Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-02-08
Hillsdale is a new town in Garfield

Counterfeit coin dollars of the issue
of 1886 are in circulation at Ardmore.
Blackleg is reported among cattle
along the Cinarron in Beaver county.
DR.. G. W. Sutton of Cleveland is
building a bank building at Bartlesville
Knights of Pythias lodges are soon
to be organized at Dewey and Bartles.
Vile
A new station is to be opened on Mr..
Mehan's farm between Saltwater and
Ripley.
There is good deal of cotton
throughout the country yet, especially
baled cotton.
John w. Scothorn has received his
commission as United States assistant
district attorney.
Chief Engineer S. A. Mccoy, of the
Santa Fe, had his ankle badly sprained
at Deep Fork bridge.
Governor Barnes comes home this
week, happy, and will contentedly re-
main governor of Oklahoma.
Ex-Governor Jonas Wolfe of the
Chickasaw nation is dead He was the
last full-blood Indian governor.
The quail hunting season in Okla.
homa closed with January. Hunters
say that game has been plentiful this
season.
Mr.. Flynn has bill in the house to
reimburse sooners who entered upon
Oklahoma lands in good faith prior x
April 2, 1889.
The regular annual meeting of the
Oklahoma Pharmaceutical Association
will be held at Shawnee on the fourth
and fifth of April.
VIM. Cole, laborer, while working
at the M. K & T. crusher north o.
Atoka, had his arm crushed so thai
amputation was necessary.
John McFan, of McFall, 1. T., was
bitten on the leg by hog and the
wound became so badly poisoned that
it became necessary to amputate the
leg.
F. c. Woods and Co.'S. general mer
chandise store at Purcell has been
burglarized, evidently by experts
About $500 worth of merchandise was
taken.
Senator Harris by resolution is asking
for the reports made to the department
by Indian inspectors regarding the
management of the affairs at the Usage
agency.
A. c. Parmenter, an employee in q
sawmill on Quartermaster Creek, Gus
ter county, was caught in shaft while
oiling bearing and whirled around al
the rate of 800 revolutions minute
until beaten to death.
1t is learned at Talequah that the
president has finally approved the act
of the Cherokee legislature providing
for delegation, and Chief Burlington
is expected home from Washington al
once to make the appointment.
The Chickasaw permit collectors are
going through the territory collecting
the national permit taxes. When they
meet with refusal to pay, they are
backed up by a posse of Indian police
furnished by the United States Indian
agent.
Bob Hawthorne, a brakeman on a
Santa Fe cattle train, north bound,
while attempting to pass from one cal
to another, near Ardmore, missed his
footing and fell beneath the train, hav.
ing his right arm badly crushed, ne
cessitating amputation.
Vinita has an artesian well 500 feet
deep. 1t makes large stream of pure
soft water. 1t will be utilized for city
waterworks. Heretofore the water
used in town was hard alkai water.
The secretary of the interior has
rendered a decision to the effect that
national banks in the Indian Territory
are not subject to the license. or priv.
lege tax imposed by the laws of the
territory upon non-residents doing bust
ness within the territory. There are
sixteen national banks in the Indian
territory.
G. H. Austin, of Wichita, Kan, breed
er of registered Aberdeen Angus cattle
is making arrangements with J. A.
Sohn for obtaining lands in Canadian
county. Mr.. Austin is DESTROYS of ex-
changing registered cattle for land.
Work has been begun at Grove, I. T.,
on the extension of the Arkansas and
Oklahoma railroad from Southwest
City, Mo-, to Grove. 1t is believed that
the road will run from Grove and north
to a Kansas connection. It will form
short line from Southern Kansas into
the Arkansas mineral fields.
Wagner carpenters have organized
a union.
Fire in the railroad cotton yards at
Pauls Valley destroyed the railroad
platform and nearly 100 bales of cotton.
A few freight cars were also burned.
The loss is fully covered by insurance.
]. w. Howard, who lives near Erwin
bought SOW pig four years ago. Since
then he bought one hog and so bushels
of corn; supplied his family with meat;