The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-01-19
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A haIf-section near Blackwell recent
y sold for $1,000
Pawhusla had . quiet holiday week
On account Of smallpox.
Amos A. Ewing. territorial coal oil
inspector, has resigned.
A Chandler merchant rings a bell
every time be makes a sale
Machinery has been ordered for
new ice plant Tor Ponca City.
The Oklahoma bar association viii
ask congress for three more judges
Dave Payne's first claim on the Chi
caska river recently changed hands
Twenty-seven prospectors arrived At
Oklahoma recently from one Indiana
town
There is q movement for the territory
10 have its school books printed at
home.
Eight carloads Of the mains. for the
saltwater City waterwoTks have ar
rived
Oklahoma has skating and it is
claimed that it is the first in ten
years
An Enid girl received five letters
from the Philippines in one one mail
recently.
Ransom Payne is in Washington
urging the location Of land Office at
Fl Reno
Lee Warren. Of Shawnee, lost knee
cap by the accidental discharge Of
shot gun
Where red clover has been sown in
Oklahoma it is said to have made
good setting.
Indian Territory cattle are in fine
shape; better than ever before, accord
ing to reports.
ChaA Il. Filson, secretary Of the
school hand leasing board, has rendered
his resignation.
Building operations in Oklahoma
City during 1900 reached about a quar-
ter Of million dollars
Scottish Rite Masons viii begin
their midwinter meeting at their tenn
pie in Guthrie on January %.
F.B. Hutchinson, President and Ira
Hill, secretary, are the officers elect Of
the Kay county fair association.
There are about six million dollars
on deposit in the ninety banks Of Ok
lahoma, national and territorial.
That story about cousin Of the
president, resident Of Kingfsher, visit
ing at the White House, is a yellow
fake. There is no such lady known
there.
The secretary Of the interior decides
that persons who started into the Cher
olxee strip from the Chilocco reservation
have legal title to their claims. This
settles many contests and cuts of huge
legal fees
A charter has been taken out for a
railroad from Kiowa, Kansas to ''at or
near Shreveport, La. The road would
be 400 miles long. The charter is per
petual and proposes s5,OO0,oOo Of cap
ital stock.
The Oklahoma Live Stock association
viii hold its annual convention al
Woodward February 1915. No other
meeting draws such crowds Wood
ward is in the exact center Of the
greatest cattle region in the country.
John Charles. Of Alva. has won a suit
for Sl5, 900 against the Southern Pacific
for killing a trainload Of his cattle.
President Bellamy Of the territorial
council, came to Oklahoma a pennilesi
yohngster and took claim near Nor
man in 1859. He proved up his claim
and sold it and went into the drug stor,
trade.
Mr.. Flynn is always at IT, He told
the committee on territories that Ok
Iahoma had more children attending
schools than either Arizona or New
Mexico had population.
The Armour Packing company pro
poses 70 put poultry and produc'
houses in a number Of Oklahoma ant
Southern Kansas towns.
The Orient townsite officials havl
sold $4,000 worth Of lots in August'
and have promised the people that thel
would have the road built into thl
town BY the first Of June.
The Sunday school workers Of okla
homa have completed arrangements foi
= grand jubilee At Oklahoma City undei
the auspices Of the territorial SUNDAY
school association on March e0-22.
Miss Margaret Mckinley owns a val