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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-03-01
WILSON LEADERS TO BRING END
TOACITATION IN CONGRESS
ADMINISTRATION LEADERS SAY 1T is BEING PICTURED
ABROAD THAT COUNTRY DOES NOT SUPPORT Will
SONS STAND.

Administration Leaders Plan Force Hand of Those Opposing
Presidents Foreign Policy and Statement is Made that
Negotiations With Germany Cannot be Continued Under
Present Conditions-Plan of Wilson and Supporters to
Bring the AntAdmnstration Bills the House and
Defeat them Which Will Probably be Taken up Tomor-
row-Germany's Latest Submarine Assurances Not So
Broad United States Desires and Not Complete
Those Originally Offered by Germany-No Further Steps
May be Taken Until the Washington Administration is AS
it Will Not be Embarrassed by Congressional
Action.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-03-01
Dallas Annual Style Show.

Dallas, Tex, March IA floral
parade through Dallas principal thor
oughfares was an outstanding event
in the annual style show here today
Several hundred automobiles, decora-
ted in competition for cash prizes,
We're entered in the pageant.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-03-01
LEAP YEAR BABY
Mother Born on Leap Year Day Gave
Birth to Baby Yesterday.

Independence, Kan, March 1.-The
first leap year baby. whose mother
was a leap year baby twenty-eight
years ago. was born here last night.
The parents are Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Gurley.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-03-01
PARIS SAYS GERMAN DRIVE
ON VERDUN HAS BEEN HAL TED
FRENCH OFFICIAL STATEMENT TODAY SAYS THE STU
ALTON is SATISFACTORY-BERLIND DOES NOT MEN
TION VERDUN.

Lul Fighting Today Ext T. Along Entire Front with
the German Armies stant at the Inner Lines of the
Verdun Decentralization = ecaraton of War Against
Germany Expected to be Cons I'd Today by the Italian
Parliament-Today is Last Day z. Voluntary Enlistment
in British Army, and Compulsory = Will be Effect
i've Hereafter-Gernany Sends Ult I'm to Portugal De-
manong Restoration Within Fory-El Hours of German
Ships Recently Seized by Portuguese hortes Accord
ing to Dispatch from Madrd-Fierce Fighting in
the Vosges Yesterday.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-03-01

between battalions of German and
British aviators along the British
front in France and Belgium.
In the Dvinsk region Of Russia the
Russians have driven the Germans
back and advanced their line and put
down under heavy fire an attempt at
counter attack.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-03-01
Thornaby First Victim.

London, March 1.-The British
steamer Thornaby of LOO tons, is
reported sunk. All members of the
crew are believed to have been killed
or drowned. The Thornaby was the
first ship reported sunk since the new
German campaign became effective at
midnight last night
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-03-01

Speaker A. NcCrory of the house of
Representatives was here today from
Ringing on his way to Oklahoma
City where he still has some work to
do in the completion of the special
session of the Legislature
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-03-01
Demands Restoration of Ships.

London, March 1.-Germany has
sent an ultimatum to Portugal de-
manding the restoration within forty
eight hours of the German ships re-
Gently seized by that country ac-
cordng to a Reuter- Madrid dispatch.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-03-01

What Bryan loves and delights in.
is a defenseless country-one that
any little pee-wee nation can insult
with impunity.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-03-01

Some men look into the muzzle OF
gun to see if it is loaded, and
others fool around married women.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-03-01

Read The Ardmoreite want ads.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-03-01
Local Weather Report.

; q y u = 4 8, q . = = = q Il
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-12-01
USE OF TRACTOR
Is INCREASING
OUTPUT FOR THIS YEAR is ES-
TIMATED AT FROM 10000
TO 100000.
Sell All the Way From $4,000 down
to $3.50; Plow Deeper Than Horse
Hauled Plows and Bring Into Bear
ing Richer Soils; About the Ford
Tractor.

Output of tractors for farm work
this year is variousry estimated at
10000 to 100000. There are now
about 95 companies producing trac-
tors for farm work, and many are
doubling last seasons output. Prac-
teal adaptation of oil or gasolene
motive power to farm work is of COM
paratively recent origin and the farm
tractor industry may be said to be
in it's experimental stages. Tractors
now being manufactured range from
the small garden tractor, which sells
at about $3.50, to larger machines
used for drawing ten plows at a
time, selling as high as $4,000 to
$4,000. Machines for general farm
use cost $500 to $1,000 each,
Will Not Replace Horse.
The tractor will probably never
replace the horse on the farm, and
it's function is only to do improbable
labor of the horse on a profitable ba.
sis. Estimates as to cost of horse
labor versus power labor On the farm
are misleading because horses are in.
dispensable to the farm, and the only
basis for comparison, therefore
should be between cost of operatin,
a farm with horses alone and cost o
operating with a tractor and a re
duced number of horses.
Saves Farmers Money.
Number of horses a tractor will
displace varies according to condi
tions of farming, products raised
ETC., and no accurate comparison cal
be made except under identical con
ditions. A canvass by department o
agriculture showed that in the corr
belt on 90 farms where 1,104. horse
had been kept, 263 were displaced b.
tractors. These figures would indi
cate that work of one out of fou.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-12-01

ever% delivered, as a temperature OF 90
and so degrees below zero discouraged
the partners In their repeated efforts
to haul loads up the steep pass.
Among the other experiences OF
Barrett in the pioneer days was the
misfortune to be taken for a rebel,
or at least a rebel sympathizer. -,
"We had a red and white flag"
said the ranchman as quoted in
Stones Following Old Trails"
(which we used as a signal to call the
men from the fields for dinner. In
1864 a party of patriotic emigrants
saw this flag flying and at once held
an indignation meeting over the
'secesh' flag-though l had no idea
what they wer fussing about. The
emigrants reported the matter to
Governor Edgerton in Bannaek and
he sent us word that we had better
take down the old signal flag. 1 did
this very willingly, as I had not had
q thought of any offsnse to anybody,s
feelings. I was yet a Canadian and
had no part in the local conflict"
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-12-01

beat the stage people, who, after buy
ing hay from Barrett, retailed it at Is
cents a pound-the equivalent Of $500
a ton.
In partnership with Joe Shineber-
ger, Martin Barrett, who had emf
grated in his childhood from Ireland
to Ontario, located a ranch eleven
miles south Of Bannack, July II, 1868,
Barrett gave his whole attention to
ranching from the start, while for
the first few seasons his partner
mined in the summer at Alder gulch.
Lived 48 Years on Ranch.
Barrett lived on his ranch for 49
years, or until 1911. He built a two
story brick house, which was the fin
est of its day in Beaverhead county.
Barrett and his wife for several years
past have been residents of Dillon.
And the mention of Mrs. Barrett re-
calls a romance of those pioneer days.
In the spring of '67 Barrett re-
turned from a visit to his mother
back in Canada. In Barrett's own
words: "When we got to our ranch
on the trail, I found my partner sit
ting in the doorway Of the cabin,
mending his clothes. He hadn't heard
from me since I left the fall before
and he had concluded that I was dead.
When I spoke to him as I came up,
he jumped and lost his needle-the
only one he had. He asked me if ]
had brought back a wife. I told him
that I had not, but that I knew a
mighty fine girl. go and get her,
he said, 'as I have lost my needle.
'All right I replied, and I went and
got her."
Only Woman in Party.
This girl, Alice E. Cook, the only
woman among the emigrants, and
her brother at Fort Kearney had
joined the wagon train with which
Barrett was travelling back to Mon
tana. At Denver her uncle tried to
lure her away from the ava by
~proffering her a position at ven dol
lars a week-big wages in those days
for a girl-but she refused the offer
while announcing that she intended to
teach school in Montana. Miss Cooks
father, in the meantime, was also on
his way to Montana, voyaging up the
Missouri on a steamboat. The son
and the daughter were to meet him at
Benton or Helena, but for some rea-
son never explicitly explained, Miss
Cook halted her journey to make her
home for a brief period with friends
at Red Rock, not far from Barrett's
ranch on Horse Prairie. Barrett and
Miss Cook were marrier at Red Rock
on the sixth Of August Of that year.
Ranched Freight Cattle.
Barrett did well from the start by
"ranching'' freight cattle and horses
Only part Of the hay called for under
the $100-a-ton contract, however, wa.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-12-01
AUTOMOBILE AND ROAD NEWS

horses can be p%rofitably done with a
tractor. Census Bureau has estimat-
ed that substitution of a tractor, cost
ing about $500, for some of the
horses used on a 160-acre farm in
Illinois would result in saving more
than 5000 annually, not including
profit that a be made by having
available belt power for daily miscel-
laneous work.
The greatest economy in use of
the tractor lies in the fact that work
can be done on time and advantage
taken of favorable weather. 1t 1s
estimated that farmers lose millions
annually because blowing, tilling and
threshing cannot be done just when
it should. A tractor may be made to
work "a hours in the day, if neces-
sary, under conditions where a horse
cannot.
Increases the Yield.
Whereas, the horse-drawn plow
will furrow to a depth of about five
and one-half inches under normal
conditions, the tractor pillow can con-
veniently turn yer to a depth OF
seven inches. Exposure of these adj
ditional one and one-half inches of
rich subsoil means increased crops
and increased crops mean increased
revenue for the farmers.
There are about Is agricultural
implement manufacturers who are
also producing tractors. I~nternation-
al Harvester Co. and j. l. Case
Threshing Machine Co. each have
four models on the market and Ad-
vance-Rumely Co. and Avery Co,
have five models. There are in the
United States alone over 2,700,00C
farms on which present models oil
tractors can be economically used
In Illinois, of 200 farms using trac'
tors, SO per cent of the machines
were purchased in 1915. In the com,
ing season the quantity in use viii
probably be doubled. Approximate.
rs per cent of report thu
tractor a profitable investment.
Helps to "Do the Chores"
Tractor manufacturers are aiminI
to produce a light low-priced ma
chine capable not only of doini
draught work, but powerful enough
to do belt work such as ensilage cut
ting, threshing, saving, pumping, ele
waiting, hay baling, etc., etc. Som
of the present models are so built a
to perform about so functions.
Henry Ford has been the pionee
automobile manufacturer to expert
ment with a tractor, and it is under
stood to be his aim to furnish tn
farmer an automobile, a motor true
and a tractor at a total price of $500
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-12-01
100000
EVERY YEAR
THAT is ESTIMATE OF A. r.
ERSKINE, HEAD OF THE
STUDEBAKER COMPANY,
Replacement Sales Will Run to SOO,.
900 Annually; American Automo-
bile Manufacturers to Dominate in
Export Trade; Excellent Prospects
for Immediate Business.

In answer to a request for his
views as to whether the s%aturation
point in the production of motor cars
near, A. r. Erskine, president of
the Studebaker Corporation, replied
as follows: 1.-THE saturation point is
far off, in fact it is doubtful if such
a point will ever be reached in motor
cars any more than in typewriters,
sewing machines or other articles of
utility. United States market alone
will absorb in excess of $100,0 900
cars annually for the next five years.
Furthermore, counting five years as
average life of an automobile, re-
placement sales will absorb between
100000 and 100000 car annually.
Farmers Are Buying.
Gin addition, American automobile
manufacturers dominate the export
markets of the world, which should
supply a demand for 100000 cars
annually. The motor car is as neces-
sary and practicable a utility as the
telephone. There are 100000 far
mers in the United States who can
afford to own automobiles and there
are rel 4,000,0 600 wage earners in
the cities of the country similarly
in a position to own a motor car.
Contrasted with these figures there
are only 100000 automobiles in
use at the present time"
WHY'S Overland Comment
John N. WHY'S, president of Will
lys-Overland Co., commenting on the
same question says: IT consider the
motor a situation extremely good
for this season of the year." Asked
whether his company was contem-
plating any further financing, Mr..
WHY'S said: "You can say positively
and emphatically that no more fl
nancing is needed by Willys-O Overland
Co."
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-12-01
WHEN HAY SOLD
FOR $lOO A TON
MARTIN BARRETT DISPOSED OF
TONS AT THIS PRICE
IN EARLY DAYS.
A Story of Pioneer Ranching; Dinner
Flag Taken for Rebel Ensign;
Shineberger and Barrett Lived 4S
Years on Ranch; Dinner Flag
Arouses Suspicion of Unionist.

Though the farmers of this state
are selling their hay this cas- at
better than $12 a ton, they will have
to go some to beat the record of the
first farmer in southern Montana,
Martin Barrett, who contracted in the
winter Of 1865 to deliver 100 tons of
hay at Pine Buttes, a stage station
near the divide, at $100 a ton. And
they will have to go some more yet to
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-12-01
LAND.

Buy It the EQUITY WAY. Why pay ex-
cessive commissions and unnecessary pro-
fits when you can buy directly from the
land owners. Write us what you want, we
have 1t or can find it.
2s0 acres within six miles of Great. Falls.
good spring, 175 acres splendid tillable soil,
S22.5 80.
$40 acres in Teton county. five miles
from railroad town, 80 per cent tfliabie.
-e16.50 an acre.
800 acres In Choteau county. so acres
plowed, price $21 an acre. crop payment.
1900 acres stock ranch. 600 to 800 acres
good hay or grain land, good stream close
to omen range. $40 per acre.
800 acres near Fort Benton. all tillable:
good buildings. 100 acres In wheat, II
horses, full equipment machinery, splendid
water. $50 an acre. .
Large and small tracts. raw and improved
lands in all portions Of the state at best
possible prices and terms. EQUITY CO.
OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION. Great Falls.
Montana.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-12-01
M, N. A.-WK-11-27-16.

There are many mugs, plenty of
cheek, and lots of chin in a barber
shop.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-12-01

N OUR great-great-grandfathers' time many
New England families had a cask of rum 8
in the cellar.
1t was freely offered to guests Except chill
dren) and freely partaken of, even as coffee is
today.
This old-time custom gradually passed out
of existence, for our ~forefathers recognized it
) was harmful.
4 Another old-time custom-coAee DRINKING
is slowly passing in the same fashion and for
the same reason.
The abandonment of coffee drinking is made
easy nowadays by the use of Instant Postum, the
pure cereal beverage with the cofee-lke taste.
B Unlike coffee, this purely American table
B drink contains no "caAeine'' or other harmful
81 substance.
3 fo'fnm is now used daily in tens of thou
B sands OF the best of American homes where rea-
son rules and health is valued.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-02-12
Athenian Climate.

Athens, according to 3yrcn, was the
choicest spot in Europe, in respect
to climate He found it "a perpetual
spring; during eight months / never
passed day without being as many
hours on horseback rain is extremely
rare, snow never lies in the plains, and
a cloudy day is an agreeable rarity.
In Spain, Portugal and every part Of
the East which : visited, except Icnia
and Attica, ! found no such superiority
of climate to cur own; and at Constan-
tinople, where l passed May, June ana
part Of July, you rlight damn the eli
mate, and complain Of Spleen five
days out of seven.' But me1.' luck
differs. Gladstone and his party were
only few days at Athens III Decen-
ber, 1858; but, as Lord Morley says.
illusions as to the eternal summer
with which the poets have blessed the
Isles of Greece vanished as they found
deep snow i'll the streets. icicles en-
the Acropolis, and snowballing in the
Parthelon."
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-02-12
NOT ORDINARY ~s0B" STORY
Rich Little Poor Girl Depicted as Her
oine of Incident That Is Some
what Different"

The rich little poor girl stood out
side her door. On the cne side were
snow and ice and the little girl, with
her arms full Of boxwoo5, which she
had CLEANED from the streets. On her
way home she had passed fire, and
the water from the fire hose had fro
zen to the heat stimulatcrs. All, but
let us look en- the other side OF the
door. A fireplace was there, With
three little ones an1 their mother
gathered about it. Onothe stove were
kettles full of various substances. Per-
haps they were eatables-we shall
never know. Dut there was no fire IN
the fireplace nor IN the stove. No
warm glow radiated from the hearth,
nor die the kettles sing on the steve.
The rich little poor girl knocked. She
was let in. They had been waiting fer
her since dayhreak-si1e had been out
all night Her mother was the first
10 speak. And this is what she said,
1t meanwhile being remembered that
the family was cold, destitute, forlorn.
but trying to keep up the pace: Have
you got cigarette? am half
starved. Harvard Lau poon.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-02-12
BARGAINS IN LANDS

Is acres Washita bottom 1a miles
from city limits, 10 acres very choice
land, suitable for gardening; price
s1,100.
10 acres we'll improved, / mile
from city limits, acres branch bot
tom, fenced and cross-fenced with
hog wire; price $1,000.
100 acres miles from Chickasha,
20 acres bottom, balance good upland;
price $3.50.
$50 acres stock farm, Improvements
worth $S,OOO 100 acres bottom,
fenced hog tight; 20 acres alfalfa, !.
price $500, s2,5oO cash, balance
terms.
GAO acres, well located, $1,000 worth
OF Improvements, $50 acres bottom, 40
acres alfalfa, fenced and cross-fenced
with hog wire; price only 500 per acre
CITY PROPERTY.
Good Groom house with / block Of
ground, well located on West Hill, 250
barrel cistern, good storm cave and
we'll; price only $4,000, $3.50 cash. bal
ance easy terms.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-02-12
The GIFT PACKAGE.

A line Of parcel-post salesmanship
that has been tested ans found a win
ner is selling apples in gift packages,
q certain nuLber of pounds put ug in
neat package ana labeled Birth Jay
Apples" to be mailed from the grow
er's orchard to a given address at the
PAID order of the buyer. This has been
proved a pretty way cf remembering
q friend, like mailing hiEs a postcard.
and saves the purchaser all trouble.
other than the writing CT the order
with inclosure of stamps or coin.
This method ca1 cover fruits and
other produce II season. At the h5li-
days every product 5f the farm aad
woods may se utilized, ard the gift
packages placed il store windows,
where their attractively stamped cases
attract custom.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-02-12
The Old canltpI Building.

The structure n Washington city
known as the "Old Capitol Building"
has a memorable history. 1t was
erected ir 1S0O and was originally de-
signed as tavern, ar boarding house.
On account of Hoor management, the
tavern was closed after few years.
During the war OF 1872 the British cap
tured Washington and burned several
Of the public buildings, including the
capitol. The government then pur-
chased this tavern building for the
use Of congress, and here both houses
met for several years. Within its
walls two presidents were inaugural
ed, and in It John c. Calhoun died.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-02-12


Modern 7-room house on car line,
choice location on South Hill, block
from pavement, near high school;
price $1,25O, $10O cash, $15 per month.
Groom frame house, near pavement
and ward school building, lot 75x165
it.; must sell at once at i sacrifice
for only $500.
z. good houses on lot 50xle5 it,, ,
blocks from Bank corner; will sell at
cnce at sacrifice; price only ST.
600.
We can sell you any kind Of house
from 2 to 10 rooms. any location You
want, for cash or on easy terms. VIII
be glad to show you any hour in the
day
We have seevral good residences to
exchange for land.
FAR MLOANS.
If you want to make farm loan or
renew the one you have, give us
chance to figure with you. We repre-
sent some OF the hest farm loan com-
panies doing business in Oklahoma,
and arc prepared to give the best Of
service.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-02-12
CANNOT UNDERSTAND STEEL
Scientists Puzzled over What They
Assert to Be Most Unusual
Freak of Mature.

If it were not for ore tiny. cratic
break in natures orderly progression,
we should never have had the machin-
cry that has brought about modern
civilization. For we should not have
had steel. 1t is true we should have
had iron, but pure iron is almost use.
less. II is only when a small quantity
Of carbon is added to it that it be-
comes hard enough tc take cutting
edge. Then it is called steel.
Why steel hardCls is an unsolved
problem. The Soieltifc American re-
produces some extracts from an ad-
dress before the British Institute of
Mechanical Engineers, delivered by
Professor Arnold, who had for many
years been investigating the chemical
and Mechanical relations between
ircn, carbon and other metals, and Sir
Robert Hadnelds experiments that
called attention to this break" in the
order of nature. which alone makes
steel possible.
Nickel and cobalt are so closely re-
AutCA " iASl ~ iArA4 EiSpGlA AlIn did
in their position III the periodic classi-
fication atomic weights, specific
gravity, fusilg point AMI valence Being
almost the same that it might be ex-
pected they would behave identically
when united with carbon. Not SO,
however. Sir Robert Ha1held found
that when the steel" made of nickel
and cobalt was heated or hammered
the carbon came cut OF the compost
tion and was precipitated as graphite.
If iron behaved this way tool steel
would turn to cast iron as socn as
heated; and it is on the fact that it
does not-"a seemingly quite erratic
departure on natures part from her
orderly plan"-that modern manufac-
ture is founded.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-02-12

"Us fellers at Crimson Gulch de-
cided." remarked Broncho Bob. "as
how we're fur peace. The general SEN
timent was that we'd be more peaceful
If we'd disarm.'
But you are carrying a gun
Yes. Everybody is. waitin' fur
everybody else to disarm first. I'm
kind o. afraid this reluctance an sus-
picion is goin' TO start some hard
feelin's."
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-02-12
Obsolete Equipment.

Cant you give us something novel
and up to date?" asked the man who
was buying calendar
What's the trouble?" asked the
stationer.
I'm tired Of seeing Father Time
carrying an hour glass and scythe.
Can't you give him a good, reliable,
though inexpensive, watch, and gas
oline-driven harvesting machine9"