The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-01-05
APPLICANTS BUSY
BEFORE INAUGURATION
LEE cRucE is sESlEGEO BY AP.
PLlcANTS FOR oFFlcE-SAYS
WILL DIE IN DEBT TO FRIENDS.

As me DAY OF The INAUGURATION OF
the governor draws closer the Office
seekers become more active and ev-
cry day there are a number who call
upon the man who will be governor
next Monday night 10 ask some favor
OF him. Some are asking for Office
for themselves and others are plead
. ing the cases Of some OF their friends.
Il must die in debt 10 my friends
in Oklahoma, said Governor Cruce
today. Take for instance the office
Of state game warden. there are
more than five hundred people seek
ing that office, many OF them have
been ny close personal friends for
years and many more of them have
been my close political friends and
have done me a great service, but
then l can't give all Of them the
place"
viii you make any intimation as
to whom you will appoint, was asked.
Il have no more idea than a babe
whom I will name for that place.
There are many suitable persons
from which to name an appointee and
at the proper time I will make my
appointment and let it be known
If the special train goes from Ard
more to Oklahoma City on the occa-
sion of the inaugural ceremonies, Mr..
Cruce will go on that train. There
are two reasons, as he states them,
why he will go on the Ardmore spe-
cial First, that he may be with his
home people, and second, that the
Ardmore contingent will be certain to
be there in time to witness the cere-
monies.
The Kentuckians of Carter coun-
/ ty are arranging to attend the in
augural in a body and under their
auspices a public reception will be
rendered Mr.. Cruce before he leaves
Ardmore for the capital.
Miss Heard of Oklahoma City, par
don clerk under Governor Haskell,
was here yesterday to ask for the
same office under Mr.. Cruce.
f. B. Nelson of the state training
school at Pauls valley was also cal
Ter at the Cruce home. The board
of control of this school appoints the
superintendent, but Prof. Nelson of
course would like to have the new
board favorable to him.
Thomas W. Hunter of Hugo was an
applicant yesterday for the appoint
ment of state game warden. Mr..
Hunter is a lawyer by profession and
he is somewhat a democratic poll
/ tician since statehood and was an In
dian politician before statehood. The
Indian takes to politics like a duck
does to water and in this respect
Thomas w. Hunter is a true tribes
man. Some ten years ago when Hun
/ ter was in his twenties he was a can
| didate for principal chief of the Choc-
taws against Green McCurtain and
his friends say to this day that he re-
ceyed majority of the popular vote.
He was backed in his ambition by
Gilbert W. Dukes the retiring chief
and he did succeed in holding the Of
fee for three days and he organized
the national legislature according to
Big Blaze at kiefer.
Sapulpa, Okla. Jan. 4.-Kefer
an oil town six miles south Of here,
had a $4,000 fire Tuesday which
wiped out an entire block. The
buildings were all wooden shacks.
The fire started in a poo hall
thought to have been caused by
an over pressure of gas. Four build
ings and two horses were burned.
The fire department was handicap
ped in fighting the flames which
We're fannei by a high wind, he