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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-11-17
ARDMoRE, SATURDAY, Nov. II
THE DAWES COMMISSION.

washington, ~. y. NpN' IL
- The Dawes Indian Comnis-
sion met to-day in accordance
with the call sent out by Ex-Sen
ator Dawes last week. The Sem
ator was in the north and Com
missioners Kidd aad McIennon
were in the Indian Territory.
Thoy met here for the purpose of
makeing a report to the Secre-
tlry of the Interior showing the
progress of their work and the
conditions "a they find them in
the Indian Territory relative TO
statehood. The Secretary, in
view of the marked lawlessness
lately existing in the Indian coun-
try, desires especially that the
facts shall be laid Immediately
before Congress-, in order that
that body may take some action
to improve the situation. The
notorious outlawry of tho Cook
gang and the later, yet undevel-
oped troubles arising ont of the
Lewis execution will soon make
the matter n national scandal.
There is good reason to believe
that Secretary Smith will urge
Congress TO take summary action
to bring about a general land
allotment and statehood. He has
several times of late unhesitating-
ly declared that nothing remain
ed to be done but to abrigate all
OF the Iridian treaties and force q
land allotment.
The report of the Commission
will, il any thing can do so, en-
courage the Secretary in his o.
pinion. The Republic corre-
spondent called upon the Com
missioners in tho Office which
they have opened here to-day.
Ssna.or Dawes was absent, but
Major Kidd Ia kid very freely
and emphatically Of the situation
in the Indian Territory. 1t seems
that all OF the most valuable
land, and, in fact, all of the
actual power among the five So
called civilized tribes is in the
hands of a few men, mostly
Mite men, who are only MEM
nrs of the tribes by intermarri-
aA. The Commission la ! found
itSrogress utterly blocked by
the\ misrepresentation which
theAmen have spread among
the Null-breeds. They layo
frighNed the Indians into be-
levlnahat it is the purpose o.
the gdernment to take their
lands whout paying for then,
and to pqwhite governors oves
them, VIII will make mere slavcs
OF them. (After almost a year
spent anon them the Comni
sion mas doe practically nothiE,
towards bNging about an
agreement, al while it will not
make any Acomnendations Ill
will undoubtedly set before the
Secretary andSongress such
sad story of "a situation down
there that no Fcomnendatio-3
will be necessarA They will nol
only give an ugh record of &C.
cent occurance, ht will. in re-
ferring to the apWing Lewis
feud, predict vetable reign of |
terror as long as IN present in
effectual governmet is in pow
or.
Several days will \ consumed |
in preparing an exhaustive re-
port of the work in h. In6ian |
Territory. After thiahe Com
mission will return to Enish up /
its formal hearings WIN all the
different tribes. They lalled at .
the Interior Department today,
but failed to see the Saretary,
who is in Georgia.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-11-17

IN ,t,ss' 200 Main St., Foat worth
" a, IuLLINs, Gainesville,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-11-17
I'g Q. MULLINS, M. D.

Prao c limited to diseases of the
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat.
win be in Arduore, at the Wisnor
Hotel. second and iourth SUNDAYS
nf each month.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-11-17

First class in every respect is the
Central hotel. Nice, clean beds and
table supplied with the best the mar
ket affords. 6tf
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-11-17

Opera house, Monday Nov. 10, Hunt
ley Comedy company, in Hunted
Down or the Golden Giant.
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Fresh cream putfs mads daily at
Spiegle & Co. 3 bakery. 9iwk
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-19

of which Mr.. Westby is vice presi-
dent and manager, is preparing for
active work on its gold property
on Woodberry Greek, three miles
north of Ainsworth. A contract
will be let for about 300 feet of
tunnel Z feet by 9 feet. In the
mean time the necessary amount
Of machinery will be erected and
steam drills will be introduced for
the continuation of the WORK. The
necessary funds have been deposit
ed and the development is assured.
Captain Fitzstubbs, lately the
gold commissioner and government
agent for the Nelson division of the
West Kootenai is said to be lying
dangerously Ill in the Jubilee hos
pital at Victoria. His place is fill
ed for the present by Mr.. w. J.
Goepel.
Mr.. William Braden, of Braden
Brothers, has left for Helena. Dur
ing his New Denver trip he visited
the SLOGAN Star, of which Byron N.
White is the manager, and express
ed his genuine surprise at what he
saw. He has seen, perhaps, as ex-
tensive properties in copper, but
never silver-lead proposition with
anything approaching the same ex-
tent Of ore bed. Mr. Whites COM
pany will erect a concentration at
an early date.
AS the result of recent develop
ment work, a rich strike of high
grade ore has been made in the
Hillside claim in Jackson basin.
Development work on the Lincoln
is proving satisfactory. More than
Z feet Of galena and carbonates are
in sight on the upper showing.
Work is being actively prosecuted
and 300 feet Of tunnel have already
been run. Capt. Moore and w. J.
HUMPHREYS have bonded the claim.
-Kaslo Times.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-19
-NOs lou
Notice of Application for Patent.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
CGUR D. ALENE, IDAHO,
NFaxr IN 1pO4
May 10, 1894.


Notice is herby given that in pursuance of
Chapter Six, of Title Thirty two of the Revised
Statues of the U. s., CHARLES p HILL and DAVID
MCLAUGHLIN whose Post Office address is
Ockonook, Kootenai County, and State of Idaho,
and JOHN II. HALL whose p. o. address is Butte,
Silver Bow County, and State of Montana, has
made application to the United States for pat
ent for the KooTENAI WONDER lode mining
claim, situated in unorganized mining district,
County of Kootenai, and State of Idaho, and
which is more fully described as to metes and
bounds by the official plat herewith posted, and
by the field notes of survey thereof now filed in
the Office of the Register of the District of lands
subject to sale at CGur d Alene, State of Idaho,
which fields notes of survey describe the bound.
aries and extent of said claim on the surface
with magnetic variations at 22o 5sm east as fol-
lows, to wit:
Beginning at the discovery of claim post x 4
inches, firmly set where notice of location was
originally posted, marked sW. Cen end 1885,"
from which post on International Boundary
Line, post x inches firmly set and marked
in red letters, Canada on the North and United
States on the South, faces bears North 29o East
500 feet distant; the Northwest of c. p Hills house
bears South So 45m East 237 feet distant; the n.
w. corner of Blacksmith shop bears S. 34o Bonn
Z. 156 feet distant; thence north 24o 0Om East
along right bank of Kootenai River 800 feet to
Corner No /. This point is submerged except at
extreme low water. Thence north IS OOm east
1900 feet to corner No2 a post a. feet long
AZ half inches square, Is inches in ground mark
ed"2-1OSO;" thenceSouth "a com west, 600 feet to
corner No g. post ~ feet long,l inches square,
Is inches in ground, marked "3-1OS0;" thence
south IS oOOm west 1900 feet to corner No 4, at
edge of water in Kootenai River; thence north
"a DOM, east 600 feet to corner No. and place of
beginning Of survey of exterior boundaries of
Kootenai Wonder Lode, containing an area of
1850 Acres
The said mining claim being of record in the
office of the County Recorder, at Rathdrum, in
the County and State aforesaid, the S al mining
claim being designated on the official plat and
field-notes of survey, as survey No. 1880. The
adjoining claims are as follows Not known.
Amy and all persons claiming adversely
the mining ground, vain lode, premises or any
portion thereof so described, surveyed, plated,
and applied for, are hereby notified that unless
their adverse claims are duly filed as according
to law and the regulations Hereunder within
the time prescribed by law with the Register of
the u s. Land ONCE, at Ceur d Alene, in the
State of Idaho, they will be barred, in virtue OF
the provisions of said statute.
JAMES E. RUSSELL,
Register.
Date Of first publication, May 18th, 1894.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-19
WEST KOOTENAI MINING.
Considerable Activity Reported from
The Camps of that Division.

The local superintendent at the
Idaho mine, "Dick" Shae, announ-
ces another rich strike and promis-
ing indications in that valuable
property belonginging to G. J..
Atkins & Co.
The St. Paul and Minneapolis
syndicate that bonded a group of
mines on Goat River from Frank
Fitch, John O'Neil and John Fitch
is meeting with gratifying success
in its development work. Average
ore from the President has averaged
81 per cent of copper, $15 in gold
and 81 in silver to the ton. From
the Selkirk ore has assayed go
ounces in silver and 40 per cent in
lead. The tunnel on the President
has been run $50 feet, and tunnel
is also being drivan on the Selkirk.
Mr.. Virgins is in charge.
The Canadian Pacific Mining &
Milling Company of Minneapolis,
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-19
EAST KOorENAl MATTERS.
Mr.. o. S. Frizzell Returns and Talks
of the Country and its Resources.

Mr.. o. S. Frizzell returned last
Saturday from Fort Steele, B. c.,
where he has been since last Sep
TENDER engaged in managing
store for Capt. B. w. Jones, of Jen-
nigs. AS the Fort Steele country is
far inland from railroads, and as
they only get mail once in two
weeks, it can be imagined that Mr..
Frizzell was glad to get hack to
Bonner's Ferry and be with his
family and many friends once more.
He came out over the Moyea trail,
the steamboat not having started at
the time he left, and owing to the
strike and poor mail facilities, he
could find out nothing about mat
tiers on the outside, so he came out
side over the trail.
He says times are rather quiet in
the East Kootenai. The G. P. r.
will not build the Crows Nest Pass
road this year and have even laid
off the engineers. The British Col
umbia Southern is trying to secure
a loan and ii they do the road will
be built this summer. Itruns from
the coal fields to connect with the
Great Northern.
Speaking of the coal fields, Mr..
Frizzell says that experts who have
examined them report that they
are equal to those of Pennsylvania
anthracite as we'll as bitumi-
nous, and in inexhaustable quanti-
ties. The coal alone is sufficient to
bring the country out when railroad
transportation shall be secured.
Prospectors are paying but little
attention to silver-lead mines this
year but quite number are going
into the hills for gold, especially
placer.
John Ridgeway, Tom Roberts and
Jack Mcneil are working their plac-
er claims on the Moyea above the
lake, and about 80 miles from Fort
Steele. They are taking out $500
day to the man. They work the
the claim by drifting, the sluices
being underground.
The East Kootenai Exploration
Co. has commenced hydraulic
work with about 10 men on their
claims just above the old Wild
Horse diggings.
Quit number of Cinnamon are
working over old ground.
Frank Wells and Taylor have a
rich gold quartz claim in Horse
Shoe canyon, about 6 miles from
Fort Steele. They have 8 foot
ledge which assays as high as $4,000
Banks and Young have two good
quartz claims. The ledge of one is
four feet wide and assays an aver.
age Of $40 in gold.
Mr., Frizzell says that although
the country is quiet now, it has q
bright outlook and it is only a
question of time until its resources
will bring it to the front.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-19
Great Northern Troubles Settled

General Superintendent Bryan Of
the G. n. has notified all division
superintendent and agents that all
differences between the company
and employees has been adjusted.
The A. K. U. officers confirm this
statement.
Mesa free press., 1894-12-21
The ,Eolcdo weeaiy ksaade.

9th now nearly twenty thous
and regular publications in the
Unitrd States, tiiaie are but two
or three weekly newspapers pub
lished for general circulation in
every state and territory, ard of
these the Toledo Weekly Blade is
the best and most popular of thc'n
ALL It is the oldest, best know n,
and has the largest circulation.
For more than twenty-five years it
has been regular visitor TO every
portion of the Union, and it is
well known at every one OF the
sixty thousand odd postoffces of
the country. Ityis..made especially
for family reading. It gives the
entire news of the world each week
in such condensed form as will save
reading scores Of Epages Of daily
papers to get less information. Re-
publican in politics, Temperatures in
principle, always on thei side OF
Justice and right, it is just the
paper for the rising generation, aud
a great educator for the whole
family, Serial stories, wit aud
humor, short stories, household de-
partment, question bureau, farm
department, camp FIRE, Sunday
school, and Young Folks are few
of the many otheri prominent fea-
lures of this great paper A speci-
men copy will be mailed free to
any address on application, and the
publishers invite any person to
send in long list Of addresses to
whom they will mail sample copies.
They would be glad to mail a couple
of hundred specimens 70 readers of
this county. The Weekly Blade is
very large paper, and the price is
only one dollar a year.
| Address The BLADE,
Toledo, Ohio.
Mesa free press., 1894-12-21

.
3. A. Healy, General Freight
and Passenger Agent of the S. E.
P. & P, has been in correspondence
for some time with officers of the
Grand Lodge, A, O.. U. W., with
reference to bringing the members
of the Grand Lodge through Pres
colt on their way to the session of
the Grand Lodge of Colorado, New
Mexico and Arizona, in Phoenix,
in February next, and has about
concluded the arrangement to that
end. There will be from 150 to
200 members of Che Grand Lodge,
and their friends. and they will
stop in Prescott the greater portion
of the day of their arrival here.
Arrangements will be made for a
proper reception for the Grand
Lodge representatives in Prescott
Courier. ass
Mesa free press., 1894-12-21


The Prescott Courier gives the
following cheerful notice Of good
times in Northern Arizona: "Prin-
tiers are more numerous in Prescott.
than Republicans in purgatory, and
every one Of them threatens to
start a new paper next week, the
objective point beng Prescott,
Jerome, Ash Fork, Chaparral
Gulch. Congress aud Seligmau. In
the meantime the fellows who are
running papers feel disposed to
run to the woods when the weekly
pay roll has to be footed up"
Mesa free press., 1894-12-21
Letters in eastern papers declare

Letters in eastern papers declare
there is a great gold excitement in
the Argentine Republic, and
thousands of prospectors are rush
ing into the Chubut territory,
where, in the opinion of an expert
California miner who has explored
it's mountains and valleys, are the
richest gold veins in the world and
more of the yellow metal in sight
than the capital and deposits of
the Bank of England could pay
for. The discoveries are on the
foothills of the Andes, near the
source Of the Rio Negro. Tomb
stone Prospector.
Mesa free press., 1894-12-21
Tie fact that the Administration

The fact that the Administration
has taken up the currency question
is good thing, says the Cincinnati
Enquirer. not because the plan
placed before the Committee on
Banking and Currency is good, but
because the tariff has been dropped
and the vital subject taken up.
The Baltimore plan, which has been
by the President and Sec
retary of the Treasury, with slight
notifications, will fail. The fail
ure of this and other nostrums in
finance will turn the popular tide
to the free and unlimited coinage
Of silver.
Mesa free press., 1894-12-21

Everything nowadays is termed
an s'infant industry" and it is used
in the most inappropriate places.
Even the divorce business which
has reachep alarming proportions
in Fargo. Dakota, is termed by the
associated press an infant industry.
-Ex.
Mesa free press., 1894-12-21

The Indian territory method of
Furnishing children is after the
fashion Of the Cook gang. A school
teacher at Gurhrie has been arrest
ed for breaking four ribs of one Of
his pupils with his boot heel. Even
the school teachers in that country
90 heeled.-Ex. ~
Mesa free press., 1894-12-21
The Government stamp.

I Il
A correspondent writes from
Sheridan, Ohio, asking: HAS the
government stamp anything to do
with the value of a silver Tor gold)
dollar 2" Undos btedly. The Con
! stitution of the United States con :
fers on Congress the power to coin
mo ney and regulate the value there
of. IL pursuance Of this cons:itu-
tiolal power Congress legislated
ON The subject. Io the early days
of the Republic the circulation
consisted mainly Of Spanish dollars
which were made legal tender.
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander
Hamilton, memberso of Washington's
first cabinet had o vuantity OF
Spanish dollars melted, ascertain
ing accurately the quantity of sll-
yer and the quantity of alloy in
them. Tue alloy "copper" is put
in to harden the metal. SO that 1T
will not wear out in passing from
band TO land. Then it was pro-
vided by act Of congress of April
2, 1892, that the silver collier OF
the United States should contain
exactly the same quantities OF silver
and alloy as the Spanish dollars
This was the origin of "the dollar
of our fathers"
The quantity of silver in the
Amerian dollar has never beon
changed. It ins what 1t was
in the beginning, to wit: three
hundred and seventy one and a
quarter graios. Added to this are
70, ty one and a quarter grains OF
alloy, put in for hardening purposes
and not for value. Three hundred
and seventy one and "a quarter
grains OF silver uncoined-itha5 is
to say Without the government
stamp-cam be bought for about
sixtv five cents. 1t can be bought
at that price for use i'm the arts.
If the government coins it, it be-
CONES a dollar. 1t is the same
way with gold. Enough gold to
make a ten dollar gold piece can
be bought for about eight dollars
and fifty cents, but it does not be-
come ten dollars until it is weighed
and coined (stamped) at the United
States Mint.
| AS long as silver and gold are
used for other purposes than those
of money, there must be a differ
ence between commercial value and
coinage value. ,<dPhe government
cannot change the dollar at every
whim of the bullion market. i
cold and silver were used for money
alone-in other words, if the gov
ernment were the only customer
for these metals-there would be
| fixed value of bullion.
The government stamp, to con-
| dense our answer to our cores
pondent, has much to do with the
value of silver or gold dollar. L
| is the edict of the government
male in pursuance of the constitu
ton and laws, as TO what the dollar
is. 1t is the only authority on the
snbiect. Il the matter Of how
much gold or silver it requires tt
make dollar were left to individ-
ual Judgment there would be grea
variety OF views and inextricabl'
1 confusion in business. .-Cincinnat
Enquirer.
Mesa free press., 1894-12-21
It is given out that c. P

Il I is given out that G. P.
Huntington has bought a great
iron mountain at the city Of
Durango and will establish extern
sive iron and steel works there.
The mountain is the largest known
body of iron in the world. The
purchase price is placed at 81, ,000.-
900. The Mexican International
railroad, one of Huntington's
properties, runs through Durango.
Mesa free press., 1894-12-21

Stage robbing between Bowie
and Solomonville is becoming SO
popular that passengers when they
reach the secluded spots rob them
selves and then telegraph for the
sheriff. if.-Prospector.
Mesa free press., 1894-12-21

Among all the banking schemes
proposed the desire appears to be
to turn the money making power
over to national banks, plau that
should be opposed to the bitter end
by the people of the United States.
-Prospec}or.
Mesa free press., 1894-12-21

The Germans will spen l5 million
dollars on their army next year.,
maintaining about 10000 more in
fantry alone than France has un-
der arms.
Mesa free press., 1894-12-21
Golsl and Silver.

The last Republican Secretary OF
the Treasury, Governor Foster OF
| Ohio, has been interviewed on gold
and silver. His remarks have the
merit OF plaiuness at least. He
does not indulge in empty plati-
tudes. Whether wise or unwise,
he IS explicit. He has two propo-
sitions. First, maintain the neces-
sa<v treasury supply of gold by re-
quiring all duties to be paid in gold
coin. Second, solve the silver
problem by allowing the free COIN
age of the home output, to the rig
id exclusion from the privilege OF
the min. stamp of all foreign silver.
That, in brief, is the Foster idea.
Whether it is the latest Ohio idea
does not appear,
We very much doubt the prac-.
ticabllity of this gold-payment
plan. The great bulk of our i'm
posts are paid in New York city
and under the resumption act one
has only to offer United States le--
Gel tender notes at, the sub-treas-
ury there to get the gold, and con
scquently if the government requlr-
ed gold of The importers they would
get it of the government and the
treasury would gain nothing in the
end. At least, that would be the
pr bable working of the plan. In
other words, the importer could get
his gold from the subtreasury IN
the morning, pay his duties, and
then in the evening of the same
day the collector would deposit the
same gold in the su3treasury.
The silver proposition is not open
to the charge OF being impractica-
BILE. There is large latitude for
difference of opinion as to the wis
dom of free coinage for home-dus
silver, but it is certainly feasible te
do so. One way would be to place
a duty so high as to bo prohihitory
upon all foreign silver. That would
keep out the foreign white metal,
subject to the usual risk of SNUG
Cling. Another way to reach the
fsame result would be. for the minis
to refuse to coin any silver which
could not be shown to lie domestic.
lOnce let it be fixed by law that
| the privllcge;of coinage would be
Restricted to the domestic silver
and the mine owners would find a
way to so far maintain the ldentl
! ty of their products as to leave no
room for doubt or imposition.
4 Whether the home product would
exceed the legitimate demands OF
the people for monetary expansion
IS the practical question involved. !.
During the time that the Allison
Bland act was in operation, under
which the government bought sill
yer and proceeded at once to coin
| it iuto standard silver dollars, the
). domestic output was not large
enough to be at all dangerous tc
the Foster plan. A car eful inves-
tigatlon OF the prospects of silver
production under free coinage fol
the home output ought to be made
as the first step. There is plenty
of time for that before the Repub-
lican congress will have occasion
to commit the party to a fnancia
policy. This winter will helong il
;. that respect to the democracy. II
the meanwhile it is we'll for men O
large experience and much reflection
to exploit their ideas.-Chicagt
Inter-Ocean.
It is given out that c. p
Mesa free press., 1894-12-21


A late dispatch says: "The en-
gineers and 6remen of the A. d r.
railroad have be;op tined Of pay
ing grand officers from $4,000 TO
$40, 900 year. in addition to ex-
cessive local dues, without deriving
any benefit therefrom, since they
cannot, it is said, rely upon their
grand officers in time of trouble,
for the reason that the latter have
taken sides with the company and
suggest the discharge of ohe men
on account of the A. R. u, with
out hearing the men's defease. The
engineers and fireman have .ngag-
ed an attorney to look after their
interest Such a course will not
cost each of the men one quarter of
what he pays iuto the local lodge
for quarterly dues.-Sun.