The Konawa Chief. (Konawa, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, May 19, 1905 Page: 1 of 18
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<Xbe IRonawa Cbtef.
FIRST YEAR. NO. 26.
KONAWA, IND. TER, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1905.
$1.00 THE YEAR
Stolen Paragraphs.
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When an attorney offers to set-
tle' listen.
Some men try to get business!
by fighting people.
Jump a man before he has had j
breakfast if you want a fght. j
Women are more critical with
dry goods than they are with 1
men.
If you don't want them re-
peated, don't tell us good things
about people.
When a preacher calls on a j
man it is a sign th at the man is |
pretty sick.
Did you ever wear an under-1
shirt that didn't have sleeves a I
mile too long?
What has become of the old- j
fashioned town that ackr.owl-j
edged a belle?
Nothing surprises a Lady Kil-
ler more than for a woman to
fail to worship him.
If you haven't much sense,
and a lot of us haven't, talk as
little as possible, and go slow.
Every man is mean enough to
wonder what a preacher does
when he is alone in New York.
It is possible to have such a
good memory that one's conver-
sation sounds like ancient his-
tory.
There are men we wouldn't
believe under oath, but we would
hate to go into court, and swear
to it.
Do you know anyone you
could visit as long as two weeks
without the edge of your wel-
come a little frayed?
When a man steps on a wo-
man's dress and she does not
resent it, it is a sign that she is
"interested" in him.
The thrills that are supposed
to come from holding a girl's
hand are largely imaginary.
We've tried it; we know.
After a man gets so used to
the arrangement of the funiture
that he can find his way after
dark, it is time to move it.
A little girl said to a boy, with
a wink: "Ever get left?" The
boy replied: ' "No; my mother
always takes me with her."
The Keep Up society is a new
one. The members claim that
they are keeping up, though
they should really be in bed.
Every time the average man
puts a new chair or a picture in
his office, his wife thinks she
ought to have it for the house.
Somehow the world never has
time to be sympathetic with the
woman who faints at a dress-
maker's.
When a woman is a little flirty
it is a great shock to her to find
a man who will not return the
ball when she throws it to him.
When a man gets discouraged
and quits, the doctor says after-
ward that that was just the
time when he should have held
on.
Country people say some town
people act mighty foolish when
they visit the country. The same
people act mighty foolish in town
too.
What has become of the old-
fashioned women who made
floating Island and a marble cake
when she expected company for
supper?
When a woman is a bride and
doesn't know her husband very
well, she exaggerates his illness,
but after a while he has to die
to prove it.
A man has good enough luck
as a father-in-law if he finds
that the men his daughters mar-
ry don', cost him more than the
wedding outfit.
In a recent very popular novel,
the pale moon figures twenty-
seven times in one chapter, and
it isn't a chapter with a love
scene in it, either.
It is a rare woman who can
get on her knees and scrub with-
out feeling as indignant towards
her husband as if she had been
on her knees to him.
A Konawa man is so suscepti-
ble to outside influences that
it is said that his mind hasn't
been right since he slept under
his wife's crazy quilt.
Whenever a man says he can
take guests home with him with-
out notifying his Women folks,
and that they will be pleased,
the smile is passed around.
It often happens that the wo-
man who has a reputation fa r
and twide as a judge of a good
bargain, seems to fall down
when picking out a husband.
The boy is not the only one
who likes to show his bruises.
When an adult likes to tell of
his ailments and wrongs, that is
the grown up way of showing
bruises.
Sometimes people grant you
a favor, and resent it. Their ill
will because of your request will
cost you more than the favor
they grant you. Don't ask too
many favors.
The President and Stathood.
The statehood question is set-
tled. There is no doubt as to
what will happen when Congress
meets again in regular session.
Oklahoma and Indian Territory
will be admitted as one state.
A majority of members of the
house and senate have express-
ed themselves as personally fav-
oring this action, and President
Roosevelt committed himself to
it in the short speech he made at
Muskogee while enroute to his
hunting grounds. The words of
the president were as follows:
"I must say how impressed I
have been traveling through the
territory this morning. Your
territory, remember, in conjunc-
tion with Oklahoma, will soon be
one of the greatest states of the
Union, I look forward to meet-
ing your congressmen and sena-
tors not long hense. And now,
gentlemen I earnestly hope as
you enter statehood you will rea-
lize the great responsibility that
rests upon you. Statehood is a
fist class state if you use it right.
It will be a mighty poor thing if
you do not."
There is no ambiguity in these
sentences. They clearly show
that president Roosevelt has
made up his mind and perhaps
will recommend in his annual
message, that statehood along
the lines indicated should be
granted to Oklahoma and Indian
Territory. It may be a fortu-
nate thing that Mr. Roosevelt
happened to visit the territories
at this time. His observation of
the development of the country
and his meeting and mingling
with the people impressed him
with a sense of the injustice that
is being done by holding them
as wards and victims of the de-
partment of the interior. There
is now a project on foot to per-
suade Speaker Cannon to make
a visit to the territories. This
plan is a good one and should be
enlarged so as to include other
influential members of congress
wh j have been opposing state-
hood. Their opposition has been
founded largely upon ignorance
of territorial conditions. A visit
would convince them of the er-
ror of their ways, and next win-
ter the vote for statehood for
Indian Territory and Oklahoma
would be prectically unanimous.
—K. C. Journal.
MARRIED.
Out in the open air under the
canopy of heaven, in their buggy
in the presence of many witness-
es Mr. Frank G. Maxwell and
Ethel Turner were joined in the
holy bonds of matrimony Sunday
Eve. at 3 o'clock by Eld. D. F.
Lyon. We with their many
friends wish them a long, happy
and peaceful voyage through life.
D. F. Lyon.
It is said that the people of
Asher are a month earlier with
vegetables than the rest of this
country. Banker Boggs of that
place supplied his friends with
home-grown radishes from his
own garden the first Sunday in
March xand Irish potatoes are
now large enough for table use.
Some wag irreverently suggests
that it is because Asher is so
near hades it is much warmer
there than elsewhere.—Tecum-
seh Republican.
I have a stock of up-to-date
dry goods and groceries to sell.
Will sell with or without the
I building, See Nichols.
"When you don't get what you
want" says an exchange, "put
up with it and say as little as
possible about it.'' That's'sound
advice, all right; but we would
like to see the man who can take
good advice. Tell a man /what
he should do, and he won't do it
to show that he is ' 'independ-
ent."
When a woman thinks of get-
ting a divorce, she thinks her
husband will Never Give Her Up.
But he usually consents to it
with a surprisingly slight strug-
gle, and makes no fuss except to
hire a lawper to see that the ali-
mony is about right.
If there is no grease spots on
the front of an old man's clothes,
it means that he is carefully
watched over by his women
folks, but you will usually find
them.
No. 7633.
Treasury Department,
Office of Comptroller of the Currency,
Washington. D. C., March 6, 1905.
Whereas, by satisfactory evidence presented
to the undersigned, it has been made to appear
that "THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OP KO-
NAWA," in the town of Konawa, in the Semi-
nole Nation, Indian Territory, has complied with
all the provisions of the Statutes of the United
States, required to be complied with before an
association shall be authorized to commence the
business of Banking;
Now therefore I, William B. Ridgely, Comp-
troller of the Currency, do hereby certify that
"THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KONAWA'
in the town of Konawa, in the Seminole Nation,
Indian Territory, is authorized to commence the
business of Banking as provided in Section Fifty
one hundred and sixty nine of the Revised Stat-
utes of the United States.
In testimony whereof witness my hand and
Seal of office this Sixth day of March, 1905.
(SEAL) Wm. b. Ridgely,
Comptroller of the Currincy.
First publication March 17; last May 18, 1905.
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Nichols, G. E. The Konawa Chief. (Konawa, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, May 19, 1905, newspaper, May 19, 1905; Konawa, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc97112/m1/1/: accessed April 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.