The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-10-29

i treasurer of o county.
Payne county is the only one in Ok
lahoma that has ''public printer"
Two lots facing the public square
on Main street in Enid sold last week
for 3d. 72O.
| The Times says the cattle near
Oaarche have the Texas fever and a
| number have died.
1t is rumored that the land Office at
| Beaver is to be consolidated with the
| one at Woodward.
The ginning season is now fully on
| and the gins in the cotton section are
all running full time.
Treasurer McCurtain. of the Choc-
taw nation. is short nearly 500, ,00J in
his accounts with the nation.
The Arapahoc Argus says that strip
boomers are filing an claims in q
county at the rate of fifty per day.
There are but few places iu @ coun-
ty. says the Scout. where good wells
cannot BE- secured at Il reasonable
depth.
Owing to lack of funds caused by
Treasurer McCurtain's shortage, the
ChOctaw schools will have to be
closed.
John L. Ollie ex-rcgister of the
Guthrie land ofice, has claim on the
southwest quarter of 3O-23-G, and adj
joins the townsite of Enid.
In the case of the territory of Ok
lahoma, j. r. Clark plaintiff, VS.. j. f.
Quein, defendant, the supreme court
failed 10 sustain his mandamus on
technic al oolntS of law.
There are nearlyLOo claimants who
are trying to draw thcir pro rata of
the lease district money of the Choc-
taw nation. Some fit;Ied to register
because they we're absent. and others
could not prove up their citizenship.
1t seems strange to hear of butter
selling 1T BIZ cents pound in a
small Kansas town in country where
yc"r'ing steers are Ioupht for SI2
e tcn, and cows sell for less than $50.
let such state of affairs existed in
Cedarvale, in Chautauqua county, re-
Gently.
Dave Kyle the man that rode the
that little gray. that threw dirt in the
eyes of the three thousand boomers
to the Lone Cottonwood spring~fs go |
ing to make ss.4cmer ress5Irr: of it. He |
says the wat II ana4,-ad bv DR.. Rector
was pronounced puler than the ecle-
or;atesgl 1kesha water.
The eomptrollcr of the currency has
approved the application of Ii. I.
Smith, of Ell Reno, to organize bank
at Enid. 1t will sail under the name
of the First National Bank of Enid. |
There were only eleven applications for
national bank permits at Enid, and all
tod tl,iS N will 1No
chartered at present.
Eingfishcr Free Press: Joseph Bra
don of Cooper township was in the
farmer. lie has probably the finest
fish pond in the territory. 1t Is q
horseshoe in form. about one hundred
feet wide and eighty rods long, well
stocked with salmon and channel cat
fish.
The meeting of the statehood COM
mittec on the 10th was well attended.
A resolution was passed requesting
the people cf each of the three judic
ial districts In the Indian Territory to
select committee to draft state
hood bill; thP.t one representative of
each of these districts be sent to
Washington tins winter to look after
the needs of the territory
Many of the settlers in Beaver
county have for years been living on
claims there without filing on the
land. Lately they arc beginning to
find that the country Is settling up
more rapidly and in course of time
they will have to file or run q, chance
OF losing all improvements made by
them as the law requires filing within
ninety days after settlement.
The Sioux near the Rosebud reser-
walton are holding n ghost dance with
variations. These consist in compell-
ing everyl- >dy else to stop work, and
entering tents and camps and houses
and helping themselves to whatever
takes their fancy. threatening who
ever resists them. The settlers are
arm ng, by way of making a convinc-
ing argument against the proceedings.
In speaking of Oklahoma mineral
deposites the leader says: In Greer
county several old Spanish silver
mines have been rc-opened, and near
Willow Springs in the Strip n shaft
has been sunk and zinc found in pay
ing quantities Just east of Perry
coal crops out on the surface and sew
eral fine veins have been opened. a
company was formed last week to
open lead mines in the Pawnee reser-
walton, lead having been found there
where the indians have been digging
it up for years and making their own
bullets. This company will attempt
to secure land enough to build a min
ing town and put in smelters.
Leader: Fred NJ. Beall was reindlc-
by the grand jury yesterday on the
charge of killing f. Il. McKennon in
front of Lilies drug store last spring.
A capias was at once issued and
placed in the hands of Sheriff
Painter, who went to oklahoma City
and brought back Beall. He was
lodged in the county Jail to await
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