The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-21

Professional and business men Of
the Creek nation are now paying tribal
taxes
A postofiee has been established at
Rex, Cherokee nation, with A. } Sands
as postmaster
The South MeAlester convention viii
be followed by a statehood convention
in Oklahoma
The wire fence around the Fort Sup
ply reservation is sold By public aue-
ton this week
Dr. J. u. Ward Of Calvin, /. r. was
crossing tho Canadian river 70 visit a
patient and was drowned.
4 urn44es4e- COMPANY has been char
tered with a capital Of $50, 900 to do
business in Oklahoma City
Hallsell and Turner are to get the
contract to collect those millions from
the United States for 10 per cent.
The population Of Oklahoma, as Off
cially announced, IS 39s,2i5 This is
an increase Of 33e,llI, or 544 per cent
At Chelsea there is one pile Of $4,000
bushels Of corn, besides other smaller
piles, which in an contain 5000 bush
els
The postofice at south MeAlester
has been made the depository Of about
500 smaller postofiices in Indian Ter
ritory
Twenty-eight convictions were se-
cured at Antlers out Of the criminal
docket during two weeks Of session Of
court
According 70 Secretary Hitchcock's
report there are $4,000 white children
in Indian Territory who are without
school facilities
The Cherokee Legislature when a
member wants 70 smoke, grayely
adopts a motion that some member
treat to the cigars.
Five hundred fullblood Creeks have
been in camp at Hickory Grove, fve
miles from Henryetta, for some time,
and trouble is apprehended.
Il is said that there are but few
places ia the world where eolxing coal
and high grade iron ores are so close
together as they are in the Choctaw
nation.
r NJ Best and Mrs Ida Langley
were drowned in the Verdigris at San
der's ford The river was swollen by
by rains They lived between Collins
vile and Claremore.
/ Lamont, with its new railroad, has
already 400 people aud crowds Of new
ones reach there on the two trains a
day from Blackwell. About 50 new
buildings are going up.
The Cherokee council tabled indenn-
itely the bin creating a commission TO
treat with the Dawes commission. In
dications are that no treaty win be
made by he cherokees
Frisco trains are running on the sa-
pulpa extension as FAR as Francis,
Chickasaw nation, which Is 70 be a di-
vision point The bridge across the
Canadian river is completed.
East Of Tishomingo Robert Patrick
was shot dead while endeavoring to
stop a quarrel between two ueighbors.
Pasricks father. who wasovcr so years
old. dropped dead when he heard Of
his sons death
L. r Kennedy & Sons have made a
proposition TO the Cherokee legislature
TO collect the Cherokee claim against
he United States OF si.3O0.o0o for 10
per cent and such amount Of accrued
interest as Is collected by them
The senate branch Of the Cherokee
national council has passed an act au-
thorizinr a commission Of six persons
to proceed to Washington to negotiate
with she United States authorities for
a final settlement Of the affairs Of the
Cherolsoes
can things are working in the direc'
tlon Of tribal dissolution says the
Vinita Chieftain, "and no one seems
sorry except the tribal oaiceholder~
When the officials Of the court
reached paus Valley. FOR the faii term
there was with them in their special
car rs prisoners There are to be "a
murder cases tried
General q. A Gibraith. associate JUS
tice in the supreme court Of Hawaii
visited in Oklahoma last week n,
was in Oklahoma under the Cleveland
administration.
The Choctaws levy a tax Of $1,000 on
every white man who marries an In
dian girl. the tax payable before 4
marriage license is issued II an at
tempt is made to evade the tax the mar
loses his allotment and the Indian gir
is disinherited BY her tribe.