Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-01-13
OKLAHOMA ANDINDrAN rrnnrron,


plctcd at Edmond.
The Caddo County Banl, n; Fort cobb
uas taken charter
There are 30 bachelors in the mining
tawn Of Mountain Park.
There is a movement to vote court
house bonds Ia Greer county.
The eastern part of Beaver county
'has doobled in population in the past
year.
The Kaw Indians received payment
the other day Of $50 each, from the gov
crnmcnt.
,cntcd President Amcnt with gold
headed cane
Two hundred fine mules were mar.
keted at Perry in one day, bringing
about 5000
The Oklahoma. Texas & Gulf road
has just bought A. acres at oklahoma
city at $500 AN acre.
Geronimo and his e0s Arizona
Apachcs are to he released and have
lands allotted To them.
There has been over 200 rclinquish.
mcnts of homestead claims in the FL
Reno district already.
The Perry commercial club will ask
that the Otoe and Ponca reservations
be opened up TO settlement.
Alvin Elliott, a farmer of Garfield
county, hung himself as result Of
divorce and other troubles.
man near Lexington prints in
local paper the picture of his wife who
has clopcd with another man.
Bert Osborne sold his farm near
Tonkawa for $4,000, reserving two
thirds Of the big wheat crop on it.
President Ament, of the Alva normal,
asks the normal school board for an in
vestgation of the charges against him.
The fees for appointing insurance
agents in Oklahoma have been turned
into the treasury, amounting to ST.
303.s5
J.'C. Hodge, the Greer county treas.
urer, has been given two years sem
.tcncc for cmbezzlcment of county
funds.
secretary O. c. French, of the live.
stock sanitary commission, has made
his annual report and submitted his
resignation.
An Oklahoma policeman was taken
t. the station in wheclbarrow so that
he would be on hand to resign when
he rot sober.
Governor Stanley, of Kansas, is ex.
pcctcd To speak at the meeting of the
Oklahoma Bar association which COM
menccs on January o.
The Epworth League commission will
meet at Oklahoma City some time in
January to select site for their pro-
posed $3.50, 900 structure.
Sol Temple, now in the Enid Jail, will
be shot upon his first movement toward
an attempt to escape. This is the
orders Of Sheriff Porter to jailer and
guards.
Proposed changes in land offices in
oklahoma, which the department pro-
poses in the way of lessening their
number by consolidation, seem likely
70 stir up politics from the dregs.
Judge Louis Sargent, who held the
position Of director of leasing school
lands in oklahoma, died suddenly in
Guthrie, of pneumonia. lie served in
in the civil wa and was district clerk
of Grant cour ; for two terms.
Miss Lillian Queenan has been ap
poiuted clerk for the register and re-
ceiver in the l.. 5. land office at III
Reno.
Charges continue To come i'm against
probate judges Of the new counties con-
eerning the proving up of townsites;
the case of proving up Apache townsite
is the latest noticed.
A number of homcsteaders have been
arrested for cutting timber ON school
land. \ special agent is gathering
evidence against others who have com
United the same offensc.
The Ottawa Indians are petitioning
congress for the legislation which the
Curtis amendment to the bill prepared
by the department provides for.
j. II, Konnelly, a railroad man, was