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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-18
pEksoNAL ANn LOCAL

L 70.
NJ M. Carter IS in Coylc.
l.. w. Gleason is in Perkins.
!
stm the nice weather continues.
Chas. Howe is in Oklahoma City.
J. p. Daisy is in Pleasant Valley
Il. J. Coyle OF Perry is In the city.
a. e, williams, Of Grand. is here
Ed Gray OF Saltwater is In the city.
j. L. Furman is a visitor from Enid
The $4,000 club meets Friday night
G. A. sharum Of Ripley 70 in the
city.
Vernon Knepper spent Sunday m
Edmond.
Walter Ferguson spent Sunday n
Norman.
It will be time to plant garden m
ten days.
W. A. Knips is in the cItz fron
Perkins.
e, A stinson spent Sunday In ole !,
iahoma City.
The Santa Fe surveying crew IL N
the city today.
Capt. MIN. Tate Of Edmond n n
the city today.
The lIverymen did coed business
| yesterday.
S. walters Is in tho rstz fsom Pleas
ant Valley.
b. +. Means. Of Pawnee e q Gutbsia
| visitor today
August Gerfen returned to Pisdmcrf
this morning.
Britton F'rIedley spent sunany ID
Oklahoma City
Several loads Of ssed cotton Ecre
on thu streets today.
@a
! J. L. Isenberg. publisher Of kna Enla
Wave. is in the city.
i I. NJ Cole OF Enid is in the city CO..
day visiting friends.
Attorney e. e. Blake OF EI Reno m
here attending court.
J. f Finney spent Sunday with his
family in Oklahoma City.
Delegate Gus Barry retured this
morning from Pawnee.
The work on the Masonic temple an
mex is progressing nicely.
w. A. Shell of Glencoe is here at.
tending the convention.
]. A. Millard came in from Good
. night on the morning train.
! Capital National bank. left yesterday
: for his home In Aurora. III.
]. Harvey Lynch returned this morn,
ing from a trip 20 Shawnee.
Hugh Luckenbill came up from Sew
{ ard on the morning train.
Editor E. J. Garner camo IN FROM
! Coyle on the morning train.
Attorney Frank Dale has returned
! from trip 20 Washington. d. G.
!. Senator Dave Marum arrived IN ths
Z city this morning from Woodward.
III
! Delegate Judge Maxey arrived in
Z the city this morning from Shawnee
The brick layers have nearly com.
!. pleted the basement OF the new hotel
william Arnold. one OF coyle's sub.
stantial farmers. was in Tho city to-
I day.
Albert Shields and Q. A. Bowerman
! are among the Enid people in the city
! today.
; Rev. W. IT, Pose returned on tho
! morning train from a visit In oklaho-
|. ma city.
-
B l.. N. Houston OF the local land Of
7 fee spent Sunday in Enid with his
Z family
VIM. Leeper. the Mark Twain OF Ok
lahoma City is here visiting his broth
er Cy Leeper.
, G.. 4. Bryan, treasurer OF the terri
torlal live stock commission. Is In the
city from Perry.
Delegate buchanan returned this
morning from Norman whore he spent
. Sunday with his family
w A Thompson OF Saltwater Is
!. here today attending the meeting or
3 the Independent Cotton Ginners
Receiver Charles r. Cherry OF the
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-18

New Suits, New Overcoats,
New Trousers, New Hats, New
Shirts, New Collars, New Ties,
New Hose, New Underwear &c.
made for spring 1907
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-04-10

lieve that he is serving the interest
lof the Indian by keeping the Indian
under the closest possible supervisory
control OF the Interior Department.
The Indians have not sought this treat
ment. and the business men OF this
country have mumoralized congress
and submitted evidence in vain. When.
ever our citizens have sought tho re-
moyal OF restrictions by petitions in
Washington. they have been discredit-
ed by the employees of the Interior
J Department, and charged with being
land graftors, enemies of the Indian,
representatives Of selfish interests,
and utterly unworthy Of credit Our
representative citizens have thus Deen
tumiliated and degraded in public opin-
ion because they dared to express an
honest and sincere conviction.
The fact is, the interests Of the
grating element in Indian Territory
are best subserved by these very rules
and regulations Competition with
them is prevented Farmers no
longer have a chance to buy homes.
Only corporations and spectators are
buying these lands II is true the sec
retary Of the Interior,7n his report TO
congress. declares that the sale of
these lands under his plan brings a
higher price than If sold on the open
market. The secretary believes this,
no doubt. These employees tell him so.
But a complete answer to this propo-
silion is found In the fact that the
spectators buy these lands and i'm
mediately after sell them for a much
higher price to farmers. who cannot
successfully compete under the restric-
} tions. The grafters favor the restric
tions for the reason that it gives them
! monopoly. enabling them to make
their profit out of the actual home
/ seeker. The Indian suffers because he
, cannot get high competitive price un
der this system. The state suffers be
q cause 1t cannot rapidly develop. The
) only persons who are really benefited
e by this system are first the grafter'
) and second the employees of the inter
2 ior department
1 respectfully submit that the follow
t ing propositions are established:
= I. The Interior Department has ne
a legal supervisory control over the citi
zen Indian.
i @ The citizen Indian is not protected
$ by these restrictions. but is injured
= 3. The home builder and farmer 4
S injured by this system.
r 4. The state is injured by this sys
/ TEN.
/. 5. The CRATER is benefited by thi
S system.
y G. The government employees VIII
:, keep this method in force are benefit
ed by it.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-04-10
A CARD.

This Is to certify that all druggists
II Foley's Honey and Tar fails TO cure
your cough or cold. Cures la grippe
coughs, and prevents pneumonia and
consumption. Contains no opiates
The genuine is in yellow package
Refuse substitutes. Hoffman Drug
Co. and City Drug Store.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-04-10
Salvation Army Meeting.

The Salvation Army conducts ev'
cry night in their hall. one-half block
south on Washington street (the old
city halD:
Sunday school at 10:30 am.
Free and easy meeting at 1888 p
m.
Cordial Invitation 10 all
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-04-10

tions upon the leasing and sale Of
lands in Indian Territory should be
absolutely wiped of the statute books
Several thousand citizens who have
allotments no longer live within In.
dian Territory. Thousands Of highly
educated men have small homesteads
which they never. and which they
are forbidden to sell or lease without
the permission of government clerks.
After all. It is government clerks who
rule this country tor no man is so
stupid az to pretend that the Secretary
of the Interior himself ever knows any.
thing about these details.
The end desired by congress defeat.
ed.
The original purpose Of congress In
arranging for the allotment of the
lands of Indian Territory and doing
away with the tribal governments. be
gun thirteen years ago by the appoint
ment Of the socalled Dawes Commits.
sion, was avowedly the development of
the Indian. The end desired was to
give him full citizenship. to make a
state, and invest him with full respon.
sibiities of self-development
The argument was that only by do.
ing away with the tribal relation. and
giving the Indian the right and duty
of individual initiative and self-control
would he develop. The government
therefore demanded that the InGan
give up his tribal relation, that tho
land be vested in the individual. and
that the supervisory control of the
government should cease. With n view
to this. various agreements were ne
gotiated. having the purpose of indi.
vidualizing the land, and putting the
Indian citizen upon his own individual
responsibility. completely severing his
tribal relations, and converting him in
to an independent, self reliant citizen
OF the United States, with all the
rights and privileges as such | had
the honor of drafting this statute. Sen
ator Plat of Connecticut assisted its
passage on this theory; that the In
dian could not develop until he was
given the right of individual initiativ,
and self-control. Secretary Cortelyo,
gave me the pen with which Presiden
Mckinley signed this act, as a memor
ial of the interest which | had taken II
its passage
The constant tendency OF the EN-
ployees of the Interior department 1
reactionary, Thirteen years have pass
ed, and the advice Of these employe
has constantly been to take create
and greater control of the Indian. In
stead of taking less control of hin
This can be illustrated by numerou
instances extending through ever
year since these agreements were NJ
gotiated.
The duty of those charged with Ir
dian affairs is to make the Indian sell
reliant and self-supporting. Their po
icy has been to surround him wit
rules and regulations. and to exten
his tribal relations, and not to develo
the individual and the recent legisli
=, ton which they have recommended {
, congress has been along these sam
lines. The secretary OF the interio
y pre-occupied with a great multiplicit
of cares, must absolutely rely upo
these employees for facts. and in
=. large measure, for the conclusion
which flow from facts alleged TIL
secretary has been constantly advise
by these employees, and unavodabl
misled. The result has been that tn
- secretary has been persuaded to d
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-04-10

Cordial invitation to all.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-04-05

T;ae Odd Assortment Collected by
One Bank Clerk.
A torn linen collar, Il piece of lath,
Il cuff and 4 half dozen other odd OBJ
jects hung above the bank clerks desk.
My collection of queer checks the
young man said. Each of those things
is a check. Each was duly honored
Each has a story.
Il have been collecting queer checks
for three years. That piece of lath
started me. A western bank honored
the lath for $3.50. 1t was made out
"A check by the owner of Il sawmill,
who was out at the plant with his SOL,
thirty miles from any house, and to-
tally without paper, let alone a check
book. The money was needed to pay
off the hands. The sawmiller wrote on
the lath just what a check correctly
drawn has on it, and he sent his son
in to the bank to get the money and
to explain. The lath check was hon
ored after some discussion among the
banks officers.
THE cuff check was drawn by an
actor who had become slightly intoxi-
Gated, got into a fight and been arrest
ed. He was treated cavalierly in his
cell. They wouldn't give him any pa
per, and he bribed a boy to take the
check to a bank. The boy got the
money, and with it the actor paid his
fine. Otherwise he'd have beer jailed
for ten days. Thus the cuff check may
be said to have saved a man from
prison.
''The check written on that linen col
lar won a bet of So. A man bet a
woman that a check made on a collar
would be cashed, and of course he won
his bet.
Your bank, if you carry a good ac-
count, will honor the most freaky
checks you can draw up. In such mon
key business. though, it won't encour-
age you."-Chicago Chronicle.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-04-05
Erxptian Oninn.

Egypt has been regarded by some
people as the land of pyramids and
mummies only, but it has from time
immemorial had a reputation for on
ions. Ancient Egyptians swore by the
onion and regarded the plant as Sc
cred. The inscription ON the pyramid
Of Cheops tells US that the workmen
had onions given to them, and from the
Bible we learn that the Hebrews, when
slaves under Pharaoh, enjoyed these
bulbs, and that when far away they
remembered 'the leeks and the onions
and the garlic" The Egyptian onion
is a handsome and useful vegetable,
and by selecting the best strains of
seed the quality tends, year by year, to
improve. The Egyptian knows two
varieties, the "Baali" and the mis-
kaoui." hut supplies of the latter kind
are seldom sent abroad, as they absorb
so much moisture from the frequently
irrigated ground in which they are
grown they they do not stand a sea voy-
age we'll. The "Baali" onion is the
more popular Egyptian onion and is
grown in yellow soil. which is sparing-
" watered while the bulbs are matur-
ing. in order that the onions may stand
a lengthy sea voyage with little risk Of
sprouting.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-04-05
safety In a submarine.

Judging from an article in the Paris
Nature, translated for the Literary Di-
gest, life in a submarine vessel is not a
particularly hazardous occupation. Re
ferring to the recent catastrophes of the
Earfadet and the Lutin, the public mind
has been filled with apprehensions about
the extreme danger of submarine naviga-
ton. This writer points out that a few
grains of sand in the thread of the screw
of the headpiece of the Farfadet had pre-
vented it from closing tightly, and that
in the case of the Lutin a pebble prevent
ed the closing of the valve for replenish-
ing the water ballast. Both of these ac-
cidents were easily p~reventable, and the
writer contends that these were the only
two serious catastrophes suffered by the
French submarine 1otilla in the course of
10000 dives made since it was organized.
A recent British device for escape from
sunken submarines is a detachable boat,
the deck of which lies flush with the back
of the vessel. 1t can be released by a sim
gle turn of a screw, after which it au-
tomatically rises to the surface, where It
will float indefinitely, with plenty of air
to sustain life until the men can be pick
ed up. At the same time a fat buoy re-
mains fastened to the submarine, thus
marking the position of the wreck. An
other recent safety device is a hollow ball,
which, when automatically released, floats
to the surface and permits telephone com.
munication with the submerged vessel.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-04-05
TONIC FOR MOTHERS
Or. WiiIlams' Pink Pills Are Safe ane
Reliablc-A Favoritc Household
f Remedy.

AA IA L'h
Motherhood may be the crownin,
blessing Of a woman's life or it ma,
bring grief and sorrow. Mrs. NJ. J
Wight, OF ITO Seventh Street, Auburn
Maine, relates her experience after thu
birth OF her daughter in 1901, as fol
lows: :" was all run down at the
time the baby came and did not i'm
prove in health rapidly after. I was
pale, thin and bloodless. My stomach
distressed me being full of gas all thu
time and my heart fiuttered so that
could scarcely breathe.
FINALLY I remembered that a friend
had recommended DR.. Williams Pink
Pills to me SO ! commenced using
them. ! gained in strength rapidly
while the baby throve also. When
expected my next child l started TAX.
ing the pills again as a tonic and
strengthened and had no such diff.
Guilty as before. l got up better and
my strength came back much sooner
"A year ago last winter l mad an at.
tack of rheumatism in the hands which
went from one hand to the other. The
taints swelled up and were so stif !
could not move them. The pain ex.
ICHuSu w LHIouSH my dfLhS anu
shoulders. ] felt sick enough to go to
bed but did not do SO. This attack
lasted for several months. l tried sew.
eral remedies but finally came back
to using the pills which had done me
so much good before and found that
they benefited me almost at once. ]
have not been troubled since"
All druggists sell Or. Williams Pink
Pills, or they will be sen by mail
postpaid, on receipt of price. so cents
per box, six boxes for $3.50, by the
DR.. Williams Medicine Company,
Schenectady, N. Y. Send for book Of
cures.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-04-05
true. I only asked her to stop at the last

true. I only asked her to stop at the last
moment"
II was going quietly TO bed" resumed
kitty, hurrielly, .'in order not TO waken
Madame, when l saw the portrait of NJ.
Nandeloup on the table I took it up to
look at it,"
'How could you sec without a light"'
asked DR.. Chinston sharply, looking at
her. gsr n. s-.a
There was a, night light burning" re-
piled Kitty. pointing to the fragments on
the floor and | could only guess it was
NJ. Yandeioup's portrait but at all
events she said. quickly, ~ sat down in
the chair over there and fell asleep"
You see, DOCTOR she had been to a
ball and was tired" interposed Madame
Midas but go on, Kitty, l want to
know why you say Selma was poisoned"
II don know how long l was asleep
said Kitty, but l was awakened by n
noise at the window there pointing to-
ward the window, upon which both her
listeners turned toward it, land looking,
/ saw a hand coming out from behind the
curtain with a bottle in it; 1t held the
bottle over the glass on the table. ana
after pouring the contents in, Withdrew
"And why did you not cry out for as
sistance?" asked the doctor, quickly.
II couldn't she replied, y was so
afraid that / tainted. / recovered my
senses, Selma had drank the poison, and
when ] got up on my feet and went to
the bed she was in commissions l woke
Madame, and that's ALL"
"A strange story" said Chinston, mus
ingly, where is the glass?'
ut is broken, DOCTOR" replied Madame
Midas: ain getting out of bed I knocked
the table down. and both the night lamp
and glass smashed
mo one could nave been concealed be-
hind the curtain of the Window" said
the doctor to Madame Midas.
NO." she replied, but the window was
open all night so If it is as Kitty says,
the man who gave the poison must have
put his land through the open window
DR.. Chinston went to the window and
looked out there were no marks OF feet
on the flower bed, where it was so soft
that any one standing on it would have
left a foot mark behind.
STRANGE said the doctor, Its a pc
culiar story looking at Kitty keenly.
but a true one,' she replied boldly,
the color coming back to her face Il say
she was poisoned"
by whom? - asked Madame Midas, the
memory of her husband coming back to
her.
Il can't tell YOU" answered Kitty, Il
only saw the hand
AT all events said Chinston. slowly.
''thc poisoner did not know that your
nurse was with you, so the poison was
meant for Mrs. Nilliers.'
For me?' she echoed. CHASTITY pale;
81 knew tiny husband is alive, and
this is his work"
(To be continued.)
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-04-05
An Indians Lucky Find.

Ben Jacoby, a Choctaw Indian, who
lives not far from McAlester, I. T.,
got about the best Christmas gift OF
any Indian in the Territory. The In
dian went to McAlester with the "skul-
ly" (Choctaw for money! in his pocket
n commenced to load up with Christ
mas gifts, and then the story came out
He had accidentally discovered an old
metal pot on his allotment and it was
filled with silver coins that bore the
date of 1882 to 1910. The money vas
in an old coffee pot and amounted to
several thousand dollars. The Indian
told the following story of how he
found the coin: Il hunt my cowsy Go
in woods and come to creek I slip
down bank and knock dirt down. Saw
can sticking out I pulled at can and
top came of. l dug it up and lot Of
money fell out. 1 did not count, but
much big pile there. Not hunt cows
any more, but put money in pants and
coat and go home"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-04-05
A GROCER


Dropped a Hint About
Coffee.
"For about eight years." writes a
Mich, woman, 81 suffered from nerv-i
ousness-part of the time down In bed
with nervous prostration.
Sometimes 1 would get numb and 1t
would be almost impossible for me to
speak for a spell. At others, I would,
have severe bilious attacks, and my
heart would futter painfully when I
would walk fast or sweep.
Il have taken enough medicine to,
start a small drug store, without any,
benefit. One evening our grocer was
asking Husband how I was and he
urged that I quit coffee and use Postum,
SO he brought home a pkg. and I made
it according to directions and we were
both delighted with it.
$50 we quit coffee altogether and
used only Postum. l began to get bet
ter in a months time and look like an
other person, the color came back to my
cheeks, I began to sleep well, my appe-.
tfte was good and I commenced to- take
on flesh and become Interested in every.
thing about the house
Finally I was able to do all by own
work without the least sign of,py old
trouble. l am SO thankful for the little
book, The Road to Wellville.' It has
done me SO much good. L haven't taken
medicine Of any kind for six months
and don't need any.
"A friend Of ours who did not like
Postum as she made it,,fliked mine, and
when she learned to boil it long enough,
hers was as good as mine. It's easy II
you follow directions" Name given by
Postum Company, Battle Creek. Mich.
Read the little book, 1.-THE Road to
MELVILLE" In pigs. There's Q rea-
som"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-04-05
The simple Life,

Two rich girls of Cincinnati are Do
scribed as living the simplel life. Tia
older Is 16, the other almost Is. They
have travelled all over Europe and have
been in Egypt and Mexico. They learn.
ed French in France, italian. in Italy.
German in Germany. They drive auto.
mobiles, ride saddle horses. play tennis
and other outdoor sports. have lessons
on piano, mandolin and guitar, go to
bed at 8 p. m. and breakfast at 8 a. m.
What. after the amazing calm of their
early years. may these girls not do it
they once decide to try the strenuous
Iife?-New York World.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-04-05
CHAPTER XXYI.

Madame Midas was not by any means
81 a nervous temperament, yet ever since
the disappearance of her husband she was
a prey to a secret dread. which, reacting
on her nerves, rendered her miserable.
Had Mr.. villiers only appeared she would
have known how TO deal with him, and
dom so promptly, but it was his absence
that made her afraid. Was he dead? If
SO, why was his body not found; if he
was not dead why did he not reappear on
the scene?
"Are my troubles never going to end?"
she said to Selma on the night of the
Meddlechip ball, as she passed restlessly
up and down her room: 'sthis man has
embittered the whole Of my life, and now
he is ~stabbing me in the dark"
LET the dead past bury its dead"
quoted Selma, who was arranging the
room for the night.
"Pshaw !" retorted Madame, Impatient
", walking to the French window at the
end Of the room and opening it; 'how
do you know he is dead? Come here, Se-
lima" she went on, beckoning to the old
woman, and pointing outside to the gar
: bathed in moonlight II have always
: dread lest he may be watching the
house. Even now he may be concealed
Sendse"-pointing down the garden.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-04-05
Stops Gifts to Railroads.

The last official act of Postmaster Gem
eral Cortelyou, before he went to take up
his new duties as Secretary of the Treas
ury, was to abolish the system by which
the railroads lave profted $5,000.0O0 a
year, namely. by adopting the reformed
system of weighing the mails, which had
been unsuccessfully advocated in Con-
gress. Under this plan the actual num-
Der of days the mails are carried will be
used as the divisor in determining the
average weight carried in a day. This
was something of a shock to the railroad
lobbyists who had labored SO lard to de
feat the same mcaSu:e before Congress.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-04-05

and had the other usual symptoms of
skidney trouble-lassitude, headache,
spain In the buck, urinary disorders,
rheumatic pain, etc. / have a box con
staining IA gravel stones that I passed,
hut that is not ~one-quarter@ of the whole
number. I consider Doan's Kidney
Pills a fine kidney tonic"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box.
lEoster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-04-05
Self-Defenne.

"I'm surprised at you," said Jigley,
<Atrying to borrow a dollar from that
fellow Harduppe. You're surely not in
such awful need of money"
NO replied Shrude. .sbut I felt
sure Harduppe was. Anticipated him,
that's all."-Catholic Standard and
Times.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-04-05
The Same Thing,

Pa Twaddles-Well, what's the mat
ter now?
Tommy Twaddles-Ma says I mustn't
never say a word while she's In the
room.
Ma Twaddles-Why, no, I didn't
dear. I said you mustn't interrupt
while I'm talking.
Tommy-What's the difference!
Cleveland Leader.