Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-06-28
NEWS OF THE TERRITORIES.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM THE
FUTURE STATES.
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN rERRrroRs

A fair association has been organized
In Grant county.
The "Texas Association of Okla
homa" has been organized.
The new opera house at Kingfsher
has a seating capacity of 900.
Troops are being removed from Fort
Riley to Forts Reno and Sill.
Logan county claims to have market
ed the first car of wheat at Kansas City.
Lincoln county commissioners are to
let contract for a new jail on June "a.
The Santa Fe depot at Curtis, Wood
ward county, has been robbed and
burned.
hiring all the men and teams that can
be secured.
The Sac and Fox Indians are dancing
their ghost dance, in expectation of
the Messiah.
Six new brick business buildings are
commenced or being prepared for in
Tecumseh.
Weather for wheat harvesting has
never been better, generally not SO
favorable.
A Noble county pastor has suit for
his salary which has reached the tenth
trial in the courts.
Day county assessors figure out an
increase in taxable property Of 81, ooo,.
700 over last year.
A Sunday ball game at Ponca City
resulted in fight. An attempt was
made to stop the game.
Cleveland county has been trans
terred to the third judicial district
Judge Twins district.
The telephone exchange at Norman
IS to have new switchboard with a
capacity of 200 phones.
A new town is projected at the cross
ing of the Arkansas river by the Santa
| Yes Pawnee extension.
The fire insurance agents of Okla
homa will meet July to organize and
snter the national association.
A new Jail to cost SO, 800 is contracted
for in Perry. It is to be paid for in
sixteen quarterly installments.
j. 6. Pingrey, an Oklahoma delegate
to Philadelphia, had leg broken by
the fall of a hotel elevator there.
There are said to be eighteen can
didates for the fusion nominee for
register of deeds in Kay county.
A meeting has been held in Post Oak
canon, Wichita mountains, and min.
ing district organized. There were
152 present.
I The premature publication Of mar
rage caused the prospective bride to
refuse to marry after the license had
been procured.
The army worm came too late to IN
jure the wheat, but they are damaging
oats and, in some localities are strip
ping corn fields bare.
q. s. District Attorney Scothorn is
laid up by kick from horse. He
was trimming colts fetlock and the
kicking drove the scissors into his leg.
MANY snapshots are being taken Of
harvest scenes in Oklahoma, the pic
lures, or many of them, being designed
for sending to friends in eastern states
The Choctaw road has offered te
bring a car load of bronchos from
Weatherford, Texas, to be used by the
cowboys in their contests at the rough
riders reunion.
OF the students in attendance at the
University Of Oklahoma last year, 49,
were sons or daughters Of farmers.
The sheriff of Kay county has ordered
all saloons closed on Sunday. A fght
against slot machines Is also in prog
tgss.
The Rock Island has 81 bridges t.
build between Mountain View and
Granite, the longest one, to span the
north fork of Red river, will be $50 fee
long. A large bridge crew is now q
work. The company has crusher a
work preparing ballast.
Milan Cowles, farmer near Kremlin
was injured, probably fatally, by I
train while going home from town
He was accustomed to walking on thu
railroad track.
A strong gale occurred in Contra
Oklahoma on the 18th, doing DO i'm
portant damage, but it was scarey
The young fruit was thinned out blu
there is enough left on the trees TO
the good of the crop. Wheat was IL
the shock. Farther north the whea
was nearly all standing and dead ripe
and was lodged badly.
Governor Roosevelt has promised t,
spend few hours at FL Reno on Jul.
8.
Judge W. 81. Warning and wife cele
brated their golden wedding at Ell Rem
last week.
The valuation Of Lincoln county TO
taxation is nearly s2,ooo,oo EXCLUSIVE
of the railroads which will raise tn
total to So, 100000.
Two car loads of stolen cattle wer
shipped from Shawnee but were stop
ped at Kansas City by wire. Two mel
bova l,oay arrasfad