The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-04-30
LoNd STORIES MADE SNORT.

JON6o as S0ulOT mem DER Oh the naVai
retiring board. He will be succeed
ed by Admiral 5chley, heretofore a
member of the naval examining
board.
The net earnings of the Santa Fe
for March were S1,1O4 $3.50, an iR-
crease of s144,413 over the same
month last year.
According to a special dispatch
from Shanghai, it is reported there
that Aguinaldo's agents in japan
have issued a strong appeal for jap
anese aid and sympathy and are
urging Japan to friendly interven-
ton with the United States,
Letters just received from st.
Michaels, Alaska, announce that
three great gold strikes have been
made in western Alaska. Two creeks
have been worked with extraordinary
results. Coarse gold was found two
| feet form the surface. On the first
discovery six men raked out 81 200.
H. 8. Cunningham, attorney, of
Oklahoma, began the work today of
gathering evidence of violations of
the oil inspection law. He says
every instance of violation of the
new law will be vigorously prcse-
cuted.
Delegate D. T. Flynn sold his resi-
dence property in Guthrie, o. T.,
and Will soon move to Washington.
News from Boggy, Ark, are that
Miss Alice Archer was shot and in
stantly killed by Antonio E.rnoldo,
Mexican, who then shot himself
to death. Arnoldo was a tenant on
the Archer farm and had been or
dered away because of his overtures
toward Miss Archer. Yesterday he
called to see the young woman, was
repulsed and the tragedy followed.
At Smith & Holcomb'5 mine,
Eugene Tyler, and old miner, fell
from a rope down a shaft $50 feet,
breaking his neck, causing instant
death. A widow and two children
survive him.
1t is reported that the largest cop
per lodges ever discovered in the
northwest have been found in the
carbon district north of Mount Ra-
nier -ad so miles east of Tacoma,
Wash. The ore is said to be similar
in character and geographical situa-
ton to that found in Montana, and
to be fully as rich as that of the Butte
mines.
What was supposed to be a strange
disease that was killing sheep in
Wabash county, Ind, turns out to be
porcupine grass, which punctured
the Sleeps skin and poisoned them.
The Choctaw medical board will
meet at Atoka May l and >. All ply
sicians will be required to show a di-
ploma from a reputable medical col
lege, and those failing to do so will
be given notice to leave the Choctaw
; nation.
a Pennsylvania trolley company
hdh ~ pay a man - f-OO NC
cause its electricity got into barbed
wire fence near the track, and when
he took hold of the fence to climb
it he could't let go until his hand and
arm were shivered.
Jim Webb, who lives east of Adair,
, 1. T., met with misfortune Thursday
night. During the rainstorm, light
ming struck his barn, killed all his
horses, three, and one of his best
cows. His harness was also burned.
Two of the horses killed were extra
fine animals and they will be sorely
missed. as this is crop time.
The jnry in the case of Mrs.
George, being tried for the murder
of Saxton, the brother of Mrs. Nc
Kinley, returned a verdict of not
guilty.
D. G. Sauls, Santa Fe conductor,
was stricken with meningitis while
on the train between Temple and
Bolton. He was brought back and
is cared fol- in the company hospital.
The grand lodge Knights of PYth-
las of the Indian Territory meets in
Vinita next Tuesday, Nay 2. The
order has grown very fast in the
Territory in the past year, and it is
expected the meeting of the grand
lodge this year will show that it has
been nearly doubled.
]. D. Bridge, editor and proprietor
of the Democrat, Lancaster, N. H.,
says: 81 would not be without One
Minute Cough Cure for my boy,