Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-06-02

Plating OF the townsitc OF Comanche'
l. r., has been completed and next
comes the appraisal and sale Of lots
The Farmers Exchange bank of Bill
lings, Noble county. has been changed
TO national bank. with capital OF
s25 900
Scar Faced Jim. II desperate, was
| killed near South McAlcster while
avoiding arrest for horsestcaling and
other crimes
Guy Attaway, was seriously cut by
| Lee Melton, while drinking at Berwyn.
! l. r. They are both young men of
prominent families.
A prisoner in the calaboose at Sapul-
| pa, who gave his name as Jim Jones,
was burned to death. II is believed
that he set the fire.
! 1t Is reported at Chandler that the
negro cotton growers will boycott the
towns which persecute negroes by mar
! lSeting their cotton elsewhere
Mr.. McCutchcon, of MARROW |. r.,
a carpenter who had been working at
Hobart, was killed by freight train.
The remains were promptly sent home.
lie was 40 years old.
II is more and more evident that large
numbers of those who registered were
only after claim No. l. The filings
now count each day at about one third
of the numbers drawn,
The man who killed the young son of
DR. Bean blossom while riding with the
DR. and others in wagon to NARROW
at the opening, has been captured in
the Chickasaw country.
Computation shows that fivc-eighths
of the land of the Choctaw nation is
tillable, although heretofore it has been
considered that about that proportion
of il was valueless for farming.
John Jones, negro, entered the
house of John Fulcher, another negro
at Davis, l. r.. and killed two of the
occupants and tried to kill two others.
His wife was one of the persons at
tackled.
An ls-year-old Wichita Indian, while
stealing ride on IA freight train, had
his foot crushed between the cars. This
r occurred near Minco. He was taken
> to Chickasha where amputation was
performed.
1t is believed that Colonel Howle,
who shot and killed X. |. Goree on Sep
! I'll y1nh IL
, in hiding at Lawton, with his brother,
and a diligent search of that vicinity is
r. being made.
The L. s. attorney has brought suit
in the L. $. court at Vinita for 81, 00C
, each from the four oil companies who
-, are operating derricks at Red Fork
claiming that their occupation of the
y land is unlawful
{, The members of the NJ. +. church eS
tension board met at Oklahoma City
, TO consider plans and arrange it, som'
- manner to find funds for building
/ thirty or more churches.
The convention of Indian Territory
, bankers met at Purcell. The conven
|. ton was attended by Al bankers wh'
It were all enthusiastic in passing resolu
o tions for attaching Indian Territory t.
r. Oklahoma for immediate statehood.
d The MuslSogee Times has information
that the Dawes commission, which is il
A. Mississippi enrolling the Choctaw In
V dians who are there, finds them, a
It compared with the Choctaws in India
II Territory, poor and shiftless. Thei
ls principal occupation is in making ba'
I'd l,ets and trinkets The fullblood Cho'
to taw in Indian Territory lives in prince
lc " style compared TO his fullbloo
" brother in Mississippi. There are 10
m 900 Choctaws in that state and nearl
d. 1000 heads of families have been eI
rolled
c- Morris Bernard, cowboy was llille
n. near Mangum while on horseback ruI
ms ing a steer The steer fell and thre
" horse and rider on IA pile of stone
It. crushing Bcrnard's skull Frank Bush
another cowboy, was also thrown an
is injured.
ct Near Lamont j. w. Cox and his hor
f. ran into a barbed wire fence. Bot
were terribly cut, but Cox rode hard
he the nearest house When he reach,
lc- there man and horse fell from eNhau
h tion, but their wounds were bound ,
and they are getting we'll
he Near Wallita n lot of good grass Ian
IN in the sand hills had been kept fcnc
ter by the cattlemen who gave out the il
preston that they owned it. Someo
les discovered that they didn't own it, al
~ settlers are gobbling the land up.
During the baptising of capdidat