Muskogee Cimeter

The Muskogee Gimeter. Volume 5 RIGHT PARTY FOR NEGROES. Republicans Maintain Human Rights at All Times. PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT A GALLANT LEADER. BY CHAS. ALEXANDER IN COL. STATESMAN. The Republican party was born in 1795. It was called into existence for the purpose of meeting stern and trying conditions and to solve problems that required the organization of the best intellectual forces of the time; and though it was deemed the first duty of the party to secure political freedom to the white man, it did not stop there; it developed in power and magnanimity until it also brought political freedom to the black man. For over 40 years it has contended that all men breathing the air of this grand republic, whether they be black or white, shall be free—free to labor, free to exercise political duties as citizens, free to engage in many business and professional competition—free to enjoy life and the pursuit of happiness. In its platform of 1872 it emphsized this splendid declaration: "Complete liberty and exact equality in the enjoyment of all civil, political and public rights should be established and effectually maintained throughout the Union by efficient and appropriate state federal legislation. Neither the law nor its administration in respect to citizens by reason of race, creed, or previous condition of servitude." This feeling has dominated the party during all its splendin history; whereas the seeling of opposition to the Negroes progress on general principals has been the Democratic party. We would not like to witness a departure from this noble principle, so long serving as a corner stoue of the one great political party in the United States. It would appear to us that the erudition, the eloquence, genuine courage and tenacity of President Roosevelt, on account of the noble attitude he has already assumed toward the Negro, and on account of the noble attitude he has already assumed toward the Negro, and on account of the new and praiseworthy type of statesmanship manifested by the chief executive of the nation. Muskogee, Indian Territory, Thursday October 6, 1904. would warrant us in believing that we may not witness a departure from this principle—that we may trust to his keeping the legacy of the past, and that as long as the Negro will continue to perform his political duty with efficiency, he will find a place in the political arrena with the rest of the worthy. The Republican party has always believed in the common people—the working masses. It has always believed in honest labor; and, in token of this, the thousand who attended the convention at Chicago, at which the immortal Abraham Lincoln was nominated, went wild with enthusiasm when one of the rails he had split when a boy was lifted up before them. This devotion to manly labor—This aggressive Vindication of honest toil by the Republican party never prove recreant to its great trust, that of maintaining the common rights of all the citizens of this republic. And while the yells of the barbrrous mob drown out the expiring groans of its innocent victim in some secluded section of our country and political mandicants take neutral ground in regard to the subversion of human rights, and the political trickster skulks stealthily away with his impoverishing plunder, in some rural district of the South, let the grand old party, with the gallant President Theodore Roosevelt as its leader continue to prove the purity of its purposes, the wisdom of its magnificent plans, and the splendid balance of its judgement in continuing its efforts in the direction of human elevation—human rights—political liberty! MARRIAGE. Mr. Tomray Gordon and Miss Alice Sango were married one day last week in okmulgee, after which they returned ts Muskogee for a few days visit, and left on the "4" for Okmulgee where they will open a hotel. Thursday night, September 29, Miss Odessa Bennett, daughter of Mrs. Rosa Bennett, North 5th St., to Mr. Cornelius Kimbreau. Rev. Toliver of the M. E. church officiated. Success to future welfare of the happy young couple. BARBERSHOP. OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Dave Richardson. - Pron Another Piece. of Cowardice. In the last issue of the Cimeter I put such a hot dose under the belt of one of the trustees, a big city parson, who pastors in the city, till he is forced to answer me from his pulpit, I am informed he tells that the trustees had a right to do almost anything they desired to do, all because they are trustees What excellent reasoning! He takes the pulpit to do his cursed "get back." Now I desire to say in words so plain that a fool may not mistake. If anyone say I was informed of the change in anyway, either by word or otherwise till I had approached them after this dirty, black-hearted, debased, unscrupulous, piece of dirt had been accomplished, write it down as the biggest, most diabolical lie told since the dark day of Annias and Saphira. Now, when a man will take the advantage to answer an article from his pulpit because I could not be present and were I there, I would not be accorded the liberty to answer him, and tells a deep dyed, uncompromising falsehood, no more respect should be shown him than an ordinary rounder and he shows the true signs of a cur to do it. This is an example of true leadership. God forbid that such figuerhead should ever preside within the confines of civilized communities I am reaady to say to the public that another trustee, Rev. L. W. Sango, a man I have greatly esteemed since I met him, declares that the matter was not explained in the Board, and no real explanation was ever made to him till I fully explained it to him. This parson tells his people that they should hear both sides before condemning him. Well, sir—I am surprised. How could you have done what you did without first giving an investigation? But when I hit you one of those solar plexus blows, you hollow foul There are others of the Board who live out of town who no doubt, up to this good hour, are probably entirely ignorant of how this rascality was planned, and the hellish means used to further the ends of this conspiracy. I am too much man to use my church to denounce you, sir, as long as this government accords its citizens free speech, and we have access to the press of our land. Having been planned by the devil and his co- ```markdown ``` Number 52. horts, you still see there is nothing but underground work which is shown by taking it into his pulpit you seem to pose as an apostle of right—then what about the money you carried to the Territorial Sunday School convention at South McAlister. They say your Sunday school gave it to you. Why not return it as you were given it to pay some one else's way, and did not account for it. But of course you are a just man. I thank God the people are going to make the scoundrel and daddy of this dirty act, feel public sentiment as he never has. P. TAYLOR. HASKEL ITEMS. Tomie H. Ryles has been very sick this week with chills and fever. Messrs. Harry and J. H. Cobbrey, Mr. Jake Simmons, Mrs. Katy and Jack Friday went to Muskogee this week. Mr. John Ware has a beautiful $500 resident finished up this week. Ware is O. K. anyway. Mr. Joe Jackson has baled for stock to winter on, 450 tons of fine hay. Mr. A. C. [Carpenter has 5000 pounds of cotton this week. Mr. Carpenter is a first class farmer and is here from Cherokee ndition. Mr. Jake Simmons has let a contract to a contractor to build for himself a fine six room, two story resident when complete it will be one of the finest in the country. Mr. Simmons owns some of the finest land in Arkansas river valley. He is a good farmer. Perhaps there is no one man in his section has more influence for good than he. Sister Doreather Coats of Muskogee, the lady preacher, spent last week with us warning sinners to come to God. Sister Coats is a lady of fine culture and equipped for the pulpit. She labored very hard for us. She was born in the state of Tennessee in the year of 1875,6 miles from Grand Junction in Hardman county, she has travel over a great many states and preached where ever she went. We were glad to have Sister Coats with us, she is loved by everybody here, Will practice in U. S. Course and Daws Commission. Office on Second Street. Be calm in arguing, for fiercener makes error a fault and truth discourteous.—Herbert. Allen's Foot-Ease, Wonderful Remedy. "Have tried ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE, and find it to be a certain cure, and gives comfort to one suffering with sore, tender and swollen feet. I will recommend ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE to my friends, as it is certainly a wonderful remedy.—Mrs. N. H. Guilford, New Orleans, La." But Not Often. Occasionally a mother meets a young woman who is almost good enough to become the wife of her son. For Thirty Years. "Inclosed find money order for one dollar, for which please send its worth in Simmons Liver Purifier, put up in tin boxes. I have been using the medicine for thirty years." No comment necessary. Price 25c per box. Big Price for Orchid. For an orchid, an Odontoglossum Crispum Cooksoniae, $3,360 was recently paid. If one fight for good behavior, God makes one a present of the good feelings.—J. H Ewing LARGEST IRRIGATION ENTERPRISE IN AMERICA. The Twin Falls Land and Water Company, located on the Snake river, twenty-four miles south of Shoshone station, the largest irrigation enterprise in America, involving an expenditure of over two million dollars and reclaiming two hundred and seventy five thousand acres of the richest valley lands in the state of Idaho, is now practically completed and will be delivering water on the lands within the next sixty to ninety days. The main canal, sixty-nine miles long, is eighty feet wide at the bottom, one hundred and twenty-four feet at the top and carries ten feet of water. The project is being constructed under the Carey act, and comes under the immediate supervision of the Idaho State Land Board. Last fall the Land Board authorized the opening of 30,000 acres of this land to public entry, and notwithstanding the fact that no water would be delivered this year, all of this land has been absorbed. The State Land Board now authorizes the opening of an additional 100,000 acres at noon, October 20th, at Twin Falls City, and a great rush is expected. Mr. Masqueray, chief of designs of buildings and grounds at the World's Fair, St. Louis, has designed a hotel and townsite known as Twin Falls City, in the heart of these lands, and a $50,000 hotel is now under construction, besides numerous business blocks and residences. Over $60,000 worth of town lots have been sold within the past sixty days. The Oregon Short Line, at an early date, will begin the construction of a branch line from Minidoka through the heart of these lands to the new town of Twin Falls City. EDUCATIONAL EFWORTH UNIVERSITY. Joint Property of the two Methodism s. Intends to be thorough in scholarship and helpful and religious in spirit. Ten Head Professors, the majority of whom have taught in such universities as Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Columbia, Leland Stanford, devote their entire time to the college of liberal arts. Full corps of instructors in Academy and Music, Education and Art. Large campus of fifty-two acres beautifully situated. Modern buildings. Physical, Chemical and Biological Laboratories. The first session begins September 7, 1904. Address. President R. B. McSwain, Oklahoma, Okla. Busins University FINEST BUILDING. BEST EQUIPMENT. $60 Post Total Expenses for Six Months' Course in Bookspeople, Shortened, Pensionable, and if you are willing to work to pay board. Positions secured. Free use of text-books. Railroad fare paid. Write today for full particular. Address THOS. M. MILLAN. Prest. Oklahoma City, O. T. --- AGRICULTURE Another feature of engineering work for farm drainage in which there should be great improvement is that of maps and records. At Ames, on the college farm, the present authorities have had predecessors who put in quite extensive amounts of tile drains without leaving accurate plats, so that in many places we cannot now find even where the drains were built, to say nothing of their sizes, grades and depths. In making excavations old lines of tile whose very existence was not suspected are not infrequently encountered, and the writer knows of places where at least two systems of tiles in the same locality have been put in by successive generations of authorities. The same or a worse state of affairs must result on individual farms throughout the state, as time goes by and the farms change owners, unless the present almost total neglect of keeping complete records of all tile drains built is remedied. Even if the land does not change owners, men's memories fail, and the writer has often noted that even after a very few years men who actually help build drains are frequently unable to locate them within a considerable distance. Without complete maps showing the particulars of our drains how can we hope to keep them in working order! The breaking and choking up of a single tile might render many acres of land worthless in a wet season, and cause enough damage in a single year to have paid ten times over for records which would have enabled the difficulty to be located and remedied at less than one dollar's expense.—Iowa Station. Breeding Hardy Fruits. Over a large area of the prairie northwest, many of the fruits grown in the eastern and southern states are deficient in hardiness. This has been demonstrated by thousands of planters. The climatic extremes of the northwestern prairies do not make fruit culture impossible; but care must be taken in the selection of varieties. The fruit lists adopted by the various state horticultural societies give the general experience with varieties. The beginner should confine his first main planting to the sorts which have stood the test, but often the list is so short that the varieties recommended for trial are needed to fill out the list. There is need of extending the present short list of fruits. Successful fruit culture is essential to true home-making upon the open prairies, hence the work of originating hardy fruits is of the highest possible importance. It is only in recent years that the immense importance of plant-breeding has become generally recognized. Plant-breeding means the originating of improved varieties by selection, crossing and hybridizing. These are often termed "new creations," and the work corresponds to that of invention in the domain of the mechanical industries. A strictly hardy winter apple, a hardy cherry or a hardy grape of large size and good quality would be worth millions of dollars to the prairie northwest.—Prof. N. E. Hansen. At the Ontario agricultural college potatoes were planted in rows 26½ inches apart with the sets one foot apart in the row, and others were planted 33 inches apart each way, exactly the same amount of seed being used in both cases. The close planting gave a yield of 31.4 bushels more than the other method. Loading peaches into cars before they have been cooled will bring them to market in a very bad condition. The fruit should be thoroughly cooled before being put into the cars. TRADE MARK. 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The news is to be telegraphed from Belle Isle, off the Newfoundland coast. Lewis' "Single Binder." The richest quality cigar, on the market at straight 5c. Always reliable. You pay 10c for cigars not so good. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, ill. "A Herb for Every Pain." In Bethune street, where Greenwich village seems to tie itself into a knot of tangled thoroughfares, there is an old-time herb shop. Fifty years or so ago there were many of them in New York, but there are very few now. The sign over the door reads: "A herb for every pain." On the shelves and counters are three hundred kinds of herbs for the cure of human ills, and bottles with fluid extracts made from nearly half of that number, or combinations of them. Customers with old-fashioned ideas about health and sickness go there for bugle-weed for consumption, sumach for sore throat, wintergreen for rheumatism, and extract of oats to cure drunkenness. At this season of the year there is a constant call for catnip, sassafras, chamomile, horehound, yellow dock, cherry bark, and mandrake. Boneset tea is brewed as a cure for colds and served hot in little china cups. Lobelia is sold as an emetic when persons living in the neighborhood have taken poison, either by accident or otherwise. Some of the herbs are deadly poisons, and are sold under the same restrictions as other poisons. Strangers to the herb doctor are served with caution.—New York Times. Human Foot Grows Smaller. It is asserted by a sculptor that the human foot is becoming smaller. The masculine foot of twenty centuries ago was about twelve inches long. The average man's foot of to-day is easily fitted with a No. $ 8 \frac{1}{2} $ shoe, which is not more than ten and seven-sixteenths inches in length. CAN DRINK TROUBLE. That's one way to get it. Although they won't admit it many people who suffer from sick headaches and other ails get them straight from the coffee they drink and it is easily proved if they'e not afraid to leave it to a test as in the case of a lady in Connellsville. "I had been a sufferer from sick headaches for twenty-five years and anyone who has ever had a bad sick headache knows what I suffered. Sometimes three days in the week I would have to remain in bed, at other times I couldn't lie down the pain would be so great. My life was a torture and if I went away from home for a day I always came back more dead than alive. "One day I was telling a woman my troubles and she told me she knew that it was probably coffee caused it. She said she had been cured by stopping coffee and using Postum Food Coffee and urged me to try this food drink. "That's how I came to send out and get some Postum and from that time I've never been without it for it suits my taste and has entirely cured all of my old troubles. All I did was to leave off the coffee and tea and drink well-made Postum in its place. This change has done me more good than everything else put together. "Our house was like a drug store for my husband bought everything he heard of to help me without doing any good, but when I began on the Postum my headaches ceased and the other troubles quickly disappeared. I have a friend who had an experience just like mine and Postum cured her just as it did me. "Postum not only cured the headaches, but my general health has been improved, and I am much stronger than before. I now enjoy delicious Postum more than I ever did coffee." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. "There's a reason" and it's worth finding out. Around the World "I have used your Fish Brand Stickers for years in the Hawaiian Islands and found them the only article that suited. I am now in this country (Africa) and think a great deal of your coats." 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The spells would sometimes occur at intervals of half an hour, and would leave me so weak that I would be compelled to lie down between them. I would have several of them during the night following a day of such attacks. Finally I became so weakened that I had to give up working altogether. I weighed only ninety-four pounds. "Last January I read about Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People in one of the Chicago daily papers and bought a box and began to use them. After I had used half a box I found that I could keep on my stomach the food I ate. I was encouraged by this and kept on using the pills for four months. At the end of that time the vomiting spells had ceased altogether and my weight went up to 142 pounds and is still growing. "I think I surely would have died if it had not been for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, for I sometimes vomited clear blood, and for three or four days at a time I could not eat a bite of anything. One doctor said I had chronic inflammation of the stomach, and another said my difficulty was a cancer, but none of their medicines did me any good at all. Finally I concluded that I did not have blood enough to digest my food, and I began the treatment that has cured me. I can eat anything now, and have strength for all kinds of work. I always keep Dr. Williams' Pink Pills on hand, and I recommend them to my friends because I know they cured me." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills agree with the most delicate stomachs and strengthen the digestive organs until they do their work perfectly. They are sold by all druggists. Could Not Be Bribed. A good story is told of A. C. MacLaren, a well-known cricket player. He was playing a picnic match "up country" in Australia when one of the batsmen skied a ball very high between the wickets. MacLaren was waiting for the catch, but the striker in running past cried, "Oh, Archie, drop it, do, and I'll allow you to kiss my sister." MacLaren, it is added, was proof against the attempted bribery. Try One Package. If "Defiance Starch" does not please you, return it to your dealer. If it does, you get one-third more for the same money. It will give you satisfaction, and will not stick to the iron. Comprehensive. "If I wrote on till I told you everything, Mavourneen"—so ran the closing paragraph in a certain impassioned young Irishman's love letter—"I'd still be having a volume to tell you, darling."—New Orleans Picayune. Governor Bob Taylor of Tennessee has come in possession of a lion. In eulogizing the animal he says: "Sometimes I think it is a dream. I sometimes feel like the girl who said she often had strange feelings. Sometimes she thought it was religion and sometimes she thought it was worms." When faith is lost and honor dies, the man is dead.—Whittier. SCIENCE and INVENTION Convenient Trunk. Everybody has helped to pack a trunk at some time or other, and the most inconvenient and troublesome part of it all is the insertion of the tray, which most all trunks contain, into its proper position. It is practically impossible for one person to do this alone without vexation and hard work, and often two have trouble enough. If all trunks were constructed like the one shown herewith all this inconvenience would be done away with and the packing simplified. The tray is supported by four bars or levers, two on each side, so arranged that when the lid of the trunk is opened the tray is elevated simultaneously with the raising of the lid. By the insertion of a number of lugs to connect with the levers the tray, when once elevated, is held firmly in that Raises the Tray Automatically. position and cannot slip, but must be released by the hand. When the lid is closed the bars still hold the tray in position and no stationary support is necessary within the body of the trunk. Often, when it is thought that the trunk is packed, it is suddenly remembered that some needful article has been forgotten, and what a job to haul the tray out in order to put it in some corner! This will occur a half-dozen times, which means a whole lot of trouble. With this device the opening and closing of the lid, with the consequent raising of the tray, can be done easily and quickly. Peter Steiger of Baltimore, Md., is the patentee. Valuable Scientific Tests. The public which gathers around this testing plant to see a locomotive which, while it is standing still, is doing its carefully measured work of hauling a large or small train at a low or high speed, as the investigators require, thinks that this is all being done that it may "see the wheels go 'round." The engineer and the railway man see in it a new era of technical study. Over the painting, tugging locomotive twenty-five or more men are engaged in observing what is going on inside of it, what work it is doing for the fuel consumed, what weaknesses it is developing and what good points. When their computations are completed they can say with accuracy what the locomotive can do and at what cost. They are gaining information which, expressed in technical terms, is invaluable for the locomotive designer of the future. It means in its ultimate results the obtaining of the greatest amount of work for the least expenditure, and a consequent reduction in the cost of transportation. This kind of scientific investigation is of the utmost economic value. The greatest technical societies are assisting through advisory committees, and the results of the tests will therefore meet with universal acceptance. Twelve of the most important types of recent locomotives are to be tested during the exposition and the results published to the world.—W. A. 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THORNTON & MINOR. 3080 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. and 1080 Oak Bc, Kansas City, Mo. A. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—I was married for five years and gave birth to two premature children. After that I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and it changed me from a weak, nervous woman to a strong, happy and healthy wife within seven months. Within two years a lovely little girl was born, who is the pride and joy of my household. If every woman who is cured feels as grateful and happy as I do, you must have a host of friends, for every day I bless you for the light, health and happiness Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable o my home. Sincerely yours, Mrs. MAK Norman, Milwaukee. Wis." THE CIMETER. Published every week in the interest of the Negro by the Cimeter Publishing Co. Entered at the Post Office at Muskogee, I. T., as second class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION: (In advance) One Year ..... $1.00 Six Months ..... 50 Three Months ..... 25 W. H. TWINE - - - Editor. R. WOOD, Ass't Editor and Manager. J. T. TRIMBLE - - - Solicitor. Republican Ticket. For President, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, of New York. For Vice-President, CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS, of Indiana. The state will be republican although very close. The charge of Judge Raymond to the grand jury of bribery at elections was very timely. The sign of the "Times" point to the making of a new state next winter out of what is known as Oklahoma and Indian Territory. The Pheonix is still in the postoffice fight, and evidently will keep up this lick until the present incumbent or a successor is appointed. The Creek Council convenes at Okmulgee on Tuesday. There will be but few more such gatherings, and then the end of what was known as the Creek government will come. The board of medical examiners convened here on Monday, and a number of doctors were in submitting their diplomas, and those who could not pass on the diplomas took the examination. The street railway has not been started as yet, but reports are that in the very near future several miles will be built and put in operation. The property around the proposed lines is enhancing in value very rapidly. The colored voters of the north will be quite an important factor in the national campaign and they, of course, will be loyal to the party of freedom and progress and in every doubtful state this vote will stand like a stone wall against the assaults of democracy. The condition of Second St. from Okmulgee Ave. to the Railroad is one that should be looked after by the proper authorities. The street is in a miserable condition, and unless something is done before the rainy season sets in it will be necessary to have mud boats to navigate from the South end of Okmulgee Ave. --- District court is now in session The grand jury empaneled Monday and got down to business at once, The fellows who have been violating the laws have now an opportunity to make themselves scarce. From this time on the notaries public will have to stop their lax way of doing business. There has been a great deal of fraud perpetrated by unprincipled men who happen to have control over some notaries, and with such control have been able to get ignorent people to deed them their lands. NOTARIES PUBLIC. Judge Raymond's charge to the grand jury yesterday. in that portion where he deals with the duties and responsibilities of a notary public, strikes at the root of perhaps the greatest and most dangerous system of fraud known to the Indian Territory. It is not stating it too strong to say that more crimes against the Indians have been perpetrated by an through irresponsible, designing and scheming officials of this character than by any other class of men with whom they have to deal. The appointment of these officials is considered a mere matter of form and unfortunately many persons have been commissioned to discharge the important and responsible duties of a notary public whose even among their friends would not be worth ten dollars on a dote. It is a well known fact that such men will put their seal on any instrument presented to them, ignoring dates, names and sometimes, even the presence of the signer with whose signature they are in nowise familiar. Instruments of the greatest importance have been acknowledged in blank and undated. stamped by the notary public's seal and not filled in for weeks or until the party taking the instrument could find a buyer for the property described in the instrument. Some have gone so far as to make a business of scouring the country for Indians desiring to sell or lease their land, get them to execute the papers in blank, then, when the buyer was found at a good profit the deed or lease would be filled in, dated, acknowledged and sealed with the grantors or lesses miles away and entirely ignorant of the character of paper they had signed probably by mark. Judge Raymond does well to call the attention of a Grand Jury to this matter and also to the fact that the law requires a complete record to be kept of all acknowledgements taken, a requirement with which probably not twenty-five per cent of the notaries in the Indian Territory comply,—Pheonix. E. L. SAMUEL PRACTICAL :: SHOEMAKER, REPAIRING NEATLY DONE, ALL WORK GUARANTEED. Keeps Constantly on Hand a Full Line of Second Hand Shoes : 140 SO. SECOND STREET, MUSKOGEE, I.T, The Territorial Bank & Trust Co. Oldest and Strongest Bank in the Indian Territory. Interest Paid on Deposits. Abstracts Made. Fidelity Bonds Written. MUSKOGEE, INDIAN TERRITORY. 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. Eggleston, St. Louis, Mo.; C. J. Miller, Muskogee, I. T.; Samuel Raymond, Wynnewood, I. T. Loans and Discounts $410,936.13 Capital $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 The above statement is correct. D. N. FINK, Cashier. Business intrusted to our care receive prompt attention. MORRIS' CAFE The only first-class, up-to-date Cafe in the city Where people of all nations can be served A Splendid Billiard and Pool Hall Adjoining The finest in the southwest. If you are hungry step into the cafe; if you want to spend an hour of pleasure the pool room is the place. R. H. MORRIS, Prop. FARM LOANS AND ABSTRACTS JAMES L. LOMBARD. President. CHAS. H. LOMBARD. Secretary and Manager. D. G. WILSON, Assistant Secretary. MIDLAND ABSTRACT COMPANY FARM :: LOANS :: ON :: FREEDMAN :: LAND Loans made to Creek Freedmen who are farming on their allotments O. H. FARLEY & CO Phene 436, Office 223 Okmulgee Avenue. R. A. GIVENS, WATCH-MAKER & JEWELER. Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Etc. Just opened in front of U. S. Court House, and has just receive my fall line of Jewelry which is strictly first-class and up-to-date in every respect. I carry nothing but the best goods and of the latest design. My prices are reasonable. Call and see the latest whether you want to buy or not. Local Happenings, E. T. HEARNE, CITY EDITOR. D. Stanley of Chicago is in the city. B. D. Andrews of Okmulgee was here Sunday. Mr. Curry of Hope Ark. is in the city. Ed Peters and wife of Boynton were here last week. Mrs. E. C. Childs of Shawnee, O. T. is visiting here. Carl Johnson of Tres Palacious Tex. is prospecting here. Mr. Owen of Oktaha was here on business Tuesday. A. G. Hill of Beggs was doing Muskogee this week. Jno. Williams of Vincennes, Ind. is in the city prospecting. Ona Monson of Rayne La' was here Sunday visiting friends. Stephen Campbell and wife of Beggs were in the city on the 4th inst. Mr Jas. Sturgeon returned Saturday from a weeks visit to the World's Fair. Mrs. Lizzie Trimble was called to Chelsea on the 2nd to attend the funeral of her aunt. Messrs, Lionus, Jno. Pruett and family left Sunday for N. Y. where they will sail for Liberia, West Africa where they will make their future home. Mesdames, Nancy Nero, Mc Gee, Riddle and White are visiting in the city. A. G. W. Sango is on a visit to his father-in law who was injured in a runaway at Lawrence Kans. E. L. Samuels departed Monday for a weeks stay in St. Louis during the Fair and attending to business in his line. Dealer In MUSKOGEE UNION RAILWAY, Ft. Smith and Wagoner and the Kansas and Cherokee Oil Fields, via Coretta and Missouri Pacific Ry. Lv. Muskogee— 9:30 a. m. and 8:05 p. m. Ar. Ft. Smith— 12:55 p. m. and 11:45 p. m. Lv. Ft. Smith— 4:00 a. m. and 3:15 p. m. Ar. Muskogee— 7:31 a. m. and 7:35 p. m. Lv. Muskogee— 6:25 a. m. and 6:20 p. m. Ar. Wagoner— 7:10 a. m. and 8:10 p. m. Lv. Wagoner— 9:55 a. m. and 9:17 p. m. Lv. Muskogee— 10:46 a. m. and 2:17 p. m. For time of trains beyond Wagoner see Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain time tables. A. R. PAYINGHAUS. Traffic Manager. DR. R. H. WATERFORD. Diseases fo successfu treated. Also chronic diseases of men. Office, 101 1-2 N. Main St. Residence 813 S. Ma St THE POPULAR . . . BOOT & SHOE MAKER, E. L. SAMUELS. When You Want A SHAVE. HAIRCUT. SHAMPOON. OR SEA FOAM, EXCELSIOR TONSORIAL. PARLOR . Second St., Next to Creek Gro. C Clen tqwels, sharp razors a specialty J. A. BANKS, Proprietor Not a Case of Sympathy. First Wall Street Operator—What if they did fleece that young millionaire out of over $400,000. You needn't feel sorry for him. He has plenty more where that came from. Second Wall Street Operator—O, I'm not shedding any tears over him. What grinds me is to think the gamblers got it.—Chicago Tribune. LEY & CO LEADING licensed Embalmers. EVERYTHING FOR THE HOUSE SATISFACTION OR YOUR MONEY BACK ```markdown ``` Spot Cash Store. BIG LINE OF SPRING MILLINARY! Shirt Waist Suits, Shirt Waists, Corsets, Hosiery, Muslin Underwear, Dry Goods, Tin Ware and Enameled Ware, Queens Ware, and Glass Ware. West Broadway Muskogee THE FAIR. Money loaned on Real Estate, Chattel and personal-security : ; : : : : Real Estate Bought and Sold. Deposits Received. Your Business Solicited. A,G. W. SANGO, President. W. A. RENTIE, Cashier. GLOYD - LUMBER - CO. TAKING THE STUMP To tell about our lumber. It is put forward to win the approval of the lumber users of this section and when its good points are appreciated it will certainly do so. We see no satisfaction or profit in handling low grade stock. Neither will consumers when they learn that the finest lumber does not piece by the foot but by the inchesr A Lumberman Standing on a Tree Stump with a Saw and a Stack of Wooden Planks. HAND MADE CLOTHES SHIRTS ALL KINDS OF HATS Muskogee Cimeter. W. H. TWINE, Editor. MUSKOGEE, IND. TER. NEW STATE NEWS. Ground was broken last week for a new cotton compress at Snyder. Special Indian Agent Allen made an inspection of the Quapaw reservation last week. About one hundred and fifty prisoners were transferred from the old to the new jail at South McAlester last week. Republican editors of the two territories met in Guthrie last week and organized into one association. The Muskogee Hotel company has filed articles of incorporation for $75,000, and a new hotel will be built in that city at once. Frank M. Sweet, a clerk in the land office of the Dawes commission at Tahlequah, died last week. Mr. Sweet had been connected with the Indian service for a number of years. The medical board of the southern district met in Chickasha Monday and Tuesday of this week. There were a large number of applicants before the board. The Frisco depot at Mountain View was totally destroyed by fire last week, together with three freight cars, which were standing on the side track. The origin of the fire is not known. Horsethieves appear to becoming more numerous in the Creek nation. The Anti-Horsethief association is preparing for an active campaign against the violaters of the law. Owing to the scarcity of cotton pickers in the vicinity of Chickasha, the Rock Island Railroad company has granted a rate of one cent a mile, where there are five or more persons in a party, from Fort Worth and Dallas to those who wish to come and help pick bolls. Okmulgee business men closed their stores one day last week to raise a bonus for the location of the shops of the Kansas, Okmulgee & Gulf railroad at that place. In two hours enough money was raised to insure their location. George L. William, a representative of the cotton brokers, who has been traveling through the Indian Territory, reports that the cotton crop as very flattering. The people of Chelsea have taken steps to have the coal minos near that place developed. A company agrees to maintain a pay roll in the town of $25,000 a month and the citizens are to subscribe $2,500 toward the enterprise. Nearly half of this amount has been raised. Luther Ray, a five year-old boy, while playing in a wagon load of cotton near Pleasant Mount, was smothered to death. The men working at the wagon, not noticing the child in the cotton, filled the bed full and went to the gin with it. When discovered, the child was dead. Thirty-three applicants took the civil service examination at Oklahoma City last week for typewriters and stenographers in the home government service in the Philippines. One of the applicants was a full blood Indian. Between six and seven hundred territorial guards are encamped at Oklahoma City this week. THE WOMAN'S CORNER READING FOR THE KEEPER OF THE HOME. Blouse Waist That Admits of Many Variations — Comfortable Walking Skirt—Smart Coat for Little Child —Making Real Turkish Coffee. Child's Coat. Long coats made in double-breasted style suit young children admirably well. This one is exceptionally smart, with its triple capes and wide collar, and is adapted to both boys and girls, the only change necessary to convert it from correct masculine to correct feminine style being found in lapping the right side over the left in place of the left over the right. The model is made of ox blood, red broad- and girls, the only change necessary to convert it from correct masculine to correct feminine style being found in lapping the right side over the left in place of the left over the right. The model is made of ox blood, red broadcloth, trimmed with fancy braid and held by handsome pearl buttons, but all materials in vogue for children's coats are equally correct. The coat is made with fronts and back and is finished at the neck with a big roll-over collar beneath which the triple capes are attached. The sleeves are full, finished with rollover cuffs, and at the waist line is a belt that is passed under straps arranged at the under-arm seams. The quantity of material required for the medium size (6 years) is 5 yards 27 inches wide, 3 yards 44 inches wide or $2 \frac{1}{8}$ yards 52 inches wide, with 6 yards of braid to trim as illustrated. WHILE THE TEA DREWS The smartest turban seen lately is of straw between cerise and pink. It is draped with black chantilly. White lisle thread gloves are considered quite appropriate to any morning or afternoon costume. Flowered organdies are a safe investment, for authority says they will be even more worn next summer. Some informal evening dresses have yokes of plain net and in many instances these are very becoming. Closely sheared zibeline, not the long-haired kind first introduced, is the modish stuff for the coming season. Net appliques are introduced with charming effect into many elaborate trimmings for dresses, as well as for coats. The extreme floppy phase of the picturesque is on the wane. One can now be smart without looking like a freak. Blouse Waist. Blouse waists that possess an individuality of their own always find a place and are certain of appreciation. This one is quite novel and allows of many variations, inasmuch as the trimming and the chemisette can be varied again and again, and the design is suited to numberless materials. As illustrated, however, it is made of ivory crepe de Chine with the chemisette of ecru lace over white chiffon, trimming and tie of messaline satin. 1 The waist consists of a fitted lining, that can be used or omitted as preferred, fronts and back with the chemisette, and closes at the center front and beneath the band at the left side. The back is tucked to give tapering lines, each front at the edge and again from the shoulder for part of its length. The sleeves are full, gathered at the shoulders to give the broad line and finished with deep cuff. The quantity of material required for the medium size is 4 yards 21 inches wide, $3 \frac{1}{2}$ yards 27 inches wide or $2 \frac{1}{2}$ yards 44 inches wide, with $ \frac{1}{2} $ yard of all-over lace and $ 1 \frac{1}{2} $ yards of silk to trim as illustrated. With the Housewife In making down pillows go over the wrong side of the case with an iron rubbed well with beeswax each time it is applied to the cloth, to prevent the down working through the cloth. At a recent porch luncheon the whole tomatoes served were peeled and cut in lengths nearly through, which made them look like red roses, as they were brought on resting on lettuce hearts. In a country house where a large number of lamps are used it is better to keep them in a little closet by themselves than to expose them on a shelf in the kitchen, where they are sure to collect dust. The lid of a teapot should always be left so that air gets in. Slip in a piece of paper to keep it open. This prevents mustiness. The same rule applies to a coffee pot. Flatirons should be washed every week and always kept in a clean, dry place. Few housekeepers use sufficient wax in ironing. Do not allow your irons to become red hot, as they will never again retain the heat. Seven-Gored Walking Skirt. The skirt that comfortably clears the ground is the accepted one for walking, shopping, business and general wear and is shown in almost The skirt that the ground is the walking, shopping, eral wear and is limitless variation, but always is snug over the hips. This graceful model is adapted to all seasonable materials, but is shown in a small green and blue plaid, whose lines are quite in- limitless variation, but always is snug over the hips. This graceful model is adapted to all seasonable materials, but is shown in a small green and blue plaid, whose lines are quite indistinct, with trimming of straps piped with black and is stitched with corticelli silk. The long lines are in every way admirable and the tucks are stitched flat for a portion of their length, their fulness providing generous flare below that point. The skirt is cut in seven gores and is laid in two backward turning tucks at each seam, those at the center back being lapped well over to give the necessary depth. The quantity of material required for the medium size is $8 \%$ yards 27 inches wide, 5 yards 44 inches wide or $4 \%$ yards 52 inches wide when material has figure or nap; $7 \%$ yards 27, $3 \%$ yards 44, or $3 \%$ yards 52 inches wide when material has neither figure nor nap. A Flower Instead of a Monogram. A fad with many smart girls just now is to mark their underwear and many of their dainty dress accessories with a little embroidered flower in place of their monogram or initials. The young woman, for instance, who is partial to baby-blue will take a spray of forget-me-nots for her emblem, and embroider it upon her handkerchiefs, her underwear, the tops of her stockings and her veils. She may carry the idea a bit further, if she wishes, and use artificial forget-me-nots as a corsage decoration, a colfure ornament and to trim her hats. In place of the spray of forget-menois, a violet, pansy, pink, rosebud, buttercup, daisy or bluebell may be used as a substitute for the more conventional monogram.—September Woman's Home Companion. Wiggle Stick WASH BLUE Costs 10 cents and equals 20 cents worth of any other kind of bluing. Won't Spill or Break Can't Spot Clothes DIRECTIONS FOR USE: Wiggle=Stick around in the water. At all wise Grocers. DEPEW CRACKS A NEW JOKE Tells a Story on Himself in Connection With a Political Meeting The fact that Senator Depew has a brand new joke was disclosed by him to a number of friends who accompanied him from Oneonta to Afton on his private car recently. During Senator Depew's last speaking trip over the Delaware & Hudson railroad he was greeted by an unsympathetic crowd at Cobleskill, and when he was conveyed to the town hall and attempted to address the gtherings he was rudely interrupted. In referring to the incident Senator Depew said: "I think I offended the crowd at Cobleskill on that occasion by saying to them during the brief interval that I could make my voice heard that they were trying to interfere with free speech and that they were using the same weapon that Samson used against the Philistines. "'That's a lie!" shouted some man in the crowd; 'it was Schley.'" Wall papers made of imitation silk and satin are the latest fad in the "smart set." Sure Cure at Last. Monticello, Miss., Oct 3 (Special) Lawrence County is almost daily in receipt of fresh evidence that a sure cure for all Kidney Troubles has at last been found, and that cure is Dodd's Kidney Pills. Among those who have reason to bless the Great American Kidney Remedy is Mrs. L. E. Baggett of this place. Mrs. Baggett had Dropsy. Dodd's Kidney Pills cured her. "I was troubled with my kidneys," Mrs. Baggett says in recommending Dodd's Kidney Pills to her friends, "my urine would hardly pass. The doctors said I had Dropsy. I have taken Dodd's Kidney Pills as directed and am now a weil woman." Dodd's Kidney Pills cure the kidneys. Cured Kidneys strain all the impurities out of the blood. That means pure blood and a sound energetic body. Dodd's Kidney Pills are the greatest tonic the world has ever known. Falsely Accused. "You are nothing but an idler," said the industrious ant, scornfully. "Not me," replied the grasshopper. "Why, I have been on the jump ever since I was born." "Why I consider Cheatham's Laxative Tablets the best remedy for Chills, Biliousness and Malaria: First, they cure; second, never any bad results; third, easy to carry, pleasant to take. "I carry them always. I take them often. They made me well. They keep me well." CHAS. E. ROGERS, Price 25c. Hartshorne, I. T. Nothing can constitute good breeding that has not good nature for its foundation.—Bulwer Sensible Housekeeper will have Defiance Starch, not alone because they get one-third more for the same money, but also because of superior quality. SEEKERS AFTER HEALTH Should avoid the cheap foodstuffs on the market, poor in nutriment and hard of digestion, for they are productive only of unhappiness and disease on account of their wrong combinations and proportions. DR. PRICE'S WHEAT FLAKE CELERY FOOD eaten with daily regularity will keep the bowels acting naturally, giving strength to expel all waste and foreign elements, thus enabling men and women to have purer blood, happier natures and better health. Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice and dull in every other.—Sir P. S'dney. Dr. Price, the creator of Dr. Price Cream Baking Powder and Delicious Flavoring Extracts. Prepared by PRICE CEREAL FOOD CO., Food Mills, BATTLE CREEK, MICH., Main Offices, CHICAGO. Plantation Chill Cure is Guaranteed To cure, or money refunded by your merchant, so why not try it? Price 50o. THOUGHT SHE WOULD DIE. Mrs. S. W. Marine, of Colorado Springs, Began to Fear the Worst. Doan's Kidney Pills Saved Her. Mrs. Sarah Marine, of 428 St. Urain St., Colorado Springs, Colo., President of the Glen Eyrie Club, writes: "I suffered for three years with severe backache. The doctors told me my kidneys were affected and prescribed medicines for me, but I found it was only a waste of time and money to take them, and began to fear that I would never get well. A friend advised me to A. B. try Doan's Kidney Pills. Within a week after I began using them I was so much better that I decided to keep up the treatment, and when I had used a little over two boxes I was entirely well. I have now enjoyed the best of health for more than four months, and words can but poorly express my gratitude." I sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N.Y. Mcn Are So Shy. Helen—See if you can find the man in this puzzle picture. Spinster Aunt—It's useless for me to attempt it. I've been trying to find a man for thirty-five years. World's Fair Visitors. Persons attending the great Exposition at St. Louis should secure a room close to the Fair and in a safe brick building. Hotel Epworth has all the conveniences of a first-class modern hotel, within four minutes' walk of Convention and Administration entrance. Rates $1.00 per day and up for lodging. Meals at reasonable prices. From Union Station, go to Olive street, take Delmar Garden car, going west to $00. Our boys meet all cars. To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very ap of fortune.—Franklin. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, eating directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have o much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists. 75c. Take Hall's Family Pilts for constipation. It is no use running; to set out beimes is the main point.—La Fortaine. "Makes It Go Way." We simply can't do without it. We are not going to try. When Bobby stubs or cuts his toe, it's "Ma, where's the Lightning Oil?" When Lizzie burns her hand or arm, it's "Where's the Lightning Oil?" When little Dick's been playing with a bumble bee, it's "Where's the Lightning Oil?" The echo of all our afflictions is "Where's the Lightning Oil?" It's the balm that makes the pain go way. Sincerely yours, P. CASSIDY, Montevallo, Ala. 25 and 50c bottles. David Revised. After listening patiently to a lot of has-beens telling what they used to be, David said in his haste, "All men are fishermen." Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice and dull in every other.—Sir P. S'dney. The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.—Borce. Murine Eye Remedy cures sore eyes, makes weak eyes strong. All druggists, 50c. Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with the babbler.—Steele. "Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy saved my life! I had dyspepsia and kidney disease." Ex Senator Albert Merritt, Park Place, N. Y. $1 a bottle. If thou suffer injustice console thyself: the true unhappiness is in doing it.—Democrities. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.—JOHN F. BOYER, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. Suffering itself does not less afflict the senses than the anticipation of suffering.—Quintilian. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gruns, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 21c a bottle. A brave man is sometimes a desperado; but a bully is always a coward.—Haliburton. Defiance Starch is put up 16 ounces in a package, 10 cents. One-third more starch for the same money. Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.—H. F. Hedge. Smokers find Lewis' "Single Binder" straight 5c cigar better quality than most 10c brands. Lewis Factory, Peoria, Ill. Rate Destroy Insulation. Rats give trouble, in the London underground railway, by eating the rubber insulation off the wires. Many Children Are Sickly. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, Now York, cure Summer Complaint, Feverishness, Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders and Destroy Worms. At all Druggists', 25c. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Bovee. SEEKERS Should avoid the cheap foodstuffs 900 DROPS A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS AND CHILDREN Promotes Digestion. Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SANUEL HYDER Pumpkin Seed Mix. Soya Ricotta Salty Anise Seed Nutmeg Di Carbamate Salic Worm Seed Cinnamon Sugar Wintergreen Parsley Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Charles H. Hitchner NEW YORK, Attention: old 35 Doses - 35 CINIS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Charles H. Hitchner. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTRAL COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. afflicted with Thompson's Eye Water W.N.U.—Oklahoma City, No 41, 1904 When writing advertisers, Kindly mention this paper. Rubber Stamps, Netgial Seals, Checks, Stoncile and Badges. GOLD, SILVER, NICKEL AND COPPER PLATING WAND & SON, OKLAHOMA CITY. THE CIMETER Published every week in the interest of the Negro by the Cimeter Publishing Co. Entered at the Post Office at Muskogee, I. T., as second class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION: (In advance) One Year ..... $1.00 Six Months ..... 50 Three Months ..... 25 W. H. TWINE - - - - Editor. R. WOOD, Ass't Editor and Manager J. T. TRIMBLE - - - Solicitor. Republican Ticket. For President, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, of New York. For Vice-President, CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS, of Indiana. NOTICE-Anyone wanting a clerk or a man to work in the store at reasonable wages write J. H. Higgs of Rentie, I. T. Late dispatches from Washington say that Post-master-general Payne is in a dying condition. and there are very slight hopes of his recovery. Joe Ficker, the Negro charged with rape to a woman between the rives, has been caught and the grand jury is now sitting on his case, and in a short time the petit jury will sit on him, and if he is guilty he will get what a guilty person charged with his crime deserves. CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION Pleasant Porter, Chief of the Creek Nation transmitted his message to the council on the 3rd The message is lengthy and covers all matters of vital importance to his nation. General Porter is the greatest ling Indian end is the last chief executive to his tribe, and he will go down in history as such. --- Report says that one of the city councilmen has been arrested for attempting to build a shack, The city council makes our laws and now one of the very fellows it seems who made the law get caught in its mashes. We don't know whether he is a republican or a democrat at this writing. # 2023年10月16日 All combatants, women and children have been notified to withdraw from Port Arthur. This evidently means there will be a hot time in the old town when the Japs make their last charge to take the city, and when the Russians resist to the bitter end. It will be a grand and at the same time a terrible sight. We are compelled to agree with General Sherman, that war is hell. The advocates of prhibition have established permanent headquarters, and are starting in the fight now to make the future state one in which prohibition will reign supreme. The preachers are at the head of this movement. Durfey Hardware Company Shelf and Heavy Hardware, Tinware, the Celebrated Monarch Ranges, everyone guaranteed, Builders' Tools, etc. All Kinds of Tin Work and Plumbing, Refrigerators and Ice Coolers. PHONE 205 ROWSEY BLOCK III North Second Street. Rev. E. M. Sweat, Jr. is secretary and will give his entire time and attention to the movement. There will be a warm campaign on between the prohis and antis. Ben's Quick Relief Mixture It will certainly interest that class of unprincipled loafers that we have spoken about so much in these columns, and who are always hunting somebody to bribe, and when they can't find somebody running for an elective office they get around and bribe someone who is running for an appointive office. It is well known who these unprincipled cut throats and bribe-takers are, and it is our earnest desire that the grand jury will land on them, and teach some wholesome lessons to this as well as other classes of law-breakers. A speedy and sure cure for colic, cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, bloody flux, cholera morbus, griping in the stomach, cholera infantum and all bowel complaints. ASK FOR A MEDICINE GLASS Ben = Estes' = Drug = Store. MUSKOGEE TITLE & TRUST CO. ABSTRACTS of TITLE, INSURANCE, SURETY BONDS and REAL ESTATE Farm Loans a Specialty --- The public schools will open Monday we are informed that a number of the patrons will send their children to the Baptist College. We don't know why this is. There doubtless is some good cause. We shall proceed to investigate and then we shall say to the world why it is that people who pays taxes to run the public schools pay to send their children to a private school in order that they may have an opportunity to receive an education. There is something rotten in Denmark and when the Cimeter is fully informed it will hew to the line let the chips fall where they may. It may be that our school is in the same lamentable condition as some people claim that the Guthrie schools are. The Barnett Grocery Co. STAPLE and FANCY GROCERIES We have anything you desire in the Grocery Line at prices that defy competition. Give us a trial and you will repeat. Located on South 5th St., near the South Side Boulevard. WE CAN RENT YOUR HOUSES The Canadian Valley Trust Company Has a number of applicants who desire to rent houses. Owners of three, four, five and six room houses can secure desirable tenants by listing their property with us. REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT Canadian Valley Trust Co. OFFICIAL GUIDE TELLS YOU ALL Money refunded if not as represented. Order It Today Prospectus mailed free. AT LAST You Can Buy Indian Territory Lands But There is only one reliable and approved guide on Indian Territory, and that is J. E. Dunn's Indian Territory. It is just out. Contains 250 pages, has many fine half tones, large maps of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. Only work ever published on Indian Territory without a line of advertising in it. Every good citizen needs it. Is worth many $$ to every one interested in Indian Territory. Order today or you may be too late. Sent post paid $1. U. S. and Canada; foreign countries $1.50. COMMONWEALTH PUB. CO. Oklahoma City. Be sure to mention this paper. Gents' Furnishing Goods, OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS: Shirts, Hats, Underwear, Suit Cases. W. E. McCLURE, KNOX AGENCY. ENGLISH BLOCK. Muskogee. Ind. Ter'v. JOHN DOYLE COMPANY Exclusive Undertakers and Embalmers (LICENSED) 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 candiee ice cream, flour, sugar, coffes and country vegetables. GEORGE PLEASANT,