THE NOWATA ADVERTISER
VOLUME XII.
NOWATA, INDIAN TERRITORY, NOVEMBER 30, 1906
NUMBER 34
TALALA ENJOYS
STEADY GhOWTH
Hr i* tag Littk City, tkstimei To Be-
omk the SMrthera Metropolis of No-
wata Coaaty Is Very Prosperous
CTIIZBRSAKE ANIMUS T9
JOIN US IN FINE COUNTY
fine New Brick OuNnii BviMUgi arc Coro-
pbW And Fourth li la C*«rM Of Corotnic-
SdiMl Haute H Occupied
MRS. BROWN ASKS 120MM
Nowata Woman File* Big Suit Agaiiut
A da irn and Ratcliff
The case: of Rosa Brown, of Nowa-
ta, against R. C. Adam* and E. N.
Ratcliff, defendants, is filed in the
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United States court in northern die-, 4^ Thursday night at the home of
iiat e. d* i C . ■ Y m    A a mu> nd ■ AJa u ‘ ah m - w    •    a    tl  .a 
Talala, which ceems destined to
become the 90a them metropolis of
Nowata county, state of Oklahoma,
je forgoing to the front mighty rap-
idly. Since last fall same long
strides have been taken.
A new brick school house has been
erected and is housing the pupils.
Throe new brick business buildings
are nearly completed and the foun-
dation is in for the fourth.
The new bricks are ulUrnately to
widen tho business district of Talala.
They are being bui'ta block north of
the postoffice-hotel street and a block
west of the rail road.
On the southwest corner of the
Pour Corners the first State bank of
Talala, a most thriving institution,
has erected a beautiful one story bank
building. The structure, built espec-
ially for banking purposes, has all
modern conveniences.    "
, The northwest corner boasts a one
atory brick, built by James L. Beatty,
frict of the Indian Territory at Bar-
tlesville.
The claims of the plaintiff briefly
stated are as follows:
Rosa Brown claims that she was
the wife of A. J. Blackwell at the
tin e of the execution of certain con-
tracts and agreements and pror to
and at the time of the execution of
the contracts R. C- Adame wus in-
debted to Koea Brown and her hus-
band, A. J. Blackwell, to the amount
of abont $4*>,00U, and for the secur-
ing of the payment of this amount
R. C. Adams and K. N. Ratcliff en-
tered into contract to give security
by giving one-half amount of sales on
certain lands, leases, etc., in the
C^erskee nation and since the value
has increased so greatly and no mon-
ey yet received she asks judgment
for $lt»0,000 from each of the de-
fendants. Attorney ,1. H. Keith, of
Coffeyville. lias the case for Rosa
Brown.
This is a. prelude to the celebrated
1 ‘Jaw are segregated ease which, a
few years ago, tied up the United
State* land office.
JOHN NELSON BftS LIFE
QuMttw Of Suicide Or Murder Scrag
tfwctbgMcd
John Nelson, formerly of Nowata,
murderer of Albert Morris, eitinr
committed suicide or waa murdered
Senate Committe Leaves
Having completed their investiga-
tions in tho Indian Territory the
United States senate committee left
Bartlesville Sunday for Kansas City
en route for Washington.-*" Resolu-
tions by a number of individual gas
and qil ojveratore relating to the
* most progressive and enterprising j leading of oil lands and tho removal
citizen. Mr. lieatty owns consider- j of restrictions, were presented to the
•He property in Nowata. The lower.jcoimnittee Saturday. The re*-ol ‘tions
fkor of Jrid room will be occupied by 1 th.'prohibition of any individual
t&e J L. Beatty-A Company genera) {,T corporation from leasing or cOta-
Merchandiae store. Manager Earner trolling more than 48< 0 acres of gas
of the store expects to be in his new and oil land in the Cherokee nation,
pome for the holiday trade.    I*rge Rfants of gas lands to individ-
On the southeast corner there is a
handsome two atory building, the
property of Dr. R. W. Bass. The
lower floor will he occupied by the
np-to-date drug store owned by Dr.
Bass.* The Masonic lodge has leased
the second floor for its home.
Saturday the excavations were
made for the foundation of the fourth
building, on the northeast corner of
the Four Corners. This room will he
owned a in) occupied at once by a
picrcantiledirirf with a paid up capital
stock of $20,00^.00. The building
will bo two stories in height. The
company will'install a thoroughly
piedern hardware, implement and
supply store. A lumber yard will be
Operated in connection.
The officers and directors of the
company have not yet been announced.
They are all'‘residents of Talala.
Among the men who organized the
company and put up the cash are
James Beatty, J. G. Lipe, J. II. Bart-
mess, W. C. Dawson, James A. Rusk,
W. H. YeomaiMind others.
Henry H. Oliver has built a neat
cottage on the New State Townsite
companie's west side addition.
Talala can^lu^ claim to the first
cement block' machine in this part
of the Territory. A company, pro-
moted, by Wil iam Lightle, has been
organized and work will begin at
once. The„machinery has a capacity
cf several hundred blocks each day.
Talalans, naturally, are very happy
over the splendid advancement their
town is making and they areanticipat
ing better things in the future.
uals or corporations are opposed and
a request is mads tor the abolition of
the present rule requiring a financial
showing on the part of tho lessee
before obtaining leases. The resolu-
tions also favor the removal of re-
strictions upon homesteads in cases
where the applicant clearly shows
himself competent to manage bis own
affairs.
"Dad" Bear Dead.
,S. G Bear, better known as ‘"Dad’
Bear, died Tuesday night at the Os-
born home, in tho western parr, of
the city, where he had rooms, of
dropsy. The funeral services were
held Wednesday with the interment
in the Ball cemetery on Big Cre k.
The deceased had been ill with drop-
sy for many months and made a des-
perate struggle against death. He
was one of the best known men in
this part of the Territory. Bear who
was a native of Virginia, came here
from Missouri about eight years ago.
For several years he was a farmer,
but after his health began to fail, he
was a clerk in stores and a fruit tree
agent.
DMt -topwnmg, a former Nowata
citizen, i« Cflffeyvillfe.
The following Shi*. suppled to
have been writtefl by Nelson, waa
found:
"l am going to toko my life. I am
a discontented, miserable alt. I am
going to meet my God, and when I
meet him I can say that I killed Morris
purely in self-defense, and my killing
him has nothing to do with this.
May the Lord have mercy on my soul
and my dear children."
At the coroner’s inquest Downing
told the following story of the crime:
“Nelson came to my house between
7 and 8. I was in bed when he came.
Nel-on came into my roim and said
'Get op.’ I told him I was sick. I
did not get up just then. He said to
mo to core and have a drink with
him. I told him I had been drinking
all day and was sick and did not want
to drink. He gave me some pigs’
feet and I ate it. Finally I got up
within an hour and drank an eggnogg,
fixed him one and he drank it. Nel-
son asked Lizzie Rogers to take a
drink. She said that she did not
want any that she had quit that. Kieh
of us then took the second eggnogg.
Nelson then said to me, ‘Do you know
what I am going to do.’ I told him
‘no.’ Nelson replied that he was
going to kill himself, grabbed tho
pistol and pulled open his clothes.
Just then one of the children took
the pistol out of his pocket. They
took it and put it under the dresser in
the bedroom. Fiqnlly Nelson said, ‘I
want my pistol,’ and when asked why
said, 'I want to go home,’ Mrs. Rogers
had left the house in the meantime
and Nelson thought she had the pistol.
The boy Randolph Lowery, went after
Mrs. Rogers and she told him that it
was under the dresser in the bed
room.
“He then went to the kitchen and
took some books out of his pocket
and handed ms a piece of paper. I
put it in my pocket. Finally he
said: ‘Good-bye; the next time you
see mo. you will see me dead.’ I went
into the lied room and Nelson went to
to the sofa and about three minutes
later I heard a pistol shot. My wife
was in the kitchen a id saw him lie
down on the sofa and throw up his
arm and place it over his breast, but
she did not see the pistol but heard
the shot. She came in and told me
that John was shooting in the house.
I came in the room where John was
and found him on the floor in a
doub!ed-up position. I than ran to
the neighbors and gave the alarm.’’
Policeman Fletcher, of Coffeyville,
offered the following testimony at
the inquest:
“I do not believe he shot himself
Three things make me think so: First,
the wounds indicate he was shot in
the back. In the next place the
clothes indi ate that he was shot in
! the back for there was no hole in
the clothes in front and there
IRON MOUNTAIN MAKES IMPROVEMENTS
Road Bed On This Division It Receiving
Attention of Big Crew
This division of the Iron Mountain
railroad is receiving comsiderable at-
tention from the construction and
repair departments of the company.
For more than a week the work train
of the division, with a big crew of
men aad teams, has been at work
between Nowata and Talala.
The right of way has been cleaned
and ditched nearly to Nowata. The
graders and ballast men are now at
work.
In some places rock bMlaat is being
used. All the culverts are being re-
paired and new ties placed in. It is
uncertain whet her the work will be
carried on to the end of the division
at Coffeyville.
Transacts Much Business
The iast term of the court of ap-
peals, which finished its sitting at
MeAlester Saturday afternoon, accom-
plished more in a short space of time,
probably, than any former term. ' In
the two days in which the court wa,s
in session thirty-seven opinions were
handed down, and many motions were
heard and decided. All four of the
judges were present.    ■
The court will probably hoi :v,
!
down of further ^opinions sojne
in February. The next regular term
is in June, but statehood will proba-
bly be an actuality before then, and
the term will never be held.
WILL ASK LEGISLATION
lifftrmafTttd Citizens Wilt Seek Action In
CwijpCN
The intermarrWlft *$hite citizens
held a meeting at Vinita Saturday to
discuss matte re of interest to them.
Of course the priucij^al item related
to the celebrated cast* of the inter-
married citizens, in which they sought
to secure for themselveA allotments
the same as were given tpgularly en-
rolled anil native Chhrpkees. The
case was decided against them both
in the court of claims and in the
supreme court-
The general opinion among those
present Saturday was that it would
be of bo use to try to do anything
further with the case in the oourts,
and a resolution was therefore passed
authorizing the appointment of a
committee to go to Washligt00 this
winter and attempt to sdCure the
passage of a bill through congress
granting to the intermarried citizens
an equal allotment, either in land or
money, with the native Cberokees.
On this eoinmivtee will be J. E. Camp-
bell of AliOwe, W. F.. Halsell of Vinita,
and others.
It was voted to assess each' inter-
married citizen to the sum of $2B
each to pay the expenses of the.
lobby, There arc 3,000 intermarried
adjourned .sessign for the hai Ljtjj^8 an(j jf each Ono pays, iris
assessment, there will he raised ahmiu
of $75,000.
R. L- Turner Dead.
R. L. Turner, a former resident of
the Oglesby-Ochelata neighborhood,
died last Friday night at Copan,
where he was conducting a hotel.
Consumption was the cause of death.
The funeral was held Sunday, with
interment in the Keys cemetery,
southwest of Oglesby. Attending
the services from Nwwata were Mr.
and Mrs. George Colter, Arch Ringo,
Robert Brady, G. W. Ellis, Ed Lin-
scott and C. L-. Beckley. The eer-
vices were conducted by the Modern
Woodman lodge of Copan, of which
th- deceased was a member. Mr.
Turner was widely known through
this part of the Territory. He had
long been a sufferer from consump-
tion and only recently had returned
from New Mexico am! Arizona,
where he spent some time in the v. in
hope of recovery.
In Their New Offices.
■Messrs Glass and Weaver and
W. A. Chase are now occupying
quarter.- in the Pollard block, over
the Nowata National bank. Their
offices are first class law shops, being
convenient for themselves as well as
for their friends. Glass and Weaver
moved from the court house and
Chase moved from the Keys building.
Harvey Anson Key* Dead
Harvey Anson Keys, youngest
child of Mr. and Mrs. I,. A. Keys,'
died Monday afternoon at the home
after a brief illness. The funeral
services ware held Tuesday afternoon,
Rev. J. D. Voce officiating, with tho
interment in the Nowata eetn tery
In their bereavement Mr. aad Mrs
Keys have the sincere sympathy of
their many friends.
A Thanksgiving Wedding.
Walter Thuinas and Miss- May Pol-
lard. of the millinery firm of Pollard
and Ham, were married yesterday
morning at the home of Mr and Mrs.
Samuel Ham, Rev. J. D. Voce officiat-
ing. At six o’clock in the evening    .
dinner was served in honor of the prosperous, contented farmer living
Card of Thank*
We des;re to extend our sincere
thanks to the many friends who so
kindly extended help and sympathy
during the illness and at the funeral
of our beloved son.
Mb. and Mrs L A. Keys.
happiness which he thought would
attend hiH return to the scenes of his
former life faded completely away.
While he was in his trouble his wife
had secured a divorce and remarried,
her present husband being Thomas
Holland. 8he did not take the Nel-
son children with her arid they lived
near Mr. Nelson’s sister, Mrs. Bessie
Howard, Nelson went to them and
made his home there. His sister did
NOWATA LOSES TO CANEY
First Football Game on Local Gridiron
Got* To Visitor*
everything she could to make her
tho clothes in front ami there was ,)rf)thor forKet the paatf lml he coulo
a small hole through his undershirt.
shirt, coat and overcoat in the back;
and then when we took off the shirt
the bullet dropped out.”
The life of John Nelson was a sad
one. Until five years ago he was a
bride and groom at the home of Mr
mg Dener unrigs ... u.e .uuire. The Mrs. James Ham. Both Mr. and
little city is practically unanimous in ^ra. lhomas aie most e.-tima n
v.    , onMMiv nnonlo nnrl hQVO thi> Prt H <T rai.il-
lts agreement to accept Nowata s
invitation to become the county’s
Southern Metropolis.
New Photographer Here.
Photographer McKinney, of Cof-
fcyville, has opened a Studio in the
Heffner building, on North Maple
Street. The Studio, for the present,
will only be open on Saturdays. Mr.
McKinney has one of the best Photo-
graphic studio’s in Coffey vide and has
the reputation of doing splendid
work.
young people and have the congratu-
lations of a large circle of friends.
They will be at home in their own
home in the northwestern part of the
city.
A man without a home and with-
out friends, there was not much left,
for Nelson to live for. Tho-e whom
he thought would still be his friends
forsook him one by one, end he found
himself a social outcast, shunned by
men and women on every side. His
life became more lonely every day
After playing a magnificent victory-
deserving game the boys of the No-
wata high school. last Sunday lest the
first foot ball game over played in
Nowata by the score of 6 to 0.
During the first half there waa a
t rrific wind blowing from the south.
The toss up declared that Captain
Moreland arid his men should run
against the wind.
Car.ey had the wind in their favor.
Long punts were made, the oval sail-
ing along on tho waves of wind. In
eighteen minutes after the whistle
blew Caney made a touch down and
kicked goal.
After the score the Nowata lads
settled down to hard work, and,
during the second half the visitors
never had a chance to repeat the
performance of the second half.
The locals played a splendid de-
fensive game, having no difficulty in
holding their opponents. The ball
was secured by the locals repeatedly
on downs, hut they were unable to do
effective offensive work. This is
accounted for by lack of piacticc
The ba,.ks and ends for the Nowatans
did hard work but they were unable
to connect with their interference
Therein lav the trouble.
The line up was as follows:
COUNTY LINES THE
LEADING QUESTION
latter *i Satisfying Indian Territery
Delegates lest Difficult Preble* In
Cosstitstioaal Coa^enthm At iathrie
MILLION DOLLARS 10 HAN W10
CAN DRAW A NAP TO SUIT AU,
Railroad Lawytn Hava Laadtag Waea* 0»
PoMfc OrpanH—a CawtlHaa Mamayy
«• A Lradir SompAwy'*
Guthrie, Okla., Nov. 26.—The ap-
pointment of committees on county
boundaries in Indian Territory is
overshadowing everything else now
in the constitutional convention.
President Murray named the major-
ity of committees today but the
county boundaries committee went
over for a week.
The startling announcement was
made that a parse of one million dol-
lars would be spent by lobbyists in-
terested in the county boundaries
committee. The sura can be earned,
il ls alleged, by the man who can
draw a county map of Indian Terri-
tory and guarantee it to stand.
When the conventisw rirconvened
the rules and milaag • ewniBltfcee* re-
ported.
Tho election contest committee
disagreed and asked for instr
it is believed the Courts mqf
the contests
J. J. Curl of BartlesvHte, who is
chairman of the liquor committee, is
a prohibitionist. Hit appointment
creates alarm among those opposed
to prohibition. It is believed that
an effort is being made to saddle
constitutional prohibiten on the new
state through the aid of the Indian
Territory delegates. The statehood
enabling act placed twenty-one years
prohibition over the Indian Territory
portion of the state.
W. H. Kornegay, <ff Vinita, is al-
ready known as one of the hard work-
ing delegates. His name is on many
important committees.
The chairmanship of the committee
on railroads and public corporations
was landed by Bob Williams, of Du-
rant, who resigned the position of
general counsel for the M. K. & T.,
to break into the convention. C. W.
Haskell, of Muskogee, capitalist and
railroad promoter, is a member of
the Rame committee-
W. D. Humphrey, of Nowata, did
not fare well in committee assign-
ments. He failed to secure a chair-
manship and is a member of the com-
mittees on legislative department,
enrollment and engrossment and salar-
ies and compensations of public offi-
cials.
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east of Nowata. He got into trouble
with his brother-in-law, Albert Morris,____________
of Nowata, oversome lantil* matters, | ;in(j j,e finally 0n nose took to the
and the bad feeling grew t nLil it: very thing that liail eau-ed the ht
culminated in Nelson’s killing Morris gjnning of all his    whiskey.
The funeral of John Nelson
Nelson was tried held at the h()lae ,.f
in front of the Coffeyville Furniture
company's store. Nelson was tried > iiv^„ „v _________
twice for the murder and was each j Bessie Howard, r..tf-will
time convicted, although he pleaded aftern0on, at 2 o’cl
self-defense each time. He was1
CANEY
NOWATA
Evt-rhvHrdt
1. e. Elliott-Jwurneycake
Parsons
1. t G. Rogers
Hu agios
1. g. Pence
IChinvheart
1 h h Shelton
Summers
r e. Hildebrand
Trusket t
r. t O Rogers
Barhiw
r. g Tillotson
Wills
r. h. 1) Bluejacket
Landruth
q b. Moreland
1 .ahadie
f b. F. Jolidan
Thornburg
c L. Jolidan
Quiet
sub    Parker.
Change In Town Officer*    ---- -------
On account of increasing business | sentenced io the penitentiary and
engagements Mayor R L. Farrer, of
Talala. last week resigned his posi-
tion. As his successor the town
council elected John E. Pendeton,
who had been the recoider. S. L.
Garner was appointed recorder.
was pardoned last spring. His
sentence was for five years but good
behavior and plenty of friends here
at home secured him his liberty after
being in prison only one year.
Nelson went to Coffeyville, but the
•ck.
Tho pall bearers w,
cox, Charles ChilvI.-rs, O
L. R Shreck, William E
Read.
The inter-ent was >t
cemetery. There was a 1.,
of people present Thu li
ings were beautiful.
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A Pair of Country Kid*
Thu' n<-xt attraction at the East
house is “A Pair of Coun-
a Now England farce
ro Sunday evening. Decern
” company carries a splen-
and a large amount cf
nery. There will be numer-
.. se -cl a Sties.
Thanksgiving Brides and Groo«n*
The    t olio wing marritge license
were issued Tuesday and v\ednesday:
Walter Thomas and May Pollard
of Nowata.
Frank Young and Maud Williams,
of Centralia.
Harry York and Edith Murphy, of
Ramona.
Fred E. Patchett of Deering, Kan-
sas, and Luoy Jones, of Nowata.
Charles Moore and Ella M. Bird of
Nowata.
Rail Road Workman Killed
Joe Dileilo, an employe of the Iron
Mountain work train, was instantly
killed 1 st Friday afternoon, a few
mi<es south of Nowata. Dump cars
were being used in scattering gravel
ballast along the main track. Dileilo
was caught beneath one of the dumps
and his life was crushed out. The
body was brought to Nowata Friday
night and taken to the Roberts and
Pittsenbarger undertaking establish-
ment, where it was embalmed. It
was shipped to Kansas City Saturday
for interment. The tragedy created
intense excitement among the small
army of Italians employed on the
works.
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