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The Muskogee Cimeter. NEW YORK REPUBLICAN CLUB Appeals to Nation to Stop Color Prejudice DEMANDS THAT CONGRESS ENFORCE 14TH AND 15TH AMENDMENTS Issue Powerful Document in Behalf of Colored Americans Through its Committee on National Affairs. ANDREW B. HUMPHREY, SECRETARY OF CONSTITUTION LEAGUE, CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE THE ADDRESS SHOULD BE READ BY 10,000,000 COLORED CITIZENS Report of the Committee on National Affairs to the Republican Club of New York, unanimously adopted by the Club at its Regular meeting, November 18, 1907. We call on all American citizens to oppose the rising tide of race discrimination that threatens to overwhelm us. The situation is far worse than it was ten years ago. The late Carl Schurz not long before his death wrote: "Here is the crucial point: There will be a movement either in the direction of reducing the Negro to a permanent condition of serfdom—the condition of the mere plantation hand, alongside of the mule, practically without any rights of citizenship, or a movement in the direction of recognizing him as a citizen in the full sense of the term. One or the other will prevail." Carl Schurz's prediction has become true sooner than he expected. The American people are apparently moving swiftly in the effort to reduce the Negro to a permanent position of inferiority. Race discrimination and race hatred are growing by leaps and bounds. We call on all by voice and pen and ballot to put down this spirit. Especially do we urge our foreign born citizens to join in smiting down this deadly evil. This is their fight as well as the Negro's. Do they not see that if success should come to those who are striving to separate the people on account of color or race, their turn may come next? A distinguished southerner of Louisiana was recently asked: "What will you do if the Italians continue to swarm into the south and secure a majority of the voters in your state?" His answer was: "We will treat them as we have the Negro—we will disfranchise them. The southern Anglo-Saxon men must rule and shall rule," and in the adjoining state of Mississippi as we learn from The Associated Press dispatches, the people of several towns have under consideration a plan to expel children of Italian parentage from the public schools. The importance to the foreign born citizens of the fight, therefore, to give the Negro a "square deal" is that if the fight continues to go against him and the Negro is placed permanently in the disfranchised class there will soon be a demand for discrimination between different classes of immigrants. The Hebrews, who have been discriminated against for generations and who now in Russia and Romania are realizing the awful results of race hatred surely will be found fighting for justice for all. On what principle of consistency can they encourage our natives to espouse their cause in foreign lands, and fail to do all they can to right the wrongs of native born citizens in this country? The Italians will not be found wanting in this fight when they understand it. The Germans, the Irish, the Scotch, the Scandinavians, the Russians, the Greeks the Armenians, in fact, all nationalities coming to our shores have histories and traditions that will impel them to be on the side of justice and against oppression. The singular and awful fact is that this bitter determination to discriminate against the colored race is chargeable to the native born American. No Race Prejudice With Immigrants. The immigrants have little or none of such prejudice when they come here. In Europe and Asia there is very slight prejudice against a dark skin, and in the West Indies and Central and South America almost none. It is a sight that lowers this Nation in the eyes of the whole world to see a great and in many ways a highly civilized people like the white people of the United States engage in a cowardly brutal effort to crush and keep down a race of nine millions of people. Let us endeavor to look at the situation from an outsider's standpoint as it looks to the Canadians and Europeans, and not as it looks to us, for it is well known that continuous contact with any form of wrong and crime, renders persons or peoples hardened and indifferent to it. The American people claim to love their constitution. Oaths to honor and obey it are constantly made and yet the race discrimination has grown to be so strong that this sacred constitution is trampled under foot and despised in many states. Two of its amendments, especially the 14th and 15th are openly defied. Again, the right of representation supposed to be in born in every american. Taxation without representation was the primal cause of our revolution and separation from the mother country. The constitution of the nation and of the forty-six different states, specifically declares against taxation without representation, and yet nine millions of citizens born on our soil, in every way having the same political rights as the other seventy-six millions, and paying taxes upon hundreds of millions of property and taking part with high honor in the nation's wars, are absolutely debarred from representation at Washington. Of 391 congressmen and 92 senators that frame our laws, not one is of this race. By fraud, intimidation and murder they have been and are now deprived of representation while forty representatives of their stolen votes sit in the nation's capital. These representatives having robbed the black man of his ballot are using the stolen right to legislate for themselves, and against him. These great and far-seeing statesmen of civil war times, foresaw the evil conditions that now exist and provided the remedy, while we, their indifferent and commercialized successors, stand by and refuse or fail to apply the constitutional remedy specifically designed to destroy this infamous law breaking conspiracy. They forbade race discrimination in the right of suffrage, and provided a penalty of reducing the representation of any state denying or abridging No 10 the right of suffrage. Brave White Men South. There are brave white men in the south who would grant justice to the black race, if the north would lead and in no way can they be so helped as to proportionately reduce representation in the states that refuse suffrage to the black man. When the southern states began to enact legislation by which the Negro was deprived of the privilege of voting, those who advocated these dishonest measures urged, many of them sincerely, that by thus taking the Negroes out of politics, better and kindler relations would be established between the races. It has not worked that way: indeed, we should have known that it woul not. The drift has been steadily in the direction of a wider separation and more unfriendly relations between the whites and the blacks. The southern whites, now in absolute control, are determined to prevent the Negroes from voting even if fraud, intimidation and murder continue to be necessary to accomplish it, while the Negroes are growing in their determination to secure the rights, guaranteed to them by the constitution of the United States. Let us recall to our fellow citizens that the great Franklin said: "You may take away the ballot from the rich and strong, for they can get along without it, but you must never take it from the poor and weak, for that is their one defense in a republic." The Voting Power and Its Benefits. With the exercise of the voting power come everything—freedom, man hood rights, proper consideration, protection for life, property and the family—yes, protection for the wives and daughters of black men. The astonishing facts in this connection are that colored men have been charged with assaulting white women and have been lynched for it, but who ever heard of white men being lynched or punished for assaulting colored women, and it would seem that this latter happens far more frequently than the first. Furthermore a black man who repels an insult to his wife or sister in some sections of our land does it at the peril of his life, and the colored woman who resents insults from white men does so at the peril of her life. Recently in Rome, Ga., a white man shot a Negro woman who resented his attentions. His bail was fixed at $100. Commenting on this "The Vicksburg American" says with great candor: This short item presents the whole of the Negro's side of the race problem in a nutshell. It is the logical outcome of the determination of the whites to demand all and give nothing. We condemn the Negroes for immorality; we preach sermons and write editorials about the duty of the race to elevate itself and answer with the shotgun when they try to do so. One of our favorite preachments to them is that the mor- W. H. TWINE, Editor OKLA We daily hurl the spear of life, but God directs the blow. Be careful how you think and talk and where you work and walk. A brewer dropped $160 in a beer vat. And now we'll have more tight money. The dearest friends to-day may be the most desperate enemies to-morrow. There is more in this pompadour matter than appears on the surface—"rats," for instance. Says the Baltimore American, "Notoriety and fame are the twin sisters of eccentricity." Must mean triplets. The fortune of $3,000,000 left by the late Robert Pinkerton shows that it sometimes is profitable to mind other people's business. There is every reason in the world why the farmer should feel complacent who has a few hundred bushels of wheat stored away. Europe is getting ahead of us in the balloon industry only because the war office over there doesn't care what it does with the taxpayers' money. Although the steamships are getting awfully fast, even the best of them will carry dining rooms and sleeping apartments for a few decades yet. The substitution of radium as a money metal would be a great convenience for the men who are endeavoring to collect all the coin in the world. Dr. Emil Koenig of Berlin says that the decay of the entire human race is imminent. He should not take so seriously these reports from Pittsburg and New York. "Men who think rise," says a Philadelphia paper. Still quite a number of men glued to street car seats are in a brown study when a tired woman enters and clutches a strap. If the sprightly young collegians were as swift in their studies as they are in their class rushes, remarks the Cleveland Leader, what a wealth of wisdom Ohio would have in a few years! The navy says the army can't shoot, and the army says the navy has to give vaudeville shows in order to get recruits. It may yet turn out that the militia is the most efficient branch of the service. The claim of Dr. Sewell that most alleged mad dogs are really only suffering from thirst, will not, however, encourage many philanthropic souls to rush out with a pan of water and offer them a drink. Ernest Thompson Seton, writing in a current magazine on the "Marriage of Animals," remarks casually that domesticity is "notoriously bad for the morals of animals," and cites the dog as a conspicuous example. The immorality of animals! Heavens and earth! A New Yorker, who is courting trouble says that bold, high foreheads are not evidences of intellect, because children and women have bolder and higher foreheads than men. When he gets through being scalped by the women he will realize that a bold tongue is no evidence of intellect. Twenty-four millions of dollars is the official estimate of the amount of money expended in Europe this year by Americans touring in automobiles. The basis of the calculation is that there are 8,000 touring parties, averaging five persons each, spending $10 a day for two months. Great guessing! Winnipeg Correspondence. There has never been any who have doubted the productiveness of the soil of Western Canada, but there are sometimes found those who question the fact of its superiority. During the past season it has been shown that in grain raising qualities it possessed the very best. The late spring prevented grain being sown in many cases before the middle of May. Yet, a large percentage of that sown at that time produced excellent yields. Had it not been for the frost early in August, which visited most of the north half of the continent, there would have been a magnificent yield in every district in Western Canada. Throughout the Southern Alberta district where about 100,000 acres was sown to winter wheat the yield will be enormously large. There are vast tracts of valuable grain growing land in Western Canada that are available for homesteads, the Canadian Government giving 160 acres free, and entry may be made by proxy, by any near relative, thus saving considerable cost to the American who may have entry made in this way. Any Canadian Government Agent will give you the particulars. Your correspondent has just received the following letter from Craik, Saskatchewan, which bears out the statement made in the first part of this letter. "Craik, Sask., Aug. 1907. "May 24th we planted a Dahlia root, which we brought with us from Minneapolis. Aug. 12th, 80 days later, it was in bloom. The plant is now $4 \frac{1}{2}$ feet high and covered with blossoms. We never got half as many flowers on it in Minneapolis, even during September and October, although we had more time to attend to it there." I mention this only as an example of the great productive power of the soil here in Saskatchewan, Canada. 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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. 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Okla., as Seeond Class Mail Matter, The Ameriean Negro, in spite of his) invironuments, is | the greatest Negro in’ the world. He is the oply man with a dark skin that has been able to stand and increase in numbers against the arrogant and all-powerful Anglo-Saxons. The Oklahoma product is making history just how, The Cimeter is the greatest Negro paper published in’ the New State. It stands for equal andex ict justice toall MEN, It asks for nothing more and will be satisfied with NOTHING LESS. No one -can truthfully say that the CIMETER has ever changed fronton any question, It stands where it has always stood i, e., for equal rights to all and special priveleges to none.’ “The Cimeter claims to have been right always and in still stands oon the same foundation, c * GONERNOR HASK ELI, WILL YOU FORCK THR RAILROADS TO CARRY OUT THE: LAW AS IT Is WRITTEN—BOTIL IN) LET: TER AND IN SPIRIT IN OVHER WORDS, GIVE Us A PIRST:CLASS CAR IN WHICH OUR RESPECT A. BLE WOMEN MAY RIDE AXND A SMOKER FOR OUR MEN. Do that and ven will write yourself down as being in favor Of a “square deal? and as one of the sreatest Demo. cratic goverhors, Can we curse the Democrats when they doethe same thing the Republicans do? The fol lowing Republicans voted for Hose bil No. l towit: Evans of Pond Croek, Stagner of Loyle MeAdoo of Okmulgee, Watrous of Enid and) Brazier of Red Bork, ; : Hlouse bi} No. Lis known as the Separate Coach bill, How can any Jol; these@Republicans ever ask a Negro to vote for them and against «a Democrat? The time will come when this question may confront , them. No Democrat could jhave done moreeagainst us, , Official Statement of the Condition of the Oommereial ation’l anh, Muskogee. Indian Territory, At the Close of Business, Thursday August 22, 1907, RESOURCES Loans and Discount 1,098,363.96 Overdrafts 5,146.62 Bonds and Premiunis 262.000,00 Real Estate, Furniture and Fixtures — 10,975.08 Cash and Exchange 310,713.79 $1,687,199,45 LIABILITIES Capital $ 200,000.00 Surplus and Profits 52,946, 54 Circulation 200,000.00 Deposits 2 1,234,252,91 : : $1,787,199.45 Nhe above Statement is Correct. Kk. D. SWEENEY, Casnirk ). N. FINK, Vick Prrsiperr. Governor Haskeil is a great deal more loyal to his party than a great many of our Re publicans (so called) are io their party and he is to be commenced for such loyalty but we also say —--—— the Republicans who are not loyal to the real Repub- can party. There are more Negroes who own land in Oklahoma than in fuiy other state in’ the Union, Then why not have our own people come here and — help make the fight for truth, justice and right in this new state. Opportunities are better here than elsewhere, Come — and help us. 2 ‘Po Our Colored Friends Throughout | the United States, We send | : You Greeting. | The Tndian Territory and Oklahoma are now a new State. ‘Thousands of our native peeple are land holders, and have thou- sands of Avres of Rich Lands to rent and to Lease, We prefer to rent and to leaseour 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 ous prosperity in the New State of Oklahoma, ” “The land of the free and the home of the brave “Por further particulars write either of the following: , D. BARROWS, Tuskahoma, I. 'T., REV. E,W. SMITH, (Pas tor AJM. E, Chuchat Talihina and Tuskahoma) ‘Talihina, 1. 'T, HENRY WLLIS, Talihina, ‘We believe Governor Haskell will enforce the Taw as it is written, Tf he does enforce the law, he will be) the first Democratic governor to compel the railroads to give us what the Jaw requives--equal and like accommodations, To do less would imply that the Gov ernor isa COWARD and it is hardly believe that this is the case, Speaking of race prejudice, it is found in almost every state of the Union and must fight it down by showing that we are good citizens and are entitled to the same vights under the law granted to other citizens. WE CAN AND .MUST STAY IN OKLAHOMA, PAINLESS DENTIST SHUT VDE sie sings ve tee ie sisginke ORE BEST GOLD CROWNS ... ..-..-+. 84.00 BRIDGE WORK wi eeec cased cece se0+ OOO BILLINGS: Fivcrsdeeefervepecae OOiObs LD TEETH Extracted Without Pain... .50cts EXAMINATION FREE. Phone 938 Dr. G, LL, KNEBEL 4th & Okmulgee, State Building, Rooms 1-2-3. Muskogee, |. T The Republican party needs to be reorganized if anything of importance is to be accomplish ed, We are in’ a deplorable condition but there is hope yet that we may yet redeem the state by a reorganizatian, The Afro - Amepviesn 311 NORTH CHEROEE ST. ' & A. Estes For your Drugs, Shoc! BOOks and STATIONERY. SHERMAN BUILDING 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, —Cotinued from First Page. NEW YORK REBUBLICAN CLUB APPEALS TO NATION TO STOP COLOR PREJUDICE ality of its wonien is the cornerstone of a race's excellency, and yet the Negro woman, pursued or insulted by a white man, must submit or run the risk of being shot down." Evil Is Gaining Rapidly. While this evil is rapidly gaining ground in the south we must not shut our eyes to the fact that this prejudice against the colored man appears to be growing stronger in some sections of the north. In some communities they are not permitted to work as motormen or conductors on street railways, nor as artisans. It is to be feared that there are a great many people at the north, especially in those communities into which southern people have moved who are more than willing to deprive the colored man of all opportunities of livelihood and manhood. How is it in the South? What are the facts? Colored men with degrees from American and European colleges and universities, phyiscians of distinction, hundreds of whom met in Philadelphia recently in a great convention, preachers of character and fame, college professors and college presidents, bank presidents and successful merchants, all are forbidden to ride in cars with white people, but are obliged to ride in what are known as "Jim Crow" cars. This has all been brought about in very recent years. Leading Southerners such as Senator-elect John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, in the November "Metropolitan Magazine," in carefully prepared articles and in public speeches, delares that they know the Negro, for they live with him, and we in the North do not know him. The contrary is true. They know only the plantation Negro and the house servants. They do not know these educated public spirited, large minded leaders of the black race. How can they? They shut their eyes to the wonderful advancement of thousands of thousands of the colored race. These so-called white leaders are fifty years behind the times. They live in the past and talk in the past; they have not changed, and think that the colored men have not changed. "Sublime Assurance." The "sublime assurance" that usually accompanies ignorance is found in the speeches and acts of these white leaders. With the habit of all wrong-doers from the beginnig of the world till now, they shout: "Let us alone—we are not doing anything wrong." By a continual exaggeration of the colored man's vices and a studied suppression of the proofs of his advancement the leaders of the Southern whites are trying to make us believe that they are the martyrs and the Negro is a brute. By the scarecrow of threatened social equality and the bugaboo of Negro domination they have poisoned their own section and the poison is sperading North. What is the real reason for these things? Simply, as Carl Schurz said: "A bitter determination exists to crush and keep down the colored man." The old statement that "he belongs to an inferior race and should be kept in slavery" is now used as an excuse to rob him of his rights. Stripped of hypocrisy and subterfuge and, in all its nakedness, this new American creed says: "Let no black man be given an opportunity to rise, lest they become the equal of the whites." Shouting vociferously and constantly that the black is an inferior race the demand is that the Negro shall not have an opportunity to rise in the world. Thus it is that this bitter animosity seems to be directed, not against the most ignorant and debased of the black race, but against the most influential, the best educated, well-dressed and well-behaved. No amount of honesty and thrift, or culture of head, or hand, or heart, can make them safe from insult, injury, and even death. The men who commit these acts, and the defenders of such actions, say: "If the nigger tries to be like us white folks, he must be struck down—he must be taught to keep his place." It is a brutal, depicable, indefensible and un-American attitude and as President Harrison so aptly said, will bring our posterity to a heritage of woe unless we meet the issue bravely, right this national wrong, and avert a real national danger. Lest We Forget. Because we live in America and become accustomed to this attempt to keep down the Negroes, we must not forget that they have the sympathy of the whole civilized world in their efforts to rise; that the human race generally does not look down upon a man or despise him or hate him, because of his skin color. In the sacred writings of both the Old Testament and the New, it is affirmed that God is no respector of persons, and we believe His desire to be that His children both black and white, should live together in this world in peace, justice and mutual helpfulness. There are portions of our country which are declared by foreign observers to be as uncivilized as any in the wohle world. In what other country have men been killed for the color of their skins, as was done in Atlanta, Ga., when men rushed into barber ships and killed men while at work at their trade, because they were black. In Arkansas, recently, two young colored girls were killed by white men, according to the accounts published in their own local papers, because they had slapped a white boy's face. Gov. Northern's Declaration. Former Governor Northern, of Georgia, a citizen of the highest standing an ex-Confederate soldier, a loyal Democrat, identified with public movements for the benefit of his State, and probably understanding conditions in the South as well as any man living, in a recent speech on the subject of murdering Negroes, said: "Many are trying to belittle this great question. It is greater than all the other problems combined. Just now we are lapsing into barbarism and our civilization is slipping from us. Something must be done." What can be done to eradicate this race hatred and prejudice against color? We realize the difficulty that all people have had since the earliest records in dealing with the earliest records in edaling with race hatreds. This difficulty is increased because it has no reason, no con- science; it is rotoed and imbeded in prejudice, but some things can be done and should be done. Must Strike Boldly. We must strike, not timorously and apologetically, but openly and frankly at race discrimination and hatred wherever they show themselves, remembering ever that race hatred grows rapidly and that its ferocious and barbaric spirit must be exterminated. We call on all citizens, and especially the foreign born, to join in the demand that the Constitution to which they have sworn allegiance, shall be observed by all. We demand the enforcement of the Constitution, especially that the 14th and 15th Amendments be obeyed now. These forbid the United States or any State to limit or take away the right of suffrage by reason of race, color or previous condition of servitude, and if suffrage is taken away, the State so doing shall have their representation in Congress proportionately reduced. Therefore, in view of the origin and history of the Republican party and its principles and policies outlined in its National platforms and especially in view of its important accomplishment of incorporating the last three great amendments into the Federal Constitution. A Reaffirmation of Principles. Resolved 2d: That we denounce gardless of locality, all attempts to create race hatred and prejudice, and its accompanying injustice, as a danger to any community and a menace to the ultimate peace and welfare of the Republic. Resolved 3rd: That we insist upon the recognition of all political and civil rights of all citizens, national and local, regardless of race, color or creed. Resolved 4th: That we demand the immediate enforcement of the 14th and 15th Amendments by means of the power given to Congress in these amendments, which each specifically declares that "Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." Respectfully submitted by the Committee. ANDREW B. HUMPHREY. Chairman. WILLIAM GREENWOOD, Secretary. New York, November 18, 1907. Parson Toombs. On last Sunday night Parson Toombs took occasion to make an assault upon the the Elks. It is reported that he said the Elks lodge had several kegs of beer, and lewd women at their hall on Thanksgiving night, all of which is as false as b—l; (if he made the statement). For lack of space, it is impossible to say more unless it be added that there have been some acts committed by so called ministers that would make the very devil blush for shame and in the next issue it is our intention to enlighten the public on this point. The parson oan find subjects closer home if he will pick a few of the beams from the eyes of some of his flock he might not find so much time to spend in fussing over the mote in the Elks' eyes. 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. 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"I thank Dr. Hartman for what he has done for me." SICK HEADACHE THE INJUNCTION IS DENIED TO RESTRAIN OFFICIALS FROM ENFORCING PROHIBITION CASE TO BE APPEALED TO SUPREME COURT Twenty Saloonkeepers Fighting the Legality of Prohibition Ordinance Lose Out in District Court-Judge Claims Lack of Jurisdiction OKLAHOMA CITY: The petition filed in the district court by twenty saloonkeepers of Oklahoma City asking that a temporary restraining order be issued enjoining the state and county officials from enforcing the prohibition article of the constitution, until the constitutionality of the article might be determined in a court of law, was denied by Judge George W. Clark. The case will be appealed to the supreme court. Judge Clark holds that he, sitting as a court of equity in which all injunction proceedings must originate, has no jurisdiction to restrain the enforcement of a law regulating criminal prosecutions. The saloonkeepers were represented by Wilson, Williams & Wilson, while the state was represented by Assistant Attorney General Mont F. Highley and County Attorney E. E. Reardon. The arguments covered a period of about three hours, and Judge Clark handed down a decision immediately after the arguments were closed. The decision means that no saloons will open in Oklahoma City until the supreme court has decided upon the question at issue, purely as a matter of law. QUESTION OF JURISDICTION TULSA: The status of every criminal case carried ever to the state courts, in Indian Territory, will be affected by the outcome of the Charlie Warner case, now pending in the district court of Tulsa county. Warner was indicted by the federal court here for introducing liquor early last summer. His case was one of 288 transferred to the state court of Tulsa county. Through his attorneys, Warner made application to Judge L. M. Poe to have the indictment against him quashed. Judge Poe, however, refused to take cognizance of the main point involved, but passed nly upon the construction of the instrument. This he held to be correct, and denied Warner's application. The case will now come to trial in the regular way. The supreme court of the United States has held that no county court can issue an order to a United States marshal, and the question arises, can a county court take jurisdiction in cases transferred from the federal dockets? Assistants Wlll Fight Prohibition GUTHRIE: In a letter written to one of his assistants here Attorney General West declares that he will not allow himself to be diverted by any prohibition agitation from his campaign against unlawful combinations and conspiracy in restraint of trade. He expresses the belief that much of the prohibition agitation is a covert attempt of corporate interests to "build a fire in the rear" in order to detract his efforts away from enforcing the law against corporate interests. He avows the intention of leaving the enforcement of prohibition entirely to the local officials for the present, at least. May Free Alleged Lyncher GUTHRIE: Habeas corpus proceedings to secure the release from jail of C. A. Green, indicted in the federal courts of Oklahoma Territory on a charge of murder in connection with the lynching of a negro, Frank Bailey, at Osage last summer, were brought in the federal court of the Western district by Attorneys Leahy and Scott of Pawhuska. Judge Cotteral will hear the case on December 5 AS SHE HAD BEEN ORDERED. Domestic Cleared Everything Left Over Out of the Ice Box. There recently entered the service of a Cleveland family a domestic of Scandinavian origin. She had never seen a refrigerator before, and the lady of the house, after initiating her into its mysteries, instructed her never to leave anything old or left over in the ice-box, but to keep the refrigerator perfectly clean and fresh by throwing the old things away each morning. The very next day the mistress, looking out of the window, observed something peculiar in the yard. "What is that, Sophie?" she asked. "And how did it get there?" "That is old ice, ma'am," was the proud response, "left over from yesterday. I trew it away lake you tol' me."—Harper's Weekly. SORES AS BIG AS PENNIES. Whole Head and Neck Covered—Hair All Came Out—Cured in Three Weeks by Cuticura. "After having the measles my whole head and neck were covered with scaly sores about as large as a penny. They were just as thick as they could be. My hair all came out. I let the trouble run along, taking the doctor's blood remedies and rubbing on salve, but it did not seem to get any better. It stayed that way for about six months; then I got a set of the Cuticura Remedies, and in about a week I noticed a big difference, and in three weeks it was well entirely and I have not had the trouble any more, and as this was seven years ago, I consider myself cured. 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