The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-06-03
TERRITORY TALK.

saw and hammer are continually |
heard on every side in Marietta, and
new houses are springirg up on every
side as if by magic. New faces are
seen on our streets every day, faces
of people who come to a good live
town to Hve.-Marietta Monitor.
1t is reported that there has been
corpse dug up by some large animal
at the Tahlequah cemetery. That
part of the coffin and shroud and
the open grave with large track in
the soft clay, leaving the large claws,
evidence the fact.-Tahlequah Advo-
cate.
Muskogee is in the throes of
big tent revival near the court house.
No town in the Territory is more in
need of a religious awakening than
Muskopee. With the combined ef-
forts of the Salvation Army and the
revivaIists the work will not be in
vain if even one Muskogee sinner be
brought to pentance.-Wagoner
Record.
Some people may be pleased with
the effects of the new Indian Terri
tory tipple, but most thoughtful peo-
pie will concede that a good grade
of beer would do immensely less
damage to the country than the poi
son compounds which are getting in
deadly work every week. And one
need not be opposed to temperance
in conceding this.-PhoeDix.
Susan Brown, Chickasaw Indian
woman living in the neighborbood OF
Pennington, was in Center Saturday.
We were informed by Gibson Clark,
her interpreter, that she is 116 years
old.-Center News.
A Woods county boy was bitten by
a big rattlesnake, but lived too far in
the country to be treated quickly by
a physician. The wound was baths d
in sweet oil and liberal doses of the
oil given internally. The boy recov-
cred and the neighbors say that the
sweet Oil did it-E3.
The Muskogee postoffice is to be
placed on the list of second class
offices on July 1. aud the salary OF
the postmaster,raised to 81, 900 year
with all clerk hire paid by the gov
ernment.
Joe McClintock captured taran-
tula of unusual size and ferocity
while working in the rock quarry a
mile west of town Monday. Mr..
McOiintock turned big rock over
and, lying not an inch from his
hand was a terrible insect whose
sting is death. Not bit undaunted
McOlintock cody took the infuriat-
ed tarantula in tow and placed him
in bottle with centipede. A fight
between the imprisoned creatures
ensued with the result that the cent?
pede was slain in the first round
Bartlesville Magnet.
The names of the following distin'
guished citizens have been presented
for inches in the New York Sum-
temple of fame: Book Hash, Musk
ogee; White Cloud, Vinita; Soke
Sokem, Durant: Curg Nege, Ard
more.
A dispatcth from South McAlester
says that workmen near that place
struck natural gas one day last week.
Someone must have wandered in
the Capital office and struck the ed
itor of that paper.-Ceuter News.
When the Indian Territory be-
comes state, and politics will
count for something, it will be the
warmest baby of the lot, judging
from the spirit manifested in ths
Marcum and Wolverton fght.-Chic
kasLa Express.
The medicine dance of the Musko
gee tribe of Indian was held at ths
old stomp grounds six miles south
east of Bristow, last Saturday nigh
and Sunday. The dance was largely
attended by the Indians from variouI
parts of the country. The most in
teresting feature of the program wa
the ball game between the men ant
women. The game was won by th'
women. Among the crowd wer
some very old Indians, being Aun
Oelea, who was born in Louisia1
in 1894 -Bristow Record.
Messrs. j. 8. and Archie Cameron
and Geo. Cullins of Lehigh, were il
the city Wednesday evening. Thei
mission here was rather of an ur
usual nature. Mr.. Cullins came t
this country from Scotland som
twenty-five years ago and since tha
time bad not seen or heard from hi
father. Mr.. Cullins being in kret
Tuesday and Wednesday, hear
that there was a Geo. CuIlins i
Howe. He suspected that it was b
father and he came over to see. q
arriving there he found that 1t WI
his father and took him back TO u