The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-06-27


names to liquor license.
Edge Brothers store at Lehigh was
recently entered BY burglars and
small amount secured by them.
Capt Rainier, Of Company M, Okla
homa National Guard, has been APP
pointed major Of the national guard
w o. Urbach, soldier from Fort
Sill, deserted and was arrested in Law
ton. He was taken back to the fort
The Mountain Park & FL Paso Rail.
road company has established head
quarters in the town Of Mountain Park.
Okemah, is TO have nne three-story
hotel, to be built ON Broadway. Il VIII
be one Of the best hotels ia the Terri
tory.
Brunes Krober, German "a yearN
old. hanged himself in his house, east
Of Thomas, because l7-year old girl
refused 70 marry him.
The Chendier postofioe has been rais
ed notch-itis now in the list Of sec
ond-class Offices with the postmaster's
salary fixed at e 900.
The people Of Fort Towsou. I. 7. a
new town on the Arkansas and Choc-
taw road. will celebrate the Fourth Of
July with q big barbecue.
Oklahoma City has secured the Shaw
nee base ball club and now Shawnee Is
making pretty faces at the Enid team
with the hopes Of securing IL.
Milburn is to have a picnic and oele-
bration june 25th, in the interest Of
good roads. Tho local commercial
club is back Of the proposition.
A test Kiln Of brick was opened by the
Weeletka Brick company last week. The
brick was Of fine quality and the COM
pany thinks they have bonanza.
DIV. Taylor, lineman for the
Western Union Telegraph company
was bitten BY a copperhead snake near
Durant. His arm was badly swollen.
The Indian ofice announces that SEQ
sion line roads must be opened before
old roads are closed ard the opening
must take place as soon as wheat has
been cut.
Chickasha now has fahermaa and
hunters paradise in the Shape Of q lake,
formed when the Wichita river took 3
notion to change its course during the
recent high water.
Work has been commenced on the
i2o-foot standpipe for the Muskoges
water works. The first section has been
put in place and to the Phoenix re-
porter It looks like washtub.
The first barrel Of Comanche county
oil will be sold at auction on the street
corner. The oil is from the well upon
the BeAl addition 70 Iawton AZ q depth
Of 1is feet, and il said to produce forty
four gallons Of oil per day,
Oklahoma City is to have q new
packing company, with G. g. Jones a.
president; George Sholberg, secretary,
and Bert Leonard, treasurer. Capital
stock, 5000, 900, to be increased to $780,
900 within the next sixty days.
A the result Of quarrel at rural
dance near stroud, Ok, Riley Minds,
an onlooker, was shot and instantly
killed. and Tom Reynolds was fatally
rtabbed. David Cook also received
serious stabs.
The painters Of Chiokasha have organ.
ized a branch Of the brotherhood Of
Painters, Decorators and Paper Hangers
Of America. The new organization
starts out with membership Of ten.
Knights Of Pythias Of Oklahoma will
hold their grand lodge at Hobart in Oo.
tober. The lodge there has already
commenced plans for the erection of an
opera house in which the session viii
be held.
Mrs. Wells. a school teacher fouI
miles north Of Mountain Park, has been
arrested for severe corporal punishment
Of an eight-year-old pupil, tho son Of
W. II. Bean She admits the punish.
ment inflicted was, perhaps, too severe.
The Judge fined her $40 and cost.
sheriff Baker Of Cleveland county
recently turned into the treasury more
.han g. 200 collected on delinquent taz
warrants. The warrants were in the
hasds Of the officer just sixty days
and for the sum collected, it is consider
cd that he established an excellent
record as to amount and time.
Consumption got hold Of anegro pris
oner at Watonga recently, who was de
tanned on charge Of completely O
horse stealing. and local paper re
marked that he is not likely to live lonl
eaough to come before an earthly tribu
nal
Governor Ferguson hes comihnte'
the sentences Of two Oklahoma convict
serving ten years each in the Kansa
penitentiary. their release to be offec
tive January 1. 1904 They sre; jaime
Mitchell ana Daniel MoIond, sentences
in the district court of Gardeld coont
last November on charge Of lobncfT