The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-28

. 80 s0 d1oA1Ae3 VI cotboAs Ao = uotah
loss BY fire.
] Il is printed that one firm in Pauls
Valley sold s7s worth Of playing cards
in two weeks.
Dudley Slaughter shot and killed
VIM. Weston near Davis, l. T., he says
in self defense.
It is stated that the pay roI Of the
South MoAlester miners amounts to
100000 a month.
An Ardmore sport tackled the tiger
on Western trip, and after two hours
had $500 less money.
The Van Wrinkle Hardware and Inn
plement company is chartered 70 do
business al Roff, I. T.
The last vacancy caused by FIRE in
Poncs City is now to be filed with new
brick buildings at once.
Solomon Temple, alias jim, or Frank
Gray from Cant county, l. T., has been
arrested in Kansas City
A Creek delegation with Chief Por-
ter, are in Washington asking for mod
ificationa in their treaty.
A. II. Knaggs, who is quite old, and
has lived in Indian Territory forty
years, has been on a visit in Argentine,
Kansas
James Lindey, a brakeman, fell from
an N. X. q I. train near Wybarls, J. T.,
and received injuries from which he
died in a few hours.
A Guthrie dispatch Of Dec. - date,
lists ten deaths 10 Indian Territory
within a week, all from gunshots. and
only one Of them accidental.
The Official board Of the Christian
church Of the Indian Territory met at
South McAlester and resolved to put
three evangelists in the field.
Six officers and deputies had a stand
mp revolver fight with six outlaws at
Mountain View. Most Of both parties
were hit but none were killed.
Acting Chairman Tams Bixby Of the
Dawes commission, with a force Of
clerks has gone 10 Mississippi to hear
proof in contested citizenship cases
The Oklahoma and the Kansas Live
Stock Sanitary boards held a Joint CON
ference at Guthrie on December is,
looking TO cooperation and harmony.
Conductor Bert Wear Of the Santa
Fe ballast train. was assailed BY a
T tra.sis1 s,ua l.-,o~i-oa ire- ,l-lrya4e1syss7-
nsA> lie frii Ucswrcu une cars upon
the bumpers where he lay unconscious
for quite a distance before he was
found by the trainmen.
Two men about 90 years ofage, were
found dead in the huh Of the house
oil mill al Muskogee, smothered in the
hulls. One Of them had note book,
with the name Of Robert O'Keefe. Nan.
ayank. Philadelphia. written In It.
This man had red hair.
Some one is canvassing and compiling
a territorial gazetteer Of the Indian
Territory. Representation is promised
Of over $40 towns and trading posts
giving the names Of all business and
professional men, and the population
according TO the census Of 1900.
The Rock Island railroad runs along
the entire eastern boundary Of the
Kiowa country, a distance Of 100 miles
aud along the northern boundary, a
distance Of rs miles: the NJ. X. s. T.
and Fort Worth & Denver roads skirt
along the southern boundary, just ovei
in Texas
II seems TO be the desire Of the In
dians. and Of the people generally thai
the $50, 900 acres reserved for common.
be allotted 70 the Indians in severalty
Durant authorities protest against
the survey which was recently mad,
Of the townsite. II did not leave a
much land Tor the towpsite as is de
sired.
A mass meeting Of the osages wa
held in the council house to decid,
whether or not the tribe would agaiI
lease the Usage pastures aud it wa
decided to lease them again.
Ardmore held a city election and onl
matter voted upon, and the one upol
which the most interest was exhibitet
was upon the pastursge Of town cow
at large in the town. The town cow
won; 30l 10 2i7.
It Is expected that the work Of thl
commission in making the Choctaw an.
Chickasaw citizenship rolls, and II
identifying Mississippi choctaws vii
be closed early in the coming year
and final report made to tho secretar1
Of the interior for department ap
proval.
The natural gas bcrings at Sulphur
H. T.. are said 70 have developed tn
fact that the gas is overlaid BY thicl
vein OF alum.