Single statehood is still abroad in the land, but it must be said, it is using crutches. The creamery talked of for El Reno is a certainty and the building will begin at once. The El Reno Democrat is out in a denial of charges that it has ten thousand subscribers.
Civilization still forges ahead.
The cupboard locks on the Enid Calaboose have been discarded. The Indian agents now lobbying at Washington are doing all they can to hold their present fat positions. A report is current from Ingalls that one of their ministers was horse whipped by a druggist's wife last week. The federal jail at Guthrie is in an unhealthy condition, and many cases of sickness has resulted from that cause. The Payne County court house and contents at Stillwater was destroyed by fire on December 18.