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Champlain. Now and then came vague
Tumor that a little old woman had stop
ped Jay Gould on one of his New York
tours and reminded him of an alleged
pledge made and taken in his boyhood
days. She was put down as a crank.
Perhaps the multi millionaire knew diff
ferently, and mayhap the pretty face of
the girl of fifteen who claims to have
welded the boy Of seventeen came to
him in his dreams to taunt him with
injustice.
To those who knew Jay Gould I'M h;S
active years, who saw him. cold as
steel, cut deep and fatally into the for
tunes of his opponents, there came
cynical smile when the word romance"
Is mentioned in one breath with the
name of the late financier. His was a
life that dealt with stern, hard facts,
with matters of figures. with statistics
as cold as the rails that brought him
millions.
And now comes into court one Sarah
Ann Angel, who alleges that the plain
tiff was, on or about April 49, 1858, mar
ried to Jay Gould, late of the city and
county of New York, in this state; that
she cohabited with him as his lawful
wife, and that the said jay Gould died
on or about the I'd day of December,
1892 leaving the plaintiff, his lawful
widow, him surviving"
\ ROMANCE or LONG AGO
And then comes history.
Much of it is so ancient and musty that
1t will take months to brighten up the
memories of alleged witnesses. Much
OF it is SO palpably untrue that it will not
even be given a hearing, and some of IT,
may be effective enough to wipe out the
estate of the greatest magnate of all
ages.
Mrs. Angells case Is full of complica-
tions and it only remains to be seen If
she can actually bring on the witness
stand the preacher, who, it Is alleged,
married her to Jason Gould, and the
men, now old and gray, who were wit
nesses of the courtship of the two.
Then too, if she is the only legal wife
of the late Jay Gould. was she guilty of
bigamy when she married John Angel
of Rouse's Point. N. Y. and will her sue
cess in this case be won at the price of
a term in states prison?
1t was in 1852 that Jay Gould, then
known as Jason Gould, came to Rouse's
Point, his head crammed with plans for
comprehensive survey of the entire
state. The future millionaire was then
but 16 years old, and to his eye the sweet
face of Sarah Brown. set in a mass of
yellow locks, fine form evident even in
the old woman of today, and her rural
innocence and ingenious simplicity,
made picture fit for a setting in his own
heart.
SOON TIRED OF MATRIMONY
And that's where it rested-but for a
few months only
So far there is nothing to refute by
the Gould heirs; what followed the
courts alon@ must ascertain, but even
they would never have been appealed to
had Jay Gould died only ordinarily
DUalthy.
Gould. some months Jafrer thesalleged
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wedding, left Rouse's Point. 1t does not
appear that the young couple lived to-
gether for any length of time, and short
ly after the marriage she separated from
her own family and was employed as a
domestic in another household in the
same county some miles away.
Sarah Brown kept up little intercourse
with her father, sisters and brothers,
and some of the latter had also left the
paternal homestead and were living In
other families as help
What little communication took place
between any Of the Brown family was
accidental and oral, and none of them
was learned in reading and writing, and
they cared but little for family ties. 1t
was therefore surprise to the elder
Brown, when Sarah, one OF the young
est of the family, came home with lit
tie daughter.
Old man Brown fred up when he saw
his daughter with her little child. ana
without father, and he appeared to be-
come only the more indignant as the
particulars of the wedding were tear
fully related to him.
He asked for the proof of the wedding,
and the daughter produced the marriage
certificate which DIR. N. Leighton, now of
Tunkhannock, Pa, had filled out and
given her. In a fit of rage he tore this
UP and threw it in the fire.
Its loss, however, under the present
circumstances is net material, it is al
legged, as the clergyman who filed 1t out
is living and may testify to the facts on
the stand as also the subscribing wit
ness, his servant, who was called in and
was present at the ceremony.
GOULDS SAY BLACKMAIL.
Both sides are, of course. holding back
many of the salient fatures of the case.
The Goulds assert that Mrs. Angel is but
another of the alleged blackmailing
claimants to dover rights who cropped
up after the death of the financer Three
of the pseudo widows We're easily proven
impostors. This fourth one will not be
put down so easily.
But the interesting exhibit in the case
will be the alleged daughter of Jay
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people than by the concentration of
their industry, their wealth, by legis-
lation in the hands of a moneyed class,
and the masses forced into an industrial
servitude. From such a prolific source
do we breed crime and criminals! Our
cities are teeming with poverty, want,
hunger, shame and crime. Philanthro-.
ply builds homes" asylums and refu-
ges for the amelioration of the hunger
driven denizens of the cities; the state
erects reformatories, industrial schools,
prisons and penitentiaries for the crime
driven portion of it's community The
mills of finance and legislation grind out
with greater ease and facilities its pau
pers and criminals than the mints of
the government coin its silver.
Improved machinery, which should be
the richest of blessings and benefits. is
fast proving a curse; by it the toiler is
turned adrift, adding to the ever-in-
| creasing array of tramps, that grow with
| the growth Of monopoly. The wonders
of invention evolved from the fertile
brain of man for the uplifting of man
kind, the opening of higher develop
| ments in the fields of science; the short
ening of the hours of toll to give access
! TO all for labor, in the hands of wealth
! and power is an instrument of destruc-
| ton.
| Which ever way we turn crime
| formulate Criminal laws against the
! brother criminal in the lower walks of
| life. Man against his brot Aer man until
| the great heart of humanity bleeds be-
| cause of mans lnhumanity. One stands
| appalled, realizing the dominant power
! that holds the reins of government of
| our once republic, founded on the eternal
principles of justice, and its resonant
| tones still proclaim 'all men are free
and equal" and have a lust and inahsn-
able right "to life, liberty and the pursuit
/ of happiness. And more, the right of
| every child to be we'll born
| And yet must we witness in the clos
| ing years of the nineteenth century the
| downfall of our nation, while humanity
walks in the midst of the desoation, a
| stranger and unknown?
! Have l penned words too strong? Is
| the picture too large for the real scope ?
| Take the babes the young that should
| be the life and pride of the nation; by
! poverty, neglected, deserted, with the
| street their only school; cast adrift upon
! life's sea, without hand to guide them
| just left in their exugerant precocity to
| drift with the tide; their environment
| such that they only see the wrong side
I of life; quick to discover the tricks OF
| trade, the crowding to the wall of one
that another may rise on the financial
ruin of his neighbor; the lax morals OF
leading dual life, setting themselves as
teachers and exemplars in the churches
their worst side well known to these
| keen-eyed imitators; the corrupt offic-
| ials who, by legal enactment, filch the
very homes from the people; the more
corrupt courts which dispense justice G.,
| to less corrupt offenders, or withhold
merited punishment from some trusted
servant OF the people; the ceaseless, un.
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Did the Late Financier Have a
Child Wife?
THE COURTS ARE TO DECIDE
The 0ouIds Say That Ii Is q Case Of
BIackmall
Suit Of IN Alleged Widow for Dover Rights
In the $4,000, 900 Estate Left by
Jay Gould

NEW YORK, July S.-And once again
Q Gould sensation! So they go the
rounds. Today the Vanderbilts are in
the public eye. Yesterday the Astor
family linen was given legal airing
and tomorrow 1t will be the Gould family
for a case is soon to be tried in the
courts here which promises to make
many people open their eyes.
To those who are unfamiliar with the
story of Jay Gould's early life, the suit
of brawny old wrinlSled illiterate wo-
man. Sarah Ann Angel, for dover
right in 2.000 900, comes as a thunder
clap from a clear sky. To few others
the story has been known for years, and
the success with which it has been kept
in its little family closet borders on the
marvellous Not until the claim was
ready to be filed were the facts given
an airing, although now and then
through the busy life of Jay Gould there
came threads of this romance of Lake
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rared was written upon the white bor-
der around the flag. 1t Is easy to mag
inc how delighted and hilarious tne
Twenty-second Indiana men were UPON
capturing the flag of the ree1meht
that had captured their nag rev montns
before at Shiloh. Early. the next moln III,
ing our boys heard the old familiar caii
from the other fellows which was Hell
10. Johnnie, did you have some sassairas
tea this morning? How would you ike
some of our good coffee?' Then our
folks would call back to them In ian
guage expressive II not elegant. Ineh
they hailed us with, Have you got reg
kansasY our folks answered back.
yes. What do you want OF II? You
Just tell them we have an old blue pat
tie flag belonging to them, and that they
can have 1t IL they will come over ana
get It, OF course. this word was pasee9
along to the Second Arkansas boys, ano
afterward 1t was anything put saie 10
ASK one of that regiment II they had
ever gotten back their blue battle nag
from the Twenty-secondI Indiana"
Here Is another confederate story
Captain w. p. O'Connor, who served IN
a Louisiana regiment, told 1t to me the
other day. 1--WE had good many mere
boys In our regiment: l remember Two
very well. They were only ten or twelve
wears of age. They started in as drum,
mers. When we got to Shiloh one OF
them threw down his drum. picked up
a musket that a wounded man had
thrown away, Joined the regiment and
fought like young hero until the battle
was over, The boy had run away from
home. His mother learned, after the
battle, where he was, and came on after
him. When she caught sight of the lad
out on the drill ground she ran up, grab
bed him by the coat collar. threw him
across her knee and, right in the pres
ence Of the whole regiment, gave him
rattling spanking, and Kissed out: Run
away, will you? You come right home
with your mother; you are only a baby,
and she went to the station with the lit
tie fellow crying as though his heart
would break. When asked if he was cry
ing because his mother had hurt him. he
replied: No. you darned fool. Do you
suppose a soldier like me would cry at
a little hurt? Didn't fight just as we'll
as the best of them at the great battle"
We'll. what were you crying for, John
nie?' I was crying because my mother
spanked me right in the presence of all
Of our boys of the regiment
1.-THE little fellow went home with his
mother, but soon afterward ran away
again and served through the war
]. A. Watrous in Chicago imes-Herald.
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Billcke Is Cool

A. c. Bilicke Of the popular Hollen-
beck hotel of Los Angeles. had zone to
Alaska on the steamer Queen. He goes
with the "Shriners," who make q pill
grimage to the land of trees, icebergs,
gold and things. That he will be one of
the funmakers on the trip goes without
saying.-Citrograph.
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THE WOMAN WHO SAYS SHE WAS MARRIED TO JAY GOT

Gould, a Mrs. j. H. Pierce, who is now
living at Rock Springs, Wyo. Mrs.
Pierce never knew anything about her
father or mother, it is alleged, until
strange woman called on her one day
and told her that her father was Jay
Gould. So one day, when she read that
Mr. Gould was going to pass through
nearby town on trip through the north
west, she went TO the town, waited for
him, and as he got out of the train said
to him.
Mr.. Gould am your daughter. and
my mother was Sarah Ann Brown"
Gould perhaps remembered Aaron
Burr's famous reply when charged with
the paternity of an illegitimate child:
IF any woman" said Burr, "honors me
with a claim of this character l am too
much of gentleman to deny it.
If you are my daughter and can
prove It," replied Mr.. Gould, Il will see
what I can do for you"
This conversation, it is alleged, was
overheard by United States marshal,
who has made an AFFIDAVIT Another
affidavit made by Mr.. Fillmore of San
Francisco. is said to set forth that Mr.
Gould once told Fillmore that he had in
his youth married a girl in the northern
part Of the state, but believed she was
dead.
ALUABLE WITNESSES
The Rev. Mr.. leighton is said to have
| made affidavit that he distinctly remem-
bers marrying Sarah Ann Brown and
Jason Gould on April It, 1858, at Cham
plain. n. Y. His daughter and Mary
Ann Shiels wife of George Edford of
( HinchinbrOok, Canada, are said TO de-
pose that they witnessed the marriage.
Jay Gould did not marry Miss Miller
until 1862, almost ten years later. Dur
ing this entire time he was active in
New York and Pennsylvania and could
perhaps have easily been found had any
attempt of this chaIecter ban made.
Then, too, the poverty of the family may
have prevented a search. Suffice it to
say. Sarah Ann Brown. the pretty SER
want girl, worried but little over the dis
appearance of Jason Gould and when
sturdy John Angel appeared there was
apparently no obstacle to their imme-
date marriage.
In appearance Mrs. Angel is rather
portly and the yellowish locks of her
girlhood days are rapidly changing to
silver. Her face is dull and shows few
traces of past beauty. The husband is
typical New England farmer He is
stoop- p-shouldered and his beard is en-
blematic of the now notorious character
who came back to Hackensack with the
! bunch OF little whiskers on his chin.
He Really Held the Reins
/ The press reports solemnly assure US
| that Mckinley actually held the reins
| in his own hands when he went out drv-
ing last Saturday. The value of this
| information as news cannot be realized
| until you consider the fact that Hanna
! holds the reins in all other cases where
/ Mac is concerned. This is really about
| the most important thing that the Cam
ton puppet has done in months without
the consent and direction of his boss
Chattanooga Times.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-08-19
NeMapaprr Chanae.

The Daily State Journal, pub
lished at South McAlester, has
succumbed to the inevitable
and suspended publication with
last Saturdays issue. I'm its
place the Daily Capital with X.
+. Stafford al the helm, has
risen phoenix like" so it says,
and will supply the long felt
want. The Capital is neat,
geographically. newsy, bright
and crisp in everything but its
salutatory and is well patron
lied by local merchants. We
wish Il success.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-08-19

The Evening Gazette, pub
lished by McMaster'S Publish
ing company, Is a welcomed ex-
change Just received. 1t is a
red hot Bryan and Sewall paper
and the motto is, free silver,
free homes, free men and a free
West. Nc. probably had Judge
Scott in his mind when he Sc
lected that inscription for the
mast head.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-08-19

How would a state constitu-
tional convention fit the condi-
tions of the Territory at this
time. \ number of leading t..
:. senators and congressman
suggested TO our delegates at
Washington LAST winter that by
this method action would be
most speedy. They contend
that such convention guided
by wisdom and conservatism
would formulate constitution.
which if properly presented
would be ratified by congress
with less debate than an allot-
ment measure would occasion.
1t Is highly important to do the
right thing at the right time
and no mistake can possibly be
made by directing the minds OF
our best thinkers in the direction
of accomplishing the greatest
good 10 the greatest number.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-08-19
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

The State Farmers Alliance
of Texas is in session at Corsi-
cana.
\ Bryan and Sewall club with
$50 members has been organized
in Sherman.
Eugene Burt, the alleged
murderer of his wife and two
children at Austin last month,
was arrested yesterday at Chi
cagO.
Robert S. Cochran, we'll
known cotton buyer Of Sher-
man, was a victim Of the heat
| in that city. He was stricken
at 4:30 p. m. and died at 6p. IN.
Mr.. Bryan emphatically de-
MES through the press today
the charges frequently made
that he was in the employ Of
silver mine owners syndicate.
Cyclone Davis, the pop leader
of Texas, says if the democratic
convention does not cOncede
the populist party seven of the
fifteen electoral votes of Texas
they will indorse Mckinley,
fuse with the republicans and
gold standard democrats, and
he will personally stump the
state in favor of the combina-
ton.
In the regetta of the Royal
Albert Yacht club in South Sea
in which the racers of Emperor
William, the Prince of Wales,
George Gould and Baron Won
Vealitz were entered, a general
collision occurred, resulting in
the killing of the Baron. Several
seamen were drowned and the
yacht, Isolde, was wrecked
completely.
Fort Worth ratified the nomi-
nation of Bryan and Sewall last
night with the most enthusiastic
blow out witnessed in Texas
since the Chicago convention.
The crowd yelled for Bailey,
but Bailey did not speak Ad-
dresses were made by Senator
R. @. Mills, NJ. A. Spoons, Col.
Wynne, Bryan T. Barry, 6. W.
Smith, j. W. Blake, Hon. Sam
Lanham and other prominent
orator statesmen.
The Democratic state cOnven-
tion is on at Fort Worth and all
the prominent leaders of the
partyi except the gold bug
element" are in attendance.
r. NJ. johnson was elected
temporary chairman and the
committee on permanent or
ganization recommended the
following slate for permanent
officers which went through
without a break: Chairman,
Hon. G. l.. Potter of Gaines
vile; secretarv, a. NJ. Kennedy
of Mexia. and Jim Maddox ser.
geant at arms. a majority rule
was adopted and nominating
speeches were limited to tel
ninntes.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-08-19

To wade in marshes and sea mar
gins is the destiny of certain birds,
and they are SO accurately made for
this that they are imprisoned In
those places Each animal out of Its
habitat would starve A soldier. q
lookHmith. bank clerk and n dane.
er could not exchange functions
And thus we are victims n ndapfn.
tion---Emerson.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-08-19

The NutritIvs Value OF Canned M-At~.
Canned corned beef IL of greater
food value than fresh lamb, veal OF
mutton, but not equivalent to the
better cuts of fresh beef, while su.
perior TO the round, shank, shoulder
or chuck with shoulder. Canned
salmon is of greater food value than
any sort of fish except fresh salmon,
and it is not much behind the edible
portion of that, and, if compared
with fresh salmon as purchased,
quite as valuable, the calories of the
latter being 925 against $50 for the
canned salmon. Canned chicken or
turkey is nearly equal TO tho best
cuts of fresh beef, decidedly better
than fresh veal, on a par within
fact, ahead of-lamb and as good a.
mutton. Dsviled ham has high nu.
tritive value and is better than fresh
pork. Sardines must rank high as
q nutritive article of diet. Canned
lobster Is on par with fresh
American Kitchen Magazine.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-08-19

M. l. uknurrr. fuEEt Lfrs HAauv
sasuu~.s Hardy. Siru,.Er tp.~r.
G.,E;RETT * HARDY.
ATTOhNEgS - l---1.tN.
Practice in al tse courts. Terrific
rial, State aud Federal special a.
teution given 10 criminal eases.
Ohice-Up stairs in ifard5 building.
Ardmore. /. T
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-08-19
BRYAN's DENIAL.
Replies 20 CHARGES Of &hurston's and
Denounces Them As False
Full Statement.

Il have already denied this
charge on several occasions,
but the relation of it by Senator
ThurstOn. a distinguished resi-
dent of my own state, justified
my answering it again. ] have
never at any time or under any
circumstances been In the en-
ploy of any mine owners, indi-
vidually or collectively, directly
or Indirectly, nor have | ever
been in the employ or paid any
bimetalic league or association.
Aside from my editorial salary
of about $50 per month, paid
| by the Omaha World-Herald,
and a small amount derived
from the legal profession, my
income since my retirement
from congress has been derived
entirely from lectures before
the Chautauqua Lyceum and
lecture bureaus, which have uSu-
ally paid me a fixed sum, and
from contributions made by the
people of the localities where |
have spoken. In some instances
II have received nothing at all.
In most cases | have received
no more than enough To pay
travelling expenses. In only
. two instances, | think, has my
compensation exceeded 800
and in these instances it was
only about 800 at one place
and about $500 at the other
The first platform on which
ran for congress, in 1870, be
! fore | was politically know
, outside of my state, contained
! free coinage plank and my
; republican opponent that yea
was an advocate of free coinage
In the campaign OF 1892 ] again
! ran on free coinage platform
and my opponent for the senate
Mr.. ThurStOn, while oppoSiu:
! unlimited coinage at Is TO
insisted that he favored bimetal
Z, ism. | wrote the free coiuag
plank ON which ] ran in lS9
and the free coinage plank> i
the Nebraska state platforms q
. 1891, 1894 and 1896. and tried {
secure the adoption of free coin
!. age planks in the state platforI
i'm 1892 and 1Sq3. ] only meutio
this to show that my advocac
z of free silver * not Of receI
a. date. Having made this an
i Swer to Mr.. ThmstOn'S lettel
% shall hereafter take no uotic
!. OF individual or newspaper con
ment on this subject. If the r,
.e publican national committe
Il will say officially that | hav
n ever been employed to deliv,
y speeches by any mine owner {
-. by any association Supporte
. by mine owners | am ready I
IT, make q statement showing i
le detail all money received by n
~ for Speech-making.'
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-08-19

Hon. B9nrke Cochran of New
York addressed an audience of
1900 people in Madison Square
Garden last night in reply to
Candidate Bryan's speech Of
acceptance.