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THE PEOPLE S VOICE.
DIVIDED OIN TRUST ISSUE.
NORMAN,
O. T.
UliLAIlOAlA AM) INDIAN TLHRITOBV
lVwcv Collect- at Sapulpa opened •
with three teachers and 14.r. students.
It is punishable in Oklahoma to hunt
mi another man's premises without his
eonsent.
'I he rare «>f Oklahoma's insane cost
the territory |17.44r ,'f> for the past
quarter.
In Washita county the cattlemen are
buying* all the nurplus corn and sighing
lor more.
Since alloting l>egan in the Chickasaw
nation the fruit tree business is boom-
ing there.
Harnett, charged with burglarizing
the county vaults out in Taloga coun-
ty. was found guilty by the jury.
There in going to be all kinds of
trouble over that survey of the north-
ern line of the Comanche country.
The settlers in the Cherokee strip
have a ten year limit in which to make
linal proof, and they arc glad of it.
A saw mill if to be built at the con-
fluence of the Cimarron and Arkansas
rivers, where there is lots of timber.
< hickasha is rebuilding its bu ned
district rapidly. Brick buildings aic
taking the place of fran.. structures.
A territorial charter has been issued
to the Cherokee Townsite Company of
Cherokee, Woods county. The com-
pany lias a capital stock of 910,000.
The cattlemen in the Osage reserva-
tion are said to be burning the grass on
the ridges. Their purpose is to keep
down such cxteus-vc fires later in the
Mason.
The land oflice I,as been moved from
Muskogee to Okmulgee. The Indians
in that section, with the exception of
the Kuehees. signify their willingness
to take their allotments at this time.
There are sixty-seven state banks in
Oklahoma. The figures show a reserve
of 03 per cent, Ct per cent more than is
required by the law, and the banks
have $1.Ols,000 more than tho law re-
quires.
Someone in the Creek nation named
•I.J. llolloman has rigged out a raft,
will float down the Arkansas and Mis-
sissippi rivers, until he gets to New Or-
leans. and then will sail for South
America.
Colonel E. N. Yates places the white
population of the Osage Indian reser-
vation. including tenants and em-
ploye*. at 8,000. The Osages number
1,705—885 mixed bloods and s.so full
bloods; t he Kaws about 200.
The prize of 8250 offered by the Cen-
tury Magazine Company for the best
story submitted in competition by Am-
erican college graduates of 181)8, was
awarded to John M. Okison of Vinita,
I. T. Its title is "Only the Master
Shall Praise."
union and gave his lime, his energy
! and his talent to the prosecution of the
war for the destruction of human sla-
j very. His eloquent words are firing
! the hearts of all the patriotic men in
; New England. The brave words for
' freedom of this venerable republican
' statesman of Massachusetts are re-
! (choed from the plains and mountain?
of the mighty west by the leader of
! the new democracy, William Jennings
Bryan of Nebraska. The populists of
i the whole country are all of them
I right on this momentous question, but
that was to he expected, because they
But the above picture fairly shows the respective strength of the trust and anti-trust factions of
the Republican part}- as organized today. It also gives an idea of what will occur when the factions
clash.
ALTGELD STIRRED
ri>
GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION
ACAIN DENOUNCED.
Two Men Sentenced for Sii Months' Ii -
prUonmeut Without Having Commit-
ted Any Criiuo I ndcr tliv Lax* V
Naiii|>l«* of tliu Corporation*' Inlluenee.
Senator O. II. llentley of Wichita lias
advices from the east to the effect that
W. It. Arnold has signed a contract
w ith eastern financiers for the funds to
construct the Wichita and Southern
railroad, the right of way through the
Indian territory having been granted.
In the Chickasaw country the oattle
interest seems to he thriving this year.
W. A. Rubottom of Lehi, I. T,, says
there are more cattle on hand than last
year and the usual number of hogs.
Corn good and roughness plenty, and
more cattle, it is thought, will be fed
this winter than last.
The estimated population is 10,400
( hoctaws and 9,048 I hickasaws, their
country comprising about 11,338,1135
acres. Their lands are to be appraised
and alloted equally among all, with
certain reservations for schools, town-
sites and other purposes.
It is efctimated that there are 31,401
Cherokee citizens and their territory
embraces about 5,031,351 acres: while
1 he Creeks number J 1,771 citizens, ac-
cording to the enrollment completed by
the commission, and have 3,040,000
acres within their dominion.
It appears by treaty that all mineral
land, other than coal and asphalt, is
not reserved from allotment in the
< hiekasaw and Choctaw nations.
The United States surveyors have
finished re-locating the ninety-eighth
meridian, which is the boundary be-
tween the Indian and Oklahoma terri-
tories.
The total assefsed valuation of prnp-
< rty in Sapulpa is returned at $200,000.
The Frisco railroad property is put at
87.',000, an increase of one-half for the
year. The population is 700.
There was a family reunion at Jeff
Simpson's in Custer county the oth >r
day where thirty-nine of one family at-
tended.
The visits of delegations of Indian
tribes from Iridi- u Territory are at an
i nd. An Indian inspector's oflieo is
opened at Muskogee, which will hear
all that delegation:- have heretofore
b en sent to Washington to say.
Surveying corps No. I of the Dawes
commission will soon finish the ap-
praisement of the Choctaw lands on
range number 0 cast.
Ex-Gov. Altgehl of Illinois has ad-
dressed the following letter to the
editor of the Illinois State ltegister.
It is fully characteristic of the grand
old man of Illinois, who never equivo-
cates on any subject:
1 notice an able editorial in your
paper on a flagrant ease of government
by Injunction in the United States
court at Springfield. Three men were
sentenced to prison for six months, not
on a charge of violating any law, but
simply of having disregarded an in-
junction. It appears that Judge Allen
of the United States court at Spring-
field had issued an injunction in case
of a dispute between a coal-mining
corporation and its employes. Of
course the injunction was in favor of
the corporation and against the em-
ployes. It related to matters over one
hundred miles from the court. If the
injunction covered matters that were
already covered by law, then it was
unnecessary, and Its only purpose
could have been to deprive the men of
a trial by jury. If it covered things
not already covered by law, then it
was simply legislation; that is, the
Judge made a law himself and called it ;
an injunction. In either case it was !
citizen I protest against tills outrage.
Our government had existed for more
than a century, and during all that
time it protected life and property and
maintained order. The law of the land
was found ample for every emergency;
| government by injunction was not
heard of during all that time. *Birt
| with the advent of corporate power
I and corporate control in our country;
that is, during the last few years, this
J usurpation and innovation has been
i established and used as a club to
i pound the back of labor. For twenty-
| five years no man has been appointed
| to a federal judgeship who was not
satisfactory to the corporations. Prior
to the war, the slave-owner used the
lash and the bloodhound as rear guard
conveniences to coerce the colored
laborer; today the corporations use the
United States courts, the United States
marshals and the prison as side-door
conveniences to coerce their white la-
borers. While the instruments have
changed, the hand that wields them is
that of the boss, and the Hesh that
quivers under them is that of the la-
borer. Jefferson declared that in the
federal judiciary would be found the
grave of American liberty. Here was
an aristocratic branch of the govern-
ment; here were men holding office for
life, not elected, but appointed, and
responsible to nobody; men who would
in the very nature of things be selected
by and from the powerful influences of
society, and who, by education,
by association, by taste—if not by di-
rect interest—would be on the side
that is inimical to liberty. The great
Lincoln attacked the Supreme court
of the United States because it had be-
come a convenience to the slave power,
and its decisions were in violation of
usurpation and a violation of the fun- j the principles of free government,
damenta principles of our govern- J After the Uredd Seott decIalon cliarles
ment. Having thus Issued this injunc- j sumner denounced the Supreme court
tion, the judge then had these men ar- of the Unlted state3 ln the m08t
rested, sat in judgment himself in : Bcathing terms for having lent itself
their eases and, without an indictment j as a convenience to the slave power
and without a jury trial, he sentenced for havillB falslned fact8, B,pressed
them to prison; he being thus legis- j truth, and trampled upon the
lator, judge and executioner. All this
most
sacred rights of man. Subsequently,
in commenting on the tendency of
courts to exercise arbitrary power, he
said:
"Let me here say that I hold judges,
and especially the Supreme court of
the country, in much respect, but I
am too familiar with the history of ju-
dicial proceedings to regard them with
any superstitious reverence. Judges
are but men, and in all ages have
shown a fair share of frailty. Alas!
Alas! The worst crimes of history
have been perpetrated under their
sanction. The blood of martyrs and of
patriots, crying from the ground, sum-
mons them to judgment.
"It was a judicial tribunal which con-
demned Socrates to drink the fatal
hemlock and which pushed the Savior
barefoot over the pavements of Jeru-
salem, bending beneath His cross. It
was a judicial tribunal which, against
the testimonies and entreaties of
her father, surrendered the fair Vir-
ginia as a slave; which arrested the
teachings of the great apostle to the
Gentiles and sent him in bonds from
Judea to Rome; which, In the name of
Diental right, guaranteed ln the most | tll(' nl(1 religion, adjudged tho Faint3
solemn manner by law, is thus brushed n'"1 fatners of the Christian church to
aside with a wave of the hand and men | death in all its most dreadful forms,
are sent to prison at the mere whim nml which afterward, In tho name or
or caprice of a judge. As an American ! "'0 new religion, enforced ths tortures
not for things done in the presence of
the court, but for tilings alleged to j
have been done over one hundred miles j
away. There is not a country in j
monareliial Europe in which a judge
would for one moment think of cxer- j
rising such power. As you say:
"If these men had violated any law, !
they should have been indicted and
tried by a Jury of their peers; and, if
found guilty, had the penalty of a lav/ i
Inflicted upon them. That would have
been government by law and in con-
formity with the spirit of the constitu-
tion of the United States. Hut In the
case of these men sentenced to six
months' imprisonment, they were not j
charged with violation of law, but sim-
ply disobedience of an order of court." j
The fact that they were not given a j
trial by Jury indicates that there was j
no ease against these men and that
they could not have been convicted In
the orderly administration of justice. |
The constitution of the United States, I
and the constitution of all the states, j
guarantee to every man the right of
irlal by Jury In all cases before be cin [
ie punished for crime. Tills funda
of the inquisition, amid the shrieks and
agonies of its victims, while it com-
pelled Galileo to declare, in solemn
den'al to the great truth he had dis-
closed, that the earth did not move
around the sun.
"It was a judicial tribunal which, in
France, during the long reign of her
monarchs, lent itself to lie the instru-
ment of every tyranny, as during the
brief reign of terror it did not hesitate
to stand forth the unpitying accessory
of the unpitying guillotine. Aye, sir,
it was a judicial tribunal in England,
surrounded by all forms of law, which
sanctioned every despotic caprice of
Henry VIII., from tho unjust divorce
of his queen to the beheading of Sir
Thomas More; which lighted the fires
of persecution that glowed at Oxford
and Smithfield, over the cinders of
Latimer, Ridley and John Rogers;
which, after elaborate argument, up-
held the fatal tyranny of ship money
against tho patriotic resistance of
Hampden; which, in defiance of justice
and humanity, sent Sydney and Rus-
sell to the block; which persistently
enforced the laws of conformity that
our Puritan fathers persistently re-
fused to obey, and which afterwards,
with Jeffreys on the bench, crimsoned
the pages of English history with mas-
sacre and murder, even with the blood
of innocent women.
"Aye, sir, and it was a judicial trib-
unal in our country, surrounded by
all the forms of law. which hung
witches at Salem; which affirmed the
constitutionality of the stamp act,
while it admonished 'jurors and the
people' to obey, and which now, in our
day, has lent its sanction to the unut-
terable atrocity of the fugitive slave
law."
At the close of the war, the late
Jeremiah S. Black, in arguing the fa-
mous Milligan case, while commenting
upon the tendency of the courts to
usurp power, stated that when King
Alfred the Great attempted to correct
the abuses which had grown up in Ills
kingdom, he found it necessary to
hang upwards of sixty judges. While
the Americans may not be able to hang
a lot of their usurping judges, the day
is dawning when they will impeach
and send into everlasting disgrace a
number of men who commit these
crimes against a free people.
Very truly yours,
JOHN 1'. ALTGELD.
United Wo St ohI,
The signs of the timc3 are very
promising. The conscience of the peo-
ple is fast awakening to present condi-
tions. Four months ago it seemed as
if imperialism and militarism would
blind the eyes of the people and that
the prospect of false glory would ob-
scure the patriotism of the masses. A
wonderful change has come over the
public mind the love and veneration
for the declaration of independence is
still supreme in the hearts of the
patriotic people; the love of human
liberty is still widespread among
Americans, and we rejoice that it Is
not confined to any one party or any
one locality. The voice of the noble
republican leader, George S. Boutwell
of Massachusetts, now 81! years old,
sounds as loud and clear as when in
1850 ho plead the cause of the fugitive
slave or when la 1SG1 he defended the
I are always right on every question.
I Our German-Americans have also seen
a great light and have ceased their
| worship of gold ln order to save their
adopted country. McKiniey is up
| against the hardest combination that
! anybody ever struck. His ideas o? for-
| eign conquest are being overwhelming-
] ly repudiated by the people. Every
day adds to the volume of mighty pro-
1 test arising against this unholy war.
j The American people are sickening at
| the flowing blood of patriotic men
fighting in the holy cajise of liberty.
The great principles of self-govtrn-
ment and universal freedom are as
much alive to-day as they were when
| Washington reviewed his ragged regi-
| ments at Valley Forge, or when Grant
j received the sword of Leo at Appo-
i mattox.—Percy Pepoon.
___
EACLtS AND HAWKS.
Once there were some eagles dwelt
ln snug nests high up in the cliffs of
the mountains of affluence, which had
been upheaved from the sea o! indus-
try by the power of law. Countless
myriads of Ushhawks eagerly scanned
the surface of this sea of opportunity
to secure the necessities of existence
for themselves and the means of rear-
ing their young. The eagles, seeing
this, called a meeting and held council
together, and adopted a plan, and r.ll
worked in harmony to carry it out,
and tLey soon persuaded the fishhawks
that those who owned the highest nes'.
j should have dominion over the others,
and should receive tribute from all
common birds. So the fishhawks paid
the eagles' rent on the iievits wbi h they
j themselves had built, and the c-agles
| prospered.
And the fishhawks paid a poll tax
on their heads for the privilege of liv-
ing, and rent on the perches on which
they rested, and profit on their own
beaks, and interest on their claws with
which they caught and held the fish,
and fares on their own wings by which
they traveled, and profits on the
feathers which they wore—and the
eagles prospered. It is true the eagles
did not build the fishhawks' nesis, b it
they allowed the fishhawks to do su.
And that was somPtninj. And they
allowed the fishhawks to have a pla.e
to build the nests—and that was some-
thing. It is true that the eagles did
not build the perches, or make the fish-
hawks' wings, and claws, and beaks,
and feathers, but they gave the fish-
hawks the opportunity to make them,
and allowed them to use them—and
that was something. And it came to
pass that as the stomachs of the eagles
grew larger and more greedy, and their
eyes more covetous, by cffect of un-
earned feed, that they keenly watched
the fishhawks as they worked.
And whenever a fislihawk paid his
rent, and profits, and interest, and had
fed his family and "himself, and had
yet strength enough left to work, and
had secured an extra fish to salt down
for a rainy day, the eagle who discov-
ered him thus heavy laden would dart
from his cliff with a scream of rage,
and wrest the fish away and greedily
devour it. This was called competi-
tion. It was said to be the life of
business and trade. It led to the sur-
vival of the fittest, which in eagle lan-
guage meant the greediest. And it
came to pass that one day a bony fish-
hawk, whose feathers were thin, and
whose wings were frayed, and whoso
beak and claws were dull with much
toil, sat upon a high perch and
screamed. And the other fishhawks
knew him for an anarchist, and gath-
ered around him and listened to his
questions. And he asked, "If thera
were no eagles, to whom would w< pay
our rent?"
And a silly young flshhawk an-
swered: "To no one." And the bony
one asked: "Then would we not b*
fatter?" And the others were aston-
ished. And one said: "Kill the eagles."
But the bony one said: "Not so. Do
not harm the eagles whom we have fed.
A new brood is growing, anyway. Stop
their feed. They live on rent, Interest,
taxes and profit. Without these, they
will have to produce work or starve.
Stop their feed." And the fishhawks
knew then that the bony one was a
repudiator. And they were enraged,
and with fierce screams they fell upon
him, and with their votes they tore off
. is feathers, and strewed his bones on
the sand, and gave his flesh to ths
eagles, and flew away to raise their
rent, taxes, profit and interest—and
the eagles prospered, and prosperity
came at last.—Dr. . E. Rullisoii.
fatal Second Time.
Pottsville (Pa.) Special Philadelphia
Inquirer: John Smink, aged 42 years,
a miner employed at Silvcrton col-
liery, was badly injured about the back
by being struck by a heavy atee! drill.
He pluckily limped back to work and
was again struck on the back, this
time by a fall of coal. This accident
resulted in his death.
" What's in a Name?"
Everything, "when you come to medi-
cines. cA sa'saparilla by any other name
ctn never equal Hood's, because of the
peculiar combination, proportion and pro-
cess by which Hood's possesses merit
peculUr to itself, and by which it cures
•when ill other medicines fait. Cures
scrofula, salt rheum, dyspepsia, catarrh,
rheumatism, that tired feeling, etc.
oUafioU
DRIFTING BOTTLES.
th«
GItc Valuable Information
Ocean Currents.
Washington Spec. Baltimore Sun:
Some valuable information respecting
ocean currents has been obtained by
the Naval Hydrographic office through
floating bottles thrown overboard by
steamers and recovered by passing
ships, which report the exact points at
which they were found. Frequently
the bottles are picked up and again
tossed overboard after the latitude and
longitude and the number of the bottle
have been noted, so that the ofiU* in
Washington may know the direction
taken by the bottle since put Into the
sea or last sighted by some vessel. In
this way the direction it has drafted
and the strength of the current can be
accurately estimated. There are some
recent returns which show that bottles
have floated thousands of miles, and
one has a record of covering 2,400 miles
in 92 days. This bottle was tossc-d
overboard from the steamship Furst
Bismarck on May I, 1898, about 350
miles southeast of Capo Race, and re-
covered on Aucuet 1 in the vicinity
of Gluck stadt, on the Elbe. The dis-
tance between the two points, follow-
ing the route through the English
iChannel, is about 2.400 miles, giving
(26 miles as the lowest possible estimate
of the daily average velocity with
which the bottle traveled eastward.
The longest distance made by any bot-
tle was one thrown from the steam-
ship Electrician, which covered 6,300
miles in a little over three years, or an
average of nearly six miles a day. An-
other bottle traveled 6,000 miles in 071
J days, or an average of eight knots,
while another made 5,000 miles in 327
days, or an average of 15.3 knots a day.
Another good record for a bottle Is 300
miles ln 1C days, or an average of 18.8
knots a day. In conducting its experi-
ments tho navy department has had
the co-operation of tho Russian gov-
ernment, which on the cruises of two
of its vessels had thrown in the sea
703 bottles, of which 30 have been re-
covered nd reported. Taken collec-
tively, tho paths followed by thesa
floating bottles give a good idea of ths
drift currents of the North Atlantic.
The motion of the waters seems to be
westerly, as is evident by the destina-
tion of the numerous bottles cast adrift
between Madeira and Cape San Roque,
all of which ultimately found their
way to the Windward Islands, the Ba-
hamas or to the western shores of ths
Gulf of Mexico.
PROUD OF MACDONALD.
Great Britain feels proud of her gal-
lant soldier, Colonel Hector Archibald
Macdonald, and she expects him to ac-
complish wonderful things in Soutb
Africa. "Fighting Mac ' is the nick-
name that his coinand gave him 1e
Egypt. Colonel Macdonald was horn
In 1852. At the age of nineteen h«
; enlisted as a private in the famous
Gordon regiment. In three years he
was a color sergeant. Then his regi-
ment went to Egypt and his opportun-
ity to distinguish himself came. With
sixty-three of the Gordon Highlanders
and a few Sikhs he routed an army ol
2,000 Afghans. Again, in a few weeks,
he was mentioned in the official dis-
patches for bravery. When the regl.
ment was ordered home he had his
choice of the Victoria cros3 or a com-
mission, and the commission he took
Most of his life since has been spent
in service in Egypt. No man excepl
Kitchener came out of the last cam-
paign there with more glory than ht
did. Omdurman was his great Tic-
tory, won in the face of threatening
annihilation. Great Britain hono: ti
him with many public marks of ;*«■
Cliefttnut*.
Friend—Do you dictate your jokes to
a typewriter? Paragrapher—No; I
used to, but 1 got discouraged at hear-
ing tho bell ring at the end of every
line.
HECTOR ARCHIBALD MACDONALD
spect. In height Col. Macdonald is un-
der six feet, but he is compactly buill
and every inch a soldier.
A S'oapleas Country.
In spite of British rule, India is still
virtually a soapless country. Through-
out the villages of Hindostan soap la
indeed regarded as a natural curiosity,
and it is rarely, if ever, kept in stock
by the native shopkeeper. In tha
towns It is now sold to a certain extent,
but how small this is may be gathered
from the fact that the total yearly con-
sumption of soap in India is about
100,000 hundredweight—that is to say,
every 2.500 persons use on an averags
only 112 pounds of eoap among them,
or. In other words considerably Icbi
than an ounce is tht averags consump-
tion for a perfon.
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