Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-18

reservation will be offered for sale
March 20, next.
Burglars drilled into the postoffice
safe at Manchester but failed to open
it. The safe was not locked.
Adjutant General Bert c. Orner is
taking steps to supply the Oklahoma
militia with ordnance and quartermas-
ter's stores.
The chicken raisers of Oklahoma are
making all preparations to attend the
big poultry show at Kansas City on
January II.
It is said that the cattlemen's meet
ing next month will be, without ex-
aggeration, the biggest thing of its
kind ever pulled off.
. M. j. M. Crossley of Greer county,
raised six steers that averaged 1,716
pounds each, for which he received
three cents per pound.
Corn in Blaine county, where the
crop is immense, has been selling for
16 and II cents A better figure is
hoped for in the spring.
Abe Grantham has been arrested at
Scipio, 1. T., charged with being an
accessory in the killing of Mrs. Plum
kett at Scipio last week.
The United States commissioners of
the Indian Territory are discussing the
land lease question and other matters
under their jurisdiction.
James Brock, bawdy house tough,
was shot and mortally wounded by
Night Watchman Hambrow, of Stroud
o. T., while resisting arrest.
Col. W. P. Houk, postofice inspector
for Arkansas for many years, has been
transferred to the Indian Territory,
with headquarters at Muskogee.
Former Agent Walker does not
think it possible for the Kiowa and
Comanche lands to be opened up for
settlement before two years from now.
The Custer County Fair association
has been organized at Arapahoe. 1t is
proposed to give an agricultural ex-
hibit and hold race each year at Ara
pahoe.
The following Oklahoma postofices
have been discontinued: Douglas,
Oklahoma county, mail to Luther; and
Curry, Pottawatomie county, mail to
Shawnee.
Governor Barnes has appointed w.
T. Peoples delegate to the second an
nual convention of commissioners of
agriculture of the cotton states at New
Orleans.
Hardesty Herald: AL. Browns ten
mule teams hauling three wagons OF
the trail loaded with supplies for Shoe
makers ranch would be sight for
eastern people.
The long distance telephone being
built from South McAlester, 1. T., to
Fort Smith, Ark, is within twenty
miles of that place and will be com.
pleted in month.
Senator Allison of Michigan writes
to Mr.. Metcalf of Oklahoma that he
will favor statehood for Oklahoma
with such portions of the Indian Ter
ritory as are ready, added.
Colonel James T. Randlett, agent fol-
the Kiowas and Comanches. has re
ceived instructions from the depart
ment of the interior to release all lands
under his jurisdiction for the period Of
three years. The cattlemen are pre-
pairing bids.
By order of the United States mar
shall, over 300 gallons of wine wa
spilled in the streets of South McAles
ter. The wine had been shipped into
the territory, which is contrary to law
and the penalty of which is confscatio1
of the wine and imprisonment and ar
rest of the owners, if they can be found
Governor Barnes also has appointed
the following Oklahoma delegates t.
the meeting of the National Live Stool
Association, to meet at Fort Worth
Tex, January 15-17: Cy Howenstine
Arapahoe; j. A. Trotter, Quartz, ant
P w. Smith, Newkirk.
Bank Examiner Pugh of Oklahom;
says that the growth of the banking
business in Oklahoma and the kind O
dividends declared this year is almos
beyond belief, and that he is afraid t,
state exact figures in his annual repor
for fear of being called a fakir.
The women of the negro city o
Langston, o. T., lately raised none,
and have lighted the streets with fifteel
gasoline lamps. The funds were Sc
cured by the giving of socials and tn
selling of fancy work made by tn
women.
M. P. Lyons, inspector for the Dave
commission, is quoted as follows; 81
} will not be long till there will be actua
allotment in the Chickasaw nation.
think they will be ready to begin alloi
ment work in the nation in a YER
short time now"
Iowa City is a new town in easter
Oklahoma G. H. Lee from Maryvilli