The Chelsea Commercial. (Chelsea, Indian Terr.), Vol. 11, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, October 6, 1905 Page: 2 of 4
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Sequoyah.
(.Set to air of Dixie)
Ob, land of wheat and corn and cotton.
Thy charms shall never be forgotten,
Happy lanil, happy land, happy land,
of the free.
We love thy woods with riven gleaming,
Prniries fair with cattle teaming,
Happy land, happy land, happy land,
of the free.
Oh. heautitul Sequoyah,
Hurray! Hurray
We'll ever stand to guard our land.
Our l**autiful Sequoyah,
Hurray! Hurray! Our lieaiitifnl Sequoyah.
No land on earth lias beauty rarer,
Braver sons or daughters fairer.
Than this land, happy laud,
Happy land of the free.
We'll hold our independence
And yield our independence never,
In this land, happy land, happy land
of the free.
chorl'8.
—Rev. A. (Jrant Evans.
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THE
QUIBN. Editor >id Pabhshsr.
a. - - • ind. '
COMMERCIAL; what? To make u subservient
minority for such men as
Piatt. Depew and their ilk to
dominate. The gentleman
is a walking advertisement
of what AlleookHs Porous
Plasters won't do. He needs
something to strengthen his
back hone. What if the
President has said there will
he only one state, he isn't
Congress, neither is he a cit-
izen of either of the territor-
ies in question. We know
BRILLIANT MALONKY
Among other tilings, W.
S. Maloney in the Blue Jack-
et News, says in regard to
the separate state movement.
"AsJde from this it is a Demo-
cratic move as no Republicans in
good repute with their jwrty are
having nothing to do with it. So
it is folly to think that a Republi-
can I'ongrnss will pay much at-
tention to what these grafters are
doin,.-. Another reason is that
the eastern nieiuliers of Congress,
and especially the Senate, do not
want any inore western Senators
than is necessary, and therefore
two will suit them better than
four. The President has already
deel ired for one slate and when
Roosevelt Bays anything it means
something."
''Don't want any more
western senators than is nec-
essary,'' eli? Necessary for
pie of years ago were •curry-
ing hither and thither to
square themselves after the
Brosius report, and see if
they are not all branded with
the single state mark. Mal-
oney's argument is the height
of imbecility.
According to a list pub-
lished in the Pryor Creek
Clipiier, there are only 14
uapers in the wholu Indian
lOiftitry that favor separate
statehood. Well, the G4
other fellows have made the
mistake of catering to the
money interests around town,
and letting the country peo-
ple go to the 1m>w wows. The
bone and sinew of this coun-
try is not measured by cor-
poration lines, and the soon-
er we get out of the present
situation, and get to where
wo can make our own laws
as we want them and l ave
free schools all over the
country, as well as the town,
we will he on the highway to
BRUSH
pie have thought of that.
Lot somt smart single stater
step boldly to the front and
point out an instance where
the government has acted in
bad faith with its wards. If
the Indians want sejmrate
statehood, they can get it by
staying with the treaties.
They have the right to invite
white people to vote with
them and have done so, but
in doing so, they have, not
forfeited a treaty right, lie-
cause the treaty uses the
success as one of the bright- wort^> consent.
est stars in the firmament of
American glory. This coun-
try has been towned to death.
*rhe ruralite lias l een left
with the coyotes, and the
< Commercial wants to
One of the flimsy argu-
ments ef the single staters is
that we will not have to build
state houses and all the pub-
I lie buildings with single
, . , ,, ^n,° statehood. It is not true,
mm a chance. He liasn t, .
'Guthrie is only the
tempo-
rary capital, and in a few-
years ()kluhoiiia will have to
build a state house. Her
asylums and other public
buildings are full, and she
.has no penitentiary. All
until we get state govern- .. • •>, . . >
^ , fe , these things will have to be
i i*<* itWi t linnconna I
enlarged and in most instan-
ces new ones built. Don't
tell us that Indian Territory
I will not have to do her part;
lie I lilted *atcs govern- slK. win ,mve tQ pay for all
ent has never broken " |she getti. and thinking men
treaty with any Indian Tribe,
even a road law, and no man
can force tui unwilling man
to do his quota of work 011 a
public highway. In fact
there is 110 public highway in
this country, and will not be
mcnt. There are thousands |
of blessings that we will have
then that we have not now.
what we need down here, end „„d "i, never wUh jfcivlT '! .<?kl"h°ma is" "<*
the Commercial is one paper treaty obligations have not ,K3°P e< Wlt 1 suc er?'
that is going to stand up and , been carried out but the con-
fight for its convictions. It sent of the Indians was ob-
is not a base fa wing sftaniel | tained in each instance I>e-
at the feet of the single state fore the jioliev was abandon-
grafters. When we say graf-1 ed. In the (Cherokee uation,
ters, we mean grafters sure!not a foot of land was allott-
enough. Men who hold fed-1ed until the Indians had
eral |>ositions and use them nmde a treatv consentinir to! . ' . j
' • . . muut a maix tonstniing 10 j,ave j0ne so. tiecauso
to promote private business the same \ roll of citizens .1 1 •. 1 . . .
i< k *1 ' *v rHU 01 tluzens the whites have had no put
enterprises. Count the noses was made, notlr- ' F
of those fellows, who cou- was done. How
Shaking of ignorance.
The editor of this paper has
had a commission as notary
public for a year and a half,
and during all that time not
an Indian has signed his
name by mark. Manv white
was made, nothing further |lic whooll! ,,ut the Indians
1
When Fall begins
1 to turn the leave* I
'put my boy* in
R&W' Sweater*;
/protect* their luag*.
/cut* down doctor
I expente* and beadea
' *avea their mother lota
of extra work and care.
My Sweater* are
1 lllinh lor my
_ ir bard knock*—ought
be good enough for your*.
Gent! I i t y
Is well clothed, and is never ob-
trusive. Perfection is no trifle,
and we have found this to be an
emphatic truth in the clothing
business. We have all kinds,
sizes and styles of suits ready to
wear and the kind that commands
respect and attention wherever
you may be called upon. Don't
delay a minute, if you want ad-
vice about clothing
have all been to school, and
are belter educated today
than the whites, in so far as
per cent goes that can read
and write. Talking of this
country not l eiog able to
care for itself, Oklahoma
would not suffer if the Indian
was made her guurdian.
£ If you want to save dollars, we will help you, selling you the desired
! articles at less than they were ever offered before. It is as much the
object ot this store to save monev for a customer, as it is to gain a cus-
tomer. You are always happy with money in your pocket, and you
can keep more of it in your pocket by trading with LEVINE than at
any other place in town >:
Bring the boys here and fit
them out in clothing that will
make the whole family proud
of them
If you want the best ready to
wear skirts thatjfcwere ever
sold in Chelsea call on Levine.
He has them and they are as
low as goods of the same qual-
ity can be sold anywhere
N. LEVINE.
The single staters an- rc-
sortingto the kind of mis-
representation that always
injures their own cause.
They have given it out that
no person opposed to the
constitution and to single
statehood would be allowed
to vote on the 7th of Xovem-
l* r. It is not true and they
know it. If they are in favor
of single statehood, and no
constitution, all they have
to do is to go to the polls
and vote against the eonsti-
tution. If the constitution
loses the whole proposition
falls to the ground. Any
man with a grain of reason
can plainly see this.
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The Commercial is a fac-
tor in the building up of the
town and always stands for
the progress of Chelsea. As
such it will he found on thY
outer wall. It championed
the opening of the section
line thud east of town, and
now the r<*d isoj>en,and all
that has to be done to make
it t>assable is to build the
bridge, spoken of, across
Pryor creek. The Commer-
cial opened the ball in this
matter, and a« a result, th<
worx is almost done. Now
let's get to work building the
The Commercial wants to
compliment the Muskogee
Phoenix for its fairness in
publishing the proposed con-
stitution for the state of Se-
quoyah. There are numliers
of pinhead journalists that
are so infinitcsimally small
that they will not 'publish u
fact that the friends of good
government could use in the
good cause, though it be an
item of news that nil nre in-
terested in. The surest sign
of a weak cause is the with-
holding of information that
the people need.
The O. <fc C. C. is pushing
.ahead, and will soon lie do-
ing business. Then Chelsea
will mnKe another leap to-
ward the big development
that is coming to her. Also
the pipe line to St. Louis will
be in operation in a few
months, and then we will be
on the map sure enough. It
is a great thing to live in a
town liice Chelsea, and it is a
privilege to tell of its bless-
>"g -
One of the smallest and
most alive papers that comes
to the exchange table of the
Commercial office is the Foyil
News. Harper has some
"powful" good ideas, and if
he was in a larger town, lie
would make a "rep." He
has room to make it anyhow,
as Foyil may one day' be an
important place. The Com-
mercial likes the tone of the
News, and hopes to see it
succeed.
It is a degraded spirit of
contemptible impnde 11 ee
that prompts a newspaper to
accuse a resjieetable contem-
porary of being l>ril>ed when
there is not a shadow of ex-
cuse, for, nor a color of guilt
in the conduct of such paper. I
For this reason the Commer-i
cial is decent enough to ab-
stain from such despicable
methods. It never curried a
stink poi to torment its
neighbors
GO NORTH IN
SEPTEMBER
Probably you've been
busy, had lets to do, long
hours nml no rest — ami
could not get away this
summer You need a rest
—you've earned it.
Take that belated vaca-
tion now. September is a
delightful month iu the
North. The air is like
tonic to tired brains ami
weary Ixxiies. Then too,
the theatres in St. Louis
and Cbicag«*are just own-
ing, lending an additional
attraction to u trip now.
An Exceptional Offer
Just now the rates to
St. Louis and Chicago arc
exceptionally low—ri little
more than one faro " the
round trip. Tiekets will
lie 011 sali- up to Septeinlier
30th, good until October
31st returning.
Why not go now?
Any Knty agent will be
glad to give you particulars .
as to ratuframl train service
W. C. Knowles
District Passenger agent.
Oklahoma City, 0. T
• N.'Xfc y;ir there will bo a
big crop of hogs marketed in
Cholsen. The rooson the
Commercial says so is U-
01111s" it finds that tiot as
much wheat a&jisual is being
put in, and that means more
corn, and hog*; is a natural
I sequence.
When election day comes,
1 there will be many a man
vote for proposed constitu-
tion that has always been
I considered against it. They
j have been fooled into endors-
ing single, statehood under
a false pretense. ^
f r Separate Statehood.
The Indian Territory Colored
^ Suffrage League met in Okmulgee
1 atid agreed So support the separate
j state constitution for the state of
Sequoyah. This resolution was
passed after a stiff fight and a
rump convention followed in
which u part of the delegates par-
ticipated and adopted resolutions
favoring joint ttuluhood with
Oklahoma. Tho regular conven-
tion stu.*k tj the separate state
Icotlstitntioii because it premises
1 there shall new. be suflVage dis-
t iiictiou on nccodnt oi'race or color.
There v.t :c about I2ti delegates
pi. s. i.t reprt-'M .iting all five nati-
ons. Y:.,- :iegroe« will proceed to
"jryasoparate stato cliib.-«.
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BROWg0&oN|
* REAL ESTATE +
We buy lands. ♦
We sell lands. T
We have coal land?. J
We have lands in the gas field. ^
We have oil lands in proven field. +
We have the best ot farm lands in the ♦
Cherokee Nation. ^
We give title in fee simple to every foot f
sold. T
We remove restrictions from sale of In- ^
dian lands. ^
We have all sizes of tracts, from small to ♦
large.' ♦
It is our determination to deal with all ^
classes of purchasers, and the large list of ,
offerings we have enables us to do this.
The New England Watch Co.
makes the best cheap watch 011
eart ". . ]'.ike; nml yet one.
Professional Cards.
AliCHUULJ) IklXDS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will practice in all courts.
Notary in office.
Ciielpi:.\. j. T.
John T. IJr:owx,
Attobvey at law,
Koi-ii.s "2aud3, Kulin B'ld'ij,
Notary iu office,
ClILLS^A, . . J.
I>. G. Klmott,
;.'iT.)JiXEY AT LAW,
Collcciioiij a Specialty. . . .
Not ury in ctiicc.
CllEi.SEA, "t . .
I. T.
|C. L. Hill,
I'llYSlCIAX AS'D Sl BOEOK,
< )ffice over Chelsea l'liarun
< v. All hou. . . l'hone 23
Chelsca. j 'p
C. J. T.wlou,
1'lIYSKlAN AND St HO EON,
liostdence phone 28,
< 'ifirc! ovei' .Lane's Corner
Drug St..re.
>l"k' ' u •l«*' itr ..f Uie Ejn and Ear.
ClIKLSEA, I.T.
J. \v. Bote,
J-llYSlllAX AN I> SlROEON,
< Itliee, Koonia 2 and Lanu
Unitding.
CHEI.SKA J . . j f
Drs. Marsh a u, Baos.,
Dentists,
Itj-.hluates of Chicago Col-
lejre liental Surgery. Of-
tico Levine Building*
1 CllELbLA, . . . " I T.
CALL OIN
BROWN &. DODSON
CHELSEA, I. T. 4
SCHOOL BAG FREE i
-A T-
•JOHNSONS
To every child that will buy
anything in school supplies will
receive a handsome book satchel
~..FREE«...
....PENS, INK, PENCILS, TABLETS....
Examination Blanks and all
Standard School Books, and
in fact a complete line of
School Supplies.
J. H. JOHNSON
THE GROCER
CHELSEA, ... iryD. TER.
And
cvers*
crtlcla !•
tfuaran-
tccd.
Come ln—taiM ■ look at a
bc.-.utlful display of
JEWELRY
On the counter ou will
\ fl«o flnJ cataW III,-,.
ti-atlnff
tlwuMndi
ot useftiJ
and
If you want th«
vary best values ,
for your rnoary
9 BUY HERIi
THAT'S ALL
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Quinn, J. W. The Chelsea Commercial. (Chelsea, Indian Terr.), Vol. 11, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, October 6, 1905, newspaper, October 6, 1905; Chelsea, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc175230/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.