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JWWWWWWVWWWVVVV? i OKLAHOMA and I INDIAN Tp erritory Topics. APPENINGS it Wynnewood expects to handle 25,000 bales of cotton this year. Willis Hampton, of Bartlesville, is showing forty ears of corn which weigh 49 pounds. Pauls Valley voted on single statehood and carried that proposition by a vote of 284 to 77. A mail carrier from Davis to Homer, was arrested with 28 quarts of whisky in his conveyance.

The Choctaw council has passed an act prohibiting non-citizens from cutting hay in their reservation. The statehood convention for Indian Territory and Oklahoma is to be called to meet at South McAlester, December 10. The Choctaws fully recognize the approaching change to statehood and are now inclined to hasten the allotments. G. W.

Aaron, of Minco, has created quite an excitement over a copper mine it is reported that he has found near Granite. Cattle in Indian Territory arc reported in fine condition the grass being much better than usual at this time of the 3rear. A mill at Chiekasha sold a carload of its flour at Fort Worth, Texas, in competition with Fillaburys Best, of Minneapolis. Lantry Brothers have taken a contract to extend the grading of the Sapid pa line of the Frisco 200 miles farther into Texas. John Watts, of a prominent Muskogee family, was shot lyr Thos.

Owens, city attorney. Both are young men. Owens claims self defense. -It is said that the Frisco line has purchased a piece of road running from Rogers, Arkansas, to Grove, I. where it connects with the Frisco system.

John Horton the man who assaulted the Choctaw agent at Choctaw City, has been identified as one of a gang that is wanted for an atrocious murder of an old man in Yell county, Arkansas. People the Arkansas river as far as Tulsa, I. will be visited by a party of Kansas sportsmen, who will float down the river from the Kansas line. They go in a boat comfortably constructed. The Cherokee legislature elected the following officers: D.

E. Ward, member of the board of education; Dr. Patton, medical superintendent of the Cherokee orphan asylum; Dr. C. M.

Ross, medical superintendent Cherokee high high school. A special committee has filed a report to the Cherokee legislature of their investigation of the alleged irregularities of the Cherokee auditors oflice. The report show's, it is said, that $194,000 in fraudulent national warrants have been issued and are afloat. The Choctaw having named rates of $9 one way and fourteen dollars for the round trip from Memphis to points on its line in the Indian Territory, and $12 one way and $17 for the round trip to points in Oklahoma, tickets to be sold November 13, 20 and 27, other interested lines will meet these rates, applying them only in the prescribed territory. Immigrants are pouring into Indian Territory from many states.

They are in search of homes. Many are there to be ready for the opening of the Kiowa and Comanche country, while others believe they can secure homes in the territory, as a result of the abolition of tribal relations and the allotment of lands. Others are getting in early so as to capture business Mayor Ross of Wichita will not permit a prize fight there. The Reading state bank, of Reading has commenced business with a capital of $12,000. The Rock Island management has decided to establish a new eating house at Wichita.

The Reno county court house is ready for the roof and five vaults have been contracted for. Representative W. C. Millar, of Barber county, was defeated for re-election by two votes. Chancellor Snow has had his leave of absence from Kansas university extended to one year.

J. F. Todd, formerly labor commissioner of Kansas, was elected to the lower house in Oklahoma. Some farmers are mowing their wheat to prevent its jointing. This experiment will be watched.

General J. K. Hudson and Ex-Governor John P. St. John, are both handling mines at Versailles, Mo.

The manager of the Southwestern peanut butter company says he has decided to open a factory in Wichita. Old soldiers at the Leavenworth Home use 180 ounces of coffee and 100 ounces of tobacco to each man during a year. D. B. Dyer, of Smith Center, was the first announced candidate for sergeant-at-anns of the house of representatives.

The Missouri Pacific has donated ten more carloads of crushed rock for the driveways in Riverside Park, in Wichita. C. n. Dietrich, of Hastings, and who is probably elected governor of that state, is the son of an Atchison shoemaker. Residents of Western Kansas would be happy if they could buy coal at prices which Leavenworth people consider outrageous.

It stands between Superintendent Nelson and Treasurer Grimes who of the candidates on the elected state ticket received the most votes. John Washberger, of Edgerton wa3 watching a steam shovel work and to keep out of its way stepped in front of a passenger train and was killed. It is estimated from incomplete returns that about 123,000 votes were cast for the judicial amendment of which three-fourths were in its favor. Alvin Williams was elected county county commissioner of Osborne county. Although he died at noon on election day the people kept right on voting for him.

The enrollment of children in public schools of Kansas during the past year was an increase of 9,830. WTy-andotte leads with Shawnee second, Cherokee third and Sedgwick fourth. Probably the oldest house in Kansas was built in Ivickapoo in 1834 by the Catholics for a mission school. Governor Reeder, first territorial governor of Kansas, used it as his office; later it was occupied as the first U. S.

land office in Kansas. It is still standing. The Kansas Millers association at the session in Wichita empowered B. Wlirkentine, of Newton, to arrange for the importation of Crimean hard wheat for seed. The idea is to place a car of the wheat in every county of the wheat belt.

The price of floui was not discussed at the meeting. The new law names May 1 as the date when county school superintendents enter upon their office. This leaves from January until May, a space of about 4 months, for which county commissioners will name superintendents. It is probable that all who were elected for the coming term will be ap pointed to fill the places during the in theiTV Sunflower TATE. Vir Saline county voted to build a new county jail.

Thirteen insurance companies have state agents in Topeka. There are 17,263 children of school age in Shawnee county. They are figuring on the cost of brick paving at Troy, Doniphan county. The Rock Island has put on a new daily passenger train between Newton and Chiekasha. A.

W. Puckett of Republic, raised 248 pounds of pumpkins on one vine. One pumpkin weighs 86 pounds. Near Conway Springs there is a wheat field in which the wheat measures 24 inches. Billy Frantz measured it.

Maxwell Phillips, of Fairmount, has been appointed assistant clerk at the Santa Fe, N. Indian school. Congressman Curtis expected to visit Indian Territory before returning to Washington, but is compelled to aban-it on account of pressing business at home. The Girard canning factory put up 20.000 cans of tomatoes and 15,000 cans of apples this year. They now want to contract for 150 acres of tomatoes and 500 acres of sweet corn.

Emporia feels like bragging over its prospects for the coming 3rear, which include a new depot, anew courthouse, the new Carnegie library, a new ward school and the new normal library. George Robinson, a negro, has been arrested on suspicion of murdering Pearl Forbes, a candy faetpry employe of Leavenworth. The murder was most brutal. He was taken at Tonga-no xie. Half of the town of Stafford was destroyed by fire on November 10.

The loss is estimated at $60,000 partially covered by insurance. The Stafford County Leader is in the list of property burned. The directors of the Kansas Semi-Centennial Exposition company met to adopt plans for the sale of stock to towns over the state, having a start in the $25,000 subscribed for by business men of Topeka. A starch factory company in Michigan has contracted for 40,000 bushels of cull potatoes in the Kaw Valley. It is promised that if he gets contracts for 50.000 bushels they will locate a ttarch factory at Bonner Springs.

It was probably the desire to get the best that could be procured in the world which prompted the management of the New Tork Zoological garden to order ten tons of Kansas alfalfa and an eqvial amount of prairie hay. Joe Hall and John Williams lived together on a farm in Bourbon county. Hall shot Williams for failing to supply butter and other things he had agreed to supply. Hall seems to feel that he was justified in his deed. Arguments have been submitted in the supreme court on issuing a writ of mandamus to the board of charities to compel them to condemn the Parsons 6ite for the new asylum.

The decision is expected in the course of a month. Robert Campbell and George Parkinson are both graduates of the Wichita high school. They are both gaining high rank in the Northwestern University of Chicago. Last year a Winfield student carried off the honors at the Northwestern. AWAAAVHWAWWWWWl) Wheat fields were quite generally pastured before the frost came.

Augusta sees great future prosperity to come with the Orient railway. Guthrie has a new cigar factory which proposes to employ 75 men. 4 There is a mine in Beaver county which shows four feet and two inches of coal. Logan county court had at its opening 39 criminal cases and 41 divorce cases docketed. The Oklahoma Bankers association will be royally entertained in Enid on November 20 and 27.

Augusta was connected with the long distance phone just in time to receive election returns. Railroads arc working with all pos-exertion to relieve the congested condition at shipping points. Pawnee now has the same rate as Guthrie on wheat, lumber, hogs and cattle; thanks to the Santa Fe. A majority of the legislative candidates favored by the anti-saloonists were elected to the legislature. Kay county gave the largest majority for Dennis Flynn, 772; Greer county gave the largest for Judge Neff, 573.

II. II. Fearnow and family, of Ponca City, propose to take an overland trip to Mexico for the health of their children. It requires acres upon which to pile baled cotton coming from compress. The piles at Oklahoma City cover live acres.

The Oklahoma live stock sanitary board decided to authorize the governor to appoint additional quarantine inspectors. Delegate Hynn is examining into the necessary additional legislation required to expedite the work of allotment of the Kiowa and Comanche lands. Miss Bertha Ryan who was elected school superintendent of Noble county, was called upon bjr her former pupils of the Guthrie high school and given a hearty ovation. There are about 40 suits pending against the city of Guthrie on warrants issued by the provisional government and afterwards repudiated when the city was legally organized. On account of the very light vote upon the court house bond question in Kingfisher county a petition is being circulated to call a special election to try the matter over again.

Oklahoma has a greater population than Idaho, Nevada, Delaware, and Wyoming combined. These states have 12 electoral votes, have eight senators and four representatives. C. G. Jones, of Oklahoma county, W.

C. Stevens of Hennessey, and C. Alexander, of Woodward, are the first mentioned candidates for speaker in the coming term of the territorial legislature. Cosby, the cocaine fiend who robbed two farmers and tried to kill Banker Turner at Oklahoma City last week, will be sent to the insane asylum at Norman. He is a physical and mental wreck from the use of the drug.

The states that now have less population than Oklahoma are as follows: Oklahoma, 398.245; Delaware, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Wyoming, 92,531..