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rnF OKLAHOMA STATE CAPITAL SUNDAY MOBXINO, OCTOBER 25, 1303.
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fHE NATIONAL DEMOCRAC Y'S
LACK OF ENCOURAGING PROSPECT
N'crep before in it* history hii the ancient democratic party stood
on the ere of a campaign in uch a deplorable condition. Facing a battle,
it has neither leaders nor issues.
In truth the spectacle is rather pitiful, and is to l>e deplored. We
need two grrnt political parties in a government framed as is ours, and
it is necessary that at times there shall be close elections, that the people
may be kept interested and informed on national affairs. Woe the day
when any party shall feel itself so securely internched that it may not
be dislodged by the vot<-i of the people.
The history of democracy in die past forty-five years shows that it
has not been a constructive party. The best efforts of its leaders have
been directed to tearing dowu what the opposition has attempted to
build up, and during the brief time that it was in absolute power it
wns unable to do anything but iquabble for the patronage.
At election time,however, it has always had some leader upon whom
the various factions could unite, and there hav«- always been debatable
questions that they have been able to raise to the dignity of issues. Now
there are neither.
There may he people who do not consider Mr. Hoosevelt a great pol-
itician, und perhap* he is not in the sense that such men as Piatt and
Quay and Gorman have ixwmie leaders of political parties, hut he has
broken down all opposition in his own party, and he has unhorsed the
opoeitioo. If that is not good politics, what is it? None of the past mas-
ters in the art have been able to do Anything like that.
Conceding that Mr. Hoosevelt will carry the party banner next year,
where does the democracy stand? Mr. Bryan is out of the question as a
candidate, and no one knows it better than he. but he is a power in his
party vet, and he declares that Mr. Cleveland, jwrliaps the only one whom
the democracy can name with any hope of winning, shall not be nomi-
nated. Apparently he will he able to enforce the decree. Without his
attitude toward D. B. Hill would be the same, although that wily old
politician is like Br'er Rabbit, "he lay low," evidently not desiring to carry
the bnnner of sure defeat with its empty honors.
The names of some of the younger tnembers of the party, such as
MeClellan, Johnson. Harrison, Hearst and evfa Gorman have been men-
tioned, but without arousing any enthusiasm. Of these, Hearst is the
only one making an active canvas, and it is impossible to separate one's
self from the feeling that it is only one of his cheap advertising tricks,
such as the gifts that are so ostentatiously made every time there is a
public calamity.
When it comes to issues, there is even greater poverty. The voters
settled the imperialism issue four years ago. We hear nothing about it
any more liccause the administration's policy in the islands is bringing
about satisfactory conditions.
The ancient tariff issue is without force. Mr. McKinley declared
for wise revision of existing tariffs and Mr. Roosevelt is insisting upon
it. The greatest chill to this issue comes from England, where the free
trade policy has been a losing game for some years past, and where the
question is being fought out again. It is a brave democrat who would
care to revive that question in American in the next twelve months.
The question of fighting the trusts cannot be raised, because of the
activity of the administration. If Mr. Hoosevelt has any enemies in his
own party, it is because of his attitude in regard to the trusts. The
democrats can do no more than the republicans have done, assail the
trusts from a legal standpoint.
After the postoffico department scandals begau there was a time when
it began to look as if there might be an issue in the corruption expose,
but Mr. Roosevelt and his cabinet have taken hold of that with their
usual vigor and the opposition is confounded.
There is no question of foreign policy that Mr. Hay has not settled
to the satisfaction of all the people.
The only leading democrat who even proposes anything like an issue
is W. R. Hearst, who announces that if nominated he will try to organize
the union laboring vote against the republicans. lie seems unable to
arouse the party leaders to interest in that, as they well know perhaps
that the loaders of labor will never permit Mr. Hearst to tag their power-
ful following to the tail of his political cart.
The national democratic party is the great black bird that is seen
sonrine in circles around battlefields. It caws and flaps its sable wings
and darts upon every bit of carrion that falls by the wayside in the
triumphal march of American progress. It is standing today on the
dead limb of a skeleton tree, one foul and reeking foot drawn up. with
head on side and eyelids half drawn, casting about for a calamity that
will again give it a moment of political power. Its only hope i3 in a
destruction of crops, a loss of trade to manufacturers, a panic that will
drive money out of circulation or an unfortunate foreign complication.
It can only hope that with these calamities the frightened and unhappy
people will turn and rend the policies and issues that have brought
them what they have. Thus and thus only will democracy be able to
unite, find a leader and fight a winning battle in 1904.
SOME INFORMATION CONCERNING
A NOVEL LABOR CONTROVERSY
If there ever was a labor controversy in which the general public has
been disposed to see only one side, it was the refusal of the Chicago bands
to play with the United States Marine band at the Chicago centennial.
Outsiders saw a great civic celebration marred by a silly and unreasonable
wrangle, they saw the parade marching, as one humorist put it, to the
music of phonograph and pianola, and they straightway curst -1 the men
who had done the marring. The musicians have not chosen to remain
silent under these attacks, and have issued a full and frank statenv nt
of their position. "The civilian musicians have no objection tn the Ma-
rine band playing for the people that $upporlt them," the union mag-
nanimously says: "In fact they believe this band should be used for
that purpose, but for no other. And had the Marine band been ordered
to Chicago to participate in the centennial, rtpre? • tin Pnit - .s
government, without pay, there would have been no o. i ions, and they
would have been fulfilling their proper function " The strongest poinf
which the union makes is against the local committee, which, it is stated,
allowed the union to believe that the Marine bandsmen represented the
government, and were the guests of Chicago. That is to say, at the ban-
quet, the secretary of the navy and the musician! alike were guests and
•like were expected to contribute something to the cavetv of the occasion.
the secretary by making a speech, the others by playing a few selections.
"The faet that the members of the Marine band stood in the alley in the
rear of the Auditorium during the progress of the banquet, waiting for
the stage door to open," says the union pertinently, though the news-
papers flatly dispute the statement cf fact, "does not appear to uphold
the contention of the committee that they were to appear as guests rep-
resenting the United States government, at the banquet, but would rather
indicate that the committee had contrived to obtain the service of the
Marine band through misrepresentations to the navy department." Noth-
ing is gained, to be sure, by calling h govrnmnaoinshrdluetaoinfwyp
mediocre band of poorlv paid government musicians," but it is none the
less worth while to have the data for each man to make up his mind as
to the binned against and the sinning.
ARE COMBINATIONS IN
RESTRB1N r OF TRADE RESPONSIBLE?
Our highest judicial tribunal, the United States supreme court
has declared that it in unlawful to combine in restraint of trade. The
decision was in a railroad ca^e, but* of course it must have general
application, and in Chicago at least they have been trying for a year
or more to test how far it applies.
We have been wanting labor and capital to get together for a
long time and talk ng of the halcyon days when this should happen.
Now that we have it we are not so happy as we might be. The plan
is very simple as carried out by the coal dealers and the teamsters.
Each side has a union, or organization. The dealers say to the team-
sters that they will employ none but union men if they in turn
will agree not to work for any firm outside of the dealers union. The
compact made the teamsters ask for a large advance in wages, and
get it because the dealers have the public at their mercy. The dealers
advance prices of coal to any point they wish. Under the cover of
the great strike of last year in the Pennsylvania coal fields prices of
coal to the consumers were made extortionate and hence the suits
that were started. Under the decisions some of the coal dealers have
been fined.
This sort of combination, which eliminates competition and gives
an opportunity for abuses against the general public—and that means
ever}' union man as well as each organized class—is going on all
over the country. Already some of the advanced leaders among the
working men have begun to give warning that there is danger ahead
in any unholy alliances, even 'tho they seem for a time to be giving
organized classes an advantage.
It is declared that in New York City alone something like fifty
millions of dollars worth of work has been stopped because of com-
binations of this kind in the building trades. That may be true
and it may not.
On the other hand there are the trusts that have combined near-
ly every manufactured product in the country and sought to increase
the price to the consumer. A flood of foreign laborers have come in,
reaching in the last three months the highest point ever known. It is
a tremendous competition that the laboring men have to meet.
There has been a great wave of prosperity over this country and
if one takes the fiscal showing there is no reason why it should not^con-
tinue, but it is a question right now in the minds of many persons
whether it is not about to recede. Railroads are making a magnificent
showing, the crops have been tremendous, exports are showing well;
but things are at a standstill. There is little trading in the securities
of the great corporations, building has stopped, money rates are ad-
evancing, and it takes a real hypnotist to promote any sort of scheme
in the great money centers.
The condtions are very peculiar. If they are due to combinations
in restraint of trade, whether those of capital known as trusts, or
those in which labor has a part it is due to the public that the persons
charged with the duty of enforcing the laws investigate and determine
whether there is any virtue in the statutes framed for the protection of
lawful competition.
CANADA SHOULD SET UP
BOUNDARY CLAIMS EARLIER
Naturally enough our Canadian friends are very much disgusted
with the way in which the boundary dispute between Canada and Alaska
have been settled by the London board of arbitration. Juneau, Dvea,
Skagway and other mining towns were claimed to be on British territory,
but the United States contended that the boundary established by Russia
when she sold Alaska in 1867 and which had never been disputed until
gold was found there, was correct.
The contention of the United States was upheld.
Some of our Canadian friends who some times seem to have any-
thing but a friendly feeling for the United States, are now declaring that
Canada is growing tired of being garlanded with flowers and thrown
upon the altar of British and American diplomacy.
Had not Canana waited until gold wa- discovered before she wanted
to change the line established by Great Britain and Russia in the early
part of the century her strictures upon the action of the London arbitra-
tion board would be in much better taste.
No doubt England desires to be on amicable terms with the United
States and it might not be a bad thing for some of our fiery friends
across the border to take a lesson from the mother country.
At anv rate if Canada desires to rearrange any of the existing
boundaries between the Dominion and the Republic would it not be well
to set about it before Americans build cities and open gold mines and
discover great natural wealth?
JUST WATCH AND SEC.
The aun w.ll turn to shi*dd«d wheat.
ill'' moon to Hwltser ka*e,
; When l.ijah drives the devl} out of
riniham.
The stall.' : 1 . ( Liberty w"!l turr^
ft.>n. it« Lane
When ! drives the devil out of
(Jot 1.am.
j I "me Hetty Green will blow herself for
■owns of tine*i Milk.
i The titled forelfn canW will our maid-
oris cesite io bilk
T*e Oertr.ii * . f M iw.iukev will drin*
onl msltrd milk
I When 'Lijah dnvea the devil out of
, Gotham.
The blue gra s bourbon I te« will haste to
Johi the Tteptist church
When l.tfab dines the devil out of
Gotham,
Detective for Put Crowe and Charlie Ross
will ..eaj ( to search
When I.IJah drive* the devU out of
f.olhnm.
Hed Ink t Orover Cleveland Silver BUI
will cessc to shed
And Hrn-v of Kentucky to repentance
will |> - led
The thre* will *t oon like brothers in the
democratic bed
When I.Hah drives the devil out of
Gotham.
The Langley airships will be mnklr.f trips
acme* the seas
When 'I.Hah drives the devil out of
Oothn m
The Lord II lock the gates of hell and
throw nwsv the kevs
When 'I.IJsh drives the devil out of
llotham.
The tru«* ■> I "•*! on- nrayers and reduce
the price of coal.
A strang. • m Chicago possession of his
roll
And Peary will screed |n getting snap-
ebn'« ,.f the pole
When 'I-Hsti drives the devil out of
Gotham.
The trust- will *11 he busted by the
m'rMv Theodore
When 'f Hah drives the devil out of
Orithi m
Of fraudulent - lections losing parties cease
♦o 'o r
When 'T.Hsh drives the devil out of
ruot -- m
The Lehr o< NVn-norf town will cease to
^i^lil-te th«« s«i
John JF_rs"cet out his wealth among his
Plhle ela«s—
All these o *d even strsnrer things, will
ftut-. iv enrr,.. p*op
When '? Hoh drives the devil out of
Old Tammany methods in distributing patronage have been exposed
in a peculiar way lately in a 6uit brought by the widow of Sergeant
Gillhooley against former Inspector Thompson. According to the com-
plaint in the ease Gillhooley was to be made a sergeant by Thompson
on payment of $'3,500. The policeman had no money and took Aut a life
insurance for $2,000 which was assigned to the inspector. lie was to
make payments at a monthly date until the amount had been made up.
The T.ow administration came in about that time and the gratfing on
vice stopped but the pavments went on just the same. The sergeant
was killed last spring and left his family without means, and now the
widow is trying to get some of the money on the policv.
In view of the fact that Jim Tillman has just oeen acquitted of
murder, that his father before him killed a man, that one of his at-
torneys had killed a man. that the lawyer who prosecuted him had been
defended by Tillman when he killed his man. a sarcastic contemporary
remarks that they evidently "take life easy" in South Carolina. The
only effect of the verdict will be that hip pockets will bulge more than
heretofore and the coming generation of southern youth will early ap-
preciate the faet that the tangible evidence of a brave man is his gun.
Tn the new I?u-sian-Chinese treetv Russia agrees to conduct any war
with foreign powers that may occur because of the treaty, but if China
becomes tired of fighting and retires. R>i>sia is to continue. After that
if she wins she is to have Manchuria "for kec: ' What does Japan
think of that?
Carrie Nation and TV. Parkhurst denouncing Prophet Dowie as too
sensational in hi6 methods of bringing the kingdom on earth, is one of
the things that adds to the gayety of nations. In fact it is enough to
keep them giggling for a long time. >
CURRENT COMMENT.
TRIUMPHANT AGAIN!
Wishlnrton Post.
It renlly looks as though we have
won .mother great diplomatic victory.
Reference Is here made to the Alas-
k n bounlary contention, from which
we have Just emerged without serious
loss of properly or prestige. The de-
tails. or rather t^e concurrent afflic-
tions and ttie more or less Irritating
consequences, are not yet In plain view
and subject to accurate appraisement,
but. on the surface and at first glnnce
it does not appear that we rfftve sus-
tained any Important Injuries as the
result of our complaisance. The de-
cision seems to confirm us In the pos-
session of an asset which we purchmed
thirty-six years ago. and occupied
without protest or challenge until 1S98.
Apparently. Spenlow has been relieved
and his wicked partner, Jorkins. dis-
appointed and confuted. Perhaps
those who thought we had anything to
discuss with Emrland In the premises
may throw up their hats. It is a big
thing to submit your lawfully acqulrel
property to readjudlcation at the In-
stance of the first buccaneer who
comes along and then succeed In
keeping most of It. Acclamation must
be In order.
The real questlor. In our mind Is
whether it would have been better,
five years ago, to say to the woulJ-^>e
Intruders that the property was ours,
and that they must keep ofT the grass
or take the consequences. There Is
reason to believe that such a declara-
tion, backel. If necessary by convincing
demonstrations, would have put an end
to the entire controversy. As it hap-
pened, however, we brought diplomacy !
Into play, encouraged Canada to bel- !
leve that she had rights which we were'
trying to deny; and now we are at the
end of a conference which, while It!
may have decided nearly every point !
of consequence In our favor, leaves us i
subject to the resentmnt and animosity
of the other party. It is only too plain !
that Canada has nursed her absurd |
and Impudent pretensions too long to
part with them contentedly, and it Is
equally plain th3t our Inexplicable pol-
icy has bequeathed us nothing but a
legacy of acrimony and bad blood. We
had nothing to gain by assenting to
the discussion, and we have gained it.
England had nothing to lose and she
has lost it. We were In possession un-
der a title which had stood unchallenp- j
ed for nearly half a century, and we
were able to make that title good if
need be. The result of our blunder in
entertaining for so much as a moment
the overtures of a mere Invader will
remain with us as an affliction for
many years to come. The moment IS
one of unthinking gratulation. The
future lies before us, threatening.
Those who have followed the pro-
ceedings at London do not need to be
told that our counsel put the American
case with unanswerable force and are
entitled to all gratitude and praise.
But that very quality of overwhelming
righteousness only emphasizes the im-
pudence of the Canadian pretension
and the folly of our acqu.escence, In
Us serious recognition.
ALKALI AND IRRIGATION. ...
Kansas City oJurnal.
In accordance with legislation al-
ready enacted, the federal Government
is preparing to expend millions of dol- j
lars for the reclamation of the arid
lands in the West by Irrigation. Cr.;-
ics have begun to raise questions as to
the feasibility of the undertaking. But
is neelless to say that no doubts
suggested for adverse commenvs \ t-
vanced will be effective to alter the
course resolved upon.
One of the points which have been
raise! against Irrigation, however, is
deserving of serious attention A well
known scientist, quotel by the Roches-
ter Democrat and Chrlnlcle. warns the
public from taking too rosy n view of
the value of irr.r .tioo espe^: illy in the
so-called arid region of the West.
Thousands of fine farms." be s v-
"have been abanloned because of ii-
kall "rlenng' In the soil. . Babylon
fell by the alka).ration of the soil of
Mesopotamia. The valley of the Nile
has escaped because there takes place
there every year n thorough fiooding. I
which washes down through the lowest
depths of the soli ,and cleans It of all I
salts that are obnoxious. There are
few (.laces In the Westerp country
where thl* can be securea. . . Un-
less some remaiy la discovered for re-
moving aikaii. liie reautl is uiaaituuuf
In the end, and it inevitably comes soon .
or late."
There Is no doubt that the alkalisa- i
lion of the soil has defeated a large
number of Irrigation ventures. Th:s
trouble is as old aa Irrigation Itself,
and has been a constant subject of in-
vestigation and experimentation. But
experts are positive that a remedy has
been discovered. The soils buteiu of
the agricultural dpartment, which has
been studying the problem for years,
reports that under-dralnage coupled
with irrigation flooding will reclaim
the worst alkali lands. This method
has been employed and proved effective
In Utah. California. Arizona and some
other western states. The land was
tiled after the manner practiced in the
eastern states to carry off an excels
of moisture. The land was then flood-
ed, and the salts readily dissolved and
ran off with the water through the un-
derground drains. A pliluof the worst
alkaline quality so treated was made
highly productive within the short per-
iod of six months.
Therefore, the fear felt over the al-
kalizatIon of the soil seems to be un-
founded, except of course, in places
where drainage Is impossible. Science
apparently has solved the 'alkali" prob-
lem for all practical purposes.
Dowie and New York Sinners.
Atlanta Constitution: Wall street
needs Elijah as a restorer of coufl-
dence.
Syracuse Post Standard: Picture
what would happeu If Dowie should
succeed in working bis spell on Bill
Devery.
Pittsburg Gazette: It would be 1%
terestlng to know what Elijah thinks
about Dowle's attempt to imper9on-
ate him.
Jacksonville Times L'nlon: When,
Dowie gets through with New York
he should turn hiwttentlon to the ad-
ministration f-'rafters in Washington.
Richmond News Leader- The four-1
correred tight between Dowie, the Dev-
il. the Mighty Dollar and Gotham, U
interesting. Our money goes on Goth-
am.
Buffalo Times: Dowio has already
found New York a far different place
from Chicago. Elijah will have to
hustle to ke p up with the procession
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: The New
York court of appeals rules thai faith
cure is a crime. The same body would
perhaps hold that Dowleism is treason.
Chicago Jo'irnal: Somebody with
an eye to business ought to arrange
joint debate in Madison square garden
between Elijah Dowio and Big Bill
Devery.
Philadelphia Pre«s: It would be eas-
ier to believe that Dowie is a reln-
carnatoin of the spirit of the late la-
mented T T. Barnum than of the
aclent Elijah.
Birmingham News: Dowle's host
has reached New York. This is the
first time that "conie-ons" have been
delivered In car load lots to the guile-
ful Manhattanese.
Bosmn Globe: Some pert citizen in
New York wants to know if John Alex-
ander Howie is "Elijah the Restorer. '
why he doesn't re-t.ore some of the
hair he has lost. No answer yet.
St. Louis Post I):-patch The New
York thief who stole Mrs. Dowle's
$1,500 diamond brooch would doubtless
counsel thf> hosts of Zion to !>"ware of
the sin of personal adornment.
Buffalo Express: Dowie expects to
raise $5.000,0' 0 by his campaign in
New York. Has he not Heard of the
poverty which afflicted New York on
account of the course of the stock mar-
ket ? .
Cleveland l eader: Dowle's follow-
ers do not seem to be troubled by the
extreme contrasts between the f<x d.
raiment and luxuries of their leader
and the plain living of the great mnn-
of his subjects, for th<>y are little
eise. It takes remarkable control of
human nature to conquer envy in that
fashion.
THE FEMALE HELL.
>ou say,
Yt*. but ii< re lea\es the Cook of
>tmeiUa>'!
And uus wcei summer day ihat
biinga in« Kuoe
Shall Uikc litn< and Mary Jane
away.
And this new Maul who looks so
iicah aim ureen,
On i*! ■ 'in in ad my woes I fain
Mituid Lean;
Ah, !■ in uj.on her Lightly, for
who ki.uws
How s<-on She will get up aud Quit
the Scene?
Ah. my new Handmaid, fill the pan
thai clturis
Today of unwuabed Dishes, stacked
in tic rs.
Tomorrow? Why. Tomorrow 1
may tie
Myself UbtiK-d to wash them—and
for Years!
Whether we roll in Gold or have to
Pinch.
Whether tho Heart Dlspah* or
merely Kllnch,
And 1 remember, watching on a
day.
Where She at china teacups
thumped away,
Till with It a all Obliterated edge
One mumured. Gently, Susan.
gently, pray!"
A Box of Biscuits underneath the
Bough.
A Can of Beans, a bag of salt and
thou
Burr .l out and Singing In the
Wilderness,
Ah. Wilderness wero Paradise
enow:
So when the Angel of the Muddy
Drink
Called Coff e ih-nws the Grounds
Into the Sink
And taking her Departure, leaves
you there
Alone to CI' n Things up. you shall
not Shrink.
Ah. make the best of so-called
Help, my friend
Until we. too, Into the Dust de-
scend
Take on the Work where Hlre-
!<!•** left It off
Sans Horo, o.ms HHn «ans Dish-
cloth and sans End.
OKLAHOMA PARAGRAPHS.
Chandler now has electric lights.
Hobart has the prize nlmrod. While
hon ing recently, he shot at a covey of
(|uail and hit a man.
EI Reno papers report a holocaust. All
the |> ii .iph.i f nall.i gathers In the recent
raid on gambling houses was piled on the
square and burned.
Pawnee county officers are In the courts
runt, sting for .-alary allowance on t. •
basis of population of the Osage reser-
vation and Pawnee county.
There have been l.(l bales of cotton
bought In Hobart direct from the wagons
in the cltv. ext hiding what Is now at the
gin.-, baled and In the seed.
The Newkirk dlKuers are again ready to
bore for giis and thi-ie is a feeling that
It watei bioken drills and
bad casing will again iigure In news re-
ports.
J. (' Stowell, representing the Ilternry
<li\ . of tie p;isnen«er department for
tin I'rlsco. Is in Lawton for the purpo-n
of giving the city and It.* recourses a wilt#
up" in the holiday edition of the Frisco
magazine.
The cotton season Is Just beginning to
open in th new rountry and since 7 r 29
11;*s havi already he-Mi received at Ho-
bart It Is not • . re.-timatlng the case
w! en we pla< the ( rop r iming to this
cnmpresn a' xvooo bnles It is more likely
to ex "-d 1111« number than to fall below
It. This will Insure good times and gen-
eral contentment among all classes.
('he President and General MeClellan.
Detroit Free pre?s.
In President Ron-.evelt V address de-
livered on the battlefield of Antietam
:u the dedication of the monument
erected to the memory of the N w Jer-
troops, there wa- no reference to
General MeClellan who commanded
the Union army in that tremenduons
conflict. To be nre there was no ref-
pre.-.ee to any oilier *v\<> •• !. union or
confederate; but ihe admirers of On.
MeClellan consider the President's
omission as an iuti ntlonal slight. An
unofficial explanation was made that
the failure to mention the gonerai s
name was not deliberate. The Presi-
dent was discussing in a general way
the consequences to civilization and
entered into no details of the struggle.
The explanation was not satisfactory
to the MeClellan admirers, who still
believed they saw a partisan or person-
al slight in the President's thus ignor-
ing their hero's achievements.
That there was no such purpose In
the President's mind is shown by his
address at the unvieling of the Sher-
man statue in Washington. There Mr.
Roosevelt, in referring to other union
generals—Grant, Sherman, Sheridan.
Thomas, Meade, Hancock and I ogan,
referred to General MeClellan "with
his extraordinary sift for organiza-
tion." This ought to satisfy the gen-
eral's friend« The president praised
MeClellan where he was renlly great
and om'.tied all reference to his strik-
ing weakness. As an orpinb.er and
an executive MeClellan was without a
peer in either army. He would have
been ti really rr?at chief of staff: but
as a fichter he wns too cautious and
conservative and fenrfu!. Perhaps he
had too iti i-h imagination: too much
of that dlsno'ltion. which Nipoleon
^eniored in some of his marshals, to
make pictureV
A boot
An Indiana man contemplates starting
a •Miinirg factory at Pawnee.
"An obedient husband up In Pawnee
• •him" - ty« the Glencoe Mirror, "wai
• iiiiing i i doing ii: iln work about
the house, and he quoted scripture to his
ul: snowing that tin eoucetiuld should
• ipi-il-. i • tied t ti - woman. Tne
l v\,iy replied i y reading to her us-
'"i.i i ii'".:. _■ Kings I'l-l.l—"I will wipe
•Km alem ,i a man wioeth a dish, w.jy
nig it and turning It upside down." That
hi.k nid hi- wiped the dishes ever
111 . . w: II George j{. MeClellan, then
a lieutenant In the Cnlted 8ta:eH army,
went through Wichita mountain.-, ne
ported that fabulous riches lay burled
underneath thase gloomy old hills," re-
marked Mr Btowi !i of thi Frisco maga-
zine at Law ten tb4 other evening "1
also knew n old Alex ban eight years ~t
continue.! f'-.c g ntleman, "who told
• long O be fore 1 • er though of V. -
Tig this country, Old before it r.,\a
• tied for settlement, that t'u.-re was uu-
d mineral v. ilth u the . mountain..
i verily l..iie\. that the tlmo Is not air
it w!. ih. rush ' i ilir VVie.ii a
r. niiuain.- will < v "> <l the wildest hopts
1 any <■: .Lawto.i .• . nthu*ia#tic dilzenx
• ti tli.it I wi-:i ■ ,ii. in * .
mr I have nev. in. : class of men
who wei.- jili seemingly 1 t on one idi .
, id that ...- , • ii.aU . ti. h: claau city, ai.-l
that ibelt' pen v. .no ,.j >u«I:h'«h ta< :
combined with the " * unlimited re-
sources will easily win out."
INDIAN TERRITORY NOTES.
K.ity business is 'r.cre -mg nt Pryor
' reek, and th. at.-, nt baa lean given u
clerk.
The Tulsa (" -mmercial ciub is lookil r.
out for ways and means to push the town
According to tie Tub a papers,
enjoying a building boom ihe
which has never . <' •• ... . j,
Ii s morning George Ander-
jvorklnrr on a tower at the
oil mill at Wagoner, -uddenly slipped ac-
rid ntsOy. The rope thnt h* relied on
for security une-vi • etedlv broke and An-
derson was precipitated to the ground, a
distance of Seven ty fret. The unfortu
nat ■ man hsd his right leg broken, his
cellir b«!>e far-ured ard his shoulder
dislocated by tho fall. He was stif) con- I
scl us. however, when taken up. His '
Injuries, though quite serious, are not I
necessarily fatal. Anderson recently
came here from Kansas City, '
Kit She top. • young; man of Ardmore,
was w einded In th. t ight leg by the ac-
lental dL- Kuv : a pistol which be
dropped.
In ihe sneci i! senatorial election held
Thursday in Pichens County, it lit to-
poiieu ii.it I. O. Lewis, the I'drd ean-i -
W elected .';< r to Hti< ced Blin
Uurns, deceased.
The Indian Terrltor papers are now
wrestling with that How uld is Ann7"
problem. Tut. tut. gentlemen! Do you
not know that It ia \ <>ry impolite to l .l'
about a woman's ag. and it is somethb v.
awfut to apply a lot of cold figures lu
such a case.
The South McAlester News seems to
i! k that Major Dick, of Ardmore. In
in rr for a delegate convention at South
M A I. st. on October 31. only wants to
niu.i.i • rhe nvention water. The News
'hat the convention to be held on
the 2Cth is the real thing.
The Derison Herald recently euggssted
• ■' 1 1 tnent o: demonstration farm1*
in tr. li .Pan Territory for the benefit
md .duration of the Indians, slong prae.-
j! \ Thr ,d,*a ,s ,,pl"K generally
endorsed l>v Indian Territory pre** und
nil the newspapers expressing an opinion
say it Is a good Idea
rourt adjourned at Atoka yenterdgv for
the term on account of the illness of Jft>'ge
^ II H. Clayton. Owing to several !"*>?
murder trails much of the criminal docket
was not reached and no attempt was made
to try several eases.
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