The Tahlequah Arrow. (Tahlequah, Indian Terr.), Vol. 18, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 17, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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THE TAHLEQUAH ARROW.
EIGHTEENTH YEAR.
TAHLEQUAH, INDIAN TERRITORY, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, HM>4.
ITUJCPEB J 6
PROGRESS THE PAST YEAR
Rapid Development of Indian Territory
—Many Townsitea Established—
Enrolment of Citizens.
The activity which has taken place la
Indian Territory during tbe past year
and tbe progress which has been made
in the enrollment of citizens of the five
tribes and the allotment of lands isdls
cussed in the report of the secretary of
the interior as follows:
"The rapid development of Indian
Territory during tho past year is evi-
denced by the activity in tbe establish-
ment of towuaites. Under the act of
March 3, 1903, lands may be sold by
the allottees for towosite purposes
where stations are located along lines
of railway, when recommended by the
commission and approved by tbe de-
partment, without regard to the re-
strictions imposed b;- the agreements
with the various tribes. Since this act
became effective only one segregation
of land for townslte purposes has been
made under former laws, but forty-
eigbt tows or additions to towns have
beec sold uuJer the act of March 3,
1Cu3, during the past year. A number
of applications to sell lands for town-
site purposes have also been refused
because the allottees wew not shown to
possess sufficient business ability to
justify tbe department in removing the
restrictions from their allotments.
"While the work of the commission
has been subject to serious delay ia
some of its branches, it is believed that
Its status at tbe close of tbe f,scal year
is all thatcouldreasonably beexpected.
"Marked progress has been made li
the enrollment of the members of the
five civilized tribes In Indian Terri-
tory, and the allotment to each member
of his proportionate share in the com
munai property. A final adjudication
has been made of tbe rights of more
than 02 per cent of the whole number
of applicants for enrollment to mem-
bership In the several tribes, and selec-
tions of allotments have been made by
about 85 per cent of the allottees duly
enrolled. Th« bulk of the work of en-
rollment of members and tbe allotment
of lands, except as to contests and tbe
determination of the rights of certain
applicants dow pending in the courts,
it is believed will be completed by June
30, 1903, and that the survey of all the
towns and tbe appraisement of lots
therein will l^e substantially finished
by July 1, 1905, as required by law.
"The five civilized tribes, composed
of the Cherokees, Chickasaw, Choctaw,
Creeks and Seminoles, in Indian Ter-
ritory, number about 81,000, including
freedmen, their reservations aggrega-
ting 19,475,014 acres. The population
of the several tribes is approximately
as follows: The Seminole, 2,753; the
Choctaw, 23,573; the Chickasaw, 9,713;
theCherokee,35,255; theCreek 15 359."
Big: Lump for Lawyers.
The Choctaw-Chickasaw citizenship
court at Tishomingo has fixed the fees
of Mansfield, McMurray & Cornish, the
attorneys for the nations in the citizen-
ship cases, at the lump sum of $750,000,
The attorneys held out for $1,500,000
under a contract i#Uh tbe nation for 9
per cent of the value of the allotments
saved the nation by the rejection of
oourt claimants to citizenship, tbe av-
erage value of allotments being fixed
in said contract at $4,800. The attor-
neys claimed this fee on the 3,500 per-
sons denied citizenship rights by this
court. The court decided that there
should be no fee in the case of those re-
jected by the Dawes commission, cut-
ting the allotments saved down to 2 501,
though the attorneys had defended
against the other 1,000 applicants in
tbe citizenship court. The court also
estimated the value of the average al-
lotment at less than $3,500. There were
eight lawyers sworn on tbe nature of
tbe cases, and the fight made by the
attorneys extended over six years.
Back to Washington.
C. E. Foley left this week for Wash-
ington, D. C., to take up the work a9
delegate from Indian Territory at the
present session of congress. Accord-
ing ta^ the proceedings of tbe South
McAlester convention last fall which
elected him he was to serve until the
end of the present congress, r ad for
that reason must serve du ing lae short
session just begun. In the face of these
facts the call for tho convention at
South McAlester on the 3rd inst. was
declared premature and called off. It
appears that tbe convention was not
called for the purpose of succeeding
Mr. Foley, as he would doubtless have
been again chosen, but through a mis
understanding of the fact that he was
still Indian Territory's delegate.
Tulsa Well Banks Third.
What it is claimed will be tbe third
largest gas well in the United States,
and several times tbe largest in the
Tulsa gas belt)>was drilled in Friday,
It has an estimated flow of from 15,-
000,000 to 30,000,000 cubic feet of tbe
best quality of dry gas every twenty-
four hours on the start. The well wa3
drilled in on the Cherokee National
Oil and Gas lease, and tbe gas belongs
to the People's Gas Co. It will be dis-
posed of at from 2 to 3 cents per 1,000
feet. The well is a 10 inch hoie, and
is perfectly dry. Tha largest flowing
gas well in the United Slates is at
Ochelata, I. T., 20,000,000 cubic feet;
tbe second largest near Pawhuska, in
the Osage nation, flowing 15,000,000
cyblc feet.
Prospect for Statehood Legislation.
Col. J. W. Zevely has returned from
Wat;aington to Muskogee where he
spent several weeks on business before
the departments. He left before con-
gress met, but as he is well acquainted
in Washington, he had an opportunity
to judge pretty well the sentiments
there. He says that while he did not
get to see many of the members of con-
gress, the general impression among
the newspaper men who have long been
close observers of the signs of ap-
proaching legislation, that there will
be no statehood legislation enacted at
this session for Indian Territory, Okla-
homa, Arizona or New Mexico.
GUTHRIE TO BE TBE CAPITAL
School Lands to be Appraised and Sold
at Public Sale—Two Judicial Dis-
tricts to be Created.
The senate con.mittee on territories
Tuesday accepted amendments to the
house statehood bill, dividing the new
state of Oklahoma lototwo judicial dis-
tricts, one to be the present territory of
Oklahoma to be known as tbe Western
district witb a United States court at
Oklahoma City, the other made up of
the presont Indian Territory with a
court at Muskogee. Also accepted the
amendment to allow the capital of the
new state to remain at Guthrie until
1910, then the question to be bandied
by the legislature in any way it may
determine. Also accepted an amend-
ment to appraise school lands and sell
tbe same at public sale.
Tbe plan for equal division of <1< i-
gates to tbe constitutional convent
between the two territories was t
passed upon but is yet pending. Thv
time to become a state—March 4,1900—
allowed to stand.
The committee expects to have the
bill in senate within a week, and hopes
for passage. Tho president is being
urged through the Indian Klghts asso
ciation to prevent the passage of the
bill. So far he has refused to take a
hand in response to appeals made.
All Pull Together.
The following from the Holdenville
Tribune cor ;ains a world of truth, and
is indeed worthy tbe deepest and moBt
earnest thought of the business men of
any community: "No towu will be-
come a good business center as long as
the majority of its business men rely
upon a few merchants to bring trade
to town. Too often the men in a few
lines of trade are about the only ones
that reach out after custom. Other
merchants wait until these business
men influence people to come to town
and content themselves witb trade that
naturally drifts to their place. A
public-spirited man asks himself If he
is doing his part to attract people to
come to-town. Any person who in-
duces people to como to town to trade
is helping the entire business commu-
nity, and no town is a success unless
all lines of trade are working to extend
business as far as possible and trying
to bring a larger territory in the circle
of which the town is the business cen-
ter.'*
Railroad Hen Here.
Several of the promoters of the Ok-
lahoma & Cherokee Central railroad
were in the city Wednesday morning.
Among them were A. M. Gammon, sec-
retary of the company, Attorney Mur-
chison and Capitalist Allen. They
asked Judge Lawrence to appoint three
men to appraise the damage to farms
crossed by the survey, and he named
Banker Scott of Chelsea, a Mr. Ghorm-
ley and Thomas McDonough. It will
be the duty of this commission to ap-
praise the damage to the farms of those
with whom Ibe rallruud company can-
not make a satisfactory settlement.
They are expected to begin work at
once. Secretary Gammon said they
were rusblng tbe preliminary work and
that grading would commence by Jan
11, 1905. The party left here overland
Wednesday afternoon for Tahlequah,
being accompanied by Watt Mayes.—
Pryor Creek Clipper.
The Old Home Paper.
Not until one leaves home does he
really appreciate the value of the home
paper. This distance lends enchant-
ment Is truly proven Inthlscase, When
a man pulls up stakes and shake* the
dust of his old home from his shoes to
seek new pastures, he naturally has a
hankering to know what is goinp on at
hU old home. It Is then that he appre-
ciates the old country paper that had
always made weekly visits to bis home,
but which be bad previously looked
upon as a mere circumstance In the
whirlpool of life. Its weekly vlsltB to
those who are abroad Hi'e like a spring
shower upon the parchcu Colds. Tbey
leave the mind refreshed by the move-
ments and • js of those who were at
one time l.is neighbors. Truly the
home paper Is not really appreciated as
It should be until wc get where It Is
bard to get.
It Was Labeled "Mineral Water."
A single deputy marshal in Indian
Territory can plow a blft furrow of woe
in a short time. A three gallon jug of
whiskey, labeled "mineral water," was
confiscate! on the depot platform at
Collinsville by Deputy Gllstrap. The
News says Gllstrap was watching for
it, and no sooner had it arrived than he
nabbed it. It belonged to a party of
"brass collars" who were here from
the states to take In the Osage country
on a hunting excursion.
To Appraise Right-of-Way.
J. D. Scott, Wm. Goblke, Dr. Gam-
man, W. D. Todd and others made a
trip to Pryor Creek Tuesday to attend
court. It is stated that Mr. Goblke
and Mr. Scott were appointed as ref-
erees to appraise the rjght of-way of
the Oklahoma & Cherokee Central
railroad. This means that the road
will be built, aod that work will be
commenced as soon as tbe red tape can
be cut that now entangles It.—Chelsea
Commercial.
Newspaper Sues a Town.
The Daily Oklahoman of Oklahoma
City has brought suit against the city
of Lawton to regain $210 alleged to be
due for an extra edition of the Oklaho-
man advertising the town. Tbe Okla-
homan, it is alleged, printed 5,000 cop-
ies of this edition. The city council
will probably fight the suit on the
grounds that the contract was not en-
tered iuto regularly while tbe council
was ir> session.
Will Get Their Patents.
Tuesday the Indian agent began to
send out between2,000 and 2,500 patents
to town lots in the Choctaw and Chick-
asaw nations, 900of wbloharefor town
lots In South McAlester. Lot owners
in that city will make their payments
this year on lots both scheduled and
sold at auction.
TWO BILLS ARE DEFEATED
Bills for Separate CoacUei and Enroll-
ment of Children Defeated—Host
Important of Council.
The Arrow publishes below two
measures Introduced by W. W. Breed-
love of Delaware distriot. Both are
Important measures asd should have
met the approval of the two branches
of the Cherokee national counoll. They
were passed by the lower house but
were defeated IntheBenate. Following
Is the separate coach resolution:
Whareas, Many railways transacting
business within tbe limits of the Cher-
okee nation provide Improper accom-
modations for the travel lg public, and,
Whereas, Tbe citizens hlpof theCher-
okee nation and tbe ojher nations of
the five civilized tribes are composed
of different classes of oltlzans, among
which are those of African descent,
and,
Whereas. The statutes of the state of
Arkansas provide for the accommoda-
tion of tbe traveling public in furnish-
ing separate coaches foe those of Afri-
can desoent from tho&eof the white
race: therefore,
Be it Resolved by the National Coun-
cil of tbe Cherokee Nation, That the
national council assembled In regular
session petitions tbe congress of the
United States to extend over tbe Cher-
okee nation certain sections of the stat-
utes of the Btate of Arkansas, hereto-
fore not applicable to the Cherokee
nation, found in sections C219 to section
6223 inclusive, Act of April 1, 1893,
pages 90,91, and sections 0224 to sec-
tion 0229, pages 91 93 Inclusive, corpo-
ration laws of the state of Arkansas,
1904, compiled by Job n \V. Crockett,
provides for a separate coach law,
would respectfully petition that this
law be made applicable tothe railroads
transacting business in the Cherokee
nation.
Enrollment of Cherokee Babies.
Asking the congress of the United
States that section 11 of tbe act of con-
gross, approved July 1, 1903, and rati-
fied by vote of the Cherokee people
August 7, 1902, looking to a full and
complete settlement of the affairs of
tbe Cherokee people, is Incomplete in-
asmuch as the children born since Sep-
tember 1, 1902, are excluded from par-
ticipatiug in the distribution of tbe
estate of the Cherokee people, whtfrelt
does not conflict with tbe treaty, we
believe them justly entitled to, inas-
much as the roll of citizenship of the
Cherokee nation Is still incomplete;
therefore, we ask that the congress j>f
the United States provide some meas-
ure through which theae children may
bo enabled to share equally In tbe com-
mon estate as citizens of the Cherokee
nation. We believe tbat any child
born to a recognized citizen of the
Cherokee nation up to the time of the
final closing of tho rolls should be enti-
tled to his or her pre* rata share of
this common estate and should be eli-
gible to all rights as guaranteed under
the treaty to any other citizen of the
Cherokee nation under the act of con-
gress July 1, 1902, better known as the
Cherokee treaty.
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