Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-16
NEWS OF THE TERRITORIES.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM THE
FUTURE STATES.
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN rERxrroK1

August IA.
The osages have just been paid an
other $50 head
Boomers are all sanguine fer the
future of Granite
There is to be a rural free delivery
route from Hennessey.
Judge Hamer and family are visiting
in Nebraska and Iowa.
Mrs. Robert Neff is neice of Will
liam Cullen Bryant, the poet.
Rains have delayed threshing, haying
and blowing to quite an extent.
The surveying corps of the Orient
railroad is now working in Washita
county.
The colored people of Logan county
observed emancipation day with fine
program.
Some leases on the Ponca reservation
have been cancelled by the interior de-
partment.
The first trainload of cattle was
sent out from the stock yards at Gran
lite, August l.
Seven commercial travellers whose
line is farm implements, struck Enid
the same day.
| Captain Duncan has been inspecting
the books at the Anadarko and Andale
Indian agencies.
Near Fairview, Ludwig Dell and
Peter Koop were killed by gas while
digging well.
Electric cars are to be running in
Oklahoma City by February 1, accord
ing to contract.
George Russ, colored, of Guthrie, fell
into vault which he was cleaning and
was suffocated.
A twig of plum tree is exhibited at
Ponca City which is ~ inches long and
has 80 plums on it.
The new Rock Island depot at Gran
ite is finished and it is beauty. 1t is
1O4 feet in length.
Seth Welborn, a Canadian county
farmer, has five sullzy plows at work
in his wheat fields.
The town of Luther has contracted
for az $500 school building, ready to
occupy except the seats.
Many of the Oklahoma rough Yiders
have offered to go to China. This is
also the case in the other territories.
1t is said that the biggest business
passed has been in the windmill line.
County teachers in Kay county are
contracting for district schools at $45
and $50 and one is reported at SIS per
month.
The land contest between Abraham
Parker and Reed C. Crawford, which
has been in litigation since 1891, has
just been decided in favor of Parker.
The Southwestern Nurserymen's As
ISOLATION will hold semi-annual meet
ing in Saltwater, August IA and Is.
There are 25 members in the territory.
The Oklahoma territorial normal
school will open September with an
increased corps illustrators and many
additions to the libraries and labora-
tories. There are no tuition charges.
Syl Dixon, of wheat train fame, is in
the grain business at Enid and says
that there are not cars enough to move
Oklahoma wheat; that the wheat crop
this year is the best evor raised in the
territory.
A threshing outfit from Missouri, at
work in Kay county, made thirty-three
straw stacks in thirty-three days and
threshed 33, 3O3 bushels of wheat.
S. F. Anterior says his last years
peanut crop brought him a profit Of
$50 an acre. Thi year he has 25 acres
on which he estimates a net profit of
S25 to $40 an acre.
Parties holding mortgages on cattle
in Arapahoe county, some of the mort
cages said to be fraudulent, are Selling
and driving the cattle for shipment.
Some of them have been arrested.
Joshua .Hizer was gored by bull
and seriously injured. 1t occurred at
his place south of Caldwell.
Mrs. Nancy L. Bates, formerly OF
Caldwell, Kas., is a candidate for super
intendent of schools in Garfield coun.
ty.
One man near Mangum promised to
give forty acres to help get an extern
sion of the Rock Island. He now says
that he didn't think the railroad would
come, and that he won't give up his
land. He is after the men who are
surveying across it for trespass.
The Ponca City water tower is plain
" visible from Bliss, ten miles distant
and from Tonkawa, twelve miles dis
tant.
The Osages want their grass lease
money but the department is holding
It back because there are bills before
congress which dispose of it in Other
ways.
} Two Shawnees, two Caddos and two
Delawares have gone to Mexico. They
will visit the Kickapoos who are loca
ted there and will visit the City o.