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DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES, ATTENTION.

DESIRES TO CALL THE ATTENTION OF
THOSE SEEKING NOMINATION THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
AT COMING PRIMARY ON MARCH H. 1906 TO SECTION
ON PAGE 2R LAWS OF 1906 WHICH READS
FOLLOWS, "ANY PERSON SEEKING A NOMINATION
PRIMARY ELECTION SHALL FILE WITH THE
CHAIRMAN OR SECRETARY COMMITTEE
PARTY WHICH HE BELONGS AT
LEAST TEN PRIOR TO THE DATE OF SUCH PRIMARY
ELECTION, HIS NAME WHICH HE
SEEKS NOMINATION, SUCH CHAIRMAN OR SECRETARY
Shall. CAUSE SUCH TICKET DsTRl7
UTEp AS PROVIDED LAW FOR GENERAL ELECTIONS"
ACCORDING TO THIS LAW ALL THOSE NAMES THAT
WILL TICKET MUST HANDED IN BY The
MORNING MARCH ?, 1906.
Q o 90 o o o 0 o o 0 0 Q Q 0 Q o
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Masons, in appreciation of the ser
vices which Franklin had done for
Masonry in America.
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Don't forget the +. A. A. ban. St.
Patrlck's eve, March l6. at the city
hail
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-03-07

Take your sick watch to Douglas
Jewelry Co.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-03-07

WALL PAPER 4o Ar RENFRo's.
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White GIRL SLAVES.
Young Woman Sold by Indians to
Canadians in Regularly Or
ganized Traffic.

Vancouver, B. C.-The following is
an extract from report made to the
government regarding the slave trade
among British Columbian Indians, the
report being signed by c. J. South, SUI.
perintendent Of the Children's Aid So
ciety:
"Girls with white skins, thick
brown hair, braided down their back,
big, innocent childish eyes, are being
sold and have been sold for years in
British Columbia to the highest bid
ders.
'The slave masters are the Cape
Nudge Indians; the slaves are white
because their grandmothers were sold
before to white men, When their
grandmothers wandered back to the
tribe, deserted and abandoned, they
brought back baby girls with them,
and in the course Of time the male
relatives of these abandoned creatures
sold these baby girls, too, when they
grew up to young girlhood.
Dealers have created a market
which is constantly growing. The de-
mand has become so great that other
markets have been sought, and it is
reported that Rock Bay Indians are
embarking in this awful Industry"
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OPIUM SLAVES IN FRANCE.
Naval Officers Said to Smoke Twenty
Five Pipes of Deadly Dope
,.. in Day.

Paris.-The French naval authori-
ties, says the Matin, are becoming
gravely disquieted by the ravages of
opium-smoking among officers on duty
at the seaports Of Brest, Cherbourg,
Lorient, Rochefote and Toulon. Many
smoke from 20 to Is pipes a day and
evidently perform their duties in
perpetual browse, acting by a sort Of
automatism and scarcely conscious.
At Toulon especially the vice is max
ing alarming ravages Young officers
are hardly seen at the theaters or in
society, but as soon as they cen get
of their uniforms they hasten to the
dirty Chinese dens, where, stretched
on coarse mating, they steep their
brains in opinum Dreams
Several cases are cited of young Of
fcers running into financial ruin and
engaging in disgraceful transactions
to procure the expensive joy. A To-
cal satirical play ends with an allu-
sion to the disgraceful state of things
at Toulon. ~% ~ IA.
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TAKEN on Wild DRIVE
BY AN INSANE FATHER
Children, Are Forced to Sleep Five
Nights in the Open Air on a
~ Farm Wagon.

Clinton, Conn.-Hayden Watrous, 4
farmer living near Mystic, went insane
a few days, ago. Hitching horse to
an open wagon, he placed his five chill
dren in it and started out on a wild
drive of over 100 miles, which ended
six days later in his capture after a
fight. The children were in serious
state from exposure and hunger
Watrous went from place to place
through the counties neighboring about
Clinton, begging food from the farm
ers, but never permitting the children
to leave the wagon. When night would
beside country road and force the
shivering little boys and girls to sleep
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in the open air. He: himself. would
up on guard, and several times
he drove people away with a shot
gun.
On only one night did he seek the
shelter of shed. During all his jour
ney, the nights were below freezing
the cold increasing the sufferings of
the children, who were thinly clothed.
Watrous' brother started in pursuit
in a wagon the day after the insane
father began his wild trip The BROTH
er got track of him in many villages,
but the insane man Travelled in a circle
and several times doubled on his
course, so the pursuing brother was
thrown off the chase. Finally the
brother came up with Watrous driving
into the town of Killingworth, so miles
from Mystic.
The insane man tried to escape. but
his wearied horse could not carry him.
He sprang out of his wagon and at
tackled his brother; but he himself was
so weak from his exposure that he was
easily overpowered. Later he tried to
escape and had to be bound with
ropes.
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ME- AN / !. | D.
LAWSON
By RICHARD WEBB
Illustrated by ". ". Denslow
and M. Aleshire.
IN SIX SECTIONS
Copyright, 1906, BY G. W. Dillingham; co.,
SECTION III.


Scrambled Oil (Continued).
Then solemn-faced Grandpa whis-
tied for the brakes and cut in with:
Mister Rogers, you must forbear.
No good can possibly come from
recognizing this man in any way.
We are Glass arm Powerless to- cut
any ice with words. You cannot
they are based on Half mast Truths.
II you admit he has rung- up the
Right Change on any part of them
SO to deny the balance you'll have to
give away conditions which the pub
lie amt wise enough to see in the
Right Light-the light which comes
only from burning Our Oil.
Remember the masses behind the
votes can't tumble to Higher Finance
Dr. the workings Of the great organiza-
tions which are necessary to provide
Safe Investments for the hundreds of
nill!ons paid in Scrambled Oil Divi-
lends every three moons.
1T isn't Safe on First to tell the
people what, why, when and Who we
are doing. 1t would not interest
them, and then again it is none of
"helr business" No, Mister Rogers,
you cannot punch back at this Bully
without doing ourselves the most
harm. And what fuses us Injuries
our unlearned children, the Public"
For little it was as quiet as a
cold poker game when the Sucker
with the Fixed Hand starts to bet
heavy. Then Mister Rogers cleared
his pipes with steam hiss. and sed:
What would you say to me meet
ing him in Rubber Shoe Place, jol-
lying him in a paternal manner on
the fight he has put up, pretend to
take him in with us, and then fix him
like a Safety Match, so he can't
strike fire except on Our Box? His
letter shows he is ready for the Glad
hand, and his chest is so swelled that
if l stand close he won't see me set
His Watch back an hour behind
Standard Time.
The man is at least embarrassing
all Of the Big Rich institutions in the
country by pumping Harmful Thinks
in the minds of the masses, and" SEE
he, sharp as pitcher catching bat
ter between bases, The ought to be
Licked, and I'd like to be the guy
what does it-for the Public Good, of
course"
Quicker than Jersey Busy-bug shoot
ing his singer, the church bells begun
to toll in the Other Guys throat, and he
Sed:
mo, Henry, you're wrong again. We
mustn't seem to be wise to his ever hav-
ing lived or snarled. The Silence-what-
won t-come-off is our only Mudguard.
Send the boy back with Proper impress
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broke the old generals heart and
shortened his life. Ward is no longer
wizard, no longer a young Ma
po1eon of finance" but his experience
and knowledge of affairs make him a
resourceful subordinate in a place
without discretionary authority.
The story of Grant & Ward seems
to-day almost incredible, not because
humanity isn't prone to deception, bit
because its victims included many OF
the brightest men in the community.
Substantially it was a "get-ric:-
quick" concern in which Gen. Grant
was a silent partner. Two sets c1
books were kept, one for the partners
the other showing Wards daring ven
lures. While the investors supposed
they were backing vague and shadowy
government contracts secured by
Grants influence, Weird gambled in
stocks, paying interest to old investors
out of the money of the new. When
he failed Gen. Grant gave up every
thing he possessed, even to the COM
plimentary swords he had received.
That failure ruined, among others,
an old gray-haired country lawyer,
who had commanded a regiment un-
der Grant and who knew no fear in in-
vesting in any business that bore his
name. Penniless and ashamed to stay.
longer among those who knew him.,
the old man came to New York and
opened an Office here. He had ability
and in a year. was a success. Before
he died he was one Of the three or
four best known court advocates in the
city. There are not many more re-.
.markable exceptions to the rule that
the men who succeed in New York.
must come young, or with money to
start in business for themselves.
.s.s Sss Il. Il OWEN LANGDoN.
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ILLUSTRATION by W. w. Denslow.)
"ADDICKS, LIGHT THIS CIGAR WITH
SOME OF YOUR STAGE MONEY"
will have to be Belasco to me and tell
me how to make Loudness like a war
rant
why sed he, with smile like a
coon wears what has just met water
melon going to it's own wake, 'all you
got to do is rattle your Undershirt and
breathe fierce till the place smells like
prison CELL"
I remembered me Mothers Breath
payday night and knowed there was
sure-enough genius in the family for the
stunt.
Pretty soon his Friend came hoppin'
in, wearing a actors overcoat what
could make a Fuzzy Fur Store look
worse than Mexican Pup at a Collie
Party.
Hello, Addicks," SEE me Boss.
"Youse don't look as if the price of Sen
ators had gone Up. Take that easy chair
and light this cigar with some Of your
Stage Money. 1t will remind me of old
times and Tricks"
CTO BE CONTINUED.)
Copyright, 1905, by G. w. Dillingham; Coz
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SKELETON OF OLD
GHOST UNCOVERED.
MAINE TOWN GETS NEW LIGHT
ON ODD DISAPPEARANCE.
LEGEND OF "PEDDLER PETE"
Specter Of Familiar Character with
the "Barnacle Bracelet" Points
Out Hiding Place of Muir
dered Mans Body,

Mattawanlkeag, Me. - The mystery
OF the 'ghost with the barnacle brace
LETT has been revived here with the
finding few days ago of the body of
'Peddler Pete,' character who trav-
eled through this section of Aroostook
county nearly so years ago selling tin
dishes, cheap jewelry and laces . to
housewives. The story is one of the
strangest legends of the county, and
was accepted with a grain of salt until
the unearthing of the old mans skele-
ton seemed to substantiate it.
AS near as can be remembered ''Ped-
dler Pete" made his last trip through
here in the summer of 1856, carrying a
pack on his back filled with small
household utensils and trinkets priced
by women. He had arrived periodically
for years, was quiet and honest in his
dealings and was said to have amassed
what in these sparsely settled parts
was then considered a fortune. AS a
general thing he carried little money,
but at the time of his last journey he
displayed to the gaze of gang Of
choppers a double handful of gold.
It was Pete's custom to spend the
night in the abandoned Petoid farm on
the Post load after leaving Mattawam-
keag, and the last the village store
keeper saw of him he was headed in
that direction. This was about ten
o'clock in the evening and nothing
more was thought of the matter until
a man came in from Patten, saying
that Pete had failed to make his usual
stop there. After a few days half
hearted search was made for the old
man, but nothing came of it and he
was forgotten until late in the fall
when hunters, who had made the Pc
told place camping ground, left hast
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street." for his great ball on the 18th.
Mr.. Smith inherited something like
fifty millions from his uncle, an equal
ly silent man in London. He is mid
dle-aged, correct in department, a
bachelor. He bought outright and un-
changed the great brown-stone palace
on the upper corner of Fifth avenue
and Sixtyeighth street. in which w.
c. Whitney lived for brief period
before his death, and in which he in
PRODUCED his niece, Miss Barney, to
society in a memorable festivity.
That is rather notable corner. On
the lower corner facing the Smith
Whitney house and the park is the
vast brown pile which the late Charles
Yerkes built for his own occupancy,
but in which he saw so little nappi-
ness. This mousse is practically sur
rounded by the immense galleries in
which the Yerkes collection of art cb-
jects is housed that the city is soon to
own. The Smith house has. only the
ordinary ballroom in the rear, with a
few well selected paintings, and avoids
the museum appearance now so COM
mon In the homes of the very wealthy.
There is something pathetic about
these great houses built for wealthy
men who, like 'Yerkes, come to New
York, or who, like Whitney, plan for
social triumphs in their late middle
age. So many of these costly places
salf1ll no such hopes as gave them
birth. The most famous corner in this
regard was that at Fifty-seyenth street.
The first Mrs. Whitney, mother of the
present Whitney, died shortly after
her beautiful house was remodeled.
Cornelius Vanderbilt died not long
after the sum of 100000 was put
into his French renaissance chateau
and it's contents. c.. p Huntington
died soon after the completion, of his
Italian villa. Only the Oelrichs house
on the fourth corner escaped it's i'm
mediate tragedy. It is less ,splendi,!
than the others. 80
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ance by Modjesl1a as nearly "queered"
as such work could be by Williams
Muldoon acting Charles the wrestler
in LAS You Like It." The spectacle of
an Orlando about seven inches thick
downing the mighty thewed Mu!
doom was so comical that the audience
shrieked with laughter. Muldoon is
doing better on his farm, reducing the
fat of gentlemen who have. lived too
we'll by bossing them about in strenu-
GUS exercise. Fitzsimmons had some
success in putting a blacksmith sceno
upon the stage; be really knows how
to shoe a.horse> Jeffries made a debut
in Jersey City a year or so ago in a
foolish play. When the time came for
the inevitable boxing match, tic
partner who was to stand up to jeff
was not to be found Rather than see
the show languish reporter sent 10
describe the premiere Performance"
put on the mitts with Jeff' and was
clever enough to make a more realis-
tic combat than that of the solid MI
doom and the slender Orlando of Moi
jeska.
But in George Bernard Shaw's
"Cashel Byron's Profession" for jim
Corbett we have for the first time, |
think, an attempt to give prize
fighter real play. Shaw's work is
excellent in his novel, but the dramati-
zation has been done by less skilled
hand. Still, it is far above the average
of boxing pieces and ought to do fair
ly we'll. Of course all the ideas that
Shaw wrote the book to further are
forgotten, and interest is concentrated
upon the absurd romantic feature of a
rich lady falling in love with pugi-
list.
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Neglect Of Courtesy.

= was travelling some months ago
In the mountains of North Carolina"
said Mr.. J. P. Dickens, of Boston, at
the New Willard, land stopped at the
log cabin of farmer to get little
rest and bite to eat.
''The farmers wife was kind-heart-
ed soul, and set about getting me din
ner with most hearty hospitality. At
the table one of her children, a lad of
II, said to her, in loud tone: Nav,
give the stranger knife His mother
answered that she had given me one,
which was true, but again the young
ster piped up: Nav, tell you to give
him knife; don't you see he is eatin'
his greens with fork?' "-Washing-
ton Post
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Long Time for Increase

Hon. Francis Bayliss, historian of
note, on returning from meeting one
Thanksgiving day met Nicholas Till
inghast, one Of the most humorous and
eloquent of the members of the Bristol
county bar, in the sitting-room at At
woods hotel.
In the course of the conversation
which ensued Mr.. Bayliss said to Mr..
Tillinghast: II have deposited ten
cent piece in the contribution box, to
be placed on interest until / reach
heaven"
Mr.. Tillinghast replied: ''Ah, yes!
That will amount to very large sum-"
Boston Herald 49,"
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J. T. Morgan, as president Of the soci-
ETY., backs them up splendidly, and III
addition to all it's other great re-
sources the museum has the income Of
the $6,o00,0oO left it by the Paterson
locomotive builder, Rogers. Within
two years &lnost fifteen millions in
gifts have come to it. 49, H..
Inc museum is growing so big that
ola New Workers are beginning to re-
greet that it was placed in Central
park Before the group of mighty
wings have been added to it's huge ell.
trance hall it will cover as many
acres as the great pyramid. The fine
collections of the Vanderbilt, Wolfe
ana Lorlllard' families now shown in
the galleries known by their names
Will undoubtedly become in time the
absolute property of the museum. In
deed, few know the complicated and
intricate arrangements upon which
tney are now held. The recent pur-
chases of the museum have included
works by Bramantino, Crivelli and by
the dubious Maitre de Female, some
american pieces and admirable exam
pies OF carved wood and other archi-
tectural work of different ages. Some
pieces OF carving were literally res
cued from the workmen engaged in
clearing the way for new buildings in
a french town this summer by the
hustllng director. The museum must
De now almost the best place in the
world to study architectural forms.
nowhere else is Grecian temple art
more ingeniously shown.
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sion; if you amt got no objection I'll
talk to him meself.''
Then the both of them comes back
with faces like Blank Draw in a Grail
Bag. and Mister ROCKEFELLER SEE to me:
my dear young man, who gave you
this letter and told you to give it to me
friend here?',
With that he throws me a MOther-I-
e-spieling- prize at school
look, and clears his Apes like a Factory
Whistle where the strikers had lost out.
was as sore as an Undertaken at a
Wedding, and sed:
"The man what give me that Hot Talk
Package was me best friend and side
partner, Mr.. Thomas Wollop'em Law
son. a thoroughbred Boston Bullterrier
with flock of Jim Jeffries Fists for
Teeth"
l must have crossed over the Old One's
guard and landed, because he looked
like a Cooks tourist what had lost the
Bunch. But he changed his mind with
a Quick Monkey Wrench and sed, soft
as molasses: -s-,
Young Teller, We Don't Know any
tuch man." go.
"You don't, seq I; well. if you're the
Head Can in the Kerosene Crowd, and
I'm sure you is, you'll have to buy a
couple more Golf Grounds and Padded
Prayer Mat before me Boss hangs you on
the line to dry ~ ~ "
With that l turned to Mister Rogers
and SEE: >s.fssa :. *s55s =
-. u come here for an answer; yes or no.
Which is it?'' ss- ::ez=sl
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iAy, ucC1dilalS tudL Iuoy udu seen IQe
ghost of an aged man with a bracelet
of barnacics on his right wrist.
Pete wore such a bracelet. and as
the men who made the report had
never heard of the peddler, several
Mattawamkeag men stirred themselves
and investigated. They went to the
house at dusk and at midnight swore
that they saw Petes ghost appear out
of the fireplace. The apparition was
accompanied by dull gangling sound
bracelet as it waved and clattered on
the bony wrist. A suit of clothes still
chung to the emaciated frame.
This is about all the investigators
saw that night, for they were too bad
ly scared 20 tarry long. Their story
was laid to lincolnshire" and over
heated imaginations, but when Sec
ond party rot only confirmed the re-
port, but added even more mysterious
details, the Petoid place was set down
as haunted and citizens gave it wide
berth. The ghost was particularly ac-
tive in the summer, when it would
emerge from the house and fit over
the road, rafting the barnacle bracelet
and moving toward the old sitting
room.
One man, who had the temerity to
follow, says that he saw the specter so
to the fireplace, where it pointed down
ward. This was enough for him, and
he departed as fast as his legs would
permit. Down the road the ghost fol-
lowed him, motioning him to return,
but the farmer kept right on to the
village and never even passed the
place again. - &. -u.. =.
The ghost was seen from time to
time after that, but of late years was
almost forgotten until a gang Of work.
men tore down the Petoid house for
the good pine lumber it y contained.
They would have let the chimney and
fireplace stand had they not noted that
the stones were not in their original
position. Thinking that during the
Indian disturbances valuables might
have been buried there. they removed
the stones and five feet down in the
ground came to the skeleton of man.
The skull. had been crushed in and
around the right. wrist was ! barnacle
bracelet.
There is ho mistaking the fact that
"Peddler Pete was killed q for his
gold and buried there. AS for his
ghost, people who disdain beliefs in
the supernatural are skeptical, but the
fact remains that an apparition was
reported seen about the Petoid place
years before it was known that Pete
! had either been killed or was buried
under the cid fireplace.
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old count, the famous founder of the
Institute of Social Sciences The
Chambruns are enormously rich. Sev-
eral millions of francs were bestowed
upon the institute. The late countess
was as religious as she was wealthy,
and brought out Wagner's operas at
enormous expense before their general
production in Germany Another niece
OF the elder Chambruns is the widow
of M. de Brazza, the eminent explorer:
and her wealth greatly smoothed tie
way before his enterprises.
Mr.. Longworth's aunt, Mrs. William
]. Flagg, also of Cincinnati, was we'll
known in Europe, as her son, the
younger William, was later for a very
different reason than the Chambruns.
The elder Flagg was one of the found
ers of the making of wine in America,
his interest in Catawba wines being
considerable. He served on the jury
OF awards for wines at -expositions
The younger Flagg served on such
juries at two Paris expositions and Wis
tied many of the famous vineyards of
Europe, like the famous SchlOsse Je-
hannisberg, the property of the Prince
Metternich.
The Roosevelts, upon their side, are
related to many of the famous fani-
lies of Europe. It is numerous FAM
lily with so many alliances by matri
mony with other families that have in
turn intermarried with European NO.
bility that though she weds plain
American congressman Miss Alices
nuptials will have almost a personal
interest to an unusual number of for
eign notables, aside from the prom.;-
nence given to the event by the ant
cipated gifts of royal princes.
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Corbett Short-Jolts the Drama.

HE venture of put
ting prize fighters
on the stage mas
been tried many
t i m e S, seldom
with artistic sue
cess. John l.. SUI
Ivan was no el0-
cutionist and, be-
sides, was liable
to periodic and
vinous absences
from duty. I once
saw a DarfOPO.