Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-25
NEWS Of THE TERRITORIES.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM THE
FUTURE STATES.
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORY

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j. s. Dawson, of Chickasaw, killed
himself because the marshal had come
to his house to arrest him.
kilograms from all over the territory
were sent to Washington asking tine
retention Of Governor Barnes.
Chickasha feels big enough to be a
city because in one night three parties
were held with 35 or 40 people at
each one.
The total rainfall for last year, as
registered at the Oklahoma experiment
station, was 32s7 inches, all inches
less than the average for three preced-
ing years
D. L. Maxwell, school teacher of
Canadian county, has received the ap-
pointment of farmer in the Otoe board
ing school of the Pawnee, Ponca and
Otoe agency.
Thomas Begley came in to Tulsa and
surrendered to the authorities. He
claims to have killed James Turner
while stealing hogs from his place
near Mounds.
The experimental station of the Ok
lahoma Agricultural college is prepared
to furnish vaccine to parties who de-
sire to use it to prevent ''blaclzleg"
among their cattle.
Mrs. William M. Jenkins, wife of the
territorial secretary and present acting
governor, has a temperance lecture
which she is delivering at different
points in the territory.
One of the strongest lobbies in Wash
ington from the Indian Territory this
winter will be the one to pass the law
permitting the sale of beer and other
intoxicants in the territory.
Hymns statehood bill has a clause
country to Oklahoma, but the depart
ment is proposing to renew the leases
to the cattlemen just the same.
The contract has been let for build
ing branch road from the st. Louis &
San Francisco at Sapulpa, I. T., south
to Wichita Falls, Tex, tapping the
coal fields of the Creek nation.
Edward Smith, an employee of the
Oklahoma Eastern railway, was fatally
injured by the premature explosion of
blast. A large stone struck him on
the head and crushed his skull.
Members of the Dawes commission
have gone to Washington at the re-
quest of Representative Curtis, to dis
cuss the affairs of the territory with
the committee on Indian affairs.
The colored people of South McAles-
ter have formed a political club. They
say the colored men of the territory
will be so organized as to secure full
representation in territorial conven-
tions.
The new Choctaw court house at May
hew is almost completed, and the Jail
has been removed from the Pushima-
taha courtground to the place where in
future the tribal court for this district
will be held.
Plato Montjoy, special inspector of
the department of justice, is making
the annual tour of inspection of the
offices of the district clerks, United
States commissioners and United States
marshals in Oklahoma.
It is announced on good authority
that the Rock Island Railway company
will commence work on its extension
southwest from Mountain View, O. T.,
before February 1. The extension will
be through the Kiowa and Comanche
Indian Reservation.
John Minehan, teamster and his
son, aged 10 years, of Hanson, 1. T.,
were instantly killed at Fort Smith,
Ark, by the collapse of barn loft
which was overloaded with corn.
Secretrry Hitchcock has sent to con-
gress his recommendation to appropri-
ate SIS, 900 for the maintenance of the
Whitaker Orphan home at Pryor Creek,
Indian Territory. The amount asked
for by w. T. Whitaker was $780, 600.
Delegate Flynn Immediately introduced
bill in accordance with the secretary s
recommendation.
A postofice has been established at
brighton, Woodward county O. T., and
James w. Smith appointed postmaster.
DR.. Linn, townsite commissioner at
Wagner, 1. T., has gone to Washing
ton. The commission has the streets
and alleys about all surveyed, and To-
Gated, and a considerable portion OF
the property measured. DIR. Linn car
ried a plat with him to Washington
showing how far the commission had
progressed with their work, and to OBJ
tain some further information as to
future proceedings.
There is rumor in the Choctaw
country that President Mckinley has
approved the bill appropriating $4,000
a year for the employment of attorneys
to represent the Chickasaw nation in
citizenship cases.
Mrs. J. P. Atkinson, aged seventy
years, died at her home in Durant, l.
T. She has lived within four miles Of
this place for seventy years. She was
the youngest of seven children, all OF