The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-11-10
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600 hotel building.


The new paper mill at Fort Scott
which utisizes the waste from the
sugar mill is reported to be doing
flourishing business.
The highest elevation in Kansas is |
Carthage, Meade county; the height |
above the level of the sea is 5000 |
feet This MUxt highest is Hugoton.
The land Office officials of Wood
ward are engaged in hearing a num-
Der of contest cases-the most impor-
tant one being the Hall-Flood |
case.
An expert engineer has estimated |
that it will cost the taxpayers of New
ton S1O2,73 to construct system OF |
water works to supplF that city with |
water.
Sheriff John Love has returned to |
Woodward from a six days trip, COW
ering over 1000 miles, after man
named Moss, charged with an attempt
to defraud his creditors.
David Forney while engaged in dig
ging well near Cheyenne was killed
bv poisonous gases, and his brother
while trying to rescue him was fatally
injured.
Mrs. n f. Bronson, of Atchinson
Kan, learned typesetting in her
fathers office when a child, and has
worked steadilT at her trade for over
forty years
The state fish commissioner can
find some GOOD work to do in his line
in Franklin county if reports are true
that people there are taking black
bass in shallow water with spears ana
forks
A cow belonging to Governor Gass:
ner of Salem. y. j., gave birth to calf
| having a forehead resembling that OF
| Il man. 1t had no forelegS, but IN
their place two arms, resem bling
those of a human being. The freak
| had an underiaw like that of man,
no tail. curious back, a--d neck sim
| liar to a man. 1t is dead.
Two members of the Dalton gang
entered Halls store at Cushing on
Thursday evening, and ordered the
proprietor to deliver all the money IN
the safe. amounting to S120. The rob
bers then cody walked out and
ioined the remainder of the gang who
were awaiting them. Twenty men
were in the store at the time, but
none raised a hand.
The first car load of buckwheat
ever raised in Oklahoma, was bought
for shipment by p. l.. WEIGH thus
week. 1t was raised by two farmers
near Moore, one of them. Mr.. Atkins,
having in some twenty-five acres this
season, AS buckwheat is crop that
can be planted after wheat is har-
vested. mature and be ready for mar
ket bv the middle of September, -:s
> Leader: John Fox, the foxy prisoner
who escaped : from the county Jail
with a colored prisoner named Will
lam Frazier alias Moses lyle, Is be-
hind the bars again, and now occu-
, pies quarters in a secure and remote
cell in the bastile from which he es-
caped. Fox was recaptured IN the
Sac and Fox country by Turnkey 4.
ID jackson. the man over whom the
iail birds bounded when they sought
their liberty.
The settlers in the Cherokee strip
will at least have an abundance OF
meat this winter. for on the prairie
are thousands of quail prairie chick
; ems and pheasants, and in the tim
Iered portions many deer The
streams are stocked with an abund.
: ance of fish. those Of the buifalo ana
cat varieties often weighing fifty
pounds and over, and millions OF
ducks and geese are beginning to set
} tie upon the lagoons.
> The following picture of the situa
ton in the Indian Territory is taker
5 from. John Three. Sixteen" relig
t ious journal published by j. Z. anC
| Kate L. Wolf The latter is a Cherokee
Indian. and knows whereof she talks
Mr.. and Mrs. Wolfe are evangellsts
among the Indians and are devotine
. their lives to the couSe The condl
ton of affairs in the Indian Territory
T is almost indcscribable. The whole
country is in transition state
The past five years have witnessed
many changes. not the least among
= them being the attitude Of the lndl
! ans towards the question of land allot
ment. The in-rush of white people
has been unprecedented. There are
probably ten white people to one IN
: dian at present in this country, anC
5 still they are coming The dullel
minds of the full blood red men are
S beginning dimly to grasp the sltua'
5 ton. and instead of talking of holding
2 the lands in common any Longer
. they are looking to their legiS lators t(
, devise some l>lan by which they may
, each have tbs QUO of the soil Glve1
them. If ever there was helpless
! people on the face OF the earth, slaves
: of ii cir surroundings and cir :um
stances, dupes of the tricky polite
: ians who abound, gouged and cheated
+ by the white shylocks of the land
these are the people
Disp@ches from CHthrie state tina
), the probability of the early opening
! of ali of the remaining Indian lanu'
: IN the Indian territory lying west O
D H., s.a,.,-a+;op of the five civilized
e tribes has stimulated railroad enter
prise in that section. Already two
companies have been organized unde1
S Ollahoma's laws, and should botf
succeed in interesting capital in thei
projects there will be a sharp strug
e gle for the possession of the same re
: zion. as their roads lie parallel