The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-01-26

lt is believed that there Is an apnn-
dance Of coal near Perry.
A lumber company has been char
tered TO do business at Yukon.
The Greek letter men Of Oklahoma
are to have a banquet on January 2e.
Oklahoma has skating and it is
claimed that It is the first in ten
years.
The new county officers Of the 23
counties Of Oklahoma are mostly new
men.
Olsarche has a cheese factory which
is claimed to be the first in the terri
tory.
Shorty" Hyter is the tallest man in
the Strip, being six feet, eight inches
tall.
The Frisco extension building from
Lamont to Enid is expected to extend
Watonga.
The Indian children at Anadarko
agoney ssant- magazines and daily
newspapers.
Many Of the herds ordered off from
the Kiowa reservation will go 70 the
Panhandle country.
There was shipped from Stroud the
other day eight carloads Of cottonseed
meal with Liverpool as their destina-
ton.
There has not been a case Of absentee
ism on roll call in the territorial coun-
ell so far in the session. A wonderful
record.
Mrs. James Mccullough, Of okeene,
died and when buried there were none
Of the family able to attend the funeral;
all were sick
Leo J., Flynn, a relative Of Dennis T.
Flynn, just graduated from law
ichool, viii commence practise some
where in Oklahoma.
Sidney Clarke, as chairman Of the
statehood executive committee, has
called another statehood convention to
meet at Guthrie on January 80.
The inevitable has occurred early;
the following is going around the print
shops: 'The present legislature is
said to have more brains in it than any
former body in Oklahoma"
An election is asked for to declare
two more townships Of Woodward
county subject TO the herd law. The
district is thicltly settled and the peo-
pie ask this protection from herds Of
cattle.
Ed Sill, Of Woodward county, has
been called TO Washington to give his
personal attention to the manufacture
Of bullet Of his invention which the
war department has adopted. The
bullet has penetrated sixteen inches Of
Harveyized steel.
p. b. Anderson and Anna Shoemaker
were married at Oxley, o. T., by tele-
phone. The party who was to have
performed the ceremony was detained
aud so the probate judge Of Watonga,
Blaine county, was called up and he
married the couple over the telephone
c. ]. Connor a miser, died in St. An
thony's hospital, in Oklahoma City.
He lived, practically, on garbage, with
scanty and filthy clothing. He made
a win giving all his property to his
sister in Pennsylvania. Besides a 81
500 farm he held several mortgages and
had money in Guthrie bank.
The practice Of selling goods forcash
only is growing among Oklahoma mer-
chants.
Elmer E. Dustin, Of Leavenworth,
has been appointed assistant engineer
at the Usage Indian school.
An estimate Of the expense Of re-
tracing lines and locating surveyors
monuments in the Kiowa country has
been made by surveyors Of the Rock
Island railroad company. aud has been
submitted to the interior department.
The estimates are said to be low enough
to secure a contract for the work.
Thos. Stinnett, of Texas. is in Jail at
Norman charged with raising a cotton
check from 400 pounds to l,4O0 pounds
and getting the money forit
Tonlawa people counted sO4 teams
in one week, each with three or four
people to the wagon. bound for the
new country.
Eleven new. substantial brick and
stone buildings, with an aggregate
frontage Of COO feet. were erected in
Tecumseh during 1900; every one built
by permanent citizens for use and not
for speculation.
Woodward county is being crowded
with emiRrants but they are largely
from Eastern Oklahoma and are peo-
pie who have sold their claims to new