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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-06-19
Wants TO Hunt Them

Jim Cook, ex-bandit, has ap-
piled for a deputy marshalship in
this district, and wants to go into
active service hunting law break
ers. He says he knows where
three ex-deputy marshals who used
to hunt him in days past are hid
ing out from the law, and he is
anxious to catch them and bring
them to justice.
The whirligig of time brings
wonderful changes, and this is one
of them; where a notorious bandit
has reformed and is anxious to
bring offenders OF law to justice
In the Fourteen mile creek fight
Jim stood up with his brother Bill,
Cherokee Bill and the rest of the
gang, being wounded seven times,
and his gun shot ont of his hand.
He ought TO make a good marshal.
Jim OF late has been staying at
Fort Gibson and is well behaved
Post.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-06-19

Attend the races Tuesday at 1:30
o'clock p. IN. at Wilmington park.
Is 2t
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-06-19

Attend the races Tuesday at 1:30
o'clock p. m. at Wilmington park.
10 Of
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-06-19
Opposition to Bryan.

OPPOSiLOh ~ OA yam.
A Washington special to the
GlObe-Democrat says:
Just before he sailed Senator
Hanna said he had supposed up
to recent date that Mr.. Bryan
would certainly be the democratic
nominee next year. He added that
something he had heard lately
made him think there might de-
velop a formidable opposition.
Eastern democrats are undoubtedly
getting together to take advantage
of any chance that may be present
ed to leak down Mr.. Bryan.
They shaped the Pennsylvania
state convention so that it carried
no comfort for the western wing of
the party. AT the same time pol
itic management avoided anything
like a contest over the Chicago
platform.
Ex-senator German is hard at
work. He does not yet admit that
he will be a presidential candidate,
but he is organizing an anti-Bryan
following which is much stronger
than appears on the surface. These
eastern democrats go so far as to
count, with some show of conf =
dence, Illinois in their movement.
They seem to feel entirely sure of
the east down to Maryland and
West Virginia, and to believe some
southern and Pacific coast states
will refrain from instructing for
Bryan when the fact of organized
oppOSition is known.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-06-19

Mr.. P. Ketcham of Pike City, CAL,
says: During my brothers. late sick
ness from sciatic rheun atism,
Chamberlain's Pain Balm was the
only remedy that gave him any re-
lief" Many others have attested to
the prompt relief from pain which
this liniment affords. For sale by
w. B. Frame and T. N. Coleman,
druggists.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-06-19

Cord or stove wood taken on
subscription at the ARDMoREITE
office.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-06-19

Special attention given to resi-
denee work. Office in Wilmington
building.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-06-19
EPlSTLE FROM ANTIOCH.
Special Correspondence.

Antioch, l. T. June I7.-Farm-
ers have made havoc on the grass
crop since our last report, however
the rain is with us again and the
outcome looks blue.
Web worms are at work in
cotton on the low lands, and have
destroyed a great deal around An
tiOch ALREADY Some of the up
land people are complaining today
that they are at work and doing
considerable damage, however we
hope for the best yet.
Several have cut oats in this COM
munity and the prospect is fine
for good yield.
Corn is fine as can be.
Many went to Overlook to the
big singing last Sunday.
Ernest Mckinney of Durant is
at home on a visit.
Miss Sallie Mckinney who has
been teaching school near Van
Alstyne, Texas, came home last
Friday.
A good many little folks report
ed sick in and around Antioch.
Grandma Airheart about eighty
years old, died at the residence of
her son, two miles south of An
tioch on the 10th, the remains
were inferred atRoston, Texas, her
old home.
Geo. Nichols and family visited
at Marietta one day this week.
Some parties are figuring on
opening up a general merchandise
house here near the new gin site.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-06-19

Choice lots in Ardmore at bar
gain. Enquire at ARDMoREITE of
fee. Aft
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-06-19

TrOtting and running races at
the Wilmington park Tuesday.
Is 2t
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-24

pages he felt that he had not spent the
night in vain and he sought out group
Of few members Of the Standards
staff and without any hesitancy pro-
ceeded to announce his opinion OF the
Christmas edition. That others have
been kind enough to express the same
opinion is gratifying. but that was the
first word Of praise that the staff had
heard, and it was doubly pleasant on
that account.
TITS a bird!" That was high praise
enough for those who had been hard at
work upon the prepare ton OF the pa
per. you deserve all the praise that
you will get, and more, too. We did
not expect in those early days OF the
papers life that the Office would ever
turn out such a paper as this one. The
more I look at it the more pleased I
am with It and the more pronounced be-
comes the contrast between it and the
first Christmas paper that the Standard
ever printed. I remember that edition,
and think that I always will. Few of
those who read 1t realized the trouble
and worry that it representation it
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a paper, as I have said. but it was a
wonder that we got out any paper at
all that morning.
That was a fair sample of a lot of
the experiences that we had during the
hrst few months that we issued the
Standard. The scarcity of men was the
worst thing that we had to contend
against. When we got a man he had
to work all the time, usually, and this
is contrary to the practice of COM
positors. They generally want their
nights off pretty regularly and when
there are no subs in sight they don't
like the job. When a new printer did
drift into town he never had better
chance to work in all his life than he
did then. There were always plenty
of men who were anxious for night off
and he always had from 1 to IL offers
for case for the first night. The sub
was the independent man then. He
could work when he wanted to and he
did not have to work if he didn't want
to.
Eve had IL cases in the composing
room then. Some nights they were all
filled and some nights there were not
more than four men at work. If you
look over the files Of that winter you
will find that we used to double UP on
ads very often. 1t was no unusual
thing to find that we were three or four
columns short when we came to make
up, and then we would simply lift that
much display advertising from the first
side of the paper to the second. The
railway ads were the regular flll-ups for
us then. There were many mornings
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when these appeared twice in the paper.
If we did not have to double more than
these we were all right. 1t all de-
pended upon the number of men that
we had.
There was good deal of independ-
ence, as would be expected, among the
compostors in those days. Still, they
were good fellows. I was foreman of
the composing room and president of
the typographical union and could have
been presiding officer of the chapel if
I had not been opposed to such concen-
tration of power. The regulars that we
had then, five or six there were of them,
were hard workers and steady fellows.
Some of them are still with the paper
in some capacity or another. But it
was the tramps that made us all the
trouble. They soon learned how much
we needed help and they took all kinds
of advantage of the situation. 1t was
the rule of the Office that there should
be no Wis tors in the composing room
after time was called. That was not
an unusual rule in newspaper offices,
but good many of these tourist print
ers were inclined to disregard it. We
needed men so badly that we We're not
very strict in the enforcement of these
rules, and this one in, particular, but on
a few occasions the violations were so
fragrant that l had to step in and use
force to compel obedience. The reputa-
ton that these little encounters gave
me soon spread and it was not long be-
fore big fellow named Dent, who was
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-24
lin Wardner's Luck.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
Jim Wardner of Idaho and all over"
said westerner just in town from the
Pacific slope, ought to be somewhere
in New York city at this very minute,
for heard that he had left for the East
on a prospecting tour just before l got
down from Skagway Wardner is
genius that cannot be downed and be-
sides having one town named for him
in Idaho and another in British koote-
mai, he has made and lost four for
tunes in mines and Is now starting IN
on fifth. At least his fourth is gone,
and he only makes fortune when he
happens to be out of one. His last ven
ture was big, but it went wrong he
had two steamboats, on the kootenal
and started the town Of Wardner, when
went with a boom and Jim started 10
win a million.
There was a rival town across tie
river, but they had to depend on Jim
steamboats, for their stuff, and natuf-
ally, under the circumstances, Wafaner
had the bulge on Steelt0n, the name OF
the other town. One day, when every :
thing was coming Jlm's way, poth OF
his boats went on the rocks and sunk
and Jim wasn't yet IN a Tx 70 rsplace
them. In other words, 1t busted MN,
and he got out of 1t the best he could,
which was to go off to Toronto and
trade his townsite for a stock of goods.
These, to the extent of $4,000 he car
ried UP TO Lake Bennett and started
down the river for Dawson. Evidently
Jim's luck wasn't on the water, for MS
boatload Of stuff was wrecked and he
only saved enough out of it to bring
HIM in S., 000 when, if he had had luck,
his $40, 600 would easily have been sold
for S4O0, 900 at the usual Dawson profit.
That sort of thing would have knocked
out most men, but Wardner went right
on. and now / understand ne has got
something to present TO the notice of
New Workers. better than anything he
ever struck.
His black cat farm was one OF the
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little more of prizeghter than he
announced that he was coming over to
Anaconda to do up the fighting foreman,
as he called me. was warned Of the
fellows purpose and was ready for
him.
Dent strclled into the composing
room one night just before time was
called and engaged in conversation
with some of the printers. When the
men went to work he remained and
talked around In noisy sort Of way
and knew that the expected encounter
was due. I didn't want to have any
mixup with the fellow. He was too
big and didn't know how 1t would re-
suit. So asked him quietly to leave
the room. referring him to the rules.
He said that he would go in few min
utes. told him to 60 at once. He an
swered that he would go when he got
after him before he expected it. hit
him two or three jolts in the face, but
I couldn't knock him down. He was too
heavy. But kept hitting at him and
the attack was SO unexpected that he
hadn't time to hit back. / rushed him,
and in stepping backward he tripped
and fell. ] remember that I started to
hit him with a column rule, but was adj
vised not to by one of the men. Then
grabbed him and dragged him to the
top of the stairs. A good push sent
him rolling down and he didn't come
back. That was, think, the last time
that we had to enforce the rules of the
place in so emphatic a way.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-24
the tourists was Bill Luddy. He alwau

the tourists was Bill Luddy. He alwaya
had new story whenever he came. ]
remember that we had lot of fun
over the first one that he told us in
Anaconda. He said that it occurred
down in a printing office in Arizona.
This Office was overrun with cock
reaches and the foreman of the Office.
as an inducementl to the printers to kill
the pests, had allowed them to paste
them upon their strings He allowed
100 ems for each cockroach, regardless
of size, and the boys were cashing in
some long strings, The graft was
good one, but was spoiled by tramp
that came along. Luddy had decided
to remain permanently there in Ari-
IONA, but this tramp caused him to
change his plans. The tramp had kill
ed an ally large roach and when
he handed in his string he demanded
a price and half for it on account Of
its size. That made the foreman an
cry and he called the deal off.
with all of it's trials the old Office
used to turn out lot of work. The po-
SlllOn Oh foreman was not an easy
one, as the boys were popular in town
and the people We're not used to the
rules Of an office. Some Of them used
to try to distribute a case Of wine
among the printers, sometimes during
working hours, and could not under
stand why we would not allow it. With
all of these temptations in their way,
1t is no wonder that there were vacan-
cies on the cases now and then. But
we never failed to get out the paper.
Yes, it's a bird" concluded Mr..
Walkup. II don't know but that
wish l had stayed on the paper. Then
I would have come in for some of the
glory of this edition. There are worse
places than a print shop. after all"
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Standard does every day. But the old
paper has excelled itself this time and
/ am proud of it.
I'VE never thought when we made
the start Of the paper 10 years ago that
1t would grow as 1t has. 1t has become
bigger paper than we dreamed that
it would. Still, though that old Stand
ard seems small and insignificant when
1t is compared with the issues of this
year, it was a pretty good paper for
those days The people used to say that
the Standard could not possibly con-
tinue to get out as good a paper as it
was then for the reason that it was too
good then for the state and was a big
ger thing than the state could support.
There was always in those days the
dread that every night we would not
have men enough on the cases to get
out the paper. remember how we used
to have to double up on work some
nights to get out the paper at all. One
man would set ads, read proof, assist
in the makeup and set little type be-
tween times But, soon after that first
Christmas number the office began to
become better known among the print
ers and men We're more plentiful. There
came to the office that next summer
lot of the best men in the business.
Some Of them are here now. They
amalgamated with the original gang
and settled down here to stay. But
with them came lot of characteristic
tourist printers who simply added to
their regular route a new station. All
of the old stand-bys, who called at
regular intervals upon all the printing
offices in the West, put the Standard
office on their lists and we became
new victims of their panhandling pro-
pensities.
Zone of those early arrivals among
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II couldn't help, as looked over the
Christmas number this morning, con-
trasting the advertisements with those
of 10 years ago. I venture the guess
that the receipts from advertisers In
this one number will exceed the total
advertising receipts for the first yea
that the paper was published. The ad-
vertising patronage of this number is
great. In those days we didn't get
many ads. We had a two or three col
umn ad of the Standard job DEPART
ment that we used to fill up with when
We needed it, and that was most of the
time. There were some of the standing
advertisements in the paper then that
were never changed. / remember one
that was never touched from the time
that it made its first appearance in the
paper until the type became so worn
that we had to reset the ad and throw
away the tyre.
LAS recall the edition of that Christ
mas, there were but two special Christ
mas ads, and each was half page
D. J. Hennessy had one and D. God
berg the other. We thought then that
that was doing pretty well. You see
how things have changed. The bust
ness men of Montana have learned a
whole lot about advertising during
these years, and know that the Stand
ard has had considerable to do with the
instruction that has been given. There
is no paper that know of that carries
q better line of advertising and of ad-
vertising that is well set than the
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things that gave him a reputation for
wealth. This was a farm on an island
in Puget sound, where he raised, &C
cording to his representations to an
eastern journalist. such vast numbers
Of black cats that their fur brought
him in fabulous revenue. OF course,
it was a fabric of the fancy, but the
story was told everywhere and Ward
ner's black cat farm was one of the
features of the coast-on paper, at
least.
Another story is told of him Of
time when he was between fortunes and
wanted to get to New York for a grub
stake. He was at Vancouver, and as
he couldn't swim nothing was left him
to go on but the land, so he struck the
Canadian Pacific railroad. He stated
his case to the agent and asked him to
telegraph to Mr. Shaughnessy, the gem
eral passenger agent at Montreal, to
the effect that Mr.. Wardner was at
Vancouver, and unless he got transport
tatipn he would have to walk. The
obliging agent sent the message and
asked, Shall I issue the transporta-
tion?' Later the agent received a re-
ply: Don't let Mr., Wardner walk,
and that same night Mr.. Wardner was
flying eastward on a C. p. train. Ar
irving at Montreal Wardner went to
Shaughnessy to extend his thanks, and
when the G. p. A. saw him he threw ur
his hands,
"5ow did you get here SO soon?" he
asked.
"Over the C. P. OF course" respond
ed Wardner.
But how? Didn't the agent get my
( telegram
Yes, and it said: Don't let Mr.
| Wardner walk and l didn't smiled
| Jim.
| "tGreat Scott, exclaimed Shaugh-
messy, that telegraph operator left out
a period. The telegram should have
read Don't Let Wardner walk"
Then Wardner gave Shauganessy
| the ha, ha, and Shaughnessy save
| Wardner a dinner and Wardner Gidnt
! have to walk on to New y"r'l, ether.
He's a great chap, is Jim Wardner, ana
| he'll be en- top again by ii py, see OF
! he isn't
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WALKUP AND The STANDARD TEN YEARS AGO.
The Standards First Foreman Contrasts Standards Christmas
With the Christmas Standard Issued Week Ago To-Day.

t'It's a bird!" John r. Walkup held
In his hand a copy Of the Christmas
standard as he spoke He had sat up,
with true printers instinct, Sunday
morning till the paper was printed and
then had looked carefully through its
pages Mr. Walkup was the first fore
man Of the Standards composing room,
more than 10 years ago, and he still
takes a fatherly interest in the paper
and it's progress. When he expressed
somewhat sententiously his opinion of
the Christmas number, his praise was
accepted by the members of the staff
10 whom the brief remark was address
ed, as a high compliment to the result
of their efforts, and they appreciated
the Endorsement all the more on ac-
count of the source. Yes, it's a bird
Mr.. Walkup repeated, and cordially
grasped the hand of each of the Stand
ard men present. Times and conditions
have changed considerably since Mr..
Walkup superintendent the makeup of
the first Christmas edition of the Stand
ard, 10 years ago, and the contrast be
teween the edition of last Sunday and
that first effort is great.
There were no special editions in
those days. The Sunday paper was no
different from the regular daily edi-
fion. Looking through the files Of the
standard for the month of December,
1889, there is little special holiday adj
yertising noticeable. John Merrill of
the Christmas attractions that he had
TO offer and d. Goldberg of Butte took
half a page to attract the attention of
the people of that city to the wares that
he had to offer in the way of gifts.
1rhe Hennessy Mercantile company also
took half page for the week that pre-
coded Christmas All Of the rest Of the
advertising in the Standard in the win
ter of 1889 was the regular, routine,
ready-made business cards that the
people of Montana then considered to
represent advertising. There were no
special stories. There was NJ suprle-
ment. The regular eight pages were
considered sufficient for the needs and
demands OF the occasion. The Hen
messy advertisement announced Inat
that firm had enlarged it's establish
nent to two rooms and that these
rooms were filed with an immense
stock. In the news columns of the
Standard that Christmas morning 10
years ago, the only Christmas features
were an editorial paragraph of three
lines, in which the Standard extended
the compliments of the season, and
two-column story credited to brakes
Magazine The leading articles in the
Butte and Anaconda pages told Of the
elaborate preparations that were in
progress for the holiday; the Gro wds Of
shoppers and the general happiness
that pervaded the towns From Mis-
soula there was an item that told that
Sheriff Houston had taken five men to
the state pen to get their Christmas
dinners and that they would remain
there for two or three years. A Helena
special dispatch, double-ieaded, con-
veyed the interesting infor"' ton that