The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-07-09
JEREMIAH PIPER.
Wanted to Confirm Affairs at Fort
Worth-Jalled for Lunscy.


worth-JaiIed for Lunacy.
81 have been sent here by the AL
mighty to confirm the death sentence
of Darlington" said jeremiah Piper,
addressing Judge Harris as he sat
on the county court bench last even
ing. Piper said he was here to testi-
ty and insisted upon being heard by
the court and other officials of the
county
To Assistant Prosecuting Attorney
Roy the man detailed lot of incon-
sistences in such au incoherent man
ner that all who heard them agreed
that Piper was undoubtedly mad
man. He was promptly jailed as it
is certain he is a lunat1c.
This morning in company with At
torney Davis, who represents Jim
Darlington, a Mail-Telegram report
er was permitted to see Piper in
his CELL
To questions propounded Piper
said he was here to either save or
hang. He didn't care who it was;
he wanted the laws of the country
enforced and he had been sent to
see that justice was meted out in
proportion to the guilt or innocence
of the accused. He said he didn't
know Darlington, but heard he had
l., u hot no
(Piper) had been sent to Fort Worth
to see that the claw was confirm
ed"
Piper said he was farmer and
lived near Ardmore, but that the
mayor, police Judge of Ardmora.
and United States Federal Judge
Townsend had bought him transpor-
tation and assisted him on the train
at Ardnore to come here to see that
"courts we're affirmed"
He also labors under the hallucina
ton that the sIndian Territory Judge
had sent him to Fort Worth to take
possession of all the railroads in the
country. 81 own them," he said to
the reporter, land I'm here to take
control of them all, and I'm going
to have them"
Piper said he had been advised by
the Almighty that the 'hangman's
place" had been transferred from
Fort Smith, Ark, to Fort Worth,
and that he had been sent there to
pass upon Garlington's case; that he
would be given a hearing before him
in Ardmore and if found guilty he
must hang. but if innocent he would
turn him loose.
There is no doubt of the man be-
ing either crazy or is a crank and he
will be closely confined in the insane
ward of the county Jail until some
thing can be learned about him
Fort Worth Mail-Telegram.
Take care of the pennies and the
pounds will take care of them
selves.'
Large things are but an aggrega-
ton of small things. If we take
effect taking care of the large things
which the small things combine to
make.
Take care of what you eat, when
you eat, and how you eat, and your
stomach will take care of itself.
But who takes care of such trivial
things? That is way, someday, the
majority of the people have to take
care of the stomach. When that
day comes, there is no aid so effec-
tive in undoing the results of past
carslessness as DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. 1t strengthens
the stomach, and restores the or
gans of digestion and nutrition to
condition of healthful activity. 1t
cures biliousness, heartburn, hatu
lence, Indigestion, palpitation, diz-
ziness, cold extremities and a score
of other ailments which are but the
symptoms of disorder in the sto n
ach and its allied organs.
Sleepiess Nights
Are prevented by the use of Beggs'
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Blind Piles, Bleeding Piles; 25 cents.
City Drug Store and T. n. Coleman.