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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-01-20
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Beginning the first day Of December and continuing
last day Of Janusrwo monthsTHE WEEKLY ARDMoRETrE
guessing which will open man. woman or
child.
The Question Is,
How bales of will Ardmore wagons
during this cotton ending the first March,
You Can Guess
time fifty times the only consideration
accompanied by One Dollar which
year the
Weekly ArdmoreIte,
The leading the Indian Territory subscribers who
wish eligible Send the
Weekly Admoreite to friends the old home
and for every dollar invested during the time above
be entitled to guess.
How To Dol
Enclose giving sealed enve
Hand this with dollar the
who will endorse the date when envelope which will
enueH 10 precedence IN case OF tie Write plainly
What You Get!
To person making guess or the closest 70 the
WEEKLY ARDMoRETTE will life scholarship thoroughly
equipped Indnoa Business College including stationery
&c which valued at 5000 The knowledge
course OF instruction worth a fortune o a
To the second closest give Fifteen silver dollars
To the third closest Ten Silver Dollars making of
$50, which is absolutely given away.
Remember in all guesses number Of bales
precedence will always be given earliest guess
will observe that ---
Delays Are Dangerous.
and that by waiting towards the close
may be close will profit nothing To all those
enter contest
Der OF bales received for the last three
In -----------------23, %, 500 bales.
In iSoS iSSOO SOO :.
That this proposition fair deny given
the ARDAoRETE which closing the
an appreciation Of that fact WEEKLY
ARDMoRErrE one year and fortune for dollar.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-01-20

Receipts-Wheat, SO cars; Corn,
325 cars; Gats, 255 cars.
IT. s-r MARKET.
Wheat-Opened at 95 Is and closed
at 81 81.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-01-20
BY TELEGRAPH!

Weather Forecast.
tDaEey a Co. Specially
For Kansas, Nebraska. Da-
kotas and Minnesota: Fair;
colder.
Missouri and Illinois: Colder;
fair.
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TIME TABLE.

Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe RaIIws ..
SOUTH BOUND.
alveston aro Chicago Express n
Oleburne and KANSAS CITY Express &.
NO IcO -"
Galveston erG &. i. . ,eesS a-
Cleburne All 50 1es
- n $50
". S. KEENAN,. 6 II. Pass. AZ.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-01-20
Weekly Ardmorelte.
How To Dol

Enclose your giving and post Office sealed
Hand this with dollar the Cotton
who will endorse the date when received envelope which
ente to precedence guess Write very MAINLY
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-01-20

ARDMoRE, THURSDAY, jas. %.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-01-20

Month opened High
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-01-20
{ gpOTs-MIDDLING

New York. SIS; Sales. 2S2; Tone. quiet
Rev Orleans, S Ia; Sales, 900; Tone. steady.
s-IcI; Sales 1900; Tone. steady.
FUTURES
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-01-20

Beginning the first day of December continuing
last day of Janusrytwo monhTHE WEEKLY
guessing contest which will open to all man. woman
child
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-01-20

The ral ,e of Va les IN the grc D
and prov m me -kets in Chicago
today wag : , oSs:
Month O9easd H,sh Low Close
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-24
DOGS AT KNIGHTS FEET.
Why the Symbol Is a Fnr-Rcachins
One.

/ noticed in c1e CT :Ee newspapers
that the king Of Siam. during his ''ju-
bilee' visit TO this country. went to
there the figure Of some knight with
his dog at His feet, Informed his suite
hat in England "favcri:e dogs were
buried with jhe;- masters" says Coed
Words II vas = Pity 20 enc corrected
his majesty. fC1 We n.y. depend upon it
that our GdhcTecce 0 the GbcmiEabIe
ruston-so cCE:~O1 IA less civilized
countries, perhaps III Siam itself-of
putting 20 death ;ke f2vorites of the
dead. viii pass into S:auese history as a
fact. The Gcg II question was doubt
less greyhound.
As being F~ccm;Ee eat;y the knightIy
dog it was privileged in l.fe to a special
place behind is masters eft hand at
table ard, after death, in ef3gy. to a
place at lis masters feet rpor the
;oE5. &ar' Cal. Hamilton. Smith:
Hounds. shaped Ike the present, can
cot he traced in the Cd Frarkish and
Argio-Sa&oa manuscripts; they are all
coursi2g CreytoC2Gs. ard this char
sctcr is co1t:rUsd. wi;h but few excep-
tons. Gs the eGk,sTa Of fidelity CT gen
t;lity. usually ccuched On monuments
at the feet CT lights. to the last period
cf the recurzkect cgure." But the sym
bol is more far-reackiEg than this, for
the dog cn the monuments CT women
was the eEblsn ct affectionate fidelity
to their husbands; on the monuments
of men of uaquesticning faith in Provi-
dencA
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-24
TOLD HIS CLAM STORY.
How n Funny Detroit Man Won HI.
Cnse With the Jury.

How n Funny Detroit Man Won His
Cnse With the Jury.
Marshall P. Wilder, the funny little
man, is charged with having with
malice aforethought and evil intent
sprung a few of his tales on jury and
thereby turned their verdict in his di-
rection, says the Detroit Journal.
A few weeks ago Marshall came to
town and in the circuit court sued DR..
Hercules Sanche on a promissory note
for $1,Go0. He won the case, and now
the counsel for the defense has applied
for new trial on the ground that the
jury was improperly Influenced.
The lawyer says that during a recess
Marshall went out into the hall and
told the jurymen lot of funny stories,
including that one about the New Jer-
sey clam digger who fed his family on
clans so long that their stomachs rose
and fell with the tide. That settled it,
the Sanche lawyer says, and the nan
who laughs was solid as boarding
house biscuit with the jury. They went
into court, he says, and chuckled out
verdict in his favor.
The counsel for the defense saws
Wilder's jokes would win a favorable
verdict from jury of pine stumpA.
hence the application for new trial.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-24
wAsPs IN THE PULPIT.
Nest of the Fiery Insects Made in the
Minister'S Pocket.

Nest of the Fiery Insects Made In the
Minister'S Pocket.
A well-known Pittsburgh, preacher
tells an amusing incident of his early
career, when he was serving country
church. The time was midsummer.
One Sunday morning he was unable to
find his conventional black frocl1, and
at the last moment his wife persuaded
him to wear an ordinary coat which had
been lying on porch for several days.
A large family of wasps had taken
shelter il one of the roomy pockets, but
in his hurry to get to the pulpit the
young minister did not have time to ex-
anime the contents of the coat.
When he arrived at the country
chapel the congregation was waiting.
The services had already commenced
by singing. AS the aspiring preacher
walked up the aisle a peculiar buzz was
heard coming from the minister's per-
son. Entering the pulpit he began his
sermon by reading passage of Scrip
ture. Then he started in on his sermon.
He had not gone far with the discourse
until he began to find something de-
cidely wrong. 1t annoyed him. Soon
the sprightly wasps began to crawl out
of their nest and flew about the min
ister's head. He stood the ordeal as
long as he could with any degree of
peace of mind. Then the sermon was
brought to a speedy close and with a
fling the coat was cast out of window,
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-24
Are You Interested?

The o. R. & N. Co.'S New Book
On the Resources of Oregon, Washing
ton and Idaho is being distributed. Our
readers are requested to forward the
addresses of their Eastern friends and
acquaintances, and copy of the work
will be sent them free. This is a mat
ter all should be interested in, and we
would ask that everyone take an in.
terest and forward such addresses to W.
H. HURLBURT, General Passenger Agent,
o. R. & N. Co., Portland.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-24
WENT TO JAIL FOR LOVE.
Woman Takes All the Blame for a
Murder Her Fiance Committed.

Woman Takes All the Blame for
Murder Her Fiance Committed.
The supreme court of Mexico has
asked President Diaz to pardon Maria
Montesi!los, who, some time ago, was
sentenced to 20 years Imprisonment
in Belem jail for a murder she never
committed. The crime for which she is
suffering punishment was the killing
of Pascaul Montafio, in family quar-
rel. Miss Montesiilos' lover, Piquinto
Torres, was. the real murderer, but be-
cause she loved him Maria was willing
to take the penalty. She took all the
blame for the murder and during the
preliminary inquiry by the third crimi-
nal judge. and afterward at the trial
by jury, stoutly maintained that she,
and she alone, was responsible for the
death of Montafio, whom she had killed,
she said, to free herself from his con-
slant courtship and dishonorable
propositions. Torres, therefore, got
off scot free, and the woman, as the
murder was considered: to have been
committed under aggravated circum-
stances, was sentenced to 20 years in
prison, sentence which she cheerfully
accepted. But Torres, when he got
out, was unfaithful, and jealousy then
proved too much for Maria when she
learned of this. She presented the
,learest proof that she was innocent
and Torres guilty, and showed letters
from him to that effect. Her first at
tempt to secure relief was made before
the superior tribunal and was unsuc-
,essful, but the supreme court has just
set aside that decision and asked Presi-
dent Diaz to grant her freedom.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-24
BOOK BUYERS.
Errors They Sometimes Make Ars
Quite Amusing.

quite Amusing.
During the recent book sale in this
city, says the Chicago Chronicle. there
were many calls for Henryx Sienl<ie-
wicz's ''Quo Vadis.'' One girl appeared
with card bearing this: "Qwadiz," by
"Stinkwitz." Another reader asked for
1.-TWO Waders,'' by "Sinkers," while a
third demanded 'That book by the man
whose name ends in ''itch.''
''While the sale was going on won-
an asked cash girl:
''Can you find David Copperfeld?' Z"
''III sce,'' said the girl, and disap-
peared. She presently returned and
said:
mo, mum. He don't work here no
more.''
Another customer at the sale was a
woman who drove up in her carriage.
She explained to the clerk that she had
just moved into her own house.
''The library" she said, ''js one by
twenty and the shelves run around the
whole shootin' match" She looked at
the stock of books and sweeping her
hand over lot of shelving containing
about 1880 volumes, she said: ''Send
those books up AS the assortment
contained broken sets, odd volumes,
duplicates and paper covered novels,
her ''library' will be a motley collec-
fiOO
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-24
WALKED 2o5, 1920 MILES.
Remarkable Record CT POstman
Who Has just Retired.

Remarkable Record CT n POstman
Who Has just Retired.
A Mr.. Roberts, for SO years a postman
of PiIIing in the Fyldc, North Lanca-
shire, has just retired, reports the Lon
don Mail. For % years he walked from
Pilling to Fleetwood and back twice
day, not to mention many perilous trips
in crossing the river Wyrc during pc
riods of storm. A calculation of five
miles each way, four times a day Tin
addition to his round at the village),
six days in the week, for % years, shows
that he walked 137,26O miles between
Pilling and Fleetwood in the fulfillment
of his duty. During this time he must
have crossed the river Wyre "a by no
means pleasant task in the winter time)
27,457 times. His duties were consid-
erably ightened when II years ago the
government decided to bring the mails
to Pilling by another route. Though
this did away with crossing the river it
did not reduce the distance Postman
Roberts had to walk very much. In
Guiding the village delivery, he must
in his 33 years of service have walked
no less than 2O5,92O miles.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-24
Experiment with a sleeper.

Prof. Mosso, the italian Psychologist,
constructed couch so arranged that
it could be accurately balanced in the
middle when the slightest change of
weight would make either end incline
A man was laid upon it, balanced in
horizontal position. AS he went to
sleep his head rose and his feet sank
As he awoke the opposite occurred,
proving that the blood left the head in
one condition and returned to it in the
other.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-24
TELEeRAPHINe TO kLoNDIkE
The Lines Were Laid There About
Thirty Years Ago.

When one considers the great primal
fact that Klondike is not in American
territory one can understand why GER
tain Americans are doing their best to
discredit this mighty gold-bearing dis
trict in the eyes of the world. But while
the discussion is going on the Canadian
government has lost no time in consid-
ering the project of telegraphic COM
munication with Klondike. This in
quiry brings out strange fact-strange
in that everybody seems to have forgot
ter all about it-that there was once
telegraph line to Klondike and far be-
yond. Mr.. C. r. Hosmer, the indefati-
gable manager of the C. p. r. telegraph
system. does well to call it a romance.
Long ago-In 1S63-64-there was no
cable between Europe and America.
Our transatlantic news-ever during
the exciting episodes Of the civil war
was always about a fortnight old.
The attempt to make cable connection
had ended sly-and in this
junction of affairs was organized a gil
gartic enterprise, looking TO the con-
nection of the United States with Eu-
rope via Kiondike ard Behring seal
Most electricians and telegraphic ex-
perts had made up their minds that 10
miles-which was the distance across
the strait-represented the longest a
submarine cable could be successfully
worked.
A company was formed, and what
was known in those days as Russian
Extension stock went off al premium
of 60 per cert. In 1865 the Lire be-
tween New Wcstminsterand the Yukon
river was surveyed, found to be prac.
ticabie and traversedi completely the
present Klordike region.
The line was expected to be finished
in 1867. Even the tariff for messages
was fixed at G 5 (S25) per message
The receipts were estimated to yield
about $9,o0O.0GO per annum. The line
was actually constructed from New
Westminster along the present route
of the Canadian Pacific railway to Ash
croft. where it was continued north
toward Behring sea to Fort Stager,
300 or 400 miles beyond Quesnelle. This
line is at this present moment in op-
Grafton in portion of the Cariboo coun-
try.
Then. in the midst of the whole bust
ness, after three years of hard work,
came like a thunderclap the news that
the Atlantic cable was a success. Three
million dollars had been eXpended; yet
the next day Russian Extension stock
was not worth the printers ink on its
surface.
Some day-wvho knows?-this Russo
American via Klondike cable scheme
may be revived. In view of the COM
mercial growth of China and Janan (to
say nothing of eastern Russia), why
should it not be now ?-London Mail.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-24
Dotted sell House.

A doctor has mo7ed into new house,
one of the finest in Washington. Heca1ls
it the dotted veil house. When people
seem surprised he explains. This physi-
clan is a specialist. He devotes himself
to diseases of the eyes. The money to
build the mansion was accumulated
from fees which were earned in the
treatment of eyes injured by wearing
dotted wells. Not all of the profession
are so frank as this Washington oculist.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-24
Admission,
PECULIAR CHINESE CUSTOMS.
The Young Are Buried with Few Flu
neral Rites.

neral Rites.
The customs of the Chinese in the
matter of death and burial are certain
ly peculiar. Infants are buried sum-
marily without coffins, and the young
are inferred with few rites; but the fu-
nerals of the aged of both sexes are
elaborate in proportion to the number
of the descendants and to their wealth.
When childless married man dies, his
widow may perform all the duties of
SON toward him, may remain in his
house, and may edopt children to rear
as his heirs, and as worshippers of the
family names. If his widow purposes
marrying again, young male relative
may, with the consent of senior MEM
bers of the clan, undertake the services
expected from son, and may inherit
the estate of the deceased. When one
is about to die, he is removed from his
couch to a bench, or to a mat on the
floor, because of belief that he who
dies in bed will carry the bedstead as
a burden into the other world. He is
washed in a new vessel, in warm water,
in which a bundle of incense sticks is
merged. After the washing the vessel
and the water are thrown away togeth-
er. ne is Cnen afrayeu IN a TUT SUIT
of new clothing, that he may appear
at his best. He breathes his last in
the main room before the largest door
in the house, that the departing soul
may easily find its way out into the
air. A sheet of spirit money (brown
paper having a patch of gliding on one
surface) is laid over the upturned face,
because it is said that if the eyes are
left uncovered the corpse may count
the row of tiles in the roof, and that
in such case the family should never
build a more spacious domicile.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-24
A RABBIT stopped FAMILY Prayers.

zone Sunday we were all at regular
family prayer. y sporting friend was
visiting me, and he and knelt, facing
a low window with our elbows upon the
sill. And from round a corner, 10, There
came up on us n coney, and he reared
up not two yards from us, and he hearl-
ened unto the prayers, and he winked
his nose at US, till my friend forgot
himself and exclaimed: We kin catch
that devil!' 1 threw up the window so
hard that cracked a pane, and out we
leaped in red-hot chase. And the dear
cid archdeacon almost burst trying not
20 laugh, for he had seen The rabbit,
and was keen sportsman withal. We
ran that rabbit across four two-acre
lots as hard as we could split, and at
last we got him into deep snow, where
he gave up and was captured alive. And,
on looking back to the first fence we
had cleared, saw fuzz of white whis-
kers above it, and heard a strong old
voice shout: 'They got himl they got
him! !"-Outing.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-24


Wheeer OIL
Libby; Tame
Skmiehing; Belle
Christmas Klpatrk
ibby
Pckett
Paroed; A. Nation
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-24
When Rornitr -rnrn,.

Many women were called ''cranks"
for objecting to occupying berths in
sleeping cars. However, . large num-
Der of maladies are FroPagatcd by
means of hotel mattresscc, etc. Old
Emperor William of Germany and the
late czar, as we'll cs his fathcr, in
variably carried about with them on
their journeys small, narrow ire, camp
bedsteads, the mattresses aa3 rillows
being thin and hard. Qucc1 Victoria
travels about with her own bclctead, a
peculiar, old-feshioacd, wooden aTair;
and her rattrcss givcs7a vho.c lot of
trouble, two doElcstic3 IscirE c-1:~red
to its care. Both Grand Dl-l.c DGul of
Russia and King Leopold Of C@:ciuEa,
and likewise Prince Aibert cf r-l,-s.a,
the regent of ErCrsv-icl-, CRY their
bedsteads and their bedding about with
them in consequence OF their huge
stature. They require beds eight feet
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-24
Cash In Your Cnecks.

All county warrants registered prior
to Feb. 1, 1895, will be paid at my
office. Interest ceases after Nov. IA,
1898. @. L. PHILLIPS,
County Treasurer.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-24

AND SECOND-CLASS SLEEPING CARS
Attached to all Through Trains.
Direct connection at san Francisco with Occi
dental and Oriental and Pacific mail steamship
lines for JAPAN and CHINA. Sailing dates on
application.
Rates and tickets to Eastern points and Eu-
rope. Also JAPAN, CHINA, HONOLULU and
AUSTRALIA, can be obtained from
J. B. KIRKLAND, Ticket Agent.
Through Ticket once, 1S4 Third street, where
through tickets to all points in the Eastern
States, Canada and Europe can be obtained at
lowest rates from
]. B. KIRKLAND, Ticket Agent.
All above trains arrive at and depart from
Grand Central Station. Fifth and Irving streets
YAMHILL DIVISION.
Passenger Depot, foot of Jefferson street.
Leave for OSWEGo, daily, except Sunday, at
7:20 a. M; 1880, 1:55, 5:15, 6:25, "+8:05 p. m.
(and II 80 p. on Saturday only, and 900 a.
and $3.50 p. m. on Sundays only. Arrive at
Portland daily at +6.40 and $3.50 M. and i :35,
:15, 6:20 and 1855 p. M, (and 1905 a. m Sis
$40 p. m. on Sundays only).
Leave for Sheridan, week days, at 4:So p. m
Arrive at Portland, $3.50 a. m.
Leave for AIRLIE on Monday, Wednesday and
Friday at 9:40 a. m. Arrive at Portland, Tues
dav, Thursday and Saturday IL 3:05 p.
Except Sunday. ""Except Saturday.
K. KUEELER, &, a. MARKHAM,
Manager. Asst G. F. d Pass. ARt
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-24
FRENCH & CO.,
BANKERS.

rRANsAcTA ENERALBANKING BUSHES
Letters of Credit issued available in the
Eastern States.
Sight Exchange and Telegraphlc
Transfers sold on New York, Chicago,
st. Louis, San Francisco, Portland Ore
gon, Seattle Wash,, and various points
in Oregon and Washington.
Collections male at all points on fav-
orable terms.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-12-24

One Minute Cough Cure, cures.
That is what 1t was made for
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-02-08

When, during the civil war, the Con
federatc General McCulloch moved
from Pamela, he had considerable diff
Guilty i'll getting his men across the Tai
lahatchio river. The feat was accom-
plished Oh pontoon bridge, where only
few men and their horses could cross
ut IL time, and those in the rear, while
waiting, would Slip back into the town.
When this WAS found out, staff officers
were sent 10 order the men into line.
and they rode along, calling on them TO
close up.
Several Texans started, OH hearing
the order, and dashed along the street
ut brctkncck speed, and ono fellow
some distance III the rear yelled as he
flew and Whirlcd his lusso above his
head
He passed IL store where stood the fig
ure of Il woman, wire frame made for
displaying gowns, and quick as Il flash
his rope had caught the dummy.
Down the street lie galloped drag
ginS the thing after him. 1t was very
light and constantly rcbounded at times
so that it was six feet above the ground.
Everybody who SAW it was sure he had
lassoed II woman, and not only indigna-
ton but horror prevailed.
He noticed no one. His big hat on
the back Of his head, he rode wildly
along, yelling at the top of his voice
and dragging his victim. When he ar
rived Il: the river, he halted, drew IL
his rope, caught the figure under his
arm and quietly rode on the bridge
Tho crowd had followed, and when it
discovered the real nature of the lady
cheer upon cheer rent the air. Youth $
Communion