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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-03-19
Statehood Prospects
Not So Bright-Early Adjourne-
ment Of Congress Expected.

Washington, March I8-Under
the terms of the Oklahoma-Indian
Territory Statehood bill now being
prepared by the republican sub
committee, the new state which
will be known as Oklahoma will
have four members Of the lower
house of congress, giving it six
votes in the electoral college. Al
thougt it has not been definitely
decided by the committee, the bill
will carry an appropriation Of not
less than 5 million dollars as a
school fund.
The committee took up Okla
homa for discussion today without
disposing Of the most perplexing u
the problems which confronted il
in the New Mexico Arizona Sit
uation. Delegate Mcclure insisted
that the new state Of Oklahoma
was entitled to FIVE members Of the
lower house Of congress. His con
tention is that Oklahoma and
Indian Territory combined have a
population Of notIessthan 200, 900
The committee, however, is not
inclined TO accept this estimate,
contending the safer plan is to use
the federal census Of 1900 as a
basis of apportionment It viii
follow this plan in both statehood
bills.
The house committee will not
prepare its bill before the senate
is ready to act upon the measures.
The committee on territories is a
privileged committee and calls up
bills for consideration at any time.
Although no Official announcement
has been made, it can be accepted
that an omnibus measure viii be
presented. Coupled with this ac-
ton, there may be au agreement
among the republican leaders con
cerned in the two houses that the
bills may he separately considered,
fit is deemed politically expedient
at any time.
Senator Beveridge called at tie
White House today and told tie
president he was convinced con
gress would adjonrn BY April IS. /
Senator Aldrich also gave this as
lis opinion.
But for the furry in the house I
'ver the postoiioe affair said
senator Beveridge. I'VE would T
ave been ready to adjourn By
April T."
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-03-19

no japanese north of the Yalu river
and that none Of their scouts have
been seen there since the beginning
of March. On the other hand the
Russians are reported to have
crossed the Yalu to the south,
leaving a small force to guard the
river.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-03-19
To Advertisers

All copy for new adds or changes
in old ones must be handed in not
latter than $3.50 a. m. Otherwise
we cannot guarantee the appear
ance Of the same Oh the day on
the day on which they are sent
in. If
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-03-19

have the agency for Stevens
Tailored Garments. The prices
are very reasonable. Before select
ing your spring suit, skirt and waist
call at the New York Store or
phone 4s and look at the styles and
prices Of Stevens S Garments. Miss
JoHNsoN. Agent. If
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-03-19

Picture Frames. w. A.
Cooper Paint & Wall
Paper Co, successors
to Mo. G. e B. Com
panY. Phone 64. 65
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-03-19

Glass, w. A. Cooper
Paint & Wall Paper
Co., successors to Mo.
c. & B. Co. Phone 81
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-10
.4nother Substitution Case.

One of the Almshouse attaches NOR
tally wounded a fox in the forest back
of the institution a day or two ago and,
on trailing the wounded animal to her
lair, three young foxes apparently a
few davs old were discovered. The
young animals were brought to Super
intendent Frank Schmitz, who at once
hit upon a scheme to raise them by
providing a foster mother in the per-
son of the cat which has made the
Almshouse her home for many years.
The cat was at the time nursing her
own offspring, consisting of four kit
tens. The latter were drowned forth
with and the baby foxes were placed
under the protecting care of the mother
cat
The cat seemed to be utterly oblivi-
Gus to the fact that any substitution
had been made and offered no resist
ance when her foster children cuddled
up to her to be nursed. Schmitz says
that, if anything. the cat is even more
solicitous for the baby foxes than for
the kittens, and both the cat and the
foxes are doing well.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-10
Frogs in APrH.

Not for the worlds delight
In the wet. moonless night
Ye lift your htanies. o tuneless choir,
To one high note and shrill
Piping your own wild Will,
From your dark lodgings in the moss
and mire.
No poet voices praise
The ringing notes We raise;
Nay, ehanticleer himself doth sweetlier
sound
His farmyard trumpet clear
When first the dawn is near,
And gaping milkmaids make their morn
ing round.
Yet never golden bell
May gladder tidings tell
On the still night air DER moonlit town
Than is the tale ye bring,
prophets of the spring,
Chirping of April mid the meadows
brown.
Your artless anthems range
Along the stops of change.
"The SHOWS are gone" ye pipe, "and
bluebrdS comet
Times at the dewy turn
When dandelions burn;
In yon bare boughs ere long the bees
will hum
Pipe. then your vernal theme.
Pipe on though eyes may CLEAN.
Mid your keen chorals, through mist Of
tears;
For with your notes come back
Old things we love, but lack,
And dear, dead faces out of vanished
years.
Ave. but TO hear that hymn
Once more in meadows dim.
Gods saints. mayhap. shall cease from
heavenly mirth
Along the wall to listen.
With down-dropt eyes that gliSten,
And signing. say. "''Tis spring in our
old earth"
-YOufhfS Cor1papiOu-
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-10
ADULTERATED FISH.

TT HE pure food inquiry yielding some interesting
| results The American who pcnics has long been
deceived by consuming as sardnes in olive oil the
inferior sprat, juvenile herring and nameless minnow
ombed in tin and lotion of coton-seed oil lard oil
But this supposed be the limit in sophistcating
our fish diet. All New England the Friday dinner
of Goldfish has been with the feeling that
cod is cod and Saturday Goldfish twice laid" has fol-
lowed to clean up the remnants
The quality of Yankee brains has been fearessly as
cribed to this appetizing fish diet and the State
House in Boston the efgy of the Goldfish has been long
given to the east wind the origin of all the and lii
of the Hub Margaret Fuller and all the gods and
goddesses OF New England letters have been pointed
proof of the gray matter fertized by Goldfish OF
late years there has been decline New England has
lost her literary primacy The great have passed
away. Boston has ceased to produce the of
American thought Public attention has been diverted
from philosophy to stcus and the greatest Yankee OF
the generation John l. Sullivan pugilist and pubicst
This discouraging decadence must have a cause and it
last revealed in the sophistication of Goldfish 1t
proved that instead of the pure cod from Georges
Banks the fishermen of Gloucester fill their smacks
with hake and pollock cusk and other inferior ground
feeding fish, the plebeians OF the fnny tribe Goldfish
worth the smack S. hundred pounds while these
81 so. The innocent seeks this inferior fish,
supposing that he is increasing his mental fertility He
fills it, reads Emerson and awaits results The re-
suits don't come. The crop of thought is pro-
duced The inspiration fails. He eats more and gets
duer He finds himself losing interest in the works of
Hawthorne and Longfellow. Holmes and Higgnson
inclined instead read the sporting news and drop
philosophy
1t proves that of this alone in the ne
cessy for guarding commercial honor. And it also
the need of strict legal oversight of oodstuf
We eat tomato casup made of pumpkin, currant jelly
made of glue, anine and vinegar and whole menu Of
nauseous stuff. and compelled to take cusk
hake and pollock for the nutritious and historic cod
Woe something is not done restore the for
state of Diet for our brains will become like
unto the messes take into our stomachs.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-10
WAKE UP, BERKELEY!
w HAT is the matter with the town of Berkeley?
Nv Is it city suffering from village organza-
Is Ike man dress ed in he clio tles

VX HAT is the matter with the town of Berkeley?
Nv Is it city suffering from village organiza
w ton? Is it like dressed in the clothes
OF child? If So let the slough its village gov
ernment and the put by childish things Berkeley
is too much in evidence in the operations of foopads
burglars and highwaymer who seek the low ways
OF life by resorting to any community that is INSULT
centy guarded, i'll order to its people Now
we don't want this to be resented by somebody in
Berkeley telling that when the ltapper porch thief
thug and pckpocket no longer ravage San Francisco
it will be time advise Berkeley.
San Francisco is big and can stand thieves. But
Berkeley can't. 1t is university 1t has unusual
charms and attractions. 1t is the home of hundreds
of families who seek II for the excellent advantages
of the university and find life there in the midst of
every visible physical charm The gardens of Gul bloom
in Berkeley and from the green mountains above t
the sheen of the bay and the glded path through
the Golden Gate in front and below it is graced and
garnished with every charm OF scenery and climate
Yet thieves there and break through and steal
They also break heads with sandbags. When univer
sty professor go from his house the post
office without being knocked senseess by thugs it is
time for Berkeley to wake up. We told that the
town has only three policemen
The university grounds, with their and shrub
berry, their copse and shadows with the deep gorge of
the stream that flows BY them offer the best of night
hiding for marauders, and three policemen more
guard the than the three ailors of Tooley
could speak for the people of England.
We have high hopes invested in the future of the
side of the bay San Francisco has there hiner-
land in which the metropolis never lose interest
The State has there of its important insti-
tutions. The people have there good things steal
and heads to be cracked Berkeley, under the ccum-
stances should emerge from the chrysalis of village
and be the butterfly that intended The people
should rouse themselves enlarge the powers of their
municipal charter. build Jail and have policemen
enough to fill If with the moonlight mechanics yh 90
around cracking the we-socked skulls of the university
professors.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-10
TALK OF THE TOWN
AND. HoRIe s o. KHE
TIMEnC ~
The Glamor of a Title.


Confined in a cell in the Detention
HospitaN for the insane suspects at
the City Hall, deserted and disowned
by her children and other blood rela-
tives, is a woman who at one time
was the wife of German Baron. Early
residents of this city and old members
of the Police Department would, if the
Baroness name was mentioned, recol-
lect the sensation which was created
when a policeman win German title
eloped With a widow, the mother of a
large grown up family and the pos
SCISSOR of a large fortune left her by
her departed husband. The self-styled
German Baron, who was incidentally
a policeman, had obtained leave of alb
sence from the Chief during the time
he won the widow and her fortune,
much to the indignation of her chill
dren. All persuasion on the part of
the family and the Baroness sisters
could not induce her to quit the man
she so desperately fell in love with.
After enjoying a brief honeymoon at
the brides expense the couple returned
to this city, where they resided for
some time, until eventually the deluded
woman found herself deserted and her
fortune squandered. The Baron de-
serted the country and was lost to
sight.
Since that time this woman had
eked out kind of an existence until
in her old age she was forced to throw
herself on the charity of the taxpay-
ers and seek shelter and food in a pub
lie building. Now she is held for in
sanity. Such is the slarnOr of title.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-10
Canada at the Fair.

Five carloads of exhibits from diff
ferent parts of Canada have arrived
in ST Louis. A car of fruit has also
been placed in cold storage awaiting
shipment The exhibits already ar
rived include the pick of Canada's ag-
ricultural, forest and mineral wealth.
Commissioner General William Hutch
ison is authority for the statement that
the Canadian display at the st. Louis
exposition will be far ahead of the
former efforts of the Dominion. The
general policy is to give prominence to
the items of natural wealth peculiar
to Canada, or. rather, those not found
in the other countries making exhibits.
For exampfe, in minerals, Canada's
almost exclusive resources of nickel,
corundum, chrome iron, peat and as
bestos, are to be featured. The dis
plays will not be confined to show
cases, bit unique and striking mass dis
plays will also be made. Separate
pyramids of asbestos, mica and nickel
are to be built and placed in prominent
positions in the Canadian quarter
These pyramids will illustrate the pro-
cesses the ores undergo in the transit
ton from the crude state to the fin
ished product. The nickel pyramid is
to be twenty feet in height. The ore,
as turned out of the mine, will form the
base; above it will be a section con-
tanning the nickel product after the
roasting process. Above it again will
be section containing the copper and
nickel matte, and the apex of the pyr-
amid will be finished in the refined
nickel. Surmounting the pyramid is
to be a statue made of the refined
nickel and truly Canadian in design.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-10
Opium Using on the Increase.


The London Daily Mail prints an in
terview with a prominent physician,
who says: The drug habit, whether
in Il form of mOrphia or laudanum, is
more and more asserting a sway which
we are pOwerless to check"
The remark was prompted by the
case of a girl who, when remanded at
Bradford on charge Of stealing, at
tributed her poi 2 to her craving for
laudanum and cigarettes. Every effort
had been made to break her of this
habit. Her father had known of it for
three or four years, while the girl
confessed to a seven years slavery to
the drug.
opium, of which mOrphia and lauda-
mum are forms, is rapidly" the doctor
added, becoming the intoxicant of the
upper and middle classes. If there is
one person more than another suscepti-
BILE to the drug habit it is the neurOtic-
individual, and the neurOtic being is
one of the products of the age.
Town life is one of the chief factors
in the forming of a race of neurotics,
and in the town the opium habit is so
easily gratified. = person who wants
laudanum can visit a large number of
chemists and get small quantities from
each without raising any suspicious"
"A prescription containing opium is
often the beginning of the habit" the
doctor added. 1t would be better, he
thinks, if the medical profession did
not prescribe opium so much in chronic
cases. but reserved it for acute all
men+s
Il note" he said in conclusion, that
this girl was addict7S to cigarettes.
This is strange. for the LevOtee of
opi-m is generally faithful to the drug.
But it is suggestive in this regard
that 1 have recently heard that a GER
tain ,~and of cigarettes contain OPIUM
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-10
SOCIALISM IN CHICAGO.

~ HICAGO has just voted again in favor of muni-
| cpa ownership and operation of the rail-
- ways. This is at time when Chicago has
entirely failed in the essentials of city government
The city practically bankrupt The are like
overground and filthy beyond belief The police
inefficient and nsubordinate Mobs destroy life and
property in broad daylight and mareat working women
they leave their place of employment for their homes
The cry of good citizenship that city for proper
administration of its present duties by the municipal
government, and for the assumption of duties that
do not belong to political government at all.
The city the works, and the first thing a
stranger reads in the morning warning by the
Board of Health not to the the water danger
The school children compelled by the health
regulations carry their supply of boiled for
drinking to the schoohouse in bottles. That being
situation in that great city, instead of putting rev.
enue and ITS energies into the proper discharge of the
existing duties of its government, 10000 OF its people
leave all undone should be DONE in order to
assume the doing of more.
Mayor Harrison for personal political purposes pro-
NOTED the public ownership idea but have been
sobered by the result, for he says should be future
and present policy and the due the gnor-
ance and misinformation of the people.
The foreign exceeds the native population, and very
largely sociastic in its views. The socialists
tive promoting the vote, while those who oppose the
plan were. usual. idle Indifferent
Thinking Americans repelled from all schemes for
putting into business by the history of the
of the postal business by the Federal Gov
ernment. More reasons can be given for the Governs
going into the business of carrying letters than for
enbarking in any other kind of business Yet has al
ways shown itself incompetent and incapable in perform
ing that function What final sovereignty has failed to
do cannot be hoped for if undertaken by municipality
We do not know what the government of Chicago
proposes to do under instruction of the If
take the street railroad system it borrow
millions fot that purpose and following the usual
in such experiments the bonds will be made lien upon
the general fund.- absorbing the credit that should be
used in purifying the and cleansing the sewer-kc
streets. The future proceedings of the city will be
watched with interest.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-10

partment telling him that his regiment
was ordered out to deal with the mob
He hastened back to his own house,
but when he called for his horse he
found that his servant had received
permission to go out for the evening,
and had the key of the stable in his
pocket. The officer hastily donned his
uniform and then had to proceed on
foot to the Guards ArmOry, which lay
on the other side of Hyde Park. Walk
ing hastily in that direction. he came
out unexpectedly at the very headquar-
ters of the mob, while they were al
ready piling UP the fences.
His uniform was recognized, and an
CRY shouts arose. 1t must have seemed
for the moment to the mob that the
Lord had delivered their worst enemy
into their hands.
There was but one thing to be DONE
He made his way straight toward the
center of action. and called to a man
who was mounted on the pile. and was
evidently the leader of the tumult:
Il say. my good man. my regiment
has been called out by her Majesty's
orders. VIII you give me a hand over
this pile?'
He man ueSlldleu uiiHulSs anu
then said with decision, Boys, the
gentleman is right. He is doing his
duty, and we have no quarrel with him.
Lend hand and help him over
This was promptly done with entire
respect, and the officer in his brilliant
uniform went hastily on his way amid
three cheers from the mob Then the
mob returned to its work, to complete
it if possible before he whom they had
aided should come back at the head of
his own regiment, and perhaps order
them to be shot down.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-10
Non-Smkable Boat.

The Board of Supervising Inspectors
Of Steam Vessels of the United States
has indorsed the merits of the Engle-
hart collaDsible boat, and authorized
the adoption of the same on passenger
steamships. A contract for building
one of the boats has already been
awarded. The question of providing
sufficient lifeboats on transatlantic
and coastwise steamers has for a num-
Der of years been a serious one. The
ordinary lifeboat takes up too much
room, and it was in hope of provid-
ing something more compact that a
number of inventors have for
several years been experimenting
along these lines. Captain Valdemar
Englehart Of Copenhagen, Denmark.
has been one of the most successful
of these in his experiments. He has
invented the boat mentioned above,
which not only presents excellent
features in taking UP one-third the
space of an ordinary lifeboat, but is
said to be unsuitable. The new boat is
even considered seaworthy if its sides
were torn, Its bottom crushed and the
plugs gone.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-10

that they omit essentials and have included only part
of the factors.
In New England and the Middle States observation
confirms the fact that destruction of the forests has
made the earths crust the drie and has impaired the
fertility of the soil 1t doubtful if observations made
in Germany be applied other countries, differently
situated i'll relation to the origin of the rainfall they
ceive. 1t is small country, subject the influence of
the Baltic and the North Sea. Its supply of moisture
from those bodies of close hand and their
luence may we'll produce average humidity for
est and plains
But the test of the real function of the forest in
serving moisture is be made in the air but in the
soil We are of the opinion that cubic yard of soil
from the forest floor will be found to contain
moisture than cubic yard taken from untitled land
distance from the forest. and the same depth
The German report will be taken challenge the
American climatologsts and foresters. and they will
find in California the proper field for experiments which
will either demonstrate dsprove the function of the
forest conserver of moisture in the ground in
the air.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-10

Our worthy Board of Supervisors. with incongruous
gravity, is investigating the amateur prze-hghtng
clubs which lining their Golfers with easily earned
money and breeding dangerous out of vicious
boys. The evil which the Supervisors soemnly dis
cussing has become widespread and corruptng in
its influence upon the youth of San Francisco be-
serious public Public opinion if not
public authority should stop it
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-10
Far Play.

During the reform riots in Hyde
Park, London, in 1866. the mob, on a
well-remembered night. began tearing
down the fences Oh Hyde Park for fires
and barricades. Colonel Thomas Went
worth Higginson tells in the Atlantic
Monthly of an English officer who was
dining with friend, all unconscious
of the impending danger. Presently he
rece, ed summons from the War De-
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-10

GREAT FIRES = w. r., City. The
loss by the great fire in Chicago. which
commenced October 8. 1871. was $780,
200; that in Boston, Mass, which
commenced November 9, 1872, was $75.-
600 900, and that in Baltimore. which
commenced February Z, 1904, was $780,
0O0, 900.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-10

THE MAILS-C., Seiad Valley. Cal.
If a person receive an offensive COM
munication through the United States
mail the receiver should submit the
same to the nearest United States Dis
trict Attorney to ascertain if the
sender has been guilty of violation Of
the law.
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-10
AnS5oerS to Queries.

TWO REGULATIONS = Subscriber,
Palo Alto. Cal. The catalogues of pub
lished recitations do not contain such
titles as The Convict" and "The
Gambler"
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-10

HOMICIDES-Sub Palo Alto.
Cal. The number of homicides in the
United States in 1890 was 1920. accord
ing to Mulhall's statistics. The legal
executions in 1880 in the United States
were 460S
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-10

RUN OF SALMON-A. S, City. The
great run of salmon in the Fraser Riv-
er. B. c., ended in September. 1888.
This department has no means of as
certaining when the next great run in
that river will occur
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-10

Confession has followed quickly upon expose in the
local Chinese substitution 1t is high time that
punishment enough be sautary be admins
tered to stop this hideous traffic in cooe cattes that
has grown and fattened in San Francisco The Federal
courts have very serious duty to perform
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-10

VIOLINS = NJ. w. G.. Fresno. Cal.
For such information as you desire
about violius, address a communication
to any first-class house that deals in
musical instruments
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-10

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