Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-09-15
PRESTON p. SHAW.

ANADARKO, OKLAHOMA.
TERRITORIAL NOTES
Shawnee now has a shirt and overall
factory.
Wetumka is to have city telephone
exchange.
weatherfords ice plant is now in
operation.
Hartshorne is sagitating the erection Of
100000 hotel
Ripley will enjoy the largest cotton
trade in her history tins fall.
The Anadarko Cotton Gin Co., are
having the machinery installed in their
new plant.
The town of Grove has been designat-
cd by Judge Gill As a place for holding
q commissioners court
On and after September lst mail ser
vice will be established over the Ard
more branch of the Choctaw.
Cotton is now the only Oklahomi
crop not matured and that ives prom.
Use Of n record. breaking yield.
The Coyle Clipper offers n years sub.
scription to the person bringing the
largest watermelon to that office.
Mustang is badly in need of an eleva-
tor and will make it an object for some
enterprising company to build there.
Checotah has raised premium of one
hundred dollars TO be paid for the first
bale of cotton delivered to that town
this year.
Charles A. Brown. n merchant OF
Saltwater, died from the effects Of
barns received by the explosion Of q
gasoline lamp.
The fellow who was under contract
TO bore a 1000 foot oil we'll at Wagner
has thrown up his job after getting
down 100 feet.
Constable Adams raided the "hali
way house" near Wilburton, l. T., and
captured seven negroes, lot of poker
chips and number decks of ",n IL.
The train dispatcher and train mat :
west of Shawnee for the O. o. q G.. hai
been placed in Geary, which makes thai
place quite a railroad town.
Edward Plelark, instructor in matha.
mates at the A. and NJ. college al
Saltwater, died recently at Ration, New
Mexico, where he went for the benefit
of his health.
The sixth annual reunion of tn,
Northeastern Oklahoma Veterans as.
sociation will be held at jefferson Aug,
l8 to l6, inclusive, and promises to be
well attended.
J. II. Holmes, aged 2S, supposed to b,
a resident of Birchtree, Mo-. wa,
drowned in the Arkansas river neal
Ralston while on a fishing expedition
with Arkansas City friends.
The contract has been let at Musko.
gee for building the Muskogee water.
works. Allen, Block & Company of st
Paul, MINI. secured the contract. The
price is $l7l,000 for the waterworki
and sewer system.
The jailor of the county Jail at Ana.
darko recently discovered an attempt
being made to break Jail by the prison.
ers confined in that bastile. Two BARI
had been sawed off and the discovery
probably prevented Jail delivery.
Franklin Cooley, an aged farmer,
living four miles southeast of Jennings,
Oklahoma, was found dead in his home
with his body in decomposed condi.
tion and partly eaten by coyotes. He
was last seen three days before the
finding of the Hody aud must have died
suddenly NJ his team was found har
messed in the stable early starved foi
food and water
Marshal b + Hacket of the central
district has appointed J IS, Davis, OF
Colbert deputy, with headquarters al
Boswell City. Mr.. Davis had served a,
deputy in the southern district for q
number of years, but tn, new re-dis
tricting places him under The super
vision of another marshal
Their, will be no court officers ap
pointed for the United States court al
Wagner, l. T., until suitable court
house can be arranged for The gov.
ernment refuses TO pay the nigh rent
demanded for the building.
James Benson, a Creek Indian was
found dead near Spokogee with two
bullet holes in his head
Mustang has organized a commercial
club.
Johnnie Hearst, aged 10, OF leighton,
Dewey county, rescued two smaller
companions from drowning last week,
but after getting them out sank and