The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-12
Gov. FERGUSON
Is FOR JAIL
AT ANADARK0
Approves Requlsition to Be
Sent to Washington.
NEW COURT HOUSE ALSO
Caddo County Right at Front
With Prosperity Banner.
NEW COURT HOUSE ALSO

Guthrie. o. T. August u-Governor
Ferguson has approved 3 requisitiOn for a
$500 jail building at Anadarko. Caddo
county, and the papers in the matter viii
| be forwarded to the secretary Of the in
terror department for his approval Dyke
Ballinger. county clerk OF Caddo county,
was in the city today and had a confer
ence with the governor 10 talk ever the
situation. Mr.. Ballinger stated that
Caddo county has no jail building OF suf-
ficient size or strength in which desper-
ate characters can be confined, and the
county was forced TO send all prisoners
arrested on serious charges to e Reno or
this city. The requisition made out By
the county commissioners was approved
BY Associate Justice +. r. Gillette. judge
OF the district court OF Caddo county Il
IS believed that the secretary of the inte-
rior VIII approve the requisition. owing to
the fact that both Governor Ferguson
and Judge Gillette have approved the pa
pers.
The county commissioners have let the
contract for plans and specifications for
a $4,000 court house The bids for con-
struction viii be opened on September
leth. and it is expected that the new
structure will be up within a few months
The plans will be drawn something like
the new court house in Kingfsher county.
Money for the new court house has been
appropriated. and it is now 4 question OF
securing the right kind OF plans and bids
for construction.
Mr.. Ballinger, in speaking Of improve
ments in his county. said: zone OF the
greatest troubles that we have had IS
that Of bridges. X will cost large sum
Of money TO get the proper number or
bridges in Caddo county. There are six
bridges around Anadarko that will cost in
the neighborhood of 5000 each. and a
number of smaller ones over minor
streams. but we are in better condition
now than we have been in this respect.
There is the best of feeling everywhere
ir our county among the settlers Their
crops arc good. and the prospects are
better than we anticipated when the
country was opened to settlement Ono
year has made much difference with US
All kinds OF crops can be raised. and it is
no longer an experiment There has
been plenty OF rainfall for the past
twenty years, according to government
etltN lAArAt reason. II tQiS ram
fan is properly divided, why all kinds OF
crops cannot be grown. Il Is my belief
however. that cotton and wheat will BE-
the staple crops. Cotton, the best in the
land, can be raised in Caddo county. and
many acres Of wheat will be put IN this
fan. Many farmers now have their Ian
in condition for the fall seeding. and II
will not be long until the best of seed
wheat is in the ground.
"One thing that has surprised every one
in the older portions of Oklahoma is the
population of Caddo county We have a
larger population than any Of the new
counties. The talk has been right along
that COmanche county had the largest
population. Comanche county is the
largest county. but the pasture reserve
cuts of big portion OF the county IN
which there are no people living. We be-
lleve that our population is constantly
growing, and that we will have the ban
ner county of all Of the new country
Politically we are coming along well. and
the vote in our county this year viii be a
surprise. Bird Mcclure has many friends
in Caddo county and he will get q heavy
vote there this fall"