Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-06-28

| The Indian Territory hardware deal
ers propose to organize.
The Creeks and Choctaws are to play
ball at the rough riders reunion.
Corn in the Chickasaw nation is high
er than horses head and is now tas-
selling.
Adam Regnier has been arrested at
Danville, ILL.,, for murder committed
at Colgate, I. T.
Indian Agent Stouch of the Darling
ton agency, has sent in his report to
the Interior department.
The Oklahoma and Indian Territory
millers have organized and will pledge
faith with the Kansas millers.
o. D. Botkin, brother of Congress-
man Botkin, of Kansas, died at his
home at Gray Horse. o. T., aged g.
years.
Lieutenant R. g. Day has sent $40
from the Philippines to the Rough
Riders reunion. He was with the boys
in Cuba.
On July an II and August and
81 the NJ. z. & Twill sell tickets to
all points in Indian Territory at great
ly reduced rates.
The strike among the coal miners Of
Indian Territory seems likely to end
soon. The head of the union for that
district is advising the men to return
to work.
Rock Island officials visited Musko-
gee, In their private car, while on their
way to Chickasha, where they went to
procure more land for new depot and
additional tracks.
s. ". Kelly, of Kansas had carload
Of hay seized for non payment of royal
ty. q. 8. Commissioner Don Carlos, of
Vinita decides that he cannot recover
for it. He will appeal.
A sensational trial was heard in the
United States court at South McAles-
ter, in which dressmaker had brought
SUIT against the proprietor OF dry
goods store for SANDER.
Fire started In restaurant in Du-
rant, 1. T., and fifteen business houses
were destroyed with their stocks of
! goods Durant is the largest town be-
tween South. McAlester and Denison.
The Tuskahoma party, in convention
nominated G. w. Dukes, of Talihani,
for principal chief of the Choctaw ma
ton, in opposition to DIR. E. N. Wright,
of Atoka, the nominee of the Union
party.
Twenty-Five stolen horses were re-
covered in the Creek country. They
had been re-branded for shipment. One
Of the thieves was captured and hanged
and another one was shot but he got
away.
The ful1blood Cherokees are refusing
to be enrolled by census enumerators
because they fear that their work will
be used for their enrolment by the
Dawes Commission. They repudiate
the enrolment by that commission.
On the committee to notify President
Mckinley of his nomination are P. l.
Soper, Of the Indian Territory and w.
j. French, of Oklahoma. To notify
Governor Roosevelt are DIR. W. L. Nc
Williams, of Indian Territory, and J.
G. Pringey, of Oklahoma.
Mr. Sol Blevins, near Neal, o: T.,
is harvesting 100 acres of fine wheat,
has six acres of potatoes, between
twenty-five and thirty acres of
cotton, thirty acres Of corn and between
100 and 200 acres of pasture and hay,
and not poor crop on the place.
The Indian Territory Medical asso-
citation has been in session at Wagner.
Officers were elected as follows: DR..
Leroy Long, of Caddo, president; DR..
Gardner, of Oolagah, vice president;
DR.. ]. N. Fain, of Wagner, second
vice president; DR.. Fred s. Clinton, OF
Of Tulsa, secretary and treasurer. Ad.
iournment was taken to meet at Mus
kogee, December next.
At mine number 8, at Krebs, I. T.,
Jack @. Jones was killed and ]. NJ.
Boxendale seriously injured while tim
bering to prevent the fall of slate.
Captain Jack Ellis, chief of Indian
police, 81. o. Love, permit collector,
and r. L. Reams, tax collector of the
Chickasaw nation, are in Ardmore fol
the purpose of collecting the tribal
taxes. Captain Ellis said the United
States is assisting the tribal authori.
ties in collecting these taxes In legal
manner and intimated that delinquent
merchants would be elected.
It is believed that 1000 Knights OF
Kharassan will be in Oklahoma City
during the rough riders reunion.
j. E. Benedict, superintendent Of In
dian Territory schools, has been visit
ing the various normal schools in the
. territory and reports that educational
interests are advancing all along the
line. At the Tahlequah normal 125
teachers are in attendance; at Tuska-
bona seventy-five and at Eufaula for.
ty-fve. The other normals are also
well attended and the interest this
year is greater than ever.
, A dispatch from Arapahoe says that