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The Muskogee Cimeter. Vol 9 May Yet Beat Statehood. PRESIDENT "OPEN TO CONVICTION," OKLAHOMA REPUBLICANS HEAR. Washington, Oct. 1. (Special) A strong effort is being made by Rnpublican leaders to have President Roosevelt re-open the Oklahoma case. Last Thursday the President stated that he would promulgate the constitution when it reached him. His chief reason was the tremendous majority given it at the election. At the time he said his opinion of the constitution "was not fit for publication." Later he told a Western senator that while he had made the announcement, he "was still open to conviction," and that if it could be shown that the constitution was not republican in form he would yet reject it. With this ray of hope the Republicans of Oklahoma have renewed the fight. They have submitted to Attorney General Ronaparte a brief, showing wherein they believe the constitution to be un-republican in form. They build their case around the initiative and referendum. Incidentally, as a serious objection, they cite the constitution fixes no minimum price for the sale of school lands, and charge that the Democrats are in a conspiracy to dispose of all that land to their friends at a small price, thus robbing the school fund. Mr. Bonaparte has promised to give the constitution and the brief serious consideration. He has also asked Mr. Woodruff, attorney for the department of the interior, to make a legal investigation of the two documents, and furnish an opinion. Woodruff was brought into the matter because the interior deatnent has control of Oklahoma and Indian Territory as long as they are territories. The attorney general says he will be ready to give the president a final opinion on the constitution upon the latter's return from his beur hunt.—Ex. It is now up to us to convince the President of the rottenness of the constitution.--Editor. Suffrage League Convention. The Suffrage League with Coody Johnson as chairman convened here yesterday. The call was for the purpose of selecting delegates to go to Washington in order to present the league's objection to the constitution. There were present only three delegates from Oklahoma City the call having not been generally known. Prior to this meeting the Creek Nation had elected ten delegates. After wrangling all day a conference committee of three from the league and three from the mass meeting held here on the twenty sixth of September were appointed to harmonize matters. This was done by the league's selecting six delegates from that organization and approving the work done by the Creek Nation in mass convention. The credit for the work of harmony is due to W. A. Rentie, A. G. W. Sango, L. A. Bell, A. V.Jones, P. A. Lewis and others who were members of both the mass meeting and league. The consensus of opinion was that the finance committee appointed by the mass convention should continue to collect money and make its report. The entire people are a unit in, the matter of sending the delegation to Washington. The following are the delegates from the mass convention: W. H. Twine, Judge H. C. Reed, L. A. Bell, W. A. Rentie, Mose Grayson, J. A. Roper, J. H. Lewis, A. V. Jones, A. G. W, Sango, John W. Simmons. Delegates from the league: J. Coody Johnshn, M. J. Sango, Wm. Payne, Wm. Harrison, G. W. F. Sawner, Wa'ter Goodwin. The convention adjourned about one o'clock a.. m. October 4. Aside from the unfair methods of chairman Johnson and the desire of some ambitious fellows to crowd out some who are not rich in worldly goods, things were carried out pleasantly. Convention Dots. Chairman Johnson tries as best he can to be a Czar but makes a poor trial of it. The Dr. from Haskell ran upon another snag the little cuss was in smpathy with the last meeting. Ed. Jefferson was not re-elected as a delegate to Washington. The indefatigable Dr. Waterford wanted the delegates to pay $50 each. Now why? T he convention said no. Harrison the lawyer from Oklahoma City was much in evidence and stood in with the GANG but one thing to his credit is the fact that he would recognize a man when his attention was properly claimed. The autocratic actions of Coody Johnson, reminds one of the fact that the time has long since passed for the election of a chairman but perhaps the big men have decided that the office must be perpetual. The $500 graft deal would not work even though the big would be autocrat was a silent well wisher. THE WORK OF THE MASS MEETING WAS CONFIRMED AND REMAINS AS IT WAS THE COMMITTEE WILL CONTINUE COLLECTING MONEY AND REPORTING. The money must be raised by October 12, or soon thereafter as the delegates must leave on or before the 20th. Get busy. Some people who desire to prevent the delegation from going to Washington are using their best efforts to prevent money from being collected are throwing all blocks in the way possible but right will prevail. Democrats Stole Oklahoma Elcction. Oklahoma City, Sept. 25 Leading Republicans of Oklahoma and Indian Territory together with the chairman of county committees, met at Republican headquarters at the Threadgill hotel in answer to a call issued by chairman C.E. No 1 Hunter of the state central committee to discuss the hundred reports of frand during the recent election. Secretary Wells read a long list of glaring irregularities, many of which startled those who attended the meeting, although they had been prepared to hear much because of the election outrages in their own localities. As the reading progressed the amazement became greater as each charge was repeated. In one county 617 Republican votos were thrown out in three precincts, all being classed as mutilated ballots when all were fairly legal. The throwing out these ballots defeated four Republicans, a congressman, a senator, a representative, a district judge. All sorts of rank faauds were committed by the democrats. Chaiaman Hunter estimated that the votes thrown out by the democrats, will average 20 in each of the 2,000 precincts in the state or a total of 40,000 votes stolen. In fact he substantiated his claim that Governor Frantx had been elected easily, if the votes cast for him had been counted. Chairman Hunter announced that he would at once begin a vigorous investigation and equally vigorously prosecute those implicated in the frauds wherever found. The commiteee unanimously pledged $4,000 to be used in conducting the prosecution and settling the affairs of the committee. The following resolutions were adopted during the meeting unanimously. "Wherereas Chairman C. E. Hunter, Secretary O. A. Welis, and the executive committee have shown great zeal and ability in the conduct of the recent campaign and the committee has full confidence that they will continue to manage the affairs of the Republican party in the interest of American citizenship and American Government. "Therefore, be it resolved, that Chairman Hunter, and his conferees, be and they are hereby hearitily and fully for honest ballot, and will stand by every citizen no matter what has rank PROLIFIC GARDEN ENGLISHMAN'S FIRST AND SUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS IN MANITOBA—SOIL PRODUCES STRIKING RESULTS. / The Winnipeg (Canada) Free Press of a few days since contains account of the success that followed the efforts of William Knowles, an Englishman who located near Winnipeg, Manitoba. This is but one of many letters giving experiences of settlers, and should be encouraging to those who are looking about for a new home in which they may better their conditions. The following is a copy of the article referred to: William Knowles, who cultivates some twelve acres of land just below Middlechurch ferry on east side of the Red River has probably as fine a display of horticultural products as any in Manitoba. The whole of his holding is in a high state of cultivation and literally crowded with splendid vegetable specimens, which have fortunately escaped damage by hail, although heavy storms have more than once occurred within a few miles. The potatoes are a wonderful crop, and he expects to raise 1,500 bushels from his patch of $4\frac{1}{2}$ acres. A half dozen of tubers selected yesterday average more than a pound each. Adjoining the potatoes may be seen a marvelous collection of tomatoes. There are 600 plants, all growing under an enormous weight of fruit. One single stock picked yesterday contained eighteen tomatoes and weighed four pounds. This extraordinary example of marvelous growth, together with some of the potatoes were sent to the Free Press office. The proprietor was the first in town with several specimens, including green corn. The season has been favorable for onions, and one square patch of nearly an acre is looking remarkably healthy. In addition there are good crops of cabbages, cauliflower, turnips, parsnips, carrots, pumpkins, marrows, cucumbers, celery, peas, lettuce, rhubarb, etc. The floral department has not been neglected and a charming display of all the well known blooms were shown, including a specially choice lot of asters. Mr. Knowles, who gained most of his gardening experience in England, is loud in his praise of Manitoba soil for vegetable raising, and is gratified with the result of his first attempt at extensive horticulture. When the Orator Soared. In the course of an address extolling the virtues of the medical profession, Dr. L. B. McBrayer of Asheville, N. C., used the following characteristic southern language: "Could I borrow from the sun his cheery smile, from the moon her golden beams of light, from the southern zephyrs their softness, from the rose its fragrance, from the rainbow its celestial beauty, from the babbling brook its laughter and song, from the sea its awe and wonder, from the valley its serenity, and from the mountains their majesty and put these down upon a piece of azure blue sky, with comets for commas and planets for periods, I might then paint for you what the practice of medicine is like." They Always Make Friends. "Since using one box of Cheatham's Laxative Tablets we have been friends. They cured me promptly and thoroughly of a bad case of chills. Any one needing a remedy for malarial trouble will certainly find them satisfactory. They are also convenient to carry and pleasant to take." JOHN EVERHARDT. Harwood. Tex. Her Visit Spoiled. The Amiable Woman—Did you enjoy your visit to Stratford-on-Avon? The Perfect Lady—It was perfectly horrid, that's just what it was! Why, Shakespeare's tomb was guarded so meanly that I didn't get an opportunity to chip off a single souvenir, or even to write my name on it.—Puck, DIFFICULT PROBLEM HOW TO REDUCE PRICES WITHOUT LOWERING WAGES. Inasmuch as the Purpose of Tariff Revision Is to Forge Down Values, It Is Not Easy to See How American Labor Will Be Able to Escape the Cheapening Process. It is gratifying to learn that somebody has solved the difficult problem of how to lower the tariff, increase foreign competition and bring down prices without decreasing either the volume or the rate of wages paid to American labor. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts is the man. In a speech at Nantasket Beach on the 8th of August, according to the report in the New York Press. "Lodge said there would be no revision of the tariff before 1909; that the party leaders were opposed to any tariff tinkering preceding a presidential election; that a revision would not mean the lowering of duties on any manufactures the importation of which would hurt our workingmen, and that a new tariff act would be along the old Republican lines of protection for the American workingmen." Here we have the problem solved, but with no hint as to the process of solution. Like all the rest of the tariff "reformers," Mr. Lodge fails to furnish a bill of particulars. The tariff, he telis us, is going to be reduced along protective lines and not on any manufactures the importation of which would hurt our workingmen. In that case, how shall competition be increased from abroad and prices lowered accordingly? For it must not be forgotten that the sole end and aim of tariff revision downward is to increase competition and force lower prices. If this were not the end sought, why talk of tariff revision? Now, as a general rule, there are but two causes of price reduction. One is a diminished demand, and the other is an increased supply offered at cut rates. At present there is no decrease of demand and no overproduction to break down values. On the contrary, prices remain firm and the facilities of every line of domestic production are strained to the utmost to supply the demand. Then if the supply is to be so increased as to break down prices, it must be by importations bearing lower values. This is plain. Just how the tariff is going to be tinkered to suit all the shouters for downward revision Mr. Lodge does not make clear. He does not tell us how the tariff can be so manipulated in the revision process as to satisfy the free-traders, the "progressive" Republicans like Cummins, who want to bring in foreign competition that will do away with "the monstrous extortion and graft" being practiced under the Dinglley tariff, and the demand for free raw materials and reciprocity in competitive products that is so strenuous in Massachusetts, and at the same time keep the peace with American labor on the farms and in the mines, mills and factories. The jaunty, off-hand assurance that all this can and will be done when the tariff comes up for revision will hardly suffice. Gratifying it is to know that the tariff is not going to be touched until after March 4, 1909. We don't know how Mr. Lodge has managed to settle this thing so conclusively, but he seems to have settled it to his own satisfaction. But not to the satisfaction of Gov. Guild. On the same platform and within the same hour Guild reiterated his burning desire for immediate tariff revision. Not without some show of reason and consistency, one would think. If the present tariff is so atrocious as it is thought to be by Guild and Foss and Cummins and Whitney and a lot of other urgent revisionists, why postpone the remedy for three years? If the country is not now prosperous; if labor is unemployed; if wages are low and poverty acute. Improve Your Baking K C Baking Powder will do it! Get a can. Try it for your favorite cake. If it doesn't raise better, more evenly, higher, —if it isn't daintier, more delicate in flavor, —we return your money. Every- body agrees K C has no equal. K C 25 OUNCES FOR 25 BAKING POWDER MANUFACTURED ONLY BY AQUES MANFG CO. CHICAGO NEW YORK, KANSAS CITY WITH WARRANTY K C BAKING POWDER The United States Pure Food Law insures its purity. The Farmer's Opportunity Dr. Chas. F. Simmons Ranch Just South of San Antonio on the Market. 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The other night little Enid, tired out by a day's romping, was about to retire for the night when her mother told her to say her prayers, which she evidently was about to forget. This is what she said: "Oh, Lord, if you know everything, you know I am very sleepy, so dood-by till to-morrow night!" Tough Proposition. "Hush! 'Twixt you an' me, I don't think the devil wants him!"—Louisville Courier-Journal. 1t Will Stay There. In my family medicine chest no remedy is permitted to remain unless it proves beyond doubt the best to be obtained for its particular purpose. "For treating all manner of skin troubles, such as Eczema, Tetter, Ringworm, etc., Hunt's Cure has held its place for many years. I have failed to find a surer remedy. It cures itching instantly." R. M. SWANN, Franklin, La. It's an ill wind that blows contrary to the predictions of the weather prophet. Prove Baking er will do it! Get your favorite cake. If more evenly, higher, more delicate in flavor, your money. 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Gardeners, whose seasons never end, in January, and bask in mid-winter's nous and the prices remunerative. anted and harvested every month in d that the Northern farmer here bills and three-fourth the cost of ing and property values rapidly in- y feed, fatten winter and summer, the substantials of the temperate have to work hard six months in stock from dying during the win- Northwest. ats and people do not have to work the best society. s and have more to show for what the United States. paces can be built for less than half prostrations are unknown. na, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Hay Fever and vegetables, which ripen every better and less expensive than in t and plentiful. what the amount is never missed. schools and Churches of all denom- d will prevail. there are few physician and mostement their income from other bus- s and beautiful views of the ranch. F. SIMMONS, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. . Now Revealed FREE What beauty is more desirable than an exquisite complexion and elegant jewels? 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Oregon — Portland and various others, $29.30. Washington—Tacoma, Seattle, Everett, $29.30. Mexico City, Mexico, $24.00. F. A. STILLMAN, Trs. & Pas. Agt. For Sale-One 5 chair barber shop and house at 224 South Second St. Good stand; good business. Reason for selling is bad health. Inquire at 224 South Second. EXCURSIONS FRISCO ST. LOUIS And Return; daily to Sept. 30; rate $19.20 CHICAGO And Return; daily to Sept. 30; rate 27.55 MILWAUKEE And Return; Daily to Sept. 30; rate 31.45 Final return limit, Oct. 31, 1907. Jamestown Exposition Norfolk, Va., Round Trip; Season tickets: 50.80 60-day tickets: 43.35 15-day tickets: 34.55 via New York at slightly higher rates, ENVER, COLORADO SPRINGS and PUEBLO, COLORAO; On sale daily until Sept 30; 24.05 Final limit Oct. 31; Stop over all points in Colorado. F. A. Stubbins, Agent Frisco lines, Muskogee, I. T. Phone 302 Full line of HIGH CLASS ARTICLES and Latest Design at low prices. If our every-day prices seem too high, you should visit our every Monday Special Sales. R. A. Givens 228 North Second Street, MUSKOGEE, INDIAN TER. Opposite Court House. T. MILLER, LOAN BROKER Loaus on all Articles of Value. 105 South Main Street MUSKOGEE, IND. TER. If You Want to Eat Food that you can eat and digest, come to 226 South 2nd St. where W. W. Turner will accommodate you with the latest delicacies of the season at prices to suit. Before you sell or lease your land see the OHIO REALTY CO. Room 7 Turner Building. Holbert & Freeman CONTRACTORS & BUILDERS ESTIMATES AND ARCHITECTURAL PLANS FURNISHED Phone 320 or Call 612 South 3rd St. HETTICK BROS.. GROCERS High Class Goods at Lowest Prices Country Produce, Fresh Vegetables Everything You Eat Prompt delivery Your Patronage Solicited 27 West Okmulgee Official Statement of the Condition of the Commercial Nation'l Bank. MUSKOGEE TITLE & TRUST CO. IN THE UNITED STATES COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF THE IND. TER., AT MUSKOGEE. Henry Spangler, Plaintiff, vs. Mattie Spangler, Defendant. Equity, No. 7860. Warning Order. The defendant, Mattie Spangler, is warned to apper in this Court within thirty days, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, Henry Spangler. WITNESS the Honorable William R. Lawrence, Judge of said Court, and the seal thereof, at Muskogee, Indian Territory, this seventh day of September, A. D. 1907. R. P Harrison, Clerk. by D. J. Dickey, Deputy. Watkins & Burlingham attorneys for plaintiff. Mount I. Sharpe, attorney for non resident defendant. Diseases of Women and Children a Specialty. DR. R. H. WATERFORD, Estes Building, Rooms 3 and 4. Phone 461; residence phone 462, Muskogee, I. T. HETTICK BRO High Class Goods Country Producee Everything Prompt Your Patron 27 West Okmulgee Official Statement of Commercial Muskogee. Inc. RESOURCES Loans and Discounts Overdrafts, cotton, Bonds and Preuiums, Furniture and Fixtures Cash and Exchange The above statement correct E. A. 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Honestly interpreted, that meant that the author must be coddled, not told of his faults; and that the public must be fed on sugar-plums, not warned of impure or indigestible food. Considerateness, as Mr. Bullock remarks, is a most excellent thing. We ought all to be as kind as we can. But there are higher virtues, sterner obligations. One of them is to be sincere. And if a critic feels that he is set for the defense of the truth, and has a literary standard to maintain, instead of merely making himself a bait for advertisements, he will often discover that the truest kindness is to be severe. The older and more savage criticism may have sometimes been unfair, but at any rate it was never insipid or dull. This, says the New York Post, cannot be said of the new style of "considerate" criticism. It may create new geniuses every week, out of the most unpromising material, and may note the appearance of 20 masterpieces in a single publishing season, but it certainly does cloy one. It makes many of us look back, with Mr. Bullock, "longingly" to the old "ramping days of Henley," the "roaring Nineties," when "the artists of the rapier and the bludgeon had their way." The common custom of that part of the world which calls itself civilized is to seclude its choicest art products in museums and galleries, where they are seen only by the small proportion of people willing to go out of their way and to spend time and money in visiting them. Japan and some other countries, which, according to prevailing Anglo-Saxon ideas, have not yet fully emerged from a state of barbarism, have made art a part of the common life, so that even the humblest citizen is familiar with beautiful handwork. It has occurred to some leaders of thought in Denmark that acquaintance with artistic achievements should belong to the general education, and to that end a plan is being developed for displaying the work of Danish railroad stations. If the scheme materializes it will be interesting to watch results. At least the public will learn to know what artists are doing, and if it is really true that art, hung on the walls, is educative and uplifting, then people will derive a benefit they do not get from museums. The Kokomo movement for a special fee from lovers who use the telephone lines will meet general approval, remarks the Indianapolis Star. On party lines it has become an insufferable nuisance. If they ever said anything worth while it would be different, but to keep a dozen people hanging to receivers in hopes of useful information and give them only "sweet nothings" is an imposition that calls for redress. BECOME A DUMPING GROUND. What Would Follow a Reduction of the Tariff. If our tariff is reduced, as is seriously proposed, the United States will become the common dumping ground of the German and the British trusts, in competition with each other. The American people can then have the pleasure of buying steel at a very low price, probably less than the cost of production. They will also have, concurrently, the pleasure of finding other employment for many thousands of workmen, as American steel plants shut down in the face of such a competition. Free traders in this country are relying in their forthcoming assault upon the tariff on the prejudice they may be able to arouse by reason of the fact that a small percentage—a very small percentage, almost infinitesimal as compared with the whole—is sold abroad cheaper than at home. But that is the settled policy of manufacturers in European countries, and especially is it the policy of free trade England. If we should lower any of our protective duties below the point of adequate protection European manufacturers would go after this market—the richest and the greatest in the world—if they had to give their goods away. And their people at home would applaud them for doing it, expecting to reap their reward later on. Meantime, with American industries crippled, millions of our laborers would be without employment and hence unable to sustain the tremendous buying power that the country now possesses and which is the foundation of our unexampled prosperity. We went all through this experience only a few years ago, but some of us seem to be itching for another term at it. If they keep on fussing we shall get it.—Cedar Rapids Republican. ON ACCOUNT OF THE "EXPORT PRICE" PRIVILEGE. THE BOATMAN'S BOOK Senior Partner—We shall have to wind up our cruise and get back to New York at once. Junior Partner—Why, what has happened? No bad news, I hope. Senior Partner—Bad enough, I should think. Six of our biggest department store customers write that hereafter they will buy direct from the New York agents of German manufacturers, instead of buying from us as heretofore. Consequently we are out of it, and it will be necessary for us to cut down our working force and retrench all round so long as the United States government permits foreign manufacturers to consign goods to their own agents at "export prices." Great Britain Also? Of Course. The Philadelphia Record utterly misconceives the situation when it says that the American Protective Tariff league is "urging on shallow grounds that Great Britain shall be denied what has been conceded to Germany." Nothing of the sort; quite the contrary. The American Economist has uniformly contended that if we are going into the game of playing tariff favorites Great Britain should be granted equal favors; in fact, should be granted more, because she is a better customer than Germany by two to one, and, besides, she imposes no tariff at all upon our products (saving a strictly revenue tariff on spirits and tobacco), TIRED BACKS. The kidneys have a great work to do in keeping the blood pure. 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How German Emperor Keeps in Touch with World's Affairs. The German emperor's interest in everything that goes on in the world is well known, but few are aware of the trouble he takes to keep in touch with current affairs. According to a Munich newspaper, the kaiser reads at least three papers every day, changing the list several times a week in order to become fully acquainted with the ideas of all political parties in the state. But this by no means exhausts his appetite for information. Every day the ministry of foreign affairs, as well as that of the interior, has to provide newspaper cuttings, properly named and dated, and pasted on slips ready for the emperor's perusal. These he carefully reads, making marginal notes as he goes along, and they are then scrupulously classified and put aside ready for immediate reference. Often, too, the emperor asks for cuttings relating to the particular technical subjects in which for the time he is specially interested. Pure Food. The pure food law does not prohibit the sale of Cream of Tartar Baking Powders because Cream of Tartar is as pure as Alum—but it is a well known fact that a baking powder in which Alum is used instead of Cream of Tartar is less injurious. Dr. Herman Reinbold, the expert German chemist, in a recent official report concerning Baking Powders, declares that a pure Alum baking powder is better and less injurious than the so-called Cream of Tartar powders. He says that if the quantity of alum contained in a sufficient quantity of baking powder for a batch of bread or cakes for an ordinary family, be concentrated to one mouthful of food, and taken into the stomach of any one person, no matter how delicate, it could do no harm. On Wit and Humor. Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. We weep at what thwarts or exceeds our desires in serious matters; we laugh at what only disappoints our expectations in trifles. We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress; as we burst into laughter from want of sympathy with that which is unreasonable and unnecessary, the absurdity of which provokes our spleen or mirth, rather than serious reflections on it.—William Hazlitt. As to the scorchers. "Do many 'endurance race' autos pass here?" asked the city boarder, peering down the road. "Yeas, stranger," replied the old farmer. "They are all endurance racers to us." "To you?" "Sure. It is an endurance test of patience to keep from blazing away at them every time they run over a cow or scare a horse." First Aid. A Washington doctor was recently called to his telephone by a colored woman formerly in the service of his wife. In great agitation the darky advised the physician that her youngest child was in a bad way. "What seems to be the trouble?" asked the doctor. "Doc, she done swallered a whole bottle of ink!" "I'll be there in a short while to see her," said the Medico. "In the mean time have you done anything for her?" "I done give her three pieces o' blottin' paper, Doc," said the negress, doubtfully.—Harper's Weekly. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggels, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Tripped. Gunner—So you think the DeBlowers are faking about their extended European tour? Guyer—I should say so. They said there were so many Americans in Venice that many had to walk in the middle of the street. Gunner—Well? Guyer—Why the streets of Venice are canals.—Chicago Daily News. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. HISTORY MARK They also relieve Dissress from Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Too Hearty Eating. A perfect remedy for Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coated Tongue, Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER. CARTERS LITTLE LIVER PILLS. Genuine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature Brewwood REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. 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Entry may now be made before the Agent or SubAgent of the District by proxy, (on certain conditions) by the father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister of intending homesteader. "Any even numbered section of Dominion Lands in Manitoba or the North-West Provinces, excepting 8 and 26, not reserved, may be homesteaded by any person of a family, or male over 18 years of age, to the extent of one quarter section, of 160 acres, more or less." The fee in each case will be $10.00. Churches, schools and markets convenient. Healthy climate, splendid crops and good laws. Grain-growing and cattle raising principal industries. For further particulars as to rates, routes, best time to go and where to locate, apply to STANDARD FOR 40 YEARS WINTERSMITH'S CHILL TONIC HARELY FAILS TO MAKE A PERMANENT CURE OF CHILLS FEVER Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. One 10c package colors all fibers. They dye in cold water better than any other dye. 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Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Invitation to Women Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to promptly communicate with Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. From the symptoms given, the trouble may be located and the quickest and surest way of recovery advised. $100 REWARD For any case of Chills or Fever, Swamp Fever, Dumb Ague or any ailment due to Malaria that Schaap's Laxative Chill Cure fails to cure if taken according to the Directions. For sale by all druggists. Price 50 cents. Prepared only by JOHN SCHAAP, Ft. Smith, Ark. Women Avoid Operations When a woman suffering from female trouble is told that an operation is necessary, it, of course, frightens her. The very thought of the hospital, the operating table and the knife strikes terror to her heart. It is quite true that these troubles may reach a stage where an operation is the only resource, but a great many women have been cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after an operation has been decided upon as the only cure. The strongest and most grateful statements possible to make come from Lydia E. Pinkham's W made from native roots and herbs, H evidenced by Miss Rose Moore's case. Dear Mrs. Pinkham:—"Lydia E. I cured me of the very worst form of a to you my deepest gratitude. I suff I was unable to attend to my duties, doctored and doctored with only temp to an operation which I was advised E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; and I am now in better health than This and other such cases should dia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Women suffering from any form promptly communicate with Mrs. P symptoms given, the trouble may be way of recovery advised. $100 REWAR Fever, Dumb Ague or any Schaap's Laxative Chill Cure to the Directions. For sale by Prepared only by JOHN S PUTNAM Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any any garment without ripping apart. Write for free boo Get the Real A 15 An ivy plant which established itself in a crevice of the tower of St. John the Baptist church, at Yarborough, Lincolnshire, Eng., undermined the foundation and lifted stones out of place until it cost over $3,000 to make repairs. Test Its Value. Simmons' Liver Purifier is the most valuable remedy I ever tried for constipation and disordered Liver. It does its work thoroughly, but does not gripe like most remedies of its character. I certainly recommend it whenever the opportunity occurs. W. M. TOMLINSON, Oswego, Kan. I know no failure, save failure in cleaving to the purposes which I know to be the best.—George Eliot. You I Because of th MISS ROSE MOORE from women who by taking Vegetable Compound have escaped serious operations, as of 307 W. 26th St., N.Y. She writes:—Binkham's Vegetable Compound has female trouble and I wish to express intensely for two years so that and was a burden to my family. I library relief and constantly objecting to undergo. I decided to try Lydia but cured me of the terrible trouble that have been for many years.” Encourage every woman to try Lydia before she submits to an operation. G Invitation to Women of female weakness are invited to Binkham, at Lynn, Mass. From the located and the quickest and surest RD For any case of Chills or Fever, Swamp Enailment due to Malaria that fails to cure if taken according to all druggists. Price 50 cents. CHAAP, Ft. Smith, Ark. FADELE other dye. One 10c package colors all fibers. They dye not—How to Dye, Bleach and Mix Colors. MONRO Dangerous imitations of w consciousnessless trade pirates. (Cular) remedies, is Thedford's the medicine; others the packe T BLAC for constipation, indigestion, s rheumatism and similar disorder had stomach trouble, but noth Too Indulgent. "I don't see why you sneer at Mr. Markley," she said, "because he's so shabby. Clothes don't make a man." "No," replied her husband, "but his wife's clothes often break a man. I sneer at Markley because he's fool enough to be that sort of man." GOOD HOUSEKEEPERS. Use the best. That's why they buy Red Cross Ball Blue. At leading grocers, 5 cents. Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.—Ruskin. You always get full value in Lewis' Single Binder straight 5c cigar. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. Some people can't help making molehills out of mountains. Look Prese so ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use "L RHEUMATISM CAN NOT BE RUBBED AWAY It is perfectly natural to rub the spot that hurts, and when the muscles, nerves, joints and bones are throbbing and twitching with the pains of Rheumatism the sufferer is apt to turn to the liniment bottle, or some other external application, in an effort to get relief from the disease, by producing counter-irritation on the flesh. Such treatment will quiet the pain temporarily, but can have no direct curative effect on the real disease because it does not reach the blood, where the cause is located. Rheumatism is more than skin deep—it is rooted and grounded in the blood and can only be reached by constitutional treatment—IT CANNOT BE RUBBED AWAY. Rheumatism is due to an excess of uric acid in the blood, brought about by the accumulation in the system of refuse matter which the natural avenues of bodily waste, the Bowels and Kidneys, have failed to carry off. This refuse matter, coming in contact with the different acids of the body, forms uric acid which is absorbed into the blood and distributed to all parts of the body, and Rheumatism gets possession of the system. The aches and pains are only symptoms, and though they may be scattered or relieved for a time by surface treatment, they will reappear at the first exposure to cold or dampness, or after an attack of indigestion or other irregularity. Rheumatism can never be permanently cured while the circulation remains saturated with irritating, pain-producing uric acid poison. The disease will shift from muscle to muscle or joint to joint, settling on the nerves, causing inflammation and swelling and such terrible pains that the nervous system is often shattered, the health undermined, and perhaps the patient becomes deformed and crippled for life. S. S. S. thoroughly cleanses the blood and renovates the circulation by neutralizing the acids and expelling all foreign matter from the system It warms and invigorates the blood so that instead of a weak, sour stream, constantly depositing acrid and corrosive matter in the muscles, nerves, joints and bones, the body is fed and nourished by rich, health-sustaining blood which completely and permanently cures Rheumatism. S. S. S. is composed of both purifying and tonic properties just what is needed in every case of Rheu- umatism. It contains no potash, alkali or other miracle made entirely of purifying, healing extracts and juice barks. If you are suffering from Rheumatism do not trying to rub a blood disease away, but begin the us about your case and our physicians will give you advice desired free of charge and will send our special no potash, alkali or other mineral ingredient, but is lying, healing extracts and juices of roots, herbs and fering from Rheumatism do not waste valuable time disease away, but begin the use of S. S. S. and write our physicians will give you any information or large and will send our special treatise on Rheumatism. matism. It contains no potash, alkali or other mineral ingredient, but is made entirely of purifying, healing extracts and juices of roots, herbs and barks. If you are suffering from Rheumatism do not waste valuable time trying to rub a blood disease away, but begin the use of S. S. S. and write us about your case and our physicians will give you any information or advice desired free of charge and will send our special treatise on Rheumatism. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. SS DYES cold water better than any other dye. You can dye THE DRUG CO., Quincy, Illinois CALIFORNIA alog free. Woost W. N. U., MU well-known medicines are often sold to one of the most commonly imitated (beca- lack-Draught. Some imitators copy the ; but none copy the true merit of the on HEDFORD'S K-DRAUGH back headache, biliousness, backache, uric rs. Mrs. J. L. Broadhead, of Clanton, Ala- ng helped me until I used Thedford's Blac W. L. DOUGLAS $3.00 & $3.50 SHOES BEST IN THE WORLD SHOES FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY. AT ALL PRICES. $25,000 Reward To any one who can prove W. L. Douglas does not make & sell more Men's $3 & $3.50 shoes than any other manufacturer. CALIFORNIA Irrigated Fruit, Alfalfa Farms. Easy payments, Special offer. New Gov't aided canal. Cat alog free. Wooster, 702 Market St., San Francisco. W. N. U., MUSKOGEE, NO. 40, 1907. ines are often sold to druggists, by commonly imitated (because most pop- ome imitators copy the appearance of the true merit of the only real— RD'S RAUGHT business, backache, uric acid troubles, badhead, of Clanton, Ala., writes: "I I used Thedford's Black-Draught." THE REASON W. L. Douglas shoes are worn by more people in all walks of life than any other make, is because of their excellent style, easy-fitting, and superior wearing qualities. The selection of the leathers and other materials for each part of the shoe, and every detail of the making is looked after by the most complete organization of superintendents, foremen and skilled shoemakers, who receive the highest wages paid in the shoe industry, and whose workmanship cannot be excelled. If I could take you into my large factories at Brockton, Mass., and show you how carefully W. L. 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SEND FOR FREE LAWS. TREATISE ON DIGITAL DISCASES. WITH NAMES OF PROMINENT NEW CURED HORNTON & MINOR*1030 OAK ST., KANSAS CITY, MO. PILES NO MONEY TILL CURED SEND FOR FREE ISSUES. TREATMENT ON BESTAL DUISES. WITH NAMES OF PROMINENT NEW CLIENT DRS. THORNTON & MINOR 1030 OAK ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. S.S.S. PURELY VEGETABLE EAST COLOR EYELIDS USED EXCLUSIVELY carry the fight on the constitution to Roosevelt. All felt that the president should be let alone to do as the law directs and which all realize he will do fearlessly no matter who is hit. (continued from first page.) and station, in trying to secure his equal place at the ballot with ever, other citizen of the state. "The best interests of the whole people may be protected and fair and honest elections may be had, and honest government obtained for the state of Oklahoma. WHY PAY RENT? We sell you a house and lot for $10 to $200 cash. Balance like rent. We also sell lots on payments. Get our prices. MARTIN & QUARLES, Phone 1230. 312½ West Okmulgee Street "And whereas the Republican party has always stood for fair elections and an honest count of every ballot, the action of the committeemen is hereby endorsed and they are authorized and instructed to take such steps in the business of the Republican party, and do all things, which in their judgment may be necessary to secure a fair count a correct declaration of the results of the election and a proper consideration of pending questions by the president and congress which affect the welfare of the citizens of Oklahoma." Notice. Let us pay off your mortgage and save your place. I have several neat new houses and lots to sell on installments—Easy terms. Every man and woman who trades with us is able to buy a home, I loan money at 8 per cent interest. A resolution was also unanimously passed urging that contests be instituted in the courts wherever irregularities in the late election of state officers are charged. This means contests in every county in Indian Territory and nearly every one in Oklahoma. Come to see vs to-day. Wm. P. FIELDS. NO. I ENGLISH BLOCK. Every business man, both Colored and white should patronize the Afro Amertcan Bakery. It is the best in town. There was no disposition to OB PRINTING CO. EIL ORDER HOUSE THE CIMETER J THE QUICK MA 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, I . Muskogee. Ind. Ter. South Second St., Muskogee, Ind. Ter. Nickens & Nickens, Prps. : Kirshbaum GENTS FURNISHING GOODS OF ALL DESIG baum : Dr. G. L. KNEBEL 4th & Okmulgee. State Building, Rooms 1-2-3. Muskogee, I. T Durfey Hardware DON'T FORGET THE Big Sale At DURFEY'S HARDWARE Special Sales Days Tuesday of each Week. Watch the Windows CREEK UNDERTAKERS BILLINGS AND CULLUM Pioneer Abstract Co. This Company makes absolutely correct abstracts of title. Go there for correct information. Next to Bank of Muskogee, Muskogee, I. T. Home Undertaking Company. Ragsdale, Davis and Davidson. Geo. W. Davis, Manager and Funeral Director. PHONE 746. 319 North 2nd St., Muskogee, I. T.