Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-02-22

young doctors for certificates to prac-
tice.
The house has passed the bill chang
ing the place of holding court from
Cameron to Poteau, in the Indian Ter
ritory.
Adiutant General Bert c. Orner has
issued special orders discharging forty
one enlisted men from the territorial
militia.
The Kansas state board of health has
issued an order raising the quarantine
against Wagner, South McAlester and
Muskogee.
On account of the high price it
brought last year, much greater crops
of broom corn will be raised this year
in Oklahoma.
Franchise day, the anniversary of
the passage of the Dawes law, was
commemorated by the Indian, pupils
at Pawhuska.
The Kansas City Journal says that
the trade extension excursion from
Kansas City through the territories
has been called off.
The people of Seward show up the
| freight business they are doing with
the railroad and ask for passenger
trains to stop there.
Judge B. F. Hainer has appointed ].
Fl. Williams of Pawnee, United States
commissioner for Pawnee district, vice
B. w. Morphis, resigned.
The postoffice at Olzarche was robbed
of 5000 in cash and a large amount of
stamps. The safe was blown to frag-
ments by dynamite.
Joseph Holloway, an Usage Indian,
recently received a check from the gov
eminent for S13, 40 for back annui-
ties. He left the tribe some years ago,
but recently returned.
T. A. Chandler bought at sheriff's
sale the improvements of an intruder
but failed to get possession. Chandler
brought suit and got judgment for
81, 200 rent and damages.
Logan Duncan, an old citizen of the
Cherokee nation, died at his home on
Neosho river from typhoid fever. The
deceased is the father of Prof. J. w.
Duncan, of Tahlequah, I. Z.
The executive committee of the Bap-
fist state convention adopted plans and
specifications for the Baptist college at
Blackwell and will advertise for bids
tn March. It will be of pressed brick
and stone and will cost about So, 500.
Captain Huxley, civil engineer for
the Frisco company, reports the dis
covery of vein of coal six feet thick
sixteen miles south of Okmulgee, on
deep Fork river. 1t is at depth of
seventy-fve feet and of a superior
quality.
1t is said that there are 1000 men at
Sapulpa waiting for work to begin on
the Frisco extension to Denison. The
Frisco has been hauling people in at
gerry low rates, with the idea of getting
plenty of men and rushing the work
right through.
Shawnee is to have the first cotton
factory. Prominent capitalists are
there and the stock necessary is about
subscribed.
Governor Barnes may not go to
Washington to attend the meeting of
governors on February 90 because of
the absence of Secretary Jenkins.
Cheyenne Sunbeam: One of the
smallpox patients in Day county, a boy
seven years old, died. The storm blew
down the tent in which he was held
and the exposure to the bitter storm
killed him.
Two Choctaw citizens were publicly
whipped at the Indian court ground,
twelve miles southeast of Atoka. They
were charged with larceny. One was
given thirty-nine lashes and the other
100 on the bare backs.
A compress at South McAlester is
preparing 500 bales of cotton for export
to Bremen, Germany. Of the 10000
bales of cotton handled by the compress
this season nearly all has been for ex-
port, mostly to China and Japan, this
weeks shipment being the first to go
to European port.
The Shawnee Herald says land near
that city has sold as high as $50 an
acre, without ever having had spade
in it. 1t does not mention plows
The supreme court has reversed de-
cision of the Custer county court which,
gave judgment of S25 for libel,
against G. T. Lawton, of the Arapahoe
Bee.
The senate committee ON judiciary has
reported favorably the bill for the APP
pointment of an additional United
States commissioner in the Northern
| district of the Indian Territory.