The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-05

on election bets
And now comes the Katy with pro-
posals to extend its lines out Of Indian
Territory to Wichita.
The laying of the new heavy rails on
the Katy, between Muskogee and Dem
ison, is nearly completed.
The new railroad from sapulpa to
Okmulgee has caused a number of
changes in routing local mails.
R. X. McAdams' hardware store in
South McAlester was broken into and
cutlery, guns and small articles taken.
A teachers association Of Indian Ter
ritory has asked the people to petition
congress for the perfection of their
school system.
Judge McAtee found so heavy dock
ct at Enid that he postponed indefinite
~ the term of court at Watonga, which
was set for December 3.
A championship foot bali game oc-
curred at vinita between Tulsa and
Tahlequah and the score resulted 80 to
0 in favor of Tahlequah
Frank o'Neal Of the Santa Fe has
been promoted to the position of dis
trict freight agent, with territory ex-
tending from Perry to Purcell.
JAS @. Fleming and James Ward,
lawyers of Ardmore who have been
partners, quarrelled at Pauls Valley
and Fleming shot Ward. The wound
is serious
II is said that parties connected with
the Frisco railroad, together with the
Kansas and Texas Coal Company, will
begin soon to operate the coal mines
at Henryetta, l. 7.
The Cherokee legislature has granted
franchises to build telephone lines; one
from owaso to caney. Kas, one from
stillwell to Iahlequah, and line from
vinita to Red Fork.
DR.. j. Il. Robertson, OF South McAlcs-
ter, charged with bigamy, was no soon
er released on habeas corpus when he
yvas re-arrested on charge Of adul-
terry, at the instance Of his FIRST and
abandoned wife
The Dawes Commission, now at Tah-
lequah, will return to Muskogee De-
cember Is, where they commence to
enroll Cherokee freedmen. 1t Is the
policy OF the cherokecs TO prevent as
many Of the freedmen as possible from
being put on the Cherokee rolls
Indian Territory, with its 10000. 900
acres, is owned and controlled, In com
mon, by Indians. negroes and inter
married whites, aggregating s4.75o
people, including freedmen. Besides
these there are $50. 900 whites or non
citizens who have no title TO property
and are without representation In the
tribal governments Of the territory.
The track for the Blackwell & South
west railway is being laid rapidly, hav-
ing reached Lamont. and large force
is grading on towards Enid. From
Enid the road will run through Mar
shall to Guthrie the company having
signifed its intention Of accepting the
proposition made by Guthrie citizens
The road will be operated as part Of
the Frisco system.
The Territorial Bankers Association
meeting was well attended. The rec
ords Of the Office Of the secretary of
the territory show that since the office
was established i40 charters have been
issued TO banks, Of which SO are now
iu operation, 10 have nationalized. six
have failed and 80 have gone into IL
quidation or never commenced business.
The banks OF Oklahoma now have on
deposit an average OF SIS TO every man,
woman and child.
Titles to town property in the 81
towns being laid out on the Texas ex-
tension of, the Frisco system from Sa-
pulpa, viii be in the form of patents
issued by the United States without de-
lay.
Jas. W. Adams, furniture dealer II
South McAlester, killed himself in his
store. There was no apparent cause
for the act.
Judge Dennis Donovan. leading
lawyer and referee in bankruptcy for
the Fifth judicial district died very
suddenly at Enid on November &c.
II is now suggested in certain Office
holding circles that the Creek and Cher
olsee nations be annexed to Oklahoma
and then apply for statehood, leaving
out the Choctaw, ChiclSasaw and Sem
mole country until later date.
Complaint is made that persons who
pilfer wood in the Kiowa and Comanche
Indian reservation aud sell it for fuel
in Minco are always arrested, while
the professional thieves who steal large
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