Muskogee Cimeter

The Negro Press of the New State will meet in Guthrie next Tuesday, Nov. 27-All business men are requested to be present. The Muskogee Cimeter. Vol 8 Address of Hon. J. C. Johnson Before the Senate Committee. To the Honorable Senate Committee, Gentlemen: The citizens of Muskogee or Creek nation, desire to present their wishes to you with reference to the final distribution and a final settlement of their land and money interest as citizens of the Muskogee nation and for this purpose, the national council of the Muskogee nation at its last annual session, selected this committee, composed of members of the National Council, together with the principal chief, to confer with you, to the end that a full and amicable adjustment may be had before we are merged into citizenship of the new state to be Oklahoma. First: Section twenty-eight of the act of congress approved April 26, 1906, (and commonly known as the Curtis bill) provides as follows: "That the tribal existence and present tribal government of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Cree kand Seminole tribes or nations are hereby continued in full force and effect for all purposes authorized by law until otherwise provided by law." It is earnestly requested that inasmuch as the interest of the Muskogee people have not that it is the intention of the congress of the United States in making this settlement to provide and probeen adjusted fully, and we believe every interest of the nation that the present tribal government of the Muskogee nation be retained until the final settlement has been had for the purpose of assisting the United States government in making this settlement and to point out such effects and to ask for such remedial legislation as may from time to time suggest themselves during the course of the settlement. Second: The agreement bteween the United States government and the Crek nation provides: "That all deeds to allotment shall be delivered to the allotees by the principal chief." This provision of the agreement, we insist, should be strictly complied with, for the reason that the rolls of citizenship is not open to the chief executive and in view of the fact that numerous complaints have been made against the enrollment of persons whom it is believed are not entitled to citizenship and the further fact that numerous allottees have died since making their allotment and before the issuance of deeds and in many cases the deceased allottees are without heirs, and such allotments pre manifestly the common property of the nation and ought to revert to the nation before the dissolution of our government, and it is the duty of the principal chief to call the attention of the department and ask for the cancellation of such deeds wherein there are no heirs in order that no part of the estate of the Creek popl will scheat to any government that supersedes it. Third: We arnestly ask that the United States government continue to maintain a modified restriction upon the alienation of lands of citizens of the Muskogee nation regardless of race or color. That we believe that the best interest of the said nation will be M. B. J. Coody Johnson, Who Addressed the Senate Committee. subserved by the removal of restriction upon the alienation of all classes of deceased allottees and that the heirship to such allotment be determined by a court of competent authority. oureth: The agreement entered into by the United States government and the Muskogee Creek nation of Indians, ratified July 26, 1902, and officially proclaimed August 8, 1902, in Section 33, therefore provides as follows: "No funds belonging to said tribes shall herafter be issued or paid out for any purposes by any officer of the United States without the consent of the tribes expressly given through its national council." This being the law we are reliably informed that large sums of money have been expended by and under the direction of the interior department without the knowledge or consent of the Creek council. We protest against such procedure on the part of the interior department and insist upon a strict compliance wit hthe articles of agreements as above cited, and ask that all funds so expended be refunded, together with the expense incurred in th issuance and maintaining of records incurred by our executive office in the delivery of patents to our allottees. In conclusion, the Creek nation have an abiding faith in the honor, integrity and wisdom of the United States government, believing that the general government is desirous of fulfilling every treaty obligation entered into with its wards, we conclude with the hope that your honorable body will carefully consider the suggestions herein offered and that you will be enabled to shape such legislation as will be for the best interest of the people whose interests are involved. SEE THE DIFFERENCE. Mr. Owen's Vote—Judge Thomas' We are informed by a watcher that at Precinct 4 Judge John R. Thomas came into the polling place during the last election and asked for an official ballot. He had been a member of congress for 10 years and a judge of the U. S. court for four years. That he marked his ballot and then without folding it presented it to a clerk of election and said, I guess that is a vote for Hopkins all right, is it not? This was in precinct 4 in the city of Muskogee, Alexander Smart, W. H. Bateman and J. H. Kee were the judges of election. They swore before taking a vote they would be fair and impartial and administer the election law. They counted the vote for Hopkins. In precinct 3 there lives an old colored man named Owen. He is deaf and infirm, but is an honorable man and has the esteem and confidence of all who know him. He does not get drunk. Never has committed any crime. Never has been in jail. He came into the election room in precinct 3, asked for a ticket and then asked for assistance to fix his ballot. He was directed to go into the booth and was followed by one of the sworn election officers. The old man in telling the officer how to fix his ballot spoke in a loud voice. "I want to vote for Raymond and I want my ballot fixed that way." The clerk did as he was told to do Upon returning to the polling place he handed the ballot to the judge of election and they together with a man by the name of Charlie Tarr, who had recently been in the Muskogee jail on account of a big Muskogee drunk, agreed that this vote should not be put in the ballot box, but should be torn up because the old man spoke so loud in the booth that the others heard him say how he wanted to vote. His vote was torn up and thrown on the floor in his face. One of the judges was Joe McIntosh, who cannot read or write. He was appointed by A. Z. English. Mr. Voter, can you see any difference here. Thomas willfully and brazenly violates the law, but his vote was counted, because it was for Hopkins. Owens' vote was legal in every way, but upon such an empty and unlawful excuse was thrown upon the floor and trampled under foot by these corrupt judges and indecent clerks because it was for Raymond. Voter, these things are approved by Mr. A. Z. English, by Clerk R. P. Harrison, by Tom Sanson. Is it rifht? Will you vote to uphold and put in office such men who uphold such an election stolen from honest men. If you do, you are unworthy of your American citizenship. No 10 SHE STINKS. U. S. Marshal Bennett and U. S. Jailor Lubbes Accused by Department of Justice. Them. Following is taken from the Muskogee Times of Nov. 19, 1906: The investigation of Marshal Leo E. Bennett and Jailor Gus Lubbes, asked for by Gen. N. F. Hancock and others, has resulted in the filing of charges by Special Agent Brewster with the department of justice. Brewster left Muskogee the last of last week and the charges wer probably fld with the department today. The investigation was made at the request of Gen. N. F. Hancock, president of te hMuskogee Humane society; W| F| Schuermeyer, attorney for the society, and Frank R. Barling, formerly an employe at the jail in the capacity of outside turnkey. Brewster slipped quietly into Muskogee and held his investigation at the Turner hotel. For every charge filed he required three corroborative witnesses, and it is claimed that in every case five witnesses or more were brought before him. The department was wired by th people making the charges, and in less than a week the inspector was here making the investigation. Mr. Brewster considered the charges of so much importance that he will, or has, presented them to the department in person. Mr. Brewster examined fifty-nine witnesses, consisting of prisonrs and guards, and th investigation covers a period of six months. The charges are startling, and cover a number of things, from cruelty to larceny and from drunk-ness on the part of the jailor, to intimacy between the women prisoners and the guards. Several of the former prisoners testified that prisoners had been knocked down, their teeth knocked out and that they were choked until almost insensible, without cause. The charge was made against both U. S. Marshal Bennett and U. S. Jailor Lubbes, that prisoners were worked without compensation, on their farms. A prisoner named Dad Withers testified that he had been worked on the Lubbes farm for a period of eight months. A former prisoner who was under indictment on the charge of murder and afterwards acquitted, said that at the time of his confinement in the Muskogee jail on one orcasion that all the guards were intoxicated one night and that the keys to all parts of the jail were turned over to him and he had charge of everything un- (Continued on last page.) PROGEEDINGS OF THE GONVENTION Guthrie, Ok., Nov. 21.—The constitutional convention, with most of the onehundred and twelve delegates from Oklahoma and Indian Territory present, was called to order at the Brooks opera house at 2:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and amidst a profound hush and a period of great solemnity, the chaplain of the convention, Rev. Frank Naylor of Shawnee, invoked the divine blessing. For half an hour a shivering, good natured, expectant crowd had stood in line before the theater armed with tickets of admission. After the adjournment of the Democratic caucus at noon it had been decided that the city hall would probably not hold the audience that desired to witness the opening of the convention and so arrangements were made for holding the opening session where as many persons as possible could gather. It was exactly 2:15 o'clock when Henry S. Johnson of Perry, Ok., walked on the stage and was greeted with a storm of applause. He at once called the convention to order. Standing room in the auditorium was at a premium and many interested ladies thronged the boxes, while the newspaper men, like sheep, hovered around two small tables. Upon motion of W. J. Caudill of the Fiftieth district, Judge J. F. King of Kay county, Oklahoma, representing District 16, was unanimously chosen as temporary chairman of the convention and John M. Young of Lawton, who had been selected by the Democratic caucus as chief clerk, was made temporary secretary. Governor Frank Frantz of Oklahoma, who was in the audience, was invited to take a seat upon the platform and amidst cheers was conducted to the stage, where he extended his greetings to the constitution makers. He said: "I am proud to stand before this constitutional convention and to assure you of the hearty welcome on the part of the territory and the officials, and I wish you a very great and successful convention." Near the stage on the right hand side of the auditorium, marooned in a sea of Democracy, with the other eleven Republican delegates, sat Henry E. Asp of Guthrie, but his smile seemed sad. Upon motions Sam Oplinger of Ardmore was chosen temporary official stenographer and took his place upon the stage. Territorial Secretary Charles H. Filson was called upon to read the list of delegates qualified to sit in the convention and at once proceeded to read the names of those to whom certificates of election had been issued. The members of the Oklahoma delegation, with one exception, answered to the roll call the absent member being David Hogg of Grand, Ok., from District 43, and who has as yet not put in an appearance at Guthrie. Mr. Filson announced that he had received but four named from the Indian Territory whose election had been certified to by the Indian Territory districting and canvassing board, but that he had received notice that the entire list was enroute. T. J. Leahy of Pawhuska moved that a committee be selected to wait on Chief Justice J. H. Burford of the Oklahoma supreme court and conduct him to the convention in order that he might administer the oath to delegates holding certificates of election. Judge J. H. Maxey of District 31 and T. J. Leahy, the representative from the Fifty-sixth, were appointed and conducted Judge Burford to the theater. After a considerable of an ovation and an address to the delegates, Judge Burford administered the oath. The convention then proceeded to the selection of officers Philip B. Hopkins of Muskogee, the delegate from District 75, was nominated and received ten votes, amidst a roar of laughter. William H. Murray of Tishomingo, the Democratic caucus nominee, was chosen president of the convention by an overwhelming majority. AWFUL SUFFERING. From Dreadful Pains from Wound on Foot—System All Run Down—Miraculous Cure by Cuticura. "Words canont speak highly enough for the Cuticura Remedies. I am now seventy-two years of age. My system had been all run down. My blood was so bad that blood poisoning had set in. I had several doctors attending me, so finally I went to the hospital where I was laid up for two months. My foot and ankle were almost beyond recognition. 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In a letter to Mr. Fuller, Mr. Garfield says: "I shall most certainly spend a great deal of time in these parts of the west with which the interior department has to do." Mr. Garfield's letter was written in reply to one received by him from President Fuller urging him to make a personal investigation of the Indian question before coming to decide his policy in the new state. It is said that since Garfield's appointment in the interior department was announced, he has been flooded with letters denouncing Hitchcock and Hitchcockism in unmeasured terms as the source and the origin of all of the Territory's evils. OSAGE PAYMENT. Commences December 3d—Amounts to $310.000. Ret Millard, Osage Indian agent, announces that a payment of $310,-000, including $90,000 interest, $70,000 grass money and $150,000 royalty on oil, will be commenced on December 3. Full bloods only will be paid the first three days, after which annuitants will be paid in the usual manner. Agent Millard announces that mixed bloods need not come to Pawhuska until the latter half of the week of the payment. To assist in the allotment work, all parents are requested to have ready and deliver to the agent when they appear at the pay table, a correct list of their respective families, giving name and age of each member. Parents and guardians will also be required to show regular attendance of eligible children in some recognized school. Broken Arrow now enjoys the luxury of electric lights. The Haskell Journal is three years old and admits having had a "rugged" existence. A prairie fire near Blue Jacket burned through several corn fields and destroyed the crops. The town of Haskell has a brass band that is said to make real music. John F. Gambill is the leader. Durant is after the M., O. & G. and the proposed Harriman line from Kansas City to Denison. Mules to be shipped to Cuba are being bought in the Indian Territory and the average price paid is $140. Pawhuska has voted by a large majority for the issue of $30,000 bonds to build school houses. The corn carnival begins at Oklahoma City next Wednesday, at which $2,000 in premiums have been offered. At Kingston, I. T., 315 bales of cotton were destroyed by fire supposed to have been started by sparks fro ma Frisco engine. Foraker, in the Osage nation and on the Midland Valley railroad, will be made a money order office on January 2, 1907. A small daughter of Mr. Early who lives near Foyil, was kicked by a horse after being thrown from a buggy and died from the injuries received. A prairie fire east of Vinita destroyed some barns and stock, while a little daughter of Walter Williams was aftally burned in a barn before she could be rescued. The Tecumseh and Norman Traction company with a capital of one million dollars has been organized to build an electric line to the latter place, a distance of thirty-four miles This Is So. 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Succesfully Prosecutes Claims Late Principal Examiner U. S. Pension Bureau. THE CIMETER. PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK IN THE INTEREST OF THE NEGRO BY CIMETER PUB. CO. ENTERED AT THE POST OFFICE AT MUSK KOGEE, I. T., AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER W H. TWINE . . . Editor. R. WOOD, . . . Ass't Editor. E D. NICKENS, Advertising Manager. For Governor of the State of Oklahoma, Hon. John D. Benedict, of Muskogee, I. T. ```markdown ``` The negroes of the state of Oklahoma will go on record on the 27th inst., and the world will know just where they stand on more than one issue. To the distinguished gentleman who stood on the corner and said (referring to the Cimeter) some one should take a shotgun and go down and kill the G—d s—b—etc. We say the contract is still open and is only one man's job. All we ask is that the shot come from the front. The negro, be he doctor or lawyer who tells the white business men that we told the negroes to carry guns to the convention lies from the depths of a black and rotten heart. Our advice was to the contrary. But we have always advised our people to buy a gun, a good one, and use it in the protection of their homes and if need be to give up their lives in defense of home. If that be treason then make the most of it. Ye gods, what a sight it was when old man Gordon and Hames went to the depot to bid Haskell goodby, and said now Colonel, its to you we look to make our laws. Jaybird and Wildhorse, a pretty pair of twins are these cusses, who sold the race for Jim Crow cars. We promised not to cuss and we won't, but this pair of traitors are not worth their room in h—. (Well pluto.) Hon. C. N. Haskell and Pat Levy left this morning where they go to maks laws. They will no doubt be careful and see that no disgraceful laws such as are made in the south be made here.—Searchlight. Old Gordon knows Haskell is a democrat and that Pat Lavy has not been chosen as a law-maker. The old man is now bending the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift may follow fawning. Mrs. Terrel, of Washington, is one of God's noble women. She is a credit to our country and a blessing to the race. We hope that every one of our women will emulate her example. It is to her we owe the rescinding of the order to discharge in disgrace our black heroes who are now at Ft. Reno. There was a lively tilt between C. N. Haskell, of Muskogee, and Henry Asp, the republican leader of Guthrie, over Frank J. Stowe, an independent delegate. Asp accused the democrats of not treating Stowe right and incidentally brought on the race question. Haskell made a caustic reply in which he said that so far as he was concerned the white men and the red 1990.02.02 men were the ones to be counted and given consideration in the convention.—Clipping from Muskogee Democrat, Nov. 21, '06. The above shows where the idol of the traitor negroes stand on questions touching us. What can Sango, Attorneys Brown, Stewart, Potbelly alias Scott Brown, and the other suporters of Friday say? Henry Asp is a republican and believes in equal rights to all men and exclusive privileges to none. Haskell is a democrat and expresses the sentiment of the democracy. What he says about the Redman is only a little so pthrown out now to catch the Indian vote. Later on the Indian will see the democratic party in its true light. The position the convention is likely to take on the race question is well illustrated by Mr. Murray's remarks on that subject: "In connection with the race question," he said, "we must take the negro as the Great God gave him to us, a human being who is good for something, but who, if allowed to interfere in our society and our schools, will contaminate them. If the negroes would rise he must do so by his own efforts without leaning upon any white man. No white man can associate with the darky without lawering himself. The Negro Problem. "The president of the United States has just certified that the negro is not a success as a soldier, that though he may be good as porters or barbers and in some other occupation. I have great respect for an ex-slave and he could get anythinig from me, but the young negro who would come to me on the basis o fequality and ask me to set 'em up I should feel like hitting him over the head with a club. "In the Chickasaw nation we have the best class of negroes in the new state, because we have alwas denied the mthe privileges of going to our schools, voting in our elections and sitting in our juries. As a result a negro has never been known to commit the crime in our nation which commonly causes lynchings. In the Creek nation, where the negroes are given equality in voting and holding office, we find the worst class of negroes."—Clipping from Kansas City Journal, Nov. 21, '06. Murray was made by Haskell and Haskell by certain white and black pretended republicans. When these fellows voted for Haskell thew indirectly voted for Murray, and of course endorse what he now says. The negro part can't face the people after their traitorous action—they simply give a grin that hell would be ashamed of and say, "We is sorry, if it was to do over again we'd do different. The cuss talks about white men associating with the negro. Great God what a parody upon justice. The negro has been kicking about white men associating with negro women. Where did all these yellow negroes come from? Certainly not from white women associating with negroes. But on the contrary it is from white men seducing negro girls and women and then the same devil gets out like Murray does and says, "I detest associating with the 'darky,' meaning, we presume, colored men. We hope the good white women of the coun- try will ask them to go a step farther and include colored women. Of course its the lowest class of colored women that they associate with, but even this should cease. TAMS BIXBY UNDER FIRE. The committee from the United States senate to examine into the conditions in the Indian Territory too ka fall out of Tams Bixby last Friday and Saturday. Tams has set himself up as the golden calf of the Indian Territory and asked all men to fall down and worship him. He has succeeded pretty well round the small towns in making small boys think he was a big man. But some of the lawyers around Ardmore, Chickasha and South McAlester knew he was only brass and were not afraid to tell the U. S. senators about how big Tams really is. They claimed Tams had made false reports under oath to Secretary Hitchcock and had kept back the real ltruth in many cases. That he had told certain men no records such as they wanted were on file and in the next breath furnished copies of these desired records to favored lawyers. The senators heard the matter during Thursday and Friday nights and took many pages of evidence which they will have printed and furnish to congress. It seems Tams has been discriminating against the colored citizens in the Choctaw nation simply because they were colored. He refused to give them the land the law gave to them, and his clerk Beal, ordered other clerks who had examined the law and the evidence to make a decision in cases just opposit to that which the clerk felt it his sworn duty to give. I nother words Beall, under Bixby's orders, simply ordered clerks to write up a decision in cases he (Beal) knew nothing about and contrary to what the man who heard the case felt in duty bound to find. Is it any wonder people want to get rid of this gang? The whole thin gis a matter of pull and favoritism and law and justice seem to have no more place than a snowball in h-_. On last Saturday night Scott Brown, the lawyer, came to our sanctum with "blood in his eye," and howled as follows: "By gad. sah, they say that article in your paper about de pot-bellied lawyer refers to me and by gad, sah, it am a d—d liah, sah," or words to that effect. We tried using as soft words as possible to calm the individual and informed him that if he was pot-belly and guilty as charged, to "go in sin and peace no more." This the cuss refused to do and then in language more forcible than elegant we informed the pot-bellied individual to vacate instanter, which he did. We then informed the cuss he was a tub of liftam dungi matter that Sango used to remove and that if he was not good we should tell the papas of the single girls he was asking to escort to church and social gatherings that he had not yet procured a divorce and was still a married man and then there would be h—l to pay. We do not know or care who sent this pot-bellied, pugnacious individual to our sanctum, but we judge from the fellows who were awiating his return on the sidewalk that they were connected with the enterprise. We tender our compliments to the outfit and say next time "there will be something doing." In the future if old pot desires to do the kissing act he should make arrangements beforehand and our reporter would not "get onto it." Its our opinion that Scott Brown, the kissing bug, and the pot-bellied barrister, are synonymous. GAMBLERS AND GAMBLING. Gambling is sapping the very vitals of the young negro in Muskogee. A great many of our young men who would be useful factors in solving the race problem in this new state are going to ruin on account of the easy access to gambling hells located on our most prominent thoroughfares, and these gambling dens seem to have the protection of the officers of the law. It may be that the good Christian people who are opposed to this most damning institution do not know that at this very moment there is running in our community wide open the most brazen hells that ever existed in a civilized community, and the keepers boldly flaunt their open violation of the law before a long suffering public. The young men and boys who are permitted to visit these dens of vice should be saved before its too late. These hells are incubators of crime of all descriptions and a stop should be called at once. The W. C. T. U. and kindred organizations can and should put these hells out of business at once. There are now on South Second street three hells running wide open and we shall see if the good people will permit them to continue. We call upon our ministers, our teachers and all other good citizens to start a protest against these hells in our midst that will cause a quietus to be put on them and their manager. If you doubt their existence just take an observation. Their locations are known to almost every one and we give them here. (To be continued.) The colored men must get together to fight down the class legislation that will be enacted at Guthrie when the unterrified meet there next week. If they pass a Jim Crow car law we must fight to the last resort, irrespective to the cost. Nov. 15, '06, Old Gordon's Paper. The above shows now Wingfoot Jaybird Gordon feels after having worked for the infernal scoundrels who are willing if the can to give us Jim Crow cars. Gordon and the other traitors stood for the kind of an outrage in the late election and now the old man is trying to fool the people and make them believe he is standing straight, but everybody knows that even his legs are crooked. AGENTS WANTED We want energetic hustling agents for this paper and will pay liberly for good work. If you want to make money, write at once to—W. H. Twine. --- ```markdown ``` Tours Via Rock Island Collis Very low rates account G. A. R. Emu. 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Will connect at Okmulgee for north and south at Fayetteville for St. Louis and all Ekea Springs line and west from Monett Bingham and Bryand to Springfield. New TimeCard No. 55 & 56 Local Accomodations Daily Except Sunday between Fayetteville and Muskogee and Nos. 58 and 57 Local except Sunday between Okmulgee and Muskogee. No. 51 will connect at Okmulgee for north and south. No. 52 will connect ar Fayetteville for St. Louis and all intermediate points; Eureka Springs line and west from Monett and to Memphis, Birmingham and Bryand to Springfield. ```markdown ``` NOTICE OF MORTGAGEE'S SALE. Whereas on the 26th day of June 1906, Laura Lee, Julius H. Lee and Pinkie Lee Crisp, (nee Pinkie Lee) delivered a promissory note for borrowed money to Wm. P. Fields payable October 1st 1906, in the sum of $300 with 8 per cent interest per annum after date and did secure the said note by mortgage with power of sale upon the following realty, viz: Lots One (1), and Nine (9), in Block Two Hundred and Eighty Four (284), and Lot One (1), in Block Two Hundred and Eighty Five (285), all in the townsite of Muskogee, Recording District No. 10 in the Western Judicial District, Indian Territory, wherin, upon default of payment of sand note the said mortgagee, Wm. P. Fields was authorized to sell the said real estate upon one month's notice by publication, and make a proper conveyance to the purchaser thereof. The said mortgage was duly recorded in Record of Mortgages 71 at page 34 in the office of Register of Deeds—Clerk of U. S. court—in the City of Muskogee aforesaid. And, whereas the said mortgagors have failed to pay said note, are in default and the said Mortgage has become absolute. Now, therefore, in accordance with the terms of said mortgage the undersigned trustee therein named, will, on Monday, the 3d day of Decembr, 1906, at the hour of One (1) p. m., at the East door of the United States Court building in the City of Muskogee, in the Western District of the said Territory, sell the said real estate at public sale. Dated October 30th 1906. WM. P. FIELDS, Mortgagee. Walrond & Cramer, Attorneys. DOMINOES FREE TO If you'll tell us the number and kind of live stock your papa will ship this year, you'll get a nice set of dominoes. Rice Brothers Commission Merchants. Kansas City Stock Yards." P S—Give papa's name in full. Notice. Let me build you a house on small installments, thereby, saving your rent money, and living in your own house all the time. See Rev. J. M. Dade, Miner London, Susie London, Fannie Tucker and Nancy Lynch, as to the way I treat my customers. Will loan money for 5, 7 and 10 years on farm lands and city property, in any amount where it is well secured. Make short loans also. No. 1 English Block. W. P. FIELDS, Muskogee, I. T. Go to CREEK LIVERY BARN, Go to Now located at new quarters No. 512 South 8rd Street We want energetic hustling agents for this paper and will pay liberly for good work. If you want to make money, write at once to—W. H. Twine. SUMMERTOURS. Low Round Trip Rates FRISCO SYSTEM Colorado, California, Oregon, Washington and the northwest, Michigan, Minnesota, New England, Wisconsin, Ontario and Quebec Resorts. All summer resorts in the Southeast. Also to St. Louis and Chicago. Liberal return limit. Write nearest Frisco Agent, or L. W. Price, Division Pass. Agent Joplin Mo. Lot three (3) in block Ninety three, to the city of Muskogee, Indian Territory. size 100x145. Also one of the finest business lots in the town of Panama, Indian Territory, one block from depot. size 25x140. Abstract shows these two pieces of property to be all O. K. and a perfect chain of tiile. Address S. M. Twine. 218 1-2 State St. Pine Bluff, Ark. NOTICE OF MORTGAGEE'S SALE Whereas on the 3d day of February 1905 Ella London Baxter Rogers delivered two promissory notes for borrowed money to Wm. P. Fields upon which there remains a balance due $450.00 with interest thereon from date at the rate of 8 per cent per annum payable April 1st. 1905 and did secure the same by mortgage with Power of Sale upon Lot 21 in Block 58in the townsite of the City of Muskogee. Recording District No. 10, in the Western Judicial District of the Indian Territory wherein the said Mortgagee Wm. P. Fields upon default in payment of said notes was authorized to sell the said real estate upon one month's notice by publication and make a proper conveyance to the purchaser thereof and said instrument was duly recorded in record of Mortgages 33 at page 312 in the office of Register of Deeds in the City of Muskogee aforesaid. And wherers the said mortgage has failed to pay said notes, is in default and the said mortgage has become absolute. Via Now therfore, in accordance with the terms of said deed the undersigned as trustee therein named will on Monday, the 3d day of December, 1906, at the hour of One (1) o'clockp. m. at the East door of the United States court building, in the City of Muskogee, in the Western District of said Territory, sell at public sale the said Lot 21 in Block 58 of the site of the said City of Muskogee above described. Dated October 30th 1906. WM. P. F!ELDS Mortgagee. Walrond & Cramer, Attorneys. In Re No. 1569. No. 1570. 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United States naval officers do not admit that the monster battleships planned by Great Britain and Italy are necessarily more effective than warships of the Connecticut-Louisiana and the Michigan-South Carolina types. Now that fuller details have reached here regarding the Cuniberti battleship, with which Italy expects to outclass the Dreadnaught, there is less disposition than ever to overestimate the importance of Italy's move. The assumption that the biggest battleship can whip one a few hundred tons smaller leaves out of account the matter of seamanship, brains, courage, marksmanship, and relative efficiency, says Harper's Weekly. American warships may not be as big as the biggest, but in personnel and equipment they equal anything afloat. Our newest warships have a steaming radius of 5,000 miles, much greater than that of any other battleships afloat. This is a very important element in the fighting efficiency of all war vessels, and one in which the large English and Italian battleships are likely to fall. The Indifferent Citizen. Indifference is the blight that affects all efforts for better things. The prosperous citizen is optimistically confident that things are going right and that any side-stepping must be only temporary. So he lets them go and is content to think that he, at least, has nothing to worry about. Comfortably fixed in the first cabin with all the luxuries of modern life about him, he cares nothing what other people in the same ship are doing—whether they are scuttling it, setting it afire or preparing a mutiny; all he knows or cares about is that it's mighty pleasant right where he is and that's enought. This negligence and indifference clear the way for those who do care and who have selfish ends to serve. All the deals and machinations that make modern politics disreputable are due, fundamentally, to the neglect of the great majority to be alert, says the Hartford, Conn., Courant. It is nonsense to say that society itself is rotten. It holds together just because of its sweet and wholesome strength. The piratical element that lives on it is tolerated, not dominant. Our Coal Supply. Occasionally fears are expressed that the coal supply of the United States will give out. This apprehension is entertained because this country, while surpassing all others in production, is also the greatest coal consumer in the world. But every now and then comes the announcement of a new discovery which shows that the limit has not yet been reached. A vein in Pennsylvania has just been found which the experts say contains millions on millions of tons of coal, and they roughly estimate its value at $50,000,000 to $75,000,000. It is about as difficult to convince people of the danger of a complete exhaustion of the coal supply as it is to make them believe in the reality of an ice famine. Fredrick Peterson, M. D., President of the New York Neurological Society and member of the New York Lunacy Commission, says that in the life in New York City the friction is greater than in any other known existence endured for long periods of time by large numbers of people. Each day finds presented the proof that more and more we are verging on the limits of human endurance. Suggestions for the New State Constitution. BY W. H. (COIN) HARVEY. Note-All those who are studying the problem of civilization, and they are many, feel an interest in the constitution to be enacted by the new state of Oklahoma. It is an opportunity to benefit all mankind, whereby the new state may aid in solving the many questions now disturbing and vexing the world. We, the people of the state of Oklahoma, in the enactment of a fundamental law for the guidance of ourselves and posterity, herewith first give emphasis to the following elementary principles upon which we believe a true civilization will be founded: 1. The true purpose of government should be the promotion and development of the human race. 2. The welfare of the individual is best served by promoting the good of all. 3. It is essential to the advancement of civilization that the people should be honest, self-reliant, industrious and home owners, and it should be the concern of all to protect and promote the common welfare, from which the individual receives the benefits of civilization. 4. A nation is weak where a majority are tenants and lacking in self-reliance and industry. And on the other hand, where a people are home owners, industrious and self-reliant, they are stronger industrially, mentally, morally and physically. 5. Selfishness and vanity in the individual is an embarrassment to the true advancement of civilization, prompting the individual to pluck and injure the common good that he may selfishly promote self, and where this spirit is dominant in a government, and permitted to grow, it is crystallized into laws, becomes the mother of monarchy and tyranny and tends to the corruption and overthrow of civilization. 6. Thah form of government is best that will hold in check the vanity and selfishness of a people and at the same time develop an honest, self-respecting, self-reliant, public spirited and industrious people, having an earnest desire for the promotion and advancement of civilization. In harmony with the foregoing principles, we the people of the state of Oklahoma, adopt the following constitution: Section 1. All legislative power is vested in the people of the state, to be asserted through direct vote of the people in the form and manner hereinafter provided—except those things provided for in this constitution, which may be altered, changed or repealed, hereafter, by the people. Sec. 2. The method of making laws shall be, first, by petition presented to the state board of directors, hereinafter provided for, signed by voters in number as many as five per cent of the votes polled at the last previous election for state officers, clearly setting forth the proposed law in form as it is desired to be passed and asking that it be submitted to the people. It shall be the duty of the state board of directors on the first Monday in October of each year by proclamation to publish, separately stated, all laws thus asked for, to be voted on the first Tuesday in March thereafter; and each proposed law that shall receive a majority of the votes cast shall become a law. Sec. 3. Each proposed law shall have its object plainly set forth in its title and all signatures to the petition or petitions thereof shall be personally acknowledged before an officer authorized to take acknowledgments to deeds. Section 1. The detail of carrying out the policy of the people is executive and is vested in a state board of directors and such other executive bodies as may be hereinafter provided for. The state board of directors shall consist of a governor, a secretary of state, a state auditor, a state treasurer and a state superintendent of schools, who shall be elect-ed every two years, beginning with the year 1907 on the first Tuesday in March and installed in office on the second Tuesday in May following. Except that for the year 1907 said election of state officers shall be held..... Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the state board of directors to supervise and direct all business of the state; to submit to the people for their approval or disapproval all proposed laws properly petitioned for, and to carry out the will of the people. Sec. 3. The first state board of directors will adopt by-laws to govern them and their successors in office, in their proceedings, wherein a majority will rule; and wherein the duties and responsibilities of each will be defined; but any part of said by-laws may be amended, altered or repealed by said board or its successors in office at any time by a majority vote upon 10 days' notice to each member. Sec. 4. The attorney general and all other state officers, not herein provided for, shall be appointed by the state board of directors and removed by them at will. And it shall be lawful for the state board of directors in its by-laws to confer this power on the governor. Section 1. It shall be the duty of the state board of directors to appoint a commission of five men to be known as the "Code Commission to compile a Code or ARTICLE I. Legislative Powers. ARTICLE II. A Code of Laws. civil and criminal procedure, and said state board of directors may removed and fill vacancies in said commission at its pleasure. Secs. 2, 3, and 4 provide for powers of Code Commission and practically covers go under this article will naturally suggest itself. all subjects found in a state code of laws. Sec. 5. Said Code Commission first appointed shall immediately enter upon its duties and as soon as practicable shall complete and publish said Code of laws. And it shall publish first in said Code of lawe this constitution, secondly the by-laws of the state board of directors, thirdly the by-laws or manual it shall adopt to govern its own proceedings. Said Code Commission and its successors shall meet as often and remain in session as long as its duties and public business justify. It shall give public hearings under reasonable regulations. It shall publish annually all changes made in the Code of laws and as often as it deems proper it shall publish a revised edition of the Code of laws. Section 1. The judiciary of the state shall consist of one supreme court; circuit courts, county courts with probate jurisdiction, and justices of the peace. The Code Commission will also provide for such municipal courts as it may deem advisable. It may also in such counties as seem to be proper provide for a separate chancery court and a separate probate court. Sec. 2. All judges and justices of the peace shall be elected by the people. Note—The remainder of what should ARTICLE V. Public Schools. Section 1. Intelligence and virtue being safeguards of liberty and the bulwark of a free and good government, the state shall ever maintain a general, suitable and efficient system of free schools, whereby all persons in the state between the ages of 8 and 21 years may receive gratuitous instruction. Sec. 2. Prejudice, vanity, selfishness and ignorance are the fruitful causes of dissension, corruption and failure in government. To eliminate these evils and create a broad minded, self respecting, public spirited and honest citizenship is an educational question, most important to all branches of government. Sec. 3. Education, such as commonly imparted in schools, equips with power those of evil intentions as well as those of good intentions and to the extent that education aids the former it may work injury to the state. It is therefore ordained that the preamble to this constitution be printed with large plain type, framed and put on the wall in each school house where all the school children may daily read the same. And the state superintendent of schools shall cause to be provided a non-partisan primer on the subjects in said preamble to be used by the teachers in such way as may be found best to impart its instruction. Sec. 4. The public schools shall consist of as many schools and school buildings in each school district as the trustees may decide and the funds available may provide for and said school buildings shall be substantially built, well ventilated and commodious in character. Sec. 5. There shall be located and built by the state board of directors two normal school buildings in which schools shall be conducted solely for the training of teachers, and the preamble to this constitution shall in a like manner as in other schools be publicly exhibited in the main room of said buildings, and those preparing themselves for teachers shall be proficient in the subject thereof before being awarded a diploma from said schools. Sec. 6. Upon the issuance by the state board of directors of the proclamation containing proposed laws to be voted on by the people, among other methods of publishing and distributing the same, the state superintendent of schools shall immediately mail a sufficient supply to each school teacher in the state to be distributed to the pupils to be taken home by them to heir parents. Sec. 7. Each school house shall be free to the use of the citizens of the school district in which it is located to discuss all proposed laws submitted to the people. Provided, however, such meetings shall be timed so as not to interfere with the regular school session, except, where desired by the election judges, the school house may be used in which to hold elections. It being the purpose to make the school house the corner stone of this constitution. The article provides for the election of United States senators and congressmen by the people. Section 1. It is the intention of this constitution to vest in the people all matters of legislation except non-essentials and matters pro forma, that are vested in a Code Commission; and to vest executive power in a few competent, successful and capable business men of character and integrity who are expected to conduct the business of the state with the ability and success that successful business men conduct private affairs. Note—Under this heading there should be inserted many clauses that may be found in the constitutions of other states. Amendments—New Constitution. Section 1. All laws voted by the people --- ARTICLE IV. The Judiciary Public Schools ARTICLE VI. Congressmen ARTICLE VII ARTICLE VIII will be amendments to this constitution and will annul, repeal or amend any parts hereof in conflict therewith. Sec. 2. A constitutional convention may be called at any time in the usual manner of making laws by the people, namely: By petitions signed by as many as five per cent of the number of voters voting at the last preceding state election and upon the same being adopted by a majority of the votes cast. Whereupon it shall become the duty of the state board of directors to issue a call for such constitutional convention with a basis representation, for the election of delegates, as follows: * * * And it shall fix a date for the election of convention delegates not more than six months distant from the election deciding to call the same; and a date for the convening of such cm constitutional convention not more than 90 days after the election of delegates. Note—The foregoing suggestion of a constitution does not attempt to go into all details, but only into so much as is new and different from other constitutions. There should be clauses providing for indebtedness and many other things that will suggest themselves. An article on primary elections should be inserted providing for nomination of candidates, framed to permit the voters to give first, second and third choice so as to show a clear majority for one candidate. I have fixed March instead of November, as is usual for state elections, because winter is a better time for people to weigh and consider questions than summer. It is the season of the year when people read and reflect the most. If it is claimed that such a constitution would be objectionable to the constitution of the United States, it is answered by article 2, section 10 of amendments to the constitution of the United States, which reads: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states, respectively, or to the people." The constitution here proposed omits a legislature. Where a simple democracy is provided for, a legislature is not necessary. Experience teaches that legislatures are objectionable—resulting in too much legislation; in the election of an unbusiness-like body, lacking in statesmanship; and in corruption and confusion of ideas. The form of government here proposed is intended to ennoble and educate the people; to place the execution of their wishes in the hands of a few whom they can hold directly responsible, instead of in the hands of many who can shif the responsibility for laches and negligence, one upon the other—and the election of a judiciary, by the people, that will pass upon their form of government on all questions arising in the courts. TO ESTABLISH PEOPLE'S LOBBY. MUSKOGEE: In consideration of the fact that many large interests throughout the country will be represented by lobbyists at the constitutional convention which meets at Guthrie November 20, there is strong sentiment here which is expected to result in a "people's lobby," to keep tab on the corporation interests during the convention. This "lobby" will be composed of representatives of the people, who will look after their interests, watching carefully the moves of the men who are working for large interests. The work of each of the delegates, his backing and motive for measures he supports, will be among the things heeded by the "people's lobby." Lobbyists and grafters are assembling in Guthrie ready to protect the interests which pay them good money for their work. It is said that it will be especially so during the constitutional convention. There are many reasons given in support of this statement. Should the new state adopt a reform method against the corporations, other states will seek to follow the precedent established and demand similar laws. This gives the corporations unusual interest in the movements of the law makers of the new state, and it is quite probable that it will be a fight to the finish. The Standard Oil company, the book trust, and the railroads are already charged with "feeling" the delegates and attempting to influence them into the corporation way of thinking. While the time for conferring with the delegates individually has been too brief for any material action, it is safe to assume that the representatives of these three trusts will be on the ground, and are already fairly acquainted with the situation. The Standard Oil can see fields of oil in the new state, which are well worth investigation; there are at present 6,000 miles of railroad in operation; and the book trusts are wanting to furnish text books for the schools of Oklahoma. You Look Prematurely Old” I ISZSS~CS OO INSOMNIA CURED Or, Willlams’ Fink Fills Restored Wrecked Nerves to Normal Con- dition and Good Health Followed. The sufferer from sleeplessness too of- ten resorts to habit-forming drugs in order to secure the coveted rest. But sleep obtained by the use of opiates is not eee ta and the benefit is but et, at best. Mrs. H. A. Fletcher, of 59 Blodget street, Manchester, N. H., is living evi- dence of the truth of this statement. 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Address Lynn, Mass. an Rect Uaderetanda a Woman's Iiic. | W. N. U., MUSKOGEE, NO. 47, 1906. 1@, $1.00, retall. 1890 Chicago, Ill., Nov. 7.—Ferdinand L. Barnett, the negro candidate for justice of the Municipal court on the Republican ticket, won out after a most exciting contest. Carnett's total vote was 87,516 and the vote for Justice Charles H. Callahan, his nearest Democratic opponent, was 86,312. This gives Barnette a lead of 1,204 votes.—Ex. She Stinks. She Stinks. (Continued from first page. till 5 o'clock in the morning, when the day relief came on, and that at that time there were 200 U. S. prisoners in the federal jail. Testimony was taken to show that whisky was brought into the jail in quantities and taken into the private office of the jailor, Gus Lubbes, and that he had his friends there until late in the jail when they would emerge in an intoxicated condition, the allor included. Gertie Vann, who was under indictment for murder, testified to improper relations with the guards and former guards testified that they had been intimate with her and knew that others had been, while she was confined in the jail. On the charge of cruelty it was testified that Albert Yeagen, the bookkeeper, was extremely cruel to the prisoners and would knock them down without provocation, tie them up and whip them until the blood would run down and show through their shirts. Witnesses testified that they asked the discharge of Leagon and told the jailor of his acts of cruelty, to which the jailor replied that he was a valuable man. They testified that the reason, they believed, that Lubbes refused to discharge Yeagon was because he threatened to expose the graft existing if he was discharged. The graft charged is that overalls were purchased from the Patterson Mercantile company, of Muskogee, at a certain price, charged to the government and that a rebate was received. Testimony was offered in an attempt to prove that Yeagon in his capacity as bookkeeper learned of the rebate and used it as a club on the jailor. to keep his job and do as he pleased. The guards, it is charged, were sworn to secrecy concerning anything that transpired in the jail on penalty of losing their jobs if it was learned that they had been talking Testimony was introduced that Jailor Lubbes himself did not during the period of six months, over which the investigation extended, or was taken, stay at the jail on an average of more than thirty minutes a day. The charge is made that at night government supplies were taken from the jail and loaded in a wagon and hauled away, such as meat, beans and blankets and that whenever any of the guards needed any blankets they took them. NOTICE OF MORTGAGEE'S SALE. Whereas on the 26th day of June 1906, Laura Lee, Julius H. Lee and Pinkie Lee Crisp, (nee Pinkie Lee) delivered a promissory note for borrowed money to Wm. P. Fields payable October 1st 1906, in the sum of $300 with 8 per cent interest per annum after date and did secure the said note by mortgage with power of sale upon the following realty, viz: Lots One (1), and Nine (9), in Block Two Hundred and Eighty Four (284), and Lot One (1), in Block Two Hundred and Eighty Five (285), all in the townsite of Muskogee, Recording District No. 10 in the Western Judicial District, Indian Territory, wherin, upon default of payment of sand note the said mortgagee, Wm. P. Fields was authorized to sell the said real estate upon one month's notice by publication, and make a proper conveyance to the purchaser thereof. The said mortgage was duly recorded in Record of Mortgages 71 at page 34 in the office of Register of Deeds—Clerk of U. S. court—in the City of Muskogee aforesaid. And, whereas the said mortgagors have failed to pay said note, are in default and the said Mortgage has become absolute. Now, therefore, in accordance with the terms of said mortgage the undersigned trustee therein named, will, on Monday, the 3d day of Decembr, 1906, at the hour of One (1) p. m., at the East door of the United States Court building in the City of Muskogee, in the Western District of the said Territory, sell the said real estate at public sale. Dated October 30th 1906. DOMINOES FREE TO If you'll tell us the number and kind of live stock your papa will ship this year, you'll get a nice set of dominoes. Rice Brothers Commission Merchants. Kansas City Stock Yards." P S—Give papa's name in full. Notice. Let me build you a house on small installments, thereby, saving your rent money, and living in your own house all the time. See Rev. J. M. Dade, Miner London, Susie London, Fannie Tucker and Nancy Lynch, as to the way I treat my customers. Will loan money for 5, 7 and 10 years on farm lands and city property, in any amount where it is well secured. Make short loans also. No. 1 English Block. W. P. FIELDS, Muskogee, I. T. SACCA MORTGAGE 15 YEAR 50 YEAR AFRICAN AFFAIRS Whereas on the 3d day of February 1905 Ells London Baxter Rogers delivered two promissory notes for borrowed money to Wm. P. Fields upon which there remains a balance due $450.00 with interest thereon from date at the rate of 8 per cent per annum payable April 1st. 1905 and did secure the same by mortgage with Power of Sale upon Lot 21 in Block 58in the townsite of the City of Muskogee. Recording District No. 10, in the Western Judicial District of the Indian Territory wherein the said Mortgagee Wm. P. Fields upon default in payment of said notes was authorized to sell the said real estate upon one month's notice by publication and make a proper conveyance to the purchaser thereof and said instrument was duly recorded in record of Mortgages 33 at page 312 in the office of Register of Deeds in the City of Muskogee aforesaid. 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