The Weekly Examiner. (Bartlesville, Indian Terr.), Vol. 12, No. 22, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 4, 1906 Page: 6 of 8
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ALL
WHO LOST CERTIFICATES
IN SAN FRANCISCO.
Special Dispensation Granted by
Commissioner at Washington
—Ag-ency Saves
Records.
San Francisco.—Notwithstanding the
loss o£ their certificates and vouchers,
the 4,500 government pensioners in San
Francisco, disabled soldiers, widows,
and miners, were to receive their quar-
terly allowance on June 4, provided
they make personal application to the
chief clerk at the pension office in the
new post office building.
United States Commissioner of Pen-
sions Warner has granted the local
agency permission to issue special per-
mits to the losers of their papers,
which will allow the payment of the
6tipend on the regular payment day.
At the same time the permit is grant-
ed an application for the renewal of
the destroyed certificate is to be given
the pensioner, which must b^correctly
filled in and duly sworn to before
some commissioned magistrate. This
Reading of "Casabianca" in Cleve-
land Workhouse Creates
Fearful Scene.
ipplication will be forwarded to Wash- £°Ur tortures compared to this." Mr.
ngton and rew certificates issued in ^r:ln6 wi" read "''m <0 Be Queen of
ington and rew certificates issued in
time lor the September payment day.
The saving of the pension agency
records, which have been kept intact
for the last :>5 years, is an interesting
chapter in the history of the bureau.
In all there are some 45,000 pensioners
paid from the San Francisco agency,
whioh embraces the entire district west
of the Rocky mountains.
On the morning of the calamity,
■when the post office building was
threatened by the fire. Col. Jesse
Fuller, pension agent, had a detail of
Ave regular soldiers placed in the of-
'flces, who, with the male clerks, were
ordered to sponge all embers that came
on the windows, and to do everything
possible to save the papers of the
agency, which were thrown from the
cases pellmell on the floors and mixed
with plastering and other debris. Suc-
cess crowned their efforts, and on the
morning of the 21st, when the regu-
lar clerical force returned, it was put
to work straightening out the various
papers, most ot which are now prop-
erly and systematically placed in their
old cases.
TEXAS.
Citrus
Cleveland.—Will poetry deter crime
and vagabondage? Parole Officer
Crane, of the Cleveland workhouse,
has every reason to think it will. He
is experimenting with poetry as i
deterrent. Sunday he locked 100 in
mates of the workhouse in the assem
bly-room and read "Casabianca" to
them. The scene was heart-rending.
Several men, in frantic efforts to es-
cape, threw themselves against the
door only to fall, bruised and pant-
ing, but still faintly praying: "Let
me out, let me out!"
Other persons, wfro have had no
visible means of support for 20 years,
aged, decrepit, crawled to Crane, and
with tears streaming down their
wrinkled cheeks, sobbed:
"Take, oh—take—me to the wood-
yard—I—will work. Anything rather
than this."
Words fail to describe what hap-
pened when Mr. Crane recited "The
Burial of Sir John Moore." Shrieks of
agony rent the air while the probation
officer proudfy mused.
"Torquemada, Geronimo, what were
your tortures compared to this." Mr
OLIVES FAIL IN
Ten-Year-Old Orchards in
District Make No Re-
turns.
San Antonio, Tex.—The production
of oiives in the Texas coast country
has not been successful. The trees
make fine growth, but they do not
bear well. As a matter of fact, many
of them cannot be made to bear at
all.
Harvey Stiles, the California man
who was induced to locate in the cit-
rus fruit section of Texas by the re-
marakbly fine fruit land there, has
Just announced the failure of the olive
orchard at Beeville. The trees are now
eight or ten years old, and have not
been fruiting. Mr. Stiles says he if
not surprised at the failure of the olive
growing Industry.
He says it is a fact not generally
known that hut one variety of olive*
produces successfully in American
■oils. This is the tree that was intro-
duced by the Franciscan monks in
southern California. Trees planted by
the monks 150 years ago survive and
are iu good condition,bearing annually.
In all other lines of tropical and sub-
tropical fruits the Texas citrus fruit
section is a great success, and the or-
ange and lemon orchards, as well as
the dates and figs, are making wonder-
ful successes. Mr. Stiles is conducting
an experimental farm and nursery at
(Klngsville, where the most remarkable
-things are being done with native and
foreign fruits. The adaptability of the
•outhwcst Texas soil to tropical fruits
Is being worked out in a very success-
ful manner.
the May" to the vagrants and hobos
next Sunday. He is very confident that
those in the workhouse will never
make themselves liable to be sent
there again and he hopes to drive all
the criminal and lazy out of town with
poetry's lash
TEXANS AFTER FEVER TICK
the
The new regulations for the sale
of inherited lands in the five civilized
tribes have been received by Inspector
J. George Wright. It is estimated that
these regulations will make at least
one-fourth of the allotted land in the
territory salable. The principal change
in the regulations is that the applica-
tion for sale of the lands must be
made by the identified heirs of the
deceased allottee. It further provides
that the land for sale must be adver-
tised in a newspaper within the nation
in which it lies. The new regulation
provides that where it is proven that
nn allottee is physically or otherwise
unable to develop his land, he may
lease the same for three years for
grazing purposes and for five years for
agricultural purposes. All leases,
however, must have the approval of
the secretary of the interior, after al-
lottee has proved himself unable to
till his own land. The lease provi-
sions, which have been in effect in the
Creek and Cherokee nations on min-
eral, gas and oil lands, are extended
by the new regulations as to the other
nations.
The board apportioning Oklahoma
into five constitutional convention dis-
tricts believes that its work will be
finished by August 15. The election
of delegates will be held November tt.
It is expected that the constitutional
convention will meet November 20 and
adjourn January 20. The convention
will be asked to allow not less than
90 days for the campaign of candi-
dates for state offices, which would
bring the state nominating conven-
tion April 20. Three months for the
campaign of nominees would give the
citizens of the new state their first
vote for state officers about July 20
1907. Both the democrats and the re-
publicans will draw as heavily as pos-
sible on members of congress and the
United States senate for campaign or-
ators, and they hope to fill the state
from end to end with the best talent
they can find.
Indian Agent Kelsey has served no-
tice on all applicants for the removal
of restrictions and their attorneys that
H. C. Cusey, head of the department,
will visit various points in Indian ter-
ritory for the purpose of taking testi-
mony in such cases. The notice re-
quests the applicants or their repre-
sentatives to appear at the most con-
venient town at which the hearings
Quality is the Test
of Groceries, as in everything else. A poor article of diet is not only dear at
\ any price, but it is positively dangerous. Vet some people are willing- to take
# any old thing, so s it s ' cheap. We do not cater to that class of trade. Our
# Groceries and Provisions are of the first quality and the prices are not much
f in advance of the prices on goods of doubtful character. You should be
among our customers because you will always be sure of something really good
i%%%4
'CENEJ^5
Sent from Island of Mo
lokai.
Honolulu.—The lepers confined at
the Hawaiian leper settlement on the
Island of Molokai have contributed
$194.55 for the relief of those rendered
homeless by the San Francisco earth-
quake and fire. This sum was con-
tributed in sums of from five cents
upward by more than 400 people, some
of whom have not been outside of
the narrow limits of the settlement
for years and none of whom expects
to go outside these limits until he
dies. Following the receipt of the
nv,.v„„. _ TT news at the settlement of the great
Oklahoma Farmers Uneasy Over j disaster, a mass meeting was held
Scarcity of Help for Wheat I which was attended by practically
Crop- | ®very leper in the settlement able to
be there. At this meeting resolutions
Government Experts Aid in
Movement to Eradicate
the Pest.
Victoria, Tex.—J. D. Mitchell, United
States government expert, who is
studying the fever through the state, is
here. He says:
"The United States government pro-
poses tc make war on the fever tick,
with the object in view of its total
eradication from the south and doing
away with the qmyantine line. The
first step to this end will be the estab-
lishment of demonstration stations
throughout the state to educate the
cattlemen and farmers on the life and
habits of the tick, and the damage it
does and the way to get rid of it.
Then will follow a cooperative period
Pe°Ple' the 8tatC and th€ venient town at which *the"hearinja
United State, government in what is will beld. At the hearlne the anoU
zzt.Z X'iis,'?£
fr°m! Th'S does not "PP'y fuirbirin
or longer in winter, £ *WB™ ^ by 3Ct
weather does not count against The' C°DgreSS' aPPr°Ved April 2C' 1906-
tick, every tick in part two will die I the federal court at Muskogee, a
Then by dipping, scraping or any satis- b111 ln e1ulty has been filed restrain-
factory method, clean the stock of ing Tams Bixby, commissioner for the
ticks and put them in part two, then'^ve c'v'"zed tribes, from re-opening
starve out part one and the work is I ^he ro11 for the addition of from
done. 7,000 to 10,000 persons recently born.
"I have traveled over a large part of The comPlaint Is brought in the name
the state, interviewing cattlemen, get- Henry Eiffert, a Cherokee, who al-
ting their ideas, observations and ex- 'eges that the act of congress ap-
perience with the fever tick, and found Proved APril. 19"6, providing for the
places that will make good station re-°Pening is unconstitutional and
and raen who will cooperate with the that the opening will cause to br
government in the educational pe- I distributed among the new additions
riod." I from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 worth of
' tribal property now belonging to those
already on the roll and in which
those who it Is proposed to put on
Money for San Francisco Sufferen the roll under the act have no rights.
LOCAL RAILWAY TIME CARD.
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe.
northbound.
No. 222. Passenger (dally) d sn am
No. 210. Passenger (dally). T ™
No. 264. Freight (dally). '. . .'.;
southbound.
No. 221. Passenger fd&Uv) , • . n
Skrvice.-No. 226 has
chair ear to Kansas City;
connects at Independ-
ence, Chanute and Otta-
wa for points west; par-
lor car Independence to
Kansas City. Train No.
221 has chair car Kansas
City to Owasso and par-
- ior car Kansas City to In-
dependence. No. 210 connects at Independ-
ence and Chanute for points north and west-
sleeper Independence to Kansas City
Santa Fe
Missouri, Kansas A. Texas.
northbound.
Passenger, dally 12:25am
No. 24. Passenger, daily.. 10 •*> am
No. 26. Passenger, dally 4:45 nm
No. 530 Way Freight, daily 11:25 am
southbound.
No.21. Passenger,dally 4:15am
No. S3. Passenger, daily. 8:&p2
No- 2 - Passenger, daily 10:4* am
No. 859. Way Freight, daily 1 ;0&pm
No. 26 runs through to
Kansas City without
change, arriving at 11:55.
Also makes direct con-
nection at Parsons with
Katy Flyer for 8t. Louis.
No, 24 makes ail evening
, —- , connections at Kansas
( lty for points fast, Chalrcar from Bartles-
ville to Kansas City. No. 22 arrives at Kan-
sas City at 7:10, carrying a through sleeper
and chair car and makes all connections for
points east.
G. R. McKINLEY, Joint Agent.
Have You Ever
been to
Niagara Falls
You can go exceptionly cheap on
August 6th
On this date the M. K. & T. Agent will sell round trip
tickets to Niagara Falls, good until August i8th for
$22.45
You Need a Vacation
Here is the opportunity. There is nothing on the conti-
nent quite like Niagara Falls. It will prove a most delightful
and entertaining trip. See about Berths in odvance.
Ask the Agent for particulars
"KATY"
Santa Fe
Colorado
Excursions
PERFECTION
WICK FIAME OIL STOVE I
LEPERS CONTRIBUTE.
HARVEST HANDS SCARCE.
_ L imo 1UOCUUK
Oklahoma City, Okl.i —The question I of sympathy were adopted,
of labor for this year's wheat harvest
is causing Oklahoma farmers consider-
able uneasiness now. Not for many
years has there been such a scarcity
of farm labor as this season; in fact,
labor of *11 kinds is scarce in Okla-
homa. The unusual prospects for a
large crop of wheat and the increase
4a acreage over former years are go-
ing to make lots of work in the har-
vest fields.
The first Oklahoma wheat will be
harvested within a few weeks, and
very few farmers know where they
are going to get help. Correspondence
has been heavy between the Oklahoma
wheat growers and the employment
bureaus of the different states.
A great deal of the labor is fur-
nished this way, but the offering this
year Is inadequate to the demand
Harvest hands will command good
wages in Oklahoma this year.
Meningitis in Switzerland
Infectious meningitis is spreading in
Switzerland and is likely to cause some
uneasiness among tourists. The disease
was last reported as causing many
deaths at Zurich, and now it is causing
Berious alarm ln Canton Argau. In the
•town of Aaran there have been ten
cases ln a short time, and four men
and two women have died. There are
now three cases In the cantonal hos-
pital. It is to be feared that the policy
of the military authorities of Zurich
In sending the newly-formed recruits
hack to their homes may carry some
Ill-affects to ell parts of the country.
VARSITY HONOR FOR HINDOO
Divides Cambridge Wranglership
with Native of Great
Britain.
Cambridge.—me senior wrangier-
ship in the mathematical tripos, the
greatest academic honor in England,
was divided the other day between a
native-born Briton and a British In-
dian, Atrajan by name, who is a well-
known tennis player. He came to Eng-
land to finish his education.
It is the first case on record of a
Hindoo senior wrangler and may be
the last, as the Cambridge university
authorities are discussing the advisa-
bility of abolishing the historic ex-
amination under its present form of
ranking the candidates. Eight other
Indians achieved high honors but not
a single woman out of the many com-
peting qualified for the final test.
Reverted to the Indians.
All Improvements on land leased by
cattiaxnen from the Kiowa and
Comanche Indians ln southwestern Ok-
lahoma became the property of the
tribes when the leases expired. It is
estimated that the value of improve-
ments lately divided among these In-
dians wa« $16,000. It consisted of
barbed wire, lence posts, houses, barns,
eto. Four wires were used in the
fences, which had an aggregate length
of 250 miles, making close to 1,000
miles of wire. None of the houses were
costly, but ill were permanent.
Hon. W. H. Clayton, commissioner
appointed to district the territory
has completed arrangements to take
the census. An executive committee
of six, three republicans and three
democrats, was appointed, which will
appoint 26 persons to take the census
in each township.
William Jennings Bryan has fis-
sured Tulsa democrats that he will
visit Tulsa on his return from Europe,
providing he can get time off from
a campaign tour of Indiana this fall
to visit Indian territory.
Attorneys for the Caney River tins
company have received notice that
the secretary of the interior has ap-
proved their application ior right of
way for a pipe line to be run from the
gas wells at Ramona to Muskogee
where the company has a natural ,-'.ia
franchise and is ilnd'r bond to oper-
ate a gas plant. The company un«
nounces that it will have gas in Mus-
kogee by October 1. it took a long
hard fight to get the secretary's ap
proval to this pipe line proposition
The promoters wanted to get blsge
gas leases than are allowed under the
present laws, but they failed to „'et
this through and had to build the pipe
line with their present supply of Mas,
A lawsuit involving a $10 calf wm
compromised at South McAlester b<
the defendant in the action paying $i":
for the calf and each party to the suit
paying half of the costs, which
amounted to $200.
A deed for property purchased by C
J. Dickson in Tulsa, went on file In th i
name of Miss Edna Stohe of Naples,
Italy, the first resident of a foreign
country to make nn investment there,
bo far as is known.
It has been announced that it he
Prairie oil and <ias company will <-s-
tabllsh headquarters in Tulsa for mid-
continental oil fields, which will t;.|;e
100 men to that city. It is further
reported that the district offices , t
Cleveland, Bartlesville and Independ-
ence, Kan., may be abandoned
The publication of a weekly paper
will be begun at Eufaula within a
short time. It will be the property of
a stock company, which Is capitalized
for $5,000. Virgil Winn, who former-
ly published the Eufaula Tribune will
be editor and manager.
All Summerjvia the SantaJFe.
Tourist|tickets on sale every day at very low rates.
To gain a pleasant and auspicious introduction to Colo-
rado you should travel Santa Fe. The magnificent mountain
C-T one hundred miles long-seen en route to
Denver and through Pueblo and Colorado Springs prepares
you as nothing else can for those other attractions offered bv
this great vacation land. • oy
CT Pullmans, chair cars, fast trains and Harvey meals A
combination appealing to discriminating travelers.
Descriptive literature free.£For time table
folders, tickets, reservations, apply to
SAFE CONVENIENT ECONOMICAL
1 f your tal don't handle It, write to
jhe standard oil company
G. R. McKINLEY, Agent,
BARTLESVILLF, I. T.
rompt service
Lighting our hobby.
U ii sanltarr plumUng repaired,
Hi i ua a '-.'Ird or call.
ire to see ii- about your work.
If jronr fas stove needs n pairs w« e
Nllx It.
'■w line of globes and mantles.
G a slitting our specialty.
BOYD 4 ARNOLD
Box 1171.
Now located first door west of Bar-
tlesville Nat'I bank.
Watch Repairing a Specialty
We are showing a fine line of|
men's and ladliV
Cold Watches,
Cold Chains,
Cold Rings
Charms, Htlckplns, Watch Fobs, Clocks etc
ratelv fitted \*lth glasses or soeetacles.
FEED AND SEE SHE
Corner First Street and Johti-
RL stone Avenue.gi ;
PHONE 133.
FINCH 4 WHEELOCK, Propr's.
BERT DAVIS
Contractor and Builder
■ Bfl I mates furnishi <t on short uo1 loo*
I Headquartj f > with Mlchaelli Lumber
I ootnpfl njr. Third Mod Dewej.
THE CANEY HOSPITAL^Sfy
gives rosy checks and active health to pale, sickly child":
And it is good for their ciderstoo.
Ask your druggist for it.
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