You Alls Doins. (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, April 19, 1901 Page: 1 of 8
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LEXINGTON,© KLAff OKAE
VOLUME 3.
FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1901.
NUMBER b
NO HORSE RACE.
JENKINS FOR GOVERNOi?.
There will be no opportunity for the
commission of any fraud upon the ~ ~
government and the rights of appli Secretary W. M. Jenkins to he The
cant* will be safeguarded at every j Governor of Oklahoma After
etage of the preceeding. If through j May 17th, 1901.
death, neglect, attempt, transfer or i Washington, D. C , April 10.—It
otherwise, a registered applicant's ! wiH be GoVBrnor Jenkin J. This is
rights to select is lost, it will not op I ,he QesV8 giveM out last ni{,|lt for
erate to the advantage of any other
j particular applicant but will advance
all registered applicants holding
subsequent numbers. There will be
absolute equity of opportunity among
the applicants, and those who are
Suecesful in the drawing will be able
to act understanding^ iu selecting
laud. Large maps showing each
quarter section will be posted at the
land office showing at all times the
lands selected and uuselected, and
Oklahoma. After a long conference
yesterday among the Oklahoma man
here, the following centered on Jen-
kins and the matter was presented to
President McKinley. The indorse-
ment of Jenkins included that of
Joe McNeal and as soon as this was
gained the result was good as con-
sumated.
It will be Governor Jenkins of
Oklahoma from May 17th for four
i vears. The selection of Jenkins is
small mapa will be distributed which | practically a per80nili „ne 0f the
will materially assist applicants in
noting other selections and in niak
ing their own.
Permitting the applicant to make
his own selection from all the lands
Old Fashioned Opening Method to
Be Abandoned.—Lottery Plan
In F avor.
Washington, D. C., April 13th.—
The method of disposingof the land
of the Kiowa and Wichita •• Indian
reservations in Oklahoma, soon to be
opened to homestead entry is receiv-
ing most careful attention from the
interior department. Desirable lauds
subject to disposition under the
homestead law can no longer be
found in large quantities, except
when an Indian reservation is opened
and they are eagerly sought. So
many inquiries are made about the
Kiowa and Wichita lands that it is
manifest that there will be several
times as many applicants as there
are tracts.
The Wichita reservation will be j
embraced with a separate land dis- j
trict, with a land office at El Reno, j
Deducting the lands allotted to In-
dians and reserved for school pur |
poses, there will be 3,122 tracts of
160 acres each to be disposed of to
homestead. This is fine land but
some of it is not of sufficient value to
justify complying with the home
stead law to obtain title to it.
The highest number of homestead
claims which could be taken in the
two reservations, even if all of the
lauds were desirable, is 13,473. The
indications are that there will lei Oklahoma Mining Company
easily 40,000 applicants. There are j The secretary Tuesday issued a j McKinley was in 1890 elected presi-1
not enough lauds for all. The two charter to the Orient Mining,Milling ' dent, Jenkins had moved to Kay j
j ind Development company which | county, Oklahoma. He at once en-(
for the governorship J
The Minneapolis in- \
Committee Meets Co. Commissioners
The committee selected to petitiou
the couuty commissioners to call an
election to establish a couuty high
school and, if possible, to get it lo
cated at Lexington, met the com
missiouers in the county clerk's of-
fice Tuesday afternoon. Though the
commissioners were not in legal
session they considered the advisa
bility of calling such an election and
will meet iu special session on the
20th of this month, at which time
TERRITORIAL NOTES-
presidents'. In 1888 Jenkins was a
republican delegate to the national
convention at Minneapolis,' which j
was to nominate Benjamin Harrison.
Jenkins was in the Kansas delega-
tion as a Third district representative
will enable him to choose land suit- j am, came from Chautauqua county,
able for his purpose, whether that be [n (1Q ear]y day) he had lived in
growing grain, cotton, fruit or live gtark COU£)ty 0hi0) aud when Le ap
! at that, time
remaining uuselected
choose land suit-
,, |Cease, J. M. Mitchell, E. Duffy and
Sil0l-K- peared on the scene at Minneapolis,.
As before stated, the plan here K djd gQ ;Q a picturesque way. He " " ''r' '
outlined has not been adopted, but it insisted ou casting „ sjngje vete for
is under actual consideration and I wiUiam McKiuley of Ohio, who was (
seems to commend itself to the of caudjdHte before the conveu-
ficers of the department more strong ^jon McKiuley sent his Kansas
ly than an> other. admirer word to quit. But Jeukinsi
kept it up, ballot after ballot. When
Items of Interest From Our iva,-
changes About Oklahoma at*l
the Indian Territory.
The Bliss Breeze says that Kamj..-
well is noted for good whiskey mjmS
beautiful wemeu.
The controversy as to who "Shf
most beautiful woman iu Okhibim**
goes merrily on.
The Tecumseh Republican*
they will take some definite steps in ' that no one wants a city office- f i«
ihe matter. I that some one must be sacrifice*?,.
The Ralston Free Press draeayJii*-
lly inquiries how many plain-
does it take to tnake a man moral!
Oklahoma City Knights of I'yikinK
will build a handsome new buiMntsr
for lodge and rental purposes to
$30,000.
Three carloads of cedar logs ntw
shipped from Oklahoma recently it.'
a pencil factory in Germany.
he Choctaw railroad is buiTdSwg*
its telegraph line and is laying'
town sites on the line of its extetBS«wu
toward Texas.
Wheu a home seekers' exsirr? roTi
after j strikes an Oklahoma town the liie?/ -
the school and several gentlemen j men have to telegraph to neigblx*--
frotn that town were present at Tues- towns for vehicles.
It is about time for somebody
The committee on finance report ^iu building canneries in Oklahi . i_
the following subscriptions toward j to take care of the coming fruit lawii-
paying the necessary expenses iu- ; vegetable crops.
| cur red by different committees: j A , .g ppairie firo js repor,e(J fr(„,
\\ \ nti( Bros., 10. Woodward county, which btimeti «JJ
A question arose with the "com
missioners as to whether the law
contemplates the naming of one
place, or location, for a high school,
or whether several places, and locate
the school at the place receiving the
highest number of votes. The com-
missioners decided to secure Attorney
General J. C. Strang's opinion on
this question, if possible, before the
date of their special session.
The following Lexington parties]
presented our claims for this institu-
tion before the commissioners: Jay
Sherman, T. D. Williams, Frank P.
reservations may be op-ned
tame time, hut the opening of each J hied articles uf incorporation. The terwl the ra©
will be separately conducted as if! purposes are to conduct a complete j of Oklahoma
they were a thousand miles apart
unuing business anil to erect mills jcident was recalled to the president
and mining aparatus for such pur- and Mr. Jenkins had a very warm
pose. The principal place of busi- friend at the W bite house.
uess is Oklahoma City. The capi- | However, President McKinley was
tal stock is $000,000. The directors | not ready to appoint an inexpe:'.cnc-
are: J. P. R-mshaw, Enid; J. R. ed man although so deserving (f re-
reservation must not be later than | Eckles, Enid; J.L.Randall, Kan j ward to as responsible a place as
sas City; R. L. Colbert. Oklahoma , governor. He resolved to try Mr.
City; G. D. Grav. Oklahoma City. Jenkins' executive capacity, with the
Wheat Alive Wi'Ji Lice. jt is 8Hid-that ,n CHse be was
Guthrie, O T., April lSth.-The-| e,ected> he m,ght be able to 8ive
The law does not require them to be
opened at the same time, but to do
so will divide the crowd of applicants
and simplify the task of the laud
officers. The opening of the Kiowa
August 0 of the present year, and it
will take until near that time to
complete the allotments of the In-
dians.
None of these lands can be ob-
his lone Minneapolis champion of
the Okla
green plant louse which is working
tained aB free homes. They must be 0n the wheat iu Oklahoma is causing Pr'ze eoveted,
paid for at the rate of $1.25 per acre more damage than most people sup- homa governorship. So Jen ius was
at the time of submitting final proof.! pjse. Tufts ol wheat were taken out | appointed secretary of the teritory
The law also requires five years
actual residence, cultivation aud im
provement, except that honorably
discharged soldiers are given credit
for the time of their service iu the
army.
The two reservations will be open-
ed by proclamation by the President
and a recent act of congress declares
of wheat fields in the Cottonwood As long ago as February last, it was
bottom and without exception the known to the Oklahoma cont.ngent
stalks are fairly alive with the lice. I that the president would like to see |
Iu some fields the louse has done! his «ay clear to the appointment of
more damage than others, but if thejJeuk'ua ^or go\ernor. This time
k there is I matters favored this some. Jenkins
lice coutiutte their wort
was neither a Barues or a territorial
damage will be done.
The wheat is growing splendidly
hardly any question but what much
j organization man, the two factious
which have fought so long. See-
that "to avoid the coutests and con- I and is up to the equal of past )ears, j retary of the interior Hitcheoek was
dieting claims which have heretofore ; but it remains to be seeu w hat dam-1 opposed to the appoiotment of Barm s
resulted from opening similar public | age the plant louse will do.
lands," the proclamation shall pre
scribe the manner in which these
lands are to be settled upon, occu-
pied and entered, and that no person
shall settle upon, occupy or enter
them except as prescribed in the
proclamation uutil after the expira-
tion of sixty days from the opening.
No one will be permitted to elTeet
a settlement uutil after he has se-
lected his land and made entry. It
will not be possible to have more
thau one claimant for the same tract,
and every claimant, after making se
lection and entry will have full as-
surance that he honestly complies
with the homestead law he will re-
ceive full title to the land. He will
James Bros , 10 00
E.J. Keller, 10.00
Chas. Greemore, !.. u.OO
E. M Abernathy, <>.00
S C. Hawk, 5 00
Farmers Bank, 5.(H)
J. S. Little 6.00
J. M. Massev,.. 2.50
Marcum & Stovull, 2.->0
L. T. Smith 2.50
M. N. Moseley, 2 .>0
J. C. Dowdy, 2.50
N. Turk, 2.50
J. N Smith! 1.00
A. Hutchiu, L00
A.B.Alexander, LOO
J. D- Lydick LOO
N. E. Sharp, 1.00
R. N. Maxwell, LOO
S. B. Pautier, 100
J. C. Sprowls LOO
A. B. Honnold, 1 00
E. Peters LOO
C. H. Robinsou, 50
Total $85.50
Saturday, Sunday and Monwferr -
^ Much property was destroyed.
The Rock Island railroad is ,wt utj;
a track laying machine on its exifcsj-
' sion between Liberal, Ivas., am2 C*
' Paso, Tex. It handles the ties. leurJ
| rails, aud three of road is cotnj>]«Hf«?
' per day.
The small towns along the bomf^-rn
I of Kiowa county have double \hriy
population iu the last weeks. 11 *r
people are gathering along the boni-
er to make the run which will arrar
iu July or August.
In handing down an opinion
! iu regard to lotteries, Judge Bui
| said that the laws of Oklahoma* me*-
j very strict and that they apply 1x>
j church drawings jinst the same vm ii>
I other lotteries. Say, it would t*- «*
joke ou the church folks if tbfr-y
: should be called upon, the carpel finr
| running a lottery.—Watonga 15 -
j publican.
R >bt. Critcher, who has bean qui**
1 sick, is convalescent.
Dr. B. F. Nisbett Eh* itwu
* .
This gave Mr. Jenkins his opportuni
A well known farmer said: "My I ty, «s he had the friendship of the
wheat fields are infested bv what is ! territorial organization the endorse-
known as the plant louse. I have of Mr. McNeal cleared the way for
made an examination of the field aud ^'IU-
find them all over the wheat. I do | District Court.
not know what will counteract the! District court convened at Norman
evil, but if the louse does as much ; Tuesday afteruoen, but adjourned at
, . i • t „ I noon Wednesday until next Monday,
damage as many people c aim, I am ^ q( ^ of Judge c
afraid that the Oklahoma farmers are p, Irwiu, The term will probably
up against it this yerr. I have not ,ast three weakB> There are only
lost hope, however, but I am anxious fiy(j prigouer(j iu the county jail at
to find out how much damage the l)resent
plant louse will do." | T . " ! , , , . .
r j J. J. Sparks, of Ardmore, who is
visiting his uncle, W. E. Glenn, was
severely injured by being kicked on
Attend the mass meeting at Kellers
hall tonight.
Mrs. Geo. Shenecker, Thursday
moruiug recieved a large shipment of
not have to cope with an adverse"Up-to-date spring and summer head
claimant or meet a vexatious contest.
Married.
Prof. R. R. Tallev, of Oklahoma j
City and Miss Margart E. Smith, of
Purcell, were married last Sunday
afternoon, at the residence of Mrs. yesterday on his way taGuttnie. .
Anna O. Blanchard, in Purcell Rev. Mrs. Minnie DeRtussey'returned
E.W. Holler performed the ceremouy. j her houie at D tllas, T^x , S ititr
The groom is territorial agent for | Henry Cossey, of.B )x, spent a Vwr
the Oliver Typewriter Co., and is |days iu Lexington■ with his brotbf-rr
well Known all over Oklahoma. The : Charley.
bride has made her home in Purcell j ^frs JJcKeanil is stilVu i iiii.
for several years, and an estimable j attend Co her postoffije dutit
lady. j account of illness.
I have just received the swellest j> ^ Mvers has about rieov^u-^
and most up-to-date liue of Ladies. (froul a severe attack of pneuuauiiiw-
Misses and Childrens' street hats Died_VIrs. SaraU Scottj: ivit « '
ever shown in Lexington, and will | Wm Seott( at her ho|nr IIortb 4>J
sell them cheaper than any one in Lexington Ust Tuesday, afk-r a Ixw!
town. Call. nd look aud be eon | j||ne5Si Funeral services were inr-Vr
the kuee by a horse, while at Norman
last week. Mr. Sparks is being
treated, at the Texas House, by Drs.
Smith and Thacker.
viuced that I have been here long
enough to know just what the people
want. I have the most stylish trim-
med hate iu town at all times. Yours
for good goods aud low prices.
Mas. Geo. Scheneckeb.
at Shiloh, Wednesday a fee-roam -s.r>-
ducted by Rev. Pipkins. The i* -
mains were interred itiii'v* >Sbifc-«b
grave yard.
Y*AiiLS-for fine job printing
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