The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, October 8, 1897 Page: 3 of 4
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IN THE NEW COUNTRY.
BRIEF EITS OF GENERAL NEWJj
FROM THE TERRITORIES.
Oklahoma and the Indian Territory witl
Tbolr General and Local Lore.
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORY
The grand jury at Oklahoma City
exonerated the county jailer in the re-
cm t jail break.
The United States jail at South Mc-
Alester ig to be enlarged to nearly
double its present capacity.
After the exhibition of Oklahoma
City's products at Wichita, they will
be sent to Chicago and exhibited.
The only cry of relief atOklahoma
City over Scott's turn-down is: "Well,
Guthrie man didn't get it, anyway."
An explosion took place in the mines
at South McAlester recently. Three
colored miners were badly burned and
will likely die. No damage was done to
the mine.
The wheat yield of the world is 8400,-
000,000 bushels less this year than last,
which accounts for the high price of
wheat, and it is surprising that it is not
Bold lor $2 per bushel, so says the
Chelsea Reporter.
By request of II. 13. Asp. the Santa
Fe company has generously tendered
to the people of Oklahoma a passenger
coach stripped of its seats, thus fitting
it, to be filled with the products of Ok'
lahoma for exhibition. This car will
be placed under the eharg-e of two at-
tendants and hauled free from Guthrie
to Chicago and return. One of the ex-
pressed condition of the company is
"that each county of the territory be
assigned a space in the car for the dis-
play of the products of that county."
A company has been foimcd at Ard-
more called "The Citizens Compress
Company," with a prominent eanitalist
of Rich Hill, Mo., as one of the princi-
pal stockholders. All the details were
fully arranged and steps taken to give
Ardmore a fine compress. Machinery
was ordered by telegraph and will ar-
rive in a short time. Work will begin
at once on the buildings so as to have
them ready. It is1 the intention to
have the institution in running order
by the first of November.
Judge Thomas, of the Indian court,
was visited by a committee of citizens
of Tahlequah who wanted to get a jail
and court house in their town. Among
other thing's the judge said to them:
"I want to tell you at the outset that
there can be nothing stable or perma-
nent in regard to the federal jurisdic-
tion in this country until the question
of Indian government is settled, and as
sure as the sun rises and sets a change
from the tribal governments in the In-
dian territory is inevitable. Nothing
can impede the progress of the events
which are leading to this end."
Chief Mayers has given notice to
sheriffs of the Cherokee nation that a
large amount of walnut timber is be-
ing sold in violation of law. The chief
says: "The only timber that can be
lawfully sold or shipped is down wal-
nut or walnut timber cut for the pur-
pose of placing the land in cultivation,
such timber cut being without a law-
ful enclosure. You are hereby direct-
ed to seize and hold all timber not au-
thorized by law to be sold or shipped
to a non-citizen that you may have
reason to believe is being prepared for
shipment and report the same with
full statement of facts connected there-
with to this office for further instruc-
tions. Should any non-citizen unlaw-
fully cut or remove timber from the
ptiblic domain, you will report him to
the nearest United States commission-
er, furnishing the name of witnesses,
for criminal prosecution."
Coalgate ladies have organized a
musicale.
Shawnee's electric lights flash forth
with much brilliancy.
The Boston store at Tahlequah was
burglarize^ last week and a quantity
of goods stolen.
Oklahoma City has set a good and
timely example in having city prison-
ers clean the streets and alleys,
The Oklahoma City Sash and Door
company has been incorporated by-
Secretary Jenkins. Capital, $(>000. ,
A large force of men under the su-
pervision of Tom Wilson are building a
telephone line from El Reno to Okla-
homa City.
Cotton has done finely during the
week and picking has been pushed as
rapidly as possible. There is much
complaint of lack of laborers for pick-
ing cotton. The middle bolls are open-
ing finely and the yield of the middle
and top crops will depend upon late-
ness of frost. The average date of
first killing frost in Oklahoma is Oc-
tober 15.
At the annual meeting of the Okla-
homa Anti-Ilorne Thief association,
held recent y at Kingfisher, resolu-
tions were passed denouncing the
lynching at Watonga about a year ago.
The report that members of the -asso-
ciation were in the mob is denied.
The next territorial meeting will be
held at Ponca City on the third Wed-
nesday in October, 181I8. The national
association, which was also in session
there, will meet next year in lildon,
la., in September.
Major A. C. Sliarpe has again issued
an order at the instance of the bureau
of Indian affairs in Washington to all
those who lease or rent lands in the
Otoe reservation to vacate their lease,
giving them until noon October to
get all their chattels off the reserva-
tion and warning them not to again
trespass tlicreon under penalty of the
law, which provides SI,000 fine and
imprisonment. There are about twen-
ty-six of these renters involved in this
last order and it will be almost impos-
sible for them to get off within the
time specified..
It has been found necessary to in-
crease the fittings of two of the labora-
tories at the agricultural college to ac-
commodate the increased number of
students in the higher classes who are
trained to do accurate scientific work
along the lines which they have chosen.
The graduates of the college are all
profitably employed; two are assistants
and post-graduate students in well
known eastern colleges, and several
others are engaged in teaching. The
aim and direction of growth of the
college continues to be cowards a thor-
oughly modern scientific education—
one that produces workers rather than
theorists; men who can do things rath-
er than talk about them.
The plant foo.l in a ton of cotton
seed at present prices for such mater-
ials in old cotton growing states is
worth 810. To be sure 110 one would
pay such prices for it here; the above
fact is stated for the purpose of calling
attention to the vicious waste which is
caused by burning seed at the gins, as
is sometimes done. Cotton seed is
worth at least 95 per ton to every farm-
er who expects to continue the growing
of cotton. Its value as a feeder stuff
is fully this amount when properly fed
and it may then Ue remmcd to the soil
to keep up its fertility. Oklahoma has
a soil that is inaryelouslv fertile, but
no soil will produce cotton indefinitely
without a diminished yield unless the
plant food removed by the crop is in
some way returned. The ti me to be-
gin is now. It is much easier to keep
a good soil fertile than to build up fer-
tility when once is is exhausted.
Arapahoe is talking of putting in an
electric light system. The merchants
all want it.
The fair at Chandler was a l 'g suc-
cess, the best ever held off a railroad
in Oklahoma, it is said.
A farmer living near Cloud Chief has
grown a watermelon this season which
weighs exactly one hundred pounds.
The cry for statehood in Oklahoma
is arising and it grows greater every
time a carpet-bagger alights from the
train.
Out of 300 colored children who ought
to be in seiiool iif Guthrie, but 80 are
on hand. The others are at work in
the cotton fields.
Recently at Arapahoe some one start-
ed the rumor that a bank at Kingfisher
had failed and the rumor wont all over
western Oklahoma.
The finding of the coroner's jury at
Pawnee in the Hall murder case is
that Mrs. Fannie Hall was shot and
killed by her husband, Frank w. llall.
The Vinita fair will occur on the 6tli,
7th and 8th of October. Vinita is
the only city in the Indian territory
that holds a fair, and it should be lib-
erally patronized.
The Chelsea Reporter says: "This
talk of the full-bloods selling then-
lands and interests in this country and
moving to Old Mexico should be dis-
countenanced and influence brought to
bear against any such' schemes. It is
the work of a few designing politicians
who have no other object in view but
to profit by the move. The ignorant
full-blood has always been an easy
prey for the wiley ones who begin to
see their pick tigs about to be placed
beyond their reach. So they seek to
lure them to a new and desolate coun-
try where they may still contin tie their
as their dupes.
The Creek warrants representing the
outstanding indebtedness of the Creek
nation has been footed up and amounts
to $35:.',000. The appropriation made
by the United States government to
meet this indebtedness amounts to
8333,000. The Creek nation has its
treasury not otherwise appropriated an
amount sufficient to supplement the
government appropriation and to dis-
charge the entire indebtedness repre-
sented by warrants. This, however,
could not be done without the authori-
ty of the Creek council. If some such
arrangement cannot be made the pro-
babilities are that the warrants will
have to be paid pro rata, out of the
government appropriation as the in-
debtedness exceeds' the government
appropriation by 810,000, says the Mus-
kogee Times.
The Choctaw, Oklahoma A Gulf rail-
road, at the request of I. H. Buxton,
territorial superintendent of health
has issued the following circular of
instructions to its conductors: "Owing
to the presence of yellow fever in the
south, it behooves us, as common car-
riers, to take precaution against car-
rying the dreadful disease into the
country through which we run, and
we, therefore, have to instruct you
that in case you have any passengers
holding tickets irom Louisiana. Missis-
sippi, Alabama or Mississippi river
points ^outh of St. Louis, you will
question them as to any possibility of
their contact with the disease, and in
case there should be any doubt about !
the matter, you will wire this office, so |
that we may have the company's sur- I
geon make an examination at South
McAlester. We have been requested
to also notify I!. I . 11a nilton. of Shaw-
nee. to protect the inti r< ->t of Oklaho-
ma in tiiis matter sn.that, in addition
to wi;-.ng thU office, you will wire the
Agent at Shawnee to notify Dr. Hamil-
ton if the snspeeted passengers are j
destined to Oklahoma points,"
CONDKXSMi) NfciAVS.
The Greek cabinet has resigned.
Ironton, <)., had a $35.1,000 lire.
Bank of Montrose, Co!., failed.
The oleo industry >" on the wane
The Spanish cabinet has resigned.
Colorado's gold output is increasing.
A receiver is asked for Lookout
Mountain town.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland will not en-
tertain this fall.
Uncle Sam is said to be eyeing
Greenland covetously.
Senator Piatt is working for the
pardon of John Y. McKane.
The baseball league championship
for 180? was won by Boston.
Fred D. Warnecke, a Kingfisher,
Okla., banker, hanged himself.
James T. Drummond, millionaire St.
Louis tobacconist, is dead.
Massachusetts Republicans renomi-
nated all the present state officers by
acclamation.
The New York Mail and Epress has
bolted the regular Republican city
ticket.
Rev. J. II. Hill of the Rocky Ford,
Col., M. E. church was kicked out for
immorality.
Charles Noye shot at Morris Gohan
at St. Louis, but the latter's teeth
stopped the bullet.
Proposed anti-gambling and woman
juffrago amendments were defeated in
New Jersey.
Otto Bochlin, a San Antonio cattle
buyer, is sending 10,000 head a month
to Cuba for Spain.
Ex-Congressman Ilosea Townsend
of Colorado has been named as suc-
cessor to the late Judge Kilgore.
Fire in the central power house of
the Capital Traction company at
Washington did 81,000,000 damage.
Rock Island, 111., has at last won in
the fight with Fulton for headquarters
of the Modern Woodmen.
General A. ,T. Warner of Marietta is
a Democratic candidate for senator
from Ohio against Mark Hanna.
Secretary Wilson wants a material
increase in the appropriation for the
bureau of animal industry, the farm-
ers' bulletins and the weather bureau.
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Gilstrap, H. B. & Gilstrap, Effie. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, October 8, 1897, newspaper, October 8, 1897; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc115354/m1/3/: accessed May 14, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.