opening generally through q spring or we'll through which it es- capes. The danger from such drinking water is extreme. Very frequently the peculiar sulphurous taste of polluted we'll water is mistaken for health-giv- ing mineral. So we'll known is this danger that all over crowded Europe we find regulations prohibiting ceme- teries within 300, 800 or even 5000 feet of private dwellings. One hundred and fifty years after the great plague of Lon don. the cemetery was dug up and every workman employed on the job died of the disease. The miasmatic atmosphere that hovers above n cemetery is swept along by the wind, and infectious (is- eases are almost certain to reappcar where victims are buried.
 The problem of economy in land is intimately connected with that of hygiene. In the old ard densely popu- lated districts of Europe it has led to the most outrageous abuses. It is but few years ago that the English govern ment found large district in Lon1on cemetery filled with J. layers of cof- fins, packed side by side, one generation directly on top of the other, with just enough soil to intervene so that the rrla- tivcs of the last arrival could not detect the fraud.
 It has been estimated that 47,000, 0,h0O people die annually, and that it takes 21 square miles to bury them. Twenty one square miles year are thus taken from the living, and the country with. in radius of half mile is made prnc- tically uninhabitable.
 EFT GUNDLACK.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-20
CAPITAL AND MONEY.
A Distinction Which Is Not Commonly
 Understood by the Voters.

A 0Ast1hCbhoH VnlCh Ib NOI NCmI0OUAy Understood by the Voters.
 That was an admirably put truth which Speaker Reed gave to his hear CTS at Alfred when he said: What we want is not more money, but more capi- tal." It is q truth which people who engage in financial discussion are like ly to forget unless they are trained to careful thinking on the subject. The distinction between money and capital is not always apparent to the voter who has little head for finances, but who is striving to bring hazy under standing to some conclusion on the much-discussed money question.
 In the first place, let them learn once for all that money is h medium of eX- change, and nothing else, so far as it enters into the present controversy. The free silverite meets a poor man, and tells him the reason he is poor is that there is not enough money. The poor man confuses money with capital. thinks that is reasonable, and imagines he can benefit himself by having more money made. He does not realize that the making of more money will not make him richer by Q cent. The only way he can grow rich is by acquiring more property, and that he can only do by giving his labor in some form for it. If the printing of greenbacks, or the Gebasement of coinage, or the issue of dollars of inferior value could increase the capital of the country, then he might reap some benefit from the oper- ation, but as it is, such imitation only increases the amount of the medium of exchange. That could make nobody richer, even if every new piece for ex- change should be worth 100 cents, much less if it is worth only B cents. No sort of hocus-pocus can make something out of nothing. The government may coin dollars by the million, but no man will find them of any use unless he has some- thing to give for those dollars. They will lie in the treasury, as many do now, because there is no way to get them
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-20
JONES' MEN CHOSEN.
Names of Those Who Will Conduct the
 Democratic National Campaign.

Names of Those Who Will Conduct the
 Democratic National Campaign.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 15. - Chairman Jones, of the democratic national com mittee, it is said on good authority, has decided upon those who will com pose the campaign committee, and they will probably be appointed to-day. They are: John R. Mclean, Ohio; Gov. Stone, Missouri; Clarke Howell, Jr., Georgia; c. A. Walsh, Iowa; J. R. Shanklin, Indiana; J. J. Dwyer, Cali fornia; D. J. Campau, Michigan, and J. G. Johnson, Kansas Gov. Altgeld may also be appointed a member of the committee. Senator German has re- fused to accept the craftsmanship of the campaign committee. The na- tional headquarters will be at Chicago. The selection of Chicago was in defer- ence to the wishes of Mir. Bryan and Mir. German declined the craftsmanship because of the selection.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-20
SEWALL'S SHIPS LIBELED.
The Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee
 in Court on Accounts.

The Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee
 in Court on Accounts
 NEW YORK, Aug. l5.-Two ships be- longing to Arthur Sewall, democratic candidate for vice president, were seized by the United States marshal on libels yesterday, but were sub- sequently released upon the fling of a bond. The two ships, the Iroquois and the w. r. Babcock, were repaired July 3 and July Is last, at the dry docks of the John N. Robbins company, of this city. The amount of the bills was Ss4s and Ss52. The repairers de- clare that they have repeatedly asked for the payment of their bills, but could get no money. A second attach ment against the Iroquois was obs tained by Lewis Davis, owner of the barkentine E. w. Powell, which was injured in a collision with the Iroquois off Long Branch on June 22, and dam- aged, it is alleged, to the extent of Ss,- 300, for which amount execution was hronpht
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1t without an equivalent being put

out without an equivalent being put in. Free coinage would give silver min. CTS lot of dollars, but the poor man would not get them for the asking. He would have to work for them as he does LOW. The measure of his wealth then will be his savings and his power of production, not the number of coins that the mint turns out. If those coins are worth 100 cents, he will give certain labor for them. If they are worth only 5a cents he will buy fewer provisions, even if he does give less work. Exchange is matter of equations, and nothing equals nothing. It cannot be made to equal .something.-N. Y. Trib. une
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-20
M'KINLEY MAY COME WEST.
While Bryan Is Talking in the East the
 Major Will Tour the West.

While Bryan Is Talking in the East the
 Major Will Tour the West.
 WASHINGTON, Aug. l4-While Bryan is storming the east, Mckinley ma go out into the west and endeavor to un- loosen the minds of the people there from free silver. The wisdom of hay ing the republican candidate take the stump is now receiving serious copsid- eration from the repu blican leaders. Some of them are beginning to fear that silence on Maj. McKinley's part may be misconstrued. Representative David Mercer, of Nebraska, secretary of the republican congressional com mittee, is enthusiastic over the propo- sition that Mir. Mckinley should go on the stump and force the tariff to the front in the middle western states and on the Pacific coast
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-20
BRYAN'S ELECTION.
Its Immediate Effect Upon the Nations
 EInnnces.


 Many of the newspapers and politi- clans that are opposed to Bryan and free coinage appear to think that the election of sound money" house of representatives is q matter of even greater importance than the election of MT. Mckinley. The Post is not dis posed to underestimate the importance present house, be in opposition to the senate on the silver issue. We do not look for any change in the attitude of the senate on this question during the life of the next congress. Whatever may be the outcome of this campaign, it is morally certain that the next sem ate will have free coinage majority. The populists and silver republicans in that body will all be democrats, for this campaign consoldates the friends of silver. The election of a 'sound money" house would prevent the passage of free coinage measure, even if Mr. Bry- an were in the presidential office.
 But what would be the effect on the currency question of the election of Mir. Bryan, even if his administration were hampered by "soAnd money" house :? It is true that the president, with the advice and consent of the senate" could not change any existing law. There could be no free coinage legislation; out might we not have something worse? Might've not have our finances put on silver basis atonce? And would not the silver basis, with no law for coining additional silver, be more haz- ardous than unlimited free coinage? |? The disappearance of the $6OO,OOO, ,OOO in gold, or it's withdrawal from circula- ton, is confidently predicted as soon as the party vanishes. What would be the result of such enormous contraction of the currency,with no means of passing a law to relieve the strain? Would it not be far worse than free, unlimited and independent coinage of silver?
 Should MT. Bryan be elected his ad-
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-20
MASSAcRES BY WHOLESALE.
Chinese Murdering Mahommedans by the
 ThOusands-Damage by Flood.

Chinese Murdering Mahommedans by the
 Thousands-Damage by Flood.
 VANCOUVER, E. C., Aug. 1.-The news from Kansu is to the effect that the famous Tung Fuhsiang, in obedi- ence to imperial command, has begun a massacre of all Mahommedans that he comes across At Hsiningfu he slew 5000 business men and sold their wives. and female children. Fears are enter tained of general rising, especially in Pintianfu and Haitien, which have hitherto remained faithful. Floods are doing terrible damage in China. In many places entire towns and vil- lages are submerged. All railroads have stopped running. Many deaths have taken place and hundreds of home- less men, women and children are starving to death.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-20
UNIQUE CAMPAIGNING.
Business Men of Wayne, Neb, Organized to
 Labor for the Gold Standard.

Business Men of Wayne, Neb., Organized to
 Labor for the Gold Standard.
 WAYNE, Neb., Aug. 15.-The gold standard business men of this place, realizing that with Nebraska silver- ite as the candidate for president, it might be difficult to carry the state for the gold standard, appointed committee to patrol the streets in search of farmers or other visitors who favor free silver. When ever such a man is found he is engaged in conversation and finally taken to some business house of which the pro- prietor is gold standard man and piled with questions and arguments until, if the committeeman are to be believed, he becomes in nine cases out of ten, an ardent gold advocate. The plan has worked so we'll at Wayne that it is being tried in other towns.