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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-23
he KNEW THE BENDER FAMILY.
John Keepers Aided In the Search for
the Murderers.

John Keepers Aided In the Search for
the Murderers.
Periodically the report goes over
the country that the notorious Bender
family of Kansas has been found
But always the rumor is found to be
false
They will never be found" said
John Keepers, an ex.Kansan, now
living at 2l13 Bcllcfontaine avenue
when the Benders left their farm
in Crawford county, Kansas, in 1873,
after their crimes had been discov-
cred, they are supposed to have gone
into the Indian Territory 1t is al.
most an absolute certainty that the
Benders were all Killed and buried
boy outlaws like themselves. The
Benders knew too much-thats why
they were killed.
Il was one Of the party of men
that went To the Bender home when
q search was being made for Or
York of Independence. brother Of
Colonel A. NJ. York of Fort Scott
We met old man Bender at the gate
and told him our errand. He said
hc had been shot by highwaymen
a few days before on the Verdigris
river, six miles distant That led us
OF on false scent When we came
back ten days later the Benders had
disappeared. The discovery OF their
flight was made by a neighbor nam.
cd Pierce. lie told others and
search Of the premises was begun.
First we went through the house.
We found a trap door in the floor,
and below It in the cellar. the gravel
ilooring was stained with blood. In
the garden We found several places
whore the earth had sunk. The most
recent appearing Of these we dug in.
10 and found there the body of DIR.
York. We sounded all the other de.
pressions with an iron rod and in
that way found sixteen bodies. II
! remember rightly a total of 10i
persons were reported missing in that
neighborhood OF course we never
knew whether the Benders had kill.
ed them all for their bodies were
ltt I I.I
had made closer search at the time
We could have found many more
graves. All of the murders occurred
in the fall Of 1872 and the winter
and spring Of 1873.
THE Benders kept a store and no.
tel for travellers. though don't be.
lieye they ever had more than
$40 worth of goods in the store
at any one time. And don't believe
any traveller who stopped there ever
lived 10 continue his journey. If he
wasn't murdered in his sleep he was
killed at the drinking table"
Mr. Keepers does not credit the
story that the Benders were killed by
lynching party not far from their
home.
III they had been" he said, 81
would have known about It. There
was a big reward for each member
Of the family, dead or alive, and II
they had been killed some one would
have claimed the reward. There is
more probability in the story of a
Cherokee Indian, who. while hunting
along a tributary Of the Verdigris.
about twenty-five miles south of the
Kansas line, witnessed what many
people believe 10 have been the finish
of the Benders The Indian said he
saw an old man and an old woman.
with n younger couple. camped around
a covered wagon. \ band Of twenty
mon came upon them suddenly and
Killed everyone. burned the wagon and
outfit and then left."-Kansas City
Star.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-23

You are insured skin comfort all
summer II you keep Ramscy's Tai
cum Powder on hand to use when
you perspirc freely. Full pound pack
age, 25c.
23.6 +. ]. RAMSEY. Druggist
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-23
Sour
Stomach

No appetite. loss Of strength. nervous-
ness headache. constipation, bad breath.
general debility, sour rsiugs, and cstauh
OF tho stomach ars all due TO indigestion.
kodol relieves ind geSton. This new discov-
cry represents the natural juices OF diges-
ton as they exist In a healthy stomach.
combined with tho greatest known tonic
and teconStructVe properties, kodol for
dyspepsia does not only relieve indigestion
and dyspepsia. but this famous remedy
helps all stomach troubles BY cleansing
purifying. sVeetoring and Strengthening
the mucous membranes lining the stomach.
Mr. s. s Bali oi RrsntWSod ". Va says
vas troubled With sour stomach for tNentY years
hodo cured me and ~s are no~ vsins II 10 mih
Tor e.oy
kodol Disests What You Eat.
Bottles only. Relieves indlgsiuon. sour stors<k
bsehint Of gss etc.
Prepared bYs o. os~lTT 4 CO.. oNloAoo
=
sold nv HoYmsn Drug Co
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-23
Pineuies for tho Kidneys strengthen

these organs ana assist In drawing
poison from the blood Try them for
rheumatism. kidney bladder trouble
for umbago aud t,,cd worn out feel
ing. They bring quick renef Salts
faction Guaranteed Sold by city Drug
Store.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-23
Salvation Army meetInu.

The Salvation Army conducts ev.
cry night in their hall, one-half block
south on Washington street (the old
city halO;
Sunday school at 1890 am,
Free and easy meeting at 3:3s p.
m.
Cordial invitation 70 all.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-23
SOME WAR STORIES.


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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-23

when banana peel takes a fan
out of man and there isn't any
thing broken but one OF the COM
maudmeuts he gets on lucky
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-23
a Fortunate Texan.

Mr. +, w. Guodloe, Of lO7 ST. Louis
ST. Dallas, Tex, says; in the past
year | have become acquainted with
Dr Kings New Life Pills, and no lax.
ative ! ever before tried SO effectually
dlsp"ses OF malaria and billousness. 7"
They don't grind nor eripe. 25c. at
" B Frames and City Drug Store.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-23

You'll always find good sponges for
all purposes in our stock. Have some
exceptionally desirable bath sponges
just now.
lG 1w f. J. RAMSEY, Orls.;lst.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-23
Cordial invitation to all.

A prompt, pleasant, good remedy fW
coughs and colds is KeLnedy's Laxa.
tive Cough Syrup. IL contains no OPT.
ates and does not constipate. Chill.
dren like it. Sold by Hoffman Drug
Co.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-23

Bills are very useful things to
teach you how easy it is never to
have any money left.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-23

The average man thinks he is good
IL he keeps out OF jail
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-23

No lady's toilet is complete dur
Ing the warm weather without a bot
tie of Ramsey's Violet Ammonia. Most
refreshing to the skin. Pint, 25c,
half pint, 15c.
161w +. J. RAMSEY, Druggist.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-23

There's hardly anything that makes
a girl hate you more than not TO call
her frcCklcs tan.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-23
Drink the Purest.

For distilled water, delivered at
your door daily, phone Leslie Wooten,
525. 2l-Gt
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-23

Every time a woman makes n fool
of wise man he simply charges It
mp TO experience and lets 1t so at
that.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-23

You can tell when a girl is inter-
ested in a man by the way she pre-
tends to him that other men are in
terested in her.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-23

Coming eyeuts that are calculated
to separate people from their coin
are always heralded by an advance
agent.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-23

He who laughs last always laughs
alone.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-23

A conscience is something you new
er have when you ought to.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-06-23

For information regarding these and
other rates see
F,y. DEVOSS, Ticket Agent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-20
Exphwsr0y IN FOREIGN TRADE.

Foreign trade returns for the fiscal year
19osso7 WIN hardly inspire eK-Prssident Cleye-
land 90 write another jereIniad on 'our com
rneroial isolation" The record made in exports
and imports does not give much countenance
IN the theory that the United States, so far
as commercial Intercourse with other nations
Is concerned, is ti:ndIy narrowing itself and
playing q little, selfish part Of deluded folly
in our corner OF tho family home" Mr. C!evs-
land and the Cobdenite economists who agree
with him have commended that when Congress
passed the Dfngley tariff law ton years ago 1t
bound this country TO "the barharous super
Y+lrlo- Of Industrial isolation" since according
10 their conception Of the workings OF the tarln
Il could only result In checking imports, and
bv checking imports gradually close all foreign
markets against our own merchandise. A
steady decline IN foreign trade was deduced
as the logical and neceesary consequence Of tho
revision OF 1891
No forecast was ever more lamentably at
fauit. From the day the Dingley law was
signed foreign trade has increased by leaps ana
bounds In ten years we have doubled our ex-
ports and doubled our imports In lS95-96,
under the Wilson-GOrman tariff law, we were
exporting merchandise valued at SSS2.pOooo
and importing merchandise valued ut $119,OOO,-
Ong Ia I906'07 our exports were valued at
81 $50 sol 900 and our imports at 81, 434, 401 600
Our total foreign trade IN the year just ended
amounted To S3,8l5yOOOOOO than twice the
total for ls95-93. The United States il now
the largest seller IN The markets Of the world
and Germany and Great Britain outrank us as
BUYERS only because, unlike us, they have 10
depend SO largely other nations for their
manufacturing materials and food supplies.
The commercial isolation" cry sounds hollow
under these circumstances, and we are giad 10
500 thar our esteemed contemporary and
friendly critic 1.-The New York Times Is now
ready 10 admit that American foreign COM
narce. instead of stegnating and languishlng
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-20

may be that had second ballots been required
they would not have been successful, though
that IS not certain. Had a second ballot been
required at harrow with the contest confined
10 the highest two candidates, either the So
ciallst or the UnOnist would have been elected,
the Liberal and Irish candidates standing re-
spectivey third and fourth 1t is presumable
that the Irish vote would have been cast for
the Socialist and we may assume that about as
many Liberals would have voted for tie free
trade Socialist as for the protecrionlst Union
ist; 50 the chances are that the second ballot
would have confirmed the result Of the first
At Colne Valley the second election would be
contested by the Socialist and Liberal cardi-
dates. and the result would depend upon the
division Of the UniOnist vote between them It
Is not unlikely that in such case most OF the
Opposition would vote against the government
and if so, the Socialist would again be chosen.
What seems to be made increasingly clear *
.hat henceforth England VIII not be divided
between the two historic parties as exclusively
rs it has been hitherto. third party has
arispn which must be seriously reckOned with
It is we'll within the bounds Of pOssibil'ty-we
might also say Of probabiIlty-that at the next
general election the Socialists and labor mon
win secure a large enough representation to
hold the balance Of power ut Westminster be
tween Unionists and Liberals. If SO, that fact
will mark the dawn Of new era in British
party politics
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-20
PARADES.

Just why every benevolent order or patriotic
organization should feel morally bound to hold
an annual parade we have never been able to
understand. The initiated say that the adver-
tisement hypothesis must be eliminated, and
40 we are forced to grope uncertainty for an
explanation. In Philadelphia the other day
tens of thousands Of spectators stood for hours
in the blazing heat 10 watch thousands OF lodge
members march over miles of sizzling asphalt
pavement. Half n dozen men have died and
more than four thousand others were disabled
as a result of their strange curiosity. 1t is
reported shat some of tho paraders were found
IL have drawn on their gay lodge uniforms
over their ordinary clothes while others had
swallowed a glass of pedler's ice cold lemon
AIDE every hundred yards along the line OF
march.
Nobody believes that the well esteemed and
benevolent EIks are organized for the secret
purpose OF encouraging folly. Hundreds Of
other American societies display the same pas
sion for parading 10 the music Of many bands.
and millions Of unattached citizens arise early
in the morning to behold the sight. We can't
particularly blanc the Elks for tho Philadel-
phia show, with It's painful penalties, for pa
rading is epidemic among all classes of our pop
uat!on Some German ethnOlogists have the
theory that we Americans are succumbing TO
our strange climate and shall eventually be-
come in appearance and temperament Ike the
red Indian. Perhaps this queer love of parad-
ing and watching parades IN the open sun at a
temperature OF 90 degrees IS attributable to the
same influence which IN days gone By caused
the poor Indians to hold their mimic war
dances amid tho shrieks Of the assembled
squaws and pappooses. on the whole, It -
rather consollng to assume that there Is n war
dance mcrobe in the air FOR which nobody is
Responsible
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-20
BRITISH pLURALITIEs AND MAJoRITIEs

BRITISH PLURALTTTES AND NAJORIIIHS.
The result OF the COlne Valley election IL
England is a congTlOus sequence TO that OF
JaiTow upon which we commented tho other
dav. Like JGrrow, COlne Valley has long been
regarded as perfectly safe for any Liberal can
dIdate. At the last general election the Union
lists did not think it worth while to contest 1t
at all and Sir James Kitson was returned with
out opposition. But now strong Liberal can
didate. backed with al! the influence OF the gov
eminent is defeated, and a Socialist is elected.
That is precisely what happened It Jarow;
only at Jarrow the UniOnist candidate was sec
ond and the Liberal third, and at Colne Valley
the Liberal is second and the Unionist third
The most obvious lesson Of 1t is that In spite Of
their quite unprecedented favoring of the So
cialists and labor unlons-in the notification Of
the Taft Vale decision, in the employees indeIn-
nifty law and other measureS-the Liberals
have failed TO secure the support and cOOpera-
! ton Of those elements. Had the labor unions,
not to mention the Socialists, supported them,
the government candidates would have been
elected at both Jarrow and Colne Valley. But
instead they candidates Of their own and
the government candidates were defeated. That
in itself would be bad enough had the labor
ite detection simply let In Unlonsts over Liber-
, ais. But the actual result is far worse For
the seeding labOrites and Socialists have In
both cases elected their own candidates. and
thus have been encouraged TO repeat the process
at every by-electon, and Of course to do so on
universal scale at the next general election.
Meantime much talk has arisen among gov
eminent supporters Of altering the election laws
so az 10 require n majority vote. even at cost Of
second election-as Is the case now In Ger
many and other Continental countries. At pres
ent the English system ia Ike the American.
and plurality is sufficient to elect. OF course,
AT both Jarrow and Colne Valley the success
ful Socialists were elected merely by plurali-
: Ties. They fell far short Of maforitiaa and IL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-20

under the blight of Dingleyism, is actually
looking up The Times even comedies that
our foreign trade is increasing faster than our
population. gain of 100 per cent In a decade
is not to be whistled away llusory and In
consequential. Yet our contemporary still ey-
tracts some comfort from the observation that
the United States does not do rs great an ey-
port and import business in proportion to It's
wealth and population as Great Britain and
Germany DO. As we have shown on several oc-
casiOns. such tests OF relative Industrial growth
are misleading. They give no real cleW to in
duStral efficiency, because the Industrial situ-
alton In Great Britain and Germany is vastly
different from that in the United States Great
Britain cannot feed itself, can It maintain
its manufactures without drawing in enormous
quantities on outside fields OF supply. Its for
ei&n trade must bee abnmma.!T high and must
involve n large economic waste. The United
States. on the contrary. being self-dependent In
the matter of food and supplies can do as
great an export trade rs Great Britain on far
smaller proportion Of imports
The enormous growth Of our foreign trade in
the last year is one more proof of the persist
ence OF national prosperity. The United States
is becoming every year more efficient indus
tralIy and more a factor in the worlds trade
and production. 1t is becoming less and less 4
debtor and more and more a creditor patton.
So long as this general process continues we
shall enjoy m era OF national expansion. good
times and oil around activity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-20
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.
TBy Telegraph 10 The Tribune. ]


Newport. r. l.. July 19.-The tennis season vg,
be officially opened at Newport tomorrow with tb
beginning OF a mixed doubles handicap Tournament,
on the Casino courts. Nine teams are entered in
Guiding the best players Of the cottage colony.
The fete given on Wednesday at Oakland Farr,
the home Of Mrs. Alfred c. Vanderbilt. in Ports
mouth for the benefit Of st. Mary's Church. Melted
fully $1,000.
Mrs. Royal Phelps Carroll entertained at dinner
at her cottage this evening
Miss Elizabeth Buckley Nicholas is the guest n,
her sister. Mrs. James GriswOld Wentz who aIso
has as her week end guests Mr.. and Mrs James H
Hickey. Of New York
Paul j. Rainey has returned from New York On
his steam yacht. the Mirage
A dinner was given at Belmead Tonight by Mrs
George S. Scott Hugh D. Auchincloss also enter
tanned few friends at dinner.
Mr. and Mrs. George Peabody Wetmors have an
their guests Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick II. Allen o.
New York.
Mrs Thomas Hitchcock. IT., who has been III,
guest Of her rnotherin-law here for several daY,
has returned TO her home Long Island
Mrs C L. Best and her daughter. Miss ANNA
Best have gone to New London for short visit
Mrs. Reginald Bishop. who has been the guess
OF Mrs J. F. D Lanier. returned to New York to-
day.
James ]. Van Allen arrived IN Newport to-day TO
visit his son. James Laurens Van Alien. at Wake
hurst.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry 6 Redmond are the guests
Of Mr. and Nus Henry Redmond
Henry Clew- J. Do Wolf Cutting. Mr.. and Mrs
William S Wells James B. HaEgiu, ROder!ck
Terry. IT., Willard Brown. Miss Evelyn Burden.
Mrs c. l.. F. Robinson. ]. Fred Person f.. Charles
B. RiIlhouse LAspenard Stewart ]. Stewart Barney
and Charles ? 4 Gilbert returned from New York
this evening for TIE week end and some for ths
remainder OF the season
W O'D Iselin and Mrs. Henry May arrived to-
night. and are the guests Of Mrs. E r Thomas.
C. D. Wetrnore is visiting ogden Mills at Ocean
View.
S. L Cromwell, OF New York. Is the guest Of
MI and Mrs. A Gordon Norris-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-20
GOVERNMENT BY NEWSPAPER.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Apropos OF tho caution given by the visiting
Japanese admiral as 10 newspapers stirring up in
ternational Ill will. II would seem though the
boosted freedom Of the press was. in this cOun-
try as we'll ms in others becoming international
well a national nuisance. But. Of course
no politician would care to tackle them. But
statesman backed by the people might make II
possible for the government OF tho United States
To Kaiser Bill the yelpinG yellows-aS we'll the
so-caled state sovereignties.' irresponsible but
ters-in. who together liable any time 10
plunge into war the people. who in the end. have
to pay for that costly luxury. l trust shall live
TO the too free freedom the press and the
pothouse sovereignty OF striker state subordt-
mated to the true welfare OF the nation. and in
capable of violating a treaty any more than a
law. }. COUkTENEY.
New York. July Ia 1907.