The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-07-13
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORY

doiC IuoheioiNo'
The Enid extension of the Frisco Is
pushing along.
Pottawatomic county is to have
county fair.
There were less than 200 trough riders
at the reunion.
Foreigners are being naturalized sc
as to be able to make final proof.
Pond Creek has a mill and four ele
vators; three of the latter are new.
Payne county's assessment this yeal
is s., So, 900, an increase of $500
Engineer VIM. Duncan was overcome
by heat while on his engine at Seward
A. Raw, chief of detectives of Fort
Worth, made 45 arrests during the re-
union.
That Fourth of July rain covered a
good deal of oklahoma and was OF
great value.
Oklahoma has more school children
than have either of fifteen other states
in the Union.
Bank Commissioner, John NJ. Pugh,
has been spending month visiting
the banks of the territory.
( Ed Loughmiller, rough rider, was
struck by wagon tongue at the re-
union and painfully hurt.
1t is said that Oklahomas vote in the
platform committee made up the ma
iority for 16 to / at Kansas City.
During the spring months there was
paid at Enid nearly SEQ, 900 for eggs
which were shipped from there.
The question OF free grass vs. herd
law is getting to be serious in Custer
county. Both sides go heavily armed.
The Rock Island is to put in two
miles more of sidetrack at Enid, and
make other important improvements
there.
The Rock Island is sinking wells at
Granite to supply its round house and
and repair shops which are to be built
there.
A down pour of rain, which contin-
ued for two hours, spoiled the celebra-
ton at Enid. But it was what the
corn needed.
The Grant County Vidette in its
issue of June 81 contained 96 final
proof notices and on June 2S, 1T had
100 of them.
Chas. Baldwin was brought from
Kansas charged with robbing the mail
of So so in a registered package, more
than a year ago.
Many Olllahomans show their dis
approval of allowing wheat stubble to
be burned over, by blowing it up,
Many are blowing now.
The most poisonous insect in Okla
lahoma is small black spider. Per-
sons have come very near dying from
the bites received from them.
The eastern visitors to the rough
riders reunion were amazed at the
crop conditions in Oklahoma and Kan
sas. A good advertisement.
The wheat crop in the south part OF
Grant county is estimated to yield 80
bushels to the acre. In the north
part it is not quite so heavy.
The five companies of Oklahoma and
Indian Territory volunteers which
went to the front in the Spanish war,
have formed an organization.
Clifton George, secretary of the
local committee, in charge of the rough
riders reunion, was seriously injured
by being thrown from his horse
A mighty interesting question is
this The secretary of the interior is
to reserve 100000 acres in the Kiowa
comfy. What part will he receive?
The Roosevelt Rough Riders Re-
union association organized for the
ensuing year as follows: President,
Captain McClintock, b troop, Arizona;
Captain Fritz Muller, f troop, New
Mexico, first vice president; Lieuten-
ant John A. Greenaway, troop, Ar
kansas, second vice president; secretary
and treasurer, Charles Hunter, d troop,
Enid, Oklahoma.
w. L. Miller, a Twentieth Kansas
veteran, was arrested in wheat field
charged with obtaining money under
false pretenses.
A Bohemian child IS months old was
drowned in bucket of water, in Ok
lahoma county. The family name is
Stahl.
w. A. Carlock, of Stroud, was at
tackled while he and his wife were in
bed. He received cut across the
back of both legs, above the knees,
that it is thought will cripple him for
life.
The non-union stone cutters at work
on the Ponca City school building have