STOMP DANCE
Tulsa, I.T., Aug. 18, - The Shawnee and Delaware Indians will hold their annual war and stomp dance at Bird Creek Falls, ten miles north of Tulsa, August 27 to 30. Several thousand Indians and white persons will attend.
THE ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE
Fortune plays strange tricks with us at times, sunders the most intimate family ties, scatters the individual members of the family and unites them again in the most unexpected manner.
A.H. Gibson, who lives near Ladonia, Texas, came to McGee Monday prospecting for a farming location near this place. While stopping at the McGee Hotel he made the acquaintance of Miss Bessie Gibson, who was working there. Inquiry developed the fact that she is the daughter of his eldest brother. She will return with him to Texas.
The Democrat rally at Ada, the News says, was great. T.P. Gore of Lawton, Roy Hoffman of Guthrie, and W.A. Durant of Durant, were the principal speakers.
NEW CAPITAL COMING
At some unknown time last week a deal was perfected whereby we got men interested in the new town of Walling. Men who have done great things towards the upbuilding of other towns. These men have purchased an interest in the First Bank of McGee, and will make it rank as one of the strongest banking institutions in the new state of Oklahoma. J.M. Bayless, who is President of several banks, and who has achieved a banking reputation second to none, will be President of this institution. J.A. Smith, and J.T. Eldridge will be Vice Presidents, with Morris F. Bayless assuming the cashiership. J.A. Smith and M.F. Bayless, will be in active charge of the banks affairs. Mr. Smith has made many friends since his arrival here and John's honesty and good judgement assures him success. Mr. Morris Bayless comes from Sulphur, where he has held the position of Asst. Cashier of the First National Bank of that place for the past three years. He is young in years but old in experience an a great future is expected for him as he has given the banking interests his prompt attention since early boyhood.
Mrs. Mary Cope, of Fannin Co., Texas, received the Democratic nomination (equivalent to election) for district clerk, beating her opponent 500 votes. The attorney general has ruled that she can hold the office. She is probably the first lady to be elected to such an office in Texas.
WALLING
Is a beautiful place for a town. It is mostly a high rolling prairie with the most magnificent building sites, both for business and dwelling houses. Main street, which will be the principal thoroughfare, has but three breaks in its entire course of one mile, and only one of these is a serious proposition. We look for one of the fairest of cities to spring up there.
Mr. Stokes Wilson of Sioux City, Iowa, and J.B. Overton of Sulphur, are here on business, and will probably locate here.
HOPE RUNS HIGH
A prominent citizen of McGee expressed the opinion that in a year or two Walling woiuld have 4000 or 5000 inhabitants. "Don't looked surprised" said he. "When the people from the east begin to come in you will see something. Walling has been the best advertised town in the territory. It has advertised itself. Its natural advantages are so extraordinary that every drummer and every passing traveller has gone away singing its praises. The soil is exceedingly fertile, the water is the best, the surrounding country is thickly peopled with money making farmers, and its distance from other trade centers gives ample opportunity for the establishment of solid commercial houses. Gentlemen, it is a peach, and it is going to be a hummer. The man that has not succeeded in getting a lot in Walling, has lost an opportunity."
Rev. B.G. Burns, who lives near Chism, was in town Monday. He will begin a protracted meeting at Royal, I.T. Friday Aug. 24. He has rented some land from Nat Bowie and will live close to the new town.
W.Y. Dotson tells us the high water washed away all his lots and 32 hogs. He has recovered all but 4 of them. Two of the latter he found drowned.
G.L. Griffin and Fred Griffin went to Ada Monday on business.
Capt. J.J. Rotenberry went to Pauls Valley Monday.
Mart McConnell and Mrs. Arnold of Elmore were waterbound at J.F. Hollingsworth's last week.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Cunningham, a fine boy. He tips the scales at 8 1/2 pounds. Wes says he is alright if he did get cut out of his allotment.
Dr. H.L. Putman of Midland was here today with a view to locating at Walling. Dr. Wood of that place also contemplates locating there.
Bebee people are moving a gin from Johnsonville this week, free of charge. The gin belongs to Charles Long.
RECORD OF INSTRUMENTS FILED
(17th Recording District)
Furnished by The Valley Abstract Company, of Pauls Valley, I.T.
Deeds
Ella Gabbert, nee Hyden and husband to the Canadian Valley Construction Company, 50 A Sec.27 1 4 N R 3 E $1500.
Ella Gabbert, nee Hyden and husband to American Trust Co., 30 A Sec. 27 T 4 N 3 E.
K.C. Parks and wife Nancy Parks, of Byars, to the Inter-State Mortgage Trust Co. 100 A Sec 25 T 4 N R 2 E. $105.
K.C. Parks and wife, Nancy Parks, of Byars, to the Inter-State Mortgage Trust Co. 100 A Sec 25 T 4 N R 2 E. $700
William O. Stanley and wife to the Mortgage & Debenture Co., Ltd. 160 A Sec. 13 40 A Sec. 14 T 4 N R 3 E.
Whitt Hyden was due to attend court at Muskogee last week, but after trying several routes had to give it up on account of the high water.
?.A. Hall of Heber, Ark., has bought a lot in block 18 in Walling and will probably put in a general merchandise store.
J.G. Keller, Pete Simpson, Albert Cox and Henry Daugherty have just returned from New Mexico. They all got good homesteads within 1 to 3 miles of Urton, New Mexico.
Blue Loyd has sold his crop, cattle, and everything to J. Harris
A.D. West of near Davis, was here Saturday.
Horses and cows have been bogging down in the woods.
Eld. G.L. Chambers says the roads were so boggy that he could not get to McGee before Friday.
W.G. Walls tells us cotton around Hart is greatly damaged but he does not think corn is hurt much.
A. Cox had his finger broken Saturday. While shoeing one horse, another kicked him, breaking the bone.
G.F. Carper went to Wayne, I.T. last week. He says the Canadian river there had not risen but was easily crossed a little below that place with a wagon.
J.W. Trimble lost all his calves in the flood. He has just returned from a trip to Purcell. He saw a mule and buggy washed against a drift in a creek near Purcell and it was said a man had drowned there.
L. Ketner is building a dwelling and barn on his land adjoining the new townsite in the west. He has just finishd a well there 85 feet deep in which water stands 35 feet.
On Pond Creek four miles north of Byars, five houses were swept away with their contents.
All but two lots in the four principal blocks were sold by Wednesday. That means nearly 48 business houses in a solid bunch. There are several other blocks partially sold.
S. Dill, one of our most progressive farmers, tells us he has a Horse apple tree only three years old that bore an apple this year which measured 12 1/2 inches in circumference. Saturday he brought in a load of the largest Watermelons ever sold here. They weighed from 48 to 65 1/2 pounds each.
Governor Frans and Judge Clayton have issued their proclamation setting the date for the election of delegate to the Constitutional Convention on November 6. McGee is placed in voting district no. 87 with Ada, containing the following townships. Townships 3 and 4 north, range 3 east.
Township 3 and 4 north, range 4
Townships 1 and 2 south and 1, 2, 3, and 4 north, range 6 east.
All that part of township 5 north, range 6 east, lying south of Canadian river.
The proclamation says the election is to be held "at the several voting precincts in the several constitutional delegate districts" but no voting precincts are designated. If Ada is the only voting place in this district, it will be a long distance from town and far enough to keep lots of people from voting.
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128 acres of good prarie land, 88 acres deeded land, 40 acres dower land, 3 houses, inexhaustable well of good water, 50 acres in cultivation, 2 1/2 miles south of the new town. $2150 cash if sold at once. H.M. Byford, McGee, I.T.
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WEALTHY NEGRO GIRLS
The boundry line which separate the lands of the Creeks, Cherokee, and Osage Indian nations, converge to a point in the north central part of the new state of Oklahoma. A few mile south of this point in the Creek nation lives a little negro girl named Isabelle Lewis, the daughter of a negro who was formerly a Creek slave. this little girl owns 80 acres of land, part of her allotment, in the new Glenn pool oil district, which is giving her and income such as only millionairs can have. There are three oil wells on her land, eachof which is producing 1,000 barrels of oil per day, and each of which is capable of having its daily output doubled.
It is the announced intention of the company that has leased her land to put down seven more wells. If they each produce as much as those already drilled, and there is no reason to doubt it, her royalty of one eighth of the entire amount produced at 52 cents a barrel, the present market price of oil, will give her a daily income of $650, or an annual income of $237,000.
Josephine Morrison another little negro girl twelve years of age, the daughter of a Creek freedman, has an allotment of 160 acres in the oil producing district, surrounded on all sides by flowing wells. The Morrison girl has her tract leased on a royalty of one-eighth of all oil produced. The leasees of this tract intend to drill at least twenty wells as fast as the oil can be taken care of by the Standard Oil people.
The father of the Morrison, as well as the father of the Lewis girl, has been appointed guardian of his daughter.
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The following parties have bought lots in the new town of Walling:
J.L. Allred, 1; R.H. Austel, 1; A.J. Austel, 4; W.A. Brumley, 1; Houston M. Byford, 1; Williard T. Brinlee, 2; S.D. Brown, 2; A.C. Cromer, 1; J.R. Craig, 1; J.J. Copeland, 1; Jas. Daugherty, 1; Jessie T. Eldridge, 1; Hyden & Young, 2; W.T. Hayes, 4; James C. Honaker, 3; Whitt M. Hyden, 2; J.W. Isaacs, 1; A.W. Jackson Sr., 1; A.W. Jackson Jr., 1; Wm Lee, 2; S.S. Lee, 5; O.T. Medlock, 2; Mantooth & Lee, 1; W.T. Mantooth, 2; Alvin S. Morris, 1; Martin & Stockman, 1; J.H. McCurdy, 1; James Norris, 1; Maggie J. Norris, 4; Wm Russell, 4; Shi and Jackson, 1; John Smith, 1; Santford and Strickland, 3; J.H. Sloan, 3; J.R. Santford, 4; A.H. Shi, 5; P. Turk, 1; F.M. Welch, 2; S.S. Widener, 2.
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BURIED TOGETHER
A negro was going through a graveyard on day and was attracted by a peculiar looking monument. Bending over the stone he read this inscription: "Here lies a lawyer, and honest man." He couls hardly understand the inscription at the first reading so he read it again, then musing over the situation for a moment, he says: "I wonder what made 'em bury dem fellers together."
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Eld. E. Jones and J.L. Barnes commenced a meeting at Clabber Flat Tuesday night.
Mrs. J.W. Isaacs who has been quite sick, is reported much better.
J.E. Winn a prominent architect and contractor of Ada, was in town this week.
W.T. Hayes will be the first to move and probably the first merchant of Walling. He was to move Friday.
Carney & Roach, of Ada, bought a couple of lots on Main Street in Walling Monday.
J.F. Short of Kentucky, bought a couple of lots on Main street in Walling Monday.
Samuel Thomas of Greer, S.C. has accepted a position with Dr. J.N. Norris drug store.
Messrs.Runyon and Brader, of Ada, were here Monday. They will probably invest in the new town.
O.C. Davis went to Shawnee, Saturday.
Dr. Wood, Jim Bohannon and Postmaster Florence of Midland were looking over the new townsite Saturday. They all talk of locating there.
J.P. Smith, says his cotton was damaged about $100 by the overflow. It was 10 feet deep in places. Mr. Garner near him had 20 acres entirely ruined.
H.J. Watts & Sons are adding several very important improvements to their gin. They are now receiving and putting in place 3 new 70 saw gin stands, a new lint flue and Folder. This last is a new invention that very few if any in this section have. It has been tested one season and found good. It folds the roll of lint in regular layers in the bale.
M.B. Frogge returned from Oklahoma Friday where he atttended the Socialist convention. He heard "Mother Jones" and E.V. Debs speak. He says "Mother Jones" is a very elequent speaker. She will speak at Ada Aug. 27
W.T. Pannell moved here Tuesday from Minnie, Ark.
J.F. Short os Kentucky was looking over the new townsite Monday with a view of investing.
C.A. Tabor has bought Lee Yeager's barber shop. R.H. Dennis who has been working in the shop leaves for El Paso, Texas. C.A. Cole continues with the new proprietor.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Cunningham on Aug. 17 a boy.
J.G. Causey of Dallas, was here Tuesday. He is visiting relatives near town and my conclude to settle here.
Bert Quillian returned last week from New Mexico where he has taken up a fine homestead. He thinks it is a great country.
W. McWhirt, manager of the Roff oil mill, and John Duran, an approved workman in the art preservative of all arts, were business visitors in McGee Tuesday.
Crop on 50 acres--18 head of cattle, 5 hogs and my chickens for sale. Will take good wagon and team in the trade. A.A. Patterson, McGee, I.T.
BUILDING AT WALLING
Brown & Mantooth, of Johnsonville, are building a residence.
Mr. Brown is building a residence.
C.H. McCurdy is putting up a blacksmith shop.
Shi Bros. are busily engaged in erecting their gin at Walling.
W.J. Long and S.B. Kimberlin, President and Cashier of the Bank of Commerce, of Pauls Valley, have bought a lot next to that of the First National Bank of Walling on Main Street and will build a brick.
Owing to the heavy rains, the Anti Horsethief Association dinner at Wynnewood is to put off until August 31 and Sept 1.
Ben Stewart, while going home in a buggy from Marietta with his brother Cal, was shot and killed. Cal Stewart was arrested.
L.M. Ward, of Cedar Hill, Texas, is visiting his brother, J.T. Ward.
W.T. Price thinks the boll worm is seriously damaging his cotton. Several others say they are at work in their cotton. S.E. Griffin of near Civet, says they are at work on his but he does not think the damage will be very great.