Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1912-12-26
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That thirty.two-page edition Of the |
Checotah Times also among the nifty |
holiday productions.
Pottawatomie county's poultry show |
was held at Shawnee with many en.
tries.
Five jurors who failed to respond
to roll call for the October term OF
court at McAles,er were fined IS each.
The Interdenominational Sunday
School association OF Kay county held
its semi-annual convention at Ponca
City.
Tie petition OF Phony Johnson, q
convict In state penitentiary, for
release On = writ OF habeas corpus,
was heard by Judge Liedtke OF the
superior court at McAlester and the
writ denied.
The Consolidated Oil and Gas com.
pany. which has eight strings Of tools
working In the Wayside and Bolton
helds. brought In 3,5OO,00 gaeser
ON the Ceiger farm near Bolton and
. seventy-barrel oiler on the Neer
farm at Wayside.
Fl. c. Selvidge OF Hanna, had a
preliminary hearing before a Un. ted
States commissioner at McAlester on
. charge OF Introducing liquor and
was bound over in the sum of $500 to
await the action Of the federal grand
Jury.
n. A. Clark. for twenty-five years
. missionary to Oklahoma Indians,
now a superannuated minister OF the
n. q. church south, lef, Lawton with
his family to reurn to his old home
In Georgia They will Rake their
home there among ref reae.
B. =. wylie. livinst class miles
northwest Of Lawton, Il in thisrom
. pronounced case OF ut
10 recovering. Anotmunlty. re.
ported from Cotton s-.,,a,i
tions have been tai IN
little fear OF the disease spr,-. ing.
The unallotted land sale opened in
Haskell county and Commissioner J.
George Wright sold 203 Of the 374
tracts up for sale. He disposed Of
1870 acres out OF n total of q, 900
acres for sale. The initial payment,
one-fourth OF the purchase price,
amounted to $10.I62.
The general store Of George Bald.
ridge, located at Maple. an inland viii
lage In Sequoyah county, was de-
stroyed by fire, together with the en-.
tire contents. The postoffice, which
10 located in the store also was de.
stroyed. Only a part of the books
were saved. The loss is estimated at
$4,000. partly covered by insurance.
Charles Mccain, the Rock Island
detective who fred a shot to frighten
Fannie Gibson, an Ell Reno negro girl,
aged 13. while the latter was picking
MP coal In the yards here. the bullet
detecting on rail and hitting the
child In the head and causing death,
was exonerated by a coroner's Jury
II being shown that he was bameless.
Joe Mitchell. aged 55. a coal miner,
left his boarding house at Dow with
his months pay and new shovel he
had just bought. He was found near
Dow. dead, seven feet from the rail.
rosd track. A blow had fractured the
skull at the base OF the brain causing
death His hat, money and the shovel
have not been found. and the officers
are working on the theory that he
was murdered and robbed.
mot guilty" was the jurys verdict
IN the case OF Sam Norton, prominent
citizen OF Seminole county. who was
charged with numerous forgeries of
deeds to Seminole allotments.
They're having near-war In Blaine
township. Garfield county, in a con.
solidated school controversy that has
run the gamut Of the courts. ronsol.
idated District No. has been dis.
solved, but that fact makes the school
board OF the defunct district more re-
solved. The CARRIER Sentinel suggests
mat when the time comes that they
must turn over their records and ac.
count for the money spent" there
likely will be bit Of gun play. Word
was sent out from Enid the other day
Tor the opponents Of the consolidated
school TO go TO the school buIldins
aad remove the seats belonging to
various district schools. When this
was attempted, the consolidated build.
Ing was found garrisoned by con.