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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24
DURANT PosToFFIcE ROBBED
Safe Blown Open and Rified Of Con
tents-No Clue.

Durant. I. T. April 23.-The post
Office here was burglarized last night
about midnight, the safe in the Office
was blown open and about $500 in
money. stamps and stamped envel1
opes taken. Very little cash was Sc
cured.
An entrace to the postoffice was ef-
fected by the burglars by cutting out
a panel in the rear door. Inside the
Office a hole was bored in the door Of
the big iron safe. The hole was made
near the combination and a charge Of
nitro-glycerine was put in and the
door blown of. The inner door OF the
safe was also blown open by charge
Of nitro-glycerine and then the safe
was riddled Of its contents.
The night watchman ON the streets
heard the noise Of the explosion and
stated that 1t occurred about mid
night. He thought the noise was
caused by some one firing sixshoot-
err He made a thorough inyestiga-
ton looking for the persons who were
supposed to have fired the shot, but
found no one. There was no one on
the street at the time the watchman
made his midnight round, and a short
time after the explosion vas heard.
Some tools were left in the post
office building near where the safe
stood. The tools were identified by
Blacksmith w. T. Blanton as his
property. The blacksmith shop had
been entered and the tools taken.
Officers are working on the case.
but up to noon today there was no
clue TO the robbers.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24
CHOCTAN TIMBER RESERVED
DECISION OF COMMISSION TO
SHUT OUT SPECTATORS.
Al Timber Lsnc N the chsctsN Ma
ten viii Be Reserves Frc- A.
iotmsnt Under General LsS
fsr Best welfare q Tribes

All tribal lands % the Choctsw Ma
ton wiH b reserved from allotment
By the Dawes commission under a
general isE providing for the best
welfare Of the tribes
This vas a decision reached By the
commission IN session IN this city this
Afternoon and Is one Of the most I'm
portsnt orders that the commission
has ever Issued upon It's oEn author.
ity
In the ChOctsv Nation there are
500. % acres Of the finest pine tim.
Der and Il Is estimated that on this
land there is / .200. 90 900 feet Of lum-
Der. As soon as the ChOc,sWs begun
70 take their sllOtments Il was seen
that the nation was full Of specula.
tors who we're making allotments for
the Indians and buying the timber on
the allotments for a song.
Apparently there was no way 10
prevent and the commission decided
TO take the matter in their own hands
and prevent the big steal that was
about 10 be perpetrated, for the land
upon which the timber is found is
yalueless for other purposes and the
price Of the timber would be all that
the allottee would get.
Up to the present time no allot-
ments have been made and there will
be none unless the action Of the com
mission is reversed by the depart
ment.
The timber land will be reserved
for the benefit Of the tribe the same
as The asphalt and coal lands.-Mus-
kogee Times.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24
WHO IS TO sLAxgt

so-1e weeks ago the looks we're
operea =, ihs whitflngtoa botel for
fhe pu-pose q snrolrng Names q
zOrkrer desiring Eork in establish
IfrE TIE Eaterrorks mains Many
names Eere enrolled ard = date sss
81 foy this vork % begin. The men
Eers tbers ready but ar excuse rzs
gwen and another date ~ AgsiS
the ~orkmen ~ere On hand eager 70
get 10 WORK. but another delay occur.
red. a1d 70 freq1eniiy has this trans
pirei that these lsbOrers are heartily
sore over r. To some IL may be
nsrs 70 know hat these poor men
gA6ly graspet a. The opportunity q
getting work al home where they
EOuld Be close % their families. rzth-
er han 60 elsewhere for work and
leave them alone. They after con
tracing 70 Do the work proposed full
hiiing a. How have they been treat.
ed? Many q them today are without
cent q money. EitnOuf credit and
unable 70 furzish their families the
actual nscessaries Of life Who Is 70
blame for thisF Why is this work
not begun7 n Il has TO be put on for
a month or longer these unfortunate
men are entitled 70 know il. 50 that
In the meantime they cAh get work
elsewhere Common justice demands
that they should know what 70 eI-
pect, without dilly-esEbinz from day
70 day. These rneh have lost too
much time nov. and in 'iusucesto them
and their families they should. a. We
have already said. know dehnitely
when work viii begin.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24

The Chinese have a way OF Issuing
orders which. though kindly written,
mean much. For instance. in suppress
ing Boxer uprising a few days ago,
the chief man instructed his subordi'
mates to give the defendants a careful
trial and then cut OF their heads No
complaint Of this could be made by
even the Christian powers in their
thirst for blood. The careful trial
seems merely to impress the criminals
with the deliberate way in which they
are TO be killed
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24
THE PICNIC AT PROVENCE.
choetaw viii Run Special Coach.
Leave Ardmore at 8 A. M.

choetaw viii Run Special Coach,
Leave Ardmore at 8 A. NJ.
On Monday. the 27th OF this month
the Odd Fellows OF Ardmore and 9th.
er lodges in this section Of country
will celebrate their S4th anniversary
by having grand basket picnic at
their park at Provence.
There will be large crowd OF peo.
pie present and fire speeches will be
delivered by good speakers and every.
body who attends will have a pleasant
time.
Agent J. NJ zike OF the Choctaw
road informed the Ardmoreite this
morning that In order that all might
attend that wished TO that he would
hold the local, which IS due out Of
here at a. m until O'Clock and at
tach a coach behind, which is in the
yards now, and that he would bring
the coach back in the afternoon, leav-
ing Provence about $3.50, reaching
here at o'clock.
This win be "a great accommodation
TO the public and no doubt many will
go that would not otherwise have
gone
Anyone wishing TO return earlier
can come in on the passenger, arriv-
ing here at l45.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24
MlssoURrs MISFORTUNE.

John A Lee. who u stig Heuien-
ant governor Of Missouri. and who
would be governor in the event Of
Governor Dockery's death or resigna-
tion. has admitted that he received a
slush fund from a lobbyist amounting
10 about $4,000 and distributed II
among the state senators and mem
bers Of the legislature. He Is now in
hiding. seeking 10 avoid testifying be-
fore the grand jury until he can make
terms with Prosecuting Attorney Folk.
That honest official has fatty refused
20 make any agreement with Lee or
10 offer him any chance to escape the
consequences Of his crime. What a
humiliating state Of affairs for a great
state like Missouri TO face, And the
worst IL yet 10 be told. for a more dar-
ing and corrupt political machine new
or controlled state than that which
has manipulated the politics Of Mis-
souri, for several years past. Leading
men In both parties are In IL, and they
elect or defeat any man they marx.
II recent developments do not break
up the machine. Mlssourians will de
serve to suffer more shame and humil-
iatlon.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24
Last NIaht,s Lecture.

George w. Clark Of Fort Worth lee
tured last night at the city hall TAX
ing for his subject Sunshine and
where It Falls" The subject within
itself is suggestive of pretty language
and tender thoughts and the audience
that greeted the orator was not dis
appointed, ar Clark's voice and de
livery are splendid and he handled his
subject in a very entertaining manner
Mr. Clark departed early this morning
for Fort Worth.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24

The Purcell Register editor says
he has been promised the first brick
from the brick plant and the first
piece OF ice from the ice plant Of
Purcell. He will probably hurl the
brick at the Ardmoreite and the ice
will undoubtedly be used TO keep his
presses cool in the next single state
hood campalgn.-Caddo Herald.
I'VE fear no foe" Let the brick
come. II It's a gold brick so much the
better; II It's a common everyday
brick It will fall as harmless as all the
abuse the Register has ever given the
Ardmoreite We lose no sleep over
such little things.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24
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keller.
Ratlif & Utley have finished their
new store here
Cornish.
Zan Williams was here last night
from Ardmore.
The sanctihed meeting closed last
night.
w z. Washington Of Marietta is
here with a number OF Mississippi
Choctaws. whom he win locate near
here
Provence.
w ". Jones is reported as being
no better
Prof Felts school will close today
at the chapel with an exhibition.
DR.. Hathaway has gone to Pontotoc
to visit his father for a few days.
DunHood.
] NJ. Yeager went to Coalgate yes
terday on business.
Mrs Argo and son went to Ardmore
yesterday.
Miss Exter searcy is reported quite
sick.
Earl.
Tom Sims is here from Evansville
on business.
Marietta.
Miss Willie Boyd Of Pauls Valley is
visiting here. She is accompanied by
little Miss Marie Freeman who will
visit her grandmother here for a few
days.
Mike Sneed was here last night
from Ardmore.
Rev. Faulkner OF Leon closed the
protracted meeting here last night.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs viii Ben
nett, a son.
Graham.
The infant child OF Mr. and Mrs. ].
w. Arlington was smothered TO death
in bed here last night. The remains
will be buried this afternoon.
Ruben Burrow went to Ardmore
today after his brothers, Homer and
Marion. who have been attending Har.
grove College.
George Williams and family left
for Tishomingo today to secure their
allotments.
J. r. Pierce and wife left yester-
day to visit relatives near Monk.
w NJ, Kern was here yesterday
from Monk.
Except for the fact that crops are
suffering because Of the dry weather,
we are getting along nicely.
Sulphur.
A crew OF 100 men began work
Tuesday laying track on the Frisco
branch from scullin TO this place.
They have about four miles OF track
already laid and expect to reach this
place next week.
We have a number Of prospectors
In town looking for locations.
Their farmers are all busy at
work.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24
substltute for Cake MaIk.

Paris, April 23.-Popular though
the cake walk in Partisan ball
rooms, It has many enemies. who OBJ
ject to its rowdlness and seek a new
dance. AS a substitute Mile. Janc
Niclout. a ballerine OF the opera, ad,
vocates the well dance" Girls wraT
themselves in wells. the ends OF whit b
float behind like wings, and dance al
ternately va.h a partner and alone
II is full Of stauesque roses and
graceful attitudes. ~,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24

Owners and operators Of threshing
machines In Oklahoma are said 70 be
organizing trust. The Texas legis'
lnture seems TO be prolonging its ses'
sion In order that II may effectively
thrash the trust II II shows up In
Texas when harvest is on.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24
FOR SALE

Eight-room house with well and
sheds and nice large lot. Good local
ton. A bargain.
Two Groom houses, good well and
sheds. Rent for So each per month
Price $3.50.
Two houses and lots two blocks from
Main street. A bargain.
Seven-room house, eoo' barn. ser.
wants house, wen, cistern, wash house,
On easy terms Close in.
VIII talse good mules and cattle for
stock Of merchandise Good location.
FOR RENT.
Some nice new three-room houses
Two-room house in Northwest Ard
more.
Four-room house with large lot for
garden, shed for stock, and good well
Price so per month
II lis real estate you want to buy
sell or want, see US.
DO AK & 8 NTH,
Real Estate and Rental Agts.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24

II Is alarming the way corruption
grows in the public service. Army
navy and civil departments reek with
doodle. The people must clean out
the stables OF the nation will become
n disRrace.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24

Are you doing your part toward
swelling the fund for territorial ex'
hlblt at the Worlds Fair? This Is
matter that should and must be at
tended 10 without further delay.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24

Gainesville, our sister on the south,
has in addition to a scourge Of scarlet
fever a case OF genuine Mexican
smallpox. at least that's what the pa
pers call IT, II It is no worse than the
Indian Territory kind little alarm need
be felt over Il.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24

We are indeed pleased TO notice
that the work OF cleaning up the town
has begun. The chief OF police is is
suing orders which is being carried
out will be the means Of giving US a
cleaner Ardmore. 1t is the proper
thing and the Ardmoreite win take
pleasure in helping push II along
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24

The Denison Herald knowingly
speaks OF the conditions of the two
nations thusly: The allotment OF
the lands Of the Chickasaws and the
Choctaws means that there W Dc 9
great deal OF business doing in thai
part Of the moral vineyard in the
next year or two. The country will
rapidly be settled. Now that the In
dians as individuals will have clear
title to all that is coming to them II
win mean a great deal Of improvement
and betterment Of condition."
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24

Snap Shots In the Dallas News says
that science has relieved the mother
hens Of the drudgery of sitting. They
can now devote more attention to
club work
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24

Whenever they come across a mys-
terious murder in New York they
charge II up TO the Maha. thus con-
veniently diSposing Of the RESPONSE
bllity.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24

President Rooseyelts trip througl
Kansas will be marked by unique
event On Saturday. May 2. the pres
idents special will pass through Ellis
county and the president has consent
ed 10 stop at Victoria and deliver q
speech in German TO his Russian con
stituents It will doubtless be the
FIRST time In the history Of the ooun
try that a president has delivered q
speech In a foreign tongue II will
also be one speech that but few pa
pers will print as spoken.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24
! O'CLOCK EDITION
Ardmors, Friday, April "a, 1903.

Cuba will have no more army scan
daIs The army has been withdrawn
from the island
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24

Mrs, James Watson OF PanIs Valley
is in the city visiting her daughter,
Mrs. win salisberry.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24
NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT RATES.

Following are the new electric rates
which will be put into effect May /,
1903. In all cases where these rates
are lower than the present rates they
will apply for the present month, but
where they are higher than the old
rates. the old rate will prevail until
May /, 1903.
Meter Rates for Business Houses.
Up TO $4,000 watt hours per mo. so 1t
$4,000 to $4,000 watt hours per
uOulu .........- ............ Il
$4,000 to 100000 watt hours per
month .................. IL
100000 and up watt hours per
Minimum meter rates. $3.50 per mo.
Flat Rate for 10 Candle Power Lamp
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-04-24

Ratlih & Utley have finished thelr
new store here
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-11

THE POWER OF GOLD.

Walter Sanford has certainly achiev-
ed success and fame in America as
manager of scenic melo-drama produc-
tons; he has labored for the confidence
of the public and has won it, and he
promises to protect that confidence by
presenting the best plays procurable in
as faultlesS a manner as possible, and
with the same care and attention to
detail that has characterized his other
productions. His strongly dramatic and
massive scenic play, 1.-THE Power of
Cold" will be the attraction presented
by the Walter Sanford American play
ers at the Orpheum for their opening
performance.
The flavor of the play is decidedly
English. and the characters are of the
ultra London type: but the authors
deft hand and knowledge of stage
craft has so framed everything that no
particle of idiom is lost, the diction be-
ing understandable to all. The play is
richly endowed with pathetic and hui
morouS conceitS, the tear burying itself
in smiling dimples, sentiment follows
close upon the jolliest humor, and the
heartless murder in the old deserted
dollhouse follows close upon the prep
aration for the Christmas dinner in the
workmans happy home. The stirring
climax of the first act, where the Lon
don hanson dashes across the stage
pursued by it's Nemesis in the shape of
a cockney butcher boy, is succeeded by
the denouncing of the adventures in
her gilded salon: the Old Toll House
near Victoria Lock with the distant
city gemmed with a thousand Pickering
lights in the distance is the very antith-
esis to the happy garnet home of the
hero and his little family: the weird
and desolate picture of the Hounds
ditch Lunatic Asylum is in a startling
contrast to the gorgeous library at
Brandon Manor, Hyde Park Corner.
Mr.. Sanford comes direct from Los
Angeles, Cal, where the company have
just closed nine weeks engagement
to great success. This company carries
two car loads of special elaborate
scenery painted by John & Louis
Young. the leading scenic artists of
New York city.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-11
BLUNDERBUsslNG.

Does any sane person in HaWali De-
aieve there is a grain of fact in the
bushel of chaff which Mr.. Ashford
dumped in this wise yesterday upon
the Circuit Court:
"My information is to the effect that
the Attorney General and one OF his
deputies were most persistently en-
gagged in coaching certain man at
tempting representation, this man hav-
ing sworn that he was another voter"
Such information as that is hardly
worth listening to in a bar room. The
idea that a high-minded gentleman
like the Attorney General would risk
his reputation, his position and even
his liberty as an individual for the
sake of coaching fraudulent voter,
may strike Ashford as plausible but it
will be heard by the average common
sense citizen with disgust. If the
Home Rulers. have no better case for
investigation than Ashford presents,
the Grand Jury will make short work
of them.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-11

The Home Rulers in and out of dis
guise, who were wont to strut and
threaten and sna.y their legislative fin
gers at the taxpayer, are humble COM
moners indeed since the Federal power
brought them up standing with sub
poenas. 1t was the favorite boast of
these predatory statesmen last winter
that they were the highest power in
the land To them all authority and
reverence belonged. The Advertiser
warned them at the time that the
grand jury, Federal and Territorial,
stood in the shadow ready to seize any
of them who might transgress or ap-
pear to have transgressed the criminal
law. But the .Solons of Simia laughed
at such absurdities and went their way
depredating. Now they are beginning
to count the cost and can hardly be
recognized as they go sinking about
wondering what terms the other fellow
may make to turn States evidence.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-11
MORGAN AND THE CANAL.

The probability that John T. Morgan
Of the Canal committee of the Senate
indicates that the upper house of Con-
gress will stand by the President in
his choice of the Panama route. Sem
ator Morgan is committed to Nicar-
aqua in a way which makes him un-
mindful of the engineering argument
for the shorter route and he is disposed
to be obstructive in his tactics. Nat
urally the friends of the Panama
measure are doubtful of the wisdom
of letting him keep so powerful a lev
erage as the Craftsmanship of the
Canal committee would afford in COM
ing legislation.
It is a matter of national regret that
SO patriotic and useful man as Sem
ator Morgan should adopt, toward so
great a work of public utility as a
trans-oceanic canal, a dog-in- the-man-
ger policy. The logic of canal is
not one of localities. It pleads for a
navigable waterway between the At
lantic and Pacific to be built as soon
as possible. The question of site
is primarily one for engineers and 1t
touches craftsmanship only through
the State and Treasury departments
where diplomacy takes UP the local po-
litical questions involved and where
finance measures the cost. Such con-
tentions as Senator Morgan made in
Congress for years up to the time or
his sudden and complete infatuation
for Nicaragua. argue as well for Pan
anna as for the other place. They es-
tablish the need and value of a canal
and the paramount Importance OF haste
In digging it. 1t is clear to Senator
Morgan's friends that if he should sue
coed in defeating the Panama project
ne would not, thereby. commit the
Government to the Nicaragua route.
Indeed. with all the engineering and
financial logic pointing to Panama,
Nicara qua would have very little show;
and the net result of Senator Morgan
efforts would be the indefinite post
ponement of canal building. rms
would suit the railroads exceliently,
but 1t ought not to suit Senator Nor
gan in view of his own past utterances
and of the pressing naval and com
nercial needs of the United States.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-11

It is stated in one of the evening
papers that 5000 Japanese would leave
here for home in case of war between
Japan and Russia. We do not find it
explained how they would travel.
American and British steamers, plying
between this way port and the Orient,
would not risk the fate of the Kow
Shing by taking on board anything so
contraband as recruits. Indeed such
vessels would probably leave Japan off
their calling list while the war lasted
and do business with the treaty ports
of China alone. AS for the Maru
steamers their business in war, under
contract with the japanese govern
1ment, is to act as cruisers and scouts.
The only way left TO move the local
Japanese would be by means of trans
ports heavily conveyed, and as japan
could not spare either merchant vessels
or warships for the purpose, the
chances are that our Japanese popula-
ton would remain in its place. A war,
instead of drawing upon our labor sup
ply, would check japanese emigration
home altogether.