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The Muskogee Cimeter. Colored People S For Wagoner--A Harmful Results of Vot Porter or Cow Colored People Should Vote For Wagoner--And Why Harmful Results of Votes Cast For Porter or Coweta. The Nogroes who vote for Coweta [Porter is not in the ace seriously only to defeat Wagoner] vote an approval for old Hausmer, the county commissioner who is so full of prejudice that he cannot even stand a Negro as an inter state passenger but becomes a law breaker by joining others to eject a passenger from the car. But his perjudice is not so great as his [cowardice] love for protection of his own anatomy for when the passenger showed fight and threatened to send old Hausmer to h-l and the mayor of Checotah along with him as company, they both got busy sidestepping and and retreating in good order—running like h-l. Can any self-respecting Negro then vote for Coweta and old Hausmer? We think not. Not even the renegade Durant could stem the tide, and like a whipped cur he stuck his tail between his legs and hied himself back to Tulsa. Wagoner is a republican county made so by the gallant leadership of Hon. James Harris in the last campaign. The party is in splendid fighting trim in that county, but to remove the county seat from Wagoner will give the burbon democracy such a lead that within a short period republican success in the county will be gone forever. There will be no chance for another Hudson because old Hausmer and his confederates will spike the guns then repub- The county seat fight in McIntosh county goes merrily on and the gallant fight being made by the supporters of Eufaula is attracting attention throughout the state. The entire citizenship of the county are working night and day for their favorite place. In McIntosh county the situation is so close that The county seat fight in McIntosh county goes merrily on and the gallant fight being made by the supporters of Eufaula is attracting attention throughout the state. The entire citizenship of the county are working night and day for their favorite place. In McIntosh county the situation is so close that the colored vote will decide the contest and there is and should be strenuous work among our people to show them the right way. As has been said in this paper by a correspondent from Rentisville, Eufaula is the best place in the county for a county seat and should win in this contest. As we see it Vol 9 Should Vote r--And Why If Votes Cast For Coweta. lican success is forever lost. the color should to as against place, as ests as people. tion and ty standi The co portunity of the c to them for the b Adv The few colored men who are supporting the enemy are very shortsighted if they cannot see the ditch that is being dug for them by the Coweta-Porter combination. It is plain they intend to drive the Negroes from the black belt if they can carry out their devilish schemes hatched out by old Hausmer and his piratical, political crew. The Negro dupes, God pity them, are simply tools in the hands of designing and unscrupulous democratic demagogues. It is pleasant to remember that we have such staunch leaders as P. A. Lewis, Attorney S. T. Wiggins, L. A. Bell, Prof. McShann, M. Stevens, W. Hawkins, Calvin Collins, Dr. Steth, Sam Barrett, and others who have put the dupes to flight and made the masters of the dupes grit their teeth and cuss. The race and the republican party are under lasting obligations to these men for their fidelity and strong plea for justice and right. The Coweta papers see the hand writing on the wall and have begun a tirade of abuse against the Negroes and still the dupes give a grim that hell would be ashamed of and continue to lick the hand that smites them. The location of the county site at Wagoner will be such a jolt to the political conspirators of the old Hausmer ring that even Gabriel's trumpet will fail to arrouse them from their deserved sleep. the colored vote will decide the contest and there is and should be strenuous work among our people to show them the right way. As has been said in this paper by a correspondent from Rentisville, Eufaula is the best place in the county for a county seat and should win in this contest. As we see it Friday. the colored voters of the county should to a man vote for Eufaula as against Checotah or any other place, as it is to their best interests as well as best for all the people. It is not a political question and no one injures their party standing in voting for Eufaula. The colored voters have the opportunity to make the good people of the county forever feel greatful to them by saving the county seat for the best location and best town in the county by voting and working for Eufaula. Such a large majority should be given Eufaula that it will be impossible under any and all circumstances to steal the election if that should be attempted and judging by past county seat fights in other states the thing is likely to be repeated in this state. The fate of the county seat is in your hands. Do the proper thing by condemning the action of Checotah's mayor. Vote for Eufaula. Okla., Advantages To Colored People In Getting Eufaula For County Seat. Mistreatment and Murder of Negroes at Checotah Not Forgotten. May. 22. the colored voters of the county should to a man vote for Eufaula as against Checotah or any other place, as it is to their best interests as well as best for all the people. It is not a political question and no one injures their party standing in voting for Eufaula. The colored voters have the opportunity to make the good people of the county forever feel greatful to them by saving the county seat for the best location and best town Advantages To Getting Eufa County Mistreatment and Murder Checotah No We can't see how any colored man can afford to cast his vote for Checotah on next Saturday when he takes it into consideration that a vote for Checotah is a vote cast for the upbuilding and perpetuation of the democratic machine which naturally means the disfranchisement of the Negro in the county. We are informed that the democrats have already demanded that republicans refuse to contest in that county or Eufaula will get their opposition. The colored men should remember that J. B. Lucas the arch fiend of democracy is bending every effort to win for Checotah and thereby lay the foundation for that hellish and damnable structure of Negro disfranchisement and the destruction of the republican party. Every Negro vote for Checotah is a vote to d—n the republican party and the elimination of the Negro from the political arena. A Negro who votes for Checotah votes for and endorses the treatment given colored women at the depot in that town prior to the inauguration of Prof. Jim Crow. In fact it was in that town that jim crow [in the Western district] was bred and born and he was cradled upon the bosom and nutured by that past master in negrophobia, Lucas, who now begs assistance from the very people he and his crew --- No 32 1908. in the county by voting and working for Eufaula. Such a large majority should be given Eufaula that it will be impossible under any and all circumstances to steal the election if that should be attempted and judging by past county seat fights in other states the thing is likely to be repeated in this state. The fate of the county seat is in your hands. Do the proper thing by condemning the action of Checotah's mayor. Vote for Eufaula. Colored People In Eufaula For Seat. Murder of Negroes at Forgotten. were so anxious to destroy It has been said by us that ninety per cent of the Negro vote of McIntosh county would go for Eufaula but the truth is that one hundred per cent of the Negroes who love their homes and respect their mothers wives and daughters will stand like a stonewall against any and all inducements that can be offered by the unsafe, insane and treacherous outfit that is manipulating the campaign for Jim Crowville. Vote for Eufaula and you vote against the hellish methods used by the Mayor of Checotah, in the recent jim crow car episode. Vote for Eufaula and you place the seal of condemnation upon the murderers of Rev. Adams and go on record for the purity of the ballot. Vote for Eufaula and you demonstrate that like the ghost of Banquo the Negro rises up [from the dead] and points his accusing hand at [Checotah] his tormentor and pushes away the prize she so dearly desires when it is almost within her grasp. The defeat of Checotah will be a great victory in our party in the onward march to success. The majority should be so great that the opposition can never again rise up. Do your duty honestly and well and the result will read a square deal for the Negro in the future and victory for the republican party. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. One 10c package colors all fibers. They dye in cold water better than any other dye. 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ESTABLISHED 1907 This Trade-Mark Stamped on Every Pair BUILDING UP TRADE SOME THINGS THE MERCHANTS SHOULD NOT OVERLOOK. Methods of Advertising to Bring Desirable and Lasting Results Comparison of City and Country Stores. "How can I make my store a popular trading place?" is the question asked by hundreds of retailers. The answer is simple—just make it popular. "But how? asks the merchant. There are various ways, but like the eleven hundred sects comprising Christianity, with the reaching of Heaven the aim of all, each way is to attain the same end, and that is publicity. In these days of live competition it is the live, up-to-date merchant that gets there every time. This class of retailers will have his store a model one, the arrangement of his well-selected assortment of goods so as to give the greatest display and attractive to the eyes of his customers; will keep fully informed as to latest trade methods, have clerks who are salesmen, and must be a judicious and excellent advertiser. There is little use in filling the columns of the papers with attention-attracters and not be able to make good when the expected customer calls at the store. In the small town the merchant who tries to follow some of the methods of the city stores will fail. Above all other things he must be honest in his advertising. He must value the truth when telling in the columns of the local paper what bargains he has. His customers are generally steady ones; week in and week out they visit his place. Much trade in the cities is of a migratory class. The keepers of shops are out for the money, and they little care how they get it. If they can sell the visitor to the store a suit of shoddy clothes for what pure wool is worth, all right. The merchant who has gained the reputation for square dealing has a capital that is sometimes better than money. He is sure to gain and retain customers, and his reputation goes a big distance with the jobbing houses. In fact, he will get the best of the deal all around. Unless advertising brings returns it is money thrown away. But whether advertising makes good or not depends upon how it is done. Ethics of the medical profession prohibits doctors doing other advertising than the simple publication of a card giving the title and address. The quack, who realizes that there is virtue in printer's ink, publishes column after column or full pages when he advertises. He makes it win. He tells the people in an interesting way that he has the goods to deliver, whether he has or not, and he makes them believe him. Just the simple statement that "George Brown & Co., Grocers," are located in a certain town, hasn't much pulling power. It is money given to the printer "just to help him." The printer does not need such help. He wants his paper to be a trade puller, to benefit its advertisers. The wise editor will see that his merchant advertisers use advertising space properly. It is to his advantage as well as the merchant's advantage that this is done. When you advertise, consider the amount it costs the same as you do the money that you pay for goods. The only difference is that you can pay money for goods, keep them on your shelves for years if the people don't know that you have them; the money you pay the printer is for letting the people know that you keep goods for sale and to make the selling part easy. Judicious spending of money for the right kind of advertising cannot fail to win in the end and pay a better percentage of profit than is afforded in the same amount being spent in goods. D. M. CARB WHAT FOLK CONSUME. Business Always Regulated by the Wants of the People. It is an established principle that the consuming capacity of the people averages just so much year after year, and fluctuates according to business and financial conditions. As new things are brought into use, perhaps the per capita expense of living increases and becomes adjusted to changed conditions. Then it is reasonable to believe that so far as the consuming capacity of the United States is concerned it will grow according to the increase in population, and the educated tastes of the people. Whether conditions that have been found practical and afford an equitable compensation to all engaged in trade are to be continued, or whether the tradesman known as the retailer is to be cut out of the game and the people supplied directly through the manufacturer and his direct representative is an important question. One of the systems that is far reaching in its baneful effects is the mail-order system. About 50 per cent. of the people of the United States live in agricultural sections. It is from these agricultural districts that the mail-order houses draw the trade, not from the cities. The question is whether it is best for the masses that these mammoth houses in the large cities drive the small merchants out of business or not? Is it to the advantage of the manufacturers and the jobbers that the large houses continue to grow? The existence of these houses has nothing to do with the consuming power of the people. Their existence does not increase trade an iota. Why, then, should the people patronize them, and why should manufacturers and jobbers give them support by supplying them with goods? It may be that a charge of discrimination would be made against concerns that refused to sell. The catalogue house should not have any advantage over the dealer in the small town, and soon the masses would discover that there was nothing to be gained by patronizing the distant houses. VALUE OF GOODS. Snap-Hunting Often Means Loss of Money and Time. Snap hunting rarely pays. People should fix in their heads the fact that gold dollars can never be purchased for 90 cents, unless there is 10 cents' worth of gold worn off. The same with goods. Values must be lowered either by over production, out of date styles, or some other circumstances. Now and then a concern is forced to sell in order to meet obligations. Then things go under the hammer, and there may be a chance to get goods much below real values. But the matter of buying standard goods at sacrificial prices through regular trade channels should be carefully considered. When a lot of goods are offered at a cut rate, at so low a price that it is apparent someone must lose by the transaction, look out for a "nigger in the fence." The goods may be of inferior quality, and not the kind a respectable merchant would care to offer to his patrons. Sound Foundation Required. There is little use in trying to build up a great town in a locality where there is not the material to sustain it, and where there are only resources for the support of a hamlet. Towns of importance exist only where there are certain natural advantages, resources that can be utilized in manufacturing, territory sufficiently large to command extensive trade, or some other favorable condition. In certain districts manufacturing must by the economy of things be confined to such lines as can be advantageously produced. In manufacturing there are many factors. There must be considered the cost of fuel, the raw material, the labor and most important are the transportation facilities. Buy a Good Farm Now Dr. C. F. Simmons is Offering the People of This Section the Greatest Opportunity They Ever Had to Own a Beautiful Truck or Fruit Farm. Why Not Buy Now at Practically No Cost to You. The Chance May Never Come Your Way Again. Mr. W. N. Hutto, the well known gentleman of Jacksboro, Texas, writes: Jacksboro, Texas, Feb. 26, 1907. Dr. C. F. Simmons, San Antonio, Texas. My Dear Sir:—I have just returned from Atascosa County, where I went for the purpose of investigating your 95,000 acre ranch proposition. I spent the 21st 22nd and 23rd of this February on the ranch, and during those three days I drove not less than 125 miles and visited every pasture on the ranch, and examined the property as thoroughly as it was possible to do within that time. I saw every artesian well on the ranch except the one in the Hall pasture. I was near it and could have seen it by turning back, but I had already seen enough to satisfy me, and did not take the time to go back. I took your booklet, "New Home Sweet Home" with me and I compared the pictures in it with what I saw, and I found them absolutely correct. I drank water at all the wells I saw, and the water was good for drinking and all other purposes in all of them except the gas well. I did not like it very well, but I have tasted a great deal worse water. I am sure it is good for all stock and irrigation purposes. I saw the cattle drink it, and they seem to be thriving on it. I put a match to the gas well and it began to burn at once. I am of the opinion that oil is to be found on this land. Just off of it there is an oil well from which I procured a bottle of oil which I carried home with me. I talked with Mr. Brown, the gentleman now employed in putting down an artesian well on your land for you, and he told me that he had been drilling wells in that vicinity for the last six years, and that good water can be obtained at any place on the ranch from forty to two hundred feet, and that flowing wells can be obtained anywhere on the ranch at depths ranging from three hundred feet up. The land is all as good as represented by you, and lots of it much better. The Votaw pasture is the best all purpose land I ever saw. I shall recommend all of my friends who want comfortable homes in the best climate in the world to purchase from you. I am more than pleased with what I saw, and as you have said, it is the "Opportunity of a Lifetime," especially for the man with small means. Wishing you success in disposing of this land, and furnishing homes within the reach of the ordinary man, I remain. Write today for book of views and full description of the ranch. $210—payable $10 a month until paid, without interest, will buy a 10 to 640 acre farm and two town lots in the paradise of America. INTERMITTENTLY. Tourist—What are you jumping up like that for, me good man? Howling Dervish—Yeow! Dog of an unbeliever, I'm elevating my mind. SEVERE HEMORRHOIDS Sores, and Itching Eczema—Doctor Thought an Operation Necessary —Cuticura's Efficacy Proven. "I am now 80 years old, and three years ago I was taken with an attack of piles (hemorrhoids), bleeding and protruding. The doctor said the only help for me was to go to a hospital and be operated on. I tried several remedies for months but did not get much help. During this time sores appeared which changed to a terrible itching eczema. Then I began to use Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills, injecting a quantity of Cuticura Ointment with a Cuticura Suppository Syringe. It took a month of this treatment to get me in a fairly healthy state and then I treated myself once a day for three months and, after that, once or twice a week. The treatments I tried took a lot of money, and it is fortunate that I used Cuticura. J. H. Henderson, Hopkinton, N. Y., Apr. 26, 1907." Economy may be the road to wealth, but nine-tenths of those who are compelled to travel it never reach the goal. ALL UP-TO-DATE HOUSEKEEPERS Use Red Cross Ball Blue. It makes clothes clean and sweet as when new. All grocers. The theatrical manager has a poor show if it isn't a good one. 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Farm Now ering the People of This st Opportunity They own a Beautiful Fruit Farm. No Cost to You. The Chance May our Way Again. Dwn gentleman of Jacksboro, Texas, Jacksboro, Texas, Feb. 26, 1907. Named from Atascosa County, where I your 95,000-acre ranch proposition. of this February on the ranch, and less than 125 miles and visited every the property as thoroughly as it was the ranch except the one in the Hall seen it by turning back, but I had did not take the time to go back. Sweet Home" with me and I compared and I found them absolutely correct. Law, and the water was good for drink- en except the gas well. I did not like that deal worse water. I am sure it is poseses. I saw the cattle drink it, and put a match to the gas well and it to be found on this land. Just off I procured a bottle of oil which I gentleman now employed in putting down ou, and he told me that he had been last six years, and that good water the ranch from forty to two hundred obtained anywhere on the ranch at set up. ated by you, and lots of it much better. Choose land I ever saw. Bends who want comfortable homes in phase from you. What I saw, and as you have said, it is specially for the man with small means. of this land, and furnishing homes I remain. Very truly yours, W. N. HUTTO. full description of the ranch. $210—payable will buy a 10 to 640 acre farm and two town T. SIMMONS, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. 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. Vote under the eagle and you will never make a mistake. The delegation from the state of Oklahdima will Le in Chicago on time. The contest has been properly filed and the report to the contrary does not bluff or frighten anyone. The arrest of Ed. Jefferson, justice of peace, and Sank Sango constable, was quite a surprise to our people. Such is life. The removal of restrictions seems certain and our folks who want a home should get in now and invest while things are not so high. The voters in McIntosh and Wagoner counties should go to the polls early and vote for their preference. If you intend to vote at all this must be done for there is a move on foot to keep the colored voter out. Vote for Eufaula and you do your full duty to your county and your family and at the same time you give a rebuke to the prejudiced hell hounds who have done all in their power to prostitute Negro manhood. The voters at Rentiesville cannot forget the murder of Rev. Adams and will vote accordingly. Of course all the people at Checotah did not commit the crime but it is a case where the good must suffer for what the evil ones have done. At Grayson the boys in the trenches will swat Checotah so hard beneath the belt that there will be no recovery. Ninety per cent of the colored vote of McIntosh county will be cast for Eufaula. That means victory. The boys in McIntosh county who are on the beat are taking Checotah cash and will vote RIGHT. We don't admire this kind of doing but if the fellows must drop the cash just take it and vote right. Don't let whiskey, cigars and other trifles take you from the path of right. Stand pat and vote for Eufaula. When you vote for Eufaula you vote for low taxes and at the same time increase the val- ue of property alike all over the county. Thank God, not all Negroes in Wagoner county have sold their land, and not all of them are going to sell, so they, as well as the white men, have an interest in having low taxes. The old citizen Negroes have been coming to Wagoner for the last twenty years, and they know they have always been treated right. They are going to vote to keep the county seat at the old town. Wagoner has a Negso population that own more homes than are owned by colored folks in all the other towns in the county They expect their colored friends in the country to vote with them next Saturday to protect their homes by keeping the county seat at Wagoner. Wagoner is the only town in the race for county seat where the Negroes own their own homes. When you vote for Wagoner for county seat you vote to support your own people, Wagoner is the place where the Negroes cast their votes as their conscience dictates, and they are always counted honestly. Wagoner does not be lieve in election boards that try to turn a big republican victory into defeat by throwing out the big colored precincts, as was favored by the Coweta and Porter membsrs of the canvassing board last fall. This in itself should be sufficient reason for the colored boys lining up solidly for Wagoner next Saturday. Every colored voter knows what kind of a ticket is always to be found under the Big Eagle. Look for the Eagle next Saturday, boys, and you know you will make no mistake. A vote for Wagoner is a vote for the place that always gives the colored folks a square deal. Coweta grafters have skinned the colored folks out of more land than any other place in Wagoner. And these same land grafters are the same fellows that are leading the fight for Coweta for the county seat. Remember this next Saturday when you go to vote. "If that damned nigger is elected I want to sell all the property I have in the county and leave," remarked Mr. Vernon, the Coweta banker and county seat boomer, when speaking of P. B. J. Hudson during the election for constitutional delegates. Why should any Negro in Wagoner county vote to boom the price of banker Vernon's Coweta property by making his town the county seat? Brnker Vernon, the biggest booster Coweta has in this election, could only speak of P. B. J. Hudson as a "damned nigger" when Hudson was running for delegate, but now he wants this same "damned nigger" to help him get the county seat for Coweta he is ready to kiss Hudson's south end any old time Hudson is coming from Gatesville up to Wagoner to attend a meeting of the board of county commissioners. Colored men are smart enough to know what to expect from that kind of a "friend" after this county seat election. When colored people are called upon to pay from $40 to $80 taxes each year on their land they will realize that nobody is more interested in low taxes than they, themselves. Vote for Wagoner for conquy seat where there is already a good court house and jail, and you won't have to pay taxes to build one at Coweta or Porter. Rum, Romanism and Rebellion, the three R's beat Jas. G. Blaine for president. Haskell, Hausam and Hell, three H's are trying to locate the county seat at Coweta. The Negro voters of Wagoner county should remember the three H's when they go to vote next Saturday. Phippen and Vernon, two texas demoerats are leading the fight for Coweta, Jim Harris, Joe Casava, Rittehouse, Judge Drake, Snyder, Mayor Brown, Potmaster Cobb, Spo s er Bell, the Wagoner Lantern edited by Hon. S. T. Wiggins and others for Wagoner. The Negroes need not be told who are their friends. The Eagle is a winner in Wagoner county and, and will be this time. The colored voters are going to drive the Wagoner bandwagon next Saturday. To locate the county seat at Coweta and make Wagoner county like Muskogee county and boys we have the most rotten political bunch this side of hell. Profit by our misfortune and keep the county seat where it is. NOTICE. State of Oklahoma, Muskogee county; No. 1263 in county court. In matter of the Estate of Dave McNac deceased. Notice hereby given that Jeannetta McNac, the duly appointed and qualified administratrix of the estate of Dave McNae deceased has rendered and presented for settlement, and filed in said court her final account and report of her administration as such administratix and that Monday the 25th day of May A. D. 1908, being a regular term of said court to-wit: of the May term A. D. 1908, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day, at the coonty court room in the city of Muskogee in said county of Muskogee has been duly appointed by the said court, for settlement of said account, at which time and place any person interested in said estate may appear and file his exceptions in writing to the account and contest the same. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 4th day of April, 1908. County Judge. Walrond & Cramer, Attys. Muskogee, Okla. OKFUSKEE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA A Strictly Colored Man's Town. 500—LOTS FOR SALE—500 This town is situated 25 miles east from Boley, the largest and best Negro town in the world, and is on the Ft. Smith and Western railroad. Plenty farmers made from one to two bales of cotton to the acre in the past year. Good water, plenty hay, and good amount of forest. Any thrifty man can come and make a good honest living free from the many set backs found in the southern country. We need settlers and that bad. These lots cost you from $35 to $200 each; 25x140, sold one fourth down and balance on easy monthly payments. Good titles to any and all lots. We have 400 residents, a postoffice, several stores, all run by colored men. Come now while there are many inducements to good farmers. Plenty land to sell, lease or rent. Call or write, W. L. JACKSON, Townsite Manager and Owner Clearview, Okla. AGENTS WANTED—16x20 crayon portraits, 40 cents, frames 10 cents, and up, sheet pictures one cent each. You can make 400 per cent profit or $36 per week. Catalogue and samples free. FRANK W. WILLIAMS COMPANY. 1208 W. Taylor St. Chicago, Ill. . NN : NIASUSC READ WAGONER'S PROPOSITION ON COURT HOUSE. Wagoner, Okla , May 15, 1908 To the County Commissioners of Wagoner County, Wagoner Oklahoma: Gentlemen;—The Federal Realty Company of Wagoner, Oklahoma, will furnish to the County Commissioners of Wage oner county for the county's use as a court building, the building now used and occupied by the county as a court builds ing and offices, as it is now furnished for same, for any part of ten (10) years from ex: piration of present contract, for the sum of one hundred dollars (100.00) per month’ Contract to be drawn and entered into not later than five days after county seat has been located, FEDERAL REALTY CO, A. F. Parkinson, Pres. |SENL] C. C. McKinney, Sec’y. STATE OF OKLA, ss County of Wagoner 1, J. E. Hiltd. County Clerk of the County of Wagoner, and clerk of the County Board of Commissioners, do hereby cer- tify that the above is a true and correct. copy of the proposition filed in’ my office this 16th day of may, 1908, J. KE. Wiltd, County Clerk. | UEAL] By Rena Harsy, Deputy. Wagoner people do not ask the farmers to mortgage their horses, mules, mileh cows, and farms by the issuance of bounds to build a big court house and jailat Wagener. Wagone rn citizens areagainst the issuance | of a $200,000 (two hunered| thousand dollar)indebteduess for | acourt house an jai', because | the intersst on the bonds will, b* tive per cent or $10,000 (ten thousand dollars) per year, | When the the court house that now stands at Wagoner can be rented for any part of t n (10) years at $1200.00 dollars per year, Locate thea county seat at Wagoner, rent the court house for aay part of ten (10) years anl save the difierence between ten thousand dollars [$10,000 interest and twelve hundred dollars {$1200.00} rent which will be eight thousand eight hundred dollars [$8,800.00] per year, Which saving in ten years will be eighty eight thousand dollars [$88,000.00]. If the county seat is voted to remain at Wagoner, the farmers will not have to help build a court house’ and jail and the people will keep down taxes by renting the Wagener court house and jail. If the farmers vote the county seat to Coweta or Porter, where they have no buildings suitab'e for court house and jail, the farmers mu-t then vote a mort- gage bond indebtedness against all the personal and real estate in the county so that a court house and jail can be huilt at Pooter or Coweta, The farmers have to PAY THE TAXES AND GEL NO) BENEITS FROM THE BUILDING OF COURT HOUSE AND JALL IN ANY TOWN, The reuters are interested in low taxes for when the renters vote high tsxes on the land owner, tue land owner will make the renters help to pay his taxes, Build good sohool houses and maintain good schools in your school districts. Build good roads. These things are of di- rect. benefit’ to the farmers and every good citizen is willing to pay the school tax and road tax, But all farmers should see to that Wagoner is ‘voted the county seat and there iby avoid paying a court house land jail tax, for the benefit of ha lot o town site boomers. | Vote for Wagoner for county seat, Saturday, May 23rd, TPA LOAN BROKER Loaus on all Articles of Value, 105 South Main Street MUSKOGER, IND. TER. ( i CURE CANCER }, My mild Combination Treatment ts used by the patientathome. Years of success. Hundreds of testimonisis. Endorsed by Physicians, Ministers, Ete. It destroys B cancerous growth, eliminates disease from system, No matter how serious your ease— y how many operations you havehad—do bog give up hope. “Write at once for HR BUOK—*Caneer and Ite Cure,” OR 0. A. JOHNGON, 1233 GRAND AVE. ROOMS 00-67, KANSAS ‘CLTY, me. 5 Or. @. A. Johnson:—Tour home treatment eured ta" eatiots Onin eg Tirecommend it te sudden Rivers. 8. 4. Walker, Gienece, Okla, RL WHY PAY RENT? We sell you a house and lot for $10 to $200 cash, Balance like rent. We also sell lots on payments, Get our prices, F, T. Martin, & Co. 403 W, Oklamulgee Ave. WANTED— To sell standard sewiug machines on €3,00 per month payments, J. A. Walcott, General Agent, 1093 E, Broadway, MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. , The county seat campaign goes merrily on in Wagoner county and as the date set for election comes nearer, it is not out of place to ad. vise tW® voters to vote early and avoid the possibility of loosing # vote on account of ehallenge thet will be resorted to by the enemies of Wagoner who will do this to pre- vent the colored vote being counted. The inspectors who will be in charge of the election will all be non-residents and its not possible that all of them would attempt to fraudulently take the election. — It must be remembered by the voters that the sentiment ef the — three towns toward the colored voters will out quite a figure with the colored people. The white people of Wag: oner, who are largely under the control of Hon. James Harris and his followers are and have always been in favor of the colored) man having the right to vote and have |that vote counted as cast. The his: | tory of each of the other towns is to the exact contrary and for that | reason alone the solid vote of the colored people of the county should and will be cast for Wagoner. | Many persons are asking — the [question : Is Supervisor Walter Fal. Well using his influence — against |Wagoner? They say that Six Shoot, ler Sango, Superintendent of Tul: ‘lahasse Mission, Prof. Whaely, the |son in law of P. B. J. Hudson, wh) jis a teacher and ©. L. Barber, Past | Master in Hoodooism and dispenser jof school patronage at Red Bird, | Prof. Van Allen and other teachers, jall being opposed to Wagoner, looks jlike the fine Italian hand of Fal. |well being played against Wagoner | The action of the white republi cans of Coweta sometime ago when | they assisted in the nomination of | Prof. Hudson for member of the {constitutional convention and ther jentered into a deal to nominate A | D. Oreut, styled as an Indian repub |lican, and later switched and sup | ported the democrat, Hosimer, anc jdefeated Hudson, should be suffi ‘cient to convince Hudson and al colored men that the white republi | cans in Coweta and Porter voted fo |the democrat and they should nov \be paid for their treachery. Hud json was later elected one of th county commissioners for Wagone jcounty. He was assisted financiall, by Wagoner republicans and whe {elected it was Wagoner men_ bot \republicans and democrats who mad jhis bond. The wealth of the bond: ‘men aggregate $1,000,000, Has Hur |son forgotten this? Does — tw ‘daughters and a son in law ou weigh all? Was the Falwell whi jused? The Coweta county seat gang : Red Bird composed of the Min | trial Quariette, Barber, Drakes, E |lis and Craven, failed to get Pro | McGowen _ indicted. The Hoode failed to work, -the charm had n effect upon the grand jury. | —_separrreR Wagoner the Place. E. M. Steven's talk for Wagoner at the Sodom meeting Saturday night: Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends and Fellow Citizens:—We are here to consider the permanent location of a county seat for Wagoner coun- ty. I wish to speak directly to my ‘people, the Negro voters. It is right, just and proper that every man pro tect himself and his race, The Ne groes of Wagoner county should view this matter from a Negro’s stand point. I am not in favor of locating the county seat at Porter because she has only one small house for Ne groes. However, I wish it was pos- sible for Porter to win and to be able to take care of the county seat, but I see the writing on the wall against her. Porter is una. ble to control the votes at her owa door. 1 am not in favor of locating the county seat at Coweta because so far as Negroe’s accommodation {s concerned she is only one per cent better than Porter, 1 am for Wagoner because she has the accommodation. Let you be white, red or black, Wagoner has the accommodation. Those who are clamoring for Porter and Cow- eta say that Wagoner is not ac cessible on account of the Verdigris river and the roads leading to Wag- oner, But, gentlemen, what if the county seat be located either at Porter or Coweta? Is it not a fact that all citizens of Wagoner coun- ty living on the other side of the (Verdigris river would have to trav- jel the same roads and cross the same stream, rendering either Por- ter or Coweta equally inconveniently accessible. | Some say It is not proper to dis- cuss the race question in the mat- ter of a county seat. But gentlemen the condition in and about a county ‘seat should be such. as would afford ‘the best accommodation of all coi lore. Of three towns mentioned fn tho irace for the county seat Wagoner |comes nearer to the requirements |than either Porter or Coweta. | Gentlemen, this is not a political jfight but a fight affecting the inter- jest of every citizen of Wagoner jcounty, let him be lawyer, doctor, \farmer, merchant, mechanic, repub: lican or democrat, white, red or \black—their interests are equal and |should be determined with the great: jest intelligence of the people of | Wagoner county. | Therefore I appeal to your intelll: gence and your patriotism In the leona of Wagoner. The race will |be between Wagoner and Coweta jand a victory for Wagoner on the 28rd day of May will be a victory Jin the interest of all the people. Gentlemen, | hope and trust that in the interest of all the people. -|vote for Wagoner.—Record, For Sale. Lot 100 feet front, two houses on the lot one four room house and ‘one two room house. Houses rent $18 per month, Good location high ‘and level. Lot in block 285 Mus: ‘Kogee price $3,000, See or write ‘W. H. Twine, Jr., Box G, Muskogee, Oklahoma, FOR SALE. 3-room house and 50 ft. lot close in, $650.00. Two-room house and lot for $450.00. Lot in Factory Addition, $75.00. Lot in Lincoln Park, $50.00. Write W. H. TURNE, Box G, Mus- kogee, Okla. ’ - St. Luke’s Pharmacy | A. E. Jolinson, Proprietor, Corner Court and Second St. Opposite Federal Court House. Phone 172 Muskogee Cimeter. W. H. TWINE, Editor MUSKOGEE. OKLA. Alaska Impossible to Autoists. The New York to Paris automobilists have found speedy realization of the prediction that when they reached Alaska they would learn what bad going actually meant. At least, the only car which has yet gone thus far has made the discovery. The American machine, which it was expected would push on through the Alaskan wastes to Nome, on the western side of the territory, there taking ship passage to Siberia, is halted at Valdez. A dispatch from that point to the newspaper which is behind the scheme says it will be impossible to go through Alaska. Experiments made under conditions there, one feature being a heavy snowstorm, shows there is nothing but narrow trails, which cannot be "negotiated" by the autos. So the whole outfit has been loaded on a steamer which will return to Seattle, and from that point a vessel will take the car and the party accompanying it to Vladivostok. The dispatch from Valdez says with refreshing frankness: "It is impossible for any man who has not seen the trail over which the mail is carried from Valdez to Fairbanks to realize the conditions that exist to-day. To consider making the trip across Alaska in the face of such conditions would be a dream of 'a cgeechaco siyass,' in the Chinook jargon, which means the Alaskan tenderfoot." In the opinion of the Troy (N. Y.) Times, this outcome is not surprising, for at the outset it was predicted in various quarters that no automobile could succeed in getting through the Alaskan wilderness. Even the much-berated highways of New York state must appear like first-class roads by comparison with the Alaskan trails. And parts of Siberia are likely to be not much better. American Educational Methods. Here is another tribute to the value of American educational methods. In a paper read by Sir William Henry Preece, formerly president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, before the Royal Society of Arts in London, the speaker mentioned the difficulty if not impossibility of making a comparison between English and American methods, owing to the fact that the American boy possesses "the energy and smartness of a new race; the European boy mentally is two years behind him." This explained the difference in curricula and examination papers. But it is American adaptation to these different conditions which accounts for the success of educational methods here. Still further testimony to the efficacy of American ideas is found in the proposition from Germany that the conversational style of teaching languages be put into practice by an exchange of American and German professors, the American professors instructing German students by this method, and vice versa. German educators are alive to the practical demands of the times, and appear to derive much inspiration from the United States. It is stated that the heart of a vegetarian beats 58 times a minute, and that of a meat-eater 75 times. Thus the meat-eating young man with a vegetarian sweetheart can see how difficult it is at times for "two hearts to beat as one." It is hard to make a small boy believe that he can see just as good ball playing in the prairie league as he can behind the tall board fence where the price of admission is a quarter. THE AMERICAN HOME W.A.RADFORD EDITOR THE NEW HOUSE Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 194 Fifth Ave., Chicago, Ill., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. A pretty cottage bungalow 25 by 23 feet with two rooms in the roof is shown in this plan. Bungalows are becoming very fashionable in some places as suburban residences. A good many families that happen to include several small children find it necessary to live as near the country as possible. Children are a nuisance in flats, so they are driven out and parents are obliged to go further and fare better. In all large cities the flat evil has taken possession of the population until women without children have become selfishly accustomed to living in these little packing boxes, and they THE HOME OF THE MOTHER OF THE GIRL dread to make a change. But when they have families the children grow up to be noisy, then the neighbors object, and a move becomes necessary. There are hundreds of such little PORCH PANTRY KITCHEN 9'0" x 12'0" DINING ROOM 12'0" x 12'0" LIVING ROOM 13'6" x 10'0" HALL PORCH First Floor Plan. bungalows within 15 or 20 miles of Chicago, where families of children have found comfortable homes very much to their advantage. Transportation on steam roads is almost as quick for a ten or fifteen-mile run as the ordinary street car is for one-third of the distance. The family can grow fruit and vegetables enough to easily make the difference in car fare, and the money they ordinarily pay out for doctors' bills may be applied to more useful purposes. --- This little bungalow is small on the ground as bungalows go. When you have the rooms all on one floor you must spread out in width and length. CHAMBER 10'0" x 12'0" Closet MALL CHAMBER 10'0" x 12'6" Closet Second Floor Plan. Second Floor Plan. but the two rooms on the second floor in this plan help out, and it is cheaper to build the two small gables than to make a larger foundation, besides. THE NEWLY BUILT HOUSE you get considerabie storage room up close under the roof. We hear a good many complaints about the cost of bungalows, but the trouble is mostly due to bad management. A bungalow is not supposed to be a house. If a man wants all the improvements and accommodations that an eight-room house will give him, what he should build is an eight-room house, instead of trying to compromise with a bungalow. But if he wants a little combination of four walls and a roof for $1,000 or $1,500, where he can bring up his family in comfort, where his children can have plenty of sunshine and outdoor exercise, he probably could not do better than to build a little bungalow like this. The construction is light and the labor bill is light because the work is quickly done. The house is not very large, and if he is short of money he can build it without a cellar, because the cellar may be added at another time. There is provision for a heating stove in the living room, which, with the heat from the kitchen, will make the house comfortable in cold weather; even the upper rooms will be warm enough to sleep in, because the heat will go up through the open stairway. A good many women like this arrangement for a hall because it is partially shut off from the living room, but may be used in connection with it when necessary. Generally speaking, a separate entrance from the porch is liked better than to have the front door open directly into the living room. Where no cellar is provided an extra good pantry is needed for storage. The cost of building it in this way is but little extra, because the same projection answers for the rear porch. The front porch is built in a very economical way, as it saves the usual built-on veranda and it looks very well for a little house of this kind. The main object in building a bungalow like this is to get something neat, attractive and useful at a reasonable cost. Such houses have been built for $1,000 under extra favorable conditions; probably $1,500 would cover the cost almost anywhere, and it is a house that may be added to and improved to better advantage than most two-story houses. DOGS DO WORK OF MEN. Blacksmith's Singular Contrivance a Money Saving Device. On an uptown street, on the east side of New York, hundreds of people daily pause at a blacksmith's shop to watch three Newfoundland dogs, which are employed by the smith to work the bellows of the forges of his shop. In one corner of the place is a wooden wheel, about eight feet in diameter and wide enough for a dog to stand in. When the wheel is at rest the dog stands in much the same position as the horse in a child's rocker, with its head towards the forge, awaiting orders. When told to "go ahead" the beast on duty at once starts on a brisk trot, which makes the wheel turn around rapidly and by means of a crank and lever the power is conveyed to the bellows. The dogs work willingly and with such intelligence that pedestrians are never weary of watching the efforts of the animals to keep the smith's fires bright. Each dog works in the wheel for one hour and then rests for two. The three dogs cost their owner about $4 a week to keep, plenty of meat being given the beasts at each meal, and he estimates that they save him $16 a week, as otherwise it would require at least the services of two men or a small engine to do their work. WATER THIS MAN'S ONLY DIET. Los Angeles Citizen Tries a Novel! Plan to Stop Smoking. Just because Day H. Elmore, a Los Angeles cigar dealer, wanted to stop smoking and also reduce his weight, he began to live on nothing but water, and now and then a sour lemonade, 20 days ago. He has lost 20 pounds off of his 200-pound total, and wants to lose four or five more. His voice alone seems weak. Otherwise this "personally conducted starvation tour," as his friends call it, has proven quite enjoyable, Elmore says, and he declares he rather dislikes the idea of ever eating again. However, this is almost complete abstinence from sustenance which he is undergoing now, with the result that the first week he lost flesh at the rate of two pounds a day; the second week he lost a pound a day, later half a pound, and finally but a few ounces. He began the fast gradually, one meal and then one day at a time, until after he had gone three days without eating, when everything went well. He does not feel nervous or run down, and sleeps well. Too Personal. A trolley car had collided with a heavily laden milk cart, and sent can after can of milk splashing into the street. Soon a crowd gathered. A man, coming up, had to stand on tip-toe and keep dodging his head about to see past a stout lady in front of him. "Goodness," he exclaimed, "what an awful waste!" The stout lady turned and glared at him. "Mind your own business," she snapped.—Everybody's Magazine. GENERAL NEWS NOT.S Under peremptory instructions from Judge Riner of Wyoming, the jury in the United States district court ac- quitted Edward G, Lewis of the charge of using the mails to defraud in connection with the organization of his People’s United States bank at St. Louis. The bank was closed by a postal fraud order nearly three years ago, and this is Lewis’ second trial, the first resulting in a jury dis- agreement, The bell which marked the dedica- tion of the new buildings of the Col- lege of the city of New York on Washington heights, which cost $7, 000,000 and were dedicated last Fri- day, with imposing ceremonies, the occasion being also the sixtieth anni- versary of the college, was sounded by Mrs. Grover Cleveland, The Show Printers association, which held its annual convention in Chicago last week went on record as being in favor of eliminating all forms of objectionable advertising from the bill boards of the country. ‘The first conviction in a “black hand” case in Chicago was obtained last week when a jury found Vito Morici guilty of conspiracy to extort $500 from Lucian Tomaselli, a wine merchant, by means of threatening letters. The Reserve Trust company of Cleveland, Ohio, has maW an assign- ment to the Superior Savings and Trust company. The liabilities of the concern are about $2,700,000, Inabil- Ity to realize on outstanding loans 1s said to have precipitated the failure. Officers of the company say deposit- ors will be paid in full. George H. Taylor, an attorney of New Madrid, Mo., filed an application before the supreme eourt for a writ to prohibit the judge of the probate court of that county from enjoining the county court from ordering a spe- cial election on local option. Secretary of agrioulture, James Wilson, who has held his cabinet port- folio longer than any member of the cabinet, announced to several of his intimate friends recently that he was about to resign. He declared that he had worked hard for the success of the agricultural department for ten years and was anxious to step down and give some younger man a chance, The supreme court of Missouri has denied the application of the supreme lodge of the Knights of Pythias for a writ of mandamus to compel the state superintendent of insurance to issue a license to do business in Mis- souri. The lodge sought to come un- der the provisions of regular life in- surahce laws, as a beneficial associa- tion and to allow policies to be writ- ten under the non-forfeiture law, which the supreme court held does not belong to fraternal — beneficiary associations. It is reported from Lexington, Ky., that within the next few days an at- tempt will be made by the state mi- litia to arrest between 200 and 300 “night riders” on the evidence of de- tectives. Trouble is expected when the soldiers begin to round up the offenders. Well known men who are under suspicion have been purchasing guns and ammunition expecting ar- rest. At Augusta the night riders have served notice on merchants not to sell soldiers goods on pain of trou- ble. _--« FOUND THE CAUSE, After Six Years of Misery and Wrong Treatment. John A. Enders, of Robertson Ave- nue, Pen Argyl, Pa., suffered for six ~ years with stinging E pain in the back, vio- = lent headaches and eek. dizzy spells, and was A assured by a special- ¥ ist that his kidneys GBRET RR were all right, though Sai 7 the secretions showed — a reddish, brick-dust ~ years with stinging pain in the back, vio- q lent headaches and ee W dizzy spells, and was A assured by a special- ist that his kidneys €* at were all right, though Saal 7 the secretions showed — a reddish, brick-dust sediment. Not satisfied, Mr. Enders started using Doan's Kidney Pills. “The kidneys began to act more regn- larly,” he says, “and in a short time I passed a few gravel stones. I felt better right away and since then have had no kidney trouble.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Youthful Logic. Mrs. L., a young and inexperienced Sunday school teacher, was at times sorely perplexed how to answer the questions put to her by some of her un- usually bright pupils. One day just after she had finished telling the chil- dren the story that Adam was the first man God created quiet reigned in the classroom for several minutes. Sud- denly up jumped little Rose, and in a piping voice said: “Oh, teacher, you forgot to tell us whether God created Adam right away a man or « baby!" Embarrassed, Mrs. L. looked up to the ceiling and then to the children for an inspiration. Happily she quickly spied Betty's little hand raised above the others eager to answer the question. “Teacher, I am surprised my sister Rosie should ask such a foolish ques- tion. Why, God must have created Adam right away a big man, because if God had created him a baby he would have had to have a mother to take care of him.” ‘Too Much of a “Drawing Card.” “Dear William,” wrote the old man to the youth at college, “I'm shore glad to hear that you air sich a ‘draw- in’ card’ thar, but I knowed it long ‘fore you tol’ me. Howsomever, thar's d@fawin’ an’ drawin’, but thar's one kind which I must draw the line on here an’ now, an’ that is the sort that draws on me fer $50 when I'm least expectin’. You put Greek an’ Latin in yer letters, sometimes, fer good measure, I suppose, but I notice that when you draw on me it's allus in plain United States. I want you to go through all right, but I don't want you to bill me through. Gimme a livin’ chance to rest up. I'm tired!” FIT THE GROCER Wife Made the Suggestion, A grocer has excellent opportunity to know the effects of special foods on his customers. A Cleveland grocer has a long list of customers that have been helped in health by leaving off coffee and using Postum Food Coffee. | He says, regarding his own expe- ‘rience: “Two years ago I had been ‘drinking coffee and must say that 1 was almost wrecked in my nerves, “Particularly in the morning I was so irritable and upset that I could hardly wait until the coffee was served, and then I had no appetite for breakfast, and did not feel like at- tending to my store duties. “One day my wife suggested that inasmuch as I was selling so much Postura there must be some merit in it and suggested that we try it. 1 took home a package and she __ pre- pared it according to directions, The result was a very happy one. My nervousness gradually disappeared, and today I am all right. I would advise everyone afflicted in any way with nervousness or stomach troubles, to leave off coffee and use Postum Food Coffee.” “There's a Reason.” Read “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. Everreadthe above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human in: terest. AMENITIES, Crates * . Cy eae a “And you call yourself honest “And you call yourself honest? Huh!” “Sir, I keep the commandments.” “That must be because you've got an idea that they belong to somebody else.” Sheer white goods, In fact, any fine wash goods when new, owe much of their attractiveness to the way they are laundered, this being done in a manner to enhance their textile beau- ty. Homie iaundering would be equal- ly satisfactory if proper attention was given to starching, the first essential being good Starch, which has sufficient strength to stiffen, without thickening the goods. Try Defiance Starch and you will be pleasantly surprised at ihe improved appearance of your work. His Double Grief. It was sentence day in the city court. A man in the prisoners’ pen, who had been sentenced to two years for larceny, began to cry softly. The big man next him, who was going to serve seven years for bigamy, said: “Aw, wotcher snifflin’ about?” “I'm—I'm—th-th-thinkin’ about leay- in’ (sob) my—my—family. Lea-leavin’ my wife—" “Aw, cut it out! Look at me. T ain't eryin’, am I? An’ I'm leavin’ two of ‘em,"—"Jack” Cremer in Everybody's. We Reiterate. That for more than fifteen years Hunt's Cure has been working on the afflicted. Its mission is to cure skin troubles, particularly those of an itch- ing character, Its success is not on account of advertising, but because it surely does the work. One box is guaranteed to cure any case. And the Moon Man Laughed. They were jogging along the old road and cupid was so busy that the young man dropped the lines either side of the runabout. It was then that the wise old nag turned lazily around. “What are you looking at?” queried the owl by the roadside. “I am reading between the lines,” laughed the old nag as she gave a horse laugh and showed her long yel- low teeth, Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA a safé and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of ode In Use For Over 30 Years, The Kind You Have Always Bought. Rally Cries. “So you couldn't hear much of what the speaker said?” “No, His delivery was al. right, but between the yells of ‘louder’ and ‘or- der’ he didn’t have mych chance,”"— Kansas City Times, TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA AND BULLD UP THE SYSTEM. ‘Take the Old Standard GROVES TASTELESS CIULL "TONIC. You know what you are taking, ‘the formula is plainly printed on every bottle, showing itis simply Quinine and Iron in a tasteless, form, and the most effectual form. For grown people and children. Sle, If, in replying to a toast at the po- litical banquet, you lost your head, don’t be unhappy, for, if you only stay late enough, you'll be sure to get it back again all right in the morning. Garfield Tea is of particular benefit to those subject to rheumatism and gout! It purifies the blood, cleanses the system and eradicates disease. Drink before retiring. Some one has said that happiness is but a habit. If it is, here's hoping that you may acquire the habit. The butcher should be careful how he steaks his reputation, ANNUAL SALES OVER NINE MILLION. Good, reliable quality is appreciated by the smoker, Over Nine Million (9° 000,000) Lewis’ Single Rinder cigars sold annually, The kind of cigar smok- ers have been looking for, made of very rich, mellow tasting tobacco, It's the judgment of many smokers that Lewis’ Single Binder straight Se cigar equals in quality the best 10¢ cigar. There are many imitators of this cele- brated brand, Don’t let them fool you. There is no substitute. Tell the dealer you wish to try a Lewis’ Single Binder. Lewis Factory, Peoria, 01, Originat- ors Tin Foil Smoker Package. Immense Pig Iron Production. In the last eight years the three great iron countries bave produced 10,300,000 tons of pig iron, of which over half has come out of the United States. RED CROSS BALL BLUE Should be in every home. Ask your grocer for it. Large 2 02, package only 5 cents. The world belongs to those who come the last They will find hope and strength, as we have done.—Long- fellow. Mra. Winslow's Soothing Syrap. For children teething, softens the gums, reducer Ine flammation, allay pair’, cures Wind colle. ' ea bottle, Think all you speak, but speak not all you think. Thoughts are your own; your words are so no more.—Delany. ES / ORK (sion!) 3 f @ wey c OK aT KR Ree LL Mae a Thousands of American women in our homes are daily sacrificing their lives to duty. In order to keep the home neat and pretty, the children well dressed and tidy, women overdo. A female weakness or displacement is often brought on and they suffer in silence, drifting along from bad to worse, knowing well that they ought to have help to overcome the pains and aches which daily make lifea burden, It is to these faithful women that LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S VEGETABLE COMPOUND comes as a boon and a blessing, as it did to Mrs, F. Ellsworth, of Mayville, N. Y., and to Mrs. W.P. Boyd, of Beaver Falls, Pa., who say: “T was not able to do my own work, owing to the female trouble from which I suffered. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege- tableCompound helped me wonderfully, and Iam se wel: that I can do as big a day's work av Lever did. I wish every sick woman vou try it FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty yeers Lydia EK. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, Pas been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflemmation, ulcera- tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bear- ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges- tion,dizziness,or nervous prostration, Why don’t you try it? Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick ‘women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health, tease, Lynn, Mass. PAINT We Need the MONEY Now is your time to buy WALL PAPER CHEAP All must go. Nothing reserved. 30 DAYS REDUCTION SALE, 30 DAYS Complete line of paints, Mixed Paint $1.40 per gal. The Bockenheuser Painting and Decorating Co. 133 SO. 3RD ST. WALL PAPER Official Statement of the Condition of the Commercial Nation'l Bank, 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 Premiums 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 1,234,252.91 $1,787,199.45 The above Statement is Correct. E. D. SWEENEY, CASHIER D. N. FINK, VICE PERSIDEFT. Muskogee Jewelry and Novelay Co. WITH R. A. GIVENS, WATCHMAKER & JEWELER Make the only first class Colored Jewelers in Oklahoma. We carry everything in Jewels, China, Glass ware, Notions and Novelties. We assure you we can't be undersold, as good goods and under selling others is the only key that keeps us busy. "WATCH OUR WINDOWS" Muskogee Jewelry & Novelty Co. 128 S. 2ND ST. R. A. GIVENS, MGR MUS This Company makes absolutely correct abstracts of title. Go there for correct information. Next to Bank of Muskogee, Muskogee, I. T. Insurance Money to Loan H. P. SHOWALTER GENERAL INSURANCE. 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