Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-12-06
NEWS OF THE TERRITORIES.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM THE
FUTURE STATES.
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN r.nn1ronx

OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORY
Guthrie has 80 teachers and the pay
roll amounts to 81, 900.
Governor Barnes gave the newspaper
men dinner on November 81.
The Guthrie Commercial club has re-
organized on active business lines
Lee Vance, accused of horse stealing
in Logan county, has been arrested.
Sub contracts have been let for grad
ing the Orient railway in Woods coun-
ty.
Authorities at Saltwater are making
that climate very unhealthy for gam
blers
Logan and Lincoln counties are tied
for second place in population; each
having 26,53s
There are many looking over Okla
homa for places in which to locate in
the banking business
A Guthrie jeweler has found gold
bearing quartz in the rock ballast of
the Santa Fe tracks. The ballast came
from Kansas
E. R. Suppe, of Parsons, Kansas, has
the land near Granite where gas es-
capes from the surface and will get
machinery in place there at once.
Department President May 1. Barton
and Department Secretary Jessie Harris
horne have inspected the W. R. c. at
Shawnee, Oklahoma City and Guthrie,
and are highly pleased over the condi-
ton of the order.
John Walt put strychnine in glass
of water and drank it. He was bach
elor farmer near Cleo. Norman Swartz,
neighbor, was with Walt. His two
brothers live, one at Forest, Oklahoma,
and one in Newton, Kansas.
The Red Rock Valley Coal company,
is said to have contracted for the sink
ing of a shaft, six by eight feet, to the
depth of about 26O feet 1t is believed
from the result of bor1ngs, that there
is a four foot vein of coal there.
w. II. Herbig, division freight agent
of the Rock Island, reports the finding
of coal near Billings, said to promise
an under vein of seven feet. The pres
emit four-foot vein is down 23O feet
The mine is two miles only from the
Rock Island tracks.
In the court at Pawnee three con-
victed men were sent to the Kansas
penitentiary under these sentences:
Tom Overstrcet, one year for forgery;
lack Alfred, ninety-nine years and
81, 900 fine for rape; Arthur Green, five
years for bootlegging.
AS something over 500, 200 is lying
in the territorial treasury, in the pub
lie building fund, derived from leasing
section 80, there is demand that it be
used to build penitentiary SO as to
stop spending large amounts of cash
for the care of convicts in Kansas.
The school population of Oklahoma
is put at 10000 by the territorial SUI
perintendent, and the attendance at
the territorial institutions as follows:
University, $50; Territorial Normal,
$50; Northwestern normal, 500; Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college, $50;
Negro Agricultural and Mechanical
University, IT'S.
The first special sent by a fullblood
Indian to a newspaper was sent to the
Wichita Eagle by Charles Green, chief
of the Otoes, and this is the way it
reads: Red Rock, o. T.-Osag Indian
came to Otoe tribe to Pipe dance last
week. the Otoes give 40 head of Horses.
The Usage are going to there home
some this week. Pawnee Indian hav-
ing Cost dance all Last week.
On Sunday morning Medford ed
itor, so the story goes, stationed him
self at the edge of a pond and killed
twenty wild duck before breakfast.
The official report of the election
shows the total vote to be 1887;
Flynn's plurality, 4,724: Flynn's major
ity, 3,139.
The Dawes commission expects to
use up two years more of time before
completing their work. The commits
sion will meet in Hattiesburg, Miss,
on December II, to enroll the Missis-
sipppi Choctaws.
J. P. Clapp's small safe was taken
| from his residence at Coldwater and
| later it was found, safe and sound on a
farm west of town. 1t contained $500.
| Seven clerks are busy in the Office of
the register of deeds of Oklahoma coun-
ty, so rapidly is real estate changing
hands.
Robert Stonall, of Day county, has
been convicted in Kansas court of
grand larceny of cattle. His arrest
and conviction were secured by the
Bankers and Cattlemens' Protective
| Association.
| Four sportsmen from Emporia lost
by seizure in Beaver county, their
| game, arms, trunks and other baggage,
with few hundred prair.e chickens
and quails, and their fines and costs
amounted to S75 which they paid.
Two school boys were scufiing in
the schoolhouse near Sheridan over the