The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1903-05-17
1lplnes FROM rAALseuAA.
Land Office Force at work-ooin9'
In the Cherokee Capital.

In the Cherokee capital
Special to the Ardmoreite
Tahlequah l. T.. May 16.-captain
Jack Ellis OF the indian police was
in Tahlequah Thursday on business
for the government
| called to see Major Breckenridge
who has charge of the land office
work at this place.
Thursday morning Major Brecken-
ridge said he would be glad to give
me any news in his power. He
showed the workings Of the land ~.
fee force and gave me he personnel
of the force which Is as follows:
p. q. Reuter- clerk 10 charge.
b. C. Jones. sssistsnt clerk in
charge
Homer Needles, allotmei clerk
A. A Davidson, law clesi, en70ll-
ment division.
Grant Foreman. law clerk. allot
ment contest division.
S. c. Mitts. NJ. p Lyon, drafts
men
]. X. Gibson, W. W Wallace. w
S. d. Moore, G. W. Walter n. d.
Christian. Frank Lewis. J. II. Carloek,
J. G. Moore, location clerks.
T. J. Farrar. clerk.
j. o. Rosson. roll clerk.
o. B. Jones. tract book clerk.
Il. G. Rothenberger. Il. C. Bagwell
]. o. Carr, @. w. Erwin. Roy Palmer
G. r. Smith, stenographers.
L. c. Funk. Oscar C. Ra5benneck,
fle clerks.
S. r. walkingstick. clerk and inter
prefer.
j. ID. Berry marshal
Louis Burgwaldt Henry Pfiel, L.
w. Pitts, messengers.
Bishop Brooke held services at the
Episcopal church here Sunday. The
members of the church hope soon to
get a pastor stationed here.
The Ozark has changed its sched-
ule, trains east and west now making
good connection at Muskogee and
Fayetteville
Rain has fallen here every day
since Monday a week ago. Thanks
to the well graded streets. the mud
is not in conspicuous evidence ex'
cept in rare cases. Tahlequah can
safely lay claim to having the finest
streets In the Cherokee nation. Sit
uated as II is, between mountains,
the streets are of gravel and solid
rock. with few places where the dust
shows.
S. F. Parks, of the Cherokee board
of education. was here last week
from Vinita. he was here to attend
the quarterly meeting of the board
and to audit the accounts OF the su
perintendents of the various nationa
schools.
r. Berryhill and Otto Luther, two
men from LaHays, Kas., were brough
into town last week by a farmer llv
ing about forty miles north OF here
He claimed they had stolen q pair o
mules from him while he was in tn,
above named city. He tracked then
to point eight miles east, where h
overlook them and brought them [
Tahlequah, where. at their eeXaminln
trial before Judge Russell, they wer
bound over until requlsition cai
be secured from the governor Of Kar
sas
John d., Ionic and Florence BenC
dict OF Muskogee were in the city las
week as guests Of Prof. Koppeck, \
the male seminary
The National party OF the Chert
kee nation met at Big ScuiIle Sprinl
seven AMI a half miles from Tail,
quah, Monday and continued in SCI
sion three days. The meeting wa
for the purpose OF nominating cand
dates for principal chief. assistar
chief and minor offices of the part.
ID. w. c. Duncan was nominated fc
principal chief and George Hughe
for assistant chief. The Downing pa
ty win meet at the same place ne
week for the same purpose
Gus Ivey OF the Salisaw Star wa
here Sunday
DR.. Il. d. Norton of the Chauta
qua entertainers was here Monda
and Tuesday nights.
World Wide Reputation.