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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-01

With the bumper crops of all
kinds ready for harvest, the pros.
poets for general prosperity and good
timess in the new state the coming
year are indeed fattering With
the constitution ratified, statehood as
sured, Democratic adminj
placed IN charge of affairs. Chas. ID,
Carter and four more Democrats in
the House, with owens and Gore in
the Senate, things will surely be COM
ing the peoples way,
Chas. D. Carter, with the assistance
of the othen Democratic members
from the state, will ahve the restr!c'
tions removed from all lands except
homesteads of fullboods, and he will
do il In the first session this winter.
The Indian monies. aggregating mil
lions of dollars will be distributed,
the surface coal lands will be sold
for agricultural purposes and homes
thus provided for thousands of far
mers.
The democratic legislature will
pass laws providing for separate
cars. making It possible for your
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-01

Some voters, it is reported. are not
registering because they hope to es
cape the poll tax collector. This is a
vain hope as the poll tax list was
made up some time ago from the cen
sus returns. The registration list is
not even referred to by the poll tax
man.-Vinita Leader.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-01
To Our Customers.

On Monday, September Labor
Day there Will be no deliveries Of
any nature after - o'clock (noon).
ARDMoRE ICE, LIGHT & POWER
COMPANY. l..
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-01
WHEELER OIL AND GAS FIELD
SUPPLY SEEMS UNLIMITED

field In the teri tory that Is produc
ing fuel oil The other field Is a.
yet undnvcloped and lies near We
woka. OKLA. on the Frisco railroad
The gas supply that has been OBJ
tanned al the Wheeler fields since
the beginning Of the development Is
proving to be- sufficient for any city
in the southwest including St Louis,
and will last Ardmorc for the next
Hfy years. even 10 the city grows 10
b" city OF one million inhabitants.
with perhaps not all OF the gas pock
cts yet developed 4 great many OF
the wells in the field are combination
cil and gas producing wells and well
SO boo the field Is th" greatest gas
producer of the seventeen brought in
The one well so has tu' capacity
for supplying ten million cubic feet o'
$500 per day and fhr contract with
Jhr Santa s., people and thr Aldmora
ea- concern only calls for ono million
n,f pn. day Zoo begin with.
There g. 900 telling what o.. new
U.d iu that section Uul produce Boo
thr was o' pnsscrs when development
m gone further on
While it is not stated 60 (. current
Iy rumorcd that it will Dee bur short
while before the Santa Fo viii begin
the work of constructing the pipe
line between Nrdmorc and the fields,
and the building Of oil loading racks
IN this citS.
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In all Of the nations there are board
ing schools These are usually excel
lent buildings. built years ago by the
Indians supported by them and
which only Indian children are al
lowed to attend Some Of these build
nps cost as high as 100000 These
are really the Indian colleges.
Funds to maintain the schools com,
from three sources. The government
has appropriated 100000 The IN
dian nations supply about siOO,oO0
The excess court fees In the fedora
court districts OF the Territory 20
into the school iund
The supply OF teachers Is short thi,
year a. IT was last In nearly ever,
nation the supervisor has had to =,
10 the state normal schools to gc
teachers. The grade of teachers her,
must be- high. This accounts for IN,
shortage. There will be about i0
more schools this year than Were
kept running last year. The avcrag
] term H. about nine months.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-01

WANTED-Three nice young men
boarders, electric light and bath,
Apply 502 a street, northwest, Ard
more. l.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-01
THE WEEKLY ARDMoREjvE

Has the largest circulation OF any pa.
per published In the chiekasaw ma.
tion. II now has a Farmers Union
department. edited by C. c. Galloway
and reaches more than rs per cent Of
the Union farmers Of Carter county.
" you want to reach the farmers Of
II you want to reach the farmers Of
Carter county, the Weekly Ardmore.
ite 10 the best and most reliabls me.
dunn.
The farmers read Il. soft
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-01

II is well to register now as there
is liable TO be a rush during the last
days and many who delay registering
will be disappointed In not being able
to reach the clerks desk.--McAlester
Capital.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-01

There are seyenty.fVe counties in
the new state of Oklahoma and II is
reported that there will be erected n
cotton gin in each county, owned and
controlled exclusively by the Farmers
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-01

More than 100000 copies of the
constitution have been distributed
over the state the past ten days
Guthrie Leader.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-01
Milwaukee Elevator Burned.

,waukeSS vs. Aug. 3l-hfre
early today destroyed the elevator of
the American Mailing company and
several surrounding buildings, entail
ing "A loss of $75.00
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-01

The national congress will be ur-
ged to make an appropriation for
a cemetery at Fort Towson whore lie
over fifteen hundred of the early her
oes of the Indian Territory.-AIusko-
gee Times Democrat.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-01

The Benevolent Society will not
meet Thursday as it is Foreign Mis-
sionary" day but will meet Sept. 10,
Mrs. A. j. Madden.
80 Secretary.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-01

Some of the new towns in the new
state that howled for more houses
to rent" have since the census re-
port amended thein suggestions to
Shawnee Herald.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-01

PhoeniXyille. Pa, Aug. 3l.-Offic-
ials of the Phoenix Bridge Company
are overwhelmed today by the news
of the disaster at Quebec. The chiefs
of erection of the company left at
once for Quebec. where they expect
to arrive in the morning. with them
Peter l.. Sezlapkaw, designer of the
bridge, who has been AT work on the
plans of the structure with corps
OF assistants for years.
In the absence of further details
the officials can not place the cause
of the collapse of the bridge, nor will
they estimate the amount of the loss.
Cnofficially 1t was stated today that
the loss will probably amount To
s., 100000. This includes the cost of
an erecting plant which had no peer
In the engineering world. and hun
dreds of thousands of dollars worth
OF tools and machinery. as well as
several locomotives and numerous
cars. While the great bridge was eX.
pected to cost about $4,000. 900, the
companys contract for the work am
ounted to about $4,000, 600 It. has
been at work on this contract for
about six years and nearly all the
iron and steel had been manufactur-
ed and delivered.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-01
ESTIMATED THAT ElGNTY.FlVE
LOST THEIR LIVES IN
QUEBEC BRIDGE DISASTER
Authorities are Taking Steps to FIX
the Responsibility No Cause
Whatever Has Seen Assigned
Collapse Of Structure.

quebec. Aug. 3l--Nltn the first
dawn Of day half dozen Government
and Quebec Bridge Company tugs be-
gan search OF the ST Lawrence
River Tor victims OF last nights cat
astrophe.
The dead number at least seventy.
eight and may reach eighjy-hyc.
The terrible drop OF the great
steel structure from $50 feet above
the surface OF the river crushed the
bodies Of many of the workmen in a
fightful manner and 1t ia feared
many of them may never be found
Many OF the dead are Americans
brought here by the Phoenix Bridge
Company of phoenixyille, Pa.
Both the local and Dominion author
tiles have taken steps to investigate
the cause OF the disaster and fN the
responsibility.
According to statement given out
today by officials OF the bridge com.
pany. the number Of dead as result
of the collapse OF the Quebec bridge
last egening IS at least seventy
eight -
They say fourteen bodies have
been recovered nine men were res
cued alive and siNty.four are stll
unaccounted for.
The day revealed the fact that the
collapse of the bridge was not caused
10y any failure in the masonry work
as was supposed last night.
Although the immediate cause OF
the smash is supposed to have been
running a heavily loaded train out to
/ the end, IT is evident that this mere
! ly FASTENED the disaster. since every
hour the weight al the outer end o
the structure was being increased by
huge girders being riyited in place.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-10-05
Shortage of Teachers.

Reports of Pierre state that the state
educational department estimates the
shortage of teachers in the state at be-
tween 700 and 500 and finds it no easy
matter to help the county superntend.
ents who desire teachers to fiji the
schools. The reasons for this shortage
are ascribed to different causes by diff
ferent people, but it is found that in the
counties where the lowest wages are
paid for country teachers, the shortage
is most severely felt, while in the coun-
ties with better wages there is not so
much complaint, although this rule is
not set one, as the shortage is report
ed from the counties with better wages
as well as from those with low wages.
but not to such extent The fact that
teaching only gives employment part Of
the year, and requires the teacher to be
at an expense of keeping up" with the
work in the months when not employed
is one probable reason for the shortage
as the same effort applied to stenography
will assure employment for practically
the whole time, with wages as good or
better than those paid in the schools, is
probably one of the reasons for shortage
of girl teachers, and so far as men teach
ers are concerned, there is hardly any
manual labor which does not pay larger
returns than does country school teach
ing, with an assurance of more work
days in year, with the present condi-
ton in the northwest with the labor
supply far below the demand What.
ever the reason, the state wants teach
ers, and in many cases it has been found
necessary to consolidate temporarily
several districts into one to get school
ing for the children in the country.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-10-05

The governments prosecution of the
Standard Oil Company is progressing
steadily. 1t has thus far revealed the
fact that the Standard Oil Company has
made profits of SSOO,OO0,00O in the last
twenty-five years that it has frequent
ly violated the law and the mandates of
Rockefeller owns one fourth % the stock
and that his holdings are worth Sl09,
10000; that his income amounts to over
S2l a minute; that the Standard Oil
Company OF Indiana, sort of legal fic-
ton but actually part Of the real Stan
dard Oil Company, which Judge landis
fined S29,O0O,0O0, has been making pro-
fit of 900 per cent year. The gov
ernment's suit prays the dissolution of
the Standard Oil Company Of New Jer-
sey, the real company which owns all
the little companies little by compari.
son. The suit is being conducted under
the sherman antitrust law, which was
law when Grover Cleveland was last
President. But then, it is always the
custom of the Democratic party to talk
about things not to do them. 1t remain
ed for Theodore Roosevelt, acting on the
legal advice of William III. Taft and
Charles j Bonaparte, to undertake to
break up by legal process this great law
breaking monopoly. The Democrats are
remarkable trust busters" but it is only
during their campaigns.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-10-05
To Check Timber Bug.

A report from Washington says the
forestry bureau thinks it in a position
to offer to some enterprising lumberman
in the northwest the best chance for a
profitable speculation that has ever come
his way. The bureau is anxious to curb
the bug pest in the Black Hills, by re-
moving all of the infested timber. There
is no machinery available by which the
bureau may go into the business of
practical numbering, and so it is willing
to turn this work, with a certainty of
big profits, over to some practical man or
firm.
Substantially 60,000,0O0 feet of mer.
chantable lumber, worth according to
recent reports Of government experts, an
average of 81 a thousand will be sold for
81 a thousand.
The bug pest has been an issue in the
Black Hills forest reserve for years, un.
til now it threatens TO destroy it, Scien-
lists Of the government have been study
ing the pests for long time, but without
discovering a satisfactory remedy. 1t
seems necessary that, in order to get rid
of the bugs, the infested timber must be
removed. This will greatly diminish
the reserve, but it is said to be the only
way of escape.
A tree will live for two or three years
after the bugs attack it and when dead
1t will have market value for some two
or three years, The timber to be dis.
posed of is nearly all still alive.
The Milwaukee roads coast line pass
es near the northern end of the reserve,
and the Burlington penetrates it as far
as Deadwood. Recently the Burlington
has been in communication with the for.
est bureau and there is probability that
it will establish four or five big saw
mills in the bug infested region, with
view to converting the timber into mer-
chantable form for the Nebraska mar
kets Just north of the reserve is the
Belle Fourche irrigation project.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-10-05
Railroad GOssIp,

1t is now reported authentically that
the two and half cent rate for the rail.
roads in South Dakota, as recommended
by the state board, will not be put in
force the middle of the month as an
nounced. 1t is said the railroads will
resist the order, will not reduce the
rates and that test case may ensue.
The announcement that this reduced
rate would go into effect in two weeks
was made some time ago. The rate was
to be general throughout the state and
many a man was already figuring on how
much of luxury that extra half cent
would buy him. This most recent news
may mean merely postponement Of the
reduction and it may mean the defeat of
the plan.
Another contradiction of current re-
port comes in the statement that the
Northwestern is not spending all its
spare time and shekels in building beau.
tiful new black and gold trains to run on
the Pierre and Black Hills lines. The
Northwestern long since adopted one
uniform style for all its coaches and will
not depart from that pattern. Neither
will 1t become necessary TO build new
coaches, as a sufficient number for pres.
ent needs are already on hand Lead
Tribune
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-10-05

The actual opening Of about $4,000
acres of land, formerly in the lower
Brule Indian reservation in South Da-
kota, will commence Monday morning,
October l4th. The larger portion of
these lands are located in a body five
miles in width, beginning about ten
miles southeast Of Pierre and extending
south about nineteen miles. The meth
od of throwing these lands open to set
tlement will be the same as adopted
when the Rosebud reservation lands
were opened.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-10-05
Postal Rates Lowered.

On October first the universal postal
convention signed in Rome on
the 26th OF May, 1906, to supercede the
universal postal convention signed in
Washington on June Is, 1897, went into
effect. On and after October LIST the
stipulation will govern the exchange OF
mails between the United States and
other countries except Canada, Mexico,
Cuba and the Republic of Panama with
which the United States has separate
postal conventions.
The new law makes a material reduc
tion in the foreign postage rate. The
old rate for postage has been five cents
for one half ounce and by the new law
the rate is reduced to five cents for one
full ounce for the first ounce and three
cents for each additional ounce.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-10-05
OMAHA LIVE STOCK MARKET.
Especially Reported for This Paper oy
Clay, Robinson Company Live
Stock Commission
SOUTH OMAHA, Sept. 80, 1907.

SOUTH OMAHA, Sept 80, 1907.
The run of cattle last week was fairly
liberal. The market started out strong
and active, but closed up little weak
on all common and medium kinds of
killing stock both cows and steers. but
about steady on the real good classes.
Stockers and feeders continued strong
and active throughout the week. The
run is liberal today, about $500 head
Beef cattle are about steady, but stock
ers and feeders on account of the bad
weather are shade easier. Good to
choice killing steers are selling at S.. 90
a. S5.35; fair to good $3.50 @ $500;
good to choice heavy feeders IS. 90 "a
$40; fair to good s4.65 90 S490; good
to choice mediom weights S485 "a S5.I5;
fair to good $3.50 @ 1885; good to
choice light weights S3 So "a S425; fair
to good $3.50 @ 1885; good to choice
light cows and heifers $3.50 "a $500;
fair to good $4 90 "a $3.50.
Heavy supplies OF sheep broke the
market badly last week, killers declin-
ing 25 "a SOC, while feeders went off 40
@ 6oc. The market today 10 fairly ac.
tive and strong. Good killing lamb bs are
selling at s6.s5 "a $780, good ysarings
$5.75 "a 5000; good wethers S4. 90 9
$500 good ewes s4.75 9 $3.50; good
feeding lambs $500 "a $3.50; good year
lings $3.50 @ s5.S5; good wethers 81 90
@ S5.loS good ewes So. 50 o. $500.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-10-05
Meeting OF Royal Neighbors.

The union meeting ofthe Royal Neigh.
bors camps of the Black Hills, held in
Deadwood last Saturday, was in every
way success. 1t was the first meeting
of this kind ever held in this part of the
state, by the largest ladies' lodge in this
country. An informal reception was
held in the hall in the afternoon. The
meeting was presided over by Mrs. Lii.
lian Waldschmidt, Oracle of Dead W ood
Camp, and Mrs. E. d. Watt, Supreme
Oracle, of Omaha. The address of wei.
come was delivered by Mrs. Sweatman,
District Deputy, Of Lead. Over seventy
candidates were initiated. The Supreme
Oracle addressed about three hundred
Royal Neighbors, and delicious ban.
quet was served at midnight.
The Custer ladies who attended were
Mesdames f. Pitcher, T. V. Garlock
+. A. Scott, w. r. Hoy, w. A. Smith,
VIM. Lovett and C. III. Henderson. The
party took the train for Dead ood Fri.
day noon and returned Sunday after.
noon, excepting Mrs. Pitcher who staid
till the following day.
A
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-10-05

In a recent poll of prominent Repub.
licans all over the country on their
choice for republican presidential eau
didate Secretary TAFT received 2,5I2
votes. President Roosevelt was second
with go votes, Governor Hughes third
with 6G0 votes, Cannon fourth with 2Sl,
Fairbanks fifth with 260 and Cortelyo
last with ~ votes. If the Taft boom
continues to grow at its present rate
everything will be 'cut and dried" be-
fore the next Republican convention
meets, just as it was three years ago.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-10-05
"Pneumonia,s Deadly Foe

had so seriously affected my rightlung"
writes Mrs. Fannie Connor, of Rural
Route /, Georgetown, Tenn. shat |
coughed continuously nigh. and day and
the neighbours predictions consumption
seemed inevitable, until my husband
brought home bottle of DR.. Kings
New Discovery, which in my case prov
ed to be the only real cough cure and
restorer of weak, sore lungs" When
all other remedies utterly fail, you may
still win in the battle against lung and
throat troubles with New Discovery, the
real remedy. Guaranteed by j. 4. Pill
cher 4 Co., druggists. SOC aud $l.00.
Trial bottle free.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-10-05
Ivanhoe Annual Meeting.

The stockholders of the Ivanhoe Gold
Mining and Milling company held their
annual meeting in Custer at 2 o'clock p.
m. Saturday, September 2Sth. Almost
100000 shares were represented in the
meeting. The balloting for directors re.
suited in the unanimous election of DR..
III. f. Ratte of Custer, S. ID. James w.
Dorman of Clearmount, Wyoming; DR..
w. M. Pierson, Morrstown, Indiana,
and w. ID. Pratt, Geo. NJ. Cheney, c. b.
Stevenson and Chas. p Doney of In.
dianapolis, Ind. The meeting authorz.
ed the establishment of an office at In
dianapolis, Indiana.
The Secretary reported that contract
had been made with the DowGie- Wright
company of Rapid City, S. d., for 80
ton Chilian mill, which is now being in
stalled. Also a contract with the Pacific
Tank company of Olympia, Washington,
for fifty ton cyanide plant, ~ hour
teaching. The cyanide plant has been
shipped. Ground has been broken for
the cyanide building which will require
some $4,000 feet of lumber for it's con.
struction. The Ivanhoe is bountifully
supplied with timber and will therefore
supply its own lumber for building.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-10-05
Big Lumber Deals.

T. w. March, of the Hill City Lumber
company, has been doing some tall
hustling this week. He made a trip in
to Nebraska via Rapid City and while
in Rapid City he made a contract with
the Rapid City Lumber company for
$4,000 worth of lumber, $4,000 worth
of it being now ready for shipment at
Custer.
He also made arrangements to put in
$4,000 feet Of lumber in transit for the
Greenwood Lumber company over the
Crouch lines. This is piled up at Hartz
Brothers mill and az Oreville. These
are probably the largest lumber deals
ever made in the Hills. In Nebraska a
he also sold good sized bills oflumber at
Hay Springs, Gordon and Alliance.
The Hill City Lumber company is also
getting ont ties and are now paying 35c
per tie for B. q ". ties.-Hill City
News.