Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-04-12

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| insane He was Santa Fe engineer.
A deputy marshal was killed at Wag-
oner by drunken man named Gaylor,
who escaped.
Guy Anfrecht, of the North Side
hotel in Oklahoma City died April Of
cancer of the throat and tongue.
The Wells-Fargo Express company
W i'll establish an Office at Augusta to
connect with the railroad at Alva.
A gang of Indians camped at CARRIER
and were as much of curiosity to the
people as they would have been in an
| Eastern state.
A several weeks drouth IN Eastern
Oklahoma and western Indian Terri
tory was broken by good rain. Crop
prospects are good.
There are about 365 Otoe Indians on
the Otoe reservation. Abont 10000
acres of land has been allotted to them.
and they still have 10000 acres unallot-
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have followed the example of Kansas
and quarantined against cattle from
eastern and northern states unless they
can pass inspection as to infection with
tuberculosis.
A. Forgue and J. L. Jackson, two
Oklahoma pioneers have left Lacombe
for Alberta, Canada. They will seek
homesteads under the Canadian law.
Mr.. jackson was accompanied by his
wife and fifteen children.
The land appraising commission, at
work in the Choctaw country, will
finish the appraisement of the Chicka-
saw lands during the current year.
Then there will still be left strip of
land on the east side of the Choctaw
nation without appraisement.
| Ardmore is entitled to a free mail
delivery system now as far as her post
al business is concerned, the receipts of
the office for two consecutive years eX-
ceeding $4,000. If it is granted to
Ardmore to have free delivery now it
| is probable that it will be several years
ahead Of any other town in the terri
tory.
Parties near Weatherford imported
car load of fine cattle. They were
shipped by way of Memphis, and I'M
loaded there to be fed. Memphis is
south of the quarantine line. The
cattle started north of the quarantine
line and could have been shipped
through to Weatherford had they not
unloaded at any point south of the line.
AS the case now stands the cattle will
be compelled to remain below the line
until next fall.
Captain ]. S. Hammar, department
commander for the Indian Territory G.
| A. r. has announced the following
staff appointments: Sewart Denee, as
sistant adjutant general and assistant
quartermaster general; NJ. S. Parker,
deputy inspector; Louis Loclzhart
judge advocate; S. Boyles, chief officer;
j. H. Dixon, senior aide; council of ad-
mipistration, c. w. Meares, Hugh
Campbell, Tom Roberts, B. F. Creas,
John Couvan.
1t is reported on what appears to be
good authority that ex-senator Dawes,
the head of the Dawes commission, will
shortly resign and retire to private life
Mr.. Dawes, who is an old man, has not
been actively experimenting the work
of the commission for some time, and
has not been in the Indian territory
for several years. The real head of
the commission has been Judge Nc
Kennon, and it is said that Mr.. Dawes
has not been in active sympathy with
some of the plans of the commission
for some time. An attempt may be
made by Senator Stewart to dissolve
the commission or to re-organize it.
J. D. Weaver, the Rock Island agent
at Dover, o. T., was married last week
to Miss Bertha Maltby, of Mcpherson,
Kan.
j. A. Hoggatt was arrested at Sapul-
pa, under warrant from Oklahoma,
charged with selling mortgaged pro-
perty.
Between the time of the passage of
the law putting tax of 81 900 on white
men who married Chickasaw Indian
girls and the time the law went into
effect, LOO Indian girls became the
wives of white men.
The cattlemen of Indian Territory
are pleased over that part of the Creek
Dawes treaty which treats of leasing
pasturage.
Protests from cattlemen are going
to Washington in great numbers,
against the proposed non-citizen tax of
% cents head on cattle, for the bene-
fit of schools.
Colonel ]. w. Sheldon, a prominent
citizen of Chicago, fell between the
coaches of the passenger train at Pur-
cell and was horribly mangled, both
his legs being crushed.
Colonel Richard J. Hinton, who trav-
eled through Indian territory in 1856,
is there again gathering material for
newspaper articles.
A man who gave hisname as Keeney,
and that he lived at Wichita Falls,
| Texass came. into a railroad Damn Daar