Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-02-08
NEWS OF THE TERRITORIES.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM THE
FUTURE STATES.
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORY

at Sulphur.
The Usage nation still enforces quar-
antine until all the Indians can be vac
cinated.
The Delawares have been holding a
council at Dewey, !. I. About $50
Delawares were in attendance.
Superintendent Dolan, of the Santa
Fe has been over the Santa Fe line in
Oklahoma bidding goodbye to the boys.
Will. an enrolment of PA, scholars
are being refused admission to Bartles-
Vile schools on account of lack of room.
Many Osages are relieving their es-
tates through the bankruptcy law.
John Pappin, an Usage, has been re-
ieved of $40, 900 of Indebtedness by
that process.
James M. Taylor, a well known cat
tleman of the Cherokee nation, was
killed at his ranch near Deming, N. NJ
He was member of both the Masonic
and Knights of Pythias orders.
Langston Agricultural college has
1873 pupils enrolled, not counting the
model class, which belongs to the CON-
mon grades, and is not accounted for.
The new school room will be ready in
few days.
Captain Isaac Davis committed sui
eide at Shawnee by cutting the arteries
of his left wrist. Before coming to
Oklahoma he had been a prominent,
successful and wealthy attorney Of
Newport, Ark.
The receipts from taxes paid into the
territorial treasury of Oklahoma dur
ing the month of January amount to
S25, 1882, which, Treasurer Thompson
says, is the largest for any month dug
ing his incumbency of the Office.
All the mines in the Indian Terri
tory report steadily increasing outputs
of coal, numerous new shafts being
sunk and additional tracks and spurs
laid The output for 1900 promises to
far eclipse that of preceding years.
]. w. Ezell, living near Alva, let his
hogs out in Kaffir corn about the
time the seeds were ripening and let
them eat it for four months. He says
he got better results than he did feed
ing the Kafir in the usual way.
At meeting of the Masonic order at
Ardmore a proposition for the rebuild
ing of temple was accepted, including
plans and site. The building will be a
creditable one, and much more elabo-
rate than the one recently destroyed.
Since the ruling of the secretary of
the interior in favor of thelease holders
in Indian Territory, arrangements
have been made to bring in thousands
of cattle from Texas: Pasture lands
have been secured around Checotah
and the railroads will soon bring in
cattle from Texas by the trainload.
There was shipped out of Eufaula
for the year ending January 1, 5,s17
bales of cotton, of which 3,426 bales
were sent to st. Louis and the remain
der to South McAlester. During the
same time there was shipped out of Eu-
faula 80 full cars of other freight, and
there were 331 full cars of freight re-
ceived.
A farmer named Webster, living near
Cumberland, Chickasaw nation, while
digging well, struck petroleum at a
depth of twentyfour feet, and there is
said to be good flow. The country
where the oil was found is known to be
in the oil belt, and other wells have
disclosed that there is oil in that vicin-
ity.
The Linden correspondent to the
Shawnee Herald says the woods are
full of deer, as many as ten being seen
in one bunch. Where they came from
is mystery. So many deer have not
been seen since the country was open
ed.
Colonel w. r. Gaddis, proprietor of
the City Hotel at Nowata, I. T., is dead.
Before going to Nowata he was en-
gagged in the cattle business with J. S.
Todd, of Checotah, I. T., and became
very wealthy. He was also engaged
in the hotel business at Claremore.
Delegate Flynn has introduced bill
in congress to donate the Camp Supply
military reservation to the territory of
Oklahoma.
Pottawatomie county claims that al
though it is one of the smallest in Ok
lahoma, it has 500 more school children
than any other.
As result of too much cruel hazing
Henry Wedemeyer has returned to his
home in Oklahoma from the Lexington
Mo-, military school, being one of fifty
boys that were compelled to rebel and
leave the institution.
J. D. Benedict, superintendent of
public schools in Indian Territory, has
gone to Washington to do what he can
for the cause of free schools.
All white people living within its
borders Fay tax of 81 per year for
the privilege of staying and helping to
reclaim the Chickasaw nation. In ad-
dition to this, for every cow and calf,
each steer or other bovines the farmer
must yield 25 cents each year. And