Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-10-05


A 81. Louis syndicate is said TO be
, ...fanging TO open up the asphalt mines
west Of Ravia, ]. Il.
The quarter ssction Of school land
near Hobart will be leased to the Kiowa
County Fair Association.
Robert Williams. the cattleman who
is charged with killing Thos. Wolfe
near Purcell, is in the Ardmore Jail.
Judge Mcfader of Ponca City, is 10
he made an agent TO look after the tim
ber interests OF the entire territory.
1t is predicted that in five years In.
dian Territory will produce more coal
than any state west of the Missouri
| river.
Miss Daisy NJ. Harris Of Muskogee,
has been appointed assistant teacher at
the Western Shoshone Indian school,
Nevada.
Bids for carrying the mails in the two
territories will be opened at the depart
ment at Washington in December
They must be sent there.
Ex-Shcriff GcblSe, Of Lincoln county,
reports the loss OF several hundred
head of his cattle which have died on
his ranch in the Creek country.
1t is reported at Chandler that the
negro cotton growers will boycott the
towns which persccutc negroes by mar.
lIeting their cotton elsewhere.
The school land board has assessed
damages against school land lessees for
timber cut and sold by them, and will
cancel the leases Of guilty parties.
Purcell with the help of Lexington,
over the river in oklahoma, are after
an east and west railroad. The two
towns have been asked for slj, 900
bonus.
The Chicasha ice plant is to he en-
larged and have "A new set of machinery
to work independently of the old plant.
This makes provision for a possible
break down.
Thirteen members of the Kemp com
munity. near Colbert. were convicted
before Judge Hardy of cutting timber
ON government lands and were fined
"a. .35 each. They all paid.
Amos Colbert, n recognized leader in
the Chiclasaw nation, died at his home
near Lebanon. During the past fifteen
years he has held many positions of
trust with the ChiclSasaws.
The attorney general has rendered
an opinion To the interior department
sustaining the authority of the Chero.
kce Indian nation To levy a tax Of &c
cents per ton on prairie hay shipped
out of the nation.
Judge j. L. Brown has investigated
the claim that the criminal code did
not become law, lacking signatures,
and he declares that the code is good
law. Although il had been tampered
with the features essential to its validity
are all right.
MuslSogee, by vote o, 7G3 to 6, de-
cidcd upon issuing municipal bonds for
waterworks and sewer system; the
waterworlSs to take $50, 900 and the
sewer system S25, 900. As soon as ap.
proved by the secretary of the interior
contracts will be Immediately let for
the work.
The Musl<ogec Times has information
that the Dawes commission. which is in
Mississippi enrolling the Choctaw In
dians who are there. finds them, as
compared with the Choctaws in Indian
Territory, poor and shiftless. Their
principal occupation is i'm making has
kets and trinkets. The fullblood Choc
taw in Indian Territory lives in prince
ly style compared tn his fullblood
brother in Mississippi. There are TO-,
600 Choctaws in that state and nearly
. 900 heads of families have been en-
rolled.
Enid is now feeling sure of becoming
headquarters for the CARRIER and Ana
darlSo branches of the Rock Island
An abundant supply of water has beer
found which was the turning point il
the establishing of division at Enid
At the El Reno office, on Septembe
II. seventy persons had failed To res
pond to their numbers and make fling
upon claims At Lawton on the sam,
date there had been e39 who failed I,
take homesteads. These w,rc mostly
it is quite probable, of those who wer
only after claim No. /.
Ardmore hes procured the issue Of al
injunction to prevent the Arkansas 4
Choctaw from using the right of wa,
through the city as originally surveye'
for the reason that il would destro
valuable residence property.
Miss Bertha Ryan, county superin
tendent Of Noble county, is dead. Sh
had been sick for two months wit
o,,iclf ennsumntion She eaught coll