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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-10-10
MITCHELL DECLINES TERMS
ALLEGES RESPONSIBILITY ON IN.
SINCERITY OF OPERATORS.
Which Might Hinder Them From Ae-
eepting the Commissions Find
ina. No Matter What That
Might Be.

Washington. Oct. 9.-President
Mitchell of the Coal Miners Union
has refused to comply with the appear
of President Roosevelt to call the
strike off His letter to the president
which was made public at the White
House today says the responsibility
for the continuance of the strike
sbould be placed upon those wno have
refused arbitration,
The text of Mitchelps letter, when
As dated wilkesbarre, and which is
addressed TO President Roosevelt,
Says;
"Hon. Carroll d. Wright has, no
doubt. reported to you the delivery of
your message to me last Monday and
INV statement to him that I should
take your suggestion under advise.
ment. although I did not look upon 1t
with favor. Since that time have
consulted with our district presi-
dents, who concur fully in my views.
1--WE desire to assure you again that
we feel keenly the responsibility OF
our position and the gravity of the
situation, and it would give us great
pleasure to take any action which
would bring this coal strike to an end
in a manner that would safeguard the
Interests Of our constituents.
In the proposition that there be
an immediate resumption of coal
mining upon the conditions we sug-
gested in the conference at the White
House. we believed that we had gone
more than half way and had met your
, wishes.
"It is unnecessary in this letter to
refer to the malicious assault made
/ upon us in the response Of the coal
] operators. We feel confident that you
T. must have been impressed with the
fairness of our proposition and the
insincerity of those who maligned us,
:. Having in mind our experience
with the coal operators in the past we
have no reason to feel any degree OF
confidence in their willingness to do
us justice in the future; and, mas
e much as they have refused to accept
r. the decision of a tribunal selected by
I you, and inasmuch as there is no Law
Through which you could enforce the
% findings of the commission you sug
o gest, we respectfully decline to advise
p. our people to return to work simply
upon the hope that the coal operators
q might be induced, or forced, to com
ply with the recommendations of you
~ commission.
; "As stated above, we believe We
y went more than half way in our pro
?. posal at Washington and we do no
a feel that we should be asked to max,
,. further sacrifices.
q I'VE appreciate your solicitude TO
q the people of the country who ar
:. now, and will be, subjected to grea
suffering and inconvenience by pre-
Ilongation of the coal strike and W
:, feel that the onus of this terribl
state of affairs should be placed upoI
the side which has refused to refe
= ii to a fair and impartial investigs
ton
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-10-10
Warning Order.

In the United States district court
in the Indian Territory, Southern dis
trict; Mary NJ. Haley plaintiff VS..
John l.. Haley defendant. No. 5272.
The defendant John l.. Haley Is
warned TO appear in this court in thir-
ty days and answer the complaint Of
the plaintiff, Mary NJ. Haley.
Witness Hon. Hosea Townsend,
judge of the said court and the seal
thereof this 9th day of June, 1902.
(SeaD c. NJ. CAMPBELL,
Clerk.
S. II. BUTLER, Atty Plaintiff.
]. S. MULLEN, Atty Non.Res.
First published Sept "a. 1902
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-10-10
READ THIS.

Cleburne. Texas, oct. 10. 1901
This is TO certify that have used the
Texas Wonder, Halls Great Discov-
cry. for kidney trouble, tu my entire
satisfaction ana can recommend II to
any one suffering from the same.
Yours truly, A. c. LONG
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-10-10
DR. A. J. ROBINSON
PHYSICIAN land SURGEON.
formerly OF Gainesville. aa.)

For several years a specialist on lFevers
and Chronic Diseases, especially those OF
Women and Children. Removes Facial
Blemishes, including Moles, wens and Tu.
mors tguaranteedl without pain or knife. =
Hs- ONCE upstairs in Wheeler building,
Main st., opposite Noble Bid. Residence
b st. and 9th Ave. N. W.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-10-10
Never Ask Advice.

When you have a cough or cold
don't ask what is good for II and get
some medicine with little or no merit
and perhaps dangerous. Ask for Fo-
ley's Honey and Tar, the greatest
throat and lung remedy, it cures
coughs and colds quickly Sold by
Bonner & Bonner.
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Jerry" said Fleharty, ''phwat is the
m'anin' OF this worrud 'mllllnniumr
'Tt names that glad time a-comin'."
said Jerry. "whin livery man win be
his own boss an shtuck on his Job
Indianapolis News.
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Everything does some good. The
unhappy looks of a mans wife go a
long way towards consoling those who
didn't get him.
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81 want you TO understand, sir,
that my pride forbids me to accept
anything from you after / marry your
daughter"
''How are you going TO liver
swell, l thought you might make
some kind Of a settlement before
hand."-Life.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-10-10

No danger of consumption IL you
use Foley's Honey and Tar to cure
that stubborn cough. Sold by Bonner
&c Bonner.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-10-10

After you have known a man a few
years, you begin hearing him repeat
his stories.
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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-25
END OF BRYANISM.

New York Sun: From an unseen
and remote crevice in the democratic
wreck comes a voice that falters out:
"The election returns indicate a di-
vided victory. They will be analysed
and discussed in next weeks ISSUE
Who cares? Who will read the Com
moner now? There is no interest in
the Bryan post-mortem. The patient
tired everybody out in dying, and even
his friends will clamor that he stay
dead. The voice borne to us now
comes from the limbo of the political
ly departed. Limbo is defined as IAN
indefinite border region in the inter
mediate state, nearer hell or heaven
according to the class of souls there
awaiting judgment" Democratic ira.
dition will not consign MI. Bryan to
heaven-the party has suffered too
much from his fidelity,
Mr.. Bryan was holding on to the
shred of his influence when. election
day dawned. 1t has been torn from
him by the sweep Of republican ma
iorities. He stumped Nebraska with
the energy of a drummer trying to
! sell goods from his samples. Every
crossroad heard his appeal. The
echoes of his speeches intermingled
as he went from place to place. He
was as numerous as the locust (Calop-
tenus spretus) and as stridulous. Ne
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out abusing the enormous power they

out abusing the enormous power they
would have.
II the National Live Stock ~associa-
ton does actively take the field
against the meat combine, it will
make some trouble. The association
represents hundreds of thousands Of
stockmen and probably $1,000, OOO, 900
in capital. If it wanted to, it could
break any packing concern in the
country simply by withdrawing it's
members patronage from it, and it
could enrich any concern by giving
it even a small proportion Of it's mem
bers' business. 1t is rather appalling
to think what might happen if these
two powerful antagonists-the pack
ing and live stock interests-instead
of going ahead and fighting out their
differences, should Unexpectedly reach
some kind of agreement and combine
against the public. Fortunately, the
chances of such a combination are
small.
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AN IRREvERENT cUss.

In pleasing contrast to the lugubri-
GUS walls and labored utterances of
the other democratic newspapers of
the state in their efforts to express
the burden Of sorrow under which
they have been laboring since the re-
cent election, is the airy persitlage of
the Standard whenever it takes &C.
casion to say anything on the subject.
Because of it's philosophical light
ness of heart and %buoyancy of mind
the Standard is accused by some of
them of insincefity in its confession
of democracy. But it continues it's
irreverent course ard shows the ut
most disregard fer the grief and sor-
row of it's mournirg contemporaries.
It's latest violation Cf the prophecies
in this respect must be taken as mean
ing the Standards utter unregeneracy.
With the most exquisite contempt for
the funereal gloom of those occupying
seats on the bench reserved for the
wv" l. no NuoC SAAO
democratic party of Montana was at
tending a political kinderealt ten in the
late election and irtimates that it did
not manifest airy unusual symptoms
Of intelligence Or az titrde in it's
studies. In fast. it iptimates rather
plainly that the party did nothing to
warrant it's friends to spefk in any
thing savoring of enthusiasm so far
as refers to the party's progress and
that bv the greatest stretch of the
imagination it can not be accused Of
partaking of anything that could be
called infant %prodigality of intellect.
Then, as if to mollify the feelings of
those whom it may have hurt by it's
levity it reminds them that in Silver
Bow county the party managed to
elect it's candidate for coroner and a
constable or two and winds up with
an ill concealed Jolly" for all hands,
as though it had suddenly seen the
shadow of the ponde1ou club which
it's ponderous contemporary at Butte
occasionally brings into use for the
Standards benefit.
But Notwithstanding all that may be
said to the contrary the Standard is
right. 49,.
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- ..6I4 EW##EIH N"MH.HH NG4F-.. E Mt FNH@g&H
braska returns a republican governor,
and the republicans elect five out of
the six congressman. Fusion is un.
fused and populism laid low.
Mr.. Bryan invaded Ohio to hold up
the hands of Circus Tom. The tent
is downtown fiat by a republican
cyclone. Mr.. Bryan went over into
Colorado to save the state where re-
publicans were as scarce as hens
teeth in 1896. Colorado responded
by rejecting Teller, the noblest Ro-
man Of them all-Teller, the martyr
to silver, the apotheosis Of a sacred
cause. The mining states, save Ne
vada, the pocket borough, wheel into
the opposition line, and Mr.. Bryan
ceases to have a constituency.
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THE RANGE WAR.

Omaha Bee: Something should be
done without unnecessary delay to
put a stop to the range wal that has
been going on in the far west for
years. In some of the states there
has prevailed since last spring a con
dition of violence and disorder ex
ceeding the record of any other year.
Many homicides and the destruction
of a vast amount of property have oc-
Cured in Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho
and Montana, but the evil eminence
ed to Oregon.
1t is said that the Montana ranges
are so far gone that cattle are too
poor to ship and have a bad prospect
for winter feed to carry them on to
spring. The same is true of much
of the Colorado range. Five mil
lions of acres of the public range, it is
estimated, have been made useless
during the season and rendered unfit
lOI Sidlll6 lOI uduy ycdIo, IL Aol
permanently. In reference to this
the San Francisco Chronicle re-
marks that while u people com
plain of high-priced meat and the
grazers slaughter each other and de.
stroy property on the American range,
rivals are rising north and south of
us to take away the commerce which
we are treating with Indifference and
sacrificing by ~inattention to the plain
duty of protecting the wealth of the
arid region by putting its use and
preservation under the control of law,
That paper urges that while we are
doing this we are also multiplying the
expected effects Of the new federal
policy of irrigation, since n~ine-tenths
| of the land that will be brought into
| action by irrigation will find it's most
profitable use in producing winter
feed for stock. The matter is man
| ifestly one which, from every practi
cal point of view, demands such treat
| ment as will effectively remedy the
destructive conditions that now pre-
vail.
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WORKS BOTH WAYS.

Minneapolis Journal: Lady Henry
Somerset, leader of the English tenn
a movement, remarked just be-
fore she sailed for England last week
that her chief surprise in America
had been the general sobriety OF the
American people. She attributes to
it their greater alertness and en-
ergy.' We are not so sober as we
might be, but drunkenness does not
exist at all in this. country as it does
in some. Very few of our drinkers
are drunkards, and a majority of our
people, probably, do not drink liquor
at all. While strong drink does
stupefy and benumb, it is probable
that we do not drink because we are
alert and energetic as much as that
we are such because we do not drink.
The man who drinks to excess, and
sometimes the man who drinks even
a little, cannot keep up with the man
who doesn't. The pace of American
life is too swift for the drinker.
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that some impecuniOus fellows took
advantage of the weakness for office
Of some of the good democrats and
accepted their money in exchange for
votes. At last accounts at least one
witness stood unimpeached in his as
sertion that he had received the mu-
nificent sum of SO for voting for a
democratic candidate for the legis-
lature and that the candidate himself
had paid the money.
In view of the fact that votes have
always been quoted at Butte as
among the most valuable of personal
property the admission of the bride
taker that he had sold out for so much
below the ruling price caused some of
those who head him to doubt his
statement. Cross-examination, how
ever, saved the young mans reputa-
ton for veracity. 1t was ascertained
that Ignorance had led him to the
commission of the folly of selling out
too cheap. He had not been long
enough in the place to become ia.
miliar with the market, and beside
he came from the east1Tlwhere So is
considerable money to be paid for
such a. trifle as voting. Unless his
confession places the fellow where
there are no votes he would do we'll
to get a line on things the next time.
Anything %savoring of "scabbing' is
not kindly received at Butte and he
may find himself in trouble for cut
ting the scale fixed by the union.
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HE CUT THE SCALE.

So far as Butte is concerned inter
est in the late election shall not die
While in other communities the fact
that men were voted for on the first
Tuesday of the good month of No
vember, 1902, has become almost only
a mere memory up at Butte they con.
tinue to whoop it up as lively as on
the night preceding that event. The
county commissioners are still count
ing the votes and the courts are en-.
gagged in trying to find out what
there is really in the repeated charges
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oughly probed to the bottom and the
truth made clear. Judge Harvey as
well as the men against whom he
has at last begun his action, SO far
practically on trial AS to the evi.
dence submitted ahects one it must
affect the other. If it establishes the
guilt of those whom he accuses it
must be accepted as proving his own
innocence, for it will show that he
acted honestly and honorably and that
he has been unjustly charged and
made the victim of a malicious and
awful conspiracy. If, however, on
the other hand the lawyers disprove
his charges and establish that what
is asserted in the afidavits then he
must stand convicted.
Now that the matter has finally
reached the place to which it should
have been taken long ago it should
be allowed to go it's full and logical
length. Let everything be shown up
as it is and in it's proper light, be the
consequences what they may. The
people have a right to know the truth.
The good name of the state has suf-
fered enough through the many vile
charges made against its judiciary as
it exists at Butte.
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STOCKMEN AND MERGER.

Kansas City Journal: The most in
%teresting subject to be considered at
the meeting Of the National Live
Stock association in Kansas City in
January is the attitude that shall be
taken by the association toward the
expected packers merger. Secretary
Martin, who is here preparing for the
meeting, believes the association will
declare war on the merger. The stock
men, he says, see that their interest
does not lie in the direction of a pack
ing combination, but in exactly the op.
posite direction. They fear that, if
the packers consolidate, producers as
well as nsum Of meat will con
be at their mercy. At the same time
that they will dictate to the latter
the prices which they must pay, they
will dictate to the former the prices
at which they must sell. How seri-
ously the packers would abuse their
strength Mr.. Martin does not attempt
to foretell; but he believes it is as
much the interest Of the stockmen as
of the public to prevent, if possible,
their getting a power which would be
dangerous in the hands of men bent
en- purely selfish ends. ..E
That the stockmen have good
ground for fearing the results of a
merger is clear enough. Much the
greater part OF the live stock pro-
duced in the United States goes to
the packing houses. Heretofore the
various packers have agreed on the
prices for which they should sell their
finished products, but 1t is believed
there has never been any effective.
understanding between them in re-
gard to buying. But if all the houses
were under one management, that
management could fix daily the price
which it would pay for stock of the
various kinds; and the producer or
| his agent, the commission merchant,
would have no alternative but to sell
at that price or not sell at all. Evil
IDENTIFY such an arrangement would not
tend to gain either for the producer
a better price than he gets now or
for his agent a larger profit.
The merger would probably also
| hurt the live stock interests in an
other way. The packers already
! charge more for their products than
they could if they competed freely
with one another. Every raise OF a
price above the point it would reach
if governed solely by the law of sup
ply and demand tends to make con-
sumption of the particular product
! affected less than it would be under
natural conditions. This does not
hurt the packers SO much, because the
high prices give them a larger per
cent of profit than they would get ii
competition were free. But it does
hurt the stock producer, because it
reduces the demand for live stock,
and makes him either sell what he
raises for less than he otherwise
would receive, or forces him to reduce
his production. OF course, ii the only
object of the packers in merging their
business was to cut down their ex-
penses. while they would gain con-
siderably by the change, neither stock
men nor public would lose by it. But
human nature is such that it is hard
to conceive Of men possessing with
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PARTY WILL WIN FOR HIM.
C.. c. 6ever, Late Legislative Can
didate, Talks at Helena.

The republican legislative candidate
in the county during the late cam
paign, c. c. Bever, was at Helena a
few days ago anaqwhile there submit
ted to an interview which is publish
ed in the Record. That paper says:
G. G. Bever of Billings, who will not
know whether he is to sit in the next
legislature until a special election is
held to allow the people Of Yellow
stone to choose between him and S.
r. Morse, the democratic candidate,
with whom he was tied, is at the Hell
ena hotel. Mr.. Bever did not come
to Helena to learn what the governor
is going to do in the matter of call
ing a special election, but he will be
here for the next few days on bust
ness. He is evidently not worrying
about the probable results. He
thinks the republicans of Yellowstone
county are strong enough to win the
fight for him.
1.-THE official count has been made"
he said last night, "but I have heard
nothing from the capitol. If the gov
ernor has concluded to call a special
election, which am informed he will
be obliged to do under the law, l have
received no information to that effect.
/ have been told that he has not been
notified officially that there has been
a failure to elect one of the can
didates for the legislature from our
county. What constitutes this Of
fetal notification ] am at a loss to
say, not being versed in the law"
Mr.. Bever thinks that the republi-
can legislature will make a splendid
record this winter, as most of those
who will sit in the assembly, he says,
are men who know what is wanted in
the state and will lenact laws accord
ingly.
"Our interests he said, "are prob
ably more varied than those OF any
other state in the union, and it de-
wolves upon the next legislature to
keep this fact in mind in framing
measures which will put the state in
a way of enjoying greater prosper
ity.
Gin the past, it appears to me, we
have devoted much time to the inter-
ests of the mining districts, to the
detriment of our other important in
t~erests. 1t should be borne in mind
that we can Guido every state in the
west in cattle raising and in agri-
culture if we but watch carefully over
these interests and do everything in
our power to stimulate greater
growth.
Irrigation will make Montana a
great agricultural state, and when the
people in the east begin to see the
marvellous strides we are making in
every direction we will not lack for
an energetic and progressive popula-
ton to carry on the great work that
has been done already in the state.
IF | succeed in getting into the
legislature I will do all in my power
to advance the cattle and agricultural
interests Of the state as I think it is
incumbent on us to give them as
much attention as the mining ndus-
try"
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Miles on a Rock.

Manila, Nov. 23.--The transport In
gals, with General Miles on board,
struck a reef entering the harbor OF
Legaspi, Albany, today, and is still
aground. She is not in danger, how
eve The weather is calm and h
is expected to float at high tide.
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St0CkWell's ss:s:$;
Phone No. S9A.
No Charge for Male Help.

No Charge for Male Help.
Help Wanted.
Three ranch hands.
Cook for restaurant; Red Lodge.
Second cook, hotel; city.
Tailor.
Girls for general house work, city
and ranch.
Men for railroad construction, N.
D.; ship every day.
For Rent.
Two room house, furnished; $40.
Two room house. So per month.
Balm wagon, 3R size, $65.
Three rooms, furnished, on ground
1oor; $40 per month.
Position Wanted.
By young man to work for board
and go to school.
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Calling cards at Gazette ONCE.