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

plant at Tonkawa is 30 600 day.
The people of Anadarlto are Dragging
about having the finest Of soft water.
The old soldiers OF AnadarlSo call
their post the William Mckinley post.
A half section of Roger Mills county
land has just been sold for s., 500 to a
citizen of Yukon.
Farmers from every direction who
come into Chandler tell about parties Of
railroad surveyors
The Grant county annual fair will be
held at Pond Creek during the week
following October IS.
The settlers In the new counties mum
ber among them good proportion of
newly married couples.
The reunion OF the Spanish American
war veterans has been appointed 10 be
held in Oklahoma City on October IS.
There is to be monument erected
on the grave Of Standing Buffalo, the
celebrated Ponca warrior and chief
Among the lately established new
banks are the Bank OF lngcrsoll and
the Beaver county bank at Guymon.
Lone Wolf was one of the speakers
who paid tribute TO President Mckinley
at Hobart. His address was scholarly.
/ The Coming Events says that both
the Rock Island and the Missouri Pa
cihc will have division stations at Enid.
Wcatherford will commence with
mandamus proceedings in its struggle
against locating the normal school at
Granite.
Leasing Of school lands in the Wich-
ita country will begin ON October 3.
Prospects are that the lands will be all
taken this fall.
Judge A. Overstrcet, OF Norman,
makes denial of the charge against him
of making remarks derogatory 10 Presi-
dent Mckinley.
Several hundred residences have been
built in Ponca City during the past
10 months and yet there are families
living in tents because they cannot get
houses.
Spencer, ON the North Canadian river,
Is awake to the value of the water
power there. a dam put in there has
power enough to run n cotton gin and
the water comes over the dam in great
volume and force.
A delegation of cattlcmcn from the
two territories will attend the cattle
mems annual convention at Des Moines,
Ia, in October. They will leave Okla
homa City by special train and will be
accompanied by n brass band.
Fishing is now i'm order in Comanche
county. Squirrels and game are abun-
dant, but the excellent fishing in the
lakes and creeks has 50 interested the
sports that they have abandoned the
shotgun and rifle for the rod and reel.
Contracts have been closed for four
new steel bridges with steel piers, in
Kay county; the total cost of which will
be 81, 200. One of them is To be west of
Ponca City, one west Of Tonkawa, one
west of NewlSirlS and one in Vernon
township.
The question is up in Oklahoma of
bonding the territory To pay off its out
standing warrants which amount To
something like S460, 900. The valuation
of the property in the territory is 500,
AGA. 400. There will have been paid on
June 30, 800, 900 of warrants in the cur
rent fiscal year.
A meeting of the Anti-Saloon League
Is called TO meet i'm Guthrie ON Octo-
BERG.
The Alva normal school has an en-
rollment of $50 and the city schools en-
rollment is $50.
q c. French and w. j. French have
advanced 81 900 to meet the bills fol
making improvements at the Alva nor
NAL.
Geo. Bradshaw, the alleged anarchist
carpenter of Oklahoma City, has
dropped out of sight, leaving no ad
dress.
A running stream of oil is reported
to exist one mile south of Jones Okla
About 5000 acres OF land has beer
leased by ST. Louis company.
The Tonkawa Indians formerly liveC
in Texas and were cannibals. Th'
other tribes nearly exterminated then
;n is6s. In several engagements neai
Fort sill.
Mrs. w. II. Dimmick, of Jones, Okla,
has received notice that she is one o
the heirs of an immense estate in Aus
,ral,a. Her share is stated To be abou
one million dollars.
The Territorial Teachers Association
will meet in Guthrie ON December s5-s7
During the funeral parade at Okla