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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21

have laws to conserve oil, we have
laws to control the big companies,
and every friend of Oklahoma ought
to cease this everlasting abuse and
lend what intelligence he has and
at least lend his full loyalty to the
support of the corporation commits
sion of this state, which, we abso-
lutely believe, will use its very best
endeavor to solve the problem in a
manner that will be fair to every
producer in Oklahoma and fair to
every man who has invested his
money in this state.
AS a part of the public press of
Oklahoma, and as paxt whose
prosperity depends in part upon
the prosperity of men in the oil
business, it will be made our busi-
ness to uphold, as best we can, the
efforts of the corporation commission
to control the production of oil and
to restore it to price where there
will be profits to oil men and pros
perity to the whole state as a result.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21

MONEY TO LOAN-Applications re-
ceived for loans from 800 to S10,-
900, on improved and unimproved
town property and farm lands. In
terest per cent straight. Interest
payable annually or semi annually
Time one to ten years. Applicants
for loans will please give descrip-
ton, location, and valuation OF
property offered as security for
loan. State Improvements and
valuation of same.
We want county representatives
to receive applications for loans,
appraise property and serve as our
exclusive representative. Attorney
or real estate man preferred. APP
plicants for loans, and applicants
for agencies, positively required
TO furnish at least two character
references and forward postage,
five 2-cent stamps. for application
blanks, full particulars and prompt
reply Write Southern Office,
Southeastern Mortgage Loan Assn,
Fourth Natl Bank Bldg, Atlanta,
Ga. 21-3
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21
LOYALTY TO CORPORATION
COMMISSION

Oil journals of the state are rife
with speculation as to how the new
oil conservation law is to be en-
forced. The majority of these publi-
cations are inclined to criticise the
law. Those which favor the pipe
lines are no less bitter than those
who are working solely in the inter
est of the producer. In this they
seem TO be united in their opinions.
1t is our understanding that the
corporation commission will not Act
in a hasty manner. 1t is inclined
to wait until the legislature has ad-
journed. it will wait until the mem.
bers Of the commission and the pro-
ducers agree upon some plan of ac-
tion. Producers hold widely differ
ing opinions-it is hard to enforce
an order when half the producers
favor it and the other half stand
out in opposition. The commission
knows this. and the commission is
made up Of sensible men. The pro-
ducers who need protection should
feel their responsibility in the mat
ter and arrive at a definite con-
clusion as to what they desire to
have done.
The Ardmoreite has stated before,
and II reasserts that opinion, that
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21

BIDS
once Of the State Capitol Commission
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Sealed bids will be received at this OF
fee until 10 o'clock A. NJ, on the 25th
day of February. 1915. and at that tim
publicly opened, for supplying the fol
lowing material to be used in the con-
crete frame of the Oklahoma State Cap
itol Building at Oklahoma City, Oklaho
ma, in accordance with the specifications
ana form of proposal, copies of which
may be had at this office or the office or
the architects, Layton & Smith, 1Ol Ma
jestic Building. Oklahoma City, Oklaho-
2S. 500 IT. y Inch Conduit; 21.5OO IT. a
inch Conduit: 100 4-inch round outlet
boxes, = Inch hole; $50 4-inch round out
outlet boxes single gang covers; 26o sin
gle-gang switch boxes; is three gang
switch boxes: l four gang switch box;
five-gang switch boxes; 1910 fixture
studs with store bolts; 700 q Inch lock
nuts and bushing; 2.200 ia-inch Lock nuts
and bushing; % floor boxes; 100 4-inch
round extension rings; PSI floor boxes for
buzzer system.
Each bid must be accompanied by n
certified check for the sum of Five 90
per cent of the amount of the bid, To be
forfeited, assessed as Hquidated dam
ages in case the bidder fails, neglects or
refuses to comply with the conditions or
agreements of his bid.
Bids must be in duplicate, the original
to be filed with the capitol commission.
and an exact copy of the same filed with
the Secretary of State. An affidavit shall
be enclosed with the original bid to the
effect that the copy filed with the Secre-
tary of State is true and exact copy OF
the original bid.
All bids will be submitted to the duly
authorized committee OF the legislature
for their advice and approval
The right is reserved by the capitol
commission to reject any and all bids
BY order Of the state capitol commits
sion this % day Of January. 1915.
By 7. J. GOULDING.
Attest: Chairman.
IRA MITCHELL.
Secretary. A-lm
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21
SUNDAY RECREATION

II Is really an occasion Of surprise
that the Oklahoma Legislature would
arrogate to that body the control OF
the entire state. Democracy in Amer
lea has always stood for federal con-
troll of federal business, and state
control OF state business, and state de-
mocracy demands state control OF
state affairs and municipal control
of municipal affairs, and there is no
excuse for taking a different stand
unless a really grave question-One
affecting the very lifeblood and liber-
ties of the people confronts the law
making body.
What reason a man can bring to
bear that would lead him to vote to
outlaw the picture show on Sunday,
is a puzzle. Why a man elected to
public office should feel the RESPONSE
bility of the religion of the people, is
difficult to understand. He belongs
to a generation that has long since
passed.
There are terms upon which the
people will gladly agree with this type
of law-maker. If he will first arrange
the business world so no man will
have to work all the week, If he will
pass laws that will give men and
women time for recreation during the
week, then the people will be glad to
see places of amusement and recrea-
tion closed on Sunday. But until then,
the people demand that some pleas
ure be left them. The clerk, the print
er, the barber, the carpenter, the brick
layer, the men in every line of en-
deavor need recreation as well as idle
people. Divide the word recreation
thus, recreation" and you will un-
derstand what II means. 1t means to
side of life that tends to little So
cial pleasure, ii Is just as necessary
to health and to success and whole
some morals as work The travelling
man who must stay away from his
wife and daughter during the entire
week, runs in home on a Saturday
night train, he must leave Monday
morning at 6 o'clock. A trip down
town Sunday afternoon with the wife
on one side and the daughter on the
other is his greatest hour of pleasure
and the happiest hour his family has.
Is there man in the state legsla-
ture, who would deny this family the
pleasure of stepping into a picture
show? In the name of righteousness,
If the picture show is harmful on the
Sunday, it is harmful on any other
day of the week, and it ought to be
run out of the state.
No man can have religion legisated
into him The man who has not been
led to the Christian religion by the
memory of his mothei cannot be
placed in that frame of thought by a
member of the legislature with all the
blue laws that ever cursed the land.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21

IF YOU DON'T KNOW where to get
the best shoe work done, ask your
neighbor. If he don't know, tell him
We repair 'em while you wait The
best of leather only used. All work
guaranteed at Dixons We buy
mems old shoes. No. B ST., n. w.
24-1m
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21

the bill was designed to protect pro-
ducers from themselves. If judgment
and the rules of self-preservation
had guided their activities the oil
situation would not be disturbed
today, and the price would never
have gone below 75c a barrel.
The president of the Prairie Oil
and Gas company, which is reputed
TO be the purchasing company for
Standard Oil in the Cushing field, ad-
vised producers to cease drilling ac-
tiyities a number of months ago,
and pointed out just such conditions
as confront the oil business today.
The same company now refuses to
drill in the well at Paden. If that
well were drilled in and a pool were
developed of the magnitude Of Cush-
ing or Healdton, oil in Oklahoma
would go to 1Oc., and wreck and ruin
would come to many of the small oil
companies
The discovery of big fields, the ac-
tive production of oil on the part OF
producers. are responsible for the
oil situation, and not the subsidiaries
of the Standard Oil company. We
have an idea that the Standard
would rather pay a better price for
oil if a better price would Reep out
of the state a dozen small refineries
which have sprung up as result
of the present food of oil. These
refineries will be in the way of the
big refineries later on and it is prob
ably good business on the part of
the Standard to discourage them in
building.
A member of the legislature is re-
puted to have made the boast that
he would put Standard Oil out OF
the state This legislator ought to
know that Standard Oil serves
useful purpose in this state. 1t re-
quires millions of dollars to build
pipe lines; it requires millions TO
build great refineries, and it requires
other millions to own oil steamers
that are necessary to carry oil to
foreign markets.
Standard Oil has men everywhere
looking for markets. 1t has given
away shiploads of kerosene lamps
to encourage the Chinese to burn oil
this work is being done to build
up a market for oil products of the
United States. Standard Oil has
built laboratories and employed the
best chemists to discover the by
products of petroleum al! of when
makes oil more valuable, and creates
a market for it.
The oil business is a big bust
ness. 1t requires great wealth to
handle it. If great wealth was not
interested in oil. an oil well in Okla
homa would not be worth any more
hlldu wei VI NllutIdl water. IL
the wealth of Standard Oil was not
in the business, the wealth of some
other company would be controlling
it, and if some other company did
not control it, then the federal gov
ornment would. because it requires
a vast investment to care for the
production of the country.
This country is forging toward
government ownership and until that
time arrives, We have no right tc
waste our energies in abusing the
very companies that are purchasing
what we have to sell. That ENERGY
should be used in an effort to con-
troll. Pipe lines have been made
common carriers by the federal gov
ernment they are common carriers
under the laws OF our own state, we
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21

CITY LOANS-We have money to
loan on choice improved Ardmore
property, on five-year plan, inter-
est mi-annually. w. S. Wolver-
ton & Son, n. Washington st.
Phone 21. Him
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21
SALE SIN EN-

statesmen to call on grocers, con-
fectioners, general stores, $3.50
monthly and expenses; yearly con-
tract. Manager S. Street, st. Louis,
Mo.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21

A REAL SNAP-A beautiful lot, one
block south of Main street,on e,
$1,000; $500 cash, balance $500
monthly. Must trade quick or no
trade. See b. S. Curtis or Roy
Shores. 17-1m
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21

SALE-At Keller, Okla
homa, on Tuesday, February 23,
1915, at IL o'clock, a. m. | will sell
to the highest bidder, for cash, the
w. F. Clowdus, bankrupt, stock of
merchandise, invoicing about $4,000,
good clean stock, and about $3.50
OF notes and accounts. E. d. Suogh,
Trustee. 1a.2
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21
PERSONAL

SEE z. E. GUILLoT-Bargalns IN
real estate. Loans in the Georgia
State Insurance in the best ol
companies. No. 8 n. Washington
or phone S32-L. 15-1m
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21

FOUR LOTS in College Hill Addi-
tion to trade for Chickasaw Lake
stock or auto. w. ID. Taliaferro.
21tf
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21
FINANCIAL.
Farm Loans
LASHER & PRESNELL loft

FARM LOANS-Plenty OF money at
low rates. w. B. Frame. elm
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21
HELP WANTED.

WANTED-Reliable woman; must be
good cook; permanent place to right
party. Phone 725. 21-3
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21
FARMS AND CITY PROPERTY

~ WV rnOreh ! Y.
CAN FURNISH YOU-Any Size
at Dixon's the Quick Repair Man.
tract from acres to any size
tract you want. part cash, balance
In five years, at 6 per cent and s
per cent ! have farm land 10
trade for Ardmore property. If you
have any property to sell, rent or
trade, see me. ]. Z. McCarty.
Otnce phone No. 40. 27-1m
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21
TO ExCHANG GE.

WANTED TO TRADE-Two-story
modern residence on West Main
St, for smaller place Phone Green
SS2. 1913
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-Set S. c. Rhode Island
Red eggs for 75c, or s4.00 per hun
dred Phone sos. 14tf
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21

SALE - Notice is
hereby given that on the 26th day
of February, at o'clock p. m, |
will sell to the highest bidder for
cash, the stock, furniture and fix
lures of the business formerly own
ed by Campbell & Campbell. The
sale will be held at the store of j.
j, Chandler, trustee 21-4
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21
MISCELLANEOUS WANTS

FRUIT TREES-Best quality, lowest
prices. Write to P. w. Taylor, Wal
dron Nurseries. Waldron, Ark. 1876
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21

letters at home all or
spare time; s. to s25 weekly; pen
or typewriter. No canvassing.
Enclose addressed stamped envel-
ope for reply. The Columbia Copy
Co., Petaluma, Cal.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21
REAL ESTATE

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. lot within
three blocks of Main street, and
within three blocks west of Wash
ington street. Address Box 613.
17-3
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21

WANTED-To do your building. loan
you money on long time and low
interest, frse plans and speciflca
tions. W. D. Taliaferro. contractor
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21

LOST = Between Westheimer &
Daube's and the postoffice. yester-
day. medal awarded to John
thompson at the High school Fri
day night Return to this office or
TO j. {. Thompson. 21-3
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21

CAPPER'S WEEKLY-Valley Farm
er, Household, Woman's World, and
Fancy Work Magazine, all one year
for rs cents; coupon good for so
transfer patterns, -ree. order today.
Guarantee Subscription Co., Ard
more, Okla.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21
LOST AND FOUND.

LOST-Pair lineman's spurs on w.
Main street yesterday. Finder re-
turn to Ardmore Ice, Light & Power
Co. X. ID. Hardin. 19-3t
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21

$500 ANNUALLY-Co-operate with
me evenings at home. Everything
furnished. Don't worry about cap
ital. Boyd II. Brown, Omaha. Neb.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21

WE MAKE your old mirrors new
at w. C. Downing's Fur. Store
Phone 1873 Tim
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21
FOR RENT

FOR RENT-Nicely furnished cot
tage; modern. Phone 375. loft
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21

FOR RENT-Niceiy furnished front
room, close in. Phone 641. 6tf
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WANTED-At once, young men for
automobile business. Big pay. We
make you expert in ten weeks by
mail. Pay us after We secure you
position. Century Automobile In
stitute, Los Angeles, Cal.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21
LIVESTOCK.

MY FINE JERSEY BULL vii make
season at my barn on West Main
Street. VIII call for COWS. Phone
blue $50. Will Cardwell. 4-lm
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21

WANTED TRAVELLER for 1915.
Age p to 80. Experience unnec-
essary. Salary. commission and
expense allowance to right man.
]. E. McBrady, Chicago, H.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-02-21

BECOME Railway Mail Clerks; Ard
more mail carriers, s65 to $3.50
month. Pull unnecessary Schedule
of winter and spring examinations
free. Franklin institute, Department
344-B, Rochester, n. Y. 7-S-5
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03
HOLD X BIG DANCE
Scores of Passengers From Admiral Watson Attend the Dance of the
 Northern Order.

The dance given last Saturday night by the Pioneers of Alaska, Igfoo No. 2. and the ladies auxiliary, was one of the largest affairs of the sea- son and besides the many members of the two organizations in Valdez and their friends scores of the pas sengers of the Admiral Watson, which arrived at 9 o'clock Saturday night and left at 1. attended the dance and enjoyed themselves immensely and were greatly surprised at the splen- did management of the affair.
 Although the arrival of many unex- pected gu, sts made heavy demands on the attention of the committees 1t was but a short time. until intro auctions of the new corners to Alaska. and the men and women who have spent the past fifteen years in the north. were effected and the dance was continued.
 The lunch served at midnight was exceptionally good.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03
HERE
 SAY EXAMINERS
Reports From Bank Examiners Show Conditions Continue To Improve
 In All Sections.

WASHINGTON, May 3.-Tbe az ents of the Federal Reserve Board report that financial conditions in all parts of the United States show a wonderful improvement and that con- ditions point to an era of prosperity the like of which the United States has not seen for many years. Bank reserves are heavy and money is seeking investment while factory owners are preparing to branch out in order to supply the great demand for American manufactured goods to take the place of the goods shut of from Europe by the war between the powers.
 The improvement shown the past few months in all parts of the coun- try has been remarkable and the ad. ministration officials are certain that the hard times cry will not be raised at the next election.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03
PRIEST DIES
 SAVING |;iI| GIRL as Fought To Protect Girl From Her In.
 .t--, .tir- sane Admirer and Is Himself
 Murdered.

PALM BEACH, May 3.-Father Re: infes, Catholic priest of this city, was killed last night while defending a young nurse from the attacks of her insane lover, who insisted that the girl return his love and go with him to be married. The cry for help iron, the child brought the priest, who tried to calm the excited admirer but fail ed and was himself attacked and kill ed.
 The death caused sensation in the city, where the Catholic priest has a large following. His friends would have lynched the insane man but for the prompt action of the police. who smuggled the murderer away and kept him hidden.
 The entire town will close up busi- ness during the funeral services for the dead churchman.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03
SWEDISH STEAMER
 IS T0RPED0ED
German Submarine Sends Lumber. Laden EIIida To the Bottom In
 Three Minutes-Crew Saved.

COPENHAGEN, May 3.-The Swedish steamer Ellida, lumber laden from Belsingford to Hull, was tor pedoed by a German submarine today in the North sea and sank in three minutes. The crew of the boat were picked up by a Danish schooner. The crew have reached this city and the commander of the sunken vessel has sent full report to the Swedish am- bassador to Holland for transmission 10 the Swedish government.
 The Swedish colony in this city are up in arms against the continued dis regard of the rights of the neutral country to trade with other neutrals or with belligerent country and it is reported here that the people of Stockholm insist that the government force the German admiralty to re- spect the property and lives of Swed. ish subjects or suffer the consequent ces. Several manufacturers who have been selling supplies to German buy CTS have been mpbbed by the people and strong anti-German sentiment is expressed all through Sweden and also in Holland, which has also suf- fered the loss of many merchant ships and the death of sailors on the boats.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03
GERMANS CROWD INTO RUSSIAN TERRITORY

BERLIN, May 3.-The German forces continue the march into the Baltic provinces of Russia, which are being subjected. Little resistance can be given to the Germans because of the suddenness of the concentration of troops which cannot be met by the Russians for many days. The Ger man fleet is cooperating with the land forces and is shelling the coast towns.
 Large Force Used.
 The large force sent, by Gen. von Hindenburg into the Baltic provinces totals fully 75O,O0O troops of all branches of the service and they are making rapid marches in the effort to reach the line of communication be- tween the Russian Poland armies and the source of supply at Petrograd. If successful in cutting off the army of the Grand Duke from Petrograd the Poland campaign will be won by Gen. Hindenburg without the loss of many lives, as the Russians cannot expect to hold the present line unless the railroad to Petrograd is open.
Valdez daily prospector., 1915-05-03

WASHINGTON, May 3-The gov ernment will do more land surveying in Alaska this coming season than has been done in the north for many years. It is planned to have the Mat anuska and Boring River coal fields surveyed and plated and also to have the Nenana coal fields mapped and cut up into sections.
 The governments experts are also to go north and make an investiga tion of each tract and select the best of each district for the government and large reservations of the best coal lands in Alaska are to be made by the Interior Department.
 After the government has made its reservations the balance of the coal fields will be opened to lease under a form of lease which is to be draft ed by Secretary of Interior Franklin K. Lane.
 The form of the lease is giving the secretary much trouble. The first drafts made by the attorneys for the government were submitted to pos sible lessees, who immediately in formed the secretary that the form was so strict that no man could af- ford to invest thousands of dollars in opening the mines. Since that time dozens of different drafts of the proposed contract between the gov ernment and the coal operators have been drawn, but so far none are satis. factory.
 Several applications have been made for coal lands but all the ap- plicants insist that the terms of the lease must be such as to justify them in spending the hundreds of thousands of dollars necessary to open and de- velop the coal claims and also in- sure a fair profit on the investment. They also wish some restrictions placed upon the competition of the government which aims to enter the commercial markets of the coast or at least will withdraw the govern.