Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 3, 1906 Page: 1 of 8
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Oklahoma State
FIFTEENTH YEAR NO. 18
GUTHRIE, OKLA., THURSDAY,
Kansas Hel
os Rob five Tribes'
ndian Lands Worth $50,000,000.
Members of the Kansas delegation in Washington were thor-
oughly at a loss to understand why the name of the state of Kan-
sas should be given to a suit whose purpose was to mulcht the gov-
ernment of the United States out of 50 million dollars for the ben-
efit of the Missouri, Kansas K: Texas Railroad company. The brief
which Mr. Coleman, the Kansas attorney general, filed yesterday
was passed around among the members of the delegation and as
they studied it their amazement grew. For more than two years,
in fact ever since it became certain that the affairs of the five civi-
lized tribes would be wound up, the Western representatives and
senators have studied the situation with regard to the original grant
to the Southern branch of the Union Pacific railway, which subse-
quently passed into possession of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Railroad company, and every legislative step taken has been for
the purpose of protecting the rights of the government.
When the five tribes bill reached the Senate Senator Spooner
called attention to the danger and in order that the will of Con-
gress might not be mistaken Senator Long caused to be inserted
section 27 ol the bill, which expressly states "that the lands be-
longing to the Choctaw, Chicasaw, Cherokee, Creek or Seminole
tribes upon the dissolution of the said tribes shall not become pub-
lic land nor property of the United States, but shall be held in
trust by the United States for the use and benefit of the Indians,
etc.1'
Representative Curtis on the House side, when the attorney
for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad was before the House
India committee expla:ning what he wanted done, said: "And
that is exactly what we do not propose to do."
The same danger of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad
company ultimately getting- possession of the coal lands of the
Choctaw nation under this old land grant was raised by Senator
LaFollette and one of the strong arguments in favor of holding
this land in perpetual trust for the Indians was the fear that the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad company might have some
standing in court under this old land grant.
And now comes the governor of Kansas through his attorney
general and asks leave of the supreme court to file a plea reciting
the rights of the state,of Kansas as trustee for the railroad com-
pany. The court will pass upon this bill of complaint May 14.
Under the old land grant each odd numbered section along the line
of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway on either side fur a dis-j
tarce of ten miles isg:ven to the railroad company when the land
becomes pub|ic domain. The petition recites the fact that in the
Creek nation this land aggregates 516,000 acres and is valued at
S20 an acre. The Creek lends are selected because the allotments
have been completed.
The suit is brought in the name of the state of Kansas against
the Secretary of the Interior, the commissioner of Indian affairs,
the Dawes commission, the principal chief of the Creek nation and
every Indian allottee. It does not seek to disturb the status of the
allotments, but it does ask that the government of the United States
pay the state of Kansas 20 times 516,000 as the number of dollars
the land is worth. Not one dollar of this of course is to go to the
state of Kansas. It is all for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Rail-
road company.
Associated with Attorney General Coleman are these eminent
lawyers, all of whom, of course, are employed by the railroad com-
pany: Joseph II. Choate, James Hagerman, Adrian H. Johnlin,
A. B. Brown, John Madden and loseph M. Drison.
If this suit against the government for more than 10 million
dollars, because of the allotments in the Creek nation, shoultj
be recognized,the railroad company would of course bring suit and
have recognized the alternate sections in the Choctaw, Chickasaw
and Cherokee nations which are three times as much or more than
three times as much as those in the Crekk nation. For ten miles
on either side the right-of-way runs from the meridian territorial
line on the southern border of Kansas through the Indian territory
to the Red river, which divides it from the state of Texas,
Without the consent of the state cf Kansas, given through its
governor, the railroad company could have had no standing what-
ever in court. It is yet to be determined whether even with this
assistance the Supreme court will recognize its right 111 law to in-
stitute the contest. In Governor Bailev's administration the rail-
road company endeavored to induce him to permit the use of the
name of the state in this suit, but he declined to do so.
The Thought That Lives.
,This is a farmers weekly not a
magazine to science, philosophy or
literature, but the misjudgement
such a man as Jake Admire makes
of the comparative value cf In-
galls' and Malone's sonnets on
"Opportunity," makes us take an-
other "hitch" at the subject from
a mere feeling of hopelessness that
a great majority of people can ever
be made to truly understand >lhe
difference between the current and
the great masterpieces of litera-
ture. It takes wide spiritual
stretch and great knowledge of
universal literature to comprehend
the weeding out process of the
ages of literary creation, of races
and nations, and the final re-
tention of a few as holding in the
best form what is highest in each
—what is universal in all. That
literture, as an art, is the highest
of all arts, is conclusive in the
final analys is in the fact that tho
spirit of a civilization, the spirit of
a people or a religion, itself depends
finally upon the form in which it
has been presented in written lan-
guage to succeeding generations.
Religions themselves risa or fall by
their literary expression. Tho bi-
bles cf the world are the uncon-
scious literary assimilations of the
spirit of a people, of an expression
of civilization, into the supreme3t
plastic form. The prophet, the
seer, the savior himself but re-
mains a forje and influence as he
has himself left his work in liter-
ary expression or has been present-
ed by ethers in literary art.
Think how much is written each
year and each hundred years, and
how little remains. How the pro-
cess of elimination drops book af-
ter book, name after name back to
the aiiyss of Time from which they
were charmed by the alchemy of
thougLt. The economy of Time
alone necessitates -this. Thought
changes. Conceptions of life and
religion change. And the literary
creation that holds them best when
they have passed, lives longest.
Tne book or name that remains a
hundred years is rare; thousand
years is immortal. The inability
of general appreciation of a great
literary creation is that while it
holds universal truth common to
all men's experiences, itsjart, the
form in which it is given, is beyord
general comprehension. It has to
be taught — exploited. It passes
in review from the many to the
few. and from the select to the
many again. They are made a re-
ligion "or cult, and thousands of
lexicographers, controversialists,
historians, theologians animadvert
upon them and infuse them into the
people as the very mental food,up-
on which they grow. We make
great works as we are madj by
them. We grow upon them until
we think as they do, and then we
think they interpret us. The tree
transplanted in time reflects the
soil and climate in which it grows.
This is the reason Ingalls' "Op-
portunity will remain a living
truth in thought and a rare gem in
literature as it is tossed from
mouth to mouth, from country to
country, from century to century,
like the Story of Eden, the Tab-
lets on Sinai, the Sermon on the
Mount, and the Lord's Prayer.,—
John Golobie.
; ;■ .
¥1.00 PE
YEAR
Territoriai Notts.
Nevertheless Pottawatomie county is
"big potatoes and one hundred bush-
els to the acre. " politics or no politics.
The transfer of Texaa cat'!.' into the
Osage country is 1 irger than any pre-
' ceding year, calculate J to ! * abou'
! !25,000 head.
1 About fifty deloenVs from the hi^li
I school met at Norma1' and discussed |
| the studies to be taught; and they came |
very near forgetting Latin.
The land restrictions of thn Five
i Tribes remain and tho Indians cannot
I sell their surplus lands, ncr use them I
j to advantage.
! Mr. Fi'tch, of Chandler, made the
I chaiges against John Embry. and Hor- ,
! ace Speed rents a suite of rioms in the j
I Filtch block, Guthrie.
j David S. Davies. who formerly lived j
: at Medford, Oklahoma, committed sui- i
| cide by taking carbolic acid, in Kansas
City, because his accounts, as booker
for C. A. Eurtcn Machinery Co., were
short.
Delegate McGuire has asked for a
pension for Allen W. Edwards, of Wau-
komis, the only man living who was
scilped by the Indians. He was an
army teamster in 1864, when the Chey-
ennes cut his cuticle.
Carry Nation was in Watonga the
other day and called Tom Ferguson a
red-headed old hvpocrit, for pretending I
to be a Prohibitionist and publishing j
ten liquor notices for all the saloons !
in the coun'; —at the same time, anil
Tom says that Carry injures the tern 1
perance cause by saying things that a '!
man would :.ot dare to say. Why don't '
the associate editor of the paper give |
Carry a tongue 1 shing?
O.II.Travers. of Lawton, doesn't ag
ree with Giddir.gs, of Oklahoma City,
that "party fidelity" should make a
man stick to his nominees in a municipal
election though they be corrupt. Mr.
Giddings, being a '"late" comer, pro-
location, Co-Operation, Opportunity
Homes on the Land,
(The Creed and Fiatform Adopted by the State Register from the Talisman.]
We believ e that ev ery citizen in this Country has an inherent
and fundamental Right to an education which will train him to
Earn a Living, and, if need be, to get hi; liv ing straight from
Mother Earth; ancfthat he has the same right to the Opportunity
to have the Wort-- to Do which will afford him that living, and to
earn not only a comfortable livelihood, but enough more to enable
him to get a Home of his Own, with ground around it sufficient to
yield him anu his family a Liv ing from the Land as the reward for
his own labor.
We believe that the Public Domain is the most precious heri-
tage of the people, and the surest safeguard the nation has against
Social Unrest, Disturbance or Upheaval, and that the Cause of
Humanity and the Preservation of Social Stability and of our Free
Institutions demands that the absorption of the public lands into
speculative private ownership, without settlement, be forthwith
stopped; and that the nation should create opportunities for set-
tlers on the Public Lands by bui'ding irrigation works to reclaim
the lands as fast as they are needed by Homebuilders, so as to give
every man who wants a Home on the Land a chance to get it
We believe that, as a Nation, we should be less absorbed with
Making Money, and should pay more heed to raising up and train-
i 'gMen who will be Law-Abiding Citizens; that the welfare of our
Workers is of more consequence than the mere accumulation of
Wealth; and that Stability of Social and Business Conditions and
of National Character is of greater importance to the people of this
country as a whole than any other one question that is now before
them; and we believe that the only way to Preserve such Stability,
r,.i to Permanently Maintain our National Prosperity, is to carry
imo i '.1 mediate eli' ct and operation the Platform of tlie Talisman
villi:.) is as follows: '
EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND HOMES ON THE I.AND.
i. That children shall be taught gardening,as they are now
taught in France and other European countries, in the public
s, ■ ools, and that Farm Training Schools shall be established by
county, state, municipal, state, and national governments, where
every boy, and every man out of work
. 0 wants employment
bably does not know that Mr. Travers j w l.ere he can gain that knowledge, can learn how to till the soil
was the mo3t brilliant orator the Dem
ocratic party of Oklahoma nominated
as a candidate to congrcs-.
Waiter ftatt:ce, a full-blooded Sac
and Fox lndiaa, and a graduate of the
Haskill Indian school at Lawrence,
Kansas, is running for the nomination
of register of deeds in Lincoln county
on the Republican ticket. Mr. Lattice 1
should run for the legislature where he 1
would be reckoned with in the future ,
politics of the state and have a hand in .
Indian leadership.
T. N. Innes, leader of the great In- i
nes Land, wrote a letter highly prais- 1
ing the Northwestern Normal Choral
Club, under the direction of Prof. E.
C. Marshall, for its rendering, with
his'assistance the "Hymn of Praise,"
and declared it j" worthy a city of 400,-
000 instead of 4,000." "Let UJ," he
says, "take off our hats to the best
choral director west of the Missouri."
John Embry has won out by showirg
his rural countenance in Washington.
Now if Cash Cade were to go there and
mingle with the senate committee, and
show them what a real big, hearty,
public-spirited statesman he is, all the
adder-tongued posterior salivators regulation, and for the enlargement to '.he utmost possible exten
Beaver County Gets An-
other Road.
A charter has been granted in New
Mexico to the Santa Fe, Liberal & En-
glewood railroad, with $6,000,000 capi-
tal stock, to build a Santa Fe extension
■from Englewood, Kansas, to Raton,
New Mexico, passing through Beaver
county, Oklahoma. The surveying
corps has been at work locating this
extension for several weeks, in charge
of Max L. Cunningham, of Oklahoma
City. The survey runs from Liberal to
Englewood, then drops into Beaver
county, thence westward to Des
Moines, N. M., the purpose being to
open up the coal fields in the vicinity of
Trinidad, Colo. It is claimed that Bos-
ton and St. Louis capital is back of this
road, and a number of farmers have
signed an agreement to give the right
of way free of charge to the first road
building in Beaver county along the
Cimarron valley. The company has
purchased the coal and other mineral
rights on the much noted Maxwell
grant, which extends east from Raton.
Attorney General
Cromwell Helps Enid
Not long since Attorney General
Cromwell went to St. Louis and re-
turned with a §100,000 hotel in his
pocket for Enid. Now he is president
of a street car company, which will un
doubtedly give that city a system of
street transportation which it needs to
make it loolt what it really is—the me-
tropolis of the West Side. The com
pany behind the project is: C. E Cam
mon, P. J. Golding, W. L. Spencer, H
D. White, C. B. Porter, I. Martin, A
Loewen.
Enid needs a street railway system.
It is not only a city of "magnificent
distances," as Marsh Murdock used to
sey of Wichita, but is growing.
Gives Amos A Boost.
Kingfisher Times: Amos A. Ewing
was here Monday attending the picnic
and arranging to move his family to
Pawhuska. He has rented his home to
Rev. Murray of the M. E. church, and
shipped his household goods to his new
home. Amos was one of our pioneer
citizens, coming here at the opening.
He has been a prominent factor in re-
publican politics in this county and ter-
ritory and his activities in this line
have naturally made him numerous en-
emies. Amos may have made mistakes,
both politically and personally, but he
has also done many charitable and kind •
ly acts among us and no one in distress
ever appealed to him in vain. We
hope he will flourish and prosper in his
new location. He and his estimable
family will be missed from among us.
They left Tuesday for Pawhuska.
Here is what the Foraker Tribune
says of him:
Among the prominent men who have
cast their lot in the Osage country and
are now located at Pawhuska is Hon.
A. A. Ewing, late of Kingfisher coun-
ty, one of the be3t known and most
popular citizens of Oklahoma. He is
associated in the real esDate business
with H. E. Fee, formerly of Watonga,
Blaine county, where he tilled a number
of important official places.
could not send enough charges to Wash-
ington to turn one hair on his head.
Fred Barde and Corb Sarchet are now
swelling up with the pride of martyrs
to the public cause. The Attorney
CJeneral and his assictant are defending
Governor Frantz and Secretary Wen-
ner in school land oil suits for damages
of ?25,000, but the newspaper corres-
pondents have to hire their own attor-
neys. Here's a chance for charity.
Women Can't Vote
On High Schools.
Because the word "elector" was
used in framing the county high schoo1
law of the territory instead of "voter,"
women are prohibited from voting on
the proposition to locate county high
schoolt. On the other hand they may
vote at elections for consolidating
school districts. These opinions from
rhe office of the dhe attorney general
are of importance thooughout the en-
tire territory, as qurries along these
lines have been sent in from almost
every county. The last legislatnre, at
the suggestion of Attorney General
Simons, passed a bill permitting women
to vote at school .elections in the cities
of the first class, and according to the
interpretation of the laws the franchise
is now extended to them in all school
elections excepting county high schools.
It was the intention of women to vote
on county high school propositions but
the assemblymen allowed the word
olector to creep in and spoil the inten-
tion.
,„d yet his living straight from the ground, and where boys would
b, taught that the:r first aim in life should be to get a home of
lho:i ow 11 on the land .
BUILD RURAL HOMES AS NATIONAL SAFEGUARDS.
'• T-hat the New ^aland system er Land Taxation and"
Land Purchase and Subdivision, and Advances to Settlers Act,
sh t'l be adopted in this country, to the end that land shall be sub-
riv-i ed into sm -.11 holdings in the hands of those who will till it for
a l.vi lihood, . nd labor find-occupation in the creation of rural
, wh.i.li v.iii .>e peipetual safeguards against the political evils
iinu ti cia; discontent resulting Irom the overgrowth of cities and
the sufferings of unemployed wage-earners.
l'KOTbi I ION FOR THE AMERICAN HOMECKOFJ.
3. 11.at kjr.:I Settlement shall be encouraged and the
principle i). 1 rotectioi, foi tne American \\ ageworker and his Home
applied directly to the Home by the Exemption from Taxation of
^ 1 i .mprovem 1 nts upon, and also of all personal property, not ex-
ceeding S^,5O0 in value, used on and in connection with, every
Iiomecroft or Rural Homestead of not more than ten acres in ex-
tuntt which the owner occupies as a permanent home and cultivates
with his own labor and so provides therefrom all or part of the sup-
port for a family.
ENLARGEMENT Ol AREA AVAILABLE I oi< HOMEMAKINli.
4. luatthe National Government, as a part of comprehen-
ive national policy of internal improvements for river control and
t
of the aiea of the country available for agriculture and Homes on
the Land, and for the protection of those Homes from either flood
or drouth shall build not only levees and revetments where reeded,
and drainage works for the reclamation of swamp and overflowed
lands, but shall also preserve existing forests, reforest denuded
area, plant new forests, and build the great reservoirs and other
engineering works necessary to safeguard against overflow and
save for beneficial use the flood waters that now run to waste.
RECLAMATION AND SETTLEMENT OF THE ARID LANDS.
5. That the National Government shall build the irrigation
works necessary to bring water within reach of sealers on the arid
lands, the cost of such works to be repaid to the government by
such settlers in annual installments without interest, and that the
construction of the great irrigation works necessary for the utiliza-
tion of the waters of such large rivers as the Columbia, the Sacra-
mento, the Colorado, the Rio Grande, and the Missouri, and their
tributaries, shall proceed as rapidly as the lands reclaimed will be
utilized in small farms by actual settlers and home-makers, who
will repay the government the cost of construction of the irriga-
tion works, the amount needed each year for construction, as rec-
ommended by the Secretary of the Interior, to be made available
by Congress as a loan from the general treasury to the Reclama-
tion Lund, and repaid from lands reclaimed, as required by the
National Irrigation Act.
SAVE THE PUBLIC LANDS FOR HOMEMAKEBS.
6. That not another acre of thj public lands shall ever here-
after be granted to any state or territory for any purpose whatso-
ever, or toany one other than 5n actual settler who has built his
home on the land and lived on it for five years, and that no more
land scrip of any kind shall ever be issued, and that the Desert
Land Law and the Commutation Clause of the Homestead Law
shall be made to conform to the recommendations of the Public
Lands Commission appointed by President Roosevelt, and of the.
Message of the President to Congress,
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