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

Fines in the police court of Oklaho-
INA City average 81 900 q month.
2 Lee Vance, accused Of horse stealing
in Logan county, has been arrested
The saltwater Commercial club pro
poses 70 bore and find out what is
under them
In some portions Of oklahoma the
price Of farm lands averages higher
than in Kansas
Jas. bradford, who had a bad record,
was killed et q dance at Remus, by a
son Of DR. Foyle
Martin Welsh Of Shawnee, goes to
the psniteutiary a year and day for
lselliug liquor to Indians.
section of 20 miles Of the extension
of the Choetaw railroad win be built
from Weatherford AZ once
The next legislature will probably
re-apportion Oklahoma into new coun-
eli and Legislative Districts.
Physicians say that the smallpox ex-
isting ID the Kiowa and comanehe
country IS in q very mild form.
Secretary Candy. of the live stock
sanitary board, believes that the rules
OF the board are being violated.
a Woodward dealer has bought and
shipped % carloads Of castor beans.
The price averaged sLl0 bushel
Shipments of poultry from Oklahoma
TO Kansas City are immense One arm
in one town is shipping 900 a day
Jas. Copeland. while operating gin
near Cloud Chief had his hand caught
IN the Jaws and sawed OF clear to the
shoulder
IL is q prevailing opinion In parts o.
Oklahoma that the fght over the open
ing Of the Kiowa and Comanche coun-
try Is between the cattlemen and the
Rock Island railroad.
The Butterball. Independence. kan,
yacht with party Of excursionists, is
mentioned BY down the Arkansas news
papers The yacht was sixteen days
in reaching Cleveland, O. T.
@. II. Boyd the mule buyer for the
British market, says that Oklahoma
raised mules are stronger and harder
than those Of Missouri or Tennessee,
aud therefore bring higher price.
All federal business Of the court at
n Reno was postponed by Judge Irwin
owing 20 a smallpox epidemic In the
Kiowa and Comanche country. The
100 witnesses subpoenaed from that
region were excused.
A Logan county school teacher CEN
sured a pupil Tor saying that President
Mckinley IS a great statesman, telling
the scholar never to mention the pres
idenrs name in the school room. That
teacher lost his job
Two section men, Whiieside and Iel-
lars working near saltwater, quar-
relied about a plug oftobaeco. White
side struck cellars with a spade and
cellars threw a pocket knife which
penetrated Whitcsides heart, killing
him.
In the court At Pawnee three con.
victed men were sent to the kansas
penitentiary under these sentences
Tom Ovcrstrcet, one year Tor forgery
Tack Alfred. nincty-uine years and
81 600 ane for rape. Arthur Green, i've
years Tor bootlegging.
An early missionary among the In
dians says that the word oklahoma is
from tho choctaW language and means
'red people
Zoerich Aired. man 52 years ofage.
was convicted in Pawnee, Of assault
upon a ie-year-oid girl in The Usage ma
tion ard was sentenced TO the peniten
tiary for life.
Mountain View IS said 10 be The only
town ia the world built entirely on
school lands. The school land board
appointed appraisers Of the lots and
their returns are ready tsTbe seHe-in.
The Territorial Agricultural and
Mechanical college has four buildings
Ell instructors and s0o students. rs
scientific equipment Is worth $4,000
big Jim the Shawnee chief, who died
OF smallpox ID Mexico. was the head OF
the big Jim Band who fought allot.
ments. and wos the chairman Of the
delegation Of six who went TO Mexico
20 treat for lands there for territory
Indians to go to. The delegation.
other fve members were two Delawares
two Caddos and another shawnee
Only the two Cnddos returned.
Establishing breweries In Oklahoma
viii, 1t IS estimated, bo the cause Of
the sowing Of from 1900 to 5000 acres
Of barley in oklahoma county alone.
The Wichita Indians have traditions
Of white people who came TO this con
tsnent long before Columbus. They
also show a cave from which the Great
N~irit brought ont the first pair. wh0sl