Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-08


The government townsite surveyors
re-surveying the town Of Claremore.
Wewoka, Seminole nation, is TO have
national bank with se5, 900 of capital.
Muskogee wants meeting of editors
Of both territories at that place on
Nov IA.
The lumber business in Indian Ter
ritory Is immense. The saw mills are
all working overtime.
The Comanehe News puts out positive
Information of the coming of another
railroad To that town.
A telephone line is being built from
Coffeyville, Kas., TO Watonga, /. T., to
intersect with the Bell lines at both
places.
The Rev. J. NJ. Laird, OF the Alva,
o. r., NJ. +. church, has been made
presiding elder of the Muslogee, l. T.,
district.
The Ardmoreite becomes eloquent of
Ardmores prospects of having three
railroads, one of them having its ter
minus there.
A herd of 1 900 cattle from Medicine
Lodge was unloaded at Optima, Beaver
county, TO be trailed to New Mexico
and wintcrcd.
President Roosevelt has commuted
the sentence of James w. Wilson, a
boy who was convicted of horse steal
ing in Indian Territory.
Thomas Warren, of Oklahoma county,
expects to sell 1900 bushels of sweet
potatoes off his 90 acre field of them.
He is getting 81 a bushel.
The new town in Washita county,
where the road crosses Timber Creek,
has been named Beeks in honor of
Beelts Erick, of Weatherford.
Indian agent Shoenfeldt refuses per-
mits for hunting parties from Kansas
of whom hundreds have been going
into Indian Territory to hunt.
Near Blue, |. T., Nicholas Caldwell
and Gibson Columbia, two fullblood
Chickasaws, fought with Winchesters
and both were mortally wounded
Their dispute was about land.
The Chickasaw legislatures act in
Burton for his services as the attorney
of the nation is protested against and
the president will be asked not to APP
prove the law.
A single statehood mass meeting at
Vinita heard speeches by prominent
citizens from different places in the
territory, among whom were Clifton
r. breckenridge and Col. T. b. Needles
of the Dawes commission.
Milton Thompson, farmer near
Baker, captured an animal that none
of the neighbors could give name for.
1t weighed 75 pounds, had short legs,
gray fur, and long claws. Thompson
got gallon of grease from the carcass.
Lewis Bingham was drilling wheat
near Independence and while crossing
a ravine the tongue broke and the drill
box caught his legs holding him fast
for an hour before help came. Luckily
the team remained quiet all that time.
The board of county commissioners
of Noble county had the public square
at Perry set out to trees number of
years ago, and planted them thickly.
Now the sale of the surplus trees will
more than pay for the outlay, and the
in Oklahoma.
A young man from Griffs, l. T., took
a young woman of that place to Fort
Smith and left her in restaurant while
he should go to procure marriage
license She was given a room when
night came on, and the next day she
went out to hunt for Gray. She said
Gray had si5 of her money and Is cents
of his own.
Governor Johnston, of the Chiclasaws
advised the Legislature that his salary
of 81, 800 was inadequate and the salary
of governor was raised TO $4,000, COM
mencing with the next term.
George Wright, United States Indian
inspector, and +. C. Hubbard, deputy
United States marshal, with headquar-
ters at Muskogee, l. T., were in Kan
sas City together, few daos since.
Mr.. Hubbard was one of the founders
and owners of the MuslSogee Phenix.