Muskogee Cimeter

No. 49 Vol. 18 The following officers were elected at the Grand Lodge Masons this week: Attorney K. E. Stewart, Grand Master; Prof. Hall of Hennessey, Deputy Grand Master; Prof. N. J. Ceasar of Shawnee, Secretary; R. N. Watkins, of Enterprise, re-elected Grand Treasurer; W. H. Twine of Muskogee, re-elected secretary of Burial Association; Sam Jordan, Treasurer M. E. A.; Lon McNeill of Eufaula, re-elected secretary Masonic Benefit Association. Minor offices to be filled by Grand Master later. De owl was settling on a limb on Hartford street when a braider put a "hicky" on his ole 'oman's hed cose she wudden gib him sum of de money she was kepting fud him. He raised a big "nigger mess," but he cudent git dot little sis to vide up. Deys curtenly lobbing now, since re fite.—Tulsa Daily Star. EDITOR SMITHERMAN ASKS GOV. ERNOR TO PUNISH DEWEY MOB. SAYS MOB RULE IS WORSE THAN KAISERISM. Mothers of Boys Who Are Fighting in France Made Homeless By Hell-Hounds in Dewey Mob EDITOR'S TELEGRAM GETS FAVORABLE CONSIDERATION. As usual, Editor A. J. Smitherman has stepped forward to a position in the front ranks to make a stand in defense of the race and has put the vital question squarely up to the chief executive of the state in a telegram sent to him by the editor last night, protesting against the action of the mob that burned 21 Colored homes in Dewey Sunday night following the killing of an officer of Dewey by a Negro of bad reputation. The mob, numbering some 500, being unable to catiate their murderous desire for blood of the slayer, turned and marched like so many cowardly, brutal uns or any other kind of soulless animal, on the Colored section of the town and driving all the Colored inhabitants out burned 21 of their homes. A blood curdling story is told of several elderly Coloredwomen, all made homeless by the mob, making their way afoot out of the Kaiserized town. They were seen early Monday morning fatigued, hungry and foot sore, sitting beside the road with heavy souls and tear-bedimmed eyes, homeless by decree of a mob in our boasted "land of the free and home of the brave," praying for their sons who are fighting for their country in France. Is this the brand of democracy that our proud white brothers are wont to boast of and for which our own boys are sacrificing their all on the battle field of Europe? Editor Smitherman's telegram in full follows: Tulsa, Okla., Aug. 13, 1918. Hon. R. L. Williams, Governor of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. "Dear Governor: Sunday night, August 11, in Dewey, Oklahoma, the homes of 21 Colored American citizens were destroyed by incendiary flames in the hands of a mob and the Colored inhabitants of that town driven out by the same mob. The cause given for this outrage against the law, against democracy, if you please, was the killing earlier in the day of one of the officers of Dewey by a Negro of bad reputation. "The action of the mob rendered many good worthy citizens homeless and destroyed thousands of dollars worth of property from which the county and the state exacted taxes. At this time of our national crisis, while our black boys, along side of our white boys, are fighting, bleeding and dying on the shell-plowed battle fields of France for the principles of democracy, surely The Muskogee Cimeter. we will not desecrate the cause for which they are giving their life blood by permitting the mob rule, which is worse than Kaiserism, to steal from us here at home all the essence of a true democracy. "In the name of the law, in the name of right, in the name of democracy, in the name of our country, in the name of God, I am using this means to urge you, as governor of this great state, to use the power of your high office and your personal influence to punish the members of this mob in order that the morale of our boys in France may not be disturbed and that the unquestionable loyalty and faith of our people here at home may not be shaken. May I expect an immediate reply? Yours very truly, A. J. SMITHERMAN." and personal services, as required by law. ENLOE V. VERNOR, County Judge. Dated this 10th day of August, 1918. H. T. WALKER, Attorney for Guardian. Boley Gets Negro Fair The Negro Industrial State Fair will hold its annual fair at Boley, Oklahoma, beginning on Wednesday, September 25th, and will continue in session for four days, closing on the 28th day of September at midnight. The Fair Association is trying to demonstrate to the world that the Negroes of the State of Okla. GOVERNOR WILLIAMS MAKES REPLY. Editor Smitherman today received the following telegram from the governor: Oklahoma ity, Aug. 14. A. J. Smitherman, Tulsa, Oklahoma: Referring to your telegram of the 13th, I have wired county attorney to investigate and report instantum. I have also wired District Judge to cause investigation to be made. R. L. WILLIAMS, NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. In the Superior Court of Muskogee ounty, State of Oklahoma. Joseph L. Mathes, Plaintiff, vs. No. 7455. Leander Mathes, Defendant. The State of Oklahoma to the Defendant, Leander Mathes. Greetings: The defendant.- Leander Mathes, will take notice that she has been sued in the above name. Court by the plaintiff, Joseph L. Mathes, for divorce, and that unless she answer the petition of the plaintiff, Joseph L. Mathes alleging abandonment and adultery on or before the 4th day of October, 1918, 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 and affixed the seal of said Superior ours this the 17th day of August, 1918. NOTICE TO THE NEGRO PUBLIC OF STATE OF OKLAHOMA. ORDER FOR HEARING PETITION TO SELL REAL ESTATE BY GUARDIAN. State of Oklahoma, County of Muskogee—ss. In County Court. No. 2104 State. In the matter of the guardian- ship of Mamie Primmer, a minor. Now on this 10th day of August, 1918, comes Howard King, 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 9th day of September, A. D. 1918, at 10 o'clock a. m., 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 for three successive weeks in the Muskogee Cineter, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, and by posting notices in three public places in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, and personal services, as required by law. ENLOE V. VERNOR, County Judge. Dated this 10th day of August, 1913. H. T. WALKER. Attorney for Guardian. Boley Gets Negro Fair The Negro Industrial State Fair will hold its annual fair at Boley, Oklahoma, beginning on Wednesday, September 25th, and will continue in session for four days, closing on the 28th day of September at midnight. The Fair Association i trying to demonstrate to the world that the Negroes of the State of Oklahoma are making more progress than in any other State in the union, and that Oklahoma can do things that probably no other citizenship of our nationality in the United States is capable of accomplishing. There will be amusements of all kinds and exhibits of live stock and agricultural products such as never been gotten together before by the Negroes of this State. We hope to be able to secure the presence of the Honorable Governor of the State of Oklahoma to deliver a naddress during the fair. Everybody is earnestly urged to come out to this fair. J. COODY JOHNSON. VILSON PLEADS THAT YNCHING BE ABOLISHED. President Issues Letter to Countrymen Urging That Law Be Respected. MOBS AND HUN PROPAGANDA. Lynch Law Pointed to as Proof That America's Democracy Is Sham. Washington, July 26.—President Wilson today in a personal statement addressed to his fellow countrymen, denouncing mob spirit and mob action, called upon the nation to show the world that, while it fights for democracy on foreign fields, it is not destroying democracy at home. The president referred not done to mob action against those suspected of being enemy aliens or enemy sympathizers; he denounced most emphatically mob action of all sorts, especially lynchings, and while he did not refer specifically to lynchings of Negroes in the south, it is known that he included them in his characterization of mob spirit as "a blow at the heart of ordered law and humane justice." Mobs Aid Propagandists. It is known that the lynchings of Negroes, as well as attacks upon those suspected of being enemies or sympathizers, have been used by the German propaganda throughout entral and South America as well as in Europe, to contend that the pretensions of the United States as a champion of democracy are a sham. Deeply concerned by the situation, the president decided to address his fellow countrymen and to declare that "every mob contributes to German lies about the United States what her most gifted liars cannot improve upon by way of calumny." The president's statement in full follows: "My Fellow Countrymen: "I take the liberty of addressing you upo na subject which so vitally affects the honor of the nation and the very character and integrity of our institutions that I trust you will think me justified in speaking very plainly about it. 'A Blow at Justice. "I allude to the mob spirit which has recently here and there very frequently shown its head amongst us, not in any single region, but in many and widely separated parts of the country. There have been many lynchings ```markdown ``` and every one of them has been a blow at the heart of ordered law and humane justice. No man who loves America, no man who really cares for her fame and honor and character, or who is truly loyal to her institutions, can justify mob action while the courts of justice are open and the governments of the states and the nation are ready and able to do their duty. "We are at this very moment fighting lawless passion. Germany has outlawed herself among the nations because she has disregarded the sacred obligations of law and has made lynchers of her armies. Lynchers emulate her disgraceful example. I for my part am anxious to see every community in America rise above that level, with pride and a fixed resolution which no man or set of men can afford to despise. Lunchers No True Pariots. "We proudly claim to be the champions of democracy. If we really are, in deed and in truth, let us see to it that we do not discredit our own. I say plainly that every American who takes part in the actio not a mob or gives any sort of countenance is no true son of this great democracy, but its betrayer and does more to discredit her by that single disloyalty to her standards of law and of right than the words of her statesmen or of the sacrifices of her heroic boys in the trenches can do to make suffering peoples believe her to be their saviour. How shall we recommend democracy to the acceptance of other peoples, if we disgrace our own by proving that it is, after all, no protection to the weak? Every mob contributes to German lies about the United States what her most gifted liars cannot improve upon by the way of calumny. They can at least say that such things cannot happen in Germany except in times of revolutions, when law is swept away. "I therefore very earnestly and solemnly beg that the governors of all the states, the law officers of every community, and, above all, the men and women of every community in the United States, all who revere America and wish to keep her name without stain or reproach, will cooperate—not passively merely, but actively and watchfully to make an end of this disgraceful evil. It cannot live where the community does not countenance it. Keep Laws Inviolate. "I have called up onto the nation to put its great energy into this war and it has responded—responded with a spirit and a genius for action that has thrilled the world. I now call upon it, upo nits men and women everywhere, to see to it that its laws are kept inviolate, its fame unfarnished. Let us show our utter contempt for the things that have made this war hideous among the wars of history by showing how those who love liberty and right and justice and are willing to lay down their lives for them upon foreign fields satnd ready also to illustrate to all mankind their loyalty to the things at home which they wish to see established everywhere as a blessing and protection to the peoples who have never known the privileges of liberty and self-government. "I can never accept any man as a champion of liberty either for ourselves or for the world who does not reverence and obey the laws of our own beloved land whose laws we ourselves have made. He has adopted the standards of the enemies of his country whom he affects to despise. "WOODROW WILSON." CREEK PAYMENT TAKES NEARLY ALL RESOURCES. Equalization of Allotments Will Leave Comparatively Little Tribal Property. Final closing up of the affairs of the Creek Indians will be brought much nearer to a reality by the distribution of the $1,900,-000 to be paid out in the near future in equalizing allotments on a basis of $852. I nfact, the coming payment will be the last big payment the Creeks will ever get, so far as can be now forecast. With the exception of the council building at Okmulgee, 89 town lots in Muskogee, 30 in Tulsa, one 32-acre tract of land and approximately $150,000 in the United States treasury, the fnuds and lands of the Creek Indians will be exhausted when this payment is over. Few Got PY.JDJ Allotment. Many of the Creeks will never attain the $1,040 allotment agreed on years ago, unless congress makes some special provision for payment of cash money to them. Creek lands available at the time the allotment basis was fixed at $1,040 were believed to be of sufficient value to bring that amount of money for every Creek, but subsequent developments have show nthey were insufficient. While many of the Creek allotments have proven to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, were oil was found, they were allotted before their fabulous value was known, on a basis of appraised valuation. Only 600 to 700 of the Creeks got allotments appraised at $1,-040. Others got lands appraised at lower figures and the government has been able to equalize these allotments only to a basis of $852, including the coming payment. Already Brought to PRJJ Basis. A few years ago, a payment was made the Creeks equalizing the allotments up to $800, with the excection of the new-borne and minors. These have gotten to date only their original allotments. But the payment now forthcoming will bring each of them up to a basis of $852, and will mea na cash payment of several hundred dollars to many of them. When the Indian appropriation bill for this year was passed by congress, the local Indian agency immediately began figuring out from the records of payments, what basis could be used o which the allotments could be equalized with the available funds. It was found that $1,900,000 available for the purpose would bring them all up to $852, and recommendations that this figure be used as a basis were sent the department. These have been approved. While the sale at some future time of the council building at Okmulgee, the town lots in Muskogee and Tulsa, and one little tract of 32 acres of unallotted land, will bring in some money, to be added to the $150,000 reserved i in the treasury, it is not now apparent that money will be paid in for the Creek Indians from any other source, and future payments will doubtless be comparatively small. 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E. H. Twine, Collector and Reporter. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. In the Superior Court of Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma. Dora Cooksey, Plaintiff, vs. No. 7839. Ed Cooksey, Defendant. The State of Oklahoma to the Defendant Ed Cooksey, Greetings: The defendant, Ed Cooksey, will take notice that he has been sued in the above named court by the plaintiff, Dora Cooksey, for divorce, and that unless he answer the petition of the plaintiff on or before the 26th day of August, 1918, the allegations set forth in said petition will be taken as confessed and judgment rendered accordingly. CHCOSE BETWEEN US —Copyright Life Pub. Co. In Witness Whercof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Superior Court this the 11th day of July, 1918. W. H. Twine. Atty. for Plaintiff. COMMITTEE SEES SPEAKER Colored Men Ask Joint Congressional Meeting to Receive Petition. Speaker Charop Clark was visited today by a committee of the national colored liberty congress for a share in world democracy now meeting in this city. The committee consisted of William Monroe Carter of Boston, H. H. Harrison and L. V. Allen of New York, Rev. M. F. Syden of Rhode Island, J. A. Lankford of Indiana and W. H. Twine of Oklahoma. They requested the Speaker, if possible, to arrange for a joint meeting of the House and Senate with a committee of the congress to receive a petition of the colored race in behalf of full rights of democracy as relief from all racial proscription. Speaker Clark promised to take up their request with congressional leaders. THE ELOPEMENT POLITICAL AMBITIONS PROHIBITION The liberty congress is holding sessions in the John Wesley Church, 14th and Corcoran streets, and will have a public meeting tonight.—Exchange. Speaker Clark is a great big American and has no superiors. CAPTURE GERMAN DESPATCH DOGS With the American Army in France, June 7. — A wise Alabama Colored soldier in an organization with the French troops used a novel means to capture German dogs employed to carry despatches to the front line from the enemy rear posts. The soldier got leave to go hunting and killed a fox. Then he crept across "No Man's Land" at night and dragged the fox back along the ground from the German trenches. The following day six German messenger dogs came bounding into the American trenches and were captured by the soldiers.—The Monitor. Our boys know how to hand the enemy a package any old day, and in the interest of patriotism they have a whole batch of tricks up their sleeves for the enemy.—Ed. L. W. 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