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Caddo Co. OK - Newspaper - Anadarko Tribune 
Submitted By Sandy Miller
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9 Aug 1901 

Frank E. Smith To Be New Sheriff

Mr. Frank E. Smith,who will perform the duties of sheriff, was born 
April 25, 1861 at Fremont, Sandusky county, Ohio. He spent several years 
at the machinist's trade, but in more recent years has been engaged in 
different kinds of business. Mr. Smith came to Oklahoma at the opening 
in 1889 and has resided in the territory ever since. In 1892, 93, 94, he 
served the city of Norman as city marshal and mader an excellent 
reputation as an officer of the law. For several years he has served as a 
United States marshal here in the territory and has always given the best 
of satisfaction. He is now engaged in the livery business at Norman, but 
will remove his family here as soon as suitable quarters can be secured. 
Mr. Smith and Miss Emma Gibbs were married at Fremont, Ohio, April 6, 1884. 
They have two children, Louis and Blanche, which, makes the happy household 
complete. Mr. Smith has been active in politics and has accomplished great 
good in the ranks of republicanism. He was selected chairman of the republican 
county central committee of Cleveland county last June. His deputy is 
James Douglas, of Norman, a man who comes well recommended and will prove 
a valuable assistant.

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Caddo County - Newspaper 
Anadarko Tribune

Submitted by Sandy Miller

Aug 9, 1901

KIOWA AGENCY, ANADARKO, OKLA.
August 10, 1901
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN;
Persons who have received permission to camp on the quarter section of
land of the Agency reservation adjoining the townsite f Anadarko on the
east will be permitted to remain there until the townsite sale is ended,
provided law and order prevail.
signed
James F. Randlett
Lt.Col. U.S.A
U.S. Indian Agent

WANT THE RESERVE SOLD
Home Seekers of Lawton Want the "Reserve Sold"....Free Homes Fight Begun

Lawton, Aug 6--(Special correspondence to the news)--A movement has been
started among the disappointed homeseekers here to have the government
open up the three reserves which it set aside in the Lawton district
before the opening. At a meeting of 100 or more of them today it was
decided to petition the interior department at once to take such action.
These reserves embrace 532,500 acres, or about 3,330 quarter sections.

While the disappointed homeseekers have taken steps to petiton the
administration to provide a way for them to obtain homes in the new
country, the successful homeseekers are organizing already to make a
fight for 'free homes'. The latter class want to get the $1.25 an acre
knocked off their burden. They say that congress gave homesteaders in
the Cherokee Strip 'free homes' and there is no reason why such a law
should not be extended to take in the Kiowa -- Comanche country. Those
who have taken their claims in the past two days are discussing 'free
homes' with a vengeance and the agitation will spread each day as the
list of homesteaders who make entry increase.

Dennis Flynn might as well buckle on the armour and prepare for another
'free homes' fight. All of the people in the new country will be on his
back demanding legislation along that line before congress assembles
next winter.

Speculator and disappointed homeseekers are now flocking to the Wichita
Mountains, taking mineral and oil claims. They are not confining their
operations to governent land entirely. They are also staking oil and
mineral claims on Indian allotments. Several officials of the Rock
Island have obtained oil leases in Greer county near the mountains, and
are now prospecting. They feel confident of striking oil. The fact that
the railroad officials are boring for oil is what started the other
people. Failng to get claims, they hope to strike it rich in oil.

August 16, 1901

STRUCK OIL IN NEW COUNTRY

A prospecting party has found a very fine quantity of crude petroleum in
Comanche country, nine miles northeast from Lawton. A company has been
organized with a capital stock of $250,000 to develop the find. The
following officers and directors have been elected for the first year:
C.E. Elliott of Wellington, Kas., president; E.R. Saunders of Oklahoma
City, Ok., vice-president; G.H. McGinnis of Oklahoma City, Ok.,
secretary and treasurer; L.D.Childers of Blue Springs, Mo., G.W. Mahan
of Blue Springs, Mo., J.W. Carter of Lawton, O.T., W.M. Bottoms of
Oklahoma City, Ok., D. McGimpsey of Kansas City, Kansas. The name of the
corporation is the McGimpsey Oil Company. Mr. McGinnis, the
secretary-treasurer, exhibited a sample (of) oil and it is surely the
clear article.  The company will commence operations at once and we will
watch developments with a great deal of interest. We are fully convinced
that there is plenty of oil there to make it commercially valuable. 


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9 Aug 1901

Ballinger New County Clerk

Mr. Dyke Ballinger, the new county clerk, was born September 23, 1866 at 
Louisville, Blunt county, Tenn. He was reared on the farm and received his 
education in the schools of that county. In 1887 he came to Beaver county, 
O.T., before that county was organized. He went back home after a short time 
and again came in 1890 to Beaver county, where he taught school for two years. 
In 1892 he was appointed county clerk of Beaver county for eight months when 
the office was declared an elective one and he was elected in the same position 
which he held for two terms.In 1898 he was elected county attorney of the same 
county and served one term with great credit to himself and satisfaction to all. 
At the territorial convention held in Oklahoma City in 1896 Mr. Ballinger was 
selected as alternate delegate to the national convention in St. Louis that 
nominated President McKinley the first time. Since out of office he as devoted 
his time to the practice of law and has acquired a lucrative law business in 
his county. He has a number of cases to come up before the next term of district 
court which will be held in September. On January 4, 1893, Mr. Ballinger married 
Miss Della Grover, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grover. Two children, Harry C. 
and Geneva B., have come to this union, and another very bright little girl, 
Ollie Dot, makes her home with them and is greatly loved by the family. Mr. 
Ballinger, in coming to his new field of labor, has nothing but the kindest 
words for the people of Beaver county, and shall always cherish the kindliest 
feeling for those with whom he has labored and lived.
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9 Aug 1901 

The Episcopalians have had a church organization here for the past fifteen 
years.

The Old School Presbyterians, have been looking after the spiritual interests 
of the community for the past eleven years. A neat church is located on the 
agency grounds. The mission is located four miles east of the city. Rev. 
Fate is in charge. Service is held every Sunday morning only.

Rev. Mr. Miller, of the M.E. church is here and is holding service each 
evening in a large tent in 'tent town'. Rev. Keller is here with a view of 
establishing a M.E. church organization. He has taken an active part in 
assisting the U.S. Marshals in suppressing gambling and pickpockets.

Rev. C.E. Drew, of Salem, Iowa and Rev. L.B. Parker, of Perry, Ok., are here 
making arrangements to build a Congregational church in Anadarko. As soon as 
a lot is secured, a $3,000 building will be erected. Already services are 
being held each evening on the public square. A large tabernacle will be 
ready for services Sunday next, when preaching will be held morning and 
evening.
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16-Aug-1901

The Baptist people are reminded that Rev. L.H. Holt will conduct regular 
services at the auditorium on the courthouse square, Sunday morning. 

The Methodist church, south, and the Presbyterians will hold regular services 
at their respective churches on the reservation. The public are cordially 
invited.

Rev. L.L. Smith, of Oklahoma City, superintendent of Baptist mission work, 
has been here two days advising with Rev. L.H. Holt about Baptist work in 
Anadarko.

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11-Sep-1901

THE PAPERS FILED


The Census Committee Reports to Governor Jenkins
The Experts Show Twenty-seven Hundred and and Twenty-three Bona Fide
Inhabitants in the City of Anadarko 

Pursuant to instructions from the Commercial Club the committee on incorporation 
has made its report to the governor. The census taken, while far from being 
complete, shows 2,723 bona fide inhabitants in Anadarko. The committee was 
careful and painstaking in its work, and there was no padding the report and 
the name of every man, woman and child was reported.

The report was accompanied by the following resolution from the club: 
Anadarko, Okla.,; September 10, 1901, To the Honorable William M. Jenkins, 
Governor of the Territory of Oklahoma; Guthrie, Okla.

Dear Sir; Pursuant to the directions of the resolution herein contained, we 
call your attention thereto, and solicit your early and favorable 
consideration thereof.

BE IT RESOLVED; That it is the unanimous sense of this, a regular meeting of 
the Commercial Club of Anadarko, Okla., held on this 9th day of September, 
1901, that the undesirable, unhealthy and unclean condition existing on the 
townsite of Anadarko, is a detriment to the health of the people thereof and 
is calculated to occasion an epidemic on said townsite, and as a matter of 
fact, is producing sickness here at the present time; that the absence of a 
competent authority to organize fire protection, is causing the property 
owners to pay exorbitant rates of insurance, and endangers a conflagration 
which would pauperize many of them; that the establishment at the earliest 
possible day of a uniform grade of streets and sidewalks is important to the 
upbuilding of this city; that the immediate organization of a public school 
system is essential to its moral, intellectual and financial welfare; and the 
prompt regulation, by proper ordinances and their enforcement of certain 
traffics and trades, and the prohibition of others, now permitted to exist, 
are of the utmost and speedy importance to its residents and business men, 
who have established a city in fact, if not in name and legal effect.

AND WHEREAS, Such matters and regulations cannot be accomplished and enforced 
without the organization of a competent political authority upon said 
townsite.

AND WHEREAS, The 3,000 inhabitants congregated and congested together upon 
said townsite, are being morally, intellectually and financially injured, 
inconvenienced and detrimented by the absence of a municipal organization 
and authority.

AND WHEREAS, No logical or argumentative reason exists for depriving a 
community, such as is assembled together upon said townsite, of the benefits 
and conveniences of a municipal organization,

AND WHEREAS, It is the unanimous and undisputed desire of all the inhabitants 
of said townsite, constituted of a class of people able financially to assume 
the burdens of such an organization, that the same be immediately had for 
their benefit and upbuilding,

AND WHEREAS, The Legislature of the Territory of Oklahoma, in its wisdom, 
foreseeing such a contingency as exists here and now, has provided a means 
for a prompt amelioration of such a condition, and placed in the hands of 
the Executive of this Territory, the power to remedy such a situation ,

THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That we as an organization, practically 
representing all the business of the said townsite, unanimously request and 
petition the Governor of this Territory to exercise the prerogative vested in 
him by said Legislature by immediately issuing his proclamation calling a 
special election of the people of this townsite to incorporate the same and 
organize a legal government thereof.

That this resolution be spread upon the minutes of his organization and a 
copy thereof, attested by its officers, be at once forwarded to the Honorable 
Governor, at his office, in the city of Guthrie, Territory of Oklahoma.

Respectfully submitted, a true copy, William R. Dutton, president; P.P. Shaw, 
vice-president; Fred Reseling, secretary and V.V. Hardcastle, teasurer.
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20-Sep-1901 

The Christian church organized yesterday with Rev. D. Stuart and T.H. Brooks 
as elders; C.V. Landon, C.L. Heath and William Coleman, trustees. Work toward 
a church building will be begun today.
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16-Aug-1901

Lynching Narrowly Averted


At Apache, the new town south of Anadarko, Friday, there was music in the 
air. A woodsonized individual, no doubt inspired by the swinish actions of 
Woods No. 1, attempted to appropriate several valuable lots that had already 
been located by others, by scattering building material around on them, 
getting ready to make permanent improvements. The excited populace at once 
proceeded to make a popular demonstration in the way of a telegraph pole 
with rope attachment character. The unsurpassed discipline of the police 
department under the newly elected chief of police was sufficient, however, 
to restrain the mad impulses of the citizens and the intruder was allowed to 
take a tie pass north.
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16-Aug-1901

Judge Crumm Has First Case

Judge Crumm had the first case in the probate court of Caddo county, Saturday. 
Two hoboes were arrested at the instance of Charles D. Nickel for attempting 
to hold him up. The defendants gave their names as P.H. Conlon and John O'Connor. 
It is supposed they came up from Lawton. They got on the inside of a car of 
liquor and were having a hilarious time at somebody else's expense. The plaintiff 
claimed they accosted him under the guise of a policeman and while one of 
them threatened him with a hammer the other attempted to go through his 
pockets. It is said they were offensive to several people, and one of them, 
John O'Connor, met his Waterloo. He managed to get about as drunk as anyone 
could and would go around pulling people's noses and otherwise annoying them. 
He finally got hold of the wrong fellow and when he was delivered over to the
authorities his face looked like it had been worked on with a beef steak pounder 
by some sturdy, strong arm. The defendants were placed under a $1,000 bond and 
will be given a hearing later. The officers of the county of Caddo intend 
that the law shall be respected, and if anyone doubts it they can soon be 
satisfied. 
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August 9, 1901
Snap Shots in Anadarko

News Notes Gathered by Tribune Scribes About the Busy, Bustling City


There are a score of attorneys and doctors here ready for business.

Some very fine fish are being taken from the waters of the Washita.

A telephone line has been opened between Anadarko and Chickasha.

From present indications the sale of lots in Anadarko will amount to
$300,000.

JAMES GENK purchased lot number 2 in block 10 and is at work on a
business house.

MISS RUBY CURTIS of Guthrie has accepted a position in the Anadarko post
office.

CAL STRUTZ, of Cowgill, Mo., contractor and builder, is here and will
locate in the city.

MRS. HEWITT, of the Hotel Anadarko, spent Thursday with her children in
Chickasha.

It is estimated that 100 cars of freight for Anadarko are on the side
tracks at Chickasha.

W.D. WALLACE and J.R. JAMESON of Waco, Texas, carpenters, have located
in Anadarko.

V.D. TINKLEPAUGH, of El Reno, has decided to engage in the hardware and
implement business in Anadarko.

D.S. GOODNER, of Sarcoxie, Mo., vice-president of the State Bank, is
here with a view of starting a bank.

THOMAS L. BOND, of Salina, Kansas, is here visiting his son-in-law,
HERBERT D. CROSBY, the new county attorney.

Messrs. SMITH and WARWICK, two of Cashion's enterprising business men,
have been here several days this week.

JOHN PFAFF & Sons, have a car load of hardware at the tract and will
open for business as soon as they secure a lot.

M.E. SEWARD, of Easton, Kansas, purchased lot 7, block 16 and will
engage in the grocery business in Anadarko.

Anadarko should have a $50,000 courthouse. The government has only
provided for a $10,000 courthouse.

A load of peaches was sold here yesterday which was raised near Yukon,
Canadian county, O.T. They sold for $3 per bushel.

The opening of the reservation has been a harvest for the Rock Island,
but it deserves it, for it has labored hard to bring the opening about.

There will be a public mass meeting tonight, on the public square, to
take action in regard to organizing a city govenment.

The Champler Lumber Co. will do business in Anadarko. W.H. MEYER, of
Enid, Ok., will have charge of the business of this place.

The Hobart Republican, a weekly newspaper published in our western city,
has made its appearance. It is little but mighty.

The deer in the park adjoining the agency building attract a good deal
of attention from strangers, especially those from eastern states.

The White City, east of the townsite, presents a handsome and lively
appearance, with its hundreds of tents and thousands of jostling people.  

There is such a rush of business at the Western Union Office that it is
all most impossible to get a message out for several hours after filing
it.

R.R. ROGERS, of East Peru, Iowa, who drew number 26 in the El Reno
district, was in Anadarko Monday. He filed on a claim near Hobart.

Hon. J.T. DAVISON, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., is here with a view of
locating. He is an attorney and about the only spot on his record is
that he was a member of the 37th Missouri General Assembly. He was on
the right side of the house however, a true Republican, and the kind we
want to push our new city along.

Hon. J.W. WIMBERLY, formerly member of the Oklahoma legislature from
Kingfisher, is here and will become a citizen of the only Anadarko.

The Stephenson-Brown Lumber Co., D. BROWN, local manager, is a new
lumber firm in Anadarko. They have several other yards in the Territory.

Everybody who purchased lots should immediately go to register of deeds
and have them recorded. It will save trouble in case of loss of
certificates, also make titles good.

So far the lots have brought excellent prices. In fact they went much
higher than many expected and quite a number who came to buy have had to
drop out on account of the high prices.

PROF. C.W. TURNER, one of the editors of the Anadarko Tribune, has been
commissioned Superintendent of Schools of Caddo county, and arrived here
Wednesday to assume the duties of the office.

The First National Bank has opened quarters on the courthouse square,
and are doing business. But few towns can boast of two national banks,
open and ready for business, at the birth of a town.

JUDGE AMOS --ING, just as jolly and saucy as ever, has been here all
week with his weather eye cocked for business. If lots don't go sky high
the judge will purchase one and erect a fine building at once.

Post Office Inspector, O.B. WELK, has been here most of this week
supervising the work at the local postoffice during the rush. Mr. Welk
understands how to handle a big amount in a satisfactory manner.

MISS MILLER, proprietor of the little hotel on the government
reservation, has had a rush of business for the last ten days, but she
has been equal to the occasion and has accommodated an immense crowd to
the satisfaction of all.

Messrs. HINDMAN & OLDHAM, notaries and abstractors, have opened an
office on the courthouse square and are doing a good business. They are
pleasant and accommodating gentlemen, with whom it is a pleasure to do
business.

The National Bank of Anadarko with Messrs. GRIMES, SMITH and KREITZER at
the head are doing a splendid business, and are accommodating everybody
possible. Their bank is next to the auctioneer's stand on the courthouse
square.

DR. C.R. HUME, government physician, has been appointed county
Superintendent of Public Health, and will see that sanitary conditions
are kept in order. Dr. Hume is one of the most congenial gentlemen e
have met in Anadarko.

JUDGE IRWIN is on the ground, ready for court business but everything
has been so quiet and orderly that his judicial services have not been
needed. We sincerely hope the jolly judge will remain with us as long as
possible, court or no court.

The vivacious little maids from Kansas, who have a lemonade stand near
the post office are doing a good business. They are two of the
handsomest maids that ever trod the soil of the Sunflower State. You
want to see them and try their lemonade.

LOGAN & FRIEND have a large stock of lumber stacked on the right of way
near the depot and have already taken a large number of orders from
contractors and builders, for dwelling and business homes. The gentlemen
are here for business and will be a valuable acquisition to the city.
They will be heard from in the next issue of the Tribune.

J.F. SKIDMORE, of ---aonia, Ark., is here and will engage in raising
fruit and vegetables. He has exercised good judgment in coming to
Anadarko.

D.F. TRECKELL and I.C. ROUNDS, of the Treckell & Rounds Lumber Co. have
unloaded several car loads of lumber and are very prepared to meet all
demands for lumber.  They desire to figure with every person who intends
to build.  See their ad elsewhere in the Tribune.

E.W. KING, of Wharon county, Texas, will put out "a shingle" in Anadarko
and give legal advice. Mr. King took part in the siege of Pekin, and was
Superintendent of Transportation in quartermaster department. He
returned to the U.S. last February, after having an exciting time in the
Orient. He purchased a business lot and will remain here.

FRED RUSHING, the accomplished and genial correspondent of the El Reno
American, has been doing some tall hustling for his paper. he has
furnished excellent series of articles for the American, and has
succeeded in building up a good circulation for the paper here. We
understand he has been offered a good thing here, and we hope he will
decide to acept and become one of us.

Assistant Postmaster DICKENS, has been a very busy man the last week.
There has been a constant rush for mail, and it has been necessary to
erect a couple of booths at the west side of the postoffice for the
general delivery. These are in the hands of the extra clerks, MR. WM.
KNIGHT and J.E. DUTTON. So far the business of the office has been
conducted in an efficient and satisfactory manner, and much credit is
due Mr. Dickens for the way he has andled the mails during the rush.

The gentlemanly freight agent, A.E. BALDWIN, of Anadarko, has had a very
difficult position to fill the past two weeks with hundreds of car loads
of freight to check out and ten thousand questions to answer. It was
enough to make his head dizzy; but with it all he has been courteous and
used all possible speed in handling freight.  S.W. AUGHINBAUGH, auditor
of the Rock Island, from Kansas City, is now here assisting the local
agent. A number of assistants have been added to the force this week and
hereafter freight will be delivered without delay.

WM. REVELIO, of El Reno, purchased the first lot at the auction sale in
the city of Anadarko for $165. It was lot 1, block 14, a business lot.
Mr. Revelio will put a building on he lot at once and engage in some
kind of business. Mr. Revelio was born in the city of Ottawa, Canada, a
Scotch-Canadian. He came to the United States in 1877 and located in
Omaha, Neb. In 1885 e came to the territory, and was in the employ of
the government twelve years as a blacksmith. He secured his
naturalization papers at El Reno several years ago.

HARRY THOMPSON, United States Marshal, arrived from Guthrie Monday
evening and made ample provision to see that Uncle Sam's laws are obeyed
in Anadarko during the auction sale of lots. NED SISSOU, of Guthrie, was
put in arge of four assistant marshals - JAMES THOMPSON, JACK LEDDY of
Hennessey, JAKE DAVIS of Enid and GEORGE BECK of Anadarko-a jolly set of
boys who know not fear. These gentlemen have succeeded in keeping the
best order. When a Tribune representative asked Sisson yesterday "How's
business?", with a smile he replied, "distressingly quiet>" Jack Leddy
has charge of the auction stand and is making a record in keeping good
order.
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September 20, 1901

Anadarko's Advantages


Anadarko, our beautiful little river city nestled among the green hills, has 
much in its favor. Our rivals say that so many allotments make against us, 
but this is not so. Many of them are in a state of cultivation at present and 
will be leased by the whites. Crops will be thrown into our markets the first 
year. Besides, the Indians on the south side of the river receive and spend 
eighty dollars each per year and those on the north side thirty dollars.

We are surrounded by some excellent country. Our river bottoms are unsurpassed 
in fertility and the prairie uplands have a green, luxuriant growth of succulent 
grasses that betray the richness of soil beneath. In fact, thousands of tons of 
the finest hay are being cut, which yield a good profit now and promise a 
better next spring.

The country to the north and northwest has an abundance of white oak, cedar 
and walnut timber. Quite a bit of white oak lumber will be made from this, and 
fuel, posts and dimension material, so desirable in a new country, can be 
procured cheaply as soon as the country is settled.

Our city must make its greatest effort to secure an appropriation from 
congress at its first session, of sufficient funds to grade our streets, 
secure a water plant and build a courthouse and beautify the public square. 
With an enclosure around the square, trees and grass can be started next 
spring. Within four years our square can be made the most beautiful in the 
southwest.

We have a great deal in our favor, and with the enterprising commercial club 
we have at home and our whole soul-for-Oklahoma delegate in congress, Dennis 
T. Flynn, we should make Anadarko second to none in the new Territory. 
(signed by the publisher) H.C.
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20-Sep-1901

The Methvin Institute

The school year of the Methvin Institute opened well Monday with fifty 
Indian and thirty white pupils enrolled. This school was founded by the M.E. 
Church, South, in 1890, and has done some excellent work among the Indians 
in this locality for which they are very grateful. The school employs three 
teachers in the literary, and four in the industrial departments.

Mr. Methvin came to this place fourteen years ago and established the church 
and parsonage in Old Anadarko. Since then a church has been built at the 
foot of Mt. Scott, one twenty mles southeast on the Little Washita, one ten 
miles east of Cottonwood Grove and a church and parsonage at Ft. Sill; all 
except the last were built with native funds. The Indian Camp meeting will 
begin September 28 at the Kiowa Ghost Dance Grounds, twenty five miles west.
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20-Sep-1901

Student Loses Leg

Thomas Stephens, a young Wichita Indian, whose home is near this city, was 
brought home this morning from Chickasha where, last night as the result of 
an accident by the cars, one of his legs was amputated.

The young man had been sent away to an Indian school in the north part of 
the territory and it is said he was on his way back home, refusing to go to 
school. He was riding down to Chickasha in a freight train and when about 
half way between El Reno and Chickasha he in some manner lost his footing 
and fell beneath the cars. His leg was run over about the ank, the shoe 
being torn to pieces. Dr. C.E. Hume the Rock Island surgeon and also agency 
physician here, was telegraphed for late last night and drove to Chickasha. 
However, before he arrived there Dr. Tye of that city, had taken the patient 
in charge and amputated the leg between the ankle and knee.

The young man was brought here this morning and taken to his home. He was 
yet under the influence of an opiate, but the wound was not considered 
dangerous. 
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September 20, 1901

Local News 

The Indians are making extensive preparations for their annual camp
meeting which will be held this year at the grounds used by the Kiowa
Indians for their annual Ghost Dance, two miles east of Mountain View,
commencing on the 28th day of September and continuing thirteen days.
SAN-KA-DO-TIE has been canvassing the city this week for funds to pay
expenses of meeting and has secured a liberal contribution.

Hon. F.V. HAMILTON and WM. PAGE, two old time republicans from Batis
county, Missouri, made the Tribune office a friendly visit Monday. Mr.
Hamilton was the republican nominee for Congress in the sixth district
of Missouri against DeArmond in 1896. A beastly democratic majority--too
numerous in Missouri--kept him out of Congress. He has brought his
family to Anadarko and is contemplating to make a home here.

Fourteen homesteaders who drew claims in the Lawton district between
numbers 1 and 100 failed to take their claims.

Disappointed homeseekers are leasing Indian lands in many cases. Indians
are good landlords. They seldom interfere with tenants if sure of their
rent.

D.A. JACOBS, city editor of the Lawton Democrat, was in our city awhile
yesterday.

Straw hats have been replaced by overcoats.

WILLIAM MORGAN and son of Concordia, Kansas are in the city.

M.D. ALLEN, of the phone company, made a hurried trip to El Reno on
business today.

The G.A.R. erected a flag pole on the public square yesterday and raised
a draped flag at half-mast.

ZACH CALDWELL brought a load of fine sweet potatoes from near Mountain
View today. They show what the fertile Washita Valley will produce.

Tuesday several old soldiers raised a flag pole on the courthouse square
and run up a flag at half-mast in memory of their beloved comrade,
WILLIAM McKINLEY.

J. HUTCHINSON of Enid is working in the Champlin lumber yards in place
of W.H. MYERS, who is sick. Jake is a jovial fellow and we would like to
have him locate permanently.

IT WAS OUR DYKE
"Attorney DYKE BALLINGER of Beaver City, was here one night recently",
says the Pratte County Union, "and left the windows of his room open all
night. He hung his shirt over the back of a chair, and the wind raised
during the night and wafted that shirt out through the window and far
away. When he awoke next morning he had to borrow "DAD RALSTON's shirt
(Dad weighs about 320 pounds) to wear until he could go down to the
store and buy him a new one.

DR. MELTON has had several professional calls to points in the country
during the last few days. He says the homesteaders are moving on their
claims and that it will not be long until there will be lots of people
in the country.

The Sapulpa Light is in it with the story of the biggest boy of the
season. It says a twenty and one-half pound boy was born to MR. AND MRS.
TOM LATTA, Monday and the grocer is the proudest man in Sapulpa. Both
the baby and mother are doing well.

The man BETTZ, who officiated for some time as Indian farmer at the
agency, has been dismissed from the Indian service for striking MISS
MARY ANTOINE, the Oneida Indian girl who has been filling the position
of typewriter in the Indian agency office, says the Chandler News.

The Topeka and El Reno telephone company have about completed stringing
their wires in the city. An exchange has been opened in the Caldwell
building opposite the courthouse square. They have placed sixteen phones
up to date.

W.M. MOSLEY, of the firm of Robinson, Jackson & Mosley, has just
returned from the country north of the Wichita Mountains where he
located eight persons. He says there has been plenty of rain and that
the grass is fine.

S.S. SEWARD of Okarche, is in the city. Mr. Seward is a man of business
as well as a fine fellow. He intends to erect one of the best buildings
in the town on the corner of the square west of the Miller block. The
building will be two stories, the upper part to be used for office
rooms.

MR. FRANK L. THACKERY, Superintendent of the Riverside Indian School,
has been transferred to the Shawnee School at Shawnee, I.T., and left
last Saturday with his wife to assume the duties of his new field of
labor. The new superintendent of the Riverside school will arrive in a
few days.

Several physicians and attorneys have and will leave Anadarko. Too many
came here at the opening and there is not enough to keep them all busy.
ADDISON BROWN, attorney, left for his home in Dallas, Texas last week.
Messrs. LONGMIRE and HOLLOPETER, attorneys, left for their home in
Tennessee Sunday. E.E. RUDOLPH left for Enid and DR. STILLWELL left for
his home in Kansas yesterday.

Some of our lumber yards begin to look like yards in reality now. There
are some good stocks in the city and more coming in right away.

J.E. HART is building an addition to his building north of the
courthouse.

MRS. CASE bought lot 20 in block 31 for $240 Saturday through Miller and
Ward.

JUDGE MATHENY moved his family into a comfortable suite of rooms in
block 37, C Street.

Messrs. H.M. CLEAVER, RED LUCAS and W.L. WELLINGHAM are the three
sanitary policemen.

ESTES & ROHRER's building on B street is nearing completion. It is a
good building and a credit to the city.

GEORGE GARDNER of Trenton, Mo., is working on his new brick yard. He
will be making brick within ten days.

The tents are being displaced by buildings day by day. In another month
there will be but few tents in the city.

The stone for the foundation of the Cowboy Saloon is an excellant white
limestone of best quality. It is from kiowa county.

The temporary injunction brought by F. MANNING against GEORGE BLACK et
al, was dismissed by the court upon motion of the plaintiff for lack of
jurisdiction.

Oklahoma will get statehood out of the coming session of congress if she
knocks long and loud. It may even be necessary to batter down the door,
but at any rate we should get in.

The GILLESPI Brothers refused $2,200 for their lot on C and Fifth this
morning. They will build a good, substanial sixty-foot building
immediately, which will be occupied by Kemp & Co., agents for the
celebrated Schhtz beer.

SHERMAN DUTTON and EMMETT SPENCER, brother and nephew of Postmaster
Dutton, arrived today from Ohio on a visit to the new country. They rode
most of the way on their bicycles.

The Jenkins Committee selected a site near Granite for the location for
the proposed Southwestern Normal University.

The sorrow of the Nation over the death of President McKinley
overshadows all else.

Several of the churches are circulating subscription papers asking for
help to build suitable buildings for worship. Our citizens should all
contribute liberally, for all will acknowledge that we must have
churches.

Secretary J.J. HOUSTON, of the school land commission, says the school
lands in the Wichita, or Caddo county, will not be ready to lease until
October 3. The lands now being leased are located south of the Washita
River and east of range 14.

Caddo county promises to be a splendid county. There will soon be a
number of good towns in the county. Apache on the south, Bridgeport and
Caddo on the north are now lively places, and Ft. Cobb and Sickles
promise to soon be important points.

MRS. D. STUART will open a private school at the Christian church tent
one block south of the square Monday, Sept. 23. Terms, $2.00 per month
in advance. Those wishing to enroll, please see Mrs. Stuart at the place
above mentioned, Friday at 8 p.m.

County Commissioner C.A. CLEVELAND has been in business continuiously in
Anadarko for more than twenty years and has been in the territory for
over thirty-five years. COL. FRED, another old Indian trader of
Anadarko, has been in business for over thirty years.

STRAY NOTICE
The following described stock now in my possession were taken up by me
on August 11th, 1901: one brown mule, about 14 hands high, age unknown;
and one roan pony, branded thus, VI, on the left hip. Owner can have
same by identifying property and paying all charges. Signed Frank Smith,
Sheriff of Caddo Co., O.T.

W.R. DUTTON, the new postmaster, has leased lot 25 in block 37 for the
postoffice. The building was started today and is to be completed by
September first, and it is expected the office will be moved soon after
that date. Harris & Smith of Chickasha, have secured the lobby of the
office for a news stand and  will open for business about September 1st.

This issue of the Tribune was published under great difficulties. Under
an old tent in a cornfield is not a very desirable place to issue a
newspaper, but we are roughing it the same as everybody else,  and
hoping for better accommodations soon.

The sale of business lots closed Thursday and the sale of residence lots
is now going on. The first of these sold were on the street adjoining
the government reservation and brought from $25 to $90.
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