The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-08-16

than last year and hundred twenty million:
OF bushels more corn. Whatever the degree OF ac
curacy in these estimates may be, it is obvious thai
they are near enough to the actual grain production
OF The country 10 indicate an extraordinary corr
crop. The market will be good in spite Of the vol
ume of grain but it would be still better under more
favorable trade relations with foreign countries. The
better the lrket the larger the profits Of the farmer:
and the more the farmers can afford to pay for the
labor that cares for the crops But the farmers have
been exceedingly slow to realize that it is only
through revision of the tariff with special reference
10 foreign concessious-oth through reciprocity
and improved And they ought also TO know that
such an adjustment of the tariff as will bring free
Of duty, or at low rates those things that do not
come Into competition with the great American raw
materials would correspondingly improve the buying
market of all consumers The farmer belongs TO a
great and powerful class that derives no benefit
whatever from protection in the long He mere
ly holds the bag-K G. Star.
WHEN THE joint staters of the fifteenth district
held their convention last month they elected dele
gates only from towns that actually represented
on the floor of the meeting The hall was crowded
10 OVERLOOKING, and the nominating committee had TO
pick and choose twenty-five delegates and twenty-five
alternaes from long list of who wanted to 60.
At yesterdays separate statehood convention there
were twenty-sx persons present about half Of whom
were spectators and took no part in the deliberations
In order 10 be sure Of filling the delegation of seven
to which the District was entitled, they had to name
thirty-hve men, from every town i'll the District
where theIe were men who would 60, to quote the
words Of the chairman Of the nominating committee
That is pretty fair index of statehood sentiment
the District.-South McAlester News.
90 o
IT IS believed that the kind Of mosquito tina
carries yellow fever to its victims only exists in
tain sections. Many physicians contend that this
does not flourish in high attitudes and that
after we reach certain point above level it
not survive This is of the questions that has
not been settled. Dallas News,
Cry AND federal officers should cooperate to
wipe uot the last vestge Of the disreputable places in
Chickasha. There are comparatively few of these,
fewer than in most cities of the size of Chickasha
There should be none Clean EN- out. Let the Of
tenders feel the full severity of the law.
DEACON JONES says: 'Put it down in your note
book young man. that just as soon the street rail-
way and the Canadian Valley & Western are built,
Chckasha will take leap and leave Oklahoma City
six miles in the rear and the Deacon knows.
THE GREATEST diplomat of the age is the man
who can return home at 1880 a. m. and patch up
treaty of peace with his wife in time get hours
sleep before snnrise.-Anadarko Democrat
ADvIcEs FROM Oklahoma City at this hour say
that an awful conflict is raging between the Terrbes
and the Invncibes aud the outcome of the battle is
yet uncertain.