Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-01-10

Rev. Phelps, Presbyterian, proposes
to organize church at the county
seat of Custer county.
Four hundred original homestead
entries were made in the Woodward
land Office in December.
An Ardmore correspondent says the
work of classifying the Chickasaw
lands will be completed about January
Is.
The local cotton receipts at Ardmore
SO far reported are 40, 200 bales. The
total crop of the Chickasaw nation will
reach at least lao, 900 bales.
In an area south of Tahlequah, in
the Cherokee nation, larger than Grant
county, Oklahoma, there war rainfall
of between four and six inches, while
Western Oklahoma was dry.
Changes in Indian Territory post
masters were made by appointment on
December 81, of J. Nj. White, at Brook
en-, E. W. Titworth, at Starville, and
F. J. Truesdale at Yarnaby.
A Norman, o. r., man has started
subscription for fund to in
crease the rewards offered for the
Cudahy .kifnappers. He sends five
dollars. Now watch the fund grow.
The Choctaw council meets at Tisho-
mingo, January in special session to
complete arrangements incident to the
closing of citizenship rolls and prepar-
ing for the final allotment of lands.
The St Louis Globe Democrat be.
lieves that Oklahoma will be admitted
during the short session of congress,
singly, New Mexico and Arizona hav-
ing to await action at the long session.
Johnathan Nelson, of Kingfsher
county, o. r., and Lee Nelson, of
Cherryvale, Kas., who have been sep
arated 50 years, recently discovered
each other and spent the holidays to-
getter.
The Fort Gibson Post says. Perhaps
the oldest Indian in this territory is
Looking Glass, a Cheyenne, who is 1o4
years old. He was with Sitting Bull
in several of his fights, and says he
doesn't remember how many whites he
has killed.
Chairman Tams Bixby complained
before the senate committee on Indian
appropriations that the commission
had been handicapped by the decisions
rendered by the federal courts in In
dan Territory. This is interpreted as
an indication that Judge Thomas will
not be reappointed.
Policemen have confscated the guns,
dogs and ammunition of several hunt
ing parties in the Creek nation within
the past few days because of the failure
Indian agent here. The federal laws
regulating hunting upon Indian reser-
vations are also applicable to the In
dian Territory, and Agent Shoenfelt
frequently has given notice that the
penalties provided by these laws would
be inflicted unless the requirements are
strictly complied with.
A party consisting of two or three
men and a woman are under arrest and
held for extradition to Missouri for
fraud perpetrated at flanagan, Mo-,
against a fire insurance company. The
woman, Miss Anna Britt, seems to
carry the brains Of the party. She had
conducted stores at various points in
Kansas and Oklahoma with short stays
at each town, and when arrested had
considerable merchandise in a house on
a claim. The merchandise with which
this business was started, it is charged,
was the same for which an insurance
company had been sued on policy OF
fire insurance, with the representation
that it had been burned.
The Dawes commission asked for an
appropriation of S324,OOO, but the con-
gressional committee arranged for only
$40, ZOO.
Vera Williams, the four-year-old
daughter of j. w. Williams, of Wilson,
l. T., was playing by an open fire when
her clothing caught fire and she was
burned to death.
Checks have been contributed at
Kingfsher to raise 81, 900 for a present
to Kingisher college, the checks con-
ditioned upon that amount being
reached the aggregate.
]. c. Graves, Jr., of Guthrie has sold
in New York. trotting FLY CT a e:oe11
record for 81 200. This swift one did
her fast mile at Lexington, KY, last
year.
A 3-year-old girl of Mr.. Mahafney, of
Durant, 1. T., was accidentally shot
with a Winchester in the hands of her
sister, 6 years old. She will probably
recover.
The tribal tax will be fought to a
finish by the Purcell cattlemen, who
have joined forces against the iniqui-
tous holdup, says the Purcell Register.
A man who was passing through
Oklahoma with couple of valuable
horses elected two tramps from the car
at Ell Reno. That night the car was
set on fire and the two horses were
suffocated.
Marshal Harry Thompson recently
shipped a carload of stock consisting
of II Shorthorn yearling steers, aver
aging 1,2o0 pounds, which brought 500
a head; and As nine months old hogs
which sold for an average of 1854
each. They went to the st. Joseph,
Mo-, market.
Rev. William Ketcl;am, who has long
been Catholic pastor at Muskogec, has