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: TERIVITOHY TOPICS
Stw Oil Pirn — Work has been
eommenced on tbs gas plant at Guth-
rie It will cost about $80000 ‘
- Tasks Received— -The amount of
taxes paid into the Logan county treaa-
try during January waa$114833
' Thbkk New Fiaus —The El Reno
aommereial elub has been successful In
securing three new wholesale firms
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- A Rkductio! Mill — A company of
Lees Summit Mo will begin work on
a $16000 reduction mill at Roosevelt
Kiowa county -
Deputy Inspector — Horaoe W Shep-
ard of Leger was appointed a deputy
territorial oil inspector to succeed D L
‘ Van Meter resigned
Owe Bor Now Casbikb— Amos
Seaton was elected to be cashier of the
Sao and Fox bank of 8troud Four
ago he was the office toy
Au Wait Place — The Oklahoma
world’s fair commission has applies-
r tions for 600 place at St Louis with
only fire or six places to fill
8ome Wheat Piowkd Up— Some of
the wheat sown land in Washita coun-
ty will be plowed up The dry weather
prevented germination and some “died
back”
r ' Good Roads Meetixo — Februrry so
is the date set for a good roads meet-
' lg of Ksy county people at Feckham
The poll tax problem will also receive
attention
Closes MOntr— Indian Agent Rand-
lett demands that all monte games in
' Lawton be closed during the Indian
payment which is soon to" take place
near the city '
Fob Next Yeas’s Show — Ponca City
- baa already enbscribed $150 in cash
and other premiums for next year’s
show of the Northern Oklahoma Poul-
try association 1
Shale m Caddo— A shale in Caddo
county is promising to turn out a val-
uable product A brick manufacturer
Is investigating this shale with a view
to putting in a plant at Apache
Humphrey Buys Ixtkrkst— S G
Humphrey has recently purchased a
half interest in the El Reno Globe and
the firm conducting will hereafter be
known aa Tadlock A Humphrey
- Valuable Timber— There are mil-
' lions of dollars’ worth of pine in the
Choctaw nation and in the Creek and
Cherokee nations walnut and all the
hard woods are found in such quanti-
ties that the timber on an allotment is
oftentimes worth more than the land
Buildixo Rejected— The normal re-
gents refused to accept the Southwest-
ern normal building at Weatherford
as there several alleged defects in the
equipment of the bnilding and also in
somo of the construction work there
' were defects according to the board's
Judgment The townspeople have been
able to make an agreement 'with the
contractors to go into the building on
February 9 prior to its final accept-
ance Route Selected!— The route for the
Santa Fe extension from Woodward to
Weatherford is being selected by di-
rectors John Morrison and W I) Card-
well and Civil Engineer M’Carthy of
the company recently chartered to
build the line They visited the cities
of Talogs Selling and Lenora in Dewey
county and and made propositions to
the citisrna to build through that local
ity They were received everywhere
with great enthusiasm '
Unexpected Wealth — Mrs Welch!
wife of nenry Welch! and their chil-
dren of Oklahoma City who suffered
from the floods in the Canadian river
last spring has received notice that
she is included in the distribution of
the estate of $7000000 left' by her
uncle Plorian Grose jean of Brooklyn
N Y who left no family and but a
few relatives -
The Well Produces — The well on
the McClasky farm northeast of Ponca
is producing from three to five barrels
of oil a day It was “shot’ a week ago
- Raise Moxkt Ohderm— There is a
gang operating in Oklahoma a slick
game and in a number of towns people
have suffered The game they work Is
falsing small money orders and cash-
ing them after making a Small pur-
chase at the atom:
Locates ik Lawton — W H Ander-
son of Wichita has disposed of his in-
terests in the hank which he has been
connected with resigned his position
aa cashier and will locate la Lawton
where he has fanned a partnership
with Lealie P Rose'
Delinquent Taxes— P C Simona
the new attorney general holds that
all taxes do not become due upon the
first half becoming delinquent ne
says: - 'I construe this law to mean
that the first half of the taxes be-
come due on the 15th day of December
following the asac&inent and the sec-
ond half becomes due on the 15th day
of the following June If the- first
half Is not paid by the third ' Monday
in January following the assessment
of taxes then the same becomes delin-
quert If the second half is not paid
by t ie 15th day of June then they
vill become delinquent on the third
Monday in Jannary following
Will Cloud Title— An Atoka dis-
patch says that whatever the outcome
Of the suit of the M K A T railroad
company to recover alternate sections
along its right of way in Indian Terri-
tory there ia no doubt that the suit
will cloud title to a great deal of land
The city of Muskogee is located on an
alternate section claimed by the rail-
road The case rests upon the
right of congress to grant lands for
which the government had no title to
railroads —
Creeks Adoptions— Captain F B
8evera of Muskogee I T claims to
be the only white pmm now living
ever adopted by the Creek tribe of In
dians As far back aa the Creeks have
records they show the adoption of but
five persons of white blood
Epidemic of Grip — An epldcmie of
the grip is prevalent in the Choctaw
nation Many deaths have been re-i
ported during the last three days In
Ardmore there are 300 cases of the
disease Scores of school children are
ilL ’
New School Brnmxs — The board
of education of Oklahoma City has
passed a resolution asking the city
council to call a special election on the
voting of $50000 for the purpose of
erecting two new school buildings
- Kickapoo Contests— Ex-Atty Gen
Robberts is in Washington to repre-
sent the territory before the interior
department in a contest affecting the
ownership of 100000 acres of Kickapoo
lands contested by £50 settlers
Fouhd Dead — Miss Elsie Small was
found dead In her bed at Muskogee
She was a daughter of ex-Congressmam
Kirkpatrick of Fredonia Kansas It
appears that Mrs Small was addicted
to the use of patent medicines ''
$56 a Head — In this payment every
man woman and child in the Comanche
tribe will receive $56 This money
would qnickly pass to the three card
monte men if the games were not
closed
Chief Pokter Tn ere —Flcasant Por-
ter principal chief of the Cherokees
is in Washington this winter to remain
several weeks to get lntonc)i with the
pending legislation affecting his people-
Quarantine Raised— The depart-
ment of agriculture has made a special
order raising the quarantine on South-
ern cattle in the interest of the Okla-
homa City livestock show: '
C n Wood Resigns — Asst Atty
Gen Wood has resigned to become as-
sistant attorney for the Santa Fe in
the territories under Henry Asp the
genera attorney —
I-ogan IIihii School — Two-thirds of
the students of the Logan county high
school are from other parjiof the coun-
ty the remainder being residents of
Guthrie
Workixo for Statehood— Cole
Younger and Buffalo Jones have
hitched np together on a still hunt for
statehood They are in Washington
Triplets at Fairview— Dr Lind
ley of Fairview reports triplets two
boys and a girl at the home of George
Byfleld and all living
Ketoowars— John West captain of
Indian police retained from the Ke-
toowah district of the Cherokee nation
and reported to the Indian officials at
Muskogee that no danger existed from
this band of Cherokees Those who
hsd collected in the hills hsd moved
front the South Canadian district to es-
cape molestation from white settlers
Avebaoe Rainfall— According to
the reports of the government weather
observers for eleven years past Lincoln
county has had an average annual
rain fall of 53 inches
Richest Coito Lands— The south-
ern half of Oklahoma and Indian Ter-
ritory embrace some of the richest cotton-producing
land in the south' Ok-
lahoma produced 218390 bales in 190£
and about the same in 198 Indian
Territory produced in- excess it la-estimated
of 100000 bales in 1903 and a
somewhat leaa number daring th past
year The acreage for the eoming year
will be largely increased
Oexkkal Maa6k — W
Much Work Goixo ox— Work on tha
water worka and the aewernge systems
of Okmulgee haa commenced and the
total cost of both systems will be 870-
000 ' Work will begin on the publio
school on February 8 Tha cost of
this bnilding will be about 870000
The Okmulgee National bank building
is almost completed and will be one of
the finest bank buildings in the “Twin”
FOR SINGLE STATEHOOD
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SfifitiMHt la CMfrtu S$m$ T$ 1$
la Tl$t 6lr$$tl$a - -
Comforts for Paupers
Inmates of St Asaph workhouse he
Wales poaaeia a pony and phaetoa
piano and a library of over $00 vol-
tUN All are provided by generously
disposed persona in tb district
Why We Grew Old
In answer to the question “Why d
ve grow old?" a medical writer gives
these three reasons: “We do not get
territories the cost of it being $48500 ITHEIR ATSUL’ENTS ARE 6IVEN I
I n— I aiM Kv n
Two three-story office buildings have
just been completed costing $25000
Within four months all these will be
completed-
To DrautValley— The first tnove-
mnt of a plan began this week in the
beginning of the work of draining tle
big bend of the Suit river valley in £he
southern part of Fottswatomie county
Back of the work of reclaiming theae
lands is Oklahoma City capital and I ' Wash!ngtonFeb 6— Out of all the
there are also interested in it capital-1 kFtttion for statehood for Oklahoma
iste from Texas and Mississippi The I wlu probably come from the house
first district to be drained Includes 30- I committee on territories a bill provl-
tint Make ef Th Tw Territories Will
" Mato s Shapely Ceaspael Slat aa
Regards Area It Weeld I
Political Dames
000 seres of as rich bottom I land
there Is in Oklahoma! but which by
reason of overflow has been rendered
unfit for cultivation
Finished in Three Years— Frank
Burford a son of the chief justice of
Oklahoma returned home from com-
pleting a course In the Kansas State
university He was one of the six stu-
dents there who finished a prescribed
course in three and a half years After
visiting home he will enter a Washing-
ton D C law school 1
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Decision Upon Usury— Judge Gill
of the U 8 court at Vinlta has decided
that the law of February 1001 fixing
the limit on interest on notes at 8 per
cent does not provide for forfeiture of
principal and interest when the note is
given for more than 8 per cent hut de-
cides that all interest over 8 per cent is
forfeited
Cowboy Killed— Charles Riley n
cowboy who has ridden In all the rop-
ing tournaments and broncho busting
contests in Oklahoma in recent years
wss killed at Quanah' Texas in a like
contest by being thrown from a horse
end breaking his neck The accident
occurred on the O K ranch
Quanah
Secretary’s Order -Secretary of
the Interior Hitchcock has issued an
order directing the Dawes commission
to Issue no more allotments of land of
Indians who have been accepted by
various tribes Large numbers of
Creeks CherokeesChactaws and Chick-
asaw are affected
Carload of Game— Its contents
were confiscated at Enid The poor of
the city all had quail as ten cases or
1700 of the birds were given to the
poor families The birds sold went at
fifty cents a dozen and all demands
were supplied as the supply exceeded
the demand '
Almost a Paxic— At the' Prairie
home school house near Blackwell
when the program of the literary was
about half completed a lamp hanging
to the ceiling fell with a crash ‘ to the
floor Every one rushed to 'the door
and a panic was narrowly averted
ding for single statehood for Oklaho-
ma and Indian Territory Jointly A
prominent member of the oommlttee
who haa been present at all the hear-
ings and taken deep interest in the
matter as well aa canvassed sentiment
among members of the house expressed
this as bis opinion Said he: “Per-
sonally I am' for separate statehood for
Oklahoma with its present boundaries
and excluding the provisions of the
McGuire bill which allow congress to
annex portions of Indian Territory as
it may see fit -1 shall vote for this
proposition for several reasons suffi-
cient unto myself but I am certain
from what I know of the sentiment
among other members of the commit-
tee that that proposition will be de-
feated Sentiment is for statehood for
the combined territories which will
make a shapely compact state as re-
gards area and boundaries and when I
am out voted I shall support that sort
of a measure if there is statehood leg-
islation at this session of congress I
believe that Oklahoma will be the ter-
ritory admitted together with Indian
Teritory as one state There ia this
objection to the McGuire bilL If it
were left optional for congress to take
in a portion of the Indian Territory
when it felt so disposed a democratic
congress might odd one of the Indian'
nations The next republican congress
might add another Indian nation in
order to make the state republican
and so on It would be a political see-
saw game until all of Indian Territory
was absorbed”
air we are poisoned by microbe
wnlch the scientists have not succeed-
ed' a destroying and we are de-
pressed by fear of death“
m— rate n i A 4
- ' Somewhat Ambiguous -
“My dear fellow" said Brown to hi '
friend Jones who was bespeaking hit
attendance at Smith’s funeral "I never
go to ceremonials of this description '
unless I have loved and liked the
man through life This invitation 1
must therefore decline If It were
you about to be burled I' would go
with pleasure" -
- Danish Bacon Factories '
Danish cooperative bacon factories
I now have about 65000 members and
I last year they killed 636000 pigs and
1 20000 head of cattle amounting In
money to $10670000 The price re-
ceived for bacon in the English mar-
ket averaged 4 cents a pound above
the-average price for bacon from'
other countries '
Fire Caused by Snow
A snowstorm started a fire on the
premises of a farmer living at Hebu-
terne Belgium He placed a quanti-
ty of quicklime near a shed -on bin
farm and left Jt there all night Ia
the course of the night snow fell on
to the lime end the heat thus devel-
oped became so great that it set tho'
shed on lire completely destroying '
it and its contents
What Ice Will Bear ' ’ '
It la said that two-inch Ice win sus-
tain a man or a regiment of properly
spaced Infantry four-inch ‘ ice will
carry a man on horseback n squad-
ron of cavalry or light guns aix-ineb '
Ice heavy Held guns such as eighty -pounders
eight-inch-ice a battery of K
artillery with carriages and - horses
but not over on thousand pounds a
square foot on sledges ten-inch ice '
will sustain an army while on fifteen-
inch ice a railway can be built and -operated
Tact is the art of
to do
knowing what not
JaptwM Going Bans
St Petersburg Feb 8— The Japan-
ese are fleeing panie stricken eablee a
Vladivostock correspondent and “Ja-
panese storekeepers are sacrificing all
their possessions in their haste to
escape to Japan Cases of oranges are
selling at five cents and furniture la
being literally given away They are
practically raining themselves in their
hurry to get away before the outbreak
of war”
Ovay fiwoot rnrles fin rhflillaw
Suooeaafully used by Mother Gray nurse -in
th Children's Homs in New York cure
Constipation Feverishness Bad Stomach
Teething Disorder move end regulate the
Bowel and Destroy Worms Over 30000 tes-
timonials At all Druggists He Sample
FBKE Address A 8 Olmsted LeRoyJIY
The stuff that strengthens a man’s
breath weakens hie intellect -
HEW PENSION LAWS EfI
Apply te MATH AN BICKFORD 91 W a
Washington II t
fln Egg Tostcr Froo
' Aleak Bill Reported
Washington ' Feb 8 — Too senate I
oommittee authorized a favorable re-
Bonds of Woodward — Mayor Ap-1 port on the bill to provide for the
P Homan
haa bedn made general manager of the
fit Louis El Reno 4b Oklahoma road
pelget of Woodward has consulted
Judge Greene at Guthrie who approved
the legality of the bond issue of 844000
for a water works system at Woodward
This action closes the contract
Black Oii — From Keller it is re-
ported that a flow of black oil was
struck at a depth of seventy-five feet
After drilling to a depth of 140 feet a
white oil was discharged The oil is
said to lie of good quality
Mas Sidney Clarke— In hisabsenee
from his home in Oklahoma City his
wife pora Gode Clarke
Eastern Star— A chapter of the
Eastern Star haa been organized at
Hobart
— It
Endorse Single Statehood —The
Ardmore Democratic flnb perhaps the
strongest in Indian Territory at a
meeting indorsed single statehood or
union with Oklahoma on terms of ab-
solute equality The plan to ' admit
the Creek' and Semlnold nations aa a
part of Oklahoma waa condemned
Womans’ Relief Corps'— Mrs Net-
tle J Ilornadsy drprrtment press cor-
respondent of the W It C of Oklaho-
ma reports 6 corpsn the department
with continually increasing member-
ship Pistol Fell From Pocket— Ben J
fligliee city marshal of Coyle O T
and assistant cashier of the Cimarroo
Valley bank of that city was fatally
injured by the accidental discharge of
his revolver which fell from his trouser
pocket w hlle he wee engaged in a
friendly aeufllle '
French Bkinstatkd — Secretary
Morris of tha Oklahoma Livestock as-
sociation failed to find any irregu’arl-
ties which were charged against A G
French The secretary haa reinstated
Mr French
construction of roads in Alaska for the
maintenance of such roads and for the j
support of insane and destitute per-
sons in the territory
Iowa Farmer Robbed
Des Moines Iowa Feb 8 — Two
masked men bonnd and gagged Fred
Snyder a farmer residing near Clive
and secured $1500 proceeds of a live-
stock sale The money waa drawn
from the bank to meet an obligation
due '
Bsttleeblps For Jayu '
London Feb 8-— Vickers Maxim 4k
Armstrong have received formal orders
to expedite the construction of two
new battleships for Japan
Silk Mill Maremt
Paterson N J Feb 3— Fire started
by the explosion of chemicals In the
large silk mill of Ashley 4k Bailey de-
troyed the entire plant Loss $150-
000 - '
8(4 Wheat Hit Delist Mark
Chicago Feb ( — Cash No I red
wheat sold on the board of trade at
$100 a bushel two cor loads changing
hands at that price The wheat was j
bought by miller Wheat has not
aoid so high in this - market either for
spot or future delivery since June
1898 when the Lei ter deal culminated
The high prices being paid at Chicago
are tho direct result of tha big deal In
May wheat being engineerd by Armour
St si Wsvba Oats Was
Philadelphia Feb'S— A general re-
d action of wages went into effect on
on the first at the Midvale steel works
affecting 3500 employes The decrease
is graded accordingly to tha wages
reoeivsd and range from $ to M cento
a day Th congested labor market
and over production ’art said to have
sanad tho redactions -
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