Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 16, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
eight pages : ill. ; page 22 x 15 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
*
I
I
i
h
x
1*"
i
n
w
Oklahoma
HS'ilKR
S I G H T E E E N T II YEAR, NO. 28 GUTHRIE, 0 K L A., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 i 1 9 0 0.
$1.00 i 9 R YEAR.
TAFT NAMES
ISILPIIII! I'KOGKAM IS COMPLETE.
A Million or More Indian
Lands to be Placed on the
Market in Osage County
(Tulsa World.)
Over one million acres of land to
jarmers and others is the • magnet
which is drawing the eyes of the coun-
try to Osage county, the largest, and
in many respects, the richest county''
:n the great state of Oklahoma.
As the Federal government, in con-
irol of the affairs of the Osage Indians,
is giving little or no information re-
tarding the great sale of land read-
rs of the World may be interested in
he following facts and figures which
ave been gleaned by a World repre-
sentative and which are authentic,
•ecause they come from authentic
• ources.
It is a well known fact that the
(sage tribe of Indians are the richest
eople, per capita, in the world,
iacli member of the tribe, including
he babies two years old, own a frac-
tion more than 657 acres of land.
The United States government is due
the tribe $8,000,000 for lands sold in
Xansas. The Osages draw royalties
n nearly a million «nd a half barrels
f oil produced yearly, and on between
50 and 400 million cubic feet of gas
produced daily. On a conservative es-
timate each Osage is worth easily
5 40,000.
The Osage is not a tax payer; has
.n inherent dislike to paying taxes
on land over which, a few years ago,
e roamed free and unrestricted—an
undisputed lord and master. Rather
han pay taxes he would sell every
oot of land he owns, especially as he
does not need it and will not need it
; nd will not work it. The government
>:as wisely decreed, however, that he
-mist keep 160 acres, at least for 25
• ears to come. The balance of his
■ llotment he can sell, and he will sell
proved by the Secretary of the Inter-
ior and recorded at the expense of the
purchaser. After being approved
and recorded, the deed will be deliv-
ered immediately to the purchaser,
and notes and mortgages shall be de-
posited with the Commissioner of In-
dian affairs and retained in his office
until the entire purchase price has
been paid and the mortgage and notes
shall be released and cancelled. The
purchaser shall have the right to pay
^he whole or any unpaid part of the
purchase money at any time and ob-
tain the cancellation of the mortgage
and notes."
Extcut of Count).
Osage county has within its bound-
aries approximately 2,500 square miles
of territory. It is larger than the
state of Delaware, which has about
2,370 square miles (of which 405 are
water, and larger than Rhode Island,
which has only 1,248 square miles
(181 water. It is superior to both the
states mentioned in natural resources,
TARIFF (OMUlSSION.
— | Sulphur, Okla., Sept. 8.—The follow - j
Vale Professor, Treasury Official and lag program for the first annual i
Editor Compose New Hoard. j union of the Oklahoma constitutional
• convention, to be held iti Sulphur Sept.
Beverly, Sept. 11—President Taft 17 and 18, which was arranged by Cy
announced the appointment of the new ! |,eepcr of Oklahoma City. Carlton
nationnl tariff commission today as ' Weaver of Ada and Mllas l.asater of
follows: Pauls Valley, was given to the press
Prof. C. F. Emery, Yale, chairman, j today:
James B. Reynolds of Boston, as- j Friday, Sept. 17.—Session called to
sistant secretary of the treasury. • order at 1:30. Invocation by the Rev.
President Taft's Initial
Speech on his Tour of the West
Alvin H. Sanders, Chicago, editor
and publisher of the Breeders' Gazette.
The tariff commission or board is
to assist Mr. Taft in the execution of
the new tariff law with especial ref-
erence to applying the maximum or
minimum clauses to nations unfriendly
and yet everything in Osage is in an, and today app0rved the men recom-
embryonic condition, undeveloped and
I untried. It is bounded on the south
and west by the Arkansas river, on
the east by Washington and Tulsa
counties (formerly the Cherokee Na-
tion, and on the north by the state of
Kansas. There are 1,500,000 acres of
land in the county, not more than 10
per cent of which is in cultivation.
The cattlemen are making their last
stand in the Osage country. Likewise
the farmers are making their last
fight. The one seeks to keep out set-
tlers in order that the range may be
held for hej-ds of long horns; that the
country may be preserved as the fat-
tening ground for the Texas ranch-
man. The other seeks to drive the
cattleman on—somewhere; it matters
Frank Nayior of McAlester, chaplain of
the constitutional convention; "The
meaning of the Reunion," William H.
Murray, president of the constitutional
convention; address of welcome,
Charles B. E. Emanuel, mayor of Sul-
phur; response, Henry S. Johnson of
or friendly in tariff relations with the j }>rrv ; grand parade, consisting o£
board, authorized by the Payne tariff | members of tlie constitutional conven-
In announcing the selections of the | tlcrn, the Sequoyah convention, the
bill, tlie following statement was giv- j (, 1S( legislature and other organiza-
en out at the executive office: i t|ons; constitutional ball in the even-
"The president and secretary of the.^g
trasury have agreed upon the plan
these gentlemen are to constitute the
board and are to be given authority
to employ such special experts as may
be needed in the investigation of the
foreign and domestic tariff."
The announcement followed a con-
ference between Mr. Taft and Mr.
MacVeagh. Mr. Taft had left in the
hand of the secretary the selection.
>t, and thus is occasioned the over
.aillion acres to be placed within the I ,10t w here in order that the countiy
each of the American farmer ii
-ery few days.
a) may pass into the hands of the farm
' rs and an empire builded.
The cattle business would not de-
velop a country in a million years; it
would not civilize a country in ten
million years. The cattle business is
has ever
The difference between the 160 acres
hich the Indian must retain, and the
:'57 which he now owns, is 497 acres.
This amount multiplied by 2,230, the
.umber of Indians in the Osage, gives j a frontier business, and it
been a stumbling block in the path
iver a million acres which soon
*oes on the market. Besides this,
'«ch member of the tribe is at liberty
•■o lease his 160-acre homestead.
Method of Sale.
How these lands are to be disposed
of, is the question eagerly asked by
way of development. It sustains neith-
er population nor government. It
takes much and gives back little.
This is why the cattlemen have al-
ways been compelled to fight their bat-
tles alone; why they have always lost,
ntending purchasers. There may an(l wn>' they will always continue to
^ave been graft in prevous sales of
ndian lands in Oklahoma and other
places, but the United States govern-
ment is determined there shall be no
graft in this last land sale in Okla-
koma. There are no maps or plats of
he Indian holdings to be had for love
or money. The Agency refuses to give
•>ut any information regarding the lo-
-ation of these lands, but places the
whole proposition squarely up to the
Indian, if he is competent to transact
l>is own business, and make him the
Jarbiter of his own fortune
special matter.
lose. The Osage country will, under
the influence of the "nester," develop
rapidly. The range of a single herd
of long-horns will be turned into a
community of farmers sustaining a
population of hundreds. The farmers
will pay ten times the taxes of the cat
tlemen, and the range of nature will
give way to roads and bridges, and
other conveniences of civilization.
The merchant, profesional man. and
every other member of society will be
benefited, and the same identical area
this will produce a thousand times the
I wealth for the agriculturist that it did
West Places
\\
r
In other words, a farmer or specula- [ tor the cowman
or wishes to purchase the surplus
-97 acres belonging to any Indian he
must hunt up that Indian and buy
rom him personally. Where the In-
dian is not considered competent to
manage his own affairs, the Agency
•akes charge and auctions off his 497
■icres to the highest bidder.
It should be noticed here that in all
sales only the surface rights go to the
purchaser as the government reserves
lo the Indian the oil, gas, coal and
other mineral rights, for a period of
25 years.
Terms of Sale.
To make the matter of purchase of
these lands easy to the farmer or other
Duyer the following are the terms as
stipulated by Congress in -an act of
March 3, 1909:
"Such lands shall be sold for one-
iourth cash at time of sale, and
the balance of purchase money shall
Be paid, one-fourth, two years; one-
iourth, three years, and one-fourth
iour years, respectively, after the first
day of December next following the
date of sale, and shall be evidenced in
each case by non-negotiable notes,
bearing 6 per cent interest, secured by
non-negotiable mortgage on said land.
A deed to the purchaser shall be exe-
cited by the applicant simultaneously
with the execution of the mortgage,
which deed and mortgage shall be ap-
ATTORNEY GENERAL FILES
ANSWER IN THE GAS SUIT.
mended.
There has been much discussion
ever since the passage of the Payne
bill as to just what authority the tariff
commission shall have. As the meas-
ure left the house it provided that
the commission or board of experts
should advise both the president and
congress on technical questions about
the tariff. The senate did not approve
of this broad authority and amended
the provision for the appointment of
the board so as to prescribe that its
duties should be limited to aiding the
president in reference to minimum
and maximum rates.
At the time of the tariff fight in
Washington the president indicated
hat he did not look with any great
concern upon the limitations imposed
by the senate and left the impression
that he felt hat the commission would
be able to do what the framers of
the measure intended and all that the
chief executive could hope for.
It is related in this connection that
when the president was once asked
whether he preferred the name tariff
commission or foreign tariff board he
replied with a smile:
"I have no particular choice. You
know that a rose by any other
name "
No announcement was made as to
what salaries the three commissioners
are to receive. Congress appropriated
$75,000 to cover salaries and the ex-
pense of the investigations.
WICHITA FOREST ItOCNDTP.
Amended
Record.
Statement on
Muskogee, Okla., Sept.—Denying that
there is gas enough in Oklahoma to
supply Oklahoma as well as Kansas,
and that the piping of gas out of the
state would greatly damage Oklahoma,
Attorney General West today filed an
amended answer in the case of the
Kansas Natural Gas company and
Eastern capitalists against Gov. Has-
kell, Attorney General West and other
state officers. The case involves the
piping of gas out of Oklahoma. West
filed with the answer a motion asking
that the injunction secured against the
tstiate be dissolved and the cause dis-
missed; that the oomplalntants were
trying to monopolize Oklahoma gas;
that such action was against the state
constitution.
West admitted complainants' state-
ment that there was a shortage of gas
in Kansas, and declared it was caused
by the piping of gas to the large
cities of Kansas and Missouri, and that
if Oklahoma gaa should be permitted
to bo taken from the state the same
conditions would result here as In
Kansas.
Mount Scott, Okla., Sept. 9—With
something like twenty-five cattlemen
and oldtime cow boys participating,
the first annual cattle round-up on the
Wichita National Forest began this
morning at the foot of Mount Scott,
and will proceed directly west, cov-
ering the territory to the south until
the annual round-up will come Satur-
day evening in the corner of the re-
serve. Fourt housand cattle are this
year being pastured on the reserve.
The Wichita forest serves is the only
place of any consequence where the
oldtime practice of cattle round-ups
can be preserved. The work is direct-
ly under the supervision of Frank
Rush, supervisor of the forest, and an
old-time cowpuncher. Through his ef-
forts the enterprise started this year.
Saturday, Sept. S.—Session called to
order at 'J a. m.; session of the consti-
tutional convention for two hours and
the proposing of amendments by critic*
of the document;address by R. L Wil-
liams, associate justice of the state su-
preme court, on debates and proceed-
ings of the constitutional convention.
In the afternoon addresses will be
delivered as follows:
"The Squirrel Rifles in the Ratifica-
tion of the Constitution," John B. Mc-
Calla of Chickasha; "The Lost Cause—
The State of Sequoyah," Judge John B.
Thomas of Muskogee; "Relation of the
First legislature to the Constitution,"
Senator Elmer J. Thomas of Law-
ton; "Rallying the Forces," Governor
Charles N. Haskell; "The Constitution-
al Convention," Judge J. F. King of
Newkirk; "The Constitution's Proper
Construction," Judge Jesse Dunn, asso-
ciate justice of the state supreme
court; "The Breakers," Judge W. A.
Ledbeter of Oklahoma City; "The Re-
lation of the Five Tribes to the Con-
stitutional Convention," W. A. Durant
of Durant; "The Grand Army of Pa-
riots," J. B. Thompson of Pauls Val-
ley; "Personal Reminiscences of the
Constitutional Convention," Henry E.
Asp of Guthrie; "Presentation of
Spurs," Senator E. M. Landrum of Ta-
li el gu ah.
'CANNON MI ST BE DESTROYED."
The Speaker Branded a"4 the Foe
Popular Government.
Rochester, Wis., Sept. 9.—Represent-
ative Cooper attacked Speaker Cannon
in an address here last night. He de-
nounced him as an enemy to popular
government and said that the country
must get rid of him before it can get
any legislative relief.
He pledged himself to the fight
which is to be waged with renewed
vigor against Cannon and "Cannon-
ism" in the House, and closed by de-
fending his vote on the tariff bill as the
best he could do under the circum-
stances and as being in accord with
President Taft's express desire in the
matter.
Mr. Cooper, who. as a leader of the
"insurgents." was deprived of his
chairmanship on the insular relation
committee, predicts a bitter fight at the
opening of Congress in December. "The
purpose of which will be to prevent
Mr. Cannon's re-election as Speaker
and to modify the rules of the House
so no man that can exercise the abso-
lute autocracy that Is now Cannon's.
INDIAN RESTRICTION ACT
The Interior Department having ob-
tained a ruling from the Attorney Gen-
eral holding that Sec. 9, of the Indian
restriction act of May 27, 1908, is not
retroactive, is now ready to pass upon
deeds given by full-blood heirs where
the allottee files prior to the passage
of the act.
The attorney general holds that
where allottees died prior to the pas-
sage of the act the deeds given by full-
blood heirs must be approv&i by the
Secretary of the Interior to give them
validity, even though they shall have
been approved by the Probate Courts
of Oklahoma.
In acordance with this ruling, the In-
terior Department will take action on
all such deeds, requiring each case to
be Investigated nnd reported upon by
the local district agents In Oklahoma
and forwarded by Sepcrlntendent Kel-
sey of the Union Agency at Muskogee.
TAX RETURN'S SCRUTINIZED
In order to prevent exhorbitant and
unnecessary tax levies for the current
year, tax returns and statements of
levies proposed by counties are being
closely scrutinized in the office of the
state examiner and inspector. Where
the constitutional rate is exceeded, or
it is apparent that the county,
school district, township, city or town
is preparing to gather more revenue
than is believed to be necessary for
ordinary economic business adminis-
tration, the law authorizes the state
examiner and inspector to force a new
and lower levey to be made. Hereto-
fore he has only been authorized to
recommend one.
BROOM CORN BRINGING GOOD
PRICE.
Clco, Okla.,—Broom corn Is selling
for $100 per ton and thers iB consid-
erable of the product In the country.
This one crop alone will bring lots of
money to the farmers of this country.
It is believed that It will sell for more
than $100 soon.
Boston, Sept. 14.—President Taft's
first public speech since Congress ad-
journed was made here tonight before
two thousand men representing the
combined business interests of Boston.
The occasion was a banquet given in
Mechanics' Hall by the Boston Cham-
ber of Commerce and it marked the be-
ginning of the President's' 13,000-mile
trip through the country.
"I am not going to discuss the mer-
its and demerits of the new tariff bill
with you," tlie President said. "I shall
have often to refer to that before my
journey is ended and I must have
something for the other audiences."
The President's address endorsed the
proposition to establish a central bank
in connection with the currency re-
form, praised Senator Nelson W. Aid-
rich of Rhode Island, head of the na-
tional monetary commission, and repu
diated any attempt to start sectional
strife in the country such as that
which he attributed to Governor John-
son in "calling upon the West to or-
ganize against the East."
Among the guests tonight were cabi-
net members, diplomats, congressmen,
clergymen and distinguished business
leaders.
The Bunk I'lan Not Applauded.
Among the points which awakened
the most enthusiasm was Mr. Taft's
statement that there was need of re-
form in banking. This statement was
heartily applauded, bu* there was not
a ripple when he mentioned the central
bank plan. It was noticeable that the
diners maintained a grim silence
when the President said he would not
discuss the tariff in his Boston address,
but when he declared with great em-
phasis in connection with his discus-
sion of the control of corporations that
it must be understood by means of
prompt punishment that the law is to
be enforced on the most powerful,
there was tremendous applause.
The climax, however, was reached
when Mr. Taft touched upon sectional
differences. With a rising inflection
and forceful gesture he said:
"I may well lift up my voice to pro-
test against any effort, by whomsoever
made, to array section against section
and American against American." The
entire assembly cheered this state-
ment.
Under escort of the reception com-
mittee and the National I^ancers Mr.
Taft passed through the dining-room
to the street and went to the Hotel
Touraine, where he spent the night.
He will leave on his Western tour at
10:30 o'clock tomorrow forenoon.
He'U See the Country's Needs.
"I am on the eve of beginning of
journey of 13,000 miles in length," Mr.
Taft said, "which will enable me to see
tens and tens of hundreds of thousands
of my fellow citizens, and enable them,
I hope, to see me. Occasionally i hear
a query why. I should start off on such
a trip and what particular good does it
do to anybody? Well, it certainly is
not going to be a pleasure trip, al-
though I shall enjoy it. It will involve
much hard work and mental effort to
think of things to say, and to say them
j&tmply and clearly, so that they can
be understood. On the other hand, it
will certainly give me a very much
more accurate impression as to the
views of the people in the sections
which I will visit. It will bring
closer to me the needs of parti-
cular sections, so far as national
legislation and executive action
are coucerned, and I believe it will
make me a wiser man and a better
public officer.
"I ought to be able to explain to the
people some of the difficulties of gov-
ernment and some of the problems for
solution from the standpoint of the ex-
ecutive and the legislator, as distin-
guished from that of the honest, but ir-
responsible critic. The personal touch
between the people and the men to
whom they temporarily delegate pow-
er, of course, conduces to a better
standing between them.
"This is the second week in Septem-
ber. We are all ending our vacations
and going home. This is the time of
year, rather than the first of the calan-
dar year, when good resolutions ought
to be made-—and kept, as far as possi-
ble. This is the time when, looking
forward to the coming again of Con-
gres In December, one must consider
the needs of the country so far as they
may be relieved by congressional leg-
islation and attempt to state what the
legislation should be.
The Need of Monetary Reform.
"Your chairman has yiade some ref-
erence to a number of subjects ia
which the attention of Congress may
well be directed, in the first place
there is the monetary situation. Whil
it is probable that the Vreeland bill,
passed by the last Congress, would aid
us in case of another financial crash it
is certain that our banking and mone-
tary system is a patched up affair
which satisfies nobody and least of alt
those who are clear headed and hav
a knowledge of w hat a financial sys-
tem should be. The matter has been
referred by Congress to a monetary
commission, which has been studying
with much interest and enthusiasm
the financial and banking systems of
Europe and has embodied and will soon
publish in interesting and attractive
form the best accounts of the financial
systems of the world.
"It is quite apparent from the state-
ments of Mr. Vreeland, who is now the
head of the committee on banking and
currency in the House of Representa-
tives, and from the conversations of
Mr. Aldrich, who is chairman of th
monetary commission and of the fi-
nance committee of the Senate, that
the trend of minds of the monetary
commission is toward some sort of ar-
rangement for a central bank of issue
which shall control the reserve and ex-
ercise a power to meet and control the
casual stringency which from time to
time will come in the circulating me-
dium of the country and the world.
Aldrich Sincere, He Sajs.
"Mr. Aldrich states that there are
two indispensable requirements in any
plan to be adopted involving a central
bank of issue. The one is that the con-
trol of the monetary system shall be
kept free from Wall Street influences,
and the other that it shall not be man-
ipulated for political purposes. Those
are two principles to which we can all
subscribe. It is quite possible that the
report of the commission of a definite
decision may be delayed beyond the
next session of Congress. Meantime
the members of the commission intend
to institute a campaign of education ii
order to arouse public opinion to the
necessity of a change in our monetary
and banking systems and to the advant-
ages that will arise from placing some
form of control over the money market
and the reserve in the hands of an in-
telligent body of financiers responsible
to the government.
"1 am told thiit Mr. Aldrich will
swing around the circle this fall and
will lecture In many of the cities of
the Middle West on the defects and
needs of our monetary system. I can-
not too strongly approve of this pro-
posal. Mr. Aldrich, who is leader ot
the Senate and certainly one of the
ablest statesmen in financial matters
in either House, has been regarded
with deep suspicion by many people,
especially in the West. If. with his
clear cut ideas and simple, but effective
style of speaking, he makes apparent
to the Western people what I believe
to be his earnest desire to aid the peo-
ple and to crown his political career
by the preparation and passage of a-
bill which shall give us a sound and
safe monetary and banking system, it
would be a long step toward removing
political obstacles to a proper solution
of the question.
Wouldn't Discuss the Tariff.
"1 am not going to discuss the mer-
its and demerits of the new tariff bill
with you. 1 shall have often to refer
to that before my journey Is ended
and I must save something for other
audiences. Suffice it to say that the
passage of the bill has removed a dis-
turbing element in business.
"Nor shall I dwell at length on the
necessity for amendments to the Inter-
state Commerce law, to the antitrust
law and the organization of the de-
partments in Washington with a view,
to promoting greater efficiency and ex-
pedition In the settlement of controver-
sies arising under them. During Mr.
Roosevelt's administration we were all
struck with the necessity for reform
In business methods, for more scrupu-
lous attention to the conduct of busi-
ness in accordance with law and for
the neceselt of simplifying the law In
such a way as to make it clear to cor-
^ Continued or. Fafi?e 4 )
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Golobie, John. Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 16, 1909, newspaper, September 16, 1909; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112667/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.