Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-05-17
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORY


pairing for Memoria, day.
Governor Barnes term does not ex-
pire until May IL, 1904.
VIM. Walker has purchased the water
works bonds of Saltwater.
Burglars looted store in Kremlin,
taking, principally, shoes.
A new bridge over the North Cana
dian will be built near Cereal.
The presence in Oklahoma of conn
terfeit silver dollars is reported.
Stock breeders propose to form ter
ritorial organization on May II.
The Usage reservation has its first
bank just opened in Pawhuska.
The safe at the Darlington Indian
Office has been blown open and robbed.
The Sons of Herman displayed $500
worth of flowers at a flower show in
Enid.
The Territorial Firemen's associa-
ton met at Perry the second week in
May.
at Lamont on the first day of its ex-
istence.
There is fine grove of sugar maple
trees in Devils canyon in the Caddo
reservation.
Club women from Oklahoma, quite
number of them, attended the meeting
at Winfield.
The NJ E. church (South) at Okla
homa City has paid off the mortgage
on its edifice.
Hugh F. Myers, city marshal of
. Davis, was waylaid and killed by
three negroes.
1t is said that in Lincoln county 25
per cent more of cotton is being plant
ed than was done last year.
People from three counties gathered
at Glenco, o. T., to celebrate the pas
sage of the free homes bill.
Oklahoma and Southern Kansas sher-
ifs hunt horse thieves by acting on
mutually agreed upon plans.
The photographers of the territory
Oklahoma City in September.
Jack Frederick, Santa Fe conductor,
lost his thumb from the right hand,
between the bumpers of car.
S. C. Masterman has been brought
back to Saltwater on an old charge of
assault. He had twice broken jail.
Moses Rochomore, farmer living
near Chandler, was found dead in bed,
where his body had been for week.
Rev. James, of Kansas, has promised
100000 for NJ. E. college and hospi-
tai and the orphans industrial home at
Oklahoma City.
The ball game between Oklahoma
City and Saltwater resulted in score
of Is to ?, in the order in which they
are here named.
The Guthrie postoffice is allowed an
increase in its janitor's salary and is
asking for another clerk. The mail
and registry business is greatly in
creased.
Guthrie did not give the Adventist
sanitarium the amount asked to secure
its location, it being the conclusion of
the business men that the same amount
put into an Industrial plant would be
of greater benefit.
The old time practice, and good
practice it is too, of feedidg horses in
the spring with cottonwood branches,
prevails in Oklahoma.
Senator Allison declares his friend
ship towards the free homes bill. Sen
ators Nelson, Carter, Shoup, Hans
brough, Elkins and Kyle are working
with Thurston for the passage of the
bill
Judge Burwe1 has overruled the
motion for new trial for Clyde Mad
dox. Judge Burwell's ruling is to be
appealed to the supreme court.
The third set of teeth has crowded
the second set out of j. H. Smiths jaws
He lives in Ponca City.
Not only do the Indians gather the
chivallar, or dog cabbage, an aquatic
plant resembling the Egyption lotus,
but the bulbs are gathered and eaten
by many white settlers. The Indians
dry them in quantities for winter eat
ing.
1t is reported that widow has fallen
in love with prisoner in the Oklahoma
City Jail and insists upon marrying him
before he is sent to the penitentiary.
A log church and school house serves
the uses of the colored people of Stroud.
A silly new fake is becoming common
in Oklahoma; it is to start rumors that
certain couples have been secretly mar
ried for some time, when they are not
even engaged.
In Western Oklahoma the cold rains
kept back the grass and cattle did not
do well for a time, but all this is
changed now and stock is generally
looking well for the season. The losses
of the winter are probably less than
Ia per cent.
The Santa Fe steel gang is now at
work on steel water tanks in Okla
homa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wibben were thrown
from, vobiola naor Or1or1a and both