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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

AS A retaliation for what he
has said about Secretary AlEer,
the report comes from Wash
ington that Gen. Miles is to be
court-martialed. He is charged
with speaking disrespectfully
of Secretary Alger. Article 10
of army regulations provides:
ANY officer who uses con-
temptuous or disrespectful
words against the president,
vice-president or the congress
OF the United States, the chief
magistrate or the legislature of
any of the United States, in
which he is quartered. shall be
dismissed from the service or
otherwise punished as a court
martial may direct" And anti
Gle 20 provides: ANY officer
or soldier who behaves himself
with disrespect toward his com
manding officer shall be pun
ished as a court-martial may
direct. While Miles is the
commanding general, 1t is neld
that the secretary of war out
ranks him, and when Gen.
Miles speaks disrespectfully of
him he lays himself liable 10
punishment or dismissal from
the service. This is a nice
stink these high officials are
getting up.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

The Gainesville Register
pays Hon. Claude Weaver,s
speech delivered at that place
Tuesday and published in the
ARDMOREITE the following mer-
tied compliment:
Hon. Claude Weaver, of
Pauls Valley, was in a happy
and an earnest mood, and he
delivered one of the ablest,
most eloquent and appropriate
addresses ever given on such
an occasion. He was not only
eloquent but pathetic in every
view of his discourse. Many
were the old veterans, and
plenty of those who were not
old enough to be veterans,
whose eyes were moistened by
the burning, pathetic elouuence
Of this splendid young orator.
his rhetoric was perfect, his
history accurate and complete
and his logic and pathos were
grandly sublime. It was a great
speech, one long to be remem-
bered with pleasure and graft
tude. The entire audience was
captivated by the eloquence of
this bright young orator and
many were the encomiums and
loud praises given him by the
old veterans and in fact by all
who heard that inspiring ad-
dress.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

The Atoka agreement with
all that part of the Curtis bill
that does not conflict with it is
the law now for the govern
ment of the Chickasaw and
Choctaw nations. Under it,
after the allotment is made, the
Indians can sell all their lands
except 160 acres each. That
they cannot sell for twenty-one
years. The freedmen cannot
sell their allotments of forty
acres each. Sections 16, II
and "a of the Curtis bill, in re-
gard to allotting lands, still re-
main the law. as it is claimed
they do not conflict with the
agreement. These sections
provide that Indians having
improvements on more land
than their allotments entitle
them to must sell the same to
some other Indian by April 1st,
1899, or lose said improve
ments. Said improvements,
however. can be removed from
the land. Under these condi
tions it is very difficult for In
dians to sell the improvements
they have in excess of what
they can hold on their allot-
ments, for those hunting allot-
ments know they can get said
Improvements for nothing by
waiting until after next April.
Hence these provisions virtual
ly confscates the improve
ments. In a few weeks. we pre-
dict. lots of fencing and houses
around and on farming land
will be taken down by the own
ers before they will quietly sub
NIT to other Indians taking
them for nothing.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

GEN. CAssIUs M. CLAY has
brought suit for divorce from
his child wife. to whom he has
been married but a few months.
The old general alleges aban-
donment. She is about IL and
he is 80. When an old man
marries young and frolicsome
girl he deserves no sympathy.
Such mating is contrary to hui
man nature, common sense and
decency.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

SECRETARY ALGER, in a re-
cent interview, pays Gen. Fltz-
hugh Lee a very high compli-
ment. stating that he has turned
out to be the best corps com.
mander we have. He has, the
secretary says. kept his CON-
mand in better shape than any
of the other commanders. He
kept his great army corps sta
toned. as it was, where one
would naturally expect disease
to break out, with only 2 per
cent of his men sick, while
camps further north have been
overrun with disease. He did
this by adopting simple sanitary
regulations and seeing that
they we're obeyed.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

SECRETARY ALGER is getting
up to his neck in hot water.
While the president is standing
by him and opposing an inves-
tlgation of his official .ouduct
in reference to the war. three
of the cabinet - Postmaster
General Smith. Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson and Attor-
ney General Griggs-are for a
wide-open. complete and search
ing investigation.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01
Mortuary Notes.

Chas. Petty, aged 66 years, died
yesterday of typhoid fever, at his
home four miles east OF town. De-
ceased leaves a wife and two chill
dren.
Clam, the 8-months-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. W. S. Crews, died
yesterday at the family residence,
six miles north of town, on Caddo.
Sam Billings, aged 81 years,
died yesterday morning of pneu-
monia near Norris school house
on Sandy.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

Ex-Gov. VIM. J. STONE, of
Missouri. in an interview in the
New York Herald. which is
profoundly significant at this
time. coming as it does from
one of the most prominent
Western Democrats, has out
lined the policy of the Western
Democrats on the silver ques-
ton. In language unmistaka-
BILE. he serves notice on the
New York Democrats now as
sembling in state convention at
Syracuse. that if the silver
question is sidetracked and a.
gold Democrat is nominated,
they will find themselves with
out a following and without in
1uence IN the next national
convention.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

AS CORN is going to be very
cheap. the farmer should buy
all the hogs he can and fatten
them for home consumption
and for sale. Lots of people
have to buy meat and lard, and
all of them had rather have
good country-cured hams and
lard.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

So FAR not a discreditable
act has been laid at the door of
a single Southern man during
the entire war with Spain.
From the highest to the lowest
in command, as we'll as the
Southern boys on the field of
battle, acted with such bravery,
patriotism and discretion as to
win the praise of all.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

THE report comes from Cuba
that General Garcia mas been
removed from command of the
Cuban forces on account of his
sulky attitude toward the Amer
leans. This is to be regretted,
as he is a braYe man and
true patriot.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

The American Tobacco Com
pany has appropriated $3.50, ,OOO
to spend this year in advertis-
ing the Battle Ak" plug to-
bacco. The G.. II. Haulenbeck
advertising agency of New
York has the contract to place
the ads in the country week
lies of the United States
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01
MARKET REPORTS.
Received and Corrected Each Day by
Wire Of the Ardm0re
Stock Exehodae.
GRAIN AND PROVIsIONs.

Chicago, Sept. 1.-Wheat-Liver-
pool 5-s lower for the day. Appar-
emily below 62c for December, there
is a mysterious somebody buying all
that is offered.
Corn-Higher abroad. Price Our
rent noted somewhat improved out
look.
Oats-Steady to hrm with small
speculative inquiry.
Provisions-Opened lower.
CHICAGO MARKET.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

GEN. AGUINALDo has issued a
memorial to all foreign powers
recitlng the fact that the Flip
mos have formed a governmel t
under the constitution adopted
June %, and that since then
the insurgents have carried on
a campaign of liberty, have
taken forty provinces and re-
duced Manila. They have
5000 prisoners, peace and tran
quillity prevail in the con-
quered provinces and there is
no resistance to Aguinaldo's
authority. The campaign. the
memorial says. was conducted
IN a civilized manner and he
asks the powers for recognition
of the independence of the Phil
Ippine republic, or, failing in
that. to grant the Filipinos bel
llgerent rights. The United
States is not mentioned in the
memorial.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

SECRETARY ALGER says he
does not believe the alleged in
terview with Gen. Miles. but if
it is he can and probably will
be imprisoned for the same.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

A number of our people are un-
duly excited over the arrival here
of the soldiers thinking they are
from fever stricken district.
This is all a mistake. there is no
sickness in this company, and a
glance at them will satisfy the
most skeptical on their health bill.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

s. 8. Ford, Ty Ty, Ga. "Beggs'
Diarrhoa Balsam gives the best salts
faction to my customers of any med
icine ever sold for all Summer Com
plants. We always keep it in stock
City Drug Store and T. N. Coleman.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01
At the jail.

Henry Taylor has been commit.
ted to answer to the charge of in
cest. He was arrested by Deputy
Lindsay.
Lee May, arrested by Deputy
Covington, was held to answer to
the charge Of larceny Of cattle,
and gave bond in the sum of $500.
Roy Carter, arrested by Deputy
Everhesrt, charged with larceny of
a saddle, was in default of $500
bond, committed by Judge Brad
ford.
Jack Smart was released on bond.
Roy Thompson was released by
order Of commissioner.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

If the reports put in circula-
ton about Secretary Alger are
not true, Gen. Miles and the
newspapers that concocted
them should be severely pun
iShad
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

The requirement of a medicine is
to Tighten the burden of pain and
cure, this brings us to the ques-
ton of a remedy and Tabler's
Buckeye Pile Ointment is the only
remedy for blind, bleeding or pro-
truding piles that is indorsed by
physicians, cures the most obsti-
nate cases, so cents.
Sold by 7. N. Coleman.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

OVER 1000 of the Porto Rican
army are sick. Suffocating
heat and millions of mosqui-
toes make life there intolerabIe
to the soldiers.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01
ARDMoRE. THURSDAY, SEPT. 1.

ONE of the first enterprises
that some of Ardmore's wide
awake citizens should put OIL
foot should be a street car line.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

AS THE editor of the Pontotoc
County News is so willing to
see the Chickasaw Indians
forced to give the freedmen Of
the nation forty acres of land
each, he certainly is IN favor of
the United States congress
passing a law forcing him to
give forty per cent of his pos
sessions to the negroes. Sauce
that is good for the gander is
certainly good for tie goose.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

Remember the illustrated lecture
Friday night at the opera house.
Admission 35 and so cents. Tickets
on sale at Ramsey & Hardy's.
1-2t
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

The railroad people are tearing
up the rattle trap platform from
around the passenger depot to put
a stop to damage suits for broken
limbs. We understand they will
put down a cinder and gravel plat
form which will form a concrete
that will certainly be a badly
needed Improvement.
They would confer a great boon
on the travelling public by enlarg-
ing their platform accommoda-
tions. 1t is not necessary that
buses and hacks should back right
up to the car door. Give the peo-
pie more room to get about on the
platform for it is a we'll known
fact that upon the arrival of every
train at this depot the platform is
literally packed to the discomfort
of those arriving and leaving here.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

PUTS AND CALLS ON DRcHNBER wHRAr-
Puts 81 7-s, 7-s to 81.
Calls 81 2-s to 1-3.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

Our old friends, Jack Conlisk
and John Murphy, well known
conductors on the Santa Fe, are
back on their usual runs after a lay
off of a few weeks.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

The citizens of Ardmore
should begin to take some in.
terest in who should be ap
pointed to appraise the
value of city property.
Only two are to be appointed
under the agreement-one by
the tribal governor and one by
the president. These men
should be fair-minded, level
headed men. absolutely honest.
just and incorruptible. 1t will
be no easy and satisfactory
matter to appraise the value of
the lots of Ardmore. The COM
mission must be cautious or
great injustice will be done.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01
TIME TABLE.

AHNIk ADkLO
Gulf. Colorado and Santa Fe Railway.
SOUTH BOUND.
Galveston and Chicago Express 4:l2 q. m
CIeburne and Kansas City Express 6:I0 D. m.
NORTH BOUND
Alveston and Chicago Express 1859 q. m.
Clsburne and Kansas City Express IL :O2 am
A. LUCAS, Ticket ARt.
w. g. KEENAN,. Gen. Pass. Agt.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

The Wichita Beacon truly
says: THE reason that Ameri-
can sailors came out of the war
with SO little suffering is be-
cause they were led by traine..
seamen. Political pull could
not give a rich mans son a
commission aboard ship, be-
cause the whole country would
laugh at the land lubber trying
to manage a ship. 1t was
equally ridiculous to subject
our soldiers to an unframed
commissary department, but
the farce was not so apparent
70 the people. The soldiers in
fhe field realized it fully"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01
COTTON,


New York, Sept. Liverpool was
higher this morning and better de-
mand for spots. New cotton 10 COM
ing in at slow pace and the absence
of heavy arrivals naturally works to
the advantage of friends of cotton.
The low price is not lost sight of and
sellers are cautious. Opening sales
were at 2 to points rise on moder-
ate business. Yellow fever reports
came from Mississippi and helped
steady the market, causing a further
rise of 2 points. Futures advanced
Ia point. According to Hester Of
New Orleans, the crop foots up for
the year IL ,199, ,0O4 bales. New York
spot market lie higher. Southern
spot market unchanged. During the
early afternoon the market for fu-
lures developed strength and show
ed 6 to 8 points advance. Sellers
were rather scarce at times. Shorts
rather nervous. The market left on
at 8 to 10 points advance.
sPOTs-MIDDLING,
HNew York. 8 1915; sales. 1850; tone, steady.
New Orleans, 5 s-s; sales, 700; tone, steady.
Liverpool. S5-Ie; sales, 5000; tone, steady.
FUTURES.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

To-day G. w. Garrison pur-
chased load of seed cotton from
Mr.. BEEN, of Lone Grove, paying
$1.55 per one hundred pounds
for il
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01

The ARDMoREITE is informed
that the negroes living in the vi
cinity Of the Second Baptist
Church (colored). south of the
section house, have been notified
by the property owners to yacate
their premises. We learn that the
colored folks do not take kindly to
this notice, and may cause a little
trouble, although they are only
renters.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-01
sPOTs-MIDDLING

Month Opened High
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-12-15
Tom. ge and displacement.

At the present time, when nava!
matters are source of great interest
to the general public, one continually
finds the terms displacement" and
tonnage" improperly used, both in
the daily press and in common speech.
The confusion between the terms
would not occur if their meaning were
understood. displacement" refers
to the quantity of liquid displaced by
the immersed hull of the ship, and
tonnage" to the freight carrying ca
pacity of the ship determined by GER
tain rules of measurement. The dis
placement of vessel is the entire
weight of the hull with all its con-
tents, according to the well-known law
of hydrostatics that floating body
disp aces a weight of fluid just equal
to its own weight. A ship sinks in the
water to such level that the pressure
Of the fluid displaced exactly counter
balances the weight of the ship.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-12-15
Chinese superstitions.

IN very fascinating article from
the pen of Hon. Calvin 3. Brice, In
the December number OF Ainslee's
Magazine, appear many interesting
peculiarities of this peculiar people.
One instance among the many narrat-
ed by Senator Brice is the following:
s'The feeling against the foreigner
in China, which sometimes finds ex-
preston in outbreaks, is not natural.
The Hon. Charles DENLY, for thirteen
years minister of the United States to
China, has said recently that the nat
ural feeling of the native of China for
foreigner is one of mere curiosity -
that the attacks on foreigners are in
cited by those who are Jealous OF the
strangers, or provoked by their sup
posed failure to conciliate local prejuJ
dice and superstition. For instance, q
short railroad was built in China not
many years ago which so excited tbs
people to opposition that it was bought
out by the Chinese authorities and
thereupon torn up. This road, viz,
the line of about twenty miles from
Noosung and Shanghai, has been re-
Gently rebuilt and opened. When
first CONSTRUCTED it encountered much
native prejudice. Local superstition
made the people believe that their an
cestors, disturbed by the railway, were
wan dering about complaining. Where
superstition is SO general, local preju-
dices must be considered. and in the
contract made with the Chinese gov
eminent it is provided that graves are
not to be disturbed; but the fact that
a railway thus so rudely destroyed
could, and indeed has had to be re-
built in the same locality so soon
again, is striking"
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-12-15

A first-rate chef was in the employ
ment of Lord Seaford, who, not being,
able to afford to keep the man, pre-
vailed on the Duke of Wellington to-.
engage him. Shortly after enteringa
the Dukes service the chef returned
to his former master and begged him.,
with tears in his eyes, to take him
back at reduced wages or none at ALL
Lord Seaford asked: "Has the Duke
been finding fault?" ooh, no-he isl
the kindest and most liberal Of mas.
tiers; but 1 serve him a dinner that
would have made Ude or Francatelli,
burst with envy and he says nothingl
/ go out and leave him to dine on a:
dinner badly dressed by my cook;
maid, and he say nothing. Dat hurt
my feelings, my lord!'
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-12-15

American ladies in Paris have sub
scribed to present Paris with an
equestrian statue of Washington by
Mr.. French. 1t will probably be
erected in the Place d'Iena.
DIR. Calmette, director of the Pas
teur Institute, at Lille, France. has
endowed that body with $50, 1000, the
profits of one of his inventions at the
distilleries of Seclin.
While kicking about in some dirt at
the city dump, Leadville, COL, Frank
Burkhart unearthed cave in which
he found fifty sacks of gold and silver
ore, stolen from the mines and valued
at $110,0 900.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-12-15
CONGRESS REASSEMBLES.
A Large Attendance in Both Houses.
McKinley's Message Read.

wAsH1Neros. -Congress reassem-
pled Monday under circumstances OF
unusual public interest. The same
congress, six months ago, declared
war against Spain, and now with the
war fought and won, it came together
for the first legislative consideration OF
the questions developed by the event
tul months just passed The occasion
was not, however, one of immediate
expectancy, for the few months left to
the existence Of the fifty-ffth con-
gress give promise Of little more than
a beginning on the momentous poll.
ciess and problems growing out of the
war.
As usual all Washington turned its
attention to the capitol for the gala
event which marks the opening day of
the session. The weather imposed no
barriers, for the hurricane of Sunday
had given way to clearing skies and
balmy air.
Long before the noon hour when the
senate and house began their work,
the corridors were filed with surging
crowds, cen ering in the rotunda and
statuary hall and pushing toward the
private galleries.
In the opening hours of the last ses-
sion of the memorable fifty fifth con.
gress the senate presented an ami
mated scene. The galleries were
filled early, many of the spectators
being visitors to Washington, who
had embraced the opportunity to wit
ness congressional opening. Prompt
ly on the stroke of - o'clock, Vice
President Hobart entered and ascend
ing to his desk, raped for order.
A call of the Senate developed the
presence of sixty-seven members. The
usual resolutions were offered and
adopted.
At LOS p. IN. the committee APP
/ pointed to wait upon the President
reported the performance of its duty
and announced that the President
would Immediately communicate with
the Senate in writing. Scarcely had
the report been made when Major
Pruden, exc utive clerk of the Presi-
dent, entered the Chamber and pre-
. tied the message. President
Hobart laid it before the Senate at
once, and its reading was begun at
:2S p. II.
In the house exactly at noon today
Speaker Reeds gavel came down with
sharp crack, and the great ebony
mace ontwined with silver and sur.
mounted by a silver eagle, was lifted
into place upon its green marble ped
estal, the spreading folds of the Amer
lean flag was broken to the breeze up.
on the brilliant stained court ceiling,
and the house of representatives en-
tered upon the closing session of the
memorable war congress. The scene
within the great hall was animated,
brilliant and picturesque. The roll
call developed the presence of 267
members, 179 being quorum.
/ A resolution was adopted instruct
ing the clerk of the senate that the
house was ready to proceed to bust.
ness. The house then took q recess
until l 80 to await the arrival of the
Presidents message.
After the reading of the message
Representative Sulzer offered reso-
luton to investigate the war depart
ment and the conduct of the Spanish
! American war.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-12-15

Mrs. Faddle--I thought you war.
ranted that dog bought of you well
bred? Dog Dealer--So it is, mum.
Mrs. Faddle-Oh, no, il isn't; it bolts
its food in the most vulgar manner.
eyes," said the soldier, "when we
parted she gave me token Of her re-
gard, 1 put it in my pocket, and it
was the means of saving my life" 81
see, was the response. cts the old
story. You carried her photograph
next your heart and it caused the bull
let to defect" mo, it wasn't any
photograph. 1t was bottle of mala'
ria medicine.