Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-05-10
MEADE,
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORY
KANSAS.

free range or herd law.
The Masonic temple in Guthrie is to
have grand pipe organ.
Oklahoma has 2,sO1 white children of
school age and 297 colored.
An ice company has been chartered
to do business in Blackwell
Rev. Crump, a colored preacher OF
Luther, has become insane.
A new bridge over the North Cana
dian will be built near Cereal.
The Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians
have big dance near Arapahoe.
Kay county has had a straight blow
which damaged several farm houses
Harper S. Cunningham has institu-
ted branch of the Knights Templar
at Kingfsher.
Inspector General Harper S. Cunning
ham has instituted a commandery of
knights Templar at Perry.
Much new land is being broken up
Tn Washita county; increasing the Gull
tivated land at least one-balf.
An election has been called for May
to vote on issuing city bonds of Per-
kins, o. T., to build a $4,000 school
house.
Mrs 1. 1. Hesser of Ingalls,, is the
mother of nine industrious sons, each
of whom owns a farm of not less than
16o acres.
Contract has been let for building
the Carnegie library in Oklahoma City
for 500, 1Os4O The building will be
finished with oak.
Paul Phillips was arrested in Wichi
Ia and taken to Hennessey, lie having
confessed to the burglary of a clothing
store in that place.
Lightning struck Fremont Boyles'
house in Guthrie; no one was injured
although damage was done to the
house and furniture.
Many Kiowa and Comanche Indians
are said to be in a semi-starving con-
dition. They drive buzzards from
carcasses and eat them.
The experiment station at Saltwater
urges farmers to haul out the big piles
of manure that are piled up on the out
skirts of every town, saying that it is
worth So ton.
A company of saloon musicians had
fight with knives among themselves,
at Medford. E. w. Davenport from
Missouri was severely injured; the
others refused to give their names.
An Indian community in Oklahoma
lost their dogs, killed on account of
the smallpox epidemic. They We're
disconsolate but are now rather i'm
patiently waiting for the three carloads
of dogs which they expect from Wash
ington.
E. T. Martin, of Pond Creek, has
brought suit against the Kansas Ma
tional bank, F. o. Davidson and R. T
Bean, doing business under the name
of the Wichita Live Stock company,
for the collection of an unhonored
draft sent to him for consignment of
hogs
Wherever a wire runs along the poles
in Oklahoma, and that is almost every
where, the people were rejoicing and
burning powder in their JOY over the
passage of the free homes bill. by the
house, by or before their clocks pointed
to the time of it's passage by Washing
ton time.
Work on the sewerage system of Ell
Reno will be completed soon. In the
business part of the city the pipes are
laid from nine to twelve feet deep.
Rev. James, of Oakley, Kansas, who
has been left fortune in England,
proposes to endow college and hos
'pital in Oklahoma with half a million
dollars.
The opposition of Congressman Can
non of Illinois to the free homes bill
caused much trepidation throughout
Oklahoma during the final days in
which that bill was pending.
There was a time once when mothers
folks used to send provisions to the
starving ones in Oklahoma. In this
year of our Lord Oklahomans are pre-
pairing a corn train to ship to the fam
inc sufferers of India.
Miss Allie E. Matthews, daughter of
Rev. w. D. Matthews, of Guthrie, spon-
:sor of Camp johnson, Post No. 347, and
Miss Kate A. Potts, of Edmond, as
chief maid of honor, have been ap-
pointed to attend the tenth annual re-
union of Confederate veterans at
Louisville, KY, commencing May 80.
Homestead claimants in the Cherokee
strip have commenced legal action
against those holders of claims who
entered the strip from military reser-
vations.
The court house square fence is not
a proper place for merchants signs; SO
think the county commissioners who
have ordered them taken down at
Chandler.
Guthrie made extensive preparations
to entertain the hundreds of students
who come to attend the intercollegiate
oratorical contests
Mrs. Mary Cummings came to Alva