Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11

ing in Oklahoma City.
The Kay county state bank has SE6,-
"a in individual deposits.
The Indian Territory Teachers Asso-
citation held profitable meeting at
Wagner, 1. T.
1.-The United States court of appeals
for the Indian Territory convened at
South McAlester, W. 81. Clayton, CHIEF
justice, presiding.
Governor Roosevelt of New York has
given his assurance that he will attend
the Rough Riders reunion in Okla
homa City, next June.
Joseph Miller has been appointed
commercial agent for the Choctaw, Ok
lahoma & Gulf railroad at st. Louis,
effective January 1.
Rev. W. M. Murdoch of the NJ. E.
church at Pawhuska, has quit the Mis-
sion building because it was too small
and now holds forth in the council
building.
The wholesalers and manufacturers
| OF Little Rock will follow the lead of
the Memphis business men and will
| visit Oklahoma and the Indian Terri
tory about January 20.
Major Stout, the new agent at OAR
lington, has arrived and the goods of
the government are being made over
to him, transaction which will con-
sumo about twenty days.
The secretary of the interior has sent
to congress an item of $641, Jos for the
expenses, surveys, ETC., of the commits
sion to the five civilized tribes, known
as the Dawes commission.
w. T. Whitaker, of Whitalker's Or
phans' Home, Pryor Creek, I. T., has
gone to Washington for the purpose of
urging congress to make an appropria-
ton for the benefit of the Home.
There has been great deal of new
ground put in cultivation in the Chick
asaw nation this fall and winter. A
great deal of wheat has been sown
this fall and winter, and the crop looks
| fine.
Washington authorities say that
i leases on cattle grazing land in the In
dian Territory did not terminate at the
| fret Of tho 1,aor aDd oil ooff1a ~, +baco
lands will not have to be moved at
this time.
General Metcalf of the Twentieth
Kansas has assured Rough Rider John
son that a considerable part of the
Kansas regiment will attend the Rough
Riders reunion in Oklahoma City,
next June.
! An illicit still was discovered near
Kemp by farmers living in that vicinity
and still worms were taken into Col
bert and delivered to the officers. This
is the first still ever found in the Chick
asaw nation.
1t is fact that no man has ever
tramped over the Wichita mountains
and seen the great seams through their
red rock without feeling that there
is plenty of mineral, gold or something
else, in the range.
Representative Titles bill, to abol
ish the taxes imposed by the tribal
governments of the Indian Territory
upon non citizens, is expected to be
come an important matter of legisla
ton at this session.
Secretary Hitchcock has recommend
ed to congress an appropriation of $50,
600 to stamp out smallpox in the In
dian Territory. He has also sent tt
the senate the agreement with the
Chickasaws and Choctaws, with his re
commentator that the agreement b.
ratified.
While crossing the Canadian rive
with bunch of cattle, Newt. Thomp
sons wagon stuck in the quicksan(
and $40 was lost in trying to get it out
N. H. McAlester, leading merchan
of McAlester, died of paralysis. Mr.
McAlester was SO years old. He wa
born near Fort Smith, Ark, and cam,
to the Indian Territory many year.
ago.
E. w. Johnson of Shawnee, was on,
of Roosevelt's Rough Riders. He is on,
of the brightest young educators il
Oklahoma.
Carl R. Havighorst and Miss Bessi
Barnes, daughter of Governor Barnes
are married. 1t was done rather SOL
the sly"
The Missouri State Teachers associa
ton unanimously adopted a memoria
to congress to establish in the Indial
territory a system of free publ
schools, to be administered by tn
proper authority at Washington an,
supported out of the United State
treasury until conditions shall perni
the people to do so by the taxation o
real and personal property.
Charles Chapman, who lives nea
Pontatoc, lost his wife and his team il
| f1-J Cloo~. II