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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-11

that it is vegetable, and cleanly product while
lard is made from greasy, indigestible hog-fat,
but CottolcHe reaches the consumer in the same
condition it was on the day we manufactured it.
If cleanliness healthfulness, economy and
superiority count for anything there is no excuse
for any housewife in the land using other than
CoftotHc for shortening and frying. You owe it
to yourself and family, as a careful housewife,
to give CoftoleHe q test, and verify the claims we
make for it.
Any one who expects to live his allotted
three score years and ten cannot afford to exper-
iment with lard cooked food II is a foe to
good digestion and healthful condition of the
stomach h-C0ft0leUl is the
only satisfactory and
DprfpCt Shprtpuiuu
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-11

II. H. billiard, a rural mail carrier.
and J. l. Morgan. editor OF the Wan.
rika News, are candidates for appoint.
ment as postmaster at waurika. Jas.
Il. Eckles who resigned recommends
Morgan.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-11

sherman. Lexington, Chas Fechcimsr
ChIckasha. Charles filsou. Guthrie,
4. o. Archer, Muskogcc, w G. stey.
ems. Lawtou. Sam Downing, Atoka.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-11

The main pursuit ia Oklahoma, ac.
cordlng to the report of Governor
Frantz, is agriculture, there being
l43,75O farms in Oklahoma, with a
cash value OF s232OS1,776, averaging
S1.6l3 each.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-11

The transit IN from childhood to
youth is eternity; from youth to man
hood is a season. Age comes in a
night and is incredible.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-11

coat and wandered out into the cold,
foggy morning In search Of another
position -Harper's Weekly
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-11
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET
Quotations Furnished by the Empire
Produce companN.N

Eggs are in fairly good demand with
prices showing a falling of since the
holidays Butter is not in much de.
mand except for packing stock. Poul.
try is meeting with a better demand
and hens have shown an increase Of
a half cent per pound since last week.
Quotations are as follows;
Fresh eggs, per doz...............17c
Butter average country.
Butter Packing stock.............15c
Live Poultry.
Spring chickens, per doz......s225
liens, per pound ............... &c
BOOSTERS, per pound .............1Oc
Tom turkeys, per pound .71kc
Hen turkeys, per pound ........7hc
Small turkeys, per pound. ...s SC
Ducks per pound ............... &c
Geese, per pound ............ &c
Gun poultry, half price.
Hides.
Green, per pound ...........sane sh
Green, salt cured, per pound ...... &C
Green, per pound ............... Sc
Dry per pound .....,........7 to 15c
Glue, per pound ............... &c
CNV.N.a 4. MI
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-11

\ car load of cotton, valued at s4..
600. the property of Sam Williams.
was burned a few days ago at Sayre
on the Rock Island.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-11
All Next Week.

Angells Comedians at the opera
Nouso all next week. Ladies free
Monday night l0-2
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-11

South McAlester is excited over the
finding of fine duality uf oil rock in
a well near the city.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-11

The Daily News of Oklahoma City
Is preparing TO build an addition to its
building.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-11

The Missouri, Kansas ana Texas
railroad has secured an injunction
restraining the city Of Shawnee from
arresting the trainmeu, for the failure
OF the road 10 maintain street watch.
men.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-11

Frank Lacey recently arTosTod m
Kansas has been sentenced TO two
years in the penitentiary for cattI,
stealing at Anadarko.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-11
OKLAHOMA PARAGRAPHS.

Perry has nearly closed the deal for
a large new creamery.
Drilling FOR oil is to begin at Rus.
sell, Indian Territory, near South Nc.
Alestor, at once. .
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-11

The territory is a land Of homes 4"
says Governor Frantz, in his annual
report. out Of S6,9OS families in Ok.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-11

T. J. Loggins was not held 10 the
grand jury at oklahoma city for the
killing Of Henry Sullivan, the evidence
being deemed insufficient
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-11

FL Reno expects the Rock Island 10
make many improvements there dur,
Ing the year of 1907, including the
erection Of a large modern depot.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-11

iahoma in 1900, GOOSE owned their
homes"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-11

Subscribe for The Ardmoreite.
The Ocala banner., 1907-10-11
q NAUGHTY Eci-cr.

We e"A'+ Know jus, Why we think
~''- "a' trH.y there Is lingering mo-
len about thlo Office hat Mr.. Peer
.. hni-h- VII never ki5uap h
DEAR CLAUDE" ami -ake him ~
Tampa for trial There j. something
u 'he a&aae thar II -akeS flfef r.
eafeh a thief and truly il seems r5a,
80 t OF these have been caugh;-
Jacksonville FIor!diau
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
LETTER IN LEFoRT CASE.
Defence Will Try to Prove Forgery Was
Work of a Deserter

Further effort made yesterday afternoon at
the session of the Lefort court martial on Gov
ernor's Island TO convince the officers hearing the
charges of forgery against the lieutenant that
Lewis +. Buck the author OF the forgeries
Tor which Lefort is trial Buck is a de-
serter from the coast artillery and is supposed
70 he in Canada letter purporting to have oeen
written and mailed by him to the prisoner was
offered in evidence This letter bears the name Of
Major F. II. Hodges with Bucks name under
meath.
Lefort has asserted al along that ne called a
the Grand Union Hotel for the decOy letter at the
request OF Buck This letter, offered I'm evidence
yesterday afternoon for the first time was writ
ten according TO the date. November 15 1907.
than month after Lefort's arrest. Coun-
sci for the defence places great faith in this letter
The argument will be that Buck is not only re-
sponsihle for Leforts trouble but that Lefort was
arrested while he endeavoring TO get evidence
against the guilty of forgery.
Most of the session taken up with the tx
animation of William J. Kinsley. a handwriting
expert, who testified that the standard handwrt-
ing and the disputed handwriting in the case
we're the product OF and the man. indi-
eating Iefort the mysterious Major Hodges.
Js Z ". King. who conducts detective bureau
that does work for banks and financial institutions
told how he had arranged with the postal authori-
ties for the sending of a decoy letter
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
REPORT OF ADMIRAL coWLEs.

Washington. Nov. 29.--More than half a million
tons of coal bought for naval use in the last
fiscal year. according to the annual report of Rear
Admiral William S. Cowles. chief of the equipment
bureau. The exact figures were 59S,0ll TONS cost
ing including transportation s255S 49, an average
of 81 2S IA ton.
Progress in wireless telegraphy continued to be
marked. and the radius of action, both of shore
and ship stations considerably increased, not
only through improvement in apparatus. but by
better practical working knowledge OF the
Sites have been selected for six stations in the
Philippines but their erection has been postponed
pending the development OF a system especially
adapted to tropical work.
The estimates for the next fiscal year show n con-
siderable increase under the item of coal and
transportation, tho appropriation for which this
year was S4.l5OOO0. while the estimate for next
wear Is S5.O00OO0.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
PRIMITIVE CONDITIONS IN PACIFIC.
Complete Ethnographical and Biological Sur
vey of Several Thousand Islands Planned.

Honolulu. Nov % via san Francisco. Nov. %
The Pacific Scientific Institution has been incor-
porated here to make complete ethnographical
and biological survey OF the thousands of islands
i'm the Pacific Ocean before the progress of civil-
zaton makes impossible original researches for
record of primitive conditions
The plan is that of William Alanson Bryan. cura-
tor Of natural history at the Bishop Museum in
Honolulu and authority on the Ornithology OF
the Pacific Ocean 1t involves the establishment OF
geological gardens biological laboratories botan-
ical gardens and administrative and library build
ings in Honolulu. the working base of opera
tions with a suitable vessel fitted for exploration
10 make systematic cruises TO each group of
islands with scientific for complete field work.
Il IS estimated that the work be done in
about fifteen years. The initial expense is esti-
mated at about 100000. and the annual expenses
for the fifteen years at about $4,000.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
INCOMING JAPANESE DETAINED.
Dispute at Victoria Between Steamship
Agents and U. S. and Canadian Officials

Victoria, b. G. Nov. 29,-The Japanese
steamer Tosa Maru is detained here owing to a
dispute between her agents and the United
States and Canadian immigration officials in re-
gard to the landing of Ill Japanese booked to
Victoria. but holding passports to the United
States.
The United States immigration officials have
received Instructions not to examine those with
passports for the United States and the Cana
dian officials insist that these Japanese be car
ried through to Seattle. This the steamship
agents unwilling to do
ottawa, ont, Nov. 29.-The Dominion gov
ernment has decided to permit no more dis
eased immigrants to land at Victoria. The
japanese in the future cannot leave the ship
until they have a medical certificate. passports
passports.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
WOMAN PASSES 1oerH BIRTHDAY.

Oxford Mass, Nov 29.-NIrs. Catherine Snay
passed her 1O6th birthday to-day at her home in
North Oxford. She is bedridden. almost blind. and
her right side has been paralyzed for years. Mrs.
Snay has smoked pipe since she was ten years
old and to-day II is her only sOlace. Her daugh-
ter Miss Rose Snay fills the bowl and Ights.it for
her several times daily. Five OF her twelve chill
dren are living and. while she is practically un-
conscious most of the time, she IS able and
then TO recognize and talh with old friends.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
JAPANESE NOT VINDICTIVE.
Returning Canadian Minister Found No
Feeling Against Canada or United States.

San Francisco. Nov. 29.-Returning to his
home in London, Ont, from tour in China
and Japan, Charles Smith Hyman. Canadian
Minister of Public Works. arrived in this city
yesterday the Pacific Mail steamer Korea
He said that Japan had no hard feelings against
the Canadians for their treatment of the Japan
ese at Vancouver a few months ago.
Il heard very few expressions of hostility
against either Canada or the United States" he
said. Some of the newspapers printed rather
inf1ammatory articles, but the mass of the peo-
pie did not seem to attach any seriousness to the
various outbreaks
He inclined 10 think that Lemieux's mis-
sion largely experimental, the Canadian
government having definite idea of what 1t
was prepared to grant and what it would ac-
cede to-
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
TO REPEAT COAST DEFENCE EXERCISES

Washington Nov. 29.-Gratified with the excellent
results attending the joint army and militia coast
defence exercises this year. the War Department
tends to repeat them next Accordingly. Act
ing Secretary Oliver has transmitted to the Cover
nors OF the states copy of a memorandum on the
subject prepared by General Murray. the chief of
artillery, and suggests that il of the greatest
Importance that they designate soon practi-
cable the companies which are to act the
artillery and it's support General oliver
adds:
il is the beginning of the drill season, II
would seem to be an especially good time for laying
this matter before the national guard OF your state
The depaftment is much impressed with the great
value of the organized militia in connection with
coast defence. and hopes to see it successfully de-
veloped as early as IT is practicable to do 80.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
and some officers have committed suicide il
order TO escape blackmaiIers"
WAR MINISTER SPEAKS.


order TO escape blackmaiers"
WAR MINISTER SPEAKS
General Won Enem. the Minister of War. ad-
inltted that Herr Bebe was substantially cor
rect In his allegations in the matter of unnatural
pracuces This evil had increased greatly in
herIlh' ne declared, during the last few decades
"hen Herr Harden asserts, however that en-
ure regiments were contaminated, he exagger-
a'es more or less" the minister added but the
fact undoubtedly has been established that our
so4dlers can with difficulty resist the temptation
winch these low fellows make possible Never
theiess, am convinced that the alleged orgies
at the Adler Villa, described by a witness at
the Harden trial. We're mythical, as all persons
VINO should have had positive knowledge Of them
know nothing"
1aklhg up Harden's insinuations against
Prince Philip zu Eulenburg the former Ger
man Ambassador at Vienna, who has begun
an action against the editor for defamation
of character, the minister declared that when
the article appeared in Die Zukunft" he
and other military officials had caused an
investigation to be made in order to make a
report to the Emperor, but nothing could be
found to bear out the charges The same result
followed an investigation of the charges made
against General Count Wilhelm Won Hohenau
The Emperor had agreed to place these men on
the waiting list in order to remove them from
the court until it became possible to prove their
innocence, but with the intention of reinstating
Up to the present time, the minister said all
the charges of this nature excepting those
brought against Major Count Johannes Lynar
had failed of substantiation. They were all
based on scandalmongering and suspicious gos-
sip, he declared
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
MORE EVIDENCE IN DRUCE CASE.
Mrs Hamiltons Cross Examination Finished
Inconsistencies in Testimony.

London Nov 29-At the Druce case hearing to-
day Horace Avory. counsel for the defence, fin
ished the cross-examinat ton of Mrs. Margaret
Hamilton. who at the last hearing testified that
T. c. Druce and the fifth Duke of Portland were
and the person. He showed a number
of Inconsistencies between her present testimony
and that given before a previous court. but be-
yond this. and the statement that three letters pro-
duccd by Mr.. Avory and signed. respectively,
Portland ''T. Z. Druce' and wv. r. Rent"
were in the handwriting of the man she had known
the Duke Of Portland. nothing OF interest was
developed The case was adjourned to December 2
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
NAV END STEAMSHIP WAR

Cologne Nov 2a.-The Cologne Gazette says
to-day that as an outcome "A conference be
tween representatives of shipping interests there
is a prospect of an agreement between the Ham
burg American Line and the North German Lloyd
on several matters. Arrangements will probably
he made TO apportion steerage business and the
renewal of the pool seems assured. The paper
quotes Herr Balln director Of tho Hamburg
American Line as saying that negotiations Dc
proceeding between the German and English lines
for a classification of cabins agreement, with good
prosp~ct< of a settlepent.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
STATE RECEIV ERS NOW
Continued from first page.

general court. upon the application of gen
eral creditor and without notice to the Attor-
ney General or any other pubic j olc,ai on rl.o
tion will not preclude the state from revokins
the charter of such corporation In a proper caSs
and thus protecting its own rlgntS ana tIe III
terests cf those resident within its territory
STATES POWERS QUESTIONED.
To deny it's right to take this action is to
question it's power over it's own creature. To
assert that federal court, which has appointed
receivers of these franchises will refuse to grant
the request of the state court, that II should
surrender its possession TO the state court. 10
the end that the state may bring about tnelr
forfeiture and in the mean time 70 Keep Wllnn
the hands of it's own agents the governmental
powers which it has granted. is TO contend that
when the state seeks TO take away the corpo-
rate existence the federal court may keep 1t
alive and continue its existence
If this be so, then the rights of the state TO
forfeit the charter of a corporation may be suS-
pended the pleasure of the federal court. ana
the sovereign power. which the state alone Is
ers of federal court against the will OF the
state.
In closing. Justice Seabury says;
AS the Attorney General specifically charges
that the receivership in the federal court was
brought about by the fraudulent colluSlon or the
parties to that suit. the receivers appointed by
this court are authorized TO take Such action as
NAV be proper in an orderly manner 10 estab-
iish by Competent evidence. if that be possible.
the charge which the Attorney General mas
made upon this motion but which the prooIs
COMPARISON OF CASES.
AS to the appointment OF receivers for the
METROPOLITAN Street Railway Company, Justice
Seabury says that much of his opinion In the
New York City Railway Company case holds
good in this one. although there is even Il clearer
right in this case that the state court should
aDpoint receivers. When the action OF the fed
eral court is examined. he says, 1T becomes evl-
dent that the federal court Was absolutely
without jurisdiction in the premises and that
the action there taken in reference to this cor
pOraton void
The Metropolitan was a creditor of the City
Railway Company, he goes on and IT is not con-
tended that any foreign creditor OF the Met
ropolitan made claims against IL. On its own
petition ii went into the federal court and asked
To intervene in the New York City Railway
Company proceedings, and that the receiver
ship be extended to it, Neither would the appl-
cation of the Morton Trust Company in the
foreclosure of the Metropolitan Street Railway
mortgage confer Jurisdiction the federal
court. The action in the Metropolitan Street
Railway receivership and in the Morton Trust
Company was not properly ancillary to the
original case. says Justice Seabury, and so in
both relief should come from the state
courts
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
WESTON ENTERTAINED IN CHICAGO.

Chicago. Nov 29.-Edward Payson Weston was
the guest of the Chicago Press Club at luncheon
to-day. Several other plans for the entertainment
Of Weston during his stay in Chicago have been
arranged including testimonial benefit to be held
the Garrick Theatre Sunday. Weston
rested yesterday after his long tramp, visiting the
South Shore Country Club in the evening
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
RECEIVER FOR WAGON WORKS.

Reading. Penn. Nov. &.-JOhn l. Coke
named to-day as receiver for the keystone Wagon
Works OF this city a corporation capitalized a
100000 1t is said that the debts aggregate SSO-
900. The company recently asked for extension
for year from its merchandise creditors. In
ability TO make collections is given as the cause
OF the failure
Because OF dulness in the iron trade some OF
the departments of the Reading Iron Company viii
close temporarily tomorrow. affecting six hundred
wOrkmen-
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
Msrook MERCURY FOR coUeHDRoP.

Albany Nov 29-James Beeman. OF No. 243 Or
ange street this morning took by mistake enough
bichoride OF mercury to kill seven men, He is
still alive however. and DR. Porter. OF the Homoeo-
pathic Hospital, who attended him. says he Will
recover Beeman has been suffering with Sc
we're cough and got out OF bed for coughdrop.
He picked up in the dark tablet Of mercury and
IL.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
eo,soNINe IN MEXICAN CASES.

Los Angeles. Nov. 2s-Trinidad vasquez.
cret service officer of the Mexican government and
the chief witness against Magon Vilareal and
Rivera alleged revolutionists. fell 10 the sidewalk
I'm front OF the central police station to-day An
examination showed symptoms OF strychnine
noisonine and the police believe that Vasquez
was wilfuily poisoned Physicians ssy he will
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
COMMITS SUICIDE IN CELL.

Rochester. Nov. 2e-oiuy Allen. thirty years old
arrested for intoxication. committed suicide in a
cell at police headquarters to-day Allen strangled
himself with pocket handkerchief.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
the TARANTULA ACCEPTED.

Newport. r. l.. Nov. 29.--The submarine Taran-
tula accepted by the Navy Department to-
day and assigned to the second submarine flo
tilla engaged in maneuvres in Narragansett
Bay Next month the first and second submarine
hotilas will leave the torpedo station here and
proceed to the Naval Academy at Annapolis
where they will remain throughout the winter
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
FIRE ALARMS TRowMART INN GUESTS.

Guests Of the Trowmart Inn. hotel exclusively
for women at Hudson. Greenwich and West 18th
streets startled late yesterday afternoon when
fire broke in n shaft alongside the side wall
of the building The flames readily extin-
guished when the firemen arrived, and only slight
damage was done.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
PORTUGAL ELECTIONS POSTPONED.
Will Not Be Held Until Political Agitation
in Country Has Subsided

Lisbon, Nov 29.-The government announces
that it has been decided not to hold the cleo
tions until the political agitation has subsided.
even If it involves waiting until the end of 1908.
1t hopes. however. that it viii be possible to hold
them early in the new year
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
MAY RESUME KANSAS CITY Eight.

Kansas City. Nov. 29.-FederaI Judge Smith No
Pherson dissolved Injunction to-day recently
granted Kansas City theatrical managers, pro-
hibtiug county officials from closing the theatres
Sundays. Judge Wallace OF the Criminal
Court. who favOrs close observance OF the Sab
bath. is now free to order the County Marshal 70
raid the theatres on Sunday
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
CREW OF THE NoRoEN SAFE.

Copenhagen Nov. cit was learned here to-day
that the crew OF the Danish steamer Norien is
safe. The Norden went ashore south of BornhoIm
Island Her passengers were transferred to the
nearby Ightship. and the boat was lost in the fog
II picked up empty, causing uncertainty as 10
the fate of the crew The position OF the Norden
IS DANGEROUS
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
HUNTING EoR PETTIRoNE vENlRE.

Boise. Idaho, Nov. 29-Sherin "Shad' Hodgin ana
deputies began securing Ada County to-day TO
I'LL the special venire ordered in the PettibOns
case. James MCFARLAND. OF the Pinkerton agency,
is here and viii remain throughout the trial. John
F. Nugent, one of the attorneys for the defence.
Is seriously I'll and may not be able to take part
In the trial
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
WILL TRY TO CURE IEPERs.

Honolulu. Nov. .. via San Francisco. Nov. D.
The Board of Health. the petition of the 81
of the lepers OF the Molokai settlement has agreed
to permit ]. Lore Walach TO treat twelve lepers.
wallach and his friends have persstently asserted
that he cure leprosy. and has thus aroused the
hopes Of the epers and their relatives and friends
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
JAPAN's ARMAMENT TOO EXPENSIVE.

Victoria. b. c.. Nov. 29.-Advices received from
Japan states that several Japanese newspapers are
calling for a reduction of Japan's armament. on
the ground that It is more expensive than the
country afford.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-30
1HlarEEM rERRoRlsrs HANGEn

Odessa, Nov. 29.-The sharp justice which is he
ing meted out by the field courts martial is having
an excellent effect the disorderly element end
is encouraging the police TO more fearless per-
formance of their duties. Since Monday of this
week thirteen Terrorists have been hanged.