The Tribune-Democrat. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 11, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 8, 1894 Page: 1 of 8
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The
OFFICIAL
Organ of"0"
County.
TEL
VOLUME II.
ENID, OKLAHOMA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 181)4.
UNITED THSY CAN STAND.
The secretary of the Interior De-
partment attaches the report of the
and commercial connections of the
consolidated people can force etate-
hooil «t once. Divided statehood
Dawes commission to his
official communication to congress,
hut makes no indorsement of the
commission's recommendation that a
territorial government, separate from
that of Oklahoma, be organized for
the government ot the live tribes.
As the secretary indorses other
recommendations of the commission,
and notably the one that Indian
autonomy should be terminated, it
is fair to assume that he is not willing
to commit himself to the project of
creating a new territorial govern-
ment for [the Indians which must
nccessarilv leave unremedied many
of the evils now causing complaint.
We are not advised of the reasons
which have impelled the secretary
to withhold formal approval of the
commission idea of establishing a
new territory in the southwest, but
we[ can readily understand that a
dosire to attain the highest possible
good from any change which may
be made in existing relations has
brought him to the view that such
good is only attainable under state
government, which may be reached
during the coming session by in-
corporating the tribeo with Okla-
homa and passing an enabling act
which will bring the entire new
territory into stateh'ood within a
short tune. At any rate, lie has
seen the wisdom of leaving such
questions to congress for settlement.
It is clear enough that if there is to
be a new state between Kansas and
Texas in the immediate future it
will embrace all the country now
comprised in the territory of Okla-
homa and the Indian Territory. If
there is to be a division of the land
there will be no new state in that
quarter during this century.
The secretary's recommendation
that the courts at Fort Smith, Ark.,
shall be abandoned and the juris-
diction of the United States court bo
extended over the Indian country
without regard to citizenship can in
no way be accepted as an indorse
ment of a separate territorial govern-
ment. The suggestien is obviously
intended to meet aiiy situation which
maj arise. If present conditions
and relations are to continue, such a
suggestion as that of Secretary
Smith would meet some of the evils
now existing. If the preser.t mis-
government of the country is brought
to an end by congressional action
the evils which the proposition is
intended to correct can be corrected
in another way. If not, the
proposition will force itself upon the
attention of congress as a practicable
way of amelioratihg the wietclied
condition of the poor dwellers in that
unfortunate land. From no point of
view can the proposition in itself be
taken as oven a quasi indorsement of
the scheme for a separate territorial
organization.
The Republic has already pointed
out the impracticability of reforming
government in the Indian Territory
by placing the administration of
affairs in the hands of federal officers.
Territorial government should b>
instituted only as a preliminary to
speedy statehood, and for such brief
uses the territorial government al-
ready established in Oklahoma will
answer every purpose. A territorial
government for the tribes ialon*
would not only indefinitely postpone
statehood for them, but it would
have the same effect upon Oklahoma.
Such postponements would not grow
coming will be impossible to either for years
to come. The influences now
actively engaged in opposing the
creation of new states can defeat
both if they can be opposed singly.
If united, it is the conviction of the
Republio that nothing can defeat or l°gif>'ati;"e appropriated fun is to
LET ALL CREEDS JOIN.
Oklahonm'a PI- n for Concontrating
Its Educational Itosourcos.
President D. R. Boyd of the Okla-
homa university at Norman, Ok., is
in the city on a visit.
In speaking of education in
Oklahoma, he said that the first
long postpone their admission.
Oklahoma must come in,-
public.
-Re-
start a university, a normal school
and an agricultural college. Tin
three schools now have an aggregate
enrollment of 700.
REFORM THE BENATE. I'poll the i pei.ing of the Cherokee
Cannot the short session somehow Strip a section in each township was
given to each of the three schools, so
that now each has (51.000 acres of
land.
'"•The Oklahoma university," said
been
compel [lie senatorial strut to reform
itself into the simpler style of pro-
gression prevalent among plain
American citizens? The United
States senate is not the ablest, most
dignified and most learned assembly
of the earth. In every center of
population associations of unpre-
tentious business men can quickly
produce bodies of Americans who
surpass the senate in brains, educa-
tion, dignity of appearance and up-
rightness of purpose.
If our senate were the most august
of assemblies, it would still not bo
lifted above the duty of oboying the
will of the nation. Nor would a
party majority be free to abandon
party welfare for senatorial courtesies
and traditions.
A Democracy consisting of
millions is informed with cool in-
solence that tariff reduction bills
cannot pass this winter unless a
junto of three or four senators gra
ciously decide that their private
arrangements with coal, iron and
sugar interests permit.
Senators who profess to favor the
passage of free raw material bills
will not join in amending the silly
rules lest the junto be offended at the
infringements of the sacred privileges
of senatorial majesty. A senator's
personal objects are superior to the
purposes of government.
It is beyond tolerance. To be
sure, Addii'ks and Elkins, in the
open purchase of Delaware and
West Virginia, have made more
certain the general adoption of a
system of convention nominations
by which the voters will pass upon
Senatorial candidates. Reform of
the rules will then be efleoted. But
the Democratic majority should
bring the junto under reformed rules
at once.—Republic.
ENTERPRISING- OKLAHO-
MAN3.
Oklahoma people are full of en-
terprise and progressive ideas. On-
ly an infant in years, the proud little
territory is struggling for statehood.
The people of this territory don't al-
low any'opportunity to pass to ad
vance the interests of their commu-
nity. In this line it is well to say
that there is an illustrated magazine
published at Oklahoma City that is
doing a grand work in advertising
Oklahoma. It is called the Okla-
homa Magazine, and contains matter
of interest to people who wish to be
informed on Oklahoma, and also
runs handsome illustrations of prom-
inent Oklahomans and towns of the
teiritory. There is nothing that
lends to the upbuilding of a new ter-
ritory like judicious advertising.
This the Oklahoma people under-
stand thoroughly, and they avail
themselves of every opportunity to
let their light shine so the outside
world may see the young territory
just as it is.—K. C. Times.
Hoover, Sloan & Company con-
nut. of natural but out of political ' tractors and builders, have removed
conditions.
The «.reat population,
unbounded resouncs and railway
their officii to a buildingin .ionesville
near the Salvation army hall.
President Boyd, . "has now
running two years. It has an en-
rollment. of l?s bovs and girls.
Thev are mostly in the prep irTory
department. The freshman class
contains but fourteen or fifteen.
There are more in the sophomore
class. This is duo to our high
grading. We have the same grading
as the batter state universities.
"As is usu al in new settlements,"
continued President Boyd, '-the
different churches tried to start
schools. The firs! was the Methodist
Bishop Vincent and myself stopped
their attempts, and we substituted a
novel plan fortheir's. We succeeded
in getting thom to adopt it. It was
that Methodists, as well as others,
should take advantage of the free
tuition of the university and at the
same time club together and have
their own dormitory and chapel. In
this way they can have their own
prayers and services and religious
training, and at the same time enjov
the public school "system. They
adopted tho plan, and now have a
sort of a club house, which they
call Oxford hall.
'•The Presbyterians are now doing
the same thing, and it is not likely
that other denominations will hold
off. In future years, when we inak«
a request for an appropriation, these
churches can not do as they do in
Kansas. They will not bo able to
say that the churches are supporting
schools with their own money and
that the state school is not deserving
of aid."
President Boyd has great hopes
for Norman. 11 now ha'< a population
of 3,000, and within a few years, ho
thinks, it will have D,0u0 or 0,000.
It is in the richest county of the
territory, Iks says, so that prospects
are
of the best.
WARNED BY COOK.
Leader of the Colobrated Gang
Notifies Citizens of Deep
Forlt to Move.
Guthrie, Ok., Nov. 30.—Great
excitement exists in tho little town
of Deep Fork, 1. T. Some days
ago six citizefis of that place
gave the Indian TefHcory deputies a
duo of the whoreabouts of Outlaw
"Skeetor," and his capture followed
within four days. Wednesday
morning big placards surmounted by
skull and cross bones were found
nailed to the respective homes of
the six informers. Tho placards,
written in a crabbed, scrawly hand,
stained with dirt, and signed "By
Order of Bi ll Cook," nad us follows:
"We have spotted you. You
worked our eoiifi lenee and leaked,
when you wanted us to do sum dev-
ilment in through off suspicion
"Skeeter" was yer frieii. We in-
tend to kill you befor the den mar
get up take warning, by order Bill
Cook."
Many regard the ominous notices
the work of practical j liters, but
nevertheless four of the six citizens
have left th>' place. K. C. Tunes.
BUCKMAN ON BABIES.
Ho Concludes They Are Descended
Prom Monkeys.
Nkw Youk, Dec. 1.—Are babies
descended lrom monkeys?
Darwin, of course, included babies
in his sweeping theory that the
human race is but a survival of a
simian ancestry but it was left for
Mr. S. S. Bucktnan to support the
theory from the standpoint of the
babies alone.
Mr. Huckinan has an article in the
Nineteenth Century Magazine which
shows that he evidently knows a
great deal about babies without ever
having owned one himself. By
comparing their characteristics with
those of monkeys he reaches tho
conclusion that babies are of arboreal
descent. For instance, Mr, Buck,
man says that the furrow in the
center of the upper lips which could
be used independently, that
eventually the independent move-
ment of these two lips became un-
necessary and that they then grew
together and produced the graceful
cupid's bow curve.
But ihis*is not all. The writer
alleges that the pouch-like cheeks of
babies are survivals of a time when
their ancestors were in the habit of
storing food in their cheeks. More-
over ho calls attention fo the fact
that tho arms of monkeys and babies
are long and that a child does not
take hold of a cup like a man does.
Instead, it places all the fingers of
tho hand inside the vessel and clasps
tho rim between the fingers and the
palm, an action cluracterist.c of
monkeys in taking hold of tho
branches of trees. Again, the
babies' lingers are not, so flexible
their toes, another indication of their
descent from tree-climbing creatures.
A baby, Mr. Buckman notes, can
move its toon in all - directions and
can separate them easily, a thing
which it cannot do in after life.
The baby can also twist its ankle so
as to place tho sole of its foot on a
line with the inner part of the log,
a necessary accomplishment of a troo-
climbing animal.
When children are old enough to
sleep alone, it is found that they
sleep on their stomachs, with their
limbs curled up under them in much
the same manner that quadrupeds
repose. They, moreover, go to
sleep more quickly if they are rocked,
which shows that their ancestors lived
in trees and wero accustomed to the
swaying motion of the branches in
the wind. Mr, Buckman thinks the
nursery ditty, "Rock-a-bye baby on
the tree top" was handed 'down to
the human race from the lime when
the memory of tho arboreal habits of
us ancestors was still fresh.
lie notes a number of other
kindred characteristics. Children,
he savs. with truth, want to climb up
something as soon as they are able to
navigate about the floor, and will
climb the first flight of stairs they
come to and repeat the operation
until they hurt themselves, when
thev will gradually learn better
manners.
The original desire to climb he
describes as an inheritance from the
simian patriarchs. Babies, too, are
fond of sitting oil their heels, as dogs
do when they ar>- hungry, and beg
for food in this way, showing that
the baby and the dog inherited tho
instinct from the same ancestor.
Following out this theory the writer
tinds that children and dogs express
their j >v in the same way by jump-
iiio about,. Kven very youngbabies
throw their arms and legs about
when they are pleased, and when
XUMBEK 1 !
they grow up a little more they hop
up and down. Cases have been
known, though, whore grown babies
hopped up and down without beni;;
pleased. Tho babies also pick the
paper off the wall if they can find a
loose corner, in the same manner
that their ancestors dug food from
beneath the loose pieces of bark on
trees. The trait is, according to
Prof. Uuckman, simply a survival.
The Professor's theory will not
appeal to young mothers with new
babies, but it is interesting enough
in its way to have attracted attention
at a more seasonable period than
the holidays, when babies rule
supreme.
Tkkhitohy ok Oklahoma, 1
Ex neil l IV n Ol'FlCE, I ' 'J
Guthhik, Nov. 27, 1891.—Notice ia
hereby given that hiils will lie recrfveil
on any "f the vacant lamls in sections
1 ii a ml .'.li i n tin i herokee Strip, and
sections 10 and 30 in any portion -f
the territor; until January 3ril, 18fi5,
when awards will ho made to ti n
hiirhest bidder. Cosh must accompany
hiils. Leases to extend lor three year*
from January 1st, lSOo, For list of
vacant lauds and for blanks, apply to
the secretary of the board for lousing
school lands.
William C. Rkkfrow.
Governor and Chairman of Board.
William Blincoh,
(Secretary.
The following is a list of vacant
school lands in O county:.
ltange 3 west
lie 30 21
nw 30 22
nw 10 23
see 30 23
Range 4 west.
so 18 22
sec 10 23
gw 10 24
Range 5 west.
so 3G 21
nw 10 23
n w 30 24
Range 0 west.
nw 10 20
ne 30 24
so 30 24
Range 7 west.
li w 30 20
se 30 22
se 10 20
se 30 21
sw 30 22
sw 10 23
ne 30 20
sw 36 22
no 10 24
ne 36 21
no 16 23
no 30 24
ne 10 20
sw 18 20
nw 30 24
sw 10 20
sw 10 22
so 16 24
se 10 21
sw 30 21
ne 10 23
so 30 23
ne 30 24
sec 13 20
sec 13 22
sec 13 24
see 13 20
no 13 22
n hf 13 23
n hf 13 24
sec 13 20
see 13 22
ne 13 24
sec 13 20
ne 13 22
n h f 1.3 23
see 13 24
aw 13 20
n w 13 21
n hf 13 22
li hf 13 24
w lit 13 20
sw 13 21
sw 13 22
sec 13 24
Range 8 West.
II W 10 21
se 30 21
nw 10 23
sec 16 21
Range 3 west.
sec 13 21
s hf13 23
Range 4 wast.
nw 13 21
a hf 13 22
se 13 23
sw 13 24
Range 5 West.
sec 13 21
sec 13 23
s hf 13 24
Range 0 West*
ne '13 21
s hf 13 22
se 13 23
Range 7 West,
ne 13 21
se 13 21
s hf 13 23
sw 13 21
Range 8 West.
no 13 21
n Iifl3 22
sec 13 23
n hf33 20
lota 3 4 33 20
sec 33 22
s hf 33 24
Range 3 West.
lots 1 2 33 20
sec 33 21
sec 33 23
n hf S3 20
no 33 23
w hf 33 24
Range 4 West.
n hf33 21
s lif 33 23
ll w 33 20
lots 3 4 33 20
sec 33 22
se 33 23
n hf 3'S 20
s hf 3.'! 21
sec 33 <24
Range 5 West.
lots 1 2 33 20
sec 33 21
nw 33 23
sec 33 24
Range 0 West,
he 83 21
, w hf 33 22
Range 7 West.
lots 3 12 33 20 lots 3 1 33 20
w hf 33 21 w hf 33 22
se 33 22 w hf 33 23
sec 33 24
Rango 8 West.
n hf 33 20 lots 12 3 1 : ^0
s hf 33 21 ' • SW 33 22
w hf 33 23 j;e 33 23
see 33 24
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