The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-07-26

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Business Managers Omce.......o Se
CITY Editors once
Long Distance. 90
Ardmore. Wednesday july g. 1900.
The way the sultan escapes unhur'
from an on his life merely
goes q, prove the truth Of the old say
ing that the good die young.
The way In which lightning is hit
ting oil tanks OF late seems 20 Indicate
that il is improving its Workmanship
in order 10 20 after the Standard OIL
trust.
An editor who inherited 10000 an
nounces his retirement from the news
paper business. Most of en- would
have enlarged the paper and host the
money.
II q announced that nearly every
of The Russian vessels sunk at Port Ar
thur can be noated and De made as
good as new. with this increase In
her navy. Japan - not expected to be
very modest in her demands, and
more than this, will not bow her head
very low IN the presence Of the pow
ers.
An astronomer says that II the
earth were TO contract to heat the sun
all the coal on earth would suffice TO
keen ND the present volume Of solar
heat for just one~tenth Of a second.
This being the case, IL will De very
foolish Of the earth II she makes any
such contract.
There Is much comment over the
resignation of Secretary Root from a
position which paid him a much higher
salary than which he accepted in thu
cabinet. But perhaps Mr. Root knows
of n Job which may be obtaina6le from
the present one which will pay better
ltltn lnt buf u' NdAhA'h - 80 HNif
Mr.. Root can be relied ON not TO make
great and permanent sacrifices.
If you are "A Chink, n Jap or a Dago
you IAN u get work on the i7thrus
at all the way from - cents to 81 a
day. After you have sent enough OF
this home to support your family, you
will 10 permitted TO spend the balance
In riotous living. II. as has been sug
gestel, the Panama strip IL 20 be- run
wide open during canal construction,
the men will be able to indulge In
some Notwithstanding cries ON their six
bits a day.
In the work of city building there
can be no such word as rest. The min.
ute a town lets up in it's progress ret.
repression will begin, A Wen organ.
ized and active commercial club is the
best thing ever yet invented for the
advancement Of a town to city-llkc pro.
portions, and then increasing the pro
portions of a city. Without "a concert
of action progress must be slow. A
commercial club furnishes the s%urest,
cheapest and simplest mea for con
cert Jf action and the most perfect
factor for mutual benefit.
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There is no gamsaying the fact that
yellow fever of a y%irulent and most
malignant form exists in New Orleans,
and tho death rate has begun. Texas
we all know will establish q rigid ,
quarantine, but what can Indian Ter
ritory do? Nothing. Refugees will drift
north through Louisiana and easily ,
enter the Indian Territory. and there ,
lies the great danger II behooyes every r
city In Indian Territory TO look to self =
protection. Our city officials should g
lake immediate steps 10 most thorough n
ly elem up the city, which on account n
Df so much moisture is literally reek 4,
ing with poisonous ehluyia and filth u
pools and Quagmires abound n
D~lCntltully, these ponds should be n
irain"I and a bountiful supply Of oil. "a
rude oil should be used literally. the
Infectious mosquito must find no lodg- 3"
nent here and just a very little oil M
will settle his case. This Is a work Of
the city should not put of an.
DAY, IL may require some money
D do this but In the protection Of the 50
ives Of those neal and lear 20 us Il II
I'll be money well and willingly spent. c.