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The Official Organ of the War Department and the Taxpayers of Canadian County.
T. F. HEJVSLEY,Proprietor.
rrnusned i: 11:1; v Thursday.
Volume £>•
til, RB.NQ. OKLAHOMA THHHITOHY. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER — — IB94-
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Number 41
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INDIAN'S MUST BREAK CAMP. to these Indians that ill if ottice holds'
j to the views expressed in the letter it>
Ordered by the Secretary of the you of Ai.-just J-nd. quoted
Interior to Settle on Their above), ami will nut, then-fore n e<m-
AllotmentS. jsiderits deer-ion: and that nothing
DKIWKTMKNT OK THK INTKUIOK. they could say or do would alter that
decision: that it would therefore be1
idle for tin in to come hero, a useless
expense, and 0110 they ean ill afford to
bear, knowing beforehand that they
could accomplish nothing by such visit. ,
INI T1:1 > ST A T KS INDIAN SKRVU' K.
Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian
Agency. Darlington, O. T. Nov. 11. IM-I
The folloxving circular has just boon
issued by Capt. Woodson to the Clioy-
enno Indians:
I'ndor date of October l!4th ultimo I
advised the Honorable Commissioner
of Indian Affairs that subscriptions |
were being solicited from the < 'hoy*
ciines with a view to sending a dele-
gation to Washington for the purpose
of asking that a portion of the perma
nent fund of the Cheycnnes and Arap.
iihoes be paid out to them in cash to lie
expended by them in their own way.
and asked instructions from the Hon-
orable Commissioner us to what action
I should take in case the Indians at-
tempted to visit Washington without
authority from the Indian office, and
have received the following reply:
You will therefore use all proper
means to discourage their coming.
Very respectfully.
Frank c. armstrong.
Acting Commissioner
DKIWUTM KNT t >F TH K I MT.UH >1!.
OITH'K OK INDIAN AFFAIRS.
Washington, Nov. 11. MM. ,
Capt. a. k. Woodson.
acting indian auent,
Cheyenne and Arapaho"- Agency.
I^arlington, i)klahoma.
sir:- I am in receipt of your com-
munication of the ."ith ultimo, in which
you enclose copy of an order which you
I propose to issue, with the sanction of
dki'ARTMKNT OF THK 1NTKRIOR, I this Department, for the guidance of
Office of Indian Affairs, the Indians - -i the Cheyenue and A rap-
Washington, November 1st, isjij. a|J0,. Agency. which reads as follows:
Captain A. E. Woodson. I". S. A... "All Indium. except the police aud
Acting Indian Agent. Cheyenne Ac. employees now residing on the Agency
Agency. Darlington Oklahoma Ter. i tract or the school reservations near
Sir: I am In receipt of your conimu- | the Agency, are hereby required to re-
location of the llltli ultimo in which : move therefrom and establish residence
you state that during: the recent annu- on their respective allotments, within
ity payment to the Indians under your i thirty .'M; days from this date.
charge, subscriptions were solicited , Hereafter, no Indian except, tlios •
from the Cheycnnes with a view to j named will he permitted to establish
District Court Proceedings.
I lie cases vs. Al.. Kd.. and JohnJcn-
nings. charged with assault was dis-
missed by the county attornoy.
Case vs. S. W Sawyer charged with
obtaining money under falsi* pretenses
dismissed by tliecouiity attorney.
< use \ s. John H. I'it/cr for circula-
disinissed 1 \
The famous
No *« ml>ei' : u.i> ...
1. 1854; served through tbi
self for bravery from tli«- I
Kui rt'bsful .rnpait u - .i .
military dr. > -n of the .
has alway < n an act i. c
has al*o bevn r<'ii:ai'Kai- •*
MAJ.-GI OLIVER OTIS HOWARD, U. S. A.
IP-armed n
I'will retire from act!vo service (luring th< month of
We Sov. s. 1 s:iO: urailuittcd from W'e-i Point ui'tulemy July
• . ii .a revolt in Florida, ls6«i-.r 7. arid distinguished him-
i the end "f the civil wai Later he coudueted several
in-, in the west. InlRHHhewas pl.n-. t| in charge of the
i i: lie ;dM mrters at «io\ .rnor s Island. \ Y Jen. I Iowa d
i r «• i H i.s and temperance tlelds His suiv'ss as an author
)liej-es have conferred on him the degree of LIj.L).
ending a delegation to Was
:ton i
•amp
side
nee on the
for the purpose of asking that a part of j t ions for a longer time tin
the permanent fund of the Cheyenne!.
; da vi-
and Arapahoes be paid out to them in
cash to be expended in their own way:
that they have been induced to believe
that if they will make a demand, they
can secure a second cash payment to
except by the consent of the
Agent in charge.
The poliee are hereby directed to en*
force this order, and to report all per-
sons violating its provisions.
It is the wish of the Agent and the
appiov.ii of this oiii OKLAHOMA ELECTION
In iVply you are informed that the
a.': .mi wItioh .vnu pi<>i«>-i■ ial;iny in tiii.- Official Count Gives Delegate
mult, ! i:- M approved, ami j<•., Flynn Nearly 7000 Plurality
will govern yourself accordingly. (Jovernor Ketifrew and Attorney (Jeii-
Kurther. in this connect u n. referring j oral < ialbraith] instructed all count,s
to your letter of tin' Itith ultimo stut- hoards who had refused to canvass the
ing that recent order- from the War | votes, ow ing lolcgal technicality. to do
Department would involve .1 chance in
the cavalry stationeil at Forts Sill and
Ie• lui. re^u!tiiii.' in the withdrawal of
themselves of a portion of their periua- \ policy of the Depart nicut, to have all |
nent fund which they ean spend in any : Indians reside upon and cultivate their
way they choose: that the Ara pa hoes , own allotments, and to this end. all
as a whole do not favor this object and , persons now living in camps ami vil-
have taken no part in the councils, nor 1 luges are required to settle upon and
have they contributed a dollar toward j occupy their own lands permanently.;
sending a delegation to Washington: The custom heretofore prevailing, of
that the best people in the Territory roving about withoutany lixed residing
who are actuated by a philanthropic j place, must la* discontinued: ami those
desire to help their red brothers and engaged in such practice? must aban-
see them prosper and become industri- ' ,ion them. No possible good can eonie
oils and independent citizens of the ,,f the gathering together of Indians in
community, realize that no permanent i large camps, where idleness and iiis>i-
heiiefit can or will accrue to these In- pation of nil kinds is indulged in. and
so, and the official returns are now in.
Flynn, republican, for delegate to con-
gress. has 4.100 over Itcauvnont. I'opu-
the said force from the Territory, which 'list, and <>.500 over Wisby. d* niocrat.
VOU utotn ii'at11111 ln> t/ tli fli'ti-OOent nf ti t • i . mi 4 i- tt ' Last
state wotdd be to the detriment ofjTlie Legislature will stand: House.
Indians, they depending upon the | jAVt,nt.y republicans, four populists and1'1 '" d
An Opportunity For Statehood.
The pi epic of Ok lain ma. if t hey will
act pr« mptly, intelligently and united-
ly, thej can si curean i uabling act this
winter giv ing us early statehood.
This paper has maintained from tlie
beginning that the demand for single
statehood was not only unreasonable
but absurd. That it would bo many ting obscene litcrntur
years before any i 'ongress could be the county attorney .
found rash enough to bring Oklahoma Casey*. II. II. Itrooks, criminal libel
and the Indian Territory intothe Cniou dismissed by the county attorney.
when more than one-half of the popu- Case vs. Ham Sawyer, criminal libel,
lation was ci mposed of a lawless, un- dismissed In the county attorney,
civilized people, who i\en in tlii'ir liar- < a-ne \- .lohu llall, for extortion,
1 barity were bitterly opposed to such a | court sustained a demurrer against the
union, saj nothing of t be opposition to : indictmeiit, and tlx- defendant was di*-
such a movement on the part of the in-1 charged.
telligent, taxpayiug portion of Okhtho* Cnse v« . T, l \Ib iisl« \ .eriininal libtd,
ma. It is now given out that this view dismissed by the county attorney,
of the situation is concurred in by I lie j K. I . I'arrack. forcible entry, tried
I>awes commission who have spent a/by jury, found not g'uilty and aci|uittcil,
year and a half among the Indians on The case vs. INdice .Iudne Jack St.il-
i the east,investigating and working out I well, indictcd for receiving money to
-onie solution of the i|iiestion It is allow gambling houses to run in the
now stated authoratively, that this city of Ml Iveno. demurrer to the indiet-
commissiou is not only opposed to the incut sustained and defendant dischar-
single statehood fallacy but seeing the ged,
; justness of Oklahoma's claims to state- The ens. vs. Horace Laney charged
I mod without tin Indian Territory, with the killing of A. ,1. Denny near
will rot only recommend but urge the Okarchc about a year ago eamo on for
immediate organization of tin so-called trial last Saturday but was suddenly
live eivili/.t d tribes, except the western terminated by the refusal of the court
part o! the < hickasaw Nation, into a to admit in evidence the ante-mortem
territorial form of goven.inent, and al- statement of the deceased. This was
~o thi" admission of Oklahoma as a sop- on unexpected snug the prosecution
crate stat«'. with it- present boumla- i nn against and as the county attorney
l ies. including that part of the Chick- bad no other evidence the court in-
jnsaw Nat ion lying- directly south of us.. st ructed the jury to bring in a verdict
and the Kiowa and Communche conn-! of not guilty.
try lying south and west of us in the' Kttn Hia lis of Jersey City, New Jer-
sey, was granted a divorce from Win.
< >. Haile on t be grounds of a failure to
provide support for the plain ti ti'.
Luclla H. Hastings, of Kssex, Iowa,
was divorced from her liege lord and
her maiden name restored and she giv-
noo.
cavalry for protection, etc.. and asking
that the War Department he requested
to keep a sufficient force of cavalry
within easy reach, to the end that
their presence might serve to prevent
encroachments of evil-disposed whites
on the Indians under your charge, you
are informed that under date of Octo-
ber' u. I ! 4, recommendation was made
by thi- ortieo to the Secretary of the In-
terior that the War Department be re-
quested to keep a sufficient force of
two democrats: council, ten repubU-
cens. two populists and one deinoi
The democrats carried one county
IJoger Mills, and the populists three
Payne. Cleveland and Pottawatomie
All the rest are solidly republican.
new state.
Tnis arrangement will give us a
state larger than Uhodc Island. Con-
neeticut, Massachusetts. New Hamp-
shire and Vermont combined and lar-
ger than any one of lifted! of the ' he
n aud New Knglarul states, with I en control of an estate woath I
Itii coininensurate left her by her father.
with our area. It is already under*
I that this report meets with tin
lutli
stood that this report meets with the!
it. 1 mugs \
• hearty approval of the Interior Depart-1
1 nicut, ami that it will join the commis-
sion in u recommendation <>f thi- kind
the
to < 'onJJ
dians from money paid to them in cash
to be squandered, as has been their
custom. You quote from office letter
tin
imps should bo
non as practicabh'.
With the increased number
I"nited State-
valrv stationed wit
to you of ilate August 'Jl'inl. IWi.'l. as fol- stations now established, there i-
longcr need of the
long distances to draw rations, and the
old custom of leaving home for this
ahead of time and spending a
eek in going and returning.
broken up as
eary reach of the forim r ('hcyenne ami
Arapahoe reservation for the reasons
above stated. I am now in receipt of u
. .. , ... j eeinmuuioation from the War Do par t-
Indiaus travelling
inent containing the following endorse-
ment, dated November ti. I««. 4. by Maj.
11 eli. Sehofii'hi:
'• I Jespcct fully returned to the Sccre-
' tar\ of War. Capt. Woodson. Acting
Indian Agent, is in error in the state-
; ni«-lit that recent orders from the War
that the sum of (Ml be paid to them -that there is now and has men a nuin- Department involve a change in the
per capita out of the one million dol- ),cr of Indians residing near the Agon-1 eavalry stationed in the garrisons at
♦ .I ...of riv. . . (V , Ports Iteno and Sill, which will result
hi rs to their credit in the | reasurx ot cv—commonly known :. • eniVr cool-1
! ' ' ' in the withdrawal of the cavalry from
tl.o United State. I wh"- tho nwwt of whom lead an WK-. th(1 teM.lt0,.y. it is the intention to
"In ivply youai'e ii'iiunsteil to inforin | shiftl.-Mi lif,-. sin ndiiifr tli.-it- time in > Ueop a force of cavalry within easy j
the said Indian* that this office has i 1 on 11 y inabout the trail, i 's stores and reach "1 the forin.-i Cheyenne nnd I
considered their request and lias con- : set tins a l.iid example for their pci.pl. : Arapahoe Kcscrvation as sujrn-estcil by ! population «
eluded that it is for their best interests j while some others have been cultiva-;
not to encroach upon the one million ting eauh season small patches of land
dollars to their credit, and that more- etillie agency tract, thereby neglect-;
over, this office has no authority with-j ing their own individual holdings j
out the sanction of Congress to disturb which remain in a wild, uncultivated
their interest bracing fund, and is not and unimproved condition: that anion
lows:
•*l am in receipt,of your letter dated
the 1-tli inst. in which you enclose a (,;,i ,.
communication from Whirlwind, one purpi
of the chiefs of the Cheycnnes. in j whoh
which paper the chiefs and head men nnist be dis
of the Cheycnnes and Arapahoes ask In your letter of transmittal von state
I .
i nuui-
Agen-1(
coffe
Editor McAdam Talks.
Kditor McAdam. of the state Her-
ald. was up from Ardmore yesterday.
He has been the leading* champion of
siatebood. ami has made three trips to
Washington. His paper i- the most
influential in the Indian territory.
In discussing the recommendation of
the Dawes commission that all that
port ion of the Chickasaw nation west
of the west Hiii'of the Seminole nation
be added to Oklahoma, lie ventured
lie opinion that the report would havi
great weight with congress.and would
go far toward giving us an enabling
w i 11
pass
Now if the people of oklahoma
join in one united effort we can
out from under tin* blight ing influence
of a territorial form of government and
blossom into a full blown state as soon
after the passage of an enabling net as
a constitutional convention can be
called aud complete its work.
Wiil we do it?
It seems to lis to be the duty, not Oil
y of the press of tin- territory, but of
even patriotic citi/.en. irrespective of
politics, to join hand- at once in tlii-
work.
n nd < 'omanche
in favor of recommending to Congress
that this be done."
You say youha\e informed tlo Chey-
cnnes that it would be useless for them
to send ti delegation to Washington,
it being evident to you t hat toe De-
partment would not recommend to
Congress the payment of any portion
of their interi st b« a ring fund to them
as they suggest* and request to lie in-
structed as to what further action you
shall take in the premises.
In reply you are advised that your
action in informing the Cheyenne- in
question that the Department wou
these is Cloud Chief, who-e house.'
built for him by the govi rnnvnt, on
his allotment, stands enip'\ ai d uin c-
eupied. while his allotment enclosed !
with a good fi tic« . is un-cultivated and
yields him no ivv.-nue: tlmt this Indi.m
hang's bout tin a gene \ a disgrun'tleti j
and dissatisfied member of his tribe ;
and serves to create dissension and dis-;
cord by opposing yo.ir efforts to g(; hi-
people to locate on their allotments:
that you assume it to be the policy of'
the Department to encourage all Indi-
ans to locate on their allotments, to!
it thev may hecotn
tin* Secretary of the I lit* rior.
Very Respi etfullv.
FHANK C. AKMSTKOM;.
Acting (Commissioner. j
The political pendulum has swung!
re publican ward to its full limit. It will j
swing to the democratic side, as a nat- J'could be e
ural re-nit. in 1 ♦;. This i-not a pre-j addition of tci
diction, hut is in accordance with past
historical facts.—Duncan Banner.
I n accordance with the law of gravi-
tation. brother: history will ha\e noth-
ing to do with it. If we iif.• saved at
of immutable law-, leaving nothing for
t to follow the blind
1 f we have anything
lied upon to balk the
'•The Chickasaw Indians nearly all
live east of the proposed division line,"
said Mr. McAdam. "while more than
nim-Vnths of the white tenants live
west. My estimate of the population
west of the division line is s;,.nno. That
ipidly increase after
(statehood is provided for. Ardmore
j now lias two or three minion on tar-
j worth of taxable property, and the na-
• t ion contains several good tow n- beside-
Ardmore. With a strip off'the Kiowa
Both Deserves and Needs It.
The democratic lion is catching the
taunts of republicans and the kick's of
populist- We hope the d«' UlOCI'tl t i'
lion fee is both.
Uemtbl ic:i n-a mi | >Opti' i-t s t < < j • ' lo r
1 11 II
and all centralists ami paterna'.i-ts In- ,
long together could Hot male load- |
way against the democratic party if it (
oft'ounly Attorney Jen-
editor of this paper, iu a
nit to recover ^MUMO for alleged wear
and tear to his character, the case was
dismissed by the court for want of suffi-
cient cost bond.
A numlM'r of cases appealed from
Police Judge St ill well's court to the
distriot court, was ordered docketed in
tin*district court. These cases have
been pending for two or three terms
awaiting the determinat ion of the ques-
tion as to whether an appellant is
bound to pa} the clerk's fees in order
to perfect his appeal.
ignite a number of timber cutters
wciii brought in from the C. and A.
country and given a light line and al-
lowed to depart upon their own recog
ni/.'iuce for from tin to t o days until
thex could raise the money to pay the
fines end c< -ts.
1 u t lie i'.'in •>: I!ie I'nited States \
John If. I'itx r. charged with sending
obscene literature through the mails,
vi/. certain copies of Ham Suxvyor's
now defunct Daily I b ra'd, cauie up for
trial before a jury, the United States
being represented l y Caleb It. Ilrooks.
. distrl-'t attornex'. and the defense'
re skilfully and unselfishly led.
[laving been -elfishly and blunder-
rl\ led it has sutiereil ih b at, and
becomes the obj<
j«'crs and I.'ctier'- «
lain:
TI:
• acqui.-it ion '
•• !"■' T
ten good eoun
t of t be propose.
What a
tuation f< ■
pov. • I s <
of Tom Heed's
icism.
• the party which
protection. i;on-
:'o\ eminent and
by I'Yank Dan ford. The I'nited States
introduced txvo or three witnesses to
identify tlo writing: on the margin of
one of the papers in which those words
appeared: "Conip imetitsof John 11.
swept
I 'it/e
the i
til l'ot;
a fail
and xvh'
or of this
the mai
•Ii was
paper and i
^ !'\ him. Th
iresscd to
•d
nienda
e party to
•ompt ing o
Bland. Match and Heard, of Missouri.
If-sup- Wilson, of West Virginia: Springer, of
not recommend to Congress the pay- porting within the shortest practicable Illinois: Cumming.-.of New York: Hol-
mentofany portion of their perma-! time, and therefore request to be in-1 man, of Indiana, and other democratic
nent fund to them in the manner sug- formed whether or not your proposed ' leaders xveiit down before the republi-
gested is fully approved. You will say J action, as above indicated, meets the jean cyclone.
Tae Salvation An \ wi.; 0e r.-p ••
senti d in the 11\t Mom of U' ore-.-n-
Ultix1 s in the per.-oii of a \ - a. owav,
from Nexv Hampshire. It i- said that
i ; stands six feet and a half in bis
stocking feet and that he has a voice
like a fog horn. He was captain of the
Salvation Army atthetime of hi
tion.
t In
ion. Demo-!
make t hein
mad: -
demam
only m
The
mething to ang'-c them into
ng men in the plae< - which
i can fill. St. Louis II.'public.
- the east means
of coal.
ompletion of the Choctaw on
reduction in the price
'iiat(
that Vic-
on ly log
Calvin Hri
! eandidat
IN?Mi. and that the
for a third term i?
'.oT O.i.0) say-
to von-on is the
for President in
nlk about Cleveland
the veriest bosh.
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