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The Muskogee Cimeter. Protective League Adopts Resolu tions At the meeting of the Negro Protective League of Oklahoma, which convened in the council chamber of this city, after due deliberation the following resolutions were adopted: "Whereas, the revised constitution is not materially different from the unrevised constitution, and "Whereas, the Negro Protective League met on the 22nd of last April and denounced the unrevised constitution as unrepublican in form and urged the Colored people everywhere to vote against the same: Therefore we reaffirm our position as set fourth in said resolutions as adopted by us in said league on the 22nd of last April and we do now call upon our people and all fair minded men throughout the proposed state of Oklahoma to go to the polls on the 17th day of Sept. and vote against the adoption of the said constitution of the proposed state of Oklahoma. Whereas the prospective state is largely unorganized, we recommend that speakers be sent to all parts of the said prospective state, literature distributed in the remotest part of said prospective state, together with a copy of these resolutions. (Signed) "S. T. Wiggins, "L. A. Bell. "S. D. Russell, "Geo. Fitzprtrick, "Archie Jones, "J. H. A. Brazleton. "A. D. Johnson." Wereupon R. E. Stewart offered the following special resolution, towit; "Resolved that the Negroes of Oklahoma and Indian Territory be urged to vote the Republican ticket in the present campaign." The following resolution was offered by S. D. Russell: "Resolved that the Negro Protective League, in Convention assembled, condemn the use of the name of this league by various local malcontents in putting out independent tickets against the Republican party." Register at once or you lose your vote. Superintendent Briles Orders The Enrollment of All New School Children Prof. Reynolds will take the names of the new pupils who will attend the Colored schools this year. He may be found at Dunbar high school from September the second until the ninth. Parents should see to it that their children are enrolled as this is order of Superintendent Briles. Act at once. We have on our desk the "Square Deal," a paper published by George Robinson at Watonga. While we do not agree with George yet he is making a hard fight against Governor Furguson and the party and there must be some return blows at once. DIED. E. L. Smith departed this life Friday morning August 24. 1907. He was 55 years of age and has lived here about seven months, coming from Wharton county Texas. A widow, four children and two brothers, J. H. Smith and Thomas Smith, mourn his loss. There are also two brothers in Waco Texas who will be grieved by the sad intelligence. E. L. Smith was one our best citizens; a good husband and a loving father. The relatives have the sympathy of the community in their bereavement. The Republican party can not hope to win victories without square deal arrangements. We could expect nothing better from the Democrats but since we are furnishing a big percentage of the votes it would at least appear that we should receive decent treatment at the hands of the Republican party. It is bad treatment that caused the nomination of a Negro for Congress in Oklahoma and also the bolt of the Negroes in Logan county. Our party must deal out even and exact justice to the black battallions if it expects to win. We say this knowing that there are some Negroes who are wil ling and who are even now bowing the knee like truckling sycophants in order that thrift may follow fawning but the rank and file of the party have no sympathy with these tools and will not do their bidding. It is a lasting shame and disgrace that men of well known ability can be used as tools to prostitute the race and reduce it to political serfs slaves. We trust that the leaders in charge of the party will awaken to the conditions that threaten the very life of the party and cut out the jim crow annex at Oklahoma City an make an advisory board. Do Not be Deceived. To the colored voters of Blaine County and the Second Congressional District of Oklahoma: Do not bedeceived by a set of political montebanks and boodlers, whose sole interest in the negro race is personal preferment. Just look who it is that is heading this movement, whose names appear as the leaders. It is unnecessary to warn the colored voters of Blaine county against any move that is headed by such men as we find leading this movement, but outside of this county, where these men are not known, it might work irreparable wrong on the colored people all over the United States, were the methods (which these self styled leaders employ) successful in defeating the republican ticket, and for that reason we warn the colored people of the counties where these men are not known that when you receive a copy of the Square Deal, which you will or have already received, that you must find out for yourselves who are heading this move. Is there a Moses among them who can lead the colored people out of the political wilderness? This move was hatched in the fertile brain of some of our democratic friends who knew what negroes they could depend upon for support if there was any money for them in it. It i sa move brought by them to defeat the Hon. T. B. Ferguson for congress, well knowing that the Independent republican ticket in Blaine county will cast only the votes of the men whose names appear on the ticket. Colored men of the second congressional district can you not see that this move is originated by democrats for the purpose of defeating the man who has always stood for just treatment of the negro. Will you throw away your vote and defeat a friend? There is no need to appeal to the colored voters of Blaine county not to support the county ticket. They know too well the character of the man who is the leading spirit. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Colored Protective League of Blaine County and the Colored Voters of Blaine county: 1st. That we denounce as untrue the report that is made by the paper known as "The Square Deal," G. F. Robinson, editor, where it says that the Colored Protective League of Blaine county met in mass convention Saturday, August 10th and passed resolutions denouncing the republicans for ignoring the colored voters No 47 at Tulsa, the same being untrue, as the action of the Tulsa convention was endorsed by the League at their meeting August 10th. We denounce as utterly untrue the statement that will be found in "The Square Deal" that the ticket was nominated in mass convention of the Blaine county Colored Protective League a malicious, wilfull lie for the purpose of misleading the colored voters outside of Blaine county into the belief that the colored voters of Blaine county have bolted the regular ticket and will support the Independent ticket and will support the Independent ticket and will support the ent ticket that was made out by democrats and renegade negroes at some place best known to them, but not in convention where it was voted down. 2nd. Be it further resolved that the Colored Protective League of Blaine county and the Colored Voters of Blaine county wish by these resolutions to place themselves on record as unalterably opposed to the so-called Independent Republican Ticket that is being placed in the field by democratic money for the sole purpose of defeating the republican nominee for congress in the second district. 3rd. While we have ben loyal to the republican party and have always cast our votes for the white nominee on the ticket, we have been just as loyal to our race and on every occasion have been just as loyal to our race and on every occasion have upheld the leaders of our race, but when those men whom we have supported in the past would betray the colored people of Blaine county and the Second Congressional district into the folly of voting for the ticket they have succeeded in getting out by the assistance of the democratic leaders and by so doing elect a democrat to congress. Our allegiance to them ceases, and we denounce, in the strongest terms that we are capable of, the actions of these men who, by our support, we have elevated to the position of leaders of our race, and wish to remind them that they only became leaders by the consent of their followers and their leadership ceases when their following stops. And be it further resolved that we the Colored Protective League of Blaine county, do appeal to every colored voter in the Second Congressional District to come out early to the polls on the morning of September 17th and cast his vote for the Hon. T. B. Ferguson and thus rebuke the traitors in our race who would sell a whole race for a elss price than Judas received for the betrayal of his Lord and Master. J. A. ROUSE, Vice Pres. of League. W. A. McKNIGHT, Secretary. J. H. JOHNSON, J. W. THOMPSON, C. N. MOORE, WASH EARL, Committee. H. L. ROSS, Secretary. S. C. YOUNGER, Holbert & Freeman CONTRACTORS & BUILDERS ESTIMATES AND ARCHITECTURAL PLANS FURNISHED Phone 320 or Call 612 South 3rd St. Muskogee Cimeter. W. H. TWINE, Editor. MUSKOGEE. - - IND. TER. The Underpaid Professor. I am as ready as anyone to prescribe temperately for the scholar in the republic the recipe of plain living and high thinking; but without further approach to high living, it is timely for the scholar and the public to indulge in some plain thinking, says a writer in Scribners. The simple life is a very worthy ideal, which it required no genius to enunciate. But I know of nothing that simplifies life so effectively as the possession of a little ready money. I know of nothing that so complicates matters as the everlasting balancing of accounts that will not balance and the insistent intrusion of petty dimes and cents. All this distracts and devitalizes, and in very truth interferes with the rational ordering of one's life by accepted standards. The unanimity with which it is conceded that the professor is woefully underpaid is almost alarming, as the failure of the magnanimous admission to lead to any practical measures for relief is pathetic. If I am to maintain both my household and my self-respect, I have indeed a hard row to hoe; and while gardening as an avocation may be a very beneficial exercise, I cannot be a laborer in the fields and a professor at the same time. Perhaps the largest and most valuable of literary treasures the world has lost was the Alexandrian library. This collection, the most remarkable of the ancient world, is said to have contained in its most flourishing period 400,000 or, according to others, 700,000 manuscripts. Its royal founder collected from all nations their choicest composition. We are told that one of his successors went so far as to refuse to supply the Athenians with wheat until they had given him the original manuscripts of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. When Julius Caesar laid siege to the city the greater portion of this library was destroyed by fire. It was later replaced by the collection presented to Queen Cleopatra by Marc Antony. But it was not destined to endure long. When the Emperor Theodosius the Great in 391 A. D. ordered the destruction of all heathen temples within the Roman empire, the Christians, led by the archbishop Theophilus, did not spare that of Jupiter, in which were kept the literary treasures. From this general destruction about 4,000 manuscripts escaped, only to be burned in 640 by Saracens under the Caliph Omar. Quit trying to exploit your old families. A Mexican grandmother has celebrated her hundred and thirty-first birthday. She has a daughter crowding the century mark and her granddaughter has the scriptural allotment beaten by a score. And Texas is right next to Mexico. The Pittsburg high school teacher whose resignation is demanded because he kissed girl pupils insists that his kisses were harmless; but there is no evidence that he used the antiseptic gargle. In spite of much good-humored fun poked at them, the new crop of college graduates will proceed to "make good" as a rule, as usual. Again Herculaneum is not to be excavated. If this thing keeps up Herculaneum will begin to feel like the Panama crinal. 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. August H. Havemeyer of New York died at his home aged 62 years. Prince Yi who headed the Korean commission to The Hague and who is now in New York, has been notified that his government has condemned him to death and his associates to life imprisonment. Lieut Graetz of the Prussian army will start from German east Africa in an attempt to cross Africa in a motor car. It is agrain reported that Richard Mansfield the actor is seriously ill. Judge H. B. Short was arrested at Center, Tex., while holding court, on a charge of murder, court was adjurned until he gave bond. State Superintendent J. L. McBrien of Nebraska has issued a proclamation designating August 19 as "house cleaning day" for the schools of the state. E. H. Harriman in an interview at Omaha predicts a coal famine this winter. Mrs. Handeshell who lives near tracks heard the crash of a falling bridge near Ethel Mo., and building a fire on the track saved a fast Santa Fe train from going to destruction. Sergeant Wesley Merritt, of the hospital corps, one of the first to become infected with yellow fever in Cuba, is dead. William Allen White, of Emporia, Kan., is said to be writing a novel. Edwin M. Morgan has been appointed postmaster of New York to succeed Will Cox, resigned. Francis E. Leupp, commissioner of Indian territory affairs, has returned to Washington after a protracted absence. Prof. W. H. Isely, dean of Fairmount college in Wichita, Kan., is dead at his home in that city. The republicans of Maryland have nominated George R. Gaither, of Baltimore, for governor. Maj. Harry F. Hodges has entered upon his duties as purchasing agent of the Isthmian Canal commission, with headquarters in Washington. Miscellaneous. Thirty thousand acres of land is now available for entry under the Carey Act in the Eden Valley in Wyoming. The land is irrigated by government works. Telegraph operators of the Associated Press at Kansas City have joined the employees of the Western Union and Postal telegraph companies and struck for increased pay and better conditions. Gov. Folk has instructed Attorney General Hadley to bring ouster suits against Prosecuting Attorney Johnson and Shcriff Herpel of St. Louis county for failure to enforce the Sunday anti-saloon law in that county. The government has filed in the federal court in New York a suit to compel E. H. Harriman to answer certain questions regarding his connection with the Chicago and Alton railroad. He refused the information to the interstate commerce commission, creasing prices to American consumers while lowering them to the export trade. Secret agents of the government are said to have found evidence tending to show that rebates have recently been paid by the St. Paul road to the packing firm of Schwarzschild & Sulzberger of Chicago and Kansas City. According to the figures of the county assessors, Kansas has gained 39,500 in population during the past year. President Roosevelt has appointed Earnest A. Mottsmith to be secretary of Hawaii. A tramp who was put off a Pennsylvania railroad train ot Ridgeway, Pa., exploded nitroglycerine under the cars and five men were injured. The explosion of a car of dynamite at Essex, Ont., killed seven persons and broke every window in the town. Negro soldiers of the 25th infantry, the organization that created the trouble at Brownsville, Tex., started a riot at San Francisco and 18 of them were arrested. Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations has submitted a report to the president on the petroleum industry in which the Standard Oil company is severely criticised for in- When a powder house containing 1,000 pounds of dynamite burned at Boulder, Col., the explosion threw hundreds of spectators to the ground, fatally injuring two men and causing a property loss of $250,000. Failure to complete the repairs on his ship has compelled Commander Peary to postpone his proposed trip in search of the north pole until next year. A federal grand jury in the western district of New York has again indicted the Standard Oil company on the charge of accepting rebates from railroads. The attorneys general of the Mississippi valley states met in St. Louis to formulate plans for a national conference of attorneys general. New York detectives have arrested the ringleaders of the Armenian Hunchakist secret society and obtained confession from them regarding the murder of a priest and a wealthy rug merchant. It is believed the murderous organization has been broken up. While playing hide-and-seek with her father, the three-year-old daughter of C. A. Rock, residing near Cuba, Ill., lost both her feet by coming into contact with the sickle blades of a mower. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Hudson, an aged couple living near Noblesville, Ind., were recently murdered and robbed of $2,000, the price of a farm which they had just sold. The Federated Trades Council of Milwaukee, Wis., has passed a resolution opposing the fine imposed recently on the Standard Oil company by Judge Landis. They declare government ownership the only remedy. A convention of the attorney generals of all the states in the United States has been called to meet in St. Louis September 30 and October 1, to provide for concerted action in prosecutions against corporations for violation of state laws. The Spanish government has ordered the removal of the excess tax on importations of American flour. The Farmers State bank of New Folden, Minn., was recently entered by burglar and robbed of $2,200. President Small of the Commercial Telegraphers union has ordered a general strike of all members of the organization During a heavy storm at St Joseph, Mo, many business houses were flooded and the Moran packing plant, which was struck by lightning, was entirely destroyed A negro burglar recently shot and severely wounded Stella Austin and C C Hoyt, of Wichita, Kan. After rifling the houses the burglar escaped. Large operators in the Joplin lead and zinc district are preparing to install steam shovels in their mines. If the plan proves successful, some 5,000 laborers who have been earning from five to seven dollars a day will be out of employment. Secret service agent of the government are said to be on the payrolls of all the big railroad corporations and trust companies in the country watching for infractions of the antitrust law. The Kansas charter board has granted a charter to the Great Western Rubber company of Olathe. The capital stock of the company is $200,000. Unable to Do Even Housework Because of Kidney Troubles. Mrs. Margaret Emmerich, of Clinton St., Napoleon, O., says: "For fifteen years I was a great sufferer from kidney troubles. My back pained me terribly. Every turn or move caused sharp, shooting pains. My eyesight was poor, dark spots appeared before me, and I had dizzy spells. For ten years from kidney troubles. My back pained me terribly. Every turn or move caused sharp, shooting pains. My eyesight was poor, dark spots appeared before me, and I had dizzy spells. For ten years I could not do housework, and for two years did not get out of the house. The kidney secretions were irregular, and doctors were not helping me. Doan's Kidney Pills brought me quick relief, and finally cured me. They saved my life." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. A Misogynist. "Me father," said Mrs. Murphy, "always gits up whin a lady enthers the room." "The ould man is too suspicious." Mr. Murphy grunted. 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"I said one ounce of whisky three times a day; that could not make him drunk," the physician said. "He has had much more than that." "Divil a drop more, dochter, dear," she declared. "Sure an' oi didn't know just how much an ounce was so oi wint to the drug store an' asked, an' the lad—he's a broth of a boy, too—told me that an ounce was 16 drams and Pat has had thim regular, an' no more!"—Harper's Weekly. BABY TORTURED BY ITCHING. Rash Covered Face and Feet—Would Cry Until Tired Out—Speedy Cure by Cuticura. "My baby was about nine months old when she had rash on her face and feet. Her feet seemed to irritate her most, especially nights. They would cause her to be broken in her rest, and sometimes she would cry until she was tired out. I had heard of so many cures by the Cuticura Remedies that I thought I would give them a trial. The improvement was noticeable in a few hours, and before I had used one box of the Cuticura Ointment her feet were well and have never troubled her since. 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READERS of this paper desiring to buy anything advertised in its columns should insist upon having what they ask for, refusing all substitutes or imitations. THE @IMETER. PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK IN THE INTEREST OF THE NEGRO BY CIMETER PUB. COENTERED AT THE POST OFFICE AT MUSKOGEE, I. T., AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER PARASITES PARASITES We now call upon the city authorities to put a stop to the blacklegs, hoboes and women of easy virtue that have taken possession of South 2nd street. These people should be confined to a red light district or made to leave town instanter. The respectable business and christian element of the Colored people protest against the parade of this vicious and worthless class on one of the main thoroughfares of the city. Visitors, black and white, who come to our town and take a look at our Convention hall will have an otherwise agreeable picture marred by the intrusion and dress parade of the basest elements of population. It is not a creditable reflection upon the good name of our city to allow such a state of affairs to exist. We call upon all decent citizens to join hands with us in ridding this thouroughfare of the element that is dangerous to the welfare and progress of any community. We shall take these parasites under consideration next week. The State Negro Advisory Board will do except the jim crow feature; that should be cut out. A pair of shears will do the work in three minutes. George Robinson, the Negro candidate for Congress from the first district is raising Cain but when the Advisory board puts a man on his trail. George (although a good fellow) will be sqnelched. It said that some candidates get their nominations by using the federal authorities. Every candidate should show whether he stands for or against the constitution. We say this in order that some of the candidates who are charged with favoring the constitution may justify themselves for our people will not vote for men who advocate an instrument which difranchises them. The Republicon party as we see it is against the constitution as are also the candidates. Since the saloon keepers of Oklahoma have endorsed the constitution would it not be best for our 50,000 voters to go for state-wide prohibition? Many of our people are thinking seriously about this. What is your idea? The Colored Masons of the state of Oklahoma convened at Oklahoma City August 19, and after transacting routine business, elected the same officers for the ensuing year with the exception of treasurer; Hon. E. E. McDaniel being elected to that position. There is now perfect harmony among the craft and the Lodge is prospering as never before. Wagoner is the next meeting place. Wewoka, I. T., Aug. 17, 1907. Editor of the 'Oimeter:— Dear sir, please allow us space in your columnus for a few brief news notes of this week. The political pots are boiling over up here and the Negroes of Seminole county have held a convention and organized a Lincoln Republican Party. We have put a full ticket into the field, county and precincts, but we endorse the state ticket put out at Tulsa. The Negro and the Indian of this county are going to make this fight together. We nominated Tom McGesca, a leading Indian, for sheriff and James Johnson, also an Indian, for clerk of the court. Three white men on the Republican ticket, D. C. Jennings for judge and Jennings for surveyor, were endorsed. All the rest are Colored. We expect to poll 1850 votes from the county wich will elect our ticket from top to bottom and will be left to weep because there'll be no more tickets to elect. The Negroes, at the last election, cast 750 votes and we will not at this writinf tell you where we expect to get the other 1100 votes but being the chairman of the County Central Committee of the Lincoln Republican party, I know whereof I speak. The Negroes of the Territory in my judgment. should take hold of the Indians and organize them for the political wellbeing and safety of both. The Negro and the Indian would make a strong psrty in this part of the country. There is no hope for the Nergo nor for the Indian among the lily white Republicans. We should take tthis method to purify the Republican party: Let the Negroes and the Indians walk out from among the lily white Reppblicans and make a strong Republigan party that knows no man for his color but only as an American citizen, regardless of previous conditions. Our present Republican comrades are not fair, as color is their standard and not Republicanism. In our platform, we have declaredd against the constitution as we believe it our bounden duty as a race and as true Republicans to vote that constitution down. Let me hear from you and let me know what you think of our project. Yours respectfully. The above shows what our people are doing and thinking elsewhere.—Editor. Political Platform of C. B. Douglas, Editor Muskogee Phoenix. Clipped from Phoenix of September 25, 1906. The Resolutions Were Written by C. B. Douglas, Himself and Presented to 11 Other Editors Who Voted FOR Them. We, the members of the republican Press Association of the Third Congressional District declare as follows: Whereas there is an apparent misunderstanding existing among the voters of the district as to the position of the party on the so-called race question, and. Whereas, the republican party has DISCHARGED its OBLIGATIONS to the NEGRO in that it gives him full civil rights, equal with every other citizen and still stands for that policy. Therefore, be it resolved by this association that the republican party of the Third Congressional District is OPPOSED to NEGRO DOMINATION in any sense. That it stands for separate schools, SEPARATE COACHES and SEPARATE WAITING ROOMS for NEGROES which shall have equal facilities and comforts of those furnished other races. That it is opposed and WILL USE EVERY MEANS at its command to PREVENT the nomination or negroes on any elective ticket, seeking the suffrage of the other races. On this declaration of principle all classes and all nationalities of citizenship are earnestly invited to allign themselves with the party of progress and prosperity. C. B. DOUGLAS, Muskogee Phoenix S. S. COBB, Wagoner, THOS. A. LATTA, Bartlesville, MATT TELIN, Afton, W. E. Dixon, Dewey, B. W. Barnes, Haskell, W. O. Kennedy, Muskogee, A. S. STERLING, Holdenville, CLARK SMITH, Claremore, W. F. HEAD, Webbers Falls, R. B. HUFFMAN, Checotah. Discases of Women and Children a Specialty. DR. R. H. WATERFORD. 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Watch the Windows Holbert & Freeman CONTRACTORS & BUILDERS ESTIMATES AND ARCHITECTURAL PLANS FURNISHED Phone 320 or Call 612 South 3rd St. Before you sell or lease your land see the | OHIO REALTY Co, | Room 7 Tuner Bnilding, -HETTICK BROS., GROCERS High @lass Goods at Lowest Prices Country Produee, Fresh Vegetables Gverything You Eat frporapt delivery Your Patronage Solicited 27 West Okmulgee te Y $3,000 a Year on Twenty Acree. The following 1s a typteal story of what thrift and work will do for a man who buys a smal Indian Ter- ritory farm. On October 19th 1906. TT, D. Shearer purchased a twenty acre tract of A. ©, Trumbo, six miles south of Muskogee. In Jess than ten months young Shearer made off of twuw acres of tomatoes, one acre of watermelons, one-half acre of can- teloupes, one-half acre of peas and beans, and one acre of potatoes, the sum of $1,350, $150 more than enough to pay for his farm which he bought for $1,200, The remaining fifteen acres dl- vided into three adn one-half acres of sweet potatoes, one and a half acres of late watermelons, three acres of strawberries, two acres: of grapes, two of late corn and two acres of oats. Next year Mr. Shear- er expects to go into the berry bus- iness and will name his farm the Busy Bee Fruit Farm, Mr. Shearer is a son in law of R. M. Miller, who lives on Muskogee on north LL, street He regards his year's work on the twenty acres as worth $3,000 in cash to him; and he says that he will make more money next year, as he has bought ten acres adjoining his little farm. Lucky Indians. Washington, D. C.—Acting secre. tary of the interior, Woodruff, ren- dered an opinion Friday that seven- teen Creek and Cherokee Indians whose names by mistake had been left off the printed rolls, were on the rolls regularly and should share in allotments. These Indians were on the rolls originally, he said, and should not be deprived of their al- lotments by a Washington clerk, who in copying the rolls, left their names off. The lucky Indians are: Creeks—Senona adn Lou Willie Bullocks, Bossie Harris, Minnie Vin- cent. Cherokees—John Ross, Jr, Jor- dan Harper, Myrtle and Ella Colvin, Lorenzo Davis, John W. Lawrence, and the whole Lacey family, compos- ed of William, Shelley, Miles, Hze- kiel, Jesse and Martha Lacey, Muskogee May Buy Light Plant. Mayor Martin is not the only city official who has the municipal own- ership bee in his bonnet. Concil- man H. P, Showalter, of the finance committee of the city council, who knows as much about the lighting proposition as anybody, is figuring upon the city acquiring the present lighting plant. Muskogee has one hundred street lights, for which she pays $7.50 per month, making an expenditure of $10,000 per year for lights, That a large part of this is profit, goes without saying, for an electric light plant may be maintained at a less cost than almost any other indus- try. The city has an option to purchase the lighting plant at the end of a period of years, minus the bonded bonded indebtedness of the electric plant, which is large, is predicated not so much on its property as up: on its care e capacity, This is one of the propositions whieh would stand in the way of the city purehas- ing the present lighting plant. Mr. Showalter will spend much of his leisure time looking into the city’s ownership of the plant and when his plans are perfected he will make them known to the city coun- cil, He is animated by the knowl edge that municipal light plants have paid big money in other places and sees no reason why such a plant should not pay here, Indian Forger Arrested. Ben Davis was arrested Thursday in Muskogee for forging the name of Sterling Howlett to money order for two dollars, Davis is a Creek Indian and has had considerable experience as a forger, having been in trouble a num- ber of times upon that charge. The minimum sentence for his crime is two years in the pen, Kicked to Death, Vera, Okla—T. W. Muse, a farm- es, was kicked on the head by a horse Wednesday morning and died as a result. Ile was father of four- teen children, LEFT IT TO THE OLD HENS, Amateur Fancier Thought His Re- sponsibility Had Ended. An Indiana man tells of the efforts of an author belonging to the Hoosier school of historical novelists to put in his leisure time as a “hen farm- er” in that state. The literary per- son's venture afforded his agricultural neighbors no end of amusement. During the first year the amateur farmer discovered that all his little chickens, which were confined in coops, were languishing at the point of death. The novelist went over his “hen literature” to locate the cause of the trouble, but to no avail. Finally he called upon an old chap named Rawlins, to whom he put the question: “What do-you suppose is the mat- ter with those chickens?” “Well, I dunno,” said Rawlins, “What do you feed 'em?” “Feed them!” exclaimed the novel- ist-farmer. “Why, 1 don't feed them anything!” “Then, how'd you suppose they was a-goin’ to live?” “I presumed,” replied the literary person, “that the old hens had milk enough for them now.”—Lippincott’s Magazine. Left Army for Pork Trade. 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Daniel Osiris, the Jewish banker and philanthropist, of Paris, who recently died, left a will in which he disposed of $13,000,000, giving $5,000,000 to the Pasteur institute. WHAT'S THE USE? To Pour in Coffee When It Acts as a Vicious Enemy. Fasters have gone without food for many days at a time but no one can go without sleep. "For a long time I have not been sleeping well, often lying awake for two or three hours during the night but now I sleep sound every night and wake up refreshed and vigorous," says a Calif. woman. "Do you know why? It's because I used to drink coffee but I finally cut it out and began using Postum. Twice since then I have drank coffee and both times I passed a sleepless night, and so I am doubly convinced coffee caused the trouble and Postum removed it. "My brother was in the habit of drinking coffee three times a day. He was troubled with sour stomach and I would often notice him getting soda from the can to relieve the distress in his stomach; lately hardly a day passed without a dose of soda for relief. "Finally he tried a cup of Postum and liked it so well he gave up coffee and since then has been drinking Postum in its place and says he has not once been troubled with sour stomach." Even after this lady's experience with coffee her brother did not suspect for a time that coffee was causing his sour stomach, but easily proved it. Coffee is not suspected in thousands of cases just like this but it's easily proved. A ten day's trial works wonders. "There's a Reason." Read the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. 900 DROPS CASTORIA ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. AVegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion. Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium. Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SAVELPTOER Pumpkin Seed - Alk. Serum + Rochelle Salts - Anise Seed + Pepperpint - Di Carbonate Soda + Worm Seed - Clarified Sugar - Wintergreen Flavor. Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and Loss of SEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Cha. H. Flitcher. NEW YORK. At 6 months old 35 DOSES - 35 CENTS Guaranteed under the Food and Exact Copy of Wrapper. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Cha. H. Flitcher. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE GENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. Don't Take Any Chances Go Where Living is a Pleasure, Labor is Light and a Good Income Assured. Buy a Truck Farm on the Famous Simmons Ranch, from 10 to 640 Acres and Two Town Lots for $210. Dr. J. S. Christian, the well known Physician of Lindale, Texas, in writing Mr. T. J. Burrow, of Troupe, Texas, says: Lindale, Texas, Feby. 16, 1907. Mr. T. J. Burrow, Troupe, Texas. Dear Sir:—Yours of even date received, and in reply will say that I have just returned from a trip to San Antonio, and the Dr. Simmons ranch, where I spent four days riding over the property, and I must say that Dr. Simmons in his prospectus has not misrepresented or overdrawn anything. I not only found everything as good as represented, but really the half has not been told. The railroad question is no longer an uncertainty, and the land is as rich as can be found in the state. I have investigated every phase of the Simmons proposition, and I am willing to say that his proposition is perfectly fair, honorable and legal, and the property is now worth more than the price asked for it, but in not more than two years cannot be bought for four times the price he offers to take. With regards, I beg to remain, Yours very truly, J. S. CHRISTIAN, M. D. Investigate this before it is too late. Land is selling fast and will soon be gone. Write today for literature fully describing the ranch and pictures showing views on same. DR. CHAS. F. SIMMONS, The vicar of Dwygyfylchi-cum-Penmaenmaur told the royal commission of the church in Wales recently that he had been at Pistylecum-Carnguwch, Llangefui-cum-Tregaian, Llandyfuancum-Llanfair and Arleechwedd. With a smooth iron and Defiance Starch, you can launder your shirtwaist just as well at home as the steam laundry can; it will have the proper stiffness and finish, there will be less wear and tear of the goods, and it will be a positive pleasure to use a Starch that does not stick to the iron. Beautiful is the activity that works for good and the stillness that waits for good.—Collyer. 900 DROPS CASTORIA ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of Infants & Children Promotes Digestion. Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium. Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SWAELPITCHER Purpkin Seed - Als. Senna + Rochelle Salts - Anise Seed + Pepperpint - Di Carbondale Soda + Worm Seed - Charlied Sugar - Wintergreen Flavor. Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Chas. H. Pitcher. NEW YORK. At 6 months old 35 DOSES - 35 CENTS Guaranteed under the Food and Exact Copy of Wrapper. Don't Take Go Where Living is a Good Place and a Good Place Buy a Truck Farm on the Famous St. Two Towns Dr. J. S. Christian, the well-written Mr. T. J. Burrow, of Troup. Mr. T. J. Burrow, Troupe, Texas. Dear Sir:—Yours of even date r just returned from a trip to San Antoz. I spent four days riding over the mons in his prospectus has not misr only found everything as good as been told. The railroad question is no lo rich as can be found in the state. Sinmons proposition, and I am wi fectly fair, honorable and legal, and the price asked for it, but in not m four times the price he offers to ta With regards, I beg to remain, Yours Investigate this before it is too be gone. Write today for literature fully describing DR. CHAS. 215 Alamo Plaza, CARTERS LITTLE LIVER PILLS. Genuine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature Brewwood REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. Any Chances Pleasure, Labor is Light come Assured. Simmons Ranch, from 10 to 640 Acres and Lots for $210. known Physician of Lindale, Texas, in Texas, says: Lindale, Texas, Feby. 16, 1907. received, and in reply will say that I have nio, and the Dr. Simmons ranch, where property, and I must say that Dr. Sim- presented or overdrawn anything. I not presented, but really the half has not er an uncertainty, and the land is as I have investigated every phase of the ing to say that his proposition is per- the property is now worth more than ne than two years cannot be bought for every truly, J. S. CHRISTIAN, M. D. ate. Land is selling fast and will soon the ranch and pictures showing views on same. F. SIMMONS, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. E. A. Estes For your Drugs, Shool BOOKs and STATIONERY. SHERMAN BUILDING THE CIMETER JOB PRINTING CO. THE QUICK MAIL ORDER HOUSE We do business by fair competition and conservative methods :: :: :: Reasonable rates made consistent with first-class printing :: :: :: Try us once and you will always send us your work :: :: :: South Second St., Muskogee, Ind. Ter. Nickens & Nickens, Prps. Mr. W. D. BREWER DEALER IN Harness of all kinds. Saddlery made in the Shop. W. D. BREWER. 119 South Main Street. Pioneer Abstract Co. IOWA BUILDING This Company makes absolutely correct abstracts of title. Go there for correct information. Next to Bank of Muskogee, Muskogee, I. T. MUSKOGEE TITLE & TRUST CO. GENERAL BANKING ABSTRACTS of TITLE, INSURANCE, SURETY BONDS and REAL ESTATE Farm Loans a Specialty Second and Broadway. MUSKOGEE, IND. TER. --- Aster an extended tour of the country "A Rabbit's Foot Comedy Company" will soon be in Musskogee again and will exhibit at the corner of 4th and Okmulgee streets on the night August 29. This is positively the largest and best aggreuation of Colored performers in the known world and has only to be mentioned to cause admiration and appreciation. The Company is larger and stronger than ever and has ample accommodations for all who may attend. Happy Howe is still the funniest commodian alive and is appearing at his best advantage with the support of the 50 excellent performers who aid him in this unexcelled performance. See the big street parade at 2:30 p. m. and hear the grand free band concert in front of the tent at 7:30. Doors open at 7:30 and performance begins at 8:30. Admission adults 35c, children 25 cents. 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 759,530 25 $1,141,152 64 The above statement correct D N FINK, Cashier. Insurance Money to Loan H. P. SHOWALTER GENERAL INSURANCE Milwaukee Mechanics Fire Ins. Co. $ 2,759,179 Northwestern National Insurance Co. 4,365,095.00 Michigan Commercial Insurance Co. 844,835.00 Columbia Insurance Co. 756,028.00 Cosmopolitan Fire of New York. 733,830.00 Ohio German Insurance Co. 628,311.00 Merchants & Planters Insurance Co. Home Co. 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