The Tahlequah Arrow. (Tahlequah, Indian Terr.), Vol. 11, No. 23, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 12, 1898 Page: 2 of 8
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TI IK AKKOWi TAHLKQIA11, INDIAN TF.Kni TOIIA
pass upon all claims or cross claims
proposed or asserted by eithei party,
touching said claim for arrears of In-
terest, so as to adjudicate all matter of
dispute arising therein, and do what
equity and justice require between the
parties of the suit. All reports, re-
cords, and other papers in any execu-
tive department of the government,
including any award made by the sec-
retary of of the interior touching said
claim, and all acts of congress in
relation thereto, as well as any papers
reports or records before congress <>r
the committees thereof, bearing upon
said claim, may be used before said
court; and such weight may be given
to them by said court as to It may seem
just, to the end that perfect justii e and
equity may be done between the par-
ties. Notice of such suit shall be
executed by delivering a true copy of
saiil petition to the attorney general of
tin1 United States, whose duty it shall
be, for and in behalf of the I'liited
States, to demur or answer the petition
therein within sixty days after the
service of such process upon liini. un-
less the court for good cause shall
grant further time for liling the ami*.
That persons known as the Missis-
sippi < 'hoctaws, of Choctaw Indian
blood, who claim rights as Choctaw
citizens in tile lands of the tribe in the
Choctaw nation, are hereby authorized
and empowered to brin lit in the
court of claims of the United States
within'sixty days after the passage of
this act. against the Choct aw nation to
determine their rights aforesaid under
treaties made between the I cited
States and the ( Mioetaw tribe of I in inns,
and particularly untler article lourtoeii
of the treaty concluded Sept. Hi, IfllO;
or the Choctaw nation ma.\ bring a
like suit against, the Mississippi
Choctaws; and jurisdiction i eunfen . I
on said court to adjunicate anil fully
determine the same.
That white persons who have inter-
married with < 'herokee citizens accord-
ing to their laws, and while persons
who have intermarried with Choctaw
or Chickasaw citizens according to
their laws and provisions of treaties
between the United States and the
Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes, are
hereby authorized and empowered to
bring suits in the United States court
of claims, within ninety days after the
passage of this act, against their re-
spective nations, for the purpose of
determining, according to law and
equity, all their rights and claims
under such laws and treaties in and to
the lands and funds of the respective
tribes into which they have intermar-
ried. Should any of such persons
recover against the nation, the court
shall render judgement for the amount
and order the same paid by the United
States and deducted from the funds
due such nation, and shall direct to lie
paiil out of the sum so recovered all
li es du • to attorneys of record, as
shown by their written contract with
the parties: or said nations may bring
like suits against such intermarried
persons within their respective nations:
and jurisdiction is conferred on said
court to adjudicate and fully determine
all such rights.
That any suit, except, such suit as is
provided for in section three herein,
so authorized may be brought by any
party other than said tribe
own behalf or in the name of any
trustee or delegate selected by them,
with approval of the secretary of the
interior, and by any one of the said
tribes in the name of the principal
chief, acting principal chief or gover-
nor of the tribe: and the law and prac-
tice anil rules of procedure in such
courts shall be the practice and law iu
all such cases: and copies of petitions
WHENCE CAME THE INDIAN?
It Ih Iui|MiMiblv to Trace the American.
Ke<l Man's Origin.
We know that all our tribes werej
primitively zootheistic; that is, they j
worshipped tleast gods, which beast W
gods were the primordial animals the
progenitors and prototypes of existing ^j)/
animals. The gods of each tribe were
the particular animals of the habitat I ^
of that tribe. True, they all worship-
ed the heavenly bodies, but they sup-
|H>sed them to be the primitive animals
trans|iorted to the zenith world. They
also worshipped certain animals of the
nadir world the underground beasts.
Thus tl.ey assigned the birds to the
heavens: the badgers, moles and other
burrowing animals to the nadir world;
and the other ariinals to the four car-
dinal regions. Their progenitors or
prototypes are still believed to Inhabit
these distant regions, and such birds
their, und beasts as are now found here to
have come from these regions as their
primatlve home.
Thus, all tiie American Indians have
a cosmology of religions and a theol-
ogy of aniinal gods: but the tribes dif-
fer from district to district in the
personages of their pantheon. The
gods are always organized as a tribe,
but the chief of the tribe is now this,
now that, mystic personage. Among
5W. T. Richards & Co.
^ Three Story Brick, Tahlequah,
liled in an\ ca-e at the commencement i tin; Utes it is Shinauny, and among
i of suit shall be served on the principal I the Zuni it is the sun. Among those
chief or governor of the tribe, or on tribes that have made the greatest
tin1 trustee or delegate so appointed. ! progress in culture there seems to be a
<n'on any other person suing, or on | tendency tocxault celestial personages,
and to adopt a philosophy which sing-
les representative, by a marshal of
the United States court in the Indian
Territory, anil on the attorney general
of the I'liited States, who shall desig-
nate and appoint from the department
of justice a competent person to de-
fend foi1 the tribe and for the United
States in each of said suits, and said
court shall have authority, in its dis-
cretion. to enforce its judgments in all
such cases by proper process. I'rovid- ogy of the
ed. that any suit brought under pro-
visions of tills act shall be by said
court advanced on the docket and
determined by the court as early as
practicable: and its decision shall in
each case be linal.
Thirty Seminole** TVntlfy.
Thirty Seminole1* testified at the
investigation of the burning of the
two Indian boys which is now going on
at Vinita. (Jreat interest is taken in
the matter by parties on both Bides.
ularly resembles that of our Aryan
forefathers. We are able to discover
vestiges of ancient zoothetic belief
among the tribes of the Orient; and
we are also able to discover vestages
of a regional cosmology in inanv
places throughout tlie eastern hemis-
phere. So, we are justly entitled to
believe that the cosmology and theol-
(\raerican Indian were at
one time universal: but we are not
able to trace any connection between
the Orient and Occident, in the cults of
the primitave peoples.
We are therefore abundantly justi-
fied iu saying that the American In-
dian did not derive his forms of govern-
ment, his industrial and decorative
arts, his languages or his mythologi-
cal opinions from the old world, but
developed them in the new. Man thus
seems to have inhabited the new world
We do not
pretend
To be leaders
making low prices,
but we challenge a
comparison of our
goods with those
sold by any competi-
tor, feeling confident
that the verdict for
quality and finish
will be decidedly in
our favor.
WE ARE
NEVER
UNDERSOLD
BY
ANY ONE
Groceries,
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Dry Goods, Ladies' and!}}
Gent's Furnishings, !}!
Hats, |
Gloves, J!
Boots
and J
Shoes.
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Our goods of
all sorts
Are right for their
sorts; some line, some
coarse, some pretty,
some not, however
you want them. Every
thing is warranted.
Bring it back if you
had rather have the
money you paid for
it. All our strength
and wit shall lie used
to facilitate trade.
KveryWidy entitled
to credjt shall have
it; monthly accounts.
It is better than cash
to both sides, lie-
cause it is handler.
A dead sure
thing
Is what the aver-
age woman is looking
for. When she buys
goods she wants the
fact of high quality
to be a sure thing.
In buying our goods
you take no chances,
they are well and
favorably known in
every home.
Provisions,
In fact wc carry everything
that goes to make a thoroughly
Up-to-date
General Merchandise Stock,
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through all the lost centuries of pre-
historic time. In fact we are compelled
to lielieve that man inhabited the
whole of the habitable globe anterior
to the development of arts, industries,
institutions, languages and cosmologi-
cal opinions.
How this primordial species, the
ante-human species, was distribu* >d
from some geograpic center or r.h u
is the problem which remains for solu-
tion: and this cannot be solved by
ethnology as represented in physical or
as exhibited in cultural characteristics.
If it shall eyer be solved it will be
done only by geological research—by
discovering the remains of the man-
animal in his primordial condition as
they are buried in some geologic
stratum and by following them from
land to land in geologic formations.
Major,lolin VV. Powell in the Forum.
To Tent tlie New Law.
A crazy man by the name of Moore
was arrested at Bryan, I. T.. by mar-
shal Brooke of that place and put in
jail. There is no law in the Indian
Territory which provides for confining
crazy men in jail, and marshal Brooke
intends to make a test case of the mat-
ter.
For reliable foot wear go to the
Golden Mule Shoe Store, nothing but
reliable goods handled there. Inves-
tigate it.
One of the Adventures of Col. Baker in
the Civit War.
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DURING the time when the army i f
the Potomac was gathered about
Washington, learning the art of "ir. a
confederate scout by the name < f Mar-
shall, known fanii;iarl\ as Tom Mar-
shall, himself well know by his micco
in penetrating the union lim ecu:-
mitting depredations, and ol.talnii
information of our movements fur t'.
use of the south. Ills i vp'.oits in ti:
capacity were of the most uudaeiou.-
character, and every effort that had bei
made toward his capture ! I hi;; .1!
failed. Various Ingenioi: | ; > I1;
been laid to circumvent him. but lie 1 a I
ha filed all such attempts by his own
cunning and courage. lie would \ir.. |
frequently come into the heart of Wash j
ington in open daylight, leave si me in- '
dubitable evidence of his presence, and !
escape just in time to 00 so with safety:
having, in some mysterious manner,
gone back and forth through our line.,
and so disguised himself that his iden- ;
tity had not for a moment been sus-
pected.
Col. Baker, who had heard much of
the doings of this scout, was one day
listening to a recital of one of his fear-
less adventures of the day before in en-
tering Washington.
When the story was told Col. Baker
said:
"If Tom Marshall can get into Wash-
ington und go back to Berk's Station 1
can go to Berk's Station mil bring Tom
Marshall with me t 1 Washington."
Col. Baker g< t upon his horse and
rode down in Virginia. The army cx- j
tended across Ball's Cr: fx l; ;ds, and
some distance down the I.ei sburg rail-
road. (ien. Blenker's forces were at
the outskirts doing picket duty. Berk's
Station was 12 miles from Alexandria, j
and it was from this place that Marshall |
was known most frequently to come. 1
His house was only a short distance out
into the confederate country. The j
southerners were running the cars as |
far as Berk's Station, and had a tele- j
graph office there in the depot. (Nil, i
Baker passed on horseback through j
federal pickets with no very great dif- 1
Acuity, and rode on to a grove of pines j
within about two miles of Berk's Sta
tion, and between the pickets of the
two armies. He then put on a confed-
erate jacket and a slouched hat which
partly concealed his face. Be was ef- I
fectually disguised, and had the general
appearance of a confederate soldier,
lie tied his horse to a tree in a dense
forest of pines, anil walked deliberately
into the village. He strolled leisurely
into the railroad depot and listened to
the conversation of the people around
about. There were about 1,200 south-
ern troops in the vicinity, and numbers
ot these were lounging about the place.
The colonel entered into conversation
with one of the confederates, who said
his name was do, and went with the sol-
dier upstairs to the telegraph office,
which was in the second story of the
building. The room was full of southern
officers and soldiers, and the colonel
was not noticed except as one of them.
He had been there about half an hour,
when, happening to be near the tele-
graph apparatus, which was in one cor-
ner of the room, he heard the operator
call out:
"Where is Capt. Ritchie?"
The captain came forward, anil the
operator handed him n dispatch. He
glanced over it a moment, and then
called the attention of the soldiers pres-
ent while he read it to them. They
pressed forward to hear it—Col. Baker
among the rest. It was a dispatch from
the provost marshal at Manassas, stat-
ing that information had been received
that a northern spy hud passed through
the lini s and was supposed to be at or
near Berk's Station. A full, though not
very accurate description of Col. Baker
was given, and every effort was urged
for his capture.
"We'll get Tom Marshall out," said
one of the soldiers, "and he can find
the Yankee if anybody cam."
Col. Baker took his cue from this.
He caught Jo by the shoulder and
looked as though he thought of some-
thing important.
"I'll bet anything," said he. "that I
know where that fellow is. As 1 was
cut near the line 1 saw a man sneaking
among the pines who answers this de-
scription. I didn't, think anything of it
nt the time, but now I call it to mind,
that must be the very spy they are
watching for."
"Let's go after him," said Jo.
"lie must be pretty well armed," said
Col. Baker. "Suppose we get Tom Mar-
shal to go along with us."
"That's just the idu-a," said Jo.
Col. Baker went part of tlie way to
Marshall's house and sent Jo on to oall
him out. Marshall was at home, and
had heard from some soldiers who had
just stopped at his house that, search
was being made for a spy. When Jo
told him that there was u man outside
who hail seen the Yankee his spirit of
adventure took possession of him, and
buckling on the belt containing his six-
shooter he came out and met Col.
Baker.
The latter greeted him as though he
knew him. and gave him minute partic-
ulars of where he had seen the supeuted
person he had mentioned to Jo. and ex-
plained wherein the description coin-
cided. lie was careful to color the de-
scription a little differently from that
which was read at the station, lest Mar-
shall might notice that his informant
answered it rather closely.
They took their way across the fields,
nearly in the direction of Col. Baker's
horse—Marshall very vigilant to all
that was going on about him, and Col.
Raker, though apparently watchful for
the Yankee spy, busily occupied with
plan's for Marshall's capture.
Marshall was a stalwart man nearly
six feet hi^h. weichinsr perhaps 180
pounds, and was a fine, bold-looking
fellow. Col. Baker had a perilous work
before him. Marshall was dexterous
and powerful, not easily taken una-
wares,and was a match In courage and j
cunning for any man in the world. Be- '
sides, Jo stood ready to assist him at !
any moment. "Jo must be got rid of,"
thought Col. Baker.
When they were within half a mile of
the outermost picket, Col. Baker
stopped and fe'.t in his pocket, as though
he had forgotten something.
"By the way." said he, "I have not got
much ammunition. Jo, will you run
down to the picket headquarters and
bring ti)) some cartridges?"
"Yes, sir." said Jo. "I'll go back in a
twinkling."
Col. Baker and Marshall were alone
together. They walked slowly up i
among the pines. The undergrowth, in I
some places, was very thick, and the
pines almost as close together as they
could stand.
"We'll go into the open sjiace beyon ■
here, if you say. so," said Col. Buker.
"and wait there for Jo."
They were beyond the rebel picket
lines and were getting quite near the
horse.
"If the fellow had a horse," said Mar-
shall, "he's left him somewhere here in
the pines."
"That's what I think," said Col. Ba-
ker.
They got into the opening and were
walking side by side. Marshall's pistol
was in his belt, handy and ready for
use. Col. Baker had his also in his belt.
He stepped a little behind his com-
panion, pulled his own pistol quietly
from his pocket und cocked it without
attracting notice, lie then seized Mar-
shall quickly and firmly by the collar
with the left hand, and, with the right
pressed the pistol to the side of his head.
"One word from you," s:iid I.e. in low,
quick tones, "anilyou art a dead man!"
Marshall turned his head a little and
saw Col. Baker's finger 011 the trigger
of a co< ked pistol.
"If ye. i make a movement to escape."
said Col. Baker, "I shall shoot you! I
am the man you are looking for, and
you have found ine! You are my pris-
oner!"
Marshall, with the hand behind him
on his collar and the pistol at the side
of his head, was marched to the place
where the horse was standing. He
knew his own weakness, unarmed as he
was, and he was fully convinced that
his only alternatives were complete obe-
dience to the Yankee scout or certain
death.
"Now," said Col. Baker, releasing his
hold of the collar, "unhitch the horse
and get on. Your hands and feet are
free, but be very eareful of your move-
ments. I shall either capt lire you or kill
you—I have not much choice between
the two—you can take yours."
Marshall got on the horse. Col. Ra-
ker took the bridle reins in his hand and
started toward the federal lines, lead-
ing the horse and always covering Mar-
shall with his pistol.
All had been done very swiftly, for
Col. Raker, fearful of the return of Jo,
or of the appearance of some stray
picket, had urged t he necessity of haste
upon the prisoner. "Quick, now!" said
he. "If w e are interrupted, I shall shoot
you before I run."
They reached our picket lines and Col.
Baker shouted to a sentinel, explaining
who he was. The man was one of Blen-
ker s pien, who did not understand one
word. He *hot his musket at them and
retri*at"d s'.owly. Col. Raker and Mar-
shall huh •were confederate jackets,
which were not calculated to inspire
confidence in union soldiers.
' '■ I Baker moved further along the
TAHLEQUAH LUMBER YARDS,
R.
W. FOSTER,
PROPRIETOR.
LUMBER A\'I>
HARDWARE
On Street Leading to McSpad-
den's Mill, east of Main Street.
LARGE BILLS SOLD ON
THIRTY AND SIXTY
DAYS ACCEPTANCE.
BUILDERS' MATERIAL.
Of all kinds. Lumber, Shingles, Mould-
ing, Moulded Base and Casing, Sash
Doors, Glass, Putty, Paints and Oils
FANCY WOODWORK.
Columns, Newels, Balusters, Brackets,
Balustrades, Base and Head Blocks, Base
Angles and Beads. Stock is complete.
BLACKSMITHS
Will find always
line ol 1 ools and Supplies of the very
designs and of standard manufacture
AND FARMERS
on hand, a complete
WAGON AND BUGGY REPAIRS.
Complete assortment of the best in this
line always in stock, and everything' is
marked at prices to suit the hard times.
OUR MOTI O^Qmck Saks and Small Profits; Good Goods Cheap for Cash. *
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