Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-02-19

smallpox.
The Ripley Townsite company hav-
ing disposed Of all lots, has dissolved.
New houses are going up so fast at
Ardmorc that the count of them is
lost.
A two days storm with zero weather
in Indian Territory was followed by
heavy rains.
Musl<ogee thinks IL sees the time
near at hand when II will be great
railroad center.
A company has been chartered TO
build toll bridges across the Canadian
and Gaines rivers
At Provence, ]. r., Walter Childs was
shot and killed by Ella Pitts, the re-
suit Of a lovers quarrel.
There are $50 prisoners in the U. s.
Jail at South McAlester, and they hold
kangaroo court every day.
ChiclSasha has counted the people
and finds 5,719. The town will apply
TO be made first class city.
Col. Jas. +. Randlett and force of
clerks are paying the Indians their
grass money commencing at Fort Sill.
Rev j. n. Edwards, now district
missionary, has accepted a call from
the Central Baptist church at Ard
more.
Chief Porter, of the Creeks, has been
called TO Washington to confer with
Secretary Hitchcock on matters now
pending.
Rev. Ezekiel Nonkesis, full blood
Ottawa Indian Baptist preacher, is
visiting in Kansas in the interests of
his church.
At Berwyn, /. T., James, William
and Pink Waited, negro boys, aged 10,
10 and II years, were burned to death
in their home.
A newly married couple went from
Enid to Choctaw City to spend their
honeymoon and soon broke out with
smallpox and were quarantined.
Marvin Geer, fourteen years old, and
Mollie Mago, sixteen years old, eloped
frow Cumberland, l. T., to be married.
and the old folks can't find them.
Horse thieves are pestering the
farmers around Purcell and the Regis
ter is demanding the organization of
an association to thin out the villains.
An attempt by the Ben Cravens gang
to hold the Katy flyer ut Adair, !. r.,
was frustrated by heavy guards on all
the night trains, sent by Marshal Ben
nett.
The same check forgers who have
been working in Oklahoma crossed
into Indian Territory and are making
good money. They made Il good haul
at Ardmorc.
Attorney General Knox has appoint
ed James L. Gresham, of South Nc
Alester, as regular assistant district
attorney for the Central district of
Indian Territory.
Vigorous protests from Indian Terri
tory are reaching congress against
Secretary Hitchcocks ruling that agri-
leases can not be made for
longer than one year.
The Curtis territorial bill fixes the
capitol Of Indian Territory at Muslxo-
gee, and the Moon bill would place it
Mt South McAlester. Both places have
delegations in Washington.
1t has been figured that there are
Z, ,072, sl3.l6 acres of land in the Creek
nation, of which 3,1s2, ,194 acres are
said 10 be fit for cultivation. Only
l ,GO3, 30 acres have been filed on by
the Indian and negro citizens
Graders on the Ozark, Cherokee Ceu-
tral near Tahlequah have unearthed
quantity of stone ruins. Among thom
was an ancient stone battleax, bronze
war club and a lot Of bronze imple-
ments, which find their counterpart in
ruins of Mexico and Peru.
A thief broke into a store at King
fisher, emptied -four sack on the noor
and filed the sack with his choice OF
goods and got away with It.
Contracts have been let for three
steel bridges across the Arkansas river
in Pawnee county, at Cleveland, Blacks
burn and Kalston, at the price of s25.-