Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11
NEWS Of THE TERRITORIES.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM THE
FUTURE STATES.
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN rEnn1roK1

about 1000 feet.
William Knipe, of Manhattan, Kas.,
the father of Oklahomas 'Bill" Knipe,
is visiting his son at Perkins.
A committee appointed by the last
territorial conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church to secure location
for an academy to be established by
the conference, is advertising for cam
didates.
| A certificate of incorporation has
been filed for the Cherokee Develop
ment company, of Indian Territory,
for the purchasing and operating OF
mines in Indian Territory and Kansas.
Capital 100000.
B. Frietch, of Lebanon, Kas., 90 years
of age, is visiting his children in Lin
coin county. o. T. Mr.. Frietch was a
soldier in the Seminole wars in Florida
and purposes to visit that tribe against
which he fought.
Major A. E. Woodson, of Cheyenne
Ead Arapahoe Indian agency, gave
swell Christmas party at his palatial
home at Darlington. Guests were pres
ent from Washington, Kansas City,
Wichita and Guthrie.
Perkins welcomed the first train into
town on New Years day by an enthu-
Siastic crowd headed by a band. The
first train carried load of flour and
material for a large storehouse to be
built by the Guthrie Milling company.
L. E. Damon, travelling auditor of
the Santa Fe, Oklahoma division,
opened the station at Perkins, 1. T.,
pm December 81. This earns the 5000
bonus from the city conditioned that
the road should be in operation to Per-
xins by noon of January 1.
The president has disapproved of the
act of the Chickasaw nation authori-
zing Martin Newberry to establish a
ferry across Red River, the act passed
by the ChcvJaw nation, authorizing the
appointment of a commission to nego-
tiate with like commission in the
Chickasaw nation relating to mineral
leases.
The Chickasaw law on marriages has
been approved by the president. The
act provides that any non-citizen shall
reside in the Indian Territory for at
least two years before he can procure a
Chickasaw marriage license and marry
a Chickasaw woman, and thereby be-
come an intermarried citizen of the
Chickasaw Nation.
Fire at Tulsa, I. T., destroyed the
Grand Central hotel block, Chadwell's
grocery store, the Kilcoyne meat mark
ct, Davis & Browlin's hardware store,
and B. j. Linsky's building and half-a
dozen other business places. Insurance
is small. Charles Cummings, son OF
the manager of the Grand Central
hotel, while trying to sec ure some ar
ticles of value in his room above the
hardware store, was killed by the ex-
plosion of powder below, and his body
was consumed in the flames.
The abstract of the condition
of the national banks of Oklahoma
at the close of business on Deem
Der 2, shows the average reserve to
have been 3s.05 per cent against 4O.7C
per cent on September 7; loans and dis.
counts increased from 81, OLE, 543 to 81,
O73, ASS; stocks and securities increased
from sos, 169 to $134, 0S3; total specie in
creased from 500, 1863 to 500, 27O; lawful
money reserve increased from $145, 21T
TO $3.50, 1856; individual deposits in.
creased from 81, ABS, 1O2 to 81, 659, 1919.
In nearly every paper issued in Ok
lahoma last week there was a savage
howl from somebody that the road il
his part of the country was particular
ly bad. AS matter of fact, the road.
everywhere were bad.
Conductor Jack Ryan, one of the
Oldest railroad men in Denver and fol-
many years in the employ of the I'm
ion Pacific and the Colorado and South
ern, has been offered the position o.
division superintendent of the Choc
| Jaw, OhldIlOIld S Oul1 IOdu. Will
headquarters at Little Rock, Ark.
Jacob Rath, an Oklahoma farmer
while celebrating Christmas was yer,
joyfully surprised by the entrance o
his father, whom he had not seen TO
10 years. He came from Los Angeles
California, to visit his son.
T. E. Blesh, bugler of company L
Twentieth Kansas, now in Oklahoma
had an inch and quarter brass GOV
cred bullet taken from his leg bacl
from his knee joint. During skirmisl
with the Filipinos last February he re
!, ceived the bullet and was laid up il
| the hospital for some time.
Shawnee is making the beginning o
| high school library. Valuable book
, have been donated by Superintendent
, Ware, Principal E. w. johnson, an
!. the Rutledge Book company. TIL
teachers propose to raise funds b
holding library social.
+ A saloonkeeper at Mountain Vie1
started to move his saloon buildin
: from one lot to another. A man Twin
+ | on the lot next tn the new site lxiolxa6