Muskogee Cimeter
Thursday, March 8, 1906
Muskogee, Oklahoma
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The Muskogee Cimeter.
DELEGATE CONVENTION IS CALLED FOR MARCH 20
The city Republican central committee met Wednesday night at the office of A. Kayser in the Spaulding building. Two committeeemen were elected to fill the vacancies caused by the resignation of J. H. Davis and John G. Lieber and the committee authorized Chairman Estes to call a delegate convention on March 20.
Each committeeman is authorized to call a ward caucus in his respective ward.
As the central committee now stands it is composed of the following:
First Ward—Myron White and T. H. Martin.
Second Ward—A. Kayser and W. H. Davidson.
Third Ward--A. S. McRea and A. Z. English.
Fourth Ward--A. G. W. Sango and Frank W. Reid,
J. W. McKinney is still Grand Master of the Masons of the state of Texas and the letter published in Hume's sheetlet is an attempt to perpetrate a fraud upon the people here. This is in keeping with their former acts. We have a letter from Dr. B. R. Bluett of Dallas Grand Treasurer that bears out our statement.
There were quite a number of favorable comments on the able article from the pen of Mrs. E. D. Nickens that appeared in our last issue. We desire to thank Mrs. Nickens for the favor of the article anc extend to her and the other ladies of our city an envitation to write for the "Great Religeous Weekly" The Cimeter.
And they do say that All Vacant Jones like the Arab "Has folded his tent in the night and stolen away" And the fraudulent Mason's are sad.
Humes the wild broncho from Texas and old affidavit Taylor are making hurculean efforts to break into the Democratic Camp, so it seems to us at this end of the street.
There are letters on our Desk from the Grand Treas., of Texas and Grand Sect. of the Masonic Grand Lodge of that state that bear us out in the statement that the Maconic Frauds and their dupes are common ordinary prevarcators. How does this suit Wild Broncho Humes.
Muskogee, I.T., Thursday, March 8, 1906.
WOMAN RAPS EDITOR FORTUNE.
We have been asked why some one of the Negro men sitting two Sundays ago on the platform with tom dixon, didn't knock the vile, slanderous, lying words back down his throat when he said—"No white man ever assaults a Negro woman; assault implies resistance; no Negro woman know what virtue is." If this villainous remark had been made in the presence of Negro women, he would have received such a thrashing as the "clansman" gave Negroes in reconstruction days.
If Negro men are not courageous enough to defend their women—then the women must defend themselves—St. Luke Herald-Boston Guardian.
Tom Dixon and his ike of white men judge all Negro women by the class that they use as willing tools. It is a lasting shame that there are a few Negro women as beastly as are their white paramours who give color to the accusation that "No Negre woman knows what vertue is." The white man who makes the assertion knows that he is telling an infernal lie as black as hell and the Negro woman who gives him the right to utter the lie be she married or single is unworthy of the lowest place in the region of the damned.
ELK PIN ON NEGRO.
South McAlester Elks are considerably wrought up over the appearance of a Negro hotel waiter on the streets wearing an Elk button on the lapel of his coat. An investigation proved the Negro bore a card from the "Improved Order of Elks at Dallas, a Negro organization. A similar lodge has been founded at Muskogee. South McAlester Elks have served notice on the waiter to discard the button which is the regulation design of the white order. New State Tribune.
The above shows that the white man can't get away from his black brother. We get our civilization from them and are keeping up with the game. They organize and we follow suit.
Read the Cimeter, the leading weekly newspaper in the Indian territory, and one that fights the battle of the race. It should be in every negro home.
Negroes are not looking for social equality. If they want to marry a white man's daughter, they can do so without getting outside of race lines. If they want a white man's son the same thing holds good.
Carroll, the pretended Grand Master of Masons, has been deposed and another selected. There are many innocent men who have been misled by the frauds and they should be taken care of and will be. Carroll plead his ignorance in open court at Wagoner, and surely intelligent men will not follow an ignoramus who admits his ignorance to the world.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 20, 1906.--According to the decision of the Executive Peoples' Christian and Educational Congress, which met in Washington last week, and of which Bishop W. J. Gaines is Chairman, the second quaddrennial session of the Congress will be held in Washington, D. C., July 3-8, inclusive. The Congress is a union of all denominations and agencies doink work among our people, and seeks to emphasize the necessity of a Christian life among our young people, to unify all interests involving essentials, to create sentiment in favor of the negro, and to raise sufficient funds to employ a representative, whose one particular business it will be to keep the bright side of the race question to the front.
All denominations and agencies were represented at the Atlanta meeting, at which time there were more than eight thousand people present. It is the purpose to carry more than ten thousand people to Washington, who will have an eye single to the welfare of the race. All ministers, teachers and others interested in the Christian and Educational development of our young people are urged to become active in this cause. Full information can be had by addressing Dr. I. Garland Penn, Corresponding Secretary, South Atlanta, Ga. HORACE SLATER.
For Sale or Exchange.
A splendid piano, nearly new. Wiil sell for cash or exchange for city property. Instrument is worth $500. Call on Mrs. Della Richardson, 623 Howard street, or write ... M. Logan, Rush Springs, I. T.
Mr. Crum Island lost his dwelling house and all household goods by fire on Feb. 28th. Loss, $1500, insurance $800. Mr. Island lives about five miles west of the city and is one of our industrious and progressive farmers. The fire is supposed to have originated from the explosion of a lamp.
Mr. Horace Hoskins one of the men whom the Sheriff wanted to take back to Arkan saw died on Wednesday as a result of the bother and worry incident to the trial. It is sad to see the wrecking of a good man (for Hoskins was a good man) over a two bit scalawag.
No 25
PERCIVAL ADAMS.
Attorney Percival Adams has in this issue announced himself as a candidate for the Republican nomination as City Attorney Mr. Adams is a lawyer of extensive experience, and has acquired quite a good practice since locating in this city.
Prior to his coming to Muskogee he practiced his profession in the city of St. Louis, and now residing in Muskogee and who were well acvuainted with him in St. Louis, testify to his high standing socially, at the bar, and to his staunch Republicanism. In the case of the State of Missouri vs. Charles Dreher, Division No. 2, Jan. 19, 1697 the Supreme Court of Missouri paid a lasting tribute to Mr. Adams' ability as a lawyer, and in the case of the State of Missouri, Scales vs. Zacritz, Judge, Supreme Court Div. No. 2, June 28, 1898, Mr. Adams procured a decision which forever in Missouri sets at rest the motled question of a defendant's right, when he makes an oath of insolvency, to have a complete transcript of the evidence adduced in the trial for the purpose of an appeal, free of charge.
The case of the State of Missouri vs. Scales, was where a colored man was charged with a criminal assault upon the daughter of one of the most prominent lawyers in St. Louis, was of an aggravated character, in its details, and caused more feeling than any case that had been tried in the famous Four Courts. means, and the feeling against him was so strong that he could not get an attorney. Mr. Adams, at the behest of several colored people volunteerer his services, and battled for the man's life, and in this he succeeded, the verdict being 99 years. A clear alibi had been proven but the jury had not the manhod to withstand public sentiment, and while voting for a conviction would not impose the death penalty, although Mr. Adams demanded that or nothing in his address to the jury.
When an appeal was applied for the Judge (Zacrits) who tried the case, refused to let Scales have the paying an impossible (to Scales) sum for it. A Mandamus was applied for in the Supreme Court compelling the Judge to let Scales have the evidence, and the Judge was ordered to supply it. The case was then appealed to the Supreme Court but Scales died before a decision.
In connection with this case it may be stated that the Judge who tried this case was elected by a large majority, but for his rulings in that case although nominated by his white friends in the next convention he was badly beaten at the polls. When he heard of his defeat he remarked that it was the colored people getting even with him for his rulings in the Scales case, and this was true for in St Louis a candidate cannot be elected without the colored vote.
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Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W.
GROVE'S signature is on each box. 25c.
Too Cheap.
An Omaha man who claims he can live on nine cents a day has received hundreds of letters from women who want to marry him. This seems to prove the statement that there are a great many women in this country who would be glad to marry if they could afford to support a husband. Many of these women presumably earn almost enough to warrant them in securing one of these luxuries, and a man who can be fed for 63 cents a week, or something like $2.50 a month, strongly appeals to them. At the same time a 9-cent a day man seems to be too much of a bargain to be really attractive to the careful purchaser.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Pressure of Natural Gas.
The natural gas wells which have yielded the greatest amount of gas and shown the most tremendous force in its outrush have revealed a pressure of about 650 pounds to the square inch on the rock confining the gas.
Shed Antlers Once a Year.
Deer shed their antlers once a year, about midwinter. Ascertaining the age of a deer by their antlers is rather uncertain.
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If afflicted with
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WORST FORM OF ECZEMA.
Black Splotches All Over Face—Affected Parts Now Clear as Ever—
"About four years ago I was afflicted with black splotches all over my face and a few covering my body, which produced a severe itching irritation, and which caused me a great deal of annoyance and suffering, to such an extent that I was forced to call in two of the leading physicians of my town. After a thorough examination of the dreaded complaint they announced it to be skin eczema in its worst form. They treated me for the same for the length of one year, but the treatment did me no good. Finally my husband purchased a set of the Cuticura Remedies, and after using the contents of the first bottle of Cuticura Resolvent in connection with the Cuticura Soap and Ointment, the breaking out entirely stopped. I continued the use of the Cuticura Remedies for six months, and after that every splotch was entirely gone and the affected parts were left as clear as ever. The Cuticura Remedies not only cured me of that dreadful disease, eczema, but other complicated troubles as well. Lizzie E. Sledge, 540 Jones Ave., Selma, Ala. Oct. 28, 1905."
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Mrs. Eula Preslad,
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SWINGING ROCK FIRMLY FIXED.
South American Natural Wonder Defied Dictator of Argentina.
One of the strangest of natural wonders of South America, is the swinging rock of Tandil (La piedra movediza), says the Philadelphia Record. The stone lies about half an hour's walk from the city of Tandil, province of Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, upon the highest summit of a little rocky ridge. When seen from the ravine it has the form of a giant pyramid, while from another view it resembles an enormous cone. It is twenty-one feet long and twenty-eight feet high, and its weight is judged to be about 12,500 hundredweight, or about 627 tons. From the distance the stone presents a peculiar aspect. It is so highly poised on the rocky slope that it seems as if we were watching a stone roll down the hill and resting for a second upon a very small base. But when we approach this swinging rock we are astonished by a new wonder. We can set the stone in motion by merely pushing it with the hand. Very often the traveler is spared even the trouble of pushing the stone, as the wind will cause it to swing.
Early in the nineteenth century the Argentine Republic was ruled by the dictator Rosa with unparalleled cruelty for about twenty-five years. To show his supreme power the tyrant ordered that the stone be encircled with ropes and many horses to be harnessed to these ropes—but the stone could not be moved one inch from its resting place.
Long Time Building Memorial.
The Rev. Henry Francis Lyte, whose hymn, "Abide With Me," is one of the most precious to Christian hearts, was vicar of Lower Brixham. Thirty years ago an attempt was made to rebuild the old church as a memorial to him. Some progress was accomplished, and now a final effort is being made to finish the tower.
Don't Worry.
Learn to take things as they are marked on the calendar of life. Remember that it is not to-morrow that you will live, but it is to-day that you are living.
Everything Worn.
"And you still delay the wedding," sighed the beautiful girl. "My heart is worn out."
"Is that all?" demanded the suitor who was an advocate of procrastination.
"No, the carpet is worn out, the parlor sofa is worn out, ma's hopes are worn out and pa's patience is worn out."
The suitor whistled.
"Well, by gum!" he retaliated. "My shoes are worn out coming here every two or three nights."
Haakon and the Hawkinses.
You pronounce the double "aa" in Haakon like "aw" in "awful" and the "laf" in Olaf as "laugh." The two names fall on the ear as "Hawkin" and "O-laugh." The numerous Hawkinses are descended from marauding crews of Northmen who flew on their flat bottomed boats not the raven but the hawk flag.—London Truth.
A Veiled Boast.
"What do you think? Young Softed, who is a laughing stock among the girls, says he can marry to-morrow any woman he pleases."
"That's right."
"You don't believe such egregious vanity as that, do you?"
"It's the truth. You see, he doesn't please any."
Magnificent Ornament.
In Leipzic is a lady who possesses a peacock brooch, the tail of which is set with stones colored in exact imitation of that of a real peacock. The tail distends or closes at the owner's will.
A PERFECT HAND.
How Its Appearance Became Familiar to the Public.
The story of how probably the most perfect feminine hand in America became known to the people is rather interesting.
As the story goes the possessor of the hand was with some friends in a photographer's one day and while talking, held up a piece of candy. The pose of the hand with its perfect contour and faultless shape attracted the attention of the artist who proposed to photograph it. The result was a beautiful picture kept in the family until one day, after reading a letter from someone inquiring as to who wrote the Postum and Grape-Nuts advertisements, Mr. Post said to I's wife, "We receive so many inquiries of this kind, that it is evident some people are curious to know, suppose we let the advertisising department have that picture of your hand to print and name it "A Helping Hand." (Mrs. Post has assisted him in preparation of some of the most famous advertisements).
There was a natural shrinking from the publicity, but with an agreement that no name would accompany the picture its use was granted. The case was presented in the light of extending a welcoming hand to the friends of Postum and Grape-Nuts, so the picture appeared on the back covers of many of the January and February magazines and became known to millions of people. Many artists have commented upon it as probably the most perfect hand in the world.
The advertising dept. of the Postum Co. did not seem able to resist the temptation to enlist the curiosity of the public, by refraining from giving the name of the owner when the picture appeared but stated that the name would be given later in one of the newspaper announcements, thus seeking to induce the readers to look for and read the forthcoming advertisements to learn the name of the owner.
This combination of art and commerce and the multitude of inquiries furnishes an excellent illustration of the interest the public takes in the personal and family life of large manufacturers whose names become household words through extensive and continuous announcements in newspapers and periodicals.
DAZED WITH PAIN.
The Sufferings of a Citizen of Olympia, Wash.
L. S. Gorham, of 516 East 4th St., Olympia, Wash., says: "Six years ago I got wet and took cold, and was soon flat in bed, suffering tortures with my back. Every movement caused an agonizing pain, and the persistence of it exhausted me, so that for a time I was dazed and stupid. On the advice of a friend I began using Doan's Kidney Pills, and soon noticed a change
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for the better. The kidney secretions had been disordered and irregular, and contained a heavy sediment, but in a week's time the urine was clear and natural again and the passages regular. Gradually the aching and soreness left my back and then the lameness. I used six boxes to make sure of a cure, and the trouble has never returned." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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Fast Color Eyelens used; they will not wear brassy.
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160 ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Means a productive capacity in dollars of over $16 per acre. This on land which has cost the farmer nothing but the price of tilling it, tells its own story. The Canadian Government gives absolutely free to every settler 160 acres of such land. Lands adjoining can be purchased at from $6 to $10 per acre from railroad and other corporations. Already 175,000 farmers from the United States have made their homes in Canada.
For pamphlet "Twentieth Century Canada" and all information apply to Supt. of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to following authorized Canad an Government Agent—J. S. Crawford, No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kapsas City, Missouri. (Mention this paper.)
No matter what experience has shown, there will always be some women who believe that they must, at least once a month, bear the burden of PAIN, as a part of woman's lot. They must, if sick. If well, not. Periodical pain is a sign of functional disease,—a cry of your nerves for help. To strengthen and restore the diseased organs to health, take
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It was a lecture on health, delivered before a roomful of working girls. The word oxygen had been used. Immediately one of the girls rattled out glibly: "I know—oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen." "Well, what do you know about them?" asked the nurse. "Oh, I dunno nothin' about 'em, but we learnt 'em at school." was the answer.
For inactive Liver, Billiousness and general depression of the system, I find Simmons' Liver Purifier (tin boxes) acts like a charm. You are well almost before you realize you have been doctoring, so gentle, yet effective is its action."
Felix Zeigler,
Mountain View, O. T.
Tin boxes only; 25c.
London Gas Companies.
The population within the London postal district is supplied with gas by eleven companies, and among them they supply 43,897,099,000 cubic feet of gas 945,177 consumers.
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, New York, cure Feverishness, Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders, Break up Colds and Destroy Worms. At all Druggists', 25c. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.
When a girl is addressed by her father or her brothers, how she drops that startled fawn look.
Taylor'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 druggists, 25c., 50c. and $1.00 per bottle.
If money could stick to one's descendants the way red hair does, everybody would be rich.
Lewis' Single Binder — the famous straight 5c cigar, always best quality. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill.
Surely the man who deceives himself is an easy mark for other deceivers.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle.
A cunning man is seldom wise and never honest.
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A Desperately Serious Case Cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.
Brought to the very verge of starvation by the rejection of all nourishment, her vitality almost destroyed, the recovery of Mrs. J. A. Wyatt, of No. 1189 Seventh street, Des Moines, Iowa, seemed hopeless. Her physicians utterly failed to reach the seat of the difficulty and death must have resulted if she had not pursued an independent course suggested by her sister's experience.
Mrs. Wyatt says: "I had pain in the region of the heart, palpitation and shortness of breath so that I could not walk very fast. My head ached very badly and I was seized with vomiting spells whenever I took any food. A doctor was called who pronounced the trouble gastritis, but he gave me no relief. Then I tried a second doctor without benefit. By this time I had become very weak. I could not keep the most delicate broth on my stomach, and at the end of a month I was scarcely more than skin and bone and was really starving to death.
"Then I recalled how much benefit my sister had got from Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and decided to take them in place of the doctor's medicine. It proved a wise decision for they helped me as nothing else had done. Soon I could take weak tea and crackers and steadily more nourishment. In two weeks I was able to leave my bed. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills were the only thing that checked the vomiting and as soon as that was stopped my other difficulties left me. I have a vigorous appetite now and am able to attend to all the duties of my home. I praise Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People to all my friends because I am thoroughly convinced of their merit."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all druggists and by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N.Y.
The women do love a man who never gets so hungry that he doesn't demand a piece of green weed or a flower to garnish b' meat.
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Patience—Just as he was about to propose I took the down pillow and threw it at my feet for him to kneel on.
Patrice—That was a bad break.
"How so?"
"Why, it looked as if you were throwing him down."
Pays for False Advertising.
Leo Cohn, a merchant of Spandau, Germany, advertised the sale of a stock of goods at less than half cost. A buyer proved that more than half the cost price had been charged for an article he had bought, and the merchant was fined $45.
500 LOTS FOR SALE! CARNARD ADDITION
We made the blocks larger than usual, we believe most persons purchasing a home this distance would want at least three or four acres : : : :
Fiftee minutes walk to street ear line. The first street running north and south, is 30th St. The first street running east and west, is Okmulgee. Then Broadway, etc.
CHECOTAH ITEMS.
The school question is up again before the colored people. About two years ago the people here voted for schol house for the white chanen and one for the colored children. So the white school building was completed and occupied January 1st, 1906, with a cost of $1,700.00 and the colored school is not completed and not occupied with costof about $600.00. That is a very bad showing for the tax paying colored people. With the 1000 to 2000 head of cattle being fed within about fifty fet of the school building. It is dangerous for the children to be at school. The cattle are liable to stomp and break out of the pen and get away, and should the children be at recess or going home at the time this occurs their lives would be in danger. Think over the situation.
Rev. J. W. Cole of Eufaula was a pleasant visitor in our town Monday. Rev. Cole likes the town of Checotah much better than Eufaula.
Rev. S. D. Brown left Monday night for Ardmore, I. T., to attend conference.
Mr. G. W. Hunt is subscriber for the Cimeter.
Mrs. Robert Yates died on the 6th inst. Mrs. Yates was a good and religious woman and was loved by all who knew her. She bore a reputation that was pleasing to God and her friends. Her last words to her husband were."do not wep, I am going home to rest."
Mr. Sam Love is on the sick list this week.
Mr. Lum Hemmett was at Muskogee Monday to appear before Judge Lawrence.
Mrs. Fannie Love was in Muskogee last week on legal business.
Mr. George Moore, better known as "Banker George," is putting lumber on the ground for his new residence.
Mr. Wiley Bugg seems to have some very bad customers.
Mr. James Egle came near losing his eye by a hungry friend, and Mr. Nick Rogers came near losing his finger by his near friend. Mr. Bugg is a good chile maker and it is wise not to tackle some of the boys—you
500 LOTS
CARNARD
A
We made the blocks large
most persons purchasing a
want at least three or four
To the City of
120 acres platted into
kogee. North of
Fiftee minutes wall
The first street running n
The first street running ea
Then Broadway, etc,
This is handsome pr
WARRANTEE DEE
For further information, call on
J. B. McC
Muskogee, I. T.
Official Statement of
Commercial
Muskogee, Ind.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $712,003 95
Overdrafts, cotton, 25,989 61
Bonds and Preuiums, 206'080 49
Furniture and Fixtures 7,985 11
Cash and Exchange 189,093 48
$1,141,152 64
The above statement is correct
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are liable to get bit.
Mr. M. Ruler is stil selling that tonic and linament. Cal and see her, she has a good supply on hand.
Mr. James Humett is all full of smiles because there is a new arrival at his house.
Mrs. Collin, Temple and Perry attended the funeral of Mrs. Yates on the 6th inst at Honey Springs.
Don't forget to see Temple when you want your name in the Cimeter.
ALDERSON, I.T.
The Cimeter:
Dear Sir and Editor:
Allow us a space in your paper concerning town of which we are very much interested in and that is Red Bird, I. T. We have not very much to say other than what has been said, so far as we came from the east and have traveled very much in the southwest, and a portion in the Indian Territory especially, why we have not heard of found a better place for the negro to exercise his business faculties, in morals and intelligence anyway. Friends, Red Bird is the coming town in an ideal country, practically the promised lane while this may be a very bold saying, but it is true. Now there are many who have lived in our presence and have bought shares in Red Bird are eagerly and patiently waiting for sale day, so they may begin at once. So now, colored friends, do not be slow taking hold of a good opportunity while it is handed out to you. Now take simple advice. Our present home is at Alderson, Choctaw Nation, Ind. Ter., but hope to be in Red Bird in the Creek Nation soon. Yours for the town.
S. ABNERNATHY, Box 114. E. WALTERS, Box 121.
Wiley Jones and Grayson have opened a First Class Cafe short order--South Second St. in the Jones Building. We solicit the patornage of every body. You will be served on quick notice.
FOR SALE!
NO ADDITION
Larger than usual, we believe
in home this distance would
acres : : : :
Muskogee.
Town lots==West Mus=
Okmulgee Road.
To street ear line.
North and south, is 30th St.
West and west, is Okmulgee.
Property for residence.
—TITLE PERFECT.
or write
OLLOCH,
Real Estate and Notary Public,
the Condition of the
Nation'l Bank,
Indian Territory,
LIABILITIES
Capital $200,000 00
Surplus and Profit 21,572 39
Circulation 150,000 00
Deposits 759,530 25
$1,141,152 64
D N FINK, Cashier.
DOUGLAS
Douglas the New Negro Town, Located Nine Miles North East of
in the Chickasaw Nation, I. T. Will be opened on the 20th day of March, 1906.
Come, Come, Come.
Douglas is an ideal location. In a rich farming country, tember, water, plenty to make a town attractive. NOW is the time for the NEGRO to get him a home.
LOTS WILL DOUBLE THEIR VALUE IN 12 MONTHT
For further information write. RICHARD SPARKS, Pauls Valley, Ind. Ter.
Grocery Co.
in their own building. They can
want in the Grocery line at prices
2nd ST. PHONE 912.
ORCE $1.606.500.00
BENEFIT SOCIETY
BINGTON D. C.
Afficiary Society. Incorporated under
Passed by act of Congress.
Pays to Its members from $2.00 to $10.00
$2.50 to $12.50 Per week in case of of an
your HEIRS at death.
Paid Promptly and in full,
whom Liberal tearms are offered.
Depty Genl' Organizer for Ind. Ter.
one 594 Dr, Boston Hill's office and
ESTES
School Books and
ONERY.
in Street.
The Canadian Valley Trust
Company
Is located on South 2nd St. in their own building. They can fill your order for anything you want in the Grocery line at prices that can't be duplicated. Number 304 SOUTH 2nd ST. PHONE 912.
INSURANCE IN FORCE$1.606.500.00 THE ROYAL BENEFIT SOCIETY
A Leading Fraternal Beneficiary Society. Incorporated under the Laws of the United States, Passed by act of Congress. Insure women as well as men. Pays to Its members from $2.00 to $10.00 Per week in case of sickness. From $2.50 to $12.50 Per week in case of of an accident. Pay $100.00 to $1.000.00 to your HEIRS at death
GOOD Agents are wanted to whom Liberal tearms are offered. Write-James W. Brown, Depty Genl' Organizer for Ind. Ter. Office 3041 South 2nd St. Phone 594 Dr, Boston Hill's office and Room 311 Iowa Building.
Has a number of applicants who desire to rent houses. Owners of three, four, five and six room houses can secure desirable tenants by listing their property with us.
REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT
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Muskogee Cimeter.
W. H, TWINE, Editor,
MUSKOGEE, - ~- _ IND. TER.
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INDIAN TERRITORY NOTES.
Muskogee has ordered a new
new engine house,
South McAlester is figuring on
five new school buildings,
BYOC ROW SCHOU! VULGINES,
Tixhoma, Okla., is to have a new
bank with $10,000 capital stock.
Tulsa has voted $25,000 bonds to
complete their new school buildings.
Tulsa defeated a $75,000 sewer
bond proposition at a special elec:
tion held recently.
The postoffice at Muskogee is now
among whe first class, such rating
commenced March Ist.
Checotah {s third in the territory
as a cotton market, having received
4,474 bales last season.
Muskogee has bidders’ figures on
an I. O. O. F. building to be of brick
and stone and of fine architectura)
appearance,
Over 1,000 acres of new land has
been ploughed in the neighborhood
of Elden. Many new settlers are
moving in,
The Frisco ts handling consider-
able walnut lumber and three or
four cars are hauled out almost ev-
ery day.
‘The extension of one year to give
the Indians a chance to settle up
tribal affairs does not include the
tribal tax on merchants.
A “good roads” meeting will be
held at Tulsa March 26. The rail-
roads will make rates for 100 miles
and able speakers will be present.
Interurban roads are getting pret-
ty thick in the territory, and ere
long the Indian can get out of his
tepee and go to town for a nickel.
The statehood bill is to have a
vote by the senate March 9. The
proposition was made by Senator
Beveridge and met with little oppo-
sition,
News from several points in the
territory indicate farmers are break-
ing away from cotton planting and
are going in for corn, oats and po-
tatoes,
The Muskogee Excelsior and Box
Manufacturing company now have
ten large excelsior mach{nes at
work, and turn out tons of a super-
jor article each day.
J. Frank Redd, principal of the
Jefferson school of Muskogee, has
been appointed supervisor of the
Cherokee schools to succeed B, F.
Coppeck, Who resigned some time
ago,
The independents are making
Preparations to take care of their
own oil, In the Osage part of the
field three tanks are under construc-
tion and will hold 65,000 barrels
each,
E. L. Stroud, a brakeman on the
Santa Fe was killed at Rock Creek.
While attempting to board a train
‘the missed his footing and fell into
the creek. Death resulted in a
short time.
Senator Stone of Missouri has in-
troduced a bill in the senate provid-
ing for the appropriation of $250,-
000 for a site and the erection of a
public building at Muskogee, Indian
Territory,
President J, B, McAlester of the
South Central league, issued a call
for a meeting at South McAlester
March 15 to complete organization
and set a date for the opening of
the learue.
SENATE PASSES
THE CURTIS BILL
Removes Some of the Restrictions
Placed Upon Ailottees
NOW READY FOR CONFERENCE
Extends Laws of Oklahoma Over
Indian Territory Relative to
Cities of the First Class
Washington, D. C.—The Curtis
bill, with the coal amendment cut
out, passed the senate Friday after
noon.
The bill providing for the settle-
ment of the five civilized tribes and
continuing the tribal government
also passed the senate and was sign-
ed by the president Saturday after-
noon,
The Curtis bill removes some of
the restrictions placed upon allot-
tees, extends laws of Oklahoma over
Indian Territory relating to city of
the first class, gives authority to
condemn land for power plants, pro-
hibits sale of coal and asphalt lands
and transfer suits from Indian te
United States courts,
The bill has passed both house
and senate, but as the senate amend-
ed it in many respects, it will now go
into conference. It is a general bill
for the adjustment of the affairs of
the Five Civilized Tribes upon their
abandonment of their tribal organi-
zations.
Following are the more Important
features of the Dill:
It requires the enrollment of mem-
bers of the Five Civilized Tribes by
March 4, 1907; fixes the rights of
Indian freedmen; continues in office
the present principal chief for execu-
tion of tribal deeds; transfers suits
from Indian to United States court;
authorizes the secretary of the inter-
ior to assume charge of and sell the
tribal buildings for the benefit of the
tribes; gives him control of schools
until a regular state or territorial
school system is adopted; prohibits
the sale of coal and asphalt lands
until after the expiration of the pres-
ent leases of those lands or until
authorized by law; authorizes the
secretary to sell the unallotted lands
for the benefit of the tribes; removes
some of the restrictions placed upon
allottees in the matter of the aliena-
tion of lands; authorizes sectional
line roads; gives authority to elec-
tnic roads and lights and power com-
panies to locate canals, reservoirs
and dams, extends some of the Ok-
lahoma laws to Indian Territory and
extends the present tribal relations
and government until March 4, 1907.
The conviction is daily growing
stronger that the senate will adopt
the Foraker amendment to the state-
hood bill, which refers the decision
whether Arizona and New Mexico
shall be admitted jointly as one state
to the voters of those territories.
Interest accordingly is centering
on the question, what reception the
amended bill will meet in the house
at the hands of the speaker and the
organization back of him, It was
said that the speaker had changed
his mind to entertain a motion to
concur in the senate amendment
when the bill passes the upper cham-
ber in its amended form and Dele-
gate McGuire and others are busy
today trying to effect a compromise
in the shape of a slight modification
of the Foraker amendment which
will make it acceptable to the house
managers,
Enough Said.
“Oh, yes, indeed,” said Mrs. Uppish,
who had once been a neighbor of Mrs.
Pepprey, “we're living in a much bet-
ter neighborhood now.”
“So are we,” replied Mrs, Pepprey.
“Oh, have you moved, too?”
“No, we're still living in the street
you moved away from.”
There Is None,
“There may be a better remedy for
cuts, burns, sprains, etc., than Hunt's
Lightning Oil, but if so, I have failed
to find !t. Used as directed it is
certainly very fine for catarrh also.”
R. V. Morris,
Scottsville, Ark.
Quoted to a Purpose.
The private secretary of the eml-
nent statesman dropped a polite note
to the railway magnate, suggesting
that the eminent statesman would be
pleased to be favored with an annual
pass. But the railway magnate, hav-
ing formulated a new policy and also
having some wit, returned the applica-
tion with a printed slip containing
the texts: “Suffer not a man to
pass,” and “So he paid the fare and
went.”
“I guess that will hold him,” chuck-
led the railway magnate.
But the private secretary of the
eminent statesman approached a
railway magnate who operated a par-
allel line, and soon was able to drop
a brief note to the first magnate. The
brief note consisted of the simple
text:
“And he passed by on the other
side.”
To Be Guarded Against.
As a bit of iron near the mariner's
compass will deflect the needle and
possibly cause the loss of the ship,
just so does some hidden element of
self-interest or some latent passion
commonly make shipwreck of human
reasoning.
‘Temper and Temperament.
The man who has been up against
both declares {t is easier to ive with
a woman of temper than one of tem-
perament.—New Orlean Picayune.
A NECESSARY EVIL.
Experience of a Minister Who Tried
to Think That of Coffee.
“A descendant of the Danes, a na-
tion of coffee drinkers, I used coffee
freely till I was 20 years old,” writes
a clergyman from Iowa. “At that time
I was a student at a Biblical Institute,
and suddenly became aware of the
fact that my nerves had become de-
moralized, my brain dull and sluggish
and that insomnia was fastening its
hold upon me.
“I was loath to believe that these
things came from the coffee I was
drinking, but at last was forced to
that conclusion, and quit it.
“I was so accustomed to a hot table
beverage and felt the need of it so
much, that after abstaining from cof-
fee for a time and recovering my
health, I went back to it. I did this
several times, but always with disas-
trous results. I had about made up
my mind that coffee was a necessary
evil,
“About this time a friend told me
that I would find Postum Food Cof-
fee very fine and in many respects
away ahead of coffee. So I bought
some and, making it very carefully
according to the directions, we were
delighted to find that he had not ex.
aggerated in the least. From that day
to this we have liked it better than
the old kind of coffee or anything else
in the way of a table drink.
“Its use gave me, in a very short
time, an increase in strength, clear-
ness of brain and steadiness of
nerves; and sleep, restful and restor-
ing, came back to me.
“I am thankful that we heard of
Postum and shall be glad to testify at
any time to the good it has done me.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
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Mrs. Mary Dimmick cf Washington tella
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It 1s with great pleasure we publish
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Dear Mrs, Pinkham:—
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Ireceived your kind letter and followed yore
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As Mrs. Dimmick says—itsaved herlife.
Mrs. Pinkham has on file thousands
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Says Our Prairies Will Be Filled Up In Ten Years.
L. A. Stockwell of Indianapolls, a United States land man who made an extensive tour of inspection in the west, wrote the following article, under date of Jan. 8, for an Indiana publication:
"States." In this letter I propose to show by extracts from my note book that thousands who have come up here from the "States" have succeeded far beyond their most sanguine expectations.
Mr. N. E. Beaumunk of Brazil, Indiana, was earning $100.00 per month with a coal company. At about the age of 40 he had saved about $3,000. Four years ago he landed near Hanley, Sask. He now owns 480 acres of land. Last fall (1905) he threshed 4,700 bushels of wheat and 3,100 bushels of oats. His wheat alone brought him over $4,000, which would have paid for the acres that it grew on. He is to-day worth $15,000.
This Is Making Money Fast.
In Feb. 1902, J. G. Smith & Bro. were weavers in a big cotton mill in Lancashire, England. Coming here they arrived in Wapella, Sask., with only $750.00 between them. They were so "green" and inexperienced that all they could earn the first summer was $6.00 per month, and the first winter they had to work for their board. The next year, 1903, they took homesteads, and by working for neighbors, they got a few acres broken out, upon which the next year they raised a few hundred bushels of wheat and oats. They also bought a team and broke out about sixty acres more. In 1905 they threshed 1700 bushels of wheat from it, and 1300 bushels of oats. Their success being then assured they borrowed some money, built a good house, barn and implement shed, and bought a cream separator, etc. They now have a dozen cows, some full-blooded pigs and chickens, good teams and implements to match, and are on the high road to prosperity. Here are three cases selected from my note book from among a score of others. One a mine boss, one a farmer, and one a factory operator. With each of them I took tea and listened to their story. "I hoped to better my condition," said one. "I thought in time I might make a home," said another. "I had high expectations," said the other, and all said that "I never dreamed it possible to succeed as I have."
Like Arabian Nights.
Everywhere, on the trains, at the hotels and in the family I have been told successes that reminded me more of the stories in the Arabian Nights than of this matter-of-fact workaday world. Yields of wheat from 35 to 53 bushels per acre, and of oats of from 60 to 100 bushels, are numerous in every locality and well authenticated. At Moose Jaw, Lethbridge, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Brandon, Hanley and many intermediate places I saw cattle and young horses fat as our grain-fed animals of the "States" that had never tasted grain, and whose cost to their owners was almost nothing. At Moosomin I saw a train load of 1,400 steers en route to England, that were shaky fat, raised as above stated. If the older generation of farmers in Indiana, who have spent their lives in a contest with logs and stumps as did their fathers before them, could see these broad prairies dotted with comfortable homes, large red barns, and straw piles innumerable, and the thriving towns with their towering elevators jammed to the roof with "No. 1 hard," and then remember that four or five years ago these plains were tenantless but for the badger and coyote, they would marvel at the transformation. Then if they followed the crowds as they emerged from the trains and hurried to the land offices, standing in line until their respective turns to
be waited on came, and saw with what rapidity these lands are being taken, they would certainly catch the "disease" and want some of it too. If these lands are beautiful in midwinter, with their long stretches of yellow stubble standing high above the snow, what must they be in summer time when covered with growing or ripening grains? Speaking of winter reminds me that our Hoosier friends shrug their shoulders when they read in the Chicago and Minneapolis dailies of the temperature up here. For that very reason I am here this winter. The Canadian literature, with its pictures, half tones and statistics, gives a good idea of her resources, but thirty or forty degrees below zero sounds dangerous to a Hoozier, who nearly freezes in a temperature of five above, especially when accompanied by a wind, as it often is, but the fact is, when it is very cold here it is still and the air being dry the cold is not felt as it is in our lower latitudes, where there is more humidity in the atmosphere. I am 56 and I er saw a finer winter than the one I am spending up here. I arrived in Winnipeg Nov. 9, and have not had the bottoms of my overshoes wet since I entered Canada. Under a cloudless sky I have ridden in sleighs nearly a thousand miles, averaging a drive every other day. Stone masons have not lost a week's time so far this winter. Building of all kinds goes right ahead in every city and hamlet, as though winter were never heard of.
Information concerning homestead lands in Western Canada can be had from any authorized Canadian Government Agent whose advertisement appears elsewhere in this paper.
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Adversity sometimes transforms a coward into a hero.
DIED SUDDENLY
OF HEART DISEASE.
How frequently does a head line similar to the above greet us in the newspapers. The rush, push and strenuousness of the American people has a strong tendency to lead up to valvular and other affections of the heart, attended by irregular action, palpitation, dizziness, smothered sensations and other distressing symptoms.
Three of the prominent ingredients of which Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is made are recommended by some of the leading writers on Materia Medica for the cure of just such cases. Golden Seal root, for instance, is said by the UNITED STATES DISPENSATORY, a standard authority, "to impart tone and increased power to the heart's action." Numerous other leading authorities represent Golden Seal as an unsurpassed tonic for the muscular system in general, and as the heart is almost wholly composed of muscular tissue, it naturally follows that it must be greatly strengthened by this superb, general tonic. But probably the most important ingredient of "Golden Medical Discovery," so far as its marvelous cures of valvular and other affections of the heart are concerned, is Stone root, or Collinsonia Can., Prof. Wm. Paine, author of Paine's Epitomy of Medicine, says of it:
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Stone root is also recommended by Drs. Hale and Ellingwood, of Chicago, for valvular and other diseases of the heart. The latter says: "It is a heart tonic of direct and permanent influence."
"Golden Medical Discovery," not only cures serious heart affections, but is a most efficient general tonic and invigorator, strengthening the stomach, invigorating the liver, regulating the bowels and curing catarrh; affections in all parts of the system.
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Maybe if women had talking circles they would do some sewing.
Limited territory only left. Our list of special representatives is nearly complete. Answers must reach us immediately, with best of references. H. S. HOWLAND, I Madison Avenue, New York City.
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The immoral teacher and immoral preacher must go. They are twin evils and should go to the twin hells.
And they have a Riot gun at the U. S. Jail for reporters and mobs. (so says the Democrat) According to the Democrat the reporter and the mob are in the same class.
Our people should remember that a good rousing, safe Republican majority at this election will go a long ways toward sounding the death knell of that pet scheme of the Democracy to establish Jim Crow coaches and other Jim Crow laws in the new state.
Thirty business men left the city Tuesday morning for a trip down the Arkansas river to Ft. Smith, on a business tour. They will impress all the towns along the route that Muskogee is a good town to trade with and no doubt make trip a profitable one for all concerned.
The Blade with Humes et all have exploited themselves to a Queenes Taste on the Masonic condition and have satisfied themselves that the Masonic frauds on the north side are "It" They have rushed into print with a letter from Texas, that says nothing and means nothing. The frauds are still frauds.
Time is proving that the Republicans have perfect harmony while the enemy are at war among themselves. The multiplicity of candidates among the Democrats is a great deal worse than the lack of aspirants in our camp. We have just enough and they have too many.
We hope to see the different Wards send their very best men to the convention. This will mean that only the very best men will be selected as candidates and that a ticket that
will win will be selected. This the party demands and will be satisfied with nothing less.
The white men and Negro women who stroll to the First Baptist Church after night to practice social equality must find other localites or they will see their names in cold type. One of the members have taken their names and will give them out unless a halt is called at once.
If Congress will just let us dam the Grand River we will accomplish that duty on short notice and proceed to dam common ordinary street corner loafer who needs it equally as bad as we need to dam the river.
The political preacher is doing some fine side stepping, just now he is planing a charge on the Democrat sack and organizing a foraging expedition on the Republican bread wagon.
The Cimeter is reaching all parts of the South and we are glad to see our people turning their attention to the Territory Every day brings mail asking about the price of city and country property and day by day the new corner is locating a home for himself and family. This is well and we bid others come and do likewise.
Now is the time for our people to come and locate in this Territory. Come before it is too late. Come and buy a home in a free country. If you cant buy 80 acres, buy 40 if not that then 20 if not that then 5 or even one but by all means buy a home. If you don't want a home don't come, we need no drones, we have enough of them now and want the present Crop to die out. White people with a few hundred dollars come here and get a start in life, then why not the black man do the same thing. Don't wait until the procession passes by and then come laging on but get in the game now and help make it interesting. Do you catch our meaning?
Our City Central Committee has held a meeting and ordered that a convention be held on March 20th at which time a Republican ticket will be put in the field. We regret that our leaders have seen fit to let the Democrats take the lead in this matter but they possibly know best and we bow in submission to the dictates of our leaders.
It is not out of place howeven to say that as we are the dominant party we should take the lead and get in the game first; However all is well that ends well.
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At the age of 80, Mrs. Ann E. Gridley, mother of the famous captain to whom Admiral Dewey gave the order, "You may begin firing when you get ready, Gridley," and grandmother of Lieut. John P. V. Gridley, killed two years ago by the explosion on the battleship Missouri, is regularly at work as a clerk in the land office, a subdivision of the department of the interior, at Washington.
Mrs. Gridley has worked for the government, almost continuously, for thirty years. Her salary is $900 a year.
Mrs. Gridley came to Washington from Michigan shortly after the war. Her husband was Frank Gridley of Hillsdale, Mich. He had been engaged in mercantile pursuits before the war, but he became a confirmed invalid and Mrs. Gridley sought employment and supported both for many years. She has one son, Lucius E. Gridley, for years an employee of the treasury department, with whom she lives.
Mrs. Gridley has a pension of $20 a month, granted her on account of her services as nurse during the civil war. President Roosevelt has taken a personal interest in Mrs. Gridley, and has recommended that congress pass a bill increasing her pension to $100 a month, which would enable her to resign from office and take a few years' rest.
The prize money to which Capt. Gridley was entitled as a result of the captures in Manila bay, amounting to nearly $10,000, went, with the insurance and pension, to his widow, who resides in Erie, Pa. The latter also received the insurance, etc., after the death of her son, the young lieutenant who was killed on the Missouri.
Capt. Gridley's remains were cremated in Manila, and no monument has been erected to commemorate him or his bravery in the national cemetery at Arlington, though there is also a bill for this purpose pigeonholed somewhere in some capitol committee room.
Elaborate tests have been made at many of the stations, particularly in the East and the South, in order to determine the value of the worthlessness of soil fertilizers, says the American Illustrated Magazine. While the use of bacteria for inoculation may ultimately do away with all need of fertilization, yet large amounts are still spent upon commercial fertilizers, and it will probably be some time before they shall be all abandoned. In fact, something like $50,000,000 is annually out by the farmers of the United States for fertilizers.
It is unquestionably true that much fraud has been practiced upon the farmers in this direction. In New Jersey the station showed the farmers that by clubbing together and purchasing the raw material of which the fertilizers are composed they could save from 25 to 45 per cent. The estimated saving in cost to the farmers of the state by this one feature alone is from $75,000 to $100,000 per year. This station has also demonstrated the special food needs of certain plants, showing the farmer what particular
"Yes, Mrs. Jillup," says the man who has been on a long tour, "I saw the place where your son lives."
"Tell me about it," says the fond old mother. "I have never been to visit him, but he always writes me that he is very successful in life."
"Well, he lives in a big place, surrounded by a high stone wall, with iron gates."
"What do you mean?" whispers the old mother.
"And the house where he lives is
"My work is very pleasant here," said Mrs. Gridley. "I have little writing now to do, and spend most of my time arranging documents alphabetically and numerically. Long practice has given me quite a bit of skill in this line.
"Everybody is very considerate and
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kind. Sometimes I think it would be restful if I could afford to go and pay a few visits, and see my relatives and friends. That is where that increase of pension would come in handy. But I am more anxious that they build a suitable monument to my son in Arlington. That is really a grief to me."
type of fertilizer was needed for a given crop. Instead of purchasing manures from New York and Philadelphia for fertilizing sweet potato ground, as had been the custom, the station advised a combination of various fertilizers as likely to give the precise food the sweet potato needed to bring about the most satisfactory results. More than 20,000 acres of ground in New Jersey are given up to the cultivation of the sweet potato, and the cost of production has thus been lessened by from $5 to $10 per acre, making an annual saving of nearly or quite $200,000.
In this station, as in many other stations, the information given the farmers in the way of methods of preventing insect pests results in a saving of thousands of dollars a year. Without the aid of the stations, orchards and vegetable tracts as well, indeed, in some cases entire field crop areas would be destroyed. It is this constant searching for the negative advantages, so to call them, that marks one of the most significant functions of the stations.
made of stone also. You cannot get inside at all without explaining the nature of your call to a man in uniform who stands at the door."
Here the old'mother begins weeping silently.
"Why do you weep. Mrs. Jillup?"
"Alas, you cannot conceal the truth from me, gently as you try to break it. My son is in prison."
It requires some moments for the man to convince her that her son is really living in the style befitting a prince of commerce.
MIND SIX MONTHS BLANK
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HOT TAR FOR HIGHWAYS
On the Lakes of Killarney the bugle was blowing
Its sweet, elfin challenge, so thin and so clear.
A fairyland echo with harmony flowing.
That rang o'er the billows its message of cheer.
Through dim, purple glens, over crags of the mountains.
It swooned in the arms of grim, sentinel trees!
Who waked this keen strain of such exquisite rapture?
Who roused all the echoes and thrills every breast?
Some radiant seraph such cadence might capture.
'Twas an archangel's summons that presaged sweet rest.
The fisherman's skiff swayed and tossed on the water.
The rustling leaves babbled and quivered in throng.
Rich music on water sounds sweeter than slumber.
It steals like a sigh or a sob of the past.
It soothes all the griefs and the troubles that cumber
It lulls all the woes and the sorrows that last
The songs of the Siren held spellbound the
sailor.
And lured the bold mariner to plunge in
the foam.
To the caves of the sea with the mermaid
for jailer—
To die like an outcast, an exile from
home.
MIND SIX MO
Six months passed as a single night, dropping to sleep in California, awakening in a foreign land, thousands of miles across the sea; retiring in affluent circumstances, arising a beggar; passing into the "death of each day's life" a happy married man, returning to consciousness a widower—these are the strange experiences undergone by William S. Smith, special organizer of the American Federation of Labor in California, who has just arrived in this city on the liner Siberia, says the San Francisco correspondent of the Detroit News.
One night last June Smith dropped to sleep in a railway car on the "owl train" en route from Los Angeles to San Francisco. The next morning, as he thought, he awoke in a strange room. Rubbing his eyes, he gazed about him. It was a sordid room, unlike any he was accustomed to inhabit. He arose and lifted the curtain. The country he looked on was unlike anything he had seen in California. Descending the stairs he found himself among people as unfamiliar as his surroundings. They talked English, but with a foreign accent.
"Where am I?" asked Smith, addressing one of the men.
HOT TAR FO
France is already endowed with good roads, whereas in the United States the automobile has come as an instrument to awaken interest in the subject of highway building, it is regarded by the French road engineer as a destructive agent of roads already good. Moving with great velocity and with closely adhering and sometimes metal-shod tires, the automobile scrapes the fine, hard surfaces like a file, surfaces which would resist years of ordinary wagon traffic.
To combat these destructive influences many of the French engineers employ the tarring process, which aids powerfully to prevent the disintegration caused by traffic and which, unless arrested, makes the dust nuisance acute.
It has settled down to a positive conviction in France that hot tar applications are valuable in proportion to the excellence of the surfaces upon which they are laid. When well done the tarring gives the effect of an asphalt pavement and the foothold on a macadamized surface is, of course, much better than on asphalt. In a previous
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The lassie who sang us such tender romances
As blithe as the lark when caroling free,
The nymph of the grove was as sweet as
the morning.
She poured forth her soul in a jubilant
song.
As chaste as Diana she uttered her warning.
In fairyland echoes that rippled along.
And who would be deaf to the songs of the
siren.
The sibyl who sang us this exquisite
strain.
She sang with the fire and the fervor of
Byron.
Her message caressed us like tinkling
of rain.
She sang of the past and its grey crumbling glories.
Her clarion chorus still rings in our
ears.
Of the stanch chevalier and the lassle in
stories—
And the tales and the legends of chivalrous years.
The bugle is pealing out chivalric stories. Of stern ancient battles, grim, dauntless forays.
Of the knight's fearsome quest of stout cavalier glories,
Of the lvy clad castle that crumbling decays
From the mouth of the lassie flow tender romances,
Inspired like Cecilia, who caroled of yore,
On the crest of the mountain the sunshine still dances,
And the grey tumbling breakers still crouch on the shore.
JAMES E. KINSELLA.'
Registry Division, Chicago Postoffice.
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"Where are you?" reiterated the stranger. "Well you must have been among good company last night. You're in New South Wales, of course. Where did you expect to be?"
"What month is this?" was the next question Smith put. The company gazed at him in amazement.
"You look sane enough," was the reply, "but you ask idiotic questions. This is December. Would you like to have it altered?"
Half a year had elapsed since Smith closed his eyes in the California train. In that time he had crossed half the globe. When he told his story his audience was convinced of his insanity. When he asked them for money to travel to the coast, he got laughter for his pains. So he tramped to Sydney.
In the capital he looked up the labor council and narrated his experience to union men. They investigated and found he was what he represented himself to be. They arranged for his return to America, securing a passage for him on the Siberia.
The first letter Smith received from his home at Los Angeles contained news of the death of his wife.
report mention was made of a city boulevard in Marsellles first macadamized and then tarred. The tar was by no means smeared over the surface like a coat of paint. The work was done in the midst of the dry season, after the road had been carefully swept and the hot liquid was worked with stiff brushes into the road joints, penetrating to a considerable depth.
The traffic over this boulevard is intense and consists largely of automobiles moving at their highest speed. After two years' wear no more dust is observable than would be the case with an ordinary asphalt pavement receiving the traffic of innumerable unpaved streets. The surface is intact and the sides, where washing generally occurs, look as fresh and clean after a rain as an asphalt pavement. It is doubtful whether anything short of a hard pavement can give permanent satisfaction in a large city, but if such as was performed in Marseilles could be undertaken in the open country the road surfaces so treated ought to last for years with reasonable attention.
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Muskogee Cimeter.
W. H. TWINE, Editor.
It was appropriate that Anna Gould should hire a tutor to keep tab on Boni's toots.
"Boys to Play Socker," says the headline. It has been the fathers of the boys up to now.
According to Dun's the cost of living dropped a bit in January, but the grocery bill don't show it.
There is one good trait about all brides. They are always willing to stand up for their dressmakers.
Naturally Count Boni scorns a settlement of $40,000 a year. A mere life insurance president gets more than that.
Something has been found to startle Paris. It is a play by Sardou called "Spiritualism," not the Castellane scandal.
Can a man live on water? asks a contemporary. In this age of stock watering extraordinary the question is a strange one.
A New York professor finds that man readily digests fish bones. This demonstrates the strongest defense of the poor shad.
The thief who stole a church bell had a constant ringing in his ears which took the place of the still, small voice of conscience.
Japan's entrance upon the international sphere of life is signified by her appropriation of $80,000,000 to promote her war efficiency.
John L. Sullivan was knocked out in one round in Cleveland, Ohio, but it was by a judge, who wouldn't let his boxing exhibition go on.
If Anna Gould gets her divorce and returns to this country, the bands that meet her at the dock need not play "My Boni lies over the ocean."
Now that a New York physician has told the women in a public address that they are smarter than men, it seems useless to try to conceal it longer.
A Chicago professor says that cold weather drives men to drink. And when the good old summer time rolls round again the hot weather furnishes the excuse.
Henry James compliments the American people on taking care of their teeth. It was believed that Henry would eventually find some good quality in us.
However, there is a man in Pittsburg who has lived there for more than twenty-five years without getting his name into the scandal department of the newspapers.
Twenty-four towels have been ordered for the use of the twenty-seven members of the Maryland senate, and it is suggested that apparently six of the senators are paired.
When they have got a little more used to their wealth those Pittsburg fellows won't worry about chorus girls; they will be satisfied with nobody less than a principal.
A New York parson says nine out of ten fashionable women in that city are too fond of the booze. The parson should try to get into a different social set before it is too late.
Turkey, having made unwarranted arrests of Americans, has readily consented to apologize. It is hardly necessary to add that no money payment was demanded with the apology.
TO KEEP NEW STATE OUT OF POLITICS
Stone Would Have Constitutional Convention Bi-Political CITIZENS ARE TO BE APPOINTED
Not More Than Two Out of Three to be of the Same Political Faith--News Notes
Washington,—Senator Stone, of Missouri, proposes to introduce amendments to the statehood bill which will come to a vote the last of this week, for which he hopes will have the solid support of his Democratic colleagues, and which may be accepted by the leaders in charge of the bill. The senator believes that the bill as now framed makes possible the calling of a partisan constitutional convention. He wants it made bi-partisan, and believes he can accomplish this by one of his amendments.
The bill as reported, provides that the governor, chief justice and secretary of the territory shall divide it into districts which shall elect delegates to the convention. Senator Stone proposes that after the words "governor, chief justice and secretary" in the bill as framed, his amendment shall be added, which will read:
"And the president shall appoint an election board, to be composed of three resident citizens of the territory of Oklahoma, not more than two of whom shall be of the same political party, who shall take an oath to support the constitution of the United States and faithfully discharge their several duties as members of said board and who shall meet at such time and place as the president shall designate and organize and elect from their membership a chairman and secretary of the board; and said board, etc."
Another of Senator Stone's amendments deals with the kindred subject in Indian Territory, and proposes:
"That the president shall appoint an election board, to be composed of resident citizens of the Indian Territory, not more than two of whom shall be of the same political party, who shall take an oath to support the constitution of the United States and faithfully discharge their several duties as members of said board, and who shall meet at such time and place as the president shall designate and organize and elect from their membership a chairman and secretary of the board; and said board, etc."
A third amendment which Senator Stone has evolved is designated to cover the selection of clerks of election boards, whom he desires shall be two in number, and not of the same political party.
Clark Won Land Fraud Case.
Washington. United States Senator Clark, of Montana, won the case against him in the supreme court of the United States in which the government sought to have cancelled patents to 11,400 acres of public lands in Montana, which were alleged to have been fraudulently secured. The opinion in the case was delivered by Justice Holmes, and upheld the decision of the circuit court of appeals for the Ninth circuit. Justices Harlan and Brown dissented.
INDIANS ARE CITIZENS.
Government Loses Its Contention at St. Joseph.
Kansas City, Mo.—Leslie J. Lyons, assistant United States district attorney, returned from St. Joseph, where he appeared in the Buchanan county circuit court on behalf of the government in a number of cases brought by money lenders against members of the Kickapoo Indians. The creditors garnisheed money on deposit with the government to the credit of the Indians. The creditors contended that the Indians being citizens by law, they had the same standing in the courts as other citizens and should be made to pay their debts.
The government contended that the Indians' money was not subject to garnishment, the Indians being wards of the nation, notwithstanding the fact that they were citizens. Many intricate points were involved, but the Buchanan county court held that the Indians must pay their debts the same as other citizens. The effect of the decision, it is claimed, will involve nearly $5,000,000 in claims against Indians in other parts of the country and the government will appeal.
A BAGGAGE CHECK STEAL
Gang Operated on Railroads and Looted Luggage.
South McAlester, I. T.—In arresting May Spencer and Maud Garrison, Deputy Hunter is believed to have broken up one of the boldest and most original gangs of thieves seen in this section for a long time. It is claimed the gang consisted of two men and two women, who had provided themselves with a big bunch of railroad baggage checks. Their scheme was to go to a point of transfer, cut off the original checks, and attach their own. They had a stamping outfit, and the checks they attached to the stolen baggage could not be told from the genuine. One of the gang would then buy a ticket to the place for which they had checked the baggage, take it to a hotel, loot it and disappear.
SHIPMENT CHEROKEE MARBLE.
Received in Muskogee and Will be Used for Building Purposes.
Muskogee, I. T.—Hockemeyer, the granite and marble dealer, received a carload of marble from Marble City, which is to be used in erecting a tomb at the Green Hill cemetery. This is the first of this marble to be used here, but the indications are that in the future much of it will be used. George H. Bloom is to build on Okmulgee between Fourth and Fifth streets, and will use this marble for the front of his building, which is to be two stories, 25x100 feet.
Champion Cotton Raiser.
Dustin, I. T.—Mr. Krause, of this place, has the reputation of being the champion cotton raiser in this part of the country. Last season he had in eighty acres, and the production was good. To a reporter he said that eleven acres of his land brought him $91 yer acre, and this is a record that he don't believe can be beat.
Porum to Incorporate.
Muskogee, I. T.—The town of Porum will be incorporated. Mont T. Sharp, a local attorney, presented a petition for the incorporation of the town in court this week.
GAS WORTH $9,000 DESTROYED DAILY
GAS WORTH $9,000 DESTROYED DAILY
Efforts to Cap Burning Well Near Owen, I. T., Prove Futile
MAY EXHAUST ADJACENT FIELD
Flames Forced 150 Feet in the Air Visible Thirty-five Miles Away --Stones Bombard Vicinity
Owen, I. T.—Five thousand people from all parts of the country crowded every train and went out to see the big burning gas wells on the Kansas Natural Gas Company's lease near here, which was tsruck by lightning a week ago last Friday afternoon. 38,000,000 feet of gas at the lowest estimate has been wasted every twenty-four hours—a total loss at 20 cents a thousand of $68,400 for the nine days, or a loss in fuel value, when measured by comparison with coal at Caney prices, of more than $100,000.
The flame is forced 150 feet into the air, and can be distinctly seen at Cherryvale, thirty-five miles away, also at Independence and Coffeyville, Sedan and Bartlesville. The whole country at night is as light as day. Stones are being thrown from the well and guards are stationed to keep the spectators at least 200 yards away. Earth is being blown from around the casings and it is feared the casing itself may go at any time. The experts of the Kansas Natural are baffled, have exhausted every effort to extinguish the flames, but none of the devices have had the desired effect.
The first attempt to extinguish the flames with steam was a failure. Then an iron hood was made. This is five feet across the bottom, four across the top and five feet high and weighs 3,000 ponds. Two pipe arms project from the sides each eighty feet. It was planned to draw this up to the well on a track of eight-inch pipe with horses and drop it over the hole, at the same time turning in steam from seven boilers through sixteen lead pipes. When the track pipes were pushed in toward the well the heat was so intense the pipe melted down and became useless. The hood was turned to a white heat when within twenty feet of the well.
SQUATTERS ORDERED OFF.
Santa Fe to Extend from Coffeyville Kas., Into Indian Teritory.
Vinita, I. T.—The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad company, it is rumored here, will at once extend its line from Coffeyville, Kas., southeast to Vinita, I. T. The Santa Fe has owned for several years the right of way through Coffeyville, and from three miles southeast into the Indian Territory and the squatters upon this right of way have been ordered off. A preliminary survey as far as Centralia has already been made and the line as far as Vinita has been mapped out. The Santa Fe already has a line through the western part of the territory from Caney, Kas., through the oil fields by Bartlesville to Tulsa and now if the line is extended southeast out of Coffeyville to Vinita it will pass through an excellent coal belt and one of the finest agricultural sections of the Indian Territory.
Not the Millennium.
"Here!" shouted the depot official "what do you mean by throwing those trunks around like that?"
The baggageman gasped in astonishment and several travelers pinched themselves to make sure that it was real. Then the official spoke again to the baggageman.
"Don't you see that you're making big dents in this concrete platform!" —Smart Set.
Lazy Philosophy.
Mrs. Ascum—Doesn't that lazy husband of yours work for you at all?
Mrs. Jackson—'Deed, ma'am, he say he ain't gwine ter, kase he's a-tryin' to lib up to the bible teachin'.
Mrs. Ascum—What bible teaching?
Mrs. Jackson—He say de bible done tell us dat "Contentment am bettah dan great riches," so he des nacher'ly bound ter be contented.—Philadelphia Press.
Hard Work.
DUCH
GEORGE BAKER
Bystander—You shouldn't hit him when he's down.
Boy on Top—Say, mister, if you knew all the trouble I had to get him down you wouldn't talk like dat.
Full Strength of Ice.
"That ice cream freezer you sold me," complained the irate customer, "is a fraud. It doesn't do the work you claim for it at all."
"No?" replied the new salesman.
"Perhaps you—er—didn't use the best quality of ice. It's very important to have the ice very cold, you know."
Comparison.
"Huh!" snorted the Chicago person, "so this is your old Atlantic ocean. It don't look so big." "But, my dear sir, you only see a small part of it." "Well, you can't see any more of it in one look than you can of Lake Michigan."—Philadelphia Press.
The Idea.
"Yes," said Subbubs, who owns a small hothouse, "I've been raising cucumbers out at my place and they're nearly ready for picking now."
"Well, well!" exclaimed Citiman, "you don't raise them out of doors, do you?"
"Certainly not: out of seeds."
No Tip.
"Your card asks your customers to 'report to the cashier if dissatisfied,'" said the cranky diner, "and I want to say that I don't like the way that waiter served me."
"How odd," replied the cashier. "He was just telling me he didn't like the way you served him."
The Complaint.
"What are you complaining about?" asked the insurance man.
"Well," answered the clerk in the insurance concern, "some of us feel that we are being as badly underpaid for working overtime as the directors were overpaid for working under time."
The Solitaire.
Tess—Brookleigh proposed to her, didn't he?
Jess—Yes, but she sized him up for a counterfeit.
Tess—How was that?
Jess—Why, he didn't have the proper ring about him.
BIG INDIAN PAYMENT.
About $200,000 Will Be Paid Comanches, Kiowas, Wichitas and Cados.
Fort Sill, Okla.—Between the 10th and 15th of March over thirty-five hundred Indians of the Comanche, Kiowa, Apache, Wichita and Cado tribes will receive from the United States government about $200,000, which is a semi-annual payment of interest on money held in trust by the government for these Indians and money derived for the leasing of Indian pasture lands and other sources. The payments are to be made at the Fort Sill agency, the Anadarko agency, the West Cache agency and the Rainy Mountain agency, and each will be under the direction and supervision of John P. Blackburn, agent of these tribes at Anadarko.
LAND OFFICE FIGURES.
Twenty Thousand Acres Still Open in Day County.
Guthrie, Okla.—Figures secured at the United States land office in this city show that 20,000 acres of land on which homestead entry can yet be made still remains in Day county. The land is going fast, however, the majority of the entries made in the office during February being for that county. During the month 68 final proofs were placed on record; 76 homestead entries were made and 54 contests were filed.
The total receipts for the office for the month, including fees and commissions, were $3,407.
PORTER'S APPOINTMENTS.
Mostly Old Soldiers Are Appointed to Positions.
Ardmore, I. T.—J. D. Helsley, for the past four years jailer under Colbert, was succeeded by V. A. Niblack, whose selection was previously announced. There was practically a clean sweep of the guards at the jail and among those selected it will be seen that a majority are old soldiers. Marshal Porter stated that old soldiers would be given the preference in appointments. He holds them in the highest esteem. Only two guards of the old force remain, Messrs. D. W. Son and S. E. Lee. Following is a list of the new appointees: J. C. Lively, Jim Chancellor, J. R. Kemp, G. G. Tyson of Muskogee, Harry Choice and S. M. Douglas.
MUCH LAND ENTERED.
Lawton Land District Contributes 116,960 Acres.
Lawton, Okla.—Just 116,960 acres of land has been entered during the taxable year, beginning on March 1, 1905 and continuing until February 28, 1906, in the Lawton land district. Most of this land is in Comanche county, although a small portion of it is located in Kiowa county. The taxation on this land represents thousands of dollars. The interior department this year failed to make an appiation whereby the local land office officials would be allowed the customary fee of twenty-five cents each to certify the list of said lands to the county clerks to be placed upon the rolls.
Hon. Nicholas Longworth and bride have returned from Cuba and settled down in their home in Washington. Mr. Longworth will take up his legislative duties at the capitol at once.
FANCIES OF FASHION
MODES AND FABRICS THAT ARE JUST NOW IN STYLE.
Street Suit of Gray Broadcloth—Empire Gown in Mousseline de Soie With Lace—Spring Styles Rapidly Coming to the Front.
Spring Styles.
One notices that the spring styles are coming bravely to the front, that short, jaunty little coats are taking the place of the long loose or tight-fitting outer garment and that hats in straw malines, chenille or lace braids are beginning to replace the satin and beaver shapes which have been decking the windows and the women. One pretty and springlike looking hat was in a modified edition of one of the turned-up hats of the winter modes. The side brim rolled rather sharply, the crown was rather round and high, but the lines were all softened by the little quillings of black maline net which completely covered the entire hat. The trimming consisted of a wreath of small pink roses set close together and without foliage. The under part of the brim had a bandeau of pale blue tulle with rosettes of ribbon to match.
Curried Rice.
A cheap and appetizing dish for luncheon is curried rice—an excellent substitute for a meat curry. To make it, wash, thoroughly well, about 1 pound Carolina rice and parboil it; mix a dessert-spoonful of curry paste with three-quarters of a pint of good, brown gravy (using only a little of the gravy at first, and gradually adding more), and boil them together, then add the rice and let the curry simmer at the side of the fire until the rice is quite cooked. Pile it in a dish when ready, and serve it very hot, the gravy of the curry smothering the rice. The juice of half a lemon squeezed into the gravy is considered by some an improvement, while others prefer the addition of a sprinkling of celery salt.
New Empire Gown.
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Tailored Walking Suit.
A ladies' tailored walking suit of dark blue cheviot is finished in strictly tailor fashion, with machine stitching and silk crochet buttons. The jacket is tight fitting, closes at center-front
and has a mannish collar and turnedback revers. The skirt is a nine-gore model with extension plaits at each seam and an under-folded plait at back. Machine stitching and buttons are used to carry out the coat design. For this entire costume in medium size eight and a half yards of forty-six-inch material will be required. Serge, panne or broadcloth are desirable materials to be used in the development of this suit.
Gray Broadcloth Suit.
Street suit of gray satin-faced broadcloth, trimmed in tailor fashion, with machine stitching and small silk buttons. The jacket is close-fitting, has a
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novel shaped rolling collar and a fly closing at the center front. The skirt is a fifteen-gored model of the umbrella design in the regulation round length. For this entire costume in the medium sibze, twelve yards of forty-two-inch or ten yards of fifty-inch material will be required. Cheviot, serge, novelty suiting or any of the winter materials are very desirable in the development of this suit.
In Light Broadcloth.
Frocks and wraps of white or pale lined broadcloth which are so much in demand this season and so numerous among the "ready to wear" models, are excellent investments if offered at prices really low, for unless they have some perishable trimming they will stand innumerable cleanings and keep their shape and modishness. One dress is pale-blue broadcloth, with trimming on skirt and bodice of light blue and silver braid, put on in design. The little vest in front of bodice is white kid and the plaited girdle chiffont taffeta, exactly matching the cloth. There is a pretty buckle of rhinestones where the revers meet at waist line and a frill of fine white lace finishes the elbow sleeves. Blue gloves and a cloth-of-silver hat with blue plumes and aigrettes accompany the costume.
Tarlatan Bobs Up Again.
Our grandmothers liked the oldfashioned "tarlatan" for dancing frocks, and to-day it is being revived for the same purpose. Of course, this means a very good quality of underdress and quantities of lace for ruffles.
The outside of these gowns are not really so very expensive; but when you have gathered together your silk linings, your lace ruffles, your ribbon furbelows, and the other small items which cost so much, without you can do your own sewing, the adding of a dressmaker's bill will bring the cost up to a high figure. The lace and spangled nets are also liked for dancing gowns, but are much more appropriate for older women.
Nature; The Artist
Nature; The Artist
Such hints as untaught Nature yields!
The calm disorder of the sea.
The straggling splendor of the fields,
The wind's gay incivility.
O workman with your conscious plan,
Compass and square are little worth;
Copy (nay, only poets can),
The artless masonry of Earth.
Go watch the windy spring's carouse,
And mark the winter wonders grow.
The graceful gracelessness of boughs,
The careless carpentry of snow.
—Frederic Lawrence Knowles, "On Life's
Stairway."
WINI
WINIFRED BY NELLIE CRAVEY GILMORE (Copyright, 1906, by Daily Story Pub. Co.)
She had long yellow curls that looked like glistening columns of gold, bobbing in the sunlight when she walked, or lying in rich satin abundance all over her little fluffy shoulders when she was still. Her eyes were big and round and peculiarly blue—like twin cornflowers—and there were perpetual discs of pink in the small oval cheeks. When Winifred laughed, there was a transitory glimpse of something snow-white and delicously even about the firm, shining row of upper teeth, and an unexpected dimple dawned at either corner of her mouth.
The day was hot to sultriness, the sun beating upon the lake with fierce intensity and transforming it into a great sparkling pool of melted metal. The willows that grew quite down to the water's edge drooped and wilted, and the languid butterflies folded their wings in the shade of them.
Winifred hurried down the road as fast as her long, white-stockinged legs would carry her, the big sun hat—scarlet with poppies—flying back from her head by its muslin ribbons. She found a tempting tuft of grass in the shadow of a giant water oak, and sat down to eat her lunch. When she had finished, she crossed her hands in her lap, and sat gazing out across the lake with suddenly tired, absent eyes. She heard the village clock strike two—then three—and all at once, the water began to dance and shimmer and grow black before her eyes. A horrible dizziness settled over her, and she flung herself down on the cool, grateful grass and closed
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Hurried down the road. her eyes. There seemed to be a perfect babel of noises ringing in her ears, and a lot of people shouting in loud voices. But Winifred took no notice of them; her senses began to wander and she almost laughed out to think how nice and cool and sleepy she was. Then came oblivion. When the little girl came back to earth again she was lying in her own bed with the pretty canopy of blue
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satin, and the cloudy white draperies all around. She felt numb and stiff and listless, and when she opened her lips to speak, her voice sounded so tiny and far away. Many days passed before she was allowed to sit up, and hear all about herself and the grave, kind man who had rescued her.
"I should like so much to see him and to—to thank him," said Winifred one day—the first she spent out of bed.
"You may," replied her aunt, "for he is here right now. He was very ill himself that day. The heat played him an even more serious trick than it did you. He has been unconscious ever since he brought you home. But to-day he is some better and a while ago expressed a wish to see you as soon as you were well."
Winifred flushed with pleasure and begged to be permitted to go to him at once. "My mother would not care, I am sure," she insisted as her aunt demurred. "you will not refuse me?"
So the little girl was wheeled into the sick man's room, where he lay pale and prostrated against his pillow. He smiled as she came in and held out his hand. Winifred thought it looked very thin and tremulous, and that his face was even thinner. But it was a good face she divined that at once, and undeniably good looking.
"I can never thank you enough," she began, the pink in her cheeks deepening to a vivid scarlet. "What in the world would have become of me if you had not happened upon me?"
The invalid laughed and shook his head. "I'm glad, indeed, that I did," he answered quickly, "but—what on earth would have become of me if your kind aunt had not taken me in?" "Then I suppose we must be 'quits'?" She laughed merrily, showing all her dimples at once.
The other nodded. "Do you know," he asked presently, "why it was I wanted so much to see you as soon as I could?"
"Won't you tell me?"
"It was because once I had a little girl, with long yellow curls just like yours, and big blue eyes. You—you reminded me a lot of her that day I found you unconscious by the lake. Do you mind my telling you this?"
"No—oh, no. And your little girl—where is she now? She is not—is she—"
"She is not dead. But—"
Winifred looked at him suddenly, with wide, bewildered eyes.
"I—I lost her," the man explained after a pause, and the little girl did not question him further.
"My mama will be home to-morrow," she remarked, in a change of tone, "and I want you to meet her. She—oh, you don't know how grateful she will be to you. I—she hasn't any one but me," she added quickly.
"Have you no father?" he questioned gently.
Winifred shook her pretty gold head slowly back and forth. "Not now," she said, her eyes filling with swift tears.
"Never mind. I oughtn't to have
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asked you. Won't you tell me something about that—Mama?" His cheeks lost some of their pallor as he spoke, and a sudden eager look crept into his eyes.
"She is the dearest, best and most beautiful creature in all the world!" Winifred broke out, an uplifted smile on her dainty, flushed face, "Everybody loves mama. She is so good and kind and true. But her health is not good at all. She has to work so hard—to take care of herself and me, and—I am afraid she is not going to hold out—always. But mama is awfully proud; you'd see that right away. Wouldn't you like to see her picture?"
The sick man nodded, not trusting himself to speak. He watched her in silence as she unfastened the locket from a long gold chain and held it out to him.
"So this is—your mother?" he asked, after a long, long pause.
"Yes, that is she. Now—do you blame me for loving her so much?"
"No; I—I shouldn't blame—any one," he responded slowly.
There was another long silence, during which, the door opened and closed on noiseless hinges and some one came softly into the room.
"Mama!"
"My little sweetheart!" The woman clasped her arms about the child and held her in a long, fervent embrace. When she looked up, a pair
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"For God's sake don't turn away from me now"
of dark, eager eyes were fixed upon her.
"This is the gentleman who saved my life, mama. Are't you—" But the look on her mother's face interrupted her. She broke off, gazing from one to the other with big, wondering, almost comprehending eyes.
"Katharine! For God's sake don't turn away from me now. I—I am a different man. Heaven knows I will try to be worthy of you if you will come back to me and give me one more chance!"
The woman had buried her face in her hands, and her body shook with sobs. When she looked up, her eyes were moist. "I am a different woman, too, dear," was all she said. But it seemed to be enough—at least to Winifred—and to Winifred's father.
Too Cheap.
An Omaha man who claims he can live on nine cents a day has received hundreds of letters from women who want to marry him. This seems to prove the statement that there are a great many women in this country who would be glad to marry if they could afford to support a husband. Many of these women presumably earn almost enough to warrant them in securing one of these luxuries, and a man who can be fed for 63 cents a week, or something like $2.50 a month, strongly appeals to them.
At the same time a 9-cent a day man seems to be too much of a bargain to be really attractive to the careful purchaser.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
FIFTY PEOPLE KILLED.
Are Adds to the Horror of a Fierce Storm and Many Are Burned.
Meridian, Miss., March 3.—During a heavy rain storm at 6:30 o'clock a storm cloud developed in the south and moved on the city, striking Front street, the business center, with full force. The wind was probably blowing 75 miles an hour. The tornado passed over in about two minutes and during that period three or four whole squares were devastated. A conservative estimate places the number of buildings blown down between thirty and forty.
Front street presented a devastated appearance. But few houses were left standing. The storm's path was two blocks in width, extending from the passenger station northward to beyond Second street.
To add to the terror fire broke out in the stricken district. It is not known how many were under the ruins of the wrecked buildings. To rescue these unfortunates was uppermost in the minds.
The property loss is several million dollars. The wholesale district suffered the worst and many of the principal buildings and manufacturing plants were totally destroyed.
LIVE STOCK IN TERRITORIES.
Statistical Clerk Has Compiled Some Interesting Figures.
Guthrie, Okla.—J. E. Woodworth, statistical clerk of the Oklahoma board of agriculture, has compiled from the reports submitted to the board some interesting statistics regarding the number and value of the live stock in the two territories. In Oklahoma there are 41,172 horses, 87,373 mules, 192,332 milch cows, 1,387,151 other cattle, 52,240 sheep and 595,612 swine, making a total of 2,731,480 farm animals in the territory, valued at $63,163,787.
In Indian Territory there are 213,234 horses, 53,648 mules, 109,-390 milch cows, 475,093 other cattle, 28,419 sheep and 751,352 swine, a total of 1,626,106 animals, with an estimated value of $28,456,878.
ALL ENROLLED ARE CITIZENS.
Choctaw Census of 1896 Is Accepted by the Department.
South McAlester, I. T.—Persons whose names appear on the tribal rolls of the Choctaw census roll of 1896, are entitled to citizenship rights.
"Enrollment without authority of law, or by fraud," is the only ground for exclusion of one who is enrolled. Such is the effect of an opinion of Assistant Attorney General Campbell, which has just been received by attorneys here. The decision is of far reaching importance as there are several hundred persons whose claims to citizenship depend upon such a declaration of the law. The opinion is rendered in the case of James S. Long et al. Mississippi Choctaws.
GENERAL NEWS.
Former Governor Jas. S. Hogg of Texas died at Houston after a short illness.
Richard A. McCurdy, former president of the Mutual Life of New York and several members of his family have sailed for Europe.
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On the schedule train No. north bound will leave Muskogee at 8: a. m. and arrive at Wagoner 8:50 a. m.
Train No. 6 north bound will leave Muskogee at 6:00 p. m. arrive at Wagoner 6:50 p. m.
Train No. 1 will arrive from Wagoner at 9:45 a. m.
Train No. 5 will arrive from Wagoner at 7:50 p. m.
Train No. 3 south bound leaves Muskogee at 9:50 a.m. arrives at Dustin 12:40 p.m. Train No. 4 leaves Dustin 2:30 p.m., arrives Muskogee 5:20 p.m.
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Lots for Sale in Grayson, Ind. Ter.
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320 acres of land for lease, five years at $1.00 per acre per year.
For bargains in lots, call or write
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WARNING ORDER.
In the United States court for the Western district of the Indian Territory, at Muskogee. Lizzie Miller, Plaintiff, vs. No. 6457 Equity. Ed. Miller, Defendant. The defendant, Ed Miller, is warned to appear in this court within thirty days and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, Lizzie Miller. Witness the Hon. William R. Lawrence, judge of said court, and the seal thereof, at Muskogee, this the 5th day of February, 1906. (Seal) R. P. HARRISON, Clerk. By D. E. DICKEY, Deputy.
P. L. Garrett, attorney for plaintiff-Win. S. Peters, attorney for nonresident defendant.
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