The Labor Signal. (Oklahoma City, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 5, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 9, 1905 Page: 3 of 8
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Barbarous Attack
Upon Russian Jews
At Odessa the Jews are Treated with the Utmost Cruelty--
Heads were Battered with Hammers, Nails Driven Into
Bodies and Other Acts of Extreme Barbarism Committed
--Quiet has Been Restored
ODESSA:The latest accounts of the
devastation in the Jewish' quarters
adds horror to the situation. Besides
numerous mills, all the bakeries,
shops and nearly six hundred homes
have been destroyed. The Jews killed
in every instance were treated with
revolting barbarity. |Hea,ls were
battered with hammers, nails driven
into bodies, eyes gouged out and ears
severed. Many bodies were dlsem-
bowled and in some cases petroleum
was poured over the sick found hid-
ing in cellars and they wore burned
to death. It is alleged that the police
and soldiers marched at the head of
the mobs. While the mobs were en-
gaged in the slaughter the soldiers
busied themselves pilagiug the cash
and jewels, leaving the household
goods to the mobs. The police pre-
vented anyone from arresting the
looters and also prevented the Red
Cross workers from aiding the wound-
ed, actually firing on those engaged
in this work.
A band of students removed much
of the stolen property to the univer-
sity while they also took twelve dead
bodies of Jewish demonstrators,
whose relatives later demanded their
release. They threatened otherwise
to burn the university and kill the
professors.
ODESSA: A tour of the city and
part of the suburbs the day follow-
ing the butchery found all quiet.
White rows of shops that had been
pillaged had been boarded up. The
poor Jews suffered worst and the
principal streets, with few exceptions,
were untouched.
Russian shops were marked with
crosses painted on the shutters and
the private houses with ikons, so as
to protect them from the mobs.
Peasants, armed with knives tried
to enter the city Saturday but were
driven back. The causalties in the
day's disturbances exceeded 140, and
those of the preceding three days
which have been verified number
nearly 5.C00.
Although everything at present is
quiet and calm the populace are still in
an anxious sate.
CHILDREN SUFFERED ALSO
burg, although there was a notable
demonstration by revolutionists at the
funeral of those who had been killed
in the disturbances of last week. The
revolutionists of the capital declare
they will continue to organize and
arm for the conflict at the govern-
ment which they anticipate,
American consuls in several Rus-
sian cities haVe appealed to the Am-
erican embassy at St. Petersburg for
protection of the interests of citizens
of the United States.
Creek Council
Opposes Grafting
Systematic Plan of Land Grabbing by Misrepresentation to be
Taken Before Congress--Many Questionable Contracts
Made Before Land is Allotted
MUSKOGEE: The various schemes
the land grafters are employing to
part the Indians from their land for
an Inadequate consideration have
alarmed tho Creeks nnd the Creek
CANNOT HELP JEWS
President Says No Action Can Be
Taken at Present
WASHINGTON: President Roose-
velt has decided that no action can
be taken by this government at pres-
ent which will be of any benefit to
the Jews of Russia.
This information was made public
at the White House in the following
statement.
"Oscar Straas called upon the presi-
dent, not to ask him for action, but to
consult with him as to whether there
was any possibiliy of action, which
would result in the cessation of the
horrors connected with the massacre
of the Jews in Russia. The president
stated that, of course, he had been
watching with the deepest concern the
reports of the massacres; that he had
been appealing to within the last few
weeks to try to take some action not
only on behalf of he Jews in Russia,
but in behalf of the Armenians, Poles
and Finns. The result of the president s
inquiries coincide with statements con-
tained in a cablegram from Count
Wltte to Jacob Schiff. shown the presi-
dent by Mr. Straas as follows:
" 'The government is norritted at
these outrages. You know that I do
not sympathize with-such suvage out-
breaks. All I can do to stop the disor-
ders is done, but as the country is in
such unsettled tsate the local authori-
ties are often powerless.'
"In the conditions of the social dis-
orders which actually exist In Russia
the preisdent does not see that any
action can be taken by this govern-
ment at present which would be of
any benefit to the sufferers for whom
we feel such keen sympathy."
council now In session at Okmulgee
has passed a bill appealing to .con-
gress to check them. The measure
instructs tho delegation to Washing-
ton to lay before th<< committee on
Indian affairs of both houses of con-
gress these conditions aud to urge
ipon the committees the necessity of
msslng a bill which will make void
all deeds or transfers that have been
taken from Creek citizens upon al-
lotments conditional upon the removal
of restrictions. The Creeks would
have legislation which would compel
j the grantees who has secured condi-
tional titles to land in this way to
surrender and quitclaim to the grant-
or, on or before March 4, 1906, all
deeds to land upon which the restric-
tions liave not been removed and upon
failure to do this he shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and be sub-
ject to a penalty of $50 for each day
I after March 4 next, that he refuses to
| comply with these requirements.
The measure passed by the Creek
| council sets forth that many citizens
| of the Creek nation have been In-
j duced, for a paltry cash payment of
; from $5 to $10, to sign warrantee
j deeds to their lands and In addition
j to the deed a contract Is drawn and
signed, naming an inadequate sum
as a balance to be paid upon the re-
moval of restrictions from the land.
The bill also recites that a great
| many Creek citizens who have found
it necessary to borrow small sums of
money have been induced to fjive
mortgages upon their allotments to
secure the loans, thinking that they
| had a right to give such mortgages.
; These mortgages have been secured
j by the money loaners through false
! representations to the allottee, who,
j in addition to giving the mortgage,
| signs a warrantee deed to his allot-
I ment agreeing to accept a certain
I sum or balance for his land upon the
removal of restrictions.
The bill also states that the Creeks
have been led to believe that all In-
herited lands are exempt from limita-
tions and restrictions, and they have
been induced by fraudulent repre-
sentations to give warrantee deeds for
their land, thinking that they were
signing a temporary mortgage for the
small sum that had been loaned them.
The measure passed by the Creek
council poi.its out that such Illegal
methods are having the effect of ma-
terially diminishing the value of linds
that have been thus Incumbered. When
these lands are offered for sale
through the land sales department of
the government prospective purchas-
ers often refuse to buy them at any
price or offer a price far below their
real value. The bill states that such
practices put a cloud upon the title of
the land and will compel the allottees
to go into the courts In long and ex-
pensive litigation in order to secure
a clear title to their land.
This, It is pointed out. will work
a groat hardship upon Creek citizens
and cause tho-«i to lose much money
The Creeks believe that congress
should do something this winter to
put an end to such practices and the
bill is ail eloquent appeal for such
federal protection. Land grafters
who are buying the allotments of the
Indian citizen before the restrictions
are removed are not only doing the
Indians an injustice, but it is gen-
erally conceded that they are getting
land titles in such a muddle that un-
less congress comes to the rescue the
settlement of the Indian Territory by
substantial farmers wil be greatly re-
tarded.
The Creek nation is not the only
place where such fraudulent methodi
are employed, but land is being tied
up in the Cherokee nation and other
sections of the territory in the same
way. For several months past the al-
lotment of land has been going on
in the Cherokee nation. The land
buyers who employ doubtful methods
in many instances have hunted up
the allottee before he has even filed
on his land. As soon as he has se-
cured his allotment certificate ho Is
hustled to an office, Is advanced a
small sum of money, and within a few
minutes he has turned over to the
grafter his allotment certificate and
a deed to his land, in which he has
agreed to relinquish his land as soon
as the restrictions are removed.
London Standard Places Casualties at
3,500 Killed; 12,00 Wounded
LONDON: The Odessa corres-
pondent of the Standard, under date
of November 5th, sends further sen-
sational accounts of the riots there.
He says: "There have been more hor-
rifying massacres and fiendish cruel-
ties, but the districts where these
took place are now cordoned by
troops. Probably the total killed
will number 3,500 and the wounded,
12,000. In the suburbs of Moldov-
anka alone a thousand victims re-
mained in the streets from midnfght
until noon, when the authorities
hastened to collect and bury the
bodies in great pits in order to con-
ceal their numbers. Two private
doctors attended more than three hun-
dred children of both sexes, who had
been horribly gashed about the head
and shoulders with sabers. Heaping
insult on injury, the civil government,
when the butchery had ended, asked
the householders to subscribe $100,-
000 to pay the police Increased
wages."
ST. PETERSBURG SITUATION
Order was Preserved at the Capital,
Although Demonstration Planned
Order was preserved at St. Peters-
Osage Indian Admitted to the Bar
GUTHRIE: J. J. Hart, an Osage
Indian, whose home Is at Grayhorse,
in the Osage reservation, was recently
admitted to the practice of law at the
Philadelphia bar and is considered
one of the foremost young attorneys
of the city. He graduated last spring
from the Carlisle Indian school and
also from the Dickinson law college.
He will, according to present plans,
remain In the east to practice his
profession.
ESTIMATED VALUATION
Oklahoma Sheriffs Meet
SHAWNEE: The Oklahoma Sher-
iffs' and County Attorneys' associ-
ation, with sixty members present,
was in session here last week. Only
business regarding proposed criminal
legislation was transacted. A ban-
quet was served to 100 guests in hon
or of the visitors.
Colonel D. M. Wisdom Dead
MUSKOGEE: Colonel Dew M.
Wisdom, for six years Indian agent at
the union Indian agency at Muskogee,
and an ex-confederate soldier, died
here of Bright's disease. He had
been in failing health for several
months. Colonel Wisdom was ap-
pointed in 1885 by President Cleve-
land.
Indian Territory Has Property With
Tax Value of Two Million
MUSKOGEE: The talk about state-
hood has resulted in a good deal ot
figuring being done as to the probable
tax valuation in Indian Territory that
comes in as a state. The Muskogee
! Times publishes an estimate of these
| valuations, based upon the best figures
j that could be obtained, giving coir^nri-
sons with other states, as an argu-
ment that Indian Territory is pre-
pared for statehood and financially
| able to support local government. The
following valuations are shown:
Railroads 3,010 miles, |B0,000,000;
telegraph, telephone, private car and
coal companies, $6,000,000; banks,
! value, $33,000,000, but for taxation
J purposes, $20,000,000; town property
and improvment at present tax value,
$108,000,000; live stock (Secretary
Wilson's last, report). $14,000,000, total
valuation not including farm lands,
$202,000,000.
When Kansas and Nebraska were
admitted neither state had a tax dup-
licate of $20,000,000. After Ohio had
| been a state seventeen years its tax
duplicate amounted to only $45,000,-
000. Wyoming has been a state for
I over a dozen years and yet its last
tax duplicate showed only $47,000,000,
Including all kinds of property. The
figures used in Indian Territory are
computed upon the •same basis of val-
uation that is in vogue in Wyominf
in making up the tax lists.
NEGRO EXECUTED
Grant Williams Hanged at South Mo
Alester for Murder of Paymaster
SOUTH MCALESTER: Grant Wil-
liams, the negro who killed Paymaster
Bolan of the Rock Island road, was
executed here last Friday. The prison-
er has been gradually dying for
months and, owing to his physical
weakness, he was straped to a board
and carried to the scaffold on the
shoulders of four men. There was
no expression or demonstration from
the condemned man. He was hold
in position over the trap and in ten
minutes after the fail he was dead.
The "Katy" Loses Bonus
GUTHRIE: The "Katy" railroad
lost out on tho bonus promised it by
the city of Guthrie for bringing the
road here, according to a decision ren-
dered by Judge Burford. The bonus
was not, as is usually the case, raised
by popular subscription, but an eight-
mill tax levy was ordered by the city
for that purpose. Several taxpayers
objected, among them the Guthrie Na-
tional bank, which filed a suit, asking
that the cminty treasurer, Charles E.
Seely, bo enjoined from placing that
tax on Gie records. A temporary in-
junction was granted at the time, and
has been made permanent. The city
pays the costs of the litigation.
Muskogee Cotton Gets Medal
MUSKOGEE: Judge Moyer has
been notified that Muskogee won the
gold medal and diploma for cotton ex-
hibited at the St. Louis exposition last
year. There were three medals award-
ed to Indian Territory for cotton. Mus-
kogee, Ardmore and Chickasha receiv-
ing them.
Absence makes the heart grow yon-
der.
"BABY CHIEF" OF THE OSAGES
Honor Conferred Upon Ten-Year-Old
Son of Intermarried White
GUTHRIE: According to an old
custom among the Osage Indians,
and followed by them for centuries,
the title of baby chief has been hand-
ed around every third year. This title
places the bearer second in power
and influence to the principal chief ot
the tribe, and ever afterwards the
boy holding this honor is prominent
among his tribesmen. The title car-
ries all the prestige among the Osages
as do all the similar titles of the most
aristocratic governments. The owner
thereof is socially and politically
above his fellow tribesmen.
Recently this title was bestowed
upon the ten-year-old son of Emery
Gibson, an intermarried white man.
the ceremony being conducted by Tom
Tall Chief, the bearer of the title
during the past three years. Here-
after the receplent of the title will be
known as Baby Chief Shink-kah-kah-
he-he, and at the expiration of the
three years he will be allowed to be-
stow the same title upon some other
youthful member of the tribe.
Farmer Watered His Cotton
SHAWNEE: After a lengthy trial
In Justice Reasor's court, P. A. Yar-
brough who was arrested by Sheriff
Grace charged with packing a bale
of cotton, which was sold to the Cable
cotton yard, was fined $15 and costB
by the justice. County Attorney Froel-
ing conducted the prosecution and Ed
Cassidy defended Yarbrough. Evi-
dence of several witnesses showed
that the bale of cotton had several
holes driven in one end, into which
water had been poured, and that the
water was warm when the cotton was
first found to be packed, an hour after
Its sale. Several expert men told of
the action of water in cotton and Its
incerase in weight.
Calumet
Announces for Supreme Judge
OKLAHOMA CITY: "If we got
statehood this winter I shall be a can-
didate for the supreme judgeship ot
Oklahoma," said Representative Mil-
ton Bryan, of Shawnee. He repre-
sented Pottawatomie county last win
ter at the territorial capital. "In my
judgment," he continued, "the Se-
quoyah convention at Muskogee wan
a good thing, although It seems it may
result in delaying statehood."
Baking
Powder
Health-
Economy
Safety in Proprietary Medicines.
Replying to the charge that certain
popular proprietary medicines contain
narcotic drugs, ati authority says:
"Some years ago one of the leading
pharmacists of America, in connection
with some official work, undertook to
ascertain, by an elaborate inquiry in
representative cities of the country,
what percentage of physicians' pro-
scriptions contained a narcotic drug
of some kind. Out of 100,000 repre-
sentative prescriptions, dispensed in
drug stores in all parts of the United
States, It was found that 70 per cent
contained opium or some one of its
preparations.
"Proprietary mediclues are almost
Invariably accompanied by tho most
detailed and specific directions for use,
while the directions accompanyinn
physicians' prescriptions are generally
very brief and sometimes illegible. It
Is Also true that but a moderate pro-
portion of proprietary medicines con-
tain any poison or narcotic, and, when
they do, It is generally in such small
quantities or so protected by accom-
panying antidotes, as to carry with It
no danger whatever."
Every housekeeper should know
that if they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
will sate not only time, because It
never sticks to the iron, but becaus*
each package contains 16 oi.—one fulj
pound—while all other Cold Water
Starches aio put up in % -pound pack-
ages, and the price Is the same, 10
conts. Then again because Defiance
Starch Is free from all injurious chem-
icals. If your grocer tries to sell you
l 12-oz. package It is because he has
t stock on baud which lie wisher to
dispose of befori he puts in Defiance.
.He knows that Defiance Starch has
printed on every package in iarge let-
ters and figures "16 ins." Demand De-
fiance and savs much time and money
snd the annoyance of the iron stlckf
urn. DeOance never sticks.
The life of a man Is less than a
span, for It falls into the River of
Deaath at the end.
Banner Wheat Crop Predicted
OKLAHOMA CITY: C. V. Topping,
secretary of the Oklahoma millers' as-
sociation, has issued a statement that
with fair weather Oklahoma would
have its banner wheat crop next year.
He is in receipt of advices from scores
of farmers In western Oklahoma an-
nouncing that they are sowing double
acreage over this year.
TO BUILD TO WICHITA FALLS
Oklahoma & Texas Sends Out a Sur
veying Party
OKLAHOMA CITY: At a meeting
of the diretcors of the Oklahoma &
Texas Railroad company, P. II. Mc
Crickett was elected chief engineet
and instructed to organize a survey-
[ iug party to go over the entire route
| of the proposed line from here to
Wichita Falls, Tex. The start will be
made within the next ten days. The
'annual meeting of tho stockholders ot
} the roal will be hold on the 30th inst.,
when actual construction work will be
decided upon. The entire party of
; directors will be taken for a drive over
i t he northern portion of the new line.
Bond Case Set for Trial
GUTHRIE: In the case of the Ter-
ritory vs. The American Bonding Co.,
to recover on a guaranty bond tho
$240,000 lost by the Territory In the
dcfunct Capitol National bank, Judge
Burford set the time for final hear-
ing on November 11. The company
had guaranteed the Territory's d
! posits in the b-.nk.
Soldier's Medal for Professor.
The sultan of Turkey has conferred
on Prof. Herman V. Hilprecht of
Philadelphia the Order of the Golden
Liakkat. The order was founded by
Abdul Hamld In 1890 and the degres
is usually conferred upon victorious
Turkish generals for "valor and loyal-
ty."
It Is a curious thing that nobody
thinks it Is wrong for a girl to kiss a
man until she reaches the ago when
it is interesting.
A man may live with many, but he
must die alone.
Postmaster Under the Lash.
Robert Cecil, postmaster at Tipton,
Ore. convicted of wife-beating, re-1
eelved, under sentence of court, ten
lashes on the bare back In public, re-
cently. He Is preparing to sell his
property now and leave the country.
Wild Cats in Nevada.
Wadsworth, Nev., once a lively rail*
road town of 4,000 population, but now
a collection of deserted shanties, is
overrun by thousands of wild cats, the
desctndants of two or three hundred
abandoned bouse cats.
The German: "There are only two
good women in tho world—one dead
and the other can't be found."
DON'T FORdlCT
A larire 2-oz. package Rod Cross Hall Blue, only
6ceuts. Tbo Kuss Company. South lieucl, IncL
The worst about convincing a worn-
i an you love her is when you have to
live up to it.
iMro's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as
a cough cure.—J. W. O'iiumN, 322 Third Ave.
N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6,1900.
When we marry life takes on a
great purchase; we may win out or
fall under the mortgage.
Dealers say that as soon as a cu
tomer tries Defiance Starch it is Im-
possible to sell them any other cold
water starch. It can be used cold oi
boiled.
An old English saying: "If a man
lose a woman and a farthing he will
be sorry he lost the farthing."
Mr . Window's Soothing Syrnp.
For children teethln«, soften* the Kumt, reduce# to
flamraaUon allay* pain. curea wind colic. 25c a > ottle.
Many a life is unpleasant because
of a failure to diagnose biliousness.
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