The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-11-25
TALES OF The TERRITORY.

-O0ubbE H6WS.
We do not see any good this craze
of statehood, single or double, is
doing or going to do. 1t may make
Some of our ndfan Territory EDITORS
subjects for an asylum where crazy
folks have to go.-Atoka Citizen.
One of the marvellous things is
the readiness with which the average
citizen takes to the street fakir. A
thi. d-rate actor who knows nothing
cradle audience for hours in the cold
listening to his worm-aaten iokes
and sell gallons of his nostrums, /,
when the minister cannot get the
same crowd to accept comfortable
seat In we'll lighted and warmed
church during a thirty minute se--
mon.-PhoenIx.
The Vinita Leader Gays that wood
and coal are SO scarce that people
are compelled to burn corn cobs,
and adds: beside giving excellent
heat, the smoke is said TO be a good
remedy for all nasal diseases tn
Leader then wonders if the Indian
agent would "object to our mixing a
few feathers with them"
Caddo has an old calaboose that
she is using to store lime in. This
lime is to be used IN building new
brick buildings. This is the best use
yet for an old calaboose. Had you
ever noticed that all the improve
ments being made in Caddo now are
very substantial. We are on no
boom, but for a steady, substantial
growth, Caddo is leading the list
1Caddo Herald.
There is a boom in building-the
heali hiest of signs-in Vinita, but
more especially is it noticeable in the
country Immediately surrounding.
Many of the wagons coming into the
city loaded with corn return home
with lumber. The dealers are re-
ceiving lumber just about as fast as
the railroads can deliver it and such
a steady market is found for it that
the yards are kept pretty well clear
ed. More building is now going on
and is contemplated than in any
previous season since the town was
founded .-Vinita Chieftain.
The most pretentious. if not the
most dangerous, rival Vinita has in
a business way at the present time
is Chelsea. A town of nearly one
thousand population, with solidly
built stone business blocks, fine.
heavy stocks of merchandise, live,
energetic, up-to-date merchants,
cozy homes and some even palatial
residences, she Is today no mean
competitor of the ''gate city" of the
north country.-Vinita Chieftain.
The delinquent tax sale list is now
a leading feature of Oklahoma pa.
pers, Notwithstanding they declare
that there is SO much prosperity over
there they can scarcely get around
with it. The Oklahoma county iist
occupies nearly full page of seven
. column paper ard hundreds of the
amounts are for sums less than 81,
and this is the real estate only. just
think of being forced into a union
with that sort of thing South Nc.
Alester Capital.
The Information we gather is that
a good deal of the cotton crop will
be left in the field and be destroyed
by tho weather. This while there il
a crowd of idlers sitting around towr
,cursing the hard times and the po
iiticai situation. When the bitter
cold of winter begins to pinch, these
same people will be pleading fol-
something to do and many of then
pleading charity. If there is any
thing more needed than another il
this country it is a vagrant law
Phoenix.
This town has not spoken out il
regard to the statehood convention
(which is TO be held at South McAles
ter. 1t should speak out at once
This convention is to meet Decersbel
10, and the days are slipping rapid.
by. This will be the largest gather
irg of the people of the two Terri
tories ever held, aud there Is Il,
doubt that something important vii
come of the convention-some omethini
in which every citizen of the 1ndial
Territory is interested. 1t is there
fore to our interest to meet aud or
ganize a statehood club.-MariettI
Monitor.
The railroad case concerning tn
collecting of taxes for depots ant
,other buildings in Incorporated town
in the Territory was to come up thi
week at Wagner for hearing, but o.
account of the big criminal docke
it was not heard and the temporsr
Injunction was continued against tn
1Ro;ala from collecting the take