Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-02-19
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN 1rRnIroRy

A contract for "A new prospect well at
Blackwell has been made.
Roger Mills county is to have free
grass election. by districts.
Southern oklahoma and the Creek
nation report several good rains.
A company mas been chartered TO
build a trolley line in Oklahoma City.
\ census Of Norman is being taken
with view of making it city of the
first class.
The Lawton commercial club decides
that Comanchc county should become a
part Texas.
There is another proposition at still
water to vote $1,000 bonds for public
improvements
A hospital and nurses training school
has been chartered. 1t is to be located
ut Ponca City.
The Guthrie fire department is proud
Of the fine new team which was bought
near Kingfshcr.
Roosevelt is the name given to n new
railroad town between Hobart and
Mountain View.
A school census at Shawnee shows
that there are within the city limits
s5i school children.
There is an effort being made at
Washington TO remove the FL Reno
land Office to AnadarlSo.
The mercury stood at degrees be-
low zero on Jan. 90; the coldest in six
years in southern Oklahoma.
The new building in Guthrie for the
territorial officers is expected to be
ready for occupancy by April /.
The Oklahoma livestock sanitary
commission met at Guthrie to arrange
for the big convention at Wichita.
Territorial Treasurer Rambo is dis
tributing the IL per cent dividend from
the leasing of indemnity lands to school
districts.
Nearly every III Reno man who drew
claim is preparing to move onto it
and some of them have already built
substantial houses.
The Oklahoma City commercial club
proposes to have an excursion to points
in Indian Territory, Arkansas and
Texas, in February.
Work on the new city hall at Okla.
homa City is delayed by the refusal of
union men to work with non-union
laborers who wait upon them.
Special agent for the general land
office j. c. Jenkins, has been trans.
ferrcd from Wyoming to Oklahoma
with headquarters in Oklahoma City.
The Arkansas Valley S Western
railway has been incorporated. A line
Of road is proposed To be built from
Sapulpa, !. H., through Pawnee and
Perry to Enid.
Peter Lemon, who worked in a
grading outfit was found west of Chick.
asha burned and frozen to death. lie
stopped at road house and got drunk,
made u fire and laid down by it.
The Guthrie electric light company
has decided to expcnd s35, 900 in i'm.
proving its plant, SO as To be prepared |
to furnish power for manufacturing
purposes, elevators and street cars.
A smelter has been put up in the
Otter Creek mining camp in the Wich-
ita mountains One claim there shows |
an assay of so57 in gold, at depth of .
10 feet; another shows 5000 in gold and |
one shows an assay OF sll.75 in gold /
six feet from the surface.
The question Of the disputed legality |
of the appointment Of two commits.
sioners 60 locate the Southwestern .
Normal school came up before Judge /
Burwell OF Oklahoma City ON Jan. 20. .
$. 4, Cashion, Of IIennessey, has at .
last succeeded in bringing the remains .
of his son, Roy N. Cashion, from San
tiago, Cuba, and the funeral was con-
Quoted by the &. A, K. post on January
30.
Carl Logemann has been arrested in
Nebraska for selling mortgaged prop
erty, and is brought back to TonlSawa.
Sam WHISKY, son OF a Guthrie law
yer, left Missouri college two years
ago aud is now heard from for the first
time. lie writes from Manila that he
has a lucrative business there.