Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-05-17

! held at Sulphur.
The postoffice at Caddo, 1. T., will
become presidential on July /; salary
of postmaster, $1,000.
The next meeting of the Indian ter
ritory grand lodge Knights of Pythias
will be held at Poteau.
Henryetta, two months old, has a
good newspaper, board of trade and
bank building started.
Muskogee Elks will expend about
! 81, 500 in furnishing and decorating
their parlors and lodge rooms.
Dawson, 1. T., experienced its second
spring hailstorm May 6, accompanied
with deluge of water and high
wind.
Henry Monkey. of Grant county, was
drowned below the dam at Drury while
fishing. Moxley was IS years old and
| single.
Tahlequah is preparing for another
celebration of independence day, this
being the second time the town has
done this.
j. c. Mccoy, of Wichita has been APP
pointed to collect special live stock
statistics for the twelfth census in In
dian Territory.
Mrs. Frank H. Greer has been ap-
pointed as woman member from Okla
homa at the Pan-American exposition
at Buffalo, N. Y.
Benjamin Kegley, 81 years old, died
recently at his home north of Pawhus-
ka. Kegley was veteran of the Mex
lean and civil wars.
Prof Van Vleet has started zoologi,
cal, botanical and geological survey of
Oklahoma under the law passed by the
last legislature.
Secretary A. L. Aylesworth of the
Dawes commission was in Kansas City
last week making his monthly pur-
chases of supplies.
w. R. Kendall of the university at
Norman, won the Oklahoma inter-col-
legiate contest; speaking on the SUBJ
ject "Our Nations Destiny"
The Creek country expects the usual
invasion of FIRST settlers who have
in due course lived in Kansas, Colorado,
the Cheyenne country and the Strip.
J. n. Fondren of Purcell, 1. T.; has
leased property in Pawnee and will
open large stock of dry goods and
notions about the Goth of this month
A fast stock train on the Santa Fe
was wrecked near Ardmore. L. Stew
art of Ardmore was dangerously hurt.
The wreck looked like mass of
smashed cars and cattle heaped up TO-
gether.
A corps of Choctaw railway engineers
is working near Tishomingo, locating
the proposed eXtention from South
McAlester to Ardmore. 1t is expected
that the new line will cross the Wash
tia near MEANWHILE
Ex-Judge Springer, who recently re-
tired from the federal bench in the In
dian Territory. is mentioned as pos
sibility to succeed the late Judge
Culberson, of Texas, as a mem Der OF
the commission which is codifying
criminal laws of the United States.
Riley Bandy, formerly of Pauls Val
ley, several years ago befriended James
Williams, poverty stricken machinist
whom he met at Rush Springs, 1. T..
and Williams, now wealthy, has in.
vited his old friend to go with him tc
the Paris exposition. When the men
were first acquainted at Rush Springs
Williams was working on inventions
and Bandy advanced him money or
several occasions.
Work on the sewerage system of E
Reno will be completed soon. In the
business part of the city the pipes arr
laid from nine to twelve feet deep.
Mr.. Fred Cole, who has for the las
few years been manager for the West
ern Union at Ell Reno has been trans
ferred to the general Offices at Kansas
City.
The validity of the per cent tax OF
merchants stocks will come up for
hearing before Judge Townsend thi
month. This is an Indian tax Levied
by the Choctaw nation.
Thirtyfour prisoners belonging t.
Pawnee county were held in the Guth
RE jail until court sits in Pawnee coun
ty.
A. NJ. Brooks, who was at one tim,
in business at Lenapah, L. T., is to b,
brought from Wyoming to Montgom
gomery county, Kansas, charged with
'cashing forged checks.
At Vinita there is room which i.
literally covered inside with ink stains
Years ago two members of a jury got
into fight and threw ink bottles il
the room at each other.
The North Oklahoma Insurance com
rany has determined to withdraw from
the insurance field for this season
The company was not organized soor
enough to get fair share of the sea.
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