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VOL. XIII. Owen will Run on His Past RECORD His "Services as a Statesman" to be his Argument for Re-election. TULSA, Okla., Feb. 6.—[Special] In a letter to a personal friend and prominent democrat in Tulsa, United States Senator Robert L. Owen stated that his campaign for re-election will be on his past services as a Senator. He said: "I am not a politician. I went into public life to serve other men, and not myself. My campaign, if I make one, will be on the grounds of my service as a statesman." Senator Owen's activity on the floor of the senate chamber is well known to the people of the entire country. He has championed many movements for the upbuilding and education of humanity and the safetyand preservation of human life. His speeches in congress on the commission form, race conservation, election of United States senators by direct vote of the people, amendment of the National banking laws, department of public health, and other important movements are literary classics a n d have been circulated misexclusively throughout the country. The senator's reply to criticism of Oklahoma and its constitution, and his defense of Arizona a n d his defense of Arizona and New Mexico in replying to President Taft's veto of the stateood bill have won him many warm supporters in Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico. A VERY SAD ENDING. A Negro Woman With a Taint of White Blood Deserts Her Race. The following from Judge Perkin's paper relates a sad story, but only what should be expected: "She was buried in the potter's field; no flowers from loving friends as a token of love and sympathy, scattered their sweet perfume around her bier; no sweet voice, choir nor solemn minister sung her praises to the sinners who stood by and knew the life of shame she led. "She was a beautiful woman, almost white in complexion and almost straight in hair. The law said she was a Negro, but she wanted to be white, and she and her companions boasted that they had nothing for Negro men to do. And last week she died. "When she died, white men of course, were not sought to be her pall bearers, and Negro men refused; even the gambler and thieves in the red light district refused to bear the corpse to the hearse and in the cemetery. They s a i d it should be a white man's burden. And it was not until the body began to purge and endanger the purity of the air around that four husky colored men agreed to act as pall bearers at a dollar each and carried the woman to an unmarked and silent temb. "This is a true and real story of a colored woman who tried to draw the color line on her race."--Guide. It is indeed a sad story and some white man is responsible for the condition. Sometimes there will be a big trial it h---l in which the liberties who make the above conditions on earth will be defendants. We wonder what penalty the high court in hell can have for such libertines. If a microscopic examination could be made of the blood of some of the highest (in social circles) The Muskogee Cimeter. white people of this state the so-called taint of the dark blood from the sunny climes of Africa would be found. Some scientists say that every pair of black eyes came from Africa. (Hence the name of dark eyes or darkeye given the Negro). We don't know whether or not that this is true but we do know that there are lots of Negroes in Muskogee, who have blue and gray eyes and some black and brown and lots of people who claim to be Anglo-Saxon who have coal black eyes and they are the perfection of what most people call beautiful. We leave it to the scientists to say where these most beautiful people belong according to American prejudice and American custom. In our opinion the Supreme Being, called God by the Christians, knows no color. All people with Him are One, but since there is a custom among finite beings that we all by force bow to then the white scientists (there are no black ones in this case) who give an opinion must be taken as an authority. Was she white or Negro? She was so fair that it pleased a white man to enjoy her beauty, to encourage her ambition (a white man was responsible for her existence) and to satisfy his passion and when that time came in life where they should be travelling hand in hand down the western slope of life's steep hillside, when the grim reaper had made his call and one must answer. It is then that he casts her off branded as an outcast to be buried like an animal and seemingly, with no remorse. Such is the life and ending of many an octecon and quadroop, who have pinned their faith to where the major portion of their blood lay. They forget that in this great country of ours one drop of African blood makes a Negro where ninety-nine per cent white blood does not. Make one Anglo-Saxon. Will the poor female moths never learn anything from this lesson. Wewoka Notes Wewoka, Okla., Feby 6, 1912. Miss Virginia Bickford, Wewoka's only colored stenographer, has returned from a visit to her people in Kansas City, Mo. We are indeed, glad to have her with us again. Chapter No. 26, O. E. S. met Friday evening at 2:30 o'clock and held a very delightful and successful session. Mrs. Grace (Penny) Bailey was a pleasant visitor of our town last week. Mr. Elon Ford and family, Mr. Will Vann and family and Mr. Wister Berryhill and family; who have been here for some years; will try farming in Texas t h i s year. They departed from here more than a week ago. Lawyer W. A. E. Bailey who has been one of the correspondents, or reporters from this place for the WAGONER AMERICAN fos about a year, and who is a great booster of "race pride;" has moved to Boley where he hopes to get the patronage of the leading Negroes to help him on his way to fame. On leaving here Lawyer Bailey turned all of his business and clients over to a white lawyer, who, two years ago was a stauneh advocate of the Grandfather's clause" notwithstanding, there are two well prepared colored attorneys in our town. How does that catch you? The Seminole County Colored Teachers' Reading Circle met in Wewoka, Friday, Feby 2, 1912,and rendered the following program: 1. Soug by Reading Circle. 2. Prayer by Rev. Van Horn. 3. Song by Reading Circle. 4. Reading of minutes of previous meeting. 5. Teaching a District School by Prof. E. L. Coffey. 6. How to Teach Geography qy Miss Mamie Bradford. 7. Should Cooking be Taught in the Public Schools? By Miss Blau he Snackleford. 8. Timely remarks by president. Prof. McGrew and other old teachers of the county say that the meeting was the most successful meeting they have witnessed in more that two years. It was certainly well attested. The "Circle" voted to hold its next meeting at Lima, on Friday (March 1, 1912). Every teacher in the country should and ought to be present. The committee on program, viz: Mrs. Anna McGrew, Prof. W. F. Davidsou, and Miss Blanche Shackelford prepared the following program for rendition at Lima, on the first Friday in March. 1. Song by "Circle." 2. Prayer by Chaplain. 3. Song by "Circle." 4. How to Teach a District School, by Prof. E. L. Coffee. 5. How to Teach Geography, by Miss Mamie Bradford. 6. Paper by Miss Ethel Dunlap. 7. The Need of a Colored High School in Seminole County by Prof. Van Horn. 8. Lecture on Tuberculosis by Dr. A. V. Coffey. 9. Response by Prof. Cousin. 10. Closing remarks by President. All parents and especially members of the various School Boards, are cordially invited to attend this meetflg. Lawyer C. E. Corbett, successor to the firm of Bailey & Corbett, has moved his office to the Cone building which has been recently occupied by the Scott & Phillip's Cafe. Some of Wewoka's undesirable citizens are leaving for other towns. God grant that the good work may continue. Dr. A. V. Coffey reports a fine baby girl for Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Berryhill. Reporter. Practical Advice on Howto Succeed, By Henry M. Byllesby. By Henry M. Byllesby. President H. M. Byllesby & Co. No human being can remain stationary: he either advances or retrogrades. Napoleon said of the failure of the Bourbon family: "They never learned any thing and never forgot any thing." You must develop. From day to day you must bring to bear an ever increasing wisdom the application of lessons learned. Every incident of your daily toil should be made an educational incident. The average young man does not learn, until perhaps too late that it does not pay to fritter and idle away his time. Make a study of those who have gone to the head; ascertain what they did in any given emergency. In any emergency a man's conduct is the result of the way in which, from earliest youth, he has met the obstacles he encountered. Thomas A. Edison says: "Do not watch the clock; do not chase aside after rainbows; keep everlastingly at and master the task of the time being." The truly successful man recog- Judge Hook WILL NOT BE APPOINTED TO SUPREME BENCH. He went "too far" in Oklahoma "Jiw Crow" law decision is opinion of President and Attorney General. Negroes all over the country protested the appointment citing Judge Hook's Decision in Oklahoma "Jim Crow" Washington, Feb. 7.—The existing vacancy on the supreme court bench, the fifth that has occurred in the present administration, probably will be filled by the appointment of Secretary of Commerce and Labor Charles Nagel of St. Louis. President Taft is expected to send the nomination of Mr. Nagel to the senate within a few days. United States Judge William C. Hook of Kuasas, who until last night was most prominently mentioned for the vacancy, is asid to have been eliminated from further consideration at an hour's session of the cabinet today. All of the lawyers in the cabinet except Mr. Nagel were present, and afterwards it was learned the president had made clear his intention of appointing his secretary of commerce and labor. This report was so generally credited tonight that rumor was busy with a possible successor to Mr. Nagel in the cabinet. Louis Marshall of New York and Oscar Rosenwalk of Chicago were mentioned among those who would be considered. Judge Hook's name was taken from the president's list today almost at the eleventh hour. This action was said to be due to his concurrence in a "Jim Crow" law decision in an Oklahoma railroad case. Both the president and Attorney General Wickersham are understood to hold the opinion that Judge Hook "went too far" in this case, and Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of the Interior Fisher, the other lawyers present at the cabinet meeting, evidently agreed. Says Hook is Not a Fair Exchange for Harlan—Says Protest of Coolred Citizens of New England Shows Hook's Wide Unpopularity — Middle West Protest Added to New England Protest—The Choice Would Be Unfair to Supreme Court. (Boston Globe, Jan. 24, 1912.) Judge oHok a Load: nizes that, from time to time, he will receive setbacks. T he man who overcomes these is the man of achievement and of eventfu success. Order for Hearing Petition to Sell Real Estate by Guardian. State of Oklahoma Muskogee County, ss. In County Court. No. 1280. In the matter of the guardianship of William L. Foreman, a minor, Aaron Foreman, Guardian. Now on this 25th day of January, 1912, comes Aaron Foreman as the guardian of the estate of the above named ward having filed herein his petition for the sale of the real estate of said ward for the reasons in said petition stated. It is ordered that said petition be and hereby is set for hearing on the 26th day of February, A.D., 1912, at 2 o'clock p. m., at the County Court Room in Muskogee, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, at which time the next of kin and all persons interested in the estate of said ward are required to appear and show cause, if any they have, why an order should not be granted for a sale of so much of the real estate of said ward as is necessary for the reasons in said petition stated. It is further ordered that a copy of this order be published once a week for two successive weeks in the Muskogee Climeter of Muskogee, THOS. W. LEAHY, County Judge. Dated this 25th day of January, 1912. law 'case The protest of certain Colored citizens of New England against the nomination of Judge Hook to be a justice of the supreme court illustrates the wide unpopularity of this gentleman. Heretofore the Middle West has furnished most of the objections, but the opposition there is based on decisions alleged to be friendly to corporations, while the New England protest is founded on a decision said to be unfriendly to the privilege of Negroes in dining or sleeping cars. It may well be questioned whether the President will feel himself justified in nominating a man who i sso generally in disfavor. To select a man who must enter office lacking public confidence would be unfair to the supreme court. A Hook for a Harlan is hardly a fair exchange. Protest of Hook by New England Suffrage and National Independent Political League of Mass. To the President, Wm. H. Taft, Sir: Inasmuch as Colored citizens of the United States are notoriously deprived by certain states of the same rights which all other citizens enjoy, in violation of the federal constitutional prohibition of such denial, the protection for them of those equal rights of citizenship without which citizens are deprived of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ultimately rests with the federal supreme court. Colored citizens thus having more at stake in the personnel of this court than other citizens, their protest against a proposed appointee, if based on adequate evidence shoul dof all be heeded by the President, the appointing power, sworn also to uphold the constitution. The officers of the New England Suffrage League and of the Massachusetts Branch of the National Political League in call meeting assembled on Jan. 20, 1912, protest to President Wm. H. Taft in behalf of Colored citizens in particular against the appointment of Judge Wm. C. Hook to the federal supreme court on the ground that he has shown as a judge strong prejudice ag aitneqsetaoishrdununu dice against equal rights and privileges for Colored citizens with white in interstate travel in the decision handed down by him in McCabe vs. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. (Federal Reports 186), in which he upheld the Jim-Crow car law of Oklahoma, Judge Sanborn dissenting, upheld color segregation for interstate travellers, ruled against identical service and explicitly upheld the denial altogether of chair cars, dining car and sleeping car service for Colored passengers. In. this decision Judge Hook, as a justice of the circuit court of appeals in the 8th district, said: "Separate coaches or compartments equal in all points of comfort and convenience must be carried on each trip, but sleeping cars, dining cars, and chair cars, comparatively speaking luxuries and properly enough no such imperative provisions are made concerning them as concerning the common and indispensable coach or compartment, the legislature having in mind, NO.35. ook UPREME BENCH. Crow" law de- Attorney Gen- try protested age Hook's Crow" doubtless, what we judicially know, that the ability of the two races to indulge in luxuries, comforts and conveniences was so dissimilar that sleeping and dining cars, which would be well patronized by one race might be very little if at all by the other and legislated accordingly. We conclude in view of these and other like conditions that the principle of equality of service contemplated similarity of service and this only when conditions and circumstances under which it is required are substantially the same." Any man who as judge rendered a decision so un-American, undemocratic, contrary to the very spirit and letter of the constitution in its 14th article, a decision based on race and color discrimination, based on money, on the wealth of a race to deny equal privileges to an individual, is unfit to be the final arbiter of the rights under the law of ten million Colored citizens. Especially would it be a gross injustice for the prudent to appoint him to the seat of Justice Harlan, the only positive champion of equal rights for Colored citizens in the court. White House Acknowledges. My Dear Sir: Your telegram of the 22nd instant and the protest referred to therein against the appointment of William C. Hook to the supreme court have been received and will be called to the attention of the president. CHARLES D. HILLES Secy. to the President. Mr. Wm. H. Trotter, President, New England Suffrage League, 21 Cornhill, Boston, Mass. The Colored people of the United States have been strong and determined in their efforts to defeat the appointment of Judge Hook. The Colored people of Oklahoma joined vigorously in the protest against the appointment. All of this shows that the Colored Americans do not forget their enemies. COLORED CLERGY OF WASHINGTON OPPOSE JUDGE HOOK. Evangelical Alliance, Rev. J. M. Waldron, President, Adopted Resolutions—Hook Favored the Jim-Crow Cars. (Special to the Guardian.) Washington, D. C., Jan. 24.—The following from the Daily Post of this city speaks largely for itself: The Evangelical Ministers' Alliance of Washington, at Ebenezer M. E. church yesterday, adopted a resolution protesting against the appointment of Judge Hook to the United States supreme court as successor to the late Justice Harlan. It was said that Judge Hook once rendered a decision denying Negroes equal accommodations in railway travel. This organization is composed of leading Colored ministers, Rev. J. M. Waldron, president. F. H. M. M. THE CIMETER. W. M. TWINE Editor. A. J. SMITHERMAN. MANAGER Muskegee, Okla. Published Every Week in the interest of the Negro by the Climeter Publishing Co. Entered at the Postoffice at Muskegee, Okla., as Second Class Mail Matter. It will be possible to elect Republican officials in Muskogee this Spring unless the white Republicans with their continual factional fights and attempts to get even with each other make such a condition that the rank and file will pay no attention to them when they call the battle on. ♦ ♦ ♦ The third congressional District is Republican by a nice majority. This was demonstrated when Mr. Creager was elected to office by a substantial majority. Every body voted at the election and there was no discrimination between the white, black and red. At the next election the democrats got in their work with their Grand Father clause and Mr. Creager was defeated. This goes to show that with the Negro vote the Republicans can win, and without it they loose. Yet there are some Republicans who are such damphools that they want to base the election of delegates to a convention on the vote cast in 1910, instead of that cast at the prior election. This says plainly to us that the kind of Republicans above referred to is in favor of the grand father clause, and wants to use it in Republican conventions to exclude the Negro from participating. Such a cuss is a thousand folds worse than a democrat, and from a political stand point is not worth three whoops in the Plutonian region. *** The Negroes of Muskogee and vicinity will give a "Linecoln Day Banquet" on the 12th day of this month. It will not be a partisan affair as no one will be excluded on account of his politics or religion. This is one common ground where all Negroes regardless of their political affiliations can meet together and part without having a row. Every participant will be entitled to a speech if he so desires. The affair will be first class in every particular and even a preacher can attend because there will be no liquids there except water, at least that is our information and belief. ```markdown ``` Ex-Governor Haskell has sold out the Inter-Urban Railway that connects Muskogee with Ft. Gibson, Oklahoma, and will now proceed to build from Ft. Gibson to Talequah, Okla. The Governor is also a candidate for the U. S. Senate, and it is reported he will dam Grand river. Now, you talk about a strenuous life, a man who buys out for one year's work to build a rail road, to capture a seat in the U. S. Senate, sometimes known as the American House of Lords and to "dam" a river is certainly going it rapidly, but that is the way we do things in the great West. ```markdown ``` We hope to see a man nominated for Congress in this District who will be able to get in the game early enough to cure all sore spots that follow in the way of all conventions. An early convention is the proper dope if the party wants to win a victory. Let all the candidates prepare themselves, make their fights and abide the results. This ought to be done in April or May, or sometime before the National convention. It is a settled fact that the Negro will vote for Congress this fall, but just how he will vote depends a great deal on who are the candidates. ```markdown ``` The recent discovery of coal in the Concharty mountains in Wagoner county, the discovery of oil in the southeastern part of Muskogee county and the Cherokee nation east of here, and the mineral discoveries in McIntosh county have put eastern Oklahoma on a boom and every acre of land that is on the market in those counties is worth many times the value asked for it. The mineral developments in this country have just commenced, and the future will show that investments made in this country now will pay big dividends hereafter. ```markdown ``` As a rule it is not good for a preacher to dabble in politics. He stands on a higher plain than the men of any other profession and must play his part of the game on that high plain. The very moment he stoops to become active in the support of some individual candidate and comes in contact with the ward healer and bum politician, then Mr. Preacher is liable to allow his ministerial robe to trail in the mud. He will learn that in a convention that Sabbath School decorum is not maintained. The association and the mixing that Mr. Preacher will have to do will certainly lower his standard of morals and when he shall have finished one campaign he will not be fit to go back into the pulpit. Oh, no Mr. Preacher, I wouldn't swop my job for that of a lower calling. ♦ ♦ ♦ There is a new town being established in Oklahoma, about twelve miles southwest of Muskogee, known as University Heights. It is destined to be one of the best Negro towns in the South. It has the backing of one of the strongest religious organizations known of that kind, and it also has the financial backing of the promoters who stand ace high in the financial world, and who are financially able to carry out any project they may foster. This paper will carry the advertisement for the University Heights Company which will explain in detail the purposes of said company. This paper is the official paper for University Heights and all agents for the city will be agents for this paper. Rev. D. G. Franklin, general agent for the company will be general agent for this paper and has authority to appoint local agents. From week to week items of interest touching University Heights will appear in this paper. Every purchaser of a lot in University Heights should subscribe for this paper. + + + We have always fought on different sides from L. G. Disney in our political warfare, otherwise we have been friendly, but we want to give Disney credit for being a hard fighter and a smooth article generally. He succeeded in getting himself appointed a member of the congressional committee for Muskogee county at a time if an election would have been held by a convention there would have been L to pay. Disney certainly put one over the fellows before any one had a chance to wake up and say I object. It was done so smoothly and so quietly that it shows conclusively that h a t a master hand in playing the political game was dealing the cards. We like any fellow who is game even if we have to lick him every day in the week. Disney can always be found where the battle is most fierce, where Me Gregor sits---is the head of the table. In this game all that the Negro asks is a square deal, and the other fellow must grant it or there will be hell to pay hereafter. We don't think it will be necessary or that there will be any fights of a serious nature in the coming conventions. We tip our hat to you. Disney, and say we hope it won't be necessary for us to cross swords with you at any time in the future; but if we do it will be political and not personal. Notice of Application for Tax Deed To R. Banks, the owner of the fol- lowing described real estate, situated in Muskegee County, Oklahoma; Lot 15, Black 30, College Heights Addition to Taft, Oklahoma. You are hereby notified that the undersigned is the holder of Tax Sale Certificate No. 2122, issued on the 13th day of December. A. D. 1909, on the above described property, and unless redemption be made from said sale within sixty days after service of this notice, a tax deed will be demanded and will be issued as provided by law. WM. ALFORD, Holder of Certificate. Owl Column. A wise old owl lived in an oak The more he saw, the less he spoke. The less he spoke the more he heard. Why can't we be like that wise old bird? WHO! WHO!! IF YOU- ARE WISE READ THE CIMETER Dar am jest two ways to do any thing; de right way en de 'rong way. Ef it aint right it must be rong. De Owl seed er married man flirting wid er ex-married woman. Better stop it. Don't dis burd tell your name. Di burd har er old woman 'bout 46 years old say she only 29. Too old fer dat foolishness granie. Yer face tell on you. De doctor what tries to be high class en don't know how is a sad misfit. Now girls, really, you would be very attractive maybe, if you was not so silly. Preachers, like other folks have their place in society and the sooner they learn it and stick to it the better for Society and the preachers too. Dis burd wonders if de preacher what made a rep fighting immorality in de public schools am goin to take vantage of it and shield one who is in his flock. Dis burd am on your trail elder Steer clar. Have you noticed women on the streets during the coldest weather with big furs and coats on and yet wearing extremely low neck dresses or waists and low quarter shoes with thin stockings? "What fools these mortals be!" The owl hurd er man say dat when yer build er brick bildin yer must have some bats, en dat yer mus have bats in de church en in de lodges and dat if yer hab no bats den yer mus brake er good brik en make er bat outer it; hence dar am use fer bats; eben de alley bat bab er place fill but dis burd am posed ter making alley bats outen good brick. See? NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. In the Superior Court of Muskogee In the Superior Court of Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma: Hallie J. Murchison, Plaintiff, vs. Leslie J. Murchison, Defendant. No. 2086 The defendant, Leslie J. Murchison, will take notice that he has been sued in the above named Court by the plaintiff, Hallie J. Murchison, for divorce and custody of her child, Oliver J. Murchison, and that unless he answer the petition of the plaintiff on or before the first day of March, 1912 the allegations set forth in said petition will be taken as confessed and judgment rendered accordingly. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand as Clerk of the Superior Court and affixed the seal thereof, this the 15th day of January, 1912 BORNIE TOMMER By E. C. Gilliland, Deputy Clerk, W. Scott Brown, Jr., Attorney for Plaintiff. State of Oklahoma, Muskogee County—as. Be it remembered that on this 9th day of January, 1912, before V. O. Moutray, a Notary Public in and for said County and State, came William A. Bryant and Andrew L. Bryant, who are personally known to me to be the same persons who executed the above instrument and having duly acknowledged to me that they executed same as their free act and deed for the purposes therein set forth. Witness my hand at Muskogee, in said County and State this 9th day of January, 1912. V. O. MOUTRAY. Notary Public. My commission expires on the 5th day of January, 1915. (SEAL) Muskogee Harness and BUGGY C0. BUYERS OF HARNESS GOODS. We would like to have you visit our store We have prices that will interest you Come in and let us show you What's the use of ordering your buggies, Harness, Saddles, Etc., from outsiders when you can get better goods, better prices and Better Terms Here at Home. USKOGEE HARNESS & BUGGY CO Wholesale and Retail Dealers and Manufacturers of ANYTHING IN THE LEATHER LINE FINE REPAIRING. Carrying Lamps From Room to Room is Dangerous. The kerosene lamp has a long list of accidents to its disreedit. It is so easy to trip and fall while carrying a lighted lamp---- then fire and personal injury. How much safer and satisfactory is the use of ELECTRIC LIGHT. The pressing of a button----any hour of the night----gives you plenty of light IN ANY ROOM OF YOUR HOME. The cost of equipping your home for electric is not great. 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If no objections be filed on or before the said 24th day of February, 1912, the petition will be heard and a decree of dissolution entered as prayed for in the petition. Dated this 22nd day of January 1912. ROBT. TOOMER, Clerk By J. S. QUIRK, Deputy. SEAL. Why send your money away from home when you can get more for it here? Muskogee Harness & Buggy Co. 117 So. Main Buy your buggies and harness at home. Muskogee Harness & Buggy Co. 117 So. Main. Why send your money away from home when you can get more for it here? Muskogee Harness & Buggy Co. 117 So. Main. ORDER FOR HEARING ETITION TO SELL REAL ESTATE BY GUARDIAN. STATE OF OKLAHOMA ALASKA CITY In the Matter of the Guardianship of Ellen, Manuel, an Incompetent Now on this 16th day of January, 1912, comes George F. Nave as the guardian of the estate of the above named ward having filed herein his petition for the sale of the real estate of said ward for the reasons in said petition stated. 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POPE. time the next of kin and all persons interested in the estate of said ward are required to appear and show cause, if any they have, why an order should not be granted for a sale of so much of the real estate of said ward as is necessary for the reasons in said petition stated. It is further ordered that a copy of this order be published for two successive weeks in the Muskogee Cimeter of Muskogee, Oklahoma. THOS. W. LEAHY, County Judge. Dated this 16th day of January, 1912. Certificate of Partnership. Be it known, that William A. Bryant and Andrew L. Bryant of the city of Muskogee, O. in the business Market, in the Oklahoma, under the Brothers, said partnership date of July, 1910, a business is located avenue in Oklahoma, and partners belong ship. Dated this 9th WILLIAM ANDRE Send me ```markdown ``` --- TELEPHONE 3415. MRS. A. M. POPE 4 years ago my hair was only a finger length and my temples were bald half way up my head. MUSKOGEE, OKLA. The Original HAIR GROWERS We Grew our Hair Now Let us Grow Yours With TRADE MARK Registered. 3100 Pine Street, St. Louis, Mo. of Muskogee, Oklahoma, are engaged in the business of Grocery and Meat Market, in the city of Muskogee, Oklahoma, under the firm name of Bryant Brothers, said partnership is a general partnership dating from the 10th day of July, 1910, and that their place of business is located at No. 558 Altarmont avenue in the city of Muskogee, Oklahoma, and that there are no other partners belonging to said partnership. Dated this 9th day of January, 1912. WILLIAM A. BRYANT, ANDREW L. BRYANT. Lawyers and Real Estate Men. Firm of BROWN & STEWAI. R. Emmit. Stewart and Geo. W. P. Brown. 212-213 Carter Building. H. T. WALKER, Attorney at Law. Notary Public. Room 20, Brown Bldg. R. T. THOMPSON, Dealer in Real Estate. Office—Room 20, Brown Bldg. W. SCOTT BROWN, Attorney at Law. Room 14 Brown Bldg. ATTORNEY W. H. TWINE. Office Phone 143. Res. Phone 1337 Office 211 S. 2nd S., Masonic Bldg. To Mary Bell, the owner of the following described real estate, situated in Muskogee County, Oklahoma: Lot 23, Block 30, College Heights Addition to Taft, Oklahoma. You are hereby notified that the undersigned is the holder of Tax Sale Certificate No. 2123, issued on the 13th day of December, A. D. 1910, on the above described property, and unless redemption be made from said sale within sixty days after service of this notice, a tax deed will be demanded and will be issued as provided by law. WM. ALFORD, Holder of Certificate. FOR SALE—One share in the Union Industrial Association; par value, $25. Call at the Cimeter office for further particulars. That T. D. Editorial. The Times-Democrat is much in need of an editorial writer. A man not suffering from cerebro-negrophobia. That terrible disease which seems to be peculiar to the editorial sanctum of our famous contemporary, the T. D. The editorial on the fine sensibilities of a certain district Judge which appeared in the Times Democrat one day this week would have been admissable had the writer's ignorance not cropped out through his last few words touching the Negroes of Oklahoma. The writer boasted of the fact that this judge would not allow Negroes to sit on juries and said he didn't know of a white man in all of Oklahoma who did not approve this action. How many do you know who think it right for a judge who is paid by the tax payers of the state to thus discriminate against American citizens solely because of color? It should be remembered that Negroes in Oklahoma are heavy tax payers and as such contribute largely to the public funds which makes it possible for District judges as well as other public officers, and if the colored people are to be made to bear their part of the public expense and yet denied the privilege of realizing any of the benefit thereof. Then it seems to us that the white daily papers should be last to boast of such deplorable conditions. "We are men for a' that." The Iron Mountain is the fifth trunk line to en t er Muskogee. Building sky scrapers and getting rail roads seems to be the order of the day in this city. LOST---Old time gold ladies' brooch, oval ruby in center. Reward will be paid and no questions asked. I return to 1691 Cincinnati. Phone 1627. The amended call sets the congressional convention for March 14, 1912, at Tulsa. Some change in the original call was made but the most objectionable feature placed therein by Cochran still remains. It will be the largest convention ever held in the district. Harmony in a big convention acts just as in a little convention. Judge Hook's name is scratched from the slate and Charles Nagle goes on. Score one for the Boston Guardian. The Negroes of the country were against Hook and stood up and said so in the open. The Times Democrat said that Big Jim Harris won the game at Wagoner. The Phoenix says that both Jim and Disney w o n and there is perfect harmony. Any how we are glad there is harmony and that all factions can join hand and fight the enemy. With Jim Harris and L. G. Disney both fighting together we just can't loose. Harmony is a great thing in this political game. N. J. TUCKER, Jr. In Town. A fine nine pound baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Tucker Friday evening. Feb by and. There was never any two people more jubilant over the arrival of their first born than the young father and mother of this new citizen. Already the little fellow has been named for the greatest man in the United States in the opinion of the young mother, which of course, is denied by the proud father. Anyhow, be it known now that there is an N. J. Tucker, Jr. in town. Another Arrival. Just as we go to press we are informed that a healthy baby girl has been born to Mr. and Mrs. E. N. 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Trey, O.. Continuing the discussion of nature's answer to man's race question, Mr. Horce J. Rollin, author of *Youth Sagat*, which some critics call radical yet adequate as a pioneer sketch of the great question of racial phenomena, says: Such phenomena must be interpreted in a way consistent with man's nature. If he is capable of development, if he shall attain the status through struggle or through groups that are seemingly or for one time, degrading; if he is moving from the simple to the complex as to organization, if universal movement tends to unite existence, then social interchange, with elimination of peculiar characteristics, has made its appearance as a phase of infinite order and for the benefit of future man. As to the state of integrity, we have mentioned primitive "offish" instinct as having had profound normal value. Temporary segregation has insured the process of developing peculiar specific qualities, at certain periods, in this or that environment, necessary to the cosmopolitan of the future. But the products of nature inevitably undergo change, and if not used to establish advanced forms and expressions they are disintegrated as so much common material. Racial characteristics—as the "types" present them to popular gaze—attained full growth so long ago that modifications more or less marked have necessarily appeared. Modern conditions bring new relative positions. Extensive geographical unclistribution of types has resulted from the overcoming of such natural barriers as great rivers, seas, mountain chains and deserts. For multitudes, this means different air, food, scene, thought and feeling—new elements that vary aspiration itself. The physiognomy is remodeled, irrespective of new lineage. Even if there were no fusion, the types could not remain the same nor so much unlike. Advancement lies in reasonable selection—this is as true of admirable human makeup as it is of efficient mechanisms. It is not in order to say that any one is "in favor" of this phenomenon. No one declares that Newton was in favor of the law of gravitation. He called attention to it quite innocently; the spectator was not advised to climb a tall tree and then let go his hold, in order to test the readiness of the discovered law. Franklin perceived the power of "lightning" to help or harm the individual. Those who fancied that he "induced if" doubtless associated him with its ugly aspects. No one who comprehends the raison d'etre of the new philosophy desires to see the movement unreasonably accelerated. A morbidity would follow, the counterpart of race hatred itself. Acknowledgment of the truth is certainly not a letting down of the burs to indiscriminate, ill advised mating. It is time, however, for comprehensive information. Increased knowledge means increased circumspection, the best protection for the individual. We should look at the past with improved vision. Some matings involving the racial interchange of cruder times—once declared brutal and immoral—must have had the psychic element. This is attested by a fair proportion of the living record. The composite must be considered in a way which will defend him and also we ourselves against self degradation. Thus even where custom and ordinary law have been ignored by the ancestors psychic force comes spontaneously to remove mysterious temporary sigma. Nature provides increasing kinship, even to those of delayed development, and extending fusion is rendered less and less objectionable, with wider scope for happy selection. This is no more a mere theory than is the law book of the marvelous production of new stock, fruits and flowers. We are reminded to mention a book which authoritatively points to the crossing of types as a means of producing the superior map of the future. "The Training of the Human Plant" (The Country, company, 1907). We predicted that Mr. Burbank must arrive at this conclusion. This infinite workman, who makes high philosophy tangible, had in mind the same principle of exequa- of needed values with which he is so familiar in plant life. The Tuskegee Annual Conference. At the recent annual conference of colored farmers held at the Tuskegee Ala. institute reports were read which showed that during 1911 the colored farmers contributed half a billion dollars' worth of produce to the wealth of the south. Dr Booker T Washington in his usual diplomatic way asked how much of this amount remains in the bank and in homes to the credit of the race. The conference was attended by a large number of white farmers and other business men CONVICTION IN THEATER CASE If you are a wide awake, energetic hustler, this means you. Many men and women have made their fortunes by selling town lots. You may do the same. Write Heavy Blow Against Discrimination on Account of Color CIVIL RIGHTS LAW ENFORCED. Vigilance Committee of National Association Secures the Conviction of a New York Theater Official For Violation of the Law—Victory For the Whole Race. Hard Work without investment of savings never made a man rich. Use Your Brains and invest in our oil iands. All wealth comes from land. Taneha-Gleen Pool fields have produced over $90,000,000 worth of oil---wells still producing. Greatest Opportunity to share in developing the best prospective Oil Land proposition in the best locality on this continent. Agents Wanted A Proposition You Can Sell Your Friend. Write to the NORTH TANEHA DEVELOPMENT CO. MUSKOGEE, OKLA. New York.—The New York vigilance committee, an organization composed of representative white and colored citizens of New York city and of which Mr. Glychrist Stewart is chairman and Professor J. E. Splungarn is secretary and treasurer, recently secured the first conviction ever had in New York state for violation of the civil rights bill. The New York vigilance committee was organized for active prosecution of all infringements of the legal rights of the colored man and has permanent headquarters at 26815 West One Hundrew and Thirty-fifth street. It was necessary to have an organized protest against racial discrimination in order to combat the increasing number of outrages against colored men and women and to make effective the laws of the state which guarantee them equal rights. This organization has tackled the problem of police discrimination against prisoners and their unjust arrest on trivial offenses, their maitreatment offen on their way to the station, and has, through the co-operation of Police Commissioner Rinelander Waldo, secured equal protection and justice to colored prisoners as is given to all others. No longer is a colored prisoner or citizen misused by a policeman in the city of New York. Next it took up the question of certain localities where gangs were in the habit of insulting colored people when in their locality. These gangs were dispersed. Write O. HUDSON, Land Agent. Albuquerque, New Mexico. Box 193. The Rio Grande Valley. The Land of Sunshine. Now it is vigorously attacking the custom of discrimination in public places- restaurants, theaters, hotels and cafes. It has brought a number of successful suits against these places to enforce the civil rights law. A custom had been growing in New York city to refuse colored people seats in the orchestra of the theaters. In a test case which was brought by the committee Harry A. Levy, assistant treasurer of the Lyric theater, was convicted of a misdemeanor for excluding a colored man and young lady from the orchestra seats of his theater. Why not help to keep all this money in Oklahoma and do your neighbor a kindness by getting him to insure with The State Mutual Insurance Company of Oklahoma City. Losses Paid Dec. 31, 1910. $ 198,665.80 Premiums Saved Policy Holders over 200,000.00 A COMPANY WITH A LEGAL RESERVE FUND. Prompt Payment of Losses. Sound and Strong. Farm Loan Companies accept our Policies. See SEWARD & BOYD, Room 214. Mid Continent Building. He offered to exchange the seats for two in the balcony, but this was refused. After a hard drawn out legal fight, conducted by Hon. Charles S. Whitman, the district attorney, through Mr. James A. Smith, as assistant, who had immediate charge of the case, and Attorney Charles H. Studin, one of the advisory legal counsel of the committee, this first conviction criminally under the statute of New York city had a startling effect upon prejudiced conditions. All of the daily papers of New York gave it wide prominence. The committee is fulfilling its purposes of coping with the constant increase of discrimination and violence against colored men and women in this city. FOR WOMEN @GIRLS. For the benefit of the ladies of Muskogee we are prepared to do the best work of its kind. Hair Dressing, Facial Massage, Shampooing and Scalp Treatment a Specialty. Call or phone The discrimination has manifested itself in numerous ways in all places of public accommodation and even in the administration of justice, and it is of the highest importance that an organized effort be made to maintain the civil rights of all citizens regardless of race or color. 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Ask your doctor about Big Loss to Members of the Race. Through the complete failure of the Metropolitan Mercantile and Realty company in New York upward of 5,000 Afro-Americans will lose $500,000, according to a recent report.