The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-11-05
TIE TWO TERRITORIES
Candenaed News OF OkIahomn and the
Indian Territory.

/ E. J. Daniels has been appointed
treasurer of county.
Payne county is the only one in Ok
lahoms that has ''puDlic printer y
] The Times says the cattle near
| 0karchse have the Texas fever and
number have died.
It is rumored that the land Office at
Beaver is to be consolidated with the
one at Woodward.
Jack Stillwel1, El Reno's police
| Judge, is in Chicago, the guest of his
friend, Buffalo Bill.
Enid has been declared city of the
first Glass; and an election of officers
has been called for Nov.
The Arapahoe Argus says that strip
boomers aFe fling on claims in G
county at fhe rate of fifty per day.
Judge Bufford of the Third judicial
district was the seventh man to put
his homestead papers on file at Enid.
They are boring for gas at Kildare.
That is not necessary when there is
SO much surface gas all over the strip.
There are but few places iu Q coun-
ty, says the Scout, where good wells
cannot be secured at reasonable
depth.
John :. Ollie ex-register of the
Guthrie land office, has claim on the
southwest quarter of 3O-23-6, and ad-
joins the townsite of Enid.
A new town has been started on the
survey of the Hutchinson & Southern
| railway, fourteen miles northwest of
| Pond Creek. It has been named Wa
Keta.
The Enid Eagle advises the citizens
OF that city to keep barrels O. water
near their houses to be used in case of
tire. They will also be used instead
of fire rewater.
In the case of the territory of Ok
lahoma, j. r. Clark plaintiff, VS.. j. E.
Quein, defendant, the supreme court
failed to sustain his mandamus on
technical points of law.
The Logan county board of commits
sioners of insanity met Tuesday in the
county court room and a1judged J. S.
Fox insane and ordered him sent to
Jacksonville.
Caleb C. Brown, Of Kentucky, has
been appointed assistant United States
AN0 UIOOAACys F4NfC OOlIA oOOhCs
This makes it almost certain that Ho-
race Speed will serve out his time.
Clayton Farmer (colored(, who muir
dered another colored man at King.
fisher about year and a half ago, in |
quarrel over rs cents, was sentenced |
Monday, to a life term in the peni- |
tentiary.
E1-oT T1r Exx,.rr he
Clmarron, shot an enormous pelican, |
which measured eight feet from tip to |
tip, 1t is BY far the largest bird of |
this kind ever brought to Guthrie. He |
killed it with load of bird shot.
Kingfsher Free Press: Joseph Bra
don of Cooper township kas in the
city Tuesday. He is an enterprising
farmer. He has probably the finest
fish pond in the territory. 1t is a
horseshoe in form, about one hundred
feet wide and eighty rods long, well
stocked with salmon and channel cat
fish.
At the "Indian pipe dance" on Camp
creek last week there were more than
eighty ponies given away to the
dancers Many attended and enjoyed
the sport very much, even if the pei
formers were in rather nude condi-
tion. We presume many of the spec
tators had visited the art exhibits at
Chicago.
Attorney General Olney has instruc-
ted one of his clerks to bundle up the
charges fled against United States
Attorney Speed and send them to him.
This is an unusual proceeding. 1t is
very seldom that cabinet officer sends
matter of this sort to the man whose
place is desired by the other fellows.
The drone never thrives in the bee
hive; neither can the indolent, good
for-nothing thrive here. Close atten-
ton to business or vocation courts
and merits respect and patronage, but
the lazy, careless and doless re-
ceive only contempt from their indus
trious neighbors. If you are n hustler
this is the country for you; otherwise
you will find it mighty poor pickin."
There are nearly 100000 acres of
school land in the strip and adjoining
reservations recently opened to settle
ment. Governor Renfrow is daily re-
ceiving hundreds of letters from par
ties all over the west and southwest
inquiring about these lands, whether
they are for sale, how to settle on
them. etc. ;. and for the information of
the public the governor states that
the school lands are not for sale and
will not be until after the territory
becomes state. At present they can
only be. leased, and as soon as he re-
ceives his instructions from the secre-
tary of the interior (wIthin few
weeks at the farthest) he will adver-
tise for bids for said lands on GER
rjUnF date all lnoSnG n ha for
three years. Payments may be made
in cash or by notes of approved secur-
ity, and all business connected with
leasing must be tranascted with the
governor at Guthrie. No priority will
be gained by any person settling on