Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-12-06
The chickasaw Teachers association

at Wagner investigating the Cherokee
warrant bonds.
1t Is said that certain Kansas man
took 500 out from Chelsea, 1. T., won
on election bets.
And now comes the Katy with pro-
posals to extend its lines out of Indian
Territory to Wichita
The laying of the new heavy rails on
the Katy, between Muskogee and Den
ison, is nearly completed.
The new railroad from Sapulpa to
Okmulgee has caused a number of
changes in routing local mails.
R. K. McAdams' hardware store in
South McAlester was broken into and
cutlery, guns and small articles taken.
Twenty-eight convictions were Sc
cured at Antlers out of the criminal
docket during two weeks of session of
court.
| A teachers association of Indian Ter
ritory has asked the people to petition
congress for the perfection of their
school system.
A championship foot ball game .oc-
Cured at Vinita between Tulsa and
Tahlequah and the score resulted SO to
o in favor of Tahlequah.
Frank O'Neal of the Santa Fe has
been promoted to the position of dis
trict freight agent, with territory ex-
tending from Perry to Purcell.
1t is said that parties connected with
the Frisco railroad, together with the
Kansas and Texas Coal Company, will
begin soon to operate the coal mines
at Henryetta, I. T.
The Cherokee legislature has granted
franchises to build telephone lines; one
from Owaso to Caney, Kas., one from
Stillwen to Tahlequah, and line from
Vinita to Red Fork.
When the officials of the court
reached Pauls Valley, for the fall term,
there was with them in their special
| car % prisoners. There are to be 81
murder cases tried
F. M. 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
The Dawes Commission, now at Tab
lequah, will return to Muskogee De-
cember Is, where they commence to
enroll Cherokee freedmen It is the
policy of the Cherokees to prevent as
many of the freedmen as possible from
being put on the Cherokee rolls.
The track for the Blackwell & South
west railway is being laid rapidly, hav-
ing reached Lamont, and large force
is grading on towards Enid. From
Enid the road will run through Mar
shall to Guthrie, the company having
signified its intention of accepting the
proposition made by Guthrie citizens
The road will be operated as part of
the Frisco system.
Excitement occurred in Wilburton
when the Choctaw, o. & G. railroad
attempted to eject from their right of
way through the town, large number
of residents, many of them having good
buildings built before the exact loca-
ton of the right of way was known.
The resistance was sufficient to stop
the work of ejectment and the railroad
fled suits
The Territorial Bankers Association
meeting was we'll attended. The rec
ords of the office of the secretary Of
the territory show that since the office
was established 14O charters have been
issued to banks, of which SO are now
III operation, 10 have nationalized, six
have failed and 80 have gone into IL
quotation or never commenced business
The banks of Oklahoma now have on
deposit an average of SIS to every man,
woman and child.
Titles to town property in the 21
towns being laid out on the Texas ex-
tension of the Frisco system from Sa-
pulpa, will be in the form of patents
issued by the United States without de-
lay.
Judge McAtee found so heavy dock
ct at Enid that he postponed Indefinite
ly the term of court at Watonga, which
was set for December 3.
Judge Dennis Donovan, a leading
lawyer and referee in bankruptcy for
the Fifth judicial district, died very
suddenly at Enid on November 20.
1t is now suggested in certain office
holding circles that the Creek and Cher
okee nations be annexed to Oklahoma
and then apply for statehood, leaving
out the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Sem
mole country until later date.
Complaint is made that persons who
pilfer wood in the Kiowa and Comanche
Indian reservation and sell it for fuel
in Minco are always arrested, while
the professional thieves who steal large
quantities of cedar and walnut timber
and haul it into Oklahoma for ship
ment are not molested
Attorney General Garland's son Sam
uel was very low with consumption at
last account. Heis in Muslxogee, as an
attache of the Dawes commission.