The Weekly Examiner. (Bartlesville, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 27, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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Measure Good for
All Concerned
A careful analysis of the restric-
tions bill lias been made by lawyers
and business men of the five civilized
tribes and it has been unanimously
pronounced tlie most intelligent piece
of legislation tnat lias ever been en-
acted for the. Indians and whites.
This is because it is so drawn that
it gives the relief desired without
surrounding it with perplexing and
conflicting restrictions.
It not only removes restrictions
entirely from ten million acres of
land, but makes it possible for any
Indian full-blood or not, to sell his
land, the restricted and I lie unre-
stricted. /The unrestricted ones are
free to do as they please with their
land. The restricted ones may sell
with the approval of 'the secretary
The Indian roll that is in the office
ot' the commissioner is conclusive
proof of the Indian's status. It is
made final proof of the Indian's age,
his quantum of Indian blood, and the
description of the land that is his.
There is no appeal from this.
More litigation has been caused by
allottees swearing falsely to their
ages and their degree of Indian blood
than from all other causes.
On July 27 no more applications
for removal of restrictions will be re-
ceived. After that time applications
will be received from full-bloods and
other restricted Indians- Any rectric-
ted Indian is allowed to lease his
land for a period of five years for
any purpose, except «ril and mineral,
without the approval of the secretary
of the interior. Any man can go to
the Indian roll and ascertain whether
he is in the restricted class or not.
Commissioner J. George Wright is
now contemplating the issuance of i
letter to each of the 104,000 allottee
telling them what land lias been al-
lotted to them, giving the class the
rolls show them to be in, and stating
in plain words just what land he can
sell, and what lease and how.
The new law takes out of the hands
of the secretary of tin' interior the
jurisdiction of nil and gas leases on
all lands not owned by Indians wh<
restrictions have been removed.
The question of a person attain-
ing legal status by marrying before
becoming of age, and of having the
disabilities of minority removed by
order of court is directly deter
mined, the law stating that the legal
age shall be twenty-one and eighteen
And the Indian roll is final proof
■ the age.
All dead claims are made salable
and taxable when the Indian allottee
dies with the single exception that
where a restricted Indian dies and
leaves a child that was born too late
to get on allotment, the homestead
of the deceased goes to such child
during his lifetime.
It is provided that a complete rec-
ord of the lands allotted to Indians
in each county shall be made and
turned over to the county officials.
This will show every acre of allotted
land that is taxable.
Provision is made for the sale and
issuance of patents on town lots
where towns are located on the seg-
regated coal lands and the patents
to lots were held up two years ago
on the ground that no segregrated
land could be patented. There were
hundreds of such lots or more pay-
ments on the lots, but could not pay
the remainder and get a patent.
In addition to these more import-
ant matters there is a lot of pro-
visions that clear up snarls that pre-
vious legislation had thrown matters
into.—Muskogee Phoenix.
one of the cars that had been ai
Dewey for several days, was brought
to the power house of the company
by a dummy engine of the cement
plant, and when the car started Mr.
Jones swung aboard, and tendered
his fare to the foreman in charge,
saying at the same time lie wanted
to pay the first fare over the line-
The foreman accepted the money,
and when the ollice was reached, oppo-
site the power house turned it in.
President Curl is now custodian of
the money, and will no doubt claim
it as a souvenir.
Lost Tree is
Rediscovered
BOYS TO DODGE FIREWORKS
Patriotic Speaking to Be New York's
"Fourth" Celebration.
New York, June 23.—Many boys
of Greater New York are uniting in
a project to celebrate the Fourth of
July most patriotically and at the
same time sensibly, without blowing
olT their fingers or shooting out their
eyes or starting costly fires. At
least 5,000 'boys, it is expected, will
march to the city ball here and will
hear speakers tell them how lucky
they are to have been born in this
land of the brave, instead of to have
been imported here.
The idea seems to have originated
in the Busliwick section of Brooklyn,
where quiet is precious. It meets
with Fire Chief Crocker's entire ap-
proval, and he has written an ap-
proving letter to the men who start-
ed the movement. Doubtless all the
ambulance surgeons and firemen
would have been glad to sign this
letter. Borough President Ahern lias
given permission to the celebrants
to use the city hall as a speaker's
rost rum.
ATTORNEY CROSTHWAITE
FAVORS STREET PAVING
WORK SUNDAY, SAVE WHEAT.
Jackson County Farmers Face Loss
From Wet Weather—Men Needed
to Help.
Although the farmers of eastern
Jackson county, Mo., as a general
rule, attend church on Sunday, many
of them felt justified Sunday in
spending the day in the harvest
fields. Owing to the long, continued
wet weather, tliev had been prevent-
ed from harvesting till their wheal
was "dead ripe," and now, unless it
is harvested very speedily, much of
it will shatter off and be wasted.
The ground is still quite soft and the
•machines pull heavily. Since the self
binders came into general use it re-
quires much less help than formeil\
But still it is difficult to get enough
men, and wages run from $2 to
per day and board.
Paid Fare Over Interurban
It is to the credit of n man named
Joins i.f having paid the first cash
fare over the Bartlesville Interur-
ban railway. Last Saturday evening
It is a matter of encouragement to
local property owners who reside in
the city, to know that non-resideu.
holders of property approve plans for
the improvement of the city '.ti ihe
matter of sidewalk building and street
paving. ,
Every foot of sidewalk built or
■treet paving laid, adds increased
value to the property paved, besides
improving the appearance and con-
tributtiilg to the comfort of the
owners of property improved-
Besides taking into consideration
the increased money values of prop-
erties improved, and tlie enhancing
of their appearance the health of a
community is always safeguarded
when streets and alleys are paved.
Paved thoroughfares can always be
kept more easily cleaned when paved
than when they are not. The dust
of travel is not allowed to accumul-
ate thereon in as large quantities
while trash, rubbish and filth is more
often, and in fact is daily removed
from paved streets and alleys in well
regulated towns and cities.
In fact there is every argument in
favor of street and alley improve
ment, while there can be none offered
against it
Frank B. Crosthwaite, one of the
prominent attorneys of Washington
I). C., who is well known in Bartles-
ville ,and owns some valuable prop-
erty here, is a strong believer in the
value of municipal improvements, es
peeially does lie favor street paving.
A letter recently written to Frank
B. Harnett, city clerk, is hereby ap-
pended :
Washington, D. ('., June 18, 190^
—Mr. Frank B. Harnett, City Clerk
Bartlesville, Okla.—Dear Sir: I note
the fact that the council passed reso
lutions regarding additional pavin
and I am much pleased that the city
is making such marked improvement
The resolution provides for pave-
ment on Keeler avenue by the side
f the Piazza hotel, one hundred feet
nth from Third street.
Tli° resolution also provides pav-
ing along Johnstone avenue forty
feet wide in front of the Apartment
House on the corner of Seventh
treet and Johnstone-
It is my purpose to visit Bartles-
ville within a few days, but if bus-
iness will not permit, I will thank
you to make whatever arrangements
necessary in the way of contracts
for the construction of said paving
and send the bill to me.
1 have asked Mr. S. C. Horner,
trust officer of the Citizens Bank Oc
Trust company, to confer with you re
warding the matter.
I am heartilv in favor of all such
The junco is the missing link ol
the tree family. Restricted to a sing-
le valley, that of the l\io Grande,
in Mexico and Texas, this tree, with
its small crooked trunk bristling
with thorns, is little known to the
outside world- It is popularly sup-
posed to bear no leaves, flowers, or
fruit, but it really bears all three.
The minute leaves are scale-like,
the flowers are very small, and the
fruit is a tiny berry. It is the only
known representative ot its family in
all the world. It is not known that
the junco ever grew anywhere out-
side of the valley of the Rio Grande,
that it ever bad relatives close
enough to claim kinship. Some trees
now nearly extinct, had wide range
in past ages—the Big Trees of Cal-
ifornia, for example, which grew all
the way to the Arctic ocean. But the
junco so far as is known, has al-
ways lived in one place and has al-
ways been the same dwarfed, crooked
tree that it now is.
Except as fuel, it has not been
put to any use. Thousands of cords
might be cut in the valley of the
Rio Grande, in Mexico and Texas. Of
late, however, the growing scarcity
of hardwood has called attention to
the despised junco tree as a possible
substitute for some of the more popu-
lar woods, and the result is a sur-
prise to those who thought the wood
had no commercial value. Clarence
A. Miller, consul at Matamoras, Mex.
has called the attention of this gov-
ernment to the good qualities claimed
for it.
The wood sinks in water. In color
it ranges from brown to black. It
receives a high and beautiful polish,
fitting it to take the place of such
expensive woods as ebony and rose-
wood for small cabinet work. The
trunks are so short and crooked that
only small pieces of timber can be
obtained from them. Few trunks ex-
ceed seven feet in length and eight
inches in diameter. The wood is
said to be admirably suited for the
keys of musical instruments, jewel
boxes and other bureau cabinets,
•hess men, checkers, paper knives,
knobs and other small turnery, in-
laid work, and indeed for almost
all purposes for which costly foreign
woods, in small pieces, are now used-
Many iif the trees, whose woods
e familiar in the lumber markets
belonging to large families. There
are 2.">0 members—they are called
species—of the pine family, and they
are scattered all over the northern
hemisphere. The beech and the oak
family has even more members, and
they, too, are widely scattered. The
laurel has over 000, the palm 1,000,
while the ap;<le. counting the many
varieties, is said to have more than
3,000. But the junco is fighting its
life battle alone on the dry slopes
of Texas and Mexico, without a rela-
tive in the world.
enjoy life after the fashion of their
white brethren- They dote particu-
larly on fine horses and conveyances
and it is a frequent sight in the
towns of the Osage to see some buck
with his family garbed i'l blankets
come spinning into town in a modern
touring ear-
The Osages are rapidly embracing
the Mormon faith and if permitted by
Uncle Sam would soon emigrate to
Mexico, where they could practice po-
lygamy.
Farmers Swindled.
the new state, which had a place <Ryan secured a state charter lor
for all the money rightly due it. the R. E. Mooney Pipe Line company
The question of removing the restric- ' with a capital stock o ten mi ion
tions was, therefore, of paramount,^. of the-mpany
'X'Mia,,, have loi« haJ „v„y 1 *«-? . "
sk szz £
tion of the privilege ot selling then , V^v n„|„ona. T|„. ii„e to
lands. Now that the Indian owner-
; ship of these lands in Oklahoma has
! been established and confirmed abso-
! lutely, the lands may be placed on
j the market. Thus the new state will
! benefit to the extent of their value
Fanners should Li oil the look out
for alleged cattle inspectors- Many
farmers have been swindled of late
in Ohio by sharpers who claim to
be government inspectors. The first
man appears on the farm and gener-
ally condemns several of the very
best cows, and advises the farmer to
sell them at the first opportunity,
even at half price. In a few days a
second man, to all appearances 11
stock buyer shows up and offers to
buy the cows. The stock is then driv-
en to a suitable market and sold ai
a bitr profit.
for taxation purposes.
DE SAGAN'S HARD STRUGGLE.
Washington, June 22.—Congress
was pretty ;_'ood to Oklahoma, fl.e
donation of *180,000,000 of taxable
property to a new state, just started
with distinguished purpose, is not to
be overlooked.
This donation was made by pro-
ss of removing the restrictions on
alienation of Indian lands. For many
Indians have been held under the
couditi' n that the Indian allottees
might not sell them without the pei-
missien if the Department of the
interi r. It was very hard to get
such permission.
While the lands were held under
such restriction they could not be
taxed. This was a serious matter to
wata to New Orleans- The line to
pass through Arkansas instead of
Texas and thus aviod the complica-
tions which the oil companies have
been harassed with in the Lone Star
•tate. According to oil men this com
pany has the money to put the pro-
ject through. Oil men are watching
its development with great interest
as the production now is much great-
i er than the capacity of the three pipe
"I Stood by While the Goulds Wore ]ineg now opc>rating.
Themselves Out," says the Prince. ' —
DEMOCRAT WINNER IN
Paris, June 22.—Prince Helie de OKMULGEE TEST CASE.
Sagan said to-day that if nothing Okmulgee, Ok., June 10—The elee-
detinite was signed in the United tion1 contest case which has been on
States with reference to the marriage trial for the pa.-t w- ck lias been con
arrangements it was because a eluded. M. M. Alexander, democrat,
cil in Jay Gould's will cut Anna ; is contesting Judge Newhouse, of th
Gould's annual income from $0000,- county court.
01)0 to $300,000. The case probably will be a test of
"But one can live well enough Mi : the balance of the ticket, except coun
Ili-.I " willed the uriuce. i <>' treasurer and depiuls on the decis
Describing his controversy with ion of Special Judge Mann, w ho was
.... , i ; i. 1 mixinted bv the supreme couit to tiy
Mr. Gould s family the prince said. W ^ Juil,,e Car_
-It was a teni i •• stiu^ c, « i>' ' | refused to sit in the case, his
I gained by standing and doing noth- .
" 1 allow my adversaries to wear j °
ing.
themselves out- They fall broken
in the dust. Then my road is free.
I pass on."
George Gould arrived in Paris last
nijrht. The banns for the mariage
of De Sagan and Anna Gould were
published Saturday.
A New Pipe Line.
An important development fea-
ture in the oil business of eastern
Oklahoma came to light when Ed
the ticket upon
which he would be called to pass
judgment. The ruling of the Special
Judge Mann on the validity of one
precinct in Okmulgee gives Alexander
6S majority over Judge Newhouse, but
his final "deei.-. u is reserved until
July 13. >
Twenty-three companies of paper
manufacturers have been found guil-
ty of violating the Sherman anti-
trust law, But will they be punished
is the next question.
Health
Oscar E. Learnard, Jr.jW. cl^£rHOY
Never Fails to
FirstlFloorlWoodring Bldg.
Special attention to Probate Oases
and Interior Department matters.
Rooms 15-16 Foster-Simons Bldg.
RESTORE GRAY or FADED bartlesville
HAIR to Its NATURAL
COLOR and BEAUTY
No matter how long it has been gray
or faded. Promotes a luxuriant growth
of healthy hair. Stops its falling out,
and positively removes Dan-
druff. Keeps hair sqft and glossy. Re-
fuse all substitutes. 2tf times as much
in $1.00 as 50c size.
IS NOT A DYE.
Phllo HjJ Spec. Co.. Newark. N. J.
ti and 50c bottles, at druggists'*
For ?:ile By
Red Crsos Pharmacy
Weeks' Drug Store
wTyrrvnvr>:. g; JS isssfi&lZUL
oklahoma
I
B. SCOTT, Pres't.
Oily independent Company Covering
Entire Midcontinent Cil Field
Manufacturers ot N!'™,G'yr,<^rt.n
for shooting OIL, GAS AND ARTE-
SI AN WKIjLB. „ _
tTice. Second St . over O. K. Res-
taurant. Telephones — office, 4W;
barn, vio.
J. W. SANDERSON, Manager.
bartlesville, indian ty.
KID Hi Sill Sill
Corner First Street and John
stone Avenue.
N-w Equlrment throughout—new vehicle
and lively teams.
PHONE 133.
FINCH & WHEELOCK, Proprs
Are to Burn Oil.
It is expected that very soon en-
sines mi the Fort Seott-Sapulpa nm> j
will be equipped with oil burners, j
Sapulpa is now being titted as an nil- ,
ins station for these engines. Some 1 ,;
time ago the company borrowed a j
couple of nil burning engines from
the Ft. Worth & Texas road and ran j)
them 011 the passengers train between j
here and Springfield. They proved •
fur (dperior to the coal burning en-J ■
_ines and the company have decided
to equip all their engines with oil
burners as fast as possible—Sapulpa
Democrat.
*s to Your Interest
To buy where you can buy cheapest and still obtain quality. And that is
what yoii can do here. The high quality of our goods is prove rbialamong the
"particular" families of Bartlesville and our every-day prices correspond all
alt>nthe line with those of the groceries who advertise special and cost
sales e fill \our order promptly, deliver the goods and take pleasure in
rectifying «-nv mistakes that occur.
W. Wolcott
Successor to W. Wolcott Sl Co.1
TO MAKE LAST PARCELING
OF OSAGES' LANDS.
Allotting Commission Begins Work
June 29—Affects 2,200.
at the same time
improvements, and in fact anything J ho ma<
that is for the general welfare < I : "v
Tulsa, Ok., June 22.—The Osage
allotting commission will, 011 June
■J!) commence the work of making fi-
nal divisions of lands among the
Osages at Pawhuska, the tribal cap
ital. The divisions will first be made
in tracts of forty acres and earl
family will be settled with in full
The filings will j
SfefejDOi
maamsssssatmnm
Independence, Kan. Sapulpa,>Okla.
Drilling and Fishing Tools
boilers, cordace, engines, TOOlS, wood-
vvork, belting, rig irons.
Bartlesville.
Very truly yoitrs.
I- HANK B. CROSTHWAITK
Had No Quorum.
An adjourned meeting ot the
council was scheduled to take place
at the city hall last night. Mayor
Beaaley, Councilman Hacknian and
City Clerk Harnett were present. Af- every Osage is at least *40,000. while
ter waiting almost an hour for other numbers of tlieni are worth tip into
members to appear, tliev wended the.: ' . ' h : ilicds t thot,sands.
wavs homeward- The Osage, are rapidly learning to
made 011 an average of 25 a day j
November 1 every one of the
2.200 (K;i'_:i- will be in possession ot
the last of his . allotment. Kacli
Osage will then have on an average 1 f
800 acres.
Besides this land each Osage has
an interest in tribal funds vested
with the federal covernment. amount
ins to several millions of dollars. It
is estimated that the total wealth of
At Independence:
Machine Shops
Blacksmith Shops
A'ood Reel Shops
At Sapulpa:
General Supply Store
Machine Shops
Blacksmith Shops
exclusive: agents for
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