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The Muskogee Gimeter. Durfey Hardware Company Durfey Hardware Company Shelf and Heavy Hardware, Tinware, Buggies, Wagons, Implements, Builders' Tools, etc. All Kinds of Tin Work and Plumbing. GUARANTEE LIFE INSURANCE CO. MUSKOGEE, INDIAN TERRITORY Capital Stock $200,000 An Old Line Company issues all forms of Limited Payments, Life and Endowment Policies. DIRECTORS:—E. J. MINTS, Muskogee, I. T.; GEO. D. LENNON New York; F. L. CONGER, Oklahoma City; WM. M. EGLESTON St. Louis. Mo.; C. J. MILLER, Muskogee, I. T.; SAMUEL RAYMOND, Wynrewood, I. F. EVERYTHING FOR THE HOUSE 1 North Main St., Muskogee Indian Territory The Best People to Trade With.--Try Them. If You Want to Know What the Negroes in the Tertory are Doing Read THE CIMETER. Vol 5. POLITICS OF THE TERRITORY An Estimate of The Classes of People Making Up The Population Favorable to a Republican State. No careful record of the number of citizens of African decent of the Seminole nation was kept, but it must be fully 1,5000. The Dawes Commission shows that in the Choctaw nation there are 2,983 freedmen whose application for enrollment have been approved, and 1,682 whose applications are undetermined; in the Cherokee nation, 2,749 applications approved and 437 undetermined; and in the Creek na ion, 4,954 applications approved and 437 undetermined. This makes a total of 24,538 Negroes connected with the five civilized tribes. The census reports of 1900 gave a black population to the whole territory of 36,583 and of 18,331 to Oklahoma. There were about 6,000 Indians in Oklahoma and 51,363 in Indian Territory according to this report, but judging from the number of applications listed before the Dawes Commission there are over 100,000 Indians exclusive of freedmen and Quapaws in the Indian Territory alone Adding a five per cent increase for for the last four years, the total combined black and Indian population of the two territories cannot fall much short of 170,000. The black voters in these numbers can be counted on as Republicans, and whenever put to the test, unquestionably the overwhelming majority of the Indian voters would be Republican also. The white population of the Indian Territory in 1900 was 392,6780, and of Oklahoma 367,524. Since that date there has been a great immigration, which, excepting that part part entering Southwest Oklahoma, has mostly come from the North. Texas and Arkansas have ceased to be the colonizers of the Twin Territories. Kansas, Nebraska, Northern Missouri and the Central States have taken their place. The Hon. Bird S. McGuire, Oklahoma's Congressional delegate, in an interview yesterday's issues of this paper, claimed that the new state to be made out of the two territories would be Republican under the present conditions by about 15,000 majority. The figures given, which have been compiled from the best sources, would indicate that McGuire's claim is well within the limits of probability. Granting that at the last election the combined vote of the two territories showed a Democratic majority of 10,000, yet since that date the Republican immigration from the North has been a three to one Democratic immigration from the South. Adding to this gain the increase which will come with enfranchising of the Indians and freedmen, a Republican majority for the new state seems assured. K. C. Journal. The Odd Fellows celebrate at Muskogee, the 20 and 21. A big time expected, as there will be many visitors in town. Shelf and Heavy Hardware, Tinware Elements, Builders' Tools, etc. All Kind ing. PHONE 205 ROWSEY BLOCK GUARANTEE LIFE IN MUSKOGEE, INDIAN Capital Stock An Old Line Company issues all for Life and Endowme DIRECTORS:—E. J. MINTS, Muskogee New York; F. L. CONGER, Oklahoma St. Louis, Mo.; C. J. MILLER, Mu- MOND, Wynrewood, I. F. PHONE 205 ROWSEY BLOCK The Elite We will clean and repair clothes in first-class style of place of business located at Panama Canal Labor. The important question of the sorts of labor that shall be employed in the building of the Panama Canal may have to be settled by Congress. General Davis takes the position that the immigration laws of Panama and not of the United States will govern in the Panama zone, and that if necessary the Commission will be able to employ Chimenese labor. The British government is placing severe restrictions on the employment of Jamaica Negroes, many of whom were badly treated by the French contractors. In a full running discussion of the Panama labor problem in the New York Sun by a number of people, Dr. Albert S. Ashmead of New York was the only writer who stood out squarely for Afro-American labor as being all sufficient. He said. "Mr. Thorp thinks it will be a task of immense difficulty to obtain the necessary labor for the digging of the Panama Canal, aud will cost far more t'an Uncle Sam expects to pay. "The labor problem," he says, "is likely to delay the work seriously." Not at all for we have our own Negroes in the Gulf states just as immune against tropical diseases -dysenteria, malaria and yellow fever as those wretched Jamaicans. For Heaven's sake: do not engage Jamaica Negroes to build the canal." There appears to us to be a great deal of method in the attitude of the Canal Commission and of those who have discussed the problem of labor for the Canal is giving such scant consideration to our Afro-American supply. What is this method? Is the fear of upsetting the Southern labor market, or fear that Afro-Americans would be unequal to the work? The Gulf States and Mississippi Valley Negroes are absolutely immune from the climatic severity and malarious conditions that rule in Panama, and if there is any member of the Commission who think that these laborers are inferior to the Chinese and Jamaican laborers he has not the nerve to say so. Some thirty thousand of these laborers will be needed, and the talk of employing aliens when our own citizens need the work and can perform it should have the gas pricked out of it.—New York Age. Fate's Answer. INCORPORATED Hardware, Tinware, Tools, etc. All Kinds THE LIFE INS MUSKOGEE, INDIAN T ual Stock $2 Company issues all forms e and Endowment Y. MINTS, Muskogee, L. CONGER, Oklahoma C. J. MILLER, Musk ood, I. F. clean and repair or first-class style on business located at We will clean and repair or Dye and fix your clothes in first-class style on short notice. Our place of business located at OPPOSITE R. EVAN'S LIVERY STABLE 209 EAST BROADWAY J. E. Roy, Manager and Proprietor Smith-Torrans Number 35 re Company WARE, Buggies, Wagons, Im- nds of Tin Work and Plumb III North Second Street. INSURANCE CO. IN TERRITORY. $200,000 forms of Limited Payments, ent Policies. gee, I. T.; GEO. D. LENNON oma City; WM. M. EGLESTON uskogee, I. T.; SAMUEL RAY- DYING, CLEANING REPAIRING. or Dye and fix your on short notice. Our Ci . Muskogee vet W. H. TWINE, Editor, | MUSKOGER, - ~-_ IND. TER, eo NEW STATE NOTES After July Ist the name of the postoffice at Spokogee will be changed to Dustin, Oklahoma City, according to the as sessor’s returns, shows a population of nearly $3,000—a gain of 23,000 in four years, The officers and pursuers of the negro who commited an assault near Wagoner have given up the searel and have returned home, Atturney General Knox has desig nated Chickasha as the official resi dence of Joseph TT. Diekerson, the newly appojated federal judge for the southern district Edmond has been placed on the list of cities of the first elass—having au population of 2,600, This gives Oklahoma county two cities in’ that class, " John Lewis, a Choctaw Indian, dicd May 28. He was 105 years old, and up to the week of his death he eould walk or ride the six miles between his cabin and Caney without any dis comfort, The biggest chattel mortgage re corded wilh the register of deeds at Lawton is the one made by W. T. Wagener to W. B. Cowen for $800,000 on 15.0000 steers, A demented woman patient jumped from the second story window of the Baptist santtarium at Oklahoma City. It was at first thought her back was broken, but a careful examination proved that no bones had been frae- tured, ‘The Oklahoma Sunday sehool con- vention was held at Gathrie last week. The session was inaugurated with a svand parade, in whieh 700 delegates participated. B. Franklin Butts of Pennsyivania was present and took part in the meetings. By guaranteeing a bonus of $2,500 to Aemo Hotel company of St. Louis, Sapulpa has been promised a $25,000 hotel. The hotel will be eonpletod before January 1, 1905, It will he built of brick, and wilh be ene of the fines! hotels in the territory, Attorneys for George Moran, who is now serving a life sentence in the penitentiary for the murder of Jay Boemblossom near Rush Springs be- fore the opening, are making: arrange: ments to go before the supreme court to ask an appeal, The Indian missionary conference iv session at Atoka last week appoint ed a committee to ask congress to inelude a prohibition clause in the ea abling act for the Indian Territory and local option for Oklahoma, as it now stands, Hfenry Black of Eldorado — aeciden- tally shot himself while out hunting, dying from tie effects of the dis: charge of the gun. He was attempt- ng to pass through a wire fence when the gun was caught, and in trying to lisentangle it he caused it to be dis: charged. The annual meeting of the Okla homa Historical society will be held wt Oklahoma City June 10, at 2 o'eloek Xm. An election of the board of di- vectors will be the most important work, Editors contributing the regu. far issues of their papers are mem- vers, and are urged to he present, as ‘he success of the society depends largely upon their interest in’ the work, LENGTH OF MARRIED LIFE. Statistics Show Joy Should Last for Twenty-Seven Years. Pe ehh eee i eee Statistics gathered in various coun: tries of the civilized world show that married life, on the average, lasts twenty-seven years, or a little over one-third of a man's life, estimating the latter at three-score-and-ten, The illustration presents the idea in graphic form, for the happiness or consolation of those interested, as the case may be. The figures also show that, as a rule, married people live Jonger than the unmarried, which earries out the dictum of the seriptires that “it is not good for man to tive alone,” According to the statistics June folds the palm for the union of hearts and fortunes. It appears that there is some subtle connection between the aa Peer. eae oe 1H) Ga month of roses and the poctie fancy which leads brides to choose that time of the year for the happy ceremony. May is the most unpopular month. Candidates for marital honors seem to have taken seriously that old say- ing, “Marry in May and repent for aye.” People who are matter-of-fact about all things else pay due regard to the popular superstition when it comes to this serious question. Next to June comes January as the marriage month, and December ts third... Then come, in order, July, No- vember and April, while September and October show an equal number of marriages, leading August by one, February and March are dull months. Phenomenal Luck at Whist., An event which has been vouched for by witnesses and whicti was duly recoided in whist annals was the phe- nomenal hand of thirteen trumps. It oceurred in a game at the United Ser- vice club in Calcutta in 1888, the players being a judge and three phy- sicians. The pack had been perfectly shuffled and cut. It has been ealen- lated that in a game of whist every one holds one of 625,018,559,600 possi- bie hands, and Mr, Babbage reckoned that if a million men were to deal cards day and night at the rate of one deal per minute for a hundred million years they would not exhaust one hun- dred thousandth part of the possible variations of the cards-New York Herald. Dog Suits—London Styie. — ‘ Le oT, +h qa S »y HL Oath ISN Oe RN Se Hees ARKO tare if "i \ x} i re NSU eee Here is a photograph of a lucky dog owned by an English peeress. Booted and clothed as shown in the picture, the animal appears in Hyde Park when his aristocratic misiress is out for a “constitutional.” A maid accom: panies the pair and manipulates the handkerchief whenever his dogship eneezes or snilles, UMBRELLAS OF HUGE SIZ@. | Are Marks of Dignity in Ashanti and on the Gold Coast. An inferior chief in Lagos has, it is feared, committed the indiscretion of using a large and elaborate umbrella, with the result that his superior chief is offended at what he regards a breach of Court etiquette. Hitherto no one but a principal chief had been allowed to carry an umbrel- ja, and when some time ago a sub- ordinate made an appearance with one of rather showy design he was prompt- ly fined by the local Council, The principal umbrellas for Ashantl and the Gold Coast chieftains are of enormous size, some of them when open measuring ten feet across. A state umbrella dispatched from London a few weeks ago had for its apex » silver eagle standing on two silver cannon, nine inches in height. Another had as a symbolical orna- nent an eighteen-carat gold hen sur: rounded by eighteen-carat gold chick: Hens, representing the chief and his | tribe. The coverings of the umbrellas are of red, white, yellow, and blue silk, with deep fringes. The largest um brellas are carried over the heads of chiefs by bearers, while other bearers steady the umbrella by cords attached to the uppermost parts. A conpara tively small umbrella, surmounted by chased silver knobs Instead of an elab | orate design, is for the inferior chiefs The Latest Fad in Jewelry. A iS =‘ : = sas The latest thing in jewelry is to wear @ large diamond surrounded by little rubies upon the back of the hand, the ornament being fastened as shown in the sketch, The fashion comes from Paris, where this design has been patented. The prices run from $150 upward, bracelets am rings included, Used in Athens. 5 a c=> & GS = PA ~~ —# r) e £ h Tn an ancient tomb were found these toilet articles of a Grecian lady of antiquity, Figure a shows he¢ hair pins, b is a hair ornament, ¢ is an ear clearer, d, © and f are jars for oint ment, and g is a back seraper, Oid Apple Tree Still Vigorous, The oddest apple tree in the state of Pennsylvania is owned by Henry J. Miller of Hokendauqua, It is a paradise dwarf, 244 feet high, with 72 blossoms, and it bore two apples last voar. Indian Divorces Judge T. C. Humphreys, one of the racetitly apopinted judges for Indian Territory, has rendered an opinion to the authority of the federal judges over Indian divorces, says the Kan- sas City Journal, that is of wide inter. est. Under the old tribal laWs there were Indian court and divorce laws and forms of Indian marriages. It has always been a question whether the federal judges had authority in divorce cases of this nature, especially in cases where an Indian had mar- ried a white woman who was not, un- til married, a citizen of the tribe, The ‘decision of Humphreys is that — the federal judges do have jurisdiction. The matter of divorce in Indian mar- riages causes many questions as to passing of title to land now that the Indian can sell, and legal marriages and legal divorces have become {me portant because of that feature. A Druggist’s Story. Coelledo, Mo., June (Mr. Adolph Gerhardt, chemist and druggist of this place, was so ill with his back and kidneys that he couldn't work. He was very bad and didn’t seem to get any better till he began to use Dodd’s Kid- ney Pills, He was so delighted with the results he got from this remedy that he wrote: “Dodd's Kidney Pills are a Goi send to suffering humanity. 1 was down on my back from kidney trouble so bad that I was unable to work. [ began to use Dodd's Kidney Pills anc before I had finished one box, I was able to go to work again, I have not had any kidney trouble since. I will always recommend Dodd's Kidniy Pills.” Many such cases are being repori ed from ail over the state and Dodd's Kidney Pitls, solely on their merits and by the wonderful and perfect cures they work are established as the standard remedy for backache and all kidney complaints. The laws of Russia pertaining to bankruptey are very severe. A mer- chant in Russia can be declared a bankrupt if his liabilities exceed $772 and he has not the ready cash to meet them. He can be arrested, and his retention depends on the good will of his creditors, Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it aever sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in %-pound pack- ages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Deflanco Starch {s free from all injurious chem- {eals. If your grocer tries to sell youa 12-02. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Deflance Starch has printed on every package in large let- ters and figures “16 ozs.” Demand Defiance and save much time ana money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. ; The Man of the House The drummer rode up to the front of a farm house in the Kentucky mountains and addressed a man on the poreh, “Good morning,” he said, “LT want to see the man of the house.” “Thar ain't any,” was the mild re- sponse, “The party you want to see is my wife, I reckon.”—Detroit Free Press, 400 STUDENTS in five months is the record of the Tyler College, Tyler, Texas. The excellent work and thorough courses of bookkeeping and shorthand of this institution will soon place it at the head of American Business Col- leges. Its graduates are being placed almost daily in the best positions of the country. Their employment department is an excellent feature. Through it posi- tions are filled without charge to the business man or the student. VALUE OF "BOB WHITE" This Bird Is Perhaps the Most Useful of Any on the Farm The orinthologists of the department of agriculture have been making an investigation of the economic value of Bob White, as a result of which it is now announced that that bird is probably the most useful abundant species on the farms. Field observations, experiments and examinations show that it consumes large quantities of weed seed and destroys many of the worst insect pests with which farmers contend and it does not injure grain, fruit or any other crop. It is figured that from September 1 to April 30, annually in Virginia alone, the total consumption of weed seed by Bob Whites amounts to 573 tons. Some of the pests which it habitually destroys, the report says, are the Mexican cotton boll weevil, which damages the cotton crop upwards of $15,000,000 a year, the potato beetle which cuts off $10,000,000 from the value of the potato crop, the cotton worms, which have been known to cause $30,000,000 loss in a year, the chinch bug and the Rocky mountain locust scourges which left desolation in their paths and which have caused losses to the extent of $100,000,000 in some years. The report urges measures to secure the preservation of the Bob Whites in this country. Don't you know that Defiance Starch besides being absolutely superior to any other, is put up 16 ounces in package and sells at same price as 12-ounce packages of other kinds? The Vigorous Tennyson Family The Vigorous Tennyson Family Ten of the twelve Tennyson children, of whom Alfred was the fourth, reached a patriarchal age, which testifies to the extraordinary physical vigor of the race. "The Tennysons never die," said one of them at a moment when death seemed the one thing to be desired. Thus, at 82, the laureate is found defying his friends to rise twenty times in quick succession from a law chair, without touching it with their hands, as he could do, and reproaching William Watson for his complimentary poem in the following language: "If, by 'wintry hair' you allude to a tree whose leaves are half gone you are right, but if you mean white you are wrong for I never had a gray hair on my head." Sensible Housekeepers will have Defiance Starch, not alone because they get one-third more for the same money, but also because of superior quality. Placed Washington First. George Washington was the only president to receive the unanimous vote of the electoral college. At the second election of James Monroe, in 1820, there was no political opposition, but one elector from New Hampshire voted for John Quincy Adams, explaining that he did so in order that no man might share with Washington the honor of unanimous election Old and True "For fifteen years I have constantly kept a supply of Hunt's Cure on hand to use in all cases of itching skin rouble. For Eczema, Ringworm and the like it is peerless. "I regard it as an old friend and a true one." MRS. EULA PRESLAD. Greenfield, Tenn. Hundreds of dealers say the extra quantity and superior quality of Defiance Starch is fast taking place of all other brands. Others say they cannot sell any other starch. Of the thirty-eight sultans who have ruled the Ottoman empire since the conquest of Constantianople by the Turks, thirty-four have died violent deaths. SCIENCE and INVENTION It would be a revelation to the shoppers who visit the city stores in search of finery to trim their gowns to know the story of how the lace which they so much prize is made—how whole families and even towns in continental Europe are engaged in this work, especially in the long winter months, when they are shut in by the ice and snow. Some of these toilers have 10-day the aid of electricity and fine machinery in their work, but for years and years others have been toiling on old-fashioned hand looms, and even with no loom at all, turning out the dainty fabrics with only their needles. The great value of this product and the enormous amount of labor spent in its manufacture have led the inventor to study out every possible means of simplifying the manual part of the work. A simple little machine, with the aid of which even the young may be taught to manufacture some neat pattern of lace and on which a skilful woman can soon learn to turn out complicated patterns, is that shown in the illustration. The mode of use is to attach the ends of the threads from all the bobbins to a flat strip of ribbon just beyond the pincovered roller and then interweave the threads on the bobbin to form the Cylindrical Simple Mechanism for Home Use. desired pattern, winding up the finished product on the reel as the work progresses. Sylvester G. Lewis, of Chicago, Ill., is the designer of this maching. Electrical Changes Fixed. A naval physician, Dr. Jolly, has applied the Schleip rule in Madagascar, and by comparing the instruments he has been able to fix the changes of the electrical condition—changes which vary during the day and night. During the dry season there was an excess of positive electricity, Dr. Jolly observing that both in his own case and that of other subjects the best condition of health corresponded to the positive discharges, while during the periods of negative dominance there was weakness and lassitude. These changes also have their echo in the state of general health, notably in fevers. Tells Amount of Precipitation. A tipping bucket attachment has been added to the rain gauge of the weather bureau on top of the customhouse at St. Louis. It accurately tells of the amount of precipitation. The rain is drained into a double bucket, so poised that it tips on receiving a certain amount of water. Every movement of this kind is registered by an electrical connection. As Yet Unknown to Science. It can be said with reasonable certainty that electricity and magnetism are states of disturbances in the universal ether, although the exact kind of disturbance cannot yet be defined, partly because the mechanism of the ether itself must be sufficiently known in order to differentiate its disturbed conditions from its normal conditions Mossale. To be a successful wife, to retain the love and admiration of her husband should be a woman's constant study. Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Potts tell their stories for the benefit of all wives and mothers. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM: — Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will make every mother well, strong, healthy and happy. I dragged through nine years of miserable existence, worn out with pain and weariness. I then noticed a statement of a woman troubled as I was, and the wonderful results she had had from your Vegetable Compound, and decided to try what it would do for me, and used it for three months. 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Whereas, Minnie Duncan now deceased did by her certain mortgage deed with power of sale dated the 27th day of May, 1903, and recorded in the office of the Clerk of the United States Court and ex officio Recorder in Volume H2, page 377 convey to the Territorial Bank and Trust Company of Muskogee, Indian Territory, the following described real estate situate in the City of Muskogee, Western District, Indian Territory, to-wit: Lot number five (5) and the South half of lot four (4) in block number sixty-eight (68) of said city according to official plat approved. And whereas, it was provided in said mortgage that in the event of her failure to pay the note therein described the said mortgagee or its assignee, agent or attorney in fact shall have power to sell the property therein described upon the conditions therein specified. And whereas, the note described in said mortgage deed is now past due and the whole of the principal and interest thereon remains unpaid Now, Therefore: By virtue of the condition in said mortgage fully set forth and the power vested I, Chas. W. Westerhide, Agent and Attorney in fact of the Territorial Bank and Trust Company of Muskogee, I. T., the legal owner and holder of said note will proceed to sell the real estate in said mortgage and above described at public vendue to the highest bidder for cash at Muskogee, Western District, Indian Territory, on the 9th day of July. 1904, between the hours of 9 o'clock in the forenoon and 5 o'clock in the afternoon of that day for the purpose of satisfying said note and the cost of executing this trust. Land! Land! Land! Lot 100 x 140 in the resident district, $500.00. A lot 50 x 140, near oil wel $400.00. A fractional lot for $250.00. A house and lot for $500.00, —Call or write W. H. Twine. Notice to Home Seekers. If you want to buy a deeded farm in the Creek Nation, now is the time to buy before the prices go skyward. I can sell you a farm at a reasonable price. For further information see or write Citizens who desire to sell their land or borrow money at a low rate of interest on ten years' time to improve your land. See Twine. To the New Comer. If you want to buy a farm at a reasonable price, See Twine. A S McRea ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Sharum Building. Muskogee, Ind, Ter Hello! Who is That? Say, did you know that Gen. Pleasant kept a first-class place on the east side of Second street? Everything good to eat, cigars of the best brand. fancy candies, ice cream, flour, sugar, coffee and country vegetables. He sells cheap, give him a call. GEORGE PLEASANT, Proprietor. CHAS. W. WESTERHEIDE Agent and Attorney in fact. When You Want A Clean Shave A Neat and Stylish Hair-cut Or Shampoo EXCELSIOR TONSORIAL PARLOR So. Second St., Next to Creek Gro. Co Clean towels, sharp razors a specialty. J. A. BANKS, Proprietor Go to CREEK Livery Barn, Corner Fourth Street and Elgin Ave., for the finest turnouts in the city. Any kind, any shape, any time. WM. RAGSDLE & CO World's Fair Rate May 21st St. Louis and return only $8.90 via Frisco. 20th Century Colored Photograph Gallery. Opposite U. S. Court House. Photoes of all kinds made in the la- test styles. Cabinets plain per dozen, $2.00 " platina " " 3.50 1-2 " plain " 1.50 1-2 " platina " 2.00 4-4 " plain " .75 1-4 " platina " 1.00 W. E. Murdock, Prop. --- A LIE NAILED. It has been reported by some vicious parties who desire to injure a man's reputation that Mr. P. B. Austin made a statement that he was tired of helping Negroes to be buried and would not give any assistance in the burial of the Lee family. Mr. Austin states that the report is a falsehood made of whole cloth, he contributed to the assistance of the burial fund and at no time made the statements attributed to him. People should be careful about circulating statements of this kind, as they are dangerous in the extreme and lay the individual liable to prosecution. As a rule the people who start these kind of lies are the last ones to give anything themselves and in order to hide their own meanness, they start false reports on the deserving giver. If its news worth reading its in The Cimeter. E. L. SAMUELS, The Popular Boot & Shoe-Maker. Repairing Nearly Done. All Work Guaranteed Keeps Constantly on Hand a Full Line of Second Hand Shoes, All Kind. 140 So. 2nd. St., Muskogee, I. T. : John Dyole & Company : EXCLUSIVE Undertakers - Embalmers (LICENSED) AMBULANCE FURNISHED FREE. PHONE NO 486 Office 221-223 0kmulgee Avenue. ALWAYS SUPPLIED WITH FRESH MEATS : : ; .OF ALL KINDS : : : Fresh Fish and All Kinds of Game. Free delivery to any and all parts of the city. PETERMAN & REEVES, Proprietors. FRISCO SYSTEM COMPLETELY AND COMPORTABLY SERVE WESTERN MISSOURI AND EASTERN KANSAS TO THE PRINCIPAL CITIES EAST, WEST, NORTH, SOUTH. PULLMAN SLEEPERS, RECLINING CHAIR CARS. TRAINS LIGHTED AND VENTILATED BY ELECTRICITY. The Direct Route to the "WORLD'S FAIR CITY" SAINT LOUIS For detailed information, call on nearest representative FRISCO SYSTEM, or address L. W. PRICE, Bristol Passenger Agent, JOPLIN, MO. Of the old Cherokee council for the year 1867, there are only three now living, Roach Young, of the senate; Stephen Tehee and Daniel Redbird, of the lower house. The rest have all passed to their happy hunting grounds. No Spoony Business For Chills, Malaria and Billiousness Cheatham’s Laxative Tablets are cer. tainly very fine. No bad effects as with quinine. Then they are so éon- venient, can carry them in pocket an: no sphon is necessary. They are an ideal remedy. oy . GEO. WESTLAKE, 2Ge per box. Sycamore, Ark A successful man roots white his unsucressful brother stands around tnd squeals, | Deafness Cannot Be Cured | Cache POPTTAN OF ThE ene Tiere ee Tench the diss eared portion of the ear. ‘Ther® {only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deatnees is caused by an faftamed condition ot the snucous Maing of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube te inflamed you have arninbiing sound or time perfect hearing. end when It ts entirely closed, Deaf: hess ts the result, and walexs the Inflammation can be taken oat and thie tube restored to It normal eondl- Hoa hearing will be destroyed forever: nine cases ont of tem are caused by Catarrh, which Ia nothing Hut an tnflamed condition of the mieous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for ay case of Heafnngs (enused by cacneth) that cannot be. eured by Hinds Catarrl Cure. Send forelreulac, tree, VJ. CHENEY & CO. Toledo, O Sold by Dengatets, ie Take Mail's Famtly Pils for constipation, Any man will find livin easy who continues to like cake, A compilation or new incorpora tions in the eastern states with a capital of $1,000,000 or more shows that in May they agpregated $1232, 000,000, which amount is largely he low the totals of 1903, 1002 and 1901, However, the figures are $57,300,000 larger than for the previous month New Jersey leads with a total of $90, 000,000, Mrs. J. Boulow, the wife of a farm er near Dunean, while walking in hee. garden, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. DON'T SPOIL YOUR cCLoTues, Use Red Cross Ball Blue and keep them white as snow. All grocers, be. 2 package. Life and warmth ave of the sun, ils rays meaning vituuty and growth wherever they fall. Tur NAICVE ILL ER ostrors ati the nionand THE DAISY FLY KILLER siismizciiies tavany home—in dining. 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The Nye-cent package ts enough for ordinary oocasions, All druggtsts sell them, FREE to WOMEN A Large Trial Box and book of ine structions absolutely Free and Poste paid, enough to prove the value of Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic Paxtine ts in powser aan, form to dissolve in ia at water — non-poisonous Band far superior to liquid ’ e i, satlsootics containing = A akohol which irritates ‘(aes ee i % WME) ertics, The contents f] of every box makes fp more Antiseptic Solu- ‘ Y tion—lasts — longer — Wg £0¢8 further—has more uses in the family and > does moregoodthanany ~ A antiseptic preparation you can buy. ‘The formula of a noted Bosten physician, and used with great success as a Vaginal Wash, for Leucorrhoea, Pelvic Catarrh, Nasal Catarrh, Sore Throat, Sore Eyes, Cuts, and all soreness of mucus membrane. Tn local treatment of femulo ills Paxtine is invaluable. Used as a Vaginal Wash wo vhallonge the world to Produce its equal for thorougimess, "Itinu revelation ie « leansing and healing power; it kills all germs which cause Inflammation and discharges. ' All leading druggists keep Paxtine: price. b, box; if rouredces not, send to usforit, Don't take a substitute — there is nothing like Paxtine. | Write for the Free Box of Paxtine to-day. | B.PARTOW OO, 3 Pape Bitg., Rorton, Mess, SAW REAL SEA SERPENT. French Sailors Declare They Met Genuine Océan Monster. The commander of the French gun- boat Decidee reports to his admiral Yn the far enst that he and his officers and crew have seen a genuine sea werpent-in the Bay ef Along, near Haiphong, in Tonkin. About 400 yards beyond the vessel, and on the port bide, a large, round, black mass was fuddenly observed, and those on board {the gunboat took it for a rock, Later ‘on. the supposed rock moved, and was taken to be # colossal turtle. Then ‘the mass stretched out in vertical un- dulations, and what appeared to be a flattened serpent thirty meters, or ninety-eight feet, long, was plainly visible. The serpent dived twice before the eyes of all on board. Once it went right under the gunboat, and came up so near that the doctor, the boatswain, and several others, were able, by bending over the gunwale, to get a good view of the monster, it Was seen that the head and neck were turtle-like and that the skin was dark brown, with rings or patches of vel- low. Lt emitted jets of vapory water and atterward disappeared in the dis: tance. Syrian Patriarch. On Christmas Day a large congrega- tion assembles in Bethlehem to wor- ship on the spot, or what is supposed ee 1 a. hig Poe ~~ i ie vr: ' Pech) sak si is st yi; \ Swansea. yi eke ‘Qe: Bre ite» - Prone x Ee I % | Ba ie ck 2 ARS Se hkl ot bs ea DOR BF et oll ones ty igh es Pees th. ay as Le ca NR ky Ga Rh Bee ae ‘ic be MB ss ce aS Pan i y tobe the spot, where Christ was born. The place is now marked by a temple, While the exact spot where the man Ser once stood is marked by an altar One of the features of the ceremony whieh is elaborate, is the benediction which is pronounced by a venerable Syrian patriarch. The blessing has been uttered in exactly the same way and from the same position for many centuries;—New .York Herald. Weatherwise Birds and Fish. The seagull makes a splendid living barometer. 1. a covey of seagulls fly seawards early in the morning sailors and fishermen know that the day will be fine and the wind fair, but 'f the birds keep inland=ahough there be nd haze hanging out towards the sea to denote unpleasant weather—inter- ested folk know that the elements will be unfavorable. Of all weatherwise fish the dolphin is the most pymark- able. During a fierce gale or a storm at ‘sea the mariner knows that the end of it is near if he can see « dolphin, ov a number of that fish, sporiing on the high sea waves ‘Butterfly'’s Light Diet. A butterfly which a Chicago woman kept all winter and has recently died ate one drop of honey tn every three dave ~« . in : i CASTORIA Cr bene om For Infants and Children. ertieeram = ihe Kind You Have totes nes foneeee ees § Always Bought ANéegetable Preparation for As- similating ORR @ Bears the SRNR ere re | Si . Promotes Digestion Cheerful- | ignature ness andRest.Contains neither |} f pent etine nor Mineral, 0. OT NARCOTIC, H Boape at Od Dr SAMUEL PITCHER a | fathoms” fae fd ie e In i |e —— ts . Us a Aperfect Remedy for Constipa- || Worms Conmilsions feverish: (i ness and Loss OF SLEEP. i Fo r 0 V Q f Fac Simile Signature of bes Hi i; _avvom | Thirty Years AE CMRITIER ents Et Les cranes fi : [papeeeeddheliseesteee deiner a R = ‘THE CENTAUL ComPanY, HEW YORK CITY. = : i ae ‘ 7 J ra Be ; There are but two kinds of ; as starch. Defiance Starch, which Fr Sg a is the best starch made and—the rae MRMED rest: Other starches contain*chemicals, ae = which work harm to, the clothes, i : rot them and cause them to aes : “break, Defiance is absolute- Pr ae ~~ i g Ete ss > DEFIANCE... i Slama 7 eae ie an . . ; Gea 5 ly pure. Ie is guarantced 7 ~ perfectly satisfactory or money back. The proof is in the doing Fe i. and Defiance does. 16 ounces for 10 (eerenacaaan a cents. Your groceg sells it ‘Giese MANUFACTURED BY THE DEFIANCE STARCH CO., a OMANA, NEB. AO 3 JOHN W.NORKIS, Pere risen sies ‘3yre wn clvil war, lS adjudicating claims, atty since BEGGS’ BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach. W.N.U-—Oklahoma City—No, 24, 1904 a re ey LE PE 1 P1ISO'S CURE FOR 5 Re 4 hy ; T ie & i, Ure Ee Be intimne. Bald by ators Oo “CONSUMPTION. & THE CIMETER Published every week in the in- terest ef the Negro by the Cimeter Publishing Co. Kavered at the Post Office at Muskogee 1.T, as seeond class mail matter. SUBSCRIPITON; ONG Yeates ceecsee seers, $1.00 Bix MOACHS.......... 00 cee ee oe oe BO Chree Months... 0. eB a parabolic W.H.YWINE - - + - Editor. k. WOOD, Asst Editor and Manager. J.T. TRIMBLE - - = Solicitor, 1.00K AND READ CAREFULLY, This is a positive warning--No pa- pers will be sent to any one in debt to this paper until paid up, Take notice and pay up or thie will be deprived of the great religious weekly. The re- cross means your time is out. The city council has passed the electric light franchise and now we will heave a day current and electric fans to keep us cool this summer. There will be a numer of Southerrers in the city this week looking over the metropolis and the Creek nation Location and investment will be the result. _ The Illinois republicans got down to business and nominaced a ticket that is a winner. There was some smooth politics played by the manipulators of that con- vention, We have mud works instead of water works, but you could ex pect to inherit nothing else from a Demoefatic aomiristration. The Repuodlican ccuncil will have to bring order out of chaos. The Frisco will nov be bottled up by the Midland Valiey, and Elgin Ave. will remain as it is, This was the only proper thing to do The people peed Elgin Ave., and the council no right legally or morally to give it away The Cimeter gang are billed for sbout three speeches on June 19, which is about three speech- es foreach of the Co. And all at difierent places, we will have to press in the typos, the devil and office cat to meet the appoint ments, The very worstelement of both races are reponsible for the ly- ing reports of a race war between the rivers, The truth of the matter is, that there has been a very low element of whites and the same of blacks living on the Verdigris river for years who have been comingling socially and otherwiser all of them were of a very low moral condition and if there has been a crime committed that gang caused it, — : The members of the repubti« can council should make a rece ies Peeper vc corre amamgty ee avec eemene ace Reiaeaat | | ; #* Carry a Full Line of vt BEST IMPLEMENTS, WAGONS, BUGGIES, | HARNESS, SEED ann EVERYTHING IN | HARDWARE .. . [GOODS THE BEST “- PRICES THE LOWEST CALL aND SEE Ula s MUSKOGEE, |. T, . HAND MADE CLOTHING, | | 8 SHIRTS. | a ALL «KINDS (OF HATS. ccecaaudscmaaaeamamemmaniemarnseaeiaes a eat aaa Sects C : nichin . THEAING bos Gents’ Furnishing Goods, | OF ALD 2 coRIPrTicias: | & rn na cet | Shirts, Hats. Underwear, Suit Cases, | R f W.E. NicCLURE, KNOX AGENCY, ENGLISH BLOCK, Muskogee, - - = = Ind. Ter’v. ord for the party since they are put there by Kepublican votes. Mayor Rutherford and one little Democratic councilman should not receive the credit for all good things accomplished. That fel« low, Rutherford is a smooth poli- tician, and if our fellows blindly givehim too much prestigo, he will be ar obstruction ia the way in the near future, better clip his wings now, The post office at this place is attracting Pome attention of the office seekers. In our opinion the present post master, H. T. Eetes, has made the city and community an efficient post mas- ter, He has labored early and late to meet the demands of the ~ - * patronage of the office. People who are in a po- Sition to know are well aware, that the duty of post master in this city has been one hard to perform. The work has been too heavy for the force that had it to do How ver, Estes has stood by his post, and strained every nerve to keep the bnsiness in shape ‘until the U. S, govern- ment came to his recue with more help. For this he deserves and aid of his fellow men.— Pioneer. | Do Your Banking Business With ° e The Territorial Bank & Trust Co. Oldest and Strongest Bank in the indian Territory. interest Paid on Deposits. \ Abstracts Made. - MUSKOGEE, INDIAN TERRITORY Fidelity Bonds Written. | There are a number of candi- dates for the position of P. M. at this plase and of course Mr. Es- tes would like to succeed himself It is but fair for him to say that he has made a god official, that he has made many friends, and isa good man and a good Re- publiean, We don’t know who his oppo- nents, but without taking sides, that they will have to get in training and develope = good sprit.ting qualities to head off the present incumbent. Of course its oo early in the game for any of them to start a campaign vut when the time comes we prophe- sy that there wiil be a lively fight and it will go to the finish, We are told that scme of the black phalanx are looking on with anx- ious eye to get in the game. Patterson Mercantile Company. DRY GOODS, . CLOT SAING, : BOOT, ; BLEOES, ; GIiCconere duskorren, rege Indian Torritory, Se ie —TAKE YOUR-- PRESCRIPTIONS —TO-- 9 (he Ben Estes Deug Store and get exactly what twe Doctar Ordered, Corner of Malo Street and Okmaizee Ave, Set It Quick, Rignt and Cheap. We rever aubstitute. HEADQUARTERS FOR PURE Drugs and Medicines, Ben Estes, - Prop. eee * f , If its news worth reading its in The Cimeter. OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE COMMERCIAL NAT’N'L BANK United States Depository. Muskogee Indian Territory. At close of business Friday, January 22, 1904, RESOURSES | LIABILITIES Loans and Discounts — $410,936.13 Capital 7 $200,000.00 Overdrafts (Cotton) 23,198.69 Surplus and Profit 16,978.26 Bonds and Premiums 106.080.49 Circulation 50,000.00 Furniture and Fixtures . 5,046.26 Deposits 345,142.28 Cash and Exchange 68,125.35 Reserved for Taxes 1,266.38 $613,836.92 $613,987.92 ‘Lhe above statement is correct. + D.N. FINK, Cashier, Business intrueted to our care receive prompt attention, THE WIND FROM THE OPEN SEA Winnow me through with thy keen, clean breath, Wind with the tang of the sea! Speed through the closing gates of the day, Find me and fold me; have thy way And take thy will of me! Use my soul as you used the sky— Gray sky of this soiled day! Clear the doubt as you sped its wrack Of storm cloud bringing its splendor back. Giving it gold for gray! Bring me word of the moving ships, Halyard and straining spars; Come to me clean from the sea's wild West. While the last lights die in the yellow breast Under the first white stars! Batter the closed doors of my heart And set my spirit free! For I stifle here in this crowded place, Sick for the tenantless fields of space, Wind with the tang of the sea! —Arthur Ketchum. ELI PERKIN'S $100 BY BELLE NANIATES DONATION Pretty Lena Winters tripped into the shoe store of E. Perkins & Co. and walked directly up to the sourvisaged proprietor. half a day's work—man's work, mean. If you could plow a field you'd know what real work is." Deacon Holmes had dropped in du "O, Mr. Perkins," she said, in her most coaxing tones and manner, "won't you buy a ticket to the wishbone social our church is to give Thursday night—only 25 cents?" She looked so sweet and winsome that Walter Hodge, standing near, wondered how anyone could refuse her anything she asked. Twenty-five cents, however, looked more handsome to E. Perkins than any vision of feminine beauty. "No, I won't," he snapped out. "It's nothing but give, give all the time, and the more we give the bigger the church debt grows. It's just a big steal cloaked under rummage sales, fairs and all kinds of tomfoolery—just to give you women a chance to gad and hear an entertainment. You ain't working for the Lord. You're just trying to have a good time and catch a fellow." Walter Hodge's eyes looked danger- M. H. H. "No, I won't!" he snapped. ous, but Lena's only twinkled merrily. "Oh. Mr. Perkins!" she said, "you don't know how hard we work. It's no play to get up a church entertainment." "I tell you that you don't know what work is. I'd give $100 to see any two of you church women do a half a day's work—man's work, I mean. If you could plow a field, you'd know what real work is." Deacon Holmes had dropped in during this conversation and was a silent, but interested listener. Lena contemplated Mr. Perkins' reflectively for a moment. "You've given me a new idea, Mr. Perkins," she said thoughtfully. "I was the member chosen to get up some sort of an entertainment this week. My wits suggested nothing but a wishbone social. Now I shall do as you suggest. With your $100 and the number of tickets I shall sell for such a novel entertainment the church will realize handsomely." "What do you mean? Come back here!" cried Mr. Perkins. But Lena was vanishing down the street. That night in the tri-weekly issue of the Hollyville Patriot appeared the following announcement: "E. Perkins, the well-known shoe dealer, has offered $100 to see any two of the Plymouth church members plow a field. Mrs. Charles Logan and Miss Lena Winters have accepted the challenge and will plow a field at the Lucas farm southeast of Hollyville, on Thursday, 2 p. m. Price of admission 25 cents. Reserved seats on the rail fence. Proceeds of tickets and $100 offered by Mr. Perkins to go to the church!" Mr. Perkins gasped and paled and foamed at the mouth when he read this. He swore it was an outrage and a put-up job, and that he would not pay it. It was all a trick of that little upstart of Lena Winters, but Deacon Holmes and Walter Hodge quietly reminded him that they were witnesses, and that the offer and transaction had been explicit and exactly as Miss Winters had stated. Mr. Perkins groaned in apprehension when posters announcing the contest stared him in the face for the next two days. Handbills were constantly thrown in his door and thrust into his hand. One ray of hope was left to him. Lena Winters, that slight, frivolous little thing, would not be able to plow one row. From different motives Walter Hodge was also concerned about Lena's part in the program. He met her on the street Wednesday evening and they strolled away in an opposite direction from Lena's home, for her father had quarreled with Walter's father, and he did not accord the young man welcome to his home. "Lena," said Walter, "I am glad you took old Perkins up, and I will be glad to see the old miser shell out, but you two women can never do that plowing." "I'll tell you a secret, Walter. Mrs. Logan in her younger days lived on a farm, and had often helped with the plowing when they were short of help, so her part will be perfectly done. A year ago I was at Uncle Joel's and helped with the plowing for the fun of it. The furrows may not be very straight, but we'll plow the field all right." "But it's such hard work for you, Lena," he said deprecatingly. "Why didn't you let some of the other women do it?" "Because, Walter, well—more depends on my plowing that field than you know. It isn't the church debt and coming up with old Perkins alone that inspired this plan—or the carrying out of it." "What do you mean, Lena?" he asked in surprise. "I'll tell you to-morrow after the last furrow is furrowed," she said, laughing. "There is one thing you must do. You must use your influence to help make old Perkins cash up." The sale of tickets to the novel contest had been unprecedented. Thursday afternoon almost the whole town flocked to the field of Farmer Lucas, who lived on the outskirts of Hollyville. In readiness for the signal stood Lena and Mrs. Logan, in short skirts, stout shoes and broad-brimmed hats. A pair of steady, sober dapple grays were hitched to the plow. Lena and Mrs. Logan were to share the labor equally, alternating in driving and guiding. When the appointed hour came a bell sounded and amid the cheers of the multitude they started on the first Hughes "I didn't mean it, and I'll never pay it!" he cried wrathfully. furrow. Across the field they went and back again to the starting line. "Good!" commented the men approvingly, noting the tolerably straight furrows. The women halted long enough to drink a glass of refreshing lemonade Walter Hodge offered them, and then resolutely took up their work again. When the field was plowed Mrs. Logan and Lena were escorted to their homes by the Hollyville band. "I'll collect of Perkins," volunteered Walter, and as it was a commission no one else sought, he went alone to call on the irate shoe dealer. "I didn't mean it, and I'll never pay it!" he cried wrathfully. "I'm surprised at your expecting me to, Walter Hodge! I thought you were a friend of mine." "I am, Mr. Perkins," replied Walter gravely, "and that is why I have come to you—to give you a pointer. A great many of the church members anticipated your refusal to pay, and will meet it by a resolution to boycott your shoe trade, and you know what stuff the women of that church are made of—you saw it in their afternoon's work. What they set out to do they'll do. My advice to you as from one business man to another is to pay the $100, which is the cheapest way out." So, with groans and imprecations the old miser wrote his check for $100, and Walter triumphantly took it to Lena's father, who was the custodian of the church funds. "I'll believe anything now," was the comment of Mr. Winters, as he read the check. Then he looked at Walter and gave an odd little laugh. "You'd better go down and see Lena, Walter." "Why, Mr. Winters," gasped Walter, "do you mean it?" "Yes; I can't help myself, Walter, and perhaps it's just as well. Run along. Lena will explain matters." "Will you tell me how this happens, Lena?" asked Walter joyfully a few moments later. "It was just like this: When I told at dinner the other day about plowing the field and Mr. Perkins, papa said: 'Don't ever expect impossibilities, Lena. You can't plow a field, and you can't make old Shylock Perkins pay.' 'What'll you bet, papa?' I asked. 'Anything,' he replied, 'All right,' I answered. 'If we plow and Mr. Perkins pays. Walter shall come to the house again.' He agreed. He didn't expect me to win, but, Walter, he was glad of a chance to give in gracefully, for I now he likes you."—Boston Globe. WORMS ON THEIR TRAVELS. Met With. In Millions in Forests of Hungary and Norway. The Sciara, of the genus Tipulx, a tiny wormlike creature which is found in the forests of Norway and Hungary during the month of July or early in August, gather in huge numbers preparatory to migrating in search of food or for a change of conditions. When setting out on this journey they stick themselves together by means of some glutinous matter, and form a huge serpentlike mass, often reaching a length of between forty and fifty feet and several inches in thickness. As the sciara is only on an average of about three thirty-seconds of an inch in length, with no appreciable breadth whatever, the number required to form a continuous line of the size above mentioned is incalculable. Their pace is, of course, very slow, and upon meeting an obstacle, such as a stick or stone, they either writhe over or around it, sometimes breaking into two bodies for the purpose. A celebrated French naturalist says that if the rear portion of this snakelike procession be brought into contact with the front part the insects will keep moving round in that circle for hours, never seeming to realize that they are getting no further on their journey. If the portions be broken in two the procession will unite in a short time. When the peasant meets one of these processions he will lay some obstacle in front of it. If it passes over it it is a good omen. Two Givers. Who little gives, knows not the joy of living; His shrunken soul the bliss of heaven foregoes For earthly gain; and daily harder grows His task—the task of little giving. Who gives his all, and gives with spirit willing— Yeah, gives himself, and mourns "a gift so slight"— Shall find in sacrifice supreme delight, A heavenly joy the emptied vessel filling. —George Henry Hubbard. Aid Mothers and Babies. The deaconesses of the Chicago home are planning a campaign of "fresh air work" for the coming summer. Last year they provided outings of one week or more to 700 poor children and worn-out mothers as babies. Hinges Unknown to Romans. The Romans had no hinges; their doors turned on pivots. DEMOCRATS MET TERRITORIAL CONVENTION HELD AT ANADARKO UNINSRUCTED DELEGATION TO ST. LOUIS Favors Nominating a "Regular" Candidate for President—Must Have Supported Platforms and Candidates of 1896 and 1900 ANADARKO: The convention of the territorial democrats was held in this city June 1st to elect delegates to the St. Louis convention, when a candidate for president will be chosen. The convention was a large one, and much interest was taken in the proceedings, and Oklahoma democracy declared in favor of nominating a "regular" candidate for president. The delegates selected were: Roy E. Stafford, delegate-at-large; Judge W. L. Eagleton, Pawnee county; M. C. Runyan, Cleveland county; G. W. Bellamy, Canadian county; W. E. Worden, Garfield county; William Bucholz, Kav county; W. J. Caudill, Kiowa county; G. E. Black, Dewey county; Frank Stevens, Caddo county; F. J. Gentry, Grant county; D. B. Welty, Roger Mills county. During the forenoon the territorial central committee met and passed upon preliminary matters pertaining to the convention, immediately following which the convention was called to order in the big tent which had been provided for the purpose. Judge Worrel of Kiowa county was chosen temporary chairman and T. M. Sandford of Day county temporary secretary. Upon motion, committees were called for on resolutions, permanent organization and order of business and credentials, which were appointed by the various delegates. The convention then adjourned until afternoon. At the convening of the afternoon session the report of the committee on credentials was not ready to report. The committee on order of business reported, after which there was nothing to do but to wait for the committee on credentials. J. L. Carpenter of Greer county was named for permanent chairman, John Foster of Payne for permanent secretary, T. J. Hess and Joseph Johnson assistant secretaries. During the wait the convention called out a number of its orators and much enthusiasm was stirred up. Judge Gore spoke upon the subject of the platform and candidate this year, and made one of his usual happy addresses, striking the convention spirit by reference to the righteousness of the platforms of 1896 and 1900. He was followed by C. Porter Johnson, who made a harmony speech, averring it as his belief that whoever should be the candidate will be elected, both in the nation and territory. E. J. Giddings was called upon and responded with a short talk. Colonel J. W. Johnson, Charles W. Wrightsman, Robert A. Neff and Judge Dunford were called out in the order named. As the hour was growing late the convention began to express its impatience at the delay of the committee on credentials, which, it was understood, was in a wrangle over the contesting delegations from Noble county and a proxy held by J. W. Jacobs from Pottawatomie. Mr. Neff moved to suspend the rules and hear the reading of the report of the committee on resolutions, which was announced to be ready. The motion was carried and the report was read by Dan Perry. The Resolutions. We, the Democrats of Oklahoma in convention assembled at the city of Anadarko, on June 1st, 1904, declare: Resolved. That we hold the fundamental principles of Democratic doctrine to be: (a) That government and officials are the creatures and servants of the people. (b) That government cannot be justly administered, except with a view to securing the liberty, happiness and prosperity of its people. (c) That the tendency of all just governments should be for the greatest good to the greatest number, with injustice to none. (d) That all just governments secure equal rights and equal liberties to all, wherever jurisdiction extends and the flag floats. (e) That no just government recognizes or grants special privileges to any individual, locality or class. Resolved, That, measured by the foregoing tests, we hold that the Democratic platform of 1896 did, with fidelity and devotion, interpret and reflect true Democratic principles, and did faithfully apply such principles to questions then in issue before the people of the United States. Resolved, That we favor the admission of Oklahoma and Indian Territories to the sisterhood of the United States as one state at the next session of congress, upon exact and impartial equality, with the most favored states in the federal union. Resolved, That we indorse the Stephens bill favoring free homes for the people of the Kiowa, Comanche and Caddo country, and the opening of the pastures to immediate settlement. Resolved, That we favor county organization of all Indian reservations We favor an amendment to the interstate commerce law authorizing the interstate commerce commission to fix freight and express rates on railroads between the states and territories. After a discussion of the resolutions the committee on credentials reported. Judge A. M. Mackay of Pond Creek read the report, which found two principal questions at issue and passed upon them. The Doyle delegation from Noble was seated, as was the regular Maxey delegation from Pottawatomie county as against the Jacobs delegates. However, a proxy in the possession of Mr. Jacobs was allowed to so remain. This last incident precipitated the first stormy time of the convention. Upon a protest being made by the chairman of the Pottawatomie county delegation showing that the proxy had been rescinded, the temporary chairman of the convention ruled that Mr. Jacobs could not hold the proxy, although this was recommended in the committee report. Pandemonium broke loose upon an appeal from the chair, led by Oklahoma county delegates, and the appeal was put to the convention. The vote resulted in the chairman being overruled. The report of the credential committee was then adopted without debate. John Simpson, a delegate from Caddo county, offered an amendment to the second resolution, as follows: "That the delegates chosen to represent the Oklahoma Democracy at St. Louis convention aid and work with those Democrats who supported and worked for Democratic platforms and candidates of 1896 and 1900, and aid them in the adoption of a platform and the nomination of a candidate in harmony with Democratic doctrines and said platforms." This promised to cause considerable discussion, but a groundswell swept the convention in favor of the amendment almost as soon as it was read. The vote showed: Ayes, 494; noes, 16. Announcement of the result was greeted with long continued applause. Four candidates for national committee were placed in nomination: Judge R. A. Billups of Washita, W. D. Wardwell of Custer, Paul Nesbitt of Blaine and James Jacobs of Pottawatomie. During the first three ballots the votes were fairly well divided, but while the fourth ballot was being taken a stampede to Billups occurred and he was elected. As this was the last feature of the order of business the convention adjourned. MERIT RULE NOW INDIAN AGENTS TO BE SUCCEED ED BY SUPERINTENDENTS THE PRESIDENT ADOPTS A NEW SYSTEM Recent Alleged Scandals on Indian Reservations Causes Change—Reduces Patronage of Western Congressmen—Civil Service Rules WASHINGTON: The announcement at the White house that President Roosevelt had decided to adopt the policy of filling vacancies in the position of Indian agent in charge of Indian reservations by the appointment of bonded superintendents means a further reduction in the patronage at the disposal of western senators and representatives. Reservation agents are not in the civil service while bonded superintendents are, and as the policy of the president will result in no change in the salary or the duties of the official in charge of the reservation, the appointment of the bonded superintendents for the agents the extension of the merit system to a class of federal positions which heretofore have been disposed of by politicians. The president decided to substitute the bonded superintendents for the agents upon the recommendation of Commissioner Jones of the Indian bureau, who has long been an advocate of the merit system in the selection of reservation officials. He has succeeded in having a large number of agents displaced by the appointment of bonded superintendents, and it is said at the Indian bureau that there now remain only twenty agents in the Indian service. The policy of the commissioner has been vigorously opposed by members of congress, and in some instances they have succeeded in having his recommendations set aside. In adopting the policy of Commissioner Jones Mr. Roosevelt is reported to have been influenced by the alleged scandals on some of the Indian reservations in which the reservation agents were implicated. The most recent case of this kind is that of O. A. Mitscher, in charge of the Osage reservation in Oklahoma. Mitscher was suspended pending an investigation, and while he has not been formally removed, it is practically certain that he will be. Officials of the Indian bureau say that the efficiency of the service on reservations would be greatly increased by the appointment of bonded superintendents, as those officials would be selected from applicants of known ability. As an illustration of the manner of selecting the bonded superintendents Frank A. Thackeray, in charge of the Sac and Fox reservation in Oklahoma, was cited Mr. Thackeray, who is one of the most capable superintendents in the Indian service, entered the service as an assistant farmer, and he has filled successively the positions of farmer, teacher, disciplinarian, superintendent of training school and reservation superintendent. The agents in charge of reservations receive salaries of from $1,200 to $1,800 a year, with certain allowances. A Rough Rider Appointed WASHINGTON: Frank Frantz, postmaster of Enid, but who really won his spurs by virtue of service in the Roosevelt Rough Riders during the Spanish-American war, has been selected by the president for Indian agent at the Osage Indian reservation, in Oklahoma to succeed Mr. Mitscher, recently removed on the ground of having improper connections with the land sharks in Oklahoma, especially in relation to the leasing of the Osage Indian lands. Indian Department Decides to Stop Issuance of Provisions to Them MUSKOGEE: Upon the recommendation of Toms Bixby, chairman of the Dawes commisston, the interior department at Washington has decided that the Mississippi Indians can provide for themselves, and consequently has instructed the officers here to cease furnishing them with provisions. There are a large number of these Indians in the territory, and many of them were brought to the territory at the instance of Ban Smith, disbursing agent. Their coming was the result of a bill that passed congress to the effect that they receive allotments of lands, and at the same time $20,000 was appropriated for their maintenance. Since the passage of the bill the government has had to feed and clothe them in most instances, but now Chairman Ilixby thinks they know how to till the soil and provide for themselves, inasmuch as the majority of them are installed in reasonably comfortably homes. These Indians are full bloods, and they lived in Mississippi in a primeval manner, the most of them living in tents and wearing blankets, and all of them are said to have had a large number of dogs in their Mississippi homes. In the old state they did not work, but lived on the appropriations of congress and by what they made by fishing and hunting. MURDERERS SEEK PARDONS Governor Ferguson Has Two Applications Under Consideration GUTHRIE: Governor Ferguson is being asked to pardon John Lowe of Shawnee, who is serving a term of several years' in the penitentiary for manslaughter in the first degree for killing William Shawcross at Shawnee about two years ago. Lowe is very ill with consumption, and in prison it is held that he can live but a short time, and every effort is being made to secure for him a pardon. Lowe became involved in a quarrel, in a saloon, with Rainy Hamlin, a bad man about town, and took a shot at Hamlin, it is said, in selfdefense. The suot went wild and killed Shaw cross, an innocent bystander. Hamlin left the country, has not been apprehended and, of course, has thus far escaped punishment. It was held that Hamlin had a knife, with which he would have killed Lowe. For some time, too, there have been efforts brought to bear on the governor to pardon Joe Pentecost of Guthrie, who is serving fifteen years for the killing of Joe Bowers in the Ritterbusch saloon, here about six years ago. Thus far, however, the governor has refused to issue the pardon. Pentecost had been a member of the Guthrie police force. He was dismissed from the force for some reason and afterward became involved in a quarrel with Bowers, presumably relative to the dismissal of Pentecost from the force. The quarrel resulted in Pentecost shooting and killing Bowers. OUTER FORTIFICATIONS TAKEN Japanese Reported to Have Captured First Line at Port Arthur LONDON: The Rome correspondent of the Central News telegra "A Tokio dispatch to the Gierdolne de Italia says that the Japanese have occupied the first line of the outer fortifications of Port Arthur, after a resistance. "The correspondent at Tokio of the News agency Liberas says that four divisions of Japanese troops have occupied Kwancung heights, on which they emplaced heavy artillery dominating Port Arthur. "The same correspondent adds that the Russian squadron attempted a sortie, but was forced to return, being threatened by the Japanese fleet." FORCED A STRIKE IN CHICAGO 3,000 MACHINISTS GO OUT ON A STRIKE EMPLOYERS BROUCH THREAT TO CRISIS Ten-Hour Day Was Inaugurated by Employers to Bring the Strike to a Crisis—The Campaign Inaugurated Some Time Ago CHICAGO: The three thousand machinists employed by the companies which compose the metal trades association went on strike as a protest against the ten-hour day, and practically all of the 115 shops represented in the association are closed. No effort will be made to operate the shops for a few days, and then the force of the employers will be centralized at a few plants. The ten-hour day was inaugurated by the employers for the purpose of bringing the strike to a crisis. In a statement sent out by the officers of the association it is declared that the employers had no intention of returning to the ten-hour day, but they were compelled to take this step to combat the slow individual strike campaign which was commenced by the machinists' union some time ago. THE LAW UPHELD United States Supreme Court Holds the "Oleo" Law Constitutional WASHINGTON: The supreme court of the United States, in an opinion by Justice White, has upheld the constitutionality of the oleomargarine law. Leo W. McRay sued the United States in the southern district of Ohio to recover $50 paid by him as a penalty for the sale of a fifty-pound package of colored oleomargarine containing a stamp tax of three-quarters of a cent a pound instead of ten cents a pound. McRay's counsel argued first that although the "oleo" was colored to look like butter, the color was obtained by the use of butter, which was itself artificially colored, but the use of which as an ingredient in the manufacture of "oleo" was authorized by law; and, second, that the tax of ten cents a pound was prohibitive and confiscatory and an attempted federal usurpation of the police powers of the cities. The court said that the tax contemplated the finished product and not the details of manufacture. If the "oleo" was colored it should have the higher tax, and if not colored the lower tax, regardless of how obtained. As to the amount of the tax the court said it was settled that the court could not consider the amount of any tax enacted by congress, this being purely a perfunction. The court therefore affirmed the judgment of the lower court upholding the validity of the law and the tax. The chief justice and Justice Browy and Justice Peckham dissented. ATTENDANCE WAS SMALL Meeting of Indian Territory Post masters Held at Fort Gibson MUSKOGEE: The fourth annual meeting of the Indian Territory Postmasters' association was held at Fort Gibson, and the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: H. M. Butler of Vinita, president; R. J. Jenness, Okmulgee, secretary. The next annual meeting will be held at South McAlester April 2, 1905. The members of the association were given free entertainment by the citizens of Fort Gibson. The attendance was light. There are forty-five presidential postoffices in Indian Territory and 630 fourth class offices, yet there are not more than 100 postmasters who are members of the association. Not more than half the members were at the meeting. Southwest Corner of the State Under Waters Edge, Turn to Toward East. Water From Two to Twelve Feet TOPEKA: The Kansas flood has traveled southeastward and is now playing havoc in the southeast corner of the state. The Neosho river at Chanute and Erie, is the highest ever recorded. All of the oil country is under water, from two to twelve feet. Scores of oil tanks filled with oil and many derricks and rigs have been swept away. At Erie the people are moving in boats. Railroad traffic on all the lines in this section has been abandoned. In some places the Neosho river is six miles wide. The dikes were all washed out by the flood a few weeks ago and furnished no protection for the farms in the lowlands. Council Grove had a flood as big as last year, but it came in the day time and the people were able to reach high ground. A heavy local shower did the work. Conditions at Florence, Emporia, Peabody and other towns in the flood belt are improved. The flood has subsided in most places. Damage in Indian Territory MUSKOGEE: The heaviest rain of the year fell in Indian Territory Saturday morning. There was a great deal of damage done to growing crops and the bottom land farms are threatened with inundation by the rapidly rising rivers. On the Fayetteville division the Frisco has not been able to get a train through for thirty six hours. The trains on the Missouri Pacific are not making connection with the branch line to this city and all trains that are running on the M., K. & T. are off schedule. Telegraph and telephone wires are down. There are many serious washout on all roalroads in the territory. The potato growers had just begun to dig their crop, and the heavy rains will set them back several days, resulting in a great loss as the market is falling every day. NEW POSTOFFICE Muskogee to Have Better Facilities for Mails MUSKOGEE: C. N. Haskell of the Indianola Construction company has received instructions from the postoffice department at Washington that his proposition to furnish quarters for the Muskogee postoffice has been accepted, and it will not be long before the government office will be located in the only five-story building in the entire Indian Territory. An enormous amount of mail is handled by the Muskogee office. Owing to the fact that the Dawes commission, Indian agent, Indian inspector and other government officers are located here, there is only one other city in the United States where as much frank matter passes through the office, and that is Washington, D. C. Bank President Arrested LAWTON: Dr. W. H. Allder, formerly president of the Bank of Commerce at Walter, was brought to this city from the Indian Territory by Deputy Sheriff Elrod on the charge of having obtained money from the bank under false pretenses. He was held here to await the action of the grand jury. Near the latter part of March Dr. Allder resigned his position with the bank and sold his stock to other parties. It appears that about $8,000 in notes were deposited in the bank, which he represented as being good, and upon which he drew something over $3,000. It has been found that some of the notes are worthless and a complaint was made against Allder by officers of the bank. Occasionally a girl marries a man just to keep him from hanging around the house evenings. To build up children physically is as much a duty as to train them mentally, and sunshine helps in this. Texas Fruit to be Sent Across the Water DALLAS, TEX.: J. A. Taylor of Oklahoma City, Okla., was in Dallas recently in conference with the railroad officials on the matter of freight rates on peaches. Mr. Taylor spent a day here and left for Jacksonville, where he went to complete his arrangements for the exportation of Texas peaches to Liverpool and other British markets. The first shipment of peaches for England was sent forward by Mr. Taylor last year, his orchards in Oklahoma furnishing the fruit for export. The experiment of Mr. Taylor, which was made against the advice of the department of agriculture, proved to be quite successful, the fruit bringing about $3 per bushel in Liverpool. According to reports received by the shipper the fruit landed in perfect condition, showing no waste whatever, and was hard and sour! Mr. Taylor is optimistic as to the outlook for those who engage in the foreign trade, and thinks that quite a large business could be done from Texas. He states that the Texas peach is well adapted to stand such a long shipment, and would reach the other side in good condition. The results from the consignment should prove quite profitable, he thought. PAYMENT MUDDLE Responsibility for $60,000 Given to the Creeka MUSKOGEE: Out of the order to cease payment on the loyal Creek roll a muddle may develop more serious than was at first anticipated. The comptroller of the currency ruled that the payment must not be made under the old Creek laws of descent and distribution, as was contemplated and the agent was ordered to make a new roll. Under the old roll $60,000 has already been disbursed. If the roll is not correct and the payment made according to existing laws some one must answer for it. The important question in the minds of the Indian officials here, is what is to be done about the $60,000 that has already been paid out? Mr. McLaughlin, who made the roll, was instructed by the interior department to make the roll under the Creek law. He is not a bonded officer and did not make the payment. The Indian agent is a bonded officer and made the payment, but he was acting under instructions to make the payment on the McLaughlin rolls. In the meantime, while the various departments are untangling themselves the Indians must wait perhaps six months or a year for the one-half million dollars due them, which they need badly. SUES FOR DIAMOND RING Flancee Broke Her Engagement MUSKOGEE: The case of Gustave Klindt against Miss Hester Cloud, in which the plaintiff instituted a replevin suit for the possession of a diamond ring, was tried by jury before Commissioner Deichman. It resulted in a hung jury. Klindt alleges that he gave the ring to the girl, who is only 17 years old, as an engagement ring, with the understanding that, if she should at any time refuse to marry him, the trinket should be returned. Miss Cloud testified that Klindt gave her the ring before they became engaged, and that the only consideration he asked was that she "keep company" with him. She admitted that she did afterward agree to marry him, and that she broke the contract but she denied that the ring entered into the agreement in any way. The diamond cost $165. Deputy marshals raided the gambling places at Minco recently and destroyed all the paraphernalia they could find. Several arrests were made, and it is thought that this will effectually destroy the business. COUNTRYFLOODED RAIN HAS BEEN FALLING IN GREAT ABUNDANCE A CYCLONE REPORTED NEAR GUTHRIE Railroad Tracks Washed Out and Bridges Are Guarded—Cyclone Reported at Witcher—Damage of Floods May Equal That of Last Year OKLAHOMA CITY: Heavy rains have been falling in this section for the past few days, but the worst was the cloudburst of the morning of the fourth. In this city storm sewers were inadequate to carry off the vast amount of water, and in consequence basements and cellars were flooded and people living in the west bottoms experienced as much trouble as during the floods of last year. Relief calls came in and the police with wagons moved a number of families to places of safety. The Illinois hotel had three feet of water in the basement, and the police department had to abandon headquarters and move upstairs into the city clerk's office. The river at this place is expected to go out of its banks owing to the heavy rains farther up. El Reno reports a great rise in the North Canadian river throughout Canadian county and several bridges are said to have been washed away. At Lawton one of the heaviest rains in the history of the country has fallen. Many streets in the city are flooded, and at least twenty-five houses have water standing in them from six to eighteen inches deep. The Bank of Lawton stands nearly two feet deep in water, and the streets are raging torrents. Reports from the surrounding country indicate that streams are overflowing and the valleys are fast becoming inundated. Farms in the vicinity of Sapulpa are deluged. All streams are out of their banks and a number of substantial bridges are in imminent danger. The village of Witcher, on the Katy, was visited by a cyclone about one-fourth of a mile wide, and the most of the damage done was in the town. A number of buildings were wrecked and a goodly number were moved from their foundations. No lives are reported lost. A cyclone struck the farm of James Stout, three miles east of Guthrie, and tore the house to atoms. The aged mother of Mr. Stout was injured, and her recovery is doubtful. A babe was blown a distance of half a mile, but was uninjured. A rain storm visited the vicinity of Enid and did considerable damage to railroad and other property in the county. At Crescent the Denver, Enid & Gulf track was washed out the second time within a week. At Douglas there was a heavy hail, doing damage to the fruit and crops. A low place in the east part of Enid, covered with tents and shacks occupied by negroes, was a roaring flood and the negroes moved to higher ground for safety. A tornado struck Glencoe, a town of 1,000 inhabitants in Payne county, Okla., demolishing five residences and destroying the Methodist church. Several persons were hurt, none seriously. Much damage was done to farm property. More Offices for Sapulpa SAPULPA: The Frisco train dispatcher's offices, which have been operating the Red River division of the Frisco have been transferred from Sherman, Texas, to Sapulpa. Train Master Hutchinson also has been moved from Sherman to Sapulpa. The three divisions of the Frisco running out of Sapulpa are all to be operated from this place in the future. ‘POULTRY | oe Z AG e WAS eh toes , Sone [P.” ge oe Ponde and Rape for Ducks. ‘we ever used a pond in connection with the raising of ducks, and the result was so satisfactory that we will sive an account of it for the benefit of the reauers of your paper. We began the season with seven Rouen ducks and two drakes for breeding Stock. Back of the barn there {s Quite @ good sized pond, and, as we did Mot need the water for the stock, we allowed the ducks to enjoy it. They spent their days in it and very profit: able days they proved. They found all the corn they wanted at a crib near the pond, and all the care they re- ceived was that they were brought up to the duck house near tho house at night and were fed a bran mash each morning. More often than not we found seven eggs each morning. We sold a good many eggs and raised ove: 110 ducklings. So much for the utility of a pond for breeding stock. We were a little afraid of turtles in the pond, so kept the ducklings away from it until five or six weeks old. They were kept in a yard near the’ house and the well, so the work of feeding, watering and caring for them was as light as possible. Dur- ing this time they were at first fed four times, afterwards three times a day, and were given lettuce, onion or beet tops, endive or cabbage leaves from the garden for green food. What @ jubilee there was when we first drove about fifty of these fellows to the pond. Such darting about, diving And splashing. Only those who have watched the antics of ducks in water can imagine the sceno, After. that they were fed every morning with enough drinking water to wash the food down so they could eat a good breakfast, then were driven to the pond, which soon became an easy task. By feeding time in the evening they were anxious to be turned back, #0 they could come to the house for supper and to their house ta sleep. Our neighbors laughed at us driving our ducks to water. There was a lit- tle yard containing some blue grass and more weeds near the pond that was disced early in the spring and sown with Essex Rape. The ducklings needed no teaching as to the useful- ness of this plant, but freely» helped themselves as had the old ducks all spring. When !t was not convenient to leave them for an hour or so in the rape patch, the rape was mowed and car- tied to them. They were as anxiohs for :: as for a feed of corn or mash. We never had ducklings grow faster or seem hardier, If our yards had been so arranged that the ducks could havo gono freely to the rape patch and the pond, without being let through the gates, it would have been less trouble and no doubt have been better, but there was other stock in the yards, making {t necessary to keep them closed. One thing absolutely necessary to success in raising ducks ts that they must all, young and old alike, have a_ elean, dry sleeping place. It does not need to be warm, but it must be dry. A little carelessness in the matter of supplying plenty of dry bedding when- ever it {s needed, and the little fellows have cramp, or with either young or old, rheumatism, and then we havo dead ducks. This {s about the only disease from which ducks suffer, and with reasonable care can be avotded. Danger from sudden storme at night, also from mérauding animals, can be in a great’measure avoided by yarding the. ducklings so they cannot wander far from their house at night. Now a few words for the Rouen ducks. What is more beautiful? Tho drake, with his bright green head. claret’ ribbon. band of the wing; then «he pleasing contrast of tho beautifully penciled brown of the female, make them birds to be admired by all who see them. Then they do not pull their feathers before picking time. They are hardy, will sit on their own eggs if allowed and make good mothers. They are good eating and sell well on the market. J. H. Howarth & Son, Appatoos. Co., Iowa. The Poultry Yard Fence. The poultry yard fence {s one of the important features of the equip. ment for poultry raising. In this mat: ter there has been something of a revolution during the last generation. The old style fence wos an eyesore on most farms, It was made prin. cipally of laths, generally unpainted. In a short time the wood became weather beaten and here and there the laths were broken, Sometimes an attempt was made to whitewash and repair it. This meant tho addition of old boards or strips in place of the broken laths, and this increased the appearance of untidiness that per- vaded all. It is no wonder that some of our farmers’ wives became heartily sick of chickens and the chicken yard, as the latter was often the most unsightly object on the farm. A new day dawned when wire fencing came into vogue. Whether cheaper or not the wire netting is far more durable than the wood ever could be, and it 1s far neater in appearance. It is now possible for the farmer to construct @ neat poultry fence that will not get out of repair and that will remain good for many years. The usual method of construction now is to set deeply into the ground some cedar or other posts, which have boen previously dipped in tar to the height they are expected to penetrate the ground. This will be found neces- sary with most of our timber. The posts used, however, should be well dried out and not contain moisture at time of dipping, else the dipping will be of no avail. The posts should be made high enough to carry a four- foot netting, as this will be found to be the most serviceable height of net- ting for restraining most of our breeds of fowls. No top cross plece should be used, as this presents a lighting place for the fowls. If the wire 1s stretched tightly on strong posts it will need no board or joist at the top. If, how- ever, the fowls are to be very heavy ones, like the Light Brahmas, a top rail may be used, as they will not at- tempt to fly up to it in any event. The Plymouth Rocks and Leghorns will, however, find no obstacle in the way of their wanderings !f they can see a board at the top. A good many poultrymen are now saving wire by leaving off the top board, for it is dif. ficult to build a fence so high that the hens cannot get over {f they can find a lighting place half way. We have seen poultry fences eight feet high that did not hold Leghorns, The size of tho yard will have con- siderable bearing on the height of the fence, for it has been observed that when the area is small and the flock large, the fowls will redouble their efforts to get out. If the yard is large and there {8 green feed in- side, it is surprising how well-content- ed the fowls are to remain In it, Two-lnch mesh ‘wire {3 tho best for ordinary uses, A board should be placed at the bottom and set some- what in the ground an fach or two to prevent the hens digging under it, as they find it a convenient place for making a dust bath, Dime cere an Rees Rua es) aa The fowls for the farmer are the best fowls that can be procured. There 1s no reason why he should not have the best. Tho cultivation of the new rasp- berry plantation should be continued till the middle of August. This will result In keeping down the weeds und sending the moisture into the roots of the plants. The vigorous growth made this year will be seen in the fruit next year, FOR G6OD ROADS | A Paper Read Before the National Good Roads Convention at St. Louis by J. L. Merritt of Tecumseh, preceding reforms, the good road movement has been opposed by obstruc- tionists and demagogues. Like other persistent promoters of great pub- lic enterprises, its agitators have been called cranks and crooks, whose ideas were called chimerical, whose objects were looked upon as being per- sonal and mercenary. And doubtless such will always be the case in the launching of new issues upon the sea of public mind. But, like coer in memory of whose great achievement the Chicago World's fair was given in 1903; Hke Napoleon, the renowned warrior and statesman; like our Jef- ferson, whose good judgment one hundred years ago enables America to ex- hibit at St. Louis to-day the deft handiwork of the greatest nation on earth; like Washington, who crossed tle ice-flowing Delaware on that memorable Christmas night to gain for us the “sweet liberty” of which we Americans so patriotically sing; like the valiant Captain D, L. Payne, of boomer fame, to whom a million prosperous people are indebted for happy homes; like Gladstone, whose continued strokes loosed the yoke from the yoemen of Ire- land; like Douglas who secured the passage of the first homestead bill; like Lincoln, Folk and Dennis Flynn, the good roads movement will ultimately win. The Hon. W. I’. Brownlow and Senator Latimer, through whom the movement is now materializing, should have the respect and support of the American people Both the commercial and social success of a country are measured by the condition of her rural roads. Inaccessable fastnesses and wild jungles are inhabited by barbarians, criminals and beggars. Boulevards are occupied by sages, toilers and capitalists. Good roads beget good homes, good so- clety and good government. Results: Higher civilization greater enjoy- ment, heaven on earth. Mud and sand are two insatiable fiends that eat up a large per cent of the farmers’ profits, especially in my adopted home—Okla- homa. And Oklahoma, the oasis of the universe, the coming star of the national constellation, comes te this convention as she will go to congress as a do- pendent child to an indulgent parent, asking assistance. Although amply blessed by balmy breeze and bountiful breast, she is also cursed by roads the worst of any in the west. Suffering as they do an excessive tax, inci- dent to the organizetion of a new country, her people are unable to bear the cost of radical road betterment. Her only hope for good roads lies in the passage of the Brownlow-Latimer good road appropriation bill, now be- fore her parent, Uncle Sam, and in convict labor. Convict work has proven profitable where tried, and the Pottawatomie County Good Roads association, in addition to its efforts to securg federal fmancial aid, will endeavor to get the county officers to adopt the convict Jaw enacted by Oklahoma's last territorial legislature. And to this end we are educating the people in the premises, that they may vote intelligently, for by the ballot only can such reforms be had. That Oklahoma may not lose by being unfortunately a disinherited out- cast, as she seems to be regarded by congress, the benefits of the appropri- ation bill, should it become a law, the word “territories,” or at least “Okla- homa territory,” should be inserted in the bill, and the following resolution relative thereto was recently addpted by the Pottawatomie County Good Roads association: Whereas, Oklahoma {s being denied statehood by the congress of the United States, and Whereas, The senate committee to whom it’ was referred, eliminated tha word “territories” from the Brownlow-Latimer bill, and, Whereas, Oklahoma’s rural roads are in a depiorable condition, and her taxes excessive, be it, therefore, Resolved, By the Pottawatomle County Good Roads association, of about five thousand members, that the action of congress relative to state. hood for Oklahuma and Indian Territory is dilatory, discriminating and dangerous; that they are entitled to immediate single statehood; that being denied statehood they should be enabled, by the insertion of the word “ter. ritories.” or the words “Oklahoma territory” into the good road appropri- ation bill recently reported favorably by the senate committee, to share in any funds made available for good road purposes, that the delegates from this county to the National Good Roads conveniion be, and are hereby in- structed to confer with other Oklahoma delegai2s with a view to enlisting the assistance of the National Good Roads association in getting her rights and needs properly and forcibly before the next session of congress. Additional evidence of the local interest in the good road movement {s shown by the following resolution adopted by the late democratic county convention of Pottawatomile county, Oklahoma: “Whereas, The present deplorable condition of the public roads of Pot- tawatomie county renders travel thereon tedious traffic dangerous and ex- pensive, and “Whereas, The present public road law of Oklahoma ts inadequate for the radical betterment of her rural roads; be it, therefore, “Resolved By this county democratic convention that we indorse the action of the Territorial Good Roads convention, which met in Guthrie April 1, in appointing A legal committee to draft a better road law bill to be intro duced for iis passage by the next territorial legislature; that we favor the working of “jail birds” and short term convicts upon the rural roads; that we are in symputhy with the Pottawatomie County Good Roads assoctation in its request for federal ald; that we fully appreciate the persistent efforts of its promoters and organizers in getting the objects of the association prominently before the public of Pottawatomie county, and that we hereby | invite both the united and individual co-operation of the democratic party in chtaining radical road reform in this county.” | At its recent annual meeting the Oklahoma Press association also ) passed resolutions favoring good roads by federal aid and conviet work, and pledged the good roads organizations its hearty support. 4nd when the editors, the molders of most, and the fearless expressers of ali public opinion takes up a measure, its cavly fruition is usually ob- tained. ‘To obtain good roads from any source, organization and education by agitation is imperative. To interest and thoroughly organize a county even into a good road as. | sociation requires a great effort, much sticktoitiveness and. considerable money. I-have spent six months’ time and “paid all the freight” in organ: | izing Pottawatomie county, and I consider both well spent, { will cheerfully send to any good road organizer or agitator copy of | ehh eeehtn mentee oat © he esate, ete ot en ee mee: = i LOCAL HAPPENINGS. The town of Rentieville has a church, cotton gin and post office, and other things coming. There will be a big celebration at Checotah on the 20th. The Muskogee band will furnish music for the occasion. Judge Leekly has returned from a visit to Chicago and Eastern cities and is again at the old stand grinding as usual. The Odd Fellows celebrate at Muskogee, the 20 and 21. A big time expected, as there will be many visitors in town. They have commenced work on the two story brick block for Wiley Jones. This will be a dandy when finished. Prof. Garcia of Texas is in the city, looking out a location for himself and family. The Prof. is highly pleased with the B. I. T. Prof. F. J. Gordon and a host of other teachers left for Talequah on Monday, to attend the Normal. Prof. Gordon will be in charge. A pistol duel occurred at Clarks ville on Saturday. Names of parties unknown, but 'twas hot while it lasted. No one hurt seriously. Ninety per cent of the reports sent out about the race war in this nation was common ordinary lies made of whole cloth. J. B, Richardson and C. S Richardson, and D. Hill of Gibson Station were in the city Monday on business and made our a pleasant call. O. T. Willis, post master at Huttonville was in the metropolis Monday, buying goods for his general store, Willis is a hustler and will succeed. 60,000 business houses, 30,000 school building, 25,000 churches, 15,000 residences, 40,000 real estate deals. are what make Muskogee great.—Pheonix. The celebration at Rentieville, June 20, will give strangers an opportunity to see the new Negro town that has sprung into existence within the last six months and has made the most rapid strides of any new town of any town of its kind in the B. I. T. J. C. Johnson, Grand Master of Masons and Secretary to the Chief of the Seminole nation, was in the city last week on business. Mr. Johnson spent the winter in Washington, assisting the Seminoles with their business before the Department. He is one of the best interpreters in the South west. FAD FOR BARVAS POTTERY. Oddly Constructed Utensils That Are in Current Demand. In the Island of Lewis, so well known to all readers of William Black's romance, is the little village of Barvas, where two old women carry on a rude pottery, for many years unknown to any but their neighbors. These, the only potters in the Scottish Highlands, have made their coarse ware for village use and must have been poorly paid, since the people are badly off, and for many a year now the crockery made in factories has been procurable even in the Isle of Lewis. But a sportsman staying in the neighborhood saw and fancied the pottery and its makers and spread its fame abroad and new the old women can scarcely supply it fast enough. Formerly only craggans, a rude sort of bowl to hold fish oil or milk, was made, but now to please tourists and visitors strange and uncouth tea services are turned out. The cups are not warranted to stand straight or the saucers to maintain their equilibrium, the teapot bulges and the sugar bowl looks tipsy, but they are queer, they are of Barvas, and so precious, the best of all they keep the old women in comfort. These dishes are made from a local clay of a smooth yellow. After being kneaded it is shaped by hand, scraped with a knife and fried for days in the run then fried among peats.—Springfield Republican. PROUD TO YIELD UP LIFE. Japanese Officer Welcomed Death for His Emperor. A letter written by Iwajiro-Uyero, an officer on the Japanese cruiser Tokiwa, is published in the Tokio newspapers. He was one of the "seventy-seven dashing party" that sunk the stone laden ships in the Port Arthur harbor entrance. He writes before going on the adverture: "Fortunately I was selected as one of the party ordered to undertake a certain desperate work and have to leave this ship this evening and embark on a steamer. I have, therefore, little hope of returning alive; indeed, I ought not to expect it, for it is just the occasion when I should offer up my life for the sake of the emperor. This is an honor which I hardly deserve. As I will go on duty with this resolution I am prepared to die at my post. So be prepared to hear the worst any time about me from my friend Muratake. My life is not mine, for it has been offered to the emperor, and now to be distinguished with the honor of being picked for this special work, this is indeed a glory to me, as it will also serve as an occasion of increasing the honor of the family. You must not be grieved, therefore, even when the report of my death reaches you; rather you ought to celebrate the event for the sake of your country." Frisco System Rates Second Class Colonist and Intermediates. Also one way second Class Colonist to all points in the Northwest. Daes of Sale March 1 to April 30, and Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. H. E. HARKRIDER, 4.g't. PROTECT YOURSELVES. Intending visitors to World's Fair can assure themselves satisfactory rooming accommodations through the Merchant's Service Company at a nominal expense. For particulars, apply to nearest Frisco System Agent. Spot Cash Store. 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