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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-05-10

worship with US.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Springer and Frensiy Streets
Regular service:
Sabbath--II a m, morning worship
Sd. m, evening worship.
9:45 a. m. Sunday School.
81. m. session meeting.
We extend a cordial invitation TO all to
worship with US. II a stranger, We desire
your acquaintance In the name OF the Mas
REV. c. c. McGISLRY. pastor.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DIR. W. L. EGAN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Residence: Hardy Street, first door
south of Carter House. ONCE ut
Coleman \ Masons'.
c. L. POTTER, formerly of Paris, TX.
c. b. POTTER b. c. THOMAS.
of Gainesville, Texas.
POTTER, OWNBY & THOMAS,
LAWYERS,
Ardmore, /. I.
This firm is now located over First
National Bank. Will do civil and
criminal practice in all courts in the
Indian Territory.
ORRIN NJ. REDFIELD,
NOTARY PUBLIC and
REAL ESTATE AGENT.
Office over PostofIice,
Ardmore, /. I.
DICK & BROWN,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
Ohice-Masonic building, over First
national Bank, Ardmore, 1. 7.
L. II. BOND, Stenographer.
Henry NJ. Furman. e L. Herbert.
FURMAN & HERBERI,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAw.
4 Omce-Herbert & LsNis building
Ardmore. l. T.
b. IL. CORLEW,
GENERAL CONTRACTOR
and BUILDER.
Estimates furnished on all class OF
Buildings and Job work. Leave
orders at J. b. Spragins * Co.
Leave orders at Roberts Bros. bar
Der shop. Address Lock Box 232.
H. c. PoTTERF. W. F. BOWMAN.
/ POTTERF & BOWMAN,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
FRED CARR SteAosrapher.
Ofice-Up sta,.s III the Hardy
building, Ardmore Ind. Ter.
w. T. GARDNER. NJ. ID.
Office over Coleman & Lynne
Drug Store, Residence North CaddC
Street.
LEDBETTER * BLEDSOE,
: ATTORNEYS-AT-LAw.
OFFICE:-In Ledbetter & BledsoC
| Building, Man Street.
NJ. L. GARRETT. CORNELIUS HARDY
Summers Hardy. stenographer.
GARRETT & HARDY,
ATTOkNEYS-AT-LAW.
r Practice in all the Courts, Terrific
rial, State and Federal. Special at
! tention given to criminal cases.
! Ohce-Up stairs in Hardy building
! Ardmore. /. T
A. 4. CFuce, Clarence B. Dougla
L. :. Dist. Atts-
/. CRUCE & DOUGLAS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Office: Johnson, Cruce & Cruc
Building, Ardmore, /. T.
= T. s. BOOTH, NJ. d.
n Office over Coleman & lynn
( Drug store. Residence West Mai
] Street.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-04-02
GARNET"r, KANSAS, APRIL 2, 1897.

take care of the children of other women as
we'll as their own, while other women Will sew
or work in the dye room. The men Will work
outside, if they can get employment, and II not,
work will be found for them in the departments
of the exchange.
Mens SAYS farmers will come in and sell
produce, taking exchange checks in pay
ment therefor, and buy clothing, shoes, har-
ness, groceries, or whatever they need, with
the scrip. Demaree says all sorts Of industries
will sooner or later become connected with the
exchange so that a man who has scrip from the
exchange can buy anything he wishes with It,
BARRIERS, he says, will take it when they know
it is good for groceries, but thus far there has
been nothing to indicate that it can be eXchang-
ed for drinks or street car fare.
That the scrip IS really accepted as having
some value is evidenced by the fact that IN the
"Self Help DOCTOR repair shop, plumb
ing establishment and a tailoring shop already
advertise their willingness to accept this scrip
Demaree says that early next week grocery
store, which is already taking scrip in small
amounts, will be added to the permanent estab-
lishinent of the exchange. His hopes embrace
almost every kind Of human industry. How
far he will succeed remains to be seen.
The scrip issued is in the form of fractional
currency. There are hve-cent, ten-cent and
ffty-c bills issued. Larger sums are punch
ed through like bank drafts.-Kansas City
Star.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-04-02
THEY EXCHANGE LABOR.
A COMMUNESTiC SOCIETY
On the Southwest Boulevard.

An odd mixture of communistic principles
and practices with business methods is Labor
Exchange, Branch No. q, which is struggling
for existence on the Southwest boulevard i'll this
city. As previously stated in The Star it is
semi-socastc organization, whose projectors
expect to accomplish wonders, but are not SO
welded to the socalis,ic idea as to resent the
offer Of United States currency, gold standard
at that, in return for their labor or the wares
they have for sale. This labor exchange is is
suing scrip of its own, which is supposed to
take the place of money among the members,
thereby inAlting the circulating medium to the
extent of several dollars already in circulation.
J. c. Mems, tailor, is president of the or
eanization and George T. Demaree, Populist
orator and Politician, formerly OF Wichita Kas.,
Is general manager. The headquarters is at
2o3 and 2o5 Southwest boulevard, where Mems
has tailoring shop and has leased rooms on
the two floors above the shop for the purpose of
sub-letting them to members of the colony At
present most of the colony's business is pros
pective. Not very much has been done. 1t
has newspaper organ, of course, little pub
ication of four sheets, entitled "Self Help"
of which the second number issued few
days ago.
The tailoring shop which Mems runs accepts
the script issued by the labor exchange and
Demaree exhibits, with some pride, pair Of
trousers made at the colony's headquarters and
paid for in scrip, or labor checks, as he calls
them. Mems is stout little man with slight
accent which is probably German.
Just at present, the plant of the exchange is
confined to his tailoring shop with Laundry
and dye room attachment, but he has begun to
make arrangements for adding dining room,
which will also serve the purpose of a restau-
rant The scheme is to fill the rooms above
with families Of members of the exchange
Some of the women will devote their time tc
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-04-02
The House Surprised.

new character surprised the house, Mon
dav. while the tariff bill was under discussion,
in the person of Mr.. Green, a Populist from
Nebraska, free and easy speaker, who dealt
in Scriptura quotations and attacked the Cleve-
and administration 6ercely. He was accusing
the Republicans with trying to befool the farm
ers through high tariffs on corn, wheat and
other products which were not imported when
several Republicans sought to overcome his ar
gument by questions.
He was asked by Mr.. Mitchell, OF New
York, ssWhat relief do the Populists propose
for the farmers'"
ssTo 90 back to the money of the constltu-
tion YOU took away from them" was the an
swer. Mr.. Green was describing the condition
of the farmers with the hands of the spoiler in
their pockets, when another inquired, "Whose
hands have been in their pockets'"
"The hands of the protected monopolists
and trusts of the east" shouted Mr. Green,
whereupon Jerry Simpson yelled gleeiully,
"Ask him another one!"
"Another one'' was asked by Judge Page
iris, of Minnesota, who desired to know
what harm the Republican party had done the
farmer.
"You seek to make the things the farmer
and laborer have to buy higher-that's the OBJ
iect of this bill" said Mr.. Green, and Mr.
Simpson declared "anotler soul made happy"
The speech was sprinkled with repartee, and
was enthusiastically applauded by the Demo
Gratis and Populists
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-04-02
INAUGURATION DAY,
Or the Lay of the Last Gold-Bug.

The day was mild, the wind was cold;
Mckinley was inirm and old;
His withered cheeks and tresses gray
Seemed to have known better day.
The last of all the bugs was he,
Who sang about prosperity.
For wel-a-day, their date was hed
His tuneful brethren all were dead
Aud this poor man was left alone
To fill dead Growers golden throne.
The silverites OF this sad time
Called his foolish scheme crime.
Yet, it had fallen to his fate
To steer the leaky snip of state.
He poured into the peoples ear
The tune the god-bugs loved to hear.
With motion hesitating, grand,
He on the Bible laid his hand,
And with exhauslless stock of nerve,
The Constitution swore he'd serve
Now what comelh? Look! without menace or
or call,
Wro writes with silver hand upon the wall?
Mark Hanna is frightened; the god-bugs all
Mckinley s dark blood rushes back to his heart
'Some Bryanite como and this writing ex-
pound!'
1t is read, and Mckinley lies dead on the
ground.
Harkl The sivertcs come OH a conquerer's
wing.
Bryan >its on the throne OF Mckinley, the king.
CHAs. l.. EDISON in Olathe Tribune
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-04-02
Cruelty Him.

When Christ was upon the earth doing good,
His enemies cried "Crucfy Him." Christ fed
tbe moor. Socialism would feed the poor, not
by miracles, but by giving the poor opportuni-
ties TO work Christ denounced the rich, but
rot because they were rich, but because they
.sdevoured widows houses" and bound heavy
burdens and grevious to be borne on men s
shoulders Socialism would tighten or re-
move the burdens and save widows houses from
the Molocl NAV Of the Scribes and Pharlsees OF
the period. To multiply opportunities tor en-
n,ovment. to secure to toilers the money they
sorn eliminate from toll its drudgery, reduce
the hours of labor and multiply the heaven-or-
da;ned blessings of life is about the sum and
srbstarce of the mission of socialism in the
,vorld TO disprove these propositions we chal-
lenpe the enemies of the system to the arena OF
debate. But they will decline the challenge,
,,,ef.rr;rp ribald denunciation-and they cry,
cruelty him Railway Times.
THE Topeka Capital says: "Some of the
popilists stood manfully by the Republicans"
il the last Legislature. We are heartllp tlark-
f,l that those Populists did not come from
Crawford county. Lei luC OPuiioto wiz - ~
~, class of men to represent them give them
H.. welcome home that traitors deserve e.-Inde-
perdent News, Girard.
We are glad to say that Anderson coanty did
rot send that kind of Populists to the legisla-
ture.
uREcE1vER" is to the lawyer what corn is tc
hog.-Sam Jones.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-04-02
Kansas aud Her Debts.

The Topeka Capital is authority for the
statement that Kansas is getting out of debt,
but the rather meagre reports of its figures tel
coraphed East do not indicate that it has made
clear the methods by which the debt has been
lifted. Specifically considered, the statement
that in seven years the mortgage indebtedness
of Kansas has been reduced as per cent, or more
than 1o5 million dollars, would seem to indi-
cate high degree of thrift in that nuch-ina-
liened state Populism and prosperity must in
deed 90 hand in hand if, as the Topeka Capital
reports, the mortgage indebtedness of Kansas,
which in 1860, amounted to Fl per cent of the
actual value of all taxed real estate, has now
been reduced to IS per cent
But one factor in the situation we find oult-
ted from the Capitals cheering figures. How
great proportion Of this debt-raising has been
accomplished through the process OF toreclos-
urc How many farm owners of 1890 are mere
tenants to-day If the as per cent reduction
in debt is not As per cent reduction in fa-mpro-
prietorship Kansas has indeed enjoyed pc
riod of prosperity without waiting for McKin-
lev, and Populisln, Instead of being the out
growth of despair, must be the political doc
trine of the rich and haughty.-New York
Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-04-02

TOPEKA is the only town in prohibition Kan
sas where the whisky is SO bad that it gives
man the hydrophobia. 1t is even SO bad that
the slop from their dives kills the grass and
weeds in the back yard.-Bue Mound Search
light.
See here, Smith, what have you been doing
in the back yards of Topeka
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-04-02

THE following from the Girard Independent
News voices the sentiment of large majority
of tbe Populists of the state: When Senator
Harris was chosen to represent this state at
Washington, we believed that the choice was
far from the best one that could be made. Kan
sas did not need shrewd politician at Wash
inpton so much as she needed an earnest, hon
est man We were alone i'll our opinion at that
time, but many of our Populst exchanges are
now confirming our opinion Harris has shown
ANYTHING but commendabe spirit toward our
Governor, after the veto of the railroad bill.
He should remember that Leedy's action has
the approval of the Populists of the state, and
that our new senator should change his course,
or he will misrepres:nt us when he goes to
Washington
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-04-02

uREcE1vER" is to the lawyer what corn is to
4 hog.-Sam Jones.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-09-28
The Democratic Convention.

A delegate convention convened a
the Court House pursuant to call
Sept. 20, 1897, at 2 p. m. and effected
a temporary organization in thu
election of DIR. j. A. Barrett, chair
man, and A. r. McCook, secretary.
Committee on credentials was or
motion appointed by the chair an6
committee on permanent organization
The committee on credentials re-
ported all the towns fully represented
except Albion and Howard Center.
On motion report of committee
accepted and committee discharged
On motion Herman Maronde, Of
Howard Center, was authorized to rem.
resent that town in convention.
Committee on permanent organiza-
ton reported in favor of Joseph Griffin,
OF Elma, as permanent chairman, and
S. r. Cray, of Lime Springs, as perma-
nent secretary, which report on motion
, was adopted.
Motion made and adopted that we
proceed to nominate candidates tor the
,, respective offices in the order named
in the call, and that nominations be by
ballot where more than one is named
In connection with any nomination,
the first ballot to be formal,
On motion the chair appointed John
E. Peck and j. w. Cannon as tellers.
Jacob j. Lowry was put in nomi-
nation for Representative, and there
being no other person named, the rules
were suspended and the nomination
made by reclamation.
A. G. Campbell was nominated for
sheriff. and there being no other
person named, the nomination was
made by reclamation on suspension of
the rules.
w. G. Jones was named for Superin-
tendent. and no other name being pro-
posed, on suspension of the rules his
nomination was made by reclamation.
For the office of County Treasurer
John A. Cray was put in nomination.
and no other being named his nomina-
was made unanimous.
For the office OF Supervisor Stephen
Riley was named and there being no
other person mentioned mis- nomination
was made by reclamation.
On motion the county central COM
lnittee as constituted was continued
for the ensuing year, its members be-
T. r. McHugh, chairman, d. A. Lyons,
). A. Barrett. G. H. Wetter, and Jo-
Montague.
On motion the central committee
was authorized to fill any vacancy
which from any cause may occur as to
any candidate put in nomination by
this convention.
On motion adjourned sine die.
S. R. CRAY, j. A. BARRETT.
Secretary. Chairman.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-09-28
THREE SESSIONS FRIDAY.
Business OF Sovereign GRAND Lod,
Of Odd Fellows Was Behind.

Business OF Sovereign GRAND Lodge
of odd Fellows Was Behind.
Springfield, H., Sept. 25.-rhe Soy
leregin Grand Lodge Of Odd Fellows held
three sessions Friday to catch up work,
which il away behind. Mondays Journal
has just been considered. Journals
Iof days since then have to be acted upon
before adjournment. AS result of the
short time, all discussions were limited
ito five minutes.
Past Grand Sire Sanders, ON behalf of
the sovereign grand lodge, presented
Grand Chaplain j. w. Venable, of Hop
kinsville, KY, with so years odd fel-
lows Jewel.
Revision of decoration Of chivalry
was adopted, and several reports on
subordinate constitutions were ap-
proved. The proposition to raise the
salary of the special deputy grand sire
for Europe from $500 to $3.50 was de-
feated.
Z A motion to admit all males 10 years
and upwards to Rebekah lodges was de-
ifeated in the secret session held at
might.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-09-28
POOR DAY FOR LuE1eERT.
Court Rules Against Evidence DE
fense Tries to Introduce.

Court Rules Against Evidence De-
Tense Tries to Introduce.
Chicago, Sept. 25.-The testimony for
the defense in the Luetgert trial Fri.
day was for the most part by witnesses
who said that they had seen Mrs. Luet-
CERT in the vicinity of Kenosha, Wis,
within a few days after the date on
which it has been claimed by the state
that she was murdered. An effort was
made to introduce evidence regarding
threats that Mrs. Luetgert is said to
have made of leaving her home. When
this question was first brought up the
court ruled that threats of this kind,
when made not longer than one week
prior to the disappearance of the wom-
an, would be admissible, but that he
could not permit testimony on this
point dating back farther than week.
Witnesses for defense who were called
to testify testified regarding the
intent Of Mrs. Luetgert to leave
her home, had heard her make
threats several months prior to
May 1, and the court threw out their
evidence. To-day the defense will make
q strong effort to get the court to alter
his ruling on this point.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-09-28
The Recorder Man Hears BRYAN

On the price of wheat he claimed
we had no right to rejoice in the
higher price of that grain because
last fall, he said, we argued that it
was high enough, that cheap wheat
was a good thing.
such arguments may have been
made, but we doubt it. No one here
heard republican say that wheat
was high enough. We are inclined to
believe that Mr.. Bryan dreamed the
argument he claims the republicans
made.-Riceville Recorder.
The Recorder is entirely obliyious
OF the past. The republican party
everywhere; its press, it's speakers.
and its candidate for the presidency
were lauding ''the dollar of the great
est purchasing power" as being the
best one for the farmer, the laborer
and the manufactures. There is no
question but it is the best dollar for
those who have dollars to sell, but
the farmer, the laborer, and the man
ufacturer have their dollars to buy
with the products of the farm, their
labor, OF skill. The purchasing
power of the dollar has been reduced
nearly one half as applied to wheat.
and the dire disasters that The 10
publicans claimed would befall the
puolic iron. such a cause, like all the
predictions of the party of the gold
standard, las proven false. Mr.
bfyan and the democratic party
would have like cheapening of the
dollar as TO one hundred other arti-
Giles, the product of the farm. of
labor, OF OF manufacturing skill. The
republican party has no right to re.
Jolce at any advance in the price of
wheat, because the advance repre-
sents the cheapening of the dollar
invested in that commodity. An in
crease OF the number of dollars
whether gold, silver, or paper, would
have a like effect, not only upon
wheat, but upon all the articles that
labor produces, and with which it
must buy its dollars if 1T has any.
But the Recorder misquotes what
Mr.. Bryan said and then makes a
failure in its attack upon the state.
ment it falsely attributes to him.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-09-28
PERILS OF THE PASS.
Terrible Result of a Landslide In
Alaskan Gold Region.
LITTLE TOWN ALMOSTSWEPT AWAY.
Avalanche in the Chilkat Pass De-
molishes the Village of Sheep
Camp and Kills Eighteen of
the Residents.

Port Townsend, Wash, Sept. 25.-The
tug Pioneer, which left Puget Sound on
September 12, with the bark Shirley in
tow for Skaguay, returned at one
o'clock Friday morning, having made
the run down in 90 hours. The Pioneer
brings report of landslide which oc-
Cured near Sheep camp on the Chilkoot
pass last Sunday morning in which 1s
men are said to have lost their lives.
Only one body is said to have been re-
covered, that of a man named Choynski,
cousin of Joe Choynski, the prize
fighter. The men supposed to have
been lost were packers on the Dyea
trail.
Master Nelson, of the tug, says thai
three men came to Skaguay beach on
Monday night with story to the effect
that at Sheep Camp at half past five
o'clock Monday morning a peculiar
sound from the southwest side of the
was heard and before the resi-
dents of the camp could fully dress they
found themselves rapidly borne down
the canyon on a mass of moving debris
~ yin eilC ~ VI
the residents of Sheep Camp escaped,
nearly the entire village was
destroyed. The slide struck the town
In the northern part, where nearly all
the packers were quartered in tents and
asleep. The main part of the slide from
the mountain missed Sheep Camp
proper, although from the report very
little of the town remains. The pack
ers' camp was wholly carried away and
it is impossible to learn the names OF
heunfortunates,a s they were all known
by their surnames, such as Jack, Jim,
Dick, etc. The cause of the slide was
reported to be the action of heavy rains
on the hills where a large reservoir was
formed, which body of water and weight
forced the land down the basin below.
Never before have such heavy rains
been experienced in the neighborhood
Of the Chilkat pass.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-09-28
howard Center.

Miss Maggie Ayler was seen on the
streets of Cresco, this young lady is
welcomed back in our neighborhood.
A great number of people in our
neighborhood are through with their
threshing.
Misses Lettie Shields apd Ethel
Huckins were in Cresco Saturday.
A few friends gathered at the home
of Mr.. Joe johnson on Saturday eve
ming, Sept. 18, to remind him of his
twentieth birthday.
Mr.. Lloyd Lathrop is soon to depart
on visit to the East.
We learn from Madame Rumor that
wedding bells are to ring in the near
future. SNIP AND SNIPE.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-09-28
Vernon Springs Committees.

Committees appointed for the several
wards of Cresco and for the township
OF Vernon Springs at the democratic
caucus September "a:
First Ward, S. A. Hamilton, Michael
Barrett, j. l.. Evans.
Second Ward, John f. Peck, DR.. IL.
G. Price, e. P. Weber.
Third Ward, John M. Cannon. Dana
Mead, Eugene Mullen.
Vernon Springs township, Frank e.
Howard, O. a. Marshall dr., G.. j.
Vance,
The caucus placed in nomination
for Township Trustee, Frank Z.
Howard.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-09-28

The senatorial convention held in
Calnar last Wednesday nominated
D. A. Lyons of this city as their can
didate for the senatorial toga. Mr..
Lyons is one of orr Oldest and most
highly respected citizens and an up
right, honorable man. We We're al
ways sorry Denny was a democrat
more so now that he will be sacrificed
on the altar of his party, We give
our democratic friends credit for be-
ing wise in choice for once in their
history, anyhow, but as a democrat
he differs widely from us in many of
the most vital political principles.
Cresco Times.
VIII be sacrifice, will her Irene.
you know better, than that. By the
inspiration of all the columns you
have printed in days gone by ap-
plauding the lofty principles of hon.
esty, virtue aud sobriety, you must
knowingly know that the sacrifice
will be on an altar not democratic.
by the power of all the columns you
have printed since first your high
born thoughts welled out upon print
paper condemning hypocrisy, dishon-
esty, drunkenness and immortality,
you most knowingly know that it
will not be the blood of Dennis, but
of Doc" that runs red upon the
political altar of this senatorial dis
trilt when the ides of October are
DER. knowing all this, o gentle irene,
why dost thou seek to practice decep-
ton upon the people of thy subscrip-
ton list by hosting the Pretender's
cognomen to thy masthead and clos
ing thine eyes and thine ears against
better judgment? Alas, can it be that
you too, mos divine being, have fall
len victim to the honied words and
soft glances and fat pocket book of
the great Pretender? Oh. may it
prove untrue.-sDecorah Journal.