The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-10-30
onLAnonA AND DlsDIAs IEnnsroar

The first bank In Beaver county has
been opened at Guymon.
The First state bank Of Augusta has
been made a county depository.
Chandler streets are blocladed these
days with wagons loaded with cotton.
The United states Pressed Brick and
Tile company Of Oklahoma City has
taken a charter
The quarterly payment Of annuities
TO Indians at the Darlington agency
commenced on the elst-
The First National Bank Of Wotonga
has in individual deposits subject to
check the sum of S72,9s7
"A race meet is to come off at Alva on
October 23 and a. The Choctaw and
santa Fe will run excursions
saucy Chief, head Of the progressive
Osages. is dead. He did good seryicein
q kansas organization in the civil war.
The enrolment at the university at
saltwater is es4 which indicates a
total enrolment for the year Of $50 or
more.
Sol Temple locked up his jailer at
Ponca City and got a three hours start
His escape was not discovered for three
hours.
Frank +. Gillett is receiving prom
iuent mention as a candidate for ap-
pointment 70 the supreme bench Of the
territory.
A telephone company has been grant
ed a franchise at FL Reno. The mem-
bers Of the company are principally
home investors
The dedication Of the Baptist college
at Blackwell was attended by many
men Of prominence from all over the
United States
The Sacred Heart college is TO be re-
built and TO be located Within three
miles Of sh1wnee The first building
IS to cost sd, 600
pawnee aas contracted to pay si20
week for six air pressure gasoline street
lamps. They are 70 burn from dark
until o'clock a. m.
The surveyors Of the Oklahoma and
Western have reached the Keehi hills,
90 miles from ChiclSasha. Grading will
commence this week
.. y Talbert, in Jail at Chandler for
committing a criminal operation, drank
carbolic acid, which was in the cell for
disinfection, and died.
A corps OF surveyors are working on
the line Of the old Hutchinson and
Southern. east from Ponca City through
the Usage reservation.
The Gold hin Mining Company Of
Lawton, has incorporated with 500, 900
Of capital Also an oil company Of Law
ton. with the same amount Of capital.
Colonel d. W. Houston, Of Garnett,
. Kansas. is visiting his sons in Guthrie.
One Of them, }. J. Houston, is school
land commissioner, and the other ".
G. Houston, is city councilman.
At a meeting in Oklahoma City Of the
single statehood executive committee
which was named at South McAlester.
single statehood convention was called
70 meet in Musxogee on November "a.
A St. Louis firm is building an Office
building ia Guthrie which is TO be oecu-
pied by the territorial Offices and per-
haps by United States officials. The
offices have been scattered about the
city The building is 10 be ready BY
january 1. 1902
BY new arrangement the Frisco
line Is to run ont two sleeping cars
from Kansas City, at 0:2o p. m., for Ok
lahoma City: one Of them BY way Of
Miami and the other via Springfield.
The county commissioners Of Lincoln
county have contracted for ] q new steel
bridges. six to have a 4O-foot span, two
90. two As, 60. 80, and one an sO-foot
span. The cost Of all is sG.045 to be
paid ia warrants. one half when the
material is on the ground and the rest
when the bridges are completed and
accepted
Asl.O00 damage occurred at still
water at fire about a cotton gin. It
would have been much greater loss
but for the work Of the fire department
The dead body found in the Washita
river 81 August 25 has been identified
as John 3. Tilley. Of Weatherford
There was evidence that murder had
been done.
The rush at the school land Office
continues There had been s.27o ap-
plicadons Tor leases fled at the close Of
last week. The average deposit by ap-
plicanfs is So
Truman Hutehins was killed with a
coupling pin nesi the Rock Island de-
nos at Enid. From letters found ia his
pocket it is supposed that his home was
at Florence. Kansas