The Langston City herald., 1900-01-27
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORY

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Telegrams from all over the territory
were sent to Washington asking the
retention Of Governor Barnes.
Chickasha feels big enough to be
city because in one night three partles
were held with 35 or 40 people at
each one.
The total rainfall for last year, as
registered at the Oklahoma experiment
station, was 80. 81 inches, 2.11 inches
less than the average for three preced-
ing years.
D. L. Maxwell, a school teacher OF
Canadian county, has received the aP-
pointment of farmer in the Otoe board
ing school of the Pawnee, Ponca ana
Otoe agency.
Thomas Begley came in to Tulsa and
surrendered to the authorities. He
claims to have killed James Turner
while stealing hogs from his place
near Mounds.
The experimental station of the Ok
lahoma Agricultural college is prepared
to furnish vaccine to parties who de-
sire to use it to prevent "blackleg"
among their cattle.
Mrs. William NJ. Jenkins, wife of the
territorial secretary and present acting
governor, has a temperance lecture
which she is delivering at different
points in the territory.
One of the strongest lobbies in Wash
ington from the Indian Territory this
winter will be the one to pass the law
permitting the sale of beer and other
tntoxicants in the territory.
Flynns statehood bill has a clause
attaching the Kiowa and Comanche
country to Oklahoma, but the depart
ment is proposing to renew the leases
to the cattlemen just the same.
The contract has been let for build
Ing branch road from the st. Louis e.
San Francisco at Sapulpa, I. T., south
to Wichita Falls, Tex, tapping the
coal fields of the Creek nation.
Edward Smith, an employe of the
Oklahoma Eastern railway, was fatally
injured by the premature explosion of
blast. A large stone struck him on
the head and crushed his skull.
Members of the Dawes commission
have gone to Washington at the re
quest of Representative Curtis, to dis
cuss the affairs of the territory with
the committee on Indian affairs.
The colored people of South McAles- .
ter have formed political club They
say the colored men of the territory
viii BE- 81 garizrr as q secure T171 c c
representation in territorial conven- a
tions. t.
The new Choctaw court house at May
hew is almost completed, and the Jail P
has been removed from the Pushima- t
taha courtground to the place where in C
future the tribal court for this district /
will be held.
Plato Montjoy, special inspector of Il
the department of justice, is making G
the annual tour of inspection of the L
offices of the district clerks, United k
States commissioners and United States r
marshals in Oklahoma. 81
1t is announced on good authority I
that the Rock Island Railway company A
will commence work on its extension 5
southwest from Mountain View, o. T.. 2
before February l. The extension will I
be through the Kiowa and Comanche II
Indian Reservation. II
John Minehan, a teamster and his
son, aged 10 years, of Hanson, l. T., n
were instantly killed at Fort Smith, IL
Ark, by the collapse of a barn loft y
which was overloaded with corn.
Secretrry Hitchcock has sent to con- g
gress his recommendation to appropri- is
ate $4,000 for the maintenance of the a
Whitaker Orphan home at Pryor Creek, a
Indian Territory. The amount asked
for by w. T. Whitaker was $50, 900. Il
Delegate Flynn Immediately introduced tt
a bill in accordance with the secretarv's c.
I
A postoffice has been established at.
brighton, Woodward county o. T.. and ly
James w. Smith appointed postmaster. d
DR.. Linn, townsite commissioner at II
Wagner, l. T., has gone to Washing
ton. The commission has the streets a
and alleys about all surveyed, and To- g
Gated, and a considerable portion of W
the property measured. DR.. Linn car W
ried plat with him to Washington
showing how far the commission had n
with their work, and to OBJ o
tain some further information as to t.
future proceedings. W
There is rumor in the Choctav
that President Mckinley has o
the bill appropriating $1,000 b
a year for the employment of ATTORNEYS h
to represent the Chickasaw nation in fC
cases. 81
Mrs. j. P. Atchinson, aged seventy
years, died at her home in Durant. /. t;
I. She has lived within four miles of o
this place for seventy years. She. was Il
The youngest of seven children, all of W
whom died in rotation, according to III
their births, she being the youngest! p1
and last to die. lie
Mrs w. H. Darrough, wife of
farmer living near BartleSville, was a.
injured in runaway accident d
On the main street of Bartlesville Her p
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