The Globe-republican., 1897-07-01

Kingisher is holding q tennis turna4
mcnt
An effort is being made to establish
a Mormon church at Wagner.
I A city stoclsyards will be established
in Ell Reno within few weeks.
Tho coal fields in the Indian Terri
tory are now attracting very general
attention.
Bankers association will be held at
Ell Reno.
! There are oats in Kay county that
will yield seventy-five or eighty BUSH
els to the acre.
The largest elevator on the Santa
Fe, between Galveston and Kansas
Cty, is located at Purcell, l. T.
During the last few days several
large deals have been made in real es-
tate adjacent to Oklahoma City.
The prisoners in the Ardmore jail
passed resolutions of thanks for inn
provemcnts, which gave them more
light and air.
Claremore merchants are Offering
prize of $50 to any farmer in that vi
cinity who shocks and stacks his wheat
the best shape.
| There are more Smiths to the square
mile in Oklahoma than in any other
country in the world. They're pretty
good people, too.
| The Caddo Indians are making lots
of pocket money by marketing their
blackberries, which grow abundantly
on their reservation.
The postoffice department has Gre
ated new postofice at Canier, Gar
field county, and appointed Solomon
S. Canier as postmaster.
The Wadsack potato farm near Ok
lahoma City. has ordered nineteen cars
to haul its next weeks digging. Such
yields will make Oklahoma famous
One hundred bushels of oats and if
ty bushels of wheat to the acre is not
an uncommon yield for Canadian coun-
tvs wheat and oats fields this harvest.
The proposed quarantine conference
| that was to have been held at Oklaho-
ma City failed to materalize, as the
Kansas board refused to participate in
the deliberations.
The latest organization in Ardmore
is the Non-Labor League. Its men,
bers are pledged to perform no labor.
under heavy penalty. The extent of
physical exertion permitted is digging
bait and fishing.
Will Grayson was sentenced to fifty
lashes on the back at Eufaula last
week for stealing chickens Taylor
Jones, an accessory, was sentenced to
be shot flor the same offense. They
were Creek Indians
The Cloud Chief Board of Trade is
scattering circulars over the country
offering bonus of $500 and site for
a fifty-barrel roller system Touring
mill, and $500 and site for 4 two
stand sixty-saw cotton gin.
Throughout Oklahoma and the In
dian Territory grapes are fine, and the
present indications are that they will
be more abundant this year than ever
known before. Wild grapes are also
growing in great luxuriance
There is an ice war on at Perry that
is indeed nice war for the consumer,
for ice around the square is only 25
cents per hundred, while it is delivered
in any portion of the city at so cents
per hundred. and good weight guaran-
teed. 1t is fight to FRAGILE between
the brewing companies and the ice
plant connected with the water works
system of the city.
Many Oklahomans will remember
Henry Miller, whose hands were shot |
off at the time Red Buck was killed, |
more than year ago. in Custer coun-
ty, while the two were resisting arrest
for the murder of Mr. Glover Miller
was in Jail in Ell Reno for months, and
upon trial was acquitted of the crime,
but he has just been tried in Texas for
grand larceny and sentenced to four
years Imprisonment.
The chairman of the Deep Water
Committee, has written to several par.
ties in Oklahoma, asking information
about what imported articles go to the
cities, with view of having them i'm.
ported from Galveston instead of Ney;
York. Twenty-Five feet of deep waite.
at Galveston has induced several lines
of ocean steamers to come to that port.
The harbor room is sufficient 20 meet
the requirements of the world.