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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-22
SUDDEN DEATH
Of OIL 0PERAT-
Or YESTERDAY
REMOVED TO GAINESVILLE,
WHERE HE DIED LAST NIGHT -
POLICE BAFFLED.

Last night the police department
was notified by the authorities a
Gainesville that man by the name
of J. C. Ashwood, supposedly an OF
operator In the Healdton field, was
taken violently insane on train mum
Der ), and was removed to a hospital
at Gainesville, where he died last
night.
The local authorities have been
asked to locate some of this mans
people, if possible, and notify them OF
the death. So far they have not sue.
ceeded
The man was well dressed, had a
gold watch and other jewelry on his
person, and between fifty and sixty
dollars. The authorities at Gainesville
are of the opinion that the man was
drugged. Deceased was about fifty
years OK age.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-22
MAYOR SAYS
ORDINANCE MIS-
UNDERSTOOD
NOT AIMED AT LOCAL GROWERS
OF VEGETABLES AND OTHER
GARDEN TRUCK MERELY APP.
PLIES TO lTINERANTS.

Mayor Mullen stated this morning
that he had received some complaint
from citizens of the city relative to
the peddling ordinance recently
passed, that necessitated great deal
of explaining on his part, but when
the citizens understood the matter
they were satisfied.
The mayor wants it distinctly under
stood that the ordinance is not aimed
at pedders of fruits and vegetables
grown by the vendor or local parties,
but merely to keep out the itinerant
vendor of any article that is sold
in the local stores, and to prevent
promscuous peddling all over the res
idence portion of the city.
Any market gardener in this vicin.
ity is at perfect liberty to sell his
stuff upon the streets of this city,
and the ordinance does not affect
them in the least, but it is the OBJ
ject OF the mayor and city commits
sioners TO protect the local mer-
chants against itinerant peddlers who,
as a rule, pay no tax whatever for
plying their trade.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-22
MERCHANTS
To PREPARE:
ORDINANCE
AT MEETING LAST NIGHT COM.
MlTTEE OF MERCHANTS WE'RE
ASKED TO HAVE THEIR ATToR.
NEYS DRAFT LAW.

AT the meeting of merchants with
the city commissioners last night the
question of transient merchants and
auction houses was thoroughly dis.
cussed and the mayor instructed the
merchants to have their attorneys
draft an ordinance which they de
sired passed and present to the board
this afternoon. The merchants agreed
to do this and the lawyers are pre-
pared to submit an ordinance which
they believe will cover the case sat
isfactorily.
In the past the local merchant,
who is resident, and pays heavy
taxes, has been compelled to compete
each holiday season with a lot of auc-
ton goods shipped here for bargain
sales by people who pay no taxes, and
who get by with the assessment
Of small occupation tax. This will
be remedied in future, as it is pro-
posed to make the tax so high that
it will be prohibitive, unless it can
be shown to the satisfaction of the
city administration that the prospect
i've merchant is in good faith, and
will remain here for as long as one
year, when he will be amenable to tax
alton
The ordinance will be submitted
to the mayor and board of commits
sioners this afternoon, after which
it may be passed at a special meeting
or be deferred until the next regular
meeting Tuesday night.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-22
RIOTiNG ABOUT THE TlOEWATER
OIL COMPANY'S PLANT AT BAY.
ONNE, N. j., INCREASES.
MEN SHOT BY GUARDS
Sheriff at 5ayonne Requested Cover
nor to Send State Militia to the
Scene Former Austrian Soldier
Led Charge Of Mob.

New York, July 22.-Two mer
were killed today in a riot in front
of the Tidewater Oil company's plant
in Bayonne, New Jersey, where sev
eral thousand oil workers are striking
against the Standard Oil company.
Both the men were shot by Tide
water company guards, when a large
crowd attacked the Tidewater plant
The Bayonne rioting increased during
the day and the sheriff there has
asked the governor to call out the
state militia
BY noon today, two men had been
killed and three wounded in the at.
tacks against the Tidewater Oil com
pany and the Standard Oil guards.
One of the wounded was a former
Austrian soldier, who led the charge
of the mob against the guards behind
some Standard Oil tanks.
The United States department of la
Dor has sent agents TO act as federal
conciliators in the strike.
This afternoon the number of
wounded at Bayonne had increased
to six.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-22
WEED CUTTING
IS No v IN
FULL BLAST
CITY AND PRIVATE PROPERTY
OWNERS ARE WELDING THE
BLADE AND BURNING RESULT
OF THEIR LABOR

The weeds of the city are rapidly
disappearing and the result is that
the city is far more slightly.
An edict went forth from the city
hall few days ago that weeds had
to be cut, and in order to set a good
example, the city administration pro-
ceeded to have the weeds cut upon
city property and along alleys. The
citizens caught the spirit and today
all over the city smoke can be seen
arising from burning weeds and other
debris.
The city is in a very sanitary con
dition, according to the city physician.
and it is going to be kept in that CON
dition, if the officers have the CO.
operation OF the citizens.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-22

London, July 22.-The Germa II,
|Austrians continue their great d., .
howard Warsaw today and are now
within twenty miles of Riga, the Rus
|sian seaport on the Baltic.
The Russians are making a most
desperate fight along the Lublin
|Cholm railway, the possession OF
which by the Germans might enable
them to cut the Russian army in Po.
and in two.
The Austrians claim they are with.
n rifle shot of this railroad and that
fhe Russians elsewhere are falling
back, repeating the tactics of Napo-
con by laying the entire country abb
6oIutely waste.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-22
GIRL KILLED IN RUNAWAY
Daughter of Milton Barker of Altus Is
Killed and Son Hurt

Altus, Okla, July 21.-The 4-year-
old daughter of Milton Barker was
killed and her brother, years of age,
was badly hurt in a runaway here
Monday. Mr.. Barker came to Altus
with wagon load of peaches, and
leaving his team in charge of the chill
dren who were in the wagon, went into
house. One of the lines dropped
and the boy stepped out on the wagon
tongue to get the line. The team be-
came frightened and ran away, turn
ing the wagon over and killing the
girl instantly.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-22
THE MERCHANT PRINCE

There was an old geeZer and he had lot of sense;
He started up business dollareighty cents.
The dollar for stock and the eighty for ad
Brought him three lovely dollars in a day by, dad
Well, he bought more goods and little more space,
And he played that system with smile his face.
The customers focked to his twoby-four,
And soon he had to hustle for a regular store.
Up on the square, where the people pass
He gobbled up a corner that was all plate glass.
He fixed up the windows with the best that he had
And he told them all about it in a half-page ad
He soon had 'em coming and he never quit,
And he wouldn't cut down on his ads bit
Well he's kept things humping in the town since
And everybody calls him the Merchant Prince.
Ford Bulletin
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-22
MAN BEARING LETTER ADDRESS
ED TO ]. C. ASHFORD OF Will.
SON, OKLA, DIES SUDDENLY.
MAN WAS POISONED
Believed That Poison Was Given Ok
Iahoman for Purpose of Robbng
Him - Sixty Dollars Found on His
Person.

Gainesville, Tex, July pa man
bearing a letter addressed to j. c.
Ashford, of Wilson, Oklahoma, died
here suddenly last night of what ply
sicians said was poison, given to com
nit robbery.
He got off a train here, saying his
stomach was burning up from drink
of whiskey which someone had given
him on the train.
The man had sixty dollars on his
person.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-22
:!'!l!!!C!:HER !!C!: RATES
EOiii EXPRESS
C0MPA PAN|ES
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMITS.
SION DECIDES THAT REVENUES
OF EXPRESS COMPANIES ARE
INADEQUATE.

Washington, July 22.-The inter
state commerce commission today de
cided that the revenues of the prin-
cipal express companies of the coun-
try are inadequate, and modified its
former orders so as to provide for
additional income.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-22
GERMANS AND AUSTR|ANS ARE
CONTINUING DRIVE To WARSAW
TEUTONIC ARMY REPORTED TODAY WITHIN
TWENTY MILES OF RIGA, RUSSIAN SEAPORT
ON THE BALTIC, AND CONTINUING VICTORI-
GUS PROGRESS THERE

Russians Giving Along Lubnchom
Possession Which Might
able them Cut
Claim of,
Russians Elsewhere Falling Repeating
Napoleon by Laying Again
Voses Here Attempting Valley
Rome Claims Further Italian Along
Seem Confident Taking
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-22
TO PAY $4,000 RANSOM
Relatives of Idaho Cattleman Fear He
Will Meet With Harm.

Idaho Falls, Idaho, July 21.-The IA
ther and relatives of e. A. Empey, the
cattleman kidnapped from his ranch
Saturday, decided today to pay the
$4,000 ransom demanded by the alb
ductors. The father asked the sher-
iff to withdraw his posse of cowboys.
Relatives fear that efforts to cap
ture the abductor will result in EN-
pey's being killed.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-22
INVESTIGATE OIL PRICES
Attorney General Says Texas Dealers
Have Raised Prices Recently

Austin, Texas. July 22.-The attor-
ney generals department is investi.
eating the recent increase in gasoline
prices. 1t is claimed that within six
weeks all dealers have raised the
price from nine or ten cents to thir-
teen cents.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-22
GERMAN NOTE ON WIRES, DUE
IN BERLIN TONIGHT ORFR|DAY
NOTE BEING CABLED TO BERLIN BY WAY OF
COPENHAGEN, HAVING BEEN CLEARED
FROM THE WASHINGTON WIRES DURING
LAST NIGHT.

Although Official Public the Sum-
Carried Yesterday and Which Ap
peared Wednesdays of Note
Will be Published Morning-Note Does Not Necessarily
Call for Answer of
Reported that Note Intmates
the Lustana Would Mean Assembling of
Note Places squarey Responsibility Any Act that
May Cause
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-22
Appointed Asylum Superintendent Mt.

Oklahoma City, Okla, July 21.-Dr
Charles V. Hill of Guthrie has been
appointed to be superintendent of the
state asylum for the insane at Fort
Supply. He succeeds Dr. E. s. Newell
who resigned a few days ago.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-22
Villas Army Threatened

El Paso, Texas, July 22.-It is re-
ported here that Villas army at Tor
reon is threatened with attack from
two sides, by General Obregon on the
south, and by troops from Monterey
on the east.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-22

Washington, July 22.-The new
American note to Germany is on it's
way to Berlin today. It was cleared
from the Washington wires during the
night and today is going over the ca
Bile via Copenhagen. 1t should reach
the German foreign office tonight or
early tomorrow.
The summary of this note as carried
in yesterdays Associated Press dis
patches, was correct. The note will
be published Saturday morning.
1t does not necessarily call for an
answer about the future conduct of
the German submarines. A notice of
what submarine conduct will be con-
sidered unfriendly, is stated as finai-
ty.
1t is expected that there will be fu-
ture discussion about the United
States willingness to act as an inter-
mediary between the beIigerents to
adjust the rules of maritime war;
fare, also about the Lustania repara-
ton.
1t is generally understood that an
other disaster, such as befell the Lu-
stania, would mean the immediate as
sembling of congress.
President Wilson believes that the
new note places squarey on Germany
the responsibility for any act that
may cause a rupture.
Among the points in the note are:
First. The assumption by the Unit
ed States that Germany by declaring
her submarine warfare to be re-
taliatory measure against the alleged
unlawful acts of her enemies, has ad.
mitted that the destruction of unre-
sisting merchantmen without warn
ing is illegal.
Second. German submarine COM
manders already have proved that
they can save the passengers and
crews of vessels and can act in con-
formity with the laws of humanity in
making war on enemy ships.
Third The United States can not
allow the relations between the bel
ligerents to operate in any way as
an abbreviation of the rights of neu.
trails, and therefore any violation of
the principles for which the American
government contends, resulting in a
loss of American lives, will be viewed
as ''unfriendly"
Fourth. The representations which
the American government has made
in previous notes Tor disavowal of the
to sink the Lusitania with
aboard and the request for
reparation are reiterated with renew
ed insistence.
Fifth. The American government
realizes the unusual and abnormal
conditions which the present conflict
has created in the conduct of mari
time war and is willing to act as an
as between the belliger-
ents to arrange a modus vivendi or
any other temporary arrangements
which do not involve a surrender by
he United States of its rights.
Sixth. The proposal by Germany
o give immunity to American ships
lot carrying contraband and to four
ships under the American
lag are rejected with the emphatic
assertion that to accept such sUgges-
ion would be to admit Germany's
light to set aside the American con-
ention based on fundamental princi-
lies in international law-that neu-
rails may travel anywhere on the high
cas- on unresisting ships of any ma
ionality, even If carrying contraband.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-22
Russians Are in Retreat

Berlin, July 22-The Austro- GER
nan forces have compelled the Rus
slams south of Warsaw to retreat into
he great fortress of Ivangorod. This
ort is closely invested.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-22

Work on the new Ringing depot is
progressing nicely. and within the
next thirty days It is expected that
business will be transacted from the
new office.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-22
WILL Re E-OCCUPY
MEXICO CITY
WITHIN WEEK
cARRANzA FORCES TO OCCUPY
MEXICAN CAPITAL AGAIN IN A
FEW DAYS-VILlA'S ARMY AT
TORREON THREATENED.

Washington, d. c., July 22.-The
state departments Vera Cruz dispatch
es today say that Carranza authorities
predict that they will re-occupy Mexi-
co City within the next week.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-07-22
WEATHER FORECAST

New Orleans. La, July 22.-
The weather forecast for Ok
lahoma is fair tonight and Fri
day. with not much change in
temperature.
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Evening star., 1915-10-24

wich. | see you most every day on the
stoop," he says.
SO we all three walks along to the SUBJ
way. Mr.. Bartolomeo McGinty, which
was his name, talks mostly to Sue, but
all the time he's looking at me. Peeking
up under the brim of my hat, I could see
his cheek shade from brown to blue high
up on the side where he began to shave;
and one corner of his eye, silvery bright,
with the long black lashes curling out
from it. And every other minute he'd
take a slant sideways at me, quick and
away. Pretty soon felt the back of my
neck melting and running down between
my shoulder-blades, and my knees acted
like their springs was broken. | was
scared stiff, and | didn't know why, be-
cause he wasn't nothing but a guinea boy
"Ain't you coming my way?" asks Sue,
when he stops at Union Square.
"Not tonight" says Bart "I got busi-
ness in Greenwich Village
SO Sue she shakes hands with him
like his fingers was red-hot, and beats it
for the train to the uptown dump where
she fancied she was living. Bart and me
walks back together, not saying very
much; but every time took flash under
my hat he was looking at me, so | got
scared some more and never knowed
which way we was walking till we come
slap into the wharfs on West Street.
At that ] wanted to go home; but he
says no, he wanted to talk piece And
somehow had to go along First thing
| knowed, we was off the street, and it
was dark as pitch all round: nothing to
see but the stars, and CLEAN of black
water in front of U.S. and rows of tiny
lamps away across on the New Jersey side
1t was private dock for one of them wop
steamship companies. And we stood
there and looked at each other, till could
see Bart's eyes burning black, with that
bright pearly CLINT in the corner. And
Evening star., 1915-10-24

him. "As for you and the rest of that
bunch of boobs, | wish you'd stay away
now and then"
Sammy he gets mad at this
Il seen you with that big guy at the
corner" he says. "What'd your mother
say if she knowed you was around town
with dago what runs peanut stand?'
"G'wan home" | says. "He runs three
fruit-stands, he does, and he's no more a
dago than you are; and if he was dago,
he'd still look a sight more like man than
you do" -
And | run past him upstairs.
MON didn't have much to say at first;
but after spell she opens out and asks
where | was all the evening | says |
been to the movies. SO Nom saws it
don't take all that time to see the movies,
and says stopped on the stairs to talk
to Sammy Leblanc. So that's all right.
But Nom thinks piece, and then she
says:
Victoria, you let me know of you
talking to any fellow what you don't
bring right along here" she says, "and
you'll hear something drop. You can
have all the friends you want right to
home, and Ill never say word-not if
half Greenwich Village is in the parlor
every night, burning gas and putting the
furniture on the bum. But don't you try
to run anything on the side, my girl.
And you needn't. toss your head at me,
neither-throwing your skirts about like
you was woman. You lack whole lot
Of being growed up yet" .-. -
She said lot more, but was away in
my room and climbing into bed by that
time, and | didn't get it good. -
Next day Susie and me goes uptown
and digs out the guy that advertised.
He was a shiny-faced fellow called Car
mon, sitting in bum Office with ratty
old screen and a crazy electric lamp, and
Evening star., 1915-10-24

a movie camera on three legs When he
seen me he jumps like he was shot.
"Gee, | thought you was somebody |
KNEW" he says. "You heard tell of Della
Bloom, didn't you? Well, | made Della,
you know. | thought at first you was
her. can make anybody that's got tai
ent, | can. But | don't give no more
lessons just now-there's too many inter-
fering people shopping around these days,
that don't want white man to get a
honest living"
He says he'll put us in the books and
let us know if anything turns up. Susie
offers him ten dollars, but he wouldn't
take no money that day, on account of
the snoopers, he said. He cussed them
good, whoever they was, and poured out
a drink from a bottle on the table, and
pretty soon his face got so shiny that he
looked like he'd been buttered while he
was hot.
al can make your fortune" he tells me,
"just like | made Della Blooms. You
don't need no lessons. can see from
here that you got talent, understand,
and I'm ready to sign you up right now
if you like"
He gets busy and writes an agreement
for me to give him half of my first years
salary, which he tells me was nothing,
because | couldn't expect to get into the
big money in less than year. | signs
it with his fountain pen, and he says to
have a drink on it. But Susie gives me
the wink, and we beat it,
WELL, all that week it seemed most
every night that something took me
past Greek Joe's on West Street. Bart
would come out of the soda Joint and fol-
low me up. Some nights he was busy
and couldn't stop long, but other nights
we went to the wop dock and sat on a
ledge, with our feet dangling right over
the water.
The water was like big lake of ink,
with dark buildings all around like
shapes cut out of black paper and pasted
on the sky; and away out on the river
the boats passed like ghosts carrying Ian
terms hooting to each other kinda mys-
terious and mournful. But here and
there was one all lit up like dance-hall,
and the shine of them came across to us
on the water till we could see the light
in each others eyes.
Was we happy? Say, happy don't be-
Sli w ttll dDouU IIlc! Anu lHeH you see
what Bart pulls on me after week of it.
1t was a very black night, and | could
just see his face like dab of kalsomine
against the wall.
"Looka here, Vic" he says, taking his
arm away. al gotta quit loafing around
here nights"
For gordsake!" whispers
"It's all right, honey, he tells me- an
figure up some way to see you pretty
soon. But | just bought some push
carts; and if ! don't look out for myself
them fellows I'm paying to run them will
leave me about enough profits to paint
the wheels with. gotta be up early and
watch my business.
Bart, for the love of heaven" says,
"tell me it amt no back-down? You're
not breaking anything to me that mean
little way?'
Per Bacco." says Bart, using wop
cuss like he sometimes did. "You got me
dead wrong, kiddo. Looka here-gimme
your hand" ..--... r.;
| did, and he puts it on great lump