The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1912-04-25
Oklahoma NewsNOtes

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The Harris.Irby cotton gin, which
burned at Elk City will be rebuilt.
The Farmers Cooperative store at
Arapaho has been closed by creditors.
The schools at Carmen closed fol-
lowing the development OF a case Of
spinal meningitis there.
Mangum is negotiating to secure the
Southwest Baptist college, now located
at Hastings, in Jefferson county.
Street railway at Clinton has con-
tracted with the city for current and
soon will have its cars in operation
The Prairie Oil & Gas company last
week posted price of Ga cents per
barrel for crude oil, an increase of 2
cents.
The fourth annual convention OF the
Second District Federation Of Wo-
mems clubs will be held at Geary,
April 1925.
The store OF G. w. Bowman at
Wann, was destroyed by fire. Loss on
building and stock $4,000. The origin
OF the fire is a mystery.
Work is in progress drilling a deep
we'll at Clinton in search of oil or gas.
The outfit is equipped to sink the drill
5000 feet If necessary.
Dan Cayler OF Lawton, aged 16, is
said to be the youngest commercial
traveller in Oklahoma, but in this pre-
dilection is following in the footsteps
OF his father. Dan is selling compress
sors-corsets
Woodward Democrat: Woodward
buyers are paying 60 cents for Eafir
corn, " cents for Indian corn and 81
per hundred pounds for hogs Who
could be pessimistic with such prices
as these prevailing"
w. II. Burford of Wellston, Okla,
was in Guthrie recently making ar
rangements to sell stock in a company
which he has organized to drill for oil
at Falls. S~r. Burford now has more
under lease and expects to have work
started there by the first of next week.
Phillip Ellis, an Oklahoma City
drayman, who stated a few days ago
that he had lived thirty days without
eating or sleeping, was found insane
by the county court, and sent to the
asylum at Norman. Ellis also was un-
der the hallucination that he is pos
Bessed of great wealth.
Alleging that his wife refused to
mend his clothes or cook his meals,
j. l.. Britain filed suit in the superior
court at Oklahoma City, against Mae
Britain for divorce. He alleges that
they were married August g. 1909, and
that for several years past the wifS
has neglected her household duties.
William Hardy, an alleged pickpock-
ct, was arrested at the Reiss Carnival
grounds, Oklahoma City. Former Po-
lice Sergeant j. NJ. Montgomery
brought Hardy to the police station
and preferred a charge against him.
saying that the man had thrust his
hand in his Montgomery pocket.
was placed in jail
Fifteen trainloads OF cattle were
brought into Oklahoma grazing terri
tory by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
traffic department last week from the
big ranches OF Texas The Katys
present movement aggregates $4,000
head and is one of the largest in that
line OF traffic in the history Of the
state. Frisco, Rock Island and Santa
Fe are also moving a large number to
the grazing territory along their lines.
Mangum has organized citizens'
eclub for the discussion Of politico-
economical questions. r. +. Miller is
chairman and Truman Evans secre-
tary
Mico Hario, a grandson OF Chttto
Harjo-"Crazy Snake"-is a chef in
the Carey hotel at Nowata. He does
not believe that his grandfather is
dead. Mico has been offered commits
sion by the government, but is too
proud to accept them. He Is well edu-
Gated and owns 16 acres OF as fine
land as is to be found in the United
States but is lying idle. ell will not
take it until all tho trouble relative TO
his tribe is settled.
The Frisco win have two consolida.
tion points for its Confederate reunion
passenger traffic, namely, Oklahoma
City and Holdenville At Oklahoma
City It will consolidate by special cars