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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-04-27

n. kiChAkIi
Live Stock Correspondent
SaImagundi.

Ladies interested in Oriental and
cIuney work will find a large
handsome stock at extremely
reasonable prices, imported by
Mrs. Zion recently from Syria.
This lady comes very well recon-
mended as very worthy person
who will appreciate your patronage.
Mrs. Zion is at the Early Hotel.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-04-27

The Commercial Club held a
meeting yesterday to wind up the
business of the stock show.
SaImagundi
AUCTIONERR.

w. A. Ferguson has taken out
license as an autioneer. All old
friends wanting his services will find
him in town.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-04-27
Salmagundi

Have you tried Pow Wow Laun-
dry Soap 7 bars for a5c. Save
wrappers. Coed for green trad
ing stamps. $I.oo in stamps for
10 wrappers. Ask for it. 96-roo
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-04-27

ask your dealer for Pow Wow
Laundry Soap, ? bsrs for z5c.
Save wrappers. 96-IOo
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-04-27
y steers 1907 S. 20.
K. w. Allison. Purcell. |. Il.


X. W. Allison, Purcell, |. T.,
IS steers SIS s. So.
Hog receipts are increased some,
but prices are not much changed
from a week ago. Light weight
hogs have stepped up almost
alongside Of heaviers during the
past week. Quality has been
good, but all weights and qualities
get within range of 10 cents for
the bulk of sales today. Top price
is $4.o7-1 =; bulk Of sales s4.Ss. to
$4.o5, S cents higher than yester-
day. Weights below 200 pounds
bring within S cents Of the top for
the the best ones
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-04-27
A SAVING OF STEPS.

If telephone would save you a
hall dozeyl trips a day--it usually
saves people from three to six times
that NJ wouldn't it be an eco
nomif al investment
q telephone in your house or
pls &c Of business costs you less than
y > cents a day. Six trips a day
would cost YOU not less than ten
cents each, or a total Of 90 cents.
In a month this would foot mp the
enormous total Of SIS counting
Sundays and all. But some busi-
ness men use their phone 100 or
more times a day. They couldn't
DO withoutit.
Wen install your phone for you
in a days notice. Our local ex-
change and toll system have all
been overhauled and placed in
first class condition. We guarantee
good service, prompt courteous at
tention, All You have to do is TO
ring up central -
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07

She tried to smile rs she went TO.
ward him, but It was a miserable at
tempt As she would have passed him,
he caught her roughly by the shoulder.
Il telled you I'D have no prayin'.
pious folks round me an meant Ill
You kin git right out of herei"
He gave her a push, and she would
have fallen had she not grasped the
shirt hanging loosely upon his bosom.
with that clutch, her smoldering spirit
bIazed forth.
"Fatherl You shan't keep me Quit
Ill stick to you so long as they's q
breath in your bOdyl'
Something very like admiration
shone in fathers eyes, as be vainly
tried to loosen her hold; and some
thing very like a chuckle sounded in
fathers throat as he retreated into
the house, saying very gruf1y:
well stay If you want to! No.
body caresl"
After this, father watched her mar.
rowly. He wondered II she would as
sert her independence in other ways;
but in all matters save this one. she
was the same meek. quiet woman.
The fourth Sunday of the month was
set aside for the baptism OF converts.
A brief discourse was given at the
school house, then the congregation
was to repair to the river, a quarter Of
a mile distant.
There was a Coodly number-fath.
ers and daughters, mothers and sons,
husbands and wives. It seemed nat
ural that they should follow the
preacher in couples, and natural that
timId, retiring, little mother should DO
last, and alone.
Alone? She had taken few steps,
depressing, vita characteristic pa
thence, the sigh which rose to her lips.
when someone stepped forward. and
awkwardly took her arm. Then heav.
ems own glory filled to overlooking her
poor. starved soul, for someone" was
father!
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
CHARGED with Preolpltatlnq Riot.

Macon, Mo-: William Ellis, Abner
Horn, Mug Woods, w. T. Johnson and
Monroe Howard, negroes, were ar
rested at Keota Friday night and Iodg-
ed in jail here, the Coroner's jury hay.
ing charged them with precipitating
the riot in the collier district Christ
mas eve, which resulted in the death
Of Cisara Berganoni and Gracoma Ora.
cOniff, Italian miners. AS far as can
be ascertained, the Italians has no PTS
tolls and were not seeking trouble.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
REVIEWS ITS INDEBTEDNESS
Meeting Held for the Purpose Of
Signing the Certificates.

Jefferson City, Mo-: The Missouri
state board of education met Saturday
and signed and issued three renewal
certificates of indebtedness-one to
the state school fund and the other
two to the seminary fund, each to run
twenty years. The school fund GER
tificate was for $4,000, and was due
July 1, 1903; the seminary certificates
were for $4,000, due November l, 1903,
and $4,000, due July 2, 1903. Three
more certificates, all to the seminary
fund, come due next month, and re-
newal certificates will be issued in
their stead. These are for 100000,
$4,000 and $4,000, respectively, due
January %, 1904, January 80, 1904,
and April 10, 1904. These six certif-
Gates aggregate total of $4O9, 900. The
school certificates are for the public
schools, while the seminary certificates
al e for the state university at Colum-
b.a. and the school of mines and metal
lurgy at Rolla, which is an adjunct
of the university. The board will meet
next month to sign the renewal GER
tihcates to be issued for those which
come due in 1904.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07

INTERESTING RELIC OF
THE EARLY DAYS
Moxico Man Has Wagon Made in vir-
glnia In 1881.

Mexico, Mo-: Henry ID. Martin, liv-
ing south of this city. in Jackson town
ship, Galloway County. has an interest
ing relic Of the early days Of Missouri
in six-horse wagon, which has quite
history. Plainly painted on the wag-
on are these words and figures: Made
in Madison, Virginia, in 1881, by John
FishbaclS."
Mr.. Martins grandfather, the late
Joseph EverhaTt, used this wagon for
over forty years, and his son, Joseph,
used It for eight or ten years. Mr.
Martin has also used the vehicle on his
farm for several years, but now has 1t
stored away in a dry place, and is TAX
ing care of 1t as a relic of former days.
The wagon has very large rear wheels
and blue bed, which is very much
curved, almost in a crescent shape. The
bed is iron-bound and a heavily irOned
box for carrying valuables is built in
the bed.
When the late James H. Tureman
moved from Williamsburg to Fulton,
in the early 70's, he hauled his house
hold goods in this wagon, together with
his valuables, notes, bonds and money,
locked safely In the box.
Joe Everhart hauled his crop Of
wheat from his farm at williamsburg
to New Florence in 1864 on this old
relic, and sold his wheat at $3.50 in
gold per bushel. He carried 100 bush
els at load. Mr.. Everhart also hauled
goods from st. Louis with this wagon
in the early days for w. B. Kidwell, a
merchant at williamsburg.
The wagon is still in good running
cozdition and win carry about as big a
load as the more modern wagon.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
Friends Seek Communication,

Jefferson City, Mo-: Efforts are be-
ing made to induce Gov. Dockery to
commute the death penalty pronounc-
ed upon Mark Dunn, who is sentenced
to be hanged at st. Joseph January 10,
to life imprisonment. The supreme
court overruled the motion for a re-
hearing in his case and fixed January
15 as the date of his execution. It has
been the invariable custom in this
state when respite is sought to grant
it, and this will be the first step that
those who are working for a commute
ton may have the better opportunity
TO secure 1t. Dunn killed Alfred Fen
ton at Rushville in 1902.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
KNOWS NOW
Doctor Was Fooled by His own Case
for a Time.

It's easy to understand how ordi-
nary people get fooled by coffee when
doctors themselves sometimes forget
the facts.
A physician speaks Of his own ex.
perience:
Il had ueed coffee for years and
really did not exactly believe It was
injnring me although / had palpita-
ton Of the heart every day.
FINALLY one day severe and al
most fatal attack Of heart trouble
frightened me and gave up both
tea and coffee, using Postum instead,
and since that time have had abso-
htely no heart palpitation except ON
one or two occasions when tried a
small quantity OF coffee which caused
severe irritation and proved to me
must let It alone.
When We began using Postum it
seemed weak-that was because we
did not make It according % direc.
tions-but now we put a little BIT Of
butter in the pot when boiling and a.
low the Postum TO boil full IS minutes
which gives It the proper rich favor
and the deep brown color.
4 have advised q great many Of
my friends and patients to leave on
coffee and drink Postum; IN fact.
daily giye this advice. Name given
oy Postum Co, Battle Creek, Mich.
Many thousands Of physicians use
Postum IN place 81 tea and coffee Ia
their own homes and prescribe It to
patienta There's q reason
q remarkable little book pThe Road
60 WellFil,e' can h6 found A. sach
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
Mysterlous Shooting al RIeh AIII.

Rich Hill, Mo-: A mysterious shoot
ing occurred here on Park avenue. the
main thoroughfare. last week, which
is either puzzling the officers or they
are trying to hush the matter up. Les
ter Higgins, young man "A years old,
who is employed at the Pacific house
as pianist, was shot by some un-
known person, so he says, who, assailed
him while coming into the business
part Of town, showing a revolver up SO
close to his clothing as to burn It, and
fired. The bullet entered the center of
the stomach and came out on the left
side, making a very serious wound, but
il Is thought he will live. Suspicion
as to who the assailant may be is cast
toward a young man whose family Is
highly respected here.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
Feund hanaInn h nox 81.

st. Joseph Mo-. The dead body OF
Philip F. Wentz. secretary OF the
wenz Shoe Company, Of this place, was
found hanging BY a wire from the roof
Of an empty box car in the Burlington
yards Saturday Wens is supposed to
have committed suicide. although his
relatives think foul play possible, as
there were number Of burises upon
his body. He had been missing from
his hoiae since Friday morning. and
be told ~ wife ho was going 70 bic
office
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
MOST ready. mother?'

most ready, mother"
Caroline ran in, her eyes sparkling
with the thought of some anticipated
pleasure, but she stopped suddenly.
Her mother sat in a little rocking.
chair. with her knitting in her hands.
you are not going?"
Mother knit two, seam two. all the
way across the needle" before she
laid her work in her lap and answered
Caroline.
"No-I-thought-"
1T isn't what you thought, at all, !"
Caroline burst out. TITS father againl
He's found out that you were going to
have little pleasure, and he said you
shouldn't goi He's just as selfish as
-as-I ami"
Hush" the mother said, gently.
You must not speak so of your faith.
er. It wouldn't be any pleasure for
him to go gallivantin' through the
woods after leaves, and he can't real.
iZe how much wanted to. l ought to
stay home and finish this sock anyway.
and prob1y I'd ketch cold and have
rheumatics II went. The wind is go
ing to blow, too. Maybe therell be a
shower"
"Mothe-, you know every word
you've said is what father told you.
Wind blowingl You can't see a leaf
blowing! You can't see leaf stirring;
and there isn't a cloud in the sky. You
couldn't take cold If you tried. It's all
a burning shame!"
Mothers wistful eyes looked out on
the garden. Father thought It a sin.
full waste Of time and ground to raise
flowers, so the garden was always cab.
bages and the like, except where Caro-.
line had planted some blossoming
thing. Her heart yearned for the
beautiful, and the woods, brilliant in
scarlets and yellows-well, she must
not think OF them. She turned reso.
lutely from the clump of flags and the
hollyhock. Her eyes frightened when
she looked at Caroline. II was no
wonder that WIN Archer had taken
her away from them so early, and had
built little home for her where she
had flowers a-plenty. If Will had or
dered her to leave the ground for cab.
bages instead of flowers, it would have
made no difference to Caroline. She
was Arm like her father.
Mother, It makes me mad to have
you COW down as you do! What COM
fort do you take? Father works hard
through the week, but on Saturday af-
ternoOns he goes to town and enjoys
himself. You work like a slave all
week, and at night when he is sleeping
you are sewing all the time. Sundays
you might have a little rest, but with
the chores and the baths and dinner
to get, you have but precious little
time. II You ever do think of some.
thing to give You a little pleasure,
father knocks it all over. Sometimes
/ think / hate him" q,
-Caroline!" Mothers voice was
shocked He's your father, child"
Il don't care If he's my great grand.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
OF A FAMOUS
OLD MISSOURI MINE
No. 10 of the Rich Hin Going Out of
Business After Earning Millions.

Rich Hill, Mo-: with the end of this
month and year the Rich Hill coal
company viii withdraw it's holdings
on OLD No. 10 shaft, one mile south of
town, and quit business. This shaft
has been in constant operation for the
past fourteen years. and for many
years was the largest producer of the
black diamonds In the state, working
over 400 meA at one time. The ban
ner hoist was made about seven years
ago. when 1867 tons OF mine run"
coal came to the top. or seventy-four
cars Of 4O,OOO-pound capacity. A con-
servative miner claims that the shaft
has been a veritable gold mine for it's
owners, who are composed of st. Louis
CO pitalists and the Missouri Pacific
officials. The mine has run on an
average of 300 days year for fourteen
years and hoisted $50 tons average a
day, or a total of $4,000 tons. It has
cost the operators on an average of
62h cents to mine the coal and the
day mems wages amount to 10 cents on
the ton, making the total amount TIN
cents to ton, so the company has paid
the wage earners $2,441, $50. A con-
sorvative estimate on the contract sell
ing price places 1t at 81 per ton, or a
gross profit of $6,SOO,OOO. Taking that
amount, leaves the company a net
profit of $3,s5S,750 for their dividends.
AS can be seen from the state mine
inspectors reports this shaft has been
very free from serious accidents, only
seven men being killed during the en-
tire operation. Some of the most pro-
nounced U. NJ. w. A. officials have
worked in this shaft, and hardly
camp can be found in Missouri, Kan
sas, Arkansas, Illinois or the Indian
Territory but what has miners who
have worked in old No. 10.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
AN EPIDEMIC OF MADNESS.
Hungarian Aristoeracy Driven Into
Insanity BY Dleslpation.

Hungarian Aristoeraey Driven Into
Insanity by Dissipation.
A singular epidemic of madness
seems to be making its way among
the higher Hungarian nobility and af-
fecting some families OF European
notoriety.
Count George Festeties, the eldest
son of Count Tassilo Festetics and
Lady Mary Disqualification, lately
committed suicide in a lunatic asylum
by hanging himself. He was only 20
years old.
Another Hungarian magnate, Count
Szabo, of ATad, the owner of nearly
SOC, 900 acres of land, has had to be
confined as a dangerous lunatic. He
had lately incurred heavy losses at
play, and was laboring unuer the i'm
preston that he could not pay his
debts, and that his creditors were pur-
suing him night and day with red-hot
irons to brand him as a swindler.
A third noble, having large estates
in Pennsylvania, Count Eetaaby, has
fallen a victim to mania, after a wild
career OF dissipation extending over
several years, during which he sold
every stick of furniture in his castle
and every tree on his extensive es-
tates. Now he regards himself as an
Incorporation of various Old Testa-
ment personages-sometimes Moses,
sometimes Abraham, but more fire.
quently Solomon.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
Paderowskpa Wealth.

Paderewski. the celebrated pianist,
is an excellent man Of business. All
the money he earns by his profession,
and 1t is said to exceed 100000 a
year, is invested to the best advan-
tage. He is said to be a shareholder
in a well-known piano firm as well
as part proprietor in one of the chief
hotels in Warsaw. Paderewski has
been heard to say that he has never
had a single serious financial loss
during the time he has conducted his.
own Investments.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07

Joplin, Mo-; IL protecting his moth
er from an assault BY his father. Bert
X. Barron. II years old. shot and
killed Mathies Barron at I o'clock Fri
day morning at their home on East
Seventh street Barron was a miner,
A years old. He became quarrelsome
ana made the threat that he would get
his revolver and kin the family Young
Barron grappled with his father, who
10 the struggle was shot and killed.
Young Barron was arrested anc
placeu n fail re Claims 70 have shot
his father ~ aecidert
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
conpanlons.

A hundred times my feet have trod the
way
AZ last we tread together. you and i;
Yet never seemed so swift until to-day
Your heart conJeetures why.
A hundred times my ears have heard the
gong
OF bird and wind. we. listening, made
our own.
Yet never seemed its notes 50 pure and
strong
When was here alone
A hundred times / thought: How fir to
see
The young grass e, ana every ieafy
bouEnF'
How Beautiful the autumn world might
be
I never guessed tn now.
And fif--ahl II We two muHf part afain,
And on our solitary Journeys 60
I shall DO thankful. even n my pain,
That love has blessed me so.
Mono Chat.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
She shook hands with her nelahbors

She shook hands with her neiahboFs.
back tell tomorrow night. You kin
tend to things around here"
Mother rose early next morning, as
was her custom. AS she went to the
barn with the milk pals, she remem.
bered that it was Sunday. 1t seemed
like Sunday, too; she felt the peace Of
the day in her soul AS the white
streams went steadily into the pail, a
daring thought came to her. She
would go 10 church! II she worked
fast she could go.
She was out of breath when she got
to the meeting house, but It rested her
to look over the congregation. Sary
Ann Mason had on a new bonnet; and
that must be jamie Williams with her
steady beau. She had almost lost
track of the young folks since Caro-
line had married. She felt half re.
loved that Caroline and Will were not
there. They would look so surprised
to see her. Father would be angry If
he knew, but what the eyes don't see,
the heart don't Rrieve over.
The preacher was talking, and she
| composed herself to listel. AS she
heard the familiar words, the vague
longing, lying dormant in her heart for
] many years, became definite. and,
strong as a mighty torrent, there
swept through the parched plains of
| her being a resolve.
Return ye, return ye," the preacher
was saying, and she would return.
She shook hands with her neigh
bors as in a dream. She refused a
ride home that she might be alone
with her new-foun, Joy. Not until
she saw her father upon the doorstep
did she lose her exaltation, and then
oonly for a moment.
'Wher've you benz" he demanded.
ITO meetin', father"
After all I've told you about them
drivelin', sneahin' preaehersl / s'posed
you had more sense. won't have no
Bible readin', prayin' folks round
mel"
Mother made no reply, but went
| quietly TO getting dinner. II did not
occur to her 10 ask why he had come
home so early. When father wanted
her to know anything, he told her; II
he said nothing. she never asked.
The next Sunday. father stared,
open-mouthed. as he saw unmistak-
able signs that che was going to
meeting. Would she dare disobey his
orders? He would about as soon ex-
pect TO see the sun rise In the west
When she had actually gone, be
said. grimly; "Just walt TIL she comes
baeki"
Truth was, mother dreaded the rom.
ing back. The brief lifting up, as on
eagle wings had given place 70
gloom. She was going TO do her duty
--shs would not fall IL that now bus
the blessed ioy had. loF the time. de-
parted. AZ she came back. with lag
GinE siepu. father met Dor a To door,
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
Fathers Change of Heart
by wRIGHT-HANsoN
copyrighted authors Publishing Company

father with the chores, and ran err
rands for him, besides doing her own
work. She was contented with kind
word or a caress for her pay. She did
it now without kind words and ca
resses, but men get over those senti.
mental feelings quicker than women
do.
"Motheri"
She started, guiitily, and ran to the
door. What is it, father?"
cit supper as quick as you kin. I'm
going to drive them steers over to
Brighton kin as well as not. fer it's
moonlight nights now. Then I'll go
an see Brother Caleb, so may not git
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
WEDDING RITES OF sAvAeEs.
Very Simple Ceremonies Constitute
a Marriage Among Them.

Very Simple Ceremonies Constitute
a Marriage Among Them.
The marriage ceremonies of many
savages are Of the simplest possible
description. In some places, indeed,
says the Leisure Hour, ceremony is
almost entirely dispensed with. There
are no wedding rites in Dahomey, Eek
cept where the king confers the WIFE,"
the interference of royalty rendering
It necessary for the bride to present
her future lord with a glass of rum.
Brandy-drinking is the principal feat
ure of the ceremony in some Brazil
ian tribes. Amongst the Navajos, it is
only required of the bride and bride
groom to eat maize-pudding from the
came platter. In the Hill tribes Of
North Aracan, marriage is described
as "a simple contract unaccompanied
by ceremony" and il is an equally in
formal affair in many other tribes. At
4 Khasia wedding, the couple about
to be married merely sit together in
one seat and receive their friends, to
whom they give dinner or feast"
They have. a rather mixed ceremony
amongst the Gonds and Korkus, con-
sisting of 'eating together, tying the
garments together, dancing together
round a POLE being halfdrowned to-
gether by douche of water, and the
interchange of rings" A negress of
Lcango is legally married after the
bridegroom has eaten from two dishes
which she. has cooked with her own
band and carried to his hut.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
a Chair na nnhl.a

Grace church, New York, boasts OF
the youngest choir singers in the
world. Every Sunday afternoon a
chorus Of baby girls takes part in the
service. The youngest two OF this
band are only four years old-hardly
able to walk, and yet they chant in
perfect unison. clearly and distinctly.
Each small girl wears white apron
and a closely fitting baby cap, and
they are a picturesque slght.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
WIN Remain In KlrksvIlIs.

Klrksville, Mo-: The American
School OF osteopathy has decided to
stay in Kirksville, Notwithstanding the
offers Of Des Moines. The management
has informed the Citizens Committee
that no gifts are asked for, nor will
be accepted If offered. The manage
ment asks. however that the citizens
erect building lease it to the
school, which has outgroWn its present
quarters.
Mexico Missouri message., 1904-01-07
orantn Holldav Pardonn.

Jefferson City, Mo-: Gov. Dockery
last week granted two holiday pardons
to long-term convicts, as follows: Kirk,
Powell, a negro, convicted September,
1891, in Jasper County; murder in the
second degree; sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for life. isis" Alternately, con-
Victed September. 1896, Scott County,
murder in the second degree; SEN.
fenced for ten years. She had only
about three months to serve.