The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-08-01
New State Notes.


Herington is the name OF new
town not far from Pawhuska up in the |
oil and gas region.
Bigheart in the Usage reservation
will soon pave its streets with good |
dressing of macadam.
Ralston claims to have more lodges
in proportion to Its size than any town
in the new state
The heavy growth of weeds on the
prospective wheat land will act as an
excellent fertilizer if properly turned
under by the plow.
Gus llPlman dangerously wounded
and all OF the teams OF a threshing ont
tit running away was scene that fol-
lowed the explosion of threshng ma
chine boiler last Thursday on the farm
of Henry Darr, six miles north of Alva.
The teachers institute for Beaver
county held in Guymon last month was
probably the most successful session
ever held in this part of the Territory
over seventy five teachers were en-
tertained in our city for a month";
Guymon Democrat.
! 1.-THE Beaver County Cooperation As
/ sociation will erect Touring mill with
a capacity of SO barrels daily at Guy
mon
The Texas State railroad commits
sion has ordered the Rock Island tc
build depot and place an agent in
Texhoma on the Texas side of the
line. The object is that the shippers
can get better rates shipping from
a Texas station on account of the
stringest railroad laws of that state.
Governor Frantz has received notice
from Governor Hoch of Kansas that the
officials Of that state have decided to
designate the Kansas state refor atory
at Hutchinson as a prison for Oklaho-
mas youthful convicts nov incarcerat-
ed in the Kansas state penitentiary at
Lansing, if it is satisfactory to Okla
uoma. For number of years all Ok
lahoma convicts have been cared for 10y
Kansas at an of $50 900 per annum.
Collnsville has press club. 1t has
elected officers and enrolled ten chart
er members, The club will erect a
bungalow at Horseshoe Lake, near
Collinsville.
The'Alva Pion eer estimates that 3
mad dog bit all the ours in that town
f last week, and of course there is a hyd
rophobia scare. at the capital of Woods
7 South McAlester speaksl of man
who is distantly related to three
congressman The pool fellow is not
: in the least responsible for the relation
, ship, and it is beastly heartless act
for the editor to expose him in print
A poor old darkey in Perry is not al
lowed to shine shoes in his modest lit
I tie establishment on Sundays, but the
imperfectly fitted at other places
Why not let it tilt so the man that is
willing to work can live ana the mar
who trades in blood will be compelled
, to work. 1t is poor reform to begin Oh
the honest and humble citizen and
take from him God given right on
, technical grounds.
In the Indian Territory there are five
thousand or more criminal cases which
, the Federal courts will turn over to
their successors in jurisdiction, the
} state courts Most of these cases are
murder trials and other felonies.
Edgar Ball nineteen-year-old hus-
band of Ardmore shot his sfxteen-year-
old wife and her fourteen year-old
sister then put bullet in his own
brain
Thomas +. Sfaw of Tulsa is reported
missing Together with $1,000 he had on
him in Kansas City.
Burglars shot and killed Constable
Hanks in Kiowa County Monday night
Chickasha vs. enjoying building
boom over S3l0,OO0O0 worth of new
buildings are now IN process of erec-
ton.
BY far the highest paid salaried men
of the new state are to be found at
South McAlester in tile coal trusts.
There several officials of the Busby
companies and the McAlester Fuel
company who receive salaries three
times AS large as that paid the governor
of an average American state.
Wheat is coming in rapidly Over
three ears We're marketed here yester-
day i is of fine quality and although
no big yields are reported, the crop has
yielded well and the places that escaped
the hail are going TO make their owners
good money.-Hooker Advance.