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

B. S. Smyser. the tribal member OF
the Choctaw townsite commission, has
rendered his resignation.
Miss Alice B. Preuss, Of Ardmore. has
been appointed teacher Of the sisseton
Indian school, South Dakota.
A strong iow Of gas has been struck
at Tulsa at q depth Of 400 feet II is
sufficient to heat and light the city
The people Of Dumont, l. T.. raised
IN / s minutes the $1,000 asked BY the
choetaw road for passing through the
place.
A combined passenger and freight
depot is to be built at Tishomingo
Granite walls and a tiled roof are pro.
yided for.
r d. Mines. who IS vice president Of
the Long Distance Telephone company
is also IN charge Of the principal bank
at Rolf, l. 4.
Franklin Ridgely, Of chiclasha, has
been appointed special bank examiner
and has gone 70 New Orleans TO COM
mence work
oakley, J. 4. boys were hunting and
seeing a can in quarry shot at IT,
The can contained powder and one Of
the boys is dead.
The Territorial Baptist convention at
the Muslogee meeting, appropriated
$40, 600 70 missions and 50 900 toward
building churches.
The Anti Horsethief association Of
Indian Territory is taken from the
Kansas jurisdiction and placed with
that OF Oklahoma.
The townsite commissioners are TO
sell the own Of Poteau next. The
commission is appraising the improved.
property at caddo-
Pauls Valley cotton buyers pay more
for cotton than is offered at other
places, so they claim, and they are get
ting from 200 10 400 bales a day.
Mountain View has 81, 600 in sight
for school house and $1,000 more is
being raised The present school has
a prospect Of enrolling 200 pupils
There are s47 prisoners confined in
in the federal Jail at Muslxogee and
George Findlay hesitates still about
taking the contract Of feeding them.
The territorial board Of education
having decided TO adopt the action Of
the Jenkins commission, are consider
ing the plans for building at Granite
Gov Dukes, Of the Choctaws removed
Sheriff Grubbs and appoi-ted Sol
Maclsay. Grubbs refuses to vacate be
cause no has had no opportunity to
meet charges filed against him.
Interest on public funds continues an
unsettled issue 1t is claimed that there
is a large amount Of interest which has
been reeeiyed and which has not been
turned into the territorial treasury
The Cherokee tribal authorities are
iubilant over the decision Of the attor-
ney general at Washington that the
20 cents tribal tax on hay shipped to
market is lawful, as the annullment Of
the law would cut OFF one Of the largest
items Of revenue.
A general Indian Territory worlds
fair convention is called to meet at
Holdenville on Oct 2s. One delegate
from each postofliee and one alternate,
with an additional delegate for each
500 persons, OF major portion thereof
are to be sent to the convention.
The work Of removing nonresident
cattlcmen and their herds from the
Choctaw nation is actively progressing
They are driven out for refusal to pay
tribal taxes. The cattle are being
driven over the line into Arkansas
Come OF the eattlemen are paying the
taxes
Harry C. Barnes. son Of ex-Governr
Barnes, has been appointed first lien.
tenant Of artillery.
The twelfth annual convention Of
the territorial w. c. r. q. will be held
at Guthrie on October 1921.
Farmers around Jones City win bring
suit to settle the question as 70 whether
the selection Of 900 acres near that
place, as indemnity school lands, was
made lawfully. They claim that they
were no. lawfully selected and that the
lands should be opened to homestead
entry and settlement
On October the Ardmore postofice
issued &C money orders amounting to
81, ,2662s. On that day only II money
orders were paid, amounting 10 sl4.45
The government inspector who re-
Gently visited the Whitaker Orphans
home al Pryor Creek, win recommend
that congress appropriate $50, 900 for
that institution.
B. d. Starr. now in Jail at Ardmore
charged with murder, is son Of Belle
Starr. the noted Cherokee female des