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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-01-28

20 points IL Te1as. Louisis-a. Arkan-
sas. Missouri and Ka-sas.
Under TIE management o. one thor-
oughIy fEIl-d in the uo-E. the Drofc-
iercy ~ this line is brought be-ord
the standard reachei By otker utes
Every cetal is in the hands % q rom.
pstert z0-Fuan. Any .-t.r-11' De-
sired concerning the lines. oIunec
tons. rules. etc. vll be given st a1y
q its Offices o. may be Obtained by
Addressing J. ~ Klrkpatrlcr. presi
deLt. Durueyv!lie J. T. or o. u. II
Keltrer. general manager. Leoa l. 7
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-01-28

Moore's Pilules are a guaranteed
cure for all forms of malaria, ague,
chills and fever, swamp fever. jaun.
dice, malarial fever. bilious fever. bill
iousness. fetid breath and tired. list.
less feeling They cure rheumatism
and the lassitude following blood poi.
son produced from malarial poisoning.
No quinine. No arsenic, acids or iron.
Do not ruin stomach and teeth. En-.
tirely tasteless. Price soc per box. DR..
Q. G. Moore Co. No. $40 North Main
ST, 81. Louis. Mo. Sold by w. b.
Frame. City Drug Store.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-01-28
To the Public.

The Red River Telephone Company.
with headquarters at Marietta, J. T..
having recently extended its lines in.
to new fields hitherto unknown 20
telephony. makes one OF the most
complete systems In North Texas and
the Indian Territory. Prompt and ef-
ficient service is given the patrons OF
this line. quick connections are made
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-01-28
Don't Live Toaether.

Constipation and health never 20
together. DeWitt's Little Early Ris.
ers promote easy action OF the bowels
without distress. Il have been troubl-
cd with Costiyeness nine ye 90, says
J. o. Greene. Depauw. Ind. II have
tried many remedies but Little Early
Risers give best results. City Drug
Store.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-01-28

W. T. Yancy. Paiuca1. Ky. writes.
4 had a severe case OF Miuey disease
and thrcc of tine best physicians On
southern Kentucky treated me with
out ruccess. I was induced % try
Foley's Kidney Cure. The first s3ttle
gave immediate relief and three bot
ties cured me permanently. ! gladly
recommend this wonderful remedy "
Take no substitute.
BONNER & BONNER.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-01-28
WELL.DIGoER KILLED.
Fell Out Of a Bucket After Being
Drawn 10 the Top.

Drawn 70 the Top.
A message from Caddo. l. T. says
While digging a well yesterday even.
ing about 4 o'clock George Johnson. j
well Known citizen Of this vicinity. fell
bach into Il and was Instantly killed
He and a man named Bob Jones were
digging a well on the lot near the
new Methodist church. and after abou,
twenty feet had been dug a charge OF
dynamite was Used Johnson went down
into the well after the discharge and
was overcome by the fumes Jones at
tempted 90 haul him ont. but when
near the top Johnson fen on his back
that distance and was killed.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-01-28
To Merchants.

Three thousand bushels of Cane
Seed, Early Orange and Early Am
Der. 10 arrive.
We have in stock Seed Corn of best
varieties, also. Seed Oats.
Before placing your order see KEEL
& SON. Wholesale Grain Dealers.
first warehouse on Santa Fe track,
south of freight depot. 17-im
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-01-28
INDIAN AGENCY ABOLISHED.
Rapid Progress Made by ssntess and
Poncas.

Rapid Progress Made by santess and
Poness.
Washington. Jan. 27.-Mr. W a
Jones. commissioner OF Indian affairs
in pursuance Of the departments pol
Icy OF abandoning the government
guardianship OF the Indians as rapid
ly as possible. issued an order today
abolishing the agency OF the Santee
Sioux Indians in Nebraska The super
vision OF the affairs OF tribe such as
are considered necessary. win be eN.
crclsed by W z Meagley. superiu.
tendent OF 'he training school at san.
tee.
There are 1916 santee and Ponca
Indians ln the Saniee agency who
will hereafter be- dealt with az IndI.
yidual citizens Their lands have al
ready been allotted and most of them
are prosperous and thrifty The chief
business Of the agent has been 20
settle minor disputes among the In.
dians and 10 exercise a guardianship
over them in the dealings with white
citizens. So rapid has been the ad.
vancemeut OF the Santees that the
Indian bureau has decided that the
government need no longer be placed
to the expense Of maintaining an
agency for them.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-01-28

The lady who Tad 20 leave tNe DO
nation party the other night before
u was over viii plaEe call a. our
drug store and get a bottle Of Dr.
CaidwelIs Syrup Pcpsin. she has in
digestion or she u0uld lot have taken
sick and lf she had taken Dr. Cald-
srU Pepsin she would not
have had Indigestion. IN 50c and 81
bottles az Frames drug store. Ard.
more and Madiu
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-01-28

The Balm wagon is a great fa-
vorite among those who use them.
When you buy the Balm you make
no mistake. Spragins & Co. sells
them.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-01-28

5urlington's Fast Denver Train.
To 81. Paul and Minneapolis.
Fast trains leave Kansas City 9:35
p. n. arriving Denver 3.l5 p. m.
next day. Another Denver train leaves
Kansas City 16:40 a m. Double daily
through chair cars. sleepers dining
cars.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-01-28

When prophet wins honors in
foreign country he urges visitors from
his own home just to tell them that
they saw him.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-01-28

A donkey is a short-sighted animal
that has eaten his laurels.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-01-28

Many an innocent little darling Is
suffering uu.old agony and cannot ex-
plain its troubles. Mark your child's
symptoms, You may find 1t troubled
with worms; give II WHITES CREAM
VERMIFUGE and restore II TO quiet.
ness and health. Price25 cents.-W.
b. Frame. City Drug Store.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-02

train would be split at the bottom, half II
it taken up and pulled into some siding
ahead, and then the engine would return
and get the other half. OF course an EN-
CINE failure or an unexpected spell of
weather causing slippery rails might also
necessitate such action, but those things
are emergencies that cannot be foreseen, so
no provision is attempted. The dispatcher's
rule is to put behind an engine all it can
carry over the worst hill in the division.
But over the train dispatchers who do
all this work is the chief dispatcher, with
general supervision. He it is who orders
out the motive power, assigns the engine
men and conductors, and distributes the
cars over the division. He must know
just how many cars he has on his territory
and how many he can spare to a station or
a shipper. He also apportions the dis
patching work to his men, If he has more
than one on a shift.
Thus the dispatcher has his assigned
piece of track to handle, and a good man
can take care Of just as many trains as
you can get on the line. He has before
him a train sheet, bearing the number or
each train, the name of conductor and en-
gineer, and the number of the engine. A
board on the wall of the dispatchers' Office
is chalked up some two or three hours
before each train leaves with the names or
the men who will take it out, and here the
far-famed "callboy" somes into service.
This boy has a list of the addresses OF
every engineer and conductor, and as they
are assigned on the board he hunts them
up and gets them out at any hour of the
day or night in time 20 make the start.
His Golden Rule.
However, touch not" is the guiding star
of the ideal dispatcher. Or, as he would
probably express it: Leave 'em alone as
long as they'll run" The capable, cool
headed dispatcher is not looking for any
trouble, or unnecessary work, either, and
he does not NEEDLE with regular trains
as long as they are taking care of them
selves fairly well. Swapping stories is
more sport.
Dispatchers do not handle trains inside
yard limits. There personal contact is the
method employed for keeping different
trains apart and out of harms way. The
trainmen simply use their eyes. When the
train is ready to leave, however, with all
switching done, the conductor makes his
appearance at the dispatcher's office and
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-02

standing Of the scope of his work is preva
lent among people who are not familiar
with the workings Of a railroad. 1t is the
notion of this vast fraction of the intelli-
gent population that the dispatcher is alb
solutely the man behind the gun; that he
has his finger on the pulse that vitalizes a
system of railroad and controls the move
ments of its rolling stock; that he is i'm
perator of every train that moves on the
line, feeling its way for 1t, directing its
every step, acting both as it's mentor and
guiding star, so completely engulfng its in
dividuality as a thing Of power and motion
that the train is helpless without it's dis
patcher.
Trains Under His Control.
Come down to earth once more! It's not
true. The dispatcher does not do all these
things. Generally speaking, he directs but
few of the trains that move along his terri
tory Of trackage. Only late trains and
extras are his charge. Every regular train
runs on a time schedule. AS long as it is
up to this, no dispatcher interferes. When
1t gets behind, he manipulates it. And so
does he extra trains, because they have no
schedule. Thus when it so happens hat
trains are on time and there are no extras
the dispatcher has little to do but sit
around in readiness and look wise.
The Importance of his position, how
ever, should not be decried, for that would
be unjust. He is a prime factor in rail-
reading. All he does is direct the move
ment of certain trains, but in order to do
that he must possess a vast fund of knowl-
edge concerning the piece of railroad he
is operating and it's equipment. He must
know the rights of trains, the use of the
telegraph instrument, the tractive power
of every engine on his division, the number
Of cars on each train, the weight Of the
trains, the topography of the country at
his track, or rather the profile Of his line,
and the capacity of every sidetrack on his
division.
Some Of these essentials are easy to grasp
and to hold; others are difficult. Some are
the same on almost all lines. Others are
different on every division Of every system.
In this country the rights Of trains on
single track specify nearly everywhere that
trains bound south and east have the right
OF track over those going north and west,
so the latter must get out of the way. This
rule obtains till trains are twelve hours
late; thereafter the dispatcher makes
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-02

rights arrangements to suit himself. Usu>
ally, too, trains running east and south
are named by even numbers, those north
and west by odd ones. instruments, too,
are of course the same everywhere.
Where His Trouble Begins.
But when it comes to the hauling power
of engines, the topography Of the road, the
capacity of the sidetracks and the number
of cars, those things are matters of indl-
vtdual detail. The dispatcher must know
how billy his line is and how steep are the
separate hills, so as to tell how heavy a
load to give an engine. He must know
what the engine can haul for the same rea-
son. He must know the capacity Of the
sidetracks, SO that he can tell how long
a train he can get in them to let another
by. He must know the number of cars on
each train, so he can tell how long his
train is.
If he didn't know these last two things
he would be compelled to resort continually
to Saving by" which a good dispatcher
shuns doing. Saving by" is getting trains
past each other when they are too long
for the sidetrack. Suppose there were two
trains going each way. The leading train
having the right of road would pull down
on the main line opposite the siding, the
leduluB tram BOluB the OlueT way lnen
running around the siding onto the main
track at the other end, and in front of the
second right-of-way train. Then the Sec
ond train which had not the right would
pull into the siding, while the leading
right" train would run down on the main
line past the siding on its journey. Then
both siding trains would back up till the
leading one was within the siding, and the
second right train would pull up oppo-
site the siding on the main line. That
would leave the way open for both siding
trains and all would be clear. The same
thing can be accomplished with very long
single trains by splitting them. This is ID
tedious and chagrining operation, however,
and the rule by which dispatchers avoid II
is never put on any piece of track be-
tween sidings more than the sidings will
hold"
Another Source of Grief.
Ignorance as to the ~tractive power of the
engines or the weight of trains or the
character of the hills would also lead to
mishaps. An engine overloaded would be
unable to make some steep hill, and thai
would necessitate doubling the hill" The
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-02

gets one of two classes of orders. If he
is on schedule and on time, he is given a
clearance order, meaning to get out and
take care of yourself. If he is late or extra,
he gets a train order, specifying his con-
duct Of the train. And there are times
when even a regular train which is on time
gets a train order; for instance, If it is
an unimportant train, and the intention is
to stab" it, or delay it, till other more
pressing although irregular traffic gets by.
Then when the train is out along the
road each station operator reports by tele-
graph to the dispatcher Immediately the
time of its arriving at and leaving his
place, and the dispatcher jots these figures
down on his train sheet, always before his
eyes. Then he can tell just when it is
necessary to interfere, and where to catch
the train with orders.
Local Crews and Their Work.
Two-hundred and fifty trains, passenger
and freight, regular and extra, pass through
Omaha every twenty-four hours. That is an
average. Sometimes there are many more,
sometimes less. OF all these, however, but
a small portion, about sixty-ive a day, are
dispatched from this city. The Union Pa
cifc, the Missouri Pacific and the Chicago,
st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha roads alone
dispatch here.
For the Union Pacific, Chief Dispatcher
w. l.. Croxton, with a corps of five train
dispatchers and two operators, handles from
the office at Ninth and Jackson streets the
thirty-two trains hat run daily on the
Nebraska division. This includes the track
age from Council Bluffs to Grand Island,
from Valley to Beatrice, from Valparaiso
to Stromsburg, from Columbus to Norfolk
and from Cedar Rapids to Genoa.
Chief Dispatcher G. A. Vermilion, for the
Missouri Pacific, handles with three train
dispatchers all the lines between Omaha
and Auburn via Union and Nebraska City,
between the same points via Weeping
Water and Talmage, between Union and
Weeping Water and between Portal and
Papillion. They care for about sixteen
trains daily. The office is at Fifteenth and
Nicholas streets.
Chief Dispatcher w. B. Fordyce of the
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
has three train dispatchers under him at
the Office at the Webster street station.
He cares for the Nebraska division and
branches, with lines from Omaha to Sioux
Continued on Eighth Page.)
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-02

~ = y - 49,. 49,
patchers crouched tensely over
- tables in a room, the atmosphere
OF which is throbbing with the
- chatter of telegraph instruments
and the roar of passing trains. one nervous
hand lingering a key, ears straining to
catch the ~faintest murmur from the
sounder, every faculty and intuition
stretched to the swapping point in an eff
fort to avoid making the mistake that will
cost many lives and thousands of dollars;
again of such a man committing this fa'al
b.und n, learning of the terrible results
and ccnvulsing at once into a glbberins
maniac or, shooting his own head off becaus ,
OF the mental torture-such tales as these,
presented in most melo-dramatic literary
style and with great frequency, have tended
to instill in the mind of the reading but un-
initiated public Incorrect notions Of the
daily labors Of this class of workmen.
True, this makes interesting narrative,
and all such is avidly assimiiated by read
ers of all classes. No better proof Of the
value of these romances as taking matter
can be found than the readiness with which
magazines and other publications buy and
print them. When it's all said and done
"Tales by an Operator" are not the most
reliable source Of information concerning
the everyday existences of train Dispatch
ers. To be sure, in many cases of acct
dents a dispatcher has been responsible,
but these occasions are a drop in the
bucket of the millions of train orders trans
mitted every day.
Train Dispatcher I'm Real Life.
AS a matter of fact, the train dispatcher,
with all glamour dispersed, is not on a con
slant strain of intense work; neither is he
in continual terror of committing a Gala
mitous error; nor yet Is he on the ragged
edge of nervous prostration or brain fever.
On the other hand. the dispatchers who
work in Omaha are as a rule ~easy-going,
calm, pleasant-faced men, most Of them
stalwart and in good physical preservation.
They are on duty eight hours a day, but II
Is a tossup whether they will work seven
hours or two OF that time, and II Is an un
usual congestion of traffic or annihilating
Of schedules indeed that keeps them at II
the entire limit Of their shift.
So much for the halo of romance and the
resulting mistaken conceptions OF a train
dispatcLer's personality and the nature OF
his duties. An equally grave misunder-
Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-02

IRILLING stories of train dis
patchers crouched tensely over
tables in a room, the atmosphere
of which is throbbing with the
chatter of telegraph instruments
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-03
New Overland Line.

DENVER, jan 25.-The News today
says: Surveys are being made and
rights of way secured in the district
west of Salt Lake City to San Fran
cisco by agents representing George
Gould and his associates, which indi-
cate that within another year the Rio
Grande systems in Colorado and Utah
and the Gould connections east of this
State will, together with a new line
west of Salt Lake City, form great
transcontinental route to rival the I'm
ion Pacific and Santa Fe roads.
The route of the proposed new line
west of Salt Lake will be from Salt
Lake across the desert through Eu-
reka, New, to Walker Pass, then be-
yond to the Kern river, up the Tulare
valley to San Francisco. The line will
pass forty mining camps of Utah and
including eighteen districts in
the Deer Creek, Utah, vicinity. The
survey across the desert in Utah lead
ing to Walkers Pass in the Sierra Ne
vada range is 1900 feet lower than any
other pass in the upper country.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-03
TARIFF ON COFFEE.

While there is now being brought
forward in Congress many plans for
the lettering of conditions of the insu-
lar territories of the United States,
there is one point which should not be
lost 10 sight, in the struggle for advan-
tage. Thatis the benefits which would
accrue from a tariff on coffee.
: There is probably no single product
which would attract so many interests
10 it's support, and which would at the
same time have SO good answers to Of
fer to those who would oppose such
enactment Out of all the advantages
Of such a fight, it would be the first
that every ,insular territory would De
In line to urge the advantage or sucn
a tariff Already there is going up
a cry from Porto Rico that the COM
petition of the South American product
Is running the industry in the little ISL
and. The effect here would be to put
on it's feet an industry which would
offer homes to the worthy, employ
ment to the family and profit to hum
dreds where now lands are unproduct-
i've.
But the objection would be urged,
when argument was commenced for tue
addition of such a tax, that 1t was In
opposition to the old-time Republican
doctrine of a free breakfast table
There is much In this on the surface,
but in effect it means little. For in
stance the drinker of coffee never gets
any advantage of a decrease in the
price of coffee. There have been many
fluctuations in the price of raw Rio in
the past, yet the price of the retailed
product has been practically the same
to the consumer. Even another argu-
ment may be made, which should have
he i'm
man, who would see in this tax an at
tempt to make the pressure too heavy
upon his table.
When the California producer asked
that American dried fruits be protected
there was a cry that this would be
tax upon the poor mans living. Yet
the effect was to give to every man
In the country cheaper food than ever
before. just as soon as the industry
had been placed on its feet through
the operations of the tariff law.
There could be no other result of
the imposition of a tax upon coffee.
Once place the growing of this COM
modify in the hands of Americans.
though they may be new citizens of the
great republic, and they will so devel-
op the industry that the supply will be
sufficient for the entire citizenship of
the nation, and such will be the ad-
vantages in connection with improve
ments in the handling of the crop. that
within a few years coffee will cost less
to the consumer than it now does and
in addition will be of higher quality.
The doctrine of protection has COM
mended itself 10 the people as the one
which has wrought for such great good
in our country, that il is only fair that
now when new territories are being
taken into the family they should have
the benefits of a policy which has
made the elder sisters great and
strong.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-03
GREAT FIRE IN MOBILE.
Damage Done to the Amount Of Three
Hundred Thousand Dollars.

MOBILE, Ala, Jan. 25.-Fire early
today in the wholesale business dis
trict destroyed property to the value OF
at least $500. 600 and caused the death
of Richard H Vidmer. a leading So
ciety man of Mobile, and Pat Thomas
a negro laborer, from New Orleans
Three fremen were injured. two slight
~ and one painfully.
Mr. Vidmer and Thomas were assist
ing the firemen and We're caught by
falling walls. Mr.. Vidmer was prom
inent Hoo-Hoo, and was once Vice
Grand Shark for Alabama.
The firms which suffered are:
Michael & Lyons, wholesale grocers,
building and stock completely destroy
ed.
H. Piser & Co., wholesale hides,
building and stock destroyed.
Drago Grain Company. building bad
ly damaged; stock slightly.
Swift & Co, packers; building and
stock complete loss.
F. S. Mccoy, cigar manufacturer;
stock and building damaged.
Mobile Cider & Vinegar Company;
slight damage to building and stock.
F. Gomez, stoves and tinware; stock
damaged by water.
Green's tin shop; slightly damaged.
The fire broke out on the second
floor of the Michael & Lyons Grocery
Company in the office occupied by E.
Holzbern & Co, cotton brokers.