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The Noble Weekly Journal.
JH. 1!. C \ Killtor ami Proprietor,
NOBLE, . - . OK LA.
NEW STATE NEWS
A wealthy New Yorker has his dcfc
kennels at Ponca City. The keeper ii
paid 11,500 a year.
Oklahoma City will vote this fall oa
ii 1375,000 water worka end sewc-
bond proposition.
The new lnii ding of the Cen'ral
normal school w;s dedl t:d at Ed-
mond last week.
A rol'er skating rink has be r
opened at Shawnee.
HENRY c. PmYNE It; DEAD
Th9 Hon. Albert He:n e of Pa :1s
Valley has been appointed as assls
tant United States attorney for tho
southern district, with headquarters
at Pauls Valley.
Cleveland Is fast b e ming a grsrt
oil field. During the past week threo
new wells were reported. There is
also a good flow of gaa from all the
wells, one putting forth 2,000,000
cubic feet por day.
The Chandler cotton mill steamed
up last week to try its machinery and
to run out w'nat seed there was on
hand, some of which w_s green an 1
li'-T.y to heat and spoil.
Altus boasts that she !e 1 New Yorlt
0 ty itself in fie price of cotton a
week ago. Between 500 and COO bale)
hive been ginned st this Greer
county town since the season opened.
Nearly all tho railroad bridges
across tho Canadian river in Indian
Territory were either washed away
entirely or were damaged so they
were not considered safe. Railroad
traffic irom Texas tot the north
was abandoned for two days.
W. A. Swaeker, an aged fame
living near Red Rock, is reported to
have been choked to death by
craekrr. He wis driving home fr.ro
town, where he had purchased some
crackers. He opened the ;apk and
began ti eat on'o, a portion of whic..
lodged in his windpipe, and he died
in Je3s than two m nutes.
During the quarter end ng Septem-
ber 30 the territorial secretary's of-
fice r e ived la fees for filing vari-
ous articles *2,029.50, and for li
<*enses $072.50. D^du ting tie quar-
terly a I iwauce for tin secretcr.,
e er.< hiretc., It leave.; a ba'ance oi
$1,952 to the treasury.
The Pottawatomia coenty gr~nd
jury, which has been In session
about half of the last four weeks,
has thus far returned more than 200
indictments, most of thc-m agiinst
Shawnee p:ople for minor offense.',
including many violators of the
taming and liquor laws.
A pa:ty (rem th? Crook enro ling
department of the Dawes eotnmiss o~
is in Okmu'gee, to remain two weeks,
t > secure addit'onal evi 'eace re a irt
ti a number of applications lor en
rolling on the Creek list.
Captain Thomas Q. Donaldson,
Doited States army inspector, makes
a most flattering report of the Okli
hoina signal corp\ He sp aks oi
the work of the corps in the most
complimentary terms.
C. W. Rambo, territorial trcasurei
of Oklahoma, has issued his monthly
report, which shows that tho terri-
tory has on deposit to its credit $557,
•441.ro. The amount riceivtd from a I
sources during tho last month was
$•'7,328.£5. This is a c.ins'derab e
increase over the report of last
month.
The Postmaster General Had Been in
Poor Health for Two Years
WASHINGTON: Henry C. Payne,
postmaster general of the United
States, a member of the natioual re.
publican committee, a stalwart of his
party, with whose history, both in his
home state and nationally, he had
been identified for many years, died
in bis apartments at the Arlington
hotel, aged sixty years.
Heath was caused by disease of tin
mitral valve and dilation of the heart.
Mr. Payne had been in poor health
for at least two years but his last
illness covered only seven days, an
attack of heart trouble last week pre
cipitating the end at a time when,
after a rest, he seemed to have re-
covered in small measure his vitality,
impaired by years of arduous labor.
Death came after nearly six hours of
unconsciousness.
The last official caller to Inquire as
to Mr. Payne's condition was Presi-
dent Roosevelt, and he had been gone
only about ten minutes whea the
stricken member of his cabinet ex-
pired. As Mr. Roosevelt was leaving
he spoke feelingly of Mr. Payne to
the newspaper men gathered in front
of the hotel as "the sweetest, most
loveable and most trustful man 1 ever
knew."
The body was taken to Milwaul.ee,
Wis., Where burial will be made.
New State News
MORE TROUBLE FOR WH.TE
LAST GREEK COUNCIL
Peace Congress to Intervene
BOSTON: Resolutions intended
to bring about an end to the Russo-
Japanese war were adopted at the
meeting of the international pcace
congress: Dy the terms of tiTese res>
lutions the congress will address an
appeal to the emperors of IUuia and
Japan to terminate the struggle, and
each of the powers signatory to The
Hague convention will be formally
requested to press upon Russia and
Japan the importance of putting an
end to the present war.
It was also voted that tho reaolu
tions referring friendly intervention
by the powers to present to Presi
dent Roosevelt by a committee of the
congress.
William R. Cremer of England
took occasion, while ifavoring tho
declarations, to characterize the
treaty between England and Japan as
blunder and to charge that thi
troaty doubtless had much to do
with bringing on the Russo-Japanesn
war. Thereupon Great Britain's pol
icy of being a party to the treatj
was vigorously defended by Colonel
Bryce Jones, M. P:
The resolutions were pasesd atlei
a lengthy discusison 'in which main
of the most prominent foreign dele
gates participated.
Dawes Commision Clerk Now Has
Another Charge Against Him
MUSKOGEE: The Dawes commi.--
<ion has not y.t rec ived official in-
formation from Washington of the
report thJi J. IC gar White, a clerk at
the Tishomingo l3nd of.ice, has been
recommended for dismissal as a re-
sult of Inspector Comer's recent in-
vestigation. Reliable information has
been given out that a session of tie
CREEKS FAVOR SCHOOLS
Annual Report Shows They Have
3,062 Pupils Enrolled
MUSKOGEE: The annual report
of Checs'e McIntosh, superintendent
of the Creek s 'hojls, whieh has be n
submitted to the Creek council, now
in s(s son at Okmulgee, shows that1
3,0(1.' pap Is are enrolled. Of th's
nuaib.r 1,411 or nearly oneha'f are
negroes. There is no race problem, 1
.... howpver. in the Creek nation, si fir
Dawes comniisison will be ealle 1 in ] as the schools are c mcerned. for the
the near future, at which time White's I negroes are iducit d in separate
dl missal may be recommended to the'bu I i i.. from tho Indians.
depirtment. The large negro imputation of the
White was fsusprn 'ed si v ra 1 that this is a la-ger tnroliment than
weeks ago. pending tho investigation, last voir, and perhaps the largest
and the absence of Commissioner
Breckenridge alone stood in the way
of final action in the matter being
taken by the commission. The
charges against White, which led to
the investigation by the inspector,
were that ho arcepted monry to help
certain attorneys push the business
of their clients in the land office.
White was arrested in Muskogee a
Tew nights ago by Katy olficers whi e
he was carrying away a valiie said
not tob e ihs own from the Katv
hotel and was brought into police
court under a charge of disturbing the
peace. He gave $2,000 bond and his
case was continued.
THE MEN ARE SAFE
Those Reported as Thought to Have
Drowned, Escaped
LEXINGTON: The five men who
(vent down with the bridge over the
Canadian river between this city and
Purcell, and who were thought to
hare been drowned, have been heard
from at Purcell. None of the men
were injured, although all had a mi-
raculous escape from death. The
men were upon the bridge when the
structure gave way. It was caught
in the swift current and carried a
considerable distance, but by the
heroic efforts of the men who thought
'hey were facing almost certain
death, the structure was steered
in such manner that it lodged against
the stock yards fences south of Pur-
cell. It was almost ten o'clock at
night when the bridge went out. and
the men were several hours in mak-
ing their way back to Purcell after
landing.
in the h'story of the schools of the
Creek nation. The Creek people mi- ]
like the Ch ekasiws, look upon the
appropriation by c.ngrtss of $101,010
to provide for the attendance of white
or non-cliizen children in th> Indi.-n
day schools with favor.
'I he l?rgen egro population of the
( re?k nation is further illu traiel by
the fact that there are forty-nine
neighborhood or day schools and
twenty-three, or nearly oue-l:a f of
the number, are for negroes. The
report shows that there are also
seven boarding school■>, with a total
enrollment of 874; two orphan
schools, one for Indians and one for
negroes, with 121 pupl's, and a high
schocl at Eufaula with sn attendance
of ninety-eight.
QUARANTINE LINE AGAIN
Vinita has twenty artesian wells.
The water is found a little le s than
•r>00 feet beneath the surface, and
whea found flows constantly.
The First National bank of Corniib
has been authorized to begin busines.-
with a capital stock of $25,010.
Governor Johnston of tho Ch'c :a
*aw nation has appointed E. Haaip
Willis of Kingston mineral inspector
for the Chickasaw nation. The posi-
tion pays about $4 000 a year.
Indians at St. Louis during the pro-
gram yn Indian Territory day were
dressed in their accustomed robe .
They attracted considerable at
tention.
the $100,OjO bond issue recently
voted by the city of Muskogee to im-
prove the water works and sewerage
system of that town was sold to
J.ampreeht II: os. & Co. of Cleve'and,
O., who will pay a premium of $2,500
lor the bonds. They were i3sued in
10.1 bends of $1,0)0 each, to bear five
per cent interest and payab'e in
twenty years.
TO GO TO WASHINGTON
Governor Johnston Appoints Delegates
to Represent Chickasaws
ARDMORE: In accordance with r>T,
act just passed by the Chickasaw leg
islature, Governor Johnston has ap-
pointed ex-Governor Mosley, Homb.i
Wills and E. B. Johnson as delegates
to represent the Chickasaw nation a|
Washington in all matters of tribal
legislation or otherwise, prior to thi
d'S-iolutiun of the Indian government
in 190(5. It is said that Governor
Johnston will also accompany the dele'
gation. The Chickasaw legislature,
acting on the recommendation of tho
governor, passed an act. memoralizing
congress to enroll all children born
since the closing of the rolls and let
them share in the tribal estate. The
"•oils were closed some time ago.
GUTHRI0: Percy Simons, the
attorney general of the territory, has
gone to Washington, where he will
represent Oklahoma before 'ite
United States supreme court in the
case of John New vs. the territory.
New appealed from a sentence of life
Imprisonment for the murder ot 11.
F. Doyle, his brother-in-law, on Ap:i,'
13. 1001.
Councilman Violated Ordinance
MUSKOGEE: A. Lanning, a
member of the city council, was ar-
rested for the violation of a city
ordinance which he had helped to
pas3. Somo time ago Lanning ap-
plied to the city recorder for a build-
ing permit to construct somo sma'l
wooden "shacks" within the fire
limit, and was refused on the ground
that it would be in violation of cer-
tain ordinances. Lanning proceeded
with the erection of the buildings
without the permit. The matter was
brought to the attention of the coun-
cil and the mayor ardered Lanning's
arrest. The order was carried out.
and Lanning has announced his de-
termination to fight the case.
LEASEHOLDERS WILL FIGHT
Delegation to be Sent to Washington
to Oppcsj Stewart's Plan
Admission of Reservations Raises
Question in Oklahoma
GUTHRIE: The addtion to Okla
homa of the Otoe, Missouri and Ponca
Indian reservations since the last
legislative sesison will probably fur
n.sh a new line of battle in regard to
quarantine extension. Already cat-
tlemen of Kansas City, Fort Worth
and Dallas are said to be organizing
to fight any bill which may be intro-
duced at the next session with a view
of extending the quarantine lines so
as to include the new additions.
These reservations have been kept on
the outside of the lines by reason of
certain grazing contracts the cattle-
men have had with the government
at Washington. Some of these con-
tracts still exist and will not expire
^ for two or three years, but many are
| of the opinion that Oklahoma ean
j quarantine any territory belonging
j wholly to its domain.
A movement is also on foot to make
a further attempt to throw the quat
ARDMORE: Many prominent i an"n® around the Osage country
n« A U..1.1 .... . „ e 1L A eli • . 1 TllP C9 TO n Inn n n..t . t it .
lease holders of the Chickasaw na
lion have begun to perfect an organ-
ization for the purpose of sending a
strong delegation to Washington o;,
the assembling of congress to wage
a fight against the adoption of the
plans recently proposed by Senator
Stewart, chairman of the committee
on Indians affairs, to abrogate all ag
ricultural lease contracts in this coun-
try. Under the treaties now in oper-
ation valid leases ean be made for a
period of five year.?.
Extensive holdings have interested,
indirectly, every financial institution
in the country, and to a more or loss
extent almost every mercantle firm.
Nothing for years has so greatly
disturbed the people as a recent state-
ment of Senator Stewart that he wilt
recommend the abrogation e\ ail the
leases and prohibit new ones from b
ing made. The
The same conditions exist there ...
reference to leases as have existed
in the other reservations and a fight
on that principal prevented quaran-
tine extensions last session. Okla-
homa has only judicial autfi<« ities
over the Osage reservation, and
therefore may not be able to pass the
proposed measure. However, it is
possible that a bill will be offered
providing for the extension of the
quarantine effective upjn the txp ra-
tion of the leases.
First Oil Well at Lenapah, I. T.
LENAPAH: The Lenapah Gas,
Oil and Mining company has brought
in oiler No. 1, on the C. M. Woodward
land west of town. Forty feet of oil
sand was found at 530 feet, and it is
exceptiorally r'ch. While the oil could
bo cs'ly pumped, yet the company
will have the well shot that it may
prove a gusher. This well opens up a
new and hitherto unpjoved field.
Repairing Flood Damage
MUSKOGEE: The M„ K. & T.
Railway company has put a large
force of men at work repairing the
flood damage done on its main line
track through Indian Territory by the
overflow if the Canadian river. Over
" i two miles of track were washed out,
, . senators plan is to and thc canadian railroad bridge is a
Jhf.. 'nt?, 'he ha"'IS °f f00t ,ine- " will be impos-
the actual settler by allowing mm to | slble for trains to cross the river on
purchase after the plan of the nation-1 th-e nlain ,ine for sevPral days Mcan.
?, r r lav.', niakmg payments while Katy trains make a detour from
in small sums, and r. quiring a re.i- South McAlester to Port Smith and
a patent shalM, i I ^l; back t,J Muskogee ov*r th" '™land
a patent sha 1 be issued It is said j Va;iey. it requires twelve hours to
his proposed p an would he a hard | Soutb McAlesUr to F()rt Sm ,h d
blow to the business interests of this t0 Muskogee, which is a two-hour run
Representatives of the Creek Nation
Convened at Okmulgee
MUSKOGEE: The last annual ses-
sion of the Creek Indian nation
opened at Okmulgee last Thursday.'
Most of the time was taken up with
the reading of the message of General
Pleasant Porter, principal chief of tha
nation, in which the veteran leader
outlined the measures that, in his
opinion, should be passed by the
council before the end of the session
of thirty dayi hence. •
Referring to the Indian appropri*
atii n bill providing for the removal
of restrictions upon the alienation ot
the allotments of freedmen, or citi-
zens not of Indian blood, Chief Por-
ter declares the law has had a bad ef-
fect on the non-English speaking pen-
pie of the nation In that it has
created the impression among them
that they must sell their lands. I
Chief Porter disapproves of tha
construction of the agreement as in-
terpreted by Judge Raymond in the
Noah Foster ease, which compe's pa-
rents to give bonds for the legal
management of the allotments of tho
minor children. Many of the people;
he says, are unable to make report
as required, of the manner in which
they have handled the allotments of
their minor children, and will have
to secure the services of aa attorney
to do this for them. This will put
them to much expense. The allot-
ments of orphans and incompetents,
he declares are in much more de-
plorable condition, as no person ex-
cept a citizen can be made their
guardian. Consequently a large per
cent of them are receiving no bene-
fit whatever from their allotments. 1
The message declares against th
promiscuous leasing of Indian lamK
and especially homesteads. "I
believe it would be better," it says
"to secuie the passage of a law by
congress prohibiting the leasing of
the homesteads for the same period
of time that sale is prohibited. Then
all citizens will have at least a home
for that length of time, and by that
time sufficient progress will have
been made by them to understand its
value and through its proper use ob-
tain a livelihood.''
In pursuance of a previous an-
nouncement Chief Porter expresses
his opposition in his message to the
sale oi the residue lands, declaring
that such action w '■ be a direct vio-
lation of the ag. .-. uient. He be-
lieves that each allottee should be
liven enough of the residue lands to
equalize his allotments to the value
of $10,010.
Only brief mention is made in the
message ot annulling the contract
with the Creek national attorney, A.
P. .Murphy, which resulted in an in-
vestigation ana the filing of two dam-
age suits.
Several minor recommendations
arc made in the message. One is
the re-accounting of the expenditure
of the Creek monies by the depart-
ment for purposes unauthorized by
law will be made with the department
so as to secure an appropriation by
congress to cover if. It is also
recommended that an appropriation
of $75,000 be made by the council to
pay the outstanding indebtedness of
the nation.
country.
Fiit en hundred or more patents to
Indian allotments are now awaiting
the signatures of the governors of the
Chickasaw and Choctaw nations. Soon
after the patents are issued the In-
dian will be allowed to sell a portion
of his lands.
when the main line is open.
YOUNG SPANIARD RELEASED
Boy Passing Through Territory Held
for Disposing of Whisky
VINITA: Vauca Cebo, a Spanish
boy, on his way from the east to
Did Not Steal the Money. Texas, in passing through the terri-
TULSA: Henry Hale, a negro, was' tory. gave an Ind an on the train a
arrested for stealing a p'stol and $10 drink of whisky. The Indian kept
in money. The pistol was stolen and ' the rest of I lie whisky and gave the
traded by the thief. 'The original
owner of It had secreted the money
in the butt of the pistol by unscrew-
ing the celluloid side pieces from the
frame and packing the money inside.
The negro had not discovered the
money, so it was recovered by tha
owner. At the preliminary hearing
the judge held that as the accused
was in ignorance of the presence of
the money ho was not guilty of steal-
ing it.
Midland Valley Into Tulsa
TULSA: The Midland Valley rail-
roai lad it3 tiaclc into this pa n,
making a distance of about 120 miles
from the point of origin, at. Hartford,
Ark. Tie liae will probably be
opened for~traific from that p'ac
titer then Nov«*-\)er 1.
boy a dollar. Cebo was arrested and
taken from the train. He was two
weeks in jail without understanding
!he charge. He could speak no Eng-
lish and the officers could get no in-
terpreter. Convinced Cebo was feign-
ing Inability to understand, they were
about to send him to jail, when Jona-
than Vice, counsel general of the
United Slates to Morocco during the
Perdicaris kidnapping affair, who is
visiting Vinita filends, and was In the
court room, volunteered to interprete.
He told the court the boy's s'ory and
sciured his release.
The Jury Taken from the Box
VINITA: A sensation was caused
in the federal court when Judge Gill
summarily discharged twelve of the
regular panel of jurors from further
service. The jury had returned a
verdict of not guilty in the case o£
Warren Davis and Ora Rankin, who
were charged with a breach of the
peace, In the face of direct evidence
of guilt and the instructions of the
court. Marshal Darrough was or-
dered to summon twelve citizens to
take their places. The first case
called was that of Daniel and Edward
Price, charged with the murder ot
Thomas QuaJts. Their lawyers im
mediately attacked the validity of tha
panel.
MUSKOGEE GRAVES ARE MIXED
Wholesale Disinterment to Follow
Quieting Title to Cemetery Lots
MUSKOGEE: An examination
into the conditions *iU tho cemeteries
near this city revealed the startling
fact that burials in thein have been
made promiscuously and that, in
many cases, members of several dif-
ferent families have been interred In
a single lot. When the cemetery com-
mittee made an investigation it
found that no one knows who are the
rightful owners of these lots, as no
deeds to them have ever been filed
and in most instances there are no
records which show who were tho
original purchasers.
Mayor Rutherford has instructed
the committee to inquire into tho
matter and if possible determine who
were the first purchasers of the lots.
It will then become necessary to
have a wholesale disinterment of tho
bodies which have been buried ou
other p ople's lots.
Dan Patch, the world's famous
pacer, will be driven tTfree miles
not ag3inst his own time at Oklahoma
j City Thursday, November 17th.
Cure as Bad as Disease.
Onions are recommended as a cure
j for indigestion, but as yet there has
i been ao cure discovered for onions.
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