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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-01-08

Annapolis Nd Jan s-GJyernor
Cro'hers vas !naugIrated a. chief
executive of Mar land today. sue.
ceeding Governor Warfield. Demo
crau from all over the state par.
uclpa'ed iu the ceremonies and made
the occasion a gala one for old An
uapOiis Numerous special trains
and steamers and private yachting
parties brought large crowds Of sight
scers
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-01-08

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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-01-08

l. gr.pIe coughs are d4nge.04. as
hey frequently develop pneumonia
Foley Honey and Tar not only stops
TIE cough 5l, heals and strengthens
ne lungs ~ that no serious results
need be feared The genuine Foley
Honey and Tar contains 10 harmful
drugs and i- .u yellow package
Refuse substitutes. 81
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-01-08
The Crescent Hotel
COL SIDNEY syCCS

The Crescent H0,e. IN t1.s c.-y
has been recently Te.-ru!she1
throughout and .s today the 5es.
equipped hos;elry 10 the city. We
are prepared % give the very best
accommodation u TIE travelling pub
lie and We solicit the patronage or
regular bcarders and -oomers. The
hotel has a nice sample room in
connection. AL the rooms have out
side exposure and are equipped With
bot and cold baths and are well
heated and the ventilation : perfect.
Rates. s2.o0 per day.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-01-08

Kennedys Laxative Cough Syrup
causes free yet gentle action Of
the bowels through which the cold
is forced out of the system. Chill.
dren Ike T. Contains 10 opiates
nor narcotics. Sold By W. T.
Frame. d.v
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-01-08
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS,
TCrfup. and TamnrroA Marpt0e

sun sets i:fG; rises, 7.2O. Moon
sets, 1887 ?. m. Moons age. 3 days.
{ % .. m, moon In conjunction with
Mar pasaing 8 degrees south Of the
planet, ON west 10 east.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-01-08

Garland" Gas Stoves heat when
others fail. FOR sale only at
STEVENS, KENNERLY &
"a SPRAGINS co
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-01-08

Garland Gas Stoves heat when
others fail. for sale only at
STEVENS. KENNERLY &
"a SPRAGINS co.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-01-08

An engagement goes on in grand
opera, marriage In ragtime.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-01-08

The reason a gir, likes 20 have a
chaper0n is 50 4 won't be her moth
er.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-13
A QUIET SILENCE

The political course of the Grand
Forks Herald is being regarded with
considerable curiosity by it's readers.
From one of most blatant of insurgents.
from the high and mighty role of pro-
phet, priest and king of the progressists,
from the dictatorship of senatorial and
other candidates for the political pessi-
mists of the state, it has dropped below
the the level of quiet country weekly
as political soothsayer. 1t has gotten
so still that it's Hansbrough hurricanes
have dwindled to the gentleness of
zephyrs; it don't even seem to know
"what is the matter with Hanna" and
has Little to say about the man from the
slope; as for Marshall who should be it's
logical candidate, if it had letter from
enquire" or "Subscriber" as to his
political whereabouts. it would proba-
bly, ask the correspondent to please give
initials so that they could look him up in
the directory.
OF course all this is none of our busi-
ness and is only an expression of natural
curiosity, but just the same, bets are be-
ing made that the Herald will be found
mildly supporting Hans before''this cruel
war is over.''
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-13
DOES NOT APPLY TO
THE FIFTH DISTRICT,

A. meeting of the states attorneys
of North Dakota, held at jamestown,
resolutions we're passed deploring the
fact that so many criminal cases were
reversed by the supreme court on tech
nical grounds, it being stated that in
the entire United States forty-six per
cent of the criminal cases appealed were
reversed by the higher courts and new
trials ordered.
We are glad to say this condition does
not obtain in the Fifth judicial district.
Judge Burke of this district has presided
at over two hundred criminal trials dur
ing his four year term, this number in
cluding ten murder trials and nearly
one hundred other felonies; he has tried
and sentenced nearly hundred men to
the state penitentiary, and over a hum
dred to the.county jails.
During this time not single criminal
case tried before him has been reversed
by the supreme court; not a single
county has had to bear the expense of a
new trial in criminal case.
The election of judges of Judge
Burke's type would do much to remedy
the condition of which the states attor
ueys complain.-Valley City Times
Record.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-13
the individual ezponents to the party

the individual exponents to the party
each represents, the logic is the same.
In other words give the Democratic
party all due credit for the same good
intentions as those of the Republican
party, what benefit is possible by the
change other than change, which in
itself must be other than beneficial, for
no great political upheaval like that
can occur without damage to the
country.
AS to the general idea that there are
no political issues, the success of the
Democratic party at the succeeding
election would soon prove the contrary.
People who were of mature age at the
time that the Cleveland surprise was
sprung on the country will be able to
tell the younger voters all about that.
If Mr.. Bryan should happen to be
elected, there will be plenty of partisan
ship after the fourth of next March.
Hence, it behooves the Republican
party of North Dakota to see that this
state remains in the Republican column.
1t is an issue of vastly more importance
than the ambition of either of the can
didates for senator or representative.
In the minor Offices. it does matter
whether Republican or Democrat is
elected. Not perhaps personally, but
every official stands for and exercises
large influence for the party. Every
democrat elected works for and uses all
his power for his party and he does it
just the same even il he does owe his
election to the favors of Republican
majority.
Some people say and think that parti-
sanship is an unmitigated evil. We say
when the day comes that there are no
more parties, then the days of the repub-
lie are numbered.
We are for parties as against persons,
whether those persons are within or
without the party lines. The basis OF
the government of this great nation is
and always has been parties and parti-
sanship-and no better government has
been seen under the sun.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-13

that they could be built without the
costly drawbridge that the government
now requires. On the other hand, when
the railways get to charging too high
freight there is always the river trans
portation to 60 to. Personally we think
that as time goes on the river as nav
igable stream will be of less ana less
utility. That seems to be the tendency
even on the greater rivers that are really
highways to the ocean, and there is no
apparent reason for the tendency to
change in the future. Millions of dol
lars have been spent on the Mississippi
during the last fifty years in improve
ments while the river traffic has steadily
decreased. Forty years ago st. Louis
had about two miles of steamboats, on
her levees, and today the spectator will
see perhaps dozen river craft in that
port.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-13
FERTILITY OF VALLEY SOIL.

This writer is an "agriculturalist" as
distinguished from "farmer." We
have been in this business for almost
thirty years in this country and have
lost enough money at 1t to claim some
experience and knowledge. Prof. Shaw,
who was here at the institute last week,
is, or has been, farmer. We have
great respect for him and his opinions,
but when he goes around the country
and says to the farmers and others that
we of the Red River valley have been
farming to wheat continuously so long
that we have exhausted the fertility of
the soil" we beg to differ with him. The
soil of this valley, SO far as this genera
tion and several generations to come is
concerned, IS simply inexhaustible. The
theory that we cannot raise the big
crops of the early years is not true.
Every once in while there is a sgood
year" and this same "played out" soil
gives an old time crop, not in one place,
but generally, and this on lands contin-
uously farmed to grain for long series of
years previously, without any particular
change in cultivation. In the year 1895
almost any piece of land was good for at
least twenty bushels to the acre, and
quarter sections went thirty bushels and
more, and this after most of that land
had been continuously in wheat for ff-
teen years.
Now this writer is not attempting to
argue that continuous cultivation of the
same crop is desirable, or that the soil
will not deteriorate from such cultiva-
tion, though the fact was brought out at
the last institute that the majority Of
the farmers present had observed no
special average decrease in crops for the
last twelve years when the effect of the
seasons was taken into consideration.
Personally, we believe that continuous
cultivation of one crop does bring an
undesirable condition in the soil but it
is not lack Of fertility as that term is
usually and commonly understood.
What we generally understand by fer
tility is the difference between a soil
composed Of sand or rock and soil
composed Of loan or humus. There ia
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-13
BRIDGE THE RED.

Just at time when special efforts are
being made to open up the Mississippi
and Missouri rivers to navigation or to
increased facilities for navigation, the
U. s. is ready to listen to people who
want to close the Red river from Grand
Forks northward and permit fixed
bridges, ETC., and have appointed March
18th as the time and Fargo as the'place
for such hearing as per notice given
elsewhere in this paper. Really, how
ever, there are two sides to this matter.
1t is well known that navigation on this
stream is practically at standstill and
down northward this river is quite mar
row and bridges would be inexpensive
las we'll as very convenient. provided
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-13
HUMAN LIFE Is CHEAP.

There is little doubt that this country
is criminally careless of human life
Business, speed, economy, and often
mere bungling are all put ahead ol
human life. The horrible annual slaugh
ter of the railways, the everyday victims
of the the autos, the smothered denizens
of the sweatshops and factories, seem to
be considered as necessities while now
and then some awful holocaust makes
! but mqmentary shudder through the
general public:
There is not tie slightest doubt that a
very large part of all this annual slaugh.
ter could be prevented, but it would
require first regular system of laws
and their execution. and more than all
an expenditure of money.
Such things as the Slocum steam
boat disaster, the Iroquois theater fire,
the late burning of the hall at Boyer
tewn and last weeks burning of the
school children at Cleveland make the
people think-for just a moment and
then the world goes on as before. What's
ieverybody's business is nobody's busi-
ness.
We notice that since the later case it
has caused the school authorities to
start the fire drill in the public schools
again, but really these are but poor de-
fenses. There was a fire drill in the
Cleveland case, but two of the teachers
proved with their lives that a lot of
frightened children stand for moth ing
when throughly scared-and facts show
that adults are worse than children in
such cases.
These things are good and will help,
put The real remedy is that full means
Of exit be provided. It won't matter
then how they go out, if there is only
plenty room to get out.
We are are afraid that in this North
Dakota of ours that there are very many
school rooms of two stories where if the
fire should happen to be at or near the
stairway that there would be trouble
and life would be lost, while we think a
very large number of the "halls' and
''opera houses" are just fire traps, with.
out proper means of exit even for a
crowd that is not badly scared.
We hope to see the next legislature
add this to the duties of the hotel in
spector. He is doing some good worl,
in this direction in the hotel business
and it would not add very seriously to
them to have him look after the school
houses and public halls-and othe.
public gathering places.
An ounce of prevention is worth many
human lives sometimes.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-13

AS we write the political battle in this
state is beginning in the local caucuses of
the Republican party. As we observed
in late issue it is very evident that a
spirit of conservatism has come over the
large part of the party and even the
extremists are comparatively silent.
This means that the voters are realiz-
ing that this is not altogether fight
between a number of ambitious indi-
viduals but an issue of party principles.
1t is true that at the present; time the
issues between the two great parties are
not SO strongly and distinctly defined as
in days of slavery, but there are issues
of vast Importance. New issues have
arisen every year since the civil war and
every time such new questions have
come into view, the grand old Republi-
can party has taken the right side, and
so far as they have been solved, they
have always been settled right.
The issues that arose from the condi-
tions after the civil war both political
and financial, the issues that were the
results of the Spanish war including
Cuba, Porto Rico and the PHILIPPINES
have all been settled in the Republican
way by the Republican party and
against the strong opposition of the
Democratic party.
Now the great issue is that of corpor-
alton greed, and the concentration of
wealth in the hands of a few. Against
this stands Rooseveltism which is the
exponent of what the Republican party
as party, stands for to-day.
It is very true that many in the Demo.
cratic party believe in reform along these
lines, including the great "commoner;'
but there is this great distinction; Mr..
Bryan and his followers stand on the
pages Of history as absolute failures on
almost every issue of the many import
ant ones that have appeared during that
eventful period, of which the most pro-
minent we're the silver question and the
PHILIPPINE issues.
Now suppose for the sake Of argument
we grant that Mr.. Bryan is equally in
earnest as Mr.. Roorevelt in reference to
the corporation issues and other similar
matters, why change? Certainly Mr.. B.
could and would be no better, while on
on the other hand why replace man
who has always been success with a
man who up to this time has always
been . failure? And to change from
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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-13

vast difference between sleeping
man and dead man. It is the differ.
ence between capability and ability.
The dead body is incapable, the sleeping
body is capable but not able.
We don't like Prof. Shaw to assume
that the valley soil is dead. 1t may be
sleeping, but it is just as capable as
ever-but it may need waking in places;
Where the waters of old lake Aggasiz
used to lie, there is now some twenty
feet of alluvial deposit, any part OF
which has all the necessary chemical
constituents for the growing of wheat.
A few men have been scratching over
some parts of this great surface to the
depth of about four or five inches fol
about twenty five years-and yet the
learned professor goes about declaring
that we have exhausted its fertility.
Possibly the meaning of the professor
and this writer might not be so different
if we were to get together and compare
notes, but in the ordinary meaning ol
the term, there is just as much "fer.
tility" in the soil of the Red River valley
as there ever was, except that small
amount which has teen taken out by
our few years of farming, and which loss
we defy the chemist to discover, and
really amounts to no more in the aggre.
Gate than If the Same nl1mher If IA rners
had been engaged in hauling water with
their teams for the same time from the
Atlantic ocean and Prof. Shaw tried to
find the hole they had left therein.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-13
Navigation of the RedRiver.

A public hearing will be held in the
United States court room, Fargo, N. D.,
at 10 o'clock, a. M, on Wednesday,
March 18th, 1908, to consider the ques-
tion of navigability of the Red river of
the north, between Breckenridge, MINI.
and Grand Forks, North Dakota. This
portion Of the river has been hitherto
considered navigable, and has been in
cluded in the project for improvement.
Application has been made to the War
Department to have the river declared a
non-navigable stream. The question to
be decided is whether it is desirable to
abandon the project of improvement,
and allow the stream to be closed to ma
vigation by dams fixed bridges or other
structures. All persons having interest
in the matter are requested to submit
statements in writing in order that the
case may be properly presented to the
War Department.
FRANCIS R. SKUNK,
Major, Corps of Engineers.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-13
Official Directory

U S Senators i E MIg,,.1, MMsgnsb5oueh ,9s4
y I tati1es MiSRaesen- 4 AhGs Gronna r maasha"
Governor-John Burke
lieutenant GoyernerER s ~ Lewis
sseEeteIy sts Of stateAif,sd Antesldn Blaisde
Attorney Geperal1T F Mccue
Railroad Com e ..i Dsisem
nlissioners Simon nsa'n& Westbv
supt of Pub Inst-W L Stockwell
Conn Conn ar q ns"Eshss e IaSoT-M SGSSBss GlBfeath
1udrer essss Ct Supreme z F|sS ss,s,nx F%|S5xnn
STATE SENATORS
End bist2F A Halliday. Crystal
REPRESENTATIVES
1st District Walter Weiford, Neche
s II kes1ameyer Cav'r
End District John Johnson; Gardar
Judge:.7th Jud. Dist-WJ j KneeshaW
CQUNTY:oFFICIALs
States Attorney.-M Brynjolfson
SACILA- NOdOAOu6C
Auditorium. w. Felsotl
Treasurer-Eiis Th0fwaidson
Register of Deeds-John F Gill
County JudRe-H G Wick
Supt of SchOols-F NJ Sherarts
Surveyor-F E Hebert
} Coroner-Dr W NJ Brown
Public Adnlinistrator-TR r Shaw
(1st-F G. Myrick, Fembina
co,,+,, 2nd-S Sigurds0n, Gardar
Gom'rs 3rd-Adam Norton. Caval'r
So 10 4th-J N Horgan, Neche
l5th-Wm Bigwood, st Tho's
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-13
Teacher Wanted.

With second or third grade certificate
to teach term Of six months, beginning
April 10th. Applications received until
April lst. State salary wanted.
W. 7. RENE,
Clerk District No. Sc,
r. F. D. I, Neche, N. D.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-13
PARTISANSHIP

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-30
coLER WILL VISIT BRYAN.
New Yorker Says He Favors the Anti.
 Injunction Plank.

New York, June 29.-Bird s. Coler, pres ident of, the Borough of Brooklyn, who will start tomorrow for the national dem- ocratic convention at Denver as head of the Brooklyn delegation seated by the state convention, said:
 q am for an anti-injunction plank in the platform, and by this l mean the Gompers plank, which simply requests that an injunction be not granted upon trivial grounds, and that when man is arrested for contempt he be given a trial by jury. It does not seem to me there is any thing unfair or anything hostile to the courts in this.'
 MT. Coler sald he would support Bryan and will stop off at Lincoln on his way to Denver at the request of the Nebraskan MT. Coler and the other Brooklyn dele gates seated by the state convention will be contested at Denver by P. H. Me Carren and his supporters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-30
POISONING CASE
 IS SENSATIONAL Doctor Dies After Drinking
 Poisoned Ale DECOY LETTER RECEIVED Physician Realizes He Is Poisoned as Soon as He Drinks the Beverage and Saves His Wife From
 Drinking 1t.

Philadelphia, June 29.-The laying bare of a most sensational murder is prom ised by the authorities in the case of Dr. William H. Wilson of this city, who died at his home on Friday night, after drink ing a portion of a bottle of ale, which had been sent to him for trial. An autopsy performed by the coroner's phy- sician and an examination of the viscera taken from. the body today, according to the coroner, proves conclusively that Dr. Wilson died of cyanide of potassium poi soning. The ale came to the physician on Tuesday a week ago by express, and in the mail on the same day he recelveo a letter in typewriter form purporting to have been sent by the Peter Schemm Brewing company of this city, informing him that a sample bottle of the ale had been sent to him for trial.
 Investigation sh owed, according to the police auth critics. that Schemm brews no ale and that the company never sent any such letter as that re- ceived by Dr. Wilson. After receiving the ale, Dr. Wilson put it in the re- frigerator in his North Seventh street home. On reaching home Friday he sat down with his wife and decided to try the bottle of ale. He had scarce ly swallowed half a glass of the bev- craze when he was seized with con- vulsions and fell to the floor. It is declared that he immediately realized that he was the victim of poisoning, for in his agony he requested his wife. who had not yet touched her portion of the ale, to keep that which was left. as it did not taste right.
 That was the last thing he was able to say and he died before the hospital was reached.
 The police officials have learned. they allege, that pr. Wilson attended during 8 fatal illness a member of the family of young man who will be charged with being the poisoner. The death, it is alleged, caused the young man to brood until he could no longer contain himself, when he sought to put an end to the physicians practice by sending him poison, rather than go into court and have his family exposed to the world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-30
TROOPS MUST GO
 TO RIVER AT ONCE

San Antonio, Tex, June 29.-By order of the war department federal troops of the department of Texas under command of Brig. Gen. A. l.. Myer have been or dered to proceed without delay to the Mexican border for the purpose of pre- serving the neutrality law between the United States and Mexico.
 Practically all of the troops in the de- partment are now at, or on their way to Leon Springs, where the joint maneu- vers are to be held commencing July ?.
 Mai William Lassiter, adjutant general department of Texas, Fort Sam Houston, received official notification from the war department ordering the troops to the Mexican border at 11:15 o'clock tonight and these were at once dispatched to General Myer at headquarters at Leon Springs The order called for immediate action
 Upon receiving the order. General Myer and his staff held conference at 11:30 o'clock. It was made known that the Third cavalry would be sent to the Mexican line. They will leave camp to- morrow morning.