The Chelsea Commercial. (Chelsea, Indian Terr.), Vol. 11, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, August 4, 1905 Page: 2 of 8
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Unds in the Five nations.
The commercial interests of
Indiau Territory will take up the
fight for single statehood at the
coming session of congress. The
following data showing the terri-
tory's fitness for statehood, will lie
sent out.
The total taxable lands in the
Five Civilized tribes is as follows:
Seminoles, 253,418.92 acres; Chero-
kee, 3,681,251 acres; Creeks, 2,5 >0-
853.16 acres; Choctaws and Chick-
asaws, 10,780,935 acres.
The total of non-taxable lands is
as follows: Seminoles. 110,160
acres Cherokees, 1,400,01)0 acres;
Creeks. 596,9tiO acres; Choctaws
and Chickasaws 500,000 acres;
total, 2,112,120 acres. The Quaw-
paw reservation in the northeast
part of the Cherokee . nation is
omitted. It contained about
25,000 acres.and has l>een allotted
The total acreage in the Chero-
kee nation is in the neighborhood
of 5,031,351, reserved fortownsites
6,887.65 acres; reserved for schools
and churches, 1,000acres; reserved
for rail roads, 10,000 acres; total,
18,000 acres. The total amount of
acres subject to allotment in the
Cherokee nation is 5,013,351.
There are approximately 36,000
allottees in the Cherokee Nation
and about 1,500,000 acres of land
is non-taxable. The following
property in „the nation is non-
taxable. The following property
in the nation will be subject to
taxation: Allotments 3,631315
acres; townsites, 6,887 acres; rail-
road right-of-way 615 miles.
The total acreage of lands in the
Seminole nation is 365,851,57acres;
reserved for townsites, school rail-
roads and churches, 2,272.65 acres;
subject to allotment, 353,578.92
acres; already allotted, 244,948.28
acres; or nearly all of it; a surplus
is left of 18,630.64 acres, which
have not been allotted. The
homesteads of the allottees are free
from taxation, and consist of forty
acres each. There are 2,754 al-
lottees. so that the total number
of acres reserved from taxation
aggregate 110,160, leaving subject
to taxation in this nation: Farm
lands. 253,418.92 acres; Wewoka
townsite, <>25.70 acres; Choctaw
Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad, and
St. Louis Oklahoma & Southern
• Railroad, twenty-five miles.
Total acreage in the Choctaw
anrl Chickasaw nations is approxi-
mately 11.338,935 acres. Reserved
from allotment: Townsites. 32,-
Ninisters Write to President.
Muskogee. I. T., July 25.—
Twelve ministers representing
every church in the city have pre-
pared a letter to the attorney gen-
eral and President Roosevelt, de-
manding to know whose duty it is
to prosecute alleged violattons of
the Sunday labor law in Indian
Territory. This has grown out
of recent failures of the ministers
to stop Sunday base Iwdl and Sun-
day theatres in the parks near the
city. This letter was read from
First Presbyterian church at the
Sunday service. It alleges that
complaint has been made to the
district attorney, who states that
he will not take action in the mat-
ter unless a warrant is sworn out
rfTul a bond for costs made, but
that he will prosecute any person
so arrested and puts it up to Leo
E. Bennett, U. S. marshal of this
$
district. The marshal replies that,
he is ready to serve any warrants
that are placed in his hands and
that it is not his duty to proceed
further. The letter to the attor-
ney general asks point blank
whose duty it is to see that the
statutes are in force. District
attorney Wiu. MaJlette admits that
Sunday base ball and Sunday
theatres are iu violation of the
Arkansas statute in this country
covering Sunday labor.
About Indian Territory.
Governor Ferguson is preparing
statistics and all the information
that can lie gathered concerning
Indian Territory and it will be
published in an appendix devoted
to this territory in his annual re-
port which will be issued this fall.
Accurate statistics abotyt Indian
Territory have been difficult to se-
cure. The appendix will contain
the latest figures in regard to pop-
ulation. Indian and freedmen,
schools, churches, etc. Governor
Ferguson has written to all the
railroads iu the territory, whole-
sale dealers, mine owners, lumber-
men, many farmers, newspaper
men and officials for all the infor-
mation he can secure.
To the Lakes of
Wisconsin and Michigan
Then' arc hundreds of ideal lake resorts in Wisconsin and
• Michigan easily and quickly readied from Kansas City hy the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul
Railway.
Books descriptive of these resorts, with rates for railroad
tickets and hoard, mailed free to those interested.
i
The hest train
/ Southwest Limited.
to summer resorts, East and North, is The
leaves Kansas City, Union Station, 5: 55 p. m„
Grand Avenue Station, 6 : 07 p. m. Arrives Chicago, Union Station,
8:20 a. m. the next day. Connections in Union Station, Chicago, •
with trains to principal lake resorts.
G. L. COBB,
Southwestern Passenger Agent,
907 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
j
1
I
Tarns Bixby, commissioner to
the Five Civilized Tribes, has sent
out notices that a land office will
l)e opened in the Seminole nation
at Wewoka on Sept. 4. The prin-
cipal business will lielhe allot-
ment of land ,to Seminole babies
who were admitted by act of con-
j gress last winter- These Imbies
have lyeen enrolled and their eiu
lepart-
S4.1.57 '"'res; railroads. 20,000 rollment approved by the
acres, schools, churches, etc., 5,(XX) mei,f
acres; coal and asphalt. 500,000
acres; total acres, leaving
subject to allotment, 10,780,935
acres. None of the allotments are
exempt from taxation, and the
following property of these na-
tions will be subject to taxation
soon as allotments are completed:
Allotted lands, 10,780,935 acres;
mineral lands, to be sold by
interior department, 500,000 acres; | lection,
railroads. 1,360 miles.
The total acre'age of the Creek
nation is 3,172,^13.77 acres; re-
served for townsites, schools,
churches, etc., estimated, 15,000
acres; subject to allotment, 3,157,-
813. 15 acres; .allotted, 577,262.44
acres; not allotted, 980,550.72
acres. Homesteads are free from
taxation, and are estimated at forty
acres to the allottee, or land equal
in value to forty acres of theallot-
table land. There ard 14,825 allot-
tees, making the total acreage ex-
empt from taxation about 598,000
acres.and leaving the following
property in this nation subject to
taxation: Allotments, 2,560,858,19
acres; townsites, 10,540.79 acres;
railroad niifoaoe, 400 miles.
NOTICE.
Beginning with this date all sales
will l e strictly cash. Do not ask
to have meat or other goods charg-
ed, liecause you will be refused.
All parties indebted to me will
please call and settle before Aug.
1st. After that date all unpaid
the accounts will be put out for col-
Bids Wanted to Build School House.
Bids will be received by the
Chelsea School Board until 2:30
p. in. August 15, 1905, for the erec-
tion of a six-room school building
in the town of Chelsea, I. T. Cer-
tified check for five per cent of the
bid will be required lo accompany
each bid as a guarantee that bid-
der will enter into good and suf-
ficient Ixmd for the full compli-
ance with his contract. The scIksjI
board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids that may l>e made.
Plans and specifications can lie
seen at the office of the secretary
of the board.
Address all communications to
J. \V. Qi ixn, Sec y,
Chelsea, I. T.
For Sale.
| My rock livery barn, 50xt50
! feet, my wooden barn. *10x23, all j
|on lots 11 and 12. block 40, and,
my buggies, horses, hacks, bar-1
ness, and all that goes to make up I
a complete livery stable with a
go« d business. Call on the un-
dersigned in the above mentioned!
place of business.
Clayhokn Hill,
Chelsea, I. T.
For Sale.
One span yearling colts, one
mule 10 years old, one pony mare
about 10 years old, two mares
about 7 years old and one sucking
colt, three milch cows with calves.
Will 1x5 sold privately at the John
Smith farm, one milp east of Chel-
sea on the Vinita road,
tf Wiley Blackwell.
J. F. PORTER,
Solicits Your Draying,
Phone 31.
< I
<
J. W. Bonk,
Physician and Sirobon,
()ffi<-e. Rooms 2 and 3, Lane
Building.
Chelsea. I. T. •
« OM HERE TO THERE.
ST. LOUIS i SAN FRANCISCO RAIL-
ROAD COMPANY.
YOUR
SUMMER
VACATION
Is doubtless one to which you lare
now giving considerable thought.
Hogce A: Paxron.
Notice.
The Coning Country.
The opportunity for the irian of little lui un,
1 i. prohahly better today in the prairie "tel.- i>f
, the Montliwe-t tliau erer Inlnra In the lij-li.ri of
tile nation. Till! chance of pre-emi£ititf ^laiin.
i orof taking up lands under sovernment li«w« i*
All persons knowing themselves ' tfonc '* will nut return n«ain. It i* a different
to be indebted to me must call and ^eh "T. ~,fr
UM1 j and it* promise i* tpf '-inkling ttrnchtin***. It"
Settle before August 1st, Otll6r* ' ^ oppurtunity If sliown ill th * jri**at South
•he thei, not.. ,„<! ,««mli will |
be turned over to an attorney for Imrmony uiti. tl « warm "I*1** and
collection. All coiJixm books 17!^' J" TI
iiitt ronoiti«u . tlm 8outnw «t im« mi inviting
an attorney for
coupon books
must be turned iu for redemption future,
before then.
Yours truly,
C. A. Davis.
It is only a night's ride to
Eureka Springs
and on July INth ten-day round
trip tickets may lie had at consid-
erably LESS THAN O^E FARE
^ South McAlester has quaran-
tined against New Orleans to pre-
vent yellow fever infection.'
Prtsso Time Tablwa.
Mo. *11 Oklal
" W Meteor
" 418 Meteor
Bound.
" tHehaUirs Kxprex
" AM Meteor
" 41 Meteor
12 41 p. m.
2:11 a. m.
1a. m
4*1 p.
II & p.
12a.
Alotm the line* of the Mi"*oiiri. Kau-a- A
Ta*a Railway, there are va-L are,,- <■( aiiim-
proTeai land* awaiti'itf triiiin* 1umd> fo make
them yield the bountiful crop. of which the
laiel in callable. There U a need of aliinw. far
torie. mi.I new Iwilnie. <af ever) description.
It if the Niie t kind of an opportunity in the
line.t -ection of the United States, Tiie Month-
weet l« meicelled for the rarietv and fertility
of Ita Mill.—(or it* climate. lU people'ara pro-
iinwire and op to date, it, mlution. and educa-
tional facilitina are a. tcood a.t can he found
nianwhere. • ..
The M. K.AT. Railway l a« no land* for .ale.
hut l« inlerixtcd Id boiMiii up (Ma ■roduetlTe
that tlie SontJiwn.l ha.
(letter oiKjprtuni.
bJBSvinc.
Inreatica-
i de-
It U believe
britfhterjinMert* an<|fffan Setter i
tie. than nnyr otlier aatiHnn. Seeinai.
' for that maaai the Nfflithwestenarta
| lion < f the condition, a* they eil.t. Anyone
.iftma In learn more of the Soutliwaet will do
I well to aildre.. (ieorrfa Morton. Oeweral Pa«-
I «mrer and Tiekat AJMBt. Mi-- uri. kauaa. k
] Te*a« Rnilwajr. Vol #i#. St.(Loui Mo
Note below a few of the rates
applying:
Okla. City tti.OO Holdenvilletti^O
Chandler. $t5.00 Okmulgee. $6.00
Sapulpa §5.50,Claremore. $5.50
Tulsa $o..V1> Vinita $5.00
LtK'ated at Eureka Springs
and on the summit of the
Ozarks is the
l
Crescent Hotel
where excellent accommoda-
tions may be secured at very
reasonable rates.
For tiol|ets, sleeping car jesw-
various, etc., ask tio^et agent or
address
f. E CLARK, D. r. An
WioHtTa, Kai.
artlcM
display
t ratine
thousands
of useftil
t l; lane.
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Quinn, J. W. The Chelsea Commercial. (Chelsea, Indian Terr.), Vol. 11, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, August 4, 1905, newspaper, August 4, 1905; Chelsea, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc175177/m1/2/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed June 22, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.