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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-06-28

Officers working on the Hickman
Willis case have been unable to solve
the mystery in connection with his
assault. Il is remembered that vii.
lis was picked up on the premises OF
an Indian in South Ardmore with a
deep cash over his eye. His skull
had been crushed apparently with
some blunt instrument and he was
unable at the time to speak. It was
thought that wound would prove fatal
Tut he was doing nicely yesterday
and was able TO talk He says that
be does not know how he was struck
or who hit him. He attended the
dance on the night he was assaulted
together with number of Indians
who were celebrating. The next
morning he was found with his skull
fractured.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-06-28
Tent Services to Church.

OWING TO the continued rains which
made the tent too damp il has been
decided to hold the rivival meetings
in the Broadway NJ. +. church for the
remainder of the time.
The services last night were very
interesting and impressive but owing
to the danger on account of the damp
ness the meeting was short
We hope that all the Christians will
rally to the cause and help TO make
the services better than ever in both
interest and attendance.
Come tonight and bring some one
with you.
Everybody invited.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-06-28
eYRpIRick NuPTIkLs.
W. H. Byrd Of This City Takes a Life
Partner at Purcell.


The many friends and acqucint.
anccs of w VI, Byrd will be greatly
surprised to learn of his marriage
which occurred today at Purcell. The
bride was Miss Trick of that place.
The wedding was a quiet affair and
took place at the residence Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Downard. the home of the young
lady. Only the immediate friends of
the family were present. Mr. Byrd
was not attended by anyone from Ard
more II was case of stealing n
march on his many friends who wish
for both of them much happiness and
prosperity.
The groom is one OF the best known
young men in Ardmore. having resid-
ed here for several years. " Is the
head Of the firm Of w. H. Byrd 4
Co. in tho furnishing and tailor bust.
ness and Is a man of sterling integ.
rity and excellent character He Is
also quite promina ant in social circles
throughout the city
The bride is one Of Purc5lls most
loyablc young ladies'. Her charming
| personality and noble Christian char.
acter has won for her hrnGrods oi
| friends whose best wishes will be eX.
| tended to her on this occasion Miss
| Trick FOR some time has been a teach.
er I'm the public schools at Purcell
TIL happy couple will depart 10.
/ night for AN extended honeymoon
| through the wesJ They Will first
stop at the home Of the groom for a
! brief stay. after which they will visit
| the Portland. Ore. exposition
| The ArdmOryite extends best wish
es to Mr. and Mrs. BYRD.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-06-28

w. n. Doyle of Wilburton is here.
j. b. Thompson of Pauls Valley was
a visitor Monday night.
Travelling Engineer Walker of the
Santa Re was in the city yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. +. Guillot have
returned from a pleasant visit to Dal-
las.
Mrs. Colquitt. a charming lady
from Shreveport, is in the city the
guest Of Mr. and Mrs. 5. II. Russell.
Misses Katie Gibson and Sallie
ONeil of Paris. arrived in the city
Yesterday evening to visit Misses Ed
ma and Maize O'Neill.
Mr. and Mrs Sidney Roberts Of
Hugo. who have been visiting Mt.
and Mrs. Ed. Roberts. went to Wyn.
newood yesterday Mr. Roberts will
he located there this season and to-
gether with James Dupree of Paris,
viii have charge of the mill.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-06-28
Cupid al EiahtY.

Married, at II o'clock this forenoon
at the home of the bride. on Sixth
avenue and Il street, northwest, Rev.
j. l.. Keller officiating, Mrs. II. II.
Rundy, aged 70, and Mr.. j. G.. Chan
cellor. aged so years. The bride is a
sprightly hdy, even at her advanced
age and the groom Is a prosperous
and wellto-do farmer of near Whites
boro, Texas. The couple intend spend
ing their honeymoon by travelling for
the next few months and will make
their home at Whitesboro lateT.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-06-28
PERSONAL

Jake Bodovitl is in Marietta today.
George Dashner went to Marie Ia
at noon.
Q. T. Simon of Fort Worth Is a v.s
ittor here.
pr Booth is in Marietta on profes.
sional business.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. O. Gregory came in
from Madill today
w. 4. Washington was in the city
today from Marietta.
+. X. Wolverton went south on the
Santa Fe today
udge c. c. Potter is in the city To-
day from Gainesville.
Mrs. Oscar Wilkerson Is visiting
with relatives at indianapolis, Okla.
Mrs. G.. II. whitney of Armstrong
Is visiting Mrs. A. +. Curtis. this city.
Commissioner E. Il. Morris and Al.
:orney Mcbride OF Ryan we're in the
city transacting business.
Johnnie Reaves has returned from
trip north and has accepted a post
ton in J A. Skipworth's grocery
store.
VIII Tyar left last night for Okla.
homa City where H. has employment
as operator with the Postal Telegraph
company.
Mrs. McGregor of Oklahoma City
accompanied by hen. two chilNen,
Laura and Roy. is the guest of her
daughter, Mrs. Il. b. Luke.
/ w G. Kendall Is back from a pleas
ant visit to Kentucky. He was ac
/ companiod home by Miss Jennie vii
liams of Kentucky who will visit for
some time
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-06-28

w. II. DAD Bleakmore and wife
departed yesterday for San Francisco
where they will visit for some time.
Dad" was in excellent spirits and
laid that he could not do without the
Ardmoreite. Both he and Mrs. Bleak
more are looking forward to their
visit in California and Dads" pleas
ing countenance will be missed for
some time by his many friends. 1t
is hoped that he will not fall in love
with California and desert Ardmore
for he is too valuable a citizen 10 lose.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-06-28
Cattle Conditions.

Speaking today of cattle conditions
in New Mexico, w. Il. Washington
said they were first class and stock
men were having a most prosperous
season, He stated that tho move
ment TO the territory just at present
was light, but there are a great many
cattle grazing in the nation Prices
are low just now, he said, but al
arly advance in the marke, is look
ed for, He also stated tina. New Mex
leo was raising the finest apples OF
any section in the Union.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-06-28

+. b. Pugh returned today from
Cornish where he mas been looking
after his investments at that place.
Mr.. Pugh has just finished one of the
handsOmest new frame store build
ings there and has purchased more
property. He believes that Cornish
is destined To be the best town west
Of Ardmore, and there seems now TO
be a demand for store buildings. The
crops in that section he says, are in
very fine shape.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-06-28
Indictments Dismissed.

Washington. June 2S-Upon mo-
ton of District Attorney Beach in
dictments against James Metcalf
Harry c. Hollenbeck and Norman r
Natcalf, charged with conspiracy tC
defraud the government in connoc,
tion with the contract for money or
der blanks, were dismissed today af
ter Beach had made a careful inyst
igation of the cases.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-06-28
Mrs. Washington IT,.

w. Il. Washington. a cattleman OF
New Mexico and Marietta, was call
ed to Marietta today by the serious
illness OF his wife. who has been sick
and was reported much worse, and
her recovery is a matter of grave
doubt. DR. Booth of this city ac-
companied Mr.. Washington to that
point.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-06-28

A number of Elks will leave here
on July 6 for Buffalo, New York,
where they go to attend the annual
meeting of the order The delegates
are in favor of Dallas for the next
annual convention.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-06-28
New relephone Directory.

NJ. j. Parker is now getting out a
new telephone directory and will
niece a limited amount of advertising
thereon. See him al once. PSI
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-06-28

James A. Cotner, c. w. Baumbach
and Harry X. Williams were initia-
ted into the mysteries of Elkdom
last night.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-06-28

Watermelons. Watermelons,
Fifty ice cold melons at the cold
OragC. 2S-3t
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-21
ABOUT DANGEROUS NONSENSE.

Lewis Carroll is an author who has
had difficulty in compelling apprecia-
ton of his work from dull persons.
An eastern college professor has re-
Gently issued a warning to parents
against filling the minds of their chill
dren with the dangerous nonsense"
of the author of Alice" While he
lived Carroll had the same trouble.
Some of his scholastic confreres at
the college where he served serious
minded generation memoralized him
to "cut it out" though that was not
the way they expressed it.
Probably if he mad been able Car
roll would have ceased writing nom
sense, but happily he was no more
able to suppress mis- fancy than is
Mark Twain to suffocate those queer
and irresistible turns he gives every
subject, even in his personal and
business correspondence. There can
not be any danger in Lewis Carroll
comparable with the danger Of Rollo
and Buster Brown, the two antipodes
of childish heroes and both false.
Alice is not a heroine, she is not even
a person, she is a pretty cloud on
the horizon which you can watch
without having the least insane de-
sire to be a cloud.
The nonsense of the Looking Glass
is not the nonsense of the Katzen-
TANNERS. It does not lead to limitations
Of acts which are naughty, impolite
and insufferable. Alice is uniformly
courteous. She always expresses her
self dramatically. Compared with
recent heroines of juvenile fiction she
has much to commend her and moth
ing to regret.
If the college professors want to do
something for the children let them in
weigh against the juvenile literature
which teaches children to be pert, bold
and intolerable, and let Alice alone.
Old people will not allow her to be
abused.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-21
SETTING THEM TO MUSIC.


Opening state fairs and kissing ba-
bies are, it appears, not the only
perils to which our statesmen are to
be subjected. new test of their fit
ness awaits them in the fancy that
has taken possession of bandmasters
to set them to music. Uncle Joe
Cannon has been corraled and put in
a march by Funciulli, and the New
York Sun is calling upon the same
composer to write something grand,
plaintive and wistful on the Sky
scraper Statesman.
Uncle Joe, it admits, may have
springs of hidden melody in him, but
it opines that none other can pour
forth notes so mellow and magnificent
as the Hon. Charles Warren Fair
banks.
BY all means let our great men be
set to music, but let it be in such meas
ures as BELTS their character and
achievements. What is the sense of
making a march out of Joe Cannon.
He is a cakewalk, while La Toilette is
an encore.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-21

looted the treasury of New York.
Tammany does not do such things
now. No, it is very tender about the
treasury. 1t even tries to make a
record of service to the people. Where
Tammany now makes it's money is in
Matchmaking the under world and in
'rake-offs" from city contracts. The
boss of Tammany hall is the real head
of a great contracting company. The
city council provides him with con-
tracts and the company does the rest
In Philadelphia they have the Nc
Nichols-Durham company, whose
heads are men who dominate the ma
chine. This company had a contract
upon the new filtering plant. It was
Systematically wasting the peoples
money. Already the filtering plant
has absorbed over 10000, 900, whereas
the original estimate of the entire
work was $14,O0o,000. 1t will take
$28.000,000 in all to do the work
Here is a gigantic leakage which can
be accounted for only in one way
the profits of the contractors and the
subcontractors, who were all men,
bers of the gang, were 100 per cent
instead of 10 or Is.
The fight of the American people
today is against grafters. Grafters
always combine under adequate lead
ership and hire cunning lawyers to
plan their depredations within the let
ter of the law.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-21

tracts Of eighty to 800 acres, or more,
to thrifty and prosperous tenant farm
ers.
The process as it has gone in Him
OILS for a number Of years is that the
weather. landowner buys out the
forty and eighty-acre farms of his
neignbors, tile drains and otherwise
improves them, often renting the same
land or larger tracts to the vendors,
who generally made more money as
tenants than they had done as owners.
The tenant farmers Of central Illinois
put their capital into the best of farm
implements and machinery and live
stock. Their prosperity is seen
in their comfortable and well-fur-
nished houses, the well-kept vehicles
and horses with which their families
drive to church and to country gath
erings. In central Illinois just now
the tendency is to larger farms, the
tenant generally desiring to increase
his area and the landlord regulating
the quantity of land he will lease by
the proven capacity and success of
each farmer. For the best farm lands
Iowa appears to be approaching the
same system.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-21
BOODLING VS.. GRATING.

The distinction between boodling
and grating is not altogether verbal.
There is well-marked line of de-
marcation between the official who is
audacious enough to sell his vote and
the fellow who merely stands in with
an immoral combination which is rak-
ing Off unearned profits from the
taxes of the people.
Grating mas come to be recognized
as the more scientific form of stealing.
1t is more generally followed nova
days and it has come to be part of
the system of politics in the larger
cities.
Take as an illustration Tammany
hall. There is no doubt that under
Tweed that organization was boodl-
ing combination. Tweed and his gang
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-21

The Kansas City Times halls the
conversion of Congressman Grosvenor
to the cause of free trade between the
United States and the Philippines as
triumph for reason and glory
enough for one Taft excursion to the
islands. What converted Grosvenor
was the simple experience Of going
out to Manila and seeing what the
possibilities of the Philippine trade are
and now mutually profitable it might
be made. AS Grosvenor has always
been one of the most stubborn of the
standpatters, his revised view of the
subject is not unimportant; and it
suggests that a little real knowledge
substituted for prejudice and stub
bornness in the minds Of lot Of our
republican congressman would be
mighty good thing when it comes to
dealing with the tariff.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-21

Now that the paving of East Alder
street is completed the city should.
nave the pavement swept and washed
clean. It is now the principal thor
oughfare in the city. Every sort of
vehicle from the dog cart to the auto
mobile goes out of it's way now to
try the new pavement, and they never
cease trying it. AS result there is a
constant STRAIN Of travel along this
thoroughfare and the dust and the
accommodations of horse manure are
fast becoming an intolerable nuisance
to residents along the street. The paved
district down town would be just as
dusty and filthy if it were not washed
clean every night. Owing to the weak
water pressure on East Alder street the
new street cleaner would probably not
be of much use there, but good service
could be done by the street sweepers
with the aid of some fire hose.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-21

erary this delightful side-trip to the
ocean, is evident by the activity on the
part of the A. & c. r. r. in provid-
ing ample transportation facilities al
extremely low rates. as well as the
propritors of the numerous hotels in
preparing for most desirable accom-
modations for their guests at the beach
at moderate charges.
Round trip excursion tickets are
sold at reduced rates by agents of the
o. r. & n. company from all points
on that conpany's line to Seaside
Gearhart and all other points on Clap
son beach, the only summer resort en-
joying direct rail connection from
Portland. In order to avoid transfers
to boat line at Astoria, prospective Wis
itors to beach resorts should be partic-
ular to specify Clatsop Beach as their
intended destination.
An attractive illustrated souvenir OF
this celebrated summer resort has just
been published by the A. & G. r. Il.
copies Of which can be mad by address
ing J. C. Mayo. g. F. & p. A.. Astoria,
Ore, or C. A. Stewart. Agent. 24S AL
der street, Portland. Ore.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-21
SHIFTING OF RURAL POPULATION

1t seems a paradox, but is never
theless we'll established as true, that
in certain of the best farming regions
of the United States great and
Astounding agricultural prosperity has
resulted in decreased rural population.
A no less striking than surprising il
Illustration of this is given in a recent
state census Of Iowa, which is repaired
to show a falling off of 2 per cent in
the population of that great and pros
porous state since the general census
of 1900. Of course such a result was
not acceptable to Iowa pride, and it
was not readily accepted Close in
quiry, however, is reported not only
to confirm the general correctness Of
the new count, but oshow sufficient
reason for it's disappointing result
The explanation offered is that it is
all due to the landhunger of the
prosperous Iowa farmer. Having
money ahead, and we'll knowing that
good farm land in the Mississippi VAL
ley is one Of the safest and most
profitable of investments, he has been
buying in the adjoining farms of his
less fore-handed neighbors to such
an extent, the reports say, that vacant
farmhouses dot every township in the
state. Many of these vacant farm
houses may again be occupied by the
sons and sons-in-law of the pur-
chaser; some of them will be aband-
oned and the newly acquired lands
consolidated into larger farms And
II Iowa follows the course of develop
ment that has been going on for
many years in the magnificent farm
ing regions Of Central Illinois. the
consolidated farms will be leased in
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-21
A GOOD MOVE NULLIF1ED.

It is not easy to see al first glance
just how the public is beneftted by
the doubling of the police force. While
it was generally conceded that city
of 900 people should have more than
five policemen, there had been no open
or general demand for the adoption of
eight-hour shifts. By cutting the
hours down from II to 8, the number
of policemen on duty at any time is
no greater than under the old sys-
TEN. There are still only three patrol
men on duty at night when there is
the greatest need of increased vigil
lance. All the experienced men are
now assigned to day duty and men
with comparatively little experience
are on night duty. A 12-hour work
day is unquestionably too long, but 10
hours would be none too long for po-
lice duty. On the whole, the Statesman
fails to see how the public has gain
ed anything by the doubling of the
expense for the police force under the
eignt-hour system.
The men of the paid fire department
are on duty "a hours, with one day off
eacn week. Policemen should be able
to stand 10 hours a day. If not there
are plenty of men who would be glad
to try.
Now that Alder street has become
an important business district it should
have at least one policeman on duty all
the time. In order to give protec-
ton to the residence districts of the
city there should be mounted po-
liceman ON duty at night.
Perhaps the change to the S-hour
system is merely experimental, but
if continued any length Of time it will
be found difficult to return to a sound
and economical basis,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-21
Mr.. McConkey of Pittsburg deman

Mr.. McConkey of Pittsburg demands
a separation from Mrs. McConkey be-
cause, while he was i'll, his wife would
sit on the side of his bed and ask him
which undertaken he would prefer tc
have take charge Of his last trip out
He claims to have been annoyed ana
harassed by the question, whereas
Mrs. McConkey meant it merely as
pleasantly to help pass away the
weary hours in the sickroom. Some
man gives a woman credit for such a
sense.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-21

To call a man a lobster in Japan is a
very high compliment indeed. There
the lobster is held to signify the bowed
and honorable figure of old age. To
call a man a lobster in Japanese is to
intimate that he is sure to be a patri-
arch and to live in health and nappi-
ness until he dies. The japanese have
not reached the state of civilization
where the possibility of cnloroforming
their elderly gentlemen has been
preached.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-21
cLArsoP BEACH is BOOMING
Cheap Round Trip Excursion Rates
From Portland via A. e. c. r. r.
In Connection With Excellent
Train Service Attracts
Thousands,

Travel to Clatsop Beach has COM
menced in earnest and this summer
promises to be the banner season for
this popular resort. All hotels at Sea-
side and Gearhart are open and pre-
pared to take care Of their guests in
a manner that has justly made then,
so popular in the past, and that these
famous watering places are the OBJ
jective points Of nearly all visitors
to the Lewis and Clark fair at Port
land, who have included In their tim
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-21

A rural editor announces that he
mas purchased out of the profits of
his newspaper an automobile with one
wheel, two blue sideboards and
couple Of red handles. The motive
power is that Of the press.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-21

A good site for the Y. NJ. c. A.
building would be on the southwest
corner Of Palouse and East Alder, OPP
posite the Carnegie library. Such a
choice might also be the means Of
Riding the street of that ancient land
mark and eyesore, the old Ward barn.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-08-21

of w. & c. R. r. ]. p. GOODHUE.
r r ROOT. Agent
Agent
s. B. CALDERHEAD,
G. F. & p. A.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-06-11

lates 10 the ability Of Rear Admiral Dichihs
IN send any of his vessels past Fortress Mohroe
The feat would be impossible in proao oas
urbt If the air was clear and the whoie OF
his SQUADRON was used in the attempt. oh the
other hand at night or in fog the keenes.
eyes and the most powerful searchllshts might
nroye useless In the course OF week con
siderable variety of weather may be anticipated
and favorable opportunities for running the
oantlet may be afforded after Few Gays
have elapsed If they are not found al the out
set Again. it might be feasible so 10 disguise
with paint a small vessel, such as tofpeuo
host as TO make her unrecogniza bic, where IL
would be impossible to employ cruiser. 90
many other problems the study OF winch Is ue
sirable would be presented if the navy reaily
succeeded in passing Fortress Monroe thal II
,s no be hoped that it will do so. The value OF
stationary mines controlled from shore, the
virtues of the telephone in directing the ann
NJ Guns at target invisible TO the gunners, the
advantages of the disappearing gun carnage
sud a good many other military resources would
then he tested as they could not be If the enemy
met with no success whatever