Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-08-29

The Republicans of Okmulgee
county, passed resolutions favoring
farmers unions and pledged them
their support.
The headquarters Of the Okla
homa Central Railway Company will
be moved in the near future from
Lehigh to Purcell, |. T. A number
of the officers have already arrived.
In the big constitutional district
in Southeastern Indian Territory,
near Seven Devils mountain, four Of
its townships are without a single
inhabitant, another has but two, an
other five, and still another has only
seven.
Stigler getting ready for a
county seat by proving that she can
care for the crowds. A recent issue
of the Beacon states that she had
four horse thieves, safe bower, and
crazy man in Jail "all at once"
A beet measuring q inches in
circumference, and weighing five
and half pounds is offered at the
Ardmore Democrat as evidence that
that section of the country Is hard to
beat for gigantic vegetables.
A Caddo newspaper tells of how
one Wilkins attempted to belittle the
citizens from Texas and Arkansas
who live in that part of the country,
but "his hand was called" and he
learned that the Lone Star and Ra-
zorback state were well represented.
Chickasha sportsmen are prepar-
ing to have the biggest hunt of the
season. The hunt will begin Sep
tember 5. Dogs have been ordered
from Cleburne, Tex, Ardmore and
other points. Only fox hounds will
be allowed in the race, which will
be participated in by 6S dogs and 20
men, lasting five days.
A cotton stalk, measuring six feet
and bearig thirty-eight bolls, which
was grown near Checotah, is evil
dence of what the recent rains have
been doing for the cotton crop in
Indian Territory While the height
does not signify anything but an
unusual growth, the thirty-eight bolls
does stand for something.
Sapulpa and Bristow never were
the best of friends, and now that the
districting board has placed both in
the same district, new fire has been
added to the flame. Both towns want
to send man as delegate to the
constitutional convention, and i'm
agine, as most Indian Territory
town do, that it will later mean the
locating of the county seat in the
town from which the delegate halls
A reading of the old Arkansa:
statutes recently saved territory
negro from having charge of lar.
ceny preferred against him. The
negro had picked up mule, belong
ing to white man, and the latter
had him arrested. The few lines
which secured his release were tc
the effect that any animal over Q
year old, without mark or brand
is a maverick. Fortunately for the
negro the mule was smooth. "
A man recently went to farmer.
house south of Ada, |. T., reportins
that there was some kind of "var
mint in the bushes on the prairie
The men secured their guns and wen
out to investigate. 1t is said thai
the stranger pointed out the bundle
to them and insisted that the,
should shoot it, which they refused
to do. One of the men approached
the alleged "varmint" and dis
covered it to be a baby, about II
days old, wrapped in wool blanket
The farmer and his wife took charg'
of the child,
Charles Anspach, of Muskogee
was recently bitten by copperheat
snake near Checotah, but his life was
probably saved by the quick actor
of full-blood Greek Indian, who
gathered herbs and doctored the
young man for two days. Anspach