The Tulsa Chief. (Tulsa, Indian Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 27, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 11, 1906 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. 3
TULSA INDIAN TERRITORY. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11. 1906
NO. 27
Newspaper Has Some Rights Left.
Guthrie, Sept. 7.—One of the
most important of recent decisions
by the supreme court is that
handed down yesterday in which
it is held that a newspaper is not
compelled to publish a notice of
the application for a saloon license.
Tht stand taken by the court
was the result of a test case from
Stillwater, Okla., Charles Epplerl
filed his petition for a saloon license
and the editor of the Advance-
Democrat. a weekly published at
Stillwater, refused to accept the
advertisement. Eppler brought j
suit to mandamus the editor to j
give space to his notice. Chief;
Justice Burford rendered the de- j
cision.
The precedent will undoubtedly j
work havoc in the liquor interests j
in Oklahoma. Under the law a
notice ml&t be duly published be-
fore the prospective saloonist can
secure a license. Heretofore the
newspaper men have been pub-
lishing the notices Durely through
"bluffs" of the liquof men.
Will Prosecute Land Swindlers.
Guthrie, Sept. 7.—Backed by
the United States departmental
authorities Receiver Maxwell of
the land office at Lawton will
prosecute an investigation of the
swindle being practiced incident to
the opening and sale of the big
pasture lands.
Several ^instances have been
brought td the attention of Re-
ceiver Maxwell where innocent
prospective investors have been
"separated" from their funds by
men who purported to have "in-
side information from the .land of-
fice.
Mr. Maxwell declares that the
office has no private information
on the opening of the land and
that no details will be made public
until authorized by the United
States officers.
Indians To Washington.
Muskogee 1. T. Sept. 7—J Henry
Dick Richard, M. Wolf Frank J.
Boudinot Soggy Sandersand James
Hilderbrandt all prominent citizens
of the Cherokee nation and mem-
bers of the Keetoowah society an
organization which represents the
full blood element of the Cherokee
tribe of Indians left Tahlequah the
capitol of the Cherokee nation Fri-
day for Washington D. C. Where
they go to try and induce the secre-
tary of the interior to change his
ruling in the payment of money
to the Eastern Cherokees This rul-
ing of the secretary is very unjust
to the full blood Indians according
to the statement of these gentle-
men The all Indians who are to
participate in the Eastern Cherokee
payment must make application in
person on a blank furnished by the
interior department and the appli-
cation must be in before the first
day of January 1907 This commi-
ttee of the full blood claim that a
great per cent of the full bloods
can not read or write English and
they have no means of getting to
the United States Indians agent's
office to get the blanks and that
hundreds of them under the plan
of the secretary will not get money
they are justly entitled to.
Was He Murdered?
Poala, Kan., Sept 7.—The body
^ of a well dressed young man about
24 years old supposed.to be Will-
iam B. Jordan of Muskogee, I. T.
was discovered at the railway cros-
sing a mile north of here today
from the evidence the police be-
lieve he was murdered and thrown
from the blind baggage of a pass-
enger train which passed^through
here last night The body was cov-
ered with blood.
Mayor Rose Resigns.
Kansas City, Sept. 7.—Mayor
William W. Rose, of Kansas City.
Kan., tonight resigned his office
and Joseph C. Laughlin, president
of the city council, will act in the
capacity of mayor until a special
election is held to elect asuccessor
to Rose. The resignation of Chief
of Police Vernon Rose and Police
Captain J. C. Kelly were also ac-
cepted by the city council, with
the resignation of the mayortonight
The resignation of Mayor Rose is
the final act in thecontestbetween
the law enforcement and liquor]
elements of Kansas City, Kan., in ]
which the liquorelement isdefeated !
Rose was elected a year ago, and
later was ousted from the office by j
the Kansas supreme court, be-
cause of his refusal to enforce the ]
anti-liquor and gambling laws. He
was re-elected at a special elec-
tion and was declared in contempt ]
of the supreme court for taking the
office again. His resignation to-
night was made under agreement
with the state by which the con-
tempt proceedings will be dropped.
Has Whiskey Still.
A strange story comes from
Clinton, one that reflects vary
sericroslv upon the rock-ribbed
character of Henry county Dem-
ocracy. According to the Repub-
lican, there is a whiskey still that
hasn't been in use for twenty-five
years. It would be pretty hard to
find another Democratic strong-
hold where there was whiskey
twenty-five years ago, and that has
any whisky still.
"Attracting considerable atten-
tion and certainly a curiosity in its
way,” says the Republican, “is a
large copper whiskey still which
causes passers-by to stop and gaze
in at the window at B. Adler's
store, on North Main street. The
still was brought to this city this
morning and sold to Mr. Adler for
junk by John Sell, of the Leesville
neighborhood. Mr. Sell received
$11 for the still.
“The jag producer is old and
blackened, and has been patched
in several places, showing signs of
wear and tear. It consists of a
large globe-shaped copper recep-
tacle to hold the corn and water.
On top of this is a small copper
dome to receive the steam. From
this a pipe leads off to the ‘worm,’
which is still attached. The worm
is supposed to be kept covered by
cold water, thus condensing the
steam into the beverage that is be-
ing distilled.
"The old still was used, it is
said, during the civil war, and
peach brandy, 'apple jack' and
white corn whiskey were distilled
in large quantities and sold to the
people of this neighborhood. It
has not been used for twenty-five
years."
A Boy Murderer.
Vinita 1. T. September 8.— Mar-
shal Darrough recevied a telegram
this morning from SherffO. P. Gri
mes of El Paso county, Colorado
sayingthat he would behere tonight
for Williams. Dalton a young man
wanted for murder who was cap-
tured by Deputy Williams near
Bartlesville and brought to the jail
here last night. The Bartlesville
Enterprise has the following ac-
count of Dalton's crime:
William Dajton, afed 16. was
arrested yesterday at the home of
uncle, Chas. Fielder six miles east
Ramona on a charge of murder the
arrest was made by Deputy U. S.
Marshal George Williams in res-
ponse to a telegram from the sherff
at Colorado Springs Colorado.
Young Dalton says the charge of
murder grew out of the death of a
man whom he struck with a
rock during a fight which followed
a quarrel The man was a relative
of young Dalto's The fight occured
several weeks ogo. After Dalton
arrival in Indian Territory the in-
jured tnan died hence the demand
for his arrest.
Dalton says the fight took place
at Palmer Lake twenty-five miles
north of Colorado Springs. Thedead
man was his father's brother.
Sold Cotton With the Seed.
Norman, 0. T., Sept. 4.—The
first bale of Cleveland county cot-
ton came into Norman last Satur-
day. A negro farmer named Jan-
uary Bills from eleven miles north-
east brought in 1,700 pounds and
sold it for 28 cents a pound, with
the seed. Besides the price, the
merchants of the town gave a cash
premium of $40 for the first bale
and a second prize of $20 has been
raised for the next bale to be
brought in. None of the gins is
working yet, so the cotton had to
be sold with the seed.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Saum are in
the city for a few days. Judge
Saum is one of the prominent at-
torneys of Kansas City and expects
to locate and build a home in
Tulsa.
Increased Wheat Acreage
Columbia Missouri, Sept. 7 The
monhtly crop report issued today
by George Beilis is as follows:
The hot weather during the first
part of the month brought satis-
factory growth to a standstill Dur-
ing the last ten days of the
opposite condition prevailed and
now the codition of the corn is very
encouraging The recentrains have
improved it wonderfully The pres-
ent average condition is 80. a gain
of three points over last month and
a standing of ten points above the
five year average The greatest in-
crease was in the southwest and
southeast counties, gain seven and
eight points respectively. The ex-
treme southern counties especially
those of the southwest section re-
port a condition of 100 or better,
while fiteen of the counties north
of the river fall below the low ave-
age of 77 The indication by the
present forecast are that the acre-
age sown to wheat will be 4 per
cent larger than last year or that
an area of 23.574,469 acres will
be sown- At present 62 per cent
of the ground for this crop is broken
The crop of oats was exceedingly
light. The average yield per acre
being only twenty-two bushel which
was the smallest average since
1901. The quality of the grain was
only fairly good The fruit crop is
immense In many localities peaches
are given away and nearly every
county in the state reports a sur-
plus of apples.
Thirtv-One Arc Arrested.
Muskogee, I. T.. Sept. 6.—Thir-
ty-one gamblers, both professional
and amateur, were arrested here
today in a raid on gambling houses
made by United States Marshal
Bennett and nine deputies. Sev-
eral hundred dollar^' worth of par-
aphernalia was confiscated and
burned. The feature of the raid
was the alleged discovery of a
game on the fifth floor of a hotel in
which five men are said to board,
participated- A roulette wheel
and poker table were found there.
The other places have been raided
several times before.
When arraigned before United
States Commissioner Hoyt, six of
the men pleaded guilty to gambling
and were fined $10 and costs. The
rest gave bond for appearance Sep-
tember 21, with the exception of
six who are in the federal jail. The
maximum penalty for keeping a
gambling house is a fine of $250
and one year in jail.
Chairman Clark Issues a Call.
The democratic constitutional
committee for District No. 68 is
composed of the following mem-
bers: First ward. Dr. C. L. Reed-
er and A. W. Belt: Second ward,
C. B. Campbell and P. J. Yeager:
Third ward. Wm. Stykerand Frank
Smith: Fourth ward, A. A. Bum-
gardr.er and J. E. Piersol; Red
Fork. T. A. Henry and Col. Robin-
son. Fisher, Monroe Neal and
Jas. Russell. Scales. D. Mayes
and L. Massey.
This committee met early in the
week and set the date for a pri-
mary convention Sept. 22 The
attendance of the committee was
not full though all were notified.
Chairman Clark after discussing!
matters with such members of the J
committee and others as he has
been able to see decided to send a
notice to each member of the com-
mittee. This will be open to every
one and offers all needed freedom
for discussion before final action is
taken. It is very important that
the meeting Tuesday evening be
well attended and that there be a
full meeting of the committee.
The notice follows:
Tulsa, I. T„ Sept. 8.
The members of the campaign
committee of the Sixty-eighth con-
stitutional district are hereby re-
quested to meet with the Jefferson
club at the city hall Tuesday even-
ing. Sept. 11.
Matters of importance pertain-
ing to the management of the cam-
paign will be discussed.
Don't fail to be present. Re-
member the date, Sept. I 1.
J. R- Clark,
Chairman Campaign Committee.
Cuts Throat Of His Wife.
Eufaula. I. T. Sept. 7.—Henry
Potts killed his wife here today by
cutting her throat. He was him-
self shot twice during a desperate
fight with deputy U. S. marshals in
which Marshal Jim Depriest was
badly cut by Potts. Immediately
after Potts had killed his wife a
posse surrounded his house and
when he attempted to escape Dep-
riest grappled with him Potts was
shot twice while Depriest was cut
During the fight the men exchanged
weapons Other members of the
posse came to Depriests assistance
and Potts was rendered insensible
and then taken to jail at Muskogee
on a stretcher.
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Want Move to Prepare Roll.
They will ask the secretary to
send a man down from Washington
to prepare a roll of the Indians who
are entitled to paricipatein the pay-
ment and nothave the lndan depend
on himself to make application. In
preparing the roll the names of the
Indians and their lineage will have
to be traced Many of the Indians
on the regular roll of the Cherokee
nation go by some name the white
man has given them and there are
many who go by the same name and
yet will not be an Eastern Chero-
kee and not be entitled to partici-
pate in the payment. Their ances-
tors will be traced and it will re-
quire at least six months of hard
work to prepare the roll.
The committee thinks there will
be no trouble in showing the secre-
tary the necessity of a roll being
prepared and thinks he will com-
ply with their request since they
represent the full blood Indian.
M. L. Conference at Tulsa.
At the annual meeting of the
Indian Territory mission of the
M. E. church, which embraces the
territory only, an effort will be
made to enlarge the mission bounds
by taking on a slice of the territory
of the Oklahoma conference and
create another jurisdiction to be
known as the East Oklahoma con-
ference,
There is some question as to
the legality of this proceeding.
The last general conference of the
M. E. church gave the Oklahoma
conference an enabling act to form
itself into a mission, and a confer-
ence or two conferences, and the
first alterative was accepted hence
any change at this time may be
denied.
The Indian Territory mission
numbers a few over one hundred
ministers with a growing church
membership.
The meeting of the mission con-
venes on October 18 in the new
First Methodist church of this
city.___
“Bootlegging Must Stop.
Muskogee, I. T., Sept. 7.—It
was learned today that a special
order will be given to the Indian
police of the territory for the more
rigid enforcement of the law
governing the sale of liquor to
Indians. The police, about thirty-
five in all, have authority to con-
fiscate liquoi and destroy it as
well as to arrest “bootleggers."
Many of them have been diligent
in performing their duties along
this line, but a special effort is
being made for the suppression of
liquor traffic among the Indians,
since the passage of the statehood
bill. W. M. Johnston, special
agent appointed to assist in the
work of keeping the Indians and
firewater separated both in Indian
Territory and Oklahoma, has been
very busy since his arrival here,
and has already made a number of
trips to various towns in both ter-
ritories. The fact that he is thus
far unknown to the majority of the
people enables him to work with
ease in spotting wet towns, and
locating places to be raided by the
federal officers and himself at a
later date.
Strange Cattle Disease.
Ardmore, I. T.. Sept. 7—A re-
port reached here today from Milo
that a large number of cattle in
that section are suffering from a
new disease. One man alone re-
j ports thirty-six dead. The symp-
toms are drooping ears and an
appearance of general exhaustion.
| Afterthe cows have been sick for
two days they lie down and are
unable to get up, and in most cases
die within forty-eight hours.
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