Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-12-20
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN rHHErroK1

OF SMALLPOX, none 1dUdl.
Farmers around Braman want
skimming station there.
Blackwell people propose to ascertain
just what is under them.
Bartlesville shipped 800 barrels of
petroleum one day last week.
A broom factory is being pushed to
be ready for work at Chandler.
Local capitalists have organized a
bank at Hunter, Garfield county.
The Rock Island surveyors are in
camp near Optima, Beaver county.
The Choctaw railroad will enlarge
its passenger station in Oklahoma City.
A number of Rock Island officials
have invested in real estate at Granite.
There is more feed on the Usage res
ervation than there is stock to eat 1T
this winter.
A farmer near Stroud has a crop of
volunteer oats which headed out in
November.
The children of the Blackwell Pres
byterian church have bought bell for
the church.
Taxes in Oklahoma not paid before
the third Monday of January become
delinquent.
Pawnee county has ordered three
bridges across the Arkansas river into
the Usage country.
The new laboratory in the High
school at Oklahoma City has been fitted
out with apparatus
Chicago parties are asking for
franchise to put in city railway and
to furnish lights for Guthrie.
Mr.. and Mrs. Whipple, of near Hen
Messy, recently celebrated the sixtieth
anniversary of their marriage.
The Noble county grand jury has in
dicted ex-Indian Agent Sharp for TAX
ing rake-offs from grazing leases.
There were 627 homestead entries
made at the Woodward land Office dur
ing the months of October and Novem-
Der.
It is common saying in Oklahoma;
$50 up stream to find water in the
creek or river and up hill to find good
land"
Inspection by Oklahoma inspectors
is discontinued during the open season,
on cattle destined for the Kansas City
market.
The growth of Lamont has made the
formation of commercial club there
desirable and such club has been Or
ganized.
]. w. McNeal, Guthrie banker and
a brother of Tom McNeal, Of Kansas,
is an avowed candidate to succeed Gov
ernor Barnes
It is said that the Orient road will
not use the grade from Kiowa to Au-
gusta, which was bought from the
farmers who made it.
Saltwater, o. T., is apparently in the
same mineral belt as Bartlesville, 1. T..
and it is determined that Saltwater
shall bore at least 1000 feet.
Federal live stock inspectors have
made arrests on the charge of bringing
fever-infected cattle across the quaran-
tined line into Garfield county. The
cattle were held in quarantine.
The colored young men of Guthrie
have organized an association for the
purpose of entertaining the colored
teachers who will attend the Terrific
rial Teachers association during the
holidays.
Every Oklahoma newspaper reports
homeseekers In some of the towns
the hotels are crowded with people
anxious to become settlers.
There is petition filed in the Logan
county district court for vacating a
portion of the townsite of Langston.
The population of Langston has fallen
off since the founding of the town of
Coyle.
Governor Barnes is in Washington to
attend the centennial celebration OF
the location of the national capital on
December II.
The next annual meeting of the Ok.
lahoma Live Stock association will oc
cur at Woodward on February ~ anG
10.
A. Sharp, former Indian agent, is in
dicted for demanding and and receiving
money from cattlemen who were leas
ing grazing lands.
Augusta is being moved two miles tt
the line of the Orient railway. The
people accepted proposition from the
company and they seem to think they
have been treated fairly. A sale O
lots occurs on December 1S.
Congress will be asked to pass /;
special bill to allow the Sac and Fo,
Indians to sell a large part of theil
allotments. They hold much fine bot
tom land which they never use.
There have been turned over to tn,
territorial treasurer by the school lan(
Office since the beginning of schoo
land lease operations funds as follows
For common schools, 1852, 1864; TO
colleges, S121, 342. so; for public build
ings, $120, $40 90; for Greer count,