The Eagle City Record. (Eagle City, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, January 26, 1906 Page: 2 of 8
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Eagle City Record. bguthrie33 tv Files Appeal Bond
"^THRIE. The American Bonding
! company of Baltimore, Md.( has tiled
; with the court here an appeal bond
for $365,000, executed by the Ameri-
OKLA oan Surety company, of New York
, covering its appeal from the Judg-
ment recently rendered against it and
in favor of the Territory of Oklahoma
for $178,539.98. On account of the
territory's losses in the Capitol Na-
tional failure. This is one of the larg-
est appeal bonds ever filed, and the
largest ever filed by a surety com-
pany, as the judgement here was prob-
ably the largest ever obtained against
a surety company.
MILTON V. BERRY.
EAGLE CITY
NEW STATE NEWU
Wagner has agreed to raise a bonus
of $30,000 for the St. Louis & El Paso,
a new railroad.
Wilson Parker, an Indian, was given
two vears In the federal prison for
forgery at Ardmore.
W. A. Percell has resigned as mayor
of Woodvilie and W. G. Draper has
beeu elected to fill out the unexpired
term.
BIG TOWNSITE PAYMENT
Tulsa has installed the GameweM
system of fire alarms. Eight boxes
have been Installed and more wi'.i be
added from time to time.
Bartlesville is to have a new opera
house and South McAlester is ready
to do the right thing if anyone will
agree to give the city a new pl.-ty
house.
Theodore M. Barnsdall, of Pitts-
burg, Pa., one of the world's largest
operators in oil and gas, visited his
properties in the vicinity of Bartles-
ville, last week.
Robbers blew open the safe of the
Katy depot at Cale one night recently,
but obtained nothing of any value to
them.
The Farmer^ and Merchants' Bank
at Cheyenne has been authorized to
commence business witH a capital
stock of $10,000.
The city tax collector of Tulsa re-
ports taxes to the amount of $9,718.34
collected from December 7th to Jan-
uary 13.
William Wfnans, aged twenfy-three
years, has been placed in the federal
jail at Ardmore, charged with assault-
ing Willie Simpson, a well known
Choctaw Indian. Simpson was struck
over the head and die*! from the In-
jury. Others- are supposed to be im-
plicated in the killing.
Knights of Pythias of Fort ■ Gibson.
Tahlequah, Coweta, Checotah, Vian'
Sallisaw, Mclain, Webber Falls and
Muskogee are making preparations to
A J a _ ...
FEDERAL CONTROL
INVESTIGATION OP INSURANCE
COMPANIES BY NEW YORK
STATE BASIS FOR NEW BILL
I WASHINGTON: Senator Dryden
has revised his bill eoutemplating gov-
ernment control of insurance and in-
troduced it in the senate. He has fol-
lowed very closely the investigation
being conducted by the New York
legislative committee and this has aid-
ed him in perfecting his measure un-
til now he expresses the belief that
it will correct practically all of the
insurance evils exposed by the New
York inquiry.
Publicity is the keynote of the bill,
and coupled with this are safeguards
for the detection .of wrong-doing and
the punishment of those so offend-
ing. It defines policies, or Insurance
contracts as Instrumentalities of com-
merce, rfnd provides for the regulation
of the business through the medium
of a comptroller of Insurance and
along lines similar to the control ex-'
ercised over national banks. The au-
thor says he believes this will go far
toward meeting the objections of
those who have questioned the consti-
tutional possibilities of federal regu-
j latlon of insurance.
I The senator says ioe bill has the in-
| dorsement of the president, adminis-
tration officials, eminent constitutional
lawyers in and out of congress, and
others who are familiar with its' gen-
eral features, as coming nearer to
meeting the demands of the situation
than any of the other numerous pend-
ing measures. Senator Dryden has |
long been-a champion of federal regu
latlon.
Accrued Funds to Be Distributed
Among Choctaws and Chickasaws
MUSKOGEE: More than $1,000,000
is to be paid out to the citizens of
the Choctaw and Chickasaw "Indian
nations within the next few months.
The money will be disbursed by In-
dian Agent Dana H. Kelsey, and rep-
resents .accrued funds frofa the sale
of town lots in the two indian nations.
The interior department has ordered
that the roll for-the payment be made
out at once and the names will be
taken from the rolls of citizenship
of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations
now in possession of the commission
to the five civilized tribes.
This will be the largest disburse-
ment conducted in Indian Territory
since the last Choctaw-Chickasaw
townsite payment, made in the fall of
1904, and concluded last spring. Near-
ly 40,000 citizens will share in the pay-
ment. At the last payment each citi-
zen got $40. but this year, o.wing to
the fact that large numbers of new
names have been admitted to the
rolls, including several thousand
babies, the amount per capita will be
leas.
The date of the payment has jot
yet been set, and will not be until
the rolls are ready. It will require
about three months to complete the
rolls and get them^ approved. The
payment will be conducted in a large
number of towns scattered through-
out both nations, probably in most
cases at the same towns where the
payments were made before.
Payments almost as large as this
will no doubt bj raade for two or
three years to come, as money in
large quantities will be coming in on
town lots that have not yet been paid
for. When the United States govern-
ment segregated tne. government
towns! tes in the Choctaw and Chicka-
saw nations, it was provided that the
town lots should be sold on the par-
tial payment plan, and that Hie money
accruing from such payments was to
be distributed per capita among all
the citizens of the nations.
WITNESS BAtKS
BIGELOW. WHO ATTACKS AD-
MINISTRATION OM CANAL
BECOMES STUBBORN
BICELGW'S CASE MAY BE PR0SECU1ED
Pen pictures are geenrally so over-
drawn that they are pulled out of
shape.
It is hard to draw the line between
the grotesque and the humorous.
■■■"& i" auuus ic
celebrate the forty-second anniversary
nf t-V. - £ J, ...
order FebruaW
of the founding n
19. 7'hfi ceTefiration
Fort Gibson.
vill be held at
At the special election at Chicka-
sha last week the amount of $G0,00i>
was voted for waterworks aiTd sewer
extension. The present system was
completed about a year ago at a cost
of $90,000, and this extension will give
the entire city the benefit of the sys-
tem.
Mayor Charles G. Watts, president
of the Indian Territory mayor's as-
sociation., accompanied by the cljief
executives of several other dries, has
gone to Washington to try and secure
better administration of the moneys
of Indian Territory cities and ask for
the classification of the cities to be
put into the hands of the circuit
judges.
Between the game warden at Enid
^nd his dog, but very little game be-
ing shipped in violation of the Okla-
homa game law gets by that city. The
dog recently scented some quail pass-
ing through the place en route to Kan-
sas City ^id the warden confiscated
several hifcdred. Last week the war-
den noticed a suspicious-looking
creamery can billed from Ames to
Chicago, and upon investigation found
It to contain twelve dozen fine quail,
which he seized.
Charges Made Against Management
of Isthmian Canal—Article De-
nounced by Srcretary Taft—Hearing
Before Senate Committee
WASHINGTON: Poultney Bigelow.
magazine writer, whose arraignment
of the administration and management
of the isthmian canal affairs in an ar-
ticle published in the Independent,
which was denounced by Secretary .or
War Taft, proved to be a contumacious
witness before the senate committee
on inter-oceanic canals and involved
the committee in a controversy which
caused two executive sessions and
must be considered again before ac-
tion can be taken. The recalcitrancy
of the witness was.shown as the resurt
of a statement made ',y him that many
eminent engineers had declined to ac-
cept the employment of the govern-
ment because of the physical condi-
tions on the isthmus. The committee
demanded the names of such engi-
neers and Br. Bige'ow decline! to give
them on the round that to do so would
be to violate confidence and subject
these persons to embarrassment. He
intimated that the displeasure of the
administration would be exhibited in
such manner that their "reputations
would be worth nothing after the of-
ficial replies should be concluded."
Two opportunities to answrr were
given to Mr. Bigelow, but he persisted
in his refusals. Senator Morgan, who
conducted the last examination
! wraned the witness in such manner as
seemed to commit, the witness to pun-
ishment" is he continued to bring him-
self into contempt, but the advice wis
of no avail, and the doors were or-
dered closed for a second time. In ex-
ecutive session it developed that the
committee was agreed*that the of-
fenses of Mr. Bigelow were of such a
nature that there could be no doubt of
the committee's power to have him
dealt with summarily. Senators Knox
Hopkins and Morgan favored certifica-
tion of his recalcitrancy to the vice-
president for submission of the case to
T.lilted States Attorney Baker of the
District of Columbia. This ccu-se met
Oppesrtiturfvom Senators Gorman and
Simmons, on the gronnd that it woul 1
prevent further examination of tile
witness r/ other subjects mentioned
in the magazine article wihch makes
charges against the canal manage-
ment. Several members of the com-
mittee said that Mr. Bigelow's use-
fulness as a witness was at an end,
and urged, and urged so vehemently
against any delay in proceedings
against Mr. Bigelow that Seantors Gor-
man and Simmons declared that their
purpose seemed to be to interfere
with the thorough investigation of ca-
nal affairs which was ordered by the
senate.
COMMISION SUSTAINED
Department Rules Against Allotments
to Mississippi Choctaws
MUSKOGEE: The secretary of the
Interior has sustained the Dawes com-
mission In the recommendation de-
nying the right of allotments in the WL
Choctaw nation of the descendants of
Jane and Nancy Brashears, Involving
the' right to 385 allotments aggregat-
ing 123.200 acres of land in the Choc-
taw nation.
This was one of the hardest fought
allotment contest cases that has ever
been before the commission and has
been in contest three The 3S
applicants claimed the right TS* allot-
ments as direct descendants o. ,
and Nancy Brashears, who, it wan
leged, lived in the old Choctaw nation
prior to 1830, and were of Choctaw
blood. These citizenship claims were
denied by the Dawes commission May
15, 1905, on the grounds that ttiey had
failed to comply with the requirements
of article 14, of the Choctaw treaty
of 1830, and had not presented claims
of rights thereunder to any commis-
sion appointed by congress to adjudi-
cate such claims:. The refusal was on
the grounds of negligence rather tha:i
on that of a question of blood. This
decision was sustained by the attorney
general and by the secretary of the
interior.
The aplicants, in order to establish
their case, went back to the family*
records of seventy-five years ago and
produced the records of the family as
well as a voluminous amount of cor-
respondence that had taken place be-
tween members of this family and
other persons tending to show the re-
lationship, the principal point being to
prove that Keziah Dumas and Eliza-
beth Thompson were the heads or
Choctaw families in the Choctaw na-
tion in 1830. The commission finds
that the applicants failed to sifStain
the facts which they claimed and the
case has finally been dismissed.
•j A
V
JURORS DONATED FEES
Decided the Case Against Woman,
But Gave Money
MUSKOGEE: A suit had just been
decided against a woman in United
States Commissioner Leekley's court
•at Muskogee and the Jury of six men
were about to be discharged after
each man had received his legal sti-
pend of twenty-five cents for h^s ser-
[ vices when the woman arose and
asked to be heard.
Judge LeekUy granted the pmrx*e
and she said:
No\fr each of you men has r#ce'Ved *
twenty-five cents for deciding f.ils
case against me. I have spent all day
in the court room here and I must
have some place to stay anti some-
thing to eat for myself and children.
As I am out of money I think it woul 1
be no more than right for - of
you jurors to hand me o/ , J,Quar-
ter you have just received"."
Inside of one minute the woman
was in possession of the money and
was making her way toward the near-
est restaurant somewhat ameliorated
The abstractors of Indian Territory
organized an association recently at
South McAlester. The purpose of the
association being to "promote the
best system of abstracting available,
and to make the abstract work of
the Indian Territory as nearly uniform
as possible."
Bom at Conway, Mass., 1835; left school 1852; dry goods clerk at Pitt*
PaTmeJ'aM1 ,856' "=
Pays Kansas for Care of Prisoners
tnrliTHRIE: L" W' naxter- terri-
has made a settlement
with W arden Haskell of the Lansing
prison for the maintenance of Okla-
homa's convicts during the quarter
ending December 31. Thirtv-flve pris-
oners were received during the qua'r-
er an dthirty-six discharged, o{ whom
two escaped and one aied. \ total
i0nV°th P/iS°nerS We'rP mnintained dur-
ing that period with 372 now incar-
cerated from this territory The
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LIFE CONVICTS ESCAPE
STAND BY DEPEW
The people of Sulphur have raised
the bonus demanded by the Santa Fe
and are ready to sign up the contract.
This bonus is to build a branch Trom
Davis to Sulphur. The amount was
$20,000.
Mrs. William Wilkerson, of Peoria,
111., en route to Dallas, dropped dead'
in the depot at Muskogee last week.
Only a short time before her death
she had written,a postal card to a
friend saying she was in the best of
health.
A. P. Stone, president of the Bap-
tist State college at Blackwell, has
resigned. Mr. Stone was elected pres-
ident two years ago when the college
was $23,000 in debt, all of which has
been wiped out during his term aa
president.
The Republicans in Mew York Senate
Turn Down Resolution
ALBANY, N. Y.: The state senate
by a vote of 34 to 1, rejected the
resolution of Senator Edgar T. Brack-
ed. of Saratoga, demanding the resig-
nation of Chauncey M. Depew from
the United States senate. After a de-
bate, lasting more than three hours
and characterized on the one hand by !
Senator Brackett's unsparing denun-1
ciatlon of Senator Depew, and the in-
surance companies cn the other by 1
almost every harsh criticism of the
judgments ar.d the motives of the in- i
troducer of the motion, the roll call '
showed Senator, Brackett s own vote !
to be the only one in favor of the I
resolution. Every other republican '
senator voted against it, with the ex-
ception of Senator Armstrong, of
Rochester, who is in New York at
work on the insurance investigation
committee reports, and he sent a tele-
gram to Senator Tulley, hi£ colleague
on the committee to the effect that it
he were present he would rote against J
the resolution.
Cherokets' Big Claim
TAHLEQUAH: Much interest is bs-
i ing manifested here iff the hearing
before the supreme court of the Unit-
ed States as to whether the Cherokees
I are entitled to a claim which dates
back to the treaty of 1835, when the
j government promised to defray the
! expenses of moving the Cherokees to
Indian Territory from Geoigia. The
Indians claim that the expenses
amounted to $1,100,000. The interest
upon this, at 5 per cent, wouia bring
the amount now due up to $5,000,000.
If this claim is allowed an "element
known as the Eastern Cherokees win
dispute with the Cherokee nation the
right to the money.
Bulfe! m'66 bUi,ding and stock °f the
Butler Mercantile companv. at Fort
Gibson, was burned recently with a
total loss of from $25,000 to $30,(700.
OFFICIALS ON TRIAL
Killed While Coupling Cars
GUTHRIE: H. L. Gilbert, a "Katy"
passenger brakeman was Instantly
killed at Fallis while coupling in the
cars from the Guthrie train, which are
attached to the main line train there.
He was formerly in the employ or
the street railway company here
A man is never told that he is a fool
until he and his money are parted.
Alleged Conspiracy in Fraudulent
Warrant Cases to be Heard
ARDMORE: In the United States
court Jiere the cases of W. T. Ward
and -B. H. Colbert, who were indicte 1
last summer with other officials of the
Chickasaw nation for conspiracy grow,
ing out of some alleged illegal manln'
"latlon in Chicksaw warrants wore
called for trial. The government at-
torneys announced that thev were not 1
ready for trial and the cases were con '
tinued. Colbert and Ward answer,1
1 they are ready and it is probable
that a special venire will be* summon-
ed to hear these cases.
A number of witnesses are here Tor
this trial, including Floyd Shock or '
St Louis, a dealer m county warrants
who is said to have handled a con '
•siderable portion of the Chieka '
warrants. None of the member
the law firm of Mansfield Me Mm
* Cornish appeared for' "trial
though their cases also were dock
-for trial. It U learned that the *
against them will nrobablv.be dropj
Murderers of Policeman Brice Escape
From Deputy Sheriff
_ M0 : John Franklin
and Teddy Dale, life convicts in the
Missouri penitentiary, who were
brought here to testify against Estill
H. Butler, on the charge of murdering
Policeman Claude Brice in Tonlln
made their escape.
The men were in the custody of
w!?rt <ShGr,ff K ra tt-arkuft* 'and
ZZ bf'nVranSferm' from Jopiin,
where the Butler trial is in progress
to the county jail in this city.
Just as Marquiss reached the door
of the jail. Franklin shouted- *
"Here we go, Teddv."
I heMh%rn br°ke fhP han^«Ts that
ing for the convicts.
TERRITORY 6LAYER~GUILTY
Imprisonment Recomm
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Davis Bonds for S"; non a
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$25.0(40 for a amo"nt of
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