Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-12-20

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piped for gas.
The Indian Territory in the last ten
years increased in population 211,7 IT'S,
or III per cent
An Ardmore sport tackled the tiger
on Western trip, and after two hours
had $500 less money.
The Choctaws and Chickasaws have
no claim on the Wichita reservation
lands, according to the United States
supreme court.
Professor Terrell, head of the Chand-
Ter schools, and Miss Name Zingre, of
Hartzell, are married. They will re-
side in Chandler.
Six colored boys, ranging from eight
to IA years old, were captured while
robbing Guthrie grocery store. This
is not their first offense.
Three bridges have been destroyed
near Sapulpa, I. T., supposed to be the
work of strikers on the Gulf, Colorado
& Santa Fe, or by sympathizers.
Ardmore has already received by
wagons 81, 600 bales of cotton. 1t is ex-
pected that the wagon receipts for the
season will be about AZ, 900 bales.
The president has approved the &C
ton of the Creek council to provide
two attorneys to represent the Creek
nation before the Dawes Commission.
Fourteen Kickapoo Indians, from
Oklahoma, started from South McAles-
ter for Mexico. They were the first
blanket Indians seen in that town for
years.
Jackleg lawyers are collecting ad
vance fees from people desiring to Sc
cure claims in the Kiowa country.
The Indian territory papers are warn
ing strangers of this swindle.
Isaac Hosey, postmaster at Hosey, 1
T., six miles east of the Sac and Fox
agency, is probably the tallest post
master west of the Mississippi. He
measures nearly seven feet in his socks.
The extension of the Choctaw road
from Hartshorne is to traverse the val
ley of the Washita river. 1t will be
10 miles long and will pass through
nearly dozen towns before it reaches
Ardmore.
John Caull1ins, Collinsville barber
got drunk and created disturbance
around the house of jefferson Davis
and Davis shot and killed him. Caulk-
ms wife was drowned in the Verdigris
river six months ago.
A dug out near Stroud, occupied by
colored family, is said to contain a
piano, mahogany bureau and chairs,
with Brussels carpet covering the earth
floor; the walls being decorated with
large gilt-edged mirrors.
Wynnewood is surrounded with pc
can groves and the hogs which patrol
the woods are rolling fat. People are
too busy with their cotton to spare
time to gather the nuts although they
would bring a good price.
ing the extension of the Choctaw rail-
road west of Weatherford and also for
line from Hartshorne, 1. T., to Ad-
dtngton, Chickasha nation, thence up
the Canadian river to junction with
the Weatherford-Am Amarillo extension.
Ell Reno has thirty-two more people
tho,.o &c on1u
of five between the population of Guth-
RE and of Oklahoma City; Shawnee has
+ eighteen over Enid; Ponca City, Still
water, Kingfsher, Blackwell and Nor
man have almost the same population.
An Ardmore man was arrested for
| threatening his wife's life. He was
under bond to keep the peace, and he
went home and shot his wife to death.
| The Union of Confederate Soldiers is
negotiating for the purchase of an old
log house on the west bank of the Ar
kansas river east of Muskogee. The
| old house was used as a Confederate
| hospital. Wounded men were brought
there from all directions, and the house
was always full. Some of the prom
inent officers of the western division OF
the rebel army were taken there.
Federal court convenes at Ardmore
on December II. There have been GOO
government witnesses subpoenaed, be-
sides the witnesses for the defense.
The session is likely to last a month.
About one mile from Wheeler, 1. T..
in the Chickasaw nation, in a neigh.
borhood called Abar Prairie, lies, as
yet untouched, one of the finest as.
phalt mines in the world Geolopists
say there is a great subterranean lake
of asphalt, not far from the surface
People break off slabs of it where il
crops off and use it for fuel.
Messrs. Cleveland and Abernathy
Indian traders at Anadarlzo, have beer
in Washington trying to procure new
ruling from the interior department il
relation to the giving of chattel mort
cages by Indians. They left withou
any encouragement.
Miss Florence Wilson has been il
charge of the Cherokee female semi
nary for 80 years. Rumors were afoa
that the board of education would no
reappoint her, SO the Cherokee nationa