The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-18
OKLAHOMA AND rsDIAs TERRITORY

were held with 30 or 40 people at
each one.
It is said that the cattlemen's meet
ing next month viii be, without ex-
aggeration, the biggest thing of its
kind ever pulled off
NJ. J. NJ. Crossley of Greer county,
raised six steers that averaged 1,716
pounds each, for which he received
three cents per pound
Corn in Blaine county, where the
crop is immense, has been selling for
Ie and II cents A better figure is
hoped for in the spring.
Abe Grantham has been arrested at
scipio, L T., charged with being an
accessory in the killing of Mrs Plum
kett at Scipio last week.
James Brock, a bavvdy house tough,
was shot and mortally wounded by
Night Watchman Hambrox, of Stroud
o. T., while resisting arrest.
The long distance telephone being
built from South McA1ester, I. T., to
Fort Smith, Ark, is within twenty
miles of that place and Will, be com
pleted in month.
Senator Allison of Michigan writes
TO Mr. Metcalf of Oklahoma that he
will favor statehood for Oklahoma
with such portions of the Indian Ter
ritory as are ready, added.
It is a circumstance strongly in favor
Of the presence of minerals in the In
tains that nc man who ever studied the
situation came Lack doubtful
Members of the Dawes commission
have gone to Washington at the re-
quest of Representative Curtis, to dis
l.
the committee on Indian affairs.
Horace Speed, United States district
attorney, who is talked of in newspaper
dispatches from Washington as taking
part in the fight on Governor C. NJ
Barnes, denied that the report was
true.
b. NJ. Miller, of AtoIa, I. T., is in
Washington. In the event that addi-
tional registers of deeds for Oklahoma
are provided by congress, Mr.. Miller
expects to receive the appointment for
Atol1a.
Postmaster Baird of Eufaula, I. T.,
has been taken to the detention camp,
having well developed ease of small
pox- An order resulted that all mails be
fumigated at Muszogee and other points
adjacent to Wagner.
Chief Justice John H Burford is pre-
pairing a bill to be introduced by Dele
gate Flynn at the present session of
congress, which provides for the organ
izatiOn of the Usage Indian country as
a separate judicial district.
Near Byron, w O. Cunningham lived
alone on a claim He took SICK, and
staggered across the country to his
nearest neighbours, dropping in a heap
at the front door. He was carefully
tended but died at midnight
The horsemen of Oklahoma have per-
fected an organization by the election
of NJ. c. Ford of Perry, president and
S. II. Allen of Enid, secretary and
treasurer. Dates for the races for the
coming season were fixed as follows:
Enid, August 10 to 10; Hennessey, Au-
gust 21 to %; Ell Reno, August rs to 80;
Oklahoma City, September 4 to 6; GI1th-
rie, September IL to 13; Perry, Septem-
Der Is to 20; Newkirl1, September 25 to
20.
Colonel James f. Randlett. agent for
the Kiowas and Cornanches, has re-
ceived instructions from the depart
ment of the interior to release all lands
under his jurisdiction for the period OF
;hree years The catt1emen are pre-
pairing bids.
1t IS announced on good authority
That the Rock Island Railway company
will commence work on its extension
southwest from Mountain View, o. T.,
before February l. The extension Will
be through the Kiowa and Comanche
Indian Reservation.
Col w. 2. Houl1. postoffice inspector
for Arkansas for many years, has been
transferred to the Indian Territory,
with headquarters at MuSkogee-
Governor Barnes has appointed w.
T. Peoples delegate to the second an
nua1 convention of commissioners OF
agriculture of the cotton states at New
Orleans.
Hardesty Herald: Al Browns ten
mule teams hauling three wagons on
the trail loaded with supplies for Shoe
makers ranch would be sight for
eastern people
Former Agent Walker does not
think it possible for the Kiovva and
Comanche lands to be opened up fo1
settlement before two years from now