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The Muskogee Cimeter. Vol 9 Birmingham, Nov. 20.—E. M. Jones, a Negro, field agent of the Board of Education of the Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist church, head quarters in Cincinnati, bears so few marks of his race that he was arrested here and locked up in the prison for whites for walking the streets with a Negro woman. When searched a razor was found, and the arresting policeman swore that Jones had offered to pay for his release. Upon explaining that he was a Negro, the judge dismissed the original case, but fined Jones $50 for attempting to bribe an officer and $1 for carrying a razor. Jones said that as he was traveling he carried the razor for shaving.—Ex. It is strange that white people can't tell their own folks from ours. Some of them are so black and some of us are so white that these blunders often occur. Where the jim crow regulations are in force, some of our folks are compelled to ride in white cars and some of them in black cars. What fools American prejudice doth make of us all. Negro hackmen are managing to keep out of the line fight. They are doing their duty as good citizens and it is hard to believe that white hackmen are are as desperate as the daily papers say they are. It has the appearance of a concerted conspiracy to get rid of the best Chief of police the city ever had in order to satisfy the exagerated ego of a certain CLAN. THE FIRST WORLD WAR Officers of the State Grand Temple of the Sister of Mysterious Ten of Oklahoma Jurisdiction, Elected at Wagoner, August 26=30, 1907. The Negro Protective league was organized at Oklahoma City Saturday. J. C. Johnson of Wewoka, is president of the league and he made a speech complimenting the black race for its fight against the constitution and called attention that Messrs Taft and Roosevelt were not in accord with the constitution. Incidentally he mentioned that the league owed him for "services" rendered and he wahted the money. Muskegee Democrat, November 25. The League has been organized several years but for some time there has been no election. The officers seem to be permanent fixtures; they are eternal and everlasting. The time is ripe for a reorganization of the republican party in the new state of Oklahoma Something must be done at once. All of the white Republicans seem to be fighting among themselves and the black brother is in the same lamentable condition. If there is to be any unity in the near future this fighting on the inside must cease and the forces drawn to gether. Something may be accomplished by united effort otherwise we are lost. The American Sick and Accident Insurance Co. of Oklahoma SOLICITS YOUR PATRONAGE OFFICE ROOMS 485 BOSTIC BUILDING The railroad Commission is not endowed with lawmaking powers and if it attempts to exercise such powers and succeeds in exercising them unrestrained then the precedent set becomes dangerous. If one law is made a hundred may likewise be formed. The experiment is so risky that even Democrats are afraid to trust it. Indications are that the Democrats are preparing for us a hard jolt, but after all, we can really ask no favors at their hands. We have never favored them but have always fought them even when the lily whites were playing fast and loose with us. All that we can consistently ask of Mr. Haskell is that since he is governor of the whole people and not of a party he should give us a square deal and if that is impossible, then make the blow as light as possible and look out for what comes. J. T. NICHOLS, PRES. No 9 TORCH TO COLLEGE POLITICAL FIGHT LEADS TO BURNING OF NEGRO SCHOOL AT GUTHRIE Boy Students Fight Fire Main Building of Colored Normal University is Destroyed. Loss Being $50,000-Believed to be Result of Race Feeling. Gutbrie, Okla., Nov. 25—The main building of the colored normal university was completely destroyed by fire early today, a loss of fifty thousand dollars. Only a portion of the equipment was saved, the remainder including the university library being burned. President Inman Page, with the boy students, fought the fire for several hours and saved what they could of the furniture and equipment, but it was impossible to stop the fire with the bucket brigade. It was past midnight when the building was fired. Two girls from a window in the girls' dormitory saw three men looking about the main building, but gave no alarm, not knowing what what was being done. It is believed the university was fired by political enemies of the institution, resulting possibly from the bitter fight made against Negroes during the recent political campaign. Is it possible that such things can happen in a civilized community? P. T. ROBERT, SEC'Y neriean ent Insurance Co. ahoma UR PATRONAGE REAL CAUSE FOR GLADNESS. How Young Lawyer Carried Comfort to Convicted Client. An amusing story is told by Harper's Weekly at the expense of a prominent Baltimore lawyer, who, like most young attorneys, got his first case by assignment from the bench. His client had been indicted for murder, and his conviction was a foregone conclusion, as his guilt was unquestionable. The result of the trial was a sentence to be hanged; but the man made an appeal to the governor for a pardon and was anxiously awaiting a reply thereto when his lawyer visited him in his cell. "I got good news for you—very good news!" the young lawyer said, grasping the man's hand. "Did the governor—is it a pardon?" the man exclaimed joyously. "Well, no. The fact is the governor refuses to interfere. But an uncle of yours has died and left you $200, and you will have the satisfaction of knowing that your lawyer got paid, you know," was the comforting explanation. BABY ITCHED TERRIBLY. Face and Neck Covered with Inflamed Skin—Doctors No Avail—Cured by Cuticura Remedies. 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Then she took a friend and went around to the millinery stores and "tried on" again, saying, of course, that her "hair looked perfectly terrible." Then she went home and thought and thought, and, finally, went back to the stores and "tried on" once more; and thought, and thought, and then bought a hat which is so grotesque and hideous that her relatives and friends blush with shame every time they see her wear it, and strangers stare at her, wondering what kind of courage it takes to wear such a looking hat. But she did the best she could.—Atchison (Kan.) Globe. Best in Existence. "I sincerely believe, all things considered, Hunt's Lightning Oil is the most useful and valuable household remedy in existence. For Cuts, Burns, Sprains and Insect Bites, it has no equal, so far as my experience goes." G. E. Huntington, Eufala, Ala. Ambiguous. Ambiguous. A Washington correspondent who used to run a newspaper in Iowa tells how the heavy advertiser of the town once entered the editorial offices and, with anger and disgust depicted in every line of his face, exclaimed: "That's a fine break you people have made in my ad. this week!" "What's the trouble?" asked the editor, in a tone calculated to mollify the indignant one. "Read it and see!" commanded the advertiser, thrusting a copy of the paper in the editor's face. The latter read: "If you want to have a fit wear Dank's shoes."—Harper's Weekly. Electric Motor Scarf Pin. The smallest motor is that made by a German mechanic. It is worked by a battery deposited in his coat pocket, and he uses the motor as a scarf pin. It is working all the time, simply to show that it is an actual working motor. It is curious to see the little wheels revolving as the machine rests on the scarf. Don't Do It. Should you have a cough, cold or sore chest, do not rely on time and nature to cure. 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Haskell Issues Proclamation in Addition to That of Frantz. Guthrie, Ok.—The Oklahoma side of the new state has two Thanksgiving proclamations, as an inducement to be duly thankful on November 28. Just before retiring from office Governor Frantz issued a proclamation setting that day apart for thanksgiving in Oklahoma. Governor Haskell, realizing that the Frantz proclamation covered only the Oklahoma side, has issued a thanksgiving proclamation covering the entire state. Otherwise the east side would have been compelled to be thankful without a holiday proclamation. IRRIGATION WORK AND PLANS. Reclamation Service Director Talks on Achievements and Tells What Will Be Done. Muskogee, Okla.,—Last Thursday F. H. Newell, director of the Reclamation Service, told of what had been done in the way of irrigation. He said in part: "A decided impetus has been given to the rapid development of the West by the operation of the Reclamation Service, which began in 1902, to subjugate vast areas of the great American desert. "In this brief space of time nearly $40,000,000 has been expended on twenty-six great irrigation works in sixteen states and territories in the construction of huge masonry dams, in broad canals and reservoirs of enormous capacity. Several fo these wrks are completed and are supplying today water to thousands of acres of land. In the spring of 1908., more than a million acres of land will be watered by the government works, and 15,000 families will be living on farms in regions which only a short time ago were covered with sage brush. "The present plans of the bureau provide for the expenditure of nearly $100,000,000 and the reclamation of more than 3,000,000 acres of land, an area larger than the combined cultivated acreage f Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hamshire and Florida. Land values all over the west have greatly increased since the beginning of the federal work of reclamation. "The expenditure of millions of dollars for irrigation by the government is proceeding under a law wholly unlike any other law governing national work. Under the reclamation law every dollar invested is to be returned to the treasury by the settlers who take up the lands reclaimed. While the terms are easy, the entire burden of cost falls upon the people directly benefitted. "Under the wise provisions of the law, the reclaimed regions are quickly turned over to bona fide settlers, whose farms are restricted in area from 40 to 160 acres, incurring compact farming communities and intensive cultivation. The land speculator has small chance under this law, which compels actual and continuous settlement and cultivation. There is no class of farmers who as a rule are more prosperous or receive a larger share of profits from the soil than the successful irrigator. "The creation of thousands of homes out of what was otherwise a desert, in the midst of broad grazing areas, or near the great mining camps of the west, insures a stability to the commonwealth, which can not be obtained in any other way. These homes serve as an offset to the roving population on the grazing lands and the restless miners who make no permanent habitation." LEGISLATURE IN GUTHRIE. Guthrie, Okla.,—Governor Haskell, who returned Wednesday from Muskogee, authorized the correspondent of The Star to say that he had issued a proclamation calling the legislature to meet at Guthrie, December 2. "What I told you then may be relied upon," said Governor Haskell to the correspondent today. The doubt that seems to have arisen in the matter comes doubtless from controversy between Governor Haskell and citizens of Guthrie as to the rental price asked for the city hall where the legislature will be convened. It is believed that the whole matter will be adjusted soon. TUMORS CONQUERED Overwhelming Proof that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Succeeds. Only One Crop of Land Don't Forget This and Don't Forget to Buy Your Share Now Before it is All Gone. You Can Get Rich in South Texas in a Few Years on an Investment of $210, Payable $10 a Month Without Interest. Read the Following: Dear Sir: I have just returned from a visit to your 95,000-acre ranch, where I have been for the purpose of investigating the conditions of soil, climate, rainfall, etc., and its adaptability to general farming, truck-growing and fruits. I found conditions really better than I expected, and fully up to representations in your literature. The soil seems to be of fine quality and of such variety as to make diversified farming easy and profitable. While on the ranch I had the pleasure of visiting Hall, Frenchman, Turkey Creek, Windmill, Muley Cow and Headquarters pastures. I did not see the Votaw pastures but was assured by disinterested parties that it was even better than that which I examined, and believing this I came home perfectly satisfied that you have the best proposition, for the poor man, in Southwest Texas. On farms adjoining your ranch I saw fine crops growing without irrigation, and this I consider remarkable in view of the severe drought, which obtains at this time over the entire state. I am sure this will prove to be a fine fruit-growing section, especially for grapes, figs and berries, and that the water supply is sufficient seems certainly to be proved by the flowing artesian wells in various parts of pasture, and this also settles the truck growing proposition. You have my hearty endorsement on both your lands and plan of sale. Very truly yours, DR. T. E. FOSTER. Remember—you get a truck or fruit farm of from 10 to 640 acres in the finest country in the world, and two town lots for $210. 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Read the Following: St. Jo, Texas, April 20, 1907. from a visit to your 95,000-acre ranch, of investigating the conditions of soil, utility to general farming, truck-growing or than I expected, and fully up to the soil seems to be of fine quality and farming easy and profitable. pleasure of visiting Hall, Frenchman, w and Headquarters pastures. I did assured by disinterested parties that I examined, and believing this I came have the best proposition, for the poor saw fine crops growing without irriga- in view of the severe drought, which W. H. TWINE Editor. C. T. HUME. Advertising Manager. Published Every Week in the Interest of the Negro by Cimeter Publishing Co. Entered at the Post Office at Muskogee, Okla., as Second Class Mail Matter. The Republican party in the new state must reorganize if a victory is to be won. Political thugs and thieves and bums who sold out the Negro, can never have our support for anything. We stand where we have always stood with regards to lily writes, and all other cusses who oppose the Negro. The battle is not half over. It is only beginning and there will be a hot time before the National Convention. Republicans would disgrace themselves forever in the sight of the 60,000 Negro voters should they give the empty honor of caucus nomination for United States Senator to C. B. Douglass, the man who fathered the notorious anti Negro resolutions. The murder of Thad Ayers at Langston some years ago leads one to believe that this same class of moral degenerates is responsible for the burning of Langston College. The murderers of Ayers have never been caught. He was killed while addressing the city council on matters that did not concern white people. Do you see? Last Sunday our reporter was in north town and saw three women as black as the high sheriff in hell, sitting on the laps of three fellows as white as the leper of Biblical fame and equally as unclean. Was this Jim Crow? Can't the law makers pass laws to prevent this kind of social mingling? Is it right to encourage this kind of mixing? Eh! Our people have a great deal to be thankful for; hence the thanksgiving dinners and ser mons. "We are living and glad of it." John F. Alberty, the noted hackman and expert driver has returned to his first love—Muskogee. The organizing of a Negro Democratic club of fifty members composed of some of our very best citizens is the direct result of lily white antics in the Republican party. Men who are members of this club are race lovers and patriotic citizens and while we can't follow them we know that a great deal of their contention is as true, as gospel. Their number means a new deal in this county. There is a game on now for delegates to the National Convention. Negroes must play politics in this deal and that to the limit. We have got all the LEMONS that can be given us and it is now our duty to pass a few of them to the OTHER FELLOW. Will we do it? Kentucky has been redeemed just as Oklahoma will be redeemed in the near future. All is not lost. Tratorous Negroes and lily white Republicans can not blot our future for all time to come. We must fight for our right. The days of running are past. Die in the ditch. Did you ever realize that WHTE MEN are responsible for WHITE NEGROES and that it is this same class of cuss that wants to discriminate against its own blood. Then tell us that this is chivalry and bravery? BOSH! Those cusses are damphools and cowards. We are perfectly willing that any letter or copy of a letter written to Chairman Hunter during the last campaign may be circulated anywhere. We also have some things. We are not asking for any office and we stand where we have always stood and remain firm on all statements made publicly or privately. Any cuss' who has become infuriated may find us at the same old stand, 211 South Second St. WANTED-A first class Colored Baker. Good wages to the right man. Write to Alcorn and Smith. Boyton, Oklahoma. A REVELATION IN HARNESS I have recently purchased a LANDIS wax thread, lockstitch, harness machine. This machine uses hard wax and does work far superior to hand work, pulls the stitches in tighter and makes more stitches to the inch than hand work. It is absolutely guaranteed that harness sewed on this machine will wear longer than the best hand work. I will continue to use the best number one oak tanned leather, but will reduce the price of harness because the machine will do the work of ten men and therefore greatly reduce the cost of making harness. A farmer who cradles his wheat cannot afford to sell his grain as cheap as the farmer who uses a self binder. This is a machinery age and the same rule applies to the harness business. Of course there is a vast difference between "factory" made harness and harness made on a Landis machine in my shop because the factory uses poor material, as well as cheap labor, whereas I use the best of leather and thread, and construct the work myself. Mail orders promptly filled. Send for prices. Address all letters to 209 East Broadway Phone 210. This Company makes absolutely correct abstracts of title. Go there for correct information. Next to Bank of Muskogee, Muskogee, I. T. Negro servants drive white men and women over the city and are in much closer personal touch than when riding on the caas. But that service is permissable and the other (while travelling from city to city) is social and therefore not tolerated. What fools these mortals be? All decent white people say that if we must have separate coaches that there should be a first class coach and a smoker reserved for colored people. While we are opposed to this class legislation and class legislation of any and all kinds still there is a bit of consideracion in the above expression. While all class legislation is distasteful and we shall continue to fight it until hell freezes over yet if we must be crushed the above is a civilized way of doing it. THE BURTON TOILET GOODS CO., desires a large corps of local agents every where and Mr. Burton prefers to engage for this work ladies of his own race. The several articles are made especially for colored ladies and gentlemen and are guaranteed to give satisfaction. Any personal effort on your part to put us in touch with ladies of good repute will be reciprocated. J. W. Allen, Gen'l Sales Agent. WANTED-Active colored ladies to sell article we manufacture especially for our race, the colored ladies and gentlemen of America. Free demonstration samples. Large profits. Write for exclusice territory. THE BURTON TOILET GOODS CO. 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TO MEN To Our Colored Fri the United Sta EN OF C ored Friends T ited States, W TO MEN OF COLOR To Our Colored Friends Throughout the United States. We send You Greeting. The Indian Territory and Oklahoma are now a new State. Thousands of our native people are land holders, and have thousands of Acres of Rich Lands to rent and to Lease. We prefer to rent and to lease our lands to Colored People. Our terms will be found reasonable. GOOD LAND, GOOD WATER, GOOD SCHOOL ON FOOT, BERT CLIMATE IN THE WORLD. You are invited to come and share and enjoy our lands and our prosperity in the New State of Oklahoma, "The land of the free and the home of the brave" For further particulars write either of the following: D. BARROWS, Tuskahoma, I. T., REV. E. W. SMITH, (Pastor A. M. E. Chuch at Talihina and Tuskahoma) Talihina, I. T. HENRY WLLIS, Talihina. SHERMAN BUILDING E. D. SWEENEY, CASHIER OF COLOR Bends Throughout es. We send The Afro - Ameriesn BAKING CO Solicits your trade we are in the front rank in our line and only ask that you give us a trial and we know you will always be our customer. Call and see us. 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 me able to buy a home, I loan money at 8 per cent interest. Come to see me to-day. W™. P. FIELDS. NO. I ENGLISH BLOCK. EXCURSIONS VIA FRISCO Norfoik, Va., Jamestown Exposition Ticketson sale daily. Season tickets: 51.95 60-day tickets: 43.35 15-day tickets: 34.55 WINTER TRIPS TO Florida and Southern Texas ROUND TRIP RATES. To Galveston Tex. $21.80 To San Antonio, Tex. 20.75 To Jacksonville, Fla. 42.15 New Orleans, La. 26.20 To Tampa, Fla. 54.75 To Havana, Cuba 72.20 Rates to Other Points May be had on Application. Tickets on sale after Nov. 14th. Final limit June 1st, 1908. Call or Phone 302. F. A. Stubbins, Freight-Pass. Agent H. H. Carter, Ticket Agent ```markdown ``` Muskogee Cimeter. W. H. TWINE, Edited Once a fisherman, always a nur. Blessed is the man devoid of suspicion, deceit and despair. Envy, malice and hate are the most deadly poisons of the human soul. Stepping accidentally on the corns of the end-seat hog might help some. When money is put above manhood, financial vice triumphs over virtue. Some men risk their lives knowingly and voluntarily for their country, some for those they love, and some go into automobile racing. An Atlanta girl has joined a chorus in spite of the fact that the man to whom she is engaged threatens to give her up. He can't be very rich. Women's shoes will be more pointed this fall, according to a fashion authority, and the chiropodists are looking forward to a rush of business. It costs the government $35,000,000 a year now to distribute the mail to the farmers, but remarks the Topeka Herald, it is worth the money. The New York woman who has been living with a bullet in her brain has more or less excuse for shooting off her mouth, as she has been doing of late. That Brooklyn widow who weighs 525 pounds and is still growing, should look around soon if she expects to find a man who thinks she is worth her weight in gold. Prince d'Abro of Egypt says that in his country people are slow to anger and never strike until some one strikes them first. How in the world do they ever get up fights, then? In Boston the tribe of Sullivans has increased to such an extent that it now ranks next to the Smiths in the city directory. A few Emersons still reside there, but they don't occupy as much space as formerly. Emperor William, while attending army maneuvers, is living in a portable asbestos house. The kaiser has been regarded as a "warm" proposition, but no one imagined his caloric had reached such a high degree as that. Huge sums of money were carried through the streets of New York recently in an open wagon and without protection. Crooks will feel like suing the authorities for damages for not letting them know about it until next day. A girl says she is not acquainted with a man who met her on the street car and claimed her as his wife. This is a rapid age, but at that no man should marry a woman who isn't acquainted with him without telling her anything about it. Capt. Roald Amundsen, being a wise person, will have his polar bears thoroughly broken to harness befor riding them to the north pole. Also he should require with each bear a written guaranty that it would not eat man meat under any circumstances. A lawyer in a New York police court testified that he hd never done anything wrong in his life. And yet, up to date, he has not received an offer to go into vaudeville or had a bid for the National museum or Smithsonian Inittution as one of the greatest of all flying curiosities. ```markdown ``` NAMES DEPUTY MARSHALS. Temporary Oklahoma Appointments May Be Made Permanent. Ardmore, Ok.—United States Marshal G. A. Porter has named C. G. McCoin, A. R. Cottle, J. M. Ryley, W. H. Cunningham and R. Perzas temporary deputy marshals for the Eastern district of Oklahoma and in all likelihood they will become the permanent deputies. All were deputies under him when he was marshal of the southern district of Indian Territory. They will be distributed at different points over the territory. It is quite likely that P. Perzas will be head deputy. C. G. McCoin will go to Muskogee as office deputy and A. R. Cottle to Vinita. The location for the other deputies has not yet been announced. GOES TO SAN FRANCISCO. Coast City Gets Next Trans-Mississippi Congress. Muskogee, Ok.—President, J. B. Case, Abilene; first vice president, I. T. Pryor, San Antonio, Tex.; second vice president, N. G. Larimore, Larlmore, S. D.; third vice president, W. F. Baker, Council Bluffs, Ia.; fourth vice president, J. E. Callbreath, Denver, Col.; secretary, Arthur F. Francis, Cripple Creek, Col. The foregoing were elected officers of the trans-Mississippi commercial congress Thursday. The treasurer will be appointed by the president. San Francisco was chosen as the place of meeting of the nineteenth annual session. Coffeyville, Duluth, San Francisco, Galveston and Joplin were candidates. Sentiment was set so strongly in favor of the western city that before the roll of states was completed it was unanimously chosen. Senator William J. Stone of Missouri made the principal address of the day. The big auditorium was crowded to standing room. Stone talked on the insular possessions, and his travels in the Orient. Henry T. Clark of Omaha, president of the Missouri River Improvement Association, spoke at length on the Mississippi river and its tributary, the Platte. That the utterances of Moty Tiger, chief of the Creeks, who declared that the Indian senator of Oklahoma was trying to ease his itching palms, was inspired by federal office holders, was the declaration of Senator Robert L. Owen. The latter delivered a lengthy address on the removal of restrictions from Indian lands. A resolution indorsing President Rosevelt and the secretary of the treasury fr issuing 3 per cent bonds to the amount of $100,000,000 to relieve the present financial stringency brought out a heated debate, finally carrying by a vote of 146 to 96. When the resolution was offered by David R. Francis it was attacked by Governor Adams of Colorado. After several had spoken for and against it. E. L. Norris and on the floor severely arraigned him, declaring that the resolution was for the interests of the money sharks and gamblers of Wall Street. It was a wild scene, a dozen men clamoring for recognition at once and President Loveland rapping for order. The Missourians championed the resolution. Texas was split. Adams declared that Cleveland had been buncoed by issuing bonds, and Roosevelt was in a fair way to be the next. Walker Hill of Missouri championed the so-called Wall street gamblers. Bogardus of Springfield, the only Missourian opposed to the resolution, charged that the speakers favring it had lied to the congress. Excitement was at white heat when the chairman rapping his gavel called for a vote. "No," came a chorus of voices. "You can't run no gag rule in this convention," shouted Harris of Texas, advancing towards the chairman. Owen finally secured recognition and made an impassioned plea in favor of the resolution. "I don't like muddy water, but if my house is on fire, I welcome it. I don't like this plan of the president, but if it will bring relief, I welcome it," he declared dramatically. It was his speech that lined up the doubtful delegates, and when the resolution was adopted it was greeted with cheers. One of the Essentials of the happy homes of to-day is a vast fund of information as to the best methods of promoting health and happiness and right living and knowledge of the world's best products. Products of actual excellence and reasonable claims truthfully presented and which have attained to world-wide acceptance through the approval of the Well-Informed of the World; not of individuals only, but of the many who have the happy faculty of selecting and obtaining the best the world affords. 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We all know what a girl's giggle is, but if any of us were asked to give an imitation of it we'd probably fail. A boy may titter, but when it comes to giggling only a girl can do that. Not to Be Fooled. A city lad spent a part of last summer on a farm owned by his uncle. It was the boy's first visit to the country, and everything on the farm was delightfully unfamiliar to him. One afternoon the youngster, who had been prowling about the chicken house, seized the product of one cackling hen, and marched exultantly into the house with his prize. "Let me have it, son," said the farmer's wife, "and I'll cook it for your luncheon." "You must think I'm a greenhorn, auntie!" exclaimed the boy. "I guess the hen cooked it all right. It's warm."—Harper's Weekly. WHAT WAS IT The Woman Feared? What a comfort to find it is not "the awful thing" feared, but only chronic indigestion, which proper food can relieve. 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WESTERN CANADA A WINNER THE CROP OF 1907 IS AN EXCEL. LENT ONE. Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Farmers Doing Well. The interest that Western Canada has aroused for some years past is growing in intensity. The conditions of the crop of 1907 are such that results can be spoken of with some degree of certainty. The yield of grain will be about 80,000,000 bushels and the price the farmers will realize for it will be upwards of seventy million dollars. The oat crop was good in most places, and the crop of barley will be very remunerative. Those who know of the generally unsatisfactory conditions during the seeding, growing and ripening period in the United States during the past season, will look with righteous distrust on any statement intended to give the impression that Western Canada conditions were so much different. Generally, they were not, but the conditions of a highly recuperative soil, long and continuous sunshine, are conditions possessed by Western Canada and not possessed by any other country on the Continent. This is why it is possible to record today a fairly successful crop, when in most other places the opposite is the case. The yield in all grains is less than last year, but the higher prices obtained more than offset any falling off in the yield. Take for instance the Province of Saskatchewan the wheat crop will be worth $21,135,000. Last year the same crop was 35 per cent, larger and the quality better. The yield was worth $24,000,000. Oats and barley are very important factors in all three central Provinces. At Gladstone, Manitoba, returns from one farm were $27 per acre from the wheat land, $35 per acre from oats, and $30 per acre from barley. The yield of wheat at Dauphin, Manitoba, was 20 to 24 bushels to the acre but not of a very good grade, but the yield of barley in that section was good and so was the quality and price. At Meadow Lea, Manitoba, 15 to 20 bushels to the acre were thrashed, bringing a round dollar on the market. At Oak Lake, Manitoba, on some fields where 21 bushels were expected, twelve and fifteen was the result; others again where twenty was looked for gave twenty-two to twenty-five. One special patch south of town on J. M. McFarlane's farm went as high as thirty bushels to the acre. At Sheho, Saskatchewan, oats yielded from 60 to 65 bushels to the acre. Sam Wunder threshed 2,500 bushels from forty acres. The sample is good and weighs well. At Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, W. Bibby threshed 97 bushels of oats to the acre, and two others were but little behind. Wheat here reached 35 bushels. At Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, from a quarter section all in crop, Alex. McKinnon of Ingleside threshed an average of 33 bushels No. 1 Northern. I. J. Grant had 190 acres, yielding 6,000 bushels of the same grade. These illustrations taken from widely distant districts (and thousands of others could be produced) show that the year 1907 has not felt the serious effects from severe winter, late spring, or unfavorable conditions during the growing season that might have been antitcpated. In order to learn more about this country write to the Canadian Government Agent whose address appears elsewhere, and get a copy of the new Last Best West, which he will be pleased to mail you free. Word Derivatives. "Petrel" and "petrol" both descend from "petra," a rock. 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ROB’T DAWSON 611 Garrison Ave. Fort @mith, Ark. me y ur ey x vw sriater sau poets (is saint tuppl 704 aad : Kirshbaum : GENTS FURNISHING GOODS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS. Shirts, Hats, Underwear, Suit Cases W. E. McCLURE Knox Agency, English Block. MUSKOGEE : : : : : : : I. T. HETTICK BROS., GROCERS High Class Goods at Lowest Prices Country Produce, Fresh Vegetables Everything You Eat Prompt delivery Your Patronage Solicited 27 West Okmulgee Insurance Money to Loan H. P. SHOWALTER GEN RAL INSURANCE Assets 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. Lloyds Plate Glass Insurance Co. 1,000,000.00 Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland 6,188,569.99 Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. 220,000,000.00 Pacific Mutual Accident Co. 10,803,293.00 CREEK UNDERTAKERS BILLINGS AND CULLUM @askets and Funeral Reaglia Always on Hand IN OFFICE DAY & NIGHT. PHONES 986 & 481 If you can't get us on one phone, try the oiher. 200 S. 2nd. St. 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 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. A REVELATION IN HARNESS I have recently purchased a LANDIS wax thread, lockstitch, harness machine. This machine uses hard wax and does work far superior to hand work, pulls the stitches in tighter and makes more stitches to the inch than hand work. 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