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Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17
EARNINGS rHAr MEAN RonnrRr.
Dividends on stock watered Go the
s%RturRtion Point.

saturRtion Point.
Minneapolis Times.
With all the Elee OF big headlines and
redundant superlative the papers owned on
controlled by Mr.. James j.. Hin or hypno.
tized into a belief in his altruism publish
the fact that the earnings Of the Great
Northern railway increased during the
fiscal year ending June 30. 1909. more thar
SS,OOO,O0O, while the operating expenses in
creased little more than $1,000 900. AS the
earnings prior to this were large enough
to pay handsome dividends on stool
watered TO the saturation point, we sub.
NIT that this added 81. O00. 900 net Is plainly
stolen from the producers, shippers and
consumers.
What other possible way lie there Of
looking at it7 Here Is a common carrier
that takes toll Of prosperity to such an
extent that II gets by far the larger share
OF the grist. II the money actually in
vested in the Great Northern were fairly
given, as its securities. II could pay from
80 TO 40 per cent dividends from the pres.
ent earnings and then have a surplus fot
stock dividends or for its strong box.
RMS Is true to some extent of the
Northern Pacific, although the amount Of
money Invested In that road was much
larger than that Of It's parallel nelghbor.
because OF divers and sundry lootings
that occurred we'll within the memory Of
middle age.
1t is not to be wondered at that ever
convention of men assembled for the pur-
pose OF making public utterance empha-
sizes the indisputable fact that over
capitalization is one Of the curses OF this
country today-is one Of the most gigantic
evils OF the great trusts. OF course we
All know why the stock is watered, swellcd
and Inflated as II is-we all know that Il
is because owners, promoters and execu-
tives would not dare declare the dividends
that would accrue from actual invest
ments.
1t Is impossible not to see that the hand
writing on the wall spells government
ownership for railways as we'll as for coal
mines unless there is a far more radical
reduction In rates than has even been
limited at by the multi-millionaires. 1t
were foolish to shut ones eyes to the
dangers of such ownership, especially as
affecting railways. II would place In the
hands Of the party In power a tTemen-
dous machinery to keep there, could give
a political leverage that used malehcently
would be dangerous TO the very life OF the
republic. However, II may b. that as be-
tween two evils. federal control of lines
OF transportation and private rapacity, the
people will eventually choose the former,
for It rests with the people to choose
as the owners of railways very we'll know.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

1t is given out on good authority that
should the crown prince OF Siam, now
visiting in this country, make favorable
report of his visit his royal father will
come over In another year to see for him.
self. II this isn't enough to furnish an
incentive to treat the crown prince right
he might send for another trunkload of
colored ribbons and medals for distribu-
ton among his entertainers.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17
Cable Laying in the Pacinc.

Philadelphia Record.
Already the British cable line to Australia
across the Pacific has been stretched from
Vancouver island to Tanning island-a dot
OF rock about $500 miles from the land
station. The work was done in seventeen
days, and the cable-layers expect to reach
their Fill Island station. 2,10O miles from
Tanning, before the close Of the current
month. Promoters of an all-American cable
ltne to Manila will find many dificult prob
lens OF deep sea work solved by British
enterprise long before the proposed line
from the United States to the Philippines
shall have been entered upon the stage OF
final realization.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17
Dakota Has the Fever.
DeSmet News.

The ping pong craze has hit Desmet
full in the face. II is now a common sight
to see a party Of our most prominent
society people dancing around a table like
flies around a molasses pitcher, armed
with a little weapon that looks very much
like a butter ladle. We have not yet be-
come entirely familiar with the science
Of the game, but being young and active,
we can fall on the floor and get one OF
those little celluioid balls from under the
sofa or piano as quickly as any of them,
1t is a game full of innocent amusement
and is fairly good exercise-especially II
the room in which it is played is full OF
furniture.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

Prohibition by an amendment of the
federal constitution is about as remote
as the election of United States senators
by the people by constitutional amend
ment, or woman suffrage by constitu-
tional amendment. Instead of trying to
amend the constitution of the United
States proh~ibitionists should try to
amend the constitutions of the topers.
That would be much easier.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

law, does not look like the mllltarism our
Bryanite friends have been so free "a
predict would overwhelm the country
when authority was given TO recruit the
army up to 100000. On the contrary II
is the most convincing evidence Of the
intention of the administration to keep
the size of the army down to the very
minimum whenever possible.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

Whatever may be the amount of a
thracite put on the market this season,
1t is safe to predict that the demand
for 1t will not be so great as heretofore.
Many have already made arrangements
for other fuel, and substitutes Of one
kind oil another win be more extensively
used in the future.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17
light for the Dark spots.
Springfield Republican

There is a certain significance in the
fact thai the British royal commission APP
pointed to inves.igate the conduct Of the
Boer war has begun its work by closing
its doors to the press and examining all
witnesses in private. This means. II any
thing. that an elegant coat OF Whitewash
for everyone concerned Is contemplated.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

Irrespective Of the ending of the an
thracite coal strike, the search for a way
to produce heat without coal should GO
on undated. The inventor who frees
humanity from subsection to the coal
baron will be hailed as a liberator.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

Ex-President Cleveland says that the
paramount political issue is the tariff.
Colonel Bryan says that no amount Of
tinkering with the tariff will eradicate
trust evils. There is ground for sus-
picion that these democratic leaders in
their hearts regard the paramount issue
to be whether the Cleveland wing or the
Bryan wing of the party shall be on
fon-
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

Minister Bowen, who represents us at
the Venezuelan capital. has asked for a
war ship. Not that the United States is to
EiS isto the Evolutionary troubles of
our southern neighbOr, but an Amerl-
can war ship will come in handy as a
mean of retreat for the minister and
other American citizens in case II
should get too warn for them in that
vicinity.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17
missioner

If the police board car spend all the
money in the fire fund and then draw on
the general fund for more, what is to
prevent the park board, the Board of
Public Works, the library board and
every other department of the city gov.
eminent doing the same? If the charter
limits ON appropriations mean nothing,
why were they inserted In the law?
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

From the newspaper CONNIE Mt elected
by his recent speech, it is plain that Mr..
Olney will have to repeat several times
over his declaration that he is not a can
didate for the presidential nomination.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

MERGERS denomination for a sixth
term was procured very much on the
same basis as that of the congressman
from Texas in the play of the Texas
Steer" who claimed that he came to his
election honestly, as he paid for every
vote he got,
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

Reduced meat prices are now in sight.
Soft corn will give an impetus to cat
tie feeding and the fattened cattle will
produce the meat 10 supply the market
and bring down prices. 1t will take
some time, however, to accomplish this
result and in the meanwhile the butcher
will have his own way.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

If the Omaha Real Estate exchange is
in earnest about tax reform it should
invite the candidates for the Legislature
of all parties to pledge themselves to re-
peal the provision of the charter that re-
qulres the property of railroads to be
assessed for city taxation by the state
board while all other classes of taxable
property are assessed by the tax COM
missioner.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

We may be sure that on a guessing
contest no one would have returned the
right answer for the list of names to be
selected by President Roosevelt as coal
strike arbitrators.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

A complete new set of ward and pre-
cinct assessors is to be chosen at the
coming election, and while the assessor
is not so all-pOwerful as he was before
the supreme court decisions charging
the authority of the ~equalizing boards,
his Importance must not be overlooked
by those interested in tax reform.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17
MIR. Kno1 ought to Know.
Minneapolis Journal.

Attorney General Knox thinks there is
ample room under the interstate m
provision Of the constitution for effective
regulation Of the trusts. Knox is a good
lawyer and used to be a trust lawyer, and
ought to know. If a constitutional amend
ment is not necessary to the proper disci-
plining Of the trusts, half the difficulty is
obyiated,
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17
More Trouble Coming.
Philadelphia Record.

And now a long-suffering people are
threatened with a wholesale grocers' COM
bine, with a billion capital, more or less.
Should this wild western invention ever
eventuate the ~iercest of trust haters must
either take water or eat hay.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17
Merely a Spectacle.
San Francisco Call.

san FranCISCo Call.
A big comet is said to be coming our
way at a rate of about 5000, 900 miles a
day, and the astronomers promise that
while it will make a gay spectacle in the
sky 1t won't be any more dangerous than a
Bryan kite in 1904.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

Protests against the suggestive fea-
lures Of the midway in connection with
the st. Louis Worlds fair seem to be the
proper thing, and the Christian church
convention here in Omaha will doubtless
be called on to get oil record for an im-
proved moral plane.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17
Inside Information.
Baltimore American.

BdIIInOTe AfnefICan.
Dewet is to receive a small fortune for
his history of the Boer war. He ought to,
for II any man knows anything about the
war Dewet is that man. At least, there are
many things the British would like to know
that he can tell them now.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17
Now the Scene ChanRes.
Chicago Chronicle.

We have now reached the strenuous
period in the waning year when portraits
of the giddy girl golf champion and Mickey
Southpaw. star twirler for the Never
sweats, give place to the pictures Of the
husky half back and the sturdy center
rush. And so from hour to hour we ripe
and ripe and then from hour to hour, etc
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

The PRONUNCIATION by the Wa depart
ment Of a general order reducing the
active strength Of the army to $4,000
men which is the minimum prescribed by
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

Next in order is a move looking to the
settlement of the Union Pacific lockout
that will enable Union Pacific trains to
catch up with timetable schedule.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17
Deacon Baer HumbIed.
Chicago Chronicle,

chicago ChronlcIe.
Good Deacon Baer is not the first man,
as he will not be the last man, to declare
for death in the last ditch and then amble
meekly into camp when the demand for
unconditional surrender is made.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

With gangs Of imported 'repeaters"
voting on fraudulent afidavits, it was
as easy for Mercer to carry the repub-
hcan primaries as rolling off a log.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

The only thing lacking in this cam
paign to give the appearance Of activity
is sufficient audiences to enthuse the
spellbinders.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

1t is to be noticed that only one of the
Goa strike arbitrator halls from west
of the Mississippi.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.

State of Nebraska, Douglas County, IS:
George B. Tzschuck, secretary of The
Bee Publishing Company. being duly sworn,
says that the actual number of full and
complete copies OF The Daily, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during
the month Of September, 1902, was as fol-
Qua
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

have come to the conclusion that dis
erection is the better part Of valor.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

Henceferth the old corporation retort,
"Nothing to arbitrate," will not be
heard so often as it has been.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

labor Is a factor in our Industrial system
that is firmly established and the sooner
that is recognized the better for all con
cerned.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17
SMILING LINES.

Chicago Tribune: what have you gone
to smoking for, at your age?'
wart to show my boys how easy It is
TO break off a bad habit"
Then you are going to quit it?"
more firmly fixed"
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Colonel Strong
and Miss Yohe are reported to have de-
cided to start a farm in Argentine"
What will they raiser"
II suppose It depends on the proximity of
the nearest pawnbroker.'
Indianapolis News: did that new doc
tor succeed in curing your husband OF in
/ somnia
Yes, but the doctors bill was so ex-
cessive that my husband cannot sleep now
for worrying over how he is to pay IT,"
Philadelphia Press: "My!' exclaimed the
shopper, isn't 81 a yard high for this
oh! No." the salesman treasured her.
1T strikes me as very expensive. BY the
way, is the color positively Jet-black?"
That's what makes It so expensive"
Chicago Post: The musician was talk
in thought
'It's a symphony in A nat" explained the
musician.
First or second hoorP" asked the real
estate agent.
Washington Star: 'It is impossible for a
man to measure the influences which a
single individual can exert in this world"
That's right" answered senator Sor-
as 500 for a vote when it wasn't worth
So"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

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Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

Yes, but the doctors bill was so ex-
cessive that my husband cannot sleep now
for worrying over how he is to pay it."
Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-17

Philadelphia Press: MY" exclaimed the
shopper, isn't 81 a yard high for this
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-09-03
%**+**%**~****** **s
SHIRT DANCE.

We picked up a big bargain =
in Wilson Bros 81 and $3.50 =
Shirts. All go at the same :
: prioe-$1.5o ED RINGER. =
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-09-03
A Handsome Monument.

Johnson & Cobb of the marble
yards on South Washington street, are
finishing today a Woodmen of the
World monument for Robert Castor,
deceased, at Lone Grove The monu.
ment will be taken out tomorrow
morn and the members of the local
camp are requested to call at the
yards and see this, the most beauti-
full piece of work ever done for the
Woodmen in this country. The ma
terial is the famous Georgia marble,
the inscription is in raised letters and
the most interesting feature is the
fact that a perfect picture of the de.
ceased on material that will last as
long as the marble itself is set in the
monument. The base is built up OF
three tiers of marble covered so
naturally as to be the perfect likeness
of oaken logs. which are emblemati.
cal Of the order The piece of work
does not fall short of being remark
able. 3-dw.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-09-03
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L. L. Stewart is here from Haley
vile.
A. S. Guillot is in the city from
Durant
. w. H. Caldwell left for Tishomingo
this morning
DR.. A. S. Howard was here today
from Cornish.
e A. Chapman came in last night
from Tishomlngo.
j. F. McMurray came in last night
from South McAlester.
d. H. Justus of the c. o. & C. road
is in the city today from Little Rock.
w. c. Everhart came in last night
from a trip over about Sherman and
other points.
DIR. J. w. Smith left this morning
for Hot Springs. He win be gone for
two or three weeks.
Bert Wheeler is at home from Waco.
where he took a commercial course
in the Waco Business University.
H. NJ. Peoples has returned from
Texas and resumed his duties as night
operator at the Santa Fe depot
II. A. Blocker went over to Tisho-
mingo this morning where he is look.
ing after the construction Of several
jobs.
r. II. Beard, an cid employe OF the
Ardmoreite, but now with the Madill
News, is in the city today shaking
hands with his many friends.
o. A. Wells has returned from
Washington, New York and many
points East Mr. Wells speaks in the
highest terms of the places he Wis
| tied.
Mrs. j. L. James, who has been Wis
iting the family OF w. |. Cruce, left
this morning for South McAlester
where she will visit before returning
home to Kentucky,
w. b. Sands, advance advertiser
of Buckskin Bills Wild West show
was in the city today in the interes
Of that aggregation which will show
here on the 18th of this month.
William Riggs. Jr., left this mornin;
for ST. Louis to buy the remainder o
the machinery needed for the cand,
factory that Riggs & Dalton are put
ting in upstairs over the Crown Bot
Ting works.
Mrs. d. c. Webb Of Harlton, Texas
who has been in the city sume tim,
visiting in the family Of VI. lkard, lef
for home yesterday afternoon. sh
was accompanied by Mr. Ikards son
Milton, who will enter school down
there.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-09-03
Removal Announcement.

To My Friends and Customers:
wish to annuonce TO you that /
have moved my gallery out Of the
Randol building into the Herbert &
Lewis building, opposite the post
Office, thus consolidating the two gal.
leries, which makes everything com
plete.
! viii endeavor to please you with
the best photos TO be had and ask
you to come in and examine my work
before placing your order elsewhere
Thanking you for past favors, and
asking continuance Of same, | re
main yours to please,
3-d6t-w1t. S. S. COLE.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-09-03

Terry's big Uncle Toms Cabin
show arrived on the noon train Fri
day, forty people of them, with
trained ponies, donkeys, bloodhounds,
etc. They disembarked from their
own Pullman cars and after they got
Strengthened out bit in their big
tent, they gave a grand parade, brass
band at the head. From newspaper
notices along the route they have trav-
eled, we expect firstclass perform
ance, Prospect, Prescott, Arizona.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-09-03
LAMPS GIVEN AWAY!

Beginning August !, will give
away to the family rpT hasing the
most bread of me, for the next nine
ty days a fine, beautiful red lamp
an ornament to any parlor. Call and
see it.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-09-03
Licensed to Wed.

The following marriage licenses
have been issued since our last re-
port:
]. p. Payne, Desie, and Minnie
Loreny, Vema.
Joe Reed and Mollie McCarty,
Viola.
Augusta Lee Faulkner of Lynn and
Hattie Ella Vaughn, Cumberland.
w. w. Atkinson and Miss Alice
Scroggins, Newton.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-09-03
Photographs Given Away.

viii also give one to the hotel or
restaurant purchasing the most
bread of me, a nice parlor lamp.
VIII also give one dozen cabinet
size photographs.
use the best -four. Everything
sell is frst-class. Respectfully,
J. H. SPlEGLE.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-09-03
Notice.

BY mutual consent the firm of
Smith & Moore, physicians, has been
dissolved DR.. Moore retires and DR..
Smith collects accounts due the firm
and pays its outstanding debts.
August 80, 1902. 31-4t.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-09-03
W. C. KENDALL & co.
The most complete grocery .
in the city.
Phone No. 2.
Private Boarding House.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

The best OF table board and a few
choice rooms can be secured at No.
31S North Washington street.
17-1m. MRS, BUCHANAN.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-09-03

Bert Coneannon Of Fort Worth, at
one time a resident Of Ardmore, was
married Tuesday morning in Gaines
Vile to Miss Hattie Rodgers. The
ceremony took place at the residence
of Mr.. Caldwell in the north part OF
the city. After the wedding the hap
py couple took the train for Pauls
Valley, their future home.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-09-03
Please Take Notice.

All those knowing themselves in
any way indebted to us are expected
TO make settlement in full by Sept.
10. PETTITT BROS.
2-St.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-09-03

Leave bus and carriage calls at
City Livery Stable. Phone 27.
Him T. B. CATHEY.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-09-03
Mowers and rakes at
WILLIAMS, CORHN & CO.'S.
Il is a Bargain.

II Is a Bargain.
offer for sale, cheap, my home on
the heights in the Watkins addition;
4-room house, 2-story barn, three lots,
a variety of peaches, grapes and ber-
ries, splendid water, not a more desir-
able location in Ardmore.
17-1m. j. j. STOLFA.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-09-03

The weather is almost hot enough
to clabber the wilky way.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-09-03

b. r. Kelley, formerly Of Davis,
has moved to Ardmore and accepted
"a position with Dodson & Williams,
cotton buyers.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-09-03

You will never find a better wagon
than the Balm. Sold by spragins &
Co.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-09-18
SUNMOUNT PLAT FILED,
Preliminary Work on the Reservoir and Pine Line Has
Been Commenced.

The survey and plat of the Sun
mount Addition" to the city of Santa
Fe was filed in the office of the probate
clerk and recorder of this county by
"A. h. Gibson and F. H. Mitchell, the
owners of the addition, today A sur
vey for reservoir site in the Chamiso
canon and pipe line from this reser-
voir to the Sunmount Addition is now
being made by County Surveyor John
l.. zimmerman. AS soon as this sur
vey is approved and the plat thereof
filed, construction on the reservoir and
pipe line will commence. Messrs. Glib
son and Mitchell expect to have the
same completed by November 1 next.
A splendid reservoir site, with rock
bottom, has been found about half a
mile east of the Sunmount Addition in
the Chamiso arroyo. A cement and
rock caisson will be constructed across
the arroyo and the waters of the Ar
royo Chamiso will be utilized to fill the
reservoir.