The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-05
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN rERRrronH

Governor Barnes gave the newspaper
men dinner on November 27.
The Guthrie Commercial club has re-
organized on active business lines
Sub contracts have been let for grad
ing the Orient railway in Woods coun-
ty.
Authorities at saltwater are making
that climate very unhealthy for gam
blers.
Logan and Lincoln counties are tied
for second place in populations each
having 2e,53s.
There are many looking over Okla
homa for places in, which to locate in
the banding business.
The official report of the election
shows the total vote TO be 7s,3G7
Flynn's plurality, 4,724; Flynn's major
ity, 3,1ao.
A Guthrie jeweler has found gold
bearing quartz in the rock ballast Of
the Santa Fe tracks. The ballast came
from Kansas.
L. r. suppe, Of Parsons, Kansas, has
the land near Granite where gas es-
capes from the surface and will get
machinery in place there at once.
On Sunday morning Medford ed
itor, so the story goes. stationed him
self at the edge Of pond and killed
twenty wild duck before breakfast.
& j. p clapp's small safe was taken
Afrom his residence at Coldwater and
later it was found, safe and sound on a
farm west OF town. 1t contained $500.
2 Judge Buford discharged the Logan
county grand jury aud called another
one because the first jury failed to in
diet persons charged with running
gambling rooms.
Robert stonall, Of Day county, has
been convicted in a Kansas court Of
grand larceny OF cattle. His arrest
and conviction were secured by the
Bankers and Cattlemens Protective
Association.
The Dawes commission expects to
,tase up two years more Of time before
Y fcompleting their work. The commits
sion will meet in Hattiesburg, Miss,
on December II, TO enroll the Missis-
sipppi Choctaws.
John Walt put strychnine in glass
OF water and drank it. lie was bach
elor farmer near Cleo. Norman Swartz,
neighbor, was with Walt. His two
brothers live, one at Forest, Oklahoma,
and one In Newton, Kansas.
The Red Rock Valley Coal company,
Is said TO have contracted for the sink
ing OF shaft, six by eight feet, 10 the
depth of about eco feet II is believed
from the result Of borlngs, that there
'eis four foot vein Of coal there.
AS something over 100000 is lying
in the territorial treasury, in the pub
lie building fund, derived from leasing
section 80. there Is demand that it be
,lpsed to build a penitentiary so as to
stop spending large amounts Of cash
for the care of convicts in Kansas.
The school population Of Oklahoma
is put at 10000 by the territorial SUI
perintendent, and the attendance at
the territorial institutions as follows:
University. $50: Territorial Normal.
ESQ; Northwestern normal, 500; Agri-
cultural and Ncchanical college, $50;
Negro Agricultural and Mechanical
University, ir5.
-Four sport smen from Emporia lost
by seizure = Deaver county, their
game, arms, trunks and other baggage,
with few hundred prair chickens
and quails. and their fines and costs
amounted 10 s75 which they paid.
Two school boys were scuffiing in
the schoolhouse near sheridan over the
possession Of knife. The knife, when
jerked from one boys hand by the
other boy, struck one of the girls and
cut her jugular vein. SCOT was applied
and a doctor sent for. The girl nearly
bled to death
Oklahoma wheat Is being consigned
in large quantities too large for the
car service men TO handle.
Seven clerks are busy 10 the Office Of
the register Of deeds Of Oklahoma coun-
". so rapidly is real estate changing
hands
The quarterly payment Of annuity to
the osages commences December I.
Peddlers and falsirs are excluded from
the reservation. No payments will be
made to families who do not have GER
tiicates that their children of school
age are in school
A mandamus proceeding is brought
on petition to compel the calling Of an
election to locate the county seat Of
Roger Mills county
Cleo has a mirage for an early morn