The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-11-05

Mrs: Clara BENJAMIN Newman, wide
of Prot A. e. Newman, superinten-
dent of Blaine county. breathed her.
last Wednesday, Ocs. IL, 1693s at her 1
home in Watonga.
okarche is but little over one year
old and has two school
houses. But few towns, says the
Times, in so short a time have Sc
quired such school population.
The agricultural and mechanical
college building at Saltwater will be
ready for occupancy about Decembef
1st.f 1t will be a grand structure,
credit to Saltwater and oklahoma.
At Georgetown, KY, shooting oc-
CURED between Policeman George
James and Lloyd Cole of that town, In
which the former was killed and the
other dangerously wounded.
Owen Pleasant and Millard Well
man, colored BARRIERS, quarrelled ut
Guyandotte, w. Va, Sunday, over 81,
when Pleasant shot an2 instantly
killed Wellman. The murderer was
arrested.
The murder of settlers by insurgent
bands in the province of Santa Fe,
Buenos Ayres, continues, and Ia con-
sequence a state of terror exists.
Many of the .colonists are leaving the
province
Saturday night about 10 o'clock,
Henry II. Hood, a bottlemaker, shot
and killed his brother-in-law, w. A.
Smith, at Lake View, Ala. Shortly
thereafter Hood applied at the ssil 70
give himself up.
Mayor w. H. Eustis, OF Minneapo-
lis, while driving to his farm on the
outskirts of the city Sunday after
noon, was thrown from his buggy and
seriously injured. The horse took
fright at gypsy camp and ran awayA
The ferryboat Bellevue, exploded.
one of her boilers while lying at the
natl, Sunday. Five men and one
woman on board were blown lRto the
water or stunned by the explosion.
Rube Burrows, the fireman, Was dan
gerously scalded-(
John BailyI living about four miles
west of Guthrie, broke a leg Saturday
while fixing the well on his farm. By
some means he twisted his foot and
fell into the well and was extricated
with some difficulty. The leg is broken
just below the knee.
A clothier has excited public curios-
ity at Oklahoma city by having a
large apple painted outside of his
shop. When asked for an explana-
tion he replied: ''If it hadn't been for
the apple, where would the ready
made clothing shops be to-day?"
Times-Journal; Judge Scott and
Miss Adah Curnutt came up from
Norman yesterday. The Judge has
closed the term at Norman. He dis
posed of 1874 cases in nine and half
days session and continued only elev-
en-. 1t is good record. and if kept
up will clear the dockets of every
county in the district.
notified that men are standing in line
at the Cherokee land offices clamoring
for places in order to make their
filings. 1t has been reported that men
nave paid as much as $50 for places,
and that some men have made HueA~
money by selling their places to home
;teaders. There is no occasion what
ever for this rush, as the homestead
srs have ninety days in which to file,
md could go ahead improving their
claims without wasting their time
/ bout the land Office.
A man from the Usage nation left
5he following at the State Capital Of
ice A Mrs. Plumber of the Usage ma
lion, white woman, has married
1er four daughters to full blood In
lians, and has sued her husband for
| divorce so as to make the deBl COM
olete by marrying among the Osages
herself. A warrant was served on one
If her sons-in-law on the 18th inst,
when his wife wanted to know how
ong her darling would be kept away,
Ind kissed him as passionately as
,hough he was her only joy, Next.
In the annual report of the condi-
ion of the affairs of the Indians un-
Ter his supervision, Agent Moore OF
he Quapaw a sency, gives some inter
sting information. AS a rule, he
ays, all of the eight tribes of the
agency are desirous of taking land in
everalty, and to be admitted to citi-
.enship with the granting of state
lood to Oklahoma. The Quapaws,
have made alIotments to
heir own members, with only two
lissenters, and they, with the Miamas
md Peorias, are anxious to make q
Iivision of the surplus lands and sell
anne and make a final settlement I
With the government. The Seneeas
md the Shawnees of the agency arg
mainly desirous of the same advance
nent to independent citizenship.
Bridge Foreman McCann gives some
interesting facts concerning the re-
,airing of the Rock Island bridge
cross the South Canadian. The first
ngine was sent over it at 9 o'clock
Wednesday night, but the bridge will
lot be completed entirely for about
orty days. It's whole length is 2,758
eet, or a little over half mile in
ength. The extent of the washout
vas 1,152 feet. The rebuilding of
his was not only exciting but danger