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Ifl tmut stilt volume mi. f sidnev sunas, I I I'roorletsr. ' ARDMOHE, IKD. TER.. TIITRSDAY KVKNJNG, .IHiY 1(1, 1!)01. V.W.VJ??') NUMBER 224 HI SSL . ) l ?. ANDERSON, President. F. FRFNSLEY, Tlce President. C. L. ANDERSON, Cnhler. H. TORBETT, Asst. Cubr, FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Ardmorc, Indian Territory Designated Depository for Bankruptcy Funds in Chickasaw Nation, Capital Paid Up. Surplus Fund .$60,000.00 110.000.00 The oldpJt bank In Indian Territory. Accounts of flrm and Individuals solicited upon the most liberal terms consistent with wood banking. KSURflNCE Roberts & Poland. SHERMAN PRIVATE school tVVVVV FOR BOYS. :ilst Annual Session licclns Monday, b'entcmber 2d, I'.tOl. A school of liih grade, thorough work and thirty years landing under the ;irnc man agement. Tcims modoratc. Watchful care over boarders. Send for cata Irifvim ltnf.r wltlinnt. rnrmont. tri fnUnwIni niit.rnns and nnnMs! P. J. fJrant. Pauls Vnllcv: D Mats Purccll: J. Hazel, l'urcoll:' Richard Melilsh, Ardmorc; Holmes Colbert. Colbert: H. I)ri,'gurs. Jesse; Overton Love, Lebanon: R. A. Rlddcs, Cad . ' M Maurer, lioggy: Price Statler, Je--c: Holmes Willis, Willis: and Tiii.n. .linn a hundred others ftom the Territory. J. H. LeTELLIER, A. M., Sherman, Texas. BUY THE BEST Eupion Oil The following merchants only are handling Eupion Oil in Ardmore: Pettitt Bros., W. A. Payne, M. F. Bomar, W. A. Davis, Skipworth & Cullum, Porter Staples, A. A. Bailey, S. E. Jenkins, J. A Bodowitz. C. Crosby. Kendall AMcCharen. CONDENSED NOTES REGARDING' PLAN OF OPENING. Few What be Things Worthy of Note, Can and, What Canrjot Done. Registration, Closes July 26. JUST !EPEIVD Car Meat Canned Goods Messina Lemons, . Meal. , Queen of the Nation Flour, J. R. PENNINGTON & CO 9 lAf N. Mil II PIT I I 1 1 VI . VI I ll 2 W. S. WOLVERTON & SON, INSURANCE AGENTS. Fire, Accident Health Only first class companies represented. We solicit your patronage and guarantee courteous treatment. Ofllce up stairs in Rnndol bujlding, East Main St., Ardmore. RHono No. A-o. VWWWyVWWWVWVVVVWWVWWWVVVVVVWW' There are Others" But it will pay you to patronize the Old Reliable. Orders called for' and delivered. The ARDMORE DYE WORKS With Faiitiiinu & Cookku, P. O. block. $ L. F. BURTON, Prop. 5 The Ardmoreite For First-Glass JOB PRINTING, The following condensed notes relate to things which may and may not be done in regard .o the opening of the new country ns announced in the president's? proclamation. You can register h; Lawton on, El Reno between July tan.th and 28. , Registration closes July 20. Drawing held at Et Reno only and begins July 29. pplloauts securing nurobors from 1 to 12 5 inclusivo may se lect lund August 0. Those securing numbers from 126 to 2.0 inclusiro, may select land August?, and sooncachdny in ordor of their numbors until the land is all tuken. Those liolding nnmbers above the number of claims have uo show to select lands. There will bo no blank slips; the numbers will run from one to as high as tho number of those who have registered at the two land ollices. At tho time of registration each applicant will be required to select and state in which dis trict ho desires to make entry. Registration at cuch office will be for both land districts. No one can cntor tho lands until after ho has rogistored and found to be duly qualified totako the land, but for the only pur- peso for which ho may go upon and examino lands is to enablo him lator on to make his sclec tion in tho order of his number. Town lots of those designated towns will bo auctioned to the hhjjhost bidder, but no one per son can purchaso more than one business tat and one residenco lot. No one will bo permitted to make sottlomont upon any of tho lands in advanco of the opening and during tho first sixty days following opening, no one but registored applicants will be permitted to make homestead settlement upon any of tho lands but after this sixty days porsons who aro eligible to homesteads may make such settlements on lands which are not occupied if there bo any such lands after this sixty days from tho open ing. A registration foo is not charged. j It will not cost you anything to draw. ' j . For public information the' following statement shdVing i those persons who aro not qual-1 tdod to tnako entry is givoni 1. . Any porson who . has an : existing homestead entry, or! who after Juno G, 1001, abandon, cd or relinquished such an entry. 2. A married woman, unless slio has been deserted or aban doned by her husband. SI. One not a citizen of tho United States or has not do clarcd his intention to become such. 4. Any ono uuder 21 years of ago, uot tho head of a family, unless ho sorved in the army or navy of tho United States for not loss than fourtcon days of actual war. 5. Any ono who Is propriotor of ni'ro than 100 acres of land in any uthor statu or torrltory. ' 'i One who has porfoctcd till' of 160 acres under section 2 act - f June 13. Hsfi. 7 Ono who has perfected titlo to homestead of 100 acres by proof of residence and culti vation of tive years. 6 Ono who Is tn the situation where tho tltlg aoqulred by hlrn under tho public laud laws iu pursuance of entries made slue- August 80, 1S00, the tract now sought to be entered will maki in tho aggregate tnoro than three hundred and twenty acre- of mineral land. THOUSANDS STILL REGISTER IM)lilliNI)UNT THUHMlOMiS. Orx.-inlatlmi.s Perfected by Keprc acntalh cs of daily Companion. , K.-rt Worth. Tex., July 17 Representatives of seventeen in dependent telephone companies and exchanges in Texas. Indian Territory and Oklahoma mot here this morning and formed a permanent organization. Ed Xims. of Roff, I. T., Is prosidont, and O. B. Obetz of Corsioana is secretary. The convention determined that all independont teluphono oxchanges und companies within the territory named aro eligible to membership. The afternoon session was de voted to a discussion of the tel ephone situation iu Texas, Okla homa and Indian Torritory, and the extension to the stock ranch region. Town (turning No w ater. Kansas City, Mo , July 17. Marshal, Mo., a town of 5,000 people, on the Chicago & Alton railway, ninety miles east of Kansas City, is reported to bu burning. At 1:30 p. in. tho correspondent of the Associated Press wires: "The town is on tire and tho people ure almost helpless The Now York store,. ono of tho principal buildings horo is gone and the east side of tho squaro Is now burning. There is prac tically no water. Postoftlce Dynamited. Fort Worth, July 17. Rob bers crocked the safe of tho postofticft at . Glbtown, Jack coupty, last night. Quito a sum of money and valuable papers were stolen. Tho robbers used dynamite and badly wrecked a, part of the building. Tho dep uty United Statos marshal's office was notified and a few facts given. There is no cluo to the perpetrators. YESTERDAY WAS A BIG DAY AT EL RENO BOOTH. Every Avenue Leading to tho New Land Mecca is Linod With Men Willing to take a 'Chance'. Trains Packed.S per cent of tho applicants cannot read or write. Tho total registration up to dato is about -13,000. Frits, Aldorft n brickmakor, was held up last night on s sido street by negroes. ' Ho resisted and was shot in the sido, Ho is not ex pected to live. Two of tho ne groes aro In jail. Disposing of Horse Thieves. Helena, Mont., July 17. A posso organized at Big Sandy to capture three alleged horse thieves-, "Bucking Bill," Fred Co;ume and Pete' Walter, has received word that the three men were hangod by another posse Saturday, on tho Missouri rlvor noar Judith. The hang ing was roportcd by John Ting ley, a rauchman, who livos at Big Sandy. Tragedy In Swimming Pool. Glovursvillo, N. Y., July 17. Harry Gohman, Calvin Mills and Fred Vino woro drowned last night" ut a swimming school, though forty people wero in tho water ut tho time. Tho tfagody was not discov ered until a bathor stopped on Vino's corpse. It is supposed ono of tho boys was seized with cramps and dragged tho others to death. Fob Kent-A threo room cottage), good well and cellar 1 block east of Fraley Bros.' plaining mill. Apply one door north Cumberland Pres- El Rono, O T., July 17. ThU was another big day at the rog Istrution booths. Nine Thous and throe hundred nud sev- ontynlne names were ac cepted by the officials In olmrge bofore 5 p. m., several of the booths closing at 1:30. The new booth established for the examination of old soldiers' declaratory statements began to handle tho busiuoss and two more booths will bo established for that purpose exclusively. The south bound Rock Island train, duo horo at 12:80 p. in..' was divided into eight sections today, tho km section urriviug eight hours later than the tirst. This system is very bad on tho mails, thore being no regu. lurity whatever in tholr arrival. Tho post otiico force has been doubled and Is yet quite unable to handle the business. Threo linos of men waiting for mall stand from beforo daylight till tho time for closing at night. Tho lines aro often a block in length. Arrangements aro be ing made to handle a larger part of tho mail in a big tout, in ordor to give bettor service. Crowds continue to corao in ovorland. A farmer living two miles cast of El Reno on his way to town this morning passed 102 wagons, each containing two or more persons on tholr way to register. The principal strcots of the city are rows of show tents, amusomonts and advertisement stands, any ono of which would bo sufficient to conduct a street fair for towns much larger than this. Anyone can seo anything from a two-headed calf to the "hoocheo coochee." Tho center of the town is a vcrltablo "mid way.' The report that tho best quarter section lying noxt to the town of Lawton had been selected by tho Torrltory among the indemnity school lands is untrue, and the $10,000 prize still stands. Several men have been arrested at Lawton for boot-legging. It is said that at Negro Veterans Indignant. Cleveland, 0., July 17 Tho vrath of colored citizous over the appointment of a separate oommittco to caro for tho Grand Army veterans during the en campinont continues to grow. The Rovorond Chus. Bundy says It would moan a Jim Crow attachment. Harry Smith, a negro editor, snys tho nogroos won't permit tho adoption of tho plan. Hull Killed Stock. Muskogee, I. T., July 17. A sovoro hailstorm ono rallo north of Muskogeo, Monday nicht. killed some stock and coinplotoly destroyed crops for a consider able distance ovor a stretch of a milo wldo. Heavy rains fell all over tho Crock and Cherokeo nations, gonorally savlug crops. Rala Lumber Company. Guthrie, July 17. A charter was granted the Kavia Lumber Company of Kavia. 1. T., for twen ty years, capital, $10,000. C- W. Browu, II. G. Beard, and J. M. Dickinson, all ot Shawnee, are in corporators- Do your eookiug cheaply by using the Wicklcss Blue Flame oil stove. Sold by Waters-Pierce Oil Co. P. II. Neilson, Agent. 17-Gt S DR. BEN' F. HAMILTON'S f BUT of Etp.rt HpeclalUtt Big Vaudeville Co., Show ever; night, on the lot next to the Odd Fellows hall. A DOLLAR SHOW FOR io CENTS. FLOUR CONTESTTO NIGHT. POPULAR VOTE: Miss Virgie Bryant 1745 " Minnie King 1440 " Abbie Wl!helm . 10G3 CAST YOUR VOTE FOR THE POPULAR LADY. tho Lawton registering ofllce 5 1 ZwwMwt4Z A. J. WOLVKRTON, J. A. BlVENS, DON L-AOY, A. H. PALMER, President. Vice-Prej, Cashier. Ass't Cashier, THE CITY NATIONAL BANK ardmore. i. r. Capital and Surplus.. $90,000.00, byterian church Free music every day at Peoples'. 17-2t hour in the ICtf Accounts of arms aud Individuals solicited. Accorded all alike. Courteous treatment ALBATROSS notch in that all others try to The top standard reach. FLOUR quality the W'iutkman Bros., Sole Distributing Agents, Ardmore, I. T. ft It t 1 i ' i