The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-18

The building on the old Fort Elliott
reservation viii be offered for sale
March 90, next
The TonIayva Indians have released
their lands at one dollar per acre The
Indians are land lords
J. s. Dawson, of Chickasaw- killed
himself because the marshal had come
to his house to arrest him
Burglars drilled into the postoffice
safe at Manchester but failed to open
it. The safe was not locked
A postoffice has been established at
brighton, Woodward county o. T., and
James w Smith appointed postmaster
The First Tennessee regiment OF vol
unteers are likely to attend the rough
| riders reunion in Oklahoma, in a body
There is an epidemic of unpaid board
bills in Oklahoma just at present, and
the landlords are accommodating bag
gage
The Trinity Life, Fire and Sickness
Insurance company incorporated under
the laws of Oklahoma, is the latest
Purcell enterprise.
John M Grady, dealer in general
merchandise at Hartshorne, I. T., went,
into bankruptcy recently. Liabilities;
$50, 900; assets, about $25, 600.
In the event that a change in the
governorship of Oklahoma is made, it
is a debated question whether the new
authority will remove Governor Rarnes
appointees-
Congressman Jett, of Illinois, has in
troduced bill providing for the cut
ting of tie and bridge timber for the
construction OF railroads in the Indian
Territory.
d. L. Maxwell, a school teacher of
Canadian county, has received the APP
pointment of farmer in the Otoe board
ing school of the Pawnee, Ponca and
Otoe agency.
Mrs William NJ Jenkins. wife OF the
territorial secretary and present acting
governor, has a temperance lecture
which she is delivering at different
points in the territory.
John Minehan. a teamster and his
son, aged 10 RS, of Hanson, I. T.,
were instal killed at Fort Smith.
Ark by the collapse of a barn loft
which was overloaded with corn.
A large portion of the people and
some of the medical profession in Ok
lahoma still contend that the mild
disease which has broken out in sew
eral places in the territory is not small
pOX-
William Duncan, of Duncan, I. T.,
who was arrested.for alleged completely
with A. G. Roberts in securing a large
sum of money from the Barse Live
| Stock Commission company, denies
| that he has done anything illegal.
Mrs. w. H. Darrough, wife of q
farmer living near Bartlesvil1e, was
seriously injured in a runaway accident
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horse ran away, dragging her for sew
eral blocks, before she could be rescued.
She cannot live.
Senator A. j. Titus, of Anthony,
Kas., the president of the Denver &
| Oklahoma railroad, says that the line
will in a due southerly course from
Kiovva. Kas., where it will connect
with the Panhandle division of the
| Santa Fe and the Kiova branch of the
! Missouri Pacific
An invoice of the school property at
Pau1s Valley shows that it. is worth
So, T27. Ga and that the Indebtedness at
| the close of the term will be less than
half the value of the property. Bonds
are the market the proceeds of
which Will wipe out the debt and leave
!! q 81 200 surplus.
The northern court of appeals recent
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defendant is unable to pay the witness
fees the municipality shall.
Archibald Seeker fell between the cars
at Pauls Valley and was horribly man
g1ed- The body was taken to Wynne-
! wood, his former home. He leaves a
| wife and child
The board of health of the Choctaw
nation has ordered that no gathering q
of any kind where persons are likely
to be gathered together in numbers
Will be permitted
Indian Inspector J. George Wright
of Muskogee, has wired the board of
health of Wagner, l. Il, that congress
! has refused to appropriate the $50, 600
for Immediate use in stamping ont the
smallpox in the Indian Territory
The Usage reservation is the heaviest
tax paying district in the territory of
Oklahoma The taxable property of
the whites amounts to over So. 600. go,
! x1,a Of the C-3.-.