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| Ell Reno is the only town in the territory
that has assessed fine Of Is upon all its
old bachelors for the purpose of raising a
free school fund and the boys are paying
up promptly.
Among the desirables. the Norman
Transcript says it would like to see the
Santa Fe railroad company show little
more respect and accommodation to their
| patrons here.
Norman Transcripts: Fencing material
has been in active demand of late and the
lumbee yards have sold out everything
| that would answer to build fence during
the recent rush.
An Oklahoma exchange is authority for
the statement that the roads are very bad
now. They are cut up so badly by the
heavy loads during this wet weather that
the wood haulers are almost helpless.
The were twenty-five contests filed on
different claims in Oklahoma at Guthrie
last Wednesday and more the following
day, and there is more to be filed in a short
time Most of them are filed on account
of abandonment.
On the night of the 21st inst, the Odd
Fellows of Norman, aided by the brothers
of Purcell, will organize a lodge of that
order. This viii make ten lodges in the
Indian country and will entitie them to a
grand lodge of the order.
Frisco Herald: Oklahoma City has a
giant. He has two lots in the city. He
went down on the train yesterday. HIS
name is j. NJ. Palby. He was born in
Texas, is thirty years of age, weighs 290
pounds and is seven feet seven inches
The treasury warrants of the Creek ma
tion one year ago, were selling in the
stores and on the streets for thirty and
forty cents on the dollar. Today they are
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doubt, says the Purcell Register.
On Monday last a flock of antelope were
seen within a mile OF town, says the
Frisco Herald. Antelope are scarce IN
this country. The grass is too tail for
them. Antelope delight to range upon the
short buffalo grass of the Pan Handle and
Neutral Strip.
Frisco Herald More than twenty-five
good men have purchased claims in the
vicinity of Frisco during the past ten days.
paying therefor from 500 to $1,000 per
quarter Every one of these men will be
the means of bringing other men Of means
to locate here.
Reno City Eagle: Windows and doors
are mysteriously disappearing from unoc-
cupied buildings and ''shacks" in various
portions of the city. A few of the property
owners are now setting up with their
buildings and their shotguns, and unless
the pilfering is brought to a close the
Eagle will be furnished with a double
headed local one of these mornings.
Frisco Herald: Reports from the United
States land office show that all but four or
five quarters is taken up in the eighteen
miles OF which Frisco is the center. Neasly
every quarter has family on it, and the
reot will have families located on them be-
fore another three months. Making allow
ances for school land, for a few vacant
quarters aud putting the population of
Frisco at five hundred, in THEE months
from now there will be not less than 3. 700
population in the country nine miles each
way from this town. This is only esti-
mating three persons to the family. II
you take the usual average as accepted In
other places of five to the family and we
will have two-fifths more, or 5, $50 popula-
ton. This is putting the population
pretty thick, but the country will support
it and twice that many. Make Frisco he
county seat of county twenty-four miles
square and the county will contain nearly
ten thousand inhabitants. Southwest
Oklahoma is the best section of the terri
tory and Frisco the geographical center.