The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, October 6, 1905 Page: 2 of 8
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THE PEOPLE'S VOICE
NORMAN,
OKI. A.
NEW STATE NEWS
Within thirty days every business
atreet in Muskogee will have been
paved with brick.
The new town of Wainright, on
the Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf rail-
road is to have a bank—the First
State bank—with a capital stock ol
*10,000.
Tonkawa is preparing a census ot
the town, with the expectation of
being enrolled as a city of the first
class.
A second broom factory has been
established at Durant by Lee Daugh-
erty, a blind man. Broom corn is
proving a profitable crop in the vi-
cinity of Durant.
Durant has a chance to grant a
franchise for an electric railway line.
The Choctaw council is in session
at Tuskahoma, and much important
business will be transacted during the
session.
The eighteenth annual session of
the W. C. T. U. of Indian Territory,
recently held at Ardmore, selected
South McAlester as the next place of
meeting.
VISITS TERRITORY
SENATOR CLAPP MAKcS A TRIP
TO INDIANTERRITORYTO LOOK
INTO CONDITIONS
Lon Martin of Elgin has been held
under $ 1,000 bond upon the charge of
criminal assault.
The three-story Pottenger building
at Shawnee is to be converted into an
up to date opera house.
Oklahoma has five hundred
flft_ six rural mail routes.
and
The Cleveland postoflice has been
raisod from the fourth to the presi-
dential class, with the salary fixed at
$1,700. This change occurred on
the first of October.
Shawnee has been sued for $25,000
damages by Fred Work of Earllioro.
Work and a valuable race horse fell
through a defective bridge, and both
sustained severe Injuries.
Sulphur's first opera house has
been completed at a cost of $10,000.
Oklahoma has 0,180 old soldiers on
the pension roll? and they receive ?1,-
245,206 annually, or a fourth more
than the entire value of the Oklahoma
broom corn crop this year.
Enid has granted a street railway
franchise to Daniel S. Roberts of
Baltimore. The system will cost at
least a quarter of a million dollars,
and the agreement provides for the
construction of four miles within one
year.
WILL RECOMMEND MANY IMPROVEMENTS
Greater Rapidity in Matter of Hand-
ling Deeds—System of Land Sales
Should be Reisevd—Present School
System Should be Continued
MUSKOGEE: Senator Moses E.
Clapp of Minnesota, chairman of the
senate committee on Indian affairs, Is
in the city, with the intention of
making a tour of the territory to in-
quire into matters pertaining to the
conditions of the Indians. Several con-
ferences have been held by him with
the Indian officials. The senator has
made a statement of some of the
needs as he sees them. He will recom-
mend that the force of clerks be in-
creased to handle the Indian deeds,
both here and in Washington. The
same applies to the division having In
t targe the removal of restrictions
-rom Indian lands. He believes this
system may be revised, and says the
present arrangement for the sale of
land would be more satisfactory if the
business could be handled more rapid-
ly. He declared for immediate state-
hood for Indian Teritory and Oklaho-
ma. He will recommend legislation
which looks to the continuation of
the present system of schools in In-
dian Territory until another school
system can be established, either un-
der state or federal supervision. Sena-
tor Clapp indicated that his commit-
tee places the balance of power in
the rights of the Indian in this coun-
try. When ho was asked what would
be done in the case of conflicting in-
terests of the white and Indian citi-
zens of the territory, he said that the
interests of both classes must be pro-
tected, but that the Indians were the
original claimants and present own-
ers, and that they must be recog-
nized.
COURT WITHOUT JURORS
Republicans of the Osage nation
nave organized the Osage County Re-
publican club, and will ask congress,
at the coming session, to annex that
nation to Oklahoma as a county,
whether or not a statehood bill is
passed.
The disease among cattle known as
blackleg has made its appearance in
Day county. One farmer lost a two-
year-old heifer from this disease. This
5s said to have been the first case
ever known in the territory.
According to the figures of the Sul-
phur Journal that town has built 1.C38
front feet of stone and brick build-
ings, 1,500 feet of whidi are two, three
and four stories high. This list does
not include the electric power house,
<0x80 feet.
Cleveland County Will Have an Inex-
pensive Term
NORMAN: There will be no grand
or petit jurors in the Cleveland county
district court when it convenes on
the 9th of October. The ruling made
by Judge Phillips has made quite a
change in things here. Judge Irwin,
who will preside at the court term to
be held in Cleveland county, has in-
structed the county attorney to ex-
amine the poll books and to ascertain
whether the list of names as sent in
by the election boards were properly
made. It was found that the records
were in such condition that after pre-
senting the matter to Judge Irwin he
deoided he would not call a grand or
petit jury, but would try all cases
himself, except those wherein the in-
terested persons would not waive
their right to a jury. There is only
one criminal case that will be barred
by the statute of limitation in Cleve-
land county, while in other counties
there are several.
A strike of gas has been reported
near tb«> salt plains in Woodward
county. The gas was struck at a
depth of 185 feet, and is said to have
been strong enough to blow mud forty
feet into the air.
F. A. Ashton, territorial oil in-
spector, Is authority for the state-
ment that oil and gas have been struck
at Homer, in the Chickasaw nation.
Finest Quality of Granite
ANADARKO: A carload of uncut
stone from the granite quarries at
Granite was shipped through Ana-
darko to an eastern firm, whose rep-
resentative spent last week in the
Wichita mountains, and who pro-
nounced the stone obtained from the
Headquarter mountains surrounding
Granite to be of exceptionally fine
grade, of the variety known as Ameri-
can rose, and equal in quality and
markings to the rose granite shipped
from Sweden.
Experts report the discovery of
black granite, a most rare and valu-
able variety, in some portions of the
Wicbltaa.
John Green, aged twenty-five years,
recently from Sweet Springs, Missouri,
was run over and killed by a Rock
Island railway train at Enid last Fri-
day.
A call, signed by the mayors of
thirteen towns in Indian Territory,
provides for a meeting of those of-
ficials at South McAlester, October
12th, for - the purpose of devising
means for the assessment and collec-
tion of taxes from railroad towns lti
the territory.
The DeForest Wireless Telegraph
company will install a station at Shaw
nee. The instruments will be placed
In position within two weeks.
DEPOSITED WITH THE COURT
Salary of Congressman Murphy for
Tribal Attorney in Judge's Hands
MUSKOGEE: Judge Raymond
has issued an order modifying the in-
junction preventing Chief Portr from
paying the salary of the Creek na-
tional attorney to M. L. Mott.
Chief Porter is ordered to draw a
warrant on the Creek nation in favor
of A. P. Murphy, which is to be de-
posited with the court pending settle-
ment of the suit of Murphy against
Chief Porter for salary as national at-
torney. The case is still before the
master In chancery, and the order
was Issued in view of the near ap-
proach of the dissolution of the tribal
government.
Murphy claims $5,000 salary and
expenses from the Creek nation for
services dating from the time he re-
ceived notice of his appointment to
the date he retired to enter upon his
ties as congressman from the oFur-
duties as congressman from the
Fourth Missouri district.
CLIMATE AND CROP CONDITION?
General Summary for the Week End-
ing October 2
Light scattered showers occurred
on September 27th, 28th, 20th and
30th, and general precipitation on
October 1st, being excessive over the
Chickasaw, Creek and Choctaw dis-
tricts, and moderate over the re-
mainder of the section. Day and
night temperatures were above the
average.
Rain was needed generally to place
the ground in condition for seeding,
and the precipitation will undoubtedly
be of great benefit, and permit the
rapid advance of the work, especially
over the southern portion of the sec-
tion. Wheat seeding progressed,
with the ground in fair condition, and
the early was generally up to fair to
good stands.
Haying was generally completed,
with a heavy yield, and the second
growth of good quality.
Early corn was being husked and
cribbed, with yields ranging from
poor to good, and a good quality; late
corn was maturing, with a poor to
fair prospect.
Cotton opened rapidly and picking
progressed under favorable con-
ditions, with a poor to fair yield of
good quality secured; some shedding
and boll worm damage was reported;
picking Is now in general progress,
but the crop is late and promises a
short yield,
Kafir corn, cane, millet and cow-
peas are giving good yields.
Late potatoes and turnips are up to
fair stands and need rain.
Range grass is still in good con-
dition, and stock are doing well.
Keep telling a boy that he will never
amount to anything, and he generally
ANOTHER CROWE STORY
This Time the Butte Police Have the
Wily Pat
BUTTE, MONT.: Pat Crowe,
wanted by the Omaha police for the
kidnapping of the son of the million-
aire packer, Edward Cudahy, in 1900,
has been arrested in this city. The
identification of Crowe has been com-
plete. Crowe acknowledged that he
is the fugitive, becoming alarmed
when he feared the authorities were
going to shoot him. W. F. McGrath,
captain of police, and Detective Mc-
Inerney made the arrest, placing the
muzzles of their revolvers against
Crowe's stomach as he emerged from
a saloon in the tenderloin district of
the city. Crowe declares he will re-
turn to Omaha without requisition
papers. He cursed bitterly at his ar-
rest, expressing chagrin at his appre-
hension in a town the size of Butte,
while he, a^ he said, had traveled the
world over and had evaded capture
in all the large cities.
Crowe has two brothers living in
Montana, one at Butte and the other
at Great Falls. A friend of Crowe's
advised the local police of his pres-
ence in the city, and his arrest fol-
lowed after the photographs of the
fugitive had been secured from
Omaha.
NEGROES FOR SEPARATE STATE
Constitution of Sequoyah Is Good
Enough For Them
OKMULGEE: The territorial suf-
frage league, an organization of ne-
groes, at its meeting at Okmulgee last
week, adopted resolutions indorsing
the Sequoyah constitution, and elect-
ed a committee of ten to present the
preamble and resolutions to congress.
The resolutions declare that "Since
the Sequoyah constitution gives equal
suffrage privileges to all people, re-
gardless of race, color or previous
condition, it is the sense of this meet-
ing that the members of this associ-
ation confine their efforts entirely to
Indian Territory, believing any other
course would be political suicide to
our association and to our race." The
association also advised the organiza-
tion of Sequoyah clubs among the
negroes throughout the territory,
WAS AN EASY MATTER
A Young Clerk Shows How Simple It
Is to Fool Bankers
NEW YORK: By the confession
of Henry A. Leonard, a young clerk
in the employ of Halle & Stieglitz,
brokers at 30 Broad street, the mys-
tery of the robbery of $350,000 worth
of securities from the National City
bank has been cleared up. Leonard,
who resides with his parents at 583
East One Hundred and Thirty-sixth
street, was placed under arrest and
kept in close confinement while the
detectives continued the search for
the missing securities, every dollar's
worth of which has been recovered.
The prisoner, who is but twenty-
four years of age, and who has here-
tofore borne the reputation of an in-
dustrious and thoroughly reliable
clerk, made the astounding statement
in his confession that he had planned
and carried out his scheme of forgery
and robbery, not from any criminal
motive, but to show by what a simple
device the elaborate safeguards of
the New York banks could be set at
naught. That this statement Is true
Is. In a measure, coroborateil
Farmers' Co-Operative
Union of America.
WHERE THE WAREHOUSES
COME IN.
Tlie farmers of the south are in a
position to control prices for their
cotton. The cotton gamblers ought
not to do it.—Uorsicaua Democrat
and Truth.
The farmers of the south are not
altogether in a position to control the
prices of cotton and they will never
be until they are advanced suffic-
iently in the wisdom of farming to
make their cotton crop purely a
money crop which carries no fixed
charges. In other words, until the
farmers of the south raise enough of
other products of the soil and their
own meat to permit them to live
without going into debt they will not
be able to control the price of their
cotton. The farmer who does not
raise his meat must buy his meat.
If he has no crop to sell through
the year he must buy that meat ou
the credit. If he buys it on the
credit it must bo paid for iu the
fall, the harvest time for corn and
cotton and other products, except
wheat, oatg and other small grain.
When the fall comes his creditors
demand their money and the cotton
must be sold, whether the price is
three or ten cents. In this way the
speculator always has the advantage.
lie knows at what time the farming
debts decome due, and when it be-
gins to roll in the price goes down, as
is always the case when any product
is rushed to the market. lie bu>s
at a low price and holds. Then the
staple commences to go up, but >t is
far from the farmer's hands. If
every farmer in the south was out
of debt and determined to get a tair
price for his cotton it would never be
below ten cents. The world's dc-
maud for it justifies its high price.
It's the poverty of some and theshift-
lessness of others among the cotton
raisers which keeps the price of cot-
ton down. The present satisfactory
price of the staple is due iu large
measure to the fact that some of the
farmers have reached a position of
independece by raising a great many
of the things consumed on the farm.
Thev are not iu a position to be
smoked out, they can exercise their
judgement in the matter of selling
theircotton, and the fact is that they
do exercise a salutary influence upon
the market generally.—Dallas News.
AN UNMITIGATED MURDER.
Austin.—Adjutant General John
A. Hulen has received a telegram
from Sheriff D. A. T. Waltou of
Alpine, Brewster county, slating
that the murder of Private Tom
Goff, of the Rangers, at Terlingua,
was a foul deed, and unging that
every < ffort be made to capture the
murderer and bring him to justice.
Private Goff's wife and two children
live at Waco. He was one of the
most capable and popular men in
the Ranger service.
DON'T YOU FRET NOW.
The Farmers' Union seems to have
survived the meeting of its members
at Waco, and some, we observe, are
disposed to regard that as an
achievement in diplomacy. The
Union now has a brand new set of
officers, but it retains, for the pres-
ent, its old constitution. It en-
dorsed none of the candidates, and
some are stridently calling our at-
tention to that fact as evidence that
the Union is in nowise engaged in
politics. That it would engage in
the game in that formal aud definite
way we have never believed, but we
have believed that several of the
men most influencial in its councils,
not only have political designs, but
that they made or are ready to make
compacts with politicians. The
Union is perhaps not in the sea of
politics, but it is fast drifting down
STRICTLY IN LINE.
Now that the farmers have acted
on the advice to reduce the cotton
acreage, will the busiuess interest#
and the newspapers back the farmers
up in an effort to force the buyers to
pay prices in proportion to this great
reduction? The farmers have a
right to expect it.—Farmers' Jour,
ual, Abilene, Texas.
Yes, they are doing this verj
thing at Durant, Sterrett, Caddo,
Bokchito and other places in India-
homa. The business interests and
the newspapers iu the enterprising
country of the Twin Territories are
strictly in line with the Farmers'
Union, and will stay that way.—
independent Farmer, Duraut, I. T.
Yes, and Dallas has gone 'em
several better. She has given th#
Union free rent, free telephone, free
market reports every thirty minutee,
free street car service to the office,
and has put $1,000,000 at the
service of the Union with which to
hold cotton til the crack 'o dawu or
till the buyers come across with
'leven cents—sec?
The Farmers' Union declines to
die to gratify the qtialiing politician.
That much was shown at a late
Waco meeting. The free-passy bri-
gade have been forecasting th#
death of the Union ever since its
eductive influence became apparent.
They were shocked by the fear that
the farmers, through the habi
of acting together,economic matters,
would be taught the science of co-
opperation in politics. Nothing Is
more terrifying to tj^e average free-
passy statesman than the suggestion
that any considerable number of
farmers may take a hand in the se-
lection of the public officials. Vis.
ions of agrarianism, socialism, and a
whole train of social evils begin to
to float before him at #uce. Th#
Farmers' Union is here, and appar-
ently, it is here to stay. It Is.
splendidly organized aud ably of-
ficered. It is steering clcar of self,
ish interests—both inside and out-
side—aud is sticking to its text.
Thus proceeding, it is making itself
a power in the land—a power for
the public good. Nobody fears that
the Farmers' Union will become a
vehicle for the agrandizement of its
members. That wouid be an un-
heard of situation. Texas farmers
want nothing which is incompatible
with the public welfare or with pri-
vate right. Long live the Union.—
The Lantern.
Buyers wont pay high prices for
cotton unless they have to, and th#
time that they have too hasn't com#
yet. J ust hold onto a good thing
for a time. Little variations in th#
price from time to time do not mean
anything.
the stream that leads thither and w#
should be much astonished if it did
not float into those rough waters,
and be broken to pieces by th#
waves of political strife, just as have
been other like craft that have been
steered by men v ho, though nomin-
ally farmers, have found more diver
sion and profit in politics than In
plowing. To change the figure ab-
ruptly, it seems to us several Tro-
jan horses have been pulled into th#
camp of the Unionists, and at th#
propitious moment we suspect poli-
ticians will emerge from them and
then the purpose of the Union lead-
ers will be too palpable for denial.
When the denouemant shall come,
it will be found that all that ie> left
of the Union will be a hundred
thousand populist.—Current Issue.
A parson Is always the best man at
a wedding. He gets the coin and takaa
no chances.
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