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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-04-11
vIRDEN COMPANY MAKES GOOD
Again and all the Time Faust the
Play the Rest Of The Week

The theatre going people Of the city
who are not patronizing the Verdin
Co. that is playing at the opera house
are missing something mighty good.
Mr.. Verdin, who is whole show in
highly talented people and he is Civ
highly esteemed people and he is Civ
ing the people at popular prices as
good as you ordinarily pay rs cents
to ore dollar to see. The company is
now completing the second week of
their ten weeks engagement and pa
irons Of the house have already begun
to feel that they are honlefolks among
us. 1t adds to the pleasure of the
play, to know the stage people and
watch the development of their art
as they pass from one play to an
other.
Last night an appreicative audi
ence saw "A Duel of Hearts cleverly
presented and for the rest Of the week
Mr.. Verdin promises an unusually
fine production of "Faust" with all
Of the scenic and electrical effects.
Mr.. Berger will appear as "Mephisto, .
in which part he is said to be very
strong and the rest Of the cast viii be
fully up to the Verdin standard.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-04-11

rights and obligations las always
been TO me a matter Of earnest solici-
tude. I have always recognized labor
unions and have given them prefer
ence in employment. There has new
er been a political campaign affect
ing this country on the general good
in which have not contributed liber-
ally with both my means and energy.
With the exception Of my banking in
terests, I am not connected in any
way with any corporation.
I, like many other democrats, de-
voted considerable time and money
to the election Of democrats to the
Constitutional Convention, and feel
proud of their achievement, and be-
lieve that every democrat and every
good citizen, Of whatever political
faith, should exert himself to the end
that the constitution which is now
presented to them, and which is UNI
surpassed by any in the Union,
should be unanimously adopted and
ratified, and the actions Of our dele
gates approved.
My Fellow Cou,ltrymen, If I am
elected to the office which | seek,
shall administer the laws and respond
to the duties Of that Office in an hon
est and impartial manner; my high
est object being always to protect
the weak and the commercial inter-
ests of our country, and to do in
justice to no man, institution or en-
terprise.
Yours respectfully,
J. J. McALESTER.
McAlester, I. T.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-04-11

A beautiful cake given to the
most popu ar lady at the NJ. B. A
necktie supper Saturday night. a
cane given to the ngliest man.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-04-11

Neal gives the same attention to
phone orders for meats as if you
came in person. You'll get the best.
9Th and ChicEasha.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-04-11

You can do no better than have
The Owl Drug Store supply your
needs in the drug line. Io-4t
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-04-11

Twelve souvenir views 0f Chick
.asha for ten cents at the Owl Drug
Store, Io-4t
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-04-11

"A bale Of cotton for ten CENTS at
The Owl Drug Store 1914
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-04-11

Try the North Side market.
Phone sos. Bault & Spears. 10 6
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-04-11


b and daylight robbery Weadet and would pDaa banking buans
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-02

dictator started on the trail for the
lovers; the father and the brethren
followed, but without enthusiasm.
In the middle of the afternoon they
came in sight of Lochinvar and Esmer-
elda Fastening along narrow road cut
In the rocky wall of deep canyon.
Just ahead swinging bridge OF ropes
and wooden croSspieceS Spanned the
river sullenly murmuring three thou
stand feet below. On the other side or
the gorge the road ran north to Bogota
and south to La Paz. Once across, II
the fugitiyes could destroy the bridge,
they would be safe.
Caballero shouted triumphant1y.s and
spurred his horse forward. Lochin-
var hastened across the span with Es-
merelda. Ere they reached the middle
the dictator had dismounted and set
foot upon the swaying structure.
Lochinyar looked back. and took in
the situation. He drew his machete.
One quick slash, and the left cable
sprang asunder; the bridge hung quiv-
er1ng. Needless of the cry of horror
behind. he dropped his knife. gathered
the fainting Esmerelda in his arms,
ana staggered across to safety.
The dictator was SO far advanced
that it was as safe for him to keep on
as to return. Just as the last strands
parted he gained the solid rock not
fifty feet behind the fugitives, who
We're hurrying toward La Paz. With
a cry of triumph he started in pursuit
"A olAOuN from the OIner SlQ0 U1dQS
him halt. He looked across the gorge.
There stood the D'Estes family in line,
eight Mausers swung carelessly in their
left hands, eight monitory right fore
fingers pointing toward Bogota. The
dictator was on the wrong side of the
river. For hundred miles either way
there was no other bridge. 1t would
be days before he could get back to
the capital of Chilombia. Meanwhile
the new revolution would have made
his presence unnecessary.
Caballero took a step toward La
PaZ. Seven MauSerS went up to seven
right shoulders, all but little brother
Cristofero's. who was left-handed; his
went up to his left. Eight forefingers
touched eight triggers.
Caballero stopped; he was too good
about and maledicted the entire male
branch of the house of D'Estes, living
and dead, born and unborn. Papa
u Estes smiled grimly, lowered his
Mauser, and lit La Paz cigarro; ditto.
Brother Alfonso; ditto all the others
1t was as good as comic opera
After Caballero grew weary of ours
ing he turned his steps toward Bogota
The D'Estes family camped in the
road that night to make sure he would
not try to repass In the darkness
Then they returned to Chilombia and
engineered the revolution that put
them in control of the state and full
filled the parents most ambitious
dreams for their seven sons
When Lochinvar and his bride came
back after their honeymoon, they were
received with open arms. Every body
In town was smoking La Paz; and they
were still drinking aguardfente-
copyrighted, 1907, by P. c. East
ment.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-02
THE GRAFT STAYS.

And so, after all, the country is not
to be saved five million dollars a year
by Victor Murdock's fight for honesty
in weighing the mails. Mr.. Murdock's
proposition has had so many ms and
outs that it has been hard to keep
track of it. The scheme by which the
government has been overpaying the
railroads for transporting mails was so
palpably wrong that there could be nc
defense of it, and therefore the country
naturally supposed that when Mr.. Muir
dock discovered it and made a fuss
about the graft, it would be speedily
and unanimously eliminated. But not
SO. The railroads interested did not
propose to give up five million dollars
without struggle, SO their lobbyists in
Washington got busy, and started to
fight the elimination of the graft First
the railroads were on top and then the
plueky Kansas congressman. At last
accounts the railroads were ahead in
the house.
But over in the United States senate
man named La Toilette had been
watching proceedings, and when oppor-
tunity offered he slipped the Murdoch
idea into a bill over there in the shape
of an amendment. The railroad SEN
ators in congress have learned that it
isn't safe to touch things that the Wis
consin senator leaves lying around
loose, because such things are apt to
be loaded. Knowing of the agitation
that Congressman Murdoch had stirred
up throughout the country, they were
particularly careful not to touch that
mail-weighing amendment.
But the conference committee still
had to be reckoned with. Two cor
poration senators were appointed on
that committee, and they quietly Slip
ped the La Toilette amendment out.
Then the committee reported to the
senate while La Toilette was absent,
the report was adopted, and the mail
weighing graft was once more safe
The graft must go eventually, how
ever. The Murdoch provision will be
introduced again in the next session,
and the country will not stand for the
perpetuation of the fraud.
Victor Murdoch is a congressman to
be proud of. Kansas needs more like
him. The State journal has an idea
that E. H. Madison is going to be an
other of the same stripe. With that sort
of men in the lower house, and with
senators like La Toilette in the upper.
congress would be run by the people
and not by "the interests
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-02
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

[F,rom the Philadelphia Record.1
A favor is something we get for moth
ing.
A man seldom offers good advice who
offers bad cigars.
A girls heart generally begins to ache
at about the same time her teeth do,
A man and his wife are one simply be-
cause his wife generally assimilates him.
AS a general rule the less a man
knows about poetry the more money he
makes.
Don't always believe the woman who
brags about how happy she is with her
husband.
Where will is concerned a dollar in
the hand is worth two in the hands Of
the family lawyer.
The girl who marries a man to re-
form him Is often merely spelling a
good husband for some other girl.
A boy saves up for the dessert at
dinner almost as eagerly as a girl saves
up for the proposal in a love story.
The woman who spends more time I'm
the butcher shop than at the milliner's
Is pretty sure to have happy husband.
Blobbs-"There are all. sorts of super-
stitions. When man refuses to walk
under ladder what is that a sign of3':
Slobbs-'Its sign he's superstitious. >.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFron the Chicago News.1
Every man has a right to keep his
opinion to himself.
Small talk is the generator of many
big troubles.
The more a man knows at 20 the
less he is apt to know at so.
Wise is he who knows just what to
say-and when not to say it.
And the man who does no harm in
the world does but little good.
No. AIonzo, musicians do not go to
toy store for their playthings.
If a man thinks he can outwit a Wild
ow he is entitled to another think.
Freckles are not half as pretty as
bushes, but they are never counter
felt
The average man has more friends
and fewer enemies than he thinks he
has.
It's impossible to love man for the
enemies he has made If you are on the
list.
Consistency is a jewel that's missing
from the diadem of many an earthly
angel.
DON'T insist that your children shall
go to church unless you are willing to
set them an example.
Don't waste any time trying to get
something for nothing. Adam got the
apple without money and without price
and remember his finish.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-02
APPLAUSE FOR THE SENATE.

This paper always delights in giving
credit where credit is due Therefore
it takes special pleasure in congratu-
lating the state senate in finally adopt
ing the Getty anti-pass bill instead of
the alleged anti-pass measure intro
duced under the name of Senator Por-
ter, but supported by the champions
of 1.-The interests
After playing hide-and-seek on the
pass question considerable portion of
yesterday, the senate did the sensible
thing. The Getty bill is not as string
ent as the Stone bill that passed the
house, but it will do an immense
amount Of good. The Porter bill,
while it would have shut out public
officials from the benefits of passes,
would not have shut off the profess
siona1 politicians who use passes to
aid them in manipulating politics, nor
would it have kept the railroads from
giving these little courtesies to friends
of officials. Such a law would do lit
tie good compared with what the Getty
bill will. 7EF
Besides, no one really ought to ride
free except those who are clearly en-
titled to do so because of some legiti-
mate relation with the railroads If
other people are hauled free, the pub
lie has to pay for their transportation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-02
JANA WKER .JOTS

It cost a colored citizen of Hum
boldt thirty days in jail to carry con-
cealed weapons.
Howard thinks it is getting high
toned since a family down there refers
to its evening meal as dinner"
Wichita Eagle: According to a
good authority, one of the lea ding
brewers in Milwaukee says its costs
him more to do business in Kansas
than the amount of his profits.
A Ralph. Tennal story: Its owners
claim that certain Sabetha dog is so
smart that they have to spell before
the animal when they are going out
so 1t Will not understand what they
say and make a fuss to go along
Noting that Otto Anderson is a can
didate for councilman in Kansas City,
the Troy Chief thinks he otto get it.
This offense will be overlooked this
time but If it is repeated the Chief
will be fined a barrel of Doniphan
county apples.
When the new Larned high school
was built the town bell on the old
structure was done away with, and
the children have been summoned to
light plant. Now everybody has got
so lonesome for the familiar ring of
the old bell, associated with SO many
memories, that a petition is being cir
culated for its restoration.
Here Is a tree story by the McPh err
Ralph McPhail purchased dynamite
today to blow up a large cottonwood
tree about ten feet in diameter. He
purchased it over three years ago and
it has supplied his family with fuel
during all this time. and this is the
only way that they can make use of
the stump as their saw, which is eight
feet long. can not be used in cutting
it until the stump is broken up. 80 e.
Kansas" says the Wichita Eagle.
"may yet become q cotton raising
state. Two wagon loads, a part of the
only crop to be raised in Cowley coun-
ty, has been taken to the gin at Perry,
Okla. The cotton was raised as an
experiment by j. E. Clifford, living
three miles north of Winfield He put
out six acres and they yielded about
one bale to the acre, making about
half a crop" In cotton growing states
a bale per acre is regarded as a sp1en-
did crop. tf-T sa 4l
Holton Recorder: Business men
who have had extensive dealings with
the Pottawatomie Indians, speak in
the highest terms of the late Rack
Rack. He was an Indian possessed of
a good heart a clear mind, and a
Judgment on which all the tribe re-
lied He stood for civilization. coun-
seled honesty fairness and sobriety
among his tribesmen, and died leaving
a clean and honorable record behind
him. Only two more of the old
blanket Indians remain. Shonnos and
another whose name we can not spell.
Both are aged and infirm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-02

AT Palm Beach alone in all America
can women gamble ''decently;" that is.
not simply play bridge, but roulette and
such, in temples dedicated particularly
to chance. One must dwell on such
dreadful sin hereabout, since how can
we claim a Riviera without a Monte
Carlo? The Florida legislature allows
it, for proper price. and in proper hyp-
ocrittcal fashion. The place is called
the Beach Club run by two brothers
Well known. to the New York tenderloin
and several district attorneys. Election
to membership is extremely difficult
The qualifications are a dinner coat and
an acquaintance who has bucked the
wheel in the Club at least once before
You enter with him, sign your name
and his to a slip of paper, and receive
yellow membership ticket, mot
transferable ito be shown when re-
quested," bearing the autograph Of the
clerk at the desk. A book of bylaws
tossed at you, provides, among much
Hoyle, mo gentleman under twenty
five years will be admitted to this
club" Article III. section g. regard
ing evening dress, will be waived in the
case of members taking their departure
on evening trains."-From 1.-The Amerf-
can Riviera" by Robert Dunn in The
Outing Magazine for March.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-02
These Hustling Americans.

At recent gathering in Baltimore
two men from different sections of the
country were discussing the capabilities
of nervous, restless Americans for
being most slow and deliberate. The
Marylander claimed the palm for slow
ness for the Inhabitants of the Eastern
Shore of his state.
1T is a saying hereabouts,' said he.
that If oysters had been created with
legs, the people of the Eastern Shore
would all have starved to DEATH
1.-THE folks around Mount Monadnock
have a saying that beats yours, re-
marked Vermont man. "Of one man
I'D there it used to be observed that If
you were to give Hiram Higgins 40
Yards start, stock-still would catch
m."-Harper's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-02
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Soon be time, now, for the office
boys grandmother to have a funeral
every few days.
We knew it would come: The worry
about the peach crop has commenced.
Has any Chautauqua assembly
thought Of securing Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw in a lecture entitled. "The Story
of My Life? 1t would be ten times
the drawing card that Miss stones
Bulgarian experiences were two or
three years ago.
The kind, fatheriy interest which
some elderly gentlemen take in young
chorus girls will hereafter be looked
upon with suspicion by those who
don't know anything about it.
n
A Tennessee minister declares that
hell is place of strong drink, tobac-
co, baseball, theaters and peekaboo
shirtwaists. Why does a minister want
to act as an immigration agent for
that locality?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-02
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe.l


Nearly anybody can fool We, the
People.
A careful search for sympathy is a
pretty sure way not to get 1t.
Here is something true as gospel:
Half you hear about people is untrue.
About the only advance medical sci
ence has made lately is to call a cold
the grip.
IF you had my wife, a drunkard
said to Chief Sullivan today, you'd
drink, too
Our idea Of a self-possessed man is
one who can have a good time on the
witness stand
Undertakers are nice men. and use
full, but no one ever sincerely wishes
them prosperity.
There is lot of nonsense in the
newspapers; and we suppose we fur
nish our share of it.
Nothing makes a man so happy as
to collect bad debt or secure an in
crease OF his pension.
Some clerks change positions as Of
ten as a young thing changes the way
of doing her hair.
The average man has little trouble
recognizing classical art, by the way
he can't appreciate it.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned wise man, who attributed almost
everything to the suns spots?
Some people have imagined they
heard Opportunity knocking and have
opened the door only to let in trouble.
If you are fond of children, and they
like you, the buster their mother is
the more she enjoys having you
around
After the children are grown, the
average man has no one who shows
any great degree of affection for him
until the grandchildren come.
When a woman makes strong
stand for equal suffrage, it usually
means she already has a man in her
possession, or considers the last chance
gone for getting one.
When a friend tells you something
mean that has been said about you it
means one of two things. Your friend
has it in for you or In for the person
he claims said the mean thing.
There is always sense of secret
satisfaction among his schooImates
when the boy who led his class al
school. fails to make good when
school days are over, and a sterner
competition begins.
If Edward Box is alive to all his on
portunities. the next number of the
Ladies' Home Journal will contain In
the wonens fashion department pic
lures of the correct kind of a hunt
ing garment for a woman 10 wear
when she goes out to bag her man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-02
The Uncuiet Stairs.

In recent suit in a Cincinnati court
a lawyer was cross examining a Ger
man, the point under inquiry being
the relative position of the doors. win
dows, and so forth, in a house in which
a certain transaction was alleged to
have occurred.
''And now. my good man." the law
yer said will you be good enough to
your house"
The German looked dazed for mo-
ment. %How do they run?" he re-
peated.
''Yes; how do the stairs run ?''
"Veu," continued the witness, wen
I am oopstairs dey run down. and ven
I am downstairs dey run oop."-Har-
per's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-02


Why will not men and women learn
the lesson of sin and its consequences?
Because they think--if they stop to
think about it at alI-that perhaps
they will be exceptions to the rule and
will escape punishment. Sin is always
allurin< at the start and weak human
ity is lured by the tempter into the
wrong path. At length the meshes of
appetite or passion or bad habits are
so tightly woven about them that it is
difficult to break away. and In the
hope that there will be no punishment
the sinner puts off reformation.
But punishment for sin and wrong
doing is absolutely certain. 1t may not
always swiftly follow the wrong, but
when it does come 1T has a cumulative
force.
Down in the Shawnee county Jail
man and woman lie awaiting a hear
ing on a charge of murder. The muir
dered man was himself a man of vio-
lence. Victim and assaiIant were trav-
elers in the broad path of destruction
together. 1t was the old story of
sinful woman with
two Jealous lovers. Today one of the
lovers is dead-slain by an assassin's
Lullel--WnlLe LHe olHer anu Ills 4IldAho-
rata are behind prison bars
OF course no one intends to go the
downward path until he commits some
great wrong. He always expects 10
cheat punishment. He will turn back,
he thinks, before his reward comes.
But the devil draCs his victims down
until they are powerless to resist him.
The wages of sin is death.
Stanford White never dreamed of
punishment striking him as it did. He
trusted in his wealth and his smart
ness to ward off disaster. But his
sins brought summary and unlocked
ed for enlistment upon him. He ate the
bread of wickedness and he drank the
wine of violence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IFrom the New York Press 7

LF,rom the New York Press.l
Any man can stand abuse IL IT'S h.
cause he Is rich.
A nice thing about gambling is vour
wife won't be mad with you if yo,,
win. 'SN
A man thinks he deserves lot ~
credit for having some relative W.
becomes famous. ""o
When man says people have enter
tanned him delightfully."- he means 49,,
let him do all the talking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-02

Senator Simons and Senator Young
were both the recipients of bouquets
the other day. The formers was made
up of roses, while the latter's was in
written form approving his legislative
course and signed by 400 of his con-
stituents. The Sirons bouquet is
mighty nice kind to receive, but the
other is the kind that really counts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-02

Fortunately" says the Kansas City
Star, cit is not within the power of the
Kansas senate to repeal the Ten Com
mandments.' But do all of the MEM
bers of the senate obey all of the Ten
Commandments?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-02

The Panama canal is now to be dug
by Major Goethals, of the United
States army. II the major desires due
credit for the work from the public,
he should supply a diagram to go with
h L.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-02

It is said that Governor Hoch is con-
sidering the name of Thomas w.
Morgan, editor of the Ottawa Repub-
lie for the Democratic membership of
the Hutchinson reformatory board.
Well, that's pretty good name to con-