Muskogee Cimeter

The Muskogee Cimeter. Muskogee, I. T., Thursday, December 7, 1905. THE BOSTON STORE BLUE FLAG MILL & FACTORY SALE Sat. morning, Dec. 9th, 9 o'eloek sharp. THE BLUE FLAGS MARK THE PLACE LOOK FOR THEM OUR STORE will be closed all day Friday, December 8, arranging our mamoth stock and marking down goods for this great event. Promptly at 9 a. m., December 9th, we throw wide our doors and invite you to attend the greatest genuine sale of high class merchandise ever held in Muskogee. With a full and complete stock in every department, carefully selected and bought at the lowest price we are prepared to give the purchasing public an opportunity to buy the best for the least. Everything We Advertise We Have. We are Here to Stay. Not one single article mentioned in our circular that can't be found in our store. We have the goods. We make the prices Ten Days of Saving. prices never will be lower. Everthing goes at Blue Flag Sale. Nothing reserved. Follow the Blue Flags. BOSTON STORE'S BLUE FLAG SALE THE GREAT BLUE FLAG MILL AND FACTORY SALE. Marks an epoch in retail merchandising. A revolution in values. A revolution in prices. The blue flag price which means the lowest, is marked in plain figurers on every article. The same price to all, a child can trade here as well asolder heads. 216 West Okmulgee AVE LOOK HERE. FREE! On Saturday Morning, Dec. 9 We will give away 3 FINE WOOL DRESS 3 PATTERNS One to each of the first THREE LADIES ENTERING OUR STORE. Be Here on Time. Don't Wait for your neighbor. You can't get it if you are not here. BE FIRST --- --- Trunks, Suit Cases, Traveling Bags We are closing out, no room to handle them. Don't take any one's word for this sale Come and see for yourself. Thousands of bargains await your coming. Look for the big circular at your door. --- state for the use and benefit of its. public schools. Said appropriation of ten million dollars shall be held and invested by said state, in trust, for the use and benefit of said schools, und the interest thereon shall be paid quar. terly and used exclusively in the sup- port and maintenance of said schools: Relating to Sulphur Springs Reserva: tion PROVIDED, That nothing in this act contained shall repeal or effect any act of congress relating to the Sulphur Springs Reservation as now defined or as may be hereafter defined or extend- ed or the power of the United Stu‘es over it or any other lands embraced in the state hereafter set aside by congress as a national pirk, game preserve, or for the preservation ot objects of achological or ethnologt- cal interest; ard nothing contained in this act, shall interfere with the rights and ownership of the United States in any land hereafter set aside by con- gress as national park, game preserve, or other reservation, or in said Sul- phur Springs Reservation, as it now is or may be hereafter defined or ex- tended by law; but exclusive legisla- tion, in all cases whatever, shall be exercised by the United States, which shall have exclusive control and juris- diction over the same; but nothing in this proviso contained shall be con- strued to prevent the service withia said Sulphur Springs Reservation or national parks, game preserves, and other reservations hereafter estab- lished by law, of civil ond criminal processes lawfully issued by the an- thority of said state, and saii state shall not be re-entitled to select in- demnity school lands for the thirteeth, sixteenth, thirty-third, and thirty-sixth sections that may bo embraced within the motes and bounds of the national park, game preserve, and other res- ervation of the sald Sulphur Springs Reservation, as now defined or may be hereafter defined. Provisions for Land of University, Nor- mals and Colleges Sec. 8. That section thirteen in the Cherokee Outlet, the Tonkawa Indian reservation, and the Pawnee Indian reservation, reserved by the president of the United States by proctamavon issued August nineteenth, eighteen bundred and ninety-three, opening to setUement the said lands, and ty any act or acts of congress since said date, and section thirteen in all other lands which may be opened to sct'le- ment In the territory of Oklahoma, and all lands heretofore settled tn lieu thereof, is hereuy reserved and grant- ed to sald state for the use and bene- fit of the University of Oki homa, the Normal schools, and the Agricultural and Mechanical College of said state, one-third to each, the same to be dis- posed of as the legislature of saidstate may prescribe for the use and benefit of the University of Oklahoma and the University Preparatory Sckool, one- third: of the normal schools now es- tablished or hereafter to be established one-third; and of the Agricultural and Mechanical college and the Colored Agricultural Normal University, one-third; the said lands or the proceeds thereof as above apportioned shall be divided between the Institutions as the legislature of sald state may prescribe: PROVIDED, That the said lands so reserved or the processes of the sale thereof shall be safely kept or invested and he!d by sald state, and the income thereof, in- terest, rentals, or otherwise, only shall be used exclusively for the benefit of and penal institutions and public buildings, shall be appropriated and disposed of as the legislature of said state may prescribe, Legislature to be Given Power to Sell School Lands—Preference Right to be Given Lessees Sec. 9. That said sections sixteen and thirty-six, and lands taken fn lieu thereof, herein granted for the sup- port of the common schools, when sold, shall be appraised and sold, under such rules and regulations as the Jegis- lature of the said state may prescribe, preference right to purchase being given to the lessee at the time of Grant of Swamp and Overflow Land Repealed—Public Land Granted to University and Normals Sec. 12, That in lien of the grant of land for purposes of internal improve- ment made to new states by the eighth section of the act of September fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-one, which section is hereby repealed ‘ns to said state, and in lieu of any claim or demand of the state of Oklahoma under the act of September twenty- eight, eighteen hundred and fifty, and section twenty-four hundred and sev- enty-nine of the Revised Statutes, mvk- ing a grant of swamp and over-flowed lands, which grant it is hereby de- clared is not extended to said state of Oklahoma, the following grant of land is hereby made to said state from public lands of the United States with- in sald state, for the purpose indicated, namely: For the benefit of the Okla- homa University, two hundred and fif- ty thousand acres; for the benefit of the University Preparatory School, one hundred and fifty thousand acres; for the benefit of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, two hundred and fifty thousand acres; for the henefit of the Colored Agricultural and Nor- mal University, one hundred thousand acres; for the benefit of normal schools, now established or hereafter to be established, three hundred and fifty thousand acres. The lands grant- ed by this section shall be selected by the board for leasing school lands of the territory of Oklahoma immedi- ately upon the approval of this act. Sald selections as soon as made shall be certified to the secretary of the interior, and the lands so selected shall be thereupon withdrawn from home- stead entry. Restrictions to be Removed on Allot- ted Lands—Homesteads Exempted Sec. 13. That any restrictions upon the alienation of allotted lands in Ok- lahoma and the Indien Territory, ex- cept so far as such restrictions ap- ply.to the homestead of the allottees, shall cease upon the admission of sucn state into the Union, but nothing in this act shall be so construed as to effect the rights of allottees under any existing treaties or agreements reiat- ing to the taxation of allotted lands. Three Judicial Districts Provided for and Boundaries Defined Sec, 14. That said state, when ad- mitted as aforesaid, shall be divided into three Judicial districts, which shall be called the eastern,,the south- ern and the northern judicial districts of the state of Oklahoma, The east- ern district, for the time being, and until otherwise provided by law, shall include that part of Oklahoma ‘Ter- titory, as now constituted, known as the Osage Indian Reservation, anil that part of Indian Territory, as now constituted, known as Recording Dis: euch sale, the proceeds to constitute a permanent school fund, the interest dh ‘qitshate dam@is intinté toa) metal. tie and thirty-three aforesaid, when sol4, shall be appraised and sold, under such rules and regulations as the legisla- ture of sald state may prescribe, pref- erence right to purchase be ing given to the lessee st the time of such sale, but the eame may be leased for periods of not more than five years, under such rules and regulations as the legislature shal! prescribe, and shall not be subject | to homestead entry or any other entry under the land laws of the United States, whether surveyed or unsur- veyed, but shall be reserved for desig: nated purposes only and until such time as the legislature shall prescribe the sume shall be leased under exist: ing rules: PROVIDED, (22) ‘That in case of the sale of said lands under the provisions of sections nine anc ten of this act the leaseholder does not become the purchaser, all perma nent improvements sh*ll be appraised at their fafr and reasonable vilue, the lessee to receive the amount of satc appraisement, under such rules anc regulatioms as the legislature may prescribe. Sec. 11, That an amount equal, te five per centum of the proceeds ot the sales of public lands lying withir said state shall be paid to the sat¢ ‘state, to be used as a permanent fund the interest only of which shall be expended for the support of the com mon schools within said state. tricts numbered one, two, three, four five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen twenty-three, twenty-four and twenty five. The southern district, for the time being, and until otherwise provided by law, shall include that part of In dian Territory, as now constituted known as Recording Districts num: bered sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty: the advise and consent of the senate for each of said districts one district judge, one district attorney and one marshal, The district judge of each of said districts shall receive the same salary and compensation as is pro vided by jaw for other district judge: under the act approved March 18, 1904 (33 Stats, 140), and shall reside 1 their respective districts, There shal he appointed a clerk for each of sat districts, and said clerk shall restd at one of the places herein designatec for holding court in such district. Anc said c'erk shall appoint at least fow deputies, one ,of whom shall res‘d at each of the places in svid distric herein designated for holding court The circuit and district courts fo each cf said districts, and the judge: thereof, respectively, shall possess thé same powers and jurisdiction and per form the same duties required to bé performed by other circuit and dis trict courts and judges of the Unites States, and shall be governed by the same laws and regulations. ‘The mar shal, district attorney and clerk 0} each of the circuit and district court! of said districts, and all other officer and persons performing duties in th administration of justice therein, sha’ severally possess the powers and pe: form the duties lawfully required t be performed by similar officers 1 other districts of the United State and shall, for the services they ma perform, receive the fees and cor pensation now allowed by law to o! fiers performing similar services fo the United States in the Territory o Oklahoma. That the laws and orc shall be returned to Vinita, sna, an process issued against defendants re- two and twnty-stx, and that part of Ok- lahoma Territory, as now constituted, known as the counties of Pottawato- mie, Cleveland, Oklahoma, Comanche, Kiowa and Greer. The northern district, for the time being, and until otherwise provided by law, shall include that part of Ok- lahoma Territory, as now constituted, known ag the counties of Lincoln, Lo- gan, Payne, Pawnee, Noble, Kay,Grant Garfield, Kingfisher, Canadian, Caddo, Washita, Custer, Roser Mills, Day, Dewey, Blaine, Woods, Woodward and Beaver, Time and Place for Holding Circuit and District Courts That the United States circuit and district courts for the eastern dis- trict of Oklahoma shall be held in each year at the times and places as follows: At Muskogee on the second Monday of January and the first Mon- day of September. At Vinita on the second Monday of February and first Monday of October. At Tulsa on the third Monday of March and first Mon- day of November. At South McAles- ter on the first Monday of May and the first Monday of December. That the United States circuit and district courts for the southern dis- trict of Oklahoma shall be held in each year at the times and places as follows: At Oklahoma City on the second Monday of January and the first Monday of September, At Chick- asha on the second Monday of Febru- ary and first Monday of October. At Ardmore on the third Monday of March and the first Monday of No- vember. At Lawton on the first Mon- day of May and the first Monday of December. That the United States circult and district courts for the northern dis- trict of Oklahoma shall be held in each year at the times and places as fol- lows: At Guthrie on the second Mon- day of January and the first Monday of Septembere At El Reno on the sec- ond Monday of February and the first Monday of October, At Enid on the third Monday of March and the first Monday of November. At Alva on the first Monday of May and the first Mon. day of December. | To Become a Part of Eighth Judicial Circuit The said eastern, southern and northern judicial districts of the state of Oklahoma, as hereby constituted, shall be attached to the Eighth Judic- ial circuit, until otherwise provided. There shall be i:ppointed by the presi- dent of the United States, by and with siding within said recording districts numbers six, seven, nine, ten, eleven, twelve and thirteen, as now constitut- ed, shall be returned to Muskogee. That all process issued against detend- ants residing within said recording districts numbers fourteen, fifteen, twonty-three, twenty-four and twenty- five, as now constituted, shall be re- turned to South McAlester, That all process issued against defendants re- siding within the said recording dis- tricts numbers sixteen, twenty-one, twenty-two and twenty-six, as now con. stituted shall be returned to Ardmore, That all process issued against defen- dants residing within said recording districts numbers seventeen, eighteen, nineteen and twenty, as now constitut. ed, shall be returned to Chickasha. That all process issued against defend. ants residing within the counties of Pottawatomie, Cleveland and Okla: homa shall be returned to Okla- returned to Enid. That all process issued against the defendants residing in the counties of Beaver, Woodward, Woods, Day, Dewey and Custer shall be returned to Alva. That all process issued against the defendant residing in the counties of Canadian, Caddo, Washita and Roger Mins shall be returned to El Reno. Sec. 16. That all process issued against defendants residing in any county which may hereafter be created by law shall be returned to the nearest place for holding court in the judicial district within which said county is formed. That if there be more than one defendant, and they reside in different divisions of the district or in different districts, the plaintiff may sue in either division, or in either districts in which one or more defendants may reside, and send duplicate writ or writs to the other defendant or defendants on which the clerk issuing the writ shall endorse that the writ thus sent is a copy of a writ issued out of the court of the proper division of said district, and said writs, when executed and returned into the office from which they have issued shall constitute one suit, and be proceeded in accordingly: PROVIDED, that suits or actions affecting the title to or to foreclose liens on real estate shall be brought in the district and in the division thereof in which said real estate is, in whole or in part, situate. Sec. 17. That all prosecutions for crimes or offenses hereafter committed in either of said judicial districts as hereby constituted shall be cognizable within the district in which committed, and all prosecutions for crimes or offenses committed before the passage of this act in which indictments have not yet been found or proceedings instituted shall be cognizable within the judicial district as hereby constituted in which such crimes or offenses were committed. Provisions for Appeals and Writs of Error Sec. 19. That the said circuit and district courts of the United States and the courts of said state, respectively, shall by the successors of the courts of Oklahoma and Indian Territories as to all such cases arising within the limits of the territories described in the first section of this act, with full power to proceed with the same and award mesne or final process therein; and that from all judg- ments and decrees of the supreme courts of said territories or the United States courts for said territories in any case arising or begun within the limits of said state prior to admission the parties to such judgments or decrees shall have the same right to prosecute appeals and writs of error to the supreme court of the United States or the circuit court of appeals for the Eighth circuit as they shall have had by law prior to the admission of said state into the union. Transferring of Court Cases Now Pending Sec. 20. That in respect to all cases, proceedings and matters now pending in the supreme or district courts of said territories at the time of admission as a state and arising within the limits of such state thereof the circuit or district courts by this act established might have had jurisdiction under the laws of the United States had such courts existed at the time of the commencement of such cases, the circuit and district courts each, respectively, shall be the successors of said supreme and district courts of said territories and in respect to all other cases and matters pending in the supreme or district courts of said territories or in the United States courts for said territories at the time of the admission of such state, arising within the limits of said proposed state, the courts of said state shall, respectively be, the successors of said supreme and district territorial courts and the United States courts in said territories. And all the files, records, indictments and proceedings relating to any such cases shall be transferred to such circuit, district and state courts, respectively, and the same shall be proceeded with there in due course of law; but no writ, action, indictment, cause or proceeding now pending, or that prior to the admission of said state shall be pending, in any territorial courts of said territories or the United States courts for said territories shall abate by the admission of said state into the union; but the same shall be transferred and proceeded with in the proper United States circuit, district or state court, as the case may be: Provided, However, That in all civil actions, causes, and proceedings in which the United States is not a party transfer shall not be made to the circuit and district courts of the United States, except it be a case which, under existing laws, might be transferred from a state court to the courts of the United States, and upon written request of one of the parties to such action or proceedings, filed in the proper court, as now by law required, and in the absence of such request, such cases shall be proceeded with in the proper state court. Proceeds from Public Land Sales to be Used for Reclamation Fund for New State Sec. 21. That the proceeds from the sale of all public lands within the present boundaries of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory not hereinbefore provided for, shall constitute a drainage reclamation fund, to be expended as hereinafter provided: First: That said drainage reclamation fund shall be expended under the direction of the secretary of the interior, and under the immediate supervision of the engineers of the reclamation service. Second: The actual cost of the construction of any drainage works shall be apportioned and assessed against the property directly benefitted, to be paid by the owners thereof in equal installments, which shall not exceed ten in number, and such amounts so apportioned and assessed shall be a perpetual lien against said respective tracts or holdings until the same shall have been paid. Third: Indian lands which may have been drained and reclaimed from over-flow by reason of the operation of the provisions of this section, shall bear their proportionate share of the expense of such reclamation work. Fourth: Said state shall by law pro- vide for the creation, organization and operation of bodies corporate or drainage districts, for the purpose of permanent maintenance of drainage works, after the construction of the same shall have been completed and paid for. Fifth: The secretary of the interior is hereby authorized to formulate and establish such rules as may be necessary to carry out the provisions and purposes of this section. Constitutional Convention to Provide for Election of County and State Officers and Senators and Representatives to Congress Sec. 22. That the constitutional convention may by ordinance provide for the election of officers for a full state government, including members of the legislature and seven representatives to congress, and may constitute the Osage Indian reservation a separate county and designate the county seat thereof, and shall provide rules and regulations and define the manner of conducting the first election for officers in said county. Such state government shall remain in abeyance until the state shall be admitted into the union and the election for state officers held as provided for in this act. The state legislature, when organized, shall elect two senators of the United States in the manner now prescribed by the laws of the United States, and the governor and secretary of said state shall certify the election of the senators and representatives in the manner required by law; and said senators and representatives shall be entitled to be admitted to seats in congress and to all the rights and privileges of senators and representatives of other states in the congress of the United States. And the officers of the state government formed in pursuance of said constitution as provided by said constitutional convention shall proceed to exercise all the functions of such state officers; and all laws of said territories in force therein at the time of their admission into the union shall be in force in said state, except as modified or changed by this act, or by the constitution of the state, and the laws of the United States not locally inapplicable shall have the same force and effect within said state as elsewhere within the United States. Internal Revenue District Sec. 23. That the state of Oklahoma for the time being shall constitute one United States internal revenue collection district to be known as the district of Oklahoma, and there shall be a collector appointed for said district as provided for by section 3142 of the revised statutes of the United States. Section Lines to be Declared Public Highways Sec. 24. That all section lines in the state of Oklahoma shall be and are hereby declared to be public highways. The said roads or highways shall be sixty-six feet wide and shall be taken equally from each side of said section line. Sec. 25. That the constitutional convention provided for herein shall by ordinance irrevocable accept the terms and conditions of this act. Elk City, in Roger Mills county, is looking for a name. Because of the fact that there is an Elk postoffice in Indian Territory, the postoffice department refuses to recognize the name of Elk City, and the present name of the postoffice is Busch. The people of the town do not altogether relish that as a permanent name, and are trying to figure out one which will be alike satisfactory to the people, the postoffice department and the railroad. We call a person "tactful" who practices flattery as a fine art. Sometimes "conservative" is the polite term for cowardly. Staying in the old rut is preferable to falling in the new ditch. A piece of one's mind is never an acceptable gift. QUESTION AUTHORITY OF COMMISSIONER. Judge Campbell Must Decide Issue Affecting Pawhuska Town- Site Sale. Washidgton,—Judge Campbell, assistant attorney general for the interior department, has before him a question regarding townsites in the Osage reservation in Oklahoma, which he will pass upon tomorrow in a written opinion to Secretary Hitchcock. The quest on before Judge Campbell is whether the townsite commission, of which Captain Frank Frantz, Osage agent has authority under the act passed at the last session of congress to make conveyances of deeds to lots in the townsite of Pawhuska. The question is raised because of a protest that was made by some of the citizens of old Pawhuska, who claim that the size of their lots will be cut down under the new arrangement. It is stated on the other hand that the old settlers' property will not be disturbed except in a few instances, where a few feet will be taken off lots on account of the widening of a street or two and the changing of the direction of one or two other streets. Captain Frantz and W. K Miller of the townsite commission, are here and have called at the interior department in relation to the subject. The appraisement and sale of town lots at Pawhuska is held up until the objections that have been filed are disposed of. SANTA FE GETS MIDLAND VALLEY. Santa Fe Has Taken Charge of the Road and Lands. Tulsa, I. T.—Representatives of both the Santa Fe and Midland Valley railroads were in Tulsa yesterday checking the local employees of the Midland Valley out of service, which it is believed here means that the Santa Fe has absorbed the Midland Valley. The Santa Fe recently filed suit in the Indian Territory noothern district federal court condemning a large tract of land adjacent to Tulsa, and judging from the many mysterious actions of late, Tulsans believe that someting is going to be done one of these days in which the city will share to good advantage. BY A PASSING TRAIN. Cotton at Omekah Burned by Spark From Engine. Okemah. I. T. The local train that passed through this city at 12:30 o'clock last night is reported to have set the cotton bales on the depot platform on aflame. There were over 500 bales of cotton burned, all of which were sold at eleven cents per pound, making about $27.000 loss in cotton besides the platform fencing and railroad track which will amount to over $2,500 making in all over $30.000. The merchants here all had bills of lading for cotton which protects them from loss. The fire department here deserves great credit for their efforts. They saved about $2,750 worth of cotton. Sold Government Lots. Chickasaw, I. T. The sale of government lots took place here today. This was the final sale of unredeemed lots within the city limits. The lots all brought good prices demonstrating the value of Chickasaw real estate. Muskogee Cimeter. W. H. TWINE, Editor. MUSKOGEE Thursday December, 7, 1905. Not His Wife. An old couple was gazing at a marble memorial to a bishop, which showed him sinking into the arms of an allegorical figure intended to represent the Angel of Death. The old lady surveyed the monument critically, and then remarked that it was a good likeness of the bishop. "But," she added, "it ain't a bit like his wife. I knew her well, and she wore spectacles and side curls."—London Tit-Bits. India Is Progressing. Within a few weeks a son of Keshub Chunder Sen, the famous organizer of the Brahmo Somaj of India, has married the widowed daughter of a rajah. That is an extraordinary rebellion against an ancient rule in India, and the beginning of a domestic revolution which has the support of many advanced Hindoos who do not themselves dare to more than speak in its favor. Most Talkative Sex. All men cling to the superstition that the female tongue is rarely silent, yet, says the Lady's Pictorial, as a matter of fact, if it were possible to arrive at the truth by means of some kind of measuring machine, it is very much more than likely that it would be found that men do very much more talking in the course of twenty-four hours than the so-called talkative sex. Dreary Magyar Villages. The typical Magyar villages is a dreary place—no trees or shrubbery anywhere. The bare end of the dwellings are built flush to the street. The cottage front is on the side, opening on a barnyard surrounded by stables and outhouses. Nothing could be more ugly and yet nothing more clean and tidy than these houses. Mctorist Gets Even. An English motorist has been fined so often and so heavily that he has issued an advertisement stating that in consequence of this "persecution" he is compelled to withdraw his support from all charities, including his usual subscriptions to the church, hospitals and other deserving institutions. Hoodco Still Is There. The constructor of a building in lower Broadway, New York, was very superstitious as to the number thirteen, and there is no thirteenth floor, the floors run twelfth, fourteenth, but in all his care he neglected to note that there are just thirteen windows in the front of the building. Smoke Is Evidence of Waste. Since the final products of the perfect combustion of any fuel are water and carbon dioxide, neither of which constitutes or makes smoke, the existence of smoke is proof of the imperfect burning of whatever substance is consumed for heat or power. Interesting Photographic Collection. An instructor at Vassar college has an old and interesting collection of photographs—the photographs of the babies of young women who are college graduates. The babies in this collection are strong and beautiful. They number over 300. Where Metal Does Not Rust. Metal does not rust in Lake Titlcaca, South America. A chain, an anchor, or any article of iron, if thrown in this lake, and allowed to remain for weeks or months, is as bright when taken up as when it came fresh from the foundry. FOR THE HOUSEWIFE FOR THE HOUSEWIFE SHORT CHAT ON SUBJECTS ESSENTIALLY FEMININE. Handsome Costume of Mauve Velvet Seen at the New York Horse Show In Crepe de Chine—Some New Recipes Worth Trying. For the Little Ladies. Frocks and frills for diminutive girls to wear to parties are fascinating in the extreme and there is an endless variety from which to choose. Many of the smartest of this season's styles for little girls reflect the modes of the grown-up woman, and this is noticeable in the daytime as well as in the evening frock. The wide shoulders still prevail, and this is not to be wondered at, inasmuch as this style has proved most becoming. To further accentuate the length of shoulder the bertha and drop frill of lace and material are still in vogue. The simple baby waist gathered top and bottom and bloused either at the front or all round about is a standard model, and a more suitable one cannot be offered for the sheer fabrics of the present mode. Skirts are noted for their abundant fullness and yards and yards of goods are gathered into the belt to flare in an attractive fullness at the hem. Boudoir Confidences Chenille tissue makes very pretty small hats. Buckles of peacock blue and green are liked. Black velvet hats for weddings are having a furore. The new hats seem to call for the high mode of dressing the hair. The new herringbone suitings, especially in gray tones, are particularly stunning. Radium, crepe de chine, collienne and chiffon are likely to be leading silks for evening waists. Satin finished derbys, trimmed with a long curling plume, are among the new headwear shown for women. One of the new hats has a huge crown of gay-flowered black silk and not a few have scarfs of this antique material. Seen at the New York Horse Show. THE FASHION Handsome mauve velvet gown having the skirt shirred twice around the sides; satin bodice with high girdle and pointed yoke collar of embroidery; full elbow sleeves. Velvet a Popular Material. Not only for evening gowns, but for street and home costumes, velvet is much in demand. Many handsome coat suits are being made up and we shall undoubtedly see as many velvet as cloth gowns this winter. A dark blue velvet street gown was made with a wide circular skirt, with an applied band at the foot. The band, which was about six inches wide, was of dark blue broadcloth and was cut in square scallops on either side. The jacket was a short box coat bordered all around with broadcloth, which in its turn was edged with a fancy black silk braid. There was a collar and short revers of old blue and white embroidery on white satin, a small cuff of the same finishing the sleeve. Millinery Matters. The newest felts are in pale colors, showing trimmings of mirror velvet and the inevitable wing or quill. These are of small jaunty shapes, with a high bandeau. Small shapes in velvet and satin mixed will be very smart. These show a tendency toward the tudor shapes—that is to say, a triple narrow brim of velvet and a round conical crown of satin, with a pouf of ostrich plumes at the side. The favorite Paris color is a golden brown, so bright that it almost becomes a yellow, taking in beautiful autumnal colorings. CREPE DE CHINE WANT Chocolate Pie. Try this for a chocolate pie, if you do not wish for a cake pie with chocolate filling: Put one square of best unsweetened chocolate in a saucepan with two tablespoons each of sugar and hot water. Stir and boil until perfectly smooth. Have ready three cups of scalding hot milk, and pour a little of it over the chocolate, until thin enough to pour easily, then add the rest of it. Now beat three eggs slightly, add one tablespoon of sugar (the sugar in the chocolate will be enough for sweetness), one saltspoon of salt, and then pour the milk and chocolate over and strain into a deep custard pie plate lined with paste. Bake slowly and the moment it puffs and a knife blade put into it comes out clean it is done. It looks like a pumpkin or date pie. If you like the vanilla navor add a teaspoonful. Harking to the Empire. The flash and sparkle of the empire are seen in all the trimmings of all the suits and all the dresses, and can be obtained by the use of silver or gold tissue, gilt buttons, tinsel braids and even yellow cloths. HINTS TO HOUSEWIVES To polish iron or brass bedsteads go over them with a damp wash leather and then polish with a dry cloth. When machining hard materials, such as serge or holland, oil the thread. This will prevent it constantly snapping. To ease a tight screw apply to it a little ordinary vinegar, then use the screwdriver again and see how your task is lightened. As it is hard to make a few flowers stand as one wants them in a vase or bowl, a little bit of wire crossed and put in the top will serve as a useful holder and make the arranging much easier. $10,000 Structure Authorized By Dutch Reform Church. Cordell, I. T.---Contracts have been signed between signed between the board of education of the Dutch Reformed church and a citiz ns committee from this place for the construction of an academy here, to be under the control of that church. Cordell furnished a site and $5,000 toward the building the other $5,000 being furnished by an eastern donor, whose name is not given out Bids for the construction of the buildidg have already been called for. The work of construction is to begin Jan 1, and is to be ready for occupancy by the fall of 19u6. Gets A Divorce. Oklahoma City, O. T.—A divorce was granted Mrs. Effie Corbett from her husband John Boston Corbett in the district court here tqdy. Corbett is serving a term in in the state penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., for seeking to impersonate the Boston Corbett who killed John Wilkes Booth, the slayer of President Lincoln., Mr. and Mrs. Corbett, were married at Wichita Falls Texas, October 2, 1889. They have one child, the custody of which was given to the mother. Indian Inspector in Muskogee. Muskogee, I. T,---Edgar L. Allen, special Indian inspector of Washington, was in the city yesterday on his way to the Quawpaw agency, where he will investigate guardianship matters. Inspector Allen has been in Oklahoma, probing along the same line. Mr. Allen was Indian agent of the Quawpaw agency In 1890 and 1891. BOUDINOT FILES TRANSCRIPT. Muskogee, I. T.---Attorney K. S. Murchison, of Tahlequah. representing Hon. Frank Boudinot in the Cherokee con est for principal chief, has filed with the department a transcript of the senate proceedings impeaching Ch ef Rogers and also papers showing the election of Mr. Boudinot as chief. Mr Boudinot accompanied by attorney Murchison will leave in a few days for Washington to present his claim for recognition. BODY FOUND IN PASTURE. Bullet Hole and Knife Stabs Indicate Tishomingo, I T.---Last evening a negro brought word brought word to town that a murdered man had been found in Ke p's pasture, about six miles from town. A party was at once organized and proceeded with the negro to the spot, where according to papers found on the body, Cha les Chilshire was found with his throat cut from ear to ear, a bullet hole through his left cheek and several stabs on different parts of his body. The remains were brought to town. It appears that from papers that Chilshire had been given power of attorney to sell some horses for Allen Meeks, now in jail at Atoka. An investigation is in progress. Mr. Johnson Returned Home. Ardmore, I. T.---United States District Attorney Johnson has returned home from Washington, where he was summoned two weeks ago by the attorney general in connection with the Chickasaw warrant cases. The matter is still pending and it is expected that a decision will be reached in a few days A NEW POLITICAL FIRM. One of the peculiar things about the contest over the judgeship is the attitude of certain Republicans in the democratic nest. The idea of Soper, Republican National Committeeman, taking with him to Washington a bunch of democrats to throw dirt at one of the best judges this country ever had is certainly enough to cause every decent, loyal republican to wonder whether or not we have not got a traitor in the place of a true republican as a National Committeeman. Think of Soper taking Cliff Jackson, a democratic railroad attorney, and a man who hates every republican, to help select a judge for our district. Think of Soper taking Pete West, the chairman of the democratic club of Muskogee to Washington to name a judge for our district. Think of Soper taking L. B. Fant of Wagoner, a democratic railroad attorney for the M. K. and T. railroad to Washington to exert an influence for the appointment of a republican judge. Think of Soper taking W. T. Hutchings, a man who would rather die than vote for any republican, to Washington to help him defeat a man whose republicanism is as high as any man in the party. Think of Soper taking Dr. Fite, democratic mayor, to Washington to name a republican official. Think of Soper taking such a man as N. A. Gibson along to fight our court. What interest had he in such a contest that he, an uncompromising democrat, should now be strutting around claiming he had helped Soper to have displaced a man in whom nearly every man in the district has the highest respect and most complete confidence. Was he afraid his corporations might have to give an honest accounting to fair people of its transactions? Take a single case. It is well known that the Bradley Real Estate Company acvuired thousands of acres of Indian and Freedman land. There has been much street talk about it, Bradhimself openly boasted two years ago that he was a grafter, and left last night on the Flyer as he said for New York but knowing ones say Washington. Have you ever looked up the records of the company? Well, N. A. Gibson is director in the corporation. N. A. Gibson is the regular attorney of the corporation. Last October Mr. Bradley was indicted in this court in several cases for conspiracy, with others, in relation to acquiring lands of Indians and Freedmen, and do you know, N. A. Gibson appears as a lawyer in defense of these cases. Well, maybe he is interested in getting a judge who will look his way, whose sympathies are on the side of the corporations. Well Soper, you have made your bed in this democratic nests You will answer, But people who want a clean administration of the law will want to know of you, "How much did you get out of it." Prof. Garnett, the professor of language in Lincoln Institute at Jefferson City, Mo., was in our city Friday and Saturday. The Prof. is one of the foremost educators of Union and has held is present position for more than eight years. He has held position acceptably in a number of institutions in the various states. He is investments in this country, and is a frequent visitor to Great Muskogee. In fact he is one of us; the only thing needed is a change of residence. We need such men as Prof. Garnett to help us put the B. I. T. at the head of the procession in so far as progress grass is concerned. BOYNTON, I. T. Two or three weeks ago the school board closed free school for colored children in this town The local board made investigation as to the discrimination, and forced the Board to reopen the colored school. In the meantime there were two white schools with three teachers paid out of the public monies. The colored people had only one school with one teacher. The Executive Board of the Creek Baptist Association held a three days session here last week. They are preparing to establish a church here. Allen A. M. E. church celebrated Thanksgiving preaching at 11 and supper at night. Rev. J. C. Hicks, who was assigned to this charge for another year has returned and entered upon his work. His family remain at Vinita for a short while visiting relatives. Mrs. Smith of Muskogee, and Mrs. Kailor of Beggsf spent Thanksgiving here. Mrs Ella Sims of Muskogee spent last Sunday here. CREEK LIVERY BARN, Now located at new quarters No. 512 South 3rd Street Phone 70 Opposite Gill Sanders Wholesale House Pioneer Abstract Co IOWA BUILDING This Company makes absolutely correct abstracts of title. Go there for correct information. BIG EAST SIDE LUMBER YARD. GEO. D. HOPE LUMBER COMPANY Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Sash, Doors, Lime, Cement, Etc. EAST OKMULGEE AVE. IS THE PLACE to buy your groceries. 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Horace Clark, general manager of the Western Maryland and West Virginia Central railroads, the Gould tidewater lines, has resigned, and Alexander Robertson, formerly general manager of the St. Louis Terminal railroad, has been appointed in his stead. Kelly Gets Higher Position. Instead of R. F. Kelly coming to Chicago to supersede Frank Palmer as assistant general passenger agent of the Wabash at Chicago, it was announced yesterday that Fred H. Tristram, formerly assistant general passenger agent at Pittsburg, will have the Chicago post, and Mr. Kelly will succeed Tristram at Pittsburg. This promotion will place Tristram next in authority to the general passenger agent of the Wabash. C. F. Daly, passenger traffic manager of the New York Central lli west of Buffalo, and Warren Lynch, general passenger agent of the Big Four, were called to New York recently for conference wit. President Newman. A plan is said to be on foot to transfer Mr. Daly to New York as passenger traffic manager of the New York Central, to give Mr. Lynch the Chicago post, to retire George Daniels, general passenger agent of the New York Central, and to make H. J. Rhein, now general passenger agent of the Lake Erie and Western, general passenger agent of the Big Four. Mr. Daniels has confirmed the report as to his retirement. He will be made general advertising manager of the system. Why It Is the Best is because made by an entirely different process. Defiance Starch is unlike any other, better and one-third more for 10 cents. A man can make a very good living by marrying a rich wife. When a man begins to sneer at everything, senility is not far off. There is something about Hunt's Lightning Oil that no other liniment possesses. Others may be good, but it is surely the best. It does all you recommend it for, and more. For sprains, bruises, cuts, burns, aches and pains it has no equal on earth. 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They are just as good as those that cost you $5.00 to $7.00—the only difference is the price. If I could take you into my factory at Brockton, Mass, the largest in the world under one roof making men's fine shoes, and show you the care with which every pair of Douglas shoes is made, you would realize why W. L. Dou las $3.50 shoes are the best shoes produce I in the world. If I could show you the difference between the shoes made in my factory and those of other makes, you would understand why Douglas $3.50 shoes cost more to make, why they hold their shape, fit better, wear longer, and are of greater intrinsic value than any other $3.50 shoes on the market to-day. CAUTION. --Insist upon having W.L.Douglas shoes. Take no substitute. None genuine without his name and price stamped on bottom. WANTED. A shoe dealer in every town where W.L.Douglas Shoes are not sold. Full line of samples sent free for inspection upon request. Fast Color Fuellets used; they will not wear brass. Free. d. Mass. 5 ounces to the package price and QUALITY. table-bodied 35; citizens temperate gish. For icer, Post- Shawnee. WE DON'T HAVE TO SPEAK FOR BECAUSE COUNCIL HILL SPEAKS FOR ITSELF! COJNCIL HILL is a new town, but a few months old, located on the M. O. & G. railroad, 25 miles from Muskogee. It is surrounded by a vast area of the best agricultural land in the Creek Nation. A brick railroad station with cement platforms, a two-story modern school house, 12-foot granitoid sidewalks with curbing through the business section are but a few of the substantial improvements. Never has there been such an opportunity for a business location or a profitable investment. For particulars address W.N.U.—Oklahoma City—No. 49, 1905 WE DON'T HAVE TO SPEAK FOR BECAUSE COUNCIL HILL SPEAKS FOR ITSELF! COJNCIL HILL is a new town, but a few months old, located on the M. O. & G. railroad, 25 miles from Muskogee. It is surrounded by a vast area of the best agricultural land in the Creek Nation. A brick railroad station with cement platforms, a two-story modern school house, 12-foot granitoid sidewalks with curbing through the business section are but a few of the substantial improvements. Never has there been such an opportunity for a business location or a profitable investment. For particulars address Union Townsite Company Muskogee, Indian Territory. DEFIANCE STARCH easiest to work with and starches clothes, picent "For five years I was so sick I could hardly walk across the floor, and was very weak and nervous," writes Miss Mattie Slusher, of Cambria, Va., "but after taking Cardui I found myself greatly relieved." ; IN CONSTANT AGONY. A West Virginian’s Awful Distress Through Kidney Troubles. W. L. Jackson, merchant, of Park- ersburg, W. Va., says: “Driving about yrs mass \ in bad weather . brought kidney trou bles on me, and I ) suffered 20 years \owe with sharp, cramp. ‘ bg ) ing pains in the back 2), and urinary disor: J ders. I often had to - \S - get up a dozen times P= ez A at night to urinate, oS vf} fm Retention set in, and 1 was obliged to use gS Max \ in bad = weather . brought kidney trou bles on me, and I \ suffered 20 years i Sy \ with sharp, eramp- }) ing pains in the back 2) and urinary disor. J ders. I often had to , \S ‘| - get up a dozen times at night to urinate, % vf} fg Retention set in, and I was obliged to use the catheter. I took to my bed, and the doctors failing to help, began using Doan's Kidney Pills. The urine soon came freely again, and the pain gradu- ally disappeared. I have been cured eight years, and though over 70, am as active as a boy.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. The Boy and the Text One Sunday a littie boy was sent to ehureh by his father. On his return his parent, wishing to find out wheth- er the boy had been attentive to the sermon, asked him: “Well, Bobby, what was the text this morning?” The little chap thought for a miu- ute, then said, “Oh, it was something like ‘Don't be scared, you'll get back your quilts.’ The father, hardly able to believe his ears, rang up the ciergyman acl asked him what portion of scripture he had used for a text that morning. This was the answer, “Fear not, for the Comforter will come.” Pawnbrokers Follow the Flaq Yor the first time in its history Honolulu has pawnbroking shops. Two have been staried within the past two weeks. As a consequence the soldiers of the United States army transport Buford pawned hundreds of articles in order to get money for liquor, Musicul instruments were the principal ar- ticles pledged or sold, Facts and Proof. Hulett, Wyo., Dec. 4th (Special)— An ounce of fact is worth a ton,of theory and it is evidence founded on facts that backs up every box of Dodd’s Kidney Pills, The evidence of people who know what they do. Mrs, May Taber, highly esteemed resident of Hulett, says: “I know Dodd's Kidney Pills are a valuable medicine because I have used them, I took seven boxes and they cured me of a severe attack of Kidney Trouble. They relieved me from the first dose, and when I had finished the last box I had no pain and my Kidneys are now acting prop- erly.” Dodd's Kidney Pills are now recog- nized all over the world as the great- est Kidney Remedy science has ever produced, They cure Rheumatism, Dropsy, Gout, Lumbago, Diabetes, Urinary and Bladder Troubles, Bright's Disease, and all disorders arising from any form of Kidney Dis- ease, When that which is said on one side of a question is equal to that which is said on the other side of the same question by the same speaker, the figure of speech is called Balfourian. mayor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullen is Nature's great remedy—Cures Coughs, Colds, Croup and Consumption, and all throat and lung troubles, At drug- gists, 25c., 50c. and $1.00 per bottle, Things are not what they seem. Many a doormat with “Welcome” worked into it has an ugly bulldog sitting on it, Fmanenciy cared, No fits or nervousness after ITS berranre cree Feanpaarwwmrnatet . Rend for PICK E 84.00 trial vottic and treetise. Di kt L. RLINE, Led.. #31 Aron street, Philadelphia, Pa Civilized men make liquor, * and liquor makes savages. SEVEN CONGRESSMEN FOR NEW STATE, All Reference to Arizona and New Mexico is Not Used. Guthrie, Ok.—While none of the de- tails of the statehood bill which Dele- gate Bird S$. McGuire will introduce at the coming session of congress have been given to the public, its various features were talked over at considera- ble length with the various delegates here last week, who were interested in certain parts of the bill, and from those discussions may be obtained some inti- matioas regarding its principal feat: ures, Mr. McGuire stated that it would be the Hamilton bill, with seme few changes, One of the most important of these will, of course, be the elimina- of all reference to Arizona and New Mexico, in the bill to be introduced by Mr. McGuire, Others which seem to be pretty well established are the in- | crease in the number of congressional al and federal court districts. Mr. McGuire has already announced there would be seven congressional districts this time instead of tbe five provided in the other bill and accord- ing to the predictions of the politi- cians, it is possible to make a fairly accurate estimate as to how they will be arra.ged. According to these pre- dictions, McGuire's own district will include Kay, Grant, Garfield, Noble, Pawnee, Kingfisher, Logan, Lincoln and Payne counties, the Kaw and Osage reservations, and probably the counties inclnding Tulsa and Burtles: ville, if they should sueceed in their ambition to get a slice of the Osage country. Another district would include Okla- homa, Canadian, Washita, Custer Caddo and Plaine counties, throwing Dennis Flynn and Tom Furguson inte the same district. Woods, Woodward Dewey, Day and Beaver counties would form one district, with Roger Mills Greer, Kiowa and Comanche is another, FAILS TO AGREE. Bauhmhoff Jury Can Not Reach An Agreement. Oklahoma City, O. T.—The jury in the case of George Baumhauff, the St. Louis Streat car 1..gnate, against Geo- rge W. Wheeler Ed Cook, and George N. Beebee, for $60,000 damages, the ar- guments in which was closed Saturday night, have failed toagree, The case is one of the most important tried here foralong time. It is alleged that the defendents contracted with Baumhaff to sell the latter the electric light plant here for $120,000, but after the contract was made the defendants turned around and sold the plant to another party for $140,000. Baumhoff claims he was de- feated in making a like profit and wants to be reimbursed by the defendents for the amount. ROAD Fux CusMANCHE. Oklahoma and Texas Line is Secured. Comanche, L. 'T.—On Friday night the ofticials of the Oklahoma and Texas Railroad company chartered from Ok- lahoma City to Wichita Falls, Texas, met with the citizens of Comanche and made a contract to construct the rail: road through Comanche, President Roosevelt has received twice the number of honorary degrees ever given any president. T'wo doc- torates have been conferred upon him this year. His bachelor of aris wat conferred upon him twenty-five years ago by Harvard. In addition he rasy now write after his name eight LIL. D's and one L. H. D. He is the first president to receive the latter degree. After a fellow has bought candy and flowers for a girl for a whole year and has taken her to the theater once a week, and still finds that he has enough left for his lunches, he feels that he can afford to get married. Before going into a scheme that seems to promise great returns put away enough money to pay for a re- turn ticket. Every housekeever should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the fron, but because each package contains 16 oz.—one fuly pound—while all other Cold Water Starches aro put up in %-pound pack- ages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch Is free from all {ojurious chem- leals. If your grocer tries to sell you & 12-02. package it is tecanse he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in Jarge let: ters and figures “16 ws." Demand De fiance and sav? mucb time and money and the annoyance of the iron stick: ing. Defiance never sticks. A sacrifice for the welfare of some one does double duty by producing a feeling of self-satisfaction. Defiance Starch should be in every household, none so good, besides 4 0z. more for 10 cents than any other brand of cold water starch. When the ‘expected happens there comes a feeling of disappointment be- cause it was just as expected. There ‘are people who divide their time between patting themselves on the back and kicking themselves. To Prevent Chapped Hands. Many women who do their own work are much ‘annoyed in winter with chapped hands, This may be avoided by using Ivory Soap for dish washing and toilet purposes. Dry the hands thoroughly each time after they have been in water, and rub with a little oatmeal-water or some good lotion, ELEANOR R. PARKER. The great need of che age seems to be neighbors who will not wait until they are mad to tell a woman her children need spanking. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs.—Wm. O. Endsley, Vanburen, Ind., Feb, 10, 1900, A girl of sixteen always wants to do the things she will never let her daughter do when she has one of that age. Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrap. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces fy ammation, allays pal. cures wind colle, 25¢ a bottle. Imagination doth make cowards ot us, all. Try It Once, There is more actual misery and less real danger in a case of itching skin disease than any other ailment. Hunt’s Cure is manufactured especi- ally for these cases. It relieves in- stantly and cures promptly. Abso- lutely guaranteed, Poverty is often a blessing in dis- guise, but the trouble is that it so sel- dom unmasks, Insist on Getting It. Some grocers say they don’t keep Defiance Starch. 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DENIE COPYRIGHT 1888 Judge Lawrence Appointed Judge OF WESTERN DISTRICT. After one of the hardest political battles ever witnessed, the outcome has been the appointment of a new man as Judge of the district. Judge Lawrence is an able jurist, a good citizen, and a fit man to succeed such an honest, upright, capable Judge as Judge C.W. Raymond Be it known that Judge Lawrence does not owe his appointment to P. L. Soper, Douglass; or any of the crowd of Democrats who went to Washington to have a Republican Judge elected. AS TO THE RESULTS. Feeling pretty well think you No, there are no sore spots on us. We have snatched victory from defeat. Judge Lawrence is all O. K. and will receive the loyal support of all honest men as did his predecessor. € Judge Raymond will live in Muskogee and his host of friends in the Western District are glad. The people of the district are loyal to Raymond. ♦ ♦ Delegate McGuire kept out of the Judicial fight in this Dist and Ex-Delegate Flynn got his feet wet. TEACHERS' BANQUET. The banquet given by the colored teachers of the Territory at Jones hall, Dec. 1st, was one of the most splendid affairs of its kind ever given in Muskogee. The spread was a magnificent affair tastily arranged and reflects credit upon all who were connected with the arrangements. The intellectual feast or after dinner orations by Dr. Vernon, Dr. Sims, Prof. Garnet, Prof. Shaffer, Attorneys C. J. Jones and Twine were indeed treats. Prof. J. E. Johnson proved himself a past master in in the art of toast master. J. S. BROWNLOW, MANAGER. ELKS' WASHINTON BANQUET. The citizens' committee having accepted an invitation for themselves and visitors went to the banquet hall in the Jones building on South Second street, where the Dale Lodge, I. B. O. Elks had prepared to receive their guest. The hall was beautifully decorated and strains of about 150 persons present and words fail to describe the richness and granduer the feast by those royal fellows the Elks;to say that everything the heart could wish and the eye admire was there, is putting it mildly: it was up-to-date in every particular and the most magnificent affair of its kind ever given in Muskogee. The visitors expressed themselves as agreeably surprised by the grand welcome and the royal manner in which they were entertained. Toast Master Sango in his own and happy and inimitable way led out on the subject "Our Guest." Dr. Washington's subject, Industrial Education of course, was handled by a master. W. A. Rentie, subject "Our Political Destiny"(Mr. Rentie being absent)was presented by W. H. Twine. Cornelius J. Jones, subject, "Indian Territory, the Coming State" was handled as only a Master in state craft can present a matter. After the banquet Dr. Washington and son Davidson, Emmett J. Scott, private secretary, and Mr. Cox, stenographer were taken to Dr. Waterford's for a night's repose. The Washington party left on the 7:30 train next morning via the Midland Valley R. R. for Ft. Smith. Ark. Thus closed one of the greatest events in the history of Muskogee and one that will mark a new epoch in the advancement of our people in the great west. Reporter. Cures Female Troubles, Diarrohea, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Nervousness and Painful Menstruation. Call or write MRS. A. G. STEELE, P. O. Box 75. Checotah, I. T. Special Rates to Chicago for the International Line Stock Exposition. December 16 th to 23rd. Just a little more than ONE FARE for the round trip For comfort and convenience use the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway en route. See the agent for rates and train service . . . W. S. ST. GEORGE Gen'l Pass. and Ticket Agent, Box 911a ST. LOUIS, Mo WARNING ORDER. In the United States Court for Western District Indian Territory at Muskogee. Earnest Battle. plaintifflff, vs. Lucile Battle, Defendant, No. 6267, Equity. Divorce. The defendant Lucile Battle is hereby warned to appear in this court within thirty days and answer the complaint of the plaintiff Earnest Battle. Witnes the Honorable Charles W. Raymond, Judge of said Court and seal thereof at Muskogee, Indian Territory, this the 13th day of November, 1905. By Chas. F. Runyan A. S. McRea, Att'y for plaintiff A. E. Patterson, Att'y for non resident defendant. (1st publication Nov. 16.) 307 W. Broadway NEW RATES DAYS North, East, and HEAST 2, and 23, 1005 Your Nearest Ticket Agent LEE, Pass, Agent Rock, Ark. J, S. McNALLY, Div. Pass. Agent, Oklahoma City O T FOR RENT 500 acres of land in cultivation, known as the Peters land about four miles west of Muskogee. Good land. Price reasonable. See or write DR. R. H. WATERFORD. Muskogee, I. T. "If you have anything to trade or sell in the way of Real Estate, write to KIMBER REAL ESTATE AGENCY Co.. 810 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo. It makes no difference what you pant to sell or where it tis located, this company will send you buyers. Send the blank below to our address and receive one of the best magazines on the market today. The Cimeter and Adams Magazine $1.00 per year. Please send me Adams Magazine for one year. Name ..... Post Office ..... County ..... State ..... Lots for Sale in Grayson, Ind. Ter. Lots 25 feet front by 140 feet deep for $25.00, half cash, balance in six months' time. 320 acres of land for lease, five years at $1.00 per acre per year. For bargains in lots, call or write RALPH PHILLIPS, Box G, Muskogee, Ind. Ter. STUDY LAW AT HOME Prepare for success at the bar, in business or public life, by mail, in the ORIGINAL SCHOOL Founded in 1860. Successful graduates everywhere. Approved by bar and law colleges. Regular College Law Course and Business Law Course. Liberal Terms. Special Offer Now. Catalogue Free. Sprague Correspondence School of Law, Prepare for success at the bar, in business or public life, by mail, in the ORIGINAL SCHOOL, For the 1860 Successful graduates everywhere. Approved by bar and iw colleges. Icterical College Law Course and Business Law Course. Liberal Torms. Special Offer Now. Catalogue Free. Sprague Correspondence School of Law, 733 Majestic Bldg. Detroit Mich. 2. Muskogee Cimeter. W. H. TWINE, Editor. MUSKOGEE. IND. TER. Thursday December, 7, 1905. NEW STATE NEWS Muskogee is to have a tent factory added to its enterprises. A company with a capital stock of $25,000 was organized at Hugo to test for oil and gas. The contract for the first well has been let. The Oklahoma association of Ostepathy held their annual convention at Ponca City last week. Robbers, one night last week, wrecked the safe of the Citizen's Nation bank at Owl and escaped with over $3,000 of the bank's cash. The bank is owned by Beard Bros., of Snawnee. The fifteenth annual session of the Oklahoma Teachers Association will be held at Enid, December 27th and 28th. The team and franchise of the Guthrie base ball club has been transferred to St. Joseph. This leaves Oklahoma City the only territorial member of the Western Association of base ball clubs. The Newmarket Grocey at Lawton has gone into voluntary bankruptcy. The assets are placed at $3,785.30, and the liabilities at $3,667.10. Oklahoma City is still wrestling with its terminal proposition. The committee is short a few thousand on subscriptions. The bond of Thomas E. Newton, former postmaster at Oakland, who plead guilty to embezzlement at Tishomingo last week, has been forfeited. Newton was released on bond until sentence could be passed, and when the time arrived for sentencing him he could not be found. In the United States court at Tishomingo, Kld Kelley, colored, was sentenced by Judge Townsend to be hanged February 23 Kelley was convicted of the murder of a negro named Dillingham. The case will be appealed. The money box and contents were stolen from the Frisco agent at Eldorado one day recently. The box and a few checks were later found near the track four miles from town. Four men were arrested at Quanah, Texas, and are being held on suspicion. The amount stolen and unrecovered will not exceed $100. John W. Shartet, one of the promoters of the proposed Oklahoma City-Guthrie interurban line, states that nothing more will be done on the road until statehood and the location of the capitol of the new state is determined. According to this, if the McGuire provision is accepted, it will be hung up until 1910 at least. The women of Blackwell have signed a petition to the city council and commercial club to prevent the location there of a brewery by a Peoria, Ill., syndicate. The city had agreed to the brewery's terms, chosen a site and had all the arrangements to erect the building under way, when it was decided to wait the action of congress on the Gallinger prohibition amendment. The new Methodist church at Braman will be dedicated on Sunday, December 10, by Rev. George H. Bradford, chancellor of the Epworth University. Methodists from all over Kay county will attend and participate. JOYS OF MATERNITY JOYS OF MATERNITY A WOMAN'S BEST HOPES REALIZED Mrs. Potts Tells How Women Should Prepare for Motherhood The darkest days of husband and wife are when they come to look forward to childless and lonely old age. Many a wife has found herself incapable of motherhood owing to a displacement of the womb or lack of strength in the generative organs. Mrs. Anna Potts Frequent backache and distressing pains, accompanied by offensive discharges and generally by irregular and scanty menstruation indicate a displacement or nerve degeneration of the womb and surrounding organs. The question that troubles women is how can a woman who has some female trouble bear healthy children? Mrs. Anna Potts, of 510 Park Avenue, Hot Springs, Ark., writes: My Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— "During the early part of my married life I was delicate in health; both my husband and I were very anxious for a child to bless our home, but I had two miscarriages, and could not carry a child to maturity. A neighbor who had been cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound advised me to try it. I did so and soon felt that I was growing stronger, my headaches and backaches left me, I had no more bearing-down pains, and felt like a new woman. Within a year I became the mother of a strong, healthy child, the joy of our home. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is certainly a splendid remedy, and I wish every woman who wants to become a mother would try it." Actual sterility in woman is very rare. If any woman thinks she is sterile, let her try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free to expectant or would-be mothers. ```markdown ``` Greatest Organ Offer Ever Made On Payments, $2.50 per Month and Upwards ABSOLUTELY FREE use of the organ while you save the money little by little, to pay for it. SEND TODAY FOR OUR PLAN wh reby you can save $2 to $5) on an organ and pay at your convenience. If you want an organ at all you want a good one, a—more pretty case with no music in it will need. Secure at once the old ree table Kimball Organ at Factory Prices and on Easy Payment plan. $2.50 monthly and upwards. A fine stock and music book included free with every organ. We will send organs to reable people any- where in the United States to be paid from our Easy Payment plan. You know the Kimball for fifty years we have been manufacturing and selling Kimball organs. We own and operate the largest organ factory in the world and the fact that we trust you with an organ, pay your leisure, is sufficient evidence that the Kimball is the best and highest class or we would not send them out in this way. This is the first offer of Kimball Organs direct to the people at FACTORY PRICES: it may be recalled any day, so don't put it off, but write for Free Catalogue and Money- saving plan. KIMBALL SUPPLY DEPOT, Frederickson & Kroh, Mgrs. 201 Main Street, OKLAHOMA CITY W.N.U.—Oklahoma City—No. 49, 1905 PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Taastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION Cherokee Attorney Returns From Washington to Secure Evidence For Washington,--L. F. Parker, Jr., attorney for the Cherokee tribe of Indians left Tuesday night for Vinita to gather some evidence to convince the Secretary of the Interior that Chief Rogers is legally the head of the Cheeokee tribe. Since his impeachment by the Boudinot council a protest against the recognition of Rogers has been filed and it is understood that Boudinot and a number of full-bloods are on their way to Washington in the hope of convincing the Secretary that Rogers is no longer authorized to speak for the tribe. Judgement is Reversed. Muskogee, I. T....Bailey and Owen, attorneys of this city, received a letter from John D. Jordan, clerk of the United States court at St. Paul, Minn., stating that Judge Hook has filed an opinion reversing the judgement of the courts below with costs in the case of Davis et al, vs Carlisle. The case is remanded to the United states court of the western district of the Indian Territory with direction to give a new trial. New Road For Indian Territory. Lawton O. T. ---At Chickasaw a $10 000,000 mortgage in pamplet form,covering thirty-four pages, was filed by the Oklahoma Central railway company given to the Western Trust and Savings bank, of Chicago. Of the tot l amount,$2,640,000 will be used to build a railroad from Chickasaw to Lehigh, $7,360,000 to buy rolling stock and terminal facilities. High Water Upset Schedule. El Reno, Ok.—The South Canadian river has been on a rampange for several days past. The Rock Island bridge has been damaged so that it is not considered safe to send trains across it, and all trains are detoured via Geary, throwing the schedule into absolute confusion. No bridges have gone out as yet. Lincoln May Go to Mindanao. Guterie, O. T —Reports have reached here from El Reno to the effect that Col. C. P. Lincoln, of that city, former assistant secretary of the inter or, has been tendered the position of attorney general on the Island Midndanao with a salary of $4,000 a year and the official residence. Contracts for Oklahoma and Texas. Temple, O. T.—Directors of the Oklahoma and Texas railway, which is chartered to build from Oklahoma City to Wichita Fells, Texas, now have a considerable part of their road mapped out. Bonus contracts have been made the past week with the towns of Linsday and Comanche in the Chickasaw nation, through which the road will run, and the party is expected to be in this city this week. Owl Bank Robbery. Owl, I. T—Robbers wrecked the safe of the Citizens' National Bank at Owl, and escaped with over $3,000. The bank is owned by Beard Bros., of Shawnee, Oklahoma. Kid Kel'. v Must Hang. Tishomingo, I. T.—"Kid" Kelley, the negro who was convicted of the murder of J. Dillingham, was sentenced to be hanged February 23. The case will be appealed. GOOD BLOOD FOR BAD GOOD BLOOD FOR BAD Rheumatism and Other Blood Diseases are Cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. "In the lead mines I was at work on my knees with my elbows pressed against rock walls, in dampness and extremes of cold," said Mr. J. G. Meukel, of 2975 Jackson avenue, Dubuque, Iowa, in describing his experience to a reporter, "and it is not surprising that I contracted rheumatism. For three years I had attacks affecting the joints of my ankles, knees and elbows. My ankles and knees became so swollen I could scarcely walk on uneven ground and a little pressure from a stone under my feet would cause me so much pain that I would nearly sink down. I was often obliged to lie in bed for several days at a time. My friends who were similarly troubled were getting no relief from doctors and I did not feel encouraged to throw money away for nothing. By chance I read the story of Robert Yates, of the Klauer Manufacturing Co., of Dubuque, who had a very bad case of rheumatism. I decided to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, the remedy he had used. In three, or four weeks after beginning to use the pills, I was much better and in three months I was well. The swelling of the joints and the tenderness disappeared, I could work steadily and for eight years I have had no return of the trouble. My whole family believe in Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Both my sons use them. We consider them a household remedy that we are sure about." What Dr. Williams' Pink Pills did for Mr. Meukel they are doing for hundreds of others. Every dose sends galloping through the veins, pure, strong, rich, red blood that strikes straight at the cause of all ill health. The new blood restores regularity, and braces all the organs for their special tasks. Get the genuine Dr. Williams' Pink Pills at your druggists' or direct from the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N.Y. After a woman has had to cut her husband's finger nails on the right hand for him she begins to talk a great deal of the helplessness of the men.-Chicago News. FROM PLANT TO CIGAR. Frank P. Lewis has recently returned from a trip through the best tobacco sections, looking over the growing fields. He noted the best crops and engaged them, and will go later to watch the curing and packing of same. He also, while there, examined some of his large holdings of old tobacco and found this to be growing richer in quality every day. The Lewis Single Binder factory probably controls more fancy graded tobacco than any other cigar factory in the United States. Smokers of Single Binders have evidently learned this fact which accounts for the ever increasing demand. In spite of the fact that the factory sends out no traveling salesman to boom its good quality to the trade, the Single Binder Sales reached seven million last year and will exceed eight million in 1905. The Single Binder sells itself. For twenty-three months this factory has been behind in its orders.—Herald-Transcript. The average woman would rather have a husband who tells her all he hears than a house with seventeen closets. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. The fellow who never does anything is the one who can always tell how everything ought to be done. Save Your Lungs. Don't neglect that cough. One pair of lungs is all you'll ever have—treat them well. Simmons' Cough Syrup will soothe and strengthen them stops the cough and gives you a chance to sleep in peace. To a hungry man a head of cabbage has a sweeter odor than a bunch of violets. Some people are always willing to tell the truth when it is disagreeable to somebody else. RAYMOND HAS NOT QUIT YET. Still Believes that He Will Yet Be Appointed to Succeed Himself. Muskogee, I. T.—L. F. Parker, Jr., candidate for the federal judgeship in the western district, was in this city today. When asked what he knew of his prospects for succeeding Judge Raymond Mr. Parker stated that it was not known. I left Washington th ee days ago and have heard nothing since then" he said. "I may spend part of the winter looking after the affairs of the Cherokees in Washington." R. P. Harrison, clerk of Judge Raymond's court, and N. A. Gibson, who is allied with the Raymond opposition, Left Washing ton today for home and will arrive here Sunday. It is understood here that Harrison is not worrying over the result. Information received here today from semi-official circles seems to point to Raymond's reappointment. It is expected that the announcement of the reappointment will be made at the opening of congress next week. Killed By Stray Pullet. Oklahoma City, O. T.—George Fisher an aged man of this city, in company with his daughter and a number of other persons were driving to the country yesterday afternoon. The harness became unfastened and Fisher alighted from the wagon to adjust it. Just then a shot was heard and the bullet was heard to whz through the air. The daughter remarked that someone might be hurt by such carlessness. Fisher was seen to fall forward, the blood trickling from his head, where the bullet struck him. He died without regaining counciousness. Fight on an Oklahoma Ranch. Blackwell, Ok. Last night in a fight betweet William Schweissberger, foreman of the Big V ranch, about seven miles southwest of this city, and John Pfeiffer another employee of the ranch Pfeiffer stabbed Schweissberger several times in the abdomen, producing dangerous wounds. Pfeiffer escaped. A Big Statehood Petition. Oklahoma City, O. T.-The statehood delegation to leave this city next Wednesday for Washington will carry petitions with fifty-thousand signatures urging congress to grant statehood early in the session. U. S. Court to be Civil Term. Ardmore, I. T....The United States court will convene here Monday for the regular term with Judge Townsend on the bench. It will be a civil term and a large docket. Federal Judge Townsend has appointed R. L. Sanders to be court crier for the southern district. Mr Sanders is a well known newspaper man. Oklahoma Pawnbroker Arrested. Oklahoma City, O. T.,—Henry M. Brydge, a pawnbroker, was arrested to night on a charge of receiving stolen property. The arredst was made shortly after the arrival tonight of Ralph Cochran, from Fort Worth Tex. where he arrested John Dickson, a negro, on the charge of robbing Griffith's hrdware store in this city of guns and knives valued at $500. Good Profit-Sharing Enterprise The United States consul at Victoria, B. C., reports a scheme of profit-sharing, conducted by the British company operating the street railways and lighting plants in that section, which is working well. After paying 4 per cent on the stock the balance of net earnings is divided into three parts, two of which go to the stockholders and one to employees of more than a year in equal amounts to each—a track greaser receiving as much as goes to the general manager of the company in London. In 1903, the first year of trial, a sum equaling $25 per employee was divided; the next year $35, and for this year the division, which has just been made, amounts to $40. Nickname or Coin The standard silver coins being used in the Philippines are known as "Conants," having been named for Charles A. Conant, who was sent to the islands to pre pare a coinage system. The authorities in Washington objected to this nickname and directed that the coins should be known as Philippine currency. Before this order arrived they were universally called "Conants," and notwithstanding the official mandate the name has stuck. Wrote "Abide With Me" It is sixty years since Rev. Henry Francis Lyle, who wrote the beautiful hymn, "Abide With Me," died at Nice, and this year a final effort is being made in the far distant little seaport in Devonshire, where he lived and ministered for twenty-five years, to complete the rebuilding of the little memorial church has taken the fishermen thirty years to build. Overlooked an Important Point The Skibbereen, Ireland, board of guardians has decided to place the chairs in the board room with substantial benches, but vetoed a suggestion to fasten them to the floor, after the clerk had pointed out that in that case they would be of no use in a fight. THE "COFFEE HEART." It Is as Dangerous as the Tobacco or Whisky Heart. "Coffee heart" is common to many coffee users and is liable to send the owner to his or her long home if the drug is persisted in. You can run 30 or 40 yards and find out if your heart is troubled. A lady who was once a victim of the "coffee heart" writes from Oregon: "I have been a habitual user of coffee all my life and have suffered very much in recent years from ailments which I became satisfied were directly due to the poison in the beverage, such as torpld liver and indigestion, which in turn made my complexion blotchy and muddy. "Then my heart became affected. It would beat most rapidly just after I drank my coffee, and go below normal as the coffee effect wore off. Sometimes my pulse would go as high as 137 beats to the minute. My family were greatly alarmed at my condition and at last mother persuaded me to begin the use of Postum Food Coffee. "I gave up the old coffee entirely and absolutely, and made Postum my sole table beverage. This was six months ago, and all my ills, the indigestion, inactive liver and rickety heart action, have passed away, and my complexion has become clear and natural. The improvement set in very soon after I made the change, just as soon as the coffee poison had time to work out of my system. "My husband has also been greatly benefited by the use of Postum, and we find that a simple breakfast with Postum is as satisfying and more strengthening than the old heavier meal we used to have with the other kind of coffee." Name given by Postum Co., Pittle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. 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In a letter to Dr. Hartman, he says: STATE OF OREGON, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O. Dear Sirs:---I have had occasion to use your Peruna medicine in my family for colds, and it proved to be an excellent remedy. I have not had occasion to use it for other ailments. Yours very truly, W. M. Lord. It will be noticed that the Governor says he has not had occasion to use Peruna for other ailments. The reason for this is, most other ailments begin with a cold. Peruna Almanac for 1906. ho Invests Most for His Money. ho Wants to Make by He Can't Supply the Leaders of the BEST CORRECT" and Shoes Swarts Shoe Co. HOE EXCLUSIVISTS IS. U. S. A. A FEW CUTTING REMARKS The purpose of a saw is to cut. It should cut easily, cut cleanly, and cut with every movement. I prefer an Atkins Saw. Its blade is "Silver Steel", recognized the world over as the finest crucible steel ever made in ancient or modern times. It is hard, close-grained and tough. It holds a sharp cutting edge longer than any other Saw. Its blade tapers perfectly from thick to thin, from handle to tip. Thus it makes leeway for itself. runs easily and does not buckle. Its temper is perfect. When bent by a crooked thrust, it springs into shape without kinking. The Atkins Saw cuts—and does it best of any. We make all types and sizes of saws, but only one grade—the best. Atkins Saws, Corn Knives, Perfection Floor Scrapers, etc., are sold by all good hardware dealers. Catalogue on request. Factory and Executive Offices, Indianapolis, Indiana. BRANCHES: New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Portland, (Oregon), Seattle, San Francisco, Memphis, Atlanta and Toronto, (Canada). Accept no Substitute—Insit on the Atkins Brand SOLD BY GOOD DEALERS EVERYWHERE GET ME THE MARVELOUS THE UNEQUALLED 25 cents. Box 68, OMAHA, NEB. W.N.U.—Oklahoma City—No. 49, 1905 THE @CIMETER, _ PUBLIBHED EVERY WEEK IN THE INTER: he eee eo eae ae ee, ENTEREO AT THE POST OFFICE AT MUS- Geen! T., AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MAT W. H. TWINE - + + «+ Editor. R. WOOD, - - - = Ass't Editor. J. T. TRIMBLE - ~- Gen’! Solicitor E D. NICKENS, Advertising Manager. The visiting statesmen did get back from Washington with their tail feathers scorched. The single statehood bill has boen introduced and when the good features of the Hamilton bill are attached it will pass Congress and become a law. There is to be an election of two members of the school- board on Dec. 16.. We hope on- ly good men will be selected for these responsible p'aces, The Cimeter believes in stand= ing pat, we have not changed our position on the question of who is the proper and fit person for Judge of the Great Western district of the Indian Territory. The Negroes of the Indian Territory and Oklahoma area unit for the Hamilton bill. The McGuire bill is O. K, except it does not go far enough on the suffrage proposition, The ambitious statesman who desires to serve the dear people as congressmen is now on the hunting path loaded with great speeches of what he will (not) do when he reaches the Capital. Prof. Veraon of Quindaro, Kan., has been recommended by the Kinsas delegation, for the position of register of the treas- ury. Vernon is one of the most able leaders of our race. The Negroes of the Southland are awake and have started a vast emigration to the beautiful Indian Territory, They are welcoms, . We need good farm- ers in this great country. The grapevine telegraph has been in active service this week and a fewof Muskogee’s states- men have been in great glee but gentlemon ‘He laughs best who laughs last.” From every point inthe South We are getting letters asking about the condition of affairs in the Indian Territory and what kind of farming country this is. Gentlemen it isthe best country on easth, Come and see, J.T. Givens, brother of our townsman, Givens the jeweler, is in the city viewing things; he is firmly impressed that in a short time he will leave Arkan- DON’? PAY PWO PRICES TO AGENTS WHEN YOU CAN HAVEA WHOLESALE NURSERY BUY FRUIT aBar TOE RNAMENT, TREES } PFGE" SBAREs ROSES SURLES Muskogee Nursery Co. } P BRON eas Phone 5 or 31 sas for ‘,God’s .country, the B. IT, The Territorial meeting of colored teachers held in this city was a splendid success. Visit- ing teachers from various parts of the Territory express them selves as well pleased with mag- nificent Muskogee. Why buyVour LUMBER =:- and -:- BUILDING -:- MATERIAL From a company you do not know. Keep your mon- ey at home buy buying from the Muskogee Lumber Company They live here and will treat you right. Yard loca- ted west of Jones’ Building, near Masonic Hall. Deceit and treachery are traits that do not commend the pos- sessor thereof to an honest pub lic. There are a few of the wouldbe statesmen and embryo politicians of this burg who are as full of the above named arti cle as a dog is of flees We believe in fighting the en- emy at all stages of the game in real dead earnest. ‘Fight them until hell freezes over’? and con- tinue the scrap if necessary on the ice. Do you catch our meaning? .. KIRSHBAUM.. GENTS FURNISHING GOODS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS. Shirts, Hats, Underwear, Suit Cases W.E. McCLURE, Knox Agency, English Block. Muskogee = - - - LP Our motto is, never be false o1 untrue to a friend and an enemy as well;we may forgive him but d—n him we nevér forget him.”’ This may not be according to the orthodox religion but not so bad as some of the practices of the pretended preachers, PEOPLES MUTUAL Alb ASSOCIAT'N 9 LITTLE ROCK, ARK. Offers Better Sick, Accident and Death Benefit Policies than any company in the Territory, Reliable agents wanted. Good pay. @allon dH Ellis, Supi., "RUszaseeyigies Or write C. B. King, Gen’l Man,, O. G. Miller, Gen | Supt, J. H. McCohico, Ass t Sec y, 500 Center St., Little Rock, Ark. No greater compliment could be paid Judge Raymoud than the resolution passed by 76 Mus kogee lawyers endorsing his ad- ministration as fair, capable and honest. Among these law yers were the 12 colored gentle- men who are members of the barat this place. Official Statement of the Condition of the C@ommereial ation’l Bat: —_- =——— Bea] Muskogee. Indian Perritory, RESOURCES ' LIABILITIES Loans and Discounts $712,003 95 | Capital $200,000 00 Overdratts, cotton, 25/989 61 | Surplus and Profit 21,572 39 Bonds and Prewiums, 206080 49 | Cirenlation 150,000 00 Furniture and Fixtures 7,985 11) Deposits 759,580 25 Cash and Exchange 180,093 48 | — 81,141,152 64! $1,141,152 64 The above statement is correct DN FINK, Cashier, The rot given out Ly some of the pot house politicians that the Republican party will go to h— if their ideas are not carried shows that these cusses are very poor republicans and are not the kind that give respectability to the party or aid in winning vic- tories, they are a kind of para- site and sapsuckers that it would be well for the party if they were cut adrift instantly. TAKING THE STUMP . q To tell about our lumber. It is @@et Be SA oy A put forward to win the approval ggiitexemead of 4 of the lumber users of this section eet ee pe Ei and when its good points are ap- “gage Loong Mamma BO] fs preciated it wail certainly do so, wird wae N ae = = 2M We see no satisfaction or Peeeg a4 aE ay DOTS 1 in handling low grade stock. gai Spee Oo. 8 Saw Neither will consumers when they Devi 1° WT Qua eas learn that the finest lumber does My ey \ \\! \'\ : not piece by the foot but by the 3 fo) Vie MA inches, gn PHF Dr J ANAS kz ple ale, A battle is never lost until it has been fought to a close. Only the weak sisters desert. when there are signs of the enemy ob. taining temporary advantage, That is the period to order a grand charge all along the line and if disaster comes, let it come with your flag flying and with your forces advancing to meet the enemy ina hand to hand combat. Cowards retreat, but brave men meet the enemy face to face and let steel meet steel. MUSKOGEE TITLE & TRUST CO. GENERAL BANKING ABSTRACTS of bt -e aalgay dae ena and REAL ESTATE Second and Broadway. . . ' MUSKOUEE, IND. TER. Dave Richardson's << BARBERSHUP, OPPOSITR COURT HOUT SATISFACTION GUaAKAN CT Dave Richirdsna, | Pru Muskogee Cimeter. W. H. TWINE, Editor. IND. TER. MUSKOGEE. IND. TE Thursday December, 7, 1905. Little Johnnie Is Ycung Yet Little Johnnie doesn't like to be kissed, but sometimes he is compelled by some gushing friends of his mother to submit to the ordeal. The last time they called he went through the operation as gracefully as possible, but after their departure he remarked, vigorously rubbing the powder from his face meanwhile: "Mamma, I don't like to have them kiss me. It tastes just like kissing a marshmallow."—Lippincott's. Farming in Servia. Servian peasants help each other by means of an institution known as the moba. A man who has not hands sufficient to plow or reap his farm calls in the moba—that is to say, invites all his neighbors to come and help him. He pays nothing for this service, providing only generous supplies of food and drink; but when any of them apply for the moba it is understood that he will take his turn. Thoughtful Pupil. While in the full bloom of health the past summer, a school teacher on her vacation one day received a letter from a pupil, which communication she said brought her abruptly face to face with the recollection of the frailty of life. "Dear Miss B——," the admiring small boy wrote, "please send me your picture. I should like to have one in case you die." Had No Need For Timepieces. An old inhabitant of the village of Maids Moreton, near Buckingham, in England, has passed away in the person of Miss Mary Jones. She never possessed a clock or a timepiece of any description during the whole of her lifetime of 80 years. She timed her movements accurately by instinct, as primitive peoples do. Stage Life. Unless you have the beauty of Venus, the hide of a rhinoceros, the constitution of a horse, the diplomacy of a Machiavelli, and unbounded influence and impudence, put out of your mind the thought of adopting the already miserably overcrowded stage as a career.—The World and His Wife. Ship Makes Record For Slowness. The British ship William Mitchell "In the Spotlight" MARIE CAFILL Theatrical Globe Trotter. Perhaps the most widely traveled of theatrical managers is John R. Rogers of "Yours Merrily" renown. According to his own reckoning he has been around the world six times and has made thirty-eight round trip journeys across the Atlantic. Starting in 1869 with Barney Macauley, the following year he took up Joe Murphy of "Shaun Rhue" fame, and the following season brought to light McKee Rankin. Then came J. K. Emmet. For five years Rogers managed him, and a trip of the world was made during which Emmet's famous yodel was heard in every corner of the civilized world. Leaving Emmet, he took up Mary Anderson, and remained as her manager two years. Nellie Farren, and her co-star, Baker, next engaged his attention, and another trip of the world was made. After a few unimportant engagements Rogers sent out Minnie Palmer, and the globe was circled three times to tremendous business. Then a little later he took up Wilson Barrett and another tour of the world was started. Returning to this country in 1895, for three seasons he was with "Strange Adventures of Miss Brown" and then returned to Wilson Barrett and remained with him until his death. Henry Bergman of "The Prodigal Son" company was one of the actors who made famous "The Senator," when it was produced in New York by William H. Crane. Alfred Sutro's play, "The Walls of Jericho," which Mr. Hackett and Miss Mannering are playing in this country, has passed its 400th performance in London and is still running there to good business. Virginia Harned is to appear in "La Belle Marsellaise," a French translation. Paul Berton, the author, and also recalled as the author of "Zaza," will come to America for the first presentation of the play. Miss Viola Allen has found it necessary to strengthen her company and has engaged Robert Drouet to play the leading man's part in "The Toast of the Town." Ferdinand Gottschalk also has been engaged. Frank Gillmore, who has the role of the Rev. John St. John in "As Ye Sow," is presenting the second impersonation of a clergyman in his stage career. The first was that of the Rev. Noel Bryce in "The Hobby Horse." Before sailing for home Henry Arthur Jones, the noted English dramatist, plaintively declared that although he had visited sixteen American cities during his stay, he did not hear of any of his works being played. VICTIMS OF SNAKES AND TIGERS Thousands of Human Beings Killed Annually in India—Poisonous Reptiles Literally Swarm in the Country. ```markdown ``` More than 22,000 human beings were killed by snakes and tigers and wolves, but principally by snakes, in India last year. In the United States last year there is no record that any person was killed by a wild animal—plenty were killed by domestic animals, which is beside the point—and neither is there any record of a person dying as a result of the bite of a serpent. This comparison is set down merely because it was submitted to the writer by men deeply versed in animal and serpent lore who sought to demonstrate thereby just how much more interesting (according to their point of view) was India than the United States. "In India," said these men, "you will find conditions, particularly as regards animal life, that approximate the aboriginal. Cobras squeeze through the thatched sides of houses and kill people in their bedrooms, or wriggle up drain pipes and strike their death blows while the victim is washing his hands, just as they always have done, while tigers leap into villages and carry away the brightest and best and most toothsome with the same impunity as in ages gone. So you see it is an intensely attractive country for us." The annual death rate from snake bites in India is from 18,000 to 20,000. This represents a greater mortality than results from the epidemics of some deadly diseases there. The British government, duly aroused to the fact, now offers a bounty for the head of every cobra, in fact, of any deadly poisonous snake, of which there are forty species on the Indian continent. A dead tiger naturally has an intrinsic value of its own, and as a result there need be no incentive offered to stimulate efforts looking toward their annihilation, even apart from considerations of self-preservation. At the last compilation tigers averaged an annual killing of 180 adults, while the man-eaters and the wolves between them made away with any number of children. There are tigers—and tigers. In fact there are three different sorts of tigers chest and walk away with him for a mile or two as easy as not. "Once," said Mr. Hornaday, "a gang of men were building a railway through the jungle along the Malay Peninsula. They worked inside a stockade seven feet high to protect them from tigers. While they were digging away at broad midday a great tiger suddenly leaped the stockade, grabbed a man, and before a move could be made, leaped over the stockade again and made off with his prey. I know that this story is true," continued Mr. Hornaday, "for I got it while I was in India hunting tigers, from a scientist whose word is absolutely unimpeachable. This will give you an idea of the strength and agility of the man-eater." Once a man-eater, always a man-eater. A man-eating tiger is almost invariably an old tiger whose teeth and claws are blunted and who feels his pristine agility departing. Even cattle-killing tires him, and as has been said, he tries his luck with man, and thenceforward he has rather an easy time of it until he is killed, as he always is, sooner or later. As time goes on he degenerates terribly, according to animal men. He grows lean, his blood turns bad, and he is so mangy that his pelt is worthless from a commercial point of view. But the killing of a man-eater is no easy task, for the reason that he never kills twice in the same village. Instinct has taught him that after he has made a killing in a village it is much more conducive to his health and longevity to move on to another village. And he does. The average range of a man-eater is twenty miles, and as all of his range lies in the jungle, it is no easy matter to hunt him out. Yet he always is hunted out in time. For the advent of a man-killer in a village is a wonderfully exciting event, and every villager who has a gun is in arms, while those who have not constitute themselves into a corps of beaters, rushing through the jungle shouting and ringing bells and frightening the beast out of cover. ous serpent in the world, he would rather be bitten by that species than by a rattler. In any event, ne said, the proper thing to do, being bitten, is to cut the wound out with a penknife, and then tie a tourniquet above the wound and run for a doctor. Despite its reputation, the cobra has a rival snake in India that takes almost as many lives as the hooded reptile. This is Russel's viper, the most venomously, viciously marked snake in the world, whose habits and bite bear out the deadliness suggested by the skin. There is another snake in India which also swells the mortality tables, the sea viper. This snake, as the name suggests, lives in the salt water, and makes a great specialty of nipping the legs of bathers. As a rule, the bathers never live very long after reaching shore. While talking to Mr. Ditmars the writer saw a fierce battle between four hooded cobras. They struck at and bit one another repeatedly, but they did not seem to mind, and in fact there was no reason why they should. They are immune from the poison of their own species. Mr. Ditmars gave as the reason for the absence of deaths from poison snakes in the United States, which of course abounds with them, that they live in out of the way places, where man does not usually go, and that as a rule American snakes are retiring and will flee, provided they are not stepped upon or forced into a corner.—New York Times. One Thing That Troubled Him. A Bristol churchman, in commenting on Mr. Hood's claim, said the other day with a humerous smile: "Those two children must have consciences as clear as the conscience of an old colored man down one of our back streets. "The old man—Romulus by name— seem to be fond of | this season, with Raymond Hitchcock tain death. . a eee eee mere —- ee Historic Tree Near Baltimore. of a play. First he | in place of Richard Golden, in the lead-| ‘The step is easy. The “cattleifter,” | times you will find a score in a — A gigantic chestnut tree wit the Man,” and now | ing role. Four or five names are un- prowling about the herd, suddenly Natives walking about in their bare girth of about twenty-five feet, and Superman.” der consideration for the new version, casts eyes upon the herder, a little legs are killed day after day, year in | under whose branches jn 1777 ‘Wash- mbert have obtained | but those most likely to’ be chosen trawn man. who doex not impress the | 224 year out. Perhaps the mortality} ~ * ae e ee eisco seaeulis swam ahead of or be side the ship all the way. In the Crush. “I am not a famous author,” mutter- ed the woman who with torn bonnet and draggled dress had just laborious- ly made her way out of a sardine packed car, “but I can say with truth that I have a great work issuing from the press.”—Baltimore American. Doing Away With Trouble. Once open the door to trouble and its visits are threefold—first, anticl- pation; second,.in actual presence; third, in living it over again. There fore, never anticipate trouble, make as little of its presence as possible, forget it as soon as past. © NO NEWE LO SHSSK UT. “There is really no news to speak of,” writes a rural correspondent. “except three or four legs cut off by the railroad and one man killed him- self. with a double-barrel gun, whose name I did not have time to learn.”— Atlanta Constitution. " Bad Form! . Putses—large American link purses ~bave been laid aside by the fashion- able Parisienne. What need has one ae “Sedted” Ti tHe Hotel "cores "re0nT,” he says, “I came across an advertise ment in the Daily Telegraph from a man named Charles Barrington, who wanted a light comedian in ‘Clancarty to act with Helen Barry. I went down to the Adelphi, and, curiously enough, Mr. Barrington never asked me direct- ly if I had been on the stage. “*Where hdve you come from? es ae “ ‘Australia,’ I said. “Pretty hard work there, isn’t it? Change their bill pretty often? Lots of exrerience, eh?” “‘Heaps.” said I; ‘every kind,’ which was true enough. “He engaged me at a salary of $10 a week, and I signed under my Christ- ian name, ‘Harold Kyrle.’ That was my first appearance as an actor.” W. H. Crane has been on the stage for forty-three years. Milbourne MacDowell will soon ap- pear in a play entitled “That’s John’s Way.” Mrs. Julian Mitchell, who is better known perhaps to playgoers as Bessie Clayton, has gone into vaudeville. Joseph Cawthorn has arrived at the full dignity of a star and is appearing in a piece entitled “Fritz in Tammany ‘eaten a Marlotte, which Francis Wilson as- sumes in this country. Baroness Ray Von Wrede, grand- daughter of the late Gov. Beveridge of Illinois, has gone into vaudeville and 1s playing a sketch called “Alone I did It,” written for her by her mother. The chief character is a millionaire horse- man of Chicago. Miss Edna Wallace Hopper, who was operated on for appendicitis last week, is said to be recovering safely. Miss Hopper fainted in her dressing room during a performance of “The Heart of Maryland” and was taken from the theater to the hospital. Frank L. Perley denies the report that “The Girl and the Bandit” is to close its season, and says that it will continue its tour without interruption, as planned. It is said the receipts have been very large and that the en- tertainment is fully as popular this year as it ever was. Miss Marlowe and Mr. Sothern, who are devoting themselves to “The Tam- ing of the Shrew,” “The Merchant of Venice” and “Twelfth Night” this sea- son, will be seen next year in “King Lear,” “Cymbeline” and-“As You Like It.” Mr. Sothern will play Touchstone instead of Orlando in “As You Like It.” Mrs. Langtry is now in South Africa, where she will remain until the end sien sik iiaeie Gem ana Dea eee OT a a a ee at, SS ee en ee a NAB oe OE PEGE ES : ee Bae \ Aca) ae a - * ee ce eee BUCA - * AS oe ae ee Sf SON IB a | ey i | Flag aie oor See = — Ne : Le y= | as INDIA as regards habits. First there is the game-killer, a powerful, husky beast, as cunning as a fox, as lithe as a steel rod, and with teeth and claws that rip and cut like buzzsaws. Then there is the ‘cattle-killer. He is a beast who has grown a trifle lazy. In the course of his experience he has found that a bullock may be killed with a great deal less trouble than a deer or other sort of game, and he has also discovered that the flesh is just as good if not better. He begins with a calf, and finding that easy to kill, he works up Penn a ee as = = a Pe aie = i : ee a ————— —$—$—$—$————— N COBRA CHARMER Mr. Hornaday said also that tigers do not eat or kill men just for the love of the Killing. They have no more animosity against man than they have against any other animal, and when they do kill a man they do so only because they are hungry. He said, though, that they are liable to kill a man against their morrow’s meal, even though they have just eat- en, all of which argues that you must not stop to ask a tiger whether he has dined or not, should you meet him in the jungle. FE. a 3 : = mek Pi a ey i a Fa Leal ae: see took sick one day and in a little. while it looked as if his end was near. The minister was sent for and came promptly—a stout man, done up in one of those religious waistcoats with- out any buttons down the front or any opening at the neck. “The minister said to Uncle Romu- lus: “‘Is your mind at ease, brother?’ “Yes, sah,’ answered the old man. “‘Are you sure there’s nothing troubling you?’ the minister went on ‘If there is speak up. Don’t be afraid. lation than to anything else. Much has been a single abbreviation is not sweeping prohibition of every arrangement, good or bad, which may tend to restrict competition, but such adequate supervision and regulation as will prevent any restriction of competition from being to the detriment of the public—as well as such supervision and regulation as will prevent other abuses in no way connected with restriction of competition. Of these abuses, perhaps the chief, although by no means the only one, is overcapitalization—generally itself the result of dishonest promotion—because of the myriad evils it brings in its train; for such overcapitalization often means an inflation that invites business panic; it always conceals the true relation of the profit earned to the actual capital invested, and it creates a burden of interest payments which is a fertile cause of improper reduction or in limitation of wages; it damages the small investor, discourages thrift, and encourages gambling and speculation; while perhaps worst of all is the trickiness and dishonesty which it implies—for harm to morals and worse than any possible harm to material interests, and the debauchey of politics and business by great dishonest corporations is far worse than any actual material evil they do the public. Until the national government obtains, in some manner which the wisdom of the Congress may suggest, proper control over the big corporations engaged in interstate commerce—that is, over the great majority of the big corporations—it will be impossible to deal adequately with these evils. I am well aware of the difficulties of the 'legislation that I am suggesting, and of the need of temperate and cautious action in securing it. I should emphatically protest against improper radical or hasty action. The first thing to do is to deal with the great corporations engaged in the business of interstate transportation. As I said in my message of Dec. 6 last, the immediate and most pressing need, so far as legislation is concerned, is the enactment into law of some scheme to secure to the agents of the government such supervision and regulation of the rates charged by the railroads of the country engaged in interstate traffic as shall summarily and effectively prevent the imposition of unjust or unreasonable rates. It must include putting a complete stop to rebates in every shape and form. This power to regulate rates, like all similar powers over the business world, should be exercised with moderation, caution, and self-restraint; but it should exist, so that it can be effectively exercised when the need arises. The first consideration to be kept in mind is that the power should be affirmative and should be given to some administrative body created by the Congress. If given to the present Interstate Commerce commission or to a reorganized Interstate Commerce commission, such commission should be made unequivocally administrative. I do not believe in the government interfering with private business more than is necessary. I do not believe in the government undertaking any work which can with propriety be left in private hands. But neither do I believe in the government finching from overseeing any work when it becomes evident that abuses are sure to obtain therein unless there is governmental supervision. It is not my province to indicate the exact terms of the law which should be enacted; but I call the attention of the Congress to certain existing conditions with which it is desirable to deal. In my judgment the most important provision which such law should contain is that conferring upon some competent administrative body the power to decide, upon the case being brought before it, whether a given rate prescribed by a railroad is reasonable and just, and if it is found to be unreasonable and unjust, then, after full investigation of the complaint, to prescribe the limit of rate beyond which it shall not be lawful to go—the maximum reasonable rate, as it is commonly called—this decision to go into effect within a reasonable time and to obtain from thence onward, subject to review by the courts. It sometimes happens at present, not that a rate is too high but that a favored shipper is given too low a rate. In such case the commission would have the right to fix this already established minimum rate as the maximum and it would need only one or two such decisions by the commission to cure railroad companies of the practice of giving improper minimum rates. I call your attention to efficiency has been to a great degree destroyed by the weapon of delay, almost the most formidable weapon in the hands of those whose purpose it is to violate the law. The question of transportation lies at the root of all industrial success, and the revolution in transportation which has taken place during the last half century has been the most important factor in the growth of the new industrial conditions. Most emphatically we do not wish to see the man of great talents refused the reward for his talents. Still less do we wish to see him penalized; but we do desire to see the system of railroad transportation so hand'ed that the strong man shall be given no advantage over the weak man. We wish to insure as fair treatment for the small town as for the big city, for the small shipper as for the big shipper. In the old days the highway of commerce, whether by water or by a road on land, was open to all; it be'onged to the public and the traffic along it was free. At present the railway is this highway, and we must do our best to see that it is kept open to all on equal terms. Unlike the old highway it is a very difficult and complex thing to manage, and it is far better that it should be managed by private individuals than by the government. But it can only be so managed on condition that justice is done the public. It is because, in my judgment, public ownership of railroads is high'y undesirable and would probably in this country entail far-reaching disaster, that I wish to see such supervision and regulation of them in the interest of the public as will make it evident that there is no need for public ownership. The opponents of government regulation dwell upon the difficulties to be encountered and the intricate and involved nature of the problem. Their contention is true. It is a complicated and delicate problem, and all kinds of difficulties are sure to arise in connection with any plan of solution, while no plan will bring all the benefits hoped for by its more optimistic adherents. Moreover, under any healthy plan, the benefits will develop gradually and not rapidly. Finally, we must clearly understand that the public servants who are to do this peculiarly responsible and delicate work must themselves be of the highest type both as regards integrity and efficiency. They must be well paid, for otherwise able men can not in the long run be secured; and they must possess a lofty probity which will revolt as quickly at the thought of randering to any gust of popular prejudice against rich men as the thought of anything even remotely resembling subservency to rich men. But while I fully admit the difficulties in the way. I do not for a moment admit that these difficulties warrant us in stopping in our effort to secure a wise and just system. They should have no other effect than to spur us on to the exercise of the resolution, the even-banded justice, and the fertility of resource, which we like to think of as typically American, and which will in the end achieve good results in this as in other fields of activity. The task is a great one and underlies the task of dealing with the whole industrial' problem. But the fact that it is a great problem does not warrant us in shrinking from the attempt to solve it. At present we face such utter lack of supervision, such freedom from the restraints of law, that excellent men have often been literally forced into doing what they deplored because otherwise they were left at the mercy of unscrupulous competitors. Toail at and assail the men who have done as they best could under the conditions accomplishes little. What we need to do is to develop an orderly system; and such a system can only come through the gradually increased exercise of the right of efficient government control. The necessity for safety appliances on railroads, recommended in the President's message to the last Congress, is emphasized, together with the necessity for a law regulating the hours of labor of railroad men. On the labor question, the message says: There has been demand for depriving courts of the power to issue injunctions in labor disputes. Such special limitation of the equity powers of our courts would be most unwise. It is true that some is reprehensible in one case as in the other, and all honest and farseeing men should join in warring against it wherever it becomes manifest. Individual capitalist and individual wage-worker, corporation and union, are alike entitled to the protection of the law, and must alike obey the law. Moreover, in addition to mere obedience to the law, each man, if he be a really good citizen, must show broad sympathy for his neighbor and genuine desire to look at any question arising between them from the standpoint of that neighbor no less than from his own; and to this end it is essential that capitalist and wage-worker should consult freely one with the other, should each strive to bring closer the day when both shall realize that they are properly partners and not enemies. To approach the questions which inevitably arise between them solely from the standpoint which treats each side in the mass as the enemy of the other side in the mass is both wicked and foolish. In the past the most direful among the influences which have brought about the downfall of republics has ever been the downfall of the class spirit, the growth of the spirit which tends to make a man subordinate the welfare of the public as a whole to the welfare of the particular class to which he belongs. This inevitably brings about a tendency to treat each man not on his merits as an individual, but on his position as belonging to a certain class in the community. If such a spirit grows up in this Republic it will ultimately prove fatal to us, as in the past it has proved fatal to every community in which it has become dominant. Unless we continue to keep a quick and lively sense of the great fundamental truth that our concern is with the individual worth of the individual man, this government cannot permanently hold the place which it has achieved among the nations. The vital lines of cleavage among our people do not correspond, and indeed run at right angles to, the lines of cleavage which divide occupation from occupation, which divide wage-workers from capitalists, farmers from bankers, men of small means from men of large means, men who live in the towns from men who live in the country; for the vital line of cleavage is the line which divides the honest man who tries to do well by his neighbor from the dishonest man who does ill by his neighbor. In other words, the standard we should establish is the standard of conduct, not the standard of occupation, of means or of social position. It is the man's moral quality, his attitude toward the great questions which concern all humanity, his cleanliness of life, his power to do his duty toward himself and toward others, which really count; and if we substitute for the standard of personal judgment which treats each man according to his merits, another standard in accordance with which all men o. one class are favored and all men of another class discriminated against, we shall do irreparable damage to the body politic. I believe that our people are too sane, too self-respecting, too fit for self-government, ever to adopt such an attitude. This government is not and never shall be government by a plutocracy. This government is not and never shall be government by a mob. It shall continue to be in the future what it has been in the past, a government based on the theory that each man, rich or poor, is to be treated simply and solely on his worth as a man, that all his personal and property rights are to be safeguarded, and that he is neither to wrong others nor to suffer wrong from others. The noblest of all forms of government is self-government; but it is also the most difficult. We who possess this priceless boon, and who desire to hand it on to our children and our children's children, should ever bear in mind the thought so finely expressed by Burke: "Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as they are disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there be within the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions for their fetters." Insurance. The great insurance companies afford strikin' examples of corporations whose busness as extended so far beyond the jurisdiction of the states which created them as to preclude strict enforcement of supervision and regulation by the parent States. In my last annual message I recommended "that the I desire to repeat this recommendation. In political campaigns in a country as large and populous as ours it is inevitable that there should be much expense of an entirely legtimate kind. This, of course, means that many contributions, and some of them of large size, must be made, and, as a matter of fact, in any big political contest such contributions are always made to both sides. It is entirely proper both to give and receive them, unless there is an improper motive connected with either gift or reception. If they are extorted by any kind of pressure or promise, express or implied, direct or indirect, in the way of favor or immunity, then the giving or receiving becomes not only improper but criminal. It will undoubtedly be difficult as a matter of practical detail to shape an act which shall guard with reasonable certainty against such misconduct, but if it is possible to secure by law the full and verified publication in detail of all the sums contributed to and expended by the candidates or committees of any political parties the result cannot but be wholesome. All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law; directors should not be permitted to use stockholders' money for such purposes; and, moreover, a prohibition of this kind would be, as far as it went, an effective method of stopping the evils aimed at in corrupt practices acts. Not only should both the national and the several state legislatures forbid any officer of a corporation from using the money of the corporation in or about any election, but they should also forbid such use of money in connections with any legislation save by the employment of counsel in public manner for distinctly legal services. The position of the United States with regard to The Hague conference is clearly shown, the desire of the United States for continuance of the world's peace being made apparent and the necessity for strength to maintain a righteous position insisted upon. Elaborating on the many reasons existing for the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine, the message points out how the interests of our southern neighbors are identified with our own and the impossibility of the United States using the doctrine as a means for aggrandizement. The help afforded Santo Domingo in her escape from the importunities of foreign creditors and rapacious revolutionists at home is shown as a case in point. Army and Navy. The President insists upon the necessity for a well trained body of soldiers as a nucleus for an army in time of trouble, and that maneuvers of a practical kind should be undertaken to adapt the forces to actual conditions of warfare. An increase in the artillery force so that the coast fortifications can be adequately manned is also recommended, with liberal appropriations for the building and bringing to a state of perfection of the United States navy. Naturalization Laws. Of our present naturalization laws, the message says: During the past year evidence has accumulated to confirm the expressions contained in my last two annual messages as Civil Service. Some paragraphs of the message are devoted to an elucidation of the workings of the civil service law. The assertion is made that the effects of the law have been excellent. A revision of the copyright laws is declared to be urgently needed, and the promise made that a bill for this purpose will be introduced at the coming session. The passage of the measure is earnestly recommended. A law to regulate interstate commerce in misbranded and adulterated foods, drinks and drugs is urged; also one providing for the building and maintenance of national parks and the preservation of Niagara Falls. Pensions for members of the Life Saving Service are shown to be desirable, and a high compliment is paid the members of the service for their self-sacrificing devotion to duty. A recommendation is made for increased appropriations and payment of more attention to the needs of the Indians. The Phillippines. Despite the series of disasters which have afflicted the Philippine islands since the American occupation—the rinderpest, the locusts, and the drought—conditions are shown to have steadily improved and tranquility is now almost universal. The Filipinos are beginning to realize the benefits of education, and a school attendance of 70 per cent is the result. Referring to trade between the islands and the United States, the message says: A statute in force, enacted April 15, 1904, suspends the operation of the coastwise laws of the United States upon the trade between the Philippine islands and the United States until July 1, 1906. I earnestly recommend that this suspension be postponed until July 1, 1909. I think it of doubtful utility to apply the coastwise laws to the trade between the United States and the Philippines under any circumstances, because I am convinced that it will do no good whatever to American bottoms, and will only interfere and be an obstacle to the trade between the Philippines and the United States; but if the coastwise law must be thus applied, certainly it ought not to have effect until free trade is enjoyed between the people of the United States and the people of the Philippine islands in their respective products. I do not anticipate that free trade between the islands and the United States will produce a revolution in the sugar and tobacco production of the Philippine islands. So primitive are the methods of agriculture in the Philippine islands, so slow is capital in going to the islands, so many difficulties surround a large agricultural enterprise in the islands, that it will be many, many years before the products of those islands will have any effect whatever upon the markets of the United States. The problem of labor is also a formidable one with the sugar and tobacco producers in the islands. The best friends of the Filipino people and the people themselves are utterly opposed to the admission of Chinese coolie labor. Hence the only solution is the training of Filipino labor. ```markdown ``` The point which remains unsettled is the question of type, whether the canal shall be one of several locks above sea level, or at sea level with a single tide lock. On this point I hope to lay before the Congress at an early day the findings of the Advisory Board of American and European Engineers, that at my invitation have been considering the subject, together with the report of the commission thereon; and such comments thereon or recommendations in reference thereto as may seem necessary. The American people is pledged to the speediest possible construction of a canal adequate to meet the demands which the commerce of the world will make upon it, and I appeal most earnestly to the Congress to aid in the fulfillment of the pledge. Gratifying progress has been made during the past year and especially during the past four months. The greatest part of the necessary preliminary work has been done. Actual work of excavation could be begun only on a limited scale till the canal zone was made a healthful place to live in and to work in. The isthmus had to be sanitized first. This task has been so thoroughly accomplished that yellow fever has been virtually extirpated from the isthmus and general health conditions vastly improved. The same methods which converted the island of Cuba from a pest hole, which menaced the health of the world, into a healthful place of abode, have been applied on the isthmus with satisfactory results. There is no reason to doubt that when the plans for water supply, paving, and a渡渡 of Panama and Colon and the large labor camps have been fully carried out, the isthmus will be for the tropics, an unusually healthy place of abode. The work is so far advanced now that the health of all those employed in canal work is as well guarded as it is on similar work in this country and elsewhere. What is needed now and without delay is an appropriation by the Congress to meet the current and accruing expenses of the commission. The first appropriation of $10,000,000, out of the $135,000,000 authorized by the Spooner act, was made three years ago. It is nearly exhausted. There is barely enough of it remaining to carry the commission to the end of the year. Unless the Congress shall appropriate before that time all we k must cease. To arrest progress for any length of time now, when matters are advancing so satisfactorily, would be deplorable. Then, will be no money with which to meet pay-roll obligations and none with which to meet bills coming due for materials and supplies; and there will be demoralization of the forces, here and on the lithium, now working so harmoniously and effectively, if there is delay in granting an emergency appropriation. Estimates of the amount necessary will be found in the accompanying reports of the Secretary of War and the commission. Department of State. Neither at home nor abroad is there a sufficient working force to do the business properly. In many respects the system which was adequate to the work of twenty-five, or even ten, years ago, is inadequate now, and should be changed. Our consular force should be classified, and appointments should be made to the several classes, with authority to the Executive to assign the members of each class to duty at such posts as the interests of the service require, instead of the appointments being made as at present to specified posts. There should be an adequate inspection service, so that the Department may be able to inform itself how the business of each consulate is being done, instead of depending upon casual private information or rumor. The fee system should be entirely abolished, and a die equivalent made in salary to the officers who now eke out their subsistence by means of fees. Sufficient provisions should be made for a clerical force in every consulate, composed entirely of American, instead of the insufficient provision now made, which compels the employment of great numbers of citizens of foreign countries whose services can be obtained for less money. At a large part of our consulates the office quarters and the clerical force are inadequate to the performance of the amateurs duly imposed by the reept provisions of our immigration laws as well as by our increasing trade. Suitable provision should be made for the expense of keeping our diplomatic officers more fully informed of what is being done from day to day in the progress of our diplomie t affairs with other countries. The lack of such information, caused by insufficient appropriations available for cable tolls and for clerical and messenger service, frequently puts our officers at a great disadvantage and detracts from their usefulness. The salary list should be reallisted. It does not now correspond either to the importance of the service to be resided and the degrees of ability and experience required in the different positions, or to the differences in the cost of living. In many cases the salaries are quite inadequate. McGUIRE'S NEW STATEHOOD BILL Provisions of New Bill Much the Same as the One Introduced By the Delegate In Last Congress-Seven Congressmen Provided for--Ten Million Dollars Asked for to Offset the School Lands of Oklahoma--Guthrie to be Capital of the the New State Until 1910, When it May be Cbanged AN ACT to enable the people of Oklahoma and of the Indian Territory to form a constitution and State government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States: Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled. That the inhabitants of all that part of the area of the United States now constituting the Territory of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory, as at present described, may adopt a constitution and become the State of Oklahoma, as hereinafter provided: PROVIDED. That notning contained in the said constitution shall be construed to limit or impair the rights of person or property pertaining to the Indians of said Territories (so long as such rights shall remain unextinguished) or to limit or effect the authority of the Government of the United States to regulate the sale of spiritous, malt or other intoxicating liquors to Indians, or to make any law or regulation respecting such Indians, their lands, property, or other rights by treaties, agreement, law, or otherwise, which it would have been competent to make if this act had never passed. Qualification of Voters to Constitutional Convention Defined Sec 2. That all male persons over the age of twenty-one years, who are citizens of the United States, or who are members of any Indian nation or tribe in said Indian Territory and Oklahoma, and who have resided within the limits of said proposed State for at least six months next preceding the election, are hereby authorized to vote for and choose delegates to form a constitutional convention for said proposed State; and all persons qualified to vote for said delegates shall be eligible to serve as delegates; and the delegates to form such convention shall be one hundred and ten in number. Provisions for Holding Constitutional Convention—Representatives and How Determined—Dividing Territories into Districts and Fixing Precincts and Naming Judges The Governor and Chief Justice of Oklahoma and the judge senior in service in the Indian Territory and the commissioner to the five civilized tribes of the Indian Territory shall apportion the Territory of Oklahoma and Indian Territory into one hundred and ten districts as nearly equal in population as may be, which apportionment shall include the Osage Indian Reservation, and one delegate shall be elected from each of said districts; and the Governor of said Oklahoma Territory, together with the judge senior in service of the United States courts in Indian Territory, shall by proclamation order an election of the delegates aforesaid in said proposed State at a time designated by them within sixty days after the approval of this Act, which proclamation shall be issued at least sixty days prior to the time of holding said election of delegates. That the Judges of the United States Courts in Indian Territory shall, for the purpose of said election, establish and define the necessary election precincts and appoint three judges of election for each precinct, not more than two of whom shall be of the same political party, which judges may appoint the necessary clerk or clerks; that the said judges of election, so appointed, shall supervise the election in their respective precincts, and canvass and make due return of the vote cast to the Judges of the United States Courts in said Indian Territory, who shall constitute the ultimate and final canvassing board of said election, and whose certificates of elertion shall be prima facie evidence as to the election of delegates, and the election of delegates in the Territory of Oklahoma shall be conducted, the returns made, the result ascertained, and the certificates of all persons elected to such convention issued in the same manner as is prescribed by the laws of said territory regulating elections for delegates to congress. Capital Shall be at Guthrie Until 1910 May be Removed After that Time by a Majority Vote of Electors That the capital of said state shall temporarily be at the city of Guthrie, in the present Territory of Oklahoma, and shall not be changed therefrom previous to Auno Domino nineteen hundred and ten, but the location of said capital may, after said year, be permanently fixed by a majority vote of the electors of said State voting at an election to be provided for by the legislature. Time, Place and Organization of Constitutional Convention Sec. 3. That the delegates to the convention thus elected shall meet at the seat of government of said Oklahoma Territory on the first Tuesday after their election, and, after organization, shall declare, on behalf of the people of said proposed state, that they adopt the constitution of the United States; whereupon the said convention shall, and is hereby authorized to, form a constitution and state government for said proposed state. The constitution shall be republican in form, and make no distinction in civil or political rights on account of race or color, and shall not be repugnant to the Constitution of the United States and the principles of the Declaration of Independence. And said convention shall provide: Perfect Religious Freedom to be Se- cured—Plural Marriage Prohibited First: That perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be secured, and that no inhabitant of said state shall ever be molested in person or property on account of his or her mode of religious worship, and that polygamous or plural marriages are forever prohibited. Pertaining to United States Land and Taxes of Non-Resident Owners Second: That the people inhabiting said proposed state do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title in or to any unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries thereof, and to all lands living within said limits owned or held by any Indian, tribe or nation; and that until the title to any such public land shall have been extinguished by the United States, the same shall be and remain subject to the jurisdiction, disposal and control of the United States. That land belonging to the citizens of the United States residing without the limits of said state shall never be taxed at a higher rate than the land belonging to residents thereof; that no taxes shall be imposed by the state on lands or property oelonging to or which may hereafter be purchased by the United States or reserved for its use. Third: That the debts and liabilities of said Territory of Oklahoma shall be assumed and paid by said state. Establishment of Public School System Fourth: That provisions shall be made for the establishment and maintenance of a system of public schools, which shall be open to all children of said state free from sectarian control; and said schools shall always be conducted in English; PROVIDED: That nothing herein shall preclude the teaching of other languages in said public schools; and PROVIDED FURTHER, That this shall not be construed to prevent the establishment and maintenance of separate schools for white and colored children. Free Ballot Provided for All Fifth: That said state shall never enact any law restricting or abridging the right of suffrage on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. Plan for Submitting Constitution to Vote of People and Canvassing Board Designated Sec. 4. That in case a constitution and state government shall be formed in compliance with the provisions of this act, the convention forming the same shall provide by ordinance for submitting said constitution to the people of said proposed state for its ratification or rejection at an election to be held at the time fixed in said ordinance, at which election the qualified voters for said proposed state shall vote directly for or against the proposed constitution, and for or against any provisions separately submitted. The returns of said election shall be made to the Secretary of the Territory of Oklahoma, who, with the Chief Justice thereof and the senior judge of Indian Territory, shall canvass the same; and if a majority of the legal votes cast on that question shall be for the constitution, the governor of Oklahoma Territory and the judge senior in service of Indian Territory shall certify the result to the president of the United States, together with the statement of the votes cast thereon, and upon separate articles of propositions, and a copy of said constitution, articles, propositions and ordinances. And if the constitution and government of said proposed state are republican in form, and if the provisions of this act have been complied with in the formation thereof, it shall be the duty of the president of the United States, within twenty days from the receipt of the certificate of the result of said election and the statement of votes cast thereon and a copy of said constitution, articles, propositions and ordinances from said commission, to issue his proclamation announcing the result of said election; and thereupon the proposed State of Oklahoma shall be deemed admitted by congress into the Union, under and by virtue of this act, on an equal footing with the original states from and after the fourth day of March, nineteen hundred and seven. The original of said constitution, articles, propositions and ordinances, and the election returns, and a copy of the statement of the votes cast at said election, shall be forwarded and turned over by the secretary of the territory of Oklahoma to the state authorities of said state. Appropriation of $75.000 for Election Sec. 5. That the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for defraying the expenses of said election and convention, and for the payment of the members thereof, under the same rules and regulations and at the same rates as are now provided by law for the payment of the territorial legislature of the Territory of Oklahoma. New State to Have Seven Congressmen—Congressional Districts Defined Sec. 6. That until the next general census, or until otherwise provided by law, the said state of Oklahoma shall be entitled to seven representatives in the house of representatives of the United States, to be elected from the following described districts, the boun- daries of which shall remain the same until the next general census: That district numbered one shall comprise the counties of Grant, Kay, Garfield, Noble, Pawnee, Kingfisher, Logan, Payne, Lincoln, and the territory comprising the Osage and Kansas Indian reservations. That district numbered two shall comprise the counties of Oklahoma, Canadian, Blaine, Caddo, Custer and Washita. That district numbered three shall comprise all the territory now constituting recording district numbered one, two, three, four, five, six seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven in the Indian Territory. That district numbered four shall comprise recording districts numbered twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, twenty-three, twenty-four and twenty-five of the Indian Territory, except the Seminole nation. That district numbered five shall comprise the counties of Greer, Roger Mills, Kiowa and Comanche. That district numbered six shall constitute the counties of Woods, Woodward, Dewey, Day and Beaver. That district numbered seven shall constitute recording districts numbered sixteen, seventeen, eighteen nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two and twenty-six, the Seminole nations, and the counties of Cleveland and Pottawatomie, in Oklahoma. Election of State and National Officers School Lands for New State And the said representatives to the sixtieth congress, together with the governor and other officers provided for in said constitution, shall be elected on the same day of the election for the ratification or rejection of the constitution; and until said officers are elected and qualified under the provisions of such constitution and the said state is admitted into the Union, the territorial officers of Oklahoma Territory shall continue to discharge the duties of their respective offices in said Territory. Sec. 7. That upon the admission of the state into the Union, sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six, in every township in Oklahoma Territory, and all indemnity lands heretofore selected in lieu thereof, are hereby granted to the state for the use and benefit of the common schools: PROVIDED. That sections sixteen and thirty-six embraced in permanent reservations for national purposes shall not at any time be subject to the grant nor the indemnity provisions of this act, nor shall any lands embraced in Indian, military or other reservations of any character, nor shall land owned by Indian tribes or individual members of any tribe be subject to the grants or to the indemnity provisions of this act until the reservation shall have been extinguished and such lands be restored to and become a part of the public domain: PROVIDED. That there is sufficient untaken public land within said state to cover this grant: AND PROVIDED. That in case any of the lands herein granted to the state of Oklahoma have heretofore been confirmed to the Territory of Oklahoma for the purpose specified in this act, the amount so confirmed shall be deducted from the quantity specified in this act. Ten Million Dollars Appropriated for Public Schools in Lien of Lands in Indian Territory There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the territory not otherwise appropriated, the sum of ten million dollars for the use and benefit of the common schools of said state in lieu of sections sixteen and thirty-six, and other lands of the Indian Territory. Said appropriation shall be paid by the treasurer of the United States at such time and to such person or persons as may be authorized by said state to receive the same under the laws to be enacted by said state, and until said state shall enact such laws said appropriation shall not be paid, but said state shall be allowed interest there-