Muskogee Cimeter

The Muskogee Cimeter. The following is from Kansas City Journal of January 2, 1907. GUTHRIE, O. T., Jan. 1- if boodle was used. Vol 8 (special) E. C. Echols, a leading Greer counts democrat and editor of the Mangum Star, has addressed an open letter to president Murray, demanding an investigation of charges that money was used to influence the formation of counties by the constititional convention. He asks Murray to appoint a committee to ascertain the facts and to punish the guilty parties BIXBY GETS HIS REWARD FOR SELLING OUT HIS PARTY. POLITICAL TRAITORS PRAISE EACH OTHER In Their Newspaper Where credit is due bestow credit. Justice is not done nor party interest advanced by reckless criticism of officials of opposite parties. If Mr. Bixby is in error let his accusers come out in the open and state their charges and prove them but cease their indefinate and mean insinuations. So far as is apparent to the goood people of Muskogee from Muskogee, I. T., Friday, January, 4, 1907. Echols refers to a charge recently made by C. B. Douglass of Muskogee, that $5,000 was demanded and received in the formation of Muskogee county to suit the city of Muskogee, also to charges that have come to his ears that certain men would clear up a million dollar s from the map deal. He also asks that report that Altus paid $5,000 to secure the Zigzag lines across Greer county be investigated. years of close observations, Mr. Bixby is a model officer in every way; honest, capable and vigorous in the discharge of all business. It is marvelous that he could for so many years hold his own against contending intriguing elements, set to rule or ruin and the Government will do well to look into the case fully before letting go such a man as we believe Mr. Bixby to be. Judas Iscariot betrayed his Savior for thirty pieces of silver Tans Bixby betrayed the Republican party for thirty lines of personal gush in a democratic paper. Tans Bixby sat in the Republican Convention last Summer at Muskogee and because it did not go his way he called a meeting of the disgruntled Republicans and these organized a mutual admiration society known in the New State politics ss the "Party wreckers association", and agreed to sup- Is the to get anything in the Groceries line. Number 304 South 2nd St. Phone Those present were Tans Bixby, chairman of the Dawes Committee, given him by a Republican President and paying $5,000 a year; G. W. Robertson, ex asssstant U. S. District Atty. and defeated candidate for chairman of the Convention and general party disturber. C. B. Douglass who sold the Phoenix during the campaign, to the Democrats and several others Here they solemnly agreed to support C. N. Haskell, a Dem. who hates every Republican and every Republican policy as delegate to the Constitutional Convention. Had they agreed to support Lanning. Jones or Bucher we would have had a Republican instead of a Democrat from the 76th District. C. N. Haskell was party to the political robbery thinking to steal the Democratic nomination he could not get in a fair open fight in his party caucus and agreeing to accept all these political Judas Iscariots could betray and deliver into his hands. Haskell threw down his party these political betrayers delivered into his hands a Republican delegate district. Bixby knew it was a Republican District, as a member of the districting board he fixed it as such. As a member of the Election board he agreed to bind the Republican party hand and foot and to deliver it to the Haskell Democratic machine and thus brand himself forever in the minds of fair minded Republicans as Judas Iscariot Bixby. In consideration for his politi treachery in a time of vital importance to the Republican party in the new state, Bixby gets these thirty lines of Denipraise in a Democratic paper and now when he is under very grave charges before the Interior Department at Warhington for malfeasance in a high politi No 15 cal office. Well Bixby you need it for no good Republican will volunteer such a silly lie to clean our political and official garments. Reporter The fight for Governor of the new state is and we still maintain that our candidate is the only man who can lick Lades of the Queen. He is the most popular man in the party and can poll more Democratic votes than any man in the party. The report is that Judge Town send will be appointed Judge of the Eastern District. If this be true then the deal made heretofore among some fellows has fallen down. and there is much "cussing" in the camp. Out in Western Oklahoma even the Democrats are "cussing" the fellows at Guthrie who are responsible for the division of their Counties, There will be a merry fight among the unwashed when election day comes and many a budding Democratic statesman will be consigned to oblivion. The Democrats at Guthrie have cut the state into such Counties as they believe they can carry and even some doubtful Republicans have voted for the misfit. We think the county line stench alone sufficient to condemn the Constitution to the regions of Pluto. The Republican party can win in the ensueing campaign if the leaders can quit knocking each other. This is a Republican County and a Republican city but if Democrats are to name our candidtates then of course we will have only the weak milk and cider cusses to vote for and that means defeat. Muskogee Cimeter. W. H. TWINE, Editor. MUSKOGEE. IND. TER. Authors Misinterpreted. This is an age of illustrated books and periodicals, and there has been much complaint of late that the artists too often misinterpret the meaning of an author, or wilfully misrepresent him in the perverse carrying out of their own ideas. Indeed, sometimes it seems as if the illustrator had not read the passage he pretends to picture, and has drawn entirely on his imagination for the work of his pencil. This complaint of the artist's failure to interpret properly the work of a novelist or poet is an old one, and in the past numerous protests have been made against the manner in which works of fiction have been illustrated. The New York Mail calls attention to the fact that Charles Dickens indignantly objected to Hablot K. Brown's manner of illustrating "Dombey & Son," especially in his presentation of Paul and Mrs. Pipchin. He also found fault with the caricatures of George Cruikshank in his stories, and, indeed, would not let some of them that were submitted to him appear. No doubt many people got their idea of Dickens' characters from the pictures of the famous caricaturist, and after the break between the two men Cruikshank said that he was the originator of some of the things that Dickens claimed were his own original conceptions. Dickens refused some drawings by Thackeray because he thought they were not adapted to his creations, and there is no doubt that Dickens took little advice from his ocntemporaries, though he did use many of the peculiarities of his friends in the people he introduced into his novels. He was a realist, but in an exaggerated vein, which has no counterpart in the realism of our day, and his father was burlesqued in Wilkins Micawber and his mother in Mrs. Nickleby, while he made Leigh Hunt masquerade as Harold Skinpole. The dwarf, Miss Moucher, was taken from real life, and the archetype was much incensed over the fantastic dress in which she was made to appear. Nevertheless, Dickens did not want any mistakes made in the portraying of his characters by the pencil, any more than he wanted his stories unsatisfactorily dramatized for the stage. This misrepresentation by artists, however, could be reformed altogether, we believe, if they would always consult the authors before they completed their tasks. It is Spanish gossip that when Princess, afterward Queen, Victoria complained to her uncle, King William that some ladies of the court in Madrid objected because she proposed to entertain English friends who were not of the royal family, her uncle advised her to "be a sensible girl," and said, "Do not make enemies. Respect people's stupidities when necessary. In time, if you are wise, you will have everything your own way." Whether the king ever said this or not, it is pretty good advice for everyone. The negro who has just died at Washington at the age of 114 declared that he had a clear recollection of the war of 1812 and the capture of Washington by the British, but strangely enough he never claimed to have been a body servant of George Washington. In view of the fact that Premier Clemenceau is a habitual duelist, the new French ministry can reckon on having peaceful sessions. FOULKE SWATS THE TERRITORY WHITE MEN DEALING IN INDIAN TITLES DUBBED GRAFTERS. TO RESTORE TOWN LOTS LAND VALUED AT $6,000,000 TAKEN FROM INDIANS BY FRAUD. Matter Has Been Placed in Hands of Legal Department of Secretary Hitchcock—Wholesale Fraud to be Undone by Government Officials. WASHINGTON: The statement was made here upon the authority of an official of the interior department that steps will soon be taken with a view of returning to the Creek nation in the Indian Territory valuable town lots secured by certain persons through a system of fraudulent scheduling. The matter has been placed in the hands of the law officer of the department of Secretary Hitchcock. Instructions have been given that proceedings shall be instituted at once whereby the lands in question, said to be valued at approximately $6,000,-000 shall be returned to the tribe, and that if possible the persons known to have violated the law be prosecuted. The officials refuse to discuss the contents of the report made by William Dudley Foulke on the town site frauds. From sources outside of the department, it is learned, Mr. Foulke reported in substance to Secretary Hitchcock that Indian Territory is overrun by the worst gang of predatory grafters in the world. "I would like to see my report given to the public," said Mr. Foulke. "As I am serving in a subordinate capacity, however, it is not for me to say what disposition shall be made of it." Mr. Foulke said that while in the Indian Territory he had found a new definition of the word "Grafter." It is this: "Grafter(n)—A white man dealing in Indian titles." ADVERTISE NEW STATE. Meeting Called to Arrange for Oklahoma Exhibit at Jamestown. OKLAHOMA CITY: An invitation has been sent out by the Oklahoma Federation of Commercial and Industrial organizations of the two territories calling a general meeting in this city on January 3, for the purpose of formulating plans for the proper representation of the state of Oklahoma at the Jamestown exposition, which is to be held this year from April until November. A bill will be presented to the first legislature asking that an appropriation of $50,000 be made to defray the expenses of an exhibit, but as the legislature will not be in session in time to act on this matter, the funds will necessarily have to be secured by popular subscription, to be refunded if the legislature will make an appropriation for the purpose. It is desired to have Oklahoma represented by a comprehensive exhibit, as the principal patronage of the exposition will be from eastern states, where so little is known of fair Oklahoma, and it is worth a great deal to the interests of this state to show the eastern population of the United States that we have development equal to any section of the east or west. Charles Carter, secretary of the democratic state committee, has announced himself as a candidate for the democratic nomination for congress from the Fourth district. MORE LAND FOR SCHOOLS. Governor Frantz Locates Additional 30,000 Acres Under Grant. Governor Frantz is in receipt of a decision by the secretary of the interior to the effect that under the provisions of section 6 of the Statehood bill, all of sections 13 in every part of the territory which had not been filed on or otherwise disposed of previous to June 16, 1906, are granted to the state for the benefit of the college fund. Sections 13 in the Cherokee strip. the Wichita, Klowa, Comanche and Apache reservations and Greer county were reserved from settlement at the time that these counties were opened, these sections being held for the benefit of the college fund of the future state. In old Oklahoma, the Sac and Fox, Iowa, Pottawatomie, Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations and Beaver county, sections 13 were not reserved and were open to settlement. Under the provisions of section 8 of the Statehood act, however, all sections 13 in any of these reservations or counties which were not filed on up to June 16 go to the state for the college fund. This grant is entirely independent of the special grant of 1,050,000 acres of land made to the individual colleges by the Statehood act, and gives the state about 30,000 acres of land in addition to that previously reserved for the college fund. INVESTIGATE CONDITIONS. Congressman Klepper of Missouri Makes Study of Needs TULSA: Congressman Frank M. Klepper, of the third Missouri district, has been making a personal investigation of the conditions and immediate needs of the Indian Territory. In an interview he said that he expects soon after the first of the year, as the result of a recent investigation of the senate committee on Indian affairs, some very beneficial legislation, particularly for Indian Territory, will be introduced in the senate. As a member of the committee on territories he wishes to be in possession of knowledge gained by personal investigation that he may the more intelligently champion such measures as he believes greatly needed when they come before the house. Mr. Klepper was greatly impressed with the fact that the cities and towns in Indian Territory are so far in advance of the country. This, however, he knows to be due to the stringent restrictions on Indian lands, which has had the result of keeping settlers away and will continue to do so until after a change for the better is made. Mr. Klepper favors the removal of all restrictions except as refer to homesteads of full bloods. GRA7ING IN WICHITA FOREST. Provision Made for Feeding of 3,500 Head of Stock. LAWTON: Provision has been made for the grazing of 3,500 head of cattle and horses on the Wichita forest reserve during the season of 1907. Not more than 300 head are to be allowed to any one person, company or firm. The summer grazing period will be from May to November 15, the grazing fee for which will be 35c per head on cattle and 50c a head on horses. The year long grazing period will be from January 1 to December 21, 1907, the grazing fee for which will be 50c a head for cattle and 70a head on horses. No half rate allowance will be made for the season of 1907. Land reserved for the national buffalo pasture and rangers' pasture is not subject to the grazing regulations. The rules and regulations governing grazing are in the hands of E. F. Morrisey, forest supervisor, Cache, Okla. Fire destroyed a cotton gin at Cache last week, totalling a loss of $1,500. MERGING OF ASSOCIATIONS NEW STATE PEDAGOGUES JOINED IN HOLY WEDLOCK BONDS. BUCK FOR PRESIDENT ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND ADOPTION OF CONSTITUTON. Largest Attended Meeting in History of Southwest Successfully Overcomes Difficulty in Amalgamation—Dr. David Starr Jordan Lectures. SHAWNEE: The Oklahoma Teachers' association and that part of the Indian Territory Teachers' association in session here, comprising more than half of the latter organization, amalgamated Friday as one association, to be known as the Oklahoma State Teachers' association. An invitation was extended to the part of the association in session at Muskogee to join the new amalgamated association next year, and these was little doubt that course would be adopted, as in the amalgamation here no factions were recognized. After the formal adoption of the amalgamation resolution the new association was divided into five districts, to conform to the congressional districts, and from each of these two members of a nominating committee were selected, and the following officers were elected for the coming year: President, Supt. Buck of Guthrie; vice president, N. L. Cowart of Wilburton; secretary, Miss Maude Widdaman, Caddo county; treasurer, Supt. McCabe of Kingfisher; executive committee, chairman, Supt. Masters of Tulsa, and Supt. Kersey of Newkirk and Supt. Balcomb of Chandler. The executive committee will name the meeting place for next year. The formal adoption of a constitution was a matter of short time after the report of the executive committee was read and the formal business was then concluded. Friday afternoon and night the public and the teachers heard addresses by Dr. David Starr Jordan of Leland Stanford university of Oklahoma on the work of state universities. The meeting was the largest attended in the history of state meetings in the southwest, and what seemed a difficulty in the way of amalgamation was successfully overcome. RACE FEELING HIGH Negro Soldier Assaults White Woman on Streets of El Reno EL RENO: Race feeling was at white heat and threats of lynching were heard on every hand as a result of an assault committed on Mrs. T. S. Clifford, wife of a prominent physician, by a negro supposed to be a soldier of the Twenty-fifth infantry. Mrs. Clifford and her sister, Mrs. S. H. Clarke, were attempting to pass the soldier, when he viciously grabbed Mrs. Clifford around the waist and threw her into the street, exclaiming that the sidewalk belonged to him. Mrs. Clarke screamed for assistance and her assailant fled, escaping before help arrived. The negro escaped and the chase was given up because if he is a soldier he would have to return to the fort or be pursued as a deserter. A company has been organized to pipe natural gas into Hobart. Four wells have been sunk on the farm of G. W. Stone, and flows 6,000,000 cubic feet daily are said to have been developed. Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR RESTORER. Price, $1.00, retail. THE PROGRESS OF THE CANADIAN WEST. Nearly 200,000 of an Increase in Canada's Immigration in 1906. The progress of a new country cannot be better ascertained than by noting the increase of railroad mileage in its transportation system, and, judged by this standard, the Canadian West leads all the countries in the world during the current year. Thirty years ago there was not one hundred miles of railroad west of the Great Lakes, and very little prospect of a transcontinental route for many years to come, but by the end of 1885 the Canadian Pacific Railway was within measurable distance of completion, and last year—twenty years later—over 6,000 miles of railroad traversed the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. In the past year the work of railroad construction has been vigorously prosecuted, and by the end of 1906, some 5,000 miles of completed railroad has been added, making a total of fully 11,000 miles in the three great grain producing provinces of Canada. Such an increase in the transportation facilities of the country is bound to make good times not only in the districts where the railroads are being built, but throughout the entire west. Allowing $20,000 a mile for construction, the sum of $100,000,000 will be put in circulation, and this in itself should cause good times to prevail in a land where work is plentiful, wages are high, and the cost of living is moderate. But the building of new railroads through Western Canada means a greater benefit to the country than merely the money put in circulation by the cost of construction. Additional railway building means the opening of new agricultural districts and an additional area under crops; a largely increased output of grain to foreign markets with consequent financial returns; the erection of elevators and the growth of villages, towns and cities; and everything else that makes for the progress of national life, and the opening up of additional thousands of free homesteads, so extensively advertised by the Canadian government agent, whose address appears elsewhere. It was stated on the floor of the Canadian Parliament recently by a prominent representative that ten years from now would see the bulk of the population of Canada residing west of the Great Lakes, and if the work of railway building during the present year is any criterion, the prophecy made by the Canadian statesman may be easily fulfilled inside of the time stated. During the present year no less than 189,064 persons have found homes in the Canadian west, of whom 57,796 were Americans who have seen the great possibilities of this new West, and have decided to cast in their lot with it. Certainly, our neighbor north of the 49th parallel is making a great record, and deserves the success that appears to be coming its way. World's Largest Pin Factory. Birmingham, Eng., boasts the largest pin factory in the world, where 37,000,000 pins are manufactured every working day. Don't Delay The season of coughs and colds is not yet past—they will be prevalent for some months to come. Do not neglect or experiment with them. Use the safe and sure remedy—Simmons' Cough Syrup. It heals the soreness and stops the cough. Nothing is more displeasing than vanity—in others. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. Some men get as tired of being married as some women do of not being. Perfectly simple and simply perfect is dyeing with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. 10c per package. With some people there is no such word as fail; with others there is no such word as enough. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. Drugs's refund money if it fails to cure. E. W GROVES signature is on each box. 25c. Country youths sow wheat and raise corn, but some of their city cousins sow wild oats and raise Cain. Garfield Tea is made of herbs—a great point in its favor! Take it for constipation, indigestion and liver disturbances. Look out for the bright, for the brightest side of things, and keep thy face constantly turned to it.Jeremy Bentham. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Char. H. Fletcher. In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. Strangely Mounted. The strangest military body in the world is a band of cavalry at Saint de Moorvay, a province on the east coast of Africa, which is under the rule of the French governor general at Madagascar. These soldiers go about their military operations on oxen. The animals are lean creatures, and it is said they move with surprising rapidity. Art in Hand-Made Articles. Oscar S. Straus, the new secretary of commerce and labor, is a connoisseur of pottery and porcelains. "Machinery," he said, "has robbed us of our useful arts to a great extent. In machine-made things there can be no artistic quality, no individual expression. In hand-made things, even the humblest, there is always an opportunity for art to show itself." ELEVEN YEARS OF ECZEMA. Hands Cracked and Bleeding—Nail Came Off of Finger—Cuticura Remedies Brought Prompt Relief. "I had eczema on my hands for about eleven years. The hands cracked open in many places and bled. One of my fingers was so bad that the nail came off. I had often heard of cures by the Cuticura Remedies, but had no confidence in them as I had tried so many remedies, and they all had failed to cure me. I had seen three doctors, but got no relief. Finally my husband said that we would try the Cuticura Remedies, so we got a cake of Cuticura Soap, a box of Cuticura Ointment, and two bottles of Cuticura Resolvent Pills. Of course I keep Cuticura Soap all the time for my hands, but the one cake of Soap and half a box of Cuticura Ointment cured them. It is surely a blessing for me to have my hands well, and I am very proud of having tried Cuticura Remedies, and recommend them to all suffering with eczema. Mrs. Eliza A. Wiley, R. F. D. No. 2, Liscomb, Iowa, Oct. 18, 1906." Taking Precautions. When Speaker Cannon was swearing in some new members Congressman J. Adam Bede remarked: "Uncle Joe makes 'em hold up their right hands when taking the oath to see that they haven't anything but their undershirts up their sleeves." The Power Behind the Dough! KG BAKING POWDER 25 ounces for 25 cents A real power that raises and sustains the dough with absolute certainty. No failures. A cake made with K C cannot fall. We insist upon refunding your money if a trial does not convince you. JAques Mfg. Co. Chicago JAP YOUTH ON SCHOOLSHIP. Will Get Thorough Training on an American Boat. The first Japanese youth to be admitted to the crew of the schoolship St. Mary's is Katzern Artyoshi. Artyoshi, who is 17 years old, has been in the revenue cutter service on the Pacific for the last three years. As it is necessary for all foreigners who wish to become members of the schoolship's crew to have a guardian, Artyoshi was forced to get one before he could be admitted to the crew. He succeeded in getting Capt. Osborn to act in that capacity. Capt. Osborn will coach the boy along and help him over the hard points in his lessons. Artyoshi has not made up his mind yet whether he will remain in this country or go home to Japan after he has been graduated from the schoolship. A term on the schoolship fits a boy for service in the merchant marine. Artyoshi says he likes the United States and may stay here, but if Japan ever goes to war he will return home quickly as possible to take part in it. Sultan Makes Concession. The sultan has given up opposing the introduction of electric light in Constantinople, and ere long that city will be lighted at night for the first time. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES CURES RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES BACKACHE have discontinued the use of our favourable package. The public may rely on imitations, sold only in盒装 BUILDERS MATERIAL We manufacture all kinds of mill work, sash, doors, mouldings and hardwood finish. Write us for prices. MUSKOGEE SASH & DOOR CO.. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE. CARTERS LITTLE IVER PILLS. Genuine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature Brew Good REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. LEWIS' SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT 5$CIGAR You Pay 10c. for Cigars Not so Good. F.P.LEWIS Peoria, Ill. Canadian Government WESTERN CANADA WESTERN CANADA FREE Over 200,000 American farmers who have settled in Canada during the past few years testify to the fact that Canada is, beyond question, the greatest farming land in the world. OVER NINETY MILLION BUSHELS of wheat from the harvest of 1906 means good money to the farmers of Western Canada when the world has to be fed. Cattle Raising, Dairying and Mixed Farming are also profitable callings. Coal, wood and water in abundance; churches and schools convenient; markets easy of access. Taxes low. For advice and information address the Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or any authorized Canadian Government Agent. J. S. CRAWFORD, No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. DEFIANCE STARCH never sticks to the iron. W. N. U., MUSKOGEE, NO. 1, 1907. paper, recently came out in great big red headlines throwing boquets to the constitutional convention about our county boundaries, and saying in big letters "It is democratic too." Hopkins voted for this measure. Is this his pay to the democrats for electing him. ANOTHER ELECTION Judge Gone Wrong. George pointed ju George Tate who was appointed judge of the election by A. Z. English for the 8th precinct of the 75th disttict on the recommendation of R. P. Harrison, Tom Samson, J. B. Campbelle and the six shooter combination was arrested the other day shipping into the territory two big barrels of Alco hol. Its a wonder he did not have it here by Election day. 1st Dont attend the meetings. 2nd Aacuse every member of being dishonest except yourself 3rd Scrap over the initiation of candidates. 4th Quarrel at each meeting about nothing. 5th Dont pay sick and death benefits without a long drown argument. 6th Elect for your officers the popular fellow, whether he knows any thing or not. 7th Open your lodge meeting at ten Oclock and stay there all night. 8th Never attend the funeral of a brother. 9th Take in any body for membership, jail birds, drunkards, gamblers and wife beaters. 10th Never speak well of your Lodge—Pythian Monitor. 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Bury the hatchet and dont the handle sticking up. The democrat gang at Guthrie are making such MESS making county sites, that charges of bribery are coming from their own party. And all of this cusseduess will make them easy marks in the next campaign. We were not at South McAlister and no one connected with this paper was there and had nothing to do with any transactions at that place. The rumors afloat about us are all infamous lies made of whole cloth. The things were to high up for any. Negro to take a hand, or be conversant with the facts. And again we are not satisfied with a committee that has no representative of ours on it. We plead not guilty to any thing done at the South town meeting. The Republican Committee of the two territories got to gather at South McAlester recently and amalgamated this was the proper thing to do and we nope that the new organization will to work and win a glorious victory. We believe Mr. Hamon is capable of leading the forces of the Grand old Party to success. Let all of us get in line and obey orders and like true soldiers and victory is ours It is just awfulwhen you read in the Metropolitin Dailies how some of our constitution makers are working a graft Surely there must be some truth in the assertion that the fellows there who run things will make a million. Let us have peace. Let the republicans of this bailwic get together and whip the opposition. We can do it and we must. The Phoenix, a democratic HOW TO KILL LODGES THE ORIGINAL SCHOOL. Instruction by mail adapted to everyone. Recognized by courts and educators. Experienced and competent instructors. Takes spare time only. Three courses - Preparatory, Business, College. Prepares for practice. Will letter your condition and prospects in business. Students and graduates everywhere. Full particulars and special offer FREE. THE PRASBUE CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL OF LAW, 844 MARINE BLVD. DEBRAIT MICH. 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GENERAL BANKING ABSTRACTS of TITLE, INSURANCE, SURETY BONDS and REAL ESTATE Farm Loans a Specialty Second and Broadway. MUSKOGEE, IND. TER. HASKELL MAY FOOL The Democrats By Talk But Some Republicans Knows Better C. N. Haskell has been fool ing his democratic n.ob at Gu thrie by talking about jim crow cars. This is pure buncome. During the late campaign, it is said that Haskell signed an agreement not to vote for or advocate jim crow cars at Gu thrie. It is said this agreement is signed by C. N. Haskell and is locked up in a safe in Muskogee. Haskell of course is very anxious to please his Southern sympathisers and supporters and is verry loud mouthed about jim crow cars and jim crow laws, but that is as far as it will or does go. If he goes further, his statement and agreement with the republicans here, who supported the democratic ticket and threw down the republican party, which gave them offices, should be published. The republicans who sold out their party may be ashame to deliver but Haskell dare not tempt them. Now that he has cut the heart out of Muskogee County. It is said the agreement further provided, that Haskell should not vote for any provisions, which would take the ballot away from the colored people. Haskell was then willing to do anything for republican votes and some republicans voters (mostly federal office holders here] were willing to go into any kind of a deal in order to defeat the republican party which was endorsed by the people. But we will see. An election will soon be on, and these Lilly white office holders, city and federal with Haskell and his tools, will find out the temper of the people who stand for justice and the grand old party whether they have officer or not. INDIANS TO BE PARDONED. Why Not Colored Men. Morton Rutherford said in Guthrie the other day that the 400 Indians now in the federal penitentiary ought to be pardoned so that they could vote at the first election. This seems strange, but so many strange things go in this land that it may be done. Of course if that is done the 399 colored men in the penitentiary should be turned out so they could vote at the first election. They might be challenged by Tom Sanson and the six shooters and charged four bits to pay a notary public to draw up their affidavit showing that they had lived here 20 years or more but they would at least have a chance to rely find out how small and vicious the six shooter crowd and their bribed supporters have become. Amalgamation. The Richmond, Va., Planet in commenting on Senator Ben Tillman's speech delivered at Augusta, Ga., Oct. 7th, 1906, quotes a few lines from it and says: Senator Tillman said: "Amaigamation is the hope and ultimate purpose of the Negroes. White men are rendering them great aid in this by intimacy with Negro women. The line must be drawn as sternly between white men and Negro women as between black men and white women." Senator, no wyou are talking. On this issue, we'll be with you in the beginning and we shall be with you to the end. Your people have mixed us up so that we are unable at times to tell a colored white man from a white colored man. Amalgamation is just as surely being accomplished when the agency in bringing about this result is a white man on the one side and a Negro woman on the other as it is when there is a colored man on the one side and a white woman on the other. We agree with Senator Tillman and for the reasons specified as well as for racial ones. We are in favor of leading a crusade against both classes of offenders. We confess that we have the best part of the "bargain" however, for we have all of the white colored babies on our side and all of the black ones too, and it has enabled us to have white wives as well as black ones, much to the envy of the white man, who have only one color from which they can legally select. If we were to kill all of the white men that we find clandestinely meeting Negro women, funerals would be taking place in white families every five minutes for a year and it is doubtful if even all of the guilty one would then succeed in securing a decent burial. Keep the white men out of our potato patch, Senator Tillman. Stop them from climbing our back fences when they have overstayed their time in the morning with some Negro woman; whom some black Negro has abandoned, and you will win the lasting gratitude of every colored lady of respectability in the Southland and the hearty support of every honorable citizen of color in America. Official Statement of the Condition of the Commercial Nation'l Bank, Muskogee. Indian Territory, RESOURCES Loans and Discounts $712,003 95 Overdrafts, cotton, 25,989 61 Bonds and Premiums, 206,080 49 Furniture and Fixtures 7,985 11 Cash and Exchange 189,093 48 LIABILITIES Capital $200,000 00 Surplus and Profit 21,572 39 Circulation 150,000 00 Deposits 759,580 25 $1,141,153 64 $1,141,153 64 The above statement correct D N FINK. Cashier, DEPARTMENT OF REFORMING BAD NEGROES. The duty of the young student Negro, in fact his mission in life is, as the recent race riots in Atlanta well emphasises, to work for the reformation and uplift of his weaker and discouraged brother.—'The bad Negro." The bad Negro belongs to us. We have more influence and power over him than others. He is the one who precipitates all race troubles in which the better class always suffers the greatest. What makes the bad Negro? Discriminating in labor, civil and political ostaacism, injustice in courts of law, and consequently, lost of hope for the impartial an the just administration of the government are his just grievances. The laws, customs and practices prevailing and increasing in the extent do not encourage the young Negro to be decent or remain decent and the only alternate left is to resist these wrongs, which dubs him "The bad Negro" Is this not natural? Study the history of the white race in American colonies and elsewhere when unjustly imposed upon. In mnay southern papers we read much about the protection of white women even to defying the constituted authorities of the law, slaughtering and pillaging innocent, non-offending Negroes. Does this not encourage the decent and peaceful Negro to become a "bad Negro!" Crime grows by what it feeeds upon. We applaud the noble utterance of the southern white man to die in protection of his women, and we applaud the same in the young Negro to do likewise in the protection of not only his women but all women. The Negro's trust during the civil war while the masters were away fighting to keep him longer in slavery, was not betrayed, nor is his trust today where in many Southern homes he stands as the faithful between the lone woman and danger. The Southern white man re spects because of her color, the The Negro because of her sex. The moment the Southern white man learns that a drop of Negro blood courses through the veins of any woman he chances to meet, no matter how intelligent nor how ladylike, down go the bars that surround any other lady with the respect and courtesy due from every man to every woman for the reason of her sex. He feels that he has an open license to insult, assault and torment her to his heart's content, with impunity. The tolerated immoralities and conventional concubanage is to well known to all who have ever lived in the Southland. When a Negroes to a court of justice to seek redress on account of these wrongs is given the "horse lough." Right here is where the white people harbor and defend their criminals and thus teach the Negro by example to do likewise. This double standard of morals existing in the South that will bestow a laurel wreath upon the head of a southern white man and make him gifts of valuable property for killing a Negro who insults a white woman, respectable or not respectable; and that will lynch, hang or burn a young Negro for killing a white man who insults a Negro woman, respectable or not respectable; such a standard is not conducive to teaching Negroes to be peaceful and decent; because it is based upon discrimination, injustice and hypocrisy and both white and black man know it. When the Southern white man can out grow these heritages of slavery to the extent that he will recognize the basic causes, publish the the true conditions instead of concealing them, and accord justice, respect and encouragement to Negroe, who are striving to be decent and respectable; then the young student Negro will find that his work, his mission in reforming and uplifting the "the Bad Negro" will be much more responsive to his united, constant efforts. NEWS OF THE WEEK Most Important Happenings of the Past Seven Days. Interesting Items Gathered from All parts of the World Condensed Into Small Space for the Benefit of Our Readers. Personal. Charles Beckwith Fink, editor of the Latrobe, Pa., Advance, and father of the manager of the Sioux City, Ia., News, dropped dead at his home recently. President Castro of Venezuela is growing worse and his condition is critical. Henry Watterson and Mrs. Watterson of Louisville, Ky., are in Barcelona, Spain, where they are expected to remain one month. L. Klopsch, editor of the Christian Herald, was the first to respond to President Roosevelt's call for help for Chinese famine sufferers. Gov. Hoch of Kansas has issued a pardon to Orrin Beauchamp who was serving a sentence for criminal carelessness in handling a revolver. Gen. Alfaro has been formally elected president of Epuador for the next four years. Immigration Commissioner Watchorn is authority for the statement that the number of aliens who land in this country this year will reach 1,050,000. Hicks, the Bakersfield, Cal., miner who was imprisoned by a cave-in has after 16 days, in which he lay on his side without room to sit up, been released by the gang of rescuers who have worked all the time night and day to dig him out. Mrs. Susan Caldwell was declared not guilty of murdering her husband by a jury in the district court at Salina, Kan. This was her third trial, two former juries having disagreed. It is stated that James Bryce who is supposed will become British Ambassador at Washington has declined a peerage and will be the first plain citizen to represent that country here. Samuel A. Morgan, an old Indian scout and interpreter for Gen. Henry Leavenworth, the founder of Fort Leavenworth, died in that city recently aged 104 years. T. E. Brady, a prominent lawyer of Great Falls, Mont., has been indicted for illegal fencing of government land. Representative Gaines, of Tennessee, in searching through old records at the national capitol, has discovered an old statute which prohibits congressmen from collecting salaries when absent from their official duties, unless detained by sickness. John J. Saphore, a veteran actor who played with the elder John Drew, is dead at the Edwin Forest Home in Philadelphia. Miner Hicks, who was recently released after spending 16 days in a shaft at Bakersfield, Cal., has signed a contract to go on the lecture platform, at $500 per week. Harrison Parkman, the man who first brought alfalfa from South America and planted it in the United States, died recently in Emporia, Kan., aged 73 years. Miscellaneous. Otto G. Stallard, charged with embezzling $20,000 from the Peoples' National bank at Sedan, Kan., has returned to that place and voluntarily surrendered to the authorities. In an address at New York Dr. Josiah Strong, president of the American Institute of Social Service, declared that 1,100 personr are killed by accidents in the United States every week. The Mississippi authorities declare that the recent bloodshed in Kemper county was caused by white hoodlums who will be prosecuted for murder if captured. Gov. Magoon denies that there is any trouble threatened in Santa Clara province. Cuba. The Kansas City Stock Yards company distributed among its 400 employees in amounts of from five to $20 each, the sum of $2,500 as Christmas presents. At the close of the investigation at Kansas City of the freight car shortage it was announced that the interstate commerce commission would meet soon in Washington and recommend to congress legislation for the relief of shippers. The tipping over of an oil stove in a car of household goods sec fire to the car and J. S. Gilliland and another man who were in the car were burned to death in the Rock Island yard at St. Joseph, Mo. In order to prevent the Standard Oil company from getting control of the pipe lines in Indian territory Secretary Hitchcock has prepared stringent regulations which give the interior department complete supervision of the companies owning the pipe lines. W. E. Johnson, special agent sent from Washington to stop "bootlegging" in Indian territory, recently destroyed 23 consignments of liquor at Muskogee. The G. A. R., of Denver and vicinity are angry because a national guard commander sold cannon that were used at Gettysburg to Chicago junk dealers. Gov. McDonald will try to recover the guns. A 14-year-old negro boy was run down and instantly killed in Washington by the touring car of Levi Z. Leiter. One person was killed and 14 others injured at Ashtabula, O., when a fast passenger train struck a trolley car on a grade crossing. Reinforcements of United States cavalry have been sent to Santa Clara province, Cuba, to run down and capture armed bands of Negro insurgents who have been raiding the plantations in that vicinity. A letter has been sent to Secretary of State Root by prominent New Yorkers calling his attention to conditions in the Congo Free State, where it is asserted flagrant inhumanity exists. Several negroes of the Ninth cavalry stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., after beating up the conductor and motorman of an electric car, raced with the car to the fort where they were locked up. Several white women were on the car during the disturbance. The Kansas State Teachers' association held a three days' meeting at Topeka recently. Among the noted speakers present were W. J. Bryan, W. A. White and Richard Outcault. Fire originating from a defective gas lighting system destroyed three business blocks in Perry, Ia., recently. The striking firemen on the Southern Pacific railroad declare their intention to tie up the entire Harriman system completely. The dead body of Lee B. Soper who has just completed his second term as county clerk of Clay county Missouri, was found recently in a shed in the rear of his home in Liberty. Despondency over ill health is believed to have impelled him to take his life. Yaqui Indians recently raided Lenchow, a railroad station in Sonora, Mex., killing 8 Mexicans and burning the tent houses. Other depredations in the same vicinity were reported. Troops went in pursuit of the Indians. London was recently covered with two inches of snow and in the country districts mail any railway traffic was interfered with. A negro member of the Twenty-fifth infantry at El Reno, Ok., threw the wife of a prominent physician into the street from the sidewalk. The negro made his escape. Race feeling is at white heat over the occurrence. Representative Miller, of Kansas, has turned over to the department of commerce and labor facts and figures bearing on several of the so-called lumber trusts in the middle west. Inquiries are to be started simultaneously at Kansas City, Chicago and St. Louis. "It Knocks the Itch" It may not cure all your ills, but it does cure one of the worst. 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Just as he was about to leave, being accompanied to the station by a crowd of citizens, Tom Nash, a schoolfellow, came up—white headed, but still a boy. He shook hands with his friend of many a year and nodding toward the crowd said: "People of this town are the same blamed fools they always were, ain't they, Sam?" Prominent on Lecture Platform. Senator Tillman probably earns more money every year on the lecture platform than any other American who talks to the public for pay. From an authoritative source the statement comes that the South Carolinian's net proceeds thus far this year from his lecture tour are $25,000. Senator Tillman is paid from $250 to $500 a lecture and he is constantly in demand. His season is not confined to the summery Chautauqua course and he fills nearly as many dates in the winter as at any other time of the year. In the last four years it is said that he has laid aside over $60,000 from his lecture receipts. 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But then Bill had an innate prejudice against blue-coats and brass-buttons and stars and clubs and all that sort of thing. Perhaps he was not wholly responsible because the prejudice may have been inherited. It is to be recalled that his father "Plug" Mapes was constitutionally opposed to the police before his unhappy taking-off at the end of a rope in a quiet jail-yard on one memorable day after the society of the blue-coats had been thrust upon him in a most shameless manner. It is also a matter of history that the gentlemanly wearers of the blue gave a great sigh of relief upon this occasion and congratulated themselves openly and often until some months later when it was borne to their intelligence that young Bill Mapes had succeeded to his respected sire's estate and was following, in no unworthy manner, in the paternal footsteps. From all of which it may be deduced that Bill Mapes lived and breathed and had his being without the law of the land and that he would not have been a welcome visitor at your home at the witching hour of midnight. Yes, gentle reader, you have guessed right; Bill Mapes was a burglar, a thief, a crook and earned his bread by appropriating the product of the sweat of the other fellow's brow. And yet Mapes was not a bad sight to look upon. He was a well-built, sturdy, young fellow handling his splendid strength with marked grace of action. His features were rather well-formed and his eyes clear and blue and laughing. He was not a fearsome object to look upon—excepting when desperate or angry, and then he was a thunderbolt of action and of passion. It was inevitable, of course, that Mapes should occasionally be the guest of the police, but despite all their most energetic invitations he had successfully maintained his modesty and evaded any considerable strain upon their hospitality. Upon his every appearance in the police court, however, there had appeared also a most charming feminine vision—a delicate, modest, brown-eyed girl whose beauty won all hearts and whose tears moved the sternest police justice to sympathy. She was a mystery to the police court and inspired more interest than the prisoner in whom she seemed to have such deep interest, so to concern. After full and free discussion it was duly decided that she was a settlement worker or something or other of that sort who was grieved over Bill Mapes' soul and was trying to save him. And while they berated him as a dog they all bowed before the dainty brown-eyed divinity. Now it must be evident to the reader at this point that Bill Mapes was not an idealist, nor a leading citizen, nor a pillar of society, nor anything of that sort, but this simple tale is written to show that every fellow has his own standards and his own ideals. One soft summer evening Mapes appeared at "Brown's Triangle," a rather bad place in a very bad neighborhood—a spot which policemen avoid- ed when on a lonesome beat and a section most prodigiously berated by the Anti-Crime society. He did not enter the flat-iron shaped saloon but going into one of the darkened streets, emitted a shrill whistle. Presently a curtain upstairs was cautiously pulled and a face peered forth. Upon a further signal the curtain dropped and a moment later a street-door opened and Bill faced his brown-eyed divinity of the police court. Lo and behold, far from being a settlementworker she was only the daughter of Ike Brown, the keeper of the notorious "Brown's Triangle" where, according to the police, more robberies had been planned than in any other spot in the city. "Howdy, Nan," said Mapes in a voice somewhat strained with embarrassment and taking the girl's extended hands awkwardly. "Nice evenin'." "I didn't expect you," exclaimed the girl beaming upon him with the glorious love-light, which, after all, is all there is in life. "Naw, but I'm here," he responded, comfortably. There were some moments of silence during which Bill's reaching paw accumulated the slender hand of the girl. A busy policeman wandered by and Bill was scarcely quicker than the girl to shrink into the shadows. "D—— him, I'll get his job," grumbled Mapes. "If you don,'t dad will," replied the girl. "I got his number—4714. I know him." "Say, Nan, what de' y' say to get married, buyin' a house and settlin' down?" This very bravely said but in a voice betraying love, mystery and surrender. Nan looked him over most shrewdly. "What d'ye mean, Bill?" she asked, good-naturedly. "Nan," he said, leaning toward her and placing his arms half way around her "I've got the game beat. Come on and let's live like nine-time sports." "How'd ye do it, Bill?" she asked, quietly. "Look here, gal," he replied, soberly but passionately, "I've been tryin' to get things right for you and me—but it's been hard. Now last night I happened onto a most exclusive party of gents—the real kind. I wasn't exactly invited, you know—but just happened in through the window. Gee, but de sparklers der was in the cuffs on de tables and de shirts in de closet." "Did ye get 'em?" asked the girl leaning forward eagerly. "Naw," replied Mapes leaning back comfortably. "I heerd somethin' dat's wort' more'n all the sparklers I ever seen." "Yes," encouraged the girl. Mapes settled himself comfortably in the doorway. "Well," he said with provoking deliberation, "there was a couple of swells talkin' right in front of me before I broke past de curtains." "Well?" encouraged the girl with shining eyes. "Well," responded Mapes, "I had to quit and I had to listen. Gee, but it was fine listenin'." "Well?" interjected the girl. "Well," responded Mapes, "it was old Strausling, de president of the Cincinnati Avenue bank and Knute Augessen, de swell young teller—an' dey was talkin' brass tacks for sure." "Well?" was all the girl said. "Well," responded the man with a show of irritability, "it's just dis way. These wise guys are goin' to bust de bank day after to-morrow an' get away with $200,000 or $300,000. I hearn all about it." "What did you do?" asked the girl. "What did I do?" he replied, scorn- fully. "I sneaked away. There's a bigger game in this dan to pinch a few hundreds, I guess," and Mapes laughed scornfully. "If I don't get our house and lot and all de trimmins and a few thousand in de bank on de side, on dis deal—well, I ain't Bill Mapes—dat's all." There was a long silence. "Bill," the girl said, presently in a most gentle voice, "ain't that the bank that all the people on the avenue have their savings?" "Of course," replied Bill. "And they are all going to lose their savings," pursued the girl. Bill scratched his head savagely. "I suppose so," he said. "There's old Slupski," said the girl, reminiscently. "He's saved pennies for 40 years for Polly—and she's goin' to lose it?" "Yes," replied Bill, sententiously. "And all these poor people and all these struggling business men are going to lose?" she asked. "What de hotel bill do you and I care?" snarled Bill. "We will git ours and not take a chance on the pen." "Bill," said the girl, taking both his hands in hers. "Can you let this happen to all our people on the avenue? Can you, Bill; can you?" "Why, Nan," he stammered, "I thought you said you wouldn't marry me until I had a home paid for and a bank account." "Yes, Bill," she replied. "But not with the blood money of our own people." The man put his head in his hands for long minutes. Finally he said: "Nan, you are de real ting. I am goin' to cough up what I know to de states attorney. Dat will save our people. But," and his voice grew hopeless, "I don't know how I'm goin' to make good fer you." The girl flung her arms around his neck. "Bill, Bill," she cried, "I will marry you to-night. I will go with you anywhere and help you all I can—because you are on the square—and because I love you." (Copyright, 1906, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) Prosperous Palestine. The Holy Land is flowing with milk and honey. The stimulus given to Palestine trade is in great measure due to plentiful rains and consequent good cereal and orange crops and the absence of quantitative restrictions. Twenty years ago the revenue was about $50,000, while last year it was estimated at $200,000. Another incentive to trade is the annually growing number of tourists who now visit the country in spring and autumn, arriving frequently in specially chartered vessels. At Gaza the government purposes to build a sea jetty, which would give an impetus to trade there, as at present there is only an open roadstead, and whenever the sea is rough the loading or discharging of cargoes is impracticable. The governor of Beersheba is doing his best to encourage building. A carriage road is being made to Hebron from Beersheba, which is also a telegraph station. The Jaffa-Jerusalem railway is a prosperous line. In about a year a new carriage road will be finished to the dead sea and Jericho. Bishop Has Large Diocese. Bishop Moule of mid-China has been in charge of this diocese of 100,000-000 souls for over 25 years. The first European missionary to settle in an interior Chinese city away from a treaty port. Bishop Moule made Hangchow his headquarters. Thence year by year he made his wearisome circuit, sometimes on foot, sometimes in Sedan chairs, sometimes in his picturesque but not palatial Chinese boat —3,000 miles every twelve months. He speaks Chinese like a native. Rings for the Bridegroom. Following the custom of the French and Germans in presenting rings to the bridegrooms, American women have gone a degree beyond, for instead of giving their husbands plain gold rings at the ceremony, seal or stone settings are selected. MADE THEM ALL LAUGH. Book Must Have Been Funny, but No One Knew What Is Was. It must have been a very funny story! The type looked funny from across the aisle of the car, the pictures looked funny, and the young lady who was reading it doubled up in fits of stifled laughter every few minutes. The young man in the seat with her could not help stealing a glance at the pages of the book which was evidently so funny, but whose cover was carefully doubled back out of sight, and soon he began to laugh as he unblushingly followed the story page after page, shaking with suppressed merriment. The wom an in the seat at right angles became interested and looked over the girl's shoulder. Presently her face broadened into a grin and soon she was convulsively shaking. The man in the seat across smiled at the scene. A boy a few seats down the aisle grinned sympathetically. A darky still further down showed all his white teeth. The contagion spread until the car was nearly on the verge of hysterics, when the fair reader got up to leave the train, yet no one but the girl herself had any idea as to what the book was. VAST WEALTH OF THE SOUTH. In Natural Resources That Section Is Supreme. To its coal supply, more than twice as great as the combined coal area of Great Britain, Germany and Pennsylvania; to its vast stores of oil and natural gas as supplementary sources power of water powers for utilization of power and heat and light the South adds at least 3,000,000 available horse power of water powers for utilization for electrical transmission, also for power, heat and light. The development of this vast water power potentiality will eventually employ $250,000,000 to $300,000,000 and be equal in working capacity to 6,000,000 men. It will make possible construction of thousands of miles of interurban electric roads, it will furnish cheap power and light for mines and factories, and create, as in Switzerland, the highest forms of skilled mechanical work in the mountains of the South, where climatic conditions are unsurpassed by any other section of the world. In counting up the riches of the South always bear in mind its wealth of everrunning streams, where nature furnishes the power without price except for the cost of development.—Manufacturers' Record. POSTUM CEREAL CO., LTD. Guarantee On Their Products. We warrant and guarantee that all packages of Postum Cereal, GrapeNuts and Elijah's Manna hereafter sold by any jobber or retailer, comply with the provisions of the National Pure Food Law, and are not and shall not be adulterated or mis-branded within the meaning of said Act of Congress approved June 30, 1906, and entitled, "An act for preventing the manufacture, sale or transportation of adulterated or mis-branded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, liquors, and for regulating traffic therein for other purposes." Subscribed and sworn to before this 15th day of December, 1906. My commission expires July 1, 1907. Our goods are pure, they always have been and always will be, they are not mis-branded. We have always since the beginning of our business, printed a truthful statement on the packages of the ingredients contained therein and we stand back of every package. WILL GET A DEED TO A LOT IN MUSKOGEE, I. T.