The Davis News (Davis, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 4, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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THE DAVIS NEWS
OFFICIAL PAPER FOR MURRAY COUNTY AND TOWN OF DAVIS
VOLUME XIV--NUMBER 4
DAVIS, OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY IMNPA ia«e
$1.00 A YEAR
Okla. Historical Society
me &an never looks so good as when it comes
sneaking from behind the clouds. Nature's orches-
tra is coaxing the early buds; the soft zephyrs are
loaded with the incense of hope. May we not look
to the near future in adding you to our list of cus-
tomers? We are sure if we can get you started we
will never lose you, as we now have men on our
books that were with us fourteen years ago.
% H.C.Draughon'sSonsCo.
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W are willing to be judged by the quality
, of the goods we sell and the manner in
which we treat our customers.
Our prices must be right, otherwise we could
not hope to conduct a successful business.
DON'T SEND YOUR MONEY AWAY.
Leave it with us "home folks" tc circulate
in this community.
Hi
No far distant concern can give you your
money's worth as well as we and you have
us close by to make things right if you
think they are not so.
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DON'T YOU NEED-
$1.75 to $8.50
$5.40 to $7.50
$4.oo to $8.00
$7.5o to $14.oo
A nice Rocker
A nice Set Diners
A nice Kitchen Safe
A nice Kitchen Cabinet
A nice Matting at 15-20-25-30 and 35 cents per yard
A nice Linoleum at 55 cents per yard
A nice Floor Oil Cloth at - 35 cents per yard
A nice Set Plates - - 50 to 75c
A nice Set Teas - - - 50 to 75c
A nice Set Goblets - - 40c
A nice Set Tumblers - - 25 to 40c
A big lot Enamelware 50 per cent cheaper than you
can get it elsewhere.
NO TROUBLE TO SHOW YOU.
W. M. HILLIS
FURNITURE AND HOUSEFURNISHINGS.
The Store that Sells it for Less.
RESTRICTIONS BILL.
Following are the main features of the Bill for Removal
of Restrictions as passed by Congress and
signed by the President
Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That, from
and after sixty days from the
date of this Act the status of the
lands allotted heretofore or here-
after to allottees of the Five
Civilized Tribes shall, as regards
restrictions on alienation or in-
cumbrance, be as follows: All
lands, including homesteads, of
said allottees enrolled as inter-
act, shall include all males under
the ape of eighteen years.
Sec. 3, That the rolls of citi-
zenship aiul of freodmen of the
Five Civilized Tribes approved
by the Secretary of the Interior
shall be conclusive evidence as to
the quantum of Indian blood of
any enrolled citizen or freednian
of said tribes, and of no other
persons, to determine questions
arising under this Act.
Sec. 4. That ail land from
it seemed to an onlooker that a
general free-for-all scrap was in
progress.
They were finally separated,
however and after glaring at one
another for a few minutes were
aware that Judge Mason was
pronouncing sentence on them.
A fine of $25.00 each was as-
sessed and Turner was given six
hours in jail and Mathers four.
The jail sentences were later re-
mitted.
After having delayed the court
[ for twenty minutes with this
dignified (?) spectacle they went
to the wash room and removed
the blood from their faces. Mr.
Turner having a swollen eye and
a disfigured cheek, while Mr.
Mathers had the side of his head
bruised. They returned to the
court, room and continued the
Miniature Cyclone at Sulphur
With the roof, ceiling and plas-
tered walls falling about them,
Harney Brewington and wife
narrowly escaped death at the
hands of the miniature cyclone
which struck the southwest part
of the city Friday morning about
10 o'clock. Their houBe, which
was on 14th street, west, was
carried twenty feet or more off
the foundation and then com-
pletely demolished. When res-
cued the aged couple were com-
pletely covered with debriB, Mr.
firewington being under the
cook stove. Mrs. Brewiugton,
however, suffered the more se-
vere injuries, and her condition
is now quite serious.—Sulphur
Times.
Muskogee Accounts in Hope-
less Tangle.
Muskogee, Okla.—Alexander
Richmond, president of the
State Audit company, who was
employed to check up the city's
books, has made a written report
to Mayor Bennett in which he
states that the city treasurer has
kept no books, that the city hall
ledger has not been posted up
for nine months and that, the
city's accouuts arc in such a
tangle that nothing can be made
out. of them and that balances
that have been reported recently
have been forced and were not
correct. I. L. Kirklaml is the
present city treasurer and Z. T.
Walrond was treasurer prior to
Kirkland's election this spring.
Mayor Bennett, admits that lie
has found it impossible to get
the run of the city's finances and
it was for that reason the State
Audit company was given a con-
tract to check up the books and
make a detailed statement.
Now the Audit company has
thrown up its contract, because
they allege, the treasurer's books
prior to 1!>00 have been aban-
doned and other records have not
been posted so that it is impossi-
ble to make a complete state-
ment. Experts will be put to
work on the books at once. No
charges are made that there are
any shortages or criminal action
of any kind on the part of city
officials.
married whites, as freedrnen, | which restrictions have been
and as mixed blood Indians hav-
ing less than half Indian blood,
including miuors, shall be i'rae
from all restrictions. All lauds,
except homesteads, of said al-
lottees enrolled as mixed-blood
Indians having half or more than
half and less than three quarters
Indian blood shall be free from
all restrictions. All Home-
steads of said ailottees enrolled
as mixed-blood Indians having
half or more than half Indian
blood including minors of such
degrees of blood, and all allotted
lands of enrolled living full
bloods including minors of such
degrees of blood, shall not be
subject to alienation, contract to
sell, power of attorney, or any
other incumbrance prior to April
twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred
and thirty-one, except, that the
Secretary of the Interior may re
move such restrictions, wholly or
in part, under such rules and
regulations concerning terms of
sale and disposal of the proceeds
for the benefit of the respective
Indians as lie may prescribe.
The Secretary of the Interior
shall not be prohibited by t his
Act from continuing to remove
restrictions as heretofore, and
nothing herein shall bo construed
to impose restrictions removed
from land by or under any law
prior to the passage of this Act.
Sec. 2. That all lands other
than homesteads allotted to
members of the Five Civilized
Tribes from which restrictions
have not beeu removed may be
leased by the allottee, if
adult, or by guardian or curator
under order of the proper pro
bato court, if a minor or incom-
petent, for a period not to ex-
ceed five years, without the
privilege of renewal: I'rovided,
That leases of restricted lands
for oil, gas, or other mining pur-
poses, leases of restricted lauds
for period of more than live
years may be made, with the ap-
proval of the Secretary of the
Interior, and not otherwise:
And provided further, That the
jurisdiction of the probate courts
of the State of Oklahoma over
lands of minors and incompe-
tents shall be subject, to the fore-
going provisions, and the term
minor or minors, as used iu this
shall be removed shall be sub-
ject to taxation and all other
civil burdens as though it were
the property of other persons
than ailottees of the Five Civil-
ized Tribes: I'rovided, that al-
lotted lands shall not be sub-
jected or held liable, to any form
ol' personal claim, or demand,
against the allottees arising
existing prior to the removal of
restrictions, olher than contracts
heretofore expressly permitted
by law.
Sec. 5. That any attempted
alienation or incumbrance by
deed, mortgage, contract to sell,
power of attorney, or other in-
strument or method of incum-
bering real estate, made before
or after the approval of this Act,
which affects the title of the
land allotted to allottees of the
Five Civilized Tribes prior to re-
moval of restrictions therefrom,
and also any lease of such res-
tricted land made iu violation of
law before or after the approval
ol this Act shall he absolutely
null and void.
ARDMORE ATTORNEYS
FIGHT IN COURT.
A case nut down on the docket
was disposed of in the county
court yesterday morning. It.
was unusual as well as unlooked
for as both the participants were
prominent attorneys one being
the county attorney, Jimes
Mathers, the other It, F. Turner.
A case was in progress that of
the state against one Edwards,
of Cheek charged with carrying
liquor. During the course of the
trial one of the attorneys was
accused of coaching the witness-
es. The lie was immediately
passed and Mr. Turner who was
sitting across the table from
county attorney Mathers im-
mediately proceeded to get on
the other side of the table and
mix matters. The two men
came to blows and in the gener-
al melee fell to the Uoor and
were pounding and jabbing at
one another's physiognomy in a
manner that would have delight-
ed a Sullivan. Sheriff Holmes
Akers and Mr. Dawson tried fo
get the pugilistic attorneys apart
and themselves were carried to
the tloor and under the table and
Cyclone Near Mill Creek.
Mill Creek, Okla., May 30.—
During a severe rainstorm here
yesterday, a small cyclone passed
northwest of town in the vicini-
, ty of the Browning school house,
j Mrs. VV. B. Browning, whose
I place is about four miles north-
west, reports that her orchard
was ruined and the trees were
literally torn up by the roots and
carried long distances. Several
houses were destroyed in the
path.of the twister, one of which
is that of \V. S. Waller, but no
casualities have beeu reported.
The path of the storm was
about two miles long and one
hundred feet wide.
evidence in the trial was also
missing after the affair was over.
—Ardmore Democrat.
Corn
In the cultivation of corn let it
case in which they were engaged, j no' be forgotten that the best
Judge Mason very plainly j resu'ts will be had by cultivating
showed his disgust at the afl'-'ir. "hallow aud tn ,n ritiy. Keep
and it. was some time belt: ' > "l11' :;eu. i\,i !
anger at the occurrence was cool- i "lu "umber ol cultivations re-
ed. In the scrap Sheriff Akers . <lu'rud.
sustained a bitten finger. A Distance in the drill and be-
bottle of whiskey that was in twee" rows is important. Each
stalk of corn should have at least
ten square feet of soil from
which to draw nutriment (This
space may be decreased where the
land is exceptionally rich.)
Planting may be done in row3
five feet apart and thinned to
two feet in the drill, or four feet
apart and thirty inches in the
drill, or it may be checked at
forty inches. Checking is pref-
erable because it can then be
cultivated both ways, ar.d this
cheapens the cost of making the
crop by eliminating ti:- expen-
sive hoeing.
Whatever method you may
use in planting, do not iiect
the cultivation, as >ed
above.—Bamberge.
Santa Fe Bridge All Right.
Thackerville, Okla., May 30.—
The Santa Fe bridge across Red
river is all right, and the Santa
Fe now has a gang of four or live
hundred men at work buildin
trestle across the now channel of
the river this side of the bridge.
It is not believed that it will be
possible to throw the stream
back into the old channel, not
for the present, at. least. All of
the trestle and dump north from
the bridge to the first switch this
side is gone and must be re-
placed before traflic can be re-
sumed. It is estimated that it
will be some three or four days
before trallic can be resumed in-
to Texas.
Red river is back within its
banks, but many farms are still
covered with the back water,
which has not had time to dry
off nor drain oil'.
A party from Galvestiou is
operating a steam launch across
the river at the bridge and ap-
parently doing a good business.
The launch was brought from
Galveston to the river in a spec-
ial train to be used in stringing
the telephone and telegraph
wires across the river. I'asseu
gers now come from Gainesville
to the river in conveyances,
cross the river in the launch and
then go on to Marietta or Ard-
more in other conveyances.
Store Robbed.
The Kennedy hardware store
was entered Tuesday night and
fifty knives, several fishhooks
and boxes of cartridges stolen.
I'art of the lots was found under
a culvert the next morning but
the cutlery and thief are still
undiscovered. The knives are
said to be worth over a dollar
each. Some phoney jewelry was
found with the cartridges.—
Wynnewood New Era.
JUST RECEIVED
Full line of plain and fancy
SCREEN DOORS
I—
A car of famous Kokomo
HOG FENCE
We have a big stock of
CORRUGATED
IRON HOOFING
BARBED WIRE
CEMENT
LIME
BRICK
LUMBER
WAPLES-
PAINTER CO.
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