The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, August 12, 1898 Page: 2 of 8
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THE PEOPLE'S VOICE.
lYrry « ants the rliu us the city blie 1c
tr«e.
They are talking of a creamery at
NORMAN,
OKLAHOMA.
UKL4IIOMA AM) INDIA? ft K K I TO&T
I here is mjuh talk of putting in i
tpeetl ring at Oklahoma City.
liar ret, a burglar, was killed by In
(Hans at Anadarko last week.
<'ons;dcraMc improvement to the
railroad tracks are being uia<le arouud
Kildare.
The Oklahoma boy* at Fort Reno
^iave been aligned to duty under lieo*
ral Fit* Lee.
Tents how make up the town of
^Weatherford, wtyieh is a Choctaw point
just west of lieary.
W hitecaps are said to be waiting to
do business on souit* parties in the
Chickasaw nation.
A flixxi scare has struck west side
fiuthrie people, and several families
have their gooils packed.
Mutt Duncan, a full Mood Cherokee
leader, is trying to get the Creeks to
refuse to ratify the Dawes treaty.
Diamond Dick, the noted Indian
medicine man, is arranging to take
Neroniino, the Apache Indiun arch
tiend to the Omaha show.
i housands of car loads of wheat,
porn and cotton will be shipped out of
Oklahoma. Thousands of dollars will
>e brought into this territory from its
oale.
A man is now lying in the Oklahoma
county for selling bogus show tickets,
while the big circus is inarching on-
ward. The culprit will stay there
ninety days.
A young lady visiting in Clco gave
it out that she did not like to see any-
body in his bare feet and the youths of
that town are now wearing shoes and
acquiring corns.
Judge Wat Starr, a halfbreed Chero-
kee, has made the announcement that
he will hold his regular session of the
Cherokee court, despite the laws
against it. Recent legislation by con-
gress in the shape of the Curtis bill
forbids the Indians holding court.
The receipts of the office of the col-
lector of internal revenue for this dis-
trict, which comprises Kansas, Oklaho-
ma and the Indian territory, reached
high water mark during July. The
figures are nearly $100,000 greater than
ever before in the history of this office.
The sales of documentary stamps alone
foot up over 94r>.oon.
Home grown grapes have mudc their
appearance in the Oklahoma market.
More of this fruit will he raised in Ok-
lahoma this year than ever before, and
in flavor, it equals any California grape
ever shipped into this territory. Wc
can raise just as tine fruit in this ter-
ritory as was ever raised in the Chi ted
States.
Governor Harm-* lias gone to Omaha
Wher" Oklahoma one thfrd of"the* money'derlvcd^rom
Perry.
'1 he laving of the Sapulpa track goes
right along.
A traveling mind reader has located
at Purcell.
1'nuls \ alley is to hare an oil mill
iWitlllg I'.'II.OOO.
A Stroud Arm has Dewey and Samp-
son envelopes for sale.
Moonlight parties are all the rage in
the Chickasaw Nation.
Reeruita are beii«g en listed at Ard-
more to join the infantry.
Seven fullblood Indians were bap-
tized at Dougherty Sunday.
J he Santa Fe railroad company 1*
putting in extensive switches ut Poncn
City.
A new pnstofficc has recently been
established at Kelso, in the Cherokee
nation.
I lie Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indians
of Oklahoma are in evidence at Oma-
ha.
I he convention of the nation*?' party
of the Cherokee nation met August 8,
at Tucker Springs to nominate a can-
didate for chief ami assistant chief, to
be voted for at the next election. The
signs arc that a progressive man will
be nominated for principal chief. This
convention will be more largely at-
tended than any in years.
The Dawes commission which has
not been heard of very frequently for
some months, is again at work, anil
has begun a census of the 'Indians,
which is believed to be the last step
preparatory to the allotment of the
lands. The allotment will be a long
step toward the incorporation of the
Indian territory into the United States
as a regular part thereof, and the end
of the custom of maintaining other
national governments within the limits
of tlie American nation.
In Oklahoma the school lands are
leased and the proceeds are apportioned
to the school population. For the last
six months the amount realized from
this source was 826,295.05, and the
amount distributed percapita 2!) cents.
In Oklahoma, as in Kansas, the school
lands constitute two sections in each
congressional township. The Oklaho-
ma disposition to foster education will
doubtless lead to such careful manage-
ment of these lands as to insure in
time an immense school fund.
(iovernor llarnes last week granted
three pardons. Henry Welch and .las.
T. Welch, sevcntcen-year-old hoys,
who were sent up for life for robbing
a man of $5.oo at the same term of
court of Pottawatomie county, where
men were sent for two and three years
for killing were released, having serv-
ed three years. John I!. Flight of
Pawnee county, convicted 011 circum-
stantial evidence of stealing a ¥4 calf,
was sentenced for four years, and
served over half the term was released
for good conduct.
The efforts of the board of regents
"f the territorial university to secure
About It fleer. of the Oklahoma rough
rider* have lirti mnctruck in t uba at
different times.
The Smiths are to build another eot-
t"n gin at Tecumseh. That Smith
family ! bard to beat.
The Advent Christian conference of
Oklahoma ami Indian territories is in
convention this week near Waukomis.
Phil Kosenbaum succeeded in cap-
turing a tirst sergeancy only in the
Indian territory eoin|>any. It was
giien out that he had secured a lieu-
tenancy.
Dilmer ftrosciton, a soldier at Fort
Reno, has been arretted on a charge of
selling liquor to the Arapahoe and
Comanche Indian prisoners confined in
the fort.
The adjournment of the supreme
court last Saturday releases a large
number of ofticial attaches and law-
yers, who will improve the opportun-
ity to take a rest. '
Oklahoma wns visited by copious
showers last week. It is said that
there is enough moisture iu the ground
now to make the corn crop without
another drop of rain.
•loliu l.olobie, Oklahoma commis-
sioner to the Omaha exposition, in a
letter to a local paper, says that the
territory s exhibit is in its place and
attracts much attention.
Oklahoma will produce .the largest
corn crop this year within her history.
Cotton never looked liner, and water-
melons are coming in by the wagon
load and of tte tinest quality.
Tho Osage nation has two delegates
to the republican territorial conven-
tion. They had several to the demo-
cratic convention, but the delegates
did not make their appearance.
An Indian in Lincoln county has
been arrested for breaking into a
liool house. Tho poor fellow! He
should be encouraged to keep it up. It
is what the Indian race needs.
V. A. Stewart, of the Stewart A
Dawson Commission company of Okla-
homa City. 1* dead of heart paralysis.
He left about 920,000 to his family,
88,000 of this being in life insurance.
I lie organizers of Ok lahoma county's
independent troop of cavalry have re-
ceived a letter from President McKin-
ley, in which lie said that the offer of
the troop to go to Cuba or elsewhere
had been referred to the war depart-
ment.
The Seminoles are accepting the
new order of things in a most philos-
ophical way and will be the tirst of
the tribes to "get a move on them-
selves" under the new state of affairs.
Ily this time their census is practically
completed and the provisions as agreed
to ill their treaty are being put into
effect. The Seminoles gained many
advantages by the business like man-
ner in which they accepted and con-
tented themselves with the inevitable.
SIGN OF THE TIMES.
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STAND UP FOR KANSAS.
TRUTH CONCERNING KANSAS
AND THE ADMINISTRATION.
exhibit and arrange for the observance
of "Oklahoma Day," for which Sep-
tember li, has been designated by the
exposition officials. The governor on
that occasion will be accompanied by
his military staff and an unusually
low fate will be made by the railroads
Jjj permit of a large attendance from
the territory.
the leasing of section 13 in the Chero-
kee strip have not yet met with suc-
cess. The board holds that this fund
should be divided in three parts, one
part going to the university, another
to the normal schools, and the other to
the agricultural and mechanical col-
lege. (iovernor Barnes is of the opin-
1 ion that there is 110 law to prevent its
At a meeting of the Creek Indians at , distribution according to the individ-
Okmulgee resolutions were passed ask- 1 "til needs of the different territorial
ing the chief to issue a proclamation J schools.
for an election to either ratify the' ti... « 1
troutv w ith n, 11 '• . 1 or tin fiscal year ending June 30.
^eaty the Dawes commission ; the sum of 11.34 for each child of school
Heved°tlmt th° , T n " ^ "Mahomu was derived from the
Dawes tr ; 7 , 'l"C"Pt the Ilensin* '•"« -teen and thirty-
Danes treaty as it gives them a title Liv f,„. ti, i t .«
• , (six, ior the benefit of the common
in fee simple to lt>0 aeacs of laud and s< hnnla ti
allows ilicm <.>.• i ' «• . ■ hools. I he apportionment was mudc
allows them to ret in a portion of their for a s,hool popullltion nf,v- T|
government for a time. j lnon,y is Jlolle(1 ^
Much improvement is going on just) "if ''• months ending January :i. the
at the present time in Oklahoma. New'fa*' capita was 81.6'., and the total
residences and business houses are go- j amount, 895, lit. 25. For the six months
ing up in the towns all over the terri- ending June 30 the per capita was
•ory. In the country a noted improve- j twenty-nine cents, and the total amount
inent is also observed. New residences j 320,269.64. The fund for the year was
and out-buildjng arc being erected and i 8121,383,90.
a njajority o7 the farm "-s are deter-j Governor ltarncs has received manv
mined not to allow their machinery to pictures of buildings, street scenes
stand out in the weather another sea-! schools, colleges, general orchard
son. as has been customary with many j scenes, etc., for his annual report to
j the secretary of the interior, but would
A letter from the secretary of the in- be pleased to get a still greater iiu:n-
terior received a few days ago by a j of the crop and grain scenes, lie
gentleman at Tahlequah, says that especially desires photographs of the
the alleged 8400,000 steal matter has j following; Good wheat scene
been referred to the commissioner of j'leld or special display of corn, collec-
Indinn affairs with instructions to 'ion or display of Kaffir corn, general
proceed at once to investigate it. This j collection of tine grains, good threshing j
8400,000 was appropriated out of the 1 *cene, collection or display of fruits. !
Cherokee funds to equalize certain | apple tree showing fruit, peach tree
frecdmcn placed on the rolls, but is ' showing fruit, plum tree with fruit or I
Claimed to have been squandered by a grape vine showing grapes, extra iargt
certain officials and attorneys instead -watermelons. All photographs not
*>f going to the frecdmcn it belonged used in the report will be retured to
to. i •>- . - >
On August 1st an awful tragedy oc-
curred a few miles cast of Paoli. The
13-year-old daughter of Mr. Jones was
accldently shot and killed by a gun in
the hands of her father. Mr. Jones
had seen some quail and came hurridly
to the house, seized his gun and start-
ed out. The hammer of the gun was
accidentally struck against the door
casing, the gun tired, the w hole charge
passing through the body of the girl,
producing almost instant death. The
father is almost crazed with grief ut
the terrible misfortune.
A special from Ardmore, dated Aug
1st, says: "Farmers in the city to-day
from u distance of ten to forty miles
state that the cotton crop is very line.
It lias shown more progress and devel- ;
opmen', in the last ten days than be- !
fore this season. The plant is full of J
forms, and is large and healthy v. itli '
no sign of worms or anything (hat |
will materially damage it The f ivor- j
able season this year promises to nake j
the cotton iu this section n better Mu-
pie than usual, and though the acre-
age was largely diminished, a good I
vi"ld is expected, as the crop promises i
a better yield than last year.
cw Fnets About our War Governor's
Record, and of Things Pertaining to |
onr Present State Administration, I
Compared With Morrill's Helgn. I
While republicans are raving about
the manner in which Gov. Leedy ex-
j pends his contingent fund, it will be
| of interest to know how Morrill ex-
| pended his. One item shows that
i 8120.90 was paid to Speaker Lobilell
I for appointing investigating commit-
tees. These committees were appoint-
I ed to oust populists from office and
j make places for political henchmen.
| Instead of appointing committees at
j home and mailing tho lists to the gov-
J ornor, as he could very easily haye
| done, Mr. Lobdell came to Topeka to
I announae the committees. For this
work he charged for six days' time nt
83.00 per day and mileage at 15 cents
per mile from Dighton to Topeka and
return, making a total of 720 miles
traveled to perform duty which could
have been as well performed by the
use of a two cent postage stamp. Gov.
Morrill allowed and paid this claim out
of his contingent fund. Gov. Leedy's
payments have all been made for the
purpose of aiding in fights which are
made for the benefit of the whole peo-
ple.
surance cases, the republican papers
are howling that Mr. Boyle is incom-
petent and incapable of attending to
the duties of hit office. In some cases
many thousand dollars were paid to
the best lawyers available to defeat
the net ions instituted by Mr. Boyle.
These eleven cases were not, bv any
means, all of the litigation of the
amount that was pending at that time
and no attorney lives who could have
hunted up tho authorities, prepared
the briefs, taken the testimony and
plead the case without assistance.
C. P. Balmer 8330, 8. M. Miller 8214,
and John C. Carpenter 8373. The mid-"
itor's records do cot show a single
payment in any amount from Gov.
Morrill's contingent fund which went
to assist in any tight made in the in-
terest of the people of the state. All
of the above amounts were lor purely
political purposes.
The people of Oklahoma City are in-
dulging in the proud hope that the
Santa Fe is going to move its shops
from Purcell to that place.
The old settlers in Heaver county
say that the Cimarron river was high-
er last month than was ever before
jinown. The valley was Hooded and
much damage was done to crops in the
neighborhood of Gallienas and Onr-
Jiett. Alfalfa fields were inundated
and much corn and sorghum washed
away. The rise was due largely to
rains in Xew Mux
the sender
fhe large cotton compress at Okla-
homa City is Hearing completion The
machinery is about all in place and
when the compress is formally opened
next fall, it will be the advancement
of an industry that has alreadv mode
itself a factor in western business cn
terprises.
Clyde Stewart, a rough rider writ-
ing to his parents nt Pawnee, says he
thinks the yell given by rough -biers
before Santiago while opening the
charge caused them to surrender from
J fright.
An organized effort is to be u ade to
resist the recent tax-raising cecision
j of the supreme court. The following
j notice explains itself: "To the county
j clerks and boards of county i onunis-
j sinners of the several counties of Oklu-
i hotna territory: Von a.*e hereby called
i to luci'f at Oklahoma City on August
| HI, H9S. at 10 o'clock a. m., for the
I purpose of taking steps toward tnak-
j '.nfc'a united effort in resisting the un-
limited power exercised by the terri-
j torial equalization board in arbitrarily
j i*u...:ng the assessed valuation of the
I different counties. You are rcspeet-
: tully invited to send a representative
' to the meeting. Kindly notify the
j undersigned if you will be represented,
i My order of the county commissionsrs
| "f Oklahoma county Respectfully, !
j Uicli I., tuffrey, eo inly clerk.
A Cleveland comity man has invent- j
ed a monkey wrench patent which lie
thinks will net him a fortune.
I he wires of the long distance tele- J
phone company in the Indian territory
are being stretched 'ictwcen South |
McAlester and South Canadian, and ,
by the middle of next week the line j
will be working between those two !
to'vps. This wil 'cave a very small
gap to be filled betwec the territory
and points iu Kansas, which will etn- I
nect Kansas ; ,u. Indian terri ti ry
noints with Texio
During the last republican yea. at
the agricultural college the institution
I ran in debt about $18,000.00. The
| present management is liying within
| its means, and will not ask for any dc-
I tieicncy appropriations.
j Instead of trying to ruin the state
agricultural college, the populist man-
agement is endeavoring to build it up.
It has added a dairy school, instruc-
tion in which will be of immense value
to Kansas.
! The records at the penitentiary show
j that during the time that Ilarrt Rich-
ter, the republican nominee for lieu-
' tenant governor, was a member of the
! penitentiary board, that coal was sold
j on open market and that all such sales
j were approved by him as well as a ina-
! jority of the board.
Tho republican editors seem to have
; instructions from some one directing
them to abuse Gov. Leedy for paving
| money out of his contingent fund for
I services of attorneys who assisted At-
torney-General Boyle in the large
i amount of litigation which he has con-
ducted in the people's interest. As is
well known these suits have been so
numerous that no one attorney could
l>egin to properly conduct them Al-
most all of the eases have been against
strong corporations which have ample
funds to employ the best legal talent
available. It would be expecting too
much to ask one man to conduct all of '
these cases alone. Because Gov. Leedy
paid to attorneys 83,100 for assisting
Attorney-Genual Boyls in eleven in-ii
While the republican papers are say-
ing so much about the manner in
which Gov. Leedy is expending his
contingent fund, it will be of interest
to know what became of Gov. Morrill'.'
funds. It is a well known fact that
the payments made by Gov. Leedv
have been for necessary assistance in
prosecuting fights in the direct inter-
est of the people. Gov. Morrill spent
83,2G0 ousting Bill Rogers from office
in order that J. R. Burton's law part-
ner might have a 8400 job. This did
not cover all of the cost as the legisla-
ture was consequently asked to pay a
deficiency appropriation of 8.',000 for
the same purpose. In order to remove
Sen. Householder from the board of
charities and to make place for a po-
litical favorite, 82,028 was expended in
an investigation. For this class of
work 87,909 was expended, and judg-
ing from the view that republican pa-
pers take of the matter, this was a
very sensible proceeding compared
with with the expenditure of 83,000,
used to fight the battles of the people.
One hundred and fifty dollars was paid
to Peters .t Nicholson for assisting At-
torney-General Dawes in an effort to
oust Hank Commissioner Breidenthal.
Gov. Morrill also paid 8130 to ex-Sena-
tor Milton Brown for defending George
A. Clark, the present republican nomi-
nee for secretary of state, iu a suit
brought againbt him by Mrs. Lease to
prevent him from crowding her out of
her place on the board of charities. W.
A. S. Hird got 8300 for assisting the
attorney-general in the Wait investi-
gation case. Joseph Reed, a Topeka
lawyer, got 8100 for fees in another
similar case. Ilarry' Hone, the present
assistant U. S. district attorney, got
*300 for assisting the attorney-general
in crowding a populist out of office.
Ex-Speaker Lobdell got 8120 for com-
ing to Topeka and naming an investi-
gating committee which could have as
wall been named at his home. Syl
Dixon got 831S for service in connec-
tion with one of the investigating com-
mittees appointed to oust populists.
Dixon is the mar. who ran a McKinley
train of corn to the St. Louis conven-
tion. John Jones of Topeka gotS17J
for similar service. The following
amounts were paid for services in help-
ing to make political places for r-epub-
icans by ousting populists: Otto Eck-
stein 8297, Alexander Warner ?.'7^'. II.
E. l'ile 8711, E. F. Caldwell 8271, ex-
Senator Parker81 "7, Ike Lambert $141,
K. Willcoxon #.23, W. a Ward
The Kansas populists do not differ
materially from populists in other
states is shown by the manner in which
the present state officers in Nebraska
are conducting the state affair*. The
first year of the present administra-
tion shows a saving of 3>02.',14 in cur-
rent expenses. In round numbers cur-
rent expenses have been reduced from '
81,500.000 to 81.000,000, making a sav-
ing of an average of 81.377 per day.
The accretdry of state's mice lias
shown a deficit ranging from '. .!(J8 to
816,688 for the past twenty years, bub
the first year of populist control pro-
duces a surplus of more than '•7.0(H).
When the state treasurer took charge
there were more than 8.1--,,00') of war-
rants against general funds outstand-
ing. His republican predecessor was
a defaulter in a large amount aud is'
now serving a term in the penitentiary.
The present treasurer l.:n paid off
8110,512 of these warrants and S.'90,i«i0
of stale bonds, thereby making a total
reduction in the state debt of 5700,542/ 1
The change of school funds manage-
ment became apparent to the peopls
when 8739,591 was distributed to tho
schools compared with an i/erage of
8360,203 for the previous s x years.'
l or the first six months if nog this
fund has reached $430,09-. and if con- *
ditions during the remamder of the
year are not unfavorable the total
amount for 1898 will ha nearly twice
that of the republican average. A free
employment agency has been est&W
lislicd in the labor bureau and it lias
proved to be of great value to the peo-
ple. State officers have paid into the'
treasury 800,113 compared vim 813,219
turned in by their republican predeces-
sors during the previous year. When
the last republican auditor's term of
office expired he was arrested, charged
with embezzling the fees received as
superintendent of insurance, which
office is combined with that of the
auditor in that state. Th, supremo —
court released him on the ground that,
there was no specific sei
directing the payment of
into the treasury. The present audi-'
tor pays no attention to '.his decision
but turns in all of the fees which
receives and lias alread paid
more than 815,000 to tin
this account. The state oil inspe
lias paiil into tho treasury in three and
a half years nearly as mue . money as
his republican predeces^o-s paid in iu
a period of eleven years and
' ■ m of lawl
these funds
he
over
treasury on
ctor
These are but a few itt
general statement showing
work that populist officers
for the great state of Nehru
half,'
from the
the good
The actions of a 13-inch
oudcr than words.
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