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The Muskogee Cimeter. December 16,1907 at 2 p.m. 211 SOUTH SECOND ST. One new Everett Piano $350 for $100 One Wardrobe 60 " 15 Two Mantle Folding Beds 40 " 12 each One Kitchen Cabinet 27.50 " 10 One Section Bookcase 18 " 8 One Oak Bedstead 2 Springs 20 " 3.50 One Dresser with $20 mirror " 10 Two Armchairs 3.50. " .75 each One Porch Settee 4 " 1.50 One " Rocker 16 " 2 One Water Cooler 4 " 1 Pictures, Chairs, Books and many other household articles too numerous to mention. Our people should not miss this sale as every article is as good as new. HAVE YOUR AGENT ON HAND. AT 211 S. 2ND ST. Monday at 2. p. m. Sharp Rex Dots. Mr. F. L. Lankster and wife made a flying trip to Ft. Gibson Saturday. Prof. Bonds visited relatives and friends in Wybark Saturday Sunday. Master R. Langster of Muskoee came to Rex last Saturday to visit his parents. He returned Sunday evening. Prof. Bond's was in Muskoee on business Monday. Miss Emma Curtis of Gatesville, Oklahoma is teaching our school. The Reverend Mrs. Satchel is much better at this writing. Prof. Bonds will speak on socialism at Cherry Hill school house one night next week. The Prof. is a staunch socialist. Mr. and Mrs. G. G. King are on the sick list. Prof. Bonds of the C. M. E. church will preach a sermon at the First Baptist church next Sunday at 7:30 p. m. All are invited. The battle will soon be on for the election of delegates to the National Convention to be held in Chicago. There are a number of candidates in the field now, but it is not a case of first announced first elected. I HEREBY ANNOUNCE MYSELF AS BEING A CANDIDATE FOR DELEGATE TO THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONVENTION TO BE HELD IN CHICAGO JUNE 16, 1908, AND ASK THE SUPPORT OF ALL REPUBLICANS OF THE STATE OF GKLAHOMA. W. H. Twine. Five Republicans voted for the jim crow bill in the house and two Republicans voted against it in the senate. Stick a pin there. PEOPLE WHO KNOW Goods Goods When They See Them And appreciate bargains when they need them can be found day by day attending our great reduced price sale YOU SHOULD CALL AND LOOK THROUGH OUR LINE Our stock is heavy and must be turned inso cash. To take advantage of this opportunity of getting your holiday gifts, will be equal to finding money. Our Combs, Bracelets, Rings, Lockets and other Jewelry is as staple as wheat. We have a line of Christmas Toys that for quality and price can not be equaled in Muskogee. If you by your children's Christmas presents here you not only buy something that is sure to please them but something that will last. You also save your yourself money. Muskogee Jewelry & Novelty Co. 128 S. 2ND ST. R. A. GIVENS, MGR. SALE AT KENDALL COLLEGE SATURDAY DECEMBER 14 ALL DAY Household Furniture, including Beds, Bedding, Dressers, Wash- stands, Stoves, DISHES ETC. If you want bargains come early and stay till the finish. You can get the goods at your own price. Horrible. "So your father has failed, eh? I suppose he will have some money left?" "No, everything is gone; I have have nothing left but my beauty." "Gee! I didn't think it was that bad!"—Houston Post. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the disease portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Riley and the Weather. While going to the office of his publishers on a bright morning in September, James Whitcomb Riley met, what seemed to him, an unusually large number of his acquaintances who made the conventional remark about the weather. This unremitting applause pleased and amused him. When greeted at the office with "Nice day, Mr. Riley, he stopped at the door and answered droly: "Yes—yes—I've heard it very highly spoken of." His Advice. "Well, Uncle Josh," said the fond mother after her daughter had trilled a few times for the purpose of impressing their relative from the country, "what do you think of it? Would you advise me to have Daisy's voice cultivated?" "Yes, I guess I would. Git it cultivated a while and then have it seeded down. Gosh, but you people seem to be warm-blooded here. I'd freeze if I had to depend on them steam pipes for heat." One Thing Held Him Back. "There was a racket of some kind in our house last night," said the man who lives in a flat building. "Screams came from one of the rear flats and everybody was looking out the windows to see what the matter could be. Various exclamations and conjectures were made by the rubbernecks and soon several women were screaming in sympathy. Presently out of the awful din rose a deep masculine voice exclaiming in exasperation and with the manner of one feeling around in the dark: "I'd go for a policeman if I could find my pants!" BOTH GAINED Man and Wife Fatten on Grape-Nuts. The notion that meat is necessary for real strength and the foundation of solid flesh is no longer as prevalent as formerly. Excessive meat eaters are usually sluggish a part of the time because they are not able to fully digest their food, and the undigested portion is changed into what is practically a kind of poison that acts upon the blood and nerves, thus getting all through the system. "I was a heavy meat eater," writes an Ills. man, "and up to two years ago, was in very poor health. I suffered with indigestion so that I only weighed 95 pounds. "Then I heard about Grape-Nuts and decided to try it. My wife laughed at me at first but when I gained to 125 pounds and felt so fine, she thought she would eat Grape-Nuts too. "Now she is fat and well and has gained 40 pounds. We never have indigestion any more and seldom feel the desire for meat. A neighbor of ours, 68 years old, was troubled with indigestion for years; was a heavy meat eater, and now since he has been eating Grape-Nuts regularly, he says he is well and never has indigestion. I could name a lot of persons who have really been cured of indigestion by changing from a heavy meat diet to Grape-Nuts." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville" in pkgs. FIVE HUNDRED ARE DEAD FIVE HUNDRED ARE DEAD GREATEST LOSS OF LIFE THAN ANY MINE EXPLOSION MOUTH OF MINE CLOSES IN WORKMEN Workmen Are Held in Pits and Suffocated by Gas—Caues of Disaster Merely Speculative—Coffins Being Shipped MONOGAH, W. VA.: Three charred bodies lying in the improvised morgue, four badly injured men, and 493 men imprisoned by tons of coal, rocks and mine debris in the depths of the hills surrounding this mining town, with the chances all against a single one of them being alive, is the most accurate summary obtainable of the results of a mine explosion which in all probability was attended by greater loss of life than any former disaster in the history of the blituminous coal mining industry of America. It is reported that the mine officials have ordered 380 coffins shipped to Monogah as soon as possible. The explosion occurred shortly after the full force of 500 men had gone to work in the two mines affected. These mines are Nos. 6 and 8 of the Consolidated Coal company, located on opposite sides of the west fork of the river, at this place, but merged in their underground workings by a heading and on the surface by a great steel tipple and bridge. There is much speculation as to the cause of the explosion, but the most generally accepted theory is that it resulted from black damp, scientifically known as methame. It is believed that a miner attempted to set off blast which blew out and ignited an accumulation of this deadly gas, that this in turn ignited the coal dust, a highly inflammable substance found in greater or less quantities in all West Virginia mines. However, all explanations of the cause up to this time are necessarily speculative. Only a thorough investigation after the mine is re-opened will disclose the cause, if it ever is ascertained. THREATENED COAL FAMINE Enid Has Only About Two Weeks' Supply on Hand ENID: With hardly enough on hand to supply the town for two weeks, in case cold weather should set in, Enid faces a most critical situation. Coal dealers declare that it is impossible to secure a supply of coal. A movement has been started to ask the corporation commission for relief in case the situation becomes worse. Many families are without fuel and calls for relief are made daily. "Two weeks of cold weather and Enid would be out of coal," says L. W. Lyons, a coal dealer. We have been unable to secure a supply of coal from the mines. "The reason given by the operators for the shortage is the lack of miners. They claim that large numbers of foreign workmen have quit and gone into other business, making the output short. "I hardly think that application to the corporation commission will relieve the stringency. The conditions are beyond the control of the operators and railroads." A8KS HASKELL'S APPROVAL New Plan Proposed for Disposal of Oklahoma School Lands GUTHRIE: The Oklahoma school land lessees adopted resolutions asking Governor Haskell to favor their plan of disposing of the school lands. There are 9,000 school land lessees in Oklahoma, occupying over 1,500,000 acres of state lands reserved for the school fund. The lessees want legislation for the sale of these lands on bids, preference right of purchase reserved to the lessees, and to pay for it on long time at 4 per cent interest. They also want a board of appraisers in each county who will fix the value of their improvements, including orchards and cultivated lands, each county board to work in some adjoining county. FIVE BANDITS ROB A BANK Get $4,000 From Safe Cracked by Nitroglycerine CARNEY: While two men, at an early hour Friday morning, time after time charged the safe of the Bank of Carney with nitroglycerin, and explosion after explosion shattered and broke up bank furniture, three other robbers stood guard on the outside of the building and kept up a steady rifle fire in every direction, shooting at any citizen of the town who made his appearance. After five terrific explosions, which wrecked the interior of the bank and damaged the building the safe was blown open and $4,000 in cash secured. The town was thoroughly aroused, and a general alarm was sounded. Church bells were rung and the citizens, arming themselves, were prepared to make a charge when the robbers calmly walked down the main street of the town and vanished in the darkness. The men are known to have walked into town and deliberately robbed the bank, firing cooly at those who showed themeselves. A lage posse, with bloodhounds, is scouring the district. It is thought the gang is the same that robbed the bank of Marshall two weeks ago, and as a result of these robberies bankers in the smaller towns are placing armed guards in their buildings. Still Under Federal Supervision GUTHRIE: Questioning the authority of the federal court of the western district of Oklahoma to try a case wherein a crime was committed under territorial government, and particularly in the Osage nation, Attorneys Leahy and Scott of Pawhuska, produced somewhat of a sensation in Judge Cotteral's court. These men represent A. C. Green, Mike White and Frank Williams, who are charged with lynching a negro at Osage, July 16, 1907. Representing the United States, the assistant United States attorney, in arguing the case contended that the jurisdiction of the federal government should not be questioned, that the crime was committed in the territory under control of the federal government and that the Osage nation is still under supervision of the federal authorities. MRS. BRADLEY RELEASED Jury in Famous Murder Trial Returns "Not Guilty" Verdict WASHINGTON: "Not guilty" was the verdict rendered by the jury in the case of Mrs. Annie M. Bradley, charged with the murder of former United States Senator Arthur M. Brown of Utah, at a hotel in this city on December 8, last. Amid the applause of a crowd that filled the court room, Mrs. Bradley, with tear-dimmed eyes, was discharged from custody and a trial that has evoked national attention during the past three weeks was at an end. Throughout its deliberations the jury, into whose hands the case was delivered by Justice Stafford, practically stood at 11 to 1 for acquittal until the final ballot, when the lone juror, who was holding out for some form of punishment, Juror Julius H. Prigg, gave in and the verdict of acquittal was agreed to. Mrs. Bradley was immediately discharged from custody and left the court house in an automobile following an ovation. She will leave in a few days to join her sister at Goldfield, Nev. Ardmore Has Two Fires ARDMORE: Destroying the stock of the J. W. Banks Mercantile company, valued at $23,000, and damaging the building to the extent of $6,000, fire caught in the Alexandria hotel building. The alarm for this fire was received while the department was fighting a blaze in the Ditzler building About $2,000 worth of photographer's supplies were destroyed in this fire. El Reno Banks Pay $100 EL RENO: Local banks began paying $100 on deposits this week and it is expected that this limit will be removed within a few days. The financial flurry, it is stated, is a thing of the past and El Reno banks have more money on hand than they have had for some time. This Is No Joke. Hunt's Cure has saved more people from the "Old Scratch" than any other known agent, simply because it makes scratching entirely unnecessary. One application relieves any form of itching skin disease that ever afflicted mankind. One box guaranteed to cure any one case. Reconciled to the Inevitable. "The only thing I can recommend in your case," said the surgeon, "is a long journey." "Well, if it has to be, doc," the patient groaned, "get out your whittling tools and go ahead with the operation." IN MY FAMILY "I Have Used Pe-ru-na at Various Times for Several Years." MR. EDWARD H. DURTY. I Recommend Pe-ru-na. MR. EDWARD M. BURTT, 5 N. Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, Mo., writes: "It affords me much pleasure to announce that I have used your medicine at various times for several years, and that it has given entire satisfaction, not only in my own family, but also that of others of my friends. And would cheerfully recommend the use of Peruna, as I certainly do endorse your medicine." Catarrh of Head, Nose, Throat. Mr. Charles Levy, 80 Allen St., New York, N. Y., writes: "I am very glad to tell you of the cures wrought by Peruna in my family. I am very glad to tell you of the cures wrought by Peruna in my family. "My son, aged seven, who had catarrh of the nose, was cured by two bottles of Peruna, and I had catarrh of the head, nose, throat and ears. One bottle of Peruna cured me." Pe-ru-na Tablets:—Some people prefer tablets, rather than medicine in a fluid form. Such people can obtain Peruna Tablets, which represent the solid medicinal ingredients of Peruna. Ask Your Druggist for Free Peruna Almanac for 1908. U.M.C. ARROW SHELLS No "Ordinary" shell will bring down the thick quilled grouse. U. M. C. SHELLS WILL They are luxury—quality at necessity—prices. Primer, Powder, Shot, Wads and Crimp—just right for quick kills. Game Laws Free THE UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY BRIDGEPORT, CONN. Agency 313 Broadway, N. Y. Sales Office: San Francisco, Cal. SANTA CLAUS WAS GREETED WITH SPRINGS AND GROANS TRUSTED TO SCREAM A PETER HENRY! SANTA CLAUS WAS GREETED WITH SHRIES AND GPOANS " . . TRIED TO SPREAD A BETTER FEELING" SANTA CLAUS IN HEATHEN LANDS S WHITE men push out, year by year, into the remotest corners of the earth, they carry Christmas with them as a gift to the savages with whom they come in contact. The American troops have done this in the past two or three years in some of the hitherto untraveled islands of the Philippines, Spaniards had never dared A Strange, indeed, are some of the experiences which fall to the lot of these adventurers when they first play Santa Claus to a barbarian race that has never heard the glad old story of Yule. The Eskimos' Real Santa Claus. Sheldon Jackson, an official employed by the United States bureau of education to work in the wilds of Alaska, carried Christmas to the Eskimo children there in 1894. He gave a deeply interesting account of how he did it in a report to the bureau. "For several days immediately preceding Christmas," he said, "I took occasion to tell the scholars how it was observed by the whites, and explained some features about the day as my limited knowledge of the language would admit of; so that, by the close of school the day before, they pretty well knew why it was observed. "I told the children about Santa Claus, and for them to tie their fur stockings up near their beds, as he was coming to visit them for the first time, and would remember every child. I made up a lot of little bags out of empty flour sacks, and into each one put eight cubes of white sugar, about a dozen pieces of dried apples and a dozen raisins—not a very appropriate assortment for a Christmas present for a white child, but it was the best we had, and I found out afterward that the selection was very much appreciated by the little Eskimo. "Although our supplies were very limited, I concluded to take enough from such as we had and give each family the same assortment. It was made up of a tin can filled with flour, eight navy biscuits, one pint of rice, one-half pound of sugar and one-third pound of tea. There are ten houses in the village, and about 100 persons all told. The supplies above enumerated were made up into ten packages. "I had the herders harness one of the deer teams to a sled, and at 12 o'clock started with four natives for the village, a half mile west of the station. "When we reached the first house, I took a flashlight view of the deer standing by the little skin window through which a faint gleam of light was thrown from the oil lamp burning below. "It occurred to me that perhaps this was the first time in the history of civilization that a live Santa Claus made his midnight visit upon an errand of mercy with a team of reindeer, and that the Eskimo were the first to actually experience what throughout Christendom is only a myth. "It became necessary to dig away the frost from one corner of the window in order to get the packages through, and in nearly every instance the operation alarmed those below, when a package was immediately dropped down and they became quiet. "The night was a glorious one, cold and crisp, with the stars shining in lustrous splendor from the pale blue canopy above, and not a breath of air was stirring. "Across the whole northern horizon floods of wavy light surged and swept from east to west, sending up further into the heavens streams of vapory light, dancing up and down in graceful shadows that easily led me to imagine that they were caused by invisible spirits. "For a time I forgot the subject of my visit and lay watching the play of the aurora as it shot forward and backward, and when I finally came to myself I looked around and found the natives lost in deep and silent awe at the spectacle. "The hour I spent in this service was one of supreme delight to me, especially so as the little handful of food I distributed made the bright eyes of a hundred people glisten with happiness and supplied as many stomachs with a feast they enjoyed before they again closed their eyes in sleep. "It will take too much space to record all the times I gathered as I peered through their little skin windows and saw them dancing around in great glee, old and young, and expressing their thankfulness for the many good things received, the like of which they had never before eaten." Where Santa Claus Caused Terror. Mrs. Bertha Stover, the wife of a missionary stationed at Bailundu, Africa, tells an amusing story of how Santa Claus terrified the black children at her mission station, where he first appeared to them a year or two ago. They had celebrated Christmas at Bailundu before, but they never had Santa Claus, so Mr. Stover dressed himself up as the benevolent saint. "He had been padded and powdered and packed until his own mother would not have known him," said Mrs. Stover. "Presently we gave the signal and the door flew open and in walked Santa Claus. But dear me, what consternation! "He was greeted with shrieks and groans and cries of: "'Let me out!' "'It is the evil one!' "'It is the day of judgment!' "The small fry, catching the infection of terror from the elder black people, fled to the bedrooms, fell down upon their faces, crept under chairs and tables—anywhere to hide themselves. "Poor Santa Claus never had such a greeting before. As soon as he realized the panic he had caused, he tore off his tall hat and white cotton beard, and from the bags on his back began to throw gifts right and left, and to tell who he was. "Reassured once more, they were soon all laughing and chatting, munching the great 'red breads' (doughnuts), tasting their fruits or nibbling at the sweets in the familiar little bags. "One man wondered which end up he was to hold the fork Santa Claus had given him. Another immediately tried on his new shirt. The girls arranged their bright-hued handkerchiefs into nobby turbans, while others tried to find some place about their scanty clothing where they could stow away the bunch of bread, paper of needles and cake of soap given to them. "Each one tried to talk louder than his neighbor, so they examined the costume of good old Santa Claus, who had frightened them almost to death. One man said he thought Elijah had returned, another that it was John the Baptist. Yet another thought it was Satan himself. 'and all my sins rose up before me;' while a fourth confessed: 'My only thought was to hide myself.'" Among the Head Hunters of Formosa. Among the Head Hunters of Formosa. Through the center of the beautiful island of Formosa there runs, like a backbone, a great range of forest-clad mountains. The original inhabitants of Formosa, a wild, savage, ferocious race of men, live upon these mountains. Christmas was first carried to these people by a brave missionary named George Leslie MacKay. MacKay had spent several years on the coast and in the interior, but he hesitated long before he took his life in his hand by seeking out the barbarians of the mountains, to whom no white man had ever ventured. The favorite pastime of these savages was to cut off the heads of their enemies and decorate their huts with them. They had been indulging in this sport when MacKay drifted into one of their villages and spent Christmas day with one of their chiefs. "The chief's home consisted of one large room 30 feet long," said MacKay. "A fire blazed at either end. The men, dressed in coarse linen sacks with holes cut for the arms, and a broad belt of braided rattan, in which was stuck a long, crooked, sharp-pointed knife, stood around one fire; while the women, with much the same dress, save that in addition they had many rings of brass around their arms and limbs, and innumerable ornaments on their bodies, squatted around the other fire. "So, on that Christmas night, I sat there with these rude people, the room lighted by the fires and by candles made from the heart of the fir tree. The men smoked their bamboo pipes, while the women were busy threadmaking on curious little machines of their own; and all, men and women, were laughing and talking merrily and making a great noise. It was certainly a merry Christmas, and a strange one to me. "After a time, with the help of the native converts, who had accompanied me on this dangerous trip, I sang some Christmas hymns to these savage mountaineers, who had never seen a white man before; and I spent Christmas evening trying to explain to them the 'old, old story' that has been told so often in so many lands since the first Christmas morning." The savages took great pleasure in the singing of the Christmas hymns, and MacKay and his friends came to no harm by their bold expedition. Balances of Justice. No human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice. He has therefore rendered all endeavors to determine expediency futile for evermore.—John Ruskin. Just a Literary Thought. What a sensation it would create, it occurs to one after rereading "Vanity Fair," if Becky Sharp would register at a prominent hotel in Pittsburgh to-day! 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. Article xxiii, Section 2 of the constitution, setting forth a definition of the races reads as follows: "Wherever, in this constitution and laws of this state, the word or words, 'colored' or 'colored race,' 'negro' or 'negro race,' are used, the same shall be construed to mean or apply to persons of African descent. The term 'white race' shall include all other persons." And the term "white race shall include all other persons," places the Indian in a very embarrassing position. By this the constitution at one fell swoop makes the Indian a white man, and by so doing, if indeed it can do so, the Indian loses all rights to the claim on government. This is a pretty how do. If the constitution is strong enough to do what it says in this section the Indian has been placed in a condition to lose much of his rights as an Indian. What next?—State Capital. This legislature can call the moon the sun and the onion a rose but after all, an Indian will remain an Indian though some of them do turn white from fear of being called colored. There is a call for the Negroes of Oklahoma to convene at Guthrie on December thirtieth. Bishop Tyree appears to be president of the organization and a lot of "preachers" fill out the remaining offices. Wonder what has become of the organization over which one J. Coody Johnson held sway? Is it not time that the Negroes of the state get together and perfect an organization for their mutual benefit and protection with officers WHO LIVE IN THE STATE and at the same time not depopulate the pulit in order to secure officials. We think so and hope J. Coody and all other heads of like organizations will issue calls for the 30th at Guthrie. The compliment paid Prof. Glenn and the people at Taft for the work done in building Halochee Industrial Institute is well deserved. We had occasion to visit the school recently and was very pleasantly surprised at what was seen and heard. The institution is destined to be a record breaker and will be to Oklahoma what Tuskegee is to the South. 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. The legislature is not stuck on the Initiative and Referendum for they have labelled every measure "emergency" which is the one way provided to render the clause useless, so far as the desire of the people to vote upon any proposed law is concerned. 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 S. L. Dudley, A Negro nurse is not offensive and may ride in the white car but a Negro man or woman who is independent cannot. Such is the ruling of the legislature now in session at Guthrie. Negroes who are looking for locations should come to the state of Oklahoma. In spite of the fact that there are some drawbacks, opportunities are better here than elsewhere and our people should come here and help to make this new state the best in the Union. God is not dead and the future will show that all men regardless of color or creed, can live here in peace. The recent threats to deprive Negroes of their rights will have no effect as there are still enough liberty loving white men who are willing to see that all men shall have their rights under the law (No Negro is asking for or seeking the so-called social equality,) Pioneer Abstract Co. Negroes own much of the land in this part of the country and land owners cannot be dis franchised in any country on earth. This Company makes absolutely correct abstracts of title. Go there for correct information. Next to Bank of Muskogee, Muskogee, I. T. Democrats all answer in choras. How many want to go to Chicago as delegates to the National Convention? It is a settled fact that some Negroes from the new state will go. The Old Reliable Doctor-Oldest in age and longest located. A regular Graduate in Medicine. Over 33 Years' Special practice-Over 30 years in Kansas City. ESTABLISHED 1867. Authorized by the Chronic, Nervous and Special Diseases. State to treat all Cures guaranteed or money refunded. 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RESOURCES Ins and Discount 1,098,36 Merdrafts 5,14 Lands and Premiums 262,00 Real Estate, Furniture and Fixtures 10,97 Fish and Exchange 310,71 $1,687,19 LIABILITIES Loans and Discount 1,098,363.96 Overdrafts 5.146.62 Bonds and Premiums 262,000.00 Real Estate, Furniture and Fixtures 10,975.08 Cash and Exchange 310,713.79 Capital Surplus and Profits Circulation Deposits The above Statement is Correct. D. N. FINK, VICE PERSIDEFT. TO MEN To Our Colored Fri MEN OF COLored Friends Thro 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 thou sands 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 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, (Pas tor A. M. E. Chuch at Talihina and Tuskahoma) Talihina, I. T. HENRY WLLIS, Talihina. Ban teritory, August 22, 190 1,098,363,96 5,146,62 262,000,00 s 10,975,08 310,713,79 $1,687,199.45 $ 200,000.00 52,946.54 200,000.00 1,234,252.91 $1,787,199.45 SWEENEY, C EXCURSIONS FRISCO Two Cents per Mile ST. LOUIS $ 8.60 KANSAS CITY 5.15 MEMPHIS 7.60 CHICAGO 14.25 WINTER TRIPS 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. 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TE Muskogee Cimeter. W. H. TWINE, Editor OKLA. Present happiness is far better than posthumous fame. Suspicion and opposite interest will break any kind of friendship. The milk of human kindness continues to be circulated at the good old rate. Great excellence is envied in life, but honored and monumented in death. One of the popular pastimes this fall will be guessing how much the price of meat will advance from hour to hour. An international yacht race with real boats instead of with freaks would be approved by Americans as well as Britishers. Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany is taking a course intended to prepare him for the throne. That must be a fine trade to learn. The Rev. Mr. McPherson's observation that "sin is merely virtue in the wrong place" is suggestive of the ancient truth that "dust is nothing but mud with the juice squeezed out." Luther Burbank has now succeeded in producing a tree that bears seventy-three different kinds of apples. Since the days of Adam, says the Baltimore American, the apple tree seems to have a fascination for men of the experimental frame of mind. A West Virginia man had his hopes of happiness blasted by the ghost of the former husband of the lady he was to marry appearing to her and warning her against another matrimonial venture just before the knot was tied. This was, indeed, a mean-spirited interference. A statue of Zola is to be erected in Paris directly opposite the Palace of Justice. And thus is appropriate honor done to the memory of the man who has made the greatest fight for justice of modern times, and won the battle almost single-handed in face of the most tremendous odds. The American manager of an English railroad is trying to break his conductors or guards of the habit of dropping their "h's" and to say "Hampstead" and "Higate," instead of "Ampstead" and "Ighgate." The first thing he knows that manager will find himself in the clutches of the humane society at the instigation of his outraged subordinates. J. Pierpont Morgan is to pay $5,000 a month rent for a house in Europe, and Henry Allen notifies him that he is getting cheated, inasmuch as he can rent one of the most desirable homes in Wichita, equipped for natural gas, for $100 month. But, observes the Topeka Journal, just as like as not, Pierp will insist on going ahead and being cheated just the same. Some people are extremely bull headed. A Kansas man is convinced that advertising pays. Recently he lost a $5 bill and advertised in one of his town papers. Within three hours thereafter he had the bill returned to him by a stranger who had found it. The next day, says the Ohio Sun, he found the missing bill in his vest pocket, and now declares that advertising pays just exactly 100 per cent. The 1,002 girls who arrived on an immigrant ship the other day in search of American husbands are described as "fascinating." But if they were not fascinating enough to attract would-be husbands in their own country how do they expect men in the United States, with the high standard set by the American girl to judge by, to be captivated off hand? NEWS OF THE WEEK Most Important Happenings of the Past Seven Days. Interesting Items Gathered From all Parts of the World Condensed Into Small Space for the Benefit of Our Readers. General Manager Goodnow of the Chicago & Alton railroad, is seriously ill at Peoria, Ill. Thomas J. Wornall of Liberty, Mo., has been elected president of the American Association of Fairs and Expositions. President Roosevelt entertained his companions on the recent bear hunt in Louisiana with a dinner at the White house. Bear meat was served. Maj. W. T. Seward, a doorkeeper of the senate, dropped dead while on duty at the national capitol recently. His home was in Guilford, Conn. Jeffrey O. Heiback professor of Germanic and Slavonic languages at the Nebraska university, is dead in Lincoln. William Yates, the oldest Mason in Kansas, died recently at his home in Lawrence. Gen. Pena, ex-president of Argentina, is dead at Buenos Ayres. H. O. Havemeyer, head of the sugar trust, is dead at his home in Commack, N. Y. Albert W. Payne, said to be the oldest practicing attorney in the United States, is dead at his home in Bangor, Me. Dr. Abram Miller, a prominent practicing physician of St. Louis, and member of three medical college faculties there, is dead at the age of 75 years. Secretary Taft visited Emperor Nicholas at Tsarskoe-Selo and enjoyed several hours' conversation with the Russian ruler, who sent greetings to President Roosevelt. Thomas Cogswell, an attorney of Crawford county, Kansas, who defended Willie Sell in the famous murder case, is dead. Rev. Dr. E. E. Chivers, field secretary of the Baptist Home Mission society and former secretary of the Baptist Young People's union. is dead in Ridgway, N. J. Secretary Taft was accorded a hearty welcome upon his arrival at St. Petersburg from Moscow. He visited the parliament and listened to a debate by the deputies. Col. Haviland Tomkins, who practiced law in partnership with Abraham Lincoln, is dead at Fairlax, Ill. He was 84 years of age. Dr. George F. Shrady, who was one of the consulting physicians during the last illness of Gen. U. S. Grant, is dead in New York. Miscellaneous. A situation of the utmost and immediate danger exists at Goldfield, Nev., according to Gov. Sparks, who appealed to the president for United States troops. Thirty persons were recently drowned off the Brazilian coast by the sinking of a coasting steamer. The jury in the case of the state of Kansas against the Harvester trust, on trial at Topeka, returned a verdict against the company on 42 counts. What will probably prove the greatest disaster in the history of American mining occurred at Monongah, W. Va., recently when 400 miners were entombed by an explosion of black damp. Five badly injured men were taken from the mine immediately after the disaster, but all the others were believed to have been killed. President Roosevelt has instructed Gen. Funston to dispatch a sufficient force of regulars to Goldfield, Nov., to control the strike situation there. At Augusta, Arkansas, a negro crazed by cocaine shot seven white persons, two of whom were women. Secretary Cortelyou has decided to reduce the allotment of Panama bonds to $25,000,000. The average price is $1.03. The six surviving members of the first Kansas territory free state legislature met recently in Topeka to celebrate the semi-centennial of that historical gathering. A large crowd was present. Rice hall, at Washburn college, Topeka, was recently destroyed by fire, involving a loss of $100,000. The jury which will try George Pettibone for complicity in the murder of ex-Gov. Steunenberg at Boise, Idaho, has been secured. There occurred in one day at St. Joseph, Mo., recently 20 hold-ups by masked men, one murder and three suicides. The Southwest Bridge company, a Joplin concern, one of the largest manufacturing plants in the district, has gone into the hands of a receiver. The State Bank of Admire, in Lyon county, Kan., has closed its doors. It had $28,000 in the failed National Bank of Commerce at Kansas City. The Fort Pitt National bank of Pittsburg, Pa., organized in 1859, has been closed by order of the comptroller of the treasury. At the suggestion of Secretary Straus the National Council of Commerce was organized at Washington recently. The body will be composed of representatives of the commercial bodies from the leading cities of the country. The comptroller of the currency has called for a statement of the condition of the national banks of the country at the close of business on December 3. Tyrie L. Ford, an attorney, has been acquitted of a charge of bribery at San Francisco. At the opening of the National Rivers and Harbors congress in Washington every state was represented by delegates as well as Alaska and Hawaii. Wichita, Kansas, defeated the commission plan of municipal government by a vote of nearly 3 to 1. E. V. Moorehouse, of St. Joseph, Mo., killed himself at his home there recently. His father, former Gov. A. P. Moorehouse, killed himself in the same manner at Marysville, Mo., in 1891. Ambassador Aoki has been summoned to Jupan by his government to explain in detail the precise situation in this country in regard to the Japanese immigration problem. Property in the business heart of Houston, Texas, to the value of $750,-000 was recently destroyed by fire. H. J. Groves, editor of the Kansas City Post, who, with O. D. Woodward, president and manager of the paper, were shot recently by Gen. R. C. Horne, has died of his wounds. The first message of Gov. Haskell to the first legislature of the new state of Oklahoma was delivered orally to the members while in joint session at Guthrie, amid the wildest enthusiasm. Leading horse breeders of Kentucky have taken steps to form a new jocky club to govern racing in the west. The jury in the trial of Mrs. Bradley who killed former Senator Brown in Washington a year ago, brought in a verdict of acquittal. The crowd in the court room when the jury reported vigorously applauded. In a rear-end collision on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad near Baltimore, three persons were killed and 20 others injured. The senate has confirmed the nomination of ex-Senator Blackburn of Kentucky to be a member of the Isthmian Canal commission. A bomb was recently exploded under the carriage of President Cabera of Guatemala, but he escaped with a few scratches and bruises. In an attempt to loot the savings bank at Salisbury, Mo., robbers shot and dangerously wounded the city marshal before being driven away. Five men succeeded in cracking the coin safe of the bank at Carney, Ok., recently, securing $4,000 and safely getting away. No Need to Suffer Every Day from Backache. Mrs. Joannah Straw, 526 North Broadway, Canton, S. D., says: "For three years I suffered everything with rheumatism in my limbs and a dull, ceaseless aching in my back. I was weak, languid, broken with headaches and dizzy spells, and the kidney secretions were thick with solids. I was really in a P. critical condition when I began with Doan's Kidney Pills, and they certainly did wonders for me. Though I am 81 years old, I am as well as the average woman of 50. I work well, eat well and sleep well." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. 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Quite naturally, the incident was a good deal noised about among the social acquaintances of the Blanks and a spirit of envious emulation was developed in certain quarters. It was in this mood that Mrs. Jerome recited the story to her husband. "What do I get, Jerry?" she asked, "if I will do the cooking for a week?" "Well," said Mr. Jerome, "at the end of a week, my dear, you'll get one of those long crepe veils."—San Francisco Argonaut. Not for Vacation Use. It seemed to Bobby that there was no end to the advice and instructions his mother gave him when he was starting off with his father for a week's trip. "Now I want you to be sure you have everything you need," she said, opening his bag in spite of his assurances that it held all a boy could possibly require. "Why, Bobbie, where is your hairbrush? You were forgetting it!" "No, mother, I wasn't forgetting it," said Bobby, looking desperate. "I thought you said I was going on a vacation." Important to Mothers. 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