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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-10-27
Story Denied.

New York, Oct. 27.-A special to
the Times from Washington, says:
The story that Mr.. Wildman is to
be removed fro N the post of United
States consul general at Hong Kong
Spd replaced by Edward Bedloe. late
consul at Canton, which originated
in Portland yesterday is emphatical-
ly denied at the state department.
The supposed cause for removal as
reported was Wildman's frieudlinees
to Aguinaldo. Bedloe's own case
has not yet been disposed of, and
the charges against him are before
the president. The belief here is that
he win be reinstated in the consular
service.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-10-27
THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.
Nothing New Has DeveIoped-YuIe Ia
Safe-Symons Dead.

London, Oct. 26.-Dispatches from
the front are SO diversified and con-
Trajectory that it is difficult to out
line the situation with any degree Of
precision. Three or four main facts,
however, staGd out prominently.
s General Symon's fight at Glencoe
was not anything like the decisive
victory it was first alleged to be aud
General 1ule in all probability would
have been annihilated or met with
the same fate as the captain Hussars
if he had not retreated.
General Whites ARTILLERY duel"
at Rietfonteu was very severe en-
gagement in which the rifle did great
execution and which success was
also achieved at distressing cost.
The bombardment of Mafeking was
commenced with an unknown result
and Beers got the Hussar prisoners
safely to Pretoria.
Altogether the campaign is being
pushed by the Beers SO strenuously
and on such stragetical lines that
the situation of the British must in
all probability give them cause for
deep anxiety for some time to come.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-10-27

The Guthrie Leader gives. the fol-
lowing account of a clash of author
ity in an Oklahoma town: "a rrav-
cling gymnsst with q number OF
trained dogs, who has been travel
ing in Oklahoma, struck Norman
and got permit from the mayor to
give free show on the street. The
town marshal tried to stop the show
at different times and under various
pretexts and almost cssued q riot.
Two hundred farmers who wanted
to tsee the show began shedding
their coats preparatory to licking
the marshal, when the lstter let 20
and disappeared.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-10-27

On the 10th of December, 1897,
Rev. s. A. Donahoe, pastor M. E..
Church, south, PIT. Mount, w. Va,
contracted a severe cold which was
attended from the beginning by
violent coughing He says: "After
resorting to a number of so-called
specifics usually kept in the house,
to no purpose, | purchased bottle
of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy,
which acted like a charm. most
cheerfully recommend it to the
public.". For sale by City Drug
Store and T. N. Coleman.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-10-27
MORE TROOPS ORDERED.

London. Oct. 26.-Orders were is
sued today for an additional five
thousand troops to sail for South
Africa between November 4 and Nov
ember IS.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-10-27
GENERAL sYMoNs DEAD.

London, Oct. 26.-The death of
General Symons, the British COM
mander at Glencoe, who was shot in
the stomach during battle with the
Beers there Oct. 20, was officially an
nounced in tie house of commons to-
day.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-10-27
Dawes Commission Work.

Muskogee, I. T., Oct. 25.-The
Dawes commission will close the
land Office at Okmulgee next week
and open it at Muskoges November
1. Seven thousand five hundred al
lotments have been made to Creek
Indians. The commission has prac.
tically completed the enrolment oi
the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians
The rolls show 1900 Choctaw In
dians by blood, $500 freedmen citi.
zens, 450 Chickasaw Indians by blood
and $50 freedmen citizens.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-10-27

and distressing cases of piles have
been cured by Tabler's Buckeye Pile
Ointment. 1t never fails to cure
Price SO cts. in bottles. tubes as cts.
City Drug Store, w. b. Frame.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-10-27
Samoan Affairs.

New York Oct. ga special to
the Herald from Washington says:
Until further information of the
attitude of Great Britain on.the Ger
man proposition to partition the
Samoan islands among the three
powers signatory to the Berlin treaty,
it is probable that Secretary Hay
will make them no categorical reply
Final action will certainly not be
taken by this government until the
president and secretary of state un-
derstapd the views of influential
senator's with reference to the pro-
posed disposition of the islands. In
the meantime there is no intention
on the part of the administration to
be puahed in TO hasty action Dy the
rumor of trouble in Samoa.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-10-27

Nature can only feed the flame of
life with the food eaten which is di-
gested. Herbine will invigorate a
weak stomach, ard SO improve di-
gestion as to insure the natural
bloom of health. Price so cents.
CITY Drug Store. w. B. Frame
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-10-27

Prickly Ash Bitters cures diseases
of the kidneys. cleanses and strength
ans the liver, stomach and bowels.
For sale By w. B. Frame.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-10-27
HOUSES IN FLAMES.

Pretoria, Oct. 26. via Lourenzo
Marquee. The shelling of Mafeking
was esumed at day break this morn
ing. Several houses are in flames.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-10-27
YULE Is SAFE.

The war Office has received the
following dispatch from General
White:
"Ladysmith, October 26, 1":40 p.
m.-General Yule's column has just
marched in here, after a very hard
march during the night, in an excep-
tionally heavy rain.
"The men, though done up, are In
good spirits and only want rest. The
enemy did not modest them"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-10-27

For all fresh cuts or wounds, in
either the human subject or in ami
NAL as q dressing, Ballard's Snow
Liniment is excellent; while for sores
ON working horses, especially il slow
to heal, or suppurating, its healing
qualities are unequaled. Price rs
and 10 cents. City Drug Store. w.
I'D. Frame.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-10-27
INSURANCE, ALL KINDS.
D. REDFlELD s SON


without representing line Companies that have stood the
given Notary work collection of
Bennington Stong Block, over Barrier Shop.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-10-27
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PENAL DAMAGES.

Chicago, Oct. %. - Twenty-four
million dollars is to be demanded
through the courts from corporations
in Cook county for violations of Ill
inois statutes. States Attorney
Deencn will make the demand in d
few days by filing 5000 suits, the
largest batch ever seen at one time
in the offices of the court clerks of
the county.
The purpose of these proposed
suits is to satisfy the law which calls
on every corporation in Illinois to
file a statement with the secretary
of state every year. Failure to COM
ply is punishable by fine of $50 a
day. There are IA, 900 corporations
whose name are on the books Of the
secretary of state that did not
file the required statement in 1898.
BOOKS FOR MANILA.
San Francisco, Oct. 26.-General
Shafter has provided headquarters
in the army commissary building for
the committee of the Red Cross
society now engaged in collecting
books for free library to be estab-
lished in Manila for the use of
American soldiers. The committee
expects soon to Rave enough books
on hand to make a first shipment to
the Philippines.
CAPTAIN SIGsBEE.
Washington, Oct. %. - Captain
Sigsbee is to be relieved of the com.
mand of the Texas about December
1, and assigned to duty in the navy
department as chief OF the bureau OF
naval Intelligence, relieving Com.
mander Richard Glover.
ABDUCTION CHARGED.
Stroud, Okla, Oct. 26.-Elizabett
Ritter, thirteen-year-o daughter oil
Arch Ritter, a well-to-do farmer,
who lives six miles south of Stroud,
was abducted from her home by
George Dalton and his wife.
The abductor had been picking
cotton for Ritter. This morning the
father swore out a warrant charging
abduction for immoral purposes, and
the sheriff and posse are following
Dalton, who passed through Stroud.
WANTS TO HOLD HIS JOB.
New York, Oct. ga special to
the World from Washington says:
The natives of Porto Rico are not
now, and never will be, capable oi
self-government.
This is practically the burden ri
q report just submitted to the secre-
tary of war by General George w
Davis, military governor of Porto
Rico.
Upon this Information the presi.
dent will base the recommendations
relative to Porto Rico coptained in
his forthcoming message.
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-10-27

highly valuable preparation, capable
from the promptitude of its action,
of clearing the system in few hours
of every worm. Price % cts. City
Drug Store. W. B. Frame.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07
CONTROLLING CONSUMPTION.

No other form of physical disease so effectively
resisted the efforts of medical science consumption
And for the eradication essenng inroads no
other disease strenuous efforts being
every direction. An undertaking which in serious con-
temptation by the United government for the es
adjustment of sanitarum in New Mexico for the
OF consumptiyes among the Of the army and navy
brings the subject of consumption and it's again into
prominence The New Mexico enterprise designed to be
effective chiefly if not entirely, of the sup
posed curative properties of the climate sections
of New Mexico
1t is but few years since the truth received any
recognition that consumption contagious disease II
had been universally regarded a hereditary almenr
There today but little Importance attached among me
cal men to hereditary predpostion toward acquiring the
disease.
1t has been said that of the deaths In
civilized communities due to consumption According
Sir William Broadbent who is recognized the highest
English authority the subject there 10000
from this disease in England annually 10000 are
from consumption of the lungs In the state of New
alone is estimated that 1000 people die annually from
the disease, than half of whom die in the most
crowded sections of the city of New York. No other
disease constitutes such scourge of the family
Yet doubt owing to its insidous operation and to the
popular ignorance regarding it. It's ravages
by anything like the degree popular fear as pre-
walls regarding smallpox for instance number or
other diseases that might be named which infinitely
less harmful
The prospects for the ultimate control of disease
being bettered each day. All the forces So
ciety arraying themselves against it. regulation
established years ago by the New York board OF
health, prohibiting persons from splitting the public
tloroughfares, has been followed up directions
like for instance the inhibition against splitting public
vehicles which will in time prevent the uncon
spread of the disease. Sanitary conditions it Is
now recognized, the controlling factor In con
trolling consumption Where these conditions the
disease is found most prevalent The isolation of
consumptiye patient is being steadily recognized inds
pensable precauton against the infection. 1t will
be long before all of consumption in households
eectually quarantined and the patient
all possibility of affecting those around him.
case In other infectious diseases
Whether the expectations regarding the climate OF
New Mexico well founded otherwise the santarum
or open-ar method of treatment WILL doubt
in universal use treating this dreadful Of all pre-
yailng diseases which finds it's victims mostly If
clusiyely among youngest and fairest members OF
society Before long there will be sanitarum in
large American city designed for the treatment Of
sumption there is in Philadelphia The record OF
such institutions Is most encouraging In the case OF
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07
FOR POLISH LIBERTY.

1t is thirty years since the last
troll Of their government by the Polish people
crushed beneath the iron heel brutasm Nigh
eighty years before the Polish nation, surrounded
threatened by the combined Russia Prussia
tria and the Porte promulgated through parI
men at Warsaw constitution enduringly free that
which few before the American people had adopt
ed for their government. And how the Polish race
fought for seyentve years thereafter
their children the blessings of this national
remain heritage to every animated by the
love of national liberty
Today as in the days of Kosciusko, race true
to the Of national liberty. and dismeln
bered her children forced into exile to Siberia fighting
battles Of Napoleon conspiring Polish liberty In
every large city in Europe the national spirit still
survived and the hope of redeemed Polish nationality
is still the day-drean of every true Pole
1t has been said that the Polish and Irish have
Illustrated in their the truth that the children
given nation may be gifted with the rarest powers
which are vouchsafed to and may individually, In
greater proportion than other races. show their ability
for the great undertakings of fe and yet in the aggre
gate show such conception Of political
enables nations to preserve their liberties against
onslaughs of other peoples not the Polish
people have shown the highest political wisdom a
of the history race that in every crisis
In the national life they possession of
measure of devotion to liberty and type OF
heroic patriotism as the world has any Of The
genius Of the has for over 100 wears
III every land In which it has found foothold
tre and the fine arts other has done to
show the fneness Of the national fiber war diplomacy
and scholarship the ranks high been tbs
Of the highest conceptions civil and religious
liberty Even when the political system of the
nation was almost lost in chaos there absent
leader Of the people to direct them paths
have been trodden by every has upheld the
cause Of human liberty and right.
Every intelligent European history who be-
ieVes In civil and political freedom unite in spirit
with the Polish race today in America in recalling
glorious pages national history and uniting in the ex
preston Of their faith in the the
Polish nation which preserved it's national as
pirations and traditions conditions as hav
applied to Poland for nigh hundred years
tined to national oblteraton
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07
CECIL RHODES FRANKNEss.

Mr.. Cecil Rhodes has been designated an empire
builder He has, indeed. done to extend the ter
rtoral possessions of the British empire than perhaps
any man now living Were he American citizen he
would doubtless be very strong mperiast AS it Is he
Is at least next to Joseph Chamberlain. leading rep
resenative Of the British system of British
panson
MI. Rhodes a few days ago. won for himself mucn
applause among the people of London by his
through the discovery Of inormalty the
American concern for the supply Of steel rails for
Rhodesian railroad enterprise he able to save
contract to his (our) Gown people"
Since making that declaration Mr. Rhodes has
thought it advisable to try break Its
that his views and policy looked expressive
OF those which animate the British public
And he has been at pains to tell the American people In
connection with his boosted exclusion them that they
must not be discouraged they are as welcome
"as brothers" in Rhodesia.
1t is little difficult to attitude of this
chief representative of Engands trade policy with
what taught to regard the cherished idea OF
the British government and people in the
dom of trade with all nations There probably good
deal more of human nature including that exceptionally
high type of the commodity British human nature Mr.
Rhodes action than for political purposes it is just des
able to aVow at this time. Whether be the open
or the sphere Of influence" which guides England In
South Africa, China elsewhere it is will be- as
always has been, the welfare English nation and
the ascendancy Of English commerce which will control
the action of her statesmen in their dealings with foreign
competitors.
This little puncture of the deluson under which the
Ango-Amercan faction of mperiaiss us to live is
quite timely We have nothing for from England
any more than from any other nation. we are to COM
pete successfully with her will be only places
and under such circumstances do enable
tablish her predomnance through political influences She
Is our greatest commercial rival such she will long
| remain. She will exclude from trading with her
colonies in thousand ways not seem to- enter
the mind OF the average imperiast And when
her in competition for the of other nations we
must be prepared to the manifold expedents In
which she is skilled has adopted from
time immemorial in dealing with outside competition
Mr.. Rhodes frankness ought to be a revelation to
lot Of our foolish mperialist friends.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07
CARVING CHINA.

To the general reading public inforna-
ton concerning agreement between Russia England
has but little known significance outside the assurance
which it appears to afford that all prospect
ended at least for the time between two powers in
their respective control the commerce and
industries of the Chinese people.
1t has this additional significance however that Eng
lands aVowed purpose of opening up the Chinese empire
to common by all trading nations is laid aside
In other words the open door policy the strength
which England has been coquetting for some time Dasy
with our own imperalist politicians for political ana
commercial partnership in China which, no doubt Eng
land was to be usual "the predominant partner Is
dropped has been superseded by what is called the
sphere of influence policy.
Engand's advances China been from the South
through the Yellow and China overland from
British India through Burma Russia has been bearing
down from the North and for many years has been yr
tual Of the vast range country marked on the
map as Manchura. The icOns and false preteDses or
diplomacy alone is which aid giving currency to the
idea that either of these nations Germany or France
is seeking anything but the of its own COM
mercial and political power in the deeaying empire OF
China at the expense of the Chinese people, There is
nothing else in sight. There is nothing else soug IT.
The mproducve sections Of the empire are there for
those who want them. They have value except their
strategic value Notwithstanding her possession the
splendid ports of Port Arthur Taien and vadvos-
took. Russian with China is and will con-
tnue to be done overland while that England must in
the bulk, be done by water 1t is with England rather
than with Russia must compete if to engage
successfully in the Chinese trade; and Notwithstanding
the British possession Of Hong Kong we could beat her
hands down, in such contest her control
OF interior territory, either through the sphere Of in
fuence policy otherwise
England and Russia, in agreeing the sphere of in
uence policy have simply divided up sections or
China between themselves virtually promising not to in
terfere with other. Germany will now proceed to
adopt like policy Until the memorandum of agreement,
S adp none TO tuSth
understanding reaches between the two leading Chinese
powers.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07
CALL M1NNEsoTA's FOOD EXPERTS.

Carefr' and attentive readers of the Gil obe must
have read with amazement the remarkable state
made the congressional committee that is In
vestgatng the adueration of food products by Prof
Wiley, chemist the chemist perhaps, Of the depart
of agriculture According his testimony there
very few if any Of the preparations may
the materials of food that do undergo
degree of adulteraon in the process of cooking
made-easy. the aromatic and nourshing berry
the coffee he tells has been eounerfeited by,
doubtless descendant of that Connecticut Yankee who
invented the wooden nutmeg who takes flour and other
substances moulds them into the shape of coffee berry,
sells the dealers be mixed in with the genuine
berry and sold for prime Java and Mocha.
But if the reader gathers from Prof. Wley's testi-
that these harmessnnocuous as to the stomach If
injurious the pocketbook- of foreign
stances the food products destined for our
midst deserve to be made anatema by legislation he
she will be only expressing Judgment already embodied
in legislation modified however by sundry
ings department Of dairy and food appears from
the very interesting records of that department The
mittee will hardly be able to present to congress I'M
partial of the whole case and con, unless
it take into it's report these rulings and call before the
commissioner his assistant inform them
food laws administered in Minnesota. Incidentally
their rulings will contribution clase
lucid and elegant English in which official opinions should
always be rendered.
We have not the space for more than two three
Illustrations that the committee VIII
miss it should they fail to call Mnnesotas experts
stand Take the matter of spices and condiments which
the subject of chapter 1T6 of the General
1897. designed the title Declares prevent fraud
in which aduteration Is specifically defined among
other acts adding any TWILL lower or de-
preciate the strength quality purity Of the Nut
meg and mace well known spices in common and
faciator of cookery who prepared these spices
ready ground, evidently asked the commissioner
ing how far he could add something would in
his profits while depreciatng the purity and SO
forth the spices Ruling 5" answers the nquIrr
We quote it verbatim ct punctuatum ct speluatum:
In the grinding crushing as
grinding boil amed
products domestic ruling
that added of
will be admissible ruling the law
the exceeding This
be the product wise detrimental the public
simply rulings
| of undo the shall respectfully
consideration of
commercially conform their the re-
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aurements Dairy and Laws
Minnesota.
The nayete with which permission is given to adulter
ate ground nutmeg to the extent of 10 cent while
mtng the inability to set aside the law that forbds IT,
should not be missed by the his admiration for
the elegant English in which the ruling is eouched For
real lucidy. however, submit Ruling No II, relative
to jeies also put guardianship by the law, given
literally unprofaned by the amending emendng pencl
Section Chapter provides among
other things that the words mixture and "afueraed shall
pc and as the useng of said words and branding seem to
the Who'll through information the
and to the true character Of the food @
with contemplated by law, the law would be wholly
In part null and void Hence shall If food
as by contains fruit product
indicated by branding indicated Chap
Possibly the jelly maker who received this "ruling
was able to comprehend its occult meaning but to the
nexpert lay mind 1t would hod" that it, for in
stance. the package labeled jelly, and did
contain jelly made from currants, 1t must also bear
the warning that It's contents mixture" and adu
terated There other equally lucid and interesting
rulings whose consideration must defer to another
time but we submit that have given enough to show
how essential is that the committee Of congress call
Commissioner Anderson and Assistant Commissioner
Lawrence before to explain what percentage of adu
ITERATION is allowed under laws that prohibit all aduera
| ton.