The New Era. (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 14, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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THE OMEHPORT NEW El* KAII LOSES
DO fT EARLY
BATEKPOKT.
OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma News Notes
Stk Te h ~ to u&eerpor-
ate Ibe l«n «( guorl
Tte BartinrUit arhoot* dowd i
fctiitd; kr order ol IX O. 8 Sots
rroile, bttilt oOetr. tm tram: ol
•x« f>r«Ta>- -of d-jhtfcena. liuerm
Mt>( > store of eta** ia the t .tr.
Jack Langley, b* t !or. S , ti v tag
•lose m U> farm Bear iMtno*. u
'oud dead ta fcta M. TV dead aaaa
«aa nh««4 to fate aoxr u>4 sal
eecfi ormkii* tnu; for several
day*.
Join ffitwitt ac«4 ft rears. >u
foocd dead ia hia roots a! Skaw&ee
Dealt ni da* to uSoeMtoa, iadaced
kr laac (roaMe. He waa a brnratr of
WOiiaia BWftrfc a weij fc&c a Eock
Ma&d ewgiater.
IN BIG SUIT
COURT HOLDS CLAIM INVALID
EVEN UNDER OLD GRANT
A HUGE SUM INVOLVED
Read C I"rt 1.114,3*8 Acre* ef Land
Valued at W1JS7A00 A t;e- ta
Have Been Given a* In^tce
meat ta B««ld Read
Aniur G- Cochran* of Masks-gee.
Lu feeeZ anoimed (.'sited Stales
soaaiaicMT for cite M* lbag*« dis-
trict kjr M(e Baipt Caaapbeil of tte
federal cxmrt Cocsrue succeeds
CawtiNioaer C. A Nkbois «to died
a few days ago.
That Iter* are loo aair "goa loc>
era" U Carter cownty. *aa the com
liaial taade to lit corny eonm
elneu n. and the corn mix* .oners re
of all dejai ty con
wit* the ex
eeptkm of depo'.iea ia two large town
Siaa
Tbirty-aix boara after Frank Haa
tor attempted to eaah a forged check
"or OH at the Shawnee National
task and attempted to eacape amid a
hail of bullets from the back teller*
eva. be pieaded guilty to forgery id
the aeeoad degree. waa sentenced to
terra one year in the penitentiary aad
waa od bis way to McAlester
At the last regular monthly meet'
lug of the McAleater achool board the
members went on record aa being op-
posed to the roagbneaa In both foot'
hall and basketball games. Football
b the future win be prohibited in
matched gamea with other tea ma
when called for Friday. Basketball
will not be permitted to be played
la the high school building and must
ba played la the o^n.
W. P. Pickering baa started suit
to collect from the city of Bartlesville
9U000 which he claims ia due him
for Injuries received from a rifle ball
inflicted at a Ume when he was pass
ing in the rear of a shooting gallery I
daring the month of August. He ba
Heree, inasmuch aa the place wat
operating under a permit frdm the
city, that the city ahould be reapon
flble for any damage caused thereby
State Auditor Leo Meyer added to
the collection of the State Historical
society, recently, by the presentation
of a chair 103 years old, vfhlch once
was the property of Daniel Boone
The Interesting relic, which ia of the
old straight-backed, split-hickory type
la In an excellent state of preserva \
tion, and ia aa serviceable aa the da)
it waa made. It waa received by Cua
todlan W. P. Campbell on behalf ol
the society. The chatr waa donated
by Auditor Meyer In the name of BIL'
Cross, former secretary of state, now
deceaaed. It was presented to Croat
by Captain Carrick and John B. Doo
lln of Alva In 1908, when It was just
100 years old. A complete history ol j
Um> interesting relic has been kept
and It shows that the relic now la
exactly 103 years old.
W. 8. Wataon, a farmer neal
Muskogee got an agricultural idea j
last summer that beats the ordinary
rotation idea by several taps. Watson
planted twenty-eight acres of cotton
He also hatched out a drove of 20C
young turkeya. When the turkeyi
were large enough to tak* care ol
themselves be turned them Into the
cotton Held and kept them there. The
turkeys cleaned up every sort of In-
sect and made their own living.
When the cotton and the turkeya
were ready to plctt Wfctson found thai
his cotton Waa better than any of hit
neighbor*). He sold $750 worth of cot
ton and |200 worth of turkeys. The
turkeys had added several hundred
dollars to the value of the cotton crop
and the cotton had made 3200 worth
of turkeys.
Shawnee Scotchmen have issued at
invitation to persons of Scotch da
■cent in the state to be their guests
at a Scotch supper and concert and
dance to be given here on January
26, Bobble Burns' birthday. Two pip
era will be secured to furnls^ the
music.
Wuklagus. D C—Sail for land
worth K1.2S7.M4 aad aambering 3.-
114.3*4 xns ia what waa oan Indian
Territory. Sled by the Missouri. Kan
sas aad Texas Railway against the
govemmect, practically was dismissed
by the eowrt of claims when It sus-
tained tike government a dfaarrtr to
the railway's action.
The toon held that the claim, even
wader the oid grant, which was given
as aa f&dacemcit lo the speedy con
struct Son of a line north and south
through Oklahoma, was not valid as
the contract provided that the railway
company was not to receive said grant
until land titles had been extinguished
by the Indians.
In its petition the railway declared
It had met ail provisions of its con-
tract with the government In the con-
struction of the road: thai the same
was approved and accepted by the
government and that ia pursuance of
the general government policy the
government extinguished the Indian
title to the lands In question by treat-
ies and legislation; that Ibe greater
portion of the lands had been allotted
to the Individual Indians and the un-
allotted lands (old by the defendants
lo others than Indians, and otherwise
disposed of the railway righta and
Claims despite numerous protests.
The opinion of the court sets forth
that previous to the grant to (be rail-
road (be government, which then
dealt with the Indians as It would na-
tions. entered Into treaties with the
various Indian tribes, conveying to
them title and dominion over (beir
tribal lands. As these treaties ante-
dated the granting act, they assuredly
nulled a governmental1 intention to
grant to another a right just previous-
ly given under the trea(y stipulations,
and (here was nothing (o do bu( im-
pose a condition, and tba( waa (be ex-
tinguishing of Indian titles.
The opinion further recites that In
March. 1893, nearly forty years after
the granting act, congress provided
for the commission to negotiate with
the Creeks, Chlckasaws and Cherokee
Indian tribes, the tribes concerned In
the suit, looking toward a dissolution
of tbeir tribes and a cession or allot
men( severally among them of their
lands. The body commonly known as
the Dawes commission, proceeded to
the negotiations with the Indians and
secured agreements from Ibe tribes as
to the terms of disposition of their
landed interests. With some excep-
tions the entire body of Indian land
became the property of the individual
Indian, being conveyed to tbe allottee
by tbe joint act of tbe Indian and the
government
While In a strict and technical
sense the possessory title of the In-
dians was by this legislation extin-
guished, the United States was not
tbe beneficiary. No provision of tbe
law vested in the government the unit-
ed title of itself and tbe Indians. Tbe
transaction was directly the opposite
Tbe government divested Itself of
whatever title it possessed and by
united conveyance merged tbe lesser
and the greater estate In the allottee.
The Indian title was only extinguish-
ed In the same sense that tbe Indian
acquired the outstanding title of the
government, and by this act merged
a possessory right into a fee simple.
The Indian continued in possession.
Arguing Big Principle
Washington, I). C —The right of tha
states to penalize railroads for refus-
ing to receive goods for shipment in
; interstate commerce was argued be-
[ fore the supreme court of the United
i States. The question presented to the
I court concerned particularly the state
of North Carolina. A direct attack
j was being made on the conslltution-
| ulity of tbe statute, enacted in 1905,
In that state. Imposing a penalty of $50
a day on a railroad for every day It re-
i fused to accept goods for transporta-
tion. The principle Involved waa be-
fore the court In two different cases
In botb cases the defendant was the
Southern Hallway company.
Lockout Ended
Berlin.—The lockout of metal work-
era which began on November'30 and
affected between 50,000 and 60,000 men
la ended. A n^ajority of the strikers
were opposed to the compromise
drawn up Tuesday, but as a two thirds
majority ia required lo reject compro-
mise proposals, and this majority waa
not obtained, the lockout ended.
MINE CAVE-IK
CATCHES MEN
1M MINERS ENTOMBED BY RKA-
SON OF EXPLOSION
SMALLER ACREAGE SOWN
TO WHEAT THIS YEAR
Moisture a Needed Everywhere—Ok-
lahoma Fields Not Up to the
1911 Standard. Says Report
Washington —Winter wheat was
sown on a smaller acreage ia the
United States this fall than last year,
according 10 Ibe department of agri
culture's crop review. The condition
of tbe crop December 1 was 4.1 per
cent better than a year ago. bat 2 3
per cent less than the ten year aver-
age for that date. A total of 33,212,004
acres. 435.000 fewer than last year,
was planted A continuation of fav-
orable conditions may result in an in-
creased crop per acre over last year
and make the total acreage increased
somewhat.
Tbe December crop report of the
department of agriculture shows 32,-
213.000 acres sown to winter wheat
i this fall, compared with the newly re-
vised estimates, baaed on the census
bureau's 1909 statement of acreage of
32,848,000 acres for the crop of 1911.
and 31.e54.000 acres for tbe crop of
1910. ,
The condition of winter wheat on
December 1. was 86 6 per cent of nor-
mal. compared with 82.5 in 1910, 95.8
in 1909 and 89 9 the ten year average
Tbe area sown this fall to rye is es-
timated at 2 436,uv0 acres, compared
' with tbe revised estimated area of 2,-
[ 415,000 acres for the crop of 1911 and
2,413.100 acres for the crop of 1910.
The condition of rye on December 1
was 93.3 per cent of a normal compar-
ed with 92 6 in 1910, 94 l in 1S0S and
92.3 the ten year average
SEGREGATED LAND BILL
IS QUITE LIKELY TO PASS
Measure to Dspcse of Surface Coal
and Asphalt Lands of Indians
Is Favored
Washington, D. C.—With the entire
Oklahoma delegation in congress back-
ing the measure, the bill proposing
the saie of the surface of the Choc-
taw aad Chickasaw segregated coal
and asphalt lands probably will be
passed at this session.
Senator Owen will bring up the
measure before the Indian committee
of the senate for a hearing, which will
be attended by Pat Hurley, attorney
for the Choctawa, V. M. Locke. Choc-
taw chief and other Okiahomans. Rep-
resentative Scott Ferns, of the house
committee on Indian affairs, has the
support of the entire committee and
tbe measure probably will be reported
back to Ibe house with the recommen-
dation for favorable action before Sat-
urday.
Tbe measure Involves 50,000 acres
of land which will be made subject to
taxation aa soon as sold and is worth
several million dollars. Senator La
Follette will flgbt any attempt to sell
the mineral rights to the lands, and
for that reason the bill to be present-
ed to congress will provide only for
the disposal of the surface lands which
are now untaxed and uncultivated.
THERE'S NO HOPE FOR THEM
Rescue Work Begins Promptly, But
There is Small Chance for Any
of the Imprisoned Men
Being Alive
•
Bryceville, Tenn.—That every min-
er of the number who walked into the :
Cross mountain mine at Bryceville >
Saturday morning met death in a dust j
explosion which occurred witbin one :
boor after they bad started work, is I
now a foregone conclusion.
Although rescuers have been at
work for hours and every known piece
of apparatus in the mine rescue ser-
vice has been put to use, there la lit- !
tie doubt that every man is dead.
The force of the explosion was ter-
rific and the hope that any one could
survive such a shock is beyond belief. '
Between 126 and 156 men checked in
Saturday morning.
At the mouth of the mine was a
throng of the friends and relatives of
the entombed men who closely ques-
tion every rescuer as he emerges from ,
the skatt. Several women are among
the watchers and their grief is heart-
rending.
Tbe Knoxville Iron company, own-
ers of the mine, have abandoned hope
of finding any aiive and wired to
Knoxville to send a carload of coffins
To add to the gravity of the situation
there is a food famine in the stricken
little town, owing to the great influx
of people.
THE GORVENMENT W|NS
A DECIDED VICTORY
United Spates Supreme Court Decis-
ion a New Spur to Land Graft
Prosecution
SHAKE?
Oxidine is not only
tte quickest, safest, and
surest remedy for Chills
and Fever, but a most
dependable tonic in all
malarial diseases.
A liver tonic—a kid-
ney tonic—a stomach
tonic—a bowel tonic.
If a system-cleansing
tonic is needed, just try
OXIDINE
—a bottle proves.
TT*e specific for Malaria, Quilt
and Fever and all diseases
due to disordered kid-
neys, inrer, stomach
and bowels.
60c. At Your Druggist*
ta* iimis z>are co.,
Wico. Tessa.
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for wMi.f frit* hrt
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UrtuF«.l«<.M PURS
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JAMES AND JOHN McNAMARA
SENTENCED BY COURT
First Named Given Life Sentence
and Last Named Sent up for
Fourteen Years
SOCIALIST CANDIDATE
LOSES IN LOS ANGELES
Job Harriman Defeated by Geo. Alex-
ander, and Entire Good Govern,
men! Ticket is Elected
Los Angeles.—Complete returns
from 315 out of 317 precincts in the
municipal election gave Geo Alexan-
der, incumbent, candidate of the good
government league, for mayor, 83,978
votes, and Job Harriman, socialist. 52,-
293 Tbe two missing precincts in the
suburbs bad a registration of 1500 and
1 are expected to run about even be
1 tween Alexander and Harriman.
| Tbe entire good government ticket
was elected. No socialist candidate
i for any office came within 25,000 votes
of winning. FrohlbiUon was defeated.
| there being 31,691 votes for it and 87,
314 against. Many women voted
against the measure.
Los Angeles—James Boyd McNa-
mara and John J. McNamar. brothers,
natives of Cincinnati, Ohio, felt the
strong hand of justice. James B. Mc-
Namara was sentenced to imprison-
ment for life for murder committed
in dynamiting the Los Angeles Times
building and killing twenty-one per-
sons, and his brother to fifteen years
in tbe penitentiary for blowing up the
Llewellyn iron works.
It waa tbe retaliatory execution of
the law against those lawless methods
which John J. McN'amara. secretary
and treasurer of tbe International
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers,
pursued In fighting employers who
kept "open shops."
Promises Home Rult
London.—Premier Asquith announc-
ed In the bouse of commons that the
: government would use all the constltu-
, tional means at Its disposal to pasa a
home rule hill for Ireland during the
life time of the present parllamenL
To Fortify Jamaica
Kingiton, Jamaica.—When Sir Sid-
ney Oliver, governor of Jamaica, vis-
ited the Panama canal zone, he was
accompanied by Colonel Wyndham, a
military expert, who is the governor's
private aecretary. It is learned that
Lieutenant Colonel W'ymiRam will
make a report of his inspection of the
canal which is likely to have an im-
portant bearing on the proposed ex-
tension of fortifications at Jamaica.
Washington, D. C-—The government
won a sweeping victory in its cam-
paign against Alaska coal land frauds
when the supreme court of the -United
States decided that a person or asso-
ciation is limited to one coal land
entry in Alaska. Accordingly the court
held valid the indictment charging
Charles F. Munday and Archie W.
Shields with land fraud conspiracy.
This decision not only means that
Munday and Shields must proceed
with their trial for alleged conspiracy
to defraud the government out of
Alaska coal lands valued at $10,000,-
000 but that similar indictments at
Spokane, Tacoma. Detroit and Chi-
cago will be pressed.
The substance of the decision was
that It Is jqst as much a fraud in
Alaska as in the United States proper
to hire dummy entrymen to take up
coal lands.
Munday and Shields were indicted,
along with others, on charges of con-
spiracy to defraud the government by
seeking to procure for the Alaska De-
velopment company and the Pacific
Coal and Oil company some 60,000
acres of Alaska coal land. It was
alleged that some forty persons were
Induced to make entries, ostensibly
for themselves, but in fact as the
agents of and for the use of the two
corporations.
The indictment swere brought in
the Clilted States circuit court for
Western Washington but were quash-
ed by Judge Hanford on tbe ground
that a person or association was limit-
ed to oae entry of coal lands in
Alaska.
Pettits Eve Salve
FOR ALL
SORE EYES
HIS VOCATION.
iiv
"I suppose you'll be an agricultur-
ist when you grow up?"
"No'm. I'm jest goln' to work on
this farm, that's all."
!*ht
id Jack
r have
Proaaer.
Invented !
nd
W. L. K
Tulsa, who
more labor
for oh In the oil Industry than any
other men In the world, have Intro-
duced another Invention which they
claim will shorten the time of drilling
oil wells and revolutionize the oil
buslneaa. Mr. Knight Is In the east
with tbe models, plana and descrip-
tions of the contrivance and will be
back In Tulsa soon. The Invention
calls for the use of steel cables for
drilling purposes Instead of the clum
ay ropes now used.
Texas Cattle Win Prize
Chicago.—First prize for the best
carload of cattle exhibited at the In-
ternational stock show here was won
by Csptain H S. Burnett of Fort
Wortb, Texas He won flr t In Short
horns. Herefords and special clastes
In the exhibition for the first time
aince tbe stock show became an annu-
al eveut, the western stock took the
prizes In tbe cattle classes Ohio won
the largest number of blue ribbons
Canada carried off the highest sheep
honors and got markings on 8horthorn
cattle exhibits.
Wil' Get Every Man
Indianapolis, Ind —"Ad earnest ef
fort will be made by the government ,
to bring to justice every man who was
Involved In the most damnable con-
spiracy ever entered Into in this coun-
try," said Ifniled States District At
torney ('has W Miller, In discussing
the federal grand jury's Investigation
of dynamiting operations of the Mc
Kamara brothers and othera alleged to
bave been associated with them.
Baby Rescued by Sister
Sch riever, La.—Kept afloat by a
heavy plush cloak until his baby sis-
ter could give tbe alarm, the 4-year-
old son of Henry Daigle was rescued
from Bayou Terrebonne. The boy's
mother rushed up and leaped into five
feet of water and saved him
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Washington.—President Taft will
send to the senate the name of James
S Harlan, interstate commerce com-
missioner, to continue in tbe position.
Mr Harlan, who is a son of the late
Judge Harlan of the supreme court,
will be renominated for a seven year
term.
Punishment Sought
Teheran.—Russia has presented a
note requesting the punishment of the !
assassins of Ala-Ed-Dowleb ex-gover-
nor of the province of Fars, killed De-
cember 12. Russian action Is due to
the fact that it is generally believed
that the three assassins took ven-
geance on Ala-Ed-Dowleb on account
of his alleged reactionary intrigues
with Russia.
By Way of Excuse.
"Youngleigh has some singular
Ideas."
"What, for instance?"
"Well, he says It Is mean to profit
by other people's experience after
they've been at all the trouble and
expense of collecting it"
Our Idea of nothing to beat Is the
fellow who brags that he begins
where we leave off!
—jit- - • y
For
Instance
Movement of Army Major Moore is Dead
Manila. P. I The Brieenth Infantry Texarkana. Ark -C 11 Moore, tor-
haa landed and been ordered to pro- mer """fey general of Arkansas,
ceed lo Kori William McKInley It ,lled here- aS*d 7" I,e wa a m*J°r ">
Is believed the slay there will be only lhft confederate army One of his chll
James ci. McNamara Sued
Loe Angele—James B. McN'amara,
under lentence of life imprisonment,
had other troubles added to his lot
when he became defendant In a t*>0,-
000 damage ault. The suit ia brought
by Louise M Sawyer, widow of Rob-
ert I„ Sawyer, a telegraph operator
employed by the Los Angeles Times
and killed In fhe explosion which
wrecked that building October 1, 1910
Report on Cholera
Chiaaso.—The official bulletin la-
sued by the Italian government on
the cholera epidemic reports fifty
rases and thirty-five deaths in Italy
for the week. November 26 to De-
cember 2. All the cases are In Sicily.
No cholera la reported on the main-
'and. The report says there has been
no cases In Rome or the province ol
Home since November 2*4, and these
are therefore declared immune.
troporary.
Two Die In Wreck
Helena, Ca.—Engineer R II Rake-
atraw and Fireman Sutton, both of
Macon, were killed and a score of
passengers were Injured when South-
| tbe
dreu Is Mrs. Yale Hicks, of San Anto-
nio.
Get Poatal Banks
Washington. D. C —The third cliias
poslofEies. Fort Cobb, Roosevelt and
Valliant. Okla, today were designat-
ed depositories of the poetal saving
accounts, by the postofflce department.
Blow-up Kills Two
Bt. Petersburg Two employes were
killed and forty Injured by a gas ex
plosion In the gold testing department
of tbe imperial mint. The whole plant
ern railway passenger train No 1 waa j was destroyed and the building sert-
derailed near here. | oualy damaged
England Blocks Persia
London—The British government
has blocked any Intention that Persia
haa had of reinstating in power the ex-
shah of Persia, Mohammed All Mirza,
by informing the cabinet In St. Peters-
burg that It Is Impossible for England
to recognise him.
Five Killed in Wreck
Paris.—Five persons were killed
and eight injured in a collision on the
Northern railroad outside the Paris
terminus.
Prohibitionists to Atlantic City
Chicago.—Atlantic Clly was chosen
as the place for the national conven
tion of the prohibition party next year.
The time was left to the chairman of
the meeting, wblrb selected Atlantle
City. The time was July JO.
Requisition Papers Honored
Oklahoma City.-—Requisition papers
from Governor Colqult of Texas were
honored by Governor Cruce for the
return to Texas of George Kemp,
wanted at Dallas for the theft of )50.
Kemp Is under arrest at Anadarko
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