The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-09-21
okLAuonA AND IsDIAs rEnnIrons

Oklahoma City has new s., 500 fire
engine.
Garfield county voted for high
school
The Catholic fair at Ponea City real
lied s9s7O5.
coyle is to have a 2o-room hotel 1t
is being built
Kingfsher IS putting in a municipal
electric light plant
Garfield county voted down the prop
osition for a high school
Kay county viii vote upon the estab.
lishment Of a high school
The First Methodist church Of Ana
darlso has taken charter
There never has been white man
legally hanged in Oklahoma.
A train load Of No. wheat, raised in
Kay county, has been shipped to Texas
for seed.
The boys Of the Guthrie high school
are preparing 70 organize a military
company.
Bridgeport lumbermen cannot get
lumber fast enough TO supply the build
ing demand.
Ret Afillard, Of Enid, has been ap-
pointed assistant postmaster at okla
homa City.
Ell. Hoffman. Of the general land
Office died at the hospital at Fort SIN
last week
Several towns in the Strip will OBJ
serve the anniversary Of the opening on
September 1G.
Earl HUMAN, Of Guthrie, has passed
examinations at the naval academy
with high credit
A capitalist wants permission Of the
government TO erect $4,000 summer
resort at the base ofMount Sheridan.
Southern Oklahoma farmers are grad
ually ceanging their plans They are
putting in more wheat and less cotton.
A pielsiing plant at Oklahoma City
has Ia AXIS which win accommodate 95,-
900 bashels Of cucumbers during the sea
son.
An agent Of the interior department
found 5000 fence posts in the Wichita
mountains. He straightway confscated
them.
The Edmond normal opened in
crowded condition, the attendance be-
ing 80 much greater than it was last
year.
The Shawnee Electric Light Company
has bought machinery to double the
capacity Of its plant and win install it
at once.
Comanche county has in its treasury
s4IO, so5 derived from the sale Of lots
less the cost Of surveying the townsite
Of Lawton.
The Choctaw extension toward Am
arillo, Texas, has been completed to
sayre, o. T., sixty-four miles west Of
Weatherford
Dynamiters robbed the Edmond post
office of sss5. Fifty dollars Of the
money belonged to news dealer who
occupied a part Of the room.
Mrs. Hielman, daughter of Indian
Agent Jensen, Of Ponca City, has taken
the position Of stenographer TO James
J. Houston, school land commissioner.
A. J. Meers, a pioneer miner in the
Wichita mountains, says he has made
deal with New York syndicate where
by he is to get 81, 900 and royalty Of
Is per cent on the output Of certain
copper mine which he owns.
Considerable farm property about
Granite is changing hands at advanced
prices.
The government is averse to relin-
quishments and win hinder them to the
limit. There are people who believe
that there viii be many cases in which
relinquishments cannot be prevented.
A corps Of surveyors has been making
a preliminary survey through Stroud.
A road viii be built either through that
place or through Chandler. The lineis
the proposed line from Cedarvale, Kas;
to Pauls Valley l. I.
The Baptists Of Coyle have bought a
lot and win build a church on it.
One Of the latest printing Offices in
Oklahoma is that Of the Mcknight
Leader. planted and published by La
than and Howle. Mcknight is de-
scribed as a very attractive location,
with the best Of water, and with album
dance Of fine building stone near by.
All its buildings will be Of stone. Until
a postofice is established mail should
be directed to Mcknight via Lawton.
There is a special messenger to carry
mail between Lawton and Mcknight
Governor Jenkins advises citizens Of
the cities and towns in the new counties
to take no steps toward holding city