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RMe on display adverilsUiK nimlo known on appil
catlou.
"Coin" Harvey attributes the demo
cratic defeat in 1890 and 11H)0 to bad
management. We shouldn't wonder. If
our recollection doesn't fail us "Coin"
solicited the funds and held the purse
strings for these campaigns.
The Celtic, the new White Star Liner's
steamer, is a wonder. She i3 the largest
ship in the world, being twice as large as
either the battleships Oregon or Massa
chusetts. She can carry, feed and sleep
double the number of people the biggest
hotel on earth could accomodate. Such a
vessel is nothing less than a floating
island. Think of such a monster plow
ing through the water at the speed of an
express train!
For years and years French has been
the language in vogue in diplomatic in
tercourse, but that language threatens to
frlish. Jaoan has
UK o j t
taken the initiative and announced to th
world that henceforth all their official
language of diplomacy shall be worded in
English. The giving way of French to
English is but another phase of the sur
vival of the fittest. Less people are
speaking French, more people speak
English. English will succeed French
so rapidly as to soon make it the univer
sal language between diplomats of nations
The first money order ever received by
this office from Canada was received this
week in payment of a subscription for
Kin? Tetherow. who is now located at
Rossland, B. C. The order differs from
the American order, in-as-much as it is
the same size of a sheet of note paper,
and neither contains the name of the
postmaster issuing the same or to whom
it ia to be Daid. Also the order is void if
not presented for payment within twelve
months from date of issue, while the
American order only requires the issuing
of another order from the postoffice de
partment. !
A New Method.
Congress has adopted a new plan for
oneninff Indian reservations. The first
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experiment was tried last month when
the Kiowa-Comanche and Apache reserva
tions were thrown open to settlement.
The new plan consisted in setting apart
sixteen days (June 10 to 26) for any who
wished to file on land on either of these
reservations to register their names and
personal description and also show evi
dence of their qualifications to enter pub
lic land. 167,006 applicants were regis
tered, but there were only claims for
only thirteen thousand persons. The
names thus registered were placed in
wheels and drawn by chance. The name
so drawn was numbered and the number
represented the applicants turn to file, or
in other words gave him the choice of
land in the district according to his num
ber. The lands were divided into the El
Reno and Lawton districts and simultan
eous drawings were held in euch district,
until the 13,000 claims were exhausted.
The drawing was begun July 29, when
there were one thousand names drawn
from the wheels. The first names drawn
from the El Rono district were Stephen
A. Holconib, ofTnuls Valley, I. T., and
the first from the Lawton district was
James R. Wood, Weutherford, . T.
Miss Mattie II. Reals, of Wichita, Kan
sas, was tho first ladies' name to appear
and she drew the second number from
the Lawton district. This will give those
drawing the lirst numbers tho choice of
lands adjoining the townsitos in tho El
Reno and Lawton districts and which are
estimated to be worth at least 25,000.
The throe towns are Aradarko, Lawton
and Hobart.
Tho lands were thrown open to entry
August (Hh, and the entries were made
according to number. The purpose of
this new method was to do away with the
old time rush for the land and the at
tendant litigation which always follows
such openings.
It seems doubtful if either of theso two
objections have been ovocome in this
case, tor' there were over thirteen peasons
to each claim. And it seems that in the
matter of litigation that a great many
homeless Indians have taken advantage
of the old law to "squat" upon this reser
vation and upon lands which have been
selected by those who drew numbers that
entitled them to an entry of lands. There
seems to be no method of preventing the
hearing of these individual claims, as
their rights are based upon settlement,
and if the Indian is allowed to be heard
there is no telling when the litigation will
end. The Wood's claim adjoining the
Lawton townsite has been jumped by -two
hundred squatters, and so far four con
tests have been filed against it.
Beresford's Choice.
Like many another man who has made
a success of life. Lord Charles Beresford ;
was the despair of the teachers of his boy
hnnA Thnw i-nnortfld to his father tuat
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vounc Charles would do nothing he di
not care to do, and on the boy s thirteenth.
birthday his parent formally announced
that he must make his final choice of a
profession. Collier's Weekly reports the
conversation which followed
"What is it to be, my boy the army,
the navy, or the church?"
"The navy, sir."
"And why the navy, boy?"
" 'Cause I'd like to be an admiral, like
Nelson."
"Pshaw, like Nelson! Why Nelson?"
" 'Cause I want to."
"But even if you were to join the navy,
why do you think you will ever become
an admiral, Charlie?"
" 'Cause I mean to," was the blunt re
ply. He had his wish and entered the
navy.
Oregon Notes.
The water agate crop at Newport is of
good size and quality.
Across the Snake river, opposite Weiser,
lives a farmer who uses gas from his own
well as fuel. This is Ed Ashley, and he
has a well some 1500 feet deep that he has
bored. The expense was partly paid by
donations given by the people who hoped
artesian water would be struck.
This is how it looks in Harney county:
"When the old cows on the mountain
range look down and see the big stacks
of winter feed .that are punching holes in
the atmosphere of Harney valley, the
aforesaid cows lie down in the shade of a
pine tree and laugh till their tallow gets
all out of shape. And the little wether
lamb that doesn't know anything about
hay is sleeping away the summer that is
giving him a big start towards 2.30."
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