Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-04-12
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORY

The Western Union has put in an
uptown telegraph Office in Enid.
Chicl1asha has Sorosis and the club
is devoting its time 20 study of Dick
ems.
In Oakland S45 900 was raised in one
hours time, by citizens to capitalize
bank
One of the best piarists in the terri
tory is Miss Eagle Feather of Canton
ment.
j. III. Havighout claims to have To-
Gated a fine bed of the best of coal near
Guthrie.
S. P. Cornell, of Lincoln county, was
shot by his son-in-1aw, named Lynch,
in quarrel.
In western Oklahoma, the herd law
is gradually encroaching on the domain
of free range.
The negroes at Kingfsher nominated
city ticket, but failed to file it within
the statutory time.
The boys at the Oklahoma Agricul-
tural college,have SET out 35, 600 trees on
the college grounds.
Pottawatomie county is free from
small pox and courts will be held at
regularly appointed dates.
1t is expected that there will be 300
Indians secured to dance at the time of
the Rough Riders reunion.
No more proof notices will be sent
out from the Enid lar Office until the
$4 publication fee is advanced.
The skin of lynx thirty-five inches
long and eighteen inches high has been
added to the college museum at Still
water.
Mrs. DR.. T. G. Dewey, of Oklahoma
City, will soon join her husband, who
is United States surgeon in the Phil
ippines.
Sixteen miles from Augusta is a salt
plain with an area of 100 square miles.
The salt deposit is from one to four
inches deep. The plain is 1890 feet
above sea level.
1t is now claimed the Sunday school
of the Pilgrim Congregational church,
of Oklahoma City, is the largest in the
territory. The average attendance for
The year was 149.
An examination of peach buds at the
agricultural experiment station shows
large percentage of the buds are dead,
yet there are enough remaining to
yield fair crop.
Two insurance agents travelling in
Grant county dropped a match from
their buggy, which started fire that
burned across several farms and de-
stroyed a number of stacks of hay.
Rev. Wagner, o, the NJ. E. church at
Norman spread paint on the church
and parsonage with his own hands.
He also assisted in papering the church
and has put the grounds around the
parsonage in good shape.
Corn jumped to 81 cents in Guthrie
and hogs to S4.75. One scene of inter
est was two farmers one with a load of
corn, another with n load of wheat.
The first received $l3 81 for his load,
the second $40. Heretofore it has
taken four loads of corn to purchase
one of wheat.
Henry Wicker while prospecting in
the Otter Mountains in the Kiowa and
Comanche country, found the skeletons
of four persons, apparently those of a
man, a woman and two children. The
skeletons. from appearances, had been
there about six months. Near by were
Winchester rifle, camp outfit and
saddles.
Henry City, new town, has been
laid out in Pottawatomiec county. The
townsite is one mile long and half a
mile wide.
A teacher of the normal at Alva told
his class he would try to detect the
difference in the acuteness of the sense
of smelling in pupils. He passed
around bottle of distilled water ask
ing each to say how strong it was of
ammonia. Every one smelled the am
monia all right, but there was none in
the water. He then lectured on I'm
agination."
Saltwater churches were thinly at
tended, the other Sunday, for the peo-
pie were watching a railroad bridge
gang build a bridge.
Mrs. Selwin Douglass, president of
the Oklahoma federation of women's
clubs, denies that she is a candidate
for the national presidency of the fed
Grafton. She roasts the reporter who
started the story.
Five thousand dollars of the Carnegie
gift for library at Oklahoma City has
been received. The contract for the
building will be let soon.
The eight clerks in one department
of a store at Cleo wear the temperance
white ribbon.
J. w. Gordon, of Wellston, Lincoln
comfy, is contracting his 1900 crop of
castor beans at one dollar per bushel.
Lincoln county put lot of her pris-
oners in the Oklahoma county Jail and
now Oklahoma county will present a
bill to Lincoln for damage done to the
Jail by the Lincoln prisoners.