Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-02-11

immense well at ArdmOre.
The nonresident citizens Of Vinita
haze paid their tribal TAX under pro-
test.
Bristow, i. r., claims TO have a pop
ulation Of 200, having doubled in the
past year.
Matte Coleman was shot and killed
at Olsmulgec through the window OF
her room.
North and South Mchles,nr are ma
king eyes at each other and n union Is
in prospect.
Agent S~nocnfclt gives notice that he
will commence paying school fund war
rants or February /.
Another oil yusher was bought in nj
Tulsa on January 10. 1t is 500 fees
deep and has n good low.
The single statehood delegates clcctcG
at the Muskogcc convention left for
Washington on January 10.
Chickasha Il counting its people to
see II IL has not enough Of them to be
come a city of the first class. The 10.
quiremcnt Is 5000.
Secretary Hitchcock asks an apprc-
priation Of $1,000 by congress to estab-
fish the boundary between Texas and
the Choctaw nation.
An appropriation OF 50, 900 IS made
by the Creek council u pay counsel foi
the nation Pliny Sopc. is likely &c
get the appointment.
rho ChcrolSocc. Choctaw and Chickn.
saw nations have by their councils
passed resolutions asking congress for
a territorial government.
The first train of steel has arrived
for the Oklahoma City and Western
a month until the order is filed.
Secretary Hitchcock has granted "A,
Indian Territory Traction company a
permit TO build u street car line from
South McAlestcr 10 H~aileyville.
Crazy Snakes band is attempting to
prevent Creek Indians from fencing
their allotments. Agent Shoenfelt has
sent police 10 visit the disturbers.
Ter miners lost their lives by an e.
plosion in mine No. o at Dow. Choctaw
nation. II is a new mine and the ac-
emulation of gas SO Dol is Il mystery.
Judge Clayton decides that in the
Chickasaw and Choctaw nations the
federal courts alone have jurisdiction
in land cases under the Atoka agree
ment.
L. $. Marshall Hammond called by
telephone upon Ardmore to send officers
to trace the murderers of two women
and a man near the Caddo bridge six
miles from Ardmore.
The preachers of South McAlester
have avowed their intention to Dust
every teacher in the public schools who
is not a,church member and much feel
ing is general over the subject.
Captain Hackbush, an attache of the
Dawes commission, is the oldest gov
ernment employee in the Indian Terri.
tory. lie has been in the service for
over forty years. lie is a civil engineer.
L. II. Youngblood, "A stone quarry
owner and operator c Ravia, |. T.,
says he has found immense deposits of
magnesia. lie also claims to have
found gold ore there which assays SIPS
TO the ton.
A Choctaw fullblood was arrested at
Atoka for renting pasture lands to nom
citizens and Judge Clayton decided that
the Indians who take up no more than
their allotments have a right to rent it
To anybody.
The Seminoles are the smallest tribe
in number in Indian Territory, but
their affairs are in better shape than
those of any other tribe. They have
nearly all of their deeds to lands and
in "A few weeks the last Seminole deed
will issue. This gives them a valuable
time advantage over the tribes that
were slow in closing the tribal rolls.
A literary Teller" has been enter
tanned at Muskogee who will write
about the Indian country Tor a mag
azine.
The special session of the Choctaw
Legislature has adjourned. Appropria-
tions were made for Indian schools.
No agreement was reached about a
supplementary treaty.