The Hartshorne Sun. (Hartshorne, Indian Terr.), Vol. 10, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 22, 1904 Page: 4 of 13
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READY FOR DEBATE
BILL AS AMENDED NOW READY
FOR THE SENATE
TIME FOR CONSIDERATION JANUARY 5
Minority Report on Hamilton Bill
Asks for Elimination of Reference
to Arizona and New Mexico—Some
Changes in Original Bill
WASHINGTON: In the senate
Friday Mr. Beverldge, from the com-
mittee on territories, reported the
statehood bill, and he will make a
motion on the first day the senate
convenes that on January 5 consider'
stlon of I he bill be entered on at. once.
Representing the minority of the
committee, Mr. Bate notified tho sen-
ile that he would enter a motion to
•ecommit the hill for the purpose of
taking further testimony.
Mr. Iiate gave notice of an amend-
ment confirming the provisions of the
hill to the state to be formed by the
inion of Oklahoma and Indian Terri-
:ory and eliminating all reference to
Arizona and New Mexico.
As amended by the committee the
school land section provides that the
:and must be sold at public, auction
In tracts of ICO acres. One line in the
Hamilton bill reads: "Preference
right to purchase being given to the
lessee at the time of such sale." This
line has heen stricken from the hill.
As amended in the senate committee,
section 9 now rads:
"That said sections 10 and 36 and
lands taken in lieu thereof herein
granted for the support of the com-
mon schools may be appraised and
sold at public sale in tracts of 1 CO
acres under such rules and regula-
tions as the legislature of the said
Plate may prescribe, the proceeds to
constitute a permanent, school fund,
the interest of which only shall be ex-
pended in the support of such schools.
Hut said lands may, under such regu-
lations as the legislature may pre-
scribe, be leased for periods not to
exceed five years, and such lands
shall not he subject to Homestead
entry under the land laws of the
population as may be," while the ap-
portionment. of fifty-four districts in
Indian Territory is to be mado by the
judges of the United States court. <
The majority report, if it becomes
a law, will admit the new states on
March 4, 1906. It provides for five
members of the lower house from the
state of Oklahoma and two from Ari-
zona. It will a'id eleven votes to tho
electoral college. Of these Oklaho-
ma will have seven and Arizona four.
RHODES SCHOLARSHIP
Qualifying Examination to be Held at
the University
NORMAN: In accordance with the
instructions of the trustees of the will
of the late Mr. Rhodes, President
Boyd as chairman of the committee
of selection for Oklahoma has an-
nounced that the qualifying examin-
ation for those desiring to become
candidates for the "Rhodes scholar-
ship" will be held at the University
of Oklahoma in Norman on Tuesday
and Wednesday, January 17 and 18.
This examination is not competitive,
but simply those candidates who hav©
successfully passed this examination.
Candidates for this scholarship
must be unmarried and must be not
.•o inger than nineteen nor older than
twenty-five years of age on October 1,
of the year in which they are elected.
It has also been decided that all
scholars shall have reached at least
the end of their sophmore or second
year work at some recognized degree-
granting institution or college of the
United States.
Those passing the examination in
January will be eligible as candidates
before the committee of selection for
the appointment as the second Rhodes
scholarship from Oklahoma. The first
scholar was selected by this com-
mittee last year and is now enrolled
at. Oxford.
Mr. Kendall, who was the success-
ful candidate for this scholarship last
year, was admitted to work leading to
a degree, which speaks well for the
schools for his year who were per-
mitted to read for the advanced de-
gree. Mr. Kendall is a graduate of
the university and all of his many
friends here are pleased with his suc-
cess.
MARKET REPORTS
J'nited tSates, whether
surveyed or
reserved for
unsurveyed, but shall be
school purposes only."
For two days the committee con-
sidered the problem of enforced pro-
hibition for the Indian Territory. It
was adopted, recommended and
finally adopted again, and in this
•fhape will be reported to the senate.
Section 3, article 1, of the Hamilton
Pill, which passed the house, read:
"That perfect toleration of relig-
ious sentiment shall be secured and
that no inhabitant of said state shall
ever bo molested in person or prop-
erly on account of his or her mode of
religious worship: and polygamous
or plural marriages and the sale, bar-
ter or giving of intoxicants to Indians
pre forever prohibited."
Tho senate committee took up the
work where it had been abandoned
and added a proviso which set forth:
"The sale, barter or giving away of
intoxicating liquors—except for scien-
tific, medicinal and mechanical pur-
poses- in that part of the state known
as Indian Territory or any Indian res-
vation, shall be prohibited for a j
term of ten years from the date of the
admission of said slate and there-
after until the legislature of said
state shall otherwise prescribe."
The membership of the constitu-
tional convention was finally fixed at
109 delegates, of whom fifty-five will
come from Oklahoma and fifty-four
from Indian Territory. It is made
the duty of the government chief jus*
tice and the secretary of Oklahoma
to apportion that territory into lify-
five districts "as nearly equal in
WOULD INCREASE EXPENSED.
Movement to Cut Indian Territory
Court Districts In Halves.
MUSKOGEE: It is understood
that Judge Sulzbacher, of the western
district, is leading a movement to
have legislation passed through con-
gress this winter, dividing each of tho
four judicial districts in Indian Terri-
tory in half, thus increasing the num-
ber to eight and equalizing tho powet
of the four new judges with the older
judges. This would give the new
judges the same power to appoint
their clerks and manage the judicial
affairs of their districts as is now en-
joyed by Judges Raymond, Clayton,
Gill and Townsend, ranking judges of
the four judicial districts.
Such a measure, It' introduced,
| would meet strong opposition on the
ground that it would increase the ex
j penditures for court purposes fully
$100,000. The creation of four addi-
tional districts would necessitate the
appointment of a number of additional
clerks and deputies as well as font
more marshals and deputies for each
DIVIDEND FOR DE
rVRJ
Receiver Capitol National B, Mi'^eady
to Pay 20 Per Cent.
CI TIIRIE: .1 A. Willoughhy, re-
ceiver for the defunct Capital Nation-
al Bank, received the checks recent
ly sent to Washington for approval,
which are to be used in the payment
of 20 per cent, dividend declared son:o
time ago. The creditors oi the bank
will receive 20 per cent, of their de-
posits by calling at tho bank. In a'l
this dividend will amount to about
1150,000.
COTTON
Galveston Spots.
I.<ow ordinary, 4 9-16; ordinary, 5;
good ordinary, G 4-1G; low middling,
7 2-16; middling, 7 10-1G; good mid-
dling, 7 14-16;; middling fair, 8 2-16.
New Orleans.
Ordinary, 5 1-16; good ordinary, 6-
C-16; low middling, 7 2-10;; middling,
7 9-10; good middling, 7 13-16; mid-
dling fair, 8 5-16.
LIVE STOCK MARKET.
steers,
$3.75®
$2.10®
heifers,
calves,
Chicago.
CATTLE—Good to prime
$G.00@7.00; poor to medium,
5.75; stockers and feeders,
4.15; cows, $1,005(4.15;
$1.75®5.00; bulls, $2.00@4.00;
$3.50® 7.00.
HOGS—Mixed and butchers, $4. .'!5
®4.65; heavy, $4.57@4.08; lights,
$4.30®4.55.
SHEEP—Good to choice wethers,
$4.40@6.2B; fair to choice, $4.40®
5.25; lambs, $5.00© 7.15.
SHE PLEADS NOT QUILTY
I Mrs. Chadwick Says She Is Innocent
of Every Charge
CLEVELAND, O.: Mrs. Chadwick
was arraigned before Judgo Wing of
[he United States district court, plead-
ed not guilty to every charge brought
against her, declined to give bail and
was remanded to jail to await trial.
President Beckwith and Cashier
Spear, of the Citizens' National Bank,
of Oberlin, were arraigned at the same
time and were allowed to depart after
furnishing bonds, each to the amount
of $25,000, an additional increase of
$15,000 over the value of the bond
. '.hey had previously given.
The arraignment was quietly ar-
ranged between District Attorney Sul-
livan, United States Marshal Chandler
| and the attorneys for the three in-
ilicted people. It. was deemed best to
i liave them called on Saturday, at a
i time when few people would be ex-
i peeting to see them in court, instead
of at a regular session, when a multi-
tude of curious people would attempt
to invade tho court room. Not over
Ihirty people were present when Judge
Wing took his seat to preside for tho
arraignment only. Court was ad-
journed as soon as it was over, the en-
lire session not lasting over fifteen
minutes.
Kansas City
Cattle—Choice export and dressed
beef steers, $5.00@6.50; fair to good,
$3.50® 5.00; western fed steers, $3.50
@5.00; stockers and feeders, $2.50®
4.15; southern steers, $2.50® 4.50:
southerin cows. $ 1.75(fx 3.25; native
cows, $1.75®4.25; native heifers, $.250
5.50; bulls, $2.00©4.00; calves, $3.00
® 6.25.
Hogs—Top, $4.60; bulk of sales,
$4.25®4.55; hrj.vy, $4.50® 4.60;
packers. $4.40@4!.55; pigs and light,
$3.75® 4.45.
GRAIN MARKET.
Chicago.
WHEAT—No. 2 spring, $l.08(f«1
No. 3, .95® $1.11; No. 2 red, $1.
1.14.
CORN—No. 2, 45®46c; No. 2
low, 45®46c.
OATS—No. 2, 29c; No 3 white,
Kansas City.
WHEAT—No. 2 hard, $1.03®1
No. 2 red, $1.06® 1.08.
CORN—No. 2 mixed, 42c; No. 3,
OATS—No. 2 white, 31c; No. 2
ed, 30c.
1.14;
12®
yel-
30c.
.05;
41c-
inix-
Muskogee Wants Public Building
WASHINGTON: Delegate Mc-
Guire has introduced a bill providing
for a public building at Muskogee,
costing $250,000, which is to include a
site. About 300 government officials
are located at Muskogee, including
the union Indian agency inspectors.
Dawes commission. United States
court and postofflce
HOLDING THEIR COTTON
Extensive Bridge Improvements.
Tl'I.SA: All bridge work on tho
Tulsa-Sapulpa division of the St. Ixiuis
& San Francisco will in the future
be done at Sapulpa, where large shops
are being built. Much of the work of
putting up the buildings necessary is
done. It is said the Frisco will make
extensive improvements in its bridges
throughout Indian Territory in the
next twelve months.
Want Prison in Mountains
LAWTON: A determined effort is
to be made by citizens of Lawton and
vicinity to have the Oklahoma peni-
tentiary -located in the Wichita
mountains. The matter will be given
thorough consideration at the coming
session of the territorial legislature.
At present there are in the Lansing
penitentiary 345 Oklahoma prisoners,
for the keep of whom the territory
pays 50 cents per day each.
Texas Farmers Want Ten Cents for
the Staple
DALLAS: The News publishes re-
ports from ninely-six Texas counties
showing the amount of cotton held in
each for higher prices. The aggregate
Is from 530,000 to 585,000 bales. These
bounties in 1903 produced 1,821,316
bales, or nearly 75 per cent of the to-
tal crop of Texas. Of the cotton be-
ing held about 77 per cent is shown
to be in northern Texas, many of tho
south Texas correspondents explain-
ing that the crop in that section ma-
tured early and was sold before tho
prices declined. Very nearly all the
reports show that the cotton is being
held for 10c. It is stated in several
of tho reports, however, that tho
farmers have fixed no arbitrary figure
and that while they are holding for a
higher price they probably will let go
at 8c or 9c. Others want even more
than 10c. The banks as a rule, are
shown to be willing to make liberal
advances upon cotton, but it is stated
quite generally that the farmers hold-
ing are able to carry their cotton
without aid.
Chief Rogers a Banker
TULSA: A hank with, an Indian
chief as its president has been or-
ganized to do business at Skiatook.
The institution opens next week, with
Chief W. C. Rogers, of the Cherokees,
it its head. The bank is incorporated
for $10,000, and is located in a town
that is only three months old. Clifton
George. C. W. Brown and L. Appleby,
of Tulsa are directors.
The sixte"n acre allotment of Sarah
Mode, east of I he town of Vinita, has
been purchased by the International
Bank and Trust company aud will be
platted at once
Taxes Nearly all Paid
EI/ RENO: As an evidence of pros-
perity it is only necessary to stato
that there are less than $2,000 out-
standing of the 1903 tax. The total
amount for the year was $155,000 in
round numbers, and all of this is in
except the amount stated. The tax
for 1904 will amount in round num-
bers to $166,000. These taxes are just
due, yet $3,000 of this amount is now
in the strong box of the treasurer and
it is coming in every day
Mill Is Assured.
CARMEN: The News states that
Fred Van Wagner, who is in St. Louis,
called at.the office of the Southwest-
ern Colonization companv, and wrote
home that the mill proposition was
an assured fact, that sufficient money
for the erection of a 300-barrel mill
had been pledged, and about the first
of the year a number of the gentlemen
would be here to commence the erec-
tion of the mill building.
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