Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-01
INDIAN TERRITORY NOTES.

The streets Of Ardmore are being inn
proved
The Chicl;asaw capitol building has
been condemned.
A newspaper will shortly make its APP
pcnrancc at Cameron
G. county is In debt only $4,000. A re-
morknbly good showing.
The now Methodist parsonage at Ter
roe has been completed.
There is talk OF changing the name of
G county TO Morrison county
Crops throughout the Chickasaw Ma
ton are In fine condition.
The silver and copper fluid at Paoli is
creating considerable excitement.
The young men Of Duraut have formed
a company TO build an opera house.
The grand jury at Ardmorc adjourned
last Wednesday Oftef having found 2l5
indictments
The papers Of the Territory think il
positive that the Cherokee strip will be
opened this spring.
The town Of Cheyenne Is located on
the spot whore Black Kettle, the noted
Cheyenne chief, was killed
st Ardmorc Cullen johnson was SEN
fenced 10 one year In the penitentiuTy
for selling mortguged property
The Ardmore Alliance Courier says
every lawyer in Tint city hns II hand out
for Il piece of the federal pie.
The Cherokee newspapers are kicking
vigorously at the prospect of being
thrown In with Oklahoma as state.
Willie sherman. Clyde BY and Lee
Bunnistcr, three boys not yet out of
their teens We're sentenced 10 one year
imprisonment In the rcform5tOry for
stealing coal, at ArumOrp
A delegation of Cbcrokees. headed by
Chief Adair viii ask uu early hearing
from congress In their application 10 nd
init the Cherokee Nation as state with
out Incorporating It with Oklahoma.
Dave Terrin will be tried nest month
! 0t saltwater. charged with being access
| soil To the murder OF Gcugr Emhrce.
| for which T. y. Terrll has received a life
| sentence. Dave and !. \. Terrlll are
! brothers.
There are ncoHv 12,OOOOOO acrps Of
! land In the territory that viii DE opened
/ 10 white settlement by congress Within
| the ucNt four or five years. Probably
! Ouc-hulf Of This land viii be- opened be-
| fore next fail. Thousands of people are
! reported 10 be waiting TO enter upon this
! luud just as soon as IL u opened.
Chief Harris of the Cherokee Nation
| has been served with Il writ OF huheae
corpus ordering him 10 deliver the nun.
dprcr Talon TO the United States cour.
at Fort Smith, The grounds of the
writ are that the terms Of the cOnSttu,
ton of the United states were not com
piled with IN the trial II this view i.
beld by Judge Parker, Talton win b,
! turned loose.
samuel W. Sullivan was sent TO jail
nc Ardmore for interfering with an oil
Ger making an arrest,
There is couple travelling through
the Territory who are very slick at their
business. They apply to- u preacher Il
perform Il mDrrage ceremony aud thor
gave him u $50 counterfeit bin and Asb
him to take his fcr of So ont of Il. The,
make $40 every time a ceremony is per
formed.
II the Indian aud Oklahoma terri
tories are made one state undcr th,
present hill before congress. Oklahoma
win be obliged TO furnish an the land,
set aside by the terms of he bin fo,
schools, colleges couwh0uses and staff
capitol, snys The Aliuco Miustcl. Thor,
will bo no government land inside IA,
Indian Territory to sct aside for any
thing, as the bin expressly statrs M,
land tenure is not 10 be molested by m,
act of statehood