The Taloga Advocate. (Taloga, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1903 Page: 4 of 8
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THE TALOGA ADVOCATE
no A CUH Pafe
TALOGA OKLA
TERRITOttY TOPICS
Commercial Club — Officers are
elected for the Clintou commercial dub
General Mile& — He is spending a
short time nt Fori Reno visiting his
friend Colonel Mans
IIoosiers’ Reunion — The IIoosiers
of Quthrio have made arrangements
for their second annual reunion to bo
held on October 17
Otoe Annuity— Hugh M Noble
bonded superintendent of the Otoe In-
dians lias completed a $25000 annuity
payment to that tribe
Paving Brick — Thirty carloads of
brick are now in sight for paving in
Guthrie The work lias been delayed
by the delay in procuring material
Steel Bridges— Four steel' bridges
are to be built in one of the commis-
sioners’ districts of Lincoln county
The contract goes to a Texas man for
82678
Assayed at Denver — Returns from
the carload of ore sent to Denver have
been received The ore assayed $1180
to the ton The car took eighteen tons
of ore
Indians Decrease — Recent reports
received in official circles bIiow that
there has been a great decrease in the
Indian population of Oklahoma during
the past year
No Waterworks — Hobort’s second
attempt to issue water works bonds
lias ended in failure ' Attorneys hav-
ing giving an opinion that the bonds
cannot be legally issued
Bridge Near Ingebsoll— A con-
tract lias been made for the county
bridge across Salt Fork The town is
to expend $1000 in improving the
roads leading to the bridge
All Smiths — Lamout O T togeth-
er with the two newest townships lias
63 families named Smith " Hon Sid
Clark was received at Lament by a
committee of eleven men ull named
Smith
Trains on Katy Branch— Regular
passenger trains have been put on the
Missouri Kansas & Oklahoma branch
of the Missouri Kunsas & Texas
railway between Muskogee and Osage
Junction
After Oil Leases— A great many
oil men from the East are arriving in
Indian Territory now and ’looking
about for leases which ' they have de-
cided there is a disposition an the part
of the secretary of the interior to grant
Loyal Creeks — There are perhaps
200 of the original “loyal Creeks” now
living to participate in their own right
in tiic distribution of $510000 the
rolls for which payment are now being
made up Of tlio other 1300 claims
the distribution will be made To the
heirs of the original claimants
Coursing Meet— Tho Waterloo and
American Derby coursing meet will be
lieid in Oklahoma City October 31 to
November 4 R J Riley- of San Fran-
cisco Cal lias been scoured us judge
and John Eaton of St Louis as start-
er Already there are thirty-four en-
tries eight being from California
Her Money Blew Away — Miss
Henrietta Jones went to a bunk at
El Reno and drew $315 to pay for
making final proof of her homestead
entry- After she had left the bank
she missed her purse and the money
Returning to ttie bunk to make search
she found that she liad dropped the
purse and money in front of the bank
and that the wind had scattered the
hills By diligent search she recovered
$135 of the $215
Shawnee's Prospects — A big Chi-
cago Packing house deBires a western
location Oklahoma preferred and on
the Rock Island system ’ The officials
of the Rock Island have recommended
Shawnee as an advantageous point
The Rock Island officials state -that
the packing house ' will have a dally
capacity of 200 head of livestock with
a forty-ton ice plant and a cold storage
house Cotton seed feed which is
abundant at Shuwnec is a factor
Citizenship Commission Abolished
— The lower house of ’the Chi-ihusaw
legislature has passed a hill abolish-
ing tne Chickasaw citizenship commis-
sion The commission was created
several years ago to assist the Dawes
commission in the making of the Chick-
asaw roll and to iurd against un-
scrupulous persons being admitted to
citizenship I
Farmers’ Picnic— A regular featuro
of tho farmers’ institute of Comanche
county is an annual picnic This week
it is held in tho woods just east of
Lawton Among the speakers an-
nounced are John Fields of the agri-
cultural experiment station and J B
Thoburn seerctnry of the territorial
board of agriculture
Fine Soft Wheat— Four years ago
Steve Patrick of Blaine county found
some heads of soft wheat shelled them
by hand securing ubont a pint Thw
he sowed by itself saving the succeed-
ing crops until now lie has 573 bushels
of fine soft wheat It is ten days ear-
lier than hard wheat and an abundant
yielder
Gone to Denver — The members of
the Oklahoma sanitary commission —
President W E Bolton Secretary
Thos Morris and Peter A Becker—
went to Denver Colo to attend a
meeting of the Interstate association
of Quarantine Boards ' The associa-
tion convened on tho 22nd -
To Assist Bonaparte— A Washing-
ton dispatch says Secretary Hitchcock
has selected S J O’Fallon who has
been in the Indian service but a short
time a Missourian io assist (X J Bona-
parte in his work of investigating the
Dawes commission and the Indian Ter-
ritory scandals '
Cattleman Convicted — S B Pope
was convicted before the probate court
and fined $200 for violation of quaran-
tine laws having driven cattle from
the Otoe reservation into Noble county
without inspection
Harvesting Potatoes — Farmers
about Perry have begun digging tiieir
potatoes The upland potatoes are un-
usually good und are yielding as high
250 bushels per acre
Perry Wants Another— Since Per-
ry has secured a branch of the Frisco a
big effori is being made to get the Mis-
souri Pacific into the town
Broom Corn — Woodward firms are
paying $65 to $75 a ton for broom corn
and ure buying that product by the
hundreds of loads
'
A $500000 Bridge— The Santa Fe is
bridging tiie Arkansas river near Kaw
City which it is said will cost a half
million dollars
Waurika ' News Sold — Tom P Fry
lias sold tho Comanche County News nt
Waurika to J L Morgan and D E
Ackerman
A Two Weeks’ Court— Greer county
is to have a two weeks’ court in Octo-
ber Tho program was for only one
week
Parks and Shade Trees— Many
Oklahoma towns arc wide awake to se-
cure paries und to plant shade trues
A German SonooL— The Lutherans
are to' start a German school in Nnr-
din Kay count’
School in Church— Tiie schools of
Alva are so crowded that a cluircli is
to be used
Was a Pioneer —G M Shaver reg-
ister of deeds of Kay county who died
at Newkirk of heart failure was one
of tiie pioneers of ICay’ county lie hav-
ing located on a claim on September
16 1803 coming to Oklahoma from
Lincoln county Kansas - He uftcr-
wards engaged in tho newspaper busi-
ness at Ponca City where lie edited
and published the Tomahawk Mr
Shaver was a taleutcd writer a largo
number of his poems having appeared
in leading magazines
Crops Without Bain— The manager
of tho Pcukliaiu ranch near Snyder
has roasting ears the corn being plant-
ed in June mid growing without more
than just bare showers which laid the
dust He says that after’ stirring tit 3
ground in the ordinary way I10 sub-
soiled to a deptli of nine inches und
then planted corn Ho says that with
this method sufficient moisture can be
stored in the ground to grow crops
without rain
Improvement Bonds— At a special
election held ut Chicknshu for the pur-
poso of voting bonds for a watervt orks
and sewerage system the proposition
was carried by a two-tliirds majority
The amount of the bonds will be $75-
000 - ’
Buildings For Otoes— O F Krcclc
of Ponca City has the contract for
building the hew Indian school build-
ing water works and sewer system at
the Otoe Indian boarding school in
Oklahoma Ills bid was $24930
To Go to Fort Riley— Governor
Ferguson lius named Major E II
Jayne of Edmond First regiment O
N O ns tho accredited representative
of tiie Oklahoma militia at Fort Riley
With One Power House— One cen-
tra) power house will f urn isii power
for the Intel-urban line and the street
railroad systems at Oklahoma City and
Guthrie
Was Sheriff Titere— Secretary and
Mrs Wm Grimes are spending three
weeks visiting their old home in Ne-
braska where he was once sheriff
New U S Commissiofer— James
Edwin Kelly of tlio El Dorado O T
Courier has been nominated as United
Slates commissioner at that place
Clearing House Report — Tiie re-
port of the Guthrie clearing house as-
sociation shows the bank clearings for
last week to be $716696 -
Confidence Game— Frank Snyder
C C Owens aud F IX Wilson are under
arrest for working a confidence game
at South McAlestcr ’
Foil A Parsonage— Tiie first Pres-
byterian church of Ardmore lius com-
menced a movement to build a sub-
stantial parsonage
Teacher Plants Fruit— Miss Geor-
gia Sheldon a teacher in the Lawton
schools proposes to plant forty acres
of fruit tills full
Increased Pay— The Choctaw road
lias increased the pay of machinists in
the shops at Shawnee from 33 cents to
35 cents an hour ' '
Telephone Exchange— Cheyenne
Roger -Mills county lius added a tele-
phone exchange to her 1903 improve-
ments Ben fro w Will Try Oil— A coating
of crude oil is to be put on the streets
of Renfrew in the spring
Electrical Storm — It occurcd in
tho vicinity of Meeker und consider-
able damage was doue
Hobart Still Building— It is said
that there are 31 brick buildings now
under construction
Street Railway— Work commenced
on September 23 on tiie Guthrie street
railway '
Want Hands— There is a shortage
of hands to seed broomcorn around
Aline ’ " ‘
Poles Ark Set— For the telephone
line from Garber to Covington
' Novyia tlio t'uie to order Hyacinths
Tulips Narcissus and Chinese Sacred
Lillies ’ Cut Flowers and Plants
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Clem, John A. The Taloga Advocate. (Taloga, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1903, newspaper, October 8, 1903; Taloga, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1916384/m1/4/?q=music: accessed July 1, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.