The Owl Tribune from Owl, Oklahoma • 1

SJV THE OWL TRIBUNE OWL INDIAN TERRITORY FRIDAY JANUARY 13 1905 No 1 VOL I 1906 1905 WE THAE Far Fast Patronage Call and see na again Respectfully General Merchandise A Imm EOEUBTST THE TOWN OF OWL A Brief Description of the Surrounding Country PERSONAL AND LOCAL Subscribe for your home paper Go to A for good shoes Buy your chops and bran from Kirby The city of Owl now has 500 population Grist made a visit to Olney Sunday The trafic from our dejiot is constantly growing Kirby always has fresh groceries arid meets prices A Crow is the Iippy father of a bouncing baby boy Kirby will appreciate your trade and buy your produce Kirby Sullivan want 500 cords of wood See A Kirby Fok Sale 135 acre farm 100 acres in cultivation See Jo Gill If you want to buy or sell anything try an in our columns New buildings can be seen in courso of construction in all directions Mrs A LKiiby and Mrs Jessie Carney spent New Years in Ada with friends United States Marshal Wm Bradsliaw of Durant was in the city New Year day Mrs Jessie Carney of Harris-ton Miss is visiting her sister Mrs A Kiiby Explosion in Laundry at Muskogee As a result of a gasoline explosion which occurred in the New Model Steam Laundry Wednes-afternoon of lastwek five persons were injured two of whom may die The direct cause of the explosion is not known but it is believed that the escaping gas from the ironing machine exploded a gasoline tank The loss is estimated at gibout $4000 No insurance This is a new plant having been in operation only two months Severe Blizzrd Not in several years hai New York been visited by a storm of such proportion as that which commenced Jan 2d and continued until early Friday Nine inches of snow fell paralyzing traffic and the marked drop in the temperature brought untold suffering to the ioor The storm caused seven deaths in New York and viciuty while many iiorsons overcome by the cold uropjied to the street some of them receiving fractured bones Statehood Bill Now Before the Senate By a vote of 31 to 17 the senate Wed nesday took up the statehood bill providing for the admission of two states Arizona and New Mexico to lie combined in one and Oklahoma and Indian Territory to lie combined in another From now on to the end of the session the statehood bill will be used as a buffer against any legislation that may be prepared to which the leaders of the senate object Survey Completed Surveyors for the Canadian Valley and Western Railway have reached Chickasha I The survey for the line is now complete from Chickasha east through Purcell and Ada to Tupelo tlie eastern terminus It is thought that construction work will soon begin Herald Many of those women who say that beautifying is foolish are living contradictions of their own statements The water here is of the best is soft and found at a depth of from 23 to 30 feet The soil is black clay loam and a good sub-soil suitable to all kinds of vegetation Com cotton and small grain do equally well It will not be over estimating to say that there will be watermellons shipped from Owl by the 10th of July and their equal cannot be found in the It would be impossible to tell of all the advantages there are here and the only way you can know of them so as to see them in every phase is to get on the train and cone to Owl where you are bound to sector yourself that this brief description is only a small pait cf what Really exists Indian Territory is an agricultural section of vast importance Our public lands are being rapidly taken up and put under cultivation Alfalfa promises to be the hay crop of Indian Territory From two to four crops can be raised in a single year and large yields have been secured Corn and broom com can be raised hero with equally good results as anywhere in the west Apples teaches grapes and small fruits can also be produced here in abundance Potatoes can Ite made a specialty from the fact that two crops can be grown on the same ground each year The early crop harvested in May and Juno will be shipped north' and east The second used for home consumption and to supply soed in the spring While dairying is in its infancy in the territory many farmers find it very profitable and will be extensively engaged in the making of butter in the near future Many farmers are coming from the north to escane the severe northern winters They find that they can dispose of their lands in the northern states and purchase more valuable and lietter land in Indian Territory more especially in the vicinity surrounding our city for less money than that realized from the sale of the old homesteads Owl is located on the Ry 10 miles west of Colgate I and is the first station on the new road recently built from the above mentioned place to Oklahoma City The town at the present time has a population of 500 people February 1 there were only two buildings today these are seventy-five and others going up 1 Wj have good school with 116 pupils enrolled two churches established Methodist and Baptist All kinds of business are represented viz: Three general merchandise stores one bank one hardware store two exclusive grocery stores two drug stores three restaurants one hotel two barber shops one first class meat market three confectioneries two doctors ore lumber yard two blacksmith shops first-class cotton gin a news paper and job printing office and several other industries The fraternal organizations represented here are Masonic Independent Order of Odd Fellows Woodmen of the World Modern Woodmen Fraternal Union and Union We understand the Knights of Pythias are soon to organize We can say that at least 85 per cent of the country tributary to this town is tillable Clear Boggy creek is only four miles southwest of here and there is no finer agricultural country in the Territory while north of us there is Muddy Boggy seven miles East ot us one mile is Owl creek and west of us two and one -half miles is Leader creek There is not a better scope of country tributary to any town in the Choctaw Nation than tliero is surrounding Owl This is a fine hog country as well Hogs do well and get ready for the market on the mast and acorns There are three thoroughbred herds within four miles of Owl Yes you can buy some of this land or get good leases We are only three and one-half miles from the coal segregation at Coalgato and there are croppings in sight of Owl GDINSE Livery Feed Sale Stable ALSO Restaurant Meals 20 cts Next door to stable Owl I Van Hoozer DEALER IN Opposite the meat market pr P- Cody Me Da wan Strange Attorneys-at-Law Colgate Indian Territory Office: Jones Drug Storo Subscribe for The Owl Tribune Residence Self Hotel Practice in all Courts 1 1.