The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1912-05-09
OklahOmaN NeWsNoteS


You can raise anything in Okla
homa-even prices.
Canning factory at Saltwater is to
operate again this season.
Ponca City is selling all the i'm
provements on its race track.
The Socialists Of Wagner county
have already named a full ticket.
Frank Rinehart of Logan county has
Just marketed 100000 worth of cattle.
Town Of Kiersey in Bryan county is
arranging to bhild a $4,000 school
building.
The Strictly Home Products" cam
paign is sure on nmany Of the cities
Of the state.
The Troy Gold Mining company at
Ravia is putting In a seventy-hve-ton
capacity smelter.
Muskogee is digging a water tun-
mel under the Arkansas fifty feet be-
low the river bed.
The Kay County Tax league has re-
ceived it's charter, but reduction OF
taxes is yet to come.
Fruit growers and gardeners about
Bartlesville have organized a CO.
operative association.
The board of affairs is considering
the letting of a contract for sinking
a deep well at Pauls Valley.
One farmer in southwestern Okla
homa is figuring to grow 125 acres
of sweet potatoes this season.
Twenty-nine divorce cases are
docketed for hearing at the present
term of the Garvin county court.
Oklahomas twenty-third anniver-
sary was celebrated in most fitting
manner by the students of the Girls
college at Chickasha.
The sixteenth annual convention OF
the Oklahoma State Bankers associa-
tion will be held at Tulsa on dates
of May 10 and H.
Scott Ferris telegraphs from Wash
ington that an engineer has been
agreed upon to come out to Oklahoma
and look over the irrigation project
near Lawton.
Dorothy Campbell, years old, won
the spelling championship of Okmul-
gee county. She is the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. d. Campbell of near
Mounds.
The commissioner of public safety
OF Muskogee has notified all citizens
of that city that the city will not here
after collect or remove any garbage
at the city's expense.
That storm caves are serviceable
was proven at Rock recently. The
town was almost wiped out by a
twister, but the people saw it coming
and got into the "fraid" holes.
Signal corps at Blackwell, of the
Oklahoma National Guard, has re-
ceived from the government two sets
OF wireless instruments, one for close
maneuver work and another for long
distance messages.
An appeal was filed in the state SUI
preme court by the Baltimore Invest
ment company of Muskogee, for re-
yprsaI Of an Injunction issupd and
against the company by District Judge
Allen. The county attorney at Mus
kogee alleged the company was selling
pools.
Civic Improvement associations and
other societies over the state are
strongly insisting on the Inaugural
tion as systematic and permanent i'm
provement of the roomy parkings
along the city streets.
The Great Western Life Insurance
company appealed to the supreme
court from a judgment for $4,000 in
the district court of Oklahoma county
in favor of J. b. Sparks, administra-
tor for the estate of Edward G. owen.
The original suit was brought to re-
cover on a life insurance policy held
by the deceased, payment of which
is alleged to nave been refused by the
company, and Judgment was given for
the full amount.
The Rock Island took an appeal to
the supreme court from the district
court OF Grady county in which judg.